The Express. — London, England, 1861-02-01 00:00:00

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TIN RVISRPR. tRINcI: AND THE BORE Messrs. Pitt. Parry. Jean LOOK Roby. and Norharn 11.111r.r. Stepnon, ilia A D.Jwidnx, Mrs. W. Crouton, —Anil A MIX 4 AIiK YR I 4 THE SBA. Warr*. Raynoklx and nmyttison . Mrs. E. I.iruuld. BIM! WATISR AT LONDON 111,1001. Twin Kit ° ..rn Afternoon, Mt. 13nt. to-notta,w—llorinu,‘ LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 1. Tim Court of Queen's Bench has at length decided that there shall be no further judicial inquiry into the mystery of the Road murder. As the supreme court by which all inferior judica tures are directed and controlled, and presided over by one whose office constitutes him Chief Coroner of England, it has pronounced that all has been already done which the law of England enjoins or sanctions. SO authoritative an exposition of the law must lie accepted, nor, perhaps, may there be ultimately cause of regret that at the cost of one appalling and undetected murder we have learned exactly what is the provision which our system makes for the discovery of secret crime. For in the present instance we have ascertained that the whole powers of the system have been put forth. It is admitted indeed that there may have been an indiscretion on the part of the coroner in not exa mining Mr. Km, but it it viewed as an indis cretion too trivial to call for • re-opening of the inquiry•. The Court of Queen's Bench, we are told, does not sit to correct a mere error in judgment, but cases of judicial misconduct. We are glad that it has not gone on such a ground. There is no possible system in which errors of judgment may not occur. What we have now to do is, dismissing from our view any such inaccu racies of administration, to consider the whole effect of the law, of which, the Judges of the Queen's Bench inform us, a fair and proper in stance is found ut the case to which so much at tention has been turned. Let us go back to the beginning, and see what are the means which the law supplies for the detection of strange, mys terious, and novel forms of guilt. There are but two such means. If the guilt fall short of manslaughter, there are but the efforts of the police. If death is the subject of inquiry, there is the additional engine of • coroner's in quest. Who is the coroner 1 In the Wilts case, a retired surgeon ; in other counties, often an at torney, or IM attorney's clerk, often a gentleman of no profession—any one, in short, whatever his quali fications, who can make interest, social or politi cal, sufficient to secure a majority of the free holders with whom the election rests. Who are the jury ? Twelve common jurymen of the neigh bourhood—a clergyman perhaps, • farmer, a baker, a grocer, a gardener : half of them proba bly not able to write their names. Before such a tribunal come such witnesses as common rumour may induce the coroner to summon. Let us grant that all parties do their duty as faithfully and as sensibly as Englishmen may be trusted to do any duty, but still two inevitable defects must mar their efforts. The first is, that neither coroner nor jury are trained to sift evidence, to follow slight traces of guilt, to distinguish and estimate at their true worth Übe and futile gossip, and important though slight seeming facts. The second is, that the inquiry is practically limited as to time. It must commence immediately—it cannot be continued indefinitely. All must be done in court, and a court must sit in virtue of formal adjournments. Neither coroner nor jury can afford to give the time which an obscure investigation may require. When the immediately suggested witnesses have been ex amined, the verdict must almost perforce be re turned. When it has been returned, there is no resuming the inquiry, whatever new evidence may be brought forward. At least there is no resum ing save in virtue of the writ of the Queen's Bench, which, after months of delay, much argu ment, many affidavits, and incalculable costa, may, or may not, be granted. In the days of EDWAkD 11. the statute which established this method of procedure was probably the best that could be devised. Then locomotion was difficult, popula tion thin, the pursuits of everyone well known, the motives of conduct few and simple. Is it probable that what then sufficed will serve in the days of Queen Vic-roata, in the days of railways, electric telegraphs, • swarming and ever shifting population, science offering every hour new re sources to occult crime, society suggesting the most complicated, various, and profoundly hidden motives for its commission ? Cbt Court. WINDSOR CANTLE, Zip. 31. The following visitors arrived at the Castle yesterday afternoon :—The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald ; the Prince and IPrisome de 'Marine, and Princess Francois d'Orleans, the Earl and Constar Grey, Lord Join, Manners, Viscount and Viscous. ter Giellarema, sad Colonel sad Lady Emma Talbot. Her Majesty's dieser party included the Princess Alice, the Earl of Shelburne, Colouel Seymour, C. 8., and the visitors who arrived in the afternoon. The band of the &zeta Fusilier Guards played during dinner. Her Majesty's private hand performed afterwards in the drawiag•room. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helens, Princess Joinvißs and PROM/ Francois. of Orleans, drove out in • carriage-and.four this morning. Colonel the Hon. .1. N. Hood was la attendance on horseback. The Prince Cower*, accompanied by the Duke of Cam bridge and Priam Joioville, went out shooting, attended by Colonel Ponsonby and Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald. Viscount Castlerosse and Colonel Talbot bad the &non of accompanying the royal party. The Trustees for the International Exhibition of 1942 met us Wednewl.,y, at South Kensington Museum. Pre sent : Earl Grauville. the Marquis of Chandos. Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. C. W. Mike, and Mr. Thomas Fair. Isdrn. limpet•hes were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong one, the West Indies, and British Columbia. Despatches were mot to the Gomm. et Canada. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Baronets Broome gave a grand dinner Lot evening, at Cheelum House, to ilia Kzctrllency Lord Napier and Lady Napier. The dinner party included the Ducheae of Inver ness and YIN Gore, Lord and Lady John Russell and Nile G. Itazsell, Lord and Lady Wodehonee, Lord and Lady Herbal of Lea, Count Bibles, Count Blouduff, Lieutenant Coloerdand Lady Elizabeth Rornilly, Lieutenant-Colonel and Madams Novitsky, Mr. ilammontl:Mr. Lumley, Mr. de Gas wed Mr. Babouruff. Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Dee Vceux have saliva at Thomas's Hotel, Berkelepoquare, from Drake. lowa, tear Burton-on-Trent. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has con tributed 80/. to the Coventry Re li ef Fad In a letter to a contemporary, in the coulee of an argument brought forward to discourage ladies from buying Coventry ribands these words were uned:—" The Coventry manufacturer is well aware of the dimintion of his profits on ribends, because the present demand newt be regarded as scything but artificial and temporary, and will not be likely to employ his capital so recovered in a continued production of them. He will invest it in Kees other entirely different branch of trade." Lady Leigh writes Allow me to observe that Mr. Moriey's arguments lead in general way to the conclusion at which ►e would wish us to arrive ; but in this special case I am happy to my that I have direct unrances that the Coventry riband manufacturers are about to make large investments of capital in improved machinery for the production of ribanda Those ladies, comsequeutly, who are buying Coventry ribands are giviug present relief to Coventry, and the means of being hide pendent of it for the future from any sources but those drawn from the enterprise and industry of her own citizens." When the coroner and the jury have performed, or failed in their Mak, there comes into play the agency which, save in manslaughter, is our sole reliance—the investigations of the police, the researches of the detective. Who now is the detective ? Generally a promoted policeman, one who, for good character, activity of body, sharp ness of mind, and development of the organ of individuality, has been raised from the ranks. Such a man is undoubtedly an excellent thief taker. He knows the haunts, he never forgets the faces, ho can almost tell the handiwork, of each particular pocket-picker or burglar. But he is not usually an educated man, and he never mixes in the society of educated men. And thus it happens that when a crime unwonted in circum stances and impenetrable in motive occurs he is helplessly stranded. His experience, his know ledge of men, are too limited to be of ser vice in this new case. He has no idea of what scientific appliances may effect, and therefore he lets traces of their use wear out unnoticed. He has no knowledge of the feelings and passions which work most strongly in the trends of the educated and the sensitive, and he is equally ignorant of the restraints under which they can be laid. So he thinks love of gain the only cue to robbery, and revenge or fear die only possible inducements to murder. But an equally fatal objection to hie method is one for which he is not personally responsible. He can en force no discovery. His inquiries may be answered or not, at the option of the persons to whom they are (Mt. He dare not arrest a suspected party until his suspicions will bear investigation. But till some one is arrested, and placed before a magistrate, the police have no power of compelling On Wednesday a public meeting, under the pre- Mammy of Earl Fitswilliam, was held at York, for the promotion of various objects connected with the interests the church. The Archbishop, with whom the meeting originated, Meted that in his diocese one-third of the bean goes were destitute of parsonage-houses, and one-fourth of the livings were under a hundred pounds a year in value. To remedy them evils, and meet a deficiency of church aoconimodation, the basis of a society was agreed upon, with proper officers for its manageinent. With a spirit of earnest liberality, Earl Fitzwilliarn has subscribed 2,000/. to the funds for carrying out this laudable scheme. In addition to the 'aroma other subject. taught in the different eluded of the Crystal Palace School cif Art, Science, and Literature, the scheme of which he. been. explained by us on former occasions, two new courses of special instruction were opened yeaterdey, at twelve o'clock, by Dr. Christopher Drown, who gave has first lecture on botany, sad at half-past two, by Dr. Les barter, on "Physiology Applied to Health and Ed.sden.■ They were both numerously attended, ladies and young people being the majority ad the audience. M. Henry Murger, a poet and dramatist of ocm gideralde renown, has just ied i haw" at the early so at 39. Hie most celebrated work was La We de &Moe, • drama whisk bad a weeder/id ma at tbe Varietis tea years ago, and was lately revived at the Vaudeville. The French official jovenala oontnulict a report that the naval school of Drat is to be abobabod. • THE _EXPRESS; FRIDAY EVENINe , —.--- any one to g i ve th em information. esquetien- LATESTINTELtIGENCE. — ably it is right that they should not have such I power —it is too perilous to be entrusted to such hands. But the fact that those to whom we dare not give authority to put a question are the only persons whom our law constitutes the detectors and investigators of crime, is conclusive that the system of the law is radically bad. The defects of the law point out the remedy required. Our present error is that for the detec. tion of murder we employ men without special training ; for the detection of all other crimes we employ men who have none but the narrowest special training. By nil means let us keep our detectives; they will work no less efficiently in their own peculiar aptitudes if we subject the re sults of their efforts to the revision of an educated lawyer before they are laid before a magistrate. But let us give to them the benefit of the