The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

Ti no Ur Crystal Nam noway assist k irk Is • pest Wela. flow who sows is it MINN eel ow really Isms Oa Impudes /wind ken pig el tam mod bons Ilk Ms wash as IY day wen a, sod lb. parks disks of swift used s plea sirstwcard berg ilk. grow u.s sag nee MAW. • bug kW was Os wilwiewliss met WI tbs Ip, sal laws was se Almiswilss r 1b smisss wb amid dr Palma ks Webs of ail kissessin lanais. Up bsk chime while we equal, r leas, • ebb &prism. The tw miliswass ooppod by Moro Itorpr sad &nap von Is mm 4 amok but do onomporsto wore to pr• sort dust so lattoortbroy alirolly woe ooportosool k pain weed. A sopplmormy kind of mad, disked esporty w tho commies, pi pia " the Clirlsurs 416- Ist, - *w ad, u may be ourpold, gnat favour kmi ths wow lied., it the vieitoto. Ws olisamd, van hoe the sordeable =labia= of Miriam In= reel tho =soy WNW Mims of •sin= tikaractoz, . sow odiftUes to the bistoriesi flopettoolt of the Crytoof Pd.-. At tie moth mil of tits is sow to be aro mamas& of integroplo of N. 4 asa the Tint NM iw immilak sad ram= Tbry =espy dr epos kevesay &Wel by tM bar= aolooteol= owl tide inumiumo, In the ocrt of If Obtotoo, Not Is. diligloyod mot oro abeam a do. acompooyto ostesof a biognplisia =tom TM a= sulkos of ma= pa/weed on Ow post Hamad aims, o. ..0 so by tbo g..re toad, wan not dos Inn soonest as botorra of ti. Ortekol. Tat AtaLusatme—TM entertainments at AM raw r gewarlaa circa d a Wad wbkh aka barfly teal prem. attaadive la Ws Was samat, aad a In& Na gab , i at Ira aLgkt lan musk So elated the mil law YI. prearkaar. Time wer bagel, ea @dames 'sr teem same, bus thus et Ms ereadag nee Ms moss esemsbabis for Inmates. is sadleita to de tend perlonorme Arm WY • Mei easestafas borlapiaaig, avaldal. The &dm Bah; r, Serieres owl the Ilethelleth dim is "Waft ward b.l Des Jr, sad is. taw. Daft Orlon,, algal oramokramaa park deem bonessim, immissa, sad eebs bU appeeend feiol .• He sae lab U. iso ma Na miesmaao .on is As bed peseiblo Itemmar ilmosibrat, awl Mae sa bo MOD bass BIM tbe award et Um algid was as pave et emend aeon et agar mamma lova. Potxriczenc.—Cootrary to the belief of mesy pormse Ws Widget= Ma mmtiesse its micustamed sand is phis semeedas. TIM Clabber ldr. O. Bechlesd letredseee a mew seketsimmeet waled, Mad"; w, the rays qf Ma Arid. The pistedel Meeissiiisse w after is ad Mimi O. Co-—lbak Ned is wimasebb mispied le the slake& The wigs oldie weld.. Ike peseta mimed eve rite with dressier meek mod this segerielasseel I. isiteeded le upend tam, slid asset fig N lergrect, issidiereee, std amts. The imitimse es " Thilsesphy of Meits." by Mr. Orem, the Protease is Chemistry, are MI6 es shoed he Weed to by di war yew binds, ter they leers that mime is the bole 1 all tbst Wien le be wedieleg, sad tim akin with which Mr. Gardner ellsetratse IMssbi.st sill highly amen there. Mr. Lag fellows with a Seem is nereatre mimes, Is whack be illeetrares esiestilimay the Sand toys which occupy so wade 1 the U.. at • hey:, red b.. Mr. Wag will meet three Mae while thee as. asessied tlrrl.aa ley, they eight he laying the Immilseise of greet Sneed ws The ptwaterwagarfa la awtalnly the beet this bee lowa exhibited and is be the balky Mellon to this ibetbeides what the peatesiime is te the theatres ; it is by lb. calebratad Mr. Child. Me dialog MO, disaslving visaed Cltina and ladia, sad all the Mbar wed-beset attractken 401111110* is their tell Ism We molly by Uwe the saw histitation sheet to OM IS Awe polar way be se well resdarted sod afford se imseit gistilmelaa sseireha hind thelleyel rolyteebain CALLUM Or ILLUSTRATION...-. Mr. sod Mr.. Gorman Reed wan spin at bans list night, awl Ina wawa, adult and layealle, sarepernspe newarasone —as sr non happy. The new abeassews wen repealed, and. Wean of meet lettieductiay is. pssslbfy cabs sew la a patent. So at least ase wield meterelly lake tram their maaifrst assierectioe, mid the cesdasses and mimosa phisdito w►ich W.V. ;licked by tM prtinorm". Ttrq wen, too, to that ny oatbaCc mend witch le se ceincealeMe Christmas; for whoa Mr. Reed, in kis dismeler of lath Ter, wee bastoatag his praises on " Cassia Illeamiald," sad, ee the height .4 eulogium, obssread that "he mealeat bet striped a shore-pia liberty thee he'd °see gives leave," thli palpable Mimics to the sad awed the crew of the hister.ta loyal, called forth a thnader of sysibma evbactie • hearty approval of the liberation of the yriocasra TDB GREAT GLOBE.—Thu hem sow IMAMS so established an 'shit:4am that It le alinosteseMete ba my ft had a large ludas of visitors yesterday. From sarty minas ego to a late hour of the erasing streams of holiday Wks oteatissad to pour into the bu.ldiug, sad to gam with intenst se the vast vane, of objects sow collected therm Ti the geo graphical and etbaological curiosities of the place Mem Mark and will rontione to be for some time to coma, dioramas of thelMer inChtna and in Italy. The campaign in Italy may thus be realised, If not fought over again, in Leicester swear% sad the bostilities of the essaing swag la China yeederei with the aid of movbsi mars, planting oat the Caleatial Maples to the ken of the spectator. Till ZOOLOGICAL OAIDIIIIII.—Os a dark drie st*, day, with a wad so cold that me amid toss have be lewd that Onit theminemener was met mebtssieg amity degrees West keened plat bad It not base for Mestagolar abun dance of the dirt under foot, the mambas of the Z Sudety c4ald hardly here Impeded to see mei compsay In Illegeser park. Nevertheless several Madrid persona Imbed without lassitatios to this table esliso- U.. Thus fact become, however, Imo serprin- Mg when we recall the dictum of Dr. JOIAMME— wooIy, that Goldsmith would make Ma "Natural History' as intending se • fairy tale ; for if • book on bird', quadrupole, and fiabas could suggest • comparison with fairy legend., why should not the creatures themselves compete with the attractk ha which Fairyland always pot. forth at Christi:tau? The Latest arrival at the Gerdes' is • Rl.ug, or wild hone, from the plain of Thibet, said to he the lest ever brought to this country. Curiously 'sough, It resembles • nude rather than such horses as we ere armor Maned to ase ta Europa. ROYAL COLOWItt M.