The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-27 00:00:00

(/ 1 z • , or rie%s, ilicu:oution of the c iustry, vet or New Yeai's in be dearer. It swot c. der is • cloy is not so wisest, ►od cost a • steady sale, ~~~'' ~ A:4 ly of grain here r, while oats soi fernier were gob No. 6,737.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1864. [TWOPENCE [Stamped, ld. AMRIa alga tango to-day was Lion was oonside. eh prevailed the slowness in the exhibited a firm. full sates 01 brained. White 411. to 43a. ; so. inferior, 341. to ; secondary, 34a, 'as a fair %bowel/ ialities sold with otermediate and ,irr, and prima melting permits, ; and grind. firm, and beet secondary aorta, me were slow is ion in late prices to 40s. ; peak but prices Were sconda, 310. per very limited. sir demand, but and business t sorts of white arter ; secondary 3.15. to pee was dull, but no h are about the not with a steady I at 325. to sd.. r quarter. There Ed prices accord st lots fetching inter. 0 market we axe Wheat met a week, and fine J. to Is. per qr. r our quotatioes. la to 4'-11., extra I. to 3.i0. ; oats, beams, Me. to oarket there was r held for rather d demand. Oats .141tered. .ton offer was sot red descriptions. he last few days. the rates of last need from 40a. to There was a fair limited late rates A. per qr. ; feed and for oats was I. to 21s. per 24 is week continued I been of late until et. To-day it I. country markets of grain offering. old freely at LA ;on sale, mad the lapplies of wisest for everything st barley, 20e. to ort a single arrival' chaoge to our re able improvemeat s day se'emaight. ides of the trade, amid, a smart a irwave somewhat foreign thole is a roar value. Oats. advance of 2d. to lodise Corn. — tiring the week at Locomen% of tld. to :banged. Imports oda this week : ; barley, bar- Met. Total, Told 'sadist. 1404. 1114. C 1.41 1.144 1.216 - 5,C71 t,574 - 11,t43 12496 TOME.—CICRIOCE repotted from the time ago a tall arid 'Red at the 6" Iles- Hard, Portaaa, tad parity. From this he was seen by the , who, however, at y w•e far superior ne accordingly took . .td barn with great gag man was Gee orn when he Tote below desiring ich, although use:- the interview took gentleman was the e wealthiest in tho ought him were his 1r a member of per immediately mlv thanked foe his fldent has, within tome and valuable accompanied by a eatmeot hie sou re- Home. N.—An arrange the boards of the iirkendbright tors of the former paying back the c and 10e. per 101. one the opening of ie transfer 'ill be -oin shareholders or ogreement for moat r Company with the ihareholdere of the 6 per cent. upon opening ormmanioi Coignint. _ BoWN DAT. I Tamest, 1.467 378. it choice and ex. hers Pia►Ushmeata, rnbll. it comprised led firmer trees from , Is : Toilet Setts al porcelain : Partiunimi Di Fancy Botes sad for Chnitmu pc Binitael Se , Is trout publlsi Adverti.ement.l D DEATHS. nces.gato, Hyde-part daughter. I-terrace, Berns 361 laughter. 'Huhu, stoke Newby KM. de of T. b. Groat. 364 the rife of J. Ogl r, the wife of C. OU rood, , the wife Rt tb. Pori , ekin, Frederick Joh 0.1 Cloktlionns to Dal oudloirst. K tut. Jaturie Church. Pa Walter, WO Of SI to Aneetl , Leg.. of Weettocon Stsfioniahll Snrnere!t„ M 4rrtn, boa , of irJ I. ilar, lan , Valenti . No. -, Albert V .y. sgt..l 3s. Low. n4d, Emily. rnimaLr o lt I alingtoo. White, Esq., sged OIL ts.i Hats, of Prinua. at yct ut BLAl'ii WALL LINE of PACKETS . —F or NI I , I. IA WRNS. PORT PitiLLIP Meet. —Mews. Omen' a It yo CRY. isnt , o tons, Captain M. B. MAYHEW, will , last India Docks on the 6th January, 1865, call at Ply . and carry an nsperleoced sunteon. Thu favourite ship • two last insure to Melbourne In 71 and 73ii . ra .b. —Apply to F. OMEN sad Co., 140, Lead. C.—Paseattters by tuu gas can wooed by rail trout :13 to Plyro. tth at reduced tam by applying to T. ; and Co. for ticlas. : LAM FROM LIVERPOOL OR QUZINSTOWN TO NEW YORIL - - - THE LIVERPOO — L, - NEW YORK, sad 1•11.1LADZIPIIIA linum-sars 00111:1PANY intend de.- .., king their full-powered Iron artew eirmad vs . : wry ..., the United Eltates mink, FRoll LIVEReOI. for Ftw YORK. F:UINBL'RCII, wodeeigsy. D ec. 2 8. 1 1' Ui' BA LTI SluliE, Wednesday, Jan. I. And gray Wednesday and every akerasee assorear. cots passage by the man skinners sailing every ereftesfte, m :7. and 21 guinsea, according re the seraed[suos. gsge pA .,,ce by the Saturday's stearners. LS guineas. forward pomp r.Juess. Including all previsions rooked. 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I ••!..I••• iit t.. ent) f. qtr. elknt IS I:,.: •••I I ' ..I rail. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, a er 1.•.111 6 .: 'y, t•rei•ar-.1 without any men ni•tal cr• • '.t. fr the re• ::.• ••1 r•-•4t. will lie Mond ins shield' , ! a!, slider from :hems and liver complaints, iii.ligest.on, ▪ spasms, go Mines+. •::,(1111 . 1L• of the e)es.&c. For habitual mut, as a family aperient medicine , and ea a purifier of L. , •, • tl.e) are trail) excellent . to their operstion and goveftil to the stomach, (Ley rreate appetite, pr..mote LP a.h..ie nervous system.—Sold by W. Lam. 9. King William.st., noattoiroroaa and by if in hoses. le. I+4. and ga. Ohl. Be sure to leak for Dr. nets 111114.1 a end Liver 1111 s. The onotne &netts square green ✓a ease a ith William Lampert" engraved on the stamp. J I IZEAU'S COPAHINE MEGE, successfully Mel In the Paris and 1.00,013 Hospitals. undor the care of kl• sail Cutleries. girot•l. 1.10).1, Poland. and Legrot ('lark 1-.11,e%; Now, 6, 1.5.2. effects a care In an overate of tit days •r In recent ne rhrnnie 11%es:we. —4B Od per hottle, by post t' .at C. Pine. A krenrh chemist, 411, 11117Marke4 Lozalar4 a..,, leS , BOnlevart l'arm WOOLPACK TAVERN, tit. Peter's-alley, Cornhill.—A capacious and handsome Room. with GRIDIRON on the first floor, ham been lately opened, where Luncheons, Dinners, and every requirement are served with the isme excellence that has obtained for the house It. high reputation. N.ll.