The Express. — London, England, 1858-01-02 00:00:00

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Lord PAtmr.arroN's most devoted organs in the peen are silent as the grave ; they have not one word to utter on the occasion ; they shun the subject; not even the reproaches of their opponents can extort a word of excuse, apology, explanation, much less praise. There la, then, it seems, a point beyond which the political sub serviency of the Government journals will not descend, and that point has been reached by Lord PALMERSTON. In the second place, no public man, no politician of eminence or sagacity, so person with any position in life, no one possessing a particle of seriousness, earnestness, or regard for the public welfare, but expresses astonishment at this act of Lord PALMER. sxox. At clubs, in private society, in all public places, the feeling is the same. Everywhere the inquiries ar•—" What can hare been the motive? " what does it man? is Lord Pacurarros intoxi " cated with success? or has he been subjected to " influences he could not control ? " Neither the warmest admirer, nor the most indifferent Liberal; neither the bitterest Tory nor the most lukewarm Con servative, can suggest a reason or conjure up an ex planation. "It looks like insanity," says one see. " It is another instance of PALMNR.STON'S levity," re marks a second. "It is the prelude of soma approaching " catastrophe," exclaims a third. But with all alike, the hardy caprice of Lord Patig ninon in passing over respectability, character, and talent, in order to light on—Lord ClANnicaanz, is perfectly inexplicable. In the third place, it is to be remarked that the choice is Lord PAI.MERSTON'S own act. In such appointments there is no common ministerial re sponeibility in Cabinets. The Prime Minister selects his own colleagues ; and on this occasion Lord PALMERSTON made no exception to the general rale. It has been made a complaint against Lord Jome Rt - saru. that while Prime Minister he once or twins kept his Cabinet in ignorance of his intentions, and took the public into his confidence before them. If so, Lord Room no longer stands alone in this respect ; for it is apparent that the appoint ment of the new Lord Privy Seal came with as much surprise on several members of the PALmearrox Cabinet as it did on the public. Loyalty to their chief may forbid any vain attempt to undo an accom plshed fact, and may keep together a Cabinet which the accomplishment of that fact has mortally wounded, but the mortification of the country is not greater than that of some of Lord PALM ERSTON'S colleagues. And lastly, it is to be observed that on that section of Liberal politicians which has hitherto felt itself bound, by what it deemed to be oon eiderations of public duty, to give the present Go vernment more support than it really deserved, the effect of this appointment has been seriously to diminish, if not entirely to destroy, all active and earnest interest in the Cabinet over which Lord PALMERSTON presides. On this point we speak with a knowledge of opinions most reluctantly but seriously expressed. Interest has been converted into indifference ; and though sup port may be continued, its character will be com pletely changed. That which was earnest will become perfunctory; and the maintenance of Lord PALMEIPATON in power will no longer be regarded as • primary duty or a political obligation. Men of high honour, of elevated sentiments, of public morality, and of deep interest in the country, cannot do otherwise than accept this act of Lord PALMERSTON as indicative of a personal recklessiwis and a disregard of enlightened public °pinks, wholly unsuited to the position to which the generous feelings of the country have raised him. They did not see without pain the recent abuses of minor patronage which the Pm:wen and Mr. Wu.- I.IA M Cos PER have been guilty of in the appointments of the Honourable Mr. HOWARD, Lord MnLGRATI, and Mr. TOLLEMACHE ; but for them some excuses and some apologies, however miserable and inade quate, could be suggested. But in this last set they find an occurrence brwhich no motive tea supply a solution, and to yid& no explimation caa reconcile. Tne POST-OMM AND MI OVERLAND MAILS. —lt is much to be regretted that arrangements are not made to avoid the repeated detentions to which the Indian mails ars subjected at Marseilles. The delay of the Calcutta and China mails for twelve hours on Wednesday last is inexcusable. It matters not at what hoar the packets write, th e m il e are invariably forwarded only by one of two trains, which start respectively at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. The exertions of the Post-office authorities to accelerate the transmission appears to be extended calf to Paris ; but the anxiety of the public to obtain their correspondence as early as possible, and to learn the details of the interesting intelligence contained In these mails,would certainly warrant the extra expense of sending them by special trains from Marseilles to Faris, as well as from Paris to Bailors*. !k Court. WINDSOR, JAL L Mee Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Diethsee of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Pekoe of Wales, the Prince= Royal, Princess Mary of Cambridge, sad the Dike of Cambridge, the Prince of Ufologen, Lady Mae Maria Dawson, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Colonel the Sae. C. B. Phipps, Major Rome Purses, Colonel Tyrwhitt, Mr. Gibbs, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., who arrived ow a visit in the afternoon. The band of the Royal Horse Oneida attended in the Castle sad played during dinner the Owls% " Nano Spado" " Fiore" K Aa essrt. =amiss Win" l. Vse. umme Woh"lidess" Bohmdi The fteiertarp had the honour of being invited after dinner. Ma Wenn Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, Mims Van d* Weyer, the Rev. Lord and Lady Wriothsaley Russell, Mr. and labs Rummell, Vicoantass Stratford de Radcliffe and two Mar Canning, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Lady Augusta Bruce, Lord and Lady Rokeby, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Cebu' the Hon. H., Lady Mary end Mies Hood, the Hon. Kn. Grey, Ma Grey, the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, Mims H. Plains, Mrs. Brehnlet, Mims Sayer, Mime Knollys, 8U Charm Lady, end Mkt