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In monthly parts, and In lialt-yearly rolitules, price 5 1 . ea. bound la cloth. the deliberate opinion of one placed so high as the Bishop of Lowuolt is of value. He ham no hesitation in pronouncing against Mr. DISRAELI'S maxim, "Thee inquiry—yes, but for " free inquirers." There is, he acknowledges, difficulty in the prosecution of any very free inquiry by those who begin their career by professing their belief in fixed formulas of doctrine, and he thinks that thoee difficulties might be diminished by relax ing the rigidity of the present subscription. But in any case, he says, "it will never do to lay down " that a clergyman must not inquire." But sup pose he should err respecting the Church's doc trine ? Well then, of course, says the Rumor, he will resign his office, as many a good man has done before him. The Boner mums' that he will do so as an honourable man, and he says that in acting in that straightforward manner " he is certainly not " to be denounced, he is entitled to our respect." This is very different from the language employed by some church zealots in the House of Commons when Mr. BOUVERIK'S Clergy Relief Bill was dis cussed last Session. It is difficult, the BISHOP observes, to exaggerate the solemnity or responsi biliUes of ordination. Still "no man is bound by " his ordination vow to turn a deaf ear to the " whisperings of his conscience, even if it be a " mistaken conscience, or to resist those longings " of his higher nature which urge him to make " sure of truth." The BISHOP expresses his dis trust of prosecutions for opinion as a means of preserving doctrinal purity in the Church ; while he is not prepared to deny that sometimes they may be inevitable, he prefers to trust to wise argument and kindliness "acting on that manly "honesty of character, which as a general rule, "thank GOD, we find in all our countrymen." The general character of this remarkable Charge may well be represented by one of its sentences :—" In " dealing with the difficulties of an inquisitorial " age, the generous confiding policy is the best and " the most Christian." Abe Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 3. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out this morning, attended by Major-Gene. ral Seymour. Viscount Sydney (Lard Chamberlain) arrived at the Castle yesterday. Mr. &code, Mr. Tilley, Mr. Howland, and Mr. Howe, had en interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from Canada, "The Beacon Fire Amu. rance Company v. Gibb" (part heard), was concluded. Lord Chelmsford gave judgment, reversing the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench, and re-establishing the judgment of the superior court. An appeal from Canada, " Triage v. Lavallee," was commenced. The lords present were Lords Chelmsford and Kingsdown, and Sir J. Coleridge. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of Ceylon, Kong Kong, Labuan, Malta, and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Labour. cite erpregos. 00VENT HARDIN. THIS }NEMO, LOVWS TRIUMPH. Mtn LOlll6/1. Pya and Madame Laura Baxter ; Means. 0. Perron, W. H. Weirs. H. Corr', Ayneley Cook. sad W. Harrtion.—Cooductor, Mr. A. Melba—Commence at B. nAnuaum. Ems E'vErnie, A DAUGHTRIL TO MARRY. Miss R. Romer. OCR AMERICAN 001381 N. Messes.Bothsco. Backskons K Pitonlllam.—DUClE HUNTING. Mrs.Hllklna.—And JACK S RETURN FROM CANTON. The Laclerco. PILINCiera. gVZ/MIO, A.S.& Mr. litalanala and MON Handerbon. —THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. G. Thing. Miaow Allmar, Mears., and Mra. & White.—And THE HONEYMOON. M Vezln ana R. Rosby ; Mtn Y. Oliver. BRITANNIA. Tilts 'gmMa, CART ON TUB IitRCY OF THE WORLD. Mrs. S. Lana.--Singing by Mt. W. RandMß•—DSneinF by %Wk. C. Btepban.--OILK 10111eZ1 LY.—And THE BEVRN BEEFS TO RtIN. M Lacey. HIGH WATLIt AT LONDON =IDOL Tito DIT Noralog, OIL )01L.....An0t0504 Oh. 552. No4lolaow—llorabGA It 1b......An1nh0311. lb. 3.55. LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. THE Bishop of LONDON has bad the courage to speak frankly and intelligibly on some of the serious difficulties with which the Church of England in•these days has to contend. His Charge is moderate and guarded in ezpresaion, but it is that of a Bishop anxious rather to promote the lasting peace of the Church than to gain a quiet time for himself. Whatever prudent reserve policy may dictate to the leaders of parties, it is certain that by important sections of the Church it will be received with feelings little short of indignation. The Thence is resolved that a stand shall be made against a movement which, under pretence of resisting the temporary errors by which the mind of the age is purging itself, would totally obliterate the Protestantism of the Church of Eng land. That there was need of such resistance no one can doubt who has even a superficial -- _ acquaintance with the polemical literature to which a certain unhappy volume has given occasion. Now respecting the character of the age, out of which the present difficulties have grown, we believe it is more than an "inquisitive age," as it is some times called. Surely the audacity of speculation was as great in the days of BtmEn as it is now. We must look for something more than the intel lectual boldness of these times if we would discover what there is peculiar in that spirit of free inquiry which is giving ecclesiastics so much trouble. And we shall find it in the greater share which the heart now claims in the questions relating to religion. In the last century an unfeeling scepticism was sufficiently answered with " analogies", the product of the dry intellect. If the worth and need of the profound satisfactions of religion were leas felt than they are, men of liberal views might, as they did then, go