The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-22 00:00:00

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Tne Court of Exchequer has been occupied during • considerable portion of the last two days In the trial of an action brought against Mr. TAUNTON, the propnetor of the Malawi Erpreu newspaper, for an alleged libel, arising out of a dispute between some framework knitters in Leiceeteeshire and their employer. The plaintiff, Mr. Hosea, • stocking mausfacturer, of Earl Shiites, near Hinckley, em ploys between two and three hundred workpeople, and lets out as many framer, which, according to the custom of the trade, are used by the knitters at their own homes, and for which • rent of one shil ling oa nano, and two shillings on brad frames is paid. In March last a general rise of wages took place in the district, in which Mr. HONER'S workpeop's shared. Two months afterwards, that gentleman " having found," as he stated in the witness-box, "• that it did not answer," peso posed to the narrow framework knitters a plan of payment which embraced an alteration of the made of measurement, a reduction of the rent of the frames, and • lowering of the rite of wages. Mr. Hosts thought, as he states in evidence, that the effect of these alterations would be to benefit the work people. But the knitters were of another opinion. They declined to work at the reduced price, sod to the number of 100, and afterwards of 200, returned the frames they were using to their owner. At the same time • handbill, subscribed By order of the Tiede," appeared in the neighbourhood, in which Mr. HOMER was accused of acting harshly to the persons in kb employ, and the people were encouraged in their refusal to work. This handbill was republished in the columns of the Midland Express, which is the workman's newspaper of the district, and was the first of the libels complained of. The second, published on the 10th of September, was • letter to the Editor of the Milikosei Express, written by a framework knitter named JOHN See'rcnUm it alleged that Mr. Hoyle was a track-muter, se • person who, instead of paying his workpeople em tirely in wages, mikes them take • part of what 1 e dee to them in goods in which be dab. The strike lasted for a period of fifteen weeks, at the end of which Mr. Norte, after suffering sedans loss, was compelled to return to the old system of payment. Boma of his hands have returned to him, but not die and all his machinery is not yet employed. We do not collect with certainty either from the speech of counsel, or from the evidence, on account of what particular kind of injury Mr. Hoe= sought compensation as damages in the action he was advised to briog against the Midland Ezprest for publishing the opinion of the men, that he bed acted harshly, and that of lone SILETCHLIST, that he was a truek-master. Mr. TALYOURD SALT/1, his costiosel, in stating the case, said that his client had filled the office of churchwarden, and was now • guardian of the poor, so that nothing could mere affect his character than a charge of behaving cruelly to the poorer classes. In the absence of local know ledge, however, we most suppose that gentlemen are made guardians and churchwardens at Earl Shilton because they have the qualifications proper for than offices, • reason why their titles to public confidence should be open to dissuasion, rather than for sur rounding them with • conventional inviolability. In • later stage of his address the learned ennui said that his client sought for damages for the injury done to him as a trader. But when this alleged injury comes to be examined in the evidence, it appears to consist solely in the refusal of the men to work for the plaintiff in consequence of the judgment, whether righter wrong, which they had formed on his act,. Foe fifteen weeks he lost the profit as the work of between one and two hun dred men, and, owing to the prejudice entertained against him as a muter, he still suffers a certaia degree of loom The letter of JOHN S►ric n ts;, not having been written uotil after the strike had terminated, may be left out of the account in speak ing of injury to the plaintiff in his trade, and the trial becomes a question, whether it is libellous is workmen on strike townie their masters of tyranny and oppression. If so, • great number of libels have been pusdisbord in our columns and those of our con temporaries, who, within these few months, have had to report the speeches of the builders. Mr. HENRY JAMEA, who appeared for the pro- prietors of the Midland Express, spoke elogeently of the fretioas of the pres.; and the LORD CM, tatot. in summing up. made some speculative remarks on the mains topic, which he is in the habit of rlsesting on occasioes like the present. W. hese nothing to my on that ►object. Neither are we about to enter oe t►e legal merits of the plaintiff's cam. Tito social aspect of these proceedings appears or ue infinitely more important than t►eir beerier on the liberty a/ the prem. wh•eh by this tine, we hope, e able to take cars of heel!. Harem bstwessi DstwaNLAROEMENT sEri M PREMISES. MOe s ap i tin i t i. orl i s los gad.. paw Ow = 6 11 6 11.... 4 01riZ WA is 'Maio ises oft is see amilisid. Mole emir* awe Mut if mg aiatillis it Jimelion. 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M uftis ,e,., Illarylas NM MIMI we sealatir Ni•Tagoilie maim .1,, 47 r=2,.... i=rdole se - The .0 .1 , 4114 WdballiMilla T AURENTS = GRAND CHRISTMAS BALL I..dorrsa. =MA FRIDAY, Du& 11111 m. weasassam of NI imibousel IsomMom bs IL laswaitt kre a tarjtnuM arlingr ..ll.s 21= TILE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1869. one and two hundred men no unfortunate as te haws been brought up to a wretched trade, in Wilk& a " skilled and industrious workman" OM NM from Ba. to 10s., about the ware of a Wiltshire labourer. Is it to be expected that when a propose is made still farther to redact these wages, or a Impend which in their jadgEtteat will have that effect, it will be received with the equanimity with which a philosophical clerk might learn that his salary was eat down he• 8001. to 4501. ? The manufacturer is not to be blamed when the natural price of labour hdlt ; and when the wages of a whole district are lowered ;no enlightened obeerver will admit that it is the work of employers. Bat if the workmen who see themselves pressed out of life, and their children exposed to misery and starvation, are not so erne, but charge their muter with oppression and tyranny, who in his MOMS can think that the proper remedy for their ignorance and misconception is to be found in an action for libel ? Starving men generally talk at random, but of all the talk of men en strike that of the knitters of Earl Shilton is the solidest. We advisedly speak of this action as directed against the men. Mr. Monza has identified the defendant with their cause by prosecuting him for publishing their words; and the men have done the same by rallying round the defendant with 274 weakly subscriptions of pens. From Mr. HOMER'S point of view he Will a benefactor when he changed the mode of remunerating his mama last May ; from the knitters' point of view he was a tyrant and oppressor. Which was right? Mr. Hones says the question shall not be disowned, except under penalty of a prosecution for libel. We do not say that the workmen were right; our daily readers have the means of estimating oar opinion oa that point. Bat if men are not to discus a matter until they an give guarantees beforehand that their reasonings will be enlightened and logical, and their conclusions sound, what becomes of freedom ? According to the LORD CHIRF Baton the word track-toaster " in the letter of loon SurtrattaT was the poisoned arrow of the came. BItZTCHLRY himself was placed in the box, and acknowledged the authorship of the letter, of which the Judge said, "It was certainly a well-written and temperate "statement of facts." The evidence respecting the treating woe conflicting. Mr. Host's wife keeps amen"s shop adjoining his warehouse, and many of hie workpeople deal with her, but be denied that they were under any sempalsion to do an Oa the other Mad a witness named Ettur Raven upend: " I "am a stocking knitter. I know ELIZA'S= CAMP. " I beard Mr. HOMER say to her, ' When do "'yea have your groceries from?' She said, " Mr. Bum. He said, 'lf you can't lay a little "oat with the milieus (Mrs. Homan) I can't find " ' yen work.' She was then working for Mr. " Homan." ZORN ORTON, a stocking knitter, deposed that he was paid by ticket, and that Mrs. Horan took the entoont of the grocery during the week out of it and gave him the balance; but then he owed Mrs. Horst money for grocery. Neither csee strictly justifies the application of the word "track-master," yet one can see how BEITCHLZT night am the term in perfect good faith. TM OM was toe foe explanation, not for an action for li►el. Mr. Horns cannot 'appose that the 274 poor people who have taken part in the defence of the paper which pleads their cause will think any better of him, or be more likely to ►ire his frames, because twelve men at Westminster have given him the verdict on the point of leer. Those twelve men were no doubt right, and have done their duty in the narrow question before them. But the broader question remains whether it would not have been wiser on the part of Mr. Horne to have met the angry knitters with calm reason and good feeling at Earl Shilton than to snatch this triumph at Westminster; and whether society could hold together if all who pews power in this country were to nee it as be bee dice in this am CO Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 21. The Queen and Prince Consort, sccoa v tpanied by the Prises of Wake, Priam Arthur, Prince Leopold, Prist ine Alias, Mame Helena, Pf 1.00111.1 "MAIN sad Prisms &skim, lett Osborne this foresoes, sad arrived at Wkadeor Cods at two o'clock. athealethe wen lady lthaloeold, the Hate. Wreath Shaw. MeOration] tho Hoe. C. Othy, 310ortheaers1 the Hoe. R. Bre" Caps to Do Pke, LiettereaeOalcael 141111111, Major laphiesteee, ILE., sad the Muhl/ of the Itheetbeld. In the shone= bee lisierty and the Primo Comet trkb the Prime it Wain, Primer Alice, Primes Hamm: Primes Looks, and Prince Arthur, visited the Dasher of =mat d Itregewea. The Doke 0 Noweasito lett town ytstarday for Clazaba Perk Nab. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY 0171 OWN PARIS, WIDNEIDAT EVINENO. In the cause of last night the wind suddenly changed from nearly dos east to south-west, and a rapid thaw set in, which has continued all day. The appearance of the Seine at the Pont dee Arts is very curious. About half the river—that half next the quay of the Louvre—is perfectly limpid, and flows as usual, while the blocks of ice, yet covered with snow, have all floated to the left bank, where they are agglomerated close together, and give to the second half of the stream precisely the same aspect that the whole of it had yesterday. A lamentable and fatal accident of a most extra ordinary character occurred this morning in the Champs Ripka. As one of the Peony omnibuses was passing along the Conn la Reine, a tree, which some workmen were in the act of grubbing up, fell across the road and streak the omnibus. A young man, the son of a clerk is the treasury, who was sitting on the roof, was killed on the spot ; the conductor had his spine broken, and was carried off to the Beanjos Hospital in a very dangerous state. Several passengers were more or less injured, and among them, I regret to state, was M. Ruben' e, formerly a contributor to the Press*, and now private secretary to Prince Napoleon, who received a blow on the head. The Bourse was very geod to-day. The Rents rose 26c. for cash and 30c. for account, closing with mach firmness at 70fr. 600. and 70fr. Bk. Mobilier rase Ilfr. 65c. The railways were from 6fr. to Bfr. higher. It was rumoured that M. Magna', financial report will be published to-morrow, and that the in terest on Treasury bonds will be reduced. The Imperial Court decided yesterday, reversing a judgment of the Tribunal of Commerce, that an actress under age was entitled to set aside • thea trical engagement entered into without the consent of her father, on the ground that it was manifestly disadvantageous to herself, and that the mere non interference of the father was not a sufficient tacit consent. The circametances of this case are curious, and throw a strange light upon the system on which actresses are