The Express. — London, England, 1865-12-28 00:00:00

JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy ht, at malleable value, and the workmanship at minimal* manuisotareri Ow. The ol4in the chaise Luz eanteed, and re-purchmed at the peke charged. Here's the note. How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat . The homier of the gold, and charge for Mahlon. figAurewl. _nfanutacWcT. Na 16, Hearlettaetreet, Comnt-prden, W.C., ante and profitable sale which the blind can work. attempt, even on a very small soale--the immense advantage of the simplest organization, is seen already in the workshops and classes in London and Edinburgh, where women earn a shilling a day at the sewing machine, and many of the men earn their living, and a comfortable living, by piece work. It is to be hoped that the proposed scheme will be so supported as to give it a fair trial It cannot but be an improvement on the present state of things ; and if, as one result, it should be found that more and more of the blind come up to Lon don from the country, the remedy is plain—to pursue the same method in the provincial towns. The class is a definite and limited one, and it can never be a mistaken charity to educate and open employment to any proportion of it. We cannot but hope that ere long we shall find the deaf and dumb worshipping in their own chapel and studying in their own lecture-room, and the blind growing up into an equality with the rest of society, from which they will be distinguished only by having four senses instead of five. Le;Toil Assays made of chains and jewelry for Is. each. N.B. This establishment te closed at 6 in the stoning. and on 1/8624ars at 1 ° °kelt ' ------------ MESSRS. WATRERSTON and SON, Goldsmith , and Jewellers. PIM Beady for inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLIKILY, of the Latest Dodos, suitable for WEDDING I'itIiSENTS an E d BE S.W.-YEAR'S GIFTS. 12„ Palatall ast. OVERCOITS.--iiiIdLLTON and KIMPTON call especial attention to the NEW WINTER rasa tor OVIROOATS, and invite an early inspection of the wash N.B. Swansea garments always on band. No. 106, Strand, oViadtr Itetwr LONDON must have a SUPPER a nd MUSIC ZOOM foe Gentleman.—Remember. we wait for Jou at w EVANS," after the Count-gareen Opera, %ad the Theatres. vie oJrroreso. TO 00/LHESPONDICNT 9 . Adviellasionnts blended for "The Upresi" London Eventng . nue be et Ike OM*, 111. Bouvertratteet, by Two lar=k oa ile deg et pebilestka. THE Court of Aldermen sat yesterday to con sider the appointment, by the Quess's Govern ment, of Mr. Russzu. GURNEY to be one of the Commissioners of the Jamaica Inquiry. It was necessary that the Court should take notice of the appointment, in order that it might, in the first place, give its sanction to the proceeding ; and in the next, provide for the perform ance the duties of the Recorder during his absence. Look ing at the importance of the functions to which Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY his been called, and the high and honourable testimony to his character implied in the nomination, it might have been ex pected that the first impulse of the Loan MAYOR and Aldermen would have been to congratulate one another on seeing the services of their officer so highly appreciated by the Government and the public. It was with other feelings, however, that the LORD MAYOR intro duced the subject to his brethren yesterday. Ile spoke of it in the tone of complaint, much as Mr. Bucisrorrn might be entitled to speak if some rival manager had spirited Mr. SoTtirme away without his knowledge. The Aldermen evidently think they have a property of some kind in Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY : he is one:of the City " company," and must not receive proposals to " star it" e lsewhere. The LORD MAYOR " must say that he was some " what surprised that the Government had not " communicated in the first instance with the Cor " poration, and that a high officer of the Corpora " tion should have accepted an appointment with " out communicating with the Corporation." We should probably do the LORD MAYOR injustice were we to assume that these sentences expressed his personal view of the matter. A more likely explanation of them is that he was merely uttering what was expected of him, what in his position he " must say." A few words from the Recommit showed that the course he had taken was most honourable to him, and quite con sistent with his duty to the Corporation. He had accepted the post only from a strong sense of public duty, and entirely subject to an arrangement being made satisfactory to the City authorities. Alderman COPELAND, in proposing that Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY receive six months' leave of absence, could not help remarking on the manner in which the arrange ments between the Government and that gentle man had been brought about, as an instance of a " disposition at the present time to curtail the " rights and privileges of the Corporation of Lon " don, and he thought it was their duty to protect " these rights and privileges by all the means in " their power." These Aldermen seem to be incorrigible. They are disposed to question the right of the QUEEN to the services of one of her own CounseL They will probably go on talking in this way until their petty obstructiveness and want of public spirit make their rights and privileges a nuisance which their neighbours will no longer bear. HAYMAMMir. THIS IMMO. BROTH= BAM. Messrs. Sothern, Back end Compton; Misr Neal Moore. Boowdoli, Ac.— 401 BU .71S IN THE IdAYMAILI Mews ' , Wen awl Fidler MUM Kedel, Howard et Wright— An d SHOCK LNG LVESTS. runless. Tan tritago, QUIST LODGINOS.—Attor which IT IS ma TOO LATH TO Yews. Timing, GI. YeMlle, L mac Ilowsy. b. OMlows. F. Villiers. J. O. Saar*, M. Mur ray, mod R. CagoarS; llbres L. Wore and K. /WWI& LTCWM. TWIN EVINING, TIM ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGEL—After which THE MASTER OF RAV E N WOOD . Masora Yachter. Jordo. Veshk. Emery. Wlddloonlh. litspairkir. sad Erato, Mesdames Tama n, Elaworthy. LLTOiIU. and C. Leclerc. BRITANNIA. THII9 Itrinue& OLD DADDY LONGLEGS AND SIR BIGINT CIRCUS: OR, THII PACS 10.11 THZ GOLDEN APYLIS. . sad Udine. Steetaiebaeh.—etnnoe Bevanl—Ohna—Bleower of Golden &atm.—And MIMI& THE )1011.110:43 DAUGHTER. HIGH Walla AT LONDON-BRIDGL TES DAY Yoruba. 9h. Mo..