The Express. — London, England, 1862-01-23 00:00:00

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It is at such a season that the most subtle social self indulgenes enjoys the lazury of public almsgiving, and the gratification of feeding the hungry and clothing the naked by subscription; making misery, like church-going. a condiment to respectability, and the sufferings that " wretches feel " a pun gent satisfaction to the pionsopalence that relieves them at • respectful dietetics. It is • season of rare physical enjoyment to nerves that are braced by the crisposiog frost, and to rich blood that glows in the eager air. It is a season of rare moral enjoyment to well-to-do benevolence, that out of the abundance of its pity and its pockets signs its cheques for " institutions." Presently a thaw comes, and the poignant sense of contrast which prompted the indifferent to pity, and lent an exquisite pang to the comforts of the rich, becomes relaxed and torpid agaiu. At such a moment we are tempted to ask • question. Does Society ever seriously pause to think what real winter is for hundreds and thousands of its fellow creatures T No doubt it does. Listen to the voices from the pulpits, look at those columns of subscription lots which pompous charity de ploys. Even as tales of shipwrecks, of battles and adventures by land and sea, ere favourite winter reading for the young ; so among the heads of families, the records of poverty and headship point the moral of the well-furnished table and the well heaped hearth. Romance and reality, how ever, are two very different things, though both be come conventional. The realities of the labourer's lot, and of the workman's hard condition, are the subject-matter of social science, of administra tive reports, of blue books, lectures, institutions, public speeches. Some years ago it was the fashion to make novels a vehicle for a sort of sentimental socialism. Now another epoch has come ; • military epoch ; and, as in the good old times, romantic heroism now wean some sort of uniform—a convict's, if no better can be vt—and is surrounded with the halo of crime if not of glory. The most modern hero, to be interesting, must have wielded the sword or the cutlass., or, at least, be must have qualified for the hulks. The other day it was our painful office to relate the sufferings and death of a party of brave and devoted explorers of the Australian continent. The story was heroic enough ; but the party were civilians, and a jaded public seas no materials for a sensation in the noiseless fate of a few enter prising travellers, who climb mountains and tra verse wildernesses, and sink at last from sheer starvation when their work is done. Yet novel ists and dramatists are continually torturing their imaginations for some new effects ; and how many of them are able to escape for an instant from one or other of the half.a.dozen "situations" of that immemorial region of sentiment and fancy bounded by Love arid Death 1 To be sure, it is generally supposed that there is no such thing as romance in these latter days. Were there ever days in which this vulgar fallacy was unknown f The Present is always trite and formal. No doubt a man may spend a night alone at the North Pole, and come home and have nothing to say about it ; but this is not the fault of the North Pole. At all events there is no need for the romance of daily journalism to travel so far. We have only to turn to that " North Country " of Eng land to discover romance enough in all its elements of tragic pity, terror, and pathos. Look there, we say--sentimentalists and fancy chroniclers of war—look there, where every gale that blows strews the rock-bound and sand hedged COMA with wrea. ks, and ravages sawport towns with MOM than the finy of a devouring pestilerce or a pitiless in vader ; where a sudden fall in the weather-glass proclaims to many a group of women and children as they stand gazing vacantly out at the hazy rolling distance, a sentence of desolation and be reavement THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1862. Or, if there is nothing of romance in the immierlng of fifty coasters, what shall we say of web a seen* as that around the mouth of the Hartley Coal Pit, where throsghout the long dead January nights, and the bleak cheerless fog-wept miserable days, from Thursday to Thursday, a crowd of poor wives and children—widows and orphans now wait and watch—all hushed and helphes and tearless, as if turned to stone by anguish, or murmuring vacantly remembered ' syllables of prayer—for a sound or sign of life or movement from husband, brother, or child, buried alive a hundred fathoms down in the bowels of the earth. Surely there is nothing in the romance of war to compare with this picture of the buried men and lads in the depths of the pit, and the women and children standing at the mouth, mutely suppliant and stupefied with grief under the pitiless winter skies. Buried alive ! The delirium of fever never pressed a more horrible nightmare on the brain. The most cruel tyrant never (le vied a more atrocious punishment. The wildest imagination never conceived human agony more intense than this ►ug and wrestling of strong life with the remorseless weight of • legion of deaths. It is loud to be shot down or hewed to death by assassins, to be cut off by • fell surprise ; but who would not rather be murdered in the light of the sun and in the free air of Heaven, than die by inches in the yardeeam of a coal pit, yet almost within earshot of aid and rescue Let ns not look idly on at such a spectacle se this. The other day when • great man died • courtly Bishop, by way of improving the occa sion, began unctuously to mete out judgments to the people in the name of PROTIDINCIL How do Bishops, courtly or popular, moralise