The Express. — London, England, 1858-12-31 00:00:00

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In Austria, tiniuscial difficulties menaced ruin, and the disaffection of the haiku provinces was portentous. In Prussia, the King's health kept everything doubtful ; except that the public business could not get done, and that the reactionary party were filching the remains of popular liberty at a noticeable rate, while the Prince of Prune was powerless except in the technical departments of government. The King of Sweden was ill, and the country under embarrass ment for a government in mash the same way. Naples was prostrated by a aeries of calamities, of which the recent earthquake was the severest; and th e quarrel with England and Sardinia about the Cagliari was at its height. Spain is always in a state of disintegration which needs no particular de leriptiou. In Portugal the young King had made himself enthusiastically beloved, by visiting the fever hospitals, and living among the sick in his half-de serted capital, and by the efforts he was asking to carry his people through the accumulated stetereffp ceased by bad seasons and visitations of assikad. Is France, the settled gloom which weighs upon the national spirits was broken up by the explosion of Orsim's conspiracy, in the middle of January—se event which was sure to aggravate the despotism et which it was aimed. Bach was the aspect of the civilised world at the beginning of the year; some what dreary certainly, but less dark and threats.- ing them at its close. Our Prime Minister wee, however, in the highest spirits, and in the most reckless mood. He provoked I public indignation by the appointment of Lord Clam delude to be Lord Privy Seal, and then defied that indignation in a way which was sure to coat him dear. His conduct and that of the Foreign Secretary in our relations with France overthrew their government ignominiously and irretrievably. Lard Clarendon's passport arrange meets, Lord Palmerston's Conspiracy Bill, and the bearing of both under encroachments and insults from France, will not be forgotten by the existing generation, nor unheard-of by the next. Thus he and his colleague went out of office on the 22nd of February ; and Lewd Paltnerston'e own House of Commons was turned over to a new administration, with an unconcealed expectation that althea, one or the other would have to be dissolved in a trice. Lord Derby appeared in Parliament as Premier on the Ist of March, to make his so-called declaration of his intended policy. The speech disap pointed everybody, unless it were the late Ministers. The country liked it no better than their represen tatives. The complaint was that we were to have another India Bill, under the same conditions as the first ; ens were net rid of the Alien Bill ; and there was no evidence that we were not still to be ruled under the suggestions of the French Government. It will be difficult to dearth* to posterity how the situation became ameliorated by degrees to all but the displaced Ministers and their personal adherents. The Derby government adopted the only course that could keep them in office, and leave the public mind time to settle. They adopted the policy of their predecessors, as far as It was likely to have semeeded ; sad they trimmed their sails to the palming breezes, avowing that they did so, and sa crificing every pretension of dignity and originality to the objestef getting safely through a period of trial in which they had not offered to engage. By degrees they dissevermi the will of Parliament, and amomenodated themselves to It. By degrees we saw those tasted with as so emeidseation, though net more confidence. By degrees Lord Palmerston sail his clique showed their temper to be such as to deserve. no respect or tenderness ; so that we saw the refer teat and unprepared administration of Februarys which " could not last many weeks, unless by dissolving Parliament," gaining ground in Lord Paliserston's own House of Commons, and retiring he the ruses in he grater strength thaa they peer muted themselves en their accession to power. Ia oar impression of the Sod of August we gave so fell an moment of the ssesisa that we will not now p over the ground again. It is enough, in repel to our foreign relations, be refer to the difficulty Sardinia, from Mr. liesirise's mistake having isd Count Cavoar's gervermseat to expect a kind sad degree of support against Naples which our foreign minister had me is reality adored; and to the farther ruffles with France, at the time when tho Espies was threatening all countries supposed to contain the refugees whom he had himself drilla into disoontented sails; and to the 'striation of Watt but, and then Park, from their madimbillie• preeminent at Salerno; and kW, to the easignier mitre Washing= Cabinet about ma tiered of eemrelling the shim bele et era. This bet di& silty appears, by the Presidsoff recent Message, to he still unsettled, the Amerind Government having al yet proposed no method of bearding the honour of lb ma flag, such as it proposed in a general way to sageassile the necessity of either Powers ascertain ing that that deg is not wairped, to oover acts of As fer our own great topic—lndla—we have pro vided a government under a am mom and head, which is intended to perpetuate the best principles and ansagememie of the Company's rule. We have witommed the dignified self-amertiou of the Best India Commay when its power wee about to he takes from it; and a large proportion of the video be. paid the homage ef hearty admiration and pativi tads to the meet MUM& bell-aoleteliesear onfloW wally secomfiel gemonamat that the world him over seas at itaWeek. ;Te bet miefiag el iheCesel .