The Express. — London, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

Peas NWT CLASS and LONDON PRI= WIDAU WATRZWITOW trd MOWN, GOLDSILITIDS sad ITINULD.S. gsarsktiaty, ilsurisWA-slreet. Covost-ipnlea, W(' , London 11.1 IlitalWlSlwasss Is dosed MI la taw ovsolas. NM as solordsys at I u cloak. HARMONIUMS. —NEW MODEL caAina. BULL sal wooD. tOl. Ilksest-eir,e4. ghe Di`lTL ...Wettings/eta 1nt<4404 fir " The twine Loudon Evening . writ be 4 the slim 10 , 1i0n440411.41, by Two 0e -k aas 414 4 poilleslies. NATNAZIEr. Tots Ork ANNILICAN COODIN. Xmas. Bothers. lL awl lagers • Dim C. nom Albs Oliver. And urns was vrm AND LIMN 110 f SLIM or. eseirspuu OW Dedvly lAA** Loam losisesq, M. PRI WOWS. Tsui Paint°, LI YOU LEH R. Ikon. Ryder, Jor.loo. T,,ttor, N 4.1,11c000t, . Moo C. Lodercq and Y. Hula—Aod WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT; ITArlequln CDs lolly. yobbo& How& J. Limit, RUdyied. and Paulo Mao eAdasse. K. JAYOI Td Vanua. SU! BLUM limn. S. Thing, W. sani••• • D. brirarre 1111 s• Ihalrer..—PoWWll MID AICIIIIOIIIDA . Mr. F. Matthews eel Was Illorbort—AM bUIIBILIL ONi ILOCND THE COWSll.—Cwouressolin. SIHTANNIA. TO "MEM TEI VISIT OT KING OF THE 3Ci4 Ms. S. Law; Mom. Roby. Louts, Narksai. rM Clistleigle laasHr: MIN. C. Swaim'. Mrs. W. embed. —AM THE CLOCK ON TIE STALlllB.—Coausance atoqWITU 11T_UMIDON BUBO& Two 0; i:ll4wiiiia IV sin:: 7:7m787:78.7 co on. To-usailow —Mamba M. OW .. Aftwooos. Os. Ma LONDON, TUESDAY, IND. 11. THE recent serere engagement in Kentucky, although neither a "great battle," es the Northern newspapers say, nor yet pcoimbly the commence- went of General 241‘Ctsza.Ve II ;inter campaign, was a genuine and important Federal success. Both sides fought bravely. The Confederate force, under General Zotticorran,was composed, acoord iug to Southern authorities, of ten infantry regi ments, three batteries, and some cavalry—in all, about 10,000 men. We do not as yet know the precise number of the Federal troops, but if we suppose them to have numbered 6,000 we probably over-estimate their strength, so that Mr. STANTON, the new Secretary for War at Washingtoo, was justified in giving the soldiers of the United Stites credit for van= quishing au enemy of greatly superior fosse. The engagement began with an attack upon an Indiana regiment posted in front of Somerset, • village of Southern Kentucky, about six miles north of the Cumberland River. The whole coun try is rugged and hilly, abounding in coal and iron ore, hut bare of supplies. General Zomr correa appears to have held a strong position, north and south of the Cumberland, previous to the action, • position which it was important he should maintain, as it commanded roads leading to East Tennessee. The Union regiments in and about Somerset appear to have been rapidly brought up to support that one which was first attacked, and a hard fight took place on the broken ground. It was ended by • bayonet charge which broke the rebel ranks and threw them into com plete disorganization. From this time the Federal troops appear to have had no difficulty but that of overtaking the flying enemy through a country in tersected with ravines and woods. The rebels were pursued across the Cumberland to their entrench ments at Mill Spring, but do not appear to have made any stand even there. General THOMAS re ports that he found in them 12 guns, 100 waggons, and 1,200 horses, besides • large quantity of small arms, and stores. The list of killed and wounded attests the severity of the action, and the rout and the spoils the completeness of the victory. On the part of the rebel Generals the move ment appears to have been, from the first, an ill advised proceeding upon any supposition of cones quences. No advantage was to be gained by nie cess of sufficient importance to be weighed against the risks encountered. It would seem, indeed, that other than military considerations must have been permitted to weigh in the councils of the Confede rate commanders. The sentence, often so fatal in war, that " something must be done," bad been pronounced by public opinion. The Southern papers had long been complaining of the defen sive attitude of their Oovernment, and the decsy of the spirit of the soldiers which must ensue. A general despondency was taking possession of the people. One after another the promises of their leaders had been falaitied. The hope of getting Washington for a capital had long before disappeared. The recognition of the Confederacy by the great Powers of Europe, which they had been told must inevitably follow a dearth of cotton, seamed as distant as ever. The effects of the blockade upon the prices of articles of general consumption had not beau sensibly mitigated by the arrival of a few small vessels, for the most part carrying arms and stores for Jerruasox Davie and his accomplices. And all this whoa the military power of the United States was visibly increasing and drawing closer round the rebellion. In vain did their President assure them in his message that the Unionists had not gained a foot of ground, and that the territory of the seceded States was inviolate. The newspapers of his own capital rebuked the vanity of the falsehood. " While the " political leaders of the South," says the Richmond Examiner, " have been reposing in " dreams of approaching peace, the enemy have " gradually and at leisure gathered up their i ii " niense resources and concentrated their tremen " dons energies to envelope the Confederacy with " their armies and Bests, and to penetrate the " interior from some one of many alternative " points. Although they can now do nothing, " they have their general programme in perfect " order for execution when the weather changes, " and at this moment we find ourselves el the " face of superior forces wherever we look, " whether to the north, the east, or the west, or " the south itself. General Sverige JOHNSTON has " to strain every nerve to prevent the military as " well as geographical heart of the country from " slipping out of his grasp. Generals JOSEPH " Jou:mos and Reevaluate an held by 311'exxx " Las on the Potomac as in a vice. A