The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-27 00:00:00

BROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDBIMI To obtain mire Watt by the sale other binds ere sometimes eared Instead of SZOWN and YOLSOWS. John brown," " John Polson." ts dined by WI make" oo °Kb Peck"' Ite erVrefiO. 'TO CORRESPONDENTS. kdvevilsesteeta Intended foe " The lipthee," London P.'venhog Paw, mast be at the Moe, 10, Bouthrioatreet, by Two o'clock on the dm of pablicatka. DRURY LANE. Sole lessee and =war, Mr. F. B. Cluitterton. Tsui Eve!lmo, A DAY AFTER THE WPMDINC —To con clude with the Pantomime, NUMBER NIP. Mesdames Lydia Thompson, Hudspeth, Bodenham, Seymour, thirdonni, and H. Vandenhod ; Messrs, Tom Matthews, hereby. Clifton, Mester Percy Roselle, Bolen Lauri, Cormack, Saville, Morris, Hale. Bolen°, and Marion. —To commence at 7. _ WAYMIRRET. VII 9 Berman, A MERE CHILD. Messrs. Howe, Gordon, White, /to. Mesdames Chippendle, Fitswilliam, Law'. Pim ell, dte.—A LESSON FOIL - LIFE. Mr. Sothern.- JENNY D AT LAST. Mies Barke.—And the BALLET. Mdlle.Septna. _ nuarcasrs. 'nue Imam, BARNABY MIDGE. Messrs. 8. Calhsem, JP. Wilms, J.o.Bbore, and 0 Honey - Wales Augusts IR-m -oon and Katherine Rodgers, Mrs H. Vining, and lan. C. Hors ms THE INVISIBLE. PRINCE LLCM: M. TM SWIM°, THE TWO POLTS. Mr. Vitddlcomb. —And ROUGE ET NOIR. Me ws. Fechter, Killen, Cowper. Moreland, Fitzpatrick. Dalton, Reynolds, Loinaa, Andrew an d CC. LeAcrenerson. ; Mrs. L. Murray, an d Misses Remade, Grattan,. -- Ernuar. Ting Immo, NEIGHBOURS DAttl be AprodTHE uced a Grand Burleague, GUY FAWKES.—ARd BO er which wilOT T SWAN.----------- HOLBORN. THIS Evvrnia, 'MY TI'RN NEXT. Mr. Be'more; Woes Foote and Lennot.—And FLYING sCED. Messrs. Neville, Bel more, Btake, YoHaire, &c. : Mesdames r. Josephs, C. su n ders, Bessie Foote, Made', Leonoz, Raymond, Re. --- BRITANNIA. THIS ETIDoso, THE PRINCESS OF THE PEARL ISLAND: oR, THE THREE KINUUO OF PEARL, GOLD, AND SILVER. Um Lase and Mile Jacubs.—Finit-rate Pantouilmlats. ~And THE SKELETON CREW. man WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 14m. TWO DDS —orning. th. slot..”..Afternoon. 66. TO-tiontoW—Yorning, Oh. W.na ...... Afterno on . 76. 2m. LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27. -----___ circumstances in the money market which had in. duped the Anglo-Italian Bank, as a measure o f prudence, to contract its business during the past financial crisis. I conclude by prov iding your readers with food for a laugh. At the last sitting of the Chamber here certain members sent in their resignation et I their seats. It would seem that this measure is expected to be ?noticed, so one gentleman states that " various small irregularities of health have tor mented him ever since last June, to which is w ow added a cold !" while another hon. member declares that "the occupations of the Chamber disturb the functions of his digestion !" ROME. (rams one smut. coaarmrotromrr.) ROME, Dec. 22. When one finds it gravely stated in the Gtc.e , tug di Milano that the elcders still continues its rarer" at Rome ; in the bazione of Florence, that the Roman streets are crowded with disguised, and the convents with tuuliaguised, brigands ; in the &ado of Milan, that " the Roman people are iu a state of supreme exaltation," after one hs spent a whole fortnight in a fruitless search for a corroboration o f a ny one of these phenomena, o ne cannot but agree with that truly humorous journal, the Osseteators Romano, that to the Roman correspondents of the Italian newspapers must be given a miraculous power of seeing and hearing things which am effectually hidden from ordinary mortals. The f ar t is that there has not been a single case of cholerain Rome, and that the attitude of the Roman people continues calm and undemonstrative to a degree a l. culated to drive correspondents craving for incident wherewith to supply the demand of newspaper readers for sensational matter to a state bordering on despair. When one came to Rome on a more or less distinct understanding that one would find the Roman people ready to go off, like a firework, at any moment after the departure of the Frelich, it surely will amount to something like breach of contract if Christmas and the carnival are allowed to go by without an explosion. It is a fact, melan choly perhaps in so far as it upsets all the precon ceived theories and prophecies on the subject, but none the less true, that you may walk the Roman streets from morning till night without witnessing any case of insolent treatment of the natives by the Papal mereenaries, on the one hand, or any altercation between tho Zuuaves or Antibes Legionaries on the other. Week by week the notice taken of the Pope by his subjects is gradually getting less and less, and the cheering which greets his successive appear. ances in public is becoming so feelde that it bids fair to die out altogether before the arrival of the new year. On Monday last, in spite .d the employ ment of the usual appliances to stimulate it, the cheer, which should have been raised as the Holy Father got into his state coach at the door of the c h u rch of tho Capuchins at the conclusion of the ceremony of proclaiming the approaching canoniza tion of a new saint, was positively still-born, the half-dozen persona, on whose tongues it rose for an instant being frightened into silence at the sound of their own voices in the midst of the general silence. On that occasion, by the side of the usual pair of Swiss giants in motley, stood proudly leaning on his halbert a very small boy, whose dr.:ss, con sisting of a brazen helmet with white plume, black, red, and yellow tunic, and black and red hose, w-as the exact counterpart of theirs. The small boy was not, as was generally supposed. the offspring of either of the giants, look as he might a chip of those blocks, but belonged to