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Fog 'I he last few weeks the interest felt here in the new s from America has been concentrated upon the elegy Aeons in the various Northern States, the issue ( A which, it was rightly judged, must be of far ore importance than that of any military battle that was likely to be fought. We now know the g eneral result of the last series of these contests. In t 1 ,e State of New York the Democratic party has ,btsined a great success. They have elected nine teem out of the thirty-one candidates which the State sends to the Congress. They have also air nee the election of Mr. SEYMOUR, their can did ate for the governorship of the State, by a nu 4jorrty estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000. Fina the other States oar intelligence is less com p] see. New Jersey, we are told, has adopted the L *ntecratic " ticket." This result was expected. ho the other hand we learn that the important ;tate of Michigan, which sends thirteen members t o Congress, has elected the Republican candidates, t and Governor ANDREWS has been re-elected for Massachusetts. It must be admitted that these successes of the Democratic party in the North reveal a strength which until lately was not suspected, and which probably its members themselves did not suspect. .At the same time, they introduce an element of rnneertainty and weakness into the course of ',American affairs, which may well justify ns in speaking of their consequences with some reserve. 'The triumph of the Democratic party has been %strongly desired by some among us upon assump tions which appear to us to be not only without warrant, but to be contrary to ascertained facts —on the assumption that the Democratic party is a party which, arrived at power, would speedily make peace by acknowledging the independence of the South. That is an opinion for which no sanc tion whatever can be derived either from the history of the party or from the character and professions of its leaders. There is indeed a very importent sense in which it rosy be called a peace party, but the peace which it desires is one at which every liberal mind revolts. The unchanging watchword of the Democratic party in the recent elections has been, "The Constitution as it is, and the Union as it was." The preservation of the Union is the chief end and object alike of De mocratic and Republican policy. The difference between them was in respect only of the means of obtaining it. The Republicans said, by the election of Mr. LINCOLN, that slavery which was dividing and ruining the Republic must be allowed to spread no farther. Since his election the same party have employed the means at their disposal to break the power of the institution. Its leaders have never dealt with slavery except on the understanding that it is an evil to be abated, mitigated, and, as soon as possible, cast out from the land. The Democratic party at the North have said to them with simple indignation— " This slavery difficulty is one of your own " making; there isno irrepressible contl ict' between " freedom and negro slavery, apart from your Lana " ticistn. If you would only leave off preaching and " writing against the institution, and loyally give " back the fugitive negro to the muter when he " escapes, the North and South might live togs " ther again in peace." ',Nor is this merely a Northern idea. President Dixie may be of the opinion of another great Seceder, and say, " Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." but the potentate to whom this preference has been assigned would never have refused to reign in the better place. When we are told from Richmond that " the South is glad to have done for ever " with the despised and damned Yankees," it is the North pursuing an anti-slavery policy which is intended. With a North governed by the Democratic party, and giving guarantees against further action against slavery, the South might again enter into Federal relations. THE pleasure of being brought face to face with a thoroughly bad article is seldom appre ciated as it ought to be. There is a mediocrity which is neither loved by gods nor men ; but first-rate badness is infinitely superior to this. Perfection is a very good and enjoyable thing in its way, but excellent imperfection is sometimes better and more enjoyable. The man is to be envied who sits down in a dingy, comfortless tavern—a tavern that may possibly be working under the inspection of sheriff's officers—who orders the worst chop in all England ; who is THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1862. served by the worst waiter in all England, or pro bably in the world ; and who Nola that nothing can equal the badness of the whole luncheon. erOUrt. WINDSOR CABTLI. Nov. 16. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alexandra, Prince.' Louis of Hone, and Primes@ Helena, walked and drove in the Home•park this morning. Lord Charles Fitzroy, Equerry in waiting to her Majesty, was in attendance. Prince Louis of Mese rode on horseback, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. I). de E. Nov. 16. Her Majesty, Princess Alexandra, Prince and Princes. Louis of Hare, Princes. Helena, Prince*. Louise, and Prince Leopold, attended Divine Service in the private chapel this morning. The Hoe. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. A deputation to the Right Hoc. T. Milner Gibson of the following gentlemen interested in submarine telegraphic communications between Great Britain and America bad an interview with the President of the Board of Trade on Saturday. The deputation consisted of Sir J. D. Hay, Bart., M.P., Sir W. Wiseman, Bart., Rear-Admiral George Elliot, W. Vivian, Beg., W. H. Smith, Esq., Captain Rowett, and Mr. Francis Edwards, solicitor. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday, and heard a petition for a prolongation of Goucher's patent for thrashing machines. The lords pre sent were Lord Chelmsford and the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Mends. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, Bermuda, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and to the Governors of the North American provinces. THE LISTLESS IN LANCASHIRE. MEETING IN &F. MARTIN'S.INTHE-FIELDS. (THIS DAY.) This morning a public meeting of the parish_ loners of St. MArtin's-in-tlie-Fields was held at the Vestry hall, the Rev. G. W. HUMPLIERY (the vicar) presiding, to take into consideration the best mesons to be adopted, in ocroperstion with the general effort now being made, for the relief of the distress which presses so heavily on their fellow countrymen in the manufacturing districts. The CHANCELIAMI of the EXCLINITKR, in moving the first resolution, was most warmly received by the meeting. He said that as a parishioner of fit. Martin's-in-the• Fields, be at all times felt a great pleasure in co-operating in the philanthropic efforts of his fellow parishioners, but more especially did he do so on the present occasion, when he appeared before them not only as an inhabitant of their parish, but also as a representative to some extent of their afflicted countrymen in Lancaahire. He was himself a native of Lancashire, and he was also con nected; with that great county by property, being the pro prietor of a small estate near Liverpool. He was, however, but as one of the small fry of the territorial owners of the soil, but still he could, he thought, speak for them, and also for the great employers of labour there. There was, he was sorry to say, an impression abroad that those of whom he spoke had not done all they might have done to relieve the s uffering of their neighbours. Now, whenever there was an angry feeling of that kind producing an ulcerous sore in the public mind the usual custom in this free and happy country of England was not to shut it up until it festered, but to bring it to the light of day, and let the fresh air of public opinion play upon it and heal it. (Hear, hear.) There scald be no doubt that such a calamity as that which at present prevailed in Lancashire ought to be regarded as a national affliction to be met by a 'miaow' effort. There was no doubt a general responsibility thrown upon the people at large in this matter, but there were also particular responsibilities resting upon those in the immediate neigh ' bourhoods of the distress, and shame would it be to Ragland, and shame above ►ll to the county of Lancashire, if those responsibilities were thrown snide, and if no efforts were made to relieve those who were now patiently suffering under great aftlic- Coo. The landowners of Lancaahire, whose property had increased tenfold in value by the growth of the cot ton manufacture, ought to be earliest in their efforts to relieve the want' of those by whom they were surrounded. In Liverpool, too, there was a class of gentlemen who were by the importation and sale of cotton reaping large fortunes from the continu ance of the cotton famine, and they ought liberally to come forward to the assistance of those who suffered by it. Meer, hear.) Again, the milloweers ought to be earnest in the same comae, but a subscription list was not their place. Indeed, he thought their names ought not to appear upon it. He would explain what he meant. Some of them had at an immense loss kept their mills at work sooner than deprive their workmen of employment, and he knew of one house in Glasgow which, although it had closed its mill, yet, at the expenditure of 13,C031. per annum, continued to give to those who had been in their employment half the rate of wages they used to earn. He had no doubt that several other houses acted in a similar manner, and therefore it would be idle for such people to put their names upon • subscrip tion list. He mentioned this merely to show that the public, because they did not see the great Lancashire houses joining in the general subscription, ought not there fore to come to the conclusion that they did not sympathise with the sufferers, and were not actively and energeti cally engaged in ministering to the relief of this noble population. (Hear, hear.) It was • noble popu lation, and when he rid that he should not be considered as Battering those poor persons, for to peo ple in their dejected condition flattery was inapplicable, but surely there was never • grander spectacle than they bad now for some time since presented to the world, and the ex ample which, as had been truly said by the vicar, they afforded to the labouring population in London and elsewhere. It was an unprecedented sight to see such large masses of men so severely visited, who, conscious of their own physical power, had yet never as • body or even in scattered knots, uttered a single murmur of complaint. This resignation to the affliction which beset them truly entitled them to the sympathies of their countrymen. It was, too, a moving sight to witness the deep feeling of religion by which they were actuated as exhibited in their meeting together not to noise forth their complaints, but to sing hymns to the praise of God. Pro tected by that High Power, and supported by the sympathies of their countrymen, they would, he hoped, be able to surmount their present affliction and prove themselves as loyal to their sovereign and as use ful to their country as they had hitherto been. The right hon. gentleman concluded by moving • resolution to the effect that the meeting united in expressing its sympathy at the distress of the Lancashire operatives and its admira tion of the patience and fortitude with which they had hitherto sustained it. Colonel HARCOURT seconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted. A committee was then appointed to collect subscriptions from the parishioners, as their parochial contributions to the rerief fund, and the proceedings terminated in the usual manner. Every shortcoming is a source of satisfaction and amusement The absence of the commonest condiments produces a thrill of delight ; the com monest questions become pleasant probes which spy out