The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-26 00:00:00

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Ir we are ever to have den with the esandal and ignominy of recurring ponies as to our national, safety, we must make up one minds once and for all to establish a permanent force on which we eau always rely for national defence ; we most make up our minds that it shall be not only adequate to meet all comers, but safe to keep amongst us; and having got it, we must be prepared to pay for it suitably. Permanent military forces are of two kinds: &stand ing army, and an army that is not kept perpetually standing to its arms. For purpcsee of foreign war, for purposes also of empire, of menace to ambitious rivals, and of aid to distant dependencies when sore beset by local disaffection or danger from without, a standing army is indispensable. For military show at home, and to serve as an example of superb drill, accoutrement, and evolution, a certain proportion of the regular army is thought necessary to be kept at hams ; and as we have no desire to argue about unessentials, we are willing to say—be it so. But to lay upon the Guards and the levy et regiments of the Line distributed throughout the Gaited Kingdom the exclusive burden of its de fame against the serried myrmidons of military despotism, would be as unjust to those gallant soi diers as it would be unwise. " Whatever men can, u they will do ;" but we have no right to expect them to do impossibilities. Well led and well sup ported, we have no doubt of their being able to repel any invader, come whence he may; but they must be efficiently supported as well as ably led.' Heroic feats, like those of Thermopylie, are all very well in school histories; but a great and rich people have no right to plot the perpetration of such semi time. They have no right to hope that their boas wilt be defended, and their land kept sacred fries the invader's tread, by the forlorn and desperate valour of brave but outnumbered troops. The country has no right to dawn its defenders: every instinct of self preservation and of honour forbids It. But then comes the question, what manner of per manent force shell we have for domestic service! It is no disparagemeot of the 'ignite army to say that the country thinks it is already sufficiently harp. With ea additional battalion of this or the other regiment armed in a pecsliar way or fit for some portlier genies nobody will quarrel. We have • notion, too, that the rank and file of the Artillery ought to be augmented ; and, generally, it may be said that there is no desire to question esp. tiously any moderate intrigue that can be dawn to be actually necessary to complete the efEcieney of any arm of the regular service. Bat public opinion will sever be brought to endure the domiciliation in England of 100,000 troop of the line. Economically rep►ded, it •uuld be a waste of national resources wholly unpardonable; politically considered, it would be to habitu►te Government and people to the presence of a paramount force that would be utterly intolerable. Very convenient, very handy, very useful, in a certain sense, it might be; but it would hare about it this one damning fault, that it would make sheer con•ense of our popular eosetitu tioo. It wall not do to say that a sword in the osabberd can do nobody any harm. It can do no body any bum so lung as its ring on the pavement suggests no thought of its invincibility ; but that thought, in the minds of a people, even though never uttered audibly, is death and it is not the deed wealth. egeilisatioo, art, or sgritalture of a nation that is best worth defending, but its hue hearted, sei f- respecting. self-goversigg power. Had C11%111.11 1., I.OIES 11., or GLOM' 111. pargraid • Oufhavot studio, army for all possible pupate of national defence, without reliance on popular arna we should not be what we now are, the freest• the most orderly, and the most prosperous com munity in the world. Besides the political objections, those on tt,e score of expense would is themselves prove insurmountable. It is sot merely the pay, food, clothing, and housing i• THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, le n. barracks of a huge permanent army, that would be bit burdensome ; nor the vast additional mount of ad . ministrative jobbing that it would soda A comatry like ours that hu come to be what it is by the elabo rate training and discipl;ning of its investive sad um:easing industry cannot aford to sentence sixty er seventy thousand of its youth to an unproductive line of lib. It is not as if these lama were to add to our annual list of emigrants to the colonise t thither they woald go to plough new lied, to peados* new wealth, and to become new outman for those they bud left behind, as much as if they had remained at how, or more so. But if to guard against a possible contingency that hes not occurred in our own, our fathers', or our grandfathers' time, and that may not o .;ur for • century to come, we lock oat our healthiest, stoutest, and most motive heads from every workshop and fee tory is the kingdom. sad Bader. take to support them, clothe them, and feed them, out of taxes to which they shill contribute weight, we cut off so many fingers from the national hand, we disable ourselves nationally to an extant which it is dills/at to estimate, we perpetrate that which is both ▪ Niel and a blander. ♦ threntmghly effective local Militia would be free km all each objections. Men would not be taken ken their pursuit. and callings long enough at a time to forget