The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-30 00:00:00

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(taco —k oy further particulars apply to WILLIAM cowl . w i t t y- s weet, Liverpool ; audio LIVES and MACZY, e„ 11336 L.udon. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. m. 0... PO, ;tor. Mr. F. Strange.) Three Ballets, 200 N a cos, co i t orun,..ninliate, Singers, Acrobats, Mimics: Latest - "clew and, Saloons, Sapper-rooms, Lasatorke, sm kip i .rmer, 1:‘ ening Papa; 10 Orchestral Pieces leery meta Open at lialt.peat Seven, begin at Sight. prices_ik. m, eao Seats 4L; rivals Buses, from Ll la BerotOce open Men Eleven to lour. ALL the NEW CHRISTMAS ENTERTAIN MESTA ISMY NIGHT. COMIC BALLET-NEW SPEC:TAO:7- .o Lut I;mA-rt . -NEW DANCYZ-NEW MUSIC. MORNING PERFORMANCES EVERY SATURDAY, at Two. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High lborn.—The most apeciout and brilllantly-decorated Itail Room, and the best Hand In tendon. OPEN for CONCERT and DANCING =YET Evirarrs. Musical Director, Mr. W. Packer. Open at halt -prot ; doer ai as. mammon. Ihroughonk la NITED STATES 5-20 and 10-40 BONDS U as present prices pay over 8 per cent. and T per rent. per mama respectircly.—ldeaers. BILDLNO, KEITH, and Co., Iraqis= Rankers and Merchants, 80, Lonshardatreet, London, BI T aal SY.LL, or EXCHANOS these BONDS for any others, or °then fie thew, at the current rates of the day, charging one 'mansion only for exchange : and cash the Coupons on Amer'. lan floods and :stocks —Further particulars and a Synopsis of Acts sithorising these loans, also Pamphlet en Bonds, by post or at appaaaton. MELDING. KEITH, and Co., American Bank er and Merctuuits, 80, Lombard-street, London, issue kills of Exchange, payable in currency or gold in any part of the United States. make collectionsof Drafts or Accounts: purchase American pmdects, and receive Consignments suitable for American markets, on oomadidos. COLONY of NATAL. la IMMIGRATION and PREMHOLD LAND GRANTS. Grants of Government Land are given to men familiar with healing operations, and possessing sufficient 1110•1115 to torn their Applications for further Information to be made to Dr. MANN, the special Agent of the Natal Government, at the hatel Immigration Olga, 16, Burlingham-street, Wand, W.C., London. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN ECHIBMON, 1888. Thia celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the Drinni PRIZE MEDAL—It Is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very whokeome. Sold In bottles, Is. Bd. each, at the retail houses In London : by the agent* in the principa l towns In England ; or wholesale at 8, Great Windmill-street, London, W.— Observe the tad seal, plat label, and met branded " [Mahan's LL Whisky. (laNDLES, GLYCERINE, and SOAP.—A Gold 1.1141 awarded at the Parts Exhibition to Prices Palest Castillo Company , Limited! for "Candles, Glycerine, and Soap"—the only one to any Br itish exhibitor for Giese. three Nags combined. The chief candles of the company are their "BELIONTIN E" and " PUCE'S PARAFFINR" for these who mad have the extreme transparency of pare parallne ; their "GOLD MEDAL PA LMITINE," and "SHERWOOD PALM!. TINE,* for those who. while desiring candles of great beauty, »- sake shit steady brilliancy of light and freedom friss smoke and emetl; their good old fashioned " Belmont Sperm sad Wax," and "Beat," " No. 2." " No. 3," and "Battersea" composites for those Who remdre only perfect burning without caring for trans former . sad their "Chamber" candles, hard, and of small dia. meter to amid the dropping of mean when carried. Their new Win Nap, " PRIVES SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE" contains half its weight of their distilled giycerloa, and should be the one toilet soap in use, especially in winter, bemuse of its admirable effects in preventing chapping of the hands and face. There ought also to be In every house one of the sealed bottles of their patent distilled Glycerine, known everywhere as " Price's Glycerine," two or three drops of which, mixed with three or tour times as ankh water, will in a day or two remove chapping sad roughness of akin, whether of adults or children: and when this is effected, a single drop of the undiluted Glycerine applied once a day will prevent the recurrence of the chapping collicancsa Insist en having "Price's Glycerine" in the Company' own sealed tonics, quantities of cheap impure Glyce. dm ivies now sold in tile shops became of the low rate at which the dealers eon buy It In comparison with Frieda All the good medical authorities abroad, as well as as home, order " Price's" at the use only Glycerine to be med. " Price's New Patent Night Lights," for burning In the wide Mimes, are believed to be the very best night lights made " Rice's Child's Night Lights" are known everywhere, and era excellent for burning without a glass. CAI4ILS. —A Hint to Pnrchaseri.—Do not 3 make mire that you know what price you are psYing Per pound for your candles until you have stripped them and put then fo the scale. Some candles are right weight without the rrappas some with moderately thick some with very Mkt wrappers, and some are sot nosily t weight with wrappers however thick piticrs GOLD YHDAL PALML. TIN "Sherwood Palmitine," "Belmont Sperm." and "Bel mont Wee." "Best," No. 2," 4 . No. g," sad Battersea" Composites, " Parafilne," and "Belloontine," and all the other candies of Price's Patent Candle Company ilJugted), are tell weight without the wrappers. WINT E R OVERCOATS. 105, STILAND, OPPOSITE EIETERMALL. Sleds! attention Is given In this Establishment to WINTER OVLECOATS, and a select stock Is always kaon hand at HAMILTON and EMT() TAILORS and OVISOOAT-MAOLEHIL PRICK'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE (Patsoted).