The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-09 00:00:00

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Da. lbsa.....Anwsom 41t. 306 LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9. one of those volumes of ingenious speculation with which Sir Geosos Lawn; beguiles the inter- vale of budgets of peace and budgets of war he has inserted a curious chapter on the worth, as evi dence, of visible memorials of facts. General belief requires material attestations. Accordingly it gets them. At Rome there is an unbroken series of portraits of the Popes from the first to the last. There is also in the world enough wood of the true Cross to build a man-of- war. Fabrications of this sort are not intended to support and confirm the belief in a certain fact ; they rather grow out of it, and are designed chiefly to satisfy the curiosity which the existence of the belief engenders. The observation may be carried a step farther. The unreal, as well as the real, may have its monument. The egg of LEDA, the clay from which PROMETHEUS formed the human race, and the ivory rib of Pxxors, have all been severally seen by wondering mortal eyes. The ancients, however, have been super seded in this line by the moderns, for the ecclesiastics in Spain are said to show a round of Jacoe's ladder. When men feel respecting a thing an inward sense of certainty which can neither be increased nor shaken, why should they surround it with supposed proofs which only give a handle to cavillers f We can only reply, that such is human nature. Faith is its own evidence ; true, but it is exorbitant, and insists on the outward sign. We all know that London is at this moment full of garotters. They knock you down in the prin cipal streets in broad daylight. Last week they murdered three people in the public streets. They take all shapes and disguises, from the labourer going late home from work, to the stout farmer come up to see the Cattle Show. The evidence of their existence surrounds us : it is in men's faces and in the cutlers' and gunsmiths' shop-windows. Why else do we all carry revolvers and bowie-knives? The presumption is that—your private friends and the police exoepted—every man you meet is only looking for a chance to get you by the throat and relieve you of your watch and chain. These facts being so well known and universally received, it is unaccountable, except on the general principle just stated, that any one should be at the trouble of supplying superfluous " facts in aid "of faith," in the form of detailed reports of assaults ending in murder. Three such reports ap peared in the newspapers last week, and whatever the intentions of their authors, it seems certain that the effect of them will be to trouble and con fuse rather than to confirm and enlighten the public mind. It may not be generally known that there exists in the City a set of sceptical philosophers,who from the beginning of the prevailing excitement have made the garotte literature of the newspapers the object of a determined and destructive criticism. The Coryphieus of this rationalistic school is Mr. DAKIEL WHITTLE HARVEY, who no sooner nada a paragraph giving an account of an assault than he subjects it to an inquisitorial process of torture under which some of the most prosperous stories have been known to break down. Of late it has been his practice to send direct to the office of the journal most concerned one of his myrmidons, skilled by long practice in un ravelling tangled skeins of evidence, and who politely requests an interview with the reporter. We forbear to remark upon a practice so sub versive of the ancient and intimate under standing existing between a useful section of the profession and " the force," or to dwell on the depressing effect which a harassing and continuous inquisition must have upon the modest and meritorious brotherhood who supply us with casual news. Surely some consideration is due to a class of men who are second to none in the accuracy with which they gauge the mind of the public, and whose only fault, if it be a fault, is, that they serve it with too much zeal. Suppose a paragraph or two out of many to be, not " fictitious"—which is not to be thought of—but " unhistorical," would not a genial and appreciative criticism regard it as a kind of crystal fairly deposited from the mind of the day ? A special set seems to have been made at the garotte murders reported last week. Thus the Coroners and the police persist in knowing nothing of MICHAEL Gartrrrv, of Webber-street, St. George's-road, and, as his body has not been found, an attempt is made to throw doubt not only on his decease but on the reality of his alleged existence. Mrs. STUILEE, who was said to have been thrown down and robbed in Stamford-place, Lambeth, and has not since been heard of, has in like manner been forced into the family of myths. The gentleman at Sydenbam, alleged to have been garotted in Whitechapel, it is now pretended died of consumption, the last wrong he sustained at the hands of thieves being the picking of his pocket five years ago. En couraged by its successes, negative criticism essays • bolder flight, and is now undertaking to produce in the flesh and sound in health, the victims which rumour had consigned to an untimely grave. This has been attempted in the case of the pieman of Lambeth-walk, who was robbed of his little all, and so hurt that he died of his injuries. When the police went into the neighbourhood, • the murdered man—who must have owed thliisiperter a grudge—was going about with the thwart non chalance selling his pies. In view et these circum stances, it has become a question whether society, which must know its own condition better than the philosophers in blue, is to have its cherished beliefs nibbled away by petty carping at details. Against such a misfortune perhaps the beat war rant is to be found in the Anti-Garotte societies, which are forming in various parte of the town. As every member of these will have given, by the purchase of pistol, dirk, or other weapon, a mote -1 rial guarantee of the strength of his convictions, and will have to justify an exceptional expenditure 'by the fearful state of the streets, it is to be ex parted that a great deal of information relating to dangers encountered, averted, or repelled, will be exchanged amongst their members, and that from these centres an impulse will be given which, coun teracting the devices of incredulity, will brace the public mind to vigilance and maintain its proper tone. be court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Ds c. 8. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis of Hew and Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, drove out this morning in a ea:liege and four. Lieutenant• Colonel Hon. D. de Ras was in attendance on horseback. _ _ . ----- The Princes' Helena, amompenied by the Coniston Blucher, drove in the pounds. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left the Castle this morning and returned to Greenwich-perk. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, Sir G. C. Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edwarl Cardwell, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yester day from Hawarden Castle, Closter. Despatches were received yesterday at the .00106 d-office from the Governor of the Mauritius. Despatches we re sent to the Governor of Falkland blends, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday afternoon for Knowsley Hall, seer Prsecott, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby. The Earl Russell has recovered from his severe cold. Yesterday his Excellency Baron Brunnow and his Excellency M. Mumma had interviews with the noble earl at the Foreign-office. The Earl and Countess of Derby have entertained the Earl of hialmesbury, the Earl and Countess of Tanker villa, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Lord and Lady Col ville, and Mr. and Hrs. Baillie Cochrane, at Knowsley, during the past week. Lord Stanley, M.P., and Colonel the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot are also staying at Knowsley. The gentlemen have had good sport consider ing the scarcity of birds. The Earl of Leicester came to town yesterday Irani Holkham Hall, Norfolk. At the close of the week his lordship returns to his country seat in order to receive a large circle of friends for shooting over the extensive preserves. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have received a numerous and distinguished party during the past week at Bretby Park, Burton-on-Trent, comprising I the Duke of Rutland, the Duke and Duchess of Hart- borough, Maria Marchioness of Aileebury, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvou, Count Strzelecki, Lord and Lady Wharneliffe, Lord Lismore, Hon. George W. Fitzwilliarn, Hon. and Rev. Orlando Forester, Colonel the Hon. Henry Forester, Hon. Frederick Calthorpe, M.P., Colonel the Hon. W. and Mrs. Curzon, Miss Anson, Mr. Saville, Mr. Calcraft, The Earl and Countess Spencer have returned to Aithorp Hall, Northamptonshire, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley, Lancashire. At the end of the week the e►rl and countess intend to join the circle invited to meet at Tottenham Park, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have been entertaining a select circle at Deane Park during the past week, including the Counter of Glengall, Mr. and Lady Evelyn Bruce, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Dudley, Admiral and the Hon. Mrs. Rous, Captain and the Hoe. Mrs. Vivian, Hon. George Fittwilliam, and Mr. Gilmore. The noble earl aid c mantes' will continue to receive a sue. cession of visitors until the meeting of parliament. Lord and Lady Burners have arrived in town from visiting Lord and Lady Dahmer*, at Vale Royal, and Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache, at Peckforton Castle, Cheshire. The Sackville-street Club, one of the principal conservative clubs in Dublin, if not the principal, at the fullest meeting of members ever held, have elected Sir Robert Peel unanimously ; there was not a single black beau. This is au honour which no liberal chief secretary ever received before in Ireland. In consequence of the near approach of the Bishop of London's examinations of candidates for his general ordination at Christmas next, his lordship does not propose to hold further Tuesday leves at London Home, St. James's-square, until the commencement of the new year. Charles Hugo's dramatic version of his father's novel of the " Mithables" is to be produced, It is an nounced, at the Victoria Theatre in Berlin. At the Friedrich-\Vilhelmstadt Theatre, Berlin, they are now performing the Orphan of Lotoood, founded on Miss Bront2e famous romance. Madame Niemann-Seebach takes the part, of Jane Eyre, and (which monde rather odd to English ears) the principal male cha racter has been raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Rochester. Certain persons, belonging to that political party which has lately lifted up its bead so much in Prussia, propose, it is said, to present to the ex-King of Naples a silver shield, commemorative of his exploits and miefor tunes, and for which the design is already sketched. It represents Francis IL on a rock, defending himself against the attacks of a troop of demons, two among which are considered unmistakeably to resemble Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi. The Cologne Gazette speaks of a court of inquiry which is to be instituted against two