The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-04 00:00:00

i ~, ~" Q ~ .~ , KA rtsiL tt D; ENV S PAPE R Vigatit SSaIL No. 6,057 ) LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1866. [STAMPED, IL ADDITIONAL.] TWOPENCE iBIKNSLAND. -BLACK BALL PAS- S/S(OU LINIL—New agransomiato with 11.11.** Colo- Ognernagest. Beduction of Memo lore to 616. load ten MO, to ell engem OUTRUN OMAN, for BRISIABTE. Mordoe Bay, Week net for Jan. N. This magmtleent sbt forming one of the ok Ball celebrated Ben of Queengland packets, will be de • keen guncnially to date. TUaccommodatlon for sll clones ponengeri mount be ellaneeed. To De followed by the goer ado STAB OT KNOIAND, Packet foe 101 h Tonuary. won to JAMES BAINXII and Co., all neon for • Black Ball Lies ; and T. M. MACLAY ani Os., I, Leogkellelk BA London. IC. STEAM FROM LIVEZPOOL OR QUEZNETOWN TO Xllll7'OEl. TWICE A HE L IVE RPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILADELPHIA. STEAM-SHIP COMPANY 'steed de. their tall-pomereda t de-bailli Dem Sams illeam-Shlse, dm United States FROM LIVERPOO tar KEW TORE. CITY OF MANCHESTER, Wards% Jam S. CITY OF BOSTON, Wednesday, Jac. JO. And every Wednesday, and &Dorsals Fridays sad Saturday% Cable passage by the mail steamers sailing every Wedseado, 11, and 21 !tubas's, aceordl to the esesumaSs• Cabis by the Fridays and • Stealnefla 16 genes% passage includes a MB sui el cooked ter Canada and the United Mates bested on mammas Wrzos. —rat Speer pertiesiare to INMAN, 11, Water-dies% I/newel; sr to MACEY, sa. King WilDamest. Isaacs. ?OTTERDAbi and the RHINE.—The GENITAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAM IIPr leave ifit. Katharine's-wheat for sorrzanAtt every EDDISDAY and SATURDAY, At 11 saaniag. Saloon, At : ro cabin, Ifs. Return tickets, avallabie kr ear math. a tare d 11. Lorbard-okest, and 17 lerertrekral. I. IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT IF ASSOCIATION (Mated). Capital subscribed, £6,000,000. Paid 14040,000. Cnenuses—JOHN CHAPMAN, Mimeo's's—Henry J. Harker, Eaq., and . Fraser Sandeman, raq. I Thia Association makes Advances upon approved mercantile ad other securities, and rewires money on &gait at interest or short or long periods. Depositors for periods of not less than three years may procure, a application at the °Mem debentures of the Association, leering interest at 8 per cent. per annum, payable quarterly by 'epos " to bearer" attached. W. C. WINTERBOTTOIt, Oscretary. 47, Lombard-drank London, EC. rHE GALATZ CANDLE ) COMPANY iFAULQUIIift, BLANC, and oi a rtited). 7' be iocorporated under " The Com Act, MN," by which the Lability of each sharehol se Is Wetted to the amount of hia shares. ---- Capital, £100:000. In 20.000 shares of li each. First issue 12.000 Awes. rile remainder to be issued as the Company in General Meeting directs.) Deposit, £1 on application, and At on allotment. No farther liability. THE IMPERIAL BANK (Limited), rith whom the vendors deposit a sum equal to a minimum dividend of 10 per cent, per annum for three yean, will pay halflearly the Coupons to be attached to the share cer tificates. . rßlims ut LORD= —The Imperial Bank (Lbottad) 8, latbbar7. 3[llllB AT GALA —The Imperial Ottoman Dank (Waited). SECUWIT (pro tam.)—Mr. Herbert H. =ea. Odicea-112. Cheapaide, U.C. ABRIDOND PitOSPECTUS. This Company Is formed for the purpose of parohaeng, working, extenolag the valuable freehold pnateea, plant. and hull o( Messrs. Faulquier, Blanc, and Co., candle and soap manu niers, of Galata, Moldavia. Messrs. Yaulimier, Blanc, and Co. are desirous to itispose of Ic business tea joint stock company on account of the In ciency of their capital to meet the daily increasing trade, because of the Impossibility of working the badness except Bs ready Man, on account of the exorbitant Interest charged money in the Prinelpalitica It is calculated that with the present capital acuities and Wow candles and soap to the extent of £160,000 per annum can a produced. The profits average about 10 per cent. ou the ems returns, or about 30} per cent. on the awned (t 00,000) of te Compa tinier the ny. whole of the present Issue Is subscribed no allot tent will be made, and Um deposit will be at once returned in W. Yell prospectuses and forms of application for !bares may be btslned of the Bankers, Solicitors, or at the Oakes of the Com any, where also copies of the articles of association may be ad, or they will be forwarded by the Secretary. IHE LIVERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE TIMN and LIFE INSURANCI COMPANY. oar-1, Dalat-dreet. Liverpool ;10 and 11, Penary ;7, Camila and Cbanog-crasa, Landon. 11100=111 OP TEI COMMIT male 1860. Year. Irk* Prendaniad Ws Premiums Lavaslad nada. 1811 WS lieu tu,so6 men 3n0,130 742,674 t 27.137 72,781 136,974 234,244 L 602.824 en,on 1,311,906 8,1111.,300 TheATKINS, Policies falling due at Christmas should be renewed by 9th of January. dUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY. Tlf NEW SEASON NOTICE II the BEST BOOKS of the SEASON and or the past twenty Lean are In circulation at El UDIEB SELECT LIBRARY. MST CLASS SUBSCRIPTION, ONE GUINEA PAIL ANNUAL. Commencing at any date. Book Clain suppled on liberal terms. Prospectuses on application. MIMICS miser LIBRARY (Limited), NSW OXIORD.STRIET City Office, 4, KINO-STREKT, CHitAPSIDE , EDSTEADS, BEDDING, and BEDROOM FURNITURE.—An ILLUSTRATID CATALOGUE, with hoes of 1,000 articles of BEDROOM FURNITURE. seat (tree by it) an application to FILMY& sod BON, upholstered dl, Ilernersutrcet, London, W., sad it sod 16, Charles• eat, Ch.tord-aireet, W. HREHHER and GLENN Y. MUT DOOR to 801LERSET-ROUBR STRAND. only establishment In London for the following Artielos: TRIMMER% SUMMER ANGOLA SUIT& THRESHER'S INDIA TWEED SUITS . THRESHER'S INDIA GAUZE WAISTCOATS. THRESHER'S KASHMIR SHIRT& THRESHERS COLOURED FLANNEL SEISM THRESHER'S MILITARY SHIRTS. THRESHERS OVERLAND TRUNKS. TIME-M1..11:S INDIA BULLOCK TRUNKS. THRESHERS METALLIC LINED TRUNKS. THRESHER'S INDIA CABIN BAGEL N.B.—OUTFITS SITPPLIED for INDIA, CHINA, and the COW- Ps. and detailed lister the articles required for every puree appointment will be forwarded on application r above. PECTACLES are NECESSARY tHEN the Eyes water, are misty, or fatigued after readine ; HEN the print blends, and the letters appear to be doable : WHEN more light than formerly is requisite— per example : WHEN the candle is placed between the eyes and the book ; WHEN objects must be held further off to be seen more clearly . WHEN much difficulty is found in threading a needle. The shove arc premonitorysigns of decayingsight, and indicate tat an optician should he con: lilted without delay. From long ad extensive practice Messrs. Thomas Harris and Son are fully ompetent to advise on all matters pertaining to the remedying elective sight. 