The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

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Nornmo can be more legitimate, nothing more natural than that Roman Catholics should meet together whenever and wherever they will and can, to express their sympathy with the Head of their Church in the midst of his many trials and trou bles, and their devotion to his spiritual authority. Roman Catholics who have the good fortune to be Englishmen as well as Roman Catholics, or, as Lord DENBIGH prefers to desciibe himself, " Eng " lishmen, if you please, but Catholics first," are happily in a position to do without let or hindrance in a Protestant country what no Pro testant or Jew born in the States of the Church could dream of doing at Rome on behalf of his faith. Imagine a public meeting at Rome to inveigh against the surreptitious baptism of a young Jew, or to demand liberty of worship within the walla of the city, or to protest against a " Papal aggression " in England. Archbishop MANNING, the Chairman of the meeting at St. James's-hall on Wednesday last, "would leave " perfectly free to everybody the right of private " judgment" ; we should be glad to know how much of this liberty of private judgment he is disposed to leave to heretics who enjoy the hospi tality of the " most irreproachable, just, and mer " ciful Government on earth." That, however, is one of the previous questions " which infalli bility allows itself to beg. " Liberty of private " judgment " is a question of degree—of lati.ude and longitude. In a meeting to which admission is obtained by ticket liberty of private judgment is not a very dangerous concession. It deserves to be remarked that this meet ing was presided over by • " convert," and that the principal orators on the occasion were also converts. This simple fact will account for and excuse any excesses or eccen tricities of language. Converts are the en fant., terribks of Holy Mother Church. It is creditable, however, to the sagacity which never quite deserts an English speaker of the most furious convictions, when he hears that he is being "reported," that Archbishop MANNING and the speakers who followed him laboured to coduse, after the manner of all the State papers of the Court of Rome, the two perfectly distinct questions of the Spiritual and the Temporal Power, and by way of appealing to the sympathies, not of the "Catholic world" exclusively, but of all Christendom, denounced " the outrages and " sacrileges which bad been levelled against the " holy office"—not against the political office— of the Port. These attacks had moved the indig nation of Catholics. But what had a few speeches against the "holy office" of the POPE, delivered by irresponsible agitators at a popular congress, to do with the question of the Temporal Power? At Genova, a city where, as in London, the majority of the population are Protestants, but the Roman Catholic minority enjoy perfect liberty of private judgment, these attacks were not left unanswered : the offended minority appealed, not to argument, but to the local admi nistration, against its adversaries. But no one knows better than Dr. MANNING that the question between Rome and Italy is not one that concerns the POPIN " holy office." The Archbishop de mands, and has a right to demand, that the voice of " the Catholic world " shall be heard, when "the dignity and independence" of the Head of the Church are in jeopardy. But let us sub mit this " Catholic world" to analysis. What is it composed oft Is it the France of VoLraine, and of the Revolution, or the France of the First NAPOLEON, who abolished the Temporal Power of the Pore by a stroke of his pen ? Is it the France which pays for the public worship of Jew and Gentile alike out of its budget ? Is it schismatic Russia Is it Pro testant England ? Is it the Austria which has just repudiated the Concordat and insisted on lay in struction and civil marriage ? Is it Prussia Last, not least, is it Italy I There are, or are sup posed to he some twenty-four million Catholics in Italy, and surely Italy, of all European States, has a right to be counted as part of " the " Catholic world "—ltaly, the seat of the Papacy, the centre of Catholicity. Or does your " Catholic world " consist only of a few noisy fanatics, a powerful vested interest, an uncounted mass of ignorance and superstition, a clique of political intriguers, a coterie of frivolous and devout women of the world at a loss for excitement to kill ennui, Antibean legionaries, and Pontifical Zouaves t Dr. MANNING praises the King of PRUSSIA for having expressed the hope that the 1 Roman question might be settled in a manner satisfactory to " the legitimate desires of " his Catholic subjects." Every Protestant Sovereign may in perfect good faith de sire as much as this, without for a I moment admitting that the perpetuation of ' the Temporal Power of the POPE is a " legitimate" desire of Prussian or English Catholics. To deny that Rome is the capital of Italy because it is the capital of Christendom (which it is not) is equivalent to denying that Constantinople is the capital of Turkey because it is the capital of Islam. It may be rhetorically convenient to the orators in St. James's-hall to treat Christendom and "the Catholic world" as convertible terms, but the fallacy is too transparent for public credulity. If " the patrimony of the Church " means a certain enclave on the Italian peninsula, it will certainly never be guaranteed by " Christian Europe" sitting at a Conference. The Archbishop of PARIS invites " Christian " Europe " to provide the Papacy with those material