out of the Church without a pang, and indulge a cynical unbelief. A belief is now abroad that the Church is a place to which men may rightly bring their human perplexities and human weaknesses ; and from within the voices of ample, deep, and sympathising natures have been heard confirming that persuasion. The Bishop of Lennon has again and again shown him self alive to this state of things, and in so doing excites us to be grateful to the PROVIDENCE which has placed him in a position of commanding influence. The BISHOP acknowledges in his Charge that the unrestrained spirit of free inquiry which claims the right to sift and test all theories, and bows to no authority, however venerable, which cannot make good Be claims by argument, is a suurceof immense difficulty. What are we to do with it 4 The question has been answered by another prelate in a notable sermon. The motive of inquiry is doubt, and doubt, according to the Bishop of OXFORD, is to be dealt with as you would deal with a shell that should fall on deck in a sea fight, throw it overboard the moment it alights. The Bishop of LoNDON says, on the other hand, that he will not ask any man to give an unreasoning assent to the Church's teaching. Precisely because be is so firmly convinced that the truths of which the Church is a witness came from Heaven, he will not, " from a craven fear lest those truths should "be shaken, disparage the use of that great " instrument which Got) has given to man for the " investigation and defence of truth." It would be wrong, however, to represent the BISHOP as anxious to save the old Protestant right of private judgment merely in the interest of human liberty. He maintains that it is equally required in the interest of truth and orthodoxy. Observing that a religious attitude of mind is a ne cessary condition of successful inquiry after religions truth, he sees that, as a preliminary, the fullest free dom must be conceded. He teaches distinctly—and here he will give offence to the Popishly inclined of whatever name or party—that a man's first duty is to his own moral nature, and that in ful filling that he is ou the way to all Divine truth. " GOD has intimated that he who has mastered " even that simplest of all religious truths—viz., " that he ought to obey conscience—and clings to " this, is on the road to learn all religious truth." It is true that this is only what the blessed FOUNDER of our kingdom taught in the Temple; but it as much angers the Scribes and Pharisees in our days as it did in His. These considerations, put forward by the BISHOP, concern the whole Church, and we confess we attach even more importance to them than to the remarks which the BISHOP made on the position and duties of the Clergy in relation to freedom of inquiry. The liberty of the Clergy is regulated by the law as administered by the Ecclesiastical Courts, and the Bishop can neither contract nor enlarge it. But for laymen, who are under no similar obliga tion, the aspect of the character of the Church, the features which attract men to it or drive them away, are very much determined by the living words proclaimed by the Church's chief ministers. From this point of view we regard the counsels which we have been considering as infinitely more " practical," that is to say, more fruitful of consequences, than what the BISHOP says about the way of dealing with clergymen who are in error. Still, even on this latter ground, LATEST INTELLIOZNOS. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Dvo. 2. News has reached Berlin that M. de Kanitz, Prussian Minister at Rome, has become insane. There is talk of replacing him by Count Perponcher, formerly Prussian Minister at Naples, and who was one of the group of diplomatists who went from Rome to visit Francis 11. at Gaeta, from which unpleasant abode they speedily retreated (with two or three exceptions), when that sovereign unfeel ingly proposed that they should remain to bear him company during the siege. M. de Kanitz is married to an English lady, sister-in-law of the amiable and accomplished Duke of Sermoneta. He is the second Prussian diplomatist who has re cently been overtaken by the same affliction ; the other being Baron Meuseboch, formerly Minister at the Court of the Brazils, and who is since dead. There is a report here of approaching changes in the Austrian diplomatic corps. Baron Bach, of Concordat celebrity, is to quit Rome, it is said, and to retire into private life ; Count Apponyi is to go from London to Rome, and Count Karolyi from Berlin to London. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1862• ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF WALKS. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at Dover yesterday afternoon in the government yacht Vivid, Commander Allen, which left Calais shortly after one o'clock, and reached the Admiralty Pier at Dover soon after three. A gun' of honour of the Royal Artillery was drawn up along the Admiralty Pier, which was lined ' with townsfolk and visitors, who had flocked to the place of disembarkation as soon as it became known that his Royal Highness was expected to land at Dover. This was not made public till a few hours before the Prince's actual ar rival, in order to avoid the formalities of a public reception. it being well understood that his Royal Highness desired to land in as private a manner as passible. On the steam. packet turning the angle of the Admiralty Pier — the landing being most conveniently effected on the western side—the Prince was observed standing on the quarterdeck, General Kuollys and Colonel Teesdale being near to him. His Royal Highness graciously ac knowledged the salutations of the crowd which thronged the landing stairs, and on the vessel being moored Captain Triscott, R.N., the naval superintendent