The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-02 00:00:00

4 ; 3 I I • I , ; '1 • LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of 14 the past year the National Lifeboat Institution, by Its Ilfe. lmats cud other means, oontaibuted to the saving of 707 persons from different wrecks on ear emits. The institution also °s pouted C21,3:4 in the same period on Its lifeboat establishments. iu aAdittun to granting 8i,950 for rewards for saying We and ezercisin: the lifeboat!. The committeeot the Inatitattou eaanettly APPEAL to the public for AbiIiTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued hravy de!ariti.ts on the institution's I: t s Lifeboat Stations, Coiltributions are received by the London and Country Ranker.: and by the Secretary. Richard Lewis, RN., at the in stitution, 14, Johnutreet, AdelphL Llndon. JOHN BROGDKN. (IRWIN AL G OLD CHAINMANUFACTORY, 16, IMNIIZITA-8111111T. COVENTOMIDIN. JOEBT BROCIDENI3 GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDZWB GOLD GI. ADD GRAINS. ' JOH BROGDENI343 OLD A LBART CHAINS. JOHN BROGDZNI3 GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. MESSRS. WATHERSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewellers, Ease Ready for Inspection a Groat Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Designs, suitable for WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-VEalt'S 12. Pallaoall East. &W. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Gentlemen.—Remember, we wait for you at "E VANS," after the Covent-garden Pantomime, sod the Thestrea Vitt erpregio. TO COLIIISPONDENTS. ulnieliasotents intended for The Emus " London Evening Idoc, intuit by at tha Mem 10, liosvoriwskret, by Two an tie day or publication. HAYMARKET.. THIS EVIWENG. STATER/ B:o7l7lllesera. Sothorn, Duck 011.aad Coniston ; 'Slam Nally Moore, Saowdra ir = 141108 IN TIM HAYMA Mews Farrell aD. Moos Keeley. Howard & Wrists I. —And SHOCKING KWH NTS. PRINCKEBB. Twig Ivinllßo, QUIET 49.—After which IT 18 MIVAR TOO LATE TO MEND. Mears. Vining, G. Melville, I. Mead , D. Murray, S. Dawn, F. Villiers . J. G. Shore, G. Mu g, gad& Caihmit ; Mira L Moore and I. Rodgers. LYCNI:111. Tao MIMIC, THE 11.118TETCY9 STRANGER Mr. H. WWlloomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mean. feebter, Jorden. Vasiu. Emery, Widdiocasb, inspetriek, Evade ; Madames Terms, Ideworthy, Lavenu, C. Led/req. BILITLNWIA. TRW CITING. OLD DADDY LONGLEGS AND SIR REGRET CIRCUS; OR THE RACE FOR THE GOLDEN APPLES.— IL and Vdme. Stertunbach por larranL-01raar.—Shower of Quid= 13.410.—And JESSIE. THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGHWATILE A:r LONDONqBEIDGIL TEN Atlasson. ih. 630. T:mionacif Maniac 3h. Ibra......ittirsoeu. Sh. 33as. LONDON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 2. IT is satisfactory to remark the more explicit manner in which the prospectuses of new companies are beginning to be framed. Until very recently promoters manifested a contemptuous disregard of the just requirements of the public. All sorts of abuses were cloaked under a stereotyped form of phraseology, and the subscribers whose money was about to be applied to the purchase of estates, mines, businesses, or " goodwill," were in many cases not even informed of the amount to be so paid, although upon its amount the fate of the undertaking, con sidered as an investment, might perhaps hinge. In some glaring instances the concoctors of prospec tuses did not even deign to designate the locality of the estate to be purchased, or the name of the firm whose business was to be taken over. So long as each new prospectus found a multitude ready to blindly welcome and respond to it, a system of con cealment and equivocation might answer; but times have now changed. The age of premiums having passed away and been succeeded by that of dis counts, there is no longer the old mania for new undertakings ; but, on the contrary, each project that comes forward is canvassed on its merits. Directors and promoters consequently find it be coming to defer to the aroused spirit of criticism on the part of the public, and prospectus writers are beginning to vie with one another in the minuteness of the details compressed into them. In the general interest this marks a decided improvement, and we direct attention to it thus prominently because it depends entirely upon the public themselves whether candour and frankness shall be still fur ther consulted in these matters. We are now in formed explicitly of the amount and other condi tions of the consideration to be assigned to vendors ; any intended reserves of shares are duly stated ; and where shares are to be issued in the paid-up form, the number to be so dealt with is clearly defined, this being one of the improvements that are due to the action of the Stock Exchange Com mittee. Moreover, nearly every prospectus now issued states that "no promotion or preliminary expenses will be paid by the company," and, though this assurance is not entirely consolatory, inasmuch as it leaves room for suspicion that charges of undefined amount are still paid by some one, who finds his profit in a private arrangement with the vendor, to be liquidated ultimately out of the pockets of the shareholders, yet the fact of the arrangement with the vendor being explicitly stated in the original prospectus takes away from subscribers the right to complain. In one or two prospectuses that have lately appeared, subscribers are expressly informed that the direc tors " qualify themselves at their own cost," the amount required for such qualification being at the same time stated, and although it reflects disgrace upon joint-stock enterprise that such an assurance should ever have been needed, the introduction of this clause into a prospectus must, we suppose, be regarded as another step in the right direction. In the case of one company now upon the market, the salut cry example has been set of attaching to the prospectus a statement from a firm of professional accountants, certifying the results of the past business which is about to be purchased. It is to be hoped that in every future case of the kind this plan will be strictly adhered to, and that the public will consistently refuse to have anything to do with projects in which this legitimate safeguard of the shareholders' interests is neglected. It will be well, too, to insist that the accountants shall not put forward a mere bald or formal certificate, but such a one as shall place intending subscribers in posses sion of the whole facts of the case. Accountants and promoters on their part may be reminded that unless they set forth not merely the truth but the entire truth in these matters, such certificates will be very hardly dealt with in a court of justice, should a disappointed or refractory shareholder contend that be has been deceived through either the suppression of truth or the suggestion of untruth. I7nlesst hese cer tificates are hereafter to rise lap in judgment against those who have penned them, they must be framed in a spirit of perfect candour. Amongst the defi ciencies which are still to be remarked in new pro spectuses, we may notice one or two. Instead of the usual formal intimation that "if no allotment is made, the deposit will be returned without dada°. tion," it would be much better were an assurance to be given that no allotment will be made unless a specified and adequate amount of capital be sub scribed. We should be glad, likewise, to see future invitations to the subscribing public com prise the undertaking which was given in the pro- spectus of an American company launched a few weeks ago, to the effect that the deposits will be 1.. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVF I NEWG, JANIJARIr 2, '1866. offered back to the subscribers in full unless a , settlement be granted within a reasonable petriod by the Stock Exchange Committee. This *lame would obviate in future the hardship lately inflicted upon subscribers, who, while see ing their property rendered utterly unmarket able as a consequence of acts of which they are guiltless, and by which in fact they suffer heavily, yet remain bound by all their engagements as towards the company. For subscribers in this position no loophole of escape seems to have been yet devised. If they have sold their shares they cannot force the buyer to a settlement, and if, acting in a bond fide spirit, they have deferred parting with them, they cannot now sell them at all; yet they are bound to pay up to the entire amount of their nominal subscription. It is an anomaly and an injustice in joint-stock companies' law and in the practice of the Stock Exchange that hard ship of this kind should be permitted. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIB DAT.) statute fait another trinity of the same title, but of a widely different scope and purport, which shall in effect, though not perhaps in terms, provide for the surrender of political offenders. In the interests of goodwill and of a cordial understanding between neighbours, it is well that the French government should be made to clearly understand once for all that no possible English government could ever consent even to discuss such extradition under any disguise or equivocation. The Star accepts the communitpol in the Opinion Rationale, as an explanation of the grounds on which the French government purpose to put an end to the treaty. We require and always shall °Defines to require the production of some evidence of a man's guilt to justify his extradition while the French government insists that it ought to be enough for no if a proper warrant be produced and the identity of the person named in the warrant be established. Discussing the state of our highest courts of appeal, the Times finds it to be such u to easily explain why Lord Russell has attempted to apply some remedy in the m otion of a new law lord; but, nevertheless, it unfortunately happens that Lord Hominy's nomination promises little for the public service. Other considerations than those of the public good must have infinenoed the government in ap pointing • judge whose decisions are continually and often gamest ully appealed against before the Lords Jus tices to sit in his turn u • J•dge of Appeal over them. The problem of reoonstituting the highest ooart of appeal remains unsolved, and presses imperiously for solution. Thetrue remedy seems to lie in • modification of the pro posal which the Lords rejected with so much energy some years ago, and which should attach the peerage to the highest judicial offices in the same manner as it is attached to the episcopal sees. The Post puts in a claim for Sir William Hutt in regard o the authorship of the treaty of commerce with Austria. and contends that, from a misinterpretation of his with. drivel from Vienna at • time when the negotiations were apparently at their height, he has not received at the hands of the public and the press of England the gratitude be has merited. LATEST INTELLIGFACE. .•14` (ururnes Tr.zioaemi.) AMERICA. (Per the City of Bootee, •ia Aviles Point.) NEW YORK, Dm 23, Moaswo. The provisional governor of South Carolina has been removed, and the governor elect has been directed to assume office. President Johnson has sent to the Senate the nomination of the ex-member of Congress L. D. Campbell, as Minister Extraordinary to the Mexican Republic, vice General Logan, who lin declined. Mr. Bigelow, minister to France, has been noml• nated for congressional confirmation. The Senate has asked President Johnson upon what charges Mr. Jefferson Davis is detained in Fort Monroe, and why ho is not tried. In the Senate, Mr. Wilson stated that, although he believed the rebels were committing outrages against the freedmen, he had no issue to make upon the subject with the President, with regard !to whose honesty and patriotism he had no misgivings. The democratic party would look in vain for a con ilia of the republican party with the President in the house. Mr. Raymond in a powerful speech controverted Mr. Stevens's doctrine, that the rebellious States were out of the Union, but contended that they should give a new guarantee before being admitted to congressional representation. Congress has adjourned until January 5. The apprehension of negro outbreaks in the South is increasing with the approach of Christ mas. The authorities are prepared to quell any disturbance. The New York Herald strongly advocates the liberation of Mr. Davis on the ground of his re presenting millions of men who believed themselves oppressed, and rose in the spirit of freemen. The Southern members of Congress elect have held a meeting, in which they resolved to return home. They will again assemble in Washington on the 4th of March. The Secretary of the Treasury is staying in New York. It is not believed that he will place a loan onthe market. PO3II3CRIPT. The report of Carl Schnrz to the President upon the condition of the South represents the people as generally submissive, but not willingly loyal—they show no national feeling and have no American sentiment. The negro has been reduoed to a con. dition of practical slavery. eurroundimi the person of the sovereign with the elements of sounder government. This is the only object withal) diplomatic action could seek to effect. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAIIB. 8011THAXPION, Jar. 