The Express. — London, England, 1865-12-01 00:00:00

,XPRESS, FRIDAY EVRIII47G, DECEMBER 1, 1865 Lomita? has never boasted of being an orna mental town. East or West, North or South—in the regions where the highest of the land live, or where the hewers of wood and drawers of water crowd together--all we dwellers in this huge human jungle are so absorbed in business of some sort, that we have little or no time to look after the symmetry of our streets, or to improve the architec ture of our houses. In fact, properly so speaking, there are, in these days, hardly any Londoners at all. Even of those whose lot of daily labour is cast within the limits of the metropolis, the vast ma jority live out of town. A London merchant's or professional man's time is now shortened by having to hurry twice • day to catch the train which brings him to or takes him from his home ; and from the millionaire banker to his modest clerk, everyone who can do so lives more or less beyond the lamps. We see London during our working hours, but no more think of making it a city pleas ing to the sight tha n we dream of furnishing our offices with satin-covered couches or rosewood chairs. The abodes of extreme fashion are per haps an exception to this rule ; but even in May fair and Belgravia business—the all-abeorbing busi ness of pleasure—takes such a hold upon men, that they have :no time for any other pursuit. What nobleman or commoner, having the re venues and the care of large estates to occupy him, would think for • moment of setting up as an amateur iIIi.CSSM ANN of his square or street ? No ; this great city is, in fact, the workshop, or office, or counting-house of life, and as most of us do but labour in it, so we care not for the outward appearance of what we have neither the time nor the inclination to make handsomer. But whilst accepting the general ugliness of London, are we obliged to tacitly approve of its dirt'. There was • time, and that not very many years ego, when, if we could not boast of the beauty of our buildings, we could certainly chal lenge comparison with any town in the cleanli ness of our streets. The centres of our chief thoroughfares were more free from mud than those of any city in Europe, whilst oar foot-pave ments were the wonder and admiration of every foreigner that came to England. The daintiest lady might walk in our streets without her thinnest boots wet ; and at every crossing the foot passenger could pass from one side to another without adding mud to what ever else he had to carry. Here and there —in places where much traffic abounded—there were exceptions to the rule. Great Tower street, the neighbourhood of the docks, and certain smaller streets leading down to the river, were certainly never pleasant spots for walking ; but in these regions who was it that ventured save those engaged in the trade of the locality I Ten years ago, or even less, any person might walk from Belgravia to the Bank of England and be at no risk of even dirtying his boots very much, far less of being splashed with mud from every passing carriage. Could anyone say the same now even of the short transit from Charing-creme to West minster -bridge t Everywhere it is the same. Our s treets are riven of liquid slush, our f oot- 1 pavements spread over with slippery mud. To walk with anything like comfort, or to I GI, preserve anything like cleanliness, in the streets of London, from October to April, is • simple The fourth volume of th e Rev. Dr. J. H. Merle impossibility. In Piccadilly, Pall-mall, and a kubignes " History of the Reformation in the Time of few of the West-end streets, the evil is n ot so I - Leh,„ io the p great, for the thoroughfares being wider, and the l We read in Longman's "Notes on Books" : traffic considerably less, the foot passenger is not " The collection o f gcsthoren . s Letters, recently edited in so much danger o f bein g splashed by passing ,b y Dr . N a i l, w ill short l y b e pu b l i s h e d i n as English vehicles, and has more time to pick his footsteps as translation by Lady Wallace, translator of ileadelasobes he proceeds on his way. But away from these mad Morrt' l s t Le w tter d s, w and difo6fce,Pallweekeo's t ie the of favoured regions, our streets are an utter disgrace , to us, and are as much a source of wonder of so r , :b erfai l "" n the inna of " fi th tf o ul 7 o . pi l o hic ,t d o t: to the stranger from their dirt, as they used I tare of ace of the most sublime geniuses the world ever formerly to be for their cleanliness. To saw. It is sad to read of his sufferings and the barely feel see • high-actioned carriage-horse sending the ' ing entailed by deafness, mad yet ebeerieg to see bow his liquid fi lth through which he has to pass devotion to b ut bore him up amid all biz trials. The higher than his own head at every step letters offer a tio fin br o retelner:byoflobvise for art peasto m os f te d. reminds the spectator of riding by 7„. and by . nos: l lfiab siderstion for others." side, where sea water and sand are splas the hed " The Diary of the Right Hon. William Wind- There is hardly an exception to this ails ham, M.P., from 1783 to 1809," edited by Mrs. Hoary of dirt throughout London, but if it were Bariel, is now i s the pram possible for the foot pavements of one street " The Life of bombard Kingdom Brunel to be dirtier than the extremely dirty pave- F.R.8., Civil Engineer." by leambsrd Brunel, menu of another, the distinction might with ILL, is preparing for publicatioe. justice be conferred on the regions east of Temple- 1 A lake for skaters now forms a charming addi bar. In the west there is still a feeble attempt Bon to the many attractions of the Bola de Boulogne. It is made from time to time to cope with the tide of situated close Thet eriekijot gro a usrL_ bet rierrossled from th of half a street dirt, but in the City the authorities Viefoot.'"Zdtri perfectly y sme lab ll " seem, as our American friends would say, to design will afford every accommodation to the privileged " let things slide." From Fleet-street away scrienirer, who. fairy lake is railed i s, and will be the to the far eastern districts, where the City easlddvs property o f the dub. Tin borough of Harwich ia in a fair way to become distinguished for its justice as it is for its politics. On Wednesday last the borough magistrates, nine of whom were 'present in petty