direction, whenever it may be needed, of education, of legal knowledge, and of acquaintance with other classes than those which recruit the profession of crime. How this may be done our columns have already shown. Our correspondents have detailed to us the methods by which, no further off than in Scot land, it is done. We may profit by the experience of our Scottish friends without in all cases adopting their system. There are in it some parts which are repugnant to our notions of fair play, and these we shall do well to leave out. But there is nothing contrary to our ideas of justice in laying the duty of prosecuting crimes upon the State, and in per mitting the State to appoint paid lawyers and barristers to conduct all its prosecutions, instead of, as now, paying them in each separate case by fees allowed by the court, disbursed by the county, and at length refunded by the Treasury. Nor would there be danger to the constitution if we wore to give to such lawyers and barristers, appointed by and responsible to the Attorney. General, who in his turn is always responsible to the House of Commons, some control and direction of the detective police, and some power of calling witnesses before them for examination, even though suspicion be still so immature as not to warrant the arrest or accusation of any. Such a conso lidation and enlargement of our system would give it far greater vigour, .cuteness, and com pleteness than it now possesses. We should diminish the number of trials, but we should largely increase the number of con victions. Expense we should certainly save. What is now done for separate fees would be done more cheaply as well as more efficiently if the fees were all bestowed on selected lawyers. By the mere abolition of the clumsy and inefficient Coroners' Courts we should gain 60,0001. per annum. In Middlesex alone we should gain be tween three and four thousand per annum. It is obvious how long • way such a sum would go to wards the salaries of the attorneys and barristers who might be required to conduct the Crown business at the assizes, and to take order for the discovery of crimes in their interval. Is the AT* TORNEY-GENERAL too busy this year to initiate such a reform I Or will some independent Member not venture to win for himself the credit of conferring on the country a benefit so palpable and so immense THE SIEGE OF GAETA. LETTER OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. The following telegram bail been received by Mr. Renter : ENOA, Jag. St. The Gm Q eite di Genoa publishes a letter, dated off Gaeta, Jan. 28, stating that a French despatch boat had brought a letter to General Cialdini. con taining a letter from the Emperor of the French for King Francis 11., counselling the King to cease his resistance, in order to save himself the humiliation of a capitulation. The letter brought by the flag of truce which was sent from Gaeta on the 28th Jan. to Admiral Persano, was supposed to have con tained a reply to the Emperor's letter. The fire of the beiegers had (*need great de vastation in Gaeta. The Italian fleet had been increased by one vessel of war and one frigate. PRUSSIA. THE ADDRESS OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The commission appointed by the Prussian Chamber of Deputies to prepare an address in reply to the royal speech, have concluded their work, and a full analysis appears in the Nord of to-day. While the chamber (says the address) has saluted with satisfaction the men by whom the King's throne is surrounded, it confidently hopes that the government will exert itself to consolidate more and more the administrative unity which is so necessary, and that it will understand that its in terest is to execute its measures by means which will assure a loyal and complete concurrence. The chamber will scrupulously examine the credits demanded for the organisation and increase of the army. It will experience true satisfaction if it finds that the new organisation of the army rests in the limits of the legal bases of the military constitution, and if it can be persuaded that the disposable resources suffice to cover the augmenta tion proposed in the army, without unduly increas ing the public expenses. The chamber hopee,with the King, to see the solution of the question of the land tax, and the reform of the mar riage laws. It is of opinion that the legis lative action ought to be accelerated in order to achieve the development of the constitution, and to fix the limits which separate the law and the executive. The chamber has learnt with special satisfaction that the government is upoa the point of entering into negotiations with France relative to commercial relations with the Zollverein. These negotiations not only lead to the hope of a consider able increase of trade, but they also open up the happy perspective of two great nations finding fresh encouragement to rivalry in the works of peace. The chamber thanks the King for having, by his interviews with Sovereigns, obtained guarantees for the continuance of the European peso. ; it thanks the King also for declaring the defence of the integrity of the German territory the first duty of its German and its European policy. The chamber shares the desire of seeing the military constitution of the confederation revised ; but it also feels the neces sity of declaring that a better organisation of the federal army will not suffice to satisfy the legiti mate wishes of the German people. The unani mous accord of all the governments and all the German people, even when established, does not offer guarantees of permanence and energetic efficacity save when it is expressed in political institutions conformed to the needs of the age, and responding to the aspi rations of the German nation towards a more in timate union of its branches, and when it secures 1 to Prussia the position which is its right by its history and its strength, and which is justified by the inseparable interest of Germany and Prussia. The chamber confidently hopes that the govern ment will succeed, by the energetic use of all the necessary means, in re-establishing