The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1867. OVERCOATS for the PRESENT SEASON. 1 mg. At Shoredit c h, Whit ec h a pel, Hackney, the Gentlemen who do not mind App a fair price for first class WINTER OVEROOATS can on the best materials name features are presented. In the east of at HAMILTON and K London, north of the Thames, twelve thousand Tailors and Overcoatmakars, 105, STRAND, OPPOSITE EXETER-HALL men, representing not fewer than fifty thousand persons, were a fortnight ago out of employment, and, with those dependent on them, starving. The increased severity of the past few days cannot but have increased the number of sufferer, and the severity of their distress. The Poor-law system is quite unequal to grapple with this mass of misery, even if the destitution did not include working men and artisans who, to quote the words of the East London Relief Committee, would rather perish than apply for parish assistance. We need not demonstrate that ready and speedy benevolence is the truest economy and utilitarian ism. Every day that passes over the heads of a half-starving family sews widely and deeply the seeds of disease. Forced recourse to the overseer may weaken the applicant's self-respect. These hard humiliations and sufferings give strength both to the moral and to the physical causes of pauperism. The country, and every district of the country, has—to put the matter on the ground which, as being the lowest, is therefore common to all—a direct pecuniary interest in the health and virtue of its members, and in combating without delay all hostile in fluences. The various organizations which exist in the East of London afford channels in which a wise benevolence may direct itself. Without stinting in the help it offers to foreign and distant sufferers, it will not be deaf to the cries, or the more speaking silence, of a bitterer distress at its very doors. BREAKFAST.-IPPS'S COCOA. 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Voarall, Mrs. Marston, and Miss Milly Palmer. lITZAND. --- TM amnia, NOTRINO TO NURSE. Mr. Thorne end Miss Ne DTO A FAULT. Messrs. Puerile. Icellord, and James Mesdames Johnstone, Gwynne, and llughes.—And WILLLIII TELL. WIT!! • VENOZAIfeIt. HpLBORN. THIN Vienna, FOR LOVM. Mears. H. J. Montagne, Price, Garden, Westland, and U. Widdicomb; Mesdames Stephens, Hennas, C. saunders, &c.—And MARY TeitNE.E.; Oit, WICIOCS WILLIS. Mies Jamephs. zaz7grina,. Tins Mania, VIZ KING'S DEA TH-TRAP. Miura Key. mak* ; Mrs. S. laae.—Ma Mark Ployd Yr. sad liza Langan tt Mr J. Maticeni—CAPTALY GERALD. ileum Howe, Charitou, Sc , Madames Coartamay, laxah, *c. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) HIGII WATIM AT V LOTDO ARIDOIL _ . ... • • TEN DA t —Malang, O. :14m.._.....kfternonn, Ob. 67m. tollolMOW—llornlng. lb. 21.m.......After0005, lb. 44m. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10. THE winter is upon us, hard and fierce. The mason which simply diversifies the amusements of the well-to-do classes, substituting ono sort of out-of-door sport for another, or fire-aide enjoy. meats for those of the open air, takes a very different character among the lowest grades of the poor. By them its yearly return is feared like the periodic invasion of an enemy. Their speculations are only whether its tender mercies will be more or less cruel this time than the last. A severe season which simply braces the nerves of the well-fed, well-clothed, and well-sheltered, is looked forward to by the poor with the dread with which the inhabitant of a tropical climate regards the threatened visitations of a pesti lence or a hurricane. The vague eulogies of frost and snow as " seasonable," " natural," and " healthy," which proceed from portly and well wrapped figures and rosy countenances, must sound like cruel mockeries in the ears of men who have no defensive armour against the attacks of cold and want. The statistics of distress in the East of London, which are familiar to our readers, are vainly palliated by official optimism or official blundering. We do not defend sensational writing : it is vicious enough ; but the sensa tions of famine and cold are even more objectionable. It is difficult, no doubt, for men clothed and filled to give its full meaning to the arithmetic of distress and poverty which Poor-law returns or individual inquiry place before the public. So many more paupers receiv ing relief this year than hat, so many more work men out of employment, so many more shops closed, have to the slow imaginations of the majo rity bet a vague and bare meaning. Things must be clothed in circumstances (to use Lord ELDON'S phrase), they must be presented with the fulness of individual detail, in order to make a strong im pression. There is no lack just now of represen tative cases, which may teach the most thought less what distress in London really means. The case of the unhappy bookseller Dfuwt•x had not faded from the public memory when its horrors were eclipsed by the story of the PRITCHARD family. These instances represent a sort of dis tress which the most perfect organization of pub lic beneficence or the most searching private charity could scarcely reach. Poverty in the black coat, as the French phrase has it—the misery which remembers better days, and shrinks out of sight—the lingering self-respect which feels the agonies of starvation less than the shame of pauperism, and resolves to keep up appearances when all else is gone, is the bitterest of all. Poor PRITCHARD, who began life with three thou sand pounds, paid his rent regularly to the last, affected the title of " esquire," and " made up " for the part of the gentleman, which lie could not renounce, with a paper collar, and a piece of silk torn from an old apron of his wife's wrapped round his neck to serve as a cravat. All the while he was dying by inches of absolute starvation. His wife and children have been saved at the last gasp from the same fate. He would not associate with the neighbours, from whom he carefully hid his distress. Such cases as these can never, we fear, be made absolutely impossible. There will always be men beaten in the battle of life, but too proud to acknowledge their defeat ; without the active qualities needful to win their way, but endowed with a stoicism capable of bearing passively the last and worst ex tremities. With some persons in every