The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

,OLD CHAINS.--JOHN BROODER vai to call the attention of the public to the TOM at VOICE which he delivers with Odd Chains pusebasid at hie manufactory: a. d. To workmanship of wove petters chain, at Mace long 2 16 0 To (18) cams gold, weigldog s on, at 132 a Bea per mace, ]Sint price tal.. An Upen this system, the QUALITY, W To RIGHT, and V ALUE of the gold are accurately defined, and guaranteed to the purchasers: Joie Bromism Jidda, for a tel rawanwratios on the workman. oblP . ohly, which is aimed according to the Intricacy or Amon city of the pattern. Manufactory, 16, Ilemlettnelsoet, Covent-garden, London. _ (PRIME MEDAL AWARDED . AITS and ALLEN'S PATENT POR TRAVELLING BAGS, with square opening:lL LADIES* WARDROBE TRUNKS, DREIMING BARR, with giver Maga DINPATCH BOXES, MUTING and DRESSING CASKS, and MO other ankles to home or continental travelling. Dluatrated c& Ilea . ' Me. Alpo Allens Barrack Furniture Catalogue 01 PeTtsbis But* dial, Drawers, lazy Chain. Waahhand-atands, canteens, &A., Can tree. J. W. ALLEN, Manufacturer and Patentee. M. West Strand. London. W C RZAKWAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. DAWES% beautiful HARD WAX and SPERM CANDLES, L. per lb.: Passe Pandas °Mills.la Sd. is lid. and Is. 104.: IsAssle War. 11. ; randioid.. moulds, , dips, SDI ; yellow soap, Ses., l l, , and Os. par 112Ib ; moWsd. Sas. ; Dats tee 'peke ; for cash, at hi. P. DAVIES sad 102r8 wax and Hansa Oilmen, 63, Et. liarthis-lass. W.C.—Usfs Pad Dr& THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY - LANE. Sole LOOM and Manager, Mr. F. E. CHATTERTON. TO-NIGHT, and every livening until further maim, will be performed • new sad original Farce, entitled BONEYDOVIFS TROUBLE After which will be performed the Drury-labe ANNUAL GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, entitled YAW FEE FO FUM, or HALLE/131N JACK the GIANT KILLER- Ehe •IPrefil. 1V 0011.11211PONDLWTS. Idvaillawsaata Intended for •• The Zaproos." London !snubs!" =wag be at the Moo, 10. Bouyiwiratroat. by Two on the day of publication. HAYMARKET. 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Stephan and MU, Rom Nathan.—And WHO DID IT HIGH WATS& AT LONDON DiUMW. t DAY —limning. 812. 2ta— __Afternoon. 110 L SGm. to-Yomow—Morning. 9h. 1Dia......../N/0100S. 9tL 469, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4. Tue phrase "Extra -Parliamentary Utterances, which used to appear prominently during the re cess in the columns of • powerful contemporary, has at last disappeared, to the relief of all lovers of good sense and good English. In the struggle for existence, this linguistic monstrosity has been overcome. The division which metaphy sicians have made of the universe into "the me" and " the not-me" is scarcely couched in more doubtful English, nor is its second term more comprehensive. The barking of a dog, the im precations of a fishwife, the scandal of a " kettle " drum," the oratory of a Working Men's Con servative Association, are all " Extra-Parliamen " tary Utterances." We have the greatest possible respect for the wisdom of Parliament ; but the division of vocal performances into what is said within its walls and what is said without them, does, perhaps, magnify its place in the world. Some critics, not content with having hunted the phrase to death, are anxious for the abolition of the thing which it more especially exprtssed. They doubt the usefulness of out-of-doors speeches by statesmen and members of Parliament. It may be that very few IloW truths are first announced, or that little esoteric wisdom is brought within the vulgar ken, in these speeches. But, if there is any truth in the theory of representation, and of intelligent personal choice, it is essential that constituencies should know something of their members, and members something of their constituencies, in relations freer and more easy than are possible in the bustle of canvass and the excitement of contest. If this informal intercourse and the silent understanding which it produces were done away with, a string of peremptory instructions would probably be its substitute. The representative would be trans formed into the delegate. The opportunities which the present practice offers to politicians of the second or third rank , and to members habi tually sileut within the walls of the House of Com mons, are more valuable than those which it pre sante to political leaders. Mr. GLansrose and jr.! DISRAELI can be judged fairly enough by their Parliamentary speeches and conduct ; though even they may derive benefit from the reminder that the House of Commons is not a seltoriginated and irresponsible body, nor the court of final appeal in political matters. But the majority of members require a near view to be seen at all. Their speeches are not without interest and importance, independent of their merits. That mysterious influence which controls Ministers and party leaders, whose action is felt and not seen, which operates silently and subtly, and is known as " the temper of the Home," or the " feeling of " the party," is simply the aggregate judgment of MHO six hundred, or three hundred, respectable, moderately well-informed, usually sensible, silent and obscure members of Parliament. The only clue an observer from without has to this potent force is in the out-of-doors speeches of the mass of commonplace M.P.'s. The saying of the late Sir Games Lewis that the House of Commons, as a whole, is wiser than any of its members, may be open to question, but it is indisputably more powerful. An army of pigmies may be an over match for a glint. It would be doing great injustice to a distin guished statesmen to attribute the interest which attaches to Mr. CARDWELL'S speeches to consi derations of this kind. But, nevertheless, guarded from all that would be offensive and disparaging in such a use of them, they are not wholly ungermane to his case. The powerful individuality which is impressed on the speeches of Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. DIBRAELI, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. MILL, or Mr. Lows, prevents them being anything but an expression of their own personal convictions. Mr. CARDWELL, on the other hand, is an admirable exponent of the general