The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-29 00:00:00

I THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1864. DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS AND ISANt'FACTUILES, Dna Under the Special Patronage of her Mainly the QUEEN. INTENDING ILNHIBITOIS are informed that We Illst De comber is the latest day on which APPLICATIONS for SPACE will be received. The requisite forms can be obtained at the Home of the Society of Arta, Johnxtreet, Adelphi, London, W.C., or at the Exhibition Palace, Dublin.—By order, HENRY PARKINSON, Secretary. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the past year, the boats of the National Lifeboat Insti tution sated 417 persona from different wrecks on oar coasts. The Institukon has also expended £13,815 ga. Yd. In the mine period on its Lifeboat establishments, in addkioa to granting X 1,361 64. &stewards for saving 714 shipwrecked persona by its lifeboats and other means. 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Forrester, sod H. Mellon Mrs. H. Manton, Maws lisruatt and Orman. LYCEUM. Tins EVEXING, MY CVllei.:l — orT. Mr. Wledleomb.— R1:1" sus Messrs. Pechter, Ryder, Fitzpatrick. Charles, Ray mond, Mclutyre, Mon•land, Collett, Clifford : Mna C. Leclercii. —And BEAIt.EACED IMI'OnTOR3. Mr. Wlddloomb. BRITANNIA. [Ora ERWIN°, LITTLE BUST' — BEE . or, the Old Lady of Threadneedle street. Ilesdames S. Lane, W. Cranford, and E. Jacobs Sir. G. Ingwood Flrat-rat. Pantomimist& .—And THE OILKAiIItLS OF LuNDON.—Loinmence at ball.paat 6. HIGH WATER AT LONDON:BRIDGE. THIS DAT Morning, •211.. Attemoo — e. SL . 21QE. TO-3101140r Morning, 2h. Ons Afternovo, id lose. LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29. TILE American intelligence contained in our columns this morning may be considered, as regards the questions which for the last month have been of most pressing interest, as of a decisive character. It reports at once the admitted safety, if not yet the success, of SuenmeN, and the rout of 11000. There was a rumour, dated from Charleston on the 14th, that the former General had actually captured Savannah, with its garrison of 11,000 men, after eight hours' lighting. This may be premature. But the Richmond papers admit that on that day he did storm Fort WAllister, a strong earthwork which guards the mouth of the Ugeechee, fifteen miles to the south of Savannah, the sand ramparts of which twice last year repulsed a bombardment by Federal monitors. This success, it is acknow ledged, placed him in secure communication with the Federal fleet. And on the 12th HOWARD, the leader of one of his columns, had actually commu nicated with the Federals, who, under Forrea, hold the waterway and the railway to the north of Savannah, and conveyed to him the intelligence that the troops were in excellent health and spirits. There is, therefore, no absolute impossibility that the operation, which commenced with the capture of Fort 31`Allister on the 12th, may have con cluded with the capture of Savannah itself. At all events that city must by these movements have been closely invested, and as the railways are held by which reinforcements could reach it, there is small chance of its being relieved. Nor, as we have formerly pointed out, is it probable that any such garrison should have been thrown into it in time as would suffice to defend the works of a town covering so considerable an extent of ground. That the Federal troops are fresh and in good spirits is an almost necessary consequence of the circumstances of their advance, for they have made easy marches, and it has never been pretended that they have suffered from any want of supplies. There is, therefore, no reason why they should not be ready to undertake at once any operations which their commander may consider advisable. From Tennessee the intelligence of Federal success is still more positive. General Tuolias, who lay in Nashville while his detachments con centrated, found himself on the 15th sufficiently strong to take the offensive. With the aid of the flotilla on the Cumberland, he forced the left of the Confederate line, and drove it back in disorder to a distance of eight miles, capturing a thousand prisoners and several guns. Next day he fol lowed up the advantage, penetrated the whole of H...i.'s entrenched positions, and captured from 3,000 to 4,000 prisoners, with 30 or 40 guns. The account of these two days leaves no doubt that Hoou's army was utterly defeated. And a defeat, in the middle of December, of an army known to be not very well supplied or clothed, and greatly dependent for subsistence on the resources of the country, is, it need scarcely be observed, a most serious affair. If Hoot, can make good his way back to Alabama he will show higher qualities of generalship than he has yet discovered. Mean time two independent expeditions directed from Raton Rouge and Vicksburg, expressly with the design of harassing or cutting his communications with Mobile, appear to have met with some success, and if this should in any degree be the case, it will undoubtedly add much to his diffi• culties. That these achievements should hare altogether turned away the attention of the public from the result of the liberation of the " raiders " in Canada, was, however, not to be expected. There is in the comments of the American papers on the subject some of that hasty generalization of which our own press has not been guiltless, in which the un authorised and unapproved act of an individual is imputed to the nation and to the Government. general Dix, who is in command of the military defence, has re-issued a formal order, authorising his troops to shoot any persons who may attempt to make again such an attempt, and if they should escape, to pursue and seize them in Canada. The former part of the order we are not concerned with, though we may observe that it is one fully justifiable if the " raiders " are regarded as belli gerents, but quite contrary to law and custom if they are looked upon as mere robbers. The second part of the order we may hope will not be sanctioned by the superior civil authority. That plea which could alone warrant it—the refusal of the Canadian Government to administer justice and observe the duties of allies—has happily no founda tion in fact. The Ministry has, on the contrary, lost no time in disavowing the deciaionof Judge Coo mot. The Attorney-General has issued fresh warrants, and the police are again endeavouring to arrest the discharged criminals. The Government is re ported to have already appointed stipendiary magis trates on the frontier, expressly to take cognisance of the breaches of international law, and to have furnished them with sufficient polio* force to sup port their authority. The Legislature has also been