The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

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G. 114•111 e, F. isileZz ; Xi« C. Loebrcl. sin C. Twat. —4704401 P. Xm l ottrr . M.. C die PERT ISO DX ?AMC Mom. 11.1018.m.—Ari NUMMI' CUICICWSKI›. Mr Leon illembs. I/CU' 11. Tuts Itynnoo, TIM is Ott TEI 0001 MAT.—PARIV MaiMee SW" W ft lOW. • =—Aad Ca.P.k_lloma R. NAST I Ilva 11011 NATIO AT LONDON NAIDOR. r i -11.1110.•, rim---..aiesiosmoom. lea .—akerr.iit. OS iONDON. TUESDAY. Dia 20. Those who are accustoming the tax-paying public to expect a demand on the part of Goi eminent for ten millions sterling, to be spent in fortifying our comets, may reasonably be expected to settle first the question whether the. outlay will ever be required. For our own carts, we doubt very much that such • demand will be made in the coming session, or even that at has been suggested that the Govern ment should make it. But however that may be, the duty of Parliament is clear. Before ..nother sixpence is spent upon fortifications. the pu b lic ought to lomat upon two things. They ought to be informed of the kind of danger to be guarded against, and of the best means of doing so. Let it be assumed for the moment that the attack will be by land as wet as by sea. Ham the Govern ment t:. ;ermined the sort of fortifieatioss which will be most useful and least expensive ?—bas it framed any eatitnete of the number of men who will be re quired to man the new works, or any plan el obtaining the requisite number? In short, bas the Gov. r Linen' any general plea of National Defence? Or ar' fortifications to be erected and money to be spent u desultory and haphazard fashion, withoet forrthcoght and without system If any new de fences are to be constructed, it certainly seems that the araena:s demand the first sus t but if the en trance to such • harbour as Dartmouth is to be protected by enormous batteries,tbscpsestion occure— Where is this to stop It is confidently asserted that new works are to be constructed at the mouth of the Dart but this is so it is difßc•lt t understand why every landing place on the meat should not be protected in a similar manner. It is well known that very great authorities, and amongst them General SHAW XR:irianv, have undertaken to put the country in a state of permanent defence for a much smaller sum than 10,000,0001., and to guarantee that except in case of prepanng for actual invasion the expense shall never exceed • specified sum. The probability, therefore, is, that those who talk of 10,000,00 W. have either no plan at all or hare adopted one which is extravagant. And this suspicion is confirmed by the feet that uo government has yet proposed any general plan of defence whatever. ludeed, it is our deliberate conviction that no such plan has yet' been sanctioned by those at the head of affairs. Now, let the public consider this. Military works are proverbially expeniive. If any pet of economy is to prevail, it is essential that the character and object of those about to be erected should be dis tinctly explained. The data necessary for solving the problem of National Defence are all known. The solution must be bOlllO plan, and that plan may be and ought to be laid before the nation. Un lees it is laid before the nation it is utterly hopeless to control the expenditure or to contend against extravagance. The plan of def. ti.e must either be made public, or the public must deliver themselves up, hand and foot, to the War-office nod the engineers of the day. It will be strange to tind any such acquiescence. There is no mei ...Try for any each blind subrui.sion. The plans of Nitmus. Defence adopted by France, by Belgium, and by Austria are all thoroughly known. The principine upon which they are (needed were pub. Hely dwindled, and in the case of the twe form. r, in the Chambers. The expense we e estimated and provided for. There is, there. fore, to ground for secrecy. On the other hand, with secrecy it in impossible to exercise any control over the expenditure; it is impossible to ascer tain that when the time comes the preparations will be found t tticient. In the meantime, therefore, it is to be hoped that the Government will net begin any new works, but will prepare themselves to state to Parliament some general plan of National Defence, and the sum of money that will be required to carry it into effect. The most extravagant meta do not build without eoesetimes counting the coat. As in the mode of raising the money, with Mr. 01.41P , TONIt for a Chancellor of the Exchequer, we should think that whatever the preens form of hie financial operation, it will be band on the principle that the nation should pay for its wants as they arise. If this is not understood, we shall certainly make cur children the victims of theorist., red-tapists, and jobbers. Of course, it will be said that then de letions works, being of n permanent nature, should THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1869. be paid for is part by posterity. That war substan dilly the argument our fatten used when they accumulated our crushing national debt. They how ever had the excuse of actual war and charges such as we know nothing of. If we shuffle off the expense of insuring our coasts in time of peace, what more can we do in time of war? We ought not to transmit to sauseding gene rations any debt on account of these fortificatioas, because no man living oaa say that they will be of use to our children. We live in the midst of great changes in the art of war. The rifle and the rifled runon, the floating battery, are the beginning, not the end, of the revolution that is taking place in military affairs. The most we can honestly or wisely undertake is to provide for the wants of the day in the light and by the means of the day. Despotic monarchs whose thrones can stud only so long as their people are prostrate, do wisely to borroW of any who will lend, regardless of a future which bears no promise for them ; but a people in heriting ancient freedom and managing its own affairs is entitled to look forward and assume with soafidence the rights and duties of a settled exis tenet, of which that of keeping out of debt is surely one. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARIS, Tt VADAT. The Moniteur of to-day says : " Yesterday evening Priam Jerome had lase fever, and the state of his health costinued to be rather satisfactory." SPAIN. MADRID. MOND V. The Cadiz journals announce that Marshal 0 . 1)onnell has declared Ceuta a free port. M. Mon has arrived at Madrid. RUSSIA AND CIRCASSIA. BT. PETERSBURG, )(LOMAT. The journals of St. Petersburg publish news from the Caucasus, announcing that the people of Abed. sekhe, numbering 100,000 men, with their chief have declared their submission. Other tribes are also preparing to submit them selves to Ramis. The Gazette du Nord, a new weekly journal pub lished in Paris under Russian patronage, has received the following telegram : 81. Petersburg, Dec. 18, 2b. 35m. p.m. Great news! The war in the Caucasus u over. Machmed AU and 100.000 Cirosseisea bare surrendered to Prince Bari atineky. Ties primer, who ti a geeeral side-de-camp, has hen promoted on Ibis occasion to the rank of tield•mar.hal of the empire. The Borodino Regiment will hereafter bear the sere of the Geld-marsbal. Prince Anatole &Marina,. kis brother, born been appointed commander of the rsitoust of the Preebraginaky Guards. HUNGARY. The Breslow Gazette states that domiciliary visits had recently been made at the houses of several superintendents of the Protestant churches in Hungary. One person at Komorn had shut himself up in his house, and refused to admit the authorities. No locksmith in the place could be induced to open the door, and recourse was obliged to be h►d to the locksmith at the fortress. The Cologne Gazette state. that the Austrian government, haviog lately consecrated an expiatory chapel which had been built by its orders on the spot where Georgey, in 1849, had hanged Count Zichy, on suspicion that he was acting for the interest of Austria, a counter demonstration was organised at Pesth, and the magnates, dressed in their national costumes, assembled at the church of St. Francis, to be present at a mw in commemora tion of the death of nine insurgent generals who had been executed at Arad. The authorities re. trained from any interference. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Tt E , 11%Y. The Royal Mail steam-packvt Parana, from the West Indies, arrived hers at 10 a.m. this day, and will leave for Southampton at 8 p.m. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The following are entracte from the Gibraltar Chrunse4l: " Dec. 12. " The whole of the Spanish Invading army is at length emicentraied at Cents, sad its movement. may Boon be on- Mtto disclose t:rahal O'Donnell's plan of campaign. Pd the tens the Spanish h rare have been subject re • epodes of warfare, which, added to their ex posure under canvas during inchoate weather, has pro duced may eamoaltes in their ranks without leading to any real program towards attaining the object of the expedition. On the landing of the first corps under General &Magee, r en ' s ucem were taken op in front of Cent s In th e direction of Bellaire, the Spanish advanced posts being about a league from Ceuta. The Moors at this time had in front of Cents• guard of only 200 men of the tribe of Augers to wand) the nperetien. of the Spaniards. For the first two or three days slight akiroriahing along the front was the extent of the fighting. In the meantime the whole of the Angers tribe, numbering about 1,500, with other tribes making a teal of about 5,000 or 8,000, had been aseecublime In the nagged slopes of the Stens Bulbar..., and on the 25th attacked the Spaniah front with great fury. They were gallantly reputed, bat the casualties were heavy on both sides. The moot reliable account we have received of this action fern an eye-witness game the Spanish Ines at between 70 sad 80 killed, and from 600 to 600 wounded. On the 30th ■ second attack wee made, sad with results very similar to that of the 26th. Again tetras fhb we know that ',vare fighting wee going on in the frost during the whole day, and tbat tho wounded were being carried into Ceuta, but we have up to this present time received no trustworthy account of the probable lose on either aide. The Moorish force hes been daily augmented by fresh arrivals from the interior, and this last attack hes probably bees weds by greater numbers then those engaged ea the 26th end 30th. The Spanish troops having at the dose *fetich day's fighting remained neater. of the ground, sad ben provided with artillery, the Moorish loaves hare no doubt been bratty. The nature of the ground is h•, . - ever, (avowable to the Moore. The thick coo t s. of wo od and bush which clothes the slopes and ravines of Sierra Bullones masks their operations till they make their rush forward, and memos them from the Spanish are when they merest. Pri vate eters from the Spaniel% camp evince an evertor.s on the part of the writers to engage the Moors in a field where European tactics and discipline may have freer mope." General Serrano Bedoya, commandant-genteel or the neigh bowing district, he issued the following order of the day to the troop. in garrison at Algeciras, dated the 10th Mat.. "HI. Excellency the General-in-Chief of the army is Africa eequaints ins that at dawn yesterday the enemy, num bering about 10.000 men, attacked the redoubts of Isabella It. sod Francisco de Aare. The enemy were reputed in the redoubt., mod afterwards attacked by the 2nd corps, until r the command of General Zabel., keying on the field abort 300 killed. Their wounded is calculated at 1,000. Our hes in 'hi. glorious engagement amounts to about 40 killed, 30 eup.rior and other officer. and 280 reek sod file wounded. All have rivalled In gallantry, and his Excelleacy the Gneral-in-Chief is folly satisfied with the bravery and beerier of our troops." Dec. 13. The folloylng la the 11 oottil acoennt of the action of the 9th instant •• At daybreak on that dory a (Dens of about 8,000 Moors attacked the