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Tarcsavir Z VIA Mom Whelan sad 3. O. . MIN 2 C. -402920222 1 10/1 CROROII. or, Rarlegals aarrialog the CiAbbse Wands. Nuns. &mimosa 13m2aNe, Ms A. lanes& ST. iILYIII. ToltOlf Imam, TR Ulla OP T. MOM Mom A wiles *ad Lowy: Xi a MAL—AM ma edisawak =- titled Y.N DT MIAS or. rat NealatyllayilistOrled talb•Kaaa. Magri Yaws sad btwy . Mine Staaakaerbarl, a lowa Ir. 11101 WATER. AT LONDON RAMO& Dins DAT —NNW& Altsrasaa. On. To-Norbor—lloroissi lb. Atlorsobb, Z. Um. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 26. A sneer May, such as the poets describe as fit for rustic fêtes and outdoor festivities, has seldom been seen by the present generation ; but webers at length • genuine orthodox December. The Christmas of 1860 is as bright and cold, as keen and frosty, as the most ardent archnsologist, the most passionate enthusiast of antiquity, could pos sibly desire. The weather is of the primitive and poetical type described so minutely by Wssixxo- Tux Incise in his charming hut somewhat mythi cal paper on " Christmas Day." The American essayist, elaborating this account, if not from his own " moral consciousness," at least from • care ful study of early English literature, describes the Christmas morning on which he was awoke by the pleasant music of chaunted carols in the corridor outside his panelled and tapestried chamber in Bracebridge Hall as " extremely frosty," all the trees and every blade of grass being covered with fine crystallizations, while the frown evergreen foliage glittered with dazzling brightness in the morning sun. To-day, however, we have not only Arctic frost but Alpine .now. Old Winter, with his icy breath and "head made white with other " snows than those of age," has appeared in person to claim the festive anniversary as his own. Few of the young people who have joist returned from school, who fill the streets, bazaars, and exhibi tions, and look forward with the liveliest impa tience to the pantomime of to-morrow night, have ever seen such " seasonable" weather. The country is still white with the unmelted snow of a week ago, the streams are frozen, the roads iron bound, the pathways cut into dangerous slides by audacious urchins, the ducks in the Park waddle in sore perplexity or stand in blank amazement by the side of their indurated element, while the unfortunate sparrows on the housetops are driven to their wit's end for a morning meaL The scene out of doors is indeed such a complete realisation of " Christmas in the olden time" that we almost expect to see the wassail bowl passing from house to house, and the mummer in their quaint dis guises traversing the streets from one lordly man sion to another. The return, however, of such obsolete Christmas weather will scarcely bring back the ancient customs with which it is tradi tionally associated. The Qo zate will hardly celebrate Christmas by sitting down to table with the palace servant, nor the Dean of Wasrsrxersa sing a carol in the Hall, nor Prince ALBIET serve the Prince of Waxes at table, • server bringing in the boar's head with trumpets, as HiNICY H. is said to have done for his eldest son. Nor will the gentlemen of the Inner Temple repair this morning to their hall and breakfast on "brawn, " mustard, and malmsey ;" nor English country gentlemen summon their neighbours and tenants at daybreak to regale them with "strong beer, " toast, sugar, Witney, and Cheshire cheese." Above all, what is said of the older season— A Christiose withal oft would cheer A poor maces heart through half the year— will scarcely be affirmed with truth of the modern eelebration. Some features of the season, how ever, remain pretty much as they were two hun dred years ago. "Now," says a quaint writer of that date, "capons and bens, beside turkeys, " geese, ducks, with beef and mutton, must all " die ; for in twelve days a multitude of people " will not be fed with little. Now plums and " spice, sugar said honey, squeeze it among pies " and broth. Now or never must the music be " in time, for the youth must dance and sing to " get them a heat, while the aged sit by the tire." In these substantial respects all who have gone through the Christmas markets or visited the poulterers' shops, or who anticipate ■ Christmas dinner, will acknowledge there is littlo perceptible change. But though in some respects the form of its celebration is changed, Christmas remains the same, and it will be our own fault if we do not welcome it as heartily and enjoy it with as keen a relish as the most generous and hospitable of oar festive forefathers. It is still the season of family meetings, friendly entertainments, and social fes tivity, and the whole worth and meaning of such reunions depend on the spirit that animates them. The very essence of the Christmas spirit is good feeling, genuine kindness of heart, and true cha rity. If these are present at the Christmas board the true secret of enjoyment is there, and it mat ters comparatively little what else is absent. "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than di a stalled ox and hatred therewith." And though we with none of our readers quite such bitter fare to-day, they would iU exchange even a genial dinner of herbs for the ample but frigid or ostentatious banquet " *here no kindness se i s. ” Few things are more satisfactory, especially at this season, than a good dinner ; and he who affects to despise it Inuit be either above or below humanity. But though a good dinner is not to be scorned, die man who would leave his friends to secure it is a most righteous object of contempt. And however much he may eat or drink in honour of the season---though he should effect a substantial breach in the baron of beef, clear milhty ~ r l, of podding to its centre, and . i liatl the brown October till all is blue, he haa neither part nor lot in Christmas. Looking to the ,~ forth the day, we are by no means disposed to believe that it was better kept formerly than now. The stria cd celebration was, indeed, more stormy and motive, the merry-making more boisterous thin at present, but the feeling excited-wee lase pure and deep, the influence of the whole far less salutary. Those enormous gatherings in baronial halls and country houses were, indeed, essentially barbarous and unsocial. The multitude of poor dependents caroused for a few hours at the rich man's table, instead of sharing the good things of the season with their families at home. In modern times the celebration of Christmas has gradually