The Express. — London, England, 1864-01-04 00:00:00

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RRITANNIA. Tilt, EVENM the Nevtiitniomime HICKORY, DICKORY, D. It K. Sin Line and Itrst•rate Pantom mitt:.—The Marvels of Porn. - THE GREAT till.ktf EFrEer. trthlt r att./ Bertrand. ry Euuutaio....And lIIE GORILLA 111 NI. tUaH WATIMAT r • •NDON BRIDOF 111+ DAY Mnrntrut. *h v±m Afternoon. 911. 2 - ‘,.igoisow— Morning. .4h. s:kn. . .Aheroooe.lob. 30a. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 4. THE country is not permitted to forget the CLIWLEY Court-Martial, as it might be glad to do, with the other failures of the Old Year. Although the War-office did not succeed in vindicating mili tary justice at Aldershot, the expenses of the trial are as heavy as if 1.11.1. Ev had been triumphantly avenged. The abiding result of the CRAWLEY Court-Martial is a " bill" of a magnitude we believe hitherto unknown at the War-office. The costs of bringing over and maintaining the witnesses for the prosecution have been enormous. They were incurred, however, in the attempt to right a great wrong, one which as long as it existed must inflict damage upon that Service on which the nation relies for defence. .tad alth , iuth the prisoner was acquitted it is by nu ILICAIIi certain that the money has been thrown away. Attention has now been power fully directed to the weakness which mingles with the harshness of military law ; and the utter un• suitableness of courts-martial, as at present con stituted ar.d governed, to secure the ends fur which they are instituted, has been placed in a strong light. When Parliament meets we shall hear more of all these things, together with the costs of the CRAWLLY trial. At present, however, " the bill "of the Alder shot Court-M.rtial is not made out. Before it can assume its final shape the authorities will have to resolve in what manner to deal with the demand of Colonel CRAM LZY to have his expenses reim bursed. It appe.us that the stories which have been published of the spirited munificence of his comrades in the hither military circles at home are not altogether correct. For instance, that noble and high-souled Hussar who was said to have subscribed lnidf. in honour of the triumph of the Colonel over the Sergeant-Major, declines the impeachment of an untimely liberality. The Colonel himself, it is understood, takes high ground. He has been fully and honourably acquitted, and therefore will consider himself an injured man unless his expenses are altogether borne by the public, which has troubled him without cause. The argument based on this view will not, however, bear to be pushed too far. The verdict of the Court-Martial, of course, cannot be overlooked by the War.ollice. But neither, onthe other hand, can the evidence of the Court Martial be overlooked by Parliament and the public. It is impossible to read that evidence without seeing that illegal pre ceeclings took place in the regiment under Colonel CRAWLEY'S command, and that those proceedings tended to cause the death in confinement of a non commissi)ned officer, who had previously borne a blameless character, and who was pronounced in nocent of any crime. The trial was, therefore, necessary. Moreover, the Colonel's representations to Ins superiors in India must have had a good deal to do with, if they were not the sole cause of, Sergeant-Major LILLEY'S arrest. Neither General MANsFIELI, nor General FARRELL, upon whom Colonel CRAWLEY has attempted to throw all the responsibility, had any animosity against LI LLEY. Again, it is clear that the provisions of the Mutiny Act designed fur the protection of the soldiers were violated by the excessive imprisonment to which Colonel CnAWLEY subjected Litter. That act plainly prescribes that "no officer or soldier " who shall be put in arrest or confinement shall " continue in such arrest or confinement ruo-e " than eight days, or until such time as a court " martial can be conveniently assembled ;" and it enacts that " any officer or soldier who shall un " necessarily detain any prisoner in confinement " without bringing biiii to trial shall be liable to "be cashiered." Now it is evident that Litter was charged with a crime, and that, although General MANSFIELD, the proper authority for ordering a trial, said that " there did not " appear, as shown by the documents which had " been sent to him by Major-General FARRELL, any " sufficient grounds for bringing the non-commis " !Coned officers concerned to trial for conspiracy," Litter was kept in close confinement for nearly a month. Colonel CRAWLEY has contended that it was not his fault that the prisoners were not tried, and that he only yielded to the judgment of hie superiors. The Colonel, however, knew the law very well ; knew that Litter and his comrades were, after a certain day, entitled to either their liberty or a trial. According to his own account, he lent himself to theexecution of unlawful commands, although be is only hound by the Articles of War to carry out such as are lawful. We have no desire to re-open the case tried at Aldershot, but these facts are important in aiscertaining the justice of Colonel CRAWLEY'S claim. Ile has been acquitted on the two charges preferred against him by the official prosecutor, but the country is not pre cluded from a broad review of the whole case when be asks that it shall assume the burden of his defence. Looking at the trial itself, and taking the evi dence and the verdict together, there appears no reason for conceding COkillei CRAViLIY . I4 demand. If the trial has resulted in his acquittal on the technical charges preferred against him, it is clearer than ever that it had been TEE EXPRESS, -.--- - --- ---.