The Express. — London, England, 1858-12-28 00:00:00

1 ~I Ii i 1~ ~I 1 I '4 ~I I I been whisk Amid be &woad to rest toes.. no doubt that Ws now pardon of playing in the daytime—ice it is to be eadianed awe et twice a west threethent the holidays— trill mot with des encoarermsnt. THE ALHAMBRA. The United States Circus in Leiesster-eqsars etas bet sight srobled d MONO, the eediesse toles stirseled, ere poseene, hy the embassy perkomeres, which ere or toils sedieliat of themselves to ewe a " good home." The a- -pre, homover, Sordid a aovelty Is die Asps of s able pemlimeime , sad, miss that the 1111ibloo provided sib se sew, awl that the pesiesine led is be sot op without the *IA of sesmers, sad te le perlhomeed le the deg, it le s tabby isdeeL The Ws of b Is lb Ilia, qf Ballia. sod the PIM I Ise* bomb. The Kim wiettee IS booth lit Isayslatar to • Sok of ee s. het the daughter bee • embil of hot eve sad sal met line him la vela she hi oboes ebbs of rows hobos's( to bin ; she pebble is blab. Idle, sad &sew e goed-iseldag path. The Ma is sleet is Whet tthe etereses, alma the Yea 7 sp. seem sod the tbeidermelbs tikes pleb. The " stera pant" heron. Peatekos (Mr. Yiedlamed), the daughter bees Cebeihiso (Ulm Jolla Tooreelro), sad bre lean borers liarbsele (lb Louis Tramiel*. Of 0.111•4 eillbset a bee sod Ile essemonve the oloweetee hew hat seeps sail the lOW Alin able emet he pallnesd. N•leibilim• • seed nosy Slob aPe patens& sal • pal dad se ha to teeetra. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The Christmas fetes at the Crystal Palms, as dB ones serrom, alimobil • priest maillbsb of dr bed* tchissere ts the bedding yesterday. room • wry rely hem do the - the larkmbridre end Moils* genial of dr Oriel Pare Rogow rare Missed by dosomads of posmsion, awl limorod, ladoed, won then lobs messoiel wortelei thdr dooMetios without mdistrobr es hem or erre avolidei ea die *dorm Ulm ear sea dbaberrod lb "War Wide Me the Poise m Imenals of • dry mlauss~ urn hag Mire millasy, the enrol was * dime `r sirs maul yerlea taut It me abler Ingmar to mem Asa. The posiomme of the Choir** nests was of • amielhod dirly ,It mad estrestive obsoasim d the dissor Moe et Or Werke of Or Whim vim ea • esomem siside sea. • glassro tireddi-oehe, some SO lb* la chisel, ostaphil Me eartrel Weassys, sod moo it was oar fade. m Walks phorpodileg of as boa *mile payer Ilimdropysemsso of rtioh, its tildi the mbar draw doseadtme sod de bow Ur, sidelk eisigied bulb aoril sera ants, NAIR ifirldursid tie asset arils *psi dr imedos. The blies arehern rim hr Or seam. hm- Prsrssd • rem which dr bah beamed as repot dialer the of dr Prime's Theme, le whisk arm their% the sperm der of the trommil sod the Amide Sow ordrete• homed • retbir dloporpootkasie 111 owl pasty. Thom tionrever, ia so Vey esessid r sterere- Mors dr dorm& se dr diseards d rims dor Ihisegb sso the whole 4sy they rime Osalle4 es arra Its pro perms somerseed with ma WAIN= of pries sad spots piedmed by pelommly oiMed ohmage spa Or ttrelltbridm rid* lbw the Wrist el bated low bed eloped, yes Illiberal by • gostomas panes d OW Trier Choldmes sad Ms Ye New Tam sad albegediems semi la Mae* of the =Soma Lag of the thavne, wink wee reinthei Ines the elese by - the viten d the yeeenthe ari a rely d went itheesee Tith yell et the athenimen, that* emethelei Is the with ar. MEM elyie d thaeinthis nyeeneleilni, nee viteend tritk open missnee. eni the eillieina ivied nee by as ninth teethed et the Jamie win et the welpny. Ai inane a pul imp Wien we nee& nit is the Imp et as theilihrebe think eth le than ea meth le fie ieth el the antral tromp, thintheing heel Cheinere Ole Is in proper , bek es 1 scaly el ways the ere la %them month ea inemethei &thy eeeernd la in lair Yee. vidth eineet in non Irr. nth luny danthenelithe at impasses ham the vhiteng that it we: thweeelly set Yen team la theal burial. It wee sot hag le daft its way le the sa4 bet data the @hart banal the prima see at aphiseel heeds which wished it perm then all pis of Ms darely add adonis sad lestheyt Mod • sight le iheif err wen talarestlog lira Sky mei WA* meads es thew theme @ode hal ems te Omen Tor bell ea brat the Ail= were mole &begat the wires at dlftitiellog themehies sheet the bane, se the sew obis et width lateral the hump rad the paw? on mein • dew thine( wen mph thremad la aseleigalisa od the geserel drew abbe wee erthemed le hie Ore mai dr twaithb-seha le abs oalivadar shahs egaideille Med listed three it. Het tide pia of the ~en= the wey yingertylieserelled to lam eat, la eseesquinee at the vaeseithiy awe crowd which *maid the trasegt. The =Wee. laraw••••, esetray to espreatisa did eat war r dieserb the geed Imam at the Thilemti !r *II .reds yes csiskly ewe le • aest bedierms aide at thigh .bedews, which were eshibiled Epee • glen& dell, whith wee @shaded ear the that of the Melba etehaers, awl slid creed • greet dal el WM* three the yrieriself; tot were hang hid la the eselni homey& a.. ewe whew other ettrealre oshibideee hold dillemet path of the butidira he the sier ra of distributing the Amnon a mak re paha. Tints esejerieg. triadesureissa mad tralipareat weethel Mae wee =Med by the Wised. Mr. Beth, b the tha eseelieen of Weis airing ths dq ; while ageoirelly Wee= @pa diamilary were thiland by Mr. J. E. Yapper In the are leseeseuoesa le the heyied apertseeek lames else were eshiblted the sales el disethvista views esarealag the liess-buseend biaksty of " liar Hard," sat • smith Mositailag the heath@ of lint tied the Anthem Othrt. Mb bat hir le Me geed liele of • lap swath at as shires te eau thth the Christmas/Ns did she