The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-04 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. —Duriug the storms of the past year the National Lifeboat Institution, by Its life boat' and other means, contributed to the saving of 707 persons from different wrecks on our coast& The Institution also ex pended £21,374 in the same period on its lifeboat establishments, in addition to slanting £4,950 for rewards for saving life and tuwelaing the lifeboats. The committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London and Country Bankers : and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the In stitution, 14, Jobo-street, Adelphi, Loudon. JOHN BROODENt i rl RIGIN AL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, Iv 16, lllKNalarrs-arastr. 00VINT-OARDLIC JOHN BROGDENI3 GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD Gtr ARD GRAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S OLDALBERT CHAINS. JOEIN BROGDEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. MESSRS. WATHERSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewellers. Rave Reedy for Inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Wert Maligns, suitable tar WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS. I. Pall-mall task S.W. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Gentlemen. —Remember, we welt for you at EVANS," after the Covent-garden Pantomime, and the Theatres. Zhe preoo• TO 00 ILZEPONMINTB. Advertisement:a totondon tor The Irmo*" London Evening r, mast be on Yoe Mon 10, Bonveri•-otroot, by Two eCk on the day of pablioalion. ...AYMARKIT._ Teo Immo, BROTHS/ SZll.llleserc Sothern, Back 01°end Compton Mime Nally et Moore. Snowdon, c It a P e niUS IN THE HAYMARKET. Wawa ?amen & D. Irlaher Manes Keeley, Howard & Wrlght.—And SHOCKING EVENTS. PRINCES'S. Tots Emilia, (lurid LODGINGS —After which IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TI MEND. Mama Vining, G. Melville, T. Mead, D. Murray, b. Wham, P. Villiers. .I. G. Shore, G. Mur ray, add B. Cathwi ; YUNG L Moore and K. Zodgers. LYCEUM. THIS Ih'intwa, 1111 I Elifildiolla STRANGER. Mr. H. !Mktloorob.—THE MASTER OF RAVENBWOuD. Messrs. Pechter, Jordan, Ver.in, Emery, Widdlcomb, Fitzpatrick, Evan s ; Madames Ternan, Elsworthy, Lamm, C. Leclercq. isznurrinA. THIS EMMA OLD DiblifTiriiiiigos AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS OR, THIS RACS FOR THE GOLDEN APPLCS.— M and Roble. Stertzanboeh.-81gnor Boaant.-olnfar.—Shower of Golden Rain.—And JOSIE THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGH WATJUI, AT LONDOIf-111=GL THI/11 DAY —. Morning, lb. 67m.....Alfaramm, et. 18n1. TO-KOZAOW .... Morning, 6h. 40m.....Aftemme. 411. &Bm. LONDON, THURSDAY. JANUARY 4. Jr was the complacent jest of FREDERICK the GREAT that he and his people perfectly understood one another, and were agreed that, while he was to do what he liked, they were tosay what they pleased. If the Emperor of the Dimmest could onlyresolve to grant as much liberty to the French, he would probably enjoy all the happiness wh;ch the pos session of power can give. He disposes, without check or control, of the treasure, the manhood, and the influence of the greatest military monarchy in the world. If he chooses to squander millions in unprofitable wars and send thousands of French men to perish in a pestilential climate, there are none to hinder him, none to call him to account. Supported by the bayonets of the army and the votes of the peasantry, he can do whatever he pleases. But this does not satisfy him ;he warts more than ignorant allowance, and seeks intelli gent approbation. This, unfortunately, he is not able to obtain. Ever since the educated classes of France recovered from the panic into which they were thrown by the vision of the red spectre ingeniously raised for their sakes, they have remembered that despotism is the school in which revolutionists are most quickly and most certainly trained, and have asked that France might be allowed to hold her former place in the civilization of Europe. The history of the Second Empire is the history of a long and continuous struggle between the Govern ment on the one hand, and the mind of France on the other, in its endeavour to claim an independent part in the affairs of the country. The Emperor of the FRENCH has, it appears, convinced himself that a free press would be fatal to his system of government, if not to his dynasty. We should have thought otherwise, but the Emperor of the FRENCH is a sagacious Sove reign. The policy of k courennemcnt de l'ldifiee seems to be indefinitely pootponed, from wh;ch we are left to infer that the edifice itself cannot be said to have been founded. Like the old Monarchy which it took a great revolution to overthrow, the Empire becomes more and more absolute with age. The tendency to claim free dom of public writing has been met by the EM PEROR in two ways—by the organization and maintenance of an artificial public opinion—and by the suppression of that which is spontaneous and real. On thl one band, journals have been bought up, and public writers bribed with titles and salaries ; and on the other, a system of administrative and judicial restric tions has been enforced, often to the extent of destroying journals which have dared to represent the genuine opinion of France. The EMPEROR has only imperfectly succeeded in hisendeavours, and in the fourteenth year of his reign he is under the necessity of making war upon the newspapers with more vigour than ever. A catalogue has recently been published in Paris showing the various punishments which have been inflioted on the newspapers of France during the year 1865. The number of these visitations is in itself extraordinary, although it does not constitute the gravest feature in the returns. It appears that twenty-two journals received warnings (arcr• tis.ientente), and two were administratively sus pended during the year. These warnings, it will be understood, are not mere political corrections, like the conimuniquf , s which are almost daily served on the journals. In asmuch as a third warning involves the suppression of the journal to which it is given, every one destroys an important portion of the value of the newspaper as a property. But besides the administrative measures enumerated, a number of prosecutions have taken place. During the year ten authors of pamphlets and writers of newspapers have been fined and imprisoned, twenty editors or managers of periodicals have been fined and seventeen imprisoned, while thirteen printers have been fined and ten imprisoned. The nature of the offences which have led to this severity is remarkable. The Gazette du Midi received a second warning for having published " an attack " upon the empire," and for " calling in ques " tion the power conferred by the Constitution on " the Cmincil of State." The Journal cies Villes et Campagncs received a third warning for pub lishing a speech by M. ROULAND, " under pre " tence of discussing it." The Opinion Nationale received a warning for