The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

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Almon —Cowen at I. LTOZO/1, =lB,lllll SACRIFICE. Rom /gam Rai. 11101iili TRO T C41414 . WA N /WM arte d ltistr-Tal SERLIRAVIR TOT ROW tM LAW FrOAE.—Ofiumee f. pi N pr Arta. Tau lar vive,Pll NCI Paa t£ DTHIQUZIN OF SP ISM, N. Tts,) /sisal. of marl oak Y. Jaw Lade ; Yea t Los. Ol Cr dle. Wale illogir—Aad ma 11143(1•11 PKTITIO3. oesm. MOH WATII AT LONDON BRIM& fine Dpi—lftrofte. PI. ft • Alftreaft. ft. Ts, ftftftftir—Monfts. ft. Oft.- Afteroft ft. Oft LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 24. WE are not run that we should have called atten tios to an unfortunate misendermanding which has arisen between the resident chief of the University I of Cambridge and two of the officers to whose oar. its moral discipline is confided, bad not the principal facts otherwise obtained considerable notoriety. Both at Oxford and Cambridge a supervision is ex ercised over the conduct of the students, individually, such as could scarcely be maintained in any other University, certainly such as would be impossible in any large city. There, however, the prescriptive rights and customs of ages lend a power to the authorities which would in any other city be regarded as incon sistent with the liberties of Eagliahmen. No person is regarded as a student of either of the two Vein,- allies who is not a member of some particular Col lege, and each College exercises a paternal guardian. ship over its pupils. They are amenable to • do mestic discipline. If they reside within the walls of the College, they cannot pus out after &certain hour of the night, and the hour at which they return to College after nine or ten o'clock is strictly noted. A collegian who is out after midnight, or absent all night, must give • satisfactory account of his time to the proper College authority. The reams of the stu dents are, moreover, subject at all times to the •isits tion of the Tutors se the Dias el the College, if suspicion should arias that any improper person is harboured therein. The Mediate who may reside out of College receive in like manner the strictest attention of the authorities. They may lodge only in licensed houses. The landlords of these houses most snake a strict return of the hours kept by their inmates, and any irregularity of which they may be guilty, upon pain of losing their license. But in addition to this surveillance, which of course could be exercised by any other educational body, Oxford and Cambridge extend their supervision over their students in all parts of their respective towns and for some miles around. For the purposes of this oversight two officers are appointed every year as Proctors, and each Proster has so amistant,estled • Pro-Proctor. These gestlemen, who are reddest Mestere of Arts, and obsess from the Colleges i• a fixed cycle, ass invested with great and summary power.. They may eater Ley haw when they have roman to sweet that • student is gambling or guilty of any act of immorality. In Cam bridge there is a sort of Home of Correction, raid the Spinaing•holm. If the Proctors or their moist ants, is their perambulations, should meet as the streets of Cambridge any frail creature of inspected virtue, her mere presence within the boundaries of the town, although she might be conducting herself with propriety, would be sufficient to ensure her resi dence in the Spinning-house. In the town of Cambridge it would be impossible for any house of ill-fame to exist without being at once suppressed by the authorities. There is a village, however, about a mile distant, where unfortunately such places are not wanting. Their dangerous proximity is, however, checked by the power of the Praetors, who have the power of entering and swelling them, when, if they find a student than, or even near each a house, they have the power of punishing the offender against good morals, or of reporting the matter to the higher Collegiate or University authorities. It moat strike every one on teflection that the Proctors, being armed with powers so inquisitorial, so contrary to the genius of English laws and liberty, ought to exercise them with temper and sound die cretioe. On the whole, we believe that in both Universities they have done so, and hence the towns. men both of Oxford and Cambridge have sub mitted to this extraordinary power with good grace, knowing that it was exercised only for the good of the students of the University. Se much it seemed necessary t o premise for the information of those who are not conversant with University usages. We may now notice the cause of the recent misunderstanding. One of the Pro-Proctors at Cambridge lately found a student of one of the Colleges in a house of ill-fame at (keen o'clock is the evening. The stu dent, at once gave his name and College, on the de mand of the Pro-Proctor, who very properly reported his offence to the authorities of his College. Hitherto it has been the cuetom of the University fur the Proctors themselves to punish the delinquents found by them, or, if the gravity of the ease demanded it, to hand them over to the College authorities for punishment. We believe that the punishments so inflicted have ►een severe, but, while chastising the offender, a door for reformation and amendment his generally been wisely left open, especially for a first offence. The Pro-Proetor who discovered this offender, instead of permitting the Collegiate authorities to punish him, brought his offence before the Court of the Vice-Chancellor of the University. He gives SI a reason fur departing from the octal custom, the fact that the Statutes of the ['Divinity have lately been altered, that one of the Statutes so altered compels the Proctors to being all offences of greed parity before the Vice Chancellor, and that the oases being one of great gravity, he is compelled to take the matter oat of the hands of theCalleae authorities and transfer it to the teiversity. Now, though this is the plea of the Pro-Preeter, it seems that previously • dispute had arisen, or that some negotiations Lad taken place, between the Pro-Proctor and the Collegiate authorities, as to the punishment of the *Seeder. The College were willing to rusticate-- that is, banish their student ben the University for THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1869. me term. The Proctor required three terms or a I twelvemonth at least. Now, a banishment for one term would really have been a severe punishment, a loss both of time and money, besides being a dis grace. A banishment