summoned to meet on the 19th of January. these measures will probably, as soon as they are known to the American public, suffice to remove a natural irritation. But we must repeat that their vigorous execution is • duty we owe to ourselves even more than to our neighbours. We are bound to show the example of doing as we would be done by, and as we have in former times uttered keen remonstrances, and even resorted to actual force, when an enemy used neutral soil to prepare machinations against us, it is, imperative that we should now vindicate our fair dealing and maintain our friendly cha racter by prohibiting absolutely the abuse of our protection for the purpose of directing treacherous violence against the inhabitants of a bordering and allied State. We should expect France to do thus much for us if we were un happily at war with America, and Americans plotted and directed from Calais expeditions to sack Brighton, or born Hastings. And it is clear that what we should regard as the duty of France in such a case would be still more her duty if the war were made upon our sea board, not by a foreign nation, but by a portion of our own subjects in revolt. This is the American case at present, and there must be no hesitation in our doing to them the justice which we, should look for from every friendly power if the case were our own. THE Peace Address lately forwarded from Eng land to the United States, and which Mr. SEWARD declined to receive, preserves all the mysterious ness of its origin. Why it was drawn up, and by whom it was signed, was never clearly explained. The most tangible statement publicly made re specting it was that it had been carried to America by Mr. JOSEPH BARKER, well known on both sides of the Atlantic as a public lecturer. Our ' readers have already learned from • paragraph which was inserted in our issue of Tuesday last, that this assertion has no foundation. As we have accepted the statement on the authority of others, and as it has been repeated and made the subject of comment which Mr. BARKER considers injurious to him, it is our duty to show its ground lessness. The statement that Mr. JOSEPH BARKER was the bearer of the Peace Address first came under our notice in the columns of two of the most respectable daily newspapers of New York. By the next mail we received a copy of the A nti•Starery Standard, in which the statement was repeated in the most circumstantial manner. The editor of the Sin durd, apparently entertaining no doubt of the identity of the bearer of the address, referred to Mr. BARKER'S former professions in America as an Abolitionist, and his supposed advocacy of the southern cause in this country, and reflected strongly on the inconsistency of his conduct. It was finally added that he appeared in America under the assumed name of .PARKER to escape the unpleasant notoriety which must follow his identification as the former Abolitionist. We need not repeat the com ments of the A nti-Startry Sta ndard : it is obvious that just in proportion as they were ade quate to denounce the course of conduct attri buted to their subject, they were calumnious and injurious if the facts assumed were untrue. The portion of the article from the A 'di-5ta....P . !, Standard was published in our columns about ten days ago, and we never doubted its accuracy until last Monday, when we saw in the Mu neinst, r Era min , r a statement that Mr. BARKER was still in this country, and had been delivering a lecture at Leeds, in which, referring to some newspaper reports about him, be said :—" The purport of " the last story is, that I went on a mission to " America to present a peace petition or docu " ment to the Government ; that, for fear of con " sequences, I went under an assumed name, call " ing myself JUsEPH PARKER, instead of .lo , r.Pit BARKER ; that I have abandoned my anti " slavery principles, and I do not know what. " The whole is a tissue of pure fabrication and " wicked slanderous lies. I have not been out of " England for the last five years, except once to " Guernsey. I have never been the agent of the " Southern rebels, and I have never gone against " my anti-slavery principles." We read this paragraph with surprise, because it was evident from the breadth of this denial, that the misconception was not confined to the circumstances detailed in the A nfi-Shirtry Stm, , bird. We have certainly heard • great deal before now of the name of BARKER in connexion with a pro-Southern agitation in the north of Eng land. It was plain, then, that a mistake as to identity had been made. Yesterday, before we had had time to complete our inquiries, we re ceived a letter from Mr. JONEPH BARKER himself, complaining that we had given publicity to false, calumnious statements concerning him ; stating that he had nothing to do with the mission to Washington, and, of course, not with the change of his name to PARKER ; that he was still opposed to slavery, and had not been out of England for two years. Mr. BARKER adds, that in the use of reasonable care we might have ascertained these facto before publishing the paragraph from the A id;-Stnecry Stu talc, rd. We will not, even in self-defence, say anything to ex• tenuate the responsibility of the press. We have in this case fallen into an error, which it is our object completely to repair. We will only ob serve that, as • matter of fact, in accepting the statement of Mr. BAnkEit's presence in America as the bearer of the Peace Address, we did what we are under the necessity of doing six days in every week—we relied on the accuracy of the public journals of the locality for information re specting the movements of • well-known public man. We should have been glad if, on the appear ance of the statement that he was in America, Mr. BARK ER had enabled us at once to contra dict slaveholders had one advocate less than has been supposed. As it is, however, our course is plain. We entirely accept ME..IOSEPH BARKER'S affirms . tions and denials regarding his movements, grin ; ciples, and public relations ; we recognise that the statements of the .Inds Starer ! , Standard respect ing him are false and erroneous, and the reflections founded on them groundless and unjust ; we with draw from them whatever countenance or sanction they received from insertion in our columns ; and we offer to Mr. BARKER the expression of our Rin i cere regret that they were ever published in this journal. The Industrial Exhibition at Dublin will close on Saturday seat with the old year. The stheadauce now is very small, though the =Sok reduced to 61. Cbt Qtoutl. ODOR Dal A The Queen , accompanied by Prince Arthur and Pfiloll Leopold , walked out yesterday, Led Primes' Louise drove, attended by oousters Blucher. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gaged°Ens St. ➢faor are expected to leave Stover Park, Dear Totems, shortly after the 7th proximo, for the noble dukes official reclaim* at the Admiralty. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have loft the SL George's HoteL The Marquis of Bowmont joined the royal circle at Sandringham a few days sso. The Karl and Countess of Leicester will entertain a distinguished party at Holkham Hall during the ensuing week. Viscount and Visomatess Powerscoart hate ;lobed the family party trout their seat is Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and leuly Emily Villiers are expected to join the party invited to Staawberry Hill next week by the Countess (Pronoun) Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Portant., M.P. Lord and Lady Taunton and the Hon. Misses Labonehere, goo, they left Castle Howard, Yorkshire, have been staying at their seat, near Tanntoo. Lord Houghton has left town for Broadlands, Hants. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P., and Lady Grey return to town the week atter next for the num We (Tines) understand that Captain Astley C. Key, C. 8., commandiug the Excellent gunnery ship at Portsmouth, and Governor of the Royal Naval College, will, on *storing upon his duties as the head of the new Naval Ordnance Department, be succeeded in the command of the Excellent and in the Naval College by Captain Priredy, C. 8., now in command of the iron frigate Hector. Earl Stanhope thinks that the Queen's Librarian a good deal overrates the importance of those short Boise made by Prince Charles Edward which appeared with Mr. Woodward's letter on Tuesday. Such short notes of Priam C Lulea are by no means uncommon in the Stuart manuscript at Windsor. They are usually written is a very close hand, on small cards or fragments of paper. Sometimes they contain a graceful or a touching thought, such, for example, as the following which Earl Steahope found among them some 25 years ago :—" De vivre et pis vivre sat beauoonp plus que de mourir." " But in general," writes his lordship, "I regret to say they seem to have proceeded from those hours when the prince after his return from Scotland, too often sought in intemperance a refuge from his sorrows and cares. They are then telut avri comma. It is difficult to derive from them any definite meaning, and still more difficult to ascribe to them any historical value." THE FRENCH COURT. The Emperor gave a grand dinner at the Tuileries the evening before last to the marshals now in Perin Prince Napoleon, accompanied by Colonel Ragon, his aide-de-camp, last week visited the valley of Chamounix, wishing to see that place in its winter dress of snow. The excursion, notwithstanding the great cold, was unattended with any accident, sod the Prince returned two days back, to his estate of Prangins. A number of persons collected yesterday before the re served garden of the Tuileries, when they could perceive the Prince Imperial skating on one of the basins of orna mental water. The Empress was standing by looking at the Prince, who appeared to greatly enjoy the exercise. The Emperor shortly after came and skated on the same basin. " The Prince Imperi►l," say. the Sport, " has his guests at the Tuileries as he had at Comniigne. Every Sunday and Thursday he receives in his apartment his young friends. the sons of Dr. Coonean, GeDllllllll Fleury and Burgoing, and the son of the late General Espinosa.. The afternoon is passed in play or in a drive; at 6 dinner takes place ; and ►t Bor half•past 8 the young guests take leave of their host. On the occasion of Christmas his imperial highness invited his friends, and, after having made them gather from a tree charged with presents various objects, kept them to dinner." On the 17th Madame Riatori was at Constanti nopletand had already appeared is some of her most brilliant parte. She his been received with much enthusiasm by that portion of the community consisting of foreigners. As to that section known as " l'era Society" they prefer listening, night after night, to the Trorutore sung out of tune, than to a performance which, seemingly, is beyond their comprehension. Boxiug-uight at the Theatre Royal, Dubliu, wee distinguished by tremendous crushing in all parte of the house except the dress circle. So great was the pressure that the noise rendered it almost impossible to attend to the performance. The title of the pantomime is The Hauer that Jack built, which, however, forms but a small part of the diversified entertainment. At the Queen's the spat* is very limited, but the most has been made of it. The sub ject of the pantomime in this little theatre is Robiusoa Crutue. A Constantinople letter of the lith says :—" A bra—one of those frequent disasters in the capital—de stroyed on Sunday last the beautiful palace occupied by the Grand Vizier, Fuad Pacha, end compelled the inmates, with the Grand Vizier himself, to take refuge in the street in their night clothes only. An enormous amount of pro. party hu thus been lost ; the whole furniture, the plate, jewels, the valuable library of the Pasha, his seal of effice, and a large collection of interesting relics bequeathed to him by his father, with all the vast accumulation of house bold gods with which the palace of a great functionary is geoerally crowded, have all been lost, Fate has not been propitious to the Grand Vizier lately as regards his private and domestic interests. Not many months ago he lost his only remaining son ; a few days line his grandson, a favourite.child eight or ten years old, was taken from him by death—two unfortunate events which have left • deep impression upon him." The whole of the Paris Boulevards from the Place de la Madeleine to the Faubourg Montmartre is covered with stalls, which fur the nut fortnight will be held by the poorer classes, in most instances the wives of poor artisans, whose chief stock consist of cheap toys and lollipops intended for the middling classes, whereas the shops in the Rue de la Pair, the 'Weis Royal, and the ' Rues Richelieu and Vivienne remind one of the most bril liant descriptions in the "Arabian Nights." They are converted, for the nonce, into fairy palaces, blazing with gems of priceleas worth, and dazzling with everything that can 'be invented to please the eye and gratify the caste. Bronzes, pictures, furniture, and diamooda, enough to develop the spirit of rubbery, attract one's attention and glitter in the windows. A Paris correspondent says of the Italiau opera in that capital :—" Preschini has pleased much in Poliuto, with Madame Chartow Derueur. We have had Z.,o•ni and Riyohrt“, but the t of the last week was the repro duction a few nights ago of Dosizetti's Li,idd di Cha wounir. This opera does not generally attract at Paris. Patti