The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-17 00:00:00

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SIDI lIMIS4 00?? 11 4•1. llama Onnpfer4, Di r. ItatatJarma.—Mml 11Z1 1 100D 14.1ophoid,. HEM w*m AT LONDON BOLDS& Stn Daa—miner. bro. 7. Oa Twvouso.—ltoslos. 81._—..--Atiormis. w. I:4r 1011 DON. SATURDAY, DEC 17. Wn have recently given a number of fasts, derived from this beet sources, detailing the musky and recklemmess of priestly rale in the Banish stave, and the.. no Papal advocate has at tempted to excuse er refute. The documents publi.hed are official, drawn up by the local agents of the Papal Government, and found in its archives at Bologna. The first lea letter writtees by its newly appoioted lay-governor from the small town of Paenza to his ecclesiastical superior at' Bologna. It must be remembered that the writer is himself a civil officer, enjoying the confidence of hie superior and the Government, and anxious of course to pat their proceeding. in the mcat favourable light, lie lean inferior public servant, and would scarcely be likely to complain of the system unless the ease were urgent—sinless the evils of its local working were crying ar.d all but intolerable. lie wills:aurally also understate the real truth. What Webs tistizoosy of this cfficial witness? Ile states in effect that then is no such thing as the administration of justice in the district of Faeces. If a aims is committed a number of people are arrested hap-hazard, tortured till they confess themselves guilty, though in assay —in a majority of cues, indeed, they are perfectly innocent, and imprisoned for indefinite periods, without even being brought to trial. Against this cruel and reckless system he mildly remonstrates ea follows : Moot Ke inrmd Partheasey,—l yesterday paid u entre salthary viols te the piths. Ky beers the grieved. I• His MO Oath alias I Itheil fl pima& Vary km at them no thaw Mel. Ke•y dgsd sa the Matthias. =thy are at the illeyseki3a et Qs Sam Geseha, and wry army bele beta plead biros. • prierativary airwee. emit ost having de eimaiimikinamt puwn►ir* Pawky Isda irtibuid •prime Am, prUps eke midmost jusf mow ol e•spiwws. Same both aressei hew tat weethe. seas ter yam . ems tenth by halm. This is M spa woad dist bank ea/ yi is s Oat mar at the diretheat erg therilso le the •rLoritw, sad et the eager asthma the goew•m.r4. Colas errs ►. eissolted y strlkkag •s yes* it • tee; it Is ast by me moms dry cm b. led to the lees et the eusthst sthithiges He gees on to give a recent illustration of the way in which justice was administered, ur rafter—under legal forms—outraged in the district. In consequence of a crime having been committed in the neighbour hood three persons were arrestid on suspicion, and thes,a• a precautionary measure, twelve more who it was found, bad no connexion with th e fi rs t three.. So that,: sa the writer justly puts it, either the three or tbittwelve must be innocent. Meanwhile the facades of the arrested were filled with grief, and would won be reduced to misery, like those of the ninety-one who had been so long imprisoned without examination or trial. The result of such • state of things was not only wide-spread private misery but universal public discontent. " 'fhe outcry, the letter says, "is all but universal." Even as agent of the Papal Government, being new to the work, feels acutely both the misery and the seam al. Something ought to be done, but he knows not what. " Dictate to me," says he to his superior, *for otherwise I know not how to dry the tears of " • hundred families who mourn the impri•onment " of father, husband, or *OD, and these hundred *. families 'arras,* us misery because those echo were their support Sr* taken assay." He adds • fact that is conclusive enough as to the utter neglect into which the whole administration ofjustice had fallen, " Looking to the Chancery," he says, "I find a de " ploroble void. Above 430 causes have been "depending four or fin years." This letter was written six years ago, in July, 1843. The second document is mare recent, being ex tr.ots from the sentence of the Court of the First Instance at Bologna, on causes heard in June, 1830. These a v rects prove that flogging, torture, and acts of arroclowi violence were inflicted on persons against whom there was no kind of evidence, in many canes no ground even of suspicion. Thom tortures were inflicted to make them confess, and thus rave their cruel and reckless tormentor' the trouble of further inquiry. The judges of this court at Bologna are laymen, and in their judicial sentence they formally "deplore the many violent and " ferocious acts by which confession of crime was " suggested to and exacted from numbers of per " sons, with enormoos abase and open viola ion of " the existing !awe." Against many of these there was really no evidence at all, except their poverty , sad the forced confusion they had sableqsantly retracted. The judges, referring to these breed ' confessions, justly conclude " that every argamant " drawn from such an impure source is worthier." This is but a specimen from official sources of the way m which justice is administered in the Papal Staten. We ask the oraton of the Irish Crusade again whether they really think this a good system of government, and if they would like to live under it P Here is the true character of the priestly government they laud—cruel and cowardly to • degree that has made it an abomination 'in Italy and a sandal to Europe. The advocates of each a system must deal with the facts of the case. Let them honestly say they think it perfectly tight 1 that people should be arrested without any thugs being made against them, tortured into a false eon fission of guilt, and then be imprisoned for years without trial and examination. If they frankly justify these things on the ground of the Poem's infallibility let them say so, and we shall at Wet understand the position —we shall knowthat in their view international law, common justice, even humanity itself are to be sacrificed to the interests of the Papacy ; that all rights,public and private, are to be openly violated in order to keep the