The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-23 00:00:00

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Never did his lordship appear to more advantage than in addressing to the labourers of his neighbourhood thou wise, kind, and strengthening words which ws reported yesterday, Without either a display of condsscsnsiou or an aficetat'on of equality, be tack his natural place among his hearers, and spoke with a genuine sym pathy of man with man which is not antagonistic to social ineqaalities because it is far above them, and covers them all. Without national vanity, we may Call this a truly English scene. The occasion of Lord PA IM LISTON'S speech was • distribution of prizes offered by the Hammy Labourer.' Encouragement Association—prizes to thatcher., drillmeo, ploughmen; prizes for cultivat ing gardens, fur keeping cottages neat, and for long service in families. We do not feel called on to decode the general subject of rewards of this kind conferred by the class which employs the labourer. Doubtless the only true "Encouregrment Association" for the worthy labourer is the free labour market, and his true prim the highest wages his labour will command there. The day will come when men will no more think of decorating a ploughman for driving a straight furrow than they do now of giving a prize to • carpenter for tasking • good pearl But while we urge on that day by all imam, it is not wise to deprecate any institution by which the trans itional state of the labourer is at all improved. In the early days of labourers' encouragement societies there was no doubt • disposition sometimes mani fested to substitute • show of humanity for the reality of justice. But it was certain that the absurdity of giving prizes to the man you starved, the hypocrisy of rewarding men for forbearing just claims upon you, could not be long maintained in open day. It would of course have bees better if the (heeds of the l►bouring man had set themselves to reeve, him from the arti ficial and injurious economical position in which he is placed by the law of settlement and concurrent MINN thus founding hie prosperity on its true basis, his own independent exertions, instead of the good feeling of the employers of his immediate neigh bourhood. But there societies have moat beim& cially drawn 'Dilution to the labourer's condition, and led to the study and diffusion of truer views as that subject among the employers of agricaltural labour, and are thus preparing the way for their own extinction. It cannot be said that Lord Pate M ERSTON either humoured the prejudices of the farmers or flattered their men on Wed. needay. He encouraged the labourer to self respect, reminded him of the importance of his function in society, bade him vslus the good opinion of his neighbours, but admonished him to set a still higher value on the approving witness of his own commerce*. The interpo:alion of a few earnest words of sound advice about the bringing up of children in the principles of morality and religion was the wise improvement of a valuable opportm oily, and would not be the worse received became the speaker is cot always in a lugubrious vets. 11 e wish it were equally certain that then who have mat to learn from it would lay to heart Lord PA LNERITON'iI decimation of hie long and large experieace en another *object. After ackeowledgiag • personal compliment, referring to their meeting that day, time noble lord said : —•• The fabric of society is cos " stmeird by an infinite gradation of retake and con. o dittoes ; and those who are separated hem cash •• other, and tiny* not often an occasion of wiestimg, •• when the opportunities do occur should meet is •' order that they may reciprocally understand each other. lam mere that all tames of Englishmen, if THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, BM. " they do uriseisai each other, will vale* sad love " each other. lam set led away by any national " vanity la that opinion, but I have that conviction " with regard to the character of my country that 1 ma " sore the oftener the different chime el society " meet together the more the whole fabric of society " will be cemented, the stronger the nation will be ; and the more each clam wi'.l look to the other " without jealousy, without suspicion, without en mity, with a conviction that there are no ants ,' gosistic interests, but that the interests of all are bound up in one general aggregate which forms " the interests of the country at large." We have no desire to give these words an exclusive or in vidious application, and least of all would we choose this season for doing so. They were not spoken without thought, and we hope they will not have been spoken in vain. At the meeting of farmers and gentry which fol lowed the distribution of prices, the important ques tion of the lodging of the labouring classes was discussed, rather from the landlord's point of view (that of a wise and liberal landlord, however) thea with reference to those difficulties which Lard Pat - nehrrom will have to deal with should he ever legislate with reference to the subject. His lord ship mys he has been told that conveniest cottages for labourers cannot be built to pay. But he very properly replies that the return for the outlay on such buildings mast be sought, not from their specific rent, but in the general rent of the farm on which their occupants work. " The cottage for the labourer ought to be looked upon as a part of the ■ appurtenances of a farm, jest as much as the " buildings for cattle, or any of those other erections essential to the cultivation of the land. How can " the land be well cultivated if the