The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-07 00:00:00

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MBITAM t. a ..■ .61131CieilLIC=11 1101 WaTlll AT LONDON BRIDOI. fraja-I=`,. Y. 4 g. &ONDON. FRIDAY. JAN. 7. •• Ac +Taft mutt well know that from England she could ecrect no help in a war waged for the •' !maintenance of her Italian dominions, and that " no S!atesman, whatever might be his tiews aa to maintaining the balance of policy, world venture " to make such a proposition to the popular branch "of the Itratinh Legislature." This plain truth was stated in the limes of yesterday. We think it of some importance to fix oar contemporary . • . . . with the explicit sad unqualified admission of this significant fait. It is even so. English stateless cannot, if they would, aid Auattia in Italy, foe the simple and sufficient memo that the English People will not consent to the expenditure of tows drop of English blood or one coin of English money in the Dam attempt to rivet a foreign and oppresaive yoke on the neck of a down-trodden people straggling to be free. We should like to see the English Minister who would due to more war estimates for such a ptuposo as that. The thing is so palpably absurd that 'Tea the Loses, compelled for once to love Truth better than Austria, has been moved, in terms the most unequivocal, to confess its impossibility. That much, then, is clear—that dream is gone—that bad hope has vanished into space. The Diplomats and the Balance-of - Power men will never be gratified by the spectacle of free and Protestant England fighting side by side with despotic and Pope-riiden Austria, in order to mash out, under the hoofs of her old oppression, the resistance and the hopes of Italy. Wbat then is the part which England is to play in that struggle of the Nations which all signs announce to be not far distant ? The answer to those who look with a single eye to the welfare of their country, is simple in the extreme. England has no part or lot in tale strife. She cannot and she will not strike a stroke for Austria in Italy; she need not, and therefore she will not, strike a stroke on the other side. If what all the aspects of the time announce should coma to pass, if the cloud that now gathers over Europe should burst in war, English statesmen will have but one duty—the observation of a strict though of courses watchful neutrality. If, u we are confidently told, France and Russia are pledged tosuppurt Sardinia in the impending struggle. the aid of England craned be required to increase the strength of such an alliance embarked in such a canes. The Italians are twenty-five millions, and the Italians have at length been crushed by despotism into an unanimity of hatred. Here then are the parties to the strife on the one side, France, Russia, Sardinia, and a vast population impassioned by hate and panting for vengeance : on the other aide, Austria, commanding no loyalty which she cannot coerce by her cannon, and safe in the possession of not an inch of territory which is not covered by her troops or contained within her fortreeves. We are told that Austria will make a stout fight of it. No doubt she will. Her army is brave and well diaciplined. Her garrisons are skilfully planted, and fortified with the utmost skill of which engineer ing science is capable. The spirit of her young Er canon is high; that of her aristocracy proverbially elastic under discouragement and defeat. Her his tory has been one long record of a national life tena ciously prolonged under disasters, and miraculously restored after ruin. No doubt Austria will make a sturdy fight of it ; but will her resistance be so obstinate and prolonged that France, Russia, Sardinia, and the twenty-five millions will be compelled, before they can do their work, to ask England to Sing her sword into the balance ? The very question is an insult to the prowess of the three Powers and to the spirit of the Italian population. No; England cannot and will not draw the sword on behalf of Austria—she will not, for she need not, =sheath it on behalf of the enemies of Au,tria. Her line is absolute neutrality ; her strengtn is to sit still. She has work to do at home from winch our Politicians and our Diplomats would only he too glad to call her away by raising the disturbing slogan of European war. Let us give no heed to this interested clamour. We have had enough and too much of mere Valance-01-Power wars. It is time that the world shook itselt free (torn this costly nightmare of its ruler.. We w not war in Europe for fir mints ; we will work at home to realities. We want to strengthen and complete that free polity which in its•;f and in its fruits is the first concern for us and fir our children. We wish to see that freedom e 'tended to others ; but we have deeply learned this lesson, that the °sly freedom worth having is that w►ich men and nations earn for them selves. That which is conferred or imposed on them by others proves too often but a fatal gift—a veil of Crewel or a shirt of N which dooms the wearers to colivalsions and death. If twenty five millions of Italians, aided by France and Rossi's, cannot shake off the yoke of Austria, no assistance which England can buitow will enable them to do so. In the apprehension of a calamity so terrible as a general European war, it is natural for all the friends of human happiness and human progress to desire that every available means should be exhausted before reverting to the actual arbitrament of arms. No doubt if the paaaiona of princes were amenable to reason, and snbotdinate to an en lightened sense of their own interest and that of their people, the question of Austrian domination in Italy might be an eminently tit subject for a European Congress. If the condition-of-Italy ques tion, as submitted to the Paris Conference by Count CAtolli t had really been entertained by that Parliament of the Nations in a spirit worthy of its paramount importance, much evil that now presses upon tie might have been avoided, and many imminent dangers have been averted or