The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

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IM=l7 =IWO& 'Hi MOM Osifte r Ailt eatgat,ir: bar ra t Am. or MAX. SIGH WATIII £T I ell 01 411110X11. rimzrammunK IN a--. 4111mrs. lift .411aus;•.s. 116.144 roman. ft. LONDON. MONDAY, JAN. 10. Wounsto Men's Colleges, what are they ? Why should we hare them ? These are qnsirtions which two earnest•mioded men have answered for us. The answers are significant, pertinent to the times in which we live, and full of promise for the future. Without explanation there is something per plexing, perhaps confusing, in the name of Colleges' for Working Men. Are all working men to become men of learning, men of literature ? Are we to re plenish t►e ranks of literature and science by seek ing ont precious intellectual ore from the rigorous hard heads of our working classes? We might do so with reasonable prospect of success. There are few paths of knowledge, even the most intricate, that have not been explored by men whose vigorous intellects have raised them from the plough, the bricklayer's trowel, the cobbler's bench, or the tailor'. table, to take high rank among poets, philosophers, and artists. This, however, is not the purpose for which Working Men's Colleges have been founded. Mere acquisition of knowledge, at least the mere cultivation of the intellect, is not the only benefit to be derived from a College. There are other, if not better gifts to be secured by association. The heart or the affections can be cultivated as well as the head. Let any man who has been to College, who fondly remembers his College as an alone gnats?, ask himself why he does so? What charm hang, over those early yeani, years of hard work, of struggling manfully with difficulties? Is it the remembrance of what he learnt, of the intellectual treasures then stored up in his memory ? If he be a man, not a bare intellects it Lachine, the reply will be—. There is far more than elk Most of this, if not all, I might have acquired in my chamber—any where; bat col lege days eneb:ed me to know my fellow men; asso ciations with kindred spirits, with those of similar tastes and pursuits, not only expanded my mind but my heart, taught me to respect my fellow men, and to measure others by some other standard than myself. Tien are some men whose vocation is that of bashers; do what they will they cannot avoid their sailing. The Rev. FREDERICK Meriden is one of tbesis—a deep-th joking, earnest-minded teacher. Ile has many disciples, though he becks to found no sect. Kindred spirits rally round him because he provides the food they require. Working Men's Ciders are a fruit which has sprung from this association. Mr. MACILICIF. found himself surrounded by a knot of men, of different professions. Association for mutual improvement taught them that they could better fulfil the duties of their several profession. if they could realise better the relations which bound them to one another. 'lbis step led to another. Mere association within the narrow circles of their own learned professions was not all that was necessary to &apply this want. To reap any real benefit, the circle mast be enlarged beyond this. While they were thinking of these things Caine the awful year of 1848 --awful because it showed that a great gulf existed between the upper, middle, and profit/Would classes and the working classes. If this remained as it was, if it were to be widened, there was danger for all. How was it to be bridged over ' Whatever others may have thought, Mr. M.tratcs and his disciples sought a solution of the difficulty within themselves. They asked whether the class to which they themselves belonged was blameless in this dangerous separation of classes. They feared that they had not discharged the responsibilities imposed upon them by their education. "They felt that " knowledge had been given to share it among their " fellows, to make them sore humane, and to bind " them more in human links one to another." Arriving at a sense of this responsibility, they out about for some method to enable them to discharge it manfully. The Mechanic.' Institutes and Evening . . . Claimers for hard-worked clerks presented themselves without satisfying them. They wanted some more iatimate and humanising relationship than that simply of teacher and pupil. While thus perplexed the news reached them that the people of Sheffield had found,•d a People's College. The name went home to their mist cherished feelings. Here, at but, the work .eem•d to present itself in its proper form. Mere was a symptom that the people were yearning for somethingof the same kind that they had themselves hind so valuable. Could they not satisfy this yearning with iiiiitusi bent fit To try the ex penment a Worki.ig Nlen's College was (*media Lon don. The teach. ra were clergymen, lawyers, artists, member• of the profes.ional , I ...es. who had them selves ohtair,ed tne ads enrages of a collegiate educe tioo. The thing has surreeded s, wi.:l that many other towns has.. the raampb• of London, and last Wednesda♦ Mr. M a nice g...e the history of the origin of the work to the hest annual meeting of the members of the Working Men'. Colleges in Man chester and Salford. What is the tes'imony of )Ir. N water. u to the working of the wheat.' From the day of its first prt petiou to the premint hate re has newer twee a want of • cordial response from the working claws to their teacher,. " The working classes had " pushed their teachers on. urged them Into more " f. iiiiwithin and snore teaching than they had " thought possible, and oompellid thtm to from, THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1869. " course of studies for them. Those who had taken " part in giving the instruction in the College had received benefits of a kind which they had not " calculated upon. They knew infinitely more the " value of the professions to which they belonged, " and were more united