The Express. — London, England, 1858-01-22 00:00:00

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PERM lIT WRI LARD LK. WAVIL Mr. r i ren; no 000.-Lai 111•114 SaN/4 MINN Ileabora Ramo mil 010 000 mo ail 111•1111006. 00moses$0111001L w. ZION WATILIt AT LONDON 1110011. t ......... ..ameases. r it se at LONDON, 711.1.D.47; 141177.41 Y 11. Ores of the most valuable characteristics ia the Clergy et the English Church ham hitherto beat their shellerity in tone of feeling and habits of thought be the peat body of the cultivated English laity. mug generally, they have been 'write- needy 610 trona that distinctive professional the- radar which in other countries too often sinks the gentlemaa in the churchman, the citizen in the priest. This greet advantage the English clergy priecipally owe to the fact that, as a general rule, they have been brought up, in can- I ; Neon with ether young Englishmen, at the , Universities ; net reared, as is aimed universally the ales with the Itemieh and very frequently with the Dismoting Any, in clerical training colleges. It is dithealt Morer-rate the value of this fact. In it Ka the last sseurity that any community eel poems spied ths exams of fanatical seal, or the meagames sessedetel exclusiveness. The young Ibiliehmen who, at Eton or Harrow, Trinity or Christ Cherth,lses freely mingled with his fellows in the healthful rivalry of athletic sports, or the more smiting straggles of intellectual competition, hes gained is the promo that knowledge which is of all ethane the meet valuable—a knowledge of human nature, and that discipline compared to which all others are worthless—the discipline of hear* and forbearing— of a just regard for othess and a jest respect for himself. It is dill- cult for a young non who has passed through stash a career to forget, after a year or two of special train- ing as a divine, the invaluable teems that have thee been imparted. Eve. if he seesenthe for a while to the nonsense of Pmeyisen, as the fashion is, he takes the disease in • for milder form than would be the ease had his antecedents been different. His coat- skirts elongate, his vest mounts to his throat, his tie is always whits, his shirt front sever visible. He gets his church rebuilt or his pews levelled, keeps fist days, and dates from the vigils of saints. All this and a great deal more of the same kind is as l•- ralLrly gone through by young Anglican divines in a certain state of their development, a the soseelee or the pooping -cough, by nurseries and boarding schools. It is a pity, of course, that the I thing cannot b e d one w i t h out, b at eines it ie a orcemary evil, the great point is to get over it as quickly and with as little mischief as possible. This point is secured by the fund of good sense provided for the young English clergyman by the general and promiscuous nature of his school and college training. Had he been kept aloof from other boy, ; set apart and dedicated from tops and marbles to seeleisiology and exit_ ! gesie—the result would have been something very different, something which we now ally look for in the specially-trained pupils of Maynooth. With all his present advantages the young English Paeryite is a safficiently absurd sad mischievous mined : bat what would he be without those advantages ? What would he be lithe ear- Towne. of a seminary training had given concentra- tion to his seal and intensity to his arrogance ? A very sensible article in the last number of the Quarterly Renew on the subject of " Church Extension," contains some exceedingly judi- cious remarks with reference to the danger likely to arise from introducing into the educational system of the Church of England, that special clerical training which has hitherto distin- guished the Romish priest from the Protestant clergyman, and has produced a marked contrast between the modern pupils of Maynooth and the more liberal priesthood of an earlier age and a less contracted education. The Bishop of OXFORD, sedu- lous to revive amongst us the sacerdotal order, has established a special clerical training college at Cuddeadon, which is avowedly the object of the Reviewer's remarks, and is undoubtedly amenable to the most prominent of his objections. We honestly believe that no worse thing could befall the clergy of the English Church than an abandonment of the present system of mixed educa- tion for one specially and exclusively clerical. his a sufficiently common topic of complaint against the clergy of the Establishment that, as compared with the more busy and practical orders of mankind, they are but little versed in the principles of human nature and the ordinary pursuits of life. With how ranch greater force would this objection apply if the clergyman had from the first been reared apart from his fellow men, remote from their interests, a stranger to their views, and a despiser of what he would deem their prejudices. The Church his world, the Priesthood his profession, and sacerdotal power his 1 p aim—the specially trained churchman would soon introduce into this free English life of ours an ele- ment of discord and scandal which would be no is. detrimental to the welfare of society, than to the true interests of the Church. Fortunately there is no great danger that the experiment will be carried very far; it cannot, however, be pointed out and re- sisted too soon. In no profession is a premature commencement of special education to be desired, but least of all is it to be desired in the case of the Clergy. We are of coarse not to be understood as objecting to a special course of training for the Chen as for other professions. All that we Willidd protest against is the substitution of special hr sawn! training—the premature commencement if purely professional education. That after the TIM EXPRESS, FRIDAY z o VENING, JANUARY 21, ItsB. nark of