The Express. — London, England, 1862-01-29 00:00:00

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F. lisiShows sod M M asitsrli:-.o•Wessoi at m. samixxu. Twee grarops. The IhMissibta. 1121 WO Of TIM MM. Wa & Lae• Mow A. Beri, 1. Le" Newhard. *be awakens IrawAls: MIL C. lisalwas. W. W. Craufvnl. —11.4111 L DA.= CLOVD,-04unsimp at NM WATilt AT LWOW iIAIDSI. TIM DAT—lfaralaa. lk. 14m..... Mtwara. 11. Oft T►MMOV —Kaba la. Ift...- Mamma. Ta. Sais. LONDON, WIDNESDAT, JAN. 29. Holum borrow, no less than human happiness, is short-lived. Forgetfulness grows over it " like "groan." The world chokes it with the rank growth of trivial pleasures, vanities, troubles, cares. Time, heedless time, withers it. Life, busy life, with its eager and tumultuous stress, eddies round it, whirls it away, sinks it in secret depths of consciousness unsounded save by the plummet of Death. It may be that this acerbity and transience of grief is a condition inseparable from our mortal existence, on which every parting throws a paring shadow of the final separation. And, in this regard, it is a beneficent infirmity, of . . . . which perhaps only the finest minds feel all the poignancy and the bitterness. But if the most sacred private and personal grief ia the creature of change and circumstance, how long a span of remembrance can we promise to public afflictions and national calamities "No one is missed, " wanted, or regretted." _ This is no doctrine of oafs ; hot thus; ars not days in which good im pulses and generous emotions can be said to " keep." Science, that has girdled half the globe with an electric chain, seems to concentrate the force and precipitate the _ . current of the events it chronicle, at a flash. Pitiless and passionless, it writes human history, not in water, but in lightning that scorches and blasts into nothingness all earthly things. It is in the contemplation of those most solemn scenes at New Hartley and at Earadon that the sense of the fugitiveness of private, and bow much more of public, sorrows has struck us with—why should we deny it 1--almost a jealous peat, It is good for us all to stand at least in thought upon that pit heap, and to look upon all that was mortal of those poor men and lads returning one by one to the dwellings of the dear ones they shall know no more. Relieved at last from labour and duty, and borne by brothers in labour and is duty, all silent and with a grand humility, each to his little home, though no martial poet sing peens over their graves, they deserve to take rank in the annals of England, et least beside the six hundred sabres that rode into the valley of death at Balaclava. The story of the recovery of the bodies of these buried miners, of the devotcd courage of their comrades, the hushed multitude of mourners at the graveyard, has been related fully but simply in our columns. We have no desire to draw too near, or to linger in the train of that forlorn procession. Rather let ns stand uncovered at a distance, and ponder all these things in our hearts. They belong to religious silence, not to rhetorical pathos. It will be long before the Hartley Pit disaster will be forgotten in that North Country, though every year as many strong lives are lost in coal-pits as in a bard-fought ge neral action. Readers of military histories often remark on the comparatively trifling loss of life in battle. Every descent of a working party into a coal-pit is a siege, a c:asrge, a storming of masked batteries. But the burying alive of more than two hundred human beings has fastened on the public imagination with all the force of its ►ppalling simpli city. There is often a vagueness in the account of an explosion ; the bursting of a huge beam of iron is no mystery. Nor is the question of a double shaft a mystery, though we find a professional journal treating the expense as an almost insur mountable objection. We have yet to learn that • question of saving human lives is one of expense. The Hones of Commons, we believe, will regard it otherwise, when the "movement" which has already begun reaches the door of Parliament. Meanwhile, whst is being done for the widows and orphans: There is a tide in public benevolence which must be taken at the flood. Public charity is a pension that has its melting moments, which, if wasted, harden into apathy. The torrent of events is too rapid in these times to permit the future to repair the negligence* of the present and the past. The course of daily history leaves few deposits on its stony bed. At the bottom of all public manifestations there is an immense indiffe rence, and the most abounding stream of sympathy soon rune dry. Even a calamity so unparalleled as this is easily passed by and lost to sight and hearing. Now, then, is the time for charity to bestir itself, and to bring some comfort to thole bereaved households. If ever there was a case of distress that called for instant attention and relief, and appealed to the inmost hearts of an entire Christian community, surely it is this. From the tabour of such men as these poor miners, the City of London and all our great centres of industry and commerce draw the ways and means of wealth and prosperity, and all the homes in the kingdom their moat familiar comfort. Is this not a case fora national subscription I Nay, we say it is an occasion for showing that the charity preached in our churches and chapels, and paraded by societies and institutions without number, is not a pompous mockery ; an occasion when every Christian congregation in the kingdom should be invited to give freely to those whom Comer loved, when every hank, and counting-house, and com pany, and body corporate, and theatre, and music hall, and concert-room should offer willing tribute ; when the rich should give according to their abund ance, and the poor their mite. Indeed the poor are setting an example to