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Emos.T.noi J. A. WILLI ool& sod H.n Litt mad 11: •••• vimo. num W• 410,. YNei. sad loximmosis at T. 111711111 r. Tr? , F , 171114. 111110K115 1111111L—Aad OlkeNom pr =e. ftsitilattl3_ MA); cei l Ar=llol. 04 , wer, mrim7. sod • HIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIDOZ. Tom DA T-Ilania. a. ...... Ahem% a. L aa. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 4. THEY manage these things oddly in the sister country. The monster case of " Eiraxvirris o. CAN " noN," after having been suffered to drag along for thirteen mortal days in the Irish Court of Exche quer, has ended at last in a verdict for sixpence da mages and sixpence costs. No doubt the investiga tion was a peculiar ear. Nominally an action for slander, it was in reality an attempt on the part of the plaintiff to shift from himself to the defendant the burden of a terrible suspicion. In the prosecu tion of this attempt, a certain latitude of inquiry was unavoidable ; but there can be no question that it was allowed to go infinitely too far. The pursuit of irrelevant topics, the license of counsel, the wanton and scandalous abuse of the public time and patience, were never more offensively exhibited than in this unparalleled case. The presiding Judge, though lamentably incapable of enforcing order and checking irrelevancy, has, at all events, the merit of never having forgotten his own self-respect ; a point in which his demeanour contrasts favourably with that of almost every other prominent actor in this turbulent scene. The actionof "STIEVEN:4Y.CAMPION" was brought to recover damages for slanderous words uttered by the defendant, imputing to the plaintiff—Mr. GEORt.T. STREVENS—a guilty complicity in the mar der of his aunt, Mrs. KELLY. Our readers will not have forgotten the circumstances connected with that terrible event. In broad daylight, on her own estate:of Ballinderry, in the presence other nephew, Mr. GROROE STREVENI—the sole and pas sive witness of the scene—this unhappy person was deliberately shot 'down by a couple of assassins dis guised as women. This was on the Bth of April 1836. It is necessary to go back a little in order to see the precise relative position at that time of the plaintiff and defendant in the action just decided. On Mr. KELLY'-‘ death in 1845 his widow succeeded to very large estates and very extensive lawsuits. Mr. CHRISTOPHER CAMPION, the defendant in the action, was employed at first as her legal adviser, afterwards in a more confidential capacity as her trusted man of business and intimate personal friend. Mr. CAMPION entirely gave up whatever private practice he possessed, and devoted himself with ex treme ardour and ultimate success to superintending the complicated litigation in which Mrs. KELLY was involved. Mrs. KELLY bad several relatives and many estates : we need only concern ourselves with Mr. tif.Oß(in Brava-Y.4 and Ballinderry. Ballinderry wee a good property, worth a thousand a year or meta. In 1948 Mrs. KELLY devised this estate to Gaoling Svarvaxs, and in 1830 appointed him to manage it, at a small salary of 1001. a year. This salary was wholly inadequate to his wants. He lived freely, not to say dissolutely. His accounts became as irregular as his conduct. Mr. CAMPION, the confi dential adviser, was compelled to point out these un pleasant tarts to his benefactress and employer. It is possible that he had no great reluctance to do so, for it is abundantly clear that anything but a pleasant feeling had already sprung up between the favoured feeteerin and the disorderly nephew. The consequence was that in 1434 Mrs. KELLY made a new will in which she devised Ballinderry to CIMPIOS for life. GEORGE STRETENS became acquainted with the contents of this will soon after it was com pleted. This little circumstance naturally did not tend to increase the good will which he already en tertained towards his aunt's man of business. It appears to have been shortly alter this that Mrs. XELI T determined on raising the rents of the Bal linderry tenants. The step was taken; and notices to quit served on those who were unable or un willing to pay the increased demand. Mean while neither the looks nor the morals of Mr. pe"stnn ST amts appear to have improved in regularity. Mrs. KELLY resolved on paying him down a lump sum of money and dismissing him from Ballinderry. She determined on going down there with CAMPION for this purpose, and carried that fatal resolution into effect about the middle of last \larch. A state of armed neutrality thereupon appears to have ensued between Cosmos and STREVENS. The nephew woa:d not came to book with the confidential manager; but avoided all dis play of open hostility, although his aunt's purpose of removing him from Ballinderry was intimated to him at an early period of her visit. Her stay wee drawing to a close ; when, on the morning of the Bth of April, Mr. STRINENS appeared very desirous that his aunt and her man of business should go with him to look at some improvements that were being carried on in a certain field on the estate. The visit was postponed till after an early dinner. Then all three walked down to the field together. CAurto:s did not stay long, and STILRYINS was left alone there wits his aunt. He was at a little distance from her, according to his own evidence in the action, when he observed two women, as be thought, with veils over their Awes and the hoods of their cloaks drawn over their heads getting over the stile which led into the field.' As they approached he saw gun barrels under their cloaks ; he few them make a rush towards hie aunt ; he saw them raise their guns; he saw one of the disguised amain fire at her where she stood; Demur the other fire into the back other head after she was down. Terrified at the rght (this is his own ac count of the matter; he made off, hastily telling a labourer who was working bard by to raise the IWI TER EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4,185 g. alarm, but raising none himself, and did not stop t ahe got back to the house at Ballinderry. There be found CAMPION writing, and told him