the nakedness of the land ; the paper, a month old, is read with a strange unearthly inte- rest ; and when the bill, always extravagant, is paid, the payer almost wishes it could be more extravagant. The same satisfaction is felt in sitting down with one of the worst books ever written, or in gazing at one of the worst picture. ever painted. A feeling of pity steals over the reader or the spectator for those unhappy fellow-creatures who have no opportunity of enjoying so much excellent badness. The treasures of the richest libraries, of the noblest galleries, sink into insignificance by the side of these two thoroughly bad productions. The book is bought up, and becomes rarer than a certain notorious essay by JOHN WILKES, or a folio edition of SHAHESPLKZ. The picture is carried off by some rich and happy capitalist to be gloated over in secret, or to become a joy for ever to a particular family. The worst servants, the worst landlords, the worst architects, the worst vestry, the worst member of parliament, and a hundred other bad things, may all be invaluable agents in promoting the pleasures of life. It all depends upon the temper in which they are looked at. If those who are largely dependent upon such agents can school themselves into caring very little for their services, and can watch them philosophically, as the movements of insects are watched in a micro scope, then their bad qualities, bcought out in work and action, become more amusing than a play, and irritation is changed into quiet applause. Any attempt to improve such agents, after they are regarded in this mood, is almost resented as an impertinence. The reformers are sometimes looked upon u dangerous innovators, anxious to meddle with matters which they cannot under stand, and shake the foundations of society. Things once abused as nuisances soon mellow into institu tions in a conservative country, and any attempt to supplant them only meets with coldness and suspicion. There is one supremely bad thing—worse even than bad lodgings, or bad boots—whose existence is threatened at the present moment : we allude to the London cab. After a stormy reign of nearly a quarter of a century, this dear old stuffy institu tion is threatened with extinction. There can be no question about its badness—a badness that we are inclined to father upon our legislation—there can be no question about the fleas which it has nourished, about the discomfort which it has caused to riders, about the disgraceful figure which it has cut in the eyes of foreign and provincial visitors. Its warmest friends will hardly contend that in its four-wheeled shape it has given the public a seat upon which any man, woman, or child could sit at ease, or a window which would keep out wind and rain, and ventilate the creaking, jolting box at the same time. No one can say that in its " Hansom" shape it has furnished a vehicle which could be entered without danger, or sweeping the mud off the wheels, or whose bending, clattering window could be ordered down in rough weather without the fear of a broken nose. No one can say that it was ever built to carry the two persons of average size named in its license, or that it has not been as destructive to hats as theatres or churches. These are defects which are candidly admitted on all sides without tiny desire to grumble, and yet the institution or nuisance (call it by what name we will) is not taunted about its threatened destruction. Two Joint-Stock Compa nies are in the field, rich in all the machinety of combined enterprise and the promises of amiable prospectuses, who sound the death-knell of the London cab when they announce a supply of superior hack conveyances. These Companies are started for the professed purpose of giving us better horses and vehicles for the same money, and yet we scarcely welcome them. We are not averse to improvement in cabs, we have no objec tion to use a brougham at sixpence a mile instead of an egg-chest upon wheels ; but the promoters of these Companies will pardon us if we are suspicious for a reason. We cannot forget the promises which ushered in the General Omnibus Company about ' seven years ago, and the very scanty performance which has followed upon those promises. The French system of " correspondence" has not been imported, the improved vehicles have been very few and far between, several wholesome attempts at competition have been " nursed " off the road, and the few advanced Exhibition omni buses introduced from Manchester have been bought up with rather suspicious avidity. The Cab Companies may keep better faith with the public than the great Omnibus Company has done, and, in spite of the existing absurd legal restrictions on cabs, may be able to make good service run on all fours with good dividends. The proof of the pudding, however, to use a homely phrase, will be iu the eating. The buying up of the present ricketty stock, and the gloss of a few coats of paint and varnish, will hardly be consi dered a reform by the cab-hiring public. The new Cab Companies must do more than this, which is nearly all that the Omnibus Company did, if they wish to obtain an enlarged support for their venture. The faults of our four-wheeled and Hansom cabs lie deeper than the travel-stains on their battered sides ; they are radical errors of construction. The Cab Companies must give us more room and better springs for our money, to say nothing about less exhausted horses. They must place London, which is jocularly called the first city in the world, upon a level with our provincial towns in public vehicles. Man chester, Liverpool, and even distant Aberdeen, have better cabs than the Metropolis, and it re mains to be seen whether the new Cab Companies will relieve us from this subordinate position. Where we ought to lead we can only follow, but, by all means, let us follow as quickly as possible. Our population is large enough, our distances are long enough, and our tastes are luxurious enough to pay any one who will accede to our wishes. We shall part with the old London cab, if the sepa ration is ordained, with tender regret, and as admiration fostered by its exceeding badness ; but we shall welcome its successor with hope and en thusiasm. One thing alone will check this en thtudasm—the probable mediocrity of the new vehicles. We are sick of half-measures in carriage reform. If the new cabs are not to be new, if they are not to be either supremely bad or supremely good, they had better be strangled is their birth. OFFICIAL Arrourruirrre.