The Express. — London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

TROUSERS. —S pecial attention is sallecrto the new WINTIR MCC: ens gentlemen who do not mind paying a fair Woe for a good pair of Trousers can depend on material and patterns that cannot be excelled, at HAIMTON and RI IWTTINE pt. STRAND, Opposite sut'i Hail. THE DEPOTS ALITHENTIQI7ES for SALE of the SNUYIPS, Tobacco". and Cigars, manufactured or 'sa- GOVIRNMINT T9ltheoo ADMINISTRATION, -1 !i• 24 PICCADILLY, W. i 40, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY TRELOARI3 COCOA - NUT MATTING and ICAMPTULIOON !LOON-CLOTH WAEZEOVIIN, Rammed from No. 42 to No. M. LUDGATFAILL. LONDON. THE UNITED LIBRARIES, 307, REGENT-S f DM, LONDON, W. BuWcrfpUoas bcm Oue Oube► HOW COLD rr HAS BEEN.-NEORKTTI sad ZAMBIAM celebrated THERMOMETERS wall netts mister the lowest temperature. Price k 6d. —l, Buttes -I=s; 69, Curtail'. US, Fleet-street ; and 126. Reiteut-etreet. t i : ireated. WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMIST My dear tallow ! gentleman sap at EVAMIII, Ootinsp►da gitt OF4Preol4* TO . COI.LII42PONDENTIL _ -- übsetlaseunts hstet;d4ri tot Th e Ropie r' London Weal:dna raper, must be at the often, 10, bouverleatreek by Two Wcuuck au the day of publicatioa. COVENT-Gill/VC T triormo, sis STOWS TO CONOVER. Meows. W. R. Wriso, U. Corr!, O. Perm, and W. Harmon . Misses 1.. Di e t an di l OßTlC aL ATl C D " r d irnitiOtr i t i C i . o o tO n- rr A r O n Ct7 T. opening HAYMAIEXT. Thiii Metlre, LITTLE DAISY.—THE Ely tLa. Messrs. Buckstene, Howe, Chippendale, Farreo,Rogers. Clark ; Mesdames Angel, Yitsetllmm, Snowdon, Ilndley.—aud KING ARIJIUR. Kr. Compton ; Mesdames L Keeley, Wright. Lindley, E.Romer. I.IAINCE93'S. THIS EVVITNO. PAUL'S RE t URN. Messra Vining, Nelson Mabee, Forrester, Mellon, Sere" Cashew ; Mesdaraes Wanton, C. Carson, Powell. and Rata Willa—And HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOY lIICILER. .LYCEUM.. T is Evernia, THE LOOT CHILD. Yr. Widdloomb sad M P. libeloroq.—BKL DMIONIO, a Loos Story. Mews. leadot. Brougbam. tow', Marko, and Jordon ; Mow Kate Terry,Lovencte,arni Elowortby. sod lira Los. tian:priu. inn Ern - . no. HICKORY. HICKORY DOCE. Mrs. L Lae and ant-rate Pantomindst&—THE GREAT GHOST IFTWT.—&rtbor anJ Derthiod.—The Fairy lrotodate...And MY LORD WELCOME HIGH WATKA AT LONDON BEEDGIL TIM DAT Wlrnlog. llb. 0m.....A100m00a lib. 470. To4tossow— Morolog, Ob. Om .. .Alamass. utt. 23a. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18. THE time has arrived which many of the friends of thelowerclasses have long been watching for with anxiety—the crisis in the fate of sewing women through the introduction of the sewing machine. The occupation of plying the needle in the old method for hire is dying out, and the miserabte women who before could hardly keep soul and body together by excessive toil are now deprived of all prospect whatever, as far as their old employment is concerned. This winter has brought their case before the public in a way which is terribly affecting—we might say appalling; and it is now proper to consider what is to be done. We all agree that the sewing machine is a neces sity, and that it will ultimately be a good thing :or the workwomen themselves : we know that the needlewomen generally had got to sew worse and worse as their hurry and hunger increased, and that more of them might now be employed on the machine if they knew better what good work is. All this, and much more, is very true, and very instructive in its proper place; but the question at the moment is how to support many thousands of women who want to work and cannot find em ployment. Under the extreme pressure a mere charitable subscription has been instituted in one direction— s subscription of so much per month till the sum mer, to carry a certain number of unemployed needlewomeu of the higher class through the winter. Whether or not we may believe a method so mischievous to excused by the necessity of the time, we must all see that this is not the way to take the case in hand for any purpose of effectual relief. In fact, all experience and all reasoning tend to satisfy us that the only remedy for the distressed condition of working women is to open new modes of industry to them, and to regulate and expand those which already exist. In this procedure is involved the improvement of the women themselves in knowledge appropriate to these new occupations, and also in gene-al in telligence. It is a good thing for many of the suffering class that such methods are not now first to be proposed, and that the requisite organization is already formed. The Society for Emoting the Emp'-ayment of Women has saved some thousands of the victims already. It cannot, of course, com pensate for the operation of the machine. No agency could do that in so short a time ; but it has achieved the independence of many thousands of women, and has laid the foundation of the independence of many more. In London there are nearly two thousand, and in England and Wales nearly eight thousand, more shopwomen in drapers' and haber dashers' shops that there were ten years since, while the number of shopmen has not increased; and the same thing has happened in other branches of employment. Much more may be done in the same direction by suitable effort on behalf of the women, seeing that nearly twenty thousand men are at thus day busy platting straw and making bonnets, and above twenty thousand hairdressers and wig and stay makers, while their strong arms are wanted for manly labour, and tens of thousands of women are hungering for work that they can do. At the doors of the Society fifty apply weekly— that is five tini^s as many as can find employ ment through that channel. For the post of nursery governess 500 replied to the advertisement, and 300 for an employment which gave only board and lodging, without pay. Yet • large number does get placed or employed through the register books of the Society. In another way, the Society has done an inestimable service—in disposing parents to qualify their daughters for profitable occupations : thus, in the Census for 1851 there is no mention of female accountants or clerks ; whereas in the last Census 34 female accountants appear, and no less than 274 clerks. In such a case, the difficulty is in making • beginning ; and when the occupants of a new de partment of industry once become hundreds they soon grow to thousands ; and their oecupat:on seems as natural as that of governesses and needy. women ever did. We see this on the Continent, where women fill scores of industrial offices which with us are engrossed by men • and in