The Express. — London, England, 1864-01-04 00:00:00

' l 4l 1 .' • ; / • ‘1 Vti!-; PA PElt ; • 4s.f."*-7-7 . ir rtsis; • .1k —.7 1 1 11 4: , . • 404 7 ZrAX:..I - ~r + , -- No. 5,430.1 UTTA, calling at the Cape of Good Hope' and Staras.- 4 num COMMUNICATION between LON. DON and INDIA by the tnagnifirent Fleet of Steamers belonging to the Lug Indus and Loudon Shipping Company 'Limited.. me wrti.known dipper auxiliary stip INDIANA, °,366 tour, 50.thoro porter , J. SMYTH, Commander, now loading in the Vic,oria lonion Docks, will leave on Bth January, e mbarking peseem.vor at and leaving Gravesend on the 11th for Calcutta, calling at the Cap of Good Hope and Nladras. 1 his ;naguitioent ship , befit exprtealy for the India trade, has Non thoroughly refitted, has firstoate sc. eornmodation tor passengers, and will carry an esperienced surgeon slim a stewardest. The average passage of these stroners has been till days to Madras, some of them making the o.oted pasaages on recnrd.—For freight or idludloy and Co., 55, Parilarnentoareet, &Arr. the brokers, A:frvi Brett and C 150, Leadenhalloireet. LC.: or at the Oft,/ of the Company, J. Mincing-lane, London, LC.; when app cations for appointments as midshipmen to this service should be mole. RICHARD DREW, Secretary. ESSRS. MONEY WIG RAM and SONS' (of „LTI lilAck well•goid, London) LINE of PACKET SHIPS to TRAILS.— For MELInoURNE, Port Philip, Direct totems the Pocks on Weilns-ls), lan. 20, caning at Plymouth% this splendid olipper ship NoRFOLK, 1,100 tons, B. TONKIN, :ioramander . Iling in the East India Dock. Her accommodations for all classes of pass minors are unsurpassed, and she will csirry an expsineneed surgeon.—For freight or passage apply to McLEUD. ALLI`oRT, and %lo 1R0.% N, with Messrs. Money Wigrani and Sous. No. 7, Leadenhall-streeL Passengers by this line of packets are conveyed from Paddington to Plymouth Ant class for second chits fares, and second class for third class farm CANTER Br EY, NEW EA LAND.—W ILLIS, GANN. and Co. LINE —To sad punctnally on the ISth January. the beautiful clip COUNTESS OP SEAYIELD, AI for ten years. 422 tons er, U. IL DA-NVERS, Commander: Wadi In the Loolon Doe Bhadwall Beals. This weasel hes capital saoninsodation for passengers, to remarkable for her anion; qualities. and having the greater portion of her cargo alrealy engaoel is the best opportunity now offering for Auppers—W ILLIs. GANN, and Co., 3, Crosbyaquare and to I, KEEN. ROBIN-ON, and Co., 1 and 2, Earn India-avenue, I,4Jruhall.strret. LC. ANTERBCIIY. NEW ZEALAND.-WILLIS, CGAN N. and C LINE—To follow the Countess of Sea r...M. and :mil penctlially 10th March. the favourite scotch • isr ship sits:will:E. A 1 at Lloytls, 1.6 sll tons burthen ; 1-:,din, in the East intlix bock. This miumificent ship. sn well ire on in the East India trade for the uniform regularity and ts .tf her passages. will he tilted and despatched muter the sttrsty of her Majesty's emigration officers. iler Tween decks are lofty and well Veld .1 asst. her saloon will be refitted to afford is.ressedaseonnut.ti:ttetn. the tattles will he provided in the same liberal manner kr which this line has always been Justly cele lcated, and passengers anxious to leave this country at the time ..ppointesi for the departure of this Teasel will find it impossible to select any one in which they would obtain a greater degree of comfort. She will carry an experienced surgeon.—For plans, thectry scales. and other information, apply to WILLIS, GANN, and Co.. 3. Crosbs tettotare . and to GREEN. MORI NSON. and Co., I .intl 2. East ludia,senne, Leasienhallstreet, EC. AUCKLAND. NEW ZEALAND.-WILLIS, BANN. and Co.'. LINK—To sail with prompt despatch, the beautiful dipper LORD CLYDE, A 1 for 13 yea,,, 331 tons re_nder. W. W ITU EllS. Commander triadic:: in the London Dnek, Shadwell Basin. This splendid high classed ship. wall knits n as a China clipper, has already three-fourths of her ar, engaged, said will he despatched punctually on the 21tli .ianuary. She has a COII.IIII.KIJOUS p.•.p. and carries only a limited Lumber of puaeriaer, - WILLIS. BAN N, and Co., 3. Crosby. s.,niare : and tii BEEN. ROBINSON, and Co., 1 and'-. East Leadenh.ildstreet, KC. FROM LIVERPOOL OR QUEENSTOWN TO NEW YORK. THE LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILADELPHIA STEAM -SHIP COMPANY Intend der patching their full-powered Clyde-built Iron Screw Stcazu-Shipa carrying tha.l,:nilyd.t.ate!luail?, FROM LIVERINXIC FOR NEW YORK. ETNA, We.ln, &day, Jan. 6, 1864. CITY OF LIT EKICK. A.aturday, Jan 9. CITY OF I.:KW YORK, Wednesday, Jan. 13.1964, And ovary Wednesday, and every alt.arnats Satu.ns. Cabin passage h the mail steamers tailing every Wedneed iy. 13, 17, and 21 guineas, according ti the accommodation. Calon by the Saturda3's steamers. 13 [Maims. !onward passage =eaa, including all provision* cooked. Passengers for Canada, the United States, and British Columbia, hooted throutli on very advantageous terms—Fnr further particulars apply to WILLIAM Wateestreet, Liverpool; orb gl 1.: 4 and MACEY, 61, King Willlanastreet, City. STEAM from LONDON to NEW YORK. The LEITISII and .‘MERICAS STEAM NAVIiiATION COMPANY Urn teJ will de,tutch one of the cn I rmentioned splendid fast screw mt./noel, t ace each month for New York. Ship. funs florse.tamer. L00.1 , ,n P. ".04 • 5.0.) Capt3io (Hewer. Westminster .. .2.9.0 • 500 i C.1'143111 Couch. Dublin . - ,00 500 1 . 30. Lin Front. Rei; Yort Captain II rna. These magnificent v..., Is Arc titroirpatsed hr any in•-an.golng steamer. and hare accommodation for pameremee replete with even comfort. The hoe will commence early in )larch, the etact date to he lat tit a Litt r annonmenn.nt To lw lin the Victoria Tln..k. —For frerzlit or f.a=sage apply to the t',.inpany"a Agvnt., ALFRED I. MiNti and Co., 70, Comilla PHILLIPPS, GRAVES, and PRILIAPPS 4etattqch th• nnA•rm.ntinn.A •est-clr•• Ter BICEME4. the MOWE. ADLER, or , 1 1.'11W %LBF, ry Tin rkta) ...rather permitting, at 9 a.m., frnan 11nredydowo, an,l from Blechman et 10 a in. e? il. arnl 1".. Yoe GOTHENItrk.., the LONICIN. ahoot Jtbusry 7. hem Hosselyeown. Fares. SA and £l. lo be followed by the OrsrAF . . . . _ Of freight. pampa, &c., apply at Chap En's Ca'renal WOE, Eageot-ctrena. W or to PHILLIPPS. GRA EE.a. and Plll Lti PP 11. Rood-lane. E.C. OVERLAND ROUTE.