on the chaos of mortal destinies in a ooelpit I Around that pit's mouth stood the aged and infirm, weak women with infants at the breast, and children just able to say " father"—widowed, orphaned, home less, desolate as the survivors of a city sacked by an invading army, torn up by an earthquake, or over whelmed by a volcano. The buried men and kids below represent the destruction of • British army or the loss of a British fleet. Rude in speech, coarse in manners, they have not escaped the caricaturist or the social homilist--this hardy and enduring population of miners—the very pith and marrow of our race, who sustain on Atlantean shoulders the weight of the prosperity of England, as in life-long darkness, and amidst dangers incessant and always imminent, they explore the secret sources of national wealth and power—to whose unknown and unrecorded martyrdom we owe not only the cheerful light and warmth of our dwellings and our streets, but the very means by which the strength of England subsists, and the peaceful victories of our civiliza tion are achieved. Does the British public as it Nits by its fireside ever spare a thought to these true paladins of the nineteenth century these nanatgem champions, but for whose strong arms and patient spirits neither Downing-street, nee Whitehall, nor Woolwich, nor Portsmouth could maintain the honour and the rights of England for a single day f Chivalry and courage, and heroic virtues, are not found only in camps and on quarter-decks. Let us celebrate the heroes of gasettes in sonorous bulletins and pompous volumes ; let us raise monumental trophies of their prowess in public places ; let us reward the shattered survival. of campaigns with pensions ; let us comfort dur invalided veterans in hospitals. But let those humble but not less heroic men of peaceful labour and endurance, who absolutely 'mute England, and who it may be, die as these two hundred and fifteen men and lads in the Hartley pit have died, at work and duty, be not forgotten wherever at this season public charity is something better than an ostentatious and organized hypocrisy. When the working people of Lyons were the victims of an inundation, the City of London called a meet ing to subscribe to their relief. The widows and orphans of these poor buried colliers will, we trust, excite at least equal commiseration, not in the capital only, but in all those commercial and industrial centres, ►nd in all those houses of the highborn and the wealthy, whose honours and riches and comforts have been wrung from the labours of such men as those who lay last night locked together, father and child, son and brother, in the last embrace, in the yardeesm of the Hartley Pit—buried alive. trbt Court. oeaORNE, iLT4 r. The Earl and Couatese of Elgin arrived at Osborne yesterday, arid reward to Lemke the anemias. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major-Gemini the Hes. R. Brace, arrived at Burlingham Palace, about six o'clock yesterday evening, from Osborne. The Kiag of the Belgians remiss at Buckingham Pallier It kr Imo intimated to her Majesty's, Commissioners foe the Isternatiosal Exhibition of 18132, that Henry Kendall, Zig., of 11, New limed-street, EC., Peruvian annul, has been Appointed Cunimissiotier for Porn. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-cam, from the C;overnors of Heligoland, Gibraltar, Malta, Hoax Kong, Ceylon, the Australian Goisates. sad New Zealand. Despatches were sent to the Oeveraer ef Wade. MOIORIAL 10 ?MI LLTI P11131C2 CflllOlT.—Tbe sali-committee ad the siereorlal fend met yesterday after noon, at the Massiondionse, the Bight Zee. lie Lord Mayor is the choir, and it was reported that the total amount re calved was sheet 12,0001., and it wee reembeed that the whole of the subscriptioes received up to yesierday should be advertised in the morning papers of this day. Among the priocipal amounts reived in the course of yesterday was 300 guineas from the Trinity-house. The King of the Belgians has deferred his in tended visit to Viscount Palmerston at.Braullande, owing to a slight cold, front which his Majesty suffered in the early part of the week. The Earl of Eglinton and Winton continues at the Bedford Hotel. Brfghtoo. The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland has been surrouoded by a select party at Cliefden. The circle has included the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Earl Gran ville, Lord and Lady Blantyre, Lord Dufferio, and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. The Marchioness of Downabire has arrived in town from Eaat lffampsteed Park, Berks. The noble mar quis remains in Ireland. The Earl Granville, who arrived in Bruton-street on Tomsday from rialtiog the Duchess Dowager of Suther land at Minim near Miiidenhesd, ham pee to LiMohan, Shropshire, to speed a fee days with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. The Earl of Ellenborough has arrived at hie mei deuce in Upper Belgnre•etreet from Southern House, Cheltauhana. Lord and Lady Willoughby de Ereloby arrived at their residence is Piccadilly last evening from Torquay. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., sad Lady Emily Peel will arrive in tows this evening from A lishionable party (says the Worcuterskire Music/4 saereibled at Willey Court, as Wednesday evening, to witness a grand billiud tournarneot which the Earl of Dudley had got op. Some of the crack players of the kingdom (inclodieg Roberts, the champion player), took part in the game. Lord Dutferin will move and Lord Shelburne will tetrad the Address in the House of Lords is sourer to the Spe.rh horn the Threes at the approaching seadiUo. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. The Augsburg Gazette says : A captors Nora mevitable between the Paean govern- meat and the miirituid authority of Posen. In a letter, *d ammed be the Luster of Public Worship, the Archbishop dol.