The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

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John Hodgson, M.A.., has ten instituted to the vicarage of Kinver, is the county of the Rev. Granville John Granville, M.A.. has "by; instituted to the r ec t or y o f Pl eas l ey, i n t h e county o f "b 7 ; the Rev. Alfred Turner Blythe, M.A., has been !ttituted to the rectory of Upper Langarth, in the county D eft i, the Re v . William to the rectory of ,iiiinberton•cum-Sutton Maddock, in the county of Salop ; e lo etfr d , Salop Rev. William Booth Canfield. M.A., to the rectory of ; the Rev. Thomas Dainty has been 7eensed to the perpetual curacy of King's Bromley, Stat. the Lev. John Jeffery Lambert to the perpetual ' 3714 1 of Leebotwooil-with-Lognor, in the county of 4 • 6 1); and the Rev. Francis Hoare bas been licensed to , Per/Meal curacy of the Holy Trinity, Derby, all in ~..I ,. tiociese of Li c hfi e ld , and on the fiat of the Archbishop 4 "„ "b t ry as guardian of the spiritualities of the see the vacancy thereof. TELECIRLPHIO INTELLIGENS. (P20111:Wil TELIZI&MS.) THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF ROME. BOMB, Nov. 30. A small French cavalry brigade remains at Rome ; the remainder of the expeditionary corps returns to France. ITALY. FLORENCE, Doc. 1. The principal members of two Mazzinian com mittees were arrested here last night. CIVITA VECCHIA, Nov. 30. The last convoy of Garibaldian prisoners left here to-day to be handed over to the Italian authorities. FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 30, EVZKING. In the Senate to-day M. Rouland replied to the speech made yesterday by Cardinal Bonnechose. The Archbishop of Paris then addressed the Senate. The Marquis de Moustier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, afterwards explained the policy of the French Government towards Rome. The Marquis expressed himself to the following intent :—" Italy had always shown herself consistent in her policy. It was not the intention of the French Govern ment to renew an indefinite occupation of Rome. French troops would only remain there as long as the safety of the Pope rendered their presence neces sary. The problem to be resolved between the Papacy and Italy was doubtless a difficult one, but it was capable of solution ; it was simply a question of mistrust between the two governments which might one day disappear. To effect this would be the object of the Congress." The Marquis de Moustier then asked the Senate to pass to the order of the day, to prove that the Senate and the go vernment were perfectly agreed. The discussion then closed, the Senate peaking to the order of the day. PRUSSI A. BERLIN, Nov. 30, Evzignio. Lord Loftus, the British ambassador at the Prussian court, had an audience of Count Biamarek to-day. The postal contract with England was signed to-day. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Nov. 30, Evnnio. It is announced that prayers have been ordered to be said in all churches until April next for the Empress of Austria, who is enuinte. THE BRAZILS.. (Arrival of the Shannon, rid Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 9. According to advices received here from the seat of war a cavalry engagement had taken place, in which the Brazilians assert that the Paraguayans lost 1,000 killed and 200 prisoners, while their own loss was only 80. BUENOS AYRES, Ocr. 26. Exchange, 48g. Wet salted ox hides, 38 for Gtilbs. ; dry hides, 42 for 22. Wool, 57 to 70. Lumber, 40 to 44. Flour, 10. AMERICA. (BT ATLANTIC TELKCIIAPH.) NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 6 P.N. The Senate has confirmed the President's ap pointment of Mr. Horace Greeley as United States minister to the Court of Vienna. The Aleppo has arrived out. Closing prices :—Gold, 138. Sterling exchange on London, 109. 5-20 United States Bonds, 108. Illinois, 134. Erie, 71k. Cotton—Middling Upland, 16. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30. Petroleum, standard white, 231. THE POPE'S ADHESION TO THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. In the course of the debate on the Roman ques tion which took place in the French Senate on Saturday, the Marquis de Moustier thus replied to some remarks of the Archbishop of Paris express ing doubt as to the nature of the Pope's adhesion to the proposed conference :—" The Holy Father adhered to the conference immediately ; he had no hesitation. Directly our invitation reached him the adhesion followed without delay of any kind. As to the form of the adhesion, it is very simple. The Holy Father said :—` I will send a plenipoten tiary to this conference who will sustain all my rights there.' Indeed, we have never understood the conference as other than a free assembly, where each would arrive with the plenitude of his rights —I may even say with the plenitude of his preten sions—which each is at liberty to urge upon his own responsibility ; and when I speak of responsibility, I mean under the influence of the impressions, more or less favourable, that the expression of those pretensions may produce upon an assembly of this kind. Consequently a power which might arrive at this conference would arrive , there without any preliminary abdication of its rights, and without any preliminary demand for , the abdication of the rights of others. It is in this , spirit that the conference has been accepted by ' ' the Holy See, and I think, with Mgr. the Archbishop of Paris, that his Holiness has thus assumed a fitting and skilful attitude that we cannot too highly praise and appreciate. I hope that you will ' , not ask me to explain myself further. The nego• tistions are entered upon ; I dare not say that they will arrive at a result, but they are at this moment too much advanced for me not to be compelled to measure all my words, and for yon not to approve of me for not giving more complete explanations, notwithstanding the desire that I have to do so." INCREASE OP THE PONTIFICAL ARMY.