-COMMUNICATION by STEAM to INDIA, AINTRALIA, &c., vli EGYPT. The PENINbCLAR and iiRTENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY /074' , K PASSENGERS and recel, Cargo and Parcels at their Landon race for Gibraltar, Malta. Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, the Straits. and China, by their strainers leaving Southampton se the 4th mid 2Uth of every month . for Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Aden. and Beinhay, by tiuse of the 12th Sad 27th of each month; and for Mauritius, Reunion, Kin George's Salad, Melbourne, and Sydney, by the strainers Iron ing Southampton no the nth of every month.—For further pa:finals apply at the CMsupsuirsOttlices.l22, Leadenhallatreet, London or Orlentaddilaim Southampton. ANGLO-AUSTIIIAN BANK.—The Directors beg t an 11111 l nee that this (lank has mos CONINIENCED GF.N.CRAL in London. and is prepared to Negotiate Bills of Exchange, Clan: Leiter", of Credit. awl carry out other I)..nkiog operations between Great Britain, Vienna. Trieste. Se. F RRF.rER, General Manager. Temporary DM es, 10. Birchin•lane, E.C. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. TWELFTH YEA ?teisiety the taking nt land is qtrte optima?. as itiv.stors, without any v.rtnership may either take ont shsne, to receive. half•trarty. a per cent. par annum. or may opt:. accounts in the IX point ileputment with •ut Leh, mem,. ea of the c.. etc. with a filed rate of in. tore.? at 4 per cent. per %111.111}1. payable ha t.yearly. Roth in the 'bare au•i Der..it (apartment the investor has the privilege of withdraw it:: his mono' at fixed periods. Pr..spectuses sent tree to any part the world. t'HARLEe LIMN GRUM:BEN, Secretary. tftees.r. Norfolk.strert, :glllll,l. T C. and J. FIELD, origrinal manufacturers V.:union& it PA 11A FP 1 NE CANDLE , . to shorn the orire eseersi 1182 ha been awarded, and their c.n.11..9 adopted by her fliqesty. Goverunier.t for `tee at the mill:dr) nations abroad. These ran•lln. an he obtained of 111 chandler, and grocer. In the United K nmlem. Pnee U. hot per vomit oleo Yield's eel, beeted Unit• d ..sire Soap Tablets, ed. and 44. each. The publi, ore cs,tioued to see that Field's 101..1 Is on th • =iv! or Wh donde only, and fee e sportation. Upper Inin`wth, London, K. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and wet nvinl Inwntlon of the day, AS:CA ASIAItgLLA. Mesas. Jon N t,4 :.'ELL and V.,. Three Kill•Pcullff. Lomhrd street, -rfumers to her tleJesty, respectfully offer to the pni:he this ll• us tlut•l, which gradtully restores the homes hair it, pl,•'ine hate—un mattered a hat age. The Aria Amarelle hai n c:e .4 the propertes of dyes: It, on the contrary, Is Desert-lel to the system, and when the heir Is once restored sue appliceti•4l per month will teen It in perfect colour. Price Cl la. per Dottie or in half bottles, Ps. rd.—John Goshen •t Co. Cate heel) apiw.uived perfumers to 11. R.ll. the Princess of Wales. pHRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S NJ GIFT, I, All n la. court the Gay and Fe•tlee grenes.— A tle NI At' a AR OIL, a preserver and beautifier of the hair .1,14 all pre.. deut. Pow lauds' Aaly•lor. for Imparting a ratiat.t bloom to lb• comph xn•n. and a pottneia and dent-wry to It- bands, anus and neck. Itowlanda' thlnnb., or Pearl Denti• ft, • • for giving a pearl•hke wina•nera to the teeth and fntitranre 4 •:'.e breath. The patronage of royalty throughout Europe, p.• .7 : e mend lu.e by 1.11.1.: and fa .hu.n, and the nnisenally known rC .r•y of t ;tett. u ^ite them a eelehrity ..y A. RIM LAS[) ■od 20, Ilattanitarden. and by r'.-•ai+b and perfumers—Ask tor •• Rowlands - " articles. jA3IBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an effectual remedy. without confining the bowels or affect ing th- head, truly etticacions and pleasant, is admitted to be if.- Inst medicine tor immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed case , of asthma, awl iscipieut consumption. It fre, fluently cures persons a nom the faculty pronounce Incurable, adrwrably allays the tickling whit k provoke, frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Penns deprived of sleep. or mei* lying down for fear of *Office, tom. may depend on relief In a few minutes alter taking it.— Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT. chemist, 6, King Wll - Channweroas. London, and 11 - all druggists, In 1 , 4:1—,1301., and three quantities iu one, Is. M. Be particular for Lamhertk Asthmatic Balsam. The name sad address an vn,Taved nn the stamp. COCOHS, ASTHMA, Rnd INCIPIENT CONSUNITTIONary £FFF.rTFALLV CURED by I. EATING'S Cl 01' GE [AVENGES. ▪ h are daily recommended by the k.culty—tastimontad. in the meet eminent of .horn may be it...petted—as the most • :tut safe, speed), sod cam r ,lent remedy for cough and all t..i.r.lers of the lung., chat, and throat. .•.id in heirs , Is : tin., 2. 9d . 4. til . and 11.. each. 1 KEATING. CIIPIIIIII, 79. Si. Paul's Churchyard, London. • I retail by all Druggists, fic. .I[OZEAII'S COPAHINE 24E0E, successfully tried in the Paris and London florpltals, adder thd care of sera. Wieder, Itleord, Lloyd, Poland, and Law a Clark • c eln Nov., 11.52, affects a cure In in, average at 'aye, e In mad or chronic disaaani.--in dd. per Wilk by peal k• KC. Joraien Trench choral* 0, ilaginarlort, Leaden. ROYAL AL H AMBRA.-FRANCONI'S GRAND CIRQUE IMPERIAL EVERY EVENING at ball pest 7 : Monday, Wedne•day, and Saturday, at 2. This troupe is certainly oae of the best we hoe hll.l in England for some years. The Gagne Imperial may safely taunt on a long career of prosperity In Landon."—The Times. THE OXFORD.—THIS EVENING a new and original Cantata, written by Litchfield Moseley. Esq.. and composed by W. Meyer Lets expressly for this eataldishment, entitled KI NO CH aisrm AS, supported by the entire company, with tall band and chorus. Director, Mr. P. Joeirtunana Comedy by tieswoeth, Eugene, W. Randall. T. Ma d man. and those w artistes, Meier'. Rent. Leech, and looter. Qom the Imperial Circus. Madrid. CANTERBURY HALL—The GHOST in the MAGIC FOUSTAINS.—..One of the most beautiful exhl bittou of the celebrated optical Illusions yet produced."