rem& caseation is ooncluded there should 11. • special theological training for those destined W holy orders, is not only tight, but neomsary. The main point to be attended to is, that the special training should be complementary to, not in substi tution of, the general training. Wa obese, with satisfaction in Tuesday's Gasstts the tint general instalment of three honours with which her MAJESTY is pleased to distinguish her military servants in India. Shall the claims of the civilians go wholly unrecognised? If universal tes timony be worth anything, some, at least, among their number have acquitted themselves in a manner which commands our admiration. The Quitttes Speech called attention to their conduct. Govern ment despatches make right honourable mention of them. Public journals and private correspondence alike bear witness to their merits. Is it asking too meth if we seek that in some few prominent instances distinguished civilian service be rewarded ? The claims of men like Sir Joint Lawaxect, em phatically the saviour of India, are too obvious to need mention at our hands. The Grand Cross, some swaths ago conferred, must be but an earnest of the honours which await him. Our wish is to go lower down the ladder, to rescue from oblivion names leas exalted, it may be, in station, but eminently entitled to the gratitude of England. We shall content our , salves with a few specimens, rather intended to illus trate our meaning, than to exhaust the list of worthy candidates for honours. We will first take the name of Mr. Rontwr Mous -001tr.12, Judicial Commissioner of the Punjab. We have only lately learned that to this gentleman's vigour and resolution (ably seconded by Brigadier Column) we owe the disarming of the troops at Meean Meer. The quick conception and equally prompt execution of this masterly idea are mid to have "saved the Punjab." In Sir J. LAWRENCE'S absence the whole responsibility rested with MONT GOMERY. To have hesitated a day, to have disclosed by a whisper the rapidly formed design, was to have exposed the European community to massacre. MONTGOMERY was equal to the occasion. Through out the day on which the full details of Meerut and Delhi reached Lahore all appeared as usual. The ball at night went off as other balls do. Before sunrise a few hundred Europeans, commanded by Colonel HENRY ItxttreT, disarmed the entire native garrison, several thousands strong. We cannot over estimate the value of this movement. We are said to owe it mainly, if not wholly, to the genius of ROBERT MONTGOMERY. The next name to which we draw attention is that of lixitnAto Wax; Magistrate of Arrah, whose defence of a weak and hastily fortified building, with five or six Europeans and some fifty Sikhs, against the whole force of HOUR SINGH, elicited the warm approbation of Government, and stands conspicuous among the many recent instances of British resolu tion and gallantry. The country rings with the well-earned praises of Nous and his heroic gar- Aeon WAKE'S defence of the Arrah bungalow was in every single respect a miniature edition of Luck now. The same stake—similar odds—equal pluck— s like issue. One more instance, and we have done. ALONZO MONEY, Magistrate of Oyah, boldly disregarded the orders of his Commissioner, enjoining the immediate evacuation of his post. It was menaced by armed bodies of insurgents and by the liberated convicts of the gaol. Under circumstances of great personal hazard this gallant officer, unsupported save by a single European, re-entered Gyab, poseessed himself of some seven lakhs of tressure,and carried it in safety to Fort William. His conduct, like Mr. Wanes, received! the emphatic acknowledgment of Govern mot. We have selected these few examples of high in dividual merit among the Indian civilians am living types of a numerous class. Among the dead we meld multiply Miasmas. Gao&ne CHRISTIAN, Commissioner of Seetapore ; ROBERT TUCKER, Judge Fattyghrir ; JOHN WEDDERBURN, Magistrate of Hamserpore, deliberately forfeited their lives rather than abandon their posts. Of such, and many similarly entitled, we can only speak with admira tion and regret. For the living we may ask some thing more. We may claim at least for good service like theirs " the civic wreath foe obmrades saved." We may remind her MAJESTY'S advisers that the Civil department of the Bath was especially insti tuted to enable the SOVEREIGN to distinguish high merit in non-military quarters. The Grand Cross of ear national Order glitters worthily on the breast of a Liventsucz. Would its lower ranks be unworthily reeraited from among men who have upheld the national character like Were, Moser, and Monniontar ? A Mead at present on a tour on the Continent bee accidentally obtained and transmitted to us a piece of information, curiously illustrative of the literary tastes of the Neapolitan Government. There is at Naples a fund set apart annually for the 'ostentation of the Official Journal, so ample, as will awmr- from the sequel, ea to be rather more than s'acient for the purpose. On the 28th of last December the following donations were granted by Royal Rescript, as New-year's gifts, out of the our pies moneys of the fund for 1838 : ,To Mauer X—, oorrespowlsat at the Mann 2,400 D. To the director of the asters dr Midi • 1,200 To the director of the Bailiff:9 di 1,200 „ To the directors of the aiiiodico di Onsoof 1,200 „ To Signor C—, to Brussels To Baron Ls correspondent of the Osearga di Augsburg l2O „ To &pier di L—, correspondent of the Crutelico 120 „ The above is an interesting and instructive gradu ated scale, if not exactly of literary merit, yet of merit of some kind, or what is considered such at Naples. The Hake ref firsteet visited there's] pada* at Kew. The Comet of ?Odin welt to=t is the =ening , aid sheeted to the palace la the m The Queen lit Bookiashirs him* at • quarto" before 9 o'clock lag swain, to homer the reprewsiadwe at Her Mepletre Theatre with her . prima. The pert, with the Queen occupied aerrutera of her Majwity• Mao earrieseu wed the escort was moped of • detwiluseet et Liki (!Deeds. The Duke de Nemours Aided tie Dachau of Kent yester day at Clazeserbooas, St. Jams's. the Bavarian Mks later nod Baroness de Gado, and the Austrian Minister sad Content Apponyi, are prevented from partaking d the °oust inthities by recent doomed° affliction. A deputation hue the Carew Doak Cczanz bed an inearview with Lad y ed lltsa Right Hon. R. Lowe ca W etitt ri 2a d the Beard of Trade. The deputed= of Mama Rah= Carter, John Nix, Jam. , Whateensi Beasequk W. Toted (Nnfwellian and Swidiah Vice-Consul), end Mr. H. H. Smiths= Secneary. A deputation on behalf of the United Kingdom Alliance had an interview with Sir George Grey yemeadAty at the Home-office. The deputation omit= of &r W. C. Tra • =yen, Bart, the Mayor of Salford, Mr. Joe. Tooker, J. P. Bradford Rev. Canon Jenkins, Dovish; Rev. Them Hutton, Chaplain of Northampton County Gaol; Rev. W. W. Robinson, Y.A., Club= ; Rev. Dr. M'Herrow, Man chester ; Rev. Dr. Bun= Lowden ; Rev. Dawson Burns, London ; Mr. W. lomakLonidanA Mr. Chas. Jups, Me= Wilts; Han. and Rev. Leland Noel; Mr. Samuel Pope, Manchester ; Mr. H. Dixon, Manchester ; Mr. John Riley, Manchester ; J. Bills, M.D., Riehmoad ; Alderman 0. W. Harrison, Walreflekl ; Mr. Joe. Thema, Halidu and Mr. R. Wainwright. Despatches war* received yeseirday at the Colonial-odloe from the Governors of the West India Colonies. The Daily News and Express were seized to-day. The Bourse was more tranquil to-day. The Rents opened with considerable firmness, and al though a rumour that the Bank of England had reduced its discount was not confirmed, the j highest prices of the day were nearly maintained to the close, when the quotations were 68fr. 76c. for cash, and 68fr. 86c. for account, being a rise of 36c. and Mobilier roes 10fr. The railways fluc tuated a good deal and left off upon the whole lower. A good many money bar gains were done is Orleans, Eastern, Southern, and Western, at a rise of from 10fr. to 16fr.; but for ac count most of the lines fell from 2fr. 60c. to Mr. Lyons fell 12fr. 60c. The budget of 1869 is thus composed :—Expendi tare, 1,766,707,277 fr. ; receipts, 1,773,919,114 fr.; surplus, 7,211,837 fr. ITALY. THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES. (nom oux owl! NAPLES, Jax. 16. Another sorrow has fallen upon Salerno. No sooner has the panic occasioned by the earthquake begun to cone, than the population are again alarmed by another sad event. The tooth of St. Matthew the Bishop, one of the precious relics of the church, has been stolen. It disappeared during the agitation consequent on the late disaster, and this in cident is only another proof of that moral disorder which is often perceptible in times of great social distress. The bishop has ordered the excommunica tion of the sinner, but to no effect ; processions, with torches, have been made, all equally useless ; the precious relic, which has saved Salerno from so =soy misfortanes, is not to be found. Can this incident be in any way connected with the con finement of the Protestant English engineers in the prisons of Salerno P To their case, the case of our countrymen, I must now eall your attention in all sober serious ness. After hopeless expectation that their trial might come on from month to month, the month of January had been fixed upon as the extreme limit beyond which even Neapolitan tardiness would not venture to go. It is now the 18th, and I see no pro spect of the trial coming off at present. It is not amongst those causes which are decided by the court to be taken during the next fifteen days. We must therefore look forward to February, the ninth month during which our countrymen have been confined. That a still farther delay is contemplated is evident from the fact that the "termini" have not been fixed upon—that is to say, the days on which the court will receive the report of the line of defence about to be adopted by the counsel of the prisoners ; for unless I am misinformed, this report has to be presented before the trial takes place, and the court may object to it. The greatest cause of delay, however, will now arise from the fact that two of the prisoners have appealed against the competency of the court of Salerno to try the cue. The appeal is made to the Court of Cessation, which sits at Capua, and there can be little doubt but that the decision of the government to try the case at Salerno will be confirmed, delay will be occa sioned, and it is that which is desired by men who are placed in jeopardy of their lives. No term, therefore, can be affixed to the sufferings of our countrymen, and probably we shall be well into the spring before their case will be decided on. It is asserted, though probably before I despatch my letter I shall be better informed on this point, that the court has refused permission to a gentleman at Salem° to act as counsel for some of the prisoners at their request ; or, rather, it is said that it was in sinuated to him that if he left his house he would be arrested by the police. Than this of course no more effectual obstacle could be raised. Since writing the above I have ascertained that the appeal to which I alluded was brought before the Court of Caseation last Monday, and quickly re jected. The cause will therefore be tried at Salerno, and probably at the beginning of next month. As regards the refusal to permit the advocate to act for some of the prisoners who required his assistance, the facts are, I believe, as follows. This gentleman, who was only known by name to the prisoners, ac cepted the duty thus imposed upon him. From that moment, however, he appears to have been regarded with suspicion by the