masyslith ell sethabeb hr the raker lee ate seem sad the giseree pl. Ivry resehwil theadoe areks' yethesegs. The theradeOsert. taditithessily masa geneessdaird thetelaremed te Wrest ansibireide elleselee. • men Whelks II UM paten r is etesedd r name= le Ms New Oral Pelee arts eels Tim athibiled in the mart he the that der Pis by Mr. NW* sad wen orideetly surldered its ebbeit wiped latirest. As de* oggresoba the whale et the hews gni leeitospt wore tbsisteit ,by saerooes doe mei oleohrs le gas jots, which., them! Flied m short alms wit, bed Ms mesa offtot upon Ilevett beater thin le mkt Ito N itehatoe etdbta no pehessi ea the one by the Leg ewe d po elms. elm rea tem OM et OD plinth, wee artaily very las. ibtooth there we, r ukitt have ben eqestei, s terioht shakier., of the "Olyetyhe emote maw the anted, which etteekeelly milhotei INN to way swift sad ceteollbs, the mithete—esellsrbi the volt seeeseme preetst—wite wry warty mad wall bans& Tbsech, owing to the dors need, a very image poepartha of the railway peaseepre were eashie to Men dr ballet' mull late In the 'mew, ovleythior terminated Is the moot trimly semor. Tits On/aster m.—The .saq of the Colosseum. id Woe= be deo I:rebury odveweledo, provided two sow ea lorlelosoodo Ise the honey Alum Ow et them, 'high Is stess by Yr. Oecese Itssklsmk b et es emir* bevel ettesetAse. It Is tatitlet, " Vesta ht the History at the Abbeys al Csitlet of Geese Ilitbils," eed ozeolloot slew we shim d ere of die meet itiosseen =I bee& Mows VI awe amine elneelmo. Tlee Ides et thas fispardag Immeerledio of ere of the Nast imam phew of the hal w• Ivo la le ft low am sad ho well swill est. The ether siturisisme I . S . e/ a 'dolled sal bassams eltanskr, sad Is Ono* Mt. M. P. law's, lobs apposisd Is 14 dlirsol siorsolus, Nog a maks et soy, sod sems smssil Isomr see ffroistelsor sod imillailses ill as wool* la a norm sada Ailed sows el isegUss from snoods& salissy. Tus Ow? Gum,— Towiwilay Mr. Wybil egeeed, la eillies le the einem editeleee et Os Ossmi Glebe la lekestereemem hienues d awe, datetsti the Heber Iteagemald, the reerewee r lie lee led Limb. City et Neeiteeesid. Dela Iteseem et Nina, IS I Istitee. Ike Inside, Marstaliss, helm wed ether hum et tee etemete. ehlt the else et Mut, the eat et we th Upper led* the Whew Clialare. the Yodel. mg Mesa" lishasl the " (Hobea pm d melte inset Ihreteibeet the My. Tn Poirtscinfic.—The undoster of this hr irin bod frowlail inaniesho haws ft/ air- Wanai kr halt yaw mid ail, DUmMou oisu Mr • Orbs lhr trine eqlolos of Dui Quimos—Waolono ▪ Ithmusupyouns Gs 11111.017 limb, ea ream Mid WA. sail co die Rousrous Moan • 1•8‘04-1uum6 Aseusasau Ilassiikully Damn. susui—Orummul alioure Tuto—O*B6t tilt AMOS/ from IM wirer et Pluumine—lew ter by Chad& The 111111111/IMM wr waded. Zosasiotcsi, Galianta.—Tha is not passally o no g e wham waft ar Miramar , Mal Ilem spa woke , prawaler momil • Out drammirmiam at rains at liagsaraaaffrak. CIITOTAL PALM. OWN annum Da:P.. Ilenroiy, Das. 27.—Ailmisibusamoys.w.S. yetis by ••w deb" 4111- Till THE EXPRESS, TuESDAY EVENISG, DECEMBER 28, 1868. at the - ~-Pai II: aTiLUBJECII. ND ovii iitimm eir up= ain for she waited soon this rising hops from bar heartria a meet ism mangier. She showed him the child, him she wanted help, asked what he intended to do, and what she herself wu ID do. The sapid must be given in the poor girl's own words. "He said he did not ogre what I did. I amid do as " I liked ; he should not give me anything. Ha put " on his coat and went out with the person that was picking a fowl. His ester said it was now for " me to wait, as he might not be home till eleven or "twelve. I wag destitute of a farthing, and I walked " about to see if I could see him. I saw no tidings of "him. The temptation was very great to lead me to • do what I did ; he so frowned upon me and the dear *baby. He knew it was his'n. It drove ms to do *what I never thought of before." The utter selfish ness and cool barbarity of the cowardly wretch who had betrayed her, drove the young mother to dis traction. Through him she had lost her place and her character; she had been six months in the workhouse ; she stood in his shop utterly destitute, with his child upon her arm es the shadows of evening gathered in, and he turned her into the street, without a penny, without one kind word or friendly look. A kind word or • promise of help would have eaved her; but FRANCIS, instead of speaking either, so " frowned on her" and " the " dear baby " that her whole nature was sad &only changed, and black despair swept her with resistless impulse into unnatural crime. She wan dered hopelessly about the streets for awhile, but there wu no help or shelter anywhere. It was midnight when she turned away from the twos and walked through the ling's Meadow to the brink of the river. Here she undreamed the child for the kat time, took a wild fmewell of it, and cowered away into the shelter of a hedge till morning. Then she found her way home, where she was evidently miserable enough ; and when arrested, the next day, in her bitter grief and remorse she made a fall coo -1 fession of all that she had done. It is for the mime committed under these circum stances that MARY NiwILL now lies tinder sentence of death. That it is a great crime we do not wish to deny. Bat while the legal guilt falls wholly on this poor girl, the moral guilt of the murder lies meet heavily at the door of her seducer, WLLLIAII Pianos. The mingled cruelty and effrontery ef this man are almost incredible, and altogether into lerable. After delving her into crime by his cruelty, he