The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-28 00:00:00

Ehe ep *eglS• TO CORLESPONDENTS. Advertisements Intended for The Express' London Evening piper must be at the Office 10 bocvoritbstreei, by Two ,k ou the day of publicatio n. HAYMARKET. Tilts Erlatiso, DUNDREARY MARRIED AVD DONE TOR.. Messrs. sothern. Chippendale. linclatone, Rogers illisSnowdon. —PRINCESS SPRINGTIME. Mr. Compton and Miss Keeley.—And A KL.S.S LN THY DARK. PaiNCLIA . A. Tiro imam THE MAGIC HOILNE AND THE ICE MAIDEN PRINCESS.— old THE STFUSETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Yining, 1. W. Ray, O. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. Forrester, and H. Mellon Mn. H. Manton. Aliases Barnett and Gwynne. LYCEUM. TRH EVIJINO, Mr. Widdlcomb... Rtl" IMAS. Messrs. lechter, Rider, Fitspatrick. Charles, Ray mond, Mclntyre, Moreland, Collett, Clifford : lima C. Leclarcq. —And BEAR. FACED I MPoSTOR.S. Mr. Widdlcomb. BRITANNIA. ran Ee imeo. or, the Old Lady of Threadneedle-sued. Mesdames 8. Lane, W. enutford, sad E. Jaeohm ; Mr. G BiftWOOd. First-rate PaatotahnOta..— And TIIB WOKE-GIRLS OF LON DOS.—Cotomence at half-past G. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. TEN DAY:I , ;;I:Ing.IA. tim..:S.A/ternnow lh. 44m. To.*UuW Yoram& 2h. Gm.....Afternoun. 2h. 2im. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. SHREWD and far-seeing friends of Italy have begun to do justice to Cardinal ANTONELLI. They have even gone so far as to propose by anti cipation a statue to that much-abused and misun derstood patriot and statesman—a statue to be paid for by • penny national subscription, to be called " PAUL'a pence," to distinguish the fund from the contributions to " PETER," which already, we regret to hear, are falling very low. And, indeed, it is evident to disinterested observers that had the present HOLY FATHER found a Minister of State less Italian in feeling and pur pose than the charming man of the world whom M. DE Mer-oe.E's fiery fanaticism has proved unable to dislodge, the Temporal Power might have "come to terms" with Italy, and even the Spiritual Power with modern civilization, and we leave our readers to imagine what Italy or civiliza tion would have gained by such a Concordat. It is, we believe, owing to the masterly adroitness of Cardinal ANTONELLI, to his profound political instinct, his grasp of all the conditions of the problem to be left unsolved, to his prudent and patient policy of firmness and reserve, that his country will owe its complete emancipation, and civilization a deliverance from the last illusions of an age of dilettante faith and theatrical devotion, in which martyrs and confessors are replaced by sentimental restorations and fashionable anchorites. Strangers who have clung to the cause of Italy as inseparable from the cause of human freedom, but whose faith in the destinies of humanity was weak, have watched this eternal Roman comedy in ner vous dread lest the successor of the Apostle who drew the sword should forget his r.;/e, and be found advancing to meet the King of ITALY and modern civilization " with a kiss." Such a misfortune might have consigned Italy to another half century of servitude and betrayal. It hes been fairly averted by the constant interposition of Pius IX.'s nearest and ablest counsellors—of whom Cardinal ANTO NELLI deserves to be remembered as the chief— to whose obstinacy it is due that at this present moment the pretty bubble of liberal-catholicism is irreparably burst ; generous M. DE MONTLLE3I LEET is judiciously, perhaps we should say obediently, silent ; M. ne LA CULEI.uNIERE, the honeyed Imperial rhetorician, is at his wit's end for words sweet and empty enough to disguise his thoughts, and all the pamphleteers and journalists whom the Pr.,,e can supply find it an impossibility to persuade the common sense of mankind that the Emperor of the FRENCH is waiting at Rome with fifteen thousand men fir the reconciliation of the Papacy with the Italian Kingdom. It would doubtless be an unwarrantable ex aggeration of the spiritual character of the First Minister in the Cabinet of the Vatican to attribute to his fervent zeal the publication of those astonish ing Encyclical Letters which from time to time have aroused the languid attention of heretics, and surprised the simplicity of the faithful. The com mination which has just been launched upon the troubled waters of modern Europe is ascribed to a venerable member of the Sacred College, who drew up a rough list of "propositions" to be con demned, but was unfortunately not spared to wit ness the formal ratification of his labours. Still it is fair to suppose that Cardinal ANTONELLI who, after all, is one of the Sacred College, who is chatting with one or other of the hierarchy every day, and who most know as well as any Cardinal alive what infallibility in • dressing-gown and slippers is like ; it is impossible to suppose that be has not, at least, concurred in the publication of these admirable documents, with a very keen per- ception (in his temporal capacity) of their conse quences and effects. All honour and gratitude then to Cardinal ANToNELLI. It is pleasant to find a Cardinal who resolutely prefers his native air, even under an excommunicated sovereign, to a residence at Rome, and who pays a complimentary visit to the CROWN PRIN. Eof the excommunicated kingdom. But if • Cardinal p'.‘Nnitr.a. is a sensible ecclesiastic and a loyal gentleman, s Cardinal A NT. , NF.LLI, who sticks to the helm of the crazy old barque, and is resolved to scuttle her for the insurance, is to our thinking a fir more exemplary instance of a citizen who would sacrifice even his own reputation to save hie country and civilization. Of all the "compliments of the season," of all the gifts of Christmas and the New Year, there can be nothing like this Encyclical Litter of the Bth inst. for combined beauty and utility. It is a perfect masterpiece of careful, elaborate design and exe cution, and, like the most expensive dressing case, leaves no human vanity or conceit unprovided for. In style it will be found by the most critical reader singularly concise and pregnant ; and it lays about the open or secret enemies of the Church with a hearty and uncompromising gusto that ma►es one imagine the Transformation Scene must have immediately preceded such a vigorous succession