— Altarsooa.l o b. Ste. To-atcasow Wanda& 101 s. —Menton, Ilh. 445. LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 28, Ir is not without ample reason that we rejoice at all times at the thought of what Christianity has done for the suffering and helpless who, under ancient systems of society, were left to perish, or put out of life, as unable to maintain their place In it. Our success has practically been less with the blind, than with the deaf and dumb and the idiots, though, from the material supplied, it should have been greater. There is nothing in the case of the blind which condemns them to a much lower level of mind than those around them. To the formation of sound and accurate ideas there is no fatal obstacle in them—no impediment but the deficiency of means of perception by one sense out of several. There is no need to prove that the minds of blind persons may receive (in proportion to their natural powers) any degree of development which does not depend on external action guided by the eye. The difficulty in their case is in pro viding them with occupation and executive ability ; and this difficulty would be found very much less than it now appears if we all understood the case as well as we easily might. The most intelligent friends of the blind are constantly re minded of the saying—nearly the last saying—of the blind Professor SAUNDERSON about thin matter. On his deathbed he was conversing with a friend, who expressed surprise at his power of knowing something that they were talking of, when Dr. SAtiNDERSON said that it was • constant sur prise to him that other people were surprised at his knowing or doing what there was no more difficulty to him than to them in under standing and doing. Society is too like the great mathematician's neighbours. They assume the blind to be incapable of doing a multitude of things for which sight is not really requisite. This mistake causes double injury. It discourages much education of the blind which is quite feasible ; and it creates distrust of what they actually achieve. It is a curious fact that the handiwork of blind women does not sell so well when its origin is known as when it is supposed to be done by ordinary workers ; and the best qualified musicians and teachers who are blind have to struggle with a strong impression that they must be somehow imperfect in their business. There is less difficulty of this sort in countries where labour is comparatively scarce than in our own. In America the blind are not only instructed to the highest point yet attained, but more readily and graciously employed in their subsequent vocations. With us, indeed, the case is so painful that we cannot too soon set about seeing what can be done towards rescuing the great majority of our blind neighbours from the poverty; helpless ness, and unhappiness from which they suffer. There are, we are told, 30,000 blind persona in the United Kingdom, nearly • tenth part of their number being in London. The great majority of these thirty thousand people are in • state of des titution. The asylums and schools can receive only • small proportion of the whole number ; and of those who are educated only a few are able to support themselves, wholly or partially, after leaving the institution. The case is far otherwise with the deaf and dumb, as we need not explain. They may imagine themselves capable of doing many things in which they cannot but fail, but there is a wide range of employments—as the whole department of accounts, correspondence, copying, &c.—in which they have an equal chance with others. The appeal on their behalf at pre sent is accordingly, not for the sort of help needed by the blind, but for means to open • place of worship for their method of language, and a lecture and class room for evening instruction for the adult deaf and dumb in London. They have divine service at the Polytechnic Institution ; but they want a commodious chapel ; and, as there are nearly 2,000 of their order in London, there is s need of a place of study and common improve ment in the week-day evenings, where they can improve and enjoy themselves in • society with which they can freely communicate. The needs of the blind aro more urgent than this. There is no more reason why they should be beggars or dependents for life than the other class. If so ciety did but believe in their capacities and help to develop them, there is much for them to do, and scarcely anything that they could not learn. If they could grow out of their ignorance, they would grow out of their helplessness in a way which would astonish the world. But as it is what can they dot Blind asylums and schools are very expensive, and they can receive only a few hundreds of the many thousands of claimants. Is there no more effectual mode of putting those thousands in the way of helping themselves ? In answer to this question, we are glad to see a scheme proposed for putting all the blind in Lon don under • benevolent supervision, through which education and industrial training may be far more widely extended at much less cost than hitherto. London would on this plan be divided into districts each of which would have its school and workshops; and au agency would be provided for the further- their boot to convict end alograrie Co able commit of the Clown. OSBORNE, Dec. 27. prim een went out in the morning accompanied by a Beatrice, and in the afternoon with Naar Ithlona. her Majesty's commend a Cbristmu tree was pm pare ßy d at Osborne yesterday afternoon, with presents of ;books, toys, &a, and plum pudding, for all the boys and girls of the Whippingham Schools. Soon after half past four o'clock her Majesty entered the , "tall with the Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, when children, about 100 in number, were introduced, and I received their presents from her Majesty and the Royal I family. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting ware in attendance. I and the Rev. G. Prather°, rector of Whippingbein, Prothero, and their family bad the honour of being invited. gam• TRZ NATI. Acting spontaneoudy, unlike the Bores Guards, the Admiralty, the Daily News sap, has jut published a statistical " Report" on the crimes committal and the i punishments inflicted in the royal navy during the year • 1863, and much of the contents will be cheering to those who have the welfare of the service at heart. The report proves that, es to sobriety, usually supposed to be the weak point with sailors, the good men prevail in numbers by no means out of proportion to the prevalence of the same offence in any town population of like amount, and this although every cue of intoxication in the royal navy is sure to be found out, and though the cues represent mini offenders who repeat the offence again and again. The punishments, too, appear to be monopolised by a oompara firefly small number of men. As to the serious crime of mutiny