The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-31 00:00:00

DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, 1866. Under the Special IPatreeage of her Majesty the QUEEN. INTIINDING raularross are Informed that the Mat De camber Is the bum day on which APPLICATIONS for SPACE will be rewired. The requisite forms ern be obtained at the Booth at the Society at Arta, Johu.street, Adelphi, London, W.C., or at **Exhibition Palace, Duldle.—By order. ILEUM PARKINSON. Secretary. LIFEBOAT SERVICES,—During the donne et the present year, the hosts Of the National lifeboat In stitution saved OS persons from different wrecks on our coasts. Th e Institution has also upended A 14,770 in the same s period On lie Lifeboat establishment, in addition to granting £1,447 as rewards for wing (1.41 shipwrecked persons by its !Nebo:iris and other means. The Committee of the institation earnestly APPEAL to the nubile for ASAISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 13a lifeboat establishments. 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LITTLE BUSY BEE ; or, the Old Lady of Threadnesdlettreet. Mesdames S. Lane, W. Cranford, an d E. Jacob.: Mr O. Ingwood. Yannrate natondatlsts . —And THE 10ItIL41118 OF LO2iDON.—Commenoe at MU-part°. MGR WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tim DAT Morning. 3h. Thn Afternoon. 31 Um To-AWIROW Marataj, 4h. Ibm Afternoon, 4k 37a. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31. THE year that is closing is rightly described as being a year of prosperity and general welfare to our country and people, but it will leave a grave im• pression on the future readers of onr history ; and it has certainly been to ourselves a season of se rious impressions and of some mournful feelings. The reason for this will appear on the slightest survey of the past twelve months, though no ad versity has been appointed to us as a nation, and we have enjoyed a mood of general contentedness and calm. We have once more known the feeling of being on the verge of war, and of a war which would have been exceedingly popular; we have experienced the mortification of appearing capri cious, or even unfaithful—compelled as we were by the unfaithfulness of the other parties con cerned to disappoint Denmark of our aid. This has been, no doubt, the bitterest experience of the year. The benefit that it has yielded is bringing us nearer to a practical understanding of what is meant by non-intervention, and to some prospect of an intelligible and steady policy whenever those wars break out in Europe which all Europe consi ders to be inevitable. Since the Ministry were absolved by the critical vote of the Commons on their foreign policy on the Bth of July, we have at least known what to discuss, and have been free to compare all the ideas which can exist under the term non-intervention ; and thus, by the passing alarm of war we may have become better prepared to meet or decline it, on the next critical ocauior. During the months over which the uncertainty extended, we witnessed the mournful spectacle of the invasion and dismemberment of Denmark, and the yet more painful manifestation of the worst points of the German national character. We have seen the constitutional prospects of Prussia overclouded or destroyed, and the dignity of Austria fatally impaired, while the outrageous violence of the Minister and the King of Paresis carried all before it. The decline of Germany generally, and of Prussia in particular, in the es timation of the civilized world will date from this year, and it is not in the next that we can see the evil repaired. When the news came that peace was concluded at Vienna on the 30th of October, and when the German newspapers were full of descriptions of the festive return of the troops to Berlin and Vienna, we could not but feel that this was not the and—that the aggression on Den mark was not an affair which could be begun and closed within the year, and that the real results to the aggrenive Powers and to Europe have yet to be revealed. There were other dismal spectacles abroad. iThe Polish insurrection went out with the hanging of 1 the chiefs of the National Government early in August; and the vengeance of Russia hu had free course ever since, so that Poland has under gone a year of hell, if ever there was a hell on earth. In Russia there has been much insurrec• tion of the servile sort, which' hu not been kept so secret but that the world has had glimpses of burning villages, and even towns alight like rick yards in rural districts in times of discontent. The exodus of the Circassians, after their defence of their country against Russia for so many years, has pained the world's heart—the movement being to the sufferers a concentration of famine and pestilence. Tens of thousands of the exiles did not wander long, but lay down to die wherever they might be. The Arabs, again, have been showing that they are less satisfied or subdued under their rulers at Algiers and Tunis than bad been supposed ; and there haa been much of the scattering warfare which characterises Northern Africa. We have witnessed the issue of one more manifesto from Rome against the progress of knowledge and the development of philosophy, and have felt the effect of the POPE'S admonition in the suppression of the most liberal and pro- mising of Catholic organs is this oesintry. through the closing months of the year, we hare watched the bearing of the Italians, and especially the Piedmontese, under the operation of the Con vention of September 15. It is too early yet to speak of the result as clear and complete ; but the fortitude of the Piedmonteae under their deprivation, and of the whole people under the postponementof their hope of possessing Rome, and the patriotism with which they have devoted themselves to carry the kingdom through a crisis of peril, have won fresh esteem and sym pathy for Italy and her sons from all good men in all free countries. The riots at Turin were a me lancholy spectacle ; but it presently became known that they were a sort of accident, caused by folly and imprudence, and they were soon forgotten in the nobleness of what followed. In America the aspect of affairs has become less painful as the year has advanced—the national forces having gained ground essentially in the South, and the emanci pation of the