—" In the prevision of a complete evacuation," says the Paris Union, " the Pontifical government is reinforcing its army. The regiment of Boozy.= will be increased to 3,500 men (4 battalions), the corps of foreign chasseurs will be trans formed into a regiment of 2,000 men, with 2 battalions ; the Antibes legion will be augmented by 1,000 men. The infantry will be furnished with breech-loading rifles, and the artillery strengthened by two batteries." CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.— Suez, Nov. 30.—The Simla, from Calcutta, 9th instant, arrived at 9 p.m. to-day. Malta, Dee. I.—The Pera, from Southampton Nov. 20th, arrived on the 29th at 9 a.m., and left at 3 p.m. for Alexandri►. The Delta, from Mar seilles Nov. 28, arrived to-day at 1 a.m., and leaves at 8. a.m. for Alexandria. Bombay Mail.—The Foolish left at 5 p.m. yesterday and the Syria at 8 a.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 3rd, and the latter at South-ampton on the 10th instant. OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. QUEENSTOWN, Dtc. I.—The Royal Mail steamship Russia, from Liver pool, arrived here at 11.30 a.m. to-day. She embarked 62 sacks of mails, her passengers and telegrams, sail pro. doodad for New York at 3.30 p.m. All well. ilcoirrrAL roz Diactsza or rits eager, Vxcroitu, PAUL—The number of patients relieved at this institution during last week was 1,365, of which 297 were new oases. GALT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN -ROAD, N. Number of patients far the week ending Nov. 30, 968, of whieh 283 were now OWL LONDON. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2. 1867. FRANCE (room oua owi PARIS, SATURDAY Emma. The parliamentary campaign extraordinary, for a winter session is very exceptional, was opened yesterday in the Senate. The first speaker was Baron Charles Dupin, the last, and certainly the least, of those three upins whose mother, only recently deceased, desired to have mire des tress Depitts engraved upon her tombstone. It is very remarkable that the official report in the Moniteur does not give the text of the so-called " interpella tion." It merely says that the order of the day brought on was, "the interpellation rela tive to the affairs of Rome." The reason of this reticence is that the senators who signed the inter pellation congratulated the government on what it had done for the protection of the Holy See, and that although M. Troplong, knowing that the senators are the Emperor's obedient humble ser vants to command, let it pass, the ministers feel that the precedent is a bad one, because it would justify the opposition in the Corps Legialatif in propounding &resolution under the pretext of ask ing a question. As for Baron Dupin, he merely ap plauded all that the government had done, hoped that it would go further in the good way of unreserved eatholicism, and asked no question at all. His extremely diffuse speech contains an attack upon Italy and. Italian unity which, though virulent, pales before the yet more fierce and far more eloquent attacks made by the Cardinal Arch bishop who spoke after him. The most sa lient point of his speech was the reading of a letter from an anonymous friend in Italy, who told him that the only thing for Victor Emmanuel to do was to dissolve parliament, "and do without a parliament for a very long time." Ho went the "whole figure" for the eldest son of the church, who, he said, should remember that he was the successor of Charlemagne. He dwelt on the revolutionary character of the Italian movement towards Rome, and said that the only way for the Emperor to save himself from the revolution was to place himself resolutely at the head of the 200,000,000 of catholica in Europe and fight their battles. In conclusion, he flattered himself that the first speaker on the interpellations had said nothing annoying to government. Cardinal de Bonnechose, Archbishop of Rouen,who was the next speaker, very soon restored the "in terpellations " to their etymological signification. Ho asked questions of the government, which will severely tax M. Rouher 's ingenuity to answer. Like Baron Dupin, he accused the Italian govern ment, the King as well as M. Rattazzi, of having connived at Garibaldi's escape from Caprera, and like Baron Dupin, he described the pretensions of Italy, represented by M. Rattazzi's successor, General Menabrea, se wholly incompatible with the rights of the Holy See. He asserted—and I have not seen this so positively stated anywhere— that many of Garibaldi's killed and wounded soldiers had upon them certificates bearing the