The Express. — London, England, 1864-01-08 00:00:00

CRINOLINES.—SANSFLECTIIMS. 10a, 6d. PHILEOTTE. $7 PICCADILLY. CRINOLINES for EVENING WEAR. 158. 6d. PNILYOTTA 37, PICCADILLY. CRINOLINES for LITTLE GIRLS. Se. 6d. PHI IN, PICCADILLY. ORINOLINES.-0 DNA, or WAVED. 218. NI The PATENT ONDINA, or Waved lotion, does away with the unsightly results of the o rd inary beeps, and so perfect meths wavelike bands, that a ladymay ascend a steep st air, lean against a table, throw herself into an armchair, ppaarr to her stall at the Tor occupy • fourth seat in a , without inconve ear% to herself or others, or provoking rude remarks of the observers, thus modifying in an important degree all those pecu liarities tending to destroy the modesty of English women : and, lastly. it allows the dress to fall into graceful folds. Price, 2ls. and 235. ad. Illustrations free. PICCADILLY, W. ALFRED WEBB MILES, Everybody knovri Mr. MILES, REMOVED from Bond-street, to 13, BROOK RTREET. Hanover-aquae, in 1850. The Ida TROUSERS (originated by him) in all the New for Winter. •' better than ever." VT UMW. _ SPECIAL NOTIC E TO GENTLEMEN. A. W. SIILEs begs most reepectrally to announce that hia dock In the varlotu departments of his establishmeut ts now replete for Overcoats, Vestings, Bedford Cords, and scarlet waterproof cloth for hunting. The wool-dyed Black and Bine Frock Coats, M.n. A choice of ao pieces of indestntetable woaded West of England Clotb& ESTABLISHED UAL Only address. How COLD IT HAS BEEN.—NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA9I celebrated Taraminderus will ow rectly register the lowest temperature. Pries td.-1. Hatton guden . 59, Corn= , 153, FicelMFOM: sad 1P S. Itegentatreet. wanted. WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTONIMIS Ey dear fellow geutlevien Wap at EVANS'S, Covent-garden. ZILE erprelso. TO . 091111151.0NDICNTS. hdyeelisententa tntiaidal toe . .21;e171;;;;• London loaning =atmost 14 tie aeon 10, hotworloatnet, by Two on the dag ad imbibition. ODVICNT-41ABDIN. FANCER7+I -- 111,87. Prne and Mr. W. Har rison.-And HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. WWII. W. H. Payne. H. Payne, F. Payne, the Brothers Stonette, Mae. Sather.—Caintosece at 7. HATKARLLT. THIS E912(1110, or ft iiiiaTeliiissi3slN. Mare Bothers, Backstone, Chlppendile, Hordes, Rosen. Co., and Clark: Mesdames Angel sad Ssoesdoa.—And KING ABIHUB.. Mr. Cumpton Mesdames L Leaky, Tarry. Lindley, Y Hamer. PRINCIES3I. Tittn EVENING. THE HONEYMOON.—And HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER. Mamas. Seyton, Cathcart. A. aad C. learns, Moline and Son. Milano, Naylor, and Chapin° ; Mesdames Barnett. Admen sad *ward. Tuis Emma, THE lABT illtLD. Mr. WuWomb and Miss P. Laclercq.—Bn DE MOlllO, a lays Story. Mow& Padstar. Brougham, Rwsery. Charles. and Jordan ; Woes Tony, Ltvenne, and Mlaworiby. ma I Mrs. Lea BIUTANNIA- Tars EVE/iTqa. the Ne;7lsiTtWesrme HICKORY. DICKORT. DOCK. Mrs. S. Lane sad tint•eate Palltoll3llllata.—The Marvels of Fern. - THE GREAT 0 HOOT EFFECT.—Arthur and /3eriaand. —The Fairy Founta/n.Anal THE MULL/ HUN f. HIGH WATIlat AT LONDON Barnox TESS DAY Marnhos, AIL .Allorapoa, lb. 10m. To. OSILOW Naming. lh. 2h. 3a. LONDON, FRIDAY, lANCIARX S. IN his address at Manchester on the system of Local Examination, Lord STANLEY took a wider view of the general subject of Middle Class Edu cation than is common even with distinguished speakers on such occasions. Instead of indulging in a few useful but commonplace remarks on the advantages of knowledge, or the progress of edu cation in England as compared with other coun tries, he considered the middle-class teaching of the day in relation to the true end of all educa tion—that of training a youth to the active and independent exercise of his faculties, and thus fitting him to become a good citizen and a useful man. The chief means to the accomplishment of this end—so far, that is, as it can be attained at school—are undoubtedly, as Lord STANLEY pointed out, minute accuracy and thoroughness of instruction. Whether a boy learns much or little, if it is to ho of any real use to him, either as knowledge or training, it is absolutely essential that he should learn it well, and in nine cases out of ten the quality of the learning will largely depend on the quality of tho teaching. If the teaching is vague and superficial, the master slur ring over minute points on which the real know ledge of the subjects taught depends, his pupils will at beat gain a mere smattering of these sub jects, without having received any education at all in the true aense of the term. The confused and ill-ordered information acquired under such a loose and slovenly system cannot in the nature of things be long retained, much less applied to any useful purposeouid while the pupil's memory may have been heavily taxed, the higher powers of the mind, which is the very business of an efficient education to develop, have been wholly dormant. Educa tion, as the term imports, is the calling out and exercising the mental faculties on some branch of human knowledge, their appropriate object. Loose memoriter teaching exercises only one faculty of the mind, the lowest, and imparts no knowledge worthy of the name. In order to un derstand any subject, however simple or elementary —grammar, geography, or arithmetic—it must be known in its details, and any subject so understood calls into play other powers of the mind (comparison and judrinent, for instance), besides the memory. The first step, therefore, in sound education is to make a boy acquire a thorough mastery over what he is taught, so as to be able not only to explain but apply his knowledge ; and to accomplish this demands, on the part of the teacher, patient in dustry and conscientious zeal, as well as compe tent knowledge and ability for the work. This habit of mental accuracy once acquired is, how ever, iuvaluabie in its influence and results. It is not like so much of the knowledge usually acquired there, left behind as soon as the youth leaves school, bat goes with him iuto the after business of ;ire, and naturally feuds to produce a lova of accuracy in ordinary affairs, and in the region of opinion stimulates a healthy appetite for facts, and the judgments founded on them, in place of fostering, as the " Young Gentlemen's Academy " system of tuition often does, that false taste for fine writing and rhetorical exaggeration which