The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-07 00:00:00

• • 7 ( -se Ilj YA. P _Tr f _7 -- , , , . fl . ' r - I g'Ca b tit ~ flt(ri No. 6,372.] AM an SOS 11 E8. 1.1 .4 .!k l :n11 :k s i ^ ( n ) I N , E Lo Y ndo l n V ` I L G IN R Y. of fiTNA d M and s P le ' lk o r f }tit t, Al 41 K %I. . —Y..r Mt.:LBW:7I.NR Mort Phillip' Direct gt leave the h , . LS -II aIoNDAY, January 21. Wittig at My r . the sh, tut clipper ship NORFOLK, 1,000 tons, d Yor no\ KIN t oliniatidcr: lying in the East India Docks. x"-num•lati‘•::, f“r all classes of passengers and UMW ' she ry an experienced surgoom —For freight I 4411.‘• apply t.• A 1.1.1.0 RT and MORGAN, with mew. and soNS, 7, Leadenhall-rtreet. Si Ay PROM LIVERPOOL OR QUEENSTOWN TO NEW YORK TWICK A WIRE. THE LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILADF:11•111A STEMIVEHIP COMPANY Intend de spatching their full plerered Clyde-bat Iron doer Staaincilipe, sarylag the Vatted swot mails, Yltull LIVERPOOL for NEW YORK : l'iTV NEW VoRK, Wednesday, Jan. 0. rry of I Saturday, Jan. lf. CITY lIF 1 . ...T0N, Wednesday, Jan. And every Wednesday end dotards). Cabin passage by the mall steamers galling every Wednesday, 31. 17. and V games; according to the accommodation. 'onward passage th,l.nies a full supply of cooked provisions. PulleLtgets fur fun, , ,h,.,nd the Uulted States booked throug h on way a.leatitageoni terms.— I , ar further particulars ap y to WILLIAM 'NM A sr, ti , Water-street, Liverpool; acid to YES MACi.Y, 61. King Willie:a-street, Leedom t y TEAM to NEW YORK.—IINITED STATES MAIL LINE.—lt ourne si•lemh• • ! steamers of the New York and Mane Steam _ y Company are appowted to leave for New Lurk as follows: Fram lime. 1 Prom Eshoot - ith. — Walneadiy. Jan. 10 inuredaj, Jan. 17 -t mblenlay, Fah. 13 Thursday, Irk. 14 .i etitioldny, Mar. 13 Thursday, .11w. 14 _ • • - - - • -- Fares :—Sisst,l‘.s, 42; and alr; second claw £l4 and 1:1 or further parneul tra apply to JAI . A. worrom, Havre; 'iIEicaETTA YANG , and Co., Paris ; MG and IL W. 707Cand 0., Ira/mouth; or 11. 'TAIU and Co., 145, Cheapakle, London. DVERLAND ROUTE. - COMMUNICATION by STEAM to DTA, AUSTRALIA, AA. Tin IMP; /no othonipbo, MarNcilloa.—The PEN LAP. and 4iittENT.tb sTEA !I • .% Vitt VflON COMPANY 1100 K PASSEN GECS and receive ts .e:o tool Parcels for Gibraltar, 31alta, 1 42 - IA, Aden, Ceylon, Ilr. In.. Calcutta, the Straits, China, and Japan ()'okohama , by Go it -learners leaviuß Southampton on the 4th and 20th of every iimeth for Oihndtar, Malta, Egypt, Aden, ant Bornbay. by tic of the 12th and EOM of each mouth : mad le hint tieorut'i nod, Melbourne, and Sydney, by the steam. :a lcaviii,z soethanipton on the 30th of every month. The ettainer .rmilics nn the Sth, 10th, ?OM, and Pith of the month.—For farther particulars apply at the Company. tither., 1...^2. Leaticelmlbstreet, Loudon, ; or Orketad.place, Southampton. BRENIEN.—Direct Route to Hanover, Bruns wick, and t en:. al Germany.—The North German Lloyd's ens tint-clans et rem stvantur FALKk, Captain RI NDEnt.:..N, will be drop:44lnd R. :Pt liorselytiown on THURSDAy, „Tau It (Irk:Bohr lt.•naitti•r_ ..t 10 am., tftDing at Ilrunswick Pier, Illackwall, for p. 11,1,4, at 12 noon—Fares to Bremen. £2 and tl return ti, itt it. td a n d LI 10s—Apply at CHAPLIN% Universal 'Mice, i:v2ont cirrus. W.: or to PHILLICN,GHAVES. rill LLIrPs and nt. Duns4u'►houae. at. inmatru's•hill. LC. QTE M )TH EN BURG from London dirty i.—tndy lteaniar l'ommeinieation.—The =rivalled lain n .alto:. crs II Ag V, I antain LEI till, 1.000 tons, Wal lw.e o, t dy l'anal 11.110 y, and the tit WAsA. .iptda sl 11:111 ...s. ions. Wu horsepower. froni on •paIL la .1 alt.; every week, weather permitting. tar,. cat : LI —For freight or passage. Ac., apply to I Wplllia I 16,1-al i.inee, W. ;nr to PHILLIYPS, GRAVES, I'HILI.I and st. nwman's-home, crow -lane, Great lowsratfe-t. E LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, I.ndon. E.C.. January 3. 1857. No '' 441 A EN, that a tiENERAL mwriso ot the Law Life Assurance Society will lie liel.l at the Soh ty's "nice. Fleet-street,Lu n nion, on sATIItUAY, the 24olilay .4( F,•brimry next, at 12 o'clock at mum precisely, lairoutnt t" the provisi.ms of the Society's Deed of Settlement. Sr tontiu se 4.1 receiving the Auditor's Annual Report of the twomnt , .1 the Uociety up to the list Item:tuber last; to elect throe Innutors it • the rim 41 Mr. Serjeant Storks.deceased ; William 114.ustham, retinui; and William Henry Timmy, Lug .47. t• . tetinul aiul fir general purposes. Iniector I. in the room of Mr. Rerjesnt Storks will retool in oft e until the 2ith jam:. lain. The Directors to le respectively the ruin of William liniughani. Esq., and Willimo Ilvt,ry Timmy. km.. Q. 1%, will remain in oaks until the Mth Jaor, I u;44. --fly under of the Directors, I% ILLIAM riAMI'EL DOWN IS, Actuary. 114RITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, Msckdoziciark. :4.410, Bucks k(01111011Y sA Claph:un•rlse Inctilutc.l 1,27. The 'text EI:EI7I4IN of (Indiana of those who were "once in prenierit" will 1.,10 idace at the London Tavern, Ilishopagato street. TO-M(IRROW Tuesday, Jannary 8, when twelve children will he ,4rett .1. The p.ll will open .4 12. and Huss at S precisely. LYRE') MACK INZI E., Secretary. °Meek Vt. cheafishie, Loudon, where only communications should to -ed. 1130 IMPORTERS, Shippers, Stearn Shipping 1 Companies, and Consignees of Foreign Goods, by Weeirosss or otherwise Into the Port of Lndon.—The proprietors of Free Trade Wine, P otcliff • and l'yper Free Trade Wharf, Dow gate Dock, Upper Thanes-street, OFFER VACILITIM to the Mmes.—Further information may be obtained no apphcation, by letter or In penl.n. to R. CLAY and Co., nbarangers and ware house keepers.—uatces, 03, Upper Tharatiestinet. UNITED STATES 5-20 COUPONS BOUGHT. American 6,n-eminent and Railway Sweatitiee of all desetiptiou purcluded awl f.•r sale, by GLENS and Co., a Yew itroadatreet. atumioAnn Debt of the I.:Mimi States paid olf since ist January, Ina% a LENS and Co.'s American Finan cial Circular, ismed every Friday, forwarded on applkation. HOUSES, Furnished or Unfurnished, LAND, and DI'SINE'SnES WANTED, by BAYNE and Co., gene ral estate agents. tn4s. Brook-street, Oroareuor-setukre, IV. — Advances made according to security. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBMON, nue celebrated old IRISH WHISKY 'pained tie DUBLIN PRIZE MSDAL —lt Is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and vary wholesome. mold in bottles, La Sd. each, at the retW houses In London. by the agents In the principal towns In England or wholesale at 8, Great Windmill-street, London, W. Observe Hie red seal, pink kt,l, and cork branded "Kinahsn's LL Whisky.' TGUINEA CIGAR. 1 A boa nt 1 0 0 really good HAVAN NAN CIGAR.% rent car riage free to all part+ of the tailed Kingdom on romMt of Ari ca:a order or stamp* for Gls. ; or sample box of 80 fan Ila W. ti. PAMIER, importer of Cigars, 2. Tiehl,ornastmet, Piccadilly, W. OSBORNE'S STILTON is THE Cheese. TEA is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 25., ed. per pound are the prices at whi c h PHILLIPS an d Co., tea merchants. N. King William-street, City, Inndon, E.C., arc senile: good and fine BLACK TEA. A price current post free. 4t worth coniage tree to any railway station or market town in the Untied Kinedom Snerve.