words, " Soldier on extraordinary leave, " or " Soldier on leave to join Garibaldi . " The arms, shoes, and clothing of the majority of Garibaldi's soldiers wore furnished, according to the Archbishop of Rouen, from the arsenals of Florence. The enthu siasm of the Cardinal Archbishop led him on to say that the battle of Montana was one of the most splendid martial achievements of which history had ever spoken. This of a combat of which the French government so well knew France would feel ashamed that it kept the fact of the co-operation of the French troops with the Pon tifical army concealed for five days. The Archbishop, hoping that English protestant him is no better than that of M. Guizot, tried to frighten England. If ever, he said, " which God avert," the Popes no longer sovereigns should be sub jects of a King of Italy, protestantism would lose the only bulwark which protects it against modern im piety, and every vestige of Christianity would dis appear. [This assertion that English Christianity depended entirely on the maintenance of the Pope's temporal power was hailed by frantic applause in the French Senate.] And now the Cardinal Archbishop comes to the interpellations. The victory of Mentana, he admits, relieved the catholic world from an immense anxiety ; but why, he asks M. Rouher, is there a talk of the French troops at Rome coming away ? Why say that they may leave very soon ? What is the basis of this calculation 7 What new guaran tees are you prepared to give that the Italian go vernment, which has hitherto so impudently de ceived you, will conduct itself better in future? ft is not enough to reproach Rattazzi with his treason. General Menabrea, though person ally a more honest man, is constrained to con tinue M. Rattazzi's policy. M. Rattazzi, though out of office, is still well received at the Pitti Palace, and the King after his resignation proclaimed that he was "an honest man and his friend." Fromall this the cardinal inferred that the King of Italy was just as bad as Rattazzi or Garibaldi, and that so long sa the French Emperor gives any countenance whatever to the King of Italy, or to " that monstrosity," Italian unity, he will support the enemies of Christianity, of civilisation, and the Pope. Under these circum stances, the cardinal asks the government where it i sees a single hopeful point n the horizon. He does not mean to say in principle that the French ' occupation of Rome should be perpetual, but he calls for the continuance of the occupation until the peril is over. After these preliminaries he expresses himself disappointed that France should have made any appeal at all to Europe. He would rather have seen France play out her part as " eldest son of the church, " and protect the Holy See without any help, or, at any rate, with only the help of the catholic powers, Austria and Spain, and not that of any " protestant or bete -1 rodox powers" who might be induced to join. Italian unity he regarded as "a miserable conceit, of which nobody thought twenty years ago. It was a conception contrary to the traditions of history, to the nature of things, to the geographical group ing of the Italian States, to the various origins of the populations, and the idea originated in dark conspiracies, fraud, corruption, venality, intimida tion, violence, and crime." CSrdinal Dc'innet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, to save time, desired to express his unqualified assent to everything that had been said by Baron Dupin and Cardinal de Bonnechose. So ended the first debate in the Senate on the Roman question. The church party, you will perceive, is impla cable, and offers the Emperor no hope of any com promise on the part of the Pope. The difficulty which M. Rouher, in replying, has to face is, that the only hope, and a forlorn hope indeed it is, of the conference meeting lies in the possibility of a general understanding to relieve the Pope from his temporal power. I continue not to believe in the conference at all ; but a conference to give the Pope an European guarantee for his temporalty is most certainly not upon the cards. The rumour of the day is that Victor Emmanuel, on the dictation of France, will make a coup d'Etat in Italy, govern sine die without a parliament, and agree to join France and Austria in an offensive and defensive alliance, on the promise that when the present Pope dies Italy shall have Rome. If this be true, the clerical party will have just reason to say that it has been infamously betrayed. ' Politically, this course would be easier for the French government than any other ; but morally, it would be the lowest depth of infamy. The settlement in the Renter was altogether in favour of the bulls. The latest quotations, 69.10 and 69.2 i, showed a rise of 15 and 12i. Other securities were rather lower. The Snnday Gazette, after a gallant but unsuc cessful effort to establish itself, diaap eased from the role of Loodoo weekly novoimporo DDITRESEI AT THE EAST-END. COSTERMONOERS. The official returns furnished by the different East London parishes continue to display an in crease of pauperism considerably in excess of the exceptionally high figures of last year. At a re cent meeting of the Poplar guardians it was for mally announced that the present number of indi viduals