session, heard the complaint of Mr. W. F. Beck, who had summoned Captain Jervis for an assault. Mr. Beck is a clerk in the Audit Office of the Great Eastern Railway Company, of which Captain Jervis is a director, and had been sent down by the chief of his department to take an inventory of the plate in the Great Eastern Hotel upon a change in its management. Mr. Beck began his work on the morning of the 7th of November, and at a quarter to five o'clock, having nearly finished it, he was sitting in the bar, when Capt. Jervis came in. The Captain having secertained who he was, and what was his business, ordered him out. Upon receiving for answer from Mr. Beck that he was at the hotel upon a certain se it - vice, and that it wa s his intention to perform before he left, Captain Jervis told the complainant that he was a " datnnedryoung vagabond," and that if he did not leave, he (the captain) would kick him out. This admonition not taking immediate effect, Captain Jervis followed it up by stating that Mr. Beck was a "blasted cur," and then dragged the young man, who is of small stature, through the front parlour into the hall, and put him out. Mr. Bolton, the manager of the hotel, deposed before the magistrates that the young man bad done his work very properly during the day. Mr. Foam, the audit clerk to the company, proved that Mr. Beck had gone to Harwich by his authority, and that the work he had done showed that be must have been fully employed during the period that he was at the hotel. The defence was that Capt. Jervis is Member for the borough, for which he had been elected three times; that he is a director of the railway which owns the hotel ; that to refuse instant obedience to his demands was a premeditated insult; and that hews& perfectly justified in treating Mr. Beck as he did. Upon the point of authority Mr. Owen, the secre tary of the company, was called, and stated, as his " solemn opinion, that a railway servant is a bound to obey an individual director in regard to he might direct, even to the extent of compelling him to stop a train." The magistrates took this view of the case. They were unanimously of opinion that Mr. Beck bad not been assaulted ; that Captain Jervis did in a very proper manner that which as a director he had aright to do ; that the case must be dismissed ; and that Mr. Beck must pay the coats. After this we may expect to hear of a great rush for clerkships in the office of the Great Eastern Railway, espe cially as the directors are notoriously at sixes and sevens, and for every one of them who would have kicked Mr. Beck out of the Harwich Hotel, another might be found to kick him in again. Sir George Grey, too, must be proud of magistrates who are " a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that __-------4—_. ---..,-----•—•----"r— -police authority ends, and to the confine, of lAA. t (RJR COTEMPOOA RIES. Aldermen have power , filth y mad, pavements I ..'t * ".. IS DAY‘) s . slimy with socumulated greasy iTtrt, and • guniVel -.., - recklessness of public opinion in these matters, everywhere prevail ; and every year King MOCK THZ OPINING or ragout/sr s SHY (MESS. asserts more and more the univernality of his do- Though the Herald has never j o ined iu the co:nit rate of some of its o ciesemporaries that her Majesty had minion. Nor is this merely the case after a day or two's rain. Thick mud in the streets of London ;g il l . tte f n or h ffi er cial own duty ee k in e. the indulgence ente ehm ot b per ee soaa ef l teeli ehe 'n e g ki 'is now the rule--a rule to which there seems no have yielded so little to the soothing influence gn of time ; exce ption- Neither the ce ntre, the aides, nor the sad it heartily rejoices at the announcement that henceforth pavements appear to be ever cleaned, or at any I we shall see her amongst as in something like the same rate cleaned in such a way as to show that , manner SI of yore. Not, however, that to be the cynosure cleanliness is intended. Now and again a couple ,of ell es in • procession, to hold the highest place u p ,at leve ey ob served es, to be the of all observers iu public of feeble old men may be seen to scrape es h. l T e e bratioss i , w f ill ever e be to the i ( i 4uee h e herself what they a few inches of the dark brown liquid Dees I er to the sides of the street from the path, but only open the firer n Orm . da ysOn of ;he new pa:l parliament ty a g ismos to o( in a sort of amateur way, as if they knew their 1 sympathy with her will pervade all hearts, and every one of attempt was but a joke. Where forty or fifty able , her subjects will feel a real, though necessarily imperfect. bodied labourers would barely suffice, one or two ', sense of the change which Prieto Albert's death has broken-down paupers are set to do what they are I made. It will be an occasion for mingled teenage, for rejoioinp and regrets, for jubilations and lamentations, for not overlooked in doing, nor have any set task put ohedeoedthem before they begin to work. And as it is well l a y and so ftened "n ew ' The Telegraph says that the Prince and Princess of Wales known thatthe only effectual e t of cleaning streeta have done their best to supply the void ; yet they but is in the early morning before the traffic has cum- imperfectly compensate society for the abacus of its Queen. wonted, to this forlorn hope is invariably set to To her Majesty, with her mature experience, the n ation work when the businees of London ia at its full histinotively turns as its representative sad leader, in abso lute Mimics upon her wisdom and discretion. Returning noon-day height. The poor old men are • much to public life, appealing in her own familiar voice to the more occupied in avoiding the dangers of the carts, omnibuses, cabs, carriages, and every kind of vehicle, than in getting on with the work they are supposed by a pleasant fiction to get through. 