The Express. — London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

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MILES begs most respectfully to announce that his dock In the various departments of his establishment Is new replete for Overcoats, Vestlugs. Bedford Cords, and scarlet waterproof cloth for bunting The wool-dyed Black and Blue Frock Coats, 50a. A of 60 of Indestructible wooded West of England Clo choice ths. nTABLISHED 1851. Oaks address. T RELOAR'S COCOA - NUT MATTING and RAMPITLICON FLOOR-CLOTH wAßEaorst, Removed from No. 42 to No. 10. LUDOATIL-HILL, LONDON. DEPOT AIJTHENTIQITE DE LA REGIS, for SALE of French Caporal SMOKING TOBACCO and FRENCH SNUFF at 15a. per 214 lbs., kilogramme ditto ditto Fort igr, Itio. Sd. per 214 lbs., kilogramme. French Cigars, from Is. to Ss. per dozen. "Warranted Havana" Cigars, Tobzocos. and Snuffs. se Imported by the FRENCH IMPERI,LI. REIMS, !0!, PICCADILLY, - . !Yw SL J& n.s $ Char. WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMES ? My dear fellow I gentlemeu sup at EVANS'S. Covent-gardan. Efte erpreoo. COEILEMONDINTL Alvertliaasenis intended - for " tondos Tussles 1,190 C, malt b. as the COM 10. 3011•1111046/11114, by Two Wawa on the day of publication. OOH ENT-GARDEN. TEM Tram, FASCHEI TE. Miss L Pyne and Mr. K. Har rison.—And HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Warm W. B. Payne, 11. Payne, F. Payne, the &ethos Btonette, Mdlle. Esther—Commence et 7. HAYMARKET. THIS Evlsrreto, orr. AMERICAN COir9IN. Means. Bothers, Buclutoae, Chippendale, Gordon, Rosen. Coe, and Clark; Mesdames 4Dgel and Spowdon.—A ud KING ARTHUR. Mr. Compton , Mesdames L Keeley, Wright, Undies, E.ltomer. PRINCEsi*S. TEM EcrYINO, DONNA DIANA.—And HARLEQUIN LITTLE TUN TUCKER Mews. Sexton, Cathcart, A. and C. Lenten:4, Hans and Son, Milano, Naylor, and Chaptoo; Mesdames Barnett. Adana. and Howard. LYCZIIIL Tlll9 ETINOIO. iHe war CH MD. Yr. WUldtocanto and Mho P. Leclerc(.—BßL DIVONIO. a Lom Story. Messrs. gutter, Brougham, Emery, Chutes, and Jordan , Mass M. Jimmie, Invenue, and Laworiay, and lbs. Lea .11.11.11ANNL6 Tuts Emma. the New lantOrilime HICKORY, HICKORY, Dom. Mrs S. Lane and Ent-rate Pantomimlsta.—The Marvels of Peru. - THE GREAT GHOST ErlPECT.—trthvir and Bertrand. —The Fairy Yountaln..-And THE GORILLA HUNT. HIGH WATIZ AT TONDOS RAMO& MI DAT Moeda& 5h 43m... .Lifornoss, sh. Pas. rO4IOIROW Morntng, eh. 15m . . Ationlocia. 6h. 37na. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30. Ir is impossible to read with no more than the regret which a great loss of human life must always inspire, the account of the terrible calamity at Chili, given in yesterday's Express. When thou sands fall on the battle-field we remember that, however unnecessary and unjust the war, the loss has been anticipated and the risk has been accepted in view of some compensating ad vantage. When an earthquake like that at Manilla swallows up ten thousand people, the mind, appalled by the magnitude of tho cata strophe, and oppressed with a sense of the help lessness of man, finds consolation in falling be* upon an innate and indefeasible belief in the good ness of the Power which reigns over nature and makes its most destructive agencies the instrument of His inscrutable designs. No such lenitive thoughts as these come to our relief as we think of the two thousand ladies who perished on the Bth of December in the Church of La Compania, at Santiago. It is possible, indeed, that some in the Old World, as they read of the death which overtook so many of the faithful while they were absorbed in the outward cere monies of religion, will envy—or at least try to think they envy—them their favoured exit from this world in the very act of piety and devotion—" going," as the priest cried to them in their agonies, "direct to Maxv." But with every respect for sincere conviction, we must say that the eHesiastical frivolity and dissipa tion in which these unhappy victims were over taken by death, will in the eyes of most sober people, whether catholics or proteatanta, only make the narrative more distressing. Not that it would be right to adopt the language of the South Ame rican writer whose account of the conflagration we borrow, and speak of it as an " awful judgment of " GOD." It was thus, indeed, that the reigning POPE assumed to interpret the Divine counsels, when • few years ago the spirit of King Vu-roe EMMANUEL was bowed down by a succession of family bereavements; and we can easily imagine what touching reflections wo ild find a place in his next allocution, if two thousand Italians were to be burnt alive while listening to Father PASSAGLIA preaching on the Unity of Italy. To him and those, by whatever name they call themselves, who share his spirit, let us leave such presumption. Without going beyond the evidence of sense and understanding, we may trace a r %tura' connexion between the destruction of these urhappy lades and the sea of church muslin and drapery, the inflammable pasteboard " propertier," and the " twenty thousand lights in long :estoons of "coloured globes" hung beneath a wooden roof. Yet accepting as true all that is said of the ent"•e abandonment of the congregation tothe excitement of superstition, the intoxication of the crowd was surely not greater than that of the maw uers at the ball when Covent-garden Theatre was burned down but a few years ago, and when not •reveller perished. The temper of mind which is always looking for signs from Heaven, is not favourable to the calm, constant, and practical recognition of the eternal laws by which the world government of the world is carried on. It rather shows a neglect of those laws, or implies a feeling of their insufficiency. Not wholly to lose the benefit of the lesson which this calamity has for us in