—PHILLIPS mid Co. have no agents. nor any connection with any house in Worcester or Swan k& Sugars are supplied at market Woes. AVALUABLE NEW YEAR'S GIFT. - A CHINESE CADDY, containing lOW. of really good BLACK TEA, sent carriage tree to any railway station or market town In EngLual, Ireland. •ALiitLinil, or Wales, on receipt of MOs., by PHIL LIPS and Co., tea men:balite, a, King William-street, City, L 4. OVERCOATS for the present Season.—The NEW WINTER OVERCOATS. of best materials, are kept on band and msAeb.prder,at IIitITLTON and 111/4PTOIe3, Tailors and Overcoat ILakers, 106, STRAND, opposite Lleter-Itall. HOW COLD IT HAS BEEN.—NEGRETTI 1 and %AM 14ItA's celebrated THERSIOMATEYS will cor rectly :whiter the borwit temperature, Price 3.. ed. 1. Hatton- Medan .se comion . 122. itmentatreet : and ISt, Meet-street. How to tile the Magic Lantern, and obtain the beat electa. Illustrated. la LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM , an effectual remedy, without confining the bowels or effecting the head, tnaly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, telt* tonfirmed cases of asthma. and incipient consumption It fre quently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce Incurable admirably allays the Witting which provokes frequent couching. In approachltic consumption Its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion. nifty depend on relief in a few minutes after taking ft Iveparef only and sold by W. LAMBERT chemist, s, K ing Wit hanc•treet• Charlnc•cross, Lond on , and by all druggists. In bottk.. Etid., and three quantities In one, ts. ad. Be particulnr and auk for Lambert's Asthmatic Balms. The ISMS and address are eneaved on the stamp. lILNNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.—The owdical profession for thirty years have approved of Chia I .1 , ...lotion of magnoria as the best remedy for 'middy of the nna 11, heartburn. headache, gout, and ludigestion : and ma lect mild aperient for delicate constitutions, , especially 1, ) *KM for infanta — Dl children, and Infanta—.:NM:FOßD and ' , smuts. 172, New liond.straet, London, and of all other throughout the world. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES : COUGH& ..._ K EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: ASTHMA. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: INCIPIENT CONSEMPTION. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: BRONCHIAL AFFECTION& --__ KE AT IN G'S COUGH LOZENGES: Which are daily recommended by the faculty. Testi• from the most ed eminent of whom may be seen. m fumes, . : this. b. 9d and 48. lid. each, b 7 ` 41.06 , Chemist l , ft mad Paarachurchyard, Loads. , bold retail by all Druggists, dc. SUNDAY EVENINGS for the PEOPLE.—Th e El RAT of a SERIES of DISCOURSES by gentlemen of eminence will be Oren in Mt. Martin's-hall, Jan. 13, by JOHN Chat' YURI>, Esq., V.E.9., President of the Ethnological Mo ckty. on the •• Plurality of the Races of Man." Sacred musk to precede and follow the discourses. Sittings may be secured of Nlcairs. Trulmer and Co., GO, Paternoster-row Beal. 269, Piccadilly Farrah, 2iig, Strand Jay, G. King-street, Camden town Morrell, lest, Great Purtlandatreet and at Mt. Martin's hell. Entrance to tree seats la Wibion-street only; to reserved sittings, from lung-acre. To commence at 7. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High Holborn—This very elegant and oedema establishment having been entirely redecorated, OPEN 'WRAY EVENING. The grand band, conducted by r. W. hi. Packet, will perform nightly • choice seiectioa of operatic and dance man:, Open at halt ing close at 12. Admission. la DELICATE and CLEAR COMPLEXIONS, with a deUghtful and laiting Prearanes, by using the celebrated CitrlXD MOAP TABLETS, 4d. and GC. each.—Maneiaetared by J. C. and J. n un, Vpper Marsh. ranibeth. Order of your chemist, grocer, or chandler. - -- - TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (nom's =mums.) THE EASTERN QUESTION. BERLIN, JAN. 6. It is stated that negotiations have recently taken place between the governments of France and Eng land relative to the differencia which have arisen between Greece and Turkey, and that the two governments have resolved not to interfere in the matter, excepting in case of intervention on the part of Russia. This latter eventuality is not con sidered probable. PARIS, JAL 6. The Munitcor of this morning says :—" An even ing journal publishes an article on the policy of Franco in the Eastern question in a form which might lead to the belief that the statements con tained therein are drawn from an official source. The article in question is a pure invention." GREECE. ATI( &NS, JAN. 6. A bill has been submitted to the Chamber to allow the King to appoint one of his father's brothers as regent during his visit to Copenhagen. THE EMPRESS OF MEXICO. PARIS, JAN. 6. The COlMtittainnuel of this evening announces, on the strength of private information, that the health of the Empress of Mexico has sensibly im proved. RUSSIA AND POLAND. BT. PETERSBURG, Jas. 5, EVEUICO. The sentences passed upon the Polish exiles who took part in the revolt in Siberia, having been con firmed by the Emperor, have been carried into execution. Of the seven condemned to death, four have been shot, and the remainder sent off to be kept at hard labour together with those who were sentenced to the latter punishment. Cor poral punishment has been remitted in all cases. . • The I aralide Ruse, commenting upon the ukases relating to Poland issued to-day, mays that the objact of these decrees is the practical union and equalisation of the regulations existing in Poland with those in force in Russia. "Administrative assimilation," it adds, " will enable the govern ment to extend to Poland all the improvements which have been introduced in Russia." PRUSSIA. FRANKFORT, JAN. 6. Yesterday tho Assembly of Burghers unanimously resolved to accept the functions of municipal coun cillors which have been offered them by the Prus sian government. HUNGARY. PRSTR, JAIL 5. It is rumoured that the royal rescript, in reply to the address of the Hungarian Diet, will be de layed until after the Emperor has received the deputation sent by the Diet to congratulate his Majesty on the new year. The Lower House of the Diet will probably hold its next sitting on Thursday next. Alexander Teleki has received permission to re turn to Hungary. PESTH, Jar. 6. The Emperor is expected here on the lath inst. ITALY AND THE PAPACY. FLORENCE, JAN. 5. The negotiations which are being carried on by Signor Tonello at Rome are about to be brought to a close by the conclusion of an arrangement exclusively relating to religions questions. It is understood that the subject now under con sideration is the choice of the bishops to fill the vacant sees. There will probably be no formal treaty, but simply a verbal understanding. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 5. Senor Rios Rams has been taken from Cartha gena to Cadiz, and it is believed that he u to be transported. The municipality of Madrid have sent a decla ration to the Queen announcing their concurrence in the measures taken by the government to pre serve order in the country. MIAS CARPENTIII, IN CALLATTIL.