—At this institution, conducted by Dr. Bechbodear, load so well known in connection with the Polyterhaic, se satire range of entertainment and ex hibitions has takes place. Mies Kate Terry and:Mies Elise Tarry appear in • drawing-room entertalament, and sustain several character., in fall comma. Mr. M. P. Fewer sp leen in • buntolotsa character ineselogse, sad Nom Kr, Taylor show. tha wooden of modms aegis; mid Iddlle. Pra ctises eatiawas to Illestrate the web of clekvoyanoe. MADAME TVIDAUDII EEO I SMON.—Tlit admirable ethibities we. Mated by several headrod pintas during the day, sad the sew dimes added to the collation were greatly admired, sepicially that of the Priacem of Prussia. The Siam of Dr. Emarthurat waited to met with but little sake. CAIMIL1:11 MINSTILILI. Three popular par krmors gave Iwo awirralarasaus yeasollay or Bt. James's Hell. beds of wide►li gem alusolad b Mar apploarliag indliaass. Paul 'mos Faraux's EsmorrAnnarr. —The Wort Ilacaost Om by Ws reacmaid passer of loyorlor oars as *. Pokygnopble 11.0 pond ogioasalvo yoliamboy. Prafamo Pnboil Sil•Wei • MP trick optiob A oboabi oaw rho porkosaaas coaciodad milk Oho *one of says. I)? Art or MIL ROBS*? BAICRI, OF WRTITLL- Death loots the ChthsejaniCArwarle et this cloy) boo jet renews/ ban omega es ow who mar erbude of thirty yaws Me taw • promise at pea ts al that relates to the primetwal orwetinas sod isrprovestost wed welfare of lb* syrkellare of Laws. sad beard of the emir, generally —Mr. Dobai Reba, of libitum% 'ha lather litho prorectice eadsdev. the amber crl the Prim Eosy of the Royal Ain ea turel flearty as tho laruttag eyorcru ef the toasty. sad rho abler of • valsabie edition el Nyasa. illemeell • Meat his,, Mr. baker sea ever nay to Mad up ler the Mille semi everything itabehied to geowse the proawaty el which he hammed; awl, hie mowed Jwigwat sad Istrertiy .start Whim th e creeridthee of all throe eannocted with the lead. Mb baits ef study sad bag groynesl reperietwe hod Weed hie salad with • foad of weed ksowledge, which he ekes brought to bear yrs the ram a promos, Del bay emaga ibe spi es Mtel but the peep& geserelly, dreg* Pewee of the epees\ a potato teeters, or the istemmeatelby el We pee ; all the wroth« b. chruc 'enthral tol othety •or• re idly aclurooolothed, Bret by the sward a the Royal Berieir• prim to the ability .ad weed Isforwitioa of the way before alluded to,—mein, la 1446, by the • Star salver owl • parsed 300 whose, for tact sad What is rumba sad paeldleg over the tins ead model pro bates society la time kingdom, which. though Webs its the esd, fought the bade esergetieslly, ably, sad elpymeetly— aid ones by tathlatos• cretoe of thanks hem pahhe arm- Wee Mr. Raker long took • Mediae pert is the premed• lapel the Landoll Pat seri Ciab, of 'chili he we ese et the fosintere, bat latterly ill•bealtb bed perrehled aides attestim to pithy or practical aloha; a:," &Am sari at is. taws', which brought est sore etr.kiegly the Chris. ota vinare of sterner piehy sad calm r.Asifttittust, ft. eleaed • well. 'peat sad awful kat we 6•11111 iii TM; at the ege uf 17. THE EXPRESS;, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, ISSe. HARMONIUM —NEW MODILe—CHAMER, =aim rd Os. 114. Illegoamil. PtTINO CARDS at WHOLIZALE PRIM. ia. am sad 05.% If Prikina t... ,..wr i ci De la fte owl 000 01.1011114. The War alMilk 000D111. 411.40.01.1 k pa r m P RESENTS, MPLBBIIII sad LUBThr& I.V.2IMCIMIatItar ELAROBIIIINT el PRIIIIBIL 1 amirrni vr Kf i crepr IS mg 111. Ors. kin /IF ti m . l mi d t.4 ft a SWAB VlM beliwg as isseels oo Vis res= " a• merest SY psourdlesk et Chslos7Leass• Inn. &Ls. Is ow •110•111er Nis es soli • seam' mom arms Ns xer gsg al• =lll% . =Pami as Chidsimia.— BENSON'S WATCHES. " Porkilia el undrEW-41•11 1411 e= = We gimp thr iba ireatihasiba. sai T 1 1 CORNHILL MAGA Pc ZINI. Edited by w. IL toassiaat. Ma I flee i . rn:ci mit at &WS rafts/ sielem. with TIP• 1 Pamir PrarezZ is l amee l. auk Imeta Sem Ow L !be Prareler Pm OIL Chelp. S. Illslilleillea S. The ma lri ttOurer 11410" L Lent die Wo . 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TlSll la t i M a llalL i titene %%to% eire in itetrrs===rißlTlllia l itt ri rt; Limn Kt% Ts Leduc% Tim Ryan's, MONS Tr i ll& Ml L 0. laisreq—Aad wining lorase pastaniss. anialut JtOILIM A :IANT frl= et. Ilasbmin Slag Anhor,asoldke Table. limesMonoss, Psolkiferall; 111a1.17111100.1141ar5. NT. JAY Tim lirsrim 1111•11114DTS limn. MAK Ifeurarre PrineK.- • poussaoLD T. Kr. B. T. *sm. Kim irmillow—asi Ks am Kormink IMO( 11.11108 ♦ID KDT. 11r. Seib Thrmote..-der M/. LTOBLIM. Tss. [Amok 1211 MELD OF lisdisie Wats —Ass s ass Anted wok /M. THRUSH. !LARD, TB. LITTLaI rovire Till OZIAT PA 11110111. Mom. J. Mardial H. lisniks/. isd Molar; Min Mils A Noun's Pomona Apo sr Pftimirms TIM DAT akbeltynA If —Tale livsairc tee gird priminkailled I MIT or Limy HT T; or, Nova= TT TINA mod Huse% A. AMA. Hod Asoertim.—Aad LA DT HATTON ; or, The Oduidels Tem AWN WATII £T LONDON NILEDOIL r im jor—i . =. 