gigantic " armament is ready to attempt the descent of " the Ali+sissippi, and their fleet on the Atlantic " sea-coast and the Gulf are too freshly be`ore the " public attention to require remembrance." Ac cording to this organ of Southern opinion, only one way of relief We/ open :—" There is now but " one chance of escape from the net that has been " coolly drawn around us ; it is to concentrrto " our energy on one point and cut it through ; to " convert our defensive into an offensive war, and " transfer the scene of at least a part of these " hostilities to the enemy's own country. Situated " as we are, it is only possible at one point, and " that is Kentucky." There can be no doubt that it was to silence the rising spirit of dissatisfaction that this last movement under General Zoma coeval was resolved on. Events may prove that the recent Federal suc cess has facilitated a movement which many take to be General Nl'Ctettax's design in the cam paign in the South West—the seizure of the Vir ginia and East Tennessee Railroad, and the cutting off the Confederate army hem Ha We incline to believe, however, *M g ral el l it ed et: . alue is to be looked for in its moral effects. For the present, the grand combined operations of war are rendered impossible by the state of the nada. But the hour fur which the long months of winter, the daily warlike exercises, the enormous military expendi ture of the last six months have been only the preparation—the hour which will decide whether the wealthy and populous North has the manly virtues which are the ultimate guarantee of the integrity of States, whether it has the valour to maintain in arms the will of the nation as it has been constitutionally expressed, is at hand. We trust that the Government of the United States is in.prease4l with the necessity of bringing the war to an early termination by rapid and decisive ope rations ; and if, as we may reasonably hope, the Federal troops engaged at Mill Spring may be taken as representative specimens of the Union Army such as it has become under the hands of General 51'CLea.r.sx, the result cannot be doubted. ebe Court. OSBORNE, P. 10. The King of the Belgians left Osborne this arcing for Buckingham Mace oe hie return to the Conti- Hu Majesty, who travelled in a special train of the South Western Railway, stopped at Esher, and visited the Queen Marie Ainslie, at Claremont, and then proceeded toLoodoo. Prince Arthur Greased over with the King to Portsmouth, attended by Major Fiptinatone, and returned to Osborne. Colonel Count de Noerkorke, end Dr. Inept, are is attesdance on the King. Lord De Tebley, Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Camel Ponsonby, received his Majesty at Buckingham Palace, where the Ring arrival at a quarter before 4 o'clock. The Lard Steward and the Comptroller of the Household arrived at Osborn to-day with the addresses from both Roma el Parliament. • The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Lord Chelmsford gave judgment on a petition to rescind ken to appeal, " Madarlaine and another v. Ledsire and another," Gent Canada, that the petition must be dies' mined. His lore* also pee judgment on a petition from Cann, "Mani v. Albin," for lean to appeal, that their lordship mated bine to appeaL An appeal from the Mauritius, " Lepoigneur v. Coons" (part beard), wee concluded. The judgment of the court below was alarmed. TM lords present were Lords Chelmsford and Kingadown, the Lords Justine Knight Bruce and Turner, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir L. Peel, and Sir J. Collin.. Despatches wen repaired yesterday at the hem the pygmies d the enilmenta en the West Coast Africa sad Omni. Dawns/in were sent to the Common cif Malta, Ceyloa, Hoeg Hoeg. and tabus*. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. • MEXICO, VENETIA, AND THE ARCHDUKE MAXiMILIAN. We read in 3-esterclayie Itidepesdana : The Ostend du Deoub;, the organ of Count Reclaim& makes an important declaration, following upon that of the Vienna Gazette, in which it was said that the Austrian government, regarding any cemon of Venetia as ignomi• Motu, would never consent that any proposition cif the kind should be made to it. This declaration bad the fault of being too vague in the contradiction which it pre to the rumour, spread abroad in reference to the conditions on which Austria might abandon Venetia. It recognised et once the fact of a proposition of cession ; the connexion existing between that proposition and the candidature of Prince Maximilian for the throne of Mexico ; and, lastly, the existence of that candidature. The Gautte du Danube establishes a necessary distinction between these different points. It willingly admits that the named the lespirees brother has been mentioned in secret conferences, ceased by the intervention of England, France, and Spain • but it de. nies that there exist' any bond whateorer between t he Mexican question and the sbandosment by Austria of its territorial passasims Is Italy. Tie declaration is, we say, important. It confirms, fa feet, all that we have add of the project, conceived at Paris and presented at Vienna, of placing the Archduke Maxiadlisa on the throne of Mexico. At any rate, oa this point we were well informed. The future will show whether, la spit, of official and officious denials, we were equally right on the second point, namely, that the acceptance by the house of Hapsburg-Lorraine of a second throne for one of its princes on the other side of the ocean, combined with territorial compensations in the east, would lead to the pacido solution of one of the greatest difficulties of Euro pean politics—the complete emancipation of Italy. Two of our Paris oorreapood•ota pateist in helieving this. We OM only set their kapteseions by the side of the language need at Vienna end nave the issue to events. Then is, however, ogle important remark to be made in the interest even of the candidature of the Archduke Ma , thollian ; it ie, that in putting said* all connexion be tween the Venetian question and this candidature, the cabinet of Vienna destroys its best