labourers are not " well housed ? If they are obliged to trudge three * or four miles in order to get at their work, and the " same distance home again, it is manifest that they " must be not only exhausted physically, but that " their time must be wasted in walking to and from their work, and that the farmer does not get from " them the money's worth for the wages he pays. Tharalleria I staakhw that in providing a farm with _ _ for the lumber of labourers to "be employed on it you are giving facilities ▪to the tenant to cultivate him farm, sad ▪ increasing the value of the farm which you • iet to a good tenant." This is often= sense. Still there will always be, and it is for the advantage ef employers that there should be, a considerable quantity of what we take leave to call mobilised labour. The men without who's aid the farmer wield not get through August aro, perhaps, in Sep tember, at work at a grand-pit, and in October get- ting Ironstone. Their work, w►atever its knit, always lies on the land, from which, however, they an excluded as residents, lest they should gain a settlement and some day fall a burden upon the pariah rani. This evil, directly traceable to the =Wag Poor Law, will at be extirpated until that law is modified by *stadia; the ant of its local swede& _ Irbe eon. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 12. Tbwe was no addition to the royal dinner party ltbutoThe Censor; with the Primo et Wales, Primo Asslses, ?viscous Alice, Prince= Helms, sal Primes Lodes, 'hated on the toe In the Ileneoperk this iterstee. The geadmusas in wattles wen Is setstelseee. The Qom was meat, sitentimil by Ledy Modes&ld sad the Hes. Kerala theydoed. Tb. Due de Ni...,., with the Comte d'Eu and the Der d'Alsopme, whited hee Itejesey. The ereeeneeary royal boost, ..d pis alto went brad en Friday end Saturday lam, and 'Okuda, and Twig in the serteat week to the aged and moritueliens pea Is the warless &Mena art paddler in and need Lersdan, si the Abereiry. Moe, in Soodand-ysid, Widnehall, anihe the ads el the Bishop et Oxford, Lod Mil Almoner, and all Pin. De. Sub-Shnoser, by Joseph Hanby, Esq., floareterry sad Yeoman at her blaleety's sloonzy in ordinary. A deputation from the Peace Society, on the nabjact of our present relations with Chins, bed so interview with Lord John Russell at the Foreign-office yeetorday. The deputation condetad of Dr. Hodgkin, Mr. William Janson, Mr. Robert Cherleton (Bristol), Ray. Georg. Roes, Mr. Waltman Allea, R. J. H. Wilson, Mr. John Jones, Mr. William Holmes, Mr. Ravened Fry, Mr. Richard Barrett, Mr. W. E. Career Rev. Henry Richards, Mr. Alexander Brockerty, Raw. De. Berns, Mr. Joseph Cooper, and Mr. H. Black, ♦ deputation Lola tie Protestant Alliance, ocindepting ef Mr. T. Chambers, Hon. Captain F. Maude, Col. Crawford, sad Helier. D. Cooper (Bristol), Mr. Badenock (Edinburgh), Colonel Levi., Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, Mr. J. Macgregor, Mr. C. Bird, Rev. J. P. Battery, Mr. P. Cater (Beckenham), Major Giberne. Rev. J. Brock, Dr. Bernard, Nov. A. Townsend (Both), Mr. R. N. Fowler, sad Mr. J. Pariah, had an inters iew with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, at the office of the Poor-law Based. Whitehall, yesterdsy. Their Barame Iliglinsimas the Prices and Prinem Edward of Our Wallow are staying at Goodwood on a vidt to the Duke end Deem a Richmond. The Dachas Hamilton arrived in Paris a few days since Erma Oarmaay. The noble duke Is la Soothed. The Duke of Newcastle and Lord Robert and Lady lame Pelham Chutes ham left town for Clamber Park, when hi. grace intends to romive mammy. The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshiro hare salved at itillaborough Castle, Camay Down, from a tear of visite The Marchioness of Sligo and the Ladies finowns ass passing the warm at Westport House, Comity Mayo, This Earl of Lincoln has left town for Paris. Viecoant and Viscountess Barrington arrived at Boohoo House a few days dada from a tour or visits. Laid Itavenrcorth ie entertaining s select circle at Ravemsworth Castle, Durban'. . _ The Dake of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Caven dish I. Chatsworth •kw days wince to, Holbw Hall, wea.a•nd, where they will pass the ChzW.w•s holiday,. Hie Eseellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland vas to t 0,,, Kingstown yesterday noratar, by @pedal akamer, at a quarter before raise o'clock, for Holyhead, *a earls to Trentham. Staffordshire, w►ere be imposes epee& les Clirishrs with Ilk noble ramie's, the Duke sad Duthie, el tathrrimad. The Stamford Mercury has authority to state that Cloths &oily, Erg., of Eighingtoc, will be • eaadklet• tor the rapssestatioa at Liman la parliazosat at tie rat asoural aitotisa. It i. Matra last G. P. Hama" Isq., will aids mask Ur names et the alsaims, but %at Mr. J. H. Parrs probably sot win Gar lam mg The I) do Nemours, the Prince de Joioville, and the Des (numbs left Iddiabargh on Tuesday emeley foe Leedom We understand (rays the Idle/tory* Quiet that the object of their visit to this city was to leaped per oer principal educstionel institutions, with a view to *mg temporarily at one of thaw mom of the jukw tim bres of Mee !elective families. This inepeolgen *Weeded over enteral days, sad yr very fully end oszefel)y rented eeit, bet we believe that no definite arrangements have yet has. rids. Mr Duke and I)acbeoa of Brabant gave a grand siadoal .air* M Um Paleoe et Brtueele two entalage ago. Plan am In mad of Invitation ewe Lamed. In addition sea Eribbas of the royal bou.et.old, there wets present NM at•iwwe sad amber. of the diplomatic body, a somber of andion ad eration, the civil and