—The native paper' take a keen interest in Mies Carpenter's visit to Calcutta. She has visited most of the female schools in the city and has shown especial interest, as was to be expected, in the female and male branches of the Brehm° Soniaj. The Indian Mirror, however, considers it " dis graceful" that so few natives have visited Miss Car penter, and hopes that educated liengalees will give her a testimonial of their gratitude. Miss Carpenter has adopted the suggestion of Miss Bigot, the head-mistress of the Bethune school, for establishing female normal schools. Mhe lately addressed a meeting of native gentle men on the subject in the Brahmo Swazi rooms, She thought the female schools of Bengal infenor to those she had seen in Bombay and Madras, but spoke highly of mis sionary schools. Her plan, as given in the Indian Daily New", is that government should establish a boarding in stitution, with two distinct departments for Europeans and natives, who should be allowed to adopt their peculiar national or caste customs. An accomplished English lady must superintend the general working of the institution, The education and training should be conducted by a trained female teacher, thoroughly conversant with all the new educational methods of instructioe. No interference must be allowed with the religious sentiments of either teachers or scholars'; both must be protected, and the reli gious feelings of Europeans must be regarded as well as those of the Hindooa. Both English and the vernacular should be learnt by all the inmates of the institution, and a portion of each day should be spent in the actual teach ing of children in some of the neighbouring schools. The meeting approved of the plan, and appointed a committee of five native gentlemen to carry it pct.—Homeward Mail, Jan. 5. DeATH OF A SCOTCH POET.—The death is an nounced of Alexander Smith, a poet of some note in Scot land, which occurred on Saturday morning at Wardle, near Edinburgh. He was born on the 31st of December,lB3o, at Kilmarnock, where his father was a drawer of patterns, a lace designer, and the lad having shown some literary in clination, was destined for the ministry of the Presbyte rian established church. A serious illness and adverse family circumstances interfered with the continuance of his theological course, and he was apprenticed to the busi ness of lace-designing. He cultivated literature, however, and from a work he composed, " The Life Drama," he for warded some extracts to the Rev. George Cilfillan, of Dundee, who obtained a place for them in the Critic. He subsequently published a volume entitled " City Poems," and other works, which obtained for him a wide celebrity. In 1854 Mr. Smith was appointed secretary of the Univer sity of Edinburgh, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1867. AMERICA. (BY ATLAICTIC TELIGIUTIL) NEW YORK, JAL 6, Evrcrxo. The Radical agitation for the impeachment of President Johnson is being renewed. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 1341. Sterling exchange on London, 109 i. Illinois, 122; Erie, 67i ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 107 i. Cotton, middling upland, 35i. (Ritrriz's TELealum.) The Royal Mail steamship Cuba arrived at Queenstown at 8.45 a.m. yesterday, with 49 pas sengers and 389,656 doh,. in specie. She landed throe passengers, and all the mails, consisting of 114 sacks, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9 a.m. All well. The Cuba experienced heavy easterly (Per the Cuba, via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, DEC. 26. Tranquillity being restored in Missouri, General Grant has countermanded the order for stationing national troops at Lexington and other points. Increasing demoralisation is reported among the negroes of Virginia and Carolina. The Freedmen's lnrean is working satisfactorily in Alabama. The Nev' York Herald says the President has decided firmly to adhere to his reconstruction policy. The President has revoked the Exequatur of the consuls from the countries recently annexed by Prussia. It is understood that General Sherman and Mr. Campbell returned on account of the inaccessibility and unpopularity of the Juarez government. A change is expected in the Mexican policy of the Federal government. It is reported that General Sheridan's manage ment of affairs in the department of the Gulf is to be made the subject Of Congressional investi gation. M. Berthemy, the new French minister, was presented to the President yesterday. Hopes were expressed for the continuance of friendly relations between the two countries. Another Sweetsburg Fenian has been sentenced to death ; several others have been released. The Portuguese Minister at Washington is dead. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Dec. M. Ortega is reported to be advancing against Juarez. Intelligence received from Vera Cruz, rid New Orleans, dated the 20th inst., stato that the French have seized the custom-house at Vera Cruz, with a quarter of a million of dollars of imperial treasure. It is reported that 1,000 French troops have left for France. Tho French steamer Anama arrived at Vera Cruz on the 14th, bringing 200 French troops and a large quantity of ammunition. *Ube an ititlitarp. POAtTSMOUTII, JAN. 5. - - SHIPS ORDERED 11011 E.—Fifteen ships are under orders to return to the home porta, armed with 194 guns, and of 3,340 horse-power ; and these, on their arrival, will dismantle and pep off, having completed the terms of their commission. They are as follows :—The liaroma, 21 guns, 400 horse-power, Captain H. Boys, from China ; Coquette. 4, 200 hone-power, Commander A. G. R. lice, from China ; Cossack, 20, 250 horse-power, from the Mediterranean • Curaeos, 23, 350 horse-power, Commodore Sir W. S. Wiseman, Bart, from the Australian station ; Eclipse, 4, 200 horse-power, Commander E. It. Free mantle, front the Australian station; Osprey, 4, 200 hone-power. Commander W. Menzies, from China ; Pantaloon, 11, no horse-power, Commander G. L. Sullivan, from the East Indies ; Pandora, 5, 80 horse power, Commander E. Stubbs, from the West Coast of Africa ; Rapid, 11, 150 horse-power, Commander W. B. Stubbs, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Royalist, 11, 150 horse-power, Commander H. K G. Earle, from North America and the West Indies; Scylla, 21, 400 horse-power, Captain It. W. Coortenay, from China ; Shearwater, 4, 150 horse-power, Commander T. K Smith, from the Pacific ; Snipe, 5, so horse-power, Commander H. A. Trollope, from the West Coast of Africa • Speed well, 5 80 horse-power, Commander J. E. Erski n e, from the West Coast of A frica; Sutlej, 35, 500 horse-power, Captain T. P. Coale, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Denman, from the Pacific. The Gibraltar, 81 guns, 800 horse-power, Las arrived at Devonport and is dis mantling preparatory to paying off. During the past year 31 ships have been paid out of commission, and they were armed with 548 guns, and hail steam power equivalent to 8,062 hones. In the same period 30 ships have been commis sioned, propelled by steam power equivalent to 11950 