the constitu tional state in Electoral Hesse, and in restoring to a loyal and brave people their just rights. The chamber recognises it as a natural duty that Prussia, in concert with her allies, should bring about a fitting solution of the question of the German duchies, and it has the assurance that in the event of the federal exe cution taking place as to Holstein, the right of Germany with regard to Schleswig will be reserved. Prussia will recall the imperial expression that her destiny is to live in the enjoyment of her ac quimi possessions. Always ready to defend with all her strength the national interests and the in tercets of Germany—for are not those interests hers which belong to those of her own blood I—her people will grow in political civilisation under the new development of civil and constitutional insti tutions, and will find in them the surest means of destroying the subversive spirit. :14 , FABRUART vl, 1361 , • THE SCHLESWIO•HOLSTEIN QUESTION. HAMBURG, Tsuisra. According to advices received here from reliable quarters at Copenhagen, the great European Powers have urgently requested Denmark to grant concessions to Schleswig-Holstein, and have hinted that they would by no means recognise any blockade of the German casts which might be declared by Denmark in consequence of federal execution being despatched to Holstein. TURKEY. THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF SYRIA. The Paris papers publish a telegram from Con stantinople, dated 90th inst., according to which Prince Labanoff had remitted to the Porte a memo randum and further documents in reply to the re port of Kiprisli Pacha. These documents were ac companied by an energetic note demanding the convocation of an European conference at Con stantinople. The same telegram states that the Porte, having been called upon to unction a prolongation of the French occupation of Syria, had replied that she must insist upon the execution of the Paris con vention. EILPRESS FROM PARIS. trim oua own °Dammam:ff.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. There is something infinitely petty in M. de Peesigny's vindictive conduct towards M. Germano. If the main object of punishment be example, the government has nothing to gain by sending M. Gamic° out of the country (and thereby ruining him), because there is no other instance of a foreigner being the proprietor and editor of a French journal. In this business the minister gives way to a burst of ill temper which betrays a hatred of the press, and goes far to damage the reputation for liberality which he had acquired by the circumstances attending his recent accession to office. He has gratuitously put arms into the hands of the opposition deputies, which they will not fail to make use of in the debate on the address next week. What a formidable man foreigners must suppose M. Genesee to be, since the French government, although in a new-born liberal mood, felt it necessary to resort to such an extraordinary measure as that of sending him out of the country. Now, who is M. Ganesco A Wallachian, who came to Paris many years ago, when quite a lad, and who, unaided by for tune or patronage, had by talent and energy raised himself to a respectable position as a journal ist—nothing more. He was no party leader whose influence was to be feared, and the circulation of his journal was not extensive. Yet because be happens to be, technically speaking, a foreigner, though, in reality, • domiciled Frenchman, the minister, not content with " warning" his paper, says, "0 ho ! I find it is in my power to inflict a punishment upon you which I could not legally visit upon any other journalist ; you are a foreigner ; what do you mean by insulting Freuch institutions There is an article in the code which enables me to send you out of the country by my arbitrary will ; away you go ; I have told the prefect of police to take you off at once ; go, and learn in beggary and exile that the great French emperor will do a mis chief to any foreign journalist whenever he gets one in his power, which unfortunately is not often." That is the real signification of M. Ganesco's banishment. As to the article incriminated, its greatest fault is an assertion (which, whether true or not, is countenanced by the Pram, and many 'other journals), that in the late elections at Naples universal suffrage was distorted by violence, coupled, I admit, with an insinuation that what he said of Naples was not without historic application to France. Well, the misfortune is that there is no doubt whatever that pressure, and a fearful amount of pressure too, was exercised upon the elections of 1851 and 1852. Everybody not in the immediate pay of the French government said so at the time. But now, when all the world is agreed to say as little as passible about the origin of the present dynasty, to accept it as an accomplished fact, and to hope the best from its continuance, can it be wise of K de Persigny to provoke an issue about a paint of history which cannot be changed 1 M. Ganesoo's article contained no attack upon the French government, proposed no reforms incompatible with its existence, or even pointing to the expectation of a change of dynasty before thaw reforms could be executed. The " insult to our institutions" is only to be made out by the insertion of inuendos and the nice scrutiny of passages which would not strike an ordinary reader as containing any offence. In reference to this ticklish subject, the journals are for the most part as silent and cowering as a brood of chickens when ■ kite flies over a poultry yard. The Dikes very shortly states the facts in such a manner as to imply its disapprobation. The Miele alone ventures almost to speak out. It says : RUSSIA. ST. PETERIIBURG, JAIL 31. The Imperial Bank will from the 6th to the 11th February receive subscriptions to the new loan of 12 million roubles in Metalliquea, Waned at par, and bearing 4 per cent. interest. THE UNITED STATE& LONDONDERRY, THURSDAY. The Canadian screw steamer Nova Scotian, Captain 31%Luiter, from Portland on the 19th inst., has arrived here and