The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-16 00:00:00

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Cabin image by the mall steamers riling every Wednesday. 11, 17, and 211rulneu, according to theaccoutroodatloe. Forward includes a full supply of cooked provisions. Passengers ErCrnada and the I nited States booked through on very advan tageous terms—For further particular, apply to WILLIAM INMAN, V., Water-street, Liverpool; and to ELVES and MACNY, gl, King Williametreet. leodon. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. FLORENCE, Nov. 15. ROTTERDAM and the RHINE.—The favourite Meaner BATAVII.II leaves Brunswick Pter, Bladcwall, every SUNDAY, at 11 cm. Passengers must leave Penchureh• street Station by the 10.30 s.m train, and walk on board.— The Fysnoord leaves from off the Tower every Thursday morning at 8 am. —Apply at CHAPLIN'S Universal OfAce. Regent-dr oss, W., or to Pil 1 LLIPPS, GRAVILS, MULLIN'S and co., zt Dunatan's-house, Crusciane, Great Tower-street, LC. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, (Managing Director, Mr. F. 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BROWN BROTHERS.—PATENT CHAIRS and COUCHC4 Barrack Itardtare, Trial; Partans tam, te , at riper? c9xly,pyarny REDUCED. 166, PICCADILISECaisioWisis;. HOUSE FURNISHING. WM. WAINE'S GENERAL FURNISHING WHOLIZIALR and EXPORT UPHOLSTERY WAR/IJIOVSES, ISS to 193, Newington-butte. Factories 46 to 49. Francipstrect. The lergest and most varied Stocks In London to select from, suitable for completely furnish- In any class of hour, and at prices never before offered. All !goods warranted. packed, and delivered free. Illustrated price lists of cabinet furiture, carpets, bedsteads On beau, iron, and ,rood`, bedding, upholstery, table linen, sheetlugn, blankets quilts, counterpanes, dm, gratis. The Nmiuse of to-day says :—" The proposed conference for a solution of the Roman question encounters serious difficulties. The Pope has re fused his assent, or will only give it provided the rights of the Holy See are recognised. England and Russia are favourable to a solution adverse to the temporal power. France, Prussia, Austria, and Bavaria are believed to have divergent views lon the subject. Portugal has refused to take part in the conference, and Spain alone would support ' the demands of the Roman court, It is believed, however, that France will not insist upon the as sembling of the Congress." THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. VIENNA. Nor. IL The Presae of to-day publishes the following telegram from Smyrna "On the 10th hurt., the Cretan insurgents made an energetic attack upon the Turkish troops, and a very serious conflict ensued. Mohmed Pacha's corps were finally forced to retreat. The Russian, French, Prussian, and Italian consuls at Canes have addressed a de claration to the Grand Vizier and Omer Pacha announcinr , the ill-success of their efforts to induce the insurgents to accept the proposals of the Porte. Omer Pacha declared, in reply, that he felt himself now forced to adopt even the most extreme mea sures in order to overcome the resistance of the Cretans." ' The New Free Press of to-day says : —"We learn that Baron von Prokeech-Osten, the Austrian minister at Constantinople, has received instruc tions from the government to assure the Porte that the cabinet of Vienna continues to entertain the most friendly sentiments towards Turkey, and advocates the principle of the inviolable mainte nance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, but that at the same time Austria feels herself called upon to counsel the Porte to oppose no obstacles to the establishment of an international committee of inquiry into the state of affairs in Crete, and to accept the decision of such a com mittee as final." It is stated that a meeting will shortly take place between Prince von Hohenloho and Herr von Varnbuhler. FRANCE. PARIS, Nor. 15, Evesmo. M. Peyrat, of the Arenir .National, has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment and 1,000 francs fine for an article which appeared in that journal on the 19th ultimo on the subject of the intervention of France in the Roman question. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 15. The Padre laudst confirms the news that the Da nish government has concluded a treaty with the government of the United States respecting the sale of Denmark's West India possessions—namely, the islands of St. Thomas, San Juan, and Santa Cruz. The three islands have been sold for the sum of eleven millions and a half of dollars. A reftriejiLACUre_ver. Mad4LOP _Maas Baut• Cruz, TitAhlitPAbiabill- , -43110112slifirrwolt—rwt 411110" the mused of Prance being required. Should want something pretty to look at, without minding a little smoke and smell, and a little bending and running over if France not give her consent, the two other islands the room should happen to be rather warmer than unusul, buy any .„ of the very transparent low quality Paraftine Candles now sold Will De given up for seven and a half millions of freely everywhere at one shilling per pound : but if, along with dollars. beauty of appearance, you require steady brilllanc) of light, and freedom from risk of these little oreaalonal mishaps, tell your dealer to supply }ou ith " PRICE'S GOLD MEDAL PALM 'TINE CANDLES," which, though charged at a higher price per pound, are really cheaper when the difference of quality Is taken into account. They are believed to be the very best substitute yet produced for real wax and spermaceti, now at such an extravagant prim, and are being introduced in place of them In the West And Clubs and elsewhere where excellence of quality is studied as well as economy. 