them. For the purpose, of ordinary drill, eight and twenty days divided between diffe rent periods of the year are said to be sufficient. For rifle practice some are of opinion that a few hours in the week daring the long days of summer might with advantage be set apart in addition. But the Meal expense of a militia corps when not embodied is a bagatelle compared with that of a regiment of the line. A month's soldiering in the year is little more than a due proportion of healthful exercise. It incapa citate. men in no way from the continued pursuit of their ordinary callings. A young man here and there likes it so well that he volunteers into the line; that is teeny, he is soberly and deliberately recruited for the regular army instead of being cajoled and bullied into taking the Qour.s's shilling when he is half drunk. But when the militia shall have been pot upon ita proper footing as the established and per manent domestic force of the State, no man will feel it derogatory to be enrolled in its ranks. A good deal we own is required to be done before it can be said to have been placed on the footing that is desir able. We think a greater number of regiments might bombed isd, and certain ly the streugth of the rank and file of those that are on duty might with advantage be increased. Bat other things are wanting to uplift the spirit of the force, and to place it upon a footing of nearer equality with the standing army. Great detriment is at pelmet dose to the tone and temper of the militia by the facilities afforded to scamps and vagabonds to appropriate the bounty foe enlistment in one regiment, free which after a few weeks they desert for the sake of obtaining the Name in another. The fault use in the defective state of the law, which might without any di/Sanity be reme died; and the evil is not confined to the waste of so much money upon worthless enlistments, but extends by its demorali►tng example throughout the force. The number of desertions from the nominal roll of the militia is greater than may be generally sup posed, but it dose not follow therefore that an adequate muster roll might cot be kept up if proper means were employed. The great bulk of the desertions, so called, are from unembodied regiments, and from corps recklessly enlisted from the lowest class of the population, and badly °Seared. To con found such mummy, however much to be regretted, with desertion of colours in the field would be aboard. It proceeds from very differext causes, and must be very differently dealt with. TRADE AND FINANCE. (From the Daily Napa.) THE annostasements of new piddle sempanies have been vety numerous daring the WI moth or two, and it seems probable that they will become still more frequent. The present is, therefore, a fitting moment for calling attention to one or two points which have hitherto eluded discussion, but in respect of which it is highly desiuble that caution should be invited. Anew undertaking is launched—whe ther for railway, mining, steam navigation, or other business, it matters sot—and the shares are at once quoted at a premium, although the subscription list still open. The uninitiated are apt to regard this apparently spontaneous appreciation of the new con cern as a bond fide indication that it is favourably received and possesses intrinsic merit. If at so salty a stags of its existence people are found willing to pay a premium for the shares, it is .fair to infer that they most be worth having at par- This consideration, combined with the allurements in which prospectuses are deficient, suffices in many instances to attract numerous applications. Nor do the subscribers consist merely of the inex perienced class—inseh as well-to•do tradesmen, clergy moo, females of independent means, and so forth— for they include wary operators, versed in all the tricks of the market, who, however, frequently take the precaution of selling shares before they subscribe for them. Now, a market premium forms a moat delusive guide to the value of a new project. There are, it is true, instances such as that of the Ocean Marine Insurance Company, lately established, wherein a marked and bowl Me demand promptly springs up for the shares. Subscriptions to an enormous aggre gate are poured in ; and as it is known that the apportionment to each applicant must be restricted, a premium is naturally established. The genuine demand outstrips the probable supply. These cases, however, are quite the exception. As a rule, the premiums quoted for the shares in new undertakings are more or less factitious. Promoters " of public companies —a class of persons whose province is now se clearly defined as that of election agents—are well aware that no project will float unless the shares are at a premium. This indispensable preliminary to success must ac cordingly be achieved. Bids are made for the shares, and, none being as yet in existence, the required effect upon the price is soon produced. Whether the agents in the transaction are the "promoters" or the directors, the dice with which the pan is played are " loaded." AU the chances are against the public. If the scheme be withdrawn for went of subscrip tions, no shares are issued, no " settlement " takes place in them in the Stock Exchange, and the persons who are engaged in the manipulation of the market have nothing to pay. If, on the other head, the floating of the scheme be ',cared, the large " pickings " which usually fall to the share of the promoters are far more than sufficient to defray the cost of the operations in the market. The fre quency of the