4 1.54: ::::: —Aheisma. : 1414: his proficiency by his employer, in reprd to matters of legal wails by the magistrate; bat that his domestic and personal deserts are leered tea higher judgment than any fellow-citisen can usurp. Thus, the day is evidently at hand when men will not be obliged to accept gold and silver, and to seem thank ful for them, for such a reason as that they are virtuous men. These changes, occurring when it is proved that the production of food in the country has nearly doubled in half a century, and is rapidly in creasing; and that while food is much cheaper, land is fast increasing in value, seem to open the happiest prospects to society generally, and in the first place to the agricultural interest. Some drawbacks there must always be in all such changes. Some parts of the country cannot long remain in the backward condition in which they are; and the ruin of culti vators who cannot improve their ways is always a painful spectacle. Men who are regularly behind hand with their business, who do not drain or pul verise their soil, nor consult the barometer before taking their crops; who are at the mercy of the weather and itinerant labourers for their hay and their grain ; who let the hay lie about in the meadow till the autumn, and the grain be shed before it is cut ; moat be driven out of the competition. The present demand for farms shows that the unqualified most drop out of that department of industry. As they disappear, the art will advance more and more rapidly towards perfection, and the best food pro duets will be carried farther and farther down within the reach of the humbler orders of society. We ought never to lose sight of the object of pro viding every man, woman, and child in the king dom with a meal of meat every day. While thus looking forward, hopefully and, we believe, reasonably, the fact stares us in the face that at this moment hay is selling at between 91. and 101. per ton, in several places in England; and that turnips are, in such places, 265. to 304. per ton, and milk at London prices, where it is usually only half. Stock cannot be fed but at ruinous cost; and it cannot be sold; for it cannot answer to any one to buy at suck a season, and everybody is wanting to sell. It imams as if some practical mistake had been made, in the midst of all our improvement, or some heinous neglect incurred, in the excitement of our just pride. There is that deficiency. We have done much towards obtaining a mastery over the weather in our processes of cultivation. We drain away water sou to leave the soil in a dry, friable, and warm condi tion : by the same proems we guard against much of the evil of frost. By oar machinery we 11111111111111 men grand harvest works ; and by scientific MOM we get to understand the weather hatter and better. But we lose much of the benefit of all this by our backward ness in providing for the regulation of our water supply. If we bad been as wise and skilful as multi tudes of Germans, Swiss, and Italian husbaodmea, we could not have suffered as we have this year from the id/owning of vegetation and live stock in one seams, and their destruction by drought in another. We maid something of this when it happened ; and we will therefore merely point out at present what we conceive the most urgent task now pressing upon the Royal Agricultural Society, and every other authority in the farming world. Whatever any of us may have said, and however often we may have said it, about irrigation and arterial dr►inages we have not said enough, for the thing is not yet done. Whole districts have this year been stripped bare by drought, and others have been almost or quite as much injured by inundation, and the losses sustained are greater in one season than the out of guarding against them. While this neglect goes on, muck of our trouble in other directions is thrown sway. Improvements in cutting and storing hay sad corn are of no use when the grass is burnt up, and the grain crops are drowned. Economy and speed in fattening beasts are • mockery when the poor animals are restless and panting with thirst, and sold away when mere skin and bone. An arts- Ifni drainage proportioned to the agricultural drainage' already effected is no slight work, it is tram ; and the outlay upon a farm for thorough irri gation is no trifle. But it costs more to go without. The thing has to be done, if our career of agricul tural improvement is not to stop in the midst. We have before our eyes good examples of both works, and if we had them not we mast make them. The thing has to be done; and the year which sees it properly set about will be distinguished in the esentanioal history of England. POETS= ISSUE or ENFIELD RIFLES TO VOLD'S- TEEIt COnrs.—By a circular, dated 90th December,' 1869, Mr. Sidney Herbert inform, the lords-lieuts. pants of counties that her Majesty's government have determined to issue to rifle volunteer corps, after the lit of January next, an additional supply of long Enfield rifles (pattern 1863), to the extent of 60 per cent. on the effective strength of the corps. This supply will raise the aggregateissue to 100 per cent. on the effective strength of the force. The commanding officers of corps should at once forward the Prescribed requisitions to the War-office for such portion of the supply as they may be entitled to under the regulations. The Secretary for War hopes to be in a position in the course of next year to ex change these rifles gradually for the short Enfield, in the use. of any corps which may desire it, on the understanding that the long rifles must be returned in good condition, fair wear and tear excepted, or that the corps must pay for any damage they may have nosived SCHOOL TOR FEMALE STUDENTS, (10W1114TIZEIE -The Mowing minute, which his been posed rem* by the Leeds of the Committee of Common on Mthestion, putt eakerly oddness. itself to those who ere tolerated Is pro vain women with suitable oemspetione My leas moomd to insider the velem of the School for Female Ilthhte et 87, Howse-street. Out& ally female dean mire held lathe School of Design In &mtge.