The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-08 00:00:00

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Tea Imperial Court of Correctional Appeal has, we learn, confirmed the sentence pronounced by the Tribunal of First Instance upon the Thirteen Deputies who were found guilty of forming an electoral committee of more than twenty per sons during the last general election in France. No one, however slightly acquainted with the ad ministration of justice in political cases under the Becond Empire, will affect the least surprise at this result of an appeal from one set of magisterial functionaries to another. In France the magis tracy and the bar are, to all intents and purposes, distinct bodies ; and under the present Govern ment not only distinct bodies, but as mutually repugnant se the wages of devoted service and the pride of independence can make them. Assuredly the illustrious advocates who represented the Bar of France at this memorable trial knew well that all their magnificent eloquence and all their irrefragible arguments must be wasted on a tri bunal composed of zealous agents of the Crown. Content to acknowledge the conciliatory patience and dignified air of open-mindedness with which the Court listened to their speeches, those eminent men were, doubtless, conscious of fulfilling a solemn duty to their conscience and reputation, and to the conscience and reputation of their country, in the defence of their clients, and of addressing • higher court and a larger audience than that in the presence of which they stood while they vindicated in the noblest language the first principles of political liberty and justice. It is difficult, we confess, for any ordinary Esg lishman to understand the satisfaction with which a government possessed of undisputed and almost absolute authority, and firmly seated on " the " national will," can regard such • judicial victory as this, or what advantage it can hope to derive from such • prosecution and such • trial. That • purely and professedly military government should suffer the inconvenience and annoyance of being pelted by the tongues of ambitious lawyers, when it might close its Courts of Justice altogether against political suitors and appellants from its decrees, seems an almost unaccountable temerity or caprice. But the system that now prevails in France is not purely or professedly military ; it is representative in the broadest sense, since it is based upon universal suffrage, and upon those " immortal principles of " 'B9 " which are always in • state of suspended animation. Hence the painful necessity for the Emperor NAPOLEON of observing the forms and traditions of "liberty and equality," as those some what abstract terms are interpreted in civilised countries. Hence the necessary inconvenience of open courts of justice, and of hostile speeches deli vered to the world. Sincere admirers of the Impe rial Government, among whom our modesty will scarcely permit us to take rank, are disposed to ask with some uneasiness whether it would not have been better for • Government elected by universal suffrage to have allowed some tb:rteen gentlemen of liberal opinions to meet together in a private draw ing-room, and even to form a committee for the selection of candidates of their own way of thinking at a general election, than in the face of Europe to provoke a trial, not of physical butof moral strength, in which all the character and intellect and inde pendence of the Bar of France, represented by such names as BERRVEFt, JULES Favor, DEPAURE, MARIE, DE , MAREST, PICARD, and ARAGO, are arrayed in defence of rights which no French Go vernment since the fall of the First NAPOLEON has •ven threatened or disputed. . - If this were merely, so to speak, a municipal ques tion, if its aspects and consequences were merely French, in would be no concern of liberal opinion in other countries. But in fact the question whether the foundations of the existing govern ment in France are as broad and dura ble as they pretend to be; whether the national will which is its title is genuine and au thentic ; whether the universal suffrage to which it periodically resorts for a renewal of its sanction is a aincore, unfettered representation of the whole heart and mind of the country, or as unsub stantial and unreal as those pasteboard villages full of happy peasantry with which the favourite of • Russian Empress amused her ➢lajesty on a " pro " gresa" through her dominions : this, we say, is not an exclusively French, but rather an European, an international question. France holds too high a *1 *PRESS, THURSDAY' EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1864 place among the Powers of the world to peewit her neighbours to be indifferent fo her political condition at home. And if when they find a government assuming to be founded on the na tional will, established by the votes of millions of electors, afraid to let thirteen independent citizen; men of unimpeachable character, meet in a private room to consult togither to choose candidates for an election, they may be excused for doubting the durability of an edifice of which the corner-stone is but a theatrical " property." M. BERRYRR, and his eloquent col leagues in the defence of these thirteen members of an electoral committee, cannot possibly regard the sentence of the Court of Correctional Appeal as a defeat. The trial itself has been a triumph. On the one aide a Government which strikes off eight thousand electors from the increasing population of tle capital ; which permits its functionaries and dependents to form electoral committees, and to "organise" universal suffrage by a wholesale system of fraud and intimidation, even to breaking the seals of private letters and ransacking private houses. On the other, thirteen harmless citizens accused of constituting an illegal association of more than twenty persons, and by the aid of the tortured text of an article in the Code prosecuted for an offence they could not, by reason of their number, have even technically committed, even if such an offence were known to the plain letter and spirit of the law. The true significance of this trial will not be lost to France or to liberal Europe. CU Court. WINDSOR CIA.STLE., Duo. 7. The Princess Helena, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Lieoteunnt•Colonel du Plat, wan by the South Western Railway to Kew yesterday, and yielded the Duchess of Cambridge and remained to luncheon. Her royal highness afterwards visited the Count and Counter of Paris, at Twickenham, and returned by road to Windsor Castle. The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley and Major- General F. H. Seymour, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena and Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. Florence Sey mour, drove in the grounds this morning. The Princess Beatrice went oat walking. lzuly Napier h►d the honour of dining with her Majesty last evening, and left the Castle to-day. Viaconnt Torrington and Lieutenant-Colonel F. Cavendish have succeeded the Earl of Caithness and Captain Sir W, Hosts as Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for Clamber, Notts. THE QUEEN'S INSPECTION OF THE WINDSOR GARED3ON.