appeared in the witness-box and gave evidence against her in a manner so hardened and revolting that Mr. Justice Eau, in him gemming up, as,. emphatically, "if his conduct to the prisoner was " the same aa it had been in the witness-box, it must " have withered up her whole soul almost." Though this man has escaped the letter of the law, he has not eluded the rude justice of popular indigna tion. As our readers are aware, the populace of both Beading and Wallingford have driven him from their streets with execratiocm and something more than empty threats. While he hides himself in merited obscurity, his victim must however be cared for by the public. It is not right that she should bear the whole penalty of a crime in which he so largely shares. It is pre-eminently a cam in which mercy ought to temper justice, and we have no doubt that the memorial about to be presented will be gnome ftd. And we cannot but express our hope that the capital sentence may be commuted into a milder penalty than penal servitude for life. AT this Christmas time the Lord of Misrule is absolute. It is a season of metamorphoses, contra dictions, inversions, and tricks. Tens of thousands last night flocked to enjoy the Extravagant and the Impossible; and a page of our paper this morning describe, the revels of Friars, Fairies, and Foresters, Diamond Prisms, end Spirits of the Lake, in • world turned upside down. Bat in whimsicality and downright Hibernian absurdity we despair of see ing surpassed the amount which Sergeant CLZAZY, H - 8, gave last Friday to Mt. HAMM!. at Worship-street Police-court, of what be saw at an unlicensed theatre in Bethnal-green. It is six o'clock in the evening ; the bill of entertainments promises new ringers, new dancers, and a new piece- Sergeant CLEARY goes with the crowd ; bat why does not that ornament of the H division wear the blue of the Service? What mean those highiows and that dustman's long-flapped hat? and why labia right eye blackened, as if fresh from fierce encoun ter ? To come to the point—" CLEARY, what's your " genie ?" CLEARY'S game is not his, but his mas ter's. His Superintendent has sent him to pay his penny, mingle with the unsuspecting throng, and mem to share its pleasures, meanwhile taking secret note of the extra-legal entertainment presented on the stage. He tells us he had been ordered to attend there several times, and had before seen The Robber's Wife played; but this time it was The P rofti gat* Neap : or, the Disinherst.ed—the career of the money-spending, governor-clefyiug ecapegraoe of quality being always a taking subject with a population like that which abounds in Bethnal-green. There was a song, " Paddy on the Railway," and then a sailor's hornpipe by a "lady in tights." Then these was the laughing-gas that " did not affect any " body ;" and then we come to what the worthy Ma gistrate deigned to distinguish as "the legitimate." The Profligate Nopkolo is, it seems, a plowed &singular kind—a ballet with dialogue. The act drop, CLEARY tell. ne, wee an " Italian sketch—the margin of fair " Zurich's waters;" not so bad a glues, considering that Zurich might have been in Italy bat for the Alps. Cleverer men than the Sergeant have made greater mistake.: Hers gay dmorfteloa Egypt glade with shown, Or gives to Zenith halts, to Ewe towers. Then, to make it all quite regale: as a theatrical performance, " there were shrubs and other 1111011111." The Uncle, or " old 'tin," wee provided with wrinkles, and Hamm ma Raciness, a " most " determined villein," wore big boots and pistols. The Uncle is going to Dooton' Commons, or Apothe ' caries' Hall, the Serpent forgets which, to disin herit hie nephew, the profligate Nut, but a little ' bit of violence by the reties= in big boots pit ' vents this transaction, and the piece is about to terminate " uneatidactorlly," according to Set o past CLEARY. way of thinking, when suddenly an unrehearsed abet, whet we may call the beginning of the transhrmatiens, samoss. Bud ' daily, all the policeman is revealed In our dust 4masquerade after , Twelfth Night. Pelops II would be *ell to abridge even that short period of license. It say be necessary at times to veil the motion et the la► but the studied and artistic Mersin of its agents, especially for petty ends, has something about it which will always be repugnant to English feeling. Cte Court. WINDSOR, Dec. 27. The Queen, with Princess Helena, walked out this sserslag, sad visited the Primes Lainiagea at Frog- Mee. The Prises Common went oat @booting, soccenpanied by the Prism of Lablagea. The Prince of Wake Bede on horseback, attended by Colonel the Hos. IL Braes. Major-General Pool ldt London yostorday for Window Castle. Despatches from tha Governors of the North Americas' PRMAIJEII WON received yesterday at the Colonial-office. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. BERVIA. The Austrian Correspondence contains an article in which the revolution in Sonia is strongly con demned. It declares that the rights of the Porte ought to be guaranteed; but, at the same time, it recommends negotiation. _ _ _ _ . _ - . Despatches from Belgrade state that after Prince Mike& was proclaimed head of the state, Garu chanin and Starks Ugricia formed a provisional government. All military counter-revolutionary movement was prevented. Prince Alexander, who remains in the Turkish fortress, has protested against the proclamation for his dethronement, and the senate has protested against the election of Milosch Obrenovitach by the Skaptchina. The despatches further say that a communication was expected from Constantinople, and that Austria was remaining neutral, but was sending reinforce ments to her troops on the frontier, near Servia. HARMONIUM -NEW MOD, MALL sod Ow. 