The Express. — London, England, 1858-02-05 00:00:00

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A MIMIII4IIIII 1111611711DLIAIL—Aad S =I".HAZIAQUIII warm CAT: = .Plownard Pairf Ovinearra *morn rah 1o: W. 4 A. ftr tea—ON et 1 nal t LTOIIIIII. Tem m Ceasi, LOTIZIT MARS HARD 1TM741- 4 11 1 . 1 Yea.; lAnew—AM LAJJ.A sootii UM". T. SAM! : Milt. J. Seerem.J.l. J.Twee.flert SAM OM: lbw MI& DIMW AMU tiMeimmed laus,—Oommis et T. IL , LIMY. Tau llTlonas. WILLIAM TILL. NV. (Innalelt ;YY N. —AM Ow smog pan wlse. spaded ULU NAB: an atdullna. llanna Slam. BLIL. ILI at laidira L NIOH WATER At LONDON BRIDOZ. Tina Dal 1 ...... A/lineds. to.sasew—llonss. Is ...... fba. ZONAA 121D17, 71132U427 O. TO OUR READERS. A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be published TO-MORROW, and motioned on welt Saturdays as the length of the 'Parliamentary Debates shall render desirable. WHORTZR may be disposed to think lightly otths present circumstances of the country, it is evident, from what took place last night in the House of Lords, that the Upper House of Parliament is in as sanguine or presumptuous mood. Every speaker who took part in the somewhat desultory, but not unimportant, discussion on the general state of affairs, gave utterance, more or less candid, to feel ings of anxiety on one or more of our existing rela tions. Th. very circumstantiality with which Lord PANNtitt endeavoured to prove that extensive means of 000tinuously reinforcing our army in India were is active progress amounts to a ininfession that all is taw which has been said out of doors about the probable protraction of the war in Onde and elsewhere. Os the subject of the contemplated Bill for the annexation of the patronage of India to the Trea sury, much was not said; but what was said was fall of meaning. Lord OILET having given notice that on Thursday next he wculd present the petition of the Company, it was probably felt that it would be better to reserve opinions on the policy of the meditated change until the opportunity should be afforded for their full discussion. But neither Lord Baoconast, Lord DLIBT. nor Lord MuJiILBIII.7IT appear to have ben disposed to postpone even for a day the utterance of their strong disapproval of the intro denim of any measure of legislative change, before the termination of the war. It is manifest that it is in the direction indicated by these noble lords that mm's thoughts are steadily tending. Those who differ meet widely in other matters find themselves agreed in this—that it would be the height of folly and rashness, in the midst of • sanguinary straggle for the military possession of the country, to set about the infinitely hazardous and difficult task at re modelling the whole =wheal •m of permanent rale. But the sat ject which abm e all others fixed the attention of the Peers whenever it was touched on, was that of the demands made by the French Emmen, that we should adjust our criminal code to his viewg of what would be best and safest, not for as or ours, but for him. Nothing could be clearer, Cr more emphatic, than the enunciation of the law as it now stands by the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen'. Beach. There cannot be a doubt, said Lord Carreat t, that to conspire with others or alone to seek to compass the death of a Foreign Prince in amity with this country is an offence cognisable by our ordinary tribunals, and liable to severe punishment. The law as it now exists is stfficient, exclaimed the noble and learned lord, and no further powers ought to be given to the Execu tive Government, for none others are required. This is an epitome of all that need be urged on the legal portion of the cue ; it is complete, and we think ought to be conclusive. Lord IinOVOHAIII fully cor roborated all that was said by the Chief Justice, and we are very much mistaken if the venerable Lord LTPDHVIthr will be found to differ from his veteran compeers. Something, indeed, fell from both the learned persons we have alluded to about being willing to consider any amendment of the law that might be shown to be desirable in order to its more effectual enforcement, and the curing of anomalies which is the lane of time might possibly be found to exist. We need hardly may that in the abstract we have no objection to criminal law amendment, any more than to the amendment of any other branch of our national jurisprudence. Bat we entertain a fixed and insu perable objection to the adoption of any measure; whatever be its character or ■im, which is presented to us on the point of foreign bayonets. The sense of national dignity, and the duty of maintaining it, are paramount to all other considerations. At any other time, when the excitement and excess caused by late occurrences have subsided, we shall raise no petty cavil as to the re -constructing or re-editing of this perticular section of our criminal code ; but, after the audacious language of armed menace, used under the specific sanction of the French Imperial Government, it is idle to talk of discussing diaper sionatey the moditications which an proposed. The first meeting of the House of Commons after the recess has passed off with an absence of excite meat which is not neeessarily the presage of a tran quil session. Then are centurions, and this was one of them, when men's minds are so seriously occupied by a variety of important subjects and agitating emotions, that they are not reluctant to defer the moment when they most grapple in earnest with the difficulties of their position. It is no holi day work which lies before the British Legislature ia the present Session of the Imperial Parliament. To maintain unimpaired the honour of England, not tem against those who violate the rights of her eitimpss beiGad the limits of this realm than against those who menace the sanctity of that asylum which ski has fur are asserted to foreigners within them; to attempt the settlement of our future polity in THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1858. India, and a redistribution of political power in