as Linda, Madame Lehlache as Pierotto, and lirignoli as Carlo, have, however, at once made it a favourite. I seldom remember to have witnessed so much really enthu siastic approbation bestowed by a crowded house on any previous performance. Patti equally surprised and charmed the audience, not only by looking and singing, bat by acting the n.Vc of Linda with as exquisite percep tion and clever dramatic reading of a part which has some fine ' situations.' You heard people my after the touching seem of her arrival at the village, and then the cued episode —' Patti is a dramatic artist as well as an enchanting singer.' The 'No ! floe i ver !' was perhaps never given with more touching pathos. Brigooli sang his part (not an attractive one) better than he acted. Endeavouring to make something of the rGle, by introducing a romance of Mercadante's, Brignoli has established himself a favourite already. No doubt you will hear him in London. Madame Lablache did the Minstrel Boy delightfully, and sang hatter than usual." About 60 tons of copper ore are now brought moethly to Southamptoe from the Cape of Good Hope by the Gape mail packet. This ore a few yaws ago was worth nearly 1,31.. a ton : It is now doubled in value. The only other steamer to arrive from New York this week is the Glasgow, which sailed on the same day u the Haan. No later news is likely to be received before Monday, the Dent Cunard steamer being the Canada, from Boston, which was to mail on the 21st. --- REOPENING or THE LAW OFFICE4.—This day the common kw °dices were reopened after the Cblistuiss re cess. The mark will not resume business until the 11th Jemmy. being the brit day of Hilary Term. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY AND THE DUCHIES. Aooording to a letter from Vienna in the /nal. pendance Beige Austria has proposed to Prussia to hand over to the Duke of Augustenburg the deeds of possession of the Duchies which those two powers hold in virtue of Article 3 of the treaty of Vienna ; the Diet to be then called upon to re cognise the new sovereign as a member of the Confederation. The Russian Ambassador, who took these propositions to Berlin, has returned to Vienna, it is said, with a refusal. M. de Bismarck is of opinion that the question is not yet ripe for settlement, and that all the claims, those of Prussia included, must be Stilt examined by the juriscon sults. This is said to be the first time that the Prussian pretensions to the succession of the Duchies have been officially put forward. ROME. ADVICE OF THE CARDINALS TO THE POPE. Letters from Naples affirm that Cardinal d'Andrea is not the only member of the Sacred College who is in favour of a compromise with Italy. It is stated that if circumstances require it four other Cardinals are ready to pronounce for the same course. These letters say that after two or three extraordinary congregations, held at the Vatican, the Cardinals, by 17 or 18 votes out of 23, counselled the Pope and Cardinal Antonelli 1 to observe the greatest reserve and prudence. SPAIN. The Chamber of Deputies at Madrid has com pleted the organisation of its bureau by the nomi nation of vice-presidents and secretaries, who all belong to the ministerial party. In the Senate, of the four secretaries named, two are supporters of the cabinet, and two belong to the opposition. In the Senate it is that the new ministry must expect to meet with the greatest resistance. According to the Epoca the votes of that assembly as at present composed are divided as follows, without taking into account the members who may arrive at Madrid be fore the division on the address and that on the Santo Domingo question:—Ministerial majority, 104 ; de clared opposition, 58; doubtful, 16. In the Chamber of Deputies the Count de San-Luis and 5L Nocedal are mentioned as the moat conspicuous leaders of the opposition ; but, says the Corraponderecia, those ex ministers can only count on about twenty deputies. The Consultative Junta of War at Madrid has held a meeting to examine the project of abandoning Santo Domingo, and the Correspon dencia makes the following remarks on the sitting : The Marquis de Pezaela voted spinet each a 011110BOXII in • military point of view, making that deiMinn, however, subordinate to any OCOCOlniCal or political considerations which might induce the government to adopt it. The other members°, the junta, while not denying the possibility of suppressing the insurrection, declared in favour of the aban donment of the island, where the soldiers were falling without either glory or benefit to their country, not before their enemies, but as victims of • climate which could not be supported. THE POLISH TRIAL. A letter from Berlin, dated the 24th inst., gives the following particulars respecting the recent trial of the Poles at that capital : The High Court of Justice yesterday pronounced judg mat in the trial of the Poles accused of high treason. Conformable to the conclusions of the Public Ministry, the sentence of death has been pronounced against the following 11 accused :—Counts Dzialynski, Guttry, Wol niewicz, Skoraczewski, Radecki, Taczanowski, Zakrzewski, Lutomski, Lukaszewski, Junaewski, sod Scyfried. According to Prussian law, pentanes of death is political matters implies cousscation of the property of the con demned. The court has admitted extenuating ciretunstances i a regards 27 of the accused, and has consequently sentenced them only to imprisonment in a fortress. Their crime i s thus defined :—" Acts tending to prepare the execution of a crime of high tressoe." Among the condemned in this category are MM. Xieyolewski and Kosioski (for two years), Rusteyko and Martweli (18 mouths), Prince CZAZ toryski and M. Collier (for one year). The sentence of imprisonment does not imply confisca tion of the property of the sentenced, nor bare they to pay the costa of the trial, which it is said exceed 1,200,000 fr. AU the other persons accused, to the number of 100, have been acquitted. _ TtLEti RAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Dm. 29. The Muniteur of to-day publishes a note stating that the extraordinary budget for 1866, which amounts to a higher figure than the previous year, will be entirely balanced without having recourse to any extraordinary financial measures. The Coustitutiunnel, of to-day, publishes an article signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, stating that the encyclical letter of the Pope has caused general surprise. He says that its application is impossible, and that if any danger exist it is in the reaction to which such attempts may give rise. IFrance will remain faithful to the principles inscribed at the head of the Constitution. ROME. ROME, I)zc. 28. The G iornale di Roma of to-day, iu correcting some details of the recent encounter between the French troops and the brigands, and in which some of the former were wounded, says that the Pontifical government, does not encourage, but is rather the victim of brigandage. RUSSIA. BERLIN, Dw. 29. Private advice. from St. Petersburg state that Prince Gortchakotf seriously contemplates retiring from office. Baron de Budberg is spoken of as his MCOBO43Ol'. M. Walinew, the Minister of the Interior, would, it is said, then proceed to Paris as Russian ambas sador, and be replaced by General Mulitin. It is further stated that Admiral Krable, the Minister of Marine, would resian, and that Admiral Glassnapp would assume the vacaut ministry. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 28, 7.5 p.m. A very stringent press law has been promulgated. The Tunisian envoy has left Constantinople, having satisfactorily fulfilled his mission. The Porte has granted the concession for the construction of a railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. SUEZ, Dec. 27. The Benares, from Bombay Dec. 14, arrived at 4 p.m. to-day. The Static, from Mauritius Dec. 6, arrived at 5 p. m. on the 23rd inst. A Berlin letter has the following :—" The muni cipal council here has just passed a vote which has excited the anger of the feudal party. If lf. Volgold and Schulz, members of that body. bad proposed to forward to the Kiegt, oe the occasion of New Year's-day, an address of oosgratu• latiou containing ezpressimis of devotedoma sad fidelity ; the council, however, rejected the motion by voter to 22. The sensation produced at court by this diwariestretioe was unusually great, sod the Bing is said to have expressed himself is never language on the attitude of the munici pality." EXPRESS FROM PAM& (nom on on onsserwrozwr.) PARIS, WEDIZSDAT EVININO. The Emperor contradicted the rumours of his being indisposed by skating for two hours yester day at Suresne. The Italian, Prussian, and Dutch ministers, the Marquis de Galiffet, and many other distingu4 personages shared the exhilarating exer cise with his Majesty. The water meadow which forms the favourite imperial skating ground has been railed in, and placards warn off trespassers, and purport to show that it belongs to a newly-formed club. There is in effect a club, to which almost any body may belong who chooses to pay 20fr. ; but the title of the club to the locality is doubtful, and yesterday afternoon, when the Emperor was gone, the public asserted its rights and took forcible pos session of the place. To-day there is a thaw in the centre of Paris, but it still freezes in the Bois de Boulogne, and the wind being northerly, I think the frost will prevail again to-night. In various parts of France the weather is extremely severe. The Loire is frozen over at Orleans. The Saone, at Lyons, is blocked up with ice bergs, and it was expected that the river would soon be completely frozen. Navigation is stopped at Rouen. At Cette, Carcassonne, and Narbonne, an extraordinary depth of snow has fallen. A very successful monster rat hunt took place in Paris yesterday. The main drains were simul taneously scoured by dogs, and legions of rats were driven out upon the icebergs in the Seine. As these floated down to the bridges means were taken to shake them, and the rats were drowned by wholesale in the water. M. Dufaure, whose political indolence and dis like to fracas about his name, prevents him, to the great regret of his friends, from coming forward to contest the vacant seat in the Charente Inf6ricute, which he might have for the asking, has written a letter recommending the opposition to vote for M. Paul Bethmont, the son of the well-known Beth mont of 1848. If (says M. Dufaure)the small mo dicum of parliamentary liberty granted on Nov. 24 is to endure, it is highly important that young men should be returned, in order that they may be trained in the good school they will find in the small minority of independent members, which con tains many experienced and illustrious men. The representatives of protestant orthodoxy in Paris seem to be jealous of catholic orthodoxy. In obedience to the li►t of M. Guizot, who has been not inaptly styled the Calvinist Pope, the Pres byterian Council of Paris has just refused to accept M. Thomas Rives as a suffragan of M. Coquerel, sea. It is admitted ou all hands that M. Rives is not only an honourable, zealous, and pious man, but that he is moderate iu the expression of his opinions. However, the leading French protestants will not let him preach if they can help it. There is a rumour that, in consequence of the misconduct of a member which the general body refuses to atone for, the Doniinician friars are to be expelled from Paris within six mouths. At the Palais de Justice, yesterday, a young advocate with a fully upper lip, who rose to ad dress the court, was stopped by the observation that mustaches were against the regulations. "I thought," he respectfully replied, "that wine were too short for the court to take judicial notice of them." "It is not a question of quantity, but of principle," gruffly rejoined the president. "In that case," said the advocate, " I can only ask to have the case put off. - "No," said the judge, "go on now, but remember to shave another time :" M. Alex. Dumas, jun., is going to be married to morrow to a rich Russian widow, Madame Na rischine. The name is one of the best in the book of Russian nobility. Great Russian ladies have a pow/taut for French literary men. Balzac enriched himself by a Rwsian alliance. The Bourse is steady, but realisation of profits produced a slight fall (sc. only) in the Reute. Mobilier fell Ur. THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL AS VIEWED IN ITALY. The Italia of Tuesday, commenting upon the eucyclical, makes the following remark s : That which we foresaw ia realised. The encyclical of the court of Rome is hardly known in name and an immense sensation is already produced respecting this ana thema launched against civil society, public law, popular in stitutions, and modern hberaliam. Far from making the con. cessions recognised to be indispeosable, the Vaticaa, taking en extreme decision, has abruptly broken with the principles which govern, not only Italy, but France and liberal Europe. Wedo not hesitate to say that the character of the encyclical offers a double alternative : either this document is not serious, is • dead letter, and without any significatioo, which appears to us inadmissible, or it is an important and solemn manifestation of the Court of Rome, and in that case the Roman question issimplitled, and approaches its solution. France has felt bound to manifest a certain amount of consideration and herself to defend the temporal inte rests of the Holy See. The Holy See answers