The Express. — London, England, 1861-12-28 00:00:00

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CtAuf ord. —Awl Tel SlitiblLLD 0311.—Ossusgass M Gt. 11141111_WATAR AT cosmos IRMO& DAT- 4 garldielL AftWilarsli. 1 1 T041.100111-111oeubs. !Ib. Altaireses, Oa. Oa LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 28. Tut meeting, at the London Tavern last week, of Owners and Masters of the Mercantile Marine, to consider the Admiralty Regulations for the en rolment of officers in the Royal Naval Reserve, was characterized by all the good feeling and good will that might have been expected of • body of men in whom the high national spirit, the world wide enterprise, and the commanding interests of (:neat Britain are so eminently personified. There was no disposition to put too fine • point upon those nice conditions of rank and precedence which, as we ventured to suggest the other day, un avoidably present some difficulties in adjustment in so far as they touch the professional susceptibilities of either service. These are, after all, subordinate consideration; which yield to a temper of mutual concession and hearty co-operation towards • common purpose, without loss of dignity on either side, and to the satisfaction and contentment of both. The distinguished Chairman at the London Tavern, moved by a genuine patriotism and a true self-respect, struck the right note at woe whoa be declared the object of the meeting to be to " let her Ks/tom see how ready were the " officers and seamen of the Mercantile Marine to " rally round the Crown in defence of the British " flag." These words, from the mouth of a mer chant who has a " service " of his own, officered by English gentlemen and manned by British seamen, and ships of the tonnage and measurement of frigates, traversing all the great highways of the ocean, were no empty and unmeaning compliment. It is no vain boast to say that they mark an epoch in the maritime history of England. What the creation and organization of • Volunteer :ores of a hundred thousand picked men was to the British Army, the enrolment of the Royal Naval Reserve is to the British Navy. The Volunteer force on shore to all intents and purposes doubles the effective of the regular army, since in times of national peril it enables the Government to make the entire regular army an "offensive" force. The Volunteer force has never pretended to supersede a regular army ; by its very nature and composition it is only available es a defensive force in national emergencies, when the whole regular army is called away to resist or anticipate attack. So, too, the Royal Naval Reserve is not in time of peace an offensive force ; it is only avail able in extreme national emergencies, but when available it nuiy be said in some sort to double the naval strength of England, inasmuch as it con vene an immense mercantile marine into an almost inexhaustible reserve of trained and skilful executive officers and seamen gunners. In all questions of national defence, where feelings rather than interests are appealed to, the name is scarcely Mee important than thsthing. Mr. Clanzsr's suggestion, that the Royal Naval Reserve should be preferably called the Royal Naval Volunteer Force, " so se to assimilate them ISOM closely with the " Volunteers on shore," strikes us as particularly valuable and significant. It determines at once with breadth and precision the scope and purpose of the Admiralty order, as interpreted and accepted by the Merchant Ser vice. A cordial union of the two Services is an event of incalculable importance to this country, and the Lords of the Admiralty under whose administration it has been promoted and secured, deserve to be well and gratefully remembered. One has only to look back to our naval history during the great war, when we were alone against all Europe, with • force of 145,000 seamen scraped and dragged together by pressgangs, swept on board the fleet in batches, to under stand what progress naval reform has made within less than half a century ; or, strictly speaking, within the last five years. If M. Ceram .= Duriir some six and twenty years ago was amased at the maritime resources of England, when it was all but impossible to man without impress-' ment • navy reduced to • pesos establishment ; when the Merchant Service and the Navy regarded each other with jealousy and distrust; what would an observant foreigner say now that fair play and goed treatment have made the Navy so popular with good t..."" t uen th 't t.%C., whole Merchant Venice is manly at the whisper of a war to " rally round the Crown in defence of the British Beg"? The fact is that the successful organization of the Naval Reserve decides so conclusively the ques tion of maritime superiority, that all the systems of " maritime inscription " that can possibly be de vised by continental Powers may be regarded with indifference. From the moment that the Merchant Service of Great Britain becomes a NavalVoluntear force it is idle for any European Power to compete with resources which have practically no limit. Nor need this new development of the pro digious nisrninic capacities of England give um brage to any foreign State, however jealous of the freedom of the seas, or of its own rank and influence in the world. Whatever may have been tho doctrine or practice of the British Government and people when they were fighting for dear life against the ph:sum/A omnipotence of the FIRST - THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1861. NAPOLEON, in whose vocabulary freedom of the sees meant subjection of the English, it is enough to know that to-day the freedom of the seas looks to the British flag for vindication and pro tection. The British Navy has no mission to rectify frontiers or to propagate ides.; it is con tent to guard the ancient sanctuary of freedom, and to carry civilization from pole to pole. It is satisfactory to find that the Admiralty Re gulations, in all that relates to pay, promotion, pensions, and allowances, are heartily approved by shipowuers and masters who have so good • right to represent the claims