—Vida public press. EVERY E% ENING, at half-past 10 o'clock, In addition to all the vocal and pictorial attractions of this esta bllahntent. THE REGENT NEW MUSIC HALL, Regent-street, Vlacent•square, near V ictoria.atreet, West- Waster. —Selections from “Hroani" and — Sonnambula." Prima Donna, Madame Causoo, from La Scala. Milan, with efficient band and chorus. Russell Grover, conductor. Comic talent : J G. Forde, Sam Conine Oreille Parker, Nat Ogden, Frank Hall. The Alexander Family. Wonderful adnevements of the Mothers 1011 stria. The [Goodin Monkey, dc., dc. (VEEN'S CONCERT-ROOMS, Hanover- Nc ocinara.—These magnificent end Mutant ROOMs. with every convenience, may now be ENGAGED nor BALLS, Concerts, Bazaars. Soirees, Public Meetings, Lecturer, Wedding Break fasts, Banque Be., u also for Sabbath BelVief Z. Parties tieing Wise Boons way Ind their own wipes and refresh mate. The kitchen hie hien newly fitted tip with an Impftlenad cooking olituweins, and every perusal-, appendage calculated to Imply the requtrements of five handfed persona which number win find ample socommodadou.—For terms apply to Yr. PaYNE • Manua., at the Rooms. by order of the proprietor, ROBERT COCKS. GREAT REDUCTION io HOTEL CHARGES at the BRUNSWICK, 'octopi-street, St. James's, through out the Winter Sown_ PURE WINRS.—See "London Medical Review." O. WALKER and Co.'s CELEBRATED PATENT CHRISTMAS HA‘IPER. 3 bottles Port, 1 bottle Fine Old Rum. I bottles Sherry, 1 bottle Pine Oln. 1 bottle French Brandy, 1 bottle pint; Champagne, Patent Hamper Included. ONE GUINEA. _ G. WALK FR and Ca, 324 Id:ford-street, Regent-circus and 61, Edgware-road. W. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE. The OCTOBER BREW NG+ of the above ALL are now being supplied In the guest condition in bottles and to casks, by FINDLATeR, 3fACRIF., TODD, and 00., At their new London-bridge Stores, London-bridge, &E. Nov.?, 1063. E P P S'S C 0 C 0 A, Distinguished as a FRAGRANT, GRATEFUL, AND INVIGORATING BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. Originated specially for the we of three under hmunsopathli treatment, it has through its agreralgeness become generally accepted. CRINOLINES.—SANSFLECTIIMS. 10s. Cal. PIIILPOTTR, 37. PICCADILLY. CRINOLINES for EVENING WEAR. lied. 6(1. PHILPOTTA, 37. PICCADILLY. CRINOLINES for LITTLE GIRLS. 3s. Gd. PHI LPOTT, 37, PICCADILLY. CRINOLINES.—ONDINA, or WAVED. 21v. The PATENT IiNDINA, or Wooed Jupon, does away with the unsightly results • 4 the ordinary hoops. and no perfest are the wavelike bands. that a lady rosy ascend a steeps alr. lean againat a table, thew herself into an arm-chair, pass to her stall at the opera or occupy a fourth seat in a carriage, without income nience to herself or others, or provoking rude remarks of the obsservers, thus modifying in an important degree all those pecu liarities tending to destroy the modesty of klidish women ; and, laatly, it allows the dress to fall into graceful folds. Price, 21s. and 15a. 61. Illustrations free. L' PIIILFUTF , S 7, PICCADILLY, W. F URNITURE CARRIAGE FREE to any PART of the K I itODO2l. Drassing.ronin suates, complete 222 0 0 DininKrOOM Mae.. complete Bedroom suites, complete Warranted nest claw P. and S. BEVITA, 144, OtfordAtivet Illustrated catalogues gratis and post free on application. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 2. —APPOINTMENTS. —Captairle T. P. Coeds, to the Sutlej, 35, at Panama, vice Cons*lly, who is to be superseded at his own request ; Edward Codd, to the Colossus, vice Sotheby superseded ; E. Heethcote to thellawke, vice Coda. Deputy inspector Geoeral of Hospitals and Fleets C. A. Andergoo, M.D., to be inspector General of Malta Hospital, •ice Armstrong, nuperseded at hi. own request. Paymaster H. J. Ray. to the Lyra. Paymasters Assistants C. H. J. (lolling' to be additional of the Wellesley ; 0. A. Rowe, to the Virelleiley. Acting Clerk C. F. Roherts, to the Formidable. Clerk's Assistant F. T. Gobb. to the Jackal. Engineers J. Clark, to tha Indus for hcepitaLtreatmetit; 0. IL Bilaaker, to the Ro3 al Oak. CHATHAM, JAN. 3. Mr. J. Stansfeld, M.P., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, yesterday completed his investigations at this dockyard, in which he has been engaged for several days, and rn the afternoon returned to Whitehall. On the pre vious evening his lordship was entertained at a pawl ban quet by the officers of the Chatham division of Royal Ma rines Light Infantry, in the offimrs' mem-room. THE WRECK OF HER MAJESTrS GUNBOAT LIVELY. On Saturday the particulars were received at the Admiralty of the wreck of her Majesty's gunboat Lively (briefly reported a day or two since), near Oostmahon, on the Texel range of the Dutch coast, whither she had been sent in search of the missing trawling @mocks from the north-east onset of England. The Lively left Berwick in pursuance of directions from the Lords of the Admiralty. and eteirned right across the North Sea. She encouutered the most fearfs.l weather. On nearing the Dutch coast she was struck by • temfic sea, which swept over the vessel and rushed down the hatchways. It was then discovered that she bed suddenly gate into shallow water. The gale kept increasing, the sea rising higher sod higher. The vessel was running as well as she could, in order to clear the ground, but the engines at times were nearly immersed in water, and as it was clear the steamer would founder if she remained in deep water, her head was turned towards the shore, so as to run her aground. the only chance of escape which remained for those who were on beard. The next moment after her course was changed, a tremendous sea caught the ship, and very neatly washed every one on deck overhaard. Some of her men were much hurt. In a few minutes the steamer bumped oo the ground, Sad the falling tide anon left her waterlogged on the rods. The crew were then employed in freeing the vessel of the water that was is her, and guns were frequently fired during the night, but no as sistance arrived. The tide again came up, with • heavy wind and sea. The crew were preparing to make a raft, when two Dutch smacks hove in sight and came along side, but they would not stay, ►nd bad actually shoved off before the crew of the Lively had got on board, and before they could get the dead Dutch pilot out of the vessel. When all were in the smack. sail was made for the shore, but unfortunately she