the rich already. On the scene of the disaster, indeed, rich and poor have vied with one another in good works. There, high and low, nobly one and all, have done their duty to the living as to the dead. Selfish in terests, and social distinctions, and petty formalisms are forgotten in the presence of the great reconciler of all conditions. Proprietors and employers of labour, priests of all the churches, and ministers • THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1862. of all sects, mourn together as men for their brothers departed. Charity like Death equalises and unites those whom fortune had divided. Verily there is a mod of goodness in things evil when in an age often stigmatized as corrupt and frivolous, calamity Gan bring forth such devotion ! Happily for England the highest example has come from the highest place. That political society is not in danger in which the people are bound to the throne by the golden links of charity and compas sion. Her Marasrv, for whom, and with whom, all her people mourn, had a widow's and a mother's heart for the poor bereaved women and children at New Hartley. Her tender words will be treasured up in after years among that rugged and simple but large-hearted population, and inspire them with an affectionate gratitude stronger than any loyalty that law, or tradition, or prerogative com mands. And the Bishop of Dome* has on this occasion, by simple human kindness, done more in one week for the glory of his MASTIMand the good of his Church than all the controversial theology could do in a twelvemonth to obscure the one and to malign the other. Never, we believe, has a great public calamity been more acutely felt. The subscriptions for the relief and support of the bereaved ones can hardly fail to be worthy of the example which the highest Lady in the land has set to all her people. If there is to be no national subscription organized, at least all public bodies will contribute to the relief of the widows and orphans of the men who saved their country as faithfully as any soldiers or insimen that ever fought and fell under the British hits. And yet there appears in some quarters a slyness and a reluctance in taking up the cause of the afflicted, which it is difficult to account her. One would have thought that even as a setter of fashion the Royal example would be snarly followed at the Mansion-house. Of Mr. Cusm'a own sympathies none will doubt ; bet what is it that makes the Lou) MAYOR so soy in assuming the responsibility of calling a public meeting to promote the wishes of the bene volent citizens who ask him to receive and transmit their subscriptions! Surely this catastrophe at New Hartley appeals to public sympathy as much as even the Irish or the Indian famine, or the inun dations of Lyons. Surely it is as much a national calamity as if these poor colliers had been the flower of our armies or our fleets, and not merely the very pith and bone of England. A correspondent has proposed in our columns the institution of an Order of Merit for the heroes of labour. The idea is a generous and sound one, in so far as it proceeds from a sense of something wanting to the recognition of trite valour. Nevertheless, we freely confess the proposal has not our entire sympathy. It is not English in spirit (we are prejudiced enough to entertain such an objection), but rather French ; we might almost say Imperialist. Where despotism is disguised as a crowned democracy, it is the fashion to flatter popular passions and vanities with gewgaws which serve to decorate the worthy and the unworthy alike. It is not thus that we would wish to see the most disinterested of all heroimns rewarded by a free people. The spontaneous homage of public feeling, the spontaneous tribute of national sy.n pathy—is not this a nobler and more enduring recompense than any rag of " honour" or riband 4. glory t, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND PACIFIC MAILS. ARRIVAL OF MESSRS. MASON AND SLIDELL (sT =scram =mural (nom oos ow, oonaeommerf.) SOUTHAMPTON, WZDNESDAY. Mears. Slidell and Mason, the Confederate Com missioners, who ought to have reached this port on Wednesday, the 27th November last, in the La Plata, arrived here to-day, in that very ship, exactly nine weeks afterwards. They em barked on board the British ship Rinaldo, at Boston, bound for Halifax, on the 2nd inst. Owing to a furious gale the Rinaldo could not make Halifax, and after trying ineffectually for four days to do so she ran for Bermuda. Here the English Admiral on the station offered to send the commissioners home in her Majesty's ship Racer or convey them to St. Thomas, to catch the West India packet. The latter was preferred. They acknowledge having been treated in the most handsome manner on board the Rinaldo and at Bermuda by the British, autho rities. They were received at Southampton by the officers of the Confederate steamer Nashville and other gentlemen. A large crowd gathered together in the dock to catch a glimpse of men who have caused this country so much money and Englandand all Europe such anxiety. No demonstration manmade on their landing. They proceeded at onoe to Lon don, from whence Mr. Slidell will proceed to Paris. Both commissioners are line healthy-looking old men. Mr. Slidell is very much like the portraits of him in the illustrated papers. They only reached St. Thomas two hours before the La Plata left there for England. They complain of bad treat ment in Boston Gaol. The Federal war steamer Tuscarora left South ampton this morning for a cruise. As she was going out the La Plata, with the commissioners, was coming in. (azurines rit.assaitc) SOUTHAMPTON, JAI. 29. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship La Plata has arrived here with the above mails. She brings 75 passengers, 899,559 dole. in specie, and 2,083 packages of cargo. The Rinaldo, with Messrs. Slidell and Mason and their secretaries on board, left Bermuda on the 10th inst., having in the first instance attempted to make Halifax, but failed to do so through stress of weather. She then stood for St. Thomas, which she reached in time for the English mail steamer Le Plata, by which the Confederate Commissioners bed arrived. The La Plata left St. Thomas on the 14th inst. Her Majesty's line of battle ship Conqueror. 101 gnus, had been stranded off the Bahamas and be come a total wreck. It is supposed that her guns and valuable stores would be saved. Her Majesty's ships Nile and Donegal and other smaller vessels had gone to render assistance to the Conqueror. The Mexican forces,23,ooo strong, were at Solidad, Cordova, and Jalapa. General Crags, the Mexican commander-in-chief, had bad au interview with the English and French Ministers at their request. Re gave them notice that he would attack any force marching out of Vera Crus. The financial crisis in Chili continued, and busi ness was exceedingly dull. Agricultural business had improved. A change in the cabinet was spoken of. The news from Peru is unsatisfactory. The po litical world was unsettled. At Tacna the mob had destroyed several distilleries owned by French men for their having used deleterious substances in the manufacture of liquors, which it was sup posed had caused the deaths of many people. Business was dull at Lima. At Valparaiso exchange on London was quoted 48 to 47 ; ou Paris, 4.85. The St. Thomas's Tilavio states that the King of Denmark had been pleased to confer the Order of Denebrog upon Mr. J. B. Cameron, general super intendent of the loyal Mail Steamship Company at St. Thomas. The intelligence of the death of the Prince Con sort had produced profound grief throughout the West India Islands. Trade was dull at Barbadoes. The prices of breaclatuffs were declining. Exchange on London, 30 days' eight, was quoted 490 dols. At Demerara the weather was wet and unfa vourable for the growth of the young caues. Trade was dull and prices nominal. Exchange ou London, thirty days' sight, was quoted 490 dole. Business had improved at Jamaica, sad the new year was expected to be a prozperous one. The sugar crops were being gathered, and the yield was excellent in quality and quantity. The planters' prospects were cheering. For coffee 48a. was paid. There was none at market. Sugar was sold at 15s. for dark, and 18s. to 20s. for fair. exchange on London, 90 days' sight, INS quoted per cent. premium. SOUTHAXPTON, Jaw. 29. Mr. Slidell proceeds hence by the 11.30 a.m. train for London. Mr. Mason will probably leave for London by a later train this afternoon. who my be resident in Europe and Algeria, but ' I not in France, and of one year to those who are not resident in Europe or Algeria. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 24th give long details of the public procession of the Queen to the Chapel of Atocha, to implore the Most High to vouchsafe to her a happy deliverance An immense crowd bad assembled in the streets, and her Majesty was mast warmly received. The weather was, however, unfavourable, rain falling the whole time. It has been the custom in Spain from ancient times for the Queen to make such a public visit when her pregnancy had arrived at a certain period of advancement. The evening be fore, a deputation of the Lower Chamber waited on Iher Majesty to offer their respects and congratula tions ; and the Queen, addressing the young Prince Alphonso, heir to the throne, said :—" My son, tell these gentlemen how anxious you are to render yourself worthy of the name which you bear, and to contribute to the prosperity of the people in the midst of whom you have been so fortunate as to be born." The young Prince repeated words analogous to those quoted, and added that "having heard that the Alphonsos bad always been excel lent for Spain, he hoped not to be less so than they." ADJUDICATION OF THE VICTORIA LOAN. Tenders for 1,600,0001. of Victoria Government Six per Cent. Debentures, being the remaining portion of the total authorised to be raised under the recent Railway Loan Act of the colonial legis lature, were opened yesterday soon after two o'clock, at the London and Westminster Bank, Mr. W. Larnach presiding, as on previous occasions. The attendance was large, and comprised many of the principal members of the Stock Exchange. The opening and reading of the tenders occupied two hours. The letter containing the official minimum was not opened until this process had been com pleted, and the consequence was that the reserved price was not known in the Stock Exchange until four o'clock. It is urged that it would have been much better to have announced the minimum after all the tenders had been lodged, and before they were opened, as was done in the case of the recent India loans. The intimation by the chairman that the minimum had been fixed at 102 was re ceived with applause being a lower price than had been generally expected. It was known in the Mask Exchange late in the afternoon that the ten ders reached a total of about 6,000,0001., and it was believed that the offers between 1021 and 103 would be successful ; but the exact result could not be assertained until eight o'clock. The total number of tenders proves to be about 900, representing an aggregate of about 6,100,0001. All bidders at 1021. 16s. 6d. will receive allotment* in full, while those at 1021. 16s. will get about 14-15ths. All below 1021. 16e. will of course have none. The highest tender was at 1061. lls., and the lowest at 921. 13s. fiL The latter must have been a mistake, 1021. 