be longs to the ignorant and the vulgar. It is precisely in these sterling and essential qualities of accuracy and thoroughness that our . prevailing systems of middle-class education have long been, and to a great extent still are, so I lamentably deficient. In the higher education of the country exactness and finish are the charac teristic qualities of the teaching as well as the essential conditions of academic success on the part of those who are taught ; while popular or elementary education, under a growingly vigilant system of Government inspection, is in its lower sphere of teaching actively cultivating the same qualities. But the loose, superficial, and utterly unsatisfactory character of the education given in the great majority of middle-class schools, long complained of almost in vain by those actively interested in educational reform, is now suffi ciently notorious. The reasons of this lie on the surface, and are well stated by Lord STANLEY : " With the exception of a few grammar schools " here and there, the business has been left to " private euterprise ; and there could be " nothing better, if only the buyer were "always qualified to judge of the article "in which he invests. But that is not the case. " Many fathers have not the leisure or the will to "investigate very carefully the qualifications of the " schoolmaster. Those who have made their own " way in the world—and happily there area large Loadon Snbarbe—lowest teoperaiart 22 avow Plasma. 011 KORTIMIN SAITRDAT. R IAI. N.W. to NE, and?. L, — CoAeM B.E. to W., fresh, some light to fresh saw. E. to S. and g W.. mo• Wizimaa. 15.1 i to S.W. and N, W., derMe to Moog, fresh, some tall. now in place:. As next above. MIME/ As next shore. N.E. to SA. and S.W.. tom. E. MS. and W., fresh, t-esh to strorg, some snow in places. =ow. M. W. to N. E. and S.E., NA/1132. An next above. laodeTUO to fifth. Noethern=Seo•land. Irastern=lreland. Ittidle=Wales, opposite and adjacent. cOnations=Ensilsh Channel and Raw Bay. Eastern.Eaatward England and Haligokad. A CCIDINT TO TIIi How. AND Riv. Roam Irootu..—W• learn that this gentleman met with a sevens fall on Use Me in Battersea-park ee Tuesday last, by which his left arm was rendered totally powerless. It was feared at first that the point of the shoulder was fractured, but Mr. Hewitt, who was called in on the following morning, wee of a different opioioe, though from the extensive swelling round the shoulder it is very difficult at present to ascer tain the exact amount of the injury. We bear that Mr. Liddell paned a good night on Wednesday, and is going on an favourably as possible. LIVENING OF TEM CONSIRVATORT ON TIAN Q01.12e1l lawn, BiLFMIT.-1111.7•13T, THIMIDAT.—This merinos. at half-mat 4 o'clock, the harbour consteble in charge of the Queen's Island observed smoke issuing from the tower of the conservatory. He at once gave the alarm, and the engines ware aeon after on the spot. Before the fire bad ben overcome, the tower, and the portion of the building immediately adjoining it were ent:rely con sumed. The metre aed two wings are, however, US. touched. Two men who bad been sleeping in the tower had just time to ama i n with their lives. fl. fire is supposed to have been clamed by a stout—Dublin Brewing Nair. THE EXPRESS,_ chum, more numerous in Englund country, except perhaps the col than in any other wish their children to hive a better education than " theyhad themselves. And they are willing to give "a good price, but they are liable to be duped by "any confident pretenders, and they want some " test by which to know a good school from a bad " one." It is no less true, as Lord STANLIY points out, that the system of University Local Examine tions is a most effective remedy for this cardinal defect of middle-claim education. The Oxford Local Examinations,which inaugurated the system six years ago, first laid bare to the public the I seriously defective quality of the prevalent teaching in private schools, only about a third of the candidates who came up from these schools having succeeded in passing an elementary exami nation. Ever since that time the local examinations undertaken by the Universities have been specially directed towards the correction of this defect, the whole scheme both of questions and marks having been carefully framed to test and reward the sound quality instead of the superficial quantity of , the candidate's professed knowledge. Examiners have in their annual reports repeatedly insisted on accuracy and thoroughness of knowledge as the indispensable conditions of a candidate's success. ' Many candidates, especially in the earlier exami nations, dabbled with many subjects, in the hope of scrambling through by answer ing a few questions in each. But this practice is very properly condemned and discouraged by the examiners. In the last report it is remarked on this point :—" More marks would be gained, " and the process would be more beneficial to the "candidates, were they to confine their reading " within narrower limits, selecting one or more of " the optional subjects, and learning them tho " roughly, instead of endeavouring to obtain a " less acquaintance with the whole." An exami nation of this sort, conducted on the principle of testing the candidate's power of applying the knowledge he has professedly acquired, and of rejecting all answers that are not distinct and accurate, as far as they go, offers very little en couragement indeed to the process of "cramming," ' and would probably, in the great majority of in stances, prove fatal to the candidates who ven tured to depend on that process for success. On the other hand, it directly tends to raise the character of the teaching in the schools from which the candidates come. By supplying a sound test to the systems of teaching pursued in these schools, the masters are naturally stimulated to correct what is de fective, supply what is wanting, and improve to the best of their ability the quality of the instruc tion afforded to their pupils. If these efforts are ' successful tie keel examinations give a public re cognition of that success, and the master has his appropriate reward in the higher character and position thus awarded to his school. In this way, as the statistics of recent years show, the local examinations have already effected a very salutary reform in the teaching of private schools, and, so far as their influence extends, have