The Express. — London, England, 1864-01-14 00:00:00

ALFRED WEBB MILES, Everybody knows Mr. ldi REMOVED from Bond-street, tog a IROOK•STREIT, Hanover -Kure. in 1860. The Its TROUSERS (originated by him) in sll the New Patterns for Winter better than ever." SPECIAL NOTICE TO GENTLEMEN. A. W. MILKS begs most respectfully to anaemic* that Ids stock in the various departments of his establiehment a now replete for Overcoats, Tenthly, Bedford Cords, and scarlet waterproof cloth for bunting. The wool-dyed Black and Blue Prock Coats, 500. A choice of 50 pieces of Indestrmeible woaded West of England Cloths. ESTABLISHED ISAL Only address. TROUSERS. —Special attention is called to the new WINTER. STOCK . and gentlemen win do not mind paying a fair Wee for a good pair of Trowels can depend on material and patterns Mal cannot be excelleXt HAMILTON and ILIMITON 105. Strand. oppualte Ender DEPOT AIITHENTIQUE DZ LA REGIS, for SALK et French Caporal SMOKING TOBACCO and FRENCH SNUFF at 15s. per 21.5 lbs.. kilogramme , ditto ditto Foreign, at lea gd. per 51-6 Ilia. kilogramme. Preach Clip" from Is. to U. per, dozen. " Warranted Havana " agora Tobaccos. and (Muffs, as Imported by the FRENCH IMPERIAL ERGIE, 502, PICCADILLY, Near St. James's Church. WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMES? 31y dear fellow! gentlemen sup at zvAlers, conaittardm HOW COLD IT HAS BEEN.-IfILGRICTTI sad UMBRA'S celebrated TILIAMIALSIXIS will cor rectly register tbe lowest temperature. Price 3a et —l.llstkes graded be, Corshlll IS3, Ileetetreet ; asd itegentatreet. Agents mated. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the past year the boats of the Natiocal Lifeboat Institu tion saved Or venoms from different wrecks on our coasts. The Committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet, the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 115 lifeboat eitahttshmenta. Con tributions are received by all the London and country bankers ; • and by the Secretory. Richard Lewis, at the Institution, It, Johnetreet, AdelphL ALECTURE on th e LIFEBOAT and its WOMB, with Mudintions, be DELIVERED by RICHARD LEWIS, Lg., Buirrlater-at-law, THUS EVENING Monday 14th Jaanary, at eight o'clock peeleelr at the yoaag Meres Association, EcciesSon-aquare Chapel, Rellime road, Pimlico. Vie erpreoo. TO 0013.116PONDINTS. otwernowwwie bilioded for The lizpors" Looks lonise o clock Yaw, nod be es the MO" 10, Banowlwarese, by Two os the day of publication. COVINTAA TAM Lynam, FANCHRITE. Mhs 1.. Fyne and Mr. W. Hai , rirnn W . HARLIQUIN ST. °ROADS AND TOE DRAGON. Messrs. W. H. Payne, B. Payne. F. Payne, the Brothers Stonette. Ydle. Fatber.—Commend at 7. RATH SEKET. THIS Lynam, OCR AMERICAN COUSIN. Newt Bothnia Ruckstone, Chlppend de, Gordon, Rogers. Coe, and Clark ; Mesdames Angel and Snowdon.—And KING ARTHUR. Mr. Commas ; Mesdames L Keeley. Terry. Lindley, L Romer . PIINCLONS. Tnte EVEMICI, DONNA MAN k.—Aad HARLISQrIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER Mews. Soros, Cathcart, A. and C Leclerco, Hullo and eon. Milano, Naylor, aad Chapin° . Mesdames Harnett, Adams. and Howard LYCEUM. TRI9 Lyarnra. THE LORT CHILD. Mr. Wlddleomb and Mu P.Leelereq.—EEL DEIIO2IIO. • Lome Mary. Sham Fechtet. Brougham. Emem Marie; sod Jm'clan lama Term Lamm., sod lOseroalky, sod Mrs. Lem aILITAIPNIA. THIS Erma°. the NewiZatiale HICKORY. HICKORY, DocK. lira S. Lane and Rrst.rate Panto= mht•.—The )13nAs of Peru. —THE GREAT OHM? ElFlrltart—Arthur and Bertrand. .—Tlac Fairy lountaln.—AM THE GORILLA HUN I. Well WATER AT LOYDON MIDGE. Tice DAT Manly, Sh Sim —.Albanese. ".h. c7ro. Mandy. t. 19m... 1.1.1. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. Ix his speech at Glasgow, as Chairman of the National Bible Society of Scotland, the Duke of ARGYLL very seasonably recalled public attention to the recent Triennial Charge of the Bishop of i OXFORD, which, as our readers will probably remember, was examined in these columns at the time of its first delivery. It would be an evil day for the country if the doctrines contained in that • charge could be openly propounded by dignitaries of the Establishment without rousing the true friends of religious freedom to earnest watchfulness, and calling forth the decisive protest from the sincere and enlightened supporters of national protestantism. The Bishop of (ix FORD, in that charge, restricted the catholic and compre hensive meaning of the term Church to the mere Episcopal system, and virtually destroyed the supreme authority of the Bible by asserting its abso lute dependence on the Divine authority of that system. He represented those who in this country worshipped outside the pale of the Establishment as hindrances to the spread of religion, social and moral nuisances, to be ranked in the same category with beerhouses and bad cottages; and he dis tinctly asserted that it was impossible to main tain the Divine authority of the Scrip tures without maintaining the Divine authority of the Church. These doctrines lay the axe directly at the root both of protestantism and toleration. They deny the cardinal doctrines of the Reformation, the right of private judgment, and the sufficiency of Holy Scripture in matters of religion ; and were it possible for them to pre vail to any extent, we should, as a country, remain protestant and free only in name. The Duke of Aatirti. combatted these false and dangerous positions with the zeal and energy be fitting the President of a National Bible Society • and the member of a pre-emintintly protestant church. He laid down at the outset the broad principle on which the society whose claims he ad vocated is founded :—" That it is a wise and safe " thing to circulate the Scriptures, independent "of all ecclesiastical organization ; that the " Scriptures are above the churches ; that " they are above creeds and catechisms; " that by the Scriptures churches are to be judged, " and not rice re l'S44 as many say, that we are "to judge the Scriptures by the church." This is indeed the principle of all enlightened re ligious activity in modern and protestant countries, and it need scarcely be said that it is absolutely fatal to the exclusive pretensions of any particular ecclesiastical organization. Important and essen tial as this principle is, the Duke of AR.IYLL is quite right in saying that it acquires a new and peculiar value from the special circumstances of the times in which we live. ft is a time of enor mous speculative activity, in relation especially to religious questions, and as a natural result it is also a time of wide-spread hesitation, doubt, and temporary disbelief. But, as history sufficiently shows, this is the very moment which the resolute partisans of