13e. 6d. being probably meant. One tender was phrased as "at the minimum fixed by the committee," but was re jected as informal. Amongst the largest bidden were Messrs. Mullins, Marshall, and Co., P. Case nova and Co., Laurence, Son, and Pearce, Barber Brothers, Mohan; Harrison, and Co., Hill, Yaw oett, and Hill, R. Raphael and Sons, Walker and Lumaden, Scrimgeour and Co., Ellis and Co., S. W. Waley and Co. The Loan, no doubt, owes its success in great measure to the low value of money, but it is worthy of remark that the price accepted by the govern ment now, when the Bank rate of discount is only 24 per cent., is much below that Forked in July last, when the Bank rate was 8 per cent, and when 1,000,0001. of these debentures were placed. The reserved price on that occasion was 1064, or 34 per cent. above that fixed yesterday. This companion shows the effect of the constant issues of the bonds. The first portions of the Loan were placed at (in round numbers) 107 and 106. The new Debentures were in strong demand late in the afternoon, after the biddings, and closed at 1034 to 4. The old issue was likewise in request, and rose to 1061 to 106. be Court. —a— OSBORNE, JAN. 28. The Prince and Princeee Leiningen are expected to onto' at Oaboroe to-marrow. A deputation from Poetetrest, oseelethar of Mr. D. Leer eta*. J.P., Mr. Joseph Walker, and Yr. G. & Rama. aid aneesapanied by Mr. Miles% ILP., and Mr. Ogden, /LP., bed ea beanie, with the PJelit Hos. O. P. Vigils yesterday, at the eltee el the Pow Lew Board, iThitelvalL Her Majesty's Commilekeers for the Internatienal Br libitioe of 1852 held a inset* at their °Mem is the eineed yesterday. Despatch= woe nerived yestmday at the Oeloniebelbse from the Lent High Commiesiseer d the Ireton lied" and from the Governor d Our& Danpancem wen wit In the Lord High Comminionst of the Lima I. Hie Excellency the Ambassador of France and tie emptied do Finnanlt sod Miss Elphinstone de Flalima Yaw let Omen, Holum on a visit to Viscount and Vineensinn Palmslon at Brosdlsods. _ . . - The Duchess of St Albans and Lady Diana %mete& and Viscount Falkland have left Seutterskelle on a visit to the Earl sod Countess of Zetiand, at Asks Ball. Yorkshire. The duelists and his lordship come to town early mot week. The Marquis of Tweeddale and Lady Jane Hay have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, tam Teeter, N.B. . . . ----•- The Marchioness (Dowager) of Bath has retort to Murtham Court from • toniof its. The Earl of Abingdon has arrived in town from Wythaza Abbey, Oxfordshire. The Earl Grosvenor comes to town on Friday. Her ladyship remains at Calverley Park, Cheshire. The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Moly emu are expected in town in a few days from °mate& Park. _ _ . Viscount Palmerston arrived in London y= day from Brombinds. The noble viseoust visited the King of the Belgians at Buckingham Palace, aad later is the day returned to Broadlaads. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and family come to tows early neat week from Alderley Park, Cheshire. His Excellency Mons. and Madame Fontana have al rived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermynetreet, from Paris. Yesterday was solemnised at St. George's, Hano- ver-square, the marriage of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Somerset G. Calthorpe with Mrs. Frederick Crewe. The swim was performed by the Rev. John Ffeilden, brother- Islay to the bridegroom. In oonsequence of s death in the family of the bride, eery few of her relations were in attendance. &wept those present wore Lord and Lady Oallimego, the lion. Frederick Caltborps, ILP., the Hon. Aggnetwe Caltborpe, the Hon. Nimes Oalthurrps, Captain Obseeker, R.N., Mr. Chaznier, Lord sad Lsdy Alfred Churchill, the Rev. William ;nd Mrs. Nivea, the Hon, Mm. Jobs Ffeildm, Sir Walter sad Lady Mary Farquhar, Mr. Beery Farquhar, the Moo. Cirsavillo Ryder, Mr. Ceo. RAIN Lady Alan Chierehill, Lady Gams ills Somerset, Doom. Lady Magian sad the Hoa. Mimes Somerset, Mr. sad Lady Emma Ibilemeolea, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sanford, Mr. Jame* Orde. Mr. Meaeirtem Mines, &c. After the marriage the bride and bridegroom proceeded to Ninths= Park Loci Calthorpn seat Is Beaspabire. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bancroft Davis have arrived at the Clamed= Hotel from New York. The newly-appointed Bishop of Gloucester (Dr. I Thome* made his lint publics appearance oa Monday aight, at Use Vida '. Means, Clifton, by presiding at the swag meting el the Toiling Maa's Christi's Association. Ha kwaddp's reseptise was eery cordial and gratifying. A Galway oorraspondeut says that the present direst's, el ea Atlantis) Company are fast preparing to bare every** reedy for a growl start when the proper time arrives. Mr. Mangies. chairman of the West India Royal Mall Compsay, gad deputy-chairmaa of the Atlantic Cam pay, visited Gahm are time ego, sad said down the lay, asides limasil thesseildv sarreseust wi►h every mailer prtaisig ba, er nay is sae* the company. The Mends ha ham doehteliMal sad raked sir feet. A burri- awe dais has also twee added to her, sad the @pomace, being sow Rash higher sad larger, Pee bar a edge and command ing appeenanse serer the water. She Idaho wet of the builder's hands In a few weds, and Iha Ostyak eed Anglia will men follow, after having sedagans the are alterations. Ile vuox INWrITIITION LIKTUILIig. —Dr. Maegowau commenced his coarse of Wharfs on Chile and Japan at this institution en Monday evening. The attendance was unusually large, the Hon. C. F. Adams, United States Minister, was among the &Whom. FRANCE. THE CONVERSION OF THE FOUR-AND-A. HALF PER CENT. RENTES. PARIS, iAIII. ?S. The Monitenr of to-day publishes the bill for the optional conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Routes. The new bonds will bear interest from the let of April next. The interests will be payable quar terly. Applications for conversion must be made within one mouth from the date of the promulgation of the present law. An imperial decree will fix the difference (arnate) which