The Express. — London, England, 1864-02-10 00:00:00

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Lecterns Hußoe and Inn, =also, Naylor, and Cbapino ; Mesdames Barnett. Adams, and Howard. LYCIML . TO-MORROM UNIDO% TEI UHT CHILD. Mr. Wlddleamb and Mies P. Leclereq —AIL DIMONIO, a Lon Story. Ile sere. Fem.. Brou i lyps, awry, Marin, and Jordan ; Mina Kate Terry, 'avenue, and Ilivroellip, and EEL Dee BILITAIINLA. To-I'mow ITKuluei. DICKOHY, DOCK. Mn . S. Lane and dist,rata Pantomlaute..—TM Yam& a Peru. ...Tin GREAT GHOST urzer.-Arthur sad Bertrand. —The Fairy Fouotaln....kod MY LORD WELOOIIII. HIGH WAT AT LONDON RAMON TM/ MT Maralow, •Afhproosa. sh. 71 Taateimoir 411. th• TTOL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. NOT a single speaker in the long and careful debate in the House of Commons on Mr. BUXTON'S Resolution, last evening, was found to justify the burning of the town of Kagosima. Everyone at least regretted it, and though on all sides there was a natural and not inexcusable reluctance to cast the blame on the Admiral, or even to suspect him personally of committing afore. thought and with deliberate design, in re taliation of a fire from hostile batteries, a havoc so enormous and destructive of inno cent human lives, so horrible as the conflagra tion of a town containing two millions of inhabi tants, and the devastation of a million's worth of property, the act itself, which the mover of the Resolution attributed to misconception, and the mover and seconder of an amendment to the loose ness of instructions from the Government at home, was bitterly, and we believe unanimously lamented and denounced as a calamity and an outrage. Thus much it is satisfactory to record on behalf of the reputation of England, which has nothing to gain in glory by the bombard ment of cities of lath and bamboo, but much to lose in honour by an exploit, which afflicts the conscience of the whole Christian world. That the conduct of a naval officer in command upon a distant station, and called upon to strike a sudden blow in a strange emergency, under circumstances of which he really knows little or nothing, ucder the pressure of his own countrymen on the spot, and of responsible representatives of his government, deserves to be judged with scrupulous tenderness by public opinion at home, is a consideration to which, for our own part, we have neverbeen indifferent. But there is something far more desirable even than feat the action of our commanders should not be hampered or paralysed by the fear of hasty dis avowal or party denunciation at home, and that is that our ships and guns should not be employed inthe service of unscrupulous adventurers to inflict barbarous punishment on unoffendieg populations because some ruler oe other has declined our acquaint ance, or because our traders find the laws and manners and customs of an independent and un familiar nation troublesome and distasteful. Mr. LAYARD, who, with his accustomed confidence and courage, took every bull in his path by the horns, repelled at all points Mr. BUXTON'S Resolution and MT. LONGFI ELLS amendment, which, instead of sacri ficing the Admiral to the Foreign-office, proposed to sacrifice the Foreign-office to the Admiral. To impute " misconception " to Admiral KUPER was to accept the censure which the supporters of the amendment threw upon the Foreign-office, since it would imply a want of preciseness in the instruc tions from that department. So the Vepea- SECREIARY Very :;deXtrtUlily glided by those pus in the Parliamentary Papers upon which Mr. BUXTON had founded the substance of his close and pressing state ment. He passed over the declaration of Admiral KUPER to the Japanese Envoy, on board his flag ship, the day before the bombardment of the city : " Kagosima is at my mercy ; ho :lilies " once commenced, your town will be destroyed ,' and the despatch of Colonel Nora (whose mo deration and discretion were so highly ext)lled by Mr. LAVABO) to Earl Rue.sem, in which that agent, who had been on board the Admieal's flag ship during the bombardment, writes : " I have the " satisfaction to report to your lordship that the " instructions with which I hare been charged hare " been carried (Ad in letter and in spirit. In re " spect to the Prince of SATSUNA, his capital is " in ashes, his foundries destroyed, and his steamers " burnt." In the face of these quotations it would doubtless have been difficult even for so uncompro mising an advocate as Mr. LAYARD to have accepted Mr. Berrox's doctrine of " miaisonception," or Sir JOHN HAY'S doctrine of direct Foteign-office re sponsibility, which an amendment, suppressing all ' mention of " misconception," might seem to imply. The two gallant naval officers who spoke to the amendment, while absolving an absent brother officer from a responsibility which they fixed upon the government at home and upon Colonel NEALE" denounced the burning of Kagosinia, the one as a " barbarity, "the other as "a damnable outrage.' Mr. LAYARD, on behalf of the Government, concurred in the general " regret," which he reminded the House bad been embodied in the Qu=eues Speech and in the Address, but in the characteristic deter mination to cover the whole controversy with the broad shield of official impeccability, he contended, amongst other things,with an ingenuity that some times proved too much, that, according to his own experience of Eastern cities, the innocent popula tion of Kagosima must have treated the conflagra tion as a common occurrence, and have got away to the open country with their goods and families with incorsiderable loss of Pre ; while as to the fifteen hundred retainers of the Prime Samna, who had worked the batteries and resisted the fleet, why, if in the execution of their duty, they had suf fered the fortune of war, their fate was no matter of regret. Mr. LEVEED, however, admitted that the original instructions from the Government at home were framed on an imperfect knowledge of Japanese topegraphy. The latest instructions would have saved Kagosima. The Foreign-office, it appears, was very imper fectly acquainted with the site of the Prince SAT sumA's residence ; but apparently under the impres sion that it