The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-27 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the dorms weed post year. the beide of the Nat West Lifeboat Instl.• Inds 417 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The institution hu also expended L 13,1119 SA td. In the sums period on It. lifeboat establiahments, to addition to granting 41,361 Sa as rewards for saving 716 shipwrecked persons by Its Ufebosts and other means. The Committee of the Institution ~nutty APPEAL to the pubdc for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued hairy demands on the Institution's 13.1 lifeboat eetabliehments. Contributions ere ranged by Warm Willts and Co., Herrin and Co., Contte and Co., and by all the London and eountry bankers, and by the 8 rotary, Richard Leans, Zan., at the in stitution, le, Johnetreet, AdelphL DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION of PINE ARTS and ii4xurAc.rujts.9, UnderlietiW.l.l7a;o7.e. of Her 11AJesty the QUEEN. INTENDING EXHIBITORS are informed that the 31“ De cember is the LATEST DAY on which APPLICATIONS for SPACE will be received. The requisite forms can be obtained at the House of the society of Arta, John-etreet, Adelphl, London, W.C., or at the Exhibition Palace, Dublin.—By order, EILNItY PARKINSON, Secretary. CANDLES. -PRIZE MEDAL. PARAFFINL—Adopted by Ise Maleitys Govienzbent kw the military Mattoon.. _ _ . ...,...... J. C. and J. YIELD, the miens] manufacturers and holden of the 1982 Prise Medal, caution the public against any spurious imitations. Their label G on all packets and boxes. Bela oy all des/en throughout the kingdom. Wham Wand ter osgoortattow at the Worts. C PPER MARSH, LAMBETH, LONDON. 8., where also may be obtained their celebrated Vaned genies Bean rabble NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S One Guinea and Two Guinea TIRLD GLASSES sad TIILWICOPti are war ranted u unrivaled for power and 21s- and as. In sae complete.-1, Hatton-darden, LC. ; 19. LC.; 141. LeSent-areet. W. : 13a . Flatvelres4 ; and Crystal Palace. JOHN BROGDEN'S PARIS FIRST CLASS and LONDON PRIZE MlLDAlA—Manufsetory, 10. Heu rietta.street, Covent-garden, London, W.C. Ms establishment Is closed at 0. and on Saturdays at 1 o'clock. 'AIR. MILES'S (the ORIGINATOR'S) World-famed lea TROUSER% out only be bad at 7s, BROOK-STREICT, BANOVIEROQUAIL bac "competition is fairly distanced by Mika' ALleAltD WSBB =L . SITABLUMID REMEMBER ! we wait Supper foe you after the Pantomimes, at IVANS . Yalt pot ghe Grimm TI COptESPONDECTS. drertisemeets Infendq for •" ibeliiipt;;; . ' London Ewenleg Paper, moat be at the Office. 10, Bouverte4treet, by Two ou the day of publicattou. HAYMARKET. THIS EVIRDIS, DAVID GARRICK. —LIED LECNDREAR MARRIED AND DONE /OR. Mews. Sabena Chippendale. bueludone, Ropes. Miss Snowdon. —PRI NCESS SPRI N G rIbK Mr. Compton and Mime Keeley.—And A KISS IS THE DALE. PRINCESSW Tin CrEirire. THE MAGIC HORSE AND THS ICE MAIDEN.- toe THE STUNTS OF LONDON. Mears Vlniott, J. W. Ray, D. Mbar. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester, earl H. Mellon . We H. Mersteo. Mimes Barnett lust Germ*. LYCZUM. THIS EVESPIO, MY WIFSS 007. Mr. Widdicomb. HUY SLAB, Mews. leaks, Ryder. Fitzpatrick. Charlet. Ray mond, Mclntyre, Moreland, Collett, OM'S Mae C. Locierot. BEA.R.FACED IMPOSTOR& Mr. Witidicoinb. Barr rum zmnea, or. the Old z. 47 of Threadnordlostreet. Mesdames L. Lam. W. emulord. &AI ). Jacob.. Mr. G.lgwood. That-rata Paatombolalo..—And VIZ Wola: 41218 or LONDON.—Commence at belt-putt MOH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tin DAY Morphs& Oh. Nke......Afterhoos. Oh. shn. rammaow Itonalag, 112. IBA ....At teruoon, lh. 4m. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27. Tat Post-office is the one department of the public service in which Government management is in the main thoroughly successful. It is also, singularly enough, the department which is most free from rivalry, and in which the competition of private contracts cannot be used even as a test. This remarkable result is due above all to the great man who last year retired from the office which he had reconstructed. The case is there fore exceptional, like the fact. It proves that when a man of energy and ability—such as would dis tinguish him in private life above his fellows—is invited to the Government service, and when, being secured, he is armed with powers sufficient to carry out his designs, he will enable Govern ment to manage its affairs with not leas than commercial success. Unhappily such men are rare, and a succession of them is not to be hoped for. But it is the privilege of genius to impress its stamp on the character and actions of those with whom it comes in contact, and to perpetuate itself in some degree in the traditions which it leaves. So we must hope that the spirit of Itowtsxn Hitt will long animate the Post-office. Frcm the annual Report of its proceedings and progress which it has just issued we receive some assurance that our hope may be realised. It is a record of still continuing ad vancement, of desire to meet the public require ments, and to take advantage of modern improve. ments. It is perhaps still more interesting as oontsining in its review of the past few years, and comparison of thew with the present moment, the most striking evidence of our national prosperity and growth—s growth which it can test not merely in its material, but its spiritual aspect ; for the extent r"d facility of our correspondence proves not only our mercantile progress, but the spread of education, and the binding together of separated families by the ties of renewed affection. It is not inappropriate to the present season to remember that this result was one which Row- LAND HILL deemed among the most precious that were to be hoped for from his now ay-stem. The figures by which these satisfactory conclu sions are established have already appeared in some detail in our columns, and, therefore, we shall now only select from them such as place the result in the clearest light. That an enormous increase in the number of letters has taken place is known to everybody, but the amount is now so great that it is dP:;eult fully to grasp it in thought. Thus our wlr.:e correspondence iu 1863 within the United Kingdom reached the number of six hun dred and forty millions of letters, and this is an increase of two hundred millions within the last ten years. In London alone the number is a hundred and sixty millions, being above a half more than it etas ten yet.rs ago. No doubt the population h.,a increased, but, after allowing for this, we find Unit la the United Kingdom each per son now receives on an average 22 letters instead of 15 ; and is Lmrion 48 instead of 26, on com paring the dc,:eoliial periods. The proportional ad vance has Amost equal in each of the three kingdoms, but the positive numbers are very di,:erent, there being to each individual of the population an average of 26 letters in England, 20 in Scotlaad, and only 9in Ireland. Some dis tricta,howeuer, present an except ionalgrowth, which indicates in a eurinus way the increase of holiday making in te..l- population. Thus the districts of Itantsgate, Margate, Brighton, and Scarborongn now give about •18 letters per head of population, age:nit some 25 or 30 ten years aim, while -Malvern heads the li.t with 103 per head, against 57 in the former peri.al. The reason assigned by the Post office for the very large figures in the case of these dis.ricts is d. r. the population is only taken as that which is lit, while the bulk of the letters come for vii t.l ; but the proportionate increase shoes how •:v the !number of visitors must have %:.,ther p.