(Di rectors, as a temiterled -- wee watched With THE REVENUE. Tti account for the Quarter's Revenue to be made up this day will show an increase of about 1,000,0001. as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. Bat as the comparison is made 'pilot a period of great commenial em barressomnit, it would be better to entreat the revenue of this quarter with the earresponding quarter of 1536. In the latter rice the result would show aa increase of not more, probably, than about 1130,00111. The portion el the decrease which fella In Income tax will be is a peat measure compensated by unusually large receipts from miscellaneous sources. Tile Goa will give an increase of about 600,0004 ea compared with the mine quarter et 1167, bat a decrees* of 30,0001. (about) ne compered with the aame quarter of 1866. lei Runde there is an immerse et not. mere probably than 180.0001., siotwithinaading tbs ia oreased duty on spirits. Stamps 'bow an iraprerussat if about 360,0004, bat only of 180,000 i. if ocespared with 18511. no new duties bays oontribatird to this malt. Lead end •meted taxes will be &boat stationary. In the Income tax there will be a demon elf •hoot 300.0001., owing, of coon% to the ralastica in the rates of ditty. Me Post-elEce will produce ea lamere of about 60,0001. Oliva lands, es weal, show searatly, if say, militia'. Under the head of miscellaneous receipts there will be as increase of probably nearly 200,0001. As against the quarter of I 8.56, this item gives as increase of more than 700,0004 Bat these increases, arising from easoptional canals, do Dot indicate a pains' Implavuoient et mesas. Wnan the year INS spewed, the British people IMF* ia a state of saltation of naiad well-propor tioned to the tlepreeekon of their fortunes. With to the spirit rim osier the stimulus of calamity, sod when the horrors Cl the Indian mutiny were fresh and the embarrnments of the /asocial crisis of 107 1111“ argent eve Mies was issa to be in spired with the seers joy anapaest on every severe challenged its high courage. The mined was favour able he esseasterisi ooaiag events. If it had been tee low he the isemios, this year might have been seen ealanitese this the last. The esesetioa is ant too @hen, far se calamity is the whole range of wartime se Cl Sasses eas sumps,, with that of a airline of sumetitutionel liberty t sad that oar liber ties are at thie aseeeestessansed WOO 4i...hied swag to the isheateehie "hit et ibe- people harts; oreswisphes& the weather's. oppositilw Cl the goverment of the day. power, The mjoiciop cm the relief of Lacknow Were the ewe interest from without, and on the let of Sep first feature of the year. We were at length Judd= ma w . w h en th e rem compeny esseed to exist se Deform the world ia believing that we shield retain a geverniag may, we felt the day to be one oi iwgwv bw il be able to what we ebewld eelleilbw beet seise= mire= se well =of fresh hope for the far= Yet the worths at ledges white it Ilataille• mg fur ef ladle. It in matter for gratulation that the Coen the 4 beistie weentriee who* ?item tamfaly dePeede piny have pat au nosed, in their unsurpassed easter en ger peseide eseuead et Hludsete. lemma mend this yam, th e i r geod e , aed thei r damn. Si helm sad ter heeePert at the limbos et the the gratitade of =stern and western natters. 'Th* Ludlam garrison and that beeelversr7 Meek we Panties le Parlineweg is Abnowy.aad thdr Mame were etetwel7 in a happy 004 at our lebetwee ee miasma of Inepronowennt in the perenreseqf &NA the sew Tom It wee Cot loaf Wert the tidied. will remain as evillest to a Wm gesselhe sr enteed_.o th e capture ef Cantor and of the far-faced the Noble spirit et their geveremeat. set et the west Ye. There wese vexations is the ONO. Our soldiers N a n ny whined seam it s heresseh, We b ag . asta'a 0 0 • 0 • 11 1 by "Pcsure , sad, in a little dose heard the deals el the peedeestem thew* while, by treachery ; and it became evident that we sa e l a m a , et the Qum m peetalta j Rumb r Dad set does with the mortilkatisee which have sa d an led by w as he bar he a pad result h en always attended oar treamctioes with matte and da l Agog% dm* the prei t andema t o at ima g ine. its ealatelligible and unmanageable people. the is the native