dominant ecclesiastical systems, the lovers of priestly dominion, deem peculiarly favourable for the putting forth of their arrogant and exclusive pretensions. The Bishop of OXFORD seizes the opportunity with characteristic dexterity, declaring that in the strife that is forced upon us by the free inquiries and speculative activity of the time, there can be "no intermediate position between a dull " naturalism to which so many are tending, and a " simple faith in GOD'S presence with His church, " and a hearty belief in her sacraments, her creed, " her orders, and her Bible." The Bible, it will be seen, occupies the lowest and least considered place, and in harmony with the Bishop's previous statement is considered of importance only as belonging to the Church. The Bishop of OXFORD leaves us in no doubt as to what he considers the Church, having denounced all separatists from the Establishment as hin drances to religion, and declared thataay clergyman who recognised them in any shape, even by appear ing with them on the same platform to further common religions objects, would be guilty of a grievous offence. In opposition to this narrow i and sectarian view, the Duke of A ituvir, iipp' t isk TES - VIUNKSGIV to the formularies of the Church itself, to limit BIETJ noble and comprehensive Bidding Prayer in which the Holy Catholic Church is defined to be the whole congregation of the Christian people dispersed throughout the whole world. With regard to the second point, the alleged de pendence of the Bible on the Church, the Duke of ARGYLL denies on most sufficient and intelligible grounds that this is true in any sense or in any degree. If the assertion is meant to refer to the early and Apostolic Church, even that Church had no supernatural or inspired power in relation to the collection of the inspired writings, and no special authority whatever as to their interpreta tion. And if the early churches possessed no such authority, it certainly would be preposterous enough for any later encleaiastical organization to pretend to usurp any exclusive authority over the Scriptures. The Bishop of OXFORD, however, asserts that the Divine authority of the Bible de pends on the Divine authority of the Church ; or, in other words, on the Divine authority of Epi scopacy ; and few reflective and intelligent readers of English history will be at any loss to understand what this means. It is the doctrine of LAUD, pure and simple, revived and republished under Episcopal authority in our day. At the outset of his grand attempt to suppress the separatist by force, and subject not only the whole country, but the three kingdoms, to the iron rule of an arid ecclesiasticism, the future Archbishop laid the foundation of his work by engaging Dr. JOSEPH HALL to write the treatise, which afterwards be came so notorious, of " Episcopacy by Divine " Right asserted." That was the central prin ciple of Larn's tyrannical policy, the prolific root from which all his coercive and destructive acts in Church and State proceeded. And ell who value our Protestant faith and religious freedom—all who reipect the sacred rights of conscience and the supreme interests of truth—are bound to pro test now against the promulgation of any such false and fatal doctrine. We have still to assert the rights of conscience and of Scripture against those who subject both to a mere ecclesi astic organization ; to defend the position which Maros, two centuries ago, maintained with all the power of his massive reason and nervous elo quence. " With good cause," he says, "it is " the general consent of all sound Protestant " writers that neither traditions, councils, nor _ _ " canons of any visible church, much less edicts of " any magistrate or civil session, but the Scripture "only can be the final judge or rule in matters of " religion, and that only in the conscience of every " Christian to himself. Which protestation made "by the first public reformers of our religion " against the Imperial edicts of CHARLES V., im posing church traditions without Scripture, gave " first beginning to the name of Protestant ; and " with that name bath ever been received this " doctrine, which prefers the Scripture before the " Church, and acknowledges none but the Scrip " tare sole interpreter of itself to the conscience." t'be frouti. WINDSOR CASTLE. J. 13. The Queen went to Frogmore this morning to take lesve of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and left at a quarter peat One o'clock for Osborne. Her Majesty travelled by special train on the Great Western Railway to lisaingstoke. At Yarlboroagh•honse the bulletin exhibited yesterday ran in these gratifying terms: " FlOOllOll2, JAN. 13, 11.30 A.N. " The recovery of her Royal Highness the Prism's of Wales is proceeding uniaterrupteilly. " The infant Prince is perfectly well. (Signed) " ARTHUR FAURE, 3L D." The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday, foe Hawardes Castle, Charter. Despatches were received yesterday at tbeColonial-office, frees the Governors of the settlements on the west coast of Africa, and Malta. THE DEPART - IRE OF THZ COURT FOR OSBORNE.— At half-peat one o'clock yesterday afternoon, her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prime of Wales, and the Princesses Helena and Beatrice. cams from Frogroore, to the Windsor station of the Great Wotan Railway, in a close carriage, and were received at the royal private saloon by Geueral Sir C. B. Phipps, Mr. Sanders, secretary, and Mr. Kelley, traffic superintendent A few minutes afterwards the Queen came on to the platform, with the Priam of Wales, when she affectionately embraced and afterwards took leave of his Royal Highness. Her Majesty and the Princesses then entered the saloon carriage of the South Western Railway Company, and as the train slowly left the station her Majesty re peatedly bowed to the numerous spectators mumbled on the platform. The Queen was still in deep mourning, and had Da left off the widow's weeds, although they were but slightly visible. It was the general remark that her Ma jesty appeared to be in excelleet health and spirits. The guard of honour was dispensed with. His Royal Highs's@ the Prince of Wales returned to Frowners. Mr. Halley with Mr.l3arliaion attended the royal train to Basingstoke, where a fresh engine was attached, causing a delay of a few Moat's only ; here it was taken in charge of the South Western officials to Gosport. At Portsmouth the royal petty immediately embarked on board the royal yacht Fairy, Captain his SereneHigboess the Prince of Leiningea, for Osborne. The arrival and departure were coaducted without eeremosy. The weather mu; very tuipropitioue for her Nalesty, a dense fog haviag prevailed the greater part of the day. It is expected that the court will return to Window about the 11th or 12th of next moath. Her Royal Highness the Dachau d'Auruale has lamed cards far a daociag party on Saturday next, at Orissa. House, Twickenham. Count and Countess de Flaitault and Misa Elphisetese de Flahault left Bowood, Wilts, yesterday, on a tour el visits. The count and counter will return to Coventry House on Monday next. . . Lady Lyndhurst has arrived at her reside:ow in Great Georinatorat, from ankles Mr. and the Hoe. Men Dusan at Brasted Park, Eden. Lord Stanley of Alderley has arrived at the family residence in Dover-serest, from Alderley Park, Cheshire. Her ladyship sad family are expected an town in about tea days. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli and Mrs. Dinah have left town for Burghley, on ► visit to the Mar quis and Marchioness of Exeter. Lord Wodebowie arrived in London yesterday morning. on hie return from his special mission to the wart of Copeahsgen. His lordship was aeoompanisd .by Mr. Phillip Currie sad Mr. J. Sanderson, seeretsriss to the The Post says :—" Lady Louisa Dillon has been . staying with her ladyship's father sod mother, the Earl and Coasters of Clue, for the last six mouths, and never for ace hour, sight or day, left his lordship's bedside till he expired in her Irma. The family estates by the death of the present earl peso to his lordship's only sister, the Lady Isabella Fitelibisoo, sod at her death to Lady Louisa Dillon. Her ladyship Ina fire sew." PROROGATION OF COAIVOCATION.—(THIS DAT.)— This morphs& is conformity with a royal writ, the memo. esti°e of prelates sod clergy of the provisos of Csaterbury, was formally prorogued until Friday, the sth of February. It is generally audecatood that although the citations will be lamed to the various proctors to attend at theJerundent Chamber ea that day, a notiflostios will be shortly sent by the archbishop stating that the meeting of the sth proximo will be of a merely formal character, sad that his gram will fix a da), probably some time in Marsh, when both bonne will meet for the despatch of bugloss A ems sideration of the Burial Service of the Church of &gland is likely to occupy most of the time of the convocation at its fortheonnag sitting. WIIJAS'I Rooms, 13e. JAirns's.—The ninth annual I ban of the Oxford Dremetic Cub was held at the above suite of roans or Tseaday lest, whoa upwards et 400 ppeetreeaassss were unseat. The stewards, Messrs. Parkin, Mitchell, sad Young, exerted themselves to the utmost, sad the ball was a mess. PRA'. A. PR] The following is the form of prayer and lkaltka giving for the Princess of Wales's safe delivery al a Prince, to be used at Morning and Evening Service, after the General Thanksgiving, in all churches and chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-upon•Tweed, upon Sunday, the 17th day of January instant, or the Sunday after the respective ministers of such churches and chapels shall receive the same : a PORN OP PIIAYSK MID THANKSGIVING TO ALMIGHTY GOD. Almighty and most =mild God, by whose gamins gift mankind is increased, we ha/ably thank Thee for that Thou bad vouchsafed to deliver Thy servant the Plasm of Wales from the perils of childbirth, that Thou best soak her a joyful mother, and granted her the blaming of a ass. May Thy watchful eye and fatherly band still be over her : mapped and comfort her in the hours of soakage, sad day • by day renew her strength ; that so she may arise sad p ' forth to praise Thee in Thy church, and serve Thee is ail good works to the glor► of Thy holy name. Defend the infant prince from every danger that may happen to the body, and from all evil that may assault and hurt the soul I Enrich him with all epiritual blessings in Christ Jams, and as I years advance, may he increase is grace, in wisdom, sod ell Christian virtues. Look down, we pray Thee, with the favour that Thou barest unto Thy people upon the royal parents : fill them with all heavenly benediction, that they may faithfully live and walk according to Thy will in thin life present, and may be partakers of Thine everlasting glory in the life to come. Implant in the hearts of Thy people a deep sense of this, and of Thy manifold mercies to us as *church and nation, and give us grace to show forth our thankfulness by dutiful affection to our Sovereign, by brotherly love one towards soother, and by constant obedience to Thy commandments ; so that paselog through this life in Tby faith mid fear, we may attain to Thy heavenly kingdoin, through the merits and mediation of Thy blessed Son Jena Christ our Lord. Ames. SPEECH OF MR. P. PEEL, M.P., AT BURY. Mr. Frederick Peel, KP., addressed his condi. Sammie at Bury het night. There vas a large number pre. In the coons of some lengthy remarks oa the American question, the hon. gentleman mid it was not of great import ance which direction the sympathies of people took ; what was important was the line dem:duct which this country, as • whole, had pursued. This country had steadily adhered to a policy of nowinterference, and he believed that never were the Americans more anxious for disentanglement in Ilse intricacies of European polities than had this country been anxious for disentanglement in this American struggle. (Hear.) So faithfully bad we adhered to our policy of neutrality, that, as usually happened with very fair people, we had disappointed both sides at different times. Thus the North complained that we had been too hasty in acknowledging the South as belligerents, although they were complied to do the mine thing quite as early as our selves. (Hear, bear.) On the other hand, the South thought we were too tardy in their recognition. although even now they had not succeeded in aetablinhing their independence. Bat appeals bad oleo been made to the government in re ference to the ado of private persons and the rights of neutrals. He referred to the mauls of war of a formidable tees. If these vessels were constructed in our ports belligerents could not of 004/10 enter our ports and seize them, because we must not violate our neutrality and when they issued from our ports, far from being liable to seizure, they were much more likely to seize the vessel seat after them. (Laughter.) He admitted the dif ficulty of drawing the line between sock meals and ether munitions of war, but he thought there was a dis tinction. Them vessels ied a sort of distinctive character ; they sprang forth, a Pallas, armed ; when they left our port they were fitted and prepared at all points to prey upon the commerce of a belligerent who might be at friendship with ourselves ; and in that way our port might be viewed