—Gold medal, Parts, 1867. —The neural and beet tollst soap, man wall, sires a Mob and fragrant lather, is windy trim from cocoa nit 01l or mess of alkali, and contains ball ha nimbi of Prioe's distilled glycerine. Retailed by all chemists., grocers, Me., to 4d. and dd. tablet& rums PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (Lbaltad,, Bslmoet Works, Battonsa, &W. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S own for all who court the ay and festive scenes.— iI O WLAN DS' 11ACAS4AR 011,a preserver and beautifyer of the hair beyond all precedent Rowlands' alydor, for Impart hit a radlaat Woo= to the complexion and a softness and deli ttcY b. the hands, arms, and neck. Rowlands' Odonto, or Pearl bentlfrke, foe taring a pearl-like whiteness to the teeth, and Im mure to the breath. The patronage of royalty threughout their amend use by rank and fashion, and the ttniver &all Worn titicaty of these articles, give them a celebrity un larieled by chemists and perfumer—Ask fur .• Row lands "articles. DR SCOTI'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, a never ialliug remedy, prepared without any mercurial Wrodient, will to fraud invaluable to an who suffer from inborn ad um complaint., iodigestlon, wind, spume, giddiness, Mul lin of the eyes, gr.. For Entitled costiveness, as • family cine, aud as • purifier cd She blood, they me Indy szeslistit mild In their operation and grateful to the stcsnach, mel meet appetite, pr•mote digestion, and strengthen the *hole tenon emem.—dold by W. La mbert , chemist, a, the 111111mud deei _ , marina-emu, and by most druggist., lu bane qd. sad three limes the quantity in oce, ea 9d. be sure to Wk De. dr,in Bilious and Liver Pina The fitalaillC me in • "Pale PM package, with Iserhere" endeared oe the 111INNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. The Medical profession for thirty jean have approved o mu , Pure Solat,on of Ntagnesia as the best remedy for Acidtty of the Stomach. heartburn, Headache, Goat, and Indigestion ; and Y the test mad aperient for delicate constitatioas, eepedally Co.ldaPted for sae . , Children, and Infanta —DlNNlat.n I) and Omelets. in, New Hondeireet, London, and of ell other chemists thronshoet the world. GOUT and RHEUMAT I SM.—The excruciating ...Ai gout K rheumatism is quickly relieved and to & wildly* by that criel.rated mediciaa. Gorr and RHEUMATIC PILLS. theY require uu restraint of diet or ooidinetnant during their Use. iad are certain to prevent the Mows attacking any vital part sold by aC medicine vendors at is. led. and 2a. ad. per box or "tab'ed tan midh say cambia CHRISTMAS ORATORIOS. —The Creation will be Elven next Wednesday, New•year's Day. at Exeter - ball, by the National Choral Society under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin. Band and corns, 700. Mr. Bentley will moll on this occasion ; also on the following Wednesday is Ow LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1867. TELEGRAPHIC _ INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ALFRED IN AUSTRALLL (lIIrTZFeI3 TELEGRAM.) By the arrival of the Panama and West India THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. mail at Southampton yesterday we have advice, from Sydney to Nov. 1, eight days later than those ALEXANDRIA, Die. 28 . I brought by the last overland mail. The Crocodile troop ship, with the troops Prince Alfred arrived at Adelaide on the 30th brought by the Euphrates, sailed to-day. The October. The Sydney correspondent of the troops consist of 17 officers, 2 officers' wives, 382 Panama Star and Herald, writingon the letNovem men, 23 soldiers' wives, and 51 children of the ber, gives the following account, from telegraphic Royal Artillery; 24 offi 8 officers' wives, 18 despatched of the reception accorded to the royal officers' children, 6 servants, 452 men, 29 women, visitor at Adelaide : Although it can scarcely be termed New South Wales and 71 children of the 27th Foot ; also 10 officers, news, the arrival of Prince Alfred in South Australia is 1 officer's wife, 05 men, 2 soldiers' wives, and 2 of such paramount interest throughout the whole of the children of other corps. j Austral group, that I give it prominence over other It is reported that the chief of the Shohoes has matters. The Galatea arrived at Dleaslii on Wedaredar surrounded Magdala. morning, or rather soon after midnight, unperceived by ! the government vessel stationed in the gulf of St. Vinoent to herald her approach, and next morning • party of clerk; on an aquatic excursion saw her, and were the first PARIS, Dac• 29, colonist,s to welcome his royal highness. The news flew The Epoque of this evening, contradicting the throughout the colonies as fast as electric wires could rumours that an understanding existed between carry it, sad in the capital of each was announced by the Russia and England, states that not only does no firing of a salute. The Galatea left the Cape of Good such understanding exist, but the relations be- ; R°Pe on October 2nd, sailed for twenty- five good heel*, days and lessen the cabinets of St. Petersburg and London , steamed three days. The Prince is in end aocompisio4 by Lord Newry, N T. B e k e t y , have been for some days past cool rather than ' th e g onania by, m e t Y or k e an d Lieutenant Hay, amicable. I R.E. Great excitemsst prevailed is Adelaide when the FRANCE. The Patric refutes the assertions published in several journals relative to the Conference, and says that the proposal for the Conference had originally been accepted by the majority of the Powers, and was received by all with sympathy. The objections which had been raised had only reference to some points of detail, and have led to further negotiations, which are already so far advanced that a result may be expected within a given period. The Petrie says: " We regret that journals which advocate the main tenance of the peace of Europe should dwell so complaisantly on false news, in order to anticipate the failure of the proposed Conference. These papers do not consider that the Conference would precisely have the result of