-horn Owing to west of eseeenmodation, it ores removed lato seperete 111•1116111 is the Weed, opposite Somerset-borne. Oa POWISI ONO pre Woes, • bows wee hind for it in 1851, at 117, Glower-oteeet, M • rental of 1251. per sonata, which, liegother with the taus. repairs, and ignitors et 971., amounts to 3231. per sure. • sod is paid by the department. le addition, the dspertet been the cost of chasing, lighting, sod • mei , easser, setimeted together to cost about 1301. per annum. The department also pays the whole cost of examples, and the sexual Wary of • auperintaidint at 1201., be ides the centhostes oa compsteety usually peal to taschiem, and amazon to pupil teraken ; so that the total omtribution of the stets nook 6001., Incurred on tishad of • school which en only beano. Adored in the light of • metropolitan district school. Th. stud,sots' fee. cover for the most part tba cost of Instruc tion, but are Ineullicreat to pay the load expense.. The *Mahn wrangemeat for these local expenses must be coati dared is the light of ea inheritance from tbe old eyeless of seem& of design, sad present the mule remaining simple of that system, forming • halitery moieties at the present time. them the school was located in Ornrsr-street, in 1862, en ethelestethool for trainieg female students as wenn hoe been etteehed to the Normal Costal Teething sod separate them for female studentsoaught by female have bees formed in the district wheels of Fleebery, Hampstead, sod ; whilst female Mediate its admitted to the petrel CIUM in the district schools of St. Martin's-in-the-Pields, Bt. Themes Charter hoses, Rotherbithe, Lamb*b, sad 81. Georgee-le-the-Beet. she the state tars no pert of the local expenee• in the district schools of the monopole, the whoa at 0 arer.strest Mto that extent an eider competitor with them. For all the re quirements of female student. whose means ere the various district schools do, or easy, sand amps send opportunities for study. My lords cuestar that the time has snived when the department should se logger be Mearged with the loos! expiate which in other Be w are petd by the voluntary and that if the school at Gower-street lie to be maintain. I, some voluntary ageacy must vatiertake Its local masageolgot, Towards accomplishing this, tho down meat will rive ever? sid In its power; but it should be clearly underetood that the rent and local expenses of the school will cease to be paid by the government in the ones. of seat year and that if no vOuntery agency should ems Revved the initial will be dead." ebe esurt. WINDSOR Qom, Duo. 26. The Queen, with Princess Alice, walked in the Hosesvark this morning, and visited the Duchess of Yost at /114M10111. TM Prism Oxesart vent oat deriordsg, accompanied by the P 7120101 Wake end Prime Libros. Prisms Mama sad Primes Louisa rode in the Riding Hew. TM Dubin of Kent and Prince and rfiIIONI of leiningan Tilted her Majesty sa the Outdo in the afternoon. Manisa the Deb of Masi/Act waived at the Castle to day, paid his respects to hoe Majisty the Prism Consort and tits root feAnilh and siMrtrards rstornad to London. The Duke and Dachas of Sutherland are enter taining a family *els at Trentham, the patty Winding the Duke end Denham of Argyll, his Ruelimoy the Berl of DMA* the Margais and liarchionme of Stafford, the Berl sad Indy Constance Oventmor, ke. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond have a select piety staying at Goodwood, the ducal seat, soar Chicheiter, coespelaing their Serene Highnesses Primo sad Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Lord and Lady Bingham, &o. The Duke of Duceleach joined the duchess and Madly at Dalksith Palace, near Edinburgh, as Thursday last, from Boykin, his grace's hunting seat in SeWashita Lord sad Lady Walter Scott and all the members of the lassfly Iwo nose there to pass the festive season. Tie Marquis arid MarcUnitas of Salisbury hays a mist drele aanatabled at Hatfield Howe, Heats. The Marquis and Marchioness of Absroorn an until:Aid bia fatally party at Brockat ILO, beets. The Earl and COuntees of Shrewsbury and Talbot base a egret party at Ingestre Hall, the family teat, seer fleefford. Viscount sad Viscountam Luggage are et the *cis. The Earl and Countess of Derby have a select ads, caulked to the mamba's of their tamtly, assembled at Kaowsley. _ _ The Earl and Counter Delawarr are surrounded by a Wally circle at Buekhuret Park, Sussex. Lord West hr joined the party. The Karl and Countess of Clarendon are enter taining a mho* party at the Grove, ow Watford, Hero. The Earl iud Countess of Ayleaford are receiving • aesoseaca of company at their mat, Packniaton Rath Wandokabirs. The Earl and Counts.. of Hardwick. have corn play staying at 'Hi:apple Hall, the family mat In Cam bridgeshire. Cord and Lady Begot are entertaining a select drat, Winding Visootutt Clddeet, Lady Dover, the Hos. Mr. sad Mrs. Cob, to., at Blithfleld Hall, Btalfordahlro. Lord and Lady e.althorpe are at their seat in Warwickshirs, satselai•ing • *sleet party during the holidays. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington arrived at Apriey How., a tew day. beak, from Clermont Lodge, their .ii ii Narkiii. The Countess of Portarlington has been suffering from iadlspositlon, but we are happy to learn le now re covering from her illness. Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Min Thalliuer returned to town at the close of the paid weak from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury as Hatfield Howe. Lord Ward bee been entertaining Lord Rokeby sad a large party at Wks= and anathema at Rimier Hall. The patty had wee ancellent akaotiag. Lard and Lady Poky and the Hai Miss Foley wood throat* tows cat Friday last cm their way to Worksop Alamos, Now. Lord Hastings is seriously indisposed. His lord ship was seised with a paraly tic affection at the establishment of lGsen. Lambert and Rawlings, in Covestry-Mrset, whilst inspecting their oollertion of antique plate. The member of the Prussian royal family ea eseabied at the palaoe of the Prince Repot co Eletarday, sad, amordlog to sworn, presented Christmas preests to bin Royal Rightism and his Comet the Prisons of Prussia, and also made the meal mutual latereheage of premote. The Marquis de Monstier, the Extraordinary Ambassador ;ad Accraditad Miabiar of Frame to the Prussian Court, wee received at a mints anthems by the Prince Repeat cm Friday. and delivered to hie royal high ness as autograph letter frau the Emperor of the Frisch, uoillylag his menisci's reralL The marquis has left Berlin for his yaw poet at Vienne. Prime Hoary de la Tour d'Auvergas Issureguale, the successor to the Marquis de Moustier, le explored to arrive la Berlin la February. The Mime Regent of Prussia, has conferred the ceder of the Rad Eagle of the first slue on Baron von Austrian Uoder•BkxMaq of Butte. The destruction