engaged in certain Paris theatres. The appellant, whose real name is Mffile. Antoinette Jathiot, but whose appellation on the play-bills was Antonia de Envy, is an extremely pretty girl, who appeared, when very young, on the boards of the Porte St. Martin and the Varietes. Some time since, when about twenty years old, she signed an engagement with the managers of the Palais Royal Theatre for two years, at • salary of 1,200 fr. for the first year, and I,Boofr. for the second. Out of this miserable pay, about 4fr. a day on an average, she was bound to find herself in " linen, stockings, shoes, head dresses, and all theatrical costumes requisite for her parts, except foreign costumes totally different from anything habitually worn in France." Besides this, she was liable to fines for a great variety of stage offences, and in case of the breach of any part of her engagement, was to pay a sum of 10,000 fr. by way of liquidated damages. M. 0. Chair d'Eat Aug., her counsel, said that such an agreement as this, which left no margin for her subsistence, and which any actress must be mad to sign, was a palpable imposition upon her youth and inex perience, and could not be supported against a minor in a court of law. But it was answered on the other aide that neither the managers of the theatre, nor the young lady herself, ever expected that she wee to gain her living on the stage; that although legally under age she was old io experience as a member of the demi-monde : that her real profession was that of a " Dame aux Camelia'," the profits of which profession were most materially increased by the opportunity given her to show herself to the public in the character of an actress. In support of this view, which the facts flowed to be incontrovertible, it was stated that the father, who had now been pat forward to object to the contract, was an humble clerk who had not for many years exercised any control over his daughter; that he lived by him self in a miserable garret in the Rue St. Lasare, while mademoiselle occupied splendid apartments i• the Passage Sauloter, kept her carriage and ser vant", and habitually spent 6,000 k. or B,ooolr. • year upon her toilette alone. It was even said that the known fact of her having a great many handsome dresses was one of the cir cumstances which induced the management to engage her. These arguments succeeded before the Triba•al of Commerce, which cancelled the engage ment at the snit of the management ea account of Mdlle. Jathiot's unpuoetuality and refusal to play a certain part ; and, moreover, ordered her to pay 1,600 fr. damage, and the costa of the suit. But the Court of Appeal adopting the view of M. l'Avocat General Moreau, that the court could not in any way sanction such an immoral notion, as that the terms of the contract were not disadvantageous for the minor, because it was known that she got her living in a way that could not be avowed, set it aside, reversed the ver dict awarding damages against her, and ordered the managers of the Palais Royal to pay all the oasts. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Boone opened with somewhat lower quota- Hone, bat the oonunuanoe of the fall brought forward a great many buyers. As soon u yesterday's price bad been recovered toe Route became dull, and during the greater put of the day but little bum per was done. There is, however, a disposi tion to regard the lsthmtut of Sues question u not a serious difficulty, notwithstanding the considerable sensation which has been oecuioned be two successive articles on the subject in a London journal. A turther rise is looked for by speculators, although they think the movement will not go very far till next week. The Rents, after dropping to 70.26, and recovering to 70.40, closed at yesterday's prior, 70.35 for account. For cash there was a rise of 10e., the last price being 70.25. Mobi lier rose 2.50. The Orleans Railway rose 8.75. Thera was little change in the other lines. The Press* says, in its weekly commercial review, that there is more activity, in consequence of pre parations for the new year's sale, but that as re gards foreign busines very little change is to be noticed. The government, it is said, has authorised the railway companies to emit bonds daring the year 1860 to the amount of 230,000,000 t . . . It was lately reported that Captain Doimean, who foe groan abuse of power as commandant of an Arab bureau and very disgraceful crimes had been Den- Wooed by a court-martial to imprisonment for life, had received a tree pardon to enable him to serve in China. It is not true that misplaced clemency has been exercised to such an extent. This officer will not be allowed to enter the army again. His punish ment has been commuted to ten years' banishment. The Prince of Orange occupied the Emperor's box at the Opera last night to see Mdlle. Vest,'li, in Herculaneum. 1 crewed over the Pont de Solferino at 4 o'cleak this afternoon, and observed that the Seine was as nearly as possible frozen over. The large muses of ice wnich yesterday floated rapidly with the current are now quite stationary, and the water visible in the narrow interstices between them is stagnant. There are men who would for a wager go across the river on foot this evening, jumping occasionally from one ice block to another. To-morrow, if the frost continues with its prevent intemeity, all the floating icebergs will be knit together in one compact mass. The prefect of the Haute Garonne is organising bear hunts in the French Pyrenees; wolves appear in many villages ; larks are picked up deadinthe fields ; and Wee ere so benumbed by the cold that people knock them on the head with sticks. The basins in the Bois de Boulogne, which have never known a bard winter since they were made, are now covered with, skaters, and present a most animated scene. The little Swim restaurant on the island, which ex =be deserted all the winter, is doing an business, and offers, besides the attractions of its marine, that rare French luxury, a good fire, to spectators who may wish to look at the s kati ng from the windows. The Park Omnibus Company is de servedly unpopular, because it his neglected to strew the omnibuses with straw to warm the passengers' feet, as has hitherto been usual in were weather. The second mail from London arrived several hours be hind time. DIP4IIIIIII 0, TEE COURT MOM MOANS. PORTSMOUTH, Dm,. 