Ida i and this bops b supported by The rest of Use world sem= to be anew trial. es the elassteeis at hew of the devotion to biseiseen ef wall = ourselves. It was a fearful wistur in the the hardest-working minister within living ralumey. United Stet= after the ootnieersial mash, which If it be possible to govern India well velar the sew spread destitution over the lead on an Ears. marled, it will be dome by Lord Stanley. Mabee pea male. The of Newkirk& was nay be the hese, the =Unction of the osly ism dm OM" fey the moment bet the Yervereleent seiddisalees adamant:6nm which English lids" had sot the "rage to am' with the Libeteers. sad Ma exhibit, will always be a VIM sad distimpele the datiger wt put oat to interest de • future on. leg event of the year. (sake The mall army wee seem wasted is three As for the met, we have at last seen the directieas—tle Salt I.alse, im••••, and the North yams admitted to the National Cassel. de Western India= t sad a pelted mashie was Is- the Wankel of the first Quaker meralea evitable. In Camas, the inhabiimita led referred pietaresque insidsat is puliamestary week se to the Queen the 'beim of •um at prrenmesat t will that of the diet Jew. On the lath eT sad then rudely let that these mei% balk' July, Baroa Rothschild received the reward of 114 lug up their fieyeew•" 6l . 2 . 4 & 'my *or Wei end carotid defenses to law by beteg made a the epee et their aeon. Is lemespe ea pew leitmeter sear a law, wet es 'sires sad barawere. ft.+ , THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1858. ble as it ought to have been, but decisive enough to enable him to be graced by the sheen of the whale House. When he shook hands with the Speaker, after taking the oath in his own way, the long opprobrium under w his race had bitterly suffered, wee exting %doled : and the chews might well be hearty. The national conscience and reputation have gained at least as much u the Jews. We see our way to various benefits through the pro gress made by many questions not yet carried. We are to have a Reform Bill ; and military and naval improvements, securing a better quality of army officers at the outset, and more care of the soldier, at home and abroad. There are to be Reformatory Schools in Ireland; and the encumbered estates of that country are still to be sold as under the expired ooart. The Property Qualification of members of Parliament is abolished, though at a sacrifioe, which must be retrieved in regard to license about election expenses. The Thames is to be purified, if the promise to that effect holds good. Ws are to be relieved of Church Rates. Lord Derby's tone varies about this ; but the public will does not, except by growing more rem late ; and the large majorities in favour of the aboli tion of Church Rates on several occasions daring the amnion show that the question is only one of time. The progress made in applying the principle of Competitive Examination in departments of siva and military earrioe, and in various stages of edeastion, is one of the encouraging phenomena of the year. The national will is certainly aroused about the defence of the country ; and a free opening into the Line for the militia, a more apt use of the militia, the institution of a coast artillery, the fortification of various points of the shore, the im provement of harbours—all good in their way—are yet ler interesting to us then the truth that to woe nomise our army by keeping it in a condition of high health and efficiency, and by restoring its sick in the best and speediest way, is of more cou sequenoe than any other provision for &- I fano*. When car soldiers are thoroughly well and wisely fed and clothed, lodged and nursed, instructed and amused, we shall have secured one of the two indomitable defenoes which will enable us to defy the world, and to hold our position in Europe and Asia alike. The other essential defence is that which never failaand which has been in particularly brilliant force this year—the old English heart— beating as high in our commercial towns and agri cultural meetings as in our supreme navy itself. We have seen other new phases of antique establishments. University Reform he gone on,— now smoothly, and now roughly. The Cambridge Canmissicarre and University authorities do not get en so well as their Oxford prototypes; but the dis putes will sense and the reforms remain, if we have a little patience. One of the most important events of 1858 is the oonaexion between the Universities and the youth of the nation, which is re-opened by the Middle-Class Examinations of this year. There ate be little doubt that a regeneration of our middle elan schools will date from the experiment. In ballad there is still a charm between the National Scheele and the Queen's Colleges, which must be bridged over if the middle clan is to grow up to be the heart and strength of a renovated nation. The report of the Endowed Schools Complain shows what is wanted, and what may be done; and another year