as stsrtiog places for hostile expeditious. Fortunately the use had been provided for by an : beigatioe. An act was passed many years ago, giving pewer to seize nth vessels ; ad some of them had been mimed for violating that act—the Alexandra, for example, sand the Moe:clads at Birkenhead. It had been decided that the Alexandra was not strictly liable to be seized, the policy of the government would be, however, to do as we would be done by. (Hear.) He hoped, when the war was over, that both sides would acknowledge that our conduct had been eminently fair. (Hear.) The impending rupture is the North of Germany was a very menacing subject ; but he thought he might appropriately mime his remarks by glancing at • very joyful subject—the birth of an heir to the future throne of this country, and he hoped that event might prove as fruitful of good to us all as of happiness to her Majesty and the Princess of Wales. (Cheers.) Denmark was a very small coostry, and the question io dispute was a very small one, but it had brought matters to the verge of war, and it was much ap prehended that if war should break out there it would drag all Europe into the vortex. There were two points in dis pute, one being the question of succession to the government of the duchies. lu the duchies the rule of succession had been in favour of the male line, while in Ditmark the female line was not excluded from the throne. On the death of the King of Denmark these rules of succession would have separated the dominions of Denmark into two parte, ad as all the great powers of Europe were agreed that the integrity of those dominions was of importance for the maintenance of peace in Europe, they agreed is 1852 to recognise the title of the present king to succeed to thous duchies. The state* of Holstein, it was said, were not am anita& and did not consent to this change ; hence the pe lmet difficulty. The other quantas arose from the duchy of Schleswig being inhabited partly by Danes and partly by Germans, and Austria sod Prussia had threatened to march their forces into Schleswig unless the King of Den mark withdrew his claim. Elegised, is 1862, to prevent things coming to the present crisis, proposed a very seeable plan of a hood of union of our owe, which it was to be regretted was not adopted ; and now, acting as usual on the side of moderation and pesos, had proposed a conference upon the subject, which it was to be hoped would extricate this question from the arbitrament of the sword. (Cheers.) It would not be surprising that when there was cause for so much anxiety in general, there should be an 011&DIMOUR wish that England should be strong, and that justice should be done to her strength. (Hear, hear.) He was happy to believe that the forces of this calamity, supple mented by the well.disciplined body of 'minutest', were rover in a more effective condition than at present, and could coefideatly be counted upon as equal to any enter 'secy. (Cheers.) It has been the object of the government to combine efficiency with economy. Is the last financial year the expenditure of the country was for the first time for some years past seder 70,000.0001., end showed • real reduction as compared with the avenge annual expeadi tura of the three previous years of no lees than 2,500,0001. Bat the satisfaction which this would produce would be even more complete when it was remembered that the esti mated expenditure of the present year—and there was so reason to suppose the estimate would be exceeded—vies 1,500,000/. lees than it was last_ year. (Cheers.) Thus the expenditure of this year would be 4,000,000/. below the avenge annual expenditure of two or three years back. It followed that with a reduction of expenditure a diminution of taxation could be made ; and in distributing the relief derived from that mourn the government had beau anxious to effect a twofold object—easely, to give direct relief to the taxpayer , and also to encourage the commerce and industry of the country. Among measures pained for the widening of our area ot commerce might be mentioned the repeal of the paper duty in 1861. and the repeal in 1860 of the customs duties in coolie:Me with the commercial treaty with Fmece. In the sense of direct relief to the taxpayer, refereeoe might be made to the remission of taxation during the past year. (Haar, hear.) During 1863 the income tax was reduced from 9d. to 7d. in she pound, with the not inooesiderablei additional boos of allowing a man whose income was lees than 2001. a year to deduct 601. The reduction of the duty on tea was a matter which spoke for itself. There was no commodity, mot a necessary of life, whisk was so usiversal a favourite, and whose cheapness and az ' ailleoce were eo much appreciated. The increase in the consumption of tea was no bed measure of the habits sad . centime of the people, and that increased cousureptise • had been wonderful during the past twenty years. Whereas . at that period 40,000,0001 a of tea were drunk, thee wee DOW 80,000,0001 b., shoeing set only ae increase in essioesep tion, but also in some degree an addition to some et the ratioeal and domestic habits of the people. (Cheers.) It might perhaps be thought that with these great reductions of taxation the revenue of the country most show a =falling off. &Attie tables of the revenue lately pub told a eery different and more gratifying Mary. Nothing, is fact, could yield more gratifying proofs el the general sound condition and healthy progenies of the eimetry. It was not to be expected that the lease in the distress would receive • check with the edemas et wiebse, but the additions which had as yet be made were sena compared with the additions made at the Period of last year. But whether the distress cce seceded, or altogether disappeared, it would be both for its severity sad for heeler been puled themegh without the aid of perlisnient, without a single piny bees the &chimney. (Cheers.) And if the cultivation of sells., stimulated by high prices, should become 1h whenever the good time should return it be welcome, for it would not only some, bat 'wadi aim% remain. (Omen.) Batriex AgYLUM p DIU! , AND DUMB FINALIS. —This amylase has Jost remised the moostiemet donation of 2101. from " Anossyneorks " to the free adroiesioo food, hie sides 501. from the Worship/al Company of Grocers to As general feed. NAST INTALLIGENCE. POLAND. The Polish National Government has addressed a proclamation to its troops, dated Dec. lb. It is a strong exhortation to courage and perseverance, and concludes with these words :—" Soldiers ! you must accomplish your task to the end, and always cry Poland for ever ! free, one, and independent, with Lithuania and