The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-12 00:00:00

_ 111011MIIMMMIIMPIIIPIIMIM=MINIMMIr 1 z - rt %I A J.--ff C.' V X° nO.• ''' .1\1.1,.,..1),11bEn .... ls .t.... ~...:. 'L I ....,,..,,, -1 • . - . ' ~i No. 5,724.) MESSRS. MONEY WIGRAM sod SONS' (of Blackwell-yard, London) LINE of STEAM and PAM.= ..DIPS to A UST RALIA. For MELBODRNI, Port Phillip, Direct • 11. leave the Docks on Tuesday, Dee ko, calling at ply mou tio , to splendid clipper ship tsUPPOIAC, 1,100 tons, W. H. MEW mAN, Commander; lying In the East India Docks. Her ac eciumodstimis for all eldest.* of passenger. are unsurpassed, and she a ill carry au experienced surgeon—For freight or passage app ly to 11.LIZOD, ALLPORT, and SIORGAN (with Messrs Money Ti uram and Sons, 7, Lemienhallatreet. Passengers by this Rae cf p.idirtS are conveyed from Paddington to Plymouth tint dais for second class fares, and second class for third clan fates, d LAY VROM LI VICAPOOL OE QUEINSTOWN TO KIM 1 OILL. Lrriatrooi;Ftw YORK, and J. PIIILADFLPHIJI STU 4 , 111 P X)MPANY totend der t!. ; that? fun-powered Clyde-built Iron Balm eteata.Shipt, rn-rrlnr; the Felted Mates wine. FROM LIVERPOOL for NXW YORK. .....—_—_ CITY or MANCHFRTER. Wednesday, Dec 14. %nig. Wednesday, Dee. 111. CITY of BALTIMORE, Saturday, Dec. U. dud every Wednesday and every alternate saterday. Cabin passage by the mall steamers galling every Wednesday, .7. and 21 guinea& according lathe accommodation. Cabin pawn, by the Saturday's steamers, S guineas. Barnard passage AI, including all provisions cooked. Pamengen for Cenals. tie United States, and British Columby booked throng eu • , ray advantageuus terms—For earthen particulars spy:, WILLIAM INMAN, Wake-street. Liverpool: orb 11 a as sad MACIY. 61, [Ws City. TIM DAY, at THESE and EIGHT O'CLOCK. COMMODORE NUTT and MINNIE WARREN.—The celebrated COMMODORE MUTT, the smallest man living I 20 years of age, 9 inches high, and weigh ing but 24 pounds, having concluded his famous three years' en gagement In America, for which be received from Mr. P. T. Barnum, the munificent sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars, has tie honour to Inform the public of London that he will make his ?MT A PPEA EA NCB In the Old World at BT. JAMES'S-HALL, Eternally Tills DAY , assisted by the wonderful Miss MINNIE WARREN, slater of Mrs. General Tom Thumb, the smallest lady of her age in the world, 18 years old, 24 inches high, weighing 19 pounds only—a Bachelor and Belle of mature age, and more than Usual Intelligence, and weighing. together. Ism than an ordinary child of three years—Nature', smallest edition of her choicest works. This Win couple will give TWO LEYREB DAILY, at Sand 8 p.m., In a most Interesting MELANGE of SONGS, DANCES, DUETS, ttc., Including Commodore Butt's celebrated persona, Mons, the Drummer Boy, Sailor, Patrick O'Vogerty, the Cure, Drunkard, Stump Speaker (with ten changes of costume', Jim Crow On the character of a crow„ and his wonderful feats of Prestidigitation, Re., and Miss MINNIE WARREN In her Songs. Dances, and Duets. appearing In three different costumes at rack Levee, from her costly and magnlncent wardrobe. There win be a Change of Programme at each Levee. The magnificent Miulature Coach drawn by four of the Smallest Ponies In the world, the whole a present from General Torn Thumb to Commodore Nutt, attended by Elfin coachman and footmen In livery, will coavey there little won ders between their hotel and St. James's-hall. Admission, Is. 2a., and as. To be obtained at the RAIL A few reserved stalls Is, each. - t.:litidn'nS - ader 10 - Wan - half irks to the is., 35., sod Is. places. PEI I LLIPPS, GRAVES, PHILLI PPS, and co ; desyateFtbetlntirretst.ltred tlrstelass streamers Fur I.6Irig.RDAM. the BATAVINIt, every Sunday morning, from Ifermataffn Tier, at 10 ►m, calling at Blackwell for pea eenevrt at 11 ►m. Fazes, E 4 is., Ll 10a., and 17a. dd. : and the wyIiNOOLD every Thursday morning early from off the Towle. taro Ll. 7OrtIREMEN, one of the North German Lloyd's steamers, ADLER, MOW!, or SCHWALBE. every Thursday morning (weather permitting), at 10 a.m.,,drowi lioreelydown, and tram Badman at it nom. lane, /2, al, sad la/ For GOTHINEI72O, the LONDON. Den U. trim. Bandy dolni. Nitres, CS is. and £2 k For freight, paraage, etc, apply at Chaplin's Universal Meek gm r ni,aeos, W.. or to PUILLIPPB, own, PHILLIPPS. and Co.. 11, Rood-Inue, E.C. OOVERLAND ROUTE .- COMMUNICATION by STEAM to INDIA, AUSTRALIA, Re., MA EGYPT. Me PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY 13001 PASSENGERS mid metre Cargo and Paresis at their Louden °Mee for Gibraltar. Malta. Egypt Ades, Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, the Straits, and Chlna, by {heir steamers leaving Southampton ea the nth sad 90th of every month : tor Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Aden, and Bombay, by those of the ITO sad 27th of each month; and for Mauritius, Eine George's round, Melbourne, sad Sydney, by the steamers kat as @ma ma oa the '2oth of every month.—For further particulars a m n :ply at the Compears Ottres.lll, Iwodmaragetreot, RC.. Lan don ; or Oriental-place. Southampton. MONTEV I I O D A EA v a N a.OOO EI7II ,OOO 8 EUROPEAN LOAN. To be Issued in bonds to bearer of ClOO each, at the price of 60 per cent. The P.m& will beer Interest at 6 per cent. per annum from lst January, 186 a, payable In sterling h:if i early London. A Sialdng lend of 1 per cent win be ed annually par chew or redemption ot bonds n sterling. 1 By a law of the Honourable Handal Assembly of the Repub lica Oriental del traguay. of the lath November, 1861, and of two several decrees of the executive powers of the said republic of the 16th December, 1863, power was conferred an Messrs. Mafia sad Co., of Monte Video, to convert the debentures of the internal debt, created by acts of the legislature of 66th July, 1471. and the ltth November, 1863, respectively, into a rational debt stock. represented by Six per Cent. Bonds, to be lamed in prior to Slat December., MC Za v r° K.. e amount of the internal debt so authorised t• be con ceded Into external national debt wan 6,000,00 dollars—or bey .t1z2.50,000. . . A Under the provisions of above.mentloned law and decrees, the necessary steps have been taken towards the conversion of debentures representing 5.000,000 dollars Internal Dvbt into X 1,000,000 External National Debt Stock, represented by 10,000 bonds of £lOO British sterling, bearing interest at 6 percent per annum. 4. Messrs. Made, MacGregor, and Co., beg to notify that they are prepared to reedit e subscriptions for the above sterling Bonds. which will form the sole External National loan of the Republic of rraguay. at the price of NO for each 4100 stock. 