The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-10 00:00:00

C Bi NET awl iPHOLSTIER FURNITL'RE the nest kitt41147.-11. H. cUArfI N. a: an ► GI% Pot I:XsTKILIT..i.o. to Ur Moores Therm.. HARMONIUMS -NEW MODEL. ctAmr.x. BEALE... 4 P.., IN. ItitgratVinst. T. MiCs's HALL RESTAURANT, &dent Mows sad Piresdlll7. Damn. %,„,„. Ll y .ore . ice, for hmIYM. Liam mid 'hollows. old. DON AU, Preprietor. vet Oppreos. CORILIMPON DINTS. Mewl Womb loileriell tee "TM Zones London Evening pwwww. nue bw el as Mk% 1 0. mouverle.atreet, by Iwu watts ea Uw 1 V wliveltiaaalos. TMASZ FNL I , 3LNINn. D/!.•1 H MIAET. Z WV & %Ir. Midair., M. F.w , „) •tirtlng. llhw r. Haydn, Mn. WiiLux. —And Quo:Es LA bl MILD AI D tlrt CUILLIKEN . or. liarlenain and a House an ►tre. IVtCob , TheLeelntqe. Was V. Wriaht s litm L Werlw ESA TR/S CYMRIC'S. THE PRINC 1111,111EAS M. , rrs. A. WeSTIO Aml Ve.ltter —Ari W poslorise. called ROBINION t It Merger Tiday. and Tr IL tag of Es Carvibbre lands. row kipurta A Y N. Disallstre, 31r. A. !blest . T. - TN TIC Int OYRT, TIPIPEZ Minim A Wipe had Salan lirs. flock —Awl an extravaaraarA, es. Mal 'MTV . ar , Ur Naamlty tbst cried forthelloaa. Arm% (*.Tan sad porn ; Maim %agar., Harbert, la Imarr. HarrANNIA. TM Mumma. THE PRINCE AND THE 4JGtE. Mews. WIC Pww. Jima Walk LAI. nod Newham MAIM C Atephou. AWA LSO.. MR W. Cusaferd —Awl A MEWAGY. YKcINI THE AEA. Mow.. Itiquildi and 114.01+643 . Mrs. L Yarro.W. ■lna WATER AT WAWA BRIDAL TIMP DAT -.WW 1& lb AAA— Arialussa. IL Mk It.Meii...lF-Miabil. Ili. fia..... AilliMM 121. SUL LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 10. le has often been s subject of wonder not nnmingled with regret to those who are the beat, because the most thoughtful friends of our constitutional polity, that the condition of our Royal Marriage Law should have been so long suffered to remain where it was left by the unwise and unpatriotic Parliament of 1772. In a tit of chagrin at the marriage of his brother, the Duke of Cr mamma so, with the daughter of Lord Inseam, and of the Duke of Guivessrea with Lady Walla's r„ I ;1:0RIM 111. insisted upon the introduction of the well known Marriage Bill, and succeeded, thongh not without conaiderable difficulty, in having it carried through both the Houses of the Legislature. By its provisions any marriage, how ever solemnised, is declared to be ;pee facto void ' 1 which shall be contracted by any demendant of K ing Gamut 11. without the consent of tlisOrown previously signified under the Great Seal ; save in the ease of a descendant who, being above the age of twenty-five, shall give twelve months' notice to the Privy Council, and shall sot have been forbidden during that time to enter into such contract by the joint address of both Houses to the Throne. An Act was indeed pained during the present reign to prevent the premature mar riage of • King or Queen during the period of minority ; but this was so universally acknow teapot) at the time to be a wise and useful enact went, end is still regarded by all who have ever thought about the matter as so manifestly politic and just, that it may be omitted altogether from any inquiry into the reasonableness of maintaining the etisting Law of Marriage as it affects other members of the Royal Family. Two question, are invelred in the prohibitory statute of 1772 — the one a question of morel equity, the other of polkaed prudence. They are essentially distinct, and ought to be considered separately. Is it just to a junior member of the Royal House to fetter arbittarily his or her conjugal choice in a manner to which the legal condition of other persons in the community affords no sort of analogy 1 And if just, is it for the advantage of the Crown or of the realm that such peculiar disability should sub sist These arc questions which we should have hesitated to discuss a few weeks ago, when the possibility of a personal application of general remarks would have embarrassed the liberty of the journalist. The announcement of the engage znent of the Princess Aunt and Prince Lou. of Hem; and the public congratulations which have been tendered them on the event, by obviating misconception of the tendency of our remarks, restore our freedom. The position of the younger sons of • con stitutional sovereign is no doubt in many respects anomalous. As members of the House of Peers they are called upon to exercise poli tical duties without the same presumption of independence, as regards the monarch and the people, which is required by the theory of a hereditary senate. They are naturally sup posed to have interests and feelings not altogether unbiassed in favour of the Crown ; and nobody expects it should be otherwise. The instances in 'Ouch Princes of the Blood have signalised them selves in taking a prominent part in parliamentary opposition are not for the most part of an edifying character, though there are memorials of manly and consistent conduct like that pursued by the father of the present QUEEN when Duke of KIM; and by the late Duke of SCA stx, which the popular mind still loves to look back upon with affectionate regard. It cannot, however, be denied, that the exigencies of their political and social position render it peculiarly de sirable that the younger branches of the Royal Family should have the solace, the sympathy, and the support of those social connexions which may most fitly tend to nationalise and liberalise their tlo.tights and feelings. Mingliug, as they are cer tain to do, with the members of the ancient and opulent aristocracy, they are likely to form at tachments of love or friendship as other men do ; and about the best that could be wished for them would be that such preferences when disin ten,tedly formed should be hallowed by the pure and ennobling sand:one that are invoked by all other orders in a Christian State. Why should their affections be statutably frozen, or their inherent , Pights of choice and of Com panionship for life be subjected to the will of others! Was it justifiable as a question of morals to endeavour