could be got at by our guns without doing damage to a populouscity, Colocel Nr.sta was 1 invited toconsider whether it might be. " possible " or advisable" to shell it. Upon this quadinnable suggestion our representative in Japan look ac- tion on board the Admiral's ship; and they shelled the Prince's palace the day after therhad silenced , the batteries, and burnt the city of Kagoaima, filled with that " multitude " of people with whom we are informed by authority we are cultivating peace ful relations in this manner, and "encouraging " trade as British admirals were encouraged by the murder of Admiral BYNo. This "barbarous act," however, as one gallant officer described it last I night—this "damnable outrage," as another gal lant officer characterized it, was, as Sir JOHN HAY emphatically insisted, "but the culminating point "of the course of policy which her Kumar's " Government had chosen to adopt in the East." Now, if this had been said by a Manchester mem ber, flatterers of the Government in the House and in the press might dismiss it with a sneer se " un-English language." But the remark fell from the lips of as brave an officer ea ever trod a British deck ; and it opened a vast field of discussion, into which Mr. LAYARD galloped as gaily as might be expected. He asked whether it was passible that ' a large, populous, and flourishing island, situated on the vast highway of the commerce of India, China, and Australia, could remain isolated from European civilization 1 It was a delusion to sup pose that Japan had been a Paradise before Europe entered it ; according to the beat informed autho rities on the subject, the mass of the Japanese people had suffered want and misery under the oppression of an oligarchy of feudal nobles. Was England the first or the only Power that had " forced its trade upon the Japanese Were not the United States and Russia before us; and how had humility been found to answer in the case of the Dutch settlers I They had been reduced to conditions so miserable that they had retired altogether. And at the present moment were we alone in our pushing policy in Japan ? No, the French, the Russians, the Americana, were with us ; and the American Consul, who had resided in Japan for years, bad in the autumn of last year, in a despatch to Mr. S sir Lan, confessed that his opinions had undergone a great change ; and that whereas he had formerly been desirous of trusting to the peaceful influences of trade, he was now de sirous of following the example of the European Powers, and of behold* a powerful American squadron anchored in Japanese waters, for the I I purpose of promoting peace and amity with the Japanese government and people. Mr. LAYARD, however, concluded his very clever but discursive speech with an avowal worth all the fanciful apologies that preceded it. He cast the blame of the confused and violent policy in the East which Lord STANLEY and Mr. KINL LAHE had so keenly criticised, and Sir JOHN HAT had so unsparingly condemned, upon that modern class of promiscuous traders—a very different clam from the British merchant of the stage and the novel, and,lwe may add, of reallife intheCity—who rush on every new populous and promising market with the morality of buccaneers and the conscience of crimps. These are the men who rule our con sulates and our fleets in Eastern waters, and make the very name of England a satire upon Christian civilization. For such men the ideal British Admiral is an executioner of their hanks ancres. They disgrace us in the East, and when they core westward again they infect English society with the mir-ma of unholy gain. Mr. Laviao was better inspired in casting the blame of transactions of which all England is ashamed upon somebody than in attempting to divide it between the wind and sea, and the wooden houses of the Japanese ; between accident and necessity ; between the ine vitable and the irreparable. lATIST LITILLIGENCE. ALLEGED ARMIBTIOE BETWEEN THE GERMANS AND THE DANS& We (Timm 'bond edit m) received the following from an authentic source : " Wedneeday Morning. "A telegram has been received by a financial house in the City announcing that an armistice has been concluded between the Germans and Danes." MAK OUR OWN We are authorised to state that the Prince of Wales will hold levees on behalf of the Queen at St. James's Palace on Wednesday, March 2, and on Saturday, March 12. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENDIck, FEBRUARY XPRESS FROM PARIS. PARK TUMIDLY EvNiMill. The Pays says at the head of its leading column : "All other political and diplomatic news is eclipsed by the importance of the language used by Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons last night." From its subsequent remarks it appears that this journal, having, however, only the telegraphic summary of Lord Palmerston's speech before it, interprets hie declarations as threatening inter vention, the idea of which, from the general tone of the English press hitherto, it might have been thought had been rejected. The same journal rallies the Pattie without mercy for having circulated the sensational but false news of a revolution at Copenhagen, and finds it convenient to forget to-day the complacency with which only yesterday the Pays itself took credit for having prophecied that such a revolution would surely take place. A letter from Trevee, in the Petrie, adopts all the recent stories about the duplicity of Prussia and affirms that she has invaded Sleavrig as a desperate expedient to prevent revolution at home, K de Biamark feeling confident that with an army "covered with laurels" the King will be able to do as he likes. That Prussia means to have the fortress of Rendaburg and the port of Kiel is also reiterated in this letter, which asserts, more over, that the English envoy ►t Berlin is on very bad terms with the court to which he is accredited. A letter from Rendaburg narrates the following anecdote : The day before hostilities were to commence, three Prus sian officers went to General de Mesa at fileswig, to announce to him that he would be •resckr I on the following day if he persisted in not evacuating the town. " Skewig is Danish ground," replied the