& tie notional attitude assumed by his countrymen. Indio tobailllog that all interferenee with politics must of assumeity be rearmed, he thinks it quite natural that the Peke of the Grand Duchy of Posen should have taken ad. wale et the recent movement to proclaim their wishes sod ottloikol rights, and be commode them to the Divas probeetaii. The Archbishop, therefore, approves the hymae is the churches ; and he calls for the enmities of a special Polish university. Now, the hymn most commonly suns in the churches, and approved of by the Archbishop, is the "Bose cos Pasha," the Polish " liaricillaiee."--[The author of We hymn was an ancestor of the new Archbishop a Wormy, *p. 1--As to the creation of a Polish molvonity, the Patina gmerament hae always been dangly opposed to it. THZ PRUSSIAN CHAMBER. 3C Grabow, after having been elected Pre sident, addressed the Chamber on the 20th inst. as follows : Geatlseaso,—The alma* unanimous election you hays dart made has conferred upon me for the next four weeks a difficult task. I ma warmly hops to meow- Oink it es 'moat of the weakeem of my sight, sad of my hewing. Nererthalers, I wile, in mad amities of the great proof of Madams which you hare shaded me, and of Ilse coadirmes with which you homer me, and for which I uprose to yea my deep mined*, to oadearour to discharge sty difficult defies by denoting to them all my easrgies heartily sad emescientionsly, aad with combat impartiality. Bat, to ceder that I may be molded to nosed is this, I mot eripostly solicit your ineidgeat Madame sad your swergotio support. Clostlmes,—lt is my priamay sad invariable on wisdom that we ma, sows of is. separate fidelity towards the awed reinessatative ci our idagiom ham fidelity towards the pee*. It Imy issasraablo had that we gen an laid as seared the marina- Usual right of the deumni, M which our royal mambo, gave, only a bow amaths ago, a religious mono% in the prommes of two other members of the isgislailws power, mid of the 111101111116 ammobled far that pp m. W. aB desire sin to proems sad coasolidate the seisssidplesiered rights ci our people, who will be always food, heart sad soul, with lore sad fidelity, in good is to evil time, at the side et the &Arad haws of Hobsozollara. Let es. them set to week, la amain with the aroma mid with horeasny swami auselvea for the teal achlews meat et the maditedica, sad far the development of a legidatlon which has been amunmeed is a grand epoch. May we messed, while tombs( in a solid and dandies denser the emelitational date is Pendia, is scattering the doubts and the eoatradiatime which dill oppose theta- edam to oar widens for the teridaatim of Grimsby, row participMad is by an ties German ma*. (aura's min.) ITALY. • TURIN, Jay. 23. Monsignor Carl, an agent of Cardinal Antonelli, has been arrested at Leghorn. He was staying at the Capuchin convent SPAIN. The Official Gazette bells IL is enceinte. of the MADRID, JAS. 21 es that Quetta Is FRANCE. MAREIRILLEB, JAIL 13. K Fonld's report has exercised no influence on the sugar rearket hose. THE BRAZIL& RUMOR AYRES, Doc. 14. (Per Preach Awry Raternadurs) General Flores has taken possession of Banta Y Row, the late governor, and General Lopez, have Bed to the :done, whither hoops have bees sent to pursue them. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Exchange on England, 643 a. to b7s. ; on France, 86 to 864. ITILNAIIBUCO, Dix. 31. Heavy arrivals of sugar have taken plea) and there are large stocks on hand. There is no material alteration in prices. Channel browns are quoted 80 to 100 rein per arroba lower. Cotton -10,500 to 11,000 rein per arroba. Freights in glemand. Exchange to the amount of 70,0001. sterling has been negotiated on London at 26a. id. to 265. id. per milreis. The Tyne arrived here ou the 29th instant. RAIIIA. Dza. The sugar market is flat : holders ref uaed to sub mit to a reduction in prices. Cotton remains with out alteration. Cooua stocks are exhausted, and the article continues in demand. The stock of hides is small. Freights nominal. Exchange on London, 90 days' eight, 26f. Considerable sales of brown sugar have taken place, at 2 dole. 50c. and 2 dole. 100 c. per arroba. " M. Blanqui," says a Paris letter in the Journal is Havre " who wam undergoing at St. Pelagie him sentence et intprisolawat for getting up a secret society, has just ebtainsd peculation to be transferred to a inassoorde-winti:." The donut de Castries, brother of the Duke de Ceetries, mid father of the Duchene of Magenta, died in Palil c Friday last, in the tsith year of his age. His fumed obiegaien wen performed ha the church of St. db. tilde ott &today with peat pomp. The church was crowded with the elite of the Faubourg St Germain. A grand festival of the different Prussian orders of nobility wee held on Sunday at the palace at Berlin when the knights and posameors of orders who bed been decorated during the course of this year, and also at the coronation in October last, were presented to their Majesties. After the presentatios, the King and Queen, followed by the chief court °Melds, the commimioners el the orders, the heights, Arc., proceeded to the royal chapel, which was already filled by a number of per sons who had received invitations. The general super intendent, Dr. Hoffman, preached the sermon. At the conclusion of the service a grand banquet took plies In the White Hall, the Picture Gallery, and the Knights' Hall. The Crown Princess was not present, bet scampi the visitors were the prisons and princesses of the royal lore, and also Prince Augustus of Wartemburg, Prism William of Sadie, Duke William of Mecklenbiarg-Sehweris, Prince Henry of Hesse, and other royal