The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-04 00:00:00

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THE PEARL ISLAND: OR, THE THREE KINGDOMS OF PEARL, GOLD, AND SILVER. lira Lane and Miss Jacebs.—Yirsarate Pantomimist& —And TRY IiaRLEDJ:i CREW.' HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEL! DAY —Morning, In. Ink Afternoon, In. 22m. To MO/ROW—Morning, 111. 44m..--Aniersook LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4. Waits some attention has been bestowed on the Military Report of Mr. Secretary STANTON, and more on the Financial Report of Mr. M'Cr ttocit, the scarcely less remarkable story which Mr. WELLES had to tell about the Navy of the United States has been nearly overlooked. This is the more striking be cause it is as a Naval Power that the American nation will, in the future as in the past, exercise so serious an influence, not only on Europe, but the world at large. Although they have given proofs of their ability to raise, discipline, and fight large land forces, yet, like the country from which they sprang, the United States regard the ocean as their element. But when a large commercial marine and an efficient fighting Navy are declared by Mr. WELLES to be, in our age, the surest and cheapest de fence of a great nation, he, of course, is only thinking of great nations which, like his and ours, are inaccessible, or nearly so, except by an uncertain pathway over salt water. "Any future wars in which we may "be involved," said Mr. WELLES a year ago, " must be of a maritime character ;" and twelve months' experience has only tended to confirm him in that sound opinion. Consequently, while making no extravagant demands, he is the advo cate of a thoroughly effective Navy, supported by adequate establishments, in order that his country may be able to play a great part, and may not be taken unprepared. But those who would alarm us on the sub ject of the American Navy should read this Report, and get rid of their fears, at least for the present. We do not refer to the fact that the Navy has been reduced since 1865 from upwards of 682 to 278 ships of all sorts, nor that the available number of guns, instead of being 4,369, is now only 2,351 ; while of the, latter, those borne by the 115 ships now in com mission are but 1,029. It is not because the actual force on active service and the reserve in ordinary, many of which are useless for warlike purposes, are small, that we consider the present state of the United Bates Navy as one that does not justify any alarm ; because, of course, there might be in that country a latent ability to aug ment the Navy rapidly, as there is here. But it is because there do not at present, according to Mr. WELLES, exist the means of rapidly placing the United Statue in a condition to carry on a great naval war. Look at the establishments. There are so few ship-houses in the Government yards that out of fourteen ships in course of con struction, only nine are protected from weather. The stocks of timber were and are so low that many of the ships built during the war, and some now building, are constructed of unseasoned tim ber. That is of no moment, the reader may say, because the future navies must be of iron. But, says Mr. Wauss, "in the construction of ships " of war iron may ultimately, to a great extent, " supersede wood ; but such are the resources of " timber in this country, that wooden vessels will " for some time to come constitute a large por " tion of our Navy." It is quite true that he proceeds to insist that future contests for supremacy on the ocean will be determined by iron-clad or armoured ships, and that such ships must be of large size, and able to use sails ; but ho also admits that " for the con " struction of iron and armoured ships, although " our country has the material in great abundance, "and possesses many advantages in that regard, "we are almost wholly unprepared." He wants building shops, ship-houses, dry docks—there are only three of these last in the Government yards —and ample establishments, in short, wherein the Government itself can construct and repair its own iron and armoured ships. The war has really made the United States, what close observers always knew would come of it, a great naval power ; and that the Government, having felt the inconvenience of re lying upon makeshifts for a navy, naturally de sires to have permanent establishments under its control. Should Congress grant the prayer of Mr. Wars►s, it will take many years to place the yards of the United States on a footing of efficiency in any way comparable with our own ; and at this moment they are, in any extensive sense, unprepared for a great naval war. Mr. WiLLZB is a very eager champion of his Monitors, but he seems really of opinion that they are only good for coast and harbour defence, and that, as we have already remarked, armoured ships for ocean cruising must be of large size and able to use their sails as well as their steam engines. One cannot but admire the rapidity with which, while the fleet was reduced, adequate squadrons, THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1867. as soon as the war was over, were sent forth to cruise in every sea. This is the real symbol of the naval greatness of the United States, and it is only a symbol. The whole force employed in squadron service consists of 69 ships only, mount ing but 694 guns. These are partly in European waters, in the North and South Atlantic, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the North and South Pacific. There is also an Asiatic squadron. The officers in command are instructed to protect and further the interests of commerce, and to show activity and energy in ocean surveying. They are not to avoid doubtful and ill-defined dangers, but to ascertain by actual observation the exact state of the facts, so that errors may be corrected and ocean charts more accu rately laid down. It is pleasing to remark that our cousins, on emerging from their tremendous conflict, are really delighted with the welcome which has met them everywhere ; and it would be ungracious to suspect that in too many cases this welcome is the result of a painful perception of the great Power which has been so strikingly called into existence on the other aide of the great Western Ocean. WE fail to see why Mr. JOAEPH GUEDALLA should have written the letter to Mr. LOWE which the latter gentleman published yesterday in the Times. The Tory journals are describing Mr. GUZDALLA'S letters as impertinent, and the word, if severe, is not altogether without warrant. Mr. G zDA LLA is &member of the executive of the Reform Lesgue,which has been holding Mr. Lowe