-culiar source of increase throughout tie country is in the use now made of the Post-Mace for the transmission of advertise ments, it b,-lug camputed that in London alone there were in 18fill inure t 1 an four millions evidently of this class. It is not very satisfactory to observe that the Austrian Lottery-office con tributed in way to the British revenue to the extant of i : •.nOO peace. The authorities very justly claim credit for con• THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1864; tributing to these results by the increased facilities they have offered, and the increased rapidity with which transmission and delivery are effected. They give ua now, chiefly through the medium of letter pillars, a receiving-box for every 813 houses, and in the country for every 426 houses, against one for every 426 and 630 houses respectively ten years ago. They give a larger number and a wider extent of free deliveries, and they have very materially accelerated the mails. We are now by post within twelve hours of Edinburgh, Dublin, or Paris, a diminution of time by from four to twelve hours, which is often prac tically equivalent to a whole business day gained in receiving the reply. We save 7 days to South America, 29 to Calcutta, and 40 to Sydney. In London the establishment of postal districts, and the more general use of letter-boxee in pri vets houses, his enabled the deliveries to be made more frequently and with greater rapidity. There is, however, some drawback to this advantage in the circumstance that the use of letter-boxes makes it more difficult to identify the arrival of any particular letter, and thus less easy to dis cover theft or loss. And the Post-office very franl.ly acknowledges that its endeavour to pre vent the temptation to abstract letters containing coin, by rendering their registration compulsory, has been neutralised by the public substituting postage stamps as a means of transmitting small sums, and that the increasing loss of such letters has exactly counterbalanced the diminished loss in the case of letters enclosing coin. But the Poet-office is now not merely a letter carrying institution—it distributes literature in the shape of books and printed matter ; it aids commerce by transmitting samples and patterns ; it is a bank for transmission, and for deposit. Within the ten years which the Report reviews almost all these functions have been either entirely inaugurated, or expanded from a state of experi ment. As a carrier of small and light parcels of the character indicated, it has been of infinite ser vice to the publio—a fact which perhaps cannot be better proved than by the circumstance that though thus interfering with our jealously guarded system of private competition, the Post office arrangements have never been subjected to demur. The money-order business has almost doubled in ten years, and the savings banks, though yet but two years old, hold a sum of four millions of deposits. These are results which un doubtedly show wisdom in design and prudent managing in execution, and when, as a final oonae quence of its exertions, the department hands over above a million a year to the CHANCELLOR of the EXcIiZQULK as the profits of its various transac tions, being three times as much as its net income ten years ago, it is undoubtedly entitled to the credit of being a model Government establish ment. We can only hope that it will increase its success by the means by which it has won it, and will still be alert to adopt every possible improve ment, and to adapt itself to every modification of our social life. irbe Court. OSBORNE, Dn. S. The Queen, the Princess Helens, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prince Leiningen, attended divine ear. vice at Whippingham Church, yesterday afternoon, attended by the Dowager Conotees of Mount-Edgeumbe, the Has. Lucy Kerr, and Major-General the Hon. A. Hood. Prince Leiningen arrived at Osborne on Saturday, on • visit to her Majesty. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury bare • small and select party staying at Hatfield House, Herts. . - Baroness Biome gave birth to a son on Sunday morning, at the Hanoverian Legation in Grosvenor•plaos. The harmer aid infant are progressing favourably. Lord Lyons arrived at the Dneliess of Norfolk's mansion in St. James's-square last night from Liverpool, where his excellency landed yesterday morning from New York. The noble lord is is rather better health than whin he left the Veiled States. L►dy Napier lme left London to join his Excel lency Lord Napier at Berlin. The Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, 3LP., has joioed the party Bow assembled at The Grove, Lear Wat ford. Ile rts, on a visit to the Earl sod Countess of Chuvr.cloa. It is expected that the annual meeting of the Romsey Labourers' Encouragement Association will be held on the 4th of January, and that Lord Palmerton vtll distribute the premiums on that occasion. Yesterday morning the members of the Queen's Westiniester Mel paraded at half-past 11 o'clock at the Duke of York's Column, SL James'■-park, and after blank ammunition had been served oat, proceeled. accompanied by the bands of the regiment. to Hampstead, where the corps was put through the movements of a field-day, in the pre sence of a large number of spectators. The aonual distri bution of prises will take place in Westminster Hall on Saturday week. This evening the Lord Mayor will preside at a dinner of the Hampstesi Rides, as the Assembly Rooms, when he will present the prizes woe during the year to the successful shots. His Majesty the King of the Belgians and the Count of Flanders have returned to Brussels from the royal chateau in the Forest of Ardennes. During the time the King paued there he was most arduous in pursuit of sport, end, besides four wild boars, brought down a peat number of roebucks, foxes, hares, and other denizens of the forest. A letter from Rome in the Peat says :—" It is stated hare, I know not on what authority, that Mr. Pope