general, " sod the last Dane will perish there rather than retire. My reply is, therefore, • formal No.' But," added he, " there is no reason, be cause we shall fight to-morrow, that we shall sot dine to gether to-day. You are my guests, and you most allow me to offer you • place at my soldier's table." " Thank you, general, but we cannot aleept." " Really' Wdr, then, I make you prisoners, and as each I most feed you. 8010 Guards!" exclaimed the general with • half-oomic, half tragic accent, which would have dome honour to a first rata actor. The officers bowed with • smile ; the guards did not make their appearance, and the party dined gaily, drinking French wines. The following morning one of the officers fell dangerously wounded by a Danish ball. The above pretty story is taken from a letter of the Patrie's correspondent, M. d'Arnoult, the gentlemen who was a passenger in M. Nadar's balloon, and wrote a somewhat imaginative ac count of the feria! voyage. To-day the Patric, losing sight of the above statement of its correspon dent, imputes to General Meza language more in accordance with his subsequent conduct. It now says that his resolution to evacuate Sleswig city and the Thuinewerke was taken from the very first, and that he explained the grounds of his determination in these words :—" I prefer a check to a disaster—a retreat to utter ruin." The Pays says that the most eminent men in the City of London are parties to a project for founding a bank in the city of Mexico, with a capital of 50 millions of francs. There is to be a branch at Vera Cruz. It adds the reflection that "the establish ment of this bank with English capital sufficiently proves the confidence of our neighbours in the re vival of monarchical government in Mexico." The Bourse lama been heavy, with little business doing. Lord Palmerston's speech was interpreted in a sense unfavourable to peace. Rents fell lOc. for cash and 20c. for account, closing at 66fr. 25c. and 613 fr. 35c. Mobilier fell llfr. 25c. tau Court. OSBORNE, Fn. 9. The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, drove eat yesterday aftereese. A deputation from the Incorporated Society of British Artists, consisting of Mr. F. Yogic.' Hailstone (President), Mr. John Nola* (Treasurer), and Mr. G. Cole, had an in terview with Sir George Only st the Home•ofSro yesterd a y, lo present an address of mogrstalatioe to her Majesty upon the birth al a prince to the Prince and Princess of Wales. Despatches were sett from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly cm Saturday next, sod ou the following Saturday, at Cam bridge Home, limadilly. The Earl and Countess Russell entertained Ms excellency the American Minister and lire. mid Mite Adams, the Dean of Westminster and Ldy AuguMa St►nley, lady Illoorelkld, Mr. Stopford, Mr. Arthur Russell, Major Blanket!, and a select circle, at dins.' yesterday evening, in Cbesham•placs. _ The Duchess of Inverness has been suffering Irons a severe cold at Kensington Pe cos dace Wednesday last. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Ounbridge, she Grand Duchess of Xecklenbeq•3trelitz, and the Princes, Nary yesterday visited the duchess. The Countess of Elgin, accompanied by the Earl of Durham and the Hots. T. J. H. Tharlow, has wired at the Hotel Bristol, Paris, en reek for Elegised. Her lady. ship aed party reached Toulon from Alexandria oa the 6th, oa board her Majesty's ship Psycho, and proceeded at noon to Marseilles, where she wat atosived at the railway statics, by the British Camel, Mr. Mark, and the Seeateor Prefect Comet d• Maims, who had been charged by the Emperor to convey the impreetioas of his Majesty's deep sympathy with the mantems in her prevent bereavement. The Speaker gives his first parliamentary dinner on &stunlay next, at his offlcail resides*, at the Howe of Commons. Mr. Baines will move for leave to introduce a Lill to extend the fnuichis ia boroughs, as Tuesday the Bth Mora. On the Bth of next month Mr. Adderley will above, "That this house ia of opinion that endowments attached to schools for the working classes should be takes into celenlatice with local sontribatioos, in apportioning aid from the treasury to any school so endows 1 : and that when new minutes of Council on Education are made, a statement in explanation of them should be given to this house by the Tice-Presides* upon due notice, before they corns into operation." Mr. Milner Gibson has deferred tie bill to facili tate, in certain me" the obtaining of powers for the we struction of railways, from tomorrow till Monday ; and hi a bill to facilitate, in rertein mom the obtainieg of forthor powers by railway companies from to-morrow till Monday. On Tuesday next Colonel Dunue will call atten tion to the recent treatira for the calico of the lodes Islands to the Kingdom of Greece ; and ask if, by any pro visions In them, engagements are made for the payment of the arrears of contributions doe by those ialaods to Great Britain, as well as for the passim granted to British sub jects for services titular the Zonis& governsoest. Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald has postponed his motion respecting Yr. bird's rams until 'Nasdaq week. Mr. Montague Smith will ask the First Commis sioner of Works cm Friday, whether it is the Wadies of the gorernment to introduce in the present erosion any measure for building new courts cif justice in the metropolis, or for improving the state of the existing °parte. We (Post) hear tbat • marriage is Cicely soon to take place betimes Yr. G. F. Waite, the well-known artist, end Nis Ellen Terry, the young sneer of the favourite thing were. of the dsy. TFICIFSDAT.. Pusan' os sorrsm 714 DAT.. as o;;;:iiT•ii . s.w.. &Wi LW. to 371 . 