The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-05 00:00:00

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Adams -Cfatt.locaca YCEUM. 111. nnwin. h i M• enda et palm 112.1rowt, - 1116 .11:.IS OF TkIUV. Moor, I.IIM7.You•L 61.1 Am. Kee.* Ow. Jolt% S.- Clown. MI. TWbet.-AM UJYLiqi 1,31 TUY be 1...un -I:cometbee a& T. “RIT ANN I t. Tw. Ir ogot•n P 111, 1 ,1: P:.ACOCII A N I. VIE QUSEN Or PPITZ: or, Tr, V •or o: t:ftral Idro. BZLIN DA TM; uLiND. HIGH WATK/A AT LGSMS IIRIT)08. fa. _. R.:. T~n•aaov-1: ut.~. 7 4i47. LONDO!r, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5. TIME Cabinet of Lisbon have presented to the Portuguese Chambers a selection of papers, docu mots, and correspondence relative to their recent rupture with the Frecch Government, and its accom modation. Tl Opposition in that Legislature have very properly n.pired that the disclosure should be full and oomph te. To !his demand, however, the Marquis of Lout 1., the Prime Minister, hue replied that grave and u , :zun• circumstances connected with other Powers f.rbi..l compliance. Whereupon the Opposition have taken issue with the Cabinet, and it is by no means improbable that this reticence may prove fatal to :he present Government of Portugal and lead to important ministerial changes in that kingdom. As the existing Portuguese Administration is one of very liberal principles and advanced opinions, and possesses the confidence of the young £INc, and had also up to this point secured by its policy the support of the country, there are many reuona why its overthrow, should it take place, will be • matter of regret. Portugal is exactly in that position when, at the eommerzement of a new and hopeful reign, it is desirab:e that • Liberal policy:should firmly take root in i•a Goverornent, and Rhea a return to the personal and etwrapt system that characterised the Cabinets of the late reign, and from which the pre sent Cabinet are comparatively free, should not be risked. Nevert brier, in the humiliation to which the kingdom has been recently subjected, it is right and proper that the Opposition in the Chambers should be jealous and suspicions of a Government which, by their own confession, have kept bsek im portant paper, necessary for an accurate comprehen sion of the whole ease out of which the humiliation arises; and if the consequences of the retention be disastrous to the Government and mischievous to the country, their responsibility rests otherwise than with the Opposition. It is not, however, to protect and defend them selves that the Cabinet of Lie'son have practised this reticence and withheld papers from the Coster. It is avowedly because of external pressure from fo reign Governments. So far indeed as the Corre spondence laid before the Chambers goes (which is, ' however, by no means c impiete), it would appear that the Cabinet, in a most painful position, worthily upheld the national honour and dignity, yielding only to threats of violence when deserted by the State on which Portugal had every right to rely for support, if not for protection. It is apparently to screen other Governments from pnblic censure that a complete knowledge of all the facts has been de nied to the Legislature of Portugal. The Portuguese Government have, if we are to credit the information which reaches nr, been placed en this cruel situation with respect to the omitted papers. The Government of France have insisted that, pending the inquiry which the knreatin is now making into the real character and tendency of the French scheme of African Emigration, docu ments which impeach tLe morality of the operations of its agents in the Portuguese possessions in Oriental Africa should not lie laid before the Portuguese Chambers. And the English Government, we regret to be told, have expressed a wish that certain por tions of the correepoodence between our Foreign office and the Portuguese Gosernment should also be withheld. So bet teen tae French demand and the English request, the Portuguese Cabinet have been ceacuseed into • line of conduct the apolozy for which only tends to throw additional discredit on what was already sufficiently indefensible. The whole proceeding. must necessarily form a subject for the consideration of Parliament as soon as it re assembles. FOR a man who wishes to " do good," the Dean of CARLI+LE has a most unfortunate way of going to work. Two things strike him as especially painful in the popular way of keep ing Christmas—people get drunk, and they go to see the pintomin.i , s. "It is,' he says, "a " thing taken for gr.inted that at this season people " should be dru.,1.." We cosy hope that this is either a gross, but of course unintentional, exaggeration, or that there is .omethmq special in the experience of the Very Reverend orator. From other parts of his speech we do not Junto that what he meant to say was that the festi...e chariot:l , of the season is held to reduce the di•grsee attaching to the weakness of excessive which, however, is something very dithrent trim his sweeping accusation-4n accusation which, thanks to the general advance of society in iotell.g• ace and 04 , 1 f-respect, and, let us cheerfully acknowledge, thanks to the exertions societies such as liner to which the lhan lends his adescacy, had never leas foundation tnan at the pigment time. ne Very Reverend gentleman pro ceeded to say, tita• •• What struck him again was, " that the worthy magistrate, sitting in the chair of " Justice, let offenders (drunkards) off more easily " because they were kieptn4 llfristrfa&D. To hie " mind, if he h been in the magiatrate's place, he " wou:d have Luca them double for being drunk "on Christmas•dry." litre is an assertion which there is no gaiusi.ng. We quite believe that the THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 18b9. IFean thinks he would do just what he says—tine • ' man for disrespect to an eeeleeissticel ordinance. But for such purposes we should want back the Ecclesiastical Courts, and with them the theory that we are all members of the Church. Even presid ing in such a tribunal the Dean might hesitate be fore carrying out his resolve. At all times, and in all countries, but especially in England, feasting has been a national mode of expressing joy, and it would be rather hard to accept the tribute of a feast in honour of a Church annivsrsary, and to punish a little excess. But suppose the offender pleaded