of the Mercantile Marine as Mr. R 'HARD GYLELN and Mr. Li IC LP4A Y, and Captain A tiaN Youso, thedevoted comrade of MCCLINTOCIL Mr. Gaze", thanks the Admiralty for placing the Mercantile Marine in " so honourable a position." Mr. LINDSAY oonsiders the regulations " a great " concession." As an evidence of the liberal spirit in which they are drawn up, they entirely assimi late officers of the Merchant Service to their brothers of the same rank in the Navy ; for as Mr. Gases explained, " with but after" applies to duty rather than to rank ; and it is obvious that volunteers on temporary service cannot claim precedence. The reduction of the age qualifica tion from 45 to 35 will be readily granted, for it is to the younger men that the appeal is made, and the best men in either service have done as good seaman's work before 35 as they will ever do after. For the older men there is the honorary rank, • distinction which will be more and more appreciated, and which will more and more unite the sympathies and interests of the Navy and the Mercantile Marine. The twenty. eight days' drill in time of peace, so far from being irksome, will, aa Mr. Game expressed it, be " fun " to active and enterprising officers of the Merchant Service ; and it will teach them how, in the event of war, to take good care of neutral cargoes without consulting any text-books. Every merchantman is • man-of-war, a naval revolu tion in itself ; and nothing lees than this is the end and aim of the Royal Naval Reserve. Captain Au.= Totowa recalled with just pride the services Of the Mercantile Marine in co-operating with the Royal Navy, sad in transporting troops to the scene of action during the Crimean war, and again in India and China. These conspicuous services have not been without effect in promoting that una nimity which the Regulations for the Reserve will, it is hoped, increase and confirm. Since 1815 the character and the constitution of both the Navy and the Merchant Service have not escaped the changes which have befallen men and manners on shore. Education and refinement are no longer deemed incompatible with daring courage and seamanship. In those oomrades of the last Polar Expedition—Mt:Cu:woos and ALLLN Yorxn--we see the Navy and the Merchant Service of our day. Instead of snarling and sneering at one another, both have learnt the duty and the pleasure of mutual respect. Neither can stand alone, or dispense with the aid of the other. The Navy protects the Merchantman ; the Mer chantman makes the Navy; and both make England. THE QUEEN AND THE ROYAL HUHU CULTURAL SOCIETY. At a meeting of the council specially summoned yesterday, the following commuuication, addressed to Mr. C. Wentworth Dilke, one of the vioe-presi dents, was received : " Osborne, Dec. 24, 1861. "My Dear Dilke,—The Queen has directed me to inform you that it is her Majesty's wish that the Horticultural Gardens should be considered as under her peculiar and personal patronage and protection. " The only consolation that her Majesty can hope to tiud for the rest of her life, under her bitter and hopelehn bereavement, is to endeavour to carry out the wishes and intentions of her beloved husband. " The Queen well knows the deep interest that he took in this undertaking, and would wish to have periodical reports sent to her Majesty of the progress and proceedings of the society.—Sincerely yours, " C. B. PHIPIN." The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Euxine, with the above mails, reached Mar seilles at noon tii-day (27th inst.) She communicated with the Sultan (which left Marseilles with the Bombay mail on the 20th inst., but damaged her machinery in the Straits of Bonifacio), and has brought back that vessel's pas sengers, mails, and cargo to Marseilles. These will now be transferred to the Masailia, leaving Marseilles to-morrow (28th). Orders have been sent to Suez, by telegraph, for the Bombay steamer to wait for them. be Court. OSBORNE, DIM rt. The King of 'the Belgia.ne, attended by Count de Yoerkerke sad Dr. Komi, arrived at Oeborne to-day. Lord Harris, lad la waiting, and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Reed. equerry to her Majesty, attended the King from Dover. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Grey, went to Purieniontb, and accompanied the King to Osborne in the royal yacht Fairy. The Deka at Saxe Cobtug returnel from London. A deputatioo from the Three Deoaminitiorw, a depute. flea from the Congregational Board, • deputation from the Congregational Union, • deputation from the Baptist Union, and • deputation from the Baptist Board, had an Interview with Earl Russell yesterday, at the Farage-ollies, ea the subject of the threatesed war with America. The Committee to the Read sera@ Hyde.park had a luollissed interview yesterday afternoon with the Right Rea. W. Cowper, M.P., her Majesty's First Commisekner of Works, at the °Mee, Whitaboll•pLma The deputation 110111allid et Mr. Tile, M.P., Major Lyn., Lisat.-Coiceiel Wortley, chairmen, Mr. Tim. Henry Hope, Mr. James Piny, Jame' Heywood, F. R. 8., Mr. C. Freeman, Mr. The.. D'lfiLoger, Mr. S. Tines, and the honorary secretary, Mr. C. Willa Roche. Has Majesty's Commissioners for the Iskreatkeel ia idbitioe of 1862 hel 1 a meeting at their dims la t►e Itiand yesterday. Dispatches were received yesterday at tbeColottiatelbee hem the Camara of Canada aid the Lord High Commis. simmer of the lonise Islands. Despatelses were soot to the Onemoee of the North Am ericsa Provisoes sod Bermuda. The Prue says :--" W. are in a position to state, not only that the opening of the Internationel Exhibition will not be postponed. but that it is the intention of bar meet paeions Majesty to oyes it in person. Our beloved dovereiga—dirahly beloved is this sevens of bereavemend— ceneldere that by so dein she will best fulfil the wishes of her deceased co sot ; end, placing in abeyance bar own natural desire for seclusion, her Majesty le resolved that the Mat of tut. r Orel sod beloved presence shall not be wanting to the inangamtiea of a resat design, which will be not the least noble mooument