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Ws had maim to comsat last week on a verdict that appeared to us injuriously lenient—the acquittal elf Amason, the murderer, on the ground of insanity. We have now to notice another, which errs almost equally on the side of severity—the con dinnnatioa et MART Nswe.u., at Reading, last tusks ter the vassdar et bar alsofilmale Mild. Teshahally 'peaking, Weed, the mallet ma merely be galled sa error, kr the jury were no eight legally bound oa the evidence before them to mime to the conclusion they did. The poor girl coollnici that she drowned her infant; and beyond the act itself there was as evidence to prove that it was committed under the inflames of temporary insanity. Even so, however, there was very nearly, if not quite, am much direst 'evidence for en acquittal on the ground of insanity as la the cam of AIMINSON ; foe beyond the tragic, fait there was nothing to prove that he war insane either before, at the time, or after the dreadful murder be diehberately committed. If the one jury were right, therefore, in acquitting ATKINSON, the other might 1181s1y Uri spared MART NIWELL. We are met irglag, however, that they should have done sia We have as wish to advocate the dangerous doctrine that the inure fact of murder should in any case, by itself, be accepted as sufficient evidence of insanity. But if there is a ease in which it may be taken es affording preemptive evidence of temporary de lirium, it is ueuredly where a mother in an agony of despair destroys her own child. And in the mace of MART NEWELL there are circum stances of peculiar cruelty and hardship which ren der her crime, great u it is, light in comparison with that of Arelisemi, and will entitle her, in her awful position, to active public sympathy and public help. The jury salkiently expressed their scone of these extenuating circus samene by adding to their verdict a strong Tram msedation to mercy. Since the trial the most lively and general sympathy for the unhappy girl has been 'manifested in Reading sad the neighbourhood. Almost as soma m the verdict was known a memorial to the Qom, praying for a commutation of the sentence, was prepared, and within a few hours signed by the leading inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, including the Mayor, the county magistrates, town ouncillors, the members of the various professions, and the tradesmen of the borough. It is to farther the perm. of this petition, which will be presented in a few days, that we recall public attention to the facts of this distressing cue. The main circumstances of the poor girl's recent history may ems be told. It is, unfortunately, but too COSSIWOW SOUL MART NEWILL, who now lies under sentence of death in Reading gaol, became the victim of a cruel and heartier seducer, who, having beguiled her with promises he never meant to fulfil, turned his back upon her, is her hour of need, is the inset areal and barbarous manner. She ' la now just twenty-two, is described as a nest-look big omentry servant, and for six or seven years past ambers octet service in Reading and the neighbour hood. During the early part of this time she was at Wallingford, in the service of a Mrs. WINTER, who appeared at the trial, and gave her a high character, oral, el her in particular as "• kind and very " limmers girl." While at Wallingford she made the acquaintance of WILLIam FRANCIS, the eon of a small tradesman in the place, and himself either then or soon afterwards in business u a pool- Offer at Reading. About a year and a half ago this acquaintance became • mere MOWN" 0011. The girl being out of place and in Read ing seeking a new situation, FRANCIS met bar, talked taker of marriage, sad taking advantage et her lehere sad comparatively unprotected state, amoseplished all he wished. As the result she be came pregnant, fell into ill•health, and in a few mouths was obliged to leave her new plus. She tat want home. but ea soon ae she was better she peeeemied to Reading to tell FRANCIS of her state, and ask him te Wel his promise and marry her. He coolly told her that he was;" keeping company with somebody ere," and having added that he would &nothing for her, "shat up his shop, and left har •in the street" Not knowing where else to earry her burden of misery and shame, the deserted girl went to the Union. This was early in January last. Hem she nateimed he six mamba, being confined in May, aid having with her baby, now a het*/ Wild, three swaths old, on the 9th of August. lateatima wee to proceed at once to the hum eda I /mak relative at Sheppard'eveen, bea t taw peasilem, and aot liking to tarow the Mali Imam et herald and her talant upon a poor Medea, she' seddetly changed her mind, and went at once to Reading tow the father of her sand, and ark him to centelbute sessething towards its support. It was miming whim she arrived. She west to kis Amp, bet he me set in. She waited, however, fah ef hope that *mg\ be had behaved so harshly to bur EXPRESS FROM PARIS. M. MONTALEMBERT. The Monitsur of to-day announce' that the Em peror relieves M. de Montalembert from the penalties pronounced against him on the 21st of December by the Imperial Court. The editor of the Correspondant is also pardoned. (TROY GUS OWN PARIS, MONDAY BVININO. You will remember that some two or three months ago there was great talk of a large reduction in the French army. The rumour was so studiously accre