The Express. — London, England, 1867-02-11 00:00:00

'/7 c~~-~~/~ _.T ~`lts r i 1 No. 6,402.] an A‘ d i . 80 .1 N pA S: K (of .• \ t -I 1: 11.1.1 —F..r XIELIXIFRNEIPort Phillip' Direct •ck. ..n 'le, calling at Pl)- , 1, I.ll.ll,lcliplwr ship r•l' FFOLK, 1,000 tens, W. H. • i'..einciteler lxiag In the East India Docks. . : ter all claws of passenger,' are ....dry an experienced surgeou.—For freight or h. ALLPIIRT and 3111RliAN, with Moira 11 11. it 1M and si,NP. 7, Leadenhall-street. EI:roOL. NEW YORK, and PHILA LA • .111% , IEAm uIII . ‘NV.—INMAN LINE.— . • 0‘) meamers will be debpatehed as Flt• ill LI VERPCII PI. to NIW YORK: ; • te - N Et% Wednesday, Feb. 13. • it' Iv in . ',aura Feb. 16. 411. - A %lA% Ite.lneelity. Feb. 90. And every At e , inev lay and Saturday. eia' rouge by the mail members mailing every Wednesday, , 0.1 21 liminess, oimeaa, according to the e:commodatio ~tagr Includes a flill supply of cooked provigons. : ti.diada and the States booked throug h on Lit...aeons terra. —For further partlealars ap pl y to Wlll' :is MAN, 22. Waterstveet, Liverpool and to Vit`i sad 1 1 1 v.V, 61, King William-street. London. OEi:LAND ROUTE. -COMMUNICATION 1., -I EA M to INDIA, AUSTRALIA, Re., via BOYPT, --tithantitton and Mar.. illets—The PENINSULAR and VC • Itl.sl EA %I NAV liiAT lON COMPANY ROOK PASSRK. l.Rs receive Uanto and Pavel* for Dibraltm, Malta, Egypt, ,t. anti llottiltvy by their steamers leaving southampton on t!• oth, 12th. :ash. and 27th of every month.—For Ceylon. tt ,!rah, uMenit a, the straits. t /dna, and Japan Yokohama , by tl. te of the tilt ,tiol 20th tti eath month ; loot for King fin:urges mail, Melt. ono., anti sy chivy. by the steamer leaving South ampton II lite .4 etery month—The steamers leave Mar tut the 12,11, 20th, and nth of the month.—For ere. r partleolars apply M the Company'sOfflees, 122, Leaden halbstr“ t, London, ; or Oriental-place, Southampton. jotßENlEN.—Direct Route to Hanover, Bruna aii tt , and Central Germany.—The North German Lloyd's ne drst 4 kis*, rev steamer 'II W AN, Captain CHRISTENSEN. w di irsp.itched from 11.4rselplom ou THURSDAY, Feb. 14 (a, al,. r , at 12 noou—Pares to Bremen, ti and R 1 ; • t, kris, 41:41 sod /.1 100.—.1pply at CHAPLIN'S Universal or!, I> ..untrircus, W or to PiIILLIPPS, GRAVES, PHIL • :44. I t•..., At Dunstan's-house, St Dtuistan's-bill, EC. rro IMPORTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping j c dop ones, and Consignees of Foreign Goods, by stamen or lot.) the Port of Landon.—Tbe proprleton ol 17,1 I r,,b Wharf, and Upper Free Trade Wharf, Low gate PK U l n,or Thanion•street, OFFER FACILITIES to the o b. Infornickm may be obtained on application, by letter •el p.rse n, to A. CLAY and C^ , white ova and ware /toile ko , por. b 3, Upper Thiunenatreet. ATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High N 11..0 -.Fa —ibis very elegant and specking establishment bare: vetirely redecorated, OPEN EVERY EVEN I NO. The kraal !owl. eL•Tolucted by Mr. W. M. Packet, will perform nightly k h..i.e c 0.41 of operatic and dime MIMIC. Open at OM goa . ileac at 12. Adnikision. la KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. OUBLIN ixinsmox, 1881. 1113 celebrated old IRISH WHISKY pined the DUBUB ?RIZI MEDAL—It la pure, mild, mellow, . delicious, and very ~!d in bottles, Ss. 841. each, at the retail homes In bod , ec by the agents In the principal town. In England : or while/ale at 5, Great Windmill-street, London, W. Observed's red Ng, pink label, and cork branded LL Whisky.' OSSORNE'S STILTON is THE Cheese. ME is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 24., .1 24. per pound are the prices at which PHILLIPS and C.., tea nierchani‘, 8, King William-street, City, London, P.C., sre erllint pawl and floe BLACK TEA. A price current post tree. sis worth carriure free to any railway station or market town in the United Kingdom. All goods carriage free to all parts of L.ndou. 4 0paer,.—P1111.1.11 . 6 and Co. have no agents. Sugars we supplied at market prices. AVALUABLE PACKAGE of TEA. A CID N Es F. CADDY, containing 16Th.. of really good BLACK 11:A. sent carriage free to any railway station or market town( a Luciawl. Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, on receipt of 4011., by PHIL LI Ki and Co.. tea merchants, 0, King Witham-street, City, E.C. E HOUSE basing been most conve i."1.1010). Omagh temporarily, restored, we hare RE-OPENED •ith a oow' and cheap stock of CARPETS, DAMASKS, CARI- Nn ITT' REMO \a, Att. These departments will be nattiuued ou tin! ' , Me extensive scale as heretofore. CIIARLLS If EEKING and Co., MOW: E HOUSE, 141 and 142, HOLDORN-HILL, Cotner of Brooke-street. OVERCOATS for the present Season.—The WINTER OVERCOATS, of best materiels, are RIPS Ot band and made to order, at HAMILTON and lIMPTOIIII, Tailors and Overcoat Makers, 105, STRAND, opposite lfzetar-ball. RIMMEL'S PERFUMED VALENTINES. Animated Flowers, 1.. on paper ;to ed. on satin. The lliedlorrul, the Merin., the fluted:Ll, die., all Is., by post for folineeti stamp.. The Muskat Valentine from XI Ita. An endless vari.t. ..f other pattem s from ed. to to uniouus. be tailed 11. t sod applieation.—RlSlSULL, Perfumer, tit Strand: ft, Corbhin : begent-street DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. The medical pnifesvion for thirty years have approved of this pure solution =plaids as the best remedy for acidity of the stonim h-artburn, headache, gout, and Indigestion; and as the best mild Aperient for delicate constitutions, especially adopted for Ladies, children, and infanta —DLNNY.FOItD and Co. chemists, 172. New Bond street, London, and of all other chemists throughout the world. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, au effectual remedy, without confining the bowels or t hr.; the heal, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to ke the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, eaffirmed cues of asthma, and incipient consumption. It fre quently cures persons whom the funny pronounce Incurable admirably alloys th, tickling which provokes frequent coughing ls . appreachbat consumption its effects are truly beneficial Menu del rived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of sulfocu hp=depend ou relief in a few minutes alter taking it.— only and sold by W. LAMBERT chemist, 8, King Wil iam -street, Charing Top, London, and by all druggists, In bottles. ISO , awl three quantities In one, b. 9d. Be particular lad ask fur Lane...era Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address see engraved on the stamp. riviE TIMES, Second Edition, POSTED by .I evening mail daily at SU. a qu.irter, or foe. the half year, fh PALL.IIALL GAZETTE, lna Bd. fl 11 u arts?, paid to advance. All odder nes...gm/mu supplied. Advertisements, noticed of firths, kr., indertdd in The Times—Address W. DEDLS, Market alrev.•t , Ma) fair, London. Jost oat, nVEREND, GURNEY, and CO.