The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-29 00:00:00

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TEN EvEnno, THE BartoY3xlesk"-11---El• TF.D CL1;13.-A WIFE WELL WoN. mama &Ahern, linckstone, Howe, Kendal, Braid._ Weatharsby, &e, • and ties Robettaoo.-After 1 =AN ETTER PER-VERBI6 uP THE BRIGAND. -- ---_ PRINCESS'S THIS Ev33lni, THE COLLEEN HAWN. Mr. sad Ws. Dion Boaricault. - After which THE ; STREETS oF LONDON. Mr. Vining, Messrs. Murray, Shore, Neville. Forreater An. Addis., Mellen, lc. M . Minos ilswerthy, K. Barnett. Rachel Rainer, and , -------- STRAND. THIS EVILInso. OLD SALT. Mr. Emery and Min Nally Mount. ...After which THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. Mews. Theme and James ; Mesdames Ada Strantsorough, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, &c.-And COAL AND COKE. --- -----. HOLBORN. TRH EVItir.SO, THE FLYING ScVD. Messrs. Atkins, Price, ; Garden. Arthur, Westland , and Wilmott : Mesdames Mund t, Goodall, Lennox, awl sauuders.-Conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Mdlle. Montero, Little liuwells, &c. BRITANNIA. I ' THIS Esssnro, DON QUIXOTE ; oft, SANCIIO PANZA AND HIS WIVE TPIRIZA. Aim Lane, &Misses ?Alen& Booth : Pao- tomicalate Mews. Wane, Lou* Newham. Vreltl ; Milne. 1 C. stephau and Alias Bose Nathan.-And WHO DU/ IT! HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. !1011 Div -Morning, 41s. 4Ora..- „Aftensoca. Lb. Ont. TO-1103WW-Menalret, tli. c.tol Afternoon, 411. Situ. LONDON, WEDNESDA Y, JA-VUARY 29. I --,,—.. ANoVnEn torch has been carried into the villanous cavern where the Clerkenwell mur- derers prepared at leisure their infernal plot. ( PATMeN Mi:LLANY has turned " approver, ' and . ^'• is now as ready to lend a hand in thrusting tin necks of his countrymen into a noose a , he lately was to help them blow up in I English neighbourhood. Yesterday, when Oa crowd which filled Bow-street Police-court wa \I expecting to see this man take his place at th bar, ho entered the witness-box, pale and fearful like the double-dyed traitor ho is, and wit tremulous voice professed his desire to be ez ermined as a witness for the Crown ; and 1 it is the duty of the 1 loverrunent to go as much light as possible thrown upon this daz affair, his evidence was accepted. The lino of e: amination taken by Mr. GIFFARD soon show( that he must have previously placed his stor of information entirely at the service of the pr attention. 1 . 1 hIia.T.ANY says that he was sworn in a Feld: last March, and was 'made a Centre. Since Ap his means of existence have been premier and a strike having thrown him out of work, occupied his abundant leisure with plans for Oil turning British rule in Ireland and setting up t Irish Republic. His disclosures take up t Clerkenwell plot about a week before the outrm and begin with the incidents of the Holborn nu ing. The talk at this interview was mysteric and impressive. An " object in view" i vaguely referred to, and so important was )i I deemed that all agreed that money must raised in some way. The follows went about 1 businea.s as systematically as if they had a pious or charitable work on hand, dividing burden of the task between them, and r assuming his own share of responsibility. volunteered 11l get V. ; others, 18s., 121., les. This part of the story does not favour notion that these men were acting as agents ) a great organization, disposing freely of in funds—such as must be supposed when we of the purchaaes of arms which BURKE and of % are sworn to have made. MULLANE repre 1 that it was difficult to raise money to buy powder enough for the Clerkenwell oxplo After this meeting there was the 1 i coining and going, conference, inquiry, report, the work of conspiracy being diver with an occasional private quarrel. At le two days before the fatal outrage, BAR O'NEILL, ENI:LISII, and others, with 31e1 t himself, met at WILLIAM DESMOND'S house; on thin occasion the nature of the intended . , was freely discussed. Notes wore compared . I 1 II each conspirator told, like the Witche s in Mo I what particular contribution ho had brought • work of death and destruction. The powde been obtained, and before the meeting was the barrel, the truck, and all else that was site to make the apparatus of murder compli meeting was then appointed at W. DESAION. the next day. MIALANY did not atten but on the evening of Thursday, the day bet( explosion, ho saw Bauxerr, whom throughi evidence he calls JACKsON, and learned fro that the attempt had been made that day, 1 some reason had not succoodetl, and that l intended to repeat it on the following cli will be remembered that at a very early a I the inquiry the police deposed that on th Thursday a barrel had been taken into C tim-row on a truck, and deposited agair prison wall. On the night of Friday, v 1 London was under the excitement of the c , ! MULLANE met BARRETT, who had chant personal appearance by shaving off his 1 and wearing a different coat, and BARRI told him that he had lighted the fuse W . ploded the barrel, that he feared identi and was going away. This is the substance of Meraaa - x's di as to the Clerkenwell crime. They n perhaps, add any one fact of signal impel those elicited by the inquiries of the pr they supply some missing links in the evidence, and render the whole story of 1 . more coherent. Taken by themsel ves, meats of an apprOver might have littl e t Ti m the significance of the more solid tostim creased by the light reflected. MULL Sir THOMAS HENRY yesterday that he " great deal more about the case," and having chosen his part, evidently wants clean breast of it. He says that Bai him that he and another man went dow street armed with revolvers, and MIL all day, watching for an opportunity, not arrive, of shooting CORYDON, the Certainly, if these Fenian* do us some I must be acknowledged that they have I destroying one another. MULLANT is of this group who has turned upon his and if the prosecution should have which everybody expects, it will be ir t owing to the evidence of these two met now a view of the type of