Sovereign Pontiff on a tottering throne. But until the facts of the case are in some way met, until they are denied or explained away, the attempt to defend the Papal Government on the ordinary principles of justice and morality is simply an outrage on common thorny and an insult to common sense. The investigation, by order of the BISHOP, of the grounds of scandal and evil report alleged against the Bev. JAMBI, Boswell., incumbent of St. Philip's, Stepoey, hu disclosed an amount of deliberate, self punned, and persistent wickedness happily without parallel in the experience of the present generation. We are not about to repeat bare the revolting story told on Thursday at Doctors' Commons; those who care to know the details have already read them in the report, or can do so. The inquiry before the Commissioners was disciplinary in its origin; its consequences, therefore, directly affect the defendant only in his professional character. In its conduct, moreover, we miss some of the fosters* of an ordinary English trial. Bat the proceedings were public; the defendant was represented, and not the shadow of an attempt was made to rebut the damning evidence produced against him. If we are to believe the concurrent and uncoctradicted testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution, Mr. Boswell, a mar. tied clergyman, invaded the family of a deceased brother clergyman with the burst of purposes, con cealing his married state by repeotel lying, and made its tairest member his prey and spoil by means of promises which it was impossible for him to fulfil. At Margate he told several of the friends of Mims YO/LATH that he was a widower, and dared to preach to a congregation coccentiog charity and love, when he had most shamefully violated his duty to her whom he had sworn at the altar to love and cherish, and while he was steadily engaged is ruining another under pretence of love. At Newport he was received by the brother of his victim as her future hus band on his own declaration that he was a widower, while he impudently appealed to his position as a clergyman as • guarantee of his good faith, and profaned Holy Scripture in quoting its phrases to give sanction to his false stories. He even had the audacity to visit the Bev. ;Chancellor WILLIAns in company with Miss YoRATU, to hold a conversa tion with him on the subject of a marriage with that unfortunate young lady, to fix the wedding day, and to preach in Baasaley Church. Ths ostentation of his pretended courtship of Miss TORATH while his neglected invalid wife was keeping her school at Islington, marks the character of the man beyond the power of a thousand epithets. The mewl of this infamous conduct—the consummation of Mr. Bomwett's guilt, the atter ruin of his victim —was certain. Nor were the aggravated circum stances which fixed public attention on the case when it was first brought to light less consequent. Had only human frailty led the parties into unhallowed relations, en honest attempt to repair the wrong done to society, to the Church, and to Miss YORAM, might bare been possible. But there can be no doubt that it was the fixed intention of the defendant to persevere in the coarse on which he had entered. The base threat by which he tried to silence the natural inquiries of the young ladj's brother, and the impudence of his letter to the BISHOP, show that he wee determined to maintain himself to the last against those who wished to check his career of sin and hypoerisy. Looking at the facility with which Mr. Bots we/J. maintained improper relations with Miss YoaAru, not only away from his incumbency at Margate and Newport, bat even in his own parish, seating her in the rector's pew, and receiving her after service in his vestry without impeachment, we see that but for the slight and apparently acci dental circumstances leading to his detection, this bold and hardened man might be even now usurping holy functions and reasoning before unsuspecting congregations of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, and reminding mothers that children are " dear little trinity." Most, it not all, of the mischief which he was able to commit might have been averted had his family relationships been more under the eye of his people. London is so large that, as far as the people oh St. Philip's were able to know anything of her, Mrs. Boxerebb might as well have lived at Brighton as at Islington. The Church makes mazy great sacrifices in order to satisfy the wise preferences of Englishmen which esquire the marriage of the clergy, and the congre gation ought to have be means of knowing something of the minister's family life. This Stepney sandal will lung be remembered ; but we should beware of allowing it too muck influence in the judgments we unconsciously form of the clergy. As it is not by the devotedness of a Bishop Sebwre that we estimate the piety of the profession, so neither should we measure its failings by the conduct of a BONWELL. !The common-sense way of judging of the clergy is to look at the rule, and not be led away by the excep tion, whether splendid or infamous. When we are shocked by the conduct of the clergy, we are greatly shocked; yet, considering their numbers, how rarely does thin happen. VACANCIES, APPfatirysiiii,,AND PROMO rioas IN TtlB CIVIL inn= War-office.—Mr. Georg* Alfred Jolly boa been appointed • temporary nark in the militory Mote department. and relwyed eat cortilloste of succoodul mamination Mr. D. F. F. Richordeon eaa boon +minted • temporary clerk, sad NoeA b. examisalioe. The Adottralty—Mr. Fraoct• jvkfr Permed Todd has bees swotted to a temporary otamphip, mod pawed Ma emmonattose General Remater akp—kr. Frederick Bement be. been appointed a clerk in I images, end pried his examination. Iw Dockyards... mom Joke Marl and Peter Cornish. leading melt, be,, boo prompted to be brepeetere of shipwrights at Woolwook Dmkyard. Cleamor—Mr. Albert Walker. clerk In Its szemiser's race. hes loess amistod • osporaimarary sleek t...b ten eootrollerlpinentr • e London ; Mr. Joan Clad in. re boar. boot appideted • Modem oohs, s 4 o,,p mmout t i Mr. Joon J. Madiessio has been spudded a clerk .t Holt. tlepool ; Mr. /Iraq d. Mastoid hes keen promoted from 0ft...n(1 to trot clomi clerk to the Lepel Qttnys Dep se t imept . Londt.n ; Mr, William Soot him been promoted n o m 11%64 to woad Hama dark in ditto; Mr. John N. Feeninge has loon prom oted trim fourth to third slam sleek is ditto ; Mr. Gomm' &Ulnae boos promoted from filth to fourth doss clerk in ditto ; Mr. George B. Skinner hill here promoted fr om math W dltb clasp dark In &maw Bautte. H' itMONIUMS-NRW NODE:L.