slaves having proceeded rapidly, steadily, and prosperously. Month by month the extinction of factions and reconciliation of parties I has gone on, till the great step was taken in No , vember of re-electing Mr. LINCOLN. The prospect is in every way improved by this re-election. De finite and avowed objects will now be pursued by methods of which government has experience : the abolition of slavery is secured, and the pacifi cation of the Southern States seems to be only a question of time. Manufacture and trade have flourished, generally speaking ; and every incident which draws attention to the fortunes of the working-classes shows that those *lasses understand better and better how to obtain the full advantage of their earnings. In two years no less than two millions sterling have been deposited in the Post-office Savings Banks : the same amount is invested in co-operative asso ciations ; and some of the legislation of last session —as the Government Annuities Act—will prove a great help in enabling the labouring classes to become capitalists in their degree, and to obtain the same advantages from such money as they have as richer men can command. This kind of social advancement has a political as well as an econo mical bearing, important to the whole country ; for the franchise cannot be long denied tocitizens who have shown that they have ability to obtain pro perty„and sense enough to keep it safe. The in crease of Working Men's Clubs, and the Industrial Exhibitions which have been so prominent in the last few months, are influences tending in the same direction. The Lancashire men have kept up their character for fortitude, patience, and willing ness to make the best of things. The state of the cotton-market, through the action of specu lators, has disastrously prolonged the suffering of the operatives, and renewed their hardships on the approach of winter ; but they have turned so readily to other employments, and their interests have been so well managed, that there can now I be no doubt of their being safely carried through till the fast increasing supply of cotton shall restore them to their old way of life. We have had pan ful evidence meantime of the backwardness in intelligence of some climes of labourers, while others are advancing so rapidly. The strikes of the Staffordshire and the Yorkshire colliers, and the riots at Belfast are the domestic diagnose of the year. Those riots happened when the late Viceroy was prostrated by fatal illness. His suc cessor has entered upon office while the shame of the Belfast outrages was fresh, and when the people of Ireland were beginning to be cheered by the return of good seasons, and a prosperous agricultural year ; and we may hope that there will be a happier story to tell of Ireland twelve months hence than for several years past. The QUEEN and her spreading family have had their experiences, sweet and bitter, like the rest of us. Three grandchildren have been born to the QUE2N—our own future Prince of WALE% one at Berlin, and one at Darmstadt. Oar little Prince was born urtimely into a cold and then troubled world ; but the warmth of the national welcome was all the more fervid. His Danish mother has had all possible sympathy front the country generally ; and her husband and she were followed w'th eager interest in their visits to her parents, and to the Royal Family of Sweden. The QUEEN and her children have made more than the usual journeyings to Balmoral and Osborne; and it was gratifying to the whole country, as well as to the people of Perth, that she found herself able to attend at the unveiling of the statue of the PRINCE CONSORT in that city, in August. Much was hoped from this ; and if more has not followed, there has been some relaxation since last year— some few guests admitted, and somewhat more of intercourse with the world outside. The Prince and Princess of WALES have held levOes and drawing rooms, and have paid a memorable visit to Cambridge University, and attended reviews, and enjoyed at Sandringham the domestic repose so well earned. While the continental despots have been circling about in Europe, like flies in the air, as if for the purpose of encountering or avoiding each other, it was felt everywhere that the Queen of ENGLAND could not go to Germany this year. Almost all the continental Sovereigns and their Prime Ministers have met, at various times and places : but England does not want to enter into their counsels, under the present aspect of affairs ; and the only representative of our Royal Family has been Prince ALFRED at Berlin (where he received the Order of the Black Eagle), against the inclina tion of the people at home, and probably against his own. People at home liked better to hear of him es a student at Bonn. Jt has been a year of much sickness and unusual mortality ; and this appears in the long list of deaths of eminent as well as common or unknown men. Everybody's first thought will be of the two statesmen whom old men little thought to survive, the Duke of NswcAsrxx and the Earl of CARLISLE. The Church has lost two Biahop•---Drs. TURTON, of Ely, and DAYS'S, of Peterborough. The Navy has lost two Admirals--GAax (Admiral of the Fleet) and SAVEAREZ. Among the peers, two Dukes of CLEVELAND have died within eighs months of each other. The peerage of the Earls of CLARE has become extinct. The Duke o; Anil/LE and the Earl of ABEILDEZN have died in middle life ; and Lord Asnararow before he was old. From the House of Commons Mr. &vortex will be missed with kindly feelings by those who differed from him most. Among political agitators that too Cervantic hero Swirls O'Hatrar must be first, in whatever year he died ; bat there was also the sound and sensible WILLIAY JOHNSON Fox, memberfor Oldham. The lawyers have lost Sir Wu,- ' , max ATHERTON, late Attorney-General, and the 1..