The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

. , 2 THE EXP itY4SI3 ‘ MONDAY- ~ I rw AMPAGNE, DRY and DELICATE. 1 # foe a w hil e th ey swe pt wa d er thi s fatal f te i. lartEST INT.&LLIWIOIL IL/ Pints SM., , Recommended vit a = = dense . - H R cad Ca , 1 . ., " They were literally mowed down. The bursting ...--..._. :„ „ . . Importers. 044 Parnivals Distillery, Holborn. LC., and $O, I , shells made great gaps in their ranks, but these PRUSSIA. .'"' Regent-street, Waterloo.plam. S.W. - ' " elm Swirl AND CO.li are plesuntlY Wed 11 P bY the doting up of the A despatch from Berlin speaks of a note pliers' WXDRACT of CALVES' FEET, " line. For fifteen immortal minutes at least they w hi c h t h e ca bi net o f Berlin has rcently ad „ - For Invalids mid Cannery U se. remain under tnis nary surge. O nwar d they press, dressed to the cabinet of Vienna. ' Austria is item ta ad. 11..2.4. tad 42 ,P41Wt b 7 1 E 1 .. 2181111 MA POCH°. a 4. " though their ranks grow fearfully thin. sia.suuollY, SD, LITTLE PORTLLI.D.ST., Regant,4B.. W. They there accused of fomenting the opposition which C6B, 12A, BUSH-LANE, CannonAtreet, LC. " have passed over a great part of the interval, and Prussia meet@ with in Germany. Prussia renews N ' IL-1 "'"' rand" lar sz°9l/"°' et qualll7 * " have almost reached the blue of the bill, when its pro pos itions relating to the federal refo s, the 11/20X-HIS-EARS.- PIESSE and LL' B I N'S " brigade after brigade of rebels rise up on the crest chief command of the military forces, and the gar- Ai: new PERFUME for the teettettiee, the t.e q uei to Stowe I “ and pour in fresh volleys of musketry at short Cam, also Sir Roger de Comtiey hp Savour, three bottles, in a . • ring of the northern fortresses, and threatens pretty case. 75.. or single bottle, 2a. ed. None genuine without " range. Our regiments fell back shattered and to leave the confederation in the event of these our name in writing.-PIFASE and LUBIN, Bondstreet, London. " broken, amid shouts and yells from the enemy. propositions not being accepted. - OZOOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. " General FRENCH'S division went into the fight 1.7 Multaa. num sad WOOD have a Ism seaortnuat " 6,000 strong ; late at night he told me he could POLAND. al asetaddead Ptracerstee, by tbe sIOSi sateasead waken. at "cou nt b ut 4500. 11 weft neses4 gelow-031. Regeistetesset.The political trial at Warsaw is still going on. What are we to say of such a transaction as Up to the 24th forty-one of the accused had been thia f When the French saw the mad charge of examined, and there still remained twenty-five l i te e r p reoo . Balaklava, and refused it the name of war, they whose Cages have not been heard. Several of the _.- were good enough to say " it is magnificent." But prisoners have frankly avowed that they knew that TO OOREISPOMINTS, here the amateur feeling is quenched by • anti- they were entering a society of young people whose Aimee:mew isarrem a ce, The Express" London bean merit of humanity. What slaughter, what igno ram must be el the 10, Bouvuisetrest, by Two object was to save or to aid their country. arwt on the day of pabliattion. rance, what rashness ! But even after this frightful Warsaw letters of the 24th speak of a fresh carnage the Federal troops were found ready to go batch of arrests-among them that of M. Nicolas Tins evrnsa, End COVENT GARActs DEN. THE BOHEMIAN forward, and a new assaulting column was formed Epstein, son of the banker. Among the others are and fed of 111 EL -An.l the grand comic Christmas Pantomime entitled to carry the crest for which so much had been several __ , „,. o f __ employee th e railway, HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.-Commence at 7. dared. The atone wall was taken from the HAY)LUMET. enemy's sharpshooters, the assaulting column (arum's rassru.s.) •1516 an warm 017 R AMERICAN c0r.17‘7. Messrs. Sothem and Bacisione ; Mn. E. Ifitawallsm - RASISEIAiI passed once more through the fire of two miles of FRANCE. PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. Mr. Compton and Miss L. Keeley. batteries and into that of volleys of musketry. -And A LIT Arra!' THE WEDDING.-Miss Hufleur. DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS. " Rushing up the crest, our troops had got within PRINCESS'S. " a stone's throw of the batteries, when the hill PARIS, DEc. 29. T Its EvEitnlO, TIME TRIES ALL. Miss Constance „ , Cardinal Morlot, Archbishop of Paris, died this Aylmer. - And els Pantomime, morrwr vrrrs THE TCI.7 , top swarmed forth in new reinforcements of or. ilarlequus and Mother ethipton. Mann. laden, R. Power, is rebel infantry, who, rush i ng upon our men, morning at six o'clock. and Raiford; Miss A. Collatio n. News received here from Lisbon to the 27th inst. " drove them back. The turn of a die decides BRITANNIA. " such announces that 27 fresh nominations of peers Tote EVRNINO L the Pantomime, ARUN HASSAN. Mrs. Lane. situations. The day was lost. Our men Mp.sre. Ems sus, . Louis, Newham, and HMIs). Celeste Stephen i ti retired. Cannon and musketry ceased their have been made, and that a rumour is current that Tom Sayers and his two performing Muiea.-And SOME " the Queen is in an interesting condition. B.T.LLS THAT RANO.-Contniessos at adYpui a. , and in a moment the silence of death suc " ceeded the stormy fury of ten hours' battle." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. The people who sent their sons and brothers WEATHER REPORT.--(THIS DAY.) Twig DAT - Meeniag, Bh. 0a..... Manioc. sit. 855, thus to fight have no consolation save in , tacansiow-Mentiais 99. 10m.....Alawasea, 92. 40ss. MOAT, Demos W. 5 Li the recollection of their bravery. Never was 0 7. e. 11 s human life more culpably sacrificed. General L i, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29. ButrunDis seems to have staked all on Fa/amines 7-- nn „To-: 1). T 7,7. I. X. V. L o a z 7i7- .... success, without knowing what obstacles were to be Aberdeen al ... 2 r7 l2 S. r 4 1.46 f ✓- - 2 " SATURDAY, the 13th of December," wrote the overcome. There seems good reason to believe Awn..., egos 47 1 L a ir, r 7 LlO a War Correspondent of the New York Times, after that had proper reinforcements been sent to lartZe . 4 . : - . 4_ n 7 ed : w li .w. 0 - - 8 • 4 0.11 I witnessing the great battle of Fredericksburg, FeLseLnv he would have succeeded ; for evi- Valentin .... 29.40 47 2 /rm. 4: 4 0.50 8 " must be accounted a black day in the history of denUy the right of the enemy's position, against tr 4 " h , ee " . " . : rg t9 : 34 l, L e 1 1 &L W * . 0 6 0.43 5 O 7 0.6 e 2 "the Republic." This judgment, recorded on the which he was sent, was the weak part of the de. t i e v eitTic i e ::: 19.30. :1 : gee: . . 