-CRAMER, MIALIII, old OD.. lit. 14111.160 M.• DLAYINO CAILEDSst wHoulasui PRICES. D• fee nod O►s Noe resser. 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MINOR. all ohs Win•••• &SY for Gerorsuwel eft linfi•—• envisis lie et Ike Miami Iwn las AVOW W lasem.ish DM= of MI! INK Noma el li ndone^ ,i. o tt aN T Oa Llos a 9111111 MIN Ole 9111.61.1101144_ sad et s• Wipmeal ibensanna." IIPPOIOn• IlJellehJoinamos, Mork WAL ; NM irs=. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1859. trig eCeurt. OSBORNE, Due, IS. The Queen walked out yesterday, and the Royal althea teak their real suedes. The Pilau Mame watt au mitooting, attended by tat sentlems is amidst. Mies and Panora Laalagea ire expected en a TWA to bee Meieety to-day, sad Baron de Laeweithia. A Cabinet Council wee held yeeterdai , : ss the a t official residence of the First Lord of the in Downingrtreet. The ministers present were—: Viscount Palmenton, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, the Duke of Newcastle ' the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wo od, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Mike of Somerset, the Right Hen. C. P. ViUiere, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, and Sir George Grey. The Lords of the Committee of Privy Connell for the stare of Jamey and Guernsey bad a meeting yesterday in the Conseil Chambw, sad heard a petition of Frauds Godfrey, Esq., and otters, advocated of the Royal Court of the blend of Jenny, against the coalman= of an sot red by the SUM of the said island on the 7th day of hay l , being the wars heard in law Ur the openiag of the her. Mr. fimeadell Palmer. Q.C.. support friths petition. Mr. Salt, Q.C., was heard la encore of •• petitimor 'Mks trey the Biases of the Island of levee, for the eon- Imetion of the law of the 7th of July, 1869. The Lords i=eilvere the Lord the Lord Chaariellor, the at elate far the Rome sad the jud ge Mahe Court of Admiralty. Hoe. Wm. Bathurst, Clerk of Privy Commit attended. TM Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived In Lanka yea- Sudsy be. Hawardee Canis. TM Hake of Argyll returned I. town yesterdsy. Deqahihn were men from Me Csionial-effice yeeterday to lite Gammen of the West India Ideals. British Columbia, mad Me North Ainerioan Provisoes. His Excellency Baron Bentinek has returned to town from a visit to Sir Wilhelm sad Led, Middleton, at Shrubland Park, Suffolk. The Duke Of Argyll returned to town yesterday. Mr. Harcourt and Frances Countess WaMegrave Iwo returned to Strawberry Hill, from Trentham. Among the arrivals at Torquay dnri eg the week have been Lord end Ldy Maims, Berl of Beverly, Lady Louisa Percy, Lady Farquhar, &c., &e. Mien Burdett Coutts has been on a visit to the Venerable Archdeacon Dolma, at the Vicarage, Oke- Wooten. The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Provisos of Canterbury was yesterday prorogued is the hewslam Chamber, Westminster, by the Viem-General, Dr. Travers Twirls, under a commission hose his (inns the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primates( en England and Metropolitan, pursuant to the royal writ, to Wednesday, the 2ith_of Amery, 1860. . • The Principal of Bramante. College writes:— " °bereft in Mr. Coleridge's °pollee speech a statement that Mr. Boswell wee formerly a Fellow of Brume.. • Oxford, I lose no time in meeting this imputation with • most emphatic contradiction. Mr. Bonwell sever was even 1112 Independent member of this college. He was pre sented in 1846 to the cure of Bt. Philip's, on recommenda tions which appeared at the time worthy of trust." The Cambridge local examination of students who are not members of the University, oommeaced under the dirwatica of the Rev. W. F. Witt., WL., in the Arts School, on Wednesday morning, the 13th Decanher, at 10 o'clock, end will does on Moodey ant, the 19th. _ . Robert Bentley, Profentor of Botany and Mataria Medlin to the Pharniacentleel Society of Great Britain, has been appointed Profeaeor of Botany is King's College, London. We (Atheneum.) understand that the contribu tion is the Scientide Relief Food, organised by the Royal Sectsty, slowly exceed 3,0001., and Ulm the amount has bola (tweed In the public securities in such a mouser ma to Item a separate sooomat frost that of the Society's other funded property. With her maid liberality, and desire to make her great wealth useful, Was Coatis has subscribed 1001. to this excellent fund. Toe National Portrait Gallery exhibits three ad ditional pictures this week. Oise is a portrait of Chantrey, by Phillips, a present from Led) Chaotrey. The mond, Dr. Erasmus Ditrwits, painted by Wright, of Derby. The third accession is a delicately-peacilled miniature of the cele brated caricaturist Oillrey , ty himself. The 800. Lieut.