resources without which no earthly State can erbeist in these days ; with a solvent exchequer, a standing army, improved agricul ture, flourishing industry. There is something tangible and practical in the views of Monseigneur de Paris, but we fear " Christian Europe " will respectfully decline his proposals. Yet they are not more fantastic than the Archbishop of Wm MINSTER'S historic admonitions. "No King or " Emperor," he declares, " has yet tried strength " with the Roman Pontiff who has not been " abased." Thusitmustbe a vulgar error to suppose that an English King had tried strength with the Roman Pontiff and had on the whole come out of the encounter in a tolerably sound condi tion. Indeed, if we compare the present state of the kingdom which tried strength with the Pots three centuries ago with that of the only kingdom in Europe which still preserves its unity of faith, we can only suppose that Dr. MANNING takes refuge in prophecy, and points to the future abasement of Protestant England and the future glorification of Catholic Spain. For the present, at any rate, his warning is not calculated to discourage Italy. But we should be sorry to misrepresent the Archbishop of WESTMINSTER. He protests that it Is not because the HOLY FATHER seta any value on the Temporal Power that he invokes the aid of Saint Chanel - sit to defend it. The HOLY FATHER " counts all " temporal things as PETER counted his boat and " nets." Only the successor of St. Parts is always ready to lay down his life (or, rather, the lives of six hundred Italians) for his boat and nets. The Apostle himself left his boat and nets, and all that he had, to lay down his own life for his MASTER, and to preach the gospel of charity. No one who has seen Pies IX. on his knees at the tombs of the Apostles will doubt the perfect sin cerity of his self-denial and his indifference to all worldly possessions. But it is his misfortune to serve two masters ; St. PETER served one. Lord DENBIGH, who, notwithstanding his re nunciation of the title, was an Englishman before he was a Catholic, does credit to his conscience. A certain " Fenian " element even in the most respectable British ultramontarism appears to great advantage in his speech. Taking exception to the perfectly neutral accuracy of the expression in the QUEEN'S Speech which referred to the irruption of " a band of volunteers " into the Papal States, Lord DENBIGH gives the lie to her MAJESTY. He is indignant that her MAJESTY should not have described the Garibaldians as " bandits and cutthroats." But he tells a story of one of the soldiers of the POPE which is worth preserving. This young servant of the Cross " killed fourteen Garibaldians with the butt of " bis musket," which seems to imply that the Garibaldians were unarmed ; "and then commended " his aoul to God, and knelt down just in time "to receive seventeen bayonet stabs from the at ." When the life of Saint Chas sepot comes to be written, this story will hold a place among the exploits of his disciples , along with that other charming bit of " word painting," the account of the young Zouave who, as he lay dead on the field, wore an angel's smile, while the face of the Garibaldian at his aide " looked dam " nation." After these agreeable little narratives, we need notbe surprised to hear that if Gssuaran had captured Rome, eight thousand priests,includ ing the whole Sacred College and the HOLY FATHER, were to have been guillotined. A year ago, when the French were leaving Rome, the Catholic world in that city were looking forward to ther fate with all the gaiety and assurance of martyrs ala mode. At Rome, as all the world knows, they always speak the truth. Si dice is infallible. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING; DECEMBER 6, 11110.1111r"' OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TEM RODS' OP LORDS AND THE AITSSLNIAN ZIPIDITION. Protesting at the outset against the course which the greater part of the Abyasinian debates have taken in each bowie of parliament, the Tosses observes that in the Commons particularly much that has taken place has been mere trifling. Allow Cons.l Cameron's misdeeds, concede the negligence of Lord Russell and Mr. Layard, and there remains the grave and sufficient tame of war behind. The conduct of King Theodore to Mr. Rusam is unpardonable under any hypothesis, and if he refuses to attend to the ultimatum which is tendered to him, this is in itself enough to constitute a sufficient auto bdli. Lord Ellenborongh's speech in the House of Lords, with its antique spirit of restrained power and wide-reaching thought, is in striking contrast to the addresses in the , Commons, and must have struck its hearers the more painfully Oa they reflected how few must be the occasions on which they can hope to witness such a display again. His criticism, wherein it goes to show that the expedition in overlaid with unnecess►ry additions, is of a more prac tical character than the objection to the expedition itself. Despite Lord Derby's reply, we are left in the end to the tried ability of Sir H. Napier, and the hope that at last all will come right. We are, in fact, as a nation committed to this enterprise. The extraordinary session which ter minates to-day has solemnly ratified its policy. It is now the duty of Englishmen with no ungrudging hand to sup. port its progress, and, without neglecting the lessons which the events leading up to it force upon us, to do all we can to bring it to a prosperous conclusion. Noticing the loose and slovenly way in which public business must be transacted when the Emperor Theodore's letter was practically