0.. 2 b 7 0.29 2 battle-field, will not be reversed. The Federal army fence, although it was in the care of JACKSON. But Penzance ... 29.60 60 1 1 W.&W. 0 if 0.56 11 ✓ 7 OAS 4 was not overthrown, as at Gainsville under Pore; it when the corps of HOOKER was at last brought over Ligr y ath • - 11, 5 „7,1 : B L A W * . r :car 7 was not driven back disastrously on the river, as at the river, the new troops appear to have been le o stMo o lk. r o t : 4 4 1 9 3 1 1 1 bil,T. 0 4 0.12 4 ✓ 11 OAS a Pittsburg Landing ;it fought with a bravery that added to Sumsza's corps. It was well that Dover - - - - - - - has rarely been equalled and never surpassed, and night put an end to the day's work. London ,2ter 48 1 B.'W. e -- - Yarmouth . , 29.04 40 I BMW. 4 4 • - - 8 it remained at the end of the fights great and The European public will look eagerly for indi- Searborough 29.17 46 2 LW. 55 r - 4 Shields . !29.118 47 W.II.W. a 2 - - 5 powerful host. But it failed signally in the im- cations of the effect of this misfortune on the ticeeet „'4 :: i tem St C Ley . 6 g - - 4 - portant object it had set itself to accomplish, and American mind. Surely no people were ever He lder 1: - - .-- :--_ - - - more lives were lost on the Federal side in a few before so tried by the incapacity of their leaders. Brest 29.63 48 2 W.T.W. a 7 e r to oar a hours than at any previous period of the war. Our Special Correspondent writes that this is the L acs 21 " 0 a 1 WALW, 9 4 u r I 0.15 II The operations were simple enough. They con- general and dominant feeling at New York. They r i tur. • -.I == : 1- I: : : :: z slated for the most part in leading dense masses of have a splendid army and fleet, resources without 110BABIL men into &feu crenfer, the work of a well-protected limit, unsurpassed warlike spirit, combined with MODAL WEDITECAT. and concealed enemy, and keeping them there. It a docility which is marvellous. And all are rendered LW, g i n e.. b . ,: t. i e n d . N.. Sousse. N.N.W. w t f u , Li( w : lL, was the Redan failure _ over again, magni fi ed as useless by the un fi tness of those in whom they trust. w.5.w . . „. to v N . N.W., muse. N.N.W. to S. and lE., " SATURDAY, the 13th of December," wrote the War Correspondent of the New York Tines, after witnessing the great battle of Fredericksburg, " must be accounted a black day in the history of "the Republic." This judgment, recorded on the battle-field, will not be reversed. The Federal army was not overthrown, as at Gainsville under Poet; it was not driven back disastrously on the river, as at Pittsburg Landing ; it fought with a bravery that has rarely been equalled and never surpassed, and it remained at the end of the fight a great and powerful host. But it failed signally in the im portant object it had set itself to accomplish, and more lives were lost on the Federal side in a few hours than at any previous period of the war. The operations were simple enough. They con sisted for the most part in leading dense masses of men into &feu crenfer, the work of a well-protected and concealed enemy, and keeping them there. It was the Redan failure over again, magnified as everything is magnified on that continent, and aggravated by a tenacity truly American. BMW ann appears to have handled his troops with the judgment of a Sameox and the insensibility of a Prussira. The main body of the Federal army, which had effected the passage of the Rappahannock on the 11th with skill and success, found itself on the morning of the 13th disposed along a line more than two miles in length, and formed into two principal corps under Srenint and FRANKLIN, 50,000 men remaining under Hoonsa on the other side of the river as a reserve. About half a mile behind the town of Fredericksburg, and separated from it by a plain, a ridge of ground rises to a height of about forty feet, and extends eastward for a quar ter of a mile until it reaches a dell At the foot of the ascent, a stone wall, built to protect the telegraph road, protected a line of Confederate sharpshooters ; the rise of the crest was full of rifle-pits, and the ridge itself was crowned with batteries. Behind this first ridge was a second plateau with its ridge, wooded and well studded with batteries. Such being the na ture and strength of the principal position, General BI:ENSIDI resolved to "pierce the rebel centre," and appointed Sunnis's corps to that duty. To the east of the Confederate position just described, and divided from it by the dell already mentioned, was a wooded height bristling with batteries. These were to be attacked by the second principal corps forming the left wing of the Federal army, under FRANKLIN. General Buis ma appears to have expected that they would be carried, and that then the successful division would be able to press on to the flank of the Confederate works immediately behind Fredericks burg, co-operating with Sumitra's corps, and Re maining at the end of a victorious day in posses sion of the Richmond Railroad, the enemy's line of retreat. Nobody seems to have expected that General Br RNSIDE would hurl his army against these powerful defences. Our Special Correspondent, who has seen some of the greatest battles of modern times, wrote of mush a design three weeks ago as a thing impossible to be thought of, and we learn that at Fredericksburg itself, on the morning of the battle, some of the most experienced men in the army deprecated it. Fitswaux's advance, the sole piece of tactic* attempted, began about 9 o'clock, before that of S U NNE'S. The Sre of artillery with which the battle opened was soon succeeded by an infantry engagement, and at midday the Federals were three-quarters of a mile in advance of the point where they had met the enemy. But this progress brought them under the enemy's fixed batteries, and shot, shell, and canister were poured into the Federal ranks. In the face of these disadvantages a series of successful charges were made, prisoners taken, and for a time a lodgment was effected in the enemy's breast work. But as an expedient for enabling &rimers to advance upon the Confederate centre, FRANK LIN'S attack bad failed hours before the fighting ceased. rbr Court. OSBORNE, Dzo. 27. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Here, drove oat yesterday. _ The Prince of *ales sod Prince Louis rode on horseback. SUNDAY. The Queen, the Prince of Wiles, Prince and Princes s Louis and Princes Helena, received the Sacrament of the Holy Communion this morning, at Whippingham church, which was administered by the Rev. G. Prothero. _ _ Immediately in the rear of Frederickaburg,where Suiceins was opposed to LONOSTREET, • skirmish of light troops was the prelude to the grand attack. The Confederates risked very few men on the plateau : it was unnecessary. They had a line of sharpshooters, posted behind the stone wall running along the base of the ridge ; others in • double row of rifle pits on the rise of the crest ; while the plateau was swept not only by the fire of the batteries of the lower range, but by a doable enfilading fire from other batteries to the right and left of them. At length the hour came for the great experiment. The order was given to charge up the hill and take the batteries at the point of the bayonet. If determined valour could have sufficed the order would have been executed. Let an eye-witness tell what happened :—" The moment the Federal " troops exposed themselves, forth burst the deadly " hail. From the rifie•pits came the mnrderouidy " aimed missiles ; from the batteries, tier above " tier, on the terraces, shot planes of fire ; from " the enfilading cannon distributed on the arts of " a circle two miles in extent came cross " showers of shot and shell. Across the plain The Princes Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, attended the morning service. The Countess of Gainsborough hes arrived as Lady-in- Waiting. _ . _ The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers arrlstd yesterday, and had a audience of the Queen. Mr. Kraus, architect, of Mayenne, bad the honour of sub. mating to the Priuoe and Primes Louis of Rome pLum and designs fora palsos goat to be ofootod at Darmstadt. Despatches were received as Betarday at the Colonial office from the Govern's el New Zeeland and the Cape of Good Hope. Despatches were seat to the Lord High Coca. =Witmer of the Isola Islands. The Duke of Sutherland has left Paris, on his way to Marseilles. His graoe will embark at that port on board his steam yacht, which lett the Thames a tannish ego, sod go direct to Naples to meet the dueller, who has hese residing there for some weeks past. The Daoheee (Dowager) of Sutherland him left Stafford House, St. Jamas% for Clicidan Park, her grate's art in Backiaghanuthire. The Earl of St. German's (the Lord Steward), ameemwded by Lord Eliot sod family, has arrived at his reddens, is Dover-street from Port Eliot, Cornwall The Earl and. Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven have Ashdown. Park today, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clareadoa, at the Grove, near Watford. Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphin stone de Flahtnit will leave Bowood at the latter end of the week, for Torquay, on a visit to Lord and Lady Wil loughby de Eresby. _ . _ The marriage of Viscount Royston with Lady Georgians Wellesley will take phew early in the ensuing month at Paris. Lord and Lady Elibank have left Brown's Hotel. The R ight Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, M.P., and lady Theresa Lewis and Mims Later will leave town in few days for the Grove, near Watford, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon. The friends of Lord Ashburton will be happy to learn that there is every prospect of his lordship recover ing from his recent dangerous illame. The amounts re ceived from Paris on Saturd iy and the preesdiog day were of • mum favourable tenor. The noble lord is staying at the Hotel Bristol, but it will be some weeks before he can be expected to leave for the south of Franco with Lady Ashburton. The Attorney-General fur Ireland has appointed Mr. Richard O'Reilly to be assistant crown counsel for the county of Meath on the borne circuit, vacant by the promo tion of Mr. E. P. Loving* to an Indian judgeship. He his also appointed Mr. Lionel E. Fleming to be 501111i011a crown solicitor !•r the county of Longford. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, though a zealous Roman catholic, has, during his year of office, steadily dis countenanced the fanaticism of the ultramoutane section of his church. He has given to the Lancashire Relief Com mittee a room in the Mansion House, presiding over their meetings, and 00-operating with them in the most cordial manner. 7171111 DAT. &W. to N.W. and N., BOMA= N.N.W. to XN.X., • gale, with rain. strong, with snow. W.B.W. to N.N.W., 7.IILAMD. N.N.W. to E. and S.L., end to N.X, a gale. istroogtonboiceate. with rain. As above. THE QUARTER'S RIVIZETTE RETURNE.—These returns will not be made up till Wednesday night. Enough is now known, however, to enable us to congratulate our readers that the income continues to exhibit the buoyancy that has for some time pest been its almost normal condition. The falling off that might, under other cirnmstances, and in other times, have been naturally apprehended from the dis tress of a large portion of our industrious population, and the derangement of an important branch of trade, has not taken place. On the contrary, the leading sources of re venue continue to exhibit the most gratifying progress. The customs revenue is more than usually prosperous, in the face of the reduction of so many items ; and the es de exhibits a steadiness that is most remarkable, when the privations of so large a clan of operatives In Lancashire ere to be taken into account. After all, the suffering, though great, is limited in its range, and the other branches of native industry and production appear fully to make up the loss. Another gratifying feature of the present condition of the industrious classes is to be found in the fact that the withdrawal, from the savings banks, not unusual at this time of year, have not been to any large extent amongst the small depositors, but are spread more over the general class of Erving., which are probably only used for a time, to be replaced when the exigencies of the season are over.