The Express. — London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

:NTEKNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862. We believe we are now in a position to state that • corks mel averingernents of the forthcoming I.‘ Whitson will he carried on with undiminished 'l, 4 our. In furtheranse of the wish of an august orseia.:e that everything iu %loch the deceased rfilitN . Consort took au interest should be carried 01 with unremitting care, the Royal Counnissioners have ben unceasing in their exertions to render tbr nerd nationaecalarnity as little injurious as to the pospeets of their unilertaking and ti.- commercial interests of the people. All 1 11. as to the formal opening ceremony are 10t....1 - al) postponed for the present, but in the 1111 l • the preliminarr arrangements are being ..rriol to coriuletion as rapidly as possible. During !!.. past week the progress made in the works at Kiliengtou was rapid and considerable. The build is mow entirely roofed in, and the greater part the flouring of the southern courts ban been down. The offices are in a great state of forwaribiesa, and the eastern dome rime rapidly in its tall columns, the owtractors, Messrs. Kelk and Lucas, being full of confidence that it will be completed at the appointed time. The western done is in not quite so formed a condition. The refreshnitut rooms are getting on well, and the eastern annexe fast approaches maturity. Monday was of course observed as a char holiday at the building, hut yesterday the works were resumed with ass accustomed energy. At the offices in the Strand the print ipal occupation of the staff is the opening of letters, of which no fewer than 2,500 werereceived iu the course of yesterday. Out of these about 2,400 were complaints from iutemling exhibitors respecting the %minuets of their allotments. The whole of the returns for the industrial department, amounting to upwards of 8,000, have been sent out, so that the office will be able to devote its attention henceforth exclusively to the tine arts de partment, the exhibitors iu which are nut expected to be much more tractable or reasonable than their imhistrial competitors. It is a noteworthy fact that the conneassioneot have received one letter of thanks fur the amouut of space allotted to an in tending exhibitor. lompetehee wen, east yeatenlay from the Cakeid-ones to the Lard Higb Commbeiooer of the lonian Wends. The remain. of General Sir Edward Bowater wen broiled os Monday from OWNS, bl the Boulogin Fulkoatime route, to Looks. (Tierra) belbeve we are correct in ;dating that ("mat Rubber, has written • despatch to the Aurtrise Miaiater at Weehiegtoo, in which he states that he con. eiders the government of her Britannic Majesty Lu be fully joell.ed is requiriug reparative for the proceedings of the Sea Jarieto, awl Count Itechberg urges the American government not to complicate their own affairs by any he.itation in latiefying the jest demands of her Majesty's govera•aent. A. .t mark of respect for the memory of hi. Ho) al Highness the Priam Omen, the Ist Tower Hamlets Artillery meembled at their battery. in Blackwell, on )lowly lam, and fired minute guns from 12 until 1 o'clock. The officers present were Captain Smith, Lanka Marsh, Mayon, and THE CNANcILLOI44III? Or THE UNIVEILNITT 07 CAMPIUDGL—CANIIIIIDGE, TVVIDAT. —At the meeting is the Cotobinstioorriont of Trinity CoHap, held to-day, the Molter of Trinity is the r.bsir, resolutions wore adopted ins favour .4 the aornisalioa of the Doke of Diressiairs, sod a comouttoe wu appointed to memo his poses elm**. The mere of the committee sad a copy of the rimahstisa s will Lc fund ID AO a4vertiseinmit. Ate muting; of Mir bap .4 the Smote held thin day at the Eagle netol, the Names of Jeans College accupyiag the chair, it mu pro posed be the Pirovoot of Klan's, sad sommded by Hr. (lir ellootoor, rif C'brist's College. sad ansaisoosely resolved " That his time the belie of Neethantberisad is maimistly .pialiikd, as well by hie great seiroatillo stlatanteata as by the regard Le has shown foe the church of Emerged, sad by many sets of masitlemios, ter MI the meat altos of Chau cello: of the University of Cambridge." A emmaittee was thee formed to forward his rotors, of whirl the /balmy of Jeer College was appealed chains's. The Duke of Neethimalreelsail is to be pat is nominotion by the smear soave& brwtAx LAW Cow wflowng.