1 AMERICA. (BT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) 1 NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 6 P.M. r Congress will meet in December, and the session will be opened by a message from President Johnson. 1 The City of Cork has arrived out. 100 OWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL. —Thiselegant, Ails fragrant, and pellucid oil is universally In high repute for Its unprecedented success during the lut sixty years In pro moting the growth, restoring , and beautifying the human hair. It prevents hair from falling off or turning grey, strengthens weak hair, cleanse It from scarf and dandriff, and makes It beautifully soft, pliable, and gleamy. For children Mls sew dally recommned i n t ro duc tio nfoming the basis of • beautiful heed of lair, while Its into the nursery of royalty, and the high esteem In which It is universally held, with numerous testi monials constantly received of Its •micy, afford the beet and rarest proofs of Its merits. Price Se. ed., 75., Ike. to., mind to lour small, and 21s. per bottle.—goid at 20, Rattasi-gadess o umff by chemists and perineum —AM for Rowlands'llacasser m T .AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, -ILA an effectual remedy, without ins:dining the bowels or affecting the bead, truly efflatclous and pleasant, la admitted to be the best medicine fur immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and Incipient consumption. It ire quently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce Incurable admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effect@ are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffice. non, maydepend on relief In a few nainutee after taking it.— Prepared and sold by W. LA.IIIBKRT chemist, 8, King WO tlam-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 1344., sod three quantities In one, 2s. 84. Be particular and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. BILIOIIS and Liver Complaints, indigestion, Sick Headache, Lou of Appetite, Drowsiness, Giddiness Beams, and all Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, we (inlaid, removed by that weUßuown remedy, FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH. They unite the recommendation of a mild operation with the most successful effect and where an aperient Is required nothing sae be better adapted. Sold by all medicine vendors, at la. end Sa ad. per box, or obtal through any chemist. ALL WHO SUFFER from INDIGESTION should ass NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILL& Sold mrywhere. Bottles, Is. IS& Su 9d.. sad Ils. Just ready, peke tai., by port for seven stamps, RIMMEL'S ALMANAC for 1868, beautifully of Maminated and Perfumed, illustrating Mahatma's Preen Apes Man. Sold all the trade. Minuet 96, Strand ; 129, Regent-abed : and 24, , London. Closing Prices :—Gold,l4ol. Sterling exchange on London, 1091; 5-20 United States Bonds, 108 f; Illinois, 1301; Erie, 73i. Cotton: Middling Up land, 18. On December 12th wlllbembiLhed, stitched In a cover, iig THE EXTRA ?ir gireHRISTMAS OF ALL THE ELUL ROUND, NO THOROUGHFARE, by QUALLS DICKIES'S and WILMS COMM. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13. Petroleum (standard white), 26i. THE MONITECS" AND THE ENGLISH PRESS. The Nord of yesterday says :—" In its last weekly review the Mondeur do Soir congratulates itself upon the sym pathetic attitude towards the French policy which the British press has observed ever since the commencement of the Italian crisis. ' The principal organs of publics opi nion in England,' says the small lifortiteur,' do justice to the resolutions adopted by the imperial government in the af fairs of Rome, and recognise that it was impossible for France to sacrifice to agitators, disavowed by their own govern ment, a treaty like that of the 13th September. The English press unanimously expresses the desire that King Victor Emmanuel should energetically maintain against the Garibaldians the sovereignty of the l►w, and it ap preciates in their true light the anarchical projects of the international revolution.' It is really strange (continues the Nord) to see this official organ use language so dia metrically opposed to the truth. The eniutilutionnel and the Monitrur itself usually devote considerable space to the reproduction of articles from the British press upon the event of the day. Now this department has been singularly ill supplied in these two journals for the last month—a fact which is very naturally explained by the extreme vivacity with which the English papers, with very few exceptions, have constantly expressed themselves against the fresh intervention of France in Italy." The Mowiteur of yesterday announces that the Emperor will open in person, at one o'clock on Monday next, the legislative session of 1868, and will receive the oaths of the members of the Senate and Corps Legislatif who have not yet taken them. SUICIDE OF A MAN UNKNOWN AT CAMBRIDGE. On Thursday, at noon, • gentlemanly-looking man, name and address unknown, who, it is auppoeed, arrived in Cam bridge the previous evening , an d p u t u p a t the Lion Hotel, was found dead in bed, having died by his own hands from a bullet wound in the temple. When discovered a small pistol was found by his side, and on the table were some caps and powder, showing the act must have beenpremeditated. The deceased was about sft. 7in. in height, had sandy ' auburn (curly) hair and beard, and slight whiskers. He was apparently about 26 or 27 years of age, and dressed in a walking suit, black coat and waistcoat, and striped mix ture trousers (Angola, grey ground with narrow black stripe). He was an Englishman. His clothes were disposed on chairs, as an ordinary person's might Ibe. In the candlestick were the remains of papers recently burned. The only mark on his clothes was on one of the stockings, which are grey ribbed lamb's wool, "J. 4," the