community, poverty, it has been said, is not so much an acci dent of outward circumstances as a condition of the organization. It has its origin in a feebleness of the nerves, a thinness of the blood, a deficient vitality throughout the whole system, which makes steady purpose and strenuous exertion physically impossible. The type of character hereditary in many of our large towns furnishes, according as it is associated or not with some sentiment of self respect, hapless victims like PRITCHARD, or the tribe of traders in imposture, begging-letter writers, and professional mendicants. But the distress which a severe winter and slack trade produce among tho labouring poor, by suspending their employment, is not of this hopeless character. It exists only for a season, which may be tided over by judicious measures of public and private as sistance. That part of London where suffering is now most intense was a few years ago the centre of a thriving industry. In the Poplar district, and especially in the Isle of Dogs, lately the seat of an active shipbuilding trade, with ironworks, and chemical factories, and great industrial esta blishments of various kinds, there are, a medical visitor writes, "hundreds of persons quietly and " calmly dying by inches." Four thousand per sona are at work where sixteen thousand once had employment. The tradesmen—the butchers, bakers, grocers, drapers, publicans, who are the camp followers of the great industrial army—have shut up their shops and gone. The number of persons receiving outdoor relief is greatly in excess of what it was last year ; and the number of cases on the books of the medical officer is more than four-fold the average of the past three years. From many houses every article of furni ture has been sold. The people sleep on the bare boards, with old sacks only for their cover . . - An Italian ministry capable of accepting the Emperor Napoleon's policy towards Rome must follow, the Daily News observes, a corresponding polity in domestic affairs ; but then to do this it must, like Napoleon 111. , create anew class of public men—clever adventurers who would attempt to govern without the fres public opinion of the country. The Italian government is acting with great judgment, but it must be said that the government of France has been wanting in frankness to its neighbours and allies, for It had no moral right to ask England, hussia, and Russia to a conference while it had already embraced, and was de termined to carry out, an extreme policy at all hazard/. M. Rouher's declarations amply vindicate the wisdom of those governments who have hitherto held aloof from the Emperor and his conference. The experience of the last fifteen years has not been without its lemons, and one of the plainest of these is to have no more to do than is absolutely necessary with the government of the Second Empire. TLe Post also says a declaration that the territorial sovereignty of the lioly See, as at present defined, shall be guaranteed for ever—for that is what it comes to — makes the declarant a partisan. Unless, therefore, that which has boon said in an exceptionally loud rake admits of an explanation which the words used certainly fail to convey, it would appear to have shut the door in the face of a projected compromise, virtually dismissed the thought of a conference, and abundantly justified the cautious policy which Lord Stanley has observed. the agency of the law, and to punish sedition with a rigour which shall be merciful in t*, sternness. The Star wishes to open the eyes of Englialunen to a plain, hard, painful fact. The late demonstrations in Ire land mean that the Irish people would be rebels if they could, that they are rebels in spirit already, and that they wish the world to know it. There probably never was at any period of our connection with Ireland a time when that country was more widely and deeply disaffected than it is at present. TH2 PAN•ANGLICAN SYNOD. Apropos of • meeting of the Pan•.tnglican Synod, which it appears is to be held to-day, the Times suggests that it is unfortunate the conclusions of the conference were not kept u private as its dis cussions. The resolutions which it put forward with an assumption not justified by the composition of the synod, contain pretensions which the bishops are notoriously incapable of sustaining; and the conduct of some of the American bishops has given an additional reason why the results of the meeting should be quietly committed to oblivion. The proposed constitution of • voluntary spiritual tribunal, which is amongst the relics of the conference to be resuscitated to-day, would, if admitted, denationalise our church, which could no longer be completely independent if it acknowledged any degree of authority in an assembly where other churches were represented, whose united episco- pate would be more numerous than our own. Similar considerations apply to the proposed constitution of a voluntary spiritual tribunal to decide questions of doctrine carried on appeal from the colonial churches. Here, also, we should have a foreign authority, unknown to our law, confronting the legitimate authorities of our national church. Nothing can be more melancholy than to behold the bishops frittering away their time and energies upon thee. impracticable dreams, when their attention is demanded by the most serious and practical duties. S.S TOPICS. To the Daily News the domestic architecture of London appears to offer an architect of genius a field for the philanthropic exercise of his art. Even the wealthiest quarters are heavy and dull, and there is everywhere an ahnoat absolute west of anything approaching to ar chitectural design. We havo but little light, and we make the least of it. We have much rain, but we give it no chance of washing us clean. The surfaces of all our buildings absorb the smoke instead of repelling it, absorb the rain instead of being washed by it, and absorb the light instead of reflecting it. The Daily News adopts the suggestion of Mr. Conybeare in the Fort nightly Review, that glazed ceramic surfaces be adopted for our buildings, which would admit of the introduction of colour, would reflect light, and repel rain ; while con crete instead of brick as the material of the building, and of glazed tiles instead of stucco for the enlace, would have the advantage of at least equal cheapness