good sense, the moderating temper, and practical sagacity of official Liberalism: Its present position and its future course may be computed from him with greater accuracy than from any other political luminary, assuming that there is no violent dis turbance of the system. It is not necessary when he is concerned to make allowancefor the perturbing forces of genius and enthusiasm. A clear head, a calm judgment, ,conciliatory and conscientious dis position, a fluent and pleasant style of speech, and great parliamentary and administrative expe rience, are qualities which have the rarity, if not the splendour, of sensor could ill be spared WV- These gifts, together Mr. CARDWELL holds in e. portance to his recent speech ae always certain that the suggestions , Member far the city of Oxford will not go beyond the programme of his party. Mr. CARD WELL is a master of the vernacular language of office ; and the largest sense that can fairly be put on hie guarded and reserved admissions is likely to be the truest. When a politician so little prone to exaggeration declares that the Reform Act of 1832 established the principle of government for the people, and that the Reform Act of 1867 has established the prin ciple of government by the people, the democratic character of the change is confessed. The principle of government by the people implies the withdrawal from small pocket boroughs or decaying villages of the franchise to which they have no fair title, and its transfer to large centres of popula tion. Such a measure of redistribution Mr. CARDWELL advocates. Government by the people ought to be government by an educated people ; and if we rightly interpret his reference to Mr. Banes, Mr. CAanwam. favours the scheme of local rating which the late Vice-President of the Committee of Council has brought forward. On the Irish Church question, Mr. CARDWELL ridi cules the idea that any internal redistribution of the revenues of the Establishment will meet the necessities of the case. Jus ti ce must be done, he says, to the Presbyterians and Roman Catholics. We suppose that Mr. Caanwau. still lingers fondly over the project of Lord GREY for creating three Established Churches in the place of one. If he thinks an arrangement of this sort practicable he is the victim of an illusion as great as that which he indulged when he fondly cherished the idea that his " Iriah Landed Property Im " provement Bill" of 1860 would be a settlement of the land question. In fact, it proved wholly inoperative. Not a single landlord or tenant has, we believe, ever availed himself of its provisions. Its best part was derived, as Mr. CARDWELL states, from the Montgomery Act of Scotland, which enables limited owners to charge their successors for improvements on their estate. But Irish land lords are not disposed to improve, even on these terms. The parts of the measure which related to leases, contracts, and tenants' improvements were so fettered by cumbersome forms of procedure and references to third parties, judges of the Landed Estates Court, or chairmen of Quarter Sessions, as to be wholly unmanageable. The machinery was too elaborate to work. The land question is as far from settlement as ever. A complex system of rival Church Establishments in Ireland would leave the Church question as far from settlement as Mr. CARDWELL'S Bill left the land question. Before another year has passed this " fond " hope, " too, will have been abandoned. The pet schemes of politicians for changing every thing without disturbing anything may be easily pardoned. They will disappear when the facts are confronted. The disposition to grapple with the question of education, with the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland, and with the Irish Established Church, which is apparent in the almost artistically cautious language of Mr. CARD WELL'S speech, is a pledge of a thorough settle ment. Ineffectual compromises may be in fashion for a moment, but they will go the way of the Whig fixed duty on corn, and of the fancy fran clises and anti-democratic safeguards of Tory Wormers. • OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) While the Times considers it would be in the interest of the Irish residents in England to voluntarily make declarations of their abhorrence of treasonable designs, it views with disfavour the proposal of the Metropolitan Conservative Association to procure the same kind of abjuration on the part of Englishmen. It objects, not merely because this particular association has a party character, but from its deprecation of any course which would seem to place the English in conflict with the Irish and increase the jealousy which the present circum ; stances are arousing. In another article the Tines reviews some of the pro visions of the Workshops Regulation Aot now in operation, which it thinks will cost its promoters some trouble in amending. The Daily News comments upon the remedy which we. recommended by a corresiondent of yesterday's Times for the disaffection of Ireland, namely, martial law, and the imitation by Lord Abercorn of the feats of Governor Eyre. The Duffy News remarks that the circumstances which might be supposed to call for the application of this panacea do not exist ; there is no armed resistance to the government, and the power of the law is overwhelming. If we fail in preventing out rages it is not foe want of power but for went of knowledge and promptitude, to ripply which martial law offers us no help. The " Briton," to whose letter nothing but its publication in the Times gives the least importance, hes no helping counsel to offer. He does not even appear to be one of those excellent, honest, patriotic, but ignorant, mischievous Englishmen who are always astonished when the Irish or any other people ima gine that they know better than we do what is good for them, and to whom mainly we owe our present difficulties. As far as be is con:erned, if only Governor Eyre can be rescued from his terrible morel isolation, Ireland's welfare, and the Queen's honour, and England's reputation may take their chance. From such Britons Ireland may well oak to be delivered. Considering the question as to what we can do to pleas. the Irish people, and putting aside the two standing griev ances of the Irish church and