loot for three yeas between White hall and Victoria•street, the Daily Netts remarks never theless that inch topics as Dr. Beke's veracity or Mr. Ras sam's relations with Mr. ILayard belong to the realm of the infinitely little, of which in parliament there are sometimes as many illustrations as the court of Berlin ever displayed. Lord Derby, with commendable good taste, passed over the diplomatic origin of the embroilment, but he wisely refrained from any attempt to prove, though be summed it, that the financial arrangement whereby India revenue is charged with the ordinary pay of the troops of whose services she is deprived, is just or expedient. The Poet contends at some length that the Commons diacussicm last evenin t fully proves the cue it has lately attempted to establish against the permanent clerks. The Star complains that Mr. Gladstone did not even avail himself of the opportunity of demanding why the government had broken off peace( al negotiations at the moment when they might have been useful, while Lord Russell last night conclusively adopted the acquiescent and applausive tone which has characterised all official and many unofficial utterances. But for all this, the war stands now coodemned as needless, rash, and ill-omened, and the day is not far distant when all who have helped to bring it about will be eager to wash their hands of it. The Tdeyrapli ridicules the vatioinations of Lord Ellen borough. It says the Duke of Wellington's description of I him is perfectly true. " He is like a Flanders mare," said the duke, " all action, and no go." The debates both in the Lords and the Commons testify to the thoroughly na. tional character of a war which, though insignificant in its proportion; Is ambled by the motives that have la• gpired it, and by the objects to be achieved. The Standard is sorry Lord illenborough should have lent hie rare elopes= and b authority to accredit melt mischievous argument; THE BISHOP OF VERMONT. The Daily New gives an account of a singular corres pondence which has been published in America between Dr. Hopkins, Bishop of Vermont, and the Dean of West minster—a correspondence which took place at the time of the meeting of the Pan-Anglican Synod. It seems that Dean Stanley explained to the bishop that he was particularly anxious to show every courtesy to the bishops from the United States and that it was chiefly on their account he had offered the abbey for some service, Independent of the synod, which should gather them there. To the generous and gracious letter of the dean, Bishop Hopkins responded in a long and angry epistle in which he rated the dean upon his conduct, and condemned the portions of the ecclesiss tical system which gave to the deans such power. The Daily News says the letter is only carious as it suggests the question what can have possessed a foreign ecclesiastic with the notion that he is entitled to lecture our clergy, whose position and rights are defined by law, upon their duties ? Even if an unfair advantage might be taken of Dean Stanley's courtesy, Dean Milman, who is also attacked, had written no letter, nor had any one submitted the system of the church of England to Dr. Hopkins for revision. The church principles which this learned divine so freely lays down, may be very good in Vermont or elsewhere, bat they have no authority here. The present case, however, is very clear. The Pan-Anglican idea has completely turned Dr. Hopkins's head. In the Lambeth meeting, private and unauthorised as it was, he fancied he saw the parliament which wail henceforth to govern the whole Anglican church with absolute and un questioned power, and his impatience when Dean Stanley's letter reminded him of the existence of another law than the resolutions of bishops proved too much for him. This is the excuse for what would otherwise have been a grave impertinence. The mistake in his case is of no con sequence ; but it reminds us that similar illusions may prevail nearer home, and that the recovery from them might be painful. the Culla. WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 5. The Queen walked in the grounds and drove yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Prince Leopold. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise. went to London this morning, and honoured Mr. J. Foley with a visit to his studio, where her Majesty inspected the model of the statue of the Prince Consort, intended for the Uni versity of Cambridge, as well as the various models for the group being executed by Mr. Foley for the national memorial to the Prince Consort. Her Majesty also honoured Mr. M. Noble with a visitto his studio, and inspected the model of a colosaal statue of her Majesty, to be presented to the Victoria Gardens, Bombay, by the Guicower King of Bared& ; and the models of the Bassoon memorial of the Prince Consort, to be presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum at Bombay. Her Majesty afterwards went to the Horticultural Gar dens at South Kensington, and ascended the terrace of the conservatory, from whence the works in progress for the Albert Hall were pointed out ; and at the same time a model of the hail and the different plans of it were ex plained to the Queen by Colonel Scott, of the Royal En gineers. Her Majesty returned to Windsor Castle before luncheon. In attendance were the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel Du Plat. Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, attended by Lady Churchill, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, honoured M. and Madame Van de Weyer with their pre sence at a dance ►t New Lodge last evening. Prince and. Princess of Teak and the infant Princess have arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. Princess Henrietta of Schleawig-Holstain and the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington dined with the Queen aLI the Royal Family yesterday. A deputation from the Metropolitan Board of Works, consisting of Sir John Thwaites, Colonel Hogg, M.P., Mr. Le Breton, Mr. Hall, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Pollard, an.) Mr. Cresy, had an interview with the Hight Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the Home.office, yesterday, relative to bars and other obstructions in the metropolis. A deputation from the Ottom►n Railway Company, con sisting of Sir Macdonald Stephenson (chairman), Mr. Alex ander Derail: (deputy chairman), General Tremenhere, Mr. Seymour Teuton, Mr. James Edward Coleman (directors), and Mr. Cooke (secretary), had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office, yesterday, THE COVEBNOR•OENERAL OP INDIA AT THE CAPITAL OP OUDE. A telegraphic despatch received at Calcutta gives an account of the state entry of the Viceroy into Lucknow on the 9th ult. Great preparations had been made for • fortnight before his excellency's snivel, in order to ensure him a magnificent and fitting reception. The grievances of Sir Mann Sing and all his compeers being now removed, or at any rate greatly alleviated, by the pending legislative enactment, the whole of the Talookdars and landed aristocracy were present to manifest their good-will to his excellency and their loyalty to the raj and the aevereign he represents. A cortege of 700 ele phants was formed, and the nobles, mounted thereon, passed in review before the Viceroy, who was throned on the slope of the ruins of the Baillie Guard, not far from the grave of his illustrious brother. In addi tion to these accessories of display, and the British troops which would, of course, be in attendance on his excellency, there were in the station the troops of the Rupoorthulla Rajah--cavalry, infantry, and artillery, who had been on the march for more than • month to meet the " Lord Sahib Bahadoor." There were also the cavalry and infantry of the Bulrampore Rajah and other native troops. On the 11th his excellency was to hold a levee and • reception of princes of the late royal family of Oude, his full dress dinner at the Chnttur Munail, and Lady Lawrence's "At Home" taking place the same evening. On Tuesday, the 12th there was to be a Durbar to receive the Talookdars and their address, after which the Talookdara' Fete was to take place. On Wednesday, 13th, his excellency bad arranged to lay the foundation stone of Canning College, after which there was to be • viceregal ball in the Chuttur Maned in the evening. Thursday was set apart for a review of the troops and for Mrs. Strachey'a party ; Friday for the Oude Commission ball ; and Saturday for the illumination of Roosseinabad. The Vicerry would leave Lucknow on the 18th of November, toy arrive in Calcutta on the 19th. Tho Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are enter taining company at Badminton. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers have left town on a Continental tour for the winter. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortesoue, M.P., received at dinner lass week, at their residence in Carlton-gardens, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Autuale, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Viscount Torrington, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Houghton, Lady Moleaworth, the Hon. F. Leveson Gower, M.P., Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hayward, Mr. William Harcourt, Mr. Caicraft, Re. Yesterday the eldest daughter of Viscountess Jocelyn was buried at Sawbridgeworth Church, near Bishop's Stortford, Herta, in the neighbourhood of Hyde Hall, the seat of the Earl of Roden. The mortal remains of the lamented deceased, so prematurely taken from her friends, were removed from Park-lane, and conveyed by railway to Bishop's Stortford. As the coffin was deposited in ita het resting-place, two wreaths of Sewers—which, we understand, were placed by her Majesty on the coffin when on a visit of condolence to Viscount,. Jocelyn a few days ago —were laid on the lid. On Wednesday last the Rev. Hugh Hathorn Wood, elerk, ILA., was instituted to the rectory of Poke geld, in Suffolk, on the presentation of the Rev. Edmund Hoßoad, clerk, Wm. Long, and James Morgan Strachan, Fags., and the Rev. Charles Kemble, clerk. . dines HomprraL. —At a general court of the governors of this institution held yeeterdey, Mr. John GummyHoare, of lenbard-street, wee unanimously elected President of the hospital, in place of the Right Hon. Sir Imadence Peel, who has resigned the office. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. THE HURRICANE AT CALCUTTA. LATER ADVICES. The arrival of the India mail to-day brings us advice. from Calcutta to the Bth of November, being a week later than those which we were en abled to give in yesterday's Express. These ac counts increase to a lamentable extent the serious ness of the disaster. In Calcutta city 109 deaths have been recorded, 101 brick-built houses destroyed, and 2,338 tiled and thatched huts levelled with the ground. In the suburbs the loss of life is estimated at 285 ; and 62 brick-built houses, 1,745 tiled huts, and 26,148 thatched huts have been destroyed. On the river, 622 lives have been lost. In addition there have also been lost two ferry steamers, 67 cargo boats, 15 Madras sloops, 84 dinghees, 82 native boats, and 33Q np-country boats. The greater portion of these boats, together with those lost in the canals, were laden with jute and grain. The grand total of lives ascer tained to have been lost is, therefore, 1,016, of brick-built houses destroyd 163; and of tiled and thatched huts, 29,231. Of the larger shipping in the river, only some 26 ships have escaped unin jured, and three have sustained serious damage, one of them being a complete wreck. This cyclone has occurred at a time when the rice crops were in the ear, and the whole pro vince, wasted by famine and pinched by high prices, looked forward to an abundant harvest. Where the ear was formed it was torn off ; where the stalk had reached mature height it was snapped. On a low estimate at least one half of the rice crop has been destroyed in the 1 10 miles to the south of the Hooghly over which the cyclone extended. From Nuddea, still suffering front an inundation of the Ganges more severe than those of 1863 and 1866, we learn that the vegetation which survived that calamity has been almost entirely destroyed. Not only will the rice crop yield but half its tale. Of the cattle which had been sent to the high lands from the inundated tracts, a tenth has perished, for they had to withstand the storm for two days and a half without shelter or food. All the crops recently sown within the tract blasted by the whirl , wind have been destroyed. The condition of Jos sore is worse. Not five per cent. of the brick houses in the district have withstood the blast. A general system of relief was contemplated. The balance, amounting to about 19,000 rupees, of the previous Cyclone Relief Fund, had been made over for the purpose of affording relief ; and government Lad promised to contribute by doubling the amount of subscriptions. Mr. Grey, the lieutenant-governor, was to have been present at the Lucknow Durbar ; but has put off his visit to Oudh. The following memorandum of additional casual ties to the shipping in the harbour had been sup plied to the Calcutta Englishman by Lloyd's agents : Sevilla has lost an anchor and GO fathoms of cable. Jeanie Douglas—Wheel and rudder gear, awnings, ladders, and other alight damage. Malabar—Two boats smashed in collision with Dnllam Tower, by which she was chafed in midships. Cecilia—Lost rail, fore and aft, several iron plates, stays, &a, forty-five fathoms cable, main rigging, port aide and two quarter boats, struck buoys and moorings heavily, will have to dock. S. S. Orissa is afloat again, not making any water, lost everything above resit decks, and about four or five sheer plates, injured bulwarks ; rails, he., gone. S. S. Mali ratta was in collision with Fumes. Abbey, several plates damaged and rivets started, lost fore and main topsail yards, poop rail, &c. S. S. Bushier—At anchor at Budge-Budge, lost a boat only. S. S. Himalaya—Vets slightly damaged. S. S. Moulmein—Ditto ditto. S. S. Coringa—Got ashore at Garden Reach, but is now afloat ; lost one boat, no other damage worth men. tinning. Berluimpore—Redived considerable damage to upper works from having broken adrift, and getting in collision with several vessels. Mirra, pore—Slightly injured in upper works. Underlay— Severely damaged. Legion of Honour—Upper works damaged. Queen of India—Considerable damage to upper works, spars, and gear. Callirrhoe—Bulwarks damaged. Empress of India—Lost jib-boom. Challenge—Lying in the stream, has sustained very slight injury. Dunedin is considerably chafed from being in collision with the S. S. Oriental. Atalanta, Erato, Aphrodite, and Queen of the Mersey, only trifling damage. Mary Ann Wilson seriously damaged, and will have todock. Floweret the Forest—Ditto. Continental, Eliz►, Eddystone, Calliope, and Janet Mitchell—All more are less damaged. Hearin Letchmy, and I. N. Cushing—Slightly injured. Michael Angelo— Went on shore on Sanger Sands, is totally dismasted, and coming up in tow of steamer. American ship J. P. Whitney—Totally dbimasted. Devi, Bangor Light Vessel, towed up leaky and disabled. Pilot brigs and floating light ships—Blown off station. Arracan totally dis masted at Diamond harbour, and has been towed up to town. S. S. Interloper and Atlas—Wrecked at Bangor. S. S. Thunderer, from China and Penang, 870 days over due. Captain Herrold, of the Hunsdon tug steamer, which arrived in town late last night, reports as follows: Picked off the crew of the Atlas from her wreck, all saved. Interloper abandoned, all crew saved ; towed up floating light vessel Dern, totally 'Smarted ; put the lower Gasper light vessel into position. No brigs on station, and lower light ship not to be seen; put a pilot taken from the Interloper on board the T. A. Gibb, who same in with her ; put the captain of the Atlas on board the steamer Madras. which is towing up the Mutlah light ship Star, leaky. None of these vessels have seen any ship, except a large painted port-ship to the eastward. News having been received of the safety of the steamer Defiance, of Gopaulpore, the Hunsdon has proceeded' down to her to-day. Government has lost a good many boats, heave-up boats, and one anchor boat. Gun duck fiat sunk alongside Euphrates, and cargo boats with coal. The steamer Arracan sustained damage. The Peel L dismasted. Chinsurah lost bowsprit. New pilot brig building in the government dockyard stern up, and many frames blown down. The &s. Madras, from Rangoon and Akyab, arrived off town to-day. She experienced very heavy weather to the eastward, and remained in anchor ►t Akyab in consequence on the Ist inst. On the 2nd she left that port, and encountered a very heavy and violent sea on the bar ; sea breaking in five fathoms of water. GLADSTONZ, WILLIE, and CO., Agents to Lloyd's. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The Bombay Times (Nov. 14) believes all idea of attempting to proceed by the Tarrant& Pass has been abandoned. Though no additional troops had left Bombay during the previous fortnight, great progress had been made in the preparations for the departure of the main body of the force, and of the Kurrachee brigade. The fine steam transports, the England and the Queen, arrived in Bombay, from England, on Nov. 10, and some 13,000 additional tons of shipping had been char tered by the Bombay government. Several steam vessels of three or four hundred tons, suitable for tugs or despatch boats, had also been taken up. " Though, therefore," says the Bombay Times, " there may be a little seeming delay in the mean time, it will be found when once the main body of the expedition does start that not a day has been wasted." Meantime it is satidactory to know that the captives are all well. News has been received from Mr. Fled up to the 9th of Sept., from which we learn that Consul Cameron and his fellow-captives remain in Matti quo. And so it was with Theodorus too. He wunear Debra T►bor, occupying himself with vain attempts to spread fire and sword among his enemies, who monodic* be heminixtg him in as closely as ever. His West, had received the Queen's second let. ter, but delayed answering it till be should see Mr. Ru ms. As the " man of dollars" (as Mr. Rasura is styled) is:aa Meals, and lbeekees at Debra Tabor, it may be Misieleday before the EMperor's wish to have an interview eaubs gratified. The Emperor had not at the above date heard of any expedition being fitted out against him, so it is yet impossible to conjecture what line of conduct he will pursue when news of it reaches his ears. In the Bombay Gazette we read : It is difficult to predict the period when the more exciting work of the campaign will have commenced, or even when the force will have begun its march up to the high lands of Abyssinia, and its to be regretted that a considerable part of the cold season will have flown by before our army is fairly in the field. We believe, how ever, that motives of prudence are to some extent the c►use of the present tantalising delay, for Sir R. Napier is stated to be decidedly unwilling to pat his foot on the enemy's territory and place himself at the head of the British force before a very large stock of stores has been laid up and all proper arrangements have been made for the accommodation of the troops and their march into the in terior. Rumour has been very uncertain as to the time when the commander-in-chief will leave Bombay. It seems, however, to be generally expected that it will be at least • month or six weeks yet, and it is said that he will go on board the flag-ship Octavio. Before that time we may ex pect that • large body of European troops will have been sent off, for the 4th (King's Own) Royal Regiment is likely to leave early next month. The expedition has of course introduced considerable excitement into the ordinary daily business of Bombay ; and those in parti cular who are connected with &hipping have had much to employ and gratify them. It has been quite • god-send indeed to shipowners who were in search of freights and to shipping companies who had ion all hope of ever again appearing before the world with • dividend. A large number of steamers have been bought or chartered by government for the purposes of the expedition, and the coast trade may perhaps for • little time be affected by the demands of government in this respect. An immense fleet of sailing vessels, also, have been chartered (at rates varying from re. 84 to n. 114 per ton monthly), and large transport steamers which were despatched from England have now begun to arrive. Bullocks, tatoos (ponies), and even elephants are being collected up-country and brought down to Bombay to be sent off as soon as possible, and we hope—though its workings are somewhat unseen—that the commissariat department is performing its part of the business actively and satisfactorily. The landing place selected for the debarkation of the Abyssinian Expeditionary Force it is already known is near Adulia in Annealey Bay, where there is good anchorage at about 600 yards from the shore. About a mile from the shore there are some wells, and sixteen miles inland there is an abundant supply of water in the Was. River. The advance brigade has arrived. Their Excellencies the Right Hon. the Go vernor of Bombay and Sir Robert Napier arrived at Calcutta from Poona on Nov. 7th. The unusual amount of anxiety and work that have fallen to the share of Sir Seymour Fitgerald, dur ing this his first summer in India, had told some what on his health. He was compelled to adopt the advice of his medical attendants, and leave Poona for a few days to Mahalileshwur. THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN FRANCE. Prosecutions of the press, of which there have been several of late in France, continue to increase. The Courtier Francais is the object of two fresh pro secutions—one for publishing a letter from a French soldier, who was with the army of occupation in Rome ; the other, for an article on the subject of the recent arrests in Paris. The Toulonnais has also been summoned to appear before the Court of Toulon on a charge of defamation and spreading false news. We gave the article of the Tuidounais in the Expreu of yesterday. ITALIAN FEELING AGAINST THE FRENCH. The Paris correspondent of the Inclipetutance writes : Count des Sartiges has expressed, in a report addressed to IL de Meunier, his