1;d back, straw with some drag to moderate, mow. MOM 11120 w or rata. S.L.Eto W.B.W. and WIMP.X. B. W. to N. W. and bark, W.N.W.. strong, strong to moderate, squally, with rain or some rain. LILL to B.B.W..strood, *crams. BE. to B.W. and N.W., vossittod. mass snow Wow to roodorste, or rola. with moor (AL to fresh UNTKIIS. H to 8. sno 8.W., to Mem& snow in strong. s. oily. un- Owes. settled. Cautionary Straits on Tuesday. itarthasadkoalaad. Ireland, Wake, and ad. jam:mita. aouthera.F.agUatt Manama and Arm By. Isaias aclastvard &gland and lialgolaad. A letter from Brussels says :—" It has been amoral times announced of late that King Leopold intends to wiait England. The rumour now is that, if the weather ii favourable, and political cireumsbusais permit, his Ma jesty will go to London in the early part of next month, to be unseat ►t the baptism of the son of the Prince of wales." A communication from Jerusalem of the 24th ult. in the Monde, says :—" The Porte is said to be about to seed S,CCD Circassian• into the Holy Lind to form • colooy in the large and magnificent plain of Sharoo, between Yount Carmel sad Chia. This project is not looked oa with • favourable eye in Palestine, u it is fe•rd that the Centeno; who, like the Bedouins, have • thieving disposition, may commit sots of brigandage on the pil grims who flock atonally to Jerusalem. This city contain at the present moment 600 Barra pilgrims, about 50.1 C/reeks, and 400 Armenians. Palestine is jest now throned with English and Anserkea travellers." A NIV7 TERATILICAL "131LIMATION" tlr Pace.—lll • piece by Y. Baguet, called La Maison de Basquar, just brought out at the Paris Gait., • novel and startling effect thrills the audience every mooing. A ponderous moveable ailing, in a room from which one of the characters is unable to escape, gradually descends by machinery, until the unh►ppy captive is crashed to death beneath its weight. The idea is not sew, but it is now carried out (et the first time en the stags. Fortunately the victim at the Gain is one of the met detestable villain. of the piece On isildese comes Ulbark calla him), so that, dermatitis:lly speaking, be may be end to deserve his fate. THR OUTWARD BRAZIL AND RIVRR PLATS MAUL —The Boni Mail Company's steamship Puna, Captain lbw, sailed from Southampton yeMeeday. with the monthly mills for Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Bows Ayres, Monte Video, km The Parma took oat 65 passengers, and ea freight 35 bow tar silver, value 16,50/., for the Minister et FiIIADCO at Rio; sovereign, 100,0631., of which amount 100,000 f. is foe the Bank of Brazil ; Seelig jewellery, vain 2,388 L ; French jaw. ellen, 4,3561. ; and a very full cargo of Freon and Rag. lish swroisadiss. [AN AND THE DANISH PEOPLE. KING The Prance says :—" Advioes from Copenhagen inform us that the Danish element will not on any consideration approve the concessions which the King is said to be disposed to make. Public opinion looks upon Christian IX. with positive suspicion, and, in some sort, forces the hand of govern ment and compels it to prolong resistance. The Danish army with the new recruits, may, it is said, be brought up to the effective of 60,000." POLAND. The Moscow News has the following : . . • Spring is fast approaching, and with that season the revolutionists are about to make fresh arrangements for ematinning the struggle. Those preparations have been even already commenced, not only in Galicia and at Cracow, but under the eyes of the military chief of the district of Warsaw, and within twelve miles of that capital. Bands are being formed at the very gates of Warsaw, and the revolutionists go so far as to entice &avian soldiers into their each. (isurres nu.satums.) THE WAR IN SLESWIO. ADDRESS OF THE RIGSDAO TO THE ARMY. COPENHAGEN, F. 9, 8.56 P.N. The enemy's outposts are at Rinueneks and their main body north of Flensburg. The war material left behind at Yraasten has been removed in safety to Sonderburg t• 1 the island of Alsen. The Rigsdag passed an address to-day to the army, announcing the energetic prosecution of the war. The address was proposed by the Presi dent of the Council. BERLIN, F. 10. The Spenersche Zeitung of to-day says : "On the morning after the engagement at Oversee, the corps of General von Gablenz and the Prussian division commanded by General von Mulbe entered Flensburg. They found the town already occupied by the cavalry of Prince Frederick Charles, which had marched from Antes to Flensburg in one day. Generals von Gablenz and Miilbe, having allowed their troops a day's rest, which they urgently required, advanced towards the entrenchments at Dttppel." PROCLAMATION OF FIELD MARSHAL VON WRANGEL. HAMBURG, FM. 10. A proclamation issued by Field Marshal von Wrangel, on the ith instant, announces the appointment of Baron von Zcdlitz as Prussian Civil Commissioner of Sleawig, confirms provisionally the civil functionaries in their posts ; declares that the German language is henceforth to be used in all branches of the administration ; and finally pro hibits any political demonstrations not in accord_ 112C0 with the policy pursued by the great German Powers, and attempts to establish any other autho rity in the duchy of Bleawig. SPAIN. THE MARRIAGE OF THE COUNT OF PARIS. KAMM Fs& 10. _ _ _ The reply of tLe Emperor Napoleon to the letter of the Queen of Spain, announc;og the marriage of the daughter of the Duke de Montpeneier to the Count of Paris, is said to be couched in ♦ery affec. tionate terms. WEATHER REPORT.-(YRD3 DAY.) WM:MODAL TEUVAIT 10. I AJL - abrais as 1 Leith 66 34 Artlrossan 6ll Orreocastle 29.6034 1 I Daiwa, % Montle 0.10641 0 Cape Clear 111.10 0 9uenekeem Liverpool - Ilelyheed Pembroke AtOaaOoa . 13 1 Ind L'Orleat 2l 0 Itooketert 117 0 Plymouth Weymouth Pertemoulh 20.42 0 UMW° 0.40134 - Dover air - Yonereith 29.10.31 - lea h .68 1 Wale liengolood 79.69 30. - A FANCY BALL AT PARIS. The fancy ball given by the Minister of Foreign „Affairs and Madame Dronyn de Lbuys was attriodel by more than 9CO persona, and seldom (says Ge/inicrai) has a n.ore splendidly picturesque scene been witnessed. In the brilliant crowd were observed the Ambassadors of Austria, Prose* Russia, sod Turkey, and wetly all the diplomatic body resident in Paris. There yen ahro an immense number of other foreigners of distinction, is well as members of the Serrate. Legislative Body, sad Council of State, high dignitaries of the court, the principal eels I brides of the army and navy, and of the arts, sciences, and letten. The Emperor and Empress were also said to be present incognito. The fancy costumes, exceedingly rich and tasteful. were mare numerous this the dominoes, and repreeented