Con• par, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. I. Strange Jocelyn (Scots Ftwilier Guards), and Mr. Clover. Her Majesty's private bend was in attendance. . _ This being new year's day, the band of the Soots Foalher Guards assembled on the East terrace at 7 o'clock this morning, and played a selection of f►vourite airs. Her Majesty's annual distribution of food and clothing to upwards of 600 poor pawns of the Windsor and Clewer perishes took place this morning in the Riding-house of the Castle. At about 10 o'clock the Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princes' Royal, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Alice, Prince Helena, and Princess Louise ; the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Prince of Lemingen, attended by the ladies and gen tlemen in waiting, proceeded to the Riding-house, to witness the distribution, which wee under the direction of the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the olergy of Windsor and Clewer, and the district visitors for the relief of the poor. The members of the Clothing Club, established under bee Majesty's patronage, received at the same time Gracia of clothing, according to the amount of their contributions (a on former occasions), with the addition provided by her Majesty. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred afterwards went out hunting. The Hon. Caroline Cavendish end the Hon. Fleas Mao donald have succeeded the Hon. Lacy Herr sad the Hoe. Mazy Baited as Maids of Honour In Waiting. Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutasaat-Coked Pesinaby have succeeded Major-General the Hoe. C. Grey sad Captaia du Plat as Equerries in Wafting to the Quota and Priam Comet. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-ofltos to the Governors of the North American Provision and the Governors of the West India Islands. His Excellency Fernkh Khan paid a visit yes terday to the Earl of Shelburne, et Lansdowne House. His sznallenci dined lent evening with the members of hie snits, at Claridge's Hotel. The buchess of Inverness entertained a select circle to dinner last evening, at her apatiments in Ken sington Palace. The Duke of Leeds hu arrived at the Clarendon, from Hornby Castle, neer CAaterick, Yorkehue. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breada!bane are expected in town in a few days, from Lengton Howe, Berwickshire. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley are expected I. town from Knowsley Perk, on or about the 18th histant, In order to be preset& at the nepradis of the Princess Royal sad hie Royal Risbaree Prime Frederick William of Prussia The Countess of L+.!^.7.31 is passing the season at Consume, Ireland, aurroundid by a awnerna circle ti Ilissis. Viscountess Jocelyn and family are staying on • Tisk to Viscount and Viazountess P.lmerston, at Brand i/sada, neer Romney, where her ladyship will remain until the 12th Instant, when the viscountess goes in waiting on ht Majesty. Viscount Curzon has taken a house in Charles street, Berkeley-square. The viscountass has quits re nowned from her late indisposition. _ . Lord Ashburton has returned to the Grange, Moto, from a tour of visits. Lady Brougham arrived in town a few days since from a tour ci Twits. Lady Wenlock and her infant son are both pro graming favourably. The Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphinetcoe de Flabault will leave Bowood in a few days, where they have been staying on a visit to the Marquis of Lanatowte, for Torquay, Devon. The Count d'Alton Shea has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, St. James's, from the Continent. Intelligence ha, been received at the residence of the Bavarian Legation, in Htll stray announcing the death, at Munich, ca the 28th ult., of Madame In UMW de Cetto, ads Banana de Den:posits, stepmother to his Excellency the Bactrian Minister, Berm de Cute*. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily Peel have arrived at Florence, and purpose to make n visit to Roma before their return to this country. The Right Hon. Lord Raeensworth is at present Seta tabling a largo and brilliant circle of distinguished guests at hie beautiful castle, In the county of Derhan, the grounds and conservatory of which have during the unman been considerably beautified and enlarged. On Tuesday his lordahip gave a large dinner prey, the following, who are temporary vain,. at Bannewortle, being of the party : The Marchkeses of Losieraisery, the Bari and Counted. Vane, Sir Minhew White Riney, Bart. ; the Hew Lady Wilfiresen, the Rem. Medway& Williamson, end the Hon. Vince Williennoa, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, Yr. Beteees. the Hos. Mrs. and Mho Langley ; Lady Boyne, Mr. Dundee, M.P., sod the Rev. R. W. Goodenough. On the following evening the Castle was the some of a (read bell, the invita tion book earitalaing the manse of almost every badly of Ws tinetion in the eeatln of Northumbniand end Durham. Mr. A. I. B. Bamford Hope, M.P., gave a lecture at the National Bclsoolrocca, at Hawkhuree, on Monday evesdne, on " India." 81r John Herschel was priment, sad moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Hope. Joseph Hine, the blind b-y who recently made so aneseemial a &OW at the Fi•oorergsare Rooms as • violinist sad perforator on the tibia, bed the honour of Trarlemlng Wit swots( at Windsor Cud. to her Majesty mad the Nett. At her Majesty's Theatre, to-night, Lucia di laameramer will be performed, and on Tuesday next the newaers win be repeated. The performances will be con tinued during the whole of next week. The speeniatica is aid to be eminently successful. An English dancer, Miss Lydia Thompson, who his boss this NUMMI making s tour of the Faisal* Manse sod wansiag-plsow la Germany, is now ea the R.