The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-08 00:00:00

:s 7 TM§ 'OEN BROGDEN. given for the sake of the i plaiseek, regard to his dog, who was present maiart, arra ORI I 2INAL inripirrTA GOLD 4rass E „. MANUFACTORY,CHAIN..... made a most favourable impression on the specta ' tors by his moderate and dignified bearing. We Impel, however, that the trial will not leave any traoe of ill feeling. The verdict appears to satisfy the merits of the case, and, on the other hand, a man oould hardly be expected to sit down quietly after being attacked on his own land. It is of course very annoying to a body of gentlemen to find a single individual, setting himself against ge neral opinion and usag e, able to interrupt their sport. But then England is the country of indi viduality, and thesacredness of personal rightais just that one thing which reconciles men of every clams to much in which their position is inferior to that of the same class in some other countries. It is true that, as the Judge said, " generally speaking " the farmers are the keenest followers of the " hounds, and therefore good humouredly bear " with their share of any damage caused to their " fields by hunting-" His Lordship might have said that they generally bear the whole of that damage. But it is open to any one to decline a sacrifice of his interests in that respect ; and then, as the LORD CHIEF Jrsrries explained, the law will protect them. If, therefore, fair words will not prevail to induce him to abandon his rights, they must be respected. Country gentlemen, who are so tenacious of their own prerogatives, should set an example in this respect. Small farmers who should trespass on the estates of a large land owner, and on being remonstrated with by the great man in person should proceed to chaff him, and when he got angry should flourish a whip over his head, would find that their case would nut take long at the nearest sessions. Of course we admit that the reversal of the social status of the parties makes an immense practical difference, but it is a difference which it is better not to make too prominent in these latter days. -----=------------- DSOGDERfIi 18-osrat GOLD CHADUL; OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (This DAY.) The immediate purpose of the meeting at St. James's Hall on Thursday evening was to collect more pence for the maintenance of the papal position in Rome. But all that the Roman catholics have subscribed during the year, the Times remarks, to avert what the speakers described as the eclipse of the very light of the world, is rather less than the Bible Society spends in brown paper and cord, and certainly not enough to provide a single breakfast for an army such as the occasion requires. Money, however, be it little or much, will do something - whereas the arguments employed really went for nothing. Sir George Bowyer says the Pope will still have Rome, for it is necessary that he should, and the Almighty will take care that what is necessary shall be done. Then why fear, why meet, why subscribe ? The experiments with model g uns against representa tive targets now brought to an end for the present season show, the Times observes, that though Captain Palliser's shot can be sent with certainty through six inches of solid lion backed by nearly four feet of timber, this is only done at very close quarters, awl the condition is that the shot should strike the target at right angles. The experi ments reported show that a large per tentage of shots would be rendered practically harmless by an inclination of the ship's side towards the muzzle of a hostile gun such as would be comm onl y ex p ected at sea. 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Tats EVENINO, LAURETTE% BRIDAL; OR, MORE TRAN MEETS TUE EYE. Mrs. Lanc.—Mr. "Dancing Mad" Bryan MIAs Gantcne ; Mr. Laburnum.—MOTHEß BROM N RICKI ; OR, TI.I FOUNDLING APPRENTICE. Mn E. Varnuld. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TV DLT —Morning, 2K 4001 Attorncon, 2h SGOI. TO-Mogiomr—Storning, 3h. 1301 Afternoon, 30. no. - - LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. IT is to be feared that the difficulties of fox hunting are on the increase. We are constantly reading of obstacles to sport raised by tenant farmers. Dead foxes are found with increasing frequency, under circumstances of the gravest suspicion. Methods of fencing are also resorted to which make hunting nut only difficult but ex ceedingly dangerous ; the worst of them being the use of wire, invisible except at distances too small to allow of slackening speed. Complaints on this score become more numerous every year, and show that the free customs of sportsmen are no longer acquiesced in with the former cheerfulness by oc cupiers. This rising hostility is very annoying to ardent lovers of the chase, and we cannot wonder that they should struggle against it. It is a feeling, however, which can not be overcome by main force ; it must be accepted with patience, and met with tact. Foxhunters have always known, though they have sometimes forgotten, that they ride over the cultivated farms of the country merely by the courtesy of occupiers. There is no reason to suspect any deficiency of the old good-will on the part of farmers towards the classes who recruit the hunting-field :it is probable, therefore, that the growing feeling is duo, on the whole, to changes in the position of the cultivator. It is becoming more inconvenient to the farmer to have his fields ridden over by troops of horse men. It was predicted long ago that with th e improvement of agriculture this would be the case, and that red coats would not be looked at with so much favour as they had previously been whenever farming came to be regarded more exclusively as a business to be conducted on ordinary commercial principles. Still, if the parties could meet one another in a give and-take spirit, ono of them making allowance for the natural desire for amusement, and the other for an equally natural reluctance to suffer un compensated loss, it would seem that arrange ments might be made