—The Duke of Argyle bas base appointed Lamb Lieutenant of Arty!rehire in the roam of the Marquis of Breadsthane. We believe that Mr. Ifeary Austin Bruce, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil, =C ooed Mr. Gearw Clive as andernearetary of state. Mr. Bram wee e.il.d to the bar in 1837. The lbw. A. P. Ckameger has bees appointed ineasibent of the new dis trict of St. Thema% Apr-tows. The Quells ben bees pleased to append Weary Astbary Lemma, Eaq., to be colonial eseretary for be. Majesty's seidemmt Imps • and Charles Plare, Esq., to be superintendent of convistri for the colony of the Cape of (rood Ilope.—Observer. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. It is stated in letters from Berlin that 42 Polish officers of the Russian army have berm con demned to run the gauntlet. The Pari's Preset remarks that even in the days of the Emperor Nicholas officers were exempt from Vain punish ment. "Has it been reserved to t h is reign of his successor, reputed to be liberal and meaning,to inaugurate this new kind of equality r Letters from Warsaw describe the funeral of the Countess Zamoyska as hriving had all the significance of a political demonstration. Leave to be present was peremptorily refused to the count, and the authorities even strove to have the burial take place in the middle of the night. The police and the Comaelts rode amongst the crowd, striking blows right and left., and making several arrests. The chief of the police is mentioned as having been conspicuous in this work. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) INDIA. (VIA JubaL) CALCUTTA, Oct. 30. (via Gallo.) Shirtings quiet. Copper unchanged. Saltpetre firm. Exchange, Borings' credits, 2a. Cid. Govern ment securities—Four per Cents., 944 to 944; Five per Cents., 1042 to 106. Freights declining. CHINA. (Vii JubAL) CANTON, 0cr.14. Grey shirting% unchanged. Tea, total export to date, 52,000,000 lbs. Exchange on London, 4.7 j. SHANGHAI, Ocr. 7. Tea--Congon firm, but little doing. Silk firm. Settlements in fortnight, 1,500 bales. Export to date, 43,000 bales. Exchange on London, 6.3 f (?) Freighta lower. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. GOON OUR OWN COI PARIS, SUNDAY Eviarnto. I learn from a good source that M. Drouyn de Lhuys' despatch relative to the collective media tion in America was sent to St. Petersburg several days earlier than to London. This fact supplies an answer to the question which bag been asked— how is it that the English cabinet did not meet till Nov. 11, to consider the important proposal dated Oct. 30 1 The French government flattered itself that Russia would accede unconditionally to the suggestion of the Tuileries, and that this adhesion would weigh upon the decision of the cabinet of London. A comparison of dates shows that the refusal of the cabinet of St. Petersburg preceded that of the British cabinet. Prince Gortchakoff took the initiative. His determination was known as long ago as November 11, when the St. Petersburg Journal published the paragraph which I have more than once drawn an argument from. This refusal of the imperial govern ment of Russia has produced a feeling of vexation at Compikgne, which is the more poig nant because it was entirely unexpected. K Drouyn de Lhuys is visibly affected by the disap pointment. Although M. cle la Gueronniere, by way of a fiche de consolation, calls him an "eminent statesman," K Drouyn de Lhuys cannot blind himself to the fact that the ambitious step with which he inaugurated his return to office has been a complete failure. He had fancied that he was the man of all others able to establish a true entente cordiale between France and Russia. This event has removed the wales from his eyes. He might have remembered that at the Vienna Conferences in 1855, when he was hand and glove with the Count de Buol, he showed the cold shoulder to Prince Gortchakoff. The latter has a good memory for slights, and M. Drouyn de Lhuya will think twice before making another attempt to exercise influence over him. Since the disoovery of the Boulevard Prince Eugene plot, which every day assumes larger pro portions as facts creep out, the police service at Compiegne has been tripled. The most minute precautions have been taken. The famous Corsi can guard, which is always about the Emperor's person in plain clothes, is divided into three sections, and vratchesday and night without intermission. The Emperor has been advised to resume the coat of mail under his shirt, which he left off wearing i‘ 1859, on account of the great discomfort of it. In spite of all the efforts made to throw a veil over the real state of things, the guests are aware that the palace is swarming with spies, and there is in consequence much lees gaiety in the court society than there was last year. The Patric says that it was not at Compiegne, but at St. Cloud, that M. Slidell was received by the Emperor. The date of the audience was Octo ber 30. .-(THIS DAY.) 11. 