instances in which the price is kept up at a premium during the whole of the time fixed for receiving subscription., and falls to par or &discount directly the list is closed, cannot have failed to strike attention. Upon not a few sonsione the shares have proved entirely unsaleable as soon as the artificial demand has ceased. These are only a few of the tricks which preside over the inception of new projects. Strenuous efforts are made to get the factitious price quoted in the newspapers. "Puffs" of all sorts are pat into cir culation, and, unfortunately, are indiscriminately in serted by some organs of the press. It is not always easy to ascertain, upon the instant, whether the quotation for the shares is a genuine or an artificial one, for the machinery used is of a subtle character. These remarks are not addressed to speculators, who may be left to protect themselves against the perils of their profession. But it may not be altogether sit perfi nous to warn the uninitiated publis against devices now habitaally practised. The golden rule should be observed of never embarking in a new enterprise because it is at a premium. If the subscriber is 'edified with the conditions, let him by all means follow his inclination ; but let him beware of relying upon the current market price as a means of profit- The mischief and misery which have been occasioned in thousands of quarters throsgh the non-observance of this simple rule are incalculable. Ciceely allied with this subject is the question of the enormous allowances made to "promoters" and " vendors," the monstrous commissions of stockbro kers, the high fixed solarise of directors, the extra elegant sums frequently charged against unwitting shareholders se "preliminary expenses "—(repre- Renting in some OWN a portion of the oast of " rigging " the shales in the mar ket, so that the doped shareholder finds himself actually paying fa the machinery by which he has been deceived)—and kindred abuses. Public com panies are preyed upon to so fearful an extent that a large portion of the community is already completely disgusted with this clue of enterprise. There always have been, however, and always will be, persons anxious to embark their surplus funds in such chan mile, and thus we merely warn to scrutinise the con ditions more narrowly than has been the practice. If a speculation is desired, the opportunities abound but a man who seeks an investment and finds him self at the eleventh hour involved in a mere specula tion, and mulcted on all sides, may reasonably com plain if the organised machinery of deception is a subject tabooed by the prem. Now that we are within a few days of the close of the twelvemonth, the statistical department of the Board of Trade have favoured us, with characteristic deliberation, with the usual record of the movement of imports and exports for the eleven months ending the 30th of November. The figures fully corroborate the evidence furnished from many other quarters that the trade of the country is steadily increasing, and that the aggregate is already large beyond pre cedent- As regards the export trade, the enormous figures reached in the speculative year, 1857, are considerably exceeded. The latest statistics show that the vastly increased foreign demand for oar cotton manufactures still holds, but it is • satisfactory indication that, now that 1 I the Indian demand has slackened, o th er f ore i gn cue - tossers who had been thrust aside are having their wants atteuded to. Some foreign market. are said to be almost bare of stocks. Fall employment is thus ensured in the cotton districts, although the accounts from the Bet bay. become decidedly dull, and the activity in the Manchester market has died away. Quietude Dually prevails during the last week or two of the year, under the influence of stock taking and holiday enjoyments. The unusual extent of the home demand for cotton yarns and goods con tinues to form a topic of remark. A decided iscrous in the export of linen goods and yarn is a •ery satisfactory feature in the lost month's Board of Trade tables, and its effect is already smut in the cheerfulness and activity repotted by the somata from the north of Ireland. The Belfast advices describe an extremely firm and good market, both for goods and yarns, and the stocks of the latter in first hands are now much reduced. The reports from the English woollen, worsted, sad Itasisry aides are quits or satisfactory u lately noticed, and far more so than usual at this period of ' the year. The clothiers in the Leeds district are exceedingly busy. At Huddersfield there have beat during the last week large deliveries of ill kinds of goods at the Cloth Hall. At Rochdale, the stocks of flannels " were scarcely ever so low as they are now? Throughout the woollen districts, the firmness, and even brisk nese of the local markets for the raw material, notwithstanding the remarkable absence of specula tion, afford strong evidence both of a sound state of trade and of the prosperity of the agricultural clue. From the iron and hardware districts the amounts speak of a healthy and improving condition of trade, and an increase in the number of orders on hand. The majority of the Birmingham manufacturers are stated to be folly occupied in the completion of orders previously booked. These details may per haps be dry to some reader,, bet the result is • " Merry Christmas" to the millions engaged in the staple manufactures of the kingdom. Some remarks offered recently under this head, with reference to the great Russian tallow specu lation, have