undoubtedly raised the character of middle-class education. In its wider bearings, such a reform may even tually become a national service. The expe rience of every day shows the necessity of insisting on accuracy and thoroughness in every department of intellectual activity and public life. The whole tendency of the age, and even the rapid diffusion of cheap literature, are in some respects hostile to the habits of dispassionate inquiry and independent judgment which must ever constitute the glory and moral strength of a free people. While we are inundated with superficial informa -1 tion, hearsay judgments, and second-hand opi nions, the number of educated men who are willing to go through the labour of forming opi nions for themselves appears almost to diminish as 1 the materials for sound judgment increase. Lord STANLEY has adverted to this aspect of our social and political state in a passage which well deserves to be weighed by all who have the permanent welfare of the country at heart. " The habit of " verifying facts before we accept them, with that "which necessarily follows upon it, the habit of " suspending our judgment when facts are not " precisely known, and utterly distrusting the " first vague impressions we form, is not very " common, even amongst educated men ; and " upon that habit, perhaps more than we think, " both our social comfort and our political well " being depends. Where every wild report finds " easy belief, where people rush to conclusions " from hearing one aide of a story without wait ' " ing to hear the other, where there is a general " impatience to believe or disbelieve without " sufficient grounds for either, there one security is " wanting both against political exaggeration and "against individual injustice. I look on cultivation " of what I may call our judging faculties' as one " of the very first duties which civilization imposes " on the members of a community." WEATHER RIPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRID, Int Court. (=OP" Jen. 7. The Queen, soecenpanied by Princess Helens, drove oat yertorday. Earl GMDAVID.* aMead at Osborne. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphivatone, hu re turned to Greenwich-park. The Queen held a annuli to-day, which was attended by Earl Greaville (Lord President), the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, and the Right Honourable C. P. Villiera Kr. Helps, the Clerk of the Osancil, attended. At the Connell Parliament wee ordered to be further pro raved him Wednesday, the 13th of January, to Thursday, the 4th of February, when h is to assemble for the des patch of business. Earl Granville had an audience of her Majesty. The Right lion. Sir George Grey and the Right Hoc. C. P. Villiers left town yesterday by a special train on the South Western Railway to attend the Queen's council at Osborne. At Gosport the ministers embarked on board her Majesty's ship Fire Queen, Staff Commander F. W. Paul, R.N., sad arrived at Osborne at a quarter to one o'clock. Alter the council the ministers retnrned to town. Sir Francis Graham Moan, Bart., Chairman of the General Purpose, Committee of the Court of Aldermen, with the City Solicitor, trannicted business yesterday at the Home-offico. Despatches wore seat from the to the Gomm. of Cicada. yesterday ntIDAT, JA CAT 4 IL • D. e A.K. L Q. . • N .atm . ..... -00.10171 - SA P. 111 2: 16 - Abram ... -11.12101 - W. 1 • ,U 1 • - Leith 00.1137, 1 N.W. 1 . 211 f - Ardrossan. 130.C9 30 - Lit.Z. 4 El • - tirevometie t.Oll 34: 2 SAL I 14 ,• - °astray , 02'301 - I.E. 2 12 e, - Valenti* ltP.9lll7' 2 Z. 0 1! I b . - Cape Clear 120.14 271 1 V.S.T. 4 HI el- Queet.stows i 5.21.16 1 1 N.N.L. I 4 , si _ Liverpool - 0010 49 - 1 11.3.1 1 12 i 1 - Holyhead 40.04 3- 1 ILIA. 2 , II i it I - Pembroke 30.00.30 - E. 1, 12 a - "rt. lO .0414 i N.R. 2 i 4 9_ .46 1 77 I.x.t. 4 4! b - VOrleut .03271 I N.E. 2 4 I a - Rochefort Cl.k 96 321 Z. 4 4 0 - Mmouth /20.0. U 1 Z. • II b - Weymouth 130.0022. N.E. 3 4 a - Portsmouth 1 20.14; Z. II Loudon 1 .1. 1 2• - 4 f - Dover .. _ 1 0.04 N. /4 63 06 2ii N.E. I • 32 f - Yarmouth ... .i2O 07 22, 1 N.E. 74 I 1 I 6 et - acerhorougb. • 130.0144. 2 1 .22 • - Melds - .130.12 23 2 ; N.W. 11 24 16 - Ifelagolad 130.14 261 - I 1.6.12. I 2 1 tt t - THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. WINDSOR, TI(CIiSDAT. Yesterday being Twelfth-day, their Royal High ness* the Prinos and Primes of Wales entertained a juve nile party, about 20 in number, among whom ware the children of General Gray and General Seymour. Lieut. General W. T. Knollys and Captain G. H. Grey are in waiting on the Prince, and the Countess of Macclesfield is in attendance on the Princess. This Morning hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Ms suite, went skating on the ice in the canal, or ornamental water, ►t Frogmors. His royal highness was graciously pleased to invite the officers of the Greandier Guards and Royal Horse Guards, now quartered at Windsor, to the skating party; while the gay scene was greatly enlivened by the performance of the splendid band of the latter regiment, which executed several favourite musical selections. Her Royal Highness the Prioceea of Wales was present during a portion of the day. Their royal highnesses afterwards entertained their visitor, at lunch at Frogmen", and in the afternoon the skating was continued till a late hoar. We (Times) understand that her Majesty has ex pressed • strong opinion against nay important change being made again in the uniform of the Royal Navy. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln and children, uwe learn by the last letters, are staying at Vice. The countess's health has greatly improved by her short resi dence there. The intended visit to Rome is deferred. The Countess of Ellesmere and family, Mr. and Lady Georgians, Balfour, and Misses Balfour are among the English families of rank sojourning at Nice for the winter. Lord and Lady Dufferin and the Countess of Gifford have been staying at Clandeboye House, near Bel fast, since their return from Paris. The noble lord is ex pected to come to Loodon for the meeting of parliament. The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood and family are expected to arrive in l3elgravearpure next week from Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire, for the mown. We (Post) are requested to state that the marriage between the second daughter of the Earl and Countess of Orkney and Captain Power (late of the Artillery) will not take plate. A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take place, between the Hon. Eleanor Leioarter Warren, third daughter of Lord and Lady de Tabley, and Mr. Loightee, • eldest eon of Sir Baldwin Leighton. UNIVERSITY _OF LONDON. A meeting of the convocation of the university was yesterday held in the Croat Hall at Burlington Howie, for the purpose of ailing up one of the vacancies in the se nate caused by the death of Sir George Cornwall Lewis, Bart., and the resignation of Dr. Chas. James Foster, the latter well known in connexion with the Liberation Society, but now about to emigrate to New Zealand. The senate of the University of London is composed of 36 Fellows, of whom the crown directly nominates three fourths, but tills up vacancies in the remaining fourth by selecting one from a list of three names elected toilet quoties by convocation. It has hitherto been the inva riable practice to appoint to the vacant seat that one of the three submitted upon whom falls the majority of votes. Oa the present matelot' the following three gentlemen sought the suffrages of convocation :—Walter Bagehot, MA., the editor of the Eronomiet ; Robert Nicholas Fowlir M.A., fellow and member University College ; and Myles William Patrick O'Reilly, 8.A., M.P. Ths following was the result H of the poll :—Fowler, 256 ; Baiebot, 61 ; Major O'Reilly, 18. Dr. &TORRAS thee moved—" That it be an instruction to the annual committee to take advantage of any opportu nity which may present itself of co-operate`` with the senate io their efforts to obtain a suitable edifies for the university." Mr. JOHN RointoN. 8.A., seconded the motion, and said he felt quite lure that the annual committee would be happy to comply with the recommendation. Mr. W. SUALS, the clerk of the convocation, said there was at the present moment a scheme before government for the disposal of the land on which Burlington House stood, and if that scheme were canted out it would be extremely perilous to the university. Union the members of the university continued to pier their claims upon government they would soon find themselves is a far worse position than now. It was part of the scheme that a thoroughfare should be cut between the two wings of Burliagtou House. The scheme entirely ignored the necemities of the university, and he was quite are that convocation would be Wit* in adopting the motioe, not only oe account of the necessities of the case, but also because there was reason to believe that their claims, if properly pushed, might be recognised. Several members spoke in support of the policy of the resolution, sod contended that the university would not have been in its present condition if it had been treated with ordinary and decent consideration by the government, The Scottish, Irish, and English universities had obtained liberal assistance from government, while the University of London bad always been kept on a starving allowance. The motion was unanimously adopted, and, after the traaemetioe of some farther busieem, the meeting sepa rated. THE CAMBRIDGE ASYLUM. —Their Royal High nesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Primmer Mary of Cambridge visited this asylum on Wednesday, when their royal highnewe ware received by the ladies' committee and severs! members of the general committee. An ample dinner of turkey and plum-pudding, with ale, was provided M the Blithest of Cambridge. Greco harlot been said by the Rev. Mr. Rolbetion, honorary chaplain to the asylum, sad by the Rev. Mr. Nod in a second room, the inmates partook of the substantial and excellent fare provided for them ; and many useful articles of clothing, as well as two invalid chain, were given by their royal highneeses to the widows, who seemed much pleased, and earnestly expressed their gratitude for the bounty and swimmable hospitality so kindly extended to them. MARRIAGE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—Yesterday morning an unusually large number of persona were at. kneed to the ordinary minim in Westminster Abbey, in the hope of seeing the wedding which was to take dace immediately afterwards, the bride being the daughter of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin and the 800. Mrs. Trench, and the bridegroom, Mr. Lee. The marriage service was begun by his grace the archbishop, who was assisted by the father of the bridegroom ; the Rev. Canon Wordsworth. D.D., the Rev. Casco Cureton, D. D., the its,. Precentor Haden, with the Revs. J. Luptoo, J. Antrobils, C. M. Arnold, 8. F. Jose& and F. K. Raiford (mioorcaeons), being also is attend. anon &Übe altar. Mr. Tarle, who presided at theories, played a voluntary as the procession moved up to the appointed plant in the choir; the psalm cheat wee ow of his owe from Beethoven. and the prates were lapis's. The bride was attended by 10 young ladle. Miss Trench was given away by her brother, Mr. Charles Trench, R.A. At the conclusion of the ceremony Mr. Turk played the " Wedding March." Afterwards a broadest was give, at the Deanery to a /arm party. Among the compaey primal at the wed ding, besides those named already, were Lord aid Lady Ashtown, the Lord Bishop of Oxford, the Hoe. F. Trench, the 1t.,. Canoe Jeesimp, the Rev. F. Garden ieuhdesa of the Compel Royal), lcc. &a JAM= OnEuti. —At a meeting of the town council of Aberdeen, on Monday afternoon, Provost Ander am suggested that he should be authorised to communicate with the committee at prosiest making arrangements for erecting a statue to the memory of Fir James Outrun. pointing out the claims of Aberdeen to be the site of the moicareeet, seeing that the "Bayard of India" had re ceived his education in Aberdeen, sad spent a good deal of hie early life there. The profited was seconded by the DRY o f re and unanimously agreed to ROMAN OATHoLic CRAPIAIIIB.