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, with the above mails, passed the Needles at 10.55 a.m. to-day. THE PUBLIC POUNCE& The financial position of the ministry, at all events, thinks the Daily Newt, w ansasailable, end this in its tarn will render it difficult to reject the whole scheme of policy of the ministers, for among • practical people • sue , ceasful minister of Munro, whose legislation has been tried by the American civil war, more than one bad harvest, and the cattle plague, will command confidence, and any party in the house which should deprive the coun try of his services would sign its own condemn► tine. At the same time • surplus invites to dis content, and such revenue returns as were published yesterday are attended with certain inconvenient)... They make many "interests" feel injured, and produce grievances by a sort of spontaneous generation. The anti•malt tax agitators will demand that the poor man's beer shall be cheapened as well as the poor woman's tea, but as • paining suggestion they may be advised to go in for a reduction of expenditure to the scale of 1858-59, by which they will have found a shorter cut to the redaction of the malt duty than by the most ingenious calculations. They may rely upon this that any party on either side of the house that will demand a serious reduction of expenditure will not find in Mr. Gladstone • believer in the necessary permanence of the income-tax or in the sacred innocence of the National Debt. For the present, every department of the revenue that especially marks the progress, or arrest, or failure of the national resources, shows • soundness and stability that seem to defy all adverse chances. The Star gives • simple problem in the rule of three : If the revenue of 1865 be only by one million lees than that of 1864, while for the first-named year five millions of taxes were remitted, what will be the result at the end of 1866? Mr. Gladstone has fallen on a happy time for his incum bency of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, and the growing energies of this nation, if they could be personated. might equally be called happy in having found a Chanoellor of the Exchequer so closely sympathetic. The next budget will undoubtedly show a further large reduction of taxa lien, made yet more practicable by at least as considerable a reduction in the " service " estimates as last year. THE HOUSELVIS POOR ACT. The Times observes that if the Act for the Relief of the House's's' Poor should eventually prove ineffectual, it will not be for want of exertion on the part of the Poor•law Board. Mr. Parnell, in particular, deserves credit for the manner in which he has discharged a difficult and disagree- We duty. The result of the meeting at St. Martin's Hall, reported yesterday, is another instance of his happy method of dealing with the difficulties of the case. There are good rea sons for considering that theact which has doubled the casual accommodation in the metropolis has been successful, and has relieved us from the scandal of allowing persons to perish fr-ms cold and starvation in our streets, while the uniform adoption of the labour test, now agreed to, will prevent the Lightly shelter being taken advantage of by those who are not really destitute. The Times adds, that though loth to interfere with the charitable intentions of those who founded the Refuges, it cannot but think they would be wise to apply their funds in a different way, now that the first object of such institutions is legally wound. Even if it does no harm to offer this exceptional shelter, it appears simply a waste of charitable resources to apply them to what is already provided by law. There are ample de mands for private charity in such work as that undertaken by the Society for the Relief of Distress, without diverting it to purposes for which it is not absolutely necessary. At all events, relief of this character should now be very cautiously dispensed. The Reread appears to incline to the belief that the act has created a new temptation to vagrancy, and a vagrancy perpetually visiting Loudon ; and, dwelling upon some of the anomalies it presents, suggests that the further step should be taken of having a uniform and not a capri cious labour test. The difficulty, how to diminish the temptations to dissolute vagrancy, and at the same time to render justice to the deserving poor, has not yet been removed. The Telegraph lays that the measure, which is an ad mirable one, has been to a great extent neutralised by a stupid body of officials. It has had to congratulate the chief of the poor-law administration and his officers on much excellent and faithful work in Lancashire and Lon don ; but it never knew how well-deserved the tribute was till theft. Martin's Hall meeting gave it the measure of the dull cruelty and wooden-beaded wit against which the board at Whitehall has to work. THE JAMAICA COMMISSION. In the files of papers received by the last mail the Post looks in vain for any evidence whatever to justify the assumption on which all partial in Jamaica appear to have proceeded, that the riot at ?donut Court•bouse was but the first scene in what was intended to be a bloody revolu tion, and that large numbers of the negroes, scattered over the whole colony, were leagued together with the object of exterminating the white population. We also look in vale for some definite accounts of the number of negroes who were either hanged or shot down for participation in the rebellion. Colonel Whitfield's letter is no evidence at all, and it is impossible to disoover the grounds on which the Governor thought it of sufficient im. portance to be transmitted to the Assembly. As to the legislation which was going on, it is idle to conceal the fact that the measures h►ve been exclusively directed against the negroes, and it is only equitable that good cause should be given for passing a strictly penal enactment. A few weeks hence, however, the royal com mission will commence their investigation, and the public may rest satisfied that the inquiry will prove an exhaustive one. The Herald thinks the ancient Druids mast be very ancient indeed in their notions if they axept Mr. Cardwell's statement that in suspending Mr. Eyre it was not intended to cut any slur on his character. If the com• mission means anything it is intended be put Mr. Eyre on his trial on a charge of nothing less than murder, and a m►n who in England is placed on his trial on a criminal charge may be acquitted or condemned, but he is thence forth a disgraced man. Whatever the issue of the laves tigation may be—and all the news from the island en courage' us to expect the triumphant exculpation of the governor—Mr. Eyre can never resume his functions with any credit or satisfaction to himself or to the home govern ment. The Telegraph enters upon an examination