chances. Franc% England, and Spain bare no motive for mating a kingdom in America for an Austrian archduke if that arrangement will not advance the interests of peace in Europe. Why give the preference to an Austrian archduke over some other catholic prince, Spanish or Italian—Francis IL, for example, or the Grand fluke of Tuecany ? The candidature of Frain* Maximilian, whatever may be his merits, has for its principal object the advantages which may malt from it as regards the settlement of Italian affairs, and it le only on account of these advantages that it will be supported by the current of public opiaion. They will do well to remember this at Vieuea, if they desire to amps grand complications in which the empire might founder, and if they wish to extend the lustre of the sovereign hones se far ea the dominions once =led over by the Emperor Charles V. DISEMBARKATION OF THE PRINCESS OF PRIJMUA. Orders line been received by Commodore Sir F. W. E. Nicobice, eaperia•sidiat of Woollwaa Napa, to prepare the buoliai Gn•oooed, for tie It the Ouslasa4kOms, of her Royal illsbasm t►e Priapism of Primis on &Mucky nett. Her Royal Higbaom will embark es board do Victoria and Albert, at datworp, ea Friday, the 1441 int The following coca- masiewrioo on the aabjest has bees remind by Mr. /repast, mayor of Gleveread. from Commodore Sir P. W. R. Nioolsoa have to intern yea that bar Roysl Higbases the 0101111 Prisms of Primula and suite anise by her Majesty's yacht Slater's and Albert at Graver cad, from Autism,. cm Um lab inst., and wid bad at the Custom-home le boats. I farther to asqualat you Mat it is her Majesty's wish that so fin siould be hoisted, or ether Weems paid on ibis oceasice, the Led*: tostag private se plesitha without may authorities beim present to receive hoe Royal Higheess.* The Prince et Wales arrived at Cologne on Fri day, by the enentooe trsin of the Rhenish Hulsey. His lord Memos end sage dised is the reserved @sloop of the @MUNI, sad uses anima* proceeded as his jooreey to Orbs. The Duke sad Duchess at Ronbarghe leave town I Friday for Brighton. The frail et liardwicke arrived at hia reeidezu is Portman-Nur, hat imolai from Wimple Hall, Cam. bridgedoire. Viscount and Viaeountees Campden have arrived at Claridge's Hold. The iriacountees Cluillamore and the Hon. Cecilia O'Grady have arrived at Batoa•plau from Rockbazioa, Ism ladyship's madam i• Inland. Lord and Lady Raglan have arrived in town from Madreadadd Court, Weans Sanitize. Lady Reclutel Butler wee wifely delivered of a daughter a• Friday, at Desasseedre Cast/e, Dublin. Colonel and Mrs. Mare have left Farranotea Hotel for hawedla, Pares Lettere from Florence announce the death, on the god iosteat, of the Hao. Mrs. George Herbert, greet uat of the Eerl of Callum& The &Ceased and much lamented lady was the only child and heiress of Francis Head, Eel, of St. Andrew's Hall, Norfolk, by his wife. Maria Justine, daughter of Sir Thomas Stepney, Bart., of Lbasily, Oarmanhamshae. Lady Edith Ferguseon gave birth, yesterday, to a daughter, as 27, C'hcabamutnset. The Bishop of Loudou has not held his usual weekly levee at London House this day (Tuesday), in con• sequence of the meths' of Convocation. The Queen has approved the appointment of Mr. Joba Paxton Norman (of the borne circuit) as one of the Judaea of the Supreme Court of Bengal, at Calcutta. Mr. Norman is the author of a work on the "Copyright of Designs," and of a "Treatise on the Law of Letters Patent ." he is also one of the authors of "Hurlstone and Norman's Reports of the Coast of Exchequer." On Tuesday nest Mr. Henry Seymour will move, is the lionee of Commode, "That the Ecelesiastical aud Eleemosynary Statutes ought to be consolidated, mod that is is incumbent on the government to have a measure pre pared for that purpose." The ems hon. member has given ti aloe of a motioo, en early dey, for a committee, "To inquire into the reseal state of the Ecclesiastical Commis sion, and to report to the Louse whether the ecclesiastical revenues asset be coon advastageoealy adeneletered for the intonate of the Aura than they are at present." On Thursday, Mr. Alderman Salomous will ask the President of the Hord of Trade, " Whether it is the intention of her Majesty's government to introduce any bill for the consolidatioo and amendment of the law relating to Joint stock cowponies." On Thursday Major Edwards will move, as an amendment to Mr. Berkeley's motion for write for the city of Gloucester, that a writ be issued for Waked Ad. On the 25Lh iustant Lord R. Montagu proposes to submit to the Home of Common' a motion " concern- Jag thtedrain stration end eppropriatiou of public monies." Sir Hugh Cairns intewis shortly to move an iridium for a onarnission to inquire into the working of the law rotating to the grant of letter patent for in ventions. ----- On the motion for the second reading of the Highways Bill, Mr. Borrow will move that it be read a second time apes thin day sic mouths. Lord H. Lennox, on the 25th, will move "that this house is et opiate that, for the preparation of any estimates, sad for the expenditure of any monies voted is aid of the Britain Iliumnas, the National Gallery, and all other institution, baying for their object the promotioa of education, soma and art, one minister of the crown amnia be timponsible to thiv houso." - In the House of Cumulous, to-morrow, Colonel Dumas will ask the S"cretaly to the Admiralty whether troops have hese wan to America is the vessels Adelaide and rielaria, which were lately nearly lost ; and to move as address far espy of any report m .de by the commandant of the troops cm board, the Admiralty agents at Cork, lied the captains of these vowels ; and, farther, to ask if either or ' both of them captains b tee ',tired or been removed from their eensesed. and the relaces for such removal ; and she to move fat any coneepoodenee between Major-Greoml Lord Frederick lautett awl the War-office am to the Adriathe troop-chip conveying the Grenadier Guards to America, or any correspondence on the same eubject with any govern seat department. ~.,~ TVEB AY RrENING, FEBRUARY 11, 