* Mamas at alsciihohn. Eduard Devriest, the actor, and director of the Carbrabe Theatre. bee jut received the Cram of the Order of the Zekrtager Lisa from the Doke of Baden. The director of the Carl Theatre in Vienna hu sepia Itadrais Riatort Or a mime of twelve ripe aateekas. We read in • letter from Paris :—" The composer Flotow has errived hers, and to superintending the rehearse' of hie sew opus, Marta*, which is to be magnidoently re preeseted it the Italian by Mario, Gresteal, Madman& de ss. ke. The Francais is member the sew curdy of Rage Angier—be is shout to be amid to the At:self:6e ; smiths Grannie is getting reedy, fee the Wilk of January, Le Mk Nature!, by the younger Donee, end Les Limeys Poems of Edward Fournier, with Rose Cheri, Mdlie. Dnieper* Dupuis, Choffroy, fr.c." At Warsaw, Madame Viardot has excited mach =theism by her appearsaae fa Nero*. Rossini has addressed a letter to the president mid ...bete et the &okay of Meekel Comports and Publishers at Parts, expreedag lY reediame a swept the poet of meetber et the society, to which he lied ►ei aimed Marine hi. absence In Indy. Tho migrated emareme ex peewee the ntracet esti/action at the object of the affeeis lion, and declares that all the dose scorning to lilts shall he paid into the fund which hes bees formed to gist' amiatance to dletreeeed occupants sad ranking. mariaurioN or W mAisarro NEIV Y14:11 91178. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. HER MAJESTY'S NEW Yzai's GIFT TO THE ET ROYAL Fataux or FILARCL—Tbs Queen annual gift of English mast beef to the ex-royal family of France was this morning forwarded, by royal command, to Claremont, by Messrs. Banister and Bedborough, the royal butchers. The present consisted of two epleadid sirloins, cut from a choice Scot, fed by A. Roberts, Esq., St. Leonard's. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the Prinoe of Wales, and the Princess Royal, with the junior members of the royal family, visited the Riding School at half-put nine o'clock title morning for the purpose of wit nessing, u usual, the distribution of her Majesty . ' annual gilts to the deserving poor of the parishes of Windsor, the Holy Trinity, and Ckrwer. Many of the royal visitors and suite were also present. Her Majesty having taken her sta tion in the mare of the gallery, at the eaat end of the bantling, from which all could command a view of the pro ceedings is the sus below, the distribution commenced. The order of the .cording wee similar to that adopted in former yews, the emagetuate tale eendsilit by a oommittee of t contdating of the Dean of Windaor, the Vicar f o laa t= Colonel Biddulph , Colonel Phipps, the Mayor of Window, T. A. Moore, Eau. ; and the clergy and parochial caws of Windsor, the Holy Trinity, and Clever. Upwsrds al meow particitated in the gifts, the money value of whi ch yea batmen live and six hundred pounds. The reeipients were divided into the classes, in portions according to their necenitits and drcusuetanota. Class 1 consisted of 71b. of meat and 3 own of coals to each pinion ; claw 2, 61b. of meat and 24 cwt. of coals; clam 3, bib . of meat and 2 met. of coals; claw 4,41 b. of meat and II cwt. of coals ; class 5, 31 b. of meat and I cwt. of coals. In addition to these gifts 400 of the member of the clothing club established under the patronage of her Majesty received articles of clothing in proportion to their contributions. First class to the value of 24a. ed.; second. 19a. ed. • third, 12a. • the system being to receive instalments iroca those ad mitted lambent of the society, her Idsjesty adding • munificent per mintage to their contributions. This has • better effect in stimulating and encotwaging habits of self-reliance than if the clothing had bean given gratuitously. andDrthe distribution the belle of Bt. Geoirges Chapel lohn's Church enlivened the proceedings with their merry peals. NEW YEAR'S DAY AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—The royal baron of bool supplied by Herm Banister end Bed borough was cut from • cholas Scot fed by A. Roberta, Esq., of St. Leonard's, end weighed 3201 b.; the proper of roasting occupied 13 hours. The noble joint will be placed cold on the side table in the dining-room, with the boar's heed, woodcock pis, end Christmas IMO. HER MAJESTY'S PRIVATE BAND.—The members of her idejesWe pirate band gave a dinner at the White Hart Hotel, Wintstroa W•derdsy lust, to their respected Leder, Mr. Animus, sod is the course of the evening pre emie tint gnaw' with a beadsome diamond pin, u • auk et must kV le 'swim mil kindness to them during the keg past is hr prosikd ow them. It fa confidently stated that Mr. fierjeant Byles is to be the new judge, in the piece of Mr. Justice Cromwell. A rumour is in circulation (says the Herald), to the effect that Lord John Russell has received a commu sicatket with reference to the new India Secretaryship. The Poet Laureate is, it is said, (Illustrated Lon don Novi) prnaing his poetic wings for a flight —an epitha- Lunitun—on the approaching manage of the Princess Royal. Lord Macaulay has replied to Mr. Hepworth Dixon on the subject of William Penn and the Pardon brokerage et Taunton. An elaborate note to the second volume of the new edition of his History of England sets Oath the argument. "Ult be said (his lordship concludes) that it is iseredible that so good a man would have been moaned in so bed en affair, I can only answer that this affair wee my fat indeed from being the worst is which he was onnerned. For theme reasons I leave the text, and shall Isms it, exactly as it originally stood." Mr. Walter Savage Landor hen the following de &Wks In a new work with a quaint title, which he has just publhhed :—"W. 8. Landor to L. Kossuth, President of Hungary—AC your gale Hay my fagot of Dry Sticks,' and getaway. I offeded you by attempting to bring fortune thither, whom I never solicited to favour me personally. My mei was ineonaldwate, bat, perhaps, it ought to have offeaded lass that lofty pride to which alone I war ever obsequious. Permit me to offer the only amends I can— permit me to show my respect and reverence toward the man who has worthily occupied a higher station than any one in this country mn attain. The eloquence of Milton end DONOWNSSI failed in the support of their cause—the same emu& and the ems eloquence se yours. Supply me with your EDO* sad I may be able at last to a:pram my tea of your virtues." It appears, from information received by the A thatieum, that, after great difficulty, Madams Pfeiffer reneesd the see-mast, at 3f daemon, and embarked again for Mauritius. She bad caught the terrible Madagaecar fever and was seriously ill after her snivel at Port Louis. Thanks to the climate of that island, and to the kindness of her frienda at Views, she was quite convalescent at the departure of the overland man on the 14th of November. Madame Pfeiffer was then meditating a voyage to Australia. Thep collection of twenty-three portraits already formed towards the National Pretend Gallery, by purchase, donation end bequest, occupies the drat dear of • handsome louse, 29, Great George-street, fonewly Dr. L•ahingtoe'a, in the immediate neighbourhood of It. Jannis Perk. It is stated from Paris, that an excellent modern collection, comprising works by Landow, Maiready, Eastlake, Leslie, and some other of our noted painters of the day, the property of an English gentleman of wealth, is shout to be sold in that city. The sale, if it takes place, says the Literary O•utte, will excite great interest, as English pictures scarcely ever figure in the numerous auctions that take place in Paris. The meetings of the Scientific Societies for the ansuing week will be ea follows :—Monday—Entotuological, 8 p.m. reeediry—Royal Institution, J p.m.