The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-24 00:00:00

I ' l . V I 4 • 1 . s : r .. 1 1 I 11. tiii r 00 I i ' 1 1 1 4 ' I : • ' I ! ' t i I I 1 l ' i i . '. i f; I ' (, ($;. I :1 ...O. LIFEBOAT EIZEXICES.—During the storms of the past year the National Lifeboat Institution, by its hest awl other means, contributed to the saving of 707 too .'!lerent wrecks on our coasts. The institution also - pearled t 21.374 in the same period on its lifeboat atabliahments. Isaidttion to granting £4,950 fur rewards for saving We and laerching the h china The committee of the liPtitation earnestly APPEAL to the while for ASSISTANCI, to enable them to meet the continual Pray y demands on the Institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received bJ the London end Country Seekers : and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Nay., at the In 'Mali u, 14, Johnareek Adolph!, Modal. TOHN BROGDEN recommends the public to tir have the care t r t i t stated on the involoe, Flue gold 1111 and pure gold." to Jewelry, being a delusion. JOH:t GOLD RAINS are sold upon this principle only, and at manu/seturer's prices. ManuLetory, 16. Henrietta- Ilereet, Coveutrgarden, W.C. This establishment is closed at and oo Saturdays at 1 o'closk. MESSRS. WATHERSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewellers, late Randy for Inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Ds' lilns, suitable for WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-YILAB:8 OUTS. 12, Pan-mall gut, S.W. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Gentlemen. - Remember, we wait for you at . 11VINS," after the Covent-garden Pantomime, and the Tasatros. ovnirtoo. TO 00BRICIPONDF.NTS. Ulearttsemente intindediO; 7 l7ltaipre London Ewan paper, mutt be at the Oface, 10. Bouverhretteet. by Two o'clock on Um day of pablicetton. gATlLizarr. TRI3 !MIMING. BROTTalit SAM. Messrs. &Ahern, Back gone. and Compton . %sees Nell, Moore, Snowdon &c.- oB.filEt'S IN THE ['AYH/at/UT, Messrs fanen & D. new ; Hisses Kotler, Howard & Wright—MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. PRINCESS'S. TIM VIGRA% Qtrlzii:Zapthl.—Atter which IT TB 111 , ,X11 TOO LATE Td WOW. Mews. Vining, O. Melville, Y. Mead, D. Murray, b. Calhaem, P. VtDien, J.G. Shore, G. Mut. gay, and Cathmrt Miuoe L Moore and E. Rodgers. LYCZUIL Tess iriNING, THE 11:1173 . 11.10tiq STRANGER. Mr. H. WWlkomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Maws. Pechter. Jordui, Veda, Emery, Widdicomb, Fitspatnek. Evans; IlmJansas Taman. glaworthy. Lavaca, C. Laclareq. BRITANNIA. Tam Enmity, OLD DADDY LONGLEGS AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS; OR, TIIE GOLDEN APPLE. M. and Madame Stertzenbech.—nignor Bevonl—Olmar.--nower. of Golden Rain. —Johnny Day.—And JESSIE, THE MORMoteB DAUOUTLE. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BEIDOE. TED DAY Morning, 711. Allornoon, 7b Was. 10410uoi7—. Worming, 81). 84 45a. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24. Tas Commons Preservation Society, after many meetings of a more or less!prirate character, conies fairly before the public this morning. Its aims and objects are strictly conservative. It neither wishes to improve nor beautify our commons, but to maintain them as they are now ; and that all legislation on this subject since the time of Henry lIL has been in the direction of inclosure, or with a view to agricultural profit, is held to prove the necessity of some such organization as meets to-day, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor. As far as we understand the matter, there is no immediate intention to propose a change in the Is,. It is asserted that in most cases where the lords of manors have met with a determined op position, they have either desiated from encroach ments, or have been defeated; and the existing rights of commoners and inhabitants are believed to be strong enough for all purposes of the Society. When, however, a lord of the manor wishes to agree with commoners for the extinguishment of their rights, the Iliclosure Commissioners, who cannot authorise inclosure of themselves, may give their sanction to the scheme, and the bill making it legal be passed by the House mainly through their official recommen dation. One of the first objects of the Commons Pre servation Society is, to ask the House to prohibit these Commissioners from entertaining any applica tions for inclosure within the metropolitan area, and thus to carry into effect the recommendation of the parliamentary committee of last year. The increase of population, and the vast in vasions of bricks and mortar, have altered the conditions under which waste lands must be viewed. The conventional hero whose claim on posterity is for making two blades of grass sprout where one grew before may easily degenerate into a nuisance now-a-days. Cul tivatiou, nowever admirable when the country was sparsely scattered with farms and hamlets, becomes a positive injury when unduly fostered on the out skirts of great cities. Waste becomes prudent, and a wild common more really remunerative than the most carefully cultured and regularly plotted out park, when it acts as safety-valve to a smoke dried feverish hive of workers. Still, there are degrees even in meritorious uuproductiveness, and it is clear that a huge patch of waffled ground needs some responsible supervision. The mischief proverbially found for idle hands takes the form of dust-heaps, defective drainage, sod-cutting, and gravel-digging, where idle land is preyed upon. The Commons Preservation Society propose to step in here, and to adopt such measures as will enable the dwellers near any given common to help them selves to the extent of preserving its natural ness and freedom intact ; at the same time effectually restraining the same dwellers from in flicting injury upon themselves and their posterity by "improvements" which would include bricks and mortar, park-keepers' lodges, gravel walks, parterres, and conventionality. A pure love for commons as commons, and a sus picious dread of all propositions for "improving " open spsees,which on sanitary, picturesque, and even sentimental grounds are better left to themselves, seem to be the ruling motives of the Society. Its members maintain, with great show of reason, that whereas vast sums of money are spent on the creation and maintenance of parks, commons are ready to our hand, and if once altered can neither be replaced nor restored. To keep heather and hillock, wild flowers and turf in their present condition ; to guard as carefully against deterioration as against " improvement ;" to assist residents in assisting themselves; to advise and en courage the maintenance of local common-keepers rather than liveried beadles from a government department, and to jealously protest against either sympathy or friendship if its efforts for the public good involve change—such would seem to be the leading objects of the new Society. It supports its views by historic illustration and statistical argu ment, and all dwellers in largo towns who have a lingering fondness for nature unadorned will pro bably find the speeches of this morning strike a scarce suspected chord, and will welcome a prac tical protest against the utilitarianism which would pare and plane away to a uniform pattern of vulgar neatness the picturesque irregularities most of us have learnt to love. RSPRISINTATION or BRECKNOCK. —(From our Cor neepondent.)