naval officers of the East Asiatic expedition on rather a singular charge. While the Prussian frigate Thetis lay before Jeddo her com mander, a lieutenant, and a commissary, went on shore to look about them, in uniform, but unarmed. In a remote suburb of the city they were pursued by an armed Japanese officer, who was apparently drunk. Anxious to avoid col lisions with the natives, which might have led to cense- ' quencee fatal to the treaty it was one of the object& of the expedition to negotiate, seeing also neither honour nor I profit to be gained by a quarrel with a tipsy Japanese, they took refuge in a n►tive house until he had gone his way. Nobody attached any importance to the matter at the time, nor thought of imputing any fault to the officers, the principal of whom is considered ono of the best in the Prussian service. After the lapse of a year and a half it i e proposed to institute an investigation, which has excited no little astonishment among the comrades of the persons thus tardily inculpated. Up to the 27th ult. very nearly four millions of francs had been subscribed in Russia for the benefit of families rendered destitute by the late fires at St. Petersburg. A letter from Munich of the 4th says that the ex-Queen of Greece is seen every day at noon on horseback, In the suburbs, with a lady of honour and some personages Cl the court. A Cassel letter in the Hamburg Nelos says : "The Princess Hohenlohe, daughter of the Prince Elector, whose husband has gone to America without paying his debts, which amount to very considerable sums, her been summoned to ►ppear before the tribunal of the free city of Frankfort ; as wells* her brother, the second eon of the Elector. The princess signed bills for 800,000 florins which her husband put in circulation, and the princess's brother gave his guarantee by attaching his signature to 80,000 florins' worth of thine bills." NEW PRUSSIA. S.W. to N.W., mode rate to strum. IGENOE. PROILBLE. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, A GRIER REPUBLIC. Tba Sick of to-day expresses . its conviction that if Greece becomes a federal republic with a Greek President, all the more serious difficulties will disappear. "Suppose a King of Greece," says the Seek "be chosen from a family which go verns a state of the second or third order. That family would infallibly gravi tate into the orbit of one of the three great powers, and the equilibrium of influences be more or less altered. It is not solely from our preference for that sort of government that we have addressed this advice to Greece—it is because we desire French influence to remain intact, and not be weakened by a choice which might not have our sympathies." The Breslau Gazette expresses ita disgust of the (nor on owl language used at the interviews of the feudalist deputations with the King—" language," it nays, " unworthy of a citizen, of a Prussian, of a man of honour, and which can only be compared to the abject crawling of a spaniel. God keep us from such patriotism ! If the Prussian people contains only a dozen or two men faithful to the King, and if the 340 representatives are but ' perjurers,' traitors," revolutionists,' elected, neverthelesa, by a law which classes the electors according to their social position and wealth, this people must be corrupt through all stages of its society, and neither addresses nor deputations will save them." WIDNISDAY. THURSDAY. 8.8.8. to W.S.W., fresh 8001LLID. W. to N., fresh, with to strong, rainy. some rain. As above. 'ARLAND. As above, unsettled. 8. to W., unsettled. W. CataltAL. W.S.W. to sho . wery i N. N.W., Train, 8.8. W. to W.N.W., &Winn:HAND. As next above. strong, some rain. As next above. B.E. EXOLAND. W.N.W. to N.N.E., fresh, some rain. E. MAST. N.W. to N.A., fresh. The Brussels indfpendanot of yelterclay evening . _ announces the death of a distinguished Belgian politician Y. Verhaegen, formerly president of the Chamber of Re'. presentative', and of the Brussels Liberal Association, also grand-master of the Belgian Freemason'. RICHARD LRNOIR. —This personage, who has just obtained the posthumous honour of giving his name to one of the great thoroughfares of Faris, was a celebrated manu facturer, born in 1765 of a peasant family at TrOat (Cal vados). Be left his native village at the age of 17 to seek hie fortune, and came to Paris, where, after commencing as simple port:fr, he engaged in business as a dealer in cotton goods, and in the course of time became one of the richest merchants of the period. Wishing to free trade in his own country from its dependence upon England, he created in Francs, for the first time, factories for spinning and weaving cotton. As a manufacturer he was very successful, and re ceived great encouragement from Napoleon I, who deca -1 rated him with hie own hand. The suppression of the ; import duties in 1814, however, brought oo his ruin, and he passed his latter days in straitened circumataocea. The real I same of this remarkable loan was Francois Richard, but having taken • partner named Lenoir, the two names became indissolubly associated, and are applied only to Richard. He died in 1339. 