and far greater durability. Commenting upon the prevent state of American par ties, the Tinel sasumes that the vote against 3fr. John son's impeachment will confirm him in the course he hu adopted, and that the result will be a trial of strength on every question as it arises. The Herold hopes Mr. Johnson will be silent, and that the lesson he has already received will suffice to warn him against the fatal error of compromising, by any outbreak of temper or imprudent utterance of extreme opinions, in terests and objects which he honestly End earnestly I cherishes, as essential to the well-being of the country and the real reunion of the divided nation. The Telegraph attributes the late demonstrations in Iruland to the earnest Roman catholicism of the three men who were executed, but thinks that this slight union between Romsnism and Fenianism cannot last, and that probably we ■hall best no more of Fenian funeral proces sions permitted by the authorities. If such seditious lan guage as that recently delivered by a man named Martin were allowed to be repeated, the impunity would be in terpreted as an incentive to license. Thus, we might have disturbances of such a character as to demand the exercise of lamentable severity. To save the country from such • melancholy necessity, the government may have to invoke the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Ditc. 9. The Queen walked in the grounds and drove, accompanied by Prince's Christian and Princess Louise. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinatone, left she Castle this morning for Greenwich Park. Prince Leopold west to London, attended by Mr. Duck. worth. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Major-General Ormsby, 8.A., bad the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday. Lord and Lady Derby, the Bishop of Oxford, and Major-General Ormsby, have left the Castle. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord John Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H Walpole. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Bahamas, British Hondu ras, and the Governor-Generalof Caaada. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales leaves Sandringham to-morrow on a visit to the Earl and Coun ting. of Dudley at Buekenham, near Cromer, where his royal highness will remain till Thursday. The Earl of Dudley has invited a diatingui:hed circle to meet the Prince for shooting. The Marchioness of Abercorn and Lord George Hamilton left Chesterfield House on Saturday for Cannes. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury left town a few days ago for Pais, on their way to Pan, where it is the intention of the oounteu to paw the winter for the benefit of her health. The noble earl will return home about the middle of next month. The Earl and Countess of Portarlington intend to remain in ltsiy till late in the spring of the ensuing year. Viscount Stratford do Radcliffe and Hon. Miss Canning have left town for Upleatham Hall, on a visit to the Earl of Zetland. Lord Londesborough left Grosvenor-square at the close of the past week to receive a shooting party at his extensive preserves in the neighbourhood of Scar. borough. Lady Londesborough remains in town. Lord Elcho, M.P., has left town on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Dudley, in Norfolk. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer has so far recovered from bi■ attack of lumbago as to be able to attend the Cabinet Council yesterday. Mrs. Di,. raeli is almost entirely recovered from the effects of her serious illness. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, as well u the Duke of Northumberland, h►ve arrived in Paris. At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society last evening letters were read from Dr. Kirk, of Zanzibar, 14 days later in date than the last that have been published. He is very sanguine that Dr. Livingstone is alive. Subjoined is a list of the insurances effected on her Majesty's Theatre, exclusive of the surrounding houses; several of the offices, however, have lessened their risk by re-insurances in other offices not named : On the building—Liverpool and London and Globe, 10,000/. ; Northern, 6,000/. ; Lancashire, 5,003/. ; Sun, 4,000/. ; Atlas, 3,000/. ; Manchester, 3,0001. ; North British and Mercantile, 2,000/. ; and Commercial Union, 2,000/. On properties—North British and Mercantile, 6,000/. ; and Royal, Liverpool, 3,oool.—making a total on the building and properties of 44,0001. The insurances by Messrs. Graves and Co., the print-sellers, are stated to be—Alli ance, 7,000/. ; Northern, 5,000/. ; County, 3,74. ; Sun, 3,0001. ; Westminster, 3,0001. ; Hand-in-hand, 3,000/. ; Liverpool and London and Globe, 3,0001.; Lancashire, 3,000/. ; and Western, 3,0001.—a total of 33,750/. The commercial letters from the leading houses in Paris express a strong feeling in favour of the present course of the Italian government, and great regret and indignation at the recent violent ebullition on the part of bd. Rouher. On Sunday a pretty little Norman church, situated at Letwall, in the most picturesque portion of that cluster of ducal residences which adorn North Nottingham. shire, was burnt to the ground. The cause of the catas trophe is said to have been the overheating of the warming apparatus. The Siberian pestilence—the worst form of the cattle plague, which a few years ago spread as fares St. Petersburg, whence it was propagated to western countries —has broken oat again at Tobolak. Up to the 10th of November 4,270 horses, 356 head of cattle, and nine men had succumbed to the disease in that province. In the Prussian province of Silesia the cattle plague is fast dying out. Favourable news continues to be received respect ing the sales of church property in different parts of Italy. At Milan 13 lots, valued at 131,746 fr., were offered for sale on the 27th and 28th of November, and fetched 191,1461 r. At Monza, also in Lombardy, 11 lots, set up at 0,4115 ft., were sold for 82,212 fr. lastly, the Corriere drflr Purgie, announcing the result of various sales effected during the course of the month at Bari, Giovinazzo, Con versano, Molt., and Putigliano, contains the intelligence that 81 lots changed hands, the estimated value of 696.122 fr. being pushed up to 771,141 fr. Weston, the pedestrian. who is walking from Portland to