by refusing to the government of Napoleon ILL the right of internee lag in the affairs of the Vatican. and the Pope replies to the advice tendered him from Paris or elsewhere, that he alone has the right of miluencing princes and directing them in a measure of which he is the judge. Lastly, he sets the admission of the temporal power and the par tisans of popular sovereignty upon the mine level. It is useless to argue with such an arrangement of idea,. Were the papal theory to triumph, the Pope would be in future not only the head of catholicity, but the master of kings and emperors. We doubt that, with the exception of the ex- King Francis IL and Queen Isabella, many crowned heads will accept the domination of the tiara. THE ULTRAMONTANE JOURNALS A-VD THE POPE S ENCYCLICAL. The Munde is delighted with the Encyclical. It says : Undoubtedly there will be struggles to endure ; error is not to be overcome without a conflict, and we shall have to undergo a deluge of sophisms and a tempest of outrages and insults. But what does that signify We koow the truth ; ws have an intrepid leader in the Pope, chiefs not less intrepid in the bishops; that is enough to secure our Tic- Wry if we can submit our intelligence with equal faith and humanity. It is so clear to Christians that spiritual interests ate above temporal interest., that Cod is higher than man, and that the church, divinely eats. blWhed, is superior to all purely human societies, that no one of the propositions condemned by Pius IX. can retain for any of us even the 'ambiance of truth. After this, we OM let the unbelieving press raise its clamour ; we can let it say that Pius IX. condemns society itself, and launches an insolent defiance against our time ; no matter what it says. That press is acting in its true character, and we had no reason to expect its co-operation. As fur the hypocri tical press, which assumes the mask of catholicism to weaken the church and quietly destroy the Pontifical authority, we leave it to indulge its affected sorrows, to cry that Pius IX. has struck a fatal blow at the Koreas of catholicism, and that there is no hope except in ' the irresistible strength of the liberal current ; we will let it blame the Pontifical act, • while accepting it with all the respect due to everything emanating from the Sovereign Pontiff.' as the Francr said yesterday. Neither violence nor hypocrisy must disconcert us. Rome has spokes ; for true eatholiae there cannot be two modes of receiving its decisions; they do sot keel at first to buffet aftet wards— they hear and obey." The Union does not conceive that any remarks are called for on the document ; Mace it em•wtes from the Pope, it most be perfect. •, Let us." says our contemporary, "admire and bless the [sd•tatigable solicitude and heroic courage of the angus Pontiff, who in the midst of all the tribulations by which he is mailed, tennis... his vigour and constancy in the go. verament of the church and in the direction of souls. Let as unite our prayers to his, follow his teaching, and de. fend his rights." ANOTHER RAILWAY COLLISION. A collision of a serious nature happened ..1, Tuesday, whereby several parlous were much hurt. The accident took plaoeon the North Staffordshire Railway, atd was occasioned by a Laid= sod North-Western pilot engine ninnies into a North Staffordshire passenger train. ltap peers that trains from Celestes to stations on the Biddult,b line are brought to a standstill at the junction of the two lime, about a mile from the Coagleton Station, in order to reverse the engine and take it to the other red of the train, the Biddulph line branching off is an oppocte direction, and rusting a certain distance nearly parallel to the main lies, so that the course of the train is absolutely reversed. Whilst the engem of the 10.35 train fret. the Coogleton station was being so shunted, sod just after it had been hooked on to the carriages, a London and North. Western pilot engine, which had passed through the Coagleton station without stopping, came along the main line at a rapid speed, and dashed into the pa...meager train with terrible force, being impelled half way over the locomotive attached to the passenger treio. The violence of the concussion was such that one of the company's de. tartly@ officers, named Bold, wee dreadfully cot about the head, body, sod legs. A Mrs. Kenyon, of ILticheater, was much shaken, and several others were slightly injured. Fortunately there were very few puesopre iu the Irmo, but all were hurt, more or less. They were taken bark to the Congleton Station, and three medical gentlemen were called in. The detective was sent on to Macclesfield, and had to be carried to his home on a stretcher. The •lriser of the passenger train escaped by jumping off ; the stoker did not happen to be on the engine at the time. The ds,,r and stoker of the pilot engine sustained no further it . try than being jammed among the coal from the tender. Nof much damage woo done to the carriages, sad the em„iser, though broken in several places, were not no far disabled as to complete their short journey without the line Wog blocked up. It is asserted that the driver of the pilot engine was unable to ses the danger signal owing to the fog. AGRARIAN OUTRAGE IN IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDCif/DAT EVCNI Thomas Reynolds, petty sessions clerk at Rath °ore, county Meath, was tired et last evening, and died this morning from the effects of the wounds. The outrage is reported apnea's. The constabulary have made several arrests. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TrICILSDLY, DBOClalla A S LL M.T. Nairn .. ...... 21.41 45 S.W. aborttas ... SD. a 343, B.N. 4.44411 ..... S.W. W.IIW. Oreoreaatle 30.13 44 W.S.W. 031.37 Vateeth' 30.81 46 S.S. W. Cape Clear 30 .2346 B.W . Uverpool ,30.3241 S.S. W. liokylvead '30.27 46 8. W. Pestaasor 31.38 46 8. Brea 30.34 37 E.S.E. L'Orleat 3O 32 36 E. tochefort ,30 is 32 N.N.E. Plymouth Weymouth 30.40 46 S. K. Portionoath '30.41 31 W. 4. W. Loudon Dover — Yarmouth Szarborough 38.24 42 S. W. Melds liellaolaad 30.23 4) W. 4 6 5 ' 2 3:1 W. 3!: N. N.E. b 3 I N.W. I. R. S * c 2 be I : 3 7 - 7 to 003 or 0:! 6 °l 4 1 S W S.W. • o 0.02 •.! 4 4 W. To 0.05 3 4 ' 0 Z. 5 S N.N.L ' f; 4 4 3 1r N.Y.. ! 4 4 N.N.L o O 0 Z. to , ; 1 1 0 Z. co I • N.N.W. of 1 1 2 N. W. mu - - - • 3 W.N.W. m 6 I 2 W. Do I • 2 ♦ 2 W.N.W. cI I 4 3 N.W. e 3 /110/1•ILS. FRIDAY. ON NORSIIIIII W. to S. moderate to Cowl's. frolli, some raiu. As above. B•7I"RDAT. to W., fresh to strong, unsettled. woman. . W. to W.\ W, fresh to strong, ono r.dn. NW. to SW ' mode- Sortaiii. S.W. to N.W., mode rate to fresh,ln places rate to strong, rain 11.M110 rain. 1111 places . W.S.W. tns S W Lorna. W.N.W. derate to fresh.. fresh .trose, Intl; tome rain. Narthernmaeotlaad. Westertminplaad, Wats.. sad mrles a. Smitherna English Chanool sad Bay al Slaw. last a misstward England sad North tan. &HOLAtTI&' REGISTRATION.