--- , - - 'rendered necessary by. hii illegal t oo t If there be any bettee grossed far , CRAWLEY'S demand it must be sought I not within the trial, but outside of it. An ini ! I portant departure from the ordinary course of 1 ' proceeding took place, which greatly added to : Colonel CKAWLEY'S expenses. In regular course , I the trial would have taken place in India. It was - I removed to this country, wisely, u we believe, and, indeed, of necessity, for a trial in India , would not have satisfied the public at home. But • for this necessity Colonel CRAWLEY is not respon sible in such a manner that the additional charges of his defence rendered necessary by a change of venue should be thrown upon him. It seems, then, that justice would be done if the War-office, while declining to recognise Colonel Caawtev's general claim, should allow bim so much of the expenses as were caused by the Court-Martial being held in England instead of on the spot. IT is understood that the Archduke Maximilian and Archduchess Charlotte are very shortly expected in Paris, to visit the Emperor and Empress of the French, on their way to St. Nazaire, where they will probably embark for Vera Cruz in an Austrian steam frigate, attended by a French steamer of war. Several circumstances, including more particularly the recent visit of Marshal Forey to Miramon, are said to have determined his imperial highness to sail ou his great adventure as Emperor of Mexico. The difficulties originally started by the Archduke were, it will be remembered, of two kinds. In the first place, lie required certain securities against the contingent hostility of the United States ; and in the second, he demanded evidence of his domestic security, if not in the result of a plebiscite, at least in a state of things which should assure Jinn that lie way not the mere catspaw of a partial military revolution. On the former of these points, it is understood that the extraordinary mission of Marshal Forey to Washington had for its result an undertaking of the United States Government not to disturb the new Mexican monarchy ; and in return for this assurance, it is believed that certain promises wore made by France with regard to the attitude of that country towards the Confederate States. This as surance is thought to have served, to some extent, to satisfy the original requirements of the Arch duke as regards pledges of security against aggres sion from without. For, as it was only from the United States that hostility was to be apprehended, it was thought that the assurance of the Washing ton Government would be practically equivalent to a guarantee of support from Great Britain, which was originally suggested by the advisers of the On the latter point it has been, we believe, sub mitted to the Archduke that any nearer approxima tion to a popular vote among so scattered and ig norant a population as the Mexicans, than such as was to be obtained from a more or less general sub mission to tl.e French arms, was altogether imprac ticable. It is stated that, in accordance with this view, the Archduke has been ready to take the progress of the French arms as au index of the submission of the Mexicans to his rule. The Moniteur has just detailed the advance of the French, Mexican, and Indian forces, under command of General Bazaine. It announces that up to the end of November these forces had spread over the western provinces, having taken Oajaca and Valladolid, and that they were then closely investing Guadalajara, which was then daily ex pected to surrender. It states also that in the northern provinces Juarez had fled to Durango ; that the French were about to take Guanajuato and San Luis Potosi ; while the governor of Chihuahua and New Leon, whose capital was Monterey, and which formed the extreme northerly states, lying between Sau Luis Potosi and Texas, had revolted against Juarez, and was ready to accept Maximilian. Juarez was thus stated to be placed between two tires. It is on such a general view of the state of the campaign that the Archduke's conclusion is be lieved to have been formed ; and it is stated also that the strong representations of the French government as to the impossibility of establishing the Mexican government satisfactorily in his absence, and as to the importance of thus re lieving France of some of the burdens of war and administration iu that country, which press so heavily ou the French exchequer, have not been without effect. The Prince and Princess of Wales took leave of her Majesty today, and left Osborne for Frogmore House. The Prince and Princess crossed over in the royal yacht Fairy to Gosport. attended by the Countess of Maccler field, Ltantenent-General Knollys, and Lientenaot-Colonel KeppeL _ _ JAN. 3. The Queen, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Rohm:doh., attended Divine service at Osborne this morn ing. The Rey. G. Prothero officiated. Colonel H. Ponsonby has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe as Equerry in Waiting. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were 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. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Chow:pallor of the Exchequer arrived in London on Saturday afterooon from Hawarden Castle, Chester. The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson arrived in tool on Saturday, from the seat of Viscount Palmerston, Broadlands, Hants. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Coyloo, Hong Kong, Labnan, and Canada. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.--WIND -805, SATURDAY, JAN. 2.—This evening their Royal High- Deese the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Lieutenant-General Koollys, arrived at the Windsor station of the Great Western Rail way. Their royal highnesses, on arriving at Gosport from Osborne, OD the expiration of their visit to the Queen, left by the ordinary 2.30 p.m. train via the London and SODIII Western Railway for Basingstoke Junction, where the train arrived at 4.30 p.m. Here the royal passengers changed carriages, and entered one of the royal state saloons attached to a special broad gauge train, provided by the Great Western Railway Company, consistiog of a pow erfullocomotiveaod threecarrines, in charge of Mr. Kelley. the traffic superintendent of the Great Western Railway, who accompanied the train to Windsor, where it arrived at 5.30 p.m., a quarter of an hour behind the appointed time. A large crowd of epectators assembled on the platform, in cluding a Dumber of ladies. As soon aa the train paused their royal highnesses alighted, and were received by Mr. Kelley and Mr. Matthews, the station master, and con ducted through the Queen's private waiting-room, when two of the ?mice's broughams, each drawn by a couple of chesouts, were in readiness. They were at once driven to Frogmore-houve, where they arrived about 20 minutes to 6p m. Their royal highnesses both looked remarkably well. The Prince sod Princess will reside at Frogmore during this month, and afterwards proceed to Marlborough house, where they will remain for some time. His Excellency the Italian Minister has arrived in town horn visiting the Earl and Countess of Shaftes bury, at St. Gass's, Donetshire. The Duke and Duchess of Grafton bare arrived in town in order to be present at the nuptials of the Hon. Mr. Baring with the Hon. Miss Digby, which take place to-morrow at St. James's Church. The Right Hun. T. 3filuer Gibson arrived in town on Saturday, from the seat of Viscount Palmerston, Broadlands, Hants. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disra.:li have left Grosvenor Gate for Mentmore, Bucks, oa a visit to Baron and Baroness de kilthecaild. Ou Saturday Professor Tyndall del;vered the fourth lecture of his Christmas course "On Electricity," at the Royal Institution. Having in his three previous Iscturee explained and illustrated the phenomenon of " Electricity at Rest ;" or, in other words, of that kind of electricity which is excited by friction. he proceeded in this lecture to consider the phenomena of that electricity excited by chemical action called in the programme, "Electricity in Motion." Shortly after the announcement that Dr. Trench would be the new Archbishop of Dublin, the Rev. Dr. Lee was in his rooms in college when a gentleman entered, and in a quiet way said, " I presume, sir, you are the Rev. Dr. Lee"' The other answered he was. " I wish," rejoined the stranger, " you to preach my consecration sermon, and," he added, "to confer the favour on me of becomin; my chaplain." Theo, and for the first time, Dr. Lee saw before him the arclibishop.elesigsate. They were total strangers to each other. Dr. Trench admired the writings of Dr. Lee on "Inspiration," &c., so much that he selected the fellow df T.C. V. u 1 , 4 chaplain solely upon the evidences of merit they afforded. Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.8., com mander•io-chief, and Major.Geoeral Lord Win. Paula, C. 8., commanding the south-western district, embarked on board the Fire Q leen 'tetra-yacht, Staff Commander Paul, on Saturday morning, and proceeded to Osborne, to pay their respecta to her Majesty. The new quarters for married soldiers at the Canterbury Barracks, which have been erected at a cost of neatly 10,000/.. including extras, are now completed, and they only await the formal inspection of the authorities to render them ready for occupation. THE ROYAL FLUILY AND THE SCHLESWIG- - HOLSTEIN QUESTION. The spectator has a curious article on European royalty. The total number of European sovereigon—tx eluding the non-hereditary Pope and the semi-Asiatic Suit 10 —amounted, on the lot of January of the present year, to exactly 39. Of this number, no fewer than 30 are of direct German origin, that is born and bred in Germany, while of the remaining nine, there are four of German descent. The only five non-German sovereigns of Europe, the rulers of France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. are, however, more or less closely related to German families. The fol lowing extract will be road with interest at the prravut moment: "The marriage of the heir apparent of Great Britain with the Princess Alexandra has brought our royal family into some peculiar relationshipe, which may have the effect of adding still more coofuaion to the greet Schles wig-Holstein puzzle. While the present King of Den mark is father to the Princess of Wales, his rival, as far as the German Duchies are concerned, Prince Frederik of Augustenburg, is likewise nearly connected by marriage with Queen Victoria ; and both oo the Glucksburg and the Auguatenburg aid e there are a host of morpoiat , c princes sod princesses which bring the retitionabip down to the very root of the Schleswig-Holstein temple of the winds. Prince Frederick of Auguatenburg, the pretender, pee his band, in 1486, to Princess Adelaide of Hohec lohe-Loingenbli4, whose mother is • daughter of the late Duchess of Kent, by her first husband, and consequently half-sister of Queen Victoria. The house of Hoheulohe- Langenburg belongs to the mediatisixl' fill:Milt. of Germany, and does not stand very high, moos the Ho benlulies, detesting the law of primogeniture, have split into no less thee eleven different lines, all rich in elem. berm but poor in real uropertv. Nevertheless, in becoming the rival of the new king of Denmark. the Prince of A ague tenburg his the consolation that the family of the former is not in much better position. The eldest brother of King Christian, head of the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Gluck'. burg, L in the position of a country squire in Holstein, and scarcely any members of his family have risen above this rank. The eldest of the eight heathen and sisters, Princeas Marie, aunt of our Princess of Wsles, married in lilt? a Colonel Lasperg, who died in 1843; after which she united herself it' second nuptials to a Count Hohen tbal, a gold-stick in asitiog at the Court of Dresden. The second suet of the Princess of Wales is widow of the semi. lunatic Duke of Anhault-Bernborg : while the third, whose history is said tube spiced with romance, has become abbess of the monastery of I trehoe. Dryden's ' I have a sister, abbess in Tereeras, Who lost her love on her bridal day, is said to have been put, with • variation, in the mouth of King Christian, to a ...awful play performed at Comm bageo. The five brothers of the King, including the head of the' family, are altogether social nonentities; two being country squires, the third an officer in the Austrian service, and the fourth and fifth majors in the army of Piaui'. Con. aequently, though the rise of the Glucksburg family bar been more moid than that of the Coburgs, it sill probably be confined, at least for some time, to the sons and daugliters of Kiog Christian, the Leopold of his house. However, as at is, the achievement is already something marvellous. But a dozen years ago, an un known member of a quite einkuowc family , Prince Christian of &bless ig.HulateimSonderburg-Chicksburg, has now become a king whose voice is heard is the councils of Euro pa , with a daughter destined to wear the diadem of the no ble st empire in the world, sod last, not least, a son possessing the privilege of addressing his own father as Monsieur neon fre , re. It is not often that • youngster of eighteen besion.es a king before his sire, and has the pleasure of complimenting his progenitor on his aocessiou to the throne. But for the existence of royal family alliances., the case might never have happened • for were not the sister a Princess of Wales, no wind could possibly have drifted the young Glucksburg midshipman upou the throne of the Belleges." PRONABLR TUESDAY. ON NORTHERN WEDNESDAY. Easterly, fresh, flue. Cossre. S. to W., moderate, Snowy. S. to W., moderate, WINHERN. A.W. to N., fresh, snow snow au places, some at tones, or rain. TAM 8. to W. and N., mo- MIDDLE. W. to N. and N.X., some slow. fresh, some snow. N.S.E to E S.E. awl &CYBELE. E. to S. and S.W., 9., fresh to strong, strong, some eons. Tine. N.E. to S.B. strong, EASTERN. E. to S., fresh, fine. lonic Snow. Barometer extreme at Heligoland, 30.91 on 3rd. Worthern=Scolland. Westerns Ireland. Al iddle=Ni'ale.. ovio.site and adjacent Sow ern= English Channel sod Biscay Bay. Gastrin= Easissr.l Eugland anal Ueliselaust 8.