The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-27 00:00:00

and Mr. 808 Sswrst. nothing finer than this. author to his work, Mr. ROEBUCK has operation of the Act he has rivalled Mr. Lows in his eulogies of go vernment by small shopkeepers under the Act of 1832. But it now turns out that he his a higher opinion of the artisans than of the small shop keepers. Sheffield will henceforth be perhaps the most purely artisan constituency in the kingdom, since compounding is unknown there. We are glad to find Mr. ROEBUCK so well suited, and trust that the confidence will be reciprocal. Paget being in akten4enee epee ..., ; her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, aciompanled by Primes' Christian. Prince Arthur end Prism Obrisidea west oat Mooting in Parkhurst Forest to-day, attended by Colonel Ponsonby and Lieritenent Picard. ColonelJeffreys,C.B., and Identenant•Colonel Monorieff, had the honour of accompanying their royal highnesses. Prince Leopold walked out, attended by Er. w orth.Duckw The Right HOD. Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor Exchequer, left Osborne for London this morning. JAN. 26. The Queen drove out yerterday afternoon, aecompanied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, and the other members of the Royal Family walked in the grounds. Her Majesty, Prince and Prince's Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig•Holstein, attended Divine Service at Osborne this morning. The Rev. R. Duckworth officiated. The Ladies and Gentleman in Waiting were in attend -11006 Despatches; were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Cape of Good Hope, and to the Governor-General of Canada. A deputation, coediting of Sir James Elphinstone. Bart., Mr. °sled, Protests Rankin, Dr. Anderson, and Mr. F. N. Morales (representing the Highland Society), Professor Lyon Playfair, C. 8., and Professor John Wilson (from the Sonatas Academicals of the University of Edinburgh), Mr. G. Robertson (president of Royal Scottish Society of Arts), the Rev. W. H. Gray (vioe-preddent of School of Arts), and Dr. Stevenson heAdam (Scottish Chamber of Agriculture), bad an interview with Mr. G. Ward Hunt, M.P. (financial secretary to the Treasury), in Downing-street, on Saturday . , on the subject of the endow ment of the chair of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh. CAnnerr Council- —A cabinetcouncil isappointed to be held to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon, at three o'clock, at the Earl of Derby's official residence in Downing-street. THE EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART ♦T LEEDS. — Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to I communicate, through Sir John Cowell, to the executive committee of this undertaking, her intention of contribut ing a considerable number of pictures from the royal col lections, illustrative of the various schools, and other valuable works of art from Windsor Castle. The Chancellor of the Exchequer passed through Southampton on Saturday, on his way from Osborne. The Marquis of Bute has resumed his studies at Christ Church, Oxford. The Duke of Devonshire has during the last fort night entertained a sucrose/on of visitors at Hoiker Hall, near Milnethorpe. Lord Ruthven, the Hon. Ronald Leslie Melville, and Captain Clerk have left town for a tour in the East. Lord Lyttelton and his second son, the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, left England early in December, for New Zealand, having gone there for the purpose of supervising the family property in that colony. The property was bequeathed, we believe, by the late Lord Spencer to the second son of Lord Lyttelton. His lordship is expected to ' return to England in the course of the month of May. rushing, and where bullets Who can be surprised at this when we find a cele brated preacher, Father Hyacinthe, thus apostro phising the sword in the church of Notre-Dame : Give as, Almighty Lard, on fields of battle that faith which we received on the field of battle—that faith of Tolbise width has oonetitated our grandeur, and which it is sought to tab away from ne. Let the blood of our young sum, too precious to be wasted in idleness—to be corrupted in the pleasures of an unworthy pesos—be poured out in war. Out from thy scabbard, sword of the Lord—Goditcs Domini d Gideonie—Out and do thy work : do it quickly and do it well. 4* ... i B *s:_yr it , oNpif ‘ ,.1 :, • D , 71 : ANUAR . t '', 4 • es landlady wall productt 2, • t . rt. . .. - LA 1:, i MN .. 1 his. But,•tursigi Eton the. / 4 I', , - .:• As 3 .4. 25 ' • t ' HYADDIFfiIIi "OF THE SWORD. - The armament mania, says the &irk, has Stakes ' into which soldiers are we we glad to fad that . ""-- Queen drove out Y ••-•—ra seized confidence in the future ....... „ I .ee wawa chlwan, prim.. .01 i of 1867. Until lately , rr7.1.1,46, a lislieswig.lleistida, Lard Lind even the Roman_ are . . . ir. las in his eulogies of go - p.,,,,i b o w s in asiesdane• upon bombs& ;. sad I,er . =thin, and _ wham ...L. , _h i. es,; te . _1,..,.. in lards alweele. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. MR.. ROEBUCK has never more than one subject. He calls it politics, but it is really himself. Speaking on Friday to a trading corporation, he stated that as everything which affects the minutest portion of human existence has an effect upon commerce, so almost any subject might be brought within the programme of commercial transactions. This excuse might have prefaced a lecture on the novels of Sir WALTER Seorr, the origin of species, or the differential calculus. " All " things, by a law Divine, in one another's " being mingle ;" and everything is influenced by everything else. Whatever topic Mr. Roenuce might have selected in virtue of this comprehensive principle of association, we know how it would have ended—in Mr. Rozarre. But the need of these methods of approaching his great theme is not obvious. If the smallest thing which affects the minutest portion of human existence has an effect upon commerce, Mr. ROEBUCK is not wholly without influence on commerce. Mr. Itoimuce on Himself would have been a topic sublime in its simplicity. Ho modestly pre ferred, however, to call his subject politics. The difference is ono of words, and not of things. Politics, to the member for Sheffield, means Mr. ROEBUCK. There has been much dispute as to the real author of the Reform Act of last session. The rival claims of Mr. DISRAELI, Mr. GLADSTONE, and Mr. Bitteirr have been warmly set forth. Even Mr. BKALEs has not wanted