postponed. The mode in which the subject was . . introduced to the notice of the Conference by the Representative of Sardinia was worthy of the im portance of the theme and the gravity of the crisis. It was earnestly submitted to the collected Powers of Europe that the state of the Italian Peninsula i was the common concern of all, inasmuch as it in volved a standing menace to the general peace of the world. The Ministers of England and of France were not indisposed to support the reasonable and farsighted views of Count Cxvottit. But there was an insurmountable obstacle. Austria would not for a moment allow any proposal to be mooted which in any degree tended to interfere with the unimpaired ascendancy of her detested rule- And so it would be always. Austria is not to be Foto:oiled out of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces. Inheriting the traditions of the old Oerman Raison, and counting back some centuries of her own domi nion, the Imperial House can only be uprooted from the land in which her supremacy is felt to be a blight and a bane, by successful insurrection or ♦ictorious war. It is one of those cases of usurped dominion which still necessitate an appeal to the ultimo rats'., of arms. It is an oppres sion exercised over an alien and reluctant race, a sway which nothing but force could have imposed, and nothing but stronger force can sweep away. It is not a thing of yesterday. It is closely inter woven with all the traditions of a proud and dominant aristocracy. It has long been a constitutive portion of the modern State-System of Europe. if, as we firmly believe, the time has come when Italy, under the con stitutional headship of Sardinia, is ripe for national independence, it must be obvious to all that the days of this foreign oppres sion are numbered. lint to suppose that it will be surrendered without a struggle, to imagine that good offices, and moral simian, and diplomatic interven tion will sap the base of this old proud fabric of Imperial domination, appears to %iv rather a dream of the closet, than a reasonable anticipation of the Council Chamber. If, however, we be wrong in this judgment, if the time for available interposition be not gone by, if the passions of an oppressed people on the one side, and of their foreign rulers on the other, he not raised to • pitch which makes both equally deaf to terms of compromise and tenders of accommodation, we shall only be too happy to be convinced of oar error. if the English Cabinet are of opinion that the way is yet open for this species of amicable intervention, it is of cone.e their bounden duty to interpose their good offices without loss of time. If there be, indeed, any chance that the con current action of England, France, Russia, and Sar dinia can amicably settle the Italian question, let the experiment be made forthwith. Vies, If/S Coagres! Trois, ()stars Coagris ! —OA many Congresses as you please—should, without sarcasm, be the burden of our song. We confess, indeed, we hare no such hope. Vienna, Verona, Paris—lBls, 1822, and 1858—have somewhat shaken our faith in Congresses. Be this as it may, we return once more to the point with which we started : if Diplomacy fails and war ensues, in that war England must be neutral, as long, at all events, as the contest is con fined to the settlement of the Italian question so be tween France, Russia, Austria, and Sardinia. In the issues of that war we have no substantial interest. l As far as the internal condition of Italy is con owned, almost any change would be a change for the better ; the substitution in the North of Italy of Sardinian supremacy for Austrian domination would be an infinite improvement ; nor can it possibly concern the tax-payers of this country that a MunAr, in the South, should take the place of a BoesA. On the other band, as regard, our external relations, we should lose nothing by observing • wise neutrality while the contending powers were exhausting their resources in the costly struggles of an internecine war. Till England's interests or Europe's freedom are endan gered it is our policy to be neutral ; when either is imperilled—then, but not till then, it will be time to strike the blow. Tli E EXFRESs. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1859. JUVENILE PETE AT THE MANSION HOUSE. Yesterday evening the Lady Mayans+, entertained 1 • large party of juveniles in the specious apartmeeta of the Mansion Homes. The company, which exceeded 600 in nomber, commenced arriving ;timely after an o'clock, and were received in the saloons by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress. It the drawing-rooms were exhibited several of the patent revolving Wawa:oyes of Yarn. Napetti and Zemin*, ethibitaag their beautiful tesnaperist views of Egypt and Nubia, the Holy Land, sad also many views restudy takes la ladia. There were also several edscalional microscopes of Meets. Smith, Beck, and Beck, aed one of their beat achromatic microscopes in its most complies for.n. There were also some of their new achromatic seereoseopet with beautiful transparent riPIFO of Spain, Saxony. Switaerbuid, &c., and Glorhsat's oolonr-top, • beau tiful contrivance foe explainiog the phenomena of colours. Ladd exhibited sours sew forms of coicrwropes, having • very light appearaoce, combined with steedinese. In addi tion to these most intimating and scientific objects, which meted the meet lively interest among the young guests, them were also several stemorcopte on • psdeetal, from Messes. K.igltt and Co., wi th pictures from the Holy Lead, atiorceseepea Ike. Dancing cornewored in the saloon at sewn elekek, and wee kept up with great spirit until eight, when the Scrim-ball wee thrown open for the szansitna Crme's wended's] &silty of natural magic, waehlolai peat sleight et hand with the power of weeteatly keeping the alkalies of his audience exeitad ; mod in tie omens of his exhibition he Ake:dared a variety of new tricks— marvels undiscovered by hie admiring &edict*, vrhe impressed their wander and &tight by load wed repented piesdite. During