in that parish receiving out-door relief was no lees than 6,874, being an increase of 1,540 over the number relieved during the corresponding week in 1866, and of 4,261 over the number during the same period in 1865. During the last-named year the weekly coat of out-door relief was 2281. ; at pre sent it exceeds 5001. The deficiency of pauper accommodation in Poplar led the parochial autho rities ~to make an ment some time since c r . r with the parish arrange ment f an gepney for boarding and lodging, at a certain stipulated price, a number of the Poplar poor in Stepney work house ; but the amount of pauperism in Stepney being largely on the increase, and the whole of the workhouse accommodation in the latter pariah being required for the use of the Stepney poor, the arrangement between the two parishes has been abruptly terminated, and in a few days the Poplar guardisms will have on their hands the poor-60 in nuiplagy—now lodged by them in Stepney work house. This is a most perplexing difficulty for the Poplar authorities, their workhouse already being completely full. The chief proportion of the in creased pauperism comes from the Isle of Dogs, which forms part of the Poplar district. Last year the Poplar poor's-rate was 2s. 2d. in the pound—this year it is only 11d. This, combined with the distinct assurance of the pariah officials that they are unmistakably in a position to cope successfully with the immense mass of pauperism daily confronting them, has had much influence in inducing the various gentlemen who last year con stituted themselves into the "East London Central Relief Committee," to refrain—at any rate for the present—from reviving that useful association, ex cept for the receipt and proper disposal of unso licited contributions on the part of the public for the relief of special cases, of which there are, un fortunately, not a few. This ie a very necessary precaution, the numerous applications for relief made in the papers having had the effect of causing a large flow of money assistance into the hands of irresponsible individuals, whose indiscriminate charity has been too often productive of more harm than good. The decision of the Relief Committee not to resume operations at present has been severely commented upon in portions of the distressed districts ; but it is difficult to perceive what other course its mem bers could have adopted in the present state of affairs. Mr. Ravenhill, the well-known engineer, states that things are less hopeless than they ap pear; that there is now more chance of a revival of the Thames ship-building trade than was the case twelve months ago. He has also publicly asserted that he will be enabled himself to employ more hands than he found work for during last winter. This is cheering ; but it should be mentioned, how ever, that Mr. Wigram and other gentlemen, whose experience is undoubted, are far less sanguine, and have expressed themselves doubtful as to the ability of the guardians to grapple with the dis tress when things come to the wont--say in January next. In fixing the amount of relief to be ad ministered the officials have wisely determined not to adhere to a certain arbitrary scale, but to consider on its own merits each case which may come before them, their wish being, by a liberal interpretation of the relief clauses of the Poor Law Act, to enable their suffering poor to tide over the present critical period safely, and thus be prevented from sinking into the dismal abyss of perpetual pauperism. In the other East-end parishes the state of affairs is equally far from re aasuring. At Mile-end, 1,935 persons are receiving out-door relief, in place of 1,527 during the cor responding period in 1866. There is not a parish in this part of the metropolis which does not tell the same ominous and disheartening tale. In Hackney the workhouse contains 701 inmates. During the same week in last year it had only 644. The number of casuals this year was 161 ; last year it was only 56. Where will it end It is a matter for congratulation that Mr. Hardy has determined upon amending the obnoxious 6th clause of the New Streets Act. Had it been practically enforced, the amount of pauperism at the East-end would have been fearfully increased. Not only would hundreds of industrious and peaceable street-traders have been deprived of the means of obtaining a livelihood, but the price of the cheaper descriptions of fish, vegetables, and fruit would have been considerably enhanced, to the great discomfort of the labouring poor. It is impossible to estimate with anything like correctness the actual number of the East-end street-traders, but in Whitechapel they are supposed to number about 2,000, exclusive of their families. Many of them are quiet, decent people. They re side principally in the dense labyrinth of narrow courts and squalid lanes which flanks the northern side of Whitechapel and Mile-end. Their receipts fluctuate considerably, according to the period of the year and the state of the weather, a wet Satur day night often bringing a dinnerless Sunday to the costermonger and his family. On Sundays the coetermonger finds his way to Epping Forest or to Hackney Marshes, the morning being generally devoted to a stroll through Victoria park. As a body, the street-traders are popularly