account able on every platform it could command for the foolish judgment he pronounced on his countrymen in Parliament. This it had a perfect right to do ; but its members cannot in decency after that address themselves to Mr. Lows, hoping he will "kindly pardon the liberty" of asking him whether he has modified his "unjust and un " fortunate opinions." Mr. Lowe replies, that with the Reform League and its leaders ho has "no courtesies to interchange." It does not appear that Mr. GUEDALLA has any but very equivocal courtesies to offer, and certainly Mr. Lowe is not a gentleman with whom we should expect them to originate. Did Mr. GUEDALLA imagine he was likely to convert Mr. Lowe I And did it occur to him to ask himself what the Reform League could do with such a convert ? Mr. Lowe has changed his opinions too often to make his political judgment of any value to any cause. It is not by his judgment, but by his willingness to say, in well-rounded periods, that which men of inferior ability find too bad to ho said at all, that Mr. Lows wins cheers. Reformers should leave him alone. Before he is six months older many of those who cheered him last session will wish he had been in Australia last year instead of making mischievous speeches in England. Mr. Lowe naturally refuses to retract his opinions at the summons of Mr. GUEDALLA, but he gives an explanation of his memorable speech, which, like others which have preceded it, shows that he has neither been misunderstood nor misrepresented. It is astonishing that a man of his perspicuity should insist on distinc tions which are utterly futile and irrelevant. I No human being ever supposed that in making his rash speech Mr. Lows meant to characterise the " entire working class " of this country with venality and drunkenness, because this is not the way we characterise any class of men. The existence of exceptions is always admitted. Classes are described by their distinguishing and general features, and no one reading Mr. Lows's speech could doubt that in this sense he meant to impute drunkenness and venality to the working classes. tares and preference shares have fallen in estimation as a desirable security. The extent of the shook through which for one sufferer on former occasions there have now probably been fifty, explains the wide-spread character of the existing distrust. However, the Times thinks that there is a glimpse of encouragement, and that people will recur to those methods of employing money by which trade is quickened and industry recompensed. The Daily Newi hears with great regret of the illness of the present Miuister of Italian Finance, because it believes that Signor Scialoj a lure the courage and the firmness not only to insist on retrenchment, but to resist insidious proposals in that sense which would irretrievably destroy the credit of the country. He will need all the strength of his cha racter to preserve the honour of his country pure, if we are to judge from the tone of certain of the Italian jour nals, which for the last month have been actually pro posing the reduction of the interest of the public debt from sto 3 per cent., of course without option of reim bursement, upon ten millions sterling annual interest now paid by the government. By this incredibly shame less and dishonest transaction, it is suggested by these ingenious financiers, a saving of not lea.; than four millions sterling per annum might be effected. It would be au act of bankruptcy, and of fr►udulent bankruptcy, it is true, but this consideration does not disturb the con sciences of these thoroughgoing economists. the !Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 3. The Queen walked and drovo yesterday after noon, accompanied by Princes, Louise, and her Majesty drove out this morning with Princess Christian. Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia walked in the grounds this morning. Prince Christian went out shooting, attended by Major- General F. H. Seymour. Captain Von Schroetter had the honour of accompanying his royal highness. The Wight Hon. Gathorne Hardy arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Miss M'Gregor has arrived at Osborne on a visit to her Majesty. Lientensat-Colonel Henry Ponsonby has succeeded as Equerry in Waiting. Desp►tches were received yesterday at the Colonial• office from the governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lbuan, and Canada. The Duke of Buckingham will return to town on Monday next from Stowe, Bucks, for the season. Viscount Halifax and the Hon. Mr. Wood have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. The Viscountess Berthier has just died in child birth, at the age of only 21. The doomed lady was • Creole of great beauty and distinction. We have to announce the death of Lady Robert Tottenham, aged $4. Her ladyship was daughter of Corn. walls, second Viscount Hawarden, and relict of the late Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham, Lord Bishop of Clogher, only brother of the second Marquis of Ely. _ _ Thu condition of the Marquis of Exeter is (says the Sioniford Mercury) not much changed since last week. His lordship has passed two or three good nighta, and has been compar►tively free from pain, but he has experienced no increase of strength ; indeed it is believed that he is gradually getting weaker. Nearly all the members of his lordship's family are still Burghley House. MR. BRIGHT, M.P., AND MR. H. D. SEYMOUR, M.P. Yesterday Mr. H. D. Seymour (M.P. for Poole) wrote a second letter to Mr. Bright, which is as follows : " Atheneum Club, Jan. 3. " My dear Brigbt,—l am sorry to be obliged to trouble you with another letter, but as it is your speeches, and not your brother's, which I Lave written about and for which lam called to account, I prefer to communicate directly with you. I never saw Mr. Morley's letters to your brother till I read them yesterday in the Times, and I was surprimed to find that the a:planarian which I had sent to Mr. Morley near the beginning of the correspon dence had, doubtless from an extreme press of business. never been communicated to Mr. Jacob Bright, hut an erroneous impression was conveyed in Mr. Morley's second letter. In the Times of the 17th of October, page 7, column 5, from the left, line 14, I find these words :—' But I deny altogether that the rich alone are qualified to legislate for the poor, and more than that, the poor alone would be qua to legislate for the rich.' A man can hardly be called poor who has an independence, however small ; the poor man, as I understand the term, is he who lives from hand to mouth, who has been either unable or unwilling to save, and who has generally received an