Spaniard. encouried outride the frontier lines of Ceuta at three different potato, put them to eight imor diately end got possession of all their reeently constructed earthworks. Slowly alterreard• the Spaniard. reeled, and with a considerable reinforcement front the town attempted to regain the defences they had lust. Three times they fell upon the Moors and were each time repulsed with great loss. Then the Spaniards brought up still larger forcer than before and attacked the Mom whilst they were engaged In carry ieg off the field their deed and wounded. Tbus 'wooled the Moors retreated slowly and steaddy to their own ground, sad were pursued by the sitie king Spaniards down the Mil side below the furthest redoubt, where some 21.81 Moorish cavalry charged the enemy and drove him beck toast gallantly, the Moors regaining the redoubts. A heroic bead of mountaineers, numbering some 800 men, held the ground they took from the Spaniard*. aroma oilman overwhelming odds, throughout the day, and keit up a sharp and most effective ere um , il nightfall, when, rain, the battle field demoted, they withdrew to their camp. The Moore could have remained in occupation of the redoubt, but as they had no cannon to plc w there, and as their pretest camp is more *inure. they did not do Do. It appars the Sponiards bad withdrawn their cannon from the battle field before the Moore attacked there. The Moore let about 100 killed and 200 wounded, and driers that the lora suetained by the Spaniards must be fez more considerable than m tiny former engagement. A Spanish general officer on horweback ie reported by the M.rd to have be. n killed They coy very handsome sword MY found upon bun, se band.)me that a high price had been offered by Moore for it, and refused by Or present posseamore." The Moors continue very enlhnaiaetic about the wsr, and large ranfencements from the interior continua to strive. "'routing CONSUL IT!I. "Gibraltar, Dec. 13. "The undersigned dm been instructed by Sidi Mohammed El Klink Manliest fur Foreign Affairs of his Msjeety the Hoireror of Morocco, to Setae a public notice in the iv obrator Chronicle, cautioning the wrene of all nuking at peaos with hforocoo splint approaching any fort or batter) on the Idoorleh coast without thepleying their national 5,g. The offliirs is charged batteries end forts baying received orders to tire upon the vemella of Spain,which hag declared war upon Morocco, neutral vessels, tank., their national menu lm dis played. might be mietaketi to them of the enemy, and be Bred up..., which the ftultaa's government would wurh de plore.—BADS SAID OI'EASUI, Acting Consul tot hlunkcu." The Paris Momileur announces that on the 2od of leathery, et 9 is the 'mewing, the Emperor sail Emprews will receive the ladles of the diplomatic b dy , and euch others u have been &reedy rivalled. bilies may be alcocupsoied by their husbands, who must be in uniform or court dress The ladies to wear Melia. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY or OWN PARIS, MONDAY EVIXINO. The Pays announces in a semi-oalcial form that the congrees, the meeting of which was " provi sionally " flied torJannary 5, will positively ensemble on the 20th. The Cotestitutionnel objects to the main argument of a London journal against the Isthmus of Suez scheme that it would be a mere excuse for occupying Egypt by a French army, that it has always been intended to guarantee the neutrality of the proposed canal. Probably Lord Palmerston does not think the guarantees in this respect hitherto spoken of as sufficiently complete, for a Loudon telegram of this morning, bringing a summary of an article in the Daily News, reports that England proposes to Prussia, Russia, and Austria that M. de Lamps' coocession shall be amended so as to render it ex clusively commercial. In consequence of the extreme cold, Marshal Magnan has ordered th it the sentries in Paris shall be relieved every hour, instead of every two hours. The Bourse was considerably affected by the news of the determined opposition of Lord Palmenton's government to the Isthmus of Suez scheme. The effect of this rather unexpected intelligence is the more marked, as the positive announcement that the principal plenipotentiaries to the congress are appointed was calculated to produce a rise. The Rent* fell lbc. for cash and Mc. for account, closing at 70fr. lbc. and 70fr.3bc. Mobilier fell 13fr. 75c., and Spanish Mobilier Bfr. 75c. The Lyons and Western railways fell 6fr. each, and Orleans 7fr.6oc. The other lines scarcely changed. The closing prices, both in the Rent* and railways, were, gene rally speaking, the lowest of the day. The lawsuit between Count Migeon and his wife is not over. The cue came on to-day for a further bearing before M. Devienne, the first president of the Imperial Court. I briefly mentioned the other day that the government had prohibited the publi cation of any report of the proceedings on account of the name of a political personage having been mentioned by M. Jules Fevre. The name on behalf of which secrecy is authoritatively enjoined is that of Count de Morny, the president of the Corps Legislatif, but what he can have to do with a divorce case between the Count and Countess Migeon, can only be a matter of random conjecture in the absence of that positive information which it is thought expedient to withhold. It may be remembered that when Count Migeon, who is the idol of the electors of his department (which had twice elected him by enormous majorities against the government candidate), was expelled the house for unworthiness," Count de Moray, between whom and Count Migeon it was known that great personal enmity existed, abstained from taking the chair, M. Schneider, who then presided, noticed the exist ence of a correspondence brought before a committee of the house, which was not made public. A few days since, M. Jules Fevre, counsel for Count Migeon, read to the court a letter from Count de Morny dated from the Corps Legislatif on the 29th of a particular month. I hear that an immense sen sation was created is court