The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

r . is - t r , 0 , • • • * T : (41 t 5r 111 ries; -1 4 \ Ni s Li '.; ; • !I. •i 4 bl - r •-• • 711) tLI:‘C . ... . . :1 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1807. No, 6,657.] ESTAIIIPID, 14. (TWOPENCE INIEfAN LINE.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW YORE. and PHI LAD EL PHIA f- STEAM-11111P COMPANY ho g despatching eirpowered Clydebuilt iron 'crew can bur the United Mates Malls, calling at geese& d, on the following day, to take on board ramidiches, and with liberty to can at an interme= gen ceS: CITY OF NEW YORK, Saturday, December 7. CITY OF ANTWERP , Wednesday, December 11. CITY OF LONDON, Wednesday, December 18. CITY OF LIMERICK, Saturday, December 21. And nay Wednesday sag Saturday. Cabin passage by the mall MINIZIMS galling every Wednesday, It, 17, and 21 guineas, according to the accommodation. Forward :Tincludes a full sup of cooked proytelom Passengers oads and the United States booked through on very &dram woos terms—For further particulars apply to WILLIAM otungAg. lllanse Wateretres=tool ; and to LIVES and ILACEY. Witreet. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Inveitc:4l AsTea—UpwaVs . ?f Smillilions. Annual income-Half a Million. aahns Paid-limn and a Quarter Malone psr-fiftha of the profits allotted to the Award Quinquennially. ',muses hitherto added to Poticiee—Upwardsof Your Million& policies upon the participating scale effected during the cur. sot year 0867 will share In the profits to be distributed at the rent division, which will be mad* up to Slit December. 1869. For Prospectuses, Statements of Account, &c., apply to the Maury at the Office, Fleetatrest, Loudon. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNYS, Actuary. QMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. 1.7 The SIXTY-NLNTH ANNUAL SHOW oe TAT *TOM ~ v ep, Pigs, lbws, Seed., and Agr!caftan' Implements, will be sld at the AGHICULTUAALMALL, London. Mk, 11th, :814 and 10th December. OPENING DAT, MONDAY, r p.m. idmiodun FIVE SHILLINGS; other days ONE SHILLING. AT order, 8. SIDNEY, Secretary. QMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW, AGRICULTURAL-DAIL, Loodoe. OPRNINO DAY, VONDAY, 9th Dessother, (Moak. Mahlon 11V1 Balle LOW& QP&ITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW, 4010 X LTUBAL-HALL TM_ DAT Wednesday, Vous atid 114 day. Minded= ONZ WILLING. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. PILIVATC VIEW, 1 1 11 , 1 SHILLINGS, MONDAY, 91h December. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. Doors open 9 morning, close 9 evening. ONE SHILLING. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACR.—GRAND DAL D'OPERA, MONDAY, Dec. 16, 1867. Open till Three am. by pernoLdon). Venal entertainments suspended for this night only. Orchestra of 100 performers. Conductor, W RIYIU.E. Solo Cornet, Mr. Reynolds. Twelve Masters of Ceremonies. under the direction of Mr. Birth. Doors open at R3O. dancing t•. begin at 10. The whole of the vast building and Sete-morns thrown open to the dancers. Gentlemen's tickets, 15s. ; Ldiei tickets, lila. ; balcony tickets to view the lial,•fla ed. To be had at the Alhambra Boa-office Om Alham bra Bak and at all the chief Libraries. Refreshments et flied charges. ♦ few private bones to be had on application. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, (Manses' Director, Mr. E. Strange.l Three Ballets, 200 Dane es Instrumentalists, Singers, Acrobats, ; Pic tures, lataat Telegrams, Seloona, Siwpsrrooms, Lavatories, emoking-rooms, Evening Paper: 10 Orchestral Pieces Every BlghL Open at Hall-past Seven, begin at Eight. Prices—la, b., and 60.: Reserved Seats, te. ; Private Bozos, from gl Bco-oiSce open from Eleven to Four. " THE LONDON," 181, Fleet-street, corner of Chancery-lam Temple bar, E.C . The London Dinner, for this day, the ha lost, served from 4 till 8 o'clock: 3luMgatawne7, 'OTAGIS. ?OLSSON& Soles il la Maitre d'Hotil: A 4 Julienne. ertans frit'. INTREN. Ma de can auz Champignoaa Haricot de Mouton. Sirloin of Beef. Mamie de Geaoise. -- Plum Pudding. Promage. The carte for to-day includes pheasants, partridges, grouse, woodcocks, teal, golden plovers, chickens, sad every other kind of poultry and game in season. The London Dinner, Ys. Al., attendance Ed., for tomorrow pturday, , the 7th Lost., served from 4 4411 b o'clock: NYTAOI2I. De Queue de Brea. Itallenne. POLSSONS.. CsbUlaad au IluUm. Filets de Barboe Cotelettes de Veau au; tinestiertara Rissoles de Howard. Gigot de Mouton booth 1. Padding &Albert. ---- lancing Ila Victoria. Fromage. Reduced Tsrlf f of Prices. Dinner from the joint,lnilualniyegetal;l;, bread, cheese, &C.. Is. _ . Joint, with soup or fish, Ps 6d. Pub dinner, la. 6d. ; attendance, 3.1. extra : and Dinners d la Carte are served from I mail o o'clock. Dinners In private rooms, for large or small parties, from 3a, ed. to 54. per bead. The famous London Dinner I served daily from 4 until 8 o'clock, at Ps. Od. per head : attendance, 3d. Good dinner hock and claret at 81. per bottle, Is. per pint. 'berries, ports, champagnes, *c., of th e choicest .intages and kends at Continental prices. Ilde Establishment Opens on Sundays at 4 o'clock. ifItE.DERICK SAW LER, Solo Proprietor, and of Plltit'S, 316, Poultry, M. and 40, Backlersbury, Cheapalde. KATZ PIatVETOII TO TIM CRYSTAL PALACIL KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION VMS. nit celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN MILE MEDAL—It is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very rholnoue. Sold In bottles, as. lid. each, as the retail houses la London ; by the agents in the principal towns In England ; or wholemeal M 8, Orest Windmilletreet, London, W.