'WT4OBIIOI governing tati Tee th e: the peo ire s p i l ,e e w fo i r u their . than a mere abstract idea . --she will make it an Zi3tazi y il vital lid in e th l e o l aTt at m t" or k e force em again in Eaglish politics. Excellently as the Prince of Wales Latterly to this manual has been added a little has, on the whole, ful fi lled his rather arduous foutioes, machine work. There are a few patent street- it could not be expected of him that he should altogether cleaners paraded in various parts of the City, and avoid mistakes. Hunting, phensantehooting, deer-stain some in the West-end. but at an hour when the —it is devoutly to be wished that none of our primes had \ drivers that conduct them have to look out for the eT he r followid os edm.oremq.ueasttiwolTiebhlesopueersuie e ' f te e t h ha e goratheessee affairs i ff bat danger of other carriages. Beyond making sport of life might not unreasonably claim a larger share of for our street Arabs and the cabmen, it is difficult attention. There are moods of the public mind when the I to say what good this new invention has done. nation, itself sufficing wider a sense of sorrow and lament ' There is no use mincing the matter ; London is jog the loss of men who had served it long and well, learns now by many degrees the dirtiest town in Europe. with regret and disapproval that the heir to the throne has been seen as. s theatre or • racecourse. Our streets will not for a moment bear comparison The Star thinks there is a special fitness which the Queen in cleanliness with those of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, doubtless feels in resuming her public place on the oc- Florence, Rome, or Naples. There is no dirt like as s is t of the opening o f th i s parliament. The eeo , pu n.• unto our dirt, and none so copious in any meet begins, we trust, a new chapter is the political his other city of the civilized world, either in or tory of the weeny. Oa the last oriession when her Ma. out of the United Kingdom. And yet we jests delivered the speech in person, the benches and gal. have able-bodied paupers by the hundred seeking lona of the Howe of Lords seemed to be almost entirely for work. Could not these be organized into te n n e u p p to the peared te display ie of crinoline eeebeei and t th wh e ite f eesth that ouldeers.he gangs which would have the town clean by the bumbler of the parliament was was not to be does. Her its business. time the rest of the world began its work 1 But M a jesty now returns to h er parliament, and her parliame nt Bumbledom has no idea of an) thing like organize- returns to tiou—a word which it generally confounds with centralization, and hates equally as much. If our thoroughfares are ever to be clean again, it must be under the direction of some authority greater than that of the pariah vestry, and having ideas more enlarged than those of local boards. Let us hope that in the coming Session of Parliament a remedy may be provided for what is now an in tolerable, add a disgraceful, nuisance to every class of the community. UNIVERBITT ZYLTINSION. Apart from the question of discipline, the problem of university extensioo presents, the Pima contends, no very serious difficulty. No extemion sweeping enough to " nationelis 3 " Oxford in the largest sense ca be effected without many changes besidee the abolition of reetrictioes on residence. There must be a fuller recognition of studies beyond the ordinary Oxford curriculum, and especially those which have a utilitarian v alue ; boys must be allowed to matriculate at an earlier age,l and perhaps degree must be thrown open to all comers who pans a certain mosaine. tics. Short of this, and even short of what Dr. Temple proposes, a great deal may be done to open the university. A very simple modi fi cation of the system already in force at Cambridge would combine many benefits of the college system with those of cheap hills or licensed loilgieg-houme. Without haviog anything to do with college " battels,' . unless he chose to dine in the college hell, a man might be allowed to attend the lectures of tutors, end obtain their advice as to the course of his reading. If it were thought desirable, the college might ply the tuition fees on behalf of poor men. The Post °attends that Dr. Temple's proposal would enable men to be in Oxford though not of Oxford, and to pan to their degrees without nocemarily nt having that which under the present s ystem a degree repreees. Professor ships midtowns down from the high position which hithert they have held, and mast ha mere t eac herships, little, o if anything, better than an nadermastership in a large school. If the university is to be converted into a larg e grimmer school, where boys may matt iculate at sixteen and get their B.A. et eighteen, at a cost of 50/. year, it will soon follow that the Oxford degree will collet for little or nothing. Except for the purposes of deception, a university degree is nothing apart from a university education. All that Oxford could give on Dr. Temple's plan is given now much more consistently by the University of London. ,PAIN AND CHILI. Senor de Castro blames the diplomatic body at San tiago for their want o f res p ect to Spain, and parti a lity to Chili, in deprecating the aggressions of the Spanish &rel. He must extend his censure, the rises says, to every civilised nation in the world, sod the con of one man against the world the presumption is that he is mis takes. This is the presumption when the question involved is merely intellectual, but when it turns upon the moral con duct of the complaisant the inference is almost inevitabl e e. It is clear that whate ver the diplomatic body might hav done, short of advice to the Chilies" Affil yield to e d very inso- ld lent demand whic h could by possiy mae, wou have been not merely unavailing, but treacherous, partial, and insecure. It becomes an immediate question how far standers-by are justified in icquieacing in this highhanded interference, and every day proves mere clearly the necessity that we should be prompt and decisive in our action. It would be better that Spain itself should raise the blockade of Valparaiso, but it would be , ntolerable that it should not somehow or other be raised. While acknowledging th e temperate and conciliatory language of Senor Bermudez de Castro's despatches, the Daily News cannot but diniognish between the nation whose dignity they profess to uphold, and the government whose eccentricities they pretend to justify. These re posted 'amanita spun emancipated colonies, and all the mutes of little wan and abortive expeditions are but the trick of an unstable and unpopular government to seek to divert or to distract the public attention from domestic grievances by raising a prodigious rumour of its deeds of daring rotted the world. The Pont pronounces the vindication of