that he had got drunk, not as a Christian, but as a mere member of civil society ? We apprehend that in that case he must be dealt with as now according to common police law, and the Very Reverend speaker must know per fectly well that the fines inflicted on drunkard, by our magistrates are not the punishments of spiritual or moral offences, bat of breaches of social order. The drunkard violates the respect he owes to himself as created in the image of his Nlisker ; and as the Christian Scriptures teach us, defiles the temple in which the Divinity has deigned to dwell; but of such sin our laws can take no cognizance. The attempt to make them do so was tried once in England, and failed. To coral:lst evil from the reli gions side, we rely on other and more efficacious means and influences—we have school, and churchts, and the numberless organisations through which the benevolent and pious act, either directly or through public opinion, on society. These are worth more than a thousand penalties inscribed in the statute book. But Dean Chose had something to say of the amusements of the people. " There was something " (he said) to his mind perfectly painful in the news " paper, of that morning —something calculated to " strike the heart of the Christian, and send us all " on our knees to pray to GOD to avert the judg ments we deserved." The morning refsrred to was the morrow of Boxing-day ; and what tilled the good Dean with horror was the page containing the notices of the pantomimes, of which be says: " The " London newspapers devated whole columns and " pages to descriptions of the special temptations " and wickedness of the theatres." We do not quarrel with the Dean because he has a strong opinion of theatrical amusements; as an honest opinion we respect it, and at the proper tim e might examine it. But we have a right to require the Very Reverend speaker to keep within the do main of fact. The assertion we have just quoted is untrue, although vouched for by a Dean. The columns of the London newspapers of Ike. 2S were not devoted to a display of the "special wicked " ceases" of the theatre-i. The grotesque, the ludi crous, the absurd were there in abundance, but we say with confidence that Dean CLOSE will look in vain for the wickedness of which he so confidently speaks. The Dean probably has his own theories on which he justifies his injurious assertion ; but speak ing from the basis of English morality, and English common sense, we say emphatically that it is altoge ther untrue. The Dean regards theatric►l amusements from a too professional point of view. Speaking of the lament able accident at the Victoria Theatre, when fifteen persona were killed, be remembers that the per formance was so popular that they were obliged to have two performances in one day, and straightway he exclaims, "Oh that we could see the time " when we would be obliged to have double err " vices on religious subjects !" Religions and non religious amusements are thus represented as an tagoeistic—one must destroy the other. This is a superficial theory not justified by experi ence. There will always be religious service", be mese the religions sentiment is implanted deeply and ineradicably in our nature; and there will always be drama, because the love of scenic representation has the same root. The persistent repudiation of this fact has excluded the theatre from the healthy operation of that religious opinion which has im proved the character of other scenes of social resort : but it has not checked the love of dramatic enter tainments. Even in families and circles which never furnish visitors to a theatre, amusements of that class are becoming prevalent under the name of proverbs and acting charsd.• ; and the popularity of the entertainments which hay.• of late become so com mon in our large town?, and at which a succession of characters are represented by a single performer, is in part the result of a compromise between the desire of going to a theatre and the supposed duty of staying away. It is vain to suppose that mankind will be schooled out of a pusaion which is universal in its diffusion, and which per se is morally indifferent. If our spiritual censors better under stood our common nature and their own mission, they would, while warring against vice, acknowledge the legitimacy of all that is truly human, and instead of vainly endeavouring to destroy, would seek to en large and purity, our popular amusements. EXPRESS FROM PAR'S. MOM 001 OWN COMISPONDIXT.) PARIS, TIMIDAY BYLNING. The opinion which I expressed yesterday, that the Paerie's assumed " authorisation to believe ° that there was no foundation for the sinister reports of the day was altogether unauthorised, turns out to be jubtified by the fact. The Moraileur, which would have spoken had not the news been true, is silent. The Conathutionnel publishes the following paragraph,w hich—nitt withstand in g the rebuffs which that journal has been from time to time compelled to suffer by the oflizial repetition of the inane phrase " The Moniteur is the only government journal"—is I am quite sure this time an authorita tive communication : At the reception of the diplomatic body et the Tuileries on New Yeees-day, the limpezor addressed to Baron de Hub ner, the Austrian ambassador, some words which, when tvenmented on by the publk„ produced a certain emotion. We ore enabled to give, textually, the language made use of by his Majesty :—"1 regret that our relation. with your government are not so friendly as formerly, but I beg you to tell the Emperor that my perronal sentiments towards bim are not changed." (91.tzed) I. BONIFAI E. I hear that the expressions actually used by the Emperor were even stronger than those now de liberately consigned to print. As it is, however, the Conatitutiunael admits the substance of Lie report which caused the panic at the Bourse yester day. Nevertheless it is very possible that to-morrow it may be said in official quarters that the C'entlitutionnel has been misunderstood ; that the Emperor only spoke with the openness belonging to his frank nature of a known fact, meant only to express an honest regret at the coldness of existing relations between France and Austria, but was far from intending to convey the impression that they were likely to become worse. A hint has been already thrown out that the differences alluded to relate to the Princi palities, and