The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-13 00:00:00

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THE semi-official organs of the French Govern ment have been instructed to deny the rumours of what in parliamentary countries would be called a ministerial crisis. These rumours have found credence, however, in Paris, in political society, and even in the Sallee des Pas Perdue. There is at least a conjectural probability of their truth, which the authorized denials of the Patric will help to confirm. M. DE MOUNTIE; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, could not but feel his dignity and consideration diminished when, after committing to paper a aeries of cautious and temporizing replies to the interpellations of the clerical party, and speaking in most guarded and discreet terms from notes which had received the last revising touches from the Master's hand, he found himself and all his studied reti oences and evasive assurances swept away and submerged by the vehement and reckless rhetoric of the Minister of State. What might well make an honest and high-spirited gentleman like M. DR MOUKTIER more sensitive to such an unexpected humiliation was the con sciousness that his own personal sentiments far exceeded his instructions in behalf of the Tem poral Power, while M. ROUIIEZ had on former occasions employed all the thunder and lightning of his eloquence in behalf of the Kingdom of Italy rather than of the Court of Rome. M. DE MOUBTIER, too, had charge of the preliminaries of the Conference, and M. Rounr.a struck the Conference dead on the spot. Conceive, par impoesible, an English Foreign Minister replying in the House of Commons to a question on some particularly grave and delicate affair of state policy with all the circumspection which a sense of responsibility commands. Half an hour later, in the House of Lords, he is com mitted by the Premier to an expedition, a war, the rupture of an alliance, an intervention, a posi tive course of action of some kind or other, from which it would be impossible for the Cabinet to recede without dishonour, and impossible for himself to accept without discredit. To say that he would instantly resign is nothing. His resignation would not suffice to save so rash a Premier and so disorderly a Cabinet from the in dignation of the Commons and the country. But French Imperialism orders these things very dif ferently. Neither the Minister of State nor the Foreign Minister being responsible, except to the EMPEROR, the greater absolves the less, and the self-love of one Minister is a very trifling sacrifice. The EMPEROR pays a handsome compliment to the Foreign Minister, and assures him " he has spoken " like a nobleman ;" but he accepts the excuses of his Minister of State for having perhaps trans gressed the bounds of strict discretion in order to overcome the sullen impatience of an exacting and unmanageble majority. To English ooservers this strange mixture of personal and parliamentary go vernment appears to combine the defects and dis advantages of both ; the violence of the one and the weakness of the other. Nor does the confusion end here. Some of our French contemporaries are actually pretending to console themselves for the triumph of the clerical party in the councils of the Government with the vain dream of a restoration of parliamentary government, because in passing to the order of the day on Friday last, and extorting from M. ROUHER an absolute declaration of future policy on the Roman question, it was the majority that pos 'eased the Government, and not the Government that possessed the majority. If we could believe that the writers who aCbct to find this comfort in M. Rornza's escapade were not indulging in bitter pleasantry, we should be astonished at such a con ception of the true conditions of parliamentary government, and should regretfully conclude that fifteen years of Imperialism had obliterated the traditions of thirty-six years of freedom. It maybe that in promising the majority that Italy should never seize on Rome, and in ascending the tri bune a second time to emphasize this solemn declara tion and to insist that "Rome" meant all the present territories of the Pore, M. Rouusa made him self the very humble henchman of MM. BEERYZR and THIERN, and their legitimist and clerical fol lowers. It is said that M. Hornell. " entreated " one of the leaders of the majority to desist from referring the subject of the interpellations to the Government, which would have implied distrust. It seems clear that the majority, growing more confident and more exacting as the Govern ment appeared more docile and compliant, were dissatisfied with the Foreign Minister's explana tions, and that M. ROITHERN uncompromising affirmations were absolutely " put into his mouth" by his prompters. It is certain that M. num had completely captivated the majority by the seduction of his incomparable speaking, and' dominated them by the prestige of his experience and fame. He bad inspired an obsequious and subservient body of mere placemen with some thing like a Parliamentary spirit, in spite of themselves. Seeing and feeling this, M. Roca= was betrayed by his own vanity as the Govern ment orator, by his passion for applause at any cost, his jealousy of rivals, and probably by that contagious emotion which the contact with an ex cited assembly communicates, and by the restless apprehension of a moral if not a political defeat, to utter these words in haste which his master will repent at leisure. But it must be evident to calm critics at a distance, that M. Bottles made an enormous blunder even in Parliamentary tactics. Suppose that the majority, not con tent with M. DE MOUSTIER'S statement, had referred the subject of the interpellations to the Government ; M. ROUHER would have lost an opportunity of achieving another most superfluous oratorical triumph, but the EMPEROR'S Italian and Russian policy would remain uncom mitted and uncompromised. The Italian alliance would not at this moment be as impossible as the Conference. Under a parliamentaryconstitution, of course, the majority might return to the attack, and