The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-29 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER a p o i ckt i a a, r i t z‘, • ( 411 j j rit4go s a u [STAN:PIA 14. ADDITIONAL] No. 6,078.] LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1866. I TWOPENC --- writwSLA.ND. BLACK BALL PAS -99073E1 LINE —New analegemeats with ILYA Coke. Ooeteuesise. Reduction of Flange Fate to AM load to *dot 1.10,_ _ all chasm 9our m3 ocLAW, for DURBAN - 1, Moreton By, DUNE bats tor lea U. This magnl= a shlp, forming one of the Ilick Da celebrated beat of el, will be de rpttpunctually to date. The 400C4310=110/ all chum uswe coDDOt be . surpenoL To be followed by tbe ship suit OF ENGLAND, Packet toe UM February. to JAMB BAINES sad Co., Lheepeel ; all agents tee , hall Lbw C. wad T. IL MACKAY and Co.. 1, loodeakelN Lubloa, B.C. ,vi -- aura nom LIVERPOOL OR ck r ourrowir TO HIM TWICE • TLIVERPOOL, KEW YORK, and porLsomara4 ITELM-681P COMPANY intend do odad:4llW, tull-Powered Cirdo-balli Iron Boos N ap " tt» United noise mai, rsom_uvissrocra. for NZW YOLK- CITY 431-itiiiaKtifiditeWciii,-3•11.-si— imay Wednesday, and alternate Fridays and Saluda" Cable wage by the mall steamers selling eveerryy Wedneed ca m, It, and fl Snksmat aceordlog to the aooomm pawl. ay the Yrklars and Saturdays steamers. 15 &nem. Damp Includes a full supply of cooked provisions. Canada and the Visited Staten booked arose& on terms. —ler further partkulars apply to na t Witterstreet, Liverpool: cc So SLIM 411. Ifni Wffilanstdreed. London. QTEADI to NEW YORK.—IINITED STATES IX:IL—The splendid and favcauite side-wheel simmers of the New Tent and Same Seem Ship Company w ag rimmed *Mr &ego in Mk Kontos are oppolakd to i i sre for New York sa follows : '~i~i Hain ITurday, Feb. 13. Twiebbyjilarch Tuesday, April 10. Trdodiseaday, leb. 14. l'edairday, March 14. Wamaday, April 11. :—Firstrelorr, Cr 6 second-etas. £ls.—Tor former Wars apply to L'AZILEISITE, KANE. sod 00., Paris sod N o m C. C. gad R. W. FOX and Co., Nalawath ; or R. ISAR sad CO.. 145, Oboapakto, London. WIRLAND BOUTIL IA,AVSTRALI -CO O MMUNIOATION rrzAmN Sto IND OWINTAL STUN NAV A, YU I AT EGYPT paIION 20KrANY BOOK PASSENGERS and receive Cargo and Parcels et their London office for Gibraltar. Malta, lOpt, Aden, Ceylon, wag Calcutta, the Straits, and China, by their steamers =llenthampton on the ath and 10th of every month: for , Naha, Egypt, Aden, and Besaltay, by those of the I2th eml NI 11 et each mouth ; and he Ntharitlna, Ilar Omxthe's thud. Ileiboarus, and Sydney, by the steamers leaving South ern the 20th of every month.—lor farther particulars at the Company's Offices, DM Leadefahaltatreet, LO.. Lm ill: OE Oriental-place, Southampton. STE AM. —LONDON to GOTHENBIJRG. ' The screw steamer GUSTAF WASA will clear for the above ratan a few days, to be followed by the magnificent fast mit WO4llOllll twin screw steamer MAZY, Captain T. LEIGH, this splendid vast& hating made the run from London to Go in the extraordinary short time of 44 hour.—Apply to GBAYRS, 111111.1PP9 and Co.. fit. Dunstan's. bow. LC. VREMEN.—Direct Route to Hanover, Brune l.) wick, and Central Germany.—The North German Lloyd's ens firsodass screw steamer 3fOWE, Captain J. HEITNANN, wilt be despatched from Hoesetydown on THURSDAY, the Ist let (weashar permitting), at 10 am., calling at Brunswick rue, Elsokwall, for passengers, at 12 noon.—Yarea to Bremen, LI andll ; return ticket', En and LI 10a.—Apply at CHAPLIN'S. Cohered Odic*, Regent-circus, W.: or to PHI GLUM, ORAVIN, parcurrs and Co., St. Dunstan's-Dour, lit. Danstank4slll, TBfMOORFIELDS ESTATE, HEREFORD. rotas for Hercfordshire.—Eligible Investment —The COMIERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The ALLOTMENT of the above valuable estate, at Hereford, at the Shire Hall, will take Odeon WEDNESDAY, February M, 1866, at seven o'clock. afters PUBLIC MEETING. at which the Society's wor ms rtwill be explains& W. Pulling, Esq., the chairman of ereford Conservative Association, will preaide. R. Rag- Zmiltect Q.C., M.P. for Hereford, will be present. The ton of the board will be Viscount Hoodoo, Viscount Imestre, Colonel Meyrlck, and the Hon. and Rev. W. Talbot Particalan of the estate. with plans, 6d., or 7d. by pod. Pro madams. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Seadary. OSices, No. U, Norfolk-street, Strand, Loudon, W.C. THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). Capital subscribed, L 5,000,000. Paid ut l f6oo,ooo. CHAIRMAN-JOHN CHAPMAN, . MAPAtins—Henry J. Barker, Esq., and . Frame Bandsman, leg. This Association makes advances upon approved mercantile and other securities, and receives money on deposit at interest for short or tone periede Depositors for periods of not less than three yern ow procure, on application at the °lkea, debentures of the ANDOCISURA. bowing interest at e per cent, per annum, payable quarterly by coupon " to bearer" attached. W. C. WINITILDOTTOM, Sometary. IT, Lanber44beet, London, E.C. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. IS, St. Jamas. lissquare, 1 Lowden, &W. Estabhed 824. PIRIRIART—The Archbishop of CANTERBURY. CHAIRMAX—Right Bon. JOHN ROBERT MOWBRAY, M.P. I WILLIAM BOWMAN, Esq., F.R.S. DiMITY-CRAIMITX lair CHARLFA LococK, Batt ., FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE smarts OPERATIONS. The Anneal Income, steadily increasing, exe•eds _&1107,000 The Assurance Fund, safely invested, is over £ 1,491,000 The New Policies in the but year were 498, assarlng £837,978 The New Annual Premiums were &MVO T o Bonus added to Policies at the last Division was £2714077 Teetotal claims by death paid amount to £2,000,149 The following are among the distinctive features of the Safety Credit System.—On any Policy for the whole of life, whore the age-does not exceed 00, one hall of the Annual Premiums during evilest five years may remain on credit, and may either son lieu as a dot on the policy, or be paid off at any time. Low rates of premium for young lives, with early participation la groats. ladowmtint Assurances may be effected, without profits, by which the sum assured becomes payable on the attainment of a pcitled age, or at death, whichever event shall first happen. Invalid UM may be assured at MISS proportioned to the In memed risk. Prompt Settlement of Clain:La.—Claims paid thirty days atter pool of death. BONUS YEAR.