not in any way to Italy. It is abun dantiy clear, however, that whatever turn the affair may ultimately take, the intention of the French government for the moment is to allow the public to connect the speech to M. de Hubner with the uneasy feeling in Italy. Otherwise the eemi•official para graph would have been worded in terms more ex plicit and more reassuring for the Bourse. Toe Petric makes a very lame attempt to explain its misleading paragraph of yesterday. After quoting the Consalutionnel it says : Them words, c,mmented upon at the Bourse yesterday, produced s certain emotion which was not without influence •• upon the fonds. As ft invar iabl y Lappma, they w ere do-- toned, exaggerated, and the inferences drawn certainly want beyond their real meaning. Public opinion will to-dry appi *date the expteseiors used more accurately, and will lee that they only notice ofticmlly a elate of things already known, sod that they con ciliate most admirably the sentiment of national dignity with a high mum of propriety. Everybody knew that our relit 'ions with Austria were "not so good as they had been." What is Important is that the Emperor should have thought tit to notice the fact on suet • ccretwonioua occasion. but them who see in the.. woe& the prospect of a rupture aro mistakes, "in our opinion." We can only see in them a regret inspired by the moderation of the policy of Franc; and a reserve commanded by her honour. I hear that M. de Hjibner's private secretary hcs been despatched to Vienna. A Vienna letter of December 30eays: To prevent say ea - rot:moue suppositions respecting the precautions token by Austria in consequenoe of the movement In Berrie, the Austrian cabinet has given espies rivions to Count Walawski ea to the attitude which Austria intends to assume with regard to fiery* and as to the ob ject in placing a corps of observation on the frontier between fimalin and Werechetz. Austria having decided to abstain from all intervention, and these military measures being in tended solely to cover her own frontiers, the declaration M. de Hubner must have removed all doubt as to the inten tions of the Austrian cabinet. The Bourse, finding its worst suspicions confirmed by the C'onstitutiannel, was very much depressed indeed. The Bente, for account, sustained the further heavy fall of 50c., closing at 71fr. 80c. For cash the fall was but 15c., the last price being 71fr. 90c. Mobilier fell 26fr. 25e. The railway market was more affected than yesterday. Orleans fell 23fr. ; Northern, 15fr.; Southern, 10fr. ; Lyons, 6fr. 25c.; Eastern, 7fr. 60c.; and Western, Mr. M. Emile de Oirardin has accepted, without salary, the post of manager of the unfortunate Napo leon Docks, which he hopes to resuscitate. lie pro. poses to buy the old shares of 123 fr., which have lately been fetching only 40fr. in the market, at 651 r. tor money, or to give shares in the newsy-organised company at the rate of 80fr. DENMARK. HAMBURG, MONDAY. M. Levelzan has opened the Diet of v Holstriu in the name of the King, with a speech of a very con ciliatory character. Baron Scheele-Pleven has been elec'ed President of the Diet, and M. Bei:lecke Vice-President. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. (ET SLIECTILIC AND INTENNATIONAL TELEORAPR.) (TROX OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Tagna has arrived with the Peninsular mail and four packages of specie. Among the passengers are General Willis and family. Tho dotes of the Tagus are Gibraltar, December 27 ; Cadiz, 28; Oporto, 31 ; Vigo, January 1. Lisbon exchanges.—Bill, 331 ; money, WI. A telegraphic despatch from Belgrade announces that Priam, Alexander left on ilundey fur Vienna with hie " Ex-Commissioner" Yeh is still in Calcutta. He ram:wt. receive soy visitors, and endeavours to believe, and impetra others with the belief, that he is of a race wore in tellectual, and far Baperior in every cony to those around The Jarasche Courant contains a detailed ac count of the last voyage of the Netherlands Cowmi.si•mer to the Japanese court at Jeddo. For the firer time the couunimioner was received by the Emperor of Jspan in person. Ilia Majesty, who was seated upon a mnpoilioent elms, condescended to whitens a few remarks to the envoy without the interpoeition of an interpreter. His N.j.sty speaks Dutch with a punt accent." The JoritArAeCoorant adds that Dutch has been tor some time the Isatruagn of the court, of the somas, and of the diplomstirts of Japan, and that Dutch literature is held in high esteem. " Lueknow, in the 'pave of biX month.," writes the correspondent of the Tina S," as been nvonstructed by destruc tion. I never beheld such a great and such a beneficial change to charm the eys and every morn which inn be allotted by rx ternal objects. The biatory of our tat uure cannel be corn priced In • motel:ice. The improveuivata nl Peri,, duo m the vignrous administration sad military exigencies of the Em ',war, are sot comparable to the vimt alterative made at Liteknow by the simple pewee. of Westing and turtling whole quarters of decrepit ruiserabls homes, °patting nut avend streets, and ascrvering the Widely palacni which went blocked up formerly by cilwcare neighbourhoods. The only new enustructinn, however, ie In ire character eigniftinnt end rumple's. The city is held by • band of embrasured parapet, and armed forte, the magnificent pnii.cts of Sir Itobert Napier, are now realieed, or in the coulee of being so." The Bombay paper. state that Mr. Vdtrard Miicrsedy, eon of the eminent iragediao, parpneee giviog a short eerie., of poetical and draomdic readinaa at lineelicy, when be said.., and also cf including in Ilk of atter lainments the five Christoom stories by Charles Dickman ITALY. THE AGITATION AT MILAN. A private letter of the 30th ultimo from Milan says:—" Here the agitation is increasing, notwith standing the recent measures with which the Aus trian government has endeavoured to mitigate the severity of the new regulations on the subject of conscription. The quarrels between the people and the soldiers on account of the cigars are corvinual. On Sunday, the 26th, there was a serious affray at the Comasina Oste, and some workmen were arrested, but rescued by their companions. On the following Tuesday cries were uttered of ' Death to the Aus trians,' in the hearing of rorne officers. It is per fectly clear that the soldiers have orders to keep quiet