of slaps and kicks. That the Hots FATHER should treat " pan " theism," " naturalism," absolute rationalism, indifferentism, mitigated rationalism, freemasonry, the Bible Societies, as Clown treats policemen and nursemaids, is part of the regular business of Buell a performance. But the real fun of this Encyclical is in the backhanded cuffs it ad- JOHN BROGDEN recommends the public to have the carat gold stated on the Invoice, •• Tine gold and pure gold." u applied to jewellery, beluga dilution. JOHN BROGDILVS GOLD CHAINS are sold upon this principle only. and at manufacturer's prices. Manufactory, 16. Henrietta street, Coveut.gradeu, W.C. This mitablialunent is closed at 0. and on likturtlays at 1 o'clock. AIR. MILES'S (the ORIGINATOR'S) World-famed les. TROUSERS can only be bad at 711, petition BROOKATRKET fairIy . HANOVIR by AQUAHL bete „ ALFRED " com le distanced M' ALFRED WEBB MILES. ESTABLISHED Inl. NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S One Guinea and Two Guinea Fl KLD GLASS'S and TIILISCOPIOS are war ranted as =rivalled for power and brillianey. SU. and 425. In vain complete—l, Hattotvgarden. F.C. :6o Corntdll. E.C.; let. Pwitent-eirsiet. W.: ISt, Fleet-atreet and Crystal Palace. REMEMBER ! we wait Supper for you after the Pantomimes, at EVANS, Fall not. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1864: ministers to the constant guide, philosopher, and friend under the shadow of whose fifteen thou sand bayonets its more or lees inspired author reposes. There can be no doubt that whoever may be the Harlequin of this ecclesiastical panto mime, the Eldest Son of the Church is the Pan taloon. It is the Emperor of the FsExcir that gets the smartest and the surest blows, and that is almost from one end of the Letter to the other made to look as sly, silly, and uncomfortable as possible. It is the 'worded champion of the " principles of 'B9 " that figures in this brave and noble epistle, not as the master of legions and the lord of war, and the arbiter between Rome and Italy, but as the prime author, abettor, instigator, promoter, patron of all the depraved, false, cor rupting, deplorable, plague-stricken, horrible, per verse, impious, deceitful, fatal, delirious ideas and " machinations" of " this sad epoch." For does not the Emperor NAPOLEON'S government repre sent the tights of the State and civil society, liberty of conscience and of worship, the sanction of fact as opposed to legitimate hereditary right, the secularization of Church property, the subordination of ecclesiastical functionaries to the secular government f All these principles are em phatically condemned by the Encyclical Letter as absurd, impious, destructive, insane. And in their stead doctrines of legitimacy, of Papal supre macy, of intolerance, are affirmed with a decisivenesa, a thoroughness, a sincerity, which, for our own part, having no fear of the Holy Office, and looking at an Encyclical Letter as a very seasonable and welcome [pleasantry, we heartily and honestly admire. After the conciliatory moonshine of M. DE LA GEERILONIERY 9 B elegant prose, the tones of this virile base voice from the Vatican are positively invigorating and refreshing. It may strike some timid readers that such principles of government and society as this Letter lays down, if we may judge of them by what it condemns, would throw back European civilization three hundred years, shake all the thrones in Europe, and make regicide an act of faith, as in the days of JACQUES CLEMENT and Rsyszuse. All we have to say in answer to such fears is that the compliments of the Church were certainly not addressed to England. The HOLY FATLIER had no need to waste words of condemnation upon a country excommunicated three hundred years ago, and still withering, as all the world may see, under the blight of that awful penalty. cognisance of breaches of international law. There is a panic in Canada. The commercial interests are all alarmed at the prospect of non-intercourse with the United States, which is expected to take place unless the Canadian government takes action to allay the excitement on the borders. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. EXECUTION OP THE CHADWELL-HEATH MURDEBER.-(THIS DAY.) The execution of the wretched culprit Francis Weise took place this preening at 9 o'clock, at Springfield gaol, Chelmsford. The fads connected with the crime for which the pd. loner suffered will be fresh in the recollection of the public. He was convicted of the murder of a woman named Amelia Blunt; aed it appeared upon the trial that the prisoner and the dammed had cohabited together for a conaidamble time, but in consequemos of hie ill-usage of her the de ceased had left him and gone to live with an old man named Warren, to whose son she was shout to be monied at the time of the murder. The prisoner had bean rev peatedly heard to utter threats that this marriage should never take place, and the evidence at the trial proved that he had deliberately cut the throat of the unhappy woman while she was engaged in washing, and then modeavound to make his maps. He was, however, speedily taken into custody, and the evidence was so conclusive against him that the jury almost immediately found him guilty of the crime of which hew accused. Shortly after committing the dreadful act the prisoner appears to have beenesized with remorse, and It was stated that he would have *soled guilty if some of his relatives had not retained counsel to defend him, and on that account pressed him not to do so, but he evidently, from the moonset of his apprehension, made up his mind as to what must be the inevitable result. Immediately after the verdict was returned the prisoner seems to have made a full oonfessioe of all the circum stances under which the crime was oommitted. With regard to the actual murder, he appear to have mid that he ex pected the unhappy woman was to have been married on the following day, and he was determined that the marriage should not take place. He states that he watched until the doomed was left alone in the wsahhouse, and that he wept quietly behind her, and she was not at all aware of his being there until he put his left arm round her neck, and then with a knife he had in his right hand ha, almost at the same instant, cut her throat. At the instant as he put his elm round her he