to-day by M. I Berryer, counsel for Mdme. Migeon, holding up the letter in question, and declaring that the real date of it was the 20th, and that (the date being essential to the object for which the letter was produced) a tail had been added to the 0 to make it look like 9. In the course of the day the president received from M. Jules Fevre, who was absent from indisposition, a letter, begging as an exceptional favour that he might be allowed to reply to this grave accusation ; the request was com plied with, and M. Jules Fevre is to reply upon this point on Saturday next. Two new books, "L'Examen Critique des Doctrines de is Religion Chietienne," and "La Rdnovation Religieuse," by M. Larreeque, formerly Rector of the Lyons Academy, have just been seised at M. Bohne's foreign library, Rue Rivoli. These works, like the "Question Romaine "of M. About, were published in Brussels. ITALY. CENTRAL ITALY. (TZOM OVA SPECIAL 001 men, protected as it will be by the fortifications of Bologna, could make a moat determined and pro tracted resistance to an invading foreign army. When one thinks that only six months ago Central Italy was in • defenceless state, and that it has now an army of 48,000 men ; when one thinks that before the month of March is over this army will be increased by at least 18,000 men, and in possession of • formidable stronghold, one cannot help admiring the almost incredible exer tions which have been made. There is no news of importance to-day except a confirmation of the report of Count CaVOllf'd ap pointment u representative of Sardinia at the forth coming Congress. A letter which I have jut re ceived from Genoa enables me to state that the ministers of Victor Emmanuel asked the great Italian statesman if he was disposed to fulfil this important mission, an offer which, u my correspon dent says, has been at once accepted by the count. CDr Court. OSBORNE, Dtc.l9. The Queen and Prince Consort walked out this morning. Baron de Loeweafels left o.bonie on his return to the Continent. DespotAro were received et the Cohnlal-offios yesterday from the Lord High Commtniorer of the lonian Islands sad the uvreraor of British Columbia Despatches were seat to the governors of Ceyka, Hoag Laic Lehrer, Lod Gibraltar. The Duke of Rutland has arrived at hie residence at Prisav-gate, tram Beltuir Cast* Oraathate. The Duke of Devooshirs and Lady Louisa Coven- Mob 101 l Chatsworth a kw days Macs &a liolker Hell, West meath/4 when they will paws the Christmas holidays. The Duchess (Dowager) of Norfolk has retamed so town from visiting the Duke sod Duchess of flatlisrlawd ea Tiwithsw. The Marquis and Marchioness of Atlesbary have heed easersaksiag the following company at their gest, Tot ' char Park, Wilts, dohs, the past week :—TM Doke and Boehm of Manchester, Earl and Comma of Barham, Earl end Counter of Totkerrille, Marla. Meashlossos of hike bury, Vierionst sad Vieeentatees de Vied and the Boa. Mime Verry, Lea Itsymerer, Mr. Gonad and Lady Augusta &art, Lord Charles Brook the Earl of OnLtd, Viscount Peseoreconrt, the Earl Annealey, Captain Lumley, &c. The Marquis and 31archioness of Abercorn and homily have left Chesterfield Home, Mayfair, for Brackett Hero. The Marrois of Hartinirtoa arrived in town yee someday monocle. from Hoare Hall, Woetroorelead, sad has shoe loft lowa as s atilt to the Kul Cowper, at Panama's', Herta. The Earl of Craven has arrived is town from Baritose learrall, Becks. The Cortese and the Ladies Craven will return to town to-morrow, from Ashdown Pork, far the winter. The Earl sad Countess of Ashburaham, who have Welt' arrived is lowa hem Seethed, when they have bats oa a whit to the Earl at Haddiagtoa (bar ladyship's brother) sad to tb. Malcala sad Marobioarso el Breadalbeas, are aorr prolog the sasses at Ashburahaet Plana, their I:negat ional seat la Seam. Tilt Karl and Countess of Dalksith were to let,. Batietton Howie, soar Ketteriag, jesterdq, to join the Margate and Marchioness or Abotoora, et Brackett Hall. The Earl Grosvenor left Stafford Howie, Bt. James's. yesterday, to Calverley Perk, Cheshire. Coact and C,ountkaa de Flahaelt cud the Hon. Mies Elphtsetose de Thibault sill leave Coventry H. wee In • Irw day. See Howood, o• a Ana to the Marquis of Leardswolt. The marriage of the Hon. General Ashburnham with tbe Hee. Mir Poky, daughter/ of t►e late Lord Foley, sad mime of the Duke of Lodestar, will ►e solemnised early la laresn. Sir Gemara Grey and Lady Gray have returned to Howeltives Hotel, from a tour of visits. Kr. and Mrs. Chamberlsyns entertained last week at Weir asst. Csaabstry Peek, are Winchester, • pelmet circle of fries& to meet hie [mass Mightier. the Prince Leticogen sad her Royal Hiseinses the Prince. Leiniagen ; and, not withstanding We very bed season for game in that part et lismasake, to pathless' ant with some tt lerabis sport In the srell-gresersed sects, the result of two Jays' shooting with as gum wag 400 gisessente. 138 ham., 70 rebbits, weedaseliA, 9 paetridess—total 614 head. It is statsd that his brother, and brother-in-law, Bens Rotnechart, wore present on &etudes- e the death o W Right Hen. H. Fttsray. We regret to learc of the death, yesterday, at '3, Olouorstee-pleaf, Hyde-lore, of the only sister of the Right Hoe. E. Diareftli, M.P. Bondy wu the eizty-ninth birth-day of the King of the Belgloos. The various works at the floral hell, Covent Gar den, are now being carried out with a considerable amount of vigour, theirs being upwards of ow hundred men at present engaged, including amongst them fifty fitters and =litho, ths other half being made up of glaciers, painters, pleaded*, bricklsyers, m==ow, laboured, and boys. _ _ Me. E. J. Lowe, of Hightield House, states that the Waimea fro.t which .et in with a rough N.N W. wind on the 14th inst. reached a degree ( con, both Saturday and Sunday, greater than ha. eery been recorded there in the woods of December since 11,41. On only two occomione W the temperetzue at Highdeld fallen lower than it was on Monday morning, Tic, as the night of the 2nd and morning of the 3rd of January, 