The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-24 00:00:00

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I'ATENT were granted to (\ il'. fur his miginal Invention of Locking Appa. •• ,- tireveot secblents at railway junctions : and in liSe and tartht riettcra patent were granted to him for improve .. ,t- siva. such invention: and Messrs. Swill and farmer, t telwaj signalengineers Anti manufacturers, of Kilburn, 1,., —not) of Nilildimes, are now the sole proprietors of ti tt, at. as w e ll as of a patent granted, to Austin Chinn i • •..ittsi sth January, Pigs, and to Latimer (' lark, dated 14th I eiry. IsJci and of late various signalling apparatus have t..., advertised or made which are infringements of the above, 11 ...am, or one id the above-mentioned patents: 'li persons and companies are hereby CAUTIONED against • 'Jog, rending, or using any such signalling apparatus, which • Ofrittpmente of the heforc.mentioned patents, or some or •if them : and notice Is hereby given, that they 'MIN, held • r.onsi'de for any mach infringeno•nt listed the lath January. ite.7. 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Retail by a n dr..•msta, &c. 0 THE CHURCH INSTITUTE, LEEDS,—The 'WILDER of this week, 4d., or by post ;41., con t a i ns I , •• rid and External Views of the New Chareh institute, Leeds, Plans—The Designs for the National Gallery—Dorf a Para lo,t—Notes on Shop Routs—Archicology in Rome—Mel t: , ac—Life and Death at &'a—and other Papers, with all the • ,•• —I, Turk-greet, Cocent-ganicts , and all newsmen. - - - • - - A FORTUNATE DISCOVERY.-011 Saturday night, ` ll, ll the 7.35 train from Manchester to Stalybridge o er the bridge at Dukinlield spanning the river Mlt d , 'Ansi lOu yards below the station, the guard was led to L'H', horn certain indications, that the bridge was not oil on examination it was discovered that the bridge I,aven way. The passenger traffic was stopped until 11 : , x•by „ morning at nine o'clock, and the goods traffic will flopped for some time. It was fortunate that the r. l o , overed the dangerous state of the bridge, asthere !Ix 4 train from Manchester at 8.10. and from Stalybridge had the bridge altogether given way under of either of these trains, the result must have `"„ 1, , oe of a fearful character.—Manchester Einnt, arr. up: WAct:s QUESTION IN THE IRON TRADE.— '' DE.— 'Notion seems to be still very for from a satirise ttienu nt. At an adjourned meeting of delegates Il Ports of South Staffordshire and Last Worcester held at Wcdnesbury, on Tuesday, a very decided v o' expressed to resist the drop strenuously ; but ally it was deternsinned to allow the nice employed bow amalgamated works of Messrs. Lloyd, Foster, the Patent Shaft and Axletree Copan, to work at the old scale, pending the further ydie r'.44 of the question at other meetings, which are to be c . o. the district during the present week. This nn r . (co.- torn of affairs is the more surprising as the W estbromerieh, and the iron worker', generally, tro i.lotounced in favour of accepting the drop.—dfan - • La q.imer. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (ixorta's Tsunamis.) FRANCE. PARIS, JAL IS, Evwxa. The Froure and Patric of this evening deny a rumour current here of disturbances having broken out in Spain. The Pawnee also denies the rumour that a new loan would shortly be issued, and the Temps asserts that M. Rouher has assured several bankers that the government has not the least intention of con tracting a loan. The Etendarcl of this evening states that the Sultan is disposed to accord the Cretans an auto nomous administration. It is asserted that the Corps Legislatif will meet on the 11th of February. ITALY. FLORENCE, JAN. 23. The Chamber of Deputies were engaged in to-day's sitting in discussing petitions from several communes in Sardinia, requesting that measures should be adopted to alleviate the general distress which at present prevails in the island. The Minister of Public Works explained that the government had already taken steps for that pur pose, and announced that orders had been given for the execution of various public works in the island. Prince di Carignano arrived here yesterday, and has since left for Naples. The Opinione of this evening asserts that Count Barrel, the Italian minister at Berlin, will be transferred to Vienna. The Senate continues its sittings as a high court of justice, with closed doors, to consider the evidence against Admiral Persano. To-day the public prosecutor read the charges against the accused. HUNGARY. VIENNA, JAL V. Count Andrassy has declared himself willing to undertake the formation of a Hungarian ministry. Hisprogramme is identical with that embodied in the propositions made by the committee of fifteen relative to the future relations between Austria and Hungary, with the additional demand that the Imperial Patent upon the re-organisation of the army be withdrawn. It appears that the Austrian government will make its definitive resolution de pendent upon the vote of the committee of 67, but it is considered probable that the wishes of Hungary will be acceded to. THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 22. The Talia and nisi Bari, of the Turkish navy, have just taken to the Pirteus 440 Creek volun teers, who were received on board at Sphakia by order of the Imperial Commissioner, and who will be followed by other volunteers reduced to the necessity of quitting Candia. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Jas. 23, Evrinco. The King is unwelL His Majesty did not re ceive to-day any of the usual daily ministerial reports. The semi-official Provincial Correspondence of this evening says :—" The introduction into the North German Confederation of the principle of general liability to military service will render possible a considerable reduction of the forces of the Confe deration in time of peace. Every citizen will have completed his term of military service at the age of 32." The semi-official North German Gazette of this evening referring to Prince von Hobenlohe's declaration in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies, on the 19th inst., says:—" The division of Ger many by the line of the Maine, alleged by Prince von Hohenlohe to be recognised by Prussia, is a pure fiction. If the South-German States are willing to voluntarily renounces portion of their sovereignty in favour of a closer union with North Germany, Article 4 of the Treaty of Prague does not prevent them from so doing." THE NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION. BERLIN, JAN. 23. The plenipotentiaries of the North German States, at the conferences which aro being held here, signed the Federal treaty the day before yesterday. The conferences will probably be closed to morrow. BAVARIA. MUNICH, JAN. 23. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the address in reply to the speech from the throne came on for discussion. Prince von Hohenlohe made a speech, in which he stated that the government considered the wars in which the Bavarian troops should be placed under the direction of Prussia to be such u threatened the integrity of Germany. It is positively announced that King Louis will be betrothed to the youngest slaughter of Duke Blakimilian of Bavaria. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, J. 23. An official denial has been given to-day to the report of an intended sale of the Island of St. Thomas to the United States of America. The re port is declared to be totally unfounded. CHINA. (BY OVERLAICD TELEGRAPH FROM GAUL) CANTON, lite. 25. Grey shirtinp, catty, 3.60. dol. Water twist, 16-24, 1.85. dol. Tea dull. Exchange, banker' bills, 45. 61d. SHANGHAE, DEc. 20. Tea, congou, firm. Silk, good inquiry ; No. 3 Tsatlee, 595. Export to date, 29,500 bales. Bankers bills, 6s. 4}d. QUARRELLING AMONG PUBLISH ERS. —AM inter national copyright law would have at least the good effect of diminishing the wrangling among American reprinter. over English books. There are some two or three small firms that always republish in cheap lona a popular book, such as "Griffith Gaunt," in violation of the moral rights of those who have paid the author for advanced sheets, and have first printed it. It is complained now that Messrs. Harper and Brothers have again used their great resources to endeavour to crush a minor rival. Messrs. Linen, Son, and Co., of Boston, published in the Liring Age, as serials, "Mir Marjoribanks," "Sir Brook Foes. brooke," and " Madonna Mary," with the expressed inten tion of issuing them afterwards in book form. Whether they had paid for them we do not know, but by the courtesy of the trade they were entitled to them by priority. Just before the concluding numbers were pub balled the house just mentioned published the whole in book form at much less than the usual rides Taking warning by the two earlier novels, Messrs. Littell, Bon, and Co. offered Messrs. Harper and Brothers their stereo type plates of " Madonna Mary " at manufacturer.' prices. They preferred, however, to refuse that offer, thus de priving Messrs. Littell, Son, and Co. of even that slight chance of profit. —Nero York Nation, Jan. 3. BREST, JAN. 23. —The Transatlantique COMy parry's steamer Perrin arrived here yesterday evening, with a fall cargo, G 6 passenger, and I million francs in specie. LONDON, THURSDAY EVI24TNG, JANUARY 24, 1867. AMERICA. (PROM OUR SPECIAL COIMPONDENT.) NEW YORK, JAN. 8. Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, who is neither weighty, nor learned, nor eloquent, nor popular, nor judicious, but has the invaluable gift of persistence, has, after much striving, got a resolution into the house, where it has been referred to the Judiciary Com mittee, directing an inquiry to be made into the President's conduct, with the view of discovering whether he does not deserve to be impeached. Mr. Ashley made a desperate effort to introduce a resolution directing his impeachment forthwith, but this he was unable to accomplish. The house shrinks,and naturally enough, from anythingwhich is likely to add to the existing financial disturb ance which an impeachment would be sure to do, as it would greatly complicate the reconstruction question, which is now weighing heavily on 1 1 the commerce and industry of the country. The reference of the resolution to the Judiciary Com mittee is a convenient way of disposing of it for the present. Once there, it can either be allowed to lie, or be brought forth, as the policy or inclination of the party may dictate. The real red-hot im peachers, however, do not sit in this Congress. They are yet to come, and will not take their seats till next March. Foremost amongst them is, of course, General Butler, who is straining on the leash. Very damaging things about Mr. Johnson come to light every day ; some of them would fairly warrant the worst things his radical enemies say of him ; but until they are better established, or more public than they are at present, I prefer not to repeat them in detail. He has sent in his veto of the bill giving the suffrage to the negroes in the district of Columbia. This has been long expected, and its appearance, therefore, surprised nobody. His argument is that, although Congress has the exclusive right of legis lation for the district, it is nevertheless morally bound to put the same limits to its exercise of this authority which the constitutions of the various States impose on their legislatures—that is, for instance, make no change in the organic law as the admission of a new class to the franchise without taking