The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-16 00:00:00

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Every Rifleman has his notions as to what best sets off his personal appearance, and indulges a pardonable ambition in making the most of natures gifts. Lay Agues in divers costumes may be seen surrounded by civil critics, and even if one of them is adopted by ear company, it is pretty clear that few other companies will follow the example. Indeed, it Mal that the War-office has been apples/1A to in so many cases that they have determined to appoint a committee to select a suitable pattern. 'flue question of uniform is not so unimportant as it may at first appear. It is one of coaveciaace and expender. If these two matters are ignored the Ride movement can never become goneral and this, after all, is the first essential. Already, It must be admitted that the tendency is to confine the Rifle Volunteers to the upper and maid le classes; and tie or gonadica elf the corps almost necessitates this result. The Mermen are in the same company, not because they belong to the seine district, but because they belong to the same profession or the same class in society. The bairsters' corps does not admit the doctors, or even the attorneys; the civil servants of the Crown do not admit the railway officials. Hobos what may be termed the middle classes there le no curve whatever, except it may be some great employers or mauafeeturers who have organised bodies among their men. This is a grave defect, and it is one that we trust will be rer method. For this purpose it is above all things neoemary that the door of admusioo to the Ride Corps should be wide open. if the requirements sad the discipline are over strict, persons both rich and poor will hold bark ; if the necessary expenses are not reduced to the smallest sum the great body of the people will be excluded. It is not to be denied that many persons look with satisfaction to the fact that as each Rifleman must pay for hie own uniform the power classes must be practically excluded. To the shopkeeper, the everchaat, and the professional man SI. wr 4L ie of so consequence. Bat to the man with 10a. or 30.. a week and a family it Imo= matter of grave consideration. On the ether head, if the poorer clam is to have their uniform paid for, it may biome a serious matter for the Treasury, or for the pockets of voluntary subscribers. It is clear, therefore, that in any view the character of the uniform will in great measure determine the character of the Volunteer &Be Corps. There never was a cue in which a new " clothes philosophy " was more needed. It would be singular to know how many British Watkins& are willing to, invest some forty shillings in the puerile privilege of wearing a tide uniform. It is • positive feet that some companies are organised on such &system. If men are young enough to go to fancy balls, why do they not beet me effective. ? if they are too old for dancing or for service, why should they disguise them• selves in military costume ? It is to be hoped that the War-offlor, in the patternaboot to be relected, will look to three things only—utility, cheapness, and simpli city. It m ty be admitted that some uniform is neces sary, fur it mignt be difficult to prevent an invader trona shooting armedmen without uniform. At thesame time, all the world knows that during the Peninsular war bof LT in Saw attempted to exclude the followers of the guerilla chiefs, however clothed, from the pri• vilegea of regular soldiers; and only the other day tie costume of many of GAiilliAl.l)l's men was neither so uniform nor so costly as that of their French or Sirdinian comrades. Beyond a cap and a paletOi, or some kind of coat reaching to the knees, it dose not occur to ea that a kale Volunteer has need of anything farther than hie arms. A man need not be armed cepii-pie. It is enough if his military costume reaches the knee. The number on his cave coat would readily inform the world a. to his corps. And it would be impossible to deny the rights of a regular soldier to any man in this costume without incurring the charge of barbarism. Indeed it almost seems that in conceding so much we are conceding too much ; for we have little doubt that a wire cap, with the number of the corps or regiment, would be amply sufficient to entre for its wearer the rights of a prisoner of war. At all events, besides the cap and coat, there is en necessity for any sort of uniform, and the Government sill, it is to be hoped, sat their faces steadfamtly against anything like tailoring travegasee. The Rile Voleateer Cape is not a plaything. It will only be called oat in a case of supreme emergency. Thom who repose it do eo at • coosidersble sacrifice of time and trouble. And everything about it ought to be monists tit with the object of its iestitatioe. The importance which this question of uniform has sew wienseed shows the progress which the &domes have made in their drill, and no one sees the Volunteers without being struck with the rapid ity of their program. laded, according to some of the drillesegeents, the Civilians have ad vanced as far in tee days as the ordinary recruit.' advance in tau weeks. Nor is this surprising. The more intelligent a remelt is, the more rapidly must ►e his progress. Indirectly this proves the advan tages of an educated soldier. Education implies mental cultivation, and the man whose mind his been cultivated not only learns quicker but retains what he has learnt longer. For years this has been admitted by intelligent officers, but the truth of their opinion has now become more general warn the public. Another good effect which bee already followed the Rifle movement is the belief in the necemity of discipline. It would be dilicult to find a single Rifleman who had drilled twice still labouring under the fake, that discipline is malear. No man, un ti l he tries it, will believe is the difficulty of knowing his right land from his left, or of getting four men to do the same Wag at the same time. Everybody talks about the great prin ciple of bringing lugs maces to bear upon small numbers, and many insist that this axiom was discovered by NAPOLEON. But they fail to use