The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

PI TH : ~E: LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Ihtring the STORMS referred to ; but they may be wan • Qfoccui c l l , l4 of the past twenty-two mouths the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT ,_ INSTITUTION, by its Lifeboats and other means, contributed to ko annex, to invade, and Cojt con the SAVING of 1,475 PERSONS sem diffident WRECKS on oar siona of territory from neigh 'ng not, COASTS. The Institution also expended g 48,000 In the same period on its Lifeboat Establistunents, in addition to granting how will they help to preserve a rank which, we Asikse for EE wands= samosa, Ansa. to or are to suppose, is regarded as impeached ?It is Il e , ihilialdelEgq 6hem ne w or re the continued to, presene this rank that the EMPEROR iLS going ars Oa London and Country 141 levy I," Tasn-tat exceeding in magnitude any -' ,r4l,!,.A—lfoiliflri)..,,,dewlls. I 'a. " 4 " yet levied by him upon the French people. When ' Ean. ' .-- --.—-----------#--v-re— , he ban got his 160,000 men, he pro- CiOLD CHAINS.—jOILN BROGDEN heir poem to divide them info two classes. NJ, to call the attention of the public to the FORM of I. - O ne VOICE which he delivers with Gold chains purchased at his half, chosen by lot, will have to adopt a maw:wary: soldier's life for six yearP, and then spend three To workmanship of WM= chain, 54 inches long a s 1.5` . d o To klir carat gold, w 2 on., at LS 94. bed morein the GardeNationale Mobile ;the other half per Ounce, MLitt price -- will be forced to undergo military instruction for Total £ 2 2 6 some unspecified period. It will be subdivided into Upon this system, the grAum WEIGHT, and VALUE of the gold are actual efined, and guaranteed to the purc h a ser ; two parts, chance presiding over the distribution John Brogdon k ingloong for a fair remuneration on the workman ship only, which is charged according to the intricacy or simpli city one part, called the first ban, will be at the beck city of the pattern. —Manufactory, 16, Itentietta-street, Covent- and call of Mate and used to reinforce the -rden, London. active army other half will be liable to be called out only by virtue of a legislative act, un 'eu the Legislative Body is not in session. Now, the effect of this will be to place an additional 60,000 men each year at the disposal of , the EstrEsea ; and the number is placed so ' much higher than it has ever been placed before in order that the army may be largely augmented in the shortest poesible time. What does that I. point to ? Peace or war ? But that does not re p r esent the full force of the change ; b ec ause in stead of some number short of 100,000 taken for the army, disciplined by continuous service, and entirely occupied in military duty, the EMPEROR will get the whole 100,000 for his active army. This alone is an important change. But the sig nificant fact which we have to digest is, that the French EMPEROR is providing himself not only with a vast active army, backed up by the ordinary recruitment ; he is pro viding in addition a reserve larger than the standing active army itself. It is this enormous provision for the contingencies of a campait . jn which is the characteristic of the scheme. ][~ is a portent in the political sky which no State can aff° W rd il to l the . French . people endure this new draft on the lifeblood of French in for h and vaationgriculf - ture, said to be necessary e preser o her rank, decidedly necessary for the realization of plans devised by Prince Louts BONAPARTE when iie was an exile ? Who can say ? The answer to the appeal of the economists is a demand for a draft of men far larger than they contemplated. How will Frenchmen like to be half soldiers half civilians, every engagement they makebeing liable to sudden rupture on a call from the Minister of War? How will they relish the addition that must be made to the War Budget, not only to provide pay, I I but arms, uniforms, accoutrements, stores, anunu inition, provisions for these inordinate masses? 1 1The experiment has now to be tried. What has been done in Prussia, on a scale scarce'y less gigantic, may be done in Fur ce. But will it ? What if the Legislative Body rejected the scheme? It would amount almost to revolution. Never theless, we must not forget that the EMPEROR has accomplished twice before nearly as much as he proposes to accomplish now. Europe presents at this moment a saddening spectacle. There is something wicked in this quenchless thirst for myriads of men armed with the deadliest of weapons that the wit of man can devise. The military monarchs have found the means of doing, by means of decrees, which they dignify by the sacred name of laws, far more than their forefathers ever did by means of force and caprice. But depressing as the facts are, these facts we must recognise and profit by. At pre sent there is among us only a slight tendency to follow in the wake of our powerful neighbours. Yet, example is infectious, and none can say whe ther we shall be able to resist temptation, and place our military service on a soond and reason able footing, without being led to overstep the boundaries of reason, and to join in the mad rivalry of these continental Kings. 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EVENPin, LAURETTE'S BRIDAL; OR, MORE THAN THE EY II Mrs. Lane.—Mr. "Dancing Mad" Bryan ; %tit - num ; Dug,' .r. the I tll , th Jualer. —BELINDA SEN- T.; ON, THE BF:MATER ANI) - - INGII WATKIt AT LONDON BRIDGE OLT —Mortung, ita. 2m Afternoon. 78. 