acquired more and more of the social or family character. While there is far less of public feasting than there used to be, there is at the same time infinitely more quiet domestic en joyment. Instead of a few great gatherings, a thousand homes are brightened and made happy by the presence of the head of the family and one or more of its distant members. How many happy family reunions there will be to-day. How many children, also, who have long since left the paternal root, will return after months or years of absence, to look once more into the living eyes that were the lode-stars of their early life, and which though, perhaps, now dimmed with age and sorrow, will kindle to-day with their own bright. ness, and beam on the gathered circle with undi minished affection. How many hearts will beat 1 at the sound of well-known voices, how many eyes will fill while the details of events known hitherto only in their general outline are rehearsed; and how much a few hours of such will do to revivify, strengthen, and perpetuate the memorise, influences and associations of home. Nor is Christmas at all less sacred to the claims of friend ship—less the season of good wishes and kindly gifts, now than formerly. Everyone may tend to swell the general sum of happinees in his war. Those who cannot nuke costly presents can at least give kind words, and they are often the most precious of all gifts. But there are others who have a claim upon us at this season besides Me- tions and friends—the helpless and the needy. We ban, it is true, the poor always with us ; but, like the atmosphere which surrounds and the clothes we wear, we are for the moat part uncon scious of their existence. A sudden fall in the bare ' meter, however, quickly calls both to mind. The air becomes so pressing that we have to fortify our ▪ against its influence, and the poverty always haunting our street becomes painfully apparent, and strikes on our quickened senses. The season, too, by the natural force of contrast, rouse us to the claims of those who are cold and hungry, homeless and destitute. The blazing fire and generous fare remind of those who at this season 1 have uo fire to sit by, and it may be no food to est, and of others who, though not reduced to such absolute destitution, are still struggling on under privations and hardships difficult enough to bear. It is well to cultivate such thoughts with the sym pathies they awaken, and the active benevolence they teach. We shall enjoy this sacred season none the less for having practically remembered this amongst other long neglected duties. gbe court. WINDSOR OASTIX, D. 24. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice and Prune Louis of Mae, walked in the grounds of the Castle this morning, attended by the Makb of Honour in Waiting. Priam Louis skated on the ice in the Home Park. The Prime Consort, with the Prime of Wales, Prince Alfred. and the Prince of Leinimren, wont out shooting, landed by Major-General Seymour and Lieutenant- Ceisma Koppel. Prises Arthur skated on the ice, attended by Major FarstslasSase, R. Z. The Duke of Northumberland has nominated the Rev. Robert Henniker, M. A., to the district or new palish alSouth Charlton, near Alnwick, recently founded by hie ipsoes ealutifiosoce. The Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven heave town in a few days on a visit to the Earl and Coun tess of Clarendon, at The Grove, near Watford. The Earl of Fife arrived at his residence in Wil tsn-ersiesot hat evening from &caked. Lord and Lady Haetinp have been entertaining succession if visitors at their seat, Melton Constable. The Bareness Lionel de Rothschild ►ud Miss de Rothachild and Barges= Alphoom de Rothschild will leave Kingston House on Wednesday to join the company shout to essemble at Mostatore, Bedfordshire. The Lord Chancellor's Vicarage of Nueson, near Dawtry, Nottinghamshire, bin become vacant by the death el the Rev. WM. Thorp, M. it., of Jeans College, Cam- bridge. The benefice is worth 3601. a year. With regard to two of the most important articles in the new treaty with China, the Times says " That the island of Chums should by once again evacuated may adsoft, perhaps, of a difference of opinion. We believe it would be only ► vexation and ►n espouse, sod the French seem to have been of the erne opinion. It is s beautiful island, and has a fine harbour, but it is mach more preitabis to use it than to possess it. The acquisition of Kowloon he • real be•eit. It is a small peninsula directly opposite to Hong Komi, and forms the northern shore al the harbour el Hoog Kong. It is now s refuge for pirates and for the wont characters among the Chinese population of Hoag Koug, and it is almost necessary for the security of that posesenoo that it should be subject to our police regulations. What is perhaps still more important, it has ► healthier climate than Hong Kong, and will enable os to lodge our troops in barracks where the mortality will sot be so frightful as it lute hitherto been, and white the men may be secured from the temptations white bays hitherto, even more than the climate, caused the =usual loss of life upon this station. This is not a conquest, or eyes en acquisition of territory, it is merely the acquisition a • piste of building land." BAZTNOLOYSW% HOP/ITAL. —Yesterday a deputation from the executive body of this famous metro politan hospital, winds was founded upwards of 750 years ago, waited Imes the Lord Mayor, at the Maosiosolom, and apprised hi lowdship that the home committee a Go institution had mimed an uaaannous reeolutioo mews. weeding him to the General Court of Governors • • it Rai proper person to fill the (Ake of president of the bolinal, which had become vacant by the pecent death of Aliarmea Sir (horse Carroll. The gentlemen composim deputation were Mr. W. Foster White, the Linter of the hospital ; Mr. Serjeant Payne, Mr. Deeper, and Mr. Alexander Jones, lawmen • Mr. James Bentley, a former noway:. Mr. D aniel Britten, Mr. William Gilpin, treasurer of Christ's Hospital; Mr. Anderton, a mamber of the Court of Common Comma ; Mr. Charles Hill, sod Mr. John Morley. The Lord Mayor, while appreciating this mark of ooefldene and nowt* keltated at first, from a conscientious feeling, to assume this responsibility of the old e, haring regard to the duties now imposed oo him as chief magistrate of the city. and to Ids somewhat advanced age, lest be might possibly fail to ewe eatirfaetion to the governing body of the hospital ; hat oa the deputation representing to