—A D♦ucHTER OF THE Rzon(xlci.—lt Mil be remembered that during the Qiiesn's inspectMn of the 2nd battalion Coldsltems Guards on Saturday last, her Majesty paid a visit to Mrs. Creme, the regimental sergeant-major's wife, who lias recently been confined. On Tuesday a letter was received by Lieut,Colonel Fading, the officer com manding the battalion, from 001, the lion. Sir C. B. Phipps, the keeper of bar Majesty's peivy purse, stating that the Queen, baring heard that the child (a little girl) was yet tin baptised, desired that it might be named Victoria Alberta, in commemoration of her Majesty's visit to the barrack. With the letter a cbegne for the sum of 5/. was forwarded, as a present from her Majesty to Mrs. Cresgb, and which was at once handed to the highly-gratified recipient. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador has returned to Chancing Howse, from Vienna, after an absence of three months. The Countess Apponyi is expected in town next week from Paris. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester left town yesterday for limboßoo Cattle, Hosts. The bake of Somerset will quit his official resi dent* at the Admiralty, early in the following week, for his mat, Storer Park, near Totems, Devoe, where his grace and family will stay until after the Christmas holidays. The Earl and Countess Russell left Pembroke Lodge yesterday on a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spencer Hones yesterday for Brighton. when they intend to stay till the 90th inst., and then go to Althorp Hall. The immediate cause of Lord Carlisle's death was paralysis moulting from softening of the brain. The funeral of the late Lord Carlise is fixed for Tuesday. The body will be deposited in the family bury. ing place—the mausoleum in the park at Castle Howard. It was Lord Carlisle's wish that his funeral should be a private one, but there is a strong desire in Yorkshire that the led sad °Hoes of public respect should be paid to the remains of this lamented oobleman. Great preparations are making at Romeey for the opening of the new Corn Exchange there by Lord Pal. mersion on the 15th bask Mr. Ruskin had a " talk" with the boys of the Manchester Free Grammer School. yesterday, in his own interesting and sunset manner. He wee well received in the school, and was enthusiastically cheered when. as • practical illustration at his advice—" Boys ought to be eager to play and ready to work"—he asked for • holiday. The extensive collection of modern pictures of the highest class, the property of Means. Hayward and Leggett, the well known picture dealers and publishers, was yesterday submitted to public comnetitios (in Coble' queue of the death of Mr. Leggett), at their Gallery in Chaagr•lley, Corehill. by Mears. Christie, Meneo•, and Woods. The amount realised was upwards of 7,24381. The sale was resumed this day. The following firma have a!ready announced their intention to clews their establishments on the 26th, and • large majority of the persons employed in them will hare leave of absence from Friday to Tneaday :—Mesers. Leaf, Sous, and Co. ; the Fore•street Warehouse Company ; MUM Cook, Son, sad Co. ; Marra. Ellis, Howell, and Co. ; Maws. J. and C. Boyd and Co. ; Messrs. J. and R. Morley ; Mews. W. and IL Morley ; Manna. Bradbury, Gre►tonz, Beall, and Co. ; and Masan. Caldsoott, Sons, and Willcooks. The Royal Sovereign, turret ship, was yesterday brought down from her moorings in midetream in the upper part of Poetemouth harbour, and again placed at bee old berth alongside Portsmouth dockyard. This course has been adopted is order to enable the dockyard authorities to complete the required alterations to the ship's fittings on the upper deck somewhere about the middle of January— the stipulated tune—it having been found impossible to carry out the work satisfactorily with the ship lying at so great a &Mance from the dockyard en her late mooring bee*. The portion of the Redbrid4e and Andover Rail way between Redbridge and Romney is completed, and the line between Southampton and Romney direct will shortly be open for traffic. The railway between Christchurch, in Hants, and the Isehimable watering plans of Bournemouth is about to be eommemed. General Todleben, the defender of Sebastopol, has taken his departure from Paris for Nice, when be is to welt oa the Empress of Rorie. A few evenings since a drama of the Duke de Iforny's was played at Compi4ne in the PTIMINICO of the court. It is ectitied Lea Finesses (tea Mari. The hero •od heroine--th•t ir to my, the most objectionalge characters—of the piece are a husband and wife, who deceive each other, and each of whom tries, by means of " the detectives," to hod out something that will leave the opposite party room to throw • stone. The locidents are of such • kind that at court they have been termed " situat io ns seabreness," and the witti. cisme eoongb to make a captain of Hassan hesitate before giving utterance to them. The Emperor did not know ea. icily what kind of • play the President of the Legislative Assembly bad composed until it was played before him. It is said that on seeing it he expressed the greatest dim pleasure, and ordered that It should be forthwith erased from the repertoire. On the first of this month more Moo. mat tableaux vivant* were acted. Oa* subject was " The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." The Marquis of Gallifet was the Chatelaine, and the pretty Countess