given rise to a smart controversy, in the course of which the two sides of the question have been stated with equal vigour by the respective dis putants. The " trade " and the public may very properly be left to form their own conclusions. The end of the tallow speculation is not yet. Whilst adverting to the fall in the price of tallow which betrayed the inherent tendency of the market as soon as the artificial support I. even temporarily removed, we made special reference to the prospect of the price being whipped-up again by a renewed effort on the part of the specu lators in whose hands the entire control ' of the market at present lies. How long they can ' retain that control has to be seen; but with the r approach of the great speculative settlement fixed for the last day of the year in the tallow market, they ' appear to be at the zenith of their power. Mean , while the hard facta remain -1, a very high price I 2, a greatly checked consumption; 3, an unpreos ' dented steak of tallow here ; and, 4, an enormous stock held over in Russia. Let us wait and see what will ultimately eons. of .thie condition of the tallow trade. CO !tort. WINDSOR CASTLE. Dic. SC Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Primes of Wales end Primers Alice, Lady Caroline Bar dares, Major General the Hon. R. Bruen Coked the Hon. Bra C. end Lady Phipps, the Hoe. Mrs. T. K. Bid dalph, Lieutenant-Cohost Koppel, and Count de Lanolin, the Portuguese Iliniaer, who arrived on a visit in the afternoon. The bead of tba Ist We Guards was in stteadeutoe and played doshig Maher the Ileakb% 11.3313113° Beleadap, ......... Her ibisety's private bond afterwards perhotel fa the &swim-room the •• Yam ?pi" 3.1 demo (Id Jail •• roamer . ii• - b..1.6 7. 111.N.a I. m =gr is. ease U." -- S — siseilla — rs7l7.7. Seism as Is Tames Tim Qos . with the Primers Ahem walked In the Home. perk this morktng, and MAW the Dirket. of Kent, et Fromm,. Tie Primo Caron, asompoolod by Ilos Prince of Wake, redo oat on bombast, Amid by Captain Du Plat sad lioatooase-Colood Levy& Primes Halos sod Primo Lodes rode to the Min ima& The Porta/pees Minister, Count de Lairradio, returned to Loudon to the bresoott. The Ha•. Mrs. R. Bruce arrived In the sf4r•oas at • viteß Her Majesty's &aim petty lealuded the Prince of Wales sad Prisms Alias, Major Omani the Hoe. R. sad Mrs. Brace, sad liestesseest.Cokeed KeppeL The bead et the Gesealea. (laude was in atteadsaas, and *yid dierieedlessr She Greed Pantie Ken ............... iswlrwer belewbro." .... Maws WlWP. Piel6 '74WWW‘W . diiiiii'" (Warm ha The chair of et. Chergals Chap* seder the direction of Dr. Elver, had the honour of Meese before bee Majesty otter dinars • sad bar ldelestre peyote bead performed is the drewtee:room the ammarof y Qom" W. IL Bessoilt. Oben. N Tie Ie NW w ellen Obliflebers " IlawdeL Third Woo MN £. • lethatif as lameare." Mearah- The Queen and Prima Coneest, tie Priam ti D ZO• t Mean, Prince Arthur, Princess Mien Printer Helens, and PriDIVIS Louise, the Duchess of Kent, and the Prim and Polite... of Lebangen, the ladies and gmtlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the private obspeL The Hoe. and, Vary Rev. the Dean of Wbideor performed the service sad !administered the Holy II Viscount Palmerston arrival in town on &tardily mottle far, sod retuned in the afternoon to Breedleach,. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial dice how the Governor of Newfoundland. The Marquis and Marehioneos of Ailesbury hays bees honoured with a visit daring the put week by his Royal Mishima the Duke of Cambridge. Amon the core party waresabled to meet his royal higlusem wets—V incase sad Viscountess hydaey, the Right lion. Sidney Harbert sad Mrs. Reebert, Load sad Lady de Vied sad the Minis Vesey, the ikiehitalell Marla of Aileattary, the Ham. Colossi sad Mrs. MseskaiaM, Lord &Aix; the Holt. Oil beet Reattgote, Mr. Napier tttort, Lord Alfred Paget, Dr. thata, Ike. The Earl and Countess of Gainaborough and Lady Victoria Noel have arrived at St. Lwauda-on•Sea, troy their seat, Raton Park, Rutland. Lady Truro has left town for the Bedford Hotel, Brighton. Lady Do Donstanville has arrived at her house In Charles-street, from Cornwall. Lady Frederick Bentinck has arrived in town. Lady Williams and the Misses Williams and Madame Kainterron Days taken aka r departure from tha Brunswick Hots), Jerm3rn-street. Sir Roderick and Lady Murchison have left town for the Bid turd Hotel, Brighton. Us Bishop of London acknowledges the receipt et miens important contributions to the Metropolitan Relief Assoclatien, 4, St. Mastitis-place, and especially one of • thousand pounds sent anoeymously. Mr. William Hampton Chamber,, licentiate in theology of Bebop Costa's Hall, Durham, and formerly • reporter on the Dariemices now, hes been ordered a deacon by the Bebop of London, and hanged to the curacy of St. Mathieu Church, Bet oa the noontime.. of the Rev. J. CoWeans, M.A. Dax3H or Ma. WitlONT.—This favourite come dies, mar se_populer at the Adelphi Theatre, expired at Boulogne ea Thursday monde; lea, after • long sad severs 1i1t.... Kr. Wright wee bona la 1813, and had therefore not *melded his fortreixth year. He was orightally iatended for • ormammial life, bat he exhibited as lachaation for the stage at • very early periold. aid oratrived to make sa appearance at the Queues Theatre in 18.14. Hie TICOrieB wee sot very earmareglag, butotadmated by the alvitts that was then gime to bun to emit some what vocation, he went into the provinces to obtain pretties, sad at Btrafaghern very won established himself as ea warrofgrestbreadthef baceoar. When graham owned the St. Jam as Theatre for the soma September 29. 