5 Interest on the bonds at the rate of 0 per cent. per annum sill be pa ab le In sterling blif.yearly, on the Ist January and the Ist J uly, at the once of Masan Mad; MacGregor, and Co., London. first payment will be made in July. 1865. 0. The sum of 1:10,005 or 1 per cent. on the total aunounk 'de creed for the sinking fund of this Loan, together with the Interest accruing from time to time on each bonds u have been cancelled, will be applied to the purchase of bonda at the market prior, so long as the quoted price is under £lOO. and by banot in the usual manner when it reaches or exceeds that amount. thus Insuring its itquidati.n within the period of about 3! years. 7. The Interest and stilling fund of the Loan are steered as a charge no the general revenues of the Republic, and also by a special hypothecation made by the law of 14th November, IsW of certain customs and anchorage dues. The revenue derived from these sources are stipulated to be paid weekly to Messrs. Nana and Co, wlw will remit monthly to Morn. Matta, Mac Gregor, and Co., London, f o r payment to the bondholders, the proportion necessary for the payment of the Interest and staktnr. fund on the External National Loan. e. The payment. slue let January, 1061, have been regularly received by Messrs. Matta and Os., and they use therefore able to estimate with accuracy the annual mutest which nay be looked for from tie hypothecated revenues. This estimated annual amount exceeds 4100,000. The annual amountpuired for the sinking fund and interest of the unconverted ion of the Internal debt, and for the £1.003,000 External National to awn, is E 90,000 5. The subscription price is 60 per cent.. say EOO sterling, for t very 5.100 Mock. and is payable as follows : LS on application ; £lO „ enik ; Zl5 „ 30th January. 1506; ZIS „ Seth February, 1806 ; £l5 „ SUS March, ISM. rid O. Discount at the rate of G per cent. par annum will be &Doted ..n payments In !ulna anticipation. 11. In default of due payment of the instalments. reeled:2lMP ments will he liable to forfeiture. Scrip certificateawill be bred after allotment, and will be exebanced for hoed. as soon r pos sible after the cement of Use Mat Instalment ban bees Eras I.— Ihe ituucir'eril be provided with CoiTioaZ. whkL will be melted, free of aaperae, when ezhanatad. 13. lu aue of non-allotment the deposit will be immediately eetumr4 without deduction or further Ilatifllty on the part of tt agents. In default of payment In due course, previous, pay tarots are bible to forfeiture. ApilTjaalo;.; • i;;;; to the annexed form will be received anti] the loth beeember from London. and Until the 23rd idem fmm rnontry applicant., at the office of Messrs. Mans, BscOre. per and Co., I. Gresham home, Old Broad.street. City, or by Mmes. P. Case nove and Co., 55, Threadneedle-street, the de of 5 per 7ent. on the amount of stock applied for having= Lpool -way made nits the London and Westminster Bank, leshbary . . . . . . 15. Tlie official documents authorising the loan may be seen at the nth es of Messrs. Birchen). Dalrymple, Drake, and Co., 46, Puli.imentatreet, Westmtnster. Those documents will on the cmi; ktion ..f the loan be deposited at the Bank of England. Dec.. 12, 1864. MONTIVIDEAN EUROPEAN LOAN. POIX OP APPLICATION. left aith the Dashers, altar paymect of the preliminary deposit. To Meseta. Wads. Macgregor, and Co, nests for the above loan. Gentlemen,—Baring pald r, to the London and Westminster E.c.k. Lotbhury, the sum of I , I hereby request that you nth allot me g, bonds of the Monteridean European Loan. an! I beret.; scree to accept such Bonds, or any smaller amount tE at may he allotted to me, and to pay the further isatalsoants thereof. scudding to the terms of the prospectua. I am, Gentlemen. Your ohedlent sensed, Signature A d dress la fall Date TO LADIES.—ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, an oriental Botanical Preparation for Improving and Besot'. 1 3 ire the C. .itplegion and Skin. The radiant bloom It imparts to the cheek, and the softness and delicacy which It Induces of lb. hands and inns. Its ',peaty of moothian litigation and rtin.4 ins all redness, tan, pimples, spots, freckle*, disookwa iir.m. and other cutaneous vl•ttatioes, render It Indispensable to e'er, toilet. It okviates all the e ff ects et climbs** on the skin. s g•thcr with reference to cold and laclesmc7, or intense solar 1... t Pike is. tAI. end Se. &I. per bottle. Id at IN% Batton- I , n and by chemists and perfumers Ash for Rowlands A-44er," anti beware of sparkles and pernicious articles under C. , rmx i-f PITS and NERVOUS COMPLAINTS.—MISS NKr% P. tw inestimable medicine, seen for • ;.th , hlrterte. aigl every other description of he and nervous Inaw I.r 11.1.4 !fr. J. W. B. Ash, surgeon, le, Itede I r -T-1 rind In London of Wean. Burley and Pons. W. Barring .: I. wholesale agents, In baths, at la. 9.1.. M. el., • : wadi. • here uumeo testimonels to Its extraordinary • the highest nipectahlllty may be obtained. It may • •-• through all rwopectahle weeders of medicine In the .:. .1 h ingdom hut he pert lenLir in observing that, the name, ' • AI. nett PUte. Berkeley. Gloucestershire," is engraved In • .".. I-ft , . on and ground in the government @hump, as none t,,wr can be genuine ri`liE IN VICORATIVE NERVINE ESSENCE ••• The tn.t sclentilleally prepared and moat powerful aufric t sc ..r.llal ever Introduced: redores to thew normal coodltion re-cretions, on the integrity of which perfect health de l- i. It is a opecitc for debility of all lands, and from Its ear 1 4 - z. Loliong other ingredients, pepsinrancl phoapeafa of soda, . rove highly beneficial to the nervoua and dyspoptte. for or four quantities In oat for tb. Swle A:.•1•. Mown. Baumgarten and Co., UM, Oxford-street, W.C., at • lase. rrerhurchatreet, &C., London. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, nn dcetual remedy. without confining the bowels re %,,e the head, truly efflcactous and pleasant, is admitted to Mt medicine for immed ately relieving coughs, colds. • —, ovi ...se. of asthma, and incipient consumption. It fee. • • c.,res persons whom the faculty pronounce ',curable, oly allays the tirkline which provokes frequent coughing. 1 ' hf‘o. hie( consumption its effects are tray beneficial •••• of deep, or men lying down for fear of snffoca • , d• peed en relief in a few minute. after Saida( It.— r• t ,rO , l only and sold by M. LAMBERT. chemist, e, Kim WO -trePt. lluiring-croen Loudon, and by all chtigitals, 't•••• 13.1.1 and three quantities lu one, 2s. 9.1. Be parties's" , o et for iginhert's Asthmatic Balsam. The MAIM 1111 t, •ddrass -"- • gym, rd on the stamp. ASTLEY COOPER'S VITAL RESTORA , I I VI!. prepared by Meows. HABVIT sod Co.. surgeons. I ma ow) , be obtained at their residence, 44, Woyosolith r.' d , nr tram Portland.plaee, Recent's-pork Loodoo.W. ' • pet packet: Ly poet is. estra. THE OXFORD.