his lordship that the flin tier,' 'widest to the political of president would occupy bet little of his time, and that it was simply as hoooniry distinction they wished to confer on him he readily and cheerfully eoeseeted . The atm has invar iably been filled be a man of mote in the corporation, selected exelainely from aiming the members of the (Wart of Alders", and the governors have occasionally passed by the Lewd Mayor for the time being in the election ; but on this occasioa the bowie committee have esairimouely paid tits present chief mogistrate the complimest of memorandum him for op- Fointment .Mir George Carroll held the adios from MU until his death. CoNSZCRATION or A NEW GRIMM AT KLYSING TON. —The new church of St. Pond's, Oselow-winisre, South Kensingtot, was yeet.rdey consecrated by the Bishop of London, who afterwards preached in the church to • larr c. , ogregstion. The building. which I. calculated to bold about 1,500 persona, is iu the plainest Gothic style of archi tecture. Nearly one-fourth of the sittings are to be free, or let at a merely nominal rent. Ctc.l . mT AL PALACZ. Owa SHTLLINO DAT. 14 , •N b.‘l, 14 . . c. 24.-- Adini.aions on payment, 10,244 ; ditto by season tickets, 2,175.—T0tal cantors, 12,419. ' BONN i'~ We have received from Bonn a ro.aaort o 1 the trial of Dr. W. C. Fem., the Be.. J. S. 4 fl m, Mr. P. F. H. Baddeley, Mr. Barad Rapp Major E. B. Camber land, Oirerin H. P. Drummed, Mr. F. P. Washington. Colonel (1. C. Itookfork Lieutenant C. T. 'Alamos, aad Lientiment-Ckimeel Olddeld, countrymen of ours residieg at Bonn, charged with the offence of insulting Vie Sterate- Procurator Miller in a matter relating to his race, by pub lishing in the Cologne Gazette and Bonn Gazette a joint pea test against the language applied by that functionary to the English nation when he was prosecuting Captain Macdonald for an alleged tumult. The trial took place before the Landesgericht, or provincial court. Dr. Busse was the judge ; Ober-Procurator Ammon repre sented the Prussian goresnment ; and the Advocate Ben nerscherdt defended the accused persons. With the ex ception of Mr. Washington and Lieutenant Thurston, all the defendant. answered to their MAIM ; the other two were declared emitumacions, and tried in that character. After the reeding of the indictment, the court proceeded to receive the declarations of the amused parties. Dr. Walter Copland Perry, who spoke in German, said that be drew up the incriminated document, signed it, and after it had been signed by the other defendants, caused it. insertion in the newripapen. He had resided in Germany many years, and had on former occasions acted in the name and on behalf of his fellow countrymen, and made himself mom or less their organ. He had done so in the Macdonald case. He justified the expression, cowardly (feige), in the protest by the conside ration that the Staata-Procurater Miller had attacked his (defendant's) countryman in a place where no one was per mitted to answer him. In reply to the question of the court, asking, Why, instead of publishing this protest, he did not make a complaint in the proper quarter, so that it might be inquired into ; Dr. Perry said that Miller had Insulted the general body of Englishmen publicly, iuxl publicly, therefore, the English nation mud be vindicated. He was not aware that Miller could be dealt with judi cially for his words ; it seemed more natural to him to s i pped to the public through the newspapers. The Rev. James Stuart Murray Anderson admitted that be had signed the protest. He had been in court when Miller used the words which hid become notorious, and he eland the feeling of his countrymen that they mud be pal itdy protested against. He shared to the full the liirdidig4 of Dr. Perry. He considered that an esailled-for insult hed been offend to the whole English action, one that could not be allowed to pass un noticed. He distinctly heard the word " impede t" (nnversolaint) spokes of the English by Moller. The Judge remarked that in the protest Captain Macdonald's imprison meat was spoils at sa if it hod taken place without just awn, sod then it w also mil that he bad been dragged into a dirty pal. Mr. Anders= mid as to the first, it was Ila opinion ; se to the second, he could not say the prison was one of the alienist, for he had ens it. Mr. Budd ley stated he had signed the protest in English, not knowing that it was about to bepthlished without farther discussion. He bad heard Mikes weeds in court, and con sidered that they applied, not to the whole English nation, but to Englishmen on their travels. He set down the insult to private feeling, being unable to conceive any other motive. Mr. Rapp being next examined, lad he signed the pro- test, of course supposing it would he pablished. He had had no hesitation in imputing the leagnege of Moller to private feeling, became he could not for • moment Imagine that he was expressing official sentiments. He had pre ferred to appeal to the neospapen because he believed that any complaint made to the government would not have been acted on for months, and that then It would have led but to • slight reprimand, of which very few would have heard. The English, however, had been publicly insulted, and must be publicly vindicated. Major °sunbathed said he had signed the protest in manuscript. He denied, however, that he was guilty. The only guilty party he knew in the matter was Moller, who had insulted the whole Euglish nation. That functionary bed called his countrymen " blackguards,* an expression which had never been applied to him in his life before. The Judge here appealed to the interpreter, inquiring what the word " blackguards " meant. The interpreter said g meant " hundsgemeinen keel ," but was not • fair rendering of M. Makes epithet. Oaptain Drummond said be had signed the document without intending to insult any one, but simply as a noose• nary looted. Lent. Thraldom, who during the proceedings had oome Into court, mid he had signed the protest supposing that it was intended for the English embassy, and not for publi cation. He believed, however, the protest stated nothing but the truth. Col. Rochfort said he signed the protest bite one night, his wife bringing it to him in bed. He supposed it was prepared for the purpose of an appeal to some higher au thority. Lient.