The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-07 00:00:00

J4IFKBOAT SEILVICES.—Doring the storms of tht , paat year ihnA, the Nation!.l Lifeboat Institution, by its lifeboats and other onron. , , °tea t • the ~aving 4.1 Ala persona from different wrecks on . tir eon,t.. The inatitation also expended £31.430 in the same Ids lifeboat eAtt blidnitent, no ad•lith.o t..gratitine f..r reward's. line Committee of the Institnti..n earnestly Alpt EAI. to the public for .I ,, iIsI•ANCE t.. enable the:n t.. meta the r.nttinued heavy the 172 lifeboat At.II ..1 11, Inslrtuti. nt. nntrilattl..n. me rent itr.l by the I. .nottry 'ankers: and by the naar..l..try. la, LEWIS. Esti., at the jOLIN 1110)(IDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy weiiiht, rabic, and the workmanship at , lest!: maiinfaiituri r , ' prices. '1: e the chants gati ,inteed, au I man, la,ed u: the pri. ..:11(41.11 licre•3 the mite, !hay initeli pew etinto t.i the utilstrq rant, 'I he finctiv-ie the it al, an I :'large fiir AIIAKE , PEARE Manufachiry. Iliinrietta-street,( ga kn, W. 1.7 , B ENSON'S WA TCHES. W, Ludgate hill; 25. lad 1;0nd-street. B RONVN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CIIILDREV:i To obtain extra proilt by the sate other kinds are sometimes of/en:oil instead of BROWN and Pol...ioN'S. .• John brown," 'John Poison," is sieved by the makers on each packet. gut erorros• TO CORRESPONDENT , ♦dvertisements intended fur 't he u Ext. ." London Evening ILverie.strort, by Two :=.ll onnuttiebedaav'othpeubliicniscitm.l DRI'RE LANE. Tlll9 FVFNIVO, A DAY AYTEIL TIIE WEDDINII.—And NUMBER NIP. Mesdaniug 'Thommou. Hudspeth. Seymour, & Van.lcuhutl; Nlessrm. 1. Matthcws, Clifton, AlasLer Roscilediolcuo, Lauri, Curmacit, &c.; And Marlon. HAYMAItkET. THIg EVENINO. .t MERE CHILD. Messrs. Howe, Gordon, Mesdames t hiplkvdde, ritzwilliam, Laws. Powell. LEisON FOK LI FL Ntes,rs. S.ltheru, 11..eert.. Clark. JEN N LIN h AT LAST. ltisi Burke. —Aa.I the BALLET. Ldlle. Sophia PIUNCISSB'S. 111118 EVlRingo, RARNABY RUDOE. Mews. 8. Calhaeni. F. Villiers. J. O. Shore, sod G. Honey : Min.es Augurrninorn son and Katherine Rodgers, Urn U. Vining, and Mist. C. Hon ruan.—.iud THE I N% ISIBLE PRINCE. CEUM. TR79 V.rrsinn, TR! TWO Nilay. Nfr. Wieldlaomb.—And R(11 , (ir; ;r Nut tt. Messra Fechtcr. Emery', !foreland, Fitriyarick. I) dt..n. Itrylrdds, L... 11111.1. Andrew". Ander.,..n, dc. ; 11r*. L. Hurray, and ilisars Ilaurade, Grattan, and C. Lvelerc.i. STIULYD. Tut.: Xvringo, NEtflitilliiiit.4--After which will be produced a Grand Ikulcsque, GUY FAWKE,4.—And BOUTS AT TIE& a \‘A.ti. HOLBORN. TniA EVI,IIIIO, MY TFKR -- ERT. Mr. Belmqre; MMus lode and Lamea —And FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Rei nsure. I.l;ske, Vollaire. &c. ; Mesdames F. Juaaphs, C. Saunders, Bessie Foote. Flddes, Lennox, Raymond, &a. BRITANNIA. Tnpi EMIN4. THE PRINcESS OF THE PEARL ISLAND: OR. TIIE THREE KINGD,OIs 1W PEARL, COLD, AM) SILVER. the Lane and Ja..ol,—First.rato raittomitaiita, —AIM TUE SEELEToN CREW. HIGH WATER AT LONDON DRIDOIL TIIPI PAT —Morning, 2h. 57m Afternoon. 3h 12sh TO-MOnnow—llornlng, Jh. 2vm Altensoon. 4n co. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 7. THE new year has not opened very prosper ously for business. A heavy snow-storm has op posed an almost impenetrable barrier between the City and the houses of merchants, bankers, and brokers ; and hence the mercantile transactions of the past week have been materially curtailed. There is little to record except general dulness. At the same time the opportunity seems a fitting one to look back upon the commerce of 1866. The lesson conveyed by the events of the most serious period that the mercantile and financial world have gone through for forty years will be best appreciated now that they have enforced leisure to consider it. In describing the progress or decadence of our trade, the first thing, of course, is to search the official tables published from time to time by the Government. Unfor tunately, however, all Governments move slowly, and especially our own, or we should not have to wait until the end of February for the Board of Trade Returns for tho preceding year. At that time they will have lost all prac tical interest, and will be of use only to compilers of past statistics. Even then they refer only to foreign trade, and have no information to give with regard to our home production and consump tion, which are equally, if not more, important. At best, they necessarily furnish a simple detail of figures from which we have to draw our own con clusions. It by no means follows that they are therefore worthless. Something is al ways gained from precise, although limited information. As regards exports, the declared veldt, during the first eleven months of the past year stands as follows: January February March . April 3 “ June July August September October November L 14,354,748 15,116,063 17,520,&14 15,366,414 15,870,131 14,&30,120 14,957,kt34 17,450,156 16,671,078 16,8%1,894 15,080,430 Total 1:173,913,22 The enumeration of the imports includes only ten months to the end of October. They are u under : January £9,847,364 February March April May Juno July August September 18,356,015 October 19,530,442 Total £103,298,047 The result is apparently a balance of trade against us of no less than 34,466,2551. Accord ing to the opinions of a hundred years ago, the English nation would be the poorer in specie by nearly thirty-four millions and a half, but in the present day we have learnt that there are many other considerations to be kept in view besides these ordinary calculations. First, we are in a certain sense receiving tribute from almost all the countries of the globe in the shape of interest on loans, whether to Governments, public com panies, or private individuals, which more than compensates for the difference. Secondly, there are the profits on freight, mostly carried by Eng lish shipping, commissions, and the hundred inci dental gains arising from international commerce. It is clear that, at all events, our imports of bul lion vastly exceed our exports. The totals of gold and silver during the first eleven months of the past year are as under : Imports Exports £31,970,483 20,792,006 Difference in our favour... £11,178,187 So that instead of sending out near thirty-four and-a-half millions we have actually received more than eleven millions. Thus far our foreign trade appears to have been satisfactory, on the whole. notwithstanding the marked decline that took place after the first months of the crisis. In taking