that his aunt was shot. CAMPION rushed up at once to proceed to the spot—" Don't "go, Mr. CAMPION, they will shoot you—they " are there still," exclaimed the courageous Mr. Grottos &writes. " You dirty coward," was the very proper rejoinder, and away went CAMPION to the scene of the murder. Arrived there, be found OR the spot a man named FLOOD, who had previously warned both him and Mrs. KELLY that it would be most unsafe far either of them to make their appear ance at Ballinderry. To this man, with the corpse lyingbefore him,CAMPION esid,as STREVENS came in sight, " This is the man that got it done ;" and to SvarseNs himself he said, when he came up, "Well, "Mr. STREVENS, how was this job done? where did they " come from or where did they go to ? When you " say th.y did not pursue you any more" (STRE YENS had told him this at the house) " you were " not the man they wanted to shoot." These were the words which formed the subject of the action for slander. It was alleged that by these words CAM PION had insinuated that BTREVENB had conspired with the two unknown aassasina to procure the murder both of Mrs. Baur and of himself. The latter part of the insinuation CAMPION denied: the former he freely admitted, and declared it to have been his solemn belief at the time the words were spoken. He declared this with a passionate earnestness and amidst a bunt of agonising tears called forth appa rently by the vivid recollection of the horrible scene in which he had uttered them—the bloody corpse of his benefactress at his feet, the object of his terrible suspicion quailing, as he declared, beneath his fixed gaze. Such was the cause of action ; the words and their imputed meaning being admitted, the only question was as to the measure of damages, and this turned entirely on the point whether CAMPION, full regard being had to all circumstances of place and time, had given vent to these expressions from a malicious desire to injure, or from a sincere conviction founded on probable ground, though not necessa rily correct, that STREVENS had been an accomplice in his aunt's assassination. The CHIEF BARON pre sented this question very fairly to the mind of the Jury. What they had to determine, he told them, was this : " Whether at the time, and regard being " had to all the circumstances, there was reasonable " and probable cause for CAMPION to form a belief " that the plaintiff was implicated in this unhappy transaction. It was not for them to determine " whether anything existed in the case to fix " suspicion upon OzonGE STIEVENS." The answer of the Jary was a verdict for the plaintiff, with sixpence damages and sixpence coats. In other words, they found that the words had been spoken as alleged; they found that they had been spoken with the meaning imputed, but that at the time when they were spoken such reasonable ground of suspicion existed that the character of Mr. SrazveNs had only received sixpenoyworth of damage by the open and public expression of that opinion. In this find ing of the jury we think all attentive readers of the evidence will emphatically concur. The secret of Mrs. KELLY'S assassination has not yet been unravelled, but the character of her nephew's con duct, as the unresisting witness of that foul crime, has undoubtedly laid him open, however unde servedly, to the meet odious of suspicions. SOUTH NOZTHAMPTONSTIIRE ELECTION.—As yet no conservative hes publicly announced himself In apparition to Lord Healey. The name of J. E. Severne, Esq., of Then. fold, bee beet oublished u likely to come forward, but without enfbcient warrant. After due deliberation, a con servative candidate has been selected in the pigeon of Colonel Henry Cartwright, son of the late Win. Ralph Carhrright, EN., who /ono y years represented the county. Colonel Cartwright will have the full support of his party, and the battle will be fought in earnest. A LADY AMONGST " N 000119." The sort of material upon which this lady (Hies Harsh) bad to work may be conjectured if we give the idea of heaven which entered into the mind of one of these roughs. " I wonder, Bill, whether it le tree what they say of heaven being so happy—whether, now, it can be happier than sitting in the public over • good jug of ale, with a Sidle going? I don't know a niftier* as comes up to that." Another honest fellow fancied that heaven must be very like the sitting room of the lady who bad been so kind to him ; the description is delight fully simple —" She had me into • sitting-room, and it was just like heaven; such a sight of books, and Rich a large dinner-table." The &whores' went among these people, invited them to tea parties, read with them, gave them Bibles and Testaments, wrote letters for them,, wrote letters to them, and attended to a thousand little wants u women only can. Oran ally these uncouth navvies were tamed, were re formed, left ties toi qic-house, came to the church, end both while at the Crystal Palace, and when afterwards markt( the hardships of the trenches, before fiebeatepti, showed what noble English hearts beat under the unwieldy frames that contractors and casual ob servers regard rather as machines than as mm. One poor fellow gets a Testament, and he is so overjoyed that he makes • vow. "Now, ain't it a rare beauty ? cover it with a slice off my ;met red choker." A semi of them, having been at a tea party, think themselves bound in honour to go to church. "It would look so es if we only came for tea and cake." These tes•partke have their little quartele, however, which end in rnunanimous reconciliations. Paget tells the lady how indignant he is with George, " because he said at the works as I stole a medal off your Christman tree that last tea pat ty you vs ne." George defends himself by saying, What had he to say that I drank ten cups of tea and ate seven bits of cake at your tea-meeting? I didn't say he stole the medal. I said I seed two medals in his hand, end never seed him put down neither." So these simple fellows break each other's hurts, and shake hands again, better friends than ever. A few pages further on we come to another scene, in which the lady is requested by a navvy