personages. The Quest Dowager attended the ceremony at the palace, being the first time her Majesty has appeared is public sins the summer of 1867, when the late King was first taken seriously ill. . . . . The ' lVazione of Florence relates the following : "M. Batter°, a laws singer of the Argentina Theatre at Roma, thought proper daring one of the performances to play the music of Chuibaldes hymn on the piano. The air was hailed with deafening applause, which led to remonstrance op the part of the pulice. R. Biolchini, the manager, reosived a formal order to give the muaician a severe reprimand." Prince de Joinville, Count de Paris. and Duke de Chartres, accompanied by their suites, left the Bre rood House, New York, for Washington, on the 10th instant. The New York Herald says :—" The public fre quently get the names of the three United States Senators Lane confounded. Joeeph Lae was one of the first repre sentatives in the Senate front the State of Oregon, and his term expired with the last Congers. He was killed a politically by running on the ticket with John 0. Breads ridge for Vioe-President, io 1860. James H. Lane was sistent to the Senate from Kmeam,bet has reeently accepted • haipadier-sseeralsbip in the army. Hoer, S. lane is aow else of the senators from Indian►' A snit by Mr. Dion Bondi:snit against Messrs. Fox rad Lingard, managers of the Bowery Theatre, New York, to recover $2,500 damages for performing the play of the Orioreme, which was the alleged copyright property of the plaintiff, was commenced on the Ilth before Judge Shipman, in the Untied States Circuit Court. AMERICA. THE WAR AND THE SINEWS OF WAR. The Nest, York Herald of Jan. 11 observes that "the two great questions which now monopolise the public mind are, first, when are we to have a great and decisive battle ? and second, are they doing anything in Congress to save the government and the country from the ruinous consequences of a threatened irredeemable and constantly deprecia ting shinplaster currency To these questions the Herald replies as follows : We are happy to say, is reply to the hot of these pies. hoes, that the army is in motion—that the nivenil deleek merle of the powerful column of General BosS, fa Rea tacky, from different points, are cloning around the rebel inland stronghold of Bowling-gross ; while from oar own stronghold of Cairo a formidable flotille, with a =ropes& Leg hod force, is on the eve of starting towards the fortified rebel camp at Columbus on the Mississippi river. The rebel army at Bowliag•green is supposed to be not lees Oust 65,000 men, and their army at Columbus is set (lowa at about 20,000. On our side the shame* foram of General Buell will, it is believed, present so og graph of no lees than 70,000 men ; and the eolanse of Owrsl Welernand, from Giiro, with some Important retateseemeets from General Smith, at Paducah, will 'mount to 30,000 zoos. Both of these moving columns We admirably equipped •sd amply !provided with good artil- key; and from the splendid fighting qualities already die played la evsay sort of encounter by our Western Union troops, we have me imitation in submitting the prediction that before the end of the present meth we shall have some grand and decisive Union Theories in the West. At the as time the Herold' naval expo :Olio* hr moved down from Anespolis to Hampton Raids (Foetus Massie" and is only waiting the signal for a dm k upon the enemy at woe important point or two no the Southern nehord. The practical knowledge derived fame the Gape Hatteras and Port Royal expeditions baa eoalriliated materially to mks this expedition of Burnside • certain susses spinet any point which it may heal, and to Justify the whist that Burnside, having dislodged his enemy from his GM position, will instantly follow him up, disperse bin forme or capture them, and Artie at gtheir main arteries of inland communiestion between! Virginia and the cotton slates. Simnß•esously with the thunders of our artillery is the West we may expect to hear of the shell* est of the enemy somewhere in the soca-east by the Burnside expe dition. But what of our grand army of the Potomac ? Is General 'Peleliu, with his two Imsdrod Amend mm, to 1111111112 stationary all this time? Beaureprd, it appears, is mew this impression ; for he has pat hie troops at Gintrullis and along Bull Baia end the Occutian, activeiy to work in the erection of log hats for their winter quarters. But this signifies nothing. We premise, on the cori trary, that, as General "PClellea has not proceeded to the building of log hate, he expects soon to pat his army in motion. We think, too, that the intelligent reader will be able to discover, from the other army movements indi cated, that they are but parts of a grand system of com bined apsestions, in whisk the army of the Potomac will strike the heaviest and Main( Nom The facts we hare recited are Balkiest to chow that the grand winter elm sign of our army and Navy, which will inevitably croak this rebellion, has already began, sad that, so far as our army and navy are seaweed, then is so longer any ground for emplaiat of a waidetal sad &smiling inactivity. The essay and navy are is manse, sod we shell not have to wait much lacer far some decisive results. Of the Simeon of the North the Heralcasays Oor mood ciention, which refers to the sinews of wee, sod to the prospects of slasonsiblis, broad, and oomprshen siva 011•1111111111 al Oongromionsl legislation on the subject, we asesot answer so sslisfselorily to our readers. The Hoses of Itagrasesteliven, paid a in gold, appears still to be lomat of the fad &g rid in New York is milling at 3 to 4 per cent. premises. And why this premium, with • speeds bags of throe hundred millions in the ccantay 1 It arises from the abeam) of any pro vision as the