number being underneath, marked in pink cotton. There was an empty leather pocket purse with elastic band in one of deceased's pockets, and a cut ting from a newspaper of Manini's late proclamation and circular. The only money found was one half-penny, in one of the waistcoat pockets. In the trousers pockets were the key of a French latch and two smaller keys, and • watch key on a ring. On the dressing table there was a I copy of Bradshaw s (one shilling) Anglo-Italian phrase book, with some pieces of blank note paper and envelopes in the front of it, and one postage stamp. There were also some pap e rs relating to ships sailing from Liverpool for America in November and December. The hat was apple ready nearly sew, short crowned, and much turned up and then flattened at the edges; the maker's name, J. Shiptoa Harman, 27, Edgware-road. The scarf was a black silk demi scarf, stamped "Cricket bat scarf— Patent." The jury appeared to think th a t in case of idea. tificatioa they might probably learn something of the deceased's antecedents, showing his state of mind of late ; and the inquiry was adjourned to Monday. The remains of the de ne s have been photographed, but will remain unburied until after the adjourned inquest. ROYAL COLLEGE OP StrROZONS OF ENGLAND.— The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma were admitted members of the college at a meeting of the court of examiners on the 14th mat. , viz.:—Messrs. Walter Greene, Southampton baildinp ; Benjamin Neale Dalton, L.R.C.P. Lend., South Lambeth ; Robert John Shepherd, Plymouth ; and George William Smith, Castle Donnington, students of Guy's Hospital ; Charles Henry Stanley Stevens, Ken sington ; Thomas Knight Salter, Mount-strtos, Grosvenor squeze ; Richard Wilson, Chelsea ; and Charles Lake Parr, Cambridge-street, of St. George's Hospital ; George Henry Roque Dobbs, N.B. Abort, and L.S.A., New port, Isle of Wight ; Richard Howell Stevens, M.B. nb„ Eton College ; William Alsept Richards, LR.C.P. Lond., Redruth, Cornwall ; and Osman Fin- , cent, Camden-square, of King's College ; James Bradley, Pensnett, near Dudley, of the Birmingham School ; Jobs j Wesley Allies , Islington, of the Charing-cross Hospital ; 1 James Tennant, LS.A., Sleaford, Lincolnshire, of the Edinburgh School ; Albert Ryan, Dublin, of the Dublin School ; and Robert George Fendick, Bristol, of the Bristol School It is stated that eleven candidates out of the sixty-eight who have been undergoing their examina tions during the past three days failed to acquit them selves to the satisfaction of the court, and were conse quently referred to their hospital studies for the full] period of six months. MIL W. DAVENPORT BROMLEY, M.P.—We are authorised to state that the rumour circulated lately in several of our contemporaries to the effect, " that it was the intention of Mr. Davenport Bromley to withdraw him at the next election, from the representation of North Warwickshire," is without foundation.—Ccrentry. Sandral. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ROME. (nom OEM OWN CORIULSPONDZST.) (1101/ MTh MI PARIS. FRIDAY EVErlie. ROME, Nov. IL The government, after suppressing for several days all telegraphic news from Italy, and thereby encouraging the supposition that the agitation was more serious than it really was, now publishes in the diou;tesst a Florence letter dated Nov. 9, which renews the satisfecit of France to Italy. It remains to be seen whether, when the same correspondent's letter of the 12th comes to hand (if ever it does) he will express a like satisfaction with General Monabrea's circular, published in the official Gazette of Florence on that day, and which now excites the indignation of the Paris semi-official press. However, it suits the Muleitetir to say at present that " the ministry which General La Marmora represents at this moment in Paris gives the best possible proofs of its desire to pacify the country without any weakness, and that since the kingdom of Italy existed there never was a ministry composed of men who united in such a consummate degree the qualities of energy, honourable feeling, and poli tical good sense." Vinch compliments, whilelthe only excuse for French intervention was the pre servation of the temporal power, and while Italy even as represented by General Menabrea (who, among his other heavy burdens, is now sad dled with the praises of the Bishop of Or leans) still makes continual claim to de stroy it, are extremely difficult to understand. The only explanation I can think of is that the Emperor while privately scolding Victor Emmanuel as a naughty boy, thinks it expedient to keep him on his legs, and with that view to give him some public countenance. There is much reason to believe that it was not so much love for the Pope as hatred to Garibaldi and the republican principle he represents which led the Emperor to try his Chasaepot rifles at Mentana. Although M. Pinard, the new Minister of the Interior, passes for a rigid catholic, I still think the Emperor personally has made up his mind that the tempo ral power must go. But as ho is the only protector of it he naturally wishes so to use the very considerable patronage as to get some advantage for himself. Bourbonism and republicanism in Italy are above all things to be put down. The Roman question being kept open, there will subsequently, whenever the apprehended war with Prussia begins, arise a good chance that France may purchase the alliance, or at least the neutrality of Italy by the sacrifice of the Pope. Italy is in fact an important piece, for which Bis marck and the Emperor are at this moment play ing on the political chess-board. M. Peyrat, the editor of the Arenir National, was to-day sentenced by the Correctional Tribunal to a month's imprisonment, and a fine of 1,009 fr., for an