21. Her MONO the Qom and his Royal Highness the Prism Omer% smainpanied by thek Roysl Highneems the Prisms Alm Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Prince= Heiese, Primes Leaks, and Princess Beatrice, sad attended by the members al the mart in waiting, left Osborne this meming, so half-past tea o'clock, end embarked ea boned Me Perry, meow yacht, Commander hie Royal Highness Prises Isaningat, proceeding to the Clareuseyard, Gosport, en rade be Whideor. On approaching Spitheal, the Royal Stasdard wee =loud by the Hero, 91, Captain G. H. Sey mour, and tbe Melpomene, 61, Captain Charlet Swart, the crew toeasillet pals sad cheering as her Majesty pared. The Komi Ilkandeed wee elm saluted from the garden), end by the Victory, fierablp, end St. Visaing, in harbour. The Paley strived at Clarence-yard at tweedy minutes past eleven o'clock, and the Royal party wars ruched by the naval and military °Meow of the port sad garrison, departing theses per special Saha at half-pent eleven o'clock. Lord Word has, within the last law days, attar adasd the Sallow* riaiton at Witte, Coat:—Lad sad Lady Robby, Flan. Mira Montague, Lard and Lady Etelso, llrs. Iteldan Banyne, Lady Ward, Mon. Mrs. Wad, Majar Amass, Has. Mn. Clanstion, Kim Claughton, Mr. Sesisdim, Lard Lyttalton, Kr. Lytialton, Capt. and Mrs. Hamming. Sir .1. M. 0. Smyth, Bart, of Ashton Court, sailed as Saturday from Liverpool, Is the Canada, for the United &mac To-day (Thursday), Lord Elgin, who was re medy rwurned Lord ltretw of the Glasgow Unlowsity, will deliver the usual inaugural address to the students in tie City Hall. We (Sherbet.** Jorwital) have had two lecturers et dietitutose at ear Lawry Institution is the pest right days. Oa Tardy Lau. Cal. Rwandan, late Pereira laterpreter et dr court eV Year, lectured ea " BIWA rale la Imola." On Ileadoy maize H. Dishy lleywear, Sol.„ M.P., hollowed ea istrreetav lecture ea w Oseeds," whit rieslakeemen et his trip In that convoy lest year. The Wolverhampton Chronicle of yesterday ta lons es that la wady last the Bishop at Lidtrald, at by ealhedra et Ireiroltrll. Staff ertivhirt, wee plowed as erairr the ardor d priesthood on the Rey. H. M. Darlw, LA, Beed-Ilester et /Wpm School, eke Dr. Vampire, raileard. Bud., at the time of hie siestas wee may Ia deercale meow We (Bath Chroakle) hear that the Rey. Theo philms Sham M.A., curets of Hie Abbey, who is Waring in wsserissis of the chimes essmed by the dash of Bishop Owe, hew bin eiseted by the troikas to the chepleincy of Way's Alese Hoses. seer Locidon. _ _ O. Monday tin Zaptrasa BagEnie presided at a ala Nag dr eseaaiiisa kr wwww.wat tho wawnp dot tw 1M wwwled et taw inlay at hay. THE FRENCH SQUADRON IN CHINA. The French squadron at present in the Chinese waters is composed of the fallowing vessels : The Nemesis, bearing the admiral's flag, 62 gnus ; Dido, 40; Capricious, 32; Dordogne, 6; Gironde, 8; Marne, 6, Mouths, 6; nuance, 6 ; Site., 6 ; Du ehayls, 32; Catinat, 12 ; Phlegethon, 8 ; Primangret, 8; Laplace, 8; Marcum, 6; Regent, 4 ; Alarms, 4 ; Dragons*, 4; Puts, 4; Mitraille, 4; Norzegarsy, 2; Lily, 2; Roes, 2; Pehio, 2. The Forbin, now on its way to Mira, carries 8 guns." TRH CONGRESS. BERNS, Dec. 21. In reply to a memorandum addressed by Switzer land to the Powers composing the Congress, the majority have expressed themselves favourable to the admission of Plenipotentiaries of Switzerland at the time when the Congress deliberates on the neutrality of the province of Savoy. AUSTRIAN ITALY. A V.lllOll letter of the 14th, is the Patrie, aye: This city a a heat, sad the thanes le frightful. Lest night In the met fregenead serest I. Take, the Ymeada, two ladies were Mobs' sad robbed of their money sad jewels; it le hessereallas se ocasider tut whist brigandeta hes amoral/ mead le Fiersigas, the pentodes bere, pelet red es Neal, is forted te aim by them ef shay. Hew tea Boers as seat spathe sad wit be lethal by itt The erebethe sad 1 dee Vesta theatre use pressen* • pedant N the bathes el buss, Wise theta of their name harem, eased by he ban rehash ad te open the theatre this wham. The prepaesen tithe amen asemabled M .Nat hr the matter, sad aided that *at re thee* pay the belt of the amount Inlay ablin whoa the them*, yea epee, sal that thle mo ney sliewdd pie mate Werke tithe peer peep*, am Olathe three 'Meld roast elms& Me pure* resolution bail me with hex* appobetha fa the shy, sad he effmtnelly eiremealed the witherithe, who willed N NOS the Ware epee. The esesseael ewe& is wombed for the day after tsaarowh Welt them persons, at whom the Emperor and shear eat hr peer* of Veda. The previous varsibe aided anthills, sad people think that then will I be the ewe malt sa the pew* emeaion. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Yee* with the wails ham Bombay, arrived at Maryellen at noon yesterday. Mails left for London at 3 p.m. Lettere will be delivered on Friday. The Red Bea Telegraph Company have received the following telegram : "BCD! CONDI TO C. L. PEEL, Rau. " ADM, Dec. 8. "The Imperador (with 926 knots el the Indian Gale cm board) arrived. All well. Passage, 67i days. "The Captain Coorce (query, Cook P), from kur rubs*, with the Past India Company's disbanded troops, beating into Table Bay, grounded. Atter landing troops and throwing cargo overboard, with the saaistauce of the Imperador, she floated again next morning (Nov. 13). When the Imperador left the troops were re-embarking, and the ship reported midair so water." TILE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, TICS/DAT MOWN°. The Sultan steamer, Captain Vincent, from Lisbon Dertember 17, and Vigo 19th, has arrived. No communication with Oporto. She brings 3,63 W. in specie, 2,462 chests oranges, and general cargo. The Hon. Mr. Howard, late British Minister at Lisbon, and family, are passengers by the Sultan. Lisbon exchanges, at three months, on London, 631 to ; Paris, nominal, 331 i Amsterdam, 41i ; Hamburg, 47i. The electoral contest on New Year's-day absorbs the attention of political circles at Lisbon. SARDINIA. The Momento of Milan publiahes the following letter, addressed