during the year, out of 15 cases of mutiny in the service, no los than 14 are attributed to the " injudicious management" of one officer. The general body of blue jackets are on the w hole exceedingly well-behaved, and if the few incorrigible ones were got rid of entirely and turned out of the fleet, the rest would be better still. It is gratifying to notice how the me of the lash is booming daily more and more rare in the service. That it must ere many years are over he altogether abolished is as certain as that the navy will improve in character when flogging no longer exists. If these "reports" are issued from time to time, they must create emulation amongst captains, offi cers, and seamen regarding the fronded of their respective ships, and lead to greater care than ever being bestowed upon the discipline of our ships. It would be well if slmi lar statistics were furnished by the authorities of the sister service. But in these days the navy is ortainly far ahead of the army in all matters of useful reform. , The Right Hon. Sir George Grey lett town on Tuesday OD • TIER to Lord Northbrook., •t Stratton -park, Hants. THI CHURCH OP INOLLND LIM TIIIIIO UMW( CHURCH: 8114001 AI 1/6/71. It appears from a letter of Prince N. Orloff which hes come into the hands of the Bel li n correspondent of the Times, that so recently as e ultimo the prince was present by invitation at • meeting in London for the esta blishment of a regular and formal intemommunion between the church of England and the Russian church. The Bi shop of Oxford presided, and there were present the Bishop of London, the Bishop Coadjutor of Edinburgh, Dr. Pussy. Yr. Lidd o c, Dr. Williams, Canon Wordsworth, and many other clergymen and laymen, eighty altogether. The Russian church was represented by the Prince, Count A. Tolstoi, and the Russian chaplain In London. The Time' cannot prams to have read the prince's letter with plea sure, for it appears that a number of good men, some occu pying important situations in the church, compromised themselves to • certain extent, sad pined sheolutely nothing by it. The prince says that having waited to hear everything that bishops, and clergymen, and gentlemen had to say on the subject, he rose to make what he evidently considered a revelation to the English mind—viz., that in his own church, strange as it might seem, the subordinate members are not at liberty to decide any ecclesiastical question, being entirely guided by the rule and directions of their church. The sequel, of course, was that no resolutions were passed ; indeed Ilene could be passed, for, as the three Russians present were without an atom of authority to conclude anything, to represent anybody else, or to express an opinion, they coald not even epee • reeolution ta intercomunion between the two churches was desirab h le, t or even possible. After the meeting, the pr:oce, es if desirous to bag better game than he had found at the meeting, went off to our Primate at his house in the country. Dr. Longley said that he should like to send two bishops to Russia, • Jimmied! , wash enough, but upon herring the priaoe's objections, put it off. The Times maks, with all submission, why this move in the direction of the Russian church? It is scarcely possible even t r dispute with the Eastern church, so widen the intervening calf, so utter the incongruity, so wanting the common ground for a controversy. The Eastern is en absolutely iron system. There is no mach thing as opinion in Russia. The church is there a state engine, under the disguise of a oatholie orthodoxy. Why should it communicate with the Church of England, of all churches the meet dangerous to religious or political despotism? The oorrsepondent slily hints at objections which, if we took the trouble to argue, we should ourselves feel es seriously as the Archbishop of Moscow does his owe. Did we know a little more of the Russian church we should not be so ready to ask to share its gaberdine. We have no doubt he has only too much to say on that point. I.II9CELLASEOUS TOPICS. The Post attaches serious importance to the promediogs of the American Congress with regard to the Mexican empire, and allows that as a matter of fact the United SMUG are as fairly entitled to claim a special mission as the France of the second empire. The new empire has proved a failure, it being no secret that without a French army Maximilian could not maiotain his present position for a month. Nevertheless, the Post hopes the American people will not force the French Emperor to elect between accepting a war with the United State" and withdrawing his army under a threat, The Times concludes that the feeling in this country will be that President Johnson is right in the terms he offers to the South ; and the radicals who insist upon full political rights being given to the negro are wrong ; and that the American people themselves are so naturally impatient for the restoration of the union that they will tolerate no obstacles in the way. The Telegraph does not marvel that there should be a considerable amount of discontent in Ireland when such proceedings are reported as these at Monaghan, where thirty notices to quit have been served upon the best farmers on the estate because they did not vote with their landlord at the late election. One of the tenants in particular is said to have recently expended nearly 1,000/. upon a house which he is now ordered to leave. Cues of this kind go far to explain the existence of Fenianism. The Times gives the principal facts from a distressing statement by Mr. Clarke, the sanitary inspector, describing the circumstances of two or three cues of typhus fever in Norwich and its neighbourhood.Under the:present system it is hopeless for these poor people to try and obtain proper nursing. II some provis'.on had existed for at once iaolat. ing under proper care the persons who were fi rst attacked, the greater part of the suffering and death re corded in this ease might have been avoided. It is simply necessary to appropriate for the service of the sick a healthy cottage, and to obtain a good nurse to live in it and take charge of the patients. Sorely, in almost every parish there are some good people who would guarantee the small rent of such • little hospital, and would make up deficiencies in an expenditure which they might be sure was usefully applied If the poor were brought to under stand the infinite boon inch an arrangement would confer on them, they would la glad to contribute their small sums themselves. The Daily News accuses the late Italian ministry of wantosly provoking the Assembly to take up a hostile posi tion. Signor