• miagedon. • no t f orgo tt en Serjesnt naEREWETHEIL, and &desalt STEPHEN, whose commentaries are a hand book in the profession. In philosophy and science we cannot restrict ourselves to our own country, and must therefore feel the loss, not only of our Pro ; tenor Farman and Leonean Houma, but of the greater Brains, the Russian, and Sruics, the American. In his own way, KIM ENIANTIN, EOM time Chief of the St. Sitnonian brotherhood, whose name was dear to many brilliant and enthusiastic Frenchmen thirty years ago, should rank with THE A EXPREOf S RDAY EVENING, DECE JA V. —mswohns whose work is dais. With our own Wielded traveller and illionotor, Captain Sr's.", we may remember Juuts GENII), who had his own merits as an African traveller. In litera ture we have lost not only veterans, like WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, the lonely survivor of • classic age, and the poor poet CLARE, end ALLRIC Wsne, who oame into view with the almost for gotten Annuals, and Loci AMIN, who wrote his torical memoirs before the new birth of history, and CATHIRLNE SINCLAIR, now SO much better known bytter social benefactions than by her novels, and F. E. SMEDLEY and T. COLLET GRATTAN, who gave ns novels and essays and social sketches,—but some from whom we hoped to hear much wit and wisdom yet. ADELAIDi A. rewrita is gone, and NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, whose pnius;has been (and let us hope will be) a tie between his own country and ours. Colonel TORRINS and M'Cuuoca, busy men in the early days of political economy, have died out in • good old age. GEORG/ Demi!. and Ciusian Wilisros, antiquarian in their respective ways ; Mr. Dux; of the Athencrum, Professor Pturirs, the great promoter of Educe,- ' tion in his day, and Nassau W. SENIOR, known and regretted as Professor, Economist, administra tor, lawyer, essayist, have left us during the year. Among the artists the ravage has been great. Of actors we have lost FRIMERICE ROBSON and the gal lant veteran T. P. Coosa. In music, lizvsnaaa• is the world's lou, in which we share. Poor BENNIS, the sculptor, in leaving his life of trouble, recalled many memories of old achievements. Of painters, WO have lost DYCE and W. H. HUNT, DAVID Roman, with his beloved desert and old temples, and LANCE, with his fruit and flowers ; the digni fied President of the Scottish Academy, Sir JORN WArsoN GORDON, and our dear familiar friend and most loveable censor, Jolts Luca. It is • long list of bereavements—of losses irreparable to our selves. We can only hope that among the thousands new-born within the year there may be some en dowed with • genius and loroe of character which shall make them to a future generation what those whom we have lost have been to us. The year which began in anxiety and apprehen sion ends in peace and apparent security. It has been darkened by the triumph of wrong and the spread and deepening of war in both hemispheres. We have arrived at the resolution not to interfere in the affeirs of foreign nations. There remains for us the duty of so amending our laws and our procedure as that we may save our honour from the imputation of our neutrality being war in dis guise, and spare our children any war that could arise hereafter from the rankling of present offences. This is our immediate duty, and it is a very pressing one. gbe Court. 0313011 NE, Dic. 30. The Queen, with Princess Helens, drove out yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat vrr in attendance. Princess Louise also took a dries. The Duke of Devonahire and Lady Louisa Caven dish left Chatsworth a few days ago for Holkar Hall, near Mfinthorp. Before leaving the priooely seat in Derbyshire ample provision was made by his gram for the poor on his neighbouring property. In order to give good cheer to the needy, four of his finest cattle were killed for distri• fixation. The Duke and Duchene of Northumberland within the last taa days have made ample provision for the poor on their estates in Northumberland and Yorkshire. As customary, the poor in Newcastle have participated largely in the benevolence of tM aoble duke and duchess. The Duke of Rutland haa caused a largo quantity of warm clothing to be dist' ibuted to the poor on his estates in Leicestershire and Liooolashire, and also an abundance of good old English cheer to his labourers and their families in the vicinity of Belvoir. His Excellency the Prussian ambassador and the Countess Eternatorff return to the Premiss embassy to-day from visiting Frames Coaster Waidegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Forteeeue, ALP., at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bait, M.P., will return to town early in the wain` week Item a tour of visite in the went at England. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have retuned to Hugheadea Haaor from Hatfield Houma. The Duke and Duchess de Persigny, says the Nord, " have been at Chamarande Mime the 24th, and have there kept Christmas in the Eoglish fashion." Tito demand for Lord Derby's translation of " Homer" is so great (says the Prat) that Tory few of the booksellers ma get supplied. _ .. Mr. W. W. Beach, M. P., will deliver s lecture on "Napoleon Bonaparte," iu ooenexion with the Aldershot Literary Institute, on Friday mains, Jan. 13. Lieatsesat• Getters! Sir J. L Peasefatber, H.C.8., commanding the division at Aldershot, is expected to preside. The anniversary meeting of the Anthropological Society will be held on Tuesday next week, when officers for the year will be elected, and the president will deliver his annual address. The Royal Horticultural Society has announced the intention of having a show of dowers and a promenade every Saturday throughout the year, which will be coo. tinned till the Wednesday following. The band of the Life Guards will 'Wood on Saturdays and Mondays. The first weekly show is on Saturday, the 6th of J►nuary. The I special fewer selected is the Chums primrose, but other flowers may be sent. The executors of the late Mr. David Roberts intend to have an exhibition of all his drawings, to be open is Loudon, we believe gratuitously, early in the spring. The will of the late Mr. Edward Yates, of 30, I Compton.terrace, Islington, has been proved. His per. sonal property is sworn under 60.0001. The executors are Mrs. Yates, of the same resideoce, mother of the testator ; sad Dr. C. J. Hare, of Brook•street. After some legacies to Mrs. Yates and other relatives, so much of the property as may legally be applied to charitable purposes is left to University College, London, in trust, to apply one moiety of the annual booms thereof to the general purposes of the North London Hospital, monected with that college, and the other moiety to the Samaritan Food for the relief of poor patients. The residue of personal property is loft to Dr. Hare. The