the United Kingdom--these are objects more than sulacient in themselves to tax to the utmost all that practical wisdom which a long course of suceessibl self-government has taught the world to swan to the Parliament of Great Britain. It is no matter of surprise that the great Assembly should take a breathing time, and not plunge, before the note of war is clearly sounded, into the dust and turmoil of that uncertain strife. Last night witnessed nothing more than a few prelusive flourishes, followed, apparently from the mere necessity of making a show of doing some thing, by a sham passage of arms. After Mr. MILKER Glasow had received the cordial and unani mous greeting, which was no more than a natural tribute to his reappearance on a scene where his clear sagacity, prompt good sense, and invariable good humour had won for him very general esteem, the routine business of the evening com menced by the usual form of giving notices of motion. Many of these were sufficiently pregnant intimations of the coming warfare —Signe of the Times none the less striking for not being ostensibly meant to strike. When Lord Psutaairrox announced that he should next Monday bring in a Bill for the purpose of amending the laws regarding conspiracies to commit murder, and Mr. Horace' that he should this evening put • question to his lordship relative to any correspond ence that may have paned between the Government' , of France and this °pantry on the subject of the Alien Bill, the significant cheers of the House showed that every member present was fully alive to the gravity of the questions which have been raised by the crime of Italian assassins and the madness of French sycophants. The notice by the Prime Minis ter of an intended vote of thanks to the Army and Navy for the services they had rendered in India stria& • chord which vibrates not less strongly in the Hasse of Commons than in the hearts of the people they represent; and the statement by the Cstsnclxunt of the EXCHZCIVEI that he should this night propose a resolution for granting an annuity to the widow and son of the illustrious lisvaLocr, proves that Government are not ignorant of the wide-spread feeling which, with unerring in stinct, has singled out this hero as prominent among a crowd of heroes. Mr. VERNON Sutra's an nouncement of en early application for an Indian loan merely communicates intelligence which has already been " discounted " in the money market ; but Colonel Bvers's avowed in tention of moving to-day for • return of the cadet ships conferred respectively by the East India Com pany and by the Presidents of the Board of Con trol from 1840 to 1867, forebodes pretty clearly the nature of the struggle which is impending between the two branches of the Home Government of India. The preliminary business having terminated, Colonel EVANS TOSS to move, pursuant to a notice given before Christmas, fee a "select committee to " inquire concerning the measures resorted to, or " which were available, and as to the lineeofcommu ', nioation adopted for reinforcing our army daring " the pending revolt in India." The hon. and gal lant Colonel, after a few preparatory remarks, which the reporters appear to have had some diffi culty in catching, handed in his motion. Lord PALMERSTON, with adroit alacrity, instantly Mee to accept it. There was to be no debate then—all was over—a speedy adjournment appeared imminent— the dexterous Premier had succeeded in getting the whole matter quietly referred to • Committee up stairs. This was too much for the leader of her lIAJEsTT's Opposition—labouring probably under the burden of oratory that couldn't get delivered, and a curious and confused scene seems accordingly to have ensued. It was objected that the hon. and gallant Colonel, in order to obtain the assent of Government, had unwarrantably changed the terms of his motion ;oh, somsthing different from what it had stood on the Order-book ; it was ruled by the SPEAKER that he had • right to do so, and Lord PAL.MERSTON moreover was so obliging, as to intimate that he had no objection to take the motion as it had originally stood. It was put accord ingly as it stood in the Order-book, where it appeared with the addition of this clause, " with a view to as " certaining the arrangements which should be made "towards meeting any future important emergencies " involving the security of our Eastern dominions.' To its being pat in this form an objection was taken by Lard Joan Ressru., on the ground that the added clause improperly limited the scope of the proposed inquiry. In the discussion raised on this weighty point Mr. DISRAELI contrived to get prosperously delivered of a few pungent epigrams about " monsoons in the Desert of Suez," which Lord PALIEISTON capped by a retort touching " Sand istorms in the Red Bea ;" and several good Conserve fives on the back benches kept up for some time a straggling fire of indignation against the gross negligence of Government and the alleged treachery of the gallant Colonel in thus enabling them to escape, on a question so vital, into the safe obscurity of a Select Committee. Finally, the sham fight led to a division, the details of which those who are curious about the matter can see elsewhere. The result was that the motion passed in its original form. With this mimic passage of arms the rifting, far LI the great majority of members was concerned, came to a close, Sir GEORGE Gary being left to pre sent an outline of his intended demolition of the Cor poration of London to rows of empty benches, whose former occupants had been carried away by the more seductive eloquence of the dinner-bell. So ended the Ant meeting of the Session of 1838. Who can tell how fierce a spirit of party conflict lurks beneath these initiatory forms of conventional warfare, and " hushed in grim repass expects its evening prey ?" MIL MAC.AIILAT ON LEGISLATION FOR INDIA.