—At the Somerset Epiphany quarter maims at Taunton. on Tuesday, Mr. F. H. Dicker= moved that the deities sucistrates for Tann. ton County Gael and Sheptou Mallet House of Correction be requested to consider whether, in their opinion, it would be desirable to adopt the provisions of the Prison Maietere Bill. Mr. Efirg seconded the motion, but on a divines it was last by 13 votes to 5. M *`}~4 ,AY EVENING, JANITAItY 8, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE CONF'ERENCE. The Dibats of to-day observes that England can produce considerable effect upon the cabinets of Austria and Prussia, but very little upon the minor governments of the Germanic Confederation—who, strangers to the vast designs and to the combina tions of European alliances which such designs imply, believe they have need, neither in the present nor in the future, to form a league with London. " What, especially, can she do with the Germanic populations, with whom Schleswig-Hol stein is the dominant passion I The English journals, which are irritated at the slight success obtained up to this time by the diplomatic inter vention of England, declare that the kings and petty sovereigns of Germany are engaged in • ridiculous enterprise if they pretend to occupy Schleswig against the will of Austria and Prussia. The reasoning would be just in case the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, instead of being reduced to vain protests against their allies, could throw their sword between Denmark and the Federal contin gents; but both of them have to deal with the passions of their own subjects, and the national sentiment, which, ranging themselves on the aide of the Diet and the small States, render the ministers of Vienna and Berlin a little less free in their de finitive resolutions than England supposes. So it is that, in spite of diplomatic circulars and of proposi tions of a conference or congress, Prussia con tinues her armaments and Denmark calls her re serves under her flag." eountry, and advanced posts have been established I to give the alarm in Gen of danger. A surprise is Inert to impossible, because the chiefs of the insur gents are kept well informed of the movements of the enemy by the landowners and other persons in the neighbourhood. The detachments in the palatinates of Lublin and of Podlachia are pretty well supplied with warm clothing and furs, a con siderable convoy of the latter articles having re cently arrived from Galicia." (07111 . 111 TICLIGILAYL) THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. VIENNA, Jas. 8. Information from a reliable source states that the German great po•vers have withdrawn their intended motion at the Federal Diet for the em ployment of none but Austrian and Prussian troops in the eventual occupation of Schleswig. Preparations are being made for the convocation of the Diet in Croatia. DENMARK. THE KING'S VISIT TO THE ARMY. FLENSBURG, J AN. 7. The King and the Crown Prince of Denmark ar rived here this morning by special train, and left immediately for Sonderburg. Thence his Majesty will at once proceed by the steamer Schleswig to Korsor, in order, it is said, to be present at the next sitting of the Council of State in Copenhagen. His Majesty inspected the fortifications of Friederichastadt on the sth. It is asserted that the small canals of the Schlei are still free of ice. The inundations of the sur rounding country by opening the sluices will not be undertaken until the approach of the enemy. The greatest activity prevails in the dockyards at Copenhagen with the object of setting afloat a considerable fleet as speedily as possible. THE DUCHIES. The Fivisburg (Schleswig) Ga:ettc states that, at the date of the 31st December, the communication by sea was still open, and that steamers were arriv ing each day, towing vessela charged with troops and stores. Huts were being constructed at the town of Schleswig for the accommodation of 4,000 men. The frost would, it was expected, soon im pede the transport of troops and the preparations for defence. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 3rd says :—" A Coubcil of Ministers was held yesterday under the presidency of the King, and in the presence of the Prince Royal. Great stress will be laid on the fact that the Prinoe Royal has resumed his place in the Council of Ministers, which he had not done since the publication of the ordonnance of June 1 on the press. It is well known that the royal family is favourable to the Duke of Augustenburg." The National Gazette of Berlin, of the 4th, says :—" The chamber to-day voted the budget of the Minister of the Interior. The com mittee proposed to suppress an item of 35,000 thalers (131,280 fr.) for secret service money, but M. Von der Heydt strenuously defended the vote, declaring that to disallow it would be exposing the ministry to violate the law ; he added that the Chamber of Nobles would certainly reject the financial bill if that article was omitted, and that the country would be again without a budget. Count Schwerin protested against M. Von der Heydt's theory, but nevertheless declared ( that he would vote for the secret service money. K Waldeck observed that expenses of that nature should never be allowed, and should be above all refused to the present ministry, as they implied a vote of confidence. K Letts observed that these funds would be certainly employed against the constitutional liberties of the country. In the end the chamber adopted the recommendation of the committee, and disallowed the sum demanded." A letter has been published from the Prussian Minister of War to an association formed for the purpose of supplying clothing to the Prussian troops in Holstein, in which he says that a portion of the Prussian army and navy " will probably have shortly to enter upon a winter campaign, which perhaps will be a bloody one;" and adds, "Prussia, it is my conviction, is on the threshold of great decisions. It is not a local contest for a special object which .is at stake at this mo- ment, but the whole political future of our dear country. Consequently nothing is more urgent, more indispensable, than to gather together all its national forces for the inviolable maintenance of its honour—for the greatest possible enlargement of its political importance." IMPORTANT MEETING OF OPPOSITION DEPUTIES AT PARIS. In the Indeperadanee Beige of yesterday evening we find the following account of an important meeting of the Opposition Deputies of France, held at the house of M. Marie, on Tuesday evening : The object of the meeting was to decide upon the number and the seam of the amendments to be proposed in the Legislative Corps. The following are the principal if not the whole of the motions agreed to at this conference. let. An amendment intended to combat the system of official candidateships, sustained by MM. Marie, Thien, and Berryer ; 2nd. An amendment on behalf of the