stelae that the deceased turned round and saw Dim, and with a look of horror exclaimed "Oh, faddy—(this was the nickname the prisoner wee generally known by)—what do you do her!' and, without saying a word in reply, be immediately cut her throat. She struggled for only a brief interval. and then fell forward into the position in which she was found by the old man Warren, who had gone to an adjoining pub. lie-house to fetch some her for hr. The prisoner seems to have always borne the character of an idle drunken fellow, who would not work when be could. He has some rel ation who are pretty well off, bat, during the time he and the deemed cohabited together. he seems to have merely subsisted upon the produce of her labour. The prisoner was very much annoyed at her leaving him, and finding that she was resolutely determined upon not renewing the connexion, he resolved to destroy her life. It is not to be wondered at that under these cir cumstances not the slightest public sympathy was ex. hibited for the wretched criminal, sod we believe that no efforts whatever have been made in any quarter to obtain a remission of the sentence. The culprit was lamentably ignore:it. He could neither read nor writs, and appeared utterly destitute of religious feeling. His position in this respect wee, however, 'nota rially improved during his sojourn in the prison, and he appeared to pay great attention to the exhortations of the chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Hamilton. The only relative, who have been to visit him since his conviction area brother and • broths:An-law, and the former has upon several occasions engaged in earnest prayer with his wretched relative. Mr. Gepp, the under-sheriff for the county of Elam, paid an official visit to the culprit yesterday, accom panied by Captain M'Gorrerty, the governor of the pima. He appeared quite calm, and stated that he was prepered to die, sad he hoped he should receive pardon for his crime in another world. He at the same time admitted that his sentence was a just one. The hour fixed for the execution was 9 o'clock, and about half.past 8 Mr. Gimp, the under-sheriff, arrived at the gaol, and proceeded to the chapel, where the prisoner had been for some time previously engaged in prayer. He was quite calm and shook hands with the officials and ex pmseed his thanks to them for the kindness he had received from them. Although the prisoner bee deformed feet be mounted the ateps leading to the sciffold without any unistence, and when the drop fell he appeared to die almost immediately. There was a considerable crowd assembled, but they con ducted themselves in the moat orderly and decorous moaner. DEATH OF MR. EDWARD WHITE.—Many will be sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Edward White, of Marl. boroughetreet, head of the eminent solicitars' firm of White, Broughton, and White. Mr. While, throughout • long professional career, was mixed up with the aiktocracy, political affairs. and the royal family, in the most delicate manner. He was the Q11001) . A private solicitor, and also the Prince Consort's, and as such conducted the prosecution of the publisher, Strange, for pirating the royal drawings. lie conducte d prosecution of the Prince Caste'cicala in the Asir in the S ectio. with which Captain Waghorn was mixed up, in the revolutionary attempts in Naples. He was also solicitor to such families as the Earl of Lichfield, Lord Sufdad, and Lord Vernon, and conducted his bolsi ness with the highest discretion and respect, alike among the aristocracy and among his professional brethren. He died on Friday, aged 69.—Post. THE DEAN OF CARLISLE ON RAILWAY WHISTLES. —Dean Close has published an appeal touching the fearful yell of the locomotives, cap cially of luggage trains, sr they enter the city of Carlisle. He says the screams of the railway trains are increasing to a fearful extent, and nothing but unavoidable duty would prevent him from flying out of the reach of the screeches. He asks. " Have the citizens of Carlisle no ears' Or are they content to be finally deafened at the caprice of au impatient engitie.driver ? Are railways alone to be allowed to disturb the rest and probably shake the nerves of hundreds, and is nothing to rule them! I have known cease where a man has left his engine to get up her steam, and to play upon her screaming-pipe for •20 minutes, while be was regaling himself at a neigh. bout's house. Is this justifiable? A runaway engine will, perhaps, discover some of their practices. As I write, three, now four engines are screaming. Our railways are increasing ; and if it be a proof of increased trasc and the enlarged prosperity of our city, I rejoice in it ; but as our station promises to rival that of Crewe in magnitude, in esgine.house, goods shunting, &a. surely the citizens @honk' do something to protect the mselves from the in describable disturbance of the railway whistle—far, fax worse than all Mr. Bass's organ grinders and Italian monkey boys put together." GCN ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.—OR Tuesday last the Rev. Mr. Owilt was pheasant shooting with Mr. May and • party of gentlemen at Cavenham, and in the afternoon, whilst he was standing aphid the park wall, near the corner of the Drinkwiltow plantation, he had the misfortune to be severely shot from a breech loader, at thirty yards &strum. in the open road. Two shots struck him in the leas near the right eye, four on the left breast, one of the left arm, one on the left side, one on the third finger of each hand, and more idiot passed through his hat and left sleeve. Thome* Wallace was deeding close to Mr. Gwilt, and was struck by two shots, but happily be sustained no serious injury. Great alarm wag felt at the moment. Mr. G wilt was able to walk to the hall, where he received the kindest attention, and was soon conveyed in Mr. May's carriage to Icklingham rectory. Mr. Image and Dr. Shrill) were speedily in attendance, and pronounced the woods not dangerous. Mr. Gwilt's friends will be glad to hear that he is gradually recovering frorn the effects of this distressing accident.