The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

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LINS.A.IId JILIN DA INUITI)T— MOH WATER AT LOBDOS /AWOL Daitilfr•- -- Pi. Ike 1.4. I wa~.ii-,i.~ey a sa.__._.. K "ii. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 4. WHIN the patience ota People has been thoroughly exhausted, and they have made up their minds to parley no more with oppression, it signifies nought , what motives inspire the casual acts of those in I authority, or how intrinsically inoffensive those acts may be : they are distrusted, becauee their authors are looked on as enemies, and because nothing is neatest in civil war. Tho accounts that reach us daily from Italy are full of graphic details illustrative of the inexorable hatred that prevails towards the despotic rulers of that distracted land. The minute sees of some of these details, like those given us in photographs, brings to the mind irre sistible conviction of the literal truth of all the rest of the picture. It is easier to , distort or even invent wide-spread conspiracies, symptoms of intended outbreak and sanguinary col lision between the troops and populace, than a num ber of isolated manifestations of inarticulate national feeling betrayed in the various peculiar forms of social life. The Archduke MAXIMILIAN is one day reported to have wished to give a Christmas ball, but to have failed in obtaining the attendance of a sufficient number of persons of condition. As he passes through a public place, accompanied by his youthful wi'e, a nobleman attached to his household fails to make the usual obsequious saluta tion; whereupon the nobleman, notwithstand ing his shortness of sight and profession, of regret for the inadvertence, is ordered into temporary baniehment from the Court and city. The Viceitoe appears in his box at La Scala; many of the audience rise and endeavour to quit the theatre, bat are not permitted to do so ; whereupon they re turn to their seats, refuse to applaud the pieces though the work of a Piednionteee composer, and the moment the curtain falls, pot on their hats as the only means in their power of showing their dis affection. Madame RIsToP.I, whose magic utter ance of a few patriotic lines in the part of Judith caused a sensation so electric among her Venetian audience last September, was engaged with other eminent artists to appear at Naples during the pre sent month. Whether for the purpose of punishment or prevention her passport was refused at the last mo meat, while the rest of the company were permitted to wend their 'southward way. Mantua has, ever since 1848, been undergoing successive courses of massive incrustation in the shape of defensive works, and o f internal demolition and reconstruction with the like view, until the place has become at length one huge fort, and its ordinary life reduced to that of a bar rack. Such is the spot where the de-popularised Archduke MAXIMILIIN has ordered suitable apart ments to be prepared for his residence without delay. In several of the old Lombard cities the civic palaces, which have hitherto been considered the property of the Government, have been offered to the muni cipalities on the payment of a certain price, which it is understood must not be refused. The Alll• trians remember how utterly unable they were in 1848 to do more than hold their own at one or two points, and they thus prepare betimes to diminish the number of those that, in nee of in surrection, would be left defenceless, and which, if regarded as Government buildings, would certainly not be spared. Pavia, the principal seat of higher instruction, has been declared in a state of collegiate siege. The students have for some time been sus pected of rebellious designs, and the violent death of • veterinary surgeon, who had long been unpopular on account of his opioioes, and who was said by some to be a spy. has recently led to the wholesale ostracism of all the students whose families do not belong to the town. Practically, this amount*, for the time being, to the suppression of the Univer sity. The fagots are no longer bound together in one place; but having become ignited, are !scattered throughout the country. Finally, there are never ending quarrels between the native populace and the German soldiery on the hourly recurring subjeot of smoking. This favourite indulgence has been all but universally renounced by the Italiens, while their gaolers as universally persevere in it. Taunts and gibes are heard at every corner, and they are not unfrequeutly accumismied by still more pro• . yoking gestures, and even by blows. How long is it possible for such a state of tension to last We ran readily imagine that the youthful but feeble Vti root does sincerely what he can to adminieter petty emollients, and tries to hope against hops that the impending crisis may he indefinitely deferred, if not altogether averted. But it is pitiably palpable that efforts like his can have no appreciable effect is stilling the mute passions and inveterate enmities of an incensed people. The very atm,. Owes is charged with the fatal element, and son ran tell the moment of explosion. Assn, do ma magicians that infest every court of sodas tines. as they did that of PliAllAoll of old, pretending Snow the secret of thine terrible signs that in reality are neither wrought nor dispelled by their enchant iambi, we are told by diplomatists that as long as the Freneh EN; prima pleases ha can restrain the THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EMING, JANUARY 4, 1859. elements from combustion, and that at his command • all Italy is prepared to rise. There is cunning and purpose in this flattering lie—for lie it is, so far