by a vote of want of confidence insist on a change of policy. But wider the Imperial system, nothing that the majority of the Legislative Body can do in the exercise of their constitutional rights reaches the discretion of the Chief of the State, or touches his confidence in his Ministers—which is all they need. For what is this terrible majority ? No doubt, with perhaps half-a-dozen exceptions, it is not Bonapartiat. Probably it is more legiti mist than Bonapartist, and, inasmuch as it repre sents the rural populations, more clerical than legitimist. But before it is legitimist, or clerical, or what not, it is a pure administrative machine designed by the MINISTER of the INTERIOR and executed by half -a - million of functionaries. It is the creature of prefects, sub-prefects, mayors, and juges de pair, all at the disposal of the central power. How can such a majority as this introduce parliamentary govern ment In the fifth year of its existence it may wax fat and kick. But in the seventh, if not sooner, it is sent back to its constituents—that is, to the provincial functionaries. It is " called in " to the administrative mint to be re-issued or not, as the master may decide. What elements of parliamentary government are to be found in such a body ? No doubt it is the nature of all political assemblies to assert themselves. But suppose the Emperor NAPOLEON should suddenly discover that a mock representative assembly is worse than none, and should resolve to try his future with re sponsible Ministers and an independent Parliament, tuid a free press, What would become of this legitimist and clerical majority, which has just destroyed his Italian alliance, and imposed upon him for ever the protectorate of the Temporal Power Y Or suppose even that the MINISTER of the INTERIOR were ordered to support with the whole weight of the Administration in all the rural districts (the great centres of industry and intelligence can take care of themselves) a set of anti-clerical candi dates ? We do not say that either of these suppo sitiona is a probability ; but the latter is at least within the bounds of possibility. As matters stand at present between the EMPEROR and his legislative majority the only interesting problem fur the impartial student appears to us to be whether " master " or "man" is the greater dupe. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1867. - LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I ITALY AND FRANCE. The following extracts from the Italian journals indicate bow the declarations of M. Rouher have been received in that country. The Turin Gazette says: After the material violence of the French soldiers at Mentana, the moral excesses of M. Rasher ;have not sur prised us ; but to insolent provocations and haughty inci vilities Italy must respond by the voice of her representa tives, and we await from the Chamber of Deputies a pro position of an explicit and especially practical determina tion, and which ought to be accepted by the Gualterio- Menabrea ministry. The Florence Gazette has the following : The Senate has deserved well of the natioti; the Torre area order of the day is a worthy reply to the intriguing foreigners who dare to affirm at Paris that Rome shall never belong to Italy. In placing on one side the Italian declaration, and on the other the provocations and insults which come from across the Alps, Italy will indubitably triumph at last, because justice and right are with her, and because the reason and nature of things conquer all obstacles, all sophisms, and all subterfuges. We alluded the other day to the words of Galileo, Well ! the very name of that great Italian citizen—to everyone acquainted with history—repeats to the world and M. Rouher that Rome, sooner or later, will infallibly belong to Italy. The subjoined is from the Piedmontese Gazette : We learn from Florence that various meetinp of depu ties have taken place. Some ministers, and espeeially Ge neral Menabrea, were present at one of the Right. There was discussed the attitude to be assumed with regard to the imprudent declarations of M. Rouher ; no example exists of a similar want of jud7ment in the annals of European parliamentary history. Never has an Italian spoken of Napoleon 111. as a French minister dared to speak of Victor Emmanuel. And M. Nigra, has he, at least, protested The Nazione of Florence expresses itself in these terms in a second article : French policy has just been defined in a manner so clear and distinct that an urgent necessity arises for the new tendency of this policy to arouse the attention of all Europe. in order that it maybe known whether the empire of Charlemagne or that of the Great Napoleon is to be in augurated in Europe under the mask of religion. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. VIENNA, DEc. 12, EvEms°. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Reicharath the general debate on the financial agreement with Hungary was continued. Deputy Bread, the reporter, defended the pro positions of the majority. Baron von Beust also spoke in favour of them. He defended his conduct in the compromise question. He said that he could not now go back. As regards specially the ques tion of the debt, the battle was already decided when he was called to office. Respecting the prophetic words regarding the issue the Schleswig-Holstein question would take, which had been uttered in the house when this question was still pending, and to which Deputy Herbst had alluded, Baron von - Beust said that he certainly had spoken at the time to that effect, as many authenticated documents could prove. But on entering the service of Austria he wrote to the diplomatic representatives of Austria abroad that it was not his inclinations nor die inclinations that he wiahed to introduce, but that he would act according to experience, as in time of war it was necessary to calculate one's own and the enemies' forces. As regards the allusion made in yesterday's sitting by Dr. Herbst to the Prague Treaty, Baron von Beust said that he was willing to take upon himself the reproach that the com promise with Hungary weighed upon his con science, he had vowed to himself not to sign a second Treaty of Prague. Baron von Beust maintained that the compromise had improved the political position of Austria abroad and pointed to public opinion as a proof. On this ground of favourable opinion the government would continue to build and watch over the preservation of peace. The special debate was then commenced, and the bill on the quota to be contributed by Hungary passed the third reading by a large majority. The discussion on the bill respecting the State debt will be continued to-morrow. At the closing of the sitting the Minister of Finance laid upon the table the government bill provisionally authorising them to levy taxes up to the let May. The bill was placed on the order of the day for to-morrow. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CUBA. QUEENSTOWN, Dn. 13. _ _ The Royal Mail steamship Cuba, from New York, arrived here at 3 am. to-day, with 101 cabin passengers and 27,155 dole. in specie. She landed 112 sacks of mails and four passengers, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. (Via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, DEC. 3. The President's menage to congress, published to-day in advance of delivery, is unusually lengthy, and princi pally refers to the reconstruction of the South and negro suffrage. The following are additional passages not touched upon in the summary received by the Atlantic cable. It says that the disorganisation of the Union is a subject of profound regret, and that the 'Colon, as for merly established, can exist only when all States are re presented in Congress, which is not the case. The Presi dent suggests as a means of restoration, the faithful appli cation of the constitutional laws, which are not now ob structed by physical force. The States lately in rebellim, were always members of the National Union and the ordinances of secession adopted by them were mere nullities. If it were ad mitted now that they were valid and effectual as intended by the authors we sweep from under our feet the whole ground upon which we justified the war. Referring to the negro question, the message says : " The subjugation of the Southern States to negro domi nation would be worse than military despotism, under which they are at present governed." It points out the dangers attending the extension of the elective franchise to negroes, and says four millions of slaves yesterday can not be toads intelligent freemen to-day. The President is desirous to better their condition in all their rights save transferring to them our political inheritance. The President says Mexico is relieved from foreign inter- position, and peace reigns in Central and South America. The message, in conclusion, says :—" The abuse of our laws by the clandestine prosecution of the African slave trade has altogether ceased, and under exist ing circumstances no apprehension of its renewal in this part of the world need be entertained. Under these circumstances, it becomes a question whether we shall not propose to her Majesty's government for a discontinuance of the stipulations for maintaining a naval force to: the suppression of that trade " General Pope has ordered the Alabama reconstruction convention to adjourn, as its action tended to delay recon- struction. The Austrian frigate Hovers, with the remains of the late Emperor Maximilian on board, accompanied by Admiral Tegetboff, arrived at Havana on the Ist inst. One hundred Mexican soldiers escorted the remains to Vera Cruz. It is reported via San Francisco that a revolution bad broke out in Diming°, beaded by Vega. The Mexican troops who were despatched to quell it were beaten. The rebellion in Peru was extending. Prado was Ware Arequipa but without artillery. " We have already announced," says the Union, "the projected marriage of the Grand Duke of Tuscany with the Princess Mice de Bourbon, second daughter of the Duchess of Parma. We now learn that the contract hes bees signed and the betrothal celebrated. The marriage will take place la the month of January." THE CONFERENCE AGAIN. Who, exclaims the Times, upon hearing the re sults of the late French debates on the Roman question, could ever have thought that the Emperor's government would go back to its scheme of a European conference on the subject? The Emperor Napoleon has overstepped at one bound all that constitutes the groundwork of modern society, and weds himself to the priestly government for better for worse. A reconciliation between the Pope and Italy, as no one should know so well as himself, is only to be abtoined on one condition—that of leaving the parties to settle the difference between themselves. Whether her friendship be worth having or not, it is clear that France must make her peace with Italy as she best can. No European mediation can do good in the matter. Were it even in our power to act, we could not blind our selves to the fact that we were at first invited to the con ference on false pretences. and are now solicited to attend it on not even the shadow of • pretence. We were first waked to deliberate upon no intelligible basis ; we are now expected to discuss • point already settled. Should th e invitation be renewed, we trust Lord Stanley can say "Never" as positively as M. Rouber, and stand on his "Non Possumus" as firmly as Cardinal A.ntonelli. Assuming Pan-Anglicanism to be more than en epis copal dream, the Daily News takes account of it, and indi cates its leading ideas and objects. With regard to the civil power, the Pan-Anglican scheme is to leave to" spiritual" persons of the highest order of the hierarchy, gathered from all parts of the earth, the task of defining the doc trine of the whole Anglican communion. With these means they seek to effect union with churches notoriously and obstinattlyoorrupt—removing the name of protestant from their public acts and saying nothing which the head of the Roman church in this country has not been able to accept. Information more direct is supplied just at this conjunc ture by the Bishop of Brechin, a member of the Lambeth conference, in an elaborate and learned work on the Thirty-nine Articles. These articles, the