-ORPHEE AUX ENFERS. Coolie Opera, by J. Offenbach, in evniquenee of Me great wean will be repeated !WILILY IVENING. Dlrecior. Mr. F. Joughteana The IYAIIBANR, and all other available talent Admission : Are; 6d.. dills and ,la ; private boxes. lea lid.—The Oxford and Canterbury Hall (Limited). FORTNUM, MASON, and Co. respectfully mummy their ANNUAL SELECTION of CONTINENTAL NOVELTIES, emulating of TWITS and BONBONS, in elegant haws emg baskeft, meltable for present* Mends° every variety of bonbonnien, <tc., adopted for German trees and table decora tion. They Lave also received !hair season's importations of preserved and dried hunk for distort and culinary purposes, with an assortment of comestibles for the breakfast, luncheon. dinner, and supper Iabia—FOREIGN WAREHOUSE, 18t, Pic cadilly, W. VARMOCTH BLOATERS, in Season from A Oct. Ito end of Dee. 100, 55.. 1.000, Ms.—Forwarded. Iwo receipt of reenhtaoco, MEDI. 1141114 DY, Grist Yarmouth. HYACINTHS, TULIPS, CROCUS, &C., ha collections for the One Ammo. Conservatory, sad Mower OWCIII3. 10s. 6d., its.. Illa, 255.. Ws, its. its., sad 100 a each. Orders amotating to tla and upwards carriage tow Pale-aece orders maid* at rbartniuross bUTLGII sad McCULLOCII, BPADdILIGN, COMIT-GARDYLIC ILAJKIT, London, W.C. MIIDIVE3 SELECT LlBRAR4 v timited). Subseribers to bi ndles Library are Informed that arrangementa ham again been made the leading Pub Ushers for an EARLY and abundant SUPPLY, during the :•ea eon, of all FORTHCOMING BOOLSof iseritand general luterest. Revised Lists of the Principal Weeks at present In circulation, and catalogues of surplus tapirs withdrawn for sale, at greatly reduced prices, are now ready, and will be forwarded, postage free, on application.—New Osfordetreet, Landes ; City Office, 4,Aingetreet, Cheeped.. PERSONS FURNISHING wUI dud CCITINWS IRONRONOIRT ESTABLISH -271, OXFORD-STRUT, a osorauttint House. Electro plate, nickel silver, superior table cutlery, tea trays, baths, laUss sets, fenders, re irons, moderator and paladin lamps, oval mimes, fire rsarde , tea lona dish covers, peteet w machines, ttn, wrought iron, sad copper kitchee goods. OVERCOATS. —NO. 105, STRAND.—Special attentionleovel in Oda establishment to WI °viewers, of which a select stock is alw .ys ou band to choose tram. HAMILTON and ETMPTON, Owsreostmakers, 106. ATILAND (opposite Ezeteekiall). HYAM and CO., 66 and 67, Oxford street, W. The following are the several Departments Into which this Natabligunent le divided for gabby accommodation : No. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate Wear. No. 2. Gentlemen a Order Department. No. IL Boys' Clothing for immediate War. No. l Boys' and Youths' Order Department. No. & Habit and Livery Department. No. & Hata and Genera! Hosiery. No. T. Tramiling Clothing, Uinbrellse, die Aof quality and economy la strictly adhered to in all thta i nt a De to Provincial 21„ 22, and 24 Newatreet Leeds, 42, Briggate andit=Weatgate. GENUINE COD LIVER OIL SOAP. Ebts Soap Is agreeable in use and Is unequalled In its beneecial effect on a chapped or tender skin. It is parti cularly recommended for children. Manufactured only by BRZCHNILL. TURNS& AND SONIA Wa.z and Tallow Chandlers. Soap and 011 Merchamta totter Ma jesty and ER. H. the Priam of Wales. BRE HIVE, 31 and tt, HAYMARKET, LONDON. fis.Observe. every tablet Is stamped with the trade mark—a Cod- 111q1. LIBRIPER'S LEGACY. Now ready, Melted to a eove; THE IIRW CHRISTMAS NUMBIUt of ALL THE TZAR ROUND, conducted by CHARLIE DICILNS, entitled MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY. rm. Upriver relates bow she went on end went over . A pact tallow relates a Wild Legend of a Doctor. Another past Lodger relates his ezwrlenoe as a Poor Relation. Another past Lodger relates what Lot he drew at Momper House. Another poet Lodger relates His own Ghost Story. Another Past Lodger relates certain Passages, to her Hushed. Men Llrriper relates how Jemmy topped up. Prim fourpence. The fret 10 volumes of .• All the Year Round," handsomely bound to red cloth, are always on set, to sets, price et each, or singly est weed paz COMPANIES ACT, 1862. The Forms A. ead Areeuat Boone required under the above nib; a en ether tingle of Aerosol books, vrith ever/ Statiottery quints toe ?ebbe Oseepanhee, the Cousliag-boese, a . sup =ea the beet term. Manes of every den:natio& Certieratee !pared sad Fruited: nada lean de signed end mooted. La and flak 494 /444144rnat, LC.. and Loa& Ng*" 11 TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (annies rusawis.) RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTER OF STATE. MADRID, Dic. 10. A Council of Ministers was held last night, ter minating at about one a.m., after which Senor Lloreste, Minister of State, presented his resig nation. CALCUTTA. CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, Dtc. 11. The Bovine, with the above mails, reached Mar seilles at 1 p.m. to-day. The mails leave for London at 3 p.m. Tnz Naw GRIME CONITITITTION.—A letter from Athos& is the Moniteer say. :—" The King on the :Nth alt went to the Chamber to take the oath to the new constitu tion. The Bishop of Athos* merited the customary prayer., sod one of the secretaries presented to his Majesty the formula of the oath. The King then ere, and placing his hand on the Book of the Evangelists, took the following oath :—' I swear in the name of the Holy, Oneubstantial, and Indivisible Trinity, that I will protect the dominant religion of the Helene. ; that I will watch over the cousti nation and the laws of the Greek people ; and that I will preserve and protect the national iudepeadence and the in tegrity of the Greek kingdom.' His Majesty pronounced the oath in Creek, and in a strong firm voice, distinctly heard is every part of the Chamber. A salute of 101 guns an. sonerid to the public that the ceremony had taken place. His Majesty then left, and on his return to the palace was hailed with loud acclametions by the crowd." THE POPE • SPOILER or MOICASPERIZA. —The Corriere deile Marche stars that the Roman government, in order to meet the payment of the interest on its loan, has sold the property of the Hospital Santo-Spirito, one of the most imporrel is Rome, sad periesing a great part of the land broom that city and Llvits Veer-his. The prise received was 500.000 Roman crowns (100,0001.) The Corr, ere observes that after such a measure the Holy Sr cam no longer remonstrate against the seizure of the property of the convents, the owners of which are to receive a moron proportioned to their "somatic reek. The Penicsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, Captain Evers, with the heavy portion of the Bombay and Mauritius mails, arrived at Southampton on Saturday night. She brings 60 pareager, and on freight 9 packages specie, value 2,5111., also 26 brims oranges sod 184 picks's. general cargo. Mr. John C. A. Bones, Deputy Governor of Porearopoth Cooed Priem, has bens eppointed Gormor of Nutmeg's prism ; sad Captain C. B. La Torne hue bra appear& to snored Mr. Hems at Portsmouth prison. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1864. AMERICA. (110T111 . 8 reutowd.) [A. portion of the following appeared in the greater part of our impression of Saturday:) The Royal Mail steamship Australasian, from New York on the lit December, arrived at Queens town at 11 a.m. ou Saturday, and at Liverpool yes terday. She brings 58 passengers and 559,260 dolls. in specie. She made the passage to Queenstown in nine days. NEW YORK, Nov. 30,1 Richmond papers anticipate that if Sherman captures Charleston or Savannah be will transfer his army to Grant. They expect the James River fleet will proceed to Savannah to co-operate with Sherman. Hood is reported to have occupied Huntsville and Decatur. His main army, 40,000 strong, was concentrated south of Columbia on the 26th. He assaulted the works at Columbia south of the Duck River, and was badly repulsed. A small Confederate cavalry force succeeded, however, in crossing the Duck River. It is supposed that Hood will move east across the Chattanooga River to co operate with Breckenridge. It is said that Forrest is provided with pontoons to cross the Tennessee River at Chiekagow, and is marching, in connexion with Hook's army, through Tennessee to Cumberland Gap. General Thomas has retreated to Franklin to meet the reinforcements which are on their way to him. The Florida has been run into by a Federal transport off Fort Munroe. She was badly da maged, and sunk in wine fathoms' water. The New York World thinks the pretence of accident too shallow to deceive anyone, but adds that it is possible the government bad no com plicity in the transaction. Early reports that Sheridan's cavalry had been repulsed beyond Mount Jackson, whence they were pursued and driven beyond Edinburgh in confusion, leaving their dead and wounded. Two thousand Confederates had made a raid on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway at New Creek, where they captured a Federal force, and destroyed the warehouses and stores. It is reported that Ewell's corps had moved southward from Lee's army. It is denied that Sheridan bad reinforced Grant. General Dix bas announced that the emissaries of the agents connected with the plot to burn the city will, if arrested, be tried by court-martial ; if convicted, they will be executed as spies. More suspicious persons have been arrested, and a large reward is offered for the offenders. All Southerners are ordered to register their names, or they will be regarded as spies. Mr. Seward has refused to present the British peace address to Mr. Lincoln. The Confederate Congress had unanimously rejected the proposition conciliatory to the United States, and favouring pacific measures on the basis of the recognition of state rights, and the original statutes of slavery. The Canadian government had refused the re quest of the St. Albans raiders to refer to Rich mond for evidence of their connexion with the Con federate government. The Tallahassee and the Chickamauga have ar rived at Wilmington. NEW YORE, Die. 1 The latest Tennessee despatches report that skirmishes take place daily between the forces of Generals Thomas and Hood. The Confederate cavalry attacked the Union garrison at Shelbyville on Monday last, but were repulsed. The railroad from Nashville to Chattanooga is still unbroken, although bands of the Confederate cavalry are prowling near it. ,deices from City Point state that heavy artil lery and musketry firing commenced at an early hour on Tuesday last, and continued up to eleven o'clock. The gunboats were thought to be taking part in the engagement, but particulars have not yet been received. Further details have come in respecting General Payne's raid upon New Creek, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Federal garrison were sur_ prised, and most of them captured. The Confede rates blew up the earthworks, destroyed the depot, and a large quantity of government supplies. The arrival of General Slocum's left wing of Sherman's army, numbering 16,000 strong, at Madison, and the burning of the town, is announced. The excitement at Augusta was very great, and the place is in urgent need of troops. It is pro posed to impress the negroes. According to the Rseltinond Enquirer of Friday last, 13,000 Union prisoners confined at Salisbury, North Carolina, attempted to escape. They suc ceeded in overpowering the interior guard of their intrenchment, and were engaged iu fighting the outside guard, when the artillery was opened upon them, and about 40 prisoners were killed and a large number wounded. A Newbern despatch of the 27th ult. reports that all the available Confederate troops in North Carolina have been sent to the assistance of Georgia. General Bragg is In command of the Confederate depot in North Carolina. Confederate prisoners state that the Federal ex pedition against Wilmington has been abandoned. Governor Vance expected to be elected to the Richmond Senate. government to despatch a messenger to Richmond to obtain evidence, alleged to be material to their defence had been rejected. It is understood t►at the government bass con sidered the raiders to be undergoing examination upon ch►rges making them amenable to the extradition treaty, and that evidence procured at Richmond, while it might be very material if the raiders were before a United States court, in of little consequence at this stage of the pro ceedings. It is stated that the Canadian government will probably introduce into parliament a measure for the prevention, by more stringent enactment. of any repetition of the St. Alban's raid. It is reported that ex-General M'Clellan has re ceived the appointment of engineer in chief of the Morris and Essex railroads in New Jersey, with a salary of 26,000 dole. per annum. The Herald of the 27th ult. publishes two columns of extracts from Southern papers, to which it gives the following headings .