as the restraining power attributed to LOUIS NAPOLEON is concerned. The partisans of legitimacy and of the status quo are moving heaven tad earth to dissuade the nephew of NAPOLEON from crossing the Alps. With the exception of Russia, which has her own resentments to wreak and her own ulterior projects to promote, all the leading Cabinets of Europe are busily engaged in spinning a huge spider's web of cajolery in which they hope to catch hisporrenu Majesty. We only hope that our own Government may not commit itself too far for timely extrication and retreat from this unworthy work. Lord DERBY= never be told too often that England will have none of it. Any accident may set the Italian Peninsula on fire from one end to the other ; and in such an event the King of SARDINIA has no choice but to head the movement or be over whelmed by it. To expect Nsroutox 111. to stand by unmoved under such circumstances is mere fatuity. He may not, either publicly or furtively, take any step to precipitate the crisis; he may pos sibly think it a fine stroke of policy even to promise not to do so, and if he promises he may keep his word. But he is no more answerable for what may happen in Italy than he is for the change of the weather, and, when the critical hour arrives, he will naturally declare himself freed from obligations whose whole basis will have been changed. If, in the sequel, England desires to exercise any moral or material influence for good, her duty and policy now is to abstain rigorously and impartially from all par. ticipation either in aggressive or defensive plot tinge. We do not choose to go warfaring with a despotic Ally in favour of Italy's nationality; and we are thoroughly resolved not toga warfaring in equally bad political company against it. The British Government could have no security that in the event of successful joint-intervention by arms, France would agree to the establishment of consti tutional freedom in the Peninsula ; and it were in sufferable that a second time during the life of one generation we should spend our blood and trea sure to rid Italy of one form of despotism only to hand her over to another. ITALY. SARDINIA. (11011 OUR OWN COHRZSPONDINT) TURIN, Die. 28, I&58. There is no relaxation here in those preparations which seem to indicate the likelihood and proximity of war. Besides some extraordinary efforts for sup plying the army with clothe. and other requisites, the workshops of the military arsenal are busy getting ready some new field-batteries. The day before yesterday General Garribaldi was summoned from Nice to Turin by a telegraphic message. You are aware that this retired officer enjoys some celebrity on account of his military deeds in Spanish America, bat much more for the fine defence of Rome in 1848 against the French, in which exploit he was the chief performer. His principal talent, however, consists in the training and management of guerilla troops. Having long ago broken off all connexion with the party and tenets of Mazzini, he has given several proofs of attachment to the Sardinian government, and being himself a man of action, as the phrase goes, his sudden call to Turin is not devoid of interest. It has come to my knowledge that he was questioned upon two points.—First, how, in case of war, he would set to work to organise and mobilise a national guard? Secondly, how and in what space of time he could raise bodies of volun teers, so uto have ten thousand men ready for the field ? Garribaldi has already returned to Nice where be usually resides, and where he will wait for fresh orders. I think lam likewise correctly informed respecting another very significant circumstance. Yesterday the banker Franchetti, a son-in-law of one of the Rothachilds, Ido not know precisely which, signed in the name of that house a contract—a con ditional one, I believe—for the purchase of the Sar dinian railways belonging to the government. These particulars and others more circumstantial, on which I maintain silence, keep up the general opinion here, that extraordinary events are not remote. Now, although the political horizon may appear cloudless, more serene indeed than ever, there are many persons here who, like the old and experienced pilot, say, "Do not be too confident, there will be a storm to morrow." The Sardinian government has a sort of dispute with that of Austria about a treaty between the two countries for the suppression of smuggling, but this cannot become the cause of any serious con test, particularly now that the Austrian government has come to regard every subject so smilingly. It seems clear that they have sent instructions, not to say orders, to the Duke of Modena, advising or re quiring him in future to be more courteous and ob liging. The secret intercourse between the Sardinian court and that of the Tuileries is sa actively carried on as ever, but it is entirely removed from the pale of diplomacy, In the meantime, the effervescence in the minds of the people is spreading rapidly over the whole of Italy. Lombardy has re-attained the same pitch of excitement she reached in 1848, but with this differ ence, that whereas at that period the middle and lower classes remained cold, they all share now in the deep irritation of the higher orders. Nevertheless there is • conviction that partial and sanguinary Cella icts will not take place, because the agitation, if we may call it by that name, has prudent and provi dent chiefs to direct it. On its aide, the government is carrying out a system of tolerance and mere defence. General Stadion said the other evening at the Duke of L.'s, that in the present Mate of the Lombardo-Venetian king dom it was of no use having recourse to imprison ment