Ruthenia united to it !" THE NEW FRINOH LOAN. PARIS. JAN. 14. The decree stating the conditions of the new loan was published this morning. The public subscription will remain open from the 18th to the 25th January. The issue price will be 86fr. 30c. Interest will be reckoned from the let January. Subscriptions of Bfr. rents will not be subject to reduction. One-tenth of she amount taken is to be paid at the time of subscription, and the remainder in ten equal instalments on the 21st of each month. A bonus of 4 per cent. will be allowed on all instalments paid in ailvanoe. . . K Limayrac, in this morning's Constitutionnel, dwells upon the reception given in Germany to the proposal of a conference to settle the Schleswig- Holstein dispute. " This reception is a proof how just were the remarks previously made as to its im possibility." It is reported that England has pro posed mediation. M. Limayrac considers this pro posal will encounter more objections even than a conference, especially in Germany. He points out the difficulties in the way of mediation, while hoping they may not be insurmountable. THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. NEUMUNSTER, JAN. 13, EvWSG. A meeting of 80 clergymen has resolved to for an address to the Federal Diet, requesting the recognition of Duke Frederick. It was also resolved to send a deputation from all the parishes to Duke Frederick, on Friday next, to present a reply from the German clergy to his address. KIEL, JAL 13. Duke Frederick received 'several poisons of dis tinction to-day, and among them Count Revent low Farve, who had hitherto held aloof. IMPORTANT CIRCULAR OF COUNT RECH BERG ON THE COMPETENCY OF THE FEDERAL DIET. VIENNA, JAIL 14. It is asserted that Count itechberg iiddramed a circular note the day before yesterd&y to all the German States, formally requesting that the Federal Diet should strictly observe the limits of its competency. Should it go beyond these limits in the question of the succession to the duchies the two great German Powers would be compelled to settle that question themselves. THE SPANISH PASSIVE DEBT. MADRID, JAN. 13. The Official Gazette of to-day publishes a royal ordinance autboriaiog the Spanish Financial Com mittees abroad to receive proposals fur the auctions of the let and 2nd interior Passive Debt, and the Foreign Passive Debt. MADRID, J4l. 14. The Poiilica asserts that the English ambassador has presented a despatch to the Spanish govern ment requesting a settlement of the question of the English Certificates of the Passive Debt. GIBRALTAR. SOUTHAMPTON, JAL 14. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon has arrived here. She brings 66 passengers, 2,4291. in specie, and 126 packages of cargo. Sir Moses Montefiore left Gibraltar on the 6th for Sefti, in her Majesty's frigate Magicienne, which was placed at his disposal. Sir Moses Montefiore premeds to Safti for the purpose of seeking an interview with the Sultan of Morocco to obtain the assurance that the Jewish subjects of the Sultan shall enjoy throughout his dominions equal rights with Mabometan subjects. Exchange on London at Gibraltar on the Bth inst. was quoted 50} for 90 days sight ; on Paris, 5 27 ; on Madrid, 8 days sight, one quarter pre mium. A letter from Naples of the Bth says :--" The cold here has been as excessive am we bear it has been hi other parts of Italy. Vesuvius has been clothed with wow, while the distant mountains of the Abruzzi have desaleg the eye with their splendour, and sent so mid a wind into the city u to freeze us to the very bones. On the 2 2nd and 3rd of the month • copious shower of bail was fol. lowed by thick scow, which costumed marly the whole day, mid • sentinel was frozen to death on his post. So much for sunny Italy! But it must be remembered that the season is one of the mart extraordinary ever remem bered, sod that if we have • few days of suffering we are sure to have delicious weather is reserve, and that shortly too." . . . A correspondent at Alexandria, writing on the 4th, says :—" The first steamer for oonveying travellers to Upper Egypt started last week. I hear the arrangements are very good. The cabins, 52 In number, are large, airy, sad well-furnished. The dining-room is on deck, and ' holds over 60 people. A doctor goes with every steamer. The charge is 301. first-claaa, and 201. second, and the trip takes 20 to 25 days." The Semaphore of Marseilles publishes a notice that a body of pilgrims will that port oe the 9th of March for the Holy Land, the price of the exenzsiou being 1,300 fr. Langiewica, who is still a prisoner at Josephstadt, ha, been allowed to seed a letter of thanks to the Solother• government for conferring upon him the freedom of the melon. Declining all personal merit which might have entitled him to distinction, the general begs to evasive the 'Wow in the name of his oouutry, aced as a reward for her unparalleled sacrifices. "Decimated," he says, "by go vernments whovaranteed our isdopeodecoe, we are carry ing on a war which keeps in check the armies of a groat empire. Os the justice of God and the sympathies of the people we repose our confidence. Courage sod patriotism work miracles, and the prise we obtain will be national in depandenoe." , A house has been blown into the air in Wait street, Booth ; • loge stock of petroleum was ignited therein, and a late account says shat Mime dead bodies bad bests picked up 'mourn the ruins. A RscaLcrritswr num.—The Abbi Mongini, curt of Oggebbio, Chevalier of the Order of Pte. Maurice sad Lazarus, against whom a major exoommunicatios was Ironed, has sent the following letter to the Italian journals : —" Par,— Having read in almost all the newspapers that a major excommunication has been issued plant me by the Romeo °Moe, I beg of you to publish the following dodos tics :—The undeevived. convinced that he has not vistaed say religious or moral dogma of catholicity in his odder. political writings. and having frequently declared, eras through the pries, that if he had ever without is tamale( it, violated one or the other, he was ready to retract, ands still ready to do so, it• is clear that this excommunication has been hawed on account of his political opinions. This being at he declaim that he considers the excommunication to b•.l null and void ; and that, relying on the laws, the main stay of right and justice, he intends to continue in the exer cise of his paroobisl ministrations as long as his age and sirsegth will permit him. Signed, Ptrrao Monona, Januar► 1." This is, perhaps, the first time is Italy that • catholic priest has set at sought a esasore whisk woe tor. shady repaid with as mesh tenor. IL lisselal doss, in fast, madam to perform