1 hey skilfully a lapt lenses, perfectly true, of to requisite power, and likewise they Judiciously select a spec kle frame of the form most becoming to the face. THOMAS IARILLS and SON, opticians to the Hoye' Family. opposite the potash Museum gates. London k their only house), established Caution—No travellers or agents. IRRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S .1 GI!•TS for all who court the Gay and Festive Scenes. — /KLAN DS' SI ACAsisAR OIL, a preserver and beautifyer of e bair beyond all precedent. Rowlands' Katydor, for impart g a radiant bloom to the complexion, and a saltness and dell cy to the hands, anna, and neck. Rowlands' Odonto, or Pearl totifrice, for giving a pearl-like whiteness to the teeth, and (re alm, to the breath. The patronage of royalty throughout cope, their general use by rank and fashion, and the tusiv.v. by known ethcacy of these arti. les, give them a celebrity un s at 2u, Hatton-garden. and by chemists and per sera.—Ask for " Rowlands" art.eka. )R. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, a never failing remedy, prepared without any mercurial gradient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, will be found invaluable all who sutler trout bilious and liver complaint', indigestion. Mi, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual stivenem, as e family aperient medicine, and as a portlier of e blood, they are truly excellent ; mild In their operation and 'Mkt to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, d strengthen the whole nervous 'cetera—Bold by W. Lin *i• cbemlst, u, King Williametreet, Charing... Tom, and by 1:1104 %Miele, la boxes, is. lid. and Os. red. Be sure to ask for Dr. nits Bilious end Liver Pills. The genuine are in a square green WINK+ with u William Lambert" engraved on the stamp. MEWS BALSAM of ANISEED. iiR 00 II G/18. 0R AS T H M A. OR SHORTNESS of BREATH. OLD by ALL CHEMISTS. 'AREHOUSE, 16, BLACKYRIARS-ROAD. ►WELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED, The MAT COUGH lIIDICLNI. OXFORD. - CHRISTMAS ENTER ." TAIIIIIIIIT. The MARCIIT GIRLS and KING CHILTITTIIII4.—These highly snotonatal Opuntia will be per forated in additioo to the usual varied programme of the above adablalutsent. embracing the services of a U the most Wonted artistes now in London. Conducted by 112.7.Jengtonana—EVERT EVENING. MKTROPOLITAN, Edgware-road. Open at 7. MACLETRY triamplumt, Aside Adams triumpbast. Clarke, trldrephoat. Nelms= •a 4 Mortimer trhmdmat, Faust and Hooter trimaphont, t stlsots WOODS& an MASA NIELLO 170 wild, Entertainment maalimealy voted Manager—J. J. POOLE. VOREIGN WINES, oheapand pure :--Catalonian Sherry, 17e ed. ; Andalnsian Port, 17a W.: Preach, 16..; French therm 19s. per dozen ; Besnlolel4 the dd. Kam; 21s. Bonsididon. 17e. dd. ; Chablis, 41.. ; Dock, 21s. to 245. sod Sparkling took sad Moselle, 411 s. a down; essa Cosine Drolly= or brown. N. down, bottles T cash. pall open tour doses Into the IDWABD BOWILILBANIC :AV& Distillers and Importers, 77k. ihnertreel, loodon. Established 17$L DF.NTAL NOTION.-Mr. 11111EILL, Surgeon Dentist, of t 4 OROBVENOR-STREIT, BOND-STREET, Gring misounsed for a considerable pitied that 'ui is not cosoected with any one of the name, sod that he has NOT REMOVED, and does not Intend doing so," bop respectfully to state that as he corsairs the general public are now safilciently will aware of the facts, be will cease to make this or any other proesedonal statemient le the public papers on and after the 28th el felonry next. NOTHING DEPOSSIBLE.-.—The gr eat..{ and Iszrat 'Eventide cot the 41111. AMU aILAJIILLA. Yew& 80111 TILL and Om. Tkßes AM" lumbard- Ornek =1=1.11•11 1 1 to beeliajmifo. ogee to the nenneases fleklorkich ankLually restores the t u ntat hale to He pristine hoe—no matbsr at 'stet age. The Ague Anieralls has DON of the properties of dyes; It, on the .oaleq, La honenctal to the system, and when the hair Is one* one appllcadon per month will keep It fa perfect colour. Pak* Al Is. par bottle, or In belt bottles, 101. ad. John Cowen and Co. bamboos appelstodperfunters to 11.2.11. the Princess of Wsks.—Joll24 GOSI4/LLL and Co's CHERRY TOOL H PARTY Is =ripener to any tooth powder.—To be had of ell per fornees, choahte r and at the manufactory 12. Three King-mark Lombard-street. London. MICROSCOPES, BOOKS, COINS, etc. MR. J. O. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at his Great Rooms, 38, King-street. Covent-garden. TO MORROW, Jan. 6, at half-post 13 precis*, mad good MICRO SCOPES, and a large quantltr w e t f , g p esit o s for ditto, stereoscopes, and gams sad gaper elides, p appeaser, mahogany bookcases, jewellery, Mo. ; also a mall colactins of colas, the property of a gentleman, and • few books on natural history, ac.—On view this day and morning dt sale, and catalogues had. Mee lu ed. or 2s. "VVERYBODY'S BUSINESS." AA Ask your bookseller tor "Everybody's Business." Loudon : Slopkto, Marshall. sad C.. Will be publiehed on the tlth of January, and continued Weekly, Pries lid., TH E BULLIONIST: • ltooord of TlWCO,Ccseetree, and Nitlcal isoirmy. Proceedings In the Stoat rachangio, and Coarse of Pric;•- Criticisms on Public Companies-Antecedents of Directors and Promoters-Reports of Meetings of Shareholders-Popular Digests of Financial and Mercantile Law Cases-Railway History of each Week-Mining History of each Week-Coal, Corn, and Produce Markets-Reviews of Publications on Car rem, Commerce, Ind , and Art-duspsadsd Firms, Bank rupts and their Balm -Mimes! Views of the Daily Journals-Weekly Accounts of the Banks of England sad Bream -Weekly Analysis of the Position and Prcepeets of American Eiscuritles-ludian Floance-Proceediags with Respect to Defaulting Staten, Spain, Greece, £c.-Finances of foreign Garerntnente-City News, and Rumours of the Week meniary Discussions-Trade Ltslabstion-Correspondence, Home and Foreign, Az. AU letters and communications respecting athertisementa and subscriptions to be addressed to the Publisher, at the mikes of The 'faith:mist," No. 7, Pluch-laas, Threadueedlibstrees, LC. Mee la., DR.. CI7LVERWELL on MARRIAGE : Its Obligations, Happiness. end Disappointments. Mann. Vorntull or Author, a, Great Marougb-street, W. Working Man's fee, half a Guinea. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (SLUM'S 7111011.1113.) PRUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES. BERLIN, JAN. 3. The non-official portion of to-day'sStaatsanzeiger contains an article upon the United States, in which it characterises President Johnson's message as eminently conservative, and lays stress upon the continued friendly relations betwe m Prussia and the United States. It then continues : "Institutions often called into question, and which would not be suitable for Europe, have proved their stability in America. Notwith standing au unprecedented expenditure, and the interruption of labour and trade, the Ameri can government, which in four years placed two millions and a half of men in the field, has in about as many months been able to reduce its army to one-fifth of its former strength. Some of the journals friendly to the government, but improperly regarded as government organs, have not failed to express precipitate and unjust opinions upon President Johnson's message." The semi-official Provincial Correspondenz of to day says:—" The Prussian government feels as sured that Hanover will not continue to offer obstacles to the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between the Zollverein and Italy." The same paper further says :—" In the relations of Prussia with foreign powers, and in their atti tude upon the Sleswig-Holstein question, nothing whatever has arisen likely to make Prussia irreso lute in the pursuit of her aims or in the course of action she has hitherto followed." BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The following telegram has been received by Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, Jan. 3: MALTA. JAR. 3. The Tanjore leaves here at 7 a.m. to-day for Mar seilles, where she may be expected on the evening of the sth. In consequence of an accident to one of the paddle-wheels of the Delta, the Tanjore has all the mails, ckc., on board. She may be expected a t Southampton about the 15th inst. THE RECIPROCITY TREATY. The Toronto Claim of Dec. 1 has the following telegraphic paragraph : MONTREAL, DEC. 20. The resignation of the Bon. Mr. Brown was so unex pected that it created a profoand excitement amoaget our politicians. It is generally node:stood that Mr. Brown will support the goverment in their confederation and general policy. It is said that the reciprocity question was the cause of his resignation. DESPATCH OF MR. CARDWELL ON BRI- TESH AMERICAN CONFEDERATION. The Canadian government have received from Mr. Cardwell a despatch written to show that a better arrangement could be made with the Ameri cans in commercial affairs by the whole of British America united than when split up into fragments. Downioi-street, Nov. 24, 1865. Sir,—l think it right to *aqui:int yen that I have been I informed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that, in the opinion of her Majesty's representative at Weahitig. too, the necessity of having to submit a tniaty of cowmen* to the separate action of the various provincial legislatures would be a serious difficulty in his way, and that the union of the provinces would afford the beet hope of obtaining each a treaty. It is evideat.that U the gentimmes who amnion about to proceed to Monteath° British end SpasialtWeet Indies, and Brasil, for the purpose of asseriaining in what miaow the trade and eommeree of these months@ with British North Amities can he extended, shall bring their jounce, to a suereseful woclusion, and shall be able to suggest to her Majesty's government, on the part of the British North Anseneas provisoes, any new errangemests with the °Pantries is question, for the benefit of those waviness, a similar difficulty may he expected to arise in every sack sad, us the other hand, the union of the provisos@ would, in every web ore, afford the beet hope of bringing each orrampaseste to a speedy and salidsotow conclusion. have. he.. (SP* Ewe's) Oehoina.c. LITERATURE. The Atlantic Telegraph, by W. H. Russem., LL.D. Illustrated by Robert Dudley. London : Day and Son (Limited). "A difficult journey to a splendid tomb" is a living author's definition Of the rewards of genius. It applies with some fitness to the abortive Atlantic Telegraph Expedition of 1866, enshrined aa it is in the elaborately handsome volume before us. The sanguine confidence, the anxious hopes, the diffi culties, trials, and disappointments of the scientific and the financial promoters of this great enterprise are brought vividly before the reader ; while in every accessory of type, paper, illustration, and binding the book is worthy of the subject of which it treats. It is as impossible to open it without a tinge of sadness, as to rise from the perusal of Dr. Russell's eloquent narrative without augmented confidence in the ultimate laying of an Atlantic cable ; while the numerous spirited drawings of Mr. Dudley, furnishing as they do every detail con nected with last year's expedition, seem to strengthen the hope that his pencil may at no distant date have the pleasant task of portraying the circumstances of success. A brief history of the preceding at tempts to lay a cable between Great Britain and America, with appropriate sketches, is followed by a full description of the manufacture of the one it was sought - to lay last year, by an account of the precautions taken to ensure its perfection, and by a history of its removal to, and coiling in, the tanks of the great ship. We have next the history of the voyage—from weighing anchor in the Medway, on the 15th of July last, to the re-appearance of the Great Eastern at Crookhaven on the 17th of the following August. Foilhuramerum Bay, and the landing of the shore end, when all the character istics and humours of an Irish fair were to be seen on cliffs and rocks, dangerously rugged and desolately bare—makes a charming picture, and one in which artist and author vie with each other in truth and power. The confident speeches of Sir Robert Peel, the Knight of Kerry, and Mr. Glass, the repeated assertions as to the "perfect" character of the cable, and " that all human skill could do" had been effected, make a sad prelude to the diary of the voyage and its crowning disappointment. The discovery of " faults," the splicing of the cable, and the adaptation of machinery for picking up, all fall with comparative flatness, for the result is known ; and the final catastrophe robe portraits and incidents of half their interest. Yet no one who wishes to follow this year's expedition with a moderate comprehension of its details should omit reading Dr. Russell's history, and studying Mr. Dudley's pictures. The Great Eastern herself, the people on board, the tanks, buoys, drums, and V wheels, are all portrayed with an exactitude it is impossible to praise too highly, and which puts it in the power of any reader to follow the voyage and share in its vicissitudes with keen personal interest. Thus, when Mr. Saunders, a gentleman who had much experience in "fault-finding," kite upon the situation and cause