and shackles ; the question could only be solved on the field of battle at the cannon's mouth. The signs of public hostility and of the strict feeling of union obtaining amongst all classes are growing more palpably distinct. The most circumspect and far-sighted leaders of this huge conspiracy, which as yet can only be termed a moral and pacific one, were not desirous of seeing the determination to abstain from smoking persevered in any longer, being of opinion that it would necessitate frequent collisions with the police. But the people at large will not have it otherwise, so that now, from the Ticino to the Luso, smoking has ceased. At a town in Lombardy there was just now an an nouncement in the playbills, that on that evening would be performed at the theatre a comedy by Brofferio, a deputy to the Sardinian parliament. The crowd was immense, and incessant cries were raised in honour of the Piedmontese, of King Vittorio Emanuele, and of his Chamber of Deputies. The police endeavoured, but in vain, to put an end to the shouting, and so orders were given for the dropping of the curtain. These demonstrations harm no one, but the assusination committed at Pavia, of which I spoke in my last, has afflicted every right-minded person. You have already learned that all the I students of that University have been sent home, and the decree for shutting it up is generally expected. A worth mentioning is this, that at Vienna they are no lees persuaded of an approaching war than we are at Turin. There they think the recent occurrences in Servia were brought about through the instigation of France, with a view to compromise Austria. The official gazette of Rome, under date of the 24th of December, denies that there is any misunder standing between the French and Papal govern ments. For all that, the private letters I receive from influential and well-informed parties residing in the Eternal City assure me th►t a coolness does exist between Cardinal Antonelli and the Duke of Grammont. The latter, who had taken up the case of the boy Mortara, is extremely mortified that France's remonstrance and entreaties should have been so fruitless. On the other side, the Pope no longer affects to conceal the annoyance occasioned him by the reinforcement of the French garrison, a step he had opposed, and which ban been effected in defiance of his wishes. Another cause of the un pleasantness between the two governments is the fortifying of Civita Vecchia, which the French are very zealous about, but which is an eyesore to the Pope. I wrote you word some time ago, that the French plan at first was to form a military camp, but the Pope, backed by foreign diplomacy, inter posed his veto. Now, under the pretext of the town's increasing size, they want to connect the new walls with some military work, which is identical with what the Austrians are doing at Ancona. A few days ago, General Goyon presented to Pio Novo the plan of new works approved by Marshal Valliant. The Holy Father refused to sanction it, saying that he had been accustomed to affix his signature in company with those of other sovereigns, sometimes ,indeed at their head, but never yet by the side I at a Marshal's. In Rome also, the rumours of war are rife and excite apprehension. In the Romagna the exaltation is very great, and se the government cannot check it, they considerately let matters take their course. You are probably aware, that the King of Naples has decreed an extraordinary levy of eighteen thousand men, and that there is great activity in his military arsenals. These and other proceedings would little avail Ferdinand 11. if war should at any time break out in Italy. He has conducted the affairs of his kingdom in such a way that he would be unable to resist the least ex ternal shock. I should be sorry to appear to you as a man haunted by one idea, but allow me to repeat that English diplomacy has committed a grave error in not using all its energy and ability to pat a stop by some means or other to the tyranny of this monarch. The result of the error is that the finest and most populous part of Italy lies exposed to the ambition of foreigners. INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Bombay Times of December 9 states that the intelligence from Oude is extremely gratifying, the Talookdars universally submitting themselves where ever oar arms appear. The chief and most active of our opponents is Beni Mandoo Sing, bat Lord Clyde (who entered the city of Lucknow on the morning of the 27th of November) is threatening him with an immediate checkmate by the closing in of our columns upon him. "He may succeed in forcing himself through the cordon being drawn around him, bat it will be by leaving his 25,000 men and 12 guns behind him. Serious fighting i no longer expected in the province." Oomrao Sing of Heaths, another rebel notoriety, still holds out, and made an attempt it is said to surprise Poorna a short time since. The work of reducing the province between the Gogra and the Ganges is proceeding rapidly, the rebel forts being demolished u they are surrendered. The teat of rebel power and influence Trans gogrs, is still at Boanree where the Beghum and Ikba Shah hold court. The whole, however, are reported to be preparing for flight. The miscreant of Bithoor is still it is supposed on the confines of Nepaul. Brigadier Smith reports having surprised Menu Sing and about 2,400 men, on the 14th of November, at Kooodry, and having pursued them to Raj pore, killing six hundred. A forced march of twenty miles from Mongroulie on the Betwa brought the troops to within two miles of Attakaria on the 13th. At four o'clock the next morning the column started again, and came upon the