England, let us ask whether we have not public buildings larger than the church at Santiago, and as much frequented, where a similar, and possibly an equal, loss of life might occur ? We are told that when the alarm sprend in the Church of La Compania, " at once " nearly the whole people rushed to the principal "door, and fainting ladies fell down and were " trampled on. The scene at the door was in " describable. As jammed, squeezed irto one solid " lump, the door was blocked by the people, arms " were wrenched from bodies which could not be " extricated, and from the lintel to the arch of " that awful passage became a crushed heap of " mangled bodies." This is what always happens when a panic seizes people in a crowded building, insufficiently provided with means of egress ; and it is well known that we have public buildings in London to which our best members of society resort in crowds, which, THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY WEND., JANUARY 30, 1864. in case of alarm, would prove no better than traps. This is a subject which has been often premed on the attention of those responsible for the danger, but hitherto in vain ; and although it is true that the 100 of two thousand lives in Chili is calculated to impress us lees vividly than the loin of half♦- dozen would do in England, let us hope that they may be inclined this time to accept an oft-repeated lesson. be erourt. OSBORNE. JAIL 29. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold, embarked in the Royal Yacht Fairy, Commander Simpson, R.N., yesterday morning, and visited the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, attended by the manakins. of Ely, the Honourable Yrs. Bruce, Colonel the Honourable Slr 0. B. Phipps, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Colonel Sir T. M. Biddulph, and Mr. Buff. . . —.— Countess Blueher had the honour of accompanying her Majesty. Her Majesty, with Prince Leopold and the snits, landed at /idly at a quarter before 12 o'clock, and was received by Colonel Wand:ism, C. 8., commandant, and the officers of the establishment, who conducted her Warty to the hospital. The Queen went over the various parts of the establish ment to inspect the arrangements, visited the kitchen and entered the wards where the sick are treated, and made ing&ries of several of the patients as to their condition. Dr. Anderson, inspectoneneral, attended her Majesty with the medical staff of the hospital. Mrs. Shaw Stewart, the superintendest-general of female nurses, and Dr. Minter, of the Royal Yacht, were also in attendance. At a little before one o'clock the (Nees re-embarked and returned to Osborne. _ _ _ . The Fan sad Countess el Derby arrived at Dubose, yesterday. A Cabinet Council wee held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, is Downing-street. The ministers present were Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke o. Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Mon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. A deputation, consisting ci the Mayer of Wolverhamp ton, Mr. Alderman Banks, and Mr. E. J. Hays, the town clerk, had an interview with the Right Hog. C. P. Pillion yesterday, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-aka, from the Governor of Canada. Despatches wen sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wands. CABINZT COM( CIL. —('r IS DAY. )—Af ter the cabinet council yesterday afternoon Lord Palmer ston had summonses issued to the several members of the cabinet for a meeting at his official resi dence in Downing-street to-day at 3 o'clock. Preparations have been made at the mess-room of the Cavalry Barracks, Spital, for a banquet this even ing, to which his Royal Highness the Prises of Wales has been invited by Lieutenant-Colonel Hash Smith Bailie and the oilloars of the Royal Horse Guards, now quartered at Windom His royal highness has accepted the invitation. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary, and her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, intend to return to St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the 3rd proximo, from Kew. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz is expected at St. James's Palace in about a fortnight, from Germany. The Earl and Countess Russell entertained his Excellency the Danish Minister, his Excellency the Swedish Minister cud the Counter Wachtmeister, Prince Gorda koff, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. and Miss Gladstone and the Hon. Lucy Lyttelton, Hon. George Elliot, Sir Edwin Landseer. Mr. William Harcourt, Mr. C. Dickens, be., at dinner, last evening at their residence in Chesham-place. After dinner a select party assembled, the company including his Excel lency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi, his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstortf, Madame Musurus and Madlle. Murtha, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, Count Paumgarten, Baron Beck Friis, Viscount Sudeley, Lady Coamo Russell, Hon. W. and Mrs. Vernon, his Excellency the United States Minister and Mrs. and Miss Adams, the Earl of Albemarle, Mr. and Lady Georgina Homily, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Hominy. the Countess Dowager of Westmoreland and Lady Rose Fre, Mr. Van de Weyer, Ice. _ _ The Earl and Counteas of Derby will return to town to-clay from visiting her Majesty at Osborne, Isle of Wight. Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. W. Coke, 3LP. has arrived in England from Canada. Lest night the first annual meeting of the Me tropolitan Association foe Promoting the Education of Adults was help in the rooms of the Society of Arta ; Sir W. P. Wood in the chair. Great preparations are making at Drury-lane for the revival of Shakespeare's first part of Henry the fourth, which is intended to succeed the holiday entartaininent. Mr. Phelps will sustain the part of Falstaff ; and Mr. Walter Montgomery bag, we hear, been engaged to play the part of Hotspur. The scenery, costumes, and stage scone- Dories are to be on a grand scale. The drama of Leah at the Adelphi, and Mr. 3ornand's burlesque of Leion, have both turned their bun dredth night of representation ; and the Tteket-of-Lease Mae is not yet to be withdrawn from the Olympic play bills, in consequence, as the advertisement says, of " con stant applications for places." The ceremony of investing a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick, in the place of the late Viscount Ms...armee, was performed on Thursday in the Throes room, Dublin Castle, b► his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, Greed Master of the Order. His 'Linea the Archbishop of Dublin was installed in the office of chancellor, and Lord Dutferia and Claneboye was invested with the ribbon and badge of a knight. Surgeo 3 Wilde then received the order o: knighthor I, as a token of his excellency's appreciation of li;s services to staastical science, especially in connexion with the Irish census. Proieeeor Huxley will commence a course ot. twenty-four !whim on the "Structure and Classification of the Mammal*" at the College of Surgeons, on T.arday next, at 4 p.m. They will be continued Thursday, and Saturday till completed. We am the more glad to be enabled 13 make this announcement, as the lec tures are of cowl.e free, and the desire of the college authorities to make them extensively useful is well known. —Reader. FOREION-OFFICE, JAN. 29. The Queeu has beet pleased to approve of Mr. Charles Arleta Creighton as count at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Queen bu also been pleased to approve of Mr. Rudolph Ablers as consul at Bomber. and of Mr. Theodore Armandus Rosenbush RS oonsul at Sierra Leone, :or his Majesty the King of the Netherlands.—Gozete. - - FOREIGN -OFFICE, J•N. 25.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Walter Henry Medhurst, Esq., now her Majesty's consul at Tangehow, to be her Majesty's consul at Hankow. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Martin Crofton Morrison, Es.q., now her Majesty's consul at Foo-chow-too, to be her Majesty's consul at Tangchow. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Francis Gerhard Myburgh, Eq., to be her Majesty's consul at Nagasaki.—Gazette. MR. SEELY, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.— Mr. Seely, M.P. for Linooln, addressed his constituents in the Theatre Royal, Lincoln, on Thursday night. After • review of the state of foreign affairs, be commented on the Irish church, military and naval expenditure, the I condition of agricultural labourers, social reform, sod the extension of the franchise. Respecting the American question, he approved of the conduct of the government, but confessed that on his own part he had no greet sym pathy for the cane of either belligerent Ile was emphatic in his condemnation of the recent British proceediugs in Japan ; and he hoped parliament would insist upon • &earthing ioveetiption into the whole business. As to the conduct of the government in regard to China it was equally objectionable and discreditable to the country . • and he was glad to learn that the Anglo- Chinese naval expedition, under Captain Osborn, bad been brought to a termination. It was to be hoped that the government would not allow itself to be dragged into a European war on the Sleewig-Holstein question. On the subject of naval expenditure, he showed by the citation of figures that in the matter of iron-forging alone the government paid twice as much money as the work could be done for by private firms. Briefly summing up his views on domestic questions of the day, he said he was hostile to the position of the Irish church, rejoiced at the elevation of Serjeant Shee to the bench, desired to see an extension of the franchise to 10/. in counties and 61. in boroughs, and would support vote by ballot. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. HOSPITAL PREPARATIONS. (Isom OWL OWN 001128PONDNIFT.) RENDOBURG, JAir. 27. Some idea may be formed of the expectations entertained by the Prussians of the immediate chances of a hostile conflict with the Danes, by the fact that a telegram was received to-day by the mu nicipal authorities of this town from the "Ducal government" at Kiel, giving notice of a re quisition from the Meld-Marshal Commander in-Chief of the Prussian army of occupa tion now on its march to Sleswig, to fit up immediately a military hospital for a thousand men in this town. The order is given for the munici pality to furnish the buildings suitable for the pur pose, and fit them up with a thousand bedsteads and the needful furniture, but that the mattresses and bedding will be provided by the Prussian authorities. Hitherto neither Austrians nor Prussians have made their appearance here, and the garrison still consists of two battalions of Saxon infantry, a oouple of batteries of Saxon field-artillery, and a complete pontoon train belonging to the Hanove rian corps of Royal Engineers. THE DEFENCES OF THE DANNEWERKE. The Paris Presse of to-day says :—" According to a letter from Berlin, a military commission declares that it will be ueosasary to sacrifice 20,000 men in order to force the Danish position of the Dana's werke." AMERICA. (ams'a (Pee the MA* rid Roehe's Point.) NEW YORK, JAN. 19, Bram. Southern journals announce that the Federals are landing at Morehead City, North Carolina. General Grant reports from Tennessee that the Confederate General Vance bad made a raid towards Ternville, capturing twenty-three waggons. Vance was, however, pursued, the waggons