backers. Mr. Roe- Duce brings forward a new candidate for this dis tinction. It is, of PRIMO, Mr. Ro►aaru:K. When the present Government came into office the member for Sheffield determined on his course. " I made a resolution to myself, having got Lord " Deaur once again into power, that I would, if " possible, screw out of him a real Reform of " Parliament." Everyone knows the result. Mr. Roenrce has published, though the world bas for gotten the fact, a " History of the Whig Mi• " nistry of 1830," in which he professes to give the secret history of the Reform Act of 1832, distinguishing its real from its putative author, disclosing who made and who marred it, bringing to light this man's jealousy and that man's patriotism, in a very circumstantial narrative, which lacks no element of value and interest but evidence and probability. His speech at Sheffield contains the outlines of a history of the Act of 1867. Its author, as we have seen, was Mr. Itozeuee. Its first conception was in his fixed resolve to screw a real Reform out of Lord Dauer. The gestation was long and the delivery painful ; but there was its beginning. Mr. Roenuee'sl retrospect aloes nut commence here. The reason of the failure of the previous measure of 1866 is slightly adverted to by him. H we are to judge from some enigmatic hints, the secret in trigues of the PRIME MINISTER against his own colleagues were the real cause of the mis carriage. Lord PALMERSTON died "without " carrying a Reform Bill "—Mr. ROEDUIIi having neglected to make a resolution to screw one out of him—" leaving the Government to " Lord RUSSELL and his coadjutor, Mr. GLAD " arose. The moment they came into power " Mr. GLADSTONE proposed a Reform Bill. That, " sir, was too great a thing for Lord RUSSELL " ever to forget and forgive ; but I will not " say forgive." Mr. ROEBUCK, having thrown out this dark hint, breaks off. He refuses to complete his revelation. Did Lord RUSSELL desire, bursting through the trammels of the Peerage, to come down to the House of Com mons and propose the Reform Bill himself Was Mr. Lowe acting at his instigation and under his instruction in the celebrated negotia tions with the Tory Opposition which, backed by the want of temper which Mr. Ramiro: deplores in Mr. GLADSTONE, ended in the with drawal at once of the measure and of the Ministry? Tho opposing forces must have been strong, since Mr. ROEBUCK'S " steady support" of Mr. GLAD STONE was unable to overcome them ; just as in 1859, to quote his modest confession, "I was " unequal to the work of keeping Lord DERBY in " power." The graceful humility of these acknow ledgments will imprimis every one. Even Mr. Rozeree is not politically omnipotent. The per versity of human nature and the violence of fac tion are sometimes too much for him. But the achievement of last year remains. The " resole " tion" which Mr. Itoeeues " made to himself " did what the thirteen resolutions which Mr. DISRAELI proposed to the House of Commons were unable to effect. Like all great men, how ever, Mr. ROEBUCK hiss had experience of popular ingratitude. His conduct last session was received " with a yell of disapprobation," which Mr. ROE BUCK rebukes in a burst of dignified moral do quence which we cannot refrain from quoting : I was lectured—oh, dear ! one would have fancied that I had been a child—(laughter)--to be taught by everybody who wielded a pen, whether in a provincial newspaper or elsewhere. (Laughter.) Oh, I was to be treated as a child, and it was thought that I did not know my duty. It was said to me that I was opposing my friends, that I was giving great offence, that I did not know what I was doing. Oh, dear! poor creatures. (Laughter.) Having passed so long a life in public business, I did not know what I was doing. Time went on, and I was celled epee to resign my seat by certain people in this town calling themselves reformers. Oh, wretched people, to teach oe ! (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) In sarcastic and ejaculatory eloquence the com bined powers of Mias Mum, Mrs. MAcSTINOER, (THIS DAY.) THE CONDITION OF RAILWAY PROPIRTY. The dejected condition of the railway property of the United Kingdom is the subject of an elaborate article in the Daily News. It is pointed out that our rail way stocks, next to the public funds, have been the great reserve of the community, and that the serious aspect of what we are now passing through is that it is not • crisis but • state of things arising from a gradual extension of vices in railway practice. Warning the public against mere mechanical and fantastic remedies, the Daily News urges that the only security for reform is in the intelligence and vigilance of proprietors. The closing of the capital account, which is just now the great panacea, in the sense of putting a atop to the practice of di rectors in resorting to that account for the purposes of di vidend, is one of the first necessities. Boat closing the capital account in • literal and absolute sense is im practicable as applied to every line. Oar present system, honestly worked, is sufficient to protect the integrity of capital, and secure the payment of dividend, provided only those mistakes of policy which are above and beyond systems, and depend on the wisdom or weakness of share holders, be avoided. In this matter of capital and revenue, it is a radical reform of our practice, not the revolu tionising of our system, that u wanted. The Daily Neira expresses its astonishment at the audacity of the Caledonian board in re-printing Sir C. Wood's despatch on Indian railways, in which their own practices are so plainly condemned. It is as though The ' Artful, taken before Sir Robert Carden for filching a handkerchief, were to produce, not • copy of " Prondhon," but a pocket Bible, and read out the Eighth Command- ment. Describing the defence of the directors of the Cale donian Railway, the Times asks bow it is possible that railway accounts can be satisfactorily kept or railway pro. party adequately protected under conditions like theme ? If money is to be continually borrowed, and if the revenue of the future is to be continually charged with the interest of these successive loans, who is to tell what the revenue of the future will be, or what the value of a share entitling its proprietor to a dividend from that revenue? If railway proprietors in whose hands the case now re mains take in any one year more profit than has been earned in the shape of dividend, the excess, they may be certain, will be set down againit them in