—ln addition to the addressee (sa reported in this paper on Monday) issued by Lord Brecknockon the liberal and Mr. Howell Gwyn ou the conservative side, u candidate' to AU the vacancy in the representation of the Beecknock borough by the death of Colonel Watkins, eta address to the elector, tea been put forth by Dr. Price, of Aberdare, who advocates more advanced principles than the noble earl. Meetings in favour of Parliamentary Reform were held oa Monday evening at Stafford and Dalkeith, at both of which meantime were passed urging the go. veroment to bring in a measure which should give to the working clause a real and effective voice in the ream. matatics. - OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DIY.) ~._• ens behind the iiirion of the coon %pees aaroas4 hopes tbakilb cotifilltriboo will and not allow themseivis to be overboose by IG+ ‘tgreste or the pity created by what ars called hard mom `c If the country is to be rived from this calamity it most ha done by the country gentlemen, who, if they stand firm, may I probably avert it by a few weeks of inconvenienoe. LATEST IVELLIGENCE AMERICA AND FRANCE. IMPORTANT DESPATCHES OF MR. SEWARD. The following are the despatches of Mr. Seward to the French Minister at Washington and the American Minister at Paris, on the subject of French intervention in Mexico which have been briefly mentioned in the ordinary telegrams : HIS TOPICS. Describing the preparations which are reported from the United States on the part of the Pemians, the Time ob serves that with such fade before us, and the circumstance that Dublin has been placed under the provisions of the Pled Preservation Act, it would be folly to ignore Use mischievous energy of Fenianism. A refreshing and in structive contrast is to be found in snob displays as the other day took place at Limerick, where a banquet wee given by the mayor, a protestant independent, to nearly 600 gentlemen of all denominations, and where industrial enterprise was described by the speaker. as the real enures of Ireland's prosperity, and the true cure for her midor trines. KB. SEWARD TO THI XAXQULS DX XONTHOLOX. Department of fits* Washington, Dec. 6, 1865. Sir,—Having made known to the President the Em peror's views on Mexican affairs which you communicated to me on the 29th ultimo, I have now the honour to inform you of the disposition of this government in regard to the same subject. It seems proper, however, for ins to say in the first piece, that what I have to communicate has been already fully made known to Mr. Bigelow, with authority, in his discretion, to impart the same to M. Dronyn de Lhuys. Many of the curious facts narrated in the Post-office Re port which appeared in yesterday's Express, are introduced by the Times into an article upon the 'general working of our penny postage system. It believes the grand secret of the prosperity of the office is the great multiplication of letters in the metropolis, where it is made every man's ser vant, carrying small messages at all times of the day. The Tinto suspects mach more would follow from the multiplication of deliveries in populous towns than from the extension of free deliveries to thinly inhabited spots. The Post speculates upon the effect which the recent military troubles in Spain may have upon events in the Chinon waters. At all events Spain will have to learn that the times in which we live do not lend countenance to any paper blockades, and that it takes more than seven ships, however wall appointed, to blockade effectively more th►n fifty seaports. The effect of the Emperor's suggestions, when they are reduced to a pr►ctial shape, seems to be this : That France is willing to retire from Mexico as soon as she may, but that it would be inconvenient for her without first receiving from the United States an assurance of a friendly or tolerant disposition to the power which has assumed to itself an' imperial form in the capital city of Mexico. The President is gratified with the assurance you have thus given of the Emperor's good disposition. I regret, however, to be obliged to say that the condition the Emperor suggests is one which seems quite impracticable. It is true, indeed, that the presence of foreign armies in an adjacent country could not, under any circumstances, but cause uneasiness and ►nxiety on the part of this govern ment. It creates for us expenses which are inconvenient, not to speak of dangers of collision. Nevertheless, I cannot but infer from the tenor of your communication, that the principal cause of the discontent prevailing in the United States in regard to Mexico is not tally apprehended by the Emperor's government. The chief cause is not that there is • foreign army in Mexico, much lees does that discon tent arise from the circumstances that that foreign army is a French one. We recognise the right of sovereign nations to carry on war with each other if they do not invade our right or menses our safety or just influence. The real cause of our national discontent is, that the French army which is now in Mexico is invading a domestic republican government there which was established by her people, and with whom the United States sympathise most profoundly, for the avowed purpose of suppressing it, and establishing upon its rains a foreign monarchical government, whose presence there, so long as it should endure, could not but be regarded by the people of the United States as injurious and menacing to their own chosen and endeared republican institutions. The idea of inert resistance on the part of the Pope to We new kingdom of Italy appears to the Telegraph to be abandoned. Non posTamtu is no longer the watchword of the papacy ; and even in the Vatican itself the idea that a reconciliation with King Victor Emmanuel might afford an escape from the overwhelming embarrassments of the Holy See appears to be making way. Under these dream steams a provisional character must necessarily attach to all the arrangements of the Italian government, whether political or financial. The Herald refuses to believe that the guardians of the poor, watched over by a central administration, cannot keep the inmates of a workhouse in order without the agency of the police. The fact that the police regimen, when introduced into an east-end workhouse, reduced the numbers of the applicants, amounts probably to no more than the sending so many additional appli cants to workhouses where no such superintendence existed, for it is obvious that where a miserable pellet and a dole of breed is the extent of the relief, any other argument from the decrease of those accepting it would only show that there are coalitions connected with