removing from the questions of the day serious complications. It would be most efficacious in the cause of peace, and in the conservative interests, in the defence of which they show themselves so eager to lead the European cabinets to a definitive understanding on such an important point." news was known, and at night the hills for miles were lit up with immense bonfires. The royal visitor landed pri v►tely daring the evening, and ascended a neighbouring eminence from which he had • view of the scene. The fol lowing telegrams announce what was done up to last night :—" King William-street is one line of flags, fes tooned from end to end ; there are also two triumphal arches. People ars arriving in thousands' from the coun try, and it is estimated there will be 60,000 people in town to-day. The illuminations to-night promise to be very good. The weather is fine. Prince Alfred landed officially at Glenelg at 2 p-m., and was received on the jetty by his excellency the governor, the ministry, and members of both houses of the legislature. Some 300 per lens were present. The mayor and corporation of Glenelg presented an address to the Prince, who was attired in plain clothes. The procession then formed, and accompanied by • corps of volunteers his royal highoess pro ceeded to town ; on:arrival at the first triumphal arch, King William-street, he was met by the mayor and cor poration of Adelaide, who also presented an address in a silver casket ; here the procession was joined by • number of Friendly Societies sad the Volunteer infantry. A bat. tory of artillery fired the usual salute. On arrival at the post-oflos, the procession halted while 25,000 Sunday School scholars sang the National Anthem, the effect beieg very fine ; from this the procession prooseded to govern ment house. The reception of Prince Alfred by the vast crowds collected was most enthusiastic, and he appeared evidently pleased by the heartiness of the welcome. To , day be holds a public levee, and for several days nothing , but flies and excursions will be thought of. Melbourne is also astir, and his reception there will be the grandest ever known out of England, not the least remarkable fe►ture being a magnificent free banquet to 20,000 of the humbler classes. ITALY. FLORENCE, Dsc. 29, EVENING. King Victor Emmanuel arrived here io-day, and had a long conference with General Menabrea. Count Ponza and M. de San Martino arrived here yesterday, and after a conference with General Menabrea and their political friends returned to Turin. HUNGARY. PESTH, Dye. 29. The royal sanction has been given to the follow ing bills, which have already passed both houses of the Hungarian Diet, namely: the bill regulating the annual contribution of Hungary to the common expenses of the empire ; the bill settling the portion of the debt of the empire to be borne by Hungary ; the Jewish emancipation bill ; and the treaty of commerce between Austria and Hungary. To-day the election of the delegates of the Hun garian Diet took place in both houses. The Lower House elected 40, and the Upper Howe 20members. The Lower House has passed the bill in reference to the construction of new railways. ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AT MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, Nov. 27. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in her Majesty's ship Galatea on the 23rd inst. Unprecedented demonstrations have taken place, and fetes in his royal higluiesa's honour have been daily held. The dissolution of parliament has been suspended in consequence. The amount of gold shipped during the month for Europe is 105,625 oz. AMERICA. ATIJIMO TELZOILLPIL) NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 6 P.Y. The Cunard steamer Scotia arrived out yester day, and the Atalanta and the Hibernian to-day. Closing prices :—Gold, 1332. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1081. Illinois, 1314. Erie, 724. Cotton—Middling Upland, 14. PHILADELPHIA, Dac. 27. Petroleum, standard white, 244. NEW YORK, Dix. 28, 6 P.M. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out 1,250,000 dollars in specie. Closing Prices :—Gold, 1334. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1084; Illinois, 1324 ; Erie, 72j. Cotton : Middling i Upland, 151. PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 28. Petroleum, standard white, 244. NSW YORK, Dec. 29. General Grant, by order of President John son, has removed Generals Pope and Ord from the commands of their respective districts, and Ge nerals Meade and M`Dowell have been appointed to succeed them. General Swayne has also been removed from the head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama. FRANCE. (nor 0011 OWN col PARIS, SATURDAY EVINDRI. It is generally taken for granted that the Army i Bill was as good as passed yesterday. The govern ment expected no serious fight except upon the amendment of the minority of the committee which proposed to reduce the total term of service That army and reserve) from nine years to eight. That amendment being now rejected by 177 against 81, the articles of the bill will probably be got through rapidly. Although M. Rouher, whose ' speech converted a great many deputies who had intended to vote for the amendment, protested in the outset that he should argue the point entirely on technical grounds, and steer clear of politics, his statement has very materially aggravated the existing apprehension that we are on the eve of war. His knock-down argu ment was that France must have an army of 800,000 men, and if those formidable premises are conceded the figures marshalled by the minister make out with reasonable clearness that it' is a lighter burden on the country to have nine years' service and an annual contingent of 100,000 men, than eight years and a contingent of ' 112,500. But these figures, thus compared, show that jpqdifications in the original measure indi- VA last speech from the throne as