- CoL Begot was the doom of this little tremors. The Musical Society of London has put forth its preepectus for the year ISGO. The first arerrreszwer Is be held on January IS. at Use St. Jareee's Hall, the Bret orchestral coact?' on February 29. Mr. A. Mel lm, se before, will outdate the renterts, and Mr. H. Swart superintend the vocal rehearsals. Robert P. Collier, Req., (LC., M.P. for Plymouth, has be appnatel Coastal to the Naval Department of the High Court of Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet, la the 110002 of William Atherton, E.q. Mr. Grantlay Berkeley has contradicted the smortions of the Americans that he mimed the large game In his tint prairie essays, cud states that he not only killed the Bose Imitate he erer fired at, but singlet out an enormous hull from the hoed, and, mounted on his good steed Tay mouth, fairly rods him down. We read in the Doter Chronicle of to-day :—" On Thursday tat the Date of Italakoff unmet at Dover, ea roots fur Leaden, by the mall packet Empress, wine& ar rived at 3 p.m. The duke travelied inieg., hat being well kw,* to the officers of the mall-packet service wee readily recogalsed. KW late entoellency wore on the voyage across the Cheaael what Is called a Wide-►wake hat,' and was olitadal by mu solitary *errant." The Kensington Gore Garden (says the Gardeners' Chronicle) is now fairly started. Her Majesty's commis donors for 1851 have begun forming the ground levels, according toe plan proposed by Mr. Neeteld and senotioned by his Royal Highness, the Prince Consort. Mr. Ryles, the new superintendent. eaters upon his ditties on the 2nd of January. The great arcades will soon be commenced, and it is entielpeted that the whole establishment will be ap proaching completion by the end of next year. The sub scription list is so full that the council of the Hortioultnrsi Society have lowed it necessary to decline receiving any further appheallons far debentures. Life members are se sentiag then:mime daily; and on the 20th January some hundreds will be elected fellows Mr. Neafield is engaged in preparing a design worthy of the supporters of the new garden, of eke, and of English garden ereldteetate. Oa the ith of next month the first number of a new weekly sixpenny paper will appear, entitled TA. Army ▪ Navy Ge:sits. The affair is Mr. W. H. Russell. This journal is to be devoted to the discussion of oaestions re lating to the military services and national defame, and the diffuska of authentic information upon these subjects. The Count de Lauriston, who fought a duel the ethic day with the Yaqui. de Galliffit, has written the fol lowing letter to the Indigendahre Beige, whose correspon dent had spoken of hiss as a man of silty years clal : ..Iloaaelear le redscteur,—l as one of those who think it is shams well to defend oases ground, inch by Molt. In now writing to you, the only grouted I have to defend is that of my age ; but I WeVeflefileee VIA to have this letter troweled in order to correct a mistake in one of your l'aria letters of the 9th—a letter, in all ether respects, extremely flattering for toe. This mistake Is, morally speaking, somewhat of • detriment to nay honourable adversary, and, in regard to the physical fact of my age, it is detrimental to myself. I am sewer to fifty than slaty rare of age. I am a great "portal:nen; would you like to see my Hamm to &boot? I often travel. Will you see my pompon/ It I. my grey beard which has played me this shabby trlok ; my beard =keens" look much older than I em, sad Is much greyer than my mustachios. I have been advised to shave my beard and keep only my mustachio', end I really think 1 must do so till I reach the age of sixty.—Celt Nerotrosa DI LAVAISTON. Paris, Dec. 12." Roger made his first appearance at the Opera at Paris es Thursday night sloes the loss of hla erne. The Emperor and Bowels attended to greet him, sad every seat In the thrstre was tilled. Hos extraordinary prices bad his. paid for Om= In many instances. A tale arm, made by the groat musical instrument maker, Td. Cherries, did duty so will that to stranger to the circumstance would have sus pected the Les which the great French artist has suffered. We recently mentioned a melancholy accident which had t.krn place ►t Geneva by the drips of a young girl taking firs while at a ball, and in extinguishing which several others were injured. The yonog lady's mother, "rhos arc was severely burnt, hen been obliged to undergo mope. facia, and two other young persons still continue in a &u -renal" State. _ The Ocean Marine Company will commence bairns cm Monday aut. LATEST INTELLIGENCh. THE CONGRESS. A telegram from Turin, dated this morning, states that General Dabonnida has officially communicated to the French government that Count Cavour and the Chevalier Desambrois will be the representatives of Sardinia at the Congress. General Dabormida does not leave Turin, in order to be present at the approaching opening of the Chambers. There will be no ministerial change in Sardinia. Prince de la T.nr d'Auvergne is designated as second plenipotentiary of France at the Congress. The Marquis d'Antonini, the Neapolitan Minister who had been summoned by the Bing to Naples a fortnight ago, returned to Paris yesterday. He is the bearer of the consent of the Neapolitan govern. ment to the project of an Italian confederation. M. d'Antonini will be second plenipotentiary of Naples at the Congress. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY, The Mont'deur of to-day contains the following: The Emperor received yesterday the Papal Nuncio, who presented to his Majesty a letter of the Holy Father. Yesterday evening the state of Prince Jerome was still serious. Pleuritic pains in the left side having set in, necessitated the application of a fresh blister. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SATURDAY. In the last Cabinet Council presided over by the Emperor it was resolved that in the next budget a reduction of Sg millions of florins shall be made in the expenses of the War department • ' • • ... It is stated that Austria is about to proceed to a complete disarmament. SPAIN. XADEID, Dec.ls. Yesterday 15,000 Moore attacked the left redoubt. General Roe de Olano surrounded them with his right wing, and drove them back at the point of the bayonet. Oar artillery inflicted great lose upon them. Our troops, as they invariably do, displayed great valour. Generale Gaaait and Garcia particu larly distinguished themselves. The enemy lost 1,600 men; we had 30 killed and 126 wounded. THE FRENCH PRESS LAWS. (From the Mootitewr.) In some recent publications there have oreened, on the subject of prosecution of the press, tartan man which it is of consequence to set right. The magistrates have been reproached with arbitrarily violating the rules et the special prooldnre introduced by the law of Itay 28, 1819. To this reproach the answer is simple. The exceptional procedure of the law at 1819 hes ceased to exist—it hes been abrogated by the organ° deem of Feb. 17, 1862. Proem- Micas of