supposed to furnish a considerable proportion of the terrible "rough" element so conspicuous when park-railings are to be broken down, or club windows unmercifully smashed, but this is not exactly the case. The street-traders are divided into three classes—those possessing stalls in cer tain fixed localities, those who regularly peram bulate particular districts, and those who take to street-trading as an occasional means of obtaining a livin. It is among these last that the " rough " class is chiefly to be found ; amongst the regular stall keepers it is almost un known. Some of them have occupied the same site for several years. There is a second hand bookstall in the Whitechapel-road which has existed for more than thirty years. Others of equally venerable date are to be found in the City road, in Hoxton, and elsewhere. As a rule, the amount of competition existing between the shop keepers and the street-traders is comparatively slight, being confined almost entirely to those dealing in fish, vegetables, and fruit. For instance, between Aldgate and Mile-end, a distance of con siderably more than a mile, there are only two or three shops devoted to the sale of vegetables and fruit, and perhaps as many in which fish is sold. Now the number of street-traders dealing in these articles is not less than one•third, it may be one-half, of all who are to be found occupying stalls in that busy thoroughfare. In fact, the street-traders do not come into com petition with nineteen-twentieths of the White chapel shopkeepers. Their real competitors are the small dealers in the back streets. So far as the leading thoroughfares are concerned, the pre sence of the street-traders tends to attract cus tom. Whenever the street-traders have been removed from any district, as was the case some time ago in Leather-lane, a corresponding diminu tion of traffic has invariably followed. In Shoreditch, Islington, Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Limehouse, and other places, the crowded and busy aspect of those portions of the thoroughfares where the street-traders are allowed to congregate, always forms a marked contrast to the comparatively deserted appearance of the spots where their presence is forbidden. The suggestion has been made that suitable mar kets should be established on the model of that now erecting by Miss Burdett Coutts in Bethnal green, in various districts for the use of the street- I traders, who thenceforth would have no valid umAmanaN 1& ADMEMOMASO excuse for remaining In the open thorough fare. Something of the kind has been suo osesfully attempted at Bolton, .in Lancashire, where, a few years since, considerable com plaint was made respecting the obstructions occasioned by the presence of the street-traders in the leading thoroughfares, the result being the erection of the present market in that town. It is a plain structure, enclosing a spacious ares, covered in, and lighted at night with gas. The ground floor is devoted to the sale of vegetables, fruit, and perishable articles in general, the gallery, which runs round the interior of the building, being occupied by the dealers in hardware, toys, haber dashery, second-hand clothes, and so forth. The fish market is held in a separate building. This is the kind of market most required in London, but in establishing them much consideration is requi site in determining their extent and the sites to be occupied by them. Unluckily, suitable sites are extremely rare. FENIAN NOCE FUNERAL AT MANCHESTER. MANCH:BBTM, SUNDAY Arressoovr. Large green placards on the walls of the city yesterday announced the intention of the Fenian grape thiamin to have • public peocomion or meek fanseal.tAday in bosom of the three mee mosatly MlSlNtiled boar. Them was an attempt to get up • similar procession last Sunday, but it was held to have been a failure. The placard re ferred to says " The precession in honour of the Irish martyrs, Allen, O'Brien (Gould), and 'Arkin, will take 1 place on Sunday, December 1, at two o'clock. Persons in tending to join it must be in Stevenson-square at half-past one punctually. The route will be by Lever-street, Lon don-road, Grosvenor-street, Stretford New-road, Great Jackson-street, Deausgate, Bridge-street, New Bailey street (past the pleas of execution), Chapel-street, and ShudehiLl to New-Cross, where it will disperse. The utmost order is requested on the pert of the proms lion. Remember ! Every improper act gives strength to the enemy." The procession did not start till • quarter to three o'slock. It was preceded by a straggling crowd of some thousands of persons of both sexes and all ages. First came a band of meek playing the Dead March in Saul. The first part of the: procession marched su abreast, but the greater portion of it was composed of persons walking four abreast. The rein had fallen heavily all last night and during the earlier part of to-day. It had moderated very much when the procession started, but the greater part of the people in the procession carried umbrellas. Many of the men were well dressed, and appeared to belong to the better claw of artisans. Some of them wore green crosses on the right arm, with crape, and some had favours composed of shamrocks. A lane portion of the persons in the procession were women and