31m. LoßßOW—Moreing, Bh. 4m Afternoon. Mt. 38m. INDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15. THE POST-OFFICE AND THE TELEGRAPHS. Our contemporary, the ;War,lay Re,iew, in its impression of this day, and in an article on the proposal for the transfer of the telegraphs to the Post-office, makes the following ohservations : " The reported details of the plan are not alto gether encouraging, for it is gravely asserted that, while the price of despatches is to be largely re duced, the messages are to be delivered by letter-carriers in their regular rounds, and that an additional payment is to be made for the services of a special messenger. :Co further proof is required of the official authorship of thc para graph which appeared in a Sunday paper. Only a public functionary, and perhaps only a head of a Post-office department, is capable of a contrivance for ensuring the contemporaneous delivery of tele grams and letters. It may be presumed that any parliamentary committee to which the scheme may be preferred will provide some protection for the not inconsiderable class of transmitters of tele grams who have the weakness to be in a hurry." We aro informed that the paragraph which appeared in the Sunday paper referred to was nut due to official authorship, that it did not correctly describe the details of the scheme, and that if the scheme be adopted by the government it will be found to offer a more rapid rate of transmission than is now given as well as a lower rate of chary than now prevails. The plan provides for a consi derable extension of the area within which telegrams w ill be delivered at once by special messenger without charge, and offers additional facilities fur the con veyance of telegrams beyond that area. A general and contemporaneous delivery of telegrams and letters has never been contemplated. E thought Europe knew what it was to suffer . the strain of an armed peace. But we were mg. The Emperor of the FRENCH, by demand from his people a million and a quarter of diers, has shown that the system pursued ever ice 1850 was only in its infancy. Twenty years we thought that armies reckoned up by tens thousands were enormous. Novs (irons Shang! eels. Two years after the coup-detat we began to count by hundreds of thousands ; the lhange was made in anticipation of a war, and the - was used to justify the change. Now we , to count up the standing armies of ;mope by the millim. There are, and are ) be, as many soldiers on foot in Europe as there 'ere in the first decade of the century. The rench Revolution and the Napoleonic era be leathed us the legacy of these monstrous over growths of Force ; and altho u g h there was a period ' decrease, the evil recommenced when ex mated Europe had recovered her strength, _ad it has grown to what we see it now. Truly this is an age of military progress. We have Ine from garrisons to camps, and now we have nne to what they call armed nations ; and the ,orst aspect of the case is that these armed nations are almost literally at the disposal, not of half a dozen responsible cabinets, but of half a lozen irresponsible monarchs. Is it a step in ivilization, or is it a step towards barbarism T The outcome of the great military commission in France has justified the worst fears of those who watched the progress of the feeling out of which it grew, who recorded its appointment as a portent, and who have waited impatiently fur the result. And what a project it is—nothing more nor less than a scheme for arming and placing at the disposal of the EMPEROR the strongest men of ev ery generation of French manho od for nine years—nine years of the prime and vigour of life. --- -- This is what the EMPEROR insists upon. The A telegram has been received at the Admiralty, very figures have an appalling look. There is from her Majesty's minister at Lisbon, dated the 14th to be an Active Army of 417,483 men ; these inst., 1.30 p.m., announcing the arriv:d at that port of are to be supported by a rese r ve, in two her Majesty's ship Zealous for coal. All well, and no classes, of 421,746 men ; and these again by a defects. further reserve of 389,986 men—each body UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AND THE MENTAL PH!to being in itself a very respectable army for B°P t H ec T l a C t i4 Xe L p — t u re °u se e n rez i t t i tler i s n (s i ly v l n the b P e r ore rrott o w e i m ll a be li t h a t te of any State—and the tot al mounts up to ! the Council of University College : — President — Carl 1,232,215, or a few men s hort of a million and a B ro u g ham; ice-President—Lord 13; ' . I TS ; , TZemunclier quarter. To lay hands on this mass of men and i r Mr. J G ar r e r s ge ßo Grk , D ( 2- 1, - ; , LI "„:: C.B. Mr'. H. .117 .. ..z5u5k ; Mr. divert them from the desk and the wmluillop, the : Ebenezer Charles, LLB. ; Mr. H il l f !..Cv i ens-Il d ardy i factory and the farm, to the camp and the garrison, - L1...,8 i A . Hoo. G_._ the law of conscription is invoked and stretched to n_! Mr. _ . T W De Ev n ans n il ?...( 'Mr. E.. W. Field ; w 7.1. E N . Fowler , M.A. ; Mr. 'W.. Fowler, LL.B. ; Mr. T. F. the breaking point. A little while ago 80,000 Gibson ; Sir F. B. id Go;l , sniti, ja ti es rt., Q M 6 l'.. ; 31r Mr. a W f4 ll. annually were deemed sufficient for the # thews, I:L.B. D ,SIar. a. &hi; itobin'son . ,lll;. E.. ROmilly, service of the French Mars. Then he Sir Edward Ryan, Mr. Samuel Sharpe, and Mr. F. T. took 100,000. Now he swoops down upon Wood, LI.. tiD. M 160,000 ; and he does so on the plea th at he T CA L AMITY AT TALES The sudden destruc tionliofEeigahLtY 'colliers in a mine in the north of this county wants them for defence and for the preservation of is an event . so terrible and so sad . that we can find no the rank of France in Europe. The first plea may short s of ii watch to fn mea i k . o re f is t i t on wti . c a h fm w u oul w d ,i ;mo e t .c fli te in ll be set aside. Looking to what France i a, from the .me mind or e very reader. We trust the pity and point of view of military geography—the strongest s ympathy