186$. ITALY. The cabinet' of Turin has been moved at the tumultuous scenes which have taken place at Flo rence. A circular addressed to the prefects calls on them to prevent such manifestations. The Marione designates the article of the Confemporaneo which exasperated the Florentine population as " an im prudent provocation, and a violent insult to our magnanimous King and brave army." The same journal has the following reflections on the incident :—" We cannot but deplore what has taken place, for such disturbance; do not suit any free and civilised nation. We also regret that they are not prevented, when it is possible, and in the present case they might have been by the immediate seizure of the journal." The Nationalitis of Turin gives the following as the number of National Guards in the 25 northern provinces of Italy, comprising 7,334,002 inha bitants :—Sedentary National Guards in ordinary service, 402,000 ; ditto in reserve, 325,858 ; mobile National Guards in active service, 180,941 ; ditto in reserve, 133,175. AUSTRIA. In its sitting of the 6th the cabinet of Vienna communicated its financial projects to the Cham bers. No new taxes will be created during the present year, but those already existing will be increased. That augmentation, according to the calculation of the Minister of Finance, will add about 32 millions to the revenue. The government also proposes to realise the fractions of previous loans not yet taken up. GERMANY. Le Nord of yesterday says : - - The initiative taken by M. de Beast, the 13axon Minister, in the question ceneerniiig the organic reform of the Ger man Confederation, was—as we declared it to be from the first—a manoeuvre intended to force Prussia to declare bar Intentions, and the other governments to protest against the views attributed to Prussia. A great deal of noise has been made about the despatches exchanged between the cabineta of Dresden, Berlin, and Vienna. But this was not enough ; it was needful ti strike a great blow, and this baa just been done. The collective or simultaneous step taken at Berlin by Austria and the secondary governments is an act of the highest importance. One may judge of the spirit that 'in mates the identical notes in question from the Ironical allr•ion they make to " the successes of Prussia in 1850." As for the fundamental principle of this antid4rwian league, it evidently consists in setting up in opposition to the Prussian coalition, of which the German nation is an accomplice, a dynastic coalition under the auspices of Au*. trio, who would derive the chief advantage from it in &sla ng Germany to her own political destiny by the guarantee of her non-German possessions. We shall not have to wait long for the text of the notes, the mere news of which is setting Germany in commotion. The Prussian government is hound to reply to these direct menaces, and appeal against them to the judgment of the nation. Mall event* we are now spectators of the beginning of a political move ment far more critical than the efforts of the National Verein, and one which brings seriously in question the ex istence of the Germanic Confederation. (zoarn's =Amu FRANCS. PARIS. FIB. 11. The Monifeur of to-day announces that the Marquis d'Audiffret will to-day read in the Senate his report on the Bill fur the Conversion of the four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rentee. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL. MONDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Shannon, which left New York on the 30th ult., arrived in this port at 9 o'clock to-night. A tele graphic summary, received via Queenstown, has already appeared• CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALL&N The Euxine, with the above mails, left Malta for Marseilles at 1 p.m. on the 9th instant. The Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the mails, arrived at Malta at 11 a.m. on the Bth instant, and sailed for Southampton at 6 the same evenins. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL The Mooltan (from Southampton on the 27th Jan.) reached Malta at 4 a.m. on the 6th instant, and sailed at 9 the same morning. The Valetta (from Marseilles on the 6th instant) arrived at Malta at 4 p.m. on the 7th insteat, and railed again at 8 p.m. The Madrid journals pablish several articles r Idles to the establishment d a monarchical government fa Mexico, and the Epora seems to thick that a Spanish prises would enact the sovereign there just as well as an Austrian or any other foreigner. •• ' J. H. DIITIMMOND HAT. (Arabia oigesturs on st tan.'" " . flAa; The following is a translation of the document, bearing the royal signet of the Sultan of Morocco, by which the Moorish plenipotentiary received full powers : "In the name of God, the merciful and clement l Them in no strength or power but in God, the most high and mighty I Be it known by this our leller, elevated and pro tected by Gad, and luminous as the sun and moon, that we have, by the help of God, granted to our employed, the Honourable Had) Abderrahman-el-Ajee, full power and authority to conclude with the minister, Mr. John Hay Drummond Hay, the oonventiou, and to treat with the merchant, Lewis Fords, reprdiog the arrangemente relative to the loan of 2,000,000 dollars, to be ndvanoed by the British cepitalista, and that we shall in no way disprove of any one of the arrangements (which he, the said Had) Ab derrahman-al-Ales, may have come to in the negotiation), for we have ceded to him all the authority (requisite) to act in the matter, according to him own free judgment, and with out having to refer again to us for inatructioss. He has our fall powers, and whatsoever be may do will be well done. Peace. _ _ . " Done on the 14th day of the present month (of Babes the Second) of this year (1278) (October 20, 1861)." NEW BILLS IN PABLIAMENT.-(THIS DAY.) This morning copies of several bills already in troduced in Parliament were lamed. Two bills have been presented in the House of Lords by Lord Ebury. One of them propose* to amend the law respecting the declaration of treat to the use of the Book of Common Prayer required of ministers and others of the &tablisited Church, by making it lawful for every person requited to make a declaration, to do so either according to the form at present in use,or according to the following one: " 1, 1. 