-Barometer corrected and reduced to ST° at half tide level. Each ten feet. of vertical elevation, cantle: about one hundredth of an inch I,I3IISUTIoN and rsi•h ten degree., above 82-, ‘ gua_ log nearly these hundredths INCRFASZ E.-Exposed therms.. meter iu shade. D.-Difference of net bulb ;for evaporation and dew polnt‘. W.-Wind, direction of .TRUE-two points Lan of magnetic`. F.-Force to 12-estimated . X.-Extreme force but report. Q .-Quarter a hence ExTREXE tom, NNE=.y, to 3t-.N'. I. - Initials -Dille sky; v.-clouds detached;; I -f.st ; h.-hall: L -lightning ; m.-misty)' ;hazy, ; 0.-over ast Ann,. r.-rain, 5.-snow t.-thouder. R =Rai:stall, snow or hail melted;, since last report. 8.-Sea disturbance it to 9.. The Paris Droll states that the preparation of the bill of indictment against the physician accused of having pisoned his wife in order to obtain 22,0001, from en insur ance company is entrusted to M. Oouet, one of the magis trates of the Imperial Court of Paris. Orders have been given that the trial may take place with as little delay as possible. The case would have been already set down for trial but for the discovery of fresh evidence, which requires time for investigation. The cathedral at Berlin has jtvit received a gift on the occasion of the erection of a new marble altar. The gift alluded to is an embroidered altar-cloth, which was presented by the Queen of Prussia, at whose desire all the princesses of the royal family took part in the manufacture of the offering, and each division bears the initials of the princess by whose hand that particular portion was executed. A lotto front Brest, in thu Journal du I►arre, states that the Confederate corvette Florida, having com pleted her repairs, has anchored in the roadstead about 200 yards distant from the Federal corvette Keaisage. The former will commence her experimental tripe on the 10th, and proceed to sea in the early part of February. A French vessel of war will conduct the two corvettes beyond the limits of the French waters, putting an interval of 21 boors between the departure of each, in conformity with the relit'. lations of international law. PRFAIDENT LINCJI.N. —President Lincoln is not a polished speaker, seitber doss he wield a polished pee ; but he has a way often of saying the fitting thing —ex pressing the right thought or feeling in homely phrases, that gives to the thought or feeling its due pleas above all regard to mere style. Thus is gained a remarkable power in the way of an emphatic and direct simplicity, which reaches and holds every beersr or reader. In the premium of the fine, sincere, aml appropriate sentiment, the absence of the classical finish is not felt. —.ll;ssouri Democrat. JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THSrOPS. The following correspondence between the Pope and President Davis is published in La franc( : "Richmond, Sept. 23, 1863. " Very Venerable Sovereign Pootiff,—The letters which you have written to the clergy of New Orleans sod New York have been conimuorcated to me, and I have read with emotion the deep grief therein expressed for the ruin and devutation caused by the war which is now being waged by the United States against the States and people which have selected me as their president, and your orders to your clergy to exhort the per-ple to peers and charity. I am deeply sensible of the Chrisvvi charity which has impelled you to this reiterated appeal to the clergy. It is fur this reason that I feel it my duty to express persuoally, and in the name of the Confederate States, our gratitude for such sentiments of Christian good feeling sod love, and to assure your Holiness that the people, threatened even on their own hearths with the most cruel oppression sod terrible carnage, is desirous now, as it has al ways been, to see the end of this impious war ; that we have ever addressed prayers to Hessen for that issue which your Holiness now desires ; that we desire none of our enemy's possessions, but that we fight merely to resist the devastation of our country and the sheddiog of our best blood, and to force them to let us live in peace under the protoctiou of our own institutions, sad under our law., which not only ensure to every oneAthe enjoyment of his temporal rights, but also the free exercise of his religion. " I pray your Holiness to accept, on the part of myself and the people of the Confederate States, our sincere thanks for your efforts in favour of peace. Hey the Lord preserve the days of your Holiness, sod keep you under His Divine protection. . _ (Sighed) " JEFFERsON DAVIS, " President of the Cuofederate States of South America." To this the Pope replied in the following letter: " Illustrious and Honourable Presideat, salutation.— We have just received, with all suitable welcome, the per. sons sent by you to place in our hands your letter dated 23rd of September last. Not alight was the pleasure we experienced when we learnt, from these persons and the letter, with what feelings of joy and gratitude you were animated, illustrious and honourable president, as soon as you were informed of our letter to our venerable brothers John Archbishop of New York, end John Archbishop of New Orleans, dated the 18th of October of last year, and in which we have with all our streagth ex cited and exhorted these ble brothers that in their episcopal piety sod solicitude they should endeavour with the most or lent zeal, and in our name, to bring about the cad of the fatal civil war which lies broken out in those countries, iu order that the American people may obtain peace and concord, and dwell charitably together. It is Particularly agreeable to us to see that you, illustrious aid honourable President, and your people, are animated with the same desires of peace and tranquillity which we have in our letters inculcated upon our venerable brothers. May it please God at the same time to make the other peoples of tmerica and their rulers, reflecting seriously how terrible is civil war, and what calamities it engenders, listen to the inspirations of a calmer spirit, and adopt resolutely the part of peace. As for us, we shall not cease to offer up the moat fervent prayers to God Almighty that he may pour out upon the peoples of America the spirit of peace and charity, and that He will stop the great evils which afflict them. We. at the same time, beseech the God of mercy and pity to shed abroad upon you the light of his grace, and attach you to us by a perfect friendahip. " Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, the 3rd of December, 186:1, of our Pontificate 18. (Signed) " Pits IX." The annual meeting and dinner of the Romney Labourers' Encouragement Association is flied for Than. day neat. .od it is announced that Lord Palmerston has consented to preside. ebt Court. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, OSBORNE. JAIL 2. LATtSI' INTELLIGENCE. ENGLAND AND DENMARK.-THE PRO POSED CONFERENCE. What will England du in Denmark ? This seems to be the general inquiry on the Continent The De'bats of to-day says :—" The more England is pressed on this point the less she seems disposed to divulge. She knows that at this moment she may by one false step compromise years of peace ' in the world. That which the English ca binet appears most to desire is the meet ing of a European conference which would only be officially charged to resolve the Dann-Germanic dispute. Austria has the same wish, and the little German states themselves, however convinced they may be of the absolute right of Germany to carry off Holstein, are not opposed to the meeting of this conference, provided that the treaty of London, to which the Frankfort diet has always refused to adhere, is not taken as the basis of the deliberations. If the French government seeks a congress, and is ready to make some sacrifices to obtain it, here is the opportunity. It can very well accept a conference intended to deliberate upon one subject alone, and leave to events—those able negotiators and impe rious tyrants whose combinations no one can baffle, and whose yoke no one can reject— the task of bringing little by little this restricted conference to extend the circle of its deliberations. Who can doubt that if the representatives of all the European powers assembled to-morrow without any other proposed object than to prevent the Germ los from crossing the Eider, the names of Poland, Rome, Villafranca, Italy, Savoy, would very soon be upon the lips of all the diplomatists present ? The most reserved, the coldest, those who are most masters of them selves, would wish in vain to be silent. The goddess Necessity would know Low to make them speak." The Nord of to-day says that the French govern ment adhered to the proposition of the conference on the condition that it did not meet at London, as England wished, and that, moreover, it should not be exclusively occupied with the Danish question. The latter condition the French govern ment has since given up, and England Las declared that the place of meeting is a matter of indifference. Austria, according to the Nord, has demanded as conditions of its participation iu the conference, that the Germanic Confederation sends a repre sentative there, that the great powers admit the possibility of a revision of the treaty of London, and that the execution in the duchy be continued until the complete &elution of the Schleswig- Holstein question. The Nord continues : We do not yet know the reception given by Prussia, Russia, and Sweden to the propositions of the cabinet of St. James's, but on the part of the Germanic Confederation we must expect seriou. difficulties. It is not very probable that the diet will consent to send a representative to a conference which would take as its starting point an inter national document which has been concluded without its participation and consent, although the interests treated of were in a great degree its own. The same reasons make us doubt the acceptance by the det of the .tustro-Prussiau proposition relative to an occupation of Schleswig, unless indeed this aeceptanco is accompanied by certain re. strictions destined to neutralise that which the proposition itself contains favourable to the convention of London. In order to leave so doubt as to their true inten tions, the two great German powers have sent to the other signitaries of the protocol of London a note explaining the common proposition which they have sent to the Federal Diet. This Dotedefliel any aggressive intention oo the part of the two powers, and represents the eventual occupation of SAleswig as having no other object than to secure the ful filment of the engagements contracted by T./enmark. "This occupation," it is said in the note, "is no more directed against the rights of the Kiog of Denmark than it is intended to support those of the Duke of Augustenhurg ;" but the majority of the Germanic Diet turas more and more to the vide of the Duke of Augnstenburg, and • vote which was come to in Saturday's sitting permits us to foresee almost as a certainty that the Federal Assembly will pronounce itself on the question of succession in favour of the Pre tender excluded by the London treaty. WEATHER REPORT. -(THIS DAY.) MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 8 A.Y. E. U. W. _ • I Y. 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The first of the winter special services at St. Paul's Cathedral took plate yesterday evening, and was attended by a very large congregation, all of whom, how ever, appeared to be comfortably seated and in a position to bear the whole of the service without any difficulty. The Cathedral was well warmed. The arrangements generally for the services are, it may be observed, similar to those of last year, which obviated all the inconveniences previously felt, and rendered the dome and its vicinity as available for divine worship as any ordinary church. The :service last night commenced at seven o'clock. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Povah, minor canon ; and the lessons by Caaoo Malvill. The choir, which was under the direction of Mr. Ruckland, and consisted of between four and live hundred voices, sang the responses with the oongregatioe to the music by Trills ; and also th e anthem, "O taste and see," by Goss. The male singers wore surplices. The sermon was preached by the Right Rev. the Bishop of London, from the 2nd chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, and the =cid verse :—"Jesus of Nazareth, a also approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know." After describing generally the nature and object of Christianity, the right rev. prelate remarked that it seemed to be necessary in these days to reconsider the old subject of miracles, though there was little to be advanced reapectiog it but very old arguments I First, as to the difficulty that the religion which God had I given them was miraculous. Gil men crave for what looked 1 more like a human system, more accordant with ordioary experience, and attested by such common internal arguments 1 and reasoning from the self evident or easily proved truth of the docaines as • system of philosophy would usually appeal to ! They would not find any lack of such proofs. • Truer and