a lady in mourning, who stood behind him, and who was bent upon publicly dedicating her child to the Holy Father. Inexor able, however, was the master of the ceremonies on the occasion, an d —unwisely as it [teemed to me— n- s t ea dily refused to gratify the whim of the u happy woman, who might so easily have been sent to her home rejoicing. When the Holy Father made his appearance on the steps of the church. it was of course necessary to remove one's hat fur a few moments, but the act of doing so wa s almost enough to give one a s un-stroke, with such extraorainary fierceness wa sl s the noonday sun blazing , as if it had been b into a redder heat than usual by the blast of the piercing " Tramontana," which rose to a gale in the afternoon. Luckily for him, the Holy Father, who wore no other headgear than a small skullcap, was provided with a huge red umbrella, which was held over him to shelter hint front the sun. It is not often that the Romans experience rails a gale of wind as swept over the city on Monday afternoon. That graceful weeping willow-like pe pper tree, which so many travellers will rarancebyemem ber as presenting such an attractive appe the entrance of the Hotel d'Augleturre, was blown down with a crash, and everything presenting • broadside to the wind, including the broad-brimmed bats of the Roman ecclesiastics, who carry a vast amount of sail on their heads, had a very trying time of it. The narrow Roman streets, and the suburban roads, which, shut in between lofty walls, lead to the Campagna, were converted int ough 1 o many pneumatic desp atch tubes. Alth the last few days the brilliancy of the weather has been extraordinary, and there has hardly been • hour in the twe nt y -four during which yes cou ld not see to read either b y sun by moonlight, I can haraly conceive wh any climate more trying than that of Rome the Tramontana is blowing and the sun shining. Nothing can exceed the beauty of it ; but it is m to sound ridiculous t o hear pe,Tle who h caught bad colds in visiting the Colosseum: moonlight, or lost their voices by any other similar i m p ru dence, croak out , whot you meet thew, " What lovely weather this is As for Signor Tonello, Isis preser.ze here is lutely ignored by the Roman papers, winch full of what is going on at Madrid or i Mel n but give wonderfully little info:mallet' about I which concern us more nearly. Although the number of 'visitors is steal the increase, Rome is still deciaedly eturtY, , s there is still almost as gr eat a of lodging a watering-place out of the season. CotuL Ftslicia;.—Coral fishing is earrit at different points of the basin of the :Mediterranean. French have, have, from time immemorial, ilea oted theowt/ to this industry on the shores of Algeria. The "_r. procured on the coasts of Sardinia grows more tertian in the depths of Carloforte, of the Alghero. At the latter 'dace, where the set vegetation in question is most abundant, the total. D t , ber of vessels engaged in the fishery cannot be ere oo 7, at fewer than 2110, of which are Ncipolitsg, Tuscan, and 20 Sardin;an, planned by 1,930 men. The ar,e' commences each year iu March and ends. Oetober. value of the coral exported annually is l,:e 10 , 001gr • tse lls at 'a.te. pale pink kind , whic h is most esteemed, high price ; this is a matter of fancy and of rare beauty, weighing nine oun ces, WAS for 2,0001 r. The ordinary price is GOOfr. the kilt Red coral is worth 150 fr. ; the white, which is vi deteriorated by per f ora tions mule by worm", iiofr. Corals of all kinds are for the molt putoinia Torre del Greco, near Naples. The Sard Tuscans forward the produce of their fishery tom Leghorn. From the 1,500 ,000 fr. m ention s 1,170,000 fr. must be deducted t o cover expense remains therefore a net profit of 330,x*, to be a mong the few employer s who are at the be fishery. 1 1. ; 1., ; 11 i' , 1 is .1 1 I 1 i; 1 . i ' l l 4 1 . 1 ' \, 'l'' '1; . , i 1 1 1 1; i it ; 1 1 1 ; 1 1 1 d \ . THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1866. ing-house the failure to answer lettere, or to fulfil orders, for a day, may sometimes be of still more material detriment. There is, therefore, a reel sacrifice made, which may AO be more than can possibly be covered by the saving of wages, even when these are deducted for the day. But a wise and generous foresight can perceive a larger bene fit, that brings an ultimate and indirect reward. The mutual kindness that binds together every class, the better health that enables better service mind that brings to be given, the more c ultivated n ew faculties into exercise, all these influences are the final guerdon of the present sacrifice which employers make in granting to those in their em ployment an ampler leisure, or an occasional entire relief from toil. And as the custom gains a fuller recognition there will be the fewer draw backs attending it. When the public quite understands that at certain seasons no business is to be done, it will cease to expect any, and no inconvenience will follo for. w Andfrom a neglect that is foreseen and provided , on the other hand, when a holiday can be looked forward to with certainty, it is likely to be em ployed more beneficially than when it comes only by a species of fortuitous and sudden agreement. By-aud-bye we shall reach by mutual concession a point at which arrangements may be made on a more definite basis. At present, the question is in its most trying, because a transition stage. OUR CONTEMPORARIES• (THIS DAY.) THE OCEAN YACHT RACY. The Times regards the above remarkable race, in which for a prize of 18,0001. three yachts have just crossed the ocean from New York to Cowes in a space of time which would have been fair even for a power f u l steamed, as express ive of a spirit which has been remarked for some time past as o n the i ncrea se in the