Sells, of course, can no longer be Minister of Finance, and the transfer of • few other portfolios may be made with advantage. But it does not appear that the time is come for a radical change in the political character of the Italian ministry. Certainly, however, it is not a moment to soon for its leading members to Nigh to study the legitimate art" and minor virtues of parliamentary management. E 410.114 BEE 28, 1865. Wier INTELLIGENCE• THE EXCLUSION OF THE " INDEPEN DANCE BILGE" FROM FRANCE. The Ind4petsdanee Belge of yesterday evening says: We learn from the Paris journals that a decision of the Milliliter of the Interior has just prohibited the circulation d the bdipendance Beige within the limits of the territory of the French empire. What is the cause of this act of rigour, which comes just at the moment when the approach of the opening of the legislative wagon ham led some peewee to commies a hope of a more liberal pelkry—on the MOTTO'', of the day when the administration, by a precedent which all the journals have thought destined to become law, seemed itself to wish to bring new tempers• melds for the use of the arbitrary powers with which it is armed against the press I It would be very difficult to guess, and consequently to dote it. The rumours which certain Preach journals bring us indicate that tt is intended to establish for the foreign press, or perhaps especially for the Intilpendwice, a rigid( more or less analogous to that which regulelee the situation of the French press ; that the seizures to which we have been condemned too frequently, and which the administration has not troubled itself to explain, are now considered equivalent to so many warn ings ; and that after three of throe WRNS we have fallen suddenly under the blow of a enspension, like the French journals which have been warned three times. If such is redly the new doctrine which prevails at the Ministry of the Interior, we shall have to disease it hereatter, for at this moment a ll diecussion would be melee'. Our French readers, whom it expressly interests, will know nothing about it ; but we shall return to it. What we wish to establish now is that the Indipenclance bas ys not departed from the line of moderation which it has alwa observed in relation to the French government is in rela tion to all foreign governm ents ; that it is impossible fee it to be reproached with any attack either upon French insti tutions or upon the chief of the state or upon the dynasty ; that it is the victim of a bad feeling towards it, of the ex istence of which it has not been ignorant for some time past, at the Ministry of the Interior—a feeling of which no one has deigned to make known the motives cc the pre tests. What is tine is that su ch a pereeratioa has not been created against us since the ministry of General Espinosa), a ministry of unhappy memory by general consent ; and, moreover, some quite excep tional circumstances are known which might explain severities inexplicable at any other time, especially in a moment of calm, of pacifioation, and of liberal Wades• cies like the present. Further, until the cookery is de monstrated we wish to attribute the measure which is directed against us only to the malevolent dispositions to which we have alluded above, and we cherish the belief that it is not necessary to see in it an indication of the actual in etiolation, and tendencies of the imperial government. The future will soon tell us whether we have deceived our- PROROGATION OF PARLIAXLIFT.—(THIS DAY.) — This morning the Lord Chancellor once more attended at the House of Lords, for the purpose of proroguing the imperial parliament. There were, however, no peers pre. gent, and there was DOE the usual official visit on the part of the Y eom an Usher of the Black Rod to the House of Commons, the whole of the proceedings being condooted in theme t st oene of Lords. The new parliament will, on Thursday , of February next, assemble for the despatch of busioems. In anticimi• tion of the opening of parliament by her Majesty is person the House of Lords is undergoing a thorough cleansing, and workmen are and will be actively engaged, not only in the great chamber but in all the approaches to it, peers' rooms, committee rooms, and the various offices. The House of Commons, too, is being made as smart aa it is capable of being made for the reception of its new occupants. Franoes Countess Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Forkene are receiving company at the Chief Secretary's Ledge, Phcenlx Perk, Dublin. The visitors include the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres, the Lord Chancellor and Mrs. Brady, the Earl and Countess of Chszlemoot, the Earl of Granard. Lord James and Lady Rachel Butler, Mr. and Lady Louisa Tennison, Sir Hugh Rose, Sir Thomas and Lady Lemons, Sir Erskine and Lady Perry, Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Ac. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left town on Tuesday, on a visit to Lord Northbrook at Stratton Park, Sisk. Lord and Lady Elcho hoe arrived at their residence in St. James's-piece, from a tour of visits. The marriage of the Earl of Sandwich and Lady Blanche Egertoc, youngest daughter of Harriet Countess of Ellesmere and Francis, first feel, took place yesterday at the elegant church erected by the .Earl of Eliminate, the grandsire of the present peer, at Hatediford, Surrey. The death of Major-General John Fitzmaurice, K.H., liciiteciant of her Majesty's Body Gaud, took place on Christmas-eve, at DTROOD-green, Ealing. The nephew of the late Sie Charles Eastlake writes to a contemporary to gay that his uncle was in Italy on his official and annual tour in search of pictures for the National Gallery. The Liverpool magistrates were discussing the relative sobriety of Manchester and Liverpool yesterday, sod from the statistics laid before them (says the Max cheater Examiner) it would appeer that Manchester is a paradise of morality compared to its western competitor. The figures laid before the magistrates showed that Man chester, in 1864, with 1,884 beerhowies, hal 3,587 convic. tiers for drunkennese ; wh"st in Liverpool, with 1,001 boathouses, the conviction amounted to 14,002. One of the magistrates, however, thought lightly of these statis tics, and explrined the wide disproportion between them by the difference of the police regulations. The Penians in prison in Dublin were each sup plied with a substantial cake on Christmes-day by Mrs. Stephens, wife of the escaped Head Centre. It appears that the Cork Flax Spinning auJ Weaving Company is progressing most favourably. The Cork Examiner