to prevent the late Duke of S 1 ',,,EX from living happily with Lady Acucar lit nazi. as his true and lawful wife ; or failing that, was it Morally right for a series of years solvently to deny the marriage, and impute to • faithful and affectionate wife—for wife in the sight of th.o she nodnubtedly was, as much as any duchess in the land—the reproach of living in coneubinage It is vain to pretend that the of Crown or Parliament can snake wroev to be right or change right into wrong. Public opinion, it may confidently be said, never ratified the Royal Marriage Act of illr..afte 111. It was attributed to narrow-minded prejudice and pride, on the part of that not very sagacious 11mila:di, and to party meanness on the part of Lin Ministers and their majority in Par- Lament. The belt It.all in the realm protested against the aiemure Lite time ; and the national f.rliig sought trot in a long-continued rain of vibrate, rimotinade. arid caricature, Hsi • ther., nr. solid or sniotk motive of policy b i r. Of. -firm to. roinpmrate for its Anntoral tr ,d. , ? TIr:o 'nay Ix 3 t ,fteillerations which we need not enter here, why an heir appa rent or an heir presumptive should be etatutably bound not to marry without the consent of his responsible advisers of the Privy Connell, or pest hags, of Parliament. We should be sorry to see the door opened to intrigues and cabals, such as those by which, in Teooatimea, NORTHUMBERLAND endeavoured to clutch the crown for his son, or those by which, in the days of the subsequent dynasty, the daughter of CLARENDON was secretly wedded to the next heir to the throne. But with regard to the junior branches of the Royal Family, public opinion, we are persuaded, would heartily approve of material relaxations of the present law, if not of its abolition. The nation recog nises no advantage to itself in the per petuation of a system whereby all the Princes and Princesses of the Blood are compelled to mate with the members of foreign reigning Houses. A very strong impression exists, on the contrary, that as the titled aristo , cracy instinctively seeks to recruit its strength by intermarriage with eminent individuals of the Commons, and adds in no small degree to its stability by so doing, so it were well if the less prominent branches of Royalty were permitted to unity with the sons and daughters of the princely houses by which on all sides they are surrounded. During the greater portion of the national history they were so permitted. The restriction has nothing of antiquity about it which could give it in the eyes of any a claim to veneration ; and we are certainly not aware of any particular good that has ever been even pretended as the fruit of our experience during the last ninety years. It was notoriously set at nought by more than one of the persons whose conduct it was intended to regulate during the reign of the Sovereign who was its author. In the childless reigns of the two succeeding monarchs the case did not arise ; and it is only of late that during the present reign contingencies of future royal marriages have been recalled practically to our recollection. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1861; EXPRE:SS FROM PARIS. (now on OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY ITEM. I have reason to believe that the important de spatch which was sent off yesterday morning from Paris to London contained the answer of the French government to the representations made by Lord John Russell relative to the French occupa tion of Syria, and that the cabinet of the Tuileries —as you must all along have expected would be the case—refuses to be bound by its treaty engage . _ _ meat to withdraw at the end of the stipulated ;ix months. Of course this breach of the treaty is veiled by offers to refer the matter to au impossible congress. The lithographed correspondences and some of the papers now speak of a " tension" in the diplomatic relations between France and Eng land, and connect with it the rumours of an ap proximation between France and Russia. The Opinion Nationale, noticing these rumours, regrets that the English government and press are not more complaisant towards France, but at the same time avows its preference for the English rather than the Russian alliance, because it sees con stantly in the horizon the Eastern question, which it would not at any price see resolved for the benefit of Russia. Orders from Paris, sent on the 6th, direct that three months' provisions are to be sent out to the Gaeta fleet, but the Prase observes that this news must not be taken as in contradiction with that of the withdrawal of the fleet on the 19th, because there is a report that it is to proceed from Gaeta to the Adriatic. It is rumoured that the Count de Chambord has just remitted a second aid of 8,0001. to Gaeta, and that Francis 11. has also received considerable amounts of money from Spain. The Bourse was better to-day. The Rents, after some fluctuations, closed with considerable firmness, and a rise of 25c. for cash and 20c. for account, at 67fr. 15c. and 67fr. 10c. The better opinion, how ever, is that with the present dearness of money no large investments in the funds can be expected, and that the improvement to-day is attributable mainly to purchases for the realisation of profits. Mobilier rose llfr. 25c. The Orleans and Northern railways rose 3fr. 75c. each ; Eastern and Lyons, 2ir. 50c. each ; and Southern, lir. 25c. Western without change. In answer to rumours that the session of the Senate and Corps Legislatif would be postponed till several days after the meeting of the English par liament, a paragraph in the Moniteur bulletin says : It appears to be certain that the Senate will be convoked before the end of the month to deliberate upon the SCILO4IIB comalNist alluded to in the decree of November 24, end that the station at the Corp Legialatit will be opened in the early Fart of February. The Yatrie cites this announcement as " putting an end" to all uncertainty on the subject, but the Opinion Nationale