1851, when it descended 4 deg. below zero ►t 4 feet, and 6 deg. below zero on the gram, and even le 8 deg. below zero in the Talky on the antra; the second occasion being the OM of Febr►ary, 185.5, when it wee 6'l deg. at 4 feet, and 0 5 deg. on the gram. PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM OP PRUSSIA AT COBLEN27 AND COLOGNE The opening of the Coblento sad Bingen Railway took plane on Timed., last in the powwow of Prime* Fre derick William of Proasia (representing the Prince Kermit, his father, who was detained in Berlin in consequence of the illness of tile King of Prussia). A grand dinner wee he'd at Cobientz, at which the royal amid distinguished visitors were present• After the dinner the jonmey to Cologne was accomplished, mid at all ihe meads' festive decont'irms in profueion were displayed, porticularly at Caws.. when the head burg°. asoller, surrounded by the authorities received the Prince" Fredrick William, and read sa address to his royal Wah iawa. A repast was bars ale provided, at which lb• healthy of the Kier, the Prince Raises Priem Frederick sad the Greed Dubs of Hasse wets drunk. In reply Prince Frederick William said: "Gentlemen,—Aa I stand hero to-day in the place of my mmt gradates father, I hays him to etyma in his name his deep regret that he Is prevented from coming among you. The beery mieketiree which unfortunately has visited oar [cowry for mem thee has mnderect it ticcemary for him to mnuain in the Aelaity of his myal brother ; sad it devolves upon cue to exprevs to los what you all know, that my father, though permeally absent, w prwent in the warmest and c,m *tem sympathy. (L red applauee ) Yon know how much ha has wished to ass completed the work which we ham to day inaugurated. And now, gentlemen, if I may speak of myself, I, who for a year lived amoog you, rejoice heartily el the arc impliahroest of this peal work. May die festive 110[1140S be a happy omen mid • hulls! blessing for our Pretmlea fatherland, for the Rhine province, aad toe tbo milted German *wintry. In this ream, gentlemen, I beg yea t rise, and drink with ma to the pemperity of the Rhineland. I give you, gestlemes, Prosperity to the beautiful Ithismised.'" The toast wee received wet heartily. Borne other 'peer-tees were dolir.-rwl, whoa ht. royal WO new left before the a:mei u•rm , f the banquet, .ad s h ata „,,a. yea present .t s moron at the Camino. la the iambi t►e prises retarsed to Berlin. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, MOM/A4. The Royal Mail steamship Africa, Capt. Shannon, which sailed from New York on the 7th inst., has arrived at this port, bringing 73 passengers and 672,787 dole. in specie. On the 7th the Africa spoke the Edinburgh (e.s.) hence, going into New York, and on the 13th passed the Vanderbilt, bound to the same place. The screw steamer City of Manchester, from Glasgow via Queenstown, arrived out at New York on the 4th inst. Both houses of Congress assembled at Wuhiog ton on the dth instant, but as the House of Repre sentatives had not succeeded in organising when the Africa sailed, the President's Message had not bees sent in. The Senate was opened with the usual formalities, and at the first opportunity Mr. Mason, of Virginia, offered a resolution providing for the appointment of a select committee to make a full and searching in vestigation into all the circumstances connected with the Harper's Ferry outbreak, and also to report what legislation is necessary for the future preserva tion of the peace of the country and the safety of the public property. Mr. Trumbull said that he should move to extend the Inquiry so as to include an investigation of the circumstances connected with the seizure of the arsenal at Franklin, Missouri, during the Kansas "border ruffian" war. Mr. ()win gave notice of a bill for the construction of a railroad to the Pacific. 1 1 On the following day Mr. Mason's resolution was debated, but without result. In tie House of Representatives, immediately after the roll was called, an attempt wit, made to elect a Speaker. A ballot was taken, and the result showed that sixteen candidates, embracing all the various shades of party politics, had been voted for without effecting a choice, which requires • clear majority of the votes cut. Mr. Booock, the nominee of the democrats, received 86 votes; Mr. Sherman, republican, 643; Mr. Grow, republican, 48; Mr. Boteler, an "American" (know-nothing) democrat, 14; and others smaller votes. After the ballot, Mr. Grow withdrew his name, but no se cond effort had taken place. Mr. Clark, of Missouri, offered a resolution declaring in effect that no member of Congress who has given his approval of • work called " Helpers Impending Crisis" (which bears upon the Harper's Ferry affair), or who his recommended it, is fit to be Speaker. The New York Herold says that " three-fourths of the republican members have recommended this hand book of insurrection." On the Bth inst. the action of the House was confined to a debate upon this propo sition. The municipal election in New York took plate on the 6th inst., and resulted in the choice of Fer nando Wood, emocrat, for mayor. The election was a most exciting one, there being three candi dates:in the field, but the day nevertheless passed off quietly. The execution of John Brown continued to be a prominent topic, and in some of the New York churches the preachers had held him up as a martyr. Very stormy weather had prevailed, and in some sections there had been a heavy fall of snow. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says, "A movement is in contemplation at Wsshington to have the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain abrogated, because recent changes in the Canadian revenue laws render its operation one sided and oppressive." THE LATEST, PER AFRICA. The Liverpool agent of the New York Associated Press has received the following later intelligence Irom British Columbia: New YORK, Dec. 7.