of the first bitch by means of unerring tests—when Mr. Cyrus Field's gentle equanimity and confidence are temporarily shaken—w hem Mr. de Sauty comes from the testing-room to inform Professor Thomson that signals with the shore have been successfully resumed—when Mr. Field at another crisis re marks pleasantly, "I have often known cables atop working for two hours, no one knew why, and then begin again—it's some mistake on shore"— when Captain Anderson makes passing comment on the tediousness of picking up—and when Mr. Halpin, the chief officer, is heard encouraging the men—we have in minute touches the inner life of the voyage. Again, when a jury of examination was held in Mr. Clifford's cabin, and the damage to the cable declared to have been done wilfully, we read with warm interest of " the piece of iron wire, bright as if cut with nippers at one end and broken off short at the other." That "no man who ' saw it could doubt that the wire had been driven in by a skilful hand"—tbat precautions were taken against the "villainous design"—that "enemies to the manufacturers," and " Lynch law" were talked of—and that the gentlemen on board formed themselves into a watch, reads at this time like a sarcasm on hasty conclusions, for a couple of pages later we find the last and fatal fault to occur during Mr. Field's watch, and to have been undoubtedly the result of accident. What had looked like pur posed malice was now generally admitted to be mis fortune, and it is we believe fully understood that the wire strand intended as a protection to the cable was, through breaking off and penetrating its core, the cause of its ruin. The histo of the "picking up," of the hoping against ry hope, of the drifting and suspense, of the variety of anxieties against which Mr. Canning had to con tend, and finally, of the reluctant return home, are all admirably told, the obvious moral of the story being that cable-laying vessels must be so , appointed that the process of recovering and re , pairing a faulty part can be gone through without difficulty or delay. Absolute perfection can no ' more be guaranteed in cables than in men, and had ! the machinery for recovery been as strong and perfect as that for laying down there is good reason for believing that the " faults" of last year need not have been fataL Let us hope that we shall profit by the experience gained, that the telegraphic ' communication between England and America may I be resumed this year, and that the success of 186 t • may be as ably chronicled and faithfully illustrated as the failure of 1865. TWO VOLTINTEER CORPS—A CONTRAST.—I will give an instance of the courtesy shown by the working clusee. When the volunteer movement began in 1860, a number of working men came to me with the request that I would assist them in forming an artisans' corps, by lend ing them my schoolrooms and accompanying their request to the authorities for enrolment and permission to wear a characteristically cheap u, iform. This involved numerous meetings, deputations to the Lard-Lieutenant, and the War-office. We waited on Lord Salisbury's representative. We waited in Pall MalL We were left to cool for some time. We were on two or three occasions politely snubbed. I was present at the interviews, and talked with the men after them. We had several public mselicgs, and heard freely-uttered sentiments. At hat with the aid of hired instructors, about 120 men were drilled in our schoolroom. Now comes my instance of courteous con sideration. Daring that whole winter, though I mixed freely with the men, I never head an oath. They knew how to swear well enough, sod I dare say m•oy of them swore among themselves, but courtesy restrained them in the presence of a clergyman. In the course of the year 1 chanced one day to be brought into the company of • large party of volunteer', draw° mostly from the middle class of society. They swore like trooperv, and I could not help contrasting their utter disregard of the present* of a clergyman with the considerate politeness of my friends the anises,. —Marmillan's dlafia:ine for January. VISITORS ON THE ROTRTHAL.—A shadow passad over me, hexplicable at tint from such a sky ; but the canes soon appeared in a couple of enormous lammer genre, or eagle-vultures of the Alps, that kept circling round, or resting in a watchful manner on the neighbouring cliffs of snow. It was interesting to see the white bodies and dark powerful wings of these savage birds, for they are now rare even in the Bermes O b erland ; but there was an out-on-business sir about them which forcibly suggested that perhaps a snow cornice was not the most favourable point for calm observation of their manners and habits. Their dimensions were very formidable ; they flaw away I some distance, consulted together, and then came back spin to the immediate neighbourhood of the Rotlithal saddle, as if there were something there which specially interested them • and they seemed male and female, pro bably with a needy family, and accustomed to act in con cert. At one time they were so near that I fancied I saw the hungry gleam of their cruel eyes, and, perhaps luckily, remembered Tsohndt's stories of their swooping against men on the verge of pre-Apices. It was necessary to dila abuse this respectable couple of the delusion that they were going to carry me off in large pieces wherewith to gorge their infant.. The guides were bad enough, but the society of lamrserriers became extremely objectiremble, end se I shouted and waved my alpeneteek till they end sad their shadows disappeared.—Blockiroode Megnnse for January. ROYAL GOOORAPHICAL SOCISTY.—At the meeting i oe Monday next the following paper will be reed:—"Second Joersey into Wasters Bqoatotial Afrios. ° By IL P. B. des Chsills. MR. BRIGHT AT ROCHDALE. ROCIIDLLE. WZDIRUIAT EVllin3o. A public meeting for the purpose of discussing the goodies of parliamentary reform was held in the Theatre Royal of this town this evesing ; Mr. B. Brow, Mayor el Boolidate, to the chair. The theatre was densely crowded, amid maims those present epee the stage were Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., Mr. Alderman Ash worth, Mr. H. Befall, Mr. Alderman Heaps, Mr. Petrie, ha The CILUIMAX briefly opened the proceedings. He explained that the meeting had been warmed in pursuance of a requisition signed by nearly a thousand of the inhabi tants al the borough who were nodose to give *spondee to their Whop is regard to parliamentary reform beton the meeting of the new parliament. Mr. H. Biandx, with a few appropriate remarks moved the tint resolution, "That in the opinion of this mediae it is imperative on the present government to introduce a reform bill, is the approaching @amnion of parliament, which is its provisioos shall fully satiety the just expectations of the people." Mr. PIT= seconded the resolution, in supporting which, Mr. POTTIII, M.P., expressed his belief that it the liberals were sew united, a real measure of reform would be passed by thopreeent parliament. He entertained far 'rester hopes ben the ministry of Lord Russell than that el Lard Paltosesten, hat he should have bad eves more coafidesce is the mini movestest If the great leader el the reform party in lliigkad (Mr. Bright) now held a seat la the cabins!. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Hamar, M.P., ou Habig to support the resolutios was received with loud sod prolonged cheering. He com menced by alluding to the sadness with which he was filled by the recollection of speeches delivered there by Mr. Cobdse, and then proceeded to dines the subject of per. Ibunstitary retorm. Pointing out the wide difference between the present time and 1832, he expressed his belief that ft would be necessary aid advaatageons to proceed step by step. Ho was sot, fortunately, perhaps, as his hon. friend amid some of his ill-advind friends there would apparently have him, one of the ended sod sacred 'umber of the states MOD who were advisers of the Queen ; but still every honest man who stood before his oonotrymea to din sow intelligibly and hossetly public quettions was necessarily at the same time both an adviser of the Queeo and of the people ; end in that ehoractee he should urge that to give completion to the con stitution of this oiuntry no clam should be sr:eluded from the suffrage, the shelter of the ballot should be given, and • more equal distribution be made of parliamentary power in the distribution of the seats. The meet pressing of the three, however, was the question of the euffrsee,which wu a class grievance, and upon which public opinion was more snide up. A suffrage bill pure and simple was much more easy to carry through parlia ment than one proposing to &strewth's* 90 or 30 small boroughs ; while any distribution of seats you could now make must necessarily be trifling and nomtis [weary. This was the opinion he gave to the govern ment in 1859. The hoo. member then proceeded to show what aumerous classes of working men are excluded at present from the power of voting. He should not one plain of the goverament if they adhered to the proposition in the bill under Lord Aberdare' government that gave the borough framable, to •54 rating, which was nearly as possible a 61. rental, or in the bill of 1860, which proposed • recital franchise of 61. Still, if its were asked for his advice, he should say that the franchise which is established generally I. the corporations of Eng ird and Wales, namely, %leasehold suffrage, would be better. To 'dm% the great body of the people to the rank of citizens would create is them • feeling of wilf.respect. As to the county franchise, public opinion seemed to have decided that the occupation franchise shoed no tomer stop at 60/. rental. but be brought down to 101. This was proposed by Lord Derby, and how Gould he now have the face to oppose it? He should, therefore, propose to Moro the county franchise to 101., with the provision that so occupier at land should be onfrasehised limier it whose harms was sot of a certain real value—say, 61. The mod difficult part of the question was that of lodgers, who in Lon- don are so numerous. He thought that the govern ment, though he hoped their bill would be as simple as possible, would topsider whether some moderate rental and moderate residence might not be fixed so as to admit this class. If the bill failed parliament would certainly be immediately dissolved, but if it passed supposing it to be a purely suffrage bill, that step would not he at all necessary. The nee vote would not come on the register until August or September, and the register itself would not come into operation until next January. Parliament, therefore, might be allowed to retain inch an existence as the course of events may render proper. The more anlistantial danger in the way of the bill was whether the government would have the force and courage, the proli. fic energy, as Burke called it, necessary to make their bill an act of parliament. The prophesying Brahmins of Brooks's Club might foretell all porta of evils from the passing of the bill ; bat their counsels, if followed, would be perilous to the • government. Every opponent (continued the hon. member) of this measure will be emboldened, every conceited and treacherous foe will be stimulated to oppose this measure. The confidence of the people throughout the country,which is now healthy and growing, will be lost, and the end of the present government may be easily predicted. (Hear, beer.) There are two facts that have lately occurred which fill my mind with some apprehension. I hope they are accidents ) and exceptionaL Toone of them my hon. friend haaalready referred, namely, the question of what has been transacted in the island of Jamaica. I think I observe a deplorable feebleness in the oourse which hen been taken. Many of you have read the long despatch of I know not how many scores of paragophs sent home to the Culonial.offios by the governor of that unhappy island. I vesture to say that the very hour when that despatch was reed by the colonial minister be should have Leaned summon's fur • cabinet meeting, to take it into consideration ; but it appears that for *bout three weeks literally nothing passed before that great deputation waited no Mr. Cardwell, when he did sot feel himself able to tell them anything the government had done. They tell us that we are to wait. Well, Mr. Cardwell waited, and, apparently, nothing has come from bin waiting. I am told that one of the great actors in this great tragedy has come from Jamaica, has had an interview with members of the government, and that even he has nothing further to communicate. Theo what was the object of waiting? If facts were admitted, the illegal putting to death of subjects of the Queen and citizens of the empire was minutely and accurately deecribed by the very pen and hand of the governor himself. (Chong.) Nothing that he could say afterwsrds could nosey or undo that which had been said and done with re god to the execution of Mr. Gordon. I believe there is not • judge in this kingdom at this hour, there is not • law officer of the crown in the three kingdoms, there is not • lawyer in practice in the three kingdoms, who will differ from the opinion that I now express—that the execution of that unfortunate man Gordon was, in all its parts, in his transference from the place where he was arrested, is hie