her conduct, which Spain has published, to be incomplete. No valid ex cuse hes been o ff ered for the peremptory tone which Ad miral Pareja was instructed to use in addressing the Chilies government. Either, as the Foreign Minister suggests, it was useless to reopen negotiations—and in that ease Ad" mural Pareja should not have demanded a concession from the Chitlins as a preliminary to a conference which be knew would be fruitless—or negotiations might have led to • paci fi c settlement of the matters is dispute, and in that ca se they shenkl have been commenced unconditionally. England and France are anxious to mediate in the matter, but in order to secure the adoption of their suggestions, they must be advanced in much a manner as not to hurt the pride of a morbidly jealous people. The Herald describes Marshal O'Donnell as one who is under the impression that Spain is still a first.rate power, and able to meat herself se such in despite of the world, and therefore not likely to be anxious to get out of such a quarrel as that with Chili. Though Spain is utterly wrong in the matter, the Herald does not see its way to an armed intervention on our part, especially as we have established a prudent against such intervention by our neutrality during the civil war in the United States. Moreover, our conduct to Brazil, dictated by our present Prime Minister, was every whit as overbearing and unreasonable as that of O'Donnell is Chili. THE t ;ovcarritrirr OF JAMAICA. The Daily News observes that those of its contempora ries who are most interested in the production of evidence in rapport of the assumptions upon which the evid en c e massacres in Jamaica have bees defended, are as unable to discover it as the Daily News itself ; and one of them, the Times, seems so sensible of its predicament that it has re- sorted to the extraordinary expedient of suppressing all the news of the mail with the single exception of a speech by Governor Eyre, which is pot forward in the place of the proofs ter which the public has been so eagerly inquiring. The assertion that those who are anxious to redeem the honour of the country apologise for negro murderers and abet insurrection is worthy only of contempt. Nos a weed has been said in the country against severity in dealing with persons either found guilty of crimes or taken with arms i n their hands, but wholesale butcheries in districts where not a single person was found in an attitude of resistance ran inspire nothieg bet horror and disgust. The colonial newspapers received by the Shannon—tbe planters' news pspere—are full of deeds of this kind—hanging, shooting' cattily, burring—rd, as Colonel Fords esys, "the Wein so joy it." No evidence is asked for, no eourt-zonstials glutted. ere held ; 6114.11 ie a fiendish passion to be and we Aim only hope that it hie been gtattool. On pointa respecting which oar information y ie. festive, lot tia, by all mean', reserve our °pinkies, but on lurow enough already to make the blood run cold. As to the general character of the outbreak it is Dow aad rkk all but certain that it was nothing more than an aggrava strictly local and accidental in its origin. There is plenty of fieldmice that the great mass of the people is Jamaica were extremely dissatisfied with the assembly, but there is at present no 'video.* accessible to Englishmen to show that they ever intended to attempt the subversion of the Queen's authority. The Advertiser ridicules the attempt to establish Governor Eyre's infallibility on the pound of his merits 20 yore ago as an Australian explorer. As governor of St. Vinosat's, in fact, he got into a wrangle with the Assembly, troo aed the Colonial-office had to refuse his application for ps— resort to force to martial paw seeming to be his favourite plan in all difficulties. His propositiou that because there has been a riot or a rebellion a despotism most be esta blished, is no-English. The discontent rather shews the existence of previous misuminagement. Mr. Eyre says that be wants a strong government." Now we should think that the preprint government of Jamaica is quite strong ecough. It has punished a riot in which 20 lives were to by banging or shooting 2,0t0 poor people whom it called " rebels." It these museums are not "strong" enough, we cannot easily imagine what kind of a government, outside of nameless regions, fdr. Eyre would fain have. kk . t _ ---____ GOLD CHLINS. —JOHN BROGDICN to call the attention ot thew tine to the 7011111 ° l ilt void. which be &Liven with Odd Guard Chaim pirshaeed at bla and : t a 4. to woitmanabip of p•~ef chats. 54 Who bog.. To (111) carat gad, we of dwt. gen, en An S . Bid. per ounce, Stint price i Told E. Uppe this system, the QUALITY, WEIGHT. an d VALUE of she gold are acttudly dinned. and guaranteed to the purchsser ; Johnitrogden looking for stair remuneration en the worlansnship on which Is charged according to the Intrtatcy or simplicity of th ey, epatterii—JOHN BROGUEN, Goldsmith —Manufactory, ld, riettriettstreet, Covent -garden, London. Established A.R. 17118. 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Messrs. tackier, H. Widdwomb, S. Eatery, C. Horneau, laymoad. Fitzpatrick, awl Clifford , Aim t:lswattlty—And NIIRSEY CILICKWEED. ----------. THIS Emma, ROSALIE MORTIMER ttord OR, Mrs. AND ITS VICTIMS. Messrs. Reynolds sad Crsk. . L Lac fr Asto ns -01mm, King of Scieotttic Gymnasts Yarnold. —With Thy KERMA, THE PEARL DIVER. Mr. Drummond. Mrs. HIGH WAVLE AT LODON.BUDOK 111111 DAT -- blonds& O. aa.....Attamoa. Ob. 330. To-Miaow—. limb& lb. la.....Attanam, la. ha. LONDON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 1. ~ ~ E' gbt gOUTI. WINDOOR CASTLE, NOV. 30. The Duke and Dm:sheen de Chartrea arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to her Majesty, and left again this morning. and Ripon remained yesterday after the Earl De Grey c ouncil, and had the honour of dining with the Q ueen and the royal family. The private band played after dinner in the drawing' room before the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussiade ' PrincesPrincesHelena, Princess Louise, e Puke and Duchess Chartres, and the Wee and gentlemen of the household. The Queen, with Princess Helena and Princes' Louithese, walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and drove morning with the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. In