— , Observer. W.W. to N.E.. strong, with rain or snow. W.N.W. to 8.8. W.. strong, unsettled. As next above. • • ityEltpt - DECEMBER 29, 1862. • i 663 S FROM PARIS. (111011 °us owzr ouszerommrr.) MR. OL PARIS, SOIDAT EV1N136.1 H. Fould's financial report is more unpretending than last year. So lately as last October he clung to the hope, as he then stated in a report to the Emperor, that the budget of 1862 would be wound up in equilibrium. Now, however, that the ses sion is about to open, he is under the necessity of confessing that there will be a deficit of 35 millions of franca—composed of 8 millions more for Mexico, to be asked for by the Minister at War ; 16 millions required by the Minister of Marine ; and llmillione which be wants himself for premiums on the ex portation of sugar. In order 'to gild this pill he draws a favourable comparison between the budgets of 1861 and 1862. In 1862 there were 345 mil lions of supplementary credits, of which 261 were taken by simple imperial decrees. Now, supplementary credits by decree are abolished ; but it appears that for 1862 there were 196 millions of "legislative" supplementary credits, to which are now to be added 35 millions, and when it is remem bared that all the estimates were confessedly higher on account of the abolition of the facilities for taking supplementary credits, the difference is not so enormous as the public is expected to believe. It appears that the total expense of the Mexican war confessed up to the present time is 83 millions, 59 millions having been voted last session. M. Fould hopes for a surplus of 110 millions for .1863, but, of course, there will be "legislative" supplemental credits to cut down this in due time. Indeed, he admits that, because of Mexico, he dare not calculate upon any surplus from 1863 in his estimates for 1864. The surplus of the latter budget be estimates at only 4 millions, and in order to get even this he proposes very large sales of state forests, observing on this head that the American war has quintupled the price of resinous wood, and that it is desirable to profit by the rise. He winds up with the assurance that the desirable normal state of the finances is only " adjourned," and that he will be able to do with out a loan. The France takes upon itself to say.that the Emperor's speech at the opening of the session will allude to the "reforms" at Rome ; and meanwhile it boasts that French policy has obtained a swans hitherto desiderated in vain, and which may justly be dwelt upon in the Chambers. "M. Billault, the eloquent organ of government, will no longer be compelled to repeat that the great obstacle is at Rome (not indeed that all difficulties are at an end in that quarter) ; but to the revolution, which in sisted upon the immobility of the Pontifical government, be will now be able to reply, See, it marches under the tutelage of France." The reforms now so complacently saluted by the France are those which the Constitutionnei was instructed to say, only two days ago, the French government had no precise knowledge of. It is very certain that the France has no later news, but it is prepared beforehand to acclaim any step, however illusory, which will afford an excuse for telling the Chambers that M. Dronyn de Lhuys has done "something." All the clerical journals laugh to scorn the idea of any reforms in Rome whatever, maintaining, as they have always done, that the ' Pope's government is already the beet in the world. It is well to remember that an official journal in Rome, the Correspondencia, took the France to task very severely only last week for presuming to speak ad the French government "enlightening and guiding" the Holy Father. The positive announcement of the death of the Archbishop of Paris, contained in Bullser's Corre spondence last night, was a mistake. His emi ' mence lived through the night, and Dr. Bayer is said to have declared this morning that if be pained this day there might still be some hope of saving him. Later news, however, down to 3 this afternoon, represents his state as more and more alarming. The Emperor paid him a visit at 0 o'clock last night, and sat down by his bedside. M. Goudchaux, ex-minister of finance, whose death had not been previously announced, was buried to-day. The funeral, in pursuance of his own express desire, was conducted with great privacy. . W. CINTILU. B.W. to N.W., • gale, B.W.llaonais. rainy. &&W. to W.N.W., &I. EasuaD. a ale, with rain. &W. to N.W.„ and to & nO•gt. W.N.W. to &X. E., N. 8., • gale, with strong, some mow. rain or mow. South cone on Saturday and Sunday In North and West Coasts. Drum early on Monday morning all round. TEE GREAT Zin=c.—The following is published in the New York papers of the 17th :—" We, the undersigned, having carefully =mined the steamer Great Eastern—in. eluding her repairs, which have been done in a scientific end workmanlike manner—ere of opinion that she is in every way seaworthy, and in condition to wry passengers with 'laity and comfort, and a full cargo of any description to any part of the world. The accident and subsequent oc currences have fully demonstrated the great value and safety of a double bottom. We further certify that, having examined into the circumstances connected with the acci , dent to the steamer off Montauk Point, we are of opinion that no blame can be attached to Captain Paton, who, from the cross bearings of the different lights, knew the exact position of the vessel when she struck a aebmerged rook, not laid down in any chart, though in tho fair-way channel.— Robert Mackie, Lloyd's Agent; Wm. H. Borleigh, Presi dent Board of Port Wardens ; E. B. Seaman, Port Warden ; Wm. C. Thompson, Vice-president Neptune Insurauce Coen. pany ; Erastus W. Smith, Engineer ; Benjamin Hitchman, Port Warden ; John M. Marks, United States Inspector of Hulls ; Charles H. Haswell, Surteyiag Officer, Board of Underwriters." General Bayard, who was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg, was to have been married on the 18th to a daughter of Colonel Bowman, of West Point. The match bad already been postponed twice on account of the exi gencies of the service. The reported wounding of General Meagher is a mistake. His horse fell upon him, but he was only slightly injured, mid is still in command of wh►t remains of his brigade. . _ The New York Tribune of the I.7th says : "Although the recently published volume of diplomatic eorreepondeuos makes nearly 1,000 pages, we learn that Secretary Seward has enough more in manuscript of this year's despatches to 811 another volume of equal aim" Cotton growing has commenced in earnest in the province of Corrientes, in the Argentine republic. On two estates 23,000 plota have already been sown with the seeds of that staple. An immigration company, composed of the landholders of Banta Fe, has been formed. The fertile land' along the banks of the Salado are to be divided into small farms for ootton growing. Immigranta are to be in troduced to assist in its culture. A conflict has arisen in the Duchy of Baden between the government and the enclesisatical authorities, relative to the keeping of the civil registers. The erehi episcopal jurisdiction Las forbidden the ecclesiastical func tionaries to inscribe on the registers merely civil marriages, which Sr. only a ithorised by law in extreme cases. The church, not recognising the validity of such unions, cannot according to its rites insert them in records reser►ed men elvely to the registration of marriages which l .oonekiees legitimate. . . . . . The opening of a