—The best 8110/LING ROOM la London. TABLE GLASS, CHINA, & CHANDELIERS s. DIPRIEI and SONS Bevelled added PIS It NRW SHOW ROOMS to their Manufac tory, where the largest assortment in the world of these goods of their ni DlA.anufatUre may be seen. -147, Hoandeditch. LAMPS FOR IN NEW YEAR'S cuFrs. R 'MERL'S CHRISTMAS BOUQUET, 2a. 6d. RIMMEL'S PERFUMED TREES, 3a. 6d. RUMMEL'S SCENTED FANS, 3.5. 6d. and 6.. R DIMILL'S MAGIC BOUQUETS, la. RIMMEL'S PERFUME BOXES, from la., eta. THE Bin ASSORTMENT OF NOVELTIES IN LONDON. CHOICE ORNAMENTS for CHRISTM.th TREES. SS, STRAND. and 94, CORNIIILL. NEW WEST-END BRANCH—I 29, REOENDETBSZT. LITERATURE. Siberian Overland Route 'loin Peking to Petersburg, through the Dassris and Steppes of 4Botwolia,, Taz tory, *c. By eitaxAnnitt Zdtczus London : J ohn Murray. and a il lanwuAhwdt journe y ohe loh o e l inur i tiner a r y w y that g e r t i v d eh bet ween d a c y n c 0 p d res: e e i i .v ited e T s ith a to tte s i h ti e t o h p n e u , b ars b li u c i t of China it possesses other qualities which, without that, usoltoouithaa2:tchrooebbliineaueifileoPcirestiitattaißn d d tfhrie ß a u tnd st s, would certainly secure for it a share of public favour. Mr. Alexander Michie is not a traveller who hurries over the road noting nothing but what be observed on the line of his route ; he pauses frequently and surveys the surrounding scenery, be uses his pencil as well as his pen with skill, and marks his track across the Asiatic Continent with pleasure and instruction. K Hue has said something of part of the ground comprehended in the present survey, but Mr. Alexander Michie's ac count, besides correcting some of M. Hue's errors, gives increased value to his work by completing his partial observations on the western portion of the Chinese empire. Our author passed from Shanghae onwards to the Gulf of Pechili, and by the Takoo forts, memorable for a British defeat and victory, to Tientsin, and thence to Peking. He stayed for some time in the Chinese capital, and then, by a north-westerly route, promeded to Irkutsk, in the vast desert territory of Russia. This town lies close to the Lake Baikat, in 53' north latitude ; but our tra veller had to advance further north still, and at length, having reached the 571.6 parallel, kept pretty well upon it till he reached Moscow, whence be proceeded to St. Petersburg. It would convey little information to our readers to mention the unpronouncible names of the places through which he passed. We shall convey a better idea of the importance of the journey when we say that it extended through about 100 degrees of longitude from east to west in a right line, that is, over considerably more than one quarter of the globe's circumference in that latitude; if we add to this the many detours and deviations which must necessarily have been made from the right line, we shall see that the distance covered must have been much more than the measurement of the meridians would indicate. This journey was rendered passible by the treaty of Tientsin aid the convention of Peking, ratified in 1860, though the Chinese, with charac teristic trickery, endeavoured to dispute the appli cation of the treaty to Mongolia, or at least of that clause of it which guaranteed freedom of transit to the subjects of the allied powers throughout the whole empire. The author's account of the voyage up the Yang-tare presents no new information of importance, but of the city of Peking he has much to say which is both new and interesting, besides which he gives us an excellent engraving of its wall., from a photograph taken with great care. We are, of course, prepared to hear that the capital of China is hut, dusty, filthy, and foul-swelling to a loathsome degree, but we were not prepared to hear that there are restaurants in Peking where you can not only get a good dinner, but where you can eat it in good company ; where the mutton was good, the rice clean, and the fish kept alive to ensure their freshness ; where, iu short, if you went provided with your own knife and fork, 7ou could dine must satisfactorily. Notivithatiunl mg the foulness of the atmosphere they are con tinually breathing, the Pekingese are a healthful, robust, and good-tempered people, and our author seems to have much enjoyed their society. There are engravings from photographs of the most remark able buildings in the capital, which convey a good idea of the taste and skill of the Celestial archi tects. Peking is the most play-going city iu the world, the theatres are open day and night, piece succee.ls piece without cessation, but there is little dramatic power either in their composition or act ing ; they are little more than spectacles made up of gorgeous costumes and bright colours, with a recitative accompaniment delivered in a monotonous sing-song drawl, unutterably pain ful to European ears. The foreign community in Peking is small, all foreign trade is interdicted, and therefore there is but little prospect at present that the stagnant life of the capital will be moved by any impulse from without. Mr. Alexander Michie glances at the labours of Christian missionaries among the Chinese, and strongly commends the method of the Loudon Missionary Society, that of establishing medical agencies iu combination with those that give instruction in the doctrines and practice of Christianity. We cordially concur iu the author's views ; the human mind in learning naturally proceeds from the visible and sensible to that which is a deduction of reason, and where the Cl.ristian physician, by his wisdom and skill, benefits the body of a China man, he is very likely to win Grit confidence which will give ethcacy to the teachings whereby he hopes to benefit the soul. From Peking our author advanced to Chian-kia-kow, encountering on the way many inconveniences, and receiving in numerable proofs of the complete absence of any thing like a mural sense or conscience iu his Celestial fi lends and attendants. The transit through the neaintaiu pass of Niiiikow was full of inconvenience, • and even danger, but not destitute of a certain rude grandeur. Leaving this city the author passed Iwyuild the great wall, and entered upon the Mongolian desert. The author and his fellow tra vellers