— Tlis HOW) of Commons is, indeed, the check provided by the unstitatiest co the abase of the royal preceptive. But that 4k Woes in or is ever likely to Le, an afildent shook on Anne twestiewl In India, I altogether deny. We have, es I lam ww eIl hal, quite business enough. If we vas to undertake the tisk of looking into Indian affairs is we look lab /*kik aloha , 24 hours a day and 366 days * . year maid M tee alert • time for the dircharge of our dudes. The byre, k Y plain, ham not the necessary time to mule these =Ulm ; nor has it the necessary knowledge ; nor has it the meow to acquire that knowledge. The late change fa its eenetitation has made It, I believe, a much more faithful tw pmeentation of the English people, but it is u far as ever Ikea bring • mpresentation of the Indian people. A broken heed in Cehibeth-delde produces a greater cremation ming us time tires pitalnd battles fa India.—Sparch on inweeis of the Cliesposy's Merin. _ THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIIITT OP LONDON.—At a mat Illy pant tattetiag, lad yetterday, at the Boalette Hew, ta liesever•eweere—des Right Row 81e 0403dP Mk, ml., viee-mettleal, IN the chelr—llestwe. J. A. Tatum, A. W. T. Aslant, sad W. F. Low, wee eiseted Ulm, sad Dr. Popham, so a correspoedtei member of the aeliety ; sad liswes. P. Reidy, F.R.8., wed H. A. Tem% woe parsed el candidata for the fellowship. The amber a vision to the prdette doting the month of Ja ws, premed ea iserease of upwards of 3,000, as compered wI theeme poled of lest year. TIM CNIALIMANIIIIIP OF TRZ MIDLAND ALM wAN.-11. ualentaud that Jobs EU, Seq.. les seceded to theft liqueur of We brother Maulers le lois oo eery bre Awl period the Glob of the hen& ctrl I. yeerlde at the ballßyessty general tints of dr essoray, be he bid ups the leth February. After the emeral Mistime the essubleratiou of the appointment of a priereavit chub. Bra idll so doubt mums the early atteuties of the beard. Cbt Court. The Queen sad dr Prince Comet, with the Prince et Wee sad the Duke of &me Coburg, attesied by the Boa. limbo !Boylan., Mejor. amend Buckley, amiCokael F. H. Seymour, visited the British Mtwara ismorday aftssaa. The Duchess of Heat visited the QUella et Beekinghara Nice. The Priebe Caron presided yeelerday at a meth; of the coma of the Ducky of Cornwall, heed at the Debby-oak& Beirirtnerham-geb, Bt. James Path. There were abo pee went the Hooper of the Privy Seal, the ♦iaooent Month , the AWeary-Oamel, Mr. aJcssarier ; the Treasurer, Colossi the Hon. Cheadle Baaatheat Phipps; Lord Port ers ; aad the Secretary, Mr. J. IL Gardiner. The Prbaos of Walla, atleaded by Cobol' P. H. Say moor and Mr. Gibbs, visited the UMW Pavia bratitatkes. The Queen and the Prince Carat, assomprded by tie Doke c 4 Sees Coburg, hammed the perferseemes et the Priarnee's Theatre with their peewees la the eveabg. The royal smite coexisted of the Combo of Deer% the Ron. Houle Stopford, Lotd de Talley, Major-Goemal backlog, Calomel Y. IL Seymour, B it Truism, sad N. Seaver. Mr. lawn Mr. C. 3 . &Iv's. QueWs Compel, and Mr. W. Chapman, a deputation from the Vestry of Rich mond, with Mr. H. Smith, Vestry Clerk, had an in terview with the Right Hen. Sir B. Hall, at the odic, or Public Works, Whitahall-plaoe, respecting the Richmond reels. The Julialal Castaittai alas Privy Canon rat yesterday. All appeal, "Ponta v. Hampton" (Tamaaals), part hoard, mu ccaohaltd, end a appeal, " Farradry v. the Mayor of Mositmal, Camas," was part baud. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. (IT u.scrzio I'lL101.11M) (IMO* out OLIN ool><7aroironl r, FRIDAY MORNING. The Magdalena hie arrived with the Went India, Pacific, and Mexican mail. Her dates are :—Vera Cruz, Jan. 4 ; Havannah, 9th ; Jamaica, 12th ; Deme rara, 1 lth ; Trinidad, 11th ; St. Thomas, 18th. Amongst her carp is specie to the value of 2,232,349 dole. Amongst her passengers is the Bishop of British Guiana. H.M.S. Imaum was at Jamaica. The Basilisk and Artchne had left Jamaica for San Domingo. The Bastard had gone with the Governor of Barbadoes. The Atalanta wiui gone to Antigua. The Leopard and Brunswick were on their way to Blneflelds. Admiral Stewart was expected at Barbadoes, from Bermuda. From Mexico we learn that the state of affairs was deplorable. Vera Cruz and other parts were opposed to the dictatorhip of Comoutort, and a civil war appeared inevitable. No ministry was formed. The British charge d'affaires did not join his colleagues in congratulating the president, on w ool:int of the outrage on her Majesty's legation in July last. Amongst the specie by the Magdalena is one million of dollars from Mexico. Captain Tucker, of the Royal Engineers, was ac cidentally killed at Jamaica. Eire saloon servants belonging to the mail steamer Thum were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at Greytown. The island of St. Vincent is healthy, and the cane fields give promise of a large crop, but the scarcity of labour is severely felt at Trinidad, Barbadoes, and Demerara. The weather is fine, and the oondi tion of the crop. most satisfactory. At Jamaica there has been a various falling off in staple exports, but there is a prospect of increased production and remunerating prioes. Exchange on London : Jamaica Bank, 90 days, ' If per cent. prem.; merchants' bills, 90 days, one to a half per cent, discount. The Governor of female& has proposed a sub scription on behalf of the sufferers in India. The legislative session has closed. Forty-six bills have been passed and received the governor's assent. From California we learn that the season hu been wet, and the miners are expecting a rich harvest. The large drain of gold for Eastern shipment has not been felt at San Francisco. Business has been dull. Gambling is being put down. Walker, the filibuster, is not thought of in California, and figkting men are looking towards Utah for employ ment. From Valparaiso we learn that trade had not suffered through the European monetary panic. The silver and oopper mining interest is flourishing. The diplomatic questions between the Chili= government, and America and France, are not yet settled. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Vaddivia was lost, passengers and crew saved. At Bolivia all was quiet. At Peru the govern ment and revolutionary parties are remaining inac tive waiting for each other's attack. A grand ball was given at Aspinwall to Commo dore Paulding, who captured Walker, the filibuster. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oul OWN PARIS, THU/I/DAT ETENTWO. The Presse re-appears to-day, after its two months' suspension. The government has taken away from it the privilege of being sold in the streets, and in order to counteract as far as possible the effect of this severe blow the journal announces that it will receive weekly subscriptions of Ifr. 26c., for which extraordinarily low price the paper will be delivered at the houses of all subscribers in Perim. But the Presse retains no element of its former self, beyond the barren name. Oirardin and Natter are gone. M. Peyrat, who wrote the brilliant article which led to the suspen sion, and M. Darimon, the member for Paris, both announce in this evening's number that they have no longer anything to do with the paper. It is now a mere hulk of literary property which repre sents nothing whatever but the very natur►l desire of the proprietors to make it as saleable as they can in the teeth of the existing laws. The leading article of this evening, headed pretentiously "The Orand Political Problem," is signed by the new editor, M. Ad. Outrank, a gentleman of whom little is known. 'After reviewing the state of France in 1789, 1816, 1830, 1848, and 1831, it comes to the conclusion that the great political problem now•a-days is how to make the most of railways and other joint stock un dertakings, and announces that such are the subjects which it proposes to treat of. In abandoning the high ground which the Proses has so long occupied with courage and ability, amidst infinite perils, the proprietors of the journal are acting a prudent and perhaps necessary part. There is now no place in 'France for independent political journalism. One of the most violent personal articles that has appeared in any French journal for many years is published in this evening's Petrie against M. Veuillot, the editor of the Univers. He is de scribed by the government print as a boxer from an English tavern disguised u a beadle, as a man with whom every difference de generates necessarily into a scrimmage, as a pam phleteer who has been for years the bane of true religion, and so forth. Although the Potrie takes liberal ground by reproaching M. Veuillot with having "respected 'either the tomb of Beranger nor the retirement of Damartine," it is careful to add, in a tone of haughty security, "We are'not demagogue I we are neither the Biiele nor the Debate ; we speak in the name of religious and con servative principles, and we say that danger comes not only from demagogues, but from pamphleteers who so distort principles that they bring truth itself into contempt." It concludes by saying: —"The money changers who invaded the Temple were driven out of it, and such will be the lot of the pamphleteers." What can be the meaning of this extraordinary onslaught upon a prince of the Jesuits P If authorised, it would seem to bode the suppression of the /hikers ; but I doubt much whether any such intention is entertained. On the contrary, although it may be thought politic to disavow them, there are many circumstances tending to show that the Ultramontane party represented by the Univers was never more influential at the Tuileries than now. The Bourse, after opening heavily, revived to a considerable extent, in oonsequence of the Bank of England having lowered its discount. The Rents rose 20c. for cash, and 260. for account, closing at ellfr. 10c. and 89fr. 40c. Mobilier rose 12fr. 600. Money is plentiful in Paris, but it is nevertheless not thought that the Bank of Francs will make any change this week. The railways were from 2fr. 80c. to Mr. higher, bat there was not a great deal of business done. A French lady of fortune, Madame ds Clermont, living at No. 108, Rue du Bac, est fire to her dram is her drawing-room this morning, and was so dreadfully burnt that not the slightest expectation is entertained el saving her life. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 3. The King of Denmark was suddenly seized, the evening before lut, with an inflammation of the chest, from which he has before suffered on several occasions. The malady showed itself by a frequent cough, attended with fever. Yesterday, these symp toms had abated, and last night was tranquil. His Majesty is mach better to-day. THE ENGLISH PRISONERS AT NAPLES. COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRIAL. (MOW OUR OWN 00113810NDENT.) SALERNO, JAN. 30. The great political cause, commonly called the Bapri cause, came on for trial yesterday morning. To Englishmen it wears an especial interest, as two of our countrymen are amongst the prisoners. Their ease has been long before the public, and, after having been imprisoned since the 28th of June, 1857, they yesterday, the 29th of January, were brought to trial. I desire to give you full details of this important case with equal fearless ness and moderation. Truth alone has always been the object of my research at all times, and whilst I continue to correspond with you, I shall re port what appears to me to be the truth, come what may. As the old Court was too small for a cause in which so many were implicated, a new Court was formed in the suppressed Monastery of St. Dominico, where, too, are barracks for the military. The trial, which was to have commenced at 9 o'clock, did not begin till 10 o'clock, and on entering the Court the scene was a very novel and remark able one. Within, u without, soldiers were under arms in every direction. We walked through a file of soldiers on our approach to it, and we were surrounded by soldiers on entering it. Still we must acknowledge that, as foreigners, we were received with the utmost cour tesy. Outside the bar, within which sat the judges and the advocates, were rows of raised seats on either aide, on which were placed 288 persons ac cused