the vote of the " people," meaning by " the people" those who are already electors. He says also that the negro population of the dis trict bagmen than doubled since the outbreak of the war, having risen from 14,000 to 30,000, and thatl there is reason to fear that if the franchise be bestowed on the blacks now in the district, large numbers of others will be thereby induced to crowd in, and the white population be thereby over whelmed, and the Eovemment taken out of their hands. The white population of the district has, however, risen during the war from 60,000 to 100,000, so that the original inhabitants are over whelmed by strangers already— most of them Yankees, too, so that the real poison of the bill, according to Mr. Johnson's theory, lies not in the fact that it puts strangers in power, but that it is likely to put power in the handed black strangers. His third point is the great ignorance of the blacks, which, he says, renders it dangerous to intrust them with the suffrage. The rest of the message is pleading and rhetoric. Perhaps the greatest defect in all these argu ments in the eyes of the body to whom they were addressed is that they are stale, and in the present state of the radical strength it is hard to believe that he expected them to produce any effect. He probably now composes these elaborate sermons rifler by way of " putting himself right on the record," as politicians call it, than by way of convincing anybody. It is, of course, im possible to expect Congress to be so grossly inconsistent as to urge upon the Southern States, or any States, a policy with regard to the negroes which they refused to carry out in the only bit of territory over which they have exclusive jurisdiction. As long as the majority take the stand they are now taking with regard to the orga nization of the South, they must enfranchise such negroes as they have power to enfranchise, or for ever after hold their peace. Moreover, as far as the whites of the district are concerned, it is im possible for Congress to recognise the forced sur render of a monopoly based on colour as a real grievance. It is true they are not represented in Congress, but neither are the negroes, and if the case of the whites in being legislated for by men whom they have not elected be a hard one, how much harder is the case of the negroes, who are not only legislated for by a body for whom they have not voted, but are ruled in every walk of civil life by neighbours who despise and hate them. The worst that the whites can suffer from the change is the loss of a privilege ; what the blacks gain is exemption from every form of oppression to which men are exposed under the government of a superior caste. In fact Congress could not act otherwise than it has done on any theory of its position ; and yet this never seems to have dawned on Mr. Johnson. The only thing to be regretted in the bill, which will of course be passed over the President's veto, is that it has not exacted any educational qualification. The ignorance of the blacks really is to be feared, at first at least, though it could hardly prove more mischievous than the ignorance of the Southern whites has proved. And there was at the outset a strong disposition on the part of a considerable portion of the majority to prescribe some intelligence test for coloured voters. Bpt the scheme was aban doned for several reasons. One was the fear that if voting was, in the case of coloured men, depen dent on the possession of a certain amount of knowledge, it would furnish a strong inducement, to the whites to imitate the Jamaica planters, and refuse to establish schools, and throw other ob stacles in the way of negro education. Another was that the exaction of education from coloured men, while admitting ignorant white men to the polls, would be, in fact, a discrimination based on colour, and as to subjecting all to the same rule, I doubt if you will ever see any large body of men, already in possession of the franchise, as the Southern whites are, deprived of it for any reason whatever. Even if the thing could be done, no legislative majority will be found bold enough to attempt it. The last reason is, that the fixing of an edu cational test which shall be stringent enough to prove real intelligence, and yet not stringent enough to shut out the great body of the blacks, is no easy matter, or is, at all events, so difficult that Congress will not bother their heads about it. In fact, the prevalent eagerness to secure the enfran chisement of the negroes is leading Northern poli ticians, in many instances, to do what Southern politicians used to be reviled for doing before the war—pooh-pooh education as a political necessity, and hold up " plain common sense " as the only needful qualification for the proper exercise of the suffrage. The country, however, does not respond very freely, and nothing but the desperateness of the crisis, I think, causes people to at:Kitties° in the plan of enfranchisement without education. The message is naturally giving great satisfaction at the South, and has raised Mr. Johnson higher than ever in the estimation of the secessionists. "Caligula" is turning out a very pleasant monster after all. The discussion which the Supreme Court's deci sion is provoking reveals more clearly every day the depth of the change which the public mind has undergone during the war with respect to the con stitution. It is quite clear that it has lost its old sanctity, and that its ordinances and prohibitions have little of their old force. Orators now rarely attempt to show the constitutionality of a thing as a strong argument in it favour. The Northern public seems to have set its heart on the effacing of all political distinctions, and the establishment of a republic democratic in