1 A FEDERAL Coss zrrz AT FALMOUTH. The Federal corvette Onward, Captain Nickels, put into Fel ' mouth on Saturday last from Fayal to repair some slight damages and to revictuaL She is about 900 tons, has nine • guns, and 114 hands, midis one of the ships on the look out 1 for the Alabama. A bottle was thrown overboard in let. 15 8 ., long 34.30 W., on the 4th of August last, and was picked up near Bahia on the 27th of that month. It had been carried by wind and current 273 mike in the M days. AUSTRIA. The Reischrath, it appears, will be prorogued on the 20th, and meet again next May. The pro vincial diets will sit three months, from January to March. The new law upon the press will be sanc tioned immediately after the prorogation. It seems that an amnesty for political offences, includ- ing those of the press, throughout the whole of the empire, will be proclaimed on the Empress's birth day. A despatch from Venice states that a statute for Venetia has been submitted to the Emperor. There is to be a Diet composed of fifty members, chosen by direct election, and naming their own president, and subject to the ratification of the Emperor. The executive power will be composed of thirteen mem bers, nine of whom will be chosen by the Diet and four by the government. The Diet will have the right to revise the statute. (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY. TURIN, Dec. 8, Evemaxo. The Official Gazette has not yet announced the formation of the cabinet. _ Signori Farini, Peruzzi, Menabrea, and Miug hetti Lave, however, already taken the oath of allegiance to the King. Signori Della Rovere, Manna, Aniari, Ricci, and Passolini are expected at Turin. . . . The portfolio for foreign affairs not having been accepted by Signor Pasolini, will be assumed by Signor Farini. Signor Caseinis has likewise declined to accept the portfolio of justice, which will therefore be entrusted to Signor Pisannelli, a Neapolitan. The Chambers will reassemble in public sitting on Wednesday next. The Discussione of to-day states that Farini and Minghetti represent their former political pro gramme, to which they will remain faithfuL The Discussione speaks with greater reserve respecting the views of Signor Peruzzi, but believes that if the " Right" of the Chamber will only strongly support the cabinet, the latter will com pletely agree with their policy. LOSS OF THE COLOMBO. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram : BOMBAY, Nov. 27. " The Colombo was totally lost on Minicoy Island (445 miles this side of Guile), on the morning of the 19th inst. The passengers, the crew, and a portion of the mails were saved. If the weather is moderate we hope to save a part of the cargo. The news was received at Bombay on the evening of the 25th. The Ottawa, with two divers, left for the wreck this morning to take the mails and passengers to Suez. " The Colombo was bringing the homeward Calcutta, China, and Australian mails. " The intelligence is brought by the Jeddo, which passed Jubal on Sunday, at 6 p.m." .-(THIS DAY.) 9, 8 A.M. WEATHER REPORT. TUISDLT, DECLYI LIL D. W. F. X..C I LH. L I B. ———— Num ... ..... 29.74,43 1 8. 1 3 9 0 3 0.12 2 •311DINi ...29.4 3 '4 2 1 S.S.W. 3 4 9 86 - 8 Cuiiir - 9 809104 - 1 LaozoB6l2 29.7447 1 B.W. 6 5 8 rlO 0.43 1 4 GALWAY Vilarru 4011zaur1olri 29. 9 740 0 S.W. 6. 7 r 8 0 . 431 4 01. V lif.AD LITIMpOoz 30.00143 1 S.S.E. 21 7 0 3 0.11 3 P 12131019 30.07144 1 B.W. 6 , 4 r 2 0.20. 2 Mimic' - I 4 2 Mums.— 30.171 1 W. 7' 6 0 Jzusir 30.048 4 W.S.W. 6• 4 o- 1 0 Ws/ 11,4728_ 10.16,49 4 W. 3. 4 0 - —! 2 POxismoura 30.16145 2 W. 3 8 o- 3 Dora 30.1440 1 W. 3 6 m- —• 1 LONDON 30.1614 3; 3 W.S.W. 2 6 illtilv1771 l ACARBOIWOOB 29.9941 2 W. 2 6 Ich —l3 8111141.91 . - —1 4 iiXLIGIOLAIM DECEMBER 9, 1862. FROM PARIS. PARIS, MONDAY EVINING. The Opinion Nationale receives a warning to night, the text of which is very remarkable. The grounds of the warning are stated to be that in an article in the number of Dec. 7, headed "The Martyr of the Clerical Party," the Opinion Na „ . tionate attributes, falsely, and in spite of "officious warnings," all the acts of government to influences which it calls clerical, and that in so doing it con tinues to distort the " liberal " intentions of the Emperor's government. M. Gneroult, after publishing this warning ac cording to law at the head of his front page.appends the following note : The Prance has within the last few days attacked the Opinion Nationale with extzeme violence, and has talked, in reference to um, of " mopeds, '93, and the scaffold." In presence of the severities of which we are now the object the Prance will excuse as for leaving its articles unanswered. Between the articles of the France and the warn_ ing (a second warning, by the way, which makes it the more serious) to the Opinion Nationale there is no doubt the connexion which M. Oneroult sees. I noticed on Saturday the curious mixture of res- pectful alarm in the hostility of the France to the Opinion Nationale. It was patent that the France, knowing that the latter journal was protected by the Prince Napoleon, felt uneasy leer the prince's influence should bear it harmless. The yuenouille party at the Tuileries has now gained a victory, but not so complete a one as it would wish. The warn ing, upon the principle of the proverb, " L'hypo crisie est l'bommage que le vice rend it la vertu," is obliged to profess " liberal " intentions, and to ignore any such thing as "clerical influences." I think M. de Persigny'e band may be seen iu this wording. The Moniteur, contradicting the statement of an " evening journal," that IL E. Angiers's new play, Le File de Giboyer, was first prohibited by the censure and then authorised by the Emperor personally, says that the "double assertion is desti tute of foundation, the piece never having been prohibited, and his Majesty not having in any way interfered about it." M. Gueroult, on behalf of the Opinion Nationale, which is the journal referred to, says he hopes to be able to give some explanation of the mistake. The Le File de Giboyer is the most piquant poli tical play that has appeared for many years. It is a bitter satire upon the legitimist and clerical party. M. L. Veuillot is unmistakably shown up under the name of Deodat. The success of the piece is immense. The Temps mentions a report that with a view to extinguish all rivalry with regard