by which an old national sport conducive to good fellowship could be pre served by being adjusted to every interest. Such a spirit, however, we have been unable to find in the case of " Ball v. Axten," tried at Westminster on Thursday. The plaintiff, a small working farmer, occupying land in the neighbourhood of Amersham, objected to having his fields ridden over by the hunters, and had repeatedly warned off 1 Discussing the moral legitimacy of the menace gentlemen of Lord MORLEY'S hunt. On the occa- ; which Mr. Bright is accueed h a th using in his c speeches, the sion out of which the action arose, a large , Si:ft:La:Or:7SL that ced thoug h working e mg class should be lans are re-- field crossed his land, and he went out presented equally with other classes in parliament, the RETURN OF HIS RoYAL HIGHNESS THE per era to remonstrate. All followed the fox except one inclination does not go with the intellect, and there is OF WALES.—Hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. gentleman, against whom the plaintiff held the .no desire to work out the problem. Can we deny the attended by Lord Frederick Paulet, Major Teesdale, and gate, and while they were discussing the matter, 1 right to overcome this indolent condition bya real thrill of Captain En* arrived at the Charing-craw Railway owing to some turn in the sport, the field came a pprehension as to the lrue force and urgency of the de- Ti n us last evening from the continent. crossed The Prin t : back, the plaintiff again ran after them, and seized ' mend The work a iu t classes t haevebee fora n ti ce ll no: to politicaluy le ft ch a P n a l ris h, early yesterday h rn a ing, and the bridle of a gentleman named GURNEY. The a very rough e a'menretenidteenOtenbelieved to be very real. Is it notalmoat His royal e highness was received on landing at defendant AXTEN came up, and advised Mr.GURNEY 11 i a duty to show that the working class is not an abstract Dover by the principal o ffi cials of the harbour and a to "give him the whip," counsel which that gentle- 1 1 e, but a name of a very f or midable number of g uard of honour of the 70th Regiment, with the regi rnan had too much temper to ado p t ; the plainti ff's rea l peo ple, with a real intensity of purpose in men tal band. Mr. Knight, traffic manager, accompanied wife and dog came forward, and took part in the ' them to have what they ask ? The means need, the train to Charing-cross, where Mr. Cockburn and other dispute, the plaintiff himself still hanging unto Mr. : dangerous as they may become, are appropriate o ffi cials were in attendance. GURNEY'S bridle, demanding the names of the in- Ito the emergency We We mus t t give VISIT OF PRINCE AND PRINCESS CH ui RISTIA . NTO t .1 dl parliament traders, and getting nothing but "chaffing sort o f w elect se ri e c shock ar t e tra w i ll lvoevreoto carry me a statesmanlike reform K en Kno °ere l r e ET y par .— kon Mo The nncleeay and P ri ncess and Tues d ay le and Wed " answers." A blow was struck by the defendant . bill , noponlei will ; lead mo d re strongly for the rights of n with the heavy end of his whip, which being in- nesday will be devoted by the prince to shooting in the 1 , presentation that are threatened, as well as for those fine preserves attached to the park. It is understood that tended, as was said, for the dog, fell upon the hand which are urged, than ourselves. But the first necessity is the prince and princess will not pay a visit to Liverpool, at of plaintiff's wife, and caused her several weeks 'to pnt some real life into the situation, and for that P ur- any rate of a formal character. Amongst the guests in. of • and inconvenience. The jury, looking at , pose the exhibition of will, rather than of right, on the vited to meet the royal party during their stay at Knowsley all the facts, gave the plaintiff 501. damages. As , part of the excluded classes is n ow wanting. dt. We only onl re y are Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and the Countess of we read the report, it becomes evident that they e vris tre h a t h ua e li p y mms thiu r it on M onday Earl of Malmesbury, and Lord Claud did. The very fact that it this part; a H a m m he ilt on : the only did so by an effort of independent judgment , failure shows that Mr. Bright's stimulus is useful, and not Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess There was nothing in the Judge's summing up of dangerous Christian, attended by Lady Susan M elville, Colonel the case to lead to such a verdict. Lord Chief 1 In the debates last session on the extradition question, Gordon, and Mr. Engleheart, honoured the perfor mances Justice COcIEBURN told the jury that since the , observea the .Ezannser, the suggestion of bad faith or 1 at the Prince of Wales Theatre by their presence yesterday plaintiff objected to his fields being ridden over, it sharp practice on the part of foreign governments was re- , evening. was, " strictly speaking," unlawful to go upon his ' polled in a lofty tone of diplomatic . virtue by ministers, , The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon have left land : that the hunters were merely trespassers, and and the utteranceofthe mere lvh su a s t pi w o i o l n l Lowasrdre sage . town for Highclere Castle. near Newbury. that the plaintiff had, by laying hold of the bridle impolitic an d u n w orth y. h asbeen ' The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady now—now that every sh red o f decorous di sgu ise Of one of them, "dune very much to aggravate the Emily Villiers Italy expected to return home in a few days " matter." In fact, it is pretty clear that if France , discarded in the procedure under the treaty with not merely in the kidnapping of a fugitive, the general sentiment of the court had prevailed, ' but in the very indictment deliberately preferred froMmfr.rW afo o t. 7H. Gladstone,. M.P , left town ester the plaintiff would have gone away with a a gainst him? From first to last there has b ee n H da o y a. o lv r . a E n . s an , on d hi li m is G way to Ro m e to meet the Y Right