girls, and there were • good many boys. Most of the women were well dressed for working-clam women, and most of them wore a ribbon or some other part of their attire of green. It bad been rumoured that three coffins were to be borne in the procession, and that there were to be banners displayed, but there was nothing of the kind. Opposite to the Chorlton Town hall a noteworthy incident occurred. A man in the crowd had his watch stolen by • thief whom be detected in the act. He called out for the polies, and two officers in plain clothes went to his assistance. The thief at tempted to escape, whereupon the man whom he had robbed drew • pocket knife and cut off the skirt of the thief's coat, in the pocket of which he had seen him place his watch, end where he found his lost property. A man came out from the promotion, assisted to seize the thief, and a road was made immediately by the proccesionists through which the police conducted their prisoner to the lock-up. The route was then resumed ; and nothing more occurred calling for special notice until the band approached New Bailey street, the scene of the execution. At that place • demonstration of a singular character was made. Two cabs, which had been moving up and down the 'beet, took up positions immediately beneath the place of execution. It was then seen that the cabs con tained the mother of the convict Allen and two younger women, one of whom was said to be the convict's sweet heart. In the other cab were the members of Larkin's family. As soon as the procession reached the cabs the ranks were broken, and scores of men rushed up to shake bands with the women. A few words which were shouted by one of the foremost men were followed by a yell from the crowd, who removed their hats as they the place were the murderers were hanged. they given vent to their feelings in this manner, and being warned by the rein, the crowd resumed the march. The clergymen at the Roman catholic churches urged their hearers yesterday morning to refrain from taking any part in the procession, but their counsel was to a large extent disregarded. The address at St. Wilfrid s, Huhn., was as follows :—" We have heard with regret and anxiety that it is intended to have some kind of funeral procession through the city to day, as a commemoration of the death of the three men who suffered, nine days ago, at the New Bailey. We advise you, and beg most earnestly, that every person who has any influence in the matter will make use of it to prevent the procession ; and if it should go on, we entreat of all who have any love for their religi on, or for Ireland, or for those from Ireland who are in this country, that they will keep away from it. The procession can do no good either to the living or the dead. It may do great harm to the living. It may disturb the peace of the town, because it might afford your mischievous or ill-disposed enemies to break the peace, end then you would be blamed, and would suffer for it. We shall leave the church open all the afternoon, and we entreat of those who have a respect for the memory of the dead, which they wish to show, or who mourn for them, to come to the church and pray fur them, instead of joining in any pro cession. The piety of the people in this respect has hitherto been most edifying. We treat and believe that on this occa sion it will be the same." THE MANSIOHHOUSEWEST INDIA HURRICANE RELIEF FUND. A special meeting of the committee took place on Saturday, in the Venetian parlour of the Mansion-house. I There were present the Lord Mayor, end the following members of the committee :—Captain Engledue, Alderman Finnis, Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. B. H. Hartley, Mr. C. Op. penheim, and Alderman Sir William Rose. Mr. Glees, the secretary to the fund, read a report of the minutes of the last meeting, and stated that the total amount received up to the previous evening was about 3,70 W. Mr. fireentwo, the mayor of Southampton, accompanied by two other gentlemen, attended as a deputation from the Southampton Relief Fund Committee, and stated that they had received about 2,70 W., awl were anxious to confer with the Mansion-house Committee with the view of ascertaining whether they could not agree upon some joint action as to the distribution of the funds, the object of the Southampton fund being more particularly for the relief of sufferers belonging to the United Kingdom, while the Mansion-house fund contemplated • general relief of the distress at Tortola and the other places which had suf fered from the hurricane. After some discussion, the committee arranged that they should to • certain extent act together and communicate with each other in reference to the matter. In the course of the proceedings the Loan MA 'I in formed the meeting that he bad been in commu..ication with the government, and that at present there seemed to be some little doubt as to the actual extent of the mis chief, but directions had been given to the British consul at Havannah to forward a sum of 2501., and a ship of war had already gone to the island of Tortola with a supply of necessaries. This vessel would be followed by soother, and it was expected that in a short time the full extent of the calamity would be known. It appeared that the government were unwilling