and not directly thwart the people, for other wise in the present state of things sanguinary scenes must have ensued." The writer adds that civil commissioners have been appointed in the different quarters of the city to try summarily any persons accused of disturbing the public p,ar c. The Archduke Maximilian, who until recently appeared but very seldom in public, and when he accompanied the Archduchess took the most secluded routes, has now changed his tactics. He goes to the theatre every evening, exhibits himself in the most frequented thoroughfares, and invariably by himself. The Archduke no longer permits those whom he invites to anent themselves upon any plea; and there is the example of Prince Porcia to show what fate awaits those that dare to say no. His Imperial Highness wishes that his—(what shall I call them?) —tamiliars—those, in short, who during the last few years have gone to court—should show them selves opeoly and commit themselves to partisan ship. But who are they, after all? Why, certain clerical gentry who batten on the Concordat, and a mere handful of nondescripts, who have suffered themselves to be vanquished by the vanity of going to court or by the dread of being marked men. As for those who act from mere motives of vanity, they have no disposition to repeat the ceremony ; and as for those who are swayed by fear, they have now a wholesome dread of public opinion, the manifestations of this latter power being anything but ambiguous. As there are two sorts of fear at work, which will have most weight? In the meantime the participa tion by the masses in the agitation lends peculiar gravity to the situation. The refined and intel lectual classes comprehend perfectly that at this precise moment any attempt against the Austrians would be sadly injurious to the national cause and would gladden the hearts of their enemies. But the popular classes ignore these reasonings, and in their thoughtlessness it may chance some day that they may throw off all restraint. Only the eztreme revo lutionary party would be desirous of this, who think perhaps they might regain the ascend racy they have bug lost, in the contusion so sure to arise. It is not legitimate warfare they desire, since this would be the triumph of the principle identified with order and independence. The Oat Deutsche Post of Viennagnotesaletter from Nice, stating on what it thinks good authority that the Russian government having applied to the King of Naples for permission to establish a coal depot at Brindisi, the latter has peremptorily refused his consent. The letter attributes the following words to the King of the Two Sicilies, addressed to the Russian minister at Naples, who had been reminding his Majesty of the friendly relations which have always subsisted between the courts of St. Peters burg and Naples: "My veneration and friendship," said the King, " for the Emperor Alexander is as sincere ss that which I felt for the Emperor Nicholas, but as to policy the case is different. I cannot explain to myself the tendencies of a govern ment which courts Piedmont, and also offers to join hands with Naples. Thtse two things cannot sub sist together. A station at Villafranca and a station at Brindisi are quite incompatible am regards the principle which they are supposed to represent." DIBCOVIRY OF 4 "GOLD PARCEL." The Borrendong correspondent of the Syelsey Herald gives the following account of the finding of the 1201 b. parcel of gold: Nov. 6.—On Monday evening, Ist inst. a steady winking party, coneisting of Meters. Johnson (twit:), Travers, and T. Grecian, owning a claim on the eamu line, but about 150 yards from " Hopping Tom's" noted rich spot, had the gad fortune, at a depth of 35 feet, to come upon a mans of gold quartz of iron pyrites and mundic, which yielded, upon being pounded with a hammer, the enormous amount of 120Ibs. weight of gold. This is, I believe, the largest quantity that has ever been found in one spot on the Western diggings, and the discovery of it has infused fresh spirit into dome parties in the immediate vitinity, who have been getting but little for enure time past. Language would fail to pourtray the intense excitement of this mdttstrieue party upon their sudden acceeeion of wealth. It occupied them several hours to separate tbe gold and par tially clean it, and on Tuesday morning they bad a two-quart " billy" full of coarse gold, for which they were subsequently offered 5,0001. by a gold buyer, but refused te take it, pre. forting to forward it to the Mint, accompanied by themselves, next escort. The returns from the Mint respecting the result of assaying end melting will be anxiously looked for by all parties. At other party on the same line of reef have excavated to the depth of 1.50 fret, end hitherto have scarcely met with the colour et gold; yet, such is their belief in an ultimate " find," that n..t one wan of the party would tette a thousand pounds fur his share of the claim. I'.S.—The Macquarie River being bank high Semi the reason the news was delayed, as no one could cross. A letter from Mr. 11. H. Kilter mentions the above facts, and farther states that another party got 90 ounces. The escort bringing this large quantity of gold will arrive to morrow, and will be additionally protected by two armed policemen. DIGOEItie EMPLOYMENT Ft ND.—Out of 1,350 applica tions to participate in the bent tit, of this fund, the com mittee have derpatehed 1,092 persons from Sydney to the various gold fields of New South Wales. Each won in sup plied with ratio. on the journey, end one reek's raCons after arrival at bin declination. Of the number flan* tent (of whom, at least, 1,000 may be said to 110 practical diggers), 500 have gone to the Western diggings, 24.9 to the Clyde river for Praidwold, 112 In the Pe. I note, 130 to Fairfield, on the Clarence river, and 52 to Adelong. 