astonishment ►t the change of pub lic feeling in Rome. Everyone has become ► Garibaldian, and the French are not more loved in Rome than in other parts of Italy. The feeling against France has become so strong that at the Hotel Trombetta, in Turin, French dishes and French wines have been banished from the tables d'hots. French fashions are abandoned, and, in fact, the contrary of what we do here is done in Itals. This is puerile as to its material effect, but it is grave as a display of sentiment. (MUTTS'S TLLTGILMS.) THE DEBATE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER. PARIS, Dec. 6. M. Rouher made the following additional state ments in yesterday's sitting of the Corps Legialatif : —Long 'ago Italy had received a verbal commu nication to the effect that on the day Garibaldi put his foot on Pontifical territory France would in tervene. The resolution of France was taken as far back as the 10th of last October. Both fleet and army were in readiness. The Italian Minister was warned. But French journals of the oppo sition combating the idea of intervention deceived public opinion abroad, encouraged the agita tors, and dragged the Garibaldiana on to the battle field of Mentana. Stating the long forbearance of France in the affairs of Italy, M. Rouher said that it was not the wish of the French government to confound the Italian nation with an ephemeral government. It wished to allow time for mature reflection. It was time to reconstitute a liberal-conservative ministry, de cided to respect the faith of treaties. We thus succeeded in shielding the Popo without having to struggle with Italian troops. M. Rouher refuted the statements of M. Thiera, relative to the Italian war of 1859. Speaking of the reverses of Austria, he said—How could we foresee them in 18691 It is a fact which we have taken into account , since by aiding Austria to rehabilitate hers e lf ' by contracting with her a sincere friendship, which I hope will not be without its influence upon the peace of the world. M. Rouher said that the conquest of the Two Sicihes, accomplished by Garibaldi, and accepted by King Victor Emmanuel, had established a heavy joint responsibility of which Victor Emmanuel was in a large measure now bear ing, he dare scarcely say, the punishment. That conquest was a blameable means of constituting Italian unity. M. Rouher censured the conquest of the Marches and of Umbria, he denied that the Emperor Napoleon had tacitly authorised it by a sort of laisser pesscr. He reminded the Chamber that the French government had blamed Italy, but it could not go further. M. Rouher justified the convention of the 16th September, and also the intervention. He said that if after the invasion of Garibaldi France had re mained indifferent, she would have sunk very low in the opinion of the world. French intervention was also a protection to the throne of King Victor Emmanuel. By saving Rome from invasion France had saved Italy from anarchy. Alluding to what he termed the conspiracies at Geneva, M. Rouher styled them demagogic, filthy mud scraped from the pavements of Paris. A miserable attempt had I been made at an appeal to arms ; but it disgrace- , fully fell to the ground. All sectarians know I each other. They had three watch-words, "Rome, Paris, Florence." France has therefore performed a work of liberal conservatism in which all the established Powers of Europe are interested. Speaking of the proposed conference, M. Rouher said We have declared to all the Powers that we do not wish to draw up a programme ; .we shall present ourselves at the Conference with our pad and our present ; the Pope has accepted our intervention without reserve. Replying to the dilemma that the Pope had need of Rome and that Italy could not do without it, M. Rouher said—We declare that Italy shall not seize upon Rome. (Prolonged applause.) France will exact from Italy a rigorous and energetic exe. cution of the Convention of the 15th September, otherwise she will provide for it herself. Is this clear ? (Renewed applause.) M. Rouher re minded the Chamber that the French go. vernment had always held the same language, We wish (he added) at the same time that we firmly and energeticaly respect the convention of the 15th September, also to respect and strengthen Italian unity. We wish the co. existence of Italy with the Papacy. We do not wish that the work accomplished by our victories should be destroyed by the second part of our reign. The French people do not desire either the overthrow of the Pope or the destruction of Italian unity. Let us endeavour to convince Italy that the idea of Rome for a capital is a sterile idea, a fictitious want, the satisfaction of which would be a fatal acquisition to Italy. What Italy especially wants is to constitute herself. She must not be alarmed because an old man addresses prayers to God under the dome of St. Peter, for with his extended hands that old man appeases the anxious consciences of catholic.. ITALY. FLORENCE, Dtc. 5. A decree has been issued granting an amnesty to the authors and abettors of the recent invasion of the Pontifical territory, and pardon for all offences connected with it. The Opinion asserts that a restricted conference will assemble shortly at Paris to deliberate upon the basis of discussion on the Roman question. The Great Powers will be represented by their am. bassadors accredited at Paris. FLORENCE. Dac. 5, Evcinsc. General Menabrea, in his speech today in the Chamber of Deputies, declared that the Italian troops were spontaneously withdrawn from the Pon tifical territory. The government, he said, neither received nor would