certain comments on the speech of a government commissioner in the Le gislature touching the condition of the press. The Gironde received a warning for an article relating to a debate in the Legislature on the Army Fund, and the Guienne of Bordeaux for one "tending "to trouble the consciences of the citizens." The r - . . TEM EIRRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY mots '4 ,„.. Revue Francai,se, the Journal dr Tou rs, the Cont. fpm, scram* gives in anotkigtoolumnithat eta engine. mtrce A (Oriel', the Tribune Ourrittre, and thel not Lard Wodehomilk wee first at. Journal de Cocher s were several/4y suispressed for • nit Tina lands gm dignitiedleanner is *Wei the judi " treating questions of politics and social economy dal ts~ s iry i sle *ten nec e ssity which ir compelledh hbs e govern saed ment ;and. menttti "in° " without authorizatio ts over "n, and their managers and Ohief Justice Lefroy, who seems determined that a 's printers were sentenced to various terms of im- ' many in his high positioe shall not be conceded t o an y ex prisonment, and to fi n e s amoun ti ng i n a ll t o three tarsal presume, odds that the manner in which Justices thousand one hundred francs. One of the number Keogh and Fitzgerald have presided leaves nothing to be aggravated its offence by publishing the speech of densed , and that should • Multi's' wave of fortune the EMPEROR on opening the Chambers. The elevate either or both of them to the po s ition of chief accusation against editors and public writers which joumikmt the la t w is wil l t be t. at be :S p i l he e n tr d ecu ed T N ", t the tuba adm i ni s tration at.Ta is most in favour with the French Government is meaner in which the jams both at Dublin and Cork die. that of holding the Government up to ridicule and ehsrged their office does them depths highest honour, and exciting hatred and contempt of it, and some of the day will come when the miserable men who have fallen the most refined minds of France have been held by into the heeds of the law will awake from their dream, the courts to be guilty of this offence. The Courrier sad that awakening will be all the more bitter because it will be attended with •a consciousness that they h a v e l os t du Dimanch e , w h ic h i s f requen tl y th e ve hi c l e o f M. PREVOST PARADOL'E keen satire, rece iv e d a themselves use for •cm failure in which is p robably better for them than even ' . warning on this ground in March, and that brilliant The trials, in the opinion of the Telegraph, supply mitis writer having at a later date published an article factory teeth:may to an improved state of public feeling is showing that to punish for exciting to hatred and Ireland. Ws have had the hitherto unexampled spectacle contempt of the Government would make ell of a disloyal conspiracy with which the Irish peasantry, as o • body, ha l t io no ol sy to mpath red a y t;i and w tude of hic th h the clergy uito had serious discussion of governmental sate simply impossible, the journal received another warning, their? is a significant wieuing e to l* ru u t revo on the pretence that M. PARADOL'S argument was lutionista. The trade of agitation in Relied had already "an attack on the existing laws, and an offence to ceased to thrive—and we may now hope that it is absolutely " the magistrates who administer them." Ab- stopped. surdity cannot be carried further than this pee tepee of denying that criticism, to be serious, must be at liberty to ridicule and stigmatise the weak or the bad elements in that which is discussed. But the whole system of prosecutions and annoyances practised by the French Government towards the prase is inexpressibly petty and mean. It was not in this peddling way that the great rulers of past ages defended themselves. Ceomiezu., whose acts often challenged censure, was accus tomed to say, " My Government is not worth pre " serving if it will not stand paper shot." A just and lawful Government may safely and even with advantage encourage the freest discussion, while it is only for a time that a reckless ruler can save himself by harassing the press. The EMPEROR'S system, however, has been so persistently adhered to that it will probably be continued to the end of his reign. Its natural consequences are disclosing themselves every day, and may be seen in such demonstrations as those which lately took place at Liege. The EMPEROR is not the first who has tided to govern a community the more easily by putting out its eyes. In the atheism and blas phemy, the total perversion and confusion of all moral ideas exhibited in the speeches at Liege, the EMPEROR may see the qualities of the generation which he is training up to trouble the government of his son. Wit. CARDWRLL AYD THZ JAMAICA, coinussior. Though the Colonial Secretary, according to the Times, has shown an excessive deference to a small and by no means important part of the community, he has not, it adds, received a ward of common acknowledgment from them, but, on the contrary, is spoken of as incapable and preju diced. Hi language at Oxford the other day appears to the Times to evince a wanes and a generosity of spirit which have been hardly apparent in some ministerial utterance'. Perhaps the government hive discovered within the last month that there is* large, though comparatively quiescent, mass of public opinion in favour of supporting men who have successfully performed an arduous duty, who have saved a British colony from murder and rapine, and whose conduct has been approved in the most deliberate and em phatic manner by the constitutional representatives of the island, as well as by the entire class which possesses educa tion and property. Although the vituperation and menaces of a party in England might justify the Governor and the principal officers in considering themselves as prisoners on their defence, and as entitled to maintain a due reserve in their answers, the Times cannot doubt that they will give the Commission all the support in their power in its teak of asairtaining the truth. The Advertiser accuses the Tints of suppressing the details given in the Jamaica newspapers of the l►te dis turbs's'''. The readers of the Times have been kept in ignorance up to this moment of the appalling fact, stated distinctly in the Jamaica journals, that the death of four or five-and-twenty whites in an affray was revenged by hanging and shooting more than 2,000 negroea. Following the lead of the Time, all the partisans of Governor Eyre, add" the Advertiser, positively re fame to credit this fact, persisting in the groundless plea that it is "an exaggeration." How do they know it to be an exaggeration? They accept, from these same Jamaica journals, every little detail concerning the cruelties com mitted by the negroes ; but when they come to the opposite view and meet with the statements of these papers as to the number of blacks who were put to death, they at once refuse to credit the account What is this, but to say in plain terms, " We will not believe these statement', because we don't like them." The truth, however, of these ao counts is daily becoming more firmly established. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TOPICS FOR PI The Times comments on the fresh aspect which is given to the question of our national debt by the sudden growth of • similar debt in America, and the intentions there expressed as to its treatment, urging an effective acceleration of our present rate of repaymeat. Supposing we went on steadily at our present rate of reduction, we should not have the ple inure of cancelling the last bond, and declaring the state out of debt, before the year A.D. 2,270, and then under circumstances probably very different from any we can now anticip►te. England at present is trifling with her duty. It is little else than child's play to leave an existing obligation to be dischsrged by the people who may happen to be living in these islands, and inheriting our name, in the 23rd century of the Christian era. The United States government finding itself in our case seriously talks of liquidating the debt not in four hundred years, not in • century, but in thirty years. What if it should accomplish that bold design ? The United States will then, if all be well, be twice as populous and twice as rich as they are now ; and if they ohs.' also have paid off their present debt, they will enjoy a confidence far stronger than that from simple uniudebtednees—the confidence, namely, of those who have both borrawed and paid, with still increasing resources. Is it, then, quite out of the question to suggest • rate of repayment that shall contain plate, we will say, some such period as one century. in stead of the four centuries supposed in the present rate ? The Herald disputes the calculations wh'cb would give to the national balance-sheet on the 31st of March a con siderable surplus, for it is in the quarter now running that the reductions will be principally felt, This quarter will probably have a decline of at least • million in the income tax, and " stamps" and the fire insurance may be expected to show considerable desrease. There may be • surplus, but it will be nothing like the sum which our ministerial contemporaries have predicted. The budget was a good one, but it simply carried out the principle. which the con servative opposition urged with so much energy, and which in the first years of his present chancellorship Mr. Glad stone resisted with so much violence. The same journal discusses the question of the reduction of the army, arguing that to sacrifice any of the national strength without the tallest security that it may be dis pensed with for a considerable time to come, is a weak and mischievous policy ; and to run the risk for • mere party purpose is something a great deal worse. The former justification certainly does not exist at the present moment, and let us hope that the latter tactic is one to which even • whig government would not descend. But appearances are suspicious, and the peril to oar national position which seems to be threatened might well be attributed by an un charitable Opposition to the government ueosseitiee and Mr. Bright. The Daily Telegraph finds that the large towns which have sprung up into importance since the era of the last Reform Bill are eagerly demanding enfranchisement. Dar lington, Dew.buty, Burnley, Doncaster—all these are anxious for mere direct representatioo ; and no doubt can be felt that other claimants will speedily make their voices heard. Whether or not the precise claims put forward at these reform meetings can be substantiated and enforced, the discussions themselves are an index to public opinioo. While the governmens, supported reluctantly by the " moderates," are preparing to press on a measure of enfranchisement, and the tories are making ready for • struggle, it remains only to see what will be the course of action pursued by those who are vaguely termed "radicals," and who are equivocally dubbed "extreme." On this point the speeches of Mr. John Bright are all important, and they prove he is ready to accept any well-considered measure which will enfranchise • greater number of En glishmen; that he is becoming, in • word, nationaL The Telegraph welcomes the aid of so grand • combatant, so fearless • popular tribune, and looks forward to the time when men of his stamp, having reconciled themselves to the practical statesm►nship of the day, shall propose me►- sures in the cabinet itself instead of supporting them ujoi the platform. The Star summarises the speech delivered at Rochdale yesterday by Mr. Bright, especially pointing out that the hon. gentleman is prepared to go for a simp'e suffrage bill, even advising the government to postpone the ballot and the introduction of any measure for the redistribution of seats. Not that he has ceased to desire such a reform, but simply because it is not one in which the unenfranchised class ha►e so immediate and deep an interest, and because he would not peril by any avoidable complication the instant settlement of their just claim. These views, which Mr. Bright impressed upon his hearers last night with so much of calm and commanding eloquence, are likely, the Star thinks, to receive from the country at large the same approval which they obtained from the important consti tuency of Rochdale. it - LATER INTELLIGENCE. ' (swisies =swum& ) SHOCSING DEATE OP .4 WOMAN BY 7111 l8li0(1011 WAURING CRINOLINS. An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, the devote oftener, at the London Hospital, last night, re spelling the death by fire of Selina Taylor, aged 28 years. David Taylor, 20, Princes-oourt, Bethnal-green ' a taxman ' maid that the deceased was his wife. Os last Christmas. eve about 5 o'clock in the evening, witness heard loud screams, and upon running into the back yard he found the deceased standing in a corner of the yard, a with her head and neck thrust down into dast-bin. Her clothes were all on fire, and she was trying to cover her face and neck with the dust in order to prevent their being burnt. Witness ran to her assistance, and extinguished the flames, and she was removed to the hospital, where she lingered in great suffering until Satur day last. Johann Cecil, No. 9, Prince's-court, said that she knew the deceased. On Sunday, the 24th of last December she was seated opposite the fire in her own house dressing one of her children, • little (41 7 ears of age, when her limey dress, which was distended by • crinoline, went near the brd of the grate and instantly caught fire. The accident occurred in a minute, and the whole of her clothes burst out into • blase. She threw the little girl from her, and rushed out of the room and ran down the stairs and into the yard enveloped in • mass of flames. Mr. Bathurst Dove, house surgeon, deposed that when the deceased was admitted to the hospital she was suffering from the effects of severe buns all over the lower part of the body. She expired on Saturday, from the affect' of her injuries. The jury returned a verdict of " Au:ideate death by fire.