The Express. — London, England, 1868-11-30 00:00:00

~a ~~~ Ehe erortoo• DRURY-LAIR Tins RT.:lmm, Bonit4 )wka) YLUMT-B.—KING 0' SCOTS. Kr. Phelps, Messrs. Addiso, Irving, Bane, An ; Mesdames s e am Swat, Fnuili Mattison; 2e. —And • ()BAND BALLET I/ACCION entitled 1112)A. HAYMARKET. TM% EASY SHAVING. Yarn. Roma, Clark, and t;ordon : Mama Burke and Wright.—LKAM Melan. Rowe, Boris. P. Buelutooe, kc. ; Madams' Hatamtan. Pitswnliant, km .And BOX AND I. OX. Mr. Hucksters and Mr. Compton. Ti.a L IPS. BECRET. .ILITEE DARE: A TALE Or LONDON LH?. N. W. Ley, Dominick Wormy, Harcourt, Eton% he. ; 'Leas E. Barnett ma Rude La dereq.—Mad KANTER JONTfrB BIRTHDAY. QUEEN'S TREAT= WHO-ACEIL Tow Ivwau, at 7, TUN LANCALIEURI LAM. Kan. sr. & Emery. L Stough, J. Clayton, C. Wyndhant, and H. II Tyrrot; 111-4ec N !Lowe and H. H04•0111.—To conclude with It . Reeve, l'ort , of Extravagance, entitled, THY /MANGER, STRANGLE THAN EVER. Nellllll. L. Deasik !Nephew, and Bvyton ; and Alliew Hodson, Evened, and Hate Sentley. Tin Rearm, at 7. A - WIDOW RUNT. News. Clarke, Belford. and Joyce kiosks Button and PIZLD OP Tli3 C OF OOLD.—llerers. Thorne. James, Robson, and F.atec ; Miss Ooodall, ke.—Aad NAIIIAGI AT ANT PRIC3. OT.OBE THEATRE ROYAL. prw,:,.,:i77l6sFiliicioilligo.—At a I In S, H. J. Byren'e original Comer . in Five Acta, eyaws 81:T -iros. Meagre. E. 3Loshell , Wanier, Vernon, Fisher. Newbourn, Flinletotwa and J. Clarke, SC. ; Mesdames Thorne, Hughes, to., Bien.pmx#,. ‘ TEE Ilvnum THE KARLETILLEH: OR, THE WITCH, THE FOYER, AND THE MYSTERY. Mrs. 8. laus.—Mir L. lilbenington and Yr. P. WHafile.—And THE HRADLESS 310BBISALLN. Mr. Heynokla ; Mesdames Harcourt, Booth. HIGH WATER ATLOIDO! lIIIDOS Te-Dar - - :=16;a4, -- trfirs=fte - 1704 - Ih. 1711. To-Miaow—Naming, ft. 3011 ---A l tesm• lb. kn. Ronan of Burros. Ilfra;;;Oso.and Dicrao, ore received until 12 o'clock fur inaction rum maize. Priem b. dd. LOYDON, MONDAY, NOV. 30. THE TERRITORIAL DEMOCRACY 1,1 FRANCE. ET a decree, dated March 24, 11016, a Commission was appointed by the Emperor NAPOLEON, at the instance of the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, to inquire into the condition of French agriculture and particularly of the peasant proprietary. The mode in which the Commission conducted its operations was as follows :—lt drew up an elaborate series of questions, and for the pur poses of the inquiry it divided France into twenty eight districts, compnsmg each three or four de partments. The Presidents ad hoc of these districts were chosen by the Minister among the Senators, the Councillors of State, and other lead ing functionaries of the Empire. These presi dents, assisted by an auditor of the Council of State or by an e.ployF of the Ministry of Agricul ture, were placed in communication with the Prefects. in concert with whom they pro ceedc,l to constitute departmental commissions. These departmental commissions, composed on an average of ten or twelve mem- Lars, rrogocuted their labours in the localities assigned to them, and recrived altogether some thing less than 4,000 oral depositions, and about an equal number of written statements of grie vances. Several agricultural boards and societies deliberated on the replies to be given to the questions of the central commission. Out of these twenty-eight reports twelve have now been published, and M. Esosa;E Di LAVERGNE, one of the highest agricultural authorities in Europe, in an interesting paper in the current number of the Renue dee Iku.c Mondes, presents a summary of the case of the petitioners. As briefly as possible the follow ing arc the points on which the petition ers are unanimous. They demand a revi sion of those articles of the Civil Code which favour the minute subdivision of property in land, Without, however, infringing the principle of equal testamentary succession ; re-enactment of the law of 1 , i24, which facilitated the exchange of contiguous parcels of land; a general revir.ion of boundaries in the register of the government survey ; suppression of publir loans, and of all the illicit wanceuvres which divert capital from its natural course; new facilities to be given to agricultural credit by placing it withinreach of small cultivators ; amendment of the law of mortgage ; and of those articles of the Code which interrupt the flow of credit ; a con tido-olds reduction of the military contingents ; immediate reduction of the unproductive pub lic works in cities, and principally in Paris ; de velopment of primary agricultural instruction ; extension of the powers and resources of the com munal councils and councils-general of the depart manta ; an active impulsion to be given to useful public works, especially in extending them to the rural districts; reduction of thej charges on the railways; revision of the Customs tariffs in a purely fiscal sense, augmenting receipts without infringing freedom of trade; reduction of duties On .transfers of land e d proper t y; re f orm o f tie w ine tad spirit taxes; suppression or redaction of the town dues, extension of the powers of the local magistracy, division or sale el communal lands, restehlishment of the National THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVE: D ELICIOIIB COFFBIL WIIA.IAM and OEONIGE LLW. COFFEE lINIWIIANTH RE t sT o th i tt r llZEN. am NEW OXFO JOHN BIWUDKN'B 01.M810 JBWELBY. imius — inusr-cLAss sum= MEDAL. tea. JOHN B.ROUDKN'S 18-cant GOLD 01114118. j -- 0811 =OGDEN'S BRACELETS. JOUR BROODEN'S BROOCHNB. JOHN BROGDIM'S GEM sad WEDDING 11111011. JOHN BROODEN'S NSCIELLOES. JOHN BBAGDEN'S NABBING& ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFAMORY. NO. lb. RENIU esida NITA-WZREET. Clow at- D AIL Y NB W S. PRIM ONI PINNY. @CALI OF CaARANO FOR ADI rte.