the land tenure, the Standard comes to the conclusion that a member of the royal family should reside in Ireland during a portion of each year, and that there could be no great harm in trying the scheme of provincial councils as recommended by Mr. Goldwin Smith. The imperial parliament might learn something of the condition of Ireland from these councils, and at least they would prove a diversion to those more active spirits who now pine for " nationality." The institution of a regiment of Irish Guards, as ►n addition to the House hold force, is a smaller device, but a tolerably easy one for winning popularity. There are many other such minor suggestions which it would be the interest of the imperial government to consider, the value of which the English people, in their scorn of sentimentalities, are too apt to despise. The Telegraph denounces the letter in the Times coun selling martial law u infamous. Even if there were not the miserable recollection of " martial law in Jamaica,"new and unhealed, is not Irish history itself red with the records of Darold kw ? Is it mot full of bitter proof that " the Ante of siege" cannot win for as the affection or even the sub mission of Ireland? Two-thirds of all the effect of Fenianism is due to poltroons like this Anonymous Briton. The Star his a similar article. pointed envoy to Washington, net begone, Lord Stanley supposed him tcposess any specific& preeminent qualifi cation for the functions he would have to disharp, bat simply because somebody snot be appointed, and as none of the needy nobles of the conservative party happened to be in the humour to take that particular place, it was thought as well to send him as anyone else. One MOM mendation, indeed, he is said to posses, which, if true, would naturally recommend him to the present Beerelary for Foreign Affairs. He is said to be a man without opt pima ; and as Lord Stanley is • minister without a policy, Mr. Thornton is just the man for him. The Spectator sees even more arguments against est ceding a repeal of the Union than spinet the indsopied enoe of Ireland, and maintains that the base pay is to establish, as far as we possibly can, reles= equality, reform justice, modify the tenure, she every rag of the wicked old gat= of amenfiew and then, with our consciences clear, wait mini for the reward which, unless all history has hem be accurately written, time perforce must bring. If after • generation of honest and laborious effort it is still char that there is no unity, that the English are still invaders, the Irish still disaffected, it may become the moral duty of Britain to make the rudest .sacrifice ever asked of a na tion, and to let Ireland go to pursue her own fate as an absolutely independent country. But it never, under any circumstances, can be our morel duty to retain Ireland and yet surrender the power of governing what we retain —to take all responsibility and preserve no privilege. The Chronicle remarks that if Mr. Seward's position is to be maintained with any consistency, the real question for arbitration is of earlier date than any which have been introduced into the correspondence between the United States and Great Britain. The circumstance which, mesa' than any other, stamped the Confederates with • lardS7 gerent character was President Lincoln's proclamation ges blockade of the Southern coast. If there was no awn war, he had no rigid to call upon other powers to rasped an act which indicted a wanton injury upon their cone memo ; and before the legitimacy of the subsequent course pursued by Great Britain can be properly impugned, the legitimacy of this initial act on the part of the United States government would have to be determined. When Mr. Seward is prepared to submit this question to arbi tration, and to accept the consequences of a negative deci sion, it will be time enough for Lord Stanley to reconsider his resent noun. Cite Court. OSBORNE, JAW. 3. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds yes- I terday afternoon, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe ; and her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out in the grounds this morning. On the afternoon of New Year's-day her Majesty gave presents to all the servants of the household at Osborne, for whom Christmas trees had been prepared in the steward's room and servants' hall. Her Majesty, accompanied by all the royal family, pro ceeded to the rooms where the servants were assembled at six o'clock, and personally distributed the gifts, assisted by the Princesses, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold. Prince Arthur and Prinoe Christian, attended by Lieute nant-General the Hon. C. Grey and Major Elphinstons, honoured Sir John and Lady Simeon with a visit at Swainston, near Newport, to-day, and afterwards went out shooting there. The Duke of Buckingham arrived at Osborne yesterday. The Duke of Roxburghe and the Duke of Buckingham had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family last evening, and left Osborne to-day. ITALY. FLORENCE. JAN. 3, ivzinNo. The ministerial crisis continues. Several mem bers of the Right have declined the proposal of NI General Menabrea to enter the cabinet. 1 Railway communication between Bologna an d b Piacenza, and between Bologna and Florence is yaw still interrupted by the snow. cl`P° AUSTRIA. VIENNA, TAN. 4. I Al The Dchatte of to-day announces that the Turk ish Ambassador Haider Effendi has received an order from Constantinople to proceed at once to London. He leaves, probably, to-day. This mis sion is said to be connected with the present rela- g dons of the Russian and Turkish cabinets. The Prase of to-day 'Weis that it is reported in I reds Perth that Baron Friedrich Podmaniczky, M. 1 847- Trefort, and General Klapka have been respectively made Under Secretaries of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and War, for the whole empire. ME TIMPRESS, SATURDAY WG, JANUARY genius g isc. , stunt onstion • „a) .t Ewa T r l by his ofp . =0 sinwastkee of Ilinolatios bs ass Afir . mot *-. (Ira rainowis.) ith tbn r t i l „„t e 11 7 • of a d s . t.' • FRANCE. • V t ont ive • • gelsolt ast • • • - , t3hi- PARlStrin: 4. De..h at • It is ccaimon• in the Lot tendon to , • . ' , The Moniteur in its bulletin of this morning as ggestions of the senior stases pugnacity that the Japanese Christians who were imprisoned of Oxford will not go bee. . lll. a Nagasaki have been liberated, a the request of his party. Mr. CARD- P'in•••••frf! the Trench Ohargii d'Affluraa. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Discussing oar political prospects, the Saturday Renew thinks the chances in favour of the continued existence of the present ministry during the year which mast precede a dissolution. Kr. Disraeli is the object of general distrust and of deep resentment, nor has he sou -1 ciliated any section of the party to which he has sacrificed ell the profession■ and principles of his own followers ; bat he understands bow to manage the present Home of Commons, and there is no rival whom acessidon to his pleas is eagerly &int Mr. Gladstone would be preferred by the ementry, and by many vepsuleat umbers on both sides of the home, bat he woald net tab adios without Mr. Bright, sad the 'skirting parinment b not prepared to asecopt the amps. vary consequence d an organic rovskittos. It se any THE EWJIAN MINISTRY. _ mums's. JAN. 4. The Moniker Beige of this morning publishes the royal decrees re-constituting the ministry. The composition of the new cabinet will be as follows: _ . . M. Frere Orban . . . Minister of Finance. M. Pormez . . . . Minister of the In terior. Minister of Public Works. M. van der Stichelen . Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Renaud . . . . Minister of War. M. Bars M. Jamar . . . . DENMARK. COPENHAGSN, JAN. 4. It is stated on reliable authority that the Crown Prince of Denmark is about to be betrothed to the Princess Louise, the only daughter of the King of Sweden. PROROGATION OF TEE GREEK CHAMBERS. ATHENS, Jan. 2, Emilio. Tho Chambers were prorogued to-day by order of the King for forty days. PORTUGAL 'LISBON, iAIII. 3, Evzsiso. The Duke de Lou has been summoned by the King to form a ministry but has been unable to do so. The Marquis de Sa having also failed Count Avila has now undertaken the task. A slight tumult occurred last night at Lisbon, I but all is now quiet. AMERICA. (ay ♦TLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) PORTLAND, JAN. 3. The Novs Scotian arrived out to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALEB.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will --e--- bring their visit to the Earl and Countess of Leicester at (TROY OUR OWN CORREMPONDENT.) H o lkham to • close to-day (Saturday). Yesterday the PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. Willa! and the other distinguished N isitors had some wild It is confirmed that the velvet cap and sword fowl shooting, and on Wednesday and Thursday some obtained on varied parts of the sport w Ise #y good as blessed by the Pope on Christmas -da y , and des tined fora present to the sovereign who rendered great Honcho= estate. On Wednesday evening the Earl most signal • and Countess of Leicester gave a dance, and Thursday th e evening was wiled away with private theatricals. The year, is to be given to the Emperor Napoleon 111. weather has been cold and winterly, but the prince and It was to announce this great news that Mgr. Chigi, princess must have found their visit to Holkham a very the Pope's nuncio, had an audience of his Majesty agreeable one. on Saturday last. The prelate specially commis- The health of the Princess of Wales has so much aimed to bring these insignia to Par i s is expected improved that her royal highness was enabled to attend to-day or to-morrow. It is a mistake to suppose service on Christmas-day at the church in the park at . .. • . Sandringhaedieat Times and Gazette. that this great catholic prize is awar d e d every year. The Prince of Teck is expected to honour Lord If so the list of worthy recipients would be very soon Londesborough with his company next week at his lord- exhausted. No sovereign has received the cap ship's mat in Yorkshire. and sword since 1849. To the Emperor who is now Count Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador, is to have them they will probably turn out a dam expected to arrive at the Austrian Embassy, in Belgrave- noses he reditas. The immediate return is, however, square, the second week in next month, from Vienna. I believe to be the bestowal of a cardinal's hat The marriage was celebrated on the 28th ult., upon the Archbishop of Paris, who was, and but " 8ev 8 . 4. JO:a ° Beunt'sterliAveledn,Belad.,untelejaofn'tshweood bri , de b rm y the for the Emperor's patronage would still be, in very ' assisted by the Rev. E. H. N e l son , KA., incumbent of bad odour at Rome. The alliance between church 1 the church, of Squire Bancroft Bancroft, to Marie Effie, and state certainly seems to be wonderfully 1 the eldest daughter of Robert Pleydell Wilton. flourishing in the country whose constitution bears The marriage of Lord Brabaxon with Lady Mary the date of 1789 in its title page. The Emperor I Maitland is fixed to take place at St. George's Church, himself said nothing on New Year that can I Banover.square, on Tuesday next, the 7th last possibly be construed as alarming, but it will not General Sir John Burgoyne (says the Army and escape the attention of European governments that Nary Gazette) has retired from active service at the War. the Archbishop of Paris was permitted to tell his seise ; he retains the full pay of his late aloe, and is "ascendancy Majesty that the " of France in the about to be created a Field Marshal in the army. We en- demand that Sir John will be succeeded as Inspector . world was the necessary guarantee of justice and General of Engineers and Director of Works by Major- peace. General Edward Nome. The post was offered to Sir J. Madame Niel, the wife of Marshal Niel's brother, W. Gordon. who died last week at Toulouse, survived her Lord Ranelsgh writes :—" I observe that some husband only six days. She was carried off at the gentlemen have already taken steps in their candidature ame of -57 by the same disease to which her husb and for our new borough. Although my name has on easy had previously succumbed—inflammation of the occasions during the last few years been associated with such candidature, whenever the claims of Chelsea to lungs. representation should be acknowledged, as they now The Archbishop of Algiers