The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-13 00:00:00

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CORN FIAIIR for CHILDILIN To oblain orbs profit 1)y the sale other kinds ere 000wthnos end beicead BRowx and POLSON'& W J o hn Brown," "John Polars: to dprood bp the Wore on each peotet -____-- gke erpre%O. DRURY LANK Tuts Evasion, FAUST. Mr. Phelps, M awl Wm P ews. H. Pttelpsoole. W. Harrison, end J. Johnstone; Mrs Herman Vain —A n d KATHERIN2 AND PSTRUCHIO. Mr. T. Wigwams, Mr. J. Robins, and Miss Isabel Adaws. MATM ARS ET. TIM M, A OAME OF SPECULATION. Messrs. C. Mathews, Chispendsle, Rogers, &c. •. Mesdames FlterMism, Laws, TONY AND CLEOPATRA.. Mama C. Msthews, Comp -ANton, &a ; Mesdames Ilsthews & HAL—SHOCKING VENTS. ?animism Tan znernia, BASSAMY sonar S. S. CsMaim. Y. Villiers, J.G. Shore, dtc. : Mrs. John Wood, Ulises AMMO& Thomsen and Katherine Rodgers, Mrs. R. Vinlm, and Mrs. C. Roraima—Preceded by THE MISTRESS OF TEE MILL. LI CICTIL Via Imnio. BRO WS AND CESAR 1112. iimundn—And THE LONG STRIKE. Maim Emery, "m %MlWomb, Cowper, Ms enet. Reynolds, and Moreland ; Mho Heerade. with TWEk:DLECON'S TAIL. COAT.—Conummo• at—Cemeludlng T. TRA-NrD. sviirneo, NITOHDOURK Haas Persil* Belford, an TeM d Marra ; Mesdames Seranboreagb, Jolutstone. and Higbee. KEN ILWORTH. Messrs. JUDY. Thorne, & Fenton ; Haltom bwaubotonga & Itsynham.—And BOOTS AT THZ SWAN. HOLBORN. THIS Vining*, at 7, FAMILY JARS. Mr. Sefton Parry and Miss C. Saunders .— And FLYING SCUD. Meson. Neville, Bel gians, Blake. Vollalre, ; Mesdames F. Joephs, C. Saunders, Senile Foote, Mdse , Lennox, Raymond, dc. BRITANNIA. TON BUSING, LAURETTE'S BRIDAL: OR, MORE TITAN MEETS THE EYF.. Mrs. Lane.—Mr. Dandng Mad" Bryan ; Mr. Laturnum: [Wpm . , the Indian Juggler—BELlNDA BRA GRAVE ; OR, THE DETB.AYER AND !IS VICTIM. HIGH WATIA AT LONDON BRIDGI. Tin DAY —Morning, sh. 32m Afternoon. ISSet. To-Monnotr—Morning, 13ni Afternoon. eb. - - LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. Tarim can be no wish on the part of any loyal subject to embarrass the Irish Executive at the present moment with merely technical objections to any of its proceedings. Most of all, in those matters which are rather mercifully precautionary than penal must there be a wish to support its action to the fullest extent justified by law or I reason. The Government has a difficult task in hand, and, so far as we are able to trace its action, is dealing wisely and fairly in Ire land. But the very desire to support it in such a course makes it imperative to watch with some care the conduct of its subordinate o fficers, lest, taking advantage of the unani mous feeling on the side of order, they push their exceptional powers to illegal and dangerous extremes. There seems in some of the recent acts of the police, and of the magistrates, occasion for this warning. Our readers will recollect that a few days ago a man of the name of MEANY was apprehended in the streets of London by an Irish d e tective, armed with an Irish warrant, and ac companied by an English officer. MEANT was taken before Sir THOMAS HENRY, and at once ordered to be conveyed to Ireland. InDublln he was brought before a magistrate, and it appeared that the warrant had been granted on sworn informa tions by a constable to the effect that he was be lieved to be STEPHENS'S secretary. No evidence, however, was adduced in support of this state ment. And the evidence of complicity in any plot at all was startlingly slight. There was found on his person a carte de viaite of STEPHENS, bearing the Head Centre's own autograph. There was also a letter from a San Francisco editor, asking MEANT to write for his paper letters from Ireland with a Fenian proclivity. This was all ; yet on this he was committed for trial : which means com mitted to prison till Parliament meets, or for as much longer as the Habeas Corpus Act may re main suspended. There are two points in this case which deserve notice, but which are perfectly distinct from each other. The one is the commitment of any person upon evidence so ludicrously scanty and immate rial as that which was actually adduced. It is preposterous, if it were not also a little dangerous, to say that a man ought to be sent to gaol for three months certain, and possibly for a longer period, merely because a police-constable swears that ho believes the accused to be a conspi rator, and because a portrait of an undoubted conspirator is found upon him. It is true that the Habeas Corpus Act is suspended. But this is the case only in regard to persons " arrested, committed, or detained in custody by " force of a warrant," signed by six of the Irish Privy Council, or by the Lord-Lieutenant or his Chief Secretary, " for high treason, treason, " felony, or treasonable practices, or suspicion" of such crimes. And the statute goes on to declare that any persons arrested on such warrants may be lawfully detained in custody without bail or trial. The effect of this provision is to authorise any man in Ireland to be arrested and imprisoned without any evidence of guilt at all, and therefore without any committal by a magistrate. And certainly where there is no evidence, as in MEANT'S case, it would be more seemly to act upon the powers of the statute rather than to go through the farce of bringing the accused before a magistrate only to expose the fact that there is no legal proof against him. Such procedure reads rather like a mockery of justice than a necessary dispensing with law for an emergency. And when it is shown in such a way that magistrates are subservient to the wishes of the Crown in times of excitement, it becomes harder than ever to assure the people of their im partiality in times of quiet. The proceeding before the magistrate was, we may assume, very well intended, but we must think it unneces sary, and, being unnecessary, something worse I than injudicious. But the second question is still more serious. MEANY was arrested on an Irish