character a , which have produced this great crin see how well adapted they were . to injure us and bring the cons] . r # ruin. The wretches who plotted the explosion were men with a certain am cunning, but utterly incapable of for estimate of the oonsequenceelst lid _they doing. They appear to have obeyed a instinct of hatred and revenge. Had they teen capable of reasoning, they could not failed to see that the design upon which they . was one of the most irrational and absurd that ever entered into the mind of man ; that the chances were against the escape of BURILZ ; and that the effect upon the English public would be to make all classes close up and stand like a solid w all against the enemies of its peace. Above all, they would have learned from the experience of the Fenian movement itself that conspiracy carries within itself the certainty of its detection. From the first the Fenian organization has been at the mercy of spies informers, and approvers. Men of the purestlril blood have at all times been ready to sell their brother to the hated Saxon. So it has been, and so it always will be. Pa triotism is a bond as firm as it is noble ; but treachery is the natural scourge of fellowship in crime. OUR CON TEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) FRENCH AFFAIR% The Daily News observes that had M. Fould, who was brought into the confidence of his sovereign during the momentary pause in a career of extravagance, lived a few months longer he would have seen all his confidence in the duration of peace, and all his efforts to restore order in the finances of his country, topple down like castles of cards before the Ministers of War and Marine. M. Idagne—for M. Reuher was nothing but a Minister ad irtto int—is the true representative of the financial policy of the Second Empire ; • policy of un foreseen augmentations of expenditure, of extraordinary credits, of " events beyond control," of supplementary re source., of deficits, and consequently and finally of loans. Were it not for the admirable efficiency of the permanent administrative services which France inherits from the Consulate, it may be doubted whether even the immense resources of the country, the vigour and industry of the population, could resist the reckless profusion of the ex ecutive. The figures of M. Magne supply an instructive estimate of the cost of personal government, from which, unfortunately, every state in Europe has suffered. If thepreposterous sentence on the ten French journals, prohibiting them from publishing abstracts of the discus ' sions in the legislature, be confirmed, and no alteration be made in the law, it will not surprise the Timis to learn that many of the leading Paris journals no longer report discussions in the legislature at all. The effect of such s step on their own circulation, it suspects, would be much less conaideruble than its effect on the character of legisla tion. The imperialist party in France, properly so shed, is comparatively weak in literary ability, but this fact is 8 by no means wholly dire to the predominance of republican t or Orleanist tendencies in the literary clam It is due k also to the shortsighted policy which has made an enemy of that class from which it might have secured powerful d allies. The maintenance of such absurd restrictions as ro that upon summarizing debates is indefensible from any and every point of view. THE FENIAN DISCLOSURES. Giving the substance of the witness Mullany's evidence at Bow-street yesterday, the Times observes it is almost incredible that a whole kingdom should be kept in alarm by a knot of such wretched creatures as were the agents of Fenianism in London. If Mullany's story be true, if the police be on the right track, British power in its capital and stronghold has been threatened by a few tailors on 1 strike, needy artisans, and the like men, living in crowded lodging-houses in back lanes, and obliged to discuss anxiously how to raise a few shillings for the purposes of the conspiracy. Of course we have no right to assume that what this man Mullany says is true. Such testimony must always be taken with the very greatest enspicion, and should, indeed, be rejected unless it be generally con firmed by more independent and trustworthy witnesses. Justice meanwhile must be rendered to the energy and sagacity of the police who have investigated this crime. It is remarked by the Telegraph that the statements made by Mullany have been forced from him under the influence of fear. He was included among the batch charged with the crime of wilful murder ; him apprentice had already furnished testimony which, unless it were effec. tually contradicted, would implicate him with the other pri soners ; and his confessions, whether they are true or false, must be ascribed to a desire for immunity from extreme punishment. Testimony of this kind has always been re garded with suspicion in an English court of justice, and, before it can be admitted to have weight with a judge or jury, it must be corroborated in the most ample fashion. Whatever may be thus stated will have to stand the test of legal ingenuity and searching cross-examination. Mean while the mere appearance of Mullany in the witness-box will fill the whole brotherhood of crime with suspicion. TIIE LEGAL TRADE CMIOI.I. Having quoted one of the wont eases mentioned by Mr, Roebuck in illustration of the inexorable hardship of some of the trades' unions, the Telegraph proceeds to say that though this is very bard, it is precisely what happens in a higher grade. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers only does what is done by the Law Society. A young man wishes to become an articled clerk in the office of • par ticular firm, and no other house would serve his inte rests equally well ; but the rules of the legal trades union set limits to the number of articled clerks that any firm may employ, and those limits have, perhaps, already been reached. The applicant may be well educated, clever, industrious ; his prospects in life may be injured if he cannot, at a certain time, form the connexion which he seeks; nevertheless, the rules of the society are inflexible, mid the collective body of the unionists will say to the employer, " If you accept the services of this young man, you break the conditions on which we made you • member of oar society ; we can't help the injury which he will sustain from our refusal ; we can't make rules for special cases." That is precisely what the Sheffield unionists say. Why, than, should the men who make engines be anathematised, and the men who draw up processes be blessed Nor are the solicitors the only unionists among educated society. Take the army. There we have trade restrictions of another kind. The Star Also asks why that is murder amongst working men which, as a bencher of the loner Temple, Mr. Roe. buck would stoutly defend as professional etiquette The truth is, the whole speech is too false and too flippant to be even a contribution to this discussion. The Star invites ita readers to prepare for the contrast which will be pre sented when Mr. Gladstone, a real economical and political authority, and no partisan of trades' unions, meets Mr. Potter's deputation. disclosures ----- may not, The three clergy of the principal Episcopalian rtanTo es , to church in Edinburgh , inclu din g the name of the most respected dignitary in the whole police, but Episcopalian c ommunity, have issued a pro ' Previous I test against the threatened consecation of a the plot new bishop of Natal in Scotland. It is under the state- I stood that the chief laity of the Edinburgh value; but Episcopalians are equally opposed to the step. The d i mity i s • extreme precipitation with which this secret c0n ...,,s secretion has been hurried on has made it impos "" ‘.".... sible to obtain more signatures at the moment ; but " knew a there can be no question that the document repro sod the man, Bents the feelings of the most respectable members -to make a of the community. It is signed by the Rev. KB. ,Aaurrr told Ramsay, LL.D., Rev. Daniel F. Sandford, and the Jen to B ow _ Bev. Henry M. Oswald, M.A. unained there Tax TRADES' UNION Conmissiow.—The Report did of Mr. W. Overend, Q.C.Barstow! end which ' informer. under the Trades Unions Commission Act of 1867 mischief, it to inquire into the outrages asserted to have taken a knack of ' place at Sheffield and elsewhere with the support is the second and connivance of associations of workmen, has i s assoc i ates ; just been issued, together with the evidence aken re the result at Sheffield. The Report is addressed by the Ex aminers to the Commissioners appointed under the in great part Act, and consists of little more than a history of men. We get th e i r i n quiry, the facts of which received so much and intellect attention during its progress. The accompanying crime, and can evidence, filling 450 folio pages, contains nothing were a t once of importance that has not already been published ; D . t ms to but it will always remain one of the most value c°llll- ira ble as well as moat painful records of a state of , Clerkenwell social disorganization and anarchy such as no one amount of low could have believed to exist upon evidence less forming a true than irrefragable. he over- ,the the d ine , et jou' ru it be it the some the each One bur the secret read others meads gun tosion. usual and Drsified length, kititZTT, 'LlAlilf _ crime spared, and t Macbeth, ht to the ler had .as over, ; ani requi- fete. A , No's for nd it ; tore the ghout his from him but for it was day. It stage of this same Corpora inst the when al .0 outrage, ;hanged his whiskers Irrr then which ex ttificatiou, mpanied in the grounds- this morning, accompanied y Princess Louise. Primula Christian also walked out, attended by lady Susan Melville. Prima Arthur end Prinoe Christi= wont oat shooting, attended by Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutenant Picard. Lieutenant-Colonel lionerieff had the honour of 'Doom panying their royal highnesses. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marl borough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord John Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H Walpole. His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Lord President of the Council, gave a grand dinner lost evening at his resi dence, St. James's-square, at which the list of sheriffs for the current year was settled in the usual manner. The guests present included the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham and Chanties, the Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Malmesktry, the Earl of Mayo, Lord Stanley, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gothorne Hardy, Sir John Pakington, Sir Stafford North cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Mr. Arthur Helps, and Mr. Edmund Harrison. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Prince Edward Wand. Her Majesty has, it is said, sent to Dr. Jenncr box filled with copies of her " Journal in the Highlands," to be distributed by him among the several hospitals, so that the library of each of these institutions may possess • COPY. THE HEALTH OF THE PREMlER.—Although the Earl of Derby was prevented from attending the Cabinet Council yesterday, the improvement in his lordship's health continues, and there is every expectation that be will take his seat on the opening of parliament. The Duke of Marlborough, Lord President of the Council, gave a grand dinner let evening at his resi dence, St. James's-square, at which the list of sheriffs for the current year was settled in the usual manner. The guests present included the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Mayo, Lord Stanley, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Sir John Pakington, Sir Stafford North cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Mr. Arthur Helps, and Mr. Edmund Harrison. The Earl of Derby was prevented attending by indisposition. The Duke of Beaufort and the Earl of Tankerville were prevented by other engagements. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland leave town today for a tour in Italy. The Marquis of Lansdowne has during the past week entertained a select party at Bowood Park, Wilts. A letter from Rome of the 22nd says :—" Rome is not filling yet, although numbers of families are ex pected from Nice and Florence. Among the most recent British arrivals are to be mentioned those of Colonel and Mrs. Fremsntle, Hon. Robert and Mrs. Liddell and family, Hon. C. Waldegrave, Lady Radstock, Countess of Clan, Lady Louisa Dillon, and Dr. Seymour. Lord and Isdy Bloomfield, and Lord and Lady Clarendon and family, are also at Rome." Count Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador at the court of St. James, is expected this week in Paris, on his return from Italy, and will arrive in London in a few days in order to resume his diplomatic functions, which, during his absence, have been conducted by Count Kalnoky, first secretary of Legation. The King of the Belgians, who spent his youth in travelling in all parts of the world, has just been nomi nated a member of the Geographical Society of Paris. The Post is informed that " the letters of some of the English statesmen who arc at present staying in Italy express a certain want of faith in the political pru dence of the Italian people. This is said to go so far even that the position of the cabinet is undergoing a change with reference to the Roman-Italian question which pro bably may open new prospects of success to the French project of a conference." A further statement has been furnished by Mr. Grinsted in relation to the railway capital of the United Kingdom in 1866. It appears that on the total paid-up capital of 481,872,1 q/., the net return was fractionally over 4 per cent. ; but this return is of course ruinous to the ordinary shareholder overweighted by 5 and 6 per cent. preferences. There is also reason to assume that even the amount of 4 per cent, he been in no slight degree I made up by improper charges to capital. On the other hand, allowance must be made far the fact that a portion 1 of the capital paid up represented new or unfinished lines not brought into fall development. We used to import about 3,000,0001 b. of tea, but that figure has of late Manned to upwards of 8,000,0001 b., and bids fair to reach a much higher one. The correspondent of the Irish Times at Queens- town states, in a letter to that journal, that the feeling in regard to the recent execution at Manchester seems to be lessening little in intensity. At each of the masses cele brated in the Roman catholic churches on Sunday col lections were made by three women belonging to Queens town in aid of the families of the three Irishmen executed at Manchester. The women carried green baize bags, and solicited the donations as the people were entering and leaving the church, and it is estimated that upwards of GO/. was collected. The Rev. Mr. Kell has written to the South ampton papers to put the public on grind against pur chasing spurious antiquities. The latter are represented to be pilgrims' badges, or signaculre, used by pilgrims between the 12th and 13th centuries when visiting different shrines, and are in the form of a short dagger, signet ring, brooch, spur, amphora, or relic box, to be suspended on a garment. They are manufactured wholesale in Bir mingham. THE TORY PARTY ANT) LIBERAL MEASURES. — Nothing of liberal legislation can be or has been effected foe the oountry but by strength on the liberal side of the House of Commons. The tories conceded catholic eman cipation ; but was catholic emancipation due to the con cession of the Duke of Wellington, or to the demaad of Mr. O'Connell? The tories, with so mach of the cream skimmed off from their milk—with a secession of fifty and odd of the staunchest members of their party—car ried the first great measure of free trade ; but to whom do we owe the repeal of the corn laws—to Sir Robert Peel, or to Mr. Cobden and the league? The tortes have produced for us household suffrage—with another s ming, of but little cream, with their fifty and odd staunch men reduced to three ; but from whence has that boon truly come to us ; from the enthusiasm in the cause of Mr. Disrae li , or from the convictions of such men as Mr. Locke King, Mr. Baines, Mr. Bright, Lord Russell, and Mr. Gladstone! It is necessary that every liberal who desires to understand the history of the government of his country, and to know how things are done, bow public opinion prevails, how legislatiou proceeds ever in the sa me course, doing something, though it be but little, fo th e improvement of the condition of the people—it is n , we say, that every one interested in the poli tics of the day, should ask for himself and should answer for himself these questions. If this be done, those boasts which the conservative leaden are prone to make will be understood and appreciated, and taken at their worth. We were told lately at Edinburgh, by Mr. Disraeli, that almost all legislation in the cause of liberalism bad for years long past come from him or from hie flock. He did not tell us then bow bitter had been his own opposition to that great conservative leader of the House from whose wise concession to public opinion the first step of free trade in breed was made at the moment when it was most absolutely needed—an opposition in which then was a nese to which our political contain, bitter as they often see, kave for many years pant seen nothing equal. Though he did not tell us this, he took to himself, and to the party whom he has educated, the credit for all three good things which have come to us since we first reformed oar House of Comm including those meanies of OM Robert Peel's which produced from him such torrents of sarcasm. This boast was well answered the other day by Mr. Gladstone at Ormskirk; but it cannot be too ilftra pointed ont that whether liberal measures ere passed under a onsesnaties or under a liberal leader of the Reuss of Commons, such meaning will sever be pawed, or seen beard of, but by the operation of that liberal party in the House, which is the mouthpiece of the public h k a i cualT on . of the oonntry.