bishop says, must be read with the gloss of " antecedent grace and preconceived notion." What conclusions the bishop ar rives at from these premise. the Daily News proceeds to show. In one place he entirely puts aside the doctrine that the Holy Scriptures are the only authority in matters of faith, and the right of private judgment. Perhaps, how ever, the bishop's ingenuity is more strikingly displayed in his remarks upon the article, which condemns the errors of the church of Rome. This the bishop disposes of with the assertion that the article refers to individuals in the church of Rome, and not to the church Waif. How false is this interpretation, Nays the Daily News, the articles themselves show, several of them being directed against errors which every Romish priest is bound to accept and swear to as parts of the catholic faith, without which no one can be saved. The fact that Pan-Anglicanism gives persons in the position of Bishop Forbes • new status renders this episcopal explanation of the Thirty-nine Articles deserving of notice, though it will not recommend probably the extension of the bishops' autho rity to the English public as the best means of arresting the spread of doctrinal error in the church. The Time: rung over the various opinions expressed at the conference on the Irish church last Tuesday, and adds: Can these gentlemen be really of opinion they are assisting this government, or any other government likely to take its place, in the settlement of this question ? They have only succeeded in exhibiting to the British public some of its very great difficulties, and in so doing have simply been playing into the hands of the establishment. If the object was to absorb or overpower all other utterances with one terrific blast of ultra-voluntaryism, it has not been gained. The " fugle" which was to put the whole thinking popula tion of these islands into one mighty column has not been heard beyond the walls of the City Terminus Hotel, and even there only in combination with other discordant sounds. The Star congratulates the Liberation Society on having procured from an assembly unusually comprehensive in its constitution declarations on the subject of the Irish church which will be found hereafter to embody the policy of " Thorough," which is to he that of the liberal party. It trusts the country at large will thoroughly appreciate and retain in mind Mr. Kiall's remark in closing the con ference, that the man who raises at this juncture the ques- tion how the property of the church is to be made use of is either a staunch friend of the Establishment or • very lukewarm advocate of its abolition, The Telegraph is not quits mire that the Liberation Society is the beet corps to lead the vain in the coming at tack upon the high church. Simple abolition would com pel us to withdraw the 40,0001, a year from the Presbyterian clergy, but to this endowment the Telegraph believes the loyalty of the presbyterians is in a great measure due and parliament will not fail to ask whether it is wise to cut asunder the tie. This, however, would be one of the consequences if we adopted the principles of the Liberation Society. _ The Herald does not profess to regret Dr. Newman's ab sence from Oxford. His character, his name, his real learning, hie English spirit and views, might have made him a dangerous missionary. Dr. Manning may entice or bewilder women ; Dr. Newman world be capable of con vincing intelligent and thoughtful men. And, therefore, it may be well for Oxford that Dr. Newman should not go there as the head of a Roman catholic mission. But that Rome and Dr. Manning should refuse to send bim there, is indeed a marvellous evidence either of petty jealousy or of stupid blindness, or of both combined. )t8 TOPICS. The Daily News denounoes the contract which the government has entered into with the Canard Company to carry the mails to the United States. The heavily-sub sidised Cunard boats, which are visited by no penalty for exceeding their time, have been beaten by the Inman's boats, which only receive the sea postage, and are liable to penalties for exceeding their time. By this arrangement the government does its beet to deprive Oaf country of the advantages it has a right to expect from the healthful com petition of the companies. In the matter of students' lodgings at Oxford, the Times places more reliance on personal influence than on merely material and formal protection. A score or two men in lodging-hours, occasionally visited by a tutor who really cares for them, may bo safely backed against the same number left very much to themselves within college walls. But granting that walls are good for something, and that the superintendence will be liable to shortcoming and failure outside the college as well as inside, our con temporary submits that the want is great, the pressure likely to increase, and that the universities themselves witness against themselves as to their present insufficiency, not to any inefficiency. The Post supports the recommendation of the select committee on fire protection that inquiries be made into the care of fires. In the case of a wreck at sea the Board of Trade orders an investigation as a matter of course, not with the object of implicating any person, but in order to discover the cause of the disaster, whatever it may have been, for the warning and guidance of other navigators. The greatest benefit has confessedly arisen from these in vestigations, and there is every reason why the power of making them should be extended to eases of fire ashore. The Standend appears to have been left in the dark as to the intention of prohibiting the Fenian processions, for it states this morning that the Irish government acted very judiciously in making no attempt to prevent the proces sions of the last two Sundays. It thinks, however, they should be prohibited in Belfast, Liverpool, and Glasgow, where counter demonstrations are to be apprehended. The processions at Cork, Limerick, and Dublin, were compara tively barmier, not because the mass of the population in those town, is Fenian, or would do anything to promote the objects of the conspiracy, but because it sympathises with every person who breaks the law and suffers for so doing. Cite Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dzo. 12. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty drove out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Hon. Flora Mac. donald. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig Holstein dined with sbe Queen yesterday. The Hon. Mrs. Bruce has left the Castle. Sir James Clark has arrived at the Castle. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig Holstein visited the Duke of Nemoun at Bushey-park on Wednesday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Malta, Gibraltar, and the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada. The lords present at yesterday's sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were the Master of the Rolls, Sir James W. Colvile, Sir R. V. Wil"ama, Sir R. T. Kinder,ley, and Sir Lawrence Peel. A deputation, consisting of Mr. James Roberts and Mr. James Hartley (Burnley Union), Mr. James Butterworth, Mr. James Schofield, and Mr. John Holgate (Rochdale Union), Mr. Thomas Owen and Mr. H. J. Hugger (Liver pool select vestry), Mr. James Grant (Lanouter Union), and Mr. Robert Houghton and Mr. Thomas Kirkpatrick (Leigh Union), had an interview with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board, yesterday. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Hen. riette of Schleswig-Holstein visited the Duke of Nemours, at Bushey Perk, on Wednesday. The Duke of Richmond left town yesterday for Goodwood Park, Sulam The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Mafia Marchioness of Ailesbury, and a select party, are visiting Mr. and Lady Augusta Sturt, at Critchill, Win. borne. The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spencer House, St. James's, yesterday, for Althorp Park. The Earl and Countess of Fife have arrived at Cannes, south of France, where her ladyship Ims been ordered for her health. The countess is aocompanied by Lady Agnes Duff. Lord Willoughby de Ereaby entertained at Grime thorpe last week for cover shooting Lord Aveland, Colonel the Hon. Hugh Annesloy, Captain Digby Boycott, Captain Baakerville, Mr. Heathoote, &c. The Marquis and Marchioness of Camden and Lord and Lady de Roe have arrived at the Hotel Bristol from 1•012d011, on their way to the South of France. The mortal remains of the late Colonel the Hon. Henry C. Lowther, ?LP., were removed from Barley thorpo Hall, Rutlandehire, to Lowther Castle, in the early part of the week. The funeral will take place to-day. _ . The Lord' Lieutenant of Ireland has approved of the appointrcent of Mr. C. C. Vasey, to be a deputy lieutenant for the county of Dablin, in the room of the Right lion. Lord Cloneurry, resigned. The Professorship of Divinity in Gresham Col lege, which became vacant a few weeks mince by the death of the Rev. H. J. Parker, M.A., has been conferred on the Rev. John William Burgon, M.A., fellow of Oriel College, and vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford. A Paris letter of Wednesday says :—" Last night the new minister for home affairs gave hie jest oH. chd reception. It would have been, no doubt, attended by all official Paris, but the weather was decidedly in oppo sition. A sort of sleet was falling all night, and freezing as it fell, and the effect was that nobody dared have their bones out. Dozens of cabs were left in the streets and the horses led home ; there were no private carriages out at all, and pedestrians fell like ninepins before a good player. It was not pleasant, but I must say it was laugh able. Two politicians, for instance, were traversing the court-yard of the Hotel of Home Affairs, and were in deep consultation—suddenly they both fell to the ground as I if struck by apoplexy. A dapper little deputy was running away under cover of a joke which be lad just fired off, down he went, and off came his hat and wig. It was an impossible night. To-day it has taken to thawing, and is as nasty as can be, only not so cold." The committee of the Paris Skating Club have notified to their patronesses that a uniform costume would have an admirable effect on the surface of the lake. The following costume hat been proposed :—The dress, paletOt, and knickerbockers are to be of dark velvet trimmed with sable, the toque to match. Chinchilla fur, if the costume be of black velvet, grebe if it be of crimson velvet, and sable if of Metternich green, whatever that shade may be. Madame Rattszzi, wife of the ex-Minister of Italy, better known in Paris as Princess de Solm, is to appear as Queen of the Ice in a Polish costume of black velvet, lined with violet satin and trimmed with chinchilla, which costume that spirituelle lady purchased for 2,000 fr. at the Univer sal Exhibition. Mr. George Grove continues to appeal for sub scriptions towards the exploration of Jerusalem and the " recovery of the holy city." The reports of the artisans selected by the Council of the Society of Arta to visit the Paris Exhibition are now in the prem, sad will be published in s few days. THE FENIAN PROCESSIONS PROHIBITED. lAA evening the following proclamation by the Lord-Lieutenant, prohibiting any further Fenian proces sions, was issued at Dublin : " BY THE LORD-LIKUTENANT AND COUNCIL OF IRELAND. " A PROCLAMATION. " ABERCORN.