education far inferior to what I think he ought to have. Now, I repeat that if you put legislation entirely into the hands of these persons, as you are represented to have expressed a willing ness to do, they would fell into the hands of designing men, or enthusiasts ; measures would be proposed inimi cal to the propertied classes, who would resist by force if necessary, and • civil war, such as we saw in France, would be the . consequence. I think lam per fectly justified in drawing these conclusions, if you really said what has been attributed to you. Mr. Jacob Bright says you did not, and gives an entirely different version, in the spirit of which I cordially agree, and which I at once accept as correct. I conclude that the Tines' re porter mistook your words. I am glad that Mr. Jacob Bright has raised the question, as it bas cleared up a point on which many others like myself, may have had misconceptions, and about which I should be sorry that your real views should be misunderstood. With regard to the other point to which Mr. Jacob Bright has alluded, I admit that he convicted me of an error, although a very small one. It was • mistake of • single word, for which I have never reseed apologising. All' was printed instead of ' half ; but this did not in the least affect my argument. The statement that half the land of England is in the hands of 150 proprietors, I humbly sub. mit, deserves the epithet I applied to it, and I respectfully beg to say that much statements appear to me blemishes in your matchless oratory, because the object of eloquence is to persuade, and men hesitate to believe if they cannot depend upon the facts on which the conclusions of the speaker are based. In some minds- also, though not in mine, it throws • doubt on the lona fides of the orator, be cause the greater portion of the audience cannot inquire for themselves, and accept whatever you tell them on your high authority. You are presumed to know this, and there. fore, if you mialeadthem,you are naturally held responsible. I have endeavoured now to justify myself where I think I was right, and frankly to apologise for my error where I was wrong. I think I have given an explanation which will appear satisfactory in the eyes of all just and fair men, and as for those who are not just and feir, I think it my duty to regard them with the indifference they deserve.— I inain,rtire truly, HENRY D. SEYMOUR. ____--- " J. it — right, Esq.' . " P.S.—As your brother has attacked me, and sent his letter direct to the newspapers, without previously furnish ing me with a copy. I am compelled to adopt the same line in my defence." [The mistake in the Times report, which Mr. Seymour quotes, is so very apparent that it seems surprising the hon. gentleman did not discover it. Of course the word " and" should have been " any."] Yesterday afternoon, at the Royal Institution, Professor Frankland, F.R.S., delivered the fourth of the Christmas juvenile lectures on " Gases" to a large audience. The east window of the new church at Stock bridge, in Hants, is of rich stained glass, and cost 120 guineas. It was given by Mr. John Day, of Danebury, the famous horse trainer. The font in the new church is 1,000 years old. It is formed of granite, the outer surface of which has perished with age. At Hurst, opposite Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, green peas were picked during the last month. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL IN HYDE -PARK.—This canopy-roof, with its tower and spire, is not only a very great and a very important work, but, in all probability, it is the greatest and the moat important artistic work in metal in existence in the world. The magnitude of their under taking was thoroughly appreciated by the artiste. Wrought iron was employed for the whole of the frame work, and cast-iron for the structural parte that were to be built upon this framework. All the more distinguished visible portions of the work, the bases and capitals of columns, the cornices, crestings, finials, and other similar details, and with them the cross that was to crown the entire edifice, were to be of a fine bronze. Mr. Skidmore has covered with lead the whole of the iron work that otherwise would be visible, and consequently would be exposed to atmospheric action. This same l ea d work is wrought into an elaborate series of exquisite Bur face-designs, of which the leading motive is to form set tings for innumerable pieces of polished agate, onyx, jasper, carnelian, crystal, marble, granite, and other richly coloured bard substances, together with inlays of enamels of various hues. The cross that forms the finial of the memorial is a work of great dignity, executed in bronze, with inlays of stones and rich gilding. Sixteen bronze statues of various heights, the four principal ones being eight feet high, are grouped about the several stages of the spire, and and greatly to the dignified beauty of the whole compoeition.—Art Jourital. necessity sustain the market to a certain extent. Rents rose 10c. for Gash and sc. for account, closing at 69fr. 80c., and 69fr. 75c. ; Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. ; and Italian, 30c. ; Credit Foncier rose 37fr. 30c. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE ALABAMA.-ENGLISH OFFER OT ARBITRATION. The only cloud on the horizon of our foreign policy at the opening of the new year is, says the Tuna, the grudge which ia harboured against us by the nation which, of all others, we should least desire to make our enemy. A hostile rupture with the United State. might be forced upon us, for there is a degree of injustice to which no community can submit. But in the Alabama matter no one capable of distinguishing between • legal right and a moral claim will deny that a fair case was made out for arbitration, and that Rae Russell's unqualified rejection of the proposal betrayed • somewhat narrow and one-sided view, and was, in short, a false step, and the sooner false steps are retraced the better. Under the influence of this feeling the Times urges that we should seize the present opportunity, when the domestic embarrassments of America are such as to make agraceful concession on the part of Great Britain peculiarly oppor. tune, to waive punctilios of national dignity, and make overtures of arbitration of our own sword. By waiting until arbitration is again proposed by the United States—and the claims will never be forgotten by the American people—and then consenting to it, we shall justly incur the suspicion of yielding under compulsion. In defining the points for arbitration no allegation employing a suggestion of bad faith would of course be admissible, but