enemy at daylight. The surprise was complete, and the rout immediate. The guns of Blake's troop arrived at the gallop, and poured in round after round of grape and canister, the 95th Regt. advancing in line on the right of the guns and sweeping the in surgents before them. The Bth Hussars and let Lancers were now let loose at the flying mass, and pursued them for eight miles, accounting, it is said, for 600 of them. Mann Sing himself escaped by flinging himself, half naked, upon horseback. General Grant, on the 2lst November, encountered the enemy on the other side of the Goorotee, 4,500 strong, and dispersed them, killing 100 men and taking six guns. Captain George Hare, commandant of the sth Infantry Hydrabad Contingent, was shot dead by a Sepoy on the evening of the Ist inst., whilst sit ting in the officers' mess at Ellichpore. Of Tantia Tepee the Bombay Times reports : The interest of the war may almost be said to be confined to the pursuit of this man, who with • body of followers, supposed to consist of ■bout moo fighting men, besides women and children, has again oontrived to elude our troops, and is now supposed to be in Ga mest. Parke, whose pursuit of these insurgents over half of Central India had been hitherto so constantly baulked, aeons at last to have come up with them by dint of hard marching, upon the morning of the Ist instant, and to have given them • severe defeat. The only particulars as yet re ceived of the engagement are contained in the following telegram from the Resident at Bared*. Brigadier Parke writes as follows from Chats Oodeypore on the Ist hut : " The force under ray command attacked the rebels under Tends Topee and Ben Sahib at Oodeypore at daylight this morning. The enemy lost at taut three hundred men, chiefly Irregular Cavalry end Sepoys in British uniform. Our loss comparatively trifling, not yet ewer- Mined. No European officers killed. The rebels dispersed into three bodies; pursuit was impossible, my troops hiving marched upward, of 200 miles since 23rd November, the lest 20 miles through the densest jungle." The latest Intelligence received is that Tioatia Tepee hen at last entered Onzerat, where vigorous effort* are being made to meet him. Sir Hugh Rose cannot be for behind Parke, end has with him a powerful and well appointed force. It will be in the recollection of our readers, that Tantia Topee was originally attended in his flight by the Rao Saheb (nephew of the miacreant Nana) and by the Nuwab of Banda. The Rao still remains with the insurgents, but the Newel, surrendered himself to Lieutenant Kerr's force neer Charws on the 17th ultimo, from sheer inability, it is alleged, longer to sustain the privations and sufferings of the flight. Whe ther the hands of this man ere stained with the actual murder of our countrymen seems doubtful, end hie fate has not yet, we believe, been decided upon. The surrender to Lieutenant Kerr was made upon the single condition that hie life should be spared until the instructions of the supreme government were received. An insurrectionary movement on a small scale has occurred in Burmah province, in which the village of Thorantay, distant about ten miles from Ran goon, was temporarily in the hands of a band of insurgents led by a fisherman who announced himself subsequently as prince. During the affray the civil officer of the station and his nephew were wounded, the latter, we regret to add, dying the day after. The rebels do not appear to hare been guilty of the excesses which have marked the revolt in India. "To prevent the possibility of any assistance being rendered by the Burmese of Rangoon, the guards were ordered to be strength ened, and sepoys were picqueted over the town. Two steamers were immediately dispatched with all the available troops, and in a couple of days, fifty-three of the gang were secured. There was at first a difficulty in capturing the soi disaftt prince, but the offer of a reward of a thousand ru pees induced the villagers to give him op. He is now in jail, awaiting only his trial and transfer to the gallows. In extenuation of his treason, he pleads instigation on the part of a Burman official at Wallah, on whom the authorities here placed much confidence." DEATH OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN JACOB. (PROM OUR OWN OOKIMPONDINT.) BOMBAY, Dec•. 9. News has just reached Bombay, by electric tele graph, of the death of Brigadier-General John Jacob, of the Scinde Home. This melancholy event took place on the sth instant, at Jaoobabed, l Scinde, brain fever being the muse of death. At a time like the present a casualty of this kind is little less than a public calamity. Brigadier Jacob held Scindeand the entire frontier in his grasp. The wild tribes regarded him with mingled feelings of fear and superstition, and even the rudest of their chiefs respected his authority and obeyed his mandates. Brigadier General Jacob was an artillery officer, having been appointed to the Hone Brigade in 1827. He was a complete soldier, and like Napoleon had mastered all the details and duties of his profession. The Mode Horse, of which he was for so many years Commandant, are regarded as the finest troops in the world. Whatever he undertook to perform he performed well, and whether we look upon him as a soldier, a general, an inventor, a philosopher, or a politician, we per ceive only the highest and most brilliant qualities. His death will be deeply and generally regretted. We (Bombay Times, Dec. 9) have muzh satisfac tion in announcing the arrival et a reinforcement for the miealoes of Weasem India. The Re►. Messrs. Galbreath sad Hofer and Mrs. Hofer, in count:ion yob the Church Mimeisnary Society, arrived by the Windsor