of the port, General Stotherd, lt.E., Brigadier-General Garvock, the commandant of the garrison, the Honourable Captain Chetwynd, aide-de-ramp, Colonel Fisher, R.A., and other officers, proceeded on board, and paid their respects to the Prince, who received them very graciously. It was ob served that his Royal Highness was looking remarkably well. On the Prince ascending the landingetatni a royal salute was fired from the Castle batteries, the band of the Artillery struck up the National Anthem, and a succession of cheers attended his peonage from the !anding•place to Bir mingham's Lord Warden Hotel, where his Royal Highness remained a short time and partook of refreshment before proceeding for Loudon. Arrangements were made for the continuation of the journey by the South Eastern line of railway, by which a special train, conveying Lis Royal Highness and suite, left at 4.10, under the charge of Mr. Knight, the traffic superintendent of the line, and attended also by Mr. C. V. Walker, telegraphic engineer. A guard of honour of the 59th Regiment was in attendance at the railway station, where a large number of the more fashionable of the inhabitants obtained admittance, the beat possible arrangements for their accommodation, as well as the despatch of the train, being made by the obliging station superintendent, Mr. E. J. Way. His Royal Highness left amid the waving of handkerchiefs, the raising of hats, and the hearty cheers of his fayro subject', and as the royal train moved out of the station he repeatedly acknowledged these demonstrations from the window of the state carriage. ' During the process of mooring one of the seamen of the Vivid accidentally fell overboard, but regained the deck without difficulty. On stepping on board, although stream ing from the effects of his sudden and unexpected plunge, he merely shook himself, like a thorough old salt, and went OD with his work. The episode was the musical of much merriment, but it also had another aspect, as exemplifying the stuff which makes the British sailor. The Guardian says :—" We are informed, on the best authority, that the marriage of the Prince of Wales is to take plane in March, not April, as has been stated. It will therefore be in Lent. We understand that the Queen regrets very much, and is desirous that her people should be aware that she regrets, that it should be so ; but we hear that there are reasons of state which make it most undesir able that it should be longer delayed. The Queen will take Cale, however, that it is not during the more solemn part of . that season." The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury are about to receive a ouccessioa of visitors at Tottoultam Park, The Earl of Derby is entertaining a select shoot ing party at Knowsley Park, Lsncaahire. The Earl and Countess of Ashburnham, Viscount St. Aseph, and the Hon. Mr. Ashburnham, have left town for Ashburnbarn.place, Sussex, in order to be present at the funeral of the Countess Dowager of Ashburnhant, which takes place today at Ashburnham-place. _ . The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol and Mrs. Thomson have arrived in town front Wales. His lordship has taken a residence in Estomplace, Belgrave.equare, for a few months• _ The remains of the Dowager Countess Granville were interred in the family vault at Stone Park, Stafford shire, on Tuesday last. Lord and Lady Colchester come to town to-day from Brighton, where they have been staying for some weeks past. Lord Rivers left town yesterday for his seat, Rushmore Lodge, Dorset. The marriage of Frances Countess Waldegravo with Mr. Chichester Fortescoe is fixed to take place early in January. Sir Henry and Lady Rawlinson have arrived in Hill-street from a tour in Italy. Sir George Russell Clerk and Major Clerk have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Scotland. Sir Mitten Sykes has (says the Eastern Cottitties Herald) for some days been seriously ill at Sledmere Castle, East Riding. He has attained hi 91st year. takes to say that difficulties will disappear. and the : Emperor will be able to settle the great Roman question "to the satisfaction 'of those who think without wounding the sensibility of those who believe." In another article M. de Girardin proposes to show how the Emperor ought to act. lam much afraid that the coming revelation will only prove too conclusively the justice of the writer's better opinion that his gladiatorial articles in the press are " useless." At the Bourse the Rente, after rising to 70fr. 900., dropped to 70fr. 60c., closing heavily at 70fr. 40c. for cash and 70fr. 60c. for account, with a fall of 10c. and 15c. A alight de cline in Consols was the only cause for the fall assigned ; but the least thing affect* this sensitive market. Mobilier rose sfr., and all the railways left off considerably higher. Orleans ruse 13fr.75c., and Lyons 12fr. 50c. ,-(THIS DAY.) 4, II A.S. AUSTRIA. On the ith will take place the clotting of the two Chambers of the Council of the Empire of Austria. It will be marked by an unusual ceremony. The Emperor Francis Joseph will renew, on this occa sion, the formal engagement to maintain the con stitution. The chambers will be convoked afresh as soon as the provincial diets shall have terminated their labours. (110TZWII 1111101.018.) AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 4, The North German Lloyds' steamer New Yorkhaa arrived here with 10 passengers, 325,073 dole. in specie for England, and 10,500 dole. for Bremen. She left New York on the 22nd November, and spoke on the 27th the English brig African, bound west, and on the 3rd inst. the English ship William Stewart, oft Land's End. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The France gives the most ill-natured turn pos sible to the news generally believed to-day, that the majority of the English cabinet has expressed an opinion that Prince Alfred must not accept the throne of Greece. It says that Lora Palmerston, Lord Russell, and Mr. Gladstone were all in favour of the candidature, had obtained the Queen's consent to it, and bad instructed Mr. Scarlett accordingly, but that they have suddenly altered their views from fear of a rupture with the United States. The Scotia (says the France) has brought the in telligence that the merchants of New York show a hostility to Great Britain "which nothing can appease" on account of the affair of the Alabama, and the threat of the governor of Bermuda to fire upon Commodore Wilka. It is only, as the F, mice would have it believed, in consequence of this situation that the latest resolution of the English cabinet is to allow Prince Alfred to be elected, but to refuse on hie behalf after the vote• The France is not satisfied now, and would have England take positive measures to prevent the Greeks from so much as paying her a compliment. A Vera Cruz letter of Nov. 1, in the SWele, says : The ooriseere end officals of the Ponta et Chamois' who have arrived here to make a railway from Vera Cruz to Orizaba, find themselves in a very perplexing position. It is almost impossible to get labourers of any sort for love or money. The engineer-in•chief has just come from New York, where, it is rumoured, he has purchased 400 tons of rails, but he was not able to get a single man. At Havannah be had no better luck. Employing soldiers in these works is not to be thought of, as they would surely fall sick from the exhalations. Within the last four days the remainder of General Forey's forces have disem barked. En attendant their march to Orizaba, which they cannot commence at present, in consequence of the insuffi ciency of the means of transport, the troops will encamp in the neighbourhood of Yens Cm; within a distance of three or four leagues. It is important to observe the date of the above communication, November 1, than which the Moniteur has nothing later. General Forey him self had gone forward as far as Orizaba, but the bulk of his reinforcements remained at or near Vera Cruz, the state of the roads and the want of mules and other accessonee preventing them from march ing. This is precisely what I said several days ago. With the exception of the disastrous march of General Berthier's corps (about twenty miles in a week), which was left by the last accounts at the deserted town of Puente Nacionale, General Forey'e army has not been able to move. M. Emile de Girardin makes a modest entry in the P wise this evening, without resorting to the! facile honours of large type, which small deer of the Gueronnihre class have brought into disrepute. Having evidently not a great deal to say for his opening article, he begins by pleasantly observing that all writers, even the most feeble, have, like all kings, even the most powerful, their flatterers. M. de Girardin represents himself as having been se duced by flatterers to quit the " laborious repose" of the study of the ideal in which he has been indul ging for the last live years, to take part in the "useless struggle" of actual politics. He can give no better reason, he says, for yielding at length to offers which he had long resisted than the fact of his long resistance. He holds that the art of flat tery resembles the art of war in this, that the besieger will always, in the long run, get the better of the besieged. This old athlete of the press (throwing off now the humility of his opening lines) tells his adversaries of all shades that they have • done no good since he left off writing. They have I brought to light no truth, ensurel the triumph of no principle. All great questions which were in suspense remain in suspense still. After a tirade against " half measures" in the old style of this " absolute" reasoner, and a parenthetical approbation of President Lincoln's proclamation, as a tardy homage to a principle which the Czar of Russia himself has been obliged to sanction in his own dominions, the restored editor of the Prase alludes to the Roman question se one on which his own mind is made up. In one of those antithetical sentences which were for years the staple food of the Charieari, he says that " wherever there is a question there must necessarily be a solution." The Emperor has it in his power, if he likes, to achieve the right solution, because in everything that he has seriously attempted he has succeeded. M. de Girardin cites, with seeming approbation, a saying of the Emperor in justification of the coup d'etat : " I left the domain of legality to enter on that of right." Endorsing this dangerous doctrine, he would have the Em peror "do now iu 1862 with regard to foreign policy what he did for home policy in 1852." Then, making a wordy distinction which means nothing, he says be would have him make not a coup d'etat but a coup de raison. The imperial eagle should not skim the meadows like a scared goose, but soar into the clouds. If he will only s rise to the proper height M. de Girardin under- WEATHER REPORT. THIIRSDAY, B. Nano ..... 210.791 imp= 2BBB 46 2879 48 Baltic( 29.90 47 laoaossA '29.71 46 GALWAY ,29.48 50 vavorru 1 12T 2270 w( 29.55 52 HOL% acip 29.66 46 :..10.iiI~i lal w. 