they create will prompt to a . I l i i btr t re cootritill country in Europe; looking to what the Fre nch ti some iatymater o he t fifty d widow as s w and atwll o th e rw i se ndred people are—how easily fired to patriotic exertion °el:Miens. The sacrifice of some slight indulgence for by the tread or threat of an invader, how ready a few weeks by a ui large t nounncieberr..ofeuothisrommha rl inhabitants y to march to the frontier and over it ; looking to ? ! the th e on the victims of the exosion. the resources and genius and wealth of France— No doubt the leading people of the county will come for how can it be said that she requires 1,200,000 ward liberalli it a t n n d we , : l izi ei r w a o l i Ut t h ops o fez! . for o t a he sn o t , - men permanently afoot or availablefor field or gar - t r e :,:cilicircle. shall want an opportunity of expressing risen duty to defend her t The second branch of in substantial form the . sympathy they feel. we hope local o c ilbtless i :r u cei the plea—the preservation of her rank—is far banks lirera:lilytncobnu:rwilatieant! soft en more pertinent. But that plea is susceptible of a findthwatilialt blow which has fallen on so many. But for this Stafford variety of interpretations. The armed hosts may shire calamity . we should a "torVi h re e ; .. w ilt er t e h rs e present bythe be wanted to serve as a physical threat, may be T ase Ls et a In•re in which l)e oar acci dent duty c ui learly lies at amnia—SS/Seri intended, without fighting, to preserve the rank shire dcloertiser. DAVIES es. ed. i candles, is. ed 1 is.: composite ye How soap. a lor cash, st M. BROWN To obtain in offered bastes John Erin each isseltat - 1 . • ETTS'I _RA 100 vs in the civilise • M. interleave burned. No. I useful. ----- 7 . , V Advertioeme : ' a go e ;ie o m n t I" Tni EVI Harrison, 111 —And KAI Mr. J. Rob • • Tell Er i Mathews, C &c.—ANTt ton, dr.c. ; 3 THIS 11 P. Villiers, Thomson liorsman.: TlllB E in E LOST patrick. I with TWI TEL.' I and )turn KZNILW • birsubo.i Time 1 Miss C. a were, LI Beane Fe TEN 1 Mk I'i Mr. tat GRAVE ESN To-Me LO? WI I' from vrron, 1 1 ing aoldi4 l ' since , .1 ' ago of 0 I tout begn char 4 . 1' war 1 !, • are Eur .;:, 1 .1 \ to It ,• 1! I ; ! 1 vier Fre ! i ' I ° que .• 1 '• grcv of 1 ! ' hap anO ; I thi got I Cu' we I na ha ; do ci , ; w w P r I n ii ti e I. I ' 3' , 1 • II 1 1 1 • . ' i 1 ( ,i 1 I i ' I 1 . : § . f 1 I I \ ! 1 ' \ 1 1 ' . . ... , 1 i 1 .1 1. 1 • • 01 • r , RDY • .gyENl$O, pECEMBEA 15 i't-:•1866-;-.,, . , Treating of the fearful colliery calaiikies, the Times urges that it has become an object of national im portance to invent some antidote to fire-damp, or at least some method' of testing its presence, so as to put the most reckless on their guard. The Post assumes that such mcidents •naust occasionally occur so long as it is possible that a lamp may be broken or the reckfeamiess of a single miner bring a Tight in contact with the most explosive of gases. The Herald thinks wp should institute a mining police for the colliery districts 'to supersede the imperfect system of oc casional inspection. Noting that the worst accidents in tie largest m ines, the Tdeeraph thinks that two occur shafts, which the law at present requires, affording distinct m eans of ingress and egress, me no t enough where the workings extend for two miles underground. In the midst of th e contradictory and incoherent news which reaches us from Mexico, the Daily News observes that it is at least clear that Maximilian is treated by the French generals as no longe r an operative element in Mexican affairs, but as already belonging to the dead pest, while their own action is exclusively self-regarding, and directed to securing the safety of their troops. Of the future government of Mexico nothing is said in French circles, but with regard to an opinion which is very common in this country, the Daily News rays that if President Johnson and Mr. Seward contemplate the reconstruction of Mexico, they cannot succeed without the co-operation of Congress, which they have not the least chance of obtaining. In other articles the Daily News discusses the re organisation of the French army, and the correspondence which has been issued relating to the Admiralty and the conduct of the British officers concerned in the recent occurrences in Jamaica. If, it says, we had read first in any foreign paper the statements which now come to us confirmed by the most authentic evidence, we should have denounced them as foul libels, which could by no possibility be true. Mr. Doulton is sympathised with by the Times and Herald. The boa. gentleman has done nothing that the Times can see to forfeit the character of a liberal, and both Times and Herald consider that the manner in which he was treated is not likely to convince the upper and middle classes that the political in terests of the country would be promoted by the suffrage of the working man. On the other hand the Star thinks that if Mr. Doulton has a scintilla of originality, a grain of knowledge, or a sensation of true self-respect, he sill sink into utter and deserved obscurity ; and it will add to his vexation that not only the working classes, but "the bulk of the middle claims," will rally round a really liberal successor. S. OUR-, 6. Evart. al'i WINDSOR CASTLE, 13.0. 14.'' .: The Queen walke d out y esterday afternoon, at- '! tended by the Marchioness of Ely. The Prince and Primus Christian arrived at th e Castle lut evening from Knowsley Park, attended by Lady Susan Meliille and Lieutenant -Colonel George Gordon. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, also arrived from Greenwich Park. This being the anni versar y of the Queen's great sorrow, we nt this her Majesty, accomp anied by the Royal Family, morning to the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, and re mained there some time. The Dean of Windsor at tended, and read prayers andportions of scripture selected for the occasion. After the Queen's return to the Castle, the Mausoleum was by her Majesty ' the opened for all the members of the household, including the servants, residents within the Castle, and most of her Majesty's tradesmen in Windur, to visit it. ~NT. 1Y•) P' The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yeaterday. The lords repent were—Sir E. V. Williams, Sir IL T. Hindersley, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence PeeL His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arr i ve d in town yesterday from Sandringham Hall, Nor _ folk. Am b assa dor and His Excellency th e Prussian till Mon the Counted. Bernstortt do not re t u rn to town _ . day. Viscount Hamilton, 31. P., who was detained in Paris by a slight i ndis p osition, on his way home with the Prince of Wales from Russia, is expected to arrive in town this evening. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Mrs. Hamilton Palace , and family have just returned to the EpilICOPIll , Salisbury, after an &been°e of about two months. His lordship has been spending his vacation in North Wales. The family of Sir William Erle, the late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, has of Lady been placed in mourning by the death of m the mother Erle. She was the widow of the Rev. Dr. David Williams, Warden of New College, Oxford, and canon of Winchester ICathedral -___.----------------_ DR. PUSSY AND THE CONFESSIONAL. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Review says that the worst of the Popes late address to General Montebello is that it is ap prehended in France, now the Pope has bit upon the id the ea, that all the French bishops, v. ith M. Dupanloup in van, will begin praying for the Emperor's health, and finish up with intercessions for his soul,—for it is impossible to make that a criminal offence. It remains to be seen after this gentle and harmless piece of malice, whether the projected journey to Rome of the Empress will come to anything, but the journey may have its uses. Just as the Emperor leads the industry and glory of France it is the Empress's mission to take the lead in the depart ment—so to speak—of piety. If the Holy Sepulchre were not unfortunately in Palestine she might take that on her way too, and perform two pilgrimages at one and the same time ; and the French nation, which is all in favour of religious exercises to be performed on the part of Frenchwomen, would like her the better for it. The journey, too, would reassure the Pope of the moral support of France, and prevent him from running away. While he who would rail against the policy of encouraging emigration from Ireland must be pre pared to rail against the decrees of Providence, the Saturday Revile regrets that the stream was not guided at a time when that would have been practicable towards our settlements in the southern hemi sphere. Fate has walled it otherwise. Those who might have remained our more fortunate fellow-subjects have rid themselves at once of their calamities and of their nation ality. They have made themselves aliens and enemies, and in the novelty of an unwonted prosperity cherish the recollection, not only of their own, but also of their fathers' sufferings. Willie those that they have left behind enter on a career free from the pangs of a fretful and hungry competition, enjoying plenty where they once knew starvation, and learn ing independence where they once cultivated servility, the malignity of English faction and the blind fury of class hatred make this improvement of their fortunes a reproach to the landlords, whoa) greatest folly and greatest crime I would have been to obstruct an emigration which had been alre..dy proved so beneficial to Englishmen, and which has since proved the economical salvation of Ireland. The fact that, penury and starvation banished, discontent and dis affection sunive, shows quite as much the impracticable nature of the Irish people and the insoluble difficulties of Irish questions, as the injustice of the government or th e cruelty of the landlords. As the Examiner tiews it, the present idea of the French government is to Lave the National Guard ready as a second reserve in case of disaster abroad, as a third line of defence should the frontier ever again he crossed by the German, such a line as, it will be argued, might have I enabled Napoleon 1. to drive the invaders back during the campaign of the Meuse. But it is not of defence that France or her Emperor is really thinking. It is the re- I vindication of territory once French that lies between the I Scheldt and the Rhine, or the recovery of some portion of it. It is no use shutting our eyes to the drillings and tendeucies of things. With all his self-adequacy and self possession no man ever steered his course more steadily in I the mid-stream of opinion than Napoleon 111. It is tuns that he has hitherto avoided reefs and shoals ; and what lever old diplomatic charts and recent diplomatic flourishes may indicate to the contrary, to this policy of pilotage he will undoubtedly adhere. Though the Examiner has no doubt of a strong leaven of good Irish loyalty pervading the whole island and not the north alone, it thinks it much better employed just now in quiet co-operation, when required, with the au thorities, than in noisy demonstration ; which, in per. fervid Ireland, unfortunately means party display of emblems, and party songs and cries, and party fights. And it trusts that when the present difficulty is tided over, the still patent grievances and causes of ill-will may so be dealt with that Ireland may yet come to be all loyal. Time, observes the Spectator, does not work in favour of Governor