America, where the unequal distribution of the sexes in the oldest and the newest parts of the national territory has compelled a large proportion of the women in the Eastern States to support themselves. The first thing to be done, then, seems to be to sustain the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (19, lAngham-place). This may be best done by in creasing its income, which could not be so small as it is if its actual influence were better known and appreciated. But its register books afford the best guidance obtainable for employers who want hands, from intelligent copying or book-keeping, or photographing and decorative arts, down to the THE plainest mechanical employments. By strengthen ing the means and the influence of a Society which sets to work rationally to enable homeless or necessitous women to earn their bread we may do more for the whole class than by any efforts of mere charity ; and not a day should be lost in doing whatever we mean to do, as the throng of the unemployed thickens from month to month, and the pressure is becoming alarming to all who are thoughtful enough to consider what perils be set the course of young women who are idle by compulsion while hungering for bread. The other condition—that of improving the knowledge, and cultivating the intelligence of working-women—is, we observe, likely to be pro vided. A good beginning will be made when the Working Women's College—corresponding to the institution which is doing so much for working men--shall have got into operation. At this in stitution, women who have had no means of in struction since they left school will have access in the evenings to excellent teaching, and means of cheerful study in the college classes. Besides the mewl subjects of study—arithmetic, geography, grammar, composition, and languages, each indis pensable in one or another employment—instruc tion will be provided in matters emnently impor tant to women, such as physiology and the laws of health, social economy, and the principles of art, and practice of drawing. The object is not to afford technical teaching, but rather to enlighten and elevate the whole mind, and thus to raise the students to a higher rank not only of occupation, but of intelligence and character. However needful it may be to put bread into the mouths of destitute women to prevent thei , starving, or overwhelming their parishes, we must direct our most anxious efforts to sustain the objects of such institutions as these for the sake of the permanent independence of the greatest number. The only effectual rescue for this multi tude of women is in putting their case into their own bands by fitting them for secure and honour able work, and in preparing the way for as many as become qualified. The helpless must be fed, of course; but we must meet, and even anticipate, the Onros of those who have in them a capacity of self help which only needs to be brought out; and for this the two Societies we have referred to afford as good an agency as could be desired. bt ecntrt. - OSBORNE, FIB. 17. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday. The Hon. Mrs. Bruce and Major-General Seymour at tended her Majesty. Princess Helena rode on horseback, attended by the Hon. Emma Lucelles. Captain Sir Leopold ACClintock, commariding her hfajesty's ship Aurora, ix Cowes Roads, had the honour of being received by the Queen yesterday. RT. LEONARDS, FRB. 16. The Prince of Wales hunted yesterday with the East Sussex fox hounds. The Princess of Wales drove to the meet. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treastuj, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Gee', Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. A meeting of the Govereovs of WetUnites' College was held in the Fine Arts Commission Room at the Pekoe of Westminster, yesterday. Present—The Duke of Cambridge, K.G., the Right Hoe. the Earl of Derby, K.G. (president), the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord Chelmsford, the Right Hoe. J. H. Walpole, M.P., the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., Sir Alexander Woodford, G.C. 8., Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. Henry R. Cox, the Rev. G. R. Craig, M.A., the Rev. W. E. Benson, B.D. (heed masteri, Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot (honorary secretary), and Mr. Chance (secretary). The judicial committee of the Privy Council set ymter day. Their lordships pee Judgment in the appeal from New South Wales," Robertson v. Dumaresque," silrming the decision of thew:art below, with oasts. An appeal from Bombay, " Veaayek Arnundrow v. Luxumaball," was heard, and dismissed with costa A petition, " Re John Marshall Young," setting forth claim for compensation, Iraq brought under their lordships' notice ; bat, owing to some difficulty as to the form of pro cedure, it was ordered to stand over for the present. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left tows yesterday for Osborne. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge en tertUaed a select circle at dinner Lut evening at Glausaaw Home. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington received a select circle at diem at Apelsy House last evening. The Marquis of Bristol and the Lidiee Hervey do not leave Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds, for town for the SOY= until after the Raster holidays. The Countess of Elgin and children are staying at 48, Chester-aquare, during their sojourn in tows. The Count and Countess Gleichen (their Serene Highnesses Prince and Primer Victor of Hobanlobe) will remove from their present residence in Sc. James's Palace for Lady Augusta Stanley's apartments, formerly occupied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The Countess of Ellesmere is expected home from the south of Frame about the woad weak in April. The Earl and Countess of Roden have airived in town from their twat in 'rebind. The Earl and Countess de Grey had a dinner party last evening at their residence in Carlton•gardens. Among the goesta were his Excellency the Danish Minister, the Earl and Countess of Cork, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderiery, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Lord and Lady Alfred Hervey, the Right lion. Edward Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, Mr. Oliphant, C. 8., fie. Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Chichester Fortsecne, ILP., g►ve a grand entertainment to his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale last evening, at their real deeee, in Carltonirardens. The following were invited to meet his royal highness :—His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador cad the Comae« Apponyi, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame VllO de Weyer, his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador and Madame Cornya, the Duchess of Sutherland, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Lord Checoellor, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl of Abing. don, Viscount Torrington, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denims, the Hoe. Henry and Mrs. Brand, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. Stirling, Sr.c. Later in the evening her ladyship gave her first assembly this season. . _ The Duchess of Somerset gave a dancing party Lot ease* at the official residence of the I , ,nit Lord, is the Admiralty, which was numerously attended. DIATB or LADY KRATINO.—We regret to an nounce the death of Lady Keating, the wife of Sir Henry Singer Keating, one of the lustier of the Court of Commit Pleas. Her ladyship was the daughter of the late Major. General Evans, of the Royal Artillery. THs LATR Ma. Moss. —By the death of Mr. William Kure the port of cosset at New Orients is left at the disposal of her Majesty's government. No man Gould brave the climate of New Orissa. for so many yams without serious injury to his constitution, and Hr. Yuri mine to Washington in 1962, on bin way to &egad. in deplorable health, which was Aggravated by the hardship s of a jeering in waiter from New Orleans through a country ravaged by hostile armies, aid destitute of ordinary coeveyasese and facilities for teavelliag. He name to Ragland in the hope of recovering his strength, but Bever altogether rallied, and expired on the 14th in London from the effects of debility sod disease. MR. SPURGEON ox POLAND. —On Tuesday the Metropolitan Tabernacle, by fez the largest edifice in Loa doe. was quite filled with as audieeeemnsinbled to bear the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon lecture es Poked. Mr. &domed Beale., the president of the Polish League, presided on the occasion. Mr. Spurgeon's lecture wee one of great interest and eloquence, and the vast aaditory frequently testified their sympathy with hie densrocistieos of the wroep of Poland by enthusiastic cheers. The deinoestratioe wee the more remarkable as every one paid for admisidoe, the pro• needs being geoerously devoted to the funds of the Bead of Hops Union. 'RESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIANS AND AUSTRIANS. The Wanderer of Vienna energetically protests against Marshal Wrangel's pretensions to occupy Holstein. It says : The majority of the Germanic Diet has expressly declared to Austria and Prussia that it had refrained from opposing the passage of their troops into Holstein on the condition that the power of the federal commissioners should be left entire. If, indeed, the federal troops had resisted those of the two great powers, the latter would have found them. selves in a most embarrassing position. And now the Pros. shun threaten to drive out those who had shown them so much condescension, and intend to ocznpy Holstein on their own account. If there be such a thing as injustice in the world, wens it here. We trust that Austria will be able to induce Pruesia to relinquish this measure, and that in any case the Austrian troops will take no part in it. RELIGIOUS "PERSUASIONS" IN IRELAND. The last census of Ireland, full tables of which were issued to-day, divides the religious professions of the people into established church, Romeo catholic*, presby terians, methodists, independents, baptists, quakes. "all other persuasions," and Jews. In looking over a table showing the religions professions of persons as described by themselves, included tinder the bead of "all other per suasions," we find some curious particulars! 112 people hare written themselves down simply as "Christians," and 68 se "High Church." Then there are 51 "Christian Inset- Bee," and 40 " Brethren"—not Plymouth brethren. 28 rack themselves as "Disciples of Christ;" 14 are " Dar byites," 9 "Kellyites," 3 " Walkerites," 3 " Mommonians," and 1 " Cameroniso." 9 simply declare themselves "Be lieves in Jesus," 6 as "Members of Christ's Church," 8 as "Sinners saved by Grace." We find also such deeds -11 nations as these :—" Brethren in Christ" (2), " Church of Christ" (2), " The Word of God Alone" (2), "Self-opinion or the church of God," (1. One man writes himself down "a saint of no sect," and a man and a woman say they are "of no particular persuasion." Two go a little further than the last, and say that they are " undecided." Two others are " doubtful ;" 44 males and 28 females say they are of "no religion." One is • " philanthropist," another a " po sitivist," and another • "Cromwellian Protestant." There are 4 socialists, 21 freethinkers, 20 secularists, 19 deists, 1 unbeliever (a woman) and 1 atheist. Two are " rationalists," 2 " matmialieta," and 2 avow themselves to be "seekers." One is • " Puseyite." The Unitarians are divided under the heads of " Unitarians" simply, of whom there are 3,800; " Unitarian presbyte rises," 201 ; " non-subscribing presbyteeians," 167 ; and " Ari►ns," 32. Several of this denomination, however, are naked under the general head of " presbyterians." The figures of the general return are all follows : Established church—males, 339,314, females 354,013 ; Roman catholics—mates 2,206,053, females, 2,300,212; presbyterians—males 254,734, females 268,557 ; methediMe . _ —male' 21,290, females 24,109; independente—mllll2,ll2, females 2,420 ; Imptista--rnales 2,141, females 2,096 ; society of friends or quakers—males 1,680, females 1,680 ; all other persuasioos—males 10,846, females 7.932 ; dews—males 200, females 193, ANTI•MALT TAX MEETING AT WOLVERHAMPTON. Yesterday afternoon, at the Agricultural Hall, Wolverhampton, • meeting was held in favour of the repeal of the malt tax. There were about 200 of the principal farmers present. B. McKim, Req., took the chair and read a number of apologias for non-attendance, among which was one from the Earl of Lichfield, in which he said :—" There cannot be two opinions as to the injustice of the tax as well as its inconsistency with free trade. The only question I do not feel satisfied upon is the extent to which the farmers would look for relief as compered with the 2d. or 3d. income tax." One was from Lord Dart mouth in which he said :—" I have only, I think, to say that although in principle • thorough advocate for the repeal of the malt tax, whether viewed as an impost on the coo sumer or upon the producer—for the agriculturalists of this country are interested