nos ofßoss of the caturoh, sad is eapparbsd by his windows, who love sad respect him. Thor ooh OWN EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS, WIDIRODAT lemma. The adjourned debate on the address yesterday was carried on by comparatively little men, but was not without interest. The most remarkable feature of it was that M. Latour-Du-Moulin, a go- vernment deputy and formerly censor of the press, declared himself a partisan of more liberty. Speak ing with all the special knowledge which his long con nexion with the police and his habits of official life must have enabled him to attain, this deputy says, "I, whose devotion to the imperial govern ment is beyond suspicion, believe that the current of opinion in France is now with those who desire I not to remain stationary." He professed to have had his eyes opened by the last elections and by 1 those of Paris in particular. . . . When the general discussion was declared closed, the first opposition amendment was brought in, that which sets forth the long list of cities and 1 towns which voted for the opposition, and declares (with, I must admit, some exaggeration) that "all" France would have done likewise but for admini strative pressure. This amendment naturally gave great offence to the majority, the root of whose title it attacked, and an attempt, encouraged by the Duke de Morny, was made to stifle all discussion upon it by the previous question. Ultimately, however, M. Picard, whose style of oratory is always provoking, contrived amidst much interruption to make a speech, after which the amendment was negatived without a division, upon the understanding that the electoral question would be gone into more fully on another occasion. The debate was then adjourned without any government commissary having spoken. The Pays announces that the steam-frigate Darien has been ordered to proceed to-morrow from Lorient to Oran to convey Prince Bonaparte (of the Canino branch) to Mexico, where he has accepted • commission in the foreign regiment. A frigate at the service of a captain of irregulars ! This looks almost as if there might be some truth in the report that, failing the Archduke Maximilian, this young gentleman is to be Emperor of Mexico— of course, by the grace of God and the national will. The Bourse is in a state of stagnation, speculators being waiting for events. The stock of bullion in the Bank of France is believed to be diminishing, and the rumour is that the directors want to raise the discount to 8 per cent, but are positively pro hibited by government. POLAND. The folios - kg letter, dated January 7, is from the Warsaw correspondent of the National Zeitung : sort of pause has lately taken place in the deports. tions. The gaps made in the various breeches of the go vernment and the judicial administration by the banishment of so many able and intelligent officials, among whom were men of great experience and tried zed, which gape are not eerily filled, appear to have almost paralysed the govern ment. The higher pasts, each as the governorships and prefectahips might be filled by Russians (as has, in fact, been done), for no special knowledge is required for them ; but all the inferior posts require • knowledge of Po lish official routine which is not possessed by Russian officials. To-day the last Pole who was employed in the Warsaw government, Privy Councillor Lowry mei, &talented official, who has served the state faithfully and honour ably for fifty years, has been dismissed. His place is occupied by General Roamer, a Russian, Director of the War Department. Another Rosana, Fanahavre, has been appointed Governor of Radom. Poland is now almost en tirely Ramified no far as the higher authorities are con. aimed, and there so be no hope of reform in the sense understood by the Western Powers. The whole country is subjected to military rale. News has lately arrived from several exiles to their relatives in Warsaw. They were transported as far as Nijai-Novgorod on sledges; but from that city to Perm, a distance of many hundreds of miles, they were obliged to go au foot in deep snow, with 30 de. grime of cold. Permission was given, it is true, to pro ceed at one's own expense in • sledge or a carriage. but only with ea escort of two gendarmes, who were to be lodged and fed, and also feed, by the prisoners. This costly condition, which foe so long • journey could not be fulfilled by most of the passengers, made the permission as illusory one. The official Russian press will no doubt delay this ; but I have myself men • letter oonfirmiog it from one of then unfortunate victims of the Russian system of deportation, a young and most worthy physician. In the governments of Lublin sod Radom nume rous insurgent hoods, well equipped and armed, are am.i. making their appearance. The following article on the present date of the insurrection appears in the Paris Patrie The Russian journak and their faithful echoes in Paris and Brawls repeat in various ways that the insurrection in Poland is over, that the wiate: will complete the dispersion of its last remnants, and that its recovery in the spring is hopelem The o ffi cial Dziennik of Wenn/ hes balled the new year with an article on this favourite subject. Our private letter, which are confirmed by the German papers, which have th e beet opportuaities for obtaining exact infon matins, formally contradict the Rimiest organ. Thus the Breslau Ga:ette declares that the affirmations of the Dziennik me more than exaggerated. It adds, that in the d palatinate' of Lublin and Podlachia, Kruk is at the head oa tiateehment which numbers more than 4,000 men Ia infeatty alone. The corps of Barak, in the palatiaates of Cracow sad bandemir, is still 131010 SOOIO7OIIII, and these detachments are both very well armed and well provisioned for the winter. Finally, according to the Breslau Oazatte, the population is in no way discouraged, and does not at all disposed to cease the struggle. " MNotional Gamin of Berlin also reckons the number of Insurgents who are still is arms and are quartered so those at 10,000 at least. It is true that the weather t a :M at p:ded all operations. In the palatinates of Podla- Mai& and Lubin it is very severe, and the ground is covered with snow several feet deep. Thus all communicatime are interrupted, and the Rumness themselves are barely able to make a few fruitless excursions out of their persons. Bat to infer from their no longer meeting bodies of insurgents that they no longer emit would be a streams mistake, sta ler it is as iateetios al one. As it le not easy to encamp in the forests is this suers of the year the Poles have been quartered in the most isolated and macomsible