part of Congress for the interest and final redemption of the present sad proposals* paper money brass on the part a/ the government. An expenditure of six hundred millions • year upon • cash basis of sixty mil lions of receipts is shaking the madames of the country is Treasury paper sad all other sorts of paper money. The safety of the Treasury and the interests of the financial, commercial, sad all other business classes of the country demand • cash bash for these war expenses of the Trea sury of two hundred millions, or additional direct and indi rect taxation on the part of Congress equal to one hundred and fifty million. income to the Treasury. The war is programing finely ; bat the sinews of war will surely fail no unless Cosmos, dropping this worse than useless agitation of slavery, and thaws dismal/in( *skin concerning the leaders of our army, shall promptly interpose to save the country and the Treasury. We want one hun dred and forty or fifty millions more actual cash re ceipts for the Treasury. Let them be provided by taxation, and the work of sustaining the pupa imam of the government and of our banks upon the par basis of specie will be simple and sasy. Next give us • general bankrupt law, to lift from the shoulders of our busi• uses classes some of the oppressive burdens resulting from this rebellion, and our people will not complain of the extraordinary doing upon them to sustain our army, the Treasury, and the currency of the country, fressallhe dangers el a financial revulsion. As the army is in mafiosi for a vigorous premonition of the war, we call upon Owings to provide the AIMS of war without further trifling, apdvoratien, or delay. taxtrruts ISLOGRAMILI THE REINFORCEMENTS FOR CANADA. PORTLAND, JAN. 11. (Per Norwegian, yid Londonderry.) A despatch received here announces that Mr. Seward has telegraphed permission for the British troops en route for Canada to land here, and pan through Maine to their destination. COMMERCIAIi INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAN. 5, 11 Evmum. _ _ Cott°. dull and heavy ; middling U pland, 35e. Bread skiffs heavy. Exchange on London :—/lankone bills, 1141; gold, 4 per tient, premium, dull. Stocks buoyant. New York Ceuta,* 831; Illinois, 63 ; Erie, 351. SOUTHAMPTON, Taussoar. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Borussia, Captain Trautman, from New York on the 10th, at 2 p.m., arrived off Cowes at 1.23 am _ _ _ The Borings brings 46 passengers for Hamburg and 40 for Havre ; she has also on freight 133,400 dole. for England and 260,338 doh. for Havre. During her voyage she spoke the following ships Steamer Alma, bound for Liverpool ; she left on the same day as the Borussia, and was with the Borwisia until the 15th at 3 p.m. On the 18th passed an English steamer at 10 a.m., with four toasts, a black funnel with one white rim round, supposed to be the Glasgow, in let. 49.10, long. 32.50, steering westerly. On the 19th, at 9 a.m., saw an English steam frigate in lat. 49.32, long. 25.50, steering N.W., bound west. Suavvriso ExrxDrnow TO JAPAN.—The screw sloop Swallow, 9,466 tons, 6040ess power, Meeter-OoeP mender E. Wilds, fitting in the Medway for a lengthene d surveying expedition to Japan and the adjacent waters, has been inspected by Captain J. Washiegtoo, F.H.8., principal hydrographer of the navy, and Capt. H. M. Don , ham, the eminent nautical surveyor, late of the Herald, surveyiugship, under whose direction she has been fi tted with everything required in the prosecution of her im portant mission. A number of the most modem and valuable surveying, astronomical, and other scientific in- Mennients have been put on board, in order that the vessel may leave England in as perfect condition as possible. The wardroom bas been converted into a chart-room. and, as the number of °Moms attached to the ship is much larger than under ordinary circumstance', a portion of the steetage has been taken in for • ward-room, thereby materially curtailing the comparatively limited accommo dation for the ship's company. An application has accord. isgly been made to the Admiralty for the vessel to be fitted with • poop, but Do directions to that effect have yet been give by their lordships. A topgallant forecmtle has hem erected, which will prove of peat Denim for berthing a portion of the ship's company in • wsrm climate. The sloop has been altered in her rig from ship to barque, so as to render the work easier to the men. She is only armed with • 32. pounder pivot gun mid four 12. pounder mm, as • means of protection against pirates, who infect the water in which she will principally be employed. Her ballast is to be shifted, so as to bring her down 12 inches by the stern EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (I'loll OUR von, PARLS. WLDNIXDAT EVICIMIG. The evening journals are naturally very sparing of remarks upon M. Fonld's financial report. To say nothing of the circumspection rendered noes-' sexy by the press laws in France, it is obvious that a journalist would be presumptuous in taking upon I himself to pronounce any decided opinion, at an hour's notice, upon an elaborate state paper on such a thorny subject as finance, which one of the most competent men in Europe, with all the official means of knowledge at his command, has taken months to prepare. The Pays points out as leading features of the programme that there is to be no loan, and that there is no confirmation of a recent report that the state forests were to be sold. The Opinion Nationale expresses no other opinion than that "the foreign policy to be inferred from the document may be summed up in the single phrase—hope of the main tenance of peace." The Passe ventures to think the minister extremely sanguine when he bases his calculation of a surplus upon the pre sumed