The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-24 00:00:00

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TM llamado! otoloomot ohowod a total goosrol taker, of 401,6114. 7111 SWINT •.PPONITIIMIT Or ♦ lITARDIIIO COI: AUL TO Ifemorish sooreehs;asepprehetheathe nicest sprat mese el Mr. Weary* ee asehes mead ad Segel arm* to the board, es the srased Mot emeaseery apww mould b. thereby Maur* awe peosied has the t l.wloßpl ease —tit. Jure owl ht. Ms, Clerhesealli Si. May. Pireingeell, at. Mary, Peddilev:Z. Nary, isaistkabe ; sod she C.ty ComeMeleare el The de:moats are entered to be aimed es **mantes. aICuiIIaNDATIONS IT Till MAX= coinurniz. The board received m report hew the Phase Committee : " That the stvrrol woe, saessettes a the whole to 28,814 i. Oa. 7d.. received seder beta= the 12th of Deember, 1858, ead the 17* Ihmealer, 1869, *chola to the repayeat of oemardes lease ad mongoose, be set aide, ad Wed to the sakes fad Ow paying ot the era efal pos mike owes ocattles peehell s ryTe =see entestmeas Ilewee." rim Lel* et it. George make wee weed a with say dbeeetlest, Mr. * Ileserm mare It ens the nosed That the ere of 11,4701. Lfr.Bd., be teg she meant el the coo a worts ad ed ema* to the Noah laureates drainage, and dr to the W of a Mat Imerceptieg Dame,' ea par Moe( booed of *a Man* 1864 (No. 6), ie trenalerred hem the sale dre r ho re meat to lie general cornet eoeenlnt of the bad." — jai. baits mowed .a an sinesdreent that the detailed Items 'basil be sent to each member, and that the subject be &d -immed be • fortnight. M. Sawn err iscondsd the amoebas, which, as a division, W.. lout by • mei. rity of 20 to 3. The remenimsdation of the committee was thes put and Well I% TM failowing recommendations were also agreed to " That the governor and ampsay of the Beak of Emitted Be ewnested ro ghe directions foe a further advisee to skia barte 80,0004 toe the purposes et the mita dealings, egeorehly to the motto-ow of the &grommet between the heard end the Bask. That the semi speeded Is the mille nnia submitted to the committee, ameating le the whole to 30,9671. 10e. 9,1., be paid. That conuousicattons be eddreeeed M ma of the marries and district boards se are Is &tank to the seseset of 1001. sod upwards on the prompts of the homed Ise the years 1836, 1831, 1866, wad 1069, - requiring C mum.s, of th e ma due by the 23'8 mussy set; mod that is default of payment by that date the neceasory stags be he emodlately taken by the beard for levy* the amounta this „ 11A17 PRAIN•01! COMMIII7II. Tlie report of the Mau Drainage Ceennittai wee presested, iseeennwoding (slot, Rho) that Dr. Hese= aad Dr. Feeble 65 55 qurstA to report os the eflonscy of the India by, k n Morrell. i/. Barsett sad Jackets end Mr. Mor. CT:lo6step tied neutreiwing the notion properties d sewage. With re'preore to the ninaoriel from the vestry of the pariah of Sr. Vaal, Deptfard, praying the board le Is lealsre Into the new bid 1.. r ameeding the Metropolis Local Masegneent Art a eloses for separating the penalise el Ouvesenie sad Depiford, std fortune the latter parish late •dlieriet, lob called the Deptford detect, is the *eke a the colatettee it I. sot rapidest tousle way manses- Aides to the beard, with a view to the formates of the pa stries of Oneswich led tented sod Bt. Nichol.., Deptford, hat two separate district hoards. The reenonnesdatices were agreed to. Mr. Lasttr. moved that the Femme Committee be an open commutes of tter whole hoard, which, after a loss du canoe, en pit sad seratind. Boom rousse ranter* henag tees disponi of the board sajoarsed for a fartzight. RIPRZBENTATIoN or Remit/40.—Th. Mowing tames bee been lamed by 8w Frauds Gebbibil to the Ameba el the lisereigh el Wadies Owdlmew-11.eiset mew essessted by be the peer pubes of your bribe* I sem adieus new soreelly le Heck yew /sr the kid bap tism whisk bee bees own le ma I have pewsleas e( ma w. lbws very luxe toweerey at the electors wheat I bays bees ft arrtaiwe as so nest nth; sad if the ively Ina midis of .arses be so feel:wattle w Hat WWI hes pealed le, then can be so debt of my nears by be =,ersiehliesbly on ~suedes. ayes dies that which k. isppwhil the Igbetel coadsdatee is Restbsg. Ibis b gestatyteirla NMI; Wolff ms gralif)lair is at widows of the Nast Wars of the attempt that hes ben Nude le ineetot, on .seat of sty ceseassueise tires, to 60 kith Y whhik I was bon end Ind, on elmelses seism .s, sod to meows the bay mos sf i is by may* it serve the wpm, sod retries the istoses, of • &a wed yelleleal pstg. Avis tiesmiy thookisti yea. 1 Iwo tb• Wow se motto. realleoree. sod abi s. lem IV ..very..very !seem HMV 001401/011-1/I.ll‘, De WAKEFIELD ELECTION COMMIESIOII. WAKE /11LO. Pamir .—The bit*, tete the swept makes Weisel MMee salve phew et the Mee eel peeler eleetteee ter tee bersegh d WeWleld elmeeM hew fen resemerl rile leersieme by .o,.rinambe maw the MI et November. The Chid C•vnivor...n.r. Mr. Ilerjent neat, wee however sr swwiet/e deterred la Leedom, sad ear regewell the *NW. raleeeee es. -aly *smelly tesposel Me Is Ws W... Rwl•ne ttemiser-beuee W Ws our Mr. W H. War mil Mr. Wyndham lb& As stjeure. Iwo immebitay test Mew mat Is. eels& le.sseves. It ie entrees/ the the (Mime Mbe Is te-wenew 111 Wise Mop ,eissry t eke*. then bides very few trim= tieweeler foe eauelsetke. CHRIOTYAr HoLIDAT.