landed all mails. She brings 64 p ssen agers. Her news has been generally anticipated by the Bremen. Wel had renurked M. Ganesco's article, and meant to have noticed it, but now we can neither discuss nor refute it. The form of the warning differs from that hitherto need. It has been customary, and a good custom we think it is, to mention in the warning the substance of the pas sages objected to. But in the case of the Courrier drr Dintrache the whole article is attacked. The second measure adopted against the writer of the article seems to as very severe. The administration having accepted a foreigner as principal editor of a weekly paper, the same motives which led to this departure from the rules gene rally observed, ought to have militated spinet this extreme measure of the Minister of the Interior. We will yet hope that M. de Persigny will revoke his order of expulsion. It is a serious thing to send into exile—to banish from his adoptive country—a man who years ago staked all his inte rests in Franoe, who has been leading here the life of a Frenchman, and who bad created for himself a position which he cannot find in another country. At the Bourse, after considerable fluctuations connected with the settlement, the Rente nearly recovered the fall of yesterday, leaving off at 68fr. both for cash and account, with a rise of 35c. ; Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. The railways were from lfr. 250. to sfr. higher. • The Pays notices " under all reserve " tho receipt of a despatch stating that the representa tives of all the powers who remained with Francis 11. at Gaeta had protested against the blockade /acclaimed by Admiral Persano, and that their protest had been approved of by their respective governments. M. Picard has gone to Troyes on a special retainer to defend M. Rambourg, member of the Corps Legislatif, against an action of libel brought by the mayor for some statements impugning his impartiality at the late municipal elections. WRECK AND LOSS OP FIFTEEN LIVES. PORTSMOUTH, FR►DIT MORNING. The barque Victor Emmanuel, of London, with general cargo, from Alexandria, went ashore at Cliff•end, near Blackgang Chine, Chale Bay, Isle of Wight, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, and by daylight yesterday was a total wreck, with a loss at 15 lives out of her crew of 19. Captain Box lost, after gaining the cliff. The boatswain, Burns, and three men saved. Four bodies recovered. BEamUDA.—Lioutenant-Colonel Harry St. George Ord, R.E., at present Governor of Dominica, is to succeed Brevet-Colonel Freeman Murray, as Governor and Com mander-in-Chief at Bermuda. REPEAL OP THE HOP DOPlCA.—Yesterday after noon a numerously attended and influential public meeting of the landowners and hop planters of Kent and Smeex was held at the assembly-mom of the Star Hotel, Maidstone, to promote the objects of the recently formed Central Asso ciation for obtaioing the total repeal of the excise duty upon home-grown, and the import duty upon foreign hops. The chair was taken by the Right Hon. Earl Amherst, and amongst these present were Lord Pevensey and Mr. D(111014 the members for East Sussex ; Lord Holmesdale and Sir E. Films; members for West Kent ,• Sir Walter Stirling, Mr. Beresford Hope (Bedgbury Park), Mr. C. W. Martin (Leeds Castle), Mears. Body, Neve, Nash, Punnett, Smith, and other exteusive planters from both counties. The chairman briefly referred to the objects of the meeting, and expressed the utmost satisfaction with the unity of feeling which now prevailed amongst all sections of hop planters. He was perfectly convinced that the time bad arrived when the hop duties should be abolished for ever, and they had only to persevere in the agitation which had been so well commenced in order to accomplish that object. The hop duties were not to be depended on as a source of revenue, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer would act wisely to give up the tax altogether. Lord Holmesdale, M.P. far West Kent, proposal the first resolution, to the effect, "Tat the customs and excise duties en hops are impolitic and unjust to the planter., and injurious to she public." Mr. Simmonds, of Maidstoue, se. winded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. Mr. Beresford Hope (Bedgbury Park) proposed the second resolution, expressing approval of the farmstion of the se V toc Central As promoting the of the excise omation for aidegoism dation upon hops, and - the co-opera tion and insistence of the meeting la su riptiors and otherwise. Mr. Dodson, 31.1'.,. scandal the mottoo, winch was supported by several other gentlemen, and earned OM. COL FASHIONS DOE FEBRUILAY. (From 14 "WC.) - - - The extreme severity of the winter has caused fug to be much in request, end there is in this material, uis all other things, • fuhion. This season, Astra= is moat in vogue. We Sod fur need, not only u • trimming foe mantles, but elso for dream. Two or three bends, sbudi • quarter of a yard in width, placed upon • velvet skirt, produce • good effect. Long p•letbts of cloth or velvet are trimmed with martin or Adman, in wide bands. Large b•squines of velvet cloth—blue or violet—edged with Astni- Inn are very ilistinguies. The little velvet shawl, trimmed with wide lace, is reserved for visits of ceremony, and the colour of the velvet must match that of the drew. For young persons, very charming scarfs are made of black or blue velvet, piped with white satin. It is vary graceful sad simple, and more novel than the cacique, though this is far from beincahandoned. Monkey fur is also very fashionable. Chinchilla is becoming more so, and swan's-down is much worn on pelerincs for the theatre, and to trim wedding cheeses. The Zouave vest is more and more indispensable for indoor dress—for the more simple as well as for the richer toilettes. It is madeeither in braided cloth or velvet. The favourite colours for those of velvet are black and Solferino, with embroidery of gold or silver, and pearls. Astra.