to the throne of Greece, the three protecting powers have agreed to recommend a Prussian prince. The royal family of Prussia, it is observed, has the unique advan tage of being on equally good terms with France, England, and Russia, and of having no special in . ..... tereats in the East. It seems that in 1832 France suggested the election of a Prussian prince, but the idea was not proceeded with. There are some reasons for thinking, says the Temps, that the son of Prince Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, late Presi dent of the Council at Berlin, is the candidate selected by the three powers. I find no confirmation of the above news in any other quarter; but I do observe in the govern ment prints an expression of an anxious desire that universal suffrage in Greece should be "guided" by a diplomatic agreement. lam therefore inclined to think that the plan broached by the Temps is the latest mameuvre of France ; but I do not think any agreement on the subject baa been come to. _ _ The France, so far from echoing the news of the Tempe, says that as soon as Prince Alfred shall have been elected and the English cabinet shall have intimated his non-acceptance, another can didate will be brought forward whose name is "at present secret between London and Athens." The France gives news from Mexico by the Spa nish vessel Pinta, which left Havannah on Nov. 15. General Berthier, who it will be remembered was at Puente Nationale on Nov. 1, had got as far as a place called El-Encero, at a date which is not stated. The France admits that his march was going on " slowly," but says that the troops were healthy and in good order, and that it was " hoped" they would be in Jalapa towards November Bor 10. There they were to halt six days, to wait for reinforcements which left Vera Cruz on Oct. 25 (sic) to join them. There is an evident mistake about the time when these reinforcements left. October 25 was the day when General Berthier himself quitted Vera Cruz at the head of the column, which, as already stated, was only able to perform about three miles a day dur ing the week which it took to reach Puente Na tionale. The present letters go on to say that after leaving Jalapa General Berthier's orders were to proceed to Amozoc, a large town about six kilo metres from Puebla, where he would effect a junc tion with General Forey, expected there from Ori zaba early in December. The following is a translation of the Emperor's speech on Sunday, from the 3fcmiteur M. le Prffet and Gentlemen of the Municipal Council, — It was my desire to preside over the inauguration of this new Boulevard, in order to have an opportunity of thanking you for your untiring devotedness to the interests of this great city. To transform the capital and increase its grandeur is not merely to build more houses than are pulled down, and to furnish employment to a number of different trades ; s, in addition, to introduce everywhere habits of order and the love of the beautiful. These spacious streets, these architectural houses, these public gardens, these monument& of art, refine taste while they promote welfare. And those who reflect that as you carry forward these vast works you equally develop public assistance and multiply religious edifices and buildings destined to education, will admit that you deserve infinite praise for doing so much good, without compromising in anywise the prosperous state of the finances of the City. My constant anxiety, as you know, is to find a mama of remedying the temporary slackness of employment, and to make the labouring climes comfortable. The question of the supply of food has lately much engaged my attention. The recent discussion in the Council of State will have for one of its consequences the introduction of some useful reforms in the arrangements for the supply of bread. I have re solved to preserve, subject to some changes, the system of compensation, and to establish either the (axe offictelle or the !axe offieieuse according to local circums tames. I have also to thank you for the assistance which you have always lent to a work which owes its origin to the Empress, and which, placing capital within the reach of honest and indus trious &Aiwa, belies the old proverb, that " only the rich OW borrow." If, as I hope, this institution shall grow, it will be consoling to think that a good character is in truth property, with its advantages and guarantees. The works of peace become more pleasing as they are as sociated with the glorious recollections of our history. Thus it has been my wish that the new Boulevard which passes through oos of the faubourge most iohabited by the indus trious classes should bear the name of Prince Eughe, that enfant de Paris, who was orderly officer to General Hoch, at the age of fourteen, who was one of the heroes of the retreat from RAM* and who, rather than abandon France and the Emperor, refused the crown of Italy, which was offered to him by the Allied Sovereigns. I cannot nay how much I have been touched by that spontaneous movement of the population which gave the name of my Mother to one of the neighbouring Boulevards, but I cannot accept that designation. My family must not monopolise the names to be inscribed on marble. That dlstinetios belongs to all who have rendered services to the angry. The new road which is now to replace the St. Bodes Curl will thereiore ismostorth be called the Richard beekeir Boulevard. Although the name of Richard Lenoir is already borne by a small skeet, I desire to reader more conspicuous the name of a man who, from being a simple workman of the Fau bourg Rh Antoine, became one of the first manufacturers in France ; who was decorated by the Emperor for the immense progress which the cotton manufacture owed