Pourtales the Sleeping Princess. Hercules spinning at Orophales feet was introduced the same night, and when this tableau wee di► posed of the Coaster Walewska appeared attired as a Cambria.. LLMT INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIAN POLAID. The trial of the Poles of the Duchy of Posen continues to excite public attention at Berlin. It may be remembered that 123 were accused of high treason against the King of Prussia for the part taken by them in the insurrection of last year ; and that about a third were liberated immediately after the hearing of witnesses. The King's procnreur abandons the prosecution against half of the re maining 80 ; he calls for a condemnation to death on about 20, and a sentence of different periods of imprisonment against the rest. The State Court— s tribunal of ten judges chosen among the members of the Supreme Court exclusively for the trial of political offences—is to deliver judgment on the 23rd December. JAPAN. We (Gaiignatti) have received, rid Holland, a letter from Japan three days later than the news already published. It has been already stated that the Prince of Nagato, having refused to pay the war indemnity stipulated in the treaty of peace signed by him, a judgment of the criminal tribunal of Yeddo had decided that his two palaces should be razed to the ground and his servants put to death. We now learn that this sin gular and sanguinary sentence was approved of by the Mikado and by the Taicoum—the spiritual and temporal sovereigns of Japan—and that the number of servants killed in execution of it was 420 men and 215 women and children. The prince, on learning those facts, was deeply con cerned, and sent to the capital his first minister on board the English corvette Barons, which was placed at his disposal by Vice-Admiral Kuper. The minister, on arriving at Yeddo, waited on the representatives of France, England, Holland, America, and Russia, and besought them to intercede with the Taicodm in favour of the prince, his master, who had decided on executing all the provisions of the treaty, and immediately paying the sums due. Such was the situation of affairs at the last date. (azirnat's 171.10111.118.) THE ITALIAN SENATE. TURIN, Die. 8. In yesterday's sitting of the Senate, Signor Gallina said the convention ought to be accepted notwithstanding its origin. The transfer of the capital was necessary, but it ought to be effected gradually. THE SPANISH PASSIVE DEBT. MADRID, Dix. 7, Emma°. The Noticiat of to-day contradicts "the report that the Minister of Finance was negotiating for a loan on the basis of an arrangement with the holders of the Paaaive Bonds. PORTUGAL. PARIS, Dzc. 8. A telegram received here from Lisbon dated to day announces that the French Sisters of Charity at Macao will be replaced by Portuguese sisters. THE MAURITIUS AND REUNION MAILS. SUEZ, Du. 7. The Messageries Imperisles steamer " Etuarue, with the above mails, arrived here this morning. She brings 12 passengers and 213 packages of tiler. chandise. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Deo. S. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Borussia, from New York on the 26th ult., arrived off the Needles at 12.15 p.m. to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ors OWN colazeroxmarr.) . _ PARIS, WIDNINDAY EVINFLNO. The Appeal Court pronounced judgment this morning in the affair of the Appel des Treize. In accordance with universal expectation, the decision of the court below is confirmed. The court has exercised considerable ingenuity in so wording its judgment as to expose the smallest surface possible to the revision of the Court of Caseation, before which supreme tribunal the case will of course be carried. The proposition of the Procureur- General, that all electoral committees, if Con sisting of more than twenty persons, were illegal unless authorised by the government, is not adopted by the court to the full extent. It con siders as coram non judice the question whether an electoral committee which confines itself to the elections of its own department is or is not lawful. But it holds it to be established as a matter of fact in this particular case that the thirteen defendants were members of a committee which sought to influence the elections throughout France, and it declares (and a fearful doctrine it is in a constitutional point of view) that au association with such an object is unlawful. It cuts short the famous difficulty that thirteen could not possibly form a society of twenty, by declaring that there is plenty of evidence to show that the defendants had associates enough to make up the illegal number, and that the prosecution is not bound to specify the names of the remaining culprits or to include them in the prosecution, if known. It declares bold 4 "that these principles," so far from infringing the rights of the electors and the laws of the country, are, on the contrary, the maintenance and the application of them. As to the motion of M. Sensed, that the names of the persons whose names were mentioned by the judgment of the Lower Court as having been members of the association condemned as illegal, might be struck out of the record, the court held that it was not necessary to decide whether their intervention was receivable, since the grounds upon which the court founded its judgment showed that they had no interest and no object to gain of which legal notice could be taken. The committee of the Longchamps racecourse have resolved to give a new prize, consisting of a work of art, value 10,000 fr., to be run for at the great annual meeting in June next. M. Marie is still very ill. Hie attack was of a paralytic nature. He has been removed to the country, and it is doubtful whether be will be able to take his seat in the Corps Legislatif this session. The bulletin of M. Moognard's health, dated Dec. 7, is thus worded : The patient hes pasied• tolerably good aight, notwith steadies the agitation in the day ; his pawsl state is Noah the setae. The upward movement at the Bourse has made a great stride to-day. Route rose bk. for cash, and 35c. for account, closing at 66fr. lbc. and 66fr. 25c. Mobilier rose 1&r. Several of the railways were from 51r. to 7fr. higher. The Bourse has not seen such a brilliant day as this for many months. The bullion continues to increase in