states. The Americans are fast b eco ming • sporting peop le, and as they ar e ad venturous, famine, fond of excitement, persevering, and acute, they have all the qualities of sportsmen. What they can accompli sh as well as design this very yacht race proves. There is, indeed, no other such match on record. Some of our own merchantmen have occasionally ra ced aga i n st each other from Chi na to England, but theseere large clipper ships striving to get a few hours' start in the way of business. It was reserved far the Americans to send three yachts to do in the Atlantic what is usually done in the smooth waters of an inland sea, and to carry on a race of this kind, not for few hours, but for a whole fortnight , through night and day. The success, however, of the Henrietta is as complete as that of the America a few years ago, and far ir.t.re surprising. Perhaps the comforts of these vessels might not be exactly suited to our tastes, but they teach us something never theless. It is well for progress that there is a nation which knows no trammels of routine and sin inks from no experiment, however hazardous or audacious. The Herald suggests that possibly a return match may be arranged, in which an English sail may be hoisted against the winner, with every prospect of • fair trial of seamanship and speed. THE passengers in the London streets yesterday could not fail to be struck by the unusual aspect they presented. While the traffic was th holi- at of an o rdinary week day —au g mented only by the day crowds of Boxing-day, a full half of the shops in the principal thoroughfares were closed. Busi ness in many of the great warehouses, counting houses, and offices, was also suspended. It was in fact a partial holiday, though neither a Sunday nor one of our religious festivals, and it was not the only week day thus observed, for Monday had been also, though to a smaller extent, similarly dedicated to recreation. This addition of a day to the recognised and semi-sacred holiday of Christmas is a very m odern innovation. It is only some dozen years back that, on occasion of Christmas -day falling on a Friday or a Monday, the suggestion was first made that the half-holiday of Saturday might be made into a full one to afford a larger relaxation. The example thus set has been improved upon, until now it is almost recognised that on whatever day of the week the church festival falls, ono day of secular recreation should be added to it. And, 1 1 indeed, there are symptoms that the principle 1 , may, in no long ti me, be extended, so as to give a complete triduum of relief front toil. Such is the history, as wo can all at present recall it, of an innovation which, perhaps, in a few years more, will grow so established in our practice, that people will look back with something of surprise when the fact is suggested that till the middle of the nineteenth century Englishmen observed but one day's holiday at Christmastide. But, indeed, the innovation is only ono symptom of a growing tendency. Tho Saturday half -holiday is itself a scarce folly won institution, and it dates only from the commemement of the Volunteer movement. The same stimulant has strengthened the liberty claimed from the chains of business on Easter Monday. In many provincial towns a whole summer day is selected by general consent to be devoted to holiday Makin„ without reference to any season of the Church Calendar. Some m anufacturers, in like manner, give to the hands in their employ a full holiday ~nee a year. Efforts again are being made in almost every branch of labour to shorten the number of !lours included in each day's work. Some strikes have had that object for their motive. In other cases it is the subject of mutual arrange ment between employers and employed ; in others, the public is entreated by both parties to render it possible by limiting their demands to certain hours. All these accumulated evidences show that there is a very strong inclination working in the minds of every class to restrict the ixirital of labour, and to increase the acknowledged periods of absolute rest or recreation. With such an inclination, kept of course within the bounds of reason and practical convenience, all thinking mm must concur. The liberty gained may of course , like every good thing in the world, be sometimes used unworthily. To certain indi viduals Sunday is only an opportunity for getting drunk or doing worse, and Christ mas-day, as many among ua can testify, is to a considerable extent a day for incurring the subse meat pains and penalties of in digestion. But the old caution is needed, that we must not argue from the abuse against tho mode rate use. And it is something that this increased demand for leisure coincides with an increasing tendency to resort to intellectual rather than animal recreations. Books multiply every year in arithmetical progression, and if nine-tenths of them are trash, and some of them unwholesome trash, they are at least better than dram -drinking and dog-fighting. Libraries multiply, penny readings attract, newspapers attain unprecedented circula tion. At the same time some of our grosser vices hide themselves away. To be tipsy is now a dis -ace where it was formerly a credit, swearing and fling went out of fashion together within the tory of the present generation. We are bad tgh yet as a nation in all conscience, there is at least a healthier public Union which boldly denounces our badness, makes it sometimes ashamed of itself. ld the tendency to gain more time from work purposes of recreation must, on the whole, be salutary movement when we find that the re creations have at the same time a tendency to aw less brutal, awl by stages, however disap intingly slow, to become more moral as well as ire intellectual. There is also some material for happy augury in se readiness with which