—WitI searosly ea Mss ibe isedswe reeokag al °nowise, Dogilhod,7l2 wieb, Ceariton, Lave .stied ten Moseley No WI be observed as du.. itoltday. At Brlgittua • imbibe wens. bee ben teid, .0.1 In nosionse with rens the Meyer Ms eillelelly ngesered a bsal caws from bear o. tit day wand. A , II•aeb••••t tb• Mayor boa &we sock* rtes 1::+ 4 ". Mb, sod Monday, harry 2, vie be observed no at UM Tows- r. 61.1. nisei linemen ein be nit a pen anster lb. Wing beware time ens inn eine an WA' 26th thur .ohops.aed Muss IMM to spend. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ carnal. rAucs.—Olgi SWILLING —464.9rkes ...,. a ,, 299, ale by mos *bob, SS.. lOW mites, SOL NLARGEMENT of PREMISE 8. _ri s isim wAros s tatigo du aL l et amis. Cheap. Is . lor kis lb ar NT= = 10. Obs lILLAZ DlP a rla i _ - MU of lemur raw seas Mrs Jamris; r asor Ira of own Sonirlos of . rs of lis poor ark of gsiso. warm Orr lor N. bar Oar Err orb a roissol roi is vill mar lin Kinikinirgli. =AA l a n= Clebar— BENSON'S WATCHES. -swam= Pei Odd ...... . ..... t o : 104 rail am N. Elm walla SEA No NNW =Anrered w•ha Peophkt. 1111 awl; Leades. O. HAIDIONIUKS—NEW MODEL—MAMIE, mama mod ni. iimbaftes. 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THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1859. da•l feeling, and active charity is • mama and not simply • mechanical act. It bat ao ma terial equivalent, and cannot be Mood to a mere pecuniary symbol without lasing to • great extent its real character. This is what has' actually happened around us. The well-to-do are not brought into contact with the wretched, sad there is no real knowledge amongst the rich of the actual state of the poor at their own gate. Hence the apathy of which Lord BEArrsanuaY justly complains. "To the general public," says his lord ship," he had professed any gratitude, nor did "he feel any. Those who subscribed so largely " last year were a very inconsiderable fraction of " the general public, and if one-tenth of the public " did one-tenth of its duty there would be funds enough for ten thousand Relief Inatitations all " over the kingdom." This is no doubt an extreme putting of the case, but it is neverthelem eubetan dolly true. The momentary activity of the few in isimense of benevolence at Christmas only bring* into stronger relief the apathy of the many through out the year. We agree in the main with his lordship that local relief associations are amongst the best means towards breaking up this public indifference to the duties of active charity. These associations bring the fasts of destitution within the knowledge of thoes who are asked to help, and when local interest is awakened it will naturally produce inquiry and dis cussion as to the fit objects and beat means of relief. Bums persons, as Lord Stumm:me reminds us, now-a-days affect to deplore the multiplication of charitable institutions, and would relegate all the duties of private benevolence to the public machinery provided for the relief of the poor. In stead of refuges and reformatory institutions, they would have simply prisons and workhouses. If the former attempted to do the special work of the latter, there might, indeed, be some fora in the implied ob jection that they ere superfluous. But in reality their respective spheres of sedan are wide asunder. Apart from the moral inflame of voluntary agencies on their supporters, the kind of help give, by the work house and the refuge is essentially different. There is ea element of sympathy and kindness in the one that does not exist in the other. There is all the dif ference is the world between voluntary and private as compared with public and legal relief. The one is always considered a degradation ; the other I. not. Hundreds would accept the temporary relief of a refuge or reformatory who would not enter a workhouse. No doubt many receive food and shelter in these bud. Union, who have no right to be there at all, who are not in a state of actual destitution. But, on the other hand, in a great city like London there will always be numbers reduced to temporary destitution by no fault of their own, to whom such institutions are invaluable. The true work of these preventive. industrial, and reformatory institutions it not to do duties which belong to others, but simply to rescue the destitute and the homeless, and put them in the way of returning to society, and taking their place there as useful members. And their reflex action in awakening public sympathy and directing it to its true objects is not the least of the many blessings they secure. Ibz •xpreos• oftertimemest laleadett ket " The 1144==r e4, Ives* Pyr e mut beet dr Wok 10. by Tye e't • the i.y of pebefeetka. 111.AOSIALZVE Os Mesas sesews h z i tz 1711. OSNIOO. Woes Rodubms. sopbes. rod MOPS; Ms Umiak.— O li t i e ik ols poslowins tALSITISIVO DAT or. be `w LK TIM Lalawe. I. TOWN. 0. r Immo. THI MILD OF TIN W 11,1101.. Maim* Cel.u..—A am • ra. sonliorimmir • KING TZOBI • MAUD, TUB LITTLI /YT • D TUB GABAT PABSIOII. 11~.. J. /UMW. R. Usadra. awl Nailer; rr &dm NE JAN T•i• Brume. OAILIDALDIII blima OMAN Tarr mai INETNA - • 1501:711111110LD MAT. Ni . M. T. OesTas , ioDi hex L. PCI/0/1 AND MON W AT LOOKS 11111D111. 