The Express. — London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PAN TOMDID4 My dear 'Wow I gentlemen sup at EVANSS, Covent -garden. Vie eVPreoo* TO 001tRESPONDECTE. ,dvertfaementa Int;oded tor The Inpreoe • tondos twang Paper, must be at the aloe. 10, Bouvoliteetweek by Two o'clock on the day of publication. coVIINT-OARDZW. TRW ITERnio, BRE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Maws. W. H. Welt', IL Coni, G. Parroo. sad W. Minima • Mom L. pyna and A. H ilea —Conductor_ Hr. A. Mcßae—And Wool:wain of ST. GEORGE AND Till DRAGON.—Coramonoi IIAYILASKIT. Trio Bowen, LITTIIDAISY.—SHE STOOPS TO CON. QUE tt. Mews. Buoksione, Chippendale, Howe, and Gordon • Mesdames Angel, Filawilliam, Snowdon.—And LINO A.11,1111:14- Mr. Compton Mesdames L KW.T, Wright. Lindley. Z.komar. PLUICSIFS. Tars Eviamm DONHA DlLiA.—Aad ILARLDICIN LITTLE TOW TIME= Maras. Beytern, Cat cut. ♦. and C. Lecleroy. Bunn/ and Pos. Naylor. and Canino; Mesdaroni Barnett. ♦daas, sad Howard. LT UX. TRIO VIM% THB ÜBT CHILD. Mr. Wlddieerab and tem P. Loden:Q.—Bill DllllO.lO. a lore Story. trews. Pechter. Brougham, Imery, aeries. and Jordan : Mager Kate Terry, Lorene, and Mammal:, and MN. La. aIL/TANNLI. Spa KvisBBi. HICKORY. - DICKORY DOCK. Mn 8. Lao and dnt•rate Pantozolulsto.—The Marvels of Pon. -THR GRRAT GHOST KlFlCT.—outhar and Bertrand. —The Tery loontabi..-And MY LORD MLLCOMS. FLOE WAS= AT maim RIUDOZ Tim DAT Waste*. A. .Alesustaa Al Deeitutow— Marette. Sm.—aka." 6L Taw LONDON, TRURSDAY, FEBRUARY U. IT is not surprising that the Low) CHAMBIALAIR should have seized the opportunity presented by his recent conference with the theatrical managers on another subject, to bring before them the exist ing provision for ingress and egress at the various theatres of the metropolis. The subject is one of the very gravest practical urgency in relation not only to theatres and other places of public enter tsinment, but to churches, chapels, lecture-rooms, popular halls—to every building in fact where crowds of people are in the habit of assem bling, or may be at intervals convened for special purposes. It is perfectly notorious that in some of the most celebrated of these places the means of ingress and egress are of the worst possible description, being not only miserably narrow and tortuous, but in number wholly insuf ficient to the requirements of the building. The subject has been discussed again and again, and as the evil is, at best, only very partially corrected, it is still as necessary as ever that public attention should be directed to it, and especially that no opportunity should be lost of impressing its gra vity and importance afresh on the minds of those who, in this particular, are bound as managers or proprietors of places of public resort to make ade quate provision for the public safety. The re cent catastrophe in Chili conveys on this head a warning so terrible that, had it occurred nearer home, the lesson would have been repeated trumpet-tongued through every avenue of public feeling and expression, until it had expressed it self in a practical shape on all who are in any way responsible for the entrances and exits bc longing to our chief places of public re sort. Had the tragedy been near enough to be generally felt, its teaching must in this way have impressed the most careless and indif ferent, and all would have agreed in considering it the height of suicidal folly, something like cri minal infatuation, indeed, which might at any moment produce such horrible and agonising results. It is, no doubt, quite true that in the Church of La Companis, at Santiago, the fire spread with extra ordinary rapidity owing to the mass of combustible materials employed in the festive decoration of the building ; but, notwithstanding this, there seems every reason to believe that the enormous sacrifice of life might have been prevented had the means of egress been at all proportioned to the size of the building. Here was a church containing between three and four thousand people provided with only three doors— one large one in the middle and two small ones arranged on either side—and of these only one, the larger, was available at the time the fire broke out, the side doors only opening half way, and being obstructed with screens, having proved practically useless. Under these circumstances the catastrophe that ensued was inevitable. The first rush of the terror-stricken crowd must have effectually blocked up the only means of exit, and of the whole three thousand not three hundred succeeded in escaping from the building. The work of destruction appears to have been I nearly completed in the short space of a quarter of an hour, but had the church possessed half .r -dozen good-sized doors in different parts it miglt easily have been emptied in half that time. Now the fact is, that in many of our most popular and crowded places of public resort— theatres, churches, halls—we are continually ex posed to a danger of precisely the same sort ; and the only wonder, perhaps, is that our persistent neglect of the simplest and moat essential precautions for securing the public safety has not before now brought upon us some calamity equally heartrending. The practical question is whether we are to be made wise in time by the experience of others, or wait to be taught by some calamity of overwhelming magnitude happening to ourselves. Hitherto, it must be confessed that our progress in a matter so essential to the public safety has been sufficiently slow. It was only after upwards of seventy youths and maidens had been stilled or crushed to death in almost as many seconds on the stairs of the Glasgow Theatre that we learned to adopt the simple precaution of making the doors of public places open outwards as well as inwards, and though since then there have been occasional losses of life and aerie= injuries of limb in the attempts of a crowd to rush, under momentary panic, from some public building ill provided with means of exit, we have not yet learned to provide for such an emergency. We still go on erecting churches and halls of vast proportions, capable of accommodating thousands, but provided with means of egress not only wretchedly insufficient for the crowding incident to any sudden alarm, but so constructed that they would almost of necessity in such a case increase the general confusion and TEM aggravate the common danger. jis soma of th% finest new churches, for example, the main do are are not only few and small, but emourabered • either side with obstacles that would inevitably en tangle a panic-stricken crowd, and fearfully aug ment their sufferings. In these oases the door in on the inside fenced with a screw, as was the case with the side doors of the Santiago church, while externally it is liarricadoed by a pen-like porch, where those Wfio bad escaped from the building might stile exposed a lo the danger of being crushed or trampled out of life. In some of the deatres, and we believe in several of the , that are now so popular, and that are nightly crowded to excess, the means of ingress and egress are, if possible, still worse. As smoking is allowed and universally practised in these halls, and matches or " spills " are constantly thrown in • lighted state upon the floor, the danger from fire, or from an alarm of fire, so far from hting imaginary or remote, is always real and imminent. In some of our older and larger places of public assembly the pro- vision made for the entrance and exit of the large crowds that frequent them is notoriously so defective that in case of panic the results of this continued neglect would in all probability be I most appalling. How long is this state of things to continue t Surely we have had warnings enough, and might begin now to turn them to practical account, without waiting for some catastrophe greater than any that has yet occurred. If any accident were to happen in Exeter-hall, for example, its present system of approaches could not survive a week, but would of necessity be altered so as to meet the require ments of the public safety without any further delay. But why need we wait for any fresh and sharper teaching, with the tragedy of Santiago before us t Why not adopt at once some simple rule as to the number and size of the entrances and exits of all places of public resort in some proportion to their containing capacity, and having provided some such rule of public safety, see that it is respected in practice I THE PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDI- This morning a return was published of the gross public income and expenditure of the United King dom in the year ending Mat December last. The total revenue was 70,433,6201. 54. 9d. The total lordinary expenditure was 66,910,987/. lls. 103., which would show an excess of income to the amount of 3,522,6321. 13s. 11d. ; but 900,000/. is to be deducted from this for expenses of fortifica tions, so that the available surplus amounts to 2,622,6321. 13s. 11d. The balances in the ex chequer on the 31st of December last amounted to 7,491,8131. 3a. 9d. TRELOARI COCOA - NUT MATTING sad LAMPTULICON FLOOLCIOTH WAIZEIOURE. Doctored tram No. 42 to N‘ , . 10. LI7DGIATILHILL, LONDON. TROUSERS.—:vecial atteution is ealleete the es. wurrsa STOCK . and gentlemen who do sot shut payroll _a 4h Floe for a good pair 01 ?comers can depend on Matargel and paHerna that Cebtlol be excelled, at HAMILTON and HIMPTON A, 105, STB4NIi, Opposite Baster Hell ITE DEPOTS AtITHENTIQUI2 for SALE the 5N1:1413, Tobsecoe. and Clews, manufactured or be by E ed FRINCH oovravonsprr raAOOO ADMINISTRATION, U. it EN, PICCADILLY, W. ; 40, ILIITO WILLIAM-STREET, CITY. HOW COLD IT HAS BEEN.-NEORETTI and ZAMBRX9 celebrated TkiltaltdOMETHßS will cor rectly register the lowest temperature. Price Sr. ed. -I, Ileum =: 59, Corn 155, Fleetetreet ; and 142, I = wanted. Int court. OSBORNE, F. 10. The Queen and Princess Helena walked out retsrday. The Countess of Caladen has etneeeded the *maim= of Ely, ma Lady in Wetting. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Miner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. V il tiers. A deputation from Northumbniand bad an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office, on the subject of the Highway Act. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governors of Malts, °Woo, Hong Kong, and labium. THE PRINCE AND PRHICERS OF WALES.—The departure of the Prince and Princess of Wales for St. Leo nard'sou•See, which was to have taken place yesterday, was postponed at the last moment, in eoesequeeoe of the medical shim, of her royal highness) having pronounced that the temperature of the day was too cold to allow the infant prince to travel with gaiety. Their royal highneisee, a 'cording to present struggegsate, will leave Frogmore, weather permitting, at an early hour to-morrow, so as to allow them to reach St. Locoard'a-ou-des about noon. Yesterday morning the Prince of Wales, accom panied by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Major Teesdale, C. 8., sad several officiers of the Guards now quartered at Windsor, who have been invited by the Edna, skated oa the toe which the severe frost of the last few days has formed as the surface of the small admit of water knows as Balaclava, in the Hameisark, a short distance from the banks of the Thames. His Excellency Sir Henry Bulwer hex left Brown's 1144 far Paris. Mr. Chichester Forteacue and Frances Countess Wa!divan entertained at dinner last evening, at their rename is Qultoo-gardene, Maria Marehionees of ides bury, the Fad sad Caudal. Remelt the Earl and Coasts Grey, the Earl de Grey and Ripon, Lord and Lady &ashy of Aidetiey. Sir Hansiltoe and lady Seymour, Lady Moles. with, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, If. and Madame Laugel, General and Mni. Makelm, Mr. Bernal Osborne, and Mx. Delano. THE DRAMATIC COLLIOL —An appeal has been a idrc :sad to the vsz:ous Shskspeare committ:ca, on belief of the Royal Dramatic Oollege, by the Muter al the Insti tution, Mr. Benjamin Webster, who sills upon the noble men sad gentlemen forming times commutess to ccosidsr the appropriatenen of devoting a portion of the funds, in peewee of collection for the approaching tersothethry colt beano°, to the objects sod interests of the sallego and its schools. _ _ _ THE RIM. MX. DRURY AND vas " POWERS OF ynx Wou.n."—la November led, the Bev. G. Dewy, Rector of Claydre, was fined Si. by theNeedhem Market magistrates for striking a man named Abraham Watkins is the (see with a but pokier. The following address to Mr. Drory has been presented tolmo this mouth, together with a handsome Bible for use on the lectern of the church : " To our much loved and reverend parish priest , the em boarder and faithful rosesenger of Christ to as, the Rev. George Drury, we. the undersigned, communicants and attendants oe God's holy worship in St. Peter's Church, Cleydon, send reverence, love, and greeting in the Leal.