to him, and who employed a fortune nobly won to sustain his workmen in times of distress, and arm them when a foreign invasion was to be repelled. Let us occupy ourselves then with all that may ameliorate and improve the material, and raise the meref, condition of the people. Let us keep constantly before its eyes a noble end to be attained, and the example of those who have conquered wealth by industry, esteem by probity, and glory by courage. AMERICA. THE NEW YORK PRESS ON EUROPEAN MEDIATION. LIVERPOOL, TIIIKIDAT._ The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Captain Moodie, which left Boston on the 26th, Halifax on the night of the 27th, and was intercepted off Cape Race on the 29th ult., arrived in the Mersey about two this morning. NEW YORK, Nov. 25. The steamship Arabia was intercepted off Cape Race yesterday, and the news of the dissent of t►e English cabinet from the French proposal for mediation was obtained. The New York journals contain but few com ments this morning on the subject. The New York Herald has the following : The Arabia, off Cape Race, with a week's later news, brings some important intelligence—not important because it is absolutely new—but because it now bean an official stamp and seal. Napoleon has actually taken John Bull by the horns and proposed mediation in American affairs. He seeks the cooperation of Russia and England in a tripartite alliance to heal the difficulties in this country by gently patting both parties on the back with soft words. Accord ing to the official papers now laid before the world, England has emphatically refused to join the alliance, and correctly doubts if Russia will have a hand in the matter. She pre. fere her neutrality with the hope that the North and South will finally succeed in destroying themselves, when she can step in and gather up the pieces for her own aggrandisement and power. Thus the matter stood on Nov. 16. It is clearly mani fest from these developments that intervention never had any strength in Europe, and the recent conclusions of the rebel journals in regard to European recognition appear to have been based upon correct information. This news, of course, banishes in the South all hopes of foreign aid and comfort. It will be of service to the rebels. It will show them the folly of persisting in their rebellion. It must con. visce them that unaided they cannot withstand the over whelming power of the loyal states. Let this lemon from the three great powers, bitter as it may be to the Southern leaders, have its intluenceorith the people of the seceded states. They may now abandon all hope of outside sasist atlee. _ _ --- Whatever view we may take of the conduct and policy of Napoleon on this great question, we are indebted to him for being the means of setting at rest, officially and de cidedly, the idea that had possession of many minds, that the leading powers of Europe would interfere in our do medic affairs, and thus destroy us as a nation. Although we are indebted to the Emperor for demolishing this silly notion, yet we really owe our safety to our enormous re sources and their wonderful development in our improvised iron-clad navy and our gallant army in the field. The New York Times says : The most important piece of news which bas reached us from Europa the present year is that brought by the Arable, and telegraphed off Cape Race lest night, in relation to the proposed mediation of France and England in the Ame rican quarreL It is at least verified that the French Em peror has seriously meditated intervention, and has actually proposed to the English government a joint offer of mediation to stop the American war. The fact that it is Minister Drouyn de Lhuys so recently taking his place in the Emperor's cabinet that initiates this movement is significant—almost sinister—as indicating the willingeess of the French government to interpose its influence to stop the war at a moment when all the advantages in a military aspect are in favour of the Union—when its armies are largest and most efficient, and prepared to give the finish ing blow to the rebellion. This disclosure is not in ac eardrum with concurrent testimony from France during the war and up to the present tints. We had been led very generally to believe that no government in Europe was more firmly fixed in the views of the utter impolicy of meddling with the American rebellion than that of the French. The divulgement at last of the consultations that have I taken place between the governments of England, France, and ROODS, in regard to American affairs, will be beneficial to all parties concerned, and we suppose we on this side of the water are most deeply concerned of any. It will give a definiteness to American policy that will leave the govern ments of Europe no room to doubt what will be the result when they shape and indicate their own course. Whatever is done or said hereafter will be done and said with a distinct understanding of the very grave interests involved. The proposition of the French Emperor, it seems, was to unite with England in an offer of friendly mediation in the American quarrel. We were to be asked perhaps to sub mit to their judgment the question whether the seceded states should be recognised as an independent government or not. In view of the fact that English ministers hold the opinion that the American Union is a nuisance which ought to be abated, the nature of their ballot on our destiny if once placed in their bands will not be doubted, while the offer of the South to both England and France of per fect free trade on the recognition of its independence would hardly leave the latter an wholly disinterested umpire. The reply of Earl Russell to the circular of M.Drouyn de Lhuys discloses more than et first