police authorities—be was not allowed to see the prisoners, and he was limited to gsomeal spot beyond the residence of the Grand Cri urt. Of course, this fact interfered greatly with his regular duties and interests as an advo cate, and at some important stage of the protein he was unable to accomplish what was neoeseary for the advantage of his clients. As a last step he sent an open letter to the prisoners to inform them of the state of the cue, and to recommend them to make some other arrangement : both the letter and the messenger were repulsed. Thus is it that attempts are made to interfere with the honest administration of juatioe. But now for the sequel. The President of the Court represented all the circumstances of the ewe to his Majesty. It was observed that such con duct could not be permitted, as it would only tend to complicate the difficulties with foreign govern. ments, and an order was directly issued for Signor to be permitted to perform the duties assigned to him, under the obligation, however, of returning to Vietri, which is within two miles of Salerno, every night. The Act of Accusation preferred by the Procurator General of the King to the Grand Criminal Court of Principato Citeriore, against Giovanni Nicotera and many others under arrest implicated in certain poli tical events, verified in Ponza, Sapri, and other localities in the district of Sala, now lies before me. I have not time to translate more than certain por tions touching on the position of our countrymen ; bet I will speak more fully of it in another letter. At page 18 I find the following passage :—" It is also known that Miss White, on visiting Turin, had provided the conspirators with a note written in English, and by herself, and directed to the ma chinist Park. This execrable writing, which was preserved by Park and was seized upon him, shows that he was no stranger to the criminal engagement, and was not ignorant of the object of the same con spiracy. The letter runs thus We desire to avoid the shedding of blood ; our only object is to liberate oar brothers from the horrible prisons of King Bombs of Naples, so justly abhorred by the English. By assisting our efforts you will acquire the consciousness of doing a good act, an act which will be approved by two nations,' Italian and English. Yon will have also the merit of pre serving this vessel for your employers. All resistance is useless. We are resolved on accomplishing our enterprise or on dying." At page 20 it is written : " Henry Watt and Charles Park did not land at Pones, because as ma chinists they were compelled to remain on board. The proof of the guilt of both is clear from this, be sides the absence of ricapiti' papers ; and besides other facts alleged against Park, one grave element is that Watt, being chief engineer, would have directed the vessel to Tunis and not to Pones, had he not been in full accord with Park, and with all the other conspirators •, nor is there any proof of that violence under which they shield themselves." In page 56, under the need of "the evidence of Giovanni Niootera," it is written, " He explained that the note in English (translated as above) and enpprised on Park, was written by Miss White, to make him understand what was treated of, and to obtain his co-operation." The last passage, which I quote from the bill of in dictment, is found at page 89, where the nature of the accusation against the English engineers is technically stated. The Procurator-General charges them with complicity in an attempt to destroy and change the government, and to emits the subjects and the inhabitants of the kingdom to arms against the royal government, and with having procured and furnished the means of committing all the facts above stated. Art. 74 of the Penal Law is cited against them. Art. 123 says : "It is high treason, and punishable with death, to attempt, or to conspire to destroy or change the government, l and to excite the subjects and the inhabitants of the kingdom to erm against the royal authority." Art. 74 adds : " Accomplices pointed out in No. 3 and 4 of this article shall be visited with one or two de grees of him punishment." The clams of the accomplices thus defined are those who may have procured arms, instramente, or other means which have served for such Wiens, knowing the purpose for which they served, and those who knowingly may have facilitated or assisted the author or authors of such actions. Such is the case of the crown against oar coun trymen. The defence has not yet been printed, but public expectation is now directed with great in tensity to the trial, which will come on probably about the end of this month, or the beginning of the next. Exchange on London, 670; Five per Cents., lin Cbt Court. Her Majesty the Queen wu conducted to a state supper, in the banqueting-room of Buckingham Pala* about twelve o'clock as Wednesday night, by the Earl of 81. Germans, G.C.8., Lord Steward of her Maiesty's Rambold. The Queen and the Prince Consort were accompanied by the King of the Belgians. the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prince and Prisons of Pram* and Dear royal trimiters. Ater supper the royal party returned to the ban and cenent room. Her Majesty's piper played • 800kb rad. The Quest remained until half-peat one o'4:leek, when her Majesty end the royal family took their departure, and damelag mend. Theihacheas of Kent visited the Qoeen yeelorday. The Prince Consort and the Prince of Webs, Prints Alfred, the Prince of Prams* lie Princes Albert, Frederick Chides, Predsrke Albert, and Adallan t of Preach, the Primo of Ilfitasatikra, sod Prince Wiliam of Beim and the Duke d dens-Coberg, left Bachinghara Padre shortly Woo am deka yesterday seeming fur Woolwich, to wit assis tie review. Mirjar-Oeneral the Hon. C. Ony, Equerry to the Queen . Uselineed-Colonel Pons