journeyed by night iu carts, and encamped in the day-time, an arrangement that gave him ample time to write up his journals, and to make h 'sorely observations on the neighbourhood of the lilting places. Of these opportunities lie has made excellent use ; he describes in agreeable style the character of the Mongolian nomads and settled tribes, their method of living, and their domestic ecoiotity —if the term be applicable to tent life. We have here a very good engraving representing ;• au eucampruent iu the vast desert of Gobi, which as , i.ts us touch in understanding the author's de criptions. Having spent wetly days iu the desert, thee re.e lied at h. ligth the laud of vegetation, and rej..n.cd in the sight of trees ; but here their pro , gress was obstructed by the savage river Tuna, which blinds suddenly from the side of a mountain, and rushes through the adjacent valley and plain with great violence. They were obliged to swim this stream on the backs of camels, mules, and and happily got across without any fatal accident. We recommend our readers to look ' attentively at the picture which illustrates this achievement. Our space will not permit us to • characterise at length tho author's vigorous and graphic representations of the couutnes through which he passed, and the people with whom be associated. He divides the homogeneous race of the Mongols into three sections—the Kalkas, the sa'mucks, and the Bouriats, and of each of these he gives an excellent account. From Irkutsk the author proceeded with short delays to Ekaterinburg, and thence to European Russia across the Volga, on to St. Petersburg. We have already indicated our opinion of the artistic and literary merits of the work ; it remains to say that it is written with an evident desire to be truthful and natural. The author's long residence in China has liberated him in a large measure from those preju dioes with which English eyes are prone to see everything foreign to their own habits of life. He judges, therefore, with moderation things that are opposed to his own views, and is very far from the presumptuous insolence of setting up the customs of England as the he plus ultra of civilisation and wisdom. We have read the book with pleasure, an recommend it to our readers. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (zscrria's Tawauxe.) FRANCE. EMI.% Dsc. 26. La France asserts that General Fremont will be appointed United States minister at Pasia,.intne place of the late Mr. Dayton. THE BANK OF RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Du. 26. _ _ _ The Bank of Russia has issued a notice, an nouncing that the subscriptions to the lottery loan, which closed the day before yesterday, amount to 115,26'0,000 rubles. MAILS FROM INDIA AND CHINA. SUEZ, Doc. 23. . _ _ The Menageries Imperiales steamer Tigre arrived here to-clay, with the above mails, 123 passengers, and 833 packages of merchandise. (By telegraph freer time.) CALCUTTA, DIE. 8. Shirting' improving. Exchange on London, 2i, Id. BOMBAY, DEc. 8. Cotton advancing. Exchange on London, 2s. led. CANTON, Nov. X Grey shirtings and twist dull. Tea unchanged. Exchange on London, 4s. 9d. SHANGHAE, Nov. 21. Tea dull. Silk advancing. Exchange on Lon don, 6a. sd. WRECK OF THE HYDASPES. SUEZ, D.C. 96. The packet Hydaspes has been wrecked in the straits of Rhio, between Singapore and Batavia. The passengers and cargo were saved. JAPAN. PARIS, Dic. 26. The Paris papers publish news from Japan stet log that the treaty between the European powers and the Taicoon, in reference to the Prince of Nagato, stipulates that an indemnity be paid of 18 millions of francs, and that a port of the Inland Sea be opened for trade. THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL LETTER. ROME, Die. 20. The Pope has just addressed as encyclical or apostolic letter, signed the Bth inst., to all catholic bishops. la this document his Holism reminds the prelates that his predecessors have never failed to Mate and condemn the errors agaiest the fundamental principles of religion spread throughout society, sod in particular against the Ronne catholic church. He adds that from the commeece meet of his pontificate be has invariably rebuked these errors in his allocutions delivered at the cansistories, and in his frequent encyclical letters to the bishops. Seeing, therefore, that errors and false opinions are constantly neat the increase in religions mid lay society, the Pope declares that he addresses himself to the bishops upon the present occasion to excite their zeal to confute error, mid to arrest the evil which filet ideas of region, philosophy, sod politics inflict upon the modern world. The encyclical then proceeds to enunciate the greatest errors which must Ent be confuted. These are stated es the opinions of those who say that civil progress requires society to be governed without reference to religion, or without any difference being made between the true faith and heresy ; that liberty of conscience and of public worship are *nautili in a well organised government ; that the will of the people, as displayed by public opinion, or by other means, constitutes a supreme Law ands true right, and that accomplished facts in political affairs are to be re. garded es rightfully in force ; that religious orders are not entitled to exist and ought consequently to be suppressed ; that family society is dependent solely upon civil law, so that the government has the exclusive right of regulating the rel►tions between perents and children, and of direct ieg instruction and education ; that the clergy should not be permitted to take part is public instruction, because they are opposed to progress. The Pope further coo demo■ the opinions of thusa who hold that the laws of the church cannot have binding force unless they are promul gated by the civil authority ; that excommunications pro pounced ag►inst usurpers of the rights and property of the church are an abuse ; th►t the church has not the right of punishing those who violate her laws ; that the ecclesiastical power is not by divine right distinct from and independent of the