—(Proteeeor Faraday, Italic BJectricity.)—Pathological, 8 p.m.—(Anni votary.) —Photographic, 8 p.m. Wednesday— Marais conical, 8 p.m—R. 8. Literature, 8i p.m.—Geolegiud— (Prof. Huxley, F.R.8., F. 0.8.-1. On Pteraepia, a genus of Fossil Fishes. 2. On • new Species of Plesiosaurus.) Thiereday —Royal Institudon, 3 p.m.—(Prof. Faraday, Italic Electricity.)—Royal Society Club, 6 p.m.—Philologi cal, 8 p.m.—Royal—(Mr. Cayley, On certain Formulae Dif ferentiation ; Mr. Buckton, On the Isolation of the Radical Mercuric Ethyl ; General Sabine, Remarks on the Mag netic Obeervationa treamoitted from York Fort, Hudiron'a Bey, its August, 1867.) Ridgy—Astronoadoil, 8 p.m. Saturday—Royal Institution, 3 p.m.—(Prof. Far►dsy, St-- tie Electricity.)—Medical, 8 pan. The conning fixtures for next week are ticorton (open), on Tuesday and Wednesday; Howell Park, on Wednesday; Highlander (Northumberland), on Wednes day; Southport, on Wednesday, &c.; Amicable Club (Hampton), on Thursday and Friday; and Deptford Inn Club, on Thursday, Friday, end Saturday. At Paris the weather has become somewhat colder. ♦ tether sharp frost took place on Wednesday night, the ice I. the basins or the Tuileries gardens being on Thursday morning half an inch thick. In London the sir is almost se mild as in the April month. It has been annontoed that Mr. David Barclay Cbaceian, so long connected with the firm of Mews. °varied, Gurney, and Co, has retired. The event dates from this day. His sone, we (Economist) understand, re main in the home. It is rumoured in Bristol, and we (Herapath), have beard the rumour repeated in London, that Mr. Brunel contracted with the company to launch tlae Leviathan for the sum of 00,0001. The whole of the troops encamped at Alderabott will be reviewed on the 26th inst., in hamar al the marriage et the Printer RoyaL A company in shares for the construction of a lame theatre in Alexandria, has just been formed, and the sum necessary for commencing operations has already been needy paid up. THE WINDSOR AND ETON SAVINGS BANK.— The annual general meeting of the Maitre' and managers of the above bank, which is honoured by his wild highness the Priam Conine as Ito president. was held on Wednesday lest; the Hon. and Very Rev. Dean of Windsor in the chair. The report ens of the most omisfactory character, showing that the agricultural end cottage labourers, the reelpients of the rewards from the Royal Associatiou, established at Wind ier, by the Prises Cosier% in which his royal highness takes su much interest, had very generally availed themselves of the advantages afforded by the institution. The report also showed that there wee a large Mama of oshors, mad a putt as of capital over that of the providing yew. - - Woo Mas's Lln- LIT G. T . ll-1311-lIOAD.-011 New Yeses ow the emenbem and Mende of this excellent tnetltaUcti were reelled by Inewiew Mee Limy Stuart deliver her musical entertainment wadded " A peep at Scotland through their imp." The amlial reception which it has inwsriably met with in the roviumn was fully equalled on this wawa, end its lutroductmo at the St. Bartholomew's Icatituto was m anly roscastal. ~,~. THE EXPRESS, 44.TURDAlt: EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1858. EXPRESS FROM PARIb. Mott ova OWN 0013.NIPONDI1T.) PARIS, FRIDAY EYNNING. The new year receptions at the Tuileries to-day were to some extent marred by a raw frosty fog. which damped and untwisted the mustachio. of many a gallant officer who had taken uncommon pains with his toilette in the morning. The ap proaches to the Tuileries presented, however, the usual bustling scene, though it was not so gay and enlivening as it would have been had we been favoured with the sun of yesterday. All the world has been out paying new year's visits, and buying egresses. All the carriages in Paris (as I can testify, having several times in the course of the day tried in vain to get one) have been in full work, and I am told that the vendors of cheap things are very well esti*. Bed with their new year's day. Of course the Bourse and public offices are class& The Pays is the only evening paper which appear.. It contains not one line of news. To-morrow morning there will be no journal except the Moniteur, which will probably continue the long announcement of the new year's list of decorations. Villet, Bourse, and Lemaire, the three le►ders of a band of hereditary assassins and robbers, which has been for years the terror of a great part of Picardy, and whose numerous and coldblooded murders are far more extraordinary than anything related by Eugene Sue in his famous " Mysteres de Paris," which are commonly accused of exagger►tion, were executed at Amiens yesterday. The criminals ex hibited none of the ferocity which might have been ex pectedby thoscaoquaintecl with their previous career. They took a most affectionate leave of everybody they had known in prison, and listened attentively to the exhortations of the priest. On their way to the scaffold Villet said to a gendarme near him, " How curious it is that at the last judgment you will ap pear with your head and I without one." But although this remark may be thought to savour of profanity, this same man mid to the priest who attended him, at the very last moment, " I have still a little money about me, take it, and employ it in masses for me." He asked for some tobacco to chew, and this was given him. But Lemaire asked for a pipe—" one little pipe"—and this the authori ties thought right to refuse. All the prisoners drank wine, for which they seemed grateful. A very large military force surrounded the scaffold, and the local journals estimate the number of per sons