obituary of the week includes the name of Adolphus Berusys, Doctor of Philosophy, sod late Pro fesior of German Literature at King's College. M. Gounod'e next music for Paris ia, we are told, to be that illustrating M. Legoure's drama, Lu Dcux Reines de Prance, in which the printipa: part is to be played, at the Thititre Lyricue, in French, by Madame Ristori Mdlle. A. Patti has pleased her Italian public iu Paris as Linda di Cbarnonay. in Donizatt's opera. She is nest to sing in Bellini's Pu neon i. La Gaze Um Musicale announcer that neither Madame Nantier , Didiki nor Signor Tamberlik will appear at the Royal Italian Opera this season ; that an English User, " Tom Mohler," ban made some expression at Flo. NOM; that an oratorio-cantata by Handel. till now un known, has been discovered at Elbing ; that Herr Wurat's new opera, The Star of Toren, has aneceeded at Berlin; that Signor Gold'. of Florence, whose palliation!' bid fair to become so many score Elsavirs, is &boat to briog out as edition of Maestro Facois Sin/onus !Matt; that a new ballet, of the utmost brilliancy, Koniek Gorhounoi, for Moarsvieff, with mimic by Signer Nisi, has been prensistad at St. Petarsburg ; and that a new theatre is to be built for the refreshment " of mob la Purgatory," at Yrkontek, in Siberia. ' Ira Aldridge, the African tragedian, in on the point of concluding hie tour in Ruda , where he has met with groat MOON& For some time be has been starring in the provisoes when the Russian translation of Shakes peare is used, Aldridge, of opines, playing in English, and accounts have occasionally appeared in the papers of the enthusiasm be has excited. The nobility of Tainboff have just presented him with a silver tea wake and several other valuable articles. MBE LATEST INTELLIUENCS. THE PAPAL ENCYCLICAL AND THE AUSTRIAN PRESS. The tone of the Austrian journals shows that the impression produced by the papal Encyclical is as unfavourable in the Austrian empire as in France. The New Free Press of Vienna describes it as directed against the entire civilisation of our epoch. This journal, regarding it as an interference of the Pope with secular affairs, contends that catholics are free to condemn it. " The bitter con test," it says, " which exists in the church between the Jesuits and the liberal catho lic. has not yet come to an open rupture, because Rome has constantly found means of pre venting it. This bull will revive all the old fierce ness, and God only knows if the court of Rome has still the power of hiding from the outer world the internal antagonism which disturbs it. The liberal section of the upper and lower clergy in France, Germany, Austria, - and Italy constitutes the vital element of the church. It is upon it alone that the church must rest if the great process of this century, the renovation of the Papal do mination, is to be accomplished in peace, without convulsions or catastrophes." The Pressed Vienna has the following : We shell confine ourselves to remarking that, besides the concarrecoe of the State in religious affairs, besides the separation of the Chan* and the Stater, besides the equality of right' for all confusions, the Foeydisl aaathematises the principle of non-interventiou. W. shall further again observe that all possibility of a reconciliation between Roses and progras, liberalism, and modern civilisation is njortal in the most categorical manner ; and it is this point, we believe, which gives practiail importance to this pontifical manifestation. We there see a reply to the Franco- Italian Convention of the 15th of September— s rejection the mat decided. France sad Italy, in particular, are abused in this Encyclioal. If France really intends to execute the convention of the 15th of September, those attacks of the court of Rome are cer tainly not of • Beaus to modify He sentimeote. If France takes up the glove we have no doubts to who will triumph in the end, and the court of Rome would deceive itself if it hoped to find eatery in the principle of non•interventioo. Our epoch appears scarcely disposed to carry on religion.. 111111111. ITALY. PRINCE HUMBERT AND CARDINAL D'ANDREA. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa gives the sub. joined details of what took place at the interview between Prince Humbert and Cardinal d'Andrea : We are smeared that in their conversation all the pending political questions were spoken of. His emineoos showed himself very accommodating on almost all the points ; he would, according to what we hear, want the proposition of making Rome • neutral city, but forming • Fart of the kingdom of Italy, without, however. being the capital end seat of government. It would be a kind of Italian Frank fort. His animate moot comprehend how all the diffi culties could be solved which would aria' from the con tinual contest of the Hood of Rome with the kingdom of Victor Emmanuel, in case the King and the Pope should be obliged to live in the same city. In that particular the cardinal is not perhaps wrong, as most persons believe that the difficulties of the position would precisely commence when the Winn government should succeed in occupying Rome. SPAIN. A Madrid letter has the subjoined : The oonflict between Spain and Peru threatens to acquire considerable proportions. The Queen spoke of it with great reserve in her speech at the opeciag of the Cortes. The following are said to be the cooditioos on which the new admiral who has been sent to the Pacific would be autho rised to treat with the government of Liam The Peruvian government should send to Madrid • high diplomatic repruentative, who must declare in Its name sod with all the required eolseinity that it dis approves of the project conceived by the autho rities of Callao to imprison the secretary of the Spanish Commissioner, and that it is ready to punish the authors of the criminal attempts which were the come quentot that project. 2. The Spanish government will lead a representative to Lima, with the mission of claim ing the immediate interveotion of jostles in the can of Ta. lamb° ; and that representative, accredited in the Rams manner as M. Salazar wu, shall be received officially by the Peruvian government. 3. Immediately after that re ception the Chincha Islands will be delivered up to the . . . . . commissioner appointed for that purpose by the Peruvian government. 