of a conspiracy against the State. The court, properly so called, was special, and consisted of the Piesident, the Procurator-General, and the ten Judges—there being two more than the legal num ber as substitutes in case of illness. The first day presented, of course, little if any interest in the matter of the proceedings. The President an nounced that four of the prisoners were ill, and then ordered the names of the others to be called over—a labour not finished in a moment. He then exhorted all to behave with great moderation, gave permission to the prisoners to make any observation they desired, and directed that due attention should be paid to them, in the event of their wishing to leave the wart. The address of the President, which then followed, describing the facts of the case, was remarkable for its calmness and its strict adherence to truth. It was just what it ought to have been, but what it rarely is in a Neapolitan court, and I cannot speak of it in terms of too high praise. The simple and faithful narrative of event.' by the President was followed by the Act of Accusa tion of the Procurator-General, which was the opposite of the address I have had occasion to praise. It was false in its substance, lam told, and offensive in its style, as proceeding from one who was anxious to ingratiate himself with the Court by low arts. The sitting terminated, however, without the Act of Accusation being finished. There was little that occurred during the morning to call for re mark. It was easy to distinguish between those pri soners who had been fed by the bounty of their friends and those who had depended on the bounty of the Government ; the former appeared in good conditiop, in full health, and in good spirits. Baron Niootera is a very handsome young man. One of the pri soners who sat near him, whose name I do not re collect, has a face full of deep expression. Park and Watts were both apparently strong and hopeful. But, for the others, God help them ! I will pass them in review presently. A slight incident occurred during the trial, as fol lows :—A prisoner rose and said, " Signor President, this gendarme has given my companion three blows in the face." "It is not true," said the Procurator- General, without being able to see. " What is it asked the President, on another remonstrance being made. " Nothing, Signor President," cried out an officer on guard ; and there the matter terminated. On leaving the Court, I waited to see the prisoners taken back to prison. Sentinels were placed at the opening of every street or lane, and all the troops were under arms. The crew of the Cagliari were brought out first, and formed six carriage loads ; not one of them was manacled, and I saw Parks distinctly, looking well, and not anxious, and, like many of the others, smoking a cigar. Soon after their removal a trumpet sounded, and all the troops were on the alert. A gendarme on horseback galloped down the street; then came an officer, flourishing his drawn sword ; then came another gendarme on horseback, followed by two lines of soldiers abreast; behind them were two lines of soldiers in single file, between them the prisoners ; and last of all came perhaps upwards of 100 soldiers. But now for the mode in which the prisoners were conducted : They were marched in couples, manacled together, and still farther connected by a long rope, which was carried throughout the whole line. Those who were fed by their friends I have already described ; for the others, they looked scarcely human. Dressed in a prison uniform, which it is not unfair to conjecture was lent for the occasion, they appeared more like beasts than men : pale, dried up, shivering and shrinking from the cold ; scarcely able to walk upright from the effects of cold and hunger united. It was clear that they were living on the bounty of the Neapolitan government, or on 4 grains a day (about lid.) I never saw such wretched-looking objects in my life. And is it against such wretched looking beings as these, I asked, that a trial for high treason is going on ? Ferukh Khan, the Persian ambassador, has or dered from a Paris manufacturer the apparatus necessary for the establishment of an electric telegraph in Ponds. The Ober-Kirchenrath issued circulars last week to ail the provincial oonaistories of Prussia ordering a special prayer to be put up in all the churches last Sunday for a bier stag on the marriage of the Prince and PthiC4lllll Frederick William. The officers of the Pnumian Regiment Garde du Carps are practising an equestrian quadrille, whioh they propose to perform before the newly-married couple neat week. The Prince of Prussia hu given up the use of his Pekoe at Berlin, neat Monday, to the Ministers of Slats ✓ the Corps Diplomatigne, and other persons of distinction, as being one of the beet spots from which to witness the yereessias. A Berlin letter states that among the resents to Prima Frederick William on the woman of hie marriage it a collation of 160 lotion writhes by Mai Prectoriok Wil liam 111. to the Archbishop Meader. The srobtishop, having lost all his sons, violate to lave these Whirs to the royal family, end his &voila hiamelf of this opponanity to teaks • preen of them to the young prince. The Prussian gorentiment hem Dent a circular to the provincial anatoritits, rsqussibri thaw to state U they think it would be useful to &mane from the legialetswe a law prohibiting the ask of distillid drinks by retail. AT MEMEL, IN PRUSSIA. *la : (T•011 • PIIIVATII 001111111PONDIDIT.) One of the most brilliant expressions of loyal feel ing. which have ever been manifested in this country took place here on Monday last. Shortly after daybreak the city was aroused by thundering peals from the guns of the fortress. and shortly afterwards all the public offices end foreign con anlatss their oolours to do honour to the occasion, In the evening a grand subscription ball was given by the burgomaster of the city and Mr. Campbell, the British Consul ; Messrs. Graff sad Frentzel &lune act ing as Chapeaux d'Honneur. The bell took