the desires of the am toyed have been acceded to by employers. I some cases the liberality has been carried so far to grant the holiday without reduction of the pay. This is perhaps as kind a form as benevo ewe and good feeling can in such relations assume. But even where the day's wages have lot been allowed, there must in moat cases be a rood deal of inconvenience and some loss. To stop business for au entire day cannot but be attended with a certain degree of dislocation of profits. In a shop, for example, it is by no means certain that the intending purchaser of to-day may not have become a more prudent man by to-morrow ; and in a count- LORD DUFFERIN AND IRlsal EMIGRATION. Though Lord Dutferin is capable of something better than supplying the House of Commons with plausible excuses for refusing to entertain the Irish pies. tion, the Daily Neri fears that this is all his letters will accomplish. The point is not whether emi gration under present circumstances is a necessity, but how to alter the circumstances which make the depopula tion of Ireland a condition of its well-being. Lord Duf ferin treats the existing arrangements of Irish society as if they were without cause in the past as well as without remedy in the future. When he deals with the effect of the legalised injustice of Irish Landlords in producing emigration, he is satisfied with reasons which explain only so much of that emigration as 18 not exceptional—as does not exceed the British and German parallels. He takes no account, again, in discuss ing the result of evictions, of emigrants who are driven away by the general sense of insecurity which those evic tions produce. As to his figures respecting the number of occupying farmers, it appears in reality that the increase between IS-11 and 18411 in the number of farms above 15 acres is due to a much larger decrease in the number of farms of less than that extent. On the whole, there were not, as Lord Dutferin contends, 110,000 more, hut 120,00 fewer occupiers in 1801 than in ISI1 — the dispossessed belonging to the class of tenants holding under 15 acres, twice as much as the average quantity of land held by the farmers of Belgium and the Channel Islands, of whom Lord Dufferin appears never to have heard. Trying everything by the test of present circurn. stances an•l'lluitish analogies, he gains au easy victory over imaginary or incautious opponents, hut one which was scarcely worth the winning. When the day comes for a settlement it must be hued on larger inductions, and will include wider issues than Lord Dufferin has thought it necessary to comprehend in his survey. His lordship ia fond of speaking of the ownership of land as a trade or profession, but the laws of entail, primo geniture, and settlement withdraw land from the ordinary operations of commerce, and tend to accumulate it in a few hands, If he is not prepared to advocate the aboli tion of these laws he shifts from the principles of mono poly to those of free trade, as either serves his purpose, and tries to enjoy the advantages at once of protection and of open competition. The Star thinks Lord Dufferin is far too genial ant balmy a politician for these grins and harsh realities. lie is bewildering himself and trying to bewilder us to no purpose. Can he tell us why Ireland is not able to main tain even in semi - starvat ion a population not nearly so dense—nay, not half so dense—as that which Belgium maintains in comfor t and happiness! Can be tell us why Saxony, and Baden, and Wurtetuberg, and Northern Italy, and many places not at all blessed with any specially favourable conditions of soil or climate, are able to maintain a mach denser population than Ireland! There must be some cause for this, and one would like, if Lord Dufferin will discuss so ungenial a question, to hear what he thinks the cause is. Perhaps, if he persists in discussing the subject, in a third letter he will frankly confront the fact that thennditin of Ireland is not perfectly satisfactory, and attempt to conjecture the reason why. portal d es ign al Inviting his subjects to a share of his re- ' spetwitility is reorganising his kingdom. If they eau [ 'Weed be egrodeg, his ta sk will be wiledperform ; justified. if they sun differ l es p e lsoly, his past absolutism e Vie Court. --.-- OSBORNE, Dm S. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Prince and Princess Christian ; and her Majesty, accom panied by the Princess, drove out this morning, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Princess Louise drove out this morning, and of Prince Leo ssia - pold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry Pru. walked in the grounds. Prince Christian rode this morning, attended by Major . General F. H. Seymour. Prince Arthur left Osborne to-day for Greenwich -park, attended by Major Elphinstone. On Friday and Saturday last, the 21st and 22nd inst., and on Monday, the '.'.4th inst., the Royal Bounty and Royal Gate Alms, to aged persons, blind, paralysed, and other meritorious poor, who bad been selected by the Lord High Almoner and by the Sub-Almoner from persons who had been previously recommended by the clergy oft e various parishes in and round London, were distributed at the Altnonry-office in Scotland-yard, and on Wednesday, the %th instant, the payment was resumed. The number of persons relieved exceeded 1,000. The distributions were made—under the directing care of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner, and the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Sub-Almoner —by Joseph Hanby, Esq., Secretary and Yeoman of her Majesty's Almonry in Ordinary. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonia l-office to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong- Kong, Labuau, the Australian Colonies, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and Gibraltar. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge dined with the duchess, his mother, and the Prince and Princess of Teck, at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, enTuesday. The Earl Howe is more seriously ill than many of his friends are awaie. The earl is suffering from sup pressed gout, and much anxiety is consequently enter tained by his friends. Mr. Gladstone has now regained his accustomed h e alth, and will shortly leave Rome upon his homewar and d journey. The Duke a nd Duchess of Argyll and Ur. Mrs. Cardwell are still in Rome. The Premier Duke of England, Henry Duke of Norfolk, and Earl Marshal, completes his lath year to-day. Some important changes are to be made in his grace's pro perty when be attains his majority in Vbs. THE OCEAN YACHT RACE. (BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (PROM ern OWN CORRITSPOIMENT.) SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, Mr. Bennett, the owner of the winning American yacht Henrietta, came up here yesterday, and after 'visiting the United States consul proceeded to London. He returns to-night to Cowes to dine with the members of the Royal Southern Yacht Club. The crews of each yacht numbered upwards of twenty men. The six men lost from the Fleetwing were standing on the quarter-deck smoking, and laughing and talking, when they were washed overboard. The yacht hove to im mediately, but no sign of the men could be seen. Some of them are married men. Great numbers of perso ns have gone to the Isle of Wight to see the yachts. If there is a race be tween the American and English yachts the stakes i will be advanced to 20,0001. COMMENIAITUTIOV.L TRAV.-LLER" BENE DA VOLENT INST-(THIS Y). The ordinary half-yearly meeting and election of the above iustitution was held this day at the London Tavern ; Mr. WS oN LS in the chair. Mr. liaises, the secretary, read the report of the com mittee of management,which stated that the , towingceipts for the past year limounted to 2.21i.V. :faban in crease of :t•idt. over lti;., and r',oo/. over those of ;but of the receipts the sum of 37.0/. was invested, raising the funded property to 6,6110/. Including the amount in vested in Union Bank shares, the entire reserve fund now ammuts to ;,-littV. There were live candidates for an nuities, three of whom wt re to be elected this day. The 37 pensioners who will this day be upon the funds de pend almost entirely upon the benevolent exertions of the subscribers. The report concluded by an earnest appeal to all conirnercial travellers to rally round the institution that the managers might be able more widely to extend its benefits. The Cu I Russ moved the adoption of the report, which was duly seconded and adopted. Mr. CilEUElf then moved a resolution that in June ItOl7 the amount of annuities paid to members s hould to ould be raised from 40 /. t o ;Al. per annum, and widows of deceased members from 270. to :it/. per annum. lie strongly enforced the resolution, which co state uld be safely adopted conseq uent upon the flourishing of the hinds. Their income WAS now upwards of 2,000/. per a nnum, while the cost of the p ensioners now on the fluids was 1,W4/., therefore there was an ample margin for the increase proposed by his resolution. Mr. J t.): Eh seconded the resolution, which he said had the entire concurrence of every member of the board of management. The resolution would be retrospective. After some discussion the resolution was adopted, and the committee and other officers ha , Mg been apPointed for the ensuing year, the prueeedings concluded witlf a vute of thanks to the Chairman. Sir Francis H. Doyle, late fellow of All Souls is a candidate for the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford, which will be vacant next Easter Term. A stained glass window has been erected in Kingsworthy Church, Hampshire, to the memory of the late Lord Northbrook. The following in the inscription: "This window is dedica ted b y the people of Kings worthy to the memory of the Right Hon. Francis Thorn hill, first Lord Northbrook, of Stratton, in grateful ac knowledgment of his generous benefactions in the parish, and in the hope of perpetuating the influence of his pious and beneficent example. lie was born April 20, 1796, and died Sept. ti, 18fiti." A new church is to be consecrated at Stock bridge. Hants, by the Bishop of Winchester, on Saturday next. In the list of persons just decorated in France with the military medal of the Legion of Honour there are ten veterans who have been allowed to reach the very verge of existence before obtaining this dis tinction. They are as follows :—Cremieux, aged 90, wounded in the Spanish campaign in 1812 ; David, 88, wounded also in Spain ; Valliant, 87, his left arm taken off by a cannon ball at the battle of Eylau ; Heerlen, 82 ; Vast, 82, lost bin right arm in action ; Witmer, 79 ; Gal. lerne, 83 ; Dominique, 85, wounded in Calabria ; Flenri court, 82 ; and Pari:re, 79. In spite of their great age, their wounds, and the fatigues through which those old soldiers passed, they are in excellent health. The senior of the Invalidea is an old soldier named Magnanas, aged 94; years. He lost his left leg so far back as the year XIII. (1894), and it was only on the 31st of December, 1864, that he got his cross. MR. KENDALL, M.P., AND MR. BRIGHT.—Mr. N. by one Kend ofall, his M.l'. constituent oras , Mr. W. t Cornwall, has orthy, H been irterro of gated . N St. Columh, concerning some remarks which the hon. gentle man made concerning Mr. Bright at the recent agricul tural dinner at Callington. Mr. Kendall says he has not read the report of the speech to which Mr. Northy re ferred, but adds :—" If you wish to hear precisely what I have to say about Mr. Bright, I think you will soon have an opportunity, as I intend to speak freely about him whenever I have an occasion. Or if your wish is to have my opinion of your friend in writing, I beg to say I believe him to be the moat disloyal, the most mischie vous, and the most dishonest member that the House of Commons has seen for the last half-century."