the value of their shares. MR. IROTBUCK. The hon. member for Sheffield and his late irpoech are referred to by several of the journals. The comments of the Tines are such as the hon. member would consider complimentary. He is described as one of a class always popular amongst Englishmen. With out being precisely • humouriat in the old-fashioned sense of the word, he is yet full of those sharp turns and sudden eccentricities of expression which betoken • pecu liar and original individuality. He is, before and above all things—himself. He teats on no man's authority ; be quotes no man's words ; he is never known jurarc in verbs magistri. What he has to say may be accurate or inac curate, true or false, but it is his own. As to his remarks on Ireland. however, the Times differs from him so far as to doubt whether some modification of the existing law might not help for ward the improvement of the sister Wand. The Herald, after praising Mr. Roebuck, also expresses the opinion that on the subject of Ireland the hon. mem ber goes too far in assuming that there is no scope for immediate legislation. The government is iu advance of Mr. Roebuck in this matter. He flatly declines to yield an inch, while Lord Stanley admits that the principle of granting compensation to tenants has certain claims to consideration, provided it is not pushed to the irrational demand that land tenants shall be converted into owners by an of parliament. It would be neither generous nor wise to meet any reasonable proposition■ which may be brought forward in behalf of Ireland with the blunt rebuff indicated in the language of Mr. Roebuck. A refusal may be inevitable, but at least we can afford to listen to • request before rejecting it. Once upon a time, says the Star, the name of Mr. Roe buck was placed high on the list of radical reformer'. His energy, his intrepidity, his caustic eloquence, secured for the impracticable politician who now represents Shot field a foremost position in a House of Commons still thrilling with the new political life bestowed by the first Reform 11111. But, like some statesmen more renowned than be could ever have hoped to become, Mr. Roebuck was cursed with a temper which practically ostracised him in public affairs. His tetchy humour and arrogant bear ing offended whigs and tories alike, and kept him aloof from the independent politicians who followed Mr. Cobden. So it came to pass that a great talent for business and foe debate was buried away in the egotistic bitterness of a disappointed ambition. For some years, therefore, Mr. Roebuck's annual addresses to his constituents at Sheffield have excited no stronger feeling amongst the liberals, against whom he thin periodically raves, than a pismire contempt. zinninum AT THE UST MM. The Standard discusses the proceedings at the meeting of masters and men held in the Burdett-hall, Limehouse, on Saturday. The question, it says, is coining to an issue. The band of benevolence has been stretched out to help the shipwrights and others who have been unable to find work. It now rests with the working men of Millwall—at least so far as a large number of them are concerned—to help themselves. Work is offered to them, work at their own trade, but at reduced prime ; and if they wish for employment they must consent to such terms as will yield • profitable balance to their em ployer. What those terms are has bean pretty clearly shown by Mr. Bullivant, wbo, after asking in vain for the men to give him a price, gave one himself. If the men agree to the proposal, one if not two iron ships, of a thou sand tons each, will be forthwith commenced. Mr. Bulli vont offers to pay at the rate of W. per ton upon the weight of the finished iron work, audit is understood that the present rate of payment is W. per ton, so that the re- ' auction is not a very alarming affair. The great practical result of the meeting was the appointment of a conunittee of workmen to confer with the employers. This code renal, it may be hoped, will remove false impressions and end the difficulties of the case. The revival of the ship building industry of the Thames would be an enormous advantage, and would remedy the distress where it has been the keenest. The public will watch the progress of this question with peculiar interest. Drs. Norman Macleod and Watson arrived in Madras on the 21st of December, on their tour of inspec tion of the Scotch Mission in Indi► On the morning of the following day Dr. Watson, and in the evening Dr. Macleod, preached at St. Andrew's Church in aid of the funds of the Church of Scotland Indian Misrion. Mr. JohnStuartMill,M.P., rector of St. Andrews University, has appointed Andrew Findlater, LLD.. his assessor in the University Court, in room of the late Dr. Clerk, of Glasgow. The Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., has in timated his intention of addressing his oonstitnents at Ashtoneuider.Lyne next Tuesday evening. HEALTH OF THE EARL or Di/MT.—We have pleasure in being able to state that, from inquiries made on Saturday afternoon, the Premier, who during the past week has been suffering from an acute attack of his old enemy, the gout, is now rapidly recovering. The attack was so severe that the noble sari was confined to his bed the whole of last week ; but be was so far recovered an Saturday as tc be able to walk about his room, and hie present essmdesesst state Weems Ike hope and e x pects. him that he will be able to leave Knowsley for London in the coons of a week or ten days, in order to melds at tbe Cabinet Conseil. of the sitaistry, which are aow beginning to be held—Livered CzYsTm. PeLecz.—The holiday amusements will be continued daily this and oast week, except es astsudsys. THE BISHOPRIC OF NATAL. it appears that Accrington, in Lancashire, of which place the Rev. W. K. Macrorie is rector, is the spot originally selected for the consecration of the rev. gentle man. Mr. Macrorie, who is in London, has sent to a local paper at Accrington a copy of a letter ad dressed by him to a friend who seems to have protested against his acceptance of the bishopric. Mr. Macrorie contends that Dr. Colenso has been deposed by the only court which had authority to depose him, namely, the Court of the Metropolitan, by which he has been spiritually sentenced. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is a tribunal which has never possessed the confidenoe of churchmen ; it has ruled, how ever, that in South Africa the church is in the position of • voluntary association. The notion about St. Helena was absurd. "Surely," says, Mr. Macrorie, " if the writer ever meant it for any more than • good joke, he must have taken us for a very stupid I set of people to think of giving ourselves the trouble of going out to St. Helena, when, supposing there was • dial difficulty about holding the consecration in England, we could go comfortably down to Scotland, and there act without the slightest rink of violating the law." He is not lat all afraid that the crown would appoint, when Bishop Coleneo's office " really," to use his correspondent's ex- I pression, " becomes vacant." In conclusion, the rev. gentleman tells his friend that should he now I avail himself of the lotus penitentier, be will ask from I him, as a proof of the genuineness of his convictions, a small annual contribution towards the fund for carrying on the good work in the diocese which he (Mr. Maororie) must endeavour to raise before his departure in the scam ' mer. Mr. Macrorie appends the following postoript :— ' One word respecting the Bishop of London's attitude towards the Natal question. It should be borne in mind that Dean Stanley, the avowed apologist for Dr. Colenso and his views, has been for the last 20 years the Bishop of London's intimate personal friend and theological ally. These are the words, just published, of the bishop's friend and (till lately) examining chaplain The doctrines of the Bishop of Natal are such as the universal church has never condemned; such as within the church of England are by law allowed.' As regards the bishop's hasty judgment of his brother bishop's intentions, I may say that the Bishop of Capetown assured me that he never would perform a service in any diocese without the entire concurrence of its bishop." The Metropolitan Bishop of South Africa, Dr. Gray, in a sermon preached in the church of St. David, Exeter, yesterday morning, referred in the following terms to the Bishop of Natal, and the proposed appointment of another bishop in the place of Dr. Colenso:—" I will not dwell, my brethren, upon this subject at any length to-day, and it will not be exported that I should dwell upon • m►tter that is still under discussion ; but this only will I s►y, that the bishops of Africa will take no step without con sultation with the primate of the church of England, and that whatever course they pursue will be in hearty concurrence with his wishes, and in entire accordance with his instructions. But I doubt whether the church in this land feels bow great a hindrance to the truth and how great a danger and scandal exist in that land, as well as in the church at home, because he who went forth to prowl Christ's truth and Gospel now de clares that the Holy Scriptures, which are the record of God's revelations to man, do not contain an unerring re cord of His truth, end do not contain, even upon faith and morals that which we are all required to adhere to, and asserts that our blessed Lord knew no mere than an intelligent Jew of his own age and period—that He was, in fact, ignorant—that it has been reserved to • critic of this nineteenth century to point out the blunders of his ignorant Lord, and that He whom all the angels wor shipped is not a fit object for our adoration. Them things, day by day, are being taught in the name sad with the claimed authority of the church of England, and we in that land feel that it compromises us, and comms mises you, and that if we tolerate such teaching we are unfaithful to the Lord, we are untrue to Him, or betray His cause, and we shakes Hie blessing." AERONAUTICAL EZHIBITION.—The council of the Aeronautical Society have decided upon bolding an exhibi tion in London of objects connected with aeronautical science in the month of June. Arrangements have been made for the exhibition to be bald at the Crystal Palace. DEVER OF AN EMINENT AOILICULTIIRIBT.—Mr. John Grey, of Upwood House, near Haydon-bridge, Northumberland,better known in the agricultural world as John Grey, of Clinton, died somewhat suddenly at his reddens* on Wedneeday, at the venerable age of 83. Mr. Grey had boon failing in health some time, but his death was redden. His last . Frenee in public. was ea Tues day week. when he at the manual dinette of the Hexbant Farneers' . On Wednesday wag last Mr. Grey was descending the stairs to his si when be beams faint, and eat down upon the stain, died shortly afterwards, almost before be could be re moved to Ids room. Mr. Grey's name will be always usesising with the dscelninnent of agricultural sainnse Ls the nstiltsrs mattes. PARIS EXHIBITION FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL, 1+67 JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy wdsbt, at realisable value, sad ths workinanthip at wholesale raanufacturers pricea The In the dull" VW rsateed, and repurchased at the price charged. •• Here's the note, How much your chain weighs to the utmost eared, The deems, of the gold, and charge for fashion." fleAuwirgAlL llanutaettey, 16, Henrietta street, Oorershgarden. 'Ando& REAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. Vie eniversO. TO CORRESPONDENTS. dayselmarado Mended for Imrom Undo!, Zyentod mad be M the OM% IS, UayiebraDem. by TWO as Me day at podillallsa. akyitAwer. Tata STZNIIII(1, THE EIROILIN-111ARTED CLITH—A WIFE WELL WON. llama &Warn, EEOEEN•BIA e ~a Rowe, Kendal, Ream, Braid. Weathersby, de.: and )Dr Robartaon.—After wbtsh AN UTTER PERNERDION 01 , THE BRIGAND. nuns bB'B Ting Erizinn, THE COLLEEV BANN. Er. and Mra. Dine Dewclawlt—alter which HS STRS6I3 01 1 LONDON. Mr. Tieing, Marra Murray. Sho T re, Neville. Vorreater, maim, Ac. . Mimes Shworthy, R. Barnett, Rachel Ringer, and urn Addle. STRAND. Me Matto, OLD BALT. Mr. Emery end Miss Nell, Moore. .—Jitter which THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. Mesas. Thorne and James ; itentarose Ada Seenborough, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, to.—And COAL AND COKE. HOLBORN. I d eslrcurso, THR FLYING SCUD. Mews. Atkins, Mee, Garden. Arthur, Wettlaud, sod Wilmott Madames Henrwle, cicada'', Lennox an.l Saunderu—Couclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. `!ldled. Montero, LitUe Rowena, !c.c. BRITANNIA. THN IMMIX DON QUIXOTE OR, SANCHO PANZA AND HIS tt TERRZA. ilra Lane, *Mires Igdwin& Roan , Pan tomimist' Mews. Deane, Louts, A me nd W HO Victorelti: C. Stephan and Miss Rose Nathan.—And WHO DID IT? MOH WATII AT LONDON BETOOK TIM DAT —Morning, 501 a WO-101150W—Itarnieir. 40. 160—..