states that the shareholders now possess a fine stook of Six, which, purchased on the most favour able terms, will carry them well into next year's crop. This is most fortunate, as there has been a considerable advance in the pries of the raw material, owing to the general poor ness of this year's yield, especistly in the northern counties of Ireland. The Ulster Observer states that from Saturday night till Monday night last 144 persons were taken up in Belfast for drunkenness and other crimes. Mr. Sidney, Q.C., applied in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Tuesday, for the release, on bail, of Edmond Daffy, one of the Fenian prisoners confined at Kilmainham, on the ground that he was suffering from pu l mo nary disease. Mr. Barry, Q.C., on the part of the crown, consented, and the prisoner was let out as giving bail, himself in 500/. and two sureties of 2301. each. A similar application was made for Crowley, from Gslway, and refaced. A letter from Stockholm says :—"The gay and fashionable circles of this city are about to sustain a great loss in being deprived of the valuable services of Baron Stediogh, who has for some time discharged with energy and success the duties of the director of the royal theatres here, but who has recently been appointed Minister Pleni potentiary from this court to that of Madrid. The two employments may be thought to be of a very opposite kind, but there is no doubt that Baron Stedingh will be fortunate enough to give the same satisfaction in the one as he has on all occasions done in the other ; and perhaps it may be discovered that the diplomatic training in the green-room may have been of the greatest service to him when be may be required to turn the lessons he bad learned there to practical account in the new end higher sphere of duty to which his Sovereign has called him." The Thc:dtre des Arts at Dijon has just been the scene of a singular incident. A young actress named Frain bert, being irritated by a hiss after singing an air during the performance of the Barbier de Senate, addressed the words " Imbecile ! Bete!" to the author of the mark of disapproval. For this offence she was, on the following day, condemned by the correctional tribunal to a fine of two francs and the payment of costs. But on her appear ance on the stage in the evening. she was received with such a continued uproar that at length the curtain bad to be let down, and the actress came forward with the director and apologised to the public, alter which the performance was allowed to proceed. A Madrid letter in the Temps states that M. Montariol, a Spaniard , has solved the problem of sub marine steam navigation by the invention of a vessel which can remain for hours at a considerable depth, can discharge cannons from below and even act as a ram for piercing the hulls of iron-clad ships. The Spanish journal Esperanza states that the cholera ban broken out with great severity at Santander. On the 22nd, 130 cares and 56 deaths occurred, and on the following day the number of the latter had inc eased to 60. Among the victims is the governor of the province. TuE Bisnor OF LONDON'S FUND. —Of the quarter of a million already subscribed among the 3,000,000 inhaon's bi tants of London in support of the Bishop of Lond Feed, exactly ooehslf is given by 90 perms. THE " RECORD" AND THE COCHT.—The Record lately published' * review of the "Life and Letters of the Rev. F. W. Robertson," in which it sharply criticised Mr. Robertson's biographer —the Rev. Mr. Brooke , English I AMERICA. chaplain at Berlin. Is Tuesday's Record there is a letter ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN. from the Rev. Dr. Sperms, of fiarylebooe, defending Mr. Brooke spinet the strictures of the reviewer. In order . SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 28. to show that Mr. Brooke not open to the charges of The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen, " coarseness and vulgarity " ins plied by the reviewer, Dr. spencer uy ,.." Wh en I k new si r . B roo k.. „l iar h e from New York on the 16th at., has arrived here never was ; coarse he never could be. His disposition with 110 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bre_ was of the most loveable I have ever known, of which, if m en , 260 , 720 dole . for England, and 308,200 dole. an y additional proof were wanting. it might be found in the fact that, at the instance of the Princess Royal, to for France. whom he was well known, doubtless in Berlin, he w as eelected by her Most Gracious Majesty to preach in the On the 17th blot. she spoke the steamer America, private chapel at Windsor one Sunday the 3rd. Minot. It from S ou thampton , off Sandy Hook. would be well if such strong language were avoided, and • Her news has been fully anticipat,ed. more of the straMfer iw modo mixed up with the Arta& is re in theolo gical discussions, and the truth drams I spoken in love. " Commenting on this letter, the Record "We are happy to annonnoe," says the Belgian pya • D e . Spencer concludes by letting us tato a Coen M on sieu r, e t h a t, i n consequence o f the accession of the P ▪ as and informing us that it was at the request of the Princess Royal of Prussia, when at Windsor, that her Duke de Brabant to the Crown, Count de Planar, has se* Majesty lately invited the Berlin chaplain to preach in oepted the Presidentship of the Belgian Commission for the the Royal Oltspet If this be correct, we can only remark u o iyereel Exhibition of Paris." a n t we deeply grieve over eke spreadiog influence of As Mdlle. Isabelle, the flower girl of the Paris German scepticism in high quarters. There was a time when the Princess Royal requested that an Evangelical clergymen Jockey Club, was retuning home lets • few eveninp ego should by sent to Berlin. This good desire was over•reled with the receipts of the day she was attacked by an ba by the higher pewees, and, if Dr. Spesoer's story be true, divides' In the Rue du Port Mabee, ben sweep:led is it is melancholy to be informed that ere who has drink too defeeidngher property, although not without mortaining deeply into the pots= of Genres rationalism, was invited, on some sever e contuitoos. She still confined to bed, Wiedsor." the special request of the ninon , t o offininto at bat has been better during the last two days. (armies nricaulus.) FRANCE. _ . PARIS. Dec. 2 8 . The Moniteur of this morning publishes the decision of the Supreme Council of Public In struction, in the case of the seven students, with a long preamble setting forth its reasons. The de cision of the council of the Academy is confirmed, but the term of exclusion from the Paris Academy has, in the case of Brigourdan, been reduced to two years. Rey, Lafargue, Jaclara, Casse, and Losson are excluded from all other e acadmies throughout the empire for two years, and Reynard for the space of one year. OPENING OF THE SPANISH CORTES. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. MADRID. Dec. 27, Emma. The Queen opened the Cortes in person to-day- In the speech from the throne her Majesty said : " My desire for pesos has not been able to pre vent the commencement of hostilities between this country and Chili, which had obstinately refused to make amends for wrongs done to the Spanish nation during the Peruvian difficulty. The govern ment will give an account to the Cortes of the pro gress of the war, and of any negotiations that may take place in connexion therewith. " Desirous of respecting the independence of the states of South America, founded on the ancient colonies of Spain, I have signed a treaty recognising the independence of San Salvador. "My relations with the other foreign Powers continue favourable. " Various reasons originating in a desire per manently to promote the interests of the nation have induced me to recognise the Italian kingdom, but that recognition cannot weaken those feelings of respect and devotion to the Holy Father common to all the faithful, nor lessen my firm i ntention .to w atch over the rights of the Holy See. Her Majesty in referring to the financial difficul ties spoke of the necessity of increasing certain taxes and reducing the expenditure in order to balance the expenditure with the revenue. A bill would be introduced with the object of extinguish ing or liquidating the old and of reducing the float ing debt. Other measures relating to the national domains would be presented for the consideration of the chamber at the same time as the ganeral budget. Bills would also be laid before them tending to promote municipal liberty, and to harmonise the interests of local administration with the interests of the government. Another bill for the prevention of the slave trade in the Antilles would also be presented. Her Majesty complimented the army and navy, and concluded as follows :—" I am convinced that labour and production cannot be developed where order and liberty do not exisL My government, without being uuoasy about the attitude of political parties, will pursue a tolerant but firm policy, will repress disturbances without cruelty, and will respect the law. I hope it will overcome all diffi culties, relying upon public opinion as represented in the chambers." MADRID, Du. 28. The frigates Vadras, Almansa, and Trinidad are about to leave for the Pacific. The diplomatic corps was received yesterday by the Queen. The Papal Nuncio, as senior member otthatbody, congratulated her Majesty on her return to Madrid. The commission for the reform of the customs' tariff and the differential duties levied on vessels of foreign countries is actively engaged in its labours. , I 'S \ . " a: • • THE " L. • li% 1 RISDAY '- 1. NT f . . DE' Oft. I . . - The ' ~em . 17 declares thet in a . 'se •.- gbl CO eof the ' tatfidectu —.o— two hence it will not. be Yr. Eyre who iti on hie trial, bat _ .. ----. I rk. The benefit of ouch an Lora itaiieu ind her moot?. go,ormeoh, who how, a.. . . _ . ..:_ .n A,lr, ..rant of the Th. Oueen went out in the I OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE CAPITAL POWL4II3III2IT EXPORT. The commissioners, the Times thinks, actea wisely in paining by the abstract question whether capital punish. meet should be retained, for the controversy on that matter turns on deeper and broader inure than oars be determined by such evidence as they were able to obtain. The right of society to declare the life of any one of its members to be forhited, and the policy of exercising that right if it exists, are problems of the future. Sooner or later, but probably not in our own time, they will have to be determined by parliament. It is satisfactory to find that the commissioners draw • distinction between pre meditated and unpremeditated homicide, and the alters. time they propose in the law is judicious. No one can justify a rule which visits with the same penalty such a crime as Palmer's and an act which a humane man might possibly commit under the influence of excitement without intending muider even at the moment. The commis sioners suggest an act should be passed constituting infan ticide • separate offence, punishable with penal servitude, " unlawfully and maliciously to inflict grievous bodily harm or serious injury upon a child during its birth or within several days afterwards, in case the child has subsequently died." The motive of this pro posal is of course to get over the am-malty of proving that the child was completely born alive, which, combined with the sympathy of juries for mothers destroying their own off , storing in the agonies of childbirth or in • paroxysm of shame, so often defeats the ends of justice. The Times can. I not but doubt, however, whether a statute thus worded 1 would answer the purpose. With regard to their recom misedation of private executions, the Tina wants to see the evidence by which the commissioners were guided—intimst fMg • distrust of the opinions of mere " authority " on the matter, and suggesting that the real question is the effect of public , executions on the millions who stay away. The Herald taunts the a Ivocates of the abolition of Genital punishment with their failure to obtain from the I I commissioners a recommendation of their favourite theory. Upon the main result , of the inquiry the peace-loving and law-keeping portion of the community may fairly be con. gratulated. The report embodiss the sound feeling and practical good sense of the nation. It recogniam punishment as a duty, painful but necessary ; it takes hold of every reasonable pretext on which the criminal can be spared without sacrificing the interests or jeopar.lising the safety of society. It shows every disposition to meet ackoowledged difficultiee, and yet evinces a wise firmness when dealing with the sug gestions of misapplied philanthropy and sickly 'anti mentalism. Under these circumstances we may hope that the abolition " cry" will, for the future, be effectually silenced, and that another pretext for chronic and mis chievous agitation may now be treated as one finally disposed of. At a general ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol in the cathedral church of Bristol on St. Tbornaa'sday, the following gentlemen were admitted into holy orders,:—Deecons : Henry William Barber, 8.A., Queen's College, Oxon ; Donald