for a twelvemonth might hare ruined the young man irretrievably. If we have been rightly informed, this young man its poi soned of some fortune, but an orphan. Banished and disgraced from his College, whither would he be so likely to fly as to this great metropolis, withal! its fatal lures of vice, without any supervision P A twelvemonth's experience of vicious liberty would ill fit him for a return to the quiet and order of hie College. The punishment would have been almost certain ruin. This seems to have been the feeling of the Vice- Chancellor and his Court. Any sentence of the Vice-Chancellor's Court must, according to the dis cipline of the University, have rained the future prospects of the young man. The milder punishment of the College having been rejected by the Pro- Proctor, in mercy to the offender the vine-Chancellor felt oompelied to dismiss the young man, with no more than the rebuke and admonition of the grayest Court in the University. This, however, has led to • rupture between the Vice-Chancellor and the two Pro-l'roctors. The latter regard only the offence; the Vice-Chancellor more wisely the offender. The Pro- Proctors demand a vindictive punishment of the crime ; the Vico-Chancellor visits the delinquent with the severest censure in his power short of destroying all his futon prospects in life. The Pro-Proctor, in hie desire to get the severest punishment in the power of the University, takes the matter from the College authorities, who would have punished. When this rash seal causes the offender to escape with a slighter punishment, the Pro-Proctor memo the Vice-Chancellor of not supporting his authority, tells him that he treats the sin of incontinence as • trivial offence, and ends by resigning his oaks. The other Pro-Proctor also resigns, while the mice clime, the Proctors, remain at their posts. Before the Vic► Chancellor can explain the cir cumstances to the members of the University the Pro-Proctors rush into print, make their matter a abject of theological controversy, and accuse the venerable Heads of College* as abettors and en couragers of vice. We cannot but hope that cooler reflection will convince these gentlemen that they have themselves injured the cause of Christian morality which they have so sincerely at heart. The older members of the University hold the same cause no less dear, but their seal is tempered with discretion and matures. judgment. The Pro-Proctor. have forgotten that punishment should be exercised pus to promote the reformation of the offender. They quote Bt. Pert., who tells us that "no " whoremonger bath any inheritance in the " kingdom of Caatirr and of GOD ;" but they might have remembered how that Apostle dealt with the incestuous Corinthian so as to reform the offender while he marked the heinous nature of hie offence. The Jews sought to make Canter either sentence the adalteroas woman to death, or else appear to the common people to =- dew her crime. His charity and His wisdom we commend to the consideration of the late Pro-proctors of Cambridge. We trust that all sensible and right minded men will applaud the conduct of the Vies- Cheneellor, and that in any further reference to this matter he will receive the firm support of the University. An intemperate exercise of extra ordinary powers con only lead to their speedy abolition. gbr Court. -4. WDIDBOR, J.N. n. The Duchess of Kent dined with her Majesty yesterday, attended by Lady Fenny Rowed and Mfr Victoria Wortley. The piety alto included Octan Goatees Blucher, Lord Begot, the Right Ran. B. Dlueell, the Dean et Windsor, mad the Ron. Moe. Welleeley end Myer-Otneeel 13ouverie. The Band of th. Grenadier Guards performed daring dinner : Overture. " Ter •3:lZ „ : „ Wa.tar Sprite Coot. " Ls Traylidir Ter& Quack,. " ...... Ht llejesty's Winne bard ellorwarde played in the Drawing-room the tellowteg seiselkin : _ Orrrtaiv.“ 11 BartENet „... ........ Laribeelo and Flags. • ..... - • Parade blanch ........ .............. ...... •• Domino Note.... ................ The Clasen and Prince COMM, land arced drove ha the Home-park this morning. The Dachas of Kent visited bar Ileirety at the Castle. The following visitors have lea the Coale: Lord Begot, Count Gustave Blucher, the Right Hon. the Chancellor c the Exchequer, sad Major-Gemell 800 MU. There was no addition to the royal dinner party. SUNDAY, JAN. 23. - - - The Queen and Prints Consort, Princess Aline, Princess Buena, sad the Duchies of Kent, the Lsd end Gentle men of the Court and the Domestic HousahoLl attended divine service this morning in the private Jaded. The Bon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands were received on &Purley at the Colonial offioe. A Privy Council will be held at Buckingham Palace, on the god of February, at which the Marten will formally submit the royal speech for the mottos of the Sovereign, Viscount Palmerston will give a parliamentary dinner on Wednesday, the 2nd of the *ensuing month, at Cambridge-hones, to which upwards of forty of his lord ship's political hiands—nworbers of the House of Commons —are larked. The Earl of Derby has declined to receive the deputation appointed by the town council to welt upon hie lordship to mewed to him the claims which Doncaster pos sesses toe direct representation In pediment. The Duke of Rutland, who has been at Stanton Woodhom, his shooting-boa is Drebyehirs, returned to Belvoir Cut!. on Friday lear. The Marquis of Lansdowne is shortly expected at Lexadowns House, from Bowood, for the MOM. The Earl and Countess Desert have arrived at the Br. George @ Hotel. The Earl Granville arrived at his residence in Bala-eresst, ea Seturday, from Rome and Puts, vows key to the opsisg of Parliament. The Earl andCoantem of Craven and family will Mont to tows on the Bth of nut month, boat Aabdoloe Peet, foe the seemott. We are sorry to learn that the Earl of Ripon con dense very anwelL By accounts received from Putney yesterday aftemon, there was no perossitible improvement in the eandhlan of the noble lavelid. Dr. Stone, Dr. Williams, sad Wier mart nwdioel genderoen, are in rem ittal stlimelease en his kedehip. The Earl and Count's' of Shelburne have left Bowood eat a volt to the Marquis end blarchicatem of Ails,- bury, et Ilavernake Lodge, Wilts. Lord Hantiogfteld has arrived at the St. George's Ikea Lord and Lady Nigel Kennedy have left their reridenos in Orarrenor-tiquare, for Brighton, for a few weeks. Lord West hu left town to join the family circle at Bockhorn Pork, Sum. Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, has just arrived at Mamefiles from Akzendria In the Eosin. We undentand that a marriage is arranged be tween Lady Henrietta Pelham Clinton, third daughter of the lee sad eider of the present Doke of Reword*, and Captain R. C. T. d'Eyncottrt, R.N., mound son of the Eight HOS. Charles Taiwan d'Ersoonrt. A grand ball took place at the Town Hall, Windsor, on Friday night last, which wee attended by npwerde of 100 of the nobility and principal gentry of Wisidaor, Eton, sad the neighbourhood. The pavement wen Mediums rata de Weyer, the Lady Mary Hood, the Lady Jar Walsh, the Hon. Lady Phipps, and Mrs. Hobart& Mr. Charles H. Chicheley Plowden hu retired from the public service. Mr. Ficaria' has served its the Board of Control for upwards of forty years, having been appointed by dm late Mr. Cunning in 1818. After holding several prominent positions there, Mr. Floyd's nlUmately succeeded to the meistent-seaeteryship, which he held until it wee abates& On the changes, which took place seder the new ham Act, he was transferred to the secre nrryaltip el the Karla* and Transport Department at the lane Man Mr. Meets, who was formerly ruperinteedent of the marina department to the East India Company, enteseds Mr. Piewelen. The Bail of Stanhope, Lord Rector of Nfarischal Cones, Marius, has reigned h a seat at the University Comwdeelen Board, on the ground that his other engage wants will net permit him to leave London sad attend Its sasstinge is Idinbargh. When he accepted the appointment be expected, rre President was the Lord Advocate, that the meetings would be held in London ; but it appears that bow, owing to Mr. Inglia' elevation to the bench, they must held in Edinburgh. We regret to state that, owing to a very severe attack or influenza, Mr. Alderman Saloom Is congaed to hie room, at hie seat at Broome Hill, Tunbridge Wens. W. W. B. Beach, EN , ➢I.P. for North Hants, will &hew e Motor* ea "Lord Clive," to the members of the &Mary Literary sod Scientific Institution, to-zoonew treatrag. The Natims announces that Mr. W. S. O'Brien will leave Ireland for America rid Galway Ii a few weeke. Ilia May ea the American continent will probably last for a few mouths, during which time it is his intention to visit *very place of interest in the states. The Prince of Oude, with a suite of twelve per sons, arrived et Marseilles es Friday, in the Clyde, on his way to England, whither, it is mid, ha is going to solkit a pardon for the king, his father. Madame d'Arnim, Goithe's Bettina—whose death was motioned is Saturday's Byrom —was nearly cos meted with the Baron d'Arsina who is spoken of ma likely to encored Count de Hatsfsid sa Prsimian ambassador St Perla. This celebrated woman was hors at Frankfort-on- tbs-Ilifste in MIS. 811 e married the celebrated writer, Lad wit-Achim d'Arnitn, who left bar a widow in 1831. She *MB behind her sersral works, of which the best known is bar cairespoedenor with fhitbs, published under the tills, "Goithe's Correspondence with a Child." M. Scribe, the well-known dramatist, on Satur day, ewasad a complaint to be laid before the Tribunal of Cor voolianni Pollee, at Paris, against the Cluirerirri, for having in emu comments on the recent action with an ergot in which he figured, libelled him. Hs, however, did not b ound any damages, but simply a condemnation, and that the nut of the jedguannt olamaid be inserted in four journals. The beam% stew !sub( pleadings, postponed judgment bra weit W. Scribe be. also laid a complaint against the Ossetia a Paris for having libelled him in connexion with the tam afkir. ST. PAUL'S, X.llorfellltlDOL—Tlie REV. MR. MUMMY@ R I!TONATION.—A worwing cotemporary pub lishes w letter, addressed, im June lent, by the the Rev. F. A. Marriott, maim carafe at et. Paul's, Enightsbridoe, to the Rev. Mr. Liddell, relative to cashed= and abeolcoloo. Mr. Marriott has Macs, it appears, maimed. The substance of his lama in that private conheales, Wog a remedy far special dangers and bier:allies, le to be applied bond fide only 21 maws far it may Kriee, end sada, the church's warrant; that," as a habit of the spiritual life, it panes into the sass Ot the Roma system, se opposed to the principles end Mantis of the primitive church; and from mama and ea that habitual private absolutism sad habitual am fraught with oath unsaid daapn to each indlvidual, wed to the church at large, as so apparent or 410021111111121 benefit can the lead cooperate." Telt Meier POITSMOCTII RAILWAY.—Since the . . Wicti-Chancelior's decision in favour of the Bouthi — iesteris ..a. " Ranirsy Compeny,establistlng their right to book Loudon =Tet the Portsmouth terminus of the South Coast I:h the letter coateeted, the dl.pute between the two tionepesire hoe bows amicably erreaFvd. end the blacks will run 0141 r the direct line and through to Portemooth, without interntpdon, on and alter this dayffiloaday).—Obserrer. ORTIML •I°ALACI. HALF-CROWN Day. !, — SATUIMIAT. tra.X. 23. —Adadricse at paest 416 alb mom Mob, 1,7669 l 169 i Wel Aloe% I, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (room on owx PARIS, SUNDAY BYZNINO. The long silence of the Moniteur on the subject of Prince Napoleon's marriage had almost led people to suppose seriously that it had been broken off. All doubts are, however, removed by &telegram from Turin, which states that at noon this day, and im mediately after mass at the cathedral, General Niel on the part of the Emperor officially demanded the hand of the Princess Clotilda for Prince Napoleon in the presence of all the great officers and dignitaries of the kingdom. It has not before appeared that General Niel was an envoy extraordinary to Sardinia. You will have seen that it has been announced in some English journals (erroneously, as it now turns out) that the demand in marriage was made some days ago. The Nord of Brussels thought it had been made on Friday (Jan. 21) by the ordinary ambas sador, the Prince de Latour d'Auvergne. Madame Niel, the wife of the general, is to be one of the ladies of honour to the bride ; and it is said that the Duchess of Padua will be the grand mistress of her household. There is no other news to-day on the great question of peace or war: opinions are pretty equally divided on the subject. Meanwhile the fact is patent that warlike preparation' are going on without a moment's relaxation. A lawsuit of no ordinary interest is expected to *soupy the attention of one of the civil courts next week. AU the money lenders of London will re. member that some twelve years ago Prince Louis Napoleon, when desperately hard up, was continually endeavouring to raise the wind upon a mortgage