concea skins to public opinion amount practically to scarcely anything. The public was startled a year ago at being told that the minimum of the regular army was to be fixed at 800,000 men. The concession made was that this figure is not to ap pea r on the face of the bill, and the Corps Legislatif shall vote the amount of the contingent annually as heretofore. But when M. Rouher presses for a vote upon the plea that the whole economy of the measure assumes a standing army of 800,000, it is only too clear that the spirit of the original conception presides over the bill of to-day with frightful pertinacity. An annual contingent of 100,000 is a tremendous drain upon the resources of France, and when it was first proposed some years ago many promises were made that it should not be permanent. But M. Rouher now talks as if 100,000 were so light a call that the mere possible prospect of not having more for a short time ought to be hailed as a boon. The tone of his speech shows that be regards the annual vote of the contingent as nothing but a formality', and that there is an existing con tract with government that 100,000 men shall always be taken at the very least. M. Rouher frightened the deputies by parading before them the vast armies of other continental powers. He estimates the army of Prussia and the Northern Confederation at 1,300,000 ; that of Austria at 1,200,000; that of Russia at 1,400,000; and that of Italy at 900,000. There must be some ex traordinary exaggeration, I must observe in passing, in the latter fignre. Leaving, how ever, out of the question the Italian army upon paper, M. Rouher would want a great many more than 800,000 men if he contemplates fighting all the other powers of Europe at once. He would probably not like to admit that France can reckon upon no alliances in case of war ; but unless she is to fight all alone she could carry on a great war, as she has done before, with far fewer men. Some of M. Rouher's expressions do really look as if he were contemplating the pro bability of France having to defy the world. It was only, he said, the great superiority of French troops which would make it safe to rely upon such a relatively small number as 800,000 ; and then, glowing with his subject, he spoke in a fine frenzy as a great resource in an emergency of that " levy en masse" which Marshal Niel and other profes sional speakers had taken so much pains in the comet ef elle debate to depredate as a worse than useless incumbrance to an army in the field. The Opinion Nationale, speaking of M. Rouher's arguments, says : It is a war measure that 11. Eouher defended. We knew this before, but we are glad to see the real object made plain, in order that the country may be warned. The 81 deputies who voted for eight years as the maximum term of service, comprised the whole of the democratic opposition with the exception of M. Emile ()Wrier, who inexplicably after his late speech, and his recent fraternising with M. Jules Favre and his other old friends, thought fit to abstain. MM. Thies and Berryer gave silent votes for the amendment. The rest of the 81 were made up of conservatives who generally vote with government. M. Latour Dumoulin, however, abstained from voting. A great many journals of all shades of politics now speak in a way to familiarise the public mind with the prospect of war. The Prase represents the vote of yesterday as having been obtained from a reluctant majority by arguments tending to show the existence of " eventualities which become every day more probable." M. E. de Girardin noticed the other day as an "appeal to arms" which would make an echo throughout Europe, an article in a prefectoral journal of Nancy, the Moniteur de la Meurthe, beginning and ending with the words in English, "Tobe or not to be." It has since been observed that this article appeared simultaneously in several government papers in various provincial towns. It is clear, therefore, that the incendiary publication was a semi-official circular sent from Paris for the purpose of heating imaginations for the new year, when it is more than probable we shall see something theatrical. By the way, it is said that both the Chevalier Nigra and Count de Goltz intend to be absent from Paris on New Year's-day, so that they may not run the risk of having something disagreeable said to them at the official reception of the corps diplomatique. The Duke of Magenta, who has long been looked upon as a man marked for the command-in-chief when the next great war comes, will not, it is said by the Presse this evening, go back to Algeria, as the Emperor wants to have him near at hand to consult with. There is a talk of his being appointed a privy councillor and grand marshal of the palace. In that case General Fleury will probably succeed him as Governor-General of Algeria: It was remarked yesterday that the Emperor's aides-de-camp and orderly officers watched the debate on the Army Bill with intense interest ; Generals de Montebello, de Beville, Lepic, Ney, de la Moskos a, Fav4 de Touloneon,Lebceuf, Froward, Castelnau, and Reille, of his Majesty's military household, were all in privileged tribunes, and sent frequent messages to the Tuileries while the discussion was going on. The telegraph is said to be working night and day between Florence and Berlin. Many French papers speak of General Menabrea's attempt to re construct a ministry as a feint to gain time while M. de Bismarck considers whether it is for his interest to bring matters to a crisis at once. Letters from Rome of December 24 assert that a concentration of Garibahliana has been noticed within the last few days at Aquapendente, and that the pontifical officer commanding the military district of Viterbo had received ' orders to send reinforcements to the frontier to ' repel any attempt at invasion. The French government is said to threaten that in case of a Garibaldi= movement France will occupy not only the city of Rome but the Italian frontiers. The 20,000 men at Toulon, ready to sail at • moment's notice, continue to be talked of in terrorern. The Nord of Brussels speaks of an alliance between England, Russia, and Prussia, with a view to probable French aggression. It is not doubted that the moment the Army Bill is passed M. Magna will put forth his finan cial statement. It is said that he will place by public subscription the capital of 340 millions , which the rentes of the army dotetion fund, now THE PANAMA AND WEST INDIA MAILS. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasmanian, from South America and the West Indies, arrived at Southampton yesterday, having touched at Plymouth at 10.45 p.m. on Saturday, and landed her mails. Her dates are—Tampico, November 29 ; Santa Martha, Dec. 1 ; Carthagena, 2 ; Vera Cruz, 3 ; Chagres, 6 ; Havannah, 8 ; Trinidad and Jamaica, 10; Jacmel, Barbadoes Grenada, and St. Vincent, 11; St. Lucia, Dlartinique and Dominique, 12 ; Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitts, l 3 ; Tortola, 14 ; and St. Thomas, 15. She brings 62 passengers ; gold, in bullion, to the amount of 45,4751. ; gold coin, 44,5371. ; silver bullion, 39,5291. ; silver coin, 302,7361. ; pearls to the value of 791. ; and jewellery, 1,2401. There is no news of importance from the West India islands, with the exception that shocks of earthquakes continued to be felt at St. Thomas up to the departure of the steamer, one on the 12th inst. almost equalling in severity that of the 18th November. In Peru the revolution was still going on, and a victory of some magnitude had been gained by the President of the Republic at Arequipa. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Adelaide on the 30th October. Par ticulars of his reception will be found in another column. From New Zealand the only news of importance is a telegram from Nelson to the effect that a ter rible conflagration was raging in that city. A large amount of property had been destroyed, including two fine banking buildings. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The Boston Advertiser publishes the two closing despatches on the Alabama claims : Leg►tion of the United State', London, Deo. 4, 1867. Sir,—l have the honour to transmit a document pub lished for the use of parliament, containing the latest portion of the correspondence relative to the questions in dispute between the two countries. From the tone of the reply of Lord Stanley in connexion with your despatch just received, No. 2,093, of the 16th November, it seems plain that nothing more can be expected from this nego tiation. I shall therefore, in accordance with your desire, I give out hereafter that it is so understood.—l have the honour, Am, Cues. F. ADAMS. Hon. W. H. Seward. Department of State, Washington, Noy. 29, Ma. Sir,—Mr. Ford has given me a copy of a letter which Lord Stanley wrote to him on the 16th of November instant, concerning the question of arbitration upon the so-called Alabama claims. I have submitted Lord Stanley's remarks to the President, and have re ceived his directions thereupon. The government of the United States refers to the views concerning the proposed arbitration which I have heretofore had occasion to make known through your legation to Lord Stanley. We are now distinctly informed by Lord Stanley's letter that the limited reference of the so-called Alabama claims which Lord Stanley proposes is tendered upon the cor sideration that the United States shall waive before the arbitration the position they have constantly maintained from the beginning—namely, that the Queen's proclama- - - tion of 1861, which accorded belligerent rights to insur gents against the authority of the United States, was not justified on any grounds either of necessity or of moral rights, and therefore was an act of wrongful intervention,a departure from the obligations of existing treaties, and without the sanction of the law of nations. The condi. tions being inadmissible, the proposed limited reference is therefore declined.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, To Chas. Francis Adams, Esq., ko. W. H. SEWARD. Mn. Hoßammt, M.P., AND THE FENIAN MOVE mENT.—/elr. Borman, M.P., was present at the annual dinner given by the captain to the members of the Stroud Rifle Company, in the subscription-rooms at Stroud, on Saturday evening, and spoke at some length on various topics. Turning to Fenisnism , he said :—" There is one black spot in the present state of home affairs ; it is that of the government of Ireland, which has been a reproach to us in the past, is an embarrassment to us in the pre sent, and as to an escape out of which no one can be certain. I must say myself that I don't feel it is entirely an Irish movement. The origin and the nucleus may be Irish ; bet I can't help believing that it has extensive ramifications, and that it is the centre of a great deal of English instigation, which finds ready tools of mischief in the Irish people. But now, when we find that it is a question of the blowing up of arsenals and prisons, and the use of other inventions of mischief, we feel that the war is no longer against government, but against society, and that, at whatever cost, it must be sup pressed." POIISION MAILS. OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. - QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 29.—The Royal Mad steamship Persia arrived here at 8.30 SO= to-day. She embarked 60 rasa mails, her passengers, sad telegrams, and proceeded for New York at 3.30 p.m. All well Qjzzlorrow s, Dec. 29. —The Cunard (extra) steam - ship Heels, from New York, arrived here at 3 p.m. to-day. She brings 224,333 dots. in specie and 60 passengers, 11 of whom she landed, together with the despatches, and pro ceeded for Liverpool at 5.10 p.m. All well. OUTWARD MAIL OF 12-18 DEO.