ought to accomplish the work, and to extinguish the danger, now very threatening, et an abandon ment of neutral education, and a fierce fight for the old endowments and new grants on the part of theological leaders who have victimised Ireland ten Asa before. Other recent painnd events en gage our attention there. In the midst of profiand popular satisfaction, and in spite of a general condition of unexampled prosperity and somfort, murders, threatening notices, meet com binations, and, It is declared, midnight drilling, have re-appeared in Ireland. The oldness generally cannot understand it; the priests an evidently annoyed and heartily displeased at it; and the widest observers, while pointing out ameliontices in Irish law and practice which are yet needed to equalise the rights of Protestant and Catholic', still avow their surprise at the recent crimp Meanwhile it is incon ceivable that this can be Ron than a pass im illustration se the are and patience still needed hi dealing with the Irfahe—full as well as hungry. Whether the evil thoughts of rebellion and murder are inspired from demi, or bred at home, remains to be discovered; but there is no doubt whatever of the loyalty and advancing welfare of Ireland on the whole. In other parts of the kingdom a substantial pros perity has characterised the year, from the time when trade began to recover from the adversity of the preceding autos& The trying winter came over, employmeat revived, and peeper's= began to dimi nish. Latterly, a pod harvest, cheaper food, busier manafactiues, and a vast =mount of wealth in the Bank of England, have cheered an with the pro spect of a favourable winter. There have been two or three foolish and perverse strikes; and the Ship owners have made vigorous dinsonstrstions of what they desire and expect, to the great scandal of political economy and common sense in this couohy ; but they will learn their lesson, as others have done, and become prosperous again when they have paid the penalty of rash ipsealatioa. The Cotton Crop of all the eeennise which produce it is so vast this autumn, that the prospect of the manufacturing districts is good. Oar !oral popu lation is rapidly rising in the social scale, as the mese& of our agricultural meetings clearly show. The increased eekorp.beildiag it sera sign d it : the improved cektestioa @thinnest-home in 'radon; connties le anther t ad the stmeily 01111•0111411111 d tillage into a shined art is smother.. Mitre is a pro- 'pent of oar clodhopper becoming, in course of time, as gromegme an antique aa oar beefeater or 1167. Oa; &gime, in regard to the lowest claim of our population, en, we treet.lesseming. The opprobrium will be greater than ever if, after all the Social Science discussions, and the benevolent speechifying of this autumn, some result does not appear. We do not regard the starring in the provinces, under taken by benevolent noblemen so actively during the last year, am necessarily indicative of mach good : bat some permanent result may be Soma remaining, sr may grow on occasion out of the Social Seigmes Amiseiation. Meantime, these things are a fasters of society is Ragland in 1868. The Noe may be said of the extraordinary velem, given to Lord Brougham's elaborate state ment of Newton's distinctive merits and discoveries, as egession of the Grantham& statue humgaration, whoa a net crowd appeared mindeed by a lofty Mad& exposition which no one mid have ex pelled is be papal; and, again, the uproar against the Ceallmelemel which his grim all over the country; sad, again, the thronging to the evening semis= at St. Pears and other cathedrals. It will be interesting to observer, of many kinds to see whether the movement eantinges, sad whether the poor aed ignorant, for whom the melees are mainly designed. can really be Magid to bear them. They have net yet presented thighselves is great members ; bet the good Bishop of Loan. whom seal is certainly one of the pro maim pliMenlenn at the year, has been into their semi will sestradly not lose sight of them aged& Anelber year may brisg oat mate pigs treallSl4 so addition soak on mediums is Bemire, and his/dee judgment in regard to hie psi tie. as Ally, aggravated the general suspicion and apprehension of what hst may do. His interest ap pears to us clear enough i and in his place, we should say it wu impossible to go into any avoidable war : but his whole wares is one of contravention of all received ideas of good government and good neigh bourhood ; and therefore the general feeling of our country, and no doubt of Europe, is that the only way to get on with him is to preserve scrupulous good faith without permitting any entangling intimacy ; and to exercise such a vigilance agahist encroach ment, and such preparedness for the caprices of des potism or desperation, as may protect oar honour on the one hand, and our safety on the other. Such being the national mood, as a consequence of the menaces of invasion in the summer, the slave trade