military satbarhiss M the cfty, ite. Next Sunday is Christmas-day. " We should systhe Time*, " est sot Mimosas Oilmen soon tiookrboly sio bow thas shs iN oposilot " motion's" of do Pris ms Uri hod beso IN ad of wombs/sea pd, skims/ to nom to sktir honk& If evor tins was • son Ise sismoey, this Is am; t sear tkmo woo • one la tokkli oborkry V soma paisy, thls Yeas; twee the..,.. • son be übeth mood policy sad jeatios en Isiarrinagosbh WWI. this k oat." INDIA. Bombay journals of the 26th ult. have been re ceived this morning. The Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief left Cawnpore oa the morning of the 6th and arrived at Fattehghtir on the 12th. They encamped at the Luck peers Bagh and immediately held a station levee. The &mbar was held next day, and was attended by a large number of native chiefs. Lord Canning's camp is expected to be at Delhi about Christmas. The Owle Gazette has heard, with reference to the grand durbar at Looknow, that " a list of the ' recusant talookdars and city nobles' has been pre pared, and that no less than sixty odd names are enrolled upon it! Each of these worthies has been called upon to account satisfactorily for his absence from the viceroy's ditcher, after being summoned, and some thirty-five or forty of them after having obtained admission tickets from the secretary." The Bombay Times is informed, " upon good an thority,:that the share to betaken by this presidency in the expedition to China will consist in furnishing two Queen's regiments to its strength in the coming spring. A powerful force of artillery is to leave England early in the year for Egypt; the transport of which from Suez will be entrusted, we are told, to the Indian navy. We believe that this artillery force will consist of close upon 1,000 men." The receipt of the despatches from the home government regarding the enlistment of the dis charged soldiers for service in Chins wee fol lowed by a general order, in which the Governor- General stated that he had "received authority from her Majesty's government to grant the boon of two years' service to those men of the local army who had not taken their discharge under the general order No. 883 of the 20th of June last," and that his Excellency has also received authority to permit " such men as have taken their discharge, and are not compromised by part taken in any act of insubordination connected with the question of discharge, to enlist for service in China in any of her Majesty's regiments of the line, or her Majesty's artillery or marines, which may be now in China, or proceeding thither; soldiers so en listing will receive a bounty of fifty rupees, upon the condition that they enlist for ten years' service." The Bombay Times has been told— A very imporisat change is about to take place in the con stitatka of the executive comet of the Viceroy, which is to be modelled somewhat after the fashion of her Majesty's cableet. The members of council will become secretaries of state, and, as each, resposalble for the conduct of all matters in their several &preemie, The mom secretaries will become abdomen:coteries we presume ; sad should this im portant change really trisect 's, we augur the happiest re sult* them/row The alasrares of the council board will no loupe rustle a steadlag offence to grisvinoe-mongers ; mad, walk !Waal reepoessitilltise devolving upon each amber of the SOIROSIMIIat, we shall have the best guarantee of ideal depertmental conduct. We are told that the new ladies ablaut will stand as follows : PILIBIDEIT LND 81CAZTA POlt POLITICAL AFFAIR/ —Lord Cassleg. _ _ Hon. Isituranr—Sh Bartle Free. EIRCIMILIIT AT Walt—tlir JUDOS OIMPOOI. MINUTIA or lIIIMICI—Right Hon. James WilBoo. The power of ophdon will give India a good government yet We me ideo sawed that the admission of nou-Ndelal members to the Legielative Council has bac decided upon. In Central India, it is feared that it will be neces sary to carry on the war in the jungle. A body of rebels, under the notorious Bhagojee Naik, lately found their way to a village about twelve miles from Novick. About 100 of the Ahmednuggur and Mes sick police, led by Mr. Boater, went after them, and succeeded in c►pturing the leader, who was hanged on the spot when he killed Captain Henry a year ego, and in killing another chief and 61 men. Minor insurrections are going forward in other parts of India. The hill tribes in the Dewitt are giving some trouble, and a party of Rohillas have been creating disturbance's near Hingolee. Troops were sent after them, and they were surprised in a ravine a few miles from the cantonment of Hingolee. Fifteen of them were killed, including their leader, the Itohilla Jemadar Shereef Khan. The Rohillss have also advanced on some villages near Hydera. bad, and we fear that their movements will not be checked without considerable bloodshed. Of the state of the rebel army in Nepanl the rumours are perfectly contradictory—it is now said that the Nana intends to maintain his position— then that he intends to retreat. One report is that he is dead, another that there was a con saltation in his camp, and that the several leaders agreed to unite their forces and place them under his orders. Side by side with these reports ars details of the dispersion of the Nana's followers in all directions, and the miserable plight to which they are reduced for want of food and clothing. " One thing is certain," says the Bombay Gazette, "that our troops have taken the field against the rebels ; the 64th Queen's have pro ceeded to the Goruckpow frontier, and one or two engagements have already taken place, in which u usual the rebels retired, betaking themselves to jangles and oat-of-th•-way places. It is now stated that Jung Bahadoor is going to assist us in expelling ' the rebels from his territories. About eight or ten thousand Ooorkha troops with forty guns have already marched down the hills, and Jung will join the army at Bootwal. If this be the care, the dis_ comiiture of the rebels will be • quick and easy work." The following is a summary of the commercial intelligence: GOTWIRINT SECURITIES teal might after. Firm have fallen to 88i, and Fire-end-a-HaU to 94i. Fours remain at 75 per cent. Elena:lo2.