8., do declare that ths Book of Common Prayer [stating the fell title of the book] may be lawfully need ss such ; [adding if A. be in Aoly orders] and that I will myself in public prayers and in administration of the Bacm ments use the form in the said book prescribed, and none other." The other bill of his lordship is entitled "An Act to amend the regulations for the public worship, tits, and ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland." In a schedule consistiug of twenty-ono clauses are numerous alterations referring to the distribution and order of the services of the church, and the ma, omission, or curtail ment of some of the forms. The directions in this schedule it is proposed shall be deemed to form part of the Book of Common Prayer. '•'•• • " " " Lard Rede;dale has brought is a bill intended to protect certain garden or ornamental grounds in cities and boroughs. It is proposed that garden► in squares, &c., of fifty years' standing, shall be freed from neglect, encroachments, and rested in a committee of rated inhabitants, or, if such decline, M the Metropolitan Board of Works, or the corpo rate authority. . . Yr. Hodfield's bill rendering it unnecessary to make and subscribe certain declarations as • qualification for offices and employments is very brief, and was sufficiently described by the hon. gentleman on the first night of the session. The bill bears the names of Mr. Hadfield, Hit M. Pato, Mr. Baines. and Mr. Kershaw. A bill has been introduced to abolish whipping for otfeaces committed by criminal prisoners, and providing in the case of juvenile offenders that the oonvicting jus tices shall specify in the sentence which they per the instrument to be used and the number of strokes to be inflicted. The bill is prepared and brought in by Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. Briscoe, and Sir Y. Smith. The Pope is causing a sepulchre to be built in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, similar to those which exist in the churches of Bt. Peter and St. John de Wren, with the intention, it is said, of being interred there. Mr. Severn continues to make urgent applica tions to the government of Rome for the arrest of the in terpreter Ceocarini, concerned in the murder of tho English overseer Smith at Velletri ; but the prelate contents him self with assuring the consul, in moral terms, that he bas taken all necessary steps for carrying out the ends of justice. A correspondent at Rome writes on the 4th inst.: —" Two American travellers, forgetful of the adage that at Rome one must do as the Romans do, got into a row yes. tenlay for not taking off their hate when a procession is sued from a church, on the Piazza di Trevi, carrying the host with the usual solemnity. As the two gentlemen alluded to rendered themselves rather conspicuous by standing erect and covered amidst the kneeling and bareheaded spectators, one of the priests remon strated with them on the subject ; but finding that they would neither withdraw nor uncover, he pro ceeded to knock their hats off ; a scuffle ensued, and the priest rejoined the procession, which, making ► round, soon after returned to the same spot. The Americans had re sumed their h►ts and their stand ; but the priest, instead of coadenemding to fisticuffs • second time, sent • couple of gendarmes to remonstrate with the offenders, which they did in their usual brutal style, inflicting • staggering blow ea the breast with the butt end of • musket on one of the Vintners, and a compliment of • similar kind on the other. The best piece of advice to over-scrupulous protestants on such occasions is to turn into a side street, if they object to raising their hats on passing the procession." MEETING OF BOTH HOUSES OF CON YOUATION.-(THIS DAY.) Both Houses of Convocation of the Clergy of the province of Ouiterbury met this morning in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey. His Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURI presided during the reading of the prayers, attended by the Bishops of l oodan, Banbury, Manchester, Lincoln. and St. Asapb. The mess hess of the lower house assembled most nameronaly. The moon having been de clared open, their lordslups retired, and proceeded to Queen Ann's Bounty Office, where the proceedings of the Upper Have are carried on. EXPRIIBB FROM PAIUS. (nom or owx PARIS. MONDAY Sumo. The Bourse has been decidedly heavy. Small stockholders who do not understand or who do not like the conversion, are selling, and the band of capitalists, armed with money from London to keep up the market, are for the moment suspending their operations. The Rente fell 30c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 70fr. 90c. and 71fr. 30c. Mobilier fell Sir. 75c., and the Italian Loan sc. Criodit Fonder, which, in consequence of the large operations it is expected to make in connexion with the conversion, was in extraordinary favour last week, fell 30e. Railways were all about 2fr. 50c. lower. To-day the Imperial Court reversed the decision of the Tribunal of Commerce, which had decreed the Baron de Pontalba to make restitution to Miele' creditors of a sum of 1,700,000 fr. which he had received from litirbs as compensation for alleged services in relation to the Roman railways and Marseilles docks. The decision of the superior court, however, turns only upon a question of jurior diction, and the merits of the case will have to be tried again. I have more than once expressed my opinion that the various courts of law which have decided that the signature of a Paris cedes:teen preceded by the words, pour copie conform, was not • valid signa ture for political foreign correspondence, had put • sound construction upon that act of the legislature, passed in a spirit of hostility to the press, called "the law of signatures." This view has just been confirmed on appeal by the Imperial Court of Paris