of the inegnitloent pesos of Frederkkaborg, in Denmark, bee called forth marks Maya pithy with the King from all side.. His Majesty has re ceived • despatch from the King of Sweden exporting the highest condolence. The presidents of both Chambers have had andiesose of the King, at which they ' have aim expressed their deep sympathy. It is • sin puler feet that his Majesty had scarcely returned from the ruins of his much-prised palace, on Saturday wen- tag, when a tire was discovered to be raging at Christianaborg, the repel reddest*. Flames were Ma o:mired making their way from the ostlers beneath the Lut fortunately they ware discovered and extin guished in time. Time are supicions that as ad of Incosdiariam was committed, sad • marching Investigating Is to be instituted. The King has boned a reecrlpt to the Minister of Finance, stating that se his Majeety considers It his duty to preserve to future times that portion of the mtkpiltise sad mama property saved from the the at Frederiokshorg, he hes given instructions that the portraits and other objected latereat be placed in the chronological colleatiott at Rosenberg. sod appointed an Galore to take masaares far their future safety. REPRESENTATION OF LEWES. MF. John G. Blew:ewe, eon of R. W. Blecootre, EN., of " The Hooks," Chetley, has declared himself ea a carotidal' hi the rocs of our late lareectrd 'amber, the Right Hon..Reary Fitzroy.— /Swans edoerfierr. REPRISENTATION OF FORFARSHIRE AND DuN- Dan.--In consequence of the death of his noble father, Vis count Duman, the Present member for Forfarshire, will second to the House of Lords, with the title of the In of Cemperdems. Nothing is known ea yet of the course that will be taken with regard to supplying the vacancy for the county. There is • very general feeling that Sir John Ogilvy, the member for Dundee, should be invited to come forward ea a candidate ' • but it is understood that the hon. beroast, grateful for the handsome meaner in which he hes bore supported in Dundee, prefers to stand by his burgh constituents. The only way, we apprehend, by which Sir John Ogilvy might be indo:ed to come forward for the county would be by an influen tial requisition being promoted to him tram the county elootem, and Mr. David Barter, of Mbomou, the chairman of his committee, consenting to stead for Dundee, Mr. D. Baxter would, it le believed, be elected without opposition. In the event of Sir John Ogilvy remaining member for Dundee, Cepteie Pothrinsh.en of Pothrlogbam, world pro bably be asked to stand. rb• a 5.... of Mr. George Moloch of Kinloch, end Mr. D. Honor, of Bleckner, en also spoken of in connexion with both the county end the burgh. Should Sir John Ogilvy be Indnoed to resign the represen tation of Dundee, and Mr. D. Beater not consent to sand, either Mr. nrmiteteed, or Mr. W. E. Beater, the member for Montrose, would probably be brought forward. It le scarcely thought that either of these gentlemen would be unopposed, but that Mr. P. H. Thome, or Mr. Hunter, would also be &eked to enter the askl.—Dunder Journal. RIPIIESINTATION or R&&DINNO.—Mrr. Bsaron ad dressed • crowded wasting of the Menton of Reading cm f c r . i r d i a i amain test. in the Town-hell, when he In with a reeepties. The their wee ocamied by Mr. H. J. &made, and 84, Cheeks Itumell, bed., Coundllor Wells, M.D.. Mr. &peen, Councillor Mandy, Councillor Butler, Mr. Bertlett, and others were on the platform. The hon. gentleman began by explaining the reasons of his prolonged abeam from the borough, and referring to the hopes which W been formed by the oonservative party of security g the minks@ of fur John Lawreme—a name all-powerful to heal the divisions of party, and to conciliate the newt of opposing politicians. He bad come to °palmlike evil reports which bad been raised se to the ve nality of the borough of Reding, and wee determined, the riftriv, being now begun, to fight the battle to the mad, Befitting to the measures likely to come ands the cionside radon of the House of Commons in the eassaiag serf.., Berm expresistd himself in favour of • imamate works ',the growth*, stating that be should sappers sash s inew owe, whether it came trom a liberal ors eoeseresliee govern most, presidia( that the balance of den woe netatelned and =Fwe arm-ridden by numbers. After alluding tette e y imam' dawns, which be regarded as esesatial at the prowl time, be leolared his attachment to Protensat end *deed tined, to vote for the unconditional abed- Um of the Mosey& great. The Chairmen booing en pressed the Wye that at the aorolne election ail parties would exhibit a gaol will, the promedings tertoinsiod with Miming he 8101100 lad the 'barman. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PHI POPE AND THE IMPERIAL PAMPHLET. A telegram received from Paris this morning eye: " The Papal Nuncio has intimated to Count Weleweki the Impossibility for the Pope to be represented at the commas, if an official denial was not given to the rumoured authorship of the pam phlet' Le Pape et le Congress.' " From Rome also a telegram has been received, which says: " It is positively stated that the Duke of Gram moot had been officially informed by the Cardinal Antonelli that, in consequence of the publication of the pamphlet Le Pape et le Congres,' the departure of the Bret plenipotentiary of the states of the church for Paris to be present at the congress had been suspended." The thaivrrs has received a second warning for an article and an address to the Pope, signed by M. Louis Veuillot. The reason for this warning is, that if the question of the Papal States treated by the Thaws may be freely discussed, it could not, however, be allowed to endeavour to organise a political agitation in France under religions pretext. CENTRAL ITALY. SPEECH OF THE REGENT. M. Buoncompagni has published a proclamation at Florence containing the following passage : H The monarchs of Europe are about to assemble ins congress to deliberate on the means of settling the destinies of Italy, and repairing the baneful