being handed over to a court formed (it is said) of two lieutenants and an ensign, or some such inferior officers, in the manner in which he was treated before that tribunal, In the manner in which he was treated after his : mock trial—l say, from the beginning to the end. it is • mass of illegality ; and I believe there ' is not a judge who sits upon the bench, in this United Kingdom, who, speaking in his private capacity, would doubt for • single moment that Gordon • was murdered. (Cheers.) You have all read that letter which he wrote to his wife within an hour of his execution. I know nothing in letter-writiog that surpasses it. When I read it my exclamation, my first thought was, why this reminds Ins of the temper and the language of the martyr Stephen ; and since that martyrdom I have read nothing in which the language and the temper were so beautiful as the expression contained in that melancholy and wonderful epistle. And yet I am told, I hope my authority is not good —that when parlismeot meets there will be a desperate cuelaught on Mr. Cardwell and the government because they have suspended the governor, and have sent out a commission of inquiry. One of these tory gentlemen said, " Aye, if soondho had been prime minister he would not have given way to the clamour of a hundred dimming per eons." (Derisive cheers.) I inlet believe that that patty which calls itself conservative will make this quashes of Jamaica a battle ground in the issuing stoics. Mr. Damn is a ass* a imsadimsdi &salamis Millar lima sII those who sit about him or follow him. in all intellectual saimmanship, and I do not and I will not believe, until I see it, that Mr. Disraeli will ever permit the shocking atrocities committed in Jamaica, or • defame of them, to be in any way smookted with his public character and weer. (Cheers.) Besides, suppose, which I should think highly probable, suppose that Mrs. Gordon were to retire from the island, so sad to her hmsoeforth, and some to England. &saw she came to the bar of the EOll/111 of Commons to ask for justice, is there any man in that house who dare get up to deny that judos to that woman ; aril she should make her way as • suppliant to the steps of the throne, that the widow of the murdered Gordon will ask in vain ter justice at the heads of England's widowed guess (Load cheers.) There la ~ne other fat which has given me some approbation also. It is said—sad I believe with truth that Lord Russell hi e asked Lord Stanley to join his government. Lord Stanley knows quite well that I shall asy nothing to depreciate him. He is informed moth abo►e the aver age public men, be is without union, he is impar tial, and in matters at least which do not masa his order he is liberal and just. In fact he is remaak•ble for nearly all those qualities is which Lord Derby te sin. gutsily deficient. (Laughter and cheers.) But it appears to me to be • Week* on the part of Lord Russell to seek strength from the opposition. Lord Palmerston did the same this,, but• without sweeps so far as muds Lead Stanley ; but Lord Palmerston thought every ma had his price. and that he knew his price. It was at likely that Lord Stanley, standing in the relation that he dose to the leader of the tory party, and bound up by political and personal emaciation with its leader in the House of Commons—it was folly to suppose that he would step from his old friends en that side and take his plea among their persistent opponents on this side ; but I complain of this, and I lament it, because it appears to me like a confession of maws. It appears es if Lord Russell acknowledged to the world that his weak party, as far as statesmanship was concerned, was nearly worn out. If it be so it must be by their own policy. It has been • complaint against them, as long as I have known any thing of them, that they have not acoursged young teen arable men, except just • few men of their own particular party, sad it is thus that they Dow God them. selves in great difficulty in filling up the offices of the government. Now, there are 360 liberals. it is said, in the present parliament, and yet it appears that Lord Russell and his colleagues cannot find one among them all who can josa him government, or who would be so advantegemui to it as some one—in this can Lord Stanley—from the opposition. Suppose that all the old whip— sod I do not speak of them without respect—be cense, in past times, the country has had great navies from many of them—but suppose the old whip were quietly deposited with all ;symbols of national respect in Westminster Abbey--(laughter)—does any man believe that you could not form a pveronseet out of these 360 mem hers of parliament ? (Cheers.) Switzerland forms administm- Mem and there is now a general admission in Europe that the United States even can produce statesmen. (Cheers and laughter.) If that be so, is it not within the bounds of probability or credibility, that out of the 360, or rather 354, for 6 of them are already in the cabinet— that out of the 364 who are not in the cabinet, a cabinet might be formed that would conduct the affairs of the country just as satisfactorily as the cabinet which now exists I say that this appears to me to be a symptom of weakness. I luosat it only on that ground, because I am quite of opinion that cabinets sometimes come to pieces or come to an end—just as the human system, without any specific complaint, except that which all the old women who look on say is • sort of weakness which they can't noderstad. (Laughter.) Now, I venture to say here that a greet deal depends upon Lord Russell himself. I lament deeply that Lord Russell is not at this moment a member of the House of Commons. I think in that house on this question of reform, he would have had much more in fluence than any other man can have, and infinitely more balance than he can have as a member of the House of Lords ; but unh►ppily he is in the House of Lords. Much, however, depends upon him, and I am not sure with regard to the measure which is oomiug that everything does not depend upon him. He m►y if he chooses gather fresh strength. If be looks to the ancestral voices which speak to him of the past, or if at times he seems to listerkta the memories of his future fame, he may draw an inspir►tion and • tire that will give him strength in this most critical period of his public career. There are times when what is called caution is feeblesueso and ruin ; there are times when the highest boldness is the highest prudence end the greatest wisdom. I believe this is a time when if Lord Russell will take up this question with the firmness; which distinguished him 30 years ago, and wall rely upon the good feeling, the good