the holders of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rentes will have to pay. . - - The Moniker publishes an explanation of the motives of the conversion, of which the following are the salient points : Holders of Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Bente who might wish to convert their bonds into Three per Cent. Rents by buying the latter on the Bourse would have to pay a difference of 8 francs. They will, therefore, willingly agree to pay to the state a sum below this figure. The result of the operation will be to reduce the rate of discount, and to afford industry and great enterprises facilities for providing themselves with all necessary capital. The operation is not an expedient to meet the temporary wants of the treasury, but is conceived in the interest of public prosperity. The obligations trentenaires ma be exchanged for the New Throe per Cent. Rentes at the rate of 20fr. Rents for each obliga tion, without the payment of any difference. A delay of two months will be granted to holders of Four-and-a-Half per Cent. or obligations trentenaires THE HARTLBY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE. (now OR owx NEW HARTLEY, TOM" Noos. The water-bottles, tin candlsboxre, leather hats, and whatever amid be gathered up in the yard seam be longing to the lest as and lads, were brought to " beak" yesterday, sad have bees earetully maredeed by the withers sad Meade, wales to power a precious owners of their "own." From the Lei WS e Webb quatity of between the been hand In weed of the men sad lade' bottles brought to thskonnjethed with the very brief memoranda that have been dleseeseed (the memoranda isdkstiag that the men were meek ethaested sad certainly hopeless the day atm the sadist in the shaft), it is certain that they perished much esdia than was even anticipated—probably on Friday night, the 17th, oertainly on Saturday. Os a tin can marked James &wicks is inscribed, " Friday—My dear Sarah, I leave you." And on another can, not identified, is snatched the beginning of a memege left unfinished, for the writer has tried to carry It to the other side, but having become powerless to do so, there is merely a scratch. The wards on the can appear to be, " Mary, 0 God !" It is stated that another letter ham been received from Osborne, but the oontenta have not transpired. Public meetings were held in South Shields, Gateshead, and other towns yesterday, is aid of the relief fund. A very determined movement ap pears to be set in amongst the pitmen here to call upon the legislature to fore* upon every coalowner the obligation to make two shafts, or at least two means of exit from the pit, in ems et ea amidest occurring in the shaft. HARTLEY COLLIERY RELIEF FUND. Daring yesterday a large number of donations were rewired at the Mansion-boeme, for the alleviation of the distress canoed by the incident at the Hartley Colliery. The total amount re ceived during the day was 1,1241., making together with that which was received on the previous day • total of nearly 2,0001. in two days. lithrOnlAL TO THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—The total amount received in aid of the Memorial Fuld up to last night wee between 20,0001. and 21,0001. Among the principal subscriptions received during the day was 1001. from the Marquis of Normanby, 1001. from Means. Prescott, Grote, and Co., 1051. from the Sun Life Aseuranorooffloe, 1001. from Colonel Pennant, 1001. from the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, and 1001. from the Marchioness of Londonderry. CONDOLENCE WITH HER MAJETTY.—The addresses and resolutions of condolence on the occasion of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, which, es stated in the London Gazette, have been transmitted to the Right Hoe. Sir George Grey, But., her Majesty's Principal Seers trey of State for the Home Department, have been laid before the Queen by Sir George Grey, and have been re ceived very graciously by her Majesty. Addressee and resolutions of condolence, on the occasion of the death of his Royal Menses the Prince Consort, have been transmitted to Furl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to be laid before the Queen, from the British subjects residing at Boulogne, Ostend, and Oporto. An address of condolence, on the occasion of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, from the British residents at St. Peters ' burg, has been forwarded to Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by Lord Napier, her Majesty's ambassador at St. Petenburg.— Gazette. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 25.—The Queen has been [pissed to appoint William Murray, Esq., to be • member of the executive council of the island of Barbelees ; and Howard Lloyd, Esq., to be a member of the council of the island of Dominica.—Gazette. Wurriaau., JAN. 27.—The Kirkdale Industrial and Ragged Schools, in Stanley-road, Kiikdale, in the county of,Lancuter, and the St. George's Catholic Industrial Schools, in West Derby-road, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, have been certified by the Secretary of State as At to be industrial schools tinder the provisions of "The Jaded:lel Schools Act, 188L"—Gazette. Dwain or LONDON.—The Bishop of London has Banned the Rev. Henry Geary, 8.A.. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to the curacy of All Saints China, Shoreditch. The incumbency of St. Saviour's Church, Pad dington, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Maryland Hopkins, M.A. It is worth 7001. • year, and is la the gift of the Bishop of Loudon. DEATH or THE Paovoer or Drox.