grounded, and remained eight or nine hours before the tide came up, the shipwrecked crew sa -1 tering much from exposure to the cold and want of nourith- I mint. They at length reached the shore, a small fishing place, where they received all the kindness the inhabitants could render them. The captain then telegraphed the fact of the stranding of the steamer to England, but whether she will he got off is • matter of some uncertainty. The Ad miralty have already forwarded a powerful steamer to her aid. Mr. G. Brackenbury, her Majesty's Consul at Madrid, ha. been appointed Consul at Charente. The con sulship at Madrid will not be filled up. Mr. Ricketts has been appointed consul at Sarawak. . . . A solemn service took place yesterday at the Roman Catholic Church, Islingtoo, it bring one of the fes tivals connected with the name of St. John, to whom the church in dedicated. Cardinal Wiseman occupied a tbiooe at the side of the high altar, and twice gave to the 'seem bled congregation the Pontifical blesaiog. The High Mass was celebrated by the Very Rev. Cacaos Oakley, assisted by several other clergymen. The music was Weber's Grand Mass in G, with full instrumental accompanimeet. The Christman hymn, " Adeste Fideles," woe also sue,. The sermon was preached by the Rev. J. L. Patterson (of Moot fields% and was partly an appeal for the new Hospital of St. Jobs and St. Elisabeth, in Great Ormond-street, which (with an adjoining church) has bees built at the expense of Sir George Bowyer, Bart., M.P. There wan • large &Mead. slice of the laity, amongst whom were his Excellency Count de Flahaut (the French ambassador), the Countess de Fla haut, aed Sir George Bowyer, Bart., M.P. RZPORTZD Loss or A LARGE PAM code SHIP. Advice. were received on Saturday reporting the supposed loss, as it wan believed, of a large passenger ship in the vicinity of the Orkneys. The wreck has the appearance of having been a large class vessel, but nothiog has been conimuaicated as to her name. A. number of deed bodies ars stated to have been found in a kind of cave, as if washed in by the sea, A quantity of wrack has also bum coat ashore. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1864. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (azum's Tripoli/As.) THE FEDERAL EXECUTION IN HOLSTEIN. HAMBURG, JAN. 2. A 'message received here from Rendsburg states that the Danes had not, up to yesterday afternoon, evacuated the Crown fort. HAMBURG, JAN. 2, Evisma. The passage of 12,000 Austrian and Prussian troops is announced for Sunday. The quarter masters were expected to arrive here to-day. A report is current that Obergerichtsrath Hes riche of Gliickstadt, senator Thomson of Kiel, and Bureauchaf Griebel of Plon, have been appointed to replace the dismissed government authorities of Plon. A rumour has obtained upon the Bourse that considerable numbers of troop' are still expected to arrive in Hamburg. HAMBURG, Jam $. The district of Dithmarschen, in Holstein, has also been occupied by the Federal troope. The Eider round Rendsburg is frown. Adviess from Altana state that tba Danish hell* evacuated the six Holstein villages to the north of the Eider upon the evening of New Year's Day. KIEL, JAN. 2. Duke Frederick of Angustenburg has received congratulatory deputations from all parts of the country. The Duke, in reply to the leader of a grand torchlight procession, spoke of the necessity of union between the government and its subjects, and expressed the confident hope that he would soon assume the government, THE KING OF DENMARK'S VISIT TO THE ARMY. RAMI3CRO, JAN. 2. Advice received here from Flensburg state that the King of Denmark arrived in that city yesterday. REJECTION OF THE AUSTRIAN MOTION BY THE FEDERAL DIET. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, JAN. 2. At the sitting of the Federal Diet to-day a motion introduced by Baron Kubeck, the Preaideut of the Diet, to the effect that the hereditary Prince of Augustenburg should be immediately summoned to leave the duchies, was lost by 9 to 7. DISMANTLING OF THE FORTIFICATIONS OF CORFU. TRIESTE, JAM. 2, Erwin. Atlvices received bare from Curfu state that the canuon of the Vido, the fort commanding the harbour, were dismouuted and taken away upon the 28th ult. The English troops will shortly leave, partly for Malta, partly for India. ITALY. TURIN, J. 2. A complete denial has been given to a statement recently furnished to a German newspaper by its Turin correspondent. The statement was to the effect that the Italian Minister of War had for warded a circular to the military commanders ex plaiLing the arrangements made fur war against Austria in the coming spring. His Majesty said in the speech from the throne that the tobacco monopoly will be abolished next April. Tobacco may henceforth be cultivated in Madeira and the Azores. The budget was satisfac tory, and no deficit existed. THE MEXIcAN QUESTION.—The Meteoriuf Diplo mat i tie of yesterday states that a proof of the perfect conooid subsisting between the Emperor Napoleon and the Archduke Maximilian will shortly be given by a visit of the Archduke to the Court of the Tuileries. The same paper sa►s :—" The alarmists who are anxious to rpread the opinion that the Archduke will not be able to obtain either men or money to establish a monarchy in Mexico, will be not a little surprised to learn that offers from English, French, Belgian, Dutch, and German capitalists are constantly received at Miramar. We could mention three large financial fines who have already sent agents to Mexico to prepare for the creation of credit institutions to operate in that coautry as soon as they snail have ob tained the sanction of the new sovereign. A further most important fact is that none of them associa tions auks any other guarantee than the accession of the prince." The Memorial also coutaits a statement said to have been made by the Archduke Maximilian to the editor. The Archduke dwelt upon the devotion with which he should endeavour to justify the confidence of the Mexican people. It would be his dearest care to ►void his crown being soiled by a drop of Mexican blood. Should he, how ever, find himself unable to er.ure the concord and inde pendence of his empire, he would rather abandon the crown than occasion Heil war, leaving the appreciation of his con duct to the impartial verdict of history. OCTWARD AMERICAN MAIL4.