the question of vigilance and moral responsibility for the neglect of it could not be excluded, and it does not appear so utterly monstrous that damages resulting in part from • defect in our laws should be defrayed in part by ourselves. At all events, an implicit confidence in the justice of one's own cause is a strange reason for declining the test of arbitration, to the principle of which, be it remembered, Great Britain, in common with othergreat powers, has solemnly declared her adhesion. XL BRIGHT AND DIR. H. DARBY BRTNOCR. Several of our contemporaries comment this morning upon the letter which was published yesterday, addressed by Mr. H. Seymour to Mr. Bright. But as the second letter contained in the Times of this morning is necea sary to complete the case, we do not propose to enter very fully into the remarks which are made. The Daily News points out the singular fact that the article of the retiring editor of the Portniyhtly Review, Mr. O. H. Lewes, in which he took gre►t credit for the signing of contributions, immediately followed an anonymous article written with unusual license. The sequel has shown that the theory at least of the Fortitialstly was sound. The man who wrote the passages respecting Mr. Bright certainly ought, in justice to the public, never to write again without signing his name—the assertions they contain only escapine the severest reprobation in virtue of their utter folly. Mr. Seymour's letter the Daily Neva regards as the moat humiliating epistle it has published for a long time. Anything more discreditable, whether we regard the winton recklessness of the original slander or the flippancy with which it has since been treated by its author, has not occurred in journalism since the unscrupu lous attack made upon Mr. Cobden four years ago. The lit-rald, on the other hand, thinks that Mr. Sey mour's error "was an error of degree " only, and th►t Mr. Bright "said quite enough to warrant the Fortnightly &ring in attributing to him the character of a communist and a leveller." MISCMLLANIOI.7B TOPICS. The Tines observes that only just now, after eight months of continuous depression, have the ordinary secu rities of the share market begun to show symptoms of re covery from the collapse of last spring. Even now Consols are 5 per cent. lower than they were after the New Year's day speech of the Emperor Napoleon had prepared us for the perils of European waz in The application of limited liability led to the subsidence of the funds, and for two years or more 7 per cent. was talked of as the interest of the future. Even after the cata.troplie people would not take up with con and snapped up the Russian loan in a moment. Industrial works have proved ruinous, and railway deben- LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ARREST OF MARSHAL SERRANO. The Liberte publishes the following details re specting the arrest of Marshal Serrano : On the afternoon of the 30th the marshal went to the palace, and having obtained an interview he beseeched her Majesty to stop short in the course in which others were driving her. He represented to her that the policy of the ministry tended to the abolition of the constitution, and to the proclamation of an absolute monarchy, but it was a mistake to suppose that the nation would support a coup ilital. " Your Majesty will not find a general who will consent to follow you on such ground." The Queen replied that she expected the visit of the Marshal, and thanked him for it. " But do not believe," she said, " that I wish to bring back absolutism. I never will be an absolutist Queen." Coming to the document signed by the deputies, and which was the cause of their arrest, the Marshal said, " If your Majesty wishes I shall bring you this document, and your Majesty can then do with it what you wish—were it to throw it into the fire. This act would annul the rigorous measures taken against those who signed it." "No, no, no," the Queen replied, "I wish to see nothing ; I can in no way modify the proceeding of the ministry, nor modify itself, for I agree to all their acts." The Marshal had not time to change his:court dress when the Captain-General Pamela presented him self before the Marshal, with his aide-de-camp and an armed force. Having, in a somewhat rude manner, told those who were with the Marshal to retire, be with his own hand arrested Serrano, who now remains at Alicante awaiting his embarkation. The apartments of the exiled deputies are besieged by visitors ; it is a regular procession and protest against the excess of blind power. The depu ties are to be sent to the Balearic Isles, the Canaries, and Porto Rico. Senor Rios-Reuss is destined for the last named locality." (RIUTZWEI Trisoasms.) AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. PESTH, JAN. 3. The new Imperial Patent has caused great dis satisfaction in Hungary, and will create fresh obstacles to a reconciliation between Hungary and Austria. Herr von Horvath, tho amnestied Hungarian exile, is expected here in a few days. ITALY. FLORENCE, JAN. 3. The Minister of Public Instruction has left for Naples to inspect the University and other educa tional establishments in that city. A rumour current here that the Minister would also pay a visit to Rome to take part in the negotiations with the Holy See is devoid of foundation. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 3. The different ministers have been ordered to have the statement of their respective budgets for 1867 in readiness by the 13th inst. OVERLAND MAILS. THE BOMBAY MAIL .TAN. 3. The Tanjore arrived here at 4 p.m. The mails leave for London by special train at 6 p.m. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. ALEX , ►NDRIA, TAN. 3. The Nyanza left at 8 a.m. and the Delta at 3 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the Oth and the latter at Southampton about the 16th inatsuat. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ARAGO. FALMOUTH, JA. n. 4. The New York and Havre Company's United States steam-ship Arago, from New York on the 22nd December (afternoon), has arrived here with 62 passengers, 58 bags of mails, 124,000 dole. in specie, and a general cargo. After landing eight passengers and the mails she proceeded for Havre. ATLANTIC NEW YORK, JAN. 3, EvErma. Gold, 1332. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 107 ; Illinois, 1211 ; Erie, 671. The steamers Chicago, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Pereire have arrived out. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ouz OWN CORRESPORDIRT.