to each other, since they had " entered the College of Working Men." In point of fact, they had discovered the College to be as useful to themselves as to those for whose benefit they had founded it. This is a testimony to the worth of our honest, hard-working classes not without its significance. It shows that no reason can really be alleged why there should be a political gulf separating the hands and the feet of the political body from its other members. The result is not surprising when we reflect how much of Poetry, Art, and Science has sprung up to vigorous life, in spite of every difficulty. from this fertile intellectual soil. If some of the best hearts and heads of the day have found themselves benefited by an intimate and generous association with the Working Clerics, why should not the expe riment be promoted os a grander scale ? If men of refined intellectual culture, of un doubted high position in the ranks of literature, have found themselves improved by collision with those of the working classes, with whom they have sought to bind themselves by social ties of mutual obligation, why should others fear the extension of the principles Among our workmen there must be a vast number, and that number would be greater still if properly cultivated by such ennobling sym pathies as we have been describing, whose voices would be of the greatest benefit to the State. In reality this is no new-fangled innovation. It is but going back to the first principles of our political representation. The handy-craft of the skilled workman is a valuable element of the State—he has something to protect as valuable as the yeoman or the leaded freeholder. to exercising his hands he has instructed his head, and it is true political wisdom to give him a vote for the Representative by whose voice he is to be governed. No one can deny that this is a living principle of the English Constitution. How far we have departed from it can only be realised by far-sighted, honest, unprejudiced men, who, like Mr. MACRICE, have perceived the danger-' ous chasm sundering the most powerful elements of the State. Working Men's Colleges are not the only means of remedying the evil. Every act of sound political justice and recognition of the working man's true value ; every step that is taken to im prove his moral and social position, to give free scope to his energies, and free expression to the human sympathies within him, is a fresh rivet to the links which bind us together in the ties of our common humanity. Thus united by the bonds of • holy brotherhood, founded on the immutable laws of justice and truth, the body politic need fear no convulsion within, and would be prepared to meet bravely and fearlessly any enemy from without. gbe Court. WINDSOR, lee. 8. The Revd dinner party yesterday included the Prince o Wale, the Hoa. Charles A. Gore, Caicos! the lie. R. Bee% Bk. W. Patagerald, and Captain Grey. The bond et tie Chariair G nude wee in &guidance and Played darks Mow Ib Omits Was. Aiwa, ...... ......... . . at areetass. •• womb ruts ........ Pegalteul ?" ..... trt=rjt a z ia. r. ............ Yahoo.. Her Idakutfe phial band esewari perkermai in the Drawler... Ow taillowbeg Overlme.. Ls Iftrels Mrsuesa, ............ Alas de EMI ................ ...... The tame mod NIKO Consist mead In the Hotne•perk this maniac, and video" the Racism' of Kent at Prognaore. The Prince of Wake redo out on horseback, attended by Colonel the Hon. R. Bence. The Hon. Charles A. o,tre and Sir. W. Fitzgeral l left the Castle in the forenoon. SUNDA T, JAN. 9. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yesterday. The Queen, Priam Consort, and the Prince of Welt' the ladies and gentlemen of the Comet, and the domeetfa household, 'mauled divine marries to-day in the privets chapel. Meetings of the Cambridge University Cmurolwionere were held at 6. Adelphi-terrace, oat Tuseday the 4th, Witt esiday the 6th, Thursday the 6th, and Friday the ith tust. The cemodesiseers prurient were the Bishop of Chester, Lord etealey, M.P.; the Right Hon. Lord Itotice Turner, the Eaglet Hes. SO Laurens* Peel, Viee•Cluteveller Sir William Page Wood. the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, and Mr. Horatio Despatches were received yesterday et the Colonist -ogee from the governors of the settlements on the Wee Coma of Africa. Despatches were received on Saturday from the Lord Hugh Commtwittner of the lonian Wands. Despatches were met on Saturday from the Colooial-offloe to the Governor of Falklaud's Island. DEP.UTORB OP TDB PRINCE or W4LES. /THIS DA Y.) This morning his Royal Highness the Prince of Asir end attics left Windmr per special train, at a quarter to le o'clock, for Folkeritone, tel Guildford cud the South- Restore Railway, es route to the Continent. His Royal /Iglus.= lb., Duke of Cambridge accompanies the Priam se Aar as Folkestone, where it is expected • review sad inspection of ths Wimps st Shornelifie, Including the 100th Casediaa Regiment (Prince of Wake' Oct.), will take picr Tr Prince of Wales will afterwards embark for the Con trast from the South. Eastern Company's spacious sad con rater errs at Folkeetoue. Tin teals rime from Windsor to Fel keetone Harbour direct, without cheep of carrago. =4 the thee oci.upied ou the *whey will be seder how hours. The Nord of to-day contains a letter from Berlin, dated Friday last, in which we reed :—e We are expecting the sipeoucarnant of the Priapus Frederick Wil liam from day to day. The scpuchettr of Queen Victoria and ea 'Weigh Ruse are on their way. Auothar nurse of the Blueish province will be at the disposal of the Priapus, who, I should add, remains marvellously well. On the ecession of her delivery 111.41111 of the political prisoners and Wilgus look for an amnesty. Bey the hope be fulfilled." It is mentioned in another letter that the nurse now in the royal household is the wife of • husbandman in West phalia. The Right lion. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper have loft rows ea a visit to the Earl de Grey, at IVnet Park, Bedfordshire. It is rid that the wasion will commence in the bet west al February, rod probably on the first day of the mesa*. The monument to Sir William Petty, which his bra .seemed by R. Weetweeett, Lq., at the &elm of the Nevin. of Lenettownt, is now bruin pieced within the Abb.). rburell at Ramsey. The Brussels leJ/peadance of yesterday eontains the following telegram from Berlin, dated Saturday:_•' The report tA the betrothal of Prince Nepotism Bosaperte to ihs Price-am Citadel, daughter of the King of Sardinia, le cir culated and accredited is the beet informed circles Mows capitol. - The princess, who ids the eldest of hi. Majesty's children, we. born on the 2nd of March, 1813, sad therefore, he but metres on the Zed of Marsh seat. Prises Napless is la Ws 3&h year. In a letter from Madrid we read:—" The Count de Paris merino naiusissimpins of sympathy from all clams at Seville. At the theatre, in the streets, sad Indeed every where, he is *shoed with respect. On the 29th all. the Duke sad Declare de Montgeneeer gave a grand banquet in his boasts% at which the principal authorities of the province and the principal members of the S.ville aristocracy erre prat.., Scott the other day, and captured the town, killing half-a-dozen of the inhabitants in the null*. The object of the assailants was to release one of their band who was in confinement on a charge of murder. It is furthermore reported that a gang of Kenai' marauders had ravaged Vernon county, Mo., killing a citizen, and carrying off valuable spoil, in the shape of horses, cattle, and negroes. Other depre• dations and murders are also reported, but there is no doubt that they ars all greatly exaggerited. California advice, to the 6th ult. had reached New Orleans vi► the Tehuantepec route. The news is unimportant. Money was easy. Mining about as usual, and business quiet. A telegram from New Orleans says The governor of British Columbia had issued proclamations revoking the Croton grant to the Hudson Bay Company, organising the colo nial government, legalising his previous acts, and adopting the laws of England." The ships Stam boul and Nazarene, from London, and the Abby Brown, from Liverpool, had arrived at San Francisco. Havannah dates are to the 23th of December. The holidays had produced general quietness in the markets. Sugars were unchanged. Sterling ex change was at 13 to 131 per cent. prem. The new Spanish officers had made overtures to the French government to intervene to prevent any revolu tionary movement contemplated by the inhabitants of Cuba. General Concha was not consulted in the matter. There was good reason to believe that there was a revolutionary movement on foot among the people of Cuba. LATEST. (IT TELIOILAPH, VIA HALITAX.) NEW YORK, Dec.3o, EVENING. The steamship Illinois arrived here to-day with the California mails of the 6th instant, and about 1,500,000 dole. in gold. There was about 333,000 dols. left at the Isthmus for the English steamer. Advices from Nicaragua state that a revolutionary scheme was in progress there among some of the natives, in conjunction with the filibusters, who were expected to land in and be assisted by Hon duras. The latest dates from Valparaiso estimate the loss by the recent fire in that city at 3,000,000 doll. Three entire streets were destroyed. TORONTO, Doc, 30. The Canadian Commissioner of Public Works has resigned. His colleagues insist on carrying out the projected removal of the capital to Bytown. AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The African Mail Steamship Company's screw steamer Athenian arrived at Liverpool on Saturday afternoon with 16 passengers and 2,679; ounces of gold dust. and a cargo including 127 pieces 1 cask and 1 package of ivory, 10 bales of cotton from Lagoa, 237 casks of oil, and 179 bags of cochineal. This was the first voyage of the Athenian in the African Company's service. There is no news. Trade was dull at all the ports on the coast. It was entirely stopped at Accra, but expected to be opened in a few days at New Cithbar. The steamer Sunbeam, of the Niger expedition, left for England on the 26th Nov. The expeditionary steamer Rainbow was in har bour at Fernando Po. Mr. Fairweather, of the Niger expedition, died of dysentery on the let December. Two STEAM-Snip COLLISIONS.—The particulars of two alarming steam-boat collisions near the month of the Thames, involving the lose of two vessels and the running another ashore, were received at Lloyd's on Saturday. The eeriet, cstaatrophe took place on the evening of Thursday. The Lord Panunue screw store steamer in ballast, was on her way from New:rale to London, and when about the en francs of the river, SODA few miles below Sheerness, the Dement screw collier, bound to the Tyns from the Themes, ran into her with fearful force. It was very soon discovered that the Lad Panmure was rapidly tiding. The crew sac omded in getting away from her, and she sank in 12 fathoms of water. The evening is described to have been very dark, and both ships are reported to have shown the proper I , ghts. The other collision took place In Sea Reach, just above the light. The brig Seadrift, Captain Moore, from the Chapman light. coals, was making her way up river on Friday, her course being in mid-channel, when the Great Northern, mew -steamer, came in collision with her, and sank her in seven fathoms water. The Great Northam was also so much damaged that she had to be run ashore on the Essex side to prevent her from foundering. How CAPTAIN LUDLOW, OF THE ARIEL, NET HIS DRATK.