in the came of the Cowrie. du Dimanche and the Ami de la Religion. The law is, no doubt, vex atious, absurd, and impracticable, but there it is, and the courts must act upon it whenever the government chooses to bring a case of the breach of it before them. Hitherto all the Paris journals, with the connivance of the authorities, have been in the daily habit of doing what the Imperial Court now declares to be illegal. The Opinion Nationals calls upon the Minister of Justice to point out to the journals how it is possible for them to conform to the law without de priving the public of the most interesting part of much of their foreign correspondence. It is quite plain that the signatures of correspondents writing from St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Rouse, or Venice, cannot be published without exposing the writers to transportation to Siberia or chains and dungeons. The Pays, in a most tender rebuke of the Bishop of Tarbes for promulgating a new miracle at this particular time, very faithfully reflects the vacilla tion of the French government with regard to Rome. The writer is evidently quite ready to cry up any miracle whatever, if the civil power would frankly shuffle off the coil of its liberal tendenelen, and join the church in an attempt to bring modern miracles into fashion. As it is, the Pays thinks the "opportuneness" of the bishop's certificate in favour of the miracle of Lourdes "more than contestable." The "object of the miracle," says this journal, with a profanity pro bably due to a mere slip of the pen, is to build • chapel, "and consequently the episcopal mandate terminates with an appeal to the purse of the faithfuL" After this awkward confession it de clares itself not by any means hostile to modern miracles "in principle," but observes that the church itself only admits them as genuine with great reserve, and that for two very good reasons, let, that God himself is not prodigal of them ; and 2nd, because mistakes and frauds give great occa sion to the enemy to blaspheme. These two principles have, according to M. Grandguillot's journal, been lost sight of by the Bishop of Tarbes, and he has vouched for the appearance of the Virgin in the Lourdes grotto upon "too weak evidence." Moreover, and this last coming from • professedly catholic journal is the "unkindest cut of all," the Lourdes business is but an "infinitesimally small item" a great neo-catholic enterprise, which "we think unfortunate." Notwithstanding all this criticism, the Pays, out of "respect for religion," thinks it necessary to protest against the way in which "this delicate and perilous question" has been treated by the Miele, and announces another/ article in which it will thoroughly discuss the matter. Some surprise is felt under existing circumstances at the disclosure made by a number of the Bulletin des Lois, just published, that in August last the Emperor signed a decree granting a supplemental credit of 10,000 fr. towards the expenses of making a saint of the famous Boulogne beggar Labre, who, from his dirty habits, was called the Christian Diogenes. The Opinion Nationale drily observes on this act of liberality, that it confirms the saying about France being "rich enough to pay for all her glories." A correspondent, writing from Madrid, says : " Another letter is in circulation here, addressed by the widow of Don Carlos to Don Juan de Bourbon, in which the attitude of the pretender is the object of bitter attack. As in the former letter, great stress is laid on the monarchi cal and religious sentiments of Spain. According to the Counter de Molina, not a single What general—not one political personage of any importance, has gone over to the liberal side, and Don Juan cannot therefore expect to find supporters except among the promoters of the insurrection of Loja. The widow of Dun Carlo. especially prated. against the approbation given by her soo•in-law to the ini quitous spoliatioo suffered by the Holy Father and by dynes. ties united to Spain by the mast glorious reminiscences." A meeting of the members of tho Fruderic- William-Victoria National Institution took place at Berlin on Saturday, when hymn-books, the gift of the Crown Princess, were delivered to the five couple' married on the Zfith ult., the anniversary of the wedding-day of the Crown Prime and Crown Nemeses, and 50 thalers were also awarded to each newly-married pair from the funds of the institution. Since the foundation of the institution, four years siilce, 40 couples have been endowed with similar sums. ---- A letter from Berlin Nays :—" The 110U30 of Lords Isere will immortalize themselves. At the instigation of one Herr von Frankenberg-Ludwigudorf, the whole of the members of the Upper House are going to sit in front of the photographer's tripod, and descend doers to their un born posterity by a ladder of sunbeams. Glorious Idea! The lords else had despaired of aught but present fame. Their portraits are to be put either in an album, or set is a frame, and preserved for all times among the archives of the honey. The studies of the future historian of Prussia will sow to almost exclusively turned in the direction of physiognomy ; and we may, therefore, expect the rise of sew Levatere." The Zeit contains the following curious story respecting an accident which has befallen the Electoral Priem of Reese :—"Nothing certain is known as to the fate of the footman through whose cortisone's, some eight days since, the Electoral Prince fell over a carpet, except that he bee been suspended, according to the usual custom. His diewdmal without pension has been already prepared, but boa sot bees delivered to him. Our crown jurists, Meters. Abdo sod CO., have been again summoned to the palace, as it le now the question whether the offender cannot be tried is a criminal court. Whether in this case information will be made public as to the accident, about which there has been much mystery hitherto, remains to be seen. On the third day after the event the footman received ordain not to speak upon the subject under pain of dismissal. Yesterday the Electoral