strikes one. He declines to join the French government in the proposed mediation, first because he believes there are as yet no signs that it would be received by the United States government with favour ; but secondly (and it seems to as mainly), because that, up to the present time the Russian government had not agreed to co-operate, although it may support the en deavours of England and France." We do not wish to suspect the English government of malevolence towards us verging to unfriendly demonetise tioes, but we do not like that phrase in regard to Russia. If it is " moral suasion" only that England was contem plating, in what respect was the abuses of the " active co-operation " of Russia a baulk to mediation, provided that power " supportA the (moral) endeavour" of France and England? Was there anything cootemplated in the contingency of the utter rejection of mediation that ren dered the " active co-operation" of Russia a desirable thing to have! There will be a long train of conjectures and speculations suggested by this exposure of European diplomacy. It Was not without a reason it is given to the world. What the reason and purpose is we will not attempt here to dis cover, but earnestly hope the progress of the national arms will not give occasion to a revival of the consultation now temporarily dismissed, or suspended we had better say, by Earl Russell. The President has issued the following order : Executive ilitosioe, Nov. 13. Ordered by the President of the United States, that the Attorney.geoeral be charged with the superintendence and direction of all proceedings to be had under the vet of Con gress of 17th July, 1962, entitled "An act to suppress in surrection, punish treason and rebellion, seize and confis cate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," in so far as may concern the seizure, prosecution, and con. demnation of the estate, property, and effects of rebels and traitors, as mentioned and provided for in ' the sth. 6th, and 7th sections of the s►id act of Congress; and the Attorney. General is authorised and required to give to the attorneys and marshals of the United States such instructions and directions as he may find needful, and touching all seizures, prosecutions, and condemnation ; and, moreover, to authorise all such attorneys and marshals, whenever there may be reasonable ground to fear any forcible resistance to the act in the discharge of their respective duties in this behalf, to call upon any military offioer In I command of the forces of the United States to give them such aid, protection, and support, as may be necessary to enable them safely and efficiently to discharge their re spective duties ; and all such commanding officers are re quired promptly to obey such call, and to render the nee's miry service as far as may be in their power, consistently with their other duties. (Sigped) ABEAULI LINCOLN. By the Prisident. The War Department has hawed the following order relating to the discharge of arrests : War Department, Washington, Nov. n Ordered : First,—That all persons now in military cus tody, who have been arrested for discouraging volunteer enlistments, opposing the draft., or for otherwise giving aid and comfort to the enemy, in states where the draft has been made or the quota of volunteers and militia has bees furnished, shall be discharged from further military restraint. Second,—That persona who, by authority of the military commanders or governors in rebel stake, have been arrested and sent from such statee for disloyalty or hostility to the government of the United States, and are now io military custody, may also be discharged upon giving their paroleto do no add hostility against the government of the United States, nor render aid to its enemies ; bat such per son shall remain 'abject to military surveillance and liable to arrest on breach of their parole ; and if any such pence/ shall prefer to leave the loyal states on condition of their not returning again daring the war, or until special leave far that purpose be obtained from t he President, then such person shall, at his option, be released, and depart from the United States, or be conveyed beyond the military hoes of the United States foram This order shall not operate to discharge any L person who has been in arms against the government, or by force and arms has resisted or attempted to resist the draft, nor re lieve any person from liability to trial and punishment by civil tribunals, or by conrt.martials or military commis sion', who may be amenable to such tribunals for offeuoer committed. By order of the Secretary of War, E 11. Towatumn, AISWIMS AdjutardrereceraL THREAT OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. The following is the order which has been issued by President Davis relative to the reported massacre at Palmyra : isocutivo Offboo, Mohamed, Nov. 17. General,—Enclosed you will fled • slip from the Memphis Daily Appeal, of the 3rd inst., containing an account, put. porting to be desired from the Palmyra (Missouri) Counsc, • Federal journal, of the murder of ten Confederate citizens of Miesouri, by order of General M'Neil, of the United States army. You will communicate by flag of truce with the Federal aim commanding that department, and ascertain if the facts are as stated. If they be so, you will demand the im mediate surrender of General M'Neil to the Confederate authorities, and if this demand is not complied with, you will inform the said commanding officer that you are ordered to execute the first ten United States officers who may be captured and fall into your hands.