to the meaty sad fame of her be loved consort." The Priuco of Wales yesterday presented 1001. to Addeobrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Should the Duke of Devonshire, on being elected Chancellor of the Univonity of Clrabridgr, nags the High Stewardship of the borough, FM Howell, the local hide potent says, will be chasm. Lord Palmerston refused to allow his name to be pat is anmination for the ofßce of the Chsiseoller et the traivenity of C .mbridge, " from his advanced years and from his uneillingotes to add to the many heavy berthas which elvwdy nit upon Lie shoulders." The BarOu tle &Aaiun, Lord Chamberlain to the Ogled Duo of Nooklatiburg, lott the Brut:mot* Hotel, Jorstywotroot, lad tilibt, on Ms return to (lemony. Mr. Cornwall Leigh, IL P., and Mrs. Cornwall Lash bare left Yornmee's Hotel for Yana, en route for Nita The Bishop of London has nominated the Rey. J. L Kat•ps, licator of St. Janice's% Westminster, to an hears Calasery to St Paal's Cathedral. Mr. William Neilson Hancock, LL. D., formerly Prohasor of Jurieprodeeee in the Queen's College, Belfast, end Beeretary to tae Univervity Contrniasi.,n sod to the Imbswed Schools' COM MiIIVIOS. sad Mr. H. R. Vsughaa Jamas, an Bushell barrister, have bees eppoicted Ka•- Wise to the commistios for iolniring into the law cud equity cowls is DulAio. The Manchester Local Committee have handed to Mr. Jobs Taylor, general treasurer of the British oxiation, the tnaguilloest balance of 3,6581.. - . We read the Athentrum:— " Mr, rand % ' About London,' would be an ade`Mtisement after the late Mr. Batty's own heart. This 1•1101.1510 entertainer of the public seed to say to his author.. Haag your piss, ; give me • bill that look. well as • wall' Mr. Pock ' About London,' would have looked us. etantassky well on the wall. It is the same thing, we rappose, whoa we read ' Mr. Mark Lanes about Landes for Mr. Mark Lemon, it in sail, is bat another name for Mr. Punch, as Charles Dickens I. for Boa, and Francis Makeny for Father Prout. After amusing the public foe many years by his pen, as playwright sad story teller, Mr. Lame is about to try • mote personal enter tainment in the manner of Albert Smith, goseiplog about the valley of the Thames instead of the valley of ay.. maul; sad taking his bearers up to Westminster, instead of op to the summit of Moot Blanc. We are promised • profusion of map., mn,tels, sod illustrations. as, aids in this sew attempts to amine or instruct the public," THE PRINCE OP WALES. The eaten)e earnestness—we had almost alibi vehemence —with which the Tiwu, far two or three con• secutive days after the death of the Prince Consort, appealed to the Prince of Wales to decide instantly and finally in favour of a life of honour and usefulness in preference to a life of frivolity and folly, has induced many persons to Bap pees that Ids royal loOmes was hesitating as to the choice he should maks, sod that his testes and habits are not such as kis royal mother could wish, or the nation approve of. Under other circumstances it would have been gran impertinence in us to thrust ourselves forwards as the intenders of his royal highness ; but, as most erroneous no tion about his life and conduct have been prevalent for the last few days, and as our journal is published among a community which has lately bad the best means of knowiug what the tastes and habits of the Prince of Wales really are, we are sure we shall be pardoned if we give public' expend= to what we king is the universal opinion in Cambridge on the subject. During the time the Prince resided at Madingley and Cambridge, his daily life was so completely before the public ; there were so many ways of aseertainiog how he spent kis time. and everything connected with him was so completely free from secrecy and seclusion, that if there bad been anything to dad fault with in his conduct, it most certainly had been known to ourselves and the Cam- bridge public ; and therefore, considering the unreserved manner in which he lived among us, it is proof positive that kis conduct wee irreproachable when we ere enabled to assert, in the most emphatic manner, that we sever once heard even • whisper demo dietary of his royal highness's tastes and habits. We declare, without fear of contradiction, that while the Prince el Wales was at the University he proved himself to be • good and amiable young man, a true English gentleman, and a prince wholly free from every thing approsching to • debasing tendency. No parent could wish his son to Wave better, and now that his time of trial has come, we feel coolidset that his royal highness will be found ueither nawilliag nor unfit an unable to console and assist his bereaved mother, and to fulfil the warmest hopes of the people.—Casitridpc indepredest. PERSONAL TRAITS OP THE PRINCE CONSORT. A few personal traits may be added to our brief sketch of the prince who was no Monday Lid in his splen did tomb. Professes Goidetneker, • fellow•student with him at Bonn, remember. him as t h e only prince who was • real reader there. " I believe," says the professor,in • letter which we are allowed to quote, "he never missed • single lecture." It was sot the way with princes at Bonn. During the list year. of Prince Albert'. residence is England, he gave much time to • thorough study of English law and of our con stitutional history—rending the best authors, abstracting their accounts, and, by help of good guides, discussing the principles contested and established in oar several civil wars. Few English gentlemen know the statute book so well as 11.1 knew it. It is oo great secret that in the inter views between Prince Albert and the Emperor Nepoleon the former thought it his duty to Europe to endeavour by arguments drawn from the history of event. in England to engage the Emperor in a more constitutional course than be has yet adopted in France. The Emperor had, we be lieve, the highest respect for the intelligence of his illus trious adsisow. Is thinking of what was most characteristic and iodi vidaal about the late Prime Consort, we feel in the same difficulty as one who