— Western M•rning News. CHRISTMAS BENEVOLENCE IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. —Sir John Simeon, Bart., 31. P., gave 10 score of mime ox beef to the poor of the parish of Calborne. Mr. Seely, M.l'., gave 1 01 be. of m eat, with flour, plums, sugar, and tea to each poor family of Brook, where Garibaldi resided while staying in the island. Sir H. P. Gordon. gave beef and fruit to each poor family in Shorwell. Mr. J. Jolliffe gave ox beef to the labourers on theroast Yafford Estate. Sir Henry Ogla nder gave a dinner of beef and plum pudding to the National School children at Brading. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The Times contrasts the autocratic policy which Russ'a has suddenly adopted towanls the Roman catholics of the empire—the Czar determining to be his own Pope, and straining every nerve to bring into the or thodox church the catholic portion of his subjects — with the diametrically opposite course which Italy is for the moment proposing to follow, in ceding all the rights hitherto exercised by the Sovereign over the clergy, and offering to the court of Rome a compact upon the broadest principle of a free church in a free state. Baron Ricasoli's letter, which appeared in last night's E.: prass, strikes the Times as a perfect phenomenon in Italy, even in the latter end of the nineteenth century, and it hints that some preliminary work may be required before church and state in Italy can fairly run their race of freedom. In order that the state may hold its own against the church, en immense reduction must take place in that wealth and in those numbers which give the latter its overwhelming strength. The mere attempt to organise Italy, in religious matters, on conditions somewhat analo gous to those in which most of the Transalpine nations have long been placed, would be tantamount to a com plete social revolution. The courtesy which characterised the speeches made at the reception of the new American minister at Paris, not withstanding the serious nature of the difference which has existed between the two States, is. observes the Dail y Nero, a piece of political calculation in entire harmony with the conduct of the two parties from the beginning of their embroilment until now. Each power has steadily pursued ends antagonistic to those of the other, without once permitting itself to be betrayed into those expres sions of feeling which generally only serve to embarrass the policy or position which they emphasise. The Herald hails with much satisfaction the report that the Emperor of Austria is going to convoke a sort of Con. stituent Assembly in which each nationality in the empire is to be duly represented. Nobody can object to the l im b LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CHINA AND JAPAN. THE TRENCH EXPEDITION TO THE COREA. The Chug' Mail of Nov. 15 states that the flew' of the burning of t he General Sherman American schooner by the Coreans and the consequent death of all on board is oonfirmed. P assengers and crew we re tied on their b er ths and burned with the EXI--C--B.ESS FROM PARIS. - Molt 01111 OWN 00101ii5a,......_ PARIS. Wzrarisaux Emma. The Emperor will preside to-morrow at a meet ing of the Council of State, to consider the plan for the reorganisation of the army in its ensemble. Senator Gueronniere's journal, La France, takes upon itself to say that the original pro ject has undergone " profound modifica tions." It is very doubtful what this may mean. I am afraid it only signifies exten sive verbal changes, which will makeh nomeasu essen tial difference in the vicious parts of te re. So long as t he g overnment, no matter i n what form, asks for more men and more the coo money, so long will the just dissatisfaction ofcountry increase, and so long w ill the suspic ion of foreign coun tries of the Emperor's designs con date just t i nue . M. Sens, the gove rnme nt candi tell e elected in the Pa s de Calais, was forced to constituency, in his last address, that he thought the project put forth in the Ifoniteur susceptible of " profound modifications" —the very expressicu now used by La France. But M. Sens, when he talks of augmenting the army without materially altering the present figure of the contingents, merely paro dies the celebra t e d manifesto of a can didate who went in for "dear corn and cheap bread." A commuueque to the Opinion Nationale denies the truth of the report that Lieutenant Lannes de Montebello had been struck or in any way as saulted by his captain. Thus falls to the ground the principal reas on which had led the public to doubt on the complaint of the Duke de Montebello whether injustice had not been done to his son. The official communication rther says that a lth oug h the maritime prefect o fu f Toulon was in formed so long ago as April 18 that Lieutenant Montebello had in no way been insulted by his captain, and that a court-martial on the latter was refused, it was not till Nov. 20 that Lieut. L n, aunesiode Montebello had thought fit to resign his commiss for which step h e g ave at the time no reasons. In this state of things it will be difficult for üb the young lieutenant to p rove that his father, in p licly interfering on his behalf, was not actuated by an expectation that his name and rank woulisedd ovaer ride the ordinary cou rse of justice as practt the Ministry of Marine. Prince Mette r nich, who, according to some news mongers, was to make a long stay in Vienna, and perhaps become Minister of Foreign Affairs in Austria on the basis of a French alliance, will, I understand, return to his post in