of a long period, and the high-handed aggres sion on Portugal (our really close ally), oar minds are pretty well made up as to the proper conduct of the French alliance ; and our opinion of the ex ministers who have accepted an invitation to Com piegne has been frankly declared. If Lords Pal merston and Clarendon had had nal reason to hope for restoration to office next year, they would have destroyed their thence by carrying their homage to a Court which was injuring and insulting Portugal, and thereby shattering the international good faith and security of all Europe. With this view of the visitor to Compiegne, and with admiring sympathy with M. de Montalembert, the present year of our French alliance concludes ; and we shall begin the next, as every former one since 1851, with hearty feelings of sympathy and good-will to wards the people of France, with whom we are sincerely disposed for &perpetual alliance. It is with pain and anxiety that we look round on the great group of states which make up the civil ised world. Russia advances rapidly, but with bot tomless gulfs of danger across her way. The retrieval of Prussia, in consequence of the change of a healthy ruler for a morbid one, is perhaps the brightest spectacle on the Continent at this moment. We dread the consequences of our connexion with Austria, in whose peril and probable disaatem we are by no rightful obligations called to shark Oar sympathies as a people are so strongly with Piedmont, that mean. will no doubt be taken to impress ministers with the fact, so as to prevent mischief and misapprehension when the Italian war breaks out. As a people, we have no great expectation from that Italian war. Our testi mony will be expressed clearly enough, no doubt, on behalf of free government wherever it is proposed; but we must be more assured than we are now of what can be expected and done before we go to war. That the idiotcy, the barbarity, the cor rupting degradation of Neapolitan and Papal rule an have gone on thus long is a painful evidence to us that it is not in our power to set it right. At such a time—a time when bigotry and cant are rampant, and the rights of conscience ere every where violated, even in Protestant Sweden, and through the whole range of Catholic and Musulman States, so that in Austria Protestants cannot bury their dead, and in France Protestant congregations cannot meet for worship—our course seems plain : to bear witness to liberty, before the world, by our own conduct and fortunes. We are the only free nation from whom the world can take a lesson ;' for the American Republic is neither what it was, nor what it ought to have been, in character and reputation, and in practical liberties. By carrying out our resolution to reform our House of Clonintow, by amending our laws, and bringing government more and more into connexion with the largest classes of our people, we may do more for the liberties of other 1111ti0011 than by fighting for them while the call t. arms is not express and Way liable. Already it is clear to all despotic rulers throughout Europe that the British are the most prosperous and contented of nations, and the Queen of England the safest and most tranquil of Sovereign'. Our beet service, to allies and to society at large, will be in exalting this evidence by still extending our popular liberties. As the case of Chetty, the Madras con vent, is to that of the child Mortara in Italy, so is our active political existence to the ennui of Austrian rule in Lombardy, and oar free press to the dreary silence of French opinion. Time and oar steady endeavours after progress will enhance such con trasts, carrying more conviction to the hearts of other nations than was ever brought by fire and sword, even on the right side of a cause. We hope therefore for peace, while peace is the honest and beneficent course ; but we intend to be ready to enter upon war at the first moment of peace ceasing to be honest. ' It remains to sum up our chief looses by death. It must be a mournful review as long as war is going on in any part of the empire ; and the opening of the year was darkened by the death of Havelock in the midst of oar rejoicing for the relief of Luck now. The pliant Hodson fell some months later; and Sir William Peel, and Adrian Hope ; and re. aunty that hero of the Russian war, Lord Lyons. At home, our losses have been in the departments of scienos, literature, and the arts, for the most part, though some professional men of emi nence have departed—am Sir William Mauls, the Lord Justice Clerk Hope, and Sir John Dodson, in the law; and in medicine, Ben- jamin Travers, the great surgeon, Sir Philip Cramptee, and Dr. Bright. From political life, in the sense of parliamentary, we have lost only retired veterans, as Henry Warburton and 'Lord Dunferm line ; for Sir Edward Buxton was more regarded in his philanthropical relations. Considering his kindly earesr, we might oleos the life Doge of Devon shire among the social