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The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society have just issued the first of a series of tracts, having for their object to enlighten the public on the sole cause of the slave.hohling rebellion in the United States. The A inumoxh de Gotha for 1863, which has just appeared, maintains King Francis IL as sovereign of the Two Sicilia, and the Pope as the powwow:lr of the three provinces which have been taken from him. A Berne letter says :—" The young Prince of Conde, son of the Duke d'Aumale, is about to pursue his studies at the College of Lausanne. Re is confided to the care of the Swiss Colonel Albert, who transferred his resi dence recently from Geneva to Lausanne." The Comrade, an Austrian military journal, says :—" The number of muskets which the state manu factories have, as yet, sold to the United States, amounts to 80,000. The price was fixed at 23 florins each, which, according to the rate of exchange, makes • total of two millions of francs. At that price there is • profit of 15 per cent. on the cost of the manufactr.e. A special agent sent by the Washington government to Vienna concluded the bargain." The Paris Muniteur says :—"The imperial library has been authorised by imperial decree to accept the donation made to it by the Duke de Lurie', of his magni ficent collections, composed of 6,893 coins, 373 cameos, engraved stones, aoi cylinders ; 188 pieces of jewellery in gold ; 39 bronze statuettes, 43 snits of armour and ancient arms, 85 Etruscan and Grecian vases, a great number of monuments of different kinds, a superb head of a Roman statue in bronze, and an admirable tone of Venus in Gre cian marble. The learned world will appreciate the great importance of this patriotic donation." The Arab chiefs v.lio are now guests at Com &gee have, it appears, obtained, to use a theatrical phrase, a great enccess." They spend an hour at prayer in the morning, and at 9 they are served with a cup of milk and coffee. They partake of a frugal breakfast in their apart ments at 12. The six chiefs are of lofty stature, which is set off to advantage by their dream. On Saturday a stag hunt was given in the forest of Compiegne in their honour. The stag was totted at the Puits du Rai, io the forest., and was killed in a ditch at Roysllieu. The Emperor and Em press, dressed in the quaint costume of the time of Louis XV., took an active share in the sport. The Arabs appeared greatly pleased. They were mounted on thoroughbred horses, selected from those of the Chalmers de Is Garde ; they dashed forward as if they were coursing over their own desert, and they surprised the most practised horse men by their speed. " It is said," says the Union, "that Cardinal Antonelli, who had until now been simply • deacon, is about to be ordained • priest." The Havre journals state that owing to some misunderstanding, the French mail-bags for the West Indies were not sent off in time to meet the English mail steamer which left Southampton on the 2nd inst. The Courrier du Harre says that the bags were closed at the Post-office precisely at 8 o'clock, to go by the Alliance, which was to start at that hour, and it was expected that the captain, knowing the mail was not on board, would have waited • few minutes for it. However, when the Post-offiee clerk arrived on the quay, precisely at four minutes past 8, the Alliance was under weigh and already in the outer port. The New York Herald of Nov. 21 observes that " Admitting that the French succeed in fighting their way to the city of Mexico, which is quite probable, owing to their superior discipline and experience in the field, how many, is it supposed, out of these 30,000 men will get there' The force which General Scott. took with Dim to Mexico did not,with the reinforcements sent to him, amount to a leas number. Of these he bad only 9,000 when be entered the capital, his losses by sickness largely exceeding the casualties in the field. Is it to be expected that disease will make leas havoc in the ranks of the French than amongst our hardy volunteers, or that the Mexicans will fight less well than they did in the war with us' On the contrary, they have gained largely since then in military experience, sad 801110 of their generals are re puted to be as capable as any in the European or American armies. It is certain, then, that if the city of Mexico is ever taken by the French it will be at • sacrifice of men and maney that will render it a most costly acquisition, and one that it will be impossible to retain. All the superfluous blood end treasure of France could not permanently secure such • conquest, still less so when the close of the rebellion leaves us free to act. The further this foolish enterprise progresses, the more we are satisfied that, unless Louis Na poleon takes some cosily pretext to back out of it, he will find his Moscow in Mexico as surely as did his uncle in Russia." The following is the speech deliverea by General M'Clellan on being nerenteled at New York, a fortnight since :—" My friends— I thank y o u kindly for this spon taneous tribute of regard. I accept it not for myself but for the Army of the Potomac, which I once commanded, and in which you are so deeply interested. Every battle from Yorktown to Antietam has added new proofs of the courage and devotion of the citizen soldiers of New York—(loud applause)—and has inereased the great debt of gratitude due to them by their country. (Applause.) No portion of this broad ropublic has more liberally poured out its millions of treason and I thousands of brave men in the wan of the country than this great metropolis. (Applause.) At the commencement of the struggle no community was more prompt in responding to the appeal of the government for aid. No community had a greater stake in the stoma of the canoe than this, and ewe is more closely bound by the ties of kindred to the army with which I have been so long associated. I, therefore, and my former comrades, will feel deeply honoured by the occurrences of this evening ; and it is with a heart fell to overflowing with gratitude that I agil l thank till a you for your presence to -night. You know that am s soldier, awl, therefore, you will expect no speech from me. You will, therefore, now permit me to say—good