notices the incongruity of the official journal speaking with the reserve implied by the expression "it appears certain," of such a matter astheopeningof thelegishetive session, about which the government must know whether or not it has changed its mind. The object of the Moniker, however, it further observes, is to recon cile the interest which it wishes to impart to its new "political bulletin" with the circumspection naturally imposed upon a government organ, and this task is "not easy." I dare say that in the present instance the assertion of the Monitettr, although oouched in a conjectural form, may safely be taken as conclusive, but cases now may be ex pected to occur, in which the reader will be in doubt whether a fact stated, or a principle laid down by the Moniteur, are to be taken as com mitting the government, or whether they are only to be received as political gossip of somewhat bet ter authority than that in the ordinary journals. M. SCRIBE AND THE LATE MARSHAL ar. ARNAUD. Iu 1853, K Scribe, the dramatist, sold a house and grounds, called Montalaia, in the neighbourhood of Merida', to Marshal de Saint Arnaud for 150,000 f., and in 1859 the marshal's widow sold them to M. Conker, an u-agent de change, at Bordeaux, for 290,000 f. The deed of Isle to that gentleman set forth that the park, kitchen garden, and four pieces of land which composed the doostin were of "about eleven hectares," but when he came to measure them he found that they were not very much more than half. He ►ccordingly brought an action before the Civil Tribunal spirt Madame de St. Arnaud to get back part of hi purchase money, and the singular discovery was Wen made that though since 1815 the domain had been possessed by different persona, the Duke de BESSIIIO, M. Testu, N. Lafiltte, M. Ch. Nadler (the author), /cc., the park, kitchen garden, and land had never been measured, and had always been de. scribed as consisting of "about 11 heriares ;" it wee also dis covered that this arose from the four pieces of land bay ing been, by en-or, described in a deed previously to 1815, an being of " 8 hectares " (the hectare is 21 acres; though in reality they were only of about 8 acre—the acre is 100 square metres). The tribunal held that, r the deed of sale executed by Mow. de Saint Arnaud did not emanates that there were 11 hectares, M. Collinestes action scald not be admitted. An appeal of this gentle man spinet the decision wee beard at Saturday by the Imperial Court, but the judgment was confirmed. In the curse of the pleadings the statement was made that in the park there is an old walnut tree, under which, sc. cording to tradition, Rabelais wrote part of his works. The following curious letter from M. Scribe to Marshal St. Amand, showing the way in which the author drove a bargain with the hero of the coop cr Oat, was read in court, mad produced much amusement : "Montan'', May 4, 1553. " Marione le Marechal,—After your gracious visit the council assembled for domestic deliberation, and the person age whom you so justly style the • Minister of the Interior,' my wife, opened the debate. She entirely agreed with you that as a matter of business we must altogether leave out of the account the fact that this merely pleasure property coat us 100,000 crowns (300,000 fr.), and that we should forget all the money expended upon it from fancy or caprice. But at the mine time she observes that the outlay, which has really augmented the value, should be taken into conside ration ; that the building hewn out of the rock which now forms the stables, coach-home, granaries, and servants' room, east 30,000 fr. ; that 7 or 8 acres of the kitchen gar den and park, bought at 100 fr. the perch, i. e. I,ooofr. the acre, cost, and a folly it was, 80,030 fr., but that they are at any rate honestly worth half the money ; that 130,000 fr. for the original property, added to 30,000 k. for build. ' log and 40,000 fr. for additional land, amounts to 200,0001 r., which is the sum we originally asked for Ifontalais, and my Mini.ter of the Interior argues that in reducing that price at once of our own mooed and ' without any biggling, to 160,000 fr. we are treating in a frank, ~enable, and loyal manner, which you, Monsieur le Marichel, better than any one else, must appreciate. My excelleut minister also says, and your notary will confirm her assertion, that the upset price of a real estate is alwey s pet at less then the real value is order to attract bidder., and that if Montalals were put up in three lots at 140,000 k., it would fetch by auction a third more, Net as it happened only three days ago in the cam of No. 34, Rue de Provence, which being put up at 250,000 k, was knocked down for 400,000 fr. in the teeth of our notary, M. Wasselin, who had offered on our account es much as 380,000 k. My wife adds, moreover, that the universal rise in the value of every description of property, and the unheard-of prosperity of affairs in general, is owing to the events of December 2, of which Monsieur le Mazichal was to a great extent the glorious author, and that he cannot complain of any augmentation of which he is the cause. For all these reasons, Monsieur Is Mariehal, the unanimous opi nion of the council is that our prances] of !60,000fr. wae roily eou.tebi , , and that we muss abide by it, hoping that ' your amiable and damming Minister of the Interior will Wl* Court. OSBORNE, JAIL 9. Thu Quern, Prince Convert, and Royal Family, walkwl is the grounds this morning. Her Majesty's dime party yeetenlay included the Prince of Wales, Prime Alfred, Primer Alice, Carted* the Hun. F. Egertee, R.N., Captain the Hoe. J. Dermas, R.N., and the Leiclies and Cattiness is Waiting. A deputation of publidams, eoesiatiag of Mr. Gasses, Mr. Gmuliart, Mr. Fonts, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Lloyd, and Yr. White, waited upon Sir Hemp Ocenswall Lewis, at the Hoomdflce,yesterdae, toe the puma,. of obtaining Wake for stopping, at the Ciuncan-bome, pinions of English en 'revamp, and also a more speedy and