that this principle is utterly impracticable unless the rank and Ole of a single company can be made to obey the same order at the same moment. That body of men which can thus obey is a disci plined body—that which cannot is • rabble. To bring a disciplined body against a rabble is to bring ten men or fifty men against one. Resistance is hopeless, defeat inevitable. It may seem easy to get the men to obey the same order promptly, but let any one try his hand by falling in at Rifle drill, and he will quickly find his mistake. It needs practice to do the thing at all—io the face of an enemy it needs very considerable practice. VOt Court. OSBORNE, Dm IS. Major-General Fester, commanding Royal En emata, &ink Wows District, &Med yesterday on a snit to fire Idejaity. TM Ker. Nome Prather° lad lb. bora of being invited Is dieser. • deparnon tree tV Orraral Arosiatke for the Aus tralia Colours leref es interview with lies Doke of Newcastle ywderday, et dr Ceiestal-ellos, on lb. snare of elm pro posed lasers se ids refs of pew on newspapers to Ile /ruralise Cordes, WO doedleaspton. The eispeteden cow doled of the fallowing mamas :—Mr. T. A. Donaldson, *sinus of tiro resdatirs, Lord Alfred Clarddll, M.P., Mr. Gen, MaLsety, Mr. 3. baba Paster. Mr. /award Wil son, Caplan Iliend, sad Mr. J. A. Yost, bass. eserstry. • masa( of dr lissase Cowgirls of tir Ind Caw ailesisa fa/ft Idribilion of 1(16l, woo bold yesterday et the Privy Caredi-ediss. Then wars prased—lied Omaha T itz..2. I . l. l , i ,... t Aisisstikr . QC , Mr. C. V. Dilies, lb. T. F. sof Mr. /Aga Bawds( (aserstery). Mr. H. R. Willires, lassold ins sir presont. ware nwerod se dr Ceionisi.o&mr yesterday Aree ple rkrsef dr Arend= Coisedes. tie Manrinea, Cairn. Kam end Oftwaltar, and des Lord High Com missioner of Usk. Lisa& A letter free Cerra of the eth say.:—" Yester ay, Weds's!ley, the gala lamas esemer, secompasied by her Majarty'sdemseth lea Amman, night be sae early alemag over es Akesia,with Prises Alked,Sir H. Storks, the Adak's', and • saasesas playa naval and military officers, ett best is the datereetie• of woodcocks, which an supposed Is hen sem la wlth the aid weather, although n is rather way la theorem 1 ben ad .candied whist tag babas gado ; beg west& egged nts is tb. hills of Albuds has ban soh to the rite sad pod tee the health at Primo •Ind. who weal& perhaps, have enjoyed hemmed the awn it se stisakd by esswasrees a seHows et disairaisbed peeuraeger • greed Maar at the President at the esswe's sad a ball to- sight, at the Pekoe, will close the festivities that an bang gives Is harm e 1 Ws youthful royal high..., who Issas tovaserew la the 'Surplus for Yalta." _ _ The Deeboa of Inverness gave a grand inter lairmat het *miming, It Kensington Palace, ti their Hopi] Woman the Dottier of Cambridge and the Princess Mary gad his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The fol low* mere invited Se meet their royal highnesses :—His Mseridesey the Anetrien Minister and the Count vs Apponyi sad the Ganes Pailabillftlll, the COIIIIIVMS of Lichfield, Neat Drandualtana Cwut Pasiagarain, Count Wimple, Capone ' , albs, Mr, George Masotti, fte. The Duke of Bacotsuch u staying at Bowhill, his peas ►eating seat Le Belkirkatilre. The duchess red Wise Beset here the tap their residence at De/Lath Palace, OW Ad&burgh, for the slater. The Marquis of Bath hag daring the last fort night averlained • euearion of AMUR, •t Longleaf, Waite. The Counter (Dowager) of leeway left Berkeley square yesterday for Middleton Park, air &ouster. The Constar (Dowager) eilraavdle, with Lord sad Lady Rime, sad tlei Hoe. Kiser Pitt, ero rojosimins sa Sootiest°. Has.., Boarsisesatb, until tito sod of Doessber. Sir Robert Peel, Rut., M.P., hoe left Whitehall praise for Gomm The Right Res. Wm. E. Gladstone, M.P., and film Gladstone left Trentham for Edinburgh on Monday, attar visiting the Duke and Duchene of Sutherland during the stay of thine R. Hlghaeseee the Duke and Ditcher Charnels at the dual wet. °sacral Bir de Lacy and Lady Evans left the Pevrtion Rohl, Folkestone, yesterday, shoes stay of three mooths, he their town makers, Bryeastoe-pave. Mr. Medea, M.P., and Mrs. Deena bays arrived at Penesetfa Hoek iron flondleog Pak, Let. Mr. David Fitzgerald, soh eitor, his been appointed Is the aeon of Clerk of the Crown for the *lusty of Tyrone, wassat by the death of Mr. Terence Ir dam. Tbe new Aker Is the brother of the Attcsurry-Geweral for Ireland. This Derby Reporter of today contains an into_ "Wag accoont of a atir.4 of the Local Michani.' Institution. Lad Bolger, the porandent of the institution, delivered an ad dress, replete with practical good seam. Bor J. bownag gave a &nailed account of host *proses in Chaim. Mr. Evans, M.P.; the borough member*, Mr. llogby Wyatt, Mr. Lionel Gistorn a and other gentlemen, took pan is the pro ceedings. Oa Tuesday night Mr. Whelk Chambers delivered the first of two lectures, at the Phdneophird Instituter, Edinburgh, on " The Poen meow of the Superficial Forma tions." Mr. Chambers described the phalanges existing in this watery, and In Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, and America, on which the glacial theory, of which be le • well lit own exponent, la foniaded. At the close, Mr. Chambers exhibited a somber of oketehor, showing the peculiar 'lecke ridge., hollow., and markings observade in the Queen'. Park, on Salisbeu7 Crag., Arthur's Sew, the Castle Rock, the Coritorphine Hide, and other places la the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. A wan residing iu Kettering. named John Plummer, labouring as a factory °motive, use a few days wad presented slat ♦Ol. how tbe queues Bounty fund to litessey wee, for the several productions hunt his pea, 069 of his subjects on Senator" Hulot to" (cluing 61. tor Oim ass locoed class Fels' essay. The fund it Manchester for the fatnay of the late Res. C. Hod" lout Is the Royal Charter, which miss coumesend a mouth ago by Mr. Cooper, now reaches aboat 6001. According to our ( Lerant Herald) Belgrade cor respondence, K. w Thormael, Preach atabenedor at Cw• eteatiaple, will be call• d io Patio whew the coegreee Luse Oboe. I. that mew, hie ezereLlsaey valid be temporarily replaced by Caul Lalkamsd. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1669. LATI;ST INTELLMENCE. The lionamer of to-day announces that lut eight the health of Prince Jerome continued to improve. The Monitestr also pabliehei an article explaining the law on the pees., the wi.dom and necessity of which (at says) bu been proved by eight yard exercise. THE CONGRESS. The Nord agrees with the statement in our Paris corivepondenoe, that the congress will not meet on the sth. The Nord speaks now of the middle of the month. In the Paris Proem, M. Pipet observes that although all the powers have given in their adhe sion to the congress, it most not therefore be con cluded that they are agreed upon the programme of their future deliberations. After noticing the radi cal difference between the avowed objects of Pied mont and England on the one hand, and France and Austria on the other, he expresses a belief that Piedmont " who has pledged her honour to defend those rights and wishes of the Italian people which England declares to be ioviolable, and who would be incapable of resisting an army which might be commissioned to restore the dukes in the name of the congress, must of necessity, before sending a definitive answer to the invitation of France, have demanded and obtained serious guarantees against the employment of force. The adhesion of England, so long delayed, is not explicable on any other supposition, and the congress would have been impossible, if the principle of non-intervention had not been accepted by all the powers." It is said that Baron Ricevoli w:11. represent Tuaeany at Paris, daring the aitting of the congress. According to a letter from Paris, published in the official Dresden journal, the late belligerent powers only would be represented at the approaching Con gress by their Ministers for Foreign Affairs; the remaining powers would send other Plenipotentiaries. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. MADRID, Dact. 14. Yesterday the Spanish expeditionary army wu reinforced by 4,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry. It is stated that in all the combats which hays at present taken plate the Moors have lost 5,000 men. Cholera prevails fearfully at Tetuan. TUMMY. CONSTANTINOPLE (eta Niissiatas), Dsc. 8. The Porte is sow deliberating whether it would be eoevesient to bring the Saes Canal question Wore all the greet Powers. BEHVIA. CONSTANTINOPLE (VIA Taman), Enc. 10. The official journal pablishes an article showing the necessity of intervention in Semis. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. ;CORFU (els Tatum), Dec. 10. The Lead High Commissioner has opened the lonian parliament, and in his speech announced numerous measures of administrative reform. AMERICA. OM ILECTILIC AND TWHIJUIATIONAL TZLISORAPii.) EXECUTION OP CAPTAIN BROWN. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY Nomura. The Bohemian bas arrived with the mails from Portland of the 3rd inst. Captain John Brown was executed at Charles town on the 2nd. Previously to going to the scaffold he had an interview with several of his fellow conspirators, and accused some of them of treachery. The evening before the execution Brown had an interview with his wife. He died bravely. Nume rous sympathy meetings had been held at New York on the evening of the 2nd. Money was entire, and rates very firm at 67 per cent. on call. Exisbasp dull and nominal. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2. Codes sales to-day, 13,000 bales ; market steady, at 101 e. to lle. for middling. Sales of the week 90,000 bales, receipts of the week 92,000 bales, against 70,000 same time last year. Receipts ahead of last year 138,000 balm. Receipts for Soothers ports ahead of lest year, 199,000 bales. Stock in port, 363,000 bales. _ Freights.—Cotton to Liverpool, I. Exchange.—Sight, on New York, i premium. At Port au Priece on the 18th of November coffee wee very seam and high. M. Oreppo, ex-representative of the people, has just settled himself of the asnuetty and reamed to Paris. He Use been eugaged la the wine trade in Loudon. Adele.. from Japan state that the American MMiater, Mr. Ward, hes visited Yid". and was the guest of kr. Coneni-Gemvai Mania. During his stay he we. Invited by the Prime Makes, at Tedo to an intervisw at the hall of the " Prohibited Palace," whkh he accepted, sad where some of the chief personages of the resin ware stmembled to meet kin. Mr. Ward has eines returned to 81tanghM. The Japanese government has intimated to Kr. Mamie that the Japinsee Embassy will be reedy to embark for the United States in the spring, and the Powheetas has orders to receive them. The Cotton Supply Reporter says :—" It is confi dently expected that tour million to tow million and • quarter baler of cotton will be relied next season in the United &atm. The agiraqon which has began in this country with a view to creating now eources of supply has unquestionably stimulated, and will continue for some time to come to stimulate, as iscreeied productinn of slava-grown outwit in Americo. So far as the immediate results appear, we have resent to congratulate ourselvee on attaining for the time being one object of this mauciation, viz., en increase in our .apply of cot'oo." A letter from Ht. Petersburg states that the Emprror of Rua-4 her ordered the esiabliehment of six .chuck In six different places in the Cancans, and has derided that the Russian language, writiug, eritlanetir, geography, hiatory, and drawmg shall be taught in them, He hse elan decidoit that iu each school there shall be 420 pupils —24. S of them to be mainiained at the expense of the mate, set 150 of thooe 24 to be natives, the remainder e►il de of gurus functionaries. The port of A rchangel was on the 7th covered with kw, and on 'h+ same day the port of Taganrog, In the is. of Av,ff, was it over. Among the peeseogers by the Eteea, the last homeward A.:torah .• wail putt, wee Leto. de Selmer, a Pn itch Demi nicer, with dismantle.. for the French preen meet nopectiog the shooting in New Caledonia of two imiltebrreen . . According to the latest 'deices her Msjesty's ship lele, lb* Preach Siesta Thisbe, and steamer Styx, were at Sydney; the latter we. bound for France. Her Majewre .hip Potenm and the UMW State. mewl frigate Ildiameteppi were at blaari.ise; the Our wen bound for the States. Her • Indian Newer Aaehlaad left Ades for Bombay es the Slat alt. The Wet Bombay packet reported that two et bar iN fK ey.. 