--Sraz, Dec. 28. —The Carnatic left for Bombay at 3 a.m. to.d.y. SOUTHAMPTON, DEO. 29. —The Hamburg and American Company's steamship Borussie, from New York on the 15th inst., has !arrived bare, with 40 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, 30 bags of mails and 20,000 cols. in specie for London, and 1,690 packages of cigars, tobacco, and cotton for Hamburg. She experienced heavy westerly gales until the later part of her voyage, and then strong easterly winds. She was detained 24 hours in a fog. On the 27th, the Borussia rased the Achilles steering east, and on the following day, off the Start, the North German barque Jupiter. Quagnsrowg, Dec. 29.—The Gahm steamship Minnesota arrived here at 8 p.m. to-day,with 63 passengers and 168,000 dole. in specie. She proceeded for Liverpool immediately. BOMBAY MAIL.—ALEXANDRIA, DEC. mu. Bangalore left at 7 a.m. yesterday and the Pere. at 7 a.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the tad and the latter at Southampton about the 10th of Jasaary. urrImPRD, li. ADDITIOZAW to be abolished, will place at his disposal. There is a rumour, strongly accredited in some quarters, but questioned in others, that there will be a loan of 350 millions besides ; so that the whole operation would be tantamount to a loan of 700 millions. The Bourse was very heavy, owing to the politi cal rumours and the talk of • loan. The effect of the discounts by which the market was sustained during the greater part of the month is now telling the other way. The "bears" were all frightened out of the market, and as the settlement approaches, the want of their purchases to balance speculative sales is very sensibly felt. Rents fell 20c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 68.40 and 68.33* Italian, 22+, closing at 44.75 ; Credit Foncier, 10f.; Mobilier, after declining to 168.75, rose for the close to 162.50, being an improvement of 1.25 on yesterday. Comptoir d'Escompte fell 5f., and the Northern and Lyons Railways sf. each. PARIS, SUNDAY Emma. The majority, before voting the unpopular Army Bill, chose to make $ demonstration of inde pendence, and, to the astonishment of everybody, it ran restive yesterday upon a question of six months more or less forced celibacy. The bill pro posed that the men of the reserve might marry without special leave within the last two years of the total nine year. of service. The committee stood out for three years. Marshal Niel, by way of compromise, offered two years and a half, but in spite of all his eloquence, the chamber, by the extraordinary majority of 237 against 11, voted the amendment for three, and that period must now stand part of the bill. "No minister of the second empire," says the Temps, " ever met with such a check." There is no argument against excessive armies which more strikes French country gentlemen than that they materially contribute to that want of pro gression in the population, as compared with other nations, which has long been noticed and deplored in France. The statement which went the round of the press some weeks ago that Madame Frigard, the Fon tainebleau murderess, had been confined of twins in the Fontainebleau prison, turned out to be one of those circumstantial canards with which the French papers teem more than ever since Draconian laws were enacted against " false news." These laws are only put in force against political news, and there is a class of writers who ' exercise their ingenuity with very great success in the invention of sensational stories about well-known persons. Of this class I. the paragraph which had undisputed possession of the papers for a fortnight that M. de Lamar tine had become a mere digesting machine and ate enormous dinners without the consciousness of what he was doing. The correction that he is in " robust " health is scarcely more true. But his friends receive letters from and pay visits to him, and he walks out daily in the neighbourhood of his villa in the Bois de Boulogne. Hardly any fact, not actionable, which the French journals now-a-days give, can ,be relied upon, and a great many of them are written with a a view to laying the foundation of new "copy" by the contradictions which they will provoke. To this day I do not know whether it is true that Madame Frigard confessed to the procureur-general that she poisoned Madame Mertens with prussic acid. The legal journals, which are something more reliable than the others, said so ; but several days afterwards there was a contradiction on nobody knows what authority. On the principle, however, of non big in idem, there is a certain amount of reasonable presumption that a second story of Madame Frigard's accouchement may be true. The Droit publishes a Melun letter of Dec. 28, which says : The woman Frigard was confined of a daughter at 8 yes terday evening. She had a bad time. The infant was born almost stilled, and the doctor was obliged to use strong friction to keep it alive. The woman did not evince the slightest tenderness for her child, nor did she ask to see it. She chose the named of Louiss-Paulin, sad by these names it was registered at the mairie. In pursu ance of a ministerial decision the child will not be suckled by the mother, and has been sent to the Melun Hospital. I presume that it is only on account of the mother's state of health that the child is sent to • wet nurse, and that the full period of the long respite which it is the French custom to allow to female convicts when they are in a state to become mothers at the time of their conviction will be enjoyed by Madame Frigsrd. ALARM OP FIRE AT THZ LYCEUM THEATRE.