the Bank of France cellars, and it is expected that the discount will be lowered to 5 per cent. - The theatrical riots at Madrid are not yet at an sod. A disturbance broke out at the Moratin Theatre Let week, when the public aid the actors almost came to blows. The house be been closed by the authorities. AMERICA. We have received New York advices to the 1166 ultimo. The New York Times of that day says its intelli gence from General Sherman, although exclusively through Confederate sources, is of a very encourag ing character. The latest positive intelligence of his whereabouts is up to eunday, the 20th ult., at which time his advance was at Gordon, a station on the Savannah Railroad, sixty miles east of Macon. According to the reports in the Georgia papers, General Sherman had not, up to the 21 occupied Macon, though deserters to the Federal lines at City Point report that the Union forces were in possession of the place. The legislature at Milledgeville had fled in precipitation, Sherman's cavalry having approached to within twenty-three miles of the city. The Confederate forces under Cobb and Wheeler had been steadily driven before Sherman, who seems to have marched at the rate of fifteen to twenty miles per day, as be had made over 100 miles on the 20th ult., and had been gone but six days. Beauregard bad issued a proclamation from Corinth, Mississippi, invoking Georgians to " arise," and telling them that he was flying to their rescue. In an article upon Sherman's grand march, the lame paper says, in ita impression of the 26th ' Growl Martian's army la making tepid progress in its great march through Georgia. Our advioas are se late as Sunday last, at which time it was in the geographical centre of the state. The mews of this morning will be found both important and exciting—though the excitement in the North can by no means approach the tremendous commotion it is producing in Georgie, sod throughout the length and breadth of the whole Southern Confederacy. From the various items of intellipeoe that have reached ns within the week and up to this boar, mainly through rebel mediums, we are enabled to fix definitively two or three point. which were for some time ia doubt, to deduce some general results, and to draw some few in ference". 1. In the first place, as to the direction of Sher man's march. When the feet of a movement was originally announced to the public, it was • ',abject of distracting dispute whither it was to tend. Speculators and journalists differed as widely and as variously as possible. The whole Confederacy lay before them where to choose their piece of rest, with no guide but their own fancy. Sherman was marching upon Lynchburg, in Virginia, to co operate with Grant on the James ; he was marching upon Mobile, on the Gulf of Mexico ; he was retreating into Tennessee; was moving upon Hood's rear; was advancing into South or North Carolina ; was striking for Pensacola. But the actual fact has turned out to be as foreshadowed in the Times of the 10th inst., that Sherman is marching through the State of Georgia to • base on the Atlantic coast. 2. Sherman is marching in two great columns, each of them two corps in strength, with cavalry —one column (Howard) striking southward for Macon, and the other (Slocum) eastward for Augusta—the whole of the four corps, it is supposed, to form a junction at Augusta, and thence advance to the sea. 3. By Sunday last, Howard's column bad got as far as or beyond Mama, though it Is not fixed that the place itself was taken. His advance had reached Gor don, sixty miles east of Macon, on the Savannah Railroad, and at the junction of the railroad to Mil ledgeville. This point is 141 miles from Savannah, and 90 miles from Augusta. The main body was reported only 23 miler from Milledgeville, and the legislature of Georgia bad adjourned and left with precipitation. The other column (Slocum) had made about an equal distance along the railroad from Atlanta to Augusta. In other words, both columns had got about half way on their march to Augusta in six days (14th to 20th). Sherman's " orders for the march" require each of the columns to start habi tually at seven o'clock in the morning, and to make about 15 miles per day. We judge that the six days' march to Macon was almost precisely up to orders. 4. In this hundred mike' march through the most densely populated section of Georgia, Sherman met with no serious obstruction from the rebels. Cobb and his militia have popped up once or twice in the rebel news paper", and it is not impossible that they took refuge in Macon, which is strongly fortified, and made Inch a show of defence as to stop ens forces, if not to cause them to pass by the place. Macon itself, indeed, may not have been taken in Howard's line of march, as his troops passed to the north-east of it in the movement toward Milledgeville. Deserter from Lee's army, however, who cams Into our lines at City Point yesterday, report it. °coupe tion by our troops. 5. The march of our army seems to have spread over a wide extant of country. According to the rebel reports, which are doubtless authentic, Sherman's two columns have already traversed 18 of the most populous and wealthy counties in Central Georgia, via., Clay, Fayette, Fulton, De Kalb, Wakes, New tow, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam, Jones, Batts, Henry, Spald ing, Pike, Bibb, Twigp, and Baldwin ; end either his ion. Pantry or cavalry have visited the following towns : Decatur, Jackson. Griffin, Forsyth, Monticello, Hillsboro, Covington, McDonough, Social Circle, and others. At a dozen different points be has touched both railroads, and the width of the strip of country over which his army moves is net lees than 75 railer, covering both the named to Augusta and that ;to Savannah, Thus far, them, the march, in whatever aspect viewed, has been a success. The compact columns have marched to time, and resistlessly. The rebels seism to be in despair of stopping oar army. Beanreprd has issued • highfalutin proclamation, announcing that he is firing to Georgia's relief ; but more sober rebels than be are calling on the elements, the wawa', and all possible and impossible powers and weaknesses, to aid them. The whole Confe deracy is evidently in • panic ; and there is DO doubt that Jefferson Davis will do all that is parable to