—By telegraph from St. Louis we learn that the California overland mail Gas arrived at that place, with dates from San Francisoo to the 14th Nov., and from Vanoonver's Island to the 10th Nov. The California news is meagre and unimportant. The United States revenue cutter Jefferson Davis arrived at Victoria on the 2nd of November, with despatches from General Scott to Governor Douglas. General Scott arrived at Victoria on the 7th, and left again a day or two thereafter for Fort Towns- end, where he would take the steamer for San Francisco, and there await further instructions from Washington. The papers to hand make no mention of any interview having taken place between Gene ral Scott and Governor Douglas. The Victoria Gazette of Nov. 11 says that the United States troops, with the exception of Captain Riekett's company, had withdrawn from the island of San Juan, by orders of General Scott. Capt. Provost and the officers of the British ship Satellite visited General Scott on board the steamer Massachusetts while she was in the harbour of San Juan. - -- The accounts from the Fruer River mines are fa vourabk. 105,000 dol.. in gold was exported from Victoria during the month of October. All through last week at the Italian Opera, Paris, the lrooatore was played to good houses, Giuglini being the great attraction. At the Opera Comique a new work wee given on Saturday night, entitled Den Oregorio, by Count Gabrielli, known as the composer of eriveral succeerful The carnival season commenced with one of the usual masked balls at the Grand Opera: Strauss, with 150 musicians, many 'honored lights, and mar.) , hundred markers, eery much like what one has sees many times Wen., with the same notice—" Ladies most appear in domino& ur fancy dresses, and gentlemen in evening attire." The winter season fns Late, ouiria, dieters, and receptions bra fairly commenced, although, says a Paris letter in the Toot, "we do not expert a very brilliant time of it this year, as Ills feared Prime Jerome will not rev weer. Pan,daa tradespeople complain of the number of families who are spending the winter at Nice." The remains of the late John Brown were con veyed through Philadelphia on the 3rd, en route to Boston. Letters from Egypt announce the arrival at Alexandria of the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres. The princes Wile to remain a , Alexandria until the ith, and at Cairo until the 11th, and then t•, continue their journey into Upper Egypt. They are accompanied by the Marquis de Datumis, Captain Maria, Vieoount de Segur, and M. de GREAT METROPOLITAN SEWER AT STRAT rotto.—The works of thia sewer, which it WAS adocipated wouid have Wen eouirocnced in this district several wreaths ego, halm he.. drifted, pertly from the strike in the build ing trade, and partly to enable the commissioners to apply to parliament for additional powers not embodied in their present act. A great number of homes on the .ite of which the proposed .ewer would pass were perchance?, and the occup-ots long +mos gave up poseessicia, but width' the last low wed. they have been occupied, awl will con tinue to be so during the temporary delay of the works. Tbo ostensive premises of Messrs. Otero sod Sou. timber mere-haute, on the north aide of the high road, have been purchased of them by the commiselosera, and the occupiers sad owners of all property in that ue rehbourbood tam for the purpoeen of the nearer have received the mould ef their competwatioe. We (Law Road) may add that the enropereetion awarded la ►boost every inatespe has hers extremely literal on the part of the aonntimiosere—weekly ...WWII receiving from 101. to 181.; small shopkeepers from 601. to 1001., aed so on Is proportion to the amount of busi men and length o feheascy BOLOGNA, D■c. 13. Farini has just arrived here from Modena to give his last orders for the transference of the central government, which is in future to take up its quar ters in the above-mentioned town. The preference thus given to the capital of the little duchy chiefly arises, if ,I mistake not, from the political consider. ation that it would not be advisable to make it sub servient to the capital of the Legations, which even yet run the risk of being restored to his Holiness. The uncertainty which still surrounds the final solu tion of the affairs of Central Italy made it with Farini a question of honour to separate ea tar u he could the future fate of the Romagna from that of the duchies. It is to be hoped that the wishes of the Romagna,' es well as those of the Parmesans and Mudenese, will be at last satisfied and sanctioned by the diplo macy of Europe. But nobody can deny that, if there is in any part of Central Italy any danger of the restoration of the ancient governments, it is in the States of the Church. I cannot help shuddering while merely mentioning this supposition, for, as I have told you in my former letter., it will cost thou sands of lives should it be ever realised. This sup position, however remote it might he, vet deserved to be taken into serious consideration by Parini, and it is, perhaps, this which has determined him to overlook the importance of a town which numbers 100,000 inhabitants and give the preference to one whose population is scarcely 32,000. Should diplo macy authorise the annexation to Piedmont of the two minor Duchies, and the restoration of the priestly sway in these provinces, the central govern ment would be of course transferred to this city, which by the time the Congress has accomplished its work will be in a position to resist any foreign interference. I have carefully inspected the plans which have been drawn up by Colonel Meixecapo, and, according to what I saw, the fortifications of this city are very nearly equal in importance to those of Alexandria and Verona. This work will be car ried out with the greatest activity; and, judging by the plan which is going tobeadopted,within the space of three months Bologna will be turned into a strong entrenched camp, able to give shelter to an army of 30,000 men. The hills which surround the town, and its central position, will enable such an army to keep in check an invading force of three times its own number