has add reseed liftter happily are, I should have thought any personal action to the papers, dated Paris, January 1, soliciting premature, before the essential preliminaries as to boon. the aid of charity for the " famine" in Algeria. daries and registration were settled. I cannot longer The word famine is, he says, the only one which delay the announcement of my intention to offer myself sufficiently describes the situation. Insurr ection, as a candidate for the tardily-ceded suffrages of the ' electors, and I trust that the long connexion with, and earthquakes, locusts, drought, and cholera have I I residence in, the borough, of myself and my pedecessors, reduced Algeria to a state of misery which I may add some to whatever individual claims I may 'se poises all imagination. He calculates at 100,000 able to adduce in support of my candidature. the number of Arabs who have died of The guard of police of the A division, which is cholera during the summer or of starvation stationed at Sandringham when the Prince sad Priapism of since. The number of widows, orphans, and old Wales are staying at Sandringham.house,has been incensed peo ple utterly leftdestitute may therefore be oon- during the last few days. oeived. Before appealing to the public the arch- Orders have been issued for reinforcements of bishop has, he says, given away " all " that he guards on all important posts of Dublin. At all military proceed ed himself He is now on his way beck to stations throughout the country sentinels are or d e red to have rifles loaded when going on duty. giers The hew York Tribune of the 21st ult., says : archbishopric there. . Al, and will gladly receive subscriptions at the " With the morning reading to be given today, Mr. 1 The news given yesterday that Mdlle. Patti, the Disks " " I " 14 " . of N ew Yea fee the Mast. to 1 costa diva, was about to be married to the Marquis Tatum ' we hops, bah" brag and resin the tr iu m p h et the I de Cain, son-in-law of the Duke de Valmy, is, its last two weeks. The complained of that triumph is . not to be questioned, and it has been gained by the might have expected, contradicted. pure force of geaius, without resort to artifice or clap-trap. We are having winter in earnest. Chevalier's Mr. Dickens came among us quietly and unostentationdy; thermometer list night marked 10 2-10ths deg. be leas kept himself since his arrival In • marked soolosiola below Zero. The average of Paris winters is only sad ham applied himself to him business of reeding with 3 7-](the. The Seine is completely frozen over, an mach deecelee 65 if he "le la" starting out la We, seed several people have to-day walked scrod it, with his own fortune and that of • large family of depths ,n. crow ds were loo ki ng at th em f rom th e brothers sad sisters dependent on his elation& We bridges . w^— think that in all this Mr. Dickens has showed pod . The feat is not altogether without dul -1 tests and tact, and be has snoceeded in winoentratLeg polio gar , h•••••• the icebergs fro en together are of 1111- attention upon his reading rather than upset Idatellf. opal thicksems, and the soldering ice connecting whisk is, DO dacha, liteetlf whet he wished to thk. .7Ls . them with each other is in many instances thin. far what we'wallet bap thinking the Yee 1 " 81 ! Th ere is to be a grand night fate on the Skating Whored= of h i s' A/MAIM Notes,' we dare my ha hap' Club's reser ved pert of the Boa d e B ou l ogne lake beenhimself a little surprised to lad how entirely itth i forgotten sad forgiven, and how wachanged is war sled , to-morrow evening. This afternoon • if°°d 44414 ._ admirsties fat the pelts and hanweity displayed oe ' mow has fallen, and there is every PresPeot Cl every meet let tintilee. Ws twit that his vWt sap ; snore. .. . ~ peeve sweillshle owl yheetee is the end, and that set' Th. Bank at Feeseihas resolved to cell in SOW. eteillweed , 111 MOW feef um * WW 2 ' * * Pm*. ado% having oonte to the ooDolusiew that they are 14"41.11164Plltb."1/9"" "ed ear large elle " Illa sot wanted now that 100 b. and Mfr. Dote.. ms unn• a hetculia — to his , I r - WT 7 • "'-- - - abundant Thera will therefor* hint/der* b. DO -7777. iG_ I .I .....t money lx.tween 100 fr. and Bowie cones 411 Rente closed with a 10c. for cash, Ara fall of 74c. for account, Er. 60ssmgajlIflir. 35c. In other securities was scares lay change. 7/111/1. REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) 11414134. Y. JAPIJANY •, I A.II. F. kik Islrma Nolen 30 111 I T. W 8.W.26 l l. , 7 _, : .,. z.r.. W. 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Indicate direction of shade. the mercury within led Therraoineter exposed Eitreme force, with indirection daring last Se boon L.—calm. Weather: b.—blue sky ; c.— clouds (detached , f.— fog : ; m.—misty (hazy) : o.—overcad (del); v—rain ; —OIOW t. —thunder. kiito•tall, snow or bail masked), during Int hours. Bee disturbance. MURK& A decrease In the barometrical has taken place since yesterday at almost all stalk:ma tls greaten on our south and east coasts. exceeding more than two-tenths of an inch. Tempe. retures In the south of England are rather hlgbeethan they were yesterday: In France the weather Is somewhat warmer. A north-eagerly wind has blown on our east coast ; this morn winds are moderate and north-meta ly. On our eastern caul snow has fallen. The weather Is now generally overcast Four court balls are spoken of as about to be given at Paris on the Saturdays from the 11th of January to the 22nd of February. On the 11th of January the first dinner of the year, followed by • reception, will be given at the Hotel do Ville. As to the two balls which take place at the same official residence early in the year, they will in all probability be given on the Thursdays, the 16th of January, and 13th of February. The Pope, says the Rotten Journal, has just sent to the Prince Imperial, his godson, by way of a Christmas box, various objectsof art fonnerlypresented by Napoleon I. to Pope Pius VII. at the consecration. A letter from Naples of the 25th ult. says : " Naples has been for several days, and still is, holding high carnival, and never, perhaps, at any season displays its characteristic features so much as at Christmas. ' Eat, drink, for to-morrow we die,' seems to be in everyone's