excess of receipts over expenditure in 1863, "in spite of the commercial and industrial situa tion of the country, in spite of the late deficient harvest, in spite of the numerous factories shut up, in spite of the civil war which desolates half the world, and in spite of the various exceptional cir .. cumstauces of the times in which we live." The Fresco also thinks that the poorer classes will lose more by the tax on salt than they will gain by the reductions on household furniture and trade licenses specially intended for their relief. The Temps, while expressly reserving its judgment on the re port as a whole, expresses disappointment at the small reduction of the army, and thinks that with every possible retard for the dignity of France • normal force of 400,000 men is not necessary. It also objects to the relief of certain classes from the taxes above alluded to, as not a sound democratic measure. The people should, it argues, be aoous tomed to feel practically that every citizen is bound to contribute according to his means to the neces sary expenses of the state, and there should be no such thing as privilege for the lower class any more than for the higher. At the Bourse the financial statement was received with very mixed feelings. Sales for realisation of profits were so numerous that the fall at one time assumed the proportions of a panic. Towards the close of business there was a b,tter feeling, but, after many fluctuations, the Bents left off, with a fall of 60c. for cash, and 45c. for account, at 69fr. 700. andeefr. 96c. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50c., and the Italian Loan So. The Lyons Railway fell Mr., and Southern 3fr. 75c. The other lines were weak, but closed with little change. The Pays, in a paragraph from which it is to be inferred that there has been something mysterious in the preparation of the expedition to Mexico, makes a merit of not having sooner alluded to what it calls the " rumours accepted by some journals." So far, however, from contradicting those rumours, it confirms them in all essential particulars. It is at pains to deny that there is any augmentation of the naval force originally destined for the Mexican waters, and I am not aware that the contrary has ever been stated, but it says that the new military corps will be 3,000 strong, including 250 cavalry, and 550 Zonaves. That is no contradiction of the statement that the entire force will con sist of from 6,000 to 7,000. The reason given for the augmentation is the large force sent by the Spanish government—so that jealousy of Spain and not the requirements of the service to be per formed is put forward as the reason for this con siderable displacement of troops. The only fact stated by the Pays which differs materially from the news already current is that Brigadier-General Lorene will only command the extra corps to go out early in February, instead of taking the command in chief of the three armies. It is stated this evening that in consequence of serious news from Havamuth the departure of General Lorence's army, which was to have taken place from the sth to the 10th of February, will be hastened, and that the entire force will be at sea before January 30. _ . The Opinion Nationale expresses itself as opposed altogether to the part which Franc© is now playing in Mexico. The commercial treaty with Prussia, which was announced, almost officially, two or three days ago to be on the eve of signature, still hangs fire. The Berlin cabinet is not satisfied with the last French proposals, and has re-opened the negotiations in the hope of obtaining further concessions. The Opinion Nationale Nays as "Latest News" : It is ailirmed,and we reproduce the news under all reserve, that the English government has determined categorically to proponnd the question of the recognition of the South at the opening of Parliament, and is firmly resolved to have • decision one way or the other. IL Charles Edmond, an old personal friend of Prince Napoleon, has on his recommendation been appointed librarian to the Senate,in the place of the late M. Viellard. THE PININSITLAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Jas. 22. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's stoma ship Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the above mails, in charge of Lieut. Balfour, R.N., arrived at I . p.m. She brings 4 passengers, 8 packages of specie, value 3,1041. ; also 154 half chests of oranges, 4 boxes Tangerines, 908 eases eggs, 2 casks of wine, and 5 packages of sundries. From Lisbon to Vigo the Alhambra experienced ' strong northerly winds ; thence to Ushant, mode rate southerly winds ; and from Ushant to South ampton very strong winds from the same direction. In lat. 45.07 N., long. 8.19 W., paased and ex changed signals with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Tagus, with the outward mails of the 17th. . . The Alhambra reports three wrecks off Oporto, names and particulars unknown. Drxrit or COLON/I. COLT. The New York papers received today announce the death of Colossi Samuel Colt, at Hartford, Cono. Mr. Colt was barn in the city in which he died on the 19th of Jody, 1814. He wee the inventor of the celebrated revolving pistol, the wooden model of which, it is stated, was made on board a vessel while the inventor was on a voyage to Calcutta, in 1829. He received his first patent in 1835, and established a faro = Calomel Colt N. J., but met with indifferent mosso. Colt afterwards invented a submarine torpedo, which was intended for the destruction of meads. He gave two exhibitions of the power of his new Juveniles in she bay off Castle Garden. by blowing up first a schemer aid afterwards a large brig. He then established a lime of tele graph between New York and Sandy Hook and Wm