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The Patrie commends Narvaez's arbitrary pro ceedings in Spain, and denies that he is chargeable with a coup d'etat, because there is law for every thing he has done, and law made by his rival and predecessor O'Donnell. There is progress after all, says the Patrie, as compared with the pronun ciainotto of Vicalvaro, because Narvaez appeals to the nation. No doubt this is • strictly Napo leonic idle, and Narvaez'a forthcoming election, should he remain in power long enough to work it, will, in all probability, be quite as free and fair as was the plebiscite of 1851 in France. But the Patric passes with great levity over the fact that O'Donnell, the hero of Vicalvaro, was an honoured guest at Compiegne only a few weeks ago. M. Lecca, the sub-lieutenant of Zou•ves, who lately killed M. Seguin in a duel, has found it necessary to throw up his commission. The students about to be tried on a political charge, who selected M. Janson, of the Brussels bar, for their counsel, have determined now that the court has refused to hear M. Janson not to choose any other advocate. A trial is now going on before the Assize Court of the Var of sixteen youths, inmates of the peni tentiary on the Isle of Levant, founded ten years ago by Count Henri de Pourtalia on the principle of. the highly successful colony of Mottray, who aro accused of a series of most diabolical crimes. According to the indictment, they rose in rebellion against the authorities of the penitentiary, set fire to a building with the express intention of burning to death the people in it, and committed in all fifteen murders. The Duchess de Nassau—now that the Prussians are in possession of Wiesbaden no longer a sove reign personage—is lying dangerously ill at the chb.teau of Biberich on the Rhine. She caught a cold three weeks ago while riding out on horseback on a foggy day, and her life is despaired of. We are now having some winter. Yesterday morning there was a very thick coating of snow in the streets of Paris. It melted in the day time in the centre of the city, but not on the exterior boule vards. Last night there was a frost of considerable intensity. The sun shone out brilliantly this morning, without, however, being strong enough to melt the snow, and this afternoon there has been another very heavy fall. The cold is not severe, and we are very far indeed from experiencing the incon venience which I see by the papers is felt in Lon don. The Skating Club, which last year had not a single opportunity of displaying the glories of its new organisation upon natural ice, is now upon the qui vire. The Bourne was firm. Independently of the operations of the public, which are extremely restricted, there are now, and will be for some time to come, daily purchases in the Rente, for the account of official banks, which must of THE SPREAD OF SMALLPDX AMONGST THE POOR. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) At noon to-day an inquest was held by Mr. Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, at the Alma Tavern, Alma-street, New North-road, upon the body of a girl named Elizabeth Bruce, aged 12 years. The facts declared wereas follows :—A few months back, the mother of the deceased took a room in a house in Alma street at le9d. a week, representing that she only wanted it for herself and her daughter. In a little time her husband, • watch finisher, came home unknown, apparently, to the landlord, and took up his abode there ; then a second child, nine years of age, was quietly introduced to the little room. This was acquiesced in by the landlord. But • month ago a grown-up daughter, who had been in service, and who bad been seized with the small pox, was sent home from the hospital "cured," the father said but according to the landlord quite uncured. She had been sent from her situation to the Whitechapel Union, and then to the hospital, where she had been treated and dis charged Si cured. The landlord became alarmed when he heard of this last addition to the family in the one small room, and he said that either she must get • situation and leave, or all should leave. A fortnight ago she got a situation, and left. But almost on the day she left the girl Elizabeth took the small-pox to all appearance from her. The parents con cealed the fact from everybody, fearing that the landlord would forthwith turn them all into the street. No doctor was sent for, and for • fortnight the child was left a help less prey to an attack of the moat virulent type of smallpox. On Wednesday she died. So closely did the parents conceal the fact of the child's illness that on Sunday last, when she was in • dying state, the mother, i n answer to an inquiry about her on the part of the lan dlady who bad missed her, said that she was gone to • @Hastiest. When she died the father went to Dr. Leonard, parish surgeon, and asked for • certificate of death, apparently with the idea that if he could get that and a pariah wffin, he could smuggle the body of the girl out of the house, without letting the fatal secret become known to his landlord. But, of course, the doctor could not give • certificate in a case of which he knew nothing, and upon his going to the house his in quiries first made the other occupants aware of what had occurred. The father said that he wsa out of employ, and that he had no chance of getting another lodging if he had been turned out of his present one through letting it be known that the deceased had the small-pox. The deceased had been vaccinated when four months old, but he bad not asked Dr. Leonard, who vaccinated her, for • certificate of the fact at the time. Eliza Bruce, the mother, also said that the deceased had been vaccinated ; hut she said that a certificate had been given. She had not got it, because she bad been required to hand it back again to get a powder. Dr. Leonard said that the cleansed died from confluent small pox. The attack was so malignant that the child oould not have been vaccinated, or, if vaccinated, the ope ration must have been defective. The room in which the family lived was entirely too small for such a family, and of course was quite unfit for the deceased to be in while in small pox. The Coroner said that the cam disclosed such culpable negligence on the part of the parents in not procuring proper treatment for the deceased that it was doubtful if a verdict of manslaughter should not be returned against him. The inquiry would have to be adjourned to give time for consideration, and for evidence to be produced as to whether the child had been vaccinated. Dr. Leonard said be had no recollection of having vac cinated the deceased. The case was then adjourned. SHOCKING DEATH PROM STARVATION. Mr. Humphreys, coroner, held an inquiry at the Seven Stars Tavern, Brick-lane, Spitellkads, lad