article published on Oct. •19 against the French expedition to Rome. President Delos vau.x, the judge who habitually does justice be tween "our Sovereign Lord the Emperor" and his subjects of the press, again laid down a doctrine of his own invention, which at no distant day the government will find embarrassing. Pressed by the arguments of counsel, he has been locoed to adaiit.:eiste' Van' kiwi '1 right not only to criticise but to " censure " the acts of government. It follows, inasmuch as the Emperor has arrogated to himself all responsibility and ministers are only his agents, that the'press has a right to " censure " the Emperor. But President Delesvaux flatters himself that con sistently with this doctrine he assigns a sufficient reason for the convictions expected of him when he says, as he does in M. Peyrat's case, and as he has done on many former occasions, that he condemns the article because it contains " assertions without dis cussion." It clearly follows from this ruling that an ingenious writer has only to accompany even "censure" with a " reason," although a bad one, to go off scot free. The court does not venture to say that censure must be supported by convinc ing argument. That would obviously be to pro hibit all censure whatever except such as the judges might approve. All it calls for is some " argument," and that the ingenuity of writers will certainly supply in future. The law as laid down is a mere question of extra " copy " and superfluous paragraphs. The same judge, Delesvaux, decided on Wednes day last that on Oct. 29, when the French govern ment had decided in principle to reoccupy Rome, " Viva Garibaldi" was a seditious cry in Paris. Some half-dozen students who raised it as the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor of Austria were leaving the Hotel de Ville after dinner are sentenced to a week's imprisonment, and one who complicated his offence by " rebellion" against authority gets three months. The Bourse continues to present no salient feature. Rento, after a momentary decline, closed with a rise of 10c. and 5c Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer, on behalf of the shareholders of the Northern and Eastern Railway Com pany, received their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prinoess of Wales, the young princes and princess, at the Stratford station on Thursday, at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock, and escorted them to Wolverton, about two miles from Sandringham-hall, arriving there at 4 o'clock p.m. LEICESTER -SQUARE.—The Court of Queen's Bench decided yesterday that the enclosed ground in the middle of Leicester-square is private property, dedicated to the publicois the Metropolitanfloard of Works assumed when it lately gave notice that it would take pos session of the ground under the Public Gardens Protection Act. Now that Mr. Tulk's legal rights are ascertained it may be hoped he will talcs measures for at least preventing the square from becoming a public nuisance. THE QUEEN'S WESTNINIFLF.E. RIFLE VOLUNTEELLt —The annual match of the seventh and eighth companies, forming together the St. John's division of this corps, took place on the 13th inst., at Wormwood-scrubs. The prizes consisted of an elegant silver challenge cup of the value of 40 guineas, to be held by the winning company for one year ; of a gold token value two guineas, awarded to the member making the highest score on the winning side ; and of three prizes for the best individual scores without regard to sides. The ranges were 200, 500, and 600 yards, seven shots at each range. Each company was represented by five men. The challenge cup and the whole of the prizes were won by the No. 8 (Broadwood) company, who defeated their opponents by a majority of 64 marks. The score of No. 8 company was 252 marks, and of No. 7, 188. The gold token, value two guineas, and the first prize, value five guineas, were won by Ensign Black ; the second prize, value three guineas and a half, by Private Dyke ; and the third prize, value one guinea, by Sergeant An derson. SYMPATHY WITH THE POPE IN IRELAND.—A meet ing to express sympathy with the Pope was held yester day in Marlborough-street Cathedral, Dublin ; Cardinal Cullen presided. Colonel Nowell, W. Barry, M.P., Sir John Gray, M.P., Sir Jas. Power, M.P., and the Lord Mayor of Dublin moved and seconded resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting. The requi sition convening the meeting was published In the Free- Aide's Journal of yesterday, and the signatures appended to it extended over thirteen columns. The railway was re-opened direct from Leghorn to Rome on Saturday. It had, however, been possible for two days previous to make out the journey by taking first a ticket to Orbitello, the last station on the side of the kingdom, and thence one for Rome. The line from Florence by Foligno, Urni, and Monte Rotondo, is still, I understand, impracticable, owing to the destruction of a bridge. Even on tho Leghorn line, however, the travel ling is, as far as rapidity or punctuality are con cerned, the reverse of what one expects a railway to insure. Our train was half an hour late to start with, and it so improved this advantage that it was two hours late when it reached Rome, per forming a distance of about 200 miles in the mode rate space of fourteen hours. This train, too, was the express ; there was no change of carriages, and the examination of luggage at the Papal frontier was of the most nominal description, occupying not 20 minutes in all. No difficulty either was made with regard to passports ; they were taken from us at the frontier, and returned without comment on wriving at the station at Rome. Our train carried many Garibaldini, who got out at various stations between Leghorn and Orbitello, and at the