—The manner in which Captain Ludlow,of the Bream, Southampton, and New York steamship Ad met his death was as tellOWll:—He had caused his engines to be slowed down, and brought the ship head to sea. Expire-deg that the machinery would be disabled in the heavy ma, he had canoed a drag to be prepared for such a contingency, and was standing forward giving orders when a tremendous sea broke upon the forward deck. CSI/Will Ludlow, at the lament, was cautioned by the second mate, who was stand ing new him, to "look out," but he had tamely spoken the weeds when all were submerged apparently ten feet under water. Both the first and second mates were badly injured, and, for the instant, it was thought that the steamer had foundered. The main-hatch errs broken in by the see, and many tons of water went below. Captain Lualow was knocked down, and the heavy drag, comprised of plank and timbers, struck him in the aide. He wee found lying upon his back, with his cap 'malted off, his eyes closed, and apparently insensible. In this condition he was conveyed to his room. He revived sufficiently to (peek • few words, the last of which were, " tell the commander I died at the poet of duty." lie then sank back and ezpii ad. The injury was on the left aide, two or three of the rib+ being , broken, and the fragments penetrating the heart. lie was amid to New York, and interred there,. STEAMER Asnoita. The Earl of Caithness demur, Captain Murray, cmamander, trading between Edinburgh and Wink, left Grants% yesterday morning, and reached Aberdeen bay Met evening about seven o'clock. At this hour It was not far from low water at our harbour, end of course, though the steenur's cell was cc usual expected, it could not be anticipated she would venture into poet, no signal being up that she should do so. For the poet, hoverer, ohs attained, shortly after mem, and the consequence was, that j tiet when crossing the bar, the went aground a little within the flagetaft and opposite the South Breakwater. The accident becoming ✓owdily known, and a pretty heavy sea being on, Mr. David, the captain pilot, who fortunately happens to tf always in the way whets danger is at hand, got the life-boat manned and launched, and in three or four trips the whole of the passenger., about thirty we understand, were safely Nought ashore. One person, however, refused to gait the valeel—namely the principal owner, Mr. James Bremner (son of the weiLknown engineer). Again and again the life-boat returned with the mole view of getting this gentlemen to leave, and when it is considered how much he had at stake, his reluc moos to quit the ship till the last is not to be wondered at. Indeed, we believe we are not wrong in saying thaton the anal visit of the boat, Mr. Bremner was found gallantly endea vouring, eingle-handed, to work the engines and back his reeeel. Seeing this was hopeless., he consented to come off, and so, happily, by twelve o'clock every one on board hod been landed in safety. Not a single passenger, however, bed been able to save any luggage, and it may be roily con ceived they were in no very cheerful moo! ; but Mr. Shore master Williams, and Mr. Reid, harbour treasurer, who were early on the scene, followed soon after by Mr. Muir, the lout agent, saw to the comfort of one end all—the women beieg !taken to the Stmm Yacht Tavern, and them cared for during the night. At two o'clock this morning (Setenlay) the waves were breaking over the merest but the light affixed to the (peanut was still burning. Watchmen were plies' at the Torry side to teke care of any goods that might be washed ashore there. It is hoped that, should the sea be come calmer, the steamer may be got off. Tugs were tried to move her soon alter the accident, but their power wee in effeettual. The Berl of Catholicise is said to be worth between 3,0001. and 4,000/4 but, unfortunately, the insurance dots not cover over the hell of that sum.—Adentems Berald. THE !MUSSING SHIP Envs.—This vessel, of which no tiding. could be gleaned since she left Calssz for Queenelowe, Ise at length been heard of. The ship has been lost, end unh a ppily only one of the crew raved ; and although the wreck twit place ou the Irish roast the survivor was taken on to Australia bettor° the fate of his vessel could be made known. Latterly POMO fregments of a vessel were picked up in St. George's Channel, ',Meta bearing a resemblance to that of the Minerva then due at Queenstown for order., it was conjectured that the chip had foundered. The late mail from Australia 1101:10Utiree that a seaman named David Kidney, was picked up sowing on • epee on the 24th of July, by the ship Middlesex, bound to Melbourne front Liverpool. The poor fellow was in a very exhausted state, and it turned out that he belonged to the Minerva brig, which had been over taken by a sudden ars% and that she capsized and sunk off Queenstown. The Middleax proceeded on her voyage, but whether the commander had any opportunity of speaking with any Teasel bound to England, and reporting the Minerva's lose to the proper parties, has not tresepired. The Minerva belonged to London, and was insured at Lloyd's. WRECK OF A FOREIGN SHIP ON THE bCROBT SAWDII.—YAMMOUT 11, DAT.—At daybreak this morning • vessel we erase on the Seruby Sands, which sppeared to he • foreigner. It blew at the time hard from the northward, with ammo of bail and rale. The Scratby boatmen. life-boat was at once launched, bur before she could reach the wreck it bed beaten off and sunk in deep water. As far as amid be nem the shipwrecked crew bad taken to their boats. The lifeboat picked up one bases mew ; the other boat made for a gnarl that was plving abont With this lifeboat the boat men have creditably provided themselves at their own ex pense. It a plettetog to observe the alacrity with which the lifeboats in this noted neighbourhood for wreck., which are chit Ise under the manse/meat of the Royal National Life boat Institute% are lannobed. NAVAL AND MILI7ARY. The Right Hon. Lord Loraine, M.P., one of the member" of the Board of Admiralty, paid an oIBeW vi M to the Devomport and Keyhato dockyards on Friday Ism, e had oonnotinioatioas with the roperintending engineer tad clerk of the works. WOOLWICH, JAN, 9, A gun carriage of exquisite workmanship, menu. factored