Chicago, was at the lost dates within 100 miles of Chicago, and as he had three more days of his time left would certainly accomplish his offer to walk the 1,7,37 miles between these two cities in 26 walking days. A few minutes after midnight on the night between November 24 and 25 he began his fourth attempt to walk 100 miles in 24 hours, and at 5 p.m. on the 25th had accomplished 70 miles, the time occupied being 16 hours and 50 minutes. . _ Prairie fires are reported to be raging in carious portions of the West. There has been a great drought in that section, and the dryness of the land facilitates their progress. In Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas they have been particularly severe, devutating a large extent of country, and destroying an immense amount of property. The swamps of Southern Missouri are said to be a mass of fire, and for 100 miles along the Illinois Central Railway the prairies are buroh.g. No relief is looked for until heavy rains fall, of which it is said, however, there is no imme diate prospect. A SHIP ON FIME.—FALMOIITH, DEC. 9. —The William Hunter, screw steamer, of London, Captain Cowie, which arrived at Falmouth on Monday evening from Taganrog for orders, fell in with a ship on fire, of about 900 tons burden, at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday, about 50 miles W.S.W. from the Lizard. Captain Cowie approached within a quarter of a mile, in the expectation of finding the crew in the boats, but he discovered none, and left her. On Monday morning, at 7 a.m., they spoke the steamer Cintra, of Liverpool, with signal flying, " I'm in dis tress," and they reported she had been towing a barque and fouled the towrope in her screw. The William Hun ter took the Cintra in tow for two hours, intending to reach Falmouth, when the tow-rope broke. The William Hunter then put two hawsers on board the Cintra, but at that moment the latter succeeded in clearing her screw, loosed the hawser, and steamed away S.S.E. UNITED KINGDOM ALLT,forcE.—The annual soiree of the London Auxiliary of this association was held last night at the Whittington Club, Arundel-street, Strand. Between 500 and 600 of the members of the Alliance and their friends assembled together and partook of tea, after which the general meeting was held in the hall room. The chair was taken by the Venerable Archdeacon Sand ford, who was supported on the platform by the Rev. S. A. Steinthal and J. H. Raper, who attended as a deputa tion from the United Kingdom Alliance, 0. Thompson, Dr. Brewer, the Rev. J. Burns, Dr. Hardwick., and va rious other minister' and gentlemen. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ITALIAN -PRESS ON M. ROHRER'S SPEECH. The Diritto of Saturday says : . . Rouher's speech is even more explicit than that of )Mustier. There is in the language of Ronher something so rude and bitter, that we are at a loss to explain it, except by attributing to the government an inten tion of challenging Italy, of exciting her to retaliation, which might lead to disorder, to violent repression, to illegality and civil discord, and all the rest, which probably the French Emperor has been for some time only too anxious to bring about. Italy must be on her guard against such dangers ; Italy must not give way to violence, the effect of which has been already made matter of calculation in France. The parliament must take counsel from its dignity and even from the magnitude of the interests which it is called on to defend. The ministry who find their diplomatic notes and even the innocent speech delivered yesterday by Menabrea trampled upon should at once change its course or resign. La Nazione remarks: We rejoice that the President of the Council has, by his language of yesterday, opposed to the pretensions of France a categorical and dignified affirmation of Italian right. This firm and loyal attitude which we have taken up towards Franca, without having recourse to insolent pro vocations or ignoble maniauvres, will obtain for us the esteem and sympathy of every liberal government in Europe. Italy cannot and ought not to act otherwise. She must not prejudice the future ; she must collect herself ; she must strengthen her army ; she must establish equili brium in her finances, order and authority in her govern ment, and then her rights and her dignity will be secured. (ILCUTER'S TELI81•1111.) THE DEBATE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER. PARIS, Dec.lo. In the sitting of the Legislative Chamber yes terday, hi. Rouher said that the government thus laid down its political defence of the national in terests :—Deep aversion for any solution by the employment of force, an energetic sentiment for the maintenance of right, a careful examination of the facts taking place in the world, detection of those that might offend its dignity, and a resolve to oppose them ; at the same time not to be too easily alarmed at events in Europe, under the conviction that France would be up to the high standard of her mission, and was capable of repelling any dangers that might threaten her. M. Rouher stated that France did everything she could in 1866 to pre vent war. M. Rouher added :—" Early in August, shortly after the preliminaries of peace of Nickola. burg, the possibility of a rectification of frontier was intimated to our ambassador at Berlin. He immediately proceeded to Paris, when, after an interview with his Sovereign and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that idea was abandoned. Since then no fact has occurred to denote on our part the idea of conquest or of extension of territory." Speaking of the Luxembourg affair he said, "Our conduct on that occasion was a warning to Ger many that we did not remain indifferent to certain facts." Respecting the declaration of the sth December, M. Rouher Raid that the representative of the government had only said what he was per fectly authorised to say, and in terms which he was authorised to make use of. CHINA. (Via. Trieste.) HONG KONG, Nov. 1. The Bishop of Victoria has arrived. A memorial from the Chamber of Commerm for a revision of the treaty with China is forwarded to England by this mail. All hope of the Spanish mail steamer Malespina has been abandoned. A revolt has occurred near Pekin. Rebels are reported to have appeared on the banks of the Grand Canal, and robbers are infesting the