61"..Y.D47 IVE.ViNG Al A NEW YORE THEATRE. (From the Ar a 1 0,1 Trgune, Dec. 11.) Throughout the whole of lost week it was gene rally understood by announcement that Mr. A. If. Purdy, proprietor ot the National Theatre, in Chatham -street, bad off.red its use for the purpose of divine nervier, on Sunday evenings. The Itev. E. D. Rte.'s, D.D., of the Stanton-street baptist church, wan announced to preach the opening ser mon, and the adtiii.sion was emphaticstlly steed to be free, and elm public were invihd to attend. Accordingly, at alie!nt 7 o'clock p.m., on Sunday, the theatre we. completely hit, d with what certainly appeared to be an audience which would serve the purpose of estatliabing a bold, though not very grand contrast with the very feehionable congregation which was assembled at the Academy of Music. ' Free adiniasicu was an invitation to enter the National Theatre which the regular pairome of that institution were PECendinglY sexton to accept. The pit no, tilled to 14-or flowing with boys, and as ninny more ticcii:aed places in the drelen, family, and upper circles. There won a sprinkling of respectably dressed pennant. not a few ot whom seemed to ! enjoy the fun which was being made by the boys. A. our reporter entered the first thing which hu heard was au gra ! tuitoun whittling of a number of boys. Some were, betting upon the aide ot the stage Irum which tio " ;Armen" would make his .IN/enrollee. One boy naked another, in a very loud voice, why lie had no shirt, which question rteeived the moot peremptory response,"Burton up, will you r. Another buy uptraided his neighbour for having a dirty ehirt. Still another demanded "that sixpence" which be loaned 13411 on .S.,turelav night. Another, "Hi, Jae k, come over here, will you ?' responded to by " Hallo, Jim, make room." ..... Shortly before the entrance of the preacher, load whistling and beating of fret ...mid to exp..ws anxiety for the opening of the exerclies. A number of the boys who exhibited great restlessness wen kept on check by several polite officers who were distributed over the pot. The isingregstion ceodsled mainly of neweLoye, sbne-blacks, perk-loungers, shoulder lettere, piek•pcekcts, bullies, together with Mr. A. 11. Puray, Leh and a number of reepertable Christians, who bad to occupy such wars no they could procure, re;:ardlees of their prtattoity to certain rather repulsive:loiiking individual.. The pruscentum boxes were tilled with ladies and gentle. At ball-past seven o'clock the Rev. Dr. Eliseo:, ac companied I.y a number of friends, entered upon the stake from the north side. lie was meted by the loud plaudits of the multitude. A substantial hurrah F a multiplicity of hi : his I and repeated requests of beta Lff constituted the warm reception of the 'nibbler. Dr. Hiscon stood up, and staid th e commotion which pre veiled showed that he woe shout to epeak, and fora moment profound silence gave him en opportunity in be heard, when he sold .—My friend., in the name ot Jesus Onto', the eternal Son of God, our Saviour and everlasting friend, I Come to *peak to you to night. I come to tell of Jeans, of what be boa done fur us all. Three may be strange thine. bt epesk from thin page end strange sound,. to bear withal them. walls, but be trusted in God 'tat strange as they might be, it would not be M vain. He read the hymn com mencing : "Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove." which wee sung by a choir of gentlemen from the Stanton- Street Swint Churve, wbo were on the Stage, many of the congregation uniting. AP the ringing IRlLPwanounced,e num ber of the tor shouted, .• Let UR have it." After ninging, p trt of the lath chapter of John was wad and brit tly ex plained. At its conclusion, the boys cheered lust.fy. At thin Point. Captain Woliiog, of the detective police, rose end addrensed the boye, desiring them to show the ladies end me th-wen who were present that they could hehave ins plata of Divine service as tech 1411 boy. in any other part of toe • ity. Thin wae received by a otatiewhot •utolut4l attempt to ether. Dr. Waco: then preoched from the following text "Toffs io a tai. lent pa, tog and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came Into the world to save sinners."- 1 Tiumtby, chapter i, verse zee. The R',v. Doctor t lien proceeded to deliver a brief and well adapted 'moon. premieing that there had been great eayie.oe 'Tread out on the page of hiatory, bat mvor and tovetet.• h ad there been rotated. great a truth—so peat a soweg, iss this. He called their attention to—The statement keel t. He asked bow often non had been reon to come down nom their high rotate, their palaces and their 'unwise, and seerilioing all, beennne poor, 10 order to elevate. and comfort, and cheer the poor and disconsolate; yet JetwaCtirist had done thin. let. Chriot came into the world. 2nd. He came to save ',inner.. Before entering upon the consideration of the ...cowl pert of the ant jeer, the choir sung another verse, which was followed by deafening applause, and the rev dotter proceeded to hie neat topic—lts fnithfulneert. The word faithful was de fined, and tho followoig sub-bead. of thieourto dwelt upio —l. It lea saying which is gate to be believed. 2. It is worthy to be believed. 3. It is needed. The tint t. ad of discourse was that thin saving wee worthy of all neeept a tion, breallAC, heat, it is deRiULL'd for all ; second, adopt. d Loan ; .d third, needed by all. He thou concluded ny a brief appeal to all present to take Feed to the idler of advation, and wohout delay to accept it with all its ti.rtuo and it,, evott•ortn. A verse was sung, .• Hear, 0 eit.ner, metry hail., you." Proper woo then off red, in the oat,: of which the proprie tor the actor,, and the frequent patron, of the the a t re were drily remembered. The choir •Ull; It hymn conotieucing, i• All hail the power of Jeou's metes" Dr. ifincox an nounced service for next Sunday eve Line, pronouns -d the benediction, sod the tumultuous audience dispersed. Captain De Camp ordered the officers to be et the doors and Nee that the boye left the pl.'s qui, tly, which h a d th e i l ee i se d It was certainly a labour of hive which Dr. Mine:... per formed but evemine, for no man could have spoken under more discouraging circumstances. TIIE NORTHERN REFORM UNION.—Thp annual meeting of the tnenibere of the Northern Retorts Unu•n woe held at New...site on Monday night ; Mr. Thome Wilke in the chair. The annual report Wn. , nand, 101.0.11 that thin union, which hid been eptahliphed only one year. had opened COMlllUbit , tli .08 with every town nod 110loginUA dis trict (rein the 'tees to the Tweed. Upwards f public ineetiren hod ben bold in connexion with it, or ell ..f which resolutions in tevour of the hallo and manhood eufrage had been carricd. It woo intended et fret to tontine the labours of the union to that localiq culup.eel) . ; bur it 1.0. n to 011110 monifeet that if orh'r die•rcie did not act Rho the work would be comparatively of lirtle nee. With the view, il i e r e. fore, of atirnulering other place* to ' , Millar ....fon. deputation.. were Pent, in Sep•rtu'.er twit, to the you'll of R.