of alleged claims upon the French government in respect of the property of his mother, Queen Hor tense. Prospectuses setting forth his title to count less millions, which he offered to the public in shares of convenient amount, were profusely circulated, but met with small favour from the monied interest, either in Houndsditch or elsewhere. It is, however, now stated by MM. de Cock and Terwangue, bankers, of Antwerp, plaintiffs in an action brought against his Majesty Napoleon 111. in his own courts, that, in 1847, one M. Aristide Ferries obtained from Prince Napoleon, for valuable consideration, an assignment of all his (the prince's) rights and credits against the French government, as the representative of Queen Hortense, his mother. Pursuant to this assignment, title deeds valued at 10,000,000 fr. were deposited with M. de Prima, a French notary in London. M. A. rendre, in ceder to render his security readily negotiable, divided the ten millions into 100 shares,of 100,000 fr. each. Two of these shares were deposited with the plaintiffs by way of mortgage, for money owing to them by Attire. Ferrire has never paid his debt, and now Messrs. Cock and Terwangue availing themselves of the French law, which allows the sovereign to be sued in the civil courts, like any other citizen, bring their action. One difficulty in their way is that, in 1832, the Priam President when he confiscated the pro perty of the Orleans family declared in the Mont teur that he would release the State from all his claims to his mother's fortune. The plaintiffs eon tend that this release cannot be binding upon them as purchasers for a valuable consideration ; but that, at all events, the Emperor having cancelled the shares which were negotiated with his sanction and privity, is personally liable to them. On the other hand, the validity of the assignment to Ferrer. is contested by the Emperor. Count de Neuwerkerke, while driving his smart tilbury in the Champs Elysies on Friday was run away with and upset. He and the servants who were with him escaped with some slight contusions; but after they were thrown out the horse rushed on and overturned a oostermouger, who, when picked up, was found to have received severe injuries in the foot and shoulder. This is the second accident of the kind which has happened to the Director of the Imperial Museums within a short period. The Count d'Houdetot, a member of the Corps Legislatif, and formerly a peer of France, is just dead. The name of d'Houdetot, which belongs to one of the best families of the old French noblesse, will be remembered by the readers of Rousseau's " Confessions." The deceased was a councillor-ge. neral in the Colvados, and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts. Madame Cavaignac, the widow of the celebrated general, animated by a high chivalrous feeling, has given up the entire portion settled on her by M. Odier, her father (200,000 fr.) to his creditors, he having unfortunately become a bankrupt. In taking this step she says she feels certain that she is fulfil ling what would have been the wishes of her late revered husband, and is performing an act due to her eon's name and her own. Admirable sacrifices of this kind are by no means unusual in France, and they bear witness of the high standard of commercial morality which prevails in the country. It often happens that widows and chil dren, who might peas their days in luxury with settled money, give it all up for the honour of the head of tbeir house. A striking instance of this exquisitely honourable feeling occurred the other day in a department where the family of a receiver general, who had become a defaulter, unanimously contributed to pay the amount of his deficit. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. The Memorial Diplomatiqu• continues to furnish its weekly budget of paragraphs throwing discredit upon the rumours of war. It must be admitted that if the Emperor really intends to make war, this journal displays a rare spirit of independence in systematically deprecating such a catastrophe. The Bourse has been extremely depressed. It was generally believed, although doubts are thrown upon the fact, that a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, between France and Sardinia had been signed as a condition precedent to Prince Napoleon's ma The Prince is expected in Paris on Wednesday next. His marriage, it is thought, will be hastened; one of the rumours of the day is that it will be so , lemoised from the 20th to the 25th of Feb. The Rente fell 45c. for cash and 60c. for account, closing very heavily at 68.60 and 68.35. Mobilier fell 22.60. Railways were less affected by the panic than the Rente, but most of them fell from St. to Hit As a gentleman was passing a few days ago along the Rue de la Paix, an old man, the very picture of poverty, cried in a whining tone, " CharitT, if you please." The gentleman put his hand into his pocket, but starting back in astonishment, exclaimed, " My landlord begging!" A police officer hearing the ex clamation arrested the beggar, and found on him 260 f. in gold. It then turned out that his name is Touronde, that he enjoys a pension as a retired paviour of the city of Paris, that he is owner of a house at Pontoise, and that the gentleman is one of his tenants; also, that he has been condemned several times for theft and begging. Yesterday he was tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police for men dicancy, and was sentenced to three months' impri. @cement. The Pays avows its admiration for the military talents of Nana Sahib and Tantia Topes, and also for the diplomatic skill displayed by the authors of the Queen of Oude's counter-proclamation. It inquires : What are we now to %lab of the debiting wordage gives by tba English errepapers of Indian matters t Does eat fresh light break over the question in spite of the obstacles raised by a reveres's' whirl has abolished every liberty? Are we to holism that the Nese sad Toone Topes are vulgar leaden, igatirsat of wee, lb. facing /IDIOM t . mo d Ihe o, ssa g Qum al Os* which produced this counter proclamation, so incapable os described ? It Is evident that this document wee the work of deep rellsodaa, sod are we to feeleurprise If the Hindoo population le cl swim, logics sad patriotism ? THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY. The Tagus has arrived, with the Peninsular Mail. She left Lisbon Jan. 19, and brings specie, 9,6131. She spoke the Sultan on the 21st. From Lisbon we learn that the indemnity claimed by the French government for the capture of the Charles et Georges has been paid by the Portuguese treasury. An augmentation of the ministry is ex pected. It is rumoured that Sir Morton Peto is likely to come to an arrangement with the Portuguese go vernment respecting the Oporto Railway. Exchange, 831 to;. PRIZE CADETSHIPS. Colonel Talbot presents his compliment' to the Editor of the Express, mid mill feel obliged to him by hie insertion in that journal of the enclosed correspondence. Downiog-street, Jan. 22. ladle Hones, Jan. 19, 1859. file,-1 beg I.s to apprise you that 1 have reserved two sedleishbe kr lb, &holm, of Wellington College, to be Owed et the dyad of hie Royal Highnee the Prises Cea sed ma the Chwersers of the College. and that it le ay b lend= ie mem et beet owe cedetehlp every year br the ems porpose,fie km al bey has it la my pew.