Iltrnentl, M.P., bee obtained from the Papal government the oonoe•sion of the recently projected railway from Rome to Tivoli. The realisation of such a scheme would afford de. lightful facilities to excursionist. from Home to that moat romantically beautiful spot, and in a commercial point of view the line would develop in a very useful manner the mournss of the upper valley of the Alai°, beside, abbr.. viatiog the distance to the Neapolitan frontier and the Ab brumi previnces. The mineral baths and waters, known to and praised by the ancient homage ea /he aywr alGeekr, now little frequented on account of their inconvenient situation, 12 miles from Roma and six from Tivoli, would alm be brought within a practical distance for valetudinarians of both places." Slider states that about the middle of January M. de Groot will be prep.re l to attempt his aerial flight, with the aid neither of a Moutgolfier nor a balloon, but by means of an apparatus heavier than the atmospheric air, and impelled by human effort. lu the Vienna papers it is said that an English company has purchased from a If. Eckstein a large piece of waste land near the Danube fur the ►um of 120,000/. The ground in question—the so-called Brijittenau—was a few weeks ago offered to the municipality of Vienna for 000,000 d., which at the present rate of exchange is about 78,0001. It is said that the company will construct docks in the Brigittenau. Goaeral Gordon, of Southampton, has received the following letter from his distiosusbed son, Ceionel Gunton, who feught against the Chinese rebels :—" I send home Chung Wang's sword. It is wrapped is a rebel dug behiegiug to Tien Chwrog, a rebel chief, next in command to Wang, and who was killed on it at ChaisChu-Fu. You will pee marks of his blood on the Hag. ChLog Wang's sword war given by him to Tye Wang, a rebel chief, of Lapin, at Waddle. in December, 1863, after the fall of Souchow, aed at the time that Chung W a n g , disguated, do. terminal to return to Nankin, and take for • time no further active operations. It is more tbsn an ordinary sword. The Emperor of China gave one to Ssioquo•jan, and this gift was accompanied with permission to Saa-quo-jan to execute anyone, whatever Li. rank might be, without reference to Pekin. In fact it was a symbol of the power of dictator. Tien Wang. the rebel chief at Nankiu, gave this sword to Chung Wang, with the same power as the Imperialists, sod it was tbis symbol of chief and supreme command which Chang Wang banded near to Tye Wang when he milled to Nankin. It fell into my bands at Serum', oar the 9th of Merck, and has on it Chung Wang's name. ' Li tro-tqueo,' Chang Wang meaning ' faithful prince.' Wang has since Leen taken prisoner Ly the Im perialists at Nankia." consumers. Unaccountable illness having attacked the frequenters of a particular wine shop, the com missary of police of the quarter conceived the idea of analysing the wine that dribbled from the counter, and the result was that it was found to contain metallic poison. The landlord of the esta blishment in question is sentenced to 15 days' im prisonment. I shall never again drink draught wine in Paris unless I see it drawn out of the cask. The Bourse has been very steady, without much variation from Saturday's quotations. Rente rose 5c., and Mobilier sfr. A loan continues to be talked of, but nothing certain is known on the subject. The government wants 350,000 fr. for public works, but whether the money will be raised by a loan, by a sale of forest lands, or by an issue of Treasury bonds, is yet a question. It is rumoured that the Spanish government has given up its project of a foreign loan, and means to have a forced loan at home of 250 millions. HOLLAND. (FLOM OUR OWN COMINNONDENT.) THE HAGUE, Dac. 24. It would seem from the recent proceedings of the parliament of this country that the Netherlands are suffering from that species of national and political plethora which may be beat characterised as an embarrass des richesses. During four entire days the members of the legislature have been engaged in a very sharp and personal diacusaiou as to the best way of managing the Indian island of Java, as if they were so many members of a company that had found, discovered, or appropriated • valuable trea sure, and were at sixes and sevens as to the best way of disposing of it. One is for investing its proceeds in shipping, another in land, a third in commerce, a fourth in stock, giving small interest and good security, and a fifth in certificates, making up by high interest for the security they are un able to afford. Java is that treasure to the members of the Dutch Legislature, and proves a source of so much anxiety and dispute, as to confirm the wis dom of the old adage, that it does not require so much prudence to make a fortune, as it does to keep it when it is made. Minister after minister is appointed to manage the affairs of that troublesomely profitable possession ; but when they meet their High Mightinesses of the States General, and lay before them their schemes and projects, the chances are that they will find them twisted and turned into unnatural forms and shapes by men who have never set foot on the island, and are serenely ignorant of the idiosyncracies of the people and the characteristics of their institutions. One minister is declared to be too much of a radical because he wishes to respect the rights of the natives, and make the go vernment officials discharge their duties on a prin ciple of honesty and humanity ; another is too much of a tory, because he woul d continue to treat Java as aconquest won by the sword, make the natives helots, and give free action to government officials and nominees, while endeavouring to make the largest possible fortune in the shortest possible time ; while a third, who is carefully desirous of steering a middle course, and of making necessary evils the pioneers of absolute good, tough the most approved of the three, is generally regarded as a mere trimmer, whose h ighest policy is compro mise. Ever since the introduction of the "culture system" into Java in 1830—a system which re ougnises the principle of helotry, and compels the natives to work for the government during three days in the week at a ridiculously insignificant wage—Java has been to Holland the source of immense treasures, which have been developed to their full value by the care and attention bestowed ou them by that most successful and prudent of commercial corporations, the Netherlands Trading Company. If the only object that the mother country had in view was to enrich herself and those who represented her in Java, this system must be considered a great success; but if the natives of Java have • right to be regarded as something better than cattle ; if an enlightened European nation have no right to rule distant millions