to write to his wife, with whom he has quarrelled. She wrote from his dictation three or four pages of explanatkin and remon 'trance. He then paused, and the lady asked if he any- thing more to say—" Nothing more, ma'am, thank you." "Then bow wont.' you like to conclude?' "Not to conclude yet, if you please. Please, ma'am, would yea work up her feelings a bier A great weber of these navvies seemed to be quarrelling with their wives, and one of them (a bachelor) gave his idea of matri mony in unmistakeable terms. The authoress had been pay ing to some men money which they had entrusted to her, sad said, " You see what a good thing it is to save your instead of spending it recklessly." " Yea," said Ed= " if I had laid by, I might have had enough to have bought a wife with." " Ifs woman is to be bought, Edward, she is not worth having." " Ab, that's true ; and Solomon says they are all vanity and vexation." It is in such unreserved Intercourse with a lady, whom they at once respect and love, that the navvy shows to the beat advantage, and we hope that in giving these snatches of conversation we indicate in the most effectual manner how completely this lady won the confidence of the taboo:ere, end how worthy the art which she practised is of being followed.—Thera. STARVATION POINT.—If wo cannot with any precision say bow long starvation will be in effecting its fatal end, we can say haw much waste is fatal. From the cele brated experiments of Chorea on Inanition, it appears that death melees whenever the waste reaches an avenge portion of 0.4. That Ms to say, suppoeing an to weigh 100 lb., It will succumb whim Its weight is reduced to 60 lb. Death may, of course, ensue before that point I. reached, but not he prolonged after it. The average loss which can be sustained is 40 per cent. ; sometime' the kiss is greater, especially if the animal be very fat: thus, in the transactions of the Linnsasn 8o iety, a came is re ported of a fat pig which wee buried under thirty feet of chalk for 160 days ; his weight fell in that period no leme than 7.5 per cent. Curiously enough, as an illustration of whet wee pat said respectiag time not being an index, fishes and reptiles were found by Chart to Isaiah at precisely the same limit of vreiebt as warm-blooded animals, but they re quired a period three-and-twenty times se long to do it in: thus, if the experiment be performed of Marring a bird and a frog during the warm weather, although both will perish wiman their loss of weight reaches 40 per cent., the one will net survive a week, the other will survive three-and-twenty weeis.—Blsektreed. Wtt..l.4,ii:Lthe will of the Right Hon. Baronets Lisle, of Millbrook, Southampton, wads proved la London under 16,0001. personalty. Admiral Thome' La liarahast Gosselin, 60.0001. George Braithwaite Lloyd, leg., beaker, Paik-hill, Yardley Woroester, 30,0001. Joseph Good, Esq , Kensington Palace-green, 25,0001. F= Maws% Ksq., New-maare, Lincoln's-Inn, 20,0004 Charlet Craddock, RN. Cliapelidaoe, Cavendish-square, 30,000 i. John Schofield, 'Esq , Old Kent-read, 25,0001. Miss Yes. tie, of Combridmetsrrece. Hyde-perk, 14,1001. ; and has bequeathed to the loyal Foes irpthil, 3001. ; Sellars' Home, 3001. ; Mendlcity ,20W. ; Cruelty to Animals, 2001. The personal gads is of the late Duchess& Neuman were administered to =doe 12,0001.-111estrated New. fax Court. WINDSOR, SAX. 2. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Mary of Cam bridge and the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Leiningen, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady Augusta Bruce, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir George Cooper, Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., Major Home Parsee, Colonel Tyrwhitt, Mr. Gibbs, and Mr. Glover. The band of the Scots Ftwilier °nerds was in attendance in the Castle, and played during dinner the Grand March, L'Enfant di ;France" M. Daises Bright. Overture,': Die Fauberflota" Mozart . Val" " . Marlis" Ciongl. Balratioe, "PPM" Bpobr. Polka, 'Portia" . Bultag. Matta, " La Traysta" The following had the honour of being invited in the evening :—Lord and Lady Rokeby, the Hon. Mrs. Welles ley, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Mira Barrington, the Hon. Mrs• and Mies Phipps, Kies Sayer, Mum Knollys, Mrs. Bathurst, Lady Coupe, Mr. and Mrs J. Cooper, and Lieutenant Cowell, R.E. Her Majesty's private Land performed in the drawing room the Overturn " La Bayadere" Solo violin, Master J. Sine, air Tarte, No. 6 Aufforderunn gum Tana Finale, " Die luatigen Wilber Von _ __ _ I - - - Otto Nicolal. Seine de Dann, " Le Bayaders" Auber. The Queen, with the Princess Royal, drove and walked in the Home Park Ibis morning. The Prince Consort, accompanied by the Duke of Cam bridge and the Prince of Leiningen, went out shooting. The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary took leave of her Majesty and left the Castle, in the forenoon, attended by Lady GeraMiee Somerset and Major Home Purees. The Duke of Oarabridge returned to London in the after noon, attended by Cekniel Tyrwhltt. Prince Alfred arstved on Thursday from Alverbank t attended by Lieutenant Cowell, R.E., and returned again to-day. The Bishop of London arrived thla afternoon one visit, and dined with her Majesty in the evening. The party oleo in cluded the Ditcher of Kent, the Princes, Royal, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Brut*, Lord sad Lady Rokeby, the Dean of Windsor and the Hog. Mrs. Wellesley, Sir James Clark, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C B. The bend of the Royal Horse Guards played daring dinner Overture, " Tatman " Selection, " Trovatre" Verdi. Vales, " Primrose Duet, " Maris de llama" The Queen's, private band played in the Drawing-room Overture, " Zwelkampf " Romance, " Joseph" Mahal. Souvenirs de la France Jew. 3. The Queen end Prince Consort, the Prince of Wal s, the Princess Royal, Princess Helena, and the Duchess of Rent, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Bishop of London preached the sermon. Despatches he the Governors of the Mauritius, Ceylon, and Hoag Kong were sent on Saturday