* DISTRESSING ACCIDENT TO A LIFEBOAT. --•-• LIZARD, CORNWALL, WZDNIBDAT Ntowr. The Rev. P. Vyvyan Robinson states :—" With the deepest regret I have to report that yesterday a fatal accident happened to the lifeboat on this station. I was out in the lifeboat with her crew yesterday, and for two hours she bad behaved se gallantly as possible in • very heavy sea, but while returning • tremendous wave overwhelmed her, and capsized the boat, breaking every oar except one. Out of ten of us in the lifeboat seven succeeded in getting into the boat, but with ow car only we could not manage her, and she was quickly carried on to the rocks over which with great difficulty and hazard and meaty bruises we got into a place of safety. Meanwhile the three lost men whom I saw and heard on rising to the surface had been carried into a counter current behind the great Slay Rock, where they could neither get backwards nor forwards. " One was shortly carried out to sea, bat the other two might have been saved had we had the rocket apparatus at the Lizard ; but when that arrived from O•dgwith it was too late, and the men were dead. Unfortunately there is no house here where the apparatus could be kept. The boat held on with her anchor most marvellously for more than hoar bumping about on the ledges, but at lest it f, and she was quickly knocked to pieces on the rocks, or by d this time the gale bed increased to • hurricane. The names of the poor fellows who were lost were Peter Mitchell, the coxswain, who has left a widow end three children ; Richard Harris, second coxswain, widow and two children at home ; and Nicholas Steven; a widower, without children. I shall be very glad to receive the contributions of the bene volent towards the tater* support of the poor widows and orphans." tWemay add that the case of the families of the deceased lifeboatineo will be taken into consideration at a meeting of the National Lifeboat Institution to be held this day—and that a sew lifeboat will be sent to the Lizard in a day or two, as the institution always has boats ready to meet such emer gencies, which, happily,are of very rare occurrence. In fact, the lifeboats 3f the society have been manned during the peat three years by upward of 18,000 persons, and sir lives only have been lost from them, including the _three men above-named.) WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) THURSDAY, JASCART 4, $ Harp Aberdeen Leith Ardrossan Greeneasthi Yakut's— Cape Clear Liverpool Holyhead Penzance Brest Rochefort .. Plymouth ... Weymouth . Portsmouth London .. Yarmouth ... Scarborough Shields ...... H elder.... B. T., 29.29 42 29.39 HS 19.40 60 Jain ta S. W. S. 9.W. 8.3. W. !ma 47 29.49 50 lase 53 29.8 —4 52 1 52 30.00 41 ran 62 2990 81 19.87,48 29.99 46 20.95 0 20.7242 2965.46 8. s R. 8.8. W. 8.8. W. a. 8.8. K. y. W. 8.5. W. 3. W. W.S. W. cr ro oc r; 8. &sm. S. BA*. &&W. S.W. &W. N.W. W.A.W. B.W. W.S.W. W.S.W. W.S.W. W.A.W. Co &Is/ co I r 0.12 or 0.13 co 0.33 ro 0.11 FRANCE. PARIS. JAN. 4. The Emperor yesterday received the Moorish ambassadors, and replied in gracious terms to their address expressing the cordial friendship of the Emperor of Morocco towards France. The Senate and Corps L•igialatif will reassemble on the 22nd of January. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 4. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Teutonia, from New York on the 23rd inst., has arrived with 176 passengers for this port, Hamburg, and Havre, and 176,600 dols. in specie for England. Her news has been fully anticipated. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor ors OWN onassrowDzirr.) PARIS, WICDNIADAY EVWNO. The France states that at a meeting of the opposition deputies, held yesterday at M. Marie's, it was resolved to concentrate all their efforts upon the Mexican question in the debate upon the address. Lord Cowley, who had postponed to the last moment his return to Paris from England, was prevented by the tempestuous weather from arriving in time for the New Year's receptions. The successor of the late M. Thuillier on the bench of government speakers in the Corps Legis latif is likely to be M. Duvergier, who for many years has held a high place in the Council of State. When at the bar he was thought by many good judges to be the very best lawyer in France. He could never be got to give, as too many French lawyers do, an advocate's opinion. Without re ference to the wishes of the party consulting him his signature was never to be got to any but his judicial opinion upon the case stated, and his severe practice in this respect gave to his opinions almost the force of law in the courts. He is far from being so fluent a man as N. Thuillier, but he will be very much listened to. The Moniteur du Soir repeats emphatically that political considerations have nothing whatever to do with the " denunciation " of the extradition treaty and that it is a question of pure jurispru dence. The Moniteur lays down the proposition that the legislation of all nations on the subject of extradition has a tendency to uniformity as upon many other points, and it then says that the Emperor's government having, after twenty years' experience, found the existing treaty useless, merely wishes to have a treaty applicable to "common crimes " only, which may work. As to the principle it alleges that both governments are agreed. I continue to be of opinion that if the French government has not found the treaty prac tical, the reason is that it did not take the reason able and not very great trouble of sending proper evidence to England. I think this position unassailable that an English police magistrate ought not to deliver up to a foreign power any per son accused of a crime upon less evidence than he would require to commit a man for trial in England. I am greatly mistaken if parliament can be brought to sanction any other doctrine. While we have been enjoying here since New Year's-day the temperature of a fine first week in April, the Madrid journals announce that the Mancanares, the little stream which runs through that city, is now frozen over, and that skaters are seen disporting on it in unusual numbers. At the Bourse the Rente, though closing 10c. lower than the highest quotations of the day, realised a rise of 10c. for cash and lc. for account, the latest quotations being 68fr. 50c. and 681 r. 5211 c. Alobilier fell Bfr. 75c., and all the dependent secu rities of that great company were lower, owing to a rumour that, in consequence of the disfavour which has long bung over its operations and the systematic delay in the publication of its accounts, the government thinks of appointing a committee to inquire whether its last dividend of 2fifr. is a bond fide one. Some eubecribera to the last Ottoman loan have commenced an action for the return of their sub scriptions on the ground that the guarantees given do not bear out the promises of the programme. Wbt Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 3. The Queen walked and drove in the morning and afternoon of yesterday. Dr. Norman M'Leed arrived at Osborne, and bad the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•ofiioe from the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, Labium, Gibraltar, and Malta. Despatches were sent to the Gover- nors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Litman. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will honour the Earl and Countess of Leicester with their presence at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, on or about Tuesday next, when a select circle will meet their royal highnesses. It is expected that the Prince and Princess of Wales will leave Holkham Hall on Friday for Sandringham. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have left his grace's official residence at the Admiralty for Stover Lodge, Devonshire. The Marquis of Hartington has joined the party visitioit the Earl and Countaes of Westmorland at Apthorpa Park, Northamptonshire. The Counters Cowper is still seriously ill at Panehanger. The Earl and Countess of Westmorland are entertaining a select curdle at Apthorpe Park, Northamp tonahire. The Earl St. Maur is stayiog with Sir Frederick sad Lady Hermioae Graham, at Netherby Park, Cumber land. The Rev. Dr. Cumming, defending in the Times the Church of Scotland public service, writes:— "Nor does your fine liturgy want faults. Is not the morning service too loog ? Is it not, I appeal to all, often wearisome, not only from its length, but its repetitions? Nor does tour liturgy insure uniformity. Let any straeger go in socceasion one Sunday to the Rev. Mr. Boyd's, at Paddington ; the next Sunday to AU Saints', Margaret street ; the next to St. Alban's, and the next to St. George's-in-the-East, and he will find that no stretch of imagination can induce him to believe that these churches are all under one bisboo and belong to one national church, and have one Act of Uniformity." During the past year over 4,000 cases were ad mitted into the Newport Market Refuge, and supplied with 8 on. of bread and a half pint of coffee, night and morning, during their stay. Out of this number about 500 have procured employment of a more or lees permanent chit. meter, as schoolmasters, doctors' assistants, clerks, mechanism, labourers, and servants. Many poor girls thrown out of work have been supplied with food and clothing, and had places provided for them; while several girls and young women "of the streets" have been sent to homes and penitentiaries. Many of them are already doing well in the world as domestic servants ; some have been restored to their friends, and others are still on probation. Diluter COMMISSIONS.—We (Times) are requested to announce that the examination for direct commissions expected to take piece In the month of February seat has bees postponed WI further sotios. Cautionary onrush' repented to-day. raosaMm. 01 NORTE/OW SATURDAY. Gomm. S.W. to , fresh to • gale, squally. un settled. W/181 - 1011. W. N.W. to 8.8. W., fresh to a gale, some rain. 8. to W. varying from sorrniza. Between S.W. and a gate fresh, some N.W., fresh to strong, rain. squally. Al ntxt above. KARIBA As next above. FRIDAY. Southerly and westerly, gales at intervals, rain at times. As above. Northern=anotland. Westarn=lreland. Wales, end ad's concise. Sontharn=Enallah Channel and nay of Biwa". 'tail/ernEastward ZWand and North Sea. It is stated that a box containing a number of rifle., cutlasses, and a flag of a peculiar description, which arrived from Liverpool per the city of Dublin steamship Windsor on Sunday night, was on Tuesday taken posses sion of by one of the Custom-house officers at the corn ynny's store, Northwall, who had it taken to the Queen's stores, Custom-house, where it is at present retained The authorities, under the circumstances, have thought proper to keep the name of the person to whom the box had been consigned private. A New York paper advises the Feniane, instead of wasting their money in fruitless attempts to bribe Ciblahony into leading an invading force to Ireland, to spend it in bringing the "Irish Republic to America." The 5,000,000 dollars squandered in the last 'even yews would have paid the peerge of every Irish Fenian to d =wins, where he could live anywhere by his labour. The following appears iu the Paris Temps : " Jateph Mazzini is at this moment ill in an humble dwell ing in ltrompton-road. The man who for so long was the incarnation of Italian unity expires in the fogs of the North and in a climate which kills him. Now that the old conspirator no longer is in a position to terrify any one, why does not the King of Italy allow him to breathe his lut on his native soil r Among the passengers by the Atrato, which left Southampton on Tuesday, were eight Sisters of Charity from Chartres, in France, proceeding to Guadeloupe, in the West ladies, to fill up the places as hospital nurses of those who have just died of the cholera in that island. Most of the eight sisters who went out in the Atrato were very young women, and some of them were rem►rkably good-looking. They were dressed in the gsrb of the sister. hood—viz., coarse woollen gowns and large white bonnets. The toll-bars on the York and Malton and Malton and Scarborough coach roads were removed at midnight on Sunday, nod the cost of the maintenance of the roads will in future be borne by the respective parishes. Since the in troduction of railways in these districts, horse and carriage traffic has much decreased on the highways. Two Liverpool shipwrights, who had been ox pelted the shipwrights union for an alleged infringemNit of the rules, to the deprivation of the sick allowance of one of them, carried the caw before the Liverpool magistrates yesterday, who made an order in their favour and against the union. THE JAMAICA COMMISSION.—In noticing the fact that the Jamaica Committee has despatched two legal gen tlemen to watch the proceedings of the Royal Commission, the Pall Mall Gazette of yesterday says:—" We have re•soo to believe that the Colonial-office has promised to afford these gentlemen every facility in collecting iofornsa- Moo, but has distinctly refused to recognise their torus standi before the commission." The latter part of this statement is quite inaccurate. The Colonial•ofiice has "distinctly refused" nothing of the sort. Is leaves the royal oommissioners quite free to conduct their inquiry in their own way, and there is not the slightest reason to suppose that the commissioners will refuse to recognise the torus slaadi of the gentlemen to whom Mrs. Gordon and others deeply concerned in the proceedings have resolved to entrust their Gaunt —Star. THE GETHIN COLLIERY CALsmirr. —The in quiry into the deaths of the unfortunate 34 men who were killed at the Gethie Upper Pit, near Aber canard, on the 20th ult., was rammed yesterday at the Bush Hotel, Merthyr, before Mr. T. William., deputy. coroner ; and in consequence of the illow Of Mr. Brough, government inspector of the western district and Monmouththire, which hm prevented him from in