—Brew and Noririch VIOLENT ifiSArLT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAML At the police court, West Bromwich. on Saturday, two men, named James Dickens and Edw. Adams, were charged with baying violently assanited Win. Moms, a carpenter, residing at Wedneebury. in a carriage on the Great Western Railway. Mr. Sheldon defended. Mr. Ledbrook. district inspector to the Gteat Western Railway, appeared on behalf of the company. From complainant's evidence it appeared that on Monday night last he was returning from Birmingham to Wednesbury, in a third-class carriage, on the Great Western Railway. Defendants were in the same carriage, but is another compartment. They appeared to have been drink ing pretty freely, and after the train had left West Brom. with station they got over the seat to where complainant was, and Adams commenced an attack, acid assiulted com plainant in a very violent . The latter affirmed that he gave the accused not the slightest provocation for the outrage. He, however, said to them, " You will hear of this again." Adorns struck him again, and used disgusting lasimage. while Dickies shouted, " Kill the ——; kill the with the gun." Adams had • gun, both he mid his companion having been shooting. When the train stopped at the Wedoesbury station prosecutor gave them in charge. Complainant's statement was corroborated by a witness named McGill. a clerk, residing at Wadoesbury, who was I likewise assaulted by the defendants and shamefully treated. Mr. Sheldon for the defence said his instillations , were to the effect that Morris was the instigator of the ' Orem* in the first instance. His clients admitted the offence, but asked to be dealt is a lenient manner, for the reason before enumerated. The bench imposed a fine on each of the defendants of 5/, and the expenses, or in default two months' hard labour. Mr. McGill signified hie intention of prosecuting the defendants for the smash upon himself.— Wel Pertampton Chrc SOrTH KENSINGToN MUM/EEL—The numbers visiting the museum on "Boxing day " were 12.998„ the average from the opening of the museum in 1857 having been only 7,750. VICTOR HUGO'S CHRISTMAS FETE. (From the Guernsey Mail.) M. Victor Hugo is now as popularly known for his liberality sad kindness to poor children se for his lite rary teats and productions. Forty-one children are emit. tamed fortnightly—say twenty on the Ilitueday of each week—at Hanteville-houee, the residence of the poet, where they partake of a substantial dinner, being waited upon by Madame Hugo and her noble family with tied courtesy and coodemeneion. In addition to this. these children are entertained each year ton Christmas Ku. The children were received at Bedeville-bouts at noon on Thursday het, when they were regaled with an excellent luncheon, which th thoroufhly enjoyed; after which they were co nducted into another apartment, in which, on a large table, never employed to better purpose, were ranged different lota of warm, useful wearing apparel, each lot hewing the name of the child for whom it was intended. This distribution of clothing having takes place, the folding doors were thrown open, when the children, together with the Piteie present. had the gratifi cation and pleasure of the Letter than "fairy sight" of a fine Christmas fir-tree, gloriously lit and loaded with choice toys, beautiful flags, and delicious oranges; the union jack—" the flag which, for • thousand years, has braved the battle and the breeze—being the top and crowning ensign of them all. The tree was soon stripped of its gems. each child receiving such toys as fell to its lot ; but although this was a lottery there was not • single blank. eazli child held a full ticket which infallibly drew • valuable pho. The joy manifested in the happy countenances and bright eyes of these young children on receiving so many proofs of kindness may be well summed : it was a most gratifying sight to behold. The children were waited nom by Madame Hugo and Madame Cheney with hearty goodwill, assisted by several ladies and the domeeti..a of the home. M. Victor Hu just before the distribution of the clothing took place, gave an eloquent address to the guests present, in French, of which in the following report, we eV. only • brief and imperfect outline of its Los of argument, beauty of conception, and forge of illustration : —'Ladies, to you I would address myself for a few minute. on the subject of this, what I call my little Christmas feast, I admire charity .• it is a Christian virtue, and as such it, exercise has done and is doing much for the relief of human suffering. However, this little weekly entertainment which I have established for children of poor parents, irrespective of country and of creed, I look upon NA as an act of charity, but of fraternity. This is the third year of its anniversary, and each time I have only the same thing to repeat. It is but a very small act, • very small seed s which, however, may. and, I am happy to say, has home fruit. The poor child is under • moral fatality, and we should aak, ' What can Ido to remove it r Some take one way, some another—l take this—to improve it. The commissioners appointed by the Republican government of France to examine and report on the nose of sickness and death of ro large • proportion of the children of the poor born in that kingdom, stated in their report that the chief ranee was the want of nourishing food. They added that, if even one good substantial meat dinner, with one glass of pure wine were given monthly to each poor child, their health and strength would be greatly promoted, and their lives preserved. It struck me that it would be well for one to carry oat the suggestion practically. But the public duties which I had to fulfil in Paris prevented my doing so then. I have to thank M. Louis Bonaparte that, owing to my exile, I have been enabled to do so, now that I am away from the bustle and political duties of Paris. Ile has thus unconsciously been the means of enabling me to do what was in my heart. (Here the guests were seusibly affected, some even to tears.) Forty-one children, whom you see around you, come in two divisions, to twenty of whom we give a dinner each Thursday of the week, so that each of them has, to my knowledge, not one but two substantial meat din ners every month of the year. lo allot them we see marked improvement : their health is good. their strength ouch greater. This physical improvement is, at the same time, moral sod mental improvement. It is a well-known fact that the robust and healthy child will