sense, and the generous support of parliament and the people, he will carry this measure to a triumphant success. (Chsers.) But two things are possible—l am not sure that they are not clear : one is, that if this question is treated with a feeble band the government will fall; and the other is, that if this government fall, presided over by the most eminent statesman now living of the whin party, we are likely to see the entire extinction of the whip as • govern log party in the affairs of this country. But whether the government are equal to the time or not, the cause which we espouse and which I am endeavouring to defend is nevertheless quite safe. (Cheers.) It has within it an indestructible life. Feebleness or treachery may retard it for a time, bat (scoot prevent its final and its early triumph. (Cheers.) There is in an old poem that I reed with great pleasure many years ago—the " Faerie Queens" —in which is a lime I think may teach us something in our present position :—" No fort is fencible. No wall is strong, but that continual battery may rive." I feel certain that thefort of selfishness and mosoply canard be held fo r ever, and that the walls of privilege cannot through all time resist the multitude that are gathering to the emelt. (Lond cheers.) le all the nations of the world at this day I believe the powers of good are gaining steadily on the powers of evil. I think it is eminently and happily so in this country. Let us take courage then. We are endea vouring by constitutional means to compass • great con stitutron►l end—to make the parliament not only the organ of the will, but the honest and faith ful guardian of the interests of all classes in the country. It is a great and able purpose which we have set ourselves to do, but it is • purpose which ascot tail if we are true; to it and to ourselves. (Loud and pro longed cheering, amid which Mr. Bright resumed his seat.) The resolution was unanimously adopted, as also was a petition praying for an amendment of the Reform dot, ►nd the proceedings termin►ted with a vote of thanks to the , mayor for presiding. • GREnswics MILAN Thu.—Captains of ships and others engaged in navigation are generally anxious with respect to obtaining the accurate Greenwich mean time. The following notice with respect to this subject WAS tester day leaned by Professor Airy, the Astronomer Royal : " Time Boll—Royal Signal 'tower. Deal—The ball will be raised half-mast high at a few minutes before one, nearly, and will be raised at the top three minutes before one nearly every day. It will be dropped by an instantaneous galvanic current from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, exactly at one. The time to be noted is the instant at which the ball begins to fall from the cross arms of the vane. If, in consequence of galvanic accident, the ball is dropped too late or too soon, a black gag will be hoisted, and will be raised till fifteen minutes before two tbe ball will again be dropped by bend at two. If the wi nd in very heavy tbe ball will not be raised. (Signed) G. B. AULT, Astronomer lionaL” Tim CULPRIT Romwsori. —Yesterday a memorial was being offers t foe signature to the ironmasten assembled on 'Charge io Wolverhampton, desiring the mitigation to confinement duiiog life of the young man Christopher Charles Robinson, who was sentenced to death at the last Staffordshire Anises for the murder of his sweetheart. The memorial prays that this alteration may take place upon the plea that the act was not premeditated, and was there fore unaceompanied with "malice aforethought." For murder unpremeditated, it shows the commiseionen upon capital punishment recommend that the punishment should be that which the memorialists now desire ; and inasmuch as this woad be the award of the judge is a @iodise we after the noommendations of the commis sioners have become law, the snemorialists ask in subetenee that legislation may be anticipated in Rebhan:oB'e ease. To day has bees appointed for receiving this menneial, with ens else from the marderseo relatives, sad ose with addi tional ssedisil evidence am to the isopposod state of his mud at the time that Its wrwinitttal the murder. WHERE ARE THE BUTCHERS' BILLS? [The following lettar appears fa the Daily Non :] Ba4—Will you allow me to suggest to the Earl of Wilton and to your eager contemporary, the Herald, who are raving at her Majesty's govern ment for having suspended Governor Eyre before the facts of the Jamaica case had been ascertained, in compliant* with the unreasonable demands of a faction at home--that it is most probable that the Secretary for the Colonies knows much more about tins Jamaica affair than he likes to tell. Since the mail which brought home Governor Eyre's despatch of the 20th October, two other mails hare arrived, which must each have brought further and more . complete official intelligence ; yet it has all been kept secret. It is fair to suppose that had it tended to place Governor Eyre's conduct in a better light it would have been published at once. The most striking point connected with the mis deeds of the negroes iu Jamaica is, that beyond the riot and massacre at Morant Bay—and two or three murders committed within forty-eight houe• of that deplorable event—we have no official, br indeed, other information of any murders, apes, abductions, or other outrages on the persona of the defenceless whites by the merciless insurgents. Mr. Cardwell must by this time be perfectly well • implaiatal witiatisesalest uf Absikeinis d *brit& snrrection, which we are :inured equal those of Meerut and Cawnpore ; why does he not specify them Why have we not a nominal list of the white men, women, and children murdered, wounded, and otherwise outraged 1 Why are those in this country who have relatives and friends in Jamaica thus kept in suspense ? Further—Why is no official information supplied of the number of *bootlegs, hangings, and floggings achieved by General Nelson and Colonels Hobbs and Fyfe—epecifyiug the number and sex of the persons (if any) shot, hung, or flogged without trial, and the number and sex of the persons (if any) flogged first and hanged afterwards ? Mr. Cardwell must klow well by this time whether such transactions took place or not ; if they did uot, and if he knows they did not, he can scarcely allow Governor Eyre's character to remain a moment longer than is necessary uuder the atrocious stain cast upon it by the colonial press, which distinctly states that such deeds were done by the military, naval, and volunteer forces with the approbation of Governor Eyre, Lastly, Mr. Cardwell must have ascertained by this time from the law officers of the Crown whether the transference