—Loaria Ornes, —MA kftlelPS has hors phased to amine Se flight Doh Sr John !tonally. KM., Seater of ths Roth ; rho mos Ron. ea William Fri. Kat.. Owl Janeiro of tho Court of Coarse Morn ; Ur* kiat4fori. thr SWIM Ryas Mat. the Spilt Ho. Robert Vico•Pessident of this Conmellene of Cossall es Einsstion; Sr Josses Shaer Itibus. Lot., olio of tho Junius 111 Ss Coen of Oenumos Sow ; sail Jobs Morphemes Mcsrisoi. Sq.. Is Marb MO/40 comnissloson • bob of subsea,- Moo Is. for leas, sad for s=g and Mil saw smotesrs is Matt= le Ss Wes, ofM e ts f t. ; lad* as Noy is Moroi Os tho said sesenissionoss, by her Majesty's Ihren•say of SW, ler Intlis.--GazoNe. eftowy-orrees, D•c. IL —Nam= Rrrvamaw t. MERV! 131 PantLists.—Barry Foley Versos, of Hasbory Hall, la Se osanty of Warconer, Err, for the castors shrinks) of this ..list yof Worcester, I. So room of Joke Modesto llorigetts Foley, Esq., doomed. Gazers. -7 111 i NAVIGATION or TO DANOI2.—BLIAZD or Team WIIITZIIALL, Der. 10.—The light Bea the Lenin of Si. Consumes of Privy are halm& have resolved bum the liesrmery of ea{. M lerelim Allele a espy el a gee& from the DMA seashar the &reps' alb- MINN el the cask % siedifyisp enlase I sad 3 el Si. prewhiesel the July, UN, tar tbe Ns el *se drew. sake resfeeralse whisli mai isseried vi ett: leader Gnat of Si. 114th Alga* 1110.—easeite. lla Olhatatalltrik DLP., AID TIN Lou) CHAN- Grua' loburo.—The Dadra Snail. NM ma ltase the be6ereis the laud (laseeller and the ft• wide b lased is • seflime &FAT*, ef the eseme elf the pram. The L ed ==r relies to w spesebee delivered at the am aselle& sal steles that the whole of the yeeseselless wart he hies to he alto gether at carless@ with Si. Woe allesisses to which awry subject of the realm is bawd. The later was addrosesd to Si. Ma. potionbil se • sagiarata is ceder that be alibi =she am& ebservatiess epos it a lie thought . Is Ida seats, Si. 0' es metes hie tat es emerediebere majoett ik ; a 7 b the Irish people feel that thee lave mesh awe roma to be grateful to Si. itemerliew melee t to the bash govirrameat ; and that disuider% is Si. sweet of • war Lemma Ararat said Wee , d. they would be war nawlllag to supply ass sad swag for the purpose of ( hetroyisg Americas aosemerite, beeehialtag Automate aid basalletieg the AmerieesHe modally avows that times are hie aretimeeses, sad says that h. r petaled to eaderstend why the Lord Chancellor directed his letter to him as a insghdrate, aid ad ay an Irishman, and he waits to know " whether the two cLarecters an moompsehlia" •• Must a rarotrate forego freedom of thought aid espreries Nest be take Si &slab view of every qesstlia. sod el ease stile the arm) prriblactiotis of hi. lash beset! 'ale Misr our wt sites us the loth of Deamaber, mad em the 17th the Lard thascelka's ...eatery snore to him, statist that be lad bees implicated as a magistrate for the counties of (ha and Kerry. LOATH Or MR. T. Howikap STRWART, F.Z.S.— The sarobers of the medal proforma. severally these edecaled at KMg's College, will regret to hear that this expired after a short bet severe War, at rid- C i r i s elma e, over Cambridge. os the 2lst lost, at the early ags of 29. Dressed was the eldest son of Dr. Stewart, of Plymouth, from whom be early de ri ved a love of the pra lemon, aid successfully star at Kiss's College, Loam, of which salable institution he ilk. elected as aseaciate, as hams. only coeferred no distinguished stedimis. THr. ADULT 141111 AM I:min.-num.—A 'rival ✓oad rating of members mum held yesterday, at the In *Wawa RereCapark, Admiral Bowles is the chair, for the purpose of erresiog to certain abstatione tu the rules riopectieg sitherriptioes sad voting, se adopted and ream needed by the committee The shares meld corals alteratiose Is the rides had hem male by Si. eatemitbs3 which it as thought would etronse to Si. a the charity, sad shish this essetiai ems selledto=ret. By the rule as it steads, • Esser of eve pietas Ned as annual subscriber of ea Ones were entitled te ass vote. It ca. proposed to alter Um nits as fellows :—" That a doom of flys guises. shall base ea veto, as annual sub scriber of ooa guinm two votes, and a aural subscriber of 10s. fist os. vote' Mae dramas having ensued, it as %tiered wed seconded, " That the Ansa, in the rules es rico! metaled by the committee be aired to sod oasimed." The resoluta am usaalasouair Wooled. or THI Law AND EQUITY Orrlerli.