strong conviction that the wisest thing one os t entatious disr egard to do would be to abandon either his of Ird n i tti n l az y jus A ti n ce a and for every sha san for etion ev ery ot inter. The marriage of Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart., ield before th e Court one of the members of parliament for Warwickshire. to prejudices or his land, and touch his hat the na tio nal t° Cessation . in the case pPe of Lamirande, and the question Harriet Sarah, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas and Lad the y next time field came over the farm. Even the reporter warns us that the damages were not will there be re-argued which was vainly raised during the , Lou' as Moncreiffe, was celebrated on Thursday in St. trial at Poitiers, whether a person may be obtained under 1 John's Episcopal Church, Perth. problem. That the wisest among the Roman catholic' expect the downfall of the temporal power is clearly to be gathered, the Daily News thinks, from the prooeedings at St. James's Hall, though a Roman catholic must not only be very enlightened, but gifted with great strength of mind to apprehend the fact without lively emotion. With regard to Dr. Manning's argument s, the Po p e has not possessed for many years that independence from the civil powers of the world which is put forward as imlispensAble to his liberty. In fact, there is not a prince or sovereign to be found upon earth who would consent to keep up the forms of sove reignty upon terms so humiliating as those to which the Pope has clung as long as he possibly could. But in reality his political position has been left out of the account, and the absoluteness of his ecclesiastical authority could be impaired by no degree of dependence. This is sufficiently shown by the way he has repaid the protection of the Emperor Napoleon and of Austria. The enginery of the Roman catholic church is amply strong enough to dispense with the show of a temporal sovereignty at Rome, and if the Confraternity of St. Peter should meet this time next year we expect to have to report speeches much more cheerful than those which were delivered last Thursday. In another article the Daily Nee , speaks of the method of England in treating her subject races as one of punk mount importance to the country. An aboriginal and ine radicable inferiority has been assumed, and a theory has obtained great favour that it is the peculiarity of inferior races to revolt without reason, and of the Anglo-Saxon race to put down rebellion without mercy. Such a theory as is now applied is prompted by pride and passion, and based upon ignorance. The Foes complains that in the civil service the higher appointments are reserved as the price of political support, and are absolutely closed to those who enter in the lower ranks and work up. This is the root of most of the dis content and inefficiency of the service. Ireland, according to the Taegraph, is divided into three parties--a loyal minority whom it is impossible to employ, a disloyal minority preparing to fight, and, between both, the masses of the people, actually neutral and very uneasy, but irritated with the government, and justifying Feuhtnism in their hearts. Meanwhile the authorities stand alone. THE WEEKLY PRESS. I! 1 .1 i I „ .1 . 11 I 1 . 1 It ' i 1 1 . I E . I i r . 1 ! !' 1 • i • . , : i 11 1 t i 1 l i' i 1 1 ,i,i. \ 1 i \ .i i I.\\ ,131§4, SATURDAY 7-7 Exiillee't, anAP charffsi:sled be prow enesd ed on diOkw. Boit five teligra. nal in France may rule the point we tell. One thing we know, that if the appeal on this be rejected, a precedent will have been set that must render any further consideration in this eettnt7 of the Keteral ques tion useless and impracticable. The Saturday Review accuses Mr. Bright of malignity, of offering seditious suggestions, of wantonly ippesaing to in tolerant and treasonable propensities, and of being himself s demagogue, who substantially relies on the argument of brute force. It is difficult, it sap, to listen with patience to his imputations of disloyalty. Englishmen respect the crown, but they also venerate the constitution, and they re sent libelous attacks upon parliament as deeply as per sonal slights to the Queen herself. Mr. Ayrton's colleagues in the representation of the metropolis will congratulate themselves on their discreet avoidance of a meeting which apparently does not express the sense of their con stituencies. Discussing the French Empire and its critics, the Safer day Review upholds the imperial policy, ands , expresses its belief that notwithstanding the cases of klexiooandPrusais the general confidence of the nation in the Emperor and in his ability to guide and control it is byno means seriously shaken. —.demising the preparations for the coming session, the Saturday Scrim allows that in preparing a reform bill it is almost impossible not to make a large re duction in the qualification. Things are no longer as they were when Mr. Disraeli prepared his last bill, nor as they were when he said the reform be was for was lateral reform, There is no chance that the House of Commons will go back, after last year's long debates, and keep the qualification as it is, or nearly as it is. There must be a large reduction, and the more the subject is discussed the more we believe it Wi ll be seen that what Mr. Henley said long ago was righ, and that household suffrage in boroughs is the only r esting-point, and, if we ch an g e at all, we may as we e get to it at once. If there is a large extension of th suffrage, a conservative measure can only be conservative because it contains counterbalancing elements. There must be s afeguards proposed agains t democracy, or the conservatives would simply render themselves absurd by proposing the measure. Of all the sefeguards the one most probable in itself, and most in accordanoe with Mr. Disraeli's known views, is that of extending the bounda ries of small boroughs so as to include large country dis tricts. But evidently a conservative government will have especial difficulty in carrying a measure based on Mzxrco.