-4n ooaseq•enos of a better supply of China drawn paper, the tendency Ms been gradually upward. First-clam bills have sdriuseed to 2a. lid. to 25.1 3-16 d, Documents are selling at 2.1. lid. to 2a. lid. per rupee. FREIGHTS.—A slightly war feeling Ms prevailed, the tonnage on the berth for Liverpool being large. From 16e. to 17s. 61. is now generally taken, though • few engage mats are made at 20e. The list rate is current for London, sod for Chins is. 10 to 11 may be quoted, the demand for that quarter hernia somewhat fallen off. The Bombay Oasette reports that the British array in the presidency Is Is ea excellent state of health. The latest ?stomata a ooesideratle diminution of himpltal ewes. It is also utisfactory to find that the government Is giving attention to the eatabliehmeat of barracks in the hill restarts of Norther India. "The Girlies of our soldiers have been long nocared for—have been left to straggle no_ assisted with the necessities of their position in this country. We are now raising asylums fur them on elevated bill stations, and establishing schools kw the education of their ladder." The Delhi Gazette nye that " the Ban Raja is going to Wu Christian and marry the daughter clone of the esoUon writen of the government secretariat. Tee Nejah of Koopoorthtilla set the example by marrying a young Chrietian lady, and it metes others are going to fol low it." BITTEN BY A SNAKE.—We are sorry to learn that Mr. D. Tamar of the P. sod O. Co.'. B,rvice, was bitty. by a ornasnoss snake the other evening, at his reel dr•es, Cklnchpoogly. The unfortunate !Rothman, while walking to the tompound of his home, trod co the snake, which hit him to the roll of the leg. Imusdiately after wards Mr. Tamer hilt a dirsinava cowing over hum, and be Waned. Fartunately • Mr. Davie, who is residing with IWO, had the presence of wind to maks an incision, and to soot the poison oat of the wound. We are glad to stet. that Mr. Tamer Is yammering, slitioturh very slowly, his leg laving swollen to maim:mows eve.—Boniey tlesitte. All tee Belgian journals agree is stater g that cold so fulmars at the pretest has not lam hit in that country fur several years. Navigation on the canals barn Mopped sveryalasts. EXPRESS PROM PARIS. (110 N OVA OWN PARIS. TEVIIIDAT EVIIIIIIII. The Emperor's new pamphlet—for it is mere affectation to say that he is not the author or the prompter of "Le Paps et le Cmigro.4"—wu not published till four this afternoon. A crowd was round Dentu's office all day, expecting to get it sooner. The work will make a tremendous sensa tion, and will cause a great outcry from the church Party. A second hostile meeting took place yesterday, at noon, between the Marquis de Galiffet and Count de Laariston. As on the former occasion, the com batants fought with swords. Both being perfect masters of their weapon, nearly half an hour pawed over before either party could succeed in wounding his adversary. At list, the count's sword entered the marquis's hip, inflicting a wound near the bone, bat not of any gravity. The monde then interfered, declaring that honour was fully ' satisfied. The two opponents shook hands, and the affair terminated. The temperature in Paris has undergone, within the space of lour-and-twenty hours, a most extra ordinary change, the frost having completely dis appeared, and a thaw of almost unexampled rapi dity having made an immense progress. M. de Lenardidre, member of the Legislative Body for the Dent-Sivres, has just died suddenly in Paris. He bad passed part of the day at hi s club, playing backgammon with Marshal Baragnay d'Hilliers, and when the hour for dinner arrived he expressed a wish to dine there. Having been in formed that the number of places reserved were filled ap, he went to a restaurant is the neighbour hood, and had just taken his seat when he fell from his chair and expired. The fourth and last concert of Sivori went off last night with much applause. The violinist quits us in a few days for London, where he gives a oon osrt at the commencement of the ensuing month. He afterwards proceeds on a professional tour, dar ing which he intends to visit the principal towns of Ragland, Scotland, and Ireland. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, FZIDAT. publiahee as anis* deed by its principal editor, M. Grandgaillot, approving in general the contents of the pamphlet " I,a Pape et le Coogres," declaring, however, a resolve to combat some of the propositions made by the author. MEETING OF THE CONGRESS POSTPONED. The French cabinet has, by telegraph, informed the powers concerned that the opening of the con gress will not take place before the 19th January The report that the Pope bad claimed the Pre sidency of the Congress for his Plenipotentiary is unfounded. Prince Gortschakoff has expressed a desire that the opening of the Congress should not take place until after the Russian new year (January 13, 1864 as be is detained at the court on that day by the duties of his office. Count Avigdor, representative of the republic of San Marino at the court of Paris, has presented a memorandum to Count Wolewski, addressed