4. Peru shall send a plenipotentiary to Spain for the purpose of concluding on reasonable bases • treaty between that republic and the Spanish nation, similar to those which already exist with the other Spanish-Amerl• an republics. (iturn's Timm's.) FRANCE. PARIS, Dic. 31. An imperial decree has been issued to-day, authorising the importation of merchandise of every description from say country, and under any flag, into St. Louis, Senegal, and the Isle of Gorge. Another decree has been issued opening the port of Cayenne to both French and foreign vessels. ALLOCUTION OF THE POPE. ROME, Die. 28 (vii Manglles). The Pope in an allocution addressed to the Cardinals the day before yesterday, said that in the present day robbery is committed under the pretext of Nationality. Hia Holiness added that he would die content if he oould witness the destruction of the enemies of the Holy See, and the triumph of truth and justice. BANK OF HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 31. The Bank of Holland has reduced its rate of dis count from 6 to oh per cent. THE WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND MEXICAN MAILS. SOUTHAmPTON. Dec. 31. • - -- -- The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon has arrived here with the above mails, 75 pas sengers, pearls and jewellery to the value of 24,085 dole., and 2,760 packages of cargo, chiefly cigars, bark, iniigo, tobaooo, and India-rubber. The Shannon also brings 2,530,731 dole. in specie, of which 3,231 dole. are on account of the Mexican dividends. She left St. Thomas on the 15th inst., and brings dates from Lima to the 28th ult. The South American Congress met on the 14th and appointed the representative of Peru first Pre sident of the Assembly. Frequent sittings had since been held, at which the greatest harmony prevailed. The question of the highest importance being the difficulty with Spain, the Congress closed, the conference on the 26th by unanimously resolving :-1. That the government of Peru must proceed immediately to give instructions for the recovery of the Chincha Islands, and to account to Congress within eight days. 2. That the President of Peru shall have no power to make a treoty or have any terms with the cabinet of Madrid until the islands have been given up by Spain, or have been taken by the forces of the Republic. _ . On the 27th ult. the President ordered all the fleet to proceed on a cruise for exercise, including the iron-clad Los While the fleet were ma, nteuvring in Callao Bay an American vessel from the Chinches arrived with news that Admiral Pinion's frigate had been totally destroyed by fire at the Chinch& Islands on the2lsth. Much excitement prevailed at Callao, and the pub lic impatiently awaited the orders from Lima for the • • • R 31, 1864. Awl to proceed to the Okinchas to engage the re maining frimite and gunboats, and to occupy the Wanda. At Lima exchange on London was quoted 37d., 60 days, and 37}d., 90days' drafts. Important news from Peru is expected by the next mail. Chili dates from Valparaiso to the 17th state that according to a new Custom-house decree, the coasting trade of this republic is open to vessels of all nations, and anchorage, tonnage, light dues, and wharf charges are entirely abolished. The 118 articles hitherto free of duty are re duced to 29. The export duty is lowered consider ably. The following ports have been pronounced open for all traffic :—fifegillortes, Caldera, Huasco, Co quimbo, Valparaiso, Constitucion, Tome, Talca huano, Coronel, Valdivea, Ancona, and Melipulli. The American ship Crest of the Wave arrived at Valparaiso with only three men fit for duty, 11 having died of dysentery. Trade at Valparaiso was dull, and the arrivals from Europe were small. Exchange on London, 60 to 90 days, 44141. per dollar. The revolution in the State of Bolivar was giving rise to serious apprehensions. The interior part of the State was to a certain extent in the hands of the opposition party under Gonzalez and Carazo, whilst the coast was under the sway of Nieto, the actual president. It was stated that Barranquilla and a number of other places had pronounced themselves in favour of Gonzalez. The people were anxiously waiting to know the attitude Mompas takes, as upon it depends the success of the revolu tionary movement. Business at Grenada was dull. Agricultural prospects were improving. The cocoa crop was good, and the cotton crops were largely increasing. Exchange : 4821 dole. for 90 days' sight. Produce arrived freely at the Demerara market. Freights unchanged. The exports were expected to fall abort of last year. The import markets were amply supplied. Copious showers of rain had visited Trinidad and the plants looked well. Sugar making was expected to commence in eight weeks. Business was dull at Jamaica ; 48e. were paid for coffee. The pimento crop wu over. Ram transactions, no sales. Sugar, dark, 18e. ; medium, 20s. ; fair, 22.4. to 235. per 1001bs. Tobacco, no sales. Exchange, 90 days, 1 per cent. In some parts of the island small•poz was still severe. The yellow fever at Bermuda is said to have entirely disappeared. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, D. 27. The Messageries Impenales steamer Muer* with India and Chins mails, left here this morn ing, and may be expected at Marseilles early on the 2nd. The Cambodge, with the outward mails, left Sues to-day. ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 29. The Nyanza and Basilic, with the above mails, left Alexandria at 7 cm. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 4th, and the latter at Southampton about the 11th inst. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. 