a police regimen on which men would refuse even the aid cecessary to existence. Dreadful as is the poverty of our great cities there is nothing so sad about it as the ignominy which debases what is already sufficiently defiled ; but surely we have not yet reached the point of national deo. neracy where even our almsgiving mast be done by officers of the criminal code. • - THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1866. the Aloe& of Enoinascia, in Spain, his arms and those of his troops, well ea the small supply . of war munitions in his possersion. He appeared in very low virile, fatigued, end suffering in health. On arriving in Portugal he found a Painters colonel with his regiment. He .es told that he could not reside in the country. He Lb n asked to ea authorisation to embark in the Preach steam packet, on which he was informed that it had fast put to sea, and was recommended to take the English boat for Soathamptea, with an intimation that thence he could go wherever he pleased. His troops will be assigned quarters in Portugal till further orders. ROME. NAPLES, JAIL 24, 9.28, A.m. A loan has been concluded, it is said, for a nominal sum of 80 million lire, at 60, with the house of Erlangen and Co. The decimal system will be adopted.—Second Edition of the Time,. (arurzes narawes.) TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 17. (Via Marseilles.) The nomination of the members of the cholera conference has been completed. Its constitution will be entirely diplomatic. It is expected to meet in the first week of February. The'disturbance excited in the Lebanon through the arrest of some partisans of Karam by Daond Pacha has been put down. THE BOMBAY MAIL. 13017TRAXPTON, JAN. 24. _ , The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation I Company's steamship Pen has arrived here with the heavy portion of the above mail, 33 passengers, 7381. in specie, and a general cargo, including 387 bales of raw silk, value 33,0001. sterling. She experienced from Alexandria to the Bay of Biscay strong westerly gales and heavy sea, up channel northerly winds and much sea. On the 22nd she spoke the steamer Ripon in the Bay of Biscay. Fourteen British war vessels were at Malta. The American frigate Colorado was at Gibraltar. Exchange at Gibraltar, 49k, 49i ; Paris, 5.14 ; Madrid, i dia. TIU OPPOIIIIIIITaI Of IITOBJ4 The Daily News observes that in the matter of parliamentary reform the government is not called upon to bring oar representative system to perfection at one stroke, but to redeem a pledge and to redress what is admitted by politicians of every shade of opinion to be a crying evil— the non-representation in the House of Commas of working men. Influential journals which oombat the idea of • mere suffrage bill may without lack of charity be suspected of desiring to defeat the Reform Bill, which they do not want. If such a measure would be toe large to pass through the narrow portale of the House of 0011111201111, it is hard to see that a suffrage bill, pit a redistribution of seatm would have a better chance. The primary object is to extend the suffrage ; sad to bring in a bill emaciating other and secondary purposes with this, et the risk of defeating them all, would be an evasion of a pledge almost more discreditable than open renunciation et it. The ques tion of the suffrage is the weakest point of the anti-re formers, and there is good generalship in dealing with it first. But in addition to open or scarcely concealed enemies the government may have to contend with fainthearted friends. The small coterie who call themselves " thinking liberals," who are afraid of the representation of " mere numbers," and who suggest all kinds of ingenious expedients for reckoning the many as if they were few and the few ea if they were the many, are really though unconsciously tories, their cobweb speculations proceeding from a profound distrust in the natural forces of human nature and of society. The principle of leaving natural forces and tend ',leis.to work out their results unfettered by arbitrary re strictions, which is the real heels of freedom of trade, of thought, and of worship, is the only sound foundation of a Biscay of representation. _ . The Post thinks it not unreasonable to presume that the scope ►nd purpose of the ministerial scheme for amending the representation will have been determined upon before any announcement on the subject is made in the speech tram the throne, and it also assumes that owing to the consternation excited by Mr. Bright's speech, the theory of instalmentatmay be supposed to be virtually abandoned, and that consequently, • comprehensive measure of parlia mentary reform, something that will last for a generation at least, hu to be framed and matured. The work of months must be pulled to pieces and shaped anew in the space of a fortnight ; and, what is worse still, the members for the doomed boroughs may Bad in Mr. Bright's speech an ex cise for voting with the opposition. Meanwhile the ex perience of a quarter of a century has convinced the csintry that the existing borough suffrage requires exten sion rather than reduction, and, if Lord Russell is not pre pared to subscribeito the opinion it will be for parliament to take;the work into its own hands. The Telegraph remarks that loug experience ham taught the conservatives that opposition to a reform bill is more effective in the way of finesse, than by point blank The latest plan of obstruction is to complain that the libe rals demand too little, bat reformers will be on their guard against such appeals from the enemy, and will have too much good sense to declaim against "bit by bit reform." At the same time, until the liberals have before them, not only the exact proviaions of the measure, bat the facts elicited by the government inquiry, they can hardly be in a position to settle what should be the scope of their own demands. Nor let' it be forgotten that, whatever the bill may be, there can be nothing of finality about it. We do not propose to legislate during next session for the year 1900. THE EMPEROR Na.POLION'I3 SPEECH, Although the chief intereat of the above speech belongs to the paragraphs devoted to Mexico, the Times finds seve ral other matters of importance in the elaborate address. Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless true that the diaplay by each country of the strength of its fleet, of its tremendous power of iojaring an enemy, did more last year to induce au amicable temper than if there had been an international exhibition of locomotive or of cotton machi. nary. Nationklike to show their strength and to have it appreciated —a moral failing which has been a chief cause of many wars for which statesmen as the time ore grave political reasons, whioh historians have dutifully echoed. The declaration of neutrality in German affairs is heard without surprise when France and England are seen to be of one mind, and the words about Italy are not lasi satisfactory. It is a great thing, too, that the Emperor should think it necessary not only to announce retrenchment, but to ex plain how it has been effected. France, and France alone, is re sponsible for the immense armaments which nowoverburden Europe, and if she would come forward and make a large and permanent reduction in her rut standing army, the mill. tart' system of Europe, the most gigantic evil which afflicts its people, would in a few years crumble to the ground. The Times doss not despair that this will be accomplished. The Daily Pews points out that though the troops are to ovine back from Marie it is not shown how they are to be withdr►wn without " compromising the interests they went to defend." In any event the experiment ham failed, and if the difficulty of coming away is great that of re maining is greater. No part of the Emperor's sddreas can be made to signify that the government of the United States is to help him to escape. The policy of the American govern ment has been frank and friendly from the first, that government having declared throughout that it would hold with regard to Mexico the same principles that it holds respecting other countries. It has never pretended to a right to impose a particular form of government on Mexico ; it is its foreign origin, and not its monarchical form, which makes the government of Maximilian distasteful to Americans; though the latter are no doubt influenced by the palpable and inweesing evidence of the barbarism--such as the institution of peon (labourer) slavery, and the system of executing prisoners of war—which the archduke's government is spreading over the country. Three atrocities are evils • government must take into consideration when required to give • pledge not to interfere with the new order of things. If the government of the United States were to call upon the Archduke Maximilian to disband all hie foreign soldiers by • certain day and rely solely on the Mexican troops which he has enrolled, it would act just as Count Cavour acted towards the Papal government in 1860, with the approbation of Europe. And it would thus actively vin dicate the principle of non-intervention. It is by no means certain, however, that President Johnson would proceed so far. The Post, after lauding the policy of the French govern ment in respect to European Powers, proceeds to comment upon the coldness of the French people towards the Mexican expedition, and the advantage which is given by this sub. ject to a parliamentary oppositiot sensibly increased both in strength and numbers. This, however, they will lose when orders are given for the evacuation of the country by the French troops, If, despite the protests of the Ameri can government, it is resolved to maintain such a force in Mexico se would enable Maximilian to hold his own against the republican party, then • rapture between Fr►noe and the United States would be sluices inevitable. It has never occurred to the Herald, even for a moment, as possible that Napoleon 111. could contemplate the abandonment of the Emperor Maximilian, a sacrifice of the prestige of France which it might be as much u his throne is worth to attempt ; and his speech on Monday fully accords with our contemporary's anticipations. To abandon Mexico would be to renounce all prospect of the repayment of the Mexican ion raised in France, and would, therefore, be seriously detrimental to French interests, to say nothing of the probable consequences of the step, the humiliation of France, and her submission to the arrogant pretensions of the United States government. Each so. vernment his taken up its position, and will find It difficult to recede from it without dishonour. The Telegraph describes the feeling In America against the French interferenoe in Mexico as a " fabricated paroxysm of popular indignation," and "a spurious blast of many-tongued discontent," and says if the Emperor thinks proper to remain there the United States have no more thought of declaring war against him than they have of entering into an expedition in balloons against the MOOD. THZ CAVZLI PLAGIJI. The rinderpeet, says the Tina, gives a sharp prsotioal lesson to our eelf•complacancy, and it has shown that our immeshed international oommusication must not be re• prded as an unmixed blessing, or as exempting ns from the obligation of caution and prudence. Strange to any, no document of the kind ever met with a wares romp Von than the report of the royal oommiseinn, now singu larly confirmed by the despatch from our mooed at Odessa, bat in the course of a few weeks we karat the truth, only, like the foolish virgins, we learnt It too late. Up to this time the government has bat shared the aberrations of public opinion ; but now, by holding bank from prohibiting the movement of cattle in a moral cad uniform meaner, Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-offiee to the Governors of the Settlements on the West Coast of Africa. MARRIAGE IN HIOD LIFE.-(THIS DAY.) The marriage of the Lady Victoria Campbell, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess Cawdor, with Lieutenant-Colonel Lambton, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, wu solemnised this morning at St. George's Church, Hanover-Nuare. The gallant bridegroom and bridal party met at the church about half-past 11, and were followed shortly afterwards by the bride, who wu accom panied by her mother, the Countess of Cawdor. The bride who was attired in a rich white silk dress, tastefully trimmed with Brussels lace, was attended by eight bridesmaids, who wore dresses of white trimmed with blue. The m►rriage ceremony was per. formed by the Hon. and Bev. A. G. Campbell, uncle of the bride. At the conclusion of the ceremony the wedding party repaired to the vestry, where the marriage wu duly recorded. They afterwards went to breakfast at the Earl and Countess of Cawdor's mansion in South Andley-street. Early in the afternoon the newly-wedded couple left town for Mr. Lambton's seat in Surrey. THE OPENING OP PARLIAMENT BY THE QC:MIDI. —THE ARRANGEMENTS. —At Windsor Castle preparations are being made for the return of her Majesty the Queen, and according to the latest arrangements it is understood that her Majesty will leave Osborne on or about the sth of next month for Windsor, wheo the Queen will travel from the south to the royal borough by special train. After repos ing at the cuth for the night her Majesty will, it is ex pected, proceed to town by special train on the following morning (the 6tb), in order to open parliament in person, when the sovereign will be conveyed from Buckingham Palace in a new state carriage, drawn by eight cream coloured horses, to Westminster Palace. At the close of the ceremony it is anticipated that the Queen will return to Windsor Cutts, where her Majesty will rest for the night, and proceed next day back to Osborne. Her Majesty, after a short stay at Osborne, is expected to re turn to Windsor about the middle of February. The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Newport, Salop, yesterday afternoon, on their way to Lillsshall, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Sutherland. The event was duly celebrated in the quiet little Shropshire town, which seemed to be quite beside itself in [its manifestations of loyalty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will give a grand full dress parliamentary banquet, on the sth of February, to the mover and seconder of the address, and several members of the House of Commons. . His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador, the Countess BemstorlY, and the Countess Therese Berustorff left the Prussian Embassy, on Carlton House-terrace, yes. terday, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at Burghley House, Northamptonshire. The Earl and Countese of Malmenbury hare been entertaining at Hiroo Court Viscount and Vemonotem Somerton, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Barrington, Sir Augustus and Lady Paget, Colonel and Lady Margaret Charteris, Colonel and Mrs. Dudley Carleton, Sir Henry and Lady Wolff, Captaia and Mrs. M►sse, Mr. Burrell, Archdeacon Harris, &c. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have returned to their seat, ' , royal Lodge, Kent, from visiting Lord and Lady Ebary, at Moor Park, near Riekmansworth. Lord Augustus Loftus left by the mail train last night for Berlin, to enter on his duties se ambassador from the court of St. James's. The Evangelical Alliance has fer some time past urged upon her Majcoty's government the necresity something being done to lessen the persecution of the Nes torian. in Persia. A letter has just been received from the Foreiga•o®oe, in which it is stated that the efforts of the government to carry out the wishes of the Alliance have been successful. The Shah of Persia has promised protee tioe to the Nestorian', and there is s fair prospect of their being freed from the persecution which they have suffered at the hands of the Mahommedsne. The Ereminent announces that the lease of the gamieg•tabha of linden held by M. Benazet, and which ex. pie., on the bat day of 1867, bas been prolonged by the Grand Duke, on the proposition of his ministers, to De cember 31,1870. I admit that the United States do not feel themselves called upon to make a war of propagandism throughout the world, or even on this continent, in the republican came. We have sufficient faith in the eventual success of that cense on this continent, through the operation of existing material and moral causes, to induce us to acquiesce in the condition of things which we found existing here, while our own republic was receiving its shape and development. On the other hand, we have constantly maintained, and still feel bound to maintain, that the people of every State on the American continent have a right to secure for themselves a republican government if they choose, and that interference by foreign State. to prevent the enjoyment of such institu tions deliberately established is wrongful, and in its effects antsgonistioal to the free and popular form of government existing in the United States. We should think it wrong as well as unwise on the part of the United States, to attempt to subvert by force monarchical governments in Europe, for the purpose of replacing them with republican institutions. It seems to us equally objectionable that European States should forcibly intervene in States situated on this continent to overthrow republican institution'', and replace them with monarchies or empire.. Having thus frankly stated our position, I leave the questions for the consideration of France, sincerely hoping that that great nation may find it compatible with its best interest', and its high honour to withdraw from its aggressive attitude in Mexico, within some convenient and reasonable time, and thus leave the people of that country to the free enjoyment of the system of republican government which they have estab lished for themselves, and of their adherence to which they have given what seems to the United States to be decisive and conclusive, as well as very touching proofs. I am, sir, the more inclined to hope for such a solution of the difficulty for the reason that when, at any time within the last four years, the question has been asked of any American statesman, or even of any American citizen, what country in Europe was the one which was the least likely to experience an alienation of the friendship of the United States, answer was promptly given, France. Friendship with France has always been deemed important and peculiarly agreeable by the Ameri can people. Every American citizen deems it no less im portant and desirable for the future than for the past. The President will be pleased to be informed of the reception which the Emperor gives to the suggestions which I have now made. Accept, sir, the renewed amartnees of my very high consideration. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. NB. BZWILID TO MB. BIGELOW. Department of Mate, Washington, Dee. 16, 1865. Sir—Your despatch of Nov. 30, No. 209, wealthily received, and it has been submitted to the President Your proceeding in reading my despatch, No. 300, to M. Dronyn de Llittys, is approved. The genial tenor of the remarks made by you to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on that occasion is likewise approved. It is not the Executive Department of this Government alone which is interested and concerned in the question whether the present condition of affairs shall be con tinued in Mexico. The interest is a national one, and in every event the Congress which is now in session is authorised by the constitution, and is entitled to direct by law the action of the United States in regard to that impor. taut subject. It has been the President's purpose that France should be respectfully informed upon two points, namely, First—That the United States earnestly desire to con tinue and cultivate sincere relations with France. Second—That this policy would be brought into imminent jeopardy unless France could deem it consistent with her interests and honour to desist from the prosecution of armed intervention in Mexico to overthrow the domestic republican government existing there, and to establish upon its ruins the foreign monarchy which hss been attempted to be inaugurated in the capital of that country. In answer to an exposition of our views which was thus made, the suggestion was offered to you by M. Dronyn de Lhuys that the government of the United States might favour the express' desire of the Emperor to withdraw from Mexico by giving him some formal assurance that, in the event of his withdrawal, this government would recognise the institution of Maximilian in Mexieo as de facto a political power. It was my desire, in framing the despatch No. 300, to express in behalf of the United States a decision that the I recognition which the Emperor had thus suggested cannot be made, and to assign, by way of explana tion, the grounds upon which that decision was based. I have carefully considered the arguments against that decision which were presented to you by M. Drouyn de Lime in the interview referred to, and I