reality as well as in name, and it is quite plain 40 me that tha constitution will not be allowed ie stand in the way of this being done. The President's impatience with the Supreme Court, and Me - threats which are freely uttered against it, are not to be explained on any other ground than that the people are so bent on a great political change, that the application to the conduct of the government of the old legal maxims strikes them as puerile or impertinent. They feel that they are passing through a great revolution, and the efforts of the bench to stem or divert the torrent seems as absurd as the launching of an order to show cause against an army on the march. They reverence the Supreme Court, and want to retain it, but seem disposed to insist on its interpreting the con stitution in the new light, and not in the old one. How the court will weather the storm it is hard to say. Much will depend on the conduct of the radical leaden. If they press it too hard, and are too violent in their modes of procedure, they will very likely, as I hinted in a recent letter, cause a reaction that will shear them of much of their power, and stay the tide for a few years more. Even the moderate men, however, are just now stimulated by the decision of the court into graver opposition to Mr. Johnson than ever. Two of the judges are very old and invalid, and now that the leaning of the court on the great constitutional ques tions of the day has been revealed, the fear that these two places may fall vacant during Mr. Johnson's term of office inspires his enemies with fresh vigour, and stimulates, I think, the im peachment movement. It is a pet theory of General Butler's, and I believe it is also Wendell Phillips's, that the minute the President is put on hie trial before the Senate his office becomes vacant, and remains so as long as the trial lasts. Now an im peachment trial, well managed, may be made to last for an indefinite period, so that impeaching Mr. Johnson would, if this view of the law be sound, answer the purpose of his enemies just as well as convicting him. The danger is, however, that neither he nor his supporters would acquiesce in this conclusion, said that he would refuse to sur render his position till formally convicted ; and if force were resorted to in order to secure his obedience to the order of the Senate, on an ex tremely doubtful point, we might have wild times. COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.—The Toronto Globe copies our statement that Lord Carnarvon had adopted the legal opinion that a mandate from the crown is not necessary to enable colonial bishops to perform the right of consecra tion, and that the consecration of the new Bishop of Toronto will now take place by the authority of the Metro politan of Canada, given under his seal, and without any intervention of the civil power, and adds, " The Colonial Secretary has taken exactly the right ground, and deserves peat credit therefore. This actions consistent with the legal position of the Anglican church in Canada, and we may add consistent with the true interests of that church." THE New LORDS. —" His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster" and" the Lord Bishop of Birmingham" have been bolding a meeting in the last-named town on the subject of education. We observe that the " Lord Bishops,' as " his Grace the Archbishop" calls them, of the Roman communion in this country are assuming a certain stately attitude. Shall we congratulate them upon an attempt which, if it succeeds, will make them look in newspaper print almost like archbishops and bishops of the establishment! " His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster" cannot write himself inch " in any bill, quittance, warrant, or obligation," because such a signature would deprive such documents of their legality ; but newspaper rank is some thing, if no better secular dignity is to be had. We know nothing of Bishop Ullathorne, except that Dr. Newman somewhere says that he is an honest and sensible man. If he is, he will not thank "his Grace the Arch. bishop of Westminster" for the questionable grandeur which " his grace" has conferred upon him. The title of " Lord Bishop" is undoubtedly associated in this country with a high temporal dignity and station with the peerage, with palaces, and with other honours. The public as sumption of it, therefore, by Roman catholic bishops will doubtless be interpreted by society in this country as a move in the direction of secular rank, as grasping at a name which puts them in print upon • par with the bishops of the established church. We cannot but ex- press some surprise that, with their great pretensions to peculiarly sacred aims and objects, they should show any solicitude about such an external piece of pomp.— Ustaralian. RATING OF SCHOOLS AND CHARITIES. —A depu tation from the National Society, consisting of Aschdeacon Sinclair (treasurer), Sir Thomas Phillips, Mr. J. E. Gorst, M.P., Mr. P.S. Powell, M.P., Rev. Canon JORWinl, M.A., Rev. Robert Gregory M.A., Rev. Alexander Wilson, M.A. (secretary), and 'Mr. W. Holgate (secretary of the Church Institute), had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, on Tuesday. The obj ect of the deputation was to represent the difficulties entailed by the recent practice of rating schools and charitable institutions, although there is not in them a beneficial occupancy to the relief of the poor. It was urged by the deputation that as churches and chapels are exempt from rating, there is no reason why schools for the poor should not be equally exempt, and that the law on the subject WAS uncevain as to what buildings were rateable. Shire halls, prisons, and police offices, it was stated, were exempted, and, therefore, that schools for the poor, equally