—REPORT o f O the 01%01117ER of the DEPENCE MnakIATION, to_ tether with Mr. ',weld Howell's Report and Statements of the Ar.rients. Prier 2i. Pah htandldge sad Co., 36, Old Jewry, BC., and tatty be had of all laalkaaltra. MIDLAND RAILWAY. —The directors state in their report that the traffic of the railway for the half year ending the 31,4 of December List, as compered with the corresponding half-year of 1865, showed an increase from coaching, of 30,9851. ; from cattle, of 4,643/. ; from xnereiandise„ of 21,9484 ; from minerals, of 10,6891.—t0tal increase, 72,26. W. The amounts under these beads would have been considerably greater but for the unfortunate accidents which occurred during the autumn of last year to the Apperly Viaduct and other works on the Leeds and Bradford Railway, and the great landslip at Bugeworth, en the Bowsby and Buxton Extension to New Mills, when by the traffic on both these railways was inteirupted. The expenses had increased very con siderably over those for the corresponding period of Iv:, ' and were beyond the prop o rti on w hi c h they usually bore to the receipts. This matter had received the close attriition of the directors, and the increase was mainly to be attributed to the continued advance in the price of Lheir and materiale, and to the great expense which it receraary to incur in working the traffic interrupted by t! , e accidents referred to. The balance available for dividend was Att.2sl/., of which 4,6171. was brought from the jr •vious half-year ; and the directors were enabled to rermaieend the declaration of the following dividend (less buoiee-taxl, payable on the let tiny of March next : lit 2 , 4 I.tL per cent, on the Consolidated Stock ; 2/. 2s. 9d. cetit on the Consolidated Birmingham and Derby t.lck 2s. 6.1. per cent. on the Consolidated l'referen- Ntuck :AO on the Consolidated Erewash Valley lit••.'; : ab.o the cased dividends on all the preference shares and .n s; k e ; a &dance of 6,551/. to be carried to the c. rm.! h.rlf-year. The dividend recommended was t).in T!, it declared for the corresponding half year of he t the diminution was occasioned by causes, some of which would prove only temporary in their operation. SISaF LA C ISE CIF AN ASSAULT. —A t the Shire ,.l. Nottingham, on Saturday, the Bev. Chas. Forth, iniiiister of New Basford, near Nottingham, was the sitting tee with assaulting his i.irl Aaa Pert. Mr. orth, his wife and servant Yu! Lel bete to London, where the latter had given tt - d. lei. in the Ecclesiastical Court, in a case where her r awl mistress were concerned. The girl's ev`l-rev did not appear to be satisfactory to the u'rt , tit, and when they got hack to Raeford he 4 ,;" her shy s h e h a d b een to L on d on to te ll li es. B- then forced her into a chair, and knocked her the chit,. insisting upon her signing a paper which le-fori he-. The girl told him that she could not * rite and he then forced her to make the sign of a cross eie.h it. The is-ncli convicted him in a penalty of two Mrs. forth then stated that her husband had corciNul cruelty towards her, when she was stopped by the beileh who told her there was no case before them. blorsL Fe Ft: HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN -ROAD.—The 'mak, ofpat:.eits relieved at this hospital during the 'trek ending Feb. 0 was 3,488, of which 1,068 were new /UK TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (REETER'S TEL EC RAIN.) ACCIDENT TO THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. BRUSSELS, FRB. 10. - - - [TWO? Yesterday, while the King was riding on horse back. his horse gave a sudden start, by which his Majesty was unseated. The accident has had no injuri ,, us results. ignorance which prevented their understanding or appre. crating the value of freedom, and at this moment of conflict they were obliged to fight the fight of miseionaries in their own ranks on the one hand, while they did battle with the more hopeless ignorance of their tory rulers on the other. In urging them, however, never to relax their efforts, he re minded them of the progrois which was being made in other countries in the electoral enfranchisement of working men, and the consequent danger of England being surpassed in the race for freedom. (Cheers.) Mr. Joseph Spencer se conded the resolution, which was passed unanimously.— Mr. J. R. Torr moved the second resolution, which was one of thanks to Lord Russell, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Bright for their services as reformers. He said the object of this meeting was to give an opportunity for working men to take part in a demonstration similar to the great meeting held by the Union in the Free Trade Hall. The most powerful peer in England, Lord Derby, a man who was said to be filled, from his boot heel to the crown of his head, with chivalry—(laughter)—who last yearhad pledged his honour that fair play should be given to the working men's champions in parliament, had now nothing more to say to their oldest and one of the best of their friends— Lord Russell—(cheers)—than that if he wished anything done, he must let bygones be bygones. But Lord Russell was not inclined to let bygones be bygones. Were the working men inclined to let them be ? (Never.) If the to government should really bring forward a reform bill, it would be nothing more than a death-bed repent ance. It was the working men who, by their meet ings all over the country, had so shocke d their nerves as to make them poorly, and it was for the working men now to prevent their recovery, and keep them in a repentant condition. (laughter and cheers.) One of the expedients to which they were resorting for delay was the proposal to inve s ti ga t e the working of trades unions. But what right had they to inquire into these organisetions until those who had formed them, and knew most about them, could take their place on the most important plat forms in the country to express their views? (Cheers.) The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. W. War. burton and other speakers. g t ir, E . -4 SPAM% A ' 4 ". 4. *tt.L .l t'':;':" r4 .Y 4 %-f ' ' . il , - - 31 '" ': i .N: i • 17) FRANCE. PARIS, Pm 10. An order of the Minister of Agriculture has been issued, declaring that as the cattle plague is extending in Belgium, all meat and carcases of cattle are forbidden entry into or transit through France across the French frontier from Dunkirk to the Rhine, near Lanterbourg. ITALY. FLORENCE, F 29. 9. Signor Crisani has been chosen reporter of the committee on the Free Church and Ecclesiastical Liquidation Bill. He is instructed to oppose the bill. The committee were unanimous in rejecting the political portion of the bill, whilst the financial portion was thrown out by sto 4 votes. A pro position was introduced to draw up a counter scheme. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, F. 9. The Inneri,le of to-day gives a denial to the in telligence published by Indian journals of a fresh victory having been gained by the Russian troops in Ilokhara, adding that no news of any kind has been received by the Russian government of any recent military operations in Central Asia. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, FED. 9. . ... . . _ _ Prince Stirbcy has left here on a special mission to the Austrian government. The Hospodar and his brother are expected to return to Bucharest to-morrow. The Bill for the abolition of the tobacco mono poly has been agreed to by the Senate. AMERICA. (Per the Asia.) NEW YORE, JAN. 29, NooN. . . Mr. Johnson has vetoed the second bill for the admission of Colorado as a State, on the grounds that the territory has not the requisite population, and that the inhabitants, through their representa tives, have protested against a State government being forced upon them. It is reported that the radicals are preparing a bill providing for the temporary instalment of General Grant as President during the impeach ment of Mr. Johnson. The Maryland legislature have elected Governor Swann as senator. Governor Parsons, of Alabama, has addressed the legislature, strongly opposing the constitu tional amendment. It is reported at Ottawa that the home govern. ment have sanctioned the Quebec scheme of confederation, and that a bill will be introduced into parliament making Prince Alfred the governor when the confederation is accomplished. James Stephens is stated to have left for Havre, on Saturday, in the Vile de Paris. NEW YORK, JAN. 31, EVINING. , . President Johnson has vetoed the Nebraska Bill, principally on the grounds that negro suffrage is exacted as a condition for admission, while the regulation of the suffrage was a right fully optional with the people of Nebraska. Mr. Seward has written to Mr. Motley, the Federal minister at Vienna, asking for an explana tion of the report that he had denounced President Johnson and Mr. Seward, and disparaged demo cratic institutions. Mr. Motley, in reply, denied the truth of the report, but has resigned his post. The Mississippi Legislature has unanimously re jected the constitutional amendment. Mr. Garrett Davis, democrat, has been elected as senator by the Kentucky Legislature. Ten add i t ional death sentences have been pro nounced against Fenian prisoners at Toronto. MEXICO. Advices from Vera Cruz to the 24th ult., via New Orleans, state that the Republican authorities at Mazatlan had executed Mr. Carman, the American Consul, who had killed two Mexicans in defending his house against rioters. The com mander of the Federal gun-boat had demanded the punishment of the officers engaged in the exe cution, and this being refused ho bombarded the town. Ortega has been captured by the Governor of Zacatecas, who was in the interest of Juarez, and has been sent to Durango. Miramon is organizing a desperate campaign. in Queretaro. It is reported that the Emperor Maximilian is lei) bag a forced loan. THE FRENCH POST-OFFICE AND THE COUNT DE CHANBORD.—The following letter to the postmasters in Francs from the Director-General of the French Post-office, has been published in the Paris papers : —" Paris, January 24. Sir,—The administration of the Post-office has received orders to prevent as far ae it can the introduction into Franco and the distri bution of an autograph letter addressed to General de St. Priest by the Count de Chambord. This document is sent under the form of an ordinary letter, either from abroad or from offices in the interior. In consequence, I request you to watch with the greatest care all the correspondence which comes either directly or indirectly to your office, so as todiscover any copies which may be placed either alone, under band and with other publications, or und er c l ose d envelopes. You will watch also, with the same object, not only the letters placed in the o ffi ce in your locality, but also those which reach you from other French offices with which you are in relation ; for it may not be impossi ble that copies of the said letter may be placed in the boxes after having been introduced into France by other means than the post. You will make a special packet of all the copies, either under band or in envelopes, which you may have been able to recognise and retain, and you will for ward it to the principal receiver of the Post office at Paris, with a label stating, independently of the address: Letter seized in virtue of the order of the administration, on the 24th January, 1867,' and below indicating the number of objects. forwarded. I recommend you, monsieur, to exer cise the greatest vigilance and circumspection in the exe cution of this measure, and I beg you to acknowledge the receipt of this letter to the director of the Post-office of your department —Accept, do., " E. VANDAL." A BARGAIN. —" The collection of curiosities and pictures belonging to M. Laborie, of the Rue du Caire," says the Piparo, " had been announced for sale at the Hotel des Yentas. The notice has, however, now been withdrawn, the whole having been disposed of. Prinoe Narisbkine, a young Russian, known in the fashionable world of Pans for his immense fortune, waited on M. L a w r ie a few days back, and, after having carefully exa mined the beautiful objects collected, asked the price of the whole. '300,000E: was the reply. It is a bargain,' returned the other ; I wi ll write you an order for the money, and you will hand me over the keys of the roma.'" ADDRESS TO LORD SIDNEY GODOLPHIN 08B01114: The following address has been presented to "S. G. 0." (Lord S. G. Osborne) by residents of WWI - and the neighbourhood : " We, the undersigned, lay members of the church of England, being owners and occupiers of land, persons en gaged in trade and various professions in Wimborne and the neighbourhood thereof, beg leave to exprese to you our warm and earnest thanks for the hearty part you have taken in resisting and denouncing the P o pish doctrines and practices that have been suffered to creep into our church. We assure you of our hearty support, and that we have no intention of abandoning those protestant truths and that religious liberty for which our forefathers went resolutely to the strike."—{Here follow the signa tures of between NO and 300 personal To this address the following reply has been received:— " To the Earl of Shaftesbury, and other lay members of the church of England, being owners and occupiers of land, persons engaged in trade and various professions, in Wim. borne and the neighbourhood, who have coed and pre sented an address to the Rev. Lord Sidney G. Osborne. — My Lord and Gentlemen—ln acknowledging the receipt of the address in which you convey to me your earnest and warm thanks for the part I have taken in resisting and denouncing the Popish doctrines and practices that have been suffered to creep into our church—permit me heartily to thank you for this kind appreciation:74:z conduct in a matter in which we are mutally int. Believe me, I value your address, not simply in reference to myself as proof of your good will, but chiefly as evidence that you, representing a° large a body of the laity of all classes over a large district of this diocese are resolved to cleave to that plain protestant doctrine and practice on which the faith of your forefathers was founded, and to contend for that full religious liberty they enjoyed. You clearly are not of those who will tamely submit protestant. ism to lapse into Romanism ; your