lees expeniiive remedy sigaimst photographers sad Mbar producers and aliens of pirated copies of English coygsight wagraviap. Lord Leigh has received for the ribaod weavers of Coventry the cum of 201. respectively, from their Royal ilighneme the Duchess of Canstridp, the Duke of Cam bsidp, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg *relit; and the Prisons Mary Adelaide. The Duchess of Hamilton has just arrived in Park, sad will shortly be joined by the duke. The Countess of thengall has arrived at hor rathleann is Orosvesor-drist from Ireland. Miaa Coutte entertained at dinner lad evening, at bar reidowes io BtrattotHrtreet, the Duke of St. Albans sad Lady Dims Bessielerk, Visouunt Falkland. Viscount tad Viseatoftes Torrington, Lady Chantrey, Use Dam et St. Paul's aid Mrs. Milmaa, Mir James Kay Shutilawarth, General and Yrs. Malsolas, Rev. Henry Howarth, Pro fessor Wheatstone, Hr. sad Mn. El. Ilarioribanks, Hr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Bodkia, Mr. Hubbord, A marriage in about to take place between Simalish G. Rowley, Eau, of Sylvan. Park, co. Meath, and Mies Franme Macsaghten Eiskiee, *Mast daughter of the How John '. Erskine, end niece of the present Lord Erskine. Lady Mary Wilbraham Egurton gave birth to a daysrlder yesterday, at 67, Laridci•miliale. Lady iirsuiptun, the wife of Sir John Crampton, Qs British envoy at St. Petersburg, was presented last week at the Imperial court, and nu:aired by the Empress Me the most Uttering narks of grace and favour. Lady Quayle% it will be rernesbared, was our charailag young venal, Kim Victoire Halfe, who was withdrawn by her awnriage fan an artistic career which inotiiisol to be of extmordisary brilliancy. We (nava) have authority for saying that there no truth in the etaterneat which has appeared in scum lei }ousels to the effect that Yr. Phine, Q.C., is about to proseed is a *had capacity to Madras. We believe Olden appietment was offered to, but at cum declined by the leerasil sentlenaan. The government of New South Wales have or dered, through the Bawl of Trade, a supply of treas.'s& and two can from Mr. G. F. Train, fur a horse railway to connect the railway at Sydney with the docks. . - . A Mohammedan, uonstantly in the habit of visiting the Crystal Palace, writes : —"I have frequently been moth disgusted at the carelessness or ignorance of the artists who designed the Alhambra Court, in permitting the ireription of the holy same of tiod on the Boor of that building. All Moors most cordially disapprove such a wanton desecration of the lame which is reverenced alike by both Christians and Mohammedans. Ido not think that those persons who place the lamed name in such a con. tempters position can sincerely adore Him. The Moorish embroider, when in England, protested most strongly against this andign.ity, wed his sentiments are coincided in by all Ilahmamadsas in Leedom, se well as by your ohs. awl seramt, Mossaaara LAMATE.* Tin Qrsmes LiszaAurr. —As the royal yacht Mester-ooraneasding Manistee. was Puling op the lichen river a day or two thee, for the purposed landing a Queen's messenger in the Southampton Duck+ from Os a man fell overboard while the steamer was j at speed. The marines were immediately stopped hacked sad a boat was got ready and lowered to proceed to tba..felltres rescue. A collier brig was fortunately at the time, and CIO accident being wen on a boat with two men was quickly despatched frees the brig, which Lot to the unfortunate man abed three seconds before the yacht's boat reached hiss. sod was the means of saving him before he sack for the bat time. CIO the tiueen being subsequently made acquainted with the fact, her Majesty, with her usual thostehtfuloom and kindness, gave orders that Z.l. should lie presented to the two men belonging to the brig as a reward for the promptitude and zeal th.:v displayed in saving the life of a fellow creature. We molerstend that the man's time h Alexander M'Dunald, quartenn.sater of the Ellin. Steps are being taken to ascertain tho omens of the two sailors who are to be the worthy recipients of her Majesty's Lotto DTRBY AND M. aiI:LA'S cele totalled French critic, fully appreciating the excellence of Lewd Derby's translation of noun of the beet odes of Neireee, recently ronfidol to a Meal in England a copy of his own French version of that author, with a request that he would forward it to his lordship. M. Jules Janus joined to the work some graceful French verses in honour of the nobly translator. The gift has been acknowledged in the fol lowing letter -" Knowsley, Dec. 31, long and painful illness, of between three and four niootha ham thrown say correspondence greatly into arrear, and will, I hope, be accepted as an apology for my mot having earlier 1 acanowleilged with thanes the receipt of your letter of the 20th with the volume which sou have been good i enough to transmit to me on the part of M. Jules Jassiu. May I beg you, when you have w op portunity, to assure that gentleman how highly I feel flattered by the eonipiiment which has been peel me, 1., one so highry di tine - nailed in the literary rota in sending DIV a ogre of his work, aceom palsied by hi. autograph, which will greatly enhance its value. At the male time, lam bonsai to confess that be has dome me ton much hoomir in classing 1110 with himself in the list of translators of Horace. All that I have at tempted in that way ti 11 Lusa the translation of a few of the mks, two of which have appeared in a publication of a freed of mine, and which I pry-ammo are those which M. Jules Janis hes honoured with his approvaL—l have the boosur to be, sir, your obedient servant ; Inner.' The Renner or Sr. STETHAN B, WALE/WOW. Yadonlay the Grocers' Company, with whom the right of preseitatine rested on this occasim.... mferred the of tit. elisphen's Weliwook, and At. Bengt Shereliov. m wTi l a had become vacant by the dr..th of Dr. Croly, upon tire Lev William Vi indle, M.A., 11....51i5k0 Hall, Oxford, vicar of Eirtling, ere New • ss• : th- oiricese of Ely, and formerly c-rate of Fut, . the a were .7 caodiciate. to Le vacant &tics. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (szerviem smacuss.) CHINA. SH.kNCIIAI, Nov. 21. The intelligence from the North in unimportant. The treaty has been posted on the walls of Pekin. The allied army and its head-quarters reached Tientsin on the 17th Nov., where the Hon. Mr. Bruce will remain until the spring. Troops are leaving daily, proceeding down the river. The Ruauan ambassalor is established at Pekin. Mr. Adkins is preparing for the reception of Mr. Bruce. A Chinese representative is to reside in England. All the important Chinese ports are open to trade. The rebels are again threatening Shanghai and Ninon. The greatest alarm prevails. CANTON, Nov. 29. Permission has been granted to foreign eteaniera lo trine in the inland waters. FOO-CHOW4OO, Nov. 22. Civil , listurbaucee are anticipated. SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. The William Kirk has been lost in Torres Straits. The crew were save4l. NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA. DEFEAT OF THE NATIVES. MELBOURNE, Nos•. 24. Intelligence from New Zealand announces that a desperate engagemeut was fought at Mahoetallt on the Pith of November, resulting in the complete defeat of the natives and the death of their head chief. The Melbourne markets have greatly improved. The following are departures of gold ships since the last mail :—The Wellesley with 32,854 oz. ; the Strathedon, 49,040 us. ; the Essex, 14,845 oz. ; Champion of the Sees, 9,114 ca. Export of wool, 16,851 bales. ADELAIDE, Nov. 26. The crops are most luituiant. The wool clip is highly satisfactory—lo,ooo bales have been shipped. NAPLES, (nom OUR OWN CORIZVONDENT.) (IT SCIRMAJLINS AND BRITIAR TYJ.RORAIII.) NAPLES, WEDNESDAY. Another unimportant reactionary movement was attempted yesterday, but was speedily suppreasedl and some lazzaroni made prisoners, by the National Guard. An armistice of ten days has been concluded with the besieged at Gaeta, The nomination of Prince Carignan as Governor of Naples is very popular. People are actively en gaged in the electoral nominations. We read iu the Journal des Debate of to-day : "Tbe report of the recall of the squadron of M. Barbier de Tinan has been confirmed. The Pied monteae have redoubled their vigilance and acti vity. Reinforcements have been *sent to the Abruzzi, where Civitella still continues, and where it seems certain that Count Tra pani, a prince of the royal family of Naples, has just entered. The arrest of Crispi at Palermo is spoken of in consequence of the popular movements which induced the Turin cabinet to constitute a new administration in that city. It is given out that the Sardinian government are about to form ten new regiments. In replying to the con gratulatory addrees presented to him by the magie tratae of the Milanese Junta, the King spoke with momewhat more decision than when he replied on New Year's-day to the corporation of Turin. "Having now become a great nation," he said, "we may be resolute in will without endangering our destiny." A letter in the Pressc cites, but with all reserve, the following despatch from Leghorn, in the Align:wine Zeitung : " Jan. s.—Two Russian ships of the line and one frigate hare arrived in this port, and several others are expected. Their destination is Gaeta." HUNGARY. VIENNA, WIDNIADAT. The Oil. Drotiche Port saps : " AceoetiMg to a telegram received from Pee* dated Bth inst., the Government resolved on the 7th instant to adopt a peovisionary electoral law for Hungary on the basis of the bth Article of the law of 1848." The same telegram abate that the Hungarian Diet will assemble on the 2nd of April. PRUSSIA. BERLIN. WEDAZADAT Emma. Prince Murat, the Grand Duke of Tu.scany, and the Count of Flanders were received to-day by the King. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. FRANKFORT.ON-THE-MALVE, ii r ILDDIZSDA Y. It is stated on reliable information that in the rating of the Committee of the Federal Diet of the 7th instant, the Prussian and Austrian representa tives stated the views they held in common in refo rm°, to the measures to be taken against Denmark un account of Holstein. All the Ohre members of the Committee con curred is these views, and M. von Pforten, the reporter of the Committee, was requested to present his report as soon as possible. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, JIM 9. M. J. P. Cornets de Groot von Kraayenbarg has been appointed Colonial Minister in the place of M. Rochnasen. AMERICAN MAIL uvatrooL, Tilt;lligDAT. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer North Briton, which sailed this morning for Portland, only took 2,2301. in specie. The Etna and Bohemian have both arrived here. M. H. d'Arniin, Prussian ambassador at Paris from 1846 to 184 d, and rnisiectuently Minister of State in Pram* did at Dusseldorf four days bask. aged 63. . . . A Madrid journal affirms that theguv,rameut Lad seat an agent, named Dioadado, in peat haste to Morocco, to make known to the Emperor that if he did not within a short time pay the instalment of the war indem nity, which is now o►erdue, Tomlin should be bombarded. _ - - The Giornale di Verona a few days ago published a long article in defence of the imperial patent extending the forced currency of bank notes to Venetia, remarking that it could do an harm, provided the people would aid the measure by their good will, and, by a moderate stretch of imagination, consider a bank note as real cash. The Upitliome of Turin gives the Gioniale di, Verona a home thrust, by inquiring how it comes that in Its very next num bet, in its " Notice to Subscribers," it informs them that, in the payment of subscriptions, the florin must be " florins in hard cash, either silver of f all weight, or else gold coiu Should not, the Op;ansme asks, the official gazette be the fint to set an example of the requisite " stretch of ima gination The I'&to,ii.