-Colonel Old&Id said he had signed the protest knowing that it was to be published, and thinking that it ought to be, so that both the Prussian and English govern manta might know what Moller had been saying. Witnesses were next called on behalf of the prosecution After evidence had been heard to the effect that Dr. Perry bad taken the protest to the Bonn Gazette, and that the Be,. Mr. Anderson had paid for its insertion, Oared Umber:, a royal magistrate, was called, and said he was present and presided in the police-court at Bonn on the 18th of September, and heard what the Susta.Pro curator Moiler said when prosecuting Captain Mac donald. He beg= by saying that the English bid a peculiar word to designate a person of cultivated mosswee and proper behaviour—the word " gentleman," but that many of the Englishmen to be seen travelling on the continent were unworthy of this appellation, and behaved se Qat they could only be called boars (Himmel). Accord ing tis witness's recollection Beller did not say this of all travelling Englishmen, but only of some among them. He bad at the time taken down some brief notes, end one of these ran: "Many Englishmen—presuming—impudent— bsen.' He had seen the protest in the news papers, and his impression was that its terms were much too harsh, and that Mellor had not spokes soma to justify the use of the language of the subecribera At the same time he could not approve of Moller's way of 'peeking. Clement Oster, en offiriel of the Bonn tribune], deposed that he heard Moller's speech, and understood him to reflect on the misbehaving travelling Englishmen, and not upon the whole nation, ear even upon all Englishmen who travelled. Be had been pained to hear Moller use the word "lum sselei." Frederick R. von Dusseldorf, who sat es an asemeor of the Bonn tribunal at tkiptain Hoodoo*.ld's trial, said be had read the protest, and the wont " gross" and " impudent," without its occurring to him that they were wrongly ascribed to Miller. He thought, however, that the latter W not used them in the extensive sense imputed to him. speech had no pension or hatred itrit ; at the same limo, netwithatanding the reservations end exceptions made, whom fait when listeniag to it that some thinge had better tar WI amid. Ibs Hagen, an advocate at the tribunal at Bonn, lliellees reflections were called forth by as obser vation et Captain Maeda nald's counsel, that Germans were too apt to take part aguinst Englishmen, and that in this are his client had been shamefully handled' Five other witnesses were called, who declared that in their opinion the words of Muller applied only to a portion of the English who travel in Germany. Mr. G. F. Croesthwaite, British consul at Cologne, who was neat called, said be was present on the oocasion so often referred to, and took notes of what passed. Miller said the English who travelled on the continent were distin guished for their arrogance, ignorance, and boorish behaviour. He did not say " many of the Englishmen who travel,* or make any such limitation. He had spokes to Miller offering bail for Captain Macdonald, but he would not hear of it; on the contrary, be intimated that he would oppose any application of the kind if wide to the court. It appeared to witness that Miller had a notion of treating the English with exceptional severity. In reply to the court Mr. Cromthwaite said he had observed to Moller that the affair was one likely to lead todiemreeable consequences ; Muller said he should proceed according to the use, and run the risk of that, and added that, since so many Englishmen behaved as though they were not in a civilised country, en example must be made. Witnesses were then called to speak to the occurences at the railway station. The counsel fur the defence objected to this evidence, as irrelevant, but was overruled, and Dr. Yarrow, his wife, and several others, were called. When theme had given their evidence, the advocate Benneseleid addressed the court for the defendants in • &moderate but powerful speech. We shall give the cou-lusiuu of the trial tomorrow. • t 4 ,1 1. DECK Ir r a I k, 111 • LATHVTINTELLIGEN t. , S 4 1 Tilt PEACE WITH :‘ •• A. ;;; Tr, FOREIGN•OFFICE, Dm. 24, 1880. The following telegram was received at the Fortigii,ollloe, irk! iode, at 7.30 p. ts.), !rpm her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Alexandria, dated Dec. 18 : Mr. Loch has arrived, with despatches from China, and leaves this day for Malta. The ratification of the treaty of rientain was ex changed, and convention of Pekin signed October 24. The English and French ambassadors took up their residence in the capital, and would remain there till November 9. The French army retired from Pekin on the Ist of November. The English would remain till the ambassadors left. A large force is to remain at Tientsin till treaty conditions be fulfilled. Principal clauses : apology from Emperor for affair of Peiho • last year ; ministers to reside at Pekin ; indemnity flied to be doubled ; Tientsin to be opened to trade immediately ; emigration allowed ; Kowloon ceded to British crown ; treaty of Tientsin and convention of Pekin to be put in immediate operation, and to be published through out the empire. Palaces of Yuen-min-Yuen have been entirely burnt to the ground by British forte. Bodies of the prisoners who died in the hands of the Chinese brought in and buried with honours, in the Russian cemetery, on October 17. Captain lirabaaon and AbboS Luc beheaded on or about September 21, after the battle of Pak li-chow ; bodies not recovered. Indemnities expected from Chinese for families of deceased. English and French ministers left Shanglia4 for Tientsin. Major Anson has arrived charged with despatches from Sir Hope Grant for War-office, and leaves this day. Trieste, December 24, 1860. Signed) H. RAvix. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PIMIN,Ocr. 3L The treaty of Tientsin was ratified and the con vention signed here on the 24th October, by Lord Zigin and Prince Hung. The same formalities were gone through with Baron Gros on the following day. The indemnity to be paid by the Chinese has been fixed at 8,000,000 teals in aIL The following is a summary of the convention : In Article 1 the Emperor regrets the misunder standing et the Taku Forts last year. Art. 2 stipulates that a British Minister shall reside at Pekin. Art. 3 arranges the payment of the indemnity by instalments. Art. 4 opens the port of Tientsin to trade: Art 6 removes the interdict on emigration. Art 6 cedes Cowloon to the British Crown. Art. 7 provides for the immediate operation of the treaty of Tientsin. Art. 8 orders the promulgation of the treaty throughout China. Art. 9 stipulates the evacuation of Chusan by the British force. The allied armies are to leave Pekin on the Bth November. It is reported that the Ist Royals, the 87th, the Queen's, the Buffs, and the Matinee proceed to England. Lord Elgin resides in Pekin. The Bmperor is at Zhehol, in Tartary. Bowlby, de Normann, and Anderson have been buried with great solemnity. Brabezon was beheaded about the 21st of September. The Abbi de Luc oleo met with the same fate. The sum of 100,0001. has been exacted for the families of the British officers who have been murdered. The summer palace of the Emperor was burnt by the British on the 18th October. SHANGHAI, Nov. 8. The insurgents are still levying tribute in various places and are menacing Ningpo. ITALY. NAPLI ?