The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

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Cara EIGH VAT= AT LONDON SUM& I.t■ P•t—wasoir. Z.arklatwo—Seralas. .Ailmasah, %Ala. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 26. Mlwir. the many and sore troubles which embit tend tit ass decline, the sorest (by his own ac count) was the dread of an unfavourable posthumous reputation. Ile apprehended that his faults would be the most conspicuous features of his character, as thee were to himselt at the moment ; and that the word could not fully sympathise in his lofty demo- cratic view of Men in Society. Never was a last estimate of set and one's kind more mistaken ! The veriest pedant and peppy, who dies pitying the world for the struggle it will have to get on without him, is not more deluded in one direction than Buvoi was in the opposite. He wee not irrational in his view, however, though wholly mis taken. MOM who surrounded him were much engrossed with his faults towards the close of his life ; and his views and opinions were treated by his employers, as well as others, with not only displeasure bat contempt. It was intimated to him that "his business was to act, not to think." And this was said, not as a cheek upon political sgitatlom, or any extreme demonstra tion of any kind, but In reply to a statement of his views which had been drawn from him by accusa tion. He did not desire a republic in Great Britain, ke said, because Britons have all the means o rational liberty and social welfare. Ile wished for no change in our form of government, but for a reform of the "system of corruption between the " executive power and the representative part of the legislature, which boded no good to our glorious con " stitution, and which every patriotic Briton must " wish to lee amended." After thin, his "superiors", could not denounce him as a republican, so they informed him that his business well to act, and not to think I and he, valuing his thought, feared that there would be no sympathy with it or hies after he was gone, and that he would be known by his infirmities, if at all. On this day, the centenary of his birth, the whole world that speaks or reads our language is rejoicing because he lived sad thought, and told what he thought. The homage of united kingdoms, of clus ters of colonies, and of several foreign nations is paid to his memory to-day. So much for his posthumous reputatiou ' As to his being remembered by his faults, the most touching and glorious tribute of all Is, perhaps, the teetotal celebration of the day. If he could but have foreknown it in his hour of deepest remorse, what a solace would this have been l—what a pregnant reply to his worst misgivings! There is to be a "tea banquet" in the Edinburgh Corn Exchange to-day, "under the auspices of the Tots! " Abstinence Society." We hear it with gratitude and glee. 8o much for his being remembered only by his faults! There could not have been a better conjunction between the date and public affairs than that which we witness. It could not have happened better as an express reply to BURNS yearning after sym pathy in his aspirations for society. The festival would, no doubt, have been held under any condition of public affairs. The man binds us to him by so many ties that we should bare been ready with oar homage in the midst of a war, or under a PITT and ELroN Government, or under a return of the Bit ants, or under a Republic—whether amidst the deepest adversity, or in a condition without a care. The response of men's passions, sympathies, senti ments, to hie song would have been loud and clear amidst any turmoil of conflict, or merry-making in peace sad prosperity. But there is a peculiar apti tude in the spirit of the hour for honouring' BURN , . Ilia irrepressible thought about the mutual relations of men in society, and his clear view of the necessity of making their representation in mint an honest one, are the very thought and the very icy which our minds an now occupied with. and on which we are at present daily called upon to speak. So much for the sympathy which he dared not anticipate! Far be it from us to dwell exclusively on the Poet's darkest hours, or on the controversies which embittered them. When men talk of Bra's they do not (except, very naturally, in the l;nited States) consider whether he was a Republican, ore Whig.or a Tory. They think of the atter, Sa'arday or of MyAland -Vary, or of Tans o'Shanler. They think of the dirge, the reaping-song, the war hymn, the prayer, and personal penitence. They think of the plea for the weak, and the rebuke of the haughty. They regard him as the poet, the lover, the mourner, the wit, the comrade, the sinner, the sufferer, rather than u the politician. Yet, the chief bond between him and other men —the grand security for his pos session of the sympathies of all generations, is his estimate of Man as Man, under all conditions. Some may praise his "Republican boldness " of speech, and others may exalt has generosity towards the lowest and most helpless: his employers might call him dangerous, and his tine acquittance might caution him against noticing the vulgar: they have all agreed from the beginning, and all men will agree to the end, in holiest to their heart's' con his estimate of what is doe to Man es Man. One mornieg he shook hands with a peasant on the Leith road, and talked with him some time, in the presence of a fop, who strrwards rebuked him for showing his friendship for a man dressed in homespun. " Why, you