present at the execution at 60,000. Lord Stratford de Reda& left Vienna on his way to London on December 29. SPAIN. MADRID, Dac. 31. A royal decree, published in the Gazette, autho rises the government to receive the taxes and to pay the Treasury bonds in 1868, until the approba tion of the budgets by the Corti& PRUSSIA. " The President of the Council," says a Berlin letter, "has prepared a bill for the coming session of the Prusainn Chambers, enacting that two millions of thalers (7,4500,000 ft.) shall be annually applied, for fifteen years, to the development of the navy. It is not intended to create a large fleet, but one equal at lent in strength to the Danish one." THE Al We have reoeired the following telegraphic despatch, by submarine telegraph, from our corre spondent at Malta: MALTA, JAN. 1. The steam-ship City of Sydney arrived at Suez on the 27th of December, with the mails, 22 passen gers, and 199,6671. in gold. We understand that the City of Sydney will con vey to Attstralia the mails, passengers, &0., ex Teviot, which left Southampton on the 12th of December. TURKEY. (non ova ovrx coaaaarexmarr.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Die. 23. The Grand Prince Nicholas, Inspector-General Fortresses and Engineering \Volk; in the Russian empire, is at present in the Crimea. According to the Paris treaty of peace, the restoration of the for tifications on the south side of the harbour of Sebas topol is prohibited, and the Grand Prince Nicholas has therefore given orders for the northern side to be strengthened in such a manner as to prevent any entrance into the harbour. The town of Sebastopol, m it is now being rebuilt, is laid out in such a manner as to admit of the construction, on all the strategetic points of the south side, of government buildings, which in case of a war might easily be converted into forte. Fort St. Paul, at liertch, is to be completely finished by next March. The works at the months of the Danube do not make progress, although the Austrian papers keep on declaring that they are most zealously prose cuted. It has not yet been determined which channel is to be the navigable entrance, upon which question the views of the European com missioners are very much divided. Of these seven commissioners, three are in favour of the Salina channel, and two for St. George's channel; the Austrian commissioner is personally in favour of the St. George's, but as yet he has received no instruc tions from his government; the Turkish commis sioner has not yet pronounced his opinion; and when the matter is put to the vote, there will not be • large majority on either side. They have now been at work upon it a whole year, and 100,000 ducats have already been I spent, without obtaining the smallest result, so that we have good reason to exclaim, " God protect us from commissioners !" It is very desirable that some member of the English parliament should, by putting a question on this subject, bring it before the public ; for the mercantile marine of England would derive great advantages from the difficulties of the Danube navigation being removed. The Sublime Porte has officially announced the fact that Naib Emin Bey, who styles himself a Circassian chief, and who was lately into-lei at Damascus, has contrived to escape from that place and to return to Cireassia ; and it is hereby publicly notified to all whom it may concern that the Turkish government has been in no way connected with his evasion. By this proclamation, the de signs of Russia are meant to be frustrated ; for it is certain that the Resigns contributed to Naib's removal, in order that he might go to Cir. cassia and work for the interests of Rural* in fomenting discord. The effect of the Turkish pro clamation, however, will be to render Naib very un popular amongst the Cr"iassian& The Bourse here has just experienced a great change within a few hours. The rate of exchange, which stood this morning at 14d piastres the Turkish lira, had fallen by noonday to 141 piastres. This rapid alteration was occasioned by a telegraphic de spatch informing us of the rate of discount in France having been reduced to six per cent. On Saturday M. Thouvenel and Reschid Pacha were at last brought together at a reconciliation dinner given by Asli Pacha. The French amber eider arrived with his first secretary and dragoman, accompanied by M. de Lesseps, and was received by Rescind Poch& At table, M. de Thouvenel occupied the place of honour , and at his right sat the Grand Victor, with whom he had not had any conference for several months before. Thum are the French Embassy and the Minister of the Porte now again on peaceable terms. Intelligence has just reached me that very large manes of troops are being rent from Odessa to Georgia, their numbers being stated at 20,000 men. PORTUGAL. (mow ova owx col LISBON, Die, 28, I am glad to have to record that the fever has de ()reseed still further since I last wrote ; in fact, the Diario for the last two days has not noticed any new cues; and although there are still patients under treatment in the hospitals, we may consider now that the existence of the disease in Lisbon is merely nominal. Doubtless the very low temperature of the atmosphere and the presence of winter has greatly afr contributed to bring about this gratifying . I hear besides, on very good authority, that the government will take energetic measures before the approach of spring to cleanse the city, and ame liorate as much as possible the condition of the sewers. In the meantime there exists many pro phets of evil, who predict the return of the disease with the warm weather ;That u:there are no grounds 7 , l;: e xzerience upon which such judgments can be it is fervently to be hoped that the disease may not return. I regret to have to record the death of Mr. George A. Hancock, a merchant of this city, and one of the most prominent members of the English community. Mr. Hancock was long known as an active and use ful member of society, as a merchant of the highest honour and integrit y , and a most charitable man. He was followed to his grave by a large number of sorrowful friends, and no death which has occurred during the epidemic has excited such general sYmPathy. The Tagus (a.) arrived on 24th inst., after having had very boisterous weather. GREYTOWN-RETURN OF WALKER. CNION omit cows )11111L) ORBYTOWN, MOSQUITO, Die. 1, 1857. I little