the pram have been restored to their previous condition of BMWS of the common law; they ere submitted strictly to the form end stages of the sods of criminal examination. Person have siro ventured to moss the magistrates of tasking use of illegal precipitation to the seizure of certain pamphlets; thir second charge rests on a confusion earl to clear op. The YOUnte of the prom is spirited to three distinct orders of publication, books, journals, and political pamphlets having lees than ten sheet, of printed matter. For books the low of 1814 is la operation ; no new con dition has been imposed on publkatitms, and it may be safely raid that tho liberty of the book has never been more complete or more undisputed than it is now. The periodical press has its special missend its own riguets ; eight yeses of practice have proved its wisdom and Its ne cessity. The political pamphlet partakes more of the nature of the journal than of that of the book , it offers the same dangers, the same facility of diffesiou, without, however, being sub jected to thesauri guarantees. Before the law of July 27, 1869, exhortations to civil war, outrages to religion and good morals, attacks the moat audacious on the principle of pro petty, could he spread by a hundred thousand copies, and address themselves with impunity to the passions of the multiteda The evil was irreparable when justice intervened. I , It is to avoid this danger, and to supply a want long felt, that the Legislative Aseetubly introduced into the law of July 27 a cisme making it necessary for the printer to lodge at the office of the public prosecutor, twenty-four hours before every publication and distribution, all writings treating of political matters or matters of social economy haying less than ten sheets of printed matter. It has been desired," said the proposer of the law, when he was explain ing the reasons for this Innovation, it has been desired to put an end to the impotence of justice, and to prevent pamphlets being distributed and the impression exhausted before the magistrate can invoke the action of the law." It Is, then, an exceptional guarantee which the law of 1849 bee imposed on the publication of political brochures. The seisms is not submitted to soy condition of time ; it is regular a soon as it hes been ordered by the examining magistrate, but It is only definitively maintained In came in which it is established that the offence charged in the pro secotion km been constituted, completed by an act of pub licity. If, ea the contrary, it is thown that no act of distri bution or of exposure for sale has preceded the edam*, then intorpness a writ of withdrawal. The writer then repine his liberty of action, bat be is anticipated, and if the work interdicted for en instant is published, the prosecution renamed. the matter is brought before the correctional tribunal, and jurtice is enabled to ensure reepeet for the law. Such hes been for ten years, each is still at this day the regular and faithful execution of the 7th Art. of the Lew of July 27, 1849. AUSTRIA. A letter from Prague, of the 12th, in the Nord, mentions a rumour relative to the intended abdica tion of the Emperor of Austria, but which is gene rally considered as more than improbable : During the last two or three days a rumour ham been car net here which is net leas curious then grave, nothing less than the posaible abdication of the Emperor Friumie Joseph. I cannot say wii ohm there be say Math in this strange report, but naverthaltes ft is at the liradschin ('he upper tows, where the Imperial Palace le siitieted) that this rumour Is more rerticularly In circulation. It tory, perhaps, have Its origin iv the direeneions which exist In the iropyrial family. The Emperor's mother, the Archduchess &phi& tee left Vienna, end come hers. She is said to be much affected at the frailly schisms which exist, and perticalsrly at her separation from her ma, the Archduke Maximilian, to whore she Is much atiached. The unexpected appearaace of the Archduchess Sophia at Prague, the departure of her ern, the earneet wish of the Archduke Albert to be relieved from his post of Governor of Hungary, sad many other affairs which err under diecuanion intim imperial newly, have contributed to originate this rumour of abdication. The *miners between the court of the new Emperor and thesauri which resides at the Hradechla is nothing astoni►hing, fur everyone has been swore of it for the last ten years. More remise was therefore felt at the arrival of the Empress Mother, to whom is attributed the dyneetic measure of the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand and of the Archduke Charles. A national aseoniation has been founded at Turin, by members of the Left and Left Centre, to Instruct the electors, and to promote, under the eeeptecie of Italian liberty sad independence, the development of constitutional rights. Ica HOUSES IN PARIS.—The ice-houses which the city of Pane bad built in the pert of the Bois de Boulogne cut oft by the fortification., on the western aide of The Auteuil mile'', are the largest in Hump., being capable of storing net tees then 60,000 toss of lon Lain year they were not 6Usd, owing to the eleirt duration of the tenet. The tomer winter epees under more fovearehle angel:me for the purpose. and many sea see already employed in taking the me riff the adj_o ining lakes for th e parlors of filling them. A 00013 LANDLORD.—In consequence of the defi cient mop and the generally In. price* of farm produce. tee Timetable owner of the Acton HaU estate, near Felton (ft. - AY. Adana., Erq.), has "sneeringly return.d fully 30 per cent. from ble test half-year's rent. He hem also mid* a liberal wi11...1100 for the damage done by rabbis and other vermin. —Newesitk Chninia. A robin has taken up Its abode in the church at Ashburton frr some months rest, sad during Divine service oocadosally bursts forth hits nag. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MOM 0111 01F1 co l PARIS, FRIDAY ETININO. Prince Jerome Napoleon is again worms. The last bulletin, which is alarming, runs as follows: FRIDAY, 9 A.M. Three is no notable change la the state of his imperial *ham The expectoration is bloody and scanty. His condition is still Tory serious. (81gaid) RATER, CIVVILLTZR, La RELLOCQ. The lionise was unfavourably affected to-day by the news that the congress, instead of meeting on Jenuary 6, was likely to be put off to the 22nd. The reason for the delay is stated to be that the different powers have not made up their minds as to the plenipotentiaries to be sent. Nevertheless, it is said to be certain that Austria and Prussia will I mend their ministers for foreign affairs, Count de Rechberg and M. de Schleinite. The question whe ther Prince Gortachakoff will come or not appears to be undecided. It is still believed in some quarter. that Russia suggests diplomatically the propriety of England being represented either by Lord Palmer ston or Lord John Russell. According to later news, Russia has decided not to send Prince Gees chakoff, and will have for her first representative M. Kissele& the ambassador in Paris, and for her second M. Balsbine, the chargé d'affaires at Vienna. The Rente fell 10c. for cash and 20c. for account, closing heavily at 70fr. 46c. and 70fr. 650. Mobi her fell 7fr. 60c. The Orleans Railway fell 13fr. 76c., and the other lines ware from 2fr. 60c. to fife. lower. There is • talk of the proximate publication in the Nonitsur of a letter of the Emperor to M. Rather, stating the resolution of the government to pub forward public works very actively, and to de vote a new and large credit to there. It appears from a governmental lithographic cor respondence that rumour has spoken of the project for lowering the tariff having been withdrawn from the Council of State. This report is contradicted, but it is at the same time admitted that in conse quence of the finance minister thinking that the reform is not at the present moment "opportune," it has been adjourned. All the English mails that were in arrear have now arrived, but the weather is cold and lowering, and threatens more snow. A letter from Caleb, ,dated yesterday, says : The mail trains from Paris and Brussels, due yesterday evening and this morning, were delayed for several hours in consequence of the heavy fall of snow between Hazebronck and Saint Omer; the garrison of the latter pleas ham been put is requisition to clear the line. Among the paesosgere brought by these trains was Marebal Pelletier, Duke of Malakoff, who has embarked for Leaden in the Imporatrice. Lest night the English 'loop Hope, of Dover, went down within a few kilometres of Cabala. It le supposed that the violent north wind, ecoompanied by snow, promoted the captain from seeing the Celaia lighthoue ; the boat in which the crew attempted to save itself west to pieces, and all were loot. The telegraph between Oasis and Lille does not work, the wires being broke. by the weight of =OW accumulated upon them. Sir Bobcat Peal leaded here yesterday on hit way to Paris. ITALY. CENTRAL ITALY. WiLOX 0171 lIPIOIAL BOLOGNA, Dn. 11. The wrath of his Eminence the Archbishop of Bologna has at last reached its highest pitch. A few days ago, when I read the decrees of Parini, abolishing ecclesiastical tribunals and the right of asylum, I was greatly puuled to imagine how the bishops of the Legations would accept them. A week afterwards, in couvereation with an Italian rient, with whom I travelled from Bologna to Modena, I was informed that Cardinal Vials Peels seemed to have resigned himself to accept calmly the wise decision of this government. Such was not, however, the case; for the day before yesterday a most tremendous protestation against the two decrees of the Governor was sent to the Palazzo del Govern() by the femme au thor of the Concordat imposed upon Aus tria. I had an opportunitx of glancing at the aolemn and wrathful paper of the Bolognese curia, and I could not help laughing at the insolent brag gadocio which characterises every phrase of this half Latin and half Italian paper. It is as insolent in its form as it is absurd in its arguments. You must not forget that what hasbeen done hereby Parini in the promulgation of the two above-mentioned decrees is nothing more than was accomplished in Piedmont nine years ago. Ecclesiastical jurisdic tion in civil and criminal matters, and the right of asylum formerly granted to the church, of with drawing from the action of the common law those criminals who had sought refuge within its holy precincts, were abolished in Sardinia by the effects of the famous law of the 9th of April, 1850, which is generally known as Sicardi's Law, from the en lightened minister who devised it. The sixth pro vision of that law completely cut away the system of tyranny which the court of Rome had exercised over the lay power of that country. This very same thing has now been done here by Parini ; jade ire. Would you believe that Cardinal Vials Prela has the temerity in his protestation to lay down the princi ple that the catholic clergy of this country has the right of being cousidered a caste of citizens exempt from the operation of the common laws. To abolish the ecclesiastical tribunals, says the worthy Cardinal, is tantamount to destroying the respect which common people feel for the ministry of God. To deprive the churches of their ancient right of shielding even the greatest criminal is tantamount to putting the temples of oar Lord on the same footing as the taverns of the state. What will English people say of a Prince of the Roman church who in our times has the auda city to advocate a theory which is in direct oppo sition to all the principles sanctioned and accepted by the most enlightened communities of Europe? Such is, however, the case. The blindness and mad nese of the Roman priests have reached such a point that if they were not strongly resisted we should sae this country become a prey to the moat terrible persecutions. In their eyes Spain is the model according to which the future career of Italy ought to be shaped. The development of the moral sciences, the wonderful civilisation of our days, the mo.t sacred rights which belong to com munities of men, are literally nothing ; the power of the Roman church, with its endless immunities