tank, which was intended to announce the arrival of ves sels, and to facilitate the despatch of important foreign news; but this enterprise failed. and Mr. Colt became reduced in circumstances. A year or two later be spin got possession of his patent for the revolving pistol, and with the assistance of a few capitalist+ who Joined him a company was formed, and a manufactory established at Hartford, which hos proved very successful, not only in the making of pistols, bat in the manufacture of a revolving rids, which was also the invention of Mr. Colt. The Wimp at the present thee is supposed to be worth neat= millions of dollars. Mr. Cult also leaves • large estate. THU FATAL BOAT AOLIDNT IN PLYMOUTH I SOUND. —The coroner's *sky as to the death of the men drowned through the boat widest is Plymouth Sound on Monday was opened ea Tuesday, and stands postponed for • week. It was proved that the demised boatman was remonstrated with on 'titian far having too troy persons in his boat. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CA/[BRIDGE, .JAN. Cl. - His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Chao:K*l4c of the University, having signified his pleasure to gl ee annually a go ld nodal for the encouragement of & t a n k poetry, the looassztellor hes given notice that the pri m will be given this year to each resident undergraduate as shell conpnie the hest poem ea "The Death of the Prieto Consort The exertion are to be sent a to the V•to Chancellor on or before April 00, MA sad ere tot to exceed 200 Hues la length. NAVAL AND MILITARY. AMMAN; J.N. 13ntood-car Anionat-Entinoor H. W. Hart, to the loin. rinse, for disponi, vice ennui. WOOLWICH, JAP. 22. ROYAL ASTILIART, —A nuM — erouseletiaMenTof the depot brigade, Royal Artillery, is ordered for Denise 4 litheinises and Watley, and a number of noasonimismiosed *facers from those stations will proceed to Shosburynem to 000299 of instruction at the School of Gunnery with rldedordnance. Two batteries of the thirteenth brigad e am ordered home from the East Indies. The regiment., with the recent augmentations, now 0011111411 of sixteen Mi. pdas, divided into 152 batteries. CHATHAM. Jas. 22. The Terrible, 21, 800-bores power, Captain Glans, C. 8., having towed the Brillnat, 36, to Mo w where she te to be Oationed as • training ship for the Naval Rearm lima retuned to the Non, where, on her snivel restsidayodie saluted the flag of Vies-Admire! Hope Johanna, the Coairesadsr-in-Chte. The Torii* has bees about four years is 0001111111/11013, during nearly the whole of which times she ham been attached to the Medi. touitassa sonadroa. She commenold diachargiog her colas and goes to-day, and se soon as she has been dismonlel she will be paid oN and pat out of ocanntheion. We are informed that Captain' G. H. Seymour, C. 8., hp appointed to the command of her Majesty's yust Vieteris and Albert, vine Hon. J. Denman, promoted.. Viscount Hanciagh is among the recent arrivals at the Bedford HoteL We (Brighton Gazette) believe his lordship's whit to Brighton was for the purpose of viewing the ground sear the Race-hill, with some gentlemen, where the propomd sham fight on Easter Monday il to come off. It iisaid that 25,000 volunteers may be expected on tbat condo& THII RETURN 07 THE SCREW STRAYER VICTORIA. —The Queenstown oorrespoodeat of Sausukre Pow, reference to this event which we reported paterday, we:— " The troops which left this for Canada in the early part of the month have been unfortunate he their voyages, for et the four deem ships which put to see two have already re turned, after much suffering. The screw steamer Manntim left on the 2nd instant, with the lit battalion of the 15th Regiment and the bth battery of the Bth brigade of the Royal Artillery. The screw steamer Adelaide mind in two days after, with another portion of the 16th Regiment. The screw steamer Victoria followed on the 6th indent, with the right wing of the 96th Regiment and a number of hones ; and in two days after the screw steamer Wend steamed out of the harbour with 44 of and 630 lama of the 96th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Hospital Oorps. The Adelaide, as is already known, pat into Plymouth on the 15th natant, having been eleven days at ma ; aad this forenoon, at tea o'clock, the Victoria retuned Into Oak harbour, after as diseme of Mesa days, during which time the troops entered severely in the storms they met with. the vessel having bad her deoks swept, by whisk she led her bade, sod tie beams lieloogieg to the hems having be killed is the toesiegot the shi . On @avoid 0/301111i001 the ship was ia great peril of her &mks harlot darted, the water pound down into ttsse eugine-redin, and it wee with grist exertion that it was kept under so se to prevent the Arse being extinguished,. A telegraph of the return of the ship has been forwarded to the Horse Guards, and as order to lid the troops, who ruler effetely from the affects of the data and cold, is expected in the mares of this Tuesday evening." ARRIVAL OP ANOTHER CONFEDERATE VESSEL FROM CHARLESTON. _(nor ova 'iarraroor. oonalronnm.) The West Indian, • vessel belonging to • Southern planter merchant, has arrived at Liverpool direct from Charleston, having successful) y run the blockade. The owner of the West lodka sad her maga (who ems from Charleston with the venal), and ()opted& Foote, with whom we had as inteminer, informed or that the blockade of the pest of Cherdselen issaything het effesinal, and that the " grimite bhelmde." se flar from stop the estneace to the port, MR eusteally deepen the eirr ehlosele. On this point the Ohneleetudine me confident, sad there fore the making of the partite fleet give& them bet little onessi. The West Indian is • be, rakish-looking tassel, schooner rigged, but with immense them