• ✓acerzeirsts of NEW ancreicne. after. EXPOETS of MEETINGS and ELEC . } - - WOW 10 11,.. da 1 4 TIONO LEGAL NOTICES PUBLIC) COMPANIES (11.tabliabsid1, LA 4 do. 6 0 do. 1 0 Ditto. ditto. Leader Pssbs 4 do. 4 0 do. 1 aIICTIONS. TRADES. 411 " MOORS. CHARI I an, 14.1.1 CALLA.• 6 do. f 6 do. 0 6 M LMI.II Ditto, dna% Leader Page 0 do. 6 0 do. 1 0 PARAGRAPH ADVERVaiIInENTS 6 do. 16 do. 1 6 Litr az alli i MLA HIM AGE and DEATHS I do. do. 0 C SERVANTS Wanting Places 6 do. 1 0 do. 0 TM wordastake • Mats s mingle letter Warne meals as a word. NOTIIII TO GENERAL ADVERTISERS. fla "Dour Nowa" as an acknowledged aalltorMY anon 001 a rebel aad Monetary questlona. enjoys a Int . posldon. and Eta WaNaiwistod rapidly inerradvs eiroalaßoa int redootion la MtOne Pepay TOII6IIIII ft an invaluable =dims to all undo of Pestscalce Onicce me Advertisements abeekl be mad•PaDIMIt ts fir. Josue Illsaantoyes. Post-office. Inceaetzeot PeaV a li ii. taraps received for amounts; aw to 30s. 11. Booveriestnnft. Flootsotreet, ILO.. London Institute of Agriculture. organisation of a sound' system of sgrioulturol instuonce, freedom of the markets. It will bo obeerved that while alma' all these demands are essentially prao tical. certain of them, notably those which refer to the military oontingents, the public works in Paris, the public loans, dig deep into the political and administrative system of the Second Empire. As M. LIONOI Da LACMIONE remarks, the rural districts of Franc* demand both capital and labour. National loans have absorbed the one; the conscription has de voured the other. The ElfPiaoi has continually promised decentralisation and has repeatedly an nounced the completion of the "cross roads." But he has never yet for a moment persuaded himself to relax the pressure of the central government, and the oroes roads are still in the " promising " stage. The rural population of France forms two-thirds of the entire nation ; it has universal suffrage in its hands, if it only knew how to use it. It demands nothing that is inconsistent with the national interests. The Second Empire was founded and is still sustained by its suffrages. Yet so jealous is the central government of any independent local that ono of its first acts after the Coop &Nat in 18M I% as to suppress the Central Agrioul tui al Congress. This Congress has lately been permitted to revive under tho presidency of Privy Councillor, M. Duoune nu Limes. Will the Imperial Government have the moral courage to consent to the demands after listening to the grievances of this great majority of its con stituents, reduce an overgrown army, disperse the •• grand agglomerations" of labour in theeities, and slyest the vast public works of Mr. HAussMANN in Furls? The problem is a difficult and a perilous one : on the manner of its solution depends the destiny of France, and perhaps the peace of Europe. _ . - " remedy in Ike whole rich More of medicine ons mord eldknaletence tirokeepeadag ." die dimmed organiern as repeated dame ot boot " lee;" by beef-tee it, Went the deservedly popular Extract of Meat. OUR CONTEMPORARIII3. (THIS DAY.) • • er , GUM . Irnmeos CASTI* sec Is. The Citation valid in the grounds this morning, samba by Lady Obssobill. PllllolAll Batkisa rode is the Home-park. The Crown Primes of Prude (Princess Royal), some paned by Princess Charlotte, Princess Victoria, sad Primo Waldemar, west to Deigebet s sal ensoseed Sir James Clark with a visit, and reiedned to luncheon. Omahas arrest/ow was in atteadaaos. Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutemant-Ooked dose, arrived at the Coeds this moraine from Greenwich- Palk. The Crown Prince of Prussia and Prince Christian. attended by Major-Oeneral F. H. Serowe; west out shooting. Count Fiesteesesin, the Hoe. Charles Murray, and Sir T. K. Biddidpk, had the honour of accompanying their royal highnesses. The Crown Priem and Princess of Prussia visited the Priem and Princess of Tech yesterday at Lesselagton Pa/aos, and also honoured the Dena of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley with a visit at the Dimity, and remained to luncheon. Their royal highness honoured the perfermance of the limed Harmonic Society, leder ball, with their presence in the seeming, sad afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. Countess Hohenthal, Count Pinteostein, and Captain Von &Mebane were in attend, ante. The Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby had the honour of ao companying their royal highnesses. Primer Charlotte of Prune. attended by Countess Reventlow and Major-General F. H. Soymour, returned to Windsor Castle yesterday afternoon from London. Prince Christian dined with the thew last evening. His Excellency M. and Madame Van de Weyer and the Hon. Charles and lady Murray had the honour of being invited. NOVEMBER Nov. 29. The Queen went out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Prime Leopold. The Crown Prince of Prussia, attended by Captain von ackleinits, went to Loudon Let evening, and honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covont garden, with his presence, and afterwards returned to Windsor Cantle. Prince Christian dined with the Queen yesterday. Sir Stafford Nortluote arrived at the Castle, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. General the lion. C. and Mrs. Grey also had the honour of being invited. Her Majesty's private band played the following selec tion of music area dinner, in the Red Drawing Room. before the royal family and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting ; Sir T. M. and the Hon. Lady Biddulph and the lion. Mrs. Wellesley also being present. Overturn, " Le Domino Nadr Auks. Andante con motoand salterella, from Hanna flinfeada Yredeteroba. Orand Baleotion, " Faust " ........ (Mono& The Queen, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Prince= Royal), Princes Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prince Beatrice, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended divine service this morn ing in the private chapel. The Very Rev. the Dean of St. Paul's preached tho swoon. 'rho Ilea. Sir Charles and Lady Murray have left the Castle. A Cabinet Council wee held on Saturday, at tho oacial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing street. The Ministers present were the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Halmos bury, the Right Hon. Oathorno Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir J. Pakington, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and Colonel the Right Hon. J. Wilson Patten. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, and from the Governor-General of Canada. es were sent to the Governor-General of Canada an to the Governor of British Columbia. THE DEFARTURE OF THE COURT FOE OeDOILTE. Her Majesty the Queen and the royal family, attended by their suite, will, it is understood, leave Windsor Castle for Osborne about the win of December. It is probable that their Eclat nights:owe th• Crows Priam and Prinneiss of Prussia will accompany her Majesty to Osborne, the Queen intending to spend Christmas in the Isle of Wight. and to reside there till about the middle of February of neat year. Her Majesty, has, it is said, recovered from her indisposition. Their Royal highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian intend, it is understood, to honour the Earl and Countess Vane with a That to Wynyard on an early day next month. It is stated that they will also pay a visit to &ahem Harbour on the 10th proximo, and that, al though there is no settled programme of the proceedings u yet, there will be a review of the local volunteers, . The Count and Counteaa de Paris have been the guests of M. and Madame Van de Weyer, at New Lodge, Winkfleld, near Windsor. The Duke of Marlborough arrived at his resi dence in St. James's-square on Saturday. in order to at tend the Cabinet Council. The Earl and Countess Craven are expected iu town to-morrow from their seat, Ashdown Park, Berk shire. The Earl of Ellesmere returns to town next week. The marriage with Lady Katherine Phipps, daughter of the Marquis and Marehionesi of Norm.iaby, will take place on the 9th December. Mary Viscountess Combermere and Mies Cheeter have arrived from Paris at Nice for the winter. • Lord and Lady Suffield have left Thomas's Hotel for their seat, Clanton Park, Norfolk. _ _. _ Louisa Lady Ashburton has left Thomas's Hotel for Seaton, South Devon. The Earl of Stamford and Warrington will en tertain the following distinguished shooting party at Brad gate this week :—The Earl of Sefton, Lord Colville, Lord Buntingfield, Lord Newport, Lord Ca!therm Sir Frede rick Johnstone, Sir Charles Legard, General Hon. C. Forester, Mr. H. Chaplin, and Yr. H. Saville. Mr. Gladstone has returned to Hawarden Castle. The marriage of Viscount Andover and Miss Coventry is to take place on Wednesday next. The marriage of Mr. Roger Ekyn, M.P. for Windsor, and Miss Mary Caroline Moetyn, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Vans of Harrowden, was solemnised on Saturday lard at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. After the ceremony tho wedding party adjourned to Batt's Hotel. Dover-street, and, after breakfasting, the hon. member and his bride left town for their re►idence near Windsor. THE QUEEN'S il.o VAL B Ueg Ho UN II S. —On Friday, this park met at Shottesbrook farm. There was a capital item, including the noble master, Lord Colville, and the usual followers of the hunt. "The Doctor" was the deer selected for the day, and after a Bret-rate burst of 36 minutes to Billingbear-park, he continued on by the Warren House and the railway to Wok wham. he was taken in • conservatory, after runn aha in w g hour and 40 minutes. On Tuesday, the meet was at Bed. hill. Thu field was • tarp one, and included Lord Colville, the Prince de Joinville, the Due de Ch and two other French princes, the Marquis of Waterford (who drove down in Ins four-in-hand), some officers from Windsor and Hounelow, most of the London division, and • great many good sporting farmers, The deer, Harrow Boy," was turned out on Mr. Bate's farm, at Haretield, Watereidash. The chaise extended nearly to the Harrow railway station, and then to the left, along. side the railway to Pinner, where the deer was taken , after a good hunting run of two hours. The hound, did not return to the kennel until the next morning. DEATH of AR Ex-M.P.