night." PRUSSIA. MOM A BONN, Dac. L Although but a rumour, I am unable ab solutely to discredit the announoemeat that the King of Paussis and his Minister, after calling the Chambers together in January, and making to them a vain remonstrance, begging the Lower House to retrace its steps and undo its votes, will then dissolve Parliament, and, altering the electoral law by ordinance, proceed to the holding of elections for a new Chamber on the principle of direct and universal suffrage. This, we know, is the grand political panacea recommended by the Emperor NAPOLEON to all, like himself, in posses lion of unrighteously established power. No doubt it is the advice that he proffered to M. DE BISMARK, as it is that which he has always pressed upon Vrcros. Eutswirst. Universal suffrage in a country accustomed to that great political operation, and educated to it —in a country, moreover, which enjoys self-govern ment and freedom of speaking and of writing—is a very different thing from universal suffrage in a land in which either a feudal aristocracy reigns supreme, or where the authorities appointed by Government, and completely under its dictation and control, not only wield paramount influence over those under their jurisdiction, but have com plete power over the electoral lists and the ballot box. Every one must see the particular cir cumstances which have enabled the French EMPEROR not only to base his throne upon uni versal suffrage, but to draw from it a Chamber that acquiesces in his rule. It may be doubted whether there is any country in Europe where the same system, however adroitly managed, would produce the same effects. The Emperor NAPOLEON'S system is simply the setting aside of all that is independent of the middle clan, in order to base the Government un the forced or ignorant adhesion of the multitude. The late King of PRUSSIA, aided by all the intelli gence of his friends and courtiers, laboured to frame a Constitution of the very opposite kind — wrongfully and absurdly in the opposite extreme. He first of all established two degrees of election, and then gave to the more wealthy, or the highest tax paying voters, a predominance that seemed to secure the whole political weight in the Commons to the more enlightened and wealthy of the middle and educated classes. Nothing could have been more easy than for the Crown to have agreed with such a Chamber. But both the late and the present King, instead of trusting to that body, sympathising with it, and pursuing the path marked out by its moderately liberal tendencies, successively thought it prudent to give a large share of their political confidence and friendship to an old, narrow, aristocratic, and feudal party, opposed to constitutional government altogether. The con sequence of that policy was not only to irritate, but to increase year after year the suspicions of the Chamber, and to extend the feeling of mistrust in the Government amongst the middle-class representatives in Parliament, and the body of the people out of doors. The KING sought to remedy this by disso lution after dissolution ; and the result of these violent remedies was gradually to wear away the Conservative provisions inserted by the late King in the electoral law. The last elections literally took place under the influence of popular acclama tion ; and instead of • moderate and middle-clan Chamber, there came to be one with a large minority—by a third, at least—of thorough radical and ultra-popular politicians. With these the Monarch found it, of course, more difficult to agree ; but he brought the diffi culty on himself. And now, like a desperate gambler, if the report be true, he is about to play a larger stake. The result of direct election by universal suffrage in Prussia during its present excitement can be no other than to get together a Chamber that will keep no terms with the Crown. Such an essay must end in revolution or in counter-revolution. Perhaps the Monarch's advisers count upon the latter, and deem that they are about to seize the only mode of extricating the Crown from the folly of having given representative institutions at all. The worst thing that the King of PursalA can do is to meddle with the electoral system at all. That system may be a bad one. But he has sworn to maintain it—that is, not to alter it, without the consent of the other Estates of the realm. If to his claim of a right to raise taxes without the consent of Parliament he adds the other, of changing the electoral law of the country by ordinance, he merely strides a step further beyond the law, and I assumes the character of an absolute monarch. No one can wish, indeed, to see the "cate gories," as they are called, preserved. Every class ought to have its fair i•fluence, without privi leged or preferential votes. And the sooner the late King's electoral fantasies are cancelled the better. But it is not for a King of PRUSSIA to do this. He should leave that to the BONAPARTE% who have shuffled and gambled with the pack of electoral cards ever since they have had a political existence. Neither is any respect due to the two degrees of election. M. Dr Too:lves - ma, indeed, declares it to be the best and wisest way of procuring the final election of men of political eminence and ability. If this be the character and aim of double election, all an impartial observer can say is that it has totally failed in Prussia, whore the great de fect is that eminent and able politicians have not been brought to the surface. With all due respect to the chiefs of the constitutional party in Prussia, not one of them has shown that commanding cha racter, or that political skill, so remarkable in the statesmen whom Italy has produced within the last fourteen years. No doubt the Monarch personally is much, perhaps most, to blame. He has a