in both the above considerations— yet, as Kr. Newdegate observed the other day in the Hones of Commons, I am not pre pared to assert that so large a sum of revenue can at once be surrendered. However, I heartily wish the movement for the repeal of that tax success." Another from W. Foster, Foi., :—" Although I cannot go so far asto promise that I could vote for the absolute and imme diate repeal of the excise duty, I certainly sympathise is the movement the farming interest is making." And Gee from Alexander Stavely Hill, Esq., saying Yon have my hearty sympathies with you in your efforts to obtain the removal of the tax oa malt." Speeches were made in favour of the object of the meeting by tenant farmers and manufacturers of the town, and resolutions were paseri to the effect that the repeal of the malt tax was one of material importance both to the producer and con sumer, while it prevented the farmers from making the best use of their land, and oompelled the labouring classes to pay twofold value for one of the daily necessities of life. That the feeling of the fermate of the country was opposed to the continuation of the tax, and they ought to be repre sented in parliament. That the high sheriff be requested to call • county meeting. That while taxation had been reduced on the beverages of the middle and upper classes, that of the lower classes remained undimiaished. The meeting was very enthusiastic, aad refused to haw any opposition. THE REPEAL OP THE MALT TAY. Yesterday a vary large meeting took place in the Corn Ex Ruey. Mr. C. M . who presided, read a letter from Mr. Newdegate, M.P., in which that gentleman write., in explanation of his speech in parliament : "It would have been very injudicioos on my part if I had at the outset repudiated the first attempt. on the part of the government to meet the re ouiremente of the sgriculturista, in the matter of malt, not being, as I stated at Wtrwick, prepared to vote for the immediate and uncooditional abolition of 6,000,0001. of renew—the amount derived from the malt tax. I am folly sensible of the anomalous and unfair positive in which the excise restrictions of the malt tax prow exclu sively upon the agriculturists as it now stands. For malt ing 'a but a process in the consumption of a portion of agricaltsral produce into another form. I quite amour with those who think that the sgriculturiste ought to be mom peosated or rewarded; but I do not coocur with some of those who can etrenonaly agitate for the repeal of the malt-tax, as might be understood from my speech at War wick. For with these pumas the relief of the farmer and his labourers are matters of quite a .encoders ommiderstica, and in these real object. Ido not concur. You will oblige me by reedits( this to the meeting on Wednesday, and by erpressiug my regret that I cannot leave London on that day." Resolutions were passed condemning the malt tax, sad a pstitica wasadopted praying for its meal. THE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL COMPANY. (THIS DAY.) This afternoon the fourth ordinary general meeting of the above company was held at the Inter sotiomil Hotel, Loseloo.bridge. The half-yearly report of the directors, which was adopted, slates that although the hotel receipts, as shown in the accosate, are act so large as at one period were anticipated, the trading profits upon those receipts must be wondered very satisfactory. The gToes receipts for the period ending December 31, 1863, have been 13,6661. Os. 11d., the expenditure 9,1031, 25., giving a set profit of 4,5511. 18a. lid., which, after deduct ug 1,9191. 41. 7d. for interest on debenture loan and mart pge debt, will, with the amount of 1,2131. 12s. Id., brought over from thetas& accouet, lean to the credit of profit and loss available far dividend, the stun of 3,8471. 6s. 9d. This sum would produce a dividend at the rate of upwards of 9 per cent per annum oo the half-year, but the whole amount would then be absorbed, and the directors, having regard to the future, consider it more prudent to moan : mead a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent pee sanine, which will enable them to Garry forward • wane l of 1,4021. 111 e. 9d. to the credit of the next half-year's account. The hotel business, although still much below the capacity of t h e hotel, is in • healthy Pete, steadily norms -1 in., and a vomits consexioa of a permanent character is being established. .1a the present wir o an ts there is • con. siderable reduction ta revenue in newt of club reoeipts— the Southwark Club having in tact ceased to exist. There is, however, *very reason to hope that the toes is only iell2 pan t y, ano ther club, to be monied "The International and Mercantile Club," being is pose. of formatioo, the sub ecription to which being mart lower, • proportionally loser number of members maybe expected to join it. The direc tors hare pleasure in amnesties that a hitherto compara tively useless spine on the ground loaf of the hotel has been recently converted, at small expire, into dining and refreshisonrooms, is which, as far as on be judged from a short experience, there is every reams to believe a no fitable local badness will be don. The directors still eater. taro the *trios expressed in • former report that no material injury will souse to the hotel from the opening of the enemies lies of railway to Charing-crass : feeling cosedeet that say loss sustained by the passing onward of moms travellers who might otherwise have remained at the hotel will be fully tionnessated by the env sad rapid commasicstios now established between it and the west mid of Loedoo. The diresten take the opportunit of contra dicting various infonsed reports in consorti um the future existence aad coationesse of the hotel, which if allowed to pals winkled might canes ussanaes• is the minds of the preporieters. Attertemait Maus VIA PANANA.—The mail steam packet eamennairation Wares Andralis and Tag - laud will riormasece not later than the Ist of March, 1865. The subsidies for coaveying the malls between Panama sad Sydosy will amount 100,0004 a year. The voyage Interims throe two porta is to be performed In 37 days. sod the whole dietaries between England and New South Wake is 50 days. It is calculated that the Levee at post to and from Asstralia. vii Panama, will be sea month INS than by way of led's. There are tow seven Hass of sleamen io commies with Panama that will act as feeders to the Poetic mail steam line to Amtralia--via. throe taws logisad sod Oolos, two Wiliam Pima& sod California, me betimes Passim sad C6lll, sad sae be ' tweet Nasals sad Oinks! America. ' The whole number of national bank' organimed ea the 12th of Jassmy was 306, hsvimg ea espemite supi tsl of 32,634.1100 dole., divided mese timaty-three Males sad the district of Oolumbia. Bias the 12014 • dam peaks have ban added to the above. with • symboled wady 2,600,000 doh.