have tolerated any intimation that they should be withdrawn. He quoted the words of Count Cavour :—" Rome is ours, and will be our capital, with the concert of France, and by moral means, without the employment of violence." General Menabrea added that he fully associated himself with those words. He declared that the programme of the government was to re-establish order and the principle of authority, to restore the finances, to develops industry and commerce, and to strengthen the army to the level of the armies of neighbouring nations. The army, the government, and the parliament, he said, will uphold the flag of the monarchy. SPAIN. MADRID, D►.c. 5, Evirrucc. The Official Gazette announces that there will be a further reduction in the budget of the Ministry of Marine. Queen Christina has gone to Aranjues. The Archduke Louis Victor is expected at Cordova. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dm 4. The Porte has granted a provisional concession for a railway from Constantinople to Bussoralt, with a 5 per cent. guarantee upon an estimated cost of 37 millions sterling. The surveying and the plans are to be completed in two years, when the concession will become definitive. The Grand Vizier is expected to return shortly from Crete. LETTER•WRITING IN ABYSSINIA. The diary of Dr. Blanc, one of the Abysainiaa captives, has just been published in Bombay. This paper, dated Magdala, August 31, 1867, contain.; a complete account of the varying fortunes attending Mr. Rassam's mission, from the 20th of July, 1864—the date of their departure from Aden—up to the end of August. The compilation of the report was no easy matter. Dr. Blanc says on this point—" I was obliged on two occasions to burn my report ; first on being made prisoner in April, 1866, when we thought it advisable to destroy every note, letter, or paper is our possession. At Oaffat I began to write it for the second time ; but after the events that occurred there, I seized the first opportunity of making away with it. At Magdala it is exceedingly diffi cult to write ; spice are constantly peeping into our tent on some pretext or other. The risk and penalty are great, as the order is, that any one found writing is to be chained hand and foot." In spite of this risk and penalty, bow. ever, Dr. Blano's report is said to be a marvel of neatness, exhibiting the greatest patience and care. Paper and ink are scarce at Magdala, and be has certainly been careful not to waste either; so closely packed are the letters, words, and lines, that into sixteen sheets of note paper is compressed material enough to fill three pages of the Times less about a quarter of a column ! Bo thin likewise is the paper, that the whole—report, covering letter, enve lope, and all—weighs less than an ounce. Dr. Blane's report has been divided by him into three principal sections, the first portion describing the journey from Maasowah to Metemma, the experiences of the road, the disposition and habits of the various Arab tribes, and giving a mass of other information entirely new. The second section is that which oontains the account of their past and present dealings and relations with Theodor'''. Of their prospects Dr. Blanc says little, not having then heard that an expedition was on its way to release them, or avenge their death. But for their being con stantly chained, their condition as prisoners world be tolerably comfortable, the more so as the Emperor can nar have but very little dealings with them. They knew not, however, what a day might bring forth ; the Emperor was daily rioting in bleed and murder, and, as far as his much-crippled l ower would admit, satiating hie one desire—revenge. Their best hope seemed to I e that, should they clang 3 owners, they miglb fall into the hands of some powerful chief who would know their value, r►ther than into the hands of the ignorant and infuriated peasantry, who, likely enough, might regard then, as in some way connected with the terrible misery which the wretched cultivators have lately endured at the hands of the Negas. The last section of Dr. Bhuic's ma moir gives a variety of very interesting details regarding the pLysical geography of Abyssinia, its towns and popn• lotion, the language and customs and degradation of its people, its flora and fauna, and the personal character, ap• pearance, and history of Theodorus. Lord Cowley, contradicting a statement in the Post, says his retirement from the public service w..s wholly voluntary on his part, and, if he may judge from the efforts—very flattering to him, however unieberved— made to induce him to remain at Paris, was effected against the desire of the Secretary of State. The Italian government, the Florence journalS date, has contracted for the supply of 300,000 Chassepo4 muskets, to be delivered at the rate of 50,000 a year. The Cuban cable is 90 miles long. It is proposed that a cable be laid from Cuba to Jamaica, a distance of 143 miles, and from thence to Colon, a distar.ce of GOO miles. This will accelerate information between Chili, Peru, and all Central America. It is proposed also that cables shall connect Jamaica with St. Domingo, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, ()nadaloupe, Martinique, Trinidad, and Demerara, when from the latter place telegraphic , communication could be effected with St. Roque, in Brazil. The distance between St. Roque and the Cape de Verdes is 1,200 miles, and from the latter to Cadiz, in Spain, GOO miles. It would not be difficult, therefore to connect Europe and America telegraphically by means of two cables between Spain and Brazil, via the Cape do Verdes.