do not find in them any sufficient reasons for modifying the views which the United States have expressed. It remains now only to make known to M. Drouyn de Lbuys my profound regret that he has thought it hie duty to leave the subject, in his conversation with you, in a condition that does not autho rise an expectation on our part that a satisfactory adjust went of the cue can be effected on any beds that thus far has been discovered. I am, sir, your obedient servant, John Bigelow, Esq., &c. WM. a &win). Ten persona from this county, it appears, have perished with the ill-fated vessel, one of them Wit ham Graham, together with his wife and three chil dren, having gone from Carlisle. It is • sad story— one which cannot be read even by strangers without moat painful feelings. The names of the unfortunate voyagers are as follows :—William Graham, tailor, aged 51 years ; Elleo, his wife, 49 yews ; George, his son, 10 years • a daughter, 3 years ; and a baby, aged 4 months. ThomaaGraham, aged 40 years ;• and Mary, his wife, aged 27 years. David Graham, aged 37 years. David M'Vittie, aged 30 years, blacksmith, Newtown. John Little, aged 30 years. fireman on the North British Railway. The three Grahams were brothers, eons of John and Mary Graham, late of Paddeastowe, near Long town, parish of Kirkandrews-on-Eak. Thomas had been out in Victoria 12 years, and David followed him four years afterwards, and had since been engaged in basilicas with him. Success followed their farming operations until they were enabled to purchase an estate. In their prosperity the brothers were not unmindful of their old home ; and during the prevalence of distress at Loogtown, in consequence of the cotton famine, they generously sent over a sum of 601. for the relief of the sufferers. They also sent • large amount of relief to Manchester. In August last they came over to England with the view of seeing their friends and of purchasing implements. Upwards of 1,0001. they laid out in this way, and sent out before them a portable steam.engioe, a bone mill, two wise presses, ploughs, and • variety of other implements for the farm. Thomas had soother purpose to effect also in visiting the old country, and that was to marry and take home with him a young woman named Sarah Bruce, 27 years of age, a native of Banff. They were married only about a week before they left Carlisle to take up their berths on board the ill•fated ship. Their brother William Graham, who for 20 years was in the employment of Mr. Noble, tailor, (W -u., agr e e d to go out with them, they paying his passage, and he took with him his wife and family, as stated above ; Little and M'Vittie, friends of the Grahams, were also going out with them. Both men were in the employ of the North , British Railway Company—Little as fireman, running bo p tweeu Longterm and Gretna, and lUVit:ie as • blacksmith, at the engine sheds, Newtown, near Carlisle. Little was a remarkably steady and amiable young man. He was the eldest of a family of eleven children, and is survived both by his father and mother, who reside in Nicholforest. For a time be was isegagai at Attwood's Zane Works, in the Bramp ton district. Afterwards he was engaged for about two years as a packer in Messrs. Carr and Co.'s biscuit works, to Carlisle, which service he left on obtaining a situation as a cleaner on the North British Railway. He re mained in the service of that company until his de parture for Australia, and for the last three years had , run as fireman over the Gretna and Loogtown Junction. His original intention was to go out to Queensland, and Mr. M'Vittie, on learning this, wrote to him asking him to acoompany him and the Grahams out to Australia—a proposal to which he at once gave his consent. The whole party left the Citadel station on the 27th December last, and large number of friends—who gave three hearty cheers when the train started—assembled to bid them farewell. When on board the London, and shortly before the steamer went out, Little—who described himself as very sick at the time, in consequence of the sail from Gravesend —wrote • letter to his brother in Carlisle, requesting him not to go out to America as he was thinking of doing in the spring, until he should hear from him, as he would wish him to go out to Australia to him should he be prosperous there. News of the loss of the ship was taken to Little's parents on Thursday. by the brother referred to and by Mr. Wm. Little, of South Vale. It was a sad blow indeed to the poor old people, the father regretting bitterly that he could not look upon his dead son's faoe. WEATHER REPORT.--(THIS DAY.) WITSINDAT. JANTJART U. 8 A.M. B. ,T.l the Court. OSBORNE, Jew. 23. Her Majesty walked out in the morning, accom panied by Princess Helena and Prince Christian, and drove the afternoon, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Prince sad Princess Hermann of Hobanlobe and Prince Leiningen dined, with her Majesty ; Countess Gleichen also dined with her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Ron. C. P. Villiers. GENERAL PRIM'S ARRIVAL IN PORTUGAL. The Patric gives the following details respecting General Prim'e arrival in Portugal : When the insurgent leader arrived — at the frontier he had only with him 360 men oat of the 800 whom he bad led away from Aranjues and Ocagna. The others bad either made their submission or fallen into the power of the royal troops. He had at fleet determined to enter Portugal in arms, but he learnt on the 19th from a sure Midi that th e cabinet of Lisboa bad declared that if the in surgents endeavoured to pees the frontier with their arms, it would authorise the Spanish troops to pursue thorn into the Portuguese territory. This inteilligesee modified his resolution sad induced him to deliver up to 17.0111ABLIL THVILIDA Y. 01 No.THftl PSIDAT. N.W. to LW., trash Ceuta Westerly, fresh to to 'trout Ai above. Worms. Boat y end westerly, fresh to strong. Variable. moderate to 8013M11111. BW. to LW., fresh to strong. strong. N.N. W. to W.S.W., gaarm. Aa next above. fresh to strong. Northern=B;stland. Wastern=lreland. Wales, and adja. osnclen flonthern=Engllsh Channel and Bey of Biscay. Bestern=lfartward fty,land and North Sea. The eons of Mr. William Johnson, brother of the President, have published a letter in the American papers confirming the reports that their father, who was accident ally injured by the discharge of his own gun, died for want of surgical treatment, the Confederate surgeons of the vial nity refusing to render any aesistanos, on the ground that Mr. Johnson was a brother of the President. The accident occurred at Velasoo, Terse, and the family were obliged to send t. Columbia, one hundred mills distant, for a Federal surgeon. When applied to for their professional ministra tions the medical faculty of Velum replied that there were lee many Johisions. M. bollfus, of Mulhausen, last year established at his owls cost a post of observation, in the interest of seism, on the Col de St. Theodnle, in the Valais, 3,400 acres above the level of the