—Par York Herald. 0111111TAL PALMA •••• ON/ Szturero DAY. Pm. 17 .—Admirioss oa pps~mst, 1,411; ow frr SWIM Berate,l,o7l ; total, 2, ITALY. A letter from Turin of the 15th contains the following : An experimental squadron hu been foemed and placed under the ceder, of Admiral Albini ; it consists of nearly all the vessels reviewed by the King in the Gulf of Naples in the month of October last. The financial situation, which was before not too brilliant, has grown worse in mom queues of Me present political unessinees and the prepare tines for war rendered necessary by circumstances. The government has still in hand 203 millions of the loan of 700 millions of last year, but at the present moment an emission of stock cooid only be made at a low rate. The State also poems= a vast network of railways, the alienation of which has been &ailed in principle for some time past. Between the two sacri fices of which one should be imposed on the country, the government has not hesitated to declare in favour of the alienation of the railways. Experience has bends shown that the state is far from gaining by working such under. takings. The negotiation, for this measure are far ad vaoced, and I think that on the return of the Minister of Public Works from Milan, the convention, which is to de finitively regulate the ,xesion, will be signed. General Turr, who commanded the Hungarian Legion, and who was honorary aide-demon to the King, has been placed on the half•pay list, and is said to have left Italy. This measure coincides with a series of fresh nominations in the Italian army and in the King's household, which last has been con siderably increased. (=ma's TuanaxL) THE WAR IN SLIZWIG. OOPKNHAOEN, Fn. 11, 8.5.5 P.Y. The government have published the regulations for the blockade of the ports of the enemy. Count Hamilton, Swedish Minister at Copen hagen, has been sammoned to Stockholm to confer with his government The enemy in Sandbjerg and the Danes in Roehave fired at each other across the Sound with out effect IMPORTANT NOTE OF AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, Tn. 18, Moirorm. _ _ The Pruse of to-day says :—" A note of the great German powers to the minor States declares that they do not recognise the necessity of a federal reserve being stationed in Holstein. Should such a want arise, the great powers would place at the disposal of the Diet a sufficient reserve for execu tion purposes." SPAIN. MADRID. Fu. 17. The Madrid papers announce that a bill has been introduced in the CorLes, authorising credit opera tions on the guarantee of the bonds given by the purchasers of national propel:T. AMERICA. (Per the Non Scotia via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, Fis. 6, 3 P. IL. (By telegraph to Porthurd.) The Nashville Union says that the Federal army has crossed the Tennessee River, near Larkinsville, and surmises that its object may be to attack Rome, Georgia. The judge of the Admiralty Court at Halifax has decided to restore the Chesapeake and cargo to her ovrners,subject to conditions respecting the payment of such expenses as the Attorney-General may exact. The Attorney-General demands a surety against latest claims, but the owners of the Chesa peake demur to this. COMMERCIAL LVTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, FRB. 6, Evc•rmo. Money easy ; gold, 58i per cent. premium. Stocks firm and advancing, market very excited ; New York Centrals, 13.3 i ; Ill;nois, 132 ; Erie, 111; Six per Cent. U.S. Bonds, 1071. All other markets unchanged. TEE DANISH FRIGATE OFF PLYMOUTH. (THIS DAY.) PLYMOUTH, Tllostauy Moaarnio. The Danish frigate Niels ins!, 46, which left here yesterday morning, was actively employed all day within a oomparstively short distance of the harbonr. She +unbarred to bring to and overhaul 10 or 12 merchant ships, including an American barque bound to London, which subsequently received a Channel pilot. At one time the frigate was well east of the port towards the Start, when one of het boats was between the Eddystone and the Ramthead to the westward. Two boats were detached from her ; each con tained 30 men well armed. The wind was then northerly ; a light tweeze. During the day the frigate was occasionally descried from the Citadel. This morning she has not yet been seen. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The North German Lloyd ste►men between London ►nd Bremen have been trsnaferred to the Russian flag, and the Company's steamers running to New York ria Southamp ton will probably very soon mil under the same flag. The Hann, having uedargoeo a thorough overhaul, is ready to take her departure for New York on the 2nd of March. The New York is receiving aew boilers. The Duke Scotti has just returned to Milan from Rome, where be went to demonstrate at the head of • " temporal " commission in favour of the Pops. Haviag received his share of blessings, he wanted to show himself radiant with happiness to the public eye of Milan, and ac cordingly went to the Soak. As soon, however, as he was sun entering his hoz, the whole crowded house roes, and there was • loud cry, "Turn the Duke Sootti out!" "Let him go to Rome !" These and similar exhortations Lk him no doubt about the temper of the assembly ; and be accord ingly withdrew. The Times publishes to-day an elaborate defence of the conduct of Germany towards Denmark, from the pee of Professor Max Muller. The professor &dares Prince Frederick to be the "rightful heir" to Ed ' stein, wbces birthright the Gasses Confederation is "bound to protect at all bawds," for "bad there been no meddling with the laws of meow eion" he would have seconded the throes of Holstein "es a m►tter of course." To this view (the Times remarks) there are four obvious objections : first, that his claim to succeed is Holstein epos this hypothesis, instead of Wag " a matter of coarse," has bees ably untested by Danish jurists; secondly, that there has been a very importsat meddling with the encesmioe law, and that with the corset of the Duke of Augustenburg himself ; thirdly, that the dub received a compensation for his reonaciation, not of his rights, but of his pretensions ; fourthly, that he and his whole family are absolutely excluded, as the isms of a merits of miealliamme. The first of these objections in simply ignored by the professor ; the second and third are pooh•poohed as filmy