from the Colentil-dam PESTIT:IL DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL ENTRE- LATEST INTELLIGENCE. RUSSIA. ' Pd. 13107YERIO mid he did not desire to irritate the priest hood, bat to control It. He wee glad that the clergy had returned their partisans, for the fact had aroused the country from its lethargy and forced the ministry to march in the path of progress. The clergy had abused the name of heaven and the authority of the gospel to weigh upon the elections, and had endeavoured to establish a theocracy in the country. The conduct of the priests brought them within the purview of the Civil Cods, articles 1,196 and 1,199, against violence and threats to intimidate electors. He concluded by an impaaaioned appeal to the ministry to put itself at the head of the movement against the action of the clergy. After a few words from Canon SOOOl RI, the debate was adjourned. A telegram from Turin states that a motion of Count Cavour's, for an inquiry into the conduct of the clergy daring the late election, was carried by a large mnjority-88 votes against 35. TAINMENTS. The entertainments on the occasion of the ap proaching nuptials of the Primer Royal are to consist of four dramatic performances at Her Majesty's Theatre pre vious to the day of her Royal Highness's marriage, and • grand choral concert at Buckingham Palace cm the evening of that day. The arrangements for the dramatic performances are under the direction of Mr. Mitchell, in 00-operation with Mr. Lumley, and with the assistance of the following ma nagers of the principal theatres : Mr. Buckstone, of the Hay nerirket ; Mr. Webster, of the Adel* ; Mr. Harrison and Mias Fyne of the Lyceum; Mews. Robson and Emden, of the Olympic ; and Mr. Phelps, of Pedlar's Wells. The first performance is to be Macbeth, under the direction of Mr. Phelps; the parts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth by him and Kies Helen Permit; with Ounford's fsroe, Twice Eilkd, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. The second performance will be Balfe's new opera The Rote of Castillo, as it has been given at the Lyceum, with • oomedietta by Mr. Robson and members of the Olympic company. The third is to be an Italian opera, with Piooolomini, Giuglini, and other stare of Her Majesty's Theatre, and fol lowed by a ballet divertissement. And the fourth will con sist of an English comedy by Mr. Buckstone and the Hay market company, with an afterpiece in which Mr. Wright and members of the Adelphi company will perform. The Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Court, and her Majesty's royal and illustrious visitors, are to honour these performances with their presence; a great portion of the grand tier of boxes being set apart and magnificently fitted up for their reception; and the whole theatre, moreover, being splendidly decorated. The Colleen at Buckingham Palace Is to be oa a large and magnificent scale, embracing the services of our greatest vocal and instrumental performers. Madame Clara Novelle, we learn, will come to London expressly for this occasion, and will return to Italy till the commencement of our regular musical season. The Prince and Princess de tdcekowa are expected to arrive this evening at the Brunswick Hotel (Bt. James's), where a suite of apartments ham been engaged for their reception. The Duke of Newcastle will receive a distinguished anccesaion of visibly, at Clamber Park, during the regent week. On Thursday the Earl of Scarborough's fox-hounds are to meet at Clamber, when his graze, it is said, will give a breakfast to a large party. The noble duke and Lady Susan Pelham Clinton are expected to arrive in town to wards the claw of the ensuing week, in order to be present at the celebration of the nuptials of the Princess Reyal. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are ex pected in town about the 15th instant, from Trentham Hall, where they have been entertaining a numerous circle of friends. The Marquis of Exeter, accompanied by Lords Edward and Henry Cecil and Ladies Cecil, :ham left town ix Burghley. The marchioness is in too delioete a state to be removed from London at present. The Earl and Countess of Sandwich have, during the Feet week, entertained a succession of guests at Hin altiabroke, near Huntingdon. On New-year's eve the countess gave a ball to a brilliant circle, including the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Countess Craven and Ladies Elizabeth and Evelyn Craven, Viscountess Enfield and Hon. Miss Brig, Viscount Orey de Wilton, Lord and Lady Oeorge Paget, Hon. Mrs. Heneage and Miss Henesge, Hon. Mr. Montagu, Mr. Fellow's, M.P., and Hon. Mrs. Fellows', Mr. Rush, M.P., and Mrs. Rush, and a ntuntrons assemblage of the gentry of the county. Lord Hinchin broke, who hue just joined the Grenadier Guards, will enter upon his military duties in a few days. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough come to town on Wedneaday neat, from Brighton, where the noble earl and counter have been staying for some weeks put, The Earl and Countess Grey are expected in town the latter end of the week, from visiting Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood at Hiekleton Hall, Yorkshire. The Earl of Lonsdale arrived in town on Satur day afternoon, from Folkestone. The Earl of Eglinton and the Misses Cockerell ere expected in town on Thursday, from liglisten Cutle. Viscount and Viscountess Goderich are expected 'stows the WO" end of the week, from Brighton. Viscount Canterbury has returned to town from a tour of visite. Mr. Cardwell, M.P., addressing a meeting of the members of the Druidic Order, at Oxford, on Friday evening, said he had lately bad the privilege of visiting a country which in the late war wu our cordial ally—he referred to Bardinia, where institutions similar to our own were working with success, where our commercial policy bad been adopted, sad where, although truinded by France on the one side and by Austria on the other, t hat commercial policy vas firmly main. raised. When he visited that country ten yegr► s!r, las was as permitted to worship, except by ebahl, in a protestant plea of