latter station the train from Rome brought a carriage full of their comrades, who had been made prisoners, and were now being sent out of the country. These last were a good deal cleaner than those whom we carried with us on their way to their Homes, and had apparently been well taken care at. Both sets, however, comprised men and lads al all aorta and conditions, not a few evidently in therank of gentlemen, many apparently labourers, some whom one might suspect of being not quite so respectable. Most wore the red shirt—some only a red cap—a very few had the regulation trousers of last year's campaign, grey with red cord, most wore trousers of any civilian pattern, among which highland tartan, resembling the Forty-eighth, was apparently a favourite. None had lausketa or bayonets. They were healthy, deter Mined looking fellows, and by no means dispirited with defeat, for they shouted and sang nearly all the .way. At Civita Vecchia, by way of contrast, we took up a company of Papal Zouaves, and the officers came into* carriage in which f was. They were Frenakmen, wearing beards, however, all over the face, contrary to the regulations of the regular Berrie, both in France and Italy, which prescribes that whiskers and chin shall be shaved. The notioit of an express train being two hours behind time seemed to tickle their fancies exceedingly, as they contrasted it with the punctuality of French lines.. One may perhaps safely infer from this that they had not been very long in the Papal ser vice. Our way lay during the whole time that daylight lasteethrough the Tuscan Maremma, a wilder nessiii fiat plains , broken by low hills covered with ppio6 of oak and bushes of juniper. For the t part the soil is evidently very rich, d where the ditches show its section it of illimitable depth. Nor is it so wet or Do "tb iitin perfect drainage at all a difficulty. But this is the fever district; it is nearly without habitations, and with but scanty and imperfect traces of cultivation. There is, however, no in trinsic reason why if drained and again cultivated it should not recover its ancient salubrity, and supply grain enough to feed half Italy, or to come in aid of our own dear markets. And at a small wayside station I saw an omen of what may yet be brought about in this direction, and perhaps at no distant date. It was a set of apparatus occupying three trucks, shunted out one way ; on the first was what to the astonished eye presented the appearance of the drum and rope used for steam ploughing ; on the next was evidently a steam engine under a tarpaulin ; and on the third was beyond a doubt the double plough itself. The fact was put beyond a doubt when the advance of the train showed letters painted on the tarpaulin, and one could spell out the familiar name of Clayton and Shuttleworth. It was impossible to help spe culating on a great future for Italy when this pro mise of the application of capital and science to the redemption of her soil from fever and barrenness, and its development into wealth and health, thus unexpectedly came into view. Here at Rome, however, we meet contrasts still more curious, and if they could be permanent, as fitted to inspire despair as a steam-plough in the Maremma is calculated to give hope. Never has the ancient city presented so strange a spectacle. The calm repose of religion and art is put out of sight, and war usurps its place on every hand. If I were asked what is now the most striking feature in Rome, I should be obliged to reply, soldiers. It is soldiers everywhere. Outside the Porta del Popolo, the main gate of Rome, the road is cut by ' a trench some fifteen feet wide, behind which, in the gateway itself, is an earthwork of equal thick ness, pierced by embrasures for two guns to fire clown the road. This has been commenced only within the last few days, and the work is still deemed ao important that yesterday, though it was Sunday, and what is more, a giorno di testa, when no work can be got done for hire, labourers were busily en gaged in finishing the slopes of the parapet, under the direction of French officers of engineers. Inside, in the Piazza del Popolo, two or three batteries of French brass field pieces, with their ammunition waggons, are parked, and the horses are picketed under the trees above, opposite the public gardens of the Pincian-hill. The wall of Rome, which flanks the public gardens themselves, dividing them from the Villa Borghese, has had a parapet constructed of sand-bags, loopholed for musketry, behind which French sentries keep guard. In the city, in the churches, iu the palaces, soldiers everywhere. Groupe of red breeched Frenchmen swarm up the stairs in front of St. Peter's, and furnish a scale by which to esti mate the enormous size of • building which so dwarfs the companions of its defenders. Inside they wander about in twos or threes, some kneeling for a moment before the altars, some looking ou with more curiosity than reverence as processions of black-draped priests wind among the marble aisles on their way to some spot of solelmn devo tion. The Castle of St. Angelo, a work of imposing middle-age strength, but against modern rifled bolts, or shells, about as tenable as an oyster shell grotto, is guarded at the gate by a French picket, supporting the blue clad Papal Zouave, who nominally is the sentry, and from the walls lbove peer down French artillerymen, French Zouaves, French infantry of the line. At the corner of • church a priest is preaching to the crowd, some Papal soldiers are listening reverently with their caps in their hands—more French sol diers are listening curiously with their caps on their heads and their hands in their pockets. Up the steps of the Capitol saunter more ofjthe blue and red uniforms : here a vendor of cigars is offering them to a half dozen