* Evz!!"' The King has held a reception of the nobility of the Court, which was very numerously attended. As enthusiastic demonstration in favour of his Majesty took place iu the evening. The King will leave Naples ou Thursday next, after having assisted at the ball of the National Guard. Farini is about to publish the communal law for Naples. The state of the provinces is very satisfactory. The news from Rome is of an alarminl character. The Kennard and the %flares, which left Naples for the Roman States were not allowed to land their passengers at Civita Vecchia, the pretext being that 800 Geribaldians were on board. Against this Mr. Odo Russell has protested. Lacaita has arrived at Naples. It is said that a decree is in course of prepara tion ordering an extraordinary levy of men between 18 and 66 years of age. THE SIEGE OF GAETA. °ABTA (AI Marseilles), Drc. 18. An enormous quantity of shells and shot were thrown into Gaeta yesterday by the Sardinians. Some of them fell into the garden of the palace where the King and Queen were dining with the Spanish Ambassador. The bombardment has since slackened, and the damage caused in the town is not considerable. The King has received a letter from the Emperor Napoleon. In this latter the Emperor expresses his sympathy for the King, but tells him that he has carried on the siege long enough for his honour. The King, in his reply, thanked the Emperor, but added that he considered it his duty to persist iu the defence. HUNGARY. PEBTH, Dtc. 24. The appointments of the members of the Gover norship Conned for Hungary have arrived here from Vienna. Count Ladislaus Korolyi is appointed Vioe-Pre sident of the Council. Court Councillor Szalay has been appointed Director of the Chancery. The councillors are to enter upon their duties on the 2nd of January next, when the present offices of the goveruorahip will bo abolished. The circular of Baron von Schwerling has created a great sensation. PRUSSIA. BONN, Dec. 24. Judgment lies been pronounced in the affair of Kr. Macdonald. The defendants Baddeley, Rapp, Washington, Rochfort, Thurston ' and Old fi eld were acanitted Perry. Anderson, Cumberland, and Drummond were found guilty, with extenuating circumstances, of Navin; committed an offence against the Slate- Precuratour Moller while in the performance of his official duties. The extenuating circumstances were declared to apply in a less degree iu the ease of Perry, who was fined 100 thalera, or five weeks' imprisonment in default. The other tlin.r were fined 25 thalers each, or nine days' imprisonment in default. • • - • . S t_ ALLACHIA. Alto foll address delivered by Prises Oonza, on opening the Elective Assembly of Walla- Ibis at Bucharest, on the 11th instant : Gentlemen,—Ny late Janney toocmatentineyle hes sada factorily proved to me, that the country of the Romans may fully count upon the sympathies both of the Sublime Porte and of tier gunninteefireiewers. Our duty therefor* - - is, in strengthening our country, to inspire Europe with confidence in it, which must lead at no distant day to the realisation of our legitimate desires and wants. In the short interval which has elapsed since your last union, my government has not failed to execute any one of the laws voted by you and sanctioned by me. We are in the first years of our internal re-organisation, and have found multiplied obstacles to surmount. I hope you will make allowances for these difficulties, one of the greatest of which bu been to initiate the country in • system of taxa tion, levied equally and indiscriminately upon all classes. A series of projects of law has been prepared by the cen tral commission. Some of these have already been sub mitted to you last session. One, which now claims your earliest attention, is that destined to fix the relations be tween the loaded proprietors and the peasants. This ques tion, embradeg as it does the amelioration of the condition of the lower clan, is at present of the most urgent and vital importance. Another reform for which our government will command your co-operation is that of electoral reform, which is required by the necessity at the chamber represent leg more fully the WmeMe of the country. Gentlemen deputies, an exponents el two years has con vinced myself as well as the country, that we should forget the struggles of the past, and the spirit of party, in order to offer the hand to each other in sooompliahtng the re-organi sation of the country. The time has arrived, for the amain pliihment of facts, the chief of which must be the applica tion of Article 44 of the Convention. On that depen& the natural and social prospects of the country. I can promise all aid that I can bring. I can only hops for a place in the annals of the country, by furthering its - d , en and develop ing its proeperity. I feel that the surest way of being re spected abroad ia to be strong, whilst preserving calm and tranquillity at home. It is a cause of regret that in one or two places the r due to the Lemma forgotten. But the energy of thi:= authorities joined to the courage of our young army, with ease and celerity restored order. I can indeed mover for the maintenance of internal tranquillity and material order, even in these difficult times of transition. Foen;s7if,llai;7o 27,1 126;0 the fall COISICianCe at my mission, nor will I ever forget that I represent the principle of the union. The realisation of this great object depends on the patriotism, prudence, and concord of all classes of the state, as well as on the spirit of order and progress animat ing the entire population. A letter from Constantinople, in the Semaphon of Marseilles, says : The affair of the leisure of the Sardinian vessels at Salina has been settled without giving rise to any diplomatic com plication. The following is • statement of the circum stances. The Porte having been informed that a vessel under the Sardinian flag had arrived at Constantinople laden with muskets, ammunition, and cannon (four batte ries, it is said), and being unable to search the vessel with out the authorisation of the diplomatic agent of her intim, addressed • note to General Durando, the Sardinian minister, who replied that the vessel was only passing, being engaged in the transit trade, and was not liable to be visited. The Porte appealed to the treaty of Pavia which prohibits foreign vessels laden with arms from entering the Dardanelles, and also to the treaty of commerce between Turkey and Sardinia, which formally forbids Sardinian subjects to import arms into the Ottoman dominions. During this discuasson the vessel in question set sail and passed through the Straits into the Black Sea, which was • smart but not over honourable roanceuvre, as she was the subject of a dispute the issue of which she ought to have waited for. The Porte accordingly left the discussion where it was, and without loss of time telegraphed to the authorities at Willa to stop the vessel. The order was executed as soon as the vessel arrived, but two other ships with similar cargoes, under Cho Sardinian flag, had already palmed Sa li na before the orders to atop this me nand The ooly matter to be settled, therefore, was what should be done with the vessel seised, sad it has been decided that she should be sent back to hely with her cargo. THE BRITISH . LEGION. (111ILACT nom A PII/VATX LITTIOL) `ll BATTERY AT WY. ANOELO, BEPOR CAPITA, Nov. 14, 1810. We landed at Naples on the 15th of °etcher, one month to-morrow (which appears more like as many years), left for and arrived at Caserta about 7 o'clock in the morn ing of 16th drawn up in line, and the brave general rode down our trout ; from here we were marched to our quar ters, • wing of the ex-King Bornba's palace, four times the size of Buckingham Palace—a magnificent edifice. Our quarters for sleeping consisted of straw on stone loon. The garden attached to the palace is the second in the world, and of which 1 will give you a glowing description when next I see you. Breakfastat quality bourn, varying from 11 a.m. till 3 and 4pm. consisting of half•-pint of sour wine and bread ;ex medimly fattening. Left Caserta, of little importance (filled with military), on the morning, at day break, of the 17th, for Santa Maria, • distance of three miles, another town filled with military. It was here thst we beheld the town of Capin, a distance of two miles-and-a half, from the heights of an old amphitheatre, the head quarters of the famed Hannibal •• on the morning of the 19th, at 4 a.m., for the front, after marching for some distance, till we arrived abreast of ban Angelo; we branched off across ploughed fields, under cultivation, and beautiful vineyards, until we arrived at a farmhouse ; there took up our position behind &pod English hedge, enclosing • vineyard and orchard ; alter • short stay we received orders to march forward se supports to 4th and 7th com psuiee, the 2nd supporting us, and the Grenadiers to the right todefend a battery, the Bth, 9th, and 6th, being to the extreme left, and relieved us about 7 p.m., when, positioned behind • farmhouse, well to the f ront, and when we lost all our men. After marching from the orchard, a dietaries, of say 1,100 yards, we received orders to halt, this being a small thinly-timbered bit of ground at the edge of • small plain ; it was here the enemy first aped our redacts; being a conspicuous target they opened very heavy upon us from their batteries to the right, half-face, and from their Riflemen (Swiss and Bavarians, between 3,000 and 4,000 strong) in front, we caught it very sharp here, the trees being but little protection, none more than twelve inches in diameter ,• every miuute shell flew and burst around us splintering the trees mid uprooting the ground, and the Millets whined peeped us as if it were • hail-shower. Well, Harry, I thought, you are in for it now, hot and strong • of course I felt nervous, being my lest time under fir, and frightfully weak, with *event dysentery. After remaining here some twenty minutes, advance was the word, across the plain, at the double (hav ing to CMOS a beautiful limpid stream), exposed fearfully to the enemy's shell, round shot and bullets, up the hill to a farmhouse, when an awful sight met our gram poor Tucker, the correspoodent of the Illustrated London News, being carried to the rear by four comrades, • bullet having passed through his left temple, and Mitchell laying deadunder the his breast literally covered with blood from a wound below the heart, and several wounded were lying around, and not • doctor on the ground. We (No. 1) were now extended to the right and left in skirmishing order (lexleMPanied by the Bersaglieri Rides, splendid fellows, and as cool as snow); we took up our position behind trees of front 5 to 11 inches in diameter, which was poor covering, especially wearing our scarlet uniform. However, we went to work at the royulista eagerly, and got it very hot from their shell and bullets in return ; more or leas now fell killed and wounded, some moat horribly from pietas of shelL We kept it up in good style until seven o'clock, when we fell in and were relieved for the night. The Arita had now slackened materially, and we left the ground for a farmhouse in the rear, cooked some coffee, and eat some bread about eight o'clo ck, being our first taste for led hours, not having had anything from three o'clock on the 18th. After breakfast at night we buried poor Tucker in the ad joining garden, all the men forming a square round the grave; two drununera, one at each sod of the grave with a long candle, the adjutant at the head of the grave, and Colonel Peard behind him ; and the officers around made the scene • solemn and imposing our, and many were the moans and tears which dropped from the lips eyes of his companions in arms. We planted dips of rose trees, kr., around, covering in his gr:ive and placing a suitable inscription on the head stone : de fought sod died for Italian liberty." At nine o'clock we rolled ourselves up in our blanket, on the straw in the farmyard ; the enemy not knowing our posithordid not throw their shell in amongst us, but sent them whizzing over our heads all night at short intervals. At three o'clock next morning, the 20th, I volunteered, with 39 others. to man an English battery, all picked men. From this date we have had