Cantle. We believe that Mr. Galbreath will, after the lapse of some months devoted to the study of the language, mum carp of the Money Institution, end that Mr. Hofer is destined to the Jocose/ stake. AUSTRALIA. We have received letters and papers from Melbourne, dated Nov. 19, and from Sydney, Nov. 11. The following summary of news is from the Melbourne Commercial Report, issued by the Mel bourne Brokers' Association : MELBOURNE, Nov. 15, 1848. There is but little commercial news of interest to repot for the past month. At this time of year there is generally considerable activity in trade, as the rammer meson is the moat impotent one In point of demand, and all classes of thetrading community are confidently expecting and prepared for • favourable movement in business. Instead of that seasonable demand there appear, to be • settled dullness, from which even the large consumpe don going forward, end the movements of a few speculators, affnd no relief, so great are our stocks, and so constant and heavy the snivels, that but little difference is peroeptible; and the merchants, as usual, are complaining of the abeam of Mutineer, and the went of profit attending their opera. done. In fact, it is extremely doubtful if, for the past two years, importing has been a profitable business. Stable's circular advises us of the overpowering shipments being made from England and elsewhere; but, large as they are, they fall far short of the actual quantities landed in this city. We are not only overstocked with goods, but also with merchant* and traders, and too little capital to support them, the result of which is, that In order to keep up a standing and position to induce consignments, in too many instance* erroneous statements of the market are sent home, false hopes of improvement and profit are held ont to shippers, sal so month after month we have the same tale to tell of glutted markets, end the same unprofitable results to exhibit. Many of cur shopkeepers and up-country traders, taking advantage of the fall in prices, have laid In large stocks d goods at the reduced rates, more than their ordinary trade requires, prima continue to fall, and they find themselves with large stocks purchased at higher rates than those riding in the market. Competition and very high ratite have re duced their profits, and they experience great difficulty in ' meeting their engagements. They are, therefore, not in e position to enter into much greater liabilities ; extraordinary high rates of intereetare paid for loans, money becomes tight, extreme caution is exercised in giving credit, and the baneftd effects of this system of mending is long felt throughout the colony. Very much of the depression we are now sof. faring from may be traced to the extraordinary system cif indenting lately practised, and the facilities for inordinate speculation given to men who, possessed of but small means, having little to lose, are reclaims of consequences, go in to win largely, or lose &little. The severe losses lately sustained by many of the firma giving these facilities, will, we trod, check this unwholesome system for the future. To account for the continued exams in shipments from home, in the face of the heavy losses so long sustained, and the repeated warnings given, is almost Impoesible. It was formerly the custom of a few merchants to ship immediately on receipt of advices of a glutted market, as the majority got slimed and reseed to ship, and the result was generally satisfactory, am the market had time to clear itself, and so left the few a Aar margin of profit ; but now it sppeare the rule for all to continually act upon this principle. The sites effected by auction have been comparatively email, with the exception of a heavy sale of brandies and other spirits, at much lower prices than those previously ruling, the holders being anxious to gait their stocks before the advice of the shipments of the new Pelson brandie, (which are anticipated to be heavy) are received. The telegraph was opened through from Melbourne to Sydney on the 30th ult., which has already had the effect of saainakating prices in the two market., and will doubtlese be of great benefit to both colonies. The mail from England, due on the 6th inst., bee not yet arrived. Great anxiety is felt for the advice! to be received rest-acting the new postal service, as the inconvenience and lose sustained by the irreeularities of the late service, it is hoped, will be remedial in the new arrangement. The &deices of an improvement in the Engliah wool market have had a very cheering effect; se many of of our merchants are largely interested. There bets been considerable competition at the recent wool sales, and very fall rates have been given, in anticipation, we presume, of a bother rise—otherwise unwarranted in our opinion by prices ruling at home. The extraordinary excitement connected with Port Carle has completely died away, the reported rich gold Heide having proved a failure, and after experiencing much suffer ing, the greater portion of those who landed have returned, whilst ship-loads of passengers have come back without setting toot on shore, several veseels going only ea fee as Sydney, and on receipt of the bad new* have set ell foe Robson's Bay. There are still a few . prospecting at Peet Curtis, hoping to discover a paying goldrield. This we, perhaps, one of the nitwit extraordinary end sudden manias ever witerneed, woe thousands of people rushing away to • tropical climate, upon the strength of a. mere rumour. As If in counteraction to the Port Cartia mania, new end rich gold fields are being discovered in Victoria, which will eventually attract a considerable population to our poet. Large finds