The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-14 00:00:00

1 1 fltt rt 4 4 • -- Th z- 71lam It' P i.~ t • • 1" 1 i 7, .S 7 2 %.! t a ~~ /G, ~`- / AN' ,~ . . GCB 11 OE, t fur ricer 'and and ;kitty 64+, , kno, to with Id And raks. Prin t , 1 the Llet carol I.y iness note , tint , while ie r y were • Lry, No. 6,375.) ESSR.S. MONEY WIGRAM and SONS' (of 11',mina) LINK of STEAM and PACK la A I SIRALIA.—For IRELHOURNK tPort Phillip Direct - kte the lawks on MONDAY, January 21, calling at Ply ' ••. the spleudid dipper ship NORFOLK, 1,000 tuns, t,\ ChuUlatitler. lying in the East India Ducks. ~00nlodations for all chuises of paseengera sre augur t. aed the will carry an erperienced tiuweosYor freight apply to ALLYORT and MORGAN, with Megan. 1 Wit:KAM and SONS. 7, Lewlouttallwtreet. -:1:.\\I LIVERPOOL OK QUEENSTOWN TO NEW YoRK TWICE A WIJUL. TILE Liftitikiii:,.. -- REWORII, and 1111LADKLYLI LA STEAlusuir COMPANY Intend de. pvichlng their MI powered Clyde-built Iron Screw Steam.tiltipa, 1..,;r).ng the rafted States mails, FRI .11 LI V F.RPOO L for NEW YORK: I ITV 101 , RoST. oN, Wednesday. Jan. 16. . : 11' OF 11.1 1 .. 11ES I FR, Saturday, Jan 19. t I 1 l' lII' 11 1,111 NG lON, 11 ednesday, Jan. 23. And every Wednesday and aaturday. Cs' In passage by the mail steamers sailing every Wednesday, 1, 17, and 31 guineas, according to the accommodation. /..... ant psassgr Includes a full apply of cooked provit:one. T .... ~,, ea for Canada and the United States booked through on , n ...rant:meow term.. For further particulars splay to 11. I 1.1.1 \1 IS MAN. 22, N a ter -wet t, Liverpool; and to £11 . 1.5 gs.l %, MIN , 61. King William-street. London. _ _ F Q TEAII to SEW YORK.—UNITED STATES MAIL LI N —RED Utill) FARM—The splendid and o , oite sble.whcel steamers of the New York and Havre tltutru .4. Company are appointed to leave for New York u f o llows: - From Marrs. From Falmouth. ‘Vedoestl4y, JAIL Iti nunkisydro. 17 Mediu:4day, Feb. 13 Thursday, Feb. 14 wednesday, liar 13 Thursday, Mar. 14 AragiT alum Arago 1 _ _ Fares .—Mrst.claas. £2l and £l9; se, and clan. .Cl 4 and CS.— ) r luril, particulars apply to JAM A. WOTTON, Havre: 1. ,!! 111.;KITE, K ANC. and Co , Parla ; O.C. and FL W. FOX and i t. . F a:lo.lth . or 11. STARK and Co., 145, Cherpside, London loVElt LAND ROUTE. -COMMUNICATION by s I KAN' to INDIA, AUSTRALIA, Re., via EGYPT, I T 1 -••uthantpton and Slarseilles.—The PENINSULAR and to,ON I V sTKA M NAVIGATION COMPANY BOOK roviie Cargo and Parcae for Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, noit t lay by their steamers leaving Southampton on t r,h. 12111, 20th : and 27th of every month.—For Ceylon. • . (It Uttil, the straits. china, and Japan (Yohonanta, by I • f sth and 20th of each month ; and for King G eo rg e ., ‘ 1 . 41 . 0111 . 0 . and Sydney, by the steamer leaving South :, • the 20th of every month.—The steamers leave Mar on the fah. 12th, 20th, and 25th of the month—For t ...• r 'articular' apply at the Company's Offices, 122, Leaden ! ...treet, Lndon, LC. ; or Orkntabplace, Southampton. Long. of to ither 444. 'Lkag, 13.\ IMERSTON BUILDINGS. The CITY M:+rrt 41 PAN Limited are now prepareal to LET • .t ILIt .at , l spa. i..u. SI ITES if //STICKS in PALM Elt• theirret•euttly erected blitek of /takes exten.l. .r• t. 1.1 Pies.[ street to Inahopagate.street. There Is also . rider the Thole arua arched In and paw . in I I.3rticulars apply at the omen of the Cutup:my, ~11.11. 1+.7. was ly dC kata ly it of xtrr, 4. to It as NITED STATES 5-20 COUPONS BOUGHT. t. American Government and Railway Securities of all riptaiiis purchased 811.1 for sale, by GLENN and Co., 32, for liniad•street. L 40.0.0,000 Debt of the United States paid ono. nt January, 1866. GLENN and Co.'s Ametitnn Man od t rrcular, isimed every Friday, forwarded on application. Salvo t uot TLo .and . lialt, Fro IMPORTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping 1. companies, and Consigneea of Foreign Goods, by steamers othrrvaxe int+, the Port of London.—The proprietors of lire Trade Wharf, Ratcliff, and Upper Free Trade Wharf, Dow tate lark. Upper Thames-street, toYFER, FACILITIIift to the above —turther information may he obtained on application. by Irma or in person, to IL CLAY and Co., ahartingers and ware tome kerpers.-0111ces, 83, Upper Thames-street. H Furnished or Unfurnished, LAND, HI and iti . NINEKNE.S WANTED, by BAYNE and Co., gene estzde ngt.l43, TVA. Lrool street, Growenornquare, W.— blvont a made aecenkon to SetUrity . rKINAHAN'B LL WHISKY. DUBLIN RI HIBMON, 1866. MD celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN PRIZE MEDAL—It la pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very wholesome, Bold In bottles, la. Bd. each, at the retail bosses to L,,,ion ; by the agents In the principal towns In linglancl ; or eb.lriale at 8, Great Windmill.street, London, W. Observe :be red mai, pink label, and cork branded " Klnahan's LL Whisky.' THE GUINEA CIGAR. Abo it 100 really good HAVANNAH CIGARS sent 4:ar mee free to all parts of the United Kingdom on receipt of Poste ,nne order ..I . stamp? for YIL ; or sample box of 60 foe W. U.. RIMIER, Importer of Ttchborne-stmet, OSBORNE'S STILTON is THE Cheese. al' pboi Le on Mar: {EC illetr • Com if ter opt. risendyer Alen, 111 EA is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 25., A. M. al. per pound are the prices at whkh PHILLIPS and t'o, tea merchants. a. King Willioniatreet, City, London, KC., are 'wiling pod and flee BLACK TEA. A price current post free. Nn worth carriage free to any railway station or market town in the United Kingdom. Oloscree.—PHILLIPS and Co. hare no agcnts, nor any connection with any home In Worcester or Swan- sea Sugars are supplied at market prima AVALUABLE NEW YEAR'S GIFT. - A CHINESE CADDY, containing 161ta. of really good BLACK TFA, rent carriage free to any railway station or market town In I.l,liind, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, on receipt of 405., by PH IL- Lir6 and Co., tea merchants, 8, Wog William-street, City, E.C. OVERCOATS for the present Season.—The NEW WINTER OVERCOATS of beat material; are kept band and made to order, at lIA MILToN and EIMPTONIt, Tailors and Overcoat blinkers, 105, ttTRA NO, oppoefte Exeter-RAIL .f.jOW COLD IT HAS BEEN.-NEGRETTI and ZA311311.1'.i celebrated Tll Eltlloll/111169 WW cor re,lty regy.,t er th, e.t temperature, Price 3a. 6d. 1. Hatton :m.l,n . 59, Cornblll . 122. Regent-street and 153, Fleet street. 