thought, when I wrote you last, that I should again have to chronicle so soon doings of the Filibusters in this country. The stoppage of the California line by this route has cut off direct com munication with the States, and it has been but occasionally that we have heard of General Walker since his capitulation at Rivas in May last. American papers have asserted for some time that he was organising another expedition to reconquer Ni magas ; but we doubted whether, after his pre vious miserable failure, he could raise either money or men ; or, if he succeeded in that, whether the go vernment at Washington would permit them to leave the States. Oa 24th ult. an American steamship was observed steaming slowly off the harbour, near enough to see what ships were inside ; she then made away to the south. It was immediately surmised that the Fili busters were aboard, and that they would attempt landing at the mouth of the Colorado (a branch of the San Juan). This turned out to be correct, for next morning the steamship Fashion came in and moored to the Company's wharf, and at once com menced discharging men, though none but the crew were on the deck as she steamed up the harbour past the man-of-war. Chief among the notables was his all-serene highness General William Walker, the grey-eyed manifest-destiny man. It appears that on finding an American war vessel here, Walker went down to the Colorado, intending (I presume) to land all his force there. About fifty men, and some provisions, are said to have disem barked before the danger of the surf, combined with sharks and alligators, put an end to that, and they made for this port, to try and land the balance here. The men were kept below until the anchor was down, and they then went ashore in treble quick time, to the number of some 160. Captain Chatard, of the United States corvette Saratoga, has been called upon more than once to check the natural propensities of these gentlemen for other people's property, and he has told them, in very plain terms, that they must behave themselves. Captain Chatard will (I believe) prevent either the ship or the Filibusters from leaving the port until he receives instructions from Commodore Paulding, in the Wabash, at Colon. The Filibusters are daily expecting the balance of their men in the steam-ship Quaker City, and a schooner, under the command of Gen. Hentungeen. General Walker, on landing, established himself at the Company's buildings, and imagined himself "monarch of all he surveyed ;" but as Scott, the agent, did not admire or approve of this, he was requested rather peremptorily to remove. He now occupies a small shanty as his headquarters, and the men have ousted some miserable Indians from their open huts on the beach, to obtain shelter. _ _ _ Lord Palmerston said that though he could not protect us from being bombarded, he would protect the sovereignty of the soil. What will he do, now that Walker has hoisted his flag at two places on the opposite side of the harbour P—the staffs placed deep in the sand, and the flags run up and down by fire of run and beat of drum. We have no English man-of-war here ; of course, there never is when it is most required ; but it is very fortunate for us that there is a United States vessel here. Tho miserable natives of the really beautiful State of Nicaragua, having been fighting amongst them selves ever since Walker left, and now at war with Costa Rica, are, of course, totally unprepared to offer any organised resistance of any account. Should Walker's reinforcements arrive to the num ber expected, the country will fall an easy prey to his arms ; and if Walker will only act in the splint of the age, it will perhaps be the best thing that can happen to them. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES PROM CAGLIARI.— Strong representations having been made of the delay. in the transmission of the Indian telegraphic despatches from Cagliari to this country, the French and Sardinian govera inertia caused searching investigations to he made into the conduct of the dada at Conics and Sardinia. It was dis covered that a menage was delayed seven hours at Sassari, and fifteen hours at Bonifeoclo, and in consequence nnaly the whole Eta in Cornea bee been replaced by the French government, and several clerks have been dismissed in S.r dinia. The French government has also directed that some of their officials shall be employed solely on the English business, and Englishmen will be sent to Spezzia end Cag lieri to secure the instant transmission of the government despatches. It is hoped that by these means the vexatious and causeless delay hitherto experienced will be for the future obviated. The submarine line from Cagliari to Malta end Corfu was thr..wn open to the public yesterday,—/bess THE OVERLAND ROOTS TO INDIA.—WO have nedvei by the hme Bombay mail as exemplification of the paramount advantage of the adoption of the overland route for the tratumission of troop. to India. Within ix weeks after the first draft of troops left England for Bombay, eta I Egypt, a company of the Royal Engineers, forming part of it, iled actually taken the field with the force oonunesded by I Major Raines 96th Regiment, which left Bombay on the 22nd November for the Gulf of Catch, and they as, sow fully orcapled against the rebel* In the disturbed parts of Idelers.—Urrifed Service Gametto. NEW METROPOLITAN POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. —Yesterday a new and important alteration in the postal ermagements for the facility of letter deliveries throughout the North-Wsstern district of the metropolis came into ope ration, by direction of her Maiesty's Postmaster-General, bring the mtalitishmeat of a seismal office for the entire North-Westeradistrice. This establishment, which ma nias • seenerer sod perfectly separate staff, Me been erected at great expense in Erersholt-stiect, Oakley-square, St. Pan cras. It le very capacious, situated jw at the entranoe to Camden-town, and as nearly central as possible in the North. Wistarn district. The effect of this new system is stated to be that all the letters posted in and belonging to the district will find their way to this central office, fmto which, having int been duly sorted, they will be delivered direct with out having, as beretriors, to travel to St. Martin'.