—SPECIAL NOTICE. All with-profit Policies in existence on June 10, 1866. will Par . Belpate in the bonus to be declared in January, 186!, so that Demons who complete such assurances before June 30, 1866, will ature in that division, although one premium only will have bees paid. Tables of rates, forms of proposal, and the report last Issued, Ma be obtained ef any of the Society's agents GIiCINGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. St. James's-aguare, London, S.W. ALBERT INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited). FIRE and MARINI. Capital, One eras for The Department required, where the Company Is ~otxpreeented. MORILLL THEOBALD. Manager, Are Department. MIIDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY. THE NEW SEASON NOTICE.. All the BM BOOKS of the SEASON and of the part twenty InCrare In circulation at MOBIL'S SELECT LIBRARY. CLA9I3 SUBSCRIPTION, ONE GUINEA ?AR ANNUM. Commencing at any date. Book Clubs suppled on liberal terms. Yroepectowe on application. MIIDIEIS SELECT LIBRARY (Limited), NEW OIRORD-STREET City Office, 4, KING-STREET, CR/1081DX HYAII and Co.'s JUVENILE CLOTHING. flyain and Co., 66 and 67. Osford-street, have special arrangements by which the Newest Modes and the most destr able materials are employed in the prodnetion of every deserip- Ike of Boys' and Youths' Clothing. HYAM sad Co.'s GARMENTS and PRICES The new Prince of Wales and Pities Allred Overcoats aad Capes, 16s. 66. to no ; Knickerbocker, Itton, Harrow, and Osborne Salta, ltd. lid. to Mo.; Jackets, St 6d. to Its.; Tremors. fia. 6d. to 15e. 6/1.; V.M. Ma od. to 7a. Id.; Jacket. aad Vests alike 16a. 6d. to 27a. ed. HYAM and Co., GENERAL TAILORS, CLOTHIERS, HATTERS, HOSIELS, &a, de .: 68 and ST, Oztordatrast r W. ; 21, fl and 13, New.atreat, Birmingham; 1311 ¢Sana Iwla ; and West ate, Dawabaul. THE PANTHEON TURKISH BATHS, 3. Great Marlbarouhatrast, W. ___Ldla. Wanda" 2t. ; patinae% all other day& LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an effectual remedy, without confining the boweta at siketing the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted t• he the bast modicum for immediately relieving soughs, cold*, Cookrated cases of asthma, and incipient consumption. It ft filitatly cures persons whom the faculty pronounce Insurable, 'tetra_ my allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. keprosehing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. slams deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of *efface r= depend on relief in a few minutes after taking It— only and sold by W. LaIIBEBT, Oasis., g. Xing WS liapHiree. Charing.croes, London , and by all druggists. In muss, 134 d., and three uantities in one, 2s. 9d. Be particular 1 94 uk tor lamberes e Balsam. The name and radius in engraved on the stamp. ROUT or RHEUMATISM is quickly relieved and eared In s few days by that celebrated Medicine. ALM'S GOUT and MHZUMATIC PILLS Obtained three* Salthemist, at Is. lid. and fa. ed. par box. KAYE'S WORSDELL'S PILLS, the best rtntedy for GOUT and IBKIIIIATIBM.--bold sU "'wag, se., at In 1,d., ta. ed., and it 6d. por box. riINVIGORATIVZ NERVINE 12381ENCI ml most selenialicolly prepared sod wet powertal mond wra cordial ever introdeeed ; mimes to this soma 000dhio• la the peratfona, on the integrity of which pallet health de- MILIt he 'wide tor debility of ill kind; aoltross its tow shoot other Ingredhoia, pepethearad pleseplree at mods. Ia prove hiyldr Peedalal to the 111.105/ sad drpeptle. Os pm bottle, or tour qatositties 101 OE9 kW es Solo 'v a t.. Wens. Boonaarloo sod Co. SS% Oatiordoireek reaselorrelsoiteek Ugh" I ife A i ...ad ta7•, .7- To & 6cL; OXFORD.—The MARKET GIRLS, by reeesee, n !timbre, and the Schiller Centenary Can- Member, will be performed by tAe whole of the Company. The Hungarian will also Introduce their I ititertsiaroest Tina !YINING. Private boxes, stalls and balcony, la. ; area, ed. STODARIL —The HOLIDAY a—THEATRZ of MYBTIIIY, Ncyptlen-half.—bLiNYILS in MAGIC and VENT2II,OQUISM, as performed by command before her Majesty the Queen mad the loyal Family at Windsor, Tuesday itvenML Nov. !1,1806. The marvellous SPHINX, tie birth of Flower Tress, and Modem's celebrated lath= Basket Peat, ma ==.llby blza.-2•12.Y NVINING, 8: W ,at 3.—Mans at Mitchell's, Old Monde= Bolvallae, cm arball. —Adu d ado a, In and h ; SWih Ils. " Almost namouloua: —Vide " The Times," April 18. 1866. NOT IC IL—NEW PROPRIETOR The A. WELSH HARP, Tootz-airoed, Boriveriestroot. neetetrwst. Joints ready from twelve till four on Sundays st Two. 13.11GEN STEIN, propels/or. PHILLIPS and COMPANY'S TEAS axe am and CHEAPEST. STRONG to MI BLACK TS.A. ts 6c1., s., It al., L., It ed. Most delidous Black Tea Is now only as 6d. per pound. Pure, rick rare, choloe Coffee, la. td., la ad. la. Bd. PHILLIPS sad Co., Tea Merchsate, 8, Xing Williametreet, City, London, IC. • ;eke) earreat Hee. Sugars at market prima. PHILLIPS and Co. send all goods carriage tree within eight miles of No. 8, Wag V/Uliamatireet daa worth marriage /roe to any railway station or market town in linglan&—Phillips and Co. have no agents, Doren, connexion with any house In Wor cester or Swamies. OONBIONMENT of frrsatiass Bawdy TIMES and SHRUBS from one of the oldest estaigahed Nuns:lea In Surrey. MR. J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at lib twat ' Kingstree., Omout-gardeu, TO•l1011.110W, Jan. 110, at hall-past It precisely, without the least reserve, a gra-elms assorianent of hardy TREES and from one of the oldestwatablished nursertee in surrey, oomisting of variegated hales, ammo): and Portugal laurels, standard and dwarf roses, conifers, gala, box weigellas, yuccas, elensatis,Virtvet, spirts, bOdbOriffivalictiblii. soPwragimand imitate roots, raspberry canes, do.: also an importation from the south of Pranoe, oonsistlng of standard, dwarf, and pyramid trait Meek lilacs, and other trees and shrubs —On rises the morning of sale, and catalogues had. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (sturaa's TILIGILLYIL) THE BANK OF FRANKFORT. FRANKFORT.ON-THE.MAINE, JAN. 27. The Bank of Frankfort has reduced the rate of discount to 5 per cent. POLAND. •T. PETERSBURG, JAIL 28. The Emperor has addreesed a rescript to the Governor of Warsaw, promulgating a aeries of edu cational measures to be carried out in Poland. Superior and elementary schools are to be esta blished for Poles, Greeks and Russians, and separate schools for. Germans and Lithuanians. Day schools will also be opened for girls. All scholars will be taught the Polish and Russian history and languages. The religious instruction will be entrusted to the secular clergy of each re spective denomination. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 27. In to-day's sitting of the committee of the Cortes on the address to the Queen, Senor Casanueva re quested permission to bring forward a protest in favour of the temporal power of the Pope. The Ministry assented to this request. It is rumoured that the state of siege in Madrid will be raised on Tuesday next. SPAIN AND CHILI. MADRID. JAs. V. The Politico of to-day says :—" Several vessels bearing Chilian colours have appeared off Valencia, and given chine to some Silesia coasting brigs. It is asserted that the pursuers are not Chilian cruisers, but simply pirates under cover of the Chilian flag." NORWAY. CHRISTIANA, JAIL 27. The Storthing have rejected, by a majority of two, the amendment to the constitution proposing annual parliaments. JAMAICA. The West India and Pacific Steam Company's steamer American, Captain Kidd, arrived at Liver pool yesterday, with advices from Kingston to the sth, and Port-au-Prince to the 9th instant. The American brings 2,000 Barons of indigo, a large quantity of cotton, &c., besides 10,000 dole. in specie. The special commission to try the political pri soners lately confined at Morant Bay has been ap pointed by his Excellency the Governor, and was to hold its sittings on the 2 2 nd inst. t has not transpired that it will sit in Kingston or Morant Bay. The magistracy, clergy, and other inhabitants of the pariah of Trelawny have presented an address to Governor Eyre, sympathising with him in regard to the heavy responsibilities, and expressing the greatest pleasure in stating that his excellency " discharged them with so much wisdom, energy, promptitude, and decision of p —from no selfish oonsideration, but under a ur Se7; sense, we feel assured, of your excellency's duty to our beloved sovereign, to the loyal inhabitants of this island, and all its beat interests." To which his excellency made the following reply : Mr. Cuatos, Reverend Gentlemen, and Gentlemen,—lt would at all times afford me sincere pleasure to receive such a gratifying assurance of the good opinion and aprro val of the numerous and highly respectable and influential gentlemen of Trewlany who have signed the address pre seated to me by your respected custos ; but it comes doubly welcome to me at a time when the acts to which you refer, nodostaken from a deep sense of my duty to my sovereign and to the colonists of this island, and with a full and anxious appreciation of the painful responsibility of my position, have been so maliciously misrepresented, and so unjustly maligned by a section of the English press, and by parties at home who have no sympathies with their fellow-countrymen suffering under the atrocious barbarities Inflicted by savaged, became those savages have a black skin ; though they do sot hesitate to call the just retribu tion which overtook the ruthless rebels of St. Thomas-in the-East by the names of " murder " and "massacre." It was trying enough, gentlemen, to have to encounter the harassing and anxious duty of putting down the rebellion, and taking steps to preserve peace and tranquillity in the other districts of the colony, but it is very hard and moat unexpected to have to rebut accusations founded upon exaggeratioe, miarepresentation, and untruth. I shall have much pleasure in transmitting your address to her Majesty's government as a proof that in the island where the actual circumstances ought to be best known, and • where the magnitude end imminency of the danger to the entire colony Gan best be appreciated, that the foul asper sions disseminated by a portion of the English press are unjust and undeserved. I thank yon, gentlemen, most gratefully for your loyal address, and for the hearty ex pressers of your willingness' to co-operate with me in any mammies necessary for the protection of life and property and the Sass sad welfare of the island at large. On my pert, I would amuse you that I shall ever be ready to do my duty faithfully, sod will sever shrink from seeming any amount of responsibility which the public safety re quires me to *mamba% (Signed) E. ETU. Tan Rai RIEPTORIST FATHERS IN CANADA. Noweanaa, JAI. 9.—Redemptorist raglan ha St. Patrick's have forbiddea the congregation to pall, bay, or read the Winces., and the bishop has issued the same prohibition to French Catholics, owing to o correspondent 'Wiwi; that the Bedeniptorista were makieg money by the sale of scapuleries, he., which the editor eostradioted in the neat The Temple Bar Magazine has been purchased by Mr. &Mier, el New Barlinstowetreet EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROW OUB OWN PARTS, SUNDAY EVENING. The very obvious remark made by the opposition journals that it would serve no purpose to keep the Mexican despatches out of the yellow book since most of them have been published already in America and England has forced the government to rescind the resolution it had taken with about as much wisdom as that of the ostrich, which hides its head in sand expecting not to be seen. The Patric, which was instituted on Friday to announce this resolution, on the pretext that a " new phase " of the negotiations being now entered upon, it was desirable, to prevent misoonstructios, that the publication of the despatches should be deferred, is now compelled to eat its words. It announces to-night that the diplomatic documents relating to Mexico have been scat to the Imperial Printing office, and will be immediately published in the form of a supplement to the yellow book, "the government having revoked the decision which we bad announced in consequence of the publication of the American despatches." The government knew right well of the publication of these de spatches at the time the Patric said what it was told ; but it is now alive to the absurdity of its conduct in pretending to conceal that which every body knows, and talking about a " new phase of negotiations"—inferring important secret diplo macy—after the Emperor had said in his speech that the "frankness of his declarations" would dispel all doubt and allay all anxiety in the United States. Everybody must see that the only °biped in keeping back the despatches was to pre vent the French public from being familiar with that which all others know. That forlorn hope is now abandoned. The Pays states that Count Favernay, the first Secretary of Legation of the French Embassy at Washington, left Paris on Jan. 10 with the draft of the arrangement decided upon by the French government for the recall of the troops from Mexico, and that Baron Ballard embarked for Mexico on the 15th with identical instructions re lative to the same subject. You will remember what secrecy was maintained about Baron Sail lard's mission, and how till it oozed out in the Pre.sse several days after he had sailed nothing was known about it. Until you had ,my telegraphic despatch with the news nobody lin England had the least suspicion that Baron &Allard was employed on any such business. I cannot tall what is the precise object in now tardily publishing the news in the Pays ; but I think it a reasonable conjecture that the intention is to con tradict the report that Baron Saillard bad no writ ten instructions whatever, but merely a verbal message from the Emperor. I informed you— and this is perfectly true—that the Emperor thought fit not to give him an autograph letter to Maximilian ; but I have no doubt that he is fur nished with formal papers from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The statement of the Pays, that he has the " same instructions" as Count de Fever nay, probably wane this. It ought te be known—eod I mention the feet as one patent and undeniable, without going on to draw any inference from it—that the articles of the Daily Telegraph, the only English paper which has obtained permission to be sold in the streets of Paris, are now quoted every day in the Moniteur and Constitutionnel as evidenze of public opi nion in England. On the Mexican ques tion, on the extradition question, on the theory that Frenchmen are not fit for political liberty, and many others, it happens that the views of the Daily Telegraph are always precisely in accordance with those of the French government. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALS?, JAIL 27. —APPOINTMEMIR—Fiette class asnatant engineer John Dows, to the Star, 4, screw gnu vessel, at Shetraess. filidabiputen the Hon. Edward J. Weedbam and Cecil M. G. Cooper, to the Narcissus, 35, screw frigate, on the south-sast coast of America ; E. H. M. Davis, Henry J. G. Tipping, Jamas T. S. Sims, William J. Nome*, and Arthur H. Stone, to the Dons, 30, at Devonport ; Burgess Watson, Charles H. Adair, Jobn Edward &torero% and Claude Henry Millett, to the Dunosn ; Francis William Cobb, Alfred A. Taylor, John E. Blaxland, Lewis E. Wiotz, Cecil H. Whisb, and George K. Cherry, to the Victoria ; S. Decree, J. H. Simpkins, F. E. Walker, and J. E. F. Kerr, to the Topase. Naval cadet. George K. Gordon, el. P. O'Callaghan, Lionel B. C. Boyle, and Edward U. Berridge, to the Doris. posism9uyn, JAN. 28. His Royal Highness Prince Christian came over to Portsmouth yesterday, in the steam yacht Alberts. on • visit to the dockyard. Oa landing at the Rios's-stairs he was received by Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., Rear-Admiral George Greville Wellesley, C. 8., sod Captain F. Scott, C.B. of the Victory, and Captain R. Caldwell, C. 8., of the Asia. His royal highness lunched with the Commander-in-Chief, and after inspecting various objects of interest in the dockyard, and the Royal Albert and Royal talfred, hoe-plated ships, be returned to Osborne. GLotrcEnza, Jur. 26.—Last night a public ' meeting wee held in the Corn Exchange in this city for the purpose of raising the cost of • lifeboat. to be oiled the City of Gloucester. The mayor presided on the occasion, and the attendance was one of the largest seen here for some years plat. Mr. Lewis, the secretary of the National Lifeboat Institution, attended, and delivered an able and lengthened address, in which he reviewd briefly the history of the institution and its present extensive sphere of ope rations. After some other addresses had been deivered br some of the influential residents, a motion was una nimously carried that the oast of • lifboat should be col lected is Gloucester. THE IRISH RAILWAY QUISTION.-A meeting of noblemen and gentlemen connected with the railway inte rest in Ireland was held on Friday at the Imperial Hotel, Dublin, for the purpose of conferring on the subject of government aid to Irish railways. The Marquis of Mori carde presided. Nearly every railway company in the country was represented. A series of resolutions were adopted declaring that sufficient capital for the develop ment of railway communication in Ireland could not be provided unless by the aid of government loans or guaran tees, and defining the objects for which government aid was required, and the nature of the arraietanoe solicited. The first object is to relieve existing companies from the heavy incubus on their resources caused by exorbitant interest on bonds and floating debts which they had been obliged to blear to comolele their undertakings. This relief, it is stated, could be obtained without loss to the public Treasury, by a public I general act, empowering the goveroment to lend, and the companies to borrow, at a reasonable rate of interest, say 34 1 percent. in perpetuity, or 4 per cent, sinking fond for a term of years sufficiently long to repay principal and in terest, a sum adequate to pay off the existing redeemable bonds, mortgages, floating debts, sad preferential or gua ranteed sham. 2nd—To plant the taxation of Irish rail way property on a more equitable basis. 3rd. To enable mating eompanies„ by government loans, on the name principle, to complete their now authorised undertakings. 4th. To foster the further extension of the railway system by government loans er guarantees, with or without local or county guarantees. A committee was eppoisted to draw up a memorial to government am bodying the foregoing views, and praying for a legislative messure to carry them interdict. Another meeting of the I contemn°s will be held for the purpose of croasidering this ! i memorial ; and it was also derided that • deputatioa should be appointed to meet and ooafer with the Irish represents tine in both homes of parliament, to ask their influence in favour of the prayer of the memorial, such meeting to be held in London on an early day after the meeting of perils ' I meat, sad the result reported to stature meeting of the wraferesee. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. By the arrival of the above mails we have advice' from Calcutta to December 22 ; Madras, December 28 ; Colombo, December 30 ; Hong Kong, De cember 15, &c. INDIA. The advioes from Calcutta are no later than those rid Bombay published in our impression of the 20th instant. CHINA. The Overland China Mail says that the news from Peking is rather important :—" The Empress Dowager (it adds), anticipating the arrival of Sir Rutherford Alcock, did not think it any longer safe to keep the reins of government in her own hands. She must have found that she was drag ging and being dragged into a dangerous course, which might ruin both herself and her dynasty. Like a judicious person, she yielded in time ; and, whether we rejoice or not, Prince Kung is again at the bead of the affairs of the state." The following additional items of news are from the China Mail : Sir Rutherford Alooek, having recovered the money lost at the mouth of the Peiho, will by this time have safely arrival at Peking, sad assented the important poet tem porarily occupied by Mr. Wade. Sir But 's poet is at matelot& sayer difficult one than when Sir Fralariek Brace first arrived at Peking. The wounds inflicted by foreigners are gradually healed up ; and as fast as time flies, so fast does the imperial government forget the woe sod misery of past days. Bir Frederick found himself in the Meese capital when it was still fashionable to be humble towards those who awed the foreign dynasty when it was in their power to exclude it for ever from China ; and as Sir Frederick neither asked for new concessions, nor hinted at the deal-We ems of hastesieg certain reforms, he was welcomed at Pelt' , sad, we would almost my, the kwernmeat