every period of history, the chart mythological characters of every civilisation, and lantretioal allegorical praramations in almost endless variety. Mme. Dronyn d• Lhuye wore a costume of the reign rrf Louis XV. ; the Princess de Castelcicela appeared in a splendid man tle studded with gold stars ; the Princess Tronbetalroi as a Pierrette ; the Princess Dsmidoff in a costume of the time of Henry ILL ; the Countess de Pourtaln as a hat spangled with diamonds ; the Hansen de Seebeck is a Pompadour costume; Mme. de Marken sa a Moorish Princess; Mme. Bay as Mary de Medici, in a most splendid eastern' studded with diamonds, copied from a picture of Ruben' ; Mme. Pereira as a persoadlcatiou of Snow ; the Visoonntem do is Guarronuier• as a Louis XV. marchioness ; More. PeUeac as L'adine, decorated all over with corals ; Mme. Clarinet as a Polish Hussar, Mlle. Hausman as a Cireamian, the two Heckman in extremely elegant fancy costumes ; Mlle du Hallay u • Naiad ; Mlle Eckert in • Biblical cos tume ; Mlle. Outdates as a Maxima ; Mlle. Chamois Gilloy as an Oriental ; and Mile Erasu as a Roman dame. One lady (name unknown) per. sosided Photography, being corona from head to foot with portraits, and wearing the camera &I s heal dress. There were also two ladies sod one gentleman as Tourney, and wearing black veils. The courteous affability with which the honours of the evening were dons by the host and hostess gave a peculiar charm to this Pte. A magaifi °sot supper was served at 2 o'clock. Dancing was after. wards resumed. and kept up till past 4, when the whole terminated fby an animated ocitilloa lid by the Baron de Sestach; (nom LAST stalrr a oksern.) WAR-OFFICII, FIB. 9.—The Queen has been y pleased to give orders for the appointment of Sir rot r. s idde/I, Kot., CB., M.D.. late Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy, to be as Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the seeped ohm, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. — W nrtraay►, Fib. 9. —The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Charles Doan to the climb and pariah of Ruse, in the presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil, and county of A bards's, meant by the death of the Reverend Georp aw:yrsa-terveler, FEB. B.—Tbe Queen has been elsdto appoint Frederick Seymour, Esq. (Lientwiluit roor of British Hoodlum), to he go►ernor and com- Ruder-in-chief is and over the colony of British Columbia sad its dependencies. Tug Picnics Or WALEIe Councu. Csamna, BUCLIPORABALTI, Feu. 8. Rho Royal Highness the Priam of Wales has bees pleased to direct leeten patent to be passed, under the seal of the Duchy el Cornwall, ap. pointing Day Piny Le Cries, of Trend% Peasence, Esq., sheriff al this circuity •f OornwalL FATAL ACCIDENT OE TUB FRENCH NORTHERN RAILWAT.—The followieg note has been smatinanicated to Itiae)ciernals :—" The =mem kale which Wt Paris for oe Sunday morels. same into collision, at the 'straws of the station at Arras, with a goads' train which bad, by a false manceuvre of the pointemus, enteral ma a wrong hos, Two pameagen were injured, bet one was able to routines his journey to Calais, and the other returned immediately to Perin Three et the persons employed is the pos t carriage were wounded. A guard of the exprem trate wee killed, sad the engine -driver was injured in jumping from the mem" FIZZ AT CLINTON COLLEGE. —Yesterday morn lag airs brats out la the roof of this establishment, which at one time threatened *slims 000 sequences to the whole building. The prompt attendance of the polite sad fire bri gades, with their hose-reels sod engines, however, speedily subdued the fin, Ala appears to hare wins from over heating the dues. The premises are tally insured in the Law Usiorellise. 1 I 1864. DENMARK AND GERMANY. OFFICIAL CORRZSPONDENCE. No. 1 of the " Correspondence respecting the Maintenance of the Integrity of the Danish Monarchy," was issued this morning, in woos dance with the promise given in the House of Commons last night by the Premier. We give the whole of the return. The despatch of the Prussian government has been read in both houses, but we print it again for completeness' sake : No. L • Earl Russell to Lord BloonglakL • Fortia4446aa, J►n. 18, 1864. - - My Lord, —I transmit to your excellency herewith • draft of note which you will address to the Aintrian Minister for Foreign Affain. Before communicating this note officially to his excellency you will send him private's' • copy of it ; and you will inform me by telegraph if he should object to its contents, and you will state to me the nature of his objections.—l an, Sm. (Signed) RUSSELL. Inclosure in No. 1. Draft of Note. Her Hafeety's government baviog been informed that the governments of Austria and Prussia have addomerd a threatening summons to Denmark, the undersigned has been instructed to aak for a formal declaration on the part of the Auatiiao government that it adheres to the principle of the integrity of the Danish monarchy. No. 2. Lord Bloomfield to Earl ItasselL—(Received January 21) (Extract.) Vienna, January le, 1864. I have the honour to inclose the copy of a note which I have this day addressed to Count Reohbari. lodestar, in No. 2. Lord Bloomfield to Count Reehberg. Vienna, January 19, 1864. Her Majesty's government haring been informed that the governments of Austria end Prussia have addressed a thmatsning summons to Denmark, the undersigned. Ler Britannic Majesty's Amtweeador Extreordinery and potantiary, has been instructed to ink for a forms' declara tion on the part of the Austrian government that it ethers' to the prinoiple of the integrity of the Danish monarchy. The undersigned, in doing himself the holm. - to make the ►bove communication, takes this opportsmity to renew, ttc., (Signed) BLOONFILLD. No. 3. Sir A. Buchanan to Earl Rumpall.