mouth. Our trottoirs have all been converted into markets, and one has to pick his way among oceans of fish, whole gardens of vegetables, orchards of fruit, inter mingled with more solid viands, and every article of clothing, for the table or the toilette, that was ever manu factured under the sun. It is a sight to be witnessed, perhaps, in no other city of Europe, for the shops are turned inside out, and all the world is in the streets choosing and chaffering, and many, alas! with empty pockets, longing eagerly and hopelessly. Yesterday, the great day of the feast—for the vigil is more observed here than the day—there was, according to custom, • corso in the Toledo. The Riviera della Chiaja was abandoned, and every carriage was moving in slow procession through the great artery of the city. Whole nurseries were ' crammed into the family vehicles, and a pleasant sight it was to see age brightened up by the presence of youth, and the elders as happy and as curious as the youngsters." The dreadful excesses which were committed by the rabid catholic* of Barletta last year will be remem bered. Their trial has just been terminated before the Court of Assize of Bari. The accused were G 2, of whom 24 have been acquitted; 12 condemned to 18 years in irons, among whom are the Canon Postiglione and the Capuchin Father Vito Maria ; 10 to 10 years in iron' ; and the rest to minor punishments. A VALUABLE ARTICLE. — The Sociable Liturgigue of the diocese of Poitiers contains an article by Canon V. Barbier de Mentault on " Devotion to the Agnue Del," from which the following is an extract :—" A medallion lof white wax of oval shape stamped with the effigy of I the Paschal Lamb, which the Pope alone blesses I and consecrates at fixed periods—such is the Agnes I Dui. The wax employed in the manufacture of I the Agnes is that of the paschal candles. Bowe -1 times this wax is mixed with the dust of the bones of the martyrs found in the catacombs of Rome, and this composition is called the Paste of the Holy Martyrs. It is • pious and is iseful practice to keep an Agnes in one's home and to take it in journeys by land and sea. The Agnes preserves from sudden and unprovided death. It appeases the wind, it stills the storm, it calms the whirlwind and keeps off the tempest. It saves from shipwreck and averts the lightning ; it quenches fire and stops its ravages. It is effective against the overflow of rivers, inundations, and destructive rains. Lastly, the Amiss preserves the mother and child during the period of gestation. It removes danger at the moment of delivery, and assuages and abridges its palm. The custody of the Agnes in Rome is entrusted to Monseigneur his Balinese's vice-chamberlain." THE LATE COUNTESS MARIA OF HARRINGTON. — Yesterday morning at an early hoar the remains of Maria Countess of Harrington were removed from her residence on itichmoud.terrace to Mouton, Derhyahire, for inter ment. The coffin arrived in the forenoon at Elvaston Hall, and the burial took place at Elvaston Church shortly after 1. The mourners yesterday were the Earl of Mount chinks, chief mourner, son-in-law of the deceased countess; the Earl of Harrington, Viscouut Petersham, Hon. Henry Stanhope, Hon. Leicester Stanhope, Hon. Lincoln Stan hope, the Duke of Letnstd, Lord Southunpton, Mr. William Platt, Mrs. Allen, and Mr. T. Ford. It was a walking funeral, the church being so near the hall. The body of the countess was borne to the grave by eight of the old labourers on the estate. A number of the tenantry and recipients of the countess's charitable bounties in past years attended. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE FiNSUING WEEIL— Monday —Beteruological, at 7 ; Archi tects, at 8. Tuesday — Roy al Institution, at 3, " Heat and Cold" lectures), Professor Tyndall ; %To-Epp tian, at IA ; ißlinolcipeal, at 8, " The Aires." Mr. Bet mace ; Plants Yielding Textile Materials," Mr. Craw turd. Wedoesday—Microscopic al, at 8, " Bivalved Bute mostraca," Mr. Rupert Jones ; • Algae and Dimoolouration of the Sea," Dr. Collingwood ; Geological, at 8, " Lower Liss, Bristol," Mr. Stoddart ; " Lower Lisa, Gotham, Mr. Napier • " Dainties' dßhinoceros Etrusens " ," Mr. Boyd Dawk in s ; Archaeological Association, at 8, Find of Bronze Spear-heads, Leintwarden," Mr. Hills ; Wentworth Dilke's Pottery from IVoolmer Forest, Has*" Mr. J. Wright. Thursilai—Royel. at 84 ; Antiquaries, at 84, " Wroxster in 1867; Dr. Johnson ; at 84, " Fishes, Madagascar," Lieut.-Colonel Mayfair ; •' Ostia logy of the Haim" Mr. Parker ; " New Shale, Mauritius. ke.,. Mr. Adams ; " Austral= Natural History," Krefft " New Species of Birds," Messrs. Water and Sal- en. Friday—Astrooomical, at B.—.dtkaionzes. PROBABLE DISPUTE IN THE BUILDING TRADE. — There is • probability of • serious rupees between em ployer and employed in the various and important trades of the joiners, mason', sad bricklayer' in Chesterfield, which, if the worst comes to the worst, will throw out of employment some hinedreds of hands—a circumstance not at all desirable, especially in the present inclosed season and depressed piste of trade. It apposes that some weeks ego the members of time societies met and determined that their hours et labour-684—were too numerous, and serried by majtty • resolution to the effect that they woaid give notice tether employers for • redeolisei to the mime lours as worked by the. mien el the sem emit ia =lisod other largs towns—ass*, We • that they ninneare WWI the den week Doe 4 . 1 I:es er d the an test hey eon la en, they oon has to none their nenoyen to rA eat el ealatteg eeeborto. They elm ennise that the eneeeden aged far bre regennabia, esfeeinly whoa it bison theteedireethe ono hasty r neinevated Tistiaireatanths. -11b a g e ri i t oil la Skin& whirl in 1170. The toestere having remind the=l" at cuss defog fad to nee. and die nothe vardleg, sad the mob Is that they do not eon , Mgr thinning to • pities to mho a eareenkre. They I have oamo desiese—eiseed hY w/Vl.* andoset.— wk . • Mak eibleh nay have rnegtea e. Mk venom • beener et thognablei neared anise ea deleglay eenift, end they glido that so they ago advised ia their steps by the negative at liewsheater._ th ey do an esasider they are ofdisooy, gad that Ow eilienear t. the noon or pia thole egereria, what thomelege. ea noseherined, O pp. to tee it ha tie slarole.