prayer-book to be cun ningly perverted into so much church authority to rule the interpretation of your bibles ; your clergy to become, not the ministers of the church charged to deliver pure scrip. tore doctrines and to offer scriptural ordinances as a means of gram, hut priests, arrogating divine power by an inhe ritance common to them and to those of the church of Rome to search hearts and forgive sins, to work the miracle claimed at the Romish altar at the table of the protestant communion. May God grant that this may yet prove to be the determination of the great body of English laymen. You tell me these doctrines and practices have been suf fered to creep into our church. It is but too true, but it S not the whole truth. I can have no doubt that there are some amongst those whose sworn duty it is to protect the church against such treason to her protestant prin ciples, who, not only were content to suffer it, but, alas ! were too much disposed to welcome it ; to such men we am bound to my If, as overseers of a church which is established under the protest of centuries against Romish error, they now find they cannot be true to that church, they are bound by every social and religious principle to surrender their authority and retire from an office they can no longer hold with real peace to themselves or safety to the interests of those over whom they are appointed.' You, gentlemen, I am sure, will agree with me that tress are not the days in which it can be borne that public authority shall be made subeervieat to private prejudice. We are bound to respect the conscientious scruples and opinions of our fellow-creatures, but it is treason to truth and justice to leave the administration of the protestant church in the hands of men who take little pains to con ceal from us that they are more disposed to follow aad promote Romish prattlee than protest against it. It is foreign to the sprit of our constitution that what the ' Sovereign swore at her coronation to uphold, any, who are in authority under her, should deliberately reek to subvert. Again thanking you for the avowal of principles, so many of the laity in private profess to hold, and yet, are but too slow to putlicly exhibit, believe me to remain, yours sin seedy, Wintry G. Omnivore. Dzrnt — , ti fzh. 1567 ." -Salisbury Jeered. - THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL ON REFORM.—Sir John Kerslake, who is a candidate for the vacancy in the representation of Andover, addressed the eleiters on , Thursday evening. In the course of his speech the right , hon. gentleman, after explaining the circumstances which had led to his acceptance of his official position, and had ' brought him to seek their suffrages, observed, in Allusion to reform, that at last all parties had joined in an opinion I that the time was come when each and all should unite I together to effect, as far as was possible, such a settle. went of the question ' on a fair and equitable basis, as would set the master at rest, at any rate, for some years to come. He strongly deprecated the agitation of those who hail been going about the country for the purpose of exciting class against class, and persuad ing the working classes that they were '.a::Red their rights, and that they ought to obtain them by en constitutional methods. He desired that every man who had or thought be bad a grievance slioahl endeavour to get it redremsal ; if he thought that his voice was not heard in the representation, he should seek redress by the constitutional method of petitioning parliament. • But of late a resort had been made to the practice of aaseinbling men in large masses, for the purpose of intimi • dating the government and parliament. He did not like to see that. Nor did he like to are another practice which had been instituted of late, of mire) reacntoig gentlemen who bed spoken on the question of reform, for the pus ' pose of exciting the feelings of the working classes against them. There wasone honourable gentleman in ',articular from whom he differed in opinion. With relect to the measure that was about to be brought is, he trusted it would be met with that spirit of fairneas to which it was entitled. The right honounA.:e gentleman the leader of the opposition in the lower house said last year at Salisbury that it should meet with no factious op position from him. and in his speech in reply to the adds. on her Majesty's speech the right hon. gentlemen repeated the statement. But he was sorry to find that the noble lord the leader of the opposition in the upper Louse had not thought proper to adopt the mine tone. He thought that the conservatives had as good a right as anyone to , settle the question. It was not the special mission either of the liberals or whigs. (Hear, hear.) The state of affairs this year was different from what it had been pre : vionsly. tip to the opeuing of parliament Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone had been abroad, end on the es e of the session neither the noble leader of the opposition in the upper house nor the right honourable lea der of the oppo eition in the Holm of COIIIOIOIO gave their customary dinner to their supporters. But it was a singular feet that there was a dinner at the half-way house. (Laughter.) I Lord Grosvenor and his animorters, who ha i brCllllO I known as the Athilhimites, held a meeting, of which it was pretty certain more would he heard before the end of the j session. .111 now that parliament was aseemble,l, they did not see the Adellamites taking their usual place on the opposition benches. It night well be that they. finding that vast numbers of men were being collected in the metropolis and other great cities in tie provinces, and marched about the streets, baying for their avowed object manhood suffrage and the ballot, would hold themselves aloof, and say they could not submit to the demands of the ultra-liberal wasp, and dis connect themselves from those gentlemen, because they did not endorse their views. That was the position of poli tical affairs at present, and by and by, if a measure we, brought forward honestly attempting to effect a settle ment of the question upon a fair and equitable basis. and no factious opposition was made to it on tile port of the opposition as a body, Lord Derby would be entitled to the credit of it ; if he failed be would have .cone all that 1.. y in his power to set a much vexed question at rest, theezh he was not able to carry his measure. ' mere.) GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN -ROAD, ISLINGTON. —Number of patients for the week endiug Feb. V, btid, of which 273 were new cases. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1867. CLOSE OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. SPEECH OF THE KING. BERLIN, ft.. 9. The King of Prussia closed the Diet to-day in person. The Queen, the Crown Princess, all the Royal Princes, the Count of Flanders, and the English, French Russian, and Danish Ministers, were present. His Majesty, who was enthusiasti cally cheered by the members of the Diet, read the following speech : Illustrious, Noble, and Honourable Gentlemen of both Houses of the Diet,—At the close of a memorable and eventful period, I express to you my thanks for having assisted my government to bring those hopes to fulfilment which I coupled with this session. By granting the in- ,1 demnity for the financial administration of recent years, carried on without a budget-law, you have held out the hand to a settlement of the dispute upon a matter of principle, which had for years obstructed the 00-operation of my go- vernment with the representatives of the country. I en tertain the conviction that the experience gained, and a general correct understanding of the fundamental condi tions of our constitutional life, will conduce to avert the recurrence of similar events in future, By granting the extraonlinary supplies for the require ments of the army and the fleet, you have displayed your determination to guard what has been gained, in recogni tion of the results hitherto achieved by the policy of my I government, based upon the tried readiness and valour of my army. A further guarantee for the permanent observance of constitutional relations has been gained by the settlement of the budget before the com mencement of the present financial year. By provi sionally relinquishing various items of expenditure, which it is difficult to dispense with in carrying on the administration, my government has afforded a new proof of ' the value it attaches to agreement with the represents eves of the country. It is, therefore, all the better Ns ' tilled in hoping that the requirements in question will be admitted and satisfied at a future date. I recognise with I: especially warm thanks the readiness with which the re ' presentatives have granted my government the means of alleviating the position of soldiers incapacitated for labour l in battle for the fatherland, as well as the condition of the widows and orphans of the fallen. Now that parlia ment has afforded its efficient cooperation in carrying out the changes rendered necessary by the material enlarge , ment of Prussian territory, and has trustfully placed in my hands the transfer of the relations hitherto subsisting in the newly-acquired districts into full community with the older provinces, I may confidently expect that the inhabitants of all the countries now united with Prussia will feel themselves more and more at home in the great commonwealth of their fellow countrymen and recent neighbours, and will participate in the tasks falling to the share of the latter with increasing devotion. The preparations already made for their repre sentatives joining both houses of the Diet will contribute to strengthen and animate the consciousness of commit nity with the older portions of the monarchy. But in 1 especial the careful and conscientious watch over all the I germs of the public welfare, which the Prussian nation is accustomed to experience from its government and which has been materially promoted by the co-operation of the Diet with my goverment in the session just brought to a close, will enable the population of the new I provinces to receive the benefits of the new community 'in an ever-increasing degree. Assisted by agreement with the representatives of the country, my government has been able to call into existence important facilities and improvements in all departments of public life. The preparatory steps towards abolishing the salt monopoly, and the increase of judicial costs, the settlement of the relations of trading and other companies, the removal of the limitation of the rate of interest, the postal and commercial treaties, the conversion of the Pomeranian fiefs, the abolition of the Rhine navigation dues, the in crease of the salmis a of lower-class officials and of school masters, together with the grant of the supplies for the 1 construction and completion of important railways, will be hailed by large circles as grateful fruits of the session just completed. While the special development of the Prussian political system experiences a gratifying advance by the united co-operation of the representatives of the country with my government, the fact that the draft of the constitution for the North Ger man Confederation has been accepted by all the govern. meats allied with Prussia justifies me in the conviction that the German people will obtain—upon the basis of an united organisation such as Germany has hitherto vainly striven for during centuries of conflict—those blessings to which it is called by Providence, through the fulness of its inherent power and civilisation, as soon as it understands I how to maintain peace both at home and abroad. I shall look upon it as the highest glory of my crown if God has appointed me to devote the power of my people, strong by fidelity, valour, and education, to the re-establishment of the lasting unity of the German races and their sovereigns. I trust in God, who has so graciously guided us, that He will permit us to attain this object. THE WEST INDIES. The steamer American arrived at Liverpool yes terday, with dates from Kingston to January 18. Hostilities still continued between the British troops and volunteers and the Indians at Honduras. Sir Peter Grant bad left Jamaica for Belize, and rein forcements were being sent to the scene of the disturbances. MajorOoneral O'Connor was appointed Deputy-Governor of Jamaica during Sir Peter Grant's absence. The negrocs of St. Thomas-in-the-East, Hanover, St. James, and the Port Royal Mountains had struck for higher wages. The United States steamer Gettysburg had been to Kingston, and bad left on a secret mission. She had a large quantity of specie on board. Matamoras was stated to be her destination. MR. MOTLEY, THZ AMERICAN AMBASSADOR, AND IMB. SEWAUD.—The correspondence between the Washing i ton State Department and Mr. Motley, relative to the latter'a resignation of the Austrian mission, which was called for some time ago at Mr. Sumner's instance, has been sent to the Senate. There are but two letters, one from Mr. &want and one from Mr. Motley, though Mr. Seward's covers one from a person who is designated as an American gentleman who is travelling ill - Europe. It appears that this anonymous individual sent a letter to Mr. Seward, in which he charged, generally, that most of our ministers and chief commis in Europe are politi cal opponents of his administration, and that many of them are given to public denunci a ti on o f th e P res id en t land the Secretary of State. The writer specially mentions Mr. Marsh and Mr. Motley, saying that the latter had spoken of Mr. Seward as a degraded old man, and had ex ' 1 a decided preference for English customs and the Cli e s ' h government, as compared with our own. A copy of this document Mr. Seward sends to Mr. Motley, and his own letter is only long enough to ask the minister in diplomatic phrase what he has to say about these charges. Mr. Motley's reply is of some length. He begins by ex pressing his astonishment that such a letter should be sent to him by the department, and says his first thought was to content himself with a flat