as useful as these establishments, should be exempted likewise. A member of the deputation sub , mittod a cue in which the sum of 29/. had been paid as rates for a national school—a sum which, in a large num ber of instances, would make just the difference between the solvency of a charitable institution and its bank ruptcy. In reply, Mr. Hardy said he did not admit that the We was uncertain ; the decision in the case of the Saffron-hill School had decided it; and quoted an opinion given by Lord Westbury, and • recommendation in favour of rating charitable institutions made by a committee of which the late Sir G. Cornwall Lewis was chairman. At the same time be must say that certain cases would shortly be made the subject of legal decision • and until the decision was come to, it would be premat ure to speak decidedly on the subject. He would point out that the rating of schools and charitable institutions would always be low, because they would be always assessed at a very low yearly rental. The inauguration of the statue of the late Prince Consort, erected in the centre of Albert-square, Manchester, took place yesterday. A committee was ap pointed to undertake the work in January, 1862, and the offer of the then mayor, Mr. Goadsby, to present • marble statue, on oondition of the city affording a suitable site, and finding money for • pedestal and covering, was ac cepted. The statue, which is by Mr. Noble, of London, and is of Sicilian marble, 9 feet high, representing the prince in the robes of the Order of the Garter, has been completed some time. The memorial building in which the statue is placed, and the rich Gothic canopy over it, were designed by Mr. Worthington, of Manchester. The Succentor of Hereford Cathedral writes that the Dean of Hertford, though dangerously, is by no means hopelessly, [STAMPED, ' t DDMONALO BAVARIA. MUNICH, JAN. 19. The following is the declaration made to-day by Prince roe Hohenlohe in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies, a summary of which has already been telegraphed : In consequence of the dissolution of the Confederation and Austria's withdrawal, the position of the German Middle States is completely changed and indisputably endangered. I omit casting a retrospective glance upon the Bavarian policy of late years, or examining whether Bavaria was afforded means or opportunities of obviating the dangerous turn which events have taken. Practical policy occupies itself with the facts of the present time ; the past it can leave to the judgment of history. I have, at different times, had occa sion to express my views relative to the position of Bavaria with regard to Germany, and this I have al ways done with candour. I must now point out that the object at which the Bavarian policy should aim is the pre servation of Germany, the unity of the entirety of the German races, or, in so far as this may not be possible, the unity of the greater portion, protected from without by a strong oenrrer, and within by • parliamentary con stitution, guarding at the muse time the integrity of the Bavarian state and crown. If, however, I recognise such a oonfederation as the aim of the Bavarian policy, I cannot conceal from myself that such an aim is not attainable at Pinafinher at say-immediate ponied. Prussia, on the am chicon or the treaty of Prague, was obliged to con fi ne her self to forming • diner confederation to the north of the line of the Maine, and by her signature to the treaty recognised this limitation as binding. You may, perhaps, regret this fact, but you will be unable to oppose it. conse quences ; these are, that Prussia is compelled to refuse every demand which may be made by the South German States for admittance into the North German Confedera tion ; and further, that this government cannot make the attempt to enter into negotiations for the union of Bavaria with North Germany. I must moreover confess with equal frankness that the development of the relations of the North German Bund is the latter is being at present eon stained, exhibits so decided a tendency to become a united state that Ido not consider it consistent with th e dignity of this country or the duties of the government to make any effort to enter thus unconditionally into the North German Confederation, at least my voice would never be reined in favour of doing so unconditionally, nor would I assume the . responsibility of such a step. I also believe that in forming the North German Blind no regard will be had for the Southern States, nor would the latter at the present introduce any modification in its constitution in favour of the entry of the Southern States. We must not deceive ourselves: the development of Germany in the path of unity advances but slowly. If I now acknowledge the difficulties which lie in the way of a new union of the German races, I am, nevertheless, on the other band, firmly resolved to oppose every step which might hinder the soomplishment of the aim I have mentioned. This government will form no south-western confederation under the protectorate of a non-German power. Such an alliance in the amend half of the nineteenth century is simply an impossibility. In the mine way Bavaria is not in • position to conclude an alliance with the South German States under the leadership of Austria. If I correctly judge the cause of the development of the internal affairs of Austria, it seems to me that the German element in the empire is more and more receding into the bask-ground, and that the government is more and more seeking its support from among the non-German elements. A constitutional alliance under the leadership of an Austria thus constituted appears to be neither desir able nor practicable. I shall however certainly rejoice if the Austrian monarchy comes