—Colonel Ferguso n,who has for same pad been in delicate health, expired on Friday m at Raith House, near Kirkcaldy. He was born on the 202 of August, 1882, and was consequently in the 87th year of hie age. In 1828 be entered the army as ensign in the 43rd Regiment. He was shortly afterwards promoted to • lieutenancy in the 622 d. In 1827 he was sent to Malta with government and remained there till 1830, when be succeeded ie the ealowely of the 92nd Highlanders. On his retirement ham the amp, in which he had on several °condone dielinguithed Colonel Ferguson returned to Raith, and elibeefeemie be came the membor of parliament for the Lethal., District of Burghs, which be represented for a long mimed years, twice contesting the seat enceserfully. The Birmingham Cattle and Poultry Exhibition opens to-day. There is a large inerethe in the entries of cattle, and the quality of the animals shows a marked superiority. The de dames are p mfairly filled, and there is the usual _d ve in 2,747 pens. toesthe theiddield WWI "Wrl Will be opened she piddle te-inerrew week, the aggregate amount of prime remise the ewes of 2,11601. Mr. Walter Montgomery, the motor, has (sT o le , Australian aimed t b Iblis tr recov e) erbeened injured by a fall hem hir buee . POLITICAL PROTESTANTISM. Fitom the strength of the alleged Conservative reaction upon which the speakers and writers on that side have had so much to say in the way of Pelf-congratulation, there is a certain, though pros - spectire deduction to bo made, and it may do no harm to point it out by the way. In the first _ _ _ _ place there is a not inconsiderable class of Liberal voters who have, after all, only hazy ideas of what Liberalism in politics means, who think, and indeed openly say, that it does net make much dif ference to the country, certainly not to them, which side holds the reins at any given time. Politicians of this flabby order are easily frightened by a strong cry like that of danger to Protestantism into voting against the colours they are ordinarily supposed to wear ; for though they do not under stand or really love the Liberal faith—because they do not know what justice means—men of this stamp politically have usually a good deal of timid superstition at the bottom of their natures, which serves them for religion. Indeed, men who are thoroughly bribable, either by direct or indirect methods, are found to be quite capable of a sort of half-sincere furor of what they call Pro testantism. Voters of this clam have been " largely " influenced " to the Conservative side in the recent elections ; yet such men cannot form an element of permanent strength in any party. But that is the least important point. There is another class, and a largo one, of sincere Liberals, who, not having been educated up to the GLADSTONE mark in respect of political conscience—not feeling, as yet, that to love a creed embodied in an institu tion better than justice is infamous, have had sincere, however silly fears that justice to Ireland meant opening wide the door to Popery. Voters of this description have, in large numbers, re frained front voting at all. They would not vote for a Conservative; they were afraid to vote for Mr. GLADSTONE ; just as at Westminster numbers of electors, at once sincerely religious and sincerely Liberal, but incapable of understanding Mr. Mat., and terrified at the very name of BEAD- Leven, kept indoors instead of going to the poll. Now these men, in thousands and tens of thou sands, are simply awaiting the education which Mr. GLADSTONE and the course of events will assuredly give them ; and when they have got it, they will know their place, and take it. It is always a great pity when honestly religious voters are alienated. Iu times which now seem ante diluvian, the fondness, the positive affection of the Dissenters, as a body, for " Lord JoaN," as be was lovingly called, was an important politi cal power. When once those religious voters who have now hesitated or held back, are enlightened and reconciled, as they soon will be, we shall dis cover, without wanting the light of another election cast upon the facts, that the Conservative reaction is like Mrs. Partington's devil. A clown behind a scooped turnip, with a candle-end in it, stood in her path as she passed the churchyard one night. Undaunted, the old lady walked on. Disappointed at the failure of the trick, the jester called out, " Aint you afraid? I'm the devil :" " Then you're a poor ereetur," said Mrs. Parting ton, and, giving him a contemptuous dig with her umbrella, passed on her way. EXTRACT OF MEAT. The absurd rumour, current lately, that Extract of Meat may be poisonous in large doses, is now further contradicted by an authority even higher than that of Professor Paitxxs, whose indirect re marks on the matter were alluded to in the Express a few days ago. Under the title of " ♦ Word of Warning for Cooks," Once a Week recently drew attention to some experiments in which rabbits ands dog were induced to eat an amount of the popular " Extract of Meat" equivalent to their own weight of fresh animal food. The rabbits, though graminivorous, ate the extract of half their weight of moat with out apparent ill effects, and no disturbance of health resulted, but double the dose fairly poi soned the little creatures. The dog, a carnivorous animal, was not killed by eating the essence of a piece of beef as heavy as itself ; still the death of the rabbits was considered ominous by some people, who concluded that about four pounds of extract of meet would kill a man, and a less quantity produce harm only in a lesser degree. The illogical character of this deduction is pointed out by LIZIIIG in a communication to the current number of The Lancet. The Baron says that the poisonous effect of extract of meat belongs to the category of cases where people have e►ten pate de foie gnu, turtle soup, or oysters to such excess as to cause death ; but no sensible person will over dream of ascribing, on that ground, poisonous qualities to pelte de foie Bras, turtle soup, or oysters. It is to be regretted that the originator of the experiments associated the word "poison" with his deeeription of the results to be obtained, especially as ho evidently did not wish to create alarm, for in one part of his essay occurs the following sentenoe, " If, howe►er, it " be necessary to preserve the exhausted body " from protracted illness, they there is no other T 1 