denial of the charges made by Mr. Seward's informer. He concludes, however, to make a more detailed answer. He does not stoop to deny the charge that he had spoken disrespectfully of the Secretary or the President. He meets that relative to his exec-a...lye admiration of English lawsand customs by saying that it cannot be believed by any one who knows him, or has ever read either his historical or philosophical writings. The general charge that he is opposed to the Prwident's policy brings from him a statement of his views. He says he has spoken of both the President and congress under his own roof and among his friends, and was not aware that • citizen living abroad, even in an official capacity, was debarred from holding and expressing views of his own regarding the great questions presented by the over throw of the rebellion. He soya he thinks we should abolish and for ever prohibit all legal and imlitical dis tinctions on account of race or colour, and this he would do by an amendment to the constitution. After such an amendment was adopted, be would declare • general amnesty to those who engaged in the rebellion. He closes by tendering his resignation, without assigning any cause for so doing. OXFORD, Fsz. 10.—OPENING THE UNION SO curry's Rooms ON StINDAT.—In order to give every mem ber of the University Union Society in residence the op portunity of voting on the following important motion, " That the society's rooms bo opened during the same hours on Sunday in term time as on week days," the poll will be taken on Monday next, in the steward's room, from the hours of half-past 9 to half-past 10 in the morning ; from half-past 3 to half-past b in the afternoon ; and from 7 to 9 in the evening. THE OCEAN YACHT RACE, CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AND KR. BF.NNETT. The New York papers publish the following cor respondence between the Duke of Edinburgh anti Mr. Bennett, jun. Of Cowes, Dec. 31, 1866. Your Royal Highness,—At Lord Lenn ox's dinner, on Friday last, you were pleased to match your yacht the " Viking " to sail the " Henrietta" around the Isle of Wight, next August, for a cup worth lOW. I would not say so then, because I was bound to make the match pro posed ; but, in fact, this arrangement will somewhat interfere with the disposition which I had determined to make of my yacht in case she should win the ocean race. I beg that you will accept as a new year's gift to an English yachtsman from an American yachtsman, the Henrietta, as she now lies in perfect order off Cowes, and I have instructed Cap tain Samuels to hold her subject to your orders. The un bounded hospitality with which the American yachtuten have been received by all classes in England will always be remembered in the United States with the warmest gratitude, and I sincerely hope that you will not deprive me of the opportunity of acknowledging this most cordial reception by presenting the winning yacht to the repre sentative of English yachtmen. I have the honour to remain very respectfully yours, J. CI. Brzartrr, jun. Clarmoe•house, Jan. 22, 1567. Dear Mr. Bennett,—l find it difficult to express how gratefully I appreciate the kindly feeling which dictated your letter of the 31st ult., as well as the splendid present which you offer to my acceptance, but most of all the deli. may with which you seek to diminish the personal obliga tion under which you would lay me by giving to you! generous offer an international character. It in, indeed, this last consideration only which has led me to hesitate in replying to your letter, for personally it would have been impossible for me to accept en costly a present, but I felt bound fully to consider the question in the light in which you were good enough to place it ; and if on full consideration I feel compelled to decline your generous offer, I trust that neither you nor your gallant competitors, nor your countrymen at large, will believe that the yachts. men of England less appreciate, or less reciprocate the feeling of good fellowship which prompted the offer. The Henrietta is a vessel which any man may feel proud to possess, and I trust she may long continue in the hands in which she has accomplished so triumphant a mom. We must try to find a rival to her, and do our beet in common with all Englishmen. I sincerely hope that such friendly rivalry may be the only description of contest in which our respective countries may ever be engaged. It has given us great pleasure to offer a cordial reception to you and your companions in England, and I feel assured that if my professional duties in command of one of her blajesty's ships should ever take me to your shores, I should there meet on the part of my brother seamen with • reception not less hearty than that which we have been happy to afford you here. Believe me yours, sincerely, ALPIIID. KO ram a. ST. JAMES'S. Holcroft's Road to Ruin—a comedy that has been more or less popular for three-quarters of a century— was revived at this house on Saturday night with perfect success. It is some years since it was performed at the Haymarket Theatre, to give Mr. Alfred Wigan an oppor tunity of appearing in the character of Goldfinch—a part now represented at the St. James's Theatre by Mr. Walter Lacy. The original cast at Covent-garden in 1792 stood thus :--Goldfinch, Lewis ; Old Dorntou, Mundeu ; Harry Dornton, Holman ; Silky, Quick ; Sulky, Wilson ; Mil ford, Harley ; Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Mattocks ; Sophia, Mrs. Merry; and Jenny, Mrs. Marlowe. The prologue, on its first representation, was spoken by Fawcett, who &boob six years afterwards played Goldfinch, when the comedy was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre. Holcruft, essentially a "self-made man," was an actor amongt many other things, and knew the stage and its capabilities ; hence the success of this, the best of all his numerous plays. The present cast at the St. James's is very effective. Mrs. Frank Matthews has no equal on the stage as the Widow Warren ; Mr. Walter Lacy is a dashing Goldfinch, a character that has lost more by the lapse of time than any other part in the comedy ; Mr. Stoyle is an excellent Mr. Silky, Miss E. Balton is full of girlish sim plicity as Sophia, and Mr. Henry Irving would be an ad mirable Harry Dornton it his action was less restless, and his acting showed leas apparent effort. Mr. Frank Matthews and Mr. Charles represent Old Dornton and Milford. THE JAPANESE.