—Aftwn0ct1, 4b. MAL LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 27. RUSSIAN MANCEUVRES. Whilst the news comes from St. Petersburg that I all the journals there speak in favour of the mainte nance of peace, the Pro/iamblatt of Vienna asserts, in a correspondence from Bucharest, that a Bulgarian insurrection, organised by Russia, will break out in a short time. "The Russo-Bulgarian Commit tee," it says, "is openly working here, and its sub-oommitteas are actively engaged in stimu lating the people to revolt. Arms and munitions are provided and are ready for distribution in Ismail, Galatz, Braila, Giurgevo, Kalafat, and Turn-Severin. The leaders are prepared and are only waiting for the signal to take their places." EXCITEMENT IN PRAGUE. On the occasion of the banquet given on the 21st inst. at Prague to Herr Herbst, one of the new Austrian ministers, there was a manifestation on the part of the Czech portion of the inhabitants. The German theatre and other buildings were attacked with stones and the windows were broken. Four infantry battalions and a regiment of cavalry were called in to preserve the peace. Several citizens are said to have been wounded. ITALY. The correspondent of the Temps writes as follows : The nomination of Guard* to the poet of Minister of the King's Household hen exasperated the opposition. The Dintto, which called the appointment a " challengegiven by the King to the Chamber, has been seized, and now the whole " Left" are crying out in the language of that journal, e Imo elda. Niootera repeated the words in the hail of the Two Hundred, and added some sharp str:atures on him and his supporters. General Ansanti took notice of the words used, and the dispute became so angry that he raised his hand to strike Niootera. A duel with swords took place next morning. The King is very angry, and the "Left" very excited. The moderates, the conenrti.sti, wearied, exasperated, and persuaded of the impartibility of any good issue, know not whom to look to. CHINA AND JAPAN. The Over/and China Mail of December 14 says : The Hon. Anson Burlingame, late United States Minister for China, has been appointed Ambassador for China to the European Courts and the United States. Mr. J. Mel. Drown is appointed secretary and Mr. Deschamps, inter preter. Two mandarins of high rank and a staff of 24 Chinese acoompany them. Mr. Burlingame was detained between Peking and Tientsin by the approach of bands of rebels near Ho-shi-we*. Assistance was sent, and he reached Tientsin in safety. At the fearful explosion which took place near Hankow, at Wuohang,various accounts estimate the loss of life (Chi. ness) at 800, 1,000, and 2,000. The destruction of pro perty was moat fearful, and it is believed unparalleled in the annals of similar aooidente. Some French officers at Ilankow having been mobbed ant iU-treated by the native*, • naval force was landed and reprisals made. This act was at first condemned by the majority of the Chinese press, but subsequent explanations fully justify it. The residence of Mr. Forrest, H.B.M. Vioe-C,onsul, Swatow, was attacked by a numerous band of robbers on the lit December. They were fortunately repulsed. Revenge, and not plunder, is said to have been their ob- ject. It is reported that two of the Europeans who were on board the General Sherman, when she was taken by the Coreans, are still alive. The information is not certain ; but measures will be at once taken to sift it. Mr. Cooper who started on an overland journey to India has returns& to Shanghai, having missed tho companions who were to 'tramway him. The rising in the neighbourhood of Peking is confirmed. Hunger was the exciting cause. Admiral Keppel was at Shanghai when the mail left, and was to leave in a few days for Japan. The late misfortunes of the imperial arms in Shantung have affected the confidence of the merchants, and the trade in silk piece goods has been particularly dull. The Imperial troops under the Fantai, or treasurer of Shantung, are stated to have sustained a severe defeat at the hands of the Nienfed, neir Yih Chow Foo, in the southern part of Shantung, with the loss of many men killed and taken, and of moat of their guns and baggage. A brash with pirates took place on the Ist Deceniber by the Chinese gunboat Feiloong, Captain Edwards, sedated by several imperial junks. The pirates were de- I hated. JAPAN. A few lines of Japanese news appear in the China Mail of Dec. 14 : The abdication of Stotabuhi is confirmed by each of the Japanams papers, the foreign representatives having been officially notified of It The Mikado is now the sole ruler of the country as regards foreigners. An assembly of Damian has been ordered by the Mikado to deliberate on the government of the empire. The present mail is said to carry a manifest from the Japanese government to the European governments re specting political affairs in Japan. The opening of liesgato, Hiogo, and Osaka will, accord ing to an official notification by the foreign minister, be delayed until lst April, 1868. Although matters are reported as "pacific," it has been judged wise to be prepared for emergency, and orders have been forwarded to Hong-Kong to complete the stores of ammunition, kr., for the troops at Yokohama. The Chinese at Yokohama have commenced br"2l-- " home" for destitute Chinese. Sir Harry Parkes and M. Leon Roches were at Yedo when the mail Wt. The large hotel for foreigners at Tads is to be opened on theist January, 1868. Mnevean versoeam.) 31. MAGRI'S FINANCIAL STATEMSNT. PARIS, JAN. 27. The Munifeur of this morning publishes M. Magna's report upon the financial condition of France. According to this statement, on tho Ist December, 1867, the floating debt amounted to 936 million francs. In consequence of events be yond control the receipts of the budget of 1867 show a deficit of 26 millions as compared with the estimates. Adding to this the extraordinary credit voted by the Corps I4gislatif on the 31st May, 1867, of 158 millions, and the cost of the expedition to Rome, there is • total of 189 millions of francs necessary to cover the outlay for 1867. The report declares various augmentations of expense which will be felt by the budget& of 1868 and 1869, and concludes that sup plementary resources to the amount of 82,000,000 of francs will be required to be shared between those two years. The report points out that it is necessary to reform the war material and the fleet in the intermit of the defence of the oeuntry and of the national honour. Frocnreportssubmitted to the Ministries of War and Marine • sum of 187,000,000 fr. ought to be (tweeted to that object. It would, however, be illusory