the absence of Earl Granville, Lord President of the Council (who has left town for a few days), the Duke of Somerset, the Right H on. Sir George Grey, the Right Bon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Millar Gibson, and the Right Hon. H. A. Brum, received yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehill, deputa tion upon the subject of the cattle plague. The deputation consisted of the Duke of Buckingham, Mr. James Osborne (Maids Moreton). Mr. Crawford (Newton Parnell), Mr. Henry Thorpe (Mayor of Buckingham), Mr. Thorium Ridg way (Bourton), Mr. Richard Treadwell (Shalstone), sad Mr. Thomas A ttwood (Leekhungstead). Mr. James Canoe , of Jamaica, bad an interew with t he Right Hoe. Edward Cardwell, at the Colonial-offira, yes- Wrda7• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day, at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. Pr/wetLord Chelmsford. the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lawrenoe Peel. The Right Hoe. G. J. Geschen, M.P., Vice• President of the Board of Trade, has appointed William W. En:winos Tensest, Esq., as his private secretary. ------- The Crown Prince and Princess of Prima& are' now expected to leave Windsor Cutle for the Continent to- 1110170 W. Their Royal Highnwes the Duke and Duchess &Minnie hare hosourci the Right Hon. Chiebeeter For tescue, M.P., and Frances Counter Weldegrave with • visit at Dadbrook House, YAM& Tbe viators alio comprise the Prnuian Ambassador and emotes' Sendoff!, lAdy Swan Vane Tempest, Lord end Lady NOTIVr, Lady Roles worth, the Hon. F. and Km Storm, Sir Chalice Russell, Mr. Rumen, Mr. Heyward, Mr. Wiliam Harcourt, Mr. Wardlaw, Mr. De Robeck, and Mr. C. Hamilton. The Duke of Leinster has arrived on Carlton. house-terrace from visiting Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald at their residence near Salisbury. The marriage of the Earl of Sandwich and Lady Blanche Egerton will take place at Ratchford, Surrey. The Duke of Argyll will preside at the anniversary festival of the British Orphan Asylum, to beheld at Slough, in March next. Colonel G. Wynne, Royal Engineers hen been appointed by the Duke of Cambridge to corema ' ad the Royal &mincers in Ireland, in succession to Colonel W. Durnford, who has been appointed to the command of the Royal En. slavers in Malts. The 64th Foot w u, it is t expected, ake up arrive in Dublin from England next week, and quarters in Richmond Barracks for the winter. The let battalion 60th Rifles will anise in Dublin about Wednl be es day next for embar ca tion for North America, sad wil replaced at Newry, Enniskillen, and Londonderry byrs the Bth Foot, now at Richm ond Barracks, the headquarte of which will be at Newry. On the occasion of the first performance of the Africaine it Berlin, the Quc of Prwala seat Mine. Meyer. beer a valuable vase , accom p anied by a gracious autograph letter. The widow of the illustrious maestro has made pre. cants to the principal artists who sang in the .dfricaine in tke Prussian capital. Ex-President Buch anan is just publishing in America • volume entitled "The Administration on the Eve of the War," in which he attempts to justify his policy while President. He attributes all the troubles of his country to the repeal of the Missouri compromise, by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in 1854, which be re gards as the cardinal error of the South, and to the Northern defiance of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Soots case, by which negroes were denied the right of citizenship, and slavery woe de cided to be the organic law in the territories. The defience of this decision be regards sa the flagrant clime of the North. The Northern Post of St. Petersburg publiahes • fiat warning just given to the Russianreview. the Coa -1 temporary, for articles containing attacks on the prim:dela, of marriage and property. as well as odious indnuations against the upper dents and 1• nded proprietors iu general. At a meeting of the council of the York Parlia mentary Reform Association it was unanimously resolved to hold • public meeting before the assembling of parlia ment, with a view of urging upon the government the in troduction of a reform bill during the manias onion. At Naples, on the 27th of November, there wen 32 cues of cholera and 25 deaths. In the neigh bouring commttues there were on that day 29 eases sad 17 deaths. A correspondent of the Temps states that the portlier character of the insanity of Dr. Jobert de Lam. balls, the eminent surgeon, iv an almost total loss of memory. What he says one minute he has entirely for gotten the next. Several times in the course of a day has he will tell his attendants to get his carriage ready, as he important calls to make. When informed that the car riage is waiting, he will hastily go out, but before he has Wren ten steps he forgets all about his intended visits and returns to his room. It is said that Dr. Baste@ will sue-1 oeed him es surgeon to the imperial family. A BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO THIS PRINCRISS OW WALE/I.— (Tam DAY.) —To-day being the annivesury d her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra's bkthem the Prince of Wales has prepared a surprise for ths Princess in the shape of • beautiful pair of bay puke. with carrier and harness complete, the whole forming • handsome b i rthday present. The pair of ponies alone are worth probably 450 guises', while the carnage, which is by • celebrated Lo dos being maker, is et an exceed in g ly novel make, there • front seat, as usual, the hind pu t Sil the vehicle being pro vided with a couple of mats something in the dog-art fashion, the seat behind being intended for the groom. The colour of the courier is • chocolate. The pon ies, which are • little over 14 hues high, are splendid stipples. red with the carriage and hareems. bare been forwarded to Sandringham, whim the Priam will pressat them to the Princess of Wake in the emotes Of today. PREACHING VERSVB PRACTICT. —British philan thropy and humanity have been largely employed during the last four years in behalf of mercy and Christian charity to Jeff. Davis and all enflamed in his bloody rebellion. This is British preaching. On the other hand, It upsets that the black rebels of Jamaica are bung up in rows as fast u pt t e la are captured. This is Britkh practice. Now shia ing of 'humuity and brotherly love may be • very rod thing. but it is practice that makes it perfect.