Paris in time for the New-Year's receptions. The Bourse was very firm. Bente rose 25c., both for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 75c. and 69fr. 72ic. Credit Mobilier is recovering, and rose 18f r. 75c. ship. Th e French fleet, consisting of one frig ate, three corvettes, and four gunboats, left for Cores on the 11th of October, and on the 15th entered the town of Kanghoa, some distance up a river, described as a small place of only 10,000 inhabi tants, nearly all of whom deserted the town on the French approach. The fact of the murder of the missionaries is fully admitted by the Core,ans, and a mandarin who was captured an d taken on board t h e admiral's ship se emed to glory i n the fact. The Kin to invited the French adm iral to proceedto the capital nego tiate ; but this was vase,declin as a trap was sus p e cted, and a despatch sent i ns tead, in un i s hment of the w hich demands wer e made for p mandarins who had instigated the murders for the apoin tment of a plenipotentiary. a nd had been brought to the French by a Corean con vert that junks containing stones had been sunk in the river Seoul, between Kanghoa, and the capital ; and that the Viceroy had despatched an army of 15,000 strong to attack them. The Seoul is officially declared under blockade by the French. There is not much news from Japan. The new Tycoon is desirous of peace, and the war in the south is suspended. Subjoined is the official notification of the death of the late Tycoon. It is curious as an illustration of Japanese ceremonials. tha t Ja i Time, from which we copy it, remarks that e orders to the public would seem to imply that disturbances were feared." Kubosama having fallen sick, and the remedies used having failed of success, he departed this life at Osaka, on the 2.9 th August, at C, o'clock in the morning, ; all building and use of m usical instruments are therefore to be intro rnitted. Shotsubsahi Chiunagon, who had previously been appointed heir, is Irons the Tith August styled I'yesama. This decree having been issued, you will take note thereof, and communicate it to all householders office, with out exception. Give n at the government Tobe. lu consequence of the intromission thus decreed, the wargates will be, shut from 6 o'clock in the evening, and the side gates will be left open for pas sengers. The nanushi and landlords will patrol day and night. In unoccupied lands, sud where there exist no war gates, such are to be provided at once. In all the streets the shop curtains are to be taken down, the shutters on the left and right to be let down, and perfect order to be kept. In the iands held of the go vernnient,waterbuc kets, numbers corresponding to the length of frontage, are to be where busine es placed before the houses. Bath houses, me di ca l and mil. nary, buckwheat sh o p s and other places, requiring large fires is carried on, must close at 6 o'clock in the evening. Fights, quarrels, and other noisy proceedings must be carefully avoided. The above orders wavi n g b e n issued you are requ ested to a ffi x your seal in ackg ment and return the circular after it has gone the round. October 5, 6 p.m. (REUTER'S TELEGRAZS.) TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 2il. The Porte has again addressed energetic remon strances to the Ureek government on account of Greek soldiers ',having disembarked at Candia, amon g others volunteer s coming from Greece. The Porte also remonstrates against the concentra tion of Greek troops on the frontier, and has de clared that it will hold Greece responsible fur the consetiuences. ___ . _— THE BOMBAY MAIL. SoI;THAMPTON, Dec. 27. The Peninsular and Oriental Companys steamer Poonah arrived here to-day with the above mail, 47 passengers, 4,734/. in specie, and ;;83 packages general cargo. From Alexardria to Gibraltar she experienced heal winds and heavy seas. The British war ships Skylark and Redpole, the American turret ship Miantunomoh, and the sloop Auguste were at Gibraltar. The Prussian frigates Gadzelle and Midge were at Malta. The exchanges at Gibraltar are unaltered. OVERLAND MAILS. BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, Dec. 91;. The Malta arrived at 7 a.m. to-day (due the 28th). OUTWARD MAIL OF DEC. 4-10. The Nubia sailed fur Calcutta on the 20th inst., at 4 p.m. OUTWARD MAIL OF DEC. 20. GIBRALTAR, Dec. 25. The,Nyanza arrived to-day at 5 a.m., and left at 10 a. 111. for Alexandria. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 27. The North German Lloyd's steamship America has arrived with 113 passengers for Southampton, Havre, and Bremen, 43 sacks of mails for Eng land, 295,323 dollars for London, and 5,000 dollars for Bremen. I Her news has been anticipated. WEATHER REPORT.--(THIS DAY. TIMILSDAT, DZCII2IB2 R 27, 8 1.11. Y:F.IARICS. Yesterday and last night harometricpressure decreased rapidly over the liriti,h 1,1(.4. and very strong westerly and south westerly winds prevailed on our coasts At Liverpool the pres sure was 21lbs. on 'aware foot. at ft p.m. This morn V. ing the have become more moderate and veered to and N.NV., winds s od barometers have risen almost as rapidly as coast they . had previously fallen. Rain has been very general on our . re ITALY. A grand picture representing the downfall of Poland, by M. Matejko, s national artist, is exhibiting at Cracow, preparatory to its being sent to Paris, where in the Palace of Art and Industry it will appeal to the gene rous sympathies of the French. The death at Padua is mentioned in the Italian journals of M. Silvestro Camerino. lie leaves a for .une of 42 million francs. More than half of it goes to a nephew hitherto not in good circumstances, and the remainder is bestowed in legacies, bequests to religious institutions, and in making provision for the numerous servants of the deceased. M. Camerino could