possess a superior degree of moral power and intellectual development to the weak and sickly one. We further insist that all those who would continue to be our ✓asts must learn to read, or else they will have to be replaced by others: hence their anxiety to learn. We wish to teach them the divine &atrium of equality and fraternity. To do so we, the members of my family, wait upon them and serve them at table, so that finding themselves waited upon by those whom they are taught to look upon as rich and noble, they may in early life understand the sublime doctrine of the equality of maokind, the divine fraternity of the human family. There are some philosophers who find sixteen or seventeen original Adams. I do not par ticipate in such vies , ; I bold to the Scriptural doc trioe of one Adam only, the father of all mankind. We are thus one family. one sacred brotherhood, sprung from one stock, partakers of one nature: hence them is not, properly speaking, the rich and the price, for all are from one original father; the difference being that one brother has more of this world's goods than another, wikb, however, is of an uncertain. fleeting. and transitory nature. Indeed, I have sometimes thought r hat if ' one Adam' had not been made known to us it would have been necessary to invent or at least so desire one. limb children may be. come poor men and women. Well, if daring their woe. perity they have ministered unto others, and some of these poor children may become rich and noble, they may then remember these days ; and from these they may be prompted to *et in a similar manner towards the poor chil dren of their future years. But we do not forget that the children of the rich have their toys at this festive semen of the year ; nor can we forget that poor children love toys equally as much as their more fortunate brothers. We provide them with clothes, as ou see; first, because nem aeries before all things should be provided and bestowed, and when these have been distributed we shall proceed to a distribution of toys. I said that this weekly meal wee a mall seed sown, and that already it hes tonne fruit. I am happy in being informed that from it similar institutions on a large scale are in active operation in South America, in Sweden. in France, in Switzerland, in Eeglend, and in several other countries. A report of one established in London by • worthy clergyman was sent me yesterday, with • drawing of the room and children at table (the drawing was then handed round for inspection to the company pre sent), in which, as you will find supported by generous con tributions, two substantial dinners are given weekly tol,loo children." . This agreeable C'r reminded the guests present of the conduct and commands of our Lord, who went about doing good; and its affect cannot but prove an incentive to all to go and do likewise. At the conclusion an unexpe:ted bat highly appreciated act of kindness took place. The Wimp present drew lots for a beautiful illustrated album of music. in which the distinguished poet had inscribed. together with his valuable autograph, a memorial of the fire. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WLDNESDAT, DriIMBER SS, 8 A.M. B. T. W. F lu L. Nairn 20.10 :is S.W. 5 ' S. w. oe 10.23 Lb:modem 20.12 34 W.S.W. 3 to Linn- tIo. . Oreoncsa Cape Clow Quomastown. Uvorpool ' - - I.lolybood 31.24 42 N W. 3 2 Ponsasos 39.11 41 N. 1 I 0 ! End 3 1 .39 41 NE. 4 4 N. N. r. CUriont 30.92 39 N. N r 3 3 N. N. E. 0 I.:ochafort 30.20 2S NL. 4 4 NE. be ! Plymouth :3O ‘o 95 Z. 0 2 W. NW, f' Weywooth :3J.24 N. W. 1 2 N K. too : Portsoiooth '90.37 31 N. N. W. Y 4 L. N.IL c Landon 40.24 St N. W . 1 2 N. me Donn: _ Torosonth 22 W. N. w. 4 3 N. N. W. co 114:unotounk .30 22 4) W. N. W. 1 2 W S.W. be welds . 30 21 40 W.S.W. 2 2 W. N. W. cm .1, 11.1112M1 30.06 42 W. 4 3 S.W. .no :!: 1 ,_ . _ :1E W. Lo raosAsia. TRVISDAT. ON Norrszaa fI.W. to N. W., fresh to COMM. t., N.N.W. Moderate. bor. A' s to N fresh to mo- WZOTERa. NS.W. to W.y W • ea dente. matte, moderate ts Oases, ralu. N.S.E. to W W moderate, geurrally N.W. to Y.. ood back, Socressr. moderate, due. . - W¢. W. to N.N.W., UMW On W to S. and moderate to fresh, back, fresh to male geu. rally flue. rate. lecotherumlicotlasut. Weatera=lrelaud, Wales, sod 11 1 0 1 - eaudsa. Soutbseu=Surillsh Channel midday of &may. mastward Roglsad and North Sas, DONATO'S Cane.—G L V. CA 311 LLF.. —(rII IS Dar.) —Mr. Bolt, Q.C., went down ..Lo worming to Rockwood. park, Basingstoke—the private insideoce of the Lord Chan cellor—to get an immediate decision on this great one-legged case. Mr. Bolt believes that Vice.Cbaneellor Kinder,- ley 's ruling, giving Donato liberty to hop at Covent Garden until the 11th of January, on the ground that the proceed ings bad been informal, is contrary to law. The Lord Chancellor's decision has not yet reached us. The new Charing•cross Hotel is approaching completeness, and but a short time will elapse ere the Eleanor Cross will be aerated. The hotel has excited ouch curiosity among the visitors to Loudon this Christmas ; and those who travelled in the " good old days" and put up at Golden Cross, when visitors could "reside is privacy. or mix with company, as Mclioation dictates," were able to compare the senior hotel with the gigantic building opposite. The new premises of Messrs. Gardor, in the same locality, are also mach admired. It is now more thee a century since the Garduers cont. moored Dominus on the site of their present extensive bui2dieg.. _ _ Nearly 90 cases were landed yesterday at South ampton. from Ham, each caw containing from 30 to 40 fat gorse A large number of geese are consumed oo New Year's-day. gbe Coun. OSBORNE, DEC. 27. The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise walked in the grounds yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Goveroon of Mahe, Vancouver's Island, and British Columbia. His Excellency the Austrian ambassador and the Countess Appooyi will join the party visiting Fracas Countess Wald/grave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, on Tuesday next, at Strawberry Hill, Twick- enham. His Excellency the Prussian ambassador and the Cauntess Berestorff leave town early in the ensuing week on a visit to Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right Hun. Chichester Forteecue, at Strawberry Hill, Twicken t