round him, and ex plaining by expressive pantomime that they are excellent tobacco and only a soldo a piece; there a fruit seller is dispensing rosy apples or withered grapes to the same interesting, and, I fear, much cheated strangers : on the railings round the Arch of Severn. are leaning some who seem to wonder what the builders meant by putting up such things there : in the Colosseum, as the tender moonlight begins to pale the last gleam of sunshine on the warm arches he and the bate flit through the deep blue over head, a merry French conscript leaps suddenly from behind a broken wall and startles a comrade with an unexpected slap on the shoulder. Back through the Corso, where the carriages can hardly make their way without knocking down some of the crowd, and still in the carriages, in the crowd, in the adds, in the churches, are French offiaers and French soldiers, mixed up with some Papal Zousves, and with a sprinkling of the civil popu lation of Rome. These Papal Zouaves, too—who but for the French allies that seem almost to have driven them out of Rome, would have, ere now, been driven out in more effectual fashion—are not an un interesting element of the military pageant. Their dress is blue grey with red facings ; and it is itself singular enough to see the head of catholic Christendom choosing for his personal guard a body of men borrowing the dress of infidel Moors. But there is an old proverb that beggars mist not be choosers, and the Pope is so poor in help that he cannot afford to refuse the support that can be won from the looser spirits of catho licity by the temptation of a pair of baggy trousers and the odour of a something in the nature of a loose reputation, which in 'France was attached to the wearers of such garments. And that these con verted infidels are derived from all realms in which the Pope's authority has away is evident from their speech. There is not much Italian heard among them ; there is some French, a good deal of Ger man, and still more of a tongue to me unknown, but which I conceive to be Belgian: There are besides a few English, two of whom were killed at Montana. But the polyglot corps is a very fine one to look at. The men are tall, handsome fellows— bearded, when Heaven has endowed them with a a beard, and in many cases with hopes of a beard when age shall grant it, for they are little more than 1 ,0 :;!;: The arj9rit; arc fair ; end liken** clean a few are unmistakeably of gentle birth—and on the whole they much more resemble the stuff of which the ranks of a crack English volunteer regi ment is made up than the ferocious Turks to whom it is their pleasure to assimilate themselves. One does not wonder as one studies the faces that pass, that a sort of boyish chivalry of devotion should have led them to take service under the persecuted head of their ,church;. but neither does one wonder that the French officers should have mat a .eauple og. Week own regiments to take care of them when they marched out to extirpate Garibaldi, or that they should have been handsomely beaten, as undoubtedly they were, by the rough, starving, shoeless levies who charged in their red shirtson the slopes of Mentana. Here, however, there is a firm belief that Garibaldi out-numbered the Pontifical forces, French included, by three to one. And your correspondent, who knows better, does not in Rome controvert the prevailing agreeable impres sion. The Pope held a service on Friday for the souls of the Zouaves who were killed in his defence, and they sayhe was so affected that he broke down. Ido not know the precise rules of catholic belief with regard to purgatory, but I should have sup posed that those who died in so holy a cause would have gone straight to Heaven,, and that the masses would have been more usefully bestowed for the souls of those who, being killed in sacrilegiously attacking the divine institution of the temporal power, must be supposed to have gone straight the other way. But in a city where one sees the strange anomaly of 20,000 bayonets brought over the sea to defend, not their faith, which nobody attacks, but the right of their high priest to kill and imprison the citizens of a certain district, one must expect to meet with a good many other ano malies ; and for this letter I confine myself to chronicling the most salient features of the life which, under such circumstances, we find ourselves living in the Eternal City and in the middle of the nineteenth century•. THE CONFERFNCE ON THE ROMAN QUESTION. The Debuts of yesterday says :—" Where will the conference assemble I The Patric would like it to be in Paris ; several foreign journals wish it to be installed in Rome ; but first of all we ought to know if it will meet at all. It is not enough to send letters of convocation • the powers to whom they are addressed must believe they can usefully accept the invitation transmitted to them, and nothing yet proves that they are of thi;ll opinion. The Gazette of Northern Germany, which ordinarily reflects with fidelity the impressions of the Prussian government, refuses to believe that the Pope will consent to renounce the temporal power, or that the European powers are disposed to guarantee it to hint. The Morostipost of Vienna explain very sensibly that Austria can at this moment regard the events of which Italy is the scene like a dilettante witnessing the representation of an opera without troubling himself whether the piece will fail or succeed. If, on the contrary, the Vienna cabinet adheres to the congress, it would have to play the part of the critic who renders himself liable to form enemies by candidly making known his manner of thinking. 