6 ,, e to use the Ilatoc Lantern, and obtain the beat effects. Utrtrated le DELICATE and CLEAR COMPLEXIONS, with a delightful and listing Fragrance, by using the celebrate,' UNITED SERVICE SOAP TABLETS, 4d. and 6d. rack —Slanufmrtured by J. C. and J. FISLD, Upper MacaL, Luboth. Order of your chemist, grocer, or chandler. the ),907. 1 ment r iu• The 1110118 1111 is ha. .11 1%11, DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. The nie.lical profersion for thirty years have approved of tiur lore aolution of magnesia as the best remedy for acidity of the stomach, heartburn, hemische, goat, and Indigestion: and w the lest mild aperient frr delicate constitutions, espedally adapte.l for ladies, children, and infanta—DlN and Co. themists, 172, New Bundwtreet, Loudon, and of all other timeline throughout the world. I A 111 BERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, -SA an effectual remedy, without confining the bowels or affoiing the bead, tthly etlicacintis and pleasant, is admitted to to the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colda, eenarnied eases of asthma, and incipient consumption. It fre quently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent cougbin Iu sidaroachlug consumption its effects are truly beneficiaL rove,. de i rived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca- Ilun. may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it.— Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, chemist, 8, Kinn Wll- baucstreet. rhannn,ross, London, and by all druggists. in Last , and three quantities In one, 2u. lid. Be particular as,l ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address arc engraved ou the stamp. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: COUGHS. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: ASTII MA. Wee: ester. arch. law We' arch. rhert vis. Park. "Ye- plop. DOM sill ,' ~• ~.- K EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: INCIPIENT CONSVMPTION. K EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: BRONCHIAL AFFICTIONS. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES : which are daily reemsumended by the faculty. Testi r..bnials from the most eminent of whom may be seen. '4l in buses, IL lid.. and tins, 3. 9d. and es. Gd. each, by KEITINO, Chemist, 79. St. riurs-churchrd, London. Sold retail by all Druggists, &c. A YOUNG WOMILN SHOT BY HEIL BROTH/M A Mocking incident has just occurred at South Emlutni, t liungay, Suffolk. Miss Howlett, • young woman Langwith h er mother at South Elmham, was engaged in handin g out linen iu the garden, when she saw her brother, Frederick Howlett, standing with a double-barrelled gun in hi. hand, pointed towards her, at • distance of about She called to him and asked him what he was to do. He made no reply, but immediately fired, at.; ihe contents of his gun struck her in the face, arms, aid chest. She screamed and fell down, and was almost Uthe came moment struck in the face and ears with the twat., of the second barrel. A boy employed on the 1 4 Itist3 as a servant, hearing the screams of the unfortu lee young woman, ran to her assistance, and she was ~,u ediattly carried into the house, and a messenger was to Hungary for Mr. Coneys, who was in attend .,uickly as possible, and found the poor girl fear ;'“F wounded, but perfectly sensible and able to speak. probable that she would have been killed on the spot, Let the upper part of her person Leen protected by a 4 k woollen abawL Her assailant, after committing k, dreadful act, went into an adjoining wood and after ', ":, walked home to Necks, where he was immediately into custody. He appeared wholly unconscious of Itd he hail done and talked incoherently ; he is under ta have repeatedly shown symptoms of insanity, and amt nine years since he was an inmate of a lunatio '7 1 " , ; He is a widower with four small children. topes are entertained that Miss Howlett will 9•NPITLL FOR DISEASES OF TEE CHEST, VICTORIA -1,..44--The number of patients relieved et this institution lest weak was 1411, of which 261 were new aims. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (11111T11 . 11 TZLEOIB.) DEPARTURE OF GARIBALDI FROM CAPRERA. MADRID, JAN. 13. - - The Esperanza of to-day asserts that Garibaldi has left the Wand of Caprera, and adds that he has probably gone to Candia. MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN TURKEY. VIENNA, JAN. 13. The Vienna journals publish a telegram from Constantinople, stating that a ministerial crisis has existed in that city since yesterday. The Porte had determined to recall its minister at Athens. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, JAN. 13. It is rumoured that a marriage will shortly take place between the Count of Flanders and a princess of the house of Hohenzollern. SWITZERLAND. BE'RNE, JAN. 13. The Federal Council will shortly deliberate upon a decree proposed by the Political Department for prohibiting Swiss subjects from entering the Papal army. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, J,. 12. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the second reading of the bill amending Art. 69 of the Constitution, with the view of increasing the number of the Deputies in consequence of the re cent annexations, was agreed to, only three mem bers voting against it. BERLIN, JAN.I3. An amendment has been introduced in the Upper House to the bill proposing a change in article 69 of the constitution. The amendment proposes that a royal decree be issued increasing the number of members in the Upper House from among the families belonging to the nobility of the newly incorporated States, and adding 80 mem bers to the Chamber of Deputies. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. N "ENNA, JAN. 13. An Imperial decree has been issued to-day, ordering that all orders given by the Minister of Finance relating to the issue of government bank notes shall in future require the counter-signature of the commission appointed for the control of the public debt to become valid. HUNGARY. PESTR, JA2I. 12. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Diet three members who had accepted posts under the government announced their resignation of their seats in the Diet. The Chamber passed a resolution declaring that it expected all members to adopt a similar course under such circumstances. The draught of the address already telegraphed, relative to the Imperial patent on the reorganiza tion of the army, was laid before the house by M. Deak, and met with general approval. M. Madoranz proposed that the house should declare that the Imperial patent is null and void, and that all Hungarians aiding in its execution will be punished for high treason. Several Obergespans and other high officials have announced that, should the government deter mine upon carrying the Imperial patent into effect, they will at once tender their resignation. The debate on M. Deak's address will commence op Tuesday next. In political circles here it is thought that the *went position of affairs will either lead to the immediate formation of a Hungarian Ministry, or a dissolution of the Diet and the nomination of Forgach to the post of Aulic Chancellor of Hungary. ITALY. FLORENCE, JAN. 12. To-day in the Chamber of Deputies the debate upon- the bill on parliamentary disqualifications was resumed, and the first article of the bill was adopted. This article provides that deputies in terested in companies or enterprises formed or authorised by the government are disqualified from taking part in all debates in the chamber relating thereto. Signor Scialoja, the Minister of Finance, in formed the house that, in consequence of a domestic calamity, he would postpone making his financial statement till Wednesday instead of Monday, on which latter day he would simply distribute the appendix to the budget. THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, JAN. 13. Cardinal Cagiano lii Azevedo is dead. SPAIN AND SOUTH AMERICA. MADRID, JAN. 12. The conclusion of peace between Spein and the South American Republics islooked upon as certain to result from the mediation of the United States. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, J. 13. The Czar has issued a decree extending an am nesty to persons convicted of offences against the press laws. Baron Mcyendorff has been appointed Russian charge d'Affaires at Weimar. A public ball has been given here in aid of the funds for the relief of the distressed families of the Cretan insurgent& The Imperial family and diplo matic body were present. JAPAN. (BY YKLZGRAPH FROM GALL!.) SHANGHAI, Day. 7. Intelligence received here from Japan announces that the civil war is at an end. A great fire had occurred at Yokohama. The loss was estimated at five million dollars. AMERICA. (lIT ATLANTIC TELNOILIII.) NSW YORK, JAR. 12, EvErma. There are indications that the present attempt to impeach President Johnson will be abandoned. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship B:Laconia arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTEUIGENCE. Gold, 1341 sterling. Exchange on London, 109} ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 107 i ; Illinois, 129} ; Erie, 65}. Cotton, middling upland, 34in M. Erdan, the well-known correspondent of the Paris Temps, writing to that paper from Rome, on the 6th inst., says that the Romans generally, whether intent on conciliation or otherwise, app sir to him very excited, and that a repressed agitation pervades the city. He states that England is striving bard to bring about • rosoncilia tion between the Papal and Italian governments, and that Mr. Odo Russell is just now the busiest diplomatist in all Roma LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1867. THE LULL AT ROME. The clandestine paper Roma dei Romani, which appears at irregular intervals in Rome, has recently published an article entitled "The Calm of Rome," of which the following is a translation : This calm alter the departure of the French is quite a problem, with which the PontiAcal government is the first to be astonished. France attributes it to her mon' protection; the Pentifical government to its Zouaves and to Its state of siege system, which has become more severe than ever upon the little territory it has left. As to the government, let it suppose or let it say that the calm is due to force and not to affection. Of the two errors the former is less false and lees insulting than the latter. As to France, she is leas in error in attributing it to herself. It is not absurd to say that her shadow covers Rome after the execution of the conven tion. But DO one ought to be deceived as to the " why " and the " how long!" France felt that the honour of her flag was henceforth insulted in Rome, since it did not in duce the government to tio any good. It wished to see, therefore, what the government would do when left to itself, and placed face to face with the just discontent of the population. Has that really been the idea of France ? Well, let her see, and the whole world with her. The Roman government is now without excuse ; the pressure of a foreign power no longer wounds its self teem. Napoleon 111. has cussed to ..‘gyiztlie Pato • or i-ditektilgreao with his importunate counsels. The Pope can act for himself, and claim the merit of his acts. Well, what can ho ay! That he has not hie pro vinces, that he is poor! But what is that to the Romans, and why should they be blamed ? Let him content the subjects he bas left, and the others will be all the more allured by the desire of returning under the paternal regime. For our part, we know what the government will do, and we are beginning to feel it. We are under no delusion, but certain catholic+ in foreign countries wish t ) see it. And in order that opinion may not be falsified by the lies of the court press, we undertake to give a faithful account of the situation, and to note the acts of the government, • course which will he useful on the day when its course is decided—no matter by whom. Let us repeat, there should be no mistake. Who can pretend that such a situation will last for ever! Who can suppose so! The government itself and its party only accept it in the hope of • foreign intervention, or of sone European complication. The Roman question is not with us an abstract principle. The terrible and deplorable reality of our situation is superior to all principle. It is not even • question of annexation to • great kingdom ; for the national aspiration is not our ink want. We have need, extreme need, let the world know it, of liberty. We will no longer be • mortmain of the priest, the sport of ithirri and foreigners. We will not, and please God we shall not, be this. And let our words be well weighed. If France effaced from her device the sacred principles which con stitute her glory ;if she repudiated