—l here, (IRMO J. W. HOGG. Wird the Hoe. W. P. Talbot, &e., &a. 10, Downing-street, Whitehall, rms. TR, MO. Ur,-1 have the honour to inform you that I have amb ulant yew Maw to his Royal Highness the Pres Mast, sad * Vise-Preoldeat of Wsßiagi= College, sad that I have Isla causeadell by Us Royal Highness to erre= to you ea the part of the rove/arm the high sense which they en serene of the public spirit that has induced you to offer thews eadenelpe as pews to the students of the College. The Governors hoes that whew it is known that such prase may be obtained by the bays paced under their charge, the gab& will, by a liberal support, salable them to increase the ease= of those who will derive the fall beads of the inatinnioe.-1 have, to., W. P. Tearsor. Sir 1. W. Hogg, Bart., de. Sia I. ANDERSON, M.P., ON PARLIANENTILRY Rarome—S* James Alderson M.P. fbe the Stirlingstaire Bergh', was farmed at dimmer at Stirling on Thursday. He mode eons brief alliselone to politico. He said—l have always been in favour of parliamentary reform, deeming the pm* sad welter of the country largely bound up with 11. Gad soar the good remelts from the former bill—which, I believe, mut be apparent to every one—l believe the time has err tome far • further at.. While lam opposed to Isireed were se lead es we have so many Ignorant red depred are emseg us, I would lower the Mutant*, and adept emerae in= seifeel mare fee having placed on the electoral eall every sed me-4ft man in this array. I awe net white be adopted on that thie red be atteined ; sad dee that the voter should be protected by the ballot is W remise of his privilege. Rirasseirrsriox or Muer Woacerreasznaa. DROITWICII ' S.II7CRDAT.-16111 WARM divide.* of WIXOM. rehire. of while this tows is the ceetre and capital, le expectatioa se • centeeled dialog, or of the Greg eleiebere, Cored Muer& _brig raised to the parer by the death of Lad Herewith. A meeting hes bees held le-ilay of the leaders of es conaervetive pasty in the divides to ecru& cm the matter, but the remit of their de lituestior (which were private) 'has not transpired. Is the meamiene. beerever, rumours sae silos& sad candidate* es both Ades are named, though nor either:a as yet bare teemed any Wrens to the electors. The other member for the division ie Mr. I. H. H. Fo le y, • liberal in poli tics, Colonel Mahout (mow Lord Northwick) being • oonservative. It is nuderetood that the liberale claim to return two members for the dirt ion, to equidies the ter comervetives for the wren division (Lord E and Mr. Wins Knight), and Mr. Bowater Vernier, of hell, is to be pet is nomination, se Mr. Foley's On the conservative side three or four candidates el= of, the most popular being perhaps Mr. Pakington, the eon of the First Laid of the Admitelty, who hie latterly eaten mete • leading put is meld emotions in the county. Another rarer Is dist the Right Hon. Baronet Sir John Pokiness bar df (abase out at Droitwich may be abolished by the sew es/sr. am) we be werdestat. Tim Isisru. TO MIS. Szunr.—lt appears from a Wee veleta by Mr. Chides %Ir that the fear young ma who threw the inseerisee et Mrs. &dim et the Strand Theatre, oa Friday eight, her ell mute fewest, end, " is e mist proper sad meaty rear wade es Wearable apo logy, is which they disdain any 'Merlon of premeditated Walt or disrespect, the throwing of the wreathe being, SO they them thought, but • harmless frolic. The spoiogy, whkh is Aped by all the price concerned, Is perfectly 'statutory tome, sad as the question has been met with peat nodose aed manliness, I feel I 'Weld be ' myeelf offending' to publish the names. ' Among the many personal anecdotes current about the Resperre shill as • tactician, it is mid that es the re of ths mop titer, and when suspicion of his dodge was elk , he met • member ef the chamber who had meetly lest hie ' seam, mad etheded with him on the =andel event. "It le, indeed, s and thing, obi one hard to bear," aid the de ' putt', Wine pima to whom ese her Mee se inalleily attached." " One thief," replied the Prodder of the Republic, "is *lll sadder, mid win herder to bese—te be easpected el plonfor to overthrow a creature re bee ewers pmeerre." The deputy went sway ad iniel est the danger wee over, and communicated h i. estielliedea to the dateed occupaets of the prison nag of Deeenher..— Sateriley &rine. FRANCE AND SARDINIA. The Paris Moniteur of this morning contains the following : " The intimate relations, which have for a long time existed between the Emperor of the French and the Bing of Sardinia, and the mutual interests of France and Piedmont, have induced the sovereigns of the two countries to draw closer, by a family alliance, the ties which unite them. For more than a year, negotiations with this object in view have been carried on, but the youth of the princess delayed the fixing of the period of the marriage until now. Yesterday General Niel officially demanded the hand of the Princess Clotilda in marriage with Prince Napoleon. The King gave his consent, and the ceremony will shortly take place at Turin." The Moniteur also contradicts a current rumour in the following terms: " The Union hu not scrupled to republish the following lines of the Indepenclance Beige: "'lt is affirmed that King Victor Emanuel only consented to the marriage of the Princess Clotilda with Prince Napoleon on the condition that anoffen sive and defensive treaty should be signed between France and Sardinia. It is added that this treaty wu signed the day before yesterday.' " We regret to have to point out and contradict inch an usertion in the columns of a French news paper, not leas because the statement is completely false than because it is insulting to the dignity of the two Sovereigns. " The Emperor must desire that his family