to un dertake the administration of the funds through the Colo nial-office. as it might be afterwards said that the distri bution had been affected by local influences ; and it was suggested that some independent gentleman should be sent out to administer the funds. In accordance with this arrangement it was agreed that Mr. John Simpson, a mem ber of the her, who bad very kindly volunteered his ser vices in the matter, should proceed to Tortola with the West India mail packet which sails on Monday, taking with him a sum of 2,00.0., and it was stated that the com pany, having regard to the circumstances, had very kindly consented to give this gentleman a free passage out and home. The committee adjourned, after coming to the necessary resolutions. The total sum received at the Mansion-house up to Saturday afternoon amounted to a little over 4,0001. Captain Woolley, of the Fame, was a native of Sutton in-Ashfield, in Nottinghamshire, and was one of a family of 20 children. His mother, upwards of $0 years of age, is still living. He often ex pressed a wish that if be ever lost his ship he might go down in her. Lieutenant-Colonel John William Collman Royal Marine Artillery, was on Saturday appointed assistant adjutant-general on the staff of the Royal Marine forces, in the place of Lieutenant-Colonel George Brydges Rodney. [TWOPENCE CRYSTAL PALAOLCIIIICIRM MENDELSSOHNH REPORRATION STAPHOICT. This work, one of the many oompelliltiona left by the oompooor la manoareipt at bin im A hibilei by his areouten from publiatioa unit MOW, veer • publicly performed for the &Ulla' in Berland on Saar. day afternoon. The " Reformable Hympheiy," although an early work u compared with Illembeleeohn's peateet . ounpeeltious (It wu «unposed is his tweetreseoad year); was written after Nome published proluetioes that haw* long beak &emptied as masterpiesse. His greatly deer loped Otetto for stringed inserumeate (worthy of say am. pour) dates five years earlier, his Wallet is A, four years, his Quartet in E flat, and that glorious pieta of to. mantic imagination, the overture to the aiMONIGir Ififhls Dream two yule before the Symphooy now re ferred to, which beloap to the same period aa the Isles of Fingal (Hebrides) *vertu, ; a ameisal picture of gloomy grandeur marcely surpassed in the whole range of orchestral music. These and many other noble compositions having preceded the "Reformation Symphony," it cannot be caned an ion , mature, although it is a comparatively early work. All doubt on the subject, however, was cat at rest by its per formance os Hateeeday, aid to I mailiadeallotoeseplien lop the audience that crowded the large coneert-room of the Crystal Palace, comprising many distinguished musical professors and amateurs. The second public performance, by Madame Arabella Goddard, of klendelasohn's new " Sony without Words," just published by Mears. Novell°, Ewer, and Co., was as successful as the first occasion at the Monday Popular Concert of November 18. Each number was received with loud expressions of delight, that in A major being encored, and that in C (Presto) being evidently wished for again. These piece' were given with that admirable finish and refinement which are well. known characteristics of Madame Goddard's piano forte playing the light rapidity and crimp dis tinctness of execution in the " Presto " being a rare display of executive excellence. The overtures were Cherubini's " Anacreon" and Weber's " Euryanthe" The vocalists were MacUle. Itauermaistar, Miss Katharine Poynto, and Signor Touched. Mils Porde, who is from Liverpool, and made her first appearance here on Slant day, has a light and flexible soprano voice, of agreeable quality and evidently well-trained. Her intonation and execution are true and facile ; and with a little more ex. perienoe this young lady should take a high position as a concert singer. She gave, on this occasion, Rassinre brilliant "Di placer," and Bishop's twaddling and anti. quated " Lo, here the gentle lark," the latter with the ad- vantage of Herr Svendsen's refined and finished perform anoe of the flute obbligato. _ _ The "Reformation Symphony" is to be repeated on December 12, at the Concert of Mr. Barnby's Choir, to be given at St. James's-hail. The English copyright has been secured by Mesas. Novell*, Ewer, and Co., by whose permission it received its first performance at the Crystal Palace, and by whom it will shortly be published in score, and in various forms of arrangement. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Dow Giovanni was given here on Saturday night, the east similar to that of previone masons, with the important exception of the first appearance here of Mlle. Kellogg as Zerlina—s character which in the hands of so accomplished an artist is thrown into greater prominence than its mere dramatic importance implies. The light-hearted gaiety, the combination of rustic sim plicity with innate refinement, with which Mdlle. Kellogg inverts her performance, render her Zerlina scarcely less admirable in acting than for the taste and finish with which she sings the music. THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. On Saturday, being St. Andrew's-day, the 203rd anniversary of the Scottish Hospital was celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern, under