civil power ; that obedience may conscientiously be refused to those decrees and de- Milo°, of the holy See which do not affect points of faith. All these opinions and several others are rebuked, pro. scribed, and condemned in the eoc)clical letter, and the Pope prohibits their being in future entertained by true believer,. The spostolical letter is accompanied by an appendix of SO propositions, containing the principal modern errors in veighed against by the Pope. Seven refer to pantheism, naturalism, and absolute rationalism ; seven to moderate rationalism, four to religious iuditierenee, twenty to errors agaiust the church and her rights, seventeen to errors cur. rent in civil society and their relations to the church, nine to errors of philosophy, ten to errors connected with Christian marnage, and six coincident liberty and the tem poral sovereignty of the Pope. Among the six last are the following : " The Pope can and ought to become reconciled to pro gress, Itheralisui, and modern civilisation," "It is not ratting that in the present day the catholic religion should be the exclu►ive religion of the State." .. It is untrue th►t civil liberty of worship nod freedom of the press ocit.duce to the corruption of ru,irals, and to propag►te indifference." Among the political and philosophical errors, the Pope c mamma th, se: " Authority ts nothing more than the union of material force sod of numbers." " A happy injustice of fact indicts n r injury upon the asoctity of right." "It is allowable to o,ipiivo and Teti& against legitimste princes." " Violatioos o' oohs, and every act contrary to the eternal laws, are per missible io the cause of patriotism." The Pope farther condemns biblical societies, end all per sons who hold that there is hope of the eternal salvation of those W4o do not belong to the true church ; and is careful to pilot out that whoever imagines a protestant stands the ainteat chance of being sated is most seriously in the wrong. This document, it appears, was drawn op and discussed some time ago by a body of learned ecclesiastics, and subse quently debated at the congregation of the Holy ()dice. The condemned propositions were forwarded to the most erudite prelates of the catholic church for their opinions, and when returned again carefully gone over, paragraph by paragraph, by the Pope and the cardinals. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 26.—The Virginia, from New York on the 10th Mat., arrived hare at 9 a.m. to-day, with 29 %740 dollars in specie and ZO paseengers. She landed 40 of the latter, and proceeded fur Liverpool at one p.m. Her news bra been anticipated. FRANCE. (mug ors owa PARIS. SeirDAT Evnue. A painful case of family litigation came before the civil tribunal on December 2L The parties were the two sons, both confessedly illegitimate, of the late M. Musard, the originator of the concerts which yet bear his name. The plaintiff, Edme Musard, was born in 1818. His mother, Madame Charlotte Suzanne, is described as • reidiire, and must, therefore, be supposed to have had property. It is not disputed that the plaintiff was legally "recognised " by M. Musard as his illegitimate child. But in 1819 there came to Paris from London, where she had been living for several years, a married woman named Virginia Conne, the wife of a glass-cutter. She was, as it is alleged by the plaintiff, enceinte before she ever saw Musard, but before her accouchement she be came his mistress, and obtained a great ascendancy over him. Her child was born on March 1, 1819, in the Rue St. Appolline, as several witnesses are prepared to prove, but she omitted, at the risk of a prosecution for a serious mind°- =armour, to register its birth in Paris. M. Musard ''adbisted the child, and brought it up as his own, land five years afterwards this child was baptised at St. Anne's, Westminster, in the register of which parish for the year 1824 appears this entry " Alfre 1, born March 1, 1819, son of Philip and Virginia Musard." In 1846 Milliard, by a uutarial act, recognised Alfred Musard as his illegitimate son. Madame Comic's husband lived till January 10, 1850, when be died in London, and on November 12 of the same year Mus ard married her. From the time of his acquaintance with Madame Conne he neglected his son Edme, who, however, received a good education from hisinother, Charlotte Susanne, but she dying and leaving him an orphan at the age of 16, he found himself in a destitute condition and applied to his father for assistance. The latter consented to do something for him, but on condition that he should only call him his uncle. Edme Musard seems to have led a hard and precarious life. He was first of all bound apprentice to an engineer, in order to be got out of the way of his more favoured brother Alfred. Afterwards he learned pianoforte making, and was for a long while in the house of Sax. He married a woman who had money, but unfortunately it was all invested in a firm which be came bankrupt. By the marriage he has • eon 16 years old, who is now studying music at the Conservatoire. He was always treated as a pariah by the prosperous Alfred, who, in character of his father's secretary, wrote him a very harsh Iletter, which was read to the court. At Musard's death , in 1859, Alfred was found to be already in possession of the greater part of his property. The plaintiff alleges that fraudulent deeds of gift had been made in order to exclude him from his legal share, but the defendant answers that Musard was in difficulties during the latter years of his life, that he (Alfred) had paid his father's debt and taken his property as a security. Shortly after the father's deatb,Edme Musard,beiog in great distress, signed away all his birthright to his brother for the sum of 300 francs in ready money. Latterly Edme Musard has endeavoured to give ' concerts is Paris, but Alfred, so far from helping him, has, it is alleged, always contrived to prevent his concerts from taking place. On one occasion when Edme described himself in his bills as the " only son of the celebrated composer," the prefect 'of police, on the suggestion