liberty of the press, the defence to be confided to MM. Jules Simon, Gneroult, and Darimon ; 3rd. An amendment for individual liberty ; M. Marie will speak upon this subject, end will attack the law of general safety ; 4th. An amend meat for municipal liberties, having especially for' object to restore to the cities of Paris and Lyon. the right of electing their edits ; the amendment to be supported by the Marquis of Andelarre ; Sth. Amend ment, for the liberty of working men's associations, and subordinately, doubtless, for the repeal of the law on coalitioca M. Jules Simon will speak on this topic, which is one of his specialities ; 6th. An amendment sustained by M. Picard, for the modifimition of the regime in Algeria and the colonies ; 711. An amendment for primary ioatruction, upon which M. Karin will speak ; Bth. An amendment for the evacu►tion of Mexico; MM. Them. Berryer, and Gueroult will take part in this discus sion. These remain what are culled the reserved gumboot', Italy and Poland being among the number. It is un derstood that upon this ground, MM. Braila (Meier and Picard am not of the same opinion as MM. Berryer and Asdelarre. In all probability there will be two amend ment, oe the subject of Poland, one signed by M. Gueroult and the bellicose (faction of the minority, if it realises the number rigorously required ; the other, by the traditional "fire," to whom will be added a crutch number of the members of the left. If M. Pelletan adheres to the amendments of the latter, ft is he who will speak in their name ; if, on the contrary, he attach himself to the more warlike side, K. Jules Fevre will propose it. IL Thiers will commence' the mend discussion. All the amendments referred to above will be definitively written out on Friday (to -day), and be submitted to a general meet ing et M. Marie's, sad on Saturday deposited at the Lees. Wive Corps. POLAND. The ast-See-Zeitung publishes the following account of the preparations made by the Poles for the winter campaign, and of the organisation which prevails in their camps :—" The detachments of in surgents occupying the Palatinate of Lublin set about building wooden huts in the forests when the cold weather approached, and have thus found means to protect themselves in some measure from the rigours of the season. In thewe hats they can make fires for the twofold purpose of cooking food and warming themselves. Their camps are surrounded by ramparts, mounds of earth, and barricades sufficient to protect them from any sudden attack. Patrols scour the neighbouring FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. R. Marshal Forey has been appointed Commander of the 2nd Army Corps. The (:,'onstitutionnel of this morning contains an article, signed by M. Limayrac, pointing out the difficulties of an understanding to settle the Dano- German conflict. GREECE. VIENNA, .TAN. 8. Advice. from Athens announce that Major- General Petmoaas has been appointed Minister of War. The troops garrisoning Tripelitza and Lamia are said to have refused to recognise their new chief. FRANCE. PARIS, THCZEDAY EVENING. The first grand ball of the season was given last night at the Tuileries, about 5,000 persons being invited. A considerable number, however, were forced to absent themselves by the rigour of the season. The Emperor went the day before yesterday to the Bois de Boulogne and skated on the small lake near the cascade. The Empress and the Prince Impirial were present Several ladies known in the fashionable world of Paris were on the ice. The report of K Larrabure on the Supplemen tary Credits of 1863 is considered by the Paris journals as a further proof of the desire felt by the Legislative Body to discountenance every act that might lead to war or prevent the exercise of a rigid economy. _ _ The cold yesterday was not altogether so severe at Paris. The large arm of the Seine is covered with floating ice, which is blocking up the river at the bridges. The Saint Michel branch, on the south of the Citii, where there is scarcely any currrent, is completely frozen up from the Pont de PArchevklid to the Sluice of the Mint. The navigation both on the Upper and Lower Seine, as well as on the canals, is entirely stopped. The lowest temperature at 8 o'clock the morning before last was 15 5-10ths degrees below zero Centigrade (5 Fahrenheit) at Leipaic ; next comes Berne at 14 2-10ths below C. (7.25 F.), and at Limoges 11 below C.(11.75 F.) At Cherbourg the thermometer only marked 1 7-10ths below zero, C. (30.25 F.) There has been heavy snow at Marseilles, and also at Ancona. The cold has also become infinitely less intense at St. Petersburg, marking two days ago only 21 below zero, C. (27* F.) In Paris. at 6 yesterday morning, the thermometer of M. Chevalier stood at 10 degrees below zero C. (14 F.) ; at noon 5 3-10ths below C.(221 F.) ; and at 3, 2 below C. (28 2-sths F.) Paris is about to be enriched with another flower market, to be established on the Boulevard Richard Lenoir, between the Bast/le and the fountain of the Boulevard du Temple. "Brussels at the present moment," says the Ind:prndance, "is in raptures with a German female dancer. la classic dancing her performance is nothing ex beard/nary, but she has created for herself a marked superiority in the (labia.) stile, and far exceeds Rigolboche is her gymnsatie movement., She is moreover young, about 20, very pretty, and lives in good style. She is maid to be morganatacally a princess, and her house is inaccessible to the numerous admiren of her person and her eccentric talent." SNOW MORNS IN NORTH-Wishoim AMERICA. Mote snow has already fallen I. Colorado than was ever knows to fall as entire mina before. At Denver the thermometer stood fourteen degrees below zero on the morning of the 27th of November. The Atchison Cham pion learns from passenger, who arrived on the overland Beach OD Sunday, that the snow is also four feet deep be tween Denver and Rock Creek. All along the route from here to Salt Inks, the cattle belonging to trains are dying from cold and 'Writhe). The depth of the snow bee greatly impeded the progress of the overland stages, and in some lesbians, they have been delayed for several days —Bt. Joseph New, Dee. & PROSTITUTION AND LEO ISL AVON. —Those Who support the idea of putting aside the orbiting English laws, sad of rat:educing French laws for the suppression of pros titutios, are probably not aufliciently