— Boni. confusion prevailed at the Lyoeum Theatre on Fri day night owing to an alarm of fire shortly before the transformation scene. A smell of burning was noticed for sometime, end on the fire bunting out some of the' audience made a rush for the doors. Mr. Smith came for ward and begged of them not to leave their sesta, as the fire was quite extinguished, but it was some time before tranquillity was restored and the performances resumed. FATAL BOILER ESPLOSION LT BARNSLEY. About noon on Saturday •fearfal boiler explosion occurred at Barnsley, which resulted in the instantaneous death of one man, and serious if not fatal injuries to several others, and a great destruction of property. The boiler was attached to the steam corn mill of Mr. George Jackson, in Peel-street, and was situated at the rear of the mill, and in close proximity to several blocks of buildings. By the force of the explosion the boiler was blown a distance of some 00 or 70 yards, and fell with a fearful crash on the root of the shops of Mr. Pepper, druggist, and Mr. Potter, shoemaker. In It. course drove away the roof of one of the neighbouring cottages, and also took off a large portion of the Friendship _lnn. The fireman, named Laycock, was instantly killed, and a man named Somerigill who was working in the shop with Mr. Potter, was so aerecioaly injured that he is not expected to recover. A woman named Catherine Conley and Mrs. Neiman, in habitants of houses adjoining, were both severely injured, and two children of the latter were also scalded. The win dows of the Athenaeum and the property around the mill are completely riddled. The damage to the property will be very great. The large chimney of the mill was situated within a few feet of the boiler, and had this been blown down the consequences would have been more serious still. The injured persons were removed to the White Hart Inn, under the direction of Mr. John Blackburn, surgeon, and the fireman, who was 30 years of age, and leaves a wife and four children, was conveyed home in a cab. The accident is said to have been caused by a defect at the bottom of the boiler, which was completely blown out. The boiler is a very old one, and was removed last summer from another mill to the one at Barnsley. GAS EXPLOSION AT • BANE.—On Friday morn ing, about half-past eight o'clock, the inhabitants of Broad-street, Hereford, were much alarmed by an explo sion of gas at the branch of the National Provincial Bank. A large quantity of gas, from some cause or other unex plained, accumulated in the safe-room, M which is both fire proof and nearly air-tight, and on r. Cowtan, whose duty it was. as junior clerk, to prepare fur the opening of the bank, going with a lighted taper to the safe-room to take out the books, the explosion took place. It shook the building to its centre, demolished the safe, knocked Mr. Cowtan down, singed his hair, and scorched his face, blew out the plate glass window and fan lights over the door ways, and wrenched the massive outer doors from their fastenings. METROPOLITAN FRES HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE SQUARE, Cm.—The aggregate number of patient' relieved during the week ending Dec. 211 was—Medhal, 714 ; oar. &id, 418 ; total, 1.132: of which M 1 were new cases. HEALTH RESTORED ST Du BARRY'S FOOD TO THE ftromartt, nerves, loop, and liver of old sad young, caring, with out medicine or exposer, dyspepsia iindidestion), oonstipation. Manta*, acidity, headset°, neuralgia. brderik nalldtation, eleeplemnom debility. wasting, cough, mama, terms, ossemp tioa, low spirits. 00,000 annual cures which had resisted all medicines, including that of his thinness the Pops. It saves Any times its cad in other remedies.—Tins, lib., lc ad.: 112 b., Ets. : 241 b., 40a, or id. per meal . — Du Berry and Co., 7 7 . Regent quadrant, London ; also Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly, and at It, Gracachurelpstreet ; 4, Clisa; M sod tit Oxfor d-t ress sad all poems ass chsesisla—(AdwirMeseleid.) (TWOPENCE TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AT THE PAVERSHAM POWDER WORKS.-LOSS OP ELEVEN LIVES. Shortly before eleven o'clock on Saturday morn ing the inhabitants of Faversham and the country for miles around were startled by the report of three distinct explosions, following each other in rapid succession, shaking every house in the town, and breaking the glass in many of the tradesmen's windows. It was soon found that a triple explosion, with great lossof life, had occurred m the south-east corner of the Marsh Works of Marrs. Hall and Son's extensive powder weeks, situate about • mile trona Faversham, and within • few yards of the dis astrous gun cotton explosion which took place about twenty years ago. An occurrence of a nature so serious has not happened since that time. The works extend over several parishes, and consist of • number of mills, when the various processes are carried on. The scene of the explosion consisted of the following premises, viz., 1. A charge-house, where the powder is stored previous to being conveyed to the press-house. 2. The prees-house itself, in which the ingredients are pressed and broken into cakes. 3. The corning -house, where, as the name implies, the powder is granulated. 4. An enginshouae ; and 5. The glaring-house. The machinery in the respective buildings was connected with the engine by means of • shaft. The explosions occurred in the corning -house, the press-house, and the charge-hones, which burst within ten or twelve seconds of each other ; but it is impossible to say which of the three went fine. The destrastion, however, was most complete, and it wee soon discovered that of the fourteen men employed in these departments eleven were killed. The press and corning houses were slight buildings, and protected oe three sides by substantial walls, some five or six feet in thickness, besides heavy earthworks, the fourth side being left open towards a marsh country, as a kind of vent in case of accident. For • considerable distance the ground was strewn with rafters, brick-bats, and debris of machinery. To give an idea of the force of the explosion it may be re marked that a piece of cast iron weighing about two tons was carried a distance of over 300 yards. The walls by which the buildings were surrounded were rent in several places, and large trees growing in the vicinity were torn up by the roots