—Whereas it has been publicly announced that a meeting is to assemble in the city of Kilkenny, and that a procession is to take place there on Sunday, thelfith day of December instant ; and whereas placards of the said intended meeting and procession have been printed and circulated, stating that the said intended procession is to take place in honour of certain men lately executed at Manchester for the crime of murder, and calling upon Irishmen to assemble in thousands for the said procession ; and whereas meetings and processions of large numbers of persons have been already held and have taken place in different parte of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the like pretence, at some of which, and particularly at a meetin,g and procession in the city of Dublin, language of a seditious and inflamma tory character has been used, calculated to excite discon tent and disaffection in the minds of her Majesty's sub jects, and to create and animosity amongst them, and to bring into hatred and contempt the government and constitution of the country as by law established ; and whereas the said intended meeting and procession, and the objects of the persons to be assembled and take part therein, are not legal or constitutional, but are cal culated to bring into hatred and contempt the government of the United Kingdom as by law established, and to impede the administration of justice by intimidation and the demonstration of physical force. Now we, the Lord Lieutenant and General Governor of Ireland, by and with the advice of her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, being satisfied that such meetings and processions as aforesaid can only tend to serve the ends of factious, seditious, and traitorous persons, and to the violation of the public peace, do hereby ca ution and forewarn all persons whomsoever that they do abstain from assembling at any such meeting and from joining or taking part in any such procession. And we do hereby order and enjoin all magistrates and officers entrusted with the preservation of the public peace, and others whom it may concern, to aid and assist the execution of the law, in preventing the said intended meeting and procession, and in the effectual sup pression of the same. " Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 12th day of December, NW. "RICHARD C. Dusiur. " R. KEATINGE. "A. BREWSTER, C. " WILLIAM KEOGH. "MAYO. "JOHN E. WALRH. " STRATHNAIRN. " HEDGESETRECHATTERTON. "Fun. SHAW. "Roar R. Weimar." A second proclamation, couched in similar terms, pro hibits the contemplated procession at Killarney. The O'Donoghue presided at a meeting to arrange for the Killarney demonstration. Processions were also pro- posed to be held in Mallow, Fern.oy, Queenstown, Youghal, Ennis, Clonmel, and Belfast. Prosecution, will be instituted against Mr. Johnblantin, the chairman, and Mews. Waters, Scanlan, and Lalor, the honorary secretaries, of the committee which organised the Dublin procession. They are summoned for Monday next. Mr. Alexander Redgrave, the factory inspector, yesterday attended • special meeting of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, which had been called to allow him an opportunity of conferring with them on the legislative changes affecting the employment of women and young persons in factories. Mr. Redgnive explained the manner n which the new act would affect various manufactories, and the gentlemen present passed a vote of thanks to him for the information he had given them. The annual soirSe of the Bradford Closing Asso ciation was held last night, and amongst the gentlemen present, and who took part in the proceedings, were Mr. Forster and Mr. Thompson, the members for the borough, Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., and others. The society has been *0 far successful that the members can be congratulated on the fact that the shops and warehouses in the town now close at an earlier hour than they did before its establish ment, and it was urged that the shopkeepers in the town generally might wisely follow the example. Mr. Joseph Pease, who, though afflicted with blindness, is one of the most active public men of the town, was (says the Leeds Mercury) yesterday elected the first Mayor of the borough of Darlington, and was allowed until Saturday to decide whether he would accept the office or decline it. A correspondent of the Post, who has just re turned from a tour through the central districts of Italy, writes :—" I was surprised to find that the ex-Pontifical provinces of Marco, Umbrio, and Romagna should have furnished so large a proportion of volunteers ; but on being informed at Loreto that 200 young men had set nut from that city, famous for its sanctuary of the ' holy house,' to wage war on the Pontiff, I remembered the Scriptural sentence, ' A man's enemies are those of his own house hold." While the winter was commencing with such severity in London, and on the day on which the first mow fell, the Munitrur de rAlgirie published the following : " The phenomena of vegetation are more abundaot this year in the environs of Algeria than ever. On the lit December we saw, in a vineyard at Sahel, bunches of young grapes, which had blossomed a fortnight before. We also remarked young pears as large as nuts. If the mild weather continues, we shall have new fruit fit for eating in January." The Vienna journals state that a solemn funeral service for the Emperor Maximilian will take place on the arrival at Trieste of the body, now being brought home by Vice-Admiral Tegethoff. Orders have been already given for the manufacture of a large number of mourning ban ners and drapery. Mr. Boneleanit says that there are at present em ployed behind the soenes of a theatre 40 carpenters, 6 gas men, 6 property men, 30 supernumeraries, 30 bandsmen, 20actors,20servants, employes, and others--say 150 persons in all. On tho Ist of nest month large amounts of gold will have to be disbursed from the United States' Trea sury, a portion of which will be remitted to Europe. On that day a six percent. keno( about 1,900,000/. contracted in 1847, and of which a considerable amount is believed to be held on this aide, will become due, and about a similar total will be payable in general dividends. On the jut occasion Weston, the American pe destrian, made 86 miles in 21 hours 15 minutes. The stakes were 10,000 dollars a side for the feat, but Weston loses six-tenths for not having walked the 100 miles, and, therefore, gets but 4,000 dollars. His achievement, as it is, however, is regarded as one of the most extraordinary on record. ETON COLLLOE.—THE OPPIDAN PRIZES.—(THIS DAT.)—At Eton College, to-day, the Oppidan prizes were distributed as follows :—Young, M.A., Shute, Mowbray, Arbuthnot, M.A.. Earl of Elgin, Elliot, Finch Hatton, Benson, Lord Clifton, Greenwood. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—'Phu will of the Right Hon. Horatio Waddington, P.C., late Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, waa proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate by his brother, the Very Rev. George Waddingbco, D.D., Dean of Durham, and the Hon. Sir John Mellor, Q.C., the joint acting executors. The personalty was sworn under 30,0001. The will is dated April 12, 1850, and a codicil February 4, 1865 ; they are both in the testator's own handwriting, sad are con tained in two sheets of note-paper. He died October 3,18b7, at the age of sixty-three, a bachelor. There are but few be quests ; he hes left to the daughter of his late clerk • legacy of 500/. ; to his housekeeper and butler, each 1,0001.; to his late laundress an annuity of 101.; to his friend Richard Welbank, Esq., LOON., all free of duty. He directs his executors to make suitable gifts to his servauta a cc or ding to 'meth of servitude ; and, after bequeathing the interest of 5,0001. during certain lives, he leaves the residue of his pmperty between his brother and two sisters equally. The will of Mary Sutcliffe, of Rhodes-street, Halifax, Yorkshire, was proved in the court at Wakefield, by her sister, Rachel Sutcliffe, James Ramekin, and Joshua Blakey. The will is dated Aug. 27, 184;7 ; and the testa trix died Oct. 14. She has bequeathed to her sister Rachel a life interest in her property, after the payment of a few legacies to her executors and servants ; and, upon the decease of her sister, she directs legacies of 1001, each to be paid to her twelve nephews and nieces, and has made bequests to several institutions in town and country and to local charities. Amongst them are the following:—To the Hull Ragged School, 2001.; and a like sum to the Religious Tract Society, the British end Foreign Bible Society, and legacies to several institutions belonging to the Society of Friends and to the wesleyaos ; to Muller's Orphanage, Bristol, 1001.; Refuge at Bradford for Fallen Women, 1001.; and a like sum to the London Missionary Society, the Baptist, Wesleyan, seri other missionary societies, and legacies to various institutions in Halifax and Bradford. Whatever residue may remain she leaves to the Society for th e Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Shipwrecked Sailors. The wills of the undermentioned have been recently proved :—Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., formerly Governor of the Bank of Zeeland, 3,0004 personalty ; David James Simpson. Esq., C. 8., 5,0001.; Robert Fletcher, Eisq., of Fontainebleau, Devoe. 100,0001. : Nathaniel Gould,Req., 80.0001. ; Richard Walker, Esq., Stockton-ow-Tau, 60,0001. ; John Webb Gilbert, Prq., The Close, Salisbury, 35,0001. ; Arthur Henry Davenport, Esq.. 30.00 W. ; John Haney, Igo.. Clapham-common, 25,0001. ; William (Ma:ooaq, 50,000/.—/llestreted London News. LAW INTBILLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) YOUNG V. DZNDT AND OTHER& The plaintiff's cue having ooncluded, Mr. Montage Chambers, Q.C., addressed the jury on behalf of the de. fendants, who desire to upset Bliss Dendy's will, on the ground that she was insane. The other aide having ad. mitted that at one time of her lifo she must have been in sane, or she would not have written the extraordinary things she did, be contended that the jury could not but assume that in 1859, when the will was executed, sh e was suffering from a disordered intellect, which, if true, would render her incapable of making a legal will. At the conclusion of the address of Mr. Chambers, witnenes were called, and the eau will not conclude until Saturday, THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH•BTREET. COIN. James and Ann Smith, hothead end wife, charged with systematically uttering counterfeit coin at the houses of different licensed victuallers, were brought before ldr, d'Eyncourt for committal. The 'disown., were seen by Masted Webb, a plai n clothes officer of the C division, in Carusby-street, and suspecting them, he followed and watche d them, with much perseverance, from publio-house to public-house, at each of which places the male prisoner either uttered, or attempted to i utter a counterfeit half-crown, and he then took the prisoners into custody. The prisoners declined saying anything. Webb said that the female Prisoner had been convicted of a similar offence and sentenced to four yeas' penal servitude, and she was at the preeent.time at large on e ticket of leave. Mr. d'Eyncourt committed the prisoners for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. DARING ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. • • - • Patrick Lynch, weria young KIT ow , was charged before Mr. Newton with eteahng from and violently assaulting an elderly man, named William Howe, a retired butcher. Prosecutor, whose face had evidently been roost seriously injured, and who appeared almost bewil. dered, deposed that last night he arrived from his residence at Ware, in Hertfordshire, per the Eastern Counties Railway at the Shoreditch terminus, sad had no sooner put his foot on the ground outside the station than he received a violent blow on the back of his bead which felled him to the ground, and injured his face as was now apparent. He was perfectly sober, but so confused that he knew nothing more except that he contrived to stagger across the road into a coffee. house kept by a tradesman named Marsh, where he found Char his clothes had been torn open and that 2/. in gold and IL in silver had been abstracted. The prisoner was unknown to him. Burrows, 90 H division , said—Lest night I was in Shoreditch, and saw the prisoner with his hand in one of the pockets of prosecutor's trousers. Hsi withdrew it and ran away. I followed and caught him. At the station-house be rid, " Although my hand wail in his pocket, I got nothing out of it." Prosecutor—My money was safe when I left the cattle show. I came to London to IMO the cattle show. Mr. Newton sentenced the prisoner to Nis months' prisonment with hard labour. Prisoner, on hearing this, said—Thank you, sir. THE RECENT CHARGE OF SUSPECTED CHILD-NEEDLE IN FINSBURY Amelia Sparrow and Mary Ann F7pe, so frequently charged at this court with the above offence, were again brought up. Mr. Woutner, jun., for the