•n of Genoa publishes the text of the Latin diplo:•ia by which the Roman Senate confer. the dignity of a Roman noble on General tie lemoriciZre and his descendant, The Austrian Gazette announce"' that Count Teleky, who in Intr, was named member of the Municipal Cannon of Pettit, has been re-established in that dignity, althodgl. alawnt. For that purpose the nsunkipal body, whirl numbered . :47, Las teen Mutated to 24A. dolga to take into consideration all the reasons hereinbefore urged. It will always be nude:Mood, as we said yesterday, that Ulf the purchase money only is to be paid down, and the other half according to your convenience, even by monthly instalments if year like, so that you may scarcely feel that you are paying anything ; it is also agreed that our cid furniture shall be valued at once, and that you will take hereafter only such articles as may suit you, but that you will do us the honour to make use of it fur a year. Pilleelloll may be had to-morrow or next day if you so wish. It is with pain I confess that I leave Moetelais, which I have inhabited for a quarter of a century, sad where I have pealed twenty-five of the most laborious and, at the same time, the most agreeable, years of my life. But my regret is diminished by the thought that, thanks to my illustrious rummer, Montalais, which I have so much loved, will be. come an histmicid residence, and will never be forgotten. " Accept, Monsieur le Marichal, the assurance of my high and respectful consideration. " Encrust Soma, of the French Academy." Notwithstanding the ingenious pleading of M. Scribes " Minister of the Interior," the Marshal made him strike off 10,000 f. from his ultimatum, and, as above appears, Madams St. Arnaud was fortunate enough to sell the pro- perty at the end of six years at a profit of 140,000 fr., nearly cent. per ant. THE FRZNCH IN SYRIA. The following news from Syria appears inllier's lithographic sheets : General d'Hautpoul has returned to Saidli, where a rein forcement of 200 French troops ham been seat in all haste from &grout It appears that our cessidar spat ham bad occasion to complain of an insult offered to the Preach flag by a Turkish colonel, and that, cm the other hand, a new es an on of Mahomedan fanaticism is to be feared. A con y was likewise concocted at Alcppo, which fortunately proved abortive, thanks to the vigila n ce of the French authorities. Fourteen individuals have been arrested, among whom are the chief conspirators. According as the court-martial pursues its task it Bads ham of the which menace the Christian population. What be the consequence, therefore, if our troops were withdrawn! WURFEMBERG. A great sensation has been produced at Stutt gart, and in Wurtemberg in general, by a recent judicial decision in matters of the press. The Beo a journal exercising great influence among the liberal party of Southern Germany, had re printed, from a democratic pamphlet, the biography of Robert Blum, and the well-known "Black List," Le. the register : of those advanced liberals who bad been shot by court-martial in Baden in 1849, after the popular movement there had been overthrown the Prince (now King) of Prussia. The pam in question is from the peu of the exile Karl who has of late issued a great many publica tions of the same kind. Now, at the bidding of the Wurtemberg government, Beobachfer , . after having copied the pare referring to the doings of the Prince of Prussia, 11111 b seized by the police. An appeal to the judicial authorities has, however, brought about now the release, and consequently the free circulation, of the offensive copy. This is a decision of uncommon importance, showing the gradual slipping away of politic from the Gei:man monarchs. As may be easily imagined, the re leased paper has been forthwith perused with avidity by a vast number of readers. The " Black List" it contains, and which has awakened the wrath of the Wurtemberg government, is a close statement of terrible historical facts, the remem brance of which is, no doubt, very unpalatable to the powers that be, but which could not possibly be treated as a criminal utterance by • court of justice standing on the ground of the law. Many German journals, among them the Berlin National Gazette have alluded to the great impression pro duced by the facts above mentioned. According to the Augsburg Gazette, the Austrian forces in Venetia consist of 183,000 infantry, 52 batteries of field artillery, 10000 of the corps of engineers, and 5,000 cary. These figures do not include the garnsous in the forts and the men in the navy. As reserve, there are 35,000 soldiers in the neighbourhood of Trieste, and along the coasts of Istria and Dalmatia, their headquarters being Trieste ; and 35,000 men in Styria, Illyria, and Carinthia; headquarters Gratz. A RUSSIAN MORTARA CASE. A St. Petersburg letter says : The relate an act that cannot be too much re gret and which has occurred in Lithuania. It is a sat of parallel to the Mortara cam at Rome. A Jew, Binel Nearlack, had beset, settled for some time in a of the government of Kovno. On the night betweelt 7th and Bth of October (old style) four peasants from • neighbouring village rushed into his dwelling, after brisk lug down the door. and attempted to carry off his eldest daughter, who was fifteen years of age. The strong tosist ance she opposed, ono her cries, which awoke her parents, made the kidnappers loom their bold. Instead of the eldest they then seised the youngest, a child of ten years, and dragged her withoutdittioulty to their earl The poor father endeavoured to rescue be child from the rob but they beat Sim and dashed him seamless to the ground. Nevertheless, as soon as he regained consciousness, he flew in pursuit of them, bat all his inquiries were fruitless. Some days later Neadack learned that his daughter was kept confined in the house of the priest klatzievski is the little town of Kornai. Neither the leers nor prayers of the desolate father were able to soften the bard heart of this cord, who refused him an interview with the child, alleging that she had shown • wish to turn Christian. Is it possible to believe, that a child of barely 10 years, aincerely attached to her parrots and all her family, could have had the idea of su dden ly changing her religion? Meodeck lost no time in laying hie complaint before the authorities against this unheard-of outrage. The journal which an nounces this act does not say if reparation has been awarded to the Jew, or if the guilty have been punished. 