—There is reason to believe that, not withstanding the statement in President Johnson's message, the French troops in Mexico will be brought home immediately. The unsatisfactory statement in the message, indicating further delay, seems to have been put out of date by the course of simultaneous negotia tions in Europe. In another week, the French vessels now engaged in the trans port of the garrison from Rome will have com pleted their work, and these will be added to the number of ships now fitting out for Mexico in French porta. General Sherman is understood to have proceeded to Brownsville, opposite Matamoros, from whence he and Mr. Campbell will communicate with the repub lican government of Mexico, and will probably cross the frontier to its support as soon as the withdrawal of the French to the Vera Cruz coast line shall have taken place. The position of the Archduke Maximilian is meanwhile ambiguous and obscure. Letters from the spot represent him as little better than a prisoner of Marshal Bazaine ; and the com plete diisorganization of his Austrian and native forces has destroyed his independent action, and ne cessitates his return with the French troops. Eta Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Drc. 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. walked and drove yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty I drove out this morning in a carriage and four, attended by the Marchioness of Ely and the Hon. Flora Macdonald. Princess Beatrice went out walking. Prince Leopold and Prince Henry of Prussia also walked out, attended by Mr. Legg and Captain Von Schroetter. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lord Bloom• field arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Her Majesty's private band played the following selec tion after dinner before the royal family : Overture, "Lestool" Selection. "Martha" Adagio mid Allektio • la ltuiae AnilanW Mareh Pay goldats, "Guillaume Tell" Tho ladies and gentlemen in waiting bad the honour of joining the royal family in the drawing-room. Major-General Sir Thomas and Lady Biddulph were honoured with invitations. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Susan Melville, went to London this morning. The Duke of Cambridge left the Castle this morning for London, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel H. Clifton. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lord Bloomfield have also left the Castle. The Prince of Wales, attended by General Lord i Frederick Paulet, Major Teesdale, and Captain Ellis, arrive,' at Marlborough-house yesterday evening from the continent. A deputation from the Royal Agricultural Society of England, consisting of Mr. H. S. Thompson (President), Major-General the Hon. L. N. Hood, Mr. Cantrell, the Earl of Yowls, and Mr. H. Hall Dare (Secretary), had an interview with the Lord President of the Council and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northeote, Bart., at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho- nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northeote. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council sat at Whitehall on Thursday evening on matters relating to quarantine. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester. , day. The lords present were Sir W. Erie, Lord Justice Cairns, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir R. T. Kindersley, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. VtNIiTG, DECE LAT. [GEN I THE REPORTED CONCENTRATION OF TROOPS IN GALICIA. • We find the following in the Nord: A telegram from Pesth announces that considerable purchases of horses are being made in Hungary. For whom? The telegram does not say, but the move. ments of Austrian troops spoken of in Galicia enable us to i mag ine the destination of these horses , the purchase of w hich is a curious commentary on the denial by the o cious press of Vienna of the report that there is any con centration of troops. It seems that Austria has very quickly recovered her disasters in the late campaign, al she already experiences the want of a new war. THE SURRECTION IN CRETE. —THE BL IN OW ING-UP OF THE CONVENT. The Setnaphore of &families publiahea the follow ing letter, dated Athens, Nov. 29 : The Candian news com es u p to the 27th. The loss of the Turks in the affair of the Convent of Arcadium has been enormous. The convent was defended by 197 Chris tians. There were also in it 343 women and children, whod o took refuge within its wa l l s. Dloustapha P a cha attack the convent with 12,000 men. The combat l a sted two wo days and two nigh ts, during which more than a thous can non shots were fired at the building. A breach having been made, the Turks, after the loss of many men, got within the walls of the convent, in the court of which the battle was continued for six hours l o nger. All at once a terrible explosion t whom blew up the greater p art of the vast building. The Chris tians had set fire to the powder. D3O Turks, amongs were a great many officers, were killed. The number of wounded is enormous. It appears from the official report that more than a thousand wounded persons were conveyed to Cases and Sonde., the hospital of Rethymno not affording sufficient accommodation. hloustapha Pacha 9o retreated to the fortress of R eth y mno, taking with him of the women, children, and nuns, who were not killed by the explosion. After the loss suatained atArcadium his army is not in a condition speedily to undertake a new expe dition. He has therefore or dered the army of Heraclinin to take the field , an d to enter the province of Meows, where the 'lnsurrection is in full vigour. The g t overnmen of lieracliutu has offered a rewar d of 500,000 piaatres for Koroncos and 5001. for Koraku. The catholic burial gr ound at Heraclium has been p rofaned by the Mitsui mans : the gate and palings have been torn down, the crosses torn from the tombs, and the Turkish horses allow ed to feed over the ground. The catholic pastor has made a report to the Archbishop of Constantinople to and the French Consul at Canes. (azerza's 'marmots.