— Dear Father io Chriet,—lt has canned us the most extreme grief and pain to le - srn andbearof the most wickedand an** asotenee proeousead by the niagnitrates of this neighbour hood againstyo u. We feel it oar duty, as Christie's and members of hof d, to protest swell's' the recent sooduct of the load magiatratee I. the wee to which we allude. Al the same time we brig you to accept oar assurance of increased love and revenuer for yourself as our much beloved minister in the Lord. May He who was unjustly condemned by Pilate strengthen you with His all sufficient game to beer the trial which your ardlinclaing profession of His truth may bring upon you. May the example of Hie remote in all ages of the church, who have been rajas* mardernned by the powers of the world, comfort you 111 your present trial, and may the God of poe tics) continue to be your oonsolation sod your etey. With the mad affectionate respect, we remain, deer Father I. Christ, your affectionate children is the Lord, Edward Watkins, Father, and Amy Watkins, Mother of the pro-A. cuter, and about 100 others of the inhabitants andattendante as the church." CiITTOTWO IDBWOSTH AND DWI STANLIT.—A number el elergymea in the di ocese o f having joined in an address to Canon Wordsworth, to him or attacking Dr. IStenley, the revs-end canoe ham replied is an addrves, from which the following is an extract : " The prosper* Wore us is gloomy. We have to deplore the destructive effects of that 'pintail pride which makes itself the mean» of truth. We Nava to lamest the growth of that intellectual self-000fideoes which, instead of mate- Wallis the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and handed down front Apostolic times, and of exhorting others to contend earnestly for the faith onus delivered to the stied, treats the faith Half aa variable thing, capable of now developments, and to be ex panded, adjueted, and accommodated, with pltoot elasticity to the changeful *stools of men and the fluent forms of society ; and which would despoil the Church of England of bee true character as a faithful guardian and witness of the faith. It is too obvious to observe, that rasa this spirit is railtaalsed it most have the unhappy remit of driv ing many among us into deism, and of 'asking others fall away from UM into the arma of a so-cailed infallible chard•• RSDAY EVEN' • par AIIS PANT. • Official assurance hag been receile at ttis Foreign-offioe that the announcement b telegraph that Austria had withdrawn from the London treaty is not authentic. Austria, it is stated, will not in any way depart from the bases contained in the identical note of the 31st of January. This note is the one which Lord Russell read the% other evening as coming from K von Bismark. Instructions had been sent to our ministers at Berlin and Vienna to ash from the respective go vernments a formal declaration that they adhered to the principle of the integrity of the Danish monarchy. Both replied in the same form of words, showing that the ambiguity which hsa deepened former suspicions had been studied between the two cabinet& The sentence which speaks of the contingency of the two powers " finding themselves compelled to renounce com binations which would no longer offer a result proportionate to the sacrifices which events might impose on the German powers " is the joint pro duction of Berlin and Vienna. It is this note which the Austrian government declares it will adhere to. SWEDEN. The Aflombladet of Stockholm, sth, sari : At the present moment we find ourselves completely iso lated, that is to say, without any means of intercourse with the continent, the Germans having destroyed the telegraphic lines sod intercepted the /net through Holstein. We shall have to wait some &yobs/fere these communications an be re-established by another rook—the post rid Malmoe sod a port of Northern Germany, sad the telegraph rid England. Some signs of an approsohing mobilisation of the Swedish army have bean visible during the 1.4 few days. Experimente have been made of rifled.cantion on a model of General Weeds, Greed Muter of the Artillery, and some trials have taken plane of the conveyance of artillery sad cavalry in goods' waggons on the railway. Several ciders who requested leave of absence to peeve as volunteers under the Danish flag have been refused, on the plea that their estriois may be re (paired het/tete own army. General Wergeland, /dishier of War in Norway, and General Flambee, Grand Muter of the Norwegian Artillery, have ;been summoned to Stock holm, and have had:coeferenees with the Moire of the Swedish staff. The Gazette of Northern Germany, a semi-official journal of Berlin, says : Prussia baa, we understand, replied in a very energetic manner to the note of the Swedish minor of the 22nd ult., containing a protest against the occupation of Sleswig by the united army of the great German powers. Dining the last twelve years, rye the reply, Denmark has refused to perform the obligatioos contracted in the most solemn manner towards the Daman Duchies. At the time of the discus/km on the constitution by the Riprad, the Prussian cabinet pointed out repeatedly the complications which its adoption writ produce. In the end, after it had been adopted, but before its retifioatioo, the Ring of Primer protested. Prussia, rays the note in conclusion, cannot therefore admit ti's cos ritution has been legally decided as the Swedish govern. meat pretends, and will not allow herself to be turned from her object, of constraining Denmark, by force of arms, to suppress the said constitution. (uuria's nracurriaL) THE WAR IN SLESWIG. RETURN OF KING CHRISTIAN TO COPENHAGEN. COPENHAGEN, Pia 10, 6.14 P.m. The King left Sonderberg to-day for Oopenhagen. The enemy continues quiet, and has thrown out patrols as far as Nybbol. The spirit animating the Danish army is reported to be excellent. SLESWIU. PROCLAMATION OF MARSHAL WRANGEL. IFLENSBURG, JA r. 9, Evamro.• A proCiamation, issued by Field Marshal Wrangel, declares the authority of the King of Denmark to be suspendedst4Sleswig. The police functionaries will be 'maintained so long as they obey the Austrian and Prussian Civil Commissioners. All political meetings are prohibited, and tranquillity and obedience are recommended to the inhabitants. The railway between Flensburg and Rendsburg is restored. Snow is falling. Slaswig. ••Delayed by inaenaptice o f th e t e l e graph lines in THE GREAT GERMAN POWERS AND THE LONDON TREATY. VIENNA, Pr . 