conversant with that wish they propose to introduce. At the present time, if the unfortunates of England are by their oc cupation degraded, at the worst they are free, that is, they are sot slaves. In Franco the wo man is degraded and infamously enslaved. The first ordeal to which this slave is subjected so amply manna to disgust the treed =IX and to make the Wed the slave herself the more sorely sawed She must register, make knows her age, her parentage, sod all else to government officials, slid salmi*, to after observatios of the most regular sod stringent ofileialcia ruder. After this it is most common for her to sell her self to some authorised and legaliaed occupier of • registered house—end then what is her bandage 1' To sew that her very seal is sot her own is • mild term ; neither her body, sor seal, nor the habiliments of her body are hens. She hos no power of residing any indignity. Tbssw who seek her attractions may be worse than the wont lepers of antiquity, she mast subject herself to their advance'. If the wretch woo rules choose, she me even dispose el her arrant en hire for a week, • =oath, • year, take ell her ilkotten earnings, clothe her as the and hold her with more [Modish grip by leollog her which ennui be repaid. The late 'wisestDr, l ° enollasd. whose researches on prostitution sod he I MOM are equal almost to those of Dochataet himself, told the writer of this article, after his inquiries in Paris were imeelstled, that no words could possibly express the loathsome picture of ore of the 'isitS MOi•Oni Wait/. To know them, their outer life meat sot be considered ; all the show, all the glitter suet be transinerced, and the islet, the grosser, the loathsome part must be seen. Thee the &armlet of the liosneed dwelling becomes truly apparent, sad the system that provides for it la sees la all its mime se an am, end all its melamines as • remedy. In England the wean would be inoperative, from ha very eaverity. It could sot, M ufti, be canted oat. And If it sena, what woad be the effect! This. That cartels quarters of Londe. and other kris tows. would be hensformed into outset and cities of refuge ter mho,. while in t .ti c ether gores, endow of the law of every. kind and shag would be constantly and persinimotiy pursued. Eves in Paris the law doss sot seeemplisk what it ahem at. How mock less se in Enema ?--&roket Saws Ran tee. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Oommkaioner Fane.) 1X u T. LLEDII.—EIT2AORMISAAT CASE. The bankrupt wan a boot and shoe dealer in Cantdet. town. The failure occurred I. 1f55, the liabilities bein g upwards of 4,6001., with amnia of about 1,5001. Mr. Sargood stated that when the bankrupt came herre the court for his certificate, it was wholly refused, and be had since suffered two year? imprisonment. He bad b eet , indicted at the Old Batley, but the conviction was • l uith e q on appeal. Having been eight years without protectiot, two years of which time he had spent in prison, be os came before the court, under the 160 sec. of the new act, tu ask for his order of discharge. Mr. C. E. Lewis, for the assignees, asked for a fortnight', adjournment with a view to a private examination of tt, bankrupt and another witness. Since his eertificate refused, he had been trading tinder the name of White, and was believed to have acquired property,now held by trustee., which ought to be available for the estate. Mr. Sargood, under these " - adjournment. I, consented to ch.: IN RE AIfDREW FORRF..4. ..... The bankrupt was formerly a bookseller and stationer, of Southampton. in partnership with James Joel Bennett. He came before the court on his own petition, with habilitate the amount of 7,000/., and giving up asseta valued at I.Pao His mother (also a bankrupt), was returned as a credit,; for 2,1001. It transpired, from an examination of the bankrupt, that a private rash-book and ledger had not been given up, tit wens in pomession of the accountant. His share in the business al Forbes and Bennett, which he had valued at 1,5001., had only realised 6501. He knew he was Mabee! in 1850, and had been getting worse every year time. ler. Bennett, bookseller, Southampton, the bankrupt? twiner partner, was examined in proof the existence of certain book which had not been given up by the bankrupt. The bankrupt asserted that he had given this book to Ht accountant and it could be produred in a quarter of hour. . . An adjournment for • month wee ordered. Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Linklater, and Mr. C. E. 1.41 , 18 appeared in the came. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MAKES. . TIMBEVZIII2I9 Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, name before Mr. Partridge after the applications for warrants, summates', and advice had been Ward, and the first night charge had been placed la the dock, and after an apology for the ioterrup Liao, requested a tell militery•looking mao, with what the ladies cell a handsome moustache, to step into the witeass box, and be did eo very quick's.. Mr. Stoddart then said- I know I am behind time, but thu case is a very urgent one. My client paid his addresses to • young woman, and they were to be married, but unfortu nately about twelve months ago he lost his father, and his mother was left a widow with a large family maintain. The young man, from prudential consideration; gave up the ides of marriage, and devoted his time and ~t. teution to his widowed mother and her family. 11 4 intended bride, however, insisted on his fulfilling his promise to marry her, and on his refusal to do so her love was changed to hatred. She annoyed and insulted him, and threatened to take hin life. He was at last compelled to seek the protection of the law, and she was bound over to keep the peace towards him by your worship or your colleague. She has lately demanded a renewal of the Mader and honourable intercourse which formerly existed, He has refused to have anything to do with her, and she has threatened him with revenge, and recommenced her system of annovanos. She has threatened him, created a disturbance, and been to his place of abode several times and called him out. I believe she will injure him very seriously if she is not restrained. Mr.' Partridge—Take your summons, Mr. Stoddart—a peace summons against the lady for using threatening 111.01M11/0. Mr. Steldart—lt is neceesary it should be granted imme diately. My client's situation is in danger through the con. duct of the female in question. The summons was then mods out. THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT THE CITY GA3 WOW. INQUEST.