by. Captain the Hon. D. de Roe: sal Copan Du Mat, Equerries to the Prince Cowart; and es pass= of the suite of the foreign prison, were in erlsnareoe. The party occupied eight carriages and four, nod tram essrapl by a deachmeat of Light Dragoons. Els sari Mebane the Duke of Cat - ark:4o, ettorlod by Cutout , ' Tyrwhitt, the Hon. Junes Manbankl, mad Woe Clifton, met the Prince Consort at dr loyal Animal. The Priaro Censor! and party returned to Buckingham Uwe la the afternoon. THE CALCUTTA MAIL. INDIA AND CHINA. FOREION-OFFICE DESPATCH. The following Telegram was rewired at the Foreign-021os, through Corfu, Jan. 22, 7.90 a.m. JAR. 17. The Candle arrived at Suez on the 14th instant, bringing dates from Calcutta to 25th December, Madras 29th December, Gallo 9th January, and Hong Kong, 16th December, but no news of im pcetanoe. The East India Company's steamer Pun jaub also arrived at Suez on the 13th instant, with Bombay dates to 29th December ; she left the " Geroze " at Aden, coaling. A small force from Delhi, under Colonel Seaton, encountered a body of rebels at Guingeree, on the 15th of December, took the guns, killed 150 men ; we lost few men, and three officers. Again, on the 11th December, the same column attacked strong force of the enemy entrenched at Putalem, near Futieghur, killed about six hundred of them, including many chiefs took eleven guns with their camp, and parted [pursuing f] the routed enemy seven miles. Our loss was trifling, and including only one officer killed. Communication by post between Bombay and Calcutta had been re-established, letters and papers having been received. The Southampton and Prince Albert, with troops, had reached Bombay, 12th. Lord Elgin's ultimatum was delivered to Yeb, who shows no disposition to —•. The island of Sonan was occupied without resistance on the 15th. GREEN, Acting Consul-General. • Something omitted. We (Timm) have received the following telegram from our Malta correspondent, dated Malta, January 21, 7.30 a.m., and received from Corfu in advance of the Indian mail. " The Australian outward mails had arrived and gone on. --- - - - " ALEXANDRIA, JAx. 17. " The India mails have arrived, with Slates from Calcutta to the 24th of December, and Hong Kong to the 16th. " The Punjab has brought the mail from Bombay, with intelligence to the 29th. " The Furukabad rebels have been defeated in two engagements, in the latter of which, on the 18th, the dispersion of the enemy was complete. Their guns were captared ; our low is trifling. " No further intelligence from Oade. "The 11th Oavalry mutinied on the lit of Decem ber. They were overtaken near Enmesh. Eleven were killed, bat the remainder escaped. " The 17th Native Infantry are under orders for China. " Exchange at Bombay, 2s. 2 2-3 d. " At Calcutta, 2a. 20., for credits. " CHINA. "BLOCKADE OF THE CANTON RIVER. "The French Admiral has proclaimed the block ade of the Canton river on the part of France. The Island of Donau, opposite Canton, was occupied on the 16th of December by the English and French forces. " The Chinese were allowed ten days to sooept an ultimatum. " Exchange at Hong Kong, 4s. lid. ; Shanghai, es. 40. to 611. 6d. " At 3 p.m. a steamer with London mails has been signalled? EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova °lnt PARIS, THORSDAT Eviwino. One of the items mentioned in the summary official report of the short proceedings of the Corps Legis latif on the first day of the session, although it has provoked little public notice, is of great importance, and has not failed to awaken the attention of the inhabitants of the faubourgs 3f Paris, whom it in an especial manner ooncerns—l refer to the presentation of a bill for calling out 100,000 recruits for the army. Since the termination of the Crimean war, there has been on various occasions a parade: of reductions-- announcements have been frequently made that large numbers of men have received indefinite furloughs ; but the public never knows when these men are summoned back to the ranks. It is now pretty dear that all the reserves are ex- handed, and alarger force than usual is about to be added to the army. The comment upon this, made amongst the young men in the faubourgs, is this : " Since the Emperor augments the army in time of peace, it is plain he wants to get us out of the way, and to send us to Algeria, to make railways at five eons a day." _ The bill imposing upon every candidate for the Corps Legislatif the obligation of taking the oath of allegiance, as a qualification, has been laid before the Council of State. The Belgian government has agreed to allow a French commission to sit in Belgium, to inquire into the situation and pursuits of the refugees there, and will compel witnesses to attend the commission and give evidence. The new bill concerning foreigners, which I said yesterday had been presented to the Belgian Ch►mbers, turns out to be merely a proposition to continue the existing legislation until March 1,1861. The Pays says that the trial of the regicides will probably come on about the Bth or 10th of Feb. The court will be presided over by M. Delangle, and M. Chain d'Fst Ango will conduct the prosecution. There is an excellent feuilleion in the Debate: Of this day by M. Rigault, an eminent professor, re_ cently dismissed because he writes in the Antic des Deux Mondes. M. °Tinier de Cassagnac's Merril, and his notion of reviving literature by the aid of HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The second of the " Festival Entertainments" took place last evening. On this occasion it was chid,' musical. Belles new opera, The Bon of Castillo, was per tumid by the English Opera omnpany lately at the Lyceum ; and followed by the Olympic afterpiece, Boots at Me Swan. The anal:gem/mt. were eizeiler to those of Tuesday evening, and the theatre was even mon crowded. The