— Ye.terday this offices of ths Camas law Courta were rb.se,l for the Christmas mass aatil Moaday asst. Tim otteee of tbs Equity eMeltl 01111MIMINOld tile micatieo from Setunlay, sad will matins, dosed a week loner than the ether Aker The law and equity mete lays risen uatil the 1116 of Jaauarr, tke esomatuearest et Hilary term. Tivr. Cosmos Law Coultin.—The Court of Com- Mos Mn., will at ea Niel 144404 Naar, Tama, I. Yid. dleum, us Tivaday. January 14, sad ay, January 30, and in London cm Friday. January 17, and Friday, Jainiary 24. no Court will .it alter term, is Middlesex, es &due day, February 1, sad in Liedee cie "'Sunday, February 13. The Court will sit auras( sad after teru. at 10 o'clock. Th• camas is the li.t for sack of tbs above *Wiwi days in term, if not disposed of ea those days, will be tried by adjoara mint ua Ws days tolbwiae sack of such sitting days. rAt Evrtma. I. w Inch will risque , which Di , yawls .up. ■ y•-.!..May's iprv•sise rim- i.stin, "wits( clamour (aids prr c,•nt. is llama: Wise Te Wino, Tday evvumi i i 144 t , mei p.-e the .1.61, bait 1111% , %AA mlier:ly ab‘l .ol Ist. M Piing IttctisAtol at tUr. 25a, rutvally from 'intent among ing, 'nanny*, " The rol ins duel Slonse .4 the briiken, vrk hi..l w..nt lion with the tea maniere, 11l cart. was rt+it ion% by of a village iug the hosts* 14. w nwl ti..k 10.4 v at him The whole nntive in the reeiain and $ , .1v Trapani i , blic moms is run) van high, cost rice al delivered by 3 Chamber el ~u "(clerical*, I against .4neal l.y . grad 4 the Frame U. Nouse' 1110 ..t, • 4 te. • ulucla he as the ga le prohroliune lay task as WWIWan, the of tin Iltenna sad loam e .pry Nag am 11. lb' prims kit al= Ts* at WM •Sprllllllllll asarpounal In =tWinn o nun and Valnains e if awe Wise. r amartlaa lan• h from poistaaii ea W dm Imps. IA ISM halpy 'n•aeb prutw •nta. elbe law ra ta' 4 10 par t hums it that M. Man t lin lutc nor aillriaoa I by I of Calabria at that body : Jovistei ruts ▪ Um amities"! ▪ to the SW distaeL VII ompost.— ..ILL• to draw I • tlirtle ..%•••1 ; t, gull, lie . ouriertlu..u4 •trAligrrs till uinl baok- vrus armee! ru,. hartwas ai ugl.•ed. Mr ei tl*. T. abtl Irma bog It L. , ..1♦ them is apperbas - - - • diVrharg.d. 0.. W 640 the.ugh en...e. font fall .....bop, and thee, 1•111 wy •i *6•••• r the surely that Ire year 4.44 ei.peareaL r moat. Hat tt,. Nth of sled court 4111112471., sld they en 1 nll4llO m lb. ritt I.e CO(111411 rt The ..f the it AVM LIB th Ile came med. The I Ito musk , ; mot go ••• st Nornieg won I The food .heap Is vptwe of woo- to hetes .vnl. There tl. pomp am! oak • few a , Hat .01 before :" oloplay Ise MIIMILOCOr belied farce. Irma territory the 0011• Meet at 11, end wheat try. ertire l. r br.l d mirk og earl urgeat iu are kauwil ~..road by • or petition i• .acacia at 1,1100 &Tina o fleet. whisk d by that sr THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1861. CONDOLENCE WITH HER MAJESTY. THE LIVERY OF LONDON. Yesterday a "cosmos hall," conitieting of the Lord Mayor. abtorsies, and COLUODOIRDI of the City of Loudon, was held in the Guildhall. The whole of the plat form and • poetise of the wall behind were draped with black cloth, lied preersted a very scrstee appearance. The Right Has. Lord Mayor Corm who was atteeded by the principal olio= et the caryoratkro, preridedL The Luau MATOR, is amain( the proorediess, raid— GesUemea el the livery, sessequance of the milmeholy meat which has befallen our country, a rmussitios bee been presented to me requesting me to call a common had, is order that the Livery of the Cdy of London might have an oppertssity el express* to our beloved Movereigo the orspethy they feel tot bet made, the dreadful calamity Mich she hes seders& Is penman of that regulation URN bell be. bees soevened, and various miaow:sae will be prepreed ead seroadid foe your caisidoration. (Hear, hear.) Mr. CRAWFORD. M.P., said—This is me of these ems lees us which I think rat behoves every gaol cilia,. to lay mists ha owe business ensagementa and give his atteedmica bare, to