the right of nationali ties proclaimed by her ; if Italy ceased to be • nation, and was divided not into seven, but into a hundred states, that of the priest could no longer count upon us. If European civilisation wishes for a government of priests let it seek another place. Notwithstanding all coalitions and all restorations the Romans will eternally conspire against the despotism of • caste which has made • dogma of their slavery. The obstinate non posninius we will meet with a non rotemus even more obstinate still. And we shall see in the end which of the two will prevail. The Frazee states that the announcement of the appointment of Count de Palikao as Grand Referendary of the Senate is incorrect, and that the count will retain hie military command. HEAD CENTRE STEPHENS. —The New York Tribune of January 1 says :—"At • late hour last evening information was received at the Tribune office that James Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre, had been boarding at No. 105, Apt Thirteenth-street, ever since his mysterious appearance some weeks ago, until within four days, under the name of William Scott. Two or three of Steithens% principal adherents were conversing with the Head Centre on Sunday, the 22nd of December, and, becoming alarmed about the report in the Tribune, which stated that Stephens was still in New York, he suddenly decamped for parts unknown. This I. most startling information for the eupporters and friends of Mr. Stephens, and hie pre sence in New York will no doubt account for the fact that no insurrection has broken out in Ireland under the auspices of the Head Centre. It has also been ascertained that Stephens had been paying the modest sum of 45 dole. a week for his board and lodging. This news will no doubt create a terrible revulsion against Stephens. During the time of Stephens'. concealment in Thirteenth-street, he bad pickets thrown out continually, watching to pre vent intruders ' • but even this precaution did not save the Head Centre from detection. It will evidently be im possible for Mr. Stephens to keep his engagement with the British government in Ireland this year. SUNDAY EVENINGS FOR THE PEOPLE. —TiIe Sunday Evenings for the People, which were commenced last winter under the auspices of the National Sunday League, and after a few weeks suddenly brought to a close under circumstances in the recollection of our readers, were resumed Let evening at St. Martin's-hall by the League, but under such arrangements as will, it is thought, do away with any interference of the law. The large hall was filled with a most respect able auditory within • few minutes of thel:w% being opened. The proceedings commenced at seven o'clock with the delivery of an address by Mr. Baxter Langley, President of the Sunday League, in which he stated the object of the promoters of the evenings to be to establish a point of union for a class of earnest and con scientious persons, daily increasing in number, whose reli gious idiom find no suitable exponent in any of the existing churches, and that they claimed to exercise the same freedom for communion as other religionists enjoy. They were • religious and not • theological body, and had no desire to offend any other class of persons, whatever religious dogmas they may profe ss . Mr. John Cranford, F.R.S., President of the Ethnological Society, then , pro ceeded to deliver the opening discourse of the series, On the Plurality of the Rapes of Man," which was listened to with much intereth and attention. The object of the lec ture was to prove that the various mere of man could not by possibility have sprung from one family, and that they had originated from distinct species, as had all the lower rders of animals existing on the face of the earth. At the conclusion of the lecture a selection of sacred music from the Xenia was rendered by • bugs choir, under the direction of Mr. Jennings, the soloists being Madame Talbot Chesen, and Messrs. Montem Smith and Aynsley Cook. The organ, of great power, has been kindly lest for the series of evenings by Messrs. Bryceson. - - A SERVANT BURNT TO DZATIL—A very melan choly accident occurred on Saturday last at Sherborne, in the house of the Rev. F. Beckley, the pastor of the Congregational Church, the domestic servant, a young woman, 19 years of age named Louisa Godfrey, being burnt to death. The deceased, it appeared, rose as usual to light the fire, and Mr. Beckley found her lying before it some time afterwards so seriously burnt that she died on the same day. On Monday an inquest was held on view of the body before the coroner, Mr. J. Y. Melmoth, when the Rev. Frederick Beckley said—The deceased went to bed in good health about half-past 10 on Friday night. I heard her come down at 6 next morning. About 20 minutes past 7 I went into the kitchen, called, but received no answer. The kitchen was in its usual state, and the fire was burning in the range. I opened the back kitchen door and found the room so full of smoke that I could sea nothing. I groped, and found deceased at my feet. I drew her into the front kitchen and found her dress smouldering. I rubbed the fire out. From her knees to her breast she was perfectly bare. I think she groaned a little, but did not speak., Dr. Williams was sent for, and her burns dressed. She was then taken upstairs. and every attention paid to her, but she died about 2 o'clock. I asked her if I should pray with 1-er, and she said " Yes." She was ached if she knew how the fire originated, and she said " No." I found a candle burnt down to the socket by the side of her in the back kitchen. She had taken the cinders from the fire and put them in the cinder-box. She had never been subject to fits. A towel covered with blood had been taken from the back kitchen door, and evidently wrapped round her. She had a very nice head of hair, but it was quite burnt off tehind. Her hands were very blo• dy, and there were marks of a band grasping the wall as if to find the door. There were fragments of a burning dress near the water. tip. Dr. Williams said—l found the deceased lying on the floor, the front of her clothes all burnt away, and the body burnt in numbers of places from head to foot— deeply burnt in parts. The chest was very severely burnt, and the hips. On the back there were two great patches right through to the flesh, charred ; her hands were much burnt, the muscles hanging like the fingers of gloves. I dressed some of the places, and we took her upstairs to bed. She died from the shock to the nervous system. Her sufferings must have been intense. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."—Scgiaburg Journal. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-IWN-ROAD.—The number of patient' relieved et this hcapital during the week ending Jen. 12 wee 3,680, of which 1,198 were new IMAM EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (711011 OUR OWN CORRWONDINT.) PARIS. SUNDAY EVENING. The " extraordinary pomp"—such is the ex pression of the Moniteue—with which M. Bour6e, the French ambassador appointed to succeed the Marquis de Mouldier at Constantinople, was re ceived by the Sultan was such as to have provoked demands for explanations from several represen tatives of foreign courts there. It is to be inferred front the Moniteur that the English ambassador was not among the remonstranta, because the offi cial journal takes care to announce that it was in concert with him that M. Bourde, of course with all proper diplomatic courtesy, suggested the manner in which he desired to be received. M. Bound° went up to the presence of the Father of the Faithful through two lines of spectators, crowding to see him and his suite—a thing totally unprecedented at Constantinople. Aali Pacha, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, when called upon by members of the Corps Diplomatique who re membered that they were not received with any thing like so much respect, was considerably em barrassed to explain the meaning of the innoya c tion. Re was ultimately compelled to 'Say that all envoys with the title of "ambassador" would hence forth be received in the same way. But this assur ance did not suffice to allay the suspicion that some thing particular was implied on the present occasion. Yon will see from M. Bourse's speech, as reported by the Moniteur, that while as a matter of course courteous to the Sultan, he did not shrink from proffering advice. While noticing in complimen tary terms what the Sultan had endeavoured to do for the benefit of his people, he used the future tense " s'efforcera " as indicating that the French government looked for his doing more. It is ob served by the Temps that M. Dour& might with out impropriety have gone much further, and re minded Turkey of the grievances of the non-mus sulman populations Jf her empire, and the noto rious breach of her many promises to remedy their situation. A banquet was given at the Maison Donfe yes terday to M. Clement Duvernois, redecteur of the Liberty, on the occasion of his cowing out of prison after undergoing a sentence for a political libel. It was not of course &monster banquet such as the proposed one of Odillon Barrot, which waa the im mediate cause of the revolution of 1848. The laws of the empire provide effectually against any poli tical demonstration of such a calibre. It was a dinner given by brother journalists in token of sympathy and respect, and as such it is noticed in the papers. Imprisonment for press offences is considered honourable among the fraternity. The logic of the imperial laws would require a return to torture and capital punishment to be efficacious. THE HEALTH OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. —We read in the A renir Rational of Saturday :—" Cer tain foreign journals have announced the approaching de parture of the King of the Belgians for the south of Europe, adding that the weak state of his health com pelled him to seek • milder climate until spring at all events. This is not the case. For some few years the health of Leopold IL has been much more robust, and he is no longer obliged, as in the lifetime of his father, to pass the winter in Egypt or Turkey. Not only does he bear the climate of the country, but he braves its incle mency with the utmost unconcern. This week he was seen for several hours on horseback upon the Brussels boulevards amid snow, rain, and wind." ARREST OF A BALLET DANCER fl( ROPE.—Made moiselle Salvioni, the ballet dancer, at present fulfilling an engagement at the Argentina Theatre in Rome, has been arrested by order of the Pontifical authorities, under the following circumstances. She dances in a ballet entitled The Countess of Egmont, and at a certain part of the per formance has to embrace one of the characters, who is sup sed to be her lover_ The lieutenant of the vicariat, being apprehensive (mys the Italie) that the public would be shocked by this amatory exhibition, ordered Mademoi selle Salvioni to discontinue it. She refused, alleging that the person she embraced was a woman like herself, though dressed in male attire, and that 'be audience were aware of the fact. To punish her disobedience, the lieu tenant sent four gendarmes to arrest Mademoiselle Sal vioni, and the arrest would appear to have been made on the stage, and during the performance, for it is stated that several persons quitted the theatre, fearing a dis turbance. As a great favour, the rebellious dateaerse was allowed to remain under arrest in her own house instead of being sent to prison, but next day when she went as usual to the theatre, she was escorted by four gendarmes. Her re-appearance' on the stage was greeted with thunders of applause. COMPLAINT AGAINST GREECE BY THE TURKISH GoVIRNME.VT.—We read in the Levant Herald of Jan, 2: —" As was in a measure to be expected, the Porte has complained to the protecting powers of the ' aid and com fort' which it alleges the Greek government has given to the Cretan rebels. On Wednes da y last A'ali Paella ad dressed a note to London, Paris, and St. Petersburg, charging the Athens ministry not merely with conniving at the assistance given to these insurgents, but also with directly favouring the revolutionary movement along the frontier of Thermal,' and Epirus. In this com munication copies of which have been received by Lord Lyons, M. Bourrte, and General Igna tieff the Porte invitee the interference of the three powers to put a stop to conduct which, if persisted in, must, it affirms, lead to a broach be tween the two governments. Particular instances are mentioned in which the troubles in Itouinelia have thus been fomented, and the note affirms that the whole bear ing and action of the Greek cabinet clearly point to a desire to provoke • rupture. It states, however, that the minis ters of King George may at once abandon all hope of pro fiting by these intrigues, as