of Alfred, made him strike out the words, and the concert was a failure. The object of the present action was to have it de clared that the release for the colourable considera tion of 300 f. was void, as having been obtained by undue pressure, and to have an inquiry whether Alfred Musard was not in reality the child born in the Rue St. Appolline on March 1, 1819, of the married woman Virginia Coune. The con sequence of establishing the latter fact would be to show that Alfred was the legitimate son of Nicolas Coune, and that Musard's recognition of him was null and void. The court, however, presided by M. Ileuoit Champs, held that Alfred Musard bad acquired by notoriety, by the baptismal entry at St. Auue's, Westiniuster, and by the noturisl act of 1846, the status of Musard's son, and that it would be against oublic policy and the articles 33.; and 342 of the Lode Napoleon to admit evidence to show that at the time of his birth his mother was married to another person than Musard. It was also of opinion that there was no proof of fraud in the release by the plaintiff of his rights for 300 f., and accordingly the actioa was dismissed with costs. The decision, on the main point, seems to me • very ex traord ivary one, anti quite contrary to equity and common sense, whatever may ba the true con struction of the articles iu question of the Code Napoleon. If Alfred was really the legitimate sou of Nicolas and Virginia Coune, it passes my understanding to conceive how that status could be affected by any transaction whatever between Musard and his mother. The registry at Saint Anne's, tVestininster, was clearly the result of a' . false declaration, for Virginia is therein described as Virginia Musard, whereas her husband, Conue, was then living, and he lived for many years after wards. TIM MISSING GOLD Stur.—We are very much afraid that all hope must now be abandoned of the gold ship J. E. H. ever arriving. She left Melbourne oo the Dith July, and has therefore been now at sea more than 160 days, and has port. There have been some terrible hurricanes in southern latitudes, but the other verbal' from the Australian colonies appear to have experienced nothing beyond ordinary casualties. Fire or collision with an iceberg may probably have befallen the J. E. If., which hail on board the follow ing passengers:—Miss Lever, Miss Hartrop, Mrs. Carter, two children and servant, Dr. Starling, Mr. H. O. Walker, Mr. Bow, and Mr. Mother well in the cabin, besides two passengers in the steerage. She had a valuable cargo, in cluding 16.920 ounces of gold, 7441 bales wool, 52'J casks tallow, 13.263 hides, 134 bales leather, 7SI p ackages skins, 244,riT0 horns, 96 tons bones, 126 b►les rag., 1;9 bags bark, 50 bales pelts, a quantity of hoofs, 4 packages ;meat. effects, 2 cases glassware, 2 cases slate, 4 Calle! and 40 ban dies steel, 3 cases hardware. —A uarrulian and New Zea land Ga:eite. _ _ . ------ s GALLANTI4FEBOAT SERVIVLs. —I have to report (writes Mr. Jame. Riches, of Pathug, Norfolk) the follow. log gallant services of the lifeboat stationed at this place belonging to the National Institution. About 12 o'clock on the night of the 22nd inlet. a vessel came on shore on Palling Beach. It was blowing • gale of wind from the N.E. at the time with a very heavy sea on. The crew of the lifeboat was at once mustered, and with great difficulty, otter having had to launch the lifeboat three times, they su:ceeded in reaching the wreck and in taking off the chip wrecked crew, six in number. When brought on shore they were in • very exhausted condition. The yesesl proved to be the schooner Ides, of Danzig, bound from that port to ; Dunkirk with seed. The cost of this lifeboat and her car. ! rage, together with a rum to provide for her (attire main. union., amounting iu all to the sum of 2,Ontie., was ruuniti cently presented to the National Lifeboat Institution by the tint of Carus and Company, Parsee merchants of Bom bay, in acknowledgment of their 6 IICOCIA in business since their eetablishn.ent in Loudon in IS.i, and in testimony of the uniform kindness sod courtesy which they hail re. reived from the inhabitants of the B,itisb metropolis. The institution accordingly Denied the boat the Parsee, to perpe tuate the generous act of the donors. CHINE.sE Silver.—Thu 2V,te Zeolaiokr says:— " We have received • communication from • gentleman who has some thoughts of organizing • aximpitey to obtain from China a very prolific breed of sheep, which finds much favour with the inhabitants of that country. Their fecun dity seems very surprising, as they are said to produce from three to five at a birth, or, as our accounts call it, a litter, and to have • litter of this kind twice a year. Their material ingenuity is Dot, it seems, inferior to their fecundity, as they wean the stronger lambs, and allow the ' more weakly ones to suck for a longer time. They are said to produce from seven to 12 lbs. of wool annually, to weigh 1431b5. to 17011 n. as mutton, and to be of a quality not to ' ferior to Leicester diem. These sheep inhabit the northern parts of China, sear the Great Wall, and would tiorroloro require to be siocilignatised to our warts, climate." liouNimarea TEA in choice anti strong, moderate In price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have secured forthis teas general preference. It is meld in packets by E,Eiio egents—LittiVertisement.l THE SINKING OF THE FLORIDA. [The following letter from Professor Gelder& Smith appears in the Daily News .1 TO TEI IDITOZ Or TEI DAILY NEWS. Sza,—The sinking of the Florida seemed, by its fatal opportuneness, to defy a charitable construction. And it unfortunately coincided with the wishes expressed by some who ought to have taken a higher view of the real interests of their country. Mr. Sumner, in his pamphlet on the case, says : " If the American commander, who undertook this business at Bahia, had done it completely, there would be little difficulty now. There were fire and water both at his service. He might have burnt the Florida, or scuttled her at once, and his offence would have been no greater