re gretted his departure. Sir Rutherford antra at a time when the flood of foreign predominanoe is fast receding. His is the task to cell upon the imperial government for new activity—for progress. the mo.t unwWoome sound to the ear of the Ta- sing. His bands will therefore be full of labour and toil ; he will have not a small IMatilt of oor respondence and tiring interviews, before the government will spin yield sad enter into some arrangements that will enableenterprising men to transplant Western civilisation upon the soil of the Celestial empire. Piracy still appears to be prevalent on the coast. The British barque Bentick, which left Hong Kong bound to Ningpo on the 4th Dec., commanded by Captain James Thomas, while at anchor in Chino Bay was attacked by a piratical junk at 2.15 a.m. on the 9th. All hands were called as soon as it became evident that the yeast! was to be attacked. The irates came near the port quarter, hove on several stink-pots, and discharged pis tols as she ranged alongside. The crew rushed to the firearms which were on deck, and wished to fight for their safety ; but the captain, thinking that the better plan would be to offer no resistance, ordered them below. The pirates boarded in numbers, and called for the captain, whom they desired to point out where the opium and treasure were stowed, asserting that from private advises they had received from Canton, there was a large quantity of both on board. After dragging the captain about the hold, and rifling all the lockers, &c., they at a given signal simulta neously left the ship. On mustering the crew, two were found to be missing, viz., James Collier and William Tally, both able seamen ; the rest of the crew were unhurt; the vessel then shaped her course back to Hong Kong, where she arrived on the 14th December. JAPAN. The China Mail says : Affairs in Japan are at last turning into the right than nel. We are glad to see it openly avowed that there is only one emperor in Japan, and that there sever existed two. The utter callousness of those whose duty it was to listen to better information on Japanese affairs made us eft* believe that there must be a determination on the part of the treaty powers to overthrow the ancient law of Japan and to establish a new order of things. We regret, however, to see in one of our Nortehern contemporaries an attempt at placing the Tycoon on a level with the rest of the Donnie.. It may just as well say that the Prince of Wales has no more power than Prince Leopold. The Tycoon is a Daimio who holds a hereditary office and rank which is now for 200 years vested in his family. This power no Daimio dare touch or assume. The Tycoon is almost always the son in-law to his Imperial Majesty the Mikado—a distinction of which only a few is Japan can beast. But he is not the, nor an, emperor of Japan ; and we are sure that tho confusion has arisen from the ignorance of the native interpreters, they being inoompeteet to distinguish between his royal lighnese end his Majesty. These facts which we have es often placed before the responsible parties in Chios have no doubt been urged upon the British government by Sir Rutherford Alcock. To bring this before the public neces sarily involved the exposure of the Tycoon. It required, therefore, both the wisdom and the energy of Sir Harry Parkes to being about this important change without fur ther quarrel or bloodshed. Being now able to negotiate on a clear basis, and having approached so near to the capital of Japan. greater stability in trade, as well as general ad vancement, may be expected for the future. THE Jsmafor. PacKwr.—Our Southampton cor respondent, writing yesterday, says :—" The pilot has gene down to meet the Jamaica packet Shannon, which is oz. pected during the night or early to-morrow (Holiday) morn int. Her news is anxiously looked for, because she will bring an account of the reception of Sir Beery Storks is Jamaica, and intelligence, it is hoped, of the Atrato, which ship took out the Jamaica commissioners. The home ward packet doss not often meet the outward, be cause the former generally leaves St. Thome a day before the latter arrives there, bet Captain Jellicoe, of the Atrato, having pushed on through the great storm at the beginning of this month, it is hoped he will reach St. Thomas just in time to be reported by the Shannon." ROYAL SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITICTIIIIF AND MARINE ENOINIZRENG.—At the examination recently held at South Kensington for free studentships in this school, the successful eaodidates were Thomas Turelsall, Whitby, Yorkshire, and Adrian Viestelly, Larks. THE LATIGALE IN TORBAY.—TOII44IIAY, SUNDAY. The Occidentale, a French ship from Havre, was among the vessels that took shelter in Torbay during the late gale, and as nothing had been since heard respecting her, it was hoped that she was among those which got out of the bay during the storm. Three bodies were picked up on Fnday; one had a gold ring on the finger, and on its being taken off it was foond to bear the names of Pierre Le Se vouroux and Sophie Godfrey. By this it is discovered that the body was that of the master of the French ship Occidentale, from Havre to Nartimuge. with forty five passengers and a crew of fifteen men on board, all of whom are supposed to have perished in the frightful gale. The name of Sophie Godfrey is discovered to be the maiden name of the wife of the unfortunate master. This makes the ascertained number of lives lost 130. Brigham still continues to be visited by strangers anxious to see the scene of the late devastation. The relief committee have received aid from all quarters. Up to this time only 14 bodies have been discovered, and it is proposed to erect a memorisd stone over their graves. It is proposed to construct a breakwater across the mouth of the bay, and the inhabitants of Torquay, Paignton, and Brigham will meet to-morrow (Monday) to consider the propriety of memorialising government for pecuniary assistance. THE STATE OF IRKLAND.-4. meeting of some country gentlemen, with the Earl of Erne in the chair, was held on Thursday evening, in Reynolds's Hotel, Dublin, at which the existing alarm in the provinces was consi dered, with a view to the devising of some measure for allaying it. It was resolved to send circulars to magistrates and others interested in maintaining the public peace. re questing them to meet at 44, Sackville-street, on Thursday next, the Ist of February, in order to further consider the subject. As an instance of the sort of apprehension that prevails, we may mention that reports are current among the peasantry on the north-western coast to the effect that pilots have gone out for the purpose of bringing in the Fenian fleet.