both the Sultan and every class of his subjects, Christian as well as Musaulinans, are re solved in no event to cede an inch of Ottoman terri tory. It further remarks that, whilst the Porte has no wish for a collision with Greece if the latter forces war upon it, the Turkish government is prepared to accept the chal lenge. In conclusion, the Minister for Foreign Affairs ex presses his hope that the protecting powers will collectively insist on the Greek government returning to • course of action more consonant with its international duty and with the spirit of existing treaties. It is not difficult to forecast the answer that M. Bulgaria and his colleagues are likely to give to such a complaint." THIS INFLUENCE OF THE ATLANTIC YACHT RACE. —The great change in British public opinion of this country and its people which this and other conflicts of our great war have brought about we see in the honours showered upon these yachtmen. We have conquered even the doubts and delusions of England, and John Bull welcomes Brother Jonathan as a chip of the old block. The good queen, always our friend, has at last won her cabinet to our side ; and so those Alabama claims, Mr. Seward tells us, need not occasion the least alarm. And this is well for England, for just here comes in the most important hint suggested by this yacht race, to wit—What will become of the commerce of England in the event of a rupture with this country, unless we have in advance a settlement of this Alabama question on the American doctrine of maritime belligerent rights! We believe that, as we can build and man sailing vessels so as to make the time of steamships, a war of twelve months with the United States would be more &Barbi:am to England from such craft than the work of the Alabama • hundred times over. Such are among the practical teachings of this yacht race. But as England has turned from the o ff ences of our late war to the courtesies and hospitalities of resoe and friendship, let us hope that the influence of this yacht race will largely operate in behalf of the general interests of peace, and in widening the moral power of the greet republic, its people, and its in- Mitutions. —New York Hernia, Deo. 31, 1866. A number of tho mills in Preston stopped work ing on Saturday. the masters and the weavers not having come to an arrangement regarding the proposed reduction of five per cent in the wages. Several of the mills are, however, with the consent of the men, continuing to work four days • week at the former rates • and one or two of the manufacturers have postponed, for a short time, giving effect to their notice of reduction. __-, . -..— -. ..,.............. CRYSTAL PALACR. HALF-4CILOW7I DAT. SATURDAY, JAN. 12. —Adlniiiiooll OR payment, 6N; ditto by ono= ticks* 1,963 ; total 'Johan. VW. [STAMPED, id. ADDITIONAL.] THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1867. (nog oua frin:CILL cosanroxoerr.) The French government have the very best rea sons for making the agricultural section of the Exhibition of 1867 as rich and comprehensive as possible. The backward condition of French agri culture when compared with that of England is a weakness in this country which threatens to be an exceedingly grave and dangerous one. The great inquiry into the condition of agricultural France, which is actually in progress, has been forced upon the Imperial government. The time has come when the a hole truth must be made known, when the causes of the depopulation of the agricul tural districta must be set forth, and when it must be explained how capital has been drained from the land, and left the farmer with dear labour, unable by reason of his poverty to avail himself of the resources and profits of agricultural science. The subdivision of the land does not account for the agricultural decline of the country. It can be shown that for years past the number of French landowners has not increased, and yet, year after year, the population of the rural districts has decreas ed. The uses of an ex tensive International Agricultural Show in the centre of a country agriculturally situated, as trine. now undoubtedly is, are many saiLass • . lagssved-agrienkural implements; and the application of agricultural chemistry to the soil, are most needful to the farmer who has to pay high wages. The spread of the knowledge that enables economic manufacturers, whether weavers of cloth or growers of corn, to turn that which they had ignorantly repelled as waste to profit, is the gain to be kept steadily in view. The un likeliest materials suddenly become valuable fur a human purpose. The bones of dead animals become the chief ingredients in the preparation of a lucifer match. We have only to turn to the annals of the Exhibition of 1851 to find ample illustration of the valuable knowledge the Billan court section of the Exhibition of 1867 will probably yield to French farmers. In 1851 M. Balard's process for the extraction of potato from sea water was brought under the consideration of English agriculturists. Of this process a professional agriculturist of authority, Mr. John Wilson, observed :—" In the ordinary processes of life the various substances constituting , food are changed in their condition, and certain of them in this changed state are, owing to our pecu liar habits, drained away and entirely lost. Of these potassa is, perhaps, the most important, as our sources of supply, so necessary to keep up the fertility of the soil, are very limited indeed. The minerals containing it are few, and both expensive to obtain and difficult to work ; we have therefore been obliged to rely upon the vegetation of other countries to eliminate and prepare for us that supply so essential to our own. We have long known that soda, the animal alkali, is contained in the sea in inexhaustible stores, and that a certain proportion of potasaa existed there also. Thanks to an enlightened chemist, we now have that knowledge confirmed, and a process given by which it can be extracted from a portion which heretofore has been looked upon as the mere refuse of the manu facture." On the other hand, we introduced the phosphatic nodules, which we had extensively used for years past, to our foreign guests. Most English readers will remember the sensation in the agricul tural world which was made in 1851 by Mr. M'Cor mack's reaping machine among others. Anxious and learned investigations were made into the rela tive merits of agricultural steam-engines, ploughs, turnip-cutters, chaff-cutters, and tile and pipe making machines. At the conclusion of the official report Mr. Pusey set forth the following instructive deductions :—" 1. That the application of ma chinery to the main branches of farming labour, taken together, has effected a saving on outgoings, or an increase on incomings, of not lees than one half. 2. That new agricultural machines have, with reference to the amount of saving produced by them, the merit of very great cheapness. 