specting the pit, was further adjourned until Tuesday next. The coarser, in adjourning the inquiry, eluded to the mew of evideme which was likely to be provided, sad stated that it woe the intention to select, if poosible, rely that which bore more particularly upon the care of the unfortunate calamity. It is gratifying to keow tint Mr. erawehay, the proprietor of the pit, hes made provision for the present for them who have bean by the Illesidiat deprived of their mew of support. FENIANISM. The Herald and Standard alone of the journals record this morning, is the form of a telegram from Dublin, an alleged attempt to assassinate her If ajesty's representative In Ireland, Lord Wodehonse. The story is that as Lord and Lady Wodshonse were proceeding on a visit in the train they were shot at by some miscreant in the neigh bourhood of NthMager, and that the eoginadriver narrowly escaped. The Herald gives credence to the statement, and proceeds to express the conviction that whatever re spectability in Ireland may have faintly sympathised with the aspirations of the pretended patriots will henceforth be completely alienated from them. It will be sew. Weenies TOBBIGN LF7•I88. Treating of the speech delivered by Prince Count in opening the Legidative Assembly at Bucharest, the Daily News taken occasion to mention some air. cumstances which, in its opinion, if they do not justify, at least tend to mitigate, the political offence of the events that preoeded the new constitution of which the Roman Chamber is the offspring, and which events have created en unfavourable impression. The speech just given proves the Prince's desire to raise the n►tional feeling and to direct the government in the path of material progress. Considering the things that have been done in the short space of twelve months, we are forced to own that the Priam has not made an improper use of the power of which he irregularly pos sessed himself. For the present the aim of the ruler of Moldo•Wallachia is to persevere in the p►th of material and morel progress, and thereby prepare his subjects to hold their own in any change which may happen in the East tending to throw the various nationalities now subject to the Turkish rule, so to speak, on their own reports-ass. Any attempt to accelerate the advent of such a change must check the development of this interesting nation. The Post says that no apprehensions need be entertained of blood being spilt at Chili in order to avenge the fancied slight on Csatilian honour. The remonstrances addressed to the Spanish government by the cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries have not been altogether ineffectual, and the results of the sets of hostility committed by both parties to the quarrel will resolve themselves into a ques tion of pounds, shillings and pence. There seems no res. eon why, in all those instances in which the eases trite was comparatively insignificant, and especially in those cease where the aggrieved state admitted its willingness to re ceive a pecuniary indemnity or verbal apology, an arrange. ment ahead not be come to between civilised powers to refer the point at issue to arbitration. The Telegraph commends the report by General Carl Schurz, who has lately visited the South at the request of the President, to the study of all who wish to know the considerations which have induced the Republicans to with hold their support from the Presidential policy of roma structioo. According to General Schurs's observations, the intention of the Southern States, NI soon as they have re covered the right of administering their own affairs, is to peas such laws as will render the freedmen, not indeed slaves, but a subject race. Without re garding the equity or expediency of such a course in itself, he argues that the existence of a helot community, and of an aristocracy of colour, in the South, would per petuate that discrepancy of policy and feeling between North and South which so nearly led to the overthrow of the Union. The Southerners—so he asserts—►re perfectly conscious of their defeat, and h►ve no idea of appealing again to the issue of insurrection, but they simply accept the Union as a bitter necessity. No reliance, he deems, is to be placed upon their manifestations of loyalty ; sad therefore the instinct of self-preservation urges on the North the imperative obligation of endowing with political rights a class whose whole interests will thus be bound up with the maintenance of Federal supremacy. MISCILLANZOOS TOPICS. The Daily News enters very fully into the report of " the Royal Sea Fisheries" Commission. This document it describes as a model of diligence, imparti►lity, and acute ness in collecting and weighing evidence, and of sound dis cretion and candour in sifting what was merely local, par tial, or personal in the alleged grievances or difficulties, from remediable evils and defective principles. And the conclusions are, as might be anticipated, all in accordance with that enlightenel spirit of legislation which removes from industry all restrictions, instead of devising artificial aids and stimulants to its growth. Toe Times refers to many proceedings in the country in connexion with the plague amongst cattle, as forcing upon us the one pr►ctical conclusion that by some means or other healthy cattle must be kept from all contact with cattle possibly infected, and this seems ooly possible by the desperate resource of keeping all cattle at home. If all cattle were oonfined for a certain period to their own pastures, it is certain that the chief source of contagion would be removed, and the danger reduced to a minimum. If the public wants beef, and the butcher knows where to find cattle, we may depend upon it that cattle will soon find their way to the butchers' shops in the form or beef, however absolutely the traffic in live animals may be forbidden. The Post regard► the appointment of the Muter of the Roll► to the peerage, as dictated by sentiment► of wooed and political friendship, and not as intended to strengthen the courts of appeal. It also expresses its doubt that the proposal to attach a life peerage to the highest judicial offices would meet the difficulties now experienced. Without esterase* to political or oonstitutiolial arguments involved in the matter, it is quite reasonable to suppose that a Chief Justice who had worked his way up from the courts of quarter seesiosa, would balance the onerous duties of the high smarts of sipped with the somewh►t equivocal, because exceptional, hooeur oonferred by a life peerage. Snob men, when they bare pulsed their threesoore years, aro pow to look at the oatotostial side of t►imp THE oErrLa PLAGUE. —.-- MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAOISTRATML—mus DAY.) lAwl A special meeting of re v ding of Middlesex mad others interested in the prevailing epidemic amatt p g..iz was held this day at the Session-house, Clerksowl. • ,,Z7 . perguasee of the hollowing notice issued by Mr. N• l 7 COPB. the clerk of the peace :-" The chairmaa of the eourt le n i.' received from the Homeeilioe an important order with uk -s (Before ranee to the cattle plague made by the Lords of th e p."Z' The baukrnpt Doused es th e iota nit, request your attendance tir•• • " 7 'Avenue' and o th • the sane on Thursday, the 4th of Jemmy, UN — " been taken out is t at 12 o'clock. when the chairman of the -1 petition and - trusts the chairman ri each potty sessions will auks ir ill ••• rpool ; and ou veelent to attend." HENRY POWNALL, Fwq., took d ia zz presented by and there were precut Mr. Bustead, Mr, now made to I% Mr. Lulea& Mr. Rankles, Capt. D. O'Brien. Mr. J . C llOO , to Mr. J. F. On Pownall, Mr. Wyatt, Mr. P. N. 1 4 . - 0 this court, . on Mr. Pileher, Mr. Giles Pitcher, Dr. Jervis, eir J. --- 's tore residing Mr. H. L. Taylor, Captain Morley, Mr, h. re. of the mo sir Re itorectrus.-- Kr. P. Bodkin, Dr. M'Oaae, Mr. Facieco, Mr. C. ~ also been filed, lis t Charlie White, Mr. C. Baker, Sir John gi r 4i, got bastion was • But., Mr. Griffiths, Mr. Prance, Mr. ji m . - 7.0, - - Pr. Ituehhrook, Mr. Healey, Mr. Hogarth, Mr. Skippers foikked for an order ford, Mr. Aphelia', Colonel Jake., Mr. Bail. morrow. fag, Mr. Michiur, Mr. Pa:bury. Mr. 3tr. T. Bud o • J. J. Hamilton , Bart. ; Kr. Pima, Kr. Levielit it 4,4 His Honour emu . Bentley. General Weed, Mr. James Bentisy, Ir. Charles J lea . Bl ß T . t" Cha W'hi pmad it: Thilliir itr . . " Treele j'' M y rb ,..th iL e Flatc H i c L a. bsr l : l -I" arrn a l u t ' d ic tion, Salliellid his lgmribehe ii? ac t t er ot hre lB6 in l a h n e y • Donald Nicoll , Mr. J. R:ig, Kr. Wyld, M.P., Ig r , °I nelll ordered Mr. Haswell, Mr. Bird, the Baron De Bliss, Mr. ZI G% esza, Sir George liedgkingoo, ha The CHAIRMAN need the large assemblage of m ag e r a oia then amemblad he took as as indication of appeoildl e THE ' subject, to consider which be had called them Welk The object was one not to be explained in • few wok e the government had already issued four Orders of (Wog in reference to the cattle plague. The first of bu s orders was issued in July, the second is I n Umber, the third in November, and the last on the 14 EITINBpri RO of December. The last was the one in which they s e aa Mew Coulson, gistrates of the county of Middlesex were more imudidd r icc., of Tot eoncerned at the present time. The order of Nough t og five ladies' placed power is the Wade of the district magistro u i s tity of dresses, make certain regulations to prevent the spread of *ls& Ming.* to the use, but that order had been found to be quite Ludw i g Of Ms employers. and therefore much stronger measures were acne, Mr. Michael Bo to be carried out. It was only yesterday that be b r a misled that ii wee th received • letter from • chairman of one of the p i n y odd end paid for in siesioual magistrates of the county which bore out** I.ollollloe, the ' he had stated. The chairman then read the Weer, nis rim' into the packi stated that the whole of the district was free fourth Wr hinii [ and giving t disease, except in two places, where it raged fearfully, ma, Nat. a the pack* withstanding this, and with the admission that the t i yrov pated and the tick aged fearfully in two placed no steps had been tak en d e age of this ticket, magistrates, boson it did not affect the ghd r flerda7 • parcel country. Similar complaints had been made A rn o 'Mrs. Graham, • every other county, sod representations bad been mods a Om, paid." Ha the government from the most influential 'gue ri ll a * etthress sent to throughout the country, and the agriculturists =Opp/ th lie and found nobility had urged nom the government measure, of grew 81109 t.,, He then stringency. Therefore some orders should be issued Aid shee t .., Ib. The td' should give the public confidence' that effectual um •••......__. HIS five i should be applied, so that they might stem In um h..° sold to Ur. 10d. • the pest by which they were at present afflicted I -- , . roods with therefore became necessary that they should have rem slier i - - -th ess faun stringent regulations-but not more stringent this 61 mam al.w to 16e. is awful visitation required. It was quite true that iris hu n ting . country was very peculiar in many respects, se they hd toc ae °°,,ii_cn or had 'a within it an enormous population, and therefore it ve •••"' "'" lad y ''"'" a subject that required great consideration. It mw i b ro ....atd oe.o 7• olls • tell question more important than the feeding of that pert *boo, but it was a question bow they were to proomp o i, grimmer in custody hand stock of the whole °pantry. The arrangements for Wpo on him a gold Mete , duplicates veution of the spread of the disease were not brought h I ° grime amouptiog to perfection, and although 'deuce had developed baa at hi . gh, measures, yet it was important that they they take other measures to prevent the contamination in mg - direction as much as possible. In Ross, 'eau*, bitu " r gr ea t io P r i n t i v i • a resolution was passed prohibiting altogether the teat ell the address a of cattle along the public reeds. A similar resolute' W me— the prisoner also bees Jesesid in Surrey and Hertfordshire. It bad but "lady mew," prohibited to drive cattle from one farm to another if tio vi ,....„,,, v Led had to pus a turnpike road. Now they had to anode ; 8 71 - c er - i r i„ d, a how that would affect the county of Middlesex, fer 1 he Boyle-street, Sa they were to adopt such • resolution, sad Feud red the prism the twain of cattle slug the turnpike roads, that soy h b e h a d ac iia virtually stop biliogton-market unlessthey could, by um - sua ide mid! scientific process, get them there without crossing the c s. for whatever he turnpike roads. Still he hoped that county would el Hogg, were furl fail to deal with the subject by such simag "mu entity of coach, I as the neoeeeity required, and if the market was rigid op .. pr„entsT. f rom to be stopped, that should be does, for it wadi et ether article' pled be better that the supply of beef to the O. amid woe ! w imp habitants of London should he suspended fora few Viii rid rece i ved from la rather than the supply to the whole country 'build h yids:babe gave • sin stopped for many years to come. The power of stoppieg he The prisoner pleas Isliogton market rested with the Lord Mayor, and if his Be was remanded ship was not disposed to take that step it would be Men tat that court to interfere and stop the cattle from pawing to, their turnpike made. It appeared to him to be unperson that their roads should be stopped, as surrounding comen had done, and thus show to them that the magistrates die county of Middlesex were not less anxious for the pet safety thee their fellow-magistrates of the neigliboug counties. Fear ways were open to they- to meet thsseL The first was to stop all communication sling the need the county ; the seeped was to allow the cattle to be driven to the market, and to be there slaughtered sat a third was as far as they could direct that all foreign cask should be slaughtered at the market to which they me driven within a limited circle from where they us landed. It appeared to him that they should appals committee to wait upon the Lord Mayor to w if they odd mutually agree on the plan most likely efficiently to any into effect the orders in eounciL They would natbeableiht day to pass any revolution definitely, as the court wri si journed from Saturday last to Monday ; bet I • committee was appointed that day they could conk/reit the Lord Mayor, and draw up resolutions, and the mot of them could be brought up on Monday, and made imp relive, so that no time would then be lost. After soar other observations he left the matter in the hands of * meeting. [The discussion was proceeding when this report left.] TM Mr. William Dahl a busiDese at Howie to answer a = TI of Police, WESTMINSTER BRETERRY COMPANY (LIMITED).