the various items of our trade in detail, the beat evidence to be obtained is from the annual circulars of our principal merchants. Cotton, of course, stands first. Upon the pro bable production of the crop in the Southern States of America Messrs. NEILL Brothers and Co. are unquestionably the best authorities. Acoord ing to their estimate the total will exceed 2,000,000 bales, an amount very much below the produce of the years before the war, but more THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1867. than could have been anticipated from the dis organization of labour that has been the conse quence and complement of the struggle. This estimate is verified by another important firm in the cotton trade, Messrs. TRUEMAN and ROCSE, who also state their opinion that we shall receive a quarter of a million bales from India in 1867 in excess of the amount in 1866. By the same authority, our imports from all quarters during the past three years have been as follows : 1864 1/45 1866 showing an increase of fully 50 per cent. in 1866 over 1864, and of 40 per cent. over 1865. If, therefore, the preceding calculations of an aug memo,' import in the present year be verified, as there is every reason to believe, we shall not be in want of a sufficient supply of the most im portant staple of our manufactures. Next to cotton may be placed wool. It seems strange in these days to know that in the time of the EDWARDS stringent enactments were created against the export of wool from this country, while now the large supply derived from home is so far insufficient that it has to be compensated by large imports from the colonies and elsewhere. Messrs. J. L Bowas:s and Brothers report that under the circumstances the woollen trade during the past year has been, on the whole, satisfactory, the sudden outbreak of the German war, the contraction of the American demand, and the competition caused by the decline in the price of cotton notwithstand ing. Thus the import of wool into the English ports during the first eleven months of the past year exhibits " an increase in weight of 11 per " cent., and the export a decrease of 20 per cent., " the balance showing an increase of 38,500,000 " lbs. retained for home consumption." As re gards the exports of woollen manufactures an aug mentation has taken place of 5i per cent. com pared with 1865. This is not much, but consi dering that the cessation of the American war especially affected the demand for woollens there appears no reason to complain. Tho iron trade seems to be in an anomalous con dition. For years past the production has increased, yet individual nianufacturers have constantly averred that their profits gave them but the smallest interest on their capital. This may be perfectly true. It is very easy to say that, whether from want of demand, strikes, or any other cause inter fering with the coat of production, capital will forthwith be transferred to some other locality. But capital is not so easily transferred. It is invested in mines, factories, and machinery, and to dispose of these simply implies that other capitalists take the place of those departing. The transfer of capital, as well as the growth of capital, is slow, but not the less sure. Messrs. G. B. Toms and Co. give a fair picture of the position of the trade. They show, that although prices have lately been continuously declining, still matters have not come to the worst. The state ment that foreign contractors have successfully competed with English masters in our own markets has been somewhat exaggerated, and the fact remains that if they have some times though rarely beaten us, we on the other hand have beaten them on their own ground. There is no question, however, that our iron manufacturers are by no means in a prosper ous condition. According to the authority before us—and it seems strictly trim—three causes are weighing upon the market : first, an over-exten sion of works ; second, a higher payment of wages than the trade justifies ; and, thirdly, the mone tary crisis. Messrs. Toms address a few sensible observations to workmen on the subjects of trades unions, strikes, and especially the reciprocity of interest between masters and operatives, that de serve attention. Thus far the most important subjects have been treated. There are many others, and, indeed, the catalogue alone would almost fill a column. Messrs. A. F. and D. MACICAY show that the timber trade has been dull, consumers only caring to provide for immediate wants. This, by the way, might be said almost universally. Messrs. BRAMWELL, BREMNER, and Co. report that, as regards tobacco, there has been scarcely any business beyond the ordinary retail demand—a rather important limita tion. Crisis or no crisis, the consumption of to ba,co has become so much a necessity for the people, that it goes on as regularly as the con sumption of tea. There are many other depart ments of trade to be considered, but they deserve a fuller notice than can be given at present. ought to have charge of the whole of it. There would thaw be no competition for the labour that is in the market, and ao excuse for Dot hiring and orgaabdng it au • systematic plan. to the seat of his government, He will leave Paris immediately, if he has not already left. They say that all fates at the Tuileries are post poned till the opening of the Universal Exhibition. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAT.) MoiDAY, JAailitr 1. 8 LII. I IN. BElressa. ,Mes, & _ I T.I W. 'HO ...--"-NI W. IE.I tO i IliF. , D. Ia --.---- —.- 1 -- 11, _ -Mrs MII4 36 8.8. W. j 1 2 . B.W. sm . 0.3.1, 3 Abmdssa - —28.91 41 . &S.& 1 1 8 ; B.&E. rot 0.43; 1 Ldth 118.89 40 E. , 1 5 8.&.E. re , 0.18 1 Ardresma 38.84 37, E. I 8 7 , E. ro 0.501 2 Greencastle_ - ' - - - . - Vulentb 28.93 501 W.S.W. I 4 8 ' B.W. r . 0.58 6 Ceps Lisa— .-.' .- - -i— I - Holyhead ——l i - L - - : I : Peuzatios .1551 W.I.W. . 11 &E. ro 2.071 6 Drat , .33 6!' 8.8. W. il7 B.E. D 1.11 1 7 Wriest 19.41 561 8. 1 8 I B.W. or 1.49 7 Rochefort.. :29.69 52, 8. I 6 8.8. W o 0.48 4 Plymouth _19.20 53 1 B.W. 1 'lO E.B.E. cr 207 . 6 Weymouth 29.25 52' 8.8. W. . :12 O.K. or • 1.81 111 Portsmouth 29.2 S 50' &B.W. 10 &W. I r 0.61' 7 Louden 19.34 48 8.8. W. . 8 8.8.1 Isr ,0.421 - y _ enstoullt. 19.33 45 8.& W. 111 8.1 , r 0.51 f 6 lkorborouttli 1:908 44 & : .7 . B.&E. !ro .0.20. 