01011 OUR OWN PARIS, FRLDAT Evzstao. M. Paulin Limayrac has another article on the Encyclical, which more and more diverges from the pow curank view of it which the Pays has been suffered to take. He says that with very few exceptions the whole catholic world of France has been " painfully affected " by the publication. The massee,as having benefited more than any other class by the institutions of 1789, are peculiarly attached to them and cannot but resent the anathema hurled at the state of things in the midst of which they live and prosper. Those 1 catholics who clieg to the Galilean tractions of the church of France are studiously insulted and their most cherished doctrines condemned with a special and wanton delight. The people who call themselves liberal catholics (M. de Montalembert is included in this section) are deno minated " pests " and " clorico-liberal societies," and contemptuously confounded with socialists and communists.. Even that almost imperceptible minority, the " blind and violent ultramontauists," of whom Lacordaire said, "They would ruin God himself if he could be ruined," are sad at heart, although they pretend to chant hymns of victory. The only people really pleased are the open adver saries of the Papacy. The Comstifutionne/ concludes that the Encyclical of Deo. 8 has, by wounding the consciences of catholics, and rejoicing the enemies of the church,augmented the difficulties of the mission which France has taken upon herself, and " is pursuing," in the interest of the Holy See. It would be of better augury if, instead of ' talking about the " difficulty" of the mission, the Constiturionnel had been authorised frankly to say that the Encyclical had rendered it " impossible." It is difficult to conceive what more the Pope could do to promote that eventuality spoken of in M. Drouyu de Lhuys' despatch to K de Sartiges, wherein he said, "If we were to leave Rome, we should no doubt regret to see the Holy See placing itself in open opposition to the ideas of the age ; but our responsibility would be at an end." If K Dronyn de Limys is not now prepared to carry out the convention to its natural consequences it is difficult to see how he can retain office when the Chambers meet in February. The government orators cannot now, without provoking horse-laughter, say as they have done hitherto—that the mission of France is to promote a reconciliation between Italy and the Pope. The express object of the Encyclical is to proclaim that the Pope will come into nothing of the kind. The first grand ball of the Tuileries is fixed for Saturday, the 7th. The Empress will probably eommence her weekly receptions immediately afterwards. Count Baciocchi has had a relapse. K Eugene Pelletan, who is a native of the Charente Inferieure, has written an eloquent letter to the electors of that department, recommending them to vote on January 8 and 9 for the opposition candidate, M. Paul Bethmont. A work of some reputation in Germany— " Studies on French Civilisation and Literature in the 19th Century." by M. Kreyssig—has been seized in the Paris bookshops. It contains biographies of Napoleon IIL and Victor Hugo, which are considered "disrespectful to sovereigns." The case of the Abbi Bernard, prosecuted for his work, "Christ and Caesar," which is alleged to contain " attacks upon authority," and to have a tendency to provoke disaffection to the govern ment," oomes before the Correctional Tribunal of Nancy to-morrow. At the Bourse the Bent., after running up for account to 66fr. 25c., fell for the close to yester day's price, 66fr. exactly. Mobilier fell llfr. 25c. The market left off with decided heaviness. THE BISHOP OP CAPETOWN AND DE. COLENsO. We reprint the following letter from Mr Burgon to the Guardian : ~" Air,—The following I.:tract from a letter jot received from the Bishop of Oapetown (dated Nov. 11) will not fail to interest a large number of your readers. I think it right, on many amounts, to request that you will give it insertion in your next number, although it is altogether a private communication. A magi. word of introduotion will suffice. I had ventured toexpreee an earnest hope to a near kinsman of the writer that by no act of hie would BishopOrey afford any pretext for the charge I had heard brought against him, that Ise was prepared to " separate from the Church of England... He says in reply—" The thought never entered itto any of our minds to do so. The charge is simply a device of Dr. Coleaso's friends to excite prejudices against those whose duty it has been to remove him from his office. We all in this land proclaim ourselves one church with our dea r mother church, and believe her to be, if judged fairly by what she herself says., by the voice of her formularies, and the voices of her teachers, the sounders church on earth. But she is einsibliabed by law, and has choose this position for herself. We are Dot esteb. lished, and do not choose that :tat is. With all the acci. dents, therefore, attaching to the church of England so a state church we have nothing to do. The Judicial COM. mittee of Privy Commit has beeo made by statute a court of appeal for her. It has not for us. Dr. Colombo wishes to make it so, sad invites it to declare that it is. We simply and declare that we will not receive it as such. protest we bound ourselves to, that we abide by. The oath of the Queen's sovereignty in the Prayer Book ; the Articles; the hitters patent—these are the terms of our contract. The letters patent really exclude the l'rivy Council, and make appeals to lie. if anywhere, to Canter. bury. Oee thing, I confer, is deeply Bawd in tor mind, We cannot allow Dr. Coleaso to go back to Natal, and be the only bishop there, without betraying Our Lord, and far. felting His preemies and favour. If there has ever been a heretic, he is am. Will it be any answer for me to give in the Great Day, ' that the lords of the Privy Council' Is. dare (if they do declare) ' that I had no jurisdiction, and that he was no heretic'! Will not the Master say —I sent you to guard the faith and carry out the discipline of the chureh, and you swore that you would do so. You never bound yourself toobey the declaims ct civil courts ia matters relating to Me. What had you to do with them! Depart.' . . . . I Were this would be my deserved sentence ; and therefore I feel that I must, if my brethren will eat with me, sod I be driven to this es a lad resource, go up sad aoaescrete • true Bishop mine cathedral of Natal, though death and ruin to myself were the resesequeees. And I think it would go far to kill me ; for amidst these trials I cannot sleep. Bat enough. I would not have troubled you but for 's expressions. Ever faithfully yours, " B. CATETOWN." We (A rmy and Navy Gazette) understand that his Royal Highness the Field-Ilaushal Commanding-in-Chief dose Da consider himself ogled upon to take say steps with retard to the ow of Lieutenant Burnaby, of the Blum Letters from Mexico state that, at the request of the Emperor