neigh bourhood of Tientsin. Intelligence from Japan announces that the new governor of Nagasaki had arrived at his post. It was reported that two foreigners had been attacked there. AUSTRALIA. (Via Trieste.) MELBOURNE, Oct 28. Her Majesty's ship Galatea, with his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh on board, passed the mail steamer near Adelaide. The Appropriation Bill, including the Darling vote, has again been rejected by the Legislative Council. It is proposed to memorialise the Queen on the subject of the Governor's actions. The government of New South Wales had been defeated on the Land Bill by a majority of 2. The shipments of gold during the month amount to 116,5000 z., namely, 84,0000z5. by the Lincoln shire, and 32,6000 z. by the Kent. A summary of the above haa already been re ceived by Indo-European telegraph. AMERICA. (sy Amor= TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Dm 9, 6 rat. The steamers New York, Minnesota, and Recla arrived out on Sunday. Closing Prices :—Gold, 137. Sterling exchange on London, 109 j. 5-20 United States Bonds, 108 ; Illinois, 134 ; Erie, 72. Cotton ; Middling Upland., 171. _ . . - PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9. Petroleum : Standard white, 24i. ARAMBISHOP MANNINO ON THE ITALIAN QUES TION.—Laat night, at a dinner given by the committee of the Benevolent Society for the Relief of the Aged and Infirm Poor, at the Albion Hotel, Archbishop Manning, in proposing the toast of " The Pope," said that the feeling which the sentiment he had the honour to submit to them th,t evening would elicit would be, he was sure, more in tense than it would have been at any other time. He could not imagine anything more majestic than the pre sence of the Holy Father walking in the streets of Rome in tranquillity, and in the molt, perfect confidence in God, while all the world around was in confusion. If he could imagine anything more majestic it would be the presence of the Pope in the hospitals ministering to those who bad raised their swords against him. Some one had spoken the other day about the catholic world, and they were asked what the catholic world meant. Did it mean France, which had, as it was alleged at one time, dethroned the Poke? Ho thought so, and he considered that France had given a glorious example of what the first voice in the catholic world could say. The French people, through their legislature, bad, by a majority of 12 to 1, compelled their ruler to protect the Holy Father, and had proclaimed their opinion that no power should lay hands upon him. He would not say anything against the present governor of France, but the vast, glorious, and chivalrous people of that country the Pope could always regard as his right hand. People asked why France had, and Italy had not the right to enter Roma. He answe re d for the same reason that the police had and the robbers had not the right to enter into one's house. There was • great difference between possession and protection. The right rev. speaker then entered into • long and elaborate attack on the public press for its persistent efforts to instil into the Italian people what he called " iniserab'e national aspirations," and trusted that if a European war were commenced the English nation would not be found in antagonism to the vicar of Christ. Dovsn &mom' Holm—Our Dover correspon dent informs us that the inner harbour is quite full of shipping, whose captains have taken refuge from the gales. Many of these vessels have received damage, and must be rewired before they can spin put to sea. The Sailors' Home has been full of wrecked crews all the week, arriving there from different parts of the coast. French, Norwe gian, and English were received without a question and treated all alike. Six wrecked crews returned thanks on Sunday in St. John's Mariners' church . The "home" is entirely supy_orted by voluntary contributions. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUIC—ViSitOTS during the week ending Dec. 7, 1867 :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (free), from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., 5,973 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admiseion 6d.), from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 1,07 R; total, 7.051; average of cor responding week in former years, 8,256 ; total from the opening of the museum, 7,094,715. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PION On OWN CORRESPONDEIT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. Some of the clerical prints already object that M. Rouher's declaration in favour of the temporal power, which made M. Berryer weep with joy, was not, after all, sufficiently categorical. The rumour of a diplomatic note inform ing the cabinet of Florence that although France is resolutely opposed to the annexation of Rome to Italy by force, she would have no objec tion to an amicable arrangement between Italy and the Pope, prompts the ultramontanes to claim a de fence against " cunning "as well as violence. M. Rouher, who in some respects trumped M. Thiers, did not precisely echo his requisition that even "moral means" of giving Italy to Rome should be repudiated. M. Rouher made so much noise by repeating emphatically the word "never," that the whole audience understood him to mean that Italy should never have Rome. What he actually said, however, was, that she should never take it (ne s'emparera). Upon this text it is quite possible, if need be, to tone down M. Rouher's sensational declarations to the level of those sober and ambiguous sayings of the Marquis de Moustier, which the church found so unsatisfactory. At the Bourse very little business was done. Speculators were anxiously awaiting news from the Corps Legislatif and the Italian parliament, which could not come in time to influence to-day's opera tions. Renter rose 10c. ,for cash, and 21c. for account, closing at 69fr. 25c. and 69fr. 100. Italian fell 30c. THE LATE DISASTERS AT SEA. PADSTOW, CORNWALL, MONDAY. • During a fresh gale from the N., with heavy squalls last night (states the Rev. It. Tyacke), the chief officer of coast guard discovered a vessel stranded on the Doom bar. He gave the intelligence to the coxswain of the Albert Edward lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Insti tution. He at once summoned his crew, and as soon as a sufficient