hones, that, of course, being the nominal power. The difference is explained by the fitting out of several of the Iron-clad ships of larger tonnage and small but heavy arma ments in lien of the wooden vessels carrying • larger num ber of lighter guns. ADMIRALTY APPOINTMENTS. —The following ap pointments were made on Saturday: Lieutenant—George J. Anstruther to the Achilles. Master—Walter H. Worsforld to the Charybdis. Paymasters—John B. Swann to the Indus (additional), for the Euphrates ; Henry Sewell to the Asia (additional), for the Juana ; Edward R. Chamberlain to the Fisgard (additional), for the Serapis ; Robert F. E. Morrison to the Charybdis. Aeaistant-Paymaster—Richard Harbord to the Charybdis. Clerk—Edward A. Smith to the Charybdis. Assistant- Clerk—Macleod G. C. Mallard to the Charybdis. Chief- Engineer—John G. Oekshott to the Cumberland, for ser vice in the Severn. Navel cadet (nominated)—Claude Hunter. Engineers—George Hoe, John Watson, Alfred Mason, Thomas Summers, Richard Hackett, and Thomas Spence to the Bristol. First-class Assistant-Engineers— Owen Douglas, Edwin I. Carte, John Wendover, and Thomas Barnes to the Bristol ; John R. Harvey to the Fisganl, for service in the Vivid. Second-class Assistant- Engineers—Thomas A. Weeks and Thomas Siniley to the Tit CAMP AT COLCHESTER.— Captain Gregory, Ili3th Regiment, is performing the duties of Brigade-Major at Colchester during the temporary absence of Captain Leggett. An order has been received from the Horse Guards at Colchester directing that a draft of the depot . of the 84th Regiment, consisting of Capt.iin Wilson, Ensign Crockett, 1 sergeant, and :19 rank and file should be held in readiness to join the service cornpanie4 of the regiment at Malta on receipt of • route from the Quartermaster- General. His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com manding-in-Chief has appointed Captain Black, of the 2nd battalion 6th Regiment, to be Major of Brigade in Nova Scotia. His Royal Highness has also approved of the fol lowing arrangements:—Lieutenant Gore and Ensign Sir E A. Waller, Bart., to join the dep6t of the Roth Regiment, and Lieutenant Buller to join the 114th depot. On Saturday evening the St. George's Battalion of Rifle Volunteers had its prize distribution in West minster-hall. The regiment mustered at Burlington-house, and marched, under the command of Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lindsay, M.P., to the hall. ViscouNe MoNor. —A communication has been forwarded by the Mayor of Portsmouth to his Excellency Viscount Monck, who formerly represented that borough in parliament, inviting him to a banquet to be given by the mayor in recognition of his excellency's services as Governor-General of Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid, and to congratulate him on his elevation to the peerage. His lordship, in reply, says that it will be • great gratifi cation to find himself once more amongst his old friends and constituents at Portsmouth, but is unable at present to name • convenient day. The invitations will probably ex tend to about :100 persons, chiefly composed of the naval, military, and municipal authorities of the port and gar rison. CRYSTAL PALACR.--IL is gratifying to know that the Palace has not suffered either from the snow of Wed nesday, the frost of Friday, or the tremendous gale of Saturday night. The screen shutting out the burnt por- tion has been effectively strengthened under Mr. Edwin Clark's directions, and has resisted the wind in the most satisfactory manner. Inside the Palace all is going on as usual, and there is nothing to show that any extraordinary event has happened. The harp has been introduced in association with the organ ln,the service at St. Andrew's Church, street. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. J. BRIGHT, M.P., AND MR. R. GARTH, M.P. The following correspondence has taken place between Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. Richard Garth, the newly-elected member for Guildford : Rochdale. Dec. 24,1866. I Sir,—Through the courtesy of an elector of Guildford I have received a handbill printed by Mr. Stent, printer, stationer, Be., Guildford, purporting to contain a report of a speech delivered by you to an " enthusiastic meeting of Mr. Garth's supporters, held at the White Hart Hotel, Friday evening, Dec. 14, 1866." I wish to call your atten tion to some passages in this speech. I pass by much which is open to criticism, and confine myself to certain exact statements to which you appear to have committed your self. 1. You ask, "`What has Mr. Bright done for his own people ? Has he ever stood for his own place? Dare he ever stand for it? Not be ! He has been booted away from his own ' iaeshis own people distrust him." 2. You ask, " t did be do in the cotton famine? When thousands of men were out of employments when people down here, who had no direct interest in the matter, subscribed so libera il y. Why, he did not subscribe a halfpenny." 3. You my, I will tell you what he did. He wanted to give them a loan which was to be repaid in so many years, so that during those years he would have these people as his serfs at his beck and call, to do what he pleased with, and to prevent their rising when he chose to pat wages at whatever rate he liked." You state that I have not answered charges of a similar kind made against me, and you therefore assume that they are true. I cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the HOW* of Gammons. I see loins slaw yen will not venture to sag on the floor of parliament, where I could meet you,what you have had the courage to say at the White Hart in Guildford, and therefore I address this let ter to you, rather than wait till the opening of parliament. With rega rd to the paragraph which I have marked No. 1, I beg to tell you that the only part of it which la not false is that which AMMO NS or asserts that I have not stood as • candidate for the borough of Rochdale. I have not been a candidate for this borough, though on several occasions I have been asked to stand by the most eminent men of the liberal party, which has a large majority in the borough. I believe there is not a respect able man in Rochdale, of your own party, who will not admit that, U I had wished it, and had consented to leave the great constituency which has for nine years past honoured me with its confidence, I might, at this moment, have been the parliamentary representative of this borough. The testa the paragraph marked No.l is simply a falsehood in every part of it. Of the assertion in para graph No. 2 I may say the same. It is a falsehood in every part of it. I ant not in the habit of boasting of what I give, and I shaft not now enter into particulars that I may confute you. I may say that,af ter we hadsubscribedaslargely as anyotherfirmixi the town, myonlycomplaint against the relief committee in this district was that it did not make farther calls un the millowners here before it applied for assistance f rom the general fund at the disposal of the committee in Manchester. I may say further that, aoconl ing to my means, I believe I did not fall short of what was done by any other contributor to the fund, whether in or out of this county. Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disas trous years of the American war. In paragraph No. 3 you make a strange assertion both as to fact and motive. I am obliged to tell you that the whole paragraph is false from beginning to end. You must be singularly ignorant of the condition and temper of the working men of this district to imagine that any employer can have them "as his serfs at his beck and call, to do what he pleases Cgs, and to prevent their rising when he chooses to put wages at whatever rate he likes." I have now called your attention to some statements of your speech. I Nag that these statements are false—wholly and absolutely false. If you knew them to be false when you made them, need not write the word which would properly describe( you. If you made them, not know ing whether they' were true or false, I can only pity your disregard of all honourable feeling and cau tion when dealing with the character of your opponents. I do not expect ypu will deny the accuracy of the report of your speech, for I find that you repeated the substance of the slanders In your speech at the nomination for Guildford. I do' not expect that you will attempt to prove the charges you have made, for that I know to be impossible. Whether you will retract what you have said, and express Borrow for having said it, will depend on whether, being • Queen's counsel and a member of parliament, you possess the qualities which are never found wanting in the character of • gentleman.—l am, respectfully, JOHN Demur. R. Garth, Esq., M.P., 3, Paper.buildings, Temple. Temple, Jan. 3,1867. Sir,—l have already explained to you my reasons for not replying earlier to your letter of the 24th of last month. I was anxious, in justice to you, as well as to myself, to put you in possession, as far as I could, of the soul ces of infor mation 'won which the statements I made at Guildford, and of which you complain, were founded. I have no personal knowledge either of yourself or of Rochdale, and my impression, have been derived partly from your own speeches and partly from correspondence and other state ments which have appeared from time to time in the public prints. I have not yet been able to lay my hand upon souse of these, but I would call your attention to two speeches, which I had recently read, and which, no doubt, were fresh in my memory at the time when I addressed my friends at Guildford. The first of these is a speech of Mr. Pope Hennessy, addressed to the electors of the county of Warlord, and reported in the rolla of the 6th of November last, from which the following is an extract:— " He is a great manufacturer, and he employs what he calls • good many hands ; . . he employs a large number lof human beings—men, women, and children. Now, no man stands up so stoutly for his own strong clam as against the weak instruments they employ as Mr. Bright ; he was a leader in the defence of the cruel old system of slavery, of disease, of ignorance, of shortened, unhappy lives which the Factory Acta have successfully attacked. ' Hardly two years have passed since, at • meeting of the magnates of Manchester, he boasted of his former opposition to the noisily Acts, and said be should be prepared to do the same again. He kept his word; for when the Lace Factories Bill was before the house, and the Bleach Works fill, and a bill to give some protection to the poor girls who work in the Bradford warehouses, he was not only present, but violent in his opposition to those salutary and benevolent acts. He fought, and the other radical manufacturers with him, for what he deemed to be a sort of property of his—the right of doing what be liked with his own workpeople. He carried his class feelings even below the surface of the earth, and when the Idiom Regulation Bill was before parliament he and his class would not give the smallest I help to the miner to get better ventilation or greater safety from accidents, simply became better ventilation and greater safety means additional expense to the mine owner. . . . In 1861 a deputation from the miners came to , London, and presented me with an address of thanks for some little services I tiled to render them, and from those men I heard a unanimous condemnation of Mr. Bright." The other speech to which I allude (and of which printed copies have, I believe, been widely circulated) was deli- ; vered by Mr. Ferrand to the Working Men's Conservative Association at Bradford, on the 20th of November last. la this speech Mr. Ferran,' says :—" I have watched Mr. Bright for years, and although, as I have told you, ' he is possessed of flier-yellow powers of eloquence, a greater political coward never entered the House of Commons. . . . . I never heard him make a speech which inculcated peace and goodwill amongst men; but, on the contrary, he has always tried to set the dif ferent classes of the community against each other, and thereby to encourage bloodshed. For twenty-five year, I have worked with you working men of Bradford in obtain ing many great and conciliating measures from parliament, while he ha. opposed them aIL During that time, I never heard him speak a word in favour of working men in the House of Commons. You have been reminded of what his conduct was in Lancashire during the cotton famine. He took no part, either in puree or person, to relieve the distress in his native county ,• but when I met, at Man chester, a great assembly of delegates from the cotton dis tricts of Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and York shire, they unanimously declared that England had no more bitter enemy than Mr. Bright, and that he was detested by all the working men in Lancashire." I can hardly suppose that your attention as a public man has not been directed to these passages ; and I am not aware that they have ever been contradicted. I bad seen other public statements, and I had heard reports, evincing your unpopularity amongst the working classes at Roch dale, and in Lancashire generally ; and I certainly did believe that you were unpopular there. You admit that you never stood for Rochdale, although you have been invited to do so by your friends ; and it was therefore surely not unreasonable that I should form an opinion, which I believe I share in COIIIIIIOII with many others, that if you had stood for Itozhilale you would not have been successfuL My views in this respect may have been erroneous ; but I consider that I bed a perfect right to entertain those views, and to express them. I also most firmly believed, from statements and reports which I had seen and heard, that you had been hooted from your own premises, and were distrusted by your workpeople , but as you tell me that what I said in this respect was wholly without foundation, I, of course take it for granted that I was misin formed, and I beg, not only to retract my statement, but to express my sincere regret for having made it. With regard to the other psrsgrapba of which you com plain, I must observe that the report of my speech is in some respects inaccurate. I disclaim having aver said, or intended to say, that " you had nut subscribed a half penny" in aid of the distress which prevailed during the [STAMPED, 14. ADDITIONAL',] cotton