OILLOLOTILII OF TUN NWW U 0 OF 01:11000NIL Observing that the present election is the first under a new law, and that anxiety has been pro feeed lest the country should flad that It has been inaugurating • mere democracy, the non says that if them redly was any danger of the new parliament being densocratie that danger was likely to be aggravated by the question immediately before the country. The diseetablidusent of the Irish church was • sort of crucial tan, if indeed that disestablkihment is the revolutionary measure It has been repre sented to be. Whatever elm its defects, the house is amusedly no assemblage of democrats. Future electrons may augment the liberal Imam as liberal friends of the Church of Englaad discover the groundless ness of their panic ; but it hardly seems probable that any question can be mooted for • long time to come on which the liberal party will be tempted to choose more uncompromisingly liberal representatives than on that of the Irish Church. This pronounced disinclination in the liberal party for extreme views Las led to the choice of an exceptionally respectable and steady assembly. nix mum am= —nre I..'fD DISMINDIIIB. Commenting upon the result of the contest for the Eastern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the Daily Nem says it is curious that the Irish church esta blishment should find its champion in the Unitarian Mr. Ficlden, and its assailant in the Wesleyan Mr. Holden. Much as our contemporary regrets the result of this election, it would have deplored it still more if a liberal seat had boon won there as liberal seats have been lost at Westminster and Thidgnorth, by appeals to religious intolerance. The liberal party would have been untrue to itself if it had attempted to reestablish those theological tests and proscriptions which the law has abolished. But the fact that Mr. Fielden supports, while Mr. Holden op pose", the Irish church establishment, affords another illustration, to which it is worth while in passing to call attention, of the utter fallacy of the cry that heresy, scepticism, and infidelity are banded for the assault on protrtant ascendancy in Ireland, and that religious or. 'bodes,' rallies to its defence. The question is social and political; and men of every Greed and of none, protestant and catholic, churchman and dissenter, Christian and sew, believer and sceptic, are found in tho ranks of either MAY. Y PIIIIIOEIL The lost thinks that with • majority of a hundred at his book, Mr. ()ketone should not find any insuperable difficulty in pawing measures calculated to provide for the safe end beneficial working of • system of government which has undergone a change, but which is still suscep tible of improvement on its widened basis. At the head of • liberal government he will only have to consult the interests and footings of the country in order to Justify the oonfldence which it has reposed in him. THE ZESCLT or 211111 ilsorroxs. Our great electoral battle, remarks the Telegraph, is as good as over, and the result is a practical and parliament ary triumph more complete than the most sanguine propheta upon the liberal side ventured to predict. Mr. Gladstone will go back to Westminster with a majority of more than eve score votes behind him, and the New Year will open with • new ministry, a new policy, and an en tirely new era of English history. The Herald calculates that the conservatives will muster about 280 strong, and Mr. Gladstone, instead of the ma jority of 130 his organs promised him • few day' ago, will have one of ander 100, or about ten larger than that which be nominally possessed when he first assumed the leadership of the House of Commons in February, 1866. The practical result of the appeal to the country is that, so far as numbers are concerned, the two parties remain much as they were. The liberals have gained • few seats on the balance, and to that extent increased a majority which, ou uuo sieseuuptiou of its union and earnestness, was quite large enough before. This is a gain, doubt less, and the Strad does not contest their right to crow over it. TES PANACEA POE PVILITT. While urging upon the constituencies to avail them selves of the new means afforded them of punishing the corruption with which their virtue has been wailed, the Star at the same time insists that the new law does not dispense with the necessity for the ballot, which is still essential for the purification of our election.. RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS. The number of members elected to the new House of Commons is now 632, of whom 383 are liberals, and 269 are conservatives. The liberals are thus in a majority of 114. Only seven seats now remain to be filled, via, two in Mid- Somerset, two in Sligo county, two for the Scotch Universities, and one for the far distant consti tuency of Orkney and Shetland, where the polling will take place on Wednesday. The Mid-Somerset and Sligo elections take place to-day, while the polling for the Scottish Universities will not be concluded until the end of the week. IR. GLADSTONE AND THE SOUTH-WEST LANCASHIRE ELECTION. The following letter, addressed to the editor, of the Liverpool Alsreury, appears in that journal of to-day : " Uentienien.