of the nature and extent of the authority delegated to the royal commis. sion, contending that for all technical purposes the persons so appointed have no more authority than any ordinary travellers who should choose to record their observations on the state of the island, though the conclusion that they have no power to snbpcena witnesses, to administer oaths, or to insist on the production of documents is not one abso lutely free from controversy. It is the fact that they are armed by public opinion, which gives them their real power, and their difficulties will arise rather from a super abundant* than a deficiency of testimony. The Star gives some extracts from the Kingston Morning Journal in illustration of the manner in which the press has been silenced hitherto in the colony, and quotes from the debates in the assembly with the view of proving that Mr. Eyre has now become in some degree conscious of his false position, and would fain smother all recollection and destroy all evidence of the past. The Daily /Yews plainly says it would be affectation to doubt that the French government bee denommed the Extradition Treaty with Engbad It waste to nib- ut court. OSBORNE, J. L Her Majesty walked out this morning, accom panied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice. THE BURIAL OP SIR CHARLES EASTLAKE AT FLORENCE. A letter from Florence of the 27th ult. says :-1 "The [Maine of the late Sir Charles Eastlake, P.R.A., were to-day consigned to their last resting-place in the English cemetery here. Sir Charles, as you are aware, died at Pisa, after & tedious illness, but it was no doubt thought that this city had a prior right to be selected for the obsequies of one so intimately connected with the fine arts, &a., whose distinguished professional claims as well as his estimable personal character were so well known and so highly appreciated by the Florentine community, Italian as well as English. The body was brought at an early hoar by railway from Pisa, and was accompanied by Lady Eastlake, who was accompanied by Mrs. Romilly and the Misses Horner, and wis met at the station by many sympathising friends that followed the body in • long cortege to the amatory. The funeral service was very im pressively performed by the Rey. Mr. Greene, British chaplaio of Pisa, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Pendleton, chap. lain at Floreuoe. Among the many mourners present were the Eton. Mr. Elliott, her Majesty's Minister at Florence ; the Rev. C. B. Elliott, Mr. Webster. R.A., Mr. Archer Shoe, Mr. Power, the American sculptor, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Kittowe, and many of the English residents and visitors, all anxious to manifest their respect for the late artist." The Florence correspondent of the Post says " Like the late Count Cavour, Sir Charles has fallen a victim to professional ignorance and prejudice, and if his life was prolonged for stew weeks the result is solely due to the decision of Lady Eastlake, who telegraphed from Milan to his English medical adviser, and, on his arrival and by his advice, at once put • stop to the merciless course of blood-letting which was still in progress. From the moment of his arrival in Pisa it was evident that his chances of rallying entirely de pended on his power of taking nourishment, but his mind continued so tranquil, and, one might almost say, his spirits continued so buoyant, that his death took his friends, his Pisan medical attendant, Dr. Grisanowsky, and Lady Eastlake, by surprise. To those, and their name is legion, whom ties of friendship, and gratitude, and esteem have long and closely bound to Lady Eastlake, the know. ledge that never was husband in a last fatal Moms more carefully and affectionately tended by • wife than Sir Charles Eastlake has been from the mo ment that he was first struck down by illness at Milan, will convey nothing new ; but to the many thousands by whom he was only known in his public character and duties, or to whom her tame is only familiar as that of • leader of society or a gifted and genial writer, the statement may not prove uninteresting or unaccept able that not even the last, the saddest, the most harrowing 1 of all duties to the husband who died in • foreign land was left unfulfilled by the bereaved survivor ; and although it was not easy to recognise at first in the thickly veiled figure which to-day stood at the grave—so crushed and bent did it seem with sorrow—her commanding figure, the mournful sympathy reflected from the looks of all around would at once have revealed to a stranger that she was the one beyond all others at the heart's core of the common loss and the common grief." The Order of the Garter is about to be con ferred upon King Leopold IL of Belgium, and Lord Sydoey will shortly proceed to Brussels for the purpose of investing his Majesty with the insigoia of the order, en behalf of the Queen. The Right Hon. Mr. W. Cowper has been elected President of the South of England Literary and Philoso- phical Society, in the room of the late Lord Palmerston. Among the foreigners sojourning in Rome last week were the Earl and Countess of Liatowel, Sir Robert K., Lady, and Mir Arbuthnot, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Russell, Hon. G. C. Mostyo, Mr. and Mn. Millais, Countess of Beesboroogh, Hoe. Osman Daffy, Countess Dowager of &Amore and family, Hoe. A. Corry, RN., Lord Dankellin, Mr. Greville Chester, Sir Henry and Lady Pottioger, Sir R, Knightley, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fenton, Colonel and Mrs. Adams, die. Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C., Recorder of London, and Mr. J. B. Manle, Q.C. and. Recorder of Leeds, will, it is expected, leave Southampton today in the Royal Mail steamer Atrato. They will reach Jamaica on the 21st in stant. Mails will leave that island on the 25th instant and on the 6th proximo, and will reach England on the 13th and 28th proximo respectively. Lord Alfred Paget repeats in the Times the ex pressions of hi+ opinion that steamers crossing the Channel are driven at too high a rate of speed in thick weather and on dark nighty, and adds " if all the pamengers and the mails bad been lost on the cumaion is question (which must inevitably have °mune' if the Samphire bad not been built in watertight compartmesta), and farther, if a cabinet minister or a foreign ambassador bad perished in stead of the unfortunate ladies, all England would have stood aghast, and the public would have taken up the matter of ►igh speed on dark nights." The engagement of Princess Dagmar, of Den mark, with the present hereditary Grand Duke of RUSSIA is now regarded in Germany ae a settled thing, though not yet officially announced. In painting