Queen and the Prince Consort, the members of the royal family, and her Majesty. illustrious guests, with a was. similar to that of the previous evening, arrived about nine o'clock, during the second act of the opera, and took their places in the boxes prepared for them. The Queen's party oonekted of the following royal and distinguished persons:—The King of the Belgians, the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wake, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Princes Albert, Frederick Charles, Frederick Albert, and Adalbert of Prussia ; the Prince Holainsollern, Prince William of Baden, the Doke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, the Prince of Leiningen, the Ditcher of Wellington, Viscountess Jocelyn, Counties Hacks, Countess Oriolla, Prince Jonas of Holstein Glocksburg, the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole to the Prism Consort, the Prussian Minister end Cambs. Beensiorff, Count and Countess Perponcher, Lady Caroline Barrington, Baroness de Wangenheim, Count Boos, Count Porkier, Viscountess Cheerio; Countess Wally vonitiohenthal, Counties Marie sa Lynar, Colonel Count de Moerkake, the Clerk Manhal, • Maid of Honour, I.ieate seat-Colonel von Boy's, Berta d'Uckerman, Colonel von Alvessieben, Baron d'Overnhis de Nerieche, Lieutenant- Colonel Ponmatby, Baron de Treakow, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Count von der Goltz. Hohearschatt von Hey mina, Captain von Schlieffen, Adjutant von Boddembrock, Captain Burnell, Captain von Marlow, Lieutenant Chaim, Lieutenant von Richthofen, Lieutenant von der Osten, Dr. Keepl, M. Illaire, and Captain de Coml. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, end Prime Edward of Sam Weimar, joined her Majesty at the theatre. The entrance of the royal visitors did not tame any in - ofthe performance, and was not noticed in an y t r t74 l 7lte audience. It was not tall the curtain had fallen at the end of the opera that any demonstration took place. The curtain then rose again, and " God sere the Queen" was sung by the whole rood strength of the theatre, said loud acolareationsoraving of gentlemen'a hate and ladies' hand kerchief., and other expressions of loyal enthusiasm, which her Majesty acknowledged with her usual grace. Them was a similar demonstration when the royal party retired, which they did not do till the whole performanoes were ear eluded, Theopera was " mounted" with • completeness and splen dour worthy of her Majesty's Theatre. The orcheatre,of which the nucleus was the late band of the Lyceum, was enlarged to suit the magnitude of the house. The chorus, too, was numerous end powerful ; and the performance wee under the able direction of Mr. Alfred Mellon. The pets were mat precisely as they had been at the Lyceum ihe prinalpal characters being sustained by Mir Louisa Ppm, Mr. Harrison, Min Susan Pyxis, Mr. Glover, Mr. Honey, and Mr. St. Albyn. The opera went off with peat spirit and applause. Mies Louisa Pyne, in particular, was enthosiasti oally and sang exquisitely, though she was suffering under an affection of the throat. At first it seemed alight and was scarcely perceptible, but it gradually increased, and during the last act the was evidently singing with pin and effort. However, she bore up bravely against It to the very end; atAlzwever much she suffered, her are and energy were not . She rag the lovely air, " The Convent cell , " the brightest gem of the opera, with an exquinte finish, delicacy, and sentiment, that could not possibly be surpassed. We need scarcely add that its repetition wascalled fov by the acclamations of the whole house. Mr. Harrison also acted sod lam stiperblT, and his principal air was loudly emend. This fine opera nem in public favour with every repetition, and holds a foremost place among the masterpiece's of the English school of dramatic mule. In the afterpleos, Robson kept the audience in roars—or rather one continued roar—of blighter from the first sons to the but. Her Majesty's state yacht Victoria and Albert. Captain the Hon. Sough Dames, to nearly ready to reeelve her crew, who will turn 'me to her mat Tneeday. It la not expected that the royal marriage Soak will leers Ports mouth for Orevemend before the end of the month. Every " available " vessel that can be spared will be sent to the rendezvous off Gravesend, so as to make the royal embarkation as imposing a spectacle as may be under the His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours viaited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Relit yesterday at Cla rence Howe, St. His Highness' the Prince Julius of Holstein Olucksburg has arrived at Flamenco's Hotel, Belgravia, ia order to attend the mintage of the Princess Royal. We are requested to state that their Excellencies the Bavarian Minister and the Bemuses de Cott°, and the Austrian Minister and Countess Apponyi are prevented from partaking of the court festivities by recent domestic afilictlca. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort arrived at their residence in South-street a few daya since from Bad minton, where they hare beat entertaining menpany for some weeks past. The Maio of Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelham Clinton leet town yesterday aftersooa on a visit to Prances Countess of Weldegrave end Mr. Harcourt, M.P.. at Nuns• ham Park, Oxon. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere arrived at Bridgewater House yesterday, from visiting the Earl and Countess Cawdor at Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire. The Countess Cowper and family are passing the mason at Panshanger, Herts. The noble earl returned to torn a few days 411011. The Earl and Countess of Desert arrived in town a few days since from Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Sandwich will return to town to-morrow, from Hinchinbrooks Houma, Hunting donshire. Lord and Lady Raglan arrived at their new resi dence, in Rutland-pt., on Monday last, from hiedresfield Court, Worcestershire. Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley left town yester day for Winfield House, near Li :bridge. Lord Norreys will come to town to-morrow from ! four men and a corporal are ridiculed with exqu i o nt e visiting Frances Countess Waldegrave and Yr. Haroourt, I jf .In this paper M. Rigault defends Victor et Nunaham Park, Oxon. Hugo against the infamous attempt made by the Lord Lovaine left tclitn yesterday morning for Univers to implicate hint in the crime of the Rue Albury Park, near Guildford. Lepelletier. After quoting some verses of Boileau, The Baron Miltitz hu arrived at the Brunswick • M. Rigault says : Hold, Bt. James's, from Wiesbaden. The lion. 8. F. We CM cite Boileau, and it is more honest to dose than to Grew has also arrived at the same establishment. quote perfidiously from a poet of the nineteenth century a The Rev. Canon Trevor is appointed assistant few wild verses born of the delirium of an exile, and to eon_ Pkes neat them with the crime of these assardne. This poet is preacher at St. Phthp's Chapel, Regret-street, in the et the Ray. J. 11. Bellew. I denounced as an instigator of bloodshed, le order to wreak WY-minimize ABBEY SERVICES.—The following, vengeence upon him under cover of puLlic indignation. We we believe, will be band to be • °onset list of the preachers are all of us liable to be denounced in this way, jut se it was at these SWIMS be the retnehader c 4 this and the whole of in the blackest times of Roman deletion. We know nothing the madag month :—Jsn. 24th, the Bishop of Oxford , 31st, whatever of than pamphlets printed abroad. At least all we the Ra. C. J. P. Eyre. Feb. 7th, the Rev. Dr. Mobrrloy, know of them Is a single vase, which applies, we are told, head masier of the Winchester School; 14th, the Bishop of to you zealous, informers, who so opportunely choose your Lintels ; 21st, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol; 28th, time for making quotations : the Rev. Dr. Thames., Provost of Qtaesee College, Oxford. " Your swiss dot Morrows ei wee is' Mos Ales codetres." THE UNITED STATES. The United States mail steam-packet Amp arrivedat Southampton yesterday, having left New York on the 9th inst. She brought specie far England to the amount of 271,900 dollars, and few France 190,00 0 dollars._ On the 7th inst., the President sent to Coupe s his Messag e upon the question of the arrest of th e filibusters in Central America. He mays : In capturing General Walker sad his command after they had landed on the soil of Nicaragua, Commodore Paulding has, in my opinion, committed a grays error. In regard t o Nioarsgus, she be; sustained m injudica by the act of Cos. modem Paulding. This has enured to her benefit, and re lieved her from a dreaded Invasion. She alone would have any right to complain of the violation of her territory, and is quite certain that she will never alifeiell this right. It unquestionably does not belong to her invaders to complain in her name. She has been rescued by Commodore Pauld ing from their usaults. The error of this gallant altos consists in exceeding his instructions and landing his milers and marines in Nicaragua, whether with or without her con. sent, for the purpose of making war upon any military force whatever, which he might find in the country, no matter from whence they came. _ The President gives Commodore Paulding credit, however, for pure and patriotic motives. He de.. clues himself u determined u ever to execute the neutrality laws, observing : The mime of uni tis e on foot or providing the means for military expeditions within the United States to make war spinet a foreign state with which we ate at peace, is ens of an aggravated and dangerous character, and early engaged the attention of congress. Whether the executive pommels any or what power under the constitution, inde pendently of congress, to prevent or punish , this sad similar offences against the law of nations was a subject which engaged the attention of our most anima states. men in the time of the administration of General Washing. ton, and on the occasion of the French revolution. The act of oomgrems of 6th June, 1794, fortunately removed all the difficulties on this question which had existed. The 6th and 7th motions of this act, which relate to the present gnedien are the same in substance with the 6th sad Bth sections of the act of April 20, 1818, which have now been in force hir a period of more then sixty years. The military expedition rendered criminal by the act must have its origin--mnat begin or be set on foot in the United States—but the peat object of the law was to save foreign states with whom we were at peace frees the ravages of these lawless expeditiess um =seffing from oar shores. The 7th maks dew, which simply deems mime and its pemilmemet heft, he,. been = to accomplish this purrs sod res our in duties In order to rinder tin law elpeeral, it waa =OW Ng is prevent the °err*. on el ea* expeditions to theft consummation after engird ancenedad in leaving our shoe% This has been done ellselnally, and IR dear and explicit guaga, by the authority glum to the President under the Bth mastics of the act is =peg the lad and naval forces of the United States for the purpose of preventing the carrying an of any such expedition or enterprise from the temtory ere jurisdiction of the United States, spinet the territory or domain of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, dis., trict, or people with whom the United States is at poem. For these reasons had Commodore Pauldg intercepted the steamer Fashion with General Walker and his command ea board at any period before they entered the port of Son Juan de Nicaragua, and