—(Rwoeived January 25.) (Extract.) Berlin. January 20, 1864. In conformity with the instructions conveyed to me I have addressed toll. de Bismarck a note, of which a copy is lucked, informing his excellency that as her Majesty's government have been informed that the governments of Austria and Prussia have addressed a threatening summons to Denmark, I have been instructed to ask big exeellericy for • formal declaration on the part of the Ptnatian govet s weat that it adheres to the principle of the integrity of the Danish monarchy. Inc!ware in No. 3. Sir A. Buchanan to M. de Bierearek. Be:lin, Jan. 20, 1861. The undersigned, Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni- potentiary of her Britannic Majesty, hal the honour to acquaint his Excellency N. de Bismarck-Sciehauseo, the Minister far Foreign Affairs of his Majesty the King of Prussia, that the government of the Queen his august sovereign havlag bee* informed that the governments of Austria and Prussia have addressed a threatening summons to Denmark, he has been inesruck i to ask for a formal declaration on the part of the Prussia government that it adheres to the principle of the Danish monarchy.—The un &reigned, /cc., (Signed) Amazes BUCILLNAN. No. 4. M. de Bismarck to Count Bernstorff.—(Communicated to Earl Rowell by Count Bernstorlf, Feb. 1.) (Translation.) Berlin, January 31, 1861. IL le Oomtik—The government of the King, by basing on the stipulations of 1831-52 the rights which in oonoert with Anotria it is proceeding to enforce upon Denmark, has by this very act recognised the principle of the integrity of the Danish monarchy as esteblished by the transactions of 185152. The government of the King, in proceeding to the occupation of Blesaig, do Dot intend to depart from this principle. If, however, in consequence of eompUcations which may be brought about by the persistence of the Danish goverment in its refusal to accomplish its promises of 1852, or of the armed intervention of other powers in the Deno-German conflict, the King's government were to find itself compelled to renounce uombinations which would no longer offer a result proportionate to the sscrificee which events might impose upon the German poweia, no definitive arrangements could be made without the concurrence of the powers who signed the treaty of London. The British government would then find the King's govern ment ready to come to au agreement with them as to the definitive arrangement of the DimGortnan question. Your ezeolleucy in requested to reed and give a copy of this despatch to Earl, Ruesell.—Receive, he., (Signed) Bonuscr. No. 5. Count Hochborg to Count Apponyi.—(Cornmunicated to FArl Russell by Count Appooyi, Feb. 4.) (Translotioo.) Vienna, Jan. 31, 1864. The imperial government, by basing upon the stipulations of 18:r1-52 the rights which in concert with Pravda i► is proceeding to enforce upon Denmark, has by this very set recognised the principle of the integrity of the Dania moesreby, as established by the treneertions of 1851-52. The imperial government, is proceeding to the occupation of stemi g , does not intend to depart bons this principle. however, in consequence of complications which may be brought about by the persistence of the Danish govern. meet in its refusal to accomplish its promises of 1851-52, cw of the armed intervention of other powers in the Dam- German conflict, the imperial government were to tad itself compelled to renounce combinations which would no longer offer a result proportionate to the sacrifices which events might impose upon the German powers, no definite arrangements could be made without the concurrence of the powers who signed the treaty of London. The British government would then find the imperial government ready to come to an agreement with them as to the definitive errarigement of the Dano-German ciliation. Your excellency is requested to rend end give a copy of this despatch to Feel Russell. —lteoeive, &c. (Biped) Itscnezeo. • A similar ducat& was Wonted to Sir A. 13uchanan. CITY of Lonem( Cou.non, Lneniortwx-ornirr. —To-morrow (Thuroday) Mr. Jobs Lubbock, MIA, will lecture on "The use of Brooms in Asidest Times." The chair will be takes at eight p.m., by Mr. R. li . Fowler, V. P., and usesobsr of the astincil. DVORAK Szscriols.—The election of it member for the city of Durham to supply the vacancy earned is the representatioy by the death of Sir William Minion took place yeider‘y. The Recorder (Mr. Bramwell) semluated Mr. Jobe Henderson, carpet meaufesterat ; Alderman Boyd seconded the nomination ; sad no other perms beteg imposed the mayor declared Mr. Headsmen to be duly @lasted. Mr. Henderson afterturda gave an expedites of his political views, and spoke in terms of the fulled approbatioe of the government policy of Deristervestios. HMO/a:Nuncio or BODKIN. —Mr. C. 1.4000 FA Webb, whole intention to become a candidate for the re preentetim of the borough of Bedmin at the next petrel election was asisounced some mouths sinee s has nowiented his address. It is dated from Lisoola'rinn, and informs the electan that es mom se there is a demisting be will solicit their votes urea Übe& Celle inaiift LAUNCH or TIM ENTERPIIIBII. P ttt iron screw stesmvemel Enterprise was mcosesfully lausched yesterday at Deptford. 8M deems stay lilt 4 gia. with mean sad boilers es board end armour ea her sides. As her *gin and equipment will immerse her less then Mt. more, it is sow °oriole that she will may al her weights (of pas, men, Mores. coals. he.) sad still have buoyancy to spare. This is considered extremely satisfactory n so small a ship, in which so mach has base attempted. Her strength is proved to bs unusually greet from the fact that she le reported racially sot to have " brakes " in the slightest degree during the launch. The greeter number of ships of her sine break from iie. to f in. Alt er the launch (hotels Chad., sopsriotoodset ol the dockyard, cr o e c : briquet tls4l .th le b er 407 . FaTterst.7 Admu,J lant 'Whimsey, Ot a i r e , treller of the Na • lifr P /teed designer 714 of the ship ; Captain Rowley, ~ who is to commas! ber ; Admirals CU&„ Lashiogtoe, Goldsmith, and a Isms assembly of naval °Sews. But one taut wee drunk, that of her /Welty. MIMING Sntre.—The Rose schooner, which smiled from Suederlaed for Dingwall on the Efh of Dr ember, the Jules August, which sailed from St. Nasaire sm the 30th of Nmemiber far DeWitt, the Gods Beall: o he sailed from Arabs/nal on the 17th of August far and the Venetia, from Buodowsll for Poole. and whirdi =lsm& the limed as the 10th of November, lave not Mese of. ZLICTION AT WINOHESTER.