—The general corn mittee, encouraged by the success which has attended the movement in favour of scholastic registration, has resolved to convene • public meeting of schoolmasters and others in terested in education, to coosiler the best moans of bringing the question before the legislature and the public. The meetang will be held on Thursday, sth January, at 2 p.m., as the rooms of the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi. The hoe. secretary will read a report of the progress of the mevemeot to this date, and will give an outline of the Medical Act, which has suggested the proposed act, on a somewhat analogous plan, for the registration of Khoo'. rosaten and teachers. Several gentlemen of influence will take part in the meeting, and it is earnestly hoped that all promoters of educational reform will endeavour to attend, and co-operate with those whose object is to obtain fax the public some protection against incompetent educators, and foe the protestant the position to which its character and importance entitle it.—Ed T.UL THE MURDER ON SAFFRON-HILL—The young man Rebbeck, who was dangerously wounded on Monday evening at the lame time Michael Hu riogtoo was murders 4 is still lying in a most dangerous state at the Royal Free HoepitaL His injury is snob that intlarnmatton of the longs may set in at any moment, bat he is in a better and a more hopeful condition than he was the previous evening. The injured man wee potman at the house where he was wounded. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood where this terrible crime was committed complaia loudly of the want of police in the locality. They say that the "hill," which is notorious as the resort of the " dangerous claims" and as the dwelling-place of the lowest foreigners, is left without protection. It is but just to the police to state that they were on the spot, so to speak, when this crime was perpetrated, and that the prisoner was very quickly in custody. EXTRAORDINARY CAGE OF INFANTICIDE.—A young woman, named Emma Smith, who was in the ser• vice of Mr. Wilke, of the Leysters. near Leominster, has been taken into custody upon the serious charge of having drowned three children to which she had given birth. About half-peat 12 o'clock on Monday last Mrs. Wilke went up stairs, when she saw the prisoner with a slop-pail full of water. Her mistress said that she would carry it down, but the girl made such strong objections that Mrs. Wilke thought something was wrong, and insisted on taking the the pail downstairs, which she did. Upon examining the pail Mrs. Wilke discovered that it contained three infante much mutilated. It subsequently appeared that Smith had given birth to the children, and that she plunged them into the water and drowned them. Up to the present time the girl has borne a good character. THE CONDEMNED CONVI. 7 AT WoR4•EsTER. —A somewhat unusual step has been taken at Worcester iu re ference to the sentence recently passed on the man Butler for the murder of his housekeeper, Caroline Gulliver, at Holt, in that county. A requisition to the Mayor of Wor cester, signed by 2$ persons, including three clement's, three Severn Navigation Commi ssioners , an d th e c l e rk an d engineer of the commission (of which body Butler was one of the oldest servants), has been presented calling upon hie worship to convene • public meeting for the purpose of memorialising Sir George Grey for • remission of the capital sentence. The grounds upon wbi 1, the application is to be founded are not stated, but it is understood that the requi sitionists assert that the evidence upon which the prisoner was convicted was insufficieut and inconclusive. The mayor, however, has acceded to the requisition, and cog vetted the meeting for this day (Thursday). SIIOOTINt: A WIFE AT PRE:MED:N.—It will be re- membered that in October last a deserter from one of her Majesty's regiments, named Morris, shot his wife at a pleas called Kinsham, near Presteign, the charge of the gnu tearing away the scalp arid part of the skull, so injuring the woman that death was for some days expected to result therefrom. Singular to relate, although the brain disturbed, the woman recovered. The husband at once de camped, and all efforts to capture him till yesterday bad proved unavailiog. Houma that Morris had carried the gun about with him, determined to shoot anyone who should attempt his appritheosion. For acme time past it was thought In had returned to the vicinity of his 'home, and accordingly Superintendent Massey, of Pres teign, took means to ascertain if this was a fact. A watch was set, and last night it was ascertained that • per son answering the description of Morris had been seen to go in the direction of the cottage where his wife lived. A cordon of police were summated, the house was sur rounded, sad Morris captured. He was conveyed to Pres teign gaol and locked up in one of the cells, previous to taking him before the magiotrates to-day for examination. The ofEours lied only let t the cell a short time when they heard a peculiar noise proceeding from it, and os going thither found that the prisoner had tied the one end of his neckcloth tightly round his neck and the other round the grating, and bad nearly succeeded in strangling himself. He was immediately cut down and medical aid summoned. Life was found to be pearly extinct, and at the latest date the prisooer was not considered out of danger. CAUTION TO SAILORS IN COLD WEATHER. —Four of the crew of the schooner Edmond et Marie, of Caen, have jest lost their lives while is the port of Nantes. They had retired to sleep in a cabin, and in consequence of the cold had lighted souse ebareedin • sort of iron cauldron. Is the morning they wen all found dead, suffocated from the effects of the carbonic mid gas emitted. THE POLICE COU (THIS DAY.) WORSHIP-STREET. CRULL £SOAULT ON John Snowden, aged 37, • table.o.alt street, =ratan, was charged with with The oomplainant, who exhibited a brut and another on the back of the head, a. reluctance at the commencement of L. might myself and husband had a few aol. bone together, and he struck too on stick—in fact he struck me several tin worse, he called me a bad woman. Magistrate—You appeared to walk lam the witam-box. Is each the fact'' Complainant (hesitating)—To get out no, and struck my ancle. I think it is ou been married 16 years. He bas often never before came to a magistrate about brute. I only wish that he may be comp pod& Polioeconstable Hopper, 8 N Division worsting I was called, while on duty, past-street. Complainant was sitting dow, paused of ill-usage, and I noticed hruie had been caused by her husband striking He was standing close by in his shirt ali that he had no right to strike her, upon gat in her face and threatened her, sa leave the house, and on getting to the streak heron the head with a stick. Ith custody. Harriet Snowden. 