famine. I sincerely hope and trust that there was no manufacturer in any of the cotton districts against whom such a charge could justly be made. But I believe that I am quite correct in supposing that at Rochdale, in the month of January, 1862, you did propose or suggest that instead of raising further subscriptions, th► poor-law guardians, or the millowners, or both, should lend sums of money to the distressed operatives, upon the under standing that such loans should be repaid out of their earnings as soon as they should be restored to work. It was this proposition of yours to which I alluded, and upon which I animadverted in my speech at Guildford ; and I certainly was of opinion then, and I am so still, that the effect of such a scheme as yon proposed would have been to entail a very heavy load of obligation upon the working men, which would have placed them, possibly for years, in great measure under the control of their employers, who might have exercised that control, either in regulating the amount of wages, or in other ways ; and I was, and sin still further of opinion, that to have carried out your pro position at such a time, and under such circumstances, would have been by no means a liberal or generous policy towards the distressed operatives. It is almost unneces nary to add, that you are quite at liberty to make any use you please of this letter,-1 am, sir, your obedient servant, John Bright, Esq. RICHAILD GARTH. Rochdale, Jan. 4, 1867. Sir,—Your letter of yesterday has just arrived, and I find it almost precisely what I expected. After a week's search, you have not found a single fact to establish the gross charges brought against me in your speech at Guild ford. Instead of facts and proofs, you fill three pages of your letter with extracts from speeches of Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy, which speeches have doubtless been spoken, but which I have never read. I will give you an anecdote of Mr. Ferrand. About 20 years ago he was in the House of Commons, and on one occasion he made • ferocious and vulgar attack on my lamented friend Mr. Cobden. At the conclusion of his speech, Mr. Ryng, then member for Mid dlesex, one of the most respected members of the house, came up to Mr. Cobden, and said to him, " Don't trouble yourself about him—l have been in the ouge for 50 years, and no such ruffian has been here before in my time." Yoa will not be surprised, therefore, that I do not trouble myself with what Mr. Ferrand may say. But in what Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy have said I find no proof of the truth of what you have said. You made three charges of the most distinct character—that I had been hooted from my own premises—that I had not given " a halfpenny" to the relief of the distress in these districts— and that I wished to support the suffering workmen by loans, that I might have them at my " beck and call," " to do what I pleased with," and to prevent their rising when I chose "to put wages at whatever rate I liked. Your authority for the first charge is evidently such that you dare not produce it; it is not even equal to the autho rity of Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy, and therefore you retract it. The second charge you escape from by denying the accuracy of the report, without saying what you actu ally did say in place of what you are reported to have said. With regard to the-third charge, you meek to avoid it by expressing an opinion that if money were lent to families in distress it would be burdensome to repay it, which no body doubts; but you express no regret that you charged me with recommending a system of loans in order that I might use them as • means of oppressing the workmen during the period that would be required for the repayment of the loans. My object in suggesting loans was to give relief in such a manner, to • large number of persons, as would not bring them into the list of ordinary paupers, and would not wound their honourable pride ; aml if the distress had lasted only for • few months, as was then hoped would be the CAW, the plan would have been practicable, and might have been adopted with great advantage. On • review of your speech and your letter, I cools to this conclusion—that you wished to get into parliament, and were not particular as to the path which might lead to it. You threw dirt during your canvass, doubtless know ing that, if needful, you could sat it afterwards. There are many men who go " through dirt to dignities," and I suspect you have no objection to be one of them. I am, with whatever respect is due to you, yours. Sc., JOHN BRIGHT. Richard Garth, Esq., M.P., Temple, London. THE WEATHER. A sudden change in the weather took place early yesterday morning. On Saturday afternoon a slight thaw set in, the thermometer having risen to 8 deg. above freezing point. About seven o'clock in the evening the frost set in again, and the slippery state of the roads and pavements made them very dangerous for passengers, and many serious cases of injury occurred. At midnight a strong and biting wind rove, accompanied by a fall of snow for about half an hour. This was followedby a complete hurricane of wind, hail, and sleet, which continued until an early hour yesterday morning, and then another change took place ; the wind ceased, the atmosphere became many degrees wanner, and • heasy fall of rain occurred, which continued more or less during the re mainder of the day. As might be expected, the streets were in • very unpleasant state, the rain and melting snow mixing together, and funning a slush ankle deep. The omnibus and cab traffic was almost en tirely suspended. The state of the streets, andthe absence of the public conveyances, kept many persons within doors ; and materially a ff ected the number of the congre gations usually present at the fashionable and popular churches and chapels. The change in the weather, as may be supposed, was a great disappointment to those lovers of skating whose occupations prevented them enjoy ing the diversion on the week days, and were looking forward to )esterday for the opportunity. In anticipa. lion of the immense crowds in the parks, orders were issued on Saturday for a large extra force of police to be in attendance, to assist the parkkeepers in preserving order, and the Humane Society had strict orders to double the usual staff of icemen, and had provided for the attendance of several additional medical men at the receiv ing-house on the banks of the Serpentine and at the tents I erected in the various parks. Notwithstanding the un favourable state of the weather several hundreds of per sons assembled on the ice in the different parks early in the forenoon, although it was in some places very rotten and dangerous, and in all parte covered with water to the depth of from two to three inches. The continued rain, ! however, and the ice gradually getting worse, even the ardour of these devotees was cooled as the morning ad vanced, and by 1 o'clock there were not more than a few mores left,and these were at last driven off by the dense fog which spread itself over the parks shortly after 2 o'clock. Several immersions took place in each of the parks during the morning, but