the Worm& Master . Drew Deer. a yen* of tan years of age, pawned a eels as the date with grist toots and exereties. Hs lea papil of Mr. Richardson., sad bee already bad the honour of appeariog before her blOesq. Ladd, of Chancery-less, was mot eurowsful In the exhibition of some new and seisatiSa expcnicents of elec . tricky, produced from a very powerful ir.ductsin coil, coo t lathiest us mike of wire, worked by • smell galvanic battery, producing laparke sad colours of a Wiliam au , meter by Wag passed through • partial • vacuum of varloos gema The Lady Mayrwere's youtig guests then danced is the rtHall ascii ten titlark, when supper wee weed; the a party broke op ems after 12 o'clock, highly de r Halted with their kind and hospitable recepumit arid the ' eeriwl SIO11•001 0 1 01, of the evening—tensinatiog ono of the most brillisat goer; es we have witnessed at the Man e liewhearsa We are requested to state that, ea and after the 15th January, the yuhlir Mil be admitted to Mem the pie. lane of the Nat loael Portrait Oelkey, at flia temporory seertsesess, 29, Great Claorge-etriet, oa Wodeeadaya and &Mediae's, by &hats, to Oa obtained (ea in the mai of the Dalai& Gallery) Mather Moesee.Coinagbl, Poll Mall East ; of Me en. Grams, Pell Mall ; or et Ms. lots Smith, New Bood•atteet. PRIAILATATION 07 A BUST or THZ PIUNCS CONSORT 10 TII R MANCOISSTIR CoRPORIVTION.—On Weiereeley. at an adjourned tesettng ef the thwollamier Contoefl,ft use unettne,nely decided thee the maentatenet the Prince Con tort, premsted through Mr. T. Poirlasira. os brbalf of the exeratan ansoraltree of the Art Teetettroe Kthinition, should be secreted; sad it was ariemill sn be pieced Melds that of her M.j.ly is tbe bal a the tore. boH. The urn hod, lake that of th• Clore, was esetuird by Kr. Y. Noble. Ebr Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 6. The Prince of Wales dined with her Majesty yes- terday, attended by Colonel the Hoe. R. Bruce and Captain Grey. The party included the following Csitore, who arrived in the afternoon .—Tbe lion. Frederick Brace, Lieut.-General Sir William and Lady Codrington, and Sir Charles Eastlake. The Her. Yn. Baldulph bed thehonour to be invited, The bend of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance, and played during dinner the ilstrture, Le Lee 4M FM - . F . 40)!re01!..:: ChI . 9IMITI) Ter Me. &me 111 t. ll. w the flaked haze Coburg. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the Drawing-room the _ . . 1 . &;": Yelra Renctevo. Duette, and OM 1. • • Mount of Oliver ik thofen. Eaut..M on Ro•lan Mololies The Prince Consort went to London this morning, attended by Lient.-Colonel Ponacaby, and visited the gallery of the Photographic Society, in Suffulk -street, Pell-moll East. The Prince of Wales rode out on horseback, attended by Captain Grey. The Right 11 , a. J. W. Henley Dm arrived in town from hie at, Waterperry, Oxfordshire. Arrangements for the reception of the Prince of Wales have been made at the Hotel des Isles Britemniques, on the Piezza del Popola, Roma. Prince Alfred left Malta harbour on the 30th nit, under • royal salute, in her Majesty's steam frigate Bury&lus, whose next destination is said to be Tunis. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan conveys to her Make,. the Queen the three magnificent artificial bouquets of chenille work, made by the sisters or nuns of St. Catherine, and presented to his roysi highness by the governor, the Bishop of Malts, and the mercantile community, according to the ancient usage of the Maltese. His royal highness hoe also sent home a ksnool, or Birchirears stove, and an imrenyh hilt, or fan•betlowa, se Maltese curiosities. The Duke of Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelham Clinton will return to town on Tuesday next from Clamber Park, Notts. The Marquis of Hastings has left Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, for Coda. The Earl of Malme•bury has returned to Heron Court, near Christchurch. The noble earl and countess ace expected to come te town early in the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Arabella &Aril"' West are staying at Dover. The noble earl is in improved health. The Earl of Wilton has arrived at Moor Park on a visit to Lord and Lady Ebury. His lordship is expected in town in a few days. The Earl and Countess of Harrington are enter taining • euxasion of visitor, at Elvaston Ceatle, Derby shire. . _ _ The Count and Countess de Jarnae have left town on a visit to the Doke of Bedford. at Woburn Abbey. The Earl of Lichfield, who came to town from Bane, Court, the Margnis of Ahernorn's seat, In the county Trona, otressly to attewl the funeral of the lion. Mts. Anson, will return to Ireland to-day. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have re turned to Brosdlande to receive a select circle of friends be fore they come to town for the meeting of parliament. Viocount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton are ' peening the warm at Ashdown Perk, the seat of the Earl end Countess of Craves. Lord Crewe arrived at his residence in Hill-mtre lid evening, from Crewe Hail, Cheshire. Sir John Shelley arrived in town, on Wednesday, from Wale., and left yesterday for Mansfield Perk, Sawa. --- The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby had a party at - - Knowsley, on Monday, coosistiog of the Hon. Sir R. T. Gerard, Bart., Sir T. 0. Haskell, Bart., Colonel Talbot, and Captain Meshy, shooting over a portion of his lordship's estate in Bickerstsffa. Within five hours the sportsmen succeeded in killing 837 bead of gaine—phesaantN hares, and woodcocks predominating. Some excellent shots were made during the day. On Monday afternoon, u the Marchioneu of Westminster and her daughter, the Lady Theodora Grosvenor, were proceeding in their carriage up Pompeii street. Chester, the fore part of the vehicle broke front the carriage, leaving Lady Westminster and Lady Theodora In the body part. The hone proceeded with the box or " dickey" on which the servants were seated ; but they soon Wowed themselves from