- (THIS DAY.)—At the fifth ordinary meeting of the °mum held to-day at the Westminster-palace Hotel ; Mr. W. I Noodle in the chair ; a dividend wu declared at themes , / per cent. per annum and a bonus at the rate of 2 per rent pe annum, payable on and after the I lth inst. A discusico tees place as to the expeeiency of establishing a reserve fadi but it was decided that having regard to the kerma the value of property in Westminster there was woes& for such a fund at present.. et hroktiey sit December, in 'Atkin the police cl . Benjamin Miles to sok having a license I. kim according to t• ike statute, 1x.," sliest, Bloomsbury, Mtn driver of the sa bind ticket. Kr. Ricketts, sot mod, appeared to Plena of the E die' Basimiuioners of P Mr. Dale pleaded Polioe-000stable C pat 10 in the morel ondant Miles driv irtio number of the lame cab on the NI the 13th, and as driving one of his am and had been metro of " all that, and steady driver, say of his horses • mod Miles out with blip to put the ho After hearing fur Mr. Barker fined end meta. DELAYS ON THE LONDON, CHATHAM, Al) DOVER RAILWAT.—Last night, for the space of at led a couple of hours, much confusion prevailed on the Led* Chatham. and Dover Railway. The passengers, All taking their seats at the Ludgate-hill station, Val ordered to leave the carriages and walk over the tearer Blackfriambridge, and get in at the next state" ' 1 a carriage had crossed the metal, and stopped the Ude The people did is requested, and after waiting some tie the carriages were filled, but nearly three hours &poi before the train started ; and during the time the penalise shouted "Shame," hissed, groaned, &c, The train, lee ever, at length started, and arrived at Walworth ale minutes before one in the morning, instead of about 10.3 1 1 THE RAILWAY CO3sMISSION.—CoIODeI Mooed, M.P., has been placed on the railway commission to rem sent Irish interests, in place of Lord Donouehmore, eke state of health obliges him to retire from it. —Dias Evening Mail. THE RECORDERSHIP Or BIRMINGHAM.—We vi' demised that the name of Mr. J. F. Stephen may be dill to the list of candidates for the recordership of Birmioghter about to vacated by Mr. M. D. Hill. Without at all had ing to disparage the merits of other candidates. weal say that if the choice of the government should fell ea Mr. Stephen, there would be no cause to regret run la appointment. Mr. Stephen ban been for some yew member of the Midland Circuit, and both on cited and in the metropolitan courts he holds a distiogniold place—in pro.lof which we need only mention the PG 4 nsnt part he took in the pleadings before the Indieil Committee of the Privy C.nocil, in the fano" "Essays and Reviews" case. The learned gentlenee is slee well known ea an author—his treaties 7n the Crimisalla being recognised as one of the ablest work- of its clam ire may add that Mr. Stephen was Secretary to the floysWesr mission on Elementary Education, which reported in FA —Birmingham Post. FINE FOR DRIVING BEASTS ALONG THE TVeltrig l ROAD.—At the Salisbury Petty Sessions. on Tuesday,. „XL Elias Loosen, of Fordingbridge, Hants, butcher. VII Inn N., including costs, for driving six beast:: along the tam pike-road from S disbury ter Fordingbridge, os thel2th contrary to the ceder in council. ANTICIPATING EVENTIL—Three years since, at e emadry.bouse near London, five cabinet ministate bell present, there arose a discussion as to what would hufflll_ on the sudden death, or resignation from illness, d Palmerston. It was agreed, nem con. that Lord Rue. would, as a matter of course, succeed t o the premien* and Mr. Gladstone to the lead of the House of Commas The late Sir George Lewis, laying his own personal claims 'side, wan foremost and strongest in urging the sacraria prolific:rations of If,. Gladstone ; and on this cameo hi made a remark which, rut it has been more than ewe ale understood and misquoted, we repeat—" Never mind ane w the prime minister ' • I could supply you with three or foss' very tolerable ones from the House of TAvdt at any .. tin' Whenever you are speculating on fresh combination.. MN by itemise your Home of Commons leader."—Few S Magazine for January. AM AMERICAN PREACHER'S BET. —There is ole more characteristic of American humour which we nail notice—the familiar use of scriptural language. Is certain cases this le perfectly natural sod harelko• An uneducated man mixes up scripture and melees life more frequently in proportion to his belief in scripts% Many of the stories which seem risky tr, us would be prussive to the original speakers. A er.rtaio Mr. Lard Daw preached a sermon on the text from St. Paul, "lies doe!! things." " No, Paul," he said, " Ton are wrong"' betonor e a o l i l lar youbill on five dollars des'. He can't," and saes " through Jesus Christ our Lwd." " ! Paul." he ewe " that's a very different thing ; the bet's off." Thil Maid', beats say anecdote we ever heard of Mr. Spurges'' —Co Magazine for January, p an ti d eu h e e l la tl a i Tifipenalties wel ♦ tall, well-dr lathe magistrate : Be said a few u• la sum ns li ce c e;t a agi ll i t s a t t b ra ued th t i c e l d e a w eoetinued—On the Wells, when he took GM she t o him, so t brit away from th bar to return. B . a two after, when Morn to her duta ipso which the ,if he did no some back to he some licant said th• use should not the place end E called his !leant) was ro Might to this tre mon ticket. lie h thought be ought wished to know s The magistrate fait it coming to make m elf. As for ad ,. ae. If he felt ag, ,ppliceutt retired. THE o oormeottence of of from the poor I le arrangemen ts ld not commen il 11 o'clock, cowledge the Ti tl, and he wished MU; bad now gni binsate requirem :tisite• machiner the poor on 1 occasion to S. fund was origi Iwo, peculiar, an a l Per the notice se of inveatigati I done. The ope rebly exiended, it limited in no rirbelming. had 1 111 for relief, an Tying object' or the poor-box fit, re was no very been oue of to k in the diet I, wages were tys would be, as affluent, by ti et societies, a without e r the requisite ice to both woe dish . ; labour was • wise and be ristratel of the pt 'Mons for relief. Lin a night's lodg It. Pter, the chi, fallen from the i l k I r