to suppose that these resources would suffice to tom ma requirement, but relative to the vale materiel every ementiat'would be therewith' WC ilee oeized - ars 486 et lees impedance would be com in proportion to the annual resources. Irks report Co.siodas by proposing a loan of 440 *lions of francs,wltich would meet all exigencies. The finds in the army dotation chest are not disposable. The loan will be negotiated by public subscription. The report proposes to divide the monthly payments of the loan into twenty instal ments. THE SWISS CONSTITUTION. BERNE, SAL 27. A popular vote was taken yesterday in they canton of Zurich upon the question of revision of the constitution. The revision by the constitu tional council was decided upon by 47,776 votes to 10,057. AMERICA. The North German Lloyd's steamship America, from New York on the 15th inst., arrived at South ampton this morning with 115 paasengers for that port, Havre, and Bremen, and 422 sacks of mails. She brings 41,261 dole. in specie for England, and 50,700 dole. for France. (Ault's.' of the America, via Southampton.) NEW YORK, JAN. 15, Norm Mr. Stanton has not yet issued any official orders. It is reported that Mr. MacauHoch has ordered his department to hold no official communication with Mr. Stanton until his status is determined. Generals Grant and Sherman had a long inter view with President Johnson yesterday. It is said that they have been urging Mr. Stanton to resign. The Georgian Convention has proposed to Gene ral Meade to ask Congress to make an appropria tion, in order to defray the expenses of the Convention. General Scott, of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, has announced that government rations will be issued to the destitute, excluding those who plant cotton exclusively. The Republican State Convention in Connecti cut has unanimously adopted a resolution in favour of General Grant for the Presidency. The cholera on board the Hamburg ship Leibnitz is abating. The New York papers publish intelligence from Vera Cruz, stating that Father Fischer, tho con fessor of the late Emperor Maximilian, has sailed from that port for Europe. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE TEN CONVICTED NEWSPAPERS. EXTRAORDINARY JUDGMENT. (nom OUR OWN CORRIMPONDINT.) PARIS, SATURDAY EVENINO. All the journals prosecuted for parasitical " re ports " of the debates in the Corps Legislat i f were found guilty to-day by President Delesveux, and sentence) to fines of I,ooof. each. The Emperor has returned from Compil3gne. The two days battue by himself and party produced a bag of 908 head of game. M. Emile 011ivier has had a fall, the consequences of which, though not serious, will keep him away from the Corps Legislatif for some days. The Bourse remains in a state of equilibrium. The Rente recovered at one moment to 68.40, and closed at 68.30, the fall of the last two days being maintained. There is scarcely a fractional change in other securities. ... --- PARIS, Susnsr Er r sirm. Or le,":"" "' "•••- --- e --- • - h . • .- The text of the ten judgments pronounced by tcl,l - l'o.",177:„, Thew l i lincli t ed"„riml a !f t: 74 , President Delesvaux against the pteis for reports considerable difficulty reamed the crew of five men v end i " other " than the o ffi cial report of the debates in :ToZghotiftathelidnrenftellyrr hatartuontoTthheelabi"gtbltr. s it i the Corps Legislatif is published by the legal m any years past we have nal experienced such a bun journals. The doctrine of the court far transcends wind and sea as these. the most extravagant theory, nay, the wildest cari cature that was ever yet ventured upon in the way The Ipswich lifeboat, at Thorpenees, Suffolk ; theHenty of interpretation of the legislation of 1852. The Nixon No. 9 lifeboat, at Abergile, near Rhyl the correctional judge overrules all the observations of Sari of Cairick lifeboat, et Girvan. N. 8., also went wet dereuriwnsg of v heigbt s i ointhtelittesstbarte=r seaalifrvitucewerthe notthe President Troplong, President do Horny, and the ultimately called into requisition, ea in each before COM the c reel ministerial circulars from wh ich the prima h a d could reach had been got ashore by other means these boats them. concluded that, although no line was drawn w ith sufficient precision, they might safe l y `"-r-'" - ' --.-- ' --.... - ---- WRATH= RZPORT.-(THIS DAY.) allude to the debates for the purpose of criticism if they at the same time published 1104424,T d ai ±l Y —....---..' "A111. .. the official reports, and abstained from giving B T. W. l if to glinln‘ .4. W. It rt. " reports" of their own which might enter into is it. v. : 1 3 competition with them. President Delesvaux's -- - ---.-- - ---- - -17 r judgment must render it henceforth impossible for S kZ u de.i; 7. ein f t . : a w .ir. I I le VW. e : lots: Ii 3 the press to exercise the right which it is ironically Leith .150.921 40 iiW. 3 2 W. I , I Ardrolaln..l:4 tato &W. 2 3 N.N.W. ; r C. 4.,, 2 , told it possesses to criticise the speeches. The ersenesatie.l . 1:4 to 1.- - - - - I -1" 1 judge lays it down in the course of his ten judg- Yl i i , v ent l r 1.7 .7. - . : : = 1 - _1 moots that the papers must not " lay before their t nspent 'ebe'srt:rit t ir, sax 4 I,' 14 4 / . . I c ' r 0 ~,.;,' f ✓ readersa summary in chronological order o f the ff.:Obeid ssiorka 8.4. W. is 8 I 14. W. er U 11 , 3 1, debates of several consecutive days, the matters P urost . "1". :: 16 .1 4 44 1 1 7 1 It 4 2 I N.Z.W. C. IZ 1 i '.. treated of, and the impression produced upon the Lun soc t;i:l l Bo ;,,ji N.E. - ' 3 ', 1 ~,/. I I. __ i ; chamber by the speeches ;" must not say that " a ilymouth '3o.4lr:Sa Z. 51N. ; er 10.01 1 a part of hi. Gressier's speech produced a considerable ryolo o ll Levi ir t 9 74. i. is N. leoi—• 3 4 . N. iem 1— 1 t sensation, was frequently interrupted, and ulti- T lA:de n u ais . : rig r it w. nv . t 1 l ' i li. W. ::,.1.7 ' - ..t * mately induced M. Rouher to break silence ;" must Scareorongn `Our s las W.&W. • N.W. len I 2 N.W. I ,r . - 3 a not " review in a general way the matters treated it i a :: n ' "1 : 1 0 1 &W. er of in a particular sitting, the amendments brought sni_twls• •• • so ave 1. 4 avt.,., - , -1,,: -- - A forward, and the fate of those amendments ; " must r ants - 1 e - I ' 0 not'` give a picture of the physiognomy of a sitting 11.."7,.. eon 1 : 0 ::: e . 