— New Pork paper. SPAIN AND CHILI Wittraes israssad PROCLAMATIONSAIL OF PORS. ARRJA TO HIS MADB.TD, Nov. 28. The following is the text of the proclamation issued by Admiral Persia to the sailors and ma rines of the Spanish squadron, after the declara tion of war between Spain and Chili. Sailors and Soldier, —The moment bas arrived for see to address you, not to mulled you of your duty, which you know so well, but to tell you how noble, how the holy,!arro and just is your mission in demanding from gant republio of Chili the satisfaction refused us for the gross, shameful. rad calumnious attacks made upon our Queen and country daring the , period of our difficulty with Peru, utterly regardless of the 1 treaties uniting Chili with Spain, and forgetting that from Spain rains those who, in giving her religion, language, Les, sod manlier , astonished the world with their heroic deed& More than 300 year ago our ancestors conquered this °matinee% aced their prowess, sufferings and constasey were such that imagination is lest in wit:seising the execution at so gigantic an soterpriee. It is now 56 years ego that, through foreign aid and treason, Spain being poor, de. i pressed, and without soldiers or sailors, t h e inhabitants of thews countries, casting o ff the mother country, broke the ties uniting them with her, and believing her to be now such to then, they affront and in to colt 11 2 . timing to attack with their infamous vile and indecent weitinp, the very throne of our magnet Queen Isabella I. To demand satisfaction for these i offences the Spanish aqua iron, under my command, has a salute en t e red the Mho wa t ers , requesting of twenty.cme guns to our glorious and brilliant Castilian dig. The Claims believing themselves to be more valiant than we, dare to refuse us what we shall justly end by force obtain. I regret, as you w al, the ease of the enterprise ; it is epos • feeble enemy without war vasels or torture's t hat we have to point our guns; toms& we have to prove that the blood which flows in our veins is that of the handful of brave men to whom they owe what they are. Neve:theme, we shall bestrew for them the few ill.mounted guns over which you see floating the proud Chillies star. We shall endeavour to meet the Esmeralda and the Mayai yawls, that in leaving this p o rt during the their boasting n i g ht of the 1 9 th sho wed that exceeded their valour. We shall blockade their porta, and oompletely deprive them of rewires' until their srropnce be hambled, and they be compelled heneeforth to respect oar flag. I know your enthus i as m , deci shim, discipline, and ocuistency, sod, led by chiefs and officers, is brave as they are efficient, it will be easy for us to show • new page in our brilliant hietory which will record our virtues. Proud to command you, I shall always be your Gentsisl. Jose Kamm ?MOJA. Before Valparaiso, 24th Sept., 1865. FASHIONS FOR DSCEMBIII. (From Le Poad.) Each week bring s some novelty in the shape of material, or something, at any rate, making its reappear ance with a fresh name. Some of the new drips are truly splendid ; one or two of them we must just anode to in pos ing. First, are those of black, blue, green, or gold - o nioured I . ohs. These shaded: are the most dish:wars, and foam the ground, upon which are narrow stripes imitating erm ine, with a wide spice between them, upon which ere medallions of rich colours. Others—which slimily deism descrintion—ere embroidered poult de weir of light shades. A wide row down each side of the front breadth, from the waist to Y, :thin about twelve herbed teaof the bottom, of • very rich design, and ending in aiguillet is entirely formed by embroidery. A kind of ribbon, matching in design, runs beside these the came distance \down the skirt, but is carried all round about twelve inches ont from the bottom, nos inches and the whole of the fr breadth being dotted over with small flowery, embroiders&ht This embroidery is white, and on ma uve, pale bin, lig green, rose de Nipple, he., produces • very churning effect. There ere oleo elegant moire antiques, with satin stripes, and poult de Dote% with gold and silver bees, or birds embroidered on tulle. For evening dresses, we have seen tulle worked with gold and red, or silver and black birds, and a similar pattern is being prepared in oho. For more unpretending coeturees, there is the adios variety of foulards. icor mast we neglect to mention that • toilette, altogether of cloth, is likely to be fashionable this winter; and although a cloth drew is certainly rather 1 heavy, it has this advantage—it will never be commonly worn. The Priumoas and fourteen cakes for draws ars still in vogue, as well ss robes with fancy vestee. Vedas are sometimes made of velvet, entirely covered with guipure, erceprog the sleeves. For inseams : ♦ ruby velvet, covered with black guipure, or Xuioo blue, with Cluny Iste. We mutt admit, however reluctantly, that the rags for bright, tawdry trimmings has not yet disappeared. Wass is need most extensively as jewelleryffl it may be so called), glass beads of various colours, and it is much mired with many of the trimmiogs now worn. Velvet gibes, with crystal, pearl, or gold, or even fringe, with crystal or sequios, sod fringes with pendants of crystal or gold in the prisannenteria beading, have had great swam ; bat which ever be need in the trimming, crystal or gold, the whole parme should be of the same. Cameo buttons are also much wore. Cluny lace is quite as fashionable as ever ; indeed, it is used so very mach just now that we can scarcely expect its reign will be The bonnets are worn quite ®all as those of last month, and although the fanchon may be still seen at the theatre, the empire is very decidedly the coiffure de villa. I Felt is gaining favour, and some very elegant bonnets are made of this material. WILTHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) YSIDAT, DOCIITIEZ 1. $ A. Ir. ltt D. I. T., LB.& LW. 1.0.0.41 XO.lO 41 LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) 1. 1 1. Nara Atiordsis • cirimoamaa.. t Ape Cyrr.. Uverlsoca • • lidele•d• • • • Om& ea:• Wad . 03.0151. 10.10 $1 )Lo46' 10.07 44i 0.9945 ;140! 