forth strengthened and re novated from the intestinal struggles on which it has an• tered, in order that in the interest of civilisation it may accomplish its mission as east frontier power. I shall en deavour to conduce towards the preservation and promo tion of the friendly relations subsisting between Austria and Bavaria. The government will also not lend a hand to the formation of a south-western federal state, shin up within itself, for the reason that p ai , %reement in this sense between the governments and fl undoubtedly populations is undbtedly unattainable, and because snob a federal state would still more widen the existing gap between the north and south of Germany. If, how ever, I have declared that the government has no intention of taking any step which would leaf us away from the aims of the United German policy, I will nevertheless not confine myself to this negative standpoint This would be proclaiming a policy of isolation. Bavaria, as a second class state, cannot exist without alliance with some European power. She especially requires such a sup port at the present moment, when the constitution of the German Bund is torn to shreds, and the possibility of European conflicts cannot be disputed. Vet the great power which Bavaria would join, and with which she would openly ally herself in the event of a foreign war, is Preen& This alliance, which enters into the programme of the government, will render it necessary that, in case of a foreign war, Bavaria should place her army under the command of Prussia, under a fixed guarantee for the sovereignty of the King, and also that our anny be ergs nised in such a manner as may facilitate such military co- operation. This federal alliance will, of course, gain in value if it succeed, not only in increasing the strength of the armament& of Bavaria, but also in inducing the other South German States to enter upon • uniform and power ful organization of their armies. The government is re solved to bring about this arrangement with Prussia, and consequently to promote union between the North and South of Germany, and, at the same time, to preserve our own independence as far as possible from the danger of annexation, from whatever quarter it may come. Allow me,in conclusion, to summarise in • few words the programme of the Bavarian policy : the formation of a constitutional alliance with the other German States, as speedily, and in so far, as is compatible with the preservation of the sovereign rights of Bavaria and the independence of the country ; until that remelt be obtained, the creation of a position of strength which shall command respect, not alone by means of our army organisation but also through the completion of our in • ternal constitutional arrangement' upon liberal bases, by the elevation of the standard of our moral consciousness of our individual existence as a state. If we are sueeeme Ad in this object, our alliance will be sought, and we shall not have to anxiously look about for a protecting roof. We shin also then be enabled to arrive at such a solution of the important question relating to the reorganisation of the Zollverein as shall correspond with the interests of the country. Whether the solution will be promoted by the discussion of these questions in this house, I leave to your patriotic appreciation. We read in the Paris Tcmps of yesterday :—" It is believed that M. Jules Simon will be a candidate for the academical chair left vacant by the death of M. Cousin That • philosopher should succeed • philosopher, a writer succeed awriter,does not seem tons inappropriate." QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 23.--The Inman kegunship City of Baltimore, from New York on the 12th inst., ar. rived here at 10 11.111. to-day with the mails, 14,700 dole. in specie, and 133 passengers. She landed 12 passengers, sad proceeded for Liverpool at 10.15 a.m. THE WEATHER A2i D THE PARICIL—As might be ex pected, the ice on the Park waters yesterdaywas in the most wretched condition, there being fully four inches of water on the surface, but yet there were some hundreds of the ardent lovers of skating who braved the inconvenience. The following is the official report:—On the Round Pond, Kensington, there were about 300 skaters. No immersions or other casualties. On the Long Water, Kensington gardens, about 300 persons ' and no casualties. On the Serpentine the ice was very dangerous, and en extra force of icemen were placed on duty to keep the people off. About 200 persons, however, were on during the day. No immersions, but seven severe injuries from falls. On the lake in St. James's-park the ice was also in a dangerous condition. About 1,300 persons were upon it during the day. In the forenoon, George Hayman, a boy am years old, fell through into water 4 feet 6 inches deep. He was in the water 5 minutes, and was with some difficulty saved from drowning by icemen Perry and Ayres, by the use of lines. Shortly after Alfred Woodharn, a boy of 11 years, fell through into 5 feet 3 inches of water. He was in the water 5 minutes, and was saved with great difficulty by icemen Perry and Chapman by the help of a hand ladd e r and lines. Both the above were insensible when taken out, and were conveyed to the society's tent, where they were placed in a warm bath, and stimulants administered, and on recovery were placed in bed, where they remained some hours. There were no less than 29 other inuner slow, but none of so serious a nature as the above two cases. There was no skating in the Regent's-park. The icemen have strict orders to warn people, and to prevent them as far as possible going upon the ice to-day, which will necessarily, as the reanit of the rapid thaw, be in the most rotten and dangerous state. Should the thaw eon tinue the