Eyre. The more we hear of what happened in Jamaica during the repression of the disturbances, the more we see how completely a " reign of terror " it was. We believe we rave nearly a year ago the history of the unfortunate Haytians who left Jamaica in • vessel chartered by themselves just before the disturbance, and were driven back to Port Antonio in a dis abled state by • storm, only to find a most inhospitable reception. Mr. Eyre took the circumstance for a descent of Haytians in aid of the insurrection, a suspicion not quite unnatural orunjustifiable at first, but not to be acted upon without evidence. He wrote first to Captain de Horsey, then to General O'Connor, " to try the vessel by c o urt-martial," but both gentlemen expressed their doubts whether court-martial was a process by which a vessel could be tried. Mr. Eyre has almost rivalled Don Quixote's chivalric ire apinst the windmill. We wonder he did not try the island of Hayti by court-martial at once. Lieut. Brand would have liked the job. As • matter of fact, the disabled vessel was not tried by court-martial, but the Haytians, General la Mothe and his companions, were landed, insulted, their luggage plundered, and finally deported from the island by Mr. Eyre's order. Sir James Hope says that Captain de Horsey, R.N., is responsible for the insults which he ought to have prevented, and that Captain Luke, of the 6th Foot, is responsible for the plunder of the luggage, which he ought to have prevented. General la Mothe, of course, must be compensated, but Captain de Horsey and Captain Luke add two more to the long list of subordinates not only not restrained from, but stimulated to, mischief, by the weak panic of Mr. Eyre. This morning the Rev. Dr. P osey returns to subject of c onfession, in the correspondence columns of the Times, occupying considerab le space, in reply to Dr. M'Neile sad "S. G. 0 ." D r. Puny does not, it seems, claim with other apostolic gifts that of miraculous power. " A commission to do s p iritual acts is one thing ; a power to work miracles is quite another. The material is the province of the one ; t h e immaterial, the soul, is the pro vince of the other. The one relates to nature—the other to grace." Nevertheless, " whether miracles have alto gether ceased, is a question into which I will not here enter." The removal of the words which express the ministerial forgiveness of sins from the Ordinal or the Visitation of the Sick would break the Church of England in pieces. " Their removal would be a denial of belief, which would render it impossible for those who hold that belief to continue in her. Our Prayer-book is, under God, the common bond of the church of E the ngland in England itself and the colonies. Any alteration of Prayer-book in what expresses doctrine would divide churches in the colonies from the mother church, and, Perhaps, the church in many colonies within itself. This disruption would be irremediable ; for it would not be like judgments which are not the acts of the church itself. Alterations in the Prayer-book which should net be the act of the church would bo disobeyed ; alterations which should be the act of the church would either rend her in two or rend off a larger number of earnest souls than people have any thought of. There would be few families which would no: feel the rent sooner or later." Meanwhile the Times begins to bo uncomfortable under the weight of Dr. Pusey's theological contributions, and humourously hints that the time is near at hand for declining to publish any more of them. "We must needs enter a gentle remonstrance against our columns being re garded as a field for abstract theological controversy, and being inundated with quotations from the fathers and the general councils. Such discussions are as much out place before a popular audience as a scientific medical disquisition." It is on the practical side that the Times more particularly condemns the practice of confession. "It is alleged to be desirable that yoang boys and young women should not only make spontaneous confessions, but should be taught to question themselves, and should even be questioned by priests, upon subjects to which it is indelicate even to allude. Now, when the matter is brought to this practical issue, we are justified in saying that theo logical considerations became wholly irrelevant. The slightest approach to such a practice is utterly abhor rent to the most essential principles of English mora lity. Englishmen regard any such attempt—and long may they do so—us an outrage upon the innocence of youth, the delicacy of women, and the manliness of men." Englishmen do not consider human nature as a clock which must be periodically picked to pieces and cleaned, but as a plant which needs only to be rooted in a good soil, and exposed to the invigorating influences of sunlight and fresh air. Accordingly, " they believe that the evils of boyhood are best counteracted, not by confession to priests, masters, or even parents, but by the healthy atmosphere of a public school ; and the vices of manhood or womanhood by the open influences of and example. • . . These ritualistic public teaching confessors are the quack doctors of theology ; and it would almost seem as if the paiallel might be pursued still further. Such teaching is equally repugnant alike to the courageous theology of the English church and to the free spirit of the people. These men have no faith in the efficacy of truth, the power of religion, or the force of virtue, unless it be administered in carefully pre pared doses by a confessor's spoon. They don't believe in the regenerating influence of the open thought of pro testantiam and the healthy exercise. of a natural English life. These, on the contrary, are precisely what English men do believe in, and they will never