and privileges, is the only thing they have at heart ; to ensure its triumph is the only aspiration of their mind.. Happily enough they have to deal with a people determined to resist this aspirations, and Cardinal Viale Peels has found in Parini a man who will bails the plans he cherishes in his heart. It is true that at the end of his protestation the worthy prince of the Roman church takes the greatest care to state that he is obliged to bow before the power of the government. Of course he must, for no govern ment in Europe can allow an insolent priest to dis regard laws which are sanctioned by his country in accordance with the wishes of all classes of CitiZ.lll, and of the spirit of the age in which we live. BOLOGNA, Dec. 12. Cardinal Viale Prela" has given us a new proof of the crafty spirit of opposition by which ben actuated against the present government of this countil. Yesterday morning, after high mass had been per formed in St. Peter's, his eminence called around him all the rectors of the town and country, who hrd been previously summoned to meet him iu the sacristy of that cathedral. lie then reed to them a pastoral, in which he said that numberless dangers were brood ing over the heads of his faithful flock. Of course he did not point out what were thaw dangers, bat the intention of his eminence was clearly enough to make his subordinates understand that they were charged to exercise through the confusional an influence over the poyu lotion of both Bologna and the provinces. Although the pectoral of the archbishop constitutes by itself a disguised but bitter attack against the liberal government of this country, I have been informed that Governor Farini will not take notice of it, for he is curtain that only a few bigotted old women, and still fewer old mow, will take into serious consideration the hint given by the Prince of the Roman Catholic Church. The horror that theprriui.ple of this province feel for the priests is too powerful, too inveterate, to be removed by means of a Jesuitical manifesto. His eminence will thus have lost his time, and made much ado about nothing. TUSCANY. The Tuscan Monitore of the 10th contains the following: Ia a circular to the Prefects and Governor of Lefthern, dated from Florence, the Bth of December, M. B. Lomeli, President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the Interior, gives an 'moult of the steps he bad been induced to take on the question of the regency. In substance the following are the arrangements that have been adopted. The present government of Tuscany and the Trews spennine government will continue to be what they are now, with satin freedom of action for maintaining order and ob taining national union under the sceptre of the King Victor Emmanuel. - - - Besides the two governments, Commendatore Booncom pagni, who, in taking the title of governor-general of the Mine of the Italian Central States, will serve ea a direct link between those states and the King elect, will give a uniform direction to tailitery affairs, sad will see to the exe cution of ell the collective acts that the two goverment' shall believe it their daty to do for the common weal. Be than nooniamida them to tell the people gads' their administratios that he is eatiefied with bringing bask front Turin their King's greeting to the Tuscans, u else the wet honourable declaratioaa of esteem and affection for 811. Whee -1 ever has not seen this magnanimous king devoting him whole life and all his thoughts to Italy, does not know what a grand idea le personified in the highest expreesion of military and civil power loyally placed at the service of a great cause. — lZoold like, he adds, to repeat with the same havistation that they hid on his august Up, the recommendations made by him to penman to order and concord, move amessary now than ever, la likewise his pagerations that he would watch anxiously ova our interests, =scantly defend them, and maintain the rights we have conferred on him at the Conroe. AU the world knows that the word of the King has never been given in ' I wish now that the consolation and confident* with which 1 I was filled upon leaving the King should be transmitted to the entire country, to which I make it my duty to commu nicate every possible communication respeoring the affairs of the state. in presence of the Congress about to amiable, to maintain concord and the firmness of our resolutions is the most sacred duty of vry citizen. Tb, government will set resolutely and an y; let others do the wens, sad a I will go on well. THE PAPAL STATES. A letter from Rome of the 12th .y.: The meetings of cardinals have been more frequent. thes recently held at the Vatican lasted to • late boor at eight, and it has excited great interest. It is stated that the cardi eels who were present at it were Cardinals Pairid, Fettettl, dalla Genga, Matted, Bouttnoci, dl Pietro, and Antenelff, and that the question discussed by these perwaages, who are at this moment the most acceptable councillors of tM Hely ffee, was what should be done on the subject of the regency dear phut to M. Blicsoompagal. A mead having bees peter. day led to each masher of the diplosido body, just the the belief that such was really the mattes with which the eardinala occupied themselves. This document, ft is said, reproaches the Piedmonts** government with having allowed the civil fusel/morns and the army to take an oath to King Victor Emmanuel, end reproaches that king with having virtually accepted the kingly title in that pro vince by sending there troops, administering affairs and joshes in his name, by changing the customs limits, by the adoption of laws hostile to the church, by having proclaimed It regent, and lastly, for "having,' !eq. the document, " gone even farther than the last act," by nominating tubetitute for the regent. The document accorduigly de. date' that his Holiness protests against there acts, and re quests every government to use its influence to prevent the recent disturbances of which he complains from becoming the fait accompli of a *Foliation so rinju.tly sad so long since undertaken to the prejudice of the States of the Church, and of him who is the sovereign. THE GREENWICH CommimioN.