16, daughter of defer to prove the general bad conduct of her pies pisined of the unhappiness existing in th perenre. Defendant remarked—Yes, it is all calla shall never be happy, and had better is allow her so much a weak. Meted The wife pleaded that no impriaonm ec , and Mr. Cooke observed—lt is quite clear meat& has been committed, and obviously to allow you (defendant) to remain with 3 sour restraint is put upon you. I order tl sureties in 40f. each, and enter into your c in double that amount, to keep the peace Locked up in default. WESTMINSTER. COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A Two tall, ill fsvoured fellows, who ga Frederick I,fltioevn and ✓-•h., w, bar charged with robbing the house of 3 to Mr. Watling, provision merchant, in 1124". The property doles consisted of a deal long and proportionate width and depth, watch end chain, other gold chains, a di naiseUaneous trinket; together with some Prosecutor said—The box produced het Dec. 1 my wife and I went out at about leaving our house in the charge of two sei • quarter to 5, on our return home, we fi servant; Sarah Cardiff, had gone out errand. Immediately afterwards, to our, up to our door bleeding copiously Iron, tb, box under her arm, and she told us it had that she had recovered it of the thief. Mr. Safe —When had you last seen the Prosecutor—ln the morning it was ke ing-room upstairs. When we arrived ha from the harmonium, upon which it was Mr. Selfe—Do you know anything of tb Prosecutor—l have seen the prisoner IA three or four years, and considering him often relieved him. Langston—l know you have, sir. Sarah Cardiff, an innocent-looking girl said—l em servant to Mr. Bird. On the at of this mouth I went out to buy a reel the street door ajar. As 1 was r langekin taking the box away under his going from our house; the other prisoner off, watching for him. Both ran away. 1 and they came into Carey-street, Vince took Langston, and got the box. Mr. Selfe—How did you take him? Wither—By the collar ; I seized him t Mr. Selfe—Did you cry for help' Witness-1 could not, I was out of br run very fast. Langston-1 can run a mile in two min think it's likely I can be the man, your we be sure this girl can't run as fast em me. Witmer —I ran fast enough to catch yen Mr. Salle—You had blood upon your far seen directly afterwards—how was that' Witness—The prisoner Langston stencil struggle I got the box, and he went away. Lepton—How was I dressed' Witness—ln light clothes. Langston —I had dark ones oc. Other evidence was gives to show that Coe the prisoners were seen together eke Mr. Bi d , Langston being dressed as dam absconded from the neighbourhood until they were captured. Prisoners both said they knew nothing i Mr. Sells said he should commit them dewed the cleptomania to be prepared moor WANDSWORTH. SINGULAR COLLCNOT IN A Poo' Two young men belonging to the gip the names co Sirrrnder Smolt and John L examined on • charge of being concerned i in gold and silver, the property of anot Hilo Smith. The prosecutor sahl he lived in • tent ot in the York-road. Battersea. The prim relation to him. He knew the prisoners latterly occupied a tent a short distant)* had worked for him about two years that it was his practice to keep hi in the fob pocket of his trouser; pillow of his trousers. On Sunday night, laid down in his tent, *edits usual placed his head. In the morning when he &WI trousers bad been disturbed, the waist drawn under the canvas of the tent from that he was only lying on the lege. gold from his fob pocket, and • and Rs, in silver from smother pocket were about the place on the Sunday, whe they appeared badly off and shabby in thi Monday when he discovered his loss tl miming and he saw nothing of South for returned much better dressed. Poliorroooetable Hughes, 256 V, said car 201,11 inst., he was in charge of the cella at police station. The prisoner Smith was p a man tamed Henry Brown, who was chat • coat. He overheard them uking each of their charges. He listened and heard t. charged on suspicion of stealing with 'tooth life Ins." Brown said. " Mine is a cl, was nailed on my beck." H. then asked, caught?" Smith replied " No, they eau he has goo. clean away." Brows said , suspected r Smith replied, " Bemis* I' togs on; that's why the old woman stealing the money.' Brown sal the stuff, then, right enough, I said, "Don't you split against me,' answered, " I wouldn't NIT a word again.' new boots and new togs I wouldn't care taken from you." Smith said, " No, the them, and paid for them with the stuff not hear every word, as there were he heard Smith ask Brown what with him. Brown replied, "Items. then said, "11 they don't get they remand me again, can they C IMO] Brown answered, " You'll commit your* don't plead guilty." Smith said, " It will • pound if I have • solicitor; would Brown replied, " No, I should'ut have said, at the sane ti me us i ng an ep i t h e t to I shan't have one." Police•constable Mieklejoho, 2G2 V, e Lewis on a warrant, at KingetherPoi admitted taking the money, and said Sin his aide at the time. They then went is bought some new clothes. Police -constable Newman, 30 5 V. pro v ictim) against Smith. He was present at pa the 21st of April, liii,.!, when the peal in the same of Henry Hopwood, for it , sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. The prisoners reserved their defence, nutted (or trial. Bear,/ Brown pleaded guilty to era the sh op d oor of Mr. Coninghouroc, High-street, Wandsworth, and he ws Months' imprisonment with bard labour, FATAL RAILWAY Ai \ 'DENT. Ttitret that we annotioce the death of of Nurark, who met with • fatal ucide The deoeued was waiting for a train at l '°°d°D, on the Victoria and New Cr while craning the line he was knocked d which paned through without stopping. George's Hospital, but never rallied, after admission. It is inioasibl• to Co ' shock which was felt by all clan-as at : as the ietelhireue of his death became kint Daily Guardiall. THE SIGNAL COHN IN THE AMEI Th h signal corps is an institution pacul Urines. OD marches sod daring battles, lot positions are occupied by squalr4os c ommunicate with each other by tbus. o s Ystwlli, and report all important c , int s _Mwwwis. The corps wanfound vary in bees much increased since. When the surrender of tiarper'a Ferry he w-- fmar°,ll.,,ags..uadtite.ineViitorirge,:lgolistlyilb7 meow with of fd t • w l..l, "Pt ; whilst, if he had been obliged t ,, would have had to make a detour of 27, r r i