nothing to do whatever with the English battalion, and Colonel Peard, and the complaints laid against then,. The colonel we have to do with is Dowling, a true bit of British pluck. lie is well worthy of his name, and oinnot be spoken of in too great terms. He has done everything for our comfort since we joined the ertillary. We marched to Camila to get our guns. Left for Volturno on the 24th to throw a bridge woes the river; accomplished the tack in eight hours; very heavy work, and up to our armpits in water. We have received greet praise for this piece of work, and took the first artil guns across. The whole of Garibaldi's army, and Sardinians attached to him, crossed du ri ng the night and following day, it being the only bridge pL,ced over the Volturno : _ _ . - The following are the names of the British artillery who built the bridge wren the Volturno, a distance of 120 yards, not, as the Times boa it, between 20 awl 30 yards. The part of the bridge which broke down twice was not built by us at all ; we had nothing to do with it only to clear away the wreck for the Piedmonteee artillery to rebuild a distance of not more than 20 yards at the outside : Dowling, Colonel; Falenborough, Henry, Captain and Adjutant, Kensington. Loudon; endail.l.ichenl, of N.w. castle ; Blackott, Frederic, of Leeds ; Hill, Jtdin Munro, of Edinburgh; ffil, Henry George, of Bristol; S:rre;le, Nicholas Holder. of Herdord ; Leader, Leonard, of C ounty Cork ; Wrixou, Nicholas, of County Cork ; Eyre, J. Me e k. of Newcastle • Dunbar, C. S., of Portsmouth ; M or t on, George P . ditto ; Brown, Josiah Wayman, of Clifton, Bristol ; Hinton, John, of Manchester ; James John Rees, of Chiselhurst ; Dormison, Thomas; of New castle ; Hoare, Edward, of areseeeter ; Squire, of Moniford; Fl Webster, of Romford ; Aldri , John, of Lon. don ; Braosuombe, Charles Coles, of Jsmilon, Thomas, of Queenstown; John, ; Aitken. heed, Alexander, of Oh/cow Berm Jace, ditt o ; Geneete, Louis, ditto; Adam, Alfred, d i m tto; Udder, Fre. deric John, ditto ; Seeley, James, ditto. The following have since left and been replayed by others:—Williamson, Adamson, Bradbury, Natal, Jones, Phillips, Burlotgb, King, Keating, Rushborougb, Jackson. After the completion of the bridge at 10 p.m. we set on the opposite batik of the Volturno, eating our bread aid drinking our wine, admiring with true English ease ;leis the novel spectacle presented to our view. The moon, ss if to honour the occasion, threw her beams more brilliantly than neual upon the seam. The rapid waters of the Volturno reflected her rays like a sheet of silver, u l d played upon the bayonets of the troops as they wended their way across with • silent and measured tread. It wee truly • magnificent spectacle. Looking down the river towards Capmt, the rune of a Roman bridge stood out4n dark relief. Across the river stood the remnants of a ferry. house, its wall' and battered roof showing a stern memo rial of the celebrated Ist October; it was taken and retaken five different times before the Genbaldians obtained final possession of it. On the right of this were the remains of a sand-bag battery, which bad been completed to cover en while building the bridge, so nobly defended by our gallant colonel on that day. n the left, another half-finished battery, indistinctly &immix'. The camp fi res around us whined and crackled ; the hum of voices and steady tread of troops could not fail to impress upon us that something great was impending. On the 26th, at sunset, we received orders to march immediately for Calvi, • distance of twelve miles, over a very rugged road. On arriving at a deserted village two guides awaited us, end led the van over such roads sed through such pares as called forth expressions of great surprise. The moon was at it. full, and the distant Agee. nines, covered with snow did not fail to strike the • . tion that the scenery a round was of extreme We arrived at the bridge at Cain about 12 o'cl tired; and were only too glad to lie down on our bed of draw in • stable. On the following morning the general and bin staff halted at oar door, and quenched their thirst. The general wore his usual dress 'a red shirt, with handkers chief tied round the neck and hanging loosely . down his back. It was here I bed a good opportunity of judging the man. He appears everything that has been mid of him, and was as affable with us as if we were hie moat intimate friends. His appearance bore strong marks of the harassing duties he has had to contend with. later in the morning the King Victor Emmanuel passed our quarters, with a few of his staff. He is • fine-100 fellow, and I should say every inch a soldier. At night, whilst I wee on duty, shoat 10 p.m. one of our cavalry nide past me with the try of " N;apolitan cavalry!" I pasted the word, and our men were reedy in two minutes at their posts, and pre pared to sweep the roads of all comers • but we were not troubled, it being a false alarm. Whilst quartered here we were driven up for rations. Our colonel kindly shared his loaf with us. A little incident worthy to be mentioned of the man has just been brought under my notice. A little time before starting for Wei be broke a blood-vessel, which caused great weakness, but finding one of our company a cripple, having run a spike nail into his foot, and limping much, be insisted upon his mounting his horse, and for a distance of eight miles he marched on foot with us. I merely mention this to show of what material the man is made in comparis on with the colonel of the English Legion. On Sunday morning, the 28th, at daybreak, we marched back to San Angelo with the main body. We were just in front of the general and his staff, which afforded him a 11:rplriltir7y: of judging thee ge ridge ' o bc v:r s thoef the tame we found it had agai arri v n in g 4 l... way on the side just re. paired by the Piedmontese artillery. This occasioned a halt of some hours, and enabled us to get a swim in the river, but prevented our getting any rations until the next morning • therefore, turn in, was the word, on straw and an empty s tomach. Our battery at San Angels', rising some hundred feet above the vast plain in front °peered with beauti. ful vineyards and dotted with farm-houses, encircled by the Apennines, and commanding a splendid view of the city of Capon, and of the position occupied by our besieging troops, at once impresses the mind with the contrast be tween the beauties of nature and the desolations of var. For general days we witnessed the dashing exploits of the Oariteldians on the plain before Capna, as they repulsed the vigorous and oft-repeated sortie of the royalurts. Oar general, quickly tiring of this waste of time, resolved upon bringing the siege to an issue, and, much against his lush. nation, as he was loth to injure the property and endanger the livesof the peaceful inhabitants, gave them 24 hours to capitulate, or the option of 1,200 shells being thrown into the town; but from the repeated firing of one of their largeat guns, which we had christened "Tom Sayers, " we could easily imagine that they had no inclination to adept the more merciful proposal of our general, or, in other worth, "Tom Sayers' " beakers would not throw up the sponge without another round or two. At 4 p.m. on the let November, the 24 hours having expired, the signal to commence the bombardment was given by the hoisting of a red flag on the heights above us. Then followed • ACM novel tome, and of which the impression will be indelible. From all sides our guns opened with a roar upon the city famed for having for months defied the effort.' of two of the world's most renowned generals. As the evening closed the scene unproved in grandeur. The passage of the shells through the air was plainly discernible u they converged from the different points of attack upon Caput. The result of each shell was made perceptible by the explosion threw. in its towers in strong relief against the darkened sky. A garden battery to our right received some semen hitting, and frequent visits from the shells of "Sayan.' A mortar battery to our left was nearly silenced by the well. directed shells of another gun of heavy calibre, which we christened " Jack Henan.. Away to the S.W. the Sardinian gunners played upon the town with goodeffert. At half-put twelve a blue light appeared to the &W. point of the city, which we were unable to interpret, but which was intended by the enemy to indicate • cessation of hostilities, and confirmed at day-break by a white flag Boating from one of the principal towers. Thin day the terms of capitulation were agreed to. On the following morning we were among the first at the gates, and witneeed the marching oat and piling arms of 9,000 Neetitan gtisoll y ers, as I w;ell trol as the th entrance after the o City our and viewed the ' re. 'traction committed by our shells, one of which pissed through the roof of the principal cha pel, elaborately punted and decorated with gilded images. The town has nothing to recommend itself save its chapels and hospitals, the latter being ilea-ventilated and filthy ; bat as to the [edit cations I cannot speak in too high terms, and if =mei by British troops would hold out against united Italy. Os our return we took a stroll over the ground, viewed the farm house of the memorable 19th October ; its front me one rams of ruins, and all amend the grimed lay strew' with bullets, round shot, and large pieces of 12 and.lB-ink shell, and at sheet distances gravel where our commies had been buried in a hurried manner during the 'sniper meet. Bearing away to our right other farm houses pie 'anted to our sight the destruction committed by tie enemy's fire. Now let us draw a veil over the pest had speak of the sunny aide of the picture. Directly after tie cessation of hostilities it was pleasing to behold the mem of the peaceful inhabitant to their cottages, so recently ' occupied by rude soldiers, who bad left trace' of their ir structive propensities on the walls, furniture, and rode and everything comestible in the shape of word, and as fe as the eye could reach they might be seen tilling tier small farms and trimming their vines, working early ucl late. We likewise turned our attention to peaceful &yea• tines by dining the little garden in front of nor villa, and laying in • stock of are wood for the winter. Haying herd that a beautiful view was to be obtained from the top of mountain directly above San Angelo, I, accompuied bl three comrades, started sten early hour mu I aczomplidiedtle ascent after three hours' arduous exertion, and was repel tenfold on arriving at the summit by the view obtainoi Several thousand feet below us lay Caput+, amidst vinepot and gardens lovely to behold. Extending our view the we met the eye covered with sails, and encircling fie islands of Ischia and Capri. Turning to the right might iv seen the Apennines covered with snow eparkhaa 3 the mid-day sun, sod the Volturno incited, ring tlin4 the vast plain lying at their base. In the back-geoid might be seen Santa Maria, easicova, and Carers, with ice beautiful palace and gardens. To complete the piton. I Vesuvius in the far distance emitted its neyer-reliu I volumes of smoke, and at its feet lay Naples and its keel bay ; and now descending on the other side of the mimesis through intricate pewee and thick underwood, 1 arm." our villa as the rays of the setting sun gilded the ileteSr peeks of the mountains before Gaeta, the last strenehel of the tyrannical Bond*. Enclosed is • rose 'decked rf my band from the garden where poor Tucker is buried. We visited his grave just now, and were pleased to find that use inspect is paid to it. 1 got leave to go to the feel Wile sport a few days before the Ist November. Wh-" firing alongside one of my friends, a Beresglieri, 1 !"1. struck in the thigh by a swot bullet, and a likenevs I carried in my pocket was smashed which prevented inf injury. We had sharp work on that •Loy, sad loot 300 killed and wounded. We low noire men than ha ,'‘' been known. Upon second thoughts, I would not scud tls letter, because, if not approved of, it is a question ifa! I editor would return it, and as I have kept to) , should like a copy of the incidents' at sonic futuir 0 I end should therefore suggest, if you are going to ' i fur you to take this letter with you and leave it with fief , to extract, or, better than all, if not too much trouble 4 ' I make a copy from where I mark. CAPTAIN Lora.—A correspondent of the r minghata Daily Post rays : " Observing All iatel,..;:i aooount in the Pat of this date of the tamer ' : f. ' Parkes, lately taken prisoner and 'Orin up Ly the ‘1 ,,, 1 Authorities, and of his oonnexion with till., town, it ins to the gratification of your readers to know that hi, 0.7 , passion, Captain Loch, is lirother to the stesaol ..! Duke of Sutherland, and residing at Trentlano, shire." The ship Royal Albert left Southampton Y: - day with upwarie of 200 emigrente f. e• ot llopo. The Ntawilia are.red et 4....lenmpten ‘• take out the India mail of the 27th not.