—"A divided South"—"Jeff. Davis Reaping the Whirlwind"— " He is accused of Endeavouring to make Himself Dictator"—" A Storm of Indignation aroused by his wholesale Conscription Policy"—" It is de clared to be the Overthrow of all Civil Liberty"— " All Secret Sessions denounced." The articles are written in very strong terms, and seem to be the expression of great discontent 00IIMERCIA.L INTELLIGENCE. Government securities are dull. The stook market inactive. Gold heavy; closed 228}. The New York Herald says One of our cor respondents in Washington informs us that infor mation has been received there of the formation in Alabama, Georgia, and Missisaippi, of a strong party whose object is to bring about a restoration of those States to the Union. The government is said to be informally in communication with the leaders of this organisation, and it is expected that the mat ter will be alluded to in a dennite manner in the President's forthcoming message, and forms one of the prominent features of that document. It is believed that the movement will receive encourage ment from the administration." _ The Navy Department at Washington publishes the following telegram : Fortner bfooroe, Nov. 28. Hop. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy,—l have fast received a telegram from the commander of the prize steamer Florists, informing me that she had rink in sine fathoms of water. She had been run into by an armed eteenier and badly damaged. I have not heard the parti. maws. I will inform the departmect when I receive the written report. DAVID D. P0R1734 Rear•Adminth Advice. from Washington deny that any diffe rences of opinion existed in the cabinet concerning the case of the Florida, or that any decision had been made for or against her restitution. A Toronto despatch says : The appliestios el the St. ilbea's nide= to the Comae, EXPRESS FROM PARE& (mom on own PARLS, &m/AY Enure. The rare case has occurred of the Council of 1 State, the only tribunal open to subjects who com plain of functionaries, pronouncing a judgment against administrative authority. You will re member the great stir made two years ago about the interdiction of some lectures in the Rue de la Pair. The short history of that affair was this. M. Leroy, a man of letters of reputation, and an ex-professor of Bordeaux, obtained permission, in 1861, from the department of Public Instruction, to open a course of literary and scientific lectures at No. 7, Rue de la Pair. His soides, under the name of Entretiens et Lectures, became extremely popular ; sore* eminent professors and literary men assisted him, and after awhile the authorities, suspecting that, under pretence of teaching history, there was a design to talk politics, withdrew the permission, and the lecture room was shut np. M. Leroy then modified his programme, and made an application in the form required by a law of 1850 for an authorisation to open an establishment of " secondary " instructions, but still in the same locality. He felt so sure of having the law on his side this time that he took a partner, and hired the premises for • period of ten years. But, in October, 1862, the Vice-Rector of the Academy of Paris moved the Departmental Council of Public Instruction to prohibit the opening of his establishment, and that body made a decree which, on the grounds of M. Leroy's political opinions in 1848, and that his establishment was only a pretext for continuing under another name a course of lectures which had already been prohibited, granted the veto demanded by the Vioe-Rector. It is this decree which the Council of State has quashed ; but the grounds of their decision are that M. Leroy's official oppo nents acted under the wrong articles of the code, and that they ought to have applied to the Minister of Public Instruction. It would be rash• therefore, to conclude that there is anything very liberal in the present deci sion of the Council of State. At best it only holds that M. Leroy has not been "eaten with the right sauce," but his undertaking may yet be very effectually destroyed by another department of the state. I cannot help suspecting also that if a lees enlightened minister than K Durny had been at the head of public instruction, the Council of State would have shown itself less scrupulous about the observance of legal forms. The violent article of the Petrie on the affairs of Tunis fell flat on the public mind, and the more studied paragraph of the Corietitutiolinei yesterday has excited scarcely more attention. The Tempe, however, remarks that instead of throwing random blame upon English agents, the latter journal should remember that the things of which it complains are attributable to extraordinary vacillation in French policy and even contradictory orders sent by the French govern ment to its own agent,. It is certain that the Marquis de Moustier, French ambassador at Con stantinople, did "not oppose " the departure of Hyder Effendi for Constantantiople with two Turkish frigates ; but, when they got there Admiral Herbingbem wanted to prevent the Turkish envoy from lauding, and would have done so had not M. de Beauval, the French consul at Tunis, received • despatch from M. Drouyn de Lhuys approving the conduct of the Marquis de Moustier. Admiral Bouet Willaumez, who shortly afterwards super seded Admiral d'Herbinghem, did not object to the Turkish envoy residing at Tunis for some time, but said he would prevent the troops from landing, and even by force if necessary. It is impossible, says the Temps, not to see in all this indecision and carelessness. It is impossible not to see that M. de Beauval must have received different instruc tions from those of the Marquis de Moustier, and Admiral Bouet Willaumez instructions different from either of the others. The whole affair is a fit pendant to the Huj treaty made by the Consul Aubaret, pursuant to orders which were afterwards disavowed. The obsequies of 3L Mocquard will be celebrated to-morrow at the church of St. Roch. The Em peror is represented u absorbed in grief for the loss of his old friend ; he keeps in his private apart ments and sees no visitors ; all court festivities at Compibgne are suspended. M. Eacaley, who was M. Mocquard's assistant, is uow acting as the Em peror's private secretary, and some think he has the best chance of the vacant place. The reason suggested for this is that the Emperor would thus avoid the necessity of initiating a stranger into state secrets. Dr. Cowman is worse. Pnritorm, Doc. 11.