11. = . I , == It= ..............., a. it RONDO". SATURDAY. D 1 24. AT the !Ml4aas Refuge Meeting the other evening, Lad 8147TISBURT pointed out in a humorous way the dependence of metropolitan bents velem* on the state of the weather. As the glass falls benevolent feelings rise, and the bitter frosts that turn the earth to stone melt the human heart. An active philanthropist like his lordship, there. fore, naturally regards a thaw with very mingled feelings; for, while it lessens to some extent the sufferings of the homeless poor, it diminished in a still greater proportion the contribution for their relief. " Ile wan very much afraid,' the noble lord said, " that the sudden change in the weather might bring about a considerable abitt. " mint in the charitable disposition of the public• " He had generally found that when the glass sank " to freezing point people began to feel very ohadta ble ; when it got a few degrees lower they were of n opinion that something must be done ; and as it " went lower and lower they got first to shillings and " then to pounds." This is only a pointed way of putting the familiar fact that every year about Christmas time contributions flow in rapidly to various well-known agencies for the relief of the homeless and destitute poor. It is very natural and very right so far as it goes. The bitter weather that intensifies the privations of those who are without food and shelter at the same time reminds us of their existence. When, surrounded with every com fort, we still suffer from the severity of the weather, we as scarcely help thinking of thine who mast suffer • thousand times more. And the force of this contrast is greatly heightened by the fades character of the lemon. Christmas is sacred to friendly gatherings and generous cheer. Kindly natures instinctively respond to the genial influence of the season, and even the hard and worldly, those most unused to the melting mood, are touched by its silent appeal, and taste for a moment the nun luxury of something like benevolence. Only a grasping, griping, covetous old sinner, like the unconverted ilteneter Scrooge, sits in cynical and selfish isolation over his lone fire, sad eats in wrath and bitterness of soul his solitary meal. Everybody wishes his Christman festivity to be flavoured with generous thoughts and heightened by the remembrance of some seasonable good deed. A subeaription to a papaw charity is the readiest way of gratifying this feeling. Hence contributions flow in, and for a few days or weeks the better known relief funds enjoy the sunshine of public favour. This is of course very laudable and gratifying while it lasts. But unfortunately it is wee over. This annual concern for the poor and destitute ie a mere momentary impulse, fitful and evaneseent,if not capricious. It is gaits a mistake to suppose that thew intermittent contributions at all mot the case. They do very little indeed towards the systematic and permanent relief of the destitute. Christmas-boxes are very well, but they are Ile substitute, for regular wages. And the misfortune is that this Christmas doeation to useful and needy charities is very much in Bee of regular support. In this way with much good these contributions also do some harm. A more profound apathy succeeds the momentary ex eitioneet. The contributions suddenly stop, while the poor and destitute still remain. They are always with us, and their necessities, though MOM urgent at this particular time, require relief through every swami of the year. Looked at closely, in deed, this annual outburst of public benevolence is at once the symptom and practical though unconscious confession of something radically wrong in the state of public feeling and conduct on this subject. Those who are conscious of regularly discharging the duties I of active charity would hardly rush forward to mast a sadden appeal of the kind. The hasty impales betrays an obscure sense of neglected duty, and is largely dashed with repentance wad remove. It is scarcely possible to blame individuals, or even the public generally, for this neglect. It belooge to the system of modern society, and is one of the many evils arising from a bustling, driving life in overgrow, towns. Public life in some form or other, of duty or pleasure, absorbs so much of ear time that our private duties are to a great extent delegated. The division of labour is carried to such an extent that we can do good only by proxy. Public agencies and pecuniary contributions take the plow el personal sympathy and private help. And where there is no personal knowledge of these agencies sad dine so direct or constant interest in their efforts, they ars soon neglected and forgotten. Gentles sympathy is indeed necessarily an indivi- ZDe Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 23. There wu no addition to the royal dinner party ysetmday. The Qesen, accompanied by Princess Alice, walked in the Home Park this morning, and visited the Duchess of Bent at Provers. The Prince Cason, with the Prince of Wales, went out shooting. The Bucher of Hat rd th. Prince and Princera of Leringen rialtad hat 'Nary at the Carla In the afternoon. Lady Fanny Howard has woordad Lady Augusta Bruce r lAdy In Waking IS Ho Dachas d Ira Deepatehes war* remised at the Colostal-oface yeatarday from the Governor of Kam. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Canada, the Bahamas, and the setthesants on the wen meet el Africa, His Exilefleecy the Earl of Cults!e bee arrived at Treatises, from the vicompl coast, for the Christmas holidays. His thealleasy moored from Hinptows cm Wed nesday, sad passed the Wen at Hsbbsres Royal Hotal, Holyhead. The Tablet, Roman catholic journal, in its issue of this week, meats the Declaration of the catholic lay, with long columns of signatures attached. Lord Normanby has issued a pamphlet of fifty papa wadded "The Congress sad the Cebinet." The noble lord Is hibouring under great dissetisfaction sad dis t:est of the present athlete. He thinka the joint eupesin leadenoe of foreign allays by Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell is a fatal arrangement, and he says he hie been induced to break ahem by the notion entertained that Lord Paltnerstou is about to send himself to the emigres& The petition of the merchants, bankers, and where in favour of the sailors in prison for the disturbance on board bar Majesty's ship Princes' Royal was presented yesterday to the Rome Secretary by Mr. R. W. Crawford, one of the meatier, for London. There has never been as basteeoe of greeter eagerness to sign a document than that exhibited by all parties on this occasion. We are reqaested to state that the offices of the Rleotrio Telegraph Company will be only open on Monday, W 2114 (Boxing-day), as on Sundays. Tlteenew pictWree have just been added to the national collection, Tref*lgar-equare, in addition to the six bong in October last—a doe Ambrogio Sof spawns, retire. smiting thif marriage of SL Catherine of Alexandria, the Virgin eveseating St. Catherine of Sins; entire figures, life silo. This platen was the altarpiece of the chapel of Reber. eyes, eev the Carlos. of Pavia, of which Borgognone war suns( the architects; his paintings haw date between 1490 and 1622. The two other additions are the Rayedsals lately morchand at Waal, of t h e collection of Count Slolbarg, at a 5..,.; they .., both waterfalls, in the painter's boot style, aid have ban engraved on a large male by Ponta. Oa the easing of the 18th deptein Vernon, M.P., gave a lecture to the members and friends of the Meahaake . Institute of this tows, in the County Hall, Abingdow; the subject selected was " Shoham., his genius. his eonweneteeers. sad his illustrators." In the muse of the Notate t►e Yea captain gave with considerable effect, Munlet's Soliloquy on Desth, "To be or not to be , " end leap:Leis Seven Ages of Man, in 4. You las 11 , with other extrsote. On Thumlay afternoon, in the City Hell, Glas gow, the Right Hon. Lord Elgin was formally iastalkd as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. The hall was dowdy crowded, the some being occupied by student', and the pilots* by ladies and members of the poem, council. The Lod Rector was scompanted to the platform by Mr. Sibling of Heir, M.P., Dean of Faculty, the principal and prodesers, and ovoid distinguished persons, including Lord mil Lady Belhaven, Sir Archibald Alison, Sir John Maxwell of Pollee, Mr. Andrew Baanatras, and the members of the Llaivervity Court, dc. TRZ COMMAND IN INDIA.—The following im portant &mops are about to take place is India:—Lord Clyde is to return to Eaglatid to enjoy him well-eerssd I repose. Hen to be wended in the able( command by Major General Sir Hugh Rea, 0.C.8., whom distinguished ser vice le Sr* In the Crimea, sad lastly in India, petit him est as m most Meg is.,, Is assume this rseponsible eon- Named, and wisely Wetted to replace his most gallant prola mines. fib H. Ileseenet bee completed his tom at Bombay, sad will be suesseled es Casenssdsr-In•Cbis( is that Presi dency by Sir Willful' Illasabild, whom late poet—chief of the staff—le sow to be abolished. It la oleo maid that Major Gammas Barmkgcl and Craig* sow bolding eommsnds is Madras, will be ma vadad by Major Omani Maloolm. C. 8., and Major Osowal Broom, C.B. Major Gandwal Canynghass, C. 8., proceeds to Bombay, to assume the nom• resod at Poosab, mead by the promotion of Sir Hugh Haw.—Deihl &ma Gomm. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TH:E REGENT OF CENTRAL ITALY. A despatch from Florence, dated Thursday, says : M. Bnoncompegni made his official entry into this city this morning. The ministers Cadorna and Bidolfi went to meet him at Leghorn. M. Buonoompagni was received at Florence by all the members of the government, ea well as the municipal authorities. An immense and enthusisatic crowd received him with the loudest applause. The flags and inscriptions which appeared in the city bore the name of King Victor Emmanuel, as well as the names of MM. Buoncompagni, Ricasoli, and other members of the government." THE CONGRESS. TURIN, Funky. The King signed to-day the nomination of Count Carew and M. Desambrois as Plenipotentiaries of Sardinia at the Congress. RUSSIA. BT. PETE F, FIIDAT. The Journal de St. Petersburg states that Prince Gortachakoff has been appointed First Plenipo tentiary of Ramis at the approaching congress, and that he will leave for Paris on the 31st December. The last Riad= courier from China, who left on the 17th October, announces that the Russian em bassy at Pekin was enjoying perfect safety and liberty. The Invalids Runs oontains en article in answer to the circular of the Count de Rechberg, the Austrian minister. " The Count de Rechberg," says the Russian journal, " asserts that Italy cannot develop her prosperity except by returning to her normal condition. Is there not some mis take here? Daring forty-fin yean we have witnessed that fatal normal position of Italy, and now, according to Austria, the Italians have given themselves up to a revolutionary spirit. But we have arrived at the eighth month of her free destiny, without anybody having it in their power to reproach the Italians with disturbing public tranquillity. The Austrian Prins Minister is of opinion that the first duty of the Congress should be to restore the DA= banished by revolutionists. It appears to us that the principal object of the Congress is to oonsolidate universal peace and tranquillity, and by that means the security of Europe. Can this object be attained by the restoration of the Dukes and of the Pope's temporal power? Thiele thequestion diplomatists will