their dangerous position. Mr. Ralph Earle, who hu acted for months as private eecretary to Mr. Disraeli, is appointed, It he said, paid attaché at Constantinople. He was unpaid attache at Paris when Mr. Disraeli accepted his Denims on coming into office. Mr. Lytton bas also obtained promotion, and joins the embalm at Vienna. Mr. Bonham, many years oozier! at Calais, is made consul at Naples in piece of theists Captain Gallwey. A correspondent of the Post has been told that • Queen's messenger is to receive in future 600 guineas a year and Fay his own travelling expenses. "This," he atm "is scarcely fair towards the men who have abandoned their professions, for the present *et of Queen's messengers ars di of them gentlemen, end many of them belong to the way. They took office and served the crown under the impreesion that they had accepted a place worth about 1,0001. per annum. AU their domestic arrangements were made on such e calculation. Many of them who have families and no privets income will be beggars with 500 guinea a year, all of which will be exhausted in travelling expenses If they are much on the woad, end they most assuredly will be ere long." The full Court of Divorce is to assemble for the third time to-morrow, when the judges In attendanos will be Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Wightman, and Sir Cresswell Cromwell. A citizen of Dublin has received a letter from his son, Mr. Richard Vicars Boyle, ono of the gallant defencisre of Arndt, stating that government has authorised a grant to him of Melds to the value of 1,0001. per annum British, for life, free of all charge, with a reversion to the mho of 80W. per annum to hie heirs; accompanied with a recognialea at his "very valuable services" rendered in his fortified hams at Arrah, in July, 1867. Lord Brougham has accepted the office of Hono rary President of the Associated Societies of the Edinburgh tiniverrity. On Tuesday evening Professor Scott, or Owen's College, Manchester, delivered the fleet of a series of four lectures on the " Revival of Letters anterior to the Refor mation," at the Edinburgh Philorephical Institute. The Rao. Dr. Puaey has taken a house at Alvertoni Pessasee, sad will reside in the town for a short time. Mr. Morris has declined accepting the Professor ship of Law Ia Galway College, offered to biro by his Excel lency the Lord Lieutenant, alp the duties of the office would eeriowily interfere with the learned gentleman's professional wocations. -.--- Mrs. German Reed (late Mies P. Horton) and Mr. German Reed are giving their new entanglement at Edin burgh. The proposed dividend of the Union Bank of Australia for the poet half- year is at ths rats of 20 per cent. per annum. A letter from Rome of the let says :—" Yesterday afternoon his Holiness brought the old year to its official conclusion by attending the solemn r. Deana annually snug at the Jatuits Church, in mere, of a met comments of people, of whom foreigner•, and especially British visitors, formed no ladifferent portion. Indeed oar countrymen ere most widens, in their attendance at every sixlesiestical ceremony in Rome which may afford them an opportunity of meeting together in consecrated building., nut so much for the purpose of cultivating religious inspirations as to biw to their acquaintance, criticise clerical 0001110 W. and Ibsen to the duty tones of the celebrated church-singing soprano, Masters. The indulgence of the ecclesiastical authorities I. *hewn by their forbearance towards such foreigners as seem to consider difference of creed to be • sufficient motive for «everting churches Into concert rooms, sad religiose istivals into receptions or roots." THE. LATE MON. MRS. ANSON.—The funeral of the Hon. Mrs. Anson took place yesterday at noon. The mortal remains of the lamented deceased were conveyed from Eaton Hall, Northamptonshire, for interment at the tool-gum. The following relatives of the attended en the mournful oreasiou :—The Duke of Rutland, the Berl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Lichdeld, Lord Monster, Viscount Newport, Colonel the Right Hun. Cecil Wcld Forester, Colonel the Hoe. Henry Forester, the Hoe. and Rev. Orlando ForeeMr, Lord George Meariere, ! Lord John Manner., and the Hon. Colossi Careen. Major Forester wee amble to attend the funeral from revers position. The funeral was caudated . p r t eete ly 6 ell unnecessary external pomp being avoided. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. PIEDMONT. A Turin letter, of Jas. 4, contains the following conjectural analysis of the King of Sardinia's forth coming speech : "The government cannot talk of war in the midst ' of peace. It does not fear war, and I do not say that it does not desire it, but it cannot confouud its de sires with the reality of things and a regard to the conventionalisms of politics. - The speech will not contradict the current rumours, because it is not for the King to do so; neither will it disapprove them, because they indicate a movement of opinion which cannot be displeasing to his government—a move ment which is, moreover, favourable alike to the na tional policy of Piedmont and to that of the house of Savoy. On this head, therefore, the speech will be limited to a few phrasc3 which, without saying anything positive, will give it to be under stood that as the King will never flinch from his word and his duty, so he is persuaded that he may always rely upon the courage and self-sacrifloe of his people to support and second his government in all their efforts for the development of every practical liberty at home and for upholding a national policy abroad. A few words will probably be thrown in with the view of preventing public opinion from giving way to alarm, and no new subjects of un easiness will be started. The opportunity will, however, be taken to say that the government relies upon the nation to support the King in every pos sible eventuality." However well-informed the writer of the above letter may be, it is obvious that under present cir cumstances the draft of King Victor Emmanuel's