number of them were assemble d the lifeboat was launched, and proceeded to the bar. They arrived there after being driven beck three times by the tide and heavy seas, and dropped down to the vessel, when a oommunica tion was effected between her and the boat, but the line unfortunately parted, and some difficulty was experienced in effecting • second communication owing to the heavy seas. Ultimately, however, this was effected, and the crew of three men were rescued and brought safely ashore, the boat having been absent two hou rs an d • half. In leaving the vessel the cable of the boat had to be slipped. The lifeboat shipped several seas, and once the whole of the starboard oars were knocked out of the men's hands, and would have been lost but for the lanyards attaching them to the boat. The lifeboat behaved very well, and the crew acted with perfect discipline and coolness. Great credit is due to the brave crew of the Padatow life boat, as some of the men who were afloat in her on the occasion went through that fearful ordeal of being upset from the boat on the Gth of February last. They were then three-quarters of a mile from the land, but they suc ceeded, having their lifebelts on, in reaching the beach under great difficulties sad dangers. It is also a proof of the unabated confidence they have in their valuable life boat, which they have positively declined to exchange for any other that could be given to them. DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE, DEC. 7. Henry Pye, Esq., transmits the following report from the coxswain of the lifeboat North Briton, stationed at this place. It is one of the most remarkable instances on record of the determination of these lifeboat men to do their duty under the most trying circumstances, and appa rently insurmountable difficulties. On Sunday last, the weather being very stormy, I, with six others and two horses, at 12 o'clock at night, walked the coast for upwards of four miles in the direction of Greinithorpe Haven, when we discovered a schooner on the sands, which the crew (consisting of three men) were about to leave. Her name was the Mary Ant, of Whitby, in ballast. The men being strangers and much fatigued, we took them back to Donna Nook on the horses, where I put them to bed, and at 2.30 the same night we again left the Nook, and went back to the schooner, and moored her, and while there discovered another schooner throwing up sign als , of distress, and burning tar hernia betw een Mr. e's house and the station, when we immediately re turned, it then being about b o'clock a.m., and sent mes sengers for the crew and the launching men, and at day light, about 7 am., hoisted my flag to expedite the crew, which signal was also seen by the crew of the schooner. We got the boat off about lam., but the heavy gale holding up the tide, the horses had to go a mile and a quarter belly deep before reaching the outer bank of sand, and so as to get to the windward of the schooner; but the tide running so rapidly, backed up by the wind, the launching men, being up to their armpits in water, could not sta nd to pull the boat off the truck, and were obliged to get into the boat, when we shoved her off the truck, and over the bank with our oars, and with great difficulty reached the schooner, which proved to be the Esk, from Montrose, in ballast, and, after fastening the boat by anchor and ropes, we suc ceeded in getting six bands aboard the boat, and brought them hack as far as the above bank, where she grounded, and all hands (except the crew of the schooner) got out, and, up to their middle in water, dragged the boat as far as they could ; but not being able to get clear, all got out. except myself, and waded, up to their middles upwards of a rnile, to the station-house, which they re a ched about 12.30, but all so frozen and starved, that it was necessary to send for a medical man, who restored most of them before he left—one coastinardman being still under treatment, though better, this morning. I remained with my boat and truck to secure them from loss or damage, and did not get up till late at night, when I found that none of the farmers would let their horses go out again, they being so perished as to peril their lives. I then waded back to my boat, with another cossiguardman when we discovered • third schooner at 6 am., with signals of distress flying, nearly eight miles away. When I got back to the station again I sent for the crew and lsunchmen, but none of the neighbouring farmers would allow their horses to go out again ; indeed, they could scarcely keep them alive from their first exposure to the cold, so that I was obliged to abandon the effort to get to the vessel, and it was not till the eve m& of the day that I could get any horses to bring back the boat to the station. The gale having then considerably mode rated we got her up without sustaining any injury. I never experienc.Kl a more trying time for men and horses. I never had my clothes off from the Saturday night to Tuesday night, or any rest, being soaked through all Mon day and Tuesday. The crew of the third schooner referred to were eared by Heedless riding into the water and bring ing them off. .._ . . It should be added that many parts of the Lincolnshire coast are very flat, and often shallower at some distance from the land. (Signed) THOMAS Dome; Coxswain of the Lifeboat. DROGHEDA, IRELAND, DEC. 7. The schooner Mountaineer, of this place, bound here from Ardroasan with coals, in running for the bar in a fresh gale from N.E. and heavy sea, was driven on shore on the South Bull (reports Mr. Fackrell, the officer of coastguardl. As soon as this was known at the lifeboat station of the National Lifeboat Institution, the boat was launched, but on reaching the spot found that the crew were determined to remain by the vessel as she did not appear to have sustained much damage and the tide was bbing. THE 19TH MIDDLESEX. —Last evening the annual regimental dinner of the 19th Middlesex (the "Tom Browns"), one of the smartest corps in the metropolis, well held at Radley's Hotel, under the presidency of Lieu tenant. Colonel Hughes, M.P. The occasion was one of more than ordinary interest from the fact that an address of congratulation was presented to Colonel Williams, who, in the early days of the volunteer movement, did great service to rifle shooting, and