effects of the treaties of 1816, which, in regulating the rights of sovereigns, forgot that there was an Italy—an Italian nation. King Victor Emmanuel will be res. presented there; and, by the voice of his repre sentative, he will sustain your rights, which are the rights of Italy, sanctioned by eternal justice and con secrated by the blood of our brothers who have died for their country. It is now more important than ever that moderation of views, harmony of will, unshaken constancy and resolution, the execution of the laws, and the sub mission to the government, to which the popular will has entrusted the direction of affairs, should proclaim you worthy of the lot to which you @spire, and u far removed from all levity and aggression as disposed to repel by force, whosoever, whether from within or without, attempts to destroy the political edifice erected on the bases of union, order, and liberty. My affection for these provinces is well known to you. lam here amongst you with no other ambition than that of upholding the Italian policy inaugurated by Piedmont, and contributing to your grand enterprise. I rely upon your confidence and upon the co-operation of the ministers, who, ani mating and directing your efforts, have already deserved so well of their country, and who, continuing to exercise the authority entrusted to them, well know how to acquire new titles to your gratitude." LONDON. TUESDAY, Dia 27. WE have had our show of prime cattle for this December, and have heard the wonderful tale of the agricultural improvements and @accesses of 1869; and now we are about to enter on a new circle of seasons, and to see how much more we can achieve in the primary art of producing food. The prospect is good, as far as we can yet look forward. There need be no great fear of vermin, after such frosts as we have had between October and Christ mas. The soil is pulverised as thoroughly by frost as it has been for many a year. The weather is suitable for the felling of wood, and putting things in order for working on the soil, whenever there is a sufficient thaw. Taking the late snow-fall into consideration, we may hope that there is no such deficiency of supply to the water•prings as has been the main mischief to agriculture for a series of years. On the whole, we may enter upon the new year with a lively hope of good harvests to come. It is plain, from its Report, that the Royal Agri cultural Society is in the best spirits, in spite of great pecuniary loss from the defalcations of one of its officers. Its finances are flourishing; the number of its members increases from ma half-year to an other; and one can go nowhere without perceiving that ever-growing honour is paid to its pursuits, its aims, and its services. Throughout the whole range of English conversation, there is no topic on which the tone has undergone a greater change than farm ing and farmers. It is not so very long since farming was regarded as a clumsy, oid-fashioned, unimprova ble occupation, venerable, no doubt, and in a distant view poetical; but destitute of all romance on a near inspection, from the ignorance and prejudice of the farming class, and the utter clownishness of their labourers. Now, the agricultural interest is another osme for the spirit of enterprise, the zeal, liberality, deference to science, and appreciation of art which have raised other departments of industry into • high rank in our eivilisation. The advance in the arts of agriculture seems even more rapid just now than any progress we have witnessed in any other department. We used only refer to the shows of implements at our resent agricultural meetings, and to the series of operations now instituted on oar best farms to produce say single crop. In comparison with the manual labour employed even a few years ago, in every proems, from preparing the soil to threshing out the grain, the modern methcd Is a new art, prophetic of immense gain, and requiring anew order of men for its manage meat. We have already a class of farmers who are to their fathers as educated citizens to rustics bound to the soil. We hare still too many labourers asaceg us who are not much wiser than the beasts they (eel and drive 1 but there is ground for hope that the next generation will show an improvement corresponding with that attained by their em ployers. Much has been said this year, and not a little has bean done, in the direction of the labourer's best welfare. As the arts of agriculture advance more intelligence abd trust worthiness are requisite in the labourers ; and we find the claim to further consideration admitted faster even than it is urged. Now that their occu pation is fast assuming the character of skilled in dustry, it is desired that they should be intelligent 1 efforts are made to lodge them near their work, in stead of to remove them out of sight; means are devised to keep their children at school long enough to profit permanently by instruction; and soma effectual opposition has been made to the degrading parade of patronage hitherto offered at county agricultural meetings, when employers—mere private eitissos—took upon themselves to confer pecuniary rewards in public for moral deserts. Thanks to a few spirited gentlemen, the distinction is now fairly introduced which they clearly explained when occasion served; the distinction between rewarding Iproficiency in say part of their work—in any pro m, conneeted with agriculture, and moral desert on which no man is appointed to decide in another's loam. Country gentlemen are learning to under stand that the labourer may be judged is regard to FRANCE. The ifonitaur of this morning annonnoes that Prince Jerome has entered into a state of con valemenoe. Ths Moniteur also publishes the following Wage= : - " MADRID, DEC 26. " The Queen bra been happily delivered of • Primer." The Journal des Debetts contains an article signed by John Lemoine, pronouncing itself favourably on the pamphlet, " Le Pape et le Congres." M. Lemoine proves by quotations from his former articles that he always