in French, by Garibaldi, to the leplrance _ Fro, Dec. 14. In one of your letters from Paris I find these words " Whet lends greater probability to the projects of Russia is the reception given to Garibaldi in order to secure the sym pathies of Italy to the future Queen. The general has allowed himself to be caught by this sort of bird-lime, de." Thia is an aileron to • story which has gone the maned of the journals to the effect that I had been received at Nice by the sagest mother of the Emperor of Rums, which to set the era I beg you to roue thorn oorreepondenta that, V the Italians rosin to follow my advice, they will net ere wort a Prince of the family of the Sovereign who hr given to the world the unique and sublime spectacle of the enfrancitierreat of the serfs ; but that they will persist, r they have hitherto dote, in refusing any other Sovereign in Italy erept Victor Emmanuel—the only political combi nation which can establish the future of the country upon durable bare, and secure the tranquillity of Europe—and that, flour it suit the interested views of any one, by a protium contrary to the legitimate rights of the people, to prevent the Italian. from following this camel, they should them have recourse to the million of muskets, the only antidote against seek anti-national desires, and the infallible means of ob tartar the accomplialineent of their wishes. and not being ought by bird-lime.—l am year devoted, G. o.anizatin. SWITZERLAND. The Chroniqueur of Friburg contains the fol lowing : We have been made acquainted with the contents of the despatch addressed by Mgr. &Merl to the Federal Council on the question of the diocese la the canton of Ticino. The churn ten/hires of the Holy Bee, acting upon instructions received from Rome, has informed the Federal Council that the decree of separation, voted by the Federal Assembly, had produced a most painful impression on th e H o l y Father. That decision settles the question by violently depriving the Bishops of Como and Milan of the jurisdiction which they exercised over the territory in question. "This decree, ' said the Raman Marne d'affairer, "is opposed to the eccle siastical anima The Holy Father is eionsequeetly obliged to make the necessary representations, at the same time that be cherishes the desire to prove his solicitude for the welters of the Swiss catholic". For that rasa:tali* he R dispoeed to tams to en understanding with the federal authorities!' on the question of the ecclesiastical administration in the Ticino, and on other similar matters, which may still remain unset tled In Berilssrland." THE Po AND THE CONGEZBII,A pamphlet entftled " The Pope and the Congress" he. jog beta pub ' Fished at Paris from the pea of M. de la Goormiere, the author of the pamphlet " Napoleon 111. at rhos," which heralded the late war. The misgovernment of the Papal dowries' is treated as something inveterate and inevitable, arising tram WNW mach deeper than the good or evil dispo sition al soy parboalar PontA snit springing out of the ray nature of the Pontificate itself. The Pops is not fit to govern a large state, or indeed to parker say political delis; and thereixe the Bemis& should net be restored to him. " The cry dikes sad the patrimony et Bt. Peter must be gna rereed M the flovoteira Pontiff by the gnat powers, with a serianaMe revrones, that the catholic states will pry, ma a Mare d riepect and protectioa to the Reed of the Churl. An Italian math; cream from the Flits of the Ideal array, should assure the tranquillity and inviola bility of the Holy Bss. Municipal liberties, se extensive es possible, should misses the peps, government from all the detail, of adminietration, and 'hum give a share of public local life to th•osse who are disinherited 411 political activity. Finally,every complication, every ides of Wei Molfirevelt, mast be for aver banished from the territory gemmed by the Pope, that it may be rid, when reigns the Vicar M Orr there also reign well-being, coocord. sad peer. It is lie tank of the raper to effect this transfor ratios, bosoms necessary to consolidate the temporal &litho• rity el Uwe Ths Theo, noticing this pamphlet, attri buter le k the amour of impressing in the most distinct and pomoiensne menstar the views whish are eatertehed se to the tater* dell*, aitthe pap.cry by the Empires Napolsoa Musser DINNER TO THE OOVERNOR OF TEE CAPE OP GOOD ROPE. Liet evening a complimentary dinner wee given li to Mr George Grey, K.C.8., GOMnr of the Cape of Good Hap, et the London Torero, whin shoot 120 geatiuma, either kema readapts or commercially interested in the colony, meembled to greet him. The chair wee occupied by Mr. HARRISON WATSON; sod seicaget those prima were Lord Home, 81r Charles Fox, Mr. Rumen, M.P., General Pringle Taylor, Sir Golfe, Thomas, Mr. W. Hems, sod Maio The diner: wes provided by Mews. Chater in their moil style. Mr. Harker sated es toeseaseeter; and the void mask, directed by Mr. Lawlor, with the assistance Miens. Young, Cumming, end Lead, enlivened the pro. medley of the evening. Once having been inly said, and the health of law t= with that of Prince Albert and the Royal Family, wed ix, . . . _ . The OILIRMAN proposed the tout of "The Imperial Lodelisitme," which was briefly ackeowledged by Lord Hamra If the House of Lordr, and by Mr. Roseau, for the Home of Commons. The neat teem was " The Army sod Navy." General TAYLOR, la rettwaing ehuks, aid he arrived at the Cape of Good Hops shortly Wore Sir George Grey did, and having been apoointed to command beyond the Cape Colony frostier, he found with astonishment that war was shoot to break out there, sad that there weer only three baba= and a half of infantry, • few troops of cavalry, a company of engineers, and • battery and a half of artillery is the wide moony, with but a fortnight's provides. and a wry inadequate supply of ammunition from die , penes immeshes. MI the live stock had been driven off, and as soldiers, however gallant, mold not live without food, their sitastion in the interior of Hatheriaorith their merwend commuoicatious impeded by the Great Pith River busk, Men have been a di ffic ult one. The west aoeideot might have destroyed that foroe. But by the provident ma sagemsot al Bir G. Grey, be