—On Saturday the Cunard Royal Mail steamer Scotia was despatched from Liverpool for New York, with mails for the Coiled States and British North America, together with about 70 passen gers and a full cargo. On Wednesday next the Inman steamer Etna will leave the Mersey for New York, with the United States mail.. Letters, Ice., will be received at the General Post.otEce, Liverpool, until 2 o'clock p.m., and for deepatcb via Cork till 8.10 p.m., and bearing late fees of Id. until 9.15 p.m. The Scotia arrived at Queenstown at 11 a.m. yesterday, embarked mail■, passenger., and the latest telegrams, and proceeded for New York at 4 p.m. All well. DEMPATCH OF THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.—The Royal Mail Compaoy's steamship Seine, Cap. Min Revett, sailed from Southampton on Saturday at 3 p.m., with the mails for the British sod foreign West Indies. Mexico, the Pacific, California, Central America, &c., together with 5.3 pasemigers. The Seine took out on freight English specie, 28,7501. ; jewellery, 1.3001. ; French specie, 4001.; jewellery, 8,0401.; 615 bottles quicksilver, value, 4,5001. ; lead a full cargo of Preach acid English merchandise. THE STEAMSHIP GREAT EASTERN LOTTERY DIS TRIBETION.—Our Liverpool correspondent states that the shares in this undertaking are being rapidly token up, sod that there is every likelihood of the money being raised in • few days. The amounts received from subscribers are banked in the lames of responsible mercantile men well brownie Liverpool. FRANCE. (nee one owe oonaledeenenr.) PARIS, SATURDAY Evans. M. Boudet announces the diapason for 1864, as far as concerns the press, by a new year's decree 'depending the Courrier du Dinuowhe for two months. This is a supreme warning for the press in general, since it shows in a fearfully practical manner that warnings are not mere formal censure". The decree recites that the Courrier du Dimanche has already had two warnings, and then it applies In all its severity the coup &Etat legislation, by virtue of which any journal may be suspended on the third occasion of its saying anything which the executive power may choose to construe as an offence. The article which is now made the excuse for suspeuding one of the best independent journals of Paris was written by M. Prevost Paradol in the number of December 27. The indictment (which in this case serves for a judg ment) is that the article "misrepresents both the causes and the consequences of the loan voted by the Corps Legialatif, and by insulting irony en &savours to provoke hatred and contempt of the government, whose policy ho calumniates." M. Prevost Paradol is one of the most distin guished writers of the French press, if in deed' be be not the most able of all, which I am inclined to think he is. His extremely polished and refined style of writing is the very type of that "moderate" opposition which M. de Persigny, in a moment of rash candour, admitted was the sort of opposition which the French govern ment could least brook. There is nothing in common between what is called the "licentious ness" of the press, and M. Pandora writings. He never appeals to low and vulgar passions, never uses coarse language, never presumes upon the ignorance of his readers, never suggests the thought of any physical resistance to the powers that be, and in his controversy with government never invokes anything but reason, and that in phraseology so choice as to be scarcely intelligible to any but the most educated classes. Anything more unlike the received cha racter of a pestilential, seditious writer than M. Provost Paradol can hardly be conceived. And yet this learned man, this accomplished scholar, this rare penman, is personally persecuted by the French government, which long ago made it unsafe for the Dilsits to keep him on its regular staff, drove him out of other publications, and now adopts the grave step, on his account, of taking the bread out of the mouths, for two whole months, of the numerous people, writers, reporters, com positors, folders, porters, dc., who form the stall of a newspaper. The thing is of very bad augury. M. Boudet, the present Minister of the Interior, is a man of whom the public know nothing. When be was appointed to supersede M. de Persigny after the elections of May, 1862, it was hoped that he was meant to be the organ of a more liberal policy. But the signs of any such improvement are looked for in vain, and this warning shows that M. Boudet, even if we give him credit for good intentions, is but an arrow in the hands of the giant, and baa no power, name, or influence to repress the excesses of arbitrary rule. The sub pension of the Courrier du Dimanche will last throughout the session of the Corps Legislatif. No doubt the intention is to strike terror into the other journals and prevent them from 'making remarks upon the debates on the Address, which are about to come on in the lower house. The Nation, in regretting the suspension of the Courrier Dimanche, inquires what the government can expect to gain by such a harsh act, at a tune when it is ascertained beyond doubt that liberal measures are everywhere the most popular and the most useful. The Temps says that the French government is less opposed to-day than it was yesterday to the proposal for a conference to settle the Danish diffi culty. This news, if true, shows that the limited Congress, like its predecessor in the kingdom of dreams, the general Congress, is going to the dogs. The draft Emblems of the Corps Legislatif will probably be read in a public sitting ou Monday. The France thinks it will speak in favour of peace, so far as it is compatible with honour, and of " pro gressive " liberty. This revelation, if it be one, is quite meaningless. The Bourse opened with great firmness, the Emperor's short speech to the Corps Diplomatique being favourably interpreted ; but in the latter part id the day there was a reaction, and Reute fill 15e., and blubilier 11.25. THE BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Parana, Captain Pellicoe, with the above mails and 76 passengers, including his Excellency Count de Ribeiru, from Lisbon, arrived at Southampton on Saturday. Her freight consists of specie. 