thwart or overthrow Sherman during the last half of his extraordinary march. That they have not succeeded in doing anything from last Sunday until now is evident enough, from the fact that they have not laformed me of it. We read in Gafignani :—" A great deal of gossip soda its way into print respecting L'afriraine, which amounts to this—that the two first acts are by far the best. Competent judges, however, who have seen the whole por tion, and goes over it carefully, aware an that this last work of hfeyerbeer's is also his greatest." An indignant French critic points out the fol lowing Enoch pieces which are Wag acted under dieguiaed same is London :—La Palterer de Paris, Fah/an la Tulips, La (Btansbre 4 Dean Lite, Don Clear de Ba:an, A!i Baba, L'Aienle, Le Capitaine Pantos se, Lea Freres Cora, Mademoiselle de Belle•Iele, J'inrite le Colonel, L'Aroeat du Po arra, aild Les Drawee du Cabaret. It is stated that Madame Ristori has accepted an eogagement at the Lyricist Posit aid is to teaks her &Gilt in a drama in were by X. Legatee, Les Deaz Reines de Preece, is the muse el test vain. The pity le to be in. Unpaged with choruses by Gotta& One of our daily contemporaries published yes terday a startling amount of an outbreak of weskits at Portland Island. To-day she same paper announces that the statement "has no foundation in fact." One of the prisoner., it *soros, made hie escape, and the authorities, fearing a general outbreak, hoisted the "mutiny signal^ A large force of military was immediately deapatehed from Weymouth, but their servioes were not required. . . A French journal, after repeating the paragraph from the Bogßah papers relative to the sale of Blair Athol to Mr. Jackson for 7,5001. remarks that, however high that price may seem, it is far below the sums paid for horse* in sapient times, and Matte that Philip of Macedon paid 13 talents for Bucephalua, which became the favourite bores of his eon, Alexander the Great. The tarot was equal to MOM., so that Bucephalus met 72,800 tr.; but as silver was at that time foertee times more valuable than sow, the above sum was equal to 1,019,200 fr. is the present day, 'which is nearly dm times the price paid for Blair Atha. FATAL AcclDax? AT AIIDLEDIDIL —OU MOD , day a 6,. little boy, between four and five years of agar perished in • remarkable way. His weeks. named Fisher. live under the Wealeyair chapel, just outside of Ambleside ; std at noon. their dicer time, Me child west for wets, to the well is the ohmel yard. This well is as mooing, Mum feet deep at the deepest part ; it is supplied from the bills above, and it discharges he waters by • mewed water. course, passing under the chapel yard and mother enclo ser., and under the gardee, drive, and field of the adjacent residence„ The Mild dropped the ma into the weU. and returned. He we misted presently after; sad it was too truly supposed that be had goes to the well main. The asiyhbours sesseibled ; the wabercourse woe laid epee at manna§ points ; sad Me body was found, two hears after be had disappeared, wader the drive. Owing to the heavy rains of Saturday sad Banal the water was rushieg through the well with meet faros ; sad, cum carried off his feet, the poor child had so chance. Some precaution will doubtless he taken to prevent the recurreem of such ea accident. WEST SUFFOLK ELECTION.-(THIS DAY.) (sr amnia TZLIZILPH.) BURY er. EDIWNDIEI, Tntraanar. Lord Augustus Her►ey, the conservative candi date, was returned this nowning without opposition. THB BURGLARY IN LOMBARD-STREET. The robbery of bullion, bank notes, bills of ex change, and other valuable securities, on the promisee of Mears. Beam, in Lombard-street, ix still es much a mys tery es it was at first. None of the stolen treasure has been traced, and the thieves are still at large. Some of the more experienced of the tXty detective potice have been engaged in the matter daring the bat three days, but with little or no result. Filet of all, there is nothing to show conclusively bow the thieves got into the premises ; there were no marks of violence found on the outside of either the window shutters or street door, and the irresistible conclusion is that the thieves were inside the house before it was closed for the night either on the evening of Saturday or Sunday. Mr. Baum. the senior partner in the firm, a gentleman of advanced age,was seen by • polioenonstable on duty to leave the premises on Saturday evening, in a cab, about 7 o'clock, and one of his two sons who assist him in the busineiedid not leave for the night until two hours afterwards. It is said the niece of the housekeeper end her husband, a working man, went to the theatre on Saturday evening and retained at halt-pest 11. The housekeeper, who with them lives in the top story, did not leave the house during their shames. and on their return nothing occurred as they passed upstairs to attract their attention except that the dog barked, which was unusual. The dog, though belonging to Messrs. Baum, was not @het up in their promisee at night, but had the run of the lobbies end 'ninnies of the whole house, which is five stories in height. The strong room which inclosed the iron safe is a plea about 8 feet by 6, under-ground, with an arched roof, and the hole which wee cut in the brick wall, and by which the thieves effected an entrance to the room, was immediately over the iron safe, 'hewing that they well knew its exact position in the room. Had the hole been out six or eight inches lower down in the wall than it was, the time spent in cutting it would have been lost, for in that case the iron safe would have bees immediately behind, and the aper ture would not have been large mynah to admit a person to enter the room by that way. Locksmiths, who have carefully examined the safe since the robbery, are of opinion that eceess was had to it either by unlock ing the door, or by its haring been left unlocked inadver tent, before the thieves entered the strong-room. Hav ing surcesded in opening the door of the wife, it remains to be enplaned why the lock on the inner side of it wee broken to pieces, and why, supposing the thieves got into the strong room by the bole in the wall, and returned that way with their booty, the two locks on the inner door of the room itself s ho uld have been wrenched off. On • search being made in the