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Dec. 5. The official Gazette of to-day publishes a letter of the Emperor, dated the 4th inst., and addressed to the Minister of War. His Majesty takes note of the resolutions of the supreme military tribunal, according to which an inquiry should be instituted into the conduct of Field-Marshal Benedek, and Generals Henikstein and Krismanie, during the late war. His Majesty, however, orders that all further judicial proceedings against these generals or any other general or officer of the staff on ac count of similar accusations should be entirely dropped. -_ _- THE VOTE IN NORTH-Sy BERLIN, Dn. 8. A deputation of inhabitants from the town of Hadersleben waa received yesterday by Count Bis marck. In reply to their inquiries the minister stated that the popular vote in North Schleswig, whether those districts are to belong to Prussia or to Den mark, will be taken, but not until after the con solidation of the sta te of affairs generally in the Elbe Duchies. EXPRESS FROM PARIS• (11011 OUR OWN COBRESPONDENT. ) PARIS, FRtDAT EVENING. All doubts about Maximilian being now on his way to Europe are set at rest, although it does seem proved that Marshal Bazaine's threats or re monstrances prevented him from embarking so soon as he intended. The news of his departure was only a few days premature. The French go vernment knew long ago what his resolution was and the Patrie, which two days since indulged in a jovial laugh at the arrival of the Seine at South ampton without Maximilian, and insinuated that aft the news of his intention to leave the country was fabricated by revolutionary journalists, will have had but a very short-lived triumph. That highly conservative organ La France says this evening : We know from a certain source that the last despatch received in Europe from the Emperor Maximilian came by way of New York, from which city it was dated Nov. 23. It must have been sent from Vera Cruz or Orizaba to New Orleans by a steamer on t he 16th or 18th. By this despatch the Emperor desired the Empress Char lotte's physicians to m eet him at a port in the Mediterranean after the 15th of December. At the date of this despatch, therefore, Maximilian wag thoroughly decided to leave Mexico. We have reason to know that he ordered no more letters to be addressed to him in Mexico, and that this order has not been counter manded. The Memorial Diplomatique, the special organ of the Mexican empire in Europe, states, in its edition at this moment in the press, that the exact date of the despatch by which Maximilian ordered pre parations to be made for his reception at Miramar was " Orizaba, Oct. 22." The Memorial at the same time scornfully repels the reports that any part of the large sums of specie recently remitted to Europe from Mexico are waifs and strays se cured by Maximilian from the wreck of his empire. This money, it alleges, is th e property of rich people who are alarmed at the imminent pros pect of the withdrawal of the French troops. Count de Bombelles, a chamberlain in Maxiini hail's household, has arrived in Paris from Miramar to be on the look-out for his arrival in Europe. Mr. William Cullen Bryant, one of the most celebrated poets in the United States and the present editor of the New York Evening Post, is now in Paris. The Prince of Wales only paid a flying visit to Paris. He was received by Earl Cowley on his arrival yesterday evening and con'lucted to the Hotel Bristol, where he passed the night. His royal highness and suite were off this morning. All the stories of grand preparations for his re ception at Compiegne were fables. The Bourse was dull during the greater part of the day, but exhibited some firmness at the close, when the quotation of the Rente showed an ad vance of 10c. from yesterday. The latest prices were 69fr. 75c. and 69fr. 65c. Mobilier, Credit Foncier, and Italian closed with scarcely any change. THE RECENT " MIRACLE " IN FARM. - The Monde has received a commmunicatiou from the office of the Archbishop of Paris, stating that the publication of the cure took place without authority, and contrary to the ecclesiastical rules made by the Council of Paris ; and fur -1 thermore. that in investigating the case it was found there was no reason to suppose that there was anything mira culous in the cure of the patient. A Paris correspondent writes :—" Cloaks are to oo me back to fashion this winter. PaletOts are to be u tterly given up, and all ma le bipeds who respect them selves and the mandates of the Jockey Club we to ap pear draped in the ample folds of something between a Spanish cape and the old military cloak." 1 1t 8e 186t1t VICTOR HUGO AIM THE GREEKS. An appeal 'Maenad to M. Victor Hugo from oseece Iles determined him to write the following in support of the Candi= insurrection : TRANSLATION. " A cry reaches me from Athens. I n the city of Phidi ss an d Echrylus an appeal is made to me : my name is pronoun ce d. What am I to deserve such a n honour ? Nothing but a vanquished man. And who are they who call to me? The vanquished. Yes, heroic Candiotes, the fallen of to-day, you are the victorsof the future. POTOOMO. Even if you. are prostrated you will triumph. The protestation of a dying agony is a power. It is an a ppeal to God who crush e s—what ? icings! Those m i g hty ones who are now a g ainst and stubborn you , those coalitions of blind force prejudice, those armed an ti q ue tyrannies, h av e as their principal attribute a remarkable facility of making shipwreck. The tiara is on the poop, the turban on the prow, the o ld monarchical ship is leaking. It is at this very hour founderingin Ilexieo, in Austria, in Spain, in Hanover, in Saxony, at Rome, and elsewhere. Per severe ! You vanquished ? Impossible ! The insurrection suppressed is not a principle destroye d. There are no more faits aceom plis ; there is only right. Fact is never completed. Its perpetual in ' completeness is the opening which is left to Right. Right cannot be submerged. The waves of events pass over it- It