2.3001. ; 14 packages diamonds, value not stated ; 11 bales iudiartibber, 51 boxes preserved meat, 50 barrels tapioca, 1,106 packages tobacco, 42 box e s crystals, 236 bales cotton, 308 packages °mopes, and 150 packages suudnea. The Parana brings home five prisoners, part of the crew of the ship Flowery Land, accused of murder, piracy, and robbery ; also two of the crew as witnesses ; the remaining prisoners and wituesses (seven in number) left Monte Video per steamer Uruguay four days before the English mail left that port. The Parana experienced from Lisbon to Usbant strong S. W. gales, heavy sea, and fierce squalls of wind, hail, and rain, thence to Southampton strong S.E. gales. The screw steamer Sicilia, of Glasgow, from Monte Video to Liverpool, with shaft broken and propeller carried away, on the 18th November, in lat. 29.50 S., lung. 50 W. made Rio de Janeiro under sail on the 9th December. The Parana has brought home from St. Vincent , 1 Captain Bannister, 17 of the crew, and 9 passengers of the bark Great Britain, of London, bound from that port to New Zealand, which vessel was totally lost on the north-west end of St. Jago, where she struck, at 5 a.m., on the Bth December, and shortly after went to pieces. Owing to the heavy surf the crew and passengers lost nearly everything. Captain Bannister speaks highly of the hospitality and kindness he received from the resi dents and authorities of the Island of St. Jago, who did all in their power to render assistance, the governor despatching a Portuguese war schooner to the wreck, which conveyed the crew and pas sengers to Porto Prays. Her Majesty's ship Dotterel was at Buenos Ayres, the Satellite, Forte, Stromboli, Curlew, Triton, Spider, and Sheldrake were at Monte Video ; and at Rio de Janeiro were the Egmont, Columbine, and Alecto. BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 27. Since the sailing of the French packet several very important eveuta have occurred. Penaloza, the last of the rebel gauchos, is dead. Congress has been closed. The national debt bill has been passed. The foreign claims have been adjudicated. The nation is at peace. President Mitre's government is well supported, and the country going rapidly ahead. The death of Penaloza promises well for the material interests of the ootiatry. His perpetual guerillas were costing the country millions, in creasing the taxes, and tending to keep alive that spirit of rebellion which has proved so long the bane of this republic. The closing of congress is worthy of notice. The bill authorising the laying of telegraph wires between this city and Rosario, granting a oonosssion to Mr. Wheelwright, has been passed. The long disputed question respecting the debts of the old government has been settled, the repudiation pro ject has been rejected, and every creditor of the nation on proving his claim will be paid. POLAND. BRESLAU, JAN 2. The Russians hare imposed upon the kingdom of Poland a fresh contribution of 6,000,000 roubles, of which amount two millions and a half will be imposed on Warsaw. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, JAN. 2. The King has accepted the re:dguation of Junkheer P. Tan der Maesende Sonareff, and appointed Junk heer Hugsen de Kattendyke, the Minister of the Marine, ad interim Minister fur Foreign Affairs, PORTUGAL. OPENING OF THE CORTES. LISBON, JAN. 2. The Corte were opened to-day by the King in person. [Stamped, ld. Additional,] Foreign wan' s, which have been so long excluded, are now by Law the current coin of the country at a certain fixed value. Some very reformatory mea sures have been introduced in the Custom-house. There is every prospect, it is believed, that the Argentine republic will become au immenve cotton producing country. Thousands of poor people docked to the government, who distribute the seed gratis, and millions of cotton plants are now in a thriving condition. The wool market is active, and good prices are paid. Exporters are shipping fast, principally to the United States, in German bottoms. The works on the Western Railway are being continued. The Northern Railway is fast ap proaching completion. In the province of Santa F 6 the government has called a special meeting of the legislature to consider the two projects sect iu, one [row the London and River Plate Bank of this city, and another from a company of Germans. It is con sidered probable that these bills will be passed. President Mitre enjoys the greatest confidence and popularity. Rs has shown every disposition to conciliate contending parties, and to aacrifice everything to the preservation of peace ; he labours unceasingly to advance industry and protect corn tueroe. The Argentine Republic is steadily advanc ing under Os adminietri4. bans 6Cvree4 - VIIIMft le Oft ' rls. ; no stock ; Matadero salted ox bides 33 to rla. cow hides at 30 rla. ; stock, 4,000 bides: Sales of dry hides for the fortnight are 14,000 ; the total stock of all classes unsold is 78,000 hides. For England there is but little cargo going for ward ; for France there is more activity, and freights tend upwards. The total amount of ex change drawn by the Parana is 150,000/. The government of Monte Video has disbanded the national guard of the city, their services being no longer required. Medina is said to have had an engagement with Flores. The latter is reported as outflanked and Medina in hot pursuit. Flores' forces are said to be completely demoralised. From later accounts received it is rumoured that Flores bas defeated the government troops, and is advarcing towards the town of Monte Video. The country has suffered much iu some parts from drought, and great mortality has taken place amongst the sheep. RIO DE JANEIRO. Dec. 9. The Emperor left on the morning of the .ith in the steam corvette Nitherohy, to visit some parts of the seaboard to the south of Rio, %%here steps are being taken to fortify the coast upon all paints where a debarkation mighrbe possible. His Majesty will probably be absent some days. The national subscription for the armaments of the country, originated by Theophilo Ottoui at the time of the Anglo-Brazilian dispute, baa been closed. It has produced 1,178 coutos of reis, or about 130,0001. In this sum are not included the subscriptions