benefactors. In science and literature, we have lost Major-Osneral Sir Wm. Reid, whose book with its wonderful The Law of Storms," was an event in the life of mare preisesions than one ; Robert Brown, the father of modern botany, and Dr. Hoyle, distinguished in the same misses; Dr. Gregory, Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh, and eminent as the author of the most popular text-books in that science; sad Dr. Peacock, the Dean of Ely, one of our most seem plished mathematicians and astronomers. In litera ture, the Mist losses bare bees Mr. Feed, unique in his knowledge of the topography and literature of Spain, and is other provisoes of leaning; sad the apd antiquaries, Dawson Tenon who might also claim a place smog the botanists. When we come to the department of Art, we cannot mown for oar countrymen and countrywomen alone. Seliefkr in pawing, and Bash& in the drama, and Labiate* in opers, and the Obrraher Neuman as a oomposer, are the world's lasses. As for ourselves, we have to lenient oar medallist, Banjo. Wyon, and Hogan, the sculptor; and Bartley and Harley, the actors. The,' Dualism of Oaken, revered and beloved, • ties pri Dem la all herrelations, breathed her hat amongst us in the land of Mile, where she had surrounded hermit with hiss& From this may of deaths, let us tarn to greet the birth of the sew year. A broad sa d field et sodas lie; Defeo vs, The has boo risk in astiavplollll4os4 Use Next mill tie fertile fii &Om beneaosest Power whit* Okla to stain at nations se well iissitjudisii we see *a yieg se the ingly and haartily . arth letlitTliry 1 1 . 4 w Year. the chareho in a language of thoughts, words, and ' feelint, which they can understand. This rare ability is arn yet to any great extent forthsoming and till it is, the movement may turn out a mere fashion, and certainly will not retrieve tho lowest order of our neighbourhoods. At wont, how ever, it is an interesting and favourable sign of the times. The year will be for ever distinguished by being the date of the first telegraphic message between Europe and America. The first sensation and second thoughts produced by the fact were perhaps privilege enough for ono year; and another may immortalise itself by establishing a secure communication. It should also bring us within speaking distance of India. Among domestic incidents, the movements and ex perkiness of the Royal Family have always been par ticularly interesting ; and certainly never more so than this year. The young generation are out growing childhood, and they are now moving to wards their places in life in quick succession. First, we saw the Princess Royal married; and then the Prince of Wales settled in an establishment of his own. A few months more, and the elder Prince was a colonel in the army, with the real intention, it is understood, of studying and practising his pro fession ; while Prince Alfred has fairly entered on his navel career ea a midshipman on board the EuryaltuL The Queen has visited her daughter a t Berlin ; and been seen, with strong sympathy, entering on new relations in life as the friend of her self-acting children. Her other visits—to Cher bourg, to Aston, and to Leeds—excited a different kind, but hardly a lower degree, of interest. The anxious punctilio and forced spirits at Cher bourg, the exhilaration and happy freedom at Aston and Leeds, were all sympathised in to the echo ; for the relation between her and her people is that of the sincerest friendship. Reverting to the event' of the East, the conciliation of China claims a prominent place. Lord Elgin's pa tience, devotedness, and patriotic fortitude in the early days of his mission were worthy forerunners of hisulti m►te moons ; for it is a @nooses which owes nothing to luck. He had to overcome a host of obstacles, before which moat men would have thrown up their task, or left it half done. As it is, no one will say that more could have been effected or gained, while no rational man expected nearly so much. When he sets root on English ground again we shall have to thank him for bringing a culpable and vexatious enterprise to a far better lane than we have de served. The abettor. of the original strife for sook Lord Elgin from the moment when the Chinese business could do them no more good : other parties had no heart towards the con clusion of an affair which their moral sense had condemned at the outset ; and thus Lord Elgin had reason to complain of the desertion of some and the indifference of others of the nation whom he was serving under every kind of disadvantage. He is not a complaining man, however : that is evident. He has conquered—just as thoroughly as if every thing had been in his favour. The nation must re member this while enjoying the fruit, and glorying in the opening of Japan. We shall have a splendid permanent trade with China and Japan if we set about it wisely--establishing stations between India and China, for male, telegraphic centres, and har bours draw, sod for refitting, and