'Austria islnow no longer directly interested in the Ro man question, and she might remain indifferent even if the llersaglieri of Victor Emmanuel replaced the Antibes Legion. In a conference her predilections would too easily clash with her interests, and her traditions with the wishes of her populations.' Finally, in Russia (adds the Debuts) 500 persons have just presented a petition to the Em peror, calling win the government to ab stain from taking part in the confer ence, and urging it to concentrate all its attention upon the affairs of the East. True, the petitioners have been badly received ; they have been told that the right of petition just bestowed applies only to private and not to public matters. The better to impress upon their memory this salutary distinction, the reply of the government was transmitted to them on a sheet of paper bearing a 500 rouble stamp, which the government took good care to make them pay, at the same time warning them that for a fresh offence a stamp of five times higher price would be employed." OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. SPEECH OF KING WILLIAM. BKRLIN, Nov. 15. The Prussian Chambers were opened to-day by the King of Pr ima ia in person. Els Majesty de livered the following speech from the throne : Idustr:cats, Noble, and Honoured Gentlemen of both Howes of the Diet,—To-day I salute for the first time in this plate the representatives of the new territories which have been united with my kingdom by the events of a great epoch. I renew with confidence the ex pression of my conviction that the inhabitants of those territories, inasmuch m I accept them with my whole heat as my people, will also on their part devote themselves with honourable fidelity to me and to their extended fatherland. The full power which the national representation conferred upon my government to prepare the way for the entry of the new provinces into the con stitutional state of things existing in Prussia has been taken advantage of to establish a preliminary equilibrium in those territories, where it appeared to be absolutely re quired by the common interests of the state. In the new territories after the views of the principal inhabitants had been ascertained, district and pro vincial constitutions, connected as closely as pos sible with the institutions already established, and which had become dear to the population, have been called into existence--conatitations which on being ended 4 out and further developed will be calenlated to revive the interest of the inhabitants in the regulation of their 'acne mical affairs, and to prepare the way fat the much to be desired autonomy of the larger and communal coTora tams. While the military institutions of the North German Confederation have by the Federal constitution and by the law on liability to 'military service been 'stab balled on the approved basica the Pruden institutions, • the organisation of the military fproes of the entire • fatherland has been completed in in principal feetaree. The ground for the united efforts of the repre sentatives of my whole monarchy having been pre pared, our joint, and, please God, unanimous exertions will succeed in making that ground fruitful. The lonian of the budget for the year 186 S, which will be laid before yon without delay, differs essen tially from previous budgets. While on the one hand it comprises the territories newly united with the monarchy, on the other, important categories of revenue and expendi ture have been separated from it, and have been passed over to the budget of the North German Confederation. From the bills on the budget you will see that the revenue, which has been carefully estimated, will not only provide the means to cover the current expenses of the adminis tration, but that it has also been possible to satisfy the fresh and increased demands whisk have aria* in many departments of the administration of the state. While premising that the present condition of tbs.fimincee will teds:y you, I, at the sae time, trust to obtain your wil • assent to the increased expenditure which I consider for to maintain the dignity of the alma under the altered circumstances which have arisen. Several bills will be laid before you, having for their objects to regu late the public debts of the newly-acquired territories, to complete their budgets for the year 1867, by grant ing the supplementary assent which had been re served, and to lay down rules for the treatment of the accounts drawn up in accordance with those budgets. As soon as the High Court of Appeal shall have been in stituted as the Supreme Court in the newly acquired ter ritories, a bill will be prmented to you to ea* a union of this • court with the high tribunal My govertimmffillie giving its epeeist attention to the further development 'of the district and provincial constitutions, and they will, so soon as the requisite preparations have been completed, lay before you the bills relative to this abject. the harvest this year has unhappily, in one portion of the country, not been equal to the general requirement, so that in some especially afflicted districts it has been. or will be, necessary to take extraordinary meanies. —mese sk...veernment Mee . / .',l Pell to facilitate importation by lowering the ?away Left, sw, by promoting the construction cf roads and kuprovemena to create labour and remuneration. The pressure of un certainty which, resulting from various causes, now chieflY removed, weighed upon commerce, will, as I confidant* hope, in consequence of the mote peaceful aspect of the state of affairs in Europe, make place for an animated re vival; the more so as most important alterations have been made in the interests of the advancement of trade and cord merce by the renewal of the customs union with the South German States, together with an appropriate alteration of the internal organisation of the Zaverein by the entrance this day of Sableszireiff inriethe WSW