by means of tyranny, superstition. and terror, it is high time that the system, if not suddenly abolished, should at least be condemned to gradual but certain aboli tion. That magnificent possession, where millions of acres still lie uncultivated, is but wait ing the introduction of liberal institutions and free labour to double its produce, and to be the home of freemen having a share and au interest in the soil and prosperity of their country. One of the leading objects contemplated by the present ministry is gradually to unrivet the chains which this "culture-system" has fastened on the native population of Java, and to diminish the jobbery and cruelties practised on the government and the people by Dutch officials and colonial-office nominees. A new system, bared ou liberal mea- sures and a liberal policy, has been accepted, after four days' discussion, by two-thirds of the legisla- ' ture. With the acceptance of this budget has vanished the last hope of the party of inaction and retrogression of taking possession of the ministerial green table in the legislature of the Netherlands. All the budgets of the respective ministers have now been accepted by the second chamber of the States-General ; and though they will probably tome with wore serious opposition to the first chamber, the government is not apprehensive of au unfavourable majority in that branch of the legislature. In the second chamber, indeed, the War Minister bad a somewhat narrow escape front extinction ; and had it not been for a dex terous move on the part of his political friends, be would have gone the way of his predecessors. The gallant minister worships military glory and military parade, and is evidently out of place iu a liberal ministry pledged to economy and progress. It is certain that them is no country iu the world that stands so little in need of an army as Holland ; she is defended by jealously-clauscd treaties front invasion by great powers, and the smaller ones, if ever mad enough to play at invasiva in Hullaud, would see their emissaries repelled more by the waterworks than by the fire works of the Dutch. There seems something rid'culuusly grandiose in a Dutch War Minister, at a time when even the leadiug powers us Europe are talking of reducing t:Aor forces, coming forward with his plans and schemes fo • organising an army at the met of up wards of a million sterling. The military de fences of the country consist almost solely of old fashioned fortifications, which in a strategic point of view are utterly worthless in this age of im proved and improving artillery. The important lesson contained in the last chapter of Danish history bad evidently made a salutary impression on many members of the le gislature, and a strong feeling was pro. uounced that the fortifications shuuld be razed, as forming the means of sheltering and concentrat ing an invading army rather than of repelling it. The brick and mortar rubbish raised sparsely on the frontiers cost the country anueally large sums which might be much more advantageously ex pended in streitgtheuiug its natural defences—its dykes and sluices—which have more than once in its history proved the destruction of invading forces. Indeed, were it not fur the necessity the country is under of having soldiers duly trained to defend its possessions ill India, one might almost AA what on earth do the Dutch want with an army at all Royalty, perhaps, could not dispense entirely with military parade, but the common-sense people of the Netherlands evidently think that thirteen millions florins a-year is a little too much for the toy. However, the minister was allowed to have his own way ; and so the army is to be re-organised, and the fortifications are to be increased, as a notice to Austria and Prussia that they had better not try to seek an exeunt, for itivadiug the Netherlands, or attempt to tli.play their prowess, as they so va liantly did against Denmark, within reach of Dutch cannon. A genuine old-fashioned Dutch winter, with a strong spice of the Russian, has suddenly set in. The myriad canals and streams and rivers that intersect the " watery glade" of this spongy country are incrusted with ice many inches thick, and, of oourse, all - navigation is arree.d. The froet came on so suddenly that no arrangements could be made for its reception, so that many vessels are frozen up in the middle of the streams they were navigating. Winter, in all countries, necessarily brings distress to many ; but in Holland, a severe winter is to thousands the synonym. of hunger, wretchedness, starvation, and death. Nairn .. llO.lOOl 4berdeisallo.l.3 30 teeth Ardroesan Greencastle Galway Yaleatia Cape Clem litleoll4oWll. I.lverpool Noll Land rem Crok e Penzance seem 30.2337 N.N.X. L'orlent. vochelori 112nuuith tymouth 30.4332 N.N.N. rostsmosth 3030 St N. N.X. London . 30 JO 29 N. Iwyrr Yarmouth .earl•oronsch 30.17 31 W.P. W. amide 30.34.0 &I W. Hellooland 30.22 33 N. W. &W. W.B.W. 3).1342 N. 2(.7.r. I.N.E. NE NE. N.:Y,IL W.s w. R'. \. W, - 11 - ! 2 ; - 2 - 3 - : • _ i - 4 0.13 i nunsaat.i. witimositaY. on NORTIMIS TRTIMPAT. 8.9 1 . W. to W. N. W., Tao- COASTS. S.W. to N W., mode derate.generally fine. rate to fresh. S.W. to N.W. and Worming. N. to W., fresh to so- N.E., modern* to derate. fresh. N. E. to N. W., light to SOCTIIISMI. N.W. to N.E. and hack fresh, floe, moderate to fresh, generally tine. W. 4. W. to NN E. ZAMA& As mut above. variable, moderate, generally nue. Northertmgeotland. Weetern.lreland. Wales, and a/ja m:lea nnethern= English Channel and Bay of &ICU. &Mira =Outward England and North See. ORDER Or THE DAT OF PRINCE HI'MBERT.-- ?MIN, DEC. 23.—His Royal Highness Priam Humbert has addressed the following order of the day to the Italian troops upon taking military command of the province of Naples :—" His Majesty the King be. deigned to entrust me with the command of this military division. When I was at Naples last year, with the command of the brigade of Grenadiers of Lombardy. I bad the opportunity of supra. ciatiog the discipline mid noble military spirit by which the corps belonging to this military division sre iodinated, as well as the zeal with which officers and soldiers fulfil the im portant and difficult services entrusted to them. Let by skilful chiefs, and by au illustrious general, during four years of uninterrupted hardships, you have restored peace and treequillity to districts hitherto infested by brigands. Officers and soldiers, I am proud to be your commander. lieu such confidence in me as you have had io my illus trious predecessor, who has commanded you with so much experience. Continue to make progress io the different branches of instruction and in military discipline. and let your hearts preserve An unalterable love for the King and faith in the destinies of the country.