speech most be liable to alteration from hour to hour. MILAN. Letters from Milan of January 3 speak of the agitation in that city being continually on the increase. Many families are leaving Milan. The Archduke Maximilian, who was to have sworn ! pealed the Archduchess Charlotte to 'Trieste, to meet the Bavarian princess who is to be the future Duchess; of Calabria, did not think it right to leave the seat of his government. The Piccolo Corriere d'holia, of Turin, contains the following letter : "MILAN, JAM. 3. " I hasten to send you some particulars of a scene which took place here to-day, and which hss some thing of an alarming character. At half-past two o'clock two of the military were quietly molar g their cigars at the door of a house at Porto- Douessina when two persons told them to throw away their cigars, and upon refusal attacked them with their fists. Several soldiers and agents of police ran to defend the military, but the people armed themselves with atones and threw them more particularly at the police. The rappel was beaten, and the shops and churches were closed. Detachments of military, with fixed bayonets, paraded the streets, and tran- quility was at length re-established. A bourgeois was wounded by a sabre cut, and some of the mili tary were also wounded. A police agent was stabbed twice with a poigaani. Everybody says we are in 1847." EXPRESS F ROY! PARIS. IVBILIMINZ &ND autos TBLEGRAPH4 (ROM 01111 OW. CONAILIPONDENT4 PARIS, FELIDAINLOYLNING. The Mowiteur has the following : "For some days public opinion has been agi tated by alarming report', to which it is the duty of the government to put an end, in declaring that nothing in our diplomatic affairs authorises the fears which these rumours tend to create." (PROM 001 OW CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Till:list/AY EVIMINO. The Bourse opened with immense agitation, and the Rente fell to 70fr. 70c., being 65c. lower than the lowest point of yesterday, but within the last half-hour the rumour of a peace article in the Howl- teur to-morrow, coupled with purchases to realise enormous profits, caused a considerable reaction; the last prices were 'Mr. 25c. and 71fr. 45e., being a rise from yesterday of 15c. and 20c. Mobilier rose 16fr. The Northern Railway rose 12fr. 50c. ; Orleans, 7fr. 50c. ; and Lyons and Eastern, 6fr. each. Western and Southern left off without change. We read in the Salta Public of Lyons : Within the last few days It bas been currently reported that the Emperor and Empress are going to Lyons in the spring. This news which we believe, however, is not is any way official, has bees joyfully received by our population, who bow the Empress only by the inexhaustible goodness with which she supporta our charitable institutions, This feeler has its importance. The bulk of the invading army of Italy would march from Lyons. This afternoon the Emperor and Empress went to the Crystal Palace to see the railway carriage con structed for the Pops by the Pao Latina Company. They were received by M. Trelat, the builder, and M. Penon, the decorator of the carriage, who were complimented by their Majesties on the exquisite beauty of the work. PoneA and the Son were seized to-day. A Paris letter in the bultpend afire, ;lays t-- 0 At the reception at the Tuileries on New Year's-day, Prince Napoleon, in the course of a long conversa tion with Lord Cowley, is stated to have announced th►t the imperial government wsa ready to abandon the existing system of immigration provided Great Britain would frankly undertake to assist France in obtaining coolies from the English poasessions for her colonies. His imperial highness is even said to have proposed to Lord Cowley to allow England in return to make engagements of coolies in the French ports in India, and to have added that the operations of both countries should be subjected to all the control that could be required. Lord Cowley naturally received with respectful attention the overtures of the Prince, and said that he would transmit them to his government." The King of Prussia hu commenced the meal routine of sight•seeing at Rome, and great espectaHose are entertsioed of his patronage by the members of the some what numerous colony of German artists asteblistied is Hese. An electric telegraph between Teheran and Tauzin is to be established this eptin t r, and also a railway about eight wiles long between Teheran and Elbotwg, the Shah'a summer resident*• . . A oorrespondent writes to the Nord, from Ant werp;-0 Dash sera to be the order of the day to the array. We knew of the aaltappy duel at St. Baniard ; wither hes takes pleas at Lomita between two officers Ia the gard ens of that city ; and at Antwerp, on the evening d the let, another wee fought with the sabre between two aaa commissioned artillery ofileere. Energetic rneemuree eaght to be taken to prevent there breeches of dtecipline. Let as know core for all if the law of duelling hoe bean abrogated In the Belgian artily." PORTUGAL. (1110 X OUR OWN 001 LISBON, JAN. 2. I am informed that the Marquis de Lisle de Liry will shortly be replaced by another French minister ; the late disagreeable business of the ship Charles et Georges having no doubt rendered each a step pru dent and advisable. It is said that the Marquis de Lisle will be succeeded by M. Fort-Rouen, who was here in 1842 as Secretary of Legation, and is mar ried to a Portuguese lady. The reply to the discourse from the throne has been weed by the Chamber of Deputies, and is now under discussion in the Upper House. As might have been anticipated, the chief topic of interest has been that of the (larks et Georges. The question has been ably and thoroughly discussed in the repre sentative chamber, and has excited a wonderful degree of interest; and the proceedings of the English parliament are anxiously awaited in Lisbon. Although the Brasil packets now bring clean bills of health from all the ports at which they call, the quarantine at Lisbon is still continued. This aboard and useless institution puts everybody to in convenience, delays