Prince, though still keeping his bed, received reports in person from the gentlemen who are here termed ministers." THE TREATY WITH MOROCCO. This morning the papers relating to the loan raised by the Emperor of Morocco in London, and the convention relating thereto, between her Britannic Majesty sad the Emperor, were iuued from the parliamentary printing. office. The convention, which was signed in the English ►nd Arabic languages at Tangier, on the 24th of October last, and the ratifications of which were exchanged in the same city on the 20th of December, is as follows : "His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco being desirous of raising a loan of 426,0001. sterling in London, to enable him to meet his engagements with her Catholic Majesty, sad having requested the good offices of her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- land, with a view to facilitate that object ; sod her Britannic Majesty having agreed to the request of his imperial Majesty, their Majesties have resolved to conclude a convention on the subject, and have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- I land, John Hay Drummond Hay, Esq.,Companion of the Mod Honourable Order of the Bath, her minister resident at the Court of his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco ; and hie Majesty the Sultan of Morocco, his officer, the learned Fakes Seed Hadj Abderrahman el Ajee ; who, after having oxamtinicated to each other their respective full powers, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles : " ' Art. L His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco engages that from and after the ratification of the present conven tion there shall be paid over to a commisaimer named by her Britannic Majesty, 50 per cent. of the custom duties at all the ports of the empire of Morocco. Her Britannic Majesty, on her part, engages that six weeks before the period at which the half-yearly charges on the loan of 426,000 f. sterling, which the Emperor of Morocco is about to raise, shall become des, she will transfer to the agent or agents of the contractors for that lean the sums so to be received by the commissioner of her Majesty, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to pay the interest and sinking fund on the said loan, the amount of such sums not exceeding in the aggregate 13 per cent. on the above•meotioned sum of 4'18,000!• sterling. But her Britannic Majesty shall not be liable for the payment of more than she receives. In cue the sums received should be more than sufficient for such half-yearly payments, the surplus shall be repaid by the British caw I minions, to the °Moors of the Emperor of Mora*" duly authorised to receive the same. " ' Art. 2. When, by means of the payments provided for in the preceding article, the whole of the loan of 426,0001. sterling shall have been repaid, together with the interest due thereon, the commissioner of her Britannic Majesty shall creme to receive the 50 per cent of the custom duties at the porta above-mentioned, and shall repay to the said officers of the Emperor of Morocco any balance that may be remaining in his hands. " ' Art. 3. The present convention shall be ratißed by her Majesty the Was of Great Britain and Ireland, and by his Majesty the Emperor of Morocco, and the ratifica tions shell be exchanged at Tangier as soon as posdble within 40 days from the date hereof. " ' In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiariel have lived the present convention, and have affixed thereto their respective seals. " Dose at Tangier, the 24th day of October, in the year 1881, corresponding to the Moorish date of the 18th day of the month of Babes the Second, in the year 1278. UPPER ROUSE. No business was taiii;o:Ttedlii the Upper Home at the time thu report wan &notched. LOWER HOUSE. After the session had leenlene4,Arehdeaeon BICKER /arra presided is Prolocutor, and some formal business wss disposed of. THE airreiro =ern!, ON EDUCATION. The Archdeacon of TAUNTON (Denison) ruse to submit to the house a motion in reference to the revised minutes on education. issued by the Committee of Council on Education in July, 1861, which was that a committee should be ap. pointed to address both houses of parliament in opposition to the adoption of these revised rules on education, and went on to say, that the country almost universally condemned these propositions as being contrary to the true spirit of the church of England. Professor BSOWNIS imbed an objection to their proceeding upon this matter, contending that they were not at liberty to make a gravamen upon a question which had not the force of law, the new rules being only a proposition by the Committeeof Council on Education, and bad not been acted upon. Thia objection led to a long dieceenioa, i s tl e iticontended that if such were to be the rule of their op, Con. vocation would not be at liberty to lamas any da which might threaten the church of England, until that danger had actually been given effect to and had the force of law. — ThelEtev. PaoLocums reed the laws regulating their dis. curious, from which it appeared that they were at perfect liberty to discuss wash question.. The question was then put, when there appeared— For proceeding with the diacturion 25 Against it Majority 4 Aroluiesoon DWISON then proceeded with his addras, and condemned so forward a step as was taken by the Com mittee of Council in applvin government aid to secular education with a total dreagaru to religious education. This proposition had been received with rm throughout the kingdom, and it was their duty to OXILMIDO the grounds upon which these minutes had been issued. The rev. gen. tleman was proceeding with his address, and the house wee left sitting. MR. MILNER GIBSON AT ASHTON. ABHTON-llNDiit-LYNE, MONDAY Ntorr. This evening the President of the Board of Trade delivered his annual wither to his oonstituents in the town. ball. Several Omura persons were present. Mr. Kmee worm', the mayor, presided. Mr. GIBBON was received with peat enthusiasm, a end derable portion of the right hon. gentleman's speech, which lasted