fantastic gamed," cried Bt RN', "it was not the grey coat, or the score " hence or the boot hose, that I spoke to, but the " man that was in them :" and he proceeded to de :,p bin view of the comparative quality of the Otte men who composed the group. Ilia song, " " there for honiet poverty," is the expression of his daily habit of mind throughout his life. The rank Is but the itthsse stump: The men's the gelid kw a' that, is the doctrine and the sentiment by which he lived, and which made him the immortal poet he is. That Deng is certainly the most widely known of kis pieces at present. Familiar as we all are with half s-hundred of his strains which range from lofty de soutane, through the whole series of affections and passions, to the most homely fun, we all feel that that song is the truest exponent of the man to the greatest number of his kind. Under the virtual unsonhip of hie day, it was not permitted to be snag in the streets of our northern towns—a strange bet to os now! But it was sung in the reaping field and in the cottage ; and now it is known by heart wherever our language is spoken and Low land Scotch is read. He made no secret of kis having achieved • personal discovery on the subject of that song. He said, " I remember in my " ploughboy days, I could not conceive it possible "that a noble lord could be a fool, or a godly man "could be a knave. How ignorant ploughboys "are!" In the same way, the high-born and the pions (self-called) could not, in those days, conceive of a peasant as being wise, or • poor man dignified. This long is an admonition as valuable for the one mistaken class as for the other ; and who can say how much it may have done towards bringing thane into the happier understanding of our day? One of Brave' long-standing regrets was that he could not enter Parliament. He had much to tell there, and much to ask ; and it might have been of advantage to us in several ways if he could have had the opportunity. That wish of his, and the reasons for it, are n►tural recollections for us to-day, when we are in the midst of an enterprise to obtain a voice and a hearing in the Howe of Commons for men of BURNS' clue. Ile had perceived that, in our country, while there la no obstacle to the entrance of the low-born rich into society, and into Parliament, there is great jealousy of the low-born who rise, or are qualified to rise, by other powers than that of wealth. The owners of boroughs in those days were great men, whether they were born in the mansion or the cottage; bat the poet, the scholar, the politi cian, was repressed by an insolent or a timid aristo cracy. Scans had keen reason to know this, and his craving for an opportunity of utterance in Par liament was a natural consequence. We lire in an improved age, when there is a fairer field for desert, without any fatal inquisition into origin. We live, accordingly, under a growing necessity of ad mitting to the representation men whom BURNS would have called his equals before the law and the throne; and whatever &ewes said about the claims of such men is valuable to us, not only on this day, but on every other. We have no right to appropriate it, however, without being clear as to what he meant by peasant life, when he asserted its claims. Its poverty was obvious enough. On this day hundred years, he was born in a ricketty clay hovel, which was blown down a few days afterwards, when he and his mother were carried out into the storm from among the ruins. Bat it did not follow that this peasant family would, like some of oar country neighbours at this day, ask whose son the Prince of WALE, is, Of de mand wages which will rise with the price of bread, or insist that the QUERN should " do something" for everybody who is badly off. Iluivel had a other who read with him, and smother who sang to hint— sang songs which brought out the poet and patriot elements in him. The Scotch peasantry then were at least as intelligent as our shop-keeping or best artisan class now. When we mu that our rural neighbours are as intelligent, we shall delight in ex pressing their aspirations in Brans' words. Mean time, the way is more open now than it was then, while we have not a peasantry capable of his ambi tion. When he died it was asked, in all simplicity, by those about hie door, " And who will be our poet " now ?" This need never be asked by the pea santry of a later century. As sure as they rise into a capacity for seeing that THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1869. THE JUANE YESIIVAL.-/THIli DAY) --•-- The Crystal Palace presented a busy scene this morning, caused by the celebration of the centenary birthday of Burns. The colossi bust of Bnms, modelbil for this comics by Mr. Calder Marshall, exalted great interest, se also did the various portraits, autographs! and other remembrances of Burns. These Were nitrated at twelve o'clock precisely. At two o'clock the first pert of • comma' couiprieng maay of Sarni moat popular pieces was gives fa the Italian orcheatra, Miss Dolby, /dim Lab Stuart, and other well-known vocalhrts, who have made Scotch melody an especial study, being the principal performers. The declaration of the prise poem will immedistely precede the second part of the concert, sad be at once followed by its recitation. The services of Mr. Phelps have been secured for this purpose. Serail of Burns' beet known songs, among which are " Auld Lag syne," "Damon Gray," " • men's a man for a' that," "Green grow the rubes, 0," and " ante wha' has wi' Wallace