of golds are advised as having hemmed* at Buninyong,in Nee South Wales, The disputes between the shareholders and directors Mike National Bank of Australasia continue, but there is not the woe spirit and determination to oppose the directors mani fested, and we expect ere long to see the opposition die • and the bunk take that favourable position which it promised at its commencement. The bank is now open for ',weenie, and has lately opened a branch at Echoes, sad about to open one at Adelaide. It is feared the unseasonably hot weather we have lately had will have caused serious damage to our crops; in fact, we are advised that such hag been the came in many of the country districts. The money market is still tight and it is di ffi cult to die coact any but really first class bills. The greatest caution is used by merchants in giving credit, which, although it restricts huskiest, operationa, must even tually be productive of beneficial result/4 The arrivals ;Moats during the past and previous months have been unusually large. From Sept. 11 to Oct. 2 they wow 210,994 bushels; from Oct. 2 to Oct. 30 they were 120,300 bushels—Total, 331,194 bushels. Oar stocks are exceedingly heavy, and the quantities known to be on the way very considerable. It is thought that California, Rum* the Bettie, and other northern ports will supply us with considerably more than we expect ; so that although a small advance has been muds upon late pricea by a few speculators, and others interested in keeping the market up, we arorcely think it will be permanent. The America horse-feed lot been Californian oats, the connunp thin of which hen greatly increased, and several large pereele hove changed hands lately, at Se. to be. 3d. ; and but little doing in Seated and Irish. Other descriptions of horn-feed have been quite neglected. Within the last week the arrivals have been very heavy. braid.* large parcels by 14111 , 11 , every vernal arriving. !be Dream brought 30,000 bushels, although the published manifest showed only 3,001.1 bags. The Koenig Willem 11., from See Francisco, in on the 9 th , had 34, 000 bushels, and more is to follow. The cargo of the Carrie Leland was sold, in Sydney, at about 4.. per bushel. At the rats quoted in San Francisco, viz., 1 dollar 5,5 cents, oats would pay to sell here at 54., consequently we may expect ship ments to continue. The Beau Monde, 1,047 tons, arrived la the hay on the 11th Met, from San Francisco. The banks lowered the rate of exchange on the Zed to par for meaty day. sight bill, on Louden, and purchase at 1 per cent. dircount. A new commeraial paper is about to be published, to be called the Melbourne Bootomist. Since the above was written advice,' have been received, via Sydney, stating that a awry large amount of shipping had been laid on at San Francisco for them, colonies, and that oats were being shipped very heavily,—one vessel slow bringing about 60,000 hualisia. CANADA THE STATE TRIALS. The Canadian Courts of Queen's Bench and Com mon Pleas gave judgment, on the 18th of December, in the two cases of Macdonell v. Macdonald," and Mscdonell v. Smith." Each of these two prose cutions arose out of the conduct of several members of the present administration in Canada, who, having been members of the former cabinet of the Gover nor-General, which was dismissed, returned to °See without the formality of a re-election. The trials have caused immense excitement in Canada, inarmaoh as :the Brower-Dorton party considered that what was regarded as the very unfair displacement:of its leaders from office formed an additional reason why the constituents shoald have an opportunity of pass ing judgment on those in favour of whom they had been removed. The judges were unanimous in arriving at the conclusion that the accused parties had kept strictly within the letter of the law, and were therefore not liable to the penalty for its infraction. With the in tention of the legislature in passing the law they had nothing to do, nor could they recognise any ex traneous matter or thing in interpreting the language of the statute. In all probability these cues will be sent before her Majesty's Privy Voaucil for Appeal. Ebt Court. WINDSOR, hat. 3. The Queen of Spain haring conferred the Order of the Golden Flows on the Prince of Wales, the Prince has been invested at Windsor Cutlet, by the Priam Consort, a Knight of the Orden, cm behalf of her Moat Catholic Majesty, ht the presume of M. 'starts, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi nister nesipareedary from the Conn of Madrid, also a [eight of the Golden Flews, and the Earl of Msloierbury, Principal ffeerebry of State for Foreign Alain. The Earl of Vernlarn and Lieut.-Colonal Cavendish, Lord and Groom in Waiting, were in attendance. M. Isturis presented his credentials to bee Majesty is Muster trove the Court of Puma, having bah prasnahhil by the Earl of hishoembary. The Queen, with Priace Arthur and Princess Lomita, walked out this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kest at Fropeors. The Friars Comm ead the Priam of Wake meat oat Mooting, accommaied by the Duke of Cambridge. Tha Mehra of Cambridge aad Prim= Mary look ham of bee Majesty mad left the Castle. atieaded by Bares Kamebeck. The Doke of Cenoteidge returned to Landon la the after noon, attended by Colonel Tyr.rhitt. The Sputa' Minister, M. Intuit, and the But of Maltase bury also Maned to Loudon, and Lady Vsctoria Noel took her departure. The Frio:said Primus de Joineills sad the Princess Frasinias Timid her Majesty to-day. Daring the hit week the Dacha's of Kent has been eon fined to the home bye cold. liar royal highness is now some what totem Dripseithes treys received at the Colonial-office, yesteriloy, from the Lord High Comtnissiousr of the loafer Lalonde sod the Oeverrese et Corsets, Ceylon, Hung,liong, sail the West India UNA& ROYAL NMW-TiAlt's Gin.