nearly an hour, was devoted to illustrations of the beneficial effect of the commercial policy with which he and others had been associated for the lest 20 years. Great as bad been the pressure on trade during the past year, as shown by the demeans of exports, it did not appear to have been so severe as was the pressure from the autumn of 1857 to the autumn of 1858. The total value of our et pot*, from the United Kingdom in 1861 was 125,116,0001. against 135,891,0001. in 1880; the decrease in the twelve months from Nov., 1857, to October 1858, was about 15,000,0001. In the year just ended the percentage decrease of our exports had been heavier upon lines. and ken than upon cotton, whilst in coal, machinery, and pig iron the exports showed an increase. Our exporte to the United States had decreased by 12+ millions sterling, or 42 per cent. Our exports to Fran*, exclusive of oora, had been 7,944,7241. in 1861, spinet 5,244,7001. In 1860. But if the Mermaid ex port to Francs for the whole year had been in the same ratio as it was from September to December, 1861, dace the new treaty had been in operation, the year's total would have been over tea erillioas. (Chews.) Comparing the last four months of 1861 with the same period of 1860, the ex• port. to France had Mermaid by 81 per cent. The imports tram France in 1861 had been nearly 1.4 millions sterling. against 12,784000 in 1860. The emporia to Italy during 1861 had been 5,780,9801. spinal 4,514,2871. in 1860, the chief increase being to Napier and Sicily. (Applause.) After expreming his satisfaction at the repeal of the paper duty, Mr. Gibson referred to the civil war in America. He looked upon the severance of the United States as e. calamity for the world ; but he spoke strongly in behalf of strict neutrality as the duty of England. (Cheees.) He thought our government had done its duty in the Trent dispute—(applause)—and he was very sorry to hear Lord Derby express his regret that the new rule was being adjusted by England of not taking our enemy's goods from the ship of our friend. In the course of his speech Mr. Gibson referred to a letter written to him on behalf of the Church Defence Association, and declared that he held it to be not inconsistent with his position as a member of the church of England to believe is the greet protestant principle of the right of private judgment and ce religious equality. Mr. Gibson concluded his speech amid great cheering. Subsequently the meeting, which was extremely crowded, terminated in disorder on the apparent opening of a discus goo by some risible= of the Church Association, which led to a rush on the *third', and the mayor declared the pa ceedings closed. REPRESENTATION OP GLOUCESTER. GLOITCB3TER 7 MONDAY. - - - - Mr. Potter, the conservative candidate, has issued his address today. It is a very long oriel. He de• dares himself adverse to all Large and sudden changes of the constitution. "I am not (says he) in favour of un extreme distribution of mats in parliament, nor of electoral distriate, nor of lowering extensively the present household franchise. With respect to the admission of the workiug classes SA • body to the franchise, I am opposed to it ; hut I would give to every working man the opportunity of acquirinca re% if he seeks for it, and tarns it by • few yeah of self .denial and sobriety. lam in favour of open voting in the election of representatives so the necessary protection for society against the secret domination of • clique, or, to borrow an American word, • 'caucus,' in the selection of representative men. I am conteut to trust to the sure progress of public opinion fur the disappesranoe from our electoral contests of intimidation, corruption and bribery, evils which, like other public scandals, would be aggravated by every attempt no conceal theca from the public eye." Further, Mr. Potter states that heshonld have voted with Lord Pal• merstun's government on the divisions in which they were de. fested—in 1857 (the Chinese was), and 1858 (the Orsini plot), and that if elected for Gloucester he "shall give a generous support to the government of Lord Palmerston so long so that government maintains • tionserrative attitude towards the institutions of the country." He approves of Lord Palinerstotee foreign policy; but in the management of finances and taxation he considers it not "equally soccer ful or prudent." Their Reform Bill he considers WAS "based t on a misconception and miscalculation of public opinion.' At prevent, therefore, there are three atodUstes. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) LIMN BMW= AItDivAILUI . Oa Brow 80,asaosaa HILIOOLLID ..- rws- m. . . LO or Dow KoltjUiii....:' I.l.ntaini ...I Parwial ....I TOIRAT. PZINICARY 11, • £.ll. W.B.W. 1-'4'l LW. W.N.W. W. N.V. W.N.W. L W. N. N.W. LW. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.Z. i. xi - -..-- • - a - o - b - o - b 0 0 - e- - 0 0 - b - o a- t - a - a -, a - t .- O .- WEDIIIIIIDLT. N. Britain.—W.R. N.W. to E., strong. link Oa% fresh to strong, with snowy . Ireland.-8.8.W. to N.W. and N.W. to N.E. fresh to dm& N., moderate to stry, some OK.W. snimy. Central.—W. to N. and N.L, N.N.W. to N. and E, moderate moderate to fresh, with snow. to fresh, Anon. Coast—W. to N. and N.E., N.N.W. to N.E., and K.8..E trash to strong, snowy. moderate to strong, *Ukraine snow. S. 11111118 d. ••••- W. to N. and N.W. to NAL and E, cods moderate to fresh, some rate to MAIL snowy. mow. EXPLANATION. 1..w-harearrAst corrected and reduced to se de,;. at mean 11 heal: nib IS het. of vertical rise, causing snout one.hati Iredth ei as lash anti each 10 deg., i lore 32 • ier„ (Auteuil itaiety tinewhaidredthe increase. lE.—Exposed ttiorrnometer hi shads. 11.—Motstrnied bulb (for evaporation and dew pint). D.--Ohnotlon or wind ,trne--two poiurn kyt of asap seam. l.—rotes (1 to 10—ettiniated(. C.—Cloud (I to 0). L Idtlah A blue sky : a. clouds (detached) : C fog: h. hail : lightning: in. misty lbw); o, overcaet r, rain a. snow : 1. thornier. R., rain.fall, or snow, or brill, since last report. in inches and dernmela 11.-Bendisturbance (I to 9j. L--Calts.