Maximilian, Marshal Beasine will prolong his my for tome time to that country. A telegraphic despatch from Montpellier states that the foot& of the Prioorms Coartoriska took Own there on Thursday morning, in the midst of ao immeass number of persons of all domes of society. Orations were claimed over the tomb by Dr. Vaiike sad Y. BeHeikki. The exact return of the game shot at Compi e gne ea the Soya 'lieu presx►ss, from the 20th of September to the day on which the court party broke up. shows • gram total at 7,739 per head. That is, 201 roebuck■, I,B= pheasants, 884 hers, 4,325 rabbits, 451 partridges, sad 47 woodcock•. Oa St. Habeet's Day Comte de is Ferrier°, master of the Aro hounds, France, opened the mason by a grand maw at 4 o'clock in the morning, in the ancient church, which was brilliantly illuminated for the peculiar occasion. Twenty whippen•m and his whole hunting es tablishment, wearing the livery of his hones, were arranged down the nave. At the elevation of the Host the men sounded their horns. The church even at that early hour was crowded by people, attracted to witness this clarions revival of an ancient mutest. The nitt,rods of the Paris Jockey Club are looking forward with great anxiety to the arrival of Comte d'Oe mood, who is exploited io a few days with his magoificeot peck of boar-hounds. The fint meet wes to bare takes plow in the forest d'Halatte on New Year's-day; but Y. llyppolyte Carlos, the keeper of the woods aed footsie of the deportment (I.oiretl, has grouted the right of Mint ing for one fortnight to the master of the bounds, who is to hoot them himself. He has a splendid pack; the enor mous number of wolves and their extensive depredations in duced the farmers of the department to petition that some step might be taken for their destructioe, as hitherto them animas have appeared to thrive and income rapidly on the poison, trap tiptop, and bettor* that base bees organised in the hops of dimietaltiog their umbers. A violent shock of an earthquake was felt about 8 o'clock in the evening of the 15th inst. in Bavaria. Is Parteakirchen and Garnaisch, the log houses trembled, and all their furniture began to stagger ; mirrors sad pictures at the walls swung to and fro, and the poultry, ticsawdlo animals, sad cage•birds were roused from their sleep. The tended population rushed into the streets, many of them believing the world was coming to an end. Il is conjectured that this earthquake must be referred to the Game causes as produced s similar shock in Florence end other pezte d Italy on the 13th and 14th. An instance of unusual munificence has just oc curred at Hamburg. A Jewish merchant, Herr ash" has presented the sum of 500,000 marks for the support of the " Betty-Heise Hospital," which was bat at the st pense of his father, and takes its name from his mother. The Museum of the Therm.. and of the Hotel de Cluny have just received a complete collection of ancient earthenware and of other articles collected by as amateur, who has made a present of them to the goversomat. The pieces of earthenware, of which there are 60, ass composed of fountains, flower-pots, and dishes, which wore enanufao. toted many years moos at Homo, Clermont. Luneville, Strasbourg, and &max. Some of the piano are remarkable speediness of French manufacture in the lith and lath centuries. This collection is really interesting, and does great credit to the patriotism of the donor. _ Austria and Saxony have declined the propoei tie@ made to them of acceding to tbe troaly of Gotten relative to the neutrality of ambulances in time of war. This reserve causes considerable surprise to all as parki ns, of bumps reforms. The Milan Gazette publishes a letter from Mantua ramming that a trading boat going up the Lows Mind° has jolt been seized brawn it bad two arks of gunpowder oa board. The captain Rod his men were all lodged in prison. The dieerery was made by a spy. It is said that attempts of this kind are very numerous, and are suceessful in are oases oat of ten. On Thursday afternoon the magnificent new steam ram Abdul Anis was succoef ally launched from the shipbuilding yard of Mmes. Robert Napier and floes, Gores, amidst a large concourse of spectators. This vowel is the second of the three Isms which the Mews. Napier and Sons were appointed to build for the Turkish govern. meat, sad is in all respect' similar to the Orman ()buy, which was launched ou the 2nd September last from the same yard. The dimension.' are—Length over all, 300 feet ; extreme breadth, 56 feet ; depth, moulded, 37 feet ; tonnage, 0.m., about ; load draught, Dearly 25 fest. The vowel is plated from stem to mere, projects is ram style at the prow, and carries 24 guns of heavy calibre, includingfour 110-pounders. ST. PALL'' UATIIEDRAL.—The special Sunday evening services sager the dome of St. Paul'' Cathedral are to commence to-morrow evening, Jan. 1, and are to coo ties, until and will close on Lister &today. The Bishop of London is announced to preach the sermon to-morrow evening. Divine service commences at 7 p.m. His lord ship will be followed on succeeding Sunday evenings by limey eminent ggeschers. These services are the revival of I the aesient Sunday " preachuige" from St. Parirs-crome which stood is Memoirs of St. Pauleehurelayard, until those stormy times which immediately preceded the death of Charles I. The invention of gas has in the 19th century enabled thane great services to be revived, sod to be held within the cathedral itself. The dome area, es now arranged, has seats for 11,5 W persons. The following are the ;weathers appointed by the Bishop of Landon to preach in the cathedral on Sunday moraines in the moral' of Jaen. cry: --Tae. 1, Rev. Henry Veen, 8.13., of Queen's College, Cambridge, secretary to the Church Missionary Society ; Jan. 8, Rov. William Gilson Huombry, B. D., of Trinity College. Cambridge, Vicar of St. Martin'ado-the-Fiebls ; Jam. 15, Rev. James Augustus Hesse, D.C. L, of St. John's College. Oxford, Head Master of Merchant Tsylore'l3chool ; Jae. 22, Rev. William Josiah Duos, D. U., of Qesea's Col lege, Oxford. Vicar of Holy Trinity. Bromptee ; Jae. 29, Rev. Christopher Puke. M.A., of Worcester College, Ox. ford, Vicar of Ruislip i near Uxbridge. LITLILARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOIL ma Easungo Wau.