8 LS. THE PRINCE OP WALES KEEPING HIS MAJORITY AT NAPLES. A letter from the Times' correspondent at Naples, dated the 9th, says :—" On Sunday the Prince of Wales attained his majority, and at 8 o'clock le the morning all I the British vessels of war dressed, except the Osborne, each meat of which, however, was surmounted by a cron a of evergreen'. No salutes were fired, the incognito of the prince being preserved, and an obvious respect being paid to the wishes and feelings of her Majesty. At 12 o'clock the princes and the Princess of Prussia honoured the London sad the Doris with a visit, and the usual pretty spectacle was presented of manning yards. A 'ter the retr -n of the prince to the Osborne salutes were fir: I as • matter of course. On Sunday afternoons our great promenade, the Villa Reale, is always crowded with a mixed company of persons whose occupations prevent them from enjoying themselves during the week, and it used to be the rule of the aristocratic • ignehile tralgua ' to ►b stain from breathing the same air with them. Our royal family must have other jdeas of infection, for in the after noon they mingled in the crowd, and walked up to the jetty, returning afterwards to the spot where the band plays, and occupying some of the many hundrod chi's which are placed there at two or three grani a head. An English lady who sat near, on seeing the princes, gave the master of the band a hint, and the Royal Anthem was struck up, but, unaccustomed cod unprepared, the per formers only got half way through it. Meantime the crowd formed in a half circle *round to gaze at royal princes who actually could condescend to walk and sit among them, and even pay for their sesta. In the evening there was • dinner on board the Osborne, which was given by the Prince of Preside, covers being kid for 2i. Be sides the Prince and Princess of Leiningen and the royal suite, Captain Chad', of the London, Captain Sir L. M'Clintock, of the Doris, General La Marmon, and Mr. Bonham and Mr. Stolti, the British sod Prussian consuls, had the honour of being invited. At the close of the dinner the health of her Majesty was given, and was received with much enthusiasm, and then General Koollys, ell the guests rising, proposed the health of the Prince of Wales. Briefly, but in a very feeling manner, he intimated that but for the great lam which the royal family and the nation bad sustained the prince would not have been here that evening, and then alluding to the great future which Jay before him, he pointed to and eulogised the bright ex ample of the deeply to be regretted Prince Albert. The princesses were much effected, and, as the guests raised their glasses to drink the toast, the Princess of Prase* who stood next to his royal highness, turned towards and kissed her brother. I fear to have committed an indelicacy in thus violating the privacy of the royal party, yet I am much mistaken in the character of the sons and daughters of old Engl►nd if they will not love their princes ell the more for those little touches of affection which unite them to us by the bonds of • common humanity. A rocket an nounced that the toast of the even , ng had been eraok, sod in a moment the London, the Doris, and the Magi cienne were blazing with blue lights ; they ran along the yards and peered out of the portholes, while rockets were sent up from each vessel, and the silence of the evening was broken by the cheers of the crews as they drank the health of the Prince of Wales." ELECTION OP LORD PALMERSTON AS LORD RECTOR OF GLASGOW. GLASGOW, SATURDAY. To-day the election of Lord Rector took place, within the college. The contest was of the keenest descrip tioo. The liberals nominated Lord Palmerston, and the eon eerrativee Lord Glencorse (the Lord Justice Clerk). The fol lowing was the state of the poll at the close :—Lord Pal merston, 556 ; Lord Judice Clerk, 474. Lord Palmerton has therefore been declared duly elected. On Saturday summonses were leaned from the Foreign-office, appointing a Cabinet Council to meat this dly at Lord Palmenton's official resklence in Downing street. The Counteas Bernetorff gave birth to a eon on Friday night, at the residence of the Prussian legation, on Carhop-house-terrace. Her ladyship and the infant are progressing favourably. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at Cambridge House, Count Pahlen, Maria Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Fail Gran ville, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and La ly Vic toria Ashley, Vissountees Jocelyn and the Hon. Miss Jocelyn, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Colonel the Hon. Strange and Mrs. Jocelyn, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, M.P., the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper. M.P., and Mrs. Cowper. Laier in the evening her ladyship received a small party. . . The Marquis de &dere, the newly-appointed secretary to the Preach Embassy, is daily expected at Albert-gate House from Paris. _ _ Lady Mary Hood was safely delivered of a eon on Friday at Comberlaad Lodge. - . The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood have retained to Beigrave-eqoare from visiting Lord and Lady Riven. The mortal remains of the late Marquis of Bread allisee attired at the family residence in Park-lane oa Fri day morning from Switzerland, where they will lie until Wednesday, when they will be removed to Scotland for in terment in the family vault. . There is no truth (says the Observer) in the ru moured retirement of Lord Elgin from the government of India. Lady Elgin left town on Saturday for Marseilles en route for India, to join her husband, the Governor-GeneraL The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has had Ain coctemplation to invite the Chancellor of the Exchequer to pay a visit to the town. At a meeting of the Glasgow University Court, the Rev. John Wad., D.D., has been unanimously elected to the professorship of divinity, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Bill. The christening of the eon of Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde is to take place in the course of the month. - ----- At a staghuut at Compibgne, last week, just when the deer started. the Emperor, who was in plain clothes, entered a light, four•wheeled carriage, while the Empress, the Prisms Anna Hurst, and Prince Joachim Murat, who were ea horseback, followed the hounds. After • rapid obese the stag threw itself into the Aline, bat, being alarmed by the cries of the persons assembled on the opposite bank, returned to land and again took to the forest. The dogs were for a time thrown off the amok but afterwards recovered it, and the deg was at lama come up with oa the banks of the river. it again plunged, but, unfortunately, was killed by a shot from. rifle, sad disappeared a the water. DZATII op ANDEZW VANCI, EFCI, Q.C.