10. The Botachafter says :—"Denmark, by its anterior conduct, and finally by its armed resistance, has abolished treaties. The London treaty no longer exists. The great German powers are masters of their policy towards Denmark. The ulterior events of the war, the circumstances under which peace will be concluded, and the regard due to the condi tion of Europe, will aid in determining what use they will make of this liberty of action." THE " CONSTITLITIONNEL" ON THE DANISH WAR. PLRIB, Fn. U. The Constitutionnei of this morning, in an article byahf. Limayrac, considers that fthe evacuation of the Dannewerke will be found to have prolonged INTWar. The writer fears that the difficulties now arising will be of a different kind to those before the war. The basis of ;negotiation will have been displaced. IM. Limayrao sees with regret that n3a - ny.complications and difficulties are possible. AMERICA. FIGHTING NEAR TENNESSEE. LIVIMPOOL, Fl2l. 11. Further &driers; received here from New York, to the 30th ult., per the Columbia, state that Longstreet had been reinforced and that fighting had commenced near Tennessee. The shelling of Charleston was still progressing. Gold, 57 premium. Illinois shares, 126. Other quotations unchanged. CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, AND MAURITIUS MAILS. SOUTHAIEPTON, Fn.. IL The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria with the above mails passed the Needles at 11.40 a.m. to-day. The Moniteur de la Meurthe says :—" The Prue else Minister of War, Go•ael de Reno, has just applied to the Convent of Saint Charles, at Trhes, for eighteen sisters et charity, to attend as the sick and weanded Pressler in Slew* The snpriertemeral at Nosey hoteediately sp eeded to the geeend's request. This is a Battering homage to catholic charity rendered by a protestant go►ernment" The Europe of Frankfort publiahee the following from Reedebarg, dated the 4th :—" The Danish mayor Blanefeld was brought into this town yesterday, with his arms tied, between two Austrian troopers. He is aimed of having informed • Pruasia• detachment that se Austriaa column operating at a distance was a Dudek ens, sad m caused a fatal conflict between them. Is Ins house a emu. pleb, plan of the Austin-Proem parities, was found, which has caused it to be supposed that he was oonnecteci with • bud of spies." A young lady wee skating a few days ago is the make sad despot part of Loeheed, ia eampany with two geatleinee, when the ire broke sod an three went down. The gentlemen managed to scramble out, sad the lady, who was left is the bete, was buoyed MP by bet climax& She was ultimately reemed from her perilous poitisa by mesas of ropes FEBRIT FROM E [as. - .) ~ Drum Gas am PARIS, WIDNVIDAY Emilia°. This has been a day of canards. The Bourse was kept in a state of continual excitement by re pqrts of the abdication of the Queen of England, of the departure of English troops for Denmark (the numbers of the regiments being given), of the teeignation of the Palmerston cabinet, and of a re volution at Copenhagen. All these rumours are recorded in print by the evening papers. The Route and other securities experienced violent fluctuations. At one period of the day there was a panic, during which Mobilier fell, almost with out an intermediate quotation, from 1,026 fr. to 1,005 fr. ; and Rents, from 66fr. Mc., to 66fr. 300. When, however, it was found that Consols had not varied, and that the Vienna Bourse was firm, the scared speculators began to buy in, but the sensitive state of the market begets extreme caution on the part of very many. The closing quotations were comparatively firm. Rents left off at yesterday's price, 66fr. 36c., and Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. Railways are generally higher ; Southern finally rose 16fr. M. d'Arnoult, the Patrie's correspondent, welting from Kiel on Feb. 7, inclines to the opinion that General de Mesa must have evacuated the Donne werke from political and not strategetical reasons. He thinks the passage of the Schlei by the Prussian army might easily have been prevented, and that even after that the Danes might have offered a formidable resistance. He easel that when he visited the Dannewerke a few days ago, he counted upon it from 300 to 350 guns, and infers that) as the Austrians and Prussians only found 60 of these left, the others must have been deliberately taken away, at least three days before the passage of the Schlei. He further states that when the news of the fall of Sleswig arrived at Kiel there was a general illumination, but upon reflection many of the inhabitants suspecting i treason on the part of Prussia, i.e. that she is working for her own account, and not on behalf of Germany, put out their lights and took down their pennons. The Pays speaks of a despatch, to which it seems to attach credit, stating that an armistice between Denmark and the two great German powers, with a view to arbitration or mediation, has either been concluded, or is in course of negotiation. I as very positively assured, however, that these is no truth in this news. A commercial treaty between France and Sweden is said to be on the tapir ; a Swedish commissioner is expected in Paris to expedite the affair. A despateh states that the "reigning" Princess of Monaco died this (Wednesday) morning at the Monaco Palace. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) Tacranay, 'maim 11. S A.m. B. :al Na .111 Lbertkeen 0.77, Leith 75 Ardrossen 7l Cr enceses !36 Oslway Velentla Cape Clow Queenstown * 44 Uverpool Relpbeed Pembroke !0.!037 Ikea 0.3 41 L'Orlent 76! r w eme a tti -- 29.:2 4 (mass se' Dover Yarmouth astir deseboreveli 771 Shields 8. &B.L 8.15. W. N.N.W. W.N.W. ~w. N.N.Z. X.N.W. S.W. E.B.L 00 °3 I ro 0.10 Cr ' 0.14 or ° e l I I cm I io l eas ob I &SS cto ! 