to the future Congress, against the encroachments of Piedmont. SARDINIA. The Indipendente of Turin announoes as official the nomination of the Count de Cavour as first plenipotentiary for Sardinia at the coagmes. " The Ring," says that journal, " has called the count to this high post, and the latter accepts it with the feelings of devotedness which he has always shown for the King and the national coase." The Opinions of Turin of the 19th sates that a Venetian committee has been formed at Tarim. Among the names we find that of Commander Tema* who was Royal Commissioner at Ives dar ing the late war. CENTRAL ITALY. M. Stioncompagni arrived at Flames on Wed needay. The Tuscan government issued a manifesto to the Tuscans of the lath, announcing that four days after " the Governor• General of the League of the Independent States of Italy, appointed by the anguat Prince of Savoy," would arrive at Florence, in order to give them addi tional strength. The document concludes with recommending the Tuscans to persevere, until their union with Sardinia be acknowledged. "Let us mints," it says, " him who possesses the confidence of the King, of Prince Eugene, and our own. With this concord and confidence, let us progress with mane towards the goal which is reserved for con stant and united people." NAPLES. NAPLES, TIItIiDLY. The onnmander Carafe not being Minister of fftata, but only ad interim Minister for Foreign Affairs, the King has definitively appointed the Marquis &Antonini u his first, and the Chevalier Canofari as his second plenipotentiary at the congress. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. MADRID, Daa. 21. Yesterday 8,000 Moors attacked the ipanish, but were energetically repulsed, and compelled by grape shot and grenades to retreat in great disorder. The Spanish had 61 wounded. Ten men-of-war, formerly stationed at Mayan nah, have just arrived to reinforce the squadron at Algesiras. A great quantity of provisions has been de spatched to the army in Africa. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec, 20. Ahmed Wetik Effendi haa been appointed Amber 'odor to the Imperial Court of Park. UNITED STATES AND CANADA. The Atlantic Royal Mall Steam Navigation Com• pany have noshed the following telegram . GALWAY, Dic. 22. The Circassian, steamer, arrived at 1 p.m. from New York and St. John's, Newfoundland, with 225 pas sengers, 20,000 bushels of wheat, and a large quan tity of general cargo, besides heavy mails. She brings dates from St. John's of the 14th, but owing to the telegraphic wires not being in order her New York advioee are of the 9th, viz., her date of sailing. She brings the master and crew of the Moffatt, for Liverpool, timber laden, which vessel she met dis abled 300 miles from St. John's. She experienced very heavy gales from N.W. at the commencement of her voyage ; latter part fine weather, N. Burrark, Dec. B.—Floor in fair demand. Wheat steady, with moderate inquiry. Oats firm. CHICAOO, DEC. B.—Flour firm. Wheat steady at an advanos of lh cent. Sales at 97 cents. Corn and oats firm. Oaweoo, Dec. B.—Floor dull ; salsa small. PHILADILPHIA, Dec. B.—Floor quiet, at 5 dole. 26 cents to 6 dole. 37i cents. Wheat miss : 7,000 bushels, at 1 dol. 37 cent, to 1 dol. 43 cents for white; 1 dol. 30 mate to 1 dol. 32 omits for red. Corn sass : 6,000 bushels, at 73 cents for new yellow. Oats bettor sale, at 43 to 44 cents. _ Sava nran, Dec. B. — Patton market depressed. Sales this day 805 bales ;sales of week 10,000 bales ; stock in port 180,000 bales. CHARLieron, Dix. B.—Cotton sales this day 2,000 belle ; for week, 19,000 bales, at g cent. de cline; good middling, 101 to 10f. Tommie, DEC. B.—Floor and wheat doll, and 8 anti lower ; oats quiet, at 37 to 39 cents ; pork quiet, at 8 dole. to 8 dais. DO cents. Count Caromr has returned to Turin from Leri. A Munich letter announces that the King of Bands hoe jest appointed Baron Lfebig president of the •eadssy of Sciences, is place of the venentble Y. Tinsels, who reigned the office on account of his gnat age. The horsed be... has jost addressed a bug letter to Mr. Meek! ce the sallied destine. The performaotte at the Tbei,tre Royal de It Mon aca, as Drimaela wee suddenly interrupted two nights beck by the discovery of • lira under the floor of • box on the third tier. The •adieaae inineediately evacuated , he theatre, and the firemen anceewied in extinguishing the Lamm before any damage of importance was dose. The arcideat wae unwed by the over-hated pipe of • caloriiere setting fire to the joists near which it rae. A letter from Hamburg states that in consequence of the sowers frost all the steamers between 1114 city and the sert►sra emantries have been laid up. Two Oars who arrive et Hawablarg for the North are obliged to proceed by land via Dimmark. A Charleroi letter, in the Inapendance of Brut seas, re yr a French engioser, sent by the Franca Minister of Marine, ham pared meets' deys in our coal Yds fur the purpose of 14110iillf specimens of coal. which tis despoiled to Cherbourg. Brest, sod Fecerrip, whre their qualities for the use of steam vessels will be tented. The engineer hold out the hope that the quality et enr coals would probably procure our ranee the profaner* kr • very mummies coutiect." PARMA AND MODENA. An order of the day by M. Fanti, the general-in chief, dated Dec. 12, from headquarters at Modena, enjoins as follows: The princdpal headquarters of the army will be established at Bologna. The territory will be partitioned into two military dirt ekes, one containing the provinces of Modena and Parma, tits ether the Romagna. The command of the former will develye nem Lieutseant.General