excuses for an set of spoliation, aggravated by bribery ; and the fomih, we regret to add, is =pr'emed• The Green Bay A drank states that old "Aunt" Polly Dozetitter, a motherly Oneida squaw. lisle; about Ms miles from that city. was the sorsa of the sow Mrs. Geseral McClellan. Several spooks sines, " Aunt' Polly seat her pbotorraph to Mrs. MoClollso, sad shed bus in !shim Mrs. !Whalen not oal sent her photograph to Polly, bat accompanied tt with a slug of mosey. —Missouri paper. EXPESSB FROM PARIS. (nom cons owl oosamomnarr.) PARIS, WIONi6DAY aNING. _ _ The Pays strongly disclaims any intention on the part of the French government to insist, in favour of Denmark, upon the treaty of 1720, to which France was a party. It considers that treaty as obsolete. "The court of the Tuileries," it says, "is not called upon to play the part of Don Quixote in Denmark any more than in Poland, or to sacrifice the blood and treasure of France in a cause which is not directly its own." France having offered all the powers, great and small, a valid means of peace, "the congress," will "wait until Europe decides to walk in this path—the only one in which a solution of all existing difficul ties can be found." This stolid faith in a nostrum is supremely ridiculous. The Siècle insinuates that if the Paris elections are to take place on the 20th of March, the reason must be that it is desired to exclude the newly registered electors, who cannot vote till after the 31st. It therefore pretends not to believe the news of the France, and urges that now the elections have been postponed so long, it would be better to put them off yet a few days longer, in order that the fullest and moat recent expression of the feeling of the constituency may be obtained. The Memorial of Lille announces that tbe govern ment will be neutral in the new election for the Nord, caused by the quashing of the return of the Prefect of Police's brother, M. Boitelle. The Pays gives currency to a rumour that the sugar bill (one of the most important of the session) is to be withdrawn. The Patric, alluding to the same rumour, says, however, it has reason to believe that "up to the present time" no resolution of the kind has been come to. Some explanation of the grounds of the above report is to be found in the Gironde of Bordeaux, which says : The Chamber of Commerce of this city has sent three delegates to Paris to defend, before the government and the committee appointed by the Legisktive Body, the interests of the merchant shipping involved in the sugar question. Those interests are very seriously compromised by the present bill, and the sugar manufacturers in the north of France, whose influence is so powerful, appear to be using all their effort. to have the definitive enectaseote of the law made still more favourable to beetroot sugar, or, in other words, disastrous far that from abroad. The legitimist journals lament that permission could not be obtained to celebrate a high mass in Notre Dame on the occasion of the death of the Duchess of Parma. A noble duke, it appears, wrote to the Archbishop of Paris, requesting the mass, and alleging as a precedent that one was performed in the cathedral on the death of Charles X. But the archbishop, in his reply, says that the applicant is mistaken. Mgr. de Qualm', the archbishop of that time, refused the use of the national cathedral for such a purpose, as Mgr. Darboy does now on his own responsibility, and from "sentiments of prudence which behove a bishop, who knows his duty and fulfils it." A low mass, the archbishop says, there is no objec tion to, and any curd can perform one ; but the moment a ceremony is desired of such a nattyro as to require his authority that is a sufficient reason for a refusal. No blame can be justly attached to the govern ment in this affair. The attempt was merely a party move of the legitimists under the cover of religious feeling. The Bourse has again been very firm, and although the highest prices cf the day were not sustained, all securities realised an improvement, and a large business was done. Mobilier rose 10fr. SOLDIERS' DAUGHTERS' HOME. A somewhat novel but interesting kind of enter tainment was given yesterday aft*, zoom in •id of the funds of this admirable institution, at St. James's-hall, Piccadilly. It consisted in the exhibition of various military feats by the non-commissioned officers of the Household Brigade, and was termed an smash of arms. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was expected to have honoured the entertainment with his presence, and chairs were reserved up to its conclusiou for the Prince and his suite, but from some unexplained emus his royal highness wes usable to be present, much to the disappointment of the large and highly respectable audience, many of whom had been attracted to the hall by the announcement that the Prince of Wales would be there. The bands of the let and 2nd Life Guards were present, and played an excellent Weak* of operatic music. Almost every part of the hall„ including the gal leries, was well filled, acid during the intervals between the performances of the oombatants, which took place on a raised platform in the centre of the hall, many anxious and curious glances of expectancy were directed towards Mr. Noeotti's circle of magnificently gilded and carved chairs spa- Melly provided for the see of the Prince and his suite, but which remained vaanat. Among the noblemen sad gen tlemen who honoured the entertainment with their presence sem the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Can • General Brotherton, Earl Mountcharies, General Lawremon, Colonel Co Has, Colonel Vme, Colonel Mar shall, Colonel Bailey, Colonel Hogg, ko. The performances consisted of • series of single combats beeves, the non. commissioned armors of the Ist and Zed Life Guards, in cluding bout' at single stick, fencing matches, boxing matches, combats with sabres, and with bayonet and sabre, and bayonet and small sword. The fencing and single sties matches greatly preponderated, bet as exhibition of cavalry sword exercise, in which Corporal Majors Armstrong (Ist Life Guards), Wake (Red Life Guards), and Priestly (Royal Hone Guards), took part, attracted very general admiration, and wsa a perfect exemplification of the =min power with which blows from the cavalry broad sword are gives. The most popular part of the performance, however, seemed decidedly to be the boxing matches, in which Corporal Butt, Trooper °tideway, Oormeal-Major Leansoat, sad Corporals Harker sad Bee, took part It wen a singular and amusing imam* of the popularity which, in this country, Mtge& all