-le-Grand, and then back again to the district in which the Were are poste e d. The result to be obtained by the establishment of thes central district cams is that all letters within the dis trict will be delivered two hours earlier every post then they were under the old system. Should the new plea be feted to work well, of which there is bat little deals, it is under stood to be the intention of the Poet-odlo• sathorities to es tablish a similar central depot In every petal district of the metropolis. The establishment Is abo a mural odtoe for ganaral poet kitten op tea later hear than flee o'clock. BELGLAM CUSTOM. DUTIEII.--BOARD OF TRADE, Warrznam, Jew. I.—Tha Honourable the Lards tithe Committee of Privy Cemoll fx Trade and Plantations hen received, through the Ilearentry et State for Feedgn Affairs, a w ag e oti l u L descatek tram her Mitiesty's Weida, et Brussels, se the Impart dada, on mile , doh, and toberce : I If. pre 100 Woe. Flah.—He= all kind., If. per 100 kilos.; lehrems, lakes tram bed., 61. per 100 idles. ; others, 121. per 100 hike.; taken from aa.ional bele lit. par 100Hiaa. ; othere,V l A 100 kilos.; dried plaice. IL pet 100 kilos. stockfish, ifj 103 Vice. Tobeem.—Unaseaafettured : In leaf or ra t per 100 kilos.; etas, H. per 100 kilos. Manuter Cigars. 21i1. per 100 kilos.; other mazinfacimed tobacco, &W. per 100 kilos.—Ossear. SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ELECTION. The vacancy so suddenly caused in the re tation of South Northamptonshire has set the op parties of the constituency upon organising their forces or • contest. The signal defeat of the weaker conservative candidate last sp ring makes It improbable that the liberals of this division acquiesce in • return to that exclusion from represen tation to which, before that event, they submitted so many yeah. At the same time it is notorious that the success of Lord Althorp was, in great measure, due to a number of cir cumstances which it would not be easy to combine In favour of a socomeor. His lordship was the eldest son of a house ti great territorial influence. Being personally popular with all parties, he conciliated a large number of votes which, ordi narily, would be given to the conservatives, and he was able to deploy ca the days of polling a wealth of me. terial resources which made a powerful local im PTIMIIOII at the time, and the cost of which after math; made his lordship. doubtless, one of the Mil =Robert those who in the House of Commons voted for l or d Grosvenor's bill for diminishing expenses at eiectioae, The expenditure by which his lordships mows was secured was frigbthd, and since the accounts of the auditor have been have been the subject of pointed public remark. C i l s ite e t party are now quite awake to the ir duty, and ta the person of Lord Henley have a candidate well qua/died to fight their battle. His lordship (who is a mamber of the Irish peerage) has taken of late years • considerable share is the affairs of the liberal party both in the town and county. In politics he goes farther than most candidates of his order; for instance, he suppoe4 the ballot, end would relieve dis senters from church rates. He is accordingly a favourite with the town populations, and would p.ll a very large proportion of the freehoklen. His lordship has been prosecuting a can vass during the week, and we believe has reason to be well raided with his reßtion. If the election is to be carried out without an a to undue influences, there is every reason to expect Henley's success. We do not hear of • tory candidate, although there is con siderable excitement in that camp. That general sense of abandonment and distraction, that decay of faith in their omen and that want of confidence in their leaders which are on all sides inducing depression and listlessness among conservatives, are very prevalent in Northamptonshire, as the late elections in each division have shown. Many of the gentry who a few years ago supported Lord Derby and his party, avow their preference for Lord Palmerston, on the ground that conservatism has more to gain from • minister able and willing to bead control, and check the liberal party, than from an opposition statesman, too feeble to ream popular tendencies. With • Reform Bill impending, it is moreover probable that the seat now vacant will not long be held by any one, while the . prospect of the same measure renders the present composition of the constituency an unsafe basis for operations calculated upon the remoter future. These considerations make it improbable that a serious and successful opposition will be offered to Lord Henley, although It is not unlikely that he may have a competitor at the poll. vAaANciss, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMO TIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. The Foreign Department : Mr. Henry Hart Davis has been appointed a Queen's messenger on foreign eervies.—The Dockyards : The situation of master sail maker, Davenport Dockyard, has become vacant by the re tirement of Mr. P. Hakim. Salary 2001. • year. Mr. John Mills, the master attendant, Devunport Dockyard, will re tire on the 31st March, per Admiralty order of the 22nd Dec. last. Mr. William Wheeler, R.N., has been appointed master attendant of the Royal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth, vice Mr. Roberta, deceased.—Legal Department The Non. William Augustus Tollemache has been appointed Messmer of the Kent County Court, vacant by the death of Mr. Coppock.—lnland Revenue Department : Mr. H, S. Hodgson, surveyor of taxes, has been promoted from Sae. bury to the City of London, for land and assessed tame only. Mr. William Smiles, surveyor of taxes, has been promoted from Yeovil to Salisbury. Mr. Richard Kennedy surveyor of taxes, has been promoted from Melton Mowbray to Yeovil. Mr. J. Ferguson. en. veyor of taxes. has been promoted from Bristol to Melton Mowbray. East Indies Mr. W. Grey has been appointed to officiate as junior secretary to the Board of Revenue, Ben gal. Mr. J. Mackenzie has been appointed • deputy-magie trate and collector in Behar. Mr. W. Davy has been sp. pointed a deputy-magistrate and collector in Bardwen. Mr. C B. Saunders has been appointed to officiate as commis: sioner of the Delhi division and agent of the Lieutenant- Governor of the North-West Provinces, in the room of Mr. Breathed. deceased. Mr. C. J. H. Richardson has bee: r i u s pointed ajoint-nsegistrate and deputy-collector, flat vide Johnston, deceased. Mr. .1. Suwon has been appoin a joint-magistrate and deputy-collector, second `rode; Lieu tenant-Colonel H. B. Turner has been appointed acting chief engineer of public works at the Bombay Presideney.