•otland, to leineon, end to the chief towns in Lancashire, Yorkshire, end the Midland Counties, to confer with refirniere in than places, and to urre them to orgoniee reform eepocietionp in their reepective tl,trietn. Mr. Jos. C , ..1 en, jun., the tee:L imn, of the union • rood the Room:int se,teoent for the year, from which it crp'.rr•l , t 3 4, tine income hell ocen 314/. 40. 81.1., and the expend. ot.. :Mt. Id.. 4d., leaving..i behwee in hand of tt Us. 41d. Tle• r. eon wee adopted. n od the conned for the ensuing year si-pointed ; and after nddreseee from Mr. J. Cowen, nod other centlrtnen, the prrevedinge terminated. PARLIAMENT MY REPRESENT ITION. The Don carter Town Coutled, at their meeting on &Outdo!, 111111ni ninuoly nitreed to present a memorial to the Earl of Derby, • the Firer Lord of the Treerury, rem-eventing the claims of Ihincaeler to a direct renrceentation in parliament; and the Afejor, Aldermen Sir 'eau Motley. and the Town Clerk were appiiinted a do potation to convey the wiehes of the council to hie lord.hip. A public meeting of the iritualatenta of the town, held a tew deye previously, unanimoriely re solved upon promoting to the Premier • pimilar document, signed by the Mayor on behalf of the meeting. REPREsENTATION OF LINCOLN.--Mr. J. Hinde Palmer, s barrioer, .on•io-law of the Right. Hon. C. Teo nieon IYRyneourt, many year. member for the Metropolitan borough of Laulhet!., in accourscad as a candidate for the city of Lincoln, on the liberal interest, at the next general eltviou. lIEPRESENTATION KINCARDINESIIIRE.—A movement Is on the emit by yobith the preornt nonnly member—General Arbut,t.•ut—retie. P. and either Sir Thomas Gladstone of Fasque, or Sir John Fwbes of Fettercsire, will aucosed him. Too, ihreo gerol.mio of liberal p t incipira sro spoken of Is ready to mond should an opening occur.— Arbroath Odic. XTBAUADIA R Y CHAROE. THROWING AN INFANT OUT OF WINDOW UNDER THE ALLEGED INFLUENCE OF A DREAM. Yesterday the Marylcbone Police-court wig crowded to t tau in consequence of a report which had Loco circulated that a woman was in custody for killitg her child by throwing it from a lirig•tlior window into the etrcet. The rumour with regard to the murder happily turned Lut to be untrue, but ft will be seen from the subjoined evidence that it visa a providential eircumatante that the lives of il.res children wero not seer:hoed by their moths while acting under the alleged influence of a dream. At two o'clock the prisoner, Esther Griggs, was pl iced at the bar before Mr. Broughton. Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared for her; and Nlr. Tubbs, relieving overseer of DI arylebone, attended on the part of the board of guardians of the pariah to watch the care. The prisoner, who evidently felt the serious ii•uetion is which she was placed, wee rested during the proceedings. The first witnees celled w,ul Sergeant Siuuonds, 20 I), who said—At half-past one o'clock this morning, while un duty in Easbetreet, Man chester-square, I heard a female voice exclaim, " Oa, my children; save my children:" I went to the hone No. 71, from whence the cries proceeded, and the landlord opened tee door. 1 went upstaire, teccomp soled by two other on. stables, end while making our way to the firststl)or front room, I heard the smashing of glans. I knocked at the door, which I found wee fastened, and raid, "Open it, the police are here." The prisoner, who was in her night-dress, tape on exclaiming, •• Save my children; " find at length, after itumbling over something, let me and 1,1 brother °Metre in, When we entered we found the room in toted darkness, and it wea only by the old of our 1 micros that we could dietia guish anything in the room. On the bed there wan a child live }eat a old, and another, three years of are, by her side. Everything la the place was in gnat confusion. She kept crying out, Where's my bib) . P Have they caught it: meat boo° thrown it out of window." The baby wind wive beta thrown out as I was going upaleirs ; for, bet xe getting into the room I heard something 1011. I left a constable in charge of the prisoner, and I ascertained that the child, which bad hem thrown from the fa inlow, had been taken to the infirmary of Marylelxine workhouse. She told me that she had Leen dreaming that her little boy bad raid that the himse wee on tire, and that what ehe had dune wan with the view of preventing her children from Lying burnt to death. I have no doubt (witted witm es) that it I and the other con. eighle had not gone to the room all three of the children would have been flung out into the street. Mr. Broughton—How long do pas auppose the cry of " Oh, save my children I" COatiLtatl i Wlataaaa-1 should think neatly five minutes. (IL eon ' timuition, be said he went to ha, Hat ley-strcet, worse the hmband lives in the perm- of a gewiculan, and gave him information of what had occurred. The injured infant aces only 18 months old ) by Mr. Lewis—From the excited elate in which the pri. eon, woo, I did nut at the time 1,1;0 her into custody. She went to the MIL entry along well her husband to eve now the child wee going ou, and what hurt it Lad austained. I heti underetwel that the surgeon bud cold it was a specii• of nighquare which the prisoner wee Ish.,uting under when the act was ruminated. The window La; not Loin thrown op. The child was throat through • paste of glass+, the trig :heist, of which fell into the street. Humphreys, 18011—I beard the breaking of glees, and elite ut,tt I motioned to bra bundle ores Out of the NVIC,OI4 and on taking it up 1 Munn ii to he a bindle infant. 1 him was blood running from ito temple, and it was merasibte, I took it to the intirniary. Pollard, 33 U-1 heard loud meet of " Oh, save my children," and when I was in her room she said, "Ilea anybody caught my baby, L.a.ey 1" One of the little buys, three years old, and who was rhoptng to his trotter, had blood upon Lis clothe.. He had upon use breast seism marks which appeared to have been cao..Nl Ly cute from Flans. rho sergoant left me to take hate oil Ito prisoner while ha went for her husband. She told toe rho had no wish to hurt auy of Ler children, end that it was all through a dream. Mr. Henry Tyrrwhitt Smith, surgeon at the Marylebethe infirmary, was next celled, and atm that when the infant wee brought to him, roan after one in the morning, he found upon taamining it that it wivi notreriug from come.