dited that many people believed it. A paragraph which went the round of several English journals affirmed that the extent of the reduction would be no less than 100,000 men. I well recollect at the time asking a gentleman who knows what is said in official quarters whether there was any truth in the report. I was told that the government bad the fullest intention to reduce the army, but that it was, of course, oat of the question to discharge 100,000 men at once, for the simple reason that it would be an injustice to the men themselves, who, if dis charged is such numbers, would not find employment. It was, however, positively said that the reduction' would be effected gradually, by calling out fewer recruits than usual. Well, it turns oat that the government calls under arms every man that it can lay its hands upon. The entire contingent for the year is ordered to join, and this is a thing unprecedented in time of peace. The Indepenclance, although it habitually picks and chooses its words for its French edition, in order to avoid being seized on the frontier, thus significantly comments on the fact: The Christmas holidays will, perhaps, be somewhat sad dened in the country villages and In Ur fechnies by the de parture of 100,000 recruit' to join their regbnente. It is already said that the camps of instruction for 1869 will be unusually large. An army of thirty thousand men near the Italian frontier is spoken of. Six regiments of infantry took up their quarters to-day in the new barracks near the Chateau trEan, which are to be henceforth called the Prince Eugene Barracks. The Emperor will probably visit the establishment shortly. A new line of Boulevard is projected to be carried from this barrack to the Bar riers da Trost. M. Gauthier d'Aubeterre, the unfortunate gentle men who was strapped on his horse's back d to Ma seppa, by Lieutenant Wagner, the director of an Arab bureau, appears likely to get the worst of it. The last news on the subject is that the lieutenant still commands his post, and that the civilian is to be brought before a court-martial foe insulting an officer in the exercise of his duty. Some few of the victims of the law of public safety who were arbitrarily transported by General Espinasse will probably be allowed to return to France on the occasion of the new year ; but I believe no ooe will be admitted to this indulgence TWINS he humbly solicits it in writing. Votre peau ou votes hauteur is the dilemma generously submitted to all persons in this oategory. The Council of State are now diactuising the question whether the mayor in the Seine and Oise (Montmorency I hear was the seat of his mayoralty), who lately arrested three municipal councillors for voting against him and packed them off to prison in a cart, should not be prosecuted for an " excess of power." The probability is, however, that means will be devised to hash the matter up. ' 1 Discussions in courts of law touching the acts of government functionaries don't answer, even although the public may be excluded, and the newspapers ordered not to publish reports. The Pay. publishes a long letter from M. Rouxel, the captain of the Charles-et-Georges, recounting a great &slot unnecessary ill-usage which he appears . . . to have suffered from the Portuguese authorities of Mocambique, but from which it results clearly that he bought slaves from their owners, and paid the price for them ; bat, in accordance with the extraordinary theory of the French govern ment, he preteuds that the traffic was lawful, because the moment they set foot en board his ship they became " free labourers," engaged by a con tract entered into of their own " free will and accord" to serve for a term of years is the French colonies. He admits that dysentery always prevails to a terrible extent among the " free blacks" on the French recruiting ships. The French journals re "reboot that the papers which the Portuguese government refuel to prodnes to the Cortes are not, as ham been supposed, those which would convict the Freese government of having bees in the wrong. but *me, which like Captain Hoaxers letter, show that it was entirely la the right. The Emperor went oee day last week to inspect the new Salle des Etats in the Louvre, where it is intended to open the session of the Corps Legislatif in February. His Majesty, is order to ascertain whether the laws of acoustics had been sufficiently attended to in the construction of the chamber, stood at one end of it while one of his attendants reed a page of Bonnet at the ether. He appeared to be satisfied with the experiment. There is, I dare say, no doubt that the imperial speech of 1859 will be audible, although—es many members of the Haim of Commons well know—en army in an empty hall is a very uncertain cri terion as to whether the wend of the voice will fill the same building when it is full of people. By the way, M. Couture, the artist who had been engaged m paint the compartments in the walls of the Salle des Etats, has been sud denly told that his services will not be required, and is so nettled at the dismissal that he positively refuses to finish a greed picture of the baptism of the Imperial Prime, for which both the Empire, and the Empress gave him severaleKtiage. This picture was intended to be one of the great festaroo of the exltibitien of modern artists next I spring. ThslOtiasiten been *reward. The affairs of Salvia: wars; in some instances, either a came or pretext for plea. Analog wee also felt abort the Jong announced new bank, and there were a great many vague rumours of issues of obligatio raise money. The Rents fell 15c. for m a k and 30c. for account, closing at 73fr. La d 73fr. 3c. It was a shade firmer at the clas s than it had been, the quotation for account harin g been at one moment 73fr. Mobilier was relati ve l y firm; nevertheless it fell llfr. 23.. Railways I ," dull, and from 2fr. 600. to 3fr. lower. The Rea of France has declared its half/early dividend to-dsy at 48fr. This is even less than I led you to expe c t it would be. The last dividend was 86fr., and th e two together only give the very poor income for the year of 3fr. 800. per cent. This unfavourable resit, however, was to be expected when it was found thee the reduction of the discount to 3 per cent. did eat materially increase the business of the Bank. CH2218211C43 71621V12118. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are seiroundsd by a select hotly circle at Hatfield House, Herta, inaladiag the Duke of Wallingtaa, Lord Stanley, Lord Beady', Lady Corky, Lard P. Psalm, &a. Mama the moat guests of the noble marquis and marchioness have bees his Bowellimay the Pruden Blinker and the Countess Bmasket, his Izatikacy Berea Beatinok, the Barl of lialmaisbarT, Violllllli Strethalles, Major-Oar& and Lady Alice Peel sad Mime Peel, Sir W. H. Jollies, Str Corns Uadasy, the Bight Has. Benjamin and Mts. Disraeli, CoL *key, dies. P. Shaky, lik. Abel sad Lady Soma Smith, tapas Forks, Mr. mad Ilea. Kra. W. Rosa, Mr. Halsey, Hr. Oki& to. Oa CiIfiIiMMINIVO the sable marmite caused beef, brad, sal ale to be dleleambed to shoat 200 of the worlusea is his Harttordehhe real& The Duke of Rutland has a nisei haft drab staying at Heir* Castle. Lord J ohn Maar% Lord George and Lay Adam Manners, sad the Bay. Mr. sad Lady Adeliza Norman are of the party. The Marquis of Lowdown. has a large party at Bowood. TL Earl and Countess of Shelburee and family, Count and Cognises Flahault and Hon. Mies Farmington* Flanank, sad the Hon. Mr. and Lady Louisa Howard are among the members of his family staying with the noble marqtda. The Earl and Countess of Abergawmay have a family Bitola at Bitting Manor, the family teat, near Maidstone. The oustomary bounties to the poor at this thus of the year were distributed during the early pert of the west. The Karl and Counter Howe are entertotaing a small Rosily circle at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire. As tonal at Ibis period of the year the necessitous and aged poor on the Rally estates have been supplied with blankets, warm &thing, &o. The Earl of Erse; with his usual liberality, bed a bullock killed, and the meat distributed an Christmas-day amongst eighty of his working 11101 and cottages, with a good allow ance of bread and beer. Viscount and Viaoountese Canbensin are wounded by • family circle at Combatants Abbey, The noble vtroorint and visoonntres have, according to their annual oustom at Christmas, distributed clothing and rods to the cottager. on the Combennere estate, for whose benidt tour tat aun were ciao supping by the nook field-a►ar.hal. Viaoount and Viscounts= Pehairdos have a Wool party at Bro•dlaoda, mar Bossy, Swats. On the 14th that. Mr. Gladstone reached Zante. ♦ hum Rose Vienna says that whoa he entered the oarrtsge which wee waiting foe Way twelve young man in the Greek costume took out the horses and drew him up to the castle. The dernocatratket in favour of the union with Greece was vary general. The Nord of to-day commences an artiele upon the subject of the Itathet Weeds, with observing:— „ The Right Hes. Kr. Gledsimes actively pursues the solemn Inquiry entrusted ecathe by hie gevenmest. He m calms the authorities, he vitae the isiesde, be eldresses wire and ootwilistory meurences to the hibehltsste; beim roes it is maid, to Athens, to mak a mode of restradales the inutud tyrepetkies of the lonise Repablie end Orem; het every where. at Corfu. at Zoete, at Paso ems, be hems but one reply to lie friendly wards We have had enough of English pesseeMee. Bresthe the diapered nembers of . people wthe won g.M In pee tines, and who will be peat ie Mom whim limeys, ceasing to Parcel oat Wiz pomelatiee„ Wit Iserftry, mad deer genius, shall reeler* to these the true *Witless el prospelty end masses: An Amateur Dramatic Performance will be given ea Jemmy 11, to the Private Theatre at Camden loess, liessinglcm, by distinguished ladies and midmost amateurs ; the proomds to be devoted to the Prize Fond of the Society for the wouragement of the Fins Arts. The Christmu sessional examination of the Royal Agricultural Coasts, at aresesder, took place en the 16th hat. The exanalnalica Winded praothal agricultural obemlatry, the veterinary art, natural history, surveying, sad engineering. Award the prises awarded was one to Mr. Brameton, a son of the member for South Essex. The Royal Commissioners for manning the Navy have terminated their labours for this year, and adjourned until the 11th January, 1869. It is believed (says the Unita if Barna* Gaulle) that they have, with some few 'row hon., exhausted their programme of examination, and it is probable their report will be laid on the table of the house at an early period. We regret to announce the death of Colonel Sir Belford Hinton Wham, 1C.C.8., formerly &Agri d'afairee is the Carew; at hie how in Part-street, Grosvenor square, yesterday. the 27th insters4 after a very protracted Sue. Professor Max Muller, Fellow of All Souls Col lege, Oxford, hos been elected a Corresponding Member of the Institute of Frame. Accounts from Toulon announce that the Grand Doke Carloads', with the Burt= squadron, is to vbdt the royal family at Naples. An