—Observe the aidral. ph& label, and cork branded " Klashan's LL Whisky. 8 AIICE.—LEA and PERRIN B' WOHCIDMLESHIRE BAUCH. Ude delicious condiment, pronounced t.ecinaolassurs THE ONLY 000 D BAU r II prepared solely by LEA and The public are repeethdly enalloned against worthless Irate. Mand should see that stopper. 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Hanoversquara. 11ANOVER-SQUARE.—An EXTRA CHRIST MAS NVIIDER. consisting entirely of Dance Music. will te .pnbllehed on the Itth DISCESIIICIL It will contain a new Va " bY Shiner MAUI, a new Potts-Mazurka by Gunn% a new t l t of Quadrilles ou French alas by Henry W. Goodhan, a new ial i 2 by Charles Godfrey, and a new Galop by Charles de aasteres. Price Is .... Inlets: Ashdown and Parry, liaaovor.square. MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY: PVICHAB/38 of BOORS for CHRISTMAS pumas and PRIZES are mapectfully Invited to apply for murnrs CHRISTMAS LINT of 80018 to ornamental bindings. This list includes:—" The Early Tears of the Prince Consort," half mo rocco. Its ; "The Globe Shakespere." half morocco, ; "A Story of Doom," by Jean burden, half morocco, et Tennyson's Poems, half morocco, Its. W.: and more than ISO other books, at mutually low prices. )(tulle's Select Library (Limited). New Owfordstreet Drama. NEW ROYALTY. An " original impossibility," as it is called in the bills—in other words, • lively and well-written little farce by Mr. W. S. Gilbert—was produced at this house last night at too late an hour to do just's» to either author or ►ctors. Coming after such a encomia', long-lived, and rollicking piece of clowning as Mark Eyed awn. it could scarcely be expected to do more than hold its own. It has no pretension to plot, and is simply a vehicle for smart descriptive dialogue and one clever impersonation by Miss C. Addison. It is furnished with a very nest scene repre senting a villa and croquet ground by Mr. H. Cuthbert. COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL. A court of Common Council was held yesterday at Guildhall, at which the LOAD MAYOR ( Aldermen Allen) presided. THE NEW DEAD MEAT MASS= AT /11/17217D. • Mr. H. L. TATLOR, the chairman of the markets im provement committee, brought up a report from that tem mittee,whichembodied a report made by Mr. Horace Jones, the City architect, having reference to tho progress of the works at the proposed meat and poultry market, which is in course of erection upon the site of the ancient mar ket at Smithfield. (This report detailed the pro ceedings that had taken place at the building during yeer, and the result appeared to be of • very character as to the of the works.7 r ir. Taylor said he was sure t would be most gratifying to the court to hear the report that was made by the architect, and he believed he might state that within twelvemonths of the present time the market would be in full operation. (Hear, hear.) He could also inform the court that applications had already been made for more shops in the market than they had to dispose of, and before the market was completed they should have a tenant foe every shop that could be built. (Hear, bear.) The report was then formally agreed to. THE PROPOSED NEW CATTLE MARKET IN LONDON. The LORD ILt/011 then said that the Remerabraneer had &communication to make to the court which was of considerable Importance, and which it was considered ad visable should be received with closed doors. Strangers were accordingly requested to withdraw, and the court sat in deliberation with closed doors for nearly three home. It wee understood that the subject brought before it was the negotiations that had taken place between the officers of the corporation and the government in reference to the bill proposed to be brought in by the latter for the erection of a new market at the waterside for the slaughtering of foreign cattle. The government in the first instance expressed their intention to plane the building of the new market under the control of the Metropolitan Board of Works, but this corms met with strenuous opposition at the hands of the corporation, who regarded it in the light of an unfair attack upon those ancient rights and privileges in reference to the question of markets in the metropolis. Various communications have taken place between the Markets Committee and the Lords of the Privy Council upon the subject, and it appears that the result is that the govern. meat has consented to leave the erection of the new market entirely in the hands of the corporation, which very naturally feels somewhat elated at the triumph it has thus achieved. MR. NELvima's metal. I When the court re-assembled, a petition was presented from Mr. Alexander Melville, the artist, praying the court to make him some compensation for the loss he had sustained in reference to the picture painted by him and his wife, representincte r presentation of the freedom of the City to his Boyal • hness the Prince of Wales. Upon the motion of . SAUNDERS, and after a long discussion. the court agreed to present Mr. Melville with 300 guineas. THE PERNDSLE COLLIERT EXPLOSION. Upon the motion of Deputy Joees, the court unani mously peed that the oorparation should subscribe the rum of UM. in aid of the fund for the relief of the suf farm by the above calamity. THE PROPOHED COUNTY RATE POE THE cm. Mr. IL N. PHILIPPS presented a petition of inhabitants and ratepayers of the City of London, agreed to at a public meeting held at Salter'. Hotel, Holborn-bridge, against the proposal to lery a county rate, and praying that the court will procure, if necessary, such an altera tion in the law as shall effectually protect the citizens of London from the imposition of such a rate. The petition was referred to the Local Government and Taxation Committee, and the court adjourned. THE NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH NORTH ANERICA.