piec e In the spadona and magnificent new saloons of th e " Schtitzen Guild," which ware brilliantly ornamented far the occasion with the arms and Bags of the two great nation& now so closely united ; and we can only say that the exquisite taste of the decorations was such as has never been equalled in this city. Shortly before eight o'clock the nobility and gentry of the town and country began to arrive, and soon afterwards from 600 to 700 persons had assembled in the halls. The grand band of Lade then struck up " God eau the Hume," " Bole Britannia," and the Prussian national air, after which the Lord Mayor opened the ball with the lady of the British consul. About eleven o'clock the party sat down to sapper, and in the absence of the Burgomaster (who owing to severe Indisposition in his family was obliged to quit the room at an early hour) the chair was occupied by Mr. Campbell, the /Mash Consul, who was rapportal on the tight by Mr. Hairy Fowler, banker, end Mr. Albert Surber, of Taussianken, and on the left by the Russian and Hanoverian Oceinle. Immediately after sapper the Chairman nee, and said, in German, " I am very sure that nowhere in the Prussian do minions will the health of his Majesty the Bing be received with more eathualasai than in this his ancient and loyal city of Memel. We have all had occasion of late deeply to deplore the state of his Majesty's health; nevertheless, I still sincerely hope that, with the help of Almighty God, he may soon recover, and again ammo the Wilmot government ; and may he tire for many years to govern this peat and mighty nation I" (Great cheering.) The " Health of Victoria, Queen of England," was sent peopceed by the Collector of Customs, end was received with thunders of applause. The Promustor-Piscal, lir. !Fmk, then rose, and in a wry eloquent speech gave the toast of the evening—namely, the .. Health of Prism Frederick William of Prussia and the Pria m, Victoria of England," which was responded to until the walls of the building shook to their foundation. The Heaths of Prince Albert and the Prince of Prussia were then proposed and received with rounds of applause, after which the party re-entered the bell-room, and dancing was kept up till dawn of day. Thee is but one opinion- entertained by all peessat—that there hie never been a ball in Memel like that eves on the 25th of January, 1858. ROYAL VISIT TO THH READING-ROOK Or THE Barium Mosturx.—Yesterday afternoon this magniftornt room was visited for the first time by her Majesty and the Prince Consort, who were accompanied by the Prime of Wales end the Primal, Alice. The royal party, who arrived in a couple of private carriages, were shown into the reading. room by Mr. Panizsi, the chief librarian, at about a quarter to four o'clock, by the Forego communicating with the Ring's library, instead of by the principal entrance. Ao cordmgly their presence was scarcely noticed, perhaps by not more than three or four of the readers, though the room at the time was filled with its usual number of studenta. The inspection larded but a few minutes, at the end of which her Majesty end the Prince Consort expressed themselves much gratified with the beauty and dimensions of the rem and the srrangements made for the comfort and convenience of the resders. DEATH OF THE OLDEST KNIGHT BACHELOR:* We have to recast this day the death of the venerable Sir John Hamilton, knight, which event happened at Dover on the Ist Instant, at the residenoe of his , Luke flarithett, at the advanced age of 93 years. w Sir Ca t a g Hamilton was a =dye of Dover, and was born in 1766. He married just seventy yeses ago namely, in 1738, a daughter of the late Michael Ifiedgoock. 'Esq., and the worthy oottple lived together se man and wife for no lees then 64 years, Lady Hamilton having deceased so recently as 1862. Sir John Hamilton was a captain in her Majesty's Packet Ser vice, tad a chevalier dthe Belgian Order of Leopold. He was 'might= by her Majesty in 1844, ',hash/ had just core• plated his 80th year. It may be interesting to our readers to learn that it was the late Sir John Hamilton who oom menicated to Admiral Lord Duncan the intelligence of the Dutch fleet being under Admiral De Winter at see, which led to the glorious victory of Camperdown, Oct. 11, 1797. THE LATE CAPTAIN WARDLAW OF THE CARA** norsmut.—ln our obituary of today we announce the death of Captain Wardlaw, of the Carabineers, whose family fa well known in the county of Mid-Lothian. This gallant young Meer had been in constant engagements with the mutineen in India sine May last, and was most highly sin many letters from that country. Heim now the trdir son of (out of seven, eta of whom were in the army and one in the navy) who has fallen in battle for his country. The letter announcing his death says:—" The men wars much affected; they loved Wardlaw; and the service has lost as gallant an oMeer and as noble a fellow as ever lived. The way in which he led hie mm was magnificent, and the men followed him In a body."—EilielbwriA Charon!. THE OUTWARD EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. The steam-ship Per., Captain Hick*, left Southampton yes terday, with the Bast India and China mails, 31 first.cleer. and 21 seeond-elees a general cargo, and spode of the value of 217, 41. he Pen also takes out, for oon veyance overland to India, 227 troops, being detachments from various re gimen ts, Tie.: 43 men of, the let hada= M the let Foot; Lieutenant Amities' and 26 ram of the 44th; 36 UM Of the 3rd battalion of the 60th Rifles ; Hedge Was. hropp and 60 men of the 66th ; Lieutenant Jima= and 9 men of the 74th Foot; 17 men of the 68th Foot; sad i 4 men Of the 89th, with the following °Moors, Captains Cole, Farrah and Braokenburg. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAT.—The direct= of this company have determined to recommend 4 the pep the declared= of a dividend for the half-yeer =Ow rl i s e t t" of December, 1867, at the rate of two pat awl. per annum, of about etit o rriat forward a balance to the curried half-yeer THE CTION-__R NOINE AND ENDLESS RAILWAY. Boydell and Company's traction-engine mil =d ire railway, reoently purehaaed by the War Deportment be service in the Arsenal, was yesterday got undf vaer el Woolwich, at the request of the East India Dug Directors, who were represented by Colonel Sir Preasda Abbott, X.C.8., and Colonel Sir Proby Cantle y, K.C.B.Aft were specially in attendance to report on it, the East legs Company befog desirous of adopting the invention kr fts transport of troops and munitions of war in India. The est of 10--horse power, left the Arsenal gates at 2 . 30, tra first at the rate of six miles per hour, with a train d bas heavy artillery carriages, each beari ng a fir inch st role g i vis h , the entire load being about 43 tons. Passing Berseford-serers, which was crowded with spectate; the extraordinary-looking convoy steamed op Wellington. street, and slowly amended the hill at a gradient of 1 in 13, travelled along the Charlton-road, and pissed cleverly Into I narrow lane at the back of Sir Thomas Wilton's park well. This being a curved road, or rather defile, leading to the cM Bl ac kh eat h main road, the steersman approached too near the 611101 1 / 2 when the near wheels of the engine became embedded In the soft earth. This occasioned some considerable de. lay ; but, by the assistance of handspike" and some mancetworing of the engine, with an increased power of stew; it wee ultimately released. By reason of the soft and elippery state of the roads, this was a work of some difficulty, and occupied nearly an hour. The guiding-pots of the engine having been lashed to one of the pas brought up under the wall, so as to direct its court* outwards, the engine was then started at fall speed, and leaped horsed. rising about two fast from the ground, dragging the whole train onwards. The pilo:age now became extremely cult, as the next turning formed an acute angt. The testa was disconnected, and three of the guns were brought Into the mda road separately ; the shafts of the fourth having been broken, the gun was left baited. Thrt is Z than proceeded towards the Royal Arsenal and deposited its load. A number of opecttatore followed the whole distance, among whom was Lieutenant Onsaolf, who purchased the traction engine chipped in 1837 for Russia in a vessel which was wrecked off the Russian coast. The engine, having been recovered, has since been employed in the trenspart of merchandise in that country. GREAT HAUL OP HERRINGS.—One of the Ayr Asking bests on Friday night fell In with en immense shoal of herrings in our bey. On shooting the nets they were in stantly tilled, and so deeply was the boat laden that it bad to be run ashore on the beach, in preference to coming over Ayr bar. We hear the number amounted to 10,000. They were sold to go to England. were tlz p annianufscaursi into Tar month ftostra I—Edinburgh ros e i Tan Woes or ENGLISH NV:VIM—IL is dila colt to form an adequate idea of the immense quality d earth, rook, sad any, that bed ben picked, bashed, she. yelled, and Whaled Into embankments by English anvils &Aft the tut eddy rue. Oa the South-Wallas MI. way ame the earth removed eneented to deem millions of ads yerde—a am et enteral mileleat to font • pyia mid a aimed het blister with a left el eate limbed sal =vizi mune pale. lir. lobed flujiT ia ra total ausesi oa eli thevallesp se et best Au barbed sad fay lingo et was pude Ad abet des this pepemaa f aWe en astealisseed," be Rya, to seped Nes at a list ler height ial epee; bat ay theili ettliennedi met time waive vedd fur el. Pureitaeld he bat es a pliay to a &L Inegge • noliateda bee a alb be tilemeeer at its hen, eel raft fate as shads me nee raid a half in height, east the ear el lhe seasteia of earth which then rich avoid th ikai i m ethile el. Isere-perk hoot the Ilene to Palma maid e ONi resesind thic aredy elhal i et m bine rocs Ms sesse M eaui the wee larded nosharia tale 17Z PZJJWZ IND nnressi Pi WILLIAM OP PIUBBI4. Tlis royal party did not reach Brussels from Antwerp on Wednesday evening until $ quarter to seven o'eleek. The ball was to open ea hour later, but his Majesty and guile Hi not ambr lista half-past nine o'clock. The piebsdpal semis beam M Ileigkma and the Diplomatic Cape were tally regmemaeL lard Howard de Walden bad untbdumately, however, brae siwideedy indisposed on his Mama hum Astworp. Upwards of 1,280 prim were present et the bell. The pekoe's wore a dram of roes-coloured elk trimmed with tulle, the skirts ornamented with roma Her bead-drew was a wreath of roses to make ; the oaly jewel worn by her royal highness was the vagniAosat maims of thirty-six pearls, the gift of her begraL Her Royal Highness wore the ribbon which is undenstood to be the distinctive decoration of the Order of the Swan worn by Prussian ladies. The Nord of this day skates that the sweet expression of her features and the charm of her mama won the general theme. The bail was opened by their royal highnesses. The quadrille was partly made up of the Duke of Brabant dancing with the Princess Frederick William., and the Prism Frederick William dancing with the Princess de Ligne. At eleven o'clock their royal highnesses entered the refreshment saloon, where a magnilloest mapper was laid out. Their royal bigh orns sfterwards retired with the King end the Dunham of Brabast, but dancing wee kept up until half-peat twelve o'clock, the Doke of Brabant and the Count de Flandres re maining until the dose d the ball. The Prince and Princess lift Brunets yeetarday morning at eight o'clock. The Kix( soiseingealed thin to the plat form of the railway, where a ',Baal .at was waiting to convey dam to Colosimo. The Data de Brabant, the Count do Flandres, sad the Witham of Pamela and England ac cospialed tin& royal Itigbasers to tha Proadon frontier at Viwritra. DEPARTURE 07 PRINCE ALBERT 07 PRUSSIA DOVER, TIIIRSDAT ETININO. Hie Royal Highness the Prince Albert of Premix and suite arrived at Dover at 9.30 Ale evealsnr, sad after &Lang at the Lord Warden Betel, embarked oft board the Royal Mail Company's steamer, the Queen, tor . Among other trait' of our late Princess Royal's kind and amiable Wimp, it is mentioned that Her Royal Highness, immediately before her departure, prorated to Mrs. Anderson, her musical h/truants, from bar childhood, a beautiful braoslat °outskirts a lock of tha Prisms's Isidr. _ __ The Duke of Newcastle and Lady Swan Paula Clinton WI town a tow dwp dna for Clamber Perk, Notts. The Duchess of Grafton has returned to town from Wambold Lodes, &awry Stratford The Marquis of 4seeniberry has arrived at the Balton Hotel, from Brighton. Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for as semblies to-marrow evening and cm the 13th Inst., at Cam bridge House. Lord Aahburton has arrived at Bath House from the Grasp, Haab. Sir William 'calif& has taken a residence in ratton-street for a term of 75 1. The Earl of Westmoreland has been entertaining the Mowing visitors et Apthoepe Hall during the past meek :—The Prince of Holstein (Denmark), the Prince of Meson (Um at Marshal Ney), Cantle de Janceurt and Major Orlieb, of the Premien amply, La. ifsatsrdai the marriage of the Honourable Charles Bay, at the Boots Praia Guards, woad son of the Xarl sad Conner of ILlonoal, with Nit Irina' Merrick, datteattr of Colonel sad Lady lama lam.* wee ear lerlad at I. George's Church, Ilaaover-equen, ht the pee sues of s amorous oink of the Monde of both kollioa. Lord Carlisle was present last erode' at the Lord Mayor's banquet, at Debbi, end in the mores of his mod lerey's speech he mined to the theeetion of the &bake of the viceroyalty In these time It may be slowed to me to sheave, especially after yon have thank my health in se frionilly and lasnarsibig a manlier, that a metals degree of hitereet, to whisk the Lard Mayor bee wised, may at this purled attack Itself hi the °Moo I have the hewer to Ell, whir& I °Mehl, could lot claim preonally to myself; but, es we have remit ennenneed of late is emend quarters, sad with a mink amennt of gravity, that It has been la the me templaticm of Mks governart to put an mithignialre at Gees upon an amts so elevated and upon a perms so bomb* I caa only my that such a project is without my privity, as on my part it clearly would be without my sympathy." The Princess de Belgiojoeo publishes in the Paris journal! • letter which ohs has addressed to the .daisearg Cutts, denying In energetic tennis m imputation cut ea her by that journal, that she was in some way implicated in the recent attempt to ealeminate the Emperor. The primer decleres that she knows nothing whatnot of any person emeouned to the crime; sad she adds that the greet majority of Italian people have as much horror of eseammasion as the people of any other country. - The Cambridge Bachelor.' Ball, an entertainment Oren annaally by the out-going bachelors of the university to their fair friends and acquaintances, oaine oQ with great idol an Tuesday evening last, at the Town Hall, Cambridge. The Mowing are the names of the oommittee :—Viscount Rastas, Trinity Collage, president; Lord Robert Gram m., treasurer; Hon. Evelyn Ashley, secretary; Hem. F. Cavrilish, Trinity; Mr. A. B. Trollops, St. John's; Mr. F. Cr Alderson, Trinity; Mr. J. C. Coldharn, King's • Mr. W. H. Haas, Trinity ; Mr. C. H.P. Lutwidge , Tr;idgy ; Mr. W. H. Holley, Trinity Hall; Mr. R. Tama, Bt. John's. The company numbered in all 420. _ _ _ On Monday evening the Chancellor of the Exche quer trul nominate the Wed committee on the Beah Act& The commitiee to weld of twenty-Soe olleehms :—The Chancellor of the Itzcitequer, Mr. Diersoli, Mr James Che lsea, Mr. egorore MY Clutha Wood, Mr. Gimp A. Hs =Moo, Mr. Gladetooe, Mr. Cayloy, Sir Fronde Baring, Mr. Vow" Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Slookburn, Mr. Wilson, Mr. liosibli, Kr. Wigwam, Mr. Hashey, Mr. Hoye Johasieris. Mr. Zeal% Mr. Paw, the Zeal of Ward, Mr. Forges, Mr. Jobe L. Rierado, Xr. Price, Mr. M. Tube Smith, sad Mr. 017 e. The total amount of the subscription to the Franklin Monosson fund is 1,9361. 14s. There an 132 sontribatore. The Most Worshipful the F.arl of Zetland, Grand Muter of England, has conferred the honour of Previncial Oread Master of Derbyshire upon Bro. C. R. Welle, Emu, 11. P., In place of his Grace the Duke of DereashanD, tie eeesed. We (Plymouth Journal) understand t h at Sir Chides Tasman, M.P. for Halmos, will showily Mite. Mr. Hwy C. Oradell, the wooed we of Mr. C. R. Orosiell, M.P. kw Preston, • large cow Newahaat, eiel a &odor of dte Dealt at Bagkad, is likely to become a ceadlikte. Mr. Sway Geeedall is at past Lord Pannonia pirate MM. Miry. We ben sift lewd that Mr. Edwin Oheewith, O.A, le likely to become a candidate if titre should he a vasamoy. ( (Sittings a CUTTS O. The pL residing iii who was a hood, to rt prosecutiol The pre Ac Si Act, whir] Notations child uncle any Mao, moment fi boar. Tt already b of an acti Lord CI WU Maio lartieet E d proitecutic county in cause, he action in as spolos fendant for the col Mr. He the defem on the idnoe seen be relied any mslia i ;iiiia rei tams. These ti that tlut aunt ha and by judge Sheph ) erd l , mistaken Will tion for it. of to have be the young The jur magee, 61. This w Jaw 24, by Lane, to the pre The del and that Mr. Yd Mr. 1 The del bushing manager agent 1857, a returned Lucas iv could not Maculae to whorl furniture ft — n: l funilcare, the bill ol givWg a 1 view bet mtid by 2 . 3 t 4 rasa the' would a] half to b a =Main tall, and eminl aotla Mr. mmc. v a r e m b n di = Luca+ ne would 111 however, election. on the river. I the claim He inked became d hand of and he be when it c the bill ?pc -- Me mow for any matwity defendan note boo amount, Lord ( it beam 'lllBl, for 481.1 .1 Oft) 67c7ioig dalt — sidal the he got no contact knocked was lyfr Cross man. ! In all pi R. 11 Boron: street hone, a knocket am in g that no John I Ina c horses. saw th 4 but I di Teat • c The i • mile h The 1 Ono wo had wh hilt. 1 horses. wee w heating The for the ce,.l E1; - 1. of hut The order t behalf. thirg WIWI Mayo' The _ eisi;;c /bar Imboar' L r rat W 14;! 4= - ; count, who ~'a