0.10 e OAS co .o ms z „ s. co &CO iss I o Min= FRIDAY. of Waingime SATURDAY. B. W. to N.W., fresh to comers. W.B. W. to N.N.W. strong, some snow or and bark, fresh. rata. B.W. to N.W., strong to WBsEraw. N.W. to LW., trash, moderate, some rain. rain In places. N. N. E. to W. N. W. and Bolinlimi. N. N. W. to W.S.W. , W.S.W., moderate to fresh. etroegorlthsomellgt. N. L toN. W. and SW., Ismitirits. B.W to N. W. andback, fresh, squally, moose fresh to moderate. mow In places. NorthernwSootland. Weetern=treland, Wales, and ad- Jae/melee. floothern=Engllsh Channel and Biscay Bay. lamina% mirtwerd England and Heligoland. Paccasse IN TIMMY. —H is Imperial Majesty the Behan bee decreed that, dating from the commence. meat of the current year, a certain Dumber of youths, fixed for the present at 32, and chosen each year from among the Greek, Bulgarian, Armenian, and Catholle Armenia; 00111. amities, shall be educated at the government expense in the imperial military schools of Constantinople and Paris, with a view to their subsequently receiving commissions in the Turkish army ; eight out of this number will be brought up for the civil marries. These students will likewise be permitted to practise their religion without any restrictions, in the Nam maser as the Christian students in the Ir. racial School of Medicine ; and, to prevent any undue in flames being exercised on them by their Museniman Wow students, they are forbidden to embrace Mahomedanam ander pain of expulsion. The Zoological Garden iu the Bois de Boulogne has been lately enriched by presents from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. They *moist of various animals arrived from Mexico, and among them are three hinds which re semble those of Virginia except in the head. It is expected that this animal will make a valuable addition to the deer park. There are likewise throe small dogs et ► runs pecu liar to Mexico, which greatly resemble oar &etch terrier. But the most curious among the presage are 35 Ash, which are only found in the lakes of Mexico. They are highly esteemed as food, and are easily fed. The representations at Paris of Rigotetto and Faust ham daring the month of January brought in no lens than 140,500 fr. la order ad to arrest that unusual flow of eaccese, the administration of the Theatre Lyrique has decided not to perform before the lat of next month Coanod's new opera, which was announced for the 20th Instant. The pictures in the Bridell Gallery at Bevels Mount House, Southampton, will shortly be exhibited in L001:1014 previous to their being brought to the hammer. Aomori them is "The Coliseum by Moonlight," which was is the International Exhibition, and • picture representing a same from Speaser's " Faery Queen." A line of steamers has just been established be ' twesa Haarlem and Littlithampton, for the purpose of I placing the Western Railway of Frame is communication with the Brighton. South Coast, sad Western base. These vessels have already berm canning , and will ia future leave Hoadeur and Littlehaniptoe twice a week. THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN FRANCE. " In the late collision at Arne," nays the Courriss du Pas de Calais. " the express train received the greatest and the A luggage enema was driven up on the tender, e next from the Viatleall of the shook was carried to the top of both. The next carriage was saved owing to the rupture of the coupling-irons. The gaud of the train was found lying on the opals is the tesdsr horribly crushed. The engine di :war had me of hie legs broken in jumping from the meekest The first ces:iage contained mix passengers, sal y two of whom were injured. One, an Fogliehman, had his thumb amputated aod then west ea to Calais. M. loam Buser, bottoming to the hams of MIL de Rothschild, had his lag jammed ie Mimosa the carriages, bet wee with only • after some time ed violent made. Among the other pasese releas gers were a son and daughter of Sir Lionel Rothschild, and both escaped un injured. No owe Wang* to the goods train was isjared. Fortunately the two *alas were eat moving at a rapid rata, or the ermsequemes would have been frightfuL The line was !gain free for circulation eller a delay of about an hour. The first railroad made in Russia was that be tweet St. Petenbarg and Zoom 400 toilet in kaiak. It was testis by an American firm, and tbey ran it for the Bogdan government for twelve years, for whkdi they were paid 2,503,000 of roubles per mega This Arm, it is said, settee out of their itsmisat ototraeln 30,000,000 siker roubles. L . -I 1864. THE MALT FOR CATTLE BILL. The following is a oopy of the bill brought in by the Chancellor at the Exchequer to allow the snaking of malt duty free to be used in feeding cattle : Whams It is expedient to allow malt to be made duty free to he used in the feeding of cattle ; be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majeoty, by and with the ad. vies sod comment of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled and by the authority of the ruse, as follows : 1. It shall be lawful for soy person who shall give such security u hereinafter required in that behalf, and upon taking out a proper licence as a =abater, to make malt ender the provisions of this act in a malthouse approved by the commissioners of inland revenue for the sole purpose of being consumed in the feeding of cattle, and ell malt which shall be so made sod which shall be mixed with linseed cake or linseed meal as hereinafter directed in snob malthouse shall be free from the duties of excise chargeable on malt ; and it shall also be lawful for say =Hater (not being a didiller) who shall be entitled to make malt for the purpose of being consumed in the die tilling of spirits under the provisions of the act pared in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of her Majesty's reign, chapter ninety-four, to mix malt with the materials afore said for the sole purpose of being consumed in the feeding of cattle, upon hie complying with the provisions sad regu lations of thi, act. 2. Every pervon who shall intend to make malt duty-free under the provisions of this aot shall enter into a bond to her Majesty, with two or more indhcisat sureties to the sei.r.e*ion of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and in such sum as the said ooramissioure shall think proper, conditioned to the purport or effect following ; (that is to may) that such waster shall duly make into malt all oars aod grain which shall be received into any such =Mouse es aforesaid, and shall not take, send oat, remove, or deliver from any such wallow's se donna any malt, except malt duly mixed with some material prescribed by this act in that behalf, sad removed in conformity with the provisions of this act, sod shall out convey away, hide, or would any malt, or corn, or grain, contrary to any of the provisions of this act, or of any act in force in relation to =Haters or the making of salt; mad the audition of such bond shall also coetsia all such further terms and stipulations as the Commissioners of Wand Revenue shall deem to be oseenary or proper for enforcing compliance, on the part of such nialtster, with the terms and provisions of this act, and the regulations which the said commissioners may make in Ir nuance thereof, or for preveutiug frauds in relation to the malt to be made by such =dieter ; and such maltater shall give • fresh hood, with such sureties as oformaid, when aid as often u he shall be required so to do by the said commis sioners, and in default thereof be shall not be entitled to make Lull duty-free under the provisions of this act. 3. Every person who shall make malt under the pro visions of this act shalt paint or place sod fix in letters rFatiutly legible, three inches at the least in height, and of a proper . and proportionate breadth, conspicuously upon the prioppal gate, door, or entrance of his malthotise, his Christian and surname, together with the words "Entered to make malt to be used io feeding cattle," and shall pre serve and keep the same so painted or placed and fixed, and shall repaint and renew the same se often as occasion shall require. 