alliance, should accord with the traditional policy of France ; but he will never make the great interests of the country depend upon a family alliance." INDIA AND CHINA. APPEAL FOR CLEMENCY FROM NANA SAHIB. (IT StrNIN•IIII3 AND BILITNIZ TILIQWH.) (MOM Oil OWN DOILANSPONDINT.) TRIESTE, BrxDAT, bg. 23. _ _ _ The India and China mails reached tines en the 14th inst., with data from Calcutta to Dec. 23 ; Ma dras, Dec. 28; Galle, Dec. 31; Hong Kong, Dec. 15; Shangbae, Dec. 16; Aden, Jan. 8. . . Peroze Shah was defeated with much slaughter, by General Napier, on the 17th December, at Rs, node, and pursued for eight miles; his force was again dispersed on the 23rd by troops from Poonah. Nana Sahib was reported at Chnrdab, in Oude, with 1,600 men. Two Rajahs with him have solicited government for protection when they may be able to escape. Their messenger also appeals on behalf of the Nana himself for clemency to his family. Nothing authentic had been heard of Lord Elgin's trip up the Yang-tae•kiang. The Chinese report that the ambusador's ship exchanged fire with the rebels in passing Moohoo. The Isplace, with Baron Gros on board, got ashore on one of the Chown Islands, and was towed to Bhanghae by her Majesty's ship Inflexible. His Excellency then proceeded to Hong Kong by the Aden. Mr. Reed, United States Commissioner, returns to America. Canton was quiet. Affairs at Ningpo were bad. An alarming fire occurred in a central part of Hong Kong on the 6th December. Since Sir J. Bowing left on a visit to Manilla on the 29th of November, the non-official legislative councillors have protested against the admission of another official member. The Governor of Macao was said to be about to proceed to:Siam to enter into a treaty with Portugal. Calcutta imports and produce quiet. Exchange, 26. Id. to 2s. 21d. ; Madras, 2s. Ofd. Canton, Dec. 11, imports improved. Little done in exports. Hong-Kong imports dull; exports in increased de mand ; exchange, 46. 81d. Shanghae imports dull ; exports firmer; exchange, 6e. 9d. Singapore, Dec. 21, trade dull ; exchange, six months, 4a. hid. Foochoo, Dec. 4, teas higher ; exchange, 4s. 10d. THE UNITED STATES. no Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Com pany have received the following telegram: GALWAY, SUNDAY. The Pacific arrived here at noon to-day. She ex perienced a very violent hurricane on the 19th inst., and suffered lose of bulwarks and boats. The Pacific has amocgst her passengers the Lord Chief Justice and the Bishop of St. John's. Cotton quiet, and a decline of 1 to 1 ; middling Uplands, lit to 11i. Breadstuff., buoyant. Flour advanced to 30. Wheat firm, but quiet. Corn advanced 30.; held higher. Money and sterling exchange unchanged. Railroad shares declined. State stacks firm. Arrived : The steamere North American, at Port land ; Glasgow, City of Manchester, and Alps, at New York. The strainer Moses Taylor, from Aspinwall, brings Californian dates to Dec. 20, and 1,400,0001. in specie, and reports that the San Francisco steamer was at Panama with two and a quarter millions, of which nearly three quarters of a million are for England. Stiel had produced a proposition appropriating thirty millions for the purchase of Cuba property in accordance with the President's views. Senator Mayor, chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, had reported to the Senate a bill authorising the President to employ land and naval forces in certain cues. The bill was supposed to be in reference to affairs in Mexico. The downfall of Zuloaga'a government was an nounced, and also that the rebels were at the head of affairs. Zuloaga had taken refuge with the British minister. The rebels sent a commission to compro mise with Guirez. The ship Margaret Tyson, of New York, for San Francisco, foundered at sea; all were ►ost but one seaman. The ship Reuther Schaffer, from Glasgow for Cali fornia; the English ship Viscount, from Glasgow ; the Arica, and Danish ship Bievald, from Newcastle for Valparaiso, all foundered off Cape Horn. The crews were saved, and had arrived at Valparaiso. New Orleans, Jan. 11.—Cotton unchanged. The Africa's advice, had no effect. Sales, three days, 28,500 bales. Middling, 11l to 111. Sterling Ex change, 1071 to 1081. Advice, from Fraser's River more favourable, but weather inclement. Provisions scarce and high. The Governor had issued a proclamation authorising a duty of 3 per cent. on the merchandise of British Columbia, but declared a free port, and allowing goods for Vancouver's Island free. Real estate at Victoria was thriving rapidly. Foreigners are to be protected in their rights of possession for three years. Mexiean data are to the 6th. General Syratnond had been eleeted President, General Robles remain ing in power till his arrival, which is expected soon. The Liberals favoured Jalapa and Corbora and attacking (Mips. HAYTL Letters have been received from several Europeans residing in the Island of Hayti, on the subject of the revolution which threatens the overthrow of the Emperor Soulouque. One of these letters is dated from the town of Oonaives, where the insurrection broke out. The consuls, the Europeans, the clergyman, and the inhabitants generally, have shown the greatest sympathy with the cause. General Barthilemy, the governor of Gonalves, declared at once in favour of the republic; Gerard has appointed him to the command of the Artibonite region, and has given that of Gonave. to Palen, that of the St. Marc dis trict to J. C. Luberis. The revolutionary committee has proclaimed the deposition of Soulongue, and re-established the liberal constitution of 1848. At Port-au-Prince they are waiting for the turn of events ; bat there, even more warmly than else where, they pray for the fall of the tyrant." Son longue feels his isolation, His courtiers make every sort of excuse for keeping aloof, and the only person,. he sees are those who could not absent themselves without seriously exposing themselves to danger. He hesitates about leaving the capital, for fear he may be unable to return. He has only a few troops with him, bat expects some regiments from the South ; it is hoped, however, that part of the Im perial army will make common cause with the insur gents as soon as they meet each other in the field. Among the proclamations of the revolutionary committee that have reached us, we publish the one subjoined, as it concerns the numerous exiles from Hayti, nattered over England, France, and other European countries. LIDERTY-ZQUALITY-REPCBLIC Or HAYTI I Decree: Considering that a large number of our fellow-countrymen ere groaning as exiles abroad, and that it ie contrary to the principles of revolution for Illastrious members of any land to remain in undeserved banishment, after due deliberation the oommittae mods the penalty of exile endured by all the Ilsytians now le foreign parts. Let them come then and rally with os around the tree of liberty I Given at Gonave; Ude 22nd day of December, 1858, in the 66th i zestr of Independents. ) Lemons, see.; Levet, Zamor (Father), . Y. timabour, F. Kendosa, Garrard, E. Noway, &int-Alas. THE POLICE AND THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS. —We publish In our impression to-day a letter from a oor. respondent, relative to the hardships and injustice to which the lionised victuallers of the metropolis are subjected, owing to the capricious views which law end police courts alike take of the way in which they ought to act when disturbances are created, or improper language and, In their houses. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday kit, Mr. Stoats, licensed victualler, had to defend an motion brought against him on the pound of alleged injury done to the plaintiff (a market porter) in ejecting him from hie house, In consequence of the im proper language and co nduct of the letter. No decision in the cue wee come to by the jury, and the result is that not only will Mr. Skarn have to pay his own expenses, but the point is still left undecided as to what amount of force a land lord may me In expelling an ill-tongued or uproarious per son from his how.—Another ease occurred at the South wark polite court, on Friday, In which Mr. Can, the land lord of the King's Arms Tavern, Thornton-street, charged his barman with being chunk e nd disorderly end wilfully breaking a glees. On this occasion the lan dlord, instead of himself expelling the drunken disorderly person, called in • polieemen, who ejected him at once. But fop doing this the policeman was severely reprimanded by Mr. Combs, the sitting magistrate, who told him that the police had no right to interfere in such cases, but that it was the duty of landlords themselves to turn out unruly characters. What, under these circumstances, are licensed victuallers to do ? Oct of their number is punished In • court of law, by having to pay the cons of an extensive defence, for e xpelling a parson from his house who had ban using most improper language and otherwise misomdoctlng himself. In another case another lionised victualler is told by a polio,. magistrate that he ought to eject unruly characters himself, and that the police have no right to assist any landlord to ex pel drunken and disorderly persons. This is really a most painful and perplexing position for boomed victuallers to he in. How, we repeat, are they, under the circumstances, to act? Whatever coarse they pnreue they aro sure to lin wrung, either in the eye of the Court of Common Plane, or in that of the Southwark police-court. We trust that the licensed victuallers of the metropolis will not allow the coming ninon to pass away without insisting on having • clear definition of the law on the sabject.—Morning Adver tiser. _ _ •—• • FALL OP A WAREHOUSE AND IRON FOUNDRY AT Sot ra wait.—Au accident of s fearful character which, had it etiourred ea hone now, would have been attended with a @seedless of lewd lives, took piece about ten minutes after six o'clock as Saturday sing. At the extreme end of Banked*, is the narrowest pert, is s thoroughfare leading to St. Mary Ovary's Dock, sad nearly facing Barclay and Perkins's La range of buildings used as wharves and warehouses sundry ponces, amongst which were the extensive premises known se the Bank End Wharf, the property of Messrs. Archer end Sons, millers and wharlin gere, and the premises known es tbe landing wharf and iron foundry belonging to Mews. Stephen Carey and Co. The first-named building contained many hundred quarters of corn in sacks, the weight of which, no doubt, wee the r ie t= ruse of the accident. The percent. employed in . Casey's works shout the hour mentioned suddenly noticed the wall that separated the two wharves bulging. The whole length of the western wall then shot out, causing the roof to part in throe plow, currying with it about one third of Messrs. Carey's foundry. The noise occasioned by the fall of the two buildings was so great that many persona imagined an explosion had taken piece in the foundry. As awn as the confusion had somewhat abated and the dust diverted it was found that the warehouse belonging to Messrs. Archer and Seas had fallen, the whole; of the grain contained therein being buried in the debris. FALL OF AN OLD BUILDING.—TWO MEN SERIOCILT IR7URLD.-012 Saturday morning considerable excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of the Kent-road, in consequence of the fall of a building in Harpureetres4 Kent-road. Tits building is extremely old. For some time no one could ascertain the canes, and on the neighbours going to Mr. Hobman's stables they heard groans under the &brit. When the duet and smoke hod cleared away a pitiable sane presented Smelt The ral.bielt had buried Henry Wicks, aged 64 and Mr. Haters, jun., and two horses. The miss of the men were most distressing. Henry Wicks was conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where it was found that the pelvis wee buret by the falling of • piece of timber; and Mr. Hebei= now remains at home in • very dangerous state. . . _ THE RUNAWAY %Var.—A paragraph io our lastde tailed how • Mrs. IlL•Kassia,lnvarnms, after having made her husband drunk, had abeccoded 'tithed/. of his saoings , besides various chattels, and was traced to London, where, however, she could not be apprehended for want of a proper warrant. On Monday morning a criminal officer we, despatched from Inverness to London with that document, wh, succeeded is hie missies. and brought the offender to Inverness op Friday last. She got a hearty cheer at the railway-station, Inverness, from which place she was conveyed to gaol. From knowledge door gleaned, It appears that other parties were coirnisant of Mrs. M'Kensies intentions, (cr. on the night of her departure, these partie•—te their shame be it spoken— kept the unsuspecting husband in amusement and good humour in a neighbouring house, with plenty f rose, when hi, wife was busy plundering his home. 1\ hen in London she had the coolness to write to her husband that, if be would consent to sojourn in the great metropolis, aho woot4 send him 31. (of his own cash) to pay his way up :—Aberdare Brrold. OIL AND SOAP PROM TIIE COTTON PLANT.