re-appears. Drowned Poland floats on the surface. For ninety-four years European policy has torn this corpse, and the world has seen its soul floating above the faits accompbs. Greeks of Quid* you have right on your side, and you have Mao reason. Why a Puha should exist in Crete is beyond comprehension. That which is true of Italy is true also as regards Greece. ' Venice cannot be restored to the one without Crete being restored to the other. That which is there a resurrection. cannot be here a sepulchre. But in the meantime blood is flowing, and Europe permits it. She gets accustomed to it. To-day it is the Sultan's turn to exterminate a nationality. Is there a Turkish divine right venerated as the Christian divine right! Murder, robbery, violation, are at this moment sweeping over Candle as, six months ago, they dashed over Germany. That which would not be allowed to Schinderhannes is allowed to policy. To have the sword in h and, and quietly to witness these mur ders, this is called statesmanship. It would seem that re ligion is interested in what the Turks are quietly doing—the cutting of Candian throats—and that society would be shaken if, between Scarperto and Cytherea, little children were not put to the s word. There the ravaging of crops and the burning of villages is usefuL The motive, which explains and tolion.e rates these exterminations, is beyond our penetrat Alas ! one of the humiliations of men whom a long exile has made stupid (I am one of them) is that they cannot comprehend the great reasons of the present assassins. Never mind. The Cretan question is hence forth clear. It will be solved, and solved like all the other questions of this age, in the sense of deli verance. Greece complete, Italy complete, Athens at the head of one, Rome at the head of the other—this is what we—France —owe to our brother. It is a debt that France will acquit; it is a duty that France will discharge. When ? Persevere. Vieroa Huta°. " Hauteville House, Dec. 2, 1866." DECAPITATION OP A CHILD. DIQIJYBT.-(THIS DAY.) -- - This forenoon an inquest was held by m i. Ri c h ar d s , deputy-coroner, at the Green al eGliterTlAll 01, 1 road, relative to Use supposed murder of ermis elk found decapitated in Bun .fields, Burialsroond, John Se ''giant, a musician, living Is the A r a n Bons a i city-road, said that, on last Thursday di e , noon, at telt-past 3 o'clock, he found the child is gawk, wrapped up . in Burwhite cloth, lying near the pith i mis Bunbill ial-ground. He called the poli es . .. A Polioe•oonstable *organ, 272 0 , took the bear te statin. Mr. G. E. Yarrow, police surgeon, o da th at tie ii, called to emu nine thebody of the child. He feud s i head cut off from the shoulders. The skull was au d io in by violence applied at the back. The object of the im , tilation of the bodyyss not apparent, for the chili iiii been born dead. The hydrostatic test proved that the i child had sever breathe d The jury returned a verdict of "Found dead." A MAN KILLED BY HIS WIPIL-COMMITrAz FOR MANSLAUGHTER. Mr. Richards, deputy-coroner, held an'nquiri last night at the Wel lin g ton tavern, Cannon relative to the death by violence of Charles EuSei, 45 veers. eh ee tee Emus, 4, Hungerfordetreet, St. Geciewei e , the-East, son of the deoeffised, said that his lathe se. 000 per, and was employed at the Steam Cooperage(, parry's works, in Hungerford-street. Lut Sam* was paid 2/. wages, but 3s. 14. was stopped He . mer t „, hi e w if e e ed gars her 11. 17s. and told her net three shillings had been stopped, an d h e cou ld "pt Y until Monday or Tuesday. There was a row, and deemed called his wife a ba d name, and she also ; wss ship However, th e y went out together after w ards to nuke, They ret urned home about half-past 10 o'clock, who DM was out. Upon witness coming in at 11 (Aka Is found his father perfectly insensible, and his moths,* a poker striking at the landlady and others. Sts wr liquor. D ec eased died next morni n g . 'Elan Eastee, a Side girl, now clothed in the worlds. dress, deposed that her mother grumbled about 'ells* enough money to pay the landlady. Deceased tali be names. She told him to go out. lie went out as steps outside the door, and she then went behind ' flung him out on his head in the street. lay on the pavement. S he then got a poker, but she ' l - 81 strike him with it. She tried to strike other p m * Maria Olive, the landlady, said that on the Amami' question she heard a ‘ great disturbance. Wm &tee and w it ne ss and said, 'A had a half-quartern e 4 sad brandy and my husband drank half of it, lad - me . a bad name. Do I look like what be egi me 1' Deceased said, " She won't believe that stopped 3a. Id. of my wages, and that I sag ge e a s till Monday or Tuesday." Witness took a One. portunity of expostulating with the deceased whet hinge was not present, and said, " Reniember when you* ' broke out' before it h was troh aqu arrel. Toe ins called her a bad name, and if she ug breaks out ussyee know what you have to expect. She will tell mils. to get money to buy drink, as she did before." They* went out marketing together. Witness also went ost bei m coming home at half-past 10 she found deceased ling nearly dead on the flags in front of the house. Wills said to Mrs. Butte, " You are a wicked mama! Im have killed your husband." Mrs. Eastee got a peer, and sa ying, "Me a wicke d woman ! I'll show you the as renal ! rushed at witness and would have 'lan well as the deceased only some persons iMederet ceased was parried indoors and he died onfiandsysissisg. Dr. IL Tainton rid that he was called in to the deessi on Sunday morning last, and found him quite dead IS post.mortem examination showed an extensive framed the skull and consequent injury to the brain, sliistiai caused death. A very heavy fall would have rudest the injuries. A witness stated that the deceased was tong has is top of the steps on to the flags with each fora nett out of the boss is -.wed " as if be had been flung sack." The Coroner having summed up the evidence, The jury returned a verdict of " Mandsaghtes tql Elizabeth Eastee for