warrant, not how ever executed in Ireland, but in London. In any ordinary case such execution is made legal by means of the Irish warrant being backed by an English magistrate to whom it is presented, and who endorses it on evidence merely of the signa ture of the magistrate who originally issued it. Similar provisions apply to the execution of Scot tish warrants, or of English warrants in Scotland or Ireland. Generally speaking the rule is neces sary for the prosecution of justice, and works without inconvenience. But how, when ono part of the United Kingdom is placed temporarily under a suspension of law ? We confess it does not seem clear to us that even in law an English magistrate is authorised to back a warrant as Food within his jurisdiction, which bears to be issued by personages to whom, for the moment, there have been committed in Ireland powers so enormous. and unusual. Statutes affecting the liberty of the subject are always construed strictly against the Crown and favourably for the accused. Now, the whole f rams: tenourof the Irish Habeas Corpus Suspension Act points to its restriction to , THE Ireland. It contains no provisions cesitemphiting the execution of any warrant issued unde r ft b e, the Irish Channel. An d it is, erefore, extremely doubtful whether any such novel and extraordinary warrant falls within the rule which was established in contemplation of warrants is sued ;1 ordinary prosecution of the law, and sub ject to every constitutional objection and remedy in the place where they were issued. But whether this legal doubt be well founded or not, there can, we apprehend, be no doubt that the Legislature could not have contemplated ex tending in this way the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act to England. We in England are in no peril of outbreak, and if we have any Irish con spirators among us we can afford to try them in due form of law. If we cannot find any evidence against them, we can afford to let the y dang m us continue at large. Here, at least, theynoero while doing nothing which can be proved against them. If they go to Ireland voluntarily, and there become dangerous, they will then have sub jected themselves to the consequences, and may be imprisoned on bare suspicion. But it is enough to convince us that Parliament cannot have in tended to sanction their arrest here on an Irish warrant., followed by their transportation to Ire land and imprisonment there without legal remedy or protection, if we reflect that such a rule, sup posing it to exist, must apply as much to English men as to Irishmen. Any man, whatever his nation, his rank, or his innocence, may by this principle be arrested on an Irish Government warrant, on mere suspicion of " treasonable prac " tires "—a term vague enough to include any thing from declamation to drilling—he may then be carried off to Ireland, and there locked up for months on no evidence at aIL This is the actual pretension which Dizirres case sets up. Such a stretch of prerogative will have a bad effect, not in Ireland alone. If P ar liament ted in, it must make the Imperial and the public more reluctant to grant or continue powers capable of so unexpected a construction. For their own sakes and ours, we must trust that Government -ill see the danger, and repress the unwise zeal of officers. Tilt letter of Mr. SORTON PARRY, the steam ship outfitter, of Camomile-street, which will be found in another column, ruthlessly destroys the best piece of news we and our contemporaries printed yesterday, and cuts short a story which with its natural developments might reasonably have been expected to have " run" at least to the end of the week. It is truo that the war steamer Bolivar has been seized in the Med way ; that all the suspicious circumstances related by our Chatham correspondent were quite as he described them ; that large quantities of gun powder, shot, and shell, with Blakely guns, swords, revolvers, and rifles, were found on board ; and that the ship is still held by a strong guard of Royal Marines, and closely watched by the police. But the short and simple explanation of all this is, that the Bolivar has been built for the Government of the United States of Columbia, under the sanction of the SECRETARY of STATE for Foamier; AFFAIRS. Her duly com missioned Commander is Captain Lima, who has prc-ented himself before Admiral Sir BALDWIN WALKER, and the whole transaction appears to be perfectly regular. We wish the Admiralty better luck next time, but they could hardly expect to be so fortunate as to catch a Fenian steamer—if there is a Fenian steamer—in the Medway. We hope the naval authorities w :ll not feel discouraged by a first failure, but continue the exercise of a vigi lance which is highly creditable to them. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TEM DAY.) THE POPE AND THE EMPEROR. The Time., thinks there is not in the long career of the Emperor Napoleon any act which will reflect greater lustre on his name than the mere performance of his dis tinct engagement to remove his forces from Rome, for the difficulties which beset him are so pecu liar as to exalt the accomplish - nent of a duty into a virtue. Quoting the late address of the Pope to the French general se given by the Debate the Times proceeds to paraphase it thus: "The French are Christians ; how is it the French Emperor is none? They are g.wat and strong ; how is it that their sovereign has another will than theirs? There is dismay and trembling ; there is trouble in catholic hearts who is it that sets himself against the conscience of the catholic world ?" And the Pope, be it observed, is well aware of the disposition of men's minds in France ; for has he not his own private correspondence, " his little bird" to whisper to him what the state of the Emperor's health is, and what the condition of hs mind! How otherwise could he pray for the Emperor's recovery, or for his peace of mind, in obe dience to the