311 N. I ; T, 1 - e. I 'I; 0 oi!; to and say, suddenly the curtain fell upon the cloture Barennater corrected and reduced to 33 deg. at sea levet The that the debate was letters r trlabig„ f Inning), s (stead),. indicate directiou r ~ being voted ;" must not " say within loggia boars. Thermometer award animated ;" must not " reproduce textually two In s hads. thal=4,.,„,,tb Its direction daring last 24 hoard d- passages from a speech of M. Jules Simon ;" mast f---1 0 - tI Weather ; bar r ; ci,74 l 7 as ‘ . d!"21: 1 „ ; ,,Ii; be not " &nape a speech of M. Greasier, mention and ZU); r -rain ; a-snow ; • -thunder. SAM tall, Wall it describe an incident, and analyse a reply of M. /I'4l ;m alted' . during last 24 11 E h ri k Kr disturbance. I I Rouher ;" and must not " describe the impression The change of barometrical pre ssure sl ue` u .. c n c i li n tu i rdalhs . : , l• k ell r he produced upon the Chamber by speeches of Baron r: increase of i l l iti ; sueh in V I boani e . This mornalyng preome Jerome David and M. Magnin." has began to fan ain very rapidly in the lame district. It is everywhere much hieer thin on hatunlay. but the lama. .Ii a The best thing that the ten journals sentenced the he otane mince yestenlav ha s been most 1.1 ,4 each to I,ooofr. fine for the offences above de- i t ui f s re sh doitinrbatreeDosTresiot: be t e r r 'ep,'"o l th u o. l i o?gt:Nt: de scribed can now do, and what I rather think they much higher than it w:Lyeste:4-sl. wel l .` eeett , ;: f ee n ‘ , l l l l .. o -"A will do, is to ignore the debates in the Chambers winds ctewntiertalcast arsine. p reval ence The lthe Irish channel Our ad t. altogether. They may easily fill their columns Is g .'"'"rmlt h l Y tared, rata °"" ii l i t . t'r a ,`V,T h r a u lT, * l,l7„l * with more interesting matter. The public does __-_-r- - - ----____ not, and will not, read the dreary reports in the Monitenr. The independent press makes a sacrifice arclian has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire Lord Egerton of Totten, says the Mancheste . in reprinting them. As any intelligent review and in the . of Lord Westminster, who Las retired front ti. analysis is now prohibited, the papers could not do the office. of a more effectual work of opposition than by Count de Montalembert is once more able to to -Ist letting the debates alone for a time. There would - sums his pen. In en article in the Corresponcisst he to be nothing seditious in this. They are not bound 1 gives a biographical sketch of one of the most eminent be- to print them at present, although there is no lof Polish patriots, Count Ladisles Zamoyski, who laud/ 367 knowing what ne w obli g ations may be imposed by I died in Pads. the reactionary amendments to the Press Bill, the I An interesting gathering of Australian colonists dig debate on which begins to-morrow. A part of the 1 no Bo th w in England toool the k pleozoonßSa. turdszttotlemceelnetbra:Ai: ay, space left vacant by the omission of the debates I triwift : ti v r a g . win. K. Z .8., in the chair. yho the might be usefully and safely occupied by judicious I p ri n cipal weaken were the c hairman, the Duke of suct of selections from speeches in panmateria during the Meters, Mr. Cony, M.P., Sir C. Nioholson, Sc. The it ver restoration and the reign of Louis Philippe, and oresae of the wealth and population of this important PA ono in quotations under the head of liberty of the preen, l of the BMWs empire ; its loyalty, es pat displayed: the from the works of Napoleon 111. Some effectual 1 its enthusiastie reception of Prince Alfred ;and the midis up- mode of opposition, 1 have no doubt, the papers 1 :Z n in an wh a i t ed " al7:adrallWae .o it ro l n e d th ih e e P m e o t t ri h o er ticil d, 000 will hit upon. In the present temper of the times, I 1 to whiehyliopstralinand New Zealand contributed 170,000., ern the success-the overwhelming and unlooked-for 0 ,,,„ the lewd * topics of the eloquence of the "i te m tis success of M. Pinard's prosecution-must be most I Ormolu) CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AIISTHA 2I . O the embarrassing to the government. ' Mule.-611111ALTal, JAN. 26.-The Ceylon from SOU* dry General Gemean, senator, formerly commander , arapton, 25th inst., arrived at 10 p.m. yesterday. 2 10 lied in it of the army of occupation of Rome, has sirseristmsi tamißs weather in the Bay of Bilegio tat Icd knit died at the age of seventy-eight. He was a , inju red, beets: deck_ swept, bulwarks , bridge. and post ed. great favourite of the Pope, who, since he left w a L lige LT:: g: n. epa Y ired here : ggurshaad otherwise „ m e t ing di that Rome, was in the habit of sending him an auto- right and well. Ship leaves at 4 p.m. to-day for Ales' may graph letter every New Year's-day. andria. Petal It is said that the Pope has positively refused Bomair Mau..--130m, JAN. 26.-The Bared* the the cardinal's hat to the Archbishop of Paris unleis, from Bosehly, 14th Ind., arrived at 4 p.m. to-day. eating humble pie, like Cardinal Andrea , he will publicly retract his recorded Gallic= opinions, and this Mgr. Darboy refuses to do. THE RECENT GALE.-LIBIBOAT NOVICES. HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND, JAN. 24. This afternoon a tremendous hurricane has raged from the south, accompanied by thick showers of snow (says It. A. Wilson, BR.). D ur ing one of the showers a vessel got ashore on the Porten Stiel Rocks, about • mile and a half to the south of the island. Immediately on observing the vessel, with a flag of distress hoisted, the Lr ice Darling lifeboat,of the National Lifeboat Institution, went out to the rescue of the crew, and, after an hour and a half's laborious work an d gallantry of the crew, succeeded in gaining the ship, which proved to h e the Mischief, of Carnarvon, bound from M•cdno to Shields. The lifeboat then rescued five min and • boy, and brought them ashore in safety. k fishing cob le under close-reefed mails failed to gain the ves sel, although they tried their utmost—the hurricane was so great, in fact the like of it has not been felt here for many years. The greatest praise is been f elt the lifeboat crew especially to the ouswain, who heartened the crew onwards. Three other vessel' are ashore on the rocks in the harbour, having driven from their anchors, and all of them will be severely damaged, but the crews are safe. RAMSGATE, Jam 21. Captain Shaw, the harbour master, reports that yester day, shortly before midnight, during • heavy gale with hard squalls sooompanial by snow, sleet, and rain, the night being intaresly cold, signal iguns and rockets were fired froui the Gull light-ship. The steam-tug Vulcan and lifeboat Bradford were manned with