bad expressed the same opinion on this subject, and demands that Italy should remain mistress of her own destinies. According to his views the Congress of 1860 has to take no resolution, but is only called together to recognise the expressed wishes of the Italians. SWITZERLAND. BERNS, Dzc. 26. Mr. Harris hu received the title of Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Majesty the Queen of England in Switzerland. THE POPE AND THE CONGRESS. The Constitaitiorinel says : The impreemen produced in France and other parts by the new pamphlet has surpassed our expectations. From ell puts, and especially from England, the telegraph gives us decisive information on the point. It is a noble privilege of France, that when she ?alms her voice io an appeal to gear roue sentiments, she is sue to find everywhere • empa thetic response. And is this cam the fact is the more sulk leg, that In foreign countries no inquiries bare been made ea to the origin of this work, and, without too car fully prying Into the name of the author, it has been judged on Its own intrinsic =tits. The writer proceeds to remark on the Tarim' divisions of the pamphlet, and then comes to the very essential point of paying to the Pope his yearly income. The following is the mode of proceeding which the Corsaritutionnel reommends • • It should be a proportional payment, freely agreed to, but irrevocable, whatever might happen. It should be, if re- I gaffed, a tribute sanctioned by usteraational treaties, end one which no nation having ono. contracted could without ' honour disregard. It is well known that this kind of inter nationalengagements hove never been disregarded, even at the wont o times. To quote only a recent peoot of this, the jointure of the Duchess of Orleans wee sanctioned by the vote of a republicio parliament, and honourably paid until her death by an imperial budget. The objection will doubt less be made that an engagement of this kind is most important; end the question will perhaps be raised, why France should burden the national budget with this perpetual obligation, sad why in this country of liberty of coneolecca, Protestants and lOWA !should be made to contribute to the dotation of St. Peter? We reply that, in addition to catholic" uncomplainingly contributing to the szpoeses of every form of &merit, France is above all, and in her very enema, a catholic nation; that she =swot lose that glorious title; that her satire future depends on it, and that to preserve it she incurs no disgrace in valuator* declaring banal( the tributary of St. Peter. This is a suzerainty that she well may for, in this case, the vowel is only a devoted and euspeetfal daughter of the shared. "It is stated," says the Pays, "that, owing to the lionising importance of the French establishments in Omsk, there is Dome idea of modifying the organisation of the possessioss In that part of the world, so that for the future there Mall be two distinct divisione, each having its own governor. The lint would comprise Tahiti, the Mar , and neighbouring Islands; and the mond, New Caledonia and its dependencies." The Univers states that it has received a number OE oommunications inquiring what coarse ought so be adopted at the present **tincture. Some of the writers suggest publio subscription ; others, an address to the Pope, express ing love and devotedness. The weather is still severe at Lyons. " Last night," says the Gaulle de Lyon of the 23rd, "a sentinel was found frozen to death at his poet. Another, who was mounting gaud at the grand camp, had his feet froot-bitten." THE INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPII.—• We gather the billowing &sells from Mr. Oieboree's memorandum of his proposal to mamma Australia by a line of telegraph with the asters extremity of the island of Java. The whole distance from Java to Moreton Bay Is 3,024 nautical milee, being 60 mike more than the proposed line from Aden to Hurracluie. The estimated cost is 8080001., being the dame as the estimate for the Wt-mentioned line. This sum Mr. Crisham proposes to divide among the colonies in the following prop mica, :—Victoria. 68 6-18 per mat. ; New South Wiles, 22 12-16; Sonih Australia. 7 4.16; New Zoilissid, 6 11-16; Tasmania, 6 6.16; and Western Assails, 16-16. Tin new colony of Queensland Is not looloded, but, If nothing occurs to prevent the in. mailed esparailon, that °obey will be able to beer a fair Crrof the above divisions, as Monaca Bay is likely to reat benefits from the andectelchig if serried out.— .dastrifirs and Ncic Zraiateit Gout to. litrßEs3 FROM PARIS. (PROM 001 0W24 PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The "contradictions" of the pamphlet " in some points" which M. Grandguillot promised to the readers of the are yet to be made, and I doubt mach whether they will ever fall from his pen. The sensation made by the pamphlet has been too great, its success too overwhelming, for it to be possible for the author to disavow his work. lied it been otherwise the Constigutionnal might possibly have played a very useful part by controverting, as it was prepared to do, in the "plenitude of its independence," certain propositions which it might have been found embarrassing to oover with official protection. As it is, M. Grandgnillot continues to speak of the publication with ever-inoreuing admira tion. Throwing aside the affected ignorance of its high origin, so uselessly professed at first, he now admits, with an English journal, that the pam phlet is " the expression of a policy of concord and conciliation with England." His article of today doce not attack the pamphlet in any one particular; but, from motives not very apparent, he seeks to prove that the moral of it I. not altogether rightly understood on the other side of the Channel. Eng land, he says, is a protestant power systematically hostile to the papacy ; Frans, on the contrary, is a catholic power, and cannot therefore be governed by motives similar to those which will influence England in the settlement of the Roman