4 Shiekle 4 Helder — -f & l I I OUR CONTEMPORARIES. crms DAY.) APTEB THE PROST. After the frost, says the Times, a deluge. While the frost lasts water is not to be had, but when the thaw oomes the lead pipes burst, and • shower falls through the floors and ceilings of the upper stories, the dampness re. nisining for months, while downstairs there is a flood. The plumbers and glaziers, poor souls, are hardly to be blamed if they do their best to increase their business, and but half-drowning us, so long as we can just keep our heads above water, is • venial affair. The person really responsible is the architect, or the builder acting with the architect, who place cisterns out of doors, or just under the slates, and carry leaden pipes as certain to burst either outside the wall or just inside, or, what is really worse than either, insidiously within the wall hidden by plaster and paint. To tell • householder to obviate the flood by emptying the cisterns at the first visitation of frost is like telling • man who complains of the food furnished him to do without it. All that is required is to keep the waterworks completely within the range of the internal temperature of our houses, and nothing can be more easy. The smoke-flues in a house in a London street are in the middle of the partywall, and it would always be easy to carry up by their side, in such a way as to share their warmth, an air shaft for the double purpose purpose of containing the water pipes and supply ing sufficiently warm air to the chamber containing the cis tern. Such anair-flue, ascending from theback of thekiteben fire, would contribute an amount of he►t sufficient to qualify very considerably the usual chill of our attics or garrets. The English are most wasteful of fuel and heat. They are so enamoured of the " fireside" that they content themselves with piling on coal on the open grate as long as they can afford to buy it, at the very time that they go shivering to bed and spend hours in bed rooms carefully protected from the warmth of the family circle or the kitchen range far below. The whole matter is one in which we have still to use our heads to save our coals ; and it is the business of our house architects and builders to help us. A little common sense applied to the subject of the protection of our water supply may be a step to more extensive improvements in our domestic architecture. The Daily News hopes the recent experience of the London streets will establish clearly in the minds of all inhabitants who do not happen to be vestrymen that the parochial governors are utterly unfit to be longer entrusted with even the scavenging of the metropolis. Not only must we have a change of system to give us better ad ministration, we want also in some respects new prin ciples of administration. It is said that labourers prefer the work which comes to them from the owners of private houses ; but why should private individuals be required to clean any part of the streets? Common sense and practice teach that what each man does separately is, on the whole, done badly, irregularly, slowly, often not at all ; and when done, always at a quite disproportionate cost. Many do not comply with the rule, and those who do cause nearly as much harm as good. Clearly the public body which has charge of the street 111YORM DEMONSTRATIONS TN THE ROUSE OP CONNORS. The Timm reminds the projectors of the reform demonstration, a part of whose plan is, that separate petitions should be delivered personally in Westminster Hall to particular members, of the circumstances under which the Chartist display in April, 1848 was rendered abortive. Every respectable man in this great capital gave his support to the government, which determined that the Chartist array should not be permitted to approach the spot where the House of Commons assembles. The event remains as a constitutional precedent, and decides that when parliament has reason to believe that any body of men desires to coerce its action, even under the guise of the right of petition, it will call on government to nee all necessary powers in its defence, and that government will be supported by the nation in giving protection. The TOMS believes such a gathering as is contemplated at the doors of the legislature and thronging all the ways to it to be illegal. There can be no moral doubt that the pur pose of such demonstrations is to intimidate the House of Commons, and even if this were not the ease, the assem bling of a great multitude is inevitably a menace. Our contemporary trusts the Reform League will, in the month which is yet to elapse before the meeting of parlia ment, see reason to abandon its purpose ; if not, it will be for the House of Commons to take such steps as may be necessary to maintain its independence and dignity. ISCILLANCOUS TOPICS. It is observed by the Daily News, that the logic of Lord Duff erin's plea for Irish landlords is of a very Irish sort. He labours to show that emigration is a blessing to the country ; and then spends no less pains in proving that Irish landlords are not responsible, or, as he ought to say, deserve no credit for it. This incon sistency on the part of so able • man appears to indicate • certain misgiving as to the soundness of his main position. He overlooks altogether the question, whether, under a different system of rural econo my, the land now under tillage might not support more people in greater comfort than the reduced population who now live upon it ; and whether, with proper encourage ment,a large quantity of the land now waste might not be reclaimed! The strength of the empire is undoubtedly diminished, for military and industrial purposes, by this drain on the population, and this in two ways—for what we lose the United States gains. Those who might be friends at home become enemies abroad. If national emancipation bee become an absolute impos sibility for Poland the rilitet doubts whether it is cruelty to deprive her of the means of attempting it. It is diffi cult to conceive from what quarter the faintest glimmer of hope can dawn upon the doomed nation ; and with regard to the imperial decrees which have just abo lished all that remained of Poland as a separate kingdom, we may ask whether peace, at least, if not love, between the two races may not be established by such thorough subjugation aa would preclude even the chance of a hopeless struggle. The Iltrald again defends Mr. Denby Seymour from the complaints of Mr. Jacob Bright, whom it accuses of recklessness, inaolenes, impotence, malice, slyness, scurrilous language, Ac. The Past points to the harrowing cases which have been just laid bare by coroner's inquests to show that our workhouse system completely fails in the matter of meting out relief in some of