room b 7 the police, some lueifer matches, two vessels containing oil, one being an eau de-Cologne and the other • tin bottle, • small an vas keg, and some iron wedges were found, besides the four crowbars and two morticing chisels mentioned in pre vious reports of the burglary. The bag is said to be similar to some in which Lebo ' men carry victuals. In Lom. bard-street and also in a place called George-yard, running from thence to Cornhill, and hard by the scene of the rob bery, extensive building operations are now, and have been for some time, in progress. The two morticing chisels, when found is the strong room, were both broken at the points, and they had, probably, been used in making the hole in the wall. At all events, the crowbars present no appearanoe of having been used for such a purpose, and their points are so thick and blunt as to forbid the idea that they could have beset employed in prising open the door of the eds. It is said that when Mr. Banns, the senior partner, ecoompanied by • lad who acts as porter, first made the dis covery of the robbery on Monday morning, he was so affected that he swooned and fell to the ground, and he had hardly recovered when the polio, arrived . lt is understood that Messrs. Baum have intimated their intention to in creme the reward offered by them for the discovery of the stolen property from XI/. to 7001.—Tina. THE HEALTH OF MR. W. WILLIAMS, M.P.— We are glad to be able to contradict the report, which wee current In the untropolis this morning, of the death of Mr. W. Williams, the senior member for Lambeth. PARLIAMMITARY REFORlL—Tonight a meeting, to consider the important subject of earbernentary reform, will be held in St. George's Hall, Bradfin 1; W. E. Fors ter, Fag., ILP., in the chair. Sir Francis Crossley, Bart., Edward Ba'oes, Peg., ILP., James Staiiafeld, Esq., and E. A. Lotion, Esq., ILP., are amongst those ansoarced to take part in the proceedings. THACKERAY AND to said that the family of Mr. 7'hackeray have expressed a wish that the contemplated tribute to the memory of their relative and John Leech, in the Charterhouse, should take the form of a double instead of a single memorial, and that this will be the first point to be settled at the meeting of Old Oman slaw on the 13th inst.—Guardian. A NEW CM:RCS. —The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new church in Surrey usre was performed yesterday, in the presence of the Bishop of London and a large number of the metropolitan clergy. The building is from the designs of Mr. Robert Parris. It le calculated for the accommodation of 800 people, half the sittings being free. The architecture is that known as the demisted style. It will be 130 feet in length, 60 feet in width, with an open timber roof, without galleries, and cost 5,0001. The Rev. Oliver Mitchell, M.A.. Camb., .will be the minister. The Rev. J. C. Clark, 8.D., gives the site and 1.0001. towards the building fund. The rev. donor performed the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone. The service took place under a marquee decorated with gags, in the presence of an umumally large carmine of spectators. The choir of St. Peal's Oathedral took part in the service. After the 100th Psalm, " With one consent let all the Earth," had been sting, the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair said the collects appointed for the consion. The fun lesson, tan from the 3rd chapter of Ezra, use reed by the Rev. Canon Jennings. Between the first and Nord lemon, which was read by the Rev. F. F. Statham from 1 Oor., chap. iii. , the chant, " Te Deuce Laudanum," was sung ; the chant. "Dens mimereatur," followed the second lesson, and then the ceremony of laying the foundation-done took place. RAtTRIC[IO:ss IN LIVERPOOL CORPORATION LEASES. —Mr. Piero, a member of the Liverpool Corporation, at the meeting of the local council yesterday, drew attention to an inconsistency between the course adopted by the , borough magistrates as to licensee, and the regulations of the Finance Committee of the Corporation as to leases, so far as the interests of the licensed victuallers are concerned. The Liverpool magistrres have now practically thrown open the licensing system, no restrictions being imposed r to the requirements of the town, or the position of the houses for which licenses are wanted. When the renewal of corporation laws, however, la applied for, severalrestrle tire conditions are imposed by the Finance Committee, one of these being that public.hoases shall not be opined upon the premises for which the leans are granted, and another —affecting very large and important quarters of the town— that the premises shall not be converted into shops. Mr. Pictoa wished to know what right the corporation had to dictate to the town where shops should be op ened. This was • matter in which the tows was the best Judge. Where, he asked, would the present trade of Liverpool have been if this system had been adopted 50 years ago? During the further discussion of this subject it was intimated that the Fiancee Committee were about to reconsider the whole question of the system of granting lessee under the Cott mrs tioa. So far, it was stated, the accounts which they had taken had been confirmed by the whole conned. THE DIY•TRLSB IN LANCASHIRE. —Mr. Maclure, hon. secretary to the Coated Executive Committee, issued the monthly report yesterday, which mays :—" There was a partial revival of employment in the mills in the month of November, which I am able to isform you has beam still further increased during the past week. I find that during the recent crisis in the trade of the district, viz., in the mouths of September, October, and Noeember, no less than 120 marinfacturers sod spinners, chiefly the former, have anspeeded payment, their liabilities being estimated at about 750,0001. and nearly 24,000 operative. hare in asseequenee for a time last their ordinary employment. The fel= extract from Mr. Justice Blackburn's charge to the jury at the Manchester Assizes yesterday affords a most important confirmation of the remarks made last mouth re 'poetise the satisfactory conduct of the operative population during this moat trying period :—• The charges which would be brought before the grand jury were certainly lighter in number and quality than he expected they would be. There