traasfer their con fidence to the medicated prescriptions of a priesthood, the stifling atmosphere of ecclesiastical authority, and the maudlin habits of a feeble monasticism." The Earl of Shaftesbury , writing under the influence of considerable alarm at the progress of the ritualistic move ment, says, "It is said—and truly said—that the laity have the power in their own hands. No doubt ; but will they come forward and exorcise it? Will they address t heir bishops, memorialise their clergy, leave no abuse un noticed, sustain one another, and sink all minor differences to subserve the common cause ? If they will do this, we shall be secure. If from a variety of reasons they decline to do so, a miracle alone and nothing else, will save the Reformation in Great Britain." We (A thenaum) are sorry to see that the friends of Mr. Henry Phillips, so long our most redoubtable bass singer, find it necessary to appeal to the public in his behalf, a subscription having been announced. Mr. A. Mellon announces an operetta of his com position, The Terrihle Hymen, in which Madame 3lartorelli Galas. and Signor G. Garcia will appear, to be performed before the pantomime. M. Victor Hugo is said to be building a theatre near his residence in Guernsey, where two unperformed plays by him, Torquentada and La Grand'inere, are to see the footlights. On Thursday evening the Westminster scholars gave their first performance of Terence's .A ndria. The second and third evenings, on which the prolozne and be spoken, arc Tuesday and Thursday of the e pilogue will ensuing week. The Institute of Civil Engineers will hold their annual g eneral meeting on Tuesday, December 18, when the ballot for the president, vice-presidents, and other members of council, will take place. The recently-created office of curator in the life school of the Royal Academy has been filled up by the appointment of Mr. R. S. James, a first-clams life student, one of the teachers of drawing in University College School, London. The following regiments are expected at Alder _ shot Camp early in the year 1467 : The 70th and the 44th, We (Army and Nary Gazette) believe that very from Dover ; the 43rd, the 40th, and the 68th, from Ports little progress has yet been made with the navy estimates mouth; and the 80th from Devonport. Five regiments for the now fast approaching session of parliament. It now ou passa ge from India and New Zealand will be eta would sees that the authorities have not yet decided upon e ither the number or the e xact character of the new ships boned at the above gar riaons on their arrival home. WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 12.—The Queen was this which it is proposed to add to the navy, so that the sum of day Rimmed to confer the honour of of knighthood of Wales's upon money which may be required for building purposes has William Hackett, Esq., Itecorder yet to be fixed. Island.—Gaiege. " LATEST INTELLIGENCE. e 6 ININSIOMION 1N CANDIA. ale insurrection of the Candiots which has been so often suppressed (in telegrams) seems to be very far from being extinguished, an d ma y possibly rise to complications far beyond the limits of Crete or even Turkey. Russia, whose sym pathy with the Cretans has been openly expressed, is reported to be open ly re-organising her beet in the Black Sea. The Odessa Gazette admits that this is an infraction of the treaty le with England a nd France, but it adds we care littfor this, an d moreover " France and England no t keep ing the i r en gagements why s h ou ld we be b ou nd by ours "In the Diba ts of to-day M. St. Marc Girardin ridicules the idea that t he insurrection is supported by Garibaldi in the following terms If Crete has not kindl y submitted to the paternal domi. nation of the Ottoman Porte, it is Garibaldi's fault ! It is be who sustains the insurrection in Candi& ; it is he who is sending these Italians to fight for and to be blown up with Candiots. The Grand Turk has put his foot in it. He thought be had to do with the island of Crete only, but he has to do with the island of Caprera. Now the island of Caprera, be it known, is not the petty island which Garibaldi has raised out of soli tude and silence, but the revolutionary volcano of the Mediterranean. It is the island of Elba of 1815, or the island of St. Helena before 182 1 , before Europe, delio iserd of its prisoner, breath ed freely. It is Garibaldi wh sustaining the insurrection in the interest of the revolu tion. This is the explanation given of its oontinnance. As for ourselves, we respect Garibaldi more than we lik d e hi m . But if Garibaldi believes that the We st has entere into the detestable path of egoism and insensibility while it secs the Christians of the East slain before its eyes; if he thinks that he would be an accomplice in a massacre if he did not prevent it when he could ; if he is anxious that our statesmen should at length feel their conscience stained and burned with the gouts of innocent b lood, why should we notke him Why not thank him for the aid which be would give to the Christians of the East? Why not praise him for his sympathy, although we believe it to be inefficacious? But ono must indeed be at the end of his inventive faculties to blame Garibaldi for the heroics perseverance of the C'retans' that the resist- The writer then proceeds to say ance of the Cretans is founded on the purest prin ciple of nationality, supported by the Greeks gene rally, and that if France does not interfere on their behalf the wanton insults of Menchikoff will be heard in Constantinople. The following moving , p erha p s legendary, circum stance is reported from Athens to have preceded the explysion at Arcadium, by which so many Cre tans and Turks were killed : When the Greeks found that no hope remained they res olved to sell their lives