precept which bias him repay good for evil! It is thus that the feeble old ptlest launches hie petty wr athful curse. He appeals from the Emperor to the people. He would fain see the " alarm" of the faithful roused into rebellion. He would gladly set a Christian nation against what " ought to be" its Christian chief. But the Emperor must find solace in the reassuring testi mony of his own conscience, and it 31 not be lone, before the church will acknowledge he has done it the bed service. Henceforth, too, the Italians must acknowledge in him their greatest, most unwearied, moat generous benefactor. The Italian game was played by him single-handed, and the game is won. Throughout all France, in the Emperor' s cabinet, at his court, in his household, Italy had only that one friend—a friend ' u need and a friend indeed ! The Pope's words, the Daily News says, arc of a charac ter to do more harm to their author than to the sovereign of whom they were spoken— some parts being exceedingly unmannerly and corning little short of being malicious. Is this the Pope's gratitude for the unfailing protection the Emperor has extended to him for 17 years in the face of obstinacy and opposition? The Pope now pro claims that there is a great gulf between France and the Emperor—the one is Christian, the other is not. Any one reading his words may see at once why priests are not fit to govern —referring they do to moral de- pravity whatever is displeasing t o them in the actions or their neighbours. But let it be acknowledged that the Pope, under the influence of an exaggerated ecclesiastical sentiment, has done hintself injustice, and that his cha_ rather has a better side than is here displayed. Meanwhile it is vain for him to talk of flight. lie can fly nowhere without being in danger of encountering the very evils which he dreads at home—liberty of conscience, liberty of worship, liberty of education, liberty of the press, and he can reconcile himself with these as well at Rome as elsewhere. History, observes the Pest, w ill do justice to Napoleon 111., who under extreme provocation has never forgotten what was due to the head of the Roman church and to his own dignity and power. The temporal power of the Holy See must from henceforth, as Baron Ricasoli has said, be judged, like other sovereigns are, by the quality of its government. CnIIPVLSORY VWCA?TON. The speakers at the Manchester meeting being meetly ultraliberal, the Times is not surprised to find that their first idea is to abridge the liberty at present enjoyed by individuals. Let them consider the case of a parent in extreme poverty, the labour of whose child is necessary to the family for procuring its very subsistance, and then tell us on what ground they think the state is justified in depriving a poor family of its bread, in order to teach one of its members to read, write, and cipher. People may be too poor to afford the luxury of in struction. It is not for the state to drive them into , the workhouse in order to faros education upon them. I The speakers at Manchester nppear to have proposed the destruction of the whole of our educational machinery. TiftilsDty But the practical opuntion is how to devise the Beans of ' LATEST OrTELLIGENCE. ws the ilfspislations °r i pest towns and of small, ' .....--w-- TROOPS. '''"• - ' parishes in the country, whithe r the voluntsay I *yam is DISTRIBUTIO N OF THE PAPAL unable to penetrate, without raiaing up an inagunist which will destroy the peewit voluntary effort where it is 1 working must satisfactorily and most efficiently. The of Anolerettencer says : Rome of the 7th in the Nu zione man who shall be able to solve this difficulty will be • 1 The Castle of St. Angelo and the Leonine district will real benefactor to his country ; while those who seek to be confided to the guard of the Pontifical Zonaves, with innovate without acquainting themselves with the nature oat reckoning three companies who will garrison Civita of existing institutions will only earn a flimsy reputation Vecchia' ► . The movement of the Papal troops will oom for liberality at the expense of the very cause they pre- 10811C41 to-morrow or Monday ; a battalion of the line with tend to promote. four guns will go to Viterbo. Then the Antibes w ith The Daily pe a t argues that the abstract objection to will come to Rome, where people say it will be rein compulsory education in the last resort springs from en . forced by 300 volunteers. The battalion of Swiss Chas. inadequate sense of the relative value to individuals and sews will remain in the provinces of Maritime and Cam society of intellectual and moral, as compared with phy- , papa. It is believed that on Wednesday or Thurs. sisal provision and training. Of course, the practical qua- 1 day next the French occupation will be completely ter tian remains ; is such interposition necessary ? Does it ' minated. The gates of the city, except those of Popo li and snit the genius of the people ? Will they acquiesce in it ?', Del Cavallegri. have been handed over to the pontifi- It is obviously irreconcilable with our present system of 1 cal troops. The polios have, besides, established at these grants in aid, which leave eleven thousand parishes 1 gates two gendarmes, who 10i have to make a report on wholly unprovided with schools. But whatever else is ' all the foot passengers who enter or lave ; those who uncertain, one thing is clear, that if England is to hold her I come in or go out at a late hour are obliged to eve an m own in the world, if she is not to sink behind the foremost count of themselves, and, in ease of necessity, they are of her neighbours in the arts of war and of peace, if she is to visited at their houses. The Tiber is traversed at night by have a future worthy of her past, her people must be edu- , numbers of rowing boats manned by gendarmes and water coated, and those who are taught now must be better taught. \ men. Lately two hundred young men have been ant It will be of little use to reorganise our army, and moon- away, who bad been through the recent campaigns. At sc hool our navy, unless we reorgaoise and reconstruct our this moment the advance guard of the pontifioal troops is schools. --- leaving by the PopolO-Pte on its way to Viterbo. This ----- is a company of native infantry. 