all despatch, end proceeded along the edge d the sand to the southward, • heavy sea breaking all round. They continued cruising about that locality without finding anything until shortly before , ; o'clock in the morning, when a burning tar barrel was observed, and on going to the spot • brig was found to have parted from both anchors, and to have gone ashore on the sands. With much difficulty and danger the life- boat succeeded in getting alongside the vessel, which am striking heavily awl threatening the destruction of her mute. The tug being in very shoal and broken water was for her safety obliged to back out and lay to. The crew, with the exception of the muter, then got into the life boat with a portion of their clothing, when the master re quested the lifeboat men to take charge of the vessel, and. if possible, extricate her from ker perilous position. Four of the crew of the lifeboat were sent on board, and the sailors then desired to return also. Sad was then wile, • line was taken on board the steamer, which at great risk came as near as possible through the broken water. The say too, at the time was breaking very heavily over the hrig. In the course of half an hour the vessel came stoat, and. rbout 10 o'clock was taken into Ramsgate Harbour, the pumps having been kept con. s t a ntly working. She was the Britain's Pride, of mouth, bound from London to the Cape of Good Hole, with a general cargo and several tons of gunpowder on board. The lifeboat sustained some damage in performing this service. PORT/IDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES, .1 ox. I have again to report . the success of the Cotton Sheppard lifeboat, belonging to the National life boat Institution, and her gallant crew beiys the Hughes). During a most terrific gale yesterday a schooner was seen exhibiting a siemal of distress, and the lifeboat at once put off. After a severe struggle through a most fearful sea she reached the schooner, which was the Denghshire lAss, of Chster, hound from Cardiff to Liver bi pool, with a cargo of e cd. She had parted one of her chains, and was in 4'lol ,d being dnvcn on shore. The lifeboat lauded the CITIV of four men, and made the vessel as secure as possible. vol ' as the wind moderated she weathered the gale, mid the men returned to her next morning. On the return of the lifeboat last evening another schooner, which haul anchored in a very unsafe position, showed a signal of distress. The men, although benumbed with cold and drenched with rain, once more put off and brought ashore the crew five men. This vessel was the Sszah Caroline. of r.irvan, also bound to Liverpool, with coal ; she likewise rate out the gale in safety, and was to-day taken to a safer •-rial. stead. Hod it not keen for the lifeboat these vese. Is would have doubtless slipped their cables, run on a nsegy and the lives of the crews would probably have been lost. GREAT YARMOUTH. JAN. 21. 1 1 Guns were fired from the Nicholas light-vessel, and rockets were thrown up last night during a gale from S.S.W. (states Mr. DI. H. Butcher). The lifeboat trios Robert I:Wadden, belonging to the Lifeboat Society, went out, and with much difficulty was instrumental in bringing into harbour the smack Clipper, of this port. and her crew, which vessel was riding on th e ed g e of the Scruby Sands with one anchor only. ANSTRUTTIER, JAN. 2% This afternoon the schooner Edward Stonard, of Lan caster, on her passage from Leith to Dublin, with a c.ugo o f phosphate of Thee and guano, drove on shore in a violent gale and a very heavy sea. The lifeboat Admiral Fitzroy, of the National Institution, was launched, and after very considerable difficulty rescued the crew of five men rind brought them safely into harbour. The lifeboat afterwards went off and wedsrendtance to the fishing boats. For many years past wind and sea as these. CENTRAL The January SCASI Opened this mornin Alderman Sir R. CU Alderllian Gibbons ;+hcriff Bl'Arthur, and Roche), &c. The first edition prisoners. Of tl city of London, 41; Kent, and 12 from are thus classitio. Mate, 1 ; bigamy, coin, ; embezzle' fluid, 1 ; forcible of housebreaking and ;:c., 2 ; stealing a nitinleY, 2 ; recuivi! 1112.1 feloniously The Recorder, in case to which he wi murder against Jar be under the &ad whose evidence thi positions were tali if the witnesses would be takeu as ceased and a comp drunk, some f l ub board which result ceased. The state self-defence, and (the Recorder) amount to tour also a charge of met Iu this cue there life was in danger the crime being sufficient evidenci Rearmed Recorder woman of the 1 of her child by le that the questic there was an iutc a charge prefer against Thomas 1 that the parents :mil it appeared themselves " Tli was, that it was have recourse to health, and the and pray to (;(o from inlLumuati Max that if advic chance of 1110. I by the neglect n that any body o scripture as tc cans of illness. coma CIiSCS of 111 to their rooui fc TRIAL OF SII Sir Gideon C. bar to take h' Mary Elizabeth Hanover-square be ha I been United States I Mr. Giffard, with Mr. Greei Hams was emit This case ai aoeount of th stances conirm to show that c being then l'il Magee, at N( lady for corn place. In the of the defend& having taken fact that hie respectability daughter-in.l. upon her. death of his Procure erne live with bin feridant couti Allen, at Si Marriage was the defentlan, dresont prose LLW 1141 (THI CHANCRE or ao he l :I:ll:tilia.:ll'intortogib.ithett‘.:lll•Etryithirasyinturganth.4.l3:lll:llthe T ti n on dma nli m lrere t ' eta.al ter i ti o h a s wei iled n T wu to r. war re other children born Mc Chief Clerk prod% . Mol ted his intention the Rolls. 3lr. Gay said he had z question would be ' cu e omen law or in Ch gr. Edward Johnson ids whether it shout The matter was soca! COURT 01 wogs in Bance.--(I Judie"' Blao warns (A/PPELLA /Vs Wel Ea •PPee inherits Commtsaioo 'n ranks or Pul • the Riffle Bevan • installers held ' yellant was b aud •1 relied on evidence was part heard o • e Rith, when it we • the inqlyuiry, and • • on was .r, had deeds undo • owing the e el " ace ; whereupon th rengtheu the case hi hery at the place, ■ nt bock to be re-sta The Attorney• Gene ..rt of the order 01 .C.,and Mr. H. Jan . ,hery. This morning the riend (Mr. Manisty • e commissioners to ~ to which he his Case remitted moo THE "IRISH MAN A rule nisi fora c ; • • • .r of the Daily 7 •prietor of the S risionaa and Fenian the court had heard hav fad reel dat up dem Pro livl fee All nu the do 1 Pr rn th ce cb it de tc 6: tl to tl Ir t