villages. Here they wait for the moment of reoominesciftg the struggle ; and both the Breslau Ga zette sad the National tkrxtfc affirm that they are au& ciently provisioned. We quite understand that the Russians have thought of taking advantage of the forced inaction imposed upon the belligerents by the winter in order to make Europe be lieve that the insurrection is crushed, and that the Cede government has nothing to fear from the Poles is fature. But these are amnions which the Minima are far frees be lieving themselves, and which are contradicted by feels. We think, nevertheless, that it is useful sot to allow them so be believed, for their only object is to delude public opiates. The Miaow Gazette oar : Hitherto there bad boss sot • single Russian book-shop either at Wilma or is the rest of Lithuania--a mod striking proof how little the Russian Immune sod literature have as yet bean at home in the country of which Mourevieff sow ask., "Is there anything Polish here still?" In mar to spread the }Write propaganda lloaravieff his, aoseed ior to the semi-official St. Petersburg papers, indium' Seekowski, the bookseller of St. Petersburg, to case 10 Willa by promising him a subvention, sad Ssaoweld accordingly entered into an agreement with the = mint to establish a book-shop and a Ceding de in Wilms. The proprietors of metatarsi. in Warsaw have received directions from the polio. torteh an = who join in political conversation.in e their sad at eon to report the circumetanee to the penes I isoniag of addresses by the Christian pert of the hea berm In one district the commissary el peiho two documents before each of the citizens—awe being address, sod the other a protest against it—one of whisk be is forced to sign, the commissary ref to hem say re marks. A wag offered to 4n both lists, tiding that the mow unwary otetinatelyrefundtoaccept any expiaM6llllllll. ANW contribution has been imposed on the landed proprietors of the kingdom, on the gamed that they " de set mit the government in fuldlling its important object, whisk would be of the greatest advantage I. themselves." Oa the 4th Kent, Zarzycki, Frankowski, and Libek were hanged at Walan. The Paine of yesterday evening speaks of a Duda' molest to submit the Dire-Genmais redid to tie mediation at the Emperor Nepotism. THit FILET PUBLIC CONCERT IN JAPAN. —We regret that the unusual pressure os our apace prorate m from deist mere M our great rue than ehronicliag the soapier soccer ot the oared gives ia the Royal British Assembly Boma as Mowry last, by Mir Amelia Bailey. assist** by Mr. Margais Ciudrlri. The roses err ereerded. The iodine, ineladed the ministers sod .weals. sad Needy the whole et the /aft resideets. Boarliedy was =- lighted. Bin Bailey gar a woad concert ea W eyries. whisk war oil with great kid. sad the to marries SESSIIMONI her last cored for Meaday aut. with as entire change of programme. —Amen Cerniacial Nays, Sept. 9 (published I. Yokohama). MUSIC. THE ENGLISH OPERA ASSOCIATION. The existence of this association has been known to the public foe several years ; but any informa tion gives by its fonuden during this period has not, till sew, been calculated to attract much attention or to excite any gnat interest in its proceedings. Beyond the fact that • joist stock company has been formed foe the purpose of establishing a theatre for the performance of BNB& opera, nothing has been made known ; and the impression has become prevalent among musical people that nothing more was either done or likely to be done. Now, however, matters have assumed a more definite end hopeful aspect. A prospectus has just been put forth, from which it appears that mea ' nem have actually been taken for speedily carrying the scheme into practical operation. " Chi ra piano ra nano; and we hope it will be found that the apparent dilatoriness which has given rise to so much distrust has really been the result of prudent and cautious deliberation. The great fact now announced is hin the i words of the prospectus), that an arrangement has been effected with Mr. Gye, the proprietor lof the Royal Italian Opera-house, Covent-garden, under which the directors of the new company will become the lessees of that theatre during the autumn and winter I months, commencing on the first Monday in October next. " The Directors believe," says the prospectus, " that the agreement that they have made with Mr. Gye is a mod advantageous one ; for that gentleman has consented to I participate in their fortunes, and has allowed the amount of his rental to depend on the receipts of the emaciation, instead of demanding a positive and fixed pay ment The directors will also have the great ad vantage of the excellently-organised staff of Mr. Gye's theatre, who have for so many years worked together under his direction. Mr. Alfred Mellon is to be the musical con. &eta, Mr. William Beverley the scenic artist, and Mr. Augustus Barrie the stage-manager." " In consequence of this arrangement the directors will not only have a theatre ready in every respect for their occupation, but will sin have the nes of a large amount of scenery, properties, and other material, without any outlay on their part. The amount of capital necessary to commence operations will therefore be but small, and the directors do not at present contemplate the isms of more than 10,000 shame." :. THE '1 EVIN;I S JA.NTJAR .: ~ ' 14, 1864. ROYAL HUMANS SOCIETY. Yesterday, the annual general meeting of thu friends and supporters of the Royal Humane Society was held at the o&oes, Trafalgar-Name ; Mr. aILILJA WV Boars CABBILL in the chair. It appeared from the report of the committee that the number of mem of drowning brought under their notice during the lent twelve months was 268, of whom 962 were mocessfully treated by the medical offices of the society, the other 16 having proved to be be) ond re- Dorm. There were also 16 of the we, either suicides or attempts at suicide. In four of the cases the humane and courageous persons who rescued their fellow-creatures from a watery grave were honoured with silver medals. In 73 other came bronze medals were conferred as rewards to them. In 9 instances the thanks of the society were voted on vellum, and in 73 instances on parchment. In 69 other iastanoes the rescuers received pecuniary re. wards. The income of the society for the past year, in eluding a balance of 49!. 16s. 6d. brought forward from 1862, 1491. received in subscriptions, donations to the extent of 371. 7s. 3d., and other sums, amounted to 1,419!. 17s. 5d., and the expenditure to 1,291!. 