3. That machinery: has given to farming what it most wanted, not absolute, indeed, but comparative cer tainty." These were the opinions of men of great authority in 1851. They are opinions which form the basis of the hopeful results the French govern ment anticipate from the Billancourt show Travelling in Brittany last year, I found the general complaint to be that the farmers could not obtain labour, and were not rich enough to afford machinery. I met an inspector of agriculture in the train. His explanation of the superiority of English over French agriculture was simple. He said, take the quantities of guano bought by Eng land and by France, and the difference was ex plained completely. Capital having been drained from the land and tempted from the land owners bank, the farmer's pouch, nay, even the labourer's stocking by baits of sudden fortune, of Bros lots, the land is impoverished, and the yearly produce diminishes, or, at any rate, does not increase. French agriculturists are beginning to see how disadvantageous to them have been the mighty loans and lot teries and departmental borrowings of the Second Empire. That which you invest in bricks and mortar will not return you a crop of corn. Over invest in bricks and mortar, and you reduce your reproductive power, until you may get a noble homestead with an empty granary. Wien court will unfold to French agriculturists, as well as to agriculturists of other nations, divers im provements in machinery and processes, and eco nomical reaping and sowing and garnering. But can the show give them the means to buy ? It may give them the desire; and this will be some gain, since a strong desire begets earnestness in aid of its realization. The British agricultural shed will, it is to be hoped, be in every respect worthy of the renown which British agriculture enjoys in every community where the application of science to the veil is justly appreciated. It is in the interests of the greatest number that the pro moters of the success of the agricultural depart ment is desired. To spread scientific agriculture over new fields is to increase the food-stock of the human race, and therefore to bring comparative comfort to those classes which suffer most when food is scarce or dear. We are now only beginning to take the improve menta of the dwellings of the labouring classes seriously in hand. We have talked about it long enough. In England and France model cottages have been planned or built by the hundred ; and indeed some slight progress has been made in many localities. But the slowness of the pace is extraordinary, when we consider the numbers of eminent men, English and French, who have sought to improve the dwellings of the poor. In 1861 there was much talk about Robert's patent bonding bricks, made by one of Clayton's machines. The official reporter, in recording his opinion on the value of these patent bricks, said, " In respect to the number of those whom it seeks to benefit, and the extent to which their moral and physical condition may be ameliorated, and the amount of additional comfort and happiness to be created by the simple means thus suggested of improving the dwellings of the working-man, no object in the Exhibition yields to it in value, or suggests more mighty considerations for the phi lanthropist and the polit►cal economist. To place within the reach of all a large proportion of those comforts most conducive to health, to habits of cleanliness and decency, which have hitherto been enjoyed as luxuries only by a few ; to remove that painful necessity under which the poor man now labours, of submitting to privations and inconveniences which are destructive of moral habits, and utterly inconsistent with domestic com fort ; and to place at his command a certain degree almost of luxury, which tends to refine the mind, and substitutes a comfortable home for a miserable and barely efficient shelter from the elements, is the ambitious but wise and benevolent design of [TWOPENCE those who, with the example and under the leader ship of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, have of late aetively promoted the improvement of the dwellings of the working classes . " ' In 1831, we are told it was difficult to over-estimate the magni tude and importance of the electa to be got out of the adoption of these bricks. " The saving is brick-work by their use is estimated at from twenty-five to thirty per cent., with a reduction of twenty-five per cent. on the quantity of mortar required, and an equal saving on labour when done by practised workmen." We seem to be on the very point of seeming comfortable homes for all. Mr. John Wilson, in his enthusiasm over this bonding brick, exclaimed. " Let not this useful invention be confined merely to the metropolis, or a few manufacturing citiei. Let it be made known far and wide throughout the land—let the country share in the advantages which the city gratefully acknowledges. Let me at once register a claim for it on behalf of that least-cared-for and worst-lodged animal on the farm—the poor labourer. None can doubt his in . terest in it: it is far, too plainly seen in his pre sent neglected condition. The landlord. too, has an interest in it scarcely less than his owit." We are now at the beginning of 1867, and the model labourers and artisans' dwellings which 1 see pro - ~s~sog day by. day in the neeek-evat section of the Champ-de-Mars are of French origin. In 1851 it was the Prince Consort who set up a model cottage outside the Hyde-park Glass Palace. In 18437 it is Napoleon the Third who deigns to be an exhibitor of some workmen's model homes. We seem to have nothing to show in this way ; albeit we have been the most persevering ex perimentalists in it, we have yet to see what the jurors who are to decide on the beet plans which have yet been devised for comfortable, cheap abiding places, and for the establishment of pros perous and harmonious relations between empl , .yers and employed, will have to say about the relative value of our doings in these important matters. I apprehend that they will find we have made much smoke over very little fire, and that the poorer di.