approaching morganatic marriage of one of the prises@ of the Premien royal family with a lady whose acquaintance hi. royal highness made at Ems, le at thh time the erabhct of canvereetion among the higher circles at Berlin. Morrie's. of the kind have been very geseral awe; the members of theme! how. Throe wee sot only that of the King Frederick William 111. with the Princess Lleguits, but there ere now existing that of the Prince Albert, brother of the King and Prises Regent, with the dangler of the fanner Minister of War, General you Rauch, upon whisk mroados that lady was created Countess of Hobsimeda by the Mae of Maininges ; and that also of Pence alalikort, wads of the King, the Premien admiral, with the .detested Theme Thaler, whose son by that mar doge has be ennobled se the Baron Barnim, and received by that title into the reeks of the Premien nobility. The King of Bavaria has convoked the Diet for the 15th of January. As this body is even sew hostile to the ministry than the two preceding legislatures, it is thought not ashtray that the inhibitors will resign. In the Grand Duohy of Lexembreet, the New Chamber bee commenced Its labours by a vase of &hoot to the government. The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Nice on freaday, and wilt leave for Genoa to-morrow. The Duke of Chartres has pared his examina tion at the Military Schad of Turin In a distinguished weer, and ha. Dion shred among pupils of the third yew. The director of I* Scala, at Milan, has been pre natal by the monetary rids which prevaile la Lombardy 'rota paying his performers. Thin le the that tires sure • man, who tells us, " I stepped on to the stage bum; ise ;00. 1 ;e 8 thin ' and collared the Count, while, upon a given signal, M. Lucchesi, the tenor, is said to be engaged by ' rap Superintendent and Inspector with twelve men Mr. 8 040 OW • MAW sow to Eallimad, d alloroards lir " forced an estrum sad seemed the mist." The the C'ea'Prial °Pm "Ink 11 7 Mr. G Ts' musses did i s sod the „ sm. "i sms, Mdme. Cluyee is inmenesed in the Paris papers to dancer., and money taker were made prisoners. In LP"' ma. Irv i nt s 611. ' mk s , ta do tbe t tri 1 " k / 11w .. ' the confusion of the moment, the official character but's. esdsks Hidssesisw, who was for some leSergetnt CLZAIti himself wee Oblipilitid, for he tons tlr pries a m , o w p i * Gime opim4 bes ime es that just is he bad get held of the Coital., aim a t pdhpirg, tram Amu d th e b um g h , ,„ "87H, my brother officer, seined me, thinkieg I men dap, fl ipsiewl the amen mine pies ego. " wss oar of the dramatis pereeme." Mr. Heine mt. The Madrid papers amino. the &but of M. having listened attentively to this narrative, read a fneetimi at the Theme Rs la is hisras, sad withmt grave lecture to the culprits, and, taking their pro- 01 .1 , " "xfb• hL sass.. " """1", ".'; I mime not to offend *gain, dismissed them to look Plidabi to that cit y . " Prie s " ." v's atten ded after their Christmas dinners; and thus this droll in- 11 tbair 114.1bss sod the semi We learn from St. Petenbarg that the Italian miriade ended. The memo is a large excise for Opers maces& stioninfolly, Mire. Ogookiet, meth that is mid and irregular, sad perhaps Sir bu d, k‘°" r # s 101 . 11 0 Wig lode s ltrourtm Moults doss not moo W his men ors twos:ewe. _.. , visa en 09•4 • .. srel - UNITED STATES. The Hamburg and American Company's steam. ship Hammed.' arrived off Cows, yesterday, with 25 pa. angers for Southampton and 20 for Hamburg. On the 18th, in ;lat. 43.45, long. 66.66, she reoliangd night-rignala with a earew-eteweer, supposed to be g m &monis, eastward-board. Oa the 21* In W.. 47.30, keg 41.20, she pared a paddle-wheel steamer, schooner-Ha e . with one funnel, steering to the westward, ahoy* Ro l signals—two rockets and one blue light. The Hammonia left New York on the 15th. The mar rnercial advice. are anticipated by the Europa. It is rumoured that the President contemplates (endings special message to Congress in regard to the 'Gies c Ca l . Mal America. Th. Nal. telegraph line has been completed to La* ton, 300 taw west of Bt. Louis. The report of abundance of gold at Pike's Peak M A has confirmed. South Kenna is represented es the ems of mot► Maeda sad lawlessness. House-bunting, robberies, and soher depe• dances, ere of frequent onsatranoe. Meetings hers Ilia leaf for the suppression of these outages. Nothini transpired in the Sim ate on the lath blends dieensaion on the Pacific Railroad Bill. The boom ocoapid itself principally with s debate on the impeachment of Watson. Bat Me other basins., was tranmoted by that body. _ _ _ The legbdature of South Carolina, on the 10th, elected Colonel Cast, of Union district, Governor of South Caroline for the succeeding term of two years. _ Wow intelligen os from Mobile states that the lams Oregon arrived there on the 18th, haring on beard Lieutenant White, of the cutter YcLelland, who was taken off t sea by the fillibusters. Lieutenant White reports that he left the Susan 260 miles outbound to °renown. He nays whin Its found the Susan under weigh, he tamed her to author, but his orders were net heeded. DREADFUL CATASTROPHE AT THE VICTORIA THEATRE. FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED AND MANY OTHERS INJURED. One of those terrible erects which occasionally strait the public mind with a thrill of horror wand )ee. tardily afternoon at the Victoria Theatre, in the Walsh*. road, involving the death of no less than Men young rr whose ages veiled from 16 to 23 years, and the merlons lejng of misty others. _ . . . . . The particulars