II rump°, who is to re side et Modena, and that of the latter on Lieutenant-Oen/ea Roselli, who will take up his abode at Bologna. Subject to thew di chiefs there are to be commandants of the fronhirs : the e, scone the part of the Adriatic wag that between Greg sad Tavalle, will be oememaded by MaJor-Cienersl Moat. who will kayo nadir his alms the beige in portion at Rimini end thole sow lib formlag the division doing duty on the imam of the The commend el the Adriatic coast between the Po and Carrie, Including the fortress of Como*le, will devolve on Brigadier Cosine, havieg andw his orders the troops ste amed at Be resna, Comacchio, end ell along this line. The comma of the frontier of the Po between the Com tato and Panaro will be bald by Major-Oeneral Idoreadi, having wader his orders the troop itationed at Idirendola, Corphi, end other please along this line. The part of the Po situate between the Blademimo end the as is to be pieced under the oownitand of the military go vernor of Ferrara, subject to aeon orders from Bologna. The eleventh Italian division remains under the olden of Major- General Stafenelli, the commandant of this division. Brigadier-Colonel Plnelli, besides his command of the brigade, will take the military command of Penns and its =her, subject to the superior orders of Lieutenant blezzacapo, who commands the Modenew end Per mem division. The Weider of War of the United Provisoes of Parma, Nothwa, tied the Rol:woes will take up his residence et Solops. PORTUGAL. (71011 0131 OWN LISBON, Bac. 17. It is said that the government has ceded the con cession of the South Eastern Railway from Venda' Novas to Evora and Reja to an English company, among the members of which are Mr. Charles Ed ward Mangles, Mr. John Chapman, Mr. R. R. Nott man, and Mr. G. B. Townsend. This line of railway, it fully developed, must soon become of importance, inasmuch as it traverses the great agricultural and mineral province of Portugal. I believe that Mr. Rardy Hislop, who was the concessionaire of the lint railway in Portugal, has been the agent in the present contract. A very mysterious and fearful occurrence is now before the Lisbon public. A few nights sines the patrol on going the rounds discovered, in a lane near the unfinished palace of the Ajada, a box, tied with cord, acne • dead wall. One of the guards on examining the box found that blood was oozing from the bottom, and that it emitted a foul smell. In formation was given at once to the authorities, and when they came the box was broken open. The body of a girl, about twenty-two years of age, was found in it. She was packed tightly in the box, her knees being drawn up to her head ; across her throat was a deep gash, around which was wrapped a cloth ; her linen was of fine quality, and her hands and teeth gave evidence that she belonged to at least the middle-class of society. Medical evidence has established the purity of the deceased girl, as well that the body must have been dead some 15 days. As yet nothing has been found by the police authorities leadieg to the identification of the murdered person, although every inquiry and search has been made, and it is feared that the atrocious crime which has undoubtedly been committed may remain among those mysteries from which the veil has never been withdrawn. The ring has recovered from his recent inane, and is now able to attend to bobbies'. The weather has lately been very oold, and in the 1 suburb' there has been a coating of ice on the tanks and ponds, a thing of very rare occurrence. Sir Arthur Charles Magenis, K.C.8., the new I minister, who arrived in the last packet, has been presented at court by Mr. Howard, who takes hie departure by the Sultan. Mr. Howard carries with him the good wishes of all parties here, having in his social sphere won the affections of a very numerous circle of friends by his unvarying polite ness and manifest kindness of heart. Apartments are taken at the Braganca Hotel for the Duke of Northumberland and his suite, who are eriptatod soon to arrive heni, the duke intending to perms winter in Lisbon for the benefit of his heal THE PRIINSULAR MOILB.—The Sultan arrived at Seathareptaa yesterday, with the Peninsular ensile. She left Liebou oa the Ink, end 'No ea the 19th toot. Amongst the pareugere was Mr. Howard, our late aloha.r at the Portuguese court. Amongst the *sego of the Sultan won specie to the value of 3.6301. The screerathether Leda visa at Vigo on the 19th t nu her way from Oporto to Ragland, harieg lost a uuaber of cattle 1n a_ gale of wind. The Bouillon mail pocket Area ionised at Lisboa es the 13th, awl ailed for Rio oa the 14th. A Dutch 30-gan frigate wake of Laos. (lALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICEL—LTTHAII, WED BUDA' ETZNINO.—Dosing the Melones of the storm at daybreak this 'morning a vessel was teat from here in a meet critical Mutation on the Hors. Bank. The lifeboat on Paake's plane belonging to the Royal National Lifeboat In stitution, stational at Lytkinnwas et one leuncbed, and pro ceeded off to her assistance. Having arrived within a non distance of the vessel the crew were perceived making an at tempt to save their lives in their own boat. Fortunately the lifeboat mom up to them just in due to rescue them from drown's'', so their own boat was swamped, and the next wave would inevitably have capoirrd ker. The crew, °n otating of seven persons, were landed here without delay in • very snouted oonditton; one at them, a °clamed man, was sometime under medical treatment era he wag pronounced out a danger. The rowel is the brigwitioe Hannah Jane, of London, Captain Kett% master, bound from Liverpool to Valente, Spats, laden nth gagging, having left Liverp , ol on Friday bet. This is the second swears crew that Ibis valuable lifeboat has eared during the Ism fortnight. We learn, by telegraph, that late on Wednesday night the life , boat succeeded in bringiog the ship into a port of 'Mel. THE CITY WARDMOTSB. The polling for member; of the Court of Common Conseil le the soma centseled war& took pleas yesterday, sad b eme *esteem pest Interest wee umethetel. Prom the Mowing essalts It will te seen that to come ogees the old repressatatime have hese Masted, so that with the Twin ges filld up without opposition on St. Thomas-day, there will be a pretty fair ortlim ol fresh blood in the Court of Commas Canon In the seining year. We annex the polls as declared I. the remedies wank. BlsROPMATS.