1837, Mr. Wright a a aeaaa that *yawn his first recumnared appearing. as • aorsedhs before • metropolitan 50d5...,, playing Splash fa rho Imy Wiens to Me Aarelle, of Mrs. Stirling, aad dacioddy in • mem farce celled Methinks 1 Bee my father. Ho atternseds vent to the Adolph' Theatre, when, with the ezeoption of • brief interval at the Primers's, he permed hie ester till witbia • few mouths ago. He we *great famarite with hie amebae% sad the nuroorotte parts width he erected, ma ia tastier mod Siwehm, bid Pew /sot Bawl Year Wl* ee GLwhwWl Ltemenstie NCOMMr--whe ass Ingot his Um Orembyf—sM, above all, his Hatter We midge, the Madam shrwmea, to 7As 19,11118 Bushes, will be always Waved to la ma amice with hie same. vita ALBUM Sairrii.—We have Tory Week *sears la sadism that Mr. Albert Smith, whose snack cd , apoplexy we maseleaed ea Saturday, has Mss reseal& lie ' soassimemse, tad Moo sea aaftriolool of No norm,. THE OASIS/LLD' RIFLE FIND. We have received the foGisering letter from the Director of the Food for raking , a million rills., in stituted by Garibaldi. TO TUX SUOTOS OF TKO ZIPSOOL Mika. Des. 17. gtm,—We her rowird r dr awns your bawl Mbar et the 17th Illevomber, krwrieg we a hul, ohne hos bees mid, of two harked and arworan goowdo Smi Alarm C 2171. while mount le the aollarro air rob by errs aubtorthato, trough year sollearad alumna, to tha Garibaldi nbearlytima. We owortly wish tomere you that the may roma we ore so leta In performing our duty towards rim was the ,e -areal of the OffiCA of the diertion from Belem's to Milan I after Orteral Garibaldi. temporary retirement. We say mammary, because the gallant moldier will be ready to every dm* to saucer the call of Um 'mother-land to tabs the d,ld spirt het resair. Noy se are lelasitively istablisked here, ssd taw milord mibsoriplisa goes is with far saccer. We hie. • fall maildeace la the menial:Lance of the sym pathies of Um British pablis, Mears Great Britain, the 011 hod of freseimm, mama be inseeslblit to the efforts of hely fee bee own BUM,. Amps eat wannest Mead. We remake, Sir, with mad moped, yams Isithhiliy, ZMILICO BESAN A. The subscriptions covered by the remittance now seknowledged are the following: Sir Francis Ooldsmid, Bart., 1001.; Bansuol Coolthard, Esq., 261.; George Coulthard, Esq., 264 ; John Coulthard, Esq., 201. ; William Taylor, Esq., 104 ; John Epps, EMI, M.D., 21.; " Ulmer," IW. ; Signor Damiani, 161.; D. W. Souses, Esq., 61.; P. M. Kennedy, Esq., 6/.; Mr. Watson, Is. The departure If the ladia sad China mails, vii Marseilles, is pastpooed mail to-mserow (Tuesday) evening. Now SoLicnroa-0 Estius. —The Solicitor- Omnal hes been &meg his eaustitnenta at Du r h am daring the lest week. Hie re.eisedea win probably take place on Ur 9th proximo. Tb. Durham CArewkle mates that Mr. Mittman hm lady be. allotted by the government the preparation of • mar ler 3 of I%w refines of cosoderable 113. perteare, which it le Mingled t t introduce nest esedoe. SUNDAY Brit/IRO BLIIICZB AT TRI BRITANNIA TNZATIM—Tbe 'pedal Sudsy evening mat elon the' Brimmala Theatre, Hoatoe, omes, were coetinuel yesterday emeing, emd ariturithetendieg the combined dioramas's'', of Chrldass-Asy falling on le/ay sad bed weather the at isedencre we. merridlegly Iris, the theatre beteg Sled from by to bottom with • eked seettregat'os, appersedy priming • large properties of the poorest labahltante of the dle trtel. Tbs grember an timacceoloe was the Rev. 1. Baldwin Itemes. militant of the leilepeadent Chspel. Clayherrteleed, Imam, tr, who abase for bit teat the Mb veer of the 6th &spew of St. Par.'s Seemed Eprerl• to the Canadians Now the. we am ambeimaors for Christ, se though God did beemeh yes by we prav you this Christs mead. be ye memsciled to God." From this pim p of Hely lia;pomee the reverend gentlemen prsedhed • oboes pre/Meal diemene mdaptsd with pat of style sod essisaat to tile wend character ef the sessmidy, whose he mewed le be for the mom pat limealeg to the seemege art* Bartel almost for the drat time, sad is the coneindleg pert d use Gomm the Ii ash prookimed wee peened whit us emasstassa mad form which far W Irmet at Mem mad belly pm toyed a strong impression ea the men of harem. The servits coaapiel wely es hear and a mearter, sad the lostmeleer of the aellits7 as • whole we. that:So b s da mn= had szesemeny mem t se that of as eragre. gegen Is shame or ithepal. The Roe. Itiebeed will be the premier mit Semisy esseing. Bastian OP Tin PRINCESS ROYAL.—II grass ef • vscornmendetisa from the Admiralty, Mee mined es Tbersdey Met, to want Om illbe milers ef Tibiae Royal mould be sullleissitly robbed by a ammth's imprisonment, the lbstratery tors hoe @dolga her Me =,4ll the OM of leer gracious elemmay meek the rtr• of the metutee of three monehe iesprbeameat, bi lleted by the metonce d eta oeurt-mailiaL The mem will, gmeeilere, be dlyaberged hem meted, en Tuesday ant, Wag, as Is um* the day before the exaketien ef the tine, wilt* we bairn, will be • ems& eta Weareashay mat ken the sorbed of 1 tmir trostimment.—Oiewver. 