—With the year 1868 the new postal arrange ments recently entered into between the Post-office autho rities and the Cunard, Inman, and North German Lloyd's Companies will opine into operation. All letters ad dressed to the United States, and specially directed to go by any particular steamer, will, as at present, be sent by swish steamer, and all letters baying no special direction will, as at present, be sent by the first packet despatched after they are postedorreceived,wliethersuch packet belong to the Cunard Company, Inman Company, or the North German Lloyd's. The articles of the Cunard contract state that the subsidy is to be 80,0001. per annum (in quarterly payments), dating from the Ist January, 1868. The vessels are to leave Liverpool on Saturdays, and New York on Wednesdays ; to call at Queenstown ; each boat to be provided with • medical officer ; the Paetmaater-General to be at liberty to alter the times of departure, and to delay t►e departure for any period not exceeding 24 hours ; nitro-glycerine and other specially dangerous articles not to be conveyed ; a limited number of officers and men in the army, navy, or civil service to he accommodated ss peinengers on board if re- quired by the Postmaster•Generil at - Zertain rates, which are specified ; the contract not to be sublet ; boats to be chartered or purchased by the Admiralty if seminary; penalties varying from 1001. to 1001. to be paid for delays or diversions not unavoidable ; and the contractors to be bound in 23,0001. for the due performance of the contract. The details of the Inman contract have not yet been made public. EXTRAORDINARY ERUPTION OP COAL. —The Leeds Mercury's Hartlepool correspondent states that an extraor dinary eruption of coil has taken place on the beach between West Hartlepool and Seaton Carew. These sands, which are the resort of visitors during the bathing season, were on Wednesday metamorphosed to a great extent into a coil field. It will be remembered that last winter, imme diately following a north-east gale, the poor of the Hartle pools assembled on these sands on the occasion of the sea disclosing an immense amount of treasure trove , which had been buried for 40 years. At that time the "scene" was something extraordinary. and many a hungry family were nourished during the severe winter by the lucky discovery of hundreds of Spanish dollars. The scene on Wednesday was far more interesting, and the up heaving of such an amount of one of the most im portant' necessities of life by the angry oceanl will be productive of much more benefit and comfort to the poet of the neighbourhood. It is computed that not lees than 1,000 tons of coal have been oast upon these sands. From en early hour in the morning the beach has presented • most animated appearance. Nearly every cart in the town has been called into requisition to awry awe the treasure, and on the banks adjoining the railway have been raised, some of them containing from 10 to tons of coal. The poorer inhabitants of the town turned out with barrows, briskets. sacks, &a, and every tion of receptacle which could be rendered av ailable l t gather the cast-up treasures. Hundreds of children were working as eagerly as their parents, and along . cortahi roads a continuous stream of people was marching with the product of their labour. It will be days before the whole of the coal is gathered up. COAL IN NOTTINGRAMBHIKIL—The proprietors of the High Park Colliery, Messrs. Barber and Walker, East wood, Notts, have within the last week come upon the bottom beam of coal. The shaft had been sunk to • depth of 400 yards before the new seam was sunk. It is calcu lated that the seam extends over 10,000 acres of coal, and this of a first-class quality. The prospect for men and masters is therefore most cheering. Three hundred hones, for workmen have been set out, and at no distant date Foatwood, it is believed, will become quite • bury district GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.—Shoe Monday the direct train service of this system as between Lowestoft and Norwich has been suspended in consequence of part of the Lowestoft branch having been washed away by a flood. The traffic to Lowestoft has been worked rid Tivetahall, Bungay, and Beeeles ' as from the last men tioned town another lire runs to Lowestoft. A large number of men are at work upon the embankment which has been washed away near Lowestoft, and the rails are expected to be re-laid by the end of the week. The service of trains was also temporarily suspended, as between Yarmouth and Norwich, from the same cause, but the damage sustained by the Yarmouth line was lass serious and was soon made good. CRYeTAL PALACR. ONI Einrunta DAT.— THURSDAY, Dec. s.—Admissions on payment, 335 ; ditto by sewn tickets, 1,185; total risiton, 1,521. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (ziosza's FRANCE AND ITALY. PARIS, Ditc. 5, Nvingura. In the Legislative Body to-day, the bureaux re jected the interpellations respecting the octroi taxes at Paris and the election of the municipal authorities at Lyons. The debate upon the Roman question was then resumed. M. JoSrome David ap proved the second expedition to Borne, which was justified by Italy's aggressive attitude against the Papacy and her ingratitude towards France. Italy had selected the moment to break the convention of the 15th September when she fancied France was on bad terms with Prussia, and not prepared for war. France ought to remain at Rome until there was a complete change in the attitude and acts of the Italian government. This did not imply that France should be responsible for the Pontifical government, nor for its theological declarations, which were of interest only to the spiritual order. M. Jdrome David ►lso spoke in favour of submit ting to the government a motion demanding that the French troops should be maintained at Rome. M. Rouher explained and justified the French in tervention at Borne from a moral, religious, and social point of view. He showed what religion Garibaldi wished to substitute for that of the catholic church. The eonduct of Italy, he said, had been sincere up to the 28th August. Then she became obliging, subordinate, and an &room plice. France went to Rome to stop a revolution which had three stages—one at Rome, one at Florence, one at Paris. M. Rouher declared that French troops would remain at Rome as long as the safety of the Pope rendered their presence necessary. He added—" Safety does not mean alone material tranquillity. We must have good guarantees from Italy. Italy shall never possess herself of Rome. (Loud applause.) At the same time the French government is desirous to strengthen Italian unity ; those two things must co-exist." M. Rouher refused to entertain the in terpellation of the Left. The interpellation of M. Chesnelong deserved the explanations which had been given. In conclusion, he said—" Does a community of ideas exist between us and the Chamber ? (Expressions of assent.) Then let the Chamber give to the government' a vote of confi dence, and, above all things, let there not be a split in the majority." (Applause.) The sitting was then adjourned. On the re-assembling of the Legislative Body M. Rouher again ascended the tribune, and explained that when he said the French troops would remain at Rome as long as the safety of the Papacy re quired their presence, he meant by the word Rome the integrity of the present Pontifical terri tory. (Applause.) M. Jules Fevre admitted that the government this time had made a clear declara tion, but to endeavour to maintain at the same time the temporal power of the Papacy and to strengthen Italian unity was still chime rical ; the occupation would be for an indefi nite period. M. Chesnelong announced that, considering the declarations made by the govern ment, the movers of the second demand of inter pellations withdrew their motion. M. Berryer re- gretted that determination, and desired the Chamber to register M. Rouher's declaration by referring the interpellation to the government. M. Rouher observed that the means to prove an agree ment between the Chamber and the government would be to vote the order of the day upon the interpellation of M. Jules Fevre. The discussion was then declared to be closed, and the order of day, pur et simple, upon M. Jules Favre's interpel lation was voted by 237 votes against 17. The discussion of the interpellation in reference to the German question has been fixed for Monday next. ITALY. A meeting of Deputies of the Italian Parliament was held last night, when it was determined to bring forward Signor Lanza as candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber. The members of the Left will propose Signor Rattuzi for the Presidency. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. FLORENCE. Dzo. 5. The Italian parliament assembled to-day. In the Chamber of Deputies, General Menabrea, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced the com position of the Ministry. After alluding to the difficulties encountered by the new cabinet, he went on to maintain the right of Italy to intervene in the Pontifical States, when the intervention of France took place. He said, "It was the right and the duty of the government to arrest Garibaldi, who had violated the laws of his country. The conduct of the Ministry, in spontaneously with drawing the troops of Italy when all danger had ceased, prevented the arrival of other foreign soldiers, and facilitated the departure of a portion of those who had entered the Papal terri tory." After justifying the acts of repres sion which had been exercised during the recent state of things, General Menabrea announced that the King had resolved to amnesty all persons compromised by the late events. With regard to the Roman question, he said that it required very little to thwart the diplomatic action of the government. Referring to the rights of Italy, General Menabrea maintained that Rome being in an isolated position in the centre of Italy was an impediment to the freedom of cora_ munication between the provinces of the Italian' kingdom. He said :—" Supposing France had a foreign government at Paris, how could she exist I The Roman question is not to be solved by violence. The Holy See will be respected and the Pope will find his strongest support in Italy and not from abroad." General Menabrea announced that bills would be laid before the Chamber to meet the ordinary expenses of 1869. He promised that greater economy would be introduced, with out infringing upon the organisation of the army. Reliance, he said, should be placed upon the principle of authority. He appealed to the friends of the monarchy to come forward to oppose any who might menace Italy and prevent the restoration of the public credit. The election of the President of the Cham ber will take place to-morrow. Monday next has been fixed for discussing the interpellations upon the foreign and home policy of the Ministry. In the Senate General Menabrea made a speech pre cisely the same as that made to the Chamber of Deputies. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Du. 5. The Prase and Debark of this morning an noimce that, immediately otter the return of they King of the Hellenes to Athena, the Greek cabinet addreised a notification to the protecting powers , signifying its adhesion to the declaration in favour of non-intervention recently delivered by Russia to the Porte. THE BANK O 1 PILANCK. PAIIID3, I)sc. 5. The return of the Bank of Frame for the week ending to-day shows the following changes as oom pared with the previous account :—lncrease : Cash, 18,500,000 f.; private accounts, 13,000,000 f. ; Trea sury balance, 500,000 f. ; advances, 100,000 f. De crease : Notes, 12,500,000 f. ; bills discounted, 6,600,000 f. AMERICA. (EY ATLUITIO ?IMMUNE.) NEW YORK, Die. 5. The House of Representatives has passed a bill for the repeal of the tax upon cotton grown after the present year. At a mass meeting held here, and called by merchants and bankers of New York, General Or eras nowdesied national candidate for the • "Mi. Horace . Oreely has refused his appointment ea United States minister at the court of Vienna. NEW YORE, Dec. 5, 6 P.Y. The Committee of Ways and Means reported to day, a bill to suspend Secretary M'Culloch's autho rity further to contract the currency. The St. Andrew and United Kingdom arrived out to-day. Closing Prices :--Gold, 137. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1071 ; Illinois, 135 ; Erie, 711. Cotton : Middling Upland, 14. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6. Petroleum : Standard white, 24. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The following is an extract from a letter from Colonel Merewether, received yesterday by Sir Stafford Northcote : We have just returned from a most interesting and important reoonnaistance up the pass from Koomoglee to within five miles by road from Senafee, a didanoe of forty one miles. There were some very bad places in one part, but the road has been made now by the Sappers easy for passage of cavalry, infantry, males, and camels ; and it will, I think, prove the chief line of route, as leading at once to a good position on the highlands of Abyssinia in the direction we have to go, and to a spot within easy reach. To morrow we start up the Haddes to examine that, to as near as we can get to Tekonda, without actually entering it, or compromising the inhabitants by opening communications with them. Sir R. Napier's excellent proclamation was sent out on the 6th hurt., and I hope for the best results from it. Directly the ruler of Tigre, now Prince Kassel, a rebel against Theodona, shows he intends acting In a friendly manner towards us, there will be no impropriety in visiting both Tekonda and fienafee ; but until he does it would not be just to the people of those places to make them run the risk of enootuatering his displeasure before we were in a position to protect them. I have been very vexed not to find a suitable plateau short of the Abyssinian highlands, but I was Waled by tits Hanna of the Agametta plateau, west of Maasowah, sad have only now learned, what no an sestited to hare been able to tell me before, that as you go south of the latitude of Manowah the lower bills become more purely volcanic ; indeed, in some places entirely, so that vegetation diminishes pan pasau. The troops that have landed are, I am happy to say, in excel lent health and spirits. The 3rd Light Cavalry had been losing hones from fever, but to-day on my arrival here I was glad to find the disease disappearing. It was clearly owing to the effects of the sea voyap from India, and being cooped up on board ship." ROYAL 21AVAL COLLEGE. The following is the result of the competitive examination of candidates for direct commissions in the 1 Royal Marines, held at the Royal Naval College, Ports mouth, on the 20th of November , and six following days, promulgated at the Royal Naval College yesterday : FLORENCE, Dec. 5. Order of ..111;r1t7 Names (qualleed). Mots. 1. Hamilton De la Poer Bamford ... 7,334 2. John Edward Thomas 6,019 d 3. Alexander Leslie Soon Barret/ea . ... 5,378 c 4. William. Thompson Adair ... 5,088 a 5. Edward Ernest pyre . 4,894 a 6. Henry Octavian Percival Wright ... 4,789 d 7. Howard Stanley Thompson ... ... 4,773 ail James William Walker . ... 4,068 69. Arthur Montgomery Edward Hayes ... ... 4,000 10. Henry Feminism Hart 3,901 11. Alfred Oliver de Blaquire Nepsan ... 3,868 dl2. Bustase Edward Godfrey Bird ... 3,606 al3. Henry Daniel Robinson . . . . ... 3,562 614. Temple Knollys Byam . . 3,467 15. Frederick Augustus Shur Haycock 3,376 16. Richard Denny ... 3,275 17. Frederick_ Edward Power . . 3,1931 18. Andrew Nugent Savage 3,146 19. William Stewart Papillon . . ... 3,110 d2O. Montague Barnsby Mathias 3,0331 21. Benjamin Arthur Milne ... ... 2,907 22. Francis Augustus Hellman 2,656 23. John Temple Charles Reilly ... 2,629 24. Ralph Hawtry Hicks . ... 2,613 25. Neville Williams ... ... 2,372 Thirty-three oandidatea went up for examination; 2,000 marks was the minimum number for qualification. Passed from : aßumey's Royal Academy, Gosport bStabbington Rouse, Fareham. cEastman s Royal Naval Academy, South's& dNorth Grow* House, Southsea. CAPTURE OF ♦ SUPPOSED " HEAD FENIAN CENTRE" IN BIRMINGHAM.—BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY NIGHT.