—Rioherdion, 239; Parnell, 232; Pitcher (Deputy), 218; G. N. Johnme, 213; W. A. Hop =isi7P7 ; J. C. lidalaton, 206; R. Stspleloo, 204 , J. 200• R. Ashbv. 199 ,• T. S. °Mdse. 199 ; J. Pricker. 198; 1 66. py . R om 187; W. Stephen* it 22, 184; D. Mini, 181. The lint fourteen were elected. FAZILMODON-WITHIII.—Mr. Deputy . Holt, 200; Mr. Wheeler, 191; Mr. Deputy Virtue, 185 Mr. Bellow", 184; Mr. Glower, 184• Mr. &enough, 179% Mr. Morris, 170; Mr. M'ldesolasa;l6B; Mr. Yong, 166; Mr. Bernerg, 166; Mr. Phillips, 151; Mr. &Mary, 147; Mr. Bodkin, 146; Mr. Reed, 179 ; /Lr. Millard, 114; Mr. Blake, 91. Itr. MINA red Mr. Barnard were new candidates. The Arm 14 gentlemen wore declared elected. Wer.lowoh.—Mr. Deputy Fry, 86; Mr. Pallett, 86, Mr. Ford Hale, 84; Mir MarrA 84; Mr. Lin=s t i Mr. Bunts, 54; Mr. Powley, 40. The Arm nu were sleeted. _ _ Pasant . opoli-wirnowr.—Kr. Batter, 318; Mr. Philippe, 813; Mr. Walter, 206; Mr. Beaked, 277; Mr, Ohtani ( deputy), 276; Mr. Lawley, 274; Mr. Andante. 266; Mr. Coverall, 264; Mr. ROOS, 268; Mr. Barmaid (de- Litty266 ; Mr. Langbans, 249; Mr. Sownel/ , 243; Mr. 217; Mr. Pulite, 216; Mr. Butcher, 211 ; Mr. 17 , 7:378; Yr. Stanborough, 174; Mr. Spike, 170. The Int 16 gentlemen were declared aimed. CANDLIWICK.—Mr. Thomas Dak i l i n o tr F ILB4; Mr. Rickard Rowe, 60; Mr. Frederick 48; Mr. John Hawkins Elliott, 47; Mr. John 87 1 11=6; 48; Mr. John King Perky, 22; Mr. , Memo 21; Mr. Charlie Davis, 20. The fbe G TS gentlemen were Mooted; Mr. Farlow being sleeted in the place of Mr. Matthew, resigned. BREAD-11TRIZT.—Mr. Hawtrey (deputy), 60; Mr. James Smith, 60; Mr. N. M 69 ; Mr. F. Mamma, 60; Mr. Irk M'Aitchon, 69 rt. a rkisorge, 66; Mr. W. Aloook, 68; Mr. W. Beard, 34; Mr. Alfred Pill, 23. The diet eight named gentlemen were declared elected. Lima-sraairr.—The polliof for this ward eons- Tomer yesterday mooning at 10 o clock, but in consequence of Mr. Wheatley, the new candidate, haring shortly after wards signified his intention to withdraw from the contest but very few votes were recorded, and accordingly a few minutes miter 4 o'clock Mr. Alderman Mechl declared that the old members were duly returned, being Marrs. D. Cork (deputy), T. B. Simpeon, T. Symonds, and H. Harris. Mr. Wheatley entered into an explanation of his memos for having bs• a candidate, end deo for withdrawing has the cosiest. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION. Yesterday the 24th ananal meeting of the mem bers of this institution took place at the Lemke Tamen, Bishopenaursimet, to read othees the report of the directors, eel for the transaction of r buena. IL H. LIMAN, Rm., having taken the their, The fincturrair (Mr. Mitch) read the report of the &ea ters, trout whit* we make the following extrude, as being the most promlaeat features of that document: uniform moors which has attended this institution shim its establishment in 1836 continues saabsted, and the directors have much -' • to the membwe that wn have zet.—. *run in stating to the _ the operations during the pest year have beets very satirise tory is all the depurator'. The amber of repeals for ✓earenose received with& the twelve months ending the 20lb November last has been 1,144; and the number of pigsties bred 962. Although this number is not so =say by 66 se the amber tamed in the preceding year, yet the amount reared kr exceeded that of either of the two preceding yews, heft 491,0261. 10e. 7d., producing as annual born of 16,7814 le. AL, briar the mom of 7801. Be. 7d., received la single prorates. Of the remaining proposals 104 were de cibel sad 88 not =unlined. The number of members who have died is 164, being 60 WI than last year, whilst the claims arklmg therefrom, inclusive of bonuses added to the sumo sestued ' amount to 109,4661. 161 . ; and is in now of those pad in 1868 by 1341. 19s. 7d. The amounts for the year ending 20th November bet have been duly @edited the Warr of receipts ;over disbarments to that period I. 184,1341.16 a., which, added to the capital stook ot the in stlarks es reported last year, Wares it to 1,766,6861. es. 116. This am la Invested on mortgage of reel Mars, and to governateet sad other good securities, isetrellog ths sem of 1142641. advaried on ken at interest to members an the semity of their respective policies. The grape anneal is come arising from the premiums on 16,7601. existing I. 267,9664 19e. 3d.; sonost abatement on the 20th lt i vezabse, 1867, for t he An years ending in 1862, 80,1124 ; Wel, 207,8441.195. M.; add interest on capital stock, 76,7011. 