higher views of the nature of God and of man's soul than were previously guessed at ; a purer morality, baud on hither motives, and these appealing to the con science through the reasoning, the uoderstaoding, and the feelings, proclaimed the system in which they met to be indeed God's truth. So that if there were any man whoa* mind was so formed that he was better able to approach Christianity through that avenue than any other, let them never think of closing the gates against him ; let them bid him welcome ; let them invite him to come in his own way. However he embraced the Christian system, if he did is truth embrace it he must at last see and acknowledge that it is full of miracle. Men, however, neither did nor ought to crave for a system that was not miraculous. Witness all the systems of religion which man had ever known. led they not all speak of a world unseen and its unseen inhabit ants? Were they not all full of things alleged to have taken place beyond the limits of experience, and did they not all teem with traditions of the miraculous! This of course wasgrameiL What the objector urged was, that as man became wiser he outlived what he termed the fancies of the world's childhood. Now this was what they dewed ; they maintained, on the contrary, that ever, man at every stage of human progress Ind stall eau e feelings and man's wants, and if there were before him a man's destiny every religiou which was worthy of the name, and would perform the part of a religion, must speak to him of things beyond the range of common experience— wonderful, supernatursl,liniraculoas, and he would not be, and ought not to be, satisfied with anything less. Speak nig at the commencement of a new year, with 1l its trials and sorrows in prospect, he would enquire what was the sort of aid which they expected to gain from their religion. Domestic mud political economy ; rules of good government ; plans for the social acid intellectual amelioration of the condition of their race, all these might be set at work by a religion which appealed to Christian motives and will ; but they were not in them selves religion, any more than physical or mathematical science was. Religiou pierced deeper and rose higher than any human science ; it spoke of truth beyond the range of man's common knowledge. Did not their hearts yearn for a stability amid life's changes such as they only knew who felt that they rental upon God! What good man, what wise man, in the midst of the distractious of life did not long for somethieg beyond this life and shove it! There was nothing so salutary for the tempted conscience to dwell upon as the thought of God's nearness to humanity brought before them in the miracles of the life, the resurrectiou, and the mcension of the Lord Jesus Christ. Talk of a miraculous system u being an uncongeuial thing to the feelings and conclusions of an edu feted age ; prate of a human system more like their every day experience being more accommodated to their wants! Why it eau this very element of the supernatural,—the miraculous—that best helped to bring God and man toge ther. Truly there was none of them that could do without these helps. The good sod the bad alike were ever in danger of looking to the world as a home, and everything was to be prized which helped them ta 1100 how the monotony of the world's chime had been broken when God had willed it. After passing in review the leading miraculous features of scripture history, the right reverend prelate said how dull, bullied, how cold and heartless would life and the world be with out the brightness of those links through which the electric spark bad been visibly conveyed to man from the throne of God. Another system, less replete with miracle, more like modern philosophy, more ap proaching to the vaunted moderation of a non-miraculous theism, might doubtless have been adopted by God, and some natures might have found it suited to their wants ; but who could fail to see that the real Bible system was far better suited to seize upon the whole complex nature of luau's feeling, longing as he was to be near to God and yet ever tempted in a thousand way. to flee from God's preemie* and forget Lis relation, to Him! As to the old objections to miracles, they must be met with the old an swers. Among these was the objection or fallacy that ruin, clots were century to mains experience. That was the very question at issue, and men must not assume the conclusion as a premiss. The question to be dealt with was, whether or no miracles had been wrought at marked epochs in the history of their race. Christiana asserted that they had, and no one had a right to assume the contrary except after a long and careful examination of alleged instances. It was said that a main should not be required to believe what was unnatural. Here, again, was an old fallacy. What was meant by " unnatural :" It might be assumed that probability was against the occurrence of any miracle, but events were to stand or fell io history, not by their a priori probability or improbability, but according to the evidence that attested them. lie maintained that it was not only unreasonable but derogatory to God's honour, and inconsistent with any real belief in Him, to deny that miracles might have existed. '' A Christian denying all miracles" was a contradiction in terms, for miracle was the very essence of Christianity. Moreover, if a man believed in the existence of a God, whose will had arranged the common laws eirtn u r: l , he meat allow that the Omnipresent Being might make Him self felt in some marked way when man His creature was in danger of forgetting Him through the uniformity of His common laws; otherwise he must suppose that God had by the establishment of His common laws parted with His one uipotence, and that as the poet utilised the system of the 1 w.phist, " Nature is King, The personal Ruler is no more." It might be mid that God antsibliabed at the first a system of rules which would work out their common end. The answer to that was, that God might have intended at the first that these rairaculous totervsetions should be part of the great plan. To maintain an a priori objection against miracles wee to interfere with God's free agency, and to prescribe in what particular mode He ought to have worked to order to keep alive among men • knowledge of Himself. The right rev. prelate concluded by alluding to the resurrection of Christ as the crowning miracle of the Christian revelation. The service terminated about 9 o'clock, and the congrega tion dispersed in tiro mast quiet and orderly manner. It may be added, that the sermon next Sunday 'resit* will be preached by the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth. The Queen has conferred the appointment of Court Newsman—varaot by the resignation of Mr. Doane —upon Mr. Thomas Beard, long end honourably known in connection with the London press. The Rev. Juhu Renwick is appointed sasistant and successor to the Rev. John Ramsey, minister of the church and pariah of Gladsmuir. The Obserrer believes that parliament will meet for the "despatch of basilicas" un Thursday, the 4th of February. Luau PALMER...ITO:C.