-Dorkfokiro ... ; . FITRTRER EXAMINATION OF BURKE, OASNY, AND MULLADY AT BOW•STREET POLICE-00IIBT.-(THIS DAY.) The three prisoners Richard Burke, Theobald Joseph Casey, and Henry Shaw, alias Monody, were brought up for further examination on the charge of treason felony. The prosecution was conducted, as hitherto, by Mr. Gifford, Q.C., and Mr. Poland, instructed by the Solicitor to the Treasury. Mr. Torr and Mr. Macdonald, instructed by Messrs. Merriman and Buckland, appeared for the prisoner Burke ; and Mr. Lewis, of 22, Marlborough-street, for the prisoners Casey and Shaw. They were platted at the bar before Sir Thomas Henry about half-past 11 o'clock. Benjamin Fordhsm, police-constable 33 Id—On the 20th November I was on duty in uniform in Tavistock-square. Inspector Thomson spoke to me. I had known him be. fore. Shortly after he spoke to me I saw Burke and Casey in Woburn-square. We went up to them. Mr. Thom. son, of the detective fora, laid his band on Barke's shoul der, and spoke to him. I heard him say, "You I know to be Richard Burke, and I must take you into custody. You moat consider yourself my prisoner, and accompany me to the nearest station." Burke said," Yon have made a mis take ; I em not the man at all My name is George Berry, and I am a medical student just arrived from Hamburg." Mr. Thomson said, "Whether you are Berry or Burke, you must come along with me," and he and I took hold of Burke, and pushed him along to the corner of the square. Casey was alongside of Burke during the conversation. He struck me, and I believe Mr. Thomson, tried to get Burke away, and said, " What do you mean by taking my friend like that?" When we got to the top of Woburn square he resisted, and struck him with an umbrella, the handle of which he broke. I produce the umbrella and the broken piece. Mr. Thomson drew a revolver, and told him if he attempted to run sway he would tire on him. He said . " Don't, don't do any thing desperate." I had hold of him by the cuff of his left coat sleeve. I drew my truncheon, and Casey again interfered, and said we .I.ould not take bisfriend." I "If he did not stand off, I should strike him with my truncheon." He called on the bystanders to interfere, saying, "We were taking he, friend, and we had no bushier; to do." We called a c in Upper Montagu-street. Casey tried to prevent our putting Burke into the cab, and when we were in he tried to prevent us from shutting the door. We, however, got into the cab with Burke and shut th e door. On the way to the station we got .Is. distance. After Burke was locked up I saw Casey in the station. He was also locked up. By Mr. Torr—Mr. Thomson had a warrant. I dun': know whether it was the right one. By Mr. Lewis—After Burke was in the cab, Casey tried to get in too. When Camay appealed to the mob he said we were wrong in taking his friend, and asked them nut to let a gentleman be taken in that way. Mr. TOR applied that the wife of the prisoner Burke should be allowed to come into court, and hear the pre seeding,. Sir Thomas Henry—Certainly. Let her come in. Mr. Lewis made • 'amnia application on behalf of Casey's wife, which also was granted. Mr. Giffard—Well, sir, before they give themselves tin trouble to come in I may as well say that is all the evi dence I have to offer to-day. I expected an important witness from Birmingham, but he has not arrived, and I must therefore ask for another remand until Thursday next. The prisoners were then remanded. The Prussian journals publish strong appeals to the public charity on behalf of the bibouriog population of the eastern provinces of that kingdom, who are not only already suffering dreadfully from want but threatened with absolute famine from the scarcity of the late harvest. Already the hospitals are crowded, and typhus has mule ita appearance. General von Roon, Prussian Minister of War, has left for Italy on three months' leave on account of his health. DEATH OF MR. A. H. DAVENPORT. — A telegram from New Orleans (Dec. 16) announces the death, in that city, of the long-popular young comedian, Mr. A. H. city, Tw o almost pteiuteblic ago h e Davenport. TheCreacentaty has always been a favourite tirtint-rate there. but H rin li d itAl attentions inthit but fatal resort with Mr. Da v enp ort ; he 112.1 always liked byls al but the at li n il e i re ,e l nt h nt et of death, never Sisters' epared him at that time, although it would swear tint the diseue,oonsumption,which then prostrated him, finally carried him off. Mr. Davenport's lest engagement in New York was during the summer season at New York Theatre, and his last appearance in this vicinity was made as Ray Trafford, in Under the Gar i fdd , at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. At the time of his decease be was engaged as stage-manager at the Academy of Music, in New Orleans, and only a few evenings before his death appeared as The Stranger. He was • native of North StamforJ, Conn., and his real name was Adolphus Davenport Hoyt. The little farmhouse in which be was born is still omit pied, we believe, by the kind mother with whom be always shared his professional earnings. " Dolly's" first venture to self-support was made as • lawyer's clerk I in New York, in the office of Mr Horace F. Clark, and, if we are not mistaken, he even practised cat the New York bar. But only for • brief time—his inclinations were always for the stage, and his vanity as an actor was much flattered by the applause given at certain amateur per formances that took place in a small private theatre located next to Burton's old house in Chambers-street, in which young Hoyt took part. He made a semi-public appearance at the old Olympic Theatre in DCA or le.d, or thereabout, as Romeo to the Juliet of Miss Jane Coombe'', then also an amateur of the same society. Later, Dolly's popular qualities and lively manners reeking hint a fawhen vour ite, he was engaged at the Astor-place Opera-house, under Thorne's management, and from that became regu larly installed as • professional. He married Lizzie Weston (the present Mrs. Charles Mathews), and went to Philadelphia, where he remained for a season, and also became a great favourite. Afterwards he returned to New York, whose habitual playgoers have always liked upon him as " their own." The hour of death is not the time at which to discuss • player's ability ; but it may be said that Mr. D.'e performances were generally liked. —Socially there never was a greater favourite than be. —Fro. ATTEMPT TO MCRDER.