—St. Pawl's Magaziss fee Debuts, and this is all that prudt us to say. We are bound by all laws, even those which seem to us to be useless or to be regretted, as long as they are not abrogated or have not b ec ome obsolete. The judgments pronounced on the ton journals on the 25th January show that this is not the case with regard to the laws respecting the reports of the proceedings in the legislative chambers. An hon. senator (whose name Heaven forbid that we should give) yesterday expressed hie regret that the Senate had not a wider rGle. This is a matter on which we should be very glad to write. We have examined the subject for ourselves, and we hold decided, and, as we believe, sound opinions upon it. Nothing, therefore, would have been more agreeable to us than to take the opportunity of what passed yesterday in the Upper Chamber to declare what we think of the composition and its scope of such an assembly under a monarchial government. But unfortunately here also the way is barred to us, and we should escape the rock of the reports' only to drive upon the seuatua-cousulte which prohibits the journals from discussing the constitution." ----- The Courrier Francais observes : There was a 'Ming yesterday of the Senate and Corp* Legivlasil. It would be difficult for us to speak of either without " setting forth the speeches that were spoken, the order in which they were made, and the objects which they treated of," or without letting the public know " what impression they produced on the assembly." A r , I according to the jurisprudence of the Sixth Chamber, we ' can do nothing of the kind without subjecting ourselves to a fine of 40/. at least, the most ordinary prudence counsels us to keep ourselves in reserve for more serious occasions. The Courrier then refers to a pamphlet, addressed by Madame Olympe Audouard to M. Haussmann on the project of running a boulevard through the cemetery of Montmartre. The following passages are quoted : I swear, M. le Prefet de Is Seine, that whilst I am alive the tomb of my son shall not be violated. Your demolisben will have to pass over my body before they lay their • sacriligious hands on the grave where my beloved child 1 reposes. It is of you. Bt. le Prefet, that I complain, for I one must have lost all moral sense to conceive the project of such a boulevard. Referring to the reception of the remains of the Emperor Napoleon in the reign of Louis Philippe, she quotes from M. Guizot's mem oirs as follows : klAt intervals, amidst small groups of persons mixed up sity,the National Guar Dand the people, political cries were heard, such as " ' Down withi.Gnizot ;" " Down with the Ministry" "Down 'with . the Engliiii; 7 " r— Dowirt ll tbel detached forts." These eriestwere disregarded, and no one thought it worth while to suppress t auey broke forth spontaneously , and were lost in without any attempt at suppression, and without infecting any one. Madame Audouard adds : What en admirable example of wisdom, moderation, end respect for liberty ! How far off from the times of Louis Philippe, which many persons refer to as a period of deca dence in France!! How many persons have innocent cries led to prison under the Second Empire ! Under the much decried dynasty of Orleans who would have es er dreamed to make it a crime, deserving of arrest and imprisonment, that persons went in silence and'inbious meditation to lay iminorfelloi on the tomb of General Cavaignac? I am afraid M. Haussmann will make it said of the Second Empire what would be only applioablo to himself—wishing to found everything it has left ',behind it only ruin and destruction. The LiberlC concludes a long article by M. E. de Girardin in reply to the Conditutionud, which called the republic of 1848 " a passing piece of licentiousness," as follows : But since the Constitettionnd pushes its scruples so far as to regard the arrest of a writer for eleven days, and the suppression of newel journals, un pardonable sets, let me ask what it thinks of the arrest, without form of law, of the representatives of the people ; of the arrest of former presidents of the Council, of former ministers, of illustrations of the army, illustrations of the bar — who were thrown into prison ; and of the suppression of fthe journals which took place three years later also without form of law ! I hate re criminations but I still more halo impudent injustice. If the Constitotionml be wise it will henceforth refrain from ' awaking history which is asleep. , but has not yet J ohnson. Senate has reported 'ender Act. has not concurred instead of suspending Mr. Macenlloch's authority to contract the cur rency. The bill goes back to the Senate. Judge Wood's Court at Selma, Alabama, has been suppressed by military authority on account lof the refusal of the judge to recognise negro iti General Meade has removed the comptroller of Georgia, and has appointed a military successor. The Georgia Convention has adopted an ordi nance prohibiting imprisonment for debt, and has passed a resolution of thanks to General Meade. The Maryland Legislature has elected William T. Hamilton, democrat, to succeed Reverdy John son as United States Senator. Advice' from St. Domingo state that the Baez revolutionists have captured Puerto Plata. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. , . *• - I VO A. '. IR 5 I JAN' .0 1 ' IN'rELLIGEN eo nta, LA. Mgt . blind ., • been Of3BORNill; Jaw. 28. FREsmdlithCHe Co Legisistif TY. resumed t 7iF ffi i re.ssem eisli nance Cozm sh it e te i e je i s t7hi e Sir t Dave The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, "The Se nate , acted I accompanied by Prime and lee Ma i.i ty %Doi t eer r h , er , labo,, and y y ' say s the Journal des The House of Representatives he d this is all ' that y prudence wi ll allow in the Senate Bill repealing metes ITALY. General do la Marmora, ins letter to his consti tuents, renders justice to Prussia, and expresses warm sympathies with the royal family of Berlin, but shows himself to be essentially on the aide of France. He advises that the Roman question should be allowed to rest in order to gain time ; without, however, renouncing the accomplishment of the national programme. He allows to be per ceived that in his opinion his countrymen might be contented with Rome Italian and capital of the honour of Italy without persisting in the desire of making it, absolutely and radically, the effective capital of the kingdom. PRUSSIA. The Chamber of Justice (Kammergericht) has annulled the decision of the tribunal of Berlin, which condemned the Deputy Twes to two years' impriso n ment for abuse of language ni n t he chamber. It has sentenced him to 300 thalers fine, and an imprisonment of four months in case of non payment. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, JAx. 28. The betrothal of Prince Humbert, erOwn Prince of Italy, with the Prince ss Margarita, daughter of the Duchess of Genoa, has been officially deter mined. The object of tho King's recent visit to Turin was to demand the hand of the Princess for his son. HUNGARY AND CROATIA. AGRAM, JAN. 28, Evarrso. The Croatian Diet has decided upon sending a deputation to Peeth for the purpose of coming to an agreement with Hungary. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBIIRG, JAIL 28. It is officially announced that the general bond of the issue of the remaining 2,500,0001. of the Orel-Vitebsk Railway Loan of 4,500,0001. has been signed by the company and the Imperial go vernment, and transmitted to Messrs. Thomson, Sonar, and Co., in London. A decree published to-day orders that the natu ralisation laws hitherto valid in Poland shall be I superse ded by the Russian laws on that subject. The Governor of Poland has arrived here. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. The Inman steamer City of Baltimore arrived a t Liverpool this morning, January 29, with 33 passengers. She did nut call at Queenstown owing to the deem fog. 1 NSW YORK, Jar.lll, Nam The report that Mr. Macculloch had ordered his department not officially to recognise Mr. Stanton is denied. Mr. Stanton is exercising the functions I of his odic., and holding the necessary official inter- LONDON LIFE AsSoCIATIOIV.—(THIS DAY.) (711031 OUR OWN COERERPONDINT.) PARIS, Tulanar EVENING. The journals to-day make facetious references to the subjects under discussion in the two Chambers, and pretend to be very much afraid to talk of them lest they should be again fined I,ooofr. by President Delesvattx. The Opinion Nationale, after giving a sketch of the question about M. Hanssmann's desecration of the ceme teries, now before the Corps Legialatif, says :—" If we aro asked where we have taken our arguments, we will say they are very current in a great city situate in 48 degrees of north latitude, which has no elective municipal council, and in which there is a legislative assembly which talks a great deal, but of which the public has no right to talk." That most conservative journal La France, directed by Senator La GueronniZ. , re, publishes the following alarming paragraph at the head of its leading column : The rumours from Italy are very serious. There is a talk of the dissolution of the chamber and s coup ,C tat by Victor Emmanuel. The telegraph brings us nothing posi tive ; but there is every reason to fear that fresh storms are ready to bores in the Italian sky. The Liberte reports from Naples that the Italian authorities have lately discovered that one-franc pieces are circulating, some with the effigy of "Francis 11., King of the Two Siciliee," and others with that'of "Humbert 1., King of Northern Italy." Both these coins bear on the obverse " Confederazione Datiana," and both were struck in France. These stories are scraps of evidence in support of the idea that the Emperor is now com passing and imagining the destruction of Italian unity, and a return to the theory of a confederation which ho broached at Villafranca. lam afraid the lovers of peace foam/ 'aloe must resign themselves to give up Italy. Nothing but a general war can now save Italy from whatever fate it may please the French Emperor to decree for her. Victor Emmanuel is paralysed, and indulges no other hope of preserving his throne, or a remnant of it, than the protection ho may get in return for obedi ence to orders from the Tuileries. M. Emile 011ivier's accident, not described when the papers first mentioned it, was a serious one. On Friday last he went to the church of St. Ger main l'Auxerrois, to look at some new stained glass windows. He is very short-sighted, and, on coming away, mistook for the outer door one leading to a cellar, in which there is a cello rifiere. He fell from a considerable height upon his head and was picked up with his forehead badly scarified, but not insensible. It is still hoped that he will be able to take his place in the Chamber on Thursday or Friday to support the liberal amend ment on the press bill, signed by himself, M. de Jauze, and other members. We are promised the novel entertainment of fox hunting in the Bois de Boulogne. It seems, though I should no more have expected to find foxes there than in Kensington Gardens, that the wood con tains a great many and that they have lately committed havoc among the poultry and game in the Jariin d'Acclimation. M. Haussznann intends, therefore, it is said, to start a pack of foxhounds for the purpose of systema tically destroying the vermin. It will be great fun no doubt if he carries out this intention ; and, as there are no leaps in the foie, all the monde and demi-monde that frequent the borders of the lakes on horseback may enjoy the sport. But if destroy ing foxes is his object, M. Hauasmann is going a roundabout way. He perhaps does not know that if foxes were not carefully preserved " for hunting" purposes in England, the race would have been exterminated long ago, at the same time as the wolves. A few traps, two or three terriers, and a keeper's gun would soon rid the EOlll de Boulogne of the few foxes which it may contain. They say in Somersetshir . e, " The man who would shoot a fox would pick a pocket ;" but that proverb is not current in