through Madrid on Thursday last, the King and Queen of Portugal were met at the station by the King-Consort, who met with no sign of respect what ever from the crowd ; but when, after an accolade between the two monarchs, these, together with the Queen of Por tugal and the infant prince, made their appearance and took their seats in the court carriage, the hats not only went off, but were even waved in the air, while shouts of " Firm' los Reyes Liberalea de Portugal !" were heard on all sides. The Queen of Portugal held her infant child on her lap. The Spaniards present admired the " digaified stature and bearing," of Maria Pia, "her lithe aad slender figure, her rosy complexion, auburn hair, blue eyes, and sweet expression ;" they were in perfect replete* about the wino hermosinimo, the infant "ruddier than his pa rents, with the hair almost of an Albino." The sovereigns of Portugal were in moaning ; the King in plain clothes ; UM Quota wore a black dress and black velvet mantle. --- The mineral oil mines just discovered at Trow bridge, in Wiltshire, have been visited by competent per mits, and a favourable opinion has been expressed by tile= as to the material found being adapted for the manufacture of paraffin oiL INTELLIGENCE. Money abundant. Gold, 145 g. Exchange on London, 1591 ; on Paris, 3.55. Stocks slightly firmer : New York Centrals, 95i ; Illinois, 134: Erie, 901; 5-20 Bonds, 103 k. Cotton steady : Middling Upland, 51. Flour, good inquiry ; wheat steady ; corn, good inquiry. Provisions dull. Coffee very dull Petroleum, crude, 41; refined, 05. SAVANNAH, Dec. 22. Cotton, 48 to 49. Week's receipts, 5,000 ; ex port, 15,000; stock, 10,000 bales. THE CANADIAN MINISTRY. MONTREAL, DEC. 22. The governor of Canada ham refused to accept Mr. George Brown's resignation. The other mem bers of the government have been summoned to Montreal to meet the governor. FRANCE. PARIS. JAN. 1. Prince Metternich Winneburg, Ambassador Ex traordinary of the Emperor of Austria, was received yesterday by the Emperor Napoleon, at the Tuile ries, in private audience, in order to deliver to his Majesty the insignia of the order of Saint Stephen, conferred by the Emperor of Austria upon the Prince Imperial. In placing the insignia of the order in his Majesty's hand, the Ambassador said : " Sire,—Wishing to afford your Majesty a fresh proof of friendship, my august sovereign has charged me to deliver to the Prince Imperial in his name, the insignia of his order of Saint Stephen. His Majesty desires that the heir to the throne of France should early learn to appreciate the sincere interest which he entertains towards him, and which will never cease." The Emperor, in his reply, said he should him self thank the Emperor of Austria by letter for the proof of interest thus displayed towards his son, and for which he was deeply sensible. His Majesty added that the Prince Imperial would al ways remember this high mark of solicitude on the part of a sovereign for whom his father professed a sincere friendship. THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY. FLORENCE, JAL 2. The following is the complete list of the new Italian Ministry : Genl. Della Marmora President of the Council and Minister for Fo reign Affairs. Signor Chi Ives Signor Jacini Signor Scialoja Finance. Signor Defalco General Pettinanco War. General Angioletti Signor Berti the portfolio of Agri culture and Com merce, ad interim. To-day the Ministers will take the oath to the King. THE POPE AND THE FRENCH ARMY. ROME. Jig. L The Pope, receiving the congratulations of the French officers, presented to his Holiness by General Montebello, expressed his fatherly affection and gratitude towards the French army in Rome, and added, "This year especially I must express my thankfulness, it being perhaps the last in which I can bestow my blessing on them." His Holiness, in conclusion, said that after the departure of the French army the enemie s of the Church and of the Holy See would perhaps come to Rome, but remembering the example of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Pope would pray for the French army and the imperial family, and the whole of France, and even forpoor Italy, afflicted by so many evils. THE RUMOURED INTERVENTION IN GREECE. ST. PETERSBURG, Jur. 2. -- - The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day contra dicts the rumours of intervention in Greece by the Protecting Powers. The futility of the efforts in that direction that have hitherto been made is con firmed, but the article says that all action in the question must be purely moraL Possibly an ener getic manifestation on the part of the protecting Powers might exercise a salutary influence, by B. ,T. W. F. Its D. I. R. 8. --- Nairn 29.6 0 . 34 B.W. 2 5 W. ose '0.75 2 Aberdeen Leith 29.62 41 8.8. R. 4 6 &W. to V. 13 3 Greencastle — - - - - Cape Clear — - - Liverpool Holyhead.. '2973 1 46 &S.W. 5 8 W.B.W. er 0.16 4 Penzance :129.94'47 B.W. 4 7 W. her 0. 2 s Brest 30.08 48 8.. W. 6 6 W. re p. 04 6 L'Orlent 110.12.48 &W. 4 6 W. ho 4 Rochefort 30.26.37 &IL 2I 4 B. W. ee 0.06 6 Plymouth 29.99,48 W.B.W. 7. 5 W. ho 0.12 6 Weymouth 110.02 49 B.W. 5 6 W. co 0.23 4 Portsmouth 10.05 45 8.8. W. 3 5 W. ce 2 London 30.04 64 LW. 6 W.S. W. c P. 06 - Yarmouth _ 130.04 40 B.W. 3 4 N. W. b e 2 Bcuborough 129.46 37 B . W. 1 4 IW. c 0.0 2 Shields t 9.70 39 B.W. 2 2 B.W. c 2 fielder.... - - ' raw WEDNESDAY. ON NOl W. N.W. to 001 strong, squally, some snow or rain. tABLE. MEW THURSDAY. na. Chiefly south-westerly, fresh to a gale. Westerliantiiinitherly, Winn& &W. to N. W. and back. strong, squally, un• strong, squally, un settled. settl e d. As next above. Portrunitn. A 2 next above. %%8 w, to &5.F.., IL • arias. Southerly and westerly, fresh to strong, fresh to strong. unsettled •_ . . Northern—Scotland. Western=lreland. Waal, and adjs. metes. Southern=Enslish Channel alai May of Biscay. Easterimßastward England and North Sea. Gustav Werner, the proprietor of the Zoological Gardens at Stuttgart, has been very nearly killed by one of his own Hone. His life was only saved by the presence of mind of his daughter, who seized a wooden bench, and smashed with it the glass windows surrounding the cage. This diverted the rage of the animal, and caused him to release his bold of Werner, who was instantly rescued from his perilous position. His wounds are severe, but his recovery is expected. The sanitary authorities of Barcelona have come to a very strange resolution. In consideration, it is said, of a report having reached Spain that a " tendency to epi demic diarrlices" has lately shown itself among the popu lation of London, these authorities, acting upon "superior orders," have forbidden English vessels to laud their pas sengers without quarantine, either at Barcelona or at any other point of the coast for 20 leagues north sad south.. It is not known whether similar measures will be equally extended to other ports nearer to the English shores. as it would seem but ten natural. It is said that the British minister, Sir John Crampton, has addramed strong remon strances to the Spaniah government upon the subject. • QUARANTINE AT CIVITA VECCHIA.