-(THIS DAY.) (BY ILICIILIO TILIOILAPIII.) WINCHESTER, TUESDAY. This morning Thomas Willis Fleming, E. (conservative), was proposed by Mr. C. Wooldridge, and me eroded by Mr. James Dear, as eacceuor to the late member, Biz James East, and wee declared elected. Mr. Pion* promised be would strictly follow his prede osseoes footsteps. " Tag Rw.m."—This morning appeared the /nit number of a sew weekly metropolitan journal called The Realm. It is whited in large type, and though a " high priced" paper," consists of only eight pages, ► littl e larger than the pages of the Examiner. The opening article commences thus:—" God save the Queen! Long live our glorious constitution! Heaven defend the right sod prosper the Realm /" The writers thick this prosperity is due on aooount of the little they have to say. "We should not have the heart to offer you more words for your money, and threaten your eyes with closer print. That has been worked to its uttermost, and we come to the rescue as reactioniata against both these tendencies of modern Jour aslism." The new journal is consecrative in politics, but says lass at present about that matter than about its typo praphical recommendations. . . . The imports into the port of Kingston, Canada, hat year amounted to 4,517,448 dollars, and the amount of duty collected was 83,863 dollars. The exports during the same period emanated to 968,635 dollars. All the fetes among the legitimists in the Fau bourg St. Germain h►ve been suspended in consequence of the death of the Duchess of Parma. DEATH OF THE HON. MR'. VESEY FITZGERALD, Fosres.—The death of this aged lady, which is just an noutex 1 as having mowed at Bellevue, near Bray, Dublin, brings to remembrance the exciting period of the Union— the time of the grandest (lights of Irish oratory. Letitia Poster was the daughter of Catherine, first Baroness Fitz. and Vesci, by the Bight Hon. James Fitzgerald, gad and prime sergeant-at-law, the noble patriot who sacrificed all his offices and retired into private life from his indignation at the Union. She married in 1814 the Right Hon. John Leslie Foster, M.P., Speaker of the Irish Homes of Commons, afterwards a baron of the Court of Exchequer. Baron Foster died in 1842- SHROVII TUTSDAY AT WEITXINSTER SCHOOL.— Yesterday morning • carious scene was &Acted in the grave historical school-room at Westminster. According to an nual custom on Shrove Tuesday, the verger of the abbey made his appearama, belated in his gown, and bearing the silver mace (with which on his s ho ulder be escorts dean and canons to church), at the door of the schooL ushering in with • sonorous voice, " The cook, air.' That penionsge (Mr. Tolfrey), attired in kitchen full drew, white apron and cap, advanced into the room, bearing in his hand what is popularly believed to be • pancake. Thereupon all the boys, who had been up t that moment engaged deeply in their studies, rushed from their testa, and stood expectant under the her which divides the upper from the lower part of the school. The cook poised the pancake on • fork for a minute, and then deftly towed it over the bar among the mob of boys. It was said to have been caught whole by Mr. Benison, one of the senior Q611111e• scholars ; but if he caught it, tie did not retain it so as to entitle him to demand the sum of • guinea from the dam, on presenting it entire to that functionary. Anyhow it fell on the ground, and for some time aru fought for, kicked for, hustled for, as if it had been the Koh-i- noon itself. T he due performance of this ceremony, which is orders(' in the college statutes, entitles the cook to two pines& It is • curious relic of the old Shrove Tuesday games, cock fighting, public foot-ball playing, thrashing the fat hen, he., which have nearly all fallen into disuse. At Eton it was the custom on Shrove Tuesday for the King's scholars to hang up Ion; scrolls of verses, called ••13.tochunsa," to the pegs oo the waiosooting of the college hall, which pep remained till the recast restoration of the ha. Readers of " Poppee Diary' will remember his ann. aim to these asrolls. - - Tux Aacurrucrtfail, Mrsuum. —The usual mune of lectures will commence is March next, and will include the following subjects :—" The Art-Workman's Position," by the Preacksot, Mr. Beredord Hope, who will also distribute the prizes for wood carving and coloured decoration ; "The Prospects for good Architecture in Lou' d oo , judging from the rat and preseat," by his Eraser Cardinal Wiaeman ; "The Influence of Local armory on Local Architecture." by the Rev. J. Y. Neale; " The Monuments) Architecture and Sculpture of this country during the Middle Ages." by Mr. IL H. Ificaam ; " Early Brickwork in England," by the Rev. E. L Cutts ; " The Interior of a Gothic Minster," the Rey. Mackenzie Walcott ; " The Medieval Houses tithe City of Well'," by Mr. J. H. Parker ; sod " Painted Glass, in its ernexion with architecture," by the Rev. r. Ayliffe Poole. CLERICAL SUROCRIPTION.—Lost night's Gatette publishes the names of Ike Co is appointed by her Majesty to consider and revise the various forms of sub ' scriptioa and declaration require 1 to be made by the clergy of the established church on ordination, or on appointment, admission, or induction, to any eorlesiasticel dignity. benefice, curacy, lectureship, or °floe, and to report their opinion how far they may be altered and simpli fi ed cos. sistently with doe s ecurity for the decisred agreement of the clergy with the doctrines of the church and their or (*roily to it. ritual : —The Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh, and Dublin ; Earls Stanhope and Harrowby ; the Bishops of Loden, Winchester, St. David', an, Oxford ; Lords Lyttellos, Cranworth, and Erry ; the Right Hon. E. P. !louvre, the Right Hos. Stephen Lashirtoo, H D.C.L., the Right Hon. Spacer H. Walpole, the RiAt oe. Joseph Napier, Sr J. T. Coleridge, Sir W. Heather*, Mr. 0. Buxton, the Very Rev. Hoary Hart D.D., Der of her Majesty's Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London ; the Very Rev. Harvey Cloodw , e, D.D., Dean of her Majesty's Cathedral Church of Ely ; the Yes. John Sandford, 8.D., Archdeacon of Coventry ; the Rev. Wm. Jacobson, D.D., Resins Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford ; the Rev. Jas. Amine: J D.D., Aria" Professor of Divinity in the tiniverai7t Cambridge ; the Rev. Hoary Veen, B.D. ; sad the Rev. Wiliam °Urn Hunaphry, B.D. CHIRP OCCUPATIONS or rag PROPLL.