recaptured, and himself taken prisoner. The reported raid by Stuart on Leesburg was unfounded. Advise from Charleston to the 15th inst. state that the shelling of the city had been continued, causing some damage, but no casualties. The Federal fleet were preparing to resist the. anticipated attack by the Confederate rams. The Confederates had erected defences inside Fort Sumter. General Gilmore had temporarily suspended siege operations and removed his head quarters to Hilton Head, where an extensive expe dition, including several negro regiments, was fit ting out for embarkation for some point not made public. Various rumours attributed the destina tion of the expedition to be the Savannah River, or to attack the railroad between Charleston and Savannah with the view of afterwards operating in the rear of Charleston. The Confederates an ticipated an attack upon Wilmington. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times asserts that a campaign against Richmond will be opened in the spring by two large armies, each equal to cope with Lee's army. One of these armies will advance by the Rappahannock, and the other by way of the Peninsula. A large body of Confederates are reported to have concentrated at Point Pelee, Canada, to attack J ohu stone's Island, Lake Erie, where the Confederate prisouers are confined. General Grant baa arrived at Louisville from Knoxville, having made the jour. ney by way of Cumberland Gap and Lexington, for the purpose of judging of the capabilities of this route for supplying Knoxville. He was enthu siastically received in Lexington, but refused to make a speech. Numerous regiments of the Federal army con tinue to re-enlist. General Butler's rule in Norfolk is represented to be extremely stringent. The city is guarded by negro troops. The Richmond Enquirer urges negotiations with General Butler for an exchange of pri.oners, as this would not relieve General Butler from the decree of outlawry, and he would still, if captured, be hung. A system of retaliation has commenced along the North Carolina frontier. Several soldiers have been hung in retaliation by the commanders of the opposing forces. The Richmond Enquirer complains of the action of the Confederate Congress, and says there is danger that Congress, in its desire to restore the currency and fill up the army, will bankrupt the country and overthrow the framework of society and production. A resolution has been offered in the House of Representatives that whenever any insurrectionary State shall submit to the Federal authority hosti- lities against such State shall cease, and the people be guaranteed conventionally. The resolution was defeated by a vote of 79 to 56. A proposition to raise 100,000 men for 100 days to drive the Confederates out of Virginia and rescue the Federal prisoners at Richmond was also defeated. A resolution has been introduced to reduce the duty on paper. The Confederate Congress have resolved that persons who furnished substitutes will not be exempt from military service. It also passed a resolution pledging the Confede rates to perpetual resistan ce . The Raleigh (North Carolina) journals continue to urge a peaceful settlement with the North. The Richmond Sentinel remarks that too much import ance has been given to this fact, as the whole North Carolina press, excepting the Raleigh journals, are patriotic and loyal It is generally conceded that Mr. Lincoln will be the regular republican nominee for the presidency. The Nen. Yorl. /feraid asserts that there is a move ment among the republicans to secure Secretary Stanton's removal from Cabinet. The Nev. Yak Tribtute asserts that Mr. Adams' diplomatic correspondence sent to Congress will furnish abundant proof of the responsibility of the British government in the matter of the Confederate privateers. The Secretary of the Navy has sent orders to the Provost Marshal of New York that the British blockade violators will, when captured, not be released, but detained. A military commission has been appointed to try all persons confined in Forta Lafayette and Warren. _ The British ship Sylvanus has been captured off Doboy Sound, Georgia. The Columbia has arrived at St. John's. (By telegraph to Halifax.) NEW YORK. Jwx. 21, lloplaso. The Federate have occupied BLulisonville, on Lake Pontchartrain. General Banks has ordered a State election in Louisiana.. He is confident that more than a tenth of the population desire restoration to the Union. He declares void the State laws regarding slavery, and appoints a convention for the revision of the constitution. Arrangements are being made to elect members to Congress. Two companies of Canadian Rifles have been sent to Windsor, Canada, it is said, in consequence of the Confederate movements against Johnstone's Island. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MOM OM OM PARIS, FRIDAY &sumo. On the opening of the adjourned debate on Poland in the Corps Legislatif to-day, M. Havin desired to make a personal explanation. He had I been called a partisan of war, and that was true, ; but he wished to explain the reason. He saw Venice eager for action, Hungary agitated, Ger many in flames, Prussia on the eve of an abdica tion, a revolution, or a coup d'itat, England making ready her fleet, and being about (it was said) to send 20,000 or 30,000 men to the assistance of Denmark ; and in this state of things, he said, when the public was giving the government mil liards instead of millions, France—with her 600,000 soldiers--could, even without • war, make her powerful voice heard, and save Poland. He thought the address ought to go further than the Emperor's, and he was ready for his part to go to the extremity of war on behalf of Poland, because he thought • French interest was involved in the question. M. Jules