consulting the needs and capacities of the countries we trade with. On the opposite shore of the Pacific, we are now to have a rich and organised colony, accessible here after from Canada as well as from Asiatic ' seem. One of the events of this year has been the organising of the colony of British Colombia, and it must be a oonspicnous work of the next to settle the destinies of the Hudson's Bay Company, with a view to the ultimate policy of oar collective North American provinces. Our Colonies have been, on the whole, very flourishing : and, as the year closes, we hope to hear of such results from Lord Clyde's winter campaign in Onde as may leave little fighting, and mush cavil business to be done in the ensuing months. We have followed with pride the gallant achievements of ear soldiers in India, and have been more and more comforted by the evidences that the troops are abetter housed and clothed than they ever were be fore, though a good deal in this direction still remains to be done. On the whole, and under a strong oonsciousnus of our ignorance of what is really the state of mind of our Indian fellow subjects, we are looking forward with hope to the settlement of our troubles in the East, amidst condi- Lions of temper on both sides which must leave it long doubtful whether the men of the East and the West can again lire together in peace and security. The condition of Barope is Mars sod more threat ening to the peace of the world, and thereby more admonitory to us to be ready for whatever may hap pen. It is mere common prudence to have set dili gently about manning our Navy, and ecoomnising and recruiting oar Army. We have no more desire than Ravels has to go to war ; and there is good reason for hope that both may keep out of it, if the next conflict takes place on the Italian question. But our testimony to the right meet be always ready, even if it should involve an assertion by arms; and the uneasiness which pervades the notice as to what has been really said and dime in ~name in the Tagus and at Naples shows that we are not disposed to preserve a so-oalled peace at the 'Lepanto of good faith, or of the principles of liberty. It was trackling to a despotic ally which overthrew the Palmerston Ministry at the beginning d lefit 1 end any discovery of more trcekling will overthrow the Derby Maim try early in Iss. There it no pellet, tee believe, on whish the people of !garbled are more determined than that of refusing to follow, at any moral sacrifice, the fortunes of oar ally, the Emperor of the French. As he has kept faith with us so have we with him : bat when be makes aggressions on others no British Minister meat co-operate with him. Not only do ear principles revues this, but oar interests ; for the year has a/mended in people of the unsettled data of the Emperor's mind, and ths precariousness of his action. The year has presented a long series of blunders each ea solltarf despots aloes commit. Before its opening month wes at an end he had risked a deadly quarrel with as, sad was obliged to recede from his attempted encroachment : and now, at its close, he stands belled by his own most eminent 'object, aad the laws of hie own Empire, in • case which ranges all the best minds of Europe against him, and betrays his own ormosisee noes of the precariousness of Ws rein Ia the in terval be bee most mainly othecied the comma sense and basset holing of wide socialises& groups of nations by the lawienewe of his actin, and the unierapalonnese of hi denies In his aorressiou on Peeing he bee give. warnig to all Europe that iaternational rights are in dregs: from him ; and in his persistence in hie special Slave Trade, protracted, we tsar, to this nomad, in spite of an appamnt pain, af inquiry, be hes dsAed the con. whose sad the policy of all his best allies, and of the whole civilised world. It is true this year has proved that he au needs, es& that he sea be Infant t end thus du the supentities best his abarisei impunity is diedpated, aad • the Jambes of his rale is se tect Mehl,* Wilk as the ether hand, the iseerel, sesse:eiriTs inilibesesa in the bands d hie Amex hi Wad= La his own EXPRESS FROM PARIS, (PLOY 01:11 OWN 001 PARIS, THURSDAY EVINTRO. It is rumoured that the French government hie received a telegram from Belgrade, stating that the nephew of Alexander Karageorgewitch (the &pored prince) is coming to Pali' and London on a speci a l mission. The Bourse wu fiat at the opening, but improved a little in the afternoon. The Rents fell sc. for cash, and rose 100. for account, closing at 73fr. ud 73fr. 10.. Mobilier rose 3fr. 75c. There was soarosly any change in railway shares, although the weekly receipts, so far u known, are again very good. The Charnels NapoMonitions has received a warn. ing on account of four articles published in its num. bers of the Bth, 10th, 17th, and 26th of Dumbly, which are officially described as "being " l itt le with the object not only of attacking and calumni ating the acts of the prefectoral administration, but also of agitating public opinion." The latter offence a essentially anti-imperial. The government will sometimes allow a journalist, within very restricted limits, to " snatch the fearful joy " of criticising some of its acts, provided the criticism be so worded u not to be likely to attract readers ; but any atrio. tures really tending to bring public opinion to bear on the conduct of public affairs are " fiat blasphemy.