4. All malt made under the provisions of this act shall be deposited in • storeroom provided by the maltster and uttered with the excise for that purpose, and shall be con veyed to sad from the room in which the same is intesded to be mood as hereinafter mistimed upon myth notice to the mouse of mass and snider such regulatioos ea the CPS. Mill 140•0111 of Inland Revenue shall direct and appoiat in that behalf. b: The malteter shell provide at his own expense a sale and ware room or rooms in his malthoess, to be appro►ed in writing by the proper collector and supervisor of the detect, for the purpose of grinding the malt made by hint in inch malthonse, and mixing sad staring the same when mixed ; and all such rooms so to be provided u aforesaid shall be properly secured to the satisfaction of the said col lector and supervisor, and shall be at all times kept locked by the proper officer of excise, and neither the malteter nor his servants or workmen shall be admitted therein, except upon such a notice in writing to be given by the =hater to the Aber as the said eommusioners shall direct. 6. All malt made ender the provisions of this act shall, before the removal thereof from the malt-honse in which the mine shall have been made, be ground and thoroughly mixed with one-tenth put at the lost of its weight of ground linseed cake or linseed nasal ; and all such malt, and the said material to be mixed therewith, shall be ground to such a degree of !Menem and in such moonsr as the said OOMMiiiioDll2l shall direct or approve, and shall be mixed together in a quantity not Um than forty bushel' at a time in the presume* of an (Mowed excise by such means and in such manner as shall be directed °reprieved by the said commis's:iers • and for any Word or neglect oe the part of the =Agate; to comply with the requirements of this clams, or any of them, the malt and also the material mixed or intended to be mixed therewith shall be forfeited. 7. The maltater .hall keep an amount, in such form am the commissioners shall supply to him for that purpose, of the quantity, by weight or snessure as the commissiosers shall require, of all malt mixed as aforesaid which he shall from time to time send oat or deliver from him =Wariest% with the respective dates of such sending out or delivery, and the name and place of abode of the pima to or for whom such mixed malt 'hall be so sent or delivered, to gether with such other particulars respecting the mama as the said commissioners shall reqsire is that behalf. B. All malt which shall be found mixed with liaised cake at linseed asst shall Ise deemed to have bees mixed under the provisions of this act, sad if may pent* shall separate or attempt to separate any melt from any material with which the same shall have bees mixed am sfarmaid, or shall we any malt which shall hare been so mixed ea afore said in or for the brewing of beer or distilling of spirits, he shall forfeit the sum of two handed pounds, and all such melt and material &hetl be forfeited. 9. If any person shall be found taking or removing malt, or any corn or grain making into malt, from any malthaase or premiere oa the principal or outer gets whereof the words "Entered to make Malt to be used in Feeding nettle" shall be painted, placed, or fixed, and not being malt mixed with such material as aforesaid, and removing under and according to the provieiese of this act, he shall be dealt with in like manner and be liable to the like penalty and punishment sa are prescribed in the 32nd section of the said act weed in Mee eighteenth and nineteenth years of her Majesty i• the owe of • person offending as therein mentioned. . . ICAU the provisims, regulations, penalties, and for feitures contained in the several act, of parliament now in form in relation to snalteters or the making of inalt,sod also the provisions costabsed in the sections bereioafter enumerated of the said est of the eighteenth and nineteenth Yeats of her Majesty's reign, chapter sin/ay-four, that is to say, moth= six, eleven, thirteen, tourism*, thew axiom, eight..., nineteen, twenty, twenty-tour, twenty•five, twenty-six, twentymnen,andthirtysoseo far es they relate to maltstan, not being distlllely and so tar as the mine shall be ameisteat with the mimeos provisions of this sot, shall be applied and put in 'ascetics with respect to maltsters and the making of matt under this sat as fully aid effectu ally to all infanta sod purposes as if the same had beau re sod specially ooted, rtatis maaadia, with ra. c.v.. m wa to maistam aid the making of malt under this act. 11. This act shell costieue aid be in farm kat eve years from the psasiog thereof, and until the sod of the then next session of parliament, and shall then expire, except as to any act done or off s et*. committed, or any peoelty or forfeiture previously tosursilL Hres MAJDITT'S THIATILIL —A morning perform ance of Faust wan item on Monday, " is compliance," ' ea the bills announced, with atunerom request& from fami lies residing at too great a distaste from the metropolis to visit the theatre cooveoiontly in the musing.* AOOIDINT TO Mn. SOTHERN.