was one other circumstance he might mention, as it had given him very great pleasure, mad he was sure it would be a matter that the grand jury would be glad to hear. The factory operatives of this district had for a considerable time been placed under circumstances of great distress and privation. So far es be had observed the caleedar, he bad not seen a single charge coenected with any of the dis tressed factory operatives. Though that clam had been bag suffering, so far as could be remand by the calendar, so crime had bees committed Sy them. a airetiMitaool which led him to thick highly al their respectability. He was pre pared beforehand to find them a respectable clam ; bat be nevertheless expected to disoover that they had committed a few crimes ; he, however, found that they bad committed wee.' " Ara or Ki-Jonas PIRRIN. —The Right Hon. Louis Perrin, retired Judge of the Court of Queue. Beech, died this morning. at as Winne«, age, at his mildews, Knochdroniin, near Rosh, county of Dublin. He we called to the bar in 1806: appointed by the Marquis of Nannanby Attorsey-Gesesel, 27th of April, 1835, whieh adios be Med until he suceseded. in August of the same year as one of the Judges of the Court of Queen' s Bench. Jodie Perrin retired on a pension in Petwarr„ll36o and ti succeeded by the present Mr. Juirlies Preniog Moil. A CRIMINAL Aeons FOR BRISTOL—The follow ing is • copy of a letter received from the Seer Wary of State by the Right Wonhipfn/ the Mayor (Mr. W. Neigh), ou the subject of • criminal assize being held at Bristol : ** Whitehall, god December, 1864.—5ir , -1 have kid yew letter of the 22nd alt. be f ore Secrels Sir George Grey and I am to Inform yen in reply th a t a oneemissiess le; holding • crimioal Lesion at Bristol will be issued at the ensuing spring assize. —I am, sir, your obedient esenat, Wanninnton.—Tint Mayor of Bristol" SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW.-(THIS DAY.) Notwithstanding the incessant and pouring mil ; the Agricultural Hall was exceedingly full during the of the morning. Nearly 40,000 persons passed the tuf t . stiles and paid for admission during yesterday ; and j ing from the appearance of the show this morning, there but small doubt that some other days will equal that t& turn. The Agricultural Hall directors and shareholder; must be proud of their investment. The sales effected during the morning were more lie than in either of the two priories days. In clue :' Robert Farthing's wooed prize of 33/. was sold to 11r. If. Hatch, of Croydon ; and Mr. Perkins'. third prize of the rme elms sold to Mr. Lennell, purveyor to the Yr.: of Wales, Windsor. In clams 13, No. 107. the Earl borough's short-korned steer, has found purcha,a‘ Messrs. Hedges and Wilkins, of Oxford. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—(THIS b.l The annual meeting of this society took I ' • soon, in Hanover-equare ; Sir E. KERRISON, siding. Among those present were Lord Faversham, ( Challoner, Mr. Hollartd, M.P., Mr. Thompson, M.l'., Heron Maxwell, Mr. H. Corbet, Professor Volcker, Mt, Baldwin, Mr. Fiore, Mr. C. Stokes, Mr. T. Stearn, Mt, Jacob Nikon, &a The Sicuraay (Mr. Hill Dare) read the to:i.e.: ; report : " The (toucan have to report that during the p—t . year the society has lost by deaths and resignations its members, while 478 new members have, durin g same period, been enrolled on its lists, which is now %0L , .. toted as follows :-7'l lire governors ; annul vernors ; 1,373 rd. members ; 4,463 annual 17 honorary members ; making a total of A new list of the governors sod members of society having been published in the last number the journal, the council submit to the members on Lir occasion the following schedule showiug the districts which they belong :—England—Beds : Number of memh.,, 41; amount of representation in the council, I ; Ber,,, • 2 ; Bucks, 73, 3 ; Cambridge, 56, 1 ; Chester. 121, 1 • wall, 48 ; Cumberland , 60 ; Derby, 113, 1 ; Devon, I'2l. • • Dorset, 88, 2 ; Durham, 176 ; Emu, 147, 4 ; Gloucester, • 4 ; Hants, 164. 2; Hereford, 15i, 2; Herta, 100, 1 ; H . 37 • Kest, 220, 1 ; Leacester, 177. 1 ; Leicester, Lincoln, 199. 4 ; Middleux 360, 2 ; Monmouth, n, Nerlfolk,ls2, 4 ; Northam pton. 103, 1; Northumbe:....:„;, 419, 1 ; Notts, 137, 3 ; Oxoa 1.22., 3 ; Rutland, 13 ; 166, 1; Somerset, 149, 2 ; iteffs., 131, 1 ; Saffolk, Surrey, 188, 1 ; Sussex, 153. 4 ; Warwick, 1'... Westmoreland. 22 ; Was , 133, 1 ; ter, 170. 1 • York, 233, 6 ; total, Wales : AngliMM, 8 ; Beeson, 11 ; Oardigia, 11; then, 24 ; OMIIINIVOIS, 12; Den bi gh , 27, 1 ; Glamorgan, 38 ; Merioneth, 7 ; Montgomery , 17, 1 ; broke, 32 ;Radnor, 9. Totals —England, 225, 74. s 86. Ireland, 79. Channel Islands and Isle of Mu, Foreign countries, f 1 ;—general total, 6013, 74, This schedule will enable those friends of the society a:,.! of agricultural improvement generally, who reside is cr bias where the number of members is below the averk:e, to remedy the evil by recommending to the conned to: election the names of candidates who will no doubt ready to avail themselves of the numerous adrietager , offered by the society, and by their personal inflame' . ' in the dissemination of the valuable information afforll in the pages of the Journal, in the lectures delirerd :4 the members, and in the show yard at the country mestinzi. The council have elected Mr. Wm. Bargees, of the Era. Burger and Key, to fill the vacancy caused by translata of Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood to the list of no. presidents of the society. The half.yearly statement of a:. counts to the 30th of June, 1864, Ms been examined nol approved by the auditors and accountants of the society. The finances were never in a more satisfactory condmoi than at present, the sum of 2,0001. having been lately ailed to th e funded capital of the moiety, which now anionnts 18,7681. ls. 10d., stock in the New Three per Cents. The council have appointed • committee to consider the seL:eet of the Improvement of the Education of those who &toil upon the Oaltivatioa of the Soil for their rapport,' and order to obtain information on this important stkert the Council have offered • prize of 501. for ix Fray on Agricultural Education, and they tore authorised their Educational Committee to invite examining bodies such u the Universities of Oxford el