bkd," will be that wog, sad la furtherance of the desire of the originators of this great gathering to render it of the most popular character, instanced by the price of admission being, as usual, one shilling only, it hes been arranged that the entire audience shall join in chorus In these well-known lyrics of the Scottish poet. To facilitate this, the words and music have been printed sepirstaly, and will be reedy for Issue within the Palace only at a small charge. The eff ;rut of the audience will be materially aided by the band of the company, the Scots Fusilier Guards, and the great organ, end sa invitations to be present have been accepted by upwards of 2,000 musical amateurs, in cluding the Handel Festival Chorus, with selections from other choral bodies, ft is likely that the well-known vases of Barns will mite an enthusiasm such as has been rarely witnessed. The day's proceedings will conclude with " God save the Queen," the following vane having been written for the occa sion, by Mr. Thomas Oliphant, honorary seterskiry of the Madrigal Society, with squid ninon to the Princess Frederick William of Prussia Long It,. her daughter fair, Loid wife of Prassia's bar And future Queen. Oa this their wadding day Sing we a joyful lay, God bless thus both we pray, God save the Queen I The directors of the Crystal Palace having on Saturday intimated their intention of sending a copy of the prise poem to such towns as proposed bolding Burns commemorations, the secrebuy of the company yesterday morning received over 900 spplications from Scotland and other places for copies, which were duly despatched by last evening's post. The 'educing at the Crystal Felice, it will thus be less, la not likely to hold an unworthy place fa oceussinoratiag the poet, Robert Burns. THE PRIZE POEM. The pith of ism sad gelds of worth . - Are mem nab lkea th.t, and show their claim to equality before the law and the government—the answer will be, " BURNS gall " be your poet now." The Brussels Independence says:—" Negotiation' for a large Piedmonts«) loan to be gumenteed by the French government have bean going on for r.ma tine*. The am inns were ressived se badly as could be by all the gnat monied totereets of Paris and London. For this reams it said. that a loan by public subserlpti9n to be opened simul taneously at Turin, London, and Feria le decided upon." " ' A Naples correspondent says that the reprosenta time by Histori ars thinly attendr. "Is addition, - he ob serves, to the many topics now occupying the public mind, and the garret satiety tad trouble, the celebrated letgailims has against her the party of Sadowthi, her rival, who, living at Naples, is supported out of local pride." At Constantinople, on the 12th, the diplomatic corps were invited to a performance given in their beams is as anitsee private theatre. The invitations we reetrielled so the chiefs of miri,ins, their wives, their Ind leetseerlea, sad their Met dragom•ro. Before th•Speebleie his Majesty maimed the grand saloon in which the geese Ird anu Mild. nod addressed a few words to each amber . rim The Iliainter of Foreign Admire then, by his Ma jesty's thresirm, Aired his arm to Lady Balser, and the cos pry, preceded by the Batten, repaired to the theatre, par ing through • suite of apartments, the principal ecatents of which wen pointed out to hie erste by hie Merry. The Italian eragany played the ores Staniallteill. It WY lepers/ st Constantinople that the Sul en Wended giving • pond ball in the same theatre to the diplomatic amps. There le nothing aeroiabing in this," says • Cemeiantinople earresposdant. " Turkish manners are becoming singularly modified by their contact with European social life; and the theta for halls, Niers, and film is rapidly on the jurors amongst the high clam of Ilrenlmsa society. Every Monday Lady Italwer's Weans are filled with Turkish functionaries, from the ailaisloes Ems So the simple emplo:,,e3, who, in spite of bed weather end the difficulties of travelling, &rive flan Conetairineple at Pere to be present it the charming musical so' f the British ambeerdress. I may cite also the are of Mehemed-All, of Egypt, who ' moire every Tarrisy evening, but whose guests, it meat be understood, do not Include ladies. Without this restriction, whisk la all probability will disappear in time, when those &grim hare become more general amongst the Turkish aristocracy, or would fancy hunaelf is the moat brilliant of European ealcros. A New York correspondent says the sold is so tamers thwe (he dare the Ilth tut.) that the resants of Arctic travellers reed like refreshing germ of bored life. Fury a day when the mercury Ind we., end then for a few ranter only, rise' even half a degree shove awo; the heaver clear, sharp, end cold r crystal; no cold winds blowing ; bat the still air cutting keenly with each Wrath: 11001.1 t all housed, except each as nemesity drives out; men muffled to the eyes in furl, hurrying to escape the tear that hr afreedy seised upon the ears and weer of move than we; scarcely a prince carriage ern say where; the omnibus drivers dismounting whenever chasm car, to avoid freezing on their tests , the windows of the skips covered with the frost either shooting its crystals in ezuniette forms over the superb panes, or covering them with rd mw messes of omits white; indoors great fires bluing in the grates, the hot•eir furnaces pouring oat heated biers that Jiro! vs into Steam is the morning sunlight, the water• pipes and the pa-metere freezing in spite of all care, sad re lard. crouching round the fires In a ear duet to bar warm. If you con frow these fragments fill up the *Me, 1 1 you may form a cored Ida of what New York we. yeller- I I day and is to-day." 4 . IITRTAL O:4Z SBILLINO DAY. 111nvt.tr, J AK. 24 —Admissions cik paymant, ; are by swam *IAN PS. Total vialors, Vbe Court. WINDSOR, JAW. 24. The Queen, with Princess Alice, rode in the Riding house this snorting, attended by the Hon. Horatio titopktd, The Prince Conant went out hunting attended by Lieut.