—Very respectfully yours, JurritooN Lienteeant-General T. J. Holmes, =mending Trane-Hiesiesippi Department FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Yesterday, shortly before 11 o'clock, an explo sion of fire-damp took place at the Edmund's Main Colliery, - between Sheffield and Barnsley, which it is to be feared will be attended with a very shocking lose of life • indeed, since the ter rible catastrophe at Lund.hill, in 1857, nothing ap wently so calamitous has occurred in this district. The colliery, which is about 180 yards deep, and in ' which the Barnsley bed of coal is principally worked, has been hitherto nearly free from acci dent involving the loss of life the proprietors, Messrs. Bartholomew, Tyas, Mitchell, and Co., having adopted every means for the safety of the men. At the time stated the men in the pit, num bering close upon 300, were startled by an explo sion of firedamp, which caused those men near the pit bottom to at once rush thither for safety ; those in the advanced levels, some 1,400 to 1,600 yards distant, were unable to reach there in consequence of the gas. The men at the top were soon made acquainted with the state of affairs by the quantity of coal and rubbish thrown up out of the cupola by the explosion. As sistance was promptly obtained, and as the news reached the other collieries in the neighbourhood the meu at once ceased working and rushed to the scene of the catastrophe. Numbers volun teered to descend and rescue, if possible, the men below. In this they were so far successful that in a short time some 40 or 50 were brought to the pit mouth, about 20 of whom were severely burnt, one man, Davy, dying on reaching his home. Another poor fellow, nearly 60 years of age, named Pickery, was dreadfully burnt, and in his agony called out for help, praying fervently that God would give him strength to see his poor family again. Mr. Walton, of Dailey Main, was among those who first went down, and was brought up all but insensible. He informed our reporter that he heard the men above where he was praying de voutly. Lawton, the bottom steward, also went down, and was obliged to be left by the party he went with, having evidently penetrated too far into the workings and been overcome by the sulphur. Shortly after 2 o'clock it was announced that nothing more could be done until bratticing was fixed and the air course was cleared. The number of men iu the pit is variously esti , mated, the lowest being that considerably mere than 100 remain to be recovered, and in what state it is easy to imagine. i Most of the medical men of the district are present, and the scene on the pit hill is most I agonizing. (ay umserw ?luaus's.) An investigation made by several mining engineers has shown that there is no hope of rescuing the men. It is supposed that M least from 40 to 50 are in the pit. Preparations have been made to let the water from the canal flow into the pit so as to ex tinguish the flames. Among the victims are Mr. Lawton, the steward, and his son, and Mr. Hoy land, of Darley Main, a volunteer who was ever foremost in endeavouring to rescue the li of those endangered by similar catastrophes in ves the district. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. (BE ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL nutatArttl WORSBOROUOB DALE, XONDAT, 11 P.S. An explosion occurred to-day at the 'Edmund's Main Colliery, between Sheffield and Barnsley. In working the coal a shot was fired at 7 a.m., and lighted an issue of gas which ignited the coal. The ventilation was damaged, but the woo, 250 in number, remained at work. A violent explosion occurred at 11 o'clock, and many of the miners left the pit. A second explosion occurred at 1 p.m. From 50 to 60 men were then in the pit. All efforts to reach them have failed, and all have no doubt perished. The pit is on fire, and preparations are being made to flood it with water. DEATH OF W. G. K. GRarwirKE, Esq.—This gentleman, whose death has just taken place at Augmering, early evinced a strong predilection for turf sports, and?' each year the Goodwood week came round, the noble comas would entertain the most distinguished of his turf friends at Ilam. His first great income in racing was in 1825, when he won the Derby with Frederick. Some of his greatest surceases since are—a second Derby, in 1845, with Meny Mantels ; three Newmarket Handicaps, with Cheerful, with Mesas Homburg. and with Ebony ; the Cambridgeshire with Landgrave ; the One Thousand and the Oaks with Governess, and the Stewards' Cup with Maid of Kent. THE NIGHTINGALE FUND.—The income of flirt fund is devoted to two objects—first, the training of hos pital nurses. This plan has been in successful operate! , for upwards of two years at St. Thomas's Hospital, and still continued at the temporary hospital in the Surrey , gardens. Trained nurses have been supplied to several provincial hospitals and workhouse infirmaries. Secondly, the training of midwifery nurses for the poor. This scheme has been recently commenced at King's college Hospital, under the direction of the Lady Superintendent of St. John's House. It is believed that the want a deeply felt of women properly qualified to attend the wives of the poor in their confinements, and to take charge of the infants. As a rule, the persons so employed are greatly deficient In skilful training, and it is hoped that those who take an active interest in the welfare of their poorer neighbours will be induced to select and send proper person's to be trained, with the view to their being Pulmoqueutlf employed in their immediate locality, under the directioo of the clergy and medical man. With ref ereoce to both plow, it should be observed that the number midsr training is necessarily very limited. The regulation* for the admis sioe of candidates ray be bad on application to the secre tary, Mr. IL Boubam Carter, 11, Lombard street, E.C. I' 1 1 P