11111CZLIANZOIle TOPICS. Th e reappearanceof the ca ttle plague in localities in which it had apparently been extingnished canoe the Tina to express its regret that the power of licensing the bolding of fairs and markets has been so liberally used by the Privy Council, and that in a very large number of inland towns cattle are aci be collected together, and then dispersed, to carry any infection that may exist in anyone of them into the adjacent country. The recommendations of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, which appeared in y esterda y 's Express, seem, to the Times, to be characterised by practical good sense, The council, it will be remembered, think that nothing short of permanent regulations for the slaughtering of ,fat cattle near the ports of disembarkation, the establishment of a permanent quarantine, and of per manent buildings by which it may be enforced, will pro tect us from the presence of the plague. The time seems propitious for a removal of the whole subject from the t em porary, intermittent , verbose, revocable regulations of the Privy Council, to the permanence, simplicity, and precision of an act of parliament. Mr. Adderley, in his speech the other day, stigmatised America as a bye-word in her relations with tion foreign powers re and corrupt in her own local adminietra. Amo shameful insult, the Star remarks, was never offered by an English minister to a great and friendly power. To say nothing of the monstrous absurdity of the charge itself, which is not the question, the conduct of an Under- Secretary in gratuitously flinging dirt at the American republic in this coarse and unprovoked manner is, to say the least, inexcusable, as a piece of bad taste and a flagrant breach of that decorum towards foreign states which the humblest official should observe. We know how vehe. ment Mr. Adderley's own laugaage would be if such out rage on good manners were perpetrated by any subordi nate member of the gove..nnent which he reviles. The Telegraph congratulates the Council of University Collo:4e on the skill with which they have defeated the attempt of the fellows and the proprietors to set aside the vote that declared Mr. Martineau unfit to teach mental philosophy and logic in Gower-street, because, to the mis fortune of being an eminent thinker, he added the sin of rejecting the cerebral psychology of Professor Bain, and all the clauses of the Athanssian creed. Instead of summoning a cou rt of proptietors, the council placed the requisition of the fellows and pro prietors before the Attconey-Generel and theuch Soli a c it or -General, to see whether the calling of s court was compulsoty. Meanwhile, states the Telegraph., without waiting for the opinion of the law officers, they showed how easy it is to join sharp practice to positivism by coolly placing the man of their own choice in the chair. However unwise the appointment may be. it cannot be overruled, and hence, whatever decision the legal authori ties may give, a coura of proprietors is now useless. The device is certainly ingenious, but whether it doe , ' credit to Mr. Grote and his puil is another question. When the general annual meeting shall be held in February, the fellows of the college cannot fail to i :sit with severe censure this departure from the principle on which the institution is based. And all real liberals must ask whether it is wise to support • college which, unsec tarian in name, can yet be guilty of such religious and nbiloctophicr` bigots/. THE STEAMER BOLIVAR.—A CURIOUS TALE. The New York Herald of Deoember 1 contains the following correspondence: Eta Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dr.c. 12. The Queen went out in the grounds this morn ing accompanied by the Princess Beatrice. Princess Louise went to London, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat, and returned to Windsor Castle in the afternoon. The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. The Earl of Camarvon arrived at the Castle this after noon, and had an audience of the Queen. Mr. William Hackett, the newly appointed Chief Jurtioe for Penang, also arrived, and wm introduced to her Ma jesty by the Earl of Camarvon, and received the honour of knighthood. Lord Begot, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lindsay, and Major-General F. H. Seymour, the Lord, Groom, and Equerry in Waiting, were in attendance. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most H on 1 o nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, the Right Ron. Spencer Walpole, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council vat yesterday. The lords present were—Lord Justice Cairus, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir R. T. Rindersley, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. THE ROYAL VISIT TO SUFFOLK. DISS, WEDNESDAY Anzio:v*4 The shooting party formed among the guests staying at Sir E. C. Kerrison's, at Oakley•park, bad exec"- lent sport yesterday in what is known locally as Goodcn's beat- To the great disappointment, however, of all con cerned, the Prince of Wales did not join the shooting party, although it had been expected that he would have done so after luncheon. His royal highness appeared in excellent health on his arrival at Diss on Monday evening, but it seems that the great amount of travelling which he has had of late has somewhat fatigued him, and it was considered ads:sable that he abated remainquiet through out yesterday. Dr. Walker, of Eye, was called in to see the Prince , whoa, indisposition is only slight. Another shooting party was formed again to-day ;it was not known