than now, while his government would have been relieved from embarrassment. It is hardly cynical to say of such an omission in the words of Talleyrand, that 'it was worse than a crime —it was a blunder.'" When a senator of the United Stake and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations allows himself to suggest such a mode of avoidiagesabserassment, his countrymen must not be astonished if, in less partial quarters, unfavourable impressions are apt to prevail. I did not believe for a moment either that the govern ment of the United States had inspired the destruc tion of the Florida, or that the nation would approve of it. But I confess I feared, and more than feared, that this was another instance of that irregular patriotism on the part of subordinates which the comparative laxity of the American system of government has hitherto permitted, and which has been recently exempli fied in the seizure of this vessel by Captain Collins, and in the letter of General Watson Webb. I am now, however, convinced that, in spite of all probabilities, the occurrence was entirely acci dental ; that the vessel was unseaworthy before the collision ; and that after the collision every effort was made to keep her afloat before she was abandoned. Of this I believe the world will be assured when the results of the formal investiga tion are laid before it by the government, which cannot be done too soon. At the same time it would be vain, I fear, to con tend that the action of this government, in relation to the case of the Florida, has been such as the warmest friends of Amtrica would have desired. To restore the vessel and her crew at once to the jurisdiction of Brazil, from which she had been wrongfully taken by the rashness of a subordinate, was the course which the highest morality and the highest policy alike prescribed. It would have been hard, uo doubt, but it would have been glorious— all the more glorious if other nations, iu similar cases, bad not behaved so well. The moral effect produced upon the world would have been worth a great victory. The path of virtue has not been made smoother to the American people on tole occasion by the ma lignant denunciations of a part of the English press, to which it is the weakness of Americans to pay too much attention, when they had better fix their thoughts exclusively on the requirements of their own honour. Mere denunciation, especially when coming from those who by their previous hostility have forfeited the position of moral censors, never, I believe, helped any m►n or nation to do right. Nations as well as men owe a kinder and more generous duty to their fellows when struggling with temptation. The language of the American prow in regard to this question, as you will not have failed to observe, has been perfectly honourable. It presents a marked contrast to the language of the same jour nals, or some of them, in the case of the Trent, and is one an many indications of the elevation of national character which this struggle, with all its evils and horrors, has produced. I leave America assured of the loyalty of the people to their institutions, convinced of their power, and their determination to achieve the gigantic task which they have undertaken, and hopeful of their destinies as a nation.—l am, &c., New York, Dec. 10. GOLDWIN SMITH. THE WIDOW OF _ A VETERAN PHILAN- THROPIST. TO THI IDITOR OP THS 11XPIX85. you admit the followiug appeal to public benevolence ! Two years ago died one of the fore most philanthropists of the age—the Rev. G. C. Smith— leavieg • widow. sow 80 years of age, entirely destitute. He founded all the societies for the social and isligioos welfare of sailors, especially that magniiimot scheme for saving seamen from crimps sad thieves, the Sailors' Home. The latter days of Mr. Smith were spent in almost po►erty, sod he was buried by public aid. His widow is quite help. less, requiring the coostant attendance of a name, the en peons of which poor relatives really cannot meet. A few small sobecnptioam have been raised, bat they are neither adequate to the necessities of the case, nor worthy the claims of so useful a man. Contributions have been kindly received by Daniel Pratt, Esq., Entiah Standard-alias, Bolt-court, Ylest-street.—l am, du., A POOh IiELATIVE. A SHERIFF'S GOOD INTENTIONS FRICSTRATED. The HumpAire yerdch, of Saturday states that Ilr. Sheriff tmenuel, of Southampton, had determined this veer to go beyond the generosity on the occasion 1111100 S the holders of that office in Southampton, the provision of abundant good cheer for the debtors in the prisms. He had determined to pay the debts for which they were impri soood, thus setting them free. Unfortunately his intentions too soon became known, and an amusing result was the consequence. The custom prevails in the county court, where the greater proportion of the busi ness transacted consists of plaints preferred by " men," of granting warrants of commitment of defendiurtafor limited periods us Its hearing of summonses after judgment, but to suspend their execution clueing the pleasure of the plaintiffs, is order to give the poor debtors an opportunity of meeting the demands upon them. Mr. Emanuel's gene rous offer at once presented to this large class of plaintiffs • capital opportunity for the collection of hitherto considered had debt*, whilst to those who did not feel disposed from their own resources to discharge• their liabilities, au easy method was thus provided by which they may be relieved from future claims. 