scarcely write his name, and fifty years ago he was working as a common labourer on th e formation of the postal road between Rovigo and Poiseuille. (PROM OUR OWN CORELSPONDENT.) FLORENCE, tow. 22. A circumstance happened the other day at Genoa, which I heard an influential person hero referring to as forming in itself a sufficient defence an d apology for Ad miral Persano, should it occur to him to offer it to his judges. A ship in the harbour caught fire. There were three vessels of the royal navy at hand ; and they wore ordered to fire into her for the purpo7e of sinking her. Not one of them suc ceeded in hitting her with a single shot, and one of m them aiveuvred so badly th at she rankhrele against some po rtion of the masonry wor of harbour. Valeat quantum. But it is, of course, needless to say that, let such an incident be as sivificative as it may, it does not furnish an answer to all the charges against the admiral. I hear that his wife is not permitted to see him. A s this measure is unquestionably not dictated by any desire to add to the affliction under which Admiral Persano is labouring, it must be supposed to have reference to the damaging revelations which it is said that he is prepared to snake. The session of the Chambers which has just com menced will, it is probable;be an era of revelations on many points. Already broad assertions may be heard from persona whose position would seem to give a certain weight to their words, affirming that which I sonic months since ventured to hint in your colunuis might some day prove to be the case, viz., that the whole of the late Italian campaign was " urn's trixta enunqin," a sham, and what in the language of the ring is called "a cross fight ;" that Italy, dragged blindfold by certain of her leaders acting under the inspiration of French counsels, was minded to do as little harm as might be to Austria, compatibly with the absolute necessity of seeming to do her utmost to that end. ; that assured of obtaining Venetia, she—that is to say these certain leaders was thus false to Prussia and to her promises. It does begin to seem likely that the truth of all this will come out. It is still, how ever, possi — .e that the real facts may be sup pressed. The nation does not possess the same means of dragging such matters to light as the English public, and is far less skilful in using such means as it has. Nor is the nation as deter mined that truth shall be told as England would be in a similar case. There is not enough of the fiat justitia, /lief ashen feeling. A sufficiently alarming prospect of the " ruin" of the social " heavens " would probably suffice to make the ,v. i Extreme. of the Chamber see the ex ie ,ses. majority 1 I 11 w* rglr-V--' \ ,!I to diency of not digging too deeply into the --11 well of truth. Nevertheless, personal pique, personal interests, and the necessities of personal ii„4 -----i r ' isei ii, :-:—.C.4483734121-----iv::::I.w. ili 13.7 .. 1 : 1) •• 00:e 1 - .29.56 42 W. 21 6 3.W. no 0.07 i 1 defence, may bring about what mere love of truth Allitoolll ,19.14!'45. N.N.W. 3• 9 Yr. ro 054 3 Greencastle .W. 76 4N I S.W. 4 7 W.S.W. rc i o s,•l 2 and justice might be insufficient to accomplish. 1— 1 And . .. we shall see what we shall see L are Clear iverpool 29.77 45 w.N.w. 4 9 W.N.W. o , 0.26 3 France, it is said, is very angry that the King's Holyhead 29.81 46 W.N.N‘.. 8 9 5J4 W. oc 0.15 7 Pensance 30.19 40 N.N.w. . 6 8 , W. Irc i 0.09 4 speech contained no word of " gratitude "to France. The framers of that speech would hardly west i woo 48 N.N.W. 65W.N.W. i r• 0.12 6 Lone . 30.04 50 N.W. 3 7 , B.K loc 0.35 5 Ihr:hefo... 30.16 48 W.B W. 3 3 S.E. . o -- , 2 have dared, in the present condition of the public Plymouth ... 29.93 49 W.N.W. 5 9 W.S.W. e 0 0 0 6 3 • • Weymouth .. 29.05 46 N. . 4 8 NV. c 4 mind with reference to the recent events, to insert Portsmouth.. 29.87 44 N.W. 4 6 W.N W. re 0.11 8 to t ha to ve F done so, wound - any such word. And no word was said of our London .... 29. 75 43 N.V. 4 9 W.N.W. rc 0.10 - „ „. r_ Yarznottth.ii: 29.56 43 N.W. eio sw . . ro 043 4 ally n rr ing usa pe ia ;fe be ctira se il t).s4 40 W. • 5 10 S.V. oh 0.18 4 • • Shield% Helder — - - -•- i been too dangerously exasperating to the latter. Last night the city was full of rumours of the most painful kind as to the Emperor Maximilian. Of course the same, in a more or less modified form, have traversed the atmosphere of London and Paris. Here persons the most likely to have real information on the subject declared it to be certain that he was dead—some thought by his own hand—others by the act of his French pro tectors. That the latter monstrous supposition should have been believed to be true by many here may furnish an indication of the state of men's minds and sympathies towards France. I have heard a rumour, born, I think, on your side of the Alps rather than on this side, of the cessation of business of the Anglo-Italian Bank, and I allude to it for the purpose of assuring any of your readers whom it may interest that such a report is wholly without foundation. I have before me a circular from the manager issued on the 19th of this month, setting forth the cessation of those I grace duelli ' I mem( enout '' but , . 8 °pin' .8 • k and And t ' for 1 L 1 1 1, I ' • anal i i i groi , i 4 Pak ino) ) 4 i i 1•• 1 44 ' the 4 ‘. . i 4 plo 4 I s i a l A , 1 , . . Pa: lei asi gc # I C ' nc l' I l i at ol b '' P I, u ri il: . . i I 1 LA." • - co • The bowl= , lentos of and - bo w " So Me • ig l oos. Bernard o g ees, whose c altogether are a Mr, W. Berner trade amailnee• The benkrap Windmill atr'ee debts are about • Lewis,ilunns, THE Mr. Cooke at once proceed. for the day afte being only 33 • Y division (Sour drank and diso felony, '2-9. C drank and assault, 1. 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