Paris, and I am quite sure that if 141. Haussmann's hounds start a fox the hunters will shoot him in front of the pack if they can. The Bourse continues to take the addition of seventeen millions and a half sterling to the public debt most philosophically. The government has every encouragement to recur to that phrase which the prosaicM. Fould thought so dangerous :—"The resources of France are inexhaustible." There was scarcely any fluctuation in the Rents to-day, and the closing prices were those of yesterday. Other securities were a very little weaker, but the amount of business done was extremely small. A St. Petersburg letter of the 22nd says :—" A grand ball took place at the Winter Palace yesterday, on the occasion of the mrarriage of the Princess Eugenie de Lenchtenberg with the Prince Alexander of Oldenburg. All the members of the Imperial family were present, with the exception of the Greed Duchess Maris Foodorowns, who was kept away by indisposition. The ball, which commenced at 9in the evening, lasted until half-put 1. The dancing, which took plus in the magnificent Nicholas Gallery, was opened by • polonaise, the Emperor giving his arm to the bride." The Sing of Prussia has just presented to the city of Paris his bust, executed in marble by the sculptor Robert Caner. Bing Louis Lof Bavaria has also given • similar work of art, representing the late Maximilian 11., in whose honour • fife was gives at the Hotel de Ville in 1857. The two busts will be placed in the gallery of sove reigns who have honoured the civic authorities of Paris wish their presence. The Correspondance de Rome of the 18th an nounces th at the adhesion to the proposed CFonmenical Coun cil to be convoked in November has Use unanimous, and that everywhere bishops, aided by their theologians and canonists, ere studying earnestly the matters concerning which they will be summoned to treat. In Rome, mean whilst, six coutelimions, composed of prelates and eon =Nom have been 07111614 for the same papas, and meet weekly at the plass of their respective eirdinal-pre. viands, who arrarawria &lama together, sad raw annisaas M sash deer the malt al gar studies. Than six ormaissics• treat in • preps:stay way of the questions Mating to dogma, sesashistad diplomacy, pidknally, dialplime, public calaisstical right, sad r•Bgions wenn A half-yearly general court of this association was held thin afternoon at the office, King William.atreet, City ; Baron HEATH in the chair. The SECRETARY read the minutes of previous meetings, which having been confirmed, The auditors' report and balance-sheet were presented, and the CMAISMAX moved that they be entered on the minutes and aooount books of the society. Mr. A. ICINNAIRD asked whether, considering the increasing trudge with America, the board of di rectors would reconsider the question of placing an extra charge upon policy holders proceeding thither by certain well known lines of vessel., such as the Cunard line. That company had never lot boat, and be considered that the practice now becoming so prevalent of young men going for 10 days or a fortnight to America and being relieved from the cares of husint, for that time, was one which tended to prolong life. Mr. DUMONT also wished the restrictions to be rennwed on i T h a:lgt and AN on p gl u ing iserthatgetlnieerawlyole matter should be brought under the consideration of the court of directory: Another SHAREHOLDER applied for the removal of the charges in reference to pampa residing in St. Francirco ; but the chairman said t h at he did not think the bosnl would give that suggestion so favourable a consideration as the others. The motion was then agreed to, and Mr. J. Kemp Martin having been elected an audito r, the proceedings terminatel with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. CAPTURE OF A FENIAN AT WOOLWICH. WOOLWICH, WEDNZSDAY MORNING. A man giving the name of Thomas Daley, said to be an officer in the American anny, and to be cone in an intended Fenivi attack on the Royal Arsenal, has been arrested by the Woolwich police on a charge of belonging to the Fenian Brothrbood and of attempting to administer the Fenian oath to a ser g eant of artillery named Thomas Kirby, stationed at Woolwich. The prisoirr is a powerful, fine-looking man, about 40 years of age, atl foe so time past has been attempting to get employna at in the Royal ArsenaL It appears that Daley accosted S. r• geant Kirby at an hotel opposite the Artillery Darrackr, and, after treating him to drink, introduced himself al a Fenian agent, end attempted to induce the sergeant to tA, the Fenian oath. Kirby kept him in conversation o mil . corporal of the Military Store Staff Coil's, named :.l: Wad. came in, when he Bent the latter for the police, an' ...01..1 upon the persons about him to prevent Daley ese., in a h . .1 con stable named Simpson was speedily found, ei, presence the prisoner appears to have acknowledkcd loi•:; connected with FelliaDlSlll. He is on stated to haw; s iderable snips of money in his possessi, which he bar been spending freely. ..--- - - --- THE RECENT GALE. - - SKERRIES, NEAR DUBLIN, ‘N. H. A. Hamilton, Esq.,. states that yesterday the mudguard OthOelt at Balbriggan, about four toile; from this place, sent for the Admiral Mitchell lifebo,,t of the National Lifeboat Institution. stational at :.o.errir.. come to that place as the schooner Ann". ••1 Ata-v.t• with, was in great danger there, though v.ita anchor/1 down, as her windlass was partly the chain and she could not out t her canvas being bad. She had a Hag of distre , :!yi It was blowing a strong gale, and there was a boa, y at the time. The lifeboat at once proceeded out. alongside the vessel, and t)ok off the crew of four lauding thew at Balbriggan. The weather. how- th et, afterwards considerably moderated, and the Web... fore took the sailors back to the schooner, which w, got under weigh, and is now safe in Dahlin If the gale had not moderated and the wind shifted th vessel must have been lost. WEATHER. REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WEDNESDAY, JANIUDI Y.. B L. 11 T., 1 W. _ I_l V. 1 mittoltm `Ca Ib ' w •••••-.