'adi e u eippe of war Wen WI their way to Char with trove. A Slur's HACK BROKEN IN THE MbliiitT.—On Tweaday,aa t►e ship Gladiator was Mesta, ses of the pool Uoer daub. mull for &whey ohs 'truck on the Pluckiafrton Beak, owing to the breeklog of the Wawa tatt's Warw. She was got afloat seals yeeterday elteisoaa, sad ameguesets wogs made to piece the cargo in the Albert Dock warehoessr, as the ship, It to etoroted, will bay. to be brokew up. The (Mediator's cargo was railed at about 70,00 W., sad the Tenet at 16,0001. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. fraox ova owx PARIS, TVOISDAT EVININO. There seems to be a doubt whether the congress will meet so early as the day originally Axed— January 6. It is rumoured that Prince Gortacha koff refuses to come in person, unless England is also represented by a cabinet minister. After Bourse hours yesterday a good deal of busi ness waa done by the amesson at better prime, on the strength of reports that the Emperor had made a very friendly speech to the Austrian am bassador. This speech, which, perhaps, if well considered imports nothing more than matter-of-course courtesy, produced a de cidedly favourable effect at the Bourse to-day. The Route was very firm, and closed at 70fr. 66c. for cash and 70fr. 76e. for account, with a rise of 26e. in each case. Molrilier rose Bfr. 760. The Southern and Lyons railways rose Ur. each; in the other lines there we. scarcely airy alteration. It is spin rumoured that the fee of Itr. for admittanos to the Bourse is to be abolished. The English mails have not arrived to-day. It is reported that a great quantity of snow hal fallen in the north of France. It freezes You hard in Path. The wonderful constitution of Prince leriime Napoleon, which hu more than once enabled him to rally when supposed to be at the point of death, seems likely to gain a victory once more. The bulletin is this morning's Moniteur, stating that he wss in a dangerous state, has been followed by another, thus worded : Tausansy, HALF-PACT 8, A./11. The night has been leas Wised than the last. His im perial highness's state is somewhat better. (Signed) RATIII, CIUVILLIZE, Ls RILLOCCI. In answer to inquiries this afternoon, it was stated that the " amelioration continues." There has been no consultation since the morning. The Pays exultingly cites the list of journal s which have reproduced or cited a highly moral article by M. Grimier de Cassagnac, deprecating the publication of such trials as those of Leonia Choreal' and Madame and Mdlla. Lernoine. It does not, however, make any answer to the Ilairere, which observe@ that the Pays gave as fall a report of both those cases as any other journal, and therefore has but small tom standi to call for an alteration of the law. The Univers approves of M. Grimier de Cal sagnao's theory while blaming bit practise; it did not publish any report of the Looming!. cam. How ever plausible some of M. Grottier de Cassagnac'e moral views may be on the present occasion, any arguments in favour of farther restrictions on pub licity proceeding from such an unscrupulous advo cate of despotism as he is, must be received with the utmost suspicion. It may indeed be said of him— eon tali auzilis, nee defenroribue leas tempt, eget. I may observe that in England, where the utmost liberty of the press prevails, very copious reports of the Lemoine case have been given, and I believe they are quite tree from the objectionable details to which M. Grimier de Cassagnac especially refers, and which were to be found in his own journal. A new journal, called the Progree, has just bee@ founded at Lyons, where the provincial press is per haps more influential than Many other part of Francs. It has need of much discretion or extraordinary good fortune in these times if it would enjoy long life and act up to its programme, which says:—" The ame lioration of the lot of the moans is oar leading object, and, in our opinion, the best instrument to effect that amelioration is liberty." CENTRAL ITALY. A Turin letter of the 11th in the Debate says : " Facts are now paving in the Duchy of Models which are not without significance. Nearly all the (rest families attached to the Grand Duke are leav ing the country and selling their estates. Among those mentioned as having taken this step are the Marquises Coccapani, Baal, Melipuli, Galliani ; Counts Molts, Gandini, Abbati, Gulvani, Fulcini, Bellenttani, &c." SARDINIA. A Milan letter lays : The subscription for the purchase of 1,000,000 muskets progresses but slowly—the wealthy classes remembering with terror the use which the lower clauses of Paris made of the 400,000 muslins which were distributed in 1848. In order to stimulate the subecriprion of the Lombards, sours persons have proposed that the total amount railed shall be employed In reviving the arms manufacture of Brescia, Ber gamo, and Milan, arkith from the Beneath to the eighteenth °emery were highly celebrated. and which the ant French empire warmly encouraged, but which Austria ha. ceased to disappear. A carious lacideat bas lately occurred here with a view to defraud the revenue. A contractor of the Austrian stray obtained permission to primal the Preach soldiers is gar- Ilion at Milan with some sager, bat he gent into the city each • prodigious quantity every day that at last the astral men took note of what arrived, and in the enures of • few days they found that It was at the rail of 47 Milanese pounds or 151 kilogs each mu per day ('he kilog. Is rather more than 2tbs. English). A. this wee considered somewhat too generous, and still wore as it caused • heavy loss to the city revenue, the donor melded • hint to discontinue his sup- plies. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The Madrid journals of the 10th say that on the preceding day two flip, offered by the Queen and King to the army in Morocco, were solemnly con secrated in the royal chapel in presence of their Majesties. Oa one of these flogs, that offered by the Queen, is embroidered, on one ►ide, an image of the Immaculate Conception, and, on the other, the royal arms ; the flag offered b the King bears on one ►ide the images of our Lady of Forgetfulness, our Lady of Triumph, and our Lady of Mercy, and on the other a crucifix. The Moors, it is stated, receive 40 meakeles (6 piaatres) for the head of every Spanish soldier they can take in; and the consequence is that after each combat they tight fiercely amongst themselves to cut off the heads of Spanish soldiers killed. It is added that after one of the recent combats, the Spaniards had to sustain a severe combat in order to prevent a body of Moire from carrying away the head of the colonel 01 the Madrid Riflemen, who wee one of the killed. Orders had been given to send 12,000 men isle Africa, and notification bed bean made to the regiments in Spain that that number of men might volunteer. The three Moderadu journals, the Estado, Leo Espanol, and toecaodor, are to be amalgamated into one under the name of El Horisoste. WESTERN A USTRA LIAR HORSI TRADE TO INDIA.-- The trade in horses carried oo Miring the last few yaws be tween %Veen ro Australia and Sapporo may be said to have proved a failure. This le owing to the fact that the demand for homes in Bingepree is is general foe low priced astotel., the mend mew to which they are put being tbs.° of heck and carriage bones. 2 be demend for esperior abirualn such le ere aclawel for tidier. id very limind , earl them Cr. the only one, which fetch a tolerable pnce In Singapore. The number et bonne altorether in town end country may be mated at about 1,200, upwards of 1,000 of which are of the Timor breed. The a price of a Timor posy is about 90 dole., or a Ilitle anise 204 ; while that of an Australian anima is reset 200 Cle., or shout 4U. While the trade, however, between Warrens Amtraha and Bineepore hes proved unmans...Ml, 'het with the confines( of ladle he. turned out gave differently. During the last Ore p.n. 200 home, on an average Sanually Lanham. s ported from Western Amtralia to Indio, the period the imam& demand being duvet( the war of the price et 80/, welling each. The inherent gualitlee of the &Murals are mil to peculiarly at them for military purpnper.Klib.ugb from their general docility they can be adapted to aid at any species of labour.—Straits Toms. • THE WEATHER AND me PARES.—A considerable number of per.ons yesterday ventured on the ponds sod tangle i• the verious petite, though the ice is by no means strong enough yet to beer with safety. Several —es might be expected—fell through, but no merivue accident occurred. 144 VAL AND MILITARY. AMIE/SIT, Dtio. 15.—Apponiniziers.-Beeond Moan J. H. Tully (1866) to the Edgar, 91, screw stem isphip, for particular @orrice ; and J. Harry 1, the Wes try. 2, screw steam store stip, for pettioular sterge. Paymaster Z. Faulkner (1862) to be additional Ps ths Vic tory, 101, flagship, at Portsmouth. Asegant-Parsaeter H. Itomerrile (1866) to the Item sable, 104, ffaip, at I:Sunspot t. Clerk J. 8. .tvest, to the Queen, 86, screw steamship, at Sheerness. Assastaut-Clerks J. W. Badmen to the Fawn, 17, mew staamslo3p. at Shwas= ; and R. W. 'ago, the Vintrry. Acting Third-Clam Aasktaut-Engtseer 0. W. Hancock to the Aida, 84, wardship of ordinary at Portsmouth, as WOOLWICH, Dec 15. The experiments in order to test the batterict of Armoires( saw now completed for service wen remit 1 tAls day, at the gore aroma practice range, to the W•••••• of Sir W. Anettrong, Colonel Tolloh, R.A., leapeatar of Artillery, sad muaeroaa ofitcwa. 8u guns ware premised at • 1 "0 01 •1 • mg. •••• 1 1•11 1.700 garde, sod is each Pam the mark wee tut with warms aceareey. CHATHAM, Dia. 16. The Wellesley, 72, Captain li. Ooldumith, 'wardship of ordinary at tttla port, was " paid down" yester day to as months. COURT OF LIEUTENANCY, CITY OP LONDON.—A Court of Lieutenancy was held on Wednesday at Onikihall for the purpose of rerniving her Majesty's approval of the names selected by the Colonel of the London KM. Brigade, and elected at toe lam Court of Lieutenancy to ell the ap pointments of captains, lieutenants, and ensigns to this corps. The court was moot numerously attended, the Bight Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair, supported by Alderman Copeland, Meth', Lawrence, Colonel Wilso n Alderman end Captain Rms. Alderman and Captain Anew, Mx. Kennard, M.P., Messrs. Jonathan Kay, C. Lee Wawa, Audition, Starling, 11. Hughes, jun., &marsl merchants and bankers, Deputies Lloyd and Clebard, ho. A letter was read from the Secretary for War espressine the Queen's ap proval of the names submitted for officers of the riffs corps, upon which it war resolved that the several commissioos be signed. The name of Captain Hicks was unanimously ordered to be forwarded to her Majesty far approval as lieutenant-colonel. It was resolved that at the next court the nomination of a full colonel should be made. An application was made from the council of the ride brigade hr the animates of the court in obtaining the one of the Artillery ground for the drill of the brigade, and the Mark was ordered to forward the application to the Court of the Artillery Company, with the earnest and unanimous request of the commissioners to acquiesce. A guard of Maim? was in attendance as usual at the doors of the court. After the transaction of some other business the court adjourned. ST. JANES, WEsTMINSTEII.—The committee for (hi. corps met yesterday, anl a meet satisfactory report of program was made. Upward. of 80 effective members bad scrolled themselves, and the amount of the funds was stated to on above 4001. A sub-committee was appointed to mete arrangements for the immediate commencement of drill. The question of uniform was adjourned until the decision of the government committee now sitting at the Wsr-oilk• should he announced. Livaaroor..—At the meeting of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Beard y esterdey • letter was read from the empleyie in the dock wsrahoures, requesting parmirkin to I form themselves into • volunteer nee brigade. They sug gested that the board should find them arms and clothing, and allow them to drill on the piers at convenient hours. After some discussion on the subject, is the course of which the chairman characterised the letter enijediciana,itdropped without any resolatise ham come to. PLUIDITIAD.