whether the Prince would share the pleasures of the ned. Lady Caroline Kerrigan drove the Princess of Wales to Brome-hall, one and a half mile from Oakley, yesterday afternoon. They started at 4.30 p.m., stayed half an hour at Brome-hall, and then returned to Oakley-ball. This evening there will be • concert at Oakley-park, to which several of the local aris tocracy aid clergy have been invited. As regards the proceedings of last evening at Oakley-park, it may be stated that the Duke of Edinburgh and the party staying at Thornham, who occupied three carriages and an omnibus, passed through Eye at 10 p.m. on their way to Oakley, where there was • ball on a grand scale. Lord Hartismere's party returned to Thornham at 1 a.m. to-day. There was a dis play of fireworks last evening at Eye, and the inhabi tants of Digs have not been behindhand in their demon strations of loyalty. Triumphal arches were erected, it should be understood, on the road to Oakley-pork, as well as between Digs and Thornham-hall. The Duke of Edinburgh and the party at Thornham again went out shooting this morning; the covers attacked by Lord Hartosmere's guests have been Sherwood and the Park covers. As the Thornham estate abounds with game good bags have been made. Sir E. Kerrison's guests have also had excellent shooting. The royal visitors are expected to leave Oakley-park and Thornham-hall to-morrow, and in the evening the tenantry of Sir E. Kerrison will dine together at Eye in commemoration of a very exciting week. The public are also to be admitted to Oakley park to-morrow to see some of the prep ,rations made by Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrison for the reception of their august guests. AUSTRALIA. Tsz GOLD FIELDS. Carting, Oct. 31. The Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Affairs hes addressed a circular to the consuls of that republic abroad, in which he gives an account of the manner in which the steamer Bolivar stole out of the port of Wears. It appear' that on the 13th October that vessel arrived from London, where it had been purchased on the 31st of last January for the Venezuelan am j. The government of that republic had forwarded the necessary papers, and the Bolivar was sent out under English o conffi tract officers and sailors, with a Venezuelan register. The , however. made by the Venezuelan consul in London thicould not be ratified by his governmen t, as, sarong other ngs o bjectionable, it stipulated that the captain, John Fowere r*, s hould not serve under any other official, unless he an Englishmanof superior rank to his own ; also that in =many transfer or dir Ilion of the officers and crew were made the Englishmen should not amount to less than one-half of the body into which they might be merged. The captain was informed that, accoreing to the Venezuelan con stitution, the sanction of the national legislature was n ecessary for the admiss ion of foreigners into the ser vice, and that the only way to get out of the difficulty was for the party to become naturalised citizens. la case they would determi ne to roman British subjects the authorities would pay them off and bear their expenses until they could reach home. To this the captain agreed, stating that he did not see bow the Venezuelan govern ment could do otherwise ; but that, as to the crew and others, ho wished to consult with them. Thereupon he started from Caracas for Leguayra for the purpose of consulting with the rest of the party, and on returning presented terms of settlement, which the government would not accept. Admiral Benjamin Arenas, command ing the squadron, was ordered to take possession of the vessel. After he had done so and gone on shore Captain Fook proposed as the best way of settling amicably with the crew, that he should go aboard alone and offer them the balance of their pay, icc. As all along he had entered into the views of the government his proposal was accepted ; he went aboard, and during the night the vessel put So sea, leaving the Venezuela* crew that A.rriens had put on board in • small boat, without either care or sails. They managed to save themselves by attracting the attention of a fishing smack, which landed them at Laguayra about 1 o'clock in the morning. The Bolivar is described as a twin screw steamer, of 829 t o ns burden, and has two engines of 210 - horse power. Her length is 226 feet, beam 27 feet, depth 20 feet .5 inches, draught 9to 10. She carries two steel rifled ears (70- poundars), two 24-pounders, 100 rifled carbines, 100 braces of pistols and other small arms. She is fitted out as to batteries on the Symond's system. Her standing rigging is all of galvanised iron. The Venezuelan consul at Havre, M. A. Parra Bolivar, has written a letter to the Journal du Havre, dated December 10, which repeats the fore going particulars, and adds that since the 31st of October, when Captain Fock ran away with her, the Bolivar had not been heard of. This probably explains the " Fenian war vessel" which has been seized in the Medway. The description of both vessel s appears to be much the same. ------- THE CHINA MAIL. AN AMERICAN BY SCHOONER DESTROYED FIRE. "News from Corea," says the Hong Kong Mail of November 1, "has arrived to the effect that the French have initiated proceedings to teach the Coreans that murdering foreigners is an unlawful pastime. The French admiral has sailed with his squadron to the Corea, but active operations will be deferred until after the winter. A sad tale of Corean barbarity accompanies this intelligence. Tho master and crew of an American schooner, named the General Sherman, with two English gentlemen, a Mr. Thomas and Mr. Hogarth, have been roasted to death by order of the king or his father—some accounts say the latter—the unhappy victims having been tied down in their bertha and the ship then set on fire. We may suppose that some notic.t will be taken of this by the British government. Whether law:ully there or not, their