evening, touching the death from want of Thomas Buthorps, aged seven years. Rosa Essthorpe said that she lived at a cheap lodging house at No. 1, George-street, Spitallields. She was the wife of a commercial traveller, but she bad been aban doned by her husband. The deceased was her illegitimate child. There were two other children, one of whom was supported by her husband ; the other, a girl of thirteen, lived with witness. When witness was left by her husband, she had no means of supporting them. She was the daughter of a publican, and " having been brought up respectable," she bad no trade or calling to fall back upon. She at first sold limiters about the streets, but as she could not get food for her children that way, she by degree went on the streets. She only bad 6s. or 7s. a week for months past ; out of that she had to pay 3s. • week rent, and the balance was all she had to support the deceased and herself. Her daughter got a shilling a week and her diet as a servant latterly. The deceased never had meat any more than witness ; she could only give him bread and butter, and not enough of that, and sometimes he got a little tea. Sometimes witness got no money at all. She did the best she could for the deceased, and be had not enough of food or clothing. The Coroner asked the witness why she bad not applied to the workhouse for relief. The witness said that she had done so, but they would give her nothing unless she would enter the house. She had once before gone into the house, so that the parish autho rities might find out her husband. They did so, and took him before the magistrate. When she was left destitute on the last occasion she would not go into the house again, for there was no comfort there to make it better than a crust of bread outside, got anyhow. The deceased had been ailing for a long time past. On Monday he became very bad ; the parish doctor came to see hini on Tuesday, but he was dead. Charlotte Etarrester, wife of the keeper of tho lodging house in George-street, said that the last witness and her two children had lodged with her for about six months. They had a meal one day, and were three days without. The mother used to be out until 3 in the morning— sometimes the whole night. The children were generally up till she came home, for if witness put them to bed, as she had sometimes done, then the mother would come in without money and could not pay for their bed ; but when she knew that they were not to go to bed till the bed was paid for, she brought in the money. She was a sober woman—she never drank. Witness trusted her a little at times, and the lodgers would give the children bits of breed when they had nothing. Witness urged the mother to go into the workhouse, but she said she would not for she had been in it before. The mother did her ben for the children, but deceased was shockingly clothed, and had not enough of food. As for the girl of 13, for the last week or two she had gone off with girls that went on the street. Mr. Septimus Swyer, surgeon, said that in obedience to a parish order be went to visit the deceased on Tuesday last, and he found him dead. The body was excessively emaciated. The post-mortem examination showed that the intestines were atrophied from long continued priva tions. The brain was congested ; the substance of it had begun to soften from went of food. There was only a very little trace of food in the stomach. The cause of death was congestion of the brain from want of proper food. A polioe-sergeant said that the lodging-house in which the deceased died was occupied by about 100 persons. Only those that were too reduced to get a home or a bed elsewhere lodged in it. The price of a double bed was 7d. • night. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of " Death from congestion of the brain from want of food and other necessaries." THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN PROFESSOR BLACKIE AND MR. ERNEST Joisite.—This discussion was, we learn by telegraph, opened last night at Edinburgh by an address from Professor Mackie, who maintained that on referring to the history of all democracies, ancient and modern, it would be found that none had ever been successful. At the close a vote of thanks was given to the Professor, and good humour prevailed throughout the proceedings. MR. GOLDWIN SMITH'S LECTURES.—We under stand that arrangements for the delivery of four lectures, on the "Constitutional History of England," by Mr. Gold win Smith, are nearly completed, and that it is probable the first lecture of the course will be delivered in the Town-hall on the 14th instant, under the presidency of Dr. Temple, headmaster of Rugby School. Lord Amberley, Mr. Henry Yates Thompson, and Mr. John Stuart Mill have each consented to preside at the succeeding lectures. —Manchester Examiner. ADDRESS TO THE BISHOP OP SALISBERT.—The following addrees, got up under the suirpices of the English Church Union, is in the course of signature, to be pre sented to the Lord Bishop of &Rebut, :—" To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.—We, the undersigned priests, deacons, and laymen (being communicants) of the church of England, desire to offer our humble acknowledg ments to your lordship for the seasonable vindication of the doctrine of the priesthood with which your lordship has met recent attacks upon that scriptural sod catholic doctrine.--Derires qalette. HER MAJESTY'S fITAGHOUNDS.—The gentlemen of this bunt are to entertain the farmers to dinner, and it Is expected that 100 guesta will be present, all of them in the ordinary hunting costume. The noble master, Lord Colville, will, is believed, tireside. PRESIDENT JOHNSON s HOHSEHOLD.—President Johnson's household is thus organised under a law passed by Congress in it. last session —Private secretary, Robert Johnson ; Assistant-Secretary, Robert Morrow; Secretary to Sign Land Patents, Edward D. Neill ; Aida-deesmp, Colonel W. G. Moore, Lieutenant-Colonel Wright Rives, and Colonel Andrew K. Long. THE WEATHER TN SCOTLAND. —The severity of the frost is shown by the fact that some of our upland lochs were lit for curling yesterday, although the frost did not set in till Monday night. The game was enjoyed by a party on Belston loch yesterday. and to-day • number of keen hands are busy on ltordle pond, near Ayr.—Ayr Aderreistr. THE WEATHER.