—The Calcutta steamship from Calcutta, Madras, and the Cape, arrived off here to. day. She bring about 50 passengers, 156 troops, a full general cargo, and a mail from the Cap. The Calcutta was standing in for this port, but received orders by pilot boat to proceed on to Spitbead to land the troops. She left the Cap on October 27, and brings three days later news than thepastern Province, the lest mail steamer arrived. There is, however, no intelligence of importance. Through heavy weather prevailing here to-day sone of her passenger. landed. The mill, however, was landed here, and forwarded by to-night's mail taste. Perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs and 11. er, refreshing steep. functional regularity and energy are restored wittiest mediclas to the meet disordered by Du Bany's delkome Bessienta Arabi." which earns Dyspepsia Judie'. Mon:, Cemstipatton. Debility. Cough , Asthma, Fevers, Con musepties, all Nervous, ankles, Uew sad Stomach complaifia 00,000 mama owed which had resisted all medicine. In ties, lth.. M. ed. : : telb., Oa—Du Berry and Co.. 77. Regent street. Lesion : Forams Rod Mama* and sll grocers sad shisaids Is every soms.--4,aavmusessati [Stampad, Id. Additional.] THE TILVERTOII . MARRIAGE CASE. EDINBURGH, BArezmar. To-day the First Division of the Court of Ses sion gays judgment is the motion by Major Yelvertos to apply the judgment of the House of Lords, and is the counter motion by Mrs. (Longworth) Yelverton to admit • statement of new evidence and allow the evidence to be received. The court unanimously decided th►t the judgment of the House of Lords must he applied, and refused the motion of Mrs. Yelverton. Her counsel then tendered a reference of the case to the oath of Major Yelverton, and the court directed this application to be enrolled for argument. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE =PRES& Sts,—Seeing that public attention ha. at last bees drawn to the private injury done to person and pro perty by the formation and working of the Metropolitan Railway, and as it would seem that Loudon is to be tun nelled in • similar manner in all directions, I am induced at last to give vent to a few reflections and repioings on Us subject. Some years since I sought my ➢resent real. deem, as one in every way suited to my family require mewle, and by no means the least attraction we're admir able Update De water at the top of the street, abutting on the Maryleboas-roest. I need hardly say that, being a w►ter drinker, it was of more coommence to me than • gorgeous "public" to the imbiber of John Barleycorn, for did be not approve the tap, ten to one but • few doors off another stared him in the face, and competition begets good I quality. The find infliction I hod to endure was the de striation of ilia source of supply. By dint of a week's in. esseant work with a powerful steam engine the course of t►is splendid spring was turned, and no stone left to mark the spot where my hopes of health sod comfort lay buried, Since then I have been obliged to put up with the vapid filtration one gets from one of the companies, a most valu able auxiliary to • household for general purposes, but I humbly submit altogether unfit to wash down • respectable dinner. The next thing to which my attention was called affected my poorer neighbours. It really wu painful to a degree to see and hear of the misery caused by " paling in" the small shops on the line of numb. This was, indeed, beyond • hardship, for scores of respect able small dealers and tradesmen were so reduced by the lack of foot traffic and consequent loss of custom for many cooserntive months, that they had, firstly, to fall beck .upon their sparse savings, and these exhausted, in many indearee, they changed their reindeers to the large building in my immediate proximity, " Where strong ooni pulsion plucks the scup from pride," and • home of some sort is supposed to be found for the destitute bankrupt. Of course, we all have had dinned into us the supposed axiom that, " private interests must give way to the public good.' This may be very well up to • certain point, bat when • mesa and his family are reduced from comparative comfort to abject minty, to which, is many caws, death would be preferable, it certainly is not too much to ask those who are catering fur the public, and ex pecting to fill their coffers at that public's expense, to hold out • hand of mercy if not of justice, and in the cause of our common humanity to do something to assist these poor people to continue to ears an honest living, with the free-' doni of mind and body that this colossal undertaking has deprived them of. By the time the line was completed, the shops found new tenants, while the old, having never bed • thought wasted on them, were soon forgotten. As soon as the trains were in fall working order, I discovered, I although my house is substantially built, and several doors from the end of the street, that the loss of I the pure liquid element was not the only tion I had to mourn. I fond, and tied that the vibration caused by the trains is snob as absolutely to shake me and others of my family out of oar sleep, and unless care be taken in the arrangement of the glue and ! mockery on the wash-stand, an intermittent discord 611111.11114 that might unhinge the equanimity of • less sensitive ear ' than that of • Ilabbage. I do not know if there is any immediate likelihood of the house coming about our ears. That may, be or not. They say "habit gives endurance," and "fatigue is the best nightcap ," but for the find I am I fain to my I do not see its truth, and as my boisterous days ' are over, with respect to the latter, I am • light eleven Certainly the shakings I have had at timeshare led me to think seriously of the stability of my domicile, and I bare come to the moclusios with Hotapur, " Out of this nettle danger to pluck this flower safety," and at very cousiderable trouble, annoyance, and expense, to leave • house that sing me otherwise very well, bat which, in consequence of the grievances I have explained above, I do not choose leeimr to inhabit. It is a great question in my mina whether 1 I shall have my case submitted to a jury or not, but this I do know, that it would not be difficult to show that 1,0001. I will not compensate or recoup me what I shall have to ex pend in getting quit of my present abode and taking shelter in another of similar size and potassium. I dislike trouble, but the time was, I should not have ►esifated • moment to contest the right of this peat company to interfere with my comfort and levy black mail on my puns with impunity. I should boldly hare thrown myself in the gap, and tried the issue of a conflict, great as the disparity of force undoubtedly is. I may in some irritable moment ordain to do so, and if I might anticipate the rem* it certainly would not be failure. Begging to apologies for the length of this lelsr, and asking the favour of its insertion in your widespread columns—l am, kc., Noitingham•plaes, Regest'rpark, Doc. 5. A. W. Tom Timis IN PARIS. —Our Paris correspondent, writing os Friday night, mys :—" I must put upon record that I have this day had the honour of an interview with General