1 hope justice will leave her hl.ing gait in this Maurice and act vigorously. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, WEDNICSDA T. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Etna, Capt. Kennedy, from New York, ou the 29th ult., with the United States mail, has arrived. The Australasian, from Liverpool, had passed Cape Race. The excitement at Charleston continued. Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinackney, the Custom house, the Poet-office, and Arsen►l, had been occu pied by troops belonging to South Carolina. The President called together the members of the Cabinet on receipt of this news, but it was be lieved that nothing decisive was agreed upon. The Nem York Herald says that the committees of Congress on the crisis will accomplish nothing. The New York Times says :—" The hope of a compromise grows stronger every day." Advises had been received at Baltimore stating that the Dominican government had taken forcible possession of the guano islands in the Caribbean Sea belonging to America. NEW YORK, DEC. 2s, Evssmc. The Secretary of the Treasury opened to-day the propwals for the 5,000,000 flol4. of Treasury Bills. Lola than half the amount was bid for, at an averse of 12 per cent. Money is easy. Exchange firmer, at 103 4_ to 'KM, for sterling. Stocks inactive, but clos ed *toady. New York Central, 75/ ; Erie. 35/ to 36 ; Illinois scup, 69. Cotton firm. Middling Upland, 11/c. Sales 1,500 bales. Flour firm, at 5 cents higher. What and corn 'inner. Peek km. Sugar steady. Coffee quiet. Freights firm. LONDONDERRY, Jan. 9. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Bohe mian, Captain Grange, from Portland, Maine, on the 29th ult., LOA arrived t and landed all mails. She weed the steamers North American, United Kingdom, Palestine, and John Bell. The Kan garoo waa off Cape Race on the 27th ult. The politic news brought by the Bohemian has been anticipated by the Etna. miser sr ramczare.) The North American paned Cape Race on the 28th December. NEW YORE. Drs. 29. Stocks firm. Illinois Central, 69j ; New York Central, 7A ; Erie, 37. Cotton firm and unchanged. Breadstuff% are quiet, bat scarcely so firm. Provisions steady. NEW ORLEANS, lir . VI. The cotton market is firm. Sale, to-jay, 5,010 hales ; sales of the Indic, 64000 bale Ke.:eipts thirin , g the same pet lod, 67,600 ',alai. Re , ..eipts be:va lan year, 49,..,000 ITALY. ODOM ova own ooDaasresseerra , p re s i d ed 6. Yesterday after a council of mini TUßlN aters presided over by the King, orders were sent by telegraph to our ships of war at the various naval stations to prepare for immediate service, and a destination that will be mentioned in a subsequent telegram. To-day, and at this very moment, the ministershave again met in council, and it is probable that the second despatch in question will be sent as inti mated. But to what spot are our _ships bound This is the secret. Perhaps for the Gulf of Gaeta, in consequence of the negative reply given by Francis IL to the French offer of mediation. There are some persons who suppose a much more serious destination for our fleet—that it will have to appear off an Austrian port, from which one of our men-of-war was turned back when it asked for refuge in a storm. But for my part, Ido not think there is any wish to break so soon with Austria, and that it will be more advisable for us to put up with her provocations for some time longer. For the rest, our maritime condition before Gaeta will be no less embarrassing when the French fleet retires, because Russia atill refuses obstinately to recognise the blockade, nor has your diplomacy succeeded yet in inducing her to withdrew her veto. Within the last two or three days, however, there are signs that the court of St. Petersburg is less hostilely inclined towards us than before. Yesterday evening Count Cavour was at the Rossini Theatre, and the Commendatore Costan tino Nigra was with him. But in the meantime the telegraph of Marseilles amused itself by an nouncing to Europe that he was dead. Having in. troduced Ni name, permit me to tell you some thing about him, which is, that before many days are over he will have to sustain one of the chief parte in the government of Naples. He is a native of Strambino, a small district in the Piedmontese province of Jurea. There, at a very early age, he attracted the notice of Massimo d'Azeglio, who was at that time the deputy of Strambino, and who took a great liking to the youth on discovering his great abilities and excellent disposition. In the war of 1848, Nigra left his studies and went out as a volunteer to fight for Italy's independence. When republican and reactionary intrigues led to the reverses at Novara and the hard peace that followed, Nigro returned to his studies. Massimo d'Azeglio remembered him and made him his pri vate secretary, when he himself was Minister of Foreign Affisirs. Thoroughly acquainted with his own language (in which he is no indifferent poet), as well as with English, French. and German (besides Latin and Sanscrit), and having shone in his legal and diplomatic studies, he leaped, as it were, at once into reputation. As soon as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs passed into the hands of Count Cavour, Nigra was promoted. Cavour soon put to the proof his acumen and tact, by employing him in various delicate negotiations, often sending him to Paris, where he was afterwards with him at the Congress, and Nigra knew the secret of the famous conversation at Plombieres, where the war of 1859 was prepared. The rest you know, be cause Niers held office in the Sardinian Legation