—Ciar &rein Geeetle. A POET-PIUNcE.—" The Royal Academy of Stockholm," says a letter from that city, "has just awarded • prize to Prince Oscar, the author of • poem on the Swedish fleet The sitting was attended by the Quiet Mother, the Prises Regent, and all the other members of the royal fail . Prince Oscar received the prize from tka heads of the l t, who addressed his royal highness se follows : = Noble Prince I when the Academy heard he the first time the sounds which appear to so wall reflect the soul of the poet whom it at once is. eelluteed es a son of the ocean, it did not forme that the =known poet, who bad modestly taken his piece in the maks with the other competitors, wore a princely crown. Half • century ham elapsed since a King of Sweden (Gustavus III.) acquired in this very place the academy. palm. The academ will with gratitude preserve them re miniscences, unpara lleled in the annals of a Literary eoclety; and it congratulates itself on being able to add to the Dam. of Soendinavian poets one who has been long dear to the hearts of the Swedish people. On the following day, the Prince dined with Baron de Beekow ' the secretary of th e academy, who proposed the health of the Prince, which wth drunk with loud applause." ADDITIONAL CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AT THE CHF Toms.—The principal, of each department received Metro". lons to allow as many officials as could be spared the whole, of last Saturday, so that merely a sufficient staff was is attendance to transact urgent coma of business. The slq will, it is hoped, be a precedent for continuing the saw/ arrangement upon every Saturday until the Saturday bele holiday shall become, as it no doubt will be, a meaeral This reform is only a matter of time, as ENO homes of business already grant the b oon to their It would be one of the most popular, useful, phila P n= and rational arrangements any government could affect.— Sereiee &setts. _ _ • GREAT FIGHT WITH A BEAR.—A large bear, weighing 300 pounds. was killed after a hard battle on the 17th ult., near Port Rowan. The particulars ore as follow: — Two men struck • bear track near Houghton Centre, end they decided to follow it up, end if gpaammble to kill the bar. So, each armed with a rifle and teeolrer. carrying their pre visions on their backs, started on their trail. - The chased the bear for a length of time from Houghton into Welsher ham, when the bear, nearly exhausted, found his way into s place where a party of lumbermen were at work, and sop-. posing this • safe retreat, prepared to rest for awhile. How. ever in a short time the bunters' dogs came up, ad the old beer, not feeling in the mood to mom off, etraightway pitched battle with them. One d the lumbarnen, teeing • good opportunity, stank the bear with his axe and broke one of his hint lege. The beer became enraged at this, and turned on the men, who again lifted hie axe, but in doing so clipped end fell helpless to the ground. His comrades seeing ha den gr rushed to the spot, attacked the beer with their axes, but dii not succeed in killing him until he bad bitten the man twice nu the left leg—once below and once above the knee—and then seized him by the breast, but as it luckily happened the man had his mittens inside of his coat, and his coat Wag loose, the Lear, instead of biting the man, had his month full of cloth and buckskin. By this time they had succeeded in despatching the monster, and the man who by his mah atma came so near lowing his life wss released hom the heal firm clutch. The bunters then came up end paid the lom. berrnen 10 doll. and took the bear. The lumberman is my badly hurt, bat will doubtless rooover • be will at all events be laid up for the remainder of the win ter.—Morning Boar (Canadian paper). Two I.oragh IN TIM DELHI CAMPAIGN.—Major Jacob and Captain Spike were both mortally wounded ; lei it ray be not nabseenting to pay • tribute, small though It be, yet due to the brava Jacob was an officer of goad experience, having been present through the Cabul and IS* ledge campaigns with h is corps, and was subsegnently ra• gaged on the frontier In command of a regiment of hem. I He wee in the prime of life, quiet and gentlemanly it ner net, kind to • degree, yet firm. He was loved by the meal and the officers looked to him se a Mead. The greet per hairy of Major Jamb was, I should say exeeeding coolers I action ; and, riding as he did at the head of his urn on white horse, how be escaped so long wan to us a mane d wonder. His temperament fitted him admirably for the ear mend of men, and in action enabled him to take admattill of any oversight on the part of the enemy. &Mimi Mt look no with trodden°e to inch a kale, and no Irani" the mod the let looked up to him. Long will he be roter, hired in Ms arm he loved so well ; and sever 1.1 a better soldier command the let Faillient. 'Cap' tain Spoke. 65th N. 1., joined shortly dim Ur baled Bariul Hi UM, sea it was not long hears we bead by the ring of the mad Asa be was formed of ster stag Bailin reword in mane, is might at fleet beamaidead eel), but ladarsattk bawl the worm Orem dimmer klaball. 11 . IMO 1111.11011iV fib el kb prebealan, perieeledi tide white a Mblb fa wen imaribe ; aid ...hates *Oda Ara Spire, awl his hardy h er ers fitted deraka herlielips et mak a campaign. He tirely plea Os MGM ed tits ma of his etimpany, bye" leg fa aas of Ike wooded bow Private Brock, who ha hi' Ismehaftenall by a sioned dad ; and the poor know, I sis told said to 4011.114 alter he had been mder the 4a=,11 I Ms, tell Captain Swint bow meek l eb .. his " TS% Soso are indeed the sots whisk am sad Ames en irk sad make them =And* is agler fee the ble.lllll=l7llll==ed end oteasaireeri, 4,5. I fall foam of eosigkel In all oar VW b' aro he ors agifill the isst. boi alma as pi*, awl fibbedPb hismly WOW t P"Pl ie M kis word yr eg r • , &PEA this W e, lemmated by let all w ho knew 1110.—Jklabassto Mavaimaa, ma. amber. A tripe ben Beare status that the lessber ateedree celmellliol at Ammo durfag the last =oath'el , a.* It his Ora* km dated that the seeret eselety a". which all these crimes originated hoe bees din:mend b 7 the polio% ~r