- t. I 12 . 7. .• Nam .. 19.794 30: Abwkee —14431 r 35 W.N.W. Leith .N.1454 SS W. Ann . urn ;i0 Osr 41 W.N.W. ; Greercsatle. 50.31 r SO N.W. Valentia 93.40 r N.W. Caret Clear 30.4:4r 44 N.N.W. 1:04114 . 411 30.40 r 40! W.N.W. Liverpoo Sltlr 43 W. dolyhesa 31.21 r 40 W.N.W. femme* 3o.4er 441 N. Brest ..—. 30.3 4 r 41 N. Lorient 30.3 es 45 N. Rochefort 3O 3 4 ... r 44t, N o W. Ilymuuth 30.311 r 401 N.W. Weymouth_ 33.35 r W. N.W. forternonth 30.33 r 371 W.N .W. LOSaon 30.23 r 3441 W. Yarmouth... 30...,r 36i W. Scarborough 11l WM N.W. ohlelos ..... SUM& 331 N.W. Skadesurs.. 3Q16 311 W. Reiner .... 214.31 90, W.Y.R. Brussels.... 30.10 30 W. Perk S',.l5 40 N.W. Lyons 31.24 40 S.F. Heaieseou 39.51 r SO — N.W. - - • 5.7 W.S.W. 'h.., 013 4 ! 7 W.', W. i 4 3 W. 11, • _ 2• 7 !h. •' - 5 8 1...• • 4 3 . W. I tio • .; 4 5 N.W. (II • :4 'll • S W W. I • 3 4 W.N.W. ft.L.• 4 6 W. • ri. 71 3 vr.s w. 3 N.W. I r.. •u . l s 3 3 1 ..1. 3 3 V. I li I_ ;; W ' r.• 1 0.011 • 3•s • - 4't 4 3 ; '" 5 5 ' 1 77 7 = 1 5 I t; • W. - _ _ •3 3 W.—N.W. ,0 —••- - . Barometer corrected situ reduced to 22 dcg. at sea level. The letter. r risinst`, 1 s (steady , indicate ilirsetS.:: Illotinnof the mercury within fast s 4 Inuits. Thermmet, r ‘id In shade. Bitrente force, with it direction daring last 24 howl. L.—calm. Weather : Is—blue sky ;c. - elands ,tietsele . fog ; L—lightnlng ; m—nr. Ay tutu: o.— (dull' ; ; s.—snow ;S. —thun.ler. Vali,' fall, stem hail ,ntelteeE, during last it hours. rem disturhauce. ItE‘LARKS. Barometrical pressures are generally higher thl tiamnir_ V.: lin:tease has tarn greatest lu the wet Ireland, %her , t• sure in now highest There has been a ettnsiderablt..levrtsw m Nor Way. The ilitleronee of readings beta ta talent:a se, Nairn Is 7-I.vths of an inch. The pressure at all %txtio , ksi rbnen since List night. Tempel-atilt: haa ileere:istd at .01 stations as well as on the west coast of refs,. At 'I .11.• '' .l !Strasbourg 11 Is higher than It was yestenlay. It the nor , : I went of our islands is strong wind blew last evenine fronts. t torth, Litt it hiss slime stiladtleil. This int.rnitr4 fteAlt winds are prevailing. Snow has fallen in Seothuel %I ....tit now floe tat our Channel coast A retired farmer and his wife, living at \Vick. ham, Hants, invited three of hie old "parvenu and tha wives to dine with them a few days ago. The united V -4 of the eight persons were 5% years, or neArly 7: 1 P- 6 each person on the average. The Akbttr of Algiers states that the fainislna.; Arabs in that city ar e receiving clothes from pot::: charity, which frequently gives them a singular awn. twee. "U this continue," ear the writer, "we st.sl gradually see our native population become accu.toel to wear our acetone. At Constantine female Arabs Ure been seen to arrive almost naked. and to return to theit tribes dressed in skirts with crinoline. Thus, in o blitiot to charity conferred in money , gift. in kind and in clothes are most welcome.' A Sydney paper says :—" The eleven Austra!ian aboriginal cricketers will reach London next May. Thtl were to leave New South Wales for Hong Kong is No. vember last. Three of them are married men ; all of tltz speak English well. Th ey are not only expert cricte.es but they will astonish English p e ople by their exper t in th and in running a q ro wing the boomerang and 'pear jumping. Their cricketiug dress consists of white !Was trousers, military red shirts, with a blue flannel sash e' on from the right shoulder to the left hip. They P.O" elastic belts, white linen collars, and French merino sack' shirts. Each man has a separate coloured cap." Di. Guru/ties RAGGED Semoor.s.—The yearly surminetion of tbe children in Dr. uthrie's thigi• nal Ragged Schools, in Edinburgh, was he ll on Moal. in presence of a large company. After the examias t,on th e reverend founder of the uistitation delivered a she: address, in which he commended the wisdom of the lilt: , !diatom of the Poor in going round the city to solicit sol and recommended th at a cart should be sent Tonal stated periods to collect cast-off clothing for the use hlbi o ft)! c hildren. By doing this a great cloths of clothing mig gathered which people would not take the trouble to sercle the school, and though the clothes of a lady of 3ft. Pin., of a man as tall as lie was, might not fit the chibiles, was happy to say there INTO • number off dles who mel at the school every Saturday who would make them ‘ll l ., This, be thought, a most honourable, wer e m uch and delightlo, occupation for ladies, many of whom were much in want ' something to do. TEE Rnv. SPEKE.—Three weeks havecan e ddred slam the day of this gentleman's disappearenee endeavours to true bins, after his quitting a shop in Ni . o' wicketreet, Pimlico, where he bad purchased a hat, MO failed. The only sign of him that has yet been Jose'. a strange one, and, though it is not entirely inoonsist4, with the first impres sion of his having voluntarily tril7 drawn himself from the society of his friends, there it to reassurance in the discovery. It seems that a workman the employment of Messrs. Mandalay and Co. founa Birdcsgeewalk the hat wbich had belonged to the misiol gentleman—not the new hat, but the one he had be. weasieg. The other, which he purchased at the AO Pialiso, was, by his dirortion, sent to his place of shoat 'lle fader of the bat, which bore some marks of TO?, treatment, kept posaelaion of it until within a very Teo"' point of time, and has now given it into the hands. of 0 0 polies. The anxiety of Yr. Speke's relations mgb t l napalmed to here grown with the delay, if even tiny anifisbed an iscreamd alarm by raising the mow" of eseised offered for his dimmary, from 1001. to 5001. A parson living at Benfleld near Bristol, los maim in a cage. It was caught l a si summer soca aftir it left its nest. It sate broad, potatoes, meat, cheese. O a A She Mallet butcher advertises to D ell ot Saturdays a 'single ' d poun of good fat mu tt o n at bd.. a pound of good English a= at lid. 1 I . .......