—A man named Ilughea, who described himself as a national school teacher, meds a desperate attempt yesterday to murkier a woman named Anne Ryan, in the house No. V, Dorset-street, Dublin, in which Hughes was a lodger. No cause has "p to the present been assigned for the outrage ; but the fact ap pears to be that while the woman was cooking • beef steak Hughes attacked her with a life-preserver, with I which he struck her so violently that the weapon wee broken in pieces, when she fell down in an insensible state —to all appearance dead. Under the impression that he had killed the woman, Hughes then coolly prooeeded to the Sackville-place police station, and gave himself into custody, stating that he had committed murder. He was there retained in cus & - tody, and Inspector Burke at once proceed ed to Mr Ryan's house, where he found the unfortunate enemera suffering from a severe wound in the head, while h bands and arms were covered with bruises. The frac ments of the life-preserver—which had been loaded with I lead—were found on she floor, and were strong evidence of the violent nature of the assault. Hughes ie appa - randy a respectable young man, and is said to be Pot session of considerable means. Ws. Ryan is in a most orocarious state. The prisoner will bed ht up at the leaped-street Police -otlice to-day for etion.—Sauti dere' News Letter. Da MACLEOD IN INDIA.—Ever since his arrival in Bombay , Dr. Macleod has been sought after, and his addresses listened to with intense interest, not by his own countrymen only, but by Parma, Hindooe anti Asiatics generally, who claim to regard Dr. alaelm.:l not merely as a distinguished Scotch divine, but as a large-hearted and genial citizen of the world, and Dr. who therefore cor hi dially we lcome him to this country. M and s col league Dr. Watson have come to India as a deputatke from the church of Scotland, with the sole object of seeing for themselves the state of mission work in this country, not to engage personally in tint work, nor to plead the cause of miseions. But they have found that they cannot travel through India &emeritus to any pre-arranged programme. As will be seen from reports elsewhere in our " Overland Summary," they have found m i s sionary conferences convoked to meet them, congre gations which insisted upon hearing them prima, and charitable institutions asking " Readings " be given for their benefit. The Sc otchmen of Bombay, too, who dined together on the 29th of November (St. Andrew's Day) in honour of their patron saint, oonld never miss the opportunity of securing the presence of so distinguished a countryman as Dr. Macleod, and, b 4 coupling his name with " Tin e s clergy of Scotland, force a long speeeh from him pite of himself. That day was described by him as the meet remarkable of his life. "He bad in the morning attended a conference at which missionaries of all denominations were represented he had visited the pirejrapofe an asylum for the halt and maimed of the lower animals ' an d con nected with th e e rake glees belief of a section the native community :eh= visited temples of ibis Hindoce, and masques of th medium, with which List his former Used* in Syria had celebrating the already made hint familiar ; now ha wag . Patron Saint of Scotland swan bis ewn eoustrymen ha nut coafees, after all be had sion, that it had non a lso bin that the ' else wn' Scotland were an Werke also d man." Des. d aad W a tson hays ale* been an • tour to Poona mad 21=whotos thei hay . e !at Bombay tuned to Bombay, on none to Beypore— Deasmit•r IL COITRI (Before II The bankrupt, applied for at h e al aiieated an d mot the b a mble without lee took him before a re &mimed brought o btained a verdict formed the baakru Mr. Sorrell, vuPP , be had been 'wino parties. Mr. Nind oppose b a nkrupt was in P°6cti er within sa d ; l swneks statu te rll it re. p. m hff:to in terf e re . t nr e r hn :t r standa :el l T o e i. d 7 maj atl oP ipoB:ntrciil THE Charles O'Conl Mar7lebone, was jog Henry Weed Regent-street. The complains' this morning, am pushed against re pinions, and the the mouth. In answer to 5 bad not given th Pollee constabl who wee with a the complainant , boner was drunk. The prisoner called no witness Mr. Knox did on his war home plainant had bee SINGULAR DIETI Alfred Almelo of being oonoerne to Mr. W. Selt worth. . . It appeared fn the employ of large business bet of men al day one of th when he foun Bibs. in the gran Into the shop wl! " Don't !" Ana r. cupboard in the was made for the Mr. Edwin, w hoi 2 when 2 . Mr. Daman.,.! When he . was been called a ho Mr. Edwin sai promised not to level that the i persons he hope. Mr. Selmes to o gnat exten Mr. Dxywan 'air muters ar onfidenee repo pa:wow they wi Jlaervante to p at if they Olio. nitebers were r. I reuluneratiot 1 The prisoner month's onth's ion A young milt brought up ids robbery. The prisoner Mr. 13:Ionian nd said he mu A commtu ddlc Marrhe, by neuralgia w and that Vatican, when time his duty of the eenlinal ALLEtact) I day . night at. his w his brother, :11 a mile from tl night his coat home. Just woman walkit few hundred behind some coachman wa incident woi trained from one of the p: pellets. The police. THE LEA cumstances natural gift. u ou ch b r jeui a lt r militias of have the b profitable u waren. If t duke, the of scion of nob twenty year of some dal none. On t likely to be At Eton am reading mar immediate 1 clambers in for political to idleness, of the shies that nothin for ) cant vei plebeian riv at the bar, mg phrases fellow has F Nome allow% heir to sow declines to Inner Troll Commons. with maven mierehip, a no higher t may have rally, who: thirty it family bor future tim •blue-bool Calendar. Pall-mall a duke, in to a very January. Tae PLEISVItt °Mee," bl together c the Lints bonds of with his path tows la cambia imbue th decline to those cot for some of the do Phineu. dren ha were to for offic aifan e, it I thou; that the, Why, it meat s perraitte than all Power. Wwi below th and cool that I w over nee dere are halo no r LAW