- • tricta of London are not in that condition which is foreshadowed in the report I have quoted. The farm labourer is still, as a rule, the " worst lodged animal on the farm." The @low progress made even after all the talk and report-making which accompany great exhibitions, proves the importance of holding them as often as they will attract to one spot the leading manufacturers, agriculturists, artists, and economists of the world. Every man who has an invention or a process to make known reserves himself for the coming International Exhi bition. The inventive faculty is strongly stimulated. The General Omnibus Company of Paris have an nounced that they will run 58 new conveyar ces spe cially for the service of the Exhibition, beginning on • the lat of April ; and Paris has already-700 °mini mites in use. Five hundred new cabs, moreover, are an nounced to be placed at the diepositiou of Exhibition visitors. It is pleasing to hear that some provision is being made for middle class, as well as for mil lionaire and working class travellers. A high:y re prehensible custom obtains in Paris. The railways that serve the suburbs double their fares on Sun days and holidays. Not content with baying crowds of travellers on these days, nor caring about the modtety of their means, the directors coolly make the poor pay double the price the rich, who have no work-a-days, are in the habit of paying. . Already some of the hotels—and these the e..rmal prices of which are extortionate—have resolved to develop • their sense of international hospita!ity by • greeting their Exhibition travellers with an increase of twenty or thirty, nay of fifty per cent. on their ordinary tariff. They look upon the Exhibi tion much as the pickpocket locks tip, n a fire. They forget that their extortions bare only to be made known to reduce the number of tin ! vellers from abroad more than enough to bring them back to their normal prices. Take the ( ;rand Hotel as an example. Its tariff is menstrously extravagant, even now. I will ask any reader who may have sojourned in it what lie would think of even 20 per cent. added to the bill he pal l on leaving ? Extravagant tariffs may give importance to the lunrreaux ri , hes ; and he who streck ell yes terday may plant his feet on a burnished h•L in the next chamber to a serene highness. Eu - . men of substantial incomes, whose importa n ce in their own and in the world's mind is not regldated exactly by the money they can show, clime over extortionate hotel bills, and may choose leave an Universal Exhibition unvisited, rather than s..iffer front systematic plunder. Great was the philo sophy of the modern economic Scotchnian, who visited the Exhibition of lst,.. lint he was cast in a rare mould. Ile liv, I in Liverpool. He left home at a quarter past e:even o'clock one Monday night, and reached Leiden at six o'clock on the morrow morning. Most men would have been a little jaded be a right in a railway train. But to the Seotchman it was just necessary rest to prepare him for a walk of ten miles about the resins. lid. After this light exercise, he repaired to the Exhi bition, and took a four hours' journey thr,,r.,l: it By this time it was a quarter-paat four in the afternoon. Just three-quarters of an hour re mained for him to march to the Eliston.so,uare station, where he caught tho tiro o'cl,ck • rain. All he spent in London was one shilling, Leii,4 his admission to the Exhibition. It is recorded that three draughts of water constituted his only re freshment during the day. He got home at elc.ren o'clock at night, quite satisfied that lie, at any rate, had not been duped by greedy E:.l,ibition caterers. The freshest episode in the mighty fend among - Paris photographers is this. The int.statis are erecting model stables by the Ecole will make a charming ornament to the , mittilLra - part of the park. The Russian coitm.i , Riort.:• , are anxious that their designs should be Idlot..gt They will, however, have nothing to do uit:i the official photographer, M. Pierre Petit, but have commissioned Mr. Bingham to do the work t is ing upon themselves all the responsibility of ii.trac tion of M. Petit's monopoly. This looks like the first blow of s very pretty - war ; where the war of the lenses will end it is not easy at the moment to predict, since meetings of Paris photographers are - bewg held, with the policeman, who is dr rigueur, in attendance. I will not repeat the rumours ; which are current about the origin of the photo- oraphic monopoly, since the photographers whose interests arc injured by it are takirm mea....:r.s so' that " justice shall inform herself" on the point. - - - - • • - -• • • -• The Fine Arta Section of the British division of the Exhibition is to be covered with a snperior kind of cocoa-nut matting, manufactured 1,3. Tre -a— loar , - ofil;iicite 7 hin, to whom the execution of the work has been entrusted. Some surprise and amusement hare been created here by the determination of the Engiis!i co:mnis sioners to erect a Mohammedan mosque for the re ception of British boilers. What will Mohammedan visitors say to this. Grant that the mosque is ad mirably adapted, by the completeness of its venti lation or on any other grounds, to the engineers' use, is it advisable at an international sh.Ae to drive one's engine in a neighbour's church I THE MARSION-ROI7BE COLLIERY ACCIDENT FIND. , —The following sums were received by the Lord Mayor ca Saturday in aid of th is fund :—The Counter* Grey. 101. Messrs. Forman and Co., 20f.; benefit at the Theatr e Royal, ; • Tunbridge Wells, 5L ; eponymous from Antwerp, 20/. ; collection at Swindon Church, 20/. 3e. 3d. ; ditto at Houn plow Church, 101. ; collection placed in a box held by the eMa of a miner in the Merket.place, Bath, 49/. tis. ; collection in the Kilmarnock colliery district, 501. 18s. ; the employ.... of Messrs. Collard and Collard, 21it. readers .of the Ckrialian World, 201. ; T. J. Miller end Sons, 101. 10s. ; Shire Oaks Colliery, 251. ; the offleials and men employed at ditto, 141. 12s. ; collection at Hanley Church, 191. 15e. Bd. ; ditto at St. Paul's, Canterbury, 91. lls. ; Mies Obeys, 101. ; and Mews. Mead and Powell. 101. 10e.