would point out the cluirecteristic features of a beautiful fees and head, where every part is perfect and all the parts are in equilibrium. That which perhaps most characterised Prince Albert mentally was his stapler power in aequirieg knowledge ; he teas truly " wax ' to receive and marble to retain" impressions. Though of late he bad not much time, be re.d the best books and papers—knew the last literary mod artistic gossip —could chat about the lion of the season with the familiarity at club lounger. His knowledge of personality was very great ,• of portraits, of biography, of family history, and at all the illustrations of such studies, en wings, memoirs, earicatrues, ballads, and the small wraps of literature, he was amazingly food. The trait which personally distinguished him from other MOO was his daily and hourly interest in the education of his children ; not only the moral education, which no English parent ever does or, under any circumstances, ought to neglect ; but the ordinary treining of the school room. Of course, the royal princes ao 1 prinoemes had many masks and roistered, bat their chief instructor wee the Prince. He not only furnished a geoeral plan for their instruction, but superintended it himself--not only ap pointed to each eon hie and her teachers, but thought it his duty to read every book which any of them was about to read. Of how few English gentlemen could the same be said.—Afteesters. It was determined, at a highly influential meeting Indit in Baked yesterday, ander the presidency of the Imre, to greet a statue of the late Prises Consort in Peel Past A subscription for carrying this resolution into effect has been sot on foot. ADDRESSEN or CONDOLENCE TO THE QVREN,-.- lest night's (lathe cookers addreesse and resolutioee of imedolseos to her Majesty on the measion of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, from the Court of Aldermen and the CoorroosCouneil of the City of London; 1 the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Glasgow ; the Bishop and Clergy of Down and Connor and Drumm ; the Dees sad Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral ; the Dean end Chapter of Boattesteri and from "meaty-eight other , pima and oorpotstions. The *innovate addresses are from the following canalised towns :—Glasgow, Wakefield. Owen- i Liekfield, Bootee, Newport, Neweastleosi-Tyne, l a, pswiel, Hartlepool, Brighton, Newport, Mounrouthabire, =Exeter, Guildford, Brndninch, Wished; Aberdeen, Preston, Built, WWia, Darter il b a Aberdoes, 'adhere% Wrexham, Blandfmd Forum, Kidder minster, Dover, Nerthamptoo, Sunderland, Liverpool, Lei meter, Pak , Ayr, Hankrory, Waterford, and Chelmsford. TEE ILLNESS OP THE PRINCE CONSORT. —The fares of the onavisaleas ermined ta a numerous eons addressed to this journal, and the extent of rit i" pressious prevailing in the . public mind, compel ma le recur to the subject of the illness of the lamented Priam Consort. It is generally strongly felt that ea *Heist account of that ill 011111 is due to the nation which . so deeply mourns his sudden end unexpected loos. It is needles' that we should recapitulate all the grenade ea whisk this respectful anxiety re founded. It is sufficient to observe that public attention has been fixed upon the facts, that the Prince's illness was officially eaneuneed as gastric fever, that the first bulletin, hewed es Wednesday, Dece mber 11, spoke of the fever as " unattended by unfavourable symptoms," and that on Saturday, December 14. the Prince breathed his last. It is perfectly understood that gastric fever, usattesded with unfavounible symptoms, cannot usually prove so rapidly , fatal, and the official accounts are, in lam, at present con tradictory to accepted fact. is medical seems. The articles published in the Lancet of the following week, an d o th er journals, were, therefore, read with great interest by the public, who therein. an hetelllgible explanation of the catae. trophy. Them stataziente were made, however, upon no official authority ; but me timed it ourduty to present to ou r renders such ieformatiere as was current in well-iuformed medical circles. There 'lamina a strong wish on the part of the majority of the prefeenoir and of the nation, that the edictal attendants of the Primo should publish such an account of the Wow as may cover the discrepancies and manifold imperfections of the bulletins. It is openly stated that the bulletins were not issued as written that, is that already alluded to, the word "hitherto," standing before " unattended by unfavourable symptoms," was struck out by an illustrious person with her own hood. Them and other report', which are by oo means idle gossip, but statements on excellent authority , . are addi tional remote why the Woodson of the Prince should allow as to give to the medical world au authentic i'enae. al thet Maass in which their devoted fill 4 Du i able 'set. ?Mae mere the sinP l .7 o4 _, .ass i" r*: is oa ,ich the wamt' * I o P 14 ,14 Mtglesieti.—Lanrer.l tOID BROUGH&M.--Several of tho French I journals have published a ph stating that " Lord 1 Brougham, at the unexpected intelligence of Prince Albert's death, was so dreadful y affected that be fainted, and that it was necessary to carry his lordship immediately from the garden into the house, where an attack of fever supervened, but which gave way afterwards to proper medical treat ment." The statement, a letter frog Canoes inform' us, has caused the greatest surprise to ell the persons ad , milted to his lorchhip's intimacy, as only bee Lord Brougham never fainted in his life, bat, in the present case, was, in a magma prepared for the sad intelligence by lettere previously received. His lordship also has not burn attacked by fever or any other ailment, but mutilates in excellent health. The whole account is a mere tenet' in every respect—without a shadow of fouadotioa.— , Galloon i. ST. JaliEleit Per.aca, Dtc. 26. —Tho Queen has beer, pleased to appoint Colonel the Lord James Charles Plantagenet Murray, extra greens in weitiog to her Majesty, ' to be one of the grooms in waiting in ordinary to her Ma. jests, in the room of General His Edward Bowater, deceased. —Gazette. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AGAINST PROSELYTISM. Yeeterday's Moniker contains a circular issued by M. Rouland, Minister of Public Instruction and Worship, and addressed to the prefects of departments, with regard to the reception and training of minors in religious institutions. M. Rouland regrets to find that in many religions establishments children are received and brought up as Roman catholic* without sufficient regard to the wishes of the parents. "If," says M. Rouland, "such a practice were followed with equal ardour by the members of every creed tolerated in France, it would be the cause of the most deplorable disturbances. Therefore, our legislation, as a wise and faithful expression of the ideas and the principles of our epoch, has made the rights of family supreme, and directed that they shall be universally respected. Neither to priest nor layman is the privilege conceded of making his own belief a pretext for withdrawing a child from the surveillance and direction of its parents, and the law punishes severely the authors and the aoooinplioes of illegal proselytising of minors, no matter what may be the excuses or the pretensions of the religious propa ganda." The minister, therefore, directs that the religious congregations in each department shall be warned against an excess of zeal " as hurtful to religion as dangerous to parental right," and shall be informed that the reception of children into their institutions without the consent of parents or guardians will expose them to severe punishment. ITALY. ROME, Dec. 22. The Popo has filled up the vacancy in the univer sity caused by the dismissal of Father Passag lia. The new professor of philosophy is the Abbif Peed, brother of the Cardinal Bishop of Perugia. The Abb6 was formerly a Jesuit, but left the company because its government would not allow the mem bers to wear the costume of secular priests. The Jesuits are greatly vexed at the encouragement which on this, as on many other occasions, the Papal government has given to renegades of the order. The Paris P ruse of last evening says We are most happy to fiod that the court of Rome begins to despair of the future. The Holy Father, on receiving the congratulations of the prelates on Christmas Day, said repeatedly that he did not see a ray of hope for the ragas tion of his power. Will Fins IL now at length be coateat to practise the great Christian virtue of resignation ? Does he begin to feel that his obstinacy is hurtful to the faith Will he submit to be no longer a king io order that he say be more truly a pope? Will his government cease to com promise (most gratuitously) the catholic religion for the make of maintaining supremacy over peoples whom the clerical yoke drives to despair (astrria's rusoasrs.) TURIN, Dec. 27. General Klapka has arrived here. The Diritto of to-day asserts that Signor Petti nengo, Lieutenant of Sicily, has tendered his re signation. Letters received here from Rome state that the Marquis de Lavalette is reported to have pro posed to Francis 11. to take up his residence in France. According to the same advioes some disagree ment °slated between the Pontifical and Magian government. The doparture from Rome of Mgr. Chigi, Papal Nuncio to the Court of the Tuileries, appeared to have been indefinitely postponed. PORTUGAL LISBON, Dsc. 27. The disturbances which broke out bare, under the pretext of urging the King to change his resi dence, ceased last night. Prince Joao still remains in a very dangerous state. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, D. 27. A rumour haa been current to-day on the Bourse that a considerable reduction of the Austrian army is intended. FRANCE AND PRUSSIA. BERLIN Die. 27. _ _ It is stated on good authority that the Prussian government has made fresh proposals with refer ence to the conclusion of a treaty of commerce be- tween France and the Zollverein. M. Leclerq, the French plenipotentiary, remains in Berlin awaiting the reply of his government. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Nov. 29. (By Telegraph to Foist de Gone) The Indian Council A% has been proclaimed. A reconciliation has taken place between the Amcor of Cabul and the ruler of Herat. CHINA AND JAPAN. PESDT, Ocr. 27. _ _. The Emperor of China was expected to leave Zehol on the 26th in order to formally re ceive his father's remains. But few foreigners have been invited to the capital. In oonsequenceof a recommendation from Prince Kung, the Chinese authorities appear desirous of receiving European counsels. This is expected to exercise a favourable influence on the relations between the Chinese government and the foreign powers. CANTON, Nov. 15. There is no news of importance from Japan. English men-of-war were cruising among the Japanese islands for the protection of British subjects. Advices from the northern ports state that Admiral Hope had visited Newchang. The rebels are said to be in the vicinity of Ningpo, the inhabitants of which are fleeing to Shanghai, where all alarm had subsided. Hsngchou is reported to be invested by tho rebels. The Hon. Mr. Anson Burlingame, the American plenipotentiary, had visited the governor of Two °liming, by whom he was well reoeived. The t iatt was retitruel l 11 . r. Burlingame afterwards left for gbanghai, on his way to the capital. It is reported that the foreigners in Hangkow have been attacked by the braves in the streets, and even in their own houses, and that placard / have been posted up threatening the extirpation of the Europeans. The Hangkow and Tientsin markets are in a flourishing condition. COCHIN CHINA. POINT DE GALLI% Nov. 30. The accounts from Saigon are still unfavourable to the French. Nothing decisive, however, had taken place. The King was fortifying Hue, and was said to be determined to fight to the last extremity. SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. The mail steamer Bombay broke her shaft near Penang, and was towed to Singapore by the Mohr. The China mail was forwarded by the French steamer. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova owx PARIS, FRIDAY EVENDSG. The Bourse was very dull during the greater part of the day, but towards the close there was a better feeling and a good deal of animation. The Rente (which had fallen 10c.) closed at yesterday's price —67 fr. 20c. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. Speculation was principally occupied with the Italian Loan, the fluctuations in which were very heavy. After being quoted at 64fr. 50a, it left off at 65fr. 30c., with a rise of 40c. Railways were neglected, and there is scarcely any change in prices. M. °Amonit expresses an opinion, in the Opinion Nationale, that the Emperor's voluntary renuncia tion of some of his financial prerogatives is merely a first step towards parliamentary government. He thinks he sees in the "regrettable hesitations," with regard to the Italian and other great ques tions, an indication that the Emperor is tired of the personal responsibility which has weighed upon him for the last ten years, and means hereafter to let the country govern itself. The extraordinary telegram, stating that there were disturbances in Lisbon on account of the ill ness of the Infanta Don Joao, is corrected by a letter, which in all likelihood states the truth— namely, that the populace, alarmed at the frightful mortality in the royal family, called on the King to change his residence, but that there was no shade of sedition in the manifestation. There is now very good skating on the lake in the Bois de Boulogne, and, the weather continuing to be beautiful awl cloudless without intense cold, an immense concourse of people, including many ladies in the newest winter costumes, was seen in the Bois to-day. The warning to the Debate, which I noticed as the leading political event of Christmas-day, is thus spoken of by the Independence Belge : We cannot refrain from expressing our great !spat at the warning gives to the Daats, and which, taken in con nexion with recent severities of a like kind, must neces sarily have the effect of staying the course of that hunk and loyal discussion which the French press bad entered upon to the great advantage, not only of the public, but of the government itself. A Paris oorrespondent of the Indipendance says : The great affair of the day is the warning given to the Dibegs. People can scarcely realise the idea that a man like M. Saint Marc Girardin, such a high dignitary of the nniversity—aa academician sixty years of ego, should be deocribed in the Mossiteur r "factions" by a minister of the Emperor. The grand banquet given by the members of the Paris bar to M. Berryer, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his inscription as one of that body, took place yesterday in the large room known by the name of the Salon des Arts, in the rue de Provence : The table was arranged in the form of a horte-shoe, and covers were laid for 210. At seven o'clock the guests took their seats. M. Berme occupied the President's chair, having on his right X. Dr 16831110. Fiat President of the Imperial Court, and on his left M. Dupla, senior. Opposite M. Berger was M. Jules Pane, the present 'Wormier, supported by M. Dela**, ex-Bmonnier el Paris, and IL Besoit-Clumapy, President of the Tribemal of the Seine. Near Y Berryer, after Y. Devienne, were Y. Marie, ex-Butonnier, the batonniers of several of the large towns of France (a number of whom had been specially invited), and other leading members of the Paris tar ; and after Y. Dupiu was IL Cbaix•d'Est Ange, Boinvilliers, Y. Desbowlyt, Y. Lachaud, M. &troche, Y. Plooone, Y. Morrow, Y. Duvergier, M. Dimmest, Templier, Y. Odillom•B.urot, IL Boyer Collard, kat. At the dessert Y. Julie Fevre rose cord proposed Y. Berryer's health, giving at the same time a sketch of the legal weer of their honoured guest. The toast was dreek with the most enthusiastic applause, which only *erred to 'wean the agitation and emotion under which Y. Berryer hod beam overpowered during the whole time of dinner. lie rose and attempted to address the company, bat tears prevented him from being audible. At length he remarked that some one had recommended him to write oat his speech, but, said the learned gentleman, "of what use would that have been, for I could not see to road it." Having expressed his gratitude in broken seutences, he oat down, overpowered by the thunder of applause which followed his last words. X. Marie 'wit rose, and in an appropriate speech gave a kook " To the fraternal union of all the bare of Frame, and to the unity of the Paris bar." The toast was drunk with all the honours, and was replied to oa the part of the provincial bar by K. Pervin quiZre, of Poitiers, who proposed "The bar of Paris." The attendance of the Paris bar would have been much larger but for an unfortunate schism which all M. Jules Favre's influence with his brother liberals could nut heal. MM. Emile 011ivier, Picard, and a great many of their friends, refused, even for the sake of Berryer, to meet M. Chid: d'Est Ana and other functionaries, whom they said it was not at all necessary to invite, because, although formerly they were, they are not now members of the bar. M. Dufaure paid for a ticket to avoid discussion, but, although privately and profession ally ono of M. Berryer's closest friends, he did not attend the dinner. Preparations are being made at the Palace of the Tuileries for the official receptions on the Ist of January. Great difßculty has been esperienoed in fitting up the apartments, is commiquenee of the repairs now going for. ward. As it was found to be impossible to receive the official authorities and the National Guard in one day, it has been determined to continue the receptions for two days. It is calculatal that it will require three years to complete the repairs now in progress at the palace. The expense is estimated at 40,000,000 fr., comprising the interior damn tiooa, which mast be all renewed. The palace will, con sequently, not be habitable next year. The court will then establish itself at the Elyse*, which is now Dearly ready for Its reception. The