Cambridge, the Royal College of Preceptors, the Society Li Arts, &c. to appoint one of their members to confer ad the committee. The meeting at Neweastle.upoe•Tree vw highly successful in the amount and character of the !in stock and implements. The MOMS for tellies tae power given off by agricultural machinery have the year been perfected in • striking and satisfactory manner, by the consulting engineer, Mr. Amos (of the um of Etle.oll and Amos), who invented • Dynamic Ber a description of which will appear is the joureaL The council deemed it right to appropriate a large aniout money to the trials of steam cultivators, and feel °evince. that the members generally have every reason to be setriel that this was • judicious approp ri ation of the kindle of the society, and a thorough test of the advance of this toe important branch of agricultural machinery. The general meeting of the society held in the slic" yard conveyed to the mayor and corporation of Newcastle and to the local committee who bed u zealously co-operated with the council on the wan= their cordial thank/ for the kind attention they paid to the wishes of the Society and the admirable manner in which they had made every arnangexert required for promoting the success of the meeting. Tie society are indebted to some railway companies for tle arrangements they have made at their annual shoe, regret to say that in some instances facilities hare not been afforded to exhibitors for the conveyance of got" at • reasonable rate. The Council have decided that the Plymouth meeting shall be held in the week commeecin; Meedev, the 17th of July. and the prise sheets will shortly be ready for distribution. Land for the trial of drill, ter nuns distributors, mowing, haymaking and reaping I.r chines, and horse-rakes, bee already been placed ander Its owasesery cultivation, and prizes 'meantime to 48 . . will be offered among these classes of implemeots, ssd 2,8151. for stook. The council have from time to time tees favoured with various communication from Earl Eassell, her Majesty's Secretary of brace for Foreign Minus, the 1 substance of which have been public in the published pre eeedings of the meetings at which they were real. Professor Simonds has delivered • Lecture befits the members of the Society on the small pox ' sheep, which will appear in the Journal of the Bmatl. 'The governors of the Royal Veterinary College have pre Dented their annual report, by which it appears that mote 'animals have been admitted into the hospital of the college for treatment ; also that there have been more roncilte. tines ; and that other arrangement' have been made tend"; to the farther development of the veterinary art in respect of the pathology of cattle. sheep, and Alga.—By onto of the Commit, H. HALL Dmm, Secretary. Mr. J. C. Momma, is moving the adoptioe of the report made some lengthened remarks on agricultural educanoe. and urged on the roan it the neoessity of taking steps fora general improvement, A discussion on the subject ensued. Mr. THOXPSON, M. P., in reply said the subject bad hem and still was under the consideration of the couneiL After some disemeion the report was adopted. VALUABLE LIFEBOAT 1311:6PICES.—OBIIK'S HEIN WEDNESDAY NIOHT.—A sign al of &dew was observed this morning (reports Mr. ohs Williams, of Llaydoso! from • reseal near the Little Orme. lied. The Saga Memorial lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution. Mr tioned here, wee immediately launched, and reaclud firs vessel in about three quarters of so hour. On a mines alongside they found the vessel at anchor with her mist cat away, and the water and two men on board. The , roiled not have been saved without the aasistenee of the lifehosl• It blew very hard from S.S.W. The crew of the lii,seat ultimately brought the reseal and her crew safely so Liar dudso. the was found to be the fiat M..rning Star. of CI servo., with coals, from Liverpool to that place. The M I of this lifeboat was presented to the Institution br to sisters in memory of a deceased sister. PRIMIDINT LINCOLN'S FIEST POLITicAL Sr , " • E. —Abraham Lincoln made his first political speech in when he was a candidate for the Illinois Legislature. Hw opponent bad wearied the audience by a long speech. W itte Mr. L. but a short time in which to present his neva He 000deseed all he bad to say into • few words as follow: —" Gentlemen, Fellow-citissaa,—l presume you all know who I am. lem humble Abraham Lincoln. I hare bah solicited by many friends to become • madidate for the 1.!•• gislaturs. My politics are short sad sweet, like at 0 4 woman's dance. lam in favour of a national bask. in favour of she internal improvement system. and t t4ll protective tariff. These are my sentiments and p". , t ,11 oriacipies. If elected. I shall be thankful. If not, be all the sums."—.Yew York Anli•Slarrru Sinn& DEATH OF PROFESSOR SILLIIIAN.—ProfeaSor 1 341 ' Jamie Sillimaa, eon.. expired at his residence, New Harm on the 21th. Mr. Sillimsu was the non of Gee. Gold , el 4 !'k Mimeo, who rendered his Country important service dorsi the revolutionary war. He graduated at Yale is afterwards studied law, and was admitted to the lst 1802. He afterwards &merited the chair of chimillr; Yale College, and visited Europe to prosecute his sec' in a askew which was at that time almost unknoset America. He returned after an abeam.* of too . mouths, sad published an interesting account o f ha travels. In 1907 he made a chemical anal 3 2",. a susteeriee of great sits and brilliancy w°, had bunt in the town of Western. Coloseta" t s afterwards assisted Dr. Woe ia his experiments with ozyhydrope blowpipe, to which he gave the mor e "ceenpound blowpipe." by which it is conamosly koo In 1818 Professor Millman founded the Aneeriorn of Bekaa and Arts, better known both is Earolw. America se Salina'''. Journal, of which be rermirw.. senior editor till 181 ti. He was one of the earliest Yes: is ease to give popular lectures on eniestifir subjvcte. 18301 as visited Europe a second time. He resigned professorship is 11133, but continued to give lectures f.'e Ma! Whin. He was a man of simple tastes and 5 , 7.. babies, sad his old age was remarkably free from r.'r or bodily Infirmiti, said to the very last he took s interest in the progress of science. humanity, and treed all over the world.—New York Times.