bad soon got twelve months' provklem in his camp, and his force was in a very short time greatly augmented. The rank was • emplete me =the Hafer tuition was now entirely dimmed or . He (General Taylor) had oome • hundred miles this day to bear this teatimouy to the merits of m who, e in a remote sad sanotioad scene, had enabled Bridal soldiers to do the service they were always willing to do. (Cheers.) eR. Romani, R.N. also returned thanks, saying the:g m :got another command, he should mine it doubly were be lent to a colony governed by Sir G. Grey. The CRAIRKAN then proposed the tent of the evening, "The health of their honoured guest." (Cheers.) S 4 G. Gary sincerely thanked the chairman and company for this eoropliment, which he ascribed rather to the ably than to himself. He bad found not • few persona who bald that the colonies, instead of being a profit to Geist Britain, were an actual incumbreacts sad disedveatage to her. He could not osnemshend the grounds of such an opinion. The colonists would ask no protection from this country except that of thenavy,whieb was required for our commerce. If we had no eolooles, we should not require one ship the less to protect our had.. But having the colonies, our fiesta, whoa engaged in distant operations anywhere on the globe, bad harbours, end sup plies, sad a hearty welcome ready for them, while the fleets of a hostile power could enter none of those ports without having to fight for it. He had been mach struck with one fact he witnessed during the Crime/ea war. The moment it was known that Queen Vioteria desired a collection to be made fee the 'afferent in our army, the people of every race in South Africa omit forward to contribute to it. Numbers of poor Flamm, quite poor men in the Mines of that bet bails rem in owe gave their penny apiece, and Foe WORM came , with their baskets of produce on their ; they were disappointed when they found it could cot be taken, and than they went about the village. to sell it for what they could, and brought the money. Even in the republics beyond our herders, the very man we had mat off sent their subscriptloca, which were not incomiderable, for their numbers sad their mama. He was therefore oonMmid that our colonies ware not a disadvantage to us. In the year 1819 or 1140, a body of enders were mot oat from this comary to the Cape of Gard Hope, and greet complaints had bees mode that that emigration cost 60,0001. • but be was quits satisfied that those very settlers an their relative, had sent back more then 60,0001. to Ragland la the molten of British goods. Homes had been found than for i sad many had acquired wealth ; an Immense quantity bia na t wool wee grown for oar manufactures, and a great number of tar Mips outplayed In the tentage. There were rester now in the cotony who went out In 1819, and more thee ooe of whom could repay that sum of 60,0001. out of his own podia, without making himself a poor man. Having been so lees end so intimately connected with the coltLai . eLl2! eWe G. Grey) had been anxious to remove the rror to which he had just alluded from the minds of7segoopie alibis country. In conclusion hi* Excallener, who was most cordially cheered, and w hose name, when ennead, had been hammed with enthusiast's applause, dueled the co again, end proposed the health of the ohairmao, the b zry et • great commercial setablleiment at Cape Town. Mr. HAMMON WATSON (the chairman) having solthow. lodged the compliment, Mr. GODLONTON, of Graham's Town, in the absence of Mr. George Wood, proposed the Legislature of the Cape of Good Hope, wowing, however, his own opinion that the exiabg emstitation km not euNciently provide for the self government of the assists province, which ought to have a BaCtlegislature. OM. J. Paramo,le of the Legislative Council, and Mr. Jose Beau, of the Legislative Aammb'y, returned thanks la my interesting and satisfactory speeches. Mr. J. R. TROMSO?' than promoted tee toast of " Pros. =. , to the **toy of tbe Cape of Good Hope and its demo " whisk wee acknowledged by Mr. J. Lindell, Mr. Oodles*" and the Rev. J. Hareant, .11 of them stating facts to illeatrate the marked improvement of the country. Mr. W. HAW'S next proposed "The Cape Railway," which Mr. G. ILathons Browne replied to on behalf of the compeay, promising that the Governor should ride upon the line neat summer. "The Union Steam Packet Company," which now cooveys the monthly mails with creditable regu larity, was propelled by Mr. Archibald Bamako, and respoeded to by Mr. Andersoo. The festivities ended at a rather late hour. A telegraphic despatch (the second) reoeived at Berlin late in the evening of the 17th Instant annotteced the total deatructios by are of Frederikeborg, and of the wetly collection of pictures It contained. Several hoes wero be lieved to be lost. The caytte was some mike north of Copen hagen, near Mitered, and was considered the Anew edifice In Denmark. In It was the chapel where the Daniell kings were crowned, and the knightal hall was magnificent. " General Cousin de Montauban," says the Opionsos listiewsk, takes hie family with him to China. He Is to receive during the whole oontinuenoe of the aunt pain en UITIUSI pay of 100,000 f. As no European money hi current in China, the expedition has carried with it gold and silver ingots for the pigments which it will beset. make In the Celestial Empire." _ _ The Parana was to leave Plymouth on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, but owing to the boiaterous state of the weather her coals muld tot be brought alonpide of her. Her departure was therefore delayed until 5 p.m. yesterday, and she may be expected to arrive at floatheroptoa this morning to discharge her cargo. six days after time. _ _ Emig HATS. — The Nouse Wats of Rouen narrates the following curious anecdote:—" M. Botta, eon of one of the profersore at the Academy of Coen, an intrepid traveller and confirmed artherologiat, one of the discoverers of the rains of Nissveh. sedertook a journey to China sad lived for some time at Canoe. This wes prior to 1830. He used to weer there a heaver hat lo the European hake, which salted him so well that he was unwilling to change it. How ever, when it was worn out, he applied ton Chinese