new protestant church at Havre has given great satisfaction to the friends of liberty of con science, not only in that town, but throughout France. The ceremony was the mere remarkable from the character of the congregation, which was composed of various sects of Christians. All the authorities of the town and of the ar. roodissement were present. A sermon was preached by each of the two pastors of the community, of which the subject was liberty of conscience. Respect for the holy place of meeting alone prevented a burst of applause at the conclusion. A collection was then made for the unemployed operatives of the tows, which produced 1,800(r. At Naples Ristori has published her programme of amusement provided at the Teiltro Fontlo. During the carnival, beginning on the 25th, there were to be 40 repro sentationain 32 of which the distingutshed actress would take a pert. Tan of these, new to Naples, were written or trans. fated expressly for her. A letter from Rome in the Meleager din Sitii says :—"King Frsocie IL, through his legal representati►e, Baron de Treuseendo, has presented to the Civil Tribunal at Rome a protest, in which, as heir to the property of the house of Farness of Parma, he claims the possession and reversion of the old fief of Cestel•Madame, situated 30 miles from Rome. The protest ie directed against the Marquis Pallavicino, of Perms. sad Count Rossolli, residing at Nise. The value of the fief .is about 50,000 Roman crowu (Mr. *soh). According to the protest, the Pallavirinos sold the property without being the legitimate pomesson of is." DISPATCH or rug AMERICAN AND USITID STAFIS HAILS.—Os Saturday the Cunard Royal MaU steamer Africa was despatched from Liverpool for Boston with mails far the Baited States and British North America, tsi. thee with • large number of pmesagere, Li l The lonia steamer City of lialiitiora kale Liverpool for New York on Wednesday next with arils for as United States. Letters will be received at the Liverpool Post coital until 1.30 p.m. Late deepstebes via Cork will he re mired until 8.30 p.m. THE• AFFAIRS OF GREECE. The Greek journals publish the following note, addressed collectively, on the 13th of December, to the Provisional Government, by the Ministers of Great Britain, France, and Russia : The undersigned Ministers of Great Britain, France, and Russia have the honour to inform M. Bulgaria of the agree ment adopted on the 4th instant by the three courts and signed on the same day by their plenipotentiaries. Great Britain, France, and Russia declare themselves boned by this agreement that no member of the imperial and royal families reigning over the three protective states can accept or wear the crown of Greece. Consequently, neither his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, member of the royal family of England, nor his Imperial Highness Prince Romanoffsky, Duke of Lenchtenbetg, member of the imperial family of Runts, can accept the crown of Greece if offered to them by the Greek people. The undersigned take advantage of this opportunity to express to M. Bulgaria the assurance of their metes/a. P. ScAsurr. BLOUDOPT. P. Bonars. Athens, Dec. 12. The Press of Vienna says :—" Count de Rech berg has replied to Earl Russell's circular on the Greek question, in which the right of nations to depose their kings was proclaimed. In his reply the Count develops very conservative views. He says that the British note has filled him with astooishmant, since consequences might be deduced from it which, although witbost danger to England in her iosulated position, would be exceedingly serious for governments placed in a leas favourable position. Such re. volutionary propositions might, be thinks, lead to the most critical conflicts, and no ose would be more menaced by them than Austria and the Porte." _ A Berlin letter has the following :—" The Prus sian official journal has repeatedly demanded, within the last few days, that the opposition functionaries should re ceive a correction. Those who are members of the Cham ber are especially pointed out for the rigour of the govern ment. The number of these functionaries in the present Chamber is 116, of which 89 are law functionaries and 27 administrative. It is rather difficult to reach the former, but the latter might be placed on the retired list. The Chamber also includes 19 ministers, 15 barristers, 14 pro (moors, and 14 municipal functionaries who are indirectly dependent on the government." The usual Christmas course of lectures at the Royal Institution was commenced on Saturday afternoon. For many years put it had been the custom of Professor Faraday to deliver these lectures to a juvenile audience, bat the state of his health prevented him from doing so last year, and we understand that it continues to prevent him this Christmas. His accustomed place was occupied on Saturday by Dr. Frankland, who has selected for the subject of the usual course of six lectures, "Air and Water." Sir J. Knatchbull issued en address to the electors of East Kent, on Saturday, in which he says "My honourable opponent alleges that he has received courteous reception at your hand& Allow me to enure you that at least en equally courteous reception has bees extended to me in all the districts ; and for my reception I have to return you my most sincere thinks. In addition to that, lam able to inform you that the canvass of my friends, made oa rep behalf, has been most satisfactory to them and temyself. The continuance of the exertions yea are now making will, I feel oonfident, result is my being placed at the bead of the poll on the Bth January by a longs InakeitY." ON THE LANCASHIRE LAMMAS. Mr. Gladstone presided on Saturday evening at one of the weekly entalainmente at the Kure Hall, Charon on which °evasion he availed himself of the opportunity to refer to the distress in Lancashire. He said that the bulk of the cotton manufacture was carried on in a region com pered within 27 unions, their population being soinewhat be yond two millions, and the rated value of that portion of their property which was subject to rates was above five million sod a half. Certain portions of the manufacture woe, however, oanisd ois beyond the limit. of this area, the mast coesidereble probably being in Glasgow ; but the distress generally would be less severe in proportion as the district was less exclusively dependent on the cotton industry. Yet evea in these plans much hid been suffered and much had been dene,l and as an Instance of the liberality of some ed the millownen, he might mention that in Glasgow a single Arm had been supporting its own workpeople at • "barge represeeling il,ooor. • year. Upon the