'the county court bailiff glottal that they were all at once called upon to do • thriving and unexpected trade, mod on Friday the arrivals in the debtors' ward of the prison were so numerous as to call the attention of the officials to the circumstence, and Mr. Emanuel was at once communicated with, in order to prevent his being victimised in the way which was intended by the abuse of his good intentions in such a cunning hut seatidalous wan ner. The worthy sheriff proceeded on Friday to the gaol, and there a numerous group of county omit debtors met his view. "And who pat you barer he said to one. The answer was, " A tallymen." " And who you?" he asked • second. The same reply, "A tall) Mill. " To • third he addressed himself in • similar meaner, and was once more told, " A tallyman." The trick was now fully ex posed, but ilr. Emsnuel helm determined that, though Iris original intentions must be abandoned, they should have • good dinner, and inquired for how many be should provide. "Oh." maid the official, " the county court bailiff told us there would be at least another dozen to-morrow," and a tousle could not help venting her wrath at the detection of the trick by exclaim. ing, " Why I shouldn't have come here but that I thought you were going to pay the debt for me, and I should getout free." We seed hardly add that the sheriff departed with hie mind a little enlightened as to the frailties of human nature, but notwithstanding the imposition attempted to be practised upon him, he did not forget that it was Christ maa time, and he charitably ordered • bountiful dinner on Sunday fur as many ay, under such extraordinary cit. culminates, happened to be in the debtor' ward to partake of it. THE STUDENTS AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY. The following circular has been issued by the Senates Acadernicua of the Uaiversity in regard to the dis graceful uproar which took place oa the occasion of the delivery of the venerable Principal's inaugural address to the students : The Senates Andemicia, in the discharge of their duty as entrusted with the discipline of the university, have to inform the students st large that oa Saturday, the 19th ult., on of their number was brought before the &sates for interruption the Principal's aunual address-* breath of discipline which it was impossible tor the Senates to page without notice and punishment. As the offender was a fiat year's student, sod acted under the indurate of evil example shown by not a few of his comrades, sad as he spontaneously and promptly add:rind to the Principal a letter of regret and apology for his offence, cheSenstue have one it to be consistent with their duty to indict, in this particular COM, the most lenient punishment which it was in their power to proacianos, viz., that of ass sure and reproof before the Sonatas. Under other circum stances, it might not have been possible to exercise this leui , may ; but, even had they felt constrained to use severity. the Senates Academicus trust that the students would not fad to eye that, in upholding the discipline of the university, the Sonatas are influenced by no other consideration than affection for the students and lineal* regard for their into . rests. Cooecions themselves of no other feeling. the Snake Academic= take advantage of this opportwuk to impress upon the students pamally the mischsof which is certain to arise if they do not, by their own act and lease of right, put an end to thenedaskso us bkethataf gentleasim and scholars, which kis crusggmraeceedd this asininity ea the osmium of the manual in scion adder ;of the Priacipel for several years pest. It is true that this misconduct hem been consaed to • portion of the sunsets. Bat, in the fact that it has been at all tolerated by the students, the disgrace falls upon the whole body. The sanests ought to know that repeated acts of the same kind on former occasion have called down epos them the caesarian the public beyond the walls of the university. The censure has been repeated by parties at a dis tance ; and an impression prevails very widely that the au dents of the Unvereityal Edinburgh aresystematkallyturba• lent and uncootrolkole. Tat Senna need nos say teas this impremioe is erroneous, since the same students, who have acted so indecorously on such occasion as that of the 19th ult., cannel themselves in their cleans in an orderly land becoming meatier. Bat the unayounble impression ' thus received by the public is sot unreasoisable ; asfortnastely, the unanimity has suffered in coasequenes. These considerations will compel the Senates to use greater severity if unfortunately any serious breech of academic discipline should own in future. They have hitherto been vary unwilling to do so, because the rustica tion or expulsion of a student suspends or stops altogether his 'decokes at this or say other univenity in %be o n= Kingdom, and,. ocergeguntly, prevents him sewing say n led profesmon. Bat mach inj to an iadivideel most 1 o earn t be permitted to interfere with ury the intermit@ of the whole body of the stadeats. The Seesaw Amami= look with anddimeos fat the sympathy sad ae-opesatioe of the peat body of their strident', in preventing, foe the inters, each scenes se were enacted this year. The is a matter in which all the members of the uneasily, es well students se ma femora, ere moaned ; sad it is earnestly hoped that the present will prove the lest constant's which it ma he head secaisaary to allude to may way toss edam so ia self, yet so fruitful of bad aossequeoced to all oemornisd. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. The week opened with a very heavy fall of snow ; tried E. to B.E. ; some nin fell at night, but before the following day • aight frost was experienced. Oe Monday morning there was a dense fog, and this lasted for some time, as one or two hours it was thick and dark, the day proving of a vary doubtful character. Os Tuesday a thorough thaw set in, and the now was fast diaappearieg, but so ran fell ; wind 8.E.• thermonietee 45 deg. • baro meter, 29.70 inches. Outdoor work ea the tans was le emsequence completely stoppsd, sod the low district@ would have an increase of inter from the sadden melting of the WOW, bet still we hest of firmer@ hung to fetch water from a dithenee, and at a greatexpeam, as indeed it is probable that the ponds and weds will not be filled until winter has goes by and much mon now expansion& The wheat plant will have received a check from the cold nights, but may be more beonited than hurt by this &sage in the temperature. The sudden in the atmosphere are much against the thrashing of wheat, greatly affecting the condition, sad whilst there in no encouragement in prices, the lees this core is exposed to the sir the better. When the host returns It may be is time to go tto work again, sad after • while amelioration in condition and in vane may be simultaneous, as foreign imports are and will be very limited for some months to come. It is high time a turn took place, sad the long monotony of the corn trade ought to be wetly over, as with the coming year it is to be hoped that sgri cultural waverer will be brighter and more cheering tine they ban been for a long time past. On We:needy the owning was damp and wet ; wood ruled to the 8. W.