Tom Thumb, Mrs. Thumb, the baby, and the baby's aunt, Miss Minnie. I received a polite note from the General's private secretary, intimating that, although the public receptions were over, the ' family' would have pleasure in receiving myself and wife at a private inter view. In a handsome drawing-room, No. 95, on the first floor of the Hotel In Louvre, we found tlicqiuteresting party. The only visitors besides ourselves were the Peruvian minister, with his wife and two ladies. The General, who has long; been well ,known in Europe, is in spleedid health ; his manners are affable and unaffected, and his toilette unexceptionable. His wife is really pretty, sad like her Lilliputian sister, Miss Minnie, re markably intelligent. But the lion of the party was the baby, a little girl twelve months old, looking the picture of health, and, without exaggeration, extremely beautiful. The face has nothing of the dwarf about it, but my ob servation that she looked as big as an ordinary child of her age was not approved of by the secretary, who assured me that the weight was somethiog very far below the average, and, lifting up the expensive lace frock, showed me her little fest in red morocco shoes, which are not larger than those of a moderate sized doll. My inquiry whether the child was expected to grow up • dwarf met with the cau tions answer that there was no precedent.' This is, I believe, true. There is, lam pretty sure, so instance of such a email couple as Tom Thumb and his wife having been the progenitors of a child. I venture to prophesy, however, that Miss Minnie Stratton (that is the Dame of the infant) will, if the lives to attain her majority, be nearer the ordinary size of mankind than that of her parents. I do not believe in the foundation of a race of pigmies. The General is going to leave Paris almost immediately to fulfil an engagement in England. He has not seen the Emperor on this OCOIlli00." TAR STIIRL/IT-CONWON MAR DER. —Mrs. Col borne, the young married woman who was so barbarously murdered oa the 3rd instant, mess buried at Shirley on the Bth isstast. A large crowd attended the funeral. The following is the report of Dr. Shortu, the medical officer of the Royal South Hants Infirmary, as to th e state of the murderer's health, on Friday night last :—" George Broom. field contiaues as well as can be expected frees the nature of 1 the wound. He has passed a very qniet day, and slept several hours. The bullet entered homes, the cartilages of the third and fourth ribs on the left side, rather more than half an inch from the sternum. It pawed is a slanting direction downwards, sad outwards into the cavity of the Ctrwhere it so doubt sow remains. lafiammation hes set up, and if this can be subdued by the treatment be L undergoing, be may probably recover. About six lathes from the bullet wound, and over the seventh rib, is • cir cular mark which doubtless was caused by the shot he fired first. This did Doe penetrate the flesh, but glanced off from the rib end attired hie wet, where it has since been toned." [TwthVi 4 l NAVAL AND MILITARY. WOOLWICH. Dec. 11. The iron paddle sloop Trident, of fi guns, 850 taw, and SiOdione power, Commander Chutes L. Balfour, errived in the river yesterday afternoon from the lied.ter reclean station, and made fast to the buoy off the Royal Arsenal, for the v.irpose of discharging her poi.ler and ammunition. She will proceed to the dockyard tomorrow to discharge her stores and dismantle, previous to being paid off. The Trident was oommiuioned by her present commander in January, 1862, and has since been on service in the Mediterranean. CHATHAM, Dec. 10. In consequence of the course pursued by the Admiralty in mending tho vowels constructed at this port to be equipped and fitted at other ports, to the manifest injury of the trade of the town, a meeting el the leading residents has been held for the purpose of memorialising the Admiralty on the subject, and praying that a fair pro perties of the ships to be fitted and paid oat of tomiaisaios way he not to this port. AMERIcAN HAIL STEAMERS DrE AT LIVERTOOL Tins WEEK —There are three steamers due at Lic.rpool this week with the American sod Canadian mails, viz., the Etas and Nora Sootier, the former with dales from New York to the 3rd, and the Liner with corresponding dates from Portland. The Etna may be expected to reach queens town, and the Nova Sootien Greenentle, in the course of Wednesday neat. Oa Saturday neat the Cunard steamer Asia, from Boston on the 7th, and Halifax early on the morning of the Bth, will no doubt arrive off Crookhaveu or quondam'. Tats INDIAN Amer.—The following general order has been tinted dated Hone Guards, November 21 " His Royal Illiiness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief has been sand, with the concurrence of the Secre tary of State for India in Council, to decide that, on the re commendation of the local government, of India, and with the sanction of his royal highness, exchanges may be per mitted between officers of the staff corps under the substan tive rank of field officer, and properly qualified regimental officers of the same rank, without reference to the htation on which the regiment of the exchanging officer may be *ening." THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY.—The Lords of the Treasury—following the precedest of the 17th December, 1869, in which year Christman also fell upon Sunday—Dave made a minute that Monday, the 28th inst., should be ob served a. a holiday in all the public offices under their con trol. They have directed that the Poet-office should be eloped, in order to give rest to the several persons em ployed in that establishment. They have also ordered that the Customs and Inland Revenue Departments, lad all their dependencies should only transact on that day indispensable business, and they have di rected that notice should be given to the Bank of Eng land that all bills accepted by the Paymaster-General may be presented and paid on the 24th—but that any bills pre seated on the 28th should be paid, if required. The early promulgation of this notice may possibly induce Merchant', bankers, tradesman, and other employers to ettend the holidays over Monday, and only to keep oyes sufficiently for those duties that are essential, and that cannot be post poned. We see that there is a movement to Iraqi leave of absence from Friday afternoon till Tuesday, which we hope to see made as general RS possible, since there is time to come to a common noderstanding.—Obscrrer. St. James's-hall on Saturday was filled with a Legs amembly of juveniles. By the invitation of the Wizard of the North the lollowing schools were present, having• been admitted free :—St. George'a (Hanover-square/. 