—Pustic Alsvrtso.—Last evening a, infinential public meeting, convened by the church. wardens and overseers, in complies°. with • requisition from the inhabitants of Plumatead, wee held at the Central School room, for the purpose of adopting cosseures for the formation of a vignette, artillery carps 631 that district, The chair was occupied by Sir Edward 0. I. Parrott, Bert, (meal the churchwardens), who observed he had forwarded • commu nication to the War Department, and received a reply to th e effect that the secretary regretted he could not, under exist ing circumstances, lame uniform., but gum, snmennition, sad 60 par cent. of side-arms would be supplied when the review' of the corm were accepted. Captain Swede, a retired °facer of the Royal Artillery, in an excellent pmedoal ad dress, observed that the attitude of the men of Kest, sad the general arming of the master, had a idiot fa preventing an invasion by the first Napo= It was essmitisl to form artillery corps in thetcounty, and the men he sew before him would soon mks excellent gunnery. Mr. H. Mason,in moving • resolution for the formation of a volunteer corm, observed that P hummed, with its large popu lation of men employed in government works, ought to be foremost in the present movement. He believed that • flee artillery corps would be formed for the district. Mr. Tongue seconds:l the motion, which wee adopted. Some conversa tion then took place relative to the uniform, and the chair man observed it was probable that the government would adopt s pattern uniform for each. A committee wee then appoint 4 and the meeting wre adjourned. Tin RIFLE CORPS AND THE WORKING CLASSES.— Ys•larday a ride corps meeting was held at Glossop, when Lord Edward Howard officiated as chairman. The roasting was sot • very numerous one, but those who attended were leffeestlal persons generally. The first resolution, pledging the mode( to the belief that the establishment of a tie corps was one mesas of continuing to our country the blessings of pesos and prosierity," was carried by • small msjority. The next resolution, for the formation of the Olomop Dale Ride Corp," wee met by an amendment. Mr. Edmund Potter pmpueed the amendment, to the effect that rifle corps, as hitherto oonstituted, " will fail to supply the beat means of defence, is dirtriote like Glossop, from their omitting from their ranks almost the entire of the working oleeires." Mr. Potter, in his speech, explained the onus notion of the rifle corps he wished to see estatd and on putting the amendment to the meeting it ward= beoarried by a majority of 28 to 16. THREATENED STRIKE OF COLLIERS IN THE WEST Riniso.—The colliers of the Oildersome, Adwalton, and Dnghlington district (about a thousand In number) have made another drmaird of the colliery meatus for an advance of 11.4811 to the extent of 10 per cent. Hotta wasgiven by the men them/elver, about a fortnight ago, and on Wednes day evening each colliery easier received an "official" no tice (duly signed end sealed) from the **board" of the Gil dsman* sad Drighlington Miners' Associatton, to the effect t►at, if the demand be not yielded, the men wiU geese work. lag alter this (Friday) evening. The masters who are not ceafficeed feel that they have no ffiternarive but to yield the advance. A similar advance was demanded and given some time ago, when the colliers of West Yorkshire were threaten. lag strikes, and some per tions of them were under strike, and the present advance, if yielded, will make the advances mule at various times, since IMO, not less than from 3.5 to 40 per cent. There is a strong combination amongst the colliers la She district. A CLERGYMAN FINED FOR AN ASSAULT.—At the Guildhall. Newcastle-under-Lyme, on Wednesday last, before B. 11111, mayor, H. Hall, and J. Lamb, Begs., the Bee. F. B. B. Swann, curate of St. Wee., nu brought up en • warrant charged with &assailing his servant between six and leaven the same morning. The rev. gentleman. who was in • slate of great nervous excitement, admitted that he had given the girl a slap, and that he would do the aame *gain under the circumstances ; if title conaiftuted an weak in the eyes of the law, then was he guilty. But, with equal peopriety, any child punished in a-howl might bring • charge against the meeter or mistrals. The blow wee given in r.mmequence of the green impudevos f the servant. Eliubeei Garner then deposed—l was in the kitchen this morning, about 7 o'clock. Mr. Swann came In, and gave a a violin slap in the face. (Defendant—Which is abo minably false. I gave you • slight one.) He said it was for nut bringing him any wale into his room. I told him I could not do to, as hie room door wee locked. He thee said I had bathing is my hands when I came to the doer, and hit ma very bard. (D fondant —lt la grossly falls. I gave her a ellen slap.) The mark on my none and the dtsooloratlon of the eye are the effecte of the blow. My MIS bled coplouly. Detendant—l did not strike you on that side. I wish the ew was does with. A matter of • little slap Why can't Ibe fined—l sdreit the thing? Witness—When he struck me, be mud. "Take that, and go and fetch a sum mone." Defendant—The thing is mut &oohed. If there le a line to be impourl, I while to pay it, if I ran. I have 'wiling more to say. Such an absurd, ridiculous thing es this. She gays nothing about her own timelines—the pre vocati n given. But lam nut going to have any altercation with a creators like that; it tent worth my while. This la Newcutle gratitude for what I here done for The Meyor—i exceedingly regret to see you in this poetics, brat it is not the first ca. of a like nature. Unfortunately, only ten days back I had to lien a warrant against you for an another servant. That rue wee withdrawn. This, however, Is plainly proved, and you are fined U. and costa; in default one mooth's iwprwonment. The line was paid. and Mr. Swann; kit the room saying "1 have does with Newessfle now." POACHING IN LINCOLNSIIIRE.