at the Royal Carriage Department, for an stil ls , piece of ordnance captured ban pirates in the Chinese sew, end which will be forwarded to Windsor Castle during tb present week, was placed on the Dial-square, at Wociskt Arsenal, on Friday last, and inspected bye number of visitors The °engage has been constructed by the most ekilki are, sena of the department, the mideriale bring maltogaty sad brans. The fellow and spokes of the wheels are roved iv i. a i„ latices of wreaths of Bowers, and the body and trail of Os oardsgeare also elaborately decorated uith carved oniamest e l " rIONAL exteative botldinF , eitaatti in a portion of the Royal Arsenal bourn as the Cadet,.. Erna, has been nearly completed by the arntractora, Myers, and will to used as a repository for models, and fir the large number of war trophies which are now remaite4 in more at this establishment. The building consiats chid' cf a large hall with spacious galleries, in which the ratites objects of interest will be arranged. CHATHAM, JAN. 9. Yesterday a number of fine young men arrived it the head-quarters of this division of B or es! Marine Light fantry from Aylesbury, 'there Captain H. C. P. Dyer her been very moor...gut in obtaining recruits. Daring last west a detachment of recruits also arrived from Chelmsford, her. lag been s e nt up by brevet-Major Marriott, who is recruit* in Esau. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. OPENING OF THE SARDINIAN CHAMBERS.-THIS DAY. THE ROYAL SPEECH. (IBT SUBMARIXI AND BLITI3/1 TILIGIPAPIL) TURIN, MONDAY. The following is a summary of the royal speech : The King thanks the Chambers for the assistance afforded during the last session, which consolidated the national policy and the progress of Piedmont. He announces that Government will bring in Bills for judicial, administrative, and municipal reform. He regrets that the financial crisis and the scarcity of silk crops prevented a balance in the national exchequer. His Majesty says that the political horizon is not clear, but that the future must be awaited with firm ness. The future cannot fail to be fortunate, because the policy of Piedmont is based on justice and love of its country's liberty. Piedmont is small, but great in the councils of Europe, on account of the principles it represents, and the sympathies it inspires. It respects treaties, but is not insensible to Italy's csy of anguish. The King concludes with the words Let us resolutely await the decrees of Providence." Prolonged acclamations of Vice le Boi ! followed the conclusion of the speech. PRUSSIA. The ministerial organ at Berlin, the Gazette Prus sienne, publishes an article in which we may see the substance of the speech from the throne, to he de livered by the Prince Regent at the opening of the Prussian Chambers on Wednesday. According to this article, the speech refers to the harmony and mutual confidence which exist between the country and the ministry of the Regent ; the sympathy and esteem enjoyed by the cabinet in Germany and abroad ; and the excellent condition of the finances. At the same time the ministerial journal an nounces that the government does not intend to propose to the present legislature any impor tant organic laws, and that in this session, which will be very short, it will only submit mea sures that are indispensable. The foreign relations of Prussia, according to the Cozens Prussienne, are of the mast friendly nature, and Prussia enjoys in the European Areopagus the esteem and influence which are her due. AUSTRIA AND FRANCE. Letters from Vienna, Turin, and Milan agree in stating that the professedly reassuring note in the Monsieur is considered as ambiguous and unsatit factory. The Nord of Brussels contains the follow ing in its leading columns: "The news which we receive from Paris to-day is truly serious. We now know the cause of the diplomatic incident of January 1. Our correspond ent, who sends us information of the policy of the French government, said yesterday that the Cabinet of Vienna, yielding to the remonstrances of the other powers, had revoked or was about to revoke the order sent to the commandant of Semlin to march to the aid of the Pacha of Belgrade the moment the latter should request him to do so. He now tells us that he was mistaken, and that Austria, on the contrary, continues to maintain that she has a right to inter fere because the tranquility of her provinces bor dering upon Servia would be compromised if troubles were to break out in that principality. This pretext, as we have often shown, is inadmis sible, for if good with regard to Berrie, it would be equally applicable to the Principalities, and it is perhaps with a view to them that the Cabinet of Vienna is endeavouring to get the principle ad mitted, calculating possibly on the certainty that her preparations for occupying Sonia are now known to be without any immediate object, because order there has not been disturbed for an instant. It must be remembered, moreover, that a similar pretext would be equally available for Russia. Now, it Irma precisely in order to prevent the dan gerous consequences of these inspirations of per sonal interest that the treaty of Paris prohibited any isolated intervention in the Principalities even the intervention of their Suzerain. The powers, we repeat, are thoroughly resolved not to allow Austria to violate the treaty. If she does not take due account of this opposition, she will provoke grave complica tions the entire responsibility of which will rest with her." The Nord publishes the following u the text of the speech made by the Emperor of Austria to the French ambassador on Jan. 4: " I am sincerely touched by the personal senti ments of the Emperor. Assure him that, notwith standing the dissidence' occasioned by political necessities, I have never ceased to feel the pro foundest esteem and the most cordial sympathy for his person." The .Nord observes that these words, though less