bulk of the icemen will go off duty to-morrow, sa there will be little if any ice then left. In anticipation of the withdrawal from parlia mentary life of Admiral Walcott, which he has announced to be his intention, Mr. G. F. Chambers, a member of the bar, has issued an address to the electors of Christchurch, in which he declares himself a candidate. He is an ardent I supporter of Lord Derby's government, is opposed to any alteration in the present law of church rates, considers ; that the admission of dissenters to the governing body of the universities would be an act of spoliation. is an advo. tate for the rigid observance of the Sunday, and is in favour of judicious legal reform. Mr. Chambers is one of the most active members of the executive council of the Church Institution, and took a loading part lately in en effort for preventin g the admission of shareholders to the Crystal Palace grounds on Sundays. [TWOPENCE THE MANSION-HOUSE .11ETROPuLITAN DISTRESS FUND. The committee of benevolent reentiemen who have so kindly taken upon themselves thebenevolenttesk of endeavouring to alleviate the distress unhappily prevailing among the working classes at the fast end and other psrts of the mekopolia, met again yesterday in the Venetian ClZurat the Mansion-house. There were present the itayor, who presided, Mr. Bevan, Mr. C. Moore, Colonel Stuart Wortley, the Rev. W. Rogers, the Rey. P. G. Blomfield, Mr. J. Robins, Mr. D. Wormed, M.P.. the RiS Hon. G. J. Goechen, MP. Mr. Alfred de Rothe chi Mr. P. Cazenove, and Meant. Wade and C. T. Gabriel An application was made to the committee few relief by a deputation of gentlemen from the parish of St. Mary, Kilburn, but the committee, after making some in quiries, declined for the present to make any grant. A similar application was made from Peckham, and the com mittee swat ddi a grant of 50/. to the applicants. Comsat Routh and several other gentlemen attended as a deput.e•ion from Greenwich, in which district it was stated that them are at present 8,000 or 0,000 persons out of employment. The committee agreed to give the sum of 100/. in this case towards the fund raised locally for the relief of the distress in the district. Mr. J. Young and some other gentlemen attended from the Tower.hM district, urging the great distr.'s existing there at present, and the committee awarded the sum of 200/. In the course of the Kitting the committee agreed to certain resolutions, the objects ./ which are toelicit full information from all the parties who may apply for usaistance from the fund, and to ascertain whether the distress arises from accidental °sums, or whether ibis to be attributed to-local eireummenees,theconditionet any particular branch of trade, he. A very considerable amount of money was received in aid of the fund do ring yerterday. Among the principal amounts received were Messrs Rothschild, 210/. ; the London and Westminster Bank, Lotlabury, 1001. ; the Right Hon. G. J. Galena, M.P.. 50/. ; Janne Hendry, Esq., 10/. • Messrs Carr and Johnson, 10/. 10a. ; Morison and 't'o., 10/. 10s. ; Lindenberg and _ Co., 101. 100. ;G. M. Hrmy, Esq., 5/. ; Thomas A. Dorringtoo, Req., 51. ss. • Mies Dora, 211. ; the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, 101.; W. Jones Loyd, Esq., 501. ;W. Moreland, Esq., 20/. Dr. Bliseett Hawkins, 201. ,• R. H. Holdsworth, 204 ; Leaf, Sons; and Co., 100/. •, the Right Hon. H. Wadd ington, 10/. ; J. and R. Morley, 1001. The amount 'scantily re ceived at the Mansion-house in aid of the fund is about 1,600/., and, in addition to this, considerable sums lime also been received at the different hankers, so that al though the benevolent movement has only been inauga rated for three days, the amount received is approaching 3,000/. It is to be hoped, however, that the satisfactory change in the weather will have very considerable effe..t ia mitigating the distress created among the working clams. by the severe frost, and that a great many of the who would otherwise have been compelled to ask for aseistames from this fund will be able to resume their ordinary occu pations. ANTI-BRIGHT ANECDOTES. (From Punch.) The principal business of the smaller Consul vo tive., while kept in the dark by the large one., is to invent stories :,gainst Mr. John Bright. But oust at them bring the concoctors to grief, as waa notably the ease with Mr. Garth, on whom Mr. I:right laid the hands of vengeance somewhat heavily. Moved with compassion for the troubles of his fellow -creatures, Mr. Punch subjoins a series of anti- Bright anecdotes, which conservative writers may use with perfect safety, and which have quite as much to de with the question of reform as any other allegations a,:.ainst Mr. Bright's personal character. They are Libelled .n the pleasing American fashion. Hot Yount. When young, John Bright ie.:lmany fastidious tastes. It was with great difficulty that he could ever be brought to eat an orange. This un•boylike and un•Engltah hostility to a beautiful truit may be thought to have betokened his hatred for the Orangemen of Ireland, and her landlords. Hin INDOLENCE.' John Bright was always an exceedingly idle young man, and Ida friends could seldom persuade him to take the needful amount of exercise. Pressed hard to take a walk by a Quaker relative, who said, " It has come to me, John, that thou art unwise not to pay more regard to health. Lost nut know that exercise is demanded by the constitu tion!" Bright replied, scornfully, " Bother the conatite. tien Fully, deeply, wickedly has he acted up to the spirit of that deadly doable-eideadrc. His LowTASTE.A. Although Mr. Bright's fa m ily was most respectable, and be might, had be pleased, have been a constant viscor at the best buuses in the vicinity, he was remarkable, when & young male. for