worship ; but he bw.l lately had an opportunity of attending the church at Turin, which wu a striking proof of the pervert of religious freedom u well as of commercial beam which was taking place in the countries of Europe. He was told that it was by no mama an nufrequent Wag la that country for the people to speak of themselves as Anglo- Italians, becatue they adopted our forms of government, and were desirous of imitating our example. THE GRADUAL ABOLITION OF SERFDOM. The Nord of this day (Monday) publishes a re script, dated the 17th ult., addressed to the Gover nor-General of St. Petersburg, and sigced by the Emperor Alexander, establishing a special com mittee is the government of St. Petersburg, to be composed of two members from each district, elected by and from the nobles possessing property in those districts, and of two members selected by the Governor-General of St. Petersburg from among the most enlightened proprietors, the whole presided over by the Marshal of the government noblesse, and to proceed imme diately to the elaboration, for the government of St. Petersburg, of the project already published intended to ameliorate the condition of the peasants. This rescript is elicited by an affirmative response on the part of the noblesse of the government of St. Petersburg to the circular of invitation addressed to all the governments by M. Lanskoi, Minister of the Interior. The noblesse of all the governments of the empire will, it is fully expected, express a simi lar readiness to execute the Emperor's wishes. IMPORTANT DEBATE IN THE PIED MONTESE CHAMBER. In the sitting of December 30, during a protracted debate on the " verification of powers :" Coact CAMBIIZANO maintained that the clergy had deed ao pressure upon the elections. Every party naturally did its utmost to exclude its adversaries. Thus it had been said, if you vote for the clergy you will have civil wars, if for the left, you are in danger of the republic ; if for minis ters, beware of schism. Complaints bad been made of an Irruption of priests into the electoral colleges. Why not ? They were elector,. Est it was said further the priests had written bulletins for doctors who could not write. Again, he would ask, what hem was there in that ? They had threatened exconueunicatioa—but had not the monarchy threatened electors with dismissal P The de puties of the right, he would inert, were then by virtue of the national wit. Their lives, maw all, were devoted to God, the King, and the iww, and the blame of their adversaries was praise. (Cheers.) Those who de sired to see the country flourish by its institutions were certainly not partisans of the abolition of the statute. In dahading ths cause of religion he and his Meads felt that with that canes was bound up the practice of equity, respect for the laws—that that cause was the pal odium of Piedmont. "The nation," he said in conclusion, "is at our back, and supports IL" (Cheers.) On Count Cambucano, who had spoken with considerable warmth, resuming his seat, If. Costa de Beauregard pressed his hand. Count MaimNr said he was convinced that nobody de sired to violate the statute. But to come to facts --A priest had threatened an elector with excommunication. A Voice.—Name I Count MANIANI.-If a protest were to be held not worthy of attention whenever proper names could not be given, nine out of ten must be passed over without notice. (Oh, oh.) It was necessary to do justice when the country believed that one half of the clergy had been guilty of a breach of duty. (Oh, oh.) MIL Btu° and CAM'S. ZAN° gave notias that they would ask loom to speak. Count Kaman' asked for justice, because be hoped that an inquiry would prove that the church had not transformed Itself into a political camp. He trusted that the clergy would remember the beautiful language of a holy bishop of Mont pelier to his parishioners, "For the love of God renounce all party spirit; your place is at the foot of the cross." (Cheers•) Count CAVOIJII rose and said—This question has taken snob a serious turn, that it is indispensably necessary for ma, as the organ of the ministry, to state ouropinione upon it. (Hear.) It is a fart beyond dispute, that the clergy took a most active part in the late elections. I will not, before inquiry, go into the question of the mean. they employed. It was not an isolated, individual interference, but it was one hierarchically organised, perfectly disciplined, and one that demonstrated a thorough knowledge of electioneering tactic. This fact is doubly important when we consider what is now going on in other states of Europe, where also the clergy Is making great efforts to obtain political influence. In Swit zerland an attempt is making to raise the ghost of the Son derbund. In France the clergy is trying to abridge Ciallican liberties, and to bring that country back to the sixteenth century. In Belgium the clergy is working to reestablish portmain tenures for the benefit of the church, and does Its utmost in the electoral committees to impede the regular development of civilisation. I would not hold the clergy as a body responsible for the violence of the catholic press, bat I cannot avoid noticing the fact that no sooner were the electoral colleges convoked than the bishops published pas toral letters. In some of these letters a Christian spirit of impartiality prevail,; but others are redolent of party spirit. One prelate even descended so low as to write like a party journalist. His virulent pen made the most reckless attacks upon his adversaries, and he branded the government and the parliamentary majority as enemies of the church and child ren of Satan. (Laughter.) The parsonage houses were con verted into electioneering rendezvous. The priests left their flocks to canvass, and, after having marshalled their own people to the poll, remained on the spot as electioneering agents to Influence others. AU this would not constitute moral measure ; but it ie asserted that they went so far as to abuse the confessional tothis same end. Ido not affirm that , they really did this, but they are accused of having done it, and it concern the dignity of