7011TRICAT10111 OP Wpm. tent work of the dellmoe of as Ilembles mermseedbes the redact at Ihreases Hey, bee bees anderitime by gnaw nom, and she tear mops lbw orestfee ef on Mashes deilmc. is. work have jest hoe rhea. • battery of beery gum is re be eseoled en the Llghttreese bassi, wou ld is eempl..4 • inseemolble be as moray, the wear et half-fiord eseresediny it whit a mews seneett. Ts wet of Ws wark wr hs low 11.0111111. to SAW WALWIILD ALZOI7ON OOMMISSION. WAILIFIRLD, IlAruziwt. appointed to inquire into • the emblem et amp st the Isle eld previews di.. kr MY emeareed their eledsgs NAB mesia MOM la dab. Bansad Gamy was the Met whams eine& Is reply is Mr. IkKlesat Pleat be .N—l eta a Maher le Leakes. mad so Mother-M.l of Kr. the Mara reedleses et the bet eisod m oe. While the eie Loathe" cdos was pad- Web la the tresteeleg of Apra I Teo:lived letter ken Mr. Leedom, portion of which Iha preserved and sow predate. Mr. &drat Pigott reed the following note : (" Caufldrad.) "I shall want some moor ix ways and rear end Tatra than drew it from the beak, where there are sere darks who might talk, I have been thinking that you wand not mind ry asking you—that kr, 0. 0. end Co.'—to lend me 1,0001. for a abort time, so r not to be known at Leathern, Tows and Co.' U you ere no objeetka to rest my wishes, I would thank you to end the dews In tor dirtier, in registered waltlsg thehiekuowiedg rent of wk, in small Beak ind notes, AVIS, ter, sad trudge. This money le wanted legitimate purposes, so my agent is not a moseyed men, es well se for sore -- Mr.lksjert Pigott (to wirese)—Can you fill tip the blank I , Mr. Gurney—Not in the slightest degree. I rid to my cierke—.swed down the notes according to the eider" and they 111.• art, but I depot know what further ttorreitir wee eorminei In the nor Mr. Derissat Pigott—Wee it some ding rapmesica mass- Mr . . Garaey—Cartaimiy not. Bertat Pigott—. Ungar ?" Ourey—No. If there had bra say labittien to oonaml anything, thewhole note would have been destroyed. I should have taken care of that. As, however, the note bee been lumt, it allows that there was nothing to amoral. I am perfectly sure that the note contained no allusion to intry. Mr. &Omni Pigott—Did you sled the mensy? Mr. day—The money was sat down as:coding to my cedars on the 9th, 12th, 16th, sad 16th ApiU. Mr. &mew Pigott—Did you resolve say farther applica tions Mr many ? Kr. Ourtiey—l foretold shortly after sanding the 1,0001. another communication from Mr. Latham, r that be would be glad if I would mad him another 6001. Mr. fterjetat Plgott—ls that note stall in your porstosion Mr. Ourney—No. It was manip a short slip, saying, " Can you rend me another 6001.1.• I do sot d.tialt that there was usher word la the note. I believe the nom was received on the 20th sad the scam sent the some day. I subsequently received a third note, mating more in detail that be had found the expenses of the election beerier than be had expect's', sod asking ma to forward another 1,0001. Mr. Bekkaat Pigott—Do you remember destroying that lots — Mr. Gurney—No • but lam unable to and it. Mr. Berjeent PlgOtt—What was the date? Mr. Gurney—l believe the 26th April. The receipts for the money heal ease from Mr. Wainwright, elicitor, to whom the paokets ware add/aced. In one to t ter Mr. Wain wright intimated that say further acknoarledgrocet would be posted in Leaden by a Dined and not sent direct to the bank front Waltaleid. I eataltogether 2,6001, and have receipts from Mr. Wainwright for that amount. Mr. aerjeent Pigott—Did you receive say further inatroo time or requeete with regard to supply* money ? Kr. Gnmey—l received no furt instruction front any b" 11r . . Ilbrjeent Pigott—Did yogi send any money to Mr. Leathern's mother ? Mr. Gurney—No. I neither sent her money nor bed any oornmposdanor with her. I knew nothing of the Medics at Wakefield, nor of the distribution of funds. Mr. Willes—With regard to the miming sheet of the first note. Yon me the linguae of the note la "for legitimate purposes or for soma"—Dolo not that imply, that a UM` mot of some sort followed ? _ Mr. diaraey:ol — coures, bat I am quite we that three was nothing saggestive telbst7 in the note. In the missing sheet there wee soma este of allusion to the fact that the other side wombat likely to lose the election for want of spending money, and be shoeld like to be similarly prepared. Mr. Wales—What did yen think that meant P Mr. Gurney—From the eipariance I ham had of manly abeam I knew that a greet dial of money worn ocesionally expended in bringing up voters from the country. I pre sone that it what Mr. Leathern meant. Mr. Wiliss—Now, do Yon really thisklbst that is what he . swat by sosi!pe fathead= ? Mr. Gamey—It I bed thought otherwise, er had had say idea that the money was to be expended in bribery, I should have declined to have sent the money. c l a lnallee—Did you not expect that some of that mossy, at say ram. was to be applied to purposes which were not legitimate ? Mr. Oww—With reused to the Ant sums I had not the slightest eilou. When the last embostion is.., I made a remark that Wakefield was a moat expensive pleat to ma test; bat I wee net in the best aware that any or the essay wee required for bribery. I knew nothing of the size of the coostimeney. Mr. Wile—Are we to understood that you had no suspi cion, when the lam sum of 1,0001. was asked tor, that it was about to he applied to improper purposes P Mr. Ountey—l had such conftemos in my brother-in-law, that I had not the slightest Mr. J. Wainwright., solicltretre k :cticessrkig spat of Mr. Leatitana), wee then recalled, qpd mated that the receipts pro duced by Mr. Gunny were in Ids handwriting. Mr. Wines—Them now show that it was 2,6001. you embi P" ✓ ed eceived, nnot 2, es 0001., you rspeneentsd when you were en. MtVainterigid—heet so. Willen—Maying your recollection retreated by these news, do pas know what nu done with the 6001. not yet astenntsd 11111 7 . Weiawright—l have talked the matter over