Fevre said the Polish question was painful and obscure. It cut the heart, and it em barrassed the intellect. After paying a double com pliment to the Duke de Morny as au orator and as • president, and saying that he hoped to see him leave the chair again, but only now and then, because he was always glad to see him back in it, M. J. Fevre said he had all his life been a great partisan of the Russian alliance, because he thought it the most conducive to the balance of power in favour of France. But unfortunately in the pre sent state of the world, that alliance was not now possible, and Poland was the obstacle. He thought it necessary that the Polish question should be settled, and developed his reasons at considerable length. M. Rouber replied, and the amendment was negatived without a division. The last amendment, that relating to Romeoras then hurriedly slurred over after a speech from M. Guizot, only 12 votes being polled in favour of the evacuation. The address was voted by 234 to 12. _ MEXICO. Advicea from Mexico via Savannah state that the battle of Morelia, which occurred ou the 18th, was a decisive French victory. Nearly all the Mexican leaders were killed or made prisoners. No further organised resistance on the part of the Mexicans is expected. Juarez fled secretly without any escort to Monterey. The French bad occupied San Luie. The re ported capture of Orizaba by the Mexicans is not credited. The Maryleboue Cricket Club has already arranged twenty-three matches, and the Surrey twenty-four matches tor next season. The two All.F.ogland elevens meet at Lord's on May 16, and Surrey has m►tched itself against England, and agreed to sink all past differences, and play • home-and-home match with Nottioghamehire. A Middlesex County Club is being enrolled, as well as • Comity Club at Manchester. REPREBENTATION OF DURHAM.-34Y. John Hen denim carpet manufacturer, who has been nominated to succeed the late Sir Willem Atherton in the representation of the city of Durham, issued an address to the electors yesterday afternoon. ROYAL ENOLISH OPERA.—On Monday Mr. Belie. opera, Nanette de Nerere, will once again take pueseseioo of the stage at Covent-garden Theatre—Fan. (hear being withdrawn for a short period. Mr. Maefarren'■ new opera, She Stoops to Conquer—the last important work to be prodeced under the management of Miss Pro and Mr. Harrison—is in active propagation. TEE DANISH QUESTION. The Morning Post, of to-day, says :—" We believe that the governments of Russia, France, and Sweden have signified their willingness to assent to the proposal which has been re cently put forward by the English government for the joint recognition of the integrity of the kingdom of Denmark. The same proposition was also submitted to the two great German powers. We hear that, at Berlin, its acceptance has been made a cabinet question." PRUSSIA. Letters from Berlin state that the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies is definitively decided on, and most persons interpret in that sense the pas sagg of the closing speech in which the government expresses the conviction that it will find in the patriotic sentiments of the country a sufficient and increasing support. In the last elections, the num ber of deputies belonging to the feudal party in creased from 11 to 37. The ministry, it is thought, hopes to see is repetition of the electoral campaign attended with similar results. (aroist's Tumults.) THE DANO-GERMAN DIFFICULTY. MOVEMENT OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS. BRESLAU, JAN. 30. It is stated upon good authority that the directors of the Silesian Railway have received notioe to make arrangements for the further transport of 20,000 Austrian troops. DEPARTURE OF THE DUKE FREDERICK OF AUGUSTENBUItG FROM HOLSTEIN. KIEL, J. Duke Frederick of Aognstenburg left Kiel this morning for Neudorf, in Oldenburg, it is said for a visit of a few days only, at the invitation of Chamberlain Buchwald. EVACUATION OF THE KRONENWERK BY THE DANES. RENDSBERG, a.x. 30. The commander of the Kronenwerk and the Danish battalion have evacuated that fort. The passage of the Austro-Pruseian occupation troops for Sleswig through this town is expected to take place on Sunday. FRANCE. THE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NEW LOAN. PARIS, Jkx. 3D. The official report of the subscriptions to the new loan has been issued. It appears that, 542,061 persons, 134,105 of whom reside in Paris, have subscribed for 219,321,536 fr. of rente. The irreducible subscriptions for (dr. rente amount to 2,409,366 fr. Persons having subscribed for stuns of from lofr. to 120 fr. will have 6fr. rente allotted them. For subscribers for other amounts the allotment will be at the rate of bfr. 21 centimes for every 100 fr. subscribed. The report further states, that the resources which the loan will provide for the Treasury will more than suffice for the public service, and will enable the government, dating from to-day, to to suspend the faculty, granted to subscribers, of paying in advance the instalments of the loan not yet due. The report says, in conclusion : "The eagerness of the country to respond to the appeal is a fresh proof of its confidence in the government of the Emperor, and of the security felt by everybody in the credit of France." The Monifeur of this morning says that the as sertion that the Bank of France had opened nego tiations with the Bank of Vienna for a loan of 50 millions is bullion is completely inaccurate. SANTO DOMINGO. CADIZ, JAN. 29. News received here from Sauto Domiugo an nounces that the steamer Puerto Rico had landed on the island 2,500 Spanish soldiers who had occu pied Barahona, Mitas, and Neiva. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Imperatrice, with the above mails, arrived at Suez on the 22nd inst. The Moeris, which took them from Alexandria, has passed Messina, and is expected at Marseilles to-morrow. Letters from Rome state that Queen Christina has abandoned her intention of taking up her residence in that city ; and the Palace Albania, which ahe had purchased and restored with great magnificence, is now offered for sale. It is understood that in consequence of the Adriatic having sustained damage in the ice while attempt ing to make St. John's, Newfoundland, on the last home ward passage. no mails for America will be despatched from 1 1 Galway on Tuesday next. A. contract which has been negotiated by 3fessrs. Matthew Clark and Sons has been signed by M. le Vicomte Aguado, proprietor of the estate of Chateau Margaux, by which the entire produce of this vineyard is secured for • long term of years to three English houses—namely, J. Aloutt and Co., Booed, Son, and Beckwith, and Trowers and Lawson. Among the leading items of export from New York last year were 15,842.513 bushels of wheat, 7,553.270 bushels of eon, 420,156 bushels of rye, 126,218 bushels of oats. 2,608,52) barrels of Sour, 41.990 burls of beef, 1914.924 barrels of pork, 272,715 gallops of whale oil, 545.11ki gallons of operas oil, 21,141.845 gallon of lard oil, 24.521.00011 a. of bettor, 42,327,1C31r. of cheer, 188,095.0511. of barna 120,102,7001bc of lard. 46,116,50011 n. of tallow. 64,543 hogsheads of tobacco, and 36,C04 cwta of maaufsetered tobacco. The value of these items was 136,000.000 dollar. . . . . ---------- The aggregate steam power of Great Britain is set down at 82,685,214 bone power, or equal to 400,0C),CC0 men. The power of steam makes England, with a popula tion of 20,000,0110, produce wealth representing the labour of a population twenty times that number.—American PaPer. THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN BANTIA(;I). The following particulars of this awful calamity are published an the Panama Star and of the Bth Jan. : Our subject °atomise the mind in this republic—the Fedi. edam of which make men's blood run cold, and the aortal news of which will be received in every part of the world with the utmost , horror. We do not remember to have heard of such a calamity—eo sickening, so awful. The coun try seems to be stricken, and no wonder, under this :Mid judgment of God. All political mitten are suspended for the present—men can think of nothing but this calamity ; for iv Santiago, the capital, scarce a family but mourns mine of its number, having searched in vain for a vestige ri their remains, while whole families have enti , ely perished. Nearly MO animas of burned corpses have bean taken from the awful pile and carried to the cemetery, where fifty men ware too few to dig a hole large enough to bury what the fire left of the richest and best families .f Sandie. Perhaps never in any country has a calanty dire and unmitigated, so sadden and awful, ever happen mil. The newspapers give full accounts, but we must be content , to relate the leading particulars as briefly as possible. It is scarcely known how much influence the priests of the church of Rome exercise amongst the people of these republics ; but for some years put all reason seems to have been banished from the minds of chiefly i the female part of the people of Santiago, and a ; return has gradually been making to a worse than Pagan idolatry in their worship. Since 1857, the year of the in. motion at Rome of the Immaculate Conception of Miry, the church of IA Campania has been the focus of dew). tion of a large number of ladies of Santiago. and every year, from the Bth of November to the 6th of December. was carried on a celebration in the most splendid style, a des. timl, in which wee orchestral music, singing, and an asto. ebbing prodigality. of inane', lights of every kind, &c. Every corner of the building, from the ground to the ail ' ng, and especially about the altar, was a sea of muslin and drapery, flooded with every variety of illumine. tics. But not content with each display, the chief priest lot the church, a man named " 1. - gerte," would outstrip the catholic world, and had in. vented a " Celestial port-office," by which direct commu nication by writing was obtained with the Virgin Marv. and in which offerings accompanying the letters were to be deje. sited. This same man recently got up a religious raffle for the benefit of the Virgin, but it was on the evening of the Bth at December that these celebrations were to reach their climax. The church of La Companis, built in the end of the 17th canary, had a specious nave, bat a roof of painted wood of very recent construction. The only door of easy access was the principal door, the small side doors opening only half, and obstructed with screens ; near the high altar was &small door into the sacristy. This evening was the dosing day of the mouth's celebration—over 3,000 women and a few hundred men had crowded into the church ; Ugarte woe to give • closing discourse ; the Nuncio from Rome " Eizaguirre," was also to preach, and hundreds had turned away from the door tumble to obtain admittance. Those who had the best places bad been admitted early by tickets, and were mostly young ladies, the flower of the beauty and fashion of the capital. Twenty thousand lights in long festoons of coloured globes filled the chinch, with gauze and drapery of every description—pasteboard mummery and figures in every direction ; there could not have been better preparation made for a sudden conflagration than had been prepared for this fatal night. The performances had not yet begun when the crescent of lights; at the foot of the gigantic image of the Virgin over the high altar communicated fire to the drapery overhang. Mg, and to the pasteboard devices, and in an