—lt is onr painful duty to mimosas the death of Andrew Vane*, Fag., Q.C., at Nu*, after • protracted illness, and while in the prime of life. He via brother to the bon. member far the city of Dublin, and, during • short portion of the ad ministration of Lord Derby, filled the office of law adviser at the Castle.—Dtsblis DISTRESS OP THE FRENCH OPERATIVES. Last year the Municipal Council of Rouen opened a subscription on behalf of the operatives thrown out of employ by the dearth of cotton, and the sum mimed amounted in a few days to nearly 250,000 fr. A new fund has just been opened by a committee presided over by • deputy of the legislator., and having the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce and the Tribunal of Commerce es Vioe-Preadenta. The most influential of the manufacturers of the lower Seine bays leaned a circular appealing to the benevolence of the French public. "The cotton of American production," says the circular, "is almost completely exhausted, and that which is by great exertions received from other parts of the globe is insufficient for the yenta of Europe, and is used with difficulty by the machinery of our country. The consequence is, therefore, that, from day to day, mills stop, labour ceases, sod want of work becomes generaL It is rain to the manufacturers and merchants, indeed ; but it is distress and famine for the workmen. Already more than 100,C&O unfortunate people are struck down by the crisis; shortly they will be 150,C00. Oa all sided, in the cities, in the villages, in the country districts, painful complaints are being heard, and the communes have come to their last resources. The small shopkeeper is at the end of his means and credit, and the master cannot continue an impossible labour." The committee announces that it will receive gifts of all kinds, and employ a portion of the funds for works of public utility, "in order," it is "to give the speediest possible satisfaction to the laborious habits of our workmen, in order to preserve for them that moral dignity which deserves the esteem of all, and in order to render fruitful for the country the sacri. floes which each imposed upon himself by coining to the aid of misfortune." Tait Suitt. Pox IN &ISM—There wee att ad ureed meeting of the Wilts Mutual Sheep Association on TThursd at the Town-ball, Devises, for receiving the report tithe chairman, Mr. George Brown, as to the result of theinaculatioa upon the lid Nov. inst., of the six ewes now in Mr. Hulbert's flock at Langley, and which had all been previously veconated. Four of them had then been eleven days with Mr. Hulbert's flock after the effects of vaccination had gone off, and the two others had been twenty days with Mr. Church's flock, and were then removed to Mr.Hulbert's flock, where they had boss four days without exhibiting any signs whatever of small-pox, although during the whole of that time smallpox MIN raging in both flocks to • fearful and virulent extent. The chairman stated that since the last meeting he had attended at Mr. Hulbert's with Mr. Parker, surgeon, Shrivenham, on Monday, the 3M beet, when, upon examination, all the vaccinated ewee appeared perfectly healthy, while the whole of Mr. Hulbert's flock were in a very bad state. The vacciaated ewes showed no symptoms whatever of small-pox, and indeed were the only heathy ones in the flock. Mr. Hulbert's sheep were then inspected, and a wetber directed to be caught which Mr. Hulbert considered to have passed through the disease of small-pox, and to have entirely recovered, but upon turning it up, its thhrhe were found covered with pustules in a confluent state. From this sheep Mr. Parker took lymph, and inoculated the whole of the six previously vacciasted ewes, and left them still with Mr. Hulbert's flock. Mr. Holbert at the same time eordia l / 7 expressed his concurrence he the steps now being takes by the association, and offered every facility in his power for fully tasting the ameliorating influence of vsecioa. NZ. 11,01111 also stated that he had received a letter, that mons* only, from Mr. Parker, stating that be had inspected the six sheep at Mr. Hulbert's, on Tuesday last, and found all of them affected by his inoculation, but under very different cir cumstances to those which had not been previously Taal- Dated ; but that at present he could not feu-nigh any report, en he must first re-visit the sheep, which he intended doing on Tuesday next, at which time he should be able to deter mice whether be should meet with secondary fever or not atter the rumination, and when be would endeavour to pre pare a clear state neat of the facts of the case with Tepid to the treatment and results. The meeting wee thins adjourned to that day fortnight. ARRIVAL. OF 'rids FIRST CAW* or PZZIIVIAA Guano roe Issymio.—We have the pleasure of announcing that the first cargo of 2,00fi tons of Peruvian guano im ported by Messrs. I. Thome" T. Boner, and Om, the ship Neptene"s Favourite, ham arrived ia the CMeasi. sad will be landed la the dome In Dahlia le the wens of a few day, and that farther arrivals for the depots is Waterford, Oork, Unrifled's, Galway Londonderry, and Belfast, may be shortly expented.—Wrekty Agricultural Review. WEATHER REPORT. 110SOLT. 1W IL D. W. W. X. C. LN. E. S. 11 Ana 13 :11 .. , — I - 1 , 114. r i. : 'I. i l . e t 'T MIS i LmDm Lama - 1 11211101 . —3O. 2 W. 8 7 1 - 1 ARDIIOI2IISII . 12 8.8.1. 1 6 m 6 012 2 Poitramm .13 4 3.E. 1 2 b - 1 Gamre.2 - 0.06 1 241.11/123 - - - - - - ausznTovi .l N. 5 1 b - 9.86 2 HOL‘muo .48 2 EN.? 4 1 17 - 1 LEV 1122601. Piame739 30.61 , 1 74.6 8 1 17 - 1 23112,511011 - 1 21.6110070 2 N.O. It 1 b - 1 1311127 .10. 3 N.E. I 5 e 6 0.10 6 WIT* .0111 26.44' , 2 N.E. I 1 b 1 0.06 3 P02121100111...10. 