the presidency of the Duke of Hoz or nous, K.T. The Scottish Hospital was incorporated by royal charter in 1665, for the purpose of assisting the infirm aged and poor natives of Scotland resident in Lon don, not in receipt of parochial relief. Under the admi nistration of the charity pensions varying from 61. to 251. per annum are given to 185 individuals, and casual relief is distributed to upwards of 200 applicants every month. Among 385 pensioners and cannel applicants 17 are para. lysed, 14 blind, 32 upwards of 80, and 129 upwards of 70 years of age. Many of them have occupied good, some of them superior, social positions, and all of them have" seen better days." The school fees, cost of books, /ea., of 140 poor children are paid annually from the school fund, and pensions to the amount of nearly 2 000, are allotted from the Kinloch bequest to about 406 disabled soldiers and sailors. The dinner on Saturday evening was attended by a large number of the Scottish residents in London, ladies being for the first time in the history of the anniversaries of this charity allowed to sit at the tables, instead of being, as is oowmonly the case, secluded in the gallery. Among the principal supporters of the noble chairman were Colonel Sykes, /LP., Mr. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Admiral Milne, Sir James Anderson, Sir W. Ferguuon, Sir P. Col. quhoun, Professor Black's, and Mr. J. J. Powell, Q.C., M.P. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having beau duly honoured, THE HON. COLONEL C. H. LINDSAY. M.P.—lt is gratifying to announce the steady progress of this honourable M.P. towards recovery from his late serious saddest. Repeated operations, however, have left him in a state which renders rat and quiet absolutely necessary. His appearance in the house for the present is, conse quently, impossible, and in order to remedy his absenee as tar as may be, he has paired until such time as restored health shall again enable him to take his seat. SODDEN DEATH 07 THE MAYOR OP BATH.—A melancholy occurrence took place at Bath on Friday night. For some years past it has been usual during the winter to have weekly penny readings there. On Friday evening the newly-elected mayor, Mr. Francis Slack, took the chair in the presence of a very large number of people assembled in the Guildhall. His worship was observed to grow sud denly faint. Three medical men, who happened to be present, immediately ran forward, but their naaistance was unavailing. The mayor was dead. Mr. Slack was a soli citor in very large practice, and in that capacity he took a very prominent part in the proceedings connected with the Road murder, and instituted a special and extra-judicial inquiry. As a politician be had taken an active part as a moderate liberal. He was elected mayor for the first time on November 9of the present year. He had entered upon the duties of his office with extreme assiduity, and had, on Thursday, presided at the distribution of prizes in connec tion with the Oxford local examinations. It was then noticed bow fagged Mr. Slack looked, but no one appre hended that he was seriously ill. THE ALLEGED FENIAN COLONEL—After our re port left on Saturday, the Flamers were again remanded, bail being refused. THE, PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company have issued their annual report, in anticipation of the meeting to be held on the 6th of December. It is of • somewhat unfavourable character as regards the working for the past year, but expresses hopeful anticipations of the future, based on the renewed contract for the postal service to the East, which has been arranged with the government. An abstract of the accounts, which is given, shows under the head of capital that the total assets are 4,242,744/. 12s. 4d., and the liabilities 3,952,545/. 11.4. 9d., showing a surplus of 290,1991. Is. 7d, which is represented by the balance at the credit of the general reserve fund. The revenue account shows the expenditure, in cluding interest on debentures, outlay for reuewal, and other purposes, to have been 2,511,440/. Die. 44., and the gross income from all sources, including balance of undi vided profits from last year, 2.084,393/. 14a, leaving a deficiency of 177,047/. 5. 44. The underwriting account shows a balance of 00,700/. to be carried to the general re serve fund, and the latter fund, after being debited with the deficiency on the revenue for the past year, amounts to 290,199/. Is. 7d. The report also gives full details of the changes in the com pany's fleet during the last year, and of the en gagements which have been entered into with berldajesty's government in connection with the Abyssinian expedition. The directors then explain at length the negotiations with the Postmaster-General on the subject of the mail contract, and state that they look with c o n fi dence for the approval by the proprietors of the course adopted in consenting to an arrangement which almost guarantees a moderate divi dend for • number of years. In pointing out that the re sult of the company's operations for the put year prevents the declaration of any dividend, the directors at the same time state, as • satisfactory feature, that the loss has arisen mainly on the business of the first six months of the year.