—At the last meeting of the Liverpool Chocolate' Amociation, Mr, T. R. Arnett presented a epedroen of oil from the seed of the cotton plant, • pleas of soap made from the oil, and some oaks roads from the residue. Mr. Arnett said that fanned,' the seed was thrown sway until it was discovered that 12 could be applied to the manufacture of articles he produced. The mmit understood that there was a large quantity of the cake manufactured in England. Mr. Amon repad that them was a large quantity manufactured and used as food for cattle. A friend of his killed his cattle with using it. 111 r. Meths= asked if he gave them too much. Mr. Arnott No; It arose from the description of the eel& From some of it it was impoetible to extract the fibre, whit* emote lidera the animal. Mr. Abraham' Are the par chasers aware of the dialectics between the various de scripdans of seedy Mr. Arnett : They will find it oat fit time. (lemOtee.) ROYAL Pl= HOSPITAL, The samba of patine, relieved at this hospital during the week wham Jaw 22 au 1,616, of yid& 726 Wan WI area. LAW INTELI (THIS DA COURT OF QURE2 Mogi to Basoo.—(Beforo Lori Wight:man, Crompto 1,4_11Z PliCll7.-DISXIBSIN Mr.Serjeant Hayes moved 1 directing the vicar of Ardingehme, secure Mr. Feeley, the pariah cler had held for fourteen or fifteen had been non-resident for a made three or four attempts to get the last occasion, in December Luo his residence, he called upon the pa he was the person who had takt vestry, edding it was tramportatice Lord Campbell—Although It we Mr. Berjeant Hayes—The vicar cleric. The facts connected with Mr. Bower* knowing the vestry stove to the church al: yams ai sad was removed to the belfry, until the agent of Mr. Bony permission to use it. The wiai Move to his own premises, where 1 some yam. Subsequently a quest it, and the parish clerk thought it vestry. The vicar mid lie rem taking the stove, and he looked hl prevented him readying his fees. Lord Campbell—He is virtually Mr. Serjaant Hayes—Yee; but 1 , 01111 Into the church, sits at th r A=o," to which the vicar make Lord Campbell—The vicar mum Mr. Selma Hayes—Hs mast moving him, and he has not done Lord Campbell—The Incumbao pariah clerk for • just cams after h to say in defence, but he cannot and without his being heard. You facie case. How It will be mewl by. Rale granted. ILL PABTI LONDON xEcaoroL LIBEL. Mr. Edwin James safd behalf of the chairman and direr polls Company for • rale to aln Information should not be filed Arming, for a libellous publication Lord Campbell—Upon the dine Mr. James—The affidavits state polls and National Mausoleum under an act of parliament, and ti tent of land in the neighbourhood opened for interments is 1854, ton appesr• fn Aniiseg's 11011t1 &steel Advertiser, in which an undertaker, sets out his mod' It I. in these terms: "Feiner Many of our readers will reran newspapers some years sine of th by London undertakers for funeral the good resulting thereform. Tb deiced 60 per cant., notwithata the funerals have to be taken metropolis churchyards. Few, In go the length prardised by one o which have lately sprung np I funerals to • cemetery on a wild London. They do away with ft bodies to :the railway station vans. I ffe wouldgoot bury ev and far be it that England should continue a practice observed by time immemorial. All that's ws be conducted at a fair and te4llolll — LordCanipi;sll- 1 1ati;itia7ri Mr. lamas answered in the aft show that it was ono of a very se the oompany. Lord Campbell—The remark' they're such ea may bo made wi matt or an information. — Mr. rust:ieTero;Con—The more, than this: Employ as; w mode of conducting (anorak. Mr. lattice Wightinaa—The s put It la, :that bodies ore =nosy( Lord Campbell—lt is a libel on Mr. Jame— lt is ► vary grave Lord Campton-1a diet - mom Mr. Jame—The affidavits re woiteeseat km bees created m carmay has upended ea mach csrairsti. Lord Campbell—l dare ray it pug ; but nothing more is mid i that Mr. Aiding's Is the best mo but most assuredly we are all de not • cam in which we can Wed Rids refused. COURT OF BA Odors Mr. Comdr IN RE T. 8. I The benkrupt was described toyer, of Loudon-street, Totted milt ham. custody, now ap a Tited a for 1: 1 1e f dl o. balance-shot, and bed so far coo of the court. (The balance-ghee to unsecured creditors, with UV The property I. alt held by war Mr. Rome, on behalf of the - the ~ppliestioo. Mr. Pennell, the official sad! no opportunity of examining the His Honour said the applies meted It to stand over until the IN RE SEMI' The bankrupt was a corn-me eta. This was the examinstia bassos-sheet, showing 50W. o the property being held ea seem accounts were extremely swam His Honour adjourned the el tootles for a meth. IN EZ 1 : The bankrupt was a bootra Barton, law Northamptact. mettlng. The accounts have n nary statement of again., prepu ootuttanta, showe a aunt of 11,1 tors, with wets returned at of 1,6501. la held by secured ere An adjournment was adorn Section being continued, with t IH YE I: The bankrupt was the examination . B debts of 1,4791., with ih rt i rlagkiy meted for an adji the yecounte were unaatisfacter, 17.1;;;;.;;;;; for the Devi rendered the burr aceminte in I might be allowed to puce. Hie Honour thrnittit that a eatiafactory for all parties. pointed oat which the tankrup THE POLIC (Tills MANSIOI EMBEZZI William Harry Goodera, years of age, was charged having etsbezzled upwards of Mr. J. liorneytoan, tea-dealer Mr. Morgan (litunpbre)P, for the prosecution, and the ; Mr. Morgan said there wen prisoner, Lut he should cud today to justify a remand. Mr. J. Hoeneyoun, thou prisoner was for the butter° yt meat. The 17 cheques shown the prisoner on the let Ina enclose them In letters and fo by post. The seventeen the ea duly 'mid, their amount be by my btother fur my father. Mr. P. Jackson—l keep 1 end kndw the prisoner. Tb were left by the prisoner at I called early. They were each vious evening ho asked me i for him through my Lan cheques they were), u he people. 1 knew he was crap' to oblige him. I paid the on the same day into 1 et Shoettlitch. I gave the 4th inst., except 21., wt I seEd ha vi Le det o ce n a t u r i r sri o : p n os l e b c; reached its destination, and I George Resister, a printer, iaognmge kegu, in lestchrap. Complainant—The defends home when drunk, and being mortal, has exprested I therefore wish to et ithdran Defendant—l bad been at got a little liquor, which coo my lord. lam very sorry ft never repeat such conduct. Tie Lord Mayor—You de Dereadent--Yee, my lord. The Lord Mayor—You m emir, end I truer you will The driendeat, Who said *ba t said the Ilae, sad we