Emperor frequently inspects the works in program at the Elyse's, and the Empress goes ',L o re v er y {KVA $0 PH the fitting tip of we aparimente intended for her and the Prince Imperial. M. Rogier, Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has recovered 10,000 francs damages in an action for libel spinet the printer of the Journal de Bruxelles. The libel consisted in styling R. Rogier the grandson of the hangman el Arree. The Swedish government last year sent a scien tific expedition to Spitsbergen. It has just returned to Trona, whence it started, after having accomplished its minks very eatidactorily in spite of the extreme rigour of the weather. The old maps have been corrected ; fresh porta have been discovered, and numerousexperimenta made which have thrown fresh light on meteorology and natural history. It has been asoertained that animal and vegetable life exists in the sea at a depth of 2,500 yards, and that the great current of the Atlantic Ocean known by the name of the Gulf stream ruches as for as the coast of Spitsbergen, pieces of broken wood, bottles, As., having been found there. A large portion of land at Mani, in the Sand wich Islands, has been prepared for the growing of cotton. The King of than island', and Prime Kamebameha, are both deeply interested in the speedy introduction and rapid development of the rattan culture in their dominions. NOTTINGHAM BLECTION. NOTITNGIUIi, FRIDAY. During the whole day there was the greatest ex citement in the town. The exertions of the Earl of Lincoln at the nomination on the day previous, added to the raw ness of the atmosphere, rendered his health much worse, and he was unable to use that energy to-day which is so requisite in • candidate at • warmly contested election. At the dose of the poll, four o'clock, the numbers stood as follows : Clifton Lincoln Majority 1,402 Lord Lincoln left Nottingham early in the afternoon. His lordship's supporters complain that they found it dangerous to vote for his lordship through fear of the "roughs" who surrounded the polling-places. His lordship has issued the following address : " Gentlemen,—The election now being brought to a close, I beg to offer my most cordial and siucere thanks to those kind friends who have so generously given me their support on the present occasion, and shall ever feel deeply grateful to those gentlemen whose kind exertions have relieved me from so many of those duties which properly devolved upon myself. I sincerely regret that the state of my health han prevented my making the acquaintance of man of my friends ; but I trust that from this time forward, t hough I am not permitted to come anssigst you ea your represents tire, I may often meet you as a neighbour and a friend." Sir It. Curroa briefly addressed the electors at the dose of the poll, returniug thanks for the honour they had con ferred upon him, and promising to do hie beet as their representative. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly general court of governors of the Commercial Travellers' School, Pinner, was held this morn. ing, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street ; under the presidency of Mr. ROBISTS. The report, read by Mr. A. F. Foster, the eseretery, stated that the ordinary receipts for the year bad been 5,1321., which amount was made op se follows : Renewed subs criptions, 3,4801. ; new ditto, 4201. ;,donations. 4701. ; presentations. 3781. ; and miscellaneous collections, 3841. The amount reoeived in renewed imbecriptions was larger than last vear. The income of the peat al: months had been 2,463/. 14s. 21., and the expenditure for the same period 2,1951. Os. Id. In October last the cus tomary for a simultaneous effort by commercial travellers throughout the country had been sent to all the hotels, and op to the present time 280 favourable replies had been received. The special attention of the stewards and the friends of the institution wen called by the board to the urgent importance of an accession to the list of annual subscribers. The educational of the children had been very satisfactory. Three boy. bad during the past year passed through the ordeal of the Oxford middle-class exa minations, and they acquitted themselves very much to the satisfaction of the teachers. Certificates of merit were received by aIL The medical calker, Mr. Brady, reported very favourably as to the health of the children. Not one death had occurred during the year. The board deeply regretted the death of the patron of the institution, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The report was unanimously received and adopted. On the mo tion of Mr. T. J. Snell ' seconded by Mr. W. S. Rummy, an address of coodolenoe with her Majesty under her sad be reavement was adopted. Ineapporung it, Mr. Wooloton Mad that the late Prince Consort had presided at the inaugura tion of the institution, and had become a life governor by the presentation of 1001. Mr. George Moore was re appointed treasurer of the schools; and the officers of the institution for the forthcoming year having been appointed, the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chair man. The poll was then opened, and thirteen children elected to the schools. COMMERCIAL TRAFELLsite BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The half-yearly general court of the members of this institution was had yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopegatererest ; Mr. J. B. Diaillitltti in the chair, absence of the chairman and vice-chairman. Among the gentlemen present we observed Messrs. Charles Blowers, Wm. Harvey, J. W. Scott, John Jones, J. 1). Maitland, H. T. Cherer, Henry Hidlane, John Angell, 1). A. Brans, J. Piddimaa, A. It•Cluy, J. Parker, W. W. Foster, J. Stakes, utrie, J. R. Lanspard. The SECILLTAZT read the advertisement convening the meeting, and the minutes of the last general court (27th of June lest), which were confirmed unanimously. The SZCILMULT then read the report and statement of aocounte. The amount of rooeipta and disbursement. showed—receipts (including a balance, brought forward from former account, 3132 f. es. 5d.), MC 18s. sd. ; expen diture (including investment of 2501. in New Three par Cent.. 22.11. 