the mails, confines the passen gers for several days in the lazaretto, and is alto gether a great obstacle to commerce. It would really be of great service if the higher powers in England would bring this matter forcibly before the Portuguese government. The Count de Vitztham has been delegated by the King of Saxony to negotiate the preliminaries of the marriage between the Infanta Donna Maria Anna and Prince George. The Count de Vitethum is already known in Lisbon, where he came as envoy extraordinary to felicitate the King, Dom Pedro, on the part of his sovereign, on the occasion of the royal proclamation. The accounts of the late vintage are very satisfac tory, and the yield of wine has been even more abundant than was at first anticipated. The prices of ports, and all other descriptions of Portuguese wines), must necessarily fall, perhaps not imme diately, because it takes time to prepare it for ship ment, but eventually such must be the case. The church of the English Catholic College of SS. Peter and Paul has been for some time closed for the I purpose of being enlarged and beautified. It is now again open to the public, and may take its place among the best of the numerous temples of this city. Added to its other attractions, it has now the finest organ in Portugal, an instrument built specially in London for this establishment. The president of the college, Dr. Joseph Ilsley, may congratulate himself upon these results of his energy and enterprise. MEER INMATES OP 4 NEWG4LTE CELL. Ex-Under-Sheriff Rote, urging, through the columns of a cotemporary, the reconstruction of the part of Newgate appropriated to women, observes In one room I have seen confined In Newrite a woman—Mary Ann Alice Step by name—who had beaten her stepchild to death under circumstances of unparalleled barbarity. The process of murder occupied some considerable time; but I CSIIDOt write the details, and it would be sickening to read them. She was a clever, minting woman, well educated, and with a very competent knowledge of the law relating to prisons, with which she often favoured the officials, and fall of erievances Sir George Grey, the then Secretary of State for the Home Department, would not remove her from Newgate on account of a suppoeed delicacy of health, and the most effectual stop to the outrages committed by this woman in prison was a threat to get her removed from Newgate. Confined with her was one Celestine Soroner, also well educated ; convicted of cutting the throat' of her child, 10 years old, in a coal-cellar, with a carving knife, and whose conviction was secured by the evidence of a servant girl, Rachel, who slept usually in or on a bed in the kitchen, through which the mother and daughter pealed in their way to the shambles in the mel-cellar, and who, awakened that night, heard the butcher in the act of murder informing her victim that she would . teach the to tell lies.' That servant girl—her nervous system strung in an agony of fear—became many years older that night; for her mistrem, carving-knife in hand, came to Itschel's bed to turn her over and see whether she was asleep, which she pre tended to be. I did not go to sleep, said this witness at the trial; ' I lay awake all night.' The softening influence of prison sesomations on the heart of Celestine Stunner may be imagined when she informed her convict companions that she was sorry she had not finished the servant as well as her own child. The last of the three companions was a woman who, by three different men, had had three children, who, wishing to visit a paramour in the country (whether the father of any of her offspring 1 forget, but I think not), and finding the expense of moving them all more than she could afford, deliberately took two of her children down to • canal, and held them under water until they were dead. This woman before her trial trumped up • deliberate lie with elaborate circurnatances against the policemen who took her into custody, which she adhered to after trial and conviction, bat, in :he imminent proapeot of the gallows, the adroit Led the whole to be false. 'Them three were associated together in one room—vain of the attention they excited and received—as such eliminate tonally are, the more so, the worse the crime and the more notorious the criminal. They were attended by the doctor, the clergyman, the gover nor, the matron, the visiting megistrates, the sheriffs, the under-sheriffs (to say nothing of visitors), who are privileged, some daily and some weekly, to wait upon criminals to hear a statement of their complaiata and grievances. More, much more might be added ; but this is enough to prove that New gate wants further improvemeot." THE LATE SUICIDE OF A BRIDEGROOM AT %ET T•ntl.O.—The death of the young man, Frank Baxter, by bra own hands, on the eve of the thus appointed for his wedding, is still the subject of much conversation in the tows. Various motives have been assigned for the oommies don of the rash act, but the most prevalent opinion is that de destroyed himself in coneequence of his father not giving him the money taken in the course of business on the day preceding the melancholy event, instead of allowing him to retain It for the purpose of defraying the wedding ripeness!. The funeral of the deceased took plsoe on the 30th ult. Os arriving at the grave the young lady (to whom the un fortunate young man was to have been united) seemed over come with Wimp of p oignant grief, and trembled cononi sleety es the Rev. F. Tattle slowly and distinctly read the solemn and sublime burial Reeving, over the corpse of her unfortunate loser. All present appeared impressed with emotion, end many were moved to teary especially when the agony of the bereaved maiden became: so violent that she had to be conveyed away in powerful hysterics. She was lakes through the garden and lawn of the rectory adjoining the churchyard, and thence to her parental abode. The saw in all its bearings will not won be sewed from the memories of Owen who were spectators on the melancholy ocopion.—Ntomford Mercury. 