sea. Three guides of the country consented to take up their abode there in August last, and to remain the whole winter, recording their ob servations in conformity with instructions given them. Whether they will be able to codes* the difficulties of the position and the intense cold is not yet known. Moos November, so mach scow has fallen as to render impas• sib!. all communication with them ; bus every possible pastaution had been takes beforehand is eaticdpation el snob an event. THE PROPOSED ENDOWMENT OP THE 20,1 OATHOLIO CHURCH IN IRELAND. At a public meeting of the National Allsopi i t,. held at Dublin yesterday in the Rotund a , the letrar7" read from the Archbishop of Cashel (Dr. Leahy), we polished a stunniary last eves*. This Was ee l drowsed to Alderman J. B. Dillon, H.P., and ltel. u oi evoked loud applause. Sir Henry Winston Barron. M.P. for Waterford, This. "It has bees over and over again amened Wyk people of Ireland are quite indifferent is to to monster grievance of maintaining an Dish eb.;,l establishment for one.eighth of the people, whilst maining saw-eight= are compelled to maintain Me t , church. This grievance is sure to be remo ve d , association forward sufficient petitions ezpramia g tb s . , sentiments of the Irish peopie on the subject. I k w) , my own knowledge that nothing muses more disontak Ireland than this hedge of conquest." The High Sheriff of Westmeath wrote to sear 14=4 from the association, because it seams to his, by ftei resolutions adopted in the connattee, that the aseocii mi ha. adopted the policy of " indlepsedest opposition,.-.. - he has always considered unsound and impracticable. &y ar d speakers repediated ten= the i = endowment, bat tito spoliag did mot adopt ay on the subject. THE LOW LODGING HOUSES OP NEW Some facts presented in the animal report I Metropolitan Police Commissioners at New York, tamed in the file of journals delivered to-day, will comparison with any of Dr. Letheby's reports, or the: tire of the amateur . easeal." We lean from them , in • single precinct in the Fourth Ward : "There are sixty places, or dens, where the wretchd poor, the criminals, and the depraved resort to lodge, pay* from ten to fifteen cente, per night for the mistral,' accommodation. The places are chiefly in cellars, • naked stone or brick walls, damp and decayed f without beds and bedding fit for human beings. Thr. • mainly unventilated or lighted, except through the sink, door. In condition they are filthy and disgusting beyond description, overflowing with vermin and infested by rata. Into these hideous Oscar are packed nisi'" avenge of tee persons to each place, or six hundred in aggregate. In violation of the laws of decency mei morality, men, women, and children, white and black, with no regard to the family relation, sleep promisee ollly together, exhibiting lees of the impulses of decency •• - the brute creation. From the character of these ap, manta, their owners and occupants, and the manner their use, cleanliness is impossible, and hideous diseases various abuses and types are engendered and propagated. While thus occupied they cannot be made decent or hailtby, and those who frequent them are beyond the reach reform, except through the strong arm of the law." Again, in the Sixth Ward, are the following hideous oreptacles for human beings : No. 25, Barter-street, two rooms, each 10 by 6, . feet below the street ; no windows or other ventilation bare stone walls • no furniture; a dirty, disgusting • twelve to fourteein lodgers nightly, at ten cents per m e _ First floor of same premises a drinking place, the resort of thieves, beggars, sad prostitutes, of the lowest class. The captain imays : ' I have seen as lodgers eighteen of both sexes asleep in the place during the night.' No. 15, Baxter-street, a cellar, 14 by 114; firs beds; naked stone walls; no window, light or ventila tion ; fourteen persons are acoommodatea at eight caterer night. No. 16, Mulberry-street, ace room, 14 by ID, with sine beds, and two beds in adjoining kitchen; twenty persons, male and female, are lodged at six cuts per night. The building is the property of as °freer of one of our city banks, and rents for 6 dole. per month. No. 51, Baxter-street, second Boor, one room, 8 by 5, ob tains three beds, kitchen adjoining; several beds on the Boor • 18 persons lodge here, at six to eight cents per night; rest, 7 dots. per month ; owned by a well-known citizen a Twenty-third-street. No. 141, Leonard-street, sewed Boor ; two rooms, 055 8 by 10, and kitchen adjoining; eight to ten lodgers, at eight cents per night." Other places are spoken of in the Sixth Ward, where young and old. black and white, thi e v es an d prostitute, beggars and drunkards, and every kind of abandoned eta ranters, herd together, sleeping promiscuously on the de" and coming forth in the morning to prey on the community. The captain of the ward speaks of these places as " poi**• ing the atmosphere" of the whole neighbourhood, sad spreading abroad disease and pestilence. The New Orleans Picayune announces a most agreeable sign of progressing reconstruction, in gm fut that there is a rage among the young people to settle down in matrimony. The clergymen are kept going night and day, like doctors during an epidemic, to respond to the numerous demands for their services. The Picayune ob. serves :—" Gentle Hymen follows closely upon the heels of grim-visaged Hark and the soft breathings of epithilemie melody 'noosed to the fierce and dissonant clangour of the war trumpet." The Diario of Madrid gives au account of the suicide of Admiral Pareja which somewhat differs from the details previously mentioned. When be received the news of the capture of the Covadonga he was sitting don to table. He ate his dioner without betraying the slighted emotion, and then went into his private cabin. After s little time the noise of a deton►tion was heard, and ca the officers entering they found the admiral with hie skull blown open by a pistol shot. The next day hi funeral took place, the corpse being committed to the deep with the usual formalities. A young man named Abb4, the son of a farmer at La Roche (Haetes•Alpes), has just met with his die* while shooting foxes on the Cons mountain in that seigh• bourhood. An avalanche of snow gave way beneath his feet, and rolled with him down into the valley below, a depth of more than 1,200 yards. The body when found was fearfully mutilated. The trotting match for 1001. a side, over a dire tame of one mile in the Bois de Boulogne, between the Atnericen Donee Shepherd F. Knapp and Abdallah King, was woo by the former by twenty yards. The SAMS horses will run again on Monday next over two miles, and the following week over three miles, each time for the same stake ea in the first match. The celebrated Professor Welcker (he and the late Dr. Rafts& were the editors of the far-famed "Cm' variations Lexicon," published by Brockhaus, of Leipsir) has offered a reward at Vienna of I,oooil. f or the best may on the means, without h av i ng recourse to revoletionsrr