15e.), 7531. lie. 4d. ; balance carried forward. 1301. 75.1 d. The report of the committee of nonagem stated that two of the annuitants had recently died. The cold collation at the Crystal Palace on the 27th June last, under the presidency of Alderman Sir James Duke, Bart., )d.l'., bad resulted in a glee of 5001. to the funds of the in stitution. The committee hoped that next year they would be even more successful. The funded property of the institu tion now amounted to 3,5001. The committee hoped to in. port further endowmenta next year. At the last election two annuitants bad been elected respectively to annuities of 251. each. On the present occasion there were two candidates, only one of whom could be elected. Since the foundation of the institutios it has afforded relief to commercial tra vellers and their widows to the extent of 2,8001. The re. port concluded with an eloquent appeal to the liberality and good feeling of the whole body of the commercial traveller,. The Court proceeded to discus. the adjourned motion of Mr. Cherer from the meeting of June last. The motion WWI to add to rule 44, after the words, "or a donor of five guineas or upwards," "and that any commercial traveller baring paid ten annual subscriptions of one guinea and up wards shall henceforth be deemed and be a member in perpetuity." The result was that—governors ocly voting— the show of bands was taken, and the numbers wen—For the motion, 8 ; against it, 12. The election of officers for the ensuing year followed, and • cordial vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro ceedings of the meeting. The ballot for the election of one eaudidate to the benefits. of the society then opened. THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY. PUBLIC MEETING AT HALIFAX. Yesterday evening, a public meeting, convened by the Mayor, io compliance with en extensively signed requisition, was held in the Odd Fellows' Hall, to take into consideration our present relations with the United States of America. There was a crowded audience. The MAYOR (John Crossley, Esq.) occupied the chair, and expressed his gnat anxiety fur the preservation of peace be tween this country and the United States. JOHN ABBOTT, Fsq the first speaker introduced by the chairman, advocated ;arbitration ' and moved a resolution to the effect that, considering the close ties of commerce. language, kindred, and religion, which unite the people of this country with the Americans, it is the opinion of this meeting that war with the United States would be next in horror only to civil war, and ought to be averted by all honourable means. _ Toe Rev. ft. 1.. CARPLSTER seconded the proposition. He depreosted our taking up arms againet the United Stelae, and allying ourselves with a confederacy of sieve• holders. He did not, however, justify the conduct of Com modore Wilkes in the Treat affair. though it wee no worse Cum outrages committed by ourselves during thc last Awr liana war. Mr. JOHN SNOWDEN, an operative, supported the resolu tion. He was too touch of an Englishman to say that he should be opposed to war under all circumstances ; but we should not resort to hostilities in our American difficulty, except as a last resort. He denounced such a course ou the ground of humanity, and also in consequence of the is creased burthena it would entail upon us as a nation, by in• creasing our great National Debt. The MAYOIIIIOIW submitted the motion, which was carried with but one dissentient. JOIMPH THORe. Lai., moved the second resolution, plait. ion the meeting to adopt a memorial to governmeut, recom mending the settlement of the American difficulty by resorting to arbitration instead of war. The speaker ad vomited the adoption of this course of policy in an earnest and telling address, which was very favourably received by the perojle. U. BaowNr., seconded the motion,' end ex• pressed his approval of the course which had been thus far 'pursued b y our government, in reference to th e Trent a ff air. He thought we should pay some respect to the opinions of the American jurists in this matter, and, if they disagreed with those of our own law officers, surely the difference need not plunge us into war, but might be left to the arbitration of a friendly power. Mr. W. Bitook supported the proposition, which, after a little opposition from Mr. J. CsosoLAND and Mr. Wirs- MAN, was UltalliOlOtedy adopted. A vote of thanks to the Mayor for presidia; concluded the business of the meeting. Sr. JAM 'e PALLCZ, MSC. 20.—The Queen Lu bees pkaaed to appoint Colonel Fiends Seymour, Car Royare°6BlllYa"aighnvasal i he te gr'mua ltinas o Coneo f the rt v bedcham to be etra rW groo ldi n' late waiting to her Majeetz,—Gazette. THZ WINDHAM CARS—Thig ca ,, se ceWbre drags its slow length along. We must, of course, postpone comment upon its w.erits until the inquiry is further vistaed. It may, however, be stated, that to meet the evi dence armed against the alleged lunatic some of the rood eminent physicians of the day—amongst whom we mAT mention Drs. Babingtou, C.:molly, and Siithwiand—will be called.—Lancet. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY. ••••" FRIDAY, Dec. Y7.—Admissions on pryouut, 7,531; ditto by ~CO 6311141 1 / 2 1,562—t0ta1, 9,09(4. etipulati be beli ;hum it rest in beech tit able as c made fa live yeas amount The pric Re-ex, ber were be clear ornamea the beg are abo If hat park wi case wit! as Ii3OIX MAIN ■ during a better ti better m By th foot if t Cross-el occefdooel Lucerne. Windham with me of our knew tb He alway shriek the ing at the Then we among the called me 4 badly as His cloth,' always sp appeamec He Mr. iug pon ehowed not look t want of on --- By the OD &CCOIIII , uneasy al) (Thy THE S.. is a proapo from iloin Artillery point of e log telegr quarter is Gazelle. went huo It a Cr as ruler of in diplomat of nerve al expremed amply jus pertenee w when his ft walked up ravine, and great depth . :, Um; iii In 1860 In 1861 clear of porta a of fir, 61 s~+as