—We regret to annosse• the death of the Rev. Edward Craven Hawtrey, Provost of Eton. which occurred on Wednesday night last, at the Provost's-lodge, Eton College, io the 72nd year of his us. This eminent man was appointed insistent master of Eton, in 1814, to the head mastership on the sth of August, 1834, upon the resignation of Dr. Keate, and elected provost on the demise of Provost Hodgson. Dr. Hawtrey was an Eton boy with Mr. Justice Patient's, Sir John Coleridge, N. Simon, Esq., the Bishop of Winchester, and other emi nent men. The cause of death was paralysis, from which Dr. Hawtrey had been *arteries sines the Bth of December la* having been attsalts4 on the Founder's-day. DINITRUCTION or run FOREIGN-OPTIC/L.—The last brick of the old Foreign-Aloe in Downie's-street has been removed, and contemporaneously with the removal there has taken place • complete destruction of many of the ad. jacent streets, so that the new building in the Italian style so earnestly contended for by Lord Palmerton against the Gothic predilections of Lord John Manners may be forth with commenced. As the old Foreign-office wee removed, Fludyer-street disappeared, and there is now an immense open space caused by the removal of one side of Downing street on the north, Charles-street on the south, King. street on the east, and Charles-street on the west. RUSSIA. " Our correspondence from St. Petersburg," says the Nord, "states that, in Russia, the ques tion of finance, and the means of adjusting the receipts to the expenditure, occupy attention. The most direct expedient, which consists of augment ing the imposts, and reducing the chapters of the budget which are not of absolute necessity, is the mode employed by the Russian government. We may expect from that system, if pursued with ability and perseverance and combined with the development of the industrial and commercial resources of the country, excellent results, and a termination of the financial crisis which weighs so heavily upon Russia." The Journal de St. Peterabounj publishes the text of a ukase, making additions to certain taxes, in consequence of the expenses of the govern ment being increased by the general advance in the price of the necessaries of life. Among the taxes augmented are the capitation tax, and the stamp duties ; an addition of five per cent. is made to Customs' dues on all import", except sugar, in the Russian ports in Europe, and Turkish and Persian goods by the land frontier and the port of Astrakhan. This additional tax takes effect on the Lt April in Europe, and Ist May in Asia. The charge for carrying parcels is increased five copecks (200) per pound ; and the postage of letters is to be one-fourth more than it was. AUSTRIA. An article is published in the Wanderer of Vienna entitled "Let us march to the East l" That journal believes that the moment has arrived when the heirs are about to divide the spoils of the dying man, and invites Austria not to be the last at the partition. In order to assure herself the best share, she has only, the Wanderer says, to favour instead of combating the Christian movement in Turkey, and to hasten the moment of the dissolution of the Ottoman empire. "The only state," says the article, " that PM hope to be the universal heir of the empire of the East is that which will have known how to gain and to keep the confidence of the Christian populations." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (room ous owx PARIS. TUESDAY Britian. The telegram from Vienna denying that Arch duke Maximilian was a " candidate" for the throne of Mexico was, of course, only the echo of the official version of the fact which I communicated on Saturday, that there was a hitch in the negotia tions. The Patrie, with a knowledge of that tele gram, says to-night : 'Apropos of the contradictor, rumours on the subject of Archduke Maximilian's candidature for the throne of Mexico, we believe we know that the court of the Tuileries doss really propose to take the initiative of such • candida ture, but only when the success of General Lorenoes' expe dition shall be assured, sod in the very probable came of the Mexican popuistien manifesting in an unequivocal seam their wish to be governed by a foreign prince. Ilatil then there can only have been confidential discussions between the powers taking part in the expedition with a , elm to ascertain the probable disposition of Austria, whin Mks moment shall come for making • formal proposal on fibs subject. The telegram from Vienna, contradicting the candidature of the Archduke Maximilian must be inter preted in this sense—that the Court of Vienna has not yet been formally called upon to give • diplomatic answer on the subject. The suspension of the new Mexican expedition appears only to have lasted 'long enough to give time for a few spasmodic movements of the tele , graph. The Meseafer du Midi, which was one of I th e first to spread the news, now says that it is not confirmed. The debate on the address will not begin for several days. The usual amount of time will be lost in "organising the bureaux," just as if it much signified how they were composed. There are three or four new elections to be scrutinised, and against one of these, that of Dr. Pamard for Avignon, there is a petition which, notwithstand ing the jaunty way in which such things are gene rally disposed of, contains disclosures of such • serious nature that even M. Billault's brazen face will be hard put to it to avoid a blush when he comes to defend them. The Ami de let iteligioti states that when the French embalm , in China Is re-organised, the minister will reside at Pekin in place of at Shanghai, and will have a ulary of 12/3,000(r. • year, and will have adjoined to him two secretaries and five interpreter.. The Consul-General of Shanghai is to reosiFe 50,000 fr. a year, and the four con suls in China 83,000 fr. each. The liberal portion of the Berlin Chamber of Deputies celebrated on the 24th the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frederick the Great by • banquet, at which about 180 members were present belonging