signify, by ha presece, how deeply he feels the benavenieut which her Majesty bee sustained. The Mimes of the City of Lueders are Never backward in showing, on all proper and It occasion% how much they sympathies with the country in any great loss which it suffers, and still more whoa that has has any reference to the royal family. On mmy occesioas they have assembled within these walla to perform duties somewhat analogous to that which we are about to discharge to-day ; but I will venture to say that es so former 00CRADOR in our history has any event occurred which mu premainestly ladled fur an expression on the part of the calaboose( London of their continued attachment to their guess, sad the beard di sympathy for her in the sorrow by which atm Me been afflicted. flare are perhaps present some gentlemen who can recollect the lest time when the Livery of London were called together under similar ea collates:ea 1 allude to the death of the Primess Charlotte. But however much grad that event might ham aimed in the mind, of the people, it yields Minutely as regard, the uatemity of the feeling produced by that which Ms recently o.curred. We ate met here to- day not to perform an act of mere ceremony or cooveutionality, but to arum the 4ueen that the expreesiess of the nation upon ate sad bereave mat are folly shared is by We talons. of London, au that her Majesty may have the consolation of knowing the her subjects se this the greatest City an the kingdom deeply and sincerely feel her great luas. I appeal to every gentleman who hears MO whether, when, nine days ago, he received the eed iatelligenoe that the Prince Cowart ma no more, the bet feeling which clung to his heart wee sot, that the gems bed sumaiuel a lose which, however great it might be to the nation, was to her utterly irremediable' (Near, bear.) I am UM that, amidst the many cua. Wafts, by which she a surrounded, and for which no i as. knows better than heneif where to look, there are few which she will feel more than the high estima tion is which her deceased hothead was held throughout the wintry. I believe that bee Majesty will look lack in after time. to the expremions of sumer condolence from all quarters of the kingdom as tine of the best evidences that can be afforded of the attachment tithe Prince by all claims of her subjects. It would ill beetem me, sifter the mamma in which the Prince's virtues have been dwelt upon in every point, to campy the time of We meeting by any observations of it, owe. I pow so other sources of infirmities then them open to every on. else ; but we do hear from all side* that the Prince was, not only in every respect a babied to the Queen, and a father to his family, but also tom, the people of England, use of the best and safest custodians of oar public inter ' ems. (Hear, hear.) 1 have alluded to the Math of the princess Umbels. Mournful m that event was, it after all memo whisk led to the 141111110 hears mated on the throned them realms; and it we may choirs say consolation from it in referee* to our public affairs, it is at least this, that Unitises of Wales has become, by the death of his father, Wrested with the responsibilities which, in a Minn mid shape, at some tar-distant time, he wdC be called apes to exercise in his own right. ;Hear, hear.) The essedullion which 1 ham to preps, is to these terms:—•• TIM • loyal sad datdal addres be pm seated to her Majesty the Quires, is term of same* and rospoodul resdoliarmars the imassied denim ef bee Royal Oeseist of hemmed seisery." 1 ami ewe it mesh so further commas{ hem see to etissosed this resolution to the corbel aid humid' amperage et every gentleman tu tide MIL (Hess hair.) Alderman. 