prosecution, stated that Mrs. Wells, the important witness against the prisoners, whose absence had been compulsory on account of her aocouch. meat, was yet unable to attend, but would be sufficiently recovered in a short time to do so. Mr. Newton further remanded the accused. SOUTHWARK. SERIOUS CRAWS or RECKLESS DRIVING. Jaws Ling, a carman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Partridge, charged with being drunk, and furiously driving a hone end cart in St. George's•roed, and causing serious injury to Samuel Brown, a conductor of an Atlas omnibus, belonging to the General Omnibus Company. Mr. George Atkinson Johnson, a gentleman residinF in the Dover-road, said that on Wednesday evening, ••httle after 6 o'clock, he was in an Atlas omnibus, sitting near the door, proceeding along the Westminster-bridge-read towards the Elephant and Castle, and just as they R got into the St. George's-aad, the omnibus stopped to set a lady down. At that moment, while the conductor was giving change, the prise= came up against him with a horse and cart which he was driving at a reckless pace, knocked the conductor down, and the wheels passed over his chest. The prisoner, instead of stopping to ascertain what mischief he had done lashed his horse and drove away with the view of making his escape. Witness, however, pursued him and gave him into custody. In answer to Mr. Partridge, the witness said that the omnibus had pulled up on the near side of the road, within two feet of the kerb, to set the lady down, and at that time the prisoner's horse and cart were not within sight. The prisoner was very tipsy and violent when stopped. John Smith, the driver of the omnibus, said that when he pulled up to let the lady out he heard a horse and cart coming along behind him at a furious rate, and before he could turn round the prisoner had run up against the step of the omnibus and knocked the conductor down. Witness picked him up, and finding the wheel of the cart had passed over his chest he put him into a cab and took him to Westminster Hospital, where he now remains in serious state. Pi AS L said he saw the prisoner driving is a reckless manner, followed by the first witness and seven! others, who called out, " Stop him, be has killed a man." Witness stopped him and he was given into his custody. He was much under the influence of liquor. The prisoner, who denied being drunk or wilfully driving splint the omnibus, was remanded fora week. Bail was refused. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A SCRIPTURE-READER. . _ Robert Henry Lawson, a middle-aged and grave-looking man, for the last 10 years a scripture-reader, was brought before Mr. Benson, charged with wantonly and indecentff exposing his person. The complainant in the cam is Elizabeth Ellen Bolton, aged 10 years, of No. 30, Bow-lane, Poplar. She ie the daughter of Mr. Edward Bolton, clerk of the works to the district board in Poplar. The girl gave her evidence with great clearness. The prisoner, who was greatly agitated, said be had always - held a good position in society, and had been a scripture reader 10 years. He was as innocent as child unborn. He was known to the incumbent of St. Mark's Church, Whitechapel, and to a mat many other clergymen and numerous gentlemen. If he was convicted it would be his ruin. He accounted for being in Bow-lane. He had been to a house in the neighbourhood reading the scriptures, and he stopped to look at the light and shade of the moon and its peculiar effects on Poplar Church and the lofty tower and spire. Mr. Benson said be should decide on this case without any reference to its probable results. He would give the prisoner an opportunity of calling witnesses. The tests. molly to character might naturally affect his judgment. The girl's evidence was very distinct, but it was entire!' uncorroborated. The prisoner —All the clergy in the district know me. Do not send me to prison. Mr. Benson—Can you bring your witnesses to character this afternoon The prisoner —I am afraid not, sir.. I have a wife and family ; they will be ruined by this foul charge naiad me. Mr. Benson—l cannot help that. You are remanded till to-morrow. FATAL ACCIDENT AT A CHURCH.—A shocking ac' ci.lent occurred at the pariah church, King's Non" , yesterday evening. A new peal of bells, subscribed for by the parishioners, has just been cast IT Meer Blews and Son, of Bartholomew-Areet, Virininghaah and the largest bell was being fixed, when. from rums cause at present unexplained, it fell, cutting in two ths organ, and crushing the head of Mr. Arthur Longmore. 6 young gentleman who has shown much interest in the work. Mr. Brown, surgeon, was at once summoned, bat of oourse his services were of no avail. The deep"' sympathy is felt for Mrs. Longmore, the parent of the us fortunate young gentleman, she being highly relented by the whole of the inhabitants of King's Norton. —Birmoq• ham Pail. A MAN SMOTHERED IN A WELL.—Yestel2 another man lost his life while engaged in sinking a At the corner of Wills-street a number of houses are is course of erection. Thomas Spencer, pump-maker And well-sinker, had been employed to funk a well. Yo* terdsy morning the well had been sunk to a (10 of 113 yards, and Spencer went down at Moak tar time to continue the work. At half-part 10, the earth broke about eight feet above where be tit working, and a huge mass fell, and buried him. The W was so dangerous that no one seemed to rare akat venturing down. Mr. North, however, volunteers , and went down, sod from 11 o'clock till twee! minutes past 2 he gallantly worked away a dangerous chasm all the time at the Tilt of his own life. Poor Spencer was found buried acid about 9 feet of earth, and when brought to the s urface bfr was found to he quite extinct. Deceased was about to years of age, a married man, without Fundy. A tease nisi to Mr. North, for his heroic conduct, is already Irk . ed.—Birmingham Post. On Friday last the Rev. Francis Garrett Use& clerk, was instituted to the vicarage of East Rudhars West Rudham. annexed, in Norfolk, on the presentrthe of the Most Honourable John Villiers Stuart, Menlo' Tovmshend. ir; Sad X* lire lap