to the constitu tional and progrusist partite. We (Malta Times) learn that Mr. St. Vincent Lloyd, formerly Vice-Consul at Sinop% afterwards at Sa line, and now at Poti on the coast of Circus* has been appointed to succeed, as Consul at Syr, the late Mr. Richard Wilkinson, whose son,Yr. Robert Wilkinson, Vice- Consul, and lately acting Consul, has been appointed to the Vies•Consulats of Yeti. At the Teltro Argentina, Rome, the other day (the Italians always show the mated boluses at the , theatre) one of the actors in a minor fares elmaned to utter the following oommon•plaoe words. He played the put of a rake on his lest legs, and in his despair cried out, "How shall I manage to get myself into prison r Where. upon a wag in the pit broke in—" Yon have only to cry out Long live Victor Emmanuel!"' There wan, of roans, a shout of applause at the tally, and the darling national cry rang again and again in the house, to the utter eciefnaion and discomfiture of the police. A Montreal letter, of the 13th, saym :—" The weather continues mild sod open, and in this vicinity there are not six inches of wow en We ground• Kingston her• bear was quite open last auk, sad the ferry steamer meowed Its tripe to Caps Vincent, on the oppceite side of the lake. So far the winter has been much like that of 1837-38." THE BROADWOOD COMPANY OP WEST MINSTER VOLUNTEERS. The first annual report of thin company, which is No. 8 in the Queen's (Weekninster) Ride Volunteers, and conditutes with the 7th company the St. John's Division al that reporter minuet, ham lust bees e t= i and is highly witaressay. it appears that the strength of the ornery ie 140. From the date of its formation, drill has been amiduotuily persevered In by all ranks of the oor:E. There have be= no lees than 5,830 attendances at orogany, and battalion drill, giving an average of 41 per man for the past year. Benda these, there have been 1,934 position, aiming, and judging distance drills, or ea average of thirteen per man. These attendances are, it may be remarked, far above the average in the metropolitan corm Of the five beet marks. men in the Queen's three ere in the Broadwood company. What has been dons in the clothing ant is a model for working men's wen Hiss y. A liability of 7321. having been for uniforms about a s zr ago, 6291. has been already received in ve instalments, which have been with hardly an exception faithfully paid up by the memben. The subeeriptions and donations have amounted to Zilt., and the expenditure to 1361 The Broedwood military sad dram and fife bands seen to have rendered good service to the division. The report concludes with remarks to the Whet that the volunteer dons as eely be kept up by re canting more largely tram the working dress, and that the liberal pecuniary sardaaree el the pablio II ramrod to miners sash comprise in a slate et ediereay._ The Broadwood Oompany has la the peg year been aided by a donation of 1001. fins News. Bradried. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY IR HUDDEBY• MILD. Great emulation was created in Huddersfield ye - Jerky, _by the announcement that • well-known eetablish. meat bid been broken into during the dinner hour, sod that upwards of 1,0001. worth of goods bad been stolen. The annouseensent peeved a correct one. The establishment in that of It,. Walter Love, pawnbroker, Highatreet, which is stseked to the very roof with valuables of every description. It appears that Mr. Love is in the habit Blocking up his pre maundering the dinner hoar, Wilkie; that that is a safer arrm t than leaving the pleas in charge of a Word'. nat i a. i r a esteeday, acoordiog to Ids usual custom. he locked the place at half-past twelve and watt to dinner. The boy returned at a quarter peat ems to open the door. and was surprised to find it open. On going inside he &covered the two ugh boxes of the estate lisheaset lying empty on the pawn counter. Me immediately an for kis muss, whom he met is the street, a few yards ham the establishment. The two proceeded to investigate the matter. They found that the counter tirl lei bees Mesa epee, sot by moans of any inetramsat, hat dimply by pager - the he which error tenet* was d gnat &nage. The Iwo ash bores had thee been talosa eat. The key of the eat was lying beside rotor in the chewer, sad 1100101 Wu obtained to the tents, which to nearly 1001. in gold and Inver. The eller yes wreeehed opus, but fortunately con tained bet a smell mecialit. 351. havlag been taken from it o , ly the previous evening, and thus awed from the heads of the robber. Proceeding to another till, Mr. Love found that something_ like 151. in silver and copper had been takes. Be rhea examined the valuable phiftes, in drawees is the counter, and was astounded to discover that upwards of 100 washes, =ay ci them gold. and a large jquantity et pid direr spoons, and other expensive eweller had bees removed. He was consoled to find that the robbers bed mimed two drawers to the hurry, or, ate events, bed eely epees& them gestie ll y, and, fisclin forert empty, had concluded that there was no in them, Other drawers is the shop, eimilarly.si were untouched. The value of the stolen pledges may be judged from the feet that MK bed ben lent oa them. It is estimated that the shield* value of the stoles property exceeds I,oooi. Fortunately for Mr. Love, he will not be ' held liable for the los of time articles, under the circum stances ; but, dames, the 21001. lest upon them come' out of his pocket, without an equivalent being returned to him in any shape. The prptattms of this extraordinary rob bery are as yet and It is supposied that they must be familiar with the premises, and will skilled in their law. Ism trade. The door, cm being examined, was found to have been opened by a key, so that the parties would doubtless ester tie place in a confident, business-like way. WEATHER lIRPORT.