—We regret to state that the noble premise* nomattend.nos at the Cabinet Council on Saturday was owing to a somewhat sharp attack of gout. His lonlihip remains at his seat, Broadlands, Hants. THE NEW DEAN or IVV4THINHTEK.—The Rev 18. Stanley, the new Dean of Westminster, will be in stalled on Saturday next by Dr. Cureton, the rector of St. Margaret's. Dr. Wordsworth, who protested against the appointment, has been spared the difficulty, his term of residence having expired. THE WEATHER AND THE PAILILN.—The severity of the weather for the last two or three days has covered the pieces of water in the various perks with iceAut men are appointed to prevent rash people front endangering their lives where the ice is not think ; end the officers of the Royal Humane Society are busy making preparations for the casualties which invariably come with the skating season. THE WEATHER IN 1863.—As noted at Higbfield Observatory, the months of January, February, November, and December last year were coesiderably above the averages, while July and September were as much below, the excess on the whole year being three- quarters of *degree. There has been 74 inches lees rain thannstud ; the mean pre"- sure corrected and reduced to the sea level was 29.941, and a range of 1.8 inches occurred. The monthly range of tem perature was 11.3 deg. above the average in July. and 11.8 deg. below in October. and 11.1 deg. below la December. The year beg been remarkable for a number of large meteors, which were seen on the 6th and 14th of February, 16th of March, 18th of May, 16th of August, 9th of Sep tember, 15th of October, and 28th of November. On the Ist of May there was a severe frost, which aimed much damage ; on the 19th July there was a frost, while in the autumn there was so small an amount of cold that en the sth of November dahlias were in full bloom, and OD Christ. Imsday,roses,violets.daisies,walleowers, sad primroses were abundant. On the 9th of August the temperature at night was never below 63 deg. The year 1863 will deo be remembered for the severe earthquake shock of October 6, and for the fearful gale of December 3, SUICIDE THROUGH LOVE AND JEALOUSY, .1; hOMBRTUIV. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, Mr. H. Raffle , ' Walthew, dip coroner, resumed at the Adam and Eve tavern, Homerton, en inquiry respecting the death of Either A.... , aged 19 yearn, who seu alleged to have committed 1..1: under very painful circumstances. It appeared from the evidence takes on the pre,: occasion, that the deemed was a waitress at Kipple, coffee-house, in Angel-lace, Temple Mills. George Austen, the father of the deceased, said that s used to return home to his home io stratford every es. AShe was keeping company with a young man . . Henry Hoggett, to whom she was very deeply att.ll,!, She did not come home as uusa on the night of lest day week, and he never saw her again until a week wards, when her body was found in the River Lea. heard that she was last in the company of 11-: Hoggett. The latter had known her for two years, and had frequently called upon deceased, especially whe,i was ill, but latterly he had taken to courting anothe-. r.. 1 the Tuesday night in question deceased called upon hi, • , know about it. They left to walk together, and that the last that was seen of her. She was a steady rum , and was not at all of a suicidal turn. She was of a cheer' disposition. Henry Hoggett, the young man in question, said when he and the deceased walked out and got as to the rtiles at Homerton-hill, he said, "I must now you, as I want to go and see Jane Shrub, who is wai:ic; for me at the top of the hill." She replied, " Mind a, her up well," and he turned away to go .09 Shrub. He bad not gone far when deceased said " night, good night," in • tone that " gave him a turn." looked back and saw her running down the bill. He was I at first going to follow her, but seeing a man and a AV01:..13 ' driving along the road, he thought that they would 'n -e after her. He had no doubt that she committed F!1: idc through being so food of him. He bad never promiesi marry her, and be had told her about Jane Shrub bet , re. Site then said, "See me home at night now, for whet. are married you will not be able to walk with me aloe, lanes." She also said she "would like to creep ii re forest and never be seen again by any one." Ile loved but "his love au the love of friendship, and nothiug She was always very jealous of the other young woman. George Austin recalled. mid that lieggett was certa:lik paying his addresses to deceased. Witness had sine s to Hogaetits " If you did not put her to death, you Cu". cause of it," and he said, - I have no doubt that I WAR." Countable *t3 N raid that last Tuesday, some per- .i came to the station and asked him to ilrAg the river ! •After an hour and a quarter's dreg, he got deceased s In her pocket was found a portweinuide coot:tit- -; two sixpences and a part of a tradesman's with an address next door to Mr. Kingsley's, in An ; :e . .. lane. No doubt she had put it iu her pocket in order t.. it might lead to her identification. Mr. George Miller, M.H.C.s., slid that be had mailc careful examination of the body of the deceased, stud he found no marks of violence. She was perfectly healthy. The Coroner said that there was no doubt that the poor , girl bad been driven almost into a state of madness by the ' extraordinary conduct of the young man Hoggett. feelings on the night when he so abruptly told her he was going straight to meet another were no doubt 1160Difing. ALd she went at once and committed suicide, bat of evirse there was DO direct evidence of the fact. '"ii;;;Tary .-- ;;;;;;;;1rveriict'• That the deceased found drowned in the River L-:,, but there was no evide:..t u to how she came into the water of the said river." ALARMI.VG OCCURRRY('E AT A MR.V.4GERIE.