-BbOrtly after 12 o'clock to-day detective Inspec tor Manton, of the Birmingham police force, in company with two other officers—one from London and one from Manchester—apprehended William Hogan, 38, residing at 19, Bradford-street, secretary to the United St. Patrick's Insurance Society, on a charge of conspiring against the government of her Majesty, and also with purchasing a number of pistols for the attack upon the prison van at Manchester on the 18th of September. The prisoner was taken before Mr. C. B. Cope. Mr. Glossop, chief of police, said—The prisoner, in company with • man named Pherson, who is now in custody in Manchester, went to Mr. Hdla, in St. Mary's-row, and bought a number of pistols, for which the prisoner paid. Those pistols were sent to Manchester. He asked that the prisoner might be remanded to Manchester. The prisoner said the man told him that he was a hawker, and wanted the pistols to sell to sailors in Liverpool who were going to Abyssinia. He considered it very hard that he should be detained. The prisoner wee remanded, and conveyed in the afternoon to Manchester is charge of the officers. I PROPOSED FENIAN DEMONSTRATION IN DUBLIN. —An advertisement, signed by John Martin, Dr. Waters, and others, has appeared in Dublin, calling a funeral pro cession on Sunday, in honour of Allen, Larkin, end Gould. Irishmen ►re called on to assemble in thousands, to show their sympathy with the executed patriots, and Irish women are requested to lend the dignity of their presence to this important national demonstration. [Advertisement...! liou.owsy's Pitts. This mofficine has been constantly increasing In public estimation for years, nod Is now acknowledged to be the most wonderful remedy in the world. It acts directly on the system, removft all ob structions from the stomach. renovating the springs et BN and purifying the blood, eradicatinz liver consplidata—that mato spring of so many Meows—lndisposition, lose of appalls. pain In the side, and georrel debility. It Is oleo aromally on whkik the asthmatic say place the grtest dependants, sod obtain yoll•• restoration to health. The Fochoodriac sad eib tpeditie should resort to these Invigorating airldch ars the gloomy shadows of the Me into beaming sa e ns4hes, "ll4ll J back those naturally happy thoughts eye by • EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (Paoli OUR OWN PARIS. TUMMY EVIIIING. The speech of the Marquis de Moustier leaves, it will be seen, small hope indeed of that speedy evacuation of the Roman states which was solemnly stated as desirable in the speech from the British throne, or of any approaching settlement of the Roman question. On the contra y, it shows that the occupation which was renounced by the convention on account of its intolerable in conveniences and manifest evil, is now indefinitely renewed under circumstances which render it far' , more pernicious to France, and more dangerous to the peace of the world than before. M. Thiel.' made a speech of immense length, which took three hours and a half in the delivery, and can scarcely be read thoroughly in less time. Many of the first columns of it are devoted to showing that he was always right when he said the Emperor had done • fatal work for France by creating the unity of Italy, and incidentally by weakening Austria the unity of Germany. He entirely approved of the intervention of Fiance, to protect the Pope, but with consummate art insinuated a belief that the Emperor after all was favourable to Italian views so long as they were not carried out by means which he had not con templated. He delivered a long essay on be half of the temporal power, which he pro fessed to defend entirely on political and not on religious grounds. He went the whole length of holding that since catholic* believed, rightly or wrongly, that it was necessary to the head of their religion to be the Sovereign of an independent kingdom, it was an interference with the liberty of conscience, and consequently a breach of the prin ciples of 'B9, to consent to or connive at any act which might deprive the Popeof his temporal power. His practical conclusion was that France which he over Andover again said was terribly and irrevocably damaged by the fatal policy which the Emperor had pursued, might now possibly avoid a war with Germany (which he did not think imminent) by at once telling Italy, in plain and unmistakeable terms, that she must for ever renounce all hope of Rome. A temporary intervention, a mere pro visional reparation of the harm which France had done to the Papacy, would only favour Italian ambition and increase the chances of a general war. If Italy were allowed to gain time, without a positive settlement, she might hope for circum stances subsequently favouring a Prussian alliance which could not in decency be effected now for such an iniquitous purpose as dethroning the Pope. In the case of M. du Sisson, which I reported at length last week, the Court of First Instance gave judgment yesterday. Adopting the suggestion of the Imperial Advocate Chevrier it held that the article in the Derby, of January 19, 1867, entitled " Recollections of Abyssinia," contained an untrue libel upon the plaintiff in so far as it stated that he had " abandoned the expedition of which he was the chief, and had left his followers in the lowest depth of his misery." For the in jury done to M. du Bisson's honour and considera tion by this false allegation, the court awarded him against the Derby 121. damages ; as against the Figaro, which had only copied parts of the Derby article throwing ridicule upon the plaintiff's narra tive of his expedition, and denying that he had ever been in Abyssinia at all, but had not repeated the above allegation, the action was dismissed with costs. ' The Bourse was a good deal weaker. Rent. fell 30c. for cash and 20c. for account, closing at 69fr. 20c. and 69fr. 15c. Italian was much offered, and fell 55c. Credit Foncier fell 121 r. 50c, and Mo biller sfr. There was a talk of Prussian and Bel