of the sad event, gleaned on the Met, sal been the most reliable sources, are as follows : Yesterday being Boxing-day, the proprietors and menamee of this theatre, in common with other metropolitan place' el ennamment, bad exerted themselves to furnish their mums with a more than usually attractive Christmas eneetela. meat ; and It was arranged that there should be two per. forename of the pantomime—one in the day end one as usual in the evening. In order to prevent any confusion at accident larking from the egress of the visitors to the after noon performance at a time when the evening frequenters of the play might be expected to arrive, it was erringd that the people in the gallery at the Ant per. tormenos should, instead of leaving the theatre by the ordinary staimeass, dreamed through a lobby leading to the bone, and go out by the principal entranoe. The I object of the manager In making this arrangement was two , fold—ke avoid any collision between the ascending and de eteedlng people, and at the same time to enable the gallery deem to be opened at a much earlier period than usual, so ea to proven any very great crush at the entrance. trace- Omately, as will be emu by the sequel, an unforeseen cebenty conned which destroyed all there arrangemen, sad to a greet extent rendered the very pretentious ham to prevent sadden the mum eta deplorable ion of lib. The doors were barn open aboat one &clog der the morales miasmata, end the none was, as is metek, almost hameilanly crarneted, and everything went wait ihmaglessi the performance nearly up to the time of Ito eariclusion, when the calamity occurred. As had ben frermem, the evening visitors began to make their apparent a the palmy doors at a very early period in the &karc a. sad as there was no reason for excluding them bout the gallery stairs, in consequence of the precentor' takes for the exit of the then crowded gallery through the boxes, therms permitted to ascend it to the very door of the gallery as trance. There was, consequently, very soon a compact ism of puma, principally yams meet and woman, of the elms which nattily frequents the gallery of the Victoria Shwas, peeked together on the maim and the crowd was bag cis deadly augmented by fresh arrivals from below. It req necenary to say that the entrance at the top of the deka= was looked for the purpose of preventing creeks aid , imicrelng the clearing of the crowd Was the ming , vi inn were admitted. • It wee shoat twenty minutes to eve o'clock, while the people were packed together on the gallery entire to the manner described, that a strong smell of gas waa grab* and it became evident that some rupture had tan plat is one of the gas-pipes on the staircase. No alarm Ina at lest felt, though the strong smell ,d the eaceptag gas et eta attracted the attention of every one. Immediately aftermedes however, a alight explaion tout place an the eased co did landing, which was noticed by those anew Min porta. of the staircase. Then mess the fugal ary d " Firs i Are 1" " The place la on Are 1" mid a oar d hence maned which it way be fairly rid take of deicriptlon. The whole we of people ea the sight pardon of the stairs where the explodes took Peet, to OA satiety to soaks their escape, precipitated themselves MI la seosadiag crowd below, while those on the stairs long* the kit Wading, unconadous of what had reasnel, lit assiadba. The malt wee that more than a lambed WO beans wespectly wedged boners the two maw. The Arlan cries, sad smothered groans that arms es bend • 1 •1 11 i skater got dished what the Wean*, wen dome sod *redden woe, are reported by mete el then the were Feast, end wen both eye and ear alarms of Ili occurred, to have beat awful to the sera& Son4l the pea* at the top d the stairs fairly thaw bow melees down the whole flight on to the heeds el then below, end then usable to recover their lege, Ml aid area won bang smothered is the crowd ; ethers threw eaves over the lialashade, a swab pones WI vibe Wia beech awn, sail abglasil I easty ; wills Mime ages wedged to, IRO =able to serve, mad being toadied Is a an of lasaribility, were se seethe=d. This Mann sass, to le salsa, fatal hew tea sialetts a easiest elm hoar, a tins ea* rallaisa to Nada be draddid hes eel lib flat t no had bed tam plata Tim anal blew, ma the lea light of stairs, bed assa hw anal that asseseing the wee lespralag sheet bah bat we Ihsandas nimble to tura, to snantrais ef be ossuarshanof passes band thee, sal it was sia MOO pimple st the way warm* WI ths galley stairs la ban aware of the man a the asoldisa w he t the lower perils el the asks at at sl enured. Thew, Jahn, they nit freatiosay at she the theatre, paean by the cry d " rho The saws wee as anise to the fie-brigade sada a the Wateriarvesd, sad sows of the (aglow attended, bet nitilosisa aid fire being bat momentary, the WIWI Nast rantred. liev, bowsaw, ocateesaced the harrow's' seen d tobglag sat the deed bodies as well as these eke AM heleeide, end which won all fond crowded tsgder da the that hada& amid Imo is base WO" tag she aisdnass ma. This tratevid was saw -1 41 0. 1 ki L lliliffa *Waif Irak At Wit Cableffi s lad nespeasintarintalista hsbrareisa athallfolf t sad weenie' at saes to the spot, aceteapashd ft body atria coestabla. Us derwrihes the saes as bra nada& sad Ids nation were awls la the sada d 1111 , gasses, sidits, eel lanstadoss of the crowd caille, 110 " herd bay a ether wee aregalsed by awe ban endstin ' The bet dap of the patios was to 'soars all the pail oh' I sad wall= and end ad= panes who we Waal WO Welsh, oat alto to ma onkel seistace.. In • of I