—The Haymarket Theatre was closed on Tuesda y minim le same of Mr. Mothers's inability to r orm, he hada( trim his hone and dela:aged his collar-boss. Though the acci dent was of a very painful character, Mr. Sothern is, we are happy to say, in a fair way towards rerevery ; bat it will be a few days before he eau TIMMS his peofeeloaal dabs. Other entertainments ham meanwhile been nab stitated. _ _ - YAM WEATHER AND THE PAHlB — YeatEttlay Bt. James's-park was visited at as early bear by :am, thousand& In spite of the rarer of Deputy Super intindont Perry sad the men under him, about 2,000 me worse, sad children went upon the lee. About noon some persons who were oil the bridge began to throw tailrace upon the hoe, which ceased a groat number to rush to the spot in the bops of picking op some of the coin ; 12 moo end boys, who scrambled together, broke the kin sad were immersed. They were rescued by Deputy Suporiataidert Parry and his assistants and removed to the society's marquee, where they were attended to. Fortunately they all recovered. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon the,. girls and a boy fell through the ice, and the former beam so alarmed that when the hues were thrown to them they were tumble to lay bold of them. Iceman Smith sod a park constable rushed in after them, and succeeded in saving them, but the ern get their bends badly eat by the sharp edge of the he Ag the Leug Warr, Kontinglas Gardena, Mr. Young having nernewhel that the ice was very tie amber a/ t i e alalk with oily eneeptioa, i = to llnitansa-perk, when Ur es exasedingly arose, sod %re sliding and *Wog woe well air ep. In spite of the eurtiona of the polies and the Royal Hamar, Society's roe, men, women, sad ellikbea need epos the is in mew& The result was that about a grater pmt 3 o'clock fiver era and • woman 1.11 late deep water. They EOM however, all marl by the ism... About 5 ease leer boys and • yowls worse also fell through the Ina, hat they were else mood. A Mr. Joy, who was tryfag oar • Mr. Sher, al Allier-gale, sad arm ether, also bad a yarrow swops frees Wag dram& Is park then ram owing to the szertres el harass Eioray's men sad the park ocrolabise, only At ismaanions out of 6,000 slider anal allatra, INTERVENTION IN DENMARK. (DT itacnuo Ain )tAGNIMIO TZLEGRAPIL) YkiNCHESTER, rdeRSDAT. _ _ _ A crowded meeting wu held in the Town-hall this morning, the Mayor in the chair, at which resolutute Protesting against any interference on the part of this country in the war between Denmark and Germany %err carried unsnimontly. THE REPRESENTATION OF BRIGHTON. (PROW OOR OWN COARZSPONDENt). The political "situation" at Brighton just now is rather interesting. Mr. Coningham's iutcotion to accept the Chiltern Hundreds has been known for some two month. past. On its first announcement Mr. Francis Kuper DUMAS, a Loudon merchant, issued an address to the electors. Soon afterwards Mr. Henry Moor, a resident conservative gentleman, who was defeated at the last election, an. nouoced that "at the proper time" he would again solicit the suffrages of the electors. Some three weeks ago, Mr. Coningham advertised his intended retirement, and the active proceedings to fill up the vacancy at once commenced. A public meeting was called in the liberal interest and • committee was chosen to meet the liberal cao didata who offered themselves for the seat, and to report to another meeting on the qualifications of the several gentle. men. That meeting was called, bat was nothing more then a scene of di graceful uproar. The report of the committee named four liberal candidates, sad placed them in the order whichfollows Mr. Otway was given the first place. Mr. J. Goldsmid, son of Mr. Fredk. Goldsmid, who was defeatsd at the last election, and nephew of Sir F. Goldsmid, for Reading, was placed mooed. Mr. Fawcett, the Praia eor of Political Economy at Cambridge, was placed third, and Mr. Dumas, who would not submit to the committee, was barely mentioned. It was Mr. Dumas, however, who was chosen as the beet candidate by the adjourned meeting, which did not even receive the report of the committee. Next morning Mr. Fawcett declared hi. intention of going oa with his candidature, and Mr. Otway immediately retired, in order to prevent a liberal split. Mr. Julian Goldsmid, however, acting on the preference of the committee, also issued an address, while Mr. Dumas co tinned to maintain his position. Subsequently, Mr. Edward Harper presented himself on "true protestant principles" as • protestant candidate, whose aim io the House of Commons would be to resist the increasing " ag. gression of Popery.* Thu. them are now five candidate. to the field for the meant seat. On the liberal aide, the chief contest will lie between Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Gold amid. Both than gentleman had written to the liberal committee pledging themselves to abide by its decision. Mr. Goldsmid says he is bound to go on in consequence of that pledge, and his supporters upbraid Mr. Fawcett with • breach of his word io not immediately retiring when he toned the report of the committee against him. Mr. Fawcett i•dignsnUy repudiates the imputation, and it is argued oa his behalf that all such promises were absolved by the rejection of the repast, and the consequent death of the committee. It is also urged against him that his physical affliction would disqualify him for the active duties of parliament. This objection, however, has been much weakened by Mr. Coningham, the en-member, having joined Mr. Fawcett's committee, sod by Mr. White, the present acting representative, having stated that he coo eiders blindness as disqualification for the House of Com mons. Mr. Goldsmid yet remsios • formidable opponent. He has enlisted thirteen of the liberal committee on his side out of the twenty members who acted, while Mr. Fawcett only cants five io his ranks. the local influence of Mr. Goldsmid is also strongly in his favour. As it is per fectly clear, that if the liberal disunion continues, Mr. Moor, the conservative, will get the meet. effort. are being made to effect • oompromisa. A suggestion came from the Hon. H. Brand, through Mr. J. White, that a ballot of the liberal electors should be taken, and that the other candidates should retire in favour of the one having the greatest number of votes. Mr. Acland, the agent for Mr. Damao, demands that all the electors should be included, and as this would werk for the advaatage of the conservatives, there seems no likelihood of any arrangement being adopted. The nomination takes place on Saturday, ad the polling un the soccer ling Monday. All the caadi dates pledge themselves to go to the poll. LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. (THIS The half•yearly meeting of the shareholders was held at 1 o'clock at the Waterloo Station, Captain MAWGLES in the Blair. The ret., which hu ü been previously published in the /irprem ha