instant a sheet of flame rushed along the festoons of lights to the roof, and in • shorter time than we can write it the fire had spread over the building in all parts. The suddenness of it was awful, and words fail to tell of the horrors that ensued. At ones nearly the whole people rushed to the principal door ; fainting ladies fell down and were trampled on ; the moue at the door who shall deecribe! As jammed, squeezed into one solid lump, the door was blocked by the people—arms were wrenched front bodies which could oot be extricated, and from the lintel to the arch of that awful passage became a crushed heap of mangled bodies. Most of the men escaped by the doors of the sacristy and • few by the side doors ; but inside of the area of the church only • few minutes, elapsed ere the lamps suspended so plentifully from the root poured • rain of liquid fire down on the people below, and in lees than • quarter of an hour over 2,000 persoca, mostly females, were no more than blackened corpses. It must have been awful. The conduct of the priests is simply this, as reported in the Mercurio of Valparaiso : " When the fire broke out and the people were escaping by the sures' ty, they blocked up this door, that they might more undistorbedly save their gimcracks ; after saving these they all sought their own safety, except that one priest favoured the agonising victims with his absolution, and Ugarte requested them to die happy because they went direct to Mary." The news of this event will be received with deep sorrow all over the world, and the people of Santiago may be snored of the sympathy of all who hear of their hitter trial. A private letter says :—" The church was capacious enough to contain, in my opinion, 3,000 women, packed u they are in these countries, sitting and kneeling on the floor on their own hand carpets, which each lady carries with , her. Besides those who could accommodate themselves in. side (for which purpose many took their seats outside the church three hours before the doors were opened), nearly 500 wore left outside, sitting on the steps of the church *ear the doom, and just close enough to hear the music or catch a few stray words from the preacher. Unfortunately the lamps were not fed with oil, but with camphicie, or es it is called here, "gas portatil." The principal image of the Virgin, in the centre of the altar, was supported by a fine half-moon or crescent of brilliant lamps. On lighting these an accident took place (the details are not known or well investigated). About a third of the congregation, it appears, managed to run oat and escape, but the rest of the imams fell upon each other at the very doors, and, instead of opening a peerage to let others escape, formed • complete wedge, and the bodies remained locked together in rows one upon the other ; these masses becoming every moment higher and more connect, and none being able to extricate herself. as she was fastened or caught hold of by • dozen hands behind her. All was confutes and alum, the bystanders tearing their hair and running about wild in the streets without being able to afford the least assistance. A man on horseback, • country quay), threw his hue (or rope of hide, which they always carry attached to the saddle) into the church, and • thousand heads triad to catch hold of it. Some did seine it, and were dragged out by the man and the strength of the horse ; but the second time the same attempt was made the into pre way. A few moments afterward' the bystanders saw the women inside io flamer. Their dollies had caught fire ; the fire had reached their heads, and their hair was on fire. A great fitme came across the church ; the doors and other wooden parts took fire. The sufferers dropped down their beads and arms without a shriek, and all was silence. The church was a furnace. above and below—the roof and the victims underneath. FATAL AL`EiDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN Never was there such a spectacle, nor do I think history RAILWAT.— (THIS DAr.)—This morning, William Owen, a esa pregeut a p a relleL When I reached the spot all the in• porter in the employ of the Greve Northern Railway. is. fierier of the church was • red flame. I only heard the siding at 9.1, Caledoeisu-road, expired in the Royal Free H osp it a l, o re ,r e 4 ee , e d, !yet sight the dereoeed wee cries sad wailing of the people in the square and streets ; employed at the King's-cross railway station, and on th e the running about of wild men, and the crash of the dome arrival of the express train bet seen 9 sod 10 o'clock, he ran I falling in the midst of the ruins. A few mientes after• to open the doors of she carriages, the train bei lig still in motion. wards the tower or spire, also of wood, caught fire, and in s By some means lit is suspected that he missed his hold) he fell I • quarter of an hour was costumed and fell into the church. o° the rails, and several of the wheel s of the went over his legs. m e wee pi c k e d up and teherro E i ß ov a There is hardly a family in Santiago that does not mourn Free Hospital, and was seen by Mr. J. D. Hill, the resident the loss of some near relative. Two thousand victitni medical officer. The injured man was in a state of sacrificed in • quarter of en hour, in • small enclosure ul collapse from loos of blood and shook to the system. The I e ., d . by 30 flesh from the left leg was tors up to the middle of ' the thigb, and the bone wail smashed all to pieces. I One et the local P a t en. , te r, Hel p wee , all bat .n " The right leg was also is a very bad state, the flesh ! Possible. A Hercules might neve "famed Die elresn th being tore away up to the middle )(the leg, and the bone in vain to mill one from the serried mass of frenzied also smashed. It was considered "MOM