displays of pugilistic skill, that the only thing encored in the perform ances was the first of the boxing matches. Several very extraordinary feels, which we have been accustomed to reed of as being performed by lodise jugglers, bat which are rarely witoseeed in this country, were exhibited by Cor poral Major St. John and Corporal Major Waite. Our readers will remember the wonder with which Saladin, is " The Talisman," regarded the display of physical strength by Richard Comm de Lion, in severing by sheer force a miene bar of meta, and the equal astonishment with which the lion-hearted monarch witnessed the severing of • lace veil and • silk cushion by the keen blade of the molds., bat both fasts were performed by two in dividual yesterday in St. James's-hall. With one blow Corporal-Major Bt. John eat a whole sheep as cleanly in two as if it had been done with a butcher's /Lade, the hind quarters remaining suspended, while half the body dropped with a heavy thud on the ground, and with a whirl of another blade he severed net and silk handkerchiefs which merely rested on the edge of the scimitar. Corporal-Major Waite also performed the equally astonishing hate of cutting • bar of lead an inch and a quarter square is two with on. blow, and subsequently, with • tress sword, completely dividing as apple sod an orange, bad on the naked hand, without abrading the skin of his comrades band In the slightest degree. so marvellously adjusted must have been the amount of force used. and so instantaneous it, arrest the moment the object bad been scamplished. The whole entertainment passed off extremely well, sad in • pecuniary sense must ham bees a very successful one to the charity, the recipients of which witnessed it from • platform in treat of the band. It is rather singulat that the name of God should be spelled with four letters in almost every kftnage, pia :—ln Latin, Dens ; Pres* Dieu ; Greek, ILaos ; German, Gott ; eamsdisavisa, Odin ; Swedish, Oodd ; Br brew, Ades ; Syrian, Add ; Persian, Errs ; Parlarian, lldde~aa ; Bpe bh, bias ; Eat Indian, Bali or Esel ; Turkish, Addi ; baptism, Awns or Zest; Japanese, Zan; Peru vise, !Aso ; Wallaebiw. Zane ; Etruria's, Char ; Dish ; Arabian, Alta ; and others mill with four lettssa.— Asseriaus paper. SHOCKING DEATH PROM STA Ri'An„ FRIGHTFUL WI 'BRINGS OP A FAMILY. INQUIMT.-(THIS DAY.) • To-day, at noon, Mr. H. Raffles Ws'Rhea., depth. coroner, held an inquiry at the King and Queen urns, Three Colt-street, Limehome, respecting the death of Eden Page, aged 3 years, front prolonged starvation and exp,surt. Pegs, 8, New-square, New-street, said that ,h,.. the wife of a sawyee, and deceased was her child. NV /tee ,. had fi ve children. Lest Friday evening the dammed, wh., was not sick, cried. Witness took the child in her arnta and she fixed her eyes on witness in a pactil L o manner. Mrs. Dunmore ran with the child at ouc e to the doctor% but the child died in the Witness had only come out of the isfirmsro on the Monday. Her husband had been ill and had not earo,l 6d. duns; the six weeks prior to witness going into 0., .t.- firmary for fever. Daring these six weeks, all the five ri. :- dreg, herself, and her husband bed to live upon aj.i. which witness and Mrs. Dunmore, • fellow-lodger, earucd at shirtstitching. They were all starving. Two months a; I witness applied to the relieving-officer for reli..f. and tick..! him for a bit of bread. He said, "There iv the wore. house, and you can all come in." Witness retched. -4,, got fever and had to go into the Bromley Union iatir• mary. One of the children was brought io there after her, with fever. While she:was in the infirmary her huaband. who was ill from a bad leg, went before the b,u Ia! guardians and got relief in bread, but no meat or money. Since she came out her husband was laid up with fever, sad had to enter the infirmary, where he now was, and two of her children were also laid up at home with fever. Her children were nearly naked. They had to pay a shilling a week rent. . _ Mr. R. M'Andrew, surgeon, proved that deeetwe.l died from effusion of serum into the pericardium, produced by exposure to cold and want of food and clothing. Susan Dunmore said that she lodged with the Page family and got work at slop stitching. Mrs. Page and witness be tween them used to make a shilling a day, and the win'e eight persons lived on what wee left after the rent was iwid. The parents and children were starving before the fever broke out. Two months ago the workhouse refused to give relief. While the mother and one of the children wer e i t , the infirmary the workhouse people gave four karma week, but no meat or money. The Coroner remarked on the truly deplorable circum. stances of the ease. . The jilryrs;tum;d a verdict—" That deceased died from effusion into the pericardium from exposure to cold, and from went of food end proper clothing. - - BOILER EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE. ABERDARE, 711:D lESDAT ECM At half-past tl7retT, o'clock thin afternoon a , Irea:d. ful boiler explosion took place at the Aberdare Iron Works, in this town, by which nine of the workmen were killed nn! several dreadfully injured. A considerable amount et pro perty wasdestroyed. The boilers wbich exploded were two belonging to the blast engine. MURDER AT BIRMINGHAM. At midnight, on Tuesday, Police-constablo Pa trick Golden was on duty in Dartmouth-street, lisrmios. ham, when he heard the report of a pistol • few yards off, followed by a deep moaning. He ran towards the spot, and found • young woman lying in a twit of blood, her feet being in the gutter, and her head towards the middle et the street. He lifted her up and recognised her as a young woman who was lately married to • young man named George Hall. He found a wound on her face, from which the blood was flowing freely. The young woman was at woe conveyed to her mother's house. She was quite insensible. A bullet had shattered the jaw, and penring the neck had lodged in the vertebra. .1 sur geon removed portions of the fractured bone, and did every. thing in his power to alleviate the sufferings of the woman, but gave no hope of her recovery. The next stage of the tragedy developed itself an hour afterwards. Police-constable W. Dromage was on duty at Hockley•bill shortly after 1 o'clock, when he was accosted by a man having two pistols in his posses ion, who told him that a short time before a relative of hie, aimed George Hall, cams to him in the Wellington Inn, and asked him to take a glass of brandy with him as it would be the last be would ask him to take. On being asked what he meant, he replied