- knit of the brann. It wad quite invensible and dividtdly is danger now. The parietal hone is broken, and death noght miens In the event of an effusion ni blood on the br.in. Ly Mr. Lusene-1 cannot eay that I hove not heard of ea inmanee where parties have committed acts to which a dream had impelled them. Mr. sAtwis submitted to the magistrate that there bad been no attempt to murder the inf nt. The primmer bed *lnky' evinced a kindly feeling towards leer children, ar.d he (tad learned gentleman) hoped than. the non: borate would Meow the busluend to have Ler under tab cute dining the tempo rary remand which of course weiull rein place. The drown under which the act was cedutoittt 1 chewed that she had not at the time any conscionent re. of whet she was doing. Mr. Tubb. said that he did not attend en the capacity Of a prosecutor, Out be appeared no behalf of the board d vuardians, and be put it to the niegistrate whether them world be any °Net:none, under the eite.tunstatioee, to slim the privoner to be bailed, her ..ualand imuag sectutty toe tut reappe.rance. Mr. Broughton considered th:et it would be a most dia. genius doctrine to lay down to ray that Imeau, a pasoa was dreamiti:. whilst committing au t Hence that they were not culpable for their acts. A wow-in, on these mounds. might get tap in the middle of the night and cut her hes beuid's throat, and when brought up for the otlence taut round and ray that she bed U. thn uct whilst under the ittlionce of a dream. He (•he worthy magistrate) eon. Mitered the case to tee one of a aereona nature, and in the ' event of death coning en inquest a fluid be held on the body. lie could not to of tubtoc Lail in eo serious a inns, bat would remand the prisoner sell 'lneaday next, and during her preeent excited elate rte would Le taken care of in the intirmary. The prisoner wee then removed to the cella by Angled, the ;ceder, sobbing meet bitterly. THE ACCIDENT AT THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. As may will be imagined the circumstance of such an ocrairrencc a. the above taking place at an institution devoted to rcientific purposes naturally created a strong letting of anxiety on the part of the director,, who, ac - Leh a view to ascertain the whole circuutatatmee connoted with it 3 eaterday held a meeting, at which dm f..ll.rwing official report was preatmed tr..... The tuanager tette to report that lad night, Jan. 3. et shout Itch-parr fro, moat providentially atter nearly the whole of the lill•lOnco Lad retired, a very serf our SCCIdt us occurred by the Lolling in of a portion of the math rade of the spiral atone staireme Icarting front the et.trance to the upper theatre. The tumour, ix deeply disrrea.rl to state that about twenty pereone, who were it...conchae the PIM. more at the time, wrre Mors or lees rerioualy injured, all of whom who were willing to recant, rt to the Lo.pital were promptly conveyed thither. The umneger touch regrets to add that one little girl bus since died. rug are retaining in the hospital, three of whom aro repeated to be not out of danger, though progreseeng fat-cur:o4y. The malinger telt it is duty to sSIO-sr, trorrpital, the board's -slob that any t stn. r'ion or cemf.et required by the sulferrra ehould be instantly ret.di , rc.l Chem at the charge of the ilirectora of the ro'ytirebnirt Institution, and anxiously await% the direction of the tamed se to any fur. tber steps to doe adopted on the fruiterers' behalf. The manager further reports that every means were immediately employed on rho recurrence of the accident for the relief of the auderere. Tno police, under Mr. Superintendent limbers, were instantly called in to snake a rigid search bearish the darts of the fallen staircase to nmertain that there were no more triclinia by any possibility lost right of in this deplor able catastrophe." The directors expressed their approval of what bad ben done, and gave orders for every attention to le grid to the eutterere. Mr. Thrimpemi, the etirbimet. and Mr. Taupe% the builder, being in attendance, ilk rr , grniten.eo received lostruetiOOK for Ow hooo4listo rr,.nr•t , on of tbn ensirsaSe SO peon as it shall have been viewed I.y it, coroner's jury, which is expected to sit in the corm..., of tu-day or to-mo,eow on the body of the child already deed. Had the occurrence taken place a few minutes earlier the loon of late would probegy have Keen far greater. Upwards of bflO people hod pawed down tie staircase in a clam and courpact ours, and three oh-. r• niained were same 40 or 50 persons, who, being at the innermost point of the theatre. had not been atrle to rearb the place of egrees with that rapidity their prettecesenre bad done. In coneermencc of this, most fortunately, when the upper or middle et eireese gave way. there Mks not a sMpf le peraonreumioieg on the fight beneath. Many very narrow escapes are recorded. but ertiongst the more prominent is that of a gentletasu connected with the inatitu• lion. who happened to be rat the very top of the etaireme when the &evident occurred. Ile fr.!! with the stone work to the bottom of the well, and was en .lightlF hurt that he was one of the fires to set to work rendering assistance to the leas fortunate periodic. 1)EATII OF SIIERIFF STEELE of , GIAStiOW.—• We regret to onnounoe taut Mr so.eritt Steele died at his residence, Blytheswoo.l••ittare, yesterday (Mon day) moraine. Ile was st to tee and entirely re elgned to his approsebiog end. Few weu litre more popular in their sphere. Ili. legal se.loirettients were considered of a superior order, and he enj.e . i ;, 4d great ,t4sairmod employ went. Ho leaves two daughters.— Goorost. SINGULAR 1/FATIt OF v ItF.Y n.—A few data ago, Mr. Hard. Sutton, near Pets tiro b.., snout with a favorite greyhound, when the dry started a hoe, and made after its The hare ran under some Iron feuritt•-: au I made its way into the lawn. and the doe; in stteniating to follow nom with great violence against a pisee of the wire of the fence. The point entered P.r above the eye sal ins•arttly. (H.7OITING MATCH tint ijro..—A match at quoits for Tlf. a aid, Cillll. 