-11er Majesty the Q.I. es M her mental custom, haa commended to be despatched from Windsor two fine striates of beam e Hew yeer'■ gilt to the e:-Queen of the French at Chesmont. DEPARTURE OF THI PRINCE OF WALLS FOR aoso—Preparatione w brag nude for the departure of his Royal Higher' the Prima of Were for Rome, which will take plea on the 10th or I Ith but. The Prises will be accompared by Mr. Term, hie two equerries, end hie minor atteadant. He will take with him three orrieges and a suitable rusher of has. and wer watts. His royal highness will porter hie studies at Ram for goat An months, what be will rebus to Eagles& Hia Excellency the Perinian Minister to the Court of at bas szeived at the Clarendon Had. Madame Rucker, the wife of the Miuister from the Hanseatic Mite at UM court, wee confined of a daughter, m the Slat ult., at her residence in Baton-gout. The mother and child era both going on well. The Duke of Rutland has arrived at his residence at Prisms-gab from &lvoir Castle. HL Grace is nearing tram as attack of goat is his arm. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley , pupae leaving Knowsley Mall, Lancashire, for town, on Monday next. The Earl and Countess of Durham leave their seat in the north in the course of next week, for Baron's Court, comity Tyrone, on a runt to the Marquis and Mar &bars of Absecon. Lord and Lady Raglan are paring the season at the Earl Beauchamp's mat, tdmeefteld Court, Worcester shire. The noble lord and her ladyship will not return witd early in February. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington has enter tained a select circle daring the part week, et Westwood, hos mat near Dre(mirth. Admiral Martin, Sir Alexender Milne, and Captain the Hog J. R. Drummond have been among the guests. Mr. Gladstone reached Athens on the 17th, and wee received by Sir T. Wyse, her kl.jery's Minister, at the British Embassy. A dinner and ball took place the next day and evening, on which occasions Sir T. Wyse presented Mr. Cirri:me to the moor distinguirod politicians Orem excepting roes of the Rosman Forty. Many learned men were also introduced to her Majesty's Spear Envoy; each and all complimenting the right hon. gentleman in no measured terns. Next day ha took Mr. Finley, an linglien gentleman, with him to the roan, where Foe regrind more than two hours listening in the de. bates, and In the evening dined with the king and queen, there being more than eighty purrs present. The Following morning Mr. Glartone viaitr the chamber of de . polies, and on the 23rd left for Corfu in order to @Fend Christ , mac-day with the Loyd High Commissioner. Dr. Datilbetly, the Oxford Professor of Chemistry, Gad an authority on Golianoeri end earthquakire, te at Naples, watching Vesuvius. Lord and Lady Londonderry will be thin till the middle of the month, oleo Lord sod Leidy "Amen; the Right Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon smith has hit for Rome, on their way beck to England. lir. J. R. Taylor, C,8., the principal medical officer at Port Pitt, Chatham, has been promoted to be latopectar-Gearel et Hoopitals is ludic. The examination for appointments to the Royal Military drederty at Woolwich, by the Council of Military Merriam, ettereested yeeterday, at Barbara Moue•, Piccadilly. The earaittaticas sill extend over revert J. 4,, teratratiat es Friday, the 14th mat. Tb. Rev. Crion Mushy I. the easedear. Mr. Samuel Gregmo, M.P.. hu retired from the Ram Indio arm d Cresson used Co. The titled the house, however. mil and be altered. Ms. Couch, of the Norfolk Circuit, is to snowed Ids. Soiosat W•O• dim Rocco ter of Bedford. At a meeting of the Berkshire magistrates, yes lerday. arealot for abotlebiair AL's!! los peol wee earried by 26 to 19 votes; amid it area resolved dud the preseedletie directed by the set of parliament should be lakes et the teat quarter maims ire the pursues of giviag ethos to this Lobos. THE RUSSIANS AT VILLAFRANCA. (run ore own COIRZSPONDENT.) NICE, Drs. 30. The Grand Duke Constantine, accompanied by the Grand Duchess and the young Grand Duke Nicho las, left Villafranca lut night for Genoa, from whence they will shortly proceed to Palermo, where the Grand Duchess has the intention of residing a few months. The Milan, screw corvette, wu despatched by the Russian High Admiral to Palermo, on Monday laat, in order that the neoessary preparations for the recep tion of his consort might be made. The Rurik, screw corvette, has order, to remain in Villainous Bay until the arrival of another Russian war vessel from Spanish waters, when she will rejoin the remainder of the squadron, which left yesterday with the Grand Duke. The grand decal party started from Nice early in the afternoon, and on arriving at Villafranca em barked in an open boat for St. Jean, famous for its tunny fishery and for having been the headquarters of the Saracens in days of old. After a brief visit to the fishery the Grand Doke and his family re turned to Villafranca and went on board the frigate Gremboy, where they entertained the Prince de Carignan to dinner. This prince, who had been despatched by his cousin, King Victor Emmanuel, to compliment the illustrious visitors in Nice, accom ' puled the Russian squadron to Genoa on board the 1 Sardinian despatch boat Monzambano. The Rus , sian fleet is expected to be absent about a month. The Prince de Carignan arrived in Nice on Tues day morning, and he was paying a visit to the Grand Duke Constantine at the Hotel Victoria when Prince Charles 111. of Monaco drove up to the