—The re cent crew of Engird shows this list of ocourations fol lowed by more than 100,000 persons :—Agriculturol la bourers and farm sensate (without including members of the farmer's family), 1,188,789; domestic servants, 1,106,974 ; engaged on the cotton and calico manufacture, 456,646 persons ; ea the woollen cloth malefactor*, 130,034 ; en the tree manufacture, 125,771 ; an the satin and silk marfacture, 101,670; coal mires, 246,613 ; dressmakers milliners, 287,101 ; laundry people, 167,607 ; shoe makers, 250,581 ; tailors, 136.390 ; osrpeaters and joiners, 177.969 ; blacksmiths, 108,165. The.. are 300,883 permits daseribedgesierelly es "labourers." ILLEGITIMACY.—The fifth detailed annual rur a l of the Registrar-Geoseol for Borland, which has just issued, shows that is the year 1859, to which the report balcony, 9.715 of the children born, 9'l per ere. of the births in Scotland, were illegitimate. The orris enables Dr. Stark to calculate that in that year there were 460,763 unmarried women in Scotland between the ages of lb sad 45 pan, and taking those limits of age to include all the mothers, we fief gat or unmarried worse in every 41 of those ages bore a child is that year. But further, nom tieg births with marriages, it is estimated that is Soot -308 married wanes born 100 children in the year ; and swamis, erg prolllissew moot nu wooer, and meltiplyteg the rusher of du 111 who brume soothers by 308 (the proportion is which the married bore one child), we have the humbling cordial= that about one unmarried woman in 13 between 15 and 45 years of sr put bend( ia the way of becoming a mother. To this most be added that UYgitimaay appears to be on the in crease ; bet it should be stated also that in surnames indances the pareete remain ter to each other. la Reglad the propene= of registered illegitimate births is considerably lower than in Scotland, but the Registrar- Cheers' stated before a parliamentary committee is 1861 that above 3 per mot. of the births in England annually escape regiebratko—a defect that does sot occur I. Soot land, the law being 'rektor ; sod as these onside= are acknowledged to be chiefly, if not altogether, illegitimate births, the proportion et illegitimacy appears to be, in fact, MI seedy the same is England r ie Soothed. EXTRAORDINARY SCIENI •PTIR • MARRIAOE.— Yerterday the marriage of Mr. Thomas S Deese., of Tapir Lodge, Middleton+, the read re of Mr. Dawson, the celebrated trainer for Lord Glasgow, to Miss Elisabeth Flictoft I'Ansoe, the fourth daughter of Mr. William l'Anson, of Spring Cotter, Norton, Mahon, ma ode bested in the pariah church of St. Nicholas. Norton. The eoessios was made one of the most extreme rejoicing. The bride was attended by four bridesmaids. and the bridal party included the Flirt of the neighbourhood. The town was decked in banners from end to sod, merry pods were nag oe the bells of the Yahoo churches, and the splendid band of the lad Battalion of the North Biding Volun teers did borer to the eecasioo. The church during the orresery was rammed to repletion, ad at a moderate es timate fully 3,000 parser assembled in the church and out side it. No sooner had the carriages conveying the bridal party bees driven off, than the people in the street cow mewed a emow.balling Mirk upon those in the church yard, the plea being made a grand focus for the missiles. This Aware proceeding as the part of probably 1.500 to 2,000 people entirely put a stop to the egress of those in the churobyard, whose number were being constantly in eremed by the ladies who were leaving the church. At length probably 800 prams, in the churchyard set about ramming the fire of the people in the street, and then coin raced • quarter of as hour's fight probably never equalled. The compare of the churchyard laving the dearer in position, and bowleg the lodise to defend, eveetwilly the day, sad fairly esariered the attar* party, tC fully three VON winder Is somber. The soowbelhng mania bed, however, set in, and became the object of several pitched battles I. the afternoon, when the annual sports at Orocalty Fair were being bald. Upon the meters of the bridal party, nearly It 3 rests partook of breakfast, and last wresing nearly 150 guests reembled at the ainsm bly-reetes, mad theatre of the Kelton Literary Institution, where the father of the bride gave a grand ball and banquet is bravo( the happy event. Mingled with the decora tion were the well-bees gelatin off army of the English Wf esieieltles. . . - . • . " - - -, I asY r ill i Vl This yam 1 widow of 6 cotton deals bac hothead pect7 to be ceased's tone meat of 4 The will kte'. h. Maachert ace of he medical 1 an &MAI I was mu a attertiog he armada ill ILL Boa Pt% The tour rine, U iog for oriW be unneun Mr. Link that the teal noon 0/1 /0 ebo charged Drdieary rate 'Deducted by to relieve du His Homo mght cot to Mr. Liable to the troubl tad bees recc would for tl ,a this haulm luired that h After hear Ilia Holm BOlfi 11011 L 0 ;;;Iii - iii Hackney, WI Fanny and A Tito wife, , told I fly a a. monism Okla ; b i.e. at hop 4.;,. - ;.; - ) Wu for ti waft Ave. las strl lint, she's . lattrVt roomed ette whines for exeetinew g. Po woeb sow w trials( tie thins. Di. dear tosi—ei horrible Lei irT.4.51 at 1 tYi U loweriog L I imwteaE Mr. OWN Mod moot ith bud Wile—O►, at dies bel Mr. Coal Witr—Thi root aisle► yr. Oook s Wifii—Sin sakes moo Mr. Oooko Wifo-011 yr aftkaltly Mr. Cooks 4d t . l I Nary Aim. ti )mfortable NY aee. I kw did rho streak Oompleiee I whia t a b Booth, 11 roman's qs ta't attecd. rietariwom Mr. Cooks he &tights' MCI • voter The wife's lake her la AoamtiA DAII. ?km bight 00 the the pad; tries übcllB a& UN 4 00 tas 01 *es dialmil I is. which kIIII fired at I Ids hip. Web he ete, 1611 d•I kavive d • lam s r • mesa, ol Woe. Thy rata. &halt es% .. .Toad oil wltb etm: 1! i N-ILL LAX ILL &L si. L II Do 10 so Si at If bur 14 lie 11 ro , SO r 11 re 14 re 11 4 11!. 16 . : le COURT