parliament, and the members whose elections are tainted with this suspicion, that the fart should be cleared up. I hope, with all my heart, that the ' clergy may come clean out of the inquiry. The intervention of the clergy in politics has good as well as consequences. In all free countries the clergy always plays a part Insroliti osl struggles—it does so in England, is America, and in Switzerland. lam far from wishing to minde them from all political influence. Living, as they do here, in a medium of liberty, its members imbibe a taste for liberty. That fact is a compensation for many inconveniences. Many who enter parliament with clerical passions become constitutional con servatives. There have been circumstances in which I have warmly applauded the efforts of the clergy—particularly in regard to the revolution In Belgium—to the emancipation of the Irish Roman catholic—and to the abolition of the penalty which once existed in Switzerland against anybody converted to Catholiciam. But, when the clergy attempts to reconquer its old privileges, and when it Lecomea an obstacle to the progress of civilisation, I deplore its interference and I oppose It with all the energy that I can command. (Cheers.) So long as it uses legal means I acknowledge its right and do not fear its retrograde influence, because I have faith in progrees. I would say to the liberals, if you would tri umph over your adversaries you have only one thing to do,op pose organisation to organisation, discipline to discipline, and there can be no doubt of the result of the struggle. (Cheers.) Bat if the clergy makes use of spiritual weapons the struggle is no longer equal, and a physical conflict is to be apprehended. When the defenders of liberty are repre sented from the pulpit as enemies of the church, and when they ere threatened with Divine wrath, then the clergy gives the government and the majority a right to oembat their manoeuvres. The employment of spi ritual arms may lead to civil war. Sines the opinion of the inuesses majority of this nation is that the clergy have re sorted to illegal means, an inquiry is indispensable. Should that inquiry prove that the clergy is not liable to reproach the result will be immense ; but if, on the contrary, it should appear that it has abused its influence, then the ministry will be bound to consider whether or not existing lesrialatien is sufficiently strong for the repremion of such abuses, and, if it should be found that it is not, it will then be the duty of ministers to ask parliament for additional powers to enable them to prevent the repetition of inch conduct ae is now complained of. (Cheers.) But the facts meg Ls ascertained beyond doubt, in the face of the nation end of the conservative party, att4 I the interest et liberty as well se in that of the dn.,. (Ch et ,..) M. EVIARA DELLA MARGARITA read a speech. He said that the clergy had deserved well of their cointry in sending eanservatives to perliment, and that it had used only honest exhortations sad advice to obtain this molt. If any proe ms had boss exercised in the election., it bad been on the pert of the prefects., mayors, judger, and cerabineers. He opposed inquiry, es being insulting towards the clergy, de grading to the electors, and altogether males, Mond pros- OM nest ever elude inquiry. He would like to en the holm set en example of tolerance. In Belgium the scrutiny of the new elections had lasted only two days. Why should bay require several weeks EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Glow ovz owx come] PARIS, SUNDAT BYZNING. I am informed that the Emperor has personally congratulated the Sardinian• Ambassador, M. Villa Marina, of the result of the vote on Count Cavour's motion for an enquiry into the alleged illegal ma noeuvres of the clergy at the late elections in Pied mont. This is a very important fact, because Count Cavour grounded his motion in part upon the gene rally encroaching policy of the Catholic priesthood, as evidenced by their recent conduct in France as well as other countries. The adoption of the system of negotiating dock• warrants, u practised in England and Holland, has long been thought of here, and I understand that the Council of State lies had before it a bill which has been prepared for the purpose of giving effect to the idea. It is said that M. Ad-Guerotdt, former re dacteur of the Debate, will be the new editor of the Press*, and that Dr.Yvan, a republican member of the Con stituent Assembly, will be the secretary of the redaction. A Paris correspondent of the Nord of Brussels alleges that although the Mositeur has announced that the ratifications of the treaty for the settlement of the Beasarabian frostier have been exchanged, one signature, that of Lord Cowley is yet want ing. The Nord discredits the reason given for the British ambassador's absence from the Conference, namely, that he was out of town, and suggests that it is to be attributed to the existence of a feeling of irritation between the two governments, on the subject of the French traffic is negroes. The corres pondence in question says that a firm in Marseilles having made a contract with the French govern ment for the transport of twenty thousand free blacks from Madagascar to the Isle of Reunion, a vessel belonging to the firm was in the act of embarking a first detachment of the number at Mada gascar, when a commander of a British cruiser interfered, and, after an angry alter cation, told the French captain that he would sink him if he persisted. In consequence the French ship returned to Marseilles without performing her minion. A lively correspondence on the subject is said to have taken place between Lord Cowley and Count Walewski, and there the matter rests for the present. Prince Frederick William of Prowls, has received from the King of Saxony the insignia of the Order of the Green Crown. The operation of issuing railway bonds through the agency of the Bank of France has commenced. The advances are made at the rate of 5 per cent. The syndicate of the companies is represented at the Bank by four directors. PARIS, SATURDAY Events°. The Pays has the following news from