McLesia Claxton, 8.A.. St. Edmund's Hall, Ozoo ; Thomas Cor field. B A., Jesus College, Cambridge ; John Harold Giles, 8.A.. Magdalen College, Cambridge ; Robert Gleadewe Burk, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge THE JAMAICA COMMISAION AND THE LIBERAL% I Willie= John Lofty, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ; The Star believes the government has not yet completed Welter Henry Scott, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ; the arrangements for the Jamaica commission, or decided Wil liam He nr y aA- ,Or in and CM " Ccala M l N Cambridse. Priests : Mut' Nerobliard Thwaites. Lite. upon the name of a gentleman to acoompsay Mr. Russell rate ; William Pinder Went, LL.B., Christ College, Gurney. It is naturally much to be desired that some Cambridge. The Lord Bishop licensed the following to member of the commission should be selected from the Tasks cameos : The Rev. H. W. Barber, Holy Trinity, Bristol ; at the liberal pull. The government has already ap. the Rev. D. McLean Cliztoe, St. Marv, Redcliff, Bristol ; pointed two comeervativea. Against neither is there any- the the re Thom field' tr St.E B i rd a o2 o u : tr . r s i t! ; thing whatever to be urged Tigard to his political °Pi - the Rev. R. G. Earle, Micheldean ; the Rev.' W. Mons any more than to his personal character. Mr. Rumen Mills, Stapleton ; the Rev. W. H. Scott, Highwarth, Gurney is admitted on all sides to be a man of the striates% Wilts. impartiality, wholly incapable of Mending partisan feelings DeATH IN A Cauaca.—Samuel Read, an old with the conduct of such an inquiry. But the government a?" 8 4 yews of ago. walked on Chrienesas-dar from the Carlton to will doubtless regard it as only proper that some member vil lage it c?fatliagllzte* duetr:°f•elolfb:crilu of the liberal party should be associated with the two immediately expired. The deceased had been hard to my geatlemen already named. that he should die en Christeamday. I ^it THE ALLEGED PARRICIDE AT SBADIVELL. -.-- INQUIST.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon Mr. John Humphreys, the Middle sex coroner, held an Inquiry at the London Heophal touching the death of 'tankard Wall, aged 70 years, who wasmtly to have been killed by his son. Vall. I. Love-lase, Lower ShadwA widow of the dd, said that her late husband was a !ebony,. pa Sat eciess urda e y night he wee Intoxicated, sad he quarrelled wt his son Tbomasat% Teary about • doh s The sou sok „ Good night, , y ou are drank." father thr• said, "Go oat of the house," sad Thomas went annum The deemed threw the dog out of the boast, sad the to came downstairs, as the animal was whining. The father then threw • fire shovel at hie sin aod to iron shovel was bent. A fight then took_ Ace betwou them. but as the m oils went out witness did n o t so my blows struck by either of them. A neighbour then cams in sod separated them, and witness went for the p o li o . Stie then toned her husband lyiog on the floor, h eed tlyuy was blood on hie fees. When the quarre l couniseyol witness was in bed. Thomas wee slightly into:jet.). hat the deceeld was so drank when be came in that night that be laid, • Mary, lem drank ; Mary, I em very d n a.. There was blood oa the Kell face. Mary Lyme, • young woman living ant door to de. maned, said that hearing a 701/ she went into the decerests house on &WNW night. The father was lasing table drunk, and the sou was standing near him tipsy. Th . father thanked witness for the light she had sad she then saw that his tune was covered with b 1 101 1 40,10. saw no blow strack. Polio constable Bloomer. 439 K, deposedthat the dy, ceased said to him, " I wish to charge my eon with assealt. lag me." When witsiess went upstairs to arrest the sos ha found him is bed, and upon saving . to him, " I ou t to arrest you for striking your father," be replis , a, ..p oo him right; be should not come home drink. Wiwi. then took the sea to the police station. The Meer was removed to the Lacks Hospital, where he died Oa Nodal last. Dr. J. Brows Boos mid that he saw the deceased Wore he wee removed to the hospital. Four of kis rite wen bookie. Such ea injury could have resulted from either blow, kick. or fall. Mr. John Dawson, house surges at the London Horclw, said that the dsecomed es pima on the 25th toatest. Then were wend eoutusions os the scalp, and both eyes Win blackened. A poet modem examination proved thralls sth and 6th ribs were broken. The deceased was When( at the time of his death from bronchitis. The ems a death was internal bleeding. The deceased might ban walked several hundred yards after kis ribs were broke. Such injuries as the deceased. received might not ban owned death if the doomed had been in good coaditim, and had not been under the influence of drink at the tam he received them. The foreman asked if there was any evidence to peon that say person had ma the eon actually strike his father, The Coroner replied that then was not. Mary Wall mid that she bad beard blows struck, but eke could not say who struck those blows. e sted le make up the quarrel several times. but t he eon eon was d would not let him do so ; but used bad language. He had bees falling about the streets before be came horns. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter ageism Th o mas Wall for feloniously killing sad slaying his fat* Michael Wall, and th e jury believed that he had remind great provocation." The Coroner then issued his warrant for the committal of the amused to Newpte for trial at the neat sitting al the Central Criminal Court. SERIOUS COLLSION ON THE LONDON AND NORTHIWESTERN RAILWAY. Yesterday morning the 6.15 a. tn. express train was brought to & standstill between Road and Wolverton. Upon examinetion by the ellgiOS driver, it was pereelvel that one of the tubes leading from the boiler to the other parts of the eosins was on; of repair. The train tau and Ineek-ria aisted of some twelve carriages, with guerd in frost, and guard-van behind. Whilst standing at lode& and while the engineer and stoker were busily employed in aeoertsining the CAWS of the stoppage, the plunge, meanwhile keeping their seats, the soiled of an app preaching train was heard, and before any e mu mw 03IIld be atloptad for giving ti m ely warning of nger a impeding Re progress in any way, an engine and trek came driving into the passenger train at • great Pace. Fortunately no carriages were attached to the angina, a the iscreued impetus which would have thus been green to it must lave occasioned the most serious consequence' The guards of both vane had a providential wane, having left their vane and gone to the assistance