1.1! en Ssturduy at NI orsball's grounds, Leven-street, Edinburgh, between kl'Gregor, the English ihatopion, at siehtsen yards, and I; est te, the Scottish 4 tistupion, at the Scottish dietan.w. /:-.:tit,g at shirting : 6 to 4 in favour of the Eugli.hro :to result, however, was—Gilleepte, til ; ll'Gregor, 21. gbe Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 4. The Prince of Wales dined with her Majesty yesterday, attended by Colonel the ion. It. Bruce and Captain Grey. The party included the (Bowing visitors, who arrived on • visit in the afternoon —The Doke =4 Ducheasof Welling ton, the Earl of Sandwich, Viscount an 4 Vi‘c runtime Pal merston, and Vmeount and Viaontintem Harding,. The band of the Grenadier Guada plajett during dinner the folbwins Overture, "Luapt Raiser tlo, 1 Irlemen" tt• tral 1.13/or, " 'fluvial& ' Her Majesty's private band afterwarda attended in the drawing-room end performed the following pieces Overture. " Piketnnk it7t7:;fric KAU.La. 1111.),Intr. The Queen, with Primers Alien mad Primmest Helena, walked out this morning, and visited the Lechers of Kent at Frogmore. Prinesse Louisa rode in the Riding-hsuse. The Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales went out hunting, The Marquis of Chandoa land an Interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on Monday, at hie official rtaidence Dowaieg-ttreet. Prince Alfred would sail from Mal.a it was ex pecte/Ins the 30th ult., for Tullio, end, efr,r, visiting the princepel Ittletliternutess poen, r..tntr A to E 0,214114. "prepa ratory to uaderteling the t irr urnerv'gotion ~1 tha The Duchess of Athol' has left the St. George's Hotel. The Counts £ilo-3 and d'A:ton havo taken their departure from the Brucamick Morel, for l'Arir. Sir Calling and Lady Eardley hare arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from floleowl, near grer e l•-y. The following bare avived at Brighton sad Lady Caapb.ll amid lady Sdi•h Ceret.tall, the Comore. of Marrhefleiti, Sr C. Darla., 81r W. tornaby, Inrd Sadoley. Ledy Aurora Sty,...tir, tOr W. F rer e e , Bert M.P., Berra sad Lady Mutest% Sir Grego Ci.rheity, Bart., &-. The arrirals at Worthing include the Far' and r.o.tees of Warwick's (unify, I).)traprer lAdy Dowarr Ltdy Ftlts..er, Hon. J. F. T..llem..tr, M.ll' , & e, M Bru•eeb, on Monday, the Duke of fkaufoet ►ed privet• mothers of the Duke of Briton.. We //maims Mail) regret to learn that Captain Shepherd bee bees eorepelltet en reei,en him wet is the Couadl al hbs, in eoseettnenet ..t ill•betthh. The E,;.m.a of Madrid states that the Count de reri• is to vast tn. Quota ol Space at Alit city. CIERISTNIAS AT MALTA. (FItoY OUK OM :S COKILE4PONDENT.) MALTA, Dec. 30. On Christmas-day an order from Admiral Fan thawe,enintuaader-m-chi.l, released all prisoners in the fleet, in compliment to his Royal Highness Prinen Alfred. There were none on board her Majesty's ship Tsrtarns, so there were none to release. The sailors of her Majesty's ship Marlborough, and most of the other men-of-war in port, had a double allowance of grog• The penmen of all the chips made grand preparations for Chnsitims, stud .pl.ndid feeds they had. Every one of the seamen of her N•jeoty'• fleet Malta had not only a good, but a sumptuous, dinner on Clirietniss-day ; they were allowed grew license, and, 1 em delighted to Bey, they did not 'bum it. At twelve, his Royal Highness I'rince Alfred went round the eramen'e deck, to see their dinners; ho was loudly cheered by the men, who carried the first lieutenant round the deck. The Prince gave his menennates a boar'e head for their dinner, and partook of It with them. In the evening Admi ral Fenuhawe, probably with s view to keep the l'rinee from the names of a man-of-war on Christmas Eve, invited him to a quiet family dinner at hie house. On Monday the authorities went to very great trouble arid cxpenen in illuminating every government building on the Prince honouring the merchant' with his company at a bull, which has been the gayest .Bair of any during him oldie. The chief feature of the illumination was the Canton-house, at which the Prince landed. It wee ewe blree of light from that building to the Calcara Gate, Guards of horn ie r received him there; and on his landing Beagal lights were arranged to (nem the word •' Welcome," end in front was a very brilliant Eagle. The landing place was lined with osrpets and Bowers, and decorated overhead with banners and fags. The whole was arranged by the Hon. Captain Henewreu, and did him infinite credit. The Queen herielf could not have received greater hononve then Prince Alfred bee received during hie virit to Malta. lle hoc orowionally had to do duty, such as taking command of a boot, or going to the fl.g.ship to copy orders, to chow that he is a need cadet, which uniform he alwnye wears. lie has, in company with Major Cowell or sometime officer, paraded the town and (undo some purchase.' in the shops. Ha is very observant, and et one of the balls he caused some amusement. A young English beauty, a visitor at Malta, who is accused of Icing a sad fl!rt, dropped her card of danues, which the Prince picked up, and smiled on seeing that dance No. I was tilled with the uanre of a gay military gallant, and tbn six following dances with the same name. !ler Id sieety's ship Carador was rent with the last Eels gram to Cesliari and returned nn the 27th. She {mires again to-day for the oglno plsee. The ruble, it in now feared, is damaged by wow rouvuleion near Graham's Island, clime to which it passe.. It is quite mules' cc present. Coquette learn to-day for four months, supposed to be for Csudia. Wanderer to mdered from Athens to Constanti nople, her Nerety's ship Osprey having loot some of her rigging. Itillytt to to go to Tripoli on the god with Consul-General liaraisn. Lapwing is ordered to prepare for sea. The Euryaltaa is to mil after the arrival of the Southamp ton moil. Galignani says that upwards of three thousand permme paid their respects to the Emperor and Empress at the Tuileries on New You'o-lisv. MAILS FOR TILE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA. Th.. evew Warner Ci•y of WArbinioon will Pall v.-do( Wed nelortay) from Liverpool to New York. The Liverpool Pea chier will rise at 9 sm., but letters with fa., fres will be rw..ive , l until 10, red on the lending-rive until shoot 10.30. The Block fl.ll dipper Lightnioo oohs for Uri bourne. The Liverpool Poet-chine will be open for the re of I , 4tcrd and pspero maul 2.15 sod with late hes until 2.30.