0. Lawsswesseersiod the resolution, which Mr. psi CILI. , sad tarried mesinseely. Mr. FMusD, LE, them read the following address : " TO TIN Q 0113 1 .1 Non irico.uoir II&MT!. " May is please year Majestii—Wo, your Majesty's faith ful rid subjects, the • t Hoe. the Lord Mayer, a= pad commons, of City et Lowdoe, in com rambled, beg leave to approach your royal preens* with fallow of deep and respectful sympathy, to espies our smears condolence with your Majesty es the geed addle with which it bath phased Almighty tied to visit ilsjesty i• the death of year isekered alai ftluN lcus Consort, his Iloyal mar Pince Alban, sad also to express our heartfelt end at the lose eellsh the sawn has sunnimed by the nand el ems why placed in a petition snberdinate, bat yet sot loos dilloalt, than that of a raga* sovereign, .seceded ia numg the affeetioos of aIL sad who, at the mese time, bemoaned with his advocacy all the ireful is leastwise ef tba country in such a manner that wherever Were wee prepeas to be haMeeed, sericite, work to be for warded as his sympathetic, active, and esergetic esmainnes wee ever to be reamed opal, and who, by his deassmis seeduet se • bushman sad • father, Arse= the mama sad thin the audios ad the satin. bee with Moab , sad radomMen to the will el the Supreme Dimon elf Evente, yet at this time el grief we beg le mare your Majesty uf the loving and loyal sym pathy el your Majesty's devoted subjects, and et their amen player that your Majesty may be gteciously map. aerial by the Almighty, mad that it may planes Him lung to spore your Majesty to guard your royal family, so pre sses to the Wien, sad aini guide the ilmotiaisa af this great Hie bower ail glory. um. te warms WOOD, M. P., said--It is needless for we is deem that this is the meet painful ;abbe duty which I have boa mailed upon to fulfil ; sad while I feel strongly Hen asp weeds Irma me would be inadequate to convey the Ines and deep notiments which pervade every bean oti the peseent earamem I eaperiesee a melenebely salideetion in bang gerualtal le lake • pert r the mad preseedings el We day. It has pineal the Almighty a vied this wenn with as imparabn Ira, end it is leo ace: te that that km hem bee s in felt ,ein the length and breadth el the lead, and has tbrown a eloped of sorrow alike epos the cottages of the pear end humble en epos the marts Mr the nob and sable. Heavy es is this disparities al Provideace, I thiak we have great ' reuse for granted, that the WeWed our gracious Sovereign has been preserved, and Mist we are permitted Se escape Its. whet I men enender weed have lima • still heavier cannily. I refer to what woad have befalls Use ecantry if It had pleased Providenee to remove the Queen from whim w earaider all the incidence of such aa ei ll ear a )need, Mt Crawford, has so fully dwelt upon the mese el ear marrow, and the feelings evinced throughout tie hod is swami to it, that I will not detainyou by dwell. mg upon tbe mildest, sad therefore I will caly merve to myself the privilege el venni Ibis resolution, "That the said address be presented I. her Manny the Queen by the tight Hos. the lard Mayor, the slants, two aldermen, tad twelve liverymen, in the made and at the time her Majesty may be *mai to direct." I have no doubt that, sympathileg an yen do with her Majesty in her &abeam, you will isinsimmeely pas this resolution. Xt. iincaa, in mouniise the madonna, said hs was cm. lain that the seldom expressed not only the feeling of every me se the ball, but the sentiment et the whole people el (Her, bear) The resolution was also carried with the same unanimity. Mr. Joni erawarn moved that the address be signed by Aldermen lames Abbas and. James Clark Lewreuce rail twelve liverymen. The motion wee sanded by Mr. CHARLES YOVSG, and also carried sem. am. Gs the meek* of Mr. ROILIZT DAVIDBO3I, *wooded by lb. Wreak IS wee remind that the sheriffs should wait epee Ills Owns Grey, the Secretary of State for the Home Department. sad meertabs her Majesty's will end pleasure as to the male sad Ham. for the preseutatio• of the address. Mr. Joint Puttee a d they were all aware that in order to cell a commies hell • requisition mist be presented to the Lord Mayor, aliped by a certain lumber of liverymen. Ile had takes upon himself the pniaful duty of preparing that requisitiem, believing that it was their sub to show a "ark of respect fur the late Prince Consort. He laid painful duty, because every house he went into was • house cif moaraiog, arid sorrow came from the heart and league of every man be had stamen to epos We subject. He weeseurlkid that their prayers were fur their gracious sovereign, and that the ball reprneoted the feelings of their brother liverymen, who membered about 10,0110. He then =that %headdress Wbe ould written up n vellum anted to her Majesty, and begged the livery to join OM him in the prayer that