with Kr. Field Gilbert, bat I oth not for the life of me account for It. I spent ao matey seyserlf„ tad pee all 1 received to Gilbert, incept the matey I hid prior to We caning to Wakedid. Mr. W you swear that you handed over .11 the mousy you reaped from Mears. ()reread end Gurney to Gilbert Mr. Waiewrlght—l believe I did, but I will not swear, because Mr. Gilbert sap that he never received it. The accounts were purposely kept loosely, but I expected Gilbert to reount for ell the mow. By Mr. Blade—l employed during the election • men named Bigg, bat I have no reuse, though he wee I n c o n . mane communication with Mt. Gilbert, to suppoes that be wee engaged to bribery. I wee In eaninunication with him is reference to ping to Leedom es the petition. end I receive/ a twee from him sayba he had had en offer of 601. from the other ids if he 11mM give evidence, but if I would give him mosey be would sestet me. I took no notice of the note. Beejamin Watson said he bad indirectly attempted to bribe • voter named Garay, and acted as stakeholder for • person tamed Lesag, the landlord of the Bay Hone. The money was placed in hie hands by Shapley. Wm. Lodi, of the Bay Hone, Kirkgate, said—l got a little bit of mosey at the late election to induce roe to vote. I had pram from both side/. The mysterious stranger the Man in the Moos—called upon roe two days before the election, and put 601. on the table to Induce me to vote for the couservatives. I had previonely received • promissory note for 361. to vote for the liberals. I did not look for the money ; it was brought to me, and it was very hard to deny it when it was amoet being crammed down one's throat. ' Fleetly, r I had friends on both Mee I determined to stand sentrel, and I did not vote at all. All the mosey I recetved you the 601. and 31. be. for the me of my rooms from the libe rals. I believe that 1001. wee offered to my with for a warm. bit pin. ( 14 Dikbff.) Matthew Wollner. said be promised Richard Manor 161. if be would vote for Leathern. Thos. Haigh said—l promised to get 201. for a man named Harrison if be would go oat of the way and not vote. I had no authority to offer the mousy, bat I knew it amid be got. It was well brown that bribery wee being resorted to on both sides. It wee talked about as commonly and as re rawly as you would talk of selling wheat or buying barley. All aorta of price, could be had. Money was being provided to say amount. There was not a gentleman in the tows who did not know that bribery was going ce. though I had certainly no ides of the extern to which it was carried until this commission commenced its sittings. William Shaw, farmer, of Ikeda), lad be gave 101. to Benjamin Johnson to vote for Mr. Charleeworth. The money rune from Joe Brest. Witness received 171. 10s. altogether, but kept the 71. 10a. for hia expenses in treating the voter and himself Edwin Link was called. Mr. e7erTeZt Pigott—You have been described to no as Link the mama:wiser. Do you answer to that name? Witham—lf they ars susceptible to the influence I can amigo It. (Laughter.) Yr. est Pigott—Did you attempt during the election to mesmer a voter samosa Amadei ? Wither—l called upon Aruodel and promised him money If he musk' vote for Lamborn, bat no money passed through y bends. I told Arundel that whatever the owe aids would give the other would cover. Deems Smith mid be valid for Leathern, and rewired 301. Ice doing so from Wilbsa Osferibld. _ . Wm, OsterSeld said he bribed Smith, and get the roggsy from Gilbert. Hs went to Mr. Wainwright's °Moe and asked Mr. Wainwright for some mosey for a voter. Mr. Wainwright said be had nothing to do with it. but if witness met fats another room be would Sad somebody who would talk to him. He acoordiagly vent in and found 011owt, who gave bias Sit. 108.-801. for the voter and 11. 10a. for with m's *apemen in nesting people. Mr. W. L. Sellers sell be gave the daughter of lir. New some, the landlord of the White Horse, 401. to give to her tether to vote for Leathern. He got the money from Olibmt. Sarah Newman said she received altogether 604-401. from Mr. Sellars and 101. from Mr. Woodheed. She did not give the money to her Shaer. but put it in the drawer and It was taken out se ft wee required. She told her m oths[ that she bad received the mosey. Charlie 'memo said be voted for Loatkam, and reerod 1161._ from Thomas (Ws& Mr. Mender, solicitor, pourer with Mr. Wainwriebt, add be wished te correct r erroneous iniprerm. The place where the bribery took placer behalf of re liberal. was not Mr. Wainwright's oMos, hut his Fiver hour which re or* &dace from the 021011. Alt this seng• of the proceedings, Mr. 'rear Nett said—As far es we are aware this In rdts sew ore to on an end in Wake fi eld, and we will The =mto Land. ar creed at 3 o'clock. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, - - The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office PARIS, MONDAY, Dec. 28. The analitutionnel of today, in an article signed by its principal editor, M. Orandguillot, says the Times is perfectly correct in couidering the pamphlet "Le Pape et le Congres" as a political expereeion of the good understanding and conciliation between France and England. The Constitutionn e l congratulates Relation this result as itis neoessary that the two great nations of the West remain united in the interest of civilisation and of the European 'gni librinm. M. Grandguillot, however, calls the atten tion of his readers to the difference in the political motives of the two nations, and states that France, far from intending to destroy the temporal power of the Pope, will, on the contrary, consolidate It by transforming it according to the wants of modern times. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 19. The Colombo, with the mails from Calcutta and China, arrived at Suez on the 17th inst. Th. Delta and Valetta (known to have been delayed by adverse gales) not yet in sight. THE CONGRESS. PARIS, BAITIDLY. The Patric of this evening states that Senor Calderon Collantes will be first Plenipotentiary of Spain at the Congress, Senor Martinez de la Rosa having refused the post on amount of his health. The Pays pretends that all the journals are in error in their interpretation of the pamphlet, Le Pape et le Congres," which, according to the Pay., guarantees the Pope all his present possessions. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, Dze. 24. General Nordin and the Swedish Ambassador at Paris, Baron Adelsward, have been appointed Ple nipotentiaries of Sweden to the Congress. In yesterday's sitting of the Diet, the Minister for Foreign Affairs declared that at the Congress he will pursue a policy in conformity with the constitu tional interests of Sweden. PARIS, SUNDAY. It is stated that the Papal Nuncio vi;ited Count Walewski yesterday, in order to demand an expla nation on the rumoured official origin of the pam phlet "Le Pape et le Congris." Count Walswski gave a paid,e denial to this rumour. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, SUNDAY. Prince Gortehekoff, on his journey to Paris, will stay here one or two days. NEUPCHATILL, SATURDAY. Count Pouts* Proasian Ambaraior at Paris, is expected here this evening. He will pus Christmu at this place with his family, and proceed next week to Paris. AUSTRIA. - VIENNA, Dec. 23. The following official denial has bean given to some statements publialusd lately in different news paper.: The reports of numerooa arrests having taken place in consequenee of the meeting of Protestants in Kasmarkt and Miskolc are unfounded. The authorities have brought accusations against three persons only, for having excited the inhabi tants to disobedience, but these three persona have been set at liberty. Two domiciliary visits have taken place by order of the competent tribunal, and not of the police. GERMANY. BERLIN, SATIIILDAT EVENING. The official Staatsanzeiger publishes an ordinance according to which the decree prohibiting the expor. tation of horses to foreign countries will cease to be in force from the let January next. DRESDEN, SATURDAY. The racial Dresden journal contains an ordinance of the Minister of Finance removing, from the lit of January next, the prohibition to export home over the frontier. TURKEY. Dim. 24 Letters from Constantinople, of the 14th inst., state that after numerous sittings of the Divan a defini tive resolution wu adopted calling upon Europe to settle the Suez Canal question in its political bear ing by guaranteeing the integrity of the Turkish empire. M. Thonvsnel and the four other amber seders had agreed to that arrangement. The Grand Vizier and Feed Pacha had drawn up the necessary notifications which were to be sent to the different powers. The Bulgarians, to coupe the tyranny of the Puha, were seeking refuge in large numbers in Servis. There wu some rumour of the Turkish government intending to interfere. The religious investiture had been granted to the Bey of Tunis, but the Porte claimed tribute from him, INDIA AND CHINA. TRIESTE, SUNDAY. The Calcutta and China mails have arrived, and bring the following news: SHANGHAI, Nov. 6. It is stated that the Chinese government has ap plied for an American mediation is tho late dare- NOCEO. SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. Admiral Regault Genouilly has arrived here from Turin. The American vessel Flora Temple, having on board 800 coolies for Havannah, has been wrecked in the Chinese Sea. The submarine cable destined to be laid between Singapore and Java has arrived here. CHINA. BERLIN, Dec. 24. Aooounta from China to the lith October, received at St. Petersburg, announce that the Russian em bassy at Pekin enjoys the most perfect liberty and the greatest security, All the alarming reports which have been in circulation on the subject are entirely falas. The mercantile letters from Paris state that the pamphlet on the Pope and the Congress has created a great sensation in all financial circle', but that the effect tiaa been favourable. Much anxiety was felt to learn the view taken of it on this aide, but the gineral euppoiltion we. that it would prove satiefactory. and impart confidence to the trans action. at the opening of the new year. SNOW IN THE SOUTH OP EtntorE.—Acconnts from Hardee of the 19th state that snow bad fallen brevity in and around that city, a circumstance very unusual in that country. Letters from Genoa of the 19th announce that an immense quantity of snow, such ached never been witnessed before, Ml last week in that oily, end had to be removed in wan ht.otentrt.—A gentleman living in Bedfordshire hes received a reliable letter from Canada, in which the fol lowing pomp occurs Yon my rome doubt exists in England with reified to Bloodia having crossed the Palls of Misters as a tight-rope. He crossed several times, end did II that Y reported im the news (not over tbe fells, but between them sad the anspeo-btidgt), drove wheel barrows over, and 011/1411a IBM alas on Pis beck. There was a groove In the wheel of As borrow to ft the to fro." M. rale decla adva TI will with gm beei Pea , var.: thy] ble I claii rity a th coni w4ll OM Cal Ste Poi of