have to decide. In conclusion, the Count de Rechberg says that when Italy shall resume her normal position, then alone can the affairs of the German Confederation be considered. Without entering into these conai derations, we think it strange that a new work should be constructed similar to that against which all Germany protests, and which everybody admits to be the greatest fault committed at the Congress of Vienna by Prince Metternich." SPAIN AND MOROCCO. MADRID, Dgc. 23. The Moors have attacked the Spanish on the road to Tetuan in order to obstruct the works. They were victoriously repulsed. General Prim distinguished himself by his bravery. The Spanish had four killed and forty wounded. All the works, and even the new fortlets, have been completed. THE CAPE. (BY ILICTILIC rusozarso MOM OUR OWIT C0111.1181.071171NXT3 PLYMOUTH, BATIIIIDAT )101UfTNO. ______ The Athens with the Cape mall ham just arrived. She left Table Bay on Nov. 20, bringing a fall cargo. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATVIDAT MOZNIXO. The City of Manchester has arrived at Qaeetie town. She brings New York advioes of the 10th inst. The President's Message had not been delivered, the house not having elected a Speaker. Cotton firm, with eales during the past three days of 9,600 bales, at unchanged quotations. Breadstuff' generally steady. Indian corn has a tendency downward. In provisions pork firmly The steamer Edinburgh, Ocean Queen, and Persia hams arrived at this port. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9. A firm tone prevails for cotton. The s a les of the week are about 81,000 bales. Quotations show no material variation. MR. COBDEN AND THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. Mr. Cobden, M.P., had a lengthened audience of the Emperor of the French at the Tuileries on Wednesday last. A letter from Rome of the 19th says :—" The Doke& Granamont hes been absent for some days on a shoot ing excursion in the forests of the Pontine marshes. His abeam at a moment so fall of anxiety for the Papal court hes sidled much notice. While lem writing, snow is felling fest. This is quite en event at Rome." Tao Correspowdancia of Madrid, in giving the text of several manusaipt prayers to Mahomst which have been found upon the persons of the Moors, steles one of them contains 5,000 times the words " God la merciful 1" repeated over sad over sesta without any other sentence whelever. M. Quested, proprietor of the care de Foy in the PAW& Royal, be. just died from a rather remarkable Inci dent. During the very severe weather be wont down to visit his ice well in order to superintend the arraegements for getting a good supply for next ■ommsr, when he was over come by the cold end died in a short time after. We regret to have to record the death of Wilhelm Grimm, the younger of the two eminent brothers who, by their united efforts, have so contribu'ed to the knowledge of German sntiquity, Germ= folk-lore, and the history of the Getman language. Wilhelm Grimm died on the 16th of this month, at Berlin, he ousequesee of an ewers on the back, from which he had bass suffering for the tut fortnight. The Abeille Cauchoist states that a few days ago the public crier announced to the shopkeepers of the chief town of a caucuses, Yvetot that Cola., a ehoemsker, would not heoceforth pay any &his ooniracted by hie wife who had quitted her home. On the same day the inopkiepen of the place announced by the same crier that they would give the wife any credit she might require, so long u she re mained away from her husband! TEE STATE OF THE SLAV! NiARKET.—For the benefit of these saeoqueisited with the voila of aech property, we append (nap the Now York loodoposedrat) a BO niurtndutu of the prices of • poetics of a lot of Amy cold at one of the Hiebstosd emotions cis the 12th of Ocsobor :—A mother and child, the former abost CO, sad the boy about 6 years old, 1,460 dollass; • ftrie-looking healthy girl of 16, 1,400 ; • Wong girt of Ghost 19, 1,226; a Hide girl of abut 6, whale Imam wee dead, 376 ; es able-bodied sea of EA 1,176; • arose weD•oade ma of 19, 1.676; • boy hawse" 10 sad 11, 666; • 'Sou boy of 6 years, 686. GALLANT CONDUCT.—It affords se pleagure to learn that Colonel P. Radcliffe Is ing taroarably hoot the same Wades Oa recently .uM&I d while gallantly saving the His of it memett girl at Weefelgh. The girl by es accident bed become enveloped llatitaa, nee must kayo perished bed it not teem be the °atonal rapidly throwing himself upon her ; in doing so his right hand was dreadfully burnt, yet on Mr. Jack's arrival be at once ordered him to see to the girl tint, and then attend to Um. The girl is measly well, but it will be acute time ere the colonel will be able to resuming donee—Plymouth Journal. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor ors. OWN PARIS, FRIDAY /Immo. The pamphlet is the great subject of the day. No one doubts its high origin. But, as as the mot d'ordre has been given to say that it is not official, it is amusing to see the awkward efforts of the go ' vestment press to represent it as en ordinary pro- duction of an anonymous pamphleteer while at the same time they speak of it with awe and reverence. In the Constitutiolitsel, M. Orandgaillot, who had an nounced the work as one of high important* in an elaborate puff preliminary, now says that it must " necessarily be examined with the utmost possible reserve "—that it " abounds in new and profound ob servations and striking deductions "—that it is a work to be " meditated upon, and not to be spoken of lightly on a first impression "—that he "admires without reserve the elevated senti ments and pious motives by which it is inspired." Me doss not even venture to deny its putative au thorship, but contents himself with saying that it is '‘ useless" to attribute it to the source indicated by foreign journals. After all this accumulation of cautious and reverential eulogy, the Constitutionnel, knowing that the official character of the pamphlet L not to be acknowledged, knowing that its drift is altogether at variance with what was supposed to be the aim of French diplomacy and the still avowed opinions of the highest functionaries, knowing that it will provoke a furious opposition on the part of the ultramontane clergy and perhaps be disavowed by the Moniteur, makes a grand demon stration of independence at the end of its article, and manfully announces that it is resolved to question "some of the propositions" of this won derful pamphlet. liven the Pays, the journal of the eminently catholic Gratifies de Camagness, is constrained to admit that the pamphlet is the " event of the day," and that it is written with " great force ;" it is not yet prepared to discuss such "high and sacred questions" as are raised by the writer, but it timidly expresses an opinion that people are wrong to connect this publication with governmental or high influences. Turning to the opposition or independent press I find the Defeats affecting to believe that the pamphlet was not to be published till this day, and therefore postponing the necessity of making entracte or comments. The Casette de Frames abstains from quotation, from a pretended fear that the pamphlet will be seized by the government, as " a violent attack on the existing order of things touching the papacy." The Presse notices, for public amusement, the sneer of the Gazette, and records its own impres sion that " public opinion visibly attributes to the new pamphlet the same importance that it did to ' Napoleon 111. et Vitale.'" The Opinion Nationale announces in a special paragraph that the "semi official journals are permitted to affirm that 'Le Pape et le Congris ' was not written by M. de la GuerronniCre." Curiously enough these journals have not yet availed themselves of their permission. There is a negative pregnant in the Opinion's paragraph highly piquant to those who are in the secret. It is quite true that the pamphlet was not written by M. de la Cluerronniere. The style is much better than his ; there is no turgidity, verbosity, or obscurity in any single page. I have moon to believe that the imperial author was assisted in the composition by a personage much more intimately in his confidence than the present director of the bureau of the prem. At the Bourse there was an oscillation in the Route to the extent of 300. The fall of yesterday was attributed principally to the report of an in -1 surrection in Hungary, and to large sales made by German house', supposed to be influenced by news from Vienna. It was thought this morning that the fall on the Vienna Bourse was not sufficiently oonaiderable to justify the operations based upon it; and there being no confirmation of the rumoured rising in Hungary, the Rents opened with consider able buoyancy. After the fret quarter of an hour, however, sales were pressed, and one particular speculator sold very largely to change the state of his account. The Rents fell to 70fr. 20c., but sub sequently a strong upward reaction set in, and it rose to 70fr. 43e. and 70fr. 60c., closing with a rise of 16c., both for cash and account. It was very positively stated, and the news materially aided the favourable change at the end of the day, that the admission fee of Hr., which it is agreed on all hands greatly restricts speculation, will be abolished on Jan. I. However this may be, the syndicate of the stock brokers had received no official intelligent* of the change up to the close of the Bourse. Mobilier rose 6fr. Spanish Mobilise Ml 6fr. The Orleans, Northern, and Lyons Railways rose respectively, 2fr. 60c., and Ur. 26fr. Eastern and Southern fell 2fr. 60c. each, and Western was without change. . _ The Courrier du Havre asserts that a Russian man-of-war is on its way to the Red Bea for the purpose of taking possession of a point on the coast. CENTRAL ITALY. (MON • )IXT.) CARPI, MODENA, Dsc. 12. The three districts, Gonzsga, Bermida, and Revere, situated beyond the Po, and containing 70,000 in habitants, were freed from the Austrians after the battle of Magenta, when the garrison and the officials retired to Mantua, upon which the Sardinian government ordered the organization of a national guard, of a country police, which ever since bee maintained public order. By the convention of Villafranca these districts were declared to be neutral; they governed themselves independently, to their satisfaction, without any breach of the public pesos, though the Austrian government, in order to get a protest for military occupation, tried to excite dis turbances. Accordingly bands of gaol-birds from the Mantuan prisons have been let kW", and sent across the Po, to infest these districts; but the national guard and municipal authorities succeeded in main taining the security of persons and property. A petition signed by above one hundred of the moat influential inhabitants was sent to the Emperor of the French, requesting him to preserve them from the Austrian dominion, and Count Giuseppe Arrive bene and the lawyer Mambrini, who were entrusted with the mission, brought back