-{THIS DAY.) The cold to-day has been intense, and the Know which fell on Tuesday has become so hardened as to rende travelling more dangerous than ever. At 8 o'clock this morn ing the minimum temperature had been attained—one of Negretti and Zambra's standard minimum thermometers, indicating 6 degrees, which is equal to 26 below the freez ing point of water. At noon to-day, in the heart of Lon don, the thermometer had risen to 1G degrees below the freezing point. Telegraphic communications report the cold last night as more severe than has been felt for year', and a gentleman who travelled from Yorkshire last night asserts that the glass there stood below zero. The effect on the traffic of the London General Omnibus Com pany has been serious. We believe that above 620 omnibuses ply daily, and the average number of passengers per week is about 2,000,000 ; the result of the frost will be manifest when we state that Namely fifty vehicles are at work to-day. The lack of omnibuses has caused extes carriages to be put on the trains of the Metropolitan Railway, both in the morning and afternoon, that being the only safe route between the City and Paddington. In the earlier part of the day a thick fog came over the metropolis, business appeared nearly at a stand-still, and the icicles adhering to the shop-windows rendered it dif ficult to see the goods exposed for sale. At several cab ranks no water could be obtained for the horses, the plugs being frozen. Devonshire, in common with the more easterly counties, was on Wednesday visited with a heavy fall of snow. Between Reading and Didcot, and also near Warmin• star, a prodigious quantity of snow fell, railway eons munication being in some cases quite stopped by a depth of from four to five feet of snow. On the South-Western line, between Buingetoke and Salim. bury, there was also a heavy fall, and the midday express was nearly three hours late in arriving at Exeter. In the north of Devon, and down as far as Brent, snow was lying on the ground to the depth of between four and six inches, Dartmoor having been covered on Monday night. From Tavistock, and from various parts of Cornwell, very severe weather is reported. THE PARISHES AND THE STREETS. Mr. Finlaison, of Old-square, Lincoln's-inn, states that the duty of removing all ice and snow is, by the " Metropolis Local Management Act " (18th and 19th Vic., cap. 120, see. 125), thrown upon the vestries of the parishes comprised in schedule A.—viz :--13t. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Lambeth, St. George's, Hanover. square, St. Mary, Islington, St. Leonard, Shoreditch. Paddington, St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, St. Mary, New. *ton, Surrey, Camberwell, St. James, Westminster, St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell (one parish), Chelsea, St. Mary Abbot, Kensington, St. Luke, Middlesex, St. George the Martyr, Southwark, Bermondsey, St. George. in-the-East, St. Martin-in-the-fields, Hamlet of Mile-end Old Town, Woolwich, Rotherhithe, Sit John, Hemp. stead. The duty is also thrown on the parishes in all other cases (roughly comprising all parishes between Hammersmith and Woolwich, and between Bat. terse& or Penge and !Stoke Newington) upon the district boards mentioned in schedule B. The City is, of bourse, subject to its own regulation. Any vestry or die. trict board neglecting or refusing to remove ice or snow when required, or any scavenger so neglecting,if he has eon. trusted to remove it, will be liable to a penalty of U. foreach offence. The Important qualification of the scavenge's' 11$. bility points out the vestry or district board as the proper object of attack. The proceedings are of the simplest kind. " The person desirous of enforcing the law bee only to write to the vestry or district board (aa the case may be) requiring it to have the snow removed from his street ; the neglect or non-com pliance with this request will constitute the offence. Proceedings are taken by summons before any police magistrate of the district, but let the prose. tutor on applying for the summons be fur' niched with a copy of the Act, as he will probably be amazed at the ignorance of the 'abject displayed by the local Dogberry. The 'caries and district boards can be sued as corporations. I have only to add that a short time ago, having been set at defiance by the vestry and scaven• gem of my parish, I was induced to take the trouble to enforce the law in a similar case, very much to the asto. nishment of those worthies. The result has been that I have ever since been promptly and efficiently served, and I would suggest that if one in every hundred of your readers would do the same there would soon be an end to a state of things which, as you justly remark, exposes our local institutions to the merited contempt of all Europa* WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) FRIDAY, J•NUART 4, 8 A.Y. 1 1 i _ lit I / 21291193 __ I _ Ask 1.1 1 W. 1 3 21 E. , D. W. I L IT ........--- - ---. o. -..-..... .-.... Irides - - 1 29.94 30. N.Y. 1 $ EILW be - 1 Aberdeen - . '29 89211' N.M. 3 s N.W. a v I Lath . '29.94 ' 96 W.S.W. 1 1 W.11.W. b - 1 Ardreinan ,29.9: 19 K II 1 E. b - 1 GIVOOCIII4III 29.9727' N.N.W. 1 2 W. tc I - 1 - - - - - - - Liverpool 9714 9. 1 1 11.N.E. 91 - 1 Holybeed 3990 22, ILL 1 2 N.N.Y. c- I 1 Penesnee 29.87 1171 LILL S 8 N. C. o 0.08 4 Breit 29.8034. LEL II 4 Z.N.E. 0,-• I 4 Lancia 19.76 201 N.E. 3 I N. M. c - . 2 Rochefort 29.7214 KN./. 4 4 N. 3 a 0.16 4 Plymouth '2686 21 LN. IL 1 2 E. bin -' 1 Weymouth 2996 27 N.E. 4 3 I LN.L I bI- 3 Portsmouth_ 29.9624 E.N.K. II S I N. col 1 - 2 London 2991 W. 1 4I N. 'dm - - Yarmouth. - 19.29 21 N.W. 21 6I E. I- ' - 1 91 ilaerborougb. 20.86 27! LW. 212 ' N.N.W. b. - 2 !Welds 29.92 231 LW. 312 N. lon' - 2 REMARKS. Barometric pressure has contlZetTre increue over the Doltish isles. Temperature has declined on the east coast at England, and la London this morning ate am. It was 23 dogs below Qs freezing point The winds are chiefly easterly...ioderste to strong. on oar southern coasts, and north-westerly and light on oar other coasts. Snow is reported this morning from Alardeen sad Rochefort. The Bishop of Winchester performed the arduous duty of consecrating a new church at Stockbridge, in Hants, last Saturday. His lordship is upwards of 80 years of age, and has been 40 years Bishop of Winchester. Mr. Robert Stephenson has given orders to pro- vide at his expense a dinner for 30l) poor people of Cowers in the Isle of Wight. Pork in now about 3d. per lb. cheaper than mutton. This difference in the price of the two kinds of meat is quite an anomaly. The remains of the brother, Bandiera and their companion Dominique Masco, who were shot at Cosenza in 1844 by the Austrian government, are about to be solemnly removed to Venice at the expense of the Italian government. Iu 1860 they were conveyed to the Duomo at Milan by Benjamin de Rosa, the priest who bad at tended them in their last momenta. Some persons passing through ono