—The Royal CAM• mimion appointed to inquire into the management of Greats wich Hospital, have been Meting daily during the paid week. but have now sojourned till after the Christmas holidays. They have further extmined Philip Hardwick., Esq.. erehiteet, Captain the Honourable James Robert Drum mond, R.N., C. 8., formerly a Lard of the Admiralty, sad Mr. John Snook, clerk in the infirmary of the hospital. On Monday and Tuesday the commiaaioners visited Green- taints, end made • perwinsi inspection of the hospital, in firmary. end achoole, sod then woces&d with the examina tion of Vice-Admiral Sir WatkM Pell, • oommisaioner of the hospital, the Rev. John Kellow Ooldney, M.A., Chaplain of the Fleet, the Rev. Edward Kitaoll, John Elliot, Esq., Steward of the Haepitel,, and Mr. James Benham. First Meta of the Victualling Department. On Wednesday sad Thursday the Commissioners resumed the Mquity at the Admiralty, and examined Captain A. C. Key, R.N., C. 8., e te.mber of the late school committee, the Rev. Fisher, A.M., F.R.S., priacipal and chaplain of the sch ° 7re Alexander James Moorhead, Esq., secreteryand registrar of the civil branch of the Rapti Hospital. Chelsea, and the Rev, William Rogers, M.A,— noted tinning Gazette. DROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 14.—The Queen bee been pleemd to direct Wien patent to be meal under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, 'Wing and grunting the office of one of the Justices of her Cuert of Common Pica@ to 64r Iltmry Singer Keating, Knt., in the room of Sir Richard Sudden Crowder, Knc, deceived. —Gow.erte. . OUR ARMAMENT , AT DOVER.—It might readily be believed that owing to the extensive works now in pro grew. In this garrison, aurae portion of the armament of its extensive fortifications may have become non-effective; such, however, fs not the cane. Notwitbstandiog there ere five cvntractors, each with a numerous amy at workmen, and all employed on the fertile:idioms at the Heights at the same time, not one Ann has been displaced—all are in position ' end so available ae they were before a sod wan turned or even any of these exteosive contracts sanctioned by the War Department. Thanks are due to the penetration and fore thought of our resident Royal litigious& for thus preserving fn au effective date the entire of our armament seaward and Istirlward.—Dover Chronicle. TUE NEW GUILDHALL FOR CAMBRIDGE. °Utility " and "Teen Idol Fest" were the two designs se lected by the committee. Professor Donaldson was referred to as to which ot :ha two should renews the 2001. prize. He decided in favour of "Utility." The committee unanimously crude/wed his decision, and repotted to tar town council accordiogly. It is a singular fact, and ma Ihte we allude to with mach satisloctino, that the author of the successful plan, kir. Peck, of Maidstone. is it native of the town of Cambridge. The sehetion of his design from amidst twenty one onumetitorr, is highly creditable to his talentr.—Carn brage Imispesdnit. THE ANNUAL EIGHT-OAR RACE BETW LEN OXFORD iND CANtlilelDttL.—We are phased to lean the' the challenge (rota the univereity of Cambridge (which was unsucceestul in the rime with Oxford lest Easter) has bent utianimously accepted by the Oxford University Bost Club, cud that the annual rare will be rowed se u,uel owing the The dey ut the ram has not been find upon, but it is thought it will take plena on the Friday or Saturday M ee ling Good Friday. Both universities have, we are informed, sines last Easter, reoeived au accession of equatic strength, rod there is every reason to beltevo that en unusually interesting toot will ensue. Geterge Morrison, Etiq ,of Natio' College and Besialun Perk, hue been Owed presi dent of the Oxf,,rd Uniseisity Bert Club, in the room of J. Arkel!, EMI., travail ; end C. I. &luny, Eoq , of Uni verpiry College, bas been ideated to the office tit treasurer, is the plow of C. Lane. Req.. who retire.—aiford Chre,icle. THE SOURCES OF PERFUME.—Fair readers may be interested to term where, for the twwt pert, the flowers grow, the sweet periwig of glitch is found in those pretty devour on their dressing-tables. The chief Veers of theft /ninth see the South of France end Pledmoot, namely ' , Mmdpelher, Gregg, Nimes, Canoe, and Nice; the tore lest ' especially, am the paradise of vickto, sod funifoh • yearly produce of about 13 OCOth. ttf vi,ilet bingeing. Nips iseeletx• a harvest of 100,0601 b. of °rouge Wassong., and Casinos as much again, end of a hoer odour. 6001 b. tat blossoms yield about 21b of pure Neraly oil. At Canoe= so is thrives p,rdeolarly well, and produces pretty shout 9,t001b. of soscia blossom.. One great perfumery distillery at Cannes noes yearly shout 140,00 u of orange bliregmes a 20,000 lb. sf acacia Weems (acacia faenegiase.). 140,000 lb. of rare leaves. 32,000 lb. of jeggroine blowouts, 20,000 lb. of violets sod 8,040 lb. of tub. ogee, together with a great many other sweet herb.. Tte extraction of the ethereal We, th.. small quantities of which ant mined in the &wen with ouch Mega quantities of otter vegetable •uicen that it requital s h ou t 600 lb. of one leaves to ulO 20,0 01 o[lo of row% demands a very (*refit! treatment. The French, farmed by their climate, on. the most sett..., eltimmth not alarm the most careful, preparers of perfume; half the w. is herniebed by tots breach of their indualry.—Arketnewm. ACCIDENT ON THE MANCTIEstEit, SIIEFFIELD, s.'lo Lis COLNSII 11115 .kV.— During a dense fog which pre ceded yesterday morning, a collision occurred on the Men cheater, Sheffield. sod Lioculnebire Railway, which was not attended vita serious ontorqueura. The 6.25 a.m. train from ghshield to Manchester bed arrived age to the Dunkirk colliery siding near Guide-bridge about a quarter past eight before the driver could perceive a signal which wee peoaning the poseur of tv coal train ago.. the main line. B. wax unable to bring his train to a stand before a collision took plant, bat its violence woe not disagrous. Two p.aseagers only were Oaken rather oevert4y, end the train/ were not detained.