China : "On Nov. 16 en address from the principal mer chants and most influential inhabitants of Canton was presented to Admiral Seymour. It stated that the undersigned, fearing from the attitude of the English fleet that an attack was about to be made upon the city, desired to represent to the Admiral that they were altogether unconnected with the causes which had led to a rupture between the British government and the Viceroy of the province, and they requested that in consideration of a ransom in merchandise, such as flour or rice, which they were very willing to pay, their property and ware houses might be spared. This incident shows that the inhabitants of Canton are very anxious to separate their cause from that of the Chinese government." The Bulletin des Lois publishes an Imperial decree lenacting that the copyright laws of France shall henceforth be applicable to the French colonies. The settlement at the Bourse to-day, turned out altogether in favour of the rise. Money was very plentiful in the market, the rates of continuation were on the decline all day, and at last the bears, giving up the fall as a bad job, hastened to close their accounts, and by their operations materially added to the firmness of the market. The Rents rose 35c. for cash, and 45c. for account, closing at 68.65, and 68.80. Mobilier rose 17.50. The railways were firm, but there was less business doing in them than in the Rents. Orleans rose 1.5 ; Northern 10 ; Eastern 15 ; and Lyons 10. Southern and Western were a trifle lower. The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris officiated to-day pontifically at Notre Dame at a grand mass per formed for the soul of his predecessor, who was assassinated on this day lest year. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. We have received by telegraph from Alexandria through Malta the following summary of the intel ligence brought by the Australian mails, with dates from Sydney to the 11th of November, and from Melbourne to the 17th; from Gallo to the 21st of December. The City of Sydney, the arrival of which at Suez has already been announced, brings 195,6681. in specie and gold dust. MELBOURNE. Both Houses of the Legislature of Victoria have passed the bill for the construction of railways. Trade is in a much depressed state. The stack of imports is increasing. The money market is be coming tighter. Wool is at Is. 2d. to 2s. 2d. per lb., with small arrivals. This year's clip is consi dered a fair one. Tallow is in good demand. Gold is a shade cheaper. The Oliver Lang cleared out on the 15th with 47,442 ounces, and the Austral with 8,309. The total shipments for the year amount to 100 tons. Exchange is at 11 to 21 per cent. premium. The N( and Marco Polo have sailed for England. Freights for wool, Id. to ld. per lb.; for gold, per oent. by sailing vessels. The Columbian arrived on the 14th. SYDNEY. Trade is dull. Flour is quoted at 221. to 25!. per ton. In groceries there was a slight reaction. Wool was lower. The tallow market was inactive. Money is getting tight. The Catherine Adamson was totally wrecked, and 25 lives lost, inside the North Heeds. It will be remembered that the mildest Christmas day on record (that of 1837) Immediately presedsd the long sad onus treat of ;unary sod February, 1838. UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The steam ship Europa, which left New York Dec. 23, has arrived, bringing Al passengers and a large amount of specie. She passed the Persia on the 24th ult. The Adriatic arrived out on the afternoon of the 21st; the North Star, from Bremen, on the 19th; and the Borrussia, from Hamburg, on the 21st ult. The Kansas question continued to excite discus sion in Congress, without any definite result. Both houses had agreed to a Bill authorising the issue of Treasury Notes to the amount of twenty million of dollars, bearing interest at 6 per cent. ; is the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, re dimmable in a year. Mr. Crittenden introduced into the Senate, on the 19th ult., a resolution providing an increase of im port duties and the ascertainment of the amount of the dutiable value of imported goods by a new system. Congress adjourned on the 23rd to the 4th Ja nuary. Mr. I. M. Buchanan, of Baltimore, is appointed Consul to Russia. Washington advicee state that the government have taken prompt action to crush Walker's filibus tering movement. Orders have been issued to stop all vessels going to his relief. Fifteen persons were killed by the burning of the steam-ship Colonel Edwards, on the Red River, on the 19th. The navigation on all the New York canal, is closed by ice. Barnum's house at Bridgeport was totally destroyed by fire on the 17th ; the loss was one hundred thousand dollars. Havannah advice. of the 18th December state that trade was generally heavy, money command ing enormous interest. Sugar slightly advanced : new crop expected to be unusually large. Three cargoes of negroes had been landed from American vessels. Advices from Mexico of December 3rd state that the vessels of war were to be armed again. The Indians in many northern States commit great ravages. The revolution in Campeachy has been suppressed, the Wand of Carmen having submitted to government. Money at New York was easy, and supplies abundant, but in stocks there was no animation, speculators having almost deserted the market. Foreign Exchange dull, European news rendering all bills nearly unsaleable. London quoted 108 i to 1091 ; Paris, 5.181 to 5.25. Cotton was still unsettled. M idland uplands and midland Florida quoted 101 to Ic. Flour had slightly rallied, especially lower grades. Wheat and Indian corn dull of sale. Prices lower. Provisions were easier, but business quite moderate. Freights were steady. Grain, to Liverpool, 60., and provisions, 20s. per cwt. When the Grand Duchess Helen of Russia left Turin for Rome she was accompanied by General Cialdini, one of the King's aides-de-camp, who was to escort her as far'as Civita Vecchia. In consequence of a request of the Grand Ducbees, the general was permitted to proceed with her to Rome and to remain there for a while in her site. A letter says that the presence of a Pledmontese general, an aide-de-camp of the King of Sardinia, hummed quite a (mutation in the Holy City, and that he has been the object of innumerable attentions. General CLldini in a Modenese and a very distinguished officer. He served with éclat under the banner of the Queen of Spain during the civil war, and commanded a brigade in the Crimea. We are happy to state that the Court of Directors have, with commendable liberality, admitted lady Neill to the benefit of the Coropsaidonata Fund, consisting of an an nuity of 1201. to herself, and 181. per annum to each child under 18 years of age; and in addition to the pension 016001. • year, prerlotudy granted, they have conferred open her a gratuity of one year's bare pay, and cue-third of a year for each child.