= is also used to trim them, but this is equally suitable for cloth. Black, brown, and Louise blue are the colours preferred for the cloth Zouave. Opera mantles are now made exceedingly elegant —some of white eachensire, bordered with crimson or black velvet and gold, with gold and white tassels. The Sultan is one of white or coloured cachemire, richly embroidered with gold. The most simple and suitable for young girls is • burnous of striped thick and transparent white, alternately lined and edged with white silk. White cachou:sire, or white satin sorties de bid, are frequently trimmed with white plush. A burnous is sometimes made entirely of white plum's, with beautiful tassels of dead gold hanging from the hood. The material called drouguet is in great request for home dress this winter, and it is made now in such rich and ele gant designs, that it may rank next to velvet. Velvet of various colours is worn. For evening dress, there are many light and beautiful &tam Tulle is more in vogue than tarlatan, though that is still fashionable for young girls. There are many dresses of gauze, checked with colons, or embroidered with gold or silver; others of striped gauze; and sane of gren adine , worked with velvet. White grena dine, with a pattern in rose oolour (rose de roi), or with natural flowers dotted over it, and silk tulle embroidered with chenille, make exceedingly pretty and tasteful ban dresses. Very elegant ball draws are made of satin, either of roes de rot, green , yellow azure, or lilac. Satin is also worn foe visiting dream, in brciwn with a black pattern, or of violet and of Russian leather colour. Tulle, spotted with gold, forma a charming tunique, opening over a dress of tarlatans covered with narrow tionaces, or tulle worked with rings of chenille and gold, or in silver. Flounces are more and more rarely seen, excepting in full dress ; flit trimmings placed round the bottom of the skirt being decidedly more stylish. Thick materials are gored. Bodies, high and plain, with a point or a band. Sleeves, tight or open, the former cur. tainly seem the most suitable for the cold weather, bat the latter permit a greater display of lingerie. Low bodies are now made straighter Reran the top than they were formerly. Plastrons of velvet, or of gold or silver cloth, are frequently placed upon the body in/Mid of sashes. Pointed bodies are still generally in vogue, and are made either with drapery, or with a berths tram med with rows of lace. Bodies, either drawn together or plain in front, very low on the shoulders, with a scarf sash, are much a is mode for young girls. Flowers are used greatly for trim mings, placed either in bouquets or in long g arlands. Bonnets are still worn very large, and high over the forehead, and the trimming is worn either un the top or round the crown ; and sometimes a wreath of small feathers la placed round the front. Velvet and silk are used to gether, and often the feathers are white and black, what ever colour may be used for the bonnet. A bonnet lately made for one of the ladies of the Empress's court was very distingui, and worth describing to our modem. It was of black velvet, quite plain, with the exception of a trimming round the front formed with very small blue feathers as light as marabouts. This trimming is equally elegant in either black or white feathers. Another black velvet bonnet had the curtain made of white blonde, and the trimming a bouquet of small feathers fastened inside, and falling gracefully over the front. These were of two colours, two green and one white. It is equally pretty with two roles de rot and one white, or violet and white ; but there roust always be one white feather in this style of trimming. A third was destined for • young lady, and was mods of white plush, edged with tulle embroidered lightly. Bouillonnes of the same across the front, both inside and out ; the only trimming, a small bunch of roses just at the top. Flowers are much worn even in coiffure,but feathers are gaining favour, and are certainly most elegant and graceful. Diadems and combs are also much used, and are becoming to some styles of beauty,. but the diadem is not well suited for very young faces, which always look beat with • simple headdress. Touquets are much worn. The one styled Henri 111. is a padded band of black velvet with a gold cord twisted over it, and ornamented with • white feather. Another is of matted gold fastening a magnolia. Gold nets with pearls, ears of corn with diamonds, or • coiffure of vino eaves with black grapes and daisies, composed of diamonds, are all much admired. REFRIBENTATION OF AIIaRDEENBIIIRS.—A 'Woo signed by upwards of 800 electors, having been pre. seated to the Hon. Arthur Gordon to become • candidate for the representation of the county of in come quturce of the vacancy occasioned the elevation of Lord Haddo to the Mr. Gordon expressed his high sense of the honour done him by this mark of confidence and esteem ; but as another candidate has already been for weeks before the county, he "declines, under existing circumstances, to enter upon • contest where he should find himself, in consequence of their previous pledges, arrayed in personal opposition to friends whom be esteemed. to many of his attached tenantry, and to connexions of his own family." A circular has, since the receipt of Mr. Gordon's reply, been addressed to the electors who signed the requisition, stating that while the motives which prompted him to decline acceding to their request are worthy of all respect, they are not sullicieut to deprive the electors of the privilege of electing him. THE REPRESENTATION OF CORIL—II is generally stated that Thomas St. John Giant, Fan., Kilmurry, win put himself forward as a candidate for the vacant sett in the representation of this county, caused bythe elevation of Mr. Deasy to the bench as the suoce.aser of Baron Greene.