—liooday : Entomological, 7. Tuesday Asthropological, 4, Anniversary ; Photographic, 8, Printing with the Salta of Uranium," Mr. Cooper, jna. ; Royal Institution, 3, " Chemistry of a Coal," juvenile tures, Professor Prankland. Wednesday : Society of Literature, 81, " Sculptured Limestoces, with Him. slyphic Inscrtptioem, from Memphis," Sir C. Nitholese. Thursday : Royal Institution. 3, " Chemistry at a Cast." kneads lectures, Profsesor Frankland. Friday : Philo. logical. 8, " Henisrie Word, • Duspari,' " Mr. Oayley. Saturday : Royal Institution, 3. " Chemistry of a Coal," juvenile lectures, Professor Frankland. THE POIAUE (THIS DA GUILDHA THI LATE EXTEMIVE BURG] JohnDring, alias Palmer, vs remand before Mr. Alderman Wt y breaking and entering O z lro u r a l i and and Co., of St. Fiera therefrom shawls to the value of erlthreoeiviag the same with a gu Yr. Lewis. jun., of Ely-place, I Yr. Buchanan defended the priso LorAyer, the warder from the bath-fields, proved that the pri and sentenced to ten years' pen dam jewellery, and to 18 month sad to three months' imprison me tenter. Yrs. Garnham gave evidence hand's testimony. Mr. Alderman Waterlow cor dial at the Old Bailey on both ch CLERECENI CONVICTION OP THE SECRETARY Janus litrlverd Bay, late secret Mg Trade Benevolent Society. DrEyecourt, on remand, charged 4581. 12a. belonging to the society The case wan fully investigated bate made an ceder for the RAHN the prisoner for a week to give ix On the present examination, a amiety said although the prisoner he had not made any offer of pay The defendant mid he was no Hoop of Detention. The magistrate remarked that time. He could have communicate hie solicitor. The defendant said he would isetalmente of 2/, per month. This offer was refused by the the prisoner would never pay. The magistrate, in defsidt o defendant to the Home of Correa , heed labour. iistle&dant vas ilea remov WORSHIP S • TIAMMITreII PIIOFLIGACT. Rebecca lease, a fine featured profusion of hair beneath a bb charged with stealing a dam the 'property of her moth Prisms-street, Hsgerstone, and trete said—l don't know what she is evidently bent on being be seentros I determined of bringia ether morning she took my goi door sad took it away with the came home in a perfectly unions emus it was melees to my thytl =to fits. This morning el vs quits naked, bat to on her hick ; so, as I mid, I do the this—l followed and yr Maps out all night sometimes, I's and is a dagnice to be seen. I b living with the eon of a surge And out. Over and over again I all her faults and never spoil would mend her ways ; yet, made decent than off she is age is repeated. I feel the& it Ulm; her massif, and I have mot a hie Mr.Oooke (to the prisons/)—V your mother, mid behaving in U Primmer—l took the things be Mr. Oooke—Wbere is the ti pledged the dress. Prisoner—l tore it up. Veste it, but met some friends of mil to have some ale—it made me they had put ram into it, and then— . . . . Mr. Cooke—How olds this gi Mother—Sizieso on the 'Jed died whin she was eight. Mr. Cooke—ls she your only Mother—My only girl, sir ; bi mots tries!' in t►e world. 16:60&—i711\11f1;011ad he the thiap are pledged. WAND6W Mr. Charles JaM Edward-etreet Ketuingtompro women on Clapharn-oommon. Rebecca Smith said the was d Sir George Pollock, who re Clapham-common. On Mond twenty minutes past 4 o'cl home by the cod of the col suddenly presented himself trot vented her from passing. He she told him that if he did no would call for seeistanoe. He no one would hear her. He pin and asked her to 'et him kiss b es she did not wish to be kiss& succeeded in kissing her, and he ilri e. laynee, for the defends than owe? Witisees—No. Mr. Haynie—Then he was is I !appose you don't object to • Witness—Oh yes, I do, (lAnghter.) Charlotte Sarah Banks, how said about twenty minutes to questing she wee crossing defendant came from behini bold of her by the shoulder end yea and wish you • merry Cl attempted to kiss her by pulliin gave her his cud to prove that any harm. She met the butler fellow servant, and she said, "1 She gave him the card. Yr. Haynes, who elicited fix they wee willing to &wept se sat wu anxious to render bat Sir George Pollock weak Haynes) did oot deer the chars freak of the moment, indace fondant had taken. _ _ _ -- Mr. illaymea ..id Sir Georg sot allowing an apology to boa look after the interests of his i indent io each rommotts 40a., The defendant paid one allowed a wesk's paw to pay t THE LATE bit:EDER ON Du.)—This morning, upon Gray's-ian-roed. our the yeses nun, Alfred Ribbed Anchor, Saffron•lidl, who wee might, was progremarg favours medical racer, sad Mr. Muria been is atteedanot upon him Fevmousee bim out of danger. who was stabbed 1. the bald b is an out-petiset is the shoe, greasing setiefactorilv. ACCIDENT AT MEMEL C This monist an alarming arm unattended with fatal cosseqss yard of Merin. Cubitt, the I read, to • man of the name of ding at 3, Brand-street. ILA etreblock of marble k , end the unfortunate m them, when six or seven of the nearly two toes, fell on him. soon brought some of hi fell.' speedily us possible the stases fortunate men wee removed pita, Gray's-ion-road, and ward. Upon his bring e Hill, the resident medical *Mr the house mergers, it was died some severe contusions of the bin is the hospital for at weight of the stones that fel is • fortunate thing that Dos ALLEGED ertuEl.vT Prosser, • waggoner, living r and his wife, are in custody t ill-treating two of their chit, death of one of them. Pr isumber, have only resided io having been engaged by • I children of his owo, and lb, second wife, had two other eh A Mm. Ann Thurston', • the hoed several times, nol sot properly cared for, er woman complain of the to Saturday night she was calls the inquest was held, when stepmother, according to the it • little slap or two, and Montana gave information communicated with the p children. boys, were remove pissed under medical ears, exhaustion. sad died on M moved, the children were bore several bruises. Nome tracts& the expression of I =Thee of the body covered w "erode. The opinion of thou modem of the milted from exhaustion, prod cold. An inquest which had till to-day (Saturday.) I brought before the [assists boy is in such a weak orieditii The 'wishbones are very tad time two children were i disease, the two illegitimate to be strong, hearty, sad wee