—From Grindlay and Co.'s Nome Ann. BARNMI.—" Iranistan," the sumptuous residence erected by Mr. T. P. Barnum, near Bridgeport, Conn., some eight years since, was totally destroyed by fire at eleven on Thursday night. It is not known how the fire originated, but it is supposed to have been caused by the carelessness of workmen who were in repairing and refitting the building. Trel ed atnes were not discovered until they bad made good headway, and weld not be checked. The fire wee still burning yesterday morning when the New-Haven train for this City paned Vuough Bridgeport. Mr. Barnum was in the City at the time, and only received intelligence of the diseeter yesterday morning. He left fur Bridgeport immediately. " Iranistan" was insured for 30 000 , dole or 40,000 dole, en the house, and about 1,000 dollars on the furniture. When built, its cost was considerably over 100,000 dollars., and the outlay fur furniture was 20,000 dollars. The insurances on house and furniture were held by the mortgagees, into whose bands it passed, with the rest of Mr. Barnum's property, at the time of his failure. He was making arrangements to re-oocupy the premises and bad em ployed a large force of workmen in refitting. The furniture was removed to this city two year. ago, but about half bad been returned when the fire occurred, and on this there was the small insurance of 1,000 dole. During his former occupancy of the place, Mr. Barnum kept the house insured for 60,000 dole., and the furniture fur 10,000 dole. He intended to return to it as a place of residence in a short time, but is now uncertain whether he will rebuild or not: York Taws Dec. 19. THE AMERI C AN GOVERNMENT AND THE FlLl numas.—The United States district-attorney having yes. terday been apprised, by letter from the State Department, that a filibuster expedition wee on foot, and ready to start from New York, immediately set to work to arrest the vessel, and prevent the threatened violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. Letters were sent to the collector of the port, to the captain of the cutter, and to the United States marshal. The suspected vessel was the barque Alnah, which had cleared for St. Jago de Cuba on Monday, and sailed yesterday morning. Captain Rynders employed the fleet stesm-tog he could find, and, unaided and alone, went in pursuit of the barque—overtaking, capturing, and bringing her back to the city, where she was placed in the custody of Captain Hunter, of the revenue-cutter Washing ton. She had over fifty peasengers on board, besides the crew. The case will be investigated by the district.attorney this forenoon. Nothing was found on the reamed to add to suspicion that her errand was unlawful one.—New York Timers, Dec. 23. RAVINGS.—The year closes gloomily in England. India, however the present crisis may terminate, is lost to her. A Sepoy army I. henceforth impoesit r a t 72 without such a powerful military arm, what becomes of the taxation of the Peninsula? In the west, America throws her commercial supremacy into the shade ; in the east bee empire drops away. The world hes bad enough of a career that now draws to a close. Like a bandit, enriched by crime, she is, at length, attacked by the owners of her plunder. The Hindoo has seized her treasure cheat; her au thority in Canada and Australia is but a name; while in Ire land, her tyranny has made a people her enemy, who never forget an infringement on their liberty, or an insult on their religion. On the Continent there is scarcely s suppreseed preparation to strike her down; Russia daily dares ber ; Naples defies her. The seizure of Perim threatens to afford Russia and France the desired opportunity of avenging their ancient grudges against her. Nevertheless, she may, by concessions, stare off the great accounting day; but every eye can mark its steady sad now inevitable apprcsch. In that day, the plunder of centuries will be "dropped from her shattered grasp ;" in that day, Ireland will leap to her teat, and the nations of Europe wUI shout forth with joy as she proudly takes her ancient place amongst the kingdoms of the world.—Dsblin Notiox. _ _ A MORE TITAN SOLVENT BANHIWPT.—We on derstaad that the affairs of John Hopton Wyld, wine end spirit merchant, and late alderman, Bristol, having, es oar readers are aware, been wound up in bankruptcy, the be. lance sheet has just been completed, and, after the stock, furniture, &0., of the so...mile& but not real, bankrupt, have been sold, subject to the noel eacrinces necessarily made in each males, it shows • cash balance in favour of Mr. Wyld (am paying every creditor 20e. in the pound and all ex ponies), of 6,0001. Here was certainly a victim to the me' notary pressure, which, combined with • confusion of the business aceonte, caused • proceeding in bankruptcy to be hurried on, whim, as the sequel proves, it wu worse then uselesa—huts! Awes. FAILURES IN GLASGOW. The suspension el Messrs. J. end W. Wallace, sewed muslin manufarturaw, was officially announced on Thursday. The liabilities tae mid to amount to 240,0001. As this bankruptcy has belt looked for fora oonsidersble time, its occurrence did not meets any excitemese. Another hones, the name of whit* has been mentloned in omission with}veent Bankrupt,' Court proceedings, is also reported as down. meted it 80,0001:—Glasioto Werag