which may attack the Legation. from the north. The foundry just established at Parma is busily engaged in casting rifled cannon for the defence of this important stronghold of Central Italy, whose detached fortification'', from the Mon tegnola to San Salvatore, will mount not less than 20 heavy guns. In the worst case, if the Austrians should be charged with the mission of putting into execution the final decision of the Congress, they could not do so with out bringing into the field an army of 180,000 men. One half of this army would have to operate against Bologna, the other half to keep on the look out, for it could be attacked by the national forces gathered within and behind the entrenched camp of Bologna. This cam p could not be at tacked wit h an army much less than 90,000 men, for the radius of fortification being at the same time so large and strong would enable Gent rslFanti to repulse them all. With out, therefore, reckoning upon the revolutionary ele ment of the country which would be at once rowed ' by Garibaldi, Central Italy, with its army of 80,000 LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vioe-Chonoollor Wood.) T OMPBON V. In ZSPIAL-811•ISP Ertel EATS- PLACL This snit was instituted for the purpose of obtaining the opinion of the court with reference to the payment of • sum of 2,5001. and a rent charge of 301. • year, which wee given by the late John Shakespear, of Langley Priory, to the committee fOr the preservation and restoration of the poet Shak,peres birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon. It appeared that in the year 1856 Mr. Shakespear communicated to the birthplace committee his willingness to assist he the national object which they had in view. In consequence of this communication ethos correspondence took place which ended in the execution of a deed II Mr. Shakespear, whereby, after reciting that he had that day paid Into the Stourbridge and Kidderminster Bank the sum of 2,5001., it wee declared that the committee should apply that sum, or se much thereof es might be neoemary, towards the purchasing and the payment of the expenses in cddentel to the purchasing en any reasonable terms and of the obtaining the conveyance of the next adjoining heredite menta on the east and north-went aides of the poet's birthplace, to the and that the same premises might for ever go along and be enjoyed with and as appurtenant to Shakepere's birthplace; and, after the payment of the purchase money and expenses, and the coat and expense of pulling down the same premises, to be purchased, and enclosing the ground round the birthplace, and of restoring the said birthplace to its original elate, the committee were I. stand pomeeeed of the residue of the 2,6001., "upon such trusts, and to and for such purposes as the said John Shake/pear should, by a deed intended to be prepared and executed by him and the said parties thereto of the second part, declare and provide concerning the same." The deed further provided that in ease default should be made by Mr. a. Shakeepear in executing the deed, or de claring the trusts of the residue of the said sum of 2,6001. within six calendar months from the date thereof,that then the committee should appropriate and apply " the residue of the said sum in or towel& the restoration and preservation of the said birthplace as they in their discretion and judgment should think necesaary and proper." No deed wee ever executed for declaring She trusts of the residue of the 2,6001.; but works were carried on from time to time in eccorclancewith the objects of the committee and Mr. Shakeapear was from time to time made acquainted with end approved of what wee going on, and the residue of the 2,6001. was thus expended. On the 9th of June last Mr. Shakeepear died, having first made his will, which contained the following bequest, "I give to my said trustees and executors out of my personal estate, and before say other legacies, the sum of 2,5001., to be laid out by them as they shall think tit with the concur rence of the trustees of Shakaperes house already sanctioced by me in forming a museum at Shakopere's house in Strat ford, and far such other purpose u my said trustees in their discretion shall think at and desirable fur the purpose of giving effect to my wishes. I direct moreover that out of the rents of the Langley Priory estate the sumer thirty pounds half-yearly be applied to the wages of a keeper or guardian, whose duty it shall be to reside at Stratford-on-Avon, near Shekspere's reputed birthplace, attend the visitants, and offer them a bound-up volume, with pen and ink, to inscribe, on certain conditions, such liar be verse or prose as the fenny of each visitant may induce to write, and I will that this half yearly payment be a rent charge for ever upon the Langley Priory domain, consisting of the mansion house and 558 acre., or thereabouts, of land adjoining." It was this legacy of 2,6001. and rent charge of 301., of which the present snit melted payment. The trustees of Mr. 81taltss• pasta will objected to acting upon the terms of the bequest, coweiving that it wee void, both under the statue of =re main, and as tending to create a perpetuity. The case was heard sometime since, when his honour mewled his judFmrot. Mr. Danville end Mr. Itsetindele were for the plaintiffs, the committee; Mr. Rolt, Sir 11. Cairns, and Mr. H. P. Roche were on the other aide. The Vice-Chancellor now delivered judgment. He end he would first consider the case as regarded the bequest of 2,5001. He could quite understand the ditßculty which the counsel for the plaintiff had found In deciding how this bequest was to to looked at. It bad been put mainly upon the ground that it was a gift for a charity, and it was upon this ground alma, if at all, that it could stand. Now, no doubt the courts had gone very far in declaring gifts to be charitable, but the farthest cue was not carried to an extent watch would include the present one. The ore which had gone to the greatest length waeacsaeof Thompson v. Therefore), I Coll., 395, which was