-ST. MARTIN'S•HALL The newly-arrived Japanese, the jugglers and acrobats, not the ambassadors and gentlemen who are anxious to study English manners and the English lan guage, gave • " private" representation at the above hall on Saturday afternoon, of the entertainment which they will present to the public this evening in the same spacious building. Belonging to a race who have only been recently " opened up," to use commercial language, their arrival in this country has excited unusual interest, and many people will doubtless be willing to pay a shilling to stare at them, apart from their talent as jugglers and acrobats. The platform on which they exhibit is somewhat rudely fitted up with poles and bamboo-canes, tied together with ropes, and it is upon this scaffolding that some of the " high" performances take place. The stage underneath is adorned with a variety of articles of Japanese manufacture that look like brightly coloured models of machinery. The feats exhibited on Saturday consisted chiefly of top spin. ning and butterfly fluttering—two essentially oriental tricks that have often been imitated, but never equalled by Europeans. The tricks with spinning tops are marvel lous exhibitions of dexterity, the tops—fashioned more like teetotums than English tops—being hurled high in the air, caught upon the points of canes, and made to travel along the edges of swords and fans, and over a man's back. The butterfly trick is quite • poetical imitation of nature ; and it is only the acrobatic performances that fall below the European level. One Japanese has • monkey-like power of holding on to bamboos with his feet, but the high tricks generally were rather clumsily performed. It is only fair to ■ay that the " Blondin of the troupe," a performer on the slack wire, was unable to exhibit in con sequence of an accident met with on board ship. The per formances are all conducted with Oriental coolness and contempt for time, and are accompanied by true discordant Japanese music. One of the children sang a song that caused much merriment, though doubtless intended to be serious, and there was a chorus of the charity-school order. Several of the performers have considerable power as actors, and the butterfly juggler's face is a study for coolie physiognomist'. The Japanese dresses are brilliant and peculiar, the distinction be tween men and women not being very strongly marked. St. Martin's-hall is no longer the dingy collection of vaults which it was • few mouths ago, and has been for several years past. It is newly painted, decorated, and lighted, and the principal entrance and grand staircase have no equals in London, except at Covent-garden or Drury-lane. The Japanese have fitted up the place with articles brought from Yokohama, including paper lanterns, which are superior in size and design to the celebrated Chinese lanterns. The entertainment can only be continued at this hall for a fortnight, the place having been taken for a series of promenade concerts with novel features, by Me F. Strange, acting for the Alhambra Company (Limited). Usrvza.srn• Corazon, LONDON —Dr. Hodgson, one of the members of the Council, has resigned his east on account of his strong disapprobation of the conduct of that body in setting aside the high claims of Mr. Marti neau, in refusing to call a special meeting of proprietors in de fi ance of the Charter, and in appointing a professor for the vacant chair in anticipation of the result of that meeting. We understand that the controversy is not settled by the fate of Mr. H. H. Hutton's motion at the late meeting. Mr. N. D. Christie, who took a prominent part in the recent discussion, has, we are informed, given notice of a motion to be brought forward at the next meeting of proprietors, when we presume the battle will be fought over again.—initotrcr. [STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONAL.] THE NATIONAL REFORM UNION. A working men's meeting was held on Friday evening in the Blaine Town-hall, in connexion with the Huhne branch of the National Reform Union. After tea, and the performance of a selection of music, the chair was taken by the Rev. A. HALL. Amongst those present on the platform were—Mr. Jacob Bright, Mr. J. B. Torr, Mr. R. D. Rusden, Mr. W. Warburton, Mr. Thomas Roberts, Mr. Councillor W. J. Williams, Mr. E. S. Green, Mr. James Derbyshire, Mr. B. Chappell, Rey. J. W. Rid ley, Mr. W. Brown, Mr. J. F.,. Belies, Mr. Joseph Spencer. The CHAIRMAN regretted the absence of Mr. George Wilson, the president of the National Reform Union, a. man who was not only a politician in whom the people had confidence, but one of the highest Christian character—a • man with broad sympathies, and whose life had been devoted to the welfare of the people. (Loud cheers.) He proceeded to say that the great masses of the people of this country were determined that the balance of political Power should he changed, anal that, unless the scale was turned justly, they would kick the beam, until the weight came down on the right side. Referring to recent conti nental changes, out of which had sprung an united Ger many, and in Italy a free church in a free state, he then pointed to the example of America, where there were no game laws, and no state churches, and where the people had the possession of the land, and said that the time had come when the people of England demanded a reform in this direction, and urged upon all reformers the duty of united action to procure such a change. (Cheers.) Mr. JACOB BRIGHT then addressed the meeting. He said that the great leading, or misleading journal— 1 (cheers)—the journal of the privileged classes—had an nounced that the government intended to deal with re form, not by a bill, but by resolution. That did not nor prise him, considering their antecedents. If they brought m a bill they would of necessity have to stand or fall by it, and in that case he suspected their fall would be speedy. (Hear.) This would be avoided by proceeding by resolution ; but, in any case, the latest opinions of 1 the tory government on this question would be known by Monday night. Mr. Disraeli was a very clever man, but be had now a task before him that would tax the whole of his powers—to give, or rather not to give, but to seem to give. (Hear, hear.) His business was to send the people to their homes somewhat satisfied with the notion that their political claims had been granted, when he hail no intention whatever of granting , those claims. If the people of this country were like i a certain German philosopher, whose dinner was eaten by somebody else while waiting for him, and who, seeing nothing but the bones, fancied he must h ave lied his dinner and forgotten all about it-(laughter)—then Mr. 1 Disraeli might find them very good subj ects to try his hand upon ; but, thanks to the Reform Union —(cheer)— anal other organisations throughout the country, the pee- ple had been brought to understand this question, and whatever the government proposed would be minutely exa mined. (Hear.) It would be impossible for them to palm any delusion upon the country. (Hear, hear.) If to be a great, Miter of phrases was to be a statesman, then Mr. Disraeli should occupy a high place in the roll of English statesmen. We owed to him the phrases, " lateral exten sion of the suffrage " anal " degradation of the suffrage." If the latter term were his, as he (Mr. i ht) be lieved it was, then he must congratulate Mr. Disraeli ' upon expressing in one word the obnoxious ideas and in- sults which Mr. Lowe required many long paragraphs to express. (Loud cheers.) These two terms indicated pre cisely where the tories were on the question of the fran chise. Their bill might give a greater number of rotes