-111:liseltr of &TOT, I6eutecaot•General commanding the Division." THE REV. J. KERLE.—Our reader!' will hear with regret that the illness which interrupted Mr. Keble's correspondence with " Anglicanue," is attributed to a paralytic attack. —Record. A lihnriant CLEARED UP.—During the whole of last week considerable interest was felt at Halton owing to the discovery of a complete snit of clothing in one of the ra il wa y station water-elouta, for which no owner could be found. It was at first thought that the clothes were those of some thief who bad changed his habiliments is haste, but afterwards, from the fact of ►he under-clothing being there, it was suposed that some suicide had been committed is the river. The dimppearacce of a 1113T1 named Charles Trundle gave colour to this ; but it was subsequently stated that be bad been drowned at York. Mn. Superintendent Wslmsley, however, has taken up the matter, and he has ascertained from the police authorities at Sheffield that a man named Williamson left Sheffield for Melton early in lest week, and before leaving be was presented with en entire suit of new garmeote. It seems he bad worn his old clothes till reaching Milton, and bad there taken the alio. gular means of changing his dress which has caused so much wonderment foe several days. DOUBLE' EXECUTION AT STAFFuItb.-tilit , DAY.) LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE NEW PAPAL BULL The full text of the two documents just issued at Rome, the "Encyclical" of the Pope and the "Catalogue of the Principal Errors of our Time," will be published to-morrow. The French journals of to-day, commenting upon the abstract published in another column, observe that if any doubts ex isted before as to the impossibility of the political reconciliation of the papacy with Italy, this "En cyclical" removes them. "The Pope himself has pronounced," says the Nord, "as formally as possible, the condemnation of the maintenance of his political power." The Sado observes that those defenders of the Holy See who cherished, and wished others to cherish, the idea of a compromise between Italy and the court of Rome, are hence forth condemned to silence unless they would be rebels to the Pope-King. " The Holy See," the Temps says, " has condemned in mass and in detail all that modern society has done and thought since the middle ages ; and those who will be moat astonished are the catholics themselves." The Debat a, while postponing any elaborate criticism upon the Encyclical, says that the extracts it has seen contain the strangest things and maxims the most opposed not only to the public law but to the ecclesiastical law of all modern nations, whether catholic or not. SPAIN. The Madrid journals treat of the speech from the throne, but their remarks are too vague and con fused to throw any light on the principal questions which are propounded rather than solved in the royal programme, and more especially on the delicate question of Santo Domingo. One of the journals, the Espiritu Publico, which has hitherto been considered as the confidential organ of Marshal Narvaez, separates in a very marked manner from him, and protests against the design of abandoning a colony which Spain is ex hausting herself to defend. The Epoca, the organ of the liberal union and of Marshal O'Donnell, does not directly touch on the question, but, in congratulating itself on the choice of Marshal Concha and M. Alex. Castro as presidents of two chambers, plainly insinuates that the two president', are not favourable to the minis terial policy. The Correspondeticia, however, thinks itself justified announcing that the bill re lating to the abandonment of Santo Domingo will be immediately submitted to the Senate. The Italian press shows great moderation iu its remarks oa the passage of Queen Isabella's speech relating to Italy. One journal, the Italie, observes that the speech will have the effect rather of hastening than delaying the time when political relations will be resumed between the two countries. It says : Queen Isabella is free to indulge her sympathies and filial love for the common father of the faithful rather than consult the iotereata of her government. Italy bas managed to live and grow without the recognition of Spain, and Gan very well wait a little longer. Diplomatic relations are not to be counted, but to be weighed and appreciated ac cording to their importance. (iLtVilleft TELKGWI.) ITALY. TURIN, Dec. 26. It is reported that a decree will shortly be pub lished reorganising the administration of the war department. The staff of officials is to be dimi nished, and considerable reductions are to be effected. EXPRESS FROM PARII3. (rsO ouz owx comerozoccr.) PARIS. MOSIMY EVVIIICO. The Italian journal the Linn°, commenting on the Pope's encyclical letter, says that he openly claims a temporal supremacy over all nations, and that " it is evident that Italy cannot live with the Pope, and that all thought of conciliation must be abandoned." The Gazette de Foatice, feeling the difficulty of supporting the 84 propositions, urges by way of apology for them that they contain "nothing new." That is just the misfortune ; the Pope is hopelessly blind and obstinate, and fancies that the voice of Rome is as powerful in the world now as in the middle ages. It is rumoured that Count de Fallonx's brother will be made a cardinal at the next cousistury. Of course his enmity to Gallicanism and the policy of the Emperor constitute his principal qualifications fur the dignity. A despatch from Naples announces that Cardinal d'Andrea had paid a visit to Prince Humbert, and been received with all the honours due to his rank. This is justly considered an event of importance. Cardinal d'Andrea who, in 1856, took a leading part in the four propositions against traditionalism, which made a great noise at the time, is now looked upon at Rome as little better than a heretic. His departure from the Holy City a short time since was generally looked upon as a sort of exile. A new piece, called the Capifaine was to have been produced at the Opera Comique this evening, is postponed, in consequence of the cen sorship having at the last moment struck out almost the whole of the third act. A scene tunpore Henry IV., representing a barricade attacked by the soldiers of the King of Navarre, and defended by the people of Paris, was thought too suggestive of seditious ideas to be permitted. The Princess (zartoryska, widow of the late Prince Adam Czartoryski, died at Montpellier a few days ago, in her 64th year. This is a severe loss for the Polish emigration as well as to Parisian society. Her death was sudden and occasioned by apoplexy. The frost continues. At 6 this morning the thermometer was 10 degrees below zero. Stating is going on in the Tuileries and in a portion of the lake in the Bois de Boulogne. The sky continues to be cloudless. The