the wont cases. The Star has a similar article. The vestrymen and the relieving officer, it says, are not more inclined to cruelty than the rest of u*. They are simply parts of the machinery of a system which has no flexibility, which cannot distin• guish between the sturdy vagabond and the starving victim, and in perfect good faith endeavours to refresh the lips of the dying with a lamp of bard bread. Bad news for prizefighters, exclaims the Telegraph. The Derbysbire magistrates have just sentenced Jem Mace, Joe Goal, and three other lees illustrious pugilists, to a month's imprisonment with hard labour, for taking part in a prize-fight. The solicitor for the defendants sug gested that they might be allowed to go at large upon their recognisance* to appear for judgment when required. The bench—dull fellows, apparently, without a spark of poetry or fancy in their souls—did not properly appre ciate thi, excellent suggestion. On the contrary, they stated that the plan had been tried with gentlemen of the ring before, and had been found not to answer. And so some of the most renowned supporters of the system which is said to be the antidote to the knife will have to expend their energies during the next thirty days on the work of producing rotary motion in • big horizontal wheel. the Court. - OSBORNE, ass. 5. The Queen drove out in a sledge yesterday after noon, accompanied by Priam Leopold and Princess Beatrice, and this morning her Majesty drove in a sledge, with Princess Christian. Princess Louise drove out this morning in a sledge attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald. Prince Christian went out shooting, attended by Colonel Ponsonby. Captain Von Schroetter had the honour of accompanying his royal highness. Lady Susan Melville left Osborne yesterday. Mr. Helps had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family in the evening. JAN. 6. The Queen drove out in a sledge yesterday afternoon, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athol.. Prince and Princess Christian walked in the grounds, and the other members of the royal family went out also. The Queen, and Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, attended divine service at Osborne this morning. The Rev. R. Duckworth officiated. The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer arrived atOsborne yesterday, and had the hollow' of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Malta; despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American Provinces. Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council to be held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street, on Thursday next, the 10th inst. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALEri.—OH Saturday their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with the infant Prince Albert Victor, left Holk ham-hall, the seat of the Earl of Leicester, and returned to Sandringham-bowie. Their royal highnesses, who were attended by the ladies and gentlemen of their suite, travelled in a special train on the West Norfolk Ju nc ti on Railway from Holkham to Heachatu, and from the latter point the train passed over the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway to Wolferton, the station for Sandringham-house. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh also quitted Holkham in the special train, which wan arranged to leave the Holkham station at 3.45 p.m., being due at Wolferton at 4.45 p.m., thus enabling the royal party to reach Sand ringham-house between 5 and 6 p.m. The West Norfolk Junction and Lynn and Humdanton Railways being worked by the Great Eastern Company, the special train was accompanied by the district superintendents of that system. The extent of the vast park preserves of the Holkbsm estate can be readily appreciated by a traveller on the West Norfolk Junction Railway which runs by the side of the park for a considerable distance. The elegant monument erected by public subscription to the memory of the late Earl of Leicester—better known as "Coke of Norfolk "—also forms a prominent feature in the land scape which unfolds itself before the passenger. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has fixed next Friday, 11th of January, at 1 o'clock, to receive the Associate Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition, at the South Kensington Museum, to consider various sub jects relating to the Exhibition. The first of the series of Cabinet Councils pre ceding the meeting of parliament will be held on Thursday next, the 10th instant, and not Tuesday, the Bth, as ori ginally settled. Tho Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., left !tome on Wednesday last for Florence. Mn. Gladstone and daughters have arrived at Florence from Rome, and will remain there about a week. The youngest sons are at Eton. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare are expected to leave the Duke of Leinstor's seat in Ireland towards the latter end of the week, for London, on their way to visit the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland, at Clive- den, near Maidenhead. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA. THE NEW PATENT. The imperial patent published on the 22nd ult. by the Emperor Francis J oseph, appears likely, observes the naps of to-day, to throw in bolder relief the divergency of ideas, views, and aspirations of the different peoples of the Austrian empire. At Prague and Lemburg the document has caused great satisfaction ; the Tcheques and the Sclaves hope to use it against the Centralist party, and propose, it is said, to consult with the Hun garians how to effect the ruin of German in fluence. At Vienna, on the contrary, and in the countries of German blood, the patent has caused great irritation, and is the object of the bitterest criticisms. It is alleged that it dis tinctly violates the statute of February, which had been only temporarily suspended ; the mode of election of the deputies to the special as sembling of the Reichsrath has been complained of ; and there have been protests against the condition imposed on this Reicharath that it should occupy itself solely with one ques tion, when the most important laws are simply granted, when the largest financial m easures are adopted, and the system of imposts transformed by decree, when the principles of administration are changed, and the military organisation is radi cally reformed propria motif°. "In truth, with these conditions and with all these restrictions, the special Reicharath is a singular thing," exclaims a popular journal very widely circulated in the faubourgs of the Austrian capital. (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 7. A deputation of Bulgarians has presented an address to the Sultan, professing devotion to his Majesty's government, and also expressing their wish to be relieved from the obnoxious pressure of the Greek church. Great exasperation prevails among all classes of the Turkish population against Greece. The present relations of the Porte to France are stated to be highly satisfactory. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, JAR. 6. The Mesaageries Imperiales steamer Pelune, with the India and China mails, arrived here at noon to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE CARNIVAL. (FROM OUR OWN CORRERPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The carnival revellers last night got home, most of them in sorry plight, owing to a cold thaw which set in half an hour after midnight. There was not only (among many other bites) the usual Saturday's masqued ball at the Opera, but Madame Haussmann gave her first seine at the Hotel do Ville. The streets all night were so slippery that horses could not keep their footing in them. Most of the hack carriages gave the matter up as a bad job, and instead of plying on their usual stands got home as best they could. Some private coachmen had the precaution to get their horses rough shod, and I have not heard that the Em peror and Empress, who were at the Opera Comique, had any difficulty in getting back to the Tuileries. But the vast majority of the public which issued from the various haunts of pleasure at any time between 1 and 5 in the morning not only could find no carriages, but could scarcsy walk home. Women in dominoes and white satin shoes were in many places compelled to make a painful progress by crawling on all-fours. The few cabmen who, having horses well roughed, were willing to try what they could do with a fare asked two or three lonia for the at tempt. As day dawned on the Boulevards car riages with broken shafts were seen boneless, and many horses were running about loose and bleed ing. The omnibuses did not begin to run till 9 this morning instead of 7, the usual hour. Now the thaw is decided, and the streets, though slippery, are everywhere practicable both for horse and foot. The London mail, which should have arrived at 7 this morning, is behindhand. No London evening or Sunday papers were delivered in Paris to-day. The Appeal Court has confirmed the judgment sentencing the Mitiserial Di plomatique to pay a fine of 100 fr. for a libel upon the King of Prussia. The decree of the superior court very shortly states that " the taking away of the Lobkowitz flock of sheep, described in the libel as a robbery, was represented as resulting from the personal will of the King of Prussia, that such an imputation was an undoubted insult to the character, morality, and dignity of the Prussian sovereign, and constituted an attack upon his person." The high court is therefore of opinion that the proper punishment for the offence so described was, under the circumstances, that awarded by the court below—namely, the payment of 41. sterling. In France a person convicted of a misdemeanour who appeals always runs the risk of meeting with a more severe sentence ; and in the present instance the court might not only have increased the fine, but have added a period of imprisonment had it thought such severity necessary to meet the justice of the came. But it did not. Judgment was yesterday given by the Tribunal of the First Instance of the Seine in an important case, wherein Messrs. Emile and Isaac Periere were defendants. The plaintiff, M. Boulard, formerly a partner in a stockbroker's house, claimed from them 715,000 fr., the balance of an account of operations on the Bourse made by ono Crochard, an insolvent. According to the plaintiff's allega tion, Crochard was a man of straw, to whom per sonally no credit would have been given ; and as he notoriously operated for the account of the Perieres, the leading directors of the Credit Mobi lier, they were liable for his lames. The court, after several days' argument, dismissed the action with costs ; but as this judgment was given in the teeth of the speech of the public minister, there will certainly be either an appeal or a compromise. M. Paul de Cassagnac, who had a place in the Ministry of the Interior as attache to the Marquis de Lavalette, has felt himself compelled to resign in consequence of the way in which his name has recently been brought before the public. The Pays, in giving this news, says " our young contri butor will new, at the proper time, be able, without engaging any other responsibility than his own, to say openly of M. Gueroult what everybody thinks of him." This announcement warns M. Gueroult that very free use is likely to be made of the " leave and license " which he has publicly pro claimed he gives to everybody to repeat and prove the libel for which he has obtained a sentence of one month's imprisonment against M. Paul de Cassagnac. The news of the disastrous earthquake in Algeria has hastened the return of the Duke of Magenta REMARKS. There was a very heavy gale on our southern manta on Satur day. the wind veering from B.S. to S.W. Baronsetess have fallen considerably, and in the north and west of the British Isles they are now below PX inches. Temperatures have risen, but arc still much lower in the north than in the south. Very strong southwesterly winds prevail on our southern coasts this morn ing, and light variable winds on our isotherm coati. A large amount of rain has fallen, and at Penzance and Plymouth the quantity exceeds two Inches. "A BANQUET TO MR. GLADSTONE."—Mr. George Hadfield writes to the Manchester Ermniner : "We are on the crisis of some great coming events, and I wish to inquire where is our right hoe. member, W. E. Gladstone, M.P. for South Lancashire, and what is our duty to him. It was a striking, and an historical event that he was rejected, at the general election, 1865, by the owls and bats of the University of Oxford, and, at the shortest notice and time for preparation, the electors of South Lancashire (his native county), lovers of freedom, civil, religions, and commercial, returned him to the House of Commons, to represent a population of probablyl,soo,ooo inhabitants of the largest commercial and manufacturing district in the world. He has nobly vindicated our choice, and proved himself to be faithful to the principles on which we elected him. It is due to him and to ourselves to have him amongst us, to hear what is his view of the present state of public affairs, the proper course to be taken, and how we can strengthen his hands, and uphold his and our principles, at the present time. Let us, with one heart and voice, invite him to a public banquet before the parliament meets, that no doubt may be entertained in the public mind of our unabated confidence in the man of our choice. —I em, sir, your obedient servant, GroBGE HADPIELD.