- thermometer, 40 deg. ; barometer 30 Inches ; all agai n condition and demand. Oa Thenday the wind bed gone to the R.N. E., and it became much colder again; thermometer 35 deg. ; barometer, 30.20 iochee, and steadily rising. The morning was cold and dry, with 2 deg. of frost, whilst at Rotterdam 13 deg. were registered, and • Wee front ap peared to be returning. fieturday morning we kern cad cold • during the previous night 6 deg. of frost were regis tered, and the atmosphere looked threatening, sad some more snow may sot be far off, although the baro meter was up to 30.50 inches. W ithout • cover ing, this black frost may be too sharp for the wheat plant, hardy as it is ; for sudden changes from now to welting moisture. and then to frost again, will try it. This weather must cacao a good demand for provender of every ducription, and the farm-yard will require and °beak a considerable marks of cattle, as there is nothing in the fields for them, and the homestead will be fall where Umw is plenty of stock kept, the most paying commodity sow of any, and aiding the poor prices of corn of every description. The manufacture of malt duty free for the use of cattle is likely to prove a failure ; in the lint place, the price is too high, for 121. per too cannot be afforded. One gentleman who has goes to considerable expense in erecting maltiess under the restrictions of the act, has found much trouble in disposing of the manufactured stuff, and such farmers who have complained of the price he has invited to seed him is wheat or barley to manufacture in conformity with the . provi. 'loos of the act. H. has, however, not bad one applica tion, in °magnolias of which he has petitiocod the Commissioners of Exc.'se to allow him to use the premises for the manufacture of welt in the usual way sod to pay the duty therein, and the new system will consequently be • mieteke as far as regards Chic attempt to bung it into notice. Others may be more pereeverhig ; but none, we bsli.vs, will be encouraged if the price remain as high as 12/. per ton. There is a supenouudsoce of barley suitable fur the purpose at a very cheap rate ; and one-third wheat, one third barley, and one-third linseed cakes. will make the best provender for beasts, elide this compound is already being resorted to extensively in many counties.—Mork-lanc Nsprr-ss The annual distribution of prizes in the School of Art took place on Saturday, at toe Royal Dublin Societe, in presence of the Lord-Lieutenant see a ouwerote mama blade. Dr. Steele read the annual report, which was of ' highly satisfactory sod encouraging character, and the summate' pupils were brought forward to receive their rewards. The Lord-Lieutenant, in returning thanks for the • compliment paid to him, expressed his gratification at the evidence of success sod progress which the pupils exhibited, and pointed out the great advantage of cultivating a prate tical knowledge of the fine arts in connexion with maws. facturiog pursuit.. He noticed with Oriente, the fact that ninny pawned diatioctions lave bees borne from the deportment of S,lvoce and Art in London by pupae of the Dublin school, that female eoespetiLf..• formed a large proportiou of the socoeseful candidates during the year. OUTRAGE BY U•RuITABB AT SHEA'. EIELIA —A very aggravated case of garotte robbery was reported at Sheffield on Friday night. The town has been infested for several weeks by a gang of burglars and mot. tete, who have committed a number of tiering robberies and outrages ; but the 11106 i de/jig of their exploit, is that which we have now to report. A gentleman waved Burnaby, of the GM of Burnaby and Wood, cord swots, nod agent to Earl litzwilliam's collieries, lives in Bromeliad-perk, oo the out. skirts of Sheffield, sod although the place is very secluded he has beim in the habit of carrying a satchel ...mediator the day's receipts at the office to his house at night. This must have moon» kuown to a gang of garotter., and they ees lent brut nu Friday night. FoHonet. !y. Mr. Burnaby had found no Friday eight that the strap of the satchel was broke., and he sent the money home in care of a buy, who or-riveo safely et the Louse. Mr. Burnet.), however, was not so fortunate, for on arriving within a few yards of his house he heard a footstep behind him, awl Le was instantly .e.Lvd by the throat from behind, in the gra.B of a garotter. Another men came in front. and struck Mr. Burnaby several heavy blows on the face and chest, but he coetrived to get his neck free, and cried out " Murder." The garotters, who appear hot to have hesitated to noire themselves by murder, struck him with I.li.dgeoee. end ittlicted fearful wounds on his heed aid over his right eye. He still struggled, and the man who had hold of him behind riled out to his accomplices, Kick him." Immediately afterwards, Mr. Burnaby received • violent kick or a blow over the heart, which prostrated him at once, and he fell. The ruffle's then robbed him of his gold watch and several pounds in gold, and made off. Several persons were coming up the road at the time, sod they saw the men run away. A joiner, who non et work in an unfinished house clew by, heard Mr. Borhaby's screams, hut did nothing. Surgeons WIMP called ie. sort they found that Mr. Burnaby had received such serious Injuries on the heed that he was in insteibent danger. fie was attended during the eight by two surgeons, end was not allowed to deal for a long time. The uefortunote gentleman was I not ob:e to give a description of his assadanto.