whole he might probably net lie wrong in adding to the greet lama shire and Cheshire districts one-tenth of the outlying districts so far as oattractioa and less of wages wore eon earned, and from 1-10th to 1-20th so far as regarded actual ward and necessity for special aid. The number of persona employed in cotton nnaufactnr• in the whole county ap pealed to be little, if at all, short of 400,000. Of three ere-half were wholly unemployed, 3-Bthe, or thereabouts, were on short time, and less than 1-Bth were fully employed. The loss of weekly wages of this population was about 150,0001., or at the rate of nearly 8,000,0001. a year ; gad with the loss of wages in trades directly subsidiary to the folks manufacture, and depending upon its extent, it err imp oulais to be estimated at lees than 12,000,0001. a Saar—prehably a good deal more. Such • loss told in a endbis degree upon the revenue of the state, for it might he roughly estimated that each man in this country oar leibuted one-eighth of his income town& thripublie revenue. Upse the whole, he thought the present annual rate of less to the revenue in consequence of the cotton famine vas 1 million or thereabouts, and that the actual loss fo r the current financial quarter, during which the distress had been growing to what, as he fondly trusted, was the maxi mum, would be more than one million. He had spoken of the numbers out of employment, but of coons the numbers in want of aid were considerably greater. Some of the worker" were members of families where some other mem ber or members of the family bad other sources of support ; but against any deduction on this account a much larger deduction had to be made on account of those poetical belonging to the families of the working people themselves by whom no wages were earned—the very meg, the old, and those engaged in the cares of the house bold. Acoordingly ha found that in the 27 unions the ember receiving poor-law relief was about 250,000, end the weber who, without receiving say poor-law relief, received rebid from charitable funds, was 190,000, making together 440,000. To this number additions were to be made of workpeople supported by their employers themselves, sad of onUying districts, and taking these additions into acoonet, he thought they might place the total of persons thrown tato destitution by the cotton famine at half-a-million per sees. So much for the numbers of the &dressed. Now Ist them consider what had been and what was being done for them. When in the summer and early autumn every week added rapidly to the number of mills in part or entirely eland, and want creme to be extensively and severely felt, there were two, or indeed three, temporary obstacles whisk might have unduly kept down the measure of relief. Owe was the difficulty of organising at short notice • mesideiny equal to the task of regularly supplying the ender 4ir mends of thousands and tens of thousands, without milkman time incurring enormous waste, and giving direct ennessegia meat to fraud. The second was Abe noble indepoodesse of the people themselves—(applause)—nod the third was an excusable timidity which seemed here and there to have affected the admientraton of relief, boards of guardian' ad always learning in a morient that au extraordisary calamity required an unusual freedom in the measures for reborn( it, and some managers of charitable funds being alarmed at comparing the amount of the voluntary auhsoriptiser es it then stood with the demands of the ooming winter, end not having faith sooner in the will and ablifity of the nation to administer by spontabeous badly to this great distress. And this was to be expected, and could not be blamed. But from such causes the pressure of suffering was it might be feared in some ones sharpened for a time ; sad • lady, blessed with large mesas, and more largely b lessed in diepo. sitioa —he meant Min Burdett Coutta—having forwarded a munificent oontribution, wisely expressed her wish that the whole of it might be laid out at once. They moat all, at all times, meet the real and essential wants of the pre sent before reserving myth* for the future. At that time, in one moot distressed mum, the rate of weekly relief was not in all more they la. ld. par head for man, woman, and child. InteUlgeot bennolance bad, how ever, supplied both the ma&intery lead the means, and the average rate of oat-door poor relief, which before the distress was ls. 24d. per week, was erne nearly is. 6d. The hinds. of the pose law were expended is the Lanessi&a. and Cheshire district at • weekly rate equal to sere are a million per:annum, or at a rate of ss. per pound on rateable property, after deducting that portion of it from which at present rates could not be collected. The total weekly ex penditure by guardians and by committees of charity in the 27 unions was 43,5471., yielding to each recipient within • fraction of 2a. per head. In addition to We the executive committee had distributed 4,734 bales of clothing; nor were they to forget that, bends this great river of bounty, many little streams were flowing through private channels, each and all of them bearing consolation with them as they flowed. Though for the sake of their noble-minded fellow countrymen, they might . all wish that the relief a ff orded was much more ; yet, look ing to the nature of the case, and the serenity of preserving a dee relation between the suite of the independent labourer and that of the reoeiverof relief, the present rate ought to be regarded as sufficient and anis. factory ; and they had the pleasure of hearing from the report of Mr. Parnell that " neither himself nor the execu tive committee had received any complaints from the poor of insufficiency of relief or charitable aid." So much for the amount of the relief. The prospect was certainly no worse as to its duration. The charitable committee.s in the different neighbourhoods were expending 25,000/. a week, but the executive committee was receiving from the 6th to the 20th of this month above 7,0001. a day. The public and general subscriptions, it would appear, amounted to more than 1,200,0001., nod they might eddy aroma that the machinery in operation would raise this to 1,300,0001.. whereas the sum hitherto expended must fall short of half the amount actually raised, so that they might look for ward with cheerfulness, in the shwas, of any new and great calamity, to the remainder of the winter. Should the dreadful and sanguinary war which desolated America and throw the surplus of its curses upon Europe be brought to a ekes, a greet and early relief might be expected, but in any case the administrators of the public bounty