semi-barbarous murderers have no s hadow of excuse for this atrocity, and it is to be hoped that prompt and effectual punishment will be inflicted ; not a pecuniary one only let us trust, as there is but too good reason to fear will be the case where the lives of British subjects are con cerned." The Shanghai Recorder says : We are informed that Mr. Thomas L. McCready, of the firm of Allen and Co., has proceeded to Chefoo in the Nanning with a view of endeavouring if possible to obtain intelligence respecting the people on board the General Sherman. He will go on, if necessary, from Chefoo to Tientsin and thence to Peking; where he will obtain a passport from the United States' Legation, and will then continue his journey to Monkden, where he will en deavour to procure the assistance of the Chinese authorities in tracing out the facts connected with this matter. It is not altogether without the bounds of possibility that the Coreans may have taken the foreigners to the barrier and have handed them over to the Chinese. Should such be the case, there may be some difficulty in finding them out, as the Mandarins at Monkden have upon more occasions than one thrown foreigners into gaol to avoid the expense of mending them on to their proper authorities. It is not very long ago since Mr. Meadows, the British consul at Newchwang, was instrumental in obtaining the release of four Russians, who bad been for a lengthened time in prison at that place, and the attempt made to in duce Captain M`Caslin and the crew of the steamer Sur prise to take up their quarters in a gaol would probably have resulted in their being similarly detained, had they allowed themselves to get into the mandarins' power to that extent. The plan contemplated by Mr. McCready of going to the barrier in company nith Chinese officials will probably prove the most satisfactory that could be devised, as the Coreans are familiar with the Chinese au thorities, and their presence will secure the matter receiv e attention at head-quarters. The MelbonnteArius of Oct. 27 says : " The revenue returns continue to be of an un satisfactory character in so far as the duties deriv able from the customs department continue to show a serious falling off. The net decrease on the first nine months of the year was 24,000 i. In the ' customs there is a decrease of 14,8431. on the • i I- • LitigNiNG 9 DitCEMBvI4, ...Ili -1866. Outer i of 116,4331. en the first nine X br the of the 4asr ; and of 93,1361. on . year ending Es Septem b er . The "all oth duties" of the new tariff—those which are specially oppressive to the import trade, pro duced only 96,988/. for the nine months m com pared with 129,7 381 . i n the corresponding months of 1865, although the y were only in force for a portion of that per iod. The balance of the year's account has been mainta ined b y sales of land. It is still more 'satisfactory to find that the yield of gold has been more than maintained, the exports of Victorian gold having excee ded those in the corresponding period of 1865 by more than 70,000 ounces, while the increase in the export of New Zealand gold from Melbourne has been still larger." The attention of those interested in mining Fur_ suits during the month had been chiefly directed to Ballarat, in consequence of the rapidly develop ing richness of the ground. We read : Well qualified judges seem to have oome to the oon. the e l us i o n that the reef groun d or the original surface, in vicinity of the three claims—the Sir Wm. Don, the New ington, and the Inkermann and Durham Junollon Coms3 panics—im ano ther Ballarat of the days of 1852 and 18. only it is covered over with volcanic rock and dirt. It would seem that the washdirt is of extraordinary richness ; that the leads are numerous ; that the reef is tolerably fist ; and that in every respect, ex cept perhaps se to oolour, the wash Flat resem bles that of Old Pennyweight , and other ez.xedingly rich ground on the shallow sinking. of our first gold-mining era. It is believed that an enor mous amount of gold lies untouched below the basa from ltic f orma tion, and that there is more gold to be got yet the reefs than has been taken from the gutters, the centre be o f which was only taken out before. If this prove to the case, the greater portion of the town has yet to be undermined. The shares in the companies &fleeted by t h ese discoveries have, of Doan increased in vslde enor mously. A new ru sh has taken place in the Mary. borough district, in the vicini t y of Happy Jack's lead, Havelock, very good prospects having been obtained in four or five feet sinking. New ground has also been opened at Soren. In some of the claims on Seotohtnan's Beef, Pleasant Creek, a second reef has been discovered below the water. The Sydney Herald of Oct. 23rd reports The news from the gold-fields is very good this month. At Tambaroora a large nugget weighing 87os. was found. The quarts-crushings at that place are yielding first-rate returns. In one case 400 oz. of the precious metal were ob tained fromeight tonsof quartzfrom the Independent Reef. A very rich quiets reef has been discovered by a party of prospectors in the Weddin Mountains. The reef is situated a b ou t thirty-five milesfrom t he townshiPof of ii Bromdah and Bogobogolong stations.Aregular rush to this newly discovered reef set in at once, and it is stated that most of the persons who have ventured there are doing very well. Gold is distinguishable by the naked eye, wherever the reef appears. Forty claims have been marked out, and seven parties are already hard at work. The intelligence from the Lachlan is, on the whole, fa• vourable, although the diggers there are not at all as suc cessfal as could be wished. The discovery of an apparently rich field at" Thompeon's lead" attracted a very large num ber of miners there, and the results of the workings by no means justified their expectations. Some large nuggets have been found, and altogether the yield