question. These distinctions appear altogether idle to the Press*, which observes that facts are of more importance than motives and intentions, and that M. Grandguillot cannot help admitting the fact that England approves of the solution proposed in the name of France; and that France and Eng land are likely to act together in the Congress, " if the pamphlet have the importance which no one thinks any longer of contesting." M. Peyrat, in the Preece, offers a forcible plea on behalf of the citizens of Rome, whom the pamphlet would consign to bad government in perpetuity for the benefit of the rest of the world. This notion he treats u "chimerical, opposed to law, justice, and common sense, inadmiesible in every point of view, and as one plainly betraying the heed tation of a mind which after having clearly marked out its course suddenly stopped half way." This hesitation the Freon is tempted to think must be voluntary and calculated. The case made against Rome proves that the " French govern ment is tired of the obstinate trifling of Romiah diplomacy, and will endure it no longer. At every page one perceives explosion of a concentrated ill humour and an exhumed patience; one sees the protector tired out with expedients and resolved to cut the Gordian knot." The whole logic of the pamphlet tending to show the utter impossibility of uniting the functions of prince and pontiff for the purpose of good government, the Presto cannot think the author means what he says when he would condemn Rome for all time to be a city of silence and darkness—when he would have St. Peter's barque like that of Charon, peopled only with ghosts. Cor;ors viva - mama Pete waste mini._ The Opinion Nationale, however, is disposed to accept the excuses offered by the pamphlet foe subjecting the citizen. of the Eternal City to an exceptional government. It observes that in Italy, France, and England, there are men who, carrying the logical consequences of a separation of the tem poral and spiritual powers to a too absolute extent, do not understand that in politics it is often neces sary to make some concessions of principle, at the risk of obtaining no amelioration whatever. M. °earlier de Cassageac's journal, the Pays, attests the authority of the pamphlet by its silent*. The Journal dm Ham says that a new bill will shortly be presented to the Council of State relative to the pablication of law reports. It is probable that the objections made on the occasion of certain recent scandalous trials will be made the excuse for imposing further restrictions on the prose, and bring ing judicial procedure nearer to that state of perfec tion of the middle ages, when its essence was eecresy. It has been sufficiently established by the controversy that has recently taken place on the sub ject, that no new law is necessary. The judges have always the power of prohibiting the report of a trial when they think fit, and the articles of the UNieses and Pays complaining of the publicity of the Lemoine and Chereau oases are in fact censures upon the judicial beach. • • " • " There is a talk of a new ministerial circular rela tive to warnings. The Bourse wee very bad. The reason given for the considerable f►ll is that the project of abolishing the admission fee is abandoned to the great disap pointment of the majority of the speculators, who had confidently calculated upon it. It was whispered, however, that the Pope hal already protested against the pamphlet, and that he refute to send a plenipotentiary to the Congress. The Rente fell 65c. for cash and 30c. for aecount, closing at 69fr. 95c. and 701 r. 10c. Mobilier fell llfr. 25c. The Orleans railway fell 10fr. ; Northern, 6fr. 26c.; Lyons, 3fr. 75c.; and the other lines about 2fr. 50c. The prohibitive system is attacked by the INbati in reference to two articles of French manufacture which are stated to be seriously affected by its enactments—printed cottons and tulles. For the former to prosper, it merely requires to have the on stamped calico at a price not exceeding that ob tained in other countries; otherwise it cannot corn• pate in foreign markets with the English, Swiss, Prussian, or Belgian productions. The writer observes: Unfortunately for the French manufacturers of printed cottons, the spinaers posse. a de facto mo nopoly of fabrication tensed by the tariff which pato tically excludes twist fit for the manufacture of calico. So that, provided there ho an active demand to France for twig; the cotton spinsters an absolute masters of the price, and sell at what rate they please. In that way they make brilliant profits, but they effectually prevent the production of printed stuffs for exportation. At present this impudent branch of manufacture cannot be worked as it ought, ea it has not enough of calico, its first requirement. But the se. called protectors of national labour are enchanted ; the moll of their country is not polluted by contact with the calicoes of perfidious Albion. Just the same takes place with respect to French tulles, which at present cannot be manufactured for exportation. Some of the Calais houses, seeing that the longer they delay the worse they would find their position, have emigrated to Belgium and there established their Pontiac. Here, then, obeereee our contemporary, is an important branch of in dustry, the prosperity of which would be beyond any doubt not only satisfactory but brilliant, if it had permission to provide its raw material where it pleased. But the pretended protective system ex ercises on it an influence similar to that which the fatal revocation of the edict of Nantes had on the aggregate of French manufactures. The Dlbats thee goes on to say : It is desirable that such facts should be pointed out to the public sod the government. Can the protective system, rejected by all Europe, remain in force among us in the face of theme deplorable coneequences, and is there sot danger in mainteining tt ? It is not inappropriate to remark that the rarnatecture of printed cotton% of tulles, and of other mat. I •1