would, it might be trusted, meet the spring with some considerable funds in hand. After passing an encomium upon the suffering operatives for the mason in which they had bore* their afflictions, he acid that as they had begun aid con tinued he hoped they would so persevere to the end. They had new forms of trial before them. They had mewl from the condition of highly paid labourers to that of receivers d , relief, arid this they had dons with no diminution but with an Massie of respect and honour. They would, he hoped, soon pass back again from the coeditors of receivers of relief to that of highly paid labourers. But this they could not do at once. A state of things was pretty certain to arrive in which the range of prices, on which wages must depend, would be such as to enable their employers, or such of them as only bent but did not break before the storm, to offer low wages, but not such as to enable them to offer high ones. To accept there low wages—to commence agate the work.' marr's career ou • reduced and contracted footieg—would be a new form of trial. Might they meet it as duty, and not as pride, would prompt them, end might it be their bat: (dbeers.) THE LATE EARL GITTOID.—In Lind Gifford we have wmaturely lost a most valuable and estimable suss, one of thous so mach wanted in public affairs to moved to pcsitiose that io the course of nature must ere long be va cant, Lord Gifford had the happy combination of hirh qtr ne qualities which is so deservedl gr ipited in this He had temper the most sweet, • "tkra kind sad genial, all ironstone sympathies, • ul mo desty, and a religious reverence of truth. He was loved wherever he was knows, but be bore his faculties as nimbly as to wrong his claim to respect for intellectual superiority. The superficial could not see how much there was to admire is the mind of one who evidently thought so little of himself. Taken at his owe estimate ha would, indeed, not have been rated highly. Yet to whatever be applied himself he did well. He was the chairman cif the Ommiasion of Inquiry into the Accounts of the friary, and drew up the report, the honesty and ability of which were equally admired. His West, were Weed excellently adapted for Public affairs, and on whatever subject they might be employed they were sure to be under the strictest guidance of truth sod of sound judgment. The wide range and perfection of Lord Cli ff ord's scoomplishments were extraordinary. He had • fine taste for the arts. He was an erudite inumician, as well as • good performer be was skilled in aellississ be was • • sculptor, and has left some beautiful spina of his proficiency ; be bad a vast feed of satemeilie knowledge, and could render it with • woederfel lucidity, so as to mks subjerds abstruse and recondite intelligible. For more than year Lord Gifford had undergone the mast cruel sufferings. which he bore with a most beautiful patience and mealy fortitude. The injury which caused ha long Inners, and ultimately his premature death, might is great past bare been ercaped if be bad not thought son of the misty of two poor labourers than of his oars. He for some minutes bore the weight of the trunk of • fallen tree ea his bask to prevent its crushing the men below him. He was in all • noble fellow, • peat generous heart and a good heed.' He hes gone to his rest early, bat with • peat gathering of I love richly lie dna —Zemeniesr. SUNDAY EXCURSION TRAINS. TO TIOI XDITOZ OP Tar ZIFRI:88. Eint,—You will much oblige the committee by I Orin pabhatty to yaw next Wee to the atmompanying copy of a memorial from the archbishops and bishop* of the Church of England, and from the other bodies nam e d therein, against the running of exeursios trains on th e Lord'irdey.—l am, &c. HENRY STEVENS, Cloned Secretary. ' _ _ Lord's•day Manama Society, 20, Joba-street, Adelphi, W. 0., December Copy of armorial from the archbishops and bishops of the Mune of Regknd to the respective bodies of directors of railways, ou which excursion trains are run on the Lord's. day. To the chairman and directors of the London, Brighten, and Soutb-Coast Railway, South Western Railway, the Routh Eastern Railway, London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, the Eastern Counties Railway, London and TR bun Railway, the North London Railway, and the Great Western Railway. We, the undersigned archbishops and bishop+ of the United Church el England ■od Ireland, reapsotfully en. treat yeti to di continue the running of =ninon mica oa the Lord's.dity. 1. Because we an convinced that it Is In accordance with the will of Clod, and essential to the well-being of moo, that the LorsTmday be kept holy for the worship of Cod, and the performanoe of religious duties. 2. Because excursion trains become a temptation to many to make &today a day al dissipation, and thereby tend to demoralise them, and those with whom they come in contact. S. Became, while we are anxious to secure the work lag chaste the relaxation which they need, we believe that the object eau be obtained witbeat enoouraging the practlis of travelling on the Lord's-day, as for example, by affonl bag them as opportunity of travelling at a cheap rate on a week day. _ _ _ 4. Because excursion trains deprive both the company's 'eremite and many persons in the places to which they run of the weekly day of rest, which they all require, as ac countable beings, with a view to preparation for eternity, 15. Because we are persuaded that the more rest you allow your servants on the Lord's-day the more efficient they will be, both morally and phyMmilly, for your service. Believing, therefore, that 'Sunday excarsion traias are wrong in themselves, and injurioes both to the public and to the railway companies, we earnestly hope you will add the weight of your example to that of several of the other leading midway companies, and refrain from running them. And we hereby give authority to have these our signa tures added to memorials to as many other boards of directors as roe Sunday excursion trains. J. B. CANYILIA, A. T. Cimars, C. T. DSOs. J. Cuarma, A. O. Lomas, W. IL Sawa, 0. Durzue, Taos. Vora.