3 N.& 3 8 e - 3 Doe= 4 6 e - 4 1026011 1 6 N. 6 2 I I 0.01 - YAILMOVITI - 4 4052202462 K . 1! N. NW. 6 I e - 4 112121211 . . 2 LW. 11 1 6 - 3 11111J901.1112 - 2 1 0 202421& "6211256. WIDIINIDLY. TONIDAY. N.N.Z. to W.N.W., 80oTLAIlk moderato. fine. N. to K, Toriable, floe. Ino.olito. to W. sod S.W. — vs7tat;ie . , B. to K anA As next above. W. Curait. N.N.E. MULL. mode- a. W.INOLAND. light, vsztable, fine. As next above.l N.B. to 8.9.11., mode• rite, tine. An next above. rate, this. . KN.& t? 141. L, fresh ILI. INGLAND. to moderate. ' N.N.W. to NOLL, 1L Omirt. N. W. t N.Y. And 11. Z., fresh, Gm. moderate, Ow. Turin is crowded to exoess, and house acoommo dation is nowhere to be found. A letter from that city mays : —"Mr. Marsh, the American minister, an seconsplished and amiable gentleman, after running the round of the few vacant lodgings in the city, is off to Pegli, or some other place in the neighbourhood of Genoa, in the utter impossi bility of conveniently housing his family near the govern ment to which be is accredited. Sir Jamey Hudson, the highly-respected and imivernally•beloved English minister, has bele compelled to give op his splendid resideeos at the Palmas fhingiorgio, in Ambeewadorsk 'lnset, because his landlord wanted to pin him down to a nine years' Wee, and the eassethee friend of Italy thioks be may have to pack tip and be off to some mansion in the Como keg before one Math of that period is oat. And now winter in closing in, parliament is to he reepened, and more than 400 depatien, with above 200 seeetore, are wandering sheet the streets, carpet-bag in band, some of them with wife and children at their heels, and lanky are they who can get a third boor at LOOK (40(.) a mouth and who are able to afford it , EXECUTION OF ROBERT COOPER.-(THIS LAY.) The execution of Robert Cooper, who ens COll - at the list session of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of • young woman, named Anne J ane Burnham, by shooting her with a pistol, took place this morning, at 8 o'clock, at Newgate. The circumstances ander which the crime was committed will be fresh in the recolle :Bon of the public. The prisoner had cohabited with the deceased for considerable time, the ceremony of marriage having been previously gone through between them, but upon her discovering that the culprit had a wife living she refused reside with him any longer, and in • fit of desperation and pas sion he shot her. Notwithstanding the fact of his having destroyed her life, there appears to be no doubt that be entertained the deepest affection for the unhappy young woman, and he has never ceased to express his deep re morse at the crime ; he aocouncs for his conduct by saying that he was driven almost to frenzy, and that he did not know what he was doing at the time he committed the offence. He, however, declared on several occasions that it was not true, as stated by one of the isituesses at the trial, that he had shown three pistol bullet to her a considerable time before the murder was committed. He at the same time said that he only purchased the pistol on the day before the act was committed, in the Westminster-road, and that on the same day he bought the bullets and the gunpowder at another shop in Fleet-street, that he had no bullets in his possession until this time, and that be committed the offence under a sudden impulse. The prisoner, it has been already stated, served in two cavalry regiments. As he was a man of some education and in particular a very good penman, be speedily obtained the rank of corporal, and was for some time at the mili. tary school, to be trained as an army schoolmaster ; but it appeared that he deserted, and was branded as • deserter with the letter I). After he wee dismissed from the army he obtained • livelihood by his trade, which was that of a painter and grainer, and at which, it is said, he was very expert and able to earn good wages. Since his conviction he has conducted himself in the most becoming manner ; he was constantly engaged in apparently meet fervent prayer, and he paid the most earnest attention to the exhortations of the Rev. Mr. Davis, the chaplain of the gaol. During his confinement he has been visited by one of his brothers, the only relative he has in London. On Friday his child by the unhappy deceased was brought to the gaol by her grandmother. It is rather a singu la r coincidence that she attained her second year on the very day her unhappy parent died on the scaffold. The culprit went to bed on Sunday night about ten o'clock. It appears that he then slept soundly untilmt ' four when he got up and dressed himself, and self in reading the Bible until he was visited engaged Rev. Mr. Davis, with whom he continued in prayer for • con. siderable time. He acknowledged the justice of his sen tence, and expressed bin readiness to meet hisfate. Fors considerable time after his conviction the culprit exhibited • great deal of despondency, but as the fatal moment drew nearer his confidence and firmness appeared to increase, and be endured the fearful ordeal he had to pass through with firmness. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence and Mr. Sheriff Jones, accompanied by the nodersheriffs, Messrs. Mackrell and Farrar, arrived at the gaol shortly before eight o'clock, and they at once proceeded to the prees-room, accompanied by Mr. Jonas, the governor of Newgate, Mr. Humphreys, the chief warder, and other officials. After the culpi,t bad been pinioned, he prayed for a short time in a loud firm voice, and uttered • fervent request to the Almighty that he might be pardoned for the sins he had committed, and particularly for the heinous crime for which be was to suffer. He had previously handed a written paper to Mr. Sheriff Lawrence, but it appeared to be composed merely of religions matters, and it was not considered dna able that it should be made public. Just before d o'clock the mournful procession passed from the press room to the scaffold. Just as the culprit was about to go up the steps he turned round and shook bands with the sheriffs and thanked them for their kindness to him, and he then walked on to the scaffold with • firm step. The moment he was seen by the crowd there was a loud shout, and several persons were heard to call out " Where's the sweep ?" in allusion to the man Gardner, who had been respited, and • good many persons at the same time ex- Zeretheir belief that the greeter criminal of the two /aped. When the bolt was drawn the culprit ap peared to struggle convulsively fora few woods, and then all was over. After hanging the usual time the body was cut down and placed in a obeli, and in the coarse of t he day it wail buried in one of the passages of the gaol, by the id& of Catherine Wilson, the poisoner. The number of perm= present at the execution was not considerable, but there were a larger number of women among them than usual. THE ATTEMPTED _WIPE MURDER IN PAD. DINGTON. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY). This morning Dr. Lankester concluded, at the Middlesex Home of Detention, the adjourned inquiry it. sporting the Math of John Barclay, aged 40, who was under remand for an attempt to murder his wife by shoot. jog her while she was putting up the shutters to the win. dors of her shop in Paddington. The deceased, it will be remembered, was actuated in his attempt by motives of jealousy as weft as of auger at his wife's in tesitioo of remaining separate from him in consequence of his ill-treatment. The shot which he aimed akher took effect, bus fortunately not fatally, though it inflicted injuries of such a serious nature that the unfortunate woman wee only recently able to be discharged from the wards at St. liary's Hospital. It WAS stated to-day by some of hie friends that for the last six years he was not altogether in hie right senses, and his habits were iatempetate. He was under remand, end detained in custody until his wife WAS sulScieutly recovered to be able to appear to give miasmas against him. There were, it appeared, some wounds or scratches visible on the body of the deceased man, and the evideece taken to-day was principally to show that those injuries did not arm from neglect or ill-usage while in the House of De. Motion. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died from pyemia, arising during rheumatic fever. THE ALLEGED NEGLECT OP A MEDICAL OFFICER. INQUEBT.—(THI9 DAY.) This morning Mr. R. }tattles Walthew, the do puty coroner, resumed at the Wolverly Anne, South Cole duivstrast, Bethoal•greeo, the inquiry respecting the death of AOOlll Ballinger, aged thirtese yews. The jury returned the following special verdict:—" That the dammed, Annie Bellinger, died from the mortal effect' of congestion of the brain, and that her death was canal by natural samosa, and the joron consider that 31r. Dew; the medical °dicer, hen acted with the most gram inhuma nity in neglecting to visit the deceased within a reasonable time after being met foe, sad that his condoct is most re prehensible, and they regalia the corona to send soapy of this realist to the board el pordisas." The proceedings then taufwatal. A BURGLAR SHOT BY A LADY. The chief constable of Derbyshire, Mr. W. G. Fox, has received a report from Saperinteodent Shaw of 6 Nrgy having been committed at the house of Mr. orm n of Howich End, Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire. The e ntrance was of through the house shutters , which ware opened with a " jeminy," and three W. armed and masked. obtained namolested entrance to the diniurzorm. Li balf-peet 3 Mrs. Norman was disturbed by a strange now, and having intoned for a few seconds deter• mined to leave her bed and discover the came. She therefore portiallyidressed hareelf,and armed with arevolver wentdom• stain, and upon reaching the front room abe found • tom using a lighted candle sad wearing 'mask. Mrs. Norma maintained her roompaare with wonderful nerve, sod tang • good aim fired and hit the burglar in the breast. The shot served as an alarm, and instantly the woozy:led burglar was dragged through the window (bleeding sad groaning) by hie alarmed companions, who were on the watch. The effect of the shot was such that the wounded man ens observed by M. Norman to fall against the well iof the room, and it s suspected by the police tint the wound may have proved fatal. Mr. Fox has left Derby to Mke the superintendeoce of the Masse of the wounded burglars, and there are drag hes that the offenders may be discovered. It will be remembered that in February, 1537, • burglarf. was committedat the hones of the Rev..l. Nodder, in Donn shimand that the me. gputlecoants very old maunhot wounded severely, a man moaned Wootton 01.00 '' Shoe. who was apprehended at Birmingham by the prestos duel constable of BarmiKham, Mr. George Glossop, sod saber quently treamorted far 25 years. Toss YOILISRIBA STATIrgi nuta.--On Saturday and on preview days the first of iilo statute fain for the Wing of eirvante took pima. In nearly all the towns the society for supplanting the street kiting, by providing wag' lag-rooms and registrar, WWI actively at work. At on llaturday the sew system was only a partial roams, the ic i t o usar b women being unwilling to give up the chi practice& ly the beautifully warm and tunny day ofer, ud against the new system. Nevertheless, there was sufficient sneer to warrant the enationsince of tk The Wrist_ ,1 „ farm servaate preasedai very 'lowly. At Bridlington. mu" GAL sad Whitby timing the week the new system sms patronised, the weather Asa being extremely frosty, with snow. In sense err the waitiog•romue .were too mail At Think 'disgraceful riot omuna, • tt trial quanta I ssa i2 g to the interfeream of the polio., whes a mob of km men vents wepd a d es p er at e 81 and wind the wastery. A great 11110111114 wr deetzmod in the riot, and of the polkas e ns ' bust The tingleadses are be lieved to Ise ia wastedy. The elder openness o f the Rio parades Ametinden are at preset confined to fermis I 1