than the hill which Mr. Gladstone offered last year, but it would be quite easy to do that without going below the 10/. line. It might be arranged that all those men who were socially connected with the class of ten-pounders should come upon the register, and thus give a wide , extension to the franchise, without touching the great la ! hour-producing class of the country at all. (Hear, hear.) But if the tones, and those who were so much like tories on the other side of the house—(hear, hear)—combined to I pass a measure like that, this question would simply still remain unsettled. (Hear, hear.) The working men of !England would carry on this struggle, and would never cea.e until they had achieved those rights which nobody in argument could deny them. (Cheers.) The term "degra dation of the franchise" was very suggestive ; as used by its author, it meant that the franchise would be dete riorated if it were extended beneath the 10/. line. But was the franchise now only in very worthy hands? Did the men who at present held it exhibit great purity and great honour in the manner in which they used it ? It seemed to him that such boroughs as Lancaster and Totnes, and other boroughs of the same class that had not been found out—(hear, hear)--did not show that the franchise was free from degradation in the hands of its present possessors. hear, and cheers.) What was to be said of the counties (Hear,The franchise was never honour ably used except when men went independently and with knowledge to the polling-booth, and gave their vote for the representative of principles that accorded with their own ; but the great farming class of England had to give their votes as a condition of holding the farms they cultivated. (Hear, hear.) That seemed to him to be a degradation of the 'franchise. (Cheers.) This phrase was applied by Mr. Disraeli in opposition to a bill which admitted only the very cream of the working classes ; but if it were correctly applied to these, then the masses of the non-electors of England were the very dregs of Christendom, and if the civilisation of England were to disappear to-morrow the world ought to have no regrets about it. (Cheese.) But if this were true, what about oar boasted institutions—(hear, head—what about the in fluence on our literature—what about our religion—(hear, hear)—which had been held to have more influence upon the life of a nation than anything else? (Hear, hear.) All these things were a delusion if the population remained so degraded. (Hear, hear.) The taxies were in an awkward position. They were on the horns of this dilemma—if the half of what they said of the mental and moral un worthiness of the English working class were true, they ought to be removed to make way for another class who would endeavour by legislative measures to elevate them— (hear hear)—but if it were not true, then the Inifrn k ie ihotdd be generally extended. (Cheers.; Monopolists were always unscrupulous when their privileges were assailed, anal it would be remembered how ready they were to attack societies and to libel individuals—but it had been reserved for the monopolists of power in England to libel a whole people. (Hear, bear.) It sometimes excited his surprise that so many people who in no wise partook of the honours or emoluments of privilege should be so ready to back the privileged orders, and an unwilling to help the people. Custom, as had been often said, was second nature. There was nothing that had so much power to lift us up out of those conventional distinctions as communion with the' best of our poets. They taught the kinship of the race—the brotherhood of rich and poor. A gifted poetess had said : Learn more reverence • Not for wealth, that needs no learning; That comes quickly—quick as sin does— Aye, and often leads G. sin But for Adam's seed, man, trust me— lt Is clay above your scorning; With God's imagestamped upon it. And God's quickening breath within. (Cheers.) A suggestion had been made that the tories would give a household suffrage in large towns, and a more restricted suffrage to small towns. It was very easy to give what was not their own. (Hear hear.) The liberal party almoat possessed all the la rge towns as it was, and if the tories were to surrender them without a contest, it would not snake much difference in what was called the balance of power. (Hear, hear.) But he had been accustomed to think that the physician should be sent to the sick, and not to the whole. It was the small boroughs that required more freedom. (Hear, hear.) After remarking that in Scotland sod in the entailer towns of England thousands of educated families lived in houses below 10i., who would be paying M. if they lived in large towns, he referred to the proposal to alter the boundaries of boroughs, and urged that to interfere with the boundaries from the motives avowed by Mr. Disraeli was an insult to Englishmen, at a tinie when they were asking fur parliamentary reform. (Hear, hear.) He concluded by contrasting the two grtat parties in the state—the one distrusting the people, and the other believing in the people ; the one cruel and selfish, and the other generous and just ; the one seeking their own class and sectional objects, and the other striving for the benefit of the whole nation. He ooucluded by moving:—" That this meeting, remembering the factious and relentless opposition of the tory leaders against Mr. Gladstone 's Reform Bill of last year, and their denunciation of the policy of the late government on reform, on the ground that it was revolu• tionary and dangerous to the safety and stability of the , nation, hereby expresses it. belief that it is impossible ; for men holding such convictions to deal with the question ' of parliamentary reform in a rational and just manner ; but should they declare on Monday next their intention to bring in such a measure as would embrace the four points in the programme of the National Reform Union, i this meeting pledges itself to support them by every means in its power." (Cheers.) The motion was wooded by Mr. R. D. Rusilen. Ito raid it had become a hackneyed expression to my that we were standing in the midst of a great crisis in our national history, but, as a matter of fact, if we passed our eye thoughtfully along the great path that society was travel ling, we could not help feeling that we were indeed ap proaching a point where wo must lay down one of those , great historic milestones or landmarks that would point ' out to all future generations how tar Englishmen in our • day have advanced in the career of progress. It depended ; mainly upon the masses of the people of England whether that landmark should bo worthy of the age or not. He knew that the working classes, who must make the great struggle, had great difficulties to contend with. He knew that the persistent policy of the tory and church party in keeping the bread of education away from the mouths of , the people had at any rate had this effect—that when they were engaged in this great struggle for their liberties they found shim° number of their own enter paralysed by the