ving been taken reed, The L'llAtlinall moved its adoption. He said, extending as Utilise did over 450 miles, some explanations must always be necessary on occasions of that kind. He hoped then glen in the report were deemed satisfactory. The dividend oeuld not but be regarded in that light, being a continuance of that of the Exhibitios year of 1862. Lees favourable resources than those of the South Western (line might have shown a different remit, but in spite of • wet Epsom meet ing and Whitsuntide there Wan scarcely any diminution. In the last half of the year 1862 the traffic Maenad 100,0001. That Memo* was eessidend at the time exceptionsl, bat in the year 1863, the aggrepte teak was within three or four thousand pounds of that of 1862. (Hear, hear.) The sus- • misted trail, bad asosemnly called for new plant, but peat care had been exercised in adding to the capitaL The !m. dal malt of • comp wleo• of 1863 with 1662 was as follows : le 1862 the gross receipts were 1,265.325/. in 1863 they wise 1,328,7244, showing as Mann of 63.4001. The working expenses la 1862 were 571,274/., in 1863 616,419/., shoving an benne, of 45,145/. T he taxation was 2, ' more is 1863 than in 1862. The net revenue of 1863 was 1.6251. is emirs of that of 1862. The pretenses Arne* and debenture interest is 1863 exceeded those at 1862 by 8,000/. The hammed balance available for dividend in 1863 over that of 1862 was 7.9654, the capital which was entitled to dividend being 7,446,764/. against 7,291,1684 in 1862. He then entered into some details with regard to the company's bill, before parliament, which he said were entirely of a defend's character. • •- - - - Alter acme discussion the report was adopted and a dividend at the rats of 5 per cent par annual declared. znquozniNAßY arArsmezir = .A CRUISE AFTER THE ALABAMA. LIVERPOOL, WIDIII31?.&T Evwza. It was currently reported on 'Change, this Stereos, that in a few days ate of the fastest wew stesmme afloat would leave a British poet on a mules after the Alabama. This new steamer has been parchaaed, sad is bwaghlrlied _om scot t tie sole expeese of two dretAileas is Lamina and the other in this lowa— = whom have suffered heavily in oonieuneacie of the depredations of the famous Coefsderste cruiser. The new veinal, it to expeolol, will slaws three or four bats biter than the Alabama sow meld do, besides being moth stronger, and when armed, aiming gum of each a alike end eonstructiois that the abeam at the Alabama, being able to cops with her will be boggles. She will be cow. mended by a man who has already gained mach notoriety is cowmen with ocean navigation, and in whom Captain Beau= will lied a foe "worthy of his steel." The mission of this new steamer, whilst it will be chiefly to hunt and catch the Alabama, will also be directed against the other Confederate Graham Georgia Florida, Rappahannock (should the latter get to sea). and Toacialoosa. Already two barques have left Ragland with coals for the " sow-eomer," which will be discharged at one or two pert, which this vowel will make her rendezvous. This steamer ci course will ant in orejanction with the Petted cruiser, now on the look-oat for the Alabama. We may here re peat that Shim adios as _the part of British merchants is = rimbY heavy atuthined and personal losses in the of nentral goods in American bottoms, sod also from the fast that hitherto all the effects of the Federal navy to mutate the Alabama have bees fruitless. The Ifanclimiter Lnaminer eays :—" Can this be another Confederate dodger THE MURDER AT WORCEBTIR.—The investiga tion before the meow sad the magistrates of Worcester ioto the cerewastaeses attemdiag the death of the woman Elizabeth Hull, who was albeged to have been murdered on Sunday lest by Joho Ford, has now been brooght to a con elasiem l'he circumetanees of the fatal quarrel, all already reported. were fully borne out by the evidence taken before the 'serener, Mr. Rea, and also ea the magisterial investing ties. It was proved that the man had struck the woman several violist blows about the head and body, and there was no doubt the wooed on the forehead which bled so profusely as, in the opinion of the surgeon, to have been the muss of death, was indicted by the pri mmer Feed with a firesehovel. A post-mertem ealson, however, dam made by Mr. Bishop. surgeon, gives other 011111116 as acemanting for death. Mr. Bishop deposed that be made a post mortes exammatico on the day after death. After &mibing the external appearances, he said he opened the head, aid felted the aka unuanally thick. It was sot injured either 'stormily or internally. Them were %light 'emigre et blood, but insufficient to tams death. He next opened the chest, end found the porker diem se hearths( emermously distended, sad an opening it he lased • slot of bleed weigWag newly 1 lb. Then wear aloe tee er Sem amen of kid blood. There had ben • 'swims el ewe el the camel* within the pericardium, and that bed bees the same et death. Bash utt e r, Wed have beta ceeeMemed by passim, violent • been the shed, or d'i'et exertion. The ceases about the heart were is a may dimmed date for so young • weessa. The }mg returead • 'waist of " Wilful murder ^ spied Feed, aid magistrates also sosunitted Ford for trial a t the 1116 Weemeter Amigos fee murder. &dog* • This wa th a t the manager beim •° sr. Ud Q.C, and The did end Wine actions in w h o was tiffs coin to be 1201. 00 0 1 P aD d la le Os the that hia im sod that unksP97 could lea" dirmisrd COl7l •s J. H. TM bell Old KKK Borough, base nasal theotxtrt._ Mr. Does showed oa • sole of tt the baokrui ivied to 1 bea Wight! deposited • two years The beakri his petition gees, that e of oak, no okkowl to sow mad I DiwelY•PPI dos to Uwe The Om foo — si, Ile: 15; - a; ita• 11111110/1 16901 M I oak had be Amid be p the sadism doll would_ Mr: 170;i caul Thi sanded of seeding the that n2olii Saturday's held that o to 6: a yet The Corm offer, bat h Mr. Dori auctioneer. bankrupt, a theme. The Com , bar* the eo Mr. Dart saloon them try tb, Mr. Oast iitWat; Mr. Kish Wiliimat . 748 Per, were heft.' dwollievhe test to one Prom the phew Nona th Nothovad in e Ewen door • He whoP,_ emet ' anormuds I two other p oseleamt ea roMe ma • broken into Poliereae havieg w i g," preeeeetcw'is stable B.y PoHawes, 112 0011111111011 room where took theta h Mr. pay,. The Ju r , Soymood kw) dadert htaldee ww w Prhostre. this t Mr. crime be Payat two: %ha had a lm a, ti "oh we i arttel a w ussett i t i *ls thst whoa at ire