those who thus got into the vrater were but little more wet than their more fortunate companions. The spectators of the evolutions ou the ice, usually so nu merous on a Sunday, were few and far between, and before three o'clock in the afternoon the parks presented the most dreary and desolate spectacle imaginable, affording a strange contrast to the busy and animated scenes of the last five days, being entirely deserted except by • few doom ragged urchins, with fusees for sale, and some ven dors of peppermint; sal even these were compelled at last to abandon all idea of dlspoeing of their wares, and left in the moat disconsolate mood. . . . Skating was carried on in Kenaington-gardens on Satur day, despite the warnings of the Humane Society men, and dunng the afternoon four persons broke through the ice on the Round Pond. On the Long Water at Kenning. ton forty ladies accompanied the Skating Club. Two immersions took place there also, but in shallow water. A great many skaters were on the Serpentine, and also on the Ornamental Water in Regent's - park. The ice gave way in many cases, and about twenty people were im mersed, but the icemen succeeded in rescuing them, though in some eases with difficulty. The weather since Wednesday has been most severe in the county of Berke, and the intense cold and sharp frosts have occasioned several casualties in the district. On Thursday a coroner's inquiry was opened at Hungerford on a man named Johnson, employed on the Berko and Hants Railway at that town as a policeman. In consequence of the heavy snow storm the trains were greatly delayed, and while deceased was turning the points for a goods train he slipped and fell with his legs across the metals, and the wheels severed both legs just above the knees. The unfortunate man was earned to the Railway Tavern close by, but immediately expired. A verdict of ".accidental death" was returned. Deceased has been • steady servant of the company for a number of years, and be leaves a wife and family. At an early hour on Friday morning • goods train was passing from one line to another at the Abingdon Junction of the Great Western Railway, when • fast down goods train approached at con siderable speed, and dashed with great force into the crossing train. The engine was quite disabled, and ; several trucks were smashed to atoms, blocking up both lines. The traffic was, notwithstanding the exertions of a large stsff of railway labourers senously interrupted. Fortunately the driver and stoker e.caped unhurt. The I cold was moat trying on Thursday night and Friday, and at several puts of the county the thermometer registered two or three degrees below the freezing point. The Ken. I nett at Reading is frozen over, and frequented by boys , sliding and skating, and the extensive lake on the White knight's estate at Earley has been frequented by hundreds of skaters from all parts of the neighbourhood. In the eastern counties the weather continued extremely severe on Saturday. At Cambridge a special distribution of bread and coal is being made to meet the necessities of po th A e or. Guildford correspondent writes that there has been a complete break up in the weather. During the whole of Friday the frost continued with unabated intensity, and in the course of that night the greetest cold was expe rienced which has occurrtd in this neighbourhood since 1860. At the coldest period of Friday night, exposed thermometers in the town registered 10 deg., or '22 deg. below freezing point, whilst in the open country adjacent they marked 6 deg., or deg. below freezing point. On Saturday, at 11 o'clock, the thermometers in the town stood at 11 deg., and so severe was the frost that strong [TWOPENCE solutions of salt and water, confined in close apartments. r v e e s e di re li freezed. Towards evening the wi n d gra d ua lly round to the south-east, and the temperature became milder. In the night sleet followed by rain fell in considerable quantities. Yesterday the wind had got to the south, and the thaw bad been rapid and continuous, the melted snow streaming down the steep incline of the High-street in rivers scarcely fordable by pedestrians. Our Southampton correspondent, writing last evening, says:—" There is quite • change of temperature to-day. Early yesterday there was • slight change, the cold was not quite so intense as it had been for the last few days, but there came on afterwards • piercing south-easterly wind, which increased to • ga l e , accom p an i e d by snow, sleet, and rain in succession. Several vessels on the quay were in jeopardy, the Isle of Wight 'teenier* encountered fearful weather, and • report was brought here that • waterman was drowned off Portsmouth harbour ; a heavy sea capsized his boat, he clung to the bottom of the boat for a short period, when • sea washed him off, and he was not seen afterwards. A lull in the wind came on about 4 o'clock this morning. The rain has washed amity a peat portion of the snow, but there are symptoms of more herd weather, and the wind is shifting to the north-west. Immense flocks of wild ducks were met with in Southampton-water this morning, and which were grown quite tame through the coldness of the weather. Great numbers of wild fowl have also been met with at the pondi in the New Forest, which the birds frequent during high water, when the surrounding mud shores and beaches are covered. Such severe weather has scarcely ever been known so far south as this. On Thursday the thermometer touched 4 d egrees a b ove zero. Sledges have been seen in the streets, business has been almost suspended, and fires have been kept burning in the streets to thaw the water and gas pips'. There has been plenty of skating and sliding for men and boys, and =have crawled about the streets, slipping and sliding, in Arctic costume. Just as the change to such cold weather was coming on, curious cracking loud sounds were beard in the town and neighbourhood, and which are believed to arise from the contraction of woodwork in the roofs of houses. Such sounds were heard once before, and were considered very mysterious. Great damage has been done to house property through the great weight of snow on the roofs of houses, and from its falling off in ava lanches " On almost all the lines of railway the progress of the trains was greatly impeded by the large quantity of water which had flowed on to the rails in the cuttings from the melting mow, and is some places the depth of this water was so great as to paitielly extinguish the engine fi res. Snow fell heavily in Dublin on Saturday afternoon, followed by a thaw and rain. DESTRUCTION OF A PORTION OF THE PORT- LAND BREAKWATER. WEYMOUTH, SUNDAY, NOON. A furious gale, equalling that which occurred in the early part of oinery of last year for diasstrous re melts, has again visited the Rooth western portion of the coast. Although the hurricane of Saturday last was not so destructive on land as that of last year, at sea it was felt in all its fury From as early hour on Saturday morning the wind blew great guns from the south west, accompanied by one of the roughest and highest tides that pas been known since 1824, when in November the espla nade was partially destroyed, and three men drowned. The