20.93 43 30.12 41 a4l. 0743 41 gemming icarbareast - - :os iil li:C77 130.08 5 - di iil 667 E. &K W. 6.w. 16. E 6.6. w. 2711. "LILL N. 24.1. X.W. Z. a ls : an 0.1 0 0.1 It.N.Z. bo O. 1 " 1 m 11. E. Z.N.L co N.W. So T. be Z N.L b a... 4. 1 11. ad N. se N. 0 _ __ _ . I® LE re 0.1 N.L eD E a .-6 6 - 1 - 2 SATURDAY. 1 - 11101•....... 011 NOISSICIMI SWIDAY. LI. to LW.. moderate Wenn 8. to W., stron&aqually, I to strong, unsettled. unsettled. I ft.S.L to W.S. W., fresh Warn& S.W. to S.W. and back, to strong, with rain. strong, with squalls, rain at llama It.telf. and S W.,mocie- tioirrnign. SE. to B.W. and W., rate to strong, some fresh to strong. some rain. rai Varying, m oderate to guil2lolll. As neat above. fresh. w ith some rain. Worthern.floottand. Weateen=lreland. Wales, and adjs. am iss. sembeen=inglbh Channel and By at new. gastern=lastward laidaad sad North Sea STICIAL SIRVICES AS Sr. PAUL'S.We are TO UMW to state that the spesial serriese at St. Paul's will commence on the lid Beeday of the Domini year, January 7. Lire ut Tag Om Ritiootte.—A letter from Pit. bole City is the ail meow of Pessaylvesie Nays :—" Two churches of remmiable peoportioes aceommedated the methodists and presbyteries's, sad two othem were being I erected for the catbelles and episcopalism AMISANDOSA2 Sourish, so they do everywhere in the oil regime, for men without families or homes moat speed their matins meriewhere. end theatres and concert 'goose therefore Sourish. Tho theatre at Pithale is a neatly.kmilt wooden strootare, exactly ocireeleg lot, and is thie—so the bills &Damed—wen to be performed the appropriate dramas m of AU Is Not Gold That Gliders ios many an o ne seek has foetid to his scat) and the Roush Diamond, The er ' Opera Home ' serene the way was a shabby buildieg, the lower part of which is eacepied as • livery Mehl' ; the ' Academy el Mamie' is • eammt same ; sad mother establishment of • sissiler dorsetst is doing • good huskies'. There are two banks ie the plem, one et them with a daily eposit accoest et • third el • lOne baby bee f hese hoes is the piece, mum as the WOUNS I ishebilsebs a,. There have bees se hearth. and them lis no evades/. Timm that ham died have bees sorted of I Aaron the Ms to the railroad. sad shipped to where Lad net se wetly and where the ' sisi Ile • rsomer met likely disturb tie ease et ease COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Nisi Prins sittings at Westenrarar.—(B4,,. the Lord Chief Justice sad • aped& Jury.) - .raz 40021 v. 001111127.-11 131 iranneonout. The farther hearing of this ease, which was en Widow, ite=le C o rbett ander the Foreign Helium, Act e r hi ps ' amd enticing English subrete to enlist ig M f C oo federste service, was resumed this moron& The Solicitor-Oesseal , Mr. Gifted, Q.C., aid Yr. au. sus appeared for the crown; Mr. Edward ;ems, qt . Mr. Milwerd, Q.C., Mr, Ke in pley , Mr. Sleigh, sat Kt Witt, appeared for the defendant. The witnesses far the (down were this morning rusk sod denied that BIONNINIO, the chief mate, told them ea% 18th that the vessel was sold—that was the day th em to the Desgeten. They did not dine that day in the fa, castle, sod where the chief mate said be told ty man. The other men dined that day in the f oreara, The only witness who die= in the forecastle wee Jew liercurvt, Ned he said he did not hoar the chief mo m! that the =ma had bees sold. Jobe Clarke, inaPectss a tit, llam a Po". mal -1 saw Fraeman st the Wapping stab= He saw there and asked for me. - Ile mid the mei discharged him without • farthing, ad Ys bhad gooe to the Thames police court to get compeer, tiro. Be also said the owners had throws him delLitele oe the wraW, sad be asked OW if he could go to the TresaiT att. his evidences, and 1 replied that be coati so ;h. Crire-examingel—l arrested Captain Coiliett sad 1 Ira bad charge of the case. I rays probably Nee the es Derr o n miry. 00011 / i OO 2. I have seen the witran fifty or sixty times as they were going to ex t . I will not swear that I have not spoken to item ag e , the case. Mr. Edward James said that, as the jury intimated 7. 1 . iley that their Weds were made up, lis hol to relli W address than in slamming up the crab, If their opinion %, what be tamed from what they to that musk% The Wry said they wished the mos to goon. Mr. Edward Jeered thee said that if the OM ere 1 made out to their metiefeeMoe, it wss their duty to my • without bait tics and acquit the dot endaat. He 011414 4 4 to be convicted =keg open the clearest sad moot ad= =Misses ; and be 'eked them whether the defeekstbd he which bad been the co t e the men to join the Both. be made use of sour were , ii beyond all geodes. The defendant con ere cella up= to prove seNtively that the words were set mud, lei for the crown to mike oat the cash On this orcasiratm ever i witnesee had be= celled for the defended, mg arnoaget them =themes who if the Shenandoshrad set m into Liverpool he should not have hem ski to cell, and they bed distinctly sense that tie defendant did sot nee the words of emeeregmme weercu to &duce the men to joie that sae m ig men sot involved in the traumstaos willing / glut, Bea King, sod had nothing to pin or loss by the ism, ow who were perfectly indepeorient sad imporast =men There was therefore no reason to doubt Untruth dike evidence. The mmearsoy of the reooUsction of the.. ms le plied as much to the witaseses for the crows, ase all. they had had no opportunity, like the crows of refreshing their memory, and if they had set they is the Male positioe en to the oorreetnem of their maw as the manages for the crows. One, however, bed bale recollection refreshed, end his attention draws to the de cumetsomes, from roadie' at Melbourne an arountel dm lec esdiess against Captain Corbett at the pobeedrin. geasman's evidence as to the side of the vessel as ths its bad not hese contradicted by the witnesses eh were recalled this morning by the moral, sad be mail them t hat Hurcurst was the only nos on the pet d fis craws who swore to • bucket ot geld is as sera whilst it had been denied by all the dsfemires vii. seems, who f urther added that they did amt es any gold offered to the men by the Cashiers °Meas. One, however, did say he maw a beg dOl taken out and put on the table, sad that ii w oe j.