dislike of con trol, and shows as much repugnance to admit • man of political superiority into his Cabinet as NAPOLEON 111. But still, in Prussia at least, if not in France, a VINCKE or an AVERSWALD, or any of their party, might have built up for himself a cha racter and a power in Parliament and in the country, of which the Monarch, however jealous or obstinate, must have been too glad to avail him self. Unfortunately, no one has taken such a lead. Prussia, instead of giving birth to a CAVOI3R, has nothing better to show the world than a EISMAKK. MASON JONSB AND TBS Nzw You DEVOCRATIL —Mr. Mason Jones delivered a lecture lest evening, on Curran and the Wits and Orators of the Irish Bar. He engaged the attention of the audience till in one point of his discourse he spoke favourably of the prineb Am of the Abolitionists, and then • torrent of groans drowned his voice, while those who favoured his cent . manta loudly cheered him. A fight between the two par ties thus represented appeared imminent. Some of those who hissed Mr. Mason were singled out, and per sonal altercations followed which added to the confusion and uproar. Mr. Jones declared in the midst of the disturbance that the anthem, could not hies him down ; and that if ! they wanted to him " he would give them something worth hieing for." At this point an individual, apparently en ; raged at the remark, rushed up to Mr. Jones and shook his • fist in his face, remarking something that could not be bawd. Portia order was subsequently restored, and the lecturer proceeded, but it was evident that the oompara- Mealy small audience who remained were not sufficiently recovered to appreciate the discouree.—New York Irpreos, i Nov. 20. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.) (11T ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.) (►ROY 01:11 OWN CORILLBIVIIDEr7.) The nomination took place in the Gwldl,all at 10 o'clock this morning. The proceeding' throughout were of a most noisy character. Captain Mangles was proposed by Colonel Tryon and wooded by Mr. J. T. Tucker. The Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman row) was propowri Mr. W. J. Lefenyre, sad seconded by Mr. Joseph Lobb. Mr. Scrams nominated the Hon. W. F. Cowper, but there was no seconder, and the proposition was withdrawn. Oaptain Mangles and the Lord Mayor spoke amidst a amp of indescribable confusion. The show of hands was declared to be in favour of the Lord Mayor, and a poll wan demanded on behalf of Captain Mangles, which takes place to-marrow. MORE GAROITINO.—(THIS I'd Y. ) This morning, between 12 and 1 o'clock, Mr. George Leader, a theatrical employ., was proceeding horn., to his residence at Paddington, when, in passing through narrow thoroughfare called Manor-lane, he was accosted by • female, who importuned him for drink. Mr. Leade r passed on, the woman following up behind, when, oe reaching the end of the lane he was suddenly coo. fronted by • man wearing a white smock frock. He was at the same time seized round the threat has behind and thrown to the ground, the woman kneeling upus his throat; while the man rifled his pockets. They pee him a blow on the head, which stunned him. On re• covering he managed to get to the police station, and several officers went in pursuit of his assailants. It ins near the same spot that Mr. Rudders, the comedian, Iry garotted, dying subsequently from the effects. This morning, Michael Garretty, residing in Webbei. street, Lambeth, expired from the effects of injuries it. Bitted upon him by garotters in the St. George's ro.d, Southwark, on Saturday night. The men DOW attars females ; and • young woman, named Jane Stokes, biz; in Belvedere-road, has, it is said, just expired from juries thus sustained in passing through Standendstreet. In the neighbourhoods of Battersea, Wandsworth, BO Wimbledon, numerous persons have been garotted azd plundered, and great alarm prevails in those Although the bathing season in Hyde Park is now over, there are dill from twenty to fifty persons who bathe in the Serpentine every morning, no matter how in clement the weather. Another of the frequent charges for iofringiv; the Mines Inspection Act was beard at the Wolverhamptere petty sessions yesterday. A chartermaster of one of the pits in that neighbourhood was fined 501. for allowing teo women to assist in raising and lowering men from the pile mouth. He had nine witnesses to swear the women were not so:engsged, and two on the other side ; and the magistrates expressed their belief in the startling fact, that the nine witnesses had been " encouraged " by the defendant to give this evidence. Yesterday the cashier of a firm of millers at Attercliffe, near Sheffield, was charged with embezzling thr serious sum of 1,0001. His duty was to visit his employer,' customers ; and the usual trust was placed in him, till he accounts were examined and his deficiencies made apparent. A very shocking railway accident is reported fro , .: Coppoll, near Preston. Two waggons, which had jumps! off the line, were attached by • chain to • train, in ordrl that they might be pulled into their proper positing,. Instead of pulling them, however, they pulled over the lie waggon of the train, which fell upon a breaksman, and liter rally crushed him to pieces. THE LATE MARQUIN or BREADALBANE.—Withit • few days of Lord Bresdalbane's death at Lausanne, a telegram reached him from her Majesty, with her used inquiries as to the state of his health. The enfeeble' marquis with difficulty raised himself in his bed, and, cok ing for materials, wrote his farewell memos to his sore reign. The cloeing words of the brief telegram ran as fol. lows :—" Loyal sod faithful to his Queen to the bst."