of du angle driver. The nu van of the passengertrain is smashed in a fearful manner, as were also a first-claw carriage and • seemed-ciass carriage in front of K. no front guard and break vans were also considerably dammed, the whole of the five vehicles indicated being, in fact, rendered completely unfit for use until they have under gone complete repair. The rear van IVY so badly crushed es to be unfit to travel to the neat station, ad was turned off the line and down the embankment. TY force of the eolliaion would appear to have been chiefly fib at the two estremitins of the train, tbe paeseegere in the central portions escaping with a few bruises merely. Is the first and mood class carriage referred to there were crlf • few passengers, but three of these were rather seriously injure& A ady and two gentlemen in the fins sad second clue carriages complained of being badly injured, and were sent back by the nest up train to Duda The remainder of the passengers escaped with a sewn jolting and sundry cuts of the face and body. It appals that the engine that drove into the passenger train IA been up to London with • train from Birmingham oe previous night, and was working its way does to Birmingham, and should in the ordinary course d things have brought an iron stone train from Mislead!' b Birmingham at 9.43 yesterday morning. The driest d the " light engine," as it is generally termed, had been deli cautioned that there wu a passeoger train in front of • and had in consequence proceeded at only its ordinary posh expecting the passenger train to do the sans, and not at a taking into consideration the possibility of • break dons. The fog was so dense, however, that the driver of We "light engine" was u nable to see the train u ntil dose mice a COLLISION ON THE MANCH/MITES, SHEFPIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAT.—A collision happened Dot Woodhouse junction on the above line,about 9 o'ckek yesterday morning. It a that a oods tram fees Bekington bad put through the station, and s train from Manchester to Retford, composed of nine o ten carriages, was due at the time , and the s ignals was all right for it to approach the station, bat the engiss driver of the goods tram, i n stead of waiting until the peosenger train had passed, shunted the luggage trail from the down to the up line. The driver of the emiut of the peesenger train saw the danger, and at oboe ebat off the steam, reversed the engine, and applied thi brakes, but the distance between the two trains being short—Dot more than a hundred yards—it wee impossina ble to avoid a collision. The en g ine of the passenger train into the goods train, smashing two or three of the where" and throwing. them across the line. No very serious injary was sustained by any paseesger ; a few ladies received stits and bruises about the head and face ; the rest of the tis e yellers escaped with a shaking more or less severe. THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN GLOUCESTEBAIIIRE . The authorities in this county have determined to take thr most stringent promotions against the spread of the dimes within the district. At a meeting of the magistrates hold at Gloucester on Tuesday, there were present the Led Lieutenant, Earl Dacia, the Earl of Ellenborough, Mr. Ed. ward Hassid, M.P., and many others; end it was the resolved to recommend the suppression, for the present. all markets and fain, and of the importation of lined cattle from any other part of the kingdom. At Sealy/ and in the Ltwford's Gate 'visional division, the lusting have gone so far as to forbid the removal of horsed cattle from one farm to another; and on St e t/ last the magistrates of th e Cheltenham resoled to issue an order to a similar effect This stoppage of the transit of cattle will no doubt mow very great inoonvenieuos, but it is generally felt to be the only sure means of stamping out the disease. The princivis we must now act upon is to seed the butcher to the ox, sad sot the ox to the butcher ; and it will be far better to 0 up with a temporary inconvenience than to allow the disease to get to a heed and involve us in all the loss end mfferiog of an absolute famine.—Cheifesham Examiner. TEE CATTLE PLAGUE IN CORNWALL --ADOOR disastrous week of the cattle plague has been experienced is Cornwall. In the Truro district Mr. W. L. Cubed is aim ; Mr. J. Rowe, Cohort, two ; Mr. Tysser, Penmen bolos, one; Mr. Ball, Tolgarrick, one ; Mr. Galin, Tresillisn, four; Mr. Pearce, Percoormr, two ; and Ileum Farley, Brewer, and Yorcombs, Truro, one each. Sio deaths and several cases of illegal were reported 0 6 the West Pearith district, but the whole of to• min were confined to the previously infected farms. The a. earn broke out in the early part of the week sear Sb Columb, and two deaths have since been reported ; it ell made its appearanes at Carton. in the eastern part of t county, and a farmer Darned Wills ham already lost a demi valuable bullocks. and has five is a bad state. In the Padstow district two deaths occurred, and many fresh ern were reported in the Neighbourhood of Balaton. At SI Winnow there was one death, and several are bad.- 90 borne Journal. A 00Arosandfies PlaTsh.—The T he unt-god Bairiki have just presented an address t roche Eul Dudley on the occasion of his marriage, in which they 07„.; —" We also cherish the hope that your banners Irle be crowned by noble offspring to inherit and transmit sr impaired to future generations your lordship's stags le *I, discharge of the several duties of your high nett" e' setting an example of well-ordered leaded entails, up judicious promotion of industry, in the liberal patronage in the arts, and is the munificent support cd every busses' lent and patriotic object." THIEVES AT • COURT Dm:ctn.—The Growl Marshal of the Court at Berlin his gives notice to 0 police that on the messlin of the state dinner gives at court in honour of the Princess Alexandrine's siarrat some &advised pursers stole several pieces of plate, tN ° in particular two silver dishes, ten large spoons, end forks of the same metal, with a dozen spoons mid foible plated wore, without doubt supposedto be 'flyer. liair vs' sr Wa WWI Waal, Win :Vim. bet l a rval* v iabik 4 „„„skaarsbi. sorb ag 6 GIA 16 % 1V 0i 1: 11 : PM" ' I You mil, .• et tre H a tt, bel the • ' hem the st It will I Wattle of with P.m e: watches a ' They wen the shop they were prisoner* their pee Mr. Oho c 1 &mew chaos by 'U from were teal • of the en waliat meter of tb•t he I them mei Dater.. a Is SDI Clempbel stelae w Mr. C thewee , worth 4 prhoow The I replied aerie. !TM/ trfari; Pril T two ski 1 resi Yr. you] stre cut ha]