of the prin cipal streets of Antwerp on New Ye is-eve saw • little girl t years old throw herself into • canal. Raving got her out and questioned her she said she had done it because her mother had refused to give her a Christmas. box. In the end, on the promise of s large piece of gingerbread, she consented to live ! In some of the French eastern departments—the Meurthe, Meuse, Vosges, and Ardennes—there has been established, in consequence of the new state of things created in Germany, an association under the name of " Societe dee Francs-tireurs de PEA." An en thusiasm surpassing all expectation accompanied its formation. Already it numbers more than 4,000 members, land it will shortly be reinforced by volunteers from the two departments of the Jura and the Denbo, on the inhabitants of which the invasion' d 1814 and 1815 threw an immense amount of glory. The corps has chosen for its president the Emperor Napoleon, and for its vice-president the Prince Imperial, as stated. Thirty-nine volunteers left Bruasels a few days since to join the regiment of Pontifical Rewires at Rome. Twenty-five are natives of Holland, and the rest Belgians. A letter from Treviso to the Tempo of Venice contains some further details respecting tho demonstra. lion against the bishop of the former city :—" The muni cipality had posted up proclamations recommending the population to remain tranquil, but the notices were tom down immediately. The inhabitants demanded in a riot. out manner from the prefect that the prelate who had been the rause of so much scandal at Venice and Treviso should be removed from his see. Several local authorities and influential persons made the same request. The prefect has asked for inst-uctions from his govermuent, but in the meantime the agitation continues." LAW INT (THII. COURT OF Mr. Commissioner Wim * w ooed of a number of apt Mr. W. H. Roberts, of 1 of a trust deed for lea orwardebtor e Hdeddab a ia l haversi:H peartal t7boo::artsniatieefitop fi fuld th agomotorpbeerft: e tpenthis ci ;owiatfro b ili, deed. Another gammon* e Application granted. THE POLL (THII MANSIC MR CHAROZ OP Lionel Holdswortli, a i ama Staedfidd Dean, ii illiam Lee Webb, seaman, ipowner, were this morn ut for final eraminatii • ' together to der ... p, of w 'cli the prisoners e owners. Mr. G. Lewis %osecutetli , ili g= l i f d o e r nee We tat was as I ia lloge dat ! nut h ibehre e o r :;:ithuirt f a el i t .: t oe e .e.h f ht h ed i etiph all a re t ioit i ;:dypi c .i formally to-day, but ' shall take place at the I 'mina Court, and it will 1 be brought up in order th ho have been summoned te . GUILI BREAKING 4 Cornelius Stared a, desetil t", , , uaic-engraver ' surrendered ces before Alderman Ets njamin Johnson and bread .4 . John Pegg, 446 said he e v i ew s evening, abort half 'ironer there. He was tall njamin Johnson, and he s e chest and knocked him d • leg was broken, and thi blic-house. As moon as h . was broken he went into ' come out and see what de : e refused to come out, NO 1 em then called a cab, took . e tr i iioner to the station. • ' , but the prisoner t ea b that morning seen J • leg was broken, but so t been able to sit it. Job • easages, and Skarrett was a The prisoner denied that 1 Pegg said both the prig ttina men, and his brothel The prisoner said the two , ben the accident happened, ••t wish to proceed against 1 . Pegg believed from what.' ormng that they would " a Alderman Healey remanded ow Johnson got on and refu CLERKS LIRE DAMAO' AND DISTUR HA John ArDonabi, aged 35, a . .. Iq..di rd ' re TT toy ee a rof. t n t m -sq b t. e u ltag are , t ' IM h mit w e m pro nai ch . p Mr. Berridge stated that • d, Islington, and was chair 1 • e Raglan Music-balL Last 1 and 12, the defendant ent tly opposite to him. Nei (witness) turned to see if , when be was surpriss laic and the programme In e turned and saw the delem just thrown the books. all said that the defendant police-• onatable was cahol to custody. The music In mage done amounted to al e defendant any prevocalic.] behaving in the outrageous for sheer mischief. Polioe-constable Bans. 154 E ry drunk and disorderly wht Mr. Kerridge said that he on ne to the programme book. • rn out, and the loss to him • The defendant said that he e damaged music was stirs • d its proper value. Any c re produced could be purcht t deny that he was the won thrown one piece of mu] w regretted that he had don A witness was called who w several pieces of music, pieoes were torn. The del y he threw the music on to Mr. Kerridge said that some original, and some of the The defendant again Restart* • es was estimated at too Mr. Barker said the conduct ul. He should order mint of the damage, Ins., 'emthe damage, or in def inent, with hard labour aul The fines and costs were psi MARLBOBOU( REFRACTORY CONDUCT roe rough-looking young t ger, William Perl, and Alba ore Mr. Knox with refract* orkhouse. rr. Henry Knight, ti the workhouse, said t the prisoners were mak the halls, and on promedi • nen had been upsetting tl in, and their conduct was o t all the old men were afrai 'n. Judge, an inmate of th ptain " of the third hal . ners commenced upeettini and they then fastened • d either get out. Ti sly mow • and upeetti Id eel asked the witness whet lit of the workhouse into a i workhouse." urgers, 142 C, saidithat on y at the workhouse the] • to have a month for him. answer to Mr. Knox, Kn t eager had been brought t dust had bee n very had ; that ra of bad language and thrown t he Db. Knox said that the pri gebnectory co l tidci, as p v i e vi d vet h : r Knight. He should eon the prisoners were leasing r Knight, and stated that • when they came out of WORSHIP-1 ROBBERY PREVF.NTI torn as CAesosey, 31, an ill-lo •twker, and refusing his at , king and entering the du ice Stiles, No. 1, lied Lio ns he prosecutor said—Betweet I was alone in the I deg wan there, and I hen. The front door WI , fastened with the us washing my hands, and • when I noticed him pointie ththen came a low growl, en growl, the repetition of .ething was wrong, and I in r; it wag still secure. The red at the front 15211 Ilreel ' The allo'l:itiiwati tgeQ:he witn essar wereteud d s anl o giaddmihitrire said distinctlye k hlahlii\'lnetah f gf i es i u°t. footsteps jerr . 'd i I'mi Ktire': in re ht 4 1 got to the corner where I nor was crouching doe -ol him--a struggle men the street door, and I hint. I got him on his of a table. and over it went, tiny next door neighbour fort he matter and gave me ea ` till l got • poltoe-oonstabl Vearently been moved was i lo ot/some papers in a drawer kto the fact. She is not be; r. th e f a we must bar s oor to prove whether the a the is present on the rennin.. ,~.