-(THLS DAY.) This morning Mr. William Payne, the City coroner, held an isquialt St. Bartholomew'. Hospital re. sporting the death of Ball, who lost his life through an explosion of gas at the City Gas Works, Whitetruas. James Faulkner, • labourer at the City Gas Worke, said that on last Wedairoday he and the decreed were employed at the works at Whininess. At about 12 o'clock on the day named be met the deceased gong towards the ca. holder No. 10. Shortly afterwards he heard an explosion. The whole place was covered wrath dust, and when it cleared away the deemed was foiled lying injured on the ground. He wee instantly removed to the hospital. Witless. did not know how the explosion was caused. He believed that it took place in part of the works called the hydraulic room ; that room was used foe the wpm. of filling the holders with gas. Alfred Brooks, an engineer, said that the explosion must have bun caused by firs. Mr. Mann, superintendent of the works, said that the hydraulic room was in fact a well by the Bide cf the gsa holder. The gas pipes passed through the well, for the purpose of entering the gasbolder. There was generally water at the bottom of the well. The well was covered with iron. There were two doors at the top of the well, for the purpose of enablieg the well to be examined. The gam pipes were obliged to be covered with water before they entered the gas holder. The well doom were always kept closed to prevent the entrance of sir. After the ex. plosion the doors were found to have been blown open. There was • pump down into the well. la the opinion of wither the evdoeionwee caused by the mixture of gas with atmospheric sir in the well. He had made inquiries and could not god that anyone was in the well that day. In his opinion there was no leak in the well. the top of the well was used as a thoroughfare. For some days previous to the explosion, a pail coutaining burning coke bed been kept at • distance of 4 feet 6 inches from the pump down into the well, and it was so placed because the pump was trona He did not think that say of the lighted ooke had came in contact with the gas an the well. Ose of his names for thinking so was, that the iron covering of the well wee covered with dirt. The ironwork of the well was injured, but the bolder itself was not touched. Had not that been the case, the explosion would have been a moat serious one. Mr. Eccles, housa-surgeoe, said that the deceased expired on the day be was brought into the hospital from severe io. juries to his head. He was informed that the dammed was Wan a distance of twelve feet. The witness Faulkner was recalled, and said that a piece of the lighted coke is the pail might have been thrown opus the iron doors of the well. In those dome there were two keyholes. A alight escape of gas might have takes pica through Shoes holes, and so have become ignited. In future there were to be no drys except nese the pumps. J. Hanna, said that tea =oaten before the explosion took place be pat more coke on the fire near the pump. The pump fire wee kept alight all night. None of the coke on the fire fell upon the well doors. It was witness's duty to pump the water out of the well every morning. On the 'Moodily morning no water would come out of the well, sad witofto opened the well door to see if there was any water in the well. He was of minim that there was so gal in the well, for had there bees any in it witness must have smelled it the melons dily , for be had a " sharp smell." He could sot tell how the ezplooka was canard. The Foreman said that the jury were of *plaice that the any lied sot taken proper means to assertain the cases ezpleaca. Mr. Mann said the bolder was a new cos, only built last November. Everything coaaseted with the works had then been placed is a state of perfect repair. This oda noes had taken place suddenly, and that was the ream they *mid not tell the cause of it. The Coroner then summed up, and the jury retuned the following verdict :—" That the dammed was killed by s certain explosion of gas, bat how the said imitation vas caused there was no widows to show." Bnocmutet BOILER EXPLOSION AT DARLASTON.—' Yesterday morning, at about 7 o'clock, a caMmrophs of s frightful mars, attended with the luso of one life. or marred at this town. From some mum es yet maser. Was& a boiler at a lime pit belonging to Mr. Mills el. =The bricks and ironwork were blown is all es. A portion of the brickwork was hurled acroo the meal, sad struck a man named George Andrews, who was mgeged in his usual employment at the formals, and killed him as the spot. Several other persons were seriourlY injured. A surgeon was immediately seat far, seed rtes armorial men conveyed to their respective hom es, whorl they lie in a dangerous state. AIIICIDE BY A YOVNO G arrutmala —A yoon gentleman named fitewart, son of the merger et the Stour bridge sad Kidderminster Beak at fitearbridge, srrived st the Crown Hotel about soon as Holiday. and, after taking dinner and tee, he retired to rest at g dole* sad regnosted that he should sot be called until 10 the seat morning. At 12, however, he rang his bell and complained of toothache. rennertieg that if any laudimum were in the horse he might have mew It is believed, however, that noes was seat for. He got op as usual is the morning sad took his breskrsit is oosapsay with a aommemial traveller, sad afterwards west oat apparestly for a walk. It •ppan he went to the shop of Kr. Williszasoe, gunsmith, red mid be wanted to buy a pistol. Anse looking at some be asked that be might try it. No suspicion being aroused, Mr. Williamson loot him • doublrharrelled ass, also • powder flask sad some bullets. He seems thee to have gone • little distance ce. the Bromley-road, sad taming aside into a narrow path l e ad hog up the house of Mr. Wass, Hoard's-park, he deliberate!! shot himself through the heart, causing instastaaeous death. 4.- NAA Tlii Nor Xr. J. TM Form lii &Debi CM The then s BRIT Tfr, .nowt b eekn e woi - itr7 se board The awes The is 1.0 /nth Liven EM• ; Pende aie, E The =mei EN( Th morn' litir Leak ss. 4 1429:1 cong, the 6 for t VOW* of tb pet c chart Paid (II" xi b.d Th Ca sad 1 lad, 1 lb. at N tia i dam it. • RIM on I East mill