sea had been breaking over Portland Breakwater all the morning with great power, when at about three o'clock a portion of the staging which con nects the two portions together, and through which ships are destined to pass when the work is completed, was washed away, as was also a staging around the cir cular fort at the outermost end. About three hours after wards another portion succumbed to the strength of the storm, leaving only about two-thirds of the staging unin jured. In consequence of the heavy sea which at this time was raging, great fears were entertained that the lamp at the extreme end of the breakwater could not be lighted, as no communication now existed with it, by reason of the staging . being carried away. In such wea ther as prevailed during Saturday this would have been attended probably with the most serious consequences, as vessels would have been sure, if possible, to have made for Portland Roads, and with no light to guide them, it is only too likely that many would have struck on the breakwater and become total wrecks. In this trying extremity, however, Captain Ball, harbour-master of Portland, accompanied by a few brave fellows, risked their lives iu a Portland boat, and succeeded in effecting • communication and lighting the lamp. A light well known to mariners as the •• Jack in the Basket," situated at the entrance to Weymouth her ' boar, was also washed away and the coast strewn with por tions of timber from this structure and the breakwater. Considerable auxiety was felt for the safety of the ship ping outside as well as inside the breakwater. A large barque at its extreme end was Li great danger throughout the whole of Saturday, five of her crew having left her • week previously, and the captain being on shore en deavouring to get others. It was feared that she would drag her anchors and come ashore, but happily she contrived to weather the storm. In Weymouth harbour several vessels drifted from their moorings and sustained damage, including the schooners Harnbill and Humility. Amongst the small craft wore serious results occurred. A large wherry, belonging to Mr. Vertue, drifted from her anchorage, and was dashed to pieces, as was also a lighter belonging to Mr. Weirton!. in Weymoth Bay the sea broke over the esplanade, and several houses were inundated, whilst the violeuce of the wind was so great that many people were completely car ried off their feet. ho loos of life less fortunately occurred. At the time of our writing the wind has consi derably abated, blowing gently from the south-west, and Weymouth Sands are covered with persons maximal, look ing for any valuables which the ground sea might have cast on shore. The Commodore steanitug has been lying for the last 48 hours with lior steam up in readiness for any emergency. THE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND. On Saturday the intense frost still continued, and all the lochs in the neighbourhood of the city were much frequented by skaters during the day. The whole of Lochend, St. Margaret's, and the greater part of Dun 'apple is covered with ice in good condition. Only • narrow stripe of the eastern portion of Duddingsten Loch wag considered so far safe as to permit of skating. In the afternoon, a gentleman ventured on a portion of the loch, near the boat-house, to test its strengtii. He had not gone above two paces when he was quickly obliged to retrace his steps, the ice having split up in all directions with • roar resembling a peal of thunder. The streets of the city being encrusted with a glassy coating of ice, sleighs were driven thre.,;ll several of the thoroughfares of the New Town. The horses at tached to them were decorated with silver bells, and the occupants of the vehicles wrapped, Canadian-like, in furs, presented a sight seldom witnessed in this locality. The toe at the Royal Gymnasium was in remarkably good con dition, and the ponds were visited during the day by nearly 1,500 ladies and gentlemen. In the evening several enthusiastic devotees of the winter sport, determined to prolong this exhilarating exercise, continued by torchlight to flit like so many " Will o' the wisp." upon St. Marga ret's and Dunsappte till a late hour. Moat of the trains from the south were considerably behind time,the rails being in a very slippery condition. Through the breaking of the tire of a wheel of awargon at Dartmouth, b.'tween Berwick-on- Tweed and Ayton, a goods troth ran otf the line, blocking up the road for upwards of two hours. Five of the trucks were totally destroyed. The London express, due in Edin burgh at a quarter to eleven in the forenoon, did not srrivs at the Waverley-bridge Station till half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon. The fast train leaving Carlisle for Edinburgh at five minutes past two in the afternoon, and due here at twenty minutes to six o'clock, was an hour late, the engine having broken down near Oalashiels. The thermometer on the wall of a warn, building in town regis tered 24 deg. Fahr. None of the accounts from the north show a lower temperature than 21 deg. Keener frost has not been experienced since the Christina"; of 11400, when over the greater part of the country the thermometer fell several degrees below sera—Scotsman. Mn. East=er Jonas' Levrrns. —Mr. Ernest Jones on Friday night delivered in the Music-hall, to a crowded and well-satisfied audience, his reply to Professor ISlackic's argument against " Democracy," upheld in the seine place on the previous evening. Starting from the I ground that democracy " does not mein the rule of a clans but of a nation—cmbraces all, and tempers one class with another," Mr. Jones contended that former failures were no good argument against democratic institutions; and proceeded at great length to show, frau. the highest his torical authorities, that in Greene, Rome, France, Aus tralia, and America, "democracy had been the founder and the saviour of the people's greatness." He vindicated I the formation and defended the operation of trades unions ; traced to the influence of the people all the great humane and liberal measures of the last forty years ; demanded to know on what ground " this noble people " was shut out from the constituencies ; and charged Professor Blackie with having " invented a new crime- the crime of numbers." He went on to maintain that manhood suffrage met the very objections of the oppo nents of democracy, for it winnowed the chaff from the corn better than any other mode of qualification, and, above all, made sure of the good. He cited the purity of large constituencies like Birmingham and the Tower Ham lets in vindication of this view ; urged that immediate re form was needed to save the country from the fate of Rome and medieval France • and quoted the writings of Mt. Paul and of the Evangelis ts, against Plato and Aris totle, in support of his principle of the equality of all men in respect of political power. A vote of thanks to Mr. Jones was moved by Mr. Duncan M'Laren, M.P., who seized the occasion to say the only nasty thing that has been said during the controversy—winding up his speech by the rratmtously ungracious assertion that Mr. Jones had "completely refuted " his opponent.--Brotnisaa.