attained no little distinction as the first captain of the English Twenty in the Inter. national Match. The congratulation was on his attaining the prosrotion to the important command of the Finsbury Rifle Corps (the ;i9th Middlesex). a regiment which is as prowl of the distinction thus conferred upon it as its com mander is of the positi 41. Among the officers present were Major Bailey, Captains Sheen, Read, M'Donnell, and Thompson, Lieutenants Sutton, Preeton,G reene (of the 29th Middlesex), Fowler, Phelan, and Moore, and other officers. Colonel Hughes, in proposing the toast of the evening, and in presenting the address, said the 19th, six years ago, were happy to obtain the services of Captain Williams, who, besides being a soldier who wore on his brevet a distinguishing medal for the part he took in one of them gallant actions which had raised the English name in India—namely, for the battle of Sobraon—had been twice, as a rifleman, within a shade of winning the Queen's Price itself. The speaker referred to the great success which had attended Colonel Williams's efforts to make the 19th a shooting corps, and mentioned that as commandant he had already challenged his old corps to a match with his new one. The address was then presented, and Colonel Williams made a reply amid the continued cheers of the company. In the course of his observations he urged upon the volunteers the necessity for keeping well to their drill; for, he said, if the war clouds on the Continent did not disperse, the defence body of these shores would have to be increased fourfold, and then the present volunteers would have to be the nucleus, the instructors, and officers of the larger body. The health of Colonel Hughes was afterwards proposed and received with enthusiaans. THE FERNDALE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. TILE INQUEST. PONTYPRIDD, IdoNi iAr. The inquest was opened at the New Inn, Polity. phdd, to-day, by the coroner for Glamorgansbire, y r George Overton. There was a considerable attendance of mining engineers, and the proprietors of the colliery were also present. Mr. C. R. James, solicitor, watch e d the proceedings on their behalf ; the government was represented by Mr. Wales, inspector of mines for the South Wales district. The workmen were represented by a deputation from the Miners' Association. The Coroner in opening the proceedings briefly alluded to the appalling extent of the disaster which they were about to investigate, which involved the death of 175 persons, and there were still three or four missing, Th e great majority of the deceased were killed by the fire, whilst in most explosions about 90 per cent. died from the after damp. This fact showed that there mutt have been a very considerable amount of gas in the pit. All these accideuts could be traced to similar causes, and they differed from each other only in degree. Unfces tunately South Wales had obtained • pe s t notoriety for their accidents of late years. I• the inspector's report for 1865 the number of deaths in the South Wales district far exceeded that of any other district of the kingdom, and, compared with the quantities of coal raised,was out of all proportion to the death rate of English districts. In 186 d, although the lamentable acs cident at Oaks and Talk-ot.the-Hill swelled the death list to a total higher than that of this district, yet the number of separate accidents in South Wales was greater than that of any English district. Hs was apprehensive that the sinking of new pits in maiden coal districts hadnot been accompanied by a proper amount of knowledge, and inexperienced and unfit men had been employed in the pit. He feared that until they had a better edaeated class of men foe viewers and overmen they would still hear of accidents. He thought the system of examination and test of ability adopted with reference to the appointment of commanders of ships, and the keeping of log-books ce journals might be applied with great advantagetz collieries. The Coroner also complained of the difficulty of punishing delinquents under the present Mines Inspection Act. There were so many loopholes of escape that when an information was laid and • defendant committed to the assizes for trial, invariably some flaw was found, and the defendant escaped. That was • state of the law which ought to be remedied without delay. As to a civil remedy under Lord Campbell's act that was out of the question. Most of these unfortunate accidents were attributable to had management, to the defective supervision of the ventila tion of the colliery ; and it would be the duty of the jury to inquire whether in the present case any person or persons were blameable for this deplorable accident. In inquiries of this kind there were three essential points to which attention should be directed, namely, the management, the discipline, and the ventilation of the colliery. Unless • pit was managed by a competent person and the persons employed under him kept in proper con. trol, and the ventilation be adequate and properly distri. buted, accidents must occur, and it was to the neglect of one of these conditions that most of these 'addicts were to be traced. The Ferndale Colliery was divided into three districts, which were quite separate, and the eaplo. 1106 extended to two of those districts only ; he therefore proposed to take a case from each of those districts as an illustration of the others. Richard Wise, a police-sergeant, proved the occurrence of the explosion, and that 178 persons were missing, of whom 175 had been recovered dead. Mr. Roberts, ssuireon, proved that of the deceased 145 were killed by burns, bruises, and suffocation; :Li from suffocation only ; and four from braises. Mr. David Davies, Maesyfynnon House, Aberdare, said he was the principal proprietor of the colliery, and his two brothers were the other partners in the firm. The colliery was situated in the Rhondda tack Valley, and the mana ger was John Williams, one of the deceased, who was appointed in August last year. Having described the officers of the pit and where they were stationed be proceeded to state that there were three lanipmen em. ployed in the pit, one in each district, whose duty it was to light, lock, and examine lamps when given out, and to relight the lamps when they went out. Two of them— those of the Rhondda and Blaenllechan