ham. The Duchess of Norfolk's recent visit to France, accompanied by her son, the duke, and fro.ily, was for the purpose of taking a farewell of the Lady Minna Fitz*lan Howard, her grace's amend daughter, who, after passing through the customary course as a novitiate, has taken the black veil. " The beautiful and pious recluse," says the .1/,,r;l:ng Post, " completed her 21st year last month." The Duke of Hamilton is shortly expected to arrive in town from Paris, on his way to Scotland. It is understood that his grace goes to Brodriek Culls, N. 8., to receive a few friends for the close of the shooting season. The Earl and Countess of Mint°, by the last letters, had arrived at Rome from a tour in Italy. The noble earl and countess are expected to return home about Eater. The Earl and Countess de Grey arrived at their residence in Carlton-gardens yesterday evening from Nor t3n Park, the family seat in Lincolnshire. Sir Edward C. Kerrison, M.P. for Eye, who now rents the deer forest on the Novar estate, lately possessed by the Led of Selkirk, bre generously ordered (eays the Nuritirlt P ,, ft) a number of stags to be killed and distributed among the most destitute in the parishof Alamo. The boo. baronet's loot, actions are already being Ca a • led out, to the great comfort aid delight of the recipient& of the bounty. DI John Chapman has published a pamphlet on the treatment of Ha-sickness, for which he has satisfied himself that be has discovered a remedy. It consists in lowering the temperature of the spinal region by the appli- I cation of ice, and an india-rubber bag has been invented by means of which the ice is kept in contact with each region of the opine ; the upper portion of the ice being prevented from felting down as the melting proceeds, mid the me uth being so effectually closed as to prevent the water from esm,ping as the ice melts. Each bagfull melts in about two hours, so th►t for the passage between Dover and Weis elm suffices ; between Newhaven and Dieppe three begf tills are required ; between Dover sod Ostend two. The result of seventren experiments is declared by Dr. Chapman to show that the effect of this expedient is to destroy all unpleasant symptoms. Yesterday afternoon Professor Frankland com menced a sLort course of lectures, adapted to a juvenile auditory, at the Loyal lostitutioa, in Albem►rle-street, the subject being "The Chemistry of a Coal." The lecture-theatre wee crowded. The Minister of Public Instruction in France bas just addressed to the rectors under his authority a circular, in which his suggests that great advantages may be derived, and the public wealth increased, by the iotro ductiou of additional fruit tree', vegetables, and plants late the plots of ground which are attached to the 21,000 normal schools of Francs, for the instruction of the pupils is gardening, and the most improved meth-ids of agricul tural cultivatiou. The minister announces that with that view he has concerted with the Minister of Agriculture, who h u ordered the inspectors in his department to visit such schools u may be on their way, and give to the to titers whatever counsels may be necessary, seeding in a report on the general situation. WHITEHALL, DEC. 24.—The Queen has been pleased to premot the Reverend William Blair, M.A., to the church and pariah of Ardoch, in the presbytery of AuchterarJer, and county of Perth, vacant by the transporta tion of the Reverend John Robert Campbell to the parish of Motizi evoi rd. —l;a:e tre. A,;e : : lA , THE NOBILITY, etc.—lt appears from 117,, in 1065 that the oldest duke is the Duke of Northumberland, aged 72; the youngest the Doke of Norfolk, aged 17 ; the oldest marquis, the Marquis of West meath, aged 79; the youogest, the Marquis of Ely, aged 15 ; the oldest earl, the Earl of 13everley, aged 86 ; the youngest, the Earl of Charleyille, a ge d ' l2; the oldest viscouat. Viscount Combermere. aged 91 the Youngest. Viscount Dowoe. aged 20; the oldest Baron is Lord Brougham, aged Bf. • the youngest, Lord R o d ney , age d 7 the oldest member Of the Privy Connell is Viscount Comber mere. I ; the yeeingest, the Prince of Wales„ aged 2:1; the oldest member of the House of Commons is Genera! the 800. Sir Hugh Arbuthnot, member for Kincardineshire. egad 85 ; the young's', the Hos. C. R. D. H. Tracy, mem ber for Montgomeryshire, aged 21; the oldest judge in England is the Right Hon. Stephen Lushisgtoo, aged 82 ; the youngest, Sir James P. Wilde, aged 48 ; the oldest is Ireland is Cowl Justice Leroy, aged 88 ; the youngest, Justice Keogh. aged 47 ; the oldest Scotch Lord of Session is the Hight Hon. 1.1...ncan M'Neill, Lord Justice General. ape] 71 ; the youngest, the Right Hon. Jobs Inglis, Lord Jogai«. Clerk, aged 54 ; the olde s t arc hb is h op is the Archbishop of Canterbury, aged 70 ; the youngest, the Archbishop of York. aged 45 ; the oldest bishop is the Bishop of Enter. aged 87 : the yolingest„ the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, aged 45; the oldest colonial bishop is the Bishop of Toronto, aged 85 • the youngest, the Bishop of Noessu seed 3•'. the oldest baronet i s Si r Thomas Staples, iced ICI; the youngest, Sir George H. Sitwell, aged 4 ; the oldest civil or military knight is Gene. nil Sir A. B. Clifton, aged 92; the youngest, Sir Charles T. Bright, god 32 . One man 111 Chicopee, 3Leaaacliusetts, manufac tures three barrels of hairques is a day.