- Colonel Poneosby. A deputation, respecting the Grimm in Birmingham, had an interriew with Mr. Secretary Walpole, )4 eterday, at the Home-offlae, and submitted plans of town-h■tl. The depu tation consisted of Sir John Butch' (Mayor), Mr. Alderman Holliday (chairman, *stets and buildings committee), Mr. Councillor Briggs, Mr. Steedbridge (town clerk), Mr. W. E. Hilliard (of °megrims, solicitor to the corporation), Mr. Martin (architect to the eorporation). Mr. Roebuck, M.P., bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing -street. - A &Walks coalitalai of Mr. What*ley, Q.C., Mr. Q.C., Mr. Iladdkatoo, Q.C., Mr. Gray, Mr. M'Mahoo, M.P., sad Kr. Mims, had an interview on Saturday with 11r 1 Seeretary Walpole at the Horne office. DoomsSchee for the governor. of the colonies on the West Coast of Africa men seat yesterday from the Colonial-office. Desp►tches were meshed from the Governor of .the Matt- PRINCE ALFRED AT TC:14113. TUNIS, JAN. 16. On the morning of the 2nd inst. an English frigate wee signalled from the heighte of Carthage, end In the course of the day It beoame known that it was the Boryalos, having on board his Royal Highness Primes Alfrod.ly on the following morning her Majesty's Consul-General waited upon the prince, and the European as well se the Moslem population of Tunis anxiously waited his return to learn the object of this unexpected visit. It was, however, parity known that Wm royal . . highnese had requested Mr. Davis, now excavating to the site of Carthage, to attend him the day after. It was at once seen that there was so politlaat question comected with the prince's visit, but that this clank lead wee his only attraction. On the 6th Prince Alfred landed, accompanied by Major Correll, Captain Tar baton, end several officers of the frigate. Every demonstra tion to exhibit the friendly feelings towards Great Britain was made by the local authorities. Carriages were in atten dance to convey the party to the Palace at Bardo, where the prince was received by the reigning Bey with an affection quits parasol. In the meantime the City Pa lace had been prepared for the prince, to which he hod no sooner repaired than the Bey returned his visit. Ow this, as well es on the previous occasion, his highness ex ' read himself in the strongest terms in favour of Eng land, and to demonstrate his sincerity he begged Prince Alfred to permit him to invest him with the badge of the reigning family of Tmis—a diamond, only worn by princes of the blood. The distinguished visitor and mite then returned on board the frigate. The following morning they landed again, and, accompanied by Mr. Davis, pro ceeded to examine the remains of the once mighty Carthage. In the 'maim the prince honoured the Conaul•Orncrel by _ . being peseest at a bell got up in the beet style Tunis can afford. On the 7th hie royal highness went to view the ruins of Udine, or Oadn•, the ancient Utica, and the day after he visited again the ruins of Carthage. A terrible gale, during which no lees than eleven vessela were wrecked, confined the prince to the ship, and prevented him front the gratification of a boar hunt upon • magnificent scale, especially prepared less him by the hey. /laving taken leave of his highness on the 13th, Prince Alfred embarked again on the folkwing evening, and sailed at 2 p.m. this day for Malta. The im pression be has made here la moat favourable, and it is highly gratifying to the English ear to hear one of Britain's princes highly lauded by Christians, Moslems, and Jews residing in this country.— Turn. This day (Tuesday, Jan. 25) is the anniversary of the marriage of the Princess Royal. A letter From Berlin, dated Saturday, btatee that the Priacess Frederick William goes oat in her carries* every day. A letter from Turin says :—" A visit from the Prince of Wales to expected shortly here; sad I tun informed that the British government has given wince to the Sardinian government of the visit of hie royal highness to this court. The statement has been well received, and I know from an undoubted source that King Victor Emmanuel is much gratified with the prospect of his royal highness's arrival, sad awaits the opportunity to give a warm and affeutitinate reception to the heir of the British empire." Ills Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Duchess de MaLAGS left Albert-gate Hones yesterday, on a 'telt to the Duke and Duchess of Wellington at Strolllel& eaye, Hants, until Saturday. Ihe Duke and Duchess of Wellington are at pre sent st Strathileidwaye, Hants, where they intend to receive a select circle during the week. The Marquis of Hartington, )1.P., it is said, bill return home from him tow W I tely, In order to Wad his parliewasaistry duties. The:Asti Jermyn ham left his residence in Eaton plate on s stint to the Duke of Rutland, at Banda Castle, The Countess of lleaart will leave town to-day for Windsor Cert., to succeed the Viscountess itrelya r lady le-wainag on her Mejraty... _ _ . Lord and Lady Colchester will leave Berkeley square