—Datlin Renting Mail. FREE BRIDGER FOE THE the various bills to be laid before parliament for new lines and metro politan extensions of railways are several for lines designed to cross the Thames by new bridges. Now as it is estimated that theee schemes, if curled out, would cause the destruc tion of one-sixtieth of the number of houses in and near London, would it be too much to ask on behalf of the labouring classes thus ejected, many of whom are driven to a distance for honse room, that each of the new railway bridges shall hays a tree footway like that at Charing-cress attached to it, so that working men is the sisdiiity may not have to go out of their way to crass the river daily ? It is to be hoped that the present parliament will not, like too many of its predecessors, suffer the rights of the public to be sacrificed to the interest of the compaaies.—Exa sister. CRYSTAL PALACE. The Crystal Palace manager promised a very interesting entert►inment for Saturday last, and he kept his word. The principal novelty was a tastefully arranged eerie@ of cuts from the Gibson marbles, amongst which were to be found some of the ehoiesin works of oar great English sculptor. The resent—happily erroneous—report cif his death added tenfold to the attraction which anything must have that came from his hand, and the result was that the interior of the palace presented through out the day a crowded and fashionable appearance. The manager has flanked the Gibson Gallery with choice works of Canova and Thorwaldsen, and Gibson's countrymen have thus an opportunity of seeing how much he surpasses the one, and how evenly he contends with the other ; and there are in the neighbourhood some fine casts from the antique, From true art to pure nature is but a step, and an easy one. Close to the Gibson Gallery, the unrivalled csniellins of the Palace gardens display all their grace of form and beauty of colour. Flowers are beautiful at all times, but they are exceptionally so at this chilly, early period of the year, and, otiosequently, we were not surprised to find that the luxu riant parterre in the central transtpt attracted crowds of visitors—such crowds, indeed, as could hardly be subse quently accommodated in the concert room, when the en tertairunents of the afternoon commenced. tar. Manna con ducted one of Beethoven's great symphonies with his usual precision and appreciation, and two debutantes, made their curtsies to a Sydenhaui audience. The first Mdlle. Bornholdt, a Swedish lady, had but a moderate success, but we trust it may be improved in subsequent performances. Mdlle. Ida Miens, who, although an nounced as a first appearance, had already sung at Covent Garden, did somewhat better, eliciting general and genuine applause by her singing of an elaborate French aria. The great laurels of the concert were, however, reserved for Herr Ludwig Straus, whose vio'in concertos triumphed completely over both the gloominess of the weather and the frigidity of the audience. After the concert, Signor Ethardo repeated his wonderful globe ascent, and then the company, pleased but hungry, Troceeded with wonderful unanimity to dinner. STOPPAGE OF THE "SUNDAY EVENINGS FOR THE PEOPLE." The fourth of the series of the above " evenings" took place last night, at St. Martin's-hell, and was attended by a larger concourse of people than any of the three preceding ones, a report having gone 'breed that the Lord's Day Observance Society had eat in action an old Act of Parliament for the purpose of preventing their con tinuance. The ball and galleries were crowded. A larger number of ladies were present than usual. The subject of the discourse last evening we. " Many Members., but One Body, " the lecturer being Mr. W. B. Hodgson, LL.D. The lecturer was listened to with the grettest interest end attention, and received a hearty vote of thanks on con chiding. Mr. KIM (the managing member of the committee under whore superintendence the " Evenings" are con ducted) then roes, end said no doubt most of the friends present were aware of the strong opposition that existed on the part of the Sabhatarian party to this movement, and this feeling had resulted in the sending of a lawyer's letter from the solicitor of the Lord's Day Observance Society, Mr. Baxter, to the lumen of St. Martin's-hall, warning them against letting the hall on Sunday evenings for the illegal object for which it was now being used. The lessees of the ball bed therefore instructed their solicitor to send a letter to the committee, stating that the hell would for the future be closed against them on the Sunday evenings. This, therefore, would be the last evening until the question was nettled in a court of law. (loud cries of " Shame," and great excitement.) The solicitor of the committee would now give a further explanatioe. Mr. W. SHAMS, solicitor, said that on Friday last two members of the committee called upon him with a long letter the committee had received from Mr. Danprfield, the solicitor of the lessees, to the effect that the hell would in future be closed against them, legal proceedings having been threatened against the lessees under an act of Oeo. 111., cap. 39, passed in 1781, for keeping open a dia -1 orderly house on the Sunday evening, for the discussion of texts of Holy Scripture, and the performance of music by wSend singers, and for taking money at the doors , It • house of enterteiumot and anzuesment, wad by • the Isamu were liable to a penalty of 2001. per day. It was further elated in Mr. Baxter's letter that this and other penalties would be strictly enforced, unless the hell was at once closed on the Sunday evenings for the object it was at present used for. (Shame.) After coosoltation it was neared by the oommatee and Several of the gentlemen who bad interested themselves in the movement to have the question tried in the Court of Queen's Bench as to whether the " Sunday Evenings for the People" came under the act in question, and for this purporre he (Mr. Shun), in company with Mr. Dangerlield, had waited upon Mr. Barter, end it had been arranged that on Monday Mr. Baxter should issue a writ against Messrs. B. Langley, Crawford, and Morrell as repre senting the committee, for a violation of the above act. tie espected the trial would take place in the Queen's Bench in the Easter term, and the committee would take care that the most eminent counsel it was possible to obtain should be employed. Of course, in the meantime, the Sebbatarhui party had succeeded in their object, in (keine the hall. (Hear.) If judgment went against them, then they intended to apply to parliament for a repeal of the act. (Cheers). Mr. B. LAS4ALKT said he could not for one moment believe that any court of law at this day would decide that the proceedings which had taken place on this and the other evenings came within the procisises a tee act alluded to. (Hear.) The Scriptures were not dis cussed in any way. (Hear.) They were now called upon to defend the right of private judgment in the principal law court of England, and as the expenses would be heavy, he hoped all lovers of free thought and free discussion would subscribe to the defence fend to be established. (Hear.) The programme of the evening was then proceeded with, and a selection from the IlicasiaA was given by the vocalists and choir. Before the assembly broke up a subscription list was opened for a defence fund, and 2104 was at once subscribed, independent of the collection made at the doors, which amounted to several pounds. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE CAMBRIDGE. :IAN.P27. The name of Mr. Sneyd, of Trinity, who passed (ilgrolat) was aeoidently omitted from the honour list published on Friday. Io congregation this morning the whole of the gentlemen whose names were printed in that list, with but two excep tions, proceeded to their B.A. degree, aa did also the under. mentioned from other tripos lists : FROM THZ MORAL SOSERCIIII TWO& am Masten Roberts, Jesus College ; James Robert M W itford Mitchell, Trinity College ; Robert Swan Stephen, St. John's College ; William Thomas Trench, Trinity College ? Henry Mar l y n Hargett, Caine College ; Henry Peto, Trinity College. FROM THZ NATURAL SCERNCIB TIMOR —Neville Good man, St. Peter's College ; John Penn Hartree, Trinity College ; Dickson, Bt. John's College ; John William Bennett, Emmanuel Corege ; Charles Montague Doughty, Downing College ; C. Danford, Trinity College ; Francis John Ramsbotham, Caius College ; Goorge Ward, Trinity College ; Samuel Tarratt Megdalene College ; Henry Tosewill, Downing College ; Charaes Bennett Irma, Trinity College. The undermentioned proceeded to L.L.B. degrees' Firm THU Law TZLPOR. --Charles Wentworth Dillre, Trinity Hall ; Victor Douglas Be Wet, Downing • John Burnet Box, Trinity College • Mar c?Wileru'rne Rajah, Trinity Hall ; lien' de la' Beche Dillwyn, Trioity College ; Henry William Henn Bauer, Trinity Hall ,• Carlton Greene, Trinity College ; James John Cooper Wyld, Trinity Hall ; Henry Hugh Thomas Rose Phipps, Trinity Hal l ; Frederick Poland Adcock, Jena' College ; Augustus Baker, Christ's College; Thomas William Wilkie Gordon, St. John's College; Charles Grieve, Trinity Hall ; Edward Piggott, Christ's College; Wilder, Oahui College. ----- NYWNVENDOEte BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT Inarrturtotr—Mr. Toreens, M.P., will take the chair at the diaper of the Neweveodore' Benevolent sod Provident lastitutiou, which will be held at the Freemasoos' Tavern, as the 20th of March next. Thia is one of the few societies which invite ladies to the dinner table. SOCIETY TOE PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF Wourit.—Daring the but three months the sulpha. of applicants for employment has been 131, the number of employers, 30. Female aserstariss, goversemses, mstoroa, clerks, book-keepers, photographic printers sod coloureds, sick muses, ire., eau be obtained from the office 19, long hand-plow, and employers are e arnestly solicited to apply to the society, as every effiert is need to send suitable pee wee to the various situations offered. Qozurr Micaoscorical. Society.—The ordinary monthly mettles was held on Friday, the 26th inst., at 32, flackville-street, W. ; ifr. P. Le Neve Foster, V.P.. in the chair. Mr Suffolk delivered an introductory address on the microscope. preparatory to the establishment of elements , y classes for beginners in microscopic study. Mr. Archer also read a paper ea the respiratory organs of insects. There was a very large atteadsnos of members sad their Moods. Eleven gestlemes w e re elected and eleven were prop:rod for membership. A conyersasione terminated the evade& assay very interesting objeois being exhibited. THE POOR-LAW GUARDIANS AND Ti CASUAL WARDS. (From the Times.) The parish is the germ of our national liberties, and the Poor Law is a peculiarly English institation,whiela has never become acclimatised in other lands ; but meat events make us doubt whether we have resign to be proud of parishes or poor laws—at least as they exist in the me tropolis. The picture of the casual wards is the Lam beth Workhouse, drawn by au amateur casual, was in itself sufficiently horrible to overeat our self complacency, but the mere description of moo and boys of all ages and of every gradation in de stitution and vies indiscriminately huddled together ostler an open shed on a bleak winter night is nothing to what has since been revealed. The condition of the Lam ' beth ward might have been excused as the consequence of some sudden pressure, or it might have been condemned, reformed, sad forgotten, had it been the result of negligence or dishonesty on the pert of the subordinate officers of the Auden ; unfortwistely it has been justified by the guardians, who ought to have prevented such • thing from Wog possible. One itilleiential member of the Lambeth vestry declared himself not a whit lees happy since be had become acquaisted with the reel nature of the treatment which a casual pauper receives is Lambeth, and his marvellous serenity was approved by ethos who followed hint. lee, West, been dose In Lambeth in deference to the public outcry, but that something has only intensified the worst &hernias tiou of the pump-shed. It would almost seem as if the guardians could not uederstand what the world sees in their wards to complsia of. Bat the Lam beth vestry are not alone in their notions of how to fulfil their public duties. The vestry of St. Pancras, are, oblivious of duty, more determined to sacrifice every If possible, more iinpatiset of criticism, more obligation of their office to their views of their own important*. The guardians of Stepney seem to have deliberately formed a design of evading, if not of making a gain out of, the burden of sheltering the houselem poor who might apply to them for relief. Having fitted up proper wards, and thereupon received a certificate from the commissioner entitling them to be repaid their expenses out of the punnet retool the metro. pole, they quietly proceeded to dismantle the sleeping-places they had provided, and to substitute for them sheds which ware even worse than the famous one at Lambeth. The trick has been discovered, the certificate withdrawn, and the Stepney guardians will suffer for their cupidity. Mr. Farrell met them on Thursday to remonstrate with them on their conduct, sad, as they at ones proceeded to convert the meeting into • secret session, we are left to infer that no possible excuse can be devised for what they have done. We have no sympathy with the professional philastbropy which makes a pet of everything that is depraved. We acknowledge that there is • strong presumption of vice against every houselem wanderer applying for casual re lief. We see the danger of making that relief more cam. fortable than