200 ; Hanover branch, 250 ; St. Peter's National (Belgravia), 162 , Parmitisee Charity (Bethnal-gives), 25; total, 637. The Wizard announces hie last week but three, and states that he has various novelties In store for the holiday folks at Christmas. THZ BISHOP or LONDON IN SPITALFIELDK. —The Bishop of London, on Thursday evening last, attended a tea party sesembled in the rooms of the St. Stephen's School, Spits/fields, wherein were assembled nearly WO men and their wires. Them were mostly members of as in 'tastien called the St. Stephen's Social Institute. The end sought to be achieved is set forth as "to better t►e condition, physical, mooted, end moral, of those of our poor parishioners who need its aid," and on Thursday evening the bishop went amongst the members sad supporters, the special occasion being the third anniversary of the coasecration of the church. A com mittee presented to him a short address, expressing an earnest ammeiation of his lordship's episcopal labours, both for the bodily and spiritual wellbeing of his people. The bishop replied to this in kindly terms, and in the course of his remarks said that be thought., could the gentlemen connected with the Bishop of Loudon's Fund be pre sent at that gathering, their heart, would be gladdened by the sight more than they would rejoice in the longest bet of subscriptions. After the proceedings the bishop preached in Bt. Stephen's Church to a congregation which was crowded to the doom._ • THE SHIPMENT or GCNIIJWDEIL ON THE THAMES. —Charles Jarvis and George Chaiden, powder lighternien is the employ of Mr. T. F. Wood, were *Liaised before the Ilford bench of magistrates on Beturday for a breech of the Thames Conservancy bye-laws, in loading gunpowder on board the ship Fort Regent whilst attached to a oteamtng in Bagaby's Role. Mr. Frere appeared for the Raines Con. errancy insupport of the information, and Mr. John Fern. field for the defendant'. It appeared that the men were emu to hand fire came of powder net of a powder-boat on board the Fort Regent while she wee proceeding down the river. Mr. Farnfield mid the defendants had erred in ignorance of the real stated the law. The Thames Coeserrencr Act was passed in 1867. In 1860 another elate* known sa the Gunpowder Act, became law, limiting the coeservators• officers to taking coronaries of shipmeets above Black well. Subsequently to this the Thames couservators' made a bye-law tinder their act, which, although it had formally received the sanction of the Lord Chi ef Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, had really not become known to the men employed in the trade on the river Thames, as it bad never been acted upon until the re cent catastrophe at Erich bad aimed them to hike action The chairman (Mr. Baro/ay) considered the cave proved, but owing to it" being the first idea:cation of • the kind, a invicted the defendants kith" mitigated penalty of 10e. and meta ---- ANOTIII.B Da2fGZIOCK FRILAIL OF • SAILOR. Oa Friday morons, about four o'clock, se the mail trait ,going north was pining through Bconghtoo, ue the Lan costar sad Preston Railway, shoat a mile south of the Broughton and Barton fitiatirm. • sailor, a pis/anger in one of the second-chas stepped out of the train as it was going at full speed. • fell on the line, but fortunately rewired to further injuries than slight braless on one shoulder sad one Mom There were three Mime sailors in the same compartment, and MI of them hernia been parta king rather too freely dreg, thew had been fast asleep. One of them awakening, or only partially awakening, being tioder the impression that he was at his journey'," end, got up, with the intentioa of alighting, and stepped out, but was surprised on Sadie( himself cast to the ground with meth force. On recoveries from the shock of his fall, be saw the signal light of the station at B a rt on a h ea d, an d made his way thither, and related to the astonished station master his adventure. He remained at the station about four hours, until the arrival of the neat train winch stopped there, when be was sent inwards. Except that no startling story of a Muller-like catastrophe followed the discovery of the sailor baring fallen from the carriage, the ,incident is something like one which occurred on the London and North Western Railway, a few days ago, when a drunken sailor fell out of the train when at fall speed, sad hit com panions were apprehended on the charge of nuirder, and were only released on their committee appearing in p.ropei d persond, and unhurt, to tell the pollee he had not been murdered. —Preston Chronicle. SCICIDE ON • RAILWAY BY • LI'It•TIC.—A shocking occurrence happened in the neighbourhood of Gloucester on Saturday, which has mused a good deal of commotion there, a lunatic having merle his soaps from the county asylum, after attacking his keeper, and then com mitted suicide by placing him bead under the wbeeis of railway train. The unfortunate man was named Josiah Davis, and was a native of Leominster. He had been an inmate of the Gloucester County Lunatic Asylum for nine or ten months, and on Saturday morning was walking in the airing grounds attached to that establishment with sin other patient., the whole being in charge of two keepers owned Constable and Willis. While walking in the (minds Davis appears to have been seised with a sudden mann a and made a violent attack upon the other pstienta with a stick. knocking dawn a man named Sadler, and injuring him severely. The keepers endeavoured to take the stick from Davis, but be resisted them successfully, and as Willis was raising Sadler from the ground, Constable in the meanwhile taking charge of the other patients, Davis gave Willis a severe kick in the rein, which quite disabled him. The lunatic then ran wily ' sad was followed for a considerable distance, but he ontran his pursuers, and succeeded in reaehing the Midland Railway about a mile from Gloucester. At this moment • goods train was coming along the liue, and Davis, getting on the embankment, deliberately placed his bead across the mils, and the engine passing over it severed it etas from hie body beforeithe driver could pol op. TIM ASSIZES AT LIVEAPOOL.—Mr. Justiee Black barn arrived in Liverpool from Cheater at five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and was received by the high sheriff, the mayor, and the deputy town clerk. He prooieded at once to St. Georges Hall, and opened the commission. The crown and nisi priva courts will sit and proceed with trials and causes to-dai (Monday). 0117frAI. rA.Lacx. lIALy-Citowic DAT. Sannizur ' Daa 10.—Admissisera ee mutest, 977 ; ditto by men tickets, 3,487; total, 4,464.