'DIE POLICEMAN'S WHINTLE."—The Tilt superiority, as a mean. of slam, of the whistle Intro duced by the chief constable for nee by the police in cases of sudden emergency over the old rattle, which it has super ceded, was proved in the case of the attempted entry into the shop of Mr. Stiletto. Directly constable Mitchell had seized Foeter he blew the whistle, which in piercing shrill ness surnames the legendary born of Robin Rood, se the bold outlaw wandered through the green glades of Sher wood Forest making "the woods ring." The sound of the whistle was distinctly heard by the two officers on the two up-hill beat., and they at once, at full speed, eau towards the spot indicated by the sonnet. and arrived in an almost incredibly short spar of time. Of craws the still ness of multight, when the confusion of sounds which mark the hour of business activity has ceased, would favour the distinctness of the sound of the whistle: but that it will largely contribute to police efficiency there ten be no pastion.—Stsciford Mercury. THE NAT VIES" IN THE WEST.—Large num- Inn of navvies are now employed on the Exeter, end Yeovil, end Dartmouth, and Torbay lines, which are in course of oossoruction in Devonshire. Eff.ets are making by many be nevolent prime to elevate the ends] and moral condition of these poor fellows, and the results have hitherto been of • very gratifying ch aracter. At Exeter, Mr. Pabst. engineer of the works, has established Sunday evening " Scripture readings " at which many of the attend. A few days ago fift y these men were entertained at • dinner, given in a large ,little-alley, in Exeter, which wee tastefully decorated with evergreens and flags. Aker dinner the navvies prevented Mr. W. Palk, • young gentleman who has sealoaaty ender- vowed to abolish the truck system, which is so detrimental to their Interest., with • handsome silver cup and drank his health with hearty theca. A more Gristly or better con duerrel set of men o laid scarcely be found than this , party of navvies. Oo Christmas-day 280 of them, including their wives and children, were regaled with • pubetantial meal of plum pudding, tee, cake,. &c., In th e Temperance-hall. Tor quay. Fund s were kindly contributed by the Bishop of Exeter, Mies Burdett Contra , Mr. Is. V. Palk, M.P., and LeZer.The room was nicely decanted, and thorough humour and order prevailed among the party. Souse hymn. were sung, and in the intervals short ad dresses were delivered by several gentlemen present, the lest tiby one of the novvies, who returned his hearty thanks e r le kindness which he and his fellow labourers had re ceived during their stay in Torquay, and he appealed to the nadinees which the navvies had shown in helping on the sectsion of the late catastrophe as a proof that no timid ladies need fear the presence of toe "rough oasts of society" in their neighbourhood, and concluded by vigorouely advocating 60/1101WISCO on the part of his beethrea.—Plymouth Jourresi. I CHILDREN'S TOTS.—It is curious to remark the stamps which take plane from one year to another even in the toys made for children. Thus It appears that at present the pneumatic pistols, which were the delight of our juveniles lest year, and were manufactured In ate* met numbers as te raise the pries of den have lost all their vogue. The sale of drums, wet, hasgreedy diminished. Peace ewe. in the ascendent now wtth children as well as their papas. Scientific playthings me all tam rep at present. —Chairmen. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commies cony Evans.) IN UL HOU/MET lIHOWN.-1 EILIIFICATE 1:II1NT111. This was the adjourned certificate meeting. The bankrupt is well known as one of the defendants in the late British Bank trial. He is described under them proceedings sea ship. owner, of Little Smith-street and elsewhere. The accounts have appeared more than once in the Express. The rapt owes tour:secured creditors, 2,5671.; to thoseholding secu rity, 93,4681., including the claim of the Royal British Bank, now under arbitration, 62,9531. The &nets are stated at 2.0001.; property held as security, 89,7651. The net ad journment was taken with a view to some arrangement being come to, whereby • full inquiry into the cam in open court might be avoided. Mr. Linklater, who appeared for the assignees, and also teethe assignees of the Royal British Bank, stated that the latter had thought it their duty to give notice of their ham den to oppose the granting of Mr. Brown's certificate. Upon considering the case, they thought that it could scarcely be brought within the terms of the 201st action, which rendered it compulsory on the court to refuse the certificate ; and at the last meeting he had stated that it was intended to hold a meeting of the assignee at which the subject would be laid before them, with the view of obtaining their acquiescence to Mr. Brown having • certificate of the third clam, with or without such suspension se the court might think fit. An interval of • month had elapsed, and no creditor or shareholder of the bank having intimated in any way • dean that Mr. Brown's certificate should be opposed, the assignees had met, and though not unanimous, a majority of them had come to the conclusion—having regard to the great expense that would be involved in the inquiry—having regard also to the fact that the circumstances connected with the contraction of Mr. Brown's debt to the bank had been already the subject of judicial inquiry, and that he had already suffered some punishment in oonjunctlon therewith—that it was unnecerary to oppose the granting of Mr. Brown's mations. Under those circamstancee, the matinees had the simple duty to perform of leaving the rose entirely in the hands of the court, not objecting to a certificate of the third class being granted. The Commissioner—Of course I look et nothing but them accounts, unless some evidence is laid before me. Mr. Bagley (for the defendant)—l am quite sure that your Honour will look at nothing but those accounts and the evi ldance that is en the proceedings. My client, therefore, wishes