--Since the poll of Tuesday I have re ceived so many letters of the ndert sympathy, many of thorn from persons on whom I have no claim whatever. that, unable as I am to acknowledge them individually, I ask you to allow me to tender to them, through your columns, my respectful thanks. Many of them touch on topics and convey exhortations or as surances necessarily most grateful to me, but too sacred for this letter. So far as public matters are concerned, I beg them and all my friends to believe that the local reverses we have sustained, amid the general triumph of the liberal caws have no effect whatever upon my mind, except producing en squally local regret. In particular I see no reason whatever for despondency as to South-West Inncashire, where (to omit naming other circumstances), while other districts have gone bark, we have improved our position since July, 1665, by 700 votes. Rest assured that in the district where, under the circumstances of the pre sent juncture, liberal principles have been supported at the poll by 74 voters for every 76 that tie adversary has produced, those principles cannot remain at other elec tions 'Waded from a share of the representation of the division.—l have the honour to Da, gentlemen. your faithful servant, " W. E. Or.sperores. " ILawarden, Chester, Nov. 27." Very few of the veterans who eat in the House of Commons through the 38 years of the And reformed parliament will be found in their old places on the 10th of December. They are Mr. Briscoe, Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. Corry, Mr. Denison, General Forester, Colonel French, Mr. Gladstone, Sir G. Grsiir J. Hamner, Sir W. Hutt, Sir J. Johnstone, Mr. Le , Colonel Wilson Patten, Mr. C. B. Talbot, Mr. Timid,, and Sir Harry Verney. Those who have retired from narlissasatary life or been defeated in the elections are Mr.H. B. Baring, Sir H. Barron, Colonel *Mulish, Mr. Brocklehurst, Major Cumming Bruce, Sir R. Bulkeley, Mr. W. Ewart, Mr. Osaka Lord Hotham, Mr. Ingham ,General Peel, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. J. Abel Smith, Sir W. Verner, and Colonel Peers Williams. DIATH of 012 , 17.11 AL KIR WILL/Alt JOHN RIDLEY, H.C.M.G.—We (Post) have to announce the death of Major-General Sir W. J. Ridley, which took plea on Friday night after the gallant °Moir lift town for Norfolk. General Ridley bad been at the Hone Guards early on Friday and consequently the intimation of his death on the lODawing day was received with much surprise. Ilse late general was the fourth son of Sir Williams, third baronet, by .his wife, Laura, youngest daughter of Mr. George Hawilam. He was born in 1617, and entered the Scots Fusilier Guards as ensign and lieu tenant in June, 1836. A iilusTeLz EietTrz.—Lord Hnntingfleld and his party at HeveninAbam HalL Suffolk, including his Rojal His es the Duke of Cambridge, wow ma.- &maid, Lord de Lisle and Dailey, Lord Colville, Lori L o od ed bcrough, Captain Saville, Mr. Hughes, and the Hon. F. Vanes*, killed, in four days, 6,2 36 head of L ame, of which 2,367 were brought down on the second Wzrnaxirriiit PLAY.—The Pleornsio of Terence will be the Watminater Play for this year. The rehearsal will take plain on the 10th pros., the prinoipal performance on the 16th, and the Anal representation on the 17th. frORVION NEWS. ems DAY.) (ragmen smr:Ws Aamor.) SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 19, Roams. The Republicans who took part in the demon stastion assembled in the square of the Second of May, and proceeded thence to Arroarioa-square. On arriving in front of the Royal Palace, Senor Castelar said, " Let us swear that no king shall ever again enter this pekoe !" The procession subsequently returned to the square from whence it started, and Senores Orense, Castelar, and two others addressed the crowd, amid shouts of " Long live the Republic !" The assemblage then dis perse& It is annonnoed that another Republican demon stration will be held on the 13th proximo, in which deputations from the provinoes will take Pte• PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. W. The Poo! publishes advices from a reliable Source stating that the change in the Roumanian Cabinet was duo to the influence of Prussia. The Prussian government suggested that a decided proof should bo given by the Roumanian government of its ab stention from all connection with the recent in trigues in the neighbouring countries, and also that it would not encourage any agitation what ever which might compromise the neutrality pro fessed by the government of Prince Charles. PASSAGE OF THE BUEZ CANAL By A FRENCH WAR YES:4EL. FARM Nov. 30. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a tele gram from Port Said in Egypt, stating that the French war vessel Levrette has passed the Slice Canal, proceeding en route for Mayotte. THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, Ocr. 31. _ _ Exchange on London, 49. Wet salted hides, 34. Sales since last steamer, 2,000. No Stock. Dry bides for Germany, 491 for 301 b. to 321 b. ; ditto for America, 42 to 42/. Sales 106,600. Stock, 53,000. Freights to Antwerp, 30. Wool, 50 to 60. Tallow, 13. Lumber, 42. Cardiff, coals, 11,_ Cadiz, salt, 111. The province of Corrientes has boon pacified. AMERICA. The North German Lloyd steamer Weser, from New York, arrived at Southampton to-day (Nov. 30), with 51 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 45 sacks of mails, 10,000 dole. for Lon don, 1,200 dole. for Bremen, and a large cargo. NEW YORK, Nov. Is. General Grant is on a visit to a private friend at New York. A Fenian Convention has been summoned by O'Neill, the president of the order, to assemble at Philadelphia on the 24th inst. It is reported that the Cuban insurgents hold moat of the towns between Puerto Principe and Santiago. Several skirmishes have occurred in the interior in which the government troops have been routed, and they arc now acting on the de fensive. A large number of families has left Santiago for Jamaica. It is rumoured that the insurgents are aided and