She can carry • great deal of canvas, and, judging by her lives, is a fast boat. She is 241 tons burden, and has • full cargo of spirits of turpentine. She left Charleston in the evening of the 24th Deoembar. It was • fine starlight night, and with a favourable wind the blockade was run, without meeting with any of the blockading fifth The West Indian left Charleston after the store fleet had beat sunk, and an down to the sea through one of the channels left open by the Federal.. During the voyage to Liverpool the weather was very tempestuous, but the vessel suffered no damage. Mr. —, the owner of the vessel and freight, is a resi dent of Savannah, and as he frequeetly travelled between that portend Charleston, he tells us that be himself raw the plutetime on fire. It is the fixed determination, he lays, of the planters to burn their cotton sooner than it should fall into the hands of the Yankees. All the planta tions about Port Royal have been destroyed, and, with the exception of a few hundred bales of cotton which have been gathered by the Unionist', and which is unclasped, there is scarcely • bale of good cotton about the place. Charleston is well defended, and the number of troops between that city and Savannah is about 40,000 men, under the command of General Lee, of whom General Scott said, " He is the best general we have in the United States army." This compliment was paid to General Lee before the sem sion movement took place, sod no doubt still holds good. Reinforcements also continue to arrive at the different points of defence. Savannah is in the beat possible state of defence, and the citizens are heart and soul in the struggle of the South for " secession." The gentleman whom we have alluded to above was in Richmond about three months sifts, and he was informed upon authority, which he bad no occasion to doubt, that there had been an agent of the French government in that city for some time purchasing all the tobacco he could get on government account. It was also hinted that hopes were held out by French agents in the South that before long the Southern Confederacy would be recognised by both France and England. and the immense quantity of tobacco stored in Richmond on French government account appears to give some substantiality to the above statement. Coffee, tea, sugar, salt, boot. and thou, kc.—indeed all the common luxuries of life—are exceedingly SUMS sad dear in nearly all the Southern cities. Captain Foote, and the owner of the West Indian, both spoke of the scarcity of than articles in the South. DISSOLUTION OF THI PARTHENON CLU8...4M8 awe celebrated club, which hu been in existence for nearly • quarter of • °minty, and was originally founded by some of the most celebrated *avant' of the day, is entirely brokers up and dissolved ; and, by order of the committee, the library and the whole of the effects of the club.house, la Regentotrest, are to be brought to the hammer. SHISZFIRLD SCHOOL OF ART.—The annual rower *mime of the Sheffield School of Art was held on Tuesday evening, and was quite as successful as in former years, though the show of oil paintings was leas numerous than last year, when it received such valuable acoessories from Mr. Gillett, of Birmingham. Lord Wharoeliffe's contriba- Hoes, brought by hie youngest brother front Chins, of put of the spoils of the Emperor's Summer Palms, were very carious and valuable. His lordship presided very gracefully, and read au admirable address. His remarks on the value of schools of art as opening Dew spheres of employment to females were par , 'malady appropriate. Mr. Cole paid • well.deserved ooin &meat to our townsman, Mr. Godfrey Sykes, whose terra oaths columns in the Horticultural Gardens he described as =by any similar works of antiquity or of the m ed is Home or Naples. The prize drawings of the elad.ents and the number of prism awarded Watt the con- Wesel emcees with which the work of the school is prose cuted by its able principal and presiding genius, Mr. Young Mitchell, It was stated that under his can the students have increased from MOM 1,200.--Slieffleki /*dependent. MANORBSTIR UNITY OF INDEPINDANT ODD. rutaows.—A mediae of the executive of this body, repre senting 390,000 members, was held at Manchester yester day, to agree to as eddying of condolence to her Majesty on the death of the Prime Consort. There were deputations present from Leeds, Bradford, Oldham, Ashton, and other places, and the meeting was presided over by Mr. JohaGele, of Liverpool, grand master of the order. The address, which recognises the efforts of the late Prince Comport for the improvement of the materiel and moral condition of the operative portion of her Majesty's subjects, to which class the great majority of the Unity belong, was moved by Mr. Chas. Hardwick, of Preston, and seconded by Mr. Rich mond, of Manchester, and carried unanimously. A Cosinturottaaw or BURNA—There is residing at Dun ts parish of Alumni (says the Scerman), ea old man a of 97 years of age, • native of Gleomint, Duna armed Thomas Harris, who spent the earlier part of his life is the seighboarhood of Enjoined at the time Burns was tenant there. During that time he saw the poet " almost every day ," but had not the pleasure of his &c -=oca, although he was on friendly terms with Gilbert and John Begg, the latter of whom be characterises "e• • fine fellow." Many of the persons praised or sa tirised by the poet, he knew well ; and the old man's spirit maw to shake off the rust of years when he talks of the great departed. He has passed, thus far, through a long pilgrimage, with a character free from the shadow of reproach. and is now buffetting the tides of poverty and ago—" ill-matched pair"—with quiet Christian resignation. 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