as dearl y as possible. They fell on their knees before an old monk who had been exhorting them for two days and two nights to continue the combat. They asked for his parting blessing, which he gave them, promising that they should all meet in heaven, in the bosom of God, and would find there the old martyrs of the Greek Church. All—combatants, women, and c hildren —having respon ded " Amen," they fired the powder which blew up the convent—defenders and assail ants together. GARIBALDI AND EARL RUSSELL. The Movimento publishe s the following letter from General Garibaldi : To the Italians. — Lord J ohn Russell is coming to visit It a ly. I w:sh to make kno wn to m y compatriota that the illustrious statesman in ls6o threw intothe scale of our coun try's destiny the powerful voice of England against those who wished to intervene and to isolate in Sicily the movement for emancipation. Thanks to this generous idea the de liverance of the Neapolitan continent was facilitated, and the union of the Italian family, now so happily accom plished, became possi b l e . To this noble person, then, the well-merited expression of our gratitude. G. GARIBALDI. Caprera, Dec. 4, 1866. (Revrza's TELEGRAMS.) THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. rAms, Dze. 15. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The Moniteur of this morning 11.; :--" The late revival of the Cretan insurrection is due to the insufficient number of Ottoman cruisers. The foreign agitators who have created fresh distur bances in the island have been able to disembark freely with ammunition and provisions. It now ap pears, however, that the aspect of affairs will undergo a change since the Ottoman cruisers have been reinforced by a certain number of small steam gunboats." Viscount Treillard has been appoint.3cl French minister to Columbia. General Ladmirault has been nominated to the dignity of senator. ITALY AND ROME. FLORENCE, Dic. 15. The ratifications of the convention of the 7th of December relative to the Pontifical Debt were exchanged here yesterday. THE YELLOW FEVER TASMANIAN. ON BOARD THE SOUTHAMPTON, Dzc. 15. Of the four cases of yellow fever on board the Tasmanian, which were not expected to survive, one died during the night. The other three are reported better. AMERICA. (BT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Dec. 13, Evasreci. - . Gold, 1381. Sterling exchange on London, wog. 5-20 United States Bonds, 107 i ; Illinois, 117 i ; Erie, 72. Cotton, midland upland, 34k. NEW YORK, DEC. 14, Ei ri. ilG. _ . - Gold, 138. Exchange on London, 109 i. 5-20 United States Bonds, 107 i. Illinois, 117} ; Erie, 711. Cotton : Middling Upland, 34ii, TRIALS FOR MURDER IN FRANCE, (711011 0171 OW COILIMPOIDINT.) PARIS, FRIDAY HUM% I never remember, even in France, any cue of cap it a l conviction on such unsatisfactory e • - 9,11 that just recorded by the assize court of n et against Martin Riau. I call it a capital om v i et i es because, although the prisoner was not sentence' to death, the jury, which gave him " extenuate% circumstances," believed him guilty of four s t e e . Jere by poisoning. I dismiss at once from th e argument the supposition that the jury s e a l thought there were any extenuating cireumstae% in favour of such a monster as Martin 94 21 must be, if guilty of the crimes of which I N was accused. It is the prerogative of French jury to grant extenuating eircurastm ee, and the exercise of the prerogative whenever it k arbitrarily used merely means that the paen ee j ay jury objects to the punishment of death. g et y am by no means so sure that the country y ery which tried Riau, finding a great squire in th e pariah where the prisoner lived, thecurti, the j a d v, the public prosecutor, and all the authorities sgsa him, did not make a compromise with their j* ment, not to say with their consciences, and my "guilty," because that was the verdict expected d them by their betters, while the " eitennag circumstances" expressed a doubt in their nig, whether the charge was incontrovertibly pe e *, This is a shocking mode of administering jeek ; but one not uncommon in this country. A i k unhappily, the terrible rigour of the law nem any discussion of a judgment, the assumed Mb& bility of la chose jugie, deprives a man unjisey convicted of recourse to that invaluable though not duly constituted court of appeal the tribes /1 of public opinion. The newspapers scarcely eve venture to hint a doubt that a verdict may he a just one ; and even barristers, knowing t they are liable to be suspended or even disband for any public disapproval of la chose juger, speck among themselves with bated breath when they criticise a verdict. And yet there are mazy notorious cases of the condemnation of innate men in France. The recent one of the woman Doize, found guilty, on her own conical', " with extenuating circumstances," of a murder at which she was afterwards andy peg guiltless, is fresh in every mind, was cited)", M. Lachaud in the case of Martin Riau. That woman was goaded into a confession of a crime she never committed by ill-treatment in prison, and the real murderer was afterwards fousa d convicted. Th e accusation against Martin Ba that is had poisoned his brother, his two wives, and he son, in order to inherit their property. The fat of these alleged murders dated as far beck as thirteen years, and the bat alai months before the prisoner's arrest. The cel, relevant evidence for the prosecution consisted d certificates by medical scientific witnesses at they found the poison called corrosive sublimate I all four of the bodies, or rather the deoompoef residue of the bodies exhumed. But there es not an atom of proof that this poison was lamina tered by the prisoner or that he ever had say poison of that or any other description in possession. The