wind is somewhat less bitter than yesterday, but the weather is still colder than the vendors of itroines in the stalls on the boulevards could wish. My London letters of Saturday's date were not delivered at my resi dence, ciese to the Arc de Triomphe, till this (Monday) morning. This is a shame, because the mail, though late, arrived iu time for letters in the centre of Paris to be de livered at 4or 6 yesterday afternoon. Tie reiterated promises of improvement in the postal service of that vast " west end " of Paris which has lately sprung up between the Faubourg St. Honord and the Avenue de l'lmperatrice aro not kept. Such of your readers—and there must be many— whose thirst or curiosity may have led them to take at a common wine shop a glass of that standard ordinary wine known as vin bleu, and which, before the days of Haussmann, cost one sous, but now two, may remember that it was poured out of a brimming vessel which, as if to give an idea of abundance and reckless hospitality, was made, in the process of tilting, to overflow copiously upon a metal counter. A correctional police trial last week brought to light the fact that the landlords of these wine shops are more frugal than the public suppose. All the spilt wine flows into a groove which leads to s cask, and it is duly served out to THE LATE INUNDATIONS AT SHEFFIELD. The cause of the giving way of the embankment of the Bradfield reservoir ' near She ffi eld, by which 238 lives were lost, and 400,000/. worth of property destroyed, in Match last, has been keenly speculated upon by engineers. The Waterworks company consulted several of the most eminent hydraulic and other engineers of the day, and the report of those gentlemen was issued to the share holders on Friday morning. The document isprefaced by a correspondence with the Home office, in regard to the resumption of work on the Agden reservoir, which was stopped by the directors immediately after the accident at Bradfiehi. It may be interesting to state that Mr. Rawlin ' sot (government inspector) stated at the inquest that the substance of that bank was se " porous as a sieve." He attributed the failure of the Bradfield beak to a fracture or dislocation of the pipes, which are embedded in the solid earth beneath the base of the bank. Is his reply to a letter from the directors, af ter they had received the report of the engineers, Sir George Grey Bays:—" I am to acquaint you, in reply, that as Sir George Grey understands the works at A n to be now precisely in the same state as when they were inspected in March last by Mr. Rawlinson, and as his report of the result of his inspection of these works is in the possession of the directors, together with the report of Messrs. Itawlinson and Beardmore on the bunting of the Bradfield reservoir embank ment, and a oopy of the evidence given at the inquest held at Sheffield, Sir George Grey does not see what additional information could be obtained by a further investigation made at the instance of the government. The directors, with this information in their possession, having now de cided, as you inform Sr George G rey, that they are justified in proceeding with the Agden embankment, Sir George Grey can only remind them that he has no power to inter fere with their decision ; and that if the works are pro oeeded with it must be upon the uodirided responsibility of the company, and without any sanction expressed or im plied on the part of her Majesty's government." In their report to the shareholders the 6 ' ra (Messrs. Simpson, Hawkaley, Bateman, Fowler, and ) enter at some length into the circ umstances attending the con struction of the Bradfield reservoir, and conclude as fol lows :—" The filling of the reservoir commenced in duos, 1863, on the occasion of a heavy flood, and from that time, with some istermissions, the reservoir gradually increased in depth, and at the time of the accident, on the I Ith March, 1 , 464, it had attained to a height which was within three inches of the top of the weir. During the whole of this period no imperfection of any kind had been perceived, the embankment and the reservoir being absolutely water tight ; for although a small spring of ochreous water issued from a shale bed in the escarpment on the south side of the river below the bank, yet this equally appeared whether the reservoir was full or empty, and wee, therefore, fed from other sources. Moreover, this water still continues to lame, although the reservoir has been emptied of its coa ted& for many mouths. There was no fracture of the pipes, nor any creep of water along the outside of them. The erubsakment was composed of materials which would not have slipped if the base on which it rested had been im movable. We must, therefore, look for causes other than supposed imperfections in the quality of the materials or workmanship for the failure of the reservoir. The weather during the fortnight previous to the accident had been exceedingly wet, the rain so swelling the rivers as to inun date all the low country in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is is such sewer that masses of earth, commonly called 'landslips,' become saturated with water or lubri cated es their bases, and although at other periods compara tively or altogether stable, now begin to move. That the ground outside the embankment has moved is evident, not only from the tears and fractures which are to be observed is the lower part of the mass, but also from the significant fact that one cottage situated high on the bill, and another nearer to the foot, and both remote from the bank, give unmistakeable proofs of the recent movement of the ground on which they stand. From the testimony of the occupiers of these cottages this movement must have immediately preceded or been concurrent with the bunting of the re servoir. After a full consideration of these and other collateral circumstances we are unanimously of opioion that the accident was occasioned by a landslip which occurred in the ground immediately on the east side of the embankment, and which extended benesth a portion of Its outer slope, involving in its con sequences the ruin of that portion of the bank and pro ducing the catastrophe which followed. To this con clusion we seserally came on our first examination, and every subsequent investigation, and the more iotimate acquaintance we have since acquired with all the evi dence and facts connected with the subject, have only the more firmly convinced us that to no other cause can the destruction of the reservoir be rightly attributed. We are, moreover, of opinion that all the arrangements made by your engineers were such as might have been reasonably expected to have proved sufficient for the pur poses for which they were intended, and that, if the ground beneath the bank had tot moved, this work would have been as aide and as perfect as the other five or six large reservoirs of the company, which have been constructed in • similar manner, and which have so long supplied the town of Sheffield and the rivers Rival'', Lesley, and Don with water. With regard to the propriety of repairing the broken embankment, or of abandoning it and forming another elsewhere, we an not in • condition to report fully on this question." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) Tv AT. Dictmas A. a AN. T. •. w 1). R. S. (IT ILLICTRIC STAFFORD, TrEsui The condemned convicts Hale and Brougb; er . both hanged this morning. Six thousand persons wer e present. Bale persisted in his innocence to the last, tut Brough confused his guilt. Stough was terribly prostrate after taking final leave of his relatives, who visited him about midday yesterday—L a cousin sod two female friends. Hale was visited yesterday afternoon by his sister, his brother•in-law, and two othe r relatives, but he persisted throughout a long, and we m e i hardl► say a most painful interview, in denying his 0,11; and protesting most solemnly that if ever an innocent nisa was banged at Stafford, he was that man. THE CONDEMNED CRIMINAL IN SPRING. FIELD GAOL. To-morrow (Wednesday) morning, at 9 the unhappy crimioal,FranciaWane, under sentenced dent in Springfield gaol for the murder of Amelia Lint ht Chadwell-heath, will expiate his offence on the g 511..., at the hands of Calcraft, the common hangman. Tea moo, we learn, have written to the officials offering their services as hangmen one of whom, da from Gray's-inn-rood. states he haii the " promise of a j ob' foal the governor of another county gaol, while the other Weft to undertake the awful task for " it, and railway ex. ponies." We have heard no confirmation of the rtirt. , .tr current last week, that a petition praying for the ref tier.. of the unhappy man was in the course of signature, and from the first not the slightest probability has existed ef soy commutation of the sentence. The imier.d.e7.4 (T. M. Gepp, Eng.) has more than once impressed •Jpon that there is oo hope for him in this world, and end...nu-red to awaken his mind to a sense of his true position. The prisoner continues to eat and 'drink well, .4 readily converses with the warden. He states that Ilr. Bowen, the surgeon, was wroog when be said there sere three wounds oo the deceased's neck u he only made two, and to the chief warder he thus described the circumstances of the crime—" When I s►w she was in the kitchen wiob:ts at the boiler, I slipped in behind her as quietly a , I could. I bad the knife in my right hand, and I threw my left arm round her heed. She turned her bead half round sod ' Good God, Toddy, what are , ee doing here? I did not answer, but cut her throat, making two wounds_ Sbe struggled sad got boll of the copper to get from me before I cut her the second Cm.; but I did it, and then left her. She pulled the Waiter off the copper side in trying to pull herself back from my pup." Wane continues to pay respectful attention to the mioistratious of the chaplain, and seems folly alive to the heinousness of his crime. He is evidently of s 100 grade of humanity. In several of the neighbouring places of worship the mien of the congregation. h►ve been asked by the mi. nisters on behalf of the unhappy man, and there will be a special service in St. John's Church, lloulsham, during the execution, On Sunday the condemned sermon wee preached t r the chaplain, the Hey. G. B. Hamilton, and the condec.net man received the holy communion. Since his modems. tion a great number of tracts and religious works have leen sent to him by different persons, one lady in particular writing him a long letter exhortang him to penitence aud resignation. Yesterday (Monday) morning he was via.ted by his eldest brother and his brother-in-law, being the tint time he has been seen by his friends since his triaL the interview, which lasted shout half-an-hour, was • most affecting one, the unhappy man espreesing much sorrow for his crime and appearing quite resigned to hi Lite.—E z He rold. SHOCKING MURDER AT PORTSLADK .VEAR BRIGHTON. The usually quiet village of Portalade, between three and four miles from Br lattice, was the 'ease of a de liberate murder oo Cbriatmas Eve. It appears that a num ber of labourers were carousing in a cottage occupied up John Coon, who has been a cripple since childhood, and who is unmarried, and lives alone in the tenement in Con. Amoaget the company was a man named Joseph Sharp, farm labourer to Mr. Iludsoo, of Blatchingtoa, with his wife and daughter, and during some " chaffing' Sharp provoked Coons to use some vile words. Sharp re. tainted by sundry slight blows on Comm, who sat perched on his beech by the window. Coon became exasperated, and cried to Sharp. with au oath, " If you do that again I'll do for you." The company do uot ap pear to have interposed between the men, but contiwied their orgies. In the beat of the altercation Coons sprang from his bench, and, hopping to the door of the washing- house adjoining the kitchen, seized a gun which lay con venient at hand against the wall, and which was loaded and capped. Taming suddenly round he hopped towards Sharp, and taking deliberate array shot the ill-fated man through the bead. Death was instantaneous. As may be imagined, the wife and daughter were horror-stricken ; and those pre. sent instantly deprived the murderer of his gun, and secured him until the arrival of Police.coustable &Mope, of the Sussex constabulary, who, heanag the report of firearms, hastened to the house. It, the meantime information was seat to Sergeant Bald. win at Preston. He repaired to Portalade at an early hoar in the morning, and received the murderer in custody. A horse and cart having been procured, Coons was conveyed to Hove police station, and locked up on a charge of wilful murder. loom, who is about 33 years of age, is a perfect criprle, having lost the use of his Inaba which are doubled under his haunches, by accidentally drinking a quaotity of vitriol when a child. Four or five years ago Le kept a horse and cart, and sustained himself by carrying wools, , between Portslade and Brighton. He is, however, strong and mus cular in body, remarkable for strength sad length of arm. His cottage has long been famed as a rendezvous for men ejected from the village public-house at unreasonable hours and, being passionate in temper, he inspired fen amongst his associates by carrying loaded fire-arms, nod has often threatened the lives of persona who have aroused his anger.—Siesecr ddrertistr. A MAN CHOKED IN • COFFEE-SHoP.