the answer, that the petition will be submitted to the Congress, which has to decide the ultimate fate of the districts. In the ' meanwhile they got the assurance that the Austrians will not cross the Po before the decision of the Con gress. Bat while they were thus reassured from aris an Austrian police officer arrived from Ostiglis, summoning them to provide for 240 foot soldiers, 30 Polish lanoers, one officer, one non-commissioned officer, and five privates of the gendarmes, and two police officials. Besides, he ordered the disbanding of the national guard—a complete disarmament within three days—and the cancelling of all shooting licensee, which allowed some of the inhabitants to carry arms; every contravention to be punished according to the law prevailing in Venetia—that is to say, by court-martial. You may easily realise the despair of the inhabi tant* when these orders were proclaimed to the public. Mast of the young men able to bear arms at once emigrated to Modena, before the arrive' of the Austrians; thee:me, takwens withent daisy prat on carts, and speedily conveyed out of the reach of the invading force. The Austrians creased the Po to Revere, and thence to San Benedetto and Oonzaga. A Central Italian detachment has accordingly been sent to the frontier thus menaced. The Panetta del Popolo of the 16th inst. says : " According to a letter of the 12th, the Austrians have occupied the three transpontine districts of Mantua on the 10th. " The oehi;et of Turin on the 4th ordered the im mediate withdrawal of all its officials, which spread the greatest alarm among the unfortunate inhabi tants. " It was a pitiful soene to ass at Mirandola the arrival of men, women, and children of every rank, carrying with them what they thought most valu able, as if fleeing for their fives. Thu the enemy hu come into the vicinity of our vanguard. May heaven punt that they should overstep the fron tiers ! This would be the spark to kindle a fire not to be sully suppressed." TEA ENGLISH* BOMAN CATHOLICS AND TES PAPAL GOVAIWNENT. The following most interesting letter appears in the Timm of to-day Sir,—l have waited in rain for some mate powerful end able rouse than mine, among the Independent catholic", to rise in protest against a movement that is now in program, and that is promoted by some mem bers of our faith in this country. It is with regret that I find myself differing with any of my eo-religionists, and that I feel myself forced to break a silents I could wish to have maintained on this subject. Bat what is now taking place most so much tend to impart an erroneous Idea of the trim principles of the Roman catholic church to which I am proud to belong that I can no longer forbear raising my voice, humble and unsupported though it be, against a proceeding that is equally injurious to our reli gion and to us as loyal sobjesta. I refer to the "Declare lion of Sympathy to his Hollers the Pope" which Is now going the round of this country, praying for the signatures of the Roman catholic laity. After the very fair expodtion sod able refutation of the resolutions contained in that decomeat which have already appeared in your column., it would be superfluous for me to dwell upon its details. I readily agree with you that this decla ration Is an act as unprecedented in Its nature as It is illogical and preposterous in the resolutions it embrace.; and that every enlightened and independent individual in this country, be he catholic or protestant, mast look upon it with regret, if with no stronger feeling. I would almost appear that those who originated such • declaration were under the pressure of some undue influence, which had led them to abdicate not only the natural cha recta of Englishmen, but even the free use of their intelli gence. There le an unfortunate feature in the present agitation of that pert of the Italian question that bears upon the states of the church. It is that the ultra montaniste of the clerical party, wandering far beyond the precinote of their spiritual domain, attempt to con found what are purely temporal matters with the spiritual Interests of the church, thus dragging the question Into an arena to which it should remain entirely foreign. As a catholic I must protest against this mierepeesentation. I maintain that the temporal power of the Popes forma no part of the catholic's religion ; that It Is sot in any way to be °animated with it; and that it is Buie leis than a column, against our church to assert that her spiritual latereets can be dependent upon the existence or non existence of aay human institution. The infidel welters of the past century, in their most bitter and envenomed attacks upon Rome, never palmed a libel so gross as that which declares that the Interests of religion are bound up in the continuance of • temporal government which has become • byword throughout Europe for its Impotency for all that is good, ite misrule, and be corruption. It would be: well for those who have the cry of the interviste of the church' unceasingly upon their lips to look calmly and dispassionately upon the saorameot that Is mow taking place amen the population of those very states that are engrossing so much of their attention. They would there behold on one hand • people who have already thrown oft a yoke so hateful to them that words can but faintly describe the intensity of their feeling ; and, on the other, a people still writhiag in chains which the promote of en overwhebniag foreign force alone prevents them framrend leg Let them, then, ask themselves