—FormidabIe gaup of poach-re leave &milord most evenings and relive rely neat morning with large quantities of game. Their nem hers an calculated to deter interference by two or three parr keepers. It le said that their success was so great • few sights age, that several vehicles were despatched to eery away their booty. As their departure to sad Warn from the game preserves are &graded with no weeny, ear prise has been ex pressid that there have nut ere the been some steps. taken to suppress it.... nightly expedition' by some organisetion of the garsekeeptre in the neighbourhood. The departure of the "embers, from their rendez lOUS might be rencered lees ronsfurtatils to 'bean than it now U. It is said that within • week immense quantities of ',hematite base been swept from the estates of Lord Aveland, the Karl of Lindsey, and C. ki. Ittenyardann, E.g., and that a Nut- gingham party of poacher., who am . up with anotbe r ptrty. tamed the booty of the letter and marched off with it. There are two or three pnblit -haloes to Stamford wham them depredator. aposmble.—Ststefeed Mercury. Tie dry dock at Mauritius is now open. The loran Bands woe the drat ship which Wend it. A ship 366 hot in length can he acoommoodsted there. The dock is eo feet wide at the top, and 40 feet wide at the bottom. he depth from surface of high water is 23 Net. The water is pumped oat in 2} hosts. TES CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. The readers of this journal will remember that the Lord Mayer, se the chief civic authority, following the example of two of his predecessors under similar circum stances, • few days since made a recommendation to the merchants sad traders of the City that Monday, the 26th last., should be kept as a public holiday, in consequence of Christmas-day this per falling on Sunday. The principal homes in the Mancheetsr trade, u also the leading West , end silk 'meteors, have already, with great ormederstion for their young people, announced their intention poctioally to act upon hie lordship's noon= mdation. The following are among the !Irma referred to :—Mssere. Lai and Sens. Old Change; Cook, Sons, and Co., Elba, Everington, and Co.; George Hitchcock and Co., James Spence and Co., St. Peers Church-yard; Caldecot, Sons, and Co., Chemaide; J. and R. Morley, Tapling and Co., sad Yrs and Soa, Wool-street ; W. and R. Morley, Gutter lane ; and Bradbury, °restores, and Co., Alderman:, ; Hailing, Pears., and Co , Oxbow street ; Swan and Edgar, ; Shoolbred and Co.. Tottenhamcourt-reed; Redrosyne and Co., Bond-street Howell and Jame, Lewis and Allenby, Allieon and Co., Hodge and Orchard, Fanner and Rogers, of Regent-street ; Marshall and Snalgrom, Peter Robinson and Co., Sowerby and Co., and Grant aid Osek, of Oxford-street. A largo number of the tradesmen at the met end of London have for several days past given notice of a similar intention, and every poet brines iliformation shoeing that this movement is rapidly spreading throughout the provinces also. In Man chester, for instance, a notice that they Wand to keep closed on the Monday has jest been bated by the fol lowing eminent firm : Memo. Potters and Nor ris; Bannerman sad Some; Ce•lton, Walker, and Co.; Ryland. and Sons ; Watheed and Co. ; B. and J. 'schen; Kershaw, Sidebottom, and Co.; James Brown, Son, and Co.; Pletcher, Son, and Co.; APLaren and Nephews. It is sow pretty clear therefore that the holiday will be generally kept, and thus will many thousands of English homes throughout the land be gladdened at the coming festive sown by the memos from distant localities of members of those homes whose absence under other circumetances would have beset inevitable. Most persons will concur with tee deputation who recently waited upon the Lord Mayor upon the subject, in the hops they expressed that the government would nut be behind mermaids houses in liberality in the particular lk qmotim, but that they also would grant the holiday in the veriousdepartments under their control, e 0 far ea would be compatible with the exigencies of the public, service. Mr. Layard has retarned from hie Italian tour, and is saki to be preparing Is the press a pamphlet on the Italian qoartion. Memos. Macmillan and Co., of Cambridge, are about to publish a sermon by the Rey. Mr. Mimeos, with the " War, how to prepare ourselves for it." . _ The int number of the Corahill Hag wino will contain (the Critic rye) the opening of a tale by Yr, Thatkersy, the tint of a series of essays by the same pen, the latter to be entitled " The Roundabout Papers." The tale will be Ulostrated by Mr. Thackeray himself. Blackwood'. Magazin* for December has reached a second edition. The cause is to be foond in its article on the operations in the Pelbo. It u proposed to cam on the butanes. of Mom. Calvert and Co. by a limited joint-stock immolation, to be called the London Brewery Company, with a nominal capitol of 600,0001. la shares of 261. each. Since the concern has been conducted under the direction of inspectors the male have beta at the rate of about 60,0001. per annum. It Is therefore hoped that the greater part of the unsecured endliors will come into the arrangement. Their claims are to he received for shares at the rate of 16s. in the pound, sad melt enbearreare are to have a preferential interest at the rate of 6 per asst. REPRESENTATION OF READING.