--(THIS DAY.) —This morning • wethdressed man entered the coffee-shop kept by Mr. Vousden, Chichester-place, St. Pancras, and called fur and was supplied with • lAefoteak and other refreshmeat. Whilst partaking of the steak he .:ut off 6 large piece and attempted to swallow it before it was in& Metal, masticated and it stuck in his threat and eboi.ed him. Every means were adopted to didodge it, but without avail, and he was then removed to the Royal Fees Hospital, Gray's-inn-rued. He was at once seen by Mr. .1. 1111. the resident medical officer, and Mr. H. T. Marriott., the house-surgeon, and the throat wan opened and artlicial respiration resorted to, but without avail. The deceioel, who wore a moustache, was between 30 and 40 years of age, and from the papers found on him it is thought be by trade a carpenter. ALLILIED CHILD MURDER AT TinsaL.—Yester day (Monday) the Think magistrates were occupied several hours in hearing • case of child murder preferred against • young girl named Elisabeth Gibson, 19 year* of age, • mattes of Ripon, and a charge of siding and abetting against Mr. George Fox, an old man, a butcher, at Srwerhy. is whose service the girl had lived last yea. The circumstances are as follows :—Abont • fortnight ago Mr. R. J. For, nephew of the male prisoner, while sbootisg over land adjoining the village of S,werby, a suburb of Think, saw the body of an infant Boating in • P* o4 in a tel-I near the Seesay-road. dir. Inspector Smith. of the North Riding constabulary, had the bely removed to the Union workhouse, where Mr. S. Walton, carom, held an inquest which resulted iu a verdict of Wilful murder" against some person or pence's unknown. Mr. Smith subrequently continued kis inquiries, and he made out that the female prisoner had been delivered of a child shortly before leaving the nide prisoner's minim at Martin. man. She bad lived with him for three 'sun, hit left at Ma/thous', and entered the service of Mr. Mangles. of Giveudale ' near Ripon, where the was arrested on the rheum, and it is maid, umplicatod the elder prisoner, her late master. She was takers before 31r. Bell, Tbirrik 112.1, and remanded till yesterday, when both prisoners sera brought before Earl Cathcart, Sir W. Parse Gellwey, But. Captain Tartan, and the Rev. G. Scutt. Afucr a short consultation, the Bench maid there was no legal evi dence against the prisoner Fox, who was discharged, and OA for the girl they should commit her for trial ot. a charge of concealment of birth only. The witnesses were bound over to appear. The ease caused great excitement in the town. SLAVERY IN CCRA.—"The itiliabitante of Cnba," says the Opinion Natimoafe, " it is known, have for mine time past manifested fishers fa...tumble to the enter cession of the segment The Administration of ts;ein is almost the only one that ',Abstains the *sows of slavery. We sly learn from Cuba that I petition, signed by upwards of ova hundred planters, hat bum presented to the Captairocleberal Duke, in which they sell on him to obtain front the Queen of Spaiu the &imamate( slavery is ths Crown' Deice replied that before he transtaitte.l the wish of the petitioners tothe Madrid government he should wait to liars the result of the President's election tu the United States, as that would decide the fate of alaeery in the great American Republic. As Mr. Lincoln has deviated strongly against slavery, the hops may be entertained that a cotolttunaUon of the marl* Lotion may soon be proclaimed in Cuba. FORGED it7TOORAPHs.—A wan named Gerdcre bergk has been reeeetly arrested at Weimar and committed for trial on numerous charges of obtaining money under false pretences by selling, s sutogr ..hs of Sadler, a reel. Binde of manuscript letters, poet., Se. , wriitou be him self. For some toes Gersterberglc found plenty of CUP towers, and obtained high prices for his foments. bat at last people begin to suspect something wrong, and Protroot Dielitr, of Berlin, discovered and deuousced the fraud. Among the prisoner's dupes te the poet Schiller's own daughter, who is said to have expended above s,oo(ifr. in the parch... of thine forgeries, PATENT.oTTICE MUSEUM, SOTTR lirNsmaroN. —Number of a isiturs for the Seek en•lieg Dec. 24, 1,102. Total number since the roman; vi the museum free duly (12th May, ltaZa'‘ , ), 176,311. A number o Mg tarter itoriJ charged wit The magiatra Dion, diac berg awe impose, were charge cote being t and John /CA, aseaulti?g Poli The delecda Dorset-place, weeper. Ile stable's face, a behalf of Robi Mr. Tyrehtt hoe. and fined . . On the wbul row this year I Wm. Cr,w4 with violently The sergeant one evening be King-street, it , of there being assisted in ChM loner and soot prisoner being *clamors be wou the prisoner tc after the man I then took the violent than kick in the groi all night. T, be succeeded in way receivisgs Hr. Tyrwhitl Lard labour. MURDER A Last night, • report was milted on Sa spot they fou at the Go!dot street, kept that on Satur the house for some of them of having 11111 , 017 men, broke tht of violence, and called in 1 to the taproom sag it he foi a picture frame moment Alen stabbed by Poll side. l'awell tc tuned that tl named Michael King. The ma Jared that he hi where Mr. J. 1) an opinion tha Inspector Putt attended with t the person who the slightest ei greatest kiddie from the Royal the man Harris pital, and epos stabbed very bay traded. This us as the man who Poe was taken, paper, as he free would too. Nel to survive the priaouer were al although their aidered of such i hospital ESAMINATIO WELL Serafino Polio afternoon, ch►rg rington, at the Dill. fie waa al wounding Alfred Ding them with Mr. Thomas t , Mr. Thomas Pot the ease on the i Some formal e reroaoded. PAINFUL D. This morain e:W*IW, respect Mr. Thomas C War Dewlap's! Mr. Thomas C that the Jemmies 'elmer•roed, Ply the W■r Depart knowledge of the been previously i John Hay, It, Its was a forensic 6th November. al went with Mr. Burrsge•road, PI minutes after sot be did not return then saw a large named John God 'Whoa witness --, you owe m fore I will take deceased in the nem said to I; another course policeman I sl plied, •' Mind fere with me." him down again. to be carried ale apprehended. ! A similar ace( Mrs. Campbel eassed had mach anything bappei The Coroner e there was ample The surgical effect that den bruises. fie die of death was es he had suffered not be affirmed brought hack th been accelerated Mrs. Cam phel that deeemed's r which deceased The Coroner additional medi a The proosedim ThE MEMO trrntr.srm.—lle Lair's for the address their Ca day j _ Jan. 3.—54 THE NEW Itiwgiam P.Re) has sizni6esi his the Exchange a RAILWAY • dent of a some' night on the atledittt. A d• off', might from the rash a shed. wh • ted ran into tatting away i tender to fragnt mueh damaged. engine and the tree of the fi person sustaio• had one earrisre ooly passenger , was cut about t sod fireman ket beyond a slight driver and firer %collision was e~aped the risk adept was not Mme reason for hag the train fr not known to t Was inevitable.- COVWFTT ~,,