mid My notable reduction duce, and other weighed' uparda 'ffoieduked acts; tr i titty National unity, which the !maim parliament sift sal left upon to sanction by its vote, has now become a matter of fact. If you have consented to transfer a portion of your privileges to the North German parliament, already does the testimony of history bear witness that you have done the right thing at the right time. By the organisation of the North German Confederation the Prussian people have acquired additional pledges of security, and an enlarged field for organic development, whilst at the same time, in conjunction with our fellow countrymen of the South German States, the community of all social interests and an effective protection of all the highest blessings of national existence have been assured. The treaties upon which the community of interests rests have recently attained a still greater importance, from the fact that, whilst under discussion in the diffe rent parliaments, the national spirit victoriously maintained itself. The relations of my government with foreign powers have not undergone any change in consequence of the new conditions in which Prussia is placed in the midst of the North German Con federation. With the friendly character of those relations, the personal interviews with the majority of the reigning sovereigns in Germany and abroad, the opportunity ler which war offered me last summer, perfectly harmonise. The peaceful object of the German movement is recognised and appreciated by all the powers of Europe, and the peaceful endeavours of the rulers are supported by the swishes of the peoples, to whom the increasing develop ment and amalgamation of spiritual and material interests make peace a 'amenity. The recent anxiety respecting • disturbance of peace in one part of Europe, where two great nations, both most amicably connected with us, ap peered to be threatened by a serious complication, I may now look upon as having disappeared. It will be the endeavour of mygovethment, as regards those difficult questions which in that quarter still remain unsolved, on the one hand to respond to the claims of my catholic subjects, and to evince my care for the dignity and the independence of the bead of their church ; and on the other hand, to satisfy the duties which increase for Prussia in consequence of political interests and the international relations of Ger many. In neither direction do I see, in fulfilment of the tasks which are laid before my government, any danger to peace. Let us then the more con fi dently undertake the task of the solution of our internal development, and ma your labour for the welfare of the state be richly blemed. CAPITAL AND LABDI:R. —At the close of Mr. E. Jones's lecture at St. James's-hall, Piccadilly, on Thurs day, Mr. Samuel Morley, who was in the chair, mid he had listened with the deepest interest to the address which they had just heard. (Hear.) It had given them a good deal to think about until the time of action came. He understood Mr. Jones to entirely disavow any interference with the rights of property. He merely asserted that property had its obligations and respon sibilities as well as its rights. There were thousands of the population living in a condition which ought to excite the sympathy of every friend of humanity. (Cheers.) He could take them to parts of this city where numbers were living at the verge of starvation. The condition in which some of the people were living was a question the conaideration of which ought not to be much longer delayed. (Hear, hear.) As regarded strikes, be ne. er had the slightest mis. giving as to the right of the working classes of the country to combine and to determine amongst themselves as to the price at which they would sell their labour. (Hear, bear.) They had as much right to meet and determine these questions as their employers had. (Hear, bear.) He had also a tine oonviction of their right, if they pleased, to strike—(hear, hear)—but at the same time he held that strikes were to the social world what wars were to the political world—they became crimes unless they wens prompted by absolute necessity. (Hear, hear.) He had had largely to do with working men, he felt that they were his friends—(cheers)—and he desired to act towards them in a kindred spirit. The result of his forty years' close observation was that strikes Lad inevitably gone, as an average, against the working men. (" Hear, hear," and cries of "No, no.") He had known the most un speakable misery produced by them —( hear. hear)—and many instances had occurred in which the men had had to resume work on the same terms as before the strike. About two years ago he saw the termination of the great strike in the iron trade, and be scent into a number of cottages to find the truth about this matter. He found excellent, upright, working into lying, when they retired for the night, with their wives and children on straw, their houses three months before having been full of the best possible furniture. These men had to return to work without having derived ary benefit from the strike, and Laving largely lost by it. Strikes tended to alienate masters and workmen for years. At Nottingham courts of conciliation had been established in connection with the hosiery trade, and he was glad to say that great advantage had accrued from their establishment. The court was composed half of workmen and half of warders, and the two classes were thus brought into immediate con nection with each other, for the diacussion of questions relating to their mutual interests. lie desired to see these courts established in connection with other branches of trade, for is might be found, as in the case of Nottingham, that they had gone far to solve one of the most difficult problems of the present day. r 1