emphatic than those of the French Emperor, show no lesselearly the existence of the state of things which has so greatly alarmed public opinion. TURIN. SUNDAY, JAN. 9. The garrisons of Verona, Mantua, and Milan have oeen reinforeed, and orders have been given to victual the fortresses completely. The Austrian army in Italy will be increased to 140,000 men. VIENNA, JAN. 9. The despatch of troops to Laibach will continue to-day and to-morrow. The Empress will accompany her sister, the Duchess or Calabria (who is on her way to Naples), as far as Trieste. PORTUGAL A Lisbon telegram, dated Friday, has been re ceived at the South Sea-house, announcing that the Portuguese government prorogues the permission of duty free importation of foreign wheat, barley, and beans into Portugal up to May, 1&59, excluding, however, maize. INDIA AND CHINA. (IT RLACTILIC AND INT && N&& lONAL TILIONATN) TRIESTE, J•N.9. The Calcutta mails reached flues on the lst inst., with dates to the 9th ult., Madras 14, Galls 17, Aden 26, and Hoag Kong 30th November. Cakutta.—lmports in attire demand. Produce, a moderate business done, at improved prices. Money unchanged, Freight dull. Exchange, 2a. Old. to 21. lid. Madras.—Exchange, 2s. Old. to 2s. Ild. Canton.—Little doing in exports; demand for Englibh goods increased. Hong kon g .—Frei g hts dull. Exchange, 4.. 81d. . . Shat;gliai. - Nor. 22.—Silk and tea in brisk de mand, at higher prima. Exchange, 64. 9tl. to Gr. 91d. Freights, 30s. for tea, and 70s. for silk. Fooehow.—A considerable business dear in tea. EXPRESS FROM PARI3. (mot ooz OWN COItaziIrONDICAT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVIXINO. The Moniteur of this day contains a decree con voking the Senate and the Legislative Assembly for the 7th of February next. Another decree is-establishes the Council of Seal for Titles (Conseil de &eau des Titres), and nomi nates the members of this council. I am told on credible authority that the exact words spoken by the Emperor to M. Pereire when he met him at the railway station on his way to shoot at Rambonillet were—" L'Autriche a fait dee 'Admit, maim de la a la guerre it y a un abime—des testa j'snverrai une note au Moniteur." M. Pereire saw the Emperor the next day at the Tuileries, and remained with him three-quarters of an hour. His Majesty said—" Well, the Bourse has been a little better to-day." M. Pereire answered—" Yes ; because I ventured to report your Majesty's promise to send a note to the Moniteur." The Nord says that the French slave trade com mission has prepared a report which will merely state facts without any conclusion, but that Prince Napoleon will recommend the renunciation of the traffic. Orders have been sent to Toulon to arm two large steam frigates and ten minor vessels. In consequence of the great financial excitement which prevails, an attempt was made this afternoon to hold a "Little Bourse" on the Boulevards. The speculators did not attend in sufficient numbers to provoke any interference on the part of the police. The Rent, was done at 71fr., without any material variation from yesterday. PARIS, SATVIDAT EVENING. lam informed that, with the expreas purpose of counteracting the disastrous effect of the few words which the Emperor addressed to M. de Hubner on New Year's-day, his Majesty hoe arranged a hunting party . at Fontaint•bleau to-morrow, to which the Austrian ambassador is invited. This news is the more significant that M. de Hubner did not once go to Compiegne during the whole autumn sojourn of the court there. You will remember how much his absence was remarked upon. Not only the Emperor but his Foreign Minister are now pro digal of attentions to M. de Hubner ; he dines with Count Walewaki to-day. The opinion gains ground that the great historical event of the week was from the first nothing more than a Bourse manceavre. All eyes are now turned to Italy, and the King of Sardinia's speech, which will be pronounced on Mon day next, is looked for with intense interest. It is confidently reported that it has been settled at the Tuileries. lam inclined to think it will be worded with careful moderation, and will be much in accord ance with the analysis I sent you two or three days since. A story is told of a mot of Victor Emmanuel on New Year's-day, which forms a curious centrist to what Napoleon 111. said to the Pope's nuncio here. Speaking to a president of one of the law courts the King of Sardinia is reported to have said in an under tone, e Let us hope that this year will be less insignificant than the preceding ones. " The Bourse has been extremely agitated, the Rente oscillating continually to the extent of 26c. or 10c. It closed with a faU of 10c. for cash and 6c. for account, at 71 and 70.96. The price of to-day is therefore the lowest since the panic began. The speech to M. de Hubner, notwithstanding the Handcar's explanation, ha; produced the tre mendous fall of 3f. in a single week. Mobilier fell 2.60. The railways were from 2.60 to 6f. lower. According to the Nord of Brussels M. Louis Veuillot is going to Rome, to have an interview with the boy Mortars. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived. The Chamber of Deputies on the preceding day had been occupied with the bill for authorising the go vernment to levy the taxes without waiting for the vote of the budget; it was approved of without a division. In the Senate a debate took place on the message of the President of the United States. In the course of it, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, after stating that Spain had always acted in a " noble and generous" manner to the United States, declared formally that the cabinet of the United States had not yet made any proposition for the purchase of Cabs, and that if any were made it would be "energetically rejected . " A resolution approving of the ministerial declaration was unani mously adopted. Some of the journals mention a rumour that the Queen contemplates making a visit to Rome, to have an interview with the Pope. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. News from Corfu reports that Mr. Gladstone bad returned on Christmasgfay from Athens, after a sojourn of nine days in the capital of Greece, woere he was treated with much distinction. The Greek residents of that city had presented to him an address in favour of the Union. Many of his remarks in praise of the Greek nation were listened to with great satisfaction, and he appeared to take great in tereat in the condition and institutions of Athens, frequently attending the sittings of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate. Upon his return to Corfu, Mr. Gladstone did not alight at the palace of the government, but at private lodgings, for which he pays at the rate of 351. a month. It is believed that he intends remaining where he is from two to three months. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steam-ship. Arabia, Captain Stone, which sailed from Boston on the 29th, and from Halifax on the morning of the 31st ultimo, arrived' here at 8 o'clock this morning, bringing 73 pas sengers and 76,896 dole. in specie. On the 31st the Arabia spoke the Fulton steamer, bound from Southampton for New York. The following steamers from this side had arrived ant :—The Edinburgh, from Glasgow, at New York, and the Pacific, from Galway, at St. John's, New foundland, on the 22nd; the Saxon* from South ampton, at New York, on the 24th ; the Karnak, from Liverpool, at New York, on the 25th ; the Kan garoo,: from Liverpool, and the Ariel, from South ampton, at New York, on the 26th ; end the Asia, hence, at New York, on the 27th. Congress on the 2 7 3rd alt. adjourned until the 4th inst. for the Christmas holidays. Prior to the ad journment a number of petitions in favour of a pro tective tariff were presented and referred. In the Senate a resolution was adopted calling on the state department for all the correspondence relating to the suspension of diplomatic interoonna between Mexico and the United States. The Postmaster-General was instructed to report what changes are necessary to render the Post-office department self-supporting. A joint resolution authorising certain naval officers to receive complimentary testimonials from the Uri ash government was adopted. In the House of Representatives, the bill ll= pensions to the soldiers of the warof 1812 was by a vote of 130 to 73. Mr. Davie, of Mississippi, asked leave to offer a resolution directing the COmtnittee on Foreign Affairs to report a bill authorising the President to take possession of Cuba. The house refused to en -1 tertain the proposition. Mr. Branch, of North Carolina, introduced a bill in the house, appropriating one million of dollars to enable the President to conclude with Spain a treaty of amity, and for the settlement of all differences, including the cession of Cube, to be used by the Pre-1 sident, it' he thinks fit, io advance of the ratifica tion of such treaty by the Senate. It there is not, at the time payment is required, sufficient money in the Treasury, the President is authorised to borrow This hill was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The feuds of the border ruffians of Kansas have burst out afresh. It is reported that the notorious Montgomery, at the head of 200 men, attacked Fort TILE NNW .. LONG RANGE" GUN. The Trusty floating battery on Wednesday under. went the test of Armstrong's 32-pounder Wtg-range gun st a from 200 to 40U yards. The meow -meek r Ag: v an ar n g African towed her over on Shoeburynets dat on Wednesday, where she was moored broadside to the southward. The gunboat Mayflower, tender to the Creasy, took the gun on board from Shoebtuyness under cheege of an artillery officer and an artillery gunner. The gun, which loads at the breech, was charged with a 6.pound cartridge sad one of Armstrong's layered shot. slut ere about ten inches end a half long and about four inches diameter; the shots are covered with lead, the outer end of some of the shot very much mumbles the circular end of Mr, Hall's rockets ; others form • square of shout an inch am a half ; the barrel of the gun ts rifle-fluted down to th, chamber. Captain Edward I'alew Halsted, of the Cr, took his station in the missies colitis of the Trusty. Tki target was marked &tottered, taking in three pore of the broadside. Some common s h o t were fired, none of which . . exceeded 400 yards; these shots started the plate bolts, wood. , work Inside the plates, beam knee., deckle, &o. One of the newly-Invented shot, steel Nintad, was then fired, width drove in a portion of one of the plates, went through the aide, tearing away one of the beams, deck, &c., and peurd out over the upper deck; another embedded itself ie the shatter elate and lodged in the woodwork, the outer end being jut flush with the surface of the plate. After three or four Mott had been deed Captain Halsted WI the Trusty's cabin, aid proceeded on board the Mayflower. From twelve to fourteen shots were fired with great accuracy on the part of the artillery officer, who on each occasion laid the gun, sod placed his shot within a foot or so, in every instance, where requested, on the target part of the ship's aide. Some idea may be formed of the power' of the gun from the following statement:—The 12-pounder gun at tihoeburytern bus gr;l1,500 of the newly-invented shot, one of which, at arda' distance, passed through a solid body of oak timber nine feet thick. Mr. Armstrong now paws bringing out a gun of mach larger calibre to carry a 661 b, shot. After the experiments the Mayflower returned the' , gun to flhoeburynesa, and on the 6th the African sod Adder' towed the Trusty to Chatham. The whole broadside for a considerable distance before and 'daft the target is started 0 .1 every direction. One shot separated one of the plates, splitting the plate through about one-fourth of the square of the plate. TEE SUNDAY