the Queen might long live to protect sod cherub her royal family. (Hear, boar.) The motion wee earned ; and • vote of thanks haring, on tuoti,,s of Mr. Towra, seconded by Mr. Fisc.tr. been given to the Lord Mayor for calling the meeting and pre which ha lordship briefly acknowledged, the proceed lap terminated. Majesty and the tweatry have sustained is the unexpected demise of hie Rojo! Highness the Prince Consort." Mr. NitAo3ll as seconded the resolution. Mr. Dawns supported the resolution, as the senior repre• sentative of the Australian stage now in Loodoo. The loss sustained by the musical and dramatic arta, the fine arta, and every other educational institution having for its object the intellectuAl improvement of the people, by the death of Prime Albert, could nut at present b e realised. Time alone would tell the extent of the loss. The regolotion was agreed to unanimously. On the motion of Mr. E. T. `SITU an address to her Majesty founded on the foregoing resolution was agreed to, signed by the chairman In behalf of the meeting, and ordered to be sent to Sir C. Phipps for presentation. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro. moldings. found sorrow for the heavy caliunity which, in the mysterious providence of God, has befallen your Majesty, your royal children, and the whole nation, in the Bodies removal of your late illustrious husband, his Ho* Highases the Prince Consort. We mourn deeply the loss which has thus been sustained. We humbly beg leave to express our sympathy with your Majesty sad your royal house ; and we pray fervently Almighty Gad, as the God of all consolation, that He may comfort and uphold your Majesty in this the time of your deep sorrow, sad that He may strengthen and preserve your Majesty for may pen, to reign over your loving sod loyal subjects, the ishabitante of these realms. We remember, with mournful thankhd nem to Almighty God, the pre-eminent gift' with which your Majesty's husband was endowed, the sable example which, as a Prince, as a husband, and ss a father, his Royal Highness set to your Majesty's subjects, the blousing which he has so conspicuously been to this ratios so your Ma jeety's partner, guide, and counsellor, and bis many works by which he sought to promote its happioess sad rity. As the Royal Scottish Academy, we op= remember his distinguished services in the promotion of art, and the many acts of royal and kindly courtesy by which his Royal Highness deigned to protect the intermits of our body. We humbly beg leave Somme your Majesty that we shall cherish, with enduring 'Hectic, and reversoco, the memory of his Royal Highness, sad of the psees sad math of character by which, both in public ad in private, his whole life was marked. We beg your Majesty will accept of the assurances of our moat devoted loyalty and affection. Signed in name and by appointment of the Royal Scottish Academy, by the president and secretary, this 22nd day of December. JOHN WATSON GORDON, President. " DAM °MAWR HILL, Secretary." MONEY MARKET. To-day being Christmas-day the Stock IC xchange is closed ; we have therefore no business transac tions to report. The impression that the prospect of war has greatly diminished has been much strengthened by the publication of the masterly despatch of M. Thouvenel, while the fact that it is dated as far back as the 3rd inst., and must therefore hays now been for nino or ten days in the hands of the Ame rican Cabinet, is considered a valuable guarantee against the chance of the latter committing them selves to any rash course. The American houses in London appear to be very hopeful. There was an active demand for money in Lom bard-street yesterday, and little business was done below the Bank minimum. This rate will probably oontinue to prevail until the 4th of January is turned. About 88,000/. in gold, mostly Australian refined, was taken to the Bank yesterday. This makes an aggregate of 275,000/. since the last return. The outgoing Bombay steamer takes as much as 264,045/. in specie, viz., 254546/. silver, and 2,5001. gold. The Kent, from Melbourne, with 422,0001. in gold, has now been at sea 71 days. This is the only gold ship known to be out, On 'Change yesterday afternoon bills on Holland were inquired for, while thoseon Hamburg and