gian loans shortly coming out. An address from the princes of Kattywar was prmensed yesterday afternoon to Sir Henry Bartle Edmund Fnas, G.C.S.I. ' ' and late Governor of Bom bay, at Willis's Rooms. The oeremony was carried out under the auspices of the East India Association, whose president, Lord Megrims, occupied the chair. There were • large number of ladies and gentlemen present, in cluding Mr. Crawford, M.P. Colonel Sykes, DI.P., Sir A. Waugh, Mr. Kaye, Archdeacon Wordsworth, General North, ice. The Cotton Spinners' Association are preparing ' to present to the Board of Trade • memorial, praying the government to bring into parliament a bill conferring upon the Board of Trade such powers as may be necessary to amide the board to obtain correct statistics of the imEorts, exports, and inland distribution of cotton. CHURCH RATE LEGISLATION.—The government have answered Mr. Hadfield that they do not intend to bring in any bill about church rates, for which we are thankful. The subject is past • tory government. They could only prices. • compromise, and that is now out of the question ; they know that full well. Every possible compromise has been weighed by the House of Commons, and rejected. Mr. Gladstone's bill is understood to be identical in substance, though perhaps not in form, with the clauses Mr. Waldegrave-Leslie put on the books of the hones last session, and will, therefore, probably be accepted the abolitionists. The discussion will come on very early in the session of next year.—Engfish Independent. THE REPRESENTATION OP GREENOCK.—It Is said that, in the event of Mr. Murray Dunlop resigning the re presentation of Greenock, many of the electors of the burgh are desirous of proposing that his nephew, Mr. Alex. Graham Dunlop, shwa be nominated to succeed l him. Mr. A. Graham Dunlop is the eldest son of Mr. Dunlop, of Gairbraid and Maryhill, near Glasgow, and is at present consul at Andalusia, in Spain. CAMBRIDGE, DEC. s.—Exammed and approved for the degree of Master in Surgery : Wilkes, Trinity Col lege. (Signed) G. IL Humphry, Edward Burl, E. Car ver, Examiners. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Lord William Lennox de livered yesterday one of the Free Thursday Lectures, to a large and appreciative audience, on the subject of " Loto motion, and how people travelled from the days of Charles the Second up to the present time." The lecture was in. structive and most entertaining, and interspersed through out with a variety of amusing and well-told anecdotes. ADMIRALTY Dec. 5. —Arrorwramrrs.—Liente nant W. Neilson, to the Pylades ; Navigating Lieutenants Chas. J. Hills, to the Asia, for Royal OA, and Jesse Dixon, 'to the Pylades; Midshipmen John C. J. Waloot and Charles W. G. Spring, to the Liffey ; Navigating Midship men Wm. Barton, to the Danes, and Henry R. Johnston, to the Pylades ; Paymaster Chas. D. Lindsay, to the Pylades ; Assistant Paymasters Wm. Rintoul, to the Pylades and Fredk. M. James, to the Cumberland • Clerks Edward Armstrong, to the Pylades, and \Vane; Parnell, to the Dame as supernumerary ; Assistant Clerks, Herbert B. Rudge, to the Pylades, and Samuel Crooke, to the St. Vincent. BIRMINGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY SHOW.—At the annual meeting yesterday, the Earl of Bradford was elected president for the ensuing year. The receipts at the cattle show were larger up to WednescLiy evening than in any year since 18t1. On the third day the visitors numbered nearly 17,000. The admissions to the dog show have somewhat fallen off, as has also the amount realised on the sales of dogs. A WOMAN CUT TO PIECES AT THE STNEATHAM RAILWAY STAT/011.—At Streatham-common railway station there is no subway for the use of persons wishing to pass from one aide of the line to the other, and the public walk across the metals. On Tuesday • woman, supposed to be named Ann Clark, a cook in • gentleman's family, having been out on business was returning home, and in order to do so had to cross the line at the station. She had wade I l searcely three paces when one of the fast trains came along. The driver saw the deceased, and attempted to stop the train, but was unable to do oc, and the buffer stackher on the aide, hurling her some distanee,wbs• **wheels cf the engine and carriages passed over her. literally cutting her into pieces. Sr. ALBANS SrssrLscsasse.—These races have Mean further pssiposial until Thursday sad Friday, the 12th sad 13111 last. THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. (1110 X ors BEWZAL NAPLES, Nov. 30. Lest night's eruption of Vesuvius was very grand, for there were new streams of red-hot lava on the mountain aide, and the bursts of flame from the crater itself were bright and incessant. What a change from the city to the mountain ! What a glorious effect of blazing fragments hurled hither and thither by subterranean force! It was only an boor's drive through the paved streets, and a two hours' scramble over stony footpaths, and the city might have been a hundred miles away from that battle of giants. Those pale lines of gas lamps which we had noticed prettily fringing the bay as we looked towards Naples faded into darkness compared with the fierce glow of the descending lava, and there was a roar as of waves upon the shingle from each fresh shower of volcanic stones. It was worth • longer journey and a steeper climb to witness such • scene. by an unusually dense mass of curling smoke, that rose in a column thousands of feet high, and moved slowly away before the wind like a monstrous white plume set in some giant's cap. There were lesser smoke clouds on the mountain side to show where the volcano was