that he had shot his wife, and banded him a couple of pistols; and having taken of his brandy he left the house with the landlord to go borne to his father's. The man gave the pistols to the officer who accompanied him to Hall's father's house in Birmingham. On arriving there, they fouod Hall sitting an a sofa in the same room with his father, mother, sister, and brother, and the landlord of the Wellington Inn. The officer claimed Hall as his prisoner, and charged him with having shot his wife with the intention of murdering her. The prisoner quietly mid, "It is tree ; I did," and gave himself up to the officer. He was not at all excited, but, on the contrary, was perfectly calm and collected, and even gentle in his manner. On coming away from the house, he shook hands with all his friends, and said, " Good bye, I hope we shall meet in heaven." The pistols were perfectly new. One of them had been discharged • the other was loaded, but hod so sap on. Os the ciarge being drawn, the shottiag was found to consist of • conical ball. The prisoner was brought before the magis trate yesterday; and on • medical certificate being produced to the effect that the young woman was in • highly dangerous state, be was remanded until Saturday. He is by trails a damper, and was employed in a work shop in Vyse-street. It appears that the prisoner and the young woman were married last Christmas-day. Before the marriage, the prisoner told her that he had furnished a nice house in good style, sad that they would enter upon it after their marriage. He, how ever, went into ledgiup, and his wife was so angry at this that she left him in nine days, and refused to live with him tall • house was provided. This greatly exesipip rated the peuoner t who gave way to an extreme It ef *lousy.Oo Tuesday night he allied at the place where his wife was living in Pnoceeeetrese, and demanded her to give up the earrings and wedding rio with which be presented her at their marriage, saying he was going off to UverpooL After some words, they parted. In two hours afterwards the prisoner called for his wife at her mother's house, sad they went out together between 9 end 10 o'clock, and waked about for two hours, talking over their affairs. The morsel has already been told. The young woman died last night, at • quarter to 5 o'clock. after sawing fearful agoay, aggravated by as un soecereful attempt to extract the bell. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT MATLOCK. An extraordinary occurrence has recently taken phtes at Nader& A women, named Ellen Gaunt, bad long resided at Matlock, but being in the last stage of 000- suniption she came to Derby as the 23th of October, last year, sad remained with her sister and her husband, Mr. and Vas. Hadfield, at Pear-tree, till the 24th of January, 1864, when she died. The deceased was nem by no doctor In Derby, having been told by Mr. Brown, of Mat lock, before eDe came here that she could sot recover. The deceased, after her death, was taken to Matlock, and was buried there on the 28th of January. An offlcisl report states that at the burial, "on the sexton filling in the grave he fancied he heard • noise in the calla, and he at owe informed the minister, who went out and heard similar weeds ; another penes was thee called, sad also eventually Dr. Cash. The body was taken out of the coffin, and Dr. Cash attempted to bleed it and • drop or two of blood issued from the lamina. The doctor pronounced her dead, sedate bad been so ter some time. She was again placed in the Emma and severed up." These /vests naturally caused great excitement in the town, a nd soon as the chief coostable became acquainted with the cisranistasom he iastitatul aa iandiy. Dr. Brows. who had attended the deceased, mays ' For some weeks before her leaving Matlock for Derby I attended her, sad informed her friends and herself that her ease was hopeless, as she was suffering from tubercular disease of the liege, sad would only live some three or four months, as she was far advanced I. the last stage of consumption. I gave • cartilage as to the mum of death, as I was informed that no other medical man had visited her after she left Matlock. I know loathing about the funeral or the knocking in the coffin, beyond so much disgusting and foolish talk which would hardly have been tolerated four centuries ego." In the course of the inquiry the ruder of Natio* was applied to, and in his statesseet be says :—'• Sone after I had left the churchyard the parish clerk came to the rectory to nay that be bad heard • strange soles in the grave. I immediately went with him to the spot, and after listening • short time heard • peculiar knocking proceeding from the grave, and appereetly in the coffin. I then went to all Mr John Flee, one of the churchwardens, who also heard the knocking. We immediately ordered the coffin to be uncovered, and while the clerk was doing so I ran to the hones wham the friends of the deceased ware, and told them what we tied beard. I also sent for • policeman and for Dr. Cash, the latter of whom examined the corpse, and proomumed her to be dead, but declared that he could not say how lon she had been dead. I cannot offer say opinion esymilf as to the mese of the poises —that is and ever will be a mystery—but to Mr. Else, the parish clerk, and myself, they were more than aerofoil' to justify us is what we did." No further exnation of the " noises" has yet been gives, and the excitement which the event bad originated has subsided. Derby Mercury. Tss OALWAT CONTRACT SAID TO BE AT AN ZWD.... The ifaaressier Exesseter of to-day says :—" Ws hays reason to believe that the tooeromeot have decided to se dire so beget ihe sitorteconiags of the °slimy Paebet Otespsay. and that the oostraat is at an sad." The catastrophe at Santiago has been narrated fa a marina form in the Roma mem The Oaserofttort sewnw of the 10th aanoceass the receipt of a lean from the print, Doe Freshmen Mortises Gahm, ordering hie spa he Rom to here a artae amber of mama ode heated at the tomb of the Apatite" Peter end Pal, as the suinermasse alter of the Veda& bullion, for the humid of the nafortunete victims' souls. The same priest make" an appal to the piety a the Rana deny of Soma request lag them Se apply a memento for the seleation of the victims! soak daring the aeletenthee of man I 'il Sir .vide _ with par rafEC hosbl Dude Cr - 4 that cruet blob 7/12Td La! Cr meal -- 6 ToD - id dot moo as 2. sot a - t - ! — fa mod reap his c demi fartk Mr. wen) Th lead. dist* 4311 A Ci DOW be m alley of X sae; old divi4 COM UM Irbil den. wit' tete vee The fend iibcil the Y 4 heal Bob teen as a