11s. 7d., leaving in head a balance of 1281. ss. 10d. Taking the Serpentine, in parti cular, the number of cases treated during the last half-year in the society's house in Hyde-park was 20, and in le of these the apparently drowsed were treated with emcees. Two persons were found drowned. In seven instances there were attempts at suicide. The number of bathers in the same water last summer was 225,142. The bathing was attended by 36 casualties. There were 15 attempts at suicide, and in five instances the attempt had been attended by fatal results. The number of skaters during the late frost was 109,256, but owing to the care with which the society's effi oers guarded the rotten ice only 59 persons had get im mersed, and there was not a single fatal casualty. On the motion of Mr. Baker, seconded by Mr. Wolsely, the repast was adopted. gad the president, the 1 cake of Argyle, sad the other officers having been re-elected, the meeting pro ceeded with the consideration of 56 cases of soooessful at tempts in preserving persons from being drowned, is sack of which the society's bronze medal was voted to the gal aat salvers. The proceedings then terminated in the usual manner. VIE EMPRESS OP THE FRENCH AND THE INSURANCE OFFICES. The director of the Nationale Insurance Com peer gives the following explanation of the operation mitered into by the Empress with that sod other similar establishment.: " Her Nejesty, justly anxious for the future welfare of the benevolent institutions which she has founded. has had the generous idea of contracting a life assurance for a sum 2, ,000 fr., which she consecrates to the purpose of ren dering certain, after her death, the existence of the Eugenie •Napolron Asylum in the Faubourg St. Antoine, as well as endowing the Society far Children's Leans to the Working Classes, and the Fund far the Relief of Soldiers sad Sailors ; the foundation of all of which institutions is dna to her initiative. Her Majesty applied to the French company, the Nationale, which, aceording to the authorisa tion it had received, divided the assume*. of the two millions between other French companien In addition, those companion, in order to remain in conformity with their statutes, while still supporting the responsibility of the NUM assured, have considered it necessary to effect mammies. with several compeeies in London, Belgium, and Germany." Tan WAR IN New ZEALAND. —A supplement to the London Gautte, published lent night, contains several despatches respecting the war in New Zealand. They ruler to operations extending frees Sept. 29 to Nov. 2. which have been described in the general intelhgence from the colony. The last despatch, which refers to the mew of the natives from Mere-Mere, appeared in our columns on Woodsy last. Solace to Mr.. Gaon THORPSON.—T be com mittee of the Emancipation Society have arranged to enter tain this gentleman at • farewell wirer, to be held at Rad ky's Hotel, on Saturday evening next, at 6 o'clock. Mr. William Evans, the of the society, will preside on the occasion ; and no doubt there will be • numerate atten dance of those who appreciate Mr. Thumpeou's able &Abidjan twisted exertions on behalf of a cause to which he has de voted himself during a protracted public life. Tile New Dear or CoßL—The vacant deanery of Cork has been filled op by the appointment of the Rev. William C. Magee, D.D., rector of Enniskillee. The grandfather of Dr. News, 43 years ago, halal the post es which be is now appointed, and it war in the desaeryboass at Cork. in the year 1821, that Dr. Magee was bore. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, at 13, and became a scholar at 16. His collegiate career was a distinguished one. For two years after his ordination he laboured as a carats in • very poor Dublin parish ; be then went to Bath. where for nine years he was chaplain of the Octagon. Thence he was invited to Quebec Chapel is Leaden, and was finally nominated by the Board of Trinity Colleges Dublin, to the rectory at Eseiskillem EXAMINERS or PRIVATE BILLS—On Mooday mad the emulsion of private bills, appointed by the Speaker of the House el Commons, Will commemee the ezamination of the NM bills filed for next seetiors, in order to aseertaie whether there has been a compliance with the standing orders of the hems. FIRS AT PORTSMOOTR.--AFIDNIROAT A groat fire broke out here between 6 and 7 this eves * in Pike and Co.'s brewery, Banack.etzset, in close viciaity to the George Hotel. High-street. The fire occurred fa a Isms new building. is which are the malt sad bop stares, aednederneath which are the stables. lae the alarm being gime, a body of polies, with a detachment of troops and seamen, were despatched to the spat with several fire seems, but by the time • supply at water was obtained the &SW had gained complete mutely over the interior of the building, and all that meld be dose was to prevent the spread of the Ire to the =receding and adjoining buildings. This has up to this time (2 p.m.) bele secomplished, but it bee been owing more to the substantial ' maser in which the budding has been constructed than to ' my effect which the water from the calcines could have bed es the fire. The upper doors of the building have fallen is, ' and the fire is burning itself apparently out downwards, ' , sad luckily there is very little wind. At one time team were entertained that the large Oakes of fire which fell ea the roofs of the houses would have est some of the t issanadissoset old braidings also on firs, in which meet it is ' ha to say bow far it might have spread. e New MORGI73 AT PARIS. —The new La Morgue, or dead.lsouses, which are being raised behind the cathedral et Notre Dame, between the bridge of St. Louis and that of the Archbishop's Palace, are sow nearly emu ' plots. They are to be occupied as soon as the courtyard is paved and limed. The new deed house is composed at a , P wisp b artr rightw ith e arche s Ie f a t i lit: in • the , which are Ott! receive the and acc o mmodation oat t azlati de zi of . the persons m es t then. itt the lower end is the dead-hall, so called beams . the 'abject. are to be first deposited there. It is there the mrousts ere te dress them Wm* they are placed ea their i marble bed to be mewed to the exassieaticas of these who L may come to look for a lost friend. The deed hall mean , skates with a mooed room, in whisk the bodies are to be washed. Is this room ere placed several vats Wed with hot weer. Bernd this 100111 are the drying loha, end the hop pewees in which the wearing apparel of the doomed is deoesitoL The great ball is which the bedlam are exposed ,to }eh& view is clone to the street. It is well aired, sad L lighted bye skylight. There an two windows, en placed as to create a cooltast carnal al air. These AEI 12 marble talus on which the bodies are to be placed. I!