of the public officials, amounting to from 0 to 10 per cent. of their salaries, anal which appear likely by their indefinite continuance to become a positive tax. An American vessel taken by the privateer I Alabama, and to which tbe Southern commander gave the name of the Tuscarora, furnishing her with a crew and munitions, and making her a kind of tender for provisions and coal, cast anchor a few days back upon the coast of Brazil, in the v'cinity of Santa Catharine.. The President of the province notified to the captain that, in pursuance of the orders of the Imperial government, he could not authorise a stay of more than twenty-four hours; but, at the same time, he gave permissiou to bay supplies. As soon as the purchcses were made, the President withdrew his permission, at the instance of the United States consul, and the provisions could nut be embarked. The Tusearora was therefore compelled to leave without her supplies. (mom on owic CORRESPONDINT.) RIO, DEC. S. It had been expected that the la;;;LTlVtoild have brought us the welcome news of the solu tion of the Anglo-Brazilian question, but wo were disappointed. It seems strange enough to us here that whilst our government is thrusting English commerce on Japan at the cannon's mouth, it should begrudge the few words of courtesy which would restore amicable relations with Brazil, so old and good a customer as she has been, and is still willing to be. I need not say bow anxious our English commercial community here is that a good understanding be restored between the two govern ment& There is still a wide range open in this country for English speculation and profitable employment of capital. I will allude to one. What is sadly wanted here is a free press ; I would say au en tirely independent newspaper, written, of course, in the language of the country, and which, entirely free from the trammels of party politics, could fearlessly ventilate and reason upon the great ques tions of the day. Gladly would some of our pre sent Rio newspapers adopt this independent course, but it is not possible for them to do so. It is not that the laws of the country prohibit the freedom of the press; on the contrary, not the slightest obstacle is thrown in the way of as free writing and as free thinking as we enjoy in Eng land ; but any deviation from a certain beaten track would ensure the loss of many thousands of sub scribers to any one of our existing daily papers, and probably cause its ruin. But a new newspaper, backed np by sufficient capital, would triumphantly override such obstacles, and, if well conducted, could not fail to be a moat profitable speculation. On the great utility of such a publication to the country itself it is quite unnecessary to descant. The Brazilians themselves, of all political opinions, are quite aware of this want, and sigh fcr its removal. POLAND. KOWNO, Mr. f 9. Yesterday was a day of deep mourning for the patriotic people of Poland and Lithuania. A hero of the insurrection whose name will be mentioned with esteem and admiration by all future genera tions of bin countrymen, the valiant and noble Abbe Mackiewicz, who was captured by au unfortunate chance some days ago by the Muscovites ' was banged by order of the cruel Mouravieff, in Kewno, on the 28th inst., at eleven o'clock. The heroism of this well-known Polish leader, who bas held the campaign from the beginning of the insur rection, the generous manner in which he treated the Russians who fell in his power during the war, the noble words be said when he was brought before the younger Moura vieff in Kowno—(" I have fought for the freedom and independence of my country ; this is all I have to confess. Now, general, do your duty as servant of the Czar")—all these bad sorely made an impression on every other civilised enemy. and bad saved the life of the captured hero from a cruel revenge. Alas' the Mouravieffs and their fellows know nothing of such noble feelings ; and the gallows received a fresh martyr. Abb4 Mackiewicz died as he had lived. His last words were a prayer for Poland. The Russian officers celebrated this day, as usual, by a solemn ball. WILNA, nic. 28. On the 19th inst., is the town of fkiercazow, in the district of Pruazany, were banged by order of Mouravieff, Anthony Ilkowski, the peasant, John Hruczyk, and the Prussian subject, Augustus SZlOll}OO, for having taken part in the Polish insurrection. The ?aria evening papers of Saturday publish advice' from Reunion to the sth December, stating that all hops of Inn Radium still surviving is almost ahem• domed. [TWOPENCE MR. THACKERAY AND THE NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE COMMITTEE. TO THZ ZDTTOZ OF TEI EXPRIZS. Sts,—The Ativ,urum of this day professes to correct certain rumours which have been current in the papers and at the clubs, for several weeks past, with reference to the exclusion of the late Mr. W. M.. Thackeray from the office of vice-president of the National Shakespeare Committee. As the ad journed monthly meeting of the committee takes place on Monday, and a large attendance, conse quent upon the rumours above referred to, is anti cipated, as an active member of this committee I ask your permission to be allowed to give an imme diate contradiction to the statements which the Athenerum has thought proper to put forth. I deny, in the first place, the assertion, that " Mr. Thackeray's claims to a place amoug the vice-presi dents of the National Shakespeare Committee have never been raised, and of course never been dis cussed." I deny, moreover, that the committee passed a resolution that a special invitation should be sent to Mr. Thackeray asking him to become a vice-president, and I further deny that any such " invitation was duly written and sent by the secre tary of the day, acting for the general secretary." I also deny that "at the next meeting of the committee a gentleman, who bad taken an active `Olin' Vase the &inflation, tow to in quire whether any reply to it had been received ;" for, as I have already stated, no such invitation ever emanated from the committee. Wbat really transpired at the last meeting of the National Shakespeare Committee is this ; It was proposed and seconded, that Mr. Thackeray should be electeo a vice-president, but after a slight discussion