and split into innumerable pieces. The fol lowing are the names of the killed : W. Sony, Thomas Amos, Thomas Beck, John Young, Christopher Johncock Edward Young, William Austen, George Taylor, Thomas Bildock, William Eley, and John Payne. It is a singular fast that the whole of them were married men, and some et them leave large families. It isalmost needless tasty that newly all the deceased were blown to pieces. A number of mon set to work and searched the debris for the remains of the unfortunate workmen, which, when found, were awe shattered remnants of flesh and bone. Three men who were in great jeopardy escaped. A young man named Bramble was in a boat, going from one building to another. At the first explosion he either fell or jumped into the water, and thus was miraculously saved. Another man, mated Frederick Sherwood, had just left one of the build ings destroyed, and was in a little shed close to the engine house when the explosion took place, but yet escaped unhurt. The engine driver, Thomas Jones, was in the engine -house, and escaped with slight injury to his hand. Tice engine -house and glaring-house were found to be eon sidembly damaged, and some apprehension was felt for the safety of the latter, which contained a quantity of powder. Great numbers of people flocked to the spot. Messrs. Hall and Son were hunting with the Tiokham fox hounds in the vicinity at the.tion, but the report of the explosion brought them imme diately on the ewes of the disaster. Four medical men of the town—bleasn. Spong, Spyen, Gangs, and Gera• way—were present to render assistance, but their services were not required. This is the third occurrence of the kind that has taken place this year at these works, and the total deaths resulting therefrom numbers eighteen. A brother of the deceased, Thomas Back, was killed in April ; and George Bramble, a relative of the survivor of the present sentient, was killed in August. The canoe of the accident appease to be spanown. That it was purely an accident there can be no doubt, TO THE zprroa OF THE ILIPHIESB. bra,—We deeply regret to state that an explo sion took place at our powder works, Faversham, yeeter• day, at 11 a.m., when • corning -house and press-house (separated by two hose brick traverses which were in tended as an effective barrier to communication) blew up, and the unfortunate workmen therein employed, to the number of 11, have unhappily lost their lives. These men were, in point of skill and remuneration, at the head of that branch of our works ; and our sorrow for their loss is only lees than that of their afflicted families. In the pre sent state of public feeling we think it proper to say that we have no reasonable suspicion of anything felonious con nected with this catastrophe. We, like others engaged in dangerous trades, have had hints and warnings of mis chief, and have endeavoured by extra precautions and watching to provide against it. We hope that, sad as this event is, the coincidence of the explosion with these anxieties and fears will prove to be a coincidence and nothing more. We did not loge a moment in communi cating with the authorities of the Houle-office for their information and guidance.—We are, _ JOHN HALL and SON. 23, Lombard-street, E.C., Sunday, Dec. 29. SUNDAY AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. TO THZ NDITOI OF THE IX PREM. Sig,—The directors of the Crystal Palace Com• parry have inatructei me to address you on the subject of some misstatements in a circular recently issued to the proprietors by the secretary of the Lord's-day Observance Society. The circular, which is dated the 19th inst., opens by stating that at the meeting of the previous day " the directors of the company resolved to seek the votes of the proprietary of the company on the question of Sunday ad mission." This is inaccurate. The question was net brought forward or supported on either aide by the directors, bat by proprietors in the company outside the board, and the demand for the ballot was signed by friends of the Lord's-day Observance Society. It is the desire of the board, as a board, to remain strictly neutral on the Sunday question ; it is therefore inaccurate to insinuate, as the writer of this circular does insinuate further on, that it is the desire of the directors to " succeed in creating a demand for Sun day amusements" The directors are in this matter in the bands of the proprietary, and must act according to their wishes. I will only further notice the word "governing," in a paragraph on page 3of the circular, which implies that the visitors on the so-called "free Sundays" are dis orderly ;if this is intended, it is not true. Whether it be right or wrong to admit these people to the Palace on Sunday there is no doubt of the fact that they have always been very orderly and respectable, and that no intemper ance or irregularity has oecurred.—l am, &c., Crystal-paLsoe, Dee. G. GILOYE, Secretary. 71:ERKENWELL EXPLOSION RELIEF Ft' NO. —We observe with pleasure that the Lord Mayor has joined the committee of the Fund for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Clerkenwell Explosion. FATAL Act.thvcr.—On Boxing-night a female named Ann Wood the wife of • warrant-offloer at Green wich Hospital, hail been out during the principal portion of the day, and, meeting with some Mende, drank so freely that she became intoxicated. She applied to the booking clerk at the Peckham station of the South Loudon Exten sion Railway for a ticket to Deptford, which was refused. She was afterwards found on the line midway between the Pec.khani station and the Kent-road, lying across the rails. Her right arm was nearly severed born the body, and her left hand badly cut; and, indecil, she was so ' terribly injured that death mu it have been inetenteneoup. She seems to have made an attempt to walk along the line, aa being nearer than taking the high mad. 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