whether It be for the interests of religion that these populations should be driven to a still further state of desperation, and whether if Is am to be fend that political animosity, If too long pro voked, may mot eventually, In the intensity of their excited pentane, urge them even to • religious separates. " I am, sir, your obedient servant, "Dec. 22." "HENRY PETRE. Ma. WOODFALL 48 A P.ABLIAMER TART .RIFIOATIR. In the E.rpreas of Thursday there appeared the following stemmata made by Lard Palmerston, to his smolt to the tout of The Press," at the Labourers' Knocurege meet Society's dinner at Bosomy ; and as that statement is unfounded in fad, and Menet Injurious to the memory of the late Mr. William Woodfall, the celebrated parliamentary re porter, for whose MOO the public had some regard, and to whose weer his descendents look book with pride, attention has been called to it. The wade are as follow I have beard that toward, the end of the last century there was a man named Woodfall who used to publish de bates, end how did he do it / It is said that he used to go to the rainy of the House of Commons, listen attentively, with his face in his heads, to what passed, go home, drink two pots of porter, go to bed, get up next morn ing, and from his dreams and recollections make out what he called a report of a debate." Mr. H. T.Wood fel I, of Chelsea, writes to the Tures —"Now, Mr. William Woodfall weer honourable, well. educated may editor of a newspaper, endowed by his Creator with ea extraordisery memory. At a time when parliamentary reporting wee in its infanzy ; when there were not the relays of mortars and the steam-engints of the Tines to furnish a verbatim report of the nights proceedings for the morning's reading; and when parliameetry speeches, being addressed leas to the public than aa arguments br the House, did not reach their present interminable length, he attended parliament and reported from memory at rue earliest moment the essence of the debate, honestly sad with talent. His reports were true according to ble power, and not made up by a drunken impostor, r Lord Palmerston would have WI believe, out of ' Ilia dreams and recollections.' They were a great bcon to the public (for which his name lives to the present time), and were the germ of that politinl ednothion of the people which you, by the aid of modern appliances and great expenditure, have thought to its present perfection. The eons of Mr. Willies Woodtall are no more (one of them was the Chief Janke of Cape Breton, and the author of the • Law of Larked and Treat,' a textbook of the law to the preset time); bat I, as his grandson, most indignantly deny the Injurious character given to him by Lied Palmerston, and sew% from my own emaciation with hie immediate descendants (Me widow, his sons, and others), that be was regarded by thole who knew him with respect for big roond qualities, as he lives null in our annals remarkable for his unellectual THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER ON DIRECT TAXATION.—In reply to a letter trait a Mr. John L Tab. berme, of Cheese, who wrote commending direct in pre ference to indirect taxation, and suggesting a graduated pro =tax (incasing acco rding to the amount of man's ), with the grant of the fnuichire to all who were subjected to the tax, Mr. Gladstone write. .—" D Awning street, Nov. 26, 1869. Sir,-1 had the honour yesterday to receive your letter dated the 22nd. You have set forth your views with clearness and ability; but it appears to me that the greet and critical changes which you recommend are Atter aubjeets for discumion among the pw)lia at large, and especially the classes more competent to sift questioned such a nature, than for any declaration of an opinion. I bare no difficulty, Indeed, In 'tying that it is desirable in a high degree, when It can be e ff ected, to connect the of the franchise with the payment of taxes, and sM ai t establish the right of the individual vot.r by reference to some external and independent standard ; but I am not able to say that I think the State should adopt Cie modes which you propose for cabliahing thole principle ; and. ea regards Seal change', there is much both in your premiere and your txmclasione on which I most crave perniimion, at the least, to summed my judgment.-1 have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, W. E. GLADITONI." DCATfI OF "Tllll 'PALLING FIXH."—The public will be enrprieed to bear that this wonderful bend who's bee died. The recent hard frost effected it very severely, and on Wednesday afternooe, about baltpasit six o'clock, It awed to show any signs of Itfe. Soon after the heed weather set in, it began to give indieatione of being "out of aorte,' sad wen vary 111 for three days previous to it. death, be unable to perform. It wag covered with blankets, end the water let out of its tub. Several media) gentlemen, acquainted with the witorol history of such anneals, were tent for, and they gave what advice they could, which wee acted upon. The animal, however, continued to get wore., end on Wednesday efterneon, being unable to eat anything, the wife of the proprietor west in to age it. It distinctly recog nised her, and snewered her icquiry by its peculiar grunt of " mamma." In trying to raise ttWf to come weer her, the effort sew too nut for It, end It fall one on its ofde sod expired. TM It. will be a Man ma to the proprietor, se he was deriving a good Income be its exhibition, and not long stem wee off.ted by a speculator the tutu of 1,5004 for it.