feloniously slaying Choice Bern, her husband." The Coroner then issued his warrant for the &Mail the accused in Newgate to await her trial at the Cad Criminal Court. • After Mon .1•0 s Wwr es pa * of let/axe pia, 11 o p for Th ! , ?lain and that proper recover. site the stePP•d end the The be no accident could whether be V for Th is senor a ing so Kelico Mr. the p 1 for the ;Z 1 I._ A Mr conch Stoke brut a Ten oeeciii right tions am I paint on ha who alifbil LZI SIMILES. (From Punch's Pocket Book for 1867.) It is a painful thing to think that in this rapid age we don't know what we're talking about. The English language is in a transition state, and the slang of the pre sent will be the polished phraseology of the future. It is then, at this moment, for us to sift our conversations. Let us ascertain our true meaning, if any, and attempt to fix it once and for ever. Thus, in the matter of similes. Our similes, in ordinary use, are, all of them, more or less poeti cal • yet in some glaring instances so daringly fanciful as to baffle the purist, and defy the lexicographer. A young friend of mine wishes to put, forcibly, before me the fact that his co-collegian is leading a reckless, spendthrift life. How does he express it ? Thus : " He's going it like Old Boots." Who is Old Boots' What is Old Boots' I pause for a reply : and I don't get it. That Boots when they are old do " go" very fast I sin aware • but they don't go What does " it" stand for ' Again I pause for a reply,and again lam disappointed. " It," some one opines, is " the [ pace :" au ingenious suggestion, but no explanillation as s an y o ne, conversant with racing metaphor, w real allow. Let that pass. The same ides my young friend also Intends to conve y to me when, by explaining his first simile, he ma one kes use of a second, and says , t hat Sounds " "is going it like o'clock." So we get two equal terms—" One o'clock" and " Old Boots." Now, in the language of the future, will these be synonymous' and when anybody wishes to in quire the time, supposing it to be fifty minutes past m night, will the intelligible answer be, "It' just and ten minutes to Old Boot s ? Again I pause for a reply, again none is forthcoming. What state of moral rectitude is expressed in the simile, "As right as ninepence" ? Why should the i lifelessness of m utton and door-nails be proverbial ? I give t up. What is a Grig ? What makes it, whatever it is, so peculiarly merry ? Is Mr. Punch, that stern censor and moralist, always in f such a state of ecstatic d eli g ht with everything and every body, than no higher degree o pleasure can Ire imaz,ined than to be " as pleased as Punch" The coolness of Cucumbers I admit to be intelligible ; while "as hot as blazes" has a definite meaning. What period of time is meant by "Till all's blue"? and, to travel ' out of the record for a second or so, what part of time is " • ? jiffy" " As jolly as a ssndboy" conveys no notion whatever of hilarity to my mind. " Drunk as a lord" is evidently the malicious invention of a red-republican ; certainly not of • publican; while "Drunk as a fiddler" is simply • libel upon all violinists. I remain, poinsinz for LIKE W replie__,, y INKIN. ours, Viscount Hamilton and the Marquis of Bland ford, who accompanied the Prince of Wales to Russia, have not returned with him, the former having been left behind at Paris, and the latter at St. Petersburg. The witnesses appointed to represent the Em peror at the approaching accouchement of the Princess Clothilde are the Duke de Magenta and the Duke de Per signy ; but the latter, being at present unwell, will pro- b ibly be replaced by M. Bonjean, senator. Besides, there will be present, as on similar occasions, the ministers of state and of justice, as likewise the vicar of the Tuileries. The following are the railroads in Russia, viz.:— From St. Petersburg to Moscow, Tsartkoe, Peterhoff, and Warsaw ; from Moscow to Nijni-Novgorod, Riesan, and Jaroilaw ; from IVilna to the Prussian frontier ; from Riga to Dunaberg ; and from Odessa to Balta. A line is forming from Moscow to Orel and Kourak, and lines are contemplated between Dunsberg and Orel rid Vitesk, and between Poti and Bakon rut ltifly. The conflict between the civil and ecclesiastical authorities upon the marriage question in Italy has just bad amusing results. It has been discovered that certain ladies, residing in the Southern provinces, the widows of government officials, and who, as such, were entitled to the receipt of a pension, had contracted fresh matrimonial obligations without ceasing to make teir usual half-yearly application to the Treasury. In due h course, the facts, or part of them, came to light, and the payment was dis puted. The ladies, however, insisted that, as they were married simply by a priest, without conforming to the conditions required by the law, which regards the eivi. contract only as binding, they were still, strictly speak ing, widows, and consequently, entitled' to draw their allowances as before. They were, in fact, living in a state of concubinage, and as no provision had been made for such cases the autho•ities were fain to submit, and the pensions have been paid. The late Mrs. Francis Ann Williams, of Wanda worth, whose will has just been proved under 90,0001., leaves the following charitable bequests, namely-5,000f. to St. George's Hospital, to be expended towards the building of a ward to the hospital or for general pur poses ; and 500 f. to each of the undermentioned in stitutions :—The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Or mond-street ; the Hospital for hteurables, Putney-heath ; the Medical Benevolent College, Epsom ; Cancer Hoe. pital, Brompton ; National Benevolent Institution ; Go vernesses' Benevolent Institution ; and to lady Morrison's Fund of the Infant Orphan Asylum, W instead ; and she I bequeaths to each of her godchildren a legacy of 1,0001. The following notice was issued yesterday at Cambridge :—" The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity (Professor Selwyn), with deep thankfulness to Almighty God for