—New York paper. LATEST INTkILLItiENCE. (sztrrim's nazonx.) AMERICA. REPORTED CAPTURE OF SAVAN NAH, WITH 11,000 PRISONERS, BY GENERAL SHERMAN. ROUT OF GENERAL HOOD'S ARMY. ARRIVAL OF THE HANSA. The North German Lloyds' steamship Hansa, from New York on the 17th instant, has arrived. She brings 78 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 201,000 doles in specie for England, 109,500 dole. for France, and 500 doles. for Bremen ; and 46 bags mails, of which 40 bags were for London. Ni► Southampioe.) NEW YORK, Dm 17, MORNING. A steamer from Charleston Bar on the 14th inst. brings a report that news had reached there, by • flag of truce, that Sherman had captured Savannah and 11,000 prisoners after eight hours' fighting. Savannah papers report that Foster advanced on the bth towards Coosawatchie, and burned the Tillafinney bridge, but was twice driven back by the Confederates. General Hardee commanded at Savannah. Admiral Dahlgren reports from Port Royal on the 12th the arrival of three scouts, bear:ig de spatches from General Howard. These atmounce that Sherman had been perfectly successful thus far. His army was in fine spirits near Savannah. The Richmond papers of yesterday state that Sherman carried Fort M'Allister by storm on Wed nesday. This capture put Sherman in communica tion with the Federal fleet, and necessitated the re inforcement of Savannah. Fort M'Allister is on the Ogeechee Rver, 15 miles south-west of Savan nah. It was garrisoned by 150 men. General Beauregard had arrived at Charleston. General Kilpatrick was reported mortally wounded. A naval and military expedition under Generals Porter and Butler left Fort Monroe on Monday for the Southern coast. Thomas reports from Nashville that on Thursday he attacked Hood's left, and drove it from the river below the city, nearly to Franklin Pike, a distance of eight miles, capturing Chalmers' head-quarters and trains, 1,000 prisoners, and 16 guns. Thomas would again attack Hood yesterday, or pursue him, throwing a heavy cavalry force in his rear. Unofficial despatches, dated yesterday, announce that Hood was retreating and endeavouring to get away, while Thomas was pressing 11;m vigorously, capturing guns and men. General Canby reports that the expedition sent from Vicksburg and Baton Rouge to cut Hood's communications with Mobile had been com pletely successful. General Stoneman bas made a raid in Brecken ridge's rear and captured Bristol, Abingdon, and Glide Springs, Western Virginia. He alio burned the bridge over the Holston River, and has moved towards Saltville. In consequence of the discharge of the St. Albans raiders and preparations i u Canada for the renewal of similar enterprises, the military commanders on the frontier are directed by General Dix, iu case of further acts of depredation, to shoot down the perpetrators if possible, and, if necessary for their capture, to cross the Canadian boundaries, and pursue them wherever they take refuge, and not to surrender them if captured, but to send them on to headquarters for trial by court-martiaL Attorney-General Cartier has decided that the decision of the judge of the Montreal Court was wrong, and has ordered the re-arrest of the St. Alban's raiders. The police are making great efforts for their re-capture. The judge of the Montreal Court denied juris diction on the ground that the Governor-General had issued no warrant authorising the arrest of the raiders. The Canadian Cabinet denounced the judge's decision, and it is supposed that he will be dismissed. Stipendiary magistrates have been appointed on the Canadian frontier to take cognisance of breaches of international law. The chief of the police has refunded the money found upon the raiders taken in St. Alban's. Their discharge excited indignation throughout the North. The New York Tinvs says that Canada has been turned into a base of rebel operations, and Canadian territory must be respected no more than Virginian or South Carolinian territory. This may lead to war, and if so, let it come. Resolutions have been introduced into Congress and referred to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, denouncing the conduct of the Canadians, recom mending the organisation of an army corps for the protection of the frontier, and directing the Secre tary of State to demand from the British govern ment payment for all cargoes and ships destroyed by British piratical vessels. The New Turk Times asserts that the Brazilian demand for reparation for the seinire of the Florida is insolent in tone. Mr. Sewanl's reply is firm and conciliatory. It does not indorse the seizure, and expresses a desire that the matter should be fairly and satisfactorily adjusted. The City of Glasgow arrived at New York on the Ifith instant. She was to sail on the CO3LSIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, DEC. 17, MORWG. Money easy. Gol.l, 230/. Exchange ou Lou- don, 252 ;on Paris, 210 to 215. Stocks steady ; New York Centrals, 1171 ; 111;nois, 130 ; Erie, 931 ; 5-20 Bouds, 109. Cotton dull.; middling up. land, 134 Flour dull. Wheat very dull. Corn slightly firmer. Provisions advancing. Coffee quiet. Sugar steady. Molasses quiet. Petroleum : crude, 55 ; refined, 76. POSTSCRIPT. NEW YORK, Dac. IT, SOON. General Thomas reports that fighting continued all yesterday. He drove Hood from all his en trenched positions, and captured from 3,000 to 3,000 prisoners, and 30 to 40 cannon. Hood's army was routed. LATER. NEW YORK, Die. 17, Noon. Gold, 228. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 28. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Bavaria, from New York on the 14th inst., passed the Needles at 10.50 a.m. to-day. EXCITEMENT IN CANADA. (By ELECTRIC TIELSOELPIL) (FROM OR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SOUTHAMPTON. WEDNESDAY. Advice* received by the Hansa, which arrived here this morning, state that at Quebec cabinet meetings have been held, and stipendiary magistrates, with a large policeforce, have been appointed to take REPORTED DISAI The Inde'pendance Beige, of yesterday evening, says :—" We were the first to announce, in ac cordance with information from Paris and Turin, the approaching reduction of the military forces of Italy. This reduction must naturally be accom panied by a corresponding one in the Austrian army ; but M. de Mensdorff, in the debate on the address in the Austrian Reicbarath, de clared that in consequence of the threats which had been uttered in Italy Austria could not think of disarming. It was, therefore, a question of priority, and of national susceptibility, whether Austria or Italy, both equally pressed by their financial position to lighten the military bur dens which overwhelm them, should set the exam ple of a disarmament. It appears that the cabi nets of Paris and London intervened in the charac ter of officious mediators to remove this obstacle, in pledging the two countries to effect simul taneously the reduction of their military strength to more pacific proportions. These counsels appear to have been listened to ; for from Turin as well as from Vienna we are informed of the approaching reductions, on a grand scale, of the infantry." (azirmes yu.scorig.) ITALY. TURLs7, Dec. 27. Advices from Rome announce that on the night of the 26th instant a detachment of French troops attacked the band of brigands under Cetoco, near Veroli in the Papal States. Seven brigands were captured, and several French soldiers wounded. The Italia declares untrue some details published by the Memorial Deplumatiyae of a pretended con versation between M. de Mallaret and General Della Marmon on the subject of certain apocryphal documents published in the Monarchia Nationale. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor ooa owl( co] PARIS. TVESDAI Emma. The Petrie of this evening bas a paragraph stating that it is proposed to substitute a fixed salary for the monthly allowance paid to the Deputies during the sittings of the Chamber. This is followed immediately by a further state ment, separated from the former by all the breadth of a well-drawn line, to the effect that the Chambers will meet between the 10th and 15th of February, and that, thanks to the diligence of the Minister of Finance, who will at once lay the budget before it, its clauses may thus be submitted to a more mature examination, and more searching dia. cussiou. These paragraphs have so evidently no connexion with each other that no one will suspect either the deputies of having been in the habit of spinning out their sessions for the love of the napoleons the Ist of each month entitled them to pocket, nor the government of offering them a bribe to despatch their business quickly and cut short tiresome opposi tion orators. There have been rumours of measures in a retrograde sense, one of which was a curtailment of the liberty of speech in the Legislative Body, but the Emperor's special organs have indignantly denied such intentions. If the measure now proposed be carried out it is evident that it must be received as proof that far from wishing to muzzle the guardians of public interests the Emperor is only desirous of securing their in dependence. M. Lachaud achieved yesterday another of his great forensic triumphs—his eloquence procured the acquittal, with flying colours, of au undoubted murderer. It was the case of a woman killing her husband. She was a good woman and he was a brute ; and she had the best possible case against him for a separation. But the sense of her wrongs led her to thirst for his blood, and she ' repeatedly threatened to take his life. One night when he clone home drunk she only consented to sleep with him ou a condition which Le attempted to break. She then got out o bed, and stabbed him to the heart with his own knife. The public prosecutor in vain offered to raluce the case to one of manslaughter. The President in vain told the jury that abso lute impunity for wilful bloodsheddiug was abhorrent to the ideas of every civilised nation. The Paris jury saw only • " woman in distress," and were as unable, their oaths notwithstanding, to resist M. Lachaud's pleading in her favour as a Surrey audience to abstain from applauding T. P. Cooke in Biack-Eyed Susan. The prisoner, a good looking young woman, named Mauvoy, shook hands " convulsively," the report states, with M. Lachaud, and then walked triumphantly out of the duck amidst the congratulations of admiring friends. The lady patronesses of the fancy sale iu aid of the Polish refugees have issued a notice announcing the death at Montpellier of the Princess Czartoryska, widow of Prince Adam, and founder of that work of benevolence. The circular likewise states that notwithstanding this melancholy event the sale will take place at the Hotel Lambert, as originally intended. The Bourse was quite brilliant. Rentes rose 25c, fur cash, and 20c. fur account, closing at 65fr. 55c. and 65fr. 35c. It was reported that M. Fould was deteriniued to screw the price up to Car. before the eud of the mouth. Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. The Western Railway rose 131 r., Northern lift., and other lines from 2f r. to Mr. DOWNINU-STREET, DE,'. _6.—The Queen lies been pleased to appoint it' Alien, Henry Valpy, E.q., to be rola. nial surgeon for her Majesty's settlements in the Falkland Islands, and John Vincent Leach, Esq., to be clerk of the courts and keeper of the records for the colony of British Hoodaras.—Go:, r re. THE HAMPSTEAD VOLCNTICERS,—A party of the officers, members, and friends of the 3rd Middlesex, or, as they are privileged to call themselves, the Hampstead Volunteers, dined together at the Holly Bush Assembly rooms, last night, on the occasion of the presentation of prizes to the victors in a recent competition. The Lord Mayor of London, who, until recently, resided at Hamp stead, presided; and with his lordship were Colonel Wil kinson, the oomenanctiot of the corps, Captain Signora, Lieutenant Holford, Ensign Chater, Ensign Mills, the Rev. E. Bickerstetb, and Mr. Gurney Hoare. After the loyal toasts, the colonel, in responding for the three services, said this battalion now had 900 effective men on the rolls, and would receive upwards of 9004 from the government. They had beaten the Hon. Ar tillery Cirps and the West Middlesex, but he admitted they had been thoroughly thruhed by the Vietorkui. They were still obtaining recruits. The prizes were distributed by the Lord Mayor, to whom several of the successful com petitors living in the locality were per•onally known. That for the principal marksman was gained by Private J. 0. Scott, who had made 18 points. Private S. Sharpe was the best of the marksmen of this year only, and received the premium in that class. A telescope, given by Mrs. Scott, was heeds' to Corporal Sharpe. A prize, given by the ladies of Hampstead, was won by Private W. Vere ; the second prize by Private Evans. After the presenta tions, various complimentary toasts were given, end were interspersed with glees by a party of vocalists. The Lord Mayor presented five guineas LI a prize for next Ytaill 0061. POUtial. Th. bu p i turs. sr wen of t Mr. Do o rtioo Mr. Chi His Ho Nitro) of she IPP , " 014014.• This WI of which ru p‘desa residing i 1.7001. Kr, Chi hese rub els Dumb intimate' Mr. Ple actractin Os the inn segue 'n must `le attest tha Jr elan' - 1 4nage held nit be a • flag nth I vnbstaati /;re hard log a. roc do I: a fine this Ana l ib° all. Lrrrsm ''.vvorm ''the ht, irreri m t 4 8, Ceotral Tomb. o'4, of " nei ! ' 4 &titlll of The bal otreet, AD m polua roar.. ? . o! T h e liabi ended. ste i 110 W I A gimill The ban] Tower -6i l (Bic _TATAI