= S. AaAeE, 0. Warm, C. ST. Deana, O. Paressoeovax, SAM. CABLIBLI, T. ELY, A. LWIDAIY, J. LICIMILIL R. Rom a _ 3. P. KANCLIZOTEL , Jana T. Amaral, Aocruen, BATH &Woos, J. O. Roaborrn, K Enna, W. Or OM:UTZ& & Beurfor„ B. Oros, Holum donne & Max, Jowl Lwow, J. 0. Batom. H. Woman:o, N.B. Aldo,* the Bishop of Hereford alone does not sign the memorial, be speaks of the "object" of the memo- rial as " excellent." Memorials with the like prayer wen presented at the same time from the Congregational Body of England and Wales, signed by three representatives on behalf of. Prom the 00efereoeo of the people ailed Methodists, signed by the president on behalf of. From the Presbeterians of London, signed by one repro salinities ou behalf of. From members of the Annual Committee of the Methodist New Ocnnexion Conference, signed by 12 representatives on behalf From various parishes and congregations in London and the neighbourhood, mow which were one from 1,165 inhabitants of East London, and one from 1.409 working men in Stepney, Poplar, and other parts of the east of London. And from the Society for Promoting the Due Observance el the Lord's Day. The Belfast News Letter states that a biography of the late lamented Sheridan Knowlee is about to be pub limbed by his son-iudaw, the Be,. W. Dobbin, A.IL, chap. lain of Ettomprewe Hespitel, Dublin. Mr. T. J. Kent (barrister) has been appointed Secretary to the Commission of Inquiry into Convict Die eiptioe. Hr. George Wiegrove OW has been appointed Copyhold Omateher, In the room of the late Mr. H. C. Mules. CRYSTAL PALACL—The experiment of making Saturday a shilling day proved a great swam, as the attendance of twelve thonesed peewee on Saturday last testified. The emusernente provided gave general "stir beim', while Bloodin's pmformence on the low rope excited ,se much enthusiasm &never after the special entertainment'. The great orpu peeled forth its powerful notes, and the asemmabled thousands promenaded the DINS, which were beelantly lighted up. All the amassment, will be repeated to-dry. DRUIDIC FESTIVAL AT OXFORD.—The annual r festival of the Droll; will be ealebeated as usual on tiorr year's-day. in the Tows Hall, Oxford. It is the great pthming of the year, and will be attended by the Right 'ldol. E. Cardwell, M.P. for Oxford, Mr. 0. Neste, the ex- M.P., and Serjeant Gush*, the unsucosedid candidate. but still aspirant for the rapreseolation of the city. A pump of alma between the politiall leaders who Word these festivals generally takes pleas, end is fad is always looked forward to as are of its attractive features. • AGES OF THE appears from Ii ho's Who is 1863, that the eldest duke is the Duke of Cleve. land, who is 74 years old, and the yousgest the Duke of Norfolk, aged 15 ; the eldest marquis is the Marquis of Lansdowne, 82, the youngest the Minnie of Ely, 13 ; the eldest earl is the Earl of Charlemont, 87, the youngest the Hari of Charleville, 10; the eldest Amount is Viscount Combermere, 89, the youngest Viscount Dowse, 18; the eldest heron Is Lord Sinclair, 94. the youngest Rommore, 11 ; the eldest member of the Privy Council Is Lord Lyndhunt, 90, the youngest Fad Sperm, 27; the eldest member of the House of Commove is Gen e ral Bon. Sir Hugh Arbuthnott, member for Kiocardineehire, who is 83, the youngest Mr. Reginald A. Vyner, the member for Ripos, 23 ; the eldest judge in England is the Right Hon. S. Lusbington, aged 80, the youngest Mr. BIJOU Wilde, 46; the eldest Judge in Ireland, Chief Justice Lefroy, 86, the youngest Mr. Justice Keogh, 45; the eldest judge in Scotland, the Lord Justice General, 69, the youngest the Lord Justice Clerk, L 2 ; the eldest archbishop is the Arch bishop of Dublin, 75, the youngest the Archbishop of York, 43; the eldest bishop is the Bishop of Exeter, 85, the youngest the Bishop llaingeste of Ohmmeter and Bristol, 43 ; the eldest colonial bishop Is the Bishop of Toronto. 83, the youngest the Bishop of Ontario, 37; the eldest berme' is Sir Tastes Sykes, 90, the youngest Sir Gawp B. Sitwell, 2 ; the eldest knight is General Sir Jams L. Caldwelh 92, the youngest Sir Charles T. Bright. 30. SosysTos or THE Riven TgArms.—At a meet ing of the commissioners of the Thames river, held at the Town Hall, Oxford, on Saturday, Mr. hones Castle, budder and surveyor, was elected surveyor fee that part of the Thames running from Lechlade toWisdsor. Tim Bauman or MARI:USW FELL= —Among the reported dead at Fredericksburg is the Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, chaplain of the Measachneette 16th. He volun teered in the hazardous task of crossing the rim sad gave his life as the price of hie zeal and patriotism. As chaplain of the Maamoinmetts 16th, Kr. Fuller has been nowearied in his labours for the material as well se spintual good of the men, and has exercised over them a remarkable influ ence. No hardships pa ll ed hnn. awl he always sustained others by his ownunflinching courage sod his devotion to the great cause he had given himself to serve. Mr. Puller was • brother of the late Margaret Fuller. It has been our privilege to court ham as amo ng our 003!Yrilli 001Teep::11- dents, and his lateen. under his own rentals lA. B. 1,1. while the army of the Potomac was on the Peninsula, will be _remembered by many of our readers.—Noll Tribune. - ALLEGED POISONING BY STENO:D.:INF.—A pro *mud inquiry into the canes of the death of as intent bee just been closed in the town of Teaby, Pembrokeshire, and a verdict of wilful murder has been returned against ion 'rbemaSyeani of age, and her daughter Jane. of 22 years. lived with an old and de cre o id twit lived tog the bee of the one, father of the other—osmed William There, slim Clanton, in a couple of aDoomforiable rooms in • lour-roomed house in a locality called Chimeey part. They occupied the ground fl oor, the upper porticos o f the dwelling being rented . by a women sawed Hannah John, alias Davies, alias DidMe'sen, god h eer busily. The Pilo is horribly filthy— scarcely any nninces there. Two beds ere huddled into owe small unventilated room et the beck ; attached to the homes is a pigsty. The approesho, to it are in a shocking smeltery ccodition. Th e child al le g e. ; to bows boa murdered was the illegitimate oflepriog of Jame Thome, who wee delivered of it some two or three ameatbe ego. The child became nave 1, and it was Welded by Mr. Cbater, rapes. Oa the let of November It plead finder e i rc umstaacce which called fore judicial icier ligation. Tbs contests of: the child's stomach were me et to Dr. fierspath, of Bristol. for analysis, end be had rve° evidence that death bad bees caused by stryclulios. The eseroner's jury, after beers; his evidence, returned • ver dict of wilful minder ageism% the two womee, and tbe 7 „ were removed to Haverfordweet to await their trial. imt' tiocal interest sad importance were attached to the ;e -quity, in cooooluesso ofg the suspicious circentsteeem attending the dem th of three or four anthem bee 01 daughters el th e floatage. during pest years. The whol° Gamily lass lived hentorally, and it is feared that the Paw l ' have subsided fee a enactor of a °mousy se the preptat/ of their daughter. Two of the eons are, however, mitt . "' able working men.