to-day for Windror Castle, the noble lord and lady having been honoured by an invitation to visit her Majeety. The Right lion. Henry and Lady Mary Labon ehe»will return to town on the lat of heat month, from Blowsy Park, Sotarreetehire t for the season. Th; Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood aro expected to town in a few days from ilittletsa Hall, Iroebbize. The Right Hon. Charles l'elham Villiers, M.P., arrived as his madame in Sloane-street yesterday, for the MOM Sir John Young will quit Corfu with his family ea Saturday, the 29th hut. We (Ca - nierbury Ga:ette) regret to state that no improvement has taken place in the state of health of the Rev. Canon Cherhyre, which is each an to camas the moat serious apprehensions. The report of Sir Macdonald Stephenson, on the result of Ws personal inquiries in Smyrna end Constanti nople, has teen received, from which it appears that the first section of the railway of Ley miles out of Smyrna will be opined in September next. The document contains several matters of interest in connexion with the wLole question of railway communication In Turkey. Mr. W. Morris, Deputy Military Storekeeper of Woolwich Arsenal, after a continuous *envies of opwards of forty-four years In that department, yesterday left Woolwich to enter on the doles of hie new appointment as Principal Military fitortkeeper at Chatham. This tardy act of official justice rendered to Mr. Morrie is considerod mainly attribo table to a mil core expression toads by Mr. Arpinall Turner, as duvet:auks of Mr. Morris's examination by the Royal . . . _ Commissioners la the Arai al, to the effect that he would remark, ma the rank sad pay of Mr. Morrie, that be could sot avoid oimenrbi the discernment end policy of the autho rities of as astabliebmart who could remunerate his latrtitel of .early hall a century with 4601. a year. The Grand Doke and Grand Duchess of Meck lenburg Strobl: have left Nice for Rome and Palmero. Th; Diritto of Turin states that the Marquise Letitia Pepoll Murat, smother of the ex-King Joachim of Naples, ►as just had a Meeks of spoplezy at Bologna. At Trieste on the 17th a grand ballwas, by order of the Archduke Me:icedlien, given in the rooms of the Admiralty to the officers of the Neapolitan squadron seat for the Prince's Royal of Naples and to gentlemen and ladies who form the court of the prince and princess. Among the pereonages present were Prince Petrulls, Neapolitan unbar asdor at Naples, the Dates de Seers Capriole snd Lorenzen& the Princess Partanna, and the Duchess di Bea Caearki. Ries Bey, Turkish ambemador at the Court of Ronk, woo also primal. In addition to Mdme. la I - tont:lire le Nourry, es lady of tumour to tha Primer Clotilde, Mum Niel is spoken of for a similar post. The gread mistress of the usw imperial primate's household will be, it is sold, the Duchess M l'adoue. Prince Louie-Lucien Bonaparte has been named .ember of the St. Petersburg Academy 0 Sciences. The academy has shm c - mferred this distinction on Baron de Braenow, Rusisa minister ie Inadon, and on other emi aniA Pencsesee. AT THE CITIITAL PALACE. We hall this MOTU, A otatury's noblest birth ; A Poet pseitant-born, Who more of Fames immortal dower Unto his country brings, Than all her Hinge A. lamps high set Upon some earthly eminence,— Amt to the game brighter thence Than the sphere-lights they Gnat, — Dwindle in distance and die tut, While no star waneth yet ; 8o through the past's far-reaching night, Only the star-souls keep their light. A gentle boy,— With moods of sadness and of mirth, Quick tear. and sudden joy,— Grew up beside the peasant's hearth. His father's toil he shares; But half his mother's cares Prom his dark searching eyes, Too swift to eympathise, Hid in her heart she bears. At early morn, His father calla him to the field ; Through the stiff soil that clogs his fart, Chill rain sad harvest heat, He pinde all day ; return, at eve outworn, To the rude fare • peasant's lot doth yield ; To what else was ha born ? The God-made King Of every living thing (For his greet heart in love could hold them all) ; The dumb eyes meeting Ms by hearth and stall,- 0 Med to andetstnnd ! Knew it and sought his hand ; And the most timorous creature had not fled, Which fain all feeble things had blasid and shattered. To Natures fesst,— . Who knew her noblest guest And entertained him best, — Kingly he came. Her chambers of the mat She drep'd with crimson and with gold, And potted her pure joy-wines For him the poet-mead. For him her anthem rolled, From the storm-wind among the winter pines, Down to the alerait.nat note Of a love-warble from the linnet's throat. But when begins The array for battle, and the trumpet blowy, A king must leave he feast, and lead the fight. And with its mortal foes — HAM gathering hosts of sorrow end of sins— Each human soul mast doe.. And Faros her trumpet blew Before him ; wrippd him in her purple state; And made him mark for all the shafts of fate, That hesueforth round him flew. Though he may yield, Hard-pass e d and wounded fall Forsaken on the field; • His regal vestments sal; Hls mown of half ita jewels gain; He lea King for all. Had he but stood aloof Had he array'd himself in armour proof Against temptation's darts I So yearn the good ;—eo those the world calls wise, With vain presumptuous hearts, Triumphant moralise. Of martyr-woe A sawed shadow on his memory rests; Tears have not ceased to fi tw ; Indignant grief yet stirs impetuous breasts, To .htak,--above that noble soul brought low, That wise