a gift to what tle testator caged the " literary annuitant." It was a gift of an annuity to a Fenton to be selected by the trustees of the will, hie qualifications being thus described . "He should preferably be at leer* forty yearn of age, but ke must be a believer in Cbriatianity. This is an indispensable qualifies- Wm. As to the sect to which he may belong that is a matter of inferior consideration, butit will be better in every point of view that he &add be a protestant, and let him be so. Perhaps it may be more desirable that he should be at least nominally a member of either of our two establiahed churches; be should be moderate and not a bighfiyer. The trances are perfectly capable of making a due selection, and I ray nothing further as to qualification. My object is to give aemetanoe to • worthy literary man who bath not been successful in hie earns, and se far as posaible to enable him to emit* in ex tending the knowledge of those doctrines in the various branches of literature to which I have given my attention sod pen in order to ascertain what appeared to he truth, and to teach it to these who would listen." The Via-Chancellor Knight Bruce in that owe, considering that the testator intended • ditsetuination of the truths of re ligion in such • manner that they might be beneficial to all, construed that to be • charitable gift. But here there was no direction in the will as to the trusts upon which the money directed to be laid out should be held. There was no condi tion that the museum or •her object. referred to in the testator's will should be held for the public benefit. No doubt in this case the object which was in the testator's view was a meet worthy and a national one ; it was • desire to honour the memory of one who wee endeared to us by every feeltng which could operate in the breasts of civilised men ; one of whom, not only as a poet, but as • muralist' and phil•optrer, we had more reason to he proud than of say other man who had ever existed in our COO3lllOll country. But the testator had nowhere declared that his intention was that the money he gave should be for the benefit i.f the country at large ; he had tailed in doing that which would enable the court to declare this • charity. He had rather given the money for the advantage of certain dillettenti whose literary feelings end teems bed led them to make greet and praieeworthy efforts for the preeervetion of the poet** birthplace. It had occurred to his honour that be might perhaps treat this as a gift to the birthplace committee absolutely ; but the indication of inten tbts which the will suggested was too strong for that. lindtr thee• circumstances he could only come to the conclusion that this gift failed. The lame reasoning which applied to the bequest applied, but in a stronger degree, to the gift of the annuity. That woe still more clearly tin attempt to give • perpetual inalienable inte rest for • pi:este object, and the bill thus failed in both parts. He presumed that in a case like this some arrange went had been made as to costa, and he should therefore simply distiller the bill. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings at Nisi Prius in London —(Before the Lord Chief Justice ands Special Jury.) scuLt.r r. It will be remembered that this cue, which involves ea action by Mr. Vincent Scully, M.P. for the County Cork, against Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P. for Boston, for false ref resentation, was tried in the sittings of the Michaelmas Term of last year before Lord Campbell and a special jury, when after • trial of two cloys, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with 3001. damages. Subsequently, on application to the oourt, the verdict wee set aside, sad a new trial ordered on the ground of misdirection by his lordship, and that the jury bad omitted to distribote the damaged on the two issues found. The case was set down for trill •t thee sittings, but in con sequence of the length of time oceupied by some of the calmer, it bad to be postponed more then once. Mr. Edwin James applied this corning to know whether his It rdship could fix • day for the trod; at least 40 wit owes were in aueedance from Ireland, and there was no doubt the trial would last a oonsidereble time. Mr. Bovill, who appeared for the defendant, could state that the case must occupy c manly two days if not three. The Chief Justice sail he was entirely In the hands of the counsel. The sittings would terminate on Friday. and It was not likely" Scully,. Ingram" could be taken before Thurs day morning if even then. He was quite milling to take the case subject to the contingency that the hearing wail liable to he interrupted by the termination of the pitting'. At the same time he might state be had reasons fa knowing that mutest friends had interfered to bring about a mille nnia between the parties. Mr. BovUl said his client wee most anxious the ease should be heard ss soon as possible, as the matter of to' character Was involved. Mr. James—As to that, the character of both gentlemen II Involved. Mr. Ikreill arm afraid the CMS could not be tiniehed in two days• Mr. Jamas could not tither gusrantee that two days would audios fee the purpose. Sinop, the last trial the ow bad greatly expanded. . . His lordabir —That is invariably the cue with new leak. Of tonne both perdu have b. en made acquainted with each otber'e cue and they vow, prepared accaedingli. Wooll it not be better to let Scully v. Ingrain" p over onttl the sittings after next term and then it would stud nearly at the top of the li.t : Couttrel on both aide* having Resented tbie eurgatica cue was nude a remand accordingly. &VI Rolla we he sad) Mr. Lire I ohm* thinki a 6121 work i not do taw. ma a 1 two d all n thong' from t agin tl bat wl byfe,, ,- u Mr. noas that at last law. that y know ins-of hou;e, CCOO, Fra interp wile, rid prim eater wadi mark mark lodge rtIOCI passi La " Mt deem I.ollel He resnl wri• on U label " Ii bout her i but 4 to w that MA 1.4A1 00114 fate Uhl the yea hou the Suf mei Soo bell (7t P. l rim aft lb.