—Victoria-park, Manchester, 4th January, 1867." Mr. O'Beirne, the member for Cashel, proposes, in the coining session, to ask parliament to sanction what may be called an instalment of Mr. Bright's Irish land schema He will ask for a loan of one million—to be fur nished from the deposits of the Irish savings banks—for the purpose of purchasing estates offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. The land thus acquired will be re sold in lots of not less then 10 or more than 100 acres — preference being given in the re-sale to the occupying ten ants. In the notice he has put on the paper the hon. gen tleman says his object is " to assist and encourage an inde pendent proprietary of small freehold estates in Ireland." The Louden Review publishes, in a special sup plement to its number of Saturday last, a useful summary of the books published in England, America, France, and Germany during the year 1863. In most cases the cha racter of the works is specified. History, biography, politics, travel, philosophy, fiction, poetry, and the sciences have all a place, and the supplement is not only valuable for purposes of reference, but is itself pleasant and instruc tive reading. The Scotsman congratulates its readers on the comparative ease with which Scotland has passed through the crisis of 1866, and attributes the immunity experi enced to the fact of the banks having acted " with even more than their wonted prudence." It is complained that difficulty is experienced in arriving at the exact position of the London banks, as they still, in many cases, " most improperly mix up deposits with acceptances, although the two kinds of liabilities are different in their nature and essence. On Saturday afternoon the fifth of the Christmas juvenile lectures at the Royal Institution, on "Gases," was delivered by Professor Frankland, F.R.S. One hundred persons, charged with election rioting and assaulting vocals in tho interest of Mr. L. Waldron, D.L., at the late election, have been bound over to appear for trial at the spring assizes of Clonmel. The ironmasters of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire gave notice on Saturday of their intention to reduce the wages of the men in their employment. It is stated that among the millmen and puddlers some opposition will be offered to the reduction ; but the masters appear to be confident that a strike will not be resorted to. A Paris letter, dated Saturday, says :—" I have this day received from Nice a basket containing ex quisitely-smelling orange bloseom, violets, and roses ; beneath were green peas, oranges, and lemons. This now wide empire of France contains lands which afford every variety of European climate and vegetable production." The General Omnibus Company of Paris will increase the number of its vehicles by 58 from !the let of April ; these will form part of the special service to be established during the Exhibition. Additional cabs, to the number of .300, will also be started during that period. Since the abolition of the monopoly the number of those vehicles in Paris, street cabs, or fits, is 5,000, and of om nibuses 700, including those belonging to the railway companies and those which run to places in the environs of Paris. The Calcutta correspondent of the Times regrets to say the government of India has declined to interfere with the practice of taking dying Hindoce to the Ganges, immersing them, and choking them with the holy mud. Relying on the representations of an orthodox Ifindoo authority, Sir John Lawrence has decided to leave the matter to Hindoo opinion. The Bengal government, on the other hand, urged that in all cases of taking tho sick to the Ganges notice should first be given at the nearest police-office. The Italian government is one of the greatest publishers in Europe, and this is the time of year when volume after volume of imposing magnitude,ample margin, and portly type issue from its press. Official persons, senatois, deputies, and others to whom all these publica tions are sent, need a set of book-shelves on purpose for their storage. The thing is done in a most liberal way, with a great profusion of paper. It is said that about 6,000,000 fr. are annually expended in government printing and publishing. _ _ _ According to the Independanee Beige, the Emperor Napoleon made the following remarks on New Year's-day to the President and members of the Legisla- tive Corps:—" I thank you for the assistance which you have given to me np to this day. It will not be wanting to me in the future. Under present circumstances, I have more need of it than ever." A BRITISH SHIP SEIZED BY CHINESE PIRATES.— The ship China, from Shanghai for Batavia, arrived at Hong Kong on the 4th of October, with the chief mate and seventeen of the crew of the ship Westminster,bound to London, which they report at Prates Shoals. The captain took • boat, and made for East End Island for assistance, leaving the mate in charge of the ship, which was soon after boarded by Chinamen, who advissd all on board to leave. The mate and crew left the ship in two boats. The captain and aix men returned to the vessel, and are supposed to have been murdered by the pirates, as the mate afterwards bailed the ship and was told that the captain had left some time before. The water-boats were soon after picked up by the ship China. Commodore Jones hearing the particulars is reported as having sent gunboats to the assistance of the vessel. The Westminster had a large cargo from Cal cutta. Hong Kong dates to 6th October announce the capture of the American brigantime Cuba by Chinese pirates, near Pedro Branes. The captain was deliberately shot, and the vessel pillaged and set on fire, and aban doned. Through the exertion/ of the survivors the fire was extinguished, and the ship brought safely into port. Iraost BOMBAY ro Csieurra.—There is reason to believe that the entire journey from Bombay to Cal cutta will be able to be made in four days by the end of the year.