- A GIRL SEIZED BY .4 LIONESS. On Saturday evening between S and 9 n'cle, an accident took place at Eilmond's (lota Wombwell's) met,. gerie, now exhibiting at Kingsland-green, sLi,b caused the greatest consternation to those Caci were present. During the performances of the elephant.. who were taking their accastonied walk up the middle of the booth, which is a very large one, loud shrieks were heard from that part of the 1111 u• where the lion cages are, and the audience were honor-stricken to see that ;ha lioness had a girl, about thirteen nears of age. in its ars, and was dragging her up to the bars of the ce;e. In an instant the lion tamer, an Indian, who exhibits with the collection, went to the fi•ot of the cage, and with the greatest coolness and courage beat the beset about the feet and forced it to relinquish its but not until she had been very much lacerated about the arms and left side of the head. She was immediately taken to the surgery of Dr. Donnelly, who at once advised her re- moved to the German Hospital, where she was directly attended by Dr. Beaumler, who ascertained that she was very much injured about the aide of the teal and one of her arms. It was then ascertained that her name was Sophia Moorshel. She :ived with her parents at No. 5, Sp.-user-terrace, Speoser.:oad, llorusey Nes. town, and bad vas to the menagerie with her frictds. It appeared, from some Cause not sacertamed. she incautiously got within t,e ropes in front of the lion's and tiger's cages, and that the lioness forced her paws out flit ways, and caught hold of her bonnet. The Girl putting up her band to protect herself, was seized by the other paw of the lioness, and lied it not been for the assistance which was immediately rendered. the consetplences would have been fatal. At the hospital this morning it was stated the girl was very bad. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK, .T As. 2. The Aldborough lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution rendered an importast service in saving three meu and their boat from destruction on New's Inar':+-eve. The men were out fishing when a gale came on BO soddenly from E.S.E. that they were unable to come ashore, as they dared not attempt to pass through the heavy breakers on the shoals, or they would have lost their lives. The lifeboat was quickly manned and launched. suit lulled through the heavy surf on the bes►s, and was fortuostely successful in bringing the pour fellows and their craft safely to shore. The sea was the heaviest the lifeboat bad ever previously encomatered, and her admiralale behaviour has given great satisfaction to her crew. BATON, NORFOLK, SATUILDLT NIGHT. At daybreak this morning the tiring of a heavy gun was heard from the floating light ship at the north end of the Haieborough sands. Soon after a large vessel was observed with distress signals in her rigging, shut 10 or 12 miles from the shore. It was blowing a gale from the east, and a very heavy sea no. The Buton lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was launched through the surf, and bore away for the wreck. Upon arriving at the vessel they found that she was full riggsd, but had lost her mainmast. She irtu a foreign vessel, apparently Russian from the flags iu Ler rigging. On going alongside the crew of the lifeboat found no one on Loard. It is reported that the crew had taker) to their long boat, and bad been picked up by a Winterton yaw', and taken to Great Yarmouth. GREAT YARMOUTH, ..1 AN. 1. - . The Seratby lifeboat, belompag to the fishermen, win fortuoately the means of reeruiog, yesterday, during s heavy gale of wiod, fourteso person, from a foreign which bad been driven on the Haisborough mods. This is probably the same vessel which the Becton lifeboat of the institution found abandoned. HER MAJEsTV's STAu Queeß's hounds, which during the last fortnight have afforded some most excellent snort, met on Tuesday hot at Richings, when the running was extremely good, the deer going emir to Slough, and over the rail to George-green, through Rowley Wood, Upton Wood, and Black Park, over leer Heath to Round Copse, Cowley, Uxbridge, and Denham, and making towards the canal, when it war taken after a rattling run of about two boars. The meet on Tuesday next will be at Mile House, and on Friday at Maidenhead Thicket, at half. past eleven both days. THE PRINCE OY WALEN ' S Er AHRIEUS.--ThiS pack. which lately mooed bunting for a short period after the anniversary of the Prince Consort ll death, wets again in the field lost week, and on Wednesday they hunted at Thorpe, and on Friday at Littleton. THE Wimisint STILYLEcHANZA.—The grand an nual and military steeplechmeri at Windsor will take ylam ou Friday and Saturday. the sth and nth of Februa. A CHILD PONON ED DV MIsTAKIL A g —FAT L EREOH. Or A DRUGGIAT.—Tbe Wigan borough Coroner °posed on inquiry into the circumstaucee touching the death of the infant daughter of Mr. Henry Farr, coachbuilder, of th it town, on Saturday, sod which had been osicasiooed by do=e of la udanum administered to it by its mother in mistake for tincture e rhubarb. The chill was ailing on Weilors day, and Mr. For sent one of his boys to the shop of Mr. Kellett, the proprietor of en old-estebliohed drug business, for threspeaoyworth of tincture of rhubarb. The lad received a bottle containing what purported to be the tine ture—Mr. Kellett himeelf having measured out the mixture —and from this on the following day Mrs. Farr gave about half a teaspoonful to her child. It went to sleep soon after, sod began to exhibit symptoms of being narcotised ; • cur gem was sent for, and be found on examining the vial, that it contained • quantity of pure laudanum, almost en ounce. The child died in a few hours. Mr. Kellett, who, with au attorney, was present during the investigation, did not deny serving the ladl but was unable to 'cannot fur having given laudanum. In reply toe juror. he said that the bottles con taming the tincture of rhubarb and laullsourn were within one or two of each other on the shelf. The verdict of the jury was to the effect "that death had resulted from • dose of laadaoum given in mistake, awl thus Mr. Kellett was exonerated from criminal liability ;" but the foreman desired to say, in the name of the jury, that in their 'minim, bottle. containing poisonous drool; ought, uoder no circum stances, to be ne,r those containing merlicioes is hourly re quisition. They thought, too, that 141.6 ought to be in English, and plainly pnnted, so that mistakes should be lees liable to occur. DEATH AT MASS.—Another sudden death occurred yesterday (Dec. T 7), morning at Casale Luca. The parish privet of that meals, the Rev. Carty, died suddenly Is the principal church of that place. whilst he was saidating at the chanting of high masa. The reverend gentleman bad been for a long time suffering front disease of the heart. which ultimately canted him off by • stroke of apoplexy. —Malta Otserrer. I