eschewing such intercourse. We have it on the best authority that one evening when he had hem invited to a tea party, after which there was to be an ia teresting discussion on l'readamite fossils, he absented himself, and was detected leaning over a wall awl amusing himself by observing some dirty lads playing at skittles. And this was " the father to the man " who pronmes is talk of the shortcomings of the aristocracy HIB BRUTALITY. Small things sho;iitsiirMieiiihitracter better than large ones, became the former accidentally reveal the truth, while the latter are the result of premoditatioit. Bright's 14 utality was manifested at a very early period of his evil life. A friend of his was endeavouring to induce hint to play at leap-frog, • diversion which, thougn net enjoined hy the Quaker doctrine, is not inhibited to 'Fiends of any age or olie,ity. After several refusal, to •• give* his companions a " back," and the latter continuing to urge the claims of sport, John Bright exclaimed, silting the action to the word, " I'll give thee • back-bander,* and the unfortunate friend went head-over-heel/. 1113 FALBEHOOD. We have so repeatedly exposed the unblushing falsel.nods of Mr. John Bright that the task becomes wearisome. Bat we fear that the hue will go on until the crack of doom. The habit is ingrained in his nature, and was in full efflo rescence at an early period. We have obtained from as aged servant in the Bright family the following atory, which may be relied on, though we suppress her name, that wis may not expose her to the vengeance which the un-Eng li ak agitator is fund of taking on old women. Hi. brother Jacob had favourite knife, which on ooe occasion be missed. The poor boy demanded of his brother Jobs whether he saw the cherished article anywhere about. " No," wax the answer. Yet at that moment it w,a is Bright'. closed hand. He did not see it—such was his miserable subterfuge. le it not like him His TREACHERY. At the age of sixteen,JiliuTiVight, though brought ,ip amid a strict beet, was not blind to the charms of the other sex. He was not an unwilling companion of young Quaker ladies in their walks, and perhaps was even then cultivating that feminine habit of reiterated impertinence which so signally distinguishes him. Le this as it may, upon one occasion a young male Mend asked him if be knew whether a certain young lady, whose name we would certainly introduce if we knew it, intended to be one of • walking-party that evening. John Bright seriously ast ried the other that she could not come for that he had bt,ad her arrange to attend an aged aunt, to I.lltolll she warn read ing •' Barelay's Apology." Hearing this, the other yc_mg man stayed away ; but what were his feelings net: day when he !cursed that the young lady bad been of the party, and had been escorted chiefly by one John Bright Yet we are asked to rely on the weed of such a man, when he promises not to subvert the throne and the altar ! M.T. Mr. Bright Is exceedingly fond of citing passages 'on older English writers and sometimes they sound wall by oontra4 with the intolerable and nauseating trash of his own composition. But we do not believe that he has really studied those authors. The selections are either made for him by his secretary, whom we daze say he ill treats, or by some friend to whom he is probably ungrate ful. We have reason to know that being asked to :.:00e the place where to find the line Men are but children of a larger growth, he said that it was in a play of Dryikit'a Every Etas schoolboy knows that it is in no play .it all, lint in the pro 13gue to a play of Dryden's. The character of the Jailed that assails our noble system of classical education n:ay be estinuited, and we may truly my with Cicero, S,e r..c 2: oa Solis melt (gratis area. We have to announce the death of Genera: Sit James Freeth, colonel of the 64th (the 2nd Staifords'.ine) Regiment of Foot, which occurred on the 19th inst. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SUKGEoNS OF EN"LAN7.— The following gentlemen having undergone the neom-sary examinations for the diploma were admitted routihms of the college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners um the 2.tril inst., viz.:—Messrs. Campbell Orine, avenue-road, Regent's-pork ; George Sherwin Madeley. Manobeyer ; George Alfred Thomas, Aberdare, South Wales ; William Edward Phillips, Guernsey ; Alfred Thomas Roworth, ; and George Tobin, Preston, LoncasLire, students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; Thomas Birch Dyer, L.8.C.P., Ed., and LS.A., Forest-hill; Stranger, Nottingham ; John Henry Croft, LS.A., fury St. Edmunds; and John William Morris, Lionel'', Car. marthen, of Guy's Hospital ; Washingt m Lee, Brishans„ Australia, and Matthew Wardell Chambers. Durham, GI the Westminster Hospital ; Frederick Thomas Costes, Euston-road, and George Joseph Cooper, Lee, Meat. se the University College; William Cooke Hewby, Rites, Yorkshire. and George Clements Se.irle, ChAdlingtos, Oxon, of St. Georges Hospital; William Tin-herein* Buckle, LR.C.P., Load., New Ormond-street, of Ki m .. College ; Titus Cummins Crooker, M.D., Victoria Colima. Toronto, Halton, Canada West ; George Longbotham, LS.A., Seaton Carew, Dear Stockton-on:rem.; .John ( cedes, M.D., Univenity of Toronto, St. Thomas's. Canaan West; Alfred Lloyd Owen, Dublin ; audJohn Mott, Bum Lancashire. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1866. Ws celebrated old IRISH W lIISK Y gained the DUBLIN lILLIAL—It is pure, mild, mellow, delicious and very v!.olse Die. Sold in bottles, Bs, Bd. each, at the Wall house la bedoo. by the agents In the principal towns In England ; or iriv4enle at 8, Great Windmllletrvet, London, W. Observe the led seal, pink label, sad cork branded Kinahan's LL Whlaky.' !1!J