—Borabay Gazette, Dec. 13, 1866. THE LATE GALES. RAMSGATE, SUNDAY. Captain Shaw, the harbour-muter, reports the following gallant services performed by the lifeboat Brad ford, of the National Lifeboat Institution, stationed at this port. Shortly before 8 o'clock yesterday morning, the wind blowing from E.S.E., with thick f guns were heard at intervals of five minutes, apparen v from the North Sand Head and Gull lightships. The Br ad- I ford lifeboat and harbour steam-tug Aid were immediately manned and left the harbour about 8.10 a.m. At this time the wind increased and the thick fog suddeuly dis. penal, when a schooner was observed on shore on the off part of the North Sand Head. The Aid, with the lifeboat, proceeded through the Cudd Ch an . nel, towards the North Sand Head; on arriving in the Gull stream, at 8.30 a.m, fell in with a ship's boat, with sight men on board • the lifeboat hove to and they came alongside, and were iaken on board the boat. They reported the vessel to be the schooner Mizpah, 110 tons, of Brixham, from Amsterdam to Genoa, cargo sugar. The tug then returned to the harbour with the crew at 9.15 a.m. The master of the Mix. pah reputed that she went on shore about seven p.m. the evening previous; on the tide Sowing, the water was over the cabin floor, when they soon after left her and got on board the brig Faith, of Boston, riding in the Gull stream,where they remained until the mo rning. On the brig getting under weigh, they left in the ir own boat for the shore, and were picked up by the life. boat. Again, about half-past 11 o'clock last night, when it was blowing • heavy gale, and a heavy sea was breaking, s ignal sans and rockets were fired from the Gull Light Ship. The lifeboat once more put off in tow of the steam tug, and proton tml in the direction of the light vowel, and on arriving there thy were told that a large flaring distress light had been observed in a south-easterly direction. At this time it was thick with snow, and it was agreed to keep about the sands until daylight, but about 3 o'clock it was so intensely cold that the life. boat and tug were forced to return to the harbour. Al, however, it was probable that the services of the lifeboat were required to some distressed vessel, she was again taken out shout 8 o'clock this morning, in • strung gals and tremendous sea. This time, it being daylight, they discovered • vessel ashore close to the Trinity Beacon. After attempting De less than six times to veer the life. boat alongside the vessel on shore, through a very heavy *ea and broken water they su cceeded at last in saving the crew, ten in number, from the wreck. The life boat lost both anchors and cables in the service, and arrived in the harbour with the shipwrecked men all safe at 2.13 p.m. The crew when taken off were very much exhausted. She proved to be the Danish barque Aurora Borealis, of Ribe, Smith muter, Z 6 tons, from Newcastle to Messina, cargo coals, went on shore at 4.30 a.m. Jarman, the coxswain of the lifeboat, reports that he never encountered such terrific weather, intense cold, and Leavy sea, in all his experience. The crew could not have been saved without the assistance of the steam tug. TYNEMOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND, SUNDAY. A terrific gale friini the south-east has been blowing here during the night (says P. J. Meuent, EAR and five vessels have been wrecked or stranded, four of them on the south aide of the South Pier, when the crew were landed, I believe, by the South Shields brigade, and the fifth on the south side of the Channel, nearly opposite the Black Middens, at 4 o'clock this morning. The Pontefract and Goole lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was quickly launched through a heavy sea, and reached the vessel (which meths Emanuel Backer, brig, coal laden, from London), in a few minutes from the time of her striking. The mate and five of the crew were landed in the lifeboat, but the captain after changing his mind several times refused to leave, and fortunately the vessel has been driven further up, and bas held together. Two of the vessels behind the south pier have since gone to pieces. The rescued crew were landed at the Low Lights, and as in the then state of the sea and wind the lifeboat could not prudently be brought back to her station by sea, the carriage was sent round, and she was brought back by land, so as to be ready for further service if needed. The wind has gone down considerably, but the sea remains heavy. POOLE, Dower, SUNDAY. As it wu blowing a gale of wind yesterday (reports G. M. Buney, Esq.), and as several vessels were in Studland Bay, the Manley Wood lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was taken in tow of a steam-tug, and found seven reside on shore on the Gros Bank, but as they were ruder the shelter of the cliff, the crews did not nod the services of the boat, and the boat, therefore, returned to her station. EXMOUTH, DEVON, St :mar. During a gale of wind and a very heavy sea this after. noon (stated Mr. W. H. Hawkins, the officer of coast guard) a brigantine was observed running for the liar. Shortly afterwards a heavy sea broke over the starboard quarter, which damaged her rudder, and she came broad. aide on to the sea, very near the S.E. end of the Pole Sand, in which position she remained for some few minutes. At last she was got before the wind, and the crew attempted to run her over the sand. On this being observed, the lifeboat belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution was at once launched and proceeded in the direction of the vessel. l'nfortimately, however, within fifteen minutes after the ship struck the sand she disappeared, and although the lifeboat was rowed in the direction of the floating wreck she was not successful in discovering any of the shipwrecked crew. One poor fellow out of the seven on board was reo cued by a coastguard boat. He was observed clinging to a piece of wreck. He reported that his vessel was the bd. gantine Julia, of Exeter, bound from Shields to that port with coals, and that the heavy sea that had struck the vessel had caused the barrel of the wheel to unship from its socket, thus rendering her unmanageable. PENZANCE, SUNDAY. During a strong dale from E.S.E. yesterday (reports Nicholas B. Downing, Esq.) a schooner went ashore at Long Rock. The Richard Lewis lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, was at once launched and was happily the means of rescuing the ship. wcecked crew of six men. Again this morning the same lifeboat went afloat, and saved the crews of eleven men from the Selina Ann, bound to