to perform am. I wretches who, piled one above another as they climbed pntatios of both legs, and this operation was performed ' over to reach the air ' wildly fastened the gripe of death by Mr. De Hark, &misted by Mr. J. D. Hill. N o twithstanding all th a t was d o . th e p oor man apoo anyone escaping, in order that they might be dragge d expired at an early hour this morning. The =forte. out with them. Those who longed to save them were nets man was represented as • strong man, and has left a doomed to beer the most harrowing sight that ever seared mile, led it is stated a famil y. te lament untimel y Ime. human eyeballs. To see motbers,siders— tenderaud timid me Information of the sad event has been forwarded to Dr. , men dying that dreadful death that appals the stoutest heart Lankester, the commie for the district Dman'S-RAIL —UPWARDS of man—within oar yard of salvation — within one yard of m en. Or £l.O itrenvi FIRE AT POTTSJA 00 DAVAO& —This morning, at • gutter past three, who wouldhave gives their livesover and over son kr the , • fire broke out at the residence of Horatio Keats* Esq., ' —it was maddeeing ; the screaming and wringing of hand' elekmorslodge, Potter's-bar. The fire broke oat in OM of for h e lp as th e minoreenge Gamed came on — a nd thee - - the new rooms. The house has for some time been under. , save when seine already dead with fright were burnt a going repair, and the family are staying in tows ; the coachman and hie wife being the only persons left to take ghastly haliffereses — their horrible agony—some in Prs! , ' care of the place. The ermines from Barest and from —some Maria( their hair mad battering their faces. Women another asigithouriag village Wooded, but all their efforts seized is the embrace of the flames were sew to 'min: , Proved unavailing, for the house was completely gutted and a transformation es though by an optical dolman, the contents destroyed. The coachman and his wife had a dazzlingly bright, then horribly lean and shrunk up, then very narrow elleef4l. The cum of the fire is net at present precisely amertained, but it is stated that the damage fart black statues rigidly fixed in a writhiog attitude. Th.' exceeds 1,0004. fire, imprisoned by the immense thickness of the walls, 113.! This afternoon the Count de Niewerkerke was mobbed by a crowd of students of the Ecole de Beaux Arts, who are dissatisfied with the new regu lations. It is said that as many as thirty young men are arrested. _ _ Captain Rolin, one of the Emperor's aides-de camp, the son of General Rolin, Adjutant-General of the Tuileries, was thrown from his horse in the Champs Elys4es on Wednesday, and unfortunately broke his thigh. He was carried to the Tuileries, where he now lies under surgical care. The case is said to be going on favourably. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAs. 30. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Para, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived at her anchorage off Netley Hospital. She brings 49 passengers, two packages of spec* value not stated, six packages of valuables, and 1,834 packages cargo, of which 1,559 packages are bates of raw silk, moue 130,000/. sterling. The Pera spoke the following ships during her home ward passage:—Oa the 19th Mat, the Vectia with the outward Marseilles mailer of the 11th January ; on the 22nd, the Syria with the outward mails from Southampton of the 12th January, and the 'crew steamer Arcadia, standing S.E. ; and on the 26th January, the Ripon with the outward mails from Southampton of the 20th January. The Para experienced fine bright weather, with light, variable winds, during the voyage from Alexandria to Finis terra. N.W. across the Bay, and N.E. winds up Chantal. Her Majesty's ships Racoon and Psyche, and the French frigate Perdrix, were at Alexandria. At Malta, her Ma jesty's ships Marlborough, Trafalgar. Phrebe, Resistance, Cossack, Hydra, Firefly, Growler, Hibernia ; and at Gibral- tar, the Magicienne and Procria. Gibraltar, Jan. 25. The following British vends have affixed here—on the 22nd, the steamer Meeeroa. 14 days from Glasgow ; on the 23rd, the steamer Asia, 12 days from London ; the steamer Amazon, 8 days from London ; the barque Evelope, 20 days from Milford ; the steamer Alexandra, 8 days from London ; and on the 24th the schooner Sarah, 18 days from Swansea ; the brig Village Belle, 17 days from Garda! ; and the steamer Syrian, 74 days from LiverpooL Exchanges are gaoled on London, 90 days, 50i ; Peri., 5.27 ; Mareenles, 5.28 ; Genoa, 5.72 ; Madrid, eight days sight, I pm. ; Seville, par to die. ; Almeirs, par ; Alicante, par. Freights unchanged. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATURDAY, JAIMARY 30, 8 L. B. :LI Nairn • Leith Greancatla Galway Valenti& Cape Clear Qaeenstowu Pembroke Brett MINA Rochefort Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth Leaden Dover Yarmouth ffhlekla 29.92'40; 1 ..re 96 45 2 30.03.48 2 , 1005 46 1 110.08 434 1 00.1943 2 1 30 30.20 47, 0 30.1047 1 20.11 52 1 30.12 311 2 .24'45 0 F30 . .3914e! 0.4414 e, 1 ::~is~ , 6.45ir. , .• 1 30.33 341 0 30.40 44; 2 30 51 , 41 1 . 30.62 301 93.61:34 2 30.3,17 1 30.51 XL 1 30.22 33' 2 30.1c 1 39 . 10.58 E.B.E. S.S.W. B.W. B.W. - Pi: W.S.W. W.N.W. S.W. i B.L 8.8. L II 8.8. W. 8.8. K. S.S.E. S S. W. S.W. I i 6 3 3 3 2 4 2 6 6 e 3 3 . 3 8.9,& ' PROBABLI SCNT AT. 0a h 01121111131 KOWDAT. S.E. to &W., fresh, Connie. &W. to aL, trash. some rata or snow. with some rain or STOW. W. to N. and heck Waging. NW. to aW. .nand ft.lL, moderate moderate trong, to fresh, with some some rain. rani. E. to a. and R.W., 80171111111. &K. to W., moderate to moderate, to fresh, strong. generally non S.E. to W., trash, to zasrlas. moderate, fine. 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