districts—were killed by suffocation. Mr. W. Adams, C.E., was their consulting engineer for all their collieries. Ho visited the collieries monthly to advise and consult with the mans. gers. The colliery had been in work five years, and during that period there had not been, to his knowledge, a single case of death from explosion before the accident on the Bth ult. Latterly they had been working from 9,000 to 10,000 tons of coal per month ; the average daily out pat being 400 tons. By Mr. Wale—Up to my brother's death in May, 1866,f took an active part in the underground management of the collieries, but since then I have not, having too much else to attend to. We appointed Mr. Adams in consequence, as consulting engineer. A deputation from the miners of England wished to be allowed to put a few questions to the last witness. The Coroner said they could do so through him. By the deputation—l did not receive a daily report from the manager as to the condition of the pit, nor do I think the late manager, John Williams, kept a register. As the managing partner I should have been the right person to have received such a report. By one of the Jury—l have not heard from my agents or firemen that there was • quantity of gas in the workings. By Mr. Wales—Nor did I hear it from anyone else. William Adams, mining engineer, sworn, said-1 have been employed as consulting viewer for the whole of the collieries of Messrs. Davies and Sons since the' sth Mardi. It was my duty to visit the Ferndale Colliery, as a rule, about once a month. I used to inspect the colliery with the resident manager, John Williams. I talked over matters with him, and advised him how he ought to hive proceeded as respects the application of steam power, end the best modes of ventilation ; but he carried them out as he thought proper. In going into the colliery if I saw anything wrong I mentioned it to Johr. Williams, and advised him how to amend it; but the distribution of air was quite under his control. I never had any conversation with any of the other officers. The plan I now produce is • correct plan of the workings the Ferndale Colliery, end describes the different currents of air. I think the colliery has been in working about five years. It consists of two pits. The winding pit is sunk to the Oft. coal, and is 298 yards in depth ; the size is lift by 12ft., which would make the 204 ft. The pumps are is this pit down to a depth of about 100 yards below the pit, but there is scarcely any water there. The upeast was first sunk to the 4ft. coal, where the ventilating furnace is placed, and is about the same depth as the downcast It was afterwards sunk to the rift. and et coals, a further depth of about 40 yards ; and the size of it is lift. by lift. equal to 154 ft. area. The see* tilation is carried on by means of a furnace 9ft. by Sit., or 72ft. area. The quantity of coal used at the furnace was about 90 tons • month. I produce the rules of the col. lien , . There was no record kept of the quantity of the air passing through the pit. It was the resident manager's duty to keep a record of it. I have gone into the PA and I observed • great quantity of air passing at the time. I believe be did keep a record of the air, but he Jul not keep it in the office. I have seen a memorencluia et his own twice, but I believe there was no regular registee kept by him. He gave MO to understand that he male measurement of the air about once a month, and he promised to hoop a daily register of the conditioa of the pit, and a monthly measurement of air, but hoi had not begun to do it. On two occasions he gave me as account verbally. [This witness was under examination when our parcel left.] TELEDHAPHIC COMICKTCATION BETWEEN FRaNcE AND THE UNITED STATEK.—Fram the bureau of the Ministry of the Interior at Paris a notice has been issrl relative to the charges for telegraphic communication on* the American continent. The notification asys :—" Das the let inst. (December) the charge for a eiugle despot , * has been fixed by the Transatlantic Telegraph Compaq as follows:-125 franca between London end Newfound land ; 131 fr. 50c. between Loudon and New Yon. Despatches to London are charged at the same rate 0 those sent from London ; but beyond New York t h e charges are in accordance with a variable tar:ff. The maximum of a single despatch is fixed at 10 words, Ent the company allows five words for the addrew. Pl O exemption from charge applies only to indications velars to the place of destination and whence proceeding, to the name of the sender and the receiver, with the date. Tb! mention of the dote is optional, the other matters obi!' 'story. The average number of letters in each word 0 fixed at five, that is to say, a single ilellatch cannot Nl' tain more than 50 letters. Every additions' word is tut" ject to an extra charge." iffillaellgpillintAscE AND ITALY. Pointing ont the closeness with which M. Rouher has adopted the counsel of M. Thies, the Times proceeds to remark that if the latter has really undertaken the guidance of French destinies, we can be at no loss for an insight into the future. The principles of M. Thies are, in brief, that there should be no other European balance than one in which France shall outweigh all other states. She must have no superior, no equal, amongst her neigh bours. A sone of petty duchies, of petty cantons, Germany parcelled out, an unarmed Switzerland, an enslaved Italy, an effete Spain, is what best suits her. In his supreme selfishness, though be[does; not like the syllabus him self, he thinks it is good enough for the Romans. The Times cannot believe that France or the Em peror are to swayed by such views. Is France herself free from blame in this matter of Italian misgovernment Was it not the Milan proclamation that called upon the Italians to be men, to make their country their own from tho Alps to the sea ? Who, since then, has kept them on tenter-hooks, ministering to their aspirations, only to thwart them, raising barriers only to tempt men to overleap them M. Rouher bids Italy " not to be alarmed because an old man addresses prayers to God under the dome of St. Peter's ;" but it is not by any means at the,old man's praying that Italy is alarmed. It is at the old Man's reigning, and at his allowing his earthly reign to be turned into an instrument of disorder and a focus of conspiracy. ~^ r