sad soaring spirit herd, easlav'd— Thus, thus he had been eared I It might not be I That heart of harmony Had been too rudely rent; Its silver chord', which any hand could wound, By no hand could be ttio'd, Save by the maker of the instrument, Its every string who knew, And from profaning touch his heavenly gift withdrew. Regretful love Ilia conotry fain would prove, By grateful honours lavished on his grave ; Would fain redeem her blame That he so little at her hands can claim, Who unrewarded gave To her his life-bought gift of song and fame. The land he trod Bath now become • place of pilgrimage ' • Where dearer ate the daises of the sod That could his song engage. The hoary hawthorn, wreathed • Above the bank on which his limbs he Sung While some sweet plaint he breath'd ; The streams he wander'd near; The maidens whom ha toed the songs he sung ; All, all are dear I The arch Mee eyes-- Arch but he love's cod Scotland a daughter", soften at his strain; Hat hardy sona sent forth across the main To drive the ploughshare through earth's virgin soil., Lighten with it their toils; And sister lands laws levied to love the tongue In which such ampere sung. For doth not Song. To the wbols world belong Is it not given wherever tears can fall, Wherever hearts can melt, or blushes glow, Or mirth and sadness mingle es they flow, A heritage to all ? We are glad to learn that the Swab Eastern Railway have offered to the widow of the Rev. T. Wood, Wesleyan minister, who died from injuries real Vel fa the shocking accident at Chilhare last summer, the coat of 1,5001. as compensation. Mr. Wood left a widow end eight childree. The preparations necessary for fitting the Great Eastern for sea have at last been decided ce. The con trsctore are to commence their work on the 16th of February, and are bound under penalties to complete all In fits month. from that date. The first trial trip will therefore take place about the middle of July, when it is latenad to run out from Weymouth to the nal.ldle of the Atlantic, and try the ship under ell possible coeditions of la and slow. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. BARDLNIA. At the review held by Prince Napoleon at Turin, as already stated by telegraph, of all the survivor( of the Grande Arm& decorated with the medal of St. Helena, his imperial highness addressed them in French in the following words : .. . . "I thank you for the eage rams which you hare shown in assembling here to meet me. lam deeply affected by it. Noble and glorious remains of our armies! you are an additional bond between France and Piedmont, which, as well as our dynasties, are and will be allied in future. I shall inform the Emperor of your ardour, and I thank you in his name. Pire tßompereur ! Vice le Roi Victor -gm , matsuel!" (MON 001 01.171 TURIN, JAN. 20. I will mention a few particulars respecting Prince Napoleon which have not been noticed by the press. In his conversation he is extremely liberal, and ex presses the opinion that it is necessary to give France a larger amount of freedom. As the Prin cess Clotilda, his intended bride, is staying at the Castle of Moncalieri, Prince Napoleon went there the day after his arrival, and remained there all day. As the people perceive in the new match a sure pledge of the French alliance against Austria they profess to be satisfied with it, al though they say it is an act of abnegation on the part of Victor Emmanuel in behalf of Italy, their common country. On the other hand, the high aristocracy speak of the coming event in a dis respectful way, and call the marriage the sacrifice of Iphigenia. They got up a petty plot to hiss the Prince, both on his arrival and on his appear ance in the theatre, but the king, having heard of it, accompanied the Prince in the evening to the royal box, when they were saluted with applause such as has not been heard these many years. The cheers lasted for several minutes. The high aristocracy then thought they would revenge themselves by staying away from Court, and from the first ball given on Monday evening by Count Cavan?, in the apartments of the Foreign Minister's official residence. Bat the people laugh at these puerile marks of spite. There are, however, a number of emissaries from Vienna and Rome here, who endeavour to promote disturbanoes and even public demonstrations against the war. They strive in vain, for the behaviour of the muses in the capital and provinces could not possibly be better. All resign themselves to the additional, and it must be said most heavy, sacrifices which this little state is forced to make. There is, as it were, a mot d'ordre gone forth, that they must avoid shouting, and meetings, and festivities, and the thousand other outward signs of the year 1848. Deeds, not words, is the motto for 1859. I believe I can confidently announce to you the despatch of two diplomatic notes, both of them by your government. One was sent to Austria, the other to Piedmont. In this second note, it is said, that as the sincere ally of Sardinia England feels it her duty to divert her from the dan gerous path she seems willing to follow. She reminds Piedmont, amongst other things, that her true and noble task in Italy is to exalt and im prove the other Italian governments by the efficacy of her own example. I believe it will not be difficult for the Sardinian Minister to reply, that ten years of quiet and prosperous constitutional government have produced on the other Italian governments the sole effect of uniting every one of them against