of Gordon from Kingston to bio rant Bay, and his subsequent trial and execution, were legal or not. If the opinion of the law officers of the Crown is in favour of Governor Eyre, why is it not made public ? In his despatch of the 20th October, 1865, Go- vernor Eyre mainly attributes the rebellion to Dr. ljuilerhilla seditious letter. There can be little doubt that could be have laid his hands on Dr. Underhill at that time he would have packed him ofi as he did Gordon to the tender mercies of a Morant Bay court-martial, and that the doctor would have shared the fate of his coloured friend. But as Dr. Underhill haft happily lived to pub lish his letter, we now find that it was not a seditious letter at all, and that, moreover, it was a private letter, uLuocesearily published by Governor Eyre himself. These facts, I think, justify the public in doubting seriously Governor Eyre's temper and discretion, and in calling on Mr. Cardwell to lay before it the real facts of the Jamaica insurrection, as far as he knows them, without further delay. In plain English, we want the butchers' bills on both sides.—l am, dlc., ONE OF THE PUBLIC. A MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOL. -•- The Earl of Portsmouth mewls to the Times the report of as unofficial limpet:We of a middle-clue school at North Tantoo, North Devon, by Mr. Horace Waddington, out of her Majesty's iosprolots of schGols. There is comfortable accommodation for 14 hoarders. • schoolroom sufficient for more than 100 boys, and • clew room,'used also u a dieing hall for the boarders, besides the master's residence. 'the entire cost of the building was de frayed by subscriptions from almost everyone connected by property with the neighbourhood, churchmen and dissenters cordially uniting to further education on a comprehensive basis. The charges of 4/. per annum for day scholars and 201. per annum fur boarders (small as they are) have rendered the school self•supportiog from the com mencement. Mr. Waddington writes :—" Heading, writ ieg, and arithmetic are taught throughout the school with that accuracy and care which the real importance of throe elementary subject,' demands. The highest class evinced • decidedly eieduable acqumntance with grammar, geo graphy, and history, and last, not least, with religious knowledge. On this latter point I would specially re cord my malefaction with the efferte of the teacher sod the results on his scholars, who show that they have been effectively instructed in the Bible, not merely in its historical narrative, but also in the practical bearing of those great lesions of truth and piety which are more amply and more p•:caliarly inculcated in the New Testament ; and I lay the more Erma on this point., because in the North Tawton School has been tried the experiment—oos deserving of all imitation in or middle-class schools—the esperin.ent of receiving alike the sons of churchmen and ciaienters on a perfec'ly equal footing, and giving • saiind noo•eectarian education to all ; yet not surely, as some would call it, a merely mender land irreligious education bemuse non-sectarian. During the week the Bible is taught and explained to all alike, and in addition, the Lord's riayer, the Creed, the Ten Com mandments, and the duty to God and to your neighbour- On the Sunday those kurders whose parents are church• men an instructed in the whole Church Catechism by the master, Mr. Marsh, himself a churchman, while the system of weekly boarders enables Ciao thin:eters who live in the neighbourhood to have their own boys at home on that day. The liberality of this scheme is, in my own judgment, • legitimate, not a tpIItiOUJI liberality—moderate, not ex. ceseive, and I could heartily wish to see other middle-class schools springing up on the same enlightened and generous basis." PARLIAMENTARY RIFt,: M.—IEETINCI AT Non- WICII.-0a Tuesday evening tLe Nary icb Political Union held a cauference to consider the present position of the parliamentary reform question. Mr. C. J. Booting presided. Mr. J. H. Tdlett, the leader of the local liberals, addressed the meeting at some lengtn, arguing that the aggregate wealth of the working claims w.O greater than that of the peerage. He also alluded to the law of settlement, as showing that the working cluster could not obtain fair and equal legislation. He further referred to the gams laws and the unfair distribution of Belts amore the constituencies. He then argued that the qua:dream' n for the fraoehise should be lowered, at as to bring it within the reach of every helm trious working man. Coon the subject of the unequal distribution of seats Mr. Taints Bbngted that Lancashire and Yorkshire, with • population of several millioon, re turned et members: while lelJ 00 , 1 " ) In the rural districts returned as many. Other speakers followed. and resolutions were adopted to the effect that the anticipated introduction of • reform bill in the ensoing session by her Majesty's ministers renders it desirable that all sections of reformers should unite for the purpose of et curie: such a measure as will ensure to the working classes • fair share io the repre sentation of the country ; and th"t the meeting desired to expreka its earnest hope and eonvictine that the govern ment, is dealing with the great question of suffrage extension, would aim at the adoption of such • reform bill as would plies the elective franchise within the reach of every intelbgent and industrious working man. It was coositered invidious to name Earl Rouen and Mr. Gladstone especially, as bad been at first proposed, as it wen believed that other trienibers of the go vernment were also friendly to reserni. 34r. Tillett said he bad reason so know that Mr. Gladstone, ie dealing with the question, would go as far es he could, and that reformers were perfectly safe in his hand., as he would make the working classes • respected power in the state. It was ne cessary, however, that be should be properly supported. It was decided to bold a large ',Aire niceting on the subject as soon es possible at Norwich. and the chairman was in structed to write to Manchetter and to London to secure the presence, if possible, of some distinguished advocates.' reform. A committee was nominated to carry ont the in tended demonstration, sad the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. • IRON SHIP-BUILDING AT LlVERPOOL—Yesterday Measly. T. Vernon and Sots, of &anemias, lauoched a Iles kw ship, which Las been built for Mr. W. H. / c liz sa m of Liverpool. The ship is 1,33 h tons register, sod A A 1 at Lloyd's. Ou the Ist Mears. Vireos Lunched a large ship called the Cape Clear, and they have mow three other reseals io mune of oesetruetioe.