* The warning in the present cue is a very stately one, being signed by M. Delangle, and countersigned by M. Salle, the director of the press, and the pre. feet, M. Chadenet. The Minister of the Interior has sent a attar to the Prefects desiring them to prohibit the load journals from publishing the lists of oases standing for trial before the maize courts, on the ground that such publication (which by the , way has always been usual) may give a false idea of the moral state of the country. It is rumoured that by the Budget of 1860 the salary of the Professors of the College of Franco will be doubled—that is to say, blamed from 6,000 fr. to 10,000 fr. The Emperor intends to erect a statue to St. Louis at Vincennes. In the case of the widow of Dardelles, the butcher, which I mentioned the other day, the Civil Tribunal has upheld the gift to the wife, which it was sought to set aside upon the ground that it was in reality trust resorted to in order to give to an illegitimate child a larger portion of the father's estate than the law allows. ITALY. We cannot, perhaps, give a more suggestive illus tration of the actual condition of Italy under the domination and protection of Austrian arms, than by narrating an incident which has just occurred in the Duchy of Modena. That duchy is ruled over by an Austrian Archduke; and he, of course, hes no other inspiration, feelings, or interests, than those of Vienna. Well, this sovereign has a subject, the Advocate James Ferrari, whom his asiegovernment compelled to leave Modena. Signor — Ferrari is a most respect able man, eighty yeses .f age, of great acquirements and of good fortune. For some years peat be has lived at Florence, where dangerous persons are in small favour: nevertheless Signor Ferrari has obtained the esteem and sympathy of the Taw= government. and the friendship and regard of the wisest and best society of Florence. _ . . . . At 80 years of age, however, Signor Ferrari sighed to return home, and with the desire of re-visiting Modena, and of dying amid the scenes of his youth and in the bosom of his family, he directed his nephew, Constant Ferrari, to apply to the Modenese government for permission to do so. Their reply was thus made : The eerfretery al the cabinet of his Imperial Ilishasse notifies to 11. Coosbutt Ferrari that his petitioa, inscribed In the proemial No. 2,118, by whisk be implores that his antier AA...lab Janes Ferrari, a palatal agile, may to ellowed to Mara to the 6aealakiee at the house et D'Rete, has naiad bon his redo= Imperial Illahasse the followlag Teeoript _ . . Considering that fermi le an incorrigible re;ola tkedet of 1821, 1831, end 1848, notwithstanding we know be is rendered by hie old age incapable of dobag say bans, ee an aa►mple to others, our will la that be shall be waded Gum the grace of returning to hie country ; declaring at the 1111100 time that Ida nephew, the petitioner, Ceneetat Fermi, by hie bed °undue& ta 1848, dose net deserve that, la seal &ration of him, we should coadescend to what be oaks, end that we should be element to the uncle for the sake of the (Nisei) " FIANCIIICO. (Sipa) " Piss'', tharsiory of th•Cablast." - _ _ _ _ . - Now this brutal reseript, it is to be remarked, as pert et the existin g system of Italian misrule, in volves a ecandalona violation of public faith by the Duke of Modena ; for the representative of Aus tria in that duchy had proclaimed an amnesty, from which JAMB Ferrari had not beat excluded. Bet of what value are amnesties in Italy—be they Ass• trim, Papal, Neapolitan, or Modena** ? They are mere devises to gull the rust of Europe, and to poet pace the inevitable day of Italian independenoe. We are not going to throw away indigestion en this barbarous sot of the Duke of Modena. The question it rather suggests to our naiads M—Are the English government going to support a power, the domination of which in Italy is illustrated by public crimes of this sort ? SPAIN. • 111ADISiD, Dsc. Yesterday the Congress approved of the sddrese answer to the epos& from the throws, by a ajority of 186 votes to 2s. SERVIA. VIZNNA,yrc. $O. A despatch from Belgrade, dated this day, states that Prince Alexander's removal is called for, the troubles' of Friday last being attributed to his pro same. The army had taken the oath in the morning, and the demand relative to Prince Miloooh had been torwardad to Comseautiasple. Order reigned la . Belgrade, where all the authorities were acting ii humidly. 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