measures, of getting rid of government s which systecusti• clay violate the eonstituti on al r i g ht s o f th e peop l e . The " water questio n " h as l e d t o suc h pro l o nged and angry discussion in th e mun i c i pa l counc il o f rifler that a new commission is about to examine three Pal swinge, in order to see whether they will supply tho quantity of water which is required by the inhabitants ci this city. The estimate for the aqueducts, waterworkso ke., Is no less than 18,000,0008., which sum mast scene out of the pockets of the Viennese, the stet* being enable to reader theca say swisisaise. Jl4 luau vpa sting wii Mr. : Th. This pinioo he d lipp• tit e A !at: d am% Sir &lint W. Doi Mr. Shil that II Soto a Mo. • our each The " Lar 1611 ai, Shea am mh t_eli E i ti Y ' ? An i .1 I ________.......... T THI ItPlu m iILAND. LI mat Aas aa j aht „. , ths ya w ' hie by of ft wai.._.; 44 o Ct ~ and itelmar k la 13 , J u st' Waterford, yak. asserted Mee . wino real ac to w f ar ther ti Irish ca lm . . this I ple, whilst ow % Soileit°, naintaia UM/ al , • Kr. a remoyed if ya l of Fri 'rimed the ad 1 e SolL,ed° bleat. I Im mo . bash e d more discontemi .risoner i it to sera %c a p anMd imi t pee to biol, bY nem on test of hat the vase e iseh a that his d oppoeiteca," w h ik . r . 2nd practicable. her he en= the := . cid joke loPt NW if the jar!. r- °Pas" ATE PROM , • g h it to ea had not Y. c l i hapaefece . as la, d "ex °CICSIC then, as al,relative Mik a .. practii Julius Erick s o f he was and bel ischapel, r id thi .relay by il trede bum. -rent and r quiet aad ma , , Italia t some Mag na time of E , and when Erick, •en the nee Sholdt, calla, , a CYO me to the cliildisa •• as Ray] , sat and w ee d a ice was y dew at him al and down, end the arc , in ed came lams a the disc d healed, sad he . was n general yf 12 months. lfa .. wt hand earned at a sad . • week rest hal , .in t ✓ted. • the jo: which you had le g Likely i Exchequer west . a Ter ig tar, a mat dim ;.... eh r else he might a .em bed . gime, mmercial.mal, the • . to inhered his comieg • that igo, but the woma ". t to be ;sly affected for ON • • se 1, could set b& it . in fi any kind. Be gal the ea nL Two dean , n in I my good desk Oa 46 Op, a i i the dog well, anl didisct be house. • ellitan , the deemed 111 • be di Es died from balm . Just feloay h to present *bowel bees ob be injury of thit ' Sol boon to the pew *net hydroplioN4 ... so nuisance. la me lmtnearl ylODdeig ' .Y ax paid. re die t :!' 16 "" ed died frees The Lori al by gut bite da itemizes the coroner eke* t o t o r: ary and the it Mai. at a great nosebe no do he public generally, ty of ra that some asps at r miming from Ihe • min. at 134 .. fore HEW YORE. sr.. Juts ," next c Bodmis 111 report a the The Sot New York, sea. . mat to-day, will hew • ezerci porta, or the term Kr. a from them that fi g. „ Jam a w l . , sere the wretched 'maw Nanday w a h, irt to lodge, payiag b a d sat a for the miserable The Lo yin cellars. with biking • • d decayed doom The So beings. They me i se k them rough the In:trues fo ra ah oy and disgneliag The Lo rmin and infested The Sr packed nightly ea was it m ' la hundred in the - ligr. Jri miry and morality, Th e /.,,, and black, will' 'h aw j a g. rep promiecnoady T a — ii ," arwax , 94 of decency thea viase it a• of these apart , - u vulae . id the manner of sw a t iideons diseases of The So d and propagated. gapplied decent or healthy, g aw a chi and the read of *aria i f the law." 011nei 1 7- lowing hideous re. The L, k the o ch 10 by 6, full 10 s Latin ether ventilation ; peppy is , disgusting care; 1164 not so cents per night. The S FURTHER PARTICULARS OF WRECK OF THE LONDON. LOSS OF TEN LIVES FROM CITMBERLAND. (From the Cumberland Paequet.) _ _ N.W. N.N.W. a.i:it. N.W. NW. W.N.W. N.N.W. N.N.W. CD ob bus C bo be D. L I Nairn Aberdeen 4A4h Ardroesaa Greencastle . Valenti* Cape Clear Liverpool Holyhead Penzance Brest ifebient Rochefort Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth Loudon Yarmouth Scarborough Shields Helder ANOTHER FRIGHTFUL DEATH PROI HYDROPHOBIA. INQUEST. —(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex wea r. Mk, an inquiry at this Loodoa Hospital. nista,* ' death from hydrophobia of Charlie Julius Eriek 30 years. Eery Sholdt, 2, Idontague.plaoe, Whitechapel, said the deceased was a German, and was by trade a to Witness had a dog, which WAS vary quiet sad u until nice weeks ago, when it bit som e eka t iP t Witness tied the animal up in the Magn us and when Ya--. who was a friend of bee hasband, Sholdt, she told him about what the dog had one to the dike, Knob asked to see it, and he went out and me patting it on the head. The dog suddenly flew at him, bit him on the lip. The blood flowed down, and the , licked it up. When witness's husband came he fts hanged the dog at once. Brick's wound healed, returned to his work. By the Coroner—They had kept the dog 12 months. dog tax was paid for it. Witness's husband earned o average 15e. • week, and out of that 4s. • week teat to be paid sod two children to be supported. Coroner—And yet you kept a dog, which you support too. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer N. only insist upon the collection of the dog tax, a peat of anions mischief would be obviated, or else he might able to reduce the income tax. Mae. Anna Ekren, 37, York-street, Commercial-rood, deceased's landlady, maid that she remembered his ea home severely bitten about two months ago, but the - healed. Oa Thursday he became strangely affected first time. He complained of giddiness, could not I water, and could not swallow liquids of a Mod. worse rapidly, and seemed to become ma d. Two saw him and treated him, but without any good effect Sunday be was carried to the hospital. Mrs. Sholdt said that deceased knew the dog well, used to play with it when he called at the house, Mr. Dove, house surgeon, said that the deemed brought in to the hospital in externals. He died from phobia soon after. The Coroner said that such cases as the present the class of people who kept clop to the injury of own underfed families. It would be a boon to the people's children, as well as a security against hydro** if measures could betaken to abate the nuisance. Is ow street, • sergeant of polies had reported that nearly 1000 were kept, for not one of which was the tax paid. The jury returned • verdict, " That deceased died I the mortal effects of hydrophobia, canoed by the bits mad dog ; and the jury recommend that the coroner draw the attention of the Home Secretary and the calor of the Exchequer to the fact that • great of dogs are kept which are • nuisance to the public genemily, and which endanger life ; and to suggest that some star should be taken to reduce the danger arcing from evil." kL, 40.42 sac+ 31161 30.61 46 30.00 46 30.63 41 ion 41 30.66 41 30.60 SD 110.06 40 80.66 30 110.116 1 101 76.6166 16.6677 30.61 1 33 170.660146 w.ii.ir. Ej4:L I 1 ski 1 ' 4 1 II N. W. W.N.W.N. N.R. W.S.W. N. M. W.N.W. N.N.W. N.N.W. N.W. N.W. li.N W. N:Yr• N. - ii. K. N. W. N. W.