to leave the matter entirely in your hands. Of thorn moraine you are • better judge than anybody else, having had the opportunity of looking at them during the entire period that the case has been before the court ; and the not tee being left entirely in your hands, it will be for you to say under what circumstances the certificate ought to be granted, Mr. Linklater—l don't know whether your Honour min understood the suggestion which the ass:guess made—that they do not object to Mr. Brown having a certificate of the third clam. Mr. Bagley—As to that, I should think that the class of the certificate, like everything else, would he left in the Made of the court. The Commissioner—lf you object to this, and think tbat • higher class of certificate ought to be granted, of course I will hear you. Mr. Bagley—Olt, no ; I don't object. It is not • matter ef much importance to Mr. Brown. The Commissioner—Let him have it, then, of the third clam. Mr. Linklater afterwards applied for • private sitting for the examination of none witnesses, in consequence of recent disclosures which had been made. A sitting was appointed. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fans.) IN RC bENBAUD. The bankrupt was a merchant, of South street, Finsbury. This was the adjourned examination meeting. The case n 3 be remembered as that in which large consignments had ben made to Mogsdors, to the amount, it was alleged, of 11,6004 and the property had been seized on some pretence by du agents of the government of Morocco. The bankrupt', liebilitim ere armed' of 30,0001., security being held to the amount of 11,0001. Mr. Holtman, for the sentences, stated that they had not yet succeeded in clearing up the mystery about the shipments to Mogadote •' bra, anticipating no benefit from • furtive adjournment, they would allow the bankrupt to paw. The Commiesioner—l suppose the explanation of the mystery would be that the Emperor of Morocco has swal lowed up these goods. Mr. Canaan. the official assignee, said there would to about 1,6003. of masts, independent of the Mogadore cce. Mlants. r. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupt, who paned, and a day wee named for the certificate meeting. 1.•4 RE W. 0. MAHON. This was en essmination meeting In the matter of Williams OUR Mahon, of 41. Upper Berkeley-street, Went, and of Beach House, Direrlish, bill-broker end commisesonunink The Iselsnos-sheet, prepared by 111mnre. Butler and Canning% commences lot Jan., 1858, and contains the following items To creditors rumoured To liabilities upon bills 3,769 6 6 To creditors and liabilities order petitions to Insolvent Debtors Court To commission received £22,130 5 9 Ca. By cub to official assignee By interest and law caw 968 14 6 By business expenses By domestic and personal expanses By liabilities By nalignidated creditors claims and liabili ties on let January, 1866 13,657 10 9 --- 522,130 6 9 Mr. Chidley was for the assignees, and Mr. Linklater 61 . the bankrupt. Famed unoppoeed. IN HS OEOIOI DILLIE. The bankrupt was a wetchmaker of 18, Ludgate-hill. This was the sitting for proof of debts end ehoiceofessigness. Mr. W. Dudley, jeweller of Birmingham, and Mr. French, jeweller, of Ha tton-garden, were appointed trade aseiegneee. A preliminary statement of Oslo, pre pared by Mesare.Hart, the aceountanta under the bankruptcy. chows I auto of 4,629/. due to unsecured credi tore, with assets eethurted at upwards of 3,0701. Mr. titopher is solicitcr undtr the bankruptcy. IN RE JOHNS. This was the examination meeting in the ease of Thema Coke Johns, printer of New-street- square. The bankrupt partied unopposed, on accounts (prepared by Mr. Maynard) showing debts of 1,9001., with meets sett mated at nearly that amount. Mr. Lair Tepee, on behalf of Mr. Benjamin Franklin Smith, • mortgage creditor, claimed that metals poverty, including • printing pros, should be given up to him. flis Honour woe averse to entertaining an application whisk Involved not only the difficult question of whet were tirMeas bat also that of real and reputed ownwsLip. He would make the usual order for iweignees to sell, with Have to the more to bid, the mortgagee's account to be takes in the resanilme. IN lit TOWNbEND, This bankru pi applied for his certificate a week or two NM. and was opposed on varims grounds. His Honour now gave judgment. He acquitted the bankrupt of fraud, but said that, in thawing ex pellees of 8921. in his election for Greenwich'? ' be had been guilty of a shameful and wanton waste of his amts. As the petitioning auditor (Mr. Shepherd) did not object, the court would great • tbbd•class metilkete. SURREY SESSIONS. (THIS DAT.) NEW COURT. (Before J. E. Johnson, Eq.) TALTILT TIIEFT.-41NOV1AIL CA'V. John Molloy, a young man whose tionnesdaos ere bleat terpretabls, was indicted for stealing $ pair of gloTeo ties property of Mr. Pickens, hosier. nigh-amt, &Edw.& Mr. Lilley prosetanod, and Mr. ltotdamon d e f en ded the prisoner. Edward Hovel, an assistant to the prosecutor, said that about 8 o'clock is the °union of the 24th ultimo the prisoner entrrsd their shop, and asked to be ob hua oes emu kid glovro. Several were placed Won sad the prisoner selected a pair, and paid f or theca. He then naked for another visit, sod as na whom IM O going to fetch them he saw inUoner put a pair into las pocket. Be instantly informed his muter what had ovi curved, who came to the counter sad asked the prisoner whether be we. suited. On his replying that he Wes nor, Ur. Pickens told him he had put a pair of gloves in hut which did not belong to hire, and witness wu emit Werelestable, and on the arrival of the latter the prisoner wee given Into custody. The witness was severely erosive:emitted by Mr. Robin• son, but be positively swore that he row the prisouir pot pair of gloves into km pocket that be hod, not paid for. The prosecutor said that when be wee rell.l into the shop he asked the prisoner over and over spin if he had any gloves in his pocket. Be replied that he had not. Winders however, paralleled that ha had, sad neat for • Why