whole country was scoured, hat no chemist, druggist, or grocer, could be fond to depose that he had ever, in the long space of 11 years, sold him any. One witness did suggest tints he often dealt in mules he might have had wail o i n tment to cure the farcy ; but no one ventured to swear that he ever once had an y . No doubt it was a suspicions and most remarkable &cane stance, assuming that most doubtful of all kinds d evidence, the evidence of experts, to be true, that corrosive sublimate should have been found in tie four bodies of the relatives in whose death the yei• G oner had a small pecuniary interest. But tlem was scientific evidence the other way. A professor of the Medical College of Bkie bourg—a far more eminent man than the county practitioner who persisted that he had found the poison, questioned the correctness of the tea There was evidence of expert against expert; belt assuming that for the prosecution to have ben . the most weighty, and that there was really pa! in the bodies, there was no evidence at all that it was administered by the prisoner. He es I wealthy peasant farmer, a man of coarse, hint manners, addicted to liquorish (gricuis) war tion, not a model of taste or purity, but still a vet respectable man of his class. The squire who de flounced him, the Count de Meranvillc, upsides . a most heavy responsibility rests if Rau be really& nocent, wrote to him," My dear &Mu," s feirecetha before his arrest. The public prosecutor ma that the prisoner had committed three m urders with impunity, and that then " God's patience 3 4 tired," and after the fourth public rumour derlarf against him. This was not true. The acclllaali . did not originate even from that uncertain aca4 . ing board, public rumour. It originated with Count de Meranville, the lord of the chateau;; the ugly circumstance is that this count *la on - terms with the prisoner because he ring to sell him a field at his own price, and besot the prisoner had by his influence in the coals si diverted as many as forty votes from the &MO an election for the coun cil - g eneral. It Ise days after this election, and about six months, the last of the supposed murders, that lehr. Wan was arrested on an information laid Count de Meranville. He said himself , as an English peasant might have rad years ago, that he had no chance cause the squire and the parson were TO him. The parents of both his wives ire end that they lived happily with them, and they believed the accusation, though Count de Di erao.° , tried to argue them into the belief of over medical men attended the brother and two wives, and certified that their deaths t place from natural causes. The son alleged be poisoned was a chil d 18 months old, living 1 his grandfather at the t ime of his death, there was no proof that the prisoner ever tered anything to him. clu The Bourse has been heavy. Rentes 69.62, or 10c. lower than yesterday. the preliminary steps The New York Journ al of Con:oerre says ..--...i Ocean Telegraph line are bei n g taken, and the best i joining Florida and Cuba by cable are a b ou t to bs , t o wards building the lotaalw on. Cubs is onl y 323 miles from Jamaica, lad t ilt . is only 708 miles from S t. Thomas, where all the h on vial mail steamers meet. B e tween St. Tomas Jamaica are the two large islands of 1108 spa i Zi t o. The distance between Jaz:olio, sod Coke. f ' 5001.thrnmilusealtaiheadit Colonthereanare monsterd Panama, , sttesbemtennen 1 York, England, France, Cubs, California, Central Valparaiso, or Australasia almost daily arrisn.* tables, not one of which wo uld exceed would con nect St. Thomas , Colon, and Nauss \ al tally with the United St ates. Thousands of the course of a year would pass between them Europe, which would not bear the expense of by the Atlantis telepsph, but which could be , ' by the transatlantic steamer s which leave Eve America almost daily. THE POPE AND THE EMPEROR. The Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, Mgr. de Enunechose, having addressed a letter to the Emperor Napoleon asking for the continuation of the French occu pation of Rome, his Majesty, the Nourellude de Rouen says, replied to the following effect: " The Emperor feels as warm an interest in the Holy FAher as his Eminence ; for the last sixteen years he has used all his efforts to bring about a reconciliation between the Papacy and the Italian populations ; his counsels have always be n given to that end ; but he differs from his Eminence on the means of protecting the Sovereign Pontiff ; the French expedition, very legi timate when it was necessary to put a term to anarchy, ceases to be justifiable now that the situation is changed, and that a profound peace reigns in the Italian peninsula ; his Majesty has entire confidence in the loyal execution of the Convention of September, and considers that treaty as a complete security for the exercise of the Divine mission of the Holy Father." Mgr. Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, having taken a similar step, his Majesty's answer was nearly similar except upon a few points. The Emperor explained that in order to be faithful to the convention he must withdraw his troops from Boma, and that should the treaty not be executed to the letter be would know bow to exercise a pressure upon Italy. His Majesty added that he would soon make known by a de spatch addressed to the French Ambassador what his inten tions were with regard to the Holy See. Admiral Tegethoff, the oonqueror is the fight off Lissa between the Austrians and Italians, is now in London, Indian papers lately received state that Dr. Harding is about to resign the bishopric of Bombay and return to England, in which case Dr. Gel], Bishop of I Mania, will in all probability be Bishop of Calcutta. 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