—JANUART 1866.—The following information has this day been re. oohed at the Foreign Office from the British Vice-Ooenal at avail, Vecchia, dated December 24, 1865 : " I have received official information from the local authorities here that, from the date of yesterday. the 23rd instant, it has been decided that vessels, pemeoprs, and crews of vessels arriving from Marseilles and other southern French porta, and from the mut of Spain, are to be admitted to free pre drill° ; the effects of parssgere and crews, however, to be subjected to a process of disinfection by chloride of lime. I have also further to report, without, however, having received official notice thereof, that the Papal anthmitiee at the frontier no longer demand or require a °ordinate of residence, for a siren period, in an uninfected locality, and that the disinfecting process by fumigation, of the person, at Montalto. and of luggage here, has likewise been dam. tinned, so that the a se to Item by both hod sad see may again be end as beag free sad eaismpeastl." PATENT OFFICE, h1178111:111, BOUTH KINSINOTON. —Number of visitor, for the week coffin Deo. 30, 6.710 ; total number mince the opening al the stiesess free daily (12th May, 18583, 990,179. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ous OWN PARIS, Ninr Yt. lllee-DAL A beautiful day, with a glowing sun and balmy south wind, made the new year's receptions at the Tuileries nationally cheerful. There was the cus tomary assemblage, in relays from half-hour to half-hour, of princes and princesses of the imperial family, grand officers of the household, cardinals, marshals, admirals, generals, ministers, &0., and last of all the Corps Diplomatique. As usual the Emperor addressed a few words to every ambassador and minister pleni potentiary. Although, New Year's-day not withstanding, the Moniteur du Soir is published, it contents itself with saying that the receptions at the Tuileries were taking place while it was going to press. lam told by people who were there that the Emperor said nothing important, but I would recommend you nevertheless to look closely at the Moniteur of to-morrow morn ing. The Emperor on these occasions speaks to each minister separately in a low tone and very few of the company can bear what he says. Moreover, his words are so studiously selected that the meaning of them is often not to be understood till after a careful reading. The impression pre vailed yesterday that his Majesty intended to say something extremely gracious to Austria, and also something to the United States minister, implying that the Mexican difficulty would be settled to the equal satisfaction of Paris and Washington. It has happened before this that the Moniteur did not report next day precisely what was said, and that words of great political significance only found their way to the public several days after they were spoken. Prince Napoleon was at the reception, and occupied his accustomed place near the throne. Count Walewski headed the Corps Legislatif. The two vice presidents were absent, BE Schneider being ill at Crenzot, and M. Alfred le Roux on a visit to Nice. It was said among the deputies that the Corps Legislatif would be summoned to meet on Jan. 22. The offices of Grand Ecnyer and Grand Veneur, now revived in favour of General Fleury and Prince de Moskowa, are not new under this empire. This obsolete frippery of the old court, which the Emperor delights in, after a decent hesitation, was resorted to very early in his reign. Marshal St. Arnaud was his first Grand Ecuyer and Marshal Magnan his first Grand Veneur. M. Emile de Girardin, who, having grown rich, fat, lazy, and somewhat old, has not fer a long time taken up his pen, though he still remains the principal proprietor of the Pram, opens the new year in that journal with an eccentric political letter addressed to his right-band man, M. Clement Duvernois, and intended to be the first of a series, entitled " Letters from a Dead Man." He says :—" Politically lam dead ; for a man ceases to live when he has no longer ambition, illusions, or passions. The men and things of my time and country only appear to me as belonging already to history." He modestly com pares himself to Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Bright, who at certain periods of their lives were, as Girardin is now, " isolated." He then proceeds to show the extreme folly of all parties in France, the empire included, in not merging all their differences in a totally new policy founded on a Girardin basis. M. Berardi, the editor of the IncUpendance Beige is now in Paris, and trying to obtain the removal of the interdiction against his journal. I inoline to think he will succeed ; for the very dirty in trigues which led to the edict against the Indepen dance will not bear investigation. WEATHER. REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) TUESDAY. JANUARY 2, S A.l. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (wore Mr. Deimateeieser Wiseirre.) IN RE NOSTM. —APPLICATION FOE scam. The be:abrupt, Robert Jolts Mastro, wee dem e th id .. D of Teniempetreet, York•road, Lambeth. 11 DOW applied for his release from prison where he beeh. dare the 12th of December het , haring be.' Melted sa attachment of the Court of Chan c ery for unlin k , 3,1821. decreed to be doe from him in the snit of " 144 v. Mast) ar for the detaining orrdiloTl Samuel Johason=s, the brother of ra t o , This was ose of those Lamentable cease is which tha7Z beep • breech of trust Mr. F. H. Lewis appeared in support of Vie smog 3 His amour, on referring to the ' three dey i c sh mut,* said it did not ooinply with the requirement% eat, that it should be full, true, and accurate. M a i, rapt had put down 5001. in a lump as owing to anti; whose Dames sad descriptions he dtd not give. Mr. Womb eaked that the petition should bs ang uit , His Hooter said that would probably be the bet fo e , for the baokrupt himself, ea the petitiou would ao be dismissed at a later stage if the objections were tats, i The bankrupt stated that 5001. wu chiefly re oiz rowed, at differeot tines„ emus of the debts beim by the statute. He had no books and could sot giryb particulars. Hie Hamm was disposed to adjourn tho applicaing • after the choice of aesigaesa. Mr. !trough urged that it was imperative on tits eon% demise the petition for non-compliance with the tow , meats of the act. _ 11r. Lewis stated that the bankrupt was mu % legatee under a will made 40 years age, sad I that capacity had received certain property. v tie Court of Chancery had eines decided be was net Walsh His Honour doubted whether this was not a te ll s trust. The best course would be to dismiss the petgk i k Dosi.onopliance with the act ; then the bankrupt wo k % again adjudicated by the registrar when the repo rt , cams. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GIIIIJ3HiLL. DANGIROUS ASSAULT ST • CHILD. !Frederick Middleton, a very little boy, aim charged with assaulting Sidney Charles Moffatt, W IN him in the face with a brick on the 27th of Demister It appeared from the evidenced a little boy mind J Smith that whilst he was playing with Moffatt, g m MM. who was not known, came to them, and Irk another boy held Moffatt's hands the pram, teak c, brick and threw it at Moffatt's face, and then tea w The boy's father described the effects of the tdear%, had cut his eon's face from the eye to the lower put o i k cheek ; he bad been taken to the hospital, of which h, now an inmate, and erysipelas had ensued. The brick was produced, and on ezamintion it me fi to be stained with blood. The prisoner's father averred that the boy Sift hi made another statement to the effect that they e.g playing at " dusk ideas," and that the blow vas Oa accident, but this was denied by Smith. Sir J. Musgrove remanded the prisoner. BOW-STREET. TALE CAM OP YOUR CHANCE Annie Button, a good-looking young woman, dandy widow's weeds, and having a child in her arena, at the bar before Mr. Vaughan, charged on suplern d stealing a half-sovereign. Jane Owen, wife of a carpenter living in Aar." stated that on Saturday night she entered OD 11, 1 of Mr. Otterman, baker, Drury-lane, to pay her talt. score, and laid her pass-book and half a soveripie counter. Mr. Ottoman took the book to his deek,eliii • behind the opposite counter (there being one ca GAN of the shop) to add up the week's amount Winn not then noticed that there was anyone she deft , but, crossing the shop to go to the counter ainid Mr. Otterman then was, she 1111/ the paw who bad been standing behind her. Sbe lie mined her half sovereign from the counter and sine/ Otterman if he had taken it up. He replied thee hi not. She then said to the prisoner, " I jest pat it in and one or the other must have it." The prisoner nil had not seen it. Witness said, " Will yen ple th station-hones and be searched? and if I an I will recompense yon." She said, " I have got a change of a sovereign In my pocket." Winne AV her where she had got the change sad she nil "At the s." Witness asked her to go tot greeagraee s and prove it. She maid she would, sad some little distance, but before getting to the nee said she had not changed it there, bet at the nein shop. Witness then gave her is custody. She woe lank at the etation-horus, where half•irsovereige sad in e' silver was found upon her. ..• Mr. Otterman corroborated, and stated that ha bad e 14 " taken up the half-sovereign. The prisoner said that she did not mention the War 0 , shop, but the butter shop. She was at first was der whether she had changed it at the greengroolee ei ter butter shop, but was now cure that it wee the latter. - She was remanded for inquiry as to the nog d statement. Mr. Haynes, cheesemonger and butterman, Dreryka DOW attended, and deposed that on Saturday meets prisoner made some small purchrees at his shop, sad pal 1.. sovereign in payment. He gave her half a sonniea le t , shillings, and some halfpence in change. Mr. Vaughan said this was a came which he 'koala lo to a jury to decide. He should commit her for tOO% . • take her husband's reoognisaaces in 20/. for her appear' at the sessions, for, though dressed as a widow, she ens';. out to be a married woman. CLERKENWELL. CONVICTION Acumen • COAL AGENT AND HIS MU 1 FOE OVERI.OADOG. Richard Brewer, a coal agent, of Chalk Fianna. ' and Henry Sterne, • carter in his employ, were ehawds and s Mr. Love, of the Royal Society for Me Prevail's $ is e- Cruelty to Animals, es • charge of inhuman trestmal $ a horse, and causing its death. The defendants pleaded not guilty. Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, prosecuted for Mr. Coisnlll2.' secretary of the society, and having stated the einse - e ir i stances under which the charge arose, observed du115.„ 1 ... matter had been brought under the notice of the sosisel"7, a number of respectable individuals who had witnewsix' occurrence, several of whom wen in atteadance to the charge. As cases of this sort were now of dtiL occurrence the society for which he (Mr. /ticket') allsi was determined to do all in its power to check thasgrew evil, and he had no doubt that with the powerful suds press such disgraceful proceedings, and he oonld call* nothing else, would soon be put an end to. The led gentleman then called Mr. Henry Gibson, a gentleman residing at 76, Henn s ll *. ford-road, Islington, who stated that on the 16th IL" going up the Camden-road, which is an incline freak Camden-road Railway Station, be saw the &his driving • horse in a waggon lade ni with coals in each whilst the horse (which was thoroughly exhausted W gasping for breath) was doing its utmost to draw the k" the two defendants, one on each side of the hone, mind to flog it most cruelly under the belly and sppllo because the unfortunate horse could not get alai enough to please them the defendant Stephens 10" about the fore legs with the butt sod of the wbs Li a (witness) ascertained that there were two t.ns exclusive of the waggon, weighing machine, and sseis. o grow weight being over three tons. The horse west s Ikb, distance after the beating, and then came to stand: 01W trembledexceedingly. It was in • profuse wrest, 101 ' number of respectable persons, who had been attnelsib the spot by seeing the deplorable condition of Ws MI. indignantly commented on the conduct of the deisebab He (witness) was about turning away from the the horse suddenly fell and groaned grievously, mi l ' t.'4,1 few minutes of convulsive struggling it ceased to mist. Yr. Joseph Seaton, merchant, of 6, Carlleamb Islington, corroborated the above evidence. William Hall, a horse slaughterer, proved having the hone and found that its stomach had burg, sad lb was the cause of death. _ Mr. Ricketts—Having heard the evidence of the, vials witnesses, should you say that death was osomell 6 by the overload the horse was compelled to draw aid 6 : whipping it received? Waimea—Meet certainly I should. Mr. Cherry, government veterinary surgeon, stated 60 a weight of three toes WAS too much to put beishelif ordinary horse on a level road, and the draught