— PereAsh ire Courier. DEATH OF SIR TIMOTHY O'BRIEN, BART., D.L— We regret to announce the death of Sir Timothy O'Brien, which took place at his residence in Merrion-square, the (Wednesday) morning. The deceased baronet has been ow of our leading citizens for nearly half • century—he twin filled thehigh office of Lord Mayor, discharging its dutieswill impartiality. and dispensing the hoepitalities of the Mansion. house with lavish profusion. The energy of Sir Timothy O'Brien's character, combined with his acknowledged ability, caused him to take • prominent part in everytbog with which he identified himself, and during his long sad honourable career be has exercised • very large influence amongst the mercantile and political bodies of this city. Sr Timothy O'Brien eat in the House of Commons for Cashel during fourteen years—he was a strong liberal in ',otitis. He was created a berooet io 1849, and is succeeded in the title by his eldest son, now Sir Patrick O'Brien. one of the representatives for the King's County.—Digeliti Mail. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—TIIO Bishop of London has appointed the following gentlemen to be the speed morning preachers at St. Paul's Cathedral for the peeissi month :—Sunday, Dee. 7. the Rev. Frederick ties. Blomfield, M.A., of B allot College, rector of St. Ards, Undershaft ; Su nday. Dec. 14, the Rev. William Gibs Humphry, 8.D., of Trisity College, Cambridge, vicsrd St. Martio'sin.the-Fiekla ; Sunday, Dec. 21. the Rev. William Rogers, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, Maw bent of St. Thomas. Chmterhouse, and chaplain in alb I nary to the Queen ; Sunday, Dec. 25, the Rev. Christophir Packer, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, vicar d Ruislip, and priest in ordinary to the Queen. The Very Rev. the Dean of St. Paul's will preach on the 25th, hat Christmas-day. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. Yesterday being the last day appointed for the reception of implements intended for exhibition at the manner; Smithfield Cub Cattle Show, the Liverpoobroad and all the approaches to the Agricultural Hall, Isli n gtoo. were from in earl! bog in the morning and throughout the day completely igoekid by the ponderous machinery arriving in rapid ruccesgoo. In the interior the bustle and excitement, and the general note of preparation resounding throughout every vino@ of the structure, were equally great ; but by the judicious armee. meets carried out, under the superintendence of Mr. Hamad Sidney, the secretary of the hall proprietors. mid Mr. Fe T. Brandreth Gibbs, ham secretary of the club, than sus not the slightest confusion. Amongst the stock to be ex• hibited there will be several specimens sent from Me Rola Flemish Farm at Windsor, under direction of liajor•Georral Womres , the royal land steward. The stewards fir tke present year are—For beasts, long-woolled sheep. and PO' Mr. Charles Stokes, Mr. Samuel Anstey, sod Mr. Richard Mllword ; and for abort-woolled and cross-bred sheer : Nr• T. B. Noethesst, Mr. H. Thurnall. and Mr. WM. Feat& Mr. John Clayden his bees elected chairman of gh e e Lew d directors of the Agricultural Hall Company, in the roma the late Mr. Jonas Webb, and it is intended to hold a general meeting of agriculturists at the hall on FridsF•tta 12th (last day of the show), for purpose of lest tes timonial to the memory of that gentletuaors. Yes eseisl evening the large mass of the root, seal, mil impleme4ll st **lnds were in their places in the galleries : and Oth° Mr. Bird, the general superintendent of the works..l: peatedly tested them with reference to the enormous wee they were bearing, there was in uo instance a defier amounting to the 16th part of an inch. Tomorrow day) will be the last day for the reception of cape. MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUP*IDE IN OE' PARK.—A distressing case of alleged murder a nd attensiei suicide took place iu Hyde-park on Mon ay eight , "dr . subjoined circumstances. About halfput ten te cortm.hrieksmganKdensicriesagt°Dfor.hiceardlpensfroiridm s f il e e m w al ere e voice aft diately called for assistance. and hurried to t h e coo, 71 whence the screams proceeded. John Minions, boat ma yo th w e er al to the Hu s ma ou n tl e i sBcchoreietoyi hearingh :n i Tioe a .trzi Irte. tin just as one of the men bad succeeded in getting hold es thi womsn's clothing, and was in the act of dragging . h er t° the &erre shore. The woman was removed under . Parsons to the society's receiving house in a state ability and plaoed in • mum bat h without Christian attended, and bad all the veoessery meara for restoring animation, end succeeded in ramomplirat object so far as to enable the unfortunate mature t' her eyes about half-pest two on Tuesday morning, el stated that she had drowned her child. Parses t( I hastened to the spot in • boat aa d dragged until e s but without morass. At 11 o'clock they went out mid finally succeeded in recovering the body a child, neatly dresed., and apparently about a mos The wretched woman and the dead body of her were in the course of the day removed to St. Workhouse. Mount-street, Oroseenorequare, wh, former lies io a precarious state seal the latter A , • coroner's inquest. The woman gives the name Wale SINGULAR RRTREAT FOR A Wleit-Dnera el The Baerskire Journal states that Mr. \Valiant Ft alias Willis Enmli•—• real " character" - Pho' squatter, lie., in the Glen of Newmill. tired of e" We, has deserted his wife and three children. Mr. • hes scooped out for himself • shelling le the sandbank in the glen—the blue smoke curling up an opening made by the fox which William d Of late be has been travelling to red from Keith. and evening—a distance of four mdee—and weal shoemaker there for six shillings • week. The authorities are investigstiog the case, with a view ily. the recusant husband to support his w ife and fain a oo ' l