— A crowded renting of the liberal electors of }titling was held on Wed nesday evening lost in the hall of the Literary and &imago Institution, presided over by Mr. Alderman Harris. On the platform were Sir Francis Goidsmid, Bart., the candidate for the vacetly created by the elevation of Sir H. S. Keating to the judicial bench, the late mayor (Mr. Charles Andrews), Mr. Alderman Palmer. Mr. Alderman Exall, Mr. Councillor Clark, Mr. T. Rogers (the liberal agent), Mr. G. Lovejoy, Ac. Sir Franca. Ooldinuid wee introduced to the meeting by the chairman, and met with a most enthusiastic reception. The worthy baronet, in an able speech, expressed himasif in favour of the total abolition of church rates religious freedom, and a considerable extension of the franchise, end concluded by expressing his opinion that no conservative candidate would come forward ; at the same time, however, entreating them to exert thertlelms sa they would do If an oppoeition existed. On the motion ot the late mayor, seconded by Sir Alderman Palmer It was unanimously resolved that Mr. Francis should receive the cordial sup port of the meeting. A motion was also carried, eon gratulding Sir Henry Keating open his elevation to the Judicial bench, and ezpreming the regret of the electors at losing his services. The canvass of Sir Francis hoe up to the ptesent lime gone on very satidactorily, and It is con udered improbable that there will be an opposition. REPRESENTATION OF PONTEFRACT. —A c c i f, :.1 meeting of the members of the Puntelrsct Liberal time was held in the Town-ball, Pontefract, en Tuesday evening, presided over by W. Wood, Bag., of Mookhill, chairman of the stlicisuon, and late M.P. for the borough. He was supported by Win. Moorhonte, Esq.. of Knotting ley, Alderman Green , R. Hurst, Esq., J. R. Robinson Esq., John Phillips, Esq., Ac. The chairman opened the pro . medlar, by stating that the object of the meeting was to carry out the principal rule of the association, namely, that the candidate to be supported by the whole emaciation should be selected by a maiwity ot the members. His own *peak* was that Mr. Childers wee duly elected at the lest election, and that be ought now t 3 be returned without oppotlion. He thee inquired deny member had a candidate to propose to the meeting; on which W. Moorhoure, Ep., proposed that H. E. C. Childers, Eq., should be the can didate adopted by the association, as he was folly entitled to the seat, and was in every roved eligible for It. He bad no doubt that Mr. Childers would make an excellent representative, and that no honourable man ought to oppose bim. Alderman Green moonded the nomination, dwelt upon Mr. Childers' merits, and he con sidered that these and the unfortunate circumstances in which be had been involved, without any fault of hie own, entitled him to the utliaboous support of the liberal party, and that in honour be ought not to be opposed. The chairman then asked if any member 'stetted to propose any other candidata. No other name beteg proposed, he put the question, " That this association do adopt Mr. Childers at the coming elec. tam," which was unanimously and entluesiaatically carded. Mr. Childers, ot Cantle., Hall, was then introduced to the meeting, and returned thanks on behalf of his nephew, whe had born compelled to proceed to New York for a short time on most atria family business. On the motion of Mr. Childers, a vote of thanks to the chairmen was purred, and the meeting terminated for the meting, bat met again on Wednesday morning, and organteal itself into district osn yawing committee., who are now at work for Mr. H. E. 0, Childers, with every prospect of complete success. The °enemata'se are getting up a requisition to Viscount Pol. Raeron, one of the former representatives of the borough. THE SOLICITOR•GENERAL OF IRELAND AND TER TKO PAPAL DSMUNSTALTIONS.—TheSOLICitOr-General (Mr. &chard Detly) her in the following letter, addressed to the tbrk Examiner (Mr. J. F. AL.gulre), bristly stated his in tention not to attend • meeting summoned to express um psthy with the Papal government perel.ber 12. . , Uaq iir,Will you kinilly allow me to acknowledge, through the medium of your journal, the receipt of resolutions adopted at various meetings held in toe county calling on me to attend the meeting of Irish members which is to tisk. place on Thu: airy next ? Although anxi-ots to comply with the whiles of so nuinerouo and important a portion of my constituents, I feel bound to say that I cannot attend the meeting in qtte.tion. I cannot, in this short letter state my reasons tor destining to ahead that meet ing. I w ill D a v e more ample opportunity of explaining them and my views reapecui‘g the important queetions to which the meeting Ire reference when parliament meets. I yield to none in anxiety to obtain a satisfactory settlement of hart questions, but I do not Wire, that object would be at all promoted by my attendance at the mercies of Thurr day next, whtle 'urn etiendrce would be entirely inconsis tent with my official duties. I boys that the gentlemen who have done me We honour to communion'e to me reeolutiort of the meetings to which I toter, will not think me guilty of any discourtesy in adopting this mode of acknowledging sad answering their communinitions.—Yours holy, R. Dater.' SOCIETY FOR TILE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE FINK Aare.—The filet annual meeting of this hiciety was held Let evening, at the Architectural Oallery. Condniteatreet, Resew-street, Mr. Remy (Ailey, the hon. an hoary, sad one lof the foundem of the society, in the chair. The proceedings commenced by the coalman tending the report. which stated that there were at preeent 218 member en the books, in cluding 20 new meter..., who had been ...peel!. d for the next year. Many others bad els i istimete I their intention of joining before dr • millirem:. meat of the erion. AWI statement of aceounte would be published in January ; meanwhile a gener.l view of the rondo. Areal that the grime income had been 2041.. sail the • IgNSICII 3071., leaving a deficit of 1031.; but pert of that di 11 it bed been met by contributions tram intim - ideal nitrite hi of the counciLand pout by rests attributable to the Lear 1859, leering a balance of 611. to be earned to the delkit of is. it year'. account. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, sec gested that it might be a ihnvemieet course to have it printed, I with a view to I us thee coneideredoe at an adjourned meeting. Acting on that stigeastion. Mr. R. L. Cocks wooled, and Mr. De Carteret seconded... That the meeting 11• adjourned to • day in January, to be axed by the counter Thanks were then pared to the proprietors of the rotor. rooms and gal leries at which the mee'ingsef !be a vilify had been already IsiM ; Mao thanks to Alper,. R. L. Cocks, W. A. blecharen, end A. Gilbert, for their emitters in getting up and super breading the tuners' preparations at the rottire-pusiares, end to the artists who gratuitonely gave their valuable revioss on these ochrions. The proceedings then terminated with the mud vote of thanks to the obakman.