conducted them hack to Mobile, We would have prevented them from carrying on the expedl ion, and have been not only a justifiable but aprai eworthy act. The President goes on to condemn, in the severest terms, the enterprise attempted by Walker and his accomplices, saying : It well deserves the severe punishment inflicted upon it by our laws. It violate the principles of Christianity, se. ratty and humanity, held sacred by all civilised nations, end by none more than by the people of the United Stares. Die guise it as we may, snob a military ex ped ition is an invita tion to !bitches and lawkes men to enlist under the banner of any adventurer to rob, plunder, and murder the anemia. log cruses of neighbouring States, who have never done them harm. It is usurpation of the war making pow, which belongs alone to Congers. The government itself-. at least in the estimation of the world—beoomea an woos. pito, in the commission of this crime, unless it adopts all the mans nernewry to prevent and punish it. The President remarks, however, that it was only through the action of the judiciary that Walkee could be lawfully held in custody to answer say charges against htm, and therefore even when the United States Mars hal brought him to Washington on the 29th ult., the executive was unable to recoil aim him as a prisoner. In conclusion, the President says : It is beyond question the destiny of our race to 'prod, themselves over the continent of North America, and tIY at no distant day, should events be permitted to tales *lf own natural course. The tide of emigration will Bow bin South, and nothing am eveednally arrest its program. X permitted to go there peacefully, Central America will ma contain an American population, which will confer drip and benefits as well upon the natives as their reepeodm ge• vernments ; and liberty under the restraint of law erfil pew serve domestic pesos, while the different transit rontesaersa the Lamas, in which we are so deeply interested, will ham' assured protection. Nothing has retarded this happy cce• &tics of Weirs so much as the unlawful expeditions whisk have been fitted out in the United States to make war up* Central American States. Had one half of the number d Andean Mama who have miserably perished in Ms Id dkestroas inelition of General Walker settled in Nicer. ova as peaceful emigrants, the object which we all duke would are this have been in a great degree acesentbstad! Thus expeditions have caused the people of the Oiallig Ausarten States to regard us with dread sad implika. It is oar policy to remove this appAsalion, sad ear vines than that we intend to do good, sad ad evil. We desire, as the leading Power on this condom; le open and, if need be, to protect every transit route scree' des isthmus, not only for oar own benefit, but for that of tits world, nd thus open a free amen to Central America, Pi through it to our Pacific par maions. This policy wss coot. mewed melee favourable auspices, when the expedition under the command of Genteel Walker romped from our territories, and proceeded to Punta Anne& The truth is that no administration can successfully conduct the heap affairs of the country, in Central America sr alembics, ifS is to be interfered with at every step by latrine military ekr peditions set on foot in the United States. Accompanying the documents p üblished is a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to the commander d the steamer Fulton, dated October 12 last, in whisk he tells him that his instructions do not authorise him to act arbitrarily or upon mere suspicion, bat where he found an American vessel manifestly Br gaged in carrying on an expedition or enterrisa from the territories or j urisdiction of the United States against Mexico, Nicaragua, or Costa Rica, his will use the force under his command to prevent its and not permit the men or arms engaged in it or dr stilled for it to be landed in any part of Central America or Mexico. Similar instructions were sent to Commodore Paulding. A despatch from Berne says :—" The Federal Council has applied to the government of Geneva to insti tute an inquiry to ascertain what have been the demeanor and conduct of the Italian refugees in these latter times." A Berlin letter states that M. do Jaamund, tbs chief editor of the Politielies Wocheiblet, has been elated by the Prism. of Freesia to draw up the official account el the marriage ceremony of his etc, Prince Frederic William 4 with the Princess Royal of England. Thin fact has km much remarked on at Berlin in consequence of M. de legman& having been for many years at the head of the above-named opposition Journal, which has Jassy' de• fended with great many the idea of German unity and the principles of ultra libenalhon. " The Rhine," says the Costrrier chi Bas-Rhia, " now presents the most curious appearance. In tens queues of the drought which has prevailed sinter Yet summer the river oppoeite Kehl has no greater width theet the ord in ary one of the 111; and all that remains of the stream is entirety on the German side of the river. The aY bed forms a wide beach of sand united to the French teak. All the boats which support the French half of the bridge are aground on the sand, and thirteen or fourteen Badge boats only remain afloat. The bank of sand and gravel which now supports the bridge not being perfectly level, the platform of the bridge describes the most singular curvet. The water Is remarkably oleic, and towards the Germs , side the heads of the . piles of the old fixed bridge may be clearly perceived at the bottom of the stream. N visitces are every day arriving at Kehl to witness title kr " s ever, within the memory of man," says the Salsa Aiblie of Lyons, have the waters of the Mons NA and of the &One Use se low as at the present nicsame. 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