Piedmont, and in ducing them to surround her with a sort of sanitary cordon am it were, so as to exclude the influence of her free press, and the development of her trade. If we look to the peoples of the Penin sula, the example of Sardinia has converted them all from the commencement of her parliamentary system. But if we look to the rulers, they maintain themselves, in opposition to their subjects, solely by means of armed foreign intervention, but for which they would have to quit the scene of their misrule long before Sardinia's influence could reform it. Lord Malmesbury's other note, to the Count Buol, is a warm exhortation to the Imperial government to remedy the serious grievances of Italy, thus de stroying the causes and pretexts of the threatened war. I think I can affirm with accuracy that speciali ties are not entered into, unless it be concerning the Papal government, of which his lordship says much evil is reported, and the earl invites Austria to join France sincerely in causing the suggestions con tained in the memorandum presented by the Sar dinian legation to Napoleon 111. during the Congress of Paris to be adopted. The Austrians are changing their form of defence. They had, u yea know, sold some forts of recent construction. Now they have bought back the fort of 'ATOM), on the Lago Maggiore, and they wish to do the same with the fort of Porta Tors, in Milan. This is owing to the tactics of General Hess, who, as I sent you word, will in the end be entrusted with the supreme command of the Italian army. I am able most positively to confirm the report, that when the fresh troops entered Milan the execu tioner came with them, and that he has publicly exhibited the infamous implements of his trade. My former report was the exact truth. A cart, with the gallows standing upright in it, has been paraded through Milan. The numerous imprisonments of which I spoke to you in my last are equally true, but the persons imprisoned are of the lowest chum. The Duchess of Parma and the Duke of Modena have gone to Vienna. The latter is expected back to-morrow, or the day after. It is said that he is dissatisfied beyond all measure, because he has failed to obtain some German troops he waked for. I think myself that the Emperor will not send an armed force to the Duchies, because, as they entered on one side, Piedmont would cause her troops to enter by the other side, and war—which Aus tria seeks to avoid—would begin. Nevertheless, she has increased her garrison in the fortress of Piacenza, and also at Ancona, where she is hurrying on her fortifications, and everything leads us to believe with the full consent of the Pope. In Tuscany the stream of events is becoming daily more and more turbid. The Grand Duke's first impulse was to incline to severity, and he wished to (lionise the minister Baldasseroni, a man considered to be moderate, to be rather tinged, in short, with liberalism. Reflection, however, made him change his mind, and some go so far ss to assert that he is meditating the resurrection of the Btatuto, such as it sese in 1818. If such be his inten tion, it will be dangerous to delay it until too late. The Tuscans will accept the Statuto, but they will fight against the Italian cause. General Ginlay has gone to Florence, for the purpose of persuading the Grand Duke to unite his forces with those of the Emperor Joseph. Should Leopold ever venture to do this, the rage of his subjects would be uncontrollable, tot ithstanding their usually gentle disposition. NAPLES. TRIESTE, lioxnvr EvrNING. A telegram just received here from Naples an nounoes the continual improvement of the K;ng's health. All the guests who have arrived here from Naples are going to Vienna, according to an invitation re oeived from the imperial court• BELGIUM. An interesting discoseion is going on at present in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, on a petition addressed by the inhabitants of St. Jesse ten-Noode, near Brussels, praying for "a compulsory public education; the modification of the law of 1842, respecting the inspection of primary schools by ecclesiastics; and the withdrawal of the Ant werp convention relative to the assistance of eccle elastics in religious instruction in schools, superior to the above." M. Rogier, Minister of the Interior, asserted that persuasion did cot suffice to decide parents to send their children to school, and that it would be necessary to have reoouree to fine and imprisonment. A member of the left, M. Muller, opposed such coercive measures; maintaining that parents are in general most de sirous of giving intellectual training to their clnl dren, and that by establishing schools everywhere, the youthful population would be infallibly attracted to them. The discussion has been adjourned. The majority of the Chamber appears disposed to refuse to ecclesiastics the legal right of inspection, but to authorise their presence in establishments of public instruction whenever it may be desired by parents. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ram ova OW CO r.) PARIS. MONDAT !VEXING. The oracular words of the ifimiteur have natu rally been very closely scanned to-day, and the ob. Nervation is in every mouth that they do not deny the existence of • treaty offensive and defensive between France and Sardinia, but merely that such a treaty was the price of the marriage. The scorn ful reproof administered to the Union for citing the paragraph from the Independance Beige does not, therefore, touch the real point which excites public anxiety. Nobody doubts that the negotiations for the marriage have been conducted with sufficient skill to save appearances as much as possible. The Indepandance of yesterday, u if anticipating that its news would be questioned, contains in its Parisian correspondence some paragraphs bearing en pertinently on the matter that I think them worth citing. One correspondent says : Nothing Is more difficult nowadaym than to send any authentic amount of French polidcs. It would seem that than is a bifurcation, and that the court of the Teileeies le acted upon by two distinct impulsions: the first finds a voice in the cabinet; bet It is the second which acts. It is to this second impulsion that we owe the marriage of Prince Napoleon with the Princess Clotilda s the mission of Captain La Reuelore le Nourry to St. Peters• burg, and doubtless., the signing of the treaty of an offensive and defensive alum between France and Piedmont. The prudent reserve with which the latter important news was communicated to the Indeptradenee has been remarked. The public felt in a manner obliged to you fur announcing this additional step towards a conflict whicY may bacJine European, with a certain hesitation in point of form, which it is inclined to think was not warranted by the nature of you Information on the subject. The fact was accepted u true without utoniahment. It was coui hired as the natural . . . consrquences of the marriage. It is as little probablet m— it the truth he spoken—it is possible, that this news &mild be contradicted by the government journals. Some foreign commandants may perhaps venture to hint a timid denial to deceive the public. I happen to know, moreover, that after the delivery in Paris of the number of the Iridependanat which contained the news, several great banking houses for warded it by telegraph to their correspondents, and the de spatches were allowed to go; while, on the other hand, when the news of Prince Napoleon's marriage was first broached, the clerks at the telegraph offioe received orders not to trans mit the intelligence. Another correspondent of the Indipendance says; It appears to be certain that the hand of the Princess Clotilds will not be definitively granted till after the conclu sion of this secret treaty. filer h►nd will not, of course, be the prioe of the treaty—it will rather be the reward of it. • • • Now is there to be a treaty properly so called, or merely a lass solemn conventi•m I know not ; and inch distinctions are of little importance. It suffices to know that Piedmont upsets to derive a benefit from this family alliance, and that so long as this benefit is not secured the family alliance will not be an "accompliehed fact." The same correspondent protegees to know that the English ambassador was so much moved by the extraordinary complimentary attitude towards Francs, assumed by Count de Kisselef at a recent diplomatic dinner, that he sent a telegraphic despatch to his government on the subject, and that " he received an answer, which I will not attempt to reproduce even in substance, which, when it became known in political circles, greatly aggravated the effect of the words pronounced at the banquet." - - - - - Among other ambiguities in the Moniteur, the expression that the marriage will "shortly be cele brated at Turin," may lead to the belief that the prince will not come away without his wife. I understand, however, that he is expected alone at the Palais Royal to-morrow. Leading articles in the Slide and the Debate have excited an unusual degree of attention to-day. In the first named journal M. Ravin, the political director, who has been for some time absent from Paris, while uttering a faint hope that diplomacy will be powerful enough to avoid war, expresses a clear opinion that if Austria will not voluntarily give up her Italian provinces France must drive her out of them, and he undertakes (going, I believe, beyond his authority) to guarantee the enthusiastic approval by all fractions of the democratic party of a war for such a purpose. In the Debuts M. de Saey. one of the most experienced editors, reviews at length the various circumstances which constitute an " undoubtedly complicated aituation," and while strongly advocating a congress, concludes by an emphatio:denial of the assertion that if war should be necessary, it would fear or regret the success of the French arms under the imperial flag. This evening's Presss warmly approves of the above articles, and evidently considers them as a confirmation of its own belief that war is inevitable. As to a congress, the Press' considers that it would only " postpone a difficulty which would soon revive, ander more embarrassing and terrible circum stances." It also ridicules the idea of Austria con senting, without • fight, to withdraw her troops from Lombardy on the condition of placing the iron crown" on the head of the Archduke Maxi milian. The funeral of the Duke de Plaisance, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, was celebrated to-day with extraordinary pomp. The guns of the Invalids. were tired, and almost all the dieposable troops of the garrison of Paris were under arms. The Bourse was extremely sensitive, and violent oscillations took place during great part of the day. The Haute, after being quoted at one moment at 68fr. 20c. (15c. lower than on Saturday), rose ulti mately to 68fr. 65c., closing with a rise of 30c. Mobilise rose 15fr. The Orleans railway rose 17fr. 50c.; the other lines left off about 2fr. 50c. higher.