„ costained 100 sovereigns. There was no consistency, ti urged, in the evidence for the prosecution with NOY the gold and the offers of money by the Confederates's= It was such • curious invention or story that it le served to be thoroughly sifted, and on dome that WI f o und that the majority of the Withlefie such Dein' the feet. The defendant's also negetivcd most positively the defendagee gle of high wages sad a large bounty to the men if they're( the fibelree&eb, sad though different words were Ira W them they is substance screed with eac h trok other, whir In su b m itted wee a proof that they w telling the and not repsatini • concocted statement. If they tr lived them Captain Corbett, wee not guilty, bat it dew f o und him guilty he submitted they could sot de e without Guam them guilty of perjury. Nitre sad Log. jamin Sella differed as to what the defendant said nth the other witeemes for the Prosecution, and in more confirmed the defeeduit's witnesses. Was it to be mid tint a man had oommithsd a criminal offence ohs be sraly pre the Mee the optics of joining th e ship or going MN with him in the Laurel. Strong masers em put on the thee by the Confederate officers, sod there me mr doubt that they toed all the influence it was penile to suppose would inflames suck mes and was it sr pen sible that the witnesses for the crown had put the rob meet Could by the Coaraderste officers into the defendaseragrat C o uld they believe the man Allen, one of the W reserve name, that the defendant said he rasa kow hie joining the Shenandoah quiet, and se he gels • statement before the counsel at noodle &Harrah= what he bad stated in the box, then he admiral ths wile's. was not to be believed. No one could dour rat the pro s ecution had been got up fairly and had oar er ducted ingmed faith, sad it waso aly reasonable tobsligeorat the crown had examined tbe boatswain and the carpet/rub could, if Allen's esstionent was cornet, have orroboraa him. That bed not been done. If he had been cell& ids the cabin by Captain Corbett, es be had stated, way wie Dares could have been called in support of his oases" Me was cumin the eabio with Captain Corbett, bed he to with Captain Waddell, and he might have mixed= the lin and improperly have put into Copt. Coebetis mina •W Capt. Waddell bad said t . C 11 they, however, ems tv the oonalusion awl Capt. Corbett did use the words, tbsi ems the queraion was it said in the British dominions - It =ls i ns tance on board • British =rel. They bed die= dente of Area, who said that tee minutes before he pt • board the versa be was ordered to report his & e Capt. Waddell. They had the Laurelot British ecruLavin Liverpool with • cargo one is eon, to Oaths not left this country, during the civil war as Araks. run the blooloids of the Confederate service. It vs than who sent those cargoes esdereasi re:p 4 ft . as seer= as posible, sad the man era W been called, and who wen is the Confederal swill at the time had sworn that they knew nothing wok die he Siloam of the Laurel. They believed rim- erili: rue the blockade, and service that country lo w were attached, and, es they believed, owed abeam" M tires who meet them no doubt knew where the!' to go, sod that they were to joinlols the Sea Ira It was no =commo n thin f or to sea with meal= orders. It was clear that so= go knew the d es tination of the Sea King when she left Ili country, and it was not unreasonable to suppose the st kept it es secret as possible, borer by so ONS I were infrieging the laws of this country. g It was es Jou 1 for them to assume is the abgence of proof that bast i .09, 2 Is eider to be • British ship she must be British ewe& ~ -1 2 The Lord Chief Jostler —You might put it this resf. ' 1 .11 2 an American subject had that morning committed ea= - t en board that ship, could he have bees tar' as wail - t 1 NM= jurisdiction I 3 Mr. James said he could not, and he was obliged Is SP._ 4 lordship for that strong way of puttee' it, bus= it 1 ' 2 could have been tried for murder be =old bre I= , equally smesable foe minor offences. On the 4th Orals 1 s Captain Bullock, the Coefederate agent at ~...g t 1 gsve instructions in writing for Ancor to report . to the sag en of the Sheroodosh, and the "et trans were given to the purser of the Laurel to Idd • ras II secret luta they got to the Shenandoah, whim it .., handed to Albeit, who was thee to report biers u st ude ; not therefore the Shenandoah essentially before she left Eaeland, sod the contest ef, pleted on the ligra, when Abe was ~. over to the defends= .! The trairectios was al rz as the sun at 000nday ; and what was doe* Oar the 1! was not dose on bean] • British ship. There well demo to show that Captain Corbett had laws of tkie land. The Lad Chief Justice said the eries on they 1 4 2; w a s whether, when the defendant left England .. , Ilm.: • continuous inteation when she was handed overdid men should be radar& to join her, The Solicitor CA:6ora replied on the whole casa_.ist r=oegly that the crows had made oat the are sil o• " - disset. COURT OF PRORATE AND DIVORCII (Before the Judge Ordinary.) WOOD, r. WOOD, YOUNG AND COON& Dr. Dear" Q. 0., aed Dv. Trireme for the 10 416 , 1 V. Mr. Cooke, Q C., and Dr. Wastrel` for the.. _,...111 Dr. Elpinks toe the co-respondent Young. vow' al C s. parties had begs before the court on another esstil when it may he recollected that the petitioner kid sts the senior of Pepper's Ghost as • spy. The Mrso, sod .. was, however, acquitted; and the husband rises ht1i0.,,1. nit. He was • member of the firm of Tarebell "-• who were the =twig* grooms is Oreoga4llol,_,, .11 tleoraTyne. The reepoodant's father, • Mr. Hlna'•".:ase so employe of the Great Western Railway se ~,. but she had helm brought up by her„erandrarbet 1:1,74 wiskun-Tireed. The petitioner married her ce *Ws November. INT, sad oecupied •• private roeido st el at No. 14, Lee's-terra= Newcastle. Their cohaw""ciA, • at int torgably happy, sad was followed by tits ""- g two =thine, bat in 1860 her bugbear' ha wow. too, France on beeriness. sad his wife is the nesentl e zra; with • Meal amid Prodbottune. On the pea a letter f ell into Ws hands, which led to some wesse insAt the Gloss of 1862 them was.__ o 7• quarrel. shill the reepormient eft be: bilsor g i • return to her father at Reading, wham be die • the abortive sett at referred te. Alter Ifital.,,a • poised an &kw's= from her kriesladis slatl os Z o ill" .-- 0 a Ire wart from Wm. She ampled as Tbe bs le well i .nd Norl appliewti oomProu Mr. SI yee art: 'DOM& - In an 2,5001.. Tba iibiii till li si it es& j I ' t ,~ ' i ~~ t I ,