encouraged by the Anti-Slavery Society. OUR PARIS LETTER. (1 , 1031 OUN OWN PARIS, SZINDAY Evayme. Several pretectoral journals in the provinces an nounce simultaneously that M. Rouher bee caused to be adjourned the projects that wore entertained of an alteration in the laws concerning the press and the right of public meeting. This para graph, which can only have Leen com municated by some member of the ministry (probably M. Rouher himself) proves conclu sively that there is foundation for the rumours of reactionary measures having been broached in the councils of Compielgne, and that after a minis terial conflict on the subject, 31. Rouher's opinion that a retrograde course would be impolitic has for the moment prevailed. It would be in teresting to know which of the ministers gave contrary advice. The Pays laments in quite pathetic terms that the Emperor cannot be induced to withdraw the license he has given to his enemies ; and according to the damaging admissions of the Jutirraai de r Empire their name is indeed legion. Where, exclaims M. Paul de Cassagnac, are the young men, ambitious of a career, who should defend the Emperor and God f (The Pays places the two words in this order.) "There are none; the opposition monopolisee them all." There follows a heartrending contrast between the case of M. Gambetta, certain to be a deputy for one opposition speech, and that of himself, Paul de Cassagnac, whose devo tion to the empire, which his father took a part in founding, confers on him a right to tender ad vice which no human power can deprive him of. The Emperor has no right to allow himself to be attacked and insulted, and M. Paul de Cassagnac will not suffer it, however weakly tolerant the Emperor may be. He professes not to care a pin whether he offends Louis Napoleon or not, but he will defend the Empire in his own way. The task is, however, an ungrateful one. If he recommends any progress be displeases this or that minister, and when he counsels reaction he " puts the Tuileries in a bad humour." Ho thinks it quite likely that the Emperor is angry with him at this moment for the abuse he lately lavished upon M. Berryer. While his services to the crown aro thus ill-appreciated, his name has become a bye-word to the public, and if a revolution were $o occur he knows he would be hung up on the first lamp post. Still he will go fearlessly on, believing like the ancient Gauls that if tho Empire were to fall he and his brother chevaliers would prop it up with their lanced. I am told that Roesini's villa at Passy is shortly to be sold. The great beauty of this eta in orbs is a boundless contiguity of shade." It is built on apiece of ground that belonged to the Bois do Boulogne before M. Thieve fortified Paris. The earthworks of the fortifications now bound the western side of the little park and garden in which the house stands, and so far from being an eyesore, aro extremely ornamental. A row of fine chesnuts is planted at the base, and through and above the branches one perceives a series of terraces covered with turf as green as that of the slopes at Windsor. The foliage of the Bois de Boulogne is in the back ground. The Rossini villa is enclosed by a high iron railing. so thickly covered with ivy that a small bird could scarcely got through. Tho eastern boundary is the Auteuil Railway, but the garden is so arranged that the line is not visible from the house. Half way down the long oblong garden is the liosque or summer-house in which Reesini was wont to study in tine weather. The little park in which the villa stands is planted with fine sycamores, and also Isar-7 swil — ls, o which were transplanted from the tol a 4 o f Virgil at Naples, and some from Pstri n i vi garden at Vesicles,. The maestro had • pe nt i 4 for flowers, and ea/rounded himself with ther e great variety. Teat summer he had in hie 0 . 1 , 4 a collection of roses as fine as any I over raw w a horticultural show in the Crystal Prieto, Nor nearly a quarter of a mile the air Ty ln fumed with them. Rossini took 47.4, pains to people the trees and shr u b s i n his den,ia with song birds. The house is built of 1 0, 4 stone. It has a hurry aspect by no ineze,,,, harmony with its surroundings. The renal,,,, rooms are on the ground floor, and „',t,,,„4 by a handsome vestibule. To tho lett n a spacious drawing room decorated 1 ,4 f r esc o es, crimson panels, and golden In the corners of the coiling aro modalliwi traits of the host's musical kindmd, t.) » t ._ Beethoven, Mozart (before whore 1,14 ti n composer of IL liarbiere never pauot withw touching his but), Oretry, and Boieldieu. ing the fireplace is the likeness of ltomini painted by Hyppolyte Flandrie. This room communicates by folding a boudoir and a smaller saloon Lung in p chintz and containing st , iffk4 shells, and Italian articles of vertu. T. • - to te, but are not now, in tills rwei• guitar, tambourins, nod ot!:4 r 1 ... r struments. The grand piano on was wont frequently to acconii.,: : y stood in the great drawing-r,„ j; ‘i room is the ',via li/tufa comfort. oh : piece is a bust in bronze of the 11.1, t ; ' years ago. The lallroom on the tir..7 onoo a library and a study. The furl, hourly gmerally shows Out comf•,rt r,•.' luxury waa sought after. The chair. ,• are not of rosewood, but nralopny, France is considered common. The ..„. bedroom arc, however, filled with to,t.y •sh porcelain. _ _ PAM, SArirni..y es- • The Duchess de Flosto's jewels, sold in the Rue Dronot, on Thursday aol ;,; fetched wonderfully high prices. A • r.v brilliants, which was bought in Is."); for 7: produced 104,000 f. ; three large & waw a,. had cost 60,000 f. in 1461, wore knocked I •• for 94,000 f. A necklet* containing tlsa row, pearls, 260 in all, after a spirited . 