busy, but in the pleasant sun shine of Naples—the weather has reversed its character since I last wrote—everything might be forgotten save the blue sky and the sparkling sea. As night drew on, however, Vesuvius became more and more conspicuous. The crater began to glow with its dreary fitful splendour, and streams of hot lava were to be seen like molten iron pouring out of a furnace. I might well compare the whole mountain to some great blast furnace of our own " black country," only that here the iron which I should come forth at the base when the doors are jerked open was brimming over the top of the pile. In former years there have been deadly rushes of lava through the mountain side, sweeping away houses, and burying vineyards out of sight—the furnace walls have given way. But this time there is a less threatening action, with, perhaps, a finer effect. The night settles down, the smoke cloud catches a crimson tint from the fires below, and as I advance upon my way towards Vesuvius there are still fresh streams of lava welling up from the crater. I advance by aid of a little Neapolitan cab, swift and rickety. The driver u my especial friend, I might almost say my patron, though we never saw each other before. He modestly charges six times the proper fare, calling me vaguely, "your highness." Then I bring him down to thrice the fare, and am dubbed " your excellency" in a deprecating way. He fights hard at this point, and requires the pressure of pretend ing to walk off and leave him. " Signore, I will take you," cries he, so soon as my back is turned. Thus we arrange it ; and as a plain signore I am rattled away for about double what a native of the place would give. No matter, the fellow does but seek to imitate his betters, with the excuse of a very lean and hungry aspect. I never enjoy beating down a cabman, though it is often a stern necessity, and I wish that I could afford to go this drive along the paved and echoing street, which seems interminable, as " your highness." Would he call me " your imperial highness " for an extra ten franca 1 I think that he would, as, in spite of our rather warm dispute, he is most civil, from the hope of a small additional &lona many. Many foreigners have lately been to see Vesuvius, he tells me ; it is a great sight, a splendid spectacle, now that there is an eruption. As to tho Neapolitans themselves, they are accustomed to it, and it must be very wonderful indeed to astonish them. Now we have reached Resins, the region of rapacious guides. The paved echoing street still stretches on before us, with its occasional gaslights and its armed patrols; but I must leave my rickety little cab and prepare for the ascent of tho mountain. With a torch and a torch-bearer who knew his way by instinct, and who carried the flaming piece of wood as an argument for overcharging I am persuaded, the ascent was presently begun. We wound up among vineyards and gardens, left a good road for a worse, and that worse road for a mere track across the rocks, and drew every mo ment nearer to the glowing furnace before us. At one time it was lost to sight behind a shoulder of the hillock over which we climbed. Then the great black cone of Vesuvius stood out once more against the sky, and the flames shot up from its sum mit, as though fresh fuel had been thrown into the furnace. The dismal glare of the mountain grew broader and redder as we opened it more fully into view. Surely they had emptied twenty fur naces on that slope, which was covered with embers. We left the vineyards and stray cottages, passed beyond the last trace of civilised life, and were in a valley of desolation, of rocks which grew cold and solid long ago, and of other masses still retaining their volcanic heat. Dark rugged peaks rose on one hand, where Somme, the brother mountain to Vesuvius, shut out the northern sky, and on the other hand was that terrible furnace. I say on the other hand because I am speaking of our entry to the valley. But you will imagine that no one could help facing full round to gaze at the crater. There was something in fascination like the effect of a burning-house, only the house was a palace which towered to the sky, and a magazine which had strength to blow the whole city we had left to atoms in the twinkling of an eye. More rolling, sparkling, bounding rocks are coming down the cone, another flash from the dismal summit has made all the cloud above it glow with infernal splendour. We could as safely try to storm a battery defended by a thousand guns as climb up yonder cone of Vesuvius. There are rocks upon it bounding like cricket-balls, any one of which would crush an elephant. It is all that we can do to approach the foot of the ascent, feeling cau tiously for hot places before we step forward. We must return to those pale gas lamps and to the city which they illumine, and we know that we must, but just for a moment Naples, with her half million of inhabitants, might be a thousand miles away. Nature is triumphant where we stand. THE RECENT HURRICANE IN THE WEST . The 117drtgrepher to the Admiralty has issued circulars requesting all the information which captains of vessels which were in the West Indian seas during the hurricane of the 29th of October can afford, in order that the charts of the hurricane district in the West Indies, which are now being prepared, may be completed with greater ful ness and accuracy. The chief pointsof information desired are the ship's position, direction and force of the wind, the state of the sea or swell, the registrations of the barometer, and the temperatures of the air and the sea. • ".11 tuie rd a had that L of con. and Illy rhea the o to