Plymouth, and the Heiress, bound to London—the former vessel having gone to pieces. There are wrecks all over this comit. The Cove and Kingstown lifeboat& have also been rr ceetly launched with the view of rescuing shipwrecked crews, although they did not have the opportunity of rendering service in that respect. THE Matins'. —The whole of the cabinet ministers will assemble in town by Wednesday, in order to attend the first cabinet council after the holidays, which in appointed to take place at Lord Derby's official resideoce in Downing-street on Thursday next. The Earl of Berl/ comes to town to-morrow from Knowsley. Viscount Cranborne, who, with his family, has been staying with Mr. Alexander and Lady Mildred Beresford-Hope st Bedgebury, Kent, will return to town to-day. The Bight Hon. Gathorne Hardy, M.P. is also expected is town today for the season. The Lunt Chancellor, who has been visiting Viscount and Viscountess Barengton, et Beckett House, Serie, will also be in town fur the meeting of the cabinet ministers. Lord Naas is expected in toes on Tuesday night or Wedneedayfrom Ireland. The Choir eellor of the Exchequer comes to town early in the week from Hughenden Manor, Bucks. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote is expected to arrive in town this evening from The Pyes, his seat near Exeter. " Ties QUILLS'S CHAPLAINA."—Dr. Gioulburn, by his promotion to the Deanery of Norwich, ceased (under recent regulations made by her Majesty through the Lord Chamberlain) to be one of the 34; " Chaplains in Ordinary to her Majesty." The Rev. William Henry Brookfield, M.A., Rector of Somerby, Lincolnshire, and Reader at the Rolls Chapel, one of the 12 " Honorary Chaplains is Ordinary" since 1N62,n0w succeeds to thechaplaincy lately held by Dr. Croulburn. The Rev. Stafford Augusto Brooke, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, late Embassy Chaplain at Berlin, and now Minister of St. James's Pro prietary Chapel, York-street, St. James's-square, has been appointed to the vacant honorary chaplmney. Brooke VI the author of " The Life of Robertson, in to volumes. The Bishop of London, who is still at Brightal is gradually recovering his strength, but by the advice a his medical attendants will not return to the active sock of his diocese until after Easter. His lordship's series of confirmations will commence in the course of the present month ; but up to Easter they will be taken by Bishop Anderson and other prelates who may happen to bn in London. WORKING MEN'S VIEWS OF RELIGION.—.A sun time ago a meeting of working men, and of others il . sle* rested in the improvement of their moral and ridislo2 2 , condition, was held in one of the pri nc ip a l provinco' towns. The meeting proved to be very interesting, from' ' the openness with which several skilled artisans cal r,ssel their thoughts upon existing religious institutions, 5551 the causes which were said to alienate our operative population from them. One result of that meeting has been a determination to ascertain what the working Env, of London have to say upon the same subjects. A col . ' mittee has been formed for the purpose of iirruiging conference at the London Coffee House, Ludgate-liill. 02 Monday, the 21st inst. The circular of invitation, which has just been issued, bears many well-known nano" amongst them being the following:—The Revs. W. Chanipneys, Canon of St. Paul's and Vicar of St. rano , : Thomas Outline, Free Church minister, Edinburgh: Professor Mantic. ,• J. C. Miller, vicar and rural de,n of Greenwich ; Samuel Martin, Westminster Chapel ; man Hall, Aunty Chapel ; J. Baldwin Brown, Clayl-mr Chapel, Kennington ; and H. Scaly, of the Working 3 1 c 2 ' Institute Union. It is also signed by Messrs. Thom?' Hughes, M.P., J. M. Ludlow, Edward Miall, Goblisal Smith, and Samuel Morley ; and amongst the worki 2 6 men who join in the invitation are two engineers, a to painter, a printer, a carpenter, a cabinetmaker, and a dye . ; It is not proposed to consider objections to the truth t Christianity, or the evidence of particular doctrines. 1 , only to inquire what are the objections, political, throbs?' cal, or social, entertained against existing religious orgsso • urinous by those who do not profess a nt sgo num to . tho Christian religion, and to ascertain how far such objerto° really account for the alienation of working soon from tbs churches, The : Tama 01;s:eel this •he Lord Mal Alderman GI Sheriff Lyoet Henry Berk number of ind /lefty that had trim, waa brouj Mr. Metcalf that einoe the statement impl aggravation in on a regular ay of the railway to him to be ah The Records tented the pria The Jamul] county of Mb Sessions Heusi Dowling (Depu Mr. Bodkin wh disposition) ; Glouop, Captai land, C olonel.] J. G. Pitcher, I The calendar goners comtnitt felony, and 14 I stand indicted ing goods by breaking and ei hand writer's Midland Rollin log singing bin pot stealing, is again of a v 4 follows :—Can t Imperfectly, 39 wall, 11. Nont A woman, wh day morning, a Grant, aged 37, residing at 72, with being dna at Golden-lane, Polioe-sergem the prisoner we denly taken ill, she suddenly ex Mr. Barker us sheet " reported atorge Bennet fore Mr. Tyrwhi Police-1:00sta on duty yesterd when he saw th then took hint il he had had to yesterday a few who lived in a that her hnsban with a young fa was a little need The boy's mot husband left her baby in arms, other son, a littl at 3s. a week, bu Mr. Tyrwhitt was to send the care of and taugl The mother (w boy) thanked the like the boy for her family hi she was in he able to get him a would not steal Mr. she was m she co the best thing sr( the oould see bin After some fu trate and the three years. On Katurday al sixty years of age be admitted into she was the wideo that she had two so at Tortsinouth. 51 latter, who kept It •p to London in s to obtain any she sorepelled to seek Louse. On Pride Bermondsey work be admitted into I but they refused ship would give a Mr.llnrchant a late husband bele Applicant replii chiefly served h( dominions. Whe one yaws in the fused admission a Mr. P.urcham one of the warm mondsey workhou would receive her T o r e r r w : o w an o n i l afterwards she ret relieving officer re d quick* in wot Mr. Bermondsey par Wet that r e f use inendation. As th them to do it and for it, and regret however, did not Warm®s thought that the mitted her and ex The poor womm FENIANISII is a lull in local ar eaPtures effected of interest has ti maintenance of tr, -- lforf/aern Whig. OkL4? NOETI Istaworow.—)Tuni Jan. 5, 704, of w MIL p Cul THE