apes de animal going up a steep incline like the Camden.rosd have been excessive. He had not the slightest d o ubtlM e the bursting of the stomach was the result of the is° - stress upon the animal caused by the overloading it. Mr. Love stated that cases of overloading coal meinhol hones were of daily warren's in the streets of the O.! polio. The question with the coal merchants sad it • agents appeared to be one of pounds, shillings, sad Iwj oli . and as to whether the horse was capable of drawitif " load, that was a matter which appeared to be totally O r 3.4 rewarded. The defendants set up the extraordinary Mews they had not been guilty of cruelty on the growl 1 , 1 another horse wee going up the raid at the same time a similar weight, and did its work easily. The magistrate said he knew there were a clan d 681 •1 who would make a horse pull till it dr5eP 61 .,...1 would never pot their shoulder to the wheel. Theya load behind the spired which it was manifestly iisolls• of drawing, and whilst it was doing its utmost to esA them they rewarded it by inflicting neon it most grail 6 r, and brutal treatment. There could be so doubt / W in this instance the life of the wretched i j " was sanitised by the ill-treatment he had at the hands of the defendants. He thought the pa; were much indebted to thou, gentlemen who Wended at this wort to give evidence. The conduct of 1 01 defendant had been very had ; but the defendant Met Wog the owner of the horse, ought to have proton/ 0 " from violence. He End Hewer 31. and the coats. or 1 7, month's imprisonment with hard labour ; and Sophie. pay 2/. as is the Heinri, charged • on •child Mr. IL and Ento muted. — "TisO had the in the evil Ott the ei the corn; want to t and atter *mutely When thi lorry for The pr goot! ct saclseat Lard lab months. Mr. was chary Alecto* danger of Police., about he morning, phaeton minute al road loan h phaetoa, females Wren to wu so In The cos The de injury to There hat him. and he was between I Mr. offence of fondant Tlu fil was Outri swedes t Mr. In OM the Ei.htli en. 110171 found th myself h and ape! I found the root with a I Mr. Ji read—k then we getting c raises j of ha said it the roof did so I disable Lance. ' workpso fie - a wards u them en tend we ' end • dressing Polio. sad four also. T Other • week. Upwi them vi chd, uses Some put gistrates. all dean aiding in as fit and Lace coat chief ushg forms, WU them, an forms wg The crow Mr. Paget mandarin amount of quite Mad the last tt This me Samuel El of 18, Dor Smith of Son on he The cite port, whic on the dec On the 1 solicitor, c Mr. Batt Mr. Ta Mr. Wit Mr. Ric evidence. Mr. But been held, As the e bed as Mr. of the door The 1141 the corose By Mr. 1 caused the duos the ii etrumeot I be imposai dexterous Hay clover. b - ti;" Pe r tat ßat been um< between tl Mr. Day sleet them. Mr. Bat ppm, 7h, expected t Mr. Ds, week, sad Neatly between R Christmu• A write spring and tested gm Christmas fuchsias, c song* French ma roses, earn is second ci were also lIIIIIIIIIIII T_ NTELLIGENCE. .. F —.-- BANKRIJPTCY. nn II 'HIS DAY.) the Hone r H y 2 de /. and .e c h a rged wit Oematissieese Wiealme.) * 0 on a child a lr. H. A -APPLICATION POE amuse. , and Enteral Jolts Monty°, wee dee.lb l 4 I , muted. dreet. York.road, Lambeth 14 The Win see from prime, where he N i b s . and eke we War het. having been serened eid' s In the ergo ant of Chancery for son.payre, Oti the eve 'from him in the snit of " t s i i ; the oomph went to tin for the detaining credi t lce j_ k end atterot I ; the brother of the innately fo mentable cases is which the i h i l When the i Dom for w eared in support of the aNgt i . The p rise ring to the " three dsfp , Q a good cba comply with the re nufralmiltellt, & s cooting t ill, true, and accurate. That * Th e mat in a lump as owing,* ersdh a end @eaten iptioos he did not give. hard taboo' at the petition should be am* ' months, would probable be the bed a cs If, ea the petition world ao hi A SIMEON tags if the objections were lakw. that 5001. was chiefly menu : Mr. Ed + a, some of the debts being was charg« I no books, and could s o f g i n% furiousl y d danger oft mad to adj g ourn tho applianc e Police•co peek about half at ft was imperative *li the Molt morning, I it noncompliance with the 04i p h aeton f , mi hat the baakrupt was mag ic reed nute founds . made 40 years 140, gb; i phaetou, be Mired certain property, ' bai l , females ha Woes decided he was net whisk taken to tlf whether this wan not a te ll s i was BO MSC would be to dismiss the rethi n k .. In answe e act ; then the bankrupt ne n g h ' The COW he registrar when the prope r i a The dela injury to li There had him, and el )LICE COURTS. he was d between th HIS DAY.) ,L Mr. offence of I —..— themselves ~ IIIILDRALL. fondant 234 S ASSAULT ST A CHILD. a The fine i, • very little boy, slid 11, a t" Damm am, by tw o r s c I _ • ..!. manta to was r i , a B w ric w id r e z w e 4r 27 a lm ittew th li o b l f wy amid ji v markhchargame4 was playing with ji°B64 . th l St satiates of 1 mown, came to them, s o d ip Mr. p Ins tatt's hands the prisoner t oo k ti. bat the pi loffatt's face, an then ree se, wibed the effects of the blew* Mary At limy. from the eye to the lower pat dia knight 1 27 we oaken to the halite', of what kii obe go reipelae had ensued. , found that mf, and on exiunintion it me lea =m u in, ' & and open« kr averred that the bey Sri W 't I found th w, ntto ws dthe thw etffthecet b th l : w t v they ss„ Se; g ;. denied by Smith. ..." 1 1 ! w th i e tha lase' l ' proPertY ; laded the priauner. , dueled wee 10W-STREET. Mr. Jan UM OP TOUR CHANGL read—At ind.l oo king young woman, MIM I ' th e ree " cling a child in her arms, mils , . ffe.t i• li. o t: Tanghan, charged on matins d be sal it fe• d a carpenter living in Malayan the roof m did so a I May night she entered lie le disable hi er, Drury-lane, to P• 7 bet lii tance k .Ti i esa.book sod half a eovereip a th V in took the book to his desk, vi i i, -a- worpeoplGeol.. ;canter (there being one os Mai "- i ata n i g i ) the week's account. Wham I . la front of i t ther e was anyone else pent .....- wuds sew was, • to go to the counter at Ws , them eats was she saw the paw :. .• and we w,, wading' behind her. Sbe Its and ain iv from the counter and Mai/ dressing ti ken it up. He replied that loaf and fo und pa s the prisoner, " I just pato le met have it." The prisoner ni ill slap.Tai SWISS said, " Will You Pto 1 k • jemmy, bi searched' and if I an vet other a , an." She said. " I Iwo Pill - a week. in in my pocket." Wilms rki a w." - ` l got the change and Ms SW. .'s." Witness 'eked her to go kW ma Tr ___, :A lt a i r: n all e id tti s o h r e to the ga ud il i: ._ b•-' th_.....e.F.7.":"