the motion was withdrawn, and it was moved that Mr. Thackeray be " invited" to accept the office in question. This proposition was met by one of the honorary secretaries rising and stating that Mr. Thackeray, nut being a member of the committee, was ineligible for the vice-presidential office. In reply to the assertion the mimes of several vice presidents who had been elected without being called upon to join the general committee were cited, when " the secretary for the (lay," as he is styled in the Athenients report, Caine to the rescue of his confrere, and in a speech offensive to good taste both as regards its matter and its manner, expressed his belief that Mr. Thackeray considered himself so immeasurably superior to the general body of the committee that Le would decline to join it, and begged the committee not to demean itself by sanctioning any further application being made to him. Will it be believed that in an assemblage of sixty educated Englishmen gathered together to do honour to the memory of our great national poet arguments like these were suffered to prevail, and that not more than thirteen individuals voted in favour of an ordinary mark of respect being paid to the author of " Vanity Fair," and, moreover, that among these thirteen not a single member of the council nor a single official of the National Shakespeare Committee present on the occasion thought peeper to oat,' himself f I am, a:c., HENRY VIZ ETE LLY. Campden-hill, W., Jan. 2. TO THE [MOE OP THE TX PRESS. SLR,—I will leave your correspondents "C." and " A Member of the Committee" to deal with the verbal ingenuities by which sour contemporary, the Atheneum, has endeavoured to explain away the simple truth, that Mr. Thackeray not only never was invited to become one of the Vice-Pre indents ef the Shakespeare Committee, but was di rectly rejected by a formal vote, supported almost entirely by the clique which now notoriously threatens to end this movement iu a disgraceful failure. But, as one who enjoyed a long personal intimacy with Mr. Thackeray, I shall be grateful ' to you for an opportunity of calling attention to the obituary notice which appears this day in the Atheneram, and which I cannot but regard as an important collateral ,evidence of the spirit of this clique towards the me mory of our great humourist. After attributing Mr. Thackeray's failure as an artist to " a lack of earnest study," the writer of the notice referred to informs us that to suit the tone of a " sarcastic and unscrupulous" periodical—Fraser's Magazine—Mr. Thackeray indulged in " banter," " indifference," and " personality," but that his powers " were turned to better account, because tempered with feeling and taste, in the course of the close con nexion formed by Lim with the phalanx of merry and powerful men who established Punch." The purport of this theory is obvious. That an admis sion to the society of the " merry and powerful men" whofounded Punch was an advantage such as any man might Lave ooveted, who would deny 1 but assuredly there was not one among them who would not have repudiated with contempt any claim set up on their behalf as the men who took Mr. Thackeray in as a sarcastic unscrupulous writer, and gave him for the first time those qualities of refinement and gentlemanly feeling with which we have learnt to associate his name. The writer then attempts to throw some light on the nature of the society iu which Mr. Thackeray moved—delicately insinuating that this consisted of " fools of quality, rich idle folk who want to be amused, and free-living men and women whose morals would the least bear exposure." I refer your readers to the article to say whether any other interpretation than this can be put upon its fourth paragraph. I will not dwell much upon the style of this paper, from which the author of the "Essay on Thunder and Small Beer" could have extracted infinite amusement for his readers. Throughout the article any allusion to the de ceased as a man of genius is carefully avoided. "The 24th of December," it elegantly commences, " broughtstartliug news to all who care for men of mark." Mr. Thackeray is spoken cf as "a wit," a "man of imagination," and "a distinct man of imagination" (whatever that may mean). His "easy literary essays," we are further told (in the style of the Danish courtier iu Hamlet) showed " originality of thought and direction" (sie), but were marked by the same faults as his artistic failures his art criticisms were " incomplete, and freaked with paradox ; " his reviews of contemporary painters and men of letters were " saucy reviews," and the heroes and heroines of his novels so despicable that " we cannot bring ourselves to care fora single one." It is true that the article is not without some such admissions of Mr. Thackeray's position iu English literature, as the temper of the public must demand from any literary journal in speaking of the irreparable loss which we all feel, but it is impossible to read without disgust the conclusion of this memoir, surmising up 1 " these drawbacks which it would be disrespectful to the memory of a distinct man of imagination not to admit." The secret history of the illwill that has for some time existed among the prime movers in this now notorious cabal towards Mr. Thackeray is a subject which cannot now with propriety be entered into, but there is a degree of provocation under which it will no longer be possi ble for those who know the facts to remain silent upon thin point.—l am, &c., London, Jan. 2. S. L. PEINeff4A —Mr. Weetland Maraton'e new play DORM Maris was not produced at this house ea Saturday sight I. masequence of this sadden iodisoosition of Mrs. Merman Vesta (late Mrs. Charlie Young), who is to per form the priocipal character. ROYAL DRAMATIC Cour.° e. —We aro glad to learn that the inmates of the Royal Dramatic College at Maybery hams not bees forgotten by their friends this Christmas —Mr. B. Conquest, Mr. Z. Watkins., Mr. J. W. Anson. and a benevolent lady residing in the INi/66°in-hood of the college, have bees unapt the chief special bene factors at this SOW" mid Mrs. Ruddell has agaio shown her appraisal...a of one of the purposes of the institution by the gift of a valuable portrait of the celebrated John Bunter. pealed by Gaineborough.