restoration to health, proposes to resume his interrupted lectures in the ensuing Lent Term." Herr Joachim is carrying everything before him in Paris, as no violinist has done for many a long year. It is said that Dr. Wylde has purchased the German Bazaar in Langham-plaoe, with the view of building a music-school there, and, in connexion with it, a concert-room and • theatre. BURIAL OF A FELO-DE-SE AT JUDNIGHT. For the first time within a nuaetpr of s thettet, Norwood Cemetery was last midnight the swae rids burial without Christian rites of the corlthe of a Melee. Th e coroner's jury which, last evening at 6 site, found that the commercial clerk, William George n liams, had committed the crime of seltrarder, ee upon Mr. Serjeant Payne the sm ith y , 4 rs:i d ng his warrant for the burial of the MO by torchlight between that time and midnight. fele verdict of felo-de-se returned at Guy's Regal, xis in the case of a person who died there the thy re ago, and on that occasion the horrible form of &op stake into the body was gone through. The ghastly OW mony was performed in the burial ground silith l eat lois h os pital, and it is said to have been almost the ast Were in which that obsolete barbarism wash tnessed is Lathe. Lest the tradition should be by any miens out In the present case, t coroner expresely ordeesitiat no stake should be used. About 9 o'clock last night a common rinthererti drawn by an old horse, emerged from the hospice! pia The end of a deal coffin hung o ver the tabard, 99 eth name Williams written on it with su i c ide. In the was a bit of chalk, arid that it contained the body of the of an hour the cart, with its burden, was drawn spa tie highway, alongside a hedge at Norwoo d. The sigth viith• man at tae cemtery was called and informed of thaw nese on hand. e The functionaries at the aryl wer e just going to b ed, and were conk* t a ken by surprise by the production o f the Wg . rant for an immediate burial so late at lied. _! l ,l* G ar di n er, the superintendent , sent messengentothelsr bat b our i n g public-house, and was fort una te enough to es grave-diggers there. These men were Prospt " work to dig a grave at the soutb-east eviler of too* tery b enea th Dome lime trees. When the gran= eno ugh the cart, which had been left out on the was d r iven into the grounds. T hree men wtherescrline/ lifted the coffin from the cart, and, guided II Ow S im in li g ht of lanthorns, carried it to the rostllsear e ither end, e near the bottom, a candle was ste ekl ! nt earth, where, screened from the wind, wilichble,wW, and whistled through the trees. they cast a mkt/ W" upon the yellow clay. The coffin was la s ae pkos by means of ropes. The earth Val , ..., shovelled down and stamped in, the lights wen r''" all was over. --..... Fffiffifia/. ow Balloting Fefinigago ot POO CHILD. — Yesterday , in conformity with the Titled el Jewish religion, the remains of the lareeetel bef, daughter of the Baron Lion el de Rothschild, on, veyed from the mansion in Piccadilly to fits dainble' s epulture at East Elan. The hour flied for tore of the funeral proces sion was 10 o 'clock ; spa bi t° , that time a very large crowd had assembled, rOw P general desire of paying a last tribute ofd pect O whose loss will be felt bey ond the precinoi re, _ J . ° f a mily. The cof fi ns of mothe r and child had bees PP' ' in the vestibule, with two lighted silver o'o 1 the head of the bier ; a nd shortly after the tiresome for the removal, the hearse received its sad load, 01l followed from the door of the mansion by 6 ,t rill o . 114011r111114 coaches, to the number of fifteen, in fetus{ i the relations and friends of the deported. TO i grief was evident throughout the numerous un. mourners, and in some instances it was unomeow , The Baron Lionel de Rothschild was with &Sabi • ported to his carriage. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETTSOS 1 0 111 , INSCHIG WEEI.— Monday —Geographical, at B.ilro Geography of Lower Indus," Colonel ~..„ " Pengong Lake, Thibet," Captain Godwin -Metes._ 2: day—Royal Academy, at 8, " Anatomy," hir Fin Engineers, at 8, " Communication between Pa ss ~, Guards on Railways," Mr. Preeoe ; lor4 " Ethnological Results of Arab Conquest of t,,ik Crawford ; Archleology and Ethnological Prob so Dunn. Wednesday--Microscopical, at 8, I.• i Species of Tube -bearing Rotifers," Mr. Deis; g oo d'.;., Arts, at ft, " Old London," Mr. Croce. Thursday—% matic, at 7 ; Syro-Egyptian, at 71 , " Vale of Achit'fbit Ainsworth • Mathematical, at 8, " GeornetticslDO .... Professor doyley ; " Symbolical Development of s std' Clans of Functions," Mr. 0. C. De Morgan ; lio• L ! ` ) Zoological, at 84, " Sponges in British 1:!oren n • i Gray ; " Gasp murinus, Mr. Murray ; Simia," Mr. Ilivert ; Antiquaries, at 84.—Athera01, DiffyitEsa AT GREENWICH. —The Rev, Dt ,.. : 1 4 '; vicar of Gre.mwich, renews his apreal on I 'l7loo suffering artis ins of Greenwich. " ant orsu' i so gri "on the very best authority, and from m u , information, that the distress is eery real, sod!. numbers have been not, as I thought, emarno understated. They are now given as not l thral. An agent who has dispensed relief by person' " - ,.0* assures me that the distress is ' heartrending. o' g lent Greenwich clergyman bears the same testingel:a own curates tell no other tale. The homes o f wan, are being stripped, and the shops of the p.'5,,f filled. What relief has been given has been rrorlis gratitude, not seldom with tears. And lam rIF°II,O be able to assure you that I have received frorLin.;4ol Woolwich fade lsewhere contributions for so rigg members of their own class, with thus surance ro s ioe will be continued by instalments. attester „t/ their entire belief of the rea li ty of their did" . CR eympaYSTAL P A LAC E . --thy with the sufferers."ONG SNILLINC I 0 llni; Flimsy, Dec. 7.—Admissions on psYnr t, by season tickets, 1,017 ; total visitors, 1,14". E3itting I • oomj such o he she in no shows of ill desire rain& Kelke and n an al who ♦entta Theri Mend years' thing think bierk ii 7 o IT; said I .181 on il it too ea He