of gold is con siderable, although a great many diggers have become dis heartened from their want of success. The rash to the field has almost trebled the population, end a township, almost as large as Forbes, has sprung up on Thompson's lead. The news from Luoknow is very good, one party there getting forty ounces of gold to the ton of wash dirt. No intelligence of any importance has come to hand re specting the northern g old -fields. but the yield of gold from thence appears to be undiminished. The great event of the month at Melbourne had been the opening of the Intercolonial Exhibition, which included contributions from the French colony at New Caledonia, and Batavia. The affair and the glory of it were the theme of universal discussion, and up to the last date the crowd of visitors has been very great. NEW ZEALAND. A FIGHT WITH THE NATIVES. A despatch from Wellington, dated Oct. 11 says : Letters have been received from the West Coast, which state that Major lll'Donnell started from Ketemarai on Monday se'nnlght, with 74 Europeans and 50 natives, and, just before daylight on Tuesdayimorning, reached a thickly fenced village. The call for surrender was answered by a volley from the where', some of which were earth, slabbed, and shot-proof. The rebels made several sallies, but were as often driven in. Major M'Donnell and his men meanwhile removed earth from the roofs of the whivea, and poured in volley after volley on the inmates. The whams were all sett on fire, and burnt to the ground, and the prisoners, of whom seven were taken, state that 14 men were buried in the ruins, in addition to 21 bodies picked up outside. As Major M`Donnell and his force retired, neighbouring natives came up, but were beaten off, Ensign Penis killing three. Threats and a cocked pistol compelled the prisoners to show the forces a short cut back, and also to help in car rying the wounded, of whom there were four, and three killed. The Otago Times of Oct. 20 says that there has been a slight renewal of native disturbances, and that rumours are rife that more serious ones are impending : It is impossible to say how true these rumours may prove, since there are so many causes in operation to produce them. The native difficulties have so many ramifications, and there is such a difference of opinion concerning them, even amongst those who for many years have been mixed up with them, that it is impossible for the impartial observer accurately to weigh the several agencies at work. The conflicting accounts, in fact, represent conflicting opinions. Thus we have on this occasion to state that many think the natives intend another wide-spread rising, whilst others attach but little importance to the indications in that direction. Thoughtful men aver that the departure of the troops will be fraught with encouragement to native ksubordination. The same paper says of the New Zealand gold- fields : The goldfields of the west coast continue their produc. tiveness, and are attracting large and increasing numbers of miners from Victoria and New South Wales. They are spreading themselves over the vast area of suriferou• country, and fresh discoveries are constantly being made. From the direction of these new goldfields, it seems pro bable that very shortly easy means of communication will be formed with the goldfields of Otago, and that the min ing districts of the provinces of Canterbury and Otago will be worked by a large and united population. The gold fields of Otago only require labour to develop them. The escort returns, notwithstanding the few millers, continue to be maintained. (REI3TIR'S TELEOE•ith.) ITALY. FLORENCE, DEC. 13. A royal decree has been published, ordering the railway works of the Victor Emmanuel Company to be carried on by the state until the end of March, 1867, this company having declared its inability to continue the works. The government will expend eighteen million lire for the works, and will obtain this amount by the issue on account of the company of consolidated renter and treasury bonds. The payments to be made in cash to the Pontifical government will fall due on the 15th of March. The funds have already been deposited in Paris. The Opinions of to-day contradicts the rumour that the mission of General Fleury refers to any other matter than the Roman question, and that he came to Florence to effect an understanding be tween France and Italy in view of certain foreign complications. "His mission," adds the Opinions, " refers solely to the Roman question." The Ito.& of to-day says :—" All ides of the de parture of the Pope from Rome appears to have been abandoned. The City of Rome is perfectly tranquil." MEXICO. PARIS, Dee, Is, The Moniteur of this morning publishes the f e l. lowing telegram from Mexico, dated 3rd instant, and signed by Marshal Banana and Goma Castelnan :—" The Emperor Maximilian is WI li n Mexico, and has not yet come to any a s . ;cision with respect to his future movements. The evacution of Mexico requiring to be court. plated by the month of March, it is urgent tb s i the transports should arrive without delay. Th t mission of Minister Campbell and General ghee. man arrived at Vera Crux on the 29th of Novem. ber, and left that town on the 3rd of December. The members of the mission appear tote animated by sentiments of the most conciliatory character." SPAIN. The Politica of to-day publishes an article advising the mutual abolition of all import ha l between Spain and her colonies as the beet moo of developing the Spanish mercantile service. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE TEUTONIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Dm 13, The Hamburg and Amer►can Company's Wasmat Teuton* from New York, passed the Needles 9.45 a.m. to-day. (111 ...TWIT= TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK., Dec. 11, Vim Gold, 134. Sterling exchange on Lowy; 109. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1071 ; Bib* 1171 ; Erie, 72f. Cotton, midland upland, 33,1. NEW YORK, Dtc. 12, Eynon Gold, 138. Sterling exchange on London,loBl. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1071. Illinois, 117' Erie, 721. The Hamburg and American Company's stem Bavaria has arrived out. (IZMIR'S EXPRESS.) ITALY AND THE POPE. PARIS, DEC. 12, ETERER The Evening ifoniteur publishes the follow* remarks upon the question of the Pope and Italy Two important facts have occurred—the signatars convention for the partition of the Pontifical debt sad mission entrusted to Signor Tonello—of a character strengthen the favourable disposition of the Cunt dike It is known that by Art. 4 of the Convention of Sept. Italy had declared herself ready to enter into en mew meat to take under her charge a proportionate pert d* debt of the former States of the church. This stipalans was intended to put an end to a state of Any seem trary to equity as to the interests of the Pentad treasury. In fact, while the Italian gamma received the revenues of the Romagna, the Ntreln, and Umbria, the Romsn government conthasi to pay :he portion of the debt incumbent upon nom pm vines. It was requisite to put a stop to this amok while guarding the dignity of the Holy Father, asking him to abandon his former protests sad num. negotiation entered into upon this subject between Fri and Italy,who have tr eated upon the question directly, arrived at a fortunate issue. The convention foe e tition of the debt between the Court of Florence Holy See was signed at Paris upon the 7th inst. Fenger. and Signor Mancardi, the two French nal plenipotentiaries. The basis upon which the partings been made is the total number of the popelvia of the former States of the Church. The portion debt incumbent upon Italy will be transferred to e" book of the Italian p u blic debt. The Court while not departing from or sacrificing any of pies, will in a few days be in a position, thanb persevering efforts of French policy, to 7 benefit of one of the most advantageous clans' vention of the 15th September. At the very time i fina nc ial question is thus being settled in the most' tory manner, negotiation relative to the religious , . ties is about to be resumed at Borne. It will be resound that in March last year the sovereign pontiff, setetted the loftiest idea of religion and conciliation, sang autograph letter to King Victor Emmanuel presenting to that monarch the atoning curl in which the absence o f the bishops left a cocin. a number of dioceses in Italy. The King euselyl this generous initiative, and a special "gni Vega:l, was sent to Rome to treat setnioSc that capital of the religious question between the Holy See and the Italian ment. This mission, although not producing res ults that had been hoped from it, developed tit of conciliation, and prepared elements of egrecent the future. King Victor Emmanuel considered the time wee come to renew the r and Signor Vegeui being unable on his health to repair to Rome, the of State, Signor Touello, has been despot capital. The return of the bishops to their already an accomplished fact, and this ion[. authorises us in hoping for agreement span points. The success of Signor Tonello's Emma not fail to be profitable to the general retakes the Holy See and the Court of Florence, would perhaps no longer be far distant when government would consent to establish with relations, which both from an econotnica point of view would be of a charactet to produce , salutary consequences. catholic • The Countess of Clare, a Roman vert, has just built and endowed a convent . in the Isle of Wight. On Tue. - lay the comon tered nuns of the Dominican order, IS Whalley, in Lancashire, took possession C onven t. They were accompanied from Son% Cowes by the Rev. Father Mount and Mrs. a catholic lady. One of the nuns is 84 years another is aged and blind. At, owss "." mo bbed owing to some defect ive poce smarm' Countess of Clare has built and richly endowei catholic church and schools at Ryde, where Her ladyship has apartments in the convey chooses to reside there. The nuns are Engl appear to have been well educated. The Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Portarlington, and the Earl of Glasgow the St. George's Hotel. The Count and Countess de Flahat Madlle. de Flahault have left Coventry H( fur Paris. Count Flahault is much iml since his return from Scotland. The Bishop of Bath and Wells the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, f Wells. The marriage of Lieutenant - Col ow. Peel (Soots Fusilier Guards) to the lion. ton Cotton (daughter of Viscount and Ve. mere) is arranged to take place at Ct about the end of this month. We (Herald) are happy to hear Keppel, K.C.8., has been appointed to King in the command of the China and . want an officer of Sir Harry Keppers stet rously with the pirates in the Chinese seas. Mr. J. K. Ingram, LL.D., F. T.' of Oratory and English Literature, bas the Professorship of Greek in the Uni, vacated by the Rev. Thomas Stack. A.' ing the Junior Bursarship in Trinity Cr DEPUTATIONS TO TIM Bo tut A deputation from the Southwark Wharfingers' Association for Promoting Traders of the Port o f London, consisl Colin Smith, Mr. Willson, Mr. Johr Hunt. Mr. Bell, Mr. W. M. Smith, &ova, Mr. Curling, Mr. Dudley Smith (secretary), and Mr. Arkooll (soli terview with the Right Hon. Sir Staff the office of the Board of Trade, W A deputation from Southampton, Right Hon. Buda Gurney, M.P., and had an interview with the Right Hon. f cote, at the office of the Board of Trade , terday, on the subject of light dues. MADRID, DEc. U. EXP . • THE R2O e. 4. The pro] a. is called the • which, in the military cr. world, and Is. is revealed i tO4SY • ee. tary co r.W are public yet due to . to • the new i tier of the army loss s equence of am public was the introdu , improvem ing, whi Tate the 13 country fleas dually pre. let ak interpretat now the to Emperor urs. 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