hatter, and, aiviag him all meta of direc!ions, told him to make another like it. The man went to work, sod in a few days brought a hat of the required shape—nut of beaver but of some stuff very soft and glory. M. Botta, on his return to France, preserved this curious specimen of Chinese workmanship, end wishing to hove ft repaired subsided It to a batter, who examined it carefully and was much stance with its mode of fabrioetioe, which was altoge ther Dee to biro. He examined the amide with the pasted attention, and a short time after the present fashion of silk kids came in. The invenior patented his disoovery, and made a large fortune; bat held Ma tongue shout hi. debt to the Chines tradeeman, who, seeking • substitute fur the beaver which ho could not procure, devised the plan of re placing it by the light tisane of silk, whieli at present almost universally constitutes the outward covering of the modem hat. We keg to testate to the Chinamen, although some what late, the honour doe to bun." _ . AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAILB.—The Liver. pool, New York, and Ptilladelptiot Cogan'', screw stesso lianoroo sailed from Liverpool for New York yesterday (Wedamday), with a ship's mail and /31) passengers. Yester day, also, the Quebec and Moatrral Omen Steamship Com pry's atialeer Bohemia railed from the Mowery for Port lead, Mined States, with the Canadian and Halted States mails aad passengers. On Saturday next the Britt& and North Ammicaa Royal Mail steamer Arabia will In Os &panned from the Men ay for New York, with the North Asks= and Unita! Stairs mails. The ben at the Liver pool Post-olio, will be open on that day till Iltd Lax, sad with late fees at the leading-stage till 9.30 a.m. EDUCATIONAL PRIZE SCHILMIS. The annual dietribution of prizes and certificates, under the scheme of the Birmingham Educational Associa tion, took awe yesterday (Wednesday) morning in the Town-ball, in the presence of children from various whoa' in the borough, to the number of about 1,600. The president of the association, Lord Calthorpe, occupied the chair; sad amongst the gentlemen present were the Rms. W. Cockle, F. Morse, G. reign, P. Reynolds. Parke, and C. %Main; Dr. Fleming, W. L. Sargent, B. Mr. 1. D. Goodman, Mr. 1. S. Wright, Mr. W. R. Lloyd, Mr. J. P. Hoppe, Mr. W. Hill, end Mr. J. T. Bums. Lord CALTIIORPI, before proceeding to distribute the prima, expressed his satiagotkin with the mode by the immolation during the past year. He ho would cautious until the children connected with P = schools of the town were candidates fer the rime rand bche sesociation. His lordship urged that, while ring the yob the benefit of a mend education, should used against unfittlag them for the mites Mumble and model stations of life. Oars homiest result of the goolety's vireilons g that children now remained larger at sthool then form wa erly. This was a peat advisee., kr the main difficulty had always seism hen the early age at which parents were induced to withdraw their ch ildren from school in order to obtain some little benefit from their labour. The report for the pant year showed that there is • growing appreciation of the value of the prize whims. The number of candidates had increased from 120 in 1867, and 302 in 1868, to 622 in 1869. This year no less than 186 prima slid 104 certificate had been awarded. Sixteen spacial prime had 'leo been awarded, and twenty ghls ob tained money prizes for proficiency in needlework. The sohoolotedeas took • deeper interest in preparing for the exa mination, and the parents more highl appreciated th e WA g enre of the scheme at the present train ing sad future peorpeota of their children. Of the 622 candidates entered for examina tion fifty two were from the Church of the Saviour, being the largest number from any one school. The number of candidates from St. Georges ma forty-one, end from St. Murk's forty. Out of twenty-four_ candidates from the workhouse school fourteen obtained prizes—a fact very creditable to the Rev. C. Britten, oomidering the limited period which this ohm of children remain at school. Lord Calthorpe having distributed the gazes and certifi cates, and the Hon. Me.. Cromwell the special money prima to girls for needlework, The Rev. S. ?dozes proposed • vote of thanks to Lord Calthorps for his kindness in presiding, and distributing for the third ar the prime to the suceeestal candidates. In doing so, be sad the object of the association wee to improve the schools. Hs believed that the school.; would be all the better for being thoroughly looked into sad examined, and that • competitive examinatioa of this kind would COIF duos to the interest. of both the masters and managing of schools, sad of the children. Their opmatioes so ear hod been eminently sumeasful. Not merely bed the number of candidates largely itionesed, but they bed the satisfaction of knowing that • coned &Table number of children had been kept at Whoa who would otherwise have left. He (Mr. Mores) meld my, from his own personal knowledge of the examinations, that they had Improved etch year sines the commencement, and be thought It a great thing that so many young children—yore of them only seven years of age—could be found who could pee creditably through an examination on paper. He thought they had also excited considerable Interest amongst the conductors of schools, and given proof that them were not one or two only, but a great many very capital schools fa Birmingham. What they chiefly wanted In the shape of aid was that the inhabitants of this town and particularly the manufacturers and employers of labour, should stimulate the line of education by giving the best places in their establish ment. to those boys who had distinguished themmime by their proficiency in the extuninatlana connected with that assoclation. W. L. &ROAN; BK. (chairmen of the sisociatlon com mittee), seconded the merlution of thanks, which was carried by His Lordship having briefly remanded, the proceeding, terminated by the Ibsen of the National Anthem. The Dublin Evening Post expresses libel freely relative to the appointment of Mr. P. M'lleboa se lecke counsel. to the Woods and Foresee and other offices. It says :—" The system termed .Irish independent opposition' has reached its fitting consammation In the appoint ment of Mr. P. ll•Mahon, M.P. for the county of Wexford, to the office of 'junior counsel to the Woods and Forests end other offices.' This feat has been officially announced; and it is cu ions—very curious, indeed—that all notice of it has been avoided by our costerepormies—those who are stout Independents' as well as those who are not. Mr. M'llahon who has re preempted the county of Wexford in two or thre e: parliaments. 