the shelter which a willing but unskilled LIN bourer can earn for himself, and it would probably be too much to ask the amateur casual to dare the horrors of the commonest of common lodgine houses. If every seedy applicant could get a aoat• fortable bed and a substantial breakfast at the east of • little wholesome exercise after his meal, the last »lie of self-dependence would vanish, and the virtue of the clam Immediately above those who are now habitual casuals would be slowly eaten away. The vagrant would have the workhouse for his lodgings by sight and • low public. house for his club by day, and would want no more. It is secressay to avow so much for two reasons— find, that the existing indignation against work house management may not be betrayed into mis chievona consequences ; secondly, that parish vestries and workhouse guardians may not misrepresent the views of their critics, and put the question on a false issue. For, in truth, these remarks, however just, are beside the point. The charge against metropolitan guardians is not that they have failed to make their casual iumates perfectly easa fortabla, but they have not attempted to secure that re pulsive decency which is the ideal of Poor-law hospitality. They have abandoned the destitute and the vicious to their deviate, they have mixed them up indiscriminately together without attempting any supervision over them, awl when the fsulte of their management are pointed out they see nothing antis in what they have dose ; when they attempt • correction they make bad worse. The Lambeth guardians have given up the pump-shed, and have hired some common lodging-houses in the neighbourhood of their workhouse. The lodging houses are thereupon withdrawn from the regale twos of the lodging-house Act, and the guardians have appareatly taken no pales to supply the lose. The teas ' menus are described as dirty and dilapidated, and the casual paupers are huddled together in them, so that the door of • elespingsroma resembles • gulf in the Inferno, when the forms of the lost are intertwined in naked, halal's" occlusion. The guardians of Stepney have rivalled this picture is a loft whims their walls *Lath they ' fitted up, as described, by way of substitute for the ' certified ward. Their custom, before it was exposed asd ' stopped, was to give the casual, after he bad bathed in water which bad been used by five or six predecessors, • blanket, which he carried around him till he had climbed • ladder leading to the loft. When he reached the door the blanket ~dropped for the use of another, sod the vagrant went naked to one of the hay-bags covering the floor, ' with which and • rug be made his bed. The abomina tion has been checked, but what security is there that it may not have been replaced by something as bed, when we see the first thought of the guardians to be resentment at inquiry, and their part conduct tells us that they will sot scruple at any means of escaping their obliga tions' We know their motives and their temper, and, indeed, if there were any doubt abs.ut them, the conduct of the vestry of St. Pancras in dealing with come warnings of their medical officers would sufficiently enlighten on The health officer of St. P•ocres is Dr. Hillier. physician to the Hospital for Sick Children and attached to the Unleersity College Hospital. and he very properly thought it his duty to address the banitary Committee of the vestry on the steps which should be taken at the commencement of the year as a precaution against the visitation of cholers in summer. He pointed out that neighbouring Islington had been for sax months purifying, aul that typhus already prevailed in St. eancine. The report of Dr. Hillier was read in the full vestry, and the indignation it excited was very instructive. One vestryman interrupted the reeding, by denouncing the report as " bordering on impertinence,' and instantly moved a resolater (carried unanimously) calling on Dr. Hillier to justify his statements. A little more of the report was then got through, when another vestryman broke in to remark on " the coolness" of the conduct of medical officers towards the ye/tries "by whom tier are engaged and paid." A third characterised " the report as couched in laspiase calculated to bring the vestry into tiontempt." (Hear, hear.) The medical officers of the metropolis had precisely the tame object in view— (bear, bear)—and, with the 'notch of a comer fur Middlesex at their bead—(loud cries of ' Hear, bete)— they sought by all mesas in their power to bring ridicule on the various vestnes." Metropolitan vestrymen and guardiase peed not fear what others may do to impose them to ridicule and con tempt. What they bave to dread is the recompense of their owe conduct. It was well said by Napoleon that • statesman's heart should be in has head, bat thee, men have hearts nowhere, nor heads either. They are public I noctionaries, yet they have no conception of public reeponeibilities. No patron of a rotten borough cold mimeses more absolutely the DOII01) of • trust given to him to administer than these elected representa tives of metropolitan householders. They are chosen for the most tart from a clan whose education and motiments are equally safavowable to tee growth of generosity or the development of statesmanlike ideas, aud they sacrifice every- Wag to a petty selfishness or a wretebedeelf-cooceit. It is painful to ray so much of men who are ira pancake' of great power for good or evil. The conviction is, however, forced upon us that however fit they may be to govere the nation, they are daily proving themselves more disqualified for undertaking the government of London. The managemeng of the Bouseleas Poor Act is but one item in a long indict ment against their incapacity. Nor have we much hopes in the obeli-repeated suggestion that persons of a different grade might be advantageously introduced into the com position of metropolitan vestries. There is no absolute bar preventii-g theca from undertaking the dates of guardian and vestryman now, and the fact that each offices are habi tually undertaken by men of education and re fi nement in the country shows that their absence from metropolitan boards is not due to say disinclination on their part to en gage in onerous work. The truth is that the qualities which give such men weight in rural parishes are lost sight of in Louden, and those only are or can be chosen whose bushier relations have made them knows melte the holden of of their neighbourhood. If metropolitan vestries and boards of peardishs are to be improved by an infuaioa of fresh blood, it Banat be done by a reform in the way of electieg them. If this is impossible, there is no alternative short of the establishment of • single authority, responsible to parbaimmit, which shall be shamed with the goner masted the metropolis. .0 1 / . i # .