1 petition, was purchised for 95,000 f. 1., Y Andri - •, s dealer who was u n d er stoo an agent for the Duke de Castres. Tit . 1: • weds of the sale was 22,000/. sterling. T ;( 1.. a very great lady, the widow of a • ; duke, should not be able to keep her let.•••'.rni now that she has married a wealthy is a subject of wonderment not yet the public. The Duke and Duchess de Sesto : •r. J. vited to Compiegne at the last moili..l.t of the Marquis and Marquise d'Abri.. I there never was any foundation forth, statement in yesterday's ?flare the. U. I.e. hells of Spain and the Prince of w,. going. BRITISII NJ AL OPERATION 4 PABSI4-Y GULP. The Cakedla Englishman says thy the taking of Muscat by the in-urgente, Ri ! Sinthan, duel not reflect any er,dt ou the *. concerned. Colonel Pally. in tLe;dant, ...-‘ Muscat on the 3rd of 0. tw ,Liy4 • the Scinde and the gunboat Sir 11441 i . 1 • • day arrangements were made for emba7kinz English subjects as chose to escape from a : was difficult to choose between the besieger. ar.. •-• iu peiLt of awlesenesa. Some bunneal,, preferred retiring to • village about :• hum the town, where they fancied thei under the protection of the British •• • wait the event in safety. Colonel Pelly appesr. forgotten these men, as when. on the morning :..- • of October, be determined to side with tr.-, 1. t.:. he made no sort of attempt to pr tee fugees from the wrath of the party of . • During the night of the Gth a lieutenatd .f• ' lent. and two of of the Sir Hui'.. . • sent on shore in charge of the mariner • . • vessels, and succeeded in keeping the euer..y . Their chief feat, however. was the burning of . • of the town by a tire of rockets. In the mortie..:.-• party re-embarked, and the Sir Hugh Ile se Seedah to take oil the buuneahs. Of course .. • had been beforehand with them, and they w, . • as hostages for the futsire neutrality of I.• Agent. Syud Salim, deluded by a submission of the insurgents. opened t. of his fort, but only to find Li • longed for cue day, after which he was det. allowed to escape to Bunder Abbas, The g..•• telegraphed to Colonel Pelly to remain n instead of confining himself to the protection of subjects Colonel reify rushed into the fray. end but for an opportune act of folly on the ; put of - Imaum. would have pledged the govern:neat to a .- estrous course of action. PLCSDER OF A MAIL COACH BF L R.ANGEBB iY QUIIINSLAYD. The following account of a robbery of A •:. coach running between Gympie and lisa7boran,;:: Wiled by the pawengere _ . The coach for Maryborough lett Oympie at e. pig 6 o'clock in the morning, aild when about •: beyond the wooden culvert, about three and from Nashville, three men suddenly appeared some trees, and ordered Harry, the driver, to '• Two of the men had double-barrelled guns, at : an old single-barrel in a dilapidated condition • bad handkerchiefs on their fixer, with hole. On the coach stopping, the driver w.s, under the usual bloodthirsty peualtiok t• coach into the bush, which he did for &bolt : ' " 7 The mail bags were then dragged out. and tl., budiraagers applied themselves diligently 1., t': lion of tearing open the letters and abstraettn., :.. • notes, which they stuffed in their pockets. • drafts being toesed aside as useless. The politely informed the two lady passengers. • and Mrs. Farley not to be alarmed, as the) ).. . • • hurt, and they did not rob ladies. .Strauge t ladies were never even asked ter their money the other passenger, handed out a 51. note nod - • • declaring that he had no more, but uotbein,:....t •• this assurance they took the precaution to teed coat pocket, and altogether they took t. The examination of the letters occupiod quarters of en hour. As the three close to the paesengera they were seen to ti. quantities of notes from the letters. Aft,: the contents of the mail bags, they felt !! seat cushion, but forebere touching the 5,..* • ladies sat, beneath which Mrs. fisrley 1 ;3 i thrust about 151. They then ords red OA • and Mr. rower to gather up the fr.ignient• literary meal, and warned Marry not t • there for hidf en hour, and then he w.is - the direction of Maryborough and e • 1 ' They informed him they would be on • I . he see did so. Shortly after Harry drove c 3 4. 1 : to the Stockholm Hotel, which is nine vines and procuringa couple of saddle hem: , Power rock to Nashville, and gave infont: police. Before leaving, the bustramwrs - Power with is. Mrs. Thatcher had in hor I:' diamonds worth upwards of 100 f. Mowry. IL Ruby, in company with the inspector et po:s ••• Hitches, and a Nutt tracker, visited the vow` ~ • rage. The black, with unerring sagacity, trseloi . • . of the coach to where it st also discoventiz desk nearly fun, some ho • and A err , awake. Hs also pointed oat where the men h. 41 and the trees to which theirhoeses were tied Wr. 1 on looking over the debris of the mail beg registered letter addressed to "Mr. Edwlnl9. Id'•• ~ containing ilk in note*, which the robbery had ' On questioning a little girl and boy. who lived • the spot, they Pahl that they had seen five men ".' that morning alongside the bushrangers' camp A NAVAL OFFICER DROWSED. —Thy . • Calm, states that an aocideut occumxt the 3rd October, by which Mr. Harris, the H.Y.B. Rodney, lost We life. Ho, in coulwmg other °Mows were is boat, which. gettius gab*/ stakes. cognised. Fortunately ell wire 811 , 14 though Lieut. FaNuttereou. of tL. 4.....1 had a sod narrow escape. like body patina* we. floated. . 1 Peal Lae C. 0 Loci Sod Con Pali Mho 40! Foil . Ma n'!n‘ '~ the him