—Cork Constitution. Rernicsenritisors OF BRADFORD. Yesterday morning, Mr. T. Salt, M.P. for Bradford, met his executive election committee at Bradford, and stated that he should. immediately on the reanonnbling of parliament, accept the Chiltern Hundreds. An address to the electors was subse• quently issued by the hon. gentleman, in which he stake that he is led to take this step hy considerations of health. He says that, "after two years experience, he has not sub ficient stamina to beer up under the fatigues and late hours incident to parliamentary life." It is probable that Mr. W. E. Forster, of Wharfesicle, Otley, will be invited by the liberal party to become a candidate, and if they are united he will no doubt walk over. Mr. Forster contested Leeds two or three times without somata, and is an enlight. sued and thorough liberal in punch,. ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW-CROSB.—We are glad to dud that the subscriptions in aid of the funds for covering in the swimming-bath, to enable it to be used throughout the year, are =ratting. Since our announce. meat of Lord Glasgow's donation of 1.W., the following eactributions of W. each, besides others of smaller amount, have been received, viz: The Marquis of Tweeddale, the Marchioness of Thomond, Admiral the Hon. A. Buncombe, M.P. (second donation), Admiral Mainwaring. J. Btoddart Douglas, Eaq., and C. beard. Esq. About Itlo/. more will be sediment to complete the design. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE RIGHT HON. R. NISBET HAMILTON.—A few days ago, during • battas on the es tate of Archerdeld, the Right Hon. R. Nisbet Hamilton was shot in the cheek. The injury was comparatively slight, and although the quantity of blood which issued from the wound at first alarmed his friends, after the wound was dressed Ms. Hamilton was enabled to continue the sport. It was supposed that a lead drop had diverged by striking • tree. One of the servants of the establish ment of Arcbertield was also shot in the face, the drop being afterwards expectorated. The number of game bagged was rather under the usual amount on previous occasions, being only_about 470 head.—Stuarford Mercury. ACCIDENT I'o MR. EVANS, M.P.— )u ThUralay evening, the 24th ultimo, Mr. T. W. Evans, M.P., while riding on horseback from Allestreo to Vs'irkaworth, met with • severe accident. It was publicly announced that Le would give his talented lecture on "air Thomas Browne,' for the furtherance of the interests of the Mechanics' testi. Lute • in accordance with which he left Li s re..idence at sir o'clock, alai Living proceeded a short distince the horse fell, and rolling upon Mr. Evans bruised one leg severely. The audience was waiting his arrival until neatly nine o'clock, and thee gradually dispersed. Mr. Evans, in a letter to the president, states that besides the shake and braless he las nut received any serious injury.—Noffing. Cass Journal.. _ _ _ PRINTERS' Alismars.—We have received a letter from " ()ne of the printer* who set up Alexander Smith's ' Life Drama,'" on the subject of Mr. Pycroft's story of the " see the pale martyr with his shirt on fire." No such blunder was made, he says, in Petting up the poem. A curious blonder, however, actually did occur m the setting up, wbioh was fortunately detected by the reader, and so never mime under the public eye. There is a Las in the poll". Lipping his lemon on a conch secure." Th e compositor, unable to make anything of this, produced as follows: " Rippino his lemon on n couch secure." This was a case ut "sharp printer" with a vengeance.— THE ITALIAN MISSION TO BERLIN. General La Marmots has met with a distin guished reception from the King, i.nd has paid visits to the princes and princesses of the royal family. A dinner was given in his honour by the King on Sunday. His Majesty wore the Sar dinian decoration of the Annunciade, Baron Schleinits, the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice. A court carriage is placed at the general's disposal. A letter from Geneva, of the 28th January, says At a meeting of the garde des Meier!, held two days ago, General Dufour read a paper on the neutrality of the Swiss Confederation, which he considers as a vital prin ciple for the country. Discussing the eventuality of inva sion, be said ,—" We can only rely on ourselves to repulse it. Next to the foreigner who attacks, nothing is so dan gerous as the foreigner who protect.." General Dufour mut entered into some interesting details in order to prove that, even should Switzerlood wish to depart from her neotrality, she could not do so, and that it would be abso lutely impossible to place a corps of Swiss troops at the service of a foreign cense ; and, Laatly, he discussed the question lately started of the establishment of • federal fortress la the centre of the country, and said that if the resources of the government would permit the erection of any onesiderable fortification., they would be much better pieced on some important points of the frontier. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 31. The Esperatiza states that the Infante Don Juan has decided on relinquishing his pretensions to royal rights, reserving only the eventuality of his being elected by universal suffrage. The following telegrams have been received by Mr. Renter : AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. PERTH, JAw. 31. The Prince Primate has addressed a circular to all the Comitsts of Hungary counselling them to avoid precipitation. The Primate says that our hastiness is the fore runner of anarchy. He urges them to have patience for a few months longer, and not to alienate their sovereign, who is approaching with the branch of peace in his hand, animated with the best good will and the purest intention.. LATEST BY THE NOVA SCOTIAN. The niTsrfieasuryl;iiilici been awarded to all bidders under 11 per cent. NEW YORK, JAw. 19Nviatera. Stocks higher. Illinois Scrip, 88 ; Erie 4011 ; New York Central, 81i. Cotton generally ad vancing. Sales to-day, 4,000 balsa Middling Upland is quoted 124 c. BrtsuLstuffs steady, and prices unchanged. QUEENSTOWN, PEDAL The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Glasgow, from New York on the 19th ult., has arrived. She brings 1,9001. in specie. She left for Liver pool at 6 o clock this morning. News anticipated. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 31. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the above malls, arrived this afternoon about 3 p.m. She brings 11 pas tel/OM five Packages specie, value 1,76 N. ; also 213 boxes oranges, 117 elephants' tusks, and 117 packages general ca n Alhambra experienced throughout her voyage light north-easterly mad southerly breezes, and fine weather. On the 211th at 8.30 am., 44.30 N., 8.37 W., spoke the steam-ship Iberia ; and on the same date at 11 a.m. 44.40 N., 1430 W., spoke the Peninsular and Oriental ' Oompasy'e steam-ship Delta, with the outward mails of the 27th instant. . _ —Hr Majeay's ship Bt. Jean d'Acre, and the usual Por L=squadron, were lying in the Tagus. ON, JAN. 27. -Exchange for three months is 2,21 noted on London 54j to 544 ; Paris, 530 ; Amstenlam, ; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 537 ; Renter Three per Ceuta., 47 to 474 ; Coupons, 46j ; Daterred, 34 ; Lisbon Bank, 57 Whew ; Oporto Commercial Bank, 280 Whets ; Oporto Yercaatile Beak, 260 milreis. PRUSSIA. On the 2Gth, in reply to the municipal authori ties of Berlin, who waited on him to pay their respects, l,is Majesty delivered an address, of which the following are the principal passages : We have passed through many serious momenta, which caused great grief to my deceased brother. Those days we have happily surmounted by our common action. But, as they may return, we will not entertain any illusions as to the future. If we remain firmly united, and if every one does his duty, we shall come happily out of all events whatever they may be ; we shall not do so unless we are firm. I wish for the liberty of all, and I have prepared for it, but everything in this world has its limits, which no one can go beyond without endangering the whole. I will not, therefore, suffer the bounds of liberty to be exceeded; and I rely on your support to assist me. The Emperor Napoleon will open the French Legislative Seri= of 1861 in person, on Monday next, at 1 o'clock precisely, in the Grand Salle dee Etata at the Louvre. M. Fould arrived on Wednesday at Marseilles bum Toulon, and left immediately for the Pyrenees. A St. Petersburg letter states that on the 18th tilt. the usual ceremony of blessing the waters of the Neva, in front of the winter palace, took place in the presence of an immense crowd of people. The Indipmerienie, the journal of Alexandre Dumas at Naples, announces that an English steamer is to run regularly between Naples and Gaeta, and that, ou pay ing 18 ducats (about 75fr.) for the faro going and returning, anyone may have the pleasure of witnessing the bombard ment of Gaeta for twenty-four hours. Some sensation has been caused in Madrid by the troops on duty, on the occasion of the state visit of the Queen to the church of Atocha, to render thanks for being in "an interesting situation," having prevented the members of the senate and congress from taking the places indicated for them in the cortege, as it passed by the Prado. According to the journals, this incident arose from a misunderstanding. The letters from Berlin mention the failure of a money dealer id that city, who bad absconded after commit. ing forgeries. His liabilities arc not supposed to be ex tensive. The following singular statement is made by the Nuresiburg Courier :—" A German refugee, compro- Weed in the attack of Frankfort., Herr Koerner, settled in the United States, at Melville, in the state of Illinois, which numbers amongst its 12,000 inhabitants 8,000 Ger mans. A distinguished lawyer, he was elected by the ksiir Ware, and discharged for some tune the functions of Vim- Governor of Illinois. He was on intimate trims with Mr. Lincoln ; and it is to the votes of the Germans inhabiting the five states of Illinois, Indians, Ohio, lowa, end Wis consin, that the new President is indebted for his majority. Herr Koerner, who had placed his oratorical talents at the service of his friend, is to be appointed Minister of the United States at Berlin. The political refugee returns to his country as an ainbeesador." THE PASSPORT SYSTEM IN BELOIICH.—The fol lowing note appears in the official part of the Belgian Noniteur :—" lu order to facilitate international relations, the Belgian government has decided that the verification of nports at the frontiers shall be suppressed from Fe -1 next. Nevertheless foreigners shall oontinue to 17071;gject to the formality of passports if they require to stay in Belgium. The visa remains obligatory fur travellers belonging to countries in which our country are subject to this formality. The exeepti , us established in favour of the Netherlander; and the inhabitants of the adjoining French do is and of Rhenish Prussia are maintained. HE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF STRIA.—TIIO re sult has shown that no such measure was ever required, nor was it of the slightest practical utility. An army of 24,000 Turks had arrived at Damascus, sad had suppressed the movement before the French corp. had landed. It was proved, therefore, that Turkey could suppress an insurrection in her own territory more rapidly as well as more effectually than her too ready coadjutor. Even, therefore. if insurrection were now active in Syria, there could be no pretext fur the continued occupation of that country by a French army. But much more le that the case when all insurrection has been Ion; suppressed. Not only would such an act be therefore altogether gratuitous and wanton, but it would perpetuate those ill feelings between the rival races of the Lebanon which it has already chafed into activity, and which nothing but the dis- I appearance of the French standard will subdue. We have repeatedly shown that, so long as that standard re mains near the Lebanon, the conciliation of the Marmite and the Drum with each other will be impossible. The French occupation is doing daily harm in the quarter in which it exists, and its oontiuuance would also carry with it a virtual repudiation of the independence solemnly gis ranked by Primes to Turkey in 1856. We trust that the French mot will, on reflection, be led to withdraw• say cep to the other powers, whisk those powers y cannot combine to osseeds.—Post. M