EVENING BIRVICBS. Yesterday the second of the new series of Wed. minter Abbey services took with the neve of the Yang's building which wee filled with vimitors. Full choral lance was performed, end the sermon wee preached by the Vete ruble the Archdeacon of St. Alhat's (Dr. Anthony Grin, vicar of Romford), who selected for his text the Ilth chaps of St. Luke's Gospel, let verse :—" Acid it came to peer Mit ea he was preying in a certain place, when he ewer d. and his disciples said unto him, ' Lord teach us to pprvay, ' boa which he delivered en eloquent and practical dfsooons spos the object and mode of prayer. The seventh evening service at St. Paul's took place in the area beneath the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Owing la thetxtreme fineness of the day the number anemone who al. senibled eras as large as on either of the previous occupier, end in the space allotted to the general public who have not the privilege of an admission t the resetved seats there were scantly any women, nearly all being respectable erns= and persons of that clue. The service was choral through. out, end the sermon was preached by the Rev. Thome Dale, M.A., canon resideatiary of St. Paul's and vim of St. Pancras. The sermon on Sunday next will be preached by the Rev. Dr. 11'Neile, incumbent of St. Jude's Church, The The mond of the series of Exeter Hall services, undertaker by clergymen of the Church of England, was conducted Ey the Rev. Thomas Nolan, S.D., Minister of Regent-Nun Church, the Rev. Edward Garbett, M.A., Incumbent of St. Bartholomew's, Gray's Inn, who was to have °Metaled, beieg unable through illneae to fulfil hi, engagement. The no. gntleman selected for hie text the second chapter of St. ' Paul's Epistle to Titus, venues I 1 sod 12, •• For the grace of God that bi ingeth salvation loath appeared to all men,tesehiag us that, denying ungudl Clem nd'uorldly huts. we &mkt lire soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world." The mermen wee marked by great eloquemos, end was listened ts throughout with deep attention. The Archduke Maximilian d'Este, uncle of the Duke of Modena, rod of the Countess de Chambord, wr•s felt days ago attacked with inhumation and meules, at Ebert weir, but, at ording to the lest accounts him Imperial Iliefe nue I. recovering. The Duke of Modena, who.. arrival d Vienna has been announced, had left that city to visit ha Archduke. A letter from Cannes, of the 2nd, says: "Were the mend England, France, and Germany calkd upon lo elect three representatives who should personify high menu' power, widow, pure philanthropy end patriotism, the choice could not t oseibly fall upon more worthy objects thus on the three dietiogoishtd men whom circumstances him brought together in this petty tiwn. I brit of Henry Lord Brougham, who radiantly stare" time out of corn• tamales; of Ales 4 de Tocqueville, laid low by disease, bet daily pattylng with greater vigour the smolt of the fatal scythe; of the Chevalier de Bunten, who has deserted hit favourite retreat end abandoned his below d occupations in order to bestow his entire attention and affectionate core ea the stricken Mewl." The St. Louis Republican, of the 24th tilt., an nounces the arrival there of Lord Cavendish and hi* friends. The Canadian government about a year since appointed Professor Hind and Menu. Dickinson, Fleming, and Hied, Commissioners to explore the Red Ricer Valley. They wen joined by Lord Cavendistie party, who since then have occupied the time in hunting and exploring the country ' from the mouth to the source:l of the Red River. The party left Selkirk on the Red and luainibuine Rivets on the 29th of November, with a train of seventy dogs for Crow Wing, which point they reached in 15 days travel. They have rations trophies of the chase, each es buffalo and other km, the bide and horns of a magnificent buffalo bull which was near billing Lord Cavendinh, Indian unmade& and a dog of the Rua. mum breed, need for droning sledges. They deecabed the life they had been living as thoroughly romantic—hunting and [Mies, chasing Sioux Indians and chased by them in return, and enduring hardsbipe not altogether unpleasant from the novelties attending them. In the University of Moscow recently, one of the profeeurs addresaed some pointed remarks to the rtudents ea their preference fur the habit, and customs of Western Europe. The class wait immediately a scene of uproar, when the professor wee required to leave the hall where he had been unable te maintain his authority ; and subsequently, when the curator wee unfortunately induced to interfere, the whole university was roused into open rebellion, and mature have proceeded to such extremities that M. Kovalisfeki, tha Meister of Public Inatroodon, bus been compelled to leave St. Petersburg and proceed to Moscow, personally to inroad gate the subject. The Aberdeen herald states that the late Thema Edmonstoma of Duna, Zetland, " has surprised most folks —particularly bin relations—by leaving nearly the whole of his wealth, landed property, and 30,000 f. in cash, to his natural daughar." On Saturday Professor Faraday delivered the last of hie short Christmas cause of lectures at the Royal Institution. The chemical affinities of metals, and the transference of the former, formed the principal subjects, which were illustrated, in the Ant instsnce, by alloys. FIRE AT WINDSOR Casna.-0o Saturday night the son of the 11ev. Lord Wriuthevley Rumen nneussionsly left his candle horning on retiring to bed, and was awoke by his bed-clothe. ittchfag Sr., fortunately just in time to maks hi escape and give the alum. The house in which this young gentleman wu sleeping belonged to the Rey. Frederick Anson, canoe, and is situated in the cloisters I! the lower ward. By the energetic exertions of thole who heard the alarm given, the An wee got under before ni • tending to another apartment; but the whole of the fort& tare of the bedroom was consumed.