hotel, also with the intention of paying his compliments to the Russian High Admiral. He was at once re ceived by the latter, and the three princes remained in close conversation for a considerable period. This circumstance has revived all the rumours concerning the cession of the principality of Monaco to Russia, and the local journals even lend an attentive ear to these idle reports. A friend writes me from Rome that the King and Queen of Prussia arrived in that city on the 23rd from Florence. and had taken up their residence at the Caffarelli Palace, the seat of the Prussian Lega tion. Amongst the late arrivals were Lady de Red cliffs and Princess Mary of Prussia. Madame Boocabadati, the prima donna of the Nice Opera-hones, who is a great favourite with the public, received an ovation yesterday at the close of her benefit performance. A carriage and four con veyed her from the theatre to her residence, where the regimental band gave her a serenade amidst the cheering of the crowd. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now otni ow( PARIS, BIONDAT ZTKXIXG. There has been an extraordinary panic at the Bourse, in consequence of a rumour of something said by the Emperor to M. de Hubner on New Year's-day, from which it is inferred that the rela tions between Francs and Austria are in a very critical, not to say alarming, state. Curiously enough, the Nord of Brussels says that the New Year's receptions were watched with the most in tense anxiety, in the expectation that the Emperor might possibly say a word tending to throw a light upon the situation, but that nothing whatever of the slighted political iimportance dropped from his lips, and that Europe must wait for the speech of February 7, before knowing the view which Napoleon 111. takes of Italian affairs. It appears, however, to be certain that the Emperor did say something to M. de Hubner de parting very widely from the ordinary tone used by a sovereign to a foreign ministry on the occasion of a joyous holiday. There are several versions of what was said, and I have no pretensions to give the exact words. Only a sentence or two was, I believe, uttered by his Majesty. One story is that while wishing M. de Hubner personally the compliments of the season, he regretted that the present state of the relations between the two governments left much to be desired. According to another the Emperor said that he was sorry to think that Austria and France were not so friendly as formerly —more particularly as he had still the greatest affec tion for the Austrian emperor. It matters very little what was the precise language need ; the main fact is that such an occasion was chosen for an nouncing from the throne that the two governments were on bad terms. No evening paper makes any direct remarks in its leading columns upon the con versation attributed to the Emperor. The Petrie alone alludes to them darkly, as follows : " Rumours were circulated at the Bonne to-day of a nature to lead to the belief that there are dimensions between France and Austria. Similar rumours have been previously speculated upon, and pre viously denied, and we are authorised to believe that no new circumstance has occurred to justify them." The Patrie, you will observe, does not say it is authorised to contradict the rumour of the day, but that it is authorised not to believe it. This form of • semi-official denial is so new that I doubt whether the Patric hes any authority at all for its belief. The Nord, writing, of course, before the event of to-day was known, mentions the significant fact that the Emperor lately ordered a copy of General Blonders topographic album of the War in the Crimea to be presented to the Sovereigns of England, Russia, Prussia, Turkey, Sardinia, and the Pope, but gave none to Austria. The Bourse wu greatly alarmed ; the Rente fell 850., both for cuh and account, closing at 72fr. in e►ch cue. Mobilier fell 33fr. Railways were lege affected than the Rents; but little business was done in them. Orleans fell 12fr. 50c., Lyons 10fr., Southern 7fr. 50c., Western and Eastern sfr. each, and Northern 3fr. 25c. It is reported that Prince Napoleon has appointed a commission to consider a plan for establishing steamers to run from Algeria to the Isle of Reunion, Suer, India, and China. In Berlin the diplomatic circles have, amidst their other gaieties, been occupied with the ceremonies end eMertainnisnis connected with the marriage of Arista/chi Bey, the Turkish Chargd d'Affaires et the Premien Court, with Anne, daughter of General Von Bonin, the new Minister of War, and one of the ministers of his govem meat in whom the Prince Regent le known to place the pedant con&lonos. The religious ceremony wee first per formed acormiing to the rites of the Greek Orthodox Church by the Arrhimandrits Androakus Dematreoopolo, from Leitstic, and eubssonently aocordieg to thee of the Pro. testriet Church by the Rev. Dr. Kober, of Berlin. Deism we ( Times) are misinformed, Franee and Austria are tow entirely at variance as to the coarse to be pursued to the States of the Church, the French urging the withdrawal both of their or and the Autumn garrisons if the Pope refuses the reforms in hie aottuiDistration which have best reconimeeded for his adoption, and the Aligarh= eipreesing their determination to support the Pope under every contingency. the fhe Ho .tom osnisoi wooed ti " ti Ejege of c.ll, .p 4 Polftvari - 11,Th ~ Whal I Your obe Severs! Commies but both through character Mr. Fiszl E. T. C jour nid file his purpose. an orani mination returned H. Phil went wae salt-mere Kent, pa 1,0141. ti Walla order for lama with inu Tb. p Artillery sacral , . 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