1 1 started origiwilly as champion of Independent opposition.' The liberal gentry of the county were cast aside to maks way for him; and at the last election the former faithful liberal representative, Mr. Hatchell, was defeated, through ea unacknowleged alliance between Mr. M' Mahon, the In dependent,' and Yr. George, the tory solicitor-general." The ancient vicarage - of St. John', Leeds, hag become vacua by the death of the Rev. P. T. Cookson. which took place on Tuesday. hl r. Cookson has bald the care foe halt • century. The living, which is voted In hasten, and la poorly becoming more valuable, is woe* at present about 7001. per annum. The enterprising Scotch firm of Todd and Barns have rude arrangements for distributing among the poor of Dublin 3,000 bags of ooal of 1 cert, each, at the rate of 200 bags pea day, such distribution to be without religious dime thactico, upon the recommendation of the protestant and Roman catholic clergy of the city. The TIMIS of recorded the deaths of eight elderly people, whose ages were respectively 8(4 85,84, 80, 75, 86.85, sad 76, giving the high average of 81i years for each life. his of the deemed were gentlemen, the two old ladies having attained the respective ages of 86 and 83. One of the octogenarituia was a dignitary of the church. The Mayor of Biarritz hu been charged by the Empress to deliver a splendid emerald brooch, set with pearls, to Madlle. Idouseempea daughter of the deputy mayor, who presented a bouquet to her Majesty on her antral sasses at Biarritz. Thu Emperor has also slat I,ooofr. to the mayor for dietributiou among the poor. A letter from Rome e•ye :—" The French army presents at this moment • noble spectacle. Tottohed by the :gamy which exists there, it has resolved on materially aiding the poor of the Eternal City. Each officer gives five francs • month for the needy, and hi every kitchen each fifth ration is set apart for the same purpose. The general-in-obief bee chosen on thle point to corpses ell his army, and, without having pre vkiusiy consulted his government, he has had pointed ant to him by the presidents of the fourteen pariehes of Rome the principal poor of their districts who are too retiring to sok for help; he has had • list of them made, and distributes to them every day meat, soup, and two pounds of bread each. Those are acts of generosity moat honourable to the nation." To-morrow night a " grand Christmas ball and supper" see to be given on a eplendidscale,st the St. Jamie. Hall. Mr. Donald will have the management of the which will comprise several feature. appropriate to r= mss, inoludiog a boar's head, • baron of beef, and " sewn) monster Christmas puddings." THE BALLOT GIEL's FALL.—And u for Min Muntanville, who had eisctly the mos sal—well, who had a scholarship of exactly the NM', value—viz, about 604 yearly—she kept ea elegant little cottage in the Result's. park, a brougham wi'h • hone all over brass harness, and • groom with a predigioue gold lace hatband, who was treated with frightful contumely at the neighbouring oab.stand an aunt or a mother, I don't brow which (I hope it wan only an aunt), always comfortably dressed, and who looked after Mootanvilie; end she herself had breorlets, brooches. and velvet pelisses of the vary richest description. But then Mies blontanville wee s good economist. 111 r was never known to help a poor fri.nd in Manses, or gym • fainting brother end sister a cruet or • ghee of wine. She allowed 103. • week to her father, whore name wee Baskin son, said to be clerk to a chapel in Paddington; bat she would never me him—no, not when he wee in hosOtal,, where he was so ill; end though she certainly lent MIN Wilder 131., she had Wilder arrested upon bur pronnewmg note for 241, and sold up every stick of Wilder's furniture. so that the whole academy cried Aherne! Wall, eh statism occurred to Miss Montenville, for which those may be eery who choose. On the evening of the 26th of December. eighteen hundred and entowbunt, when the conductors of the ecedinny ware giving their grand annual Christ mu Pant —I should .ay examinatiou of the Academy pupils betas their numerous, frienda—Montanville, who happened to be present, not in her brougham this time, but in an serial chariot of splendour drawn by dove.. fell off a rainbow, sad through the roof of the Revolving Shrine of the A.msran. thlne Queen, thereby very nearly damaging Bellenden, who was occopyiug the shrine, attired in a light-blue spangled drew, waving a wand, and uttering some idiotic wives oom pored for her by the Professor of Literature attached to the academy. As for Montane/Ile, let her go shrieking down that trap-door, break her leg, he taken home and never more be ella rawer of ours. She never oonidepe.k. Her voice was as bursa as a 61111.0illlilL Can that immense stout old bodeeper as the theatre, who limps up to ladles on the first tier. and offers that horrible footstool, which everybody stumbles over, and makes a clumsy curtsey, and looks so knowing sad hard, se if she recognised an acquaintance in the splendid lady who enters the box—con that old female be the one hellbent Emily Meartanville? I am told there are no lady beekeepers, In the English theatre.. This I submit, is a proof of my consummate are and mafiosi,' medium from aperient curiosity the individual personages from whom thechersetere of the present atm, are takes. Moareardle Is not a box keeper. She may, under another name, keep a trinket.shop in the Burlington Arcade, foe what you know but thu secret no torture shall induce me to divulge. Life has he rises and its downhill., end you have had your., you bobbling old creature. Mosteavilte indeed !Oo thy ways He • shilling for thaw (Thank you, sir.) 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