-(THIS DAY.) --41.- WIDIONDAT. JAM MU TO, 8 £.L ._ ..... __ saiaa L. L iLi. !S.TS ....l. 10.1_ 1 .. L W. 45 10 W.W. I rn l •••• 4211011131 • 44 45 LW. ISr 6OM 109 k 4O W. c I 111111W1011 rararra • ,43 48 LK cs 1 Somas. 00410 • 44 46 W. 4 1 faulawasr B 41 41 LW re S 0.19 IMMO& 84.10020 0 0 W. If 4 0.88 0 0 W. b s _ Q 84.1002 L0n.041 ,47 46 B.W.* - 0.07 Dorn 9l 47 45 8.W.• 4 — 2.Bos6•Arra 17018.4119...-.• .87 49 46 kW lr 6 0.07 IS7llOOl‘ !MUM TOMO= TO TM =TOM MOULT MOTS MOAT. N.Ertiols-B.toW.N.W.,ttroog & to W. and to N.W., "bomb rain to places. a pla, raloyggre. Inland—S. to W., moderate to LW. to straw . Ow —8& to W., similar. S.F. to B.W. and to N.W., strong, a gale tu Coaat—S. to W., moderate 8. to W. and to N.W , fresh to to treak some rain, strong. some rain. B. Swatted --astlar, troth to Similar, fresh to a gale, rainy. Navy, w i th It ruin in places. LIPLLNATiON. 11.-81Mwariersorreetod and reduced to 19 deg. at men sea Wei t Mint WM* of vertical rise, causing about orminadredth o g an ink ambilaia and each 10 deg, above 32 an., au ing aearkviureioareireatas increase. IL—friporad thermometer la shone. 11.--111oestaned bulb (for evaporation end dew point). D.-411resiirs of wind (true—two volute irft el sae* natio). I.—iforee (1 to 111—estimatad). C.--Cloud (leo 9). _I. — Initials b, bine sky ; e. clouds (detached); I, log: h, lightning misty (hazy) ;o, overcast (dull) r, Ma: assort ; thunder. R.—flasdistartance (1 to 9,. rantlall, or snow, or hall, Nan last report, in inches and decimals. Z.—. Gleba. The Nationaliffs of Turin states that according to the last oases the population of that city amounts to 210,000. THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE—III the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, on Monday, in the case of "Thelwall v. Yelvertoo," Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., moved, on the part of the plaintiff, Mr. John Thelwall, that he might be at liberty to mark judgment, and issue execution thereon, notwithstanding the bill of exceptions taken by Major Yelverton, the defendant, and for the cost of the application. After some diecturion, the Lord Chief Justice said the beet thing to do was to eat the cause down for the first day of next term, and they would be all anxious to make an arrangement so as to dispose them. ATTEMPTED SALE OF SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. —Yesterday Messrs. Beadel put up to public competition 4 the Ancsioo Mart, the lease of this well-known property, which is in the possession at present of Mr. Phelps, at • rent of 1,0001. per annum. The theatre was described is containing a dress circle, with seats for 102 persons ; boxes to accommodate 150 persons, six private boxes, with pit and gallery to hold 2000 persons. The property was held a term of 00 years, from Midsummer, 1851, at aground rent of 2771. a year, and the lease was granted to Mr. Samuel Phelps for seven yeas, at the yearly sum of I,OOOL, the proprietors reserving to themselves the right to the use of two private boxes, to introduce 20 visitors beton the cur• lain on every night of performance, and a limited number of persons on the tree list. The proprietors were under cove- Dent to ply the ground rent 2771., insurance 801., with sewer rates and teem, and the lessee was boned to do the repairs, except to the main walls, the timber, and the roof. The net annual income was estimated at 1,000/., subject to about 5101. deductions. There was no competitors for the propert;, which was declared unsold, the unreserved price not being stated. There was a large attendance of the members of the theatrical corps. THE GREAT EASTERN.—The Great Eastern will not be put on to the gridiron at Milford at the end of this month, as was expected, owing to the recotnomodetion of Mr. homey, the Queen's pilot, who prefers the spring wat er er, in the middle of February, there being then mere water, longer daylight, and a full moon. One of the new paddle•wheels arrived at Milford last week, and the other will follow in a few days ; the new intermediate shaft of the rudder has been fixed in its place, and the directors expect that she will leave the gridiron by the tides at the end of February. Allowing for coalMg, there can be no doubt bet Hat abe will be ready for sea by the first week in April. Her destination as at present projected will be New York. ADDITIONAL DISASTERS IN THE IRISH CHANNEL. —The Pioneer, of Carnarvon, with a cargo of linseed, from Clalats, has been abandoned. She now lies at Abaryou Bar, full of water. The crew, with the exception of a boy, are all drowned. The Rokehy, steamship, from Cadiz, fell in with the Mermaid in a sinking condition, and towed bee into Milford. The captain of the Victor Emmanuel, which has arrived in Liverpool, repeats that on Wednesday it blew a complete hurricane, the barometer at '.91,75. They lost the bade, bowsprit wrenched out, and the ship became leaky. They could not use the pumps, but upon sounding they found that the ship was making two inches in 13 hour'. Hut and spare carried away. LIFEBOAT SERV ICES.--SOCTHWOLD, TUESDAY noire—The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was off early this coming (writes Lieut. Simmons, B.N•h and took five men and a dog from a small boat outside the Outward ShosL There was a tremeodons sea manioc at the time, so that none of the open boats ooulti have got off, nor could the shipwrecked men have landed in their own boat through the heavy sort. They had left their vessel at 2 o'claok this morning. She had sunk on Sizewell Bank, full of water, sad was the Prinown Alice, of Ipswich. The little boat had been drifting about in the midst of fearful perils, until the lifeboat took the crew out, sad brought them safely on shore. er ki J• Ha Ie 11 1 th; 1 iio inu wi or! in 0. to if to al de to la wi by 0 Pi tb ai 11 tl a • a a