64.; total sanest boons, 283,6461.. ss. 3d. The number of ambers is now 12,966. _ The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, ansgratulaMd the members on the continued prosperity of the inatitntioe, and upon the vast amount of goad it was doing to the community. The result of the operations of the past year had bees mole than satisfactory—lt had been highly gratifying. (Hear, hear.) After the payment of the large sem mentioned, vie. 109,0001., and the discharge of every other obligation, there remained the sum of 130,0001. to be added to the former capital, making the total one million end three quarters sterling, and this net amount he wee happy to say wee entirely the result of premiums and internee, no capital ever having been dreamed in say way whatever. (Hear, hear.) It was true that the large surplus of the peat year had been brought about, to a great degree, by the dammed number of deaths, there having been 60 Ism thee in the preceding year. The institution wee not only prosperous, but was doing an immense amount of good to • large society, which would naturally induce the members to propagate its benefits amongst their Wanda and reline's', and he was sure they could not confer • greater boon on them than by recommending the advantages win* this Institution affords to the community at large. The directors were metal not to attempt increasing their menus by taking kedge risks, as there wee lot sufficient cones/ over curb trenarotkes, but he did not mean to my that the directors would refuse the foreign risk of any member who had been insured for a number of years, and who misbehave occasion to go abroad. (Hear.) It would be gratifying to the members to know that the reellastion of their vast yearly income wee effected at a cost of only 31 per cent., which ha thought could not be equalled by any other like incitution. Re hoped to be able to inform them before long that the directors had met with suitable pygmies' so as to enable them to enlarge their present edifice. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he had only to refer to the large balance of 27,0001. at their bankers, of which 20,0001. bed only been paid in on the 20th, but it was soon afterwards withdrawn, and placed in government securities. (Haar.) Mr. TIIMAITEB wooded the adoption of the report; which. after some otatevatious from Mr. Burr, Mr. Duff, Mr. Ashton, Mr. Willie, and other members, was paned unania mousl The y. retiring directors, Robert Sheppard, Req., sad Marko Whethani, H.q., were re-elected unanimously. The auditors alai were re-elected. In reply to a question, the CHAIRMAN odd that the policy of • member was not forfeited by his jointer a ride corps, but only on hie going Into the army. A voted thanks was than pawed to the chairman and directors, and to Mr. Marsh, the secretary, when the meeting adjourned. DEATH OT THE EARL OF DAMPERDOWN, This venerable noblemen breathed his last at an early hour yesterday morning. and after a short illness. His lordship, although not quite the Luber of the upper house, was one a Its very oldest members, having taken his stet soon after he attained Me majority in 1806, and sat, we brier.), in pixies parliaments. He was the eldest surviving son of Admiral Lord Viscount Dunces, R. 8., by Henrietta, daughter of the Right Hon. Robert Dundee, of Arnioton, Lord President of the Court of Seseton is Scotland, and eldest brother of Henry Dundee, drat Vitt:cunt Melvin. Lord Demme had bar eons, of whom two died in hie lifetime. Me third eon, Robert Dundee DoncansHaMane, succeeded to the family estates, and to the honours achieved by the red victory off Camperdown on the 11th of October, 1797. The late peer chops his place from the Orr with the wblg opposition, but seldom spoke in perliernent until 1820, whin be took an solve port in the trial of Queen Caroline. IN 1827 Mr. Cannrag'e death prevented his &cowing °Moe under that minister with Lord Lansdowne. In 1830-31 hie lordship wee prominent in the dracumions in the House of Peer. en the Scotch Reform Bill and cm the coronation of William IV. wee elevated to the reek of an earldom, the King being pleased, se his own special act, and as a tribute to the memory of the Bret peer, to adopt the aurae step in the case of a new creation, of giving Lord Comperdowe's brother; and slaters the rank of earl's children. Of late years Lord Camperdown las not taken muck part in cablio life, and beyond the ample circle of attached felatiolls and friends, who shared his genial barite, ley, eras best known among his own thriving Latently and hie neighbours in the country, by whom he was generally beloved and respected. Lord, Canmerdoen married, in 1800, Janet, daughter of Sir Hew Dalrymple, Here, of North Bac. wick sad Tartans Castle, in East Lothian, wbo still aura vivee, together with two era and two daughters. His lord ship is succeeded by hie eldest son, Viscount Duncan, M.P. for the comity od Fortarahire, who was born in 1812, and married in 1839 Julia, eldest daughter of Sir George end the Hoo. Lady Philippe, of Weston House, Warwickshire, by whom ha has two soar, this elder of whom I. Robert, now Viscount Dunces, of Beirird College, Oxford, and the second, George, is now et Ewa. Load Dunten's only daughter wee lately married to Lord Abereromby. ELECTION OF RECTOR OF ST. ANDREW's COL LEGE.—The election of a rector for this college, ha mom of C 010•111 Mare, at Caldwell, who has declined his late sr poiaterat to that stlloe, took place in the great hall of the United Collsge-builowea, en Tort day et noon. The oandie dates were St. Ralph Anstmther (the defeated candidate at last election), and Sir William Dunbar, M.P., wbo wag started poly on the mornieer of Ideation. Tlee result of the poll was as follow. —Sir Ralph Anstruthe-, 64 votes; Mr William Dunker, /ST.—Majority for Sir Ralph, 7. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAT. am TIIOIIIOIII, DISC. 22.—Adeolenlons op payment, 377; ditto by area ticker, 488; total visitors, 888, , I I 1