at Paris, and was envoy himself ad interim when the chiefs were recalled from Turin and Paris. Last month Nigra had conferred upon him the effective title of Minister of Legation es ciispoisibilit4. The recent refusals of Count Pones di San Martino and Signor Rattazzi to go to Naples have opened for him that dangerous road to Naples, where, by the side of his' Hig hness the Prince of Carignan, Victor Emmanuel a viceroy, he will be able to ren der important services to the Italian cause, but where he will in all likelihood find more thorns than he has hitherto done in his rapid rise to high office. In a letter which has ' met come to light Gari baldi invitee all the Italians to concord. Ha counsels them to have for their sole chief Victor Emmanuel, in order that this King may be enabled, with the help of a million armed said united Italians, to rescue the other parts of their great common country from servitude. Became Garibaldi thinks all Italians are generous, like himself and his son, he thinks it an easy thing to procure a million of armed men in a couple of months or so. Unfor. tunately the reality is very different from the enthusiastic visions of his heroic mind. If Italy only possessed half a million of fighting men, as Garibaldi wishes, she would be quickly free. The hero should remember that it took him more than six months to gather in the south of Italy 10,000 combatants, fcr volunteers from other parts of Italy did not run to him, and but for the army of Victor Emmanuel, he himself, after the most heroic of enterprises, would have been vanquished. Cer tainly it is most desirable that he should stimu late the Italians, and while Mazzini is sowing dis cord it is good that Garibaldi should preach con and recommend all to rally round the flag of the King Galantuoino. May he be listened to by all those persons that pretend to idolise him, but who in reality abuse his confidence and endeavour to make odious to him the most zealous and useful servants of Victor EminanueL This is what Gari baldi has hitherto not comprehended. A letter from Rome stye :—" Mr. Robinson, acting for the South Kensington Kunlun, has jut madras important acquisition here. He has purchased from the Papal Government the section of medieval Italian scull). tore of the oelebrated Campana collection. The number , of specimens is between 80 and 90, and includes series of twelve unique examples of majolica ware, which it appears wu much coveted by the Kensington authorities. The principal work is a beautiful lifesized marble statue of Cupid, represented in a kneeling attitude, as a youth of 11 or 16. There seems to be no doubt that this is an authentic work of Michael Angelo. The per. obese also comprises two admirable base relievi by Dome. telloy and important specimens of Jacopo della Quercis, Andrea Oreagus, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Deeiderio di Settignano. Rosselino, Luca della Robbie, he. Sir Charles Eastlake ban also recently acquired in Rome is fine picture of Fm Angelic) for the National Gallery." ARREST OP THE SUPPOSED MURDERER OP 3f. Poimscr.—Aceording to tit* Elberfetcl Gazette, a person, who is presumed to he Jud, the supposed murderer of M. Fo:esot. the French judge, has been arrested at Ludwigshafen. and lodged in the prison of Spire. The French authorities on being apprised of the fact sent a photograph of the real Jud, which bean a striking resemblance to the person arrested. On the night of the arrest the prisoner tried to commit suicide by hanging, but was prevented by the keepers. He is said to have thrown a quantity of gold coins which he had on his person when arrested into tie Rhine. WONDERFCL !—The sport relates the following " As three days ago the Emperor and Empress were walk. fag arm in arm in the Bob de Boulogne, his Majesty saw a young Lady, who was walking some paces before him, drop her pocket handkerchief, and hie blajeety picked it up and called to her. tthe turned round, as did also her father. mother, and brother, who accompanied her ; but all of them —they were, it is said, Rumian.—on recognising the Emperor, were thunderstruck, and he...anted to approach. The Emperor then advanced to the young lady and gave het the handkerchief." THE FRViCH Dm ON OIL SEED:A—The fol lowing is an extract from a Marseilles letter :—"The de cree which diminishes the duty on oil soeds imported bi foreign 'numbs and suppresses it almost entirely for French bottoms, has Leen must favourably received here. For the last two years our seed oil manufacturers have been scarcely aide to hold their ground against the Enlish coinpetitore who frequent our market. Several, indee d, had been com pelled to c10...e their esishliahments. The oiletke trade, which has assumed considerable importance in Languedoc. will Dow be once still more extensive, owing to the abun dant supplies of seed obtained from abroad." BALLAST AT CAPE DE VERDE lALANDII.—" British St. Vincent, ('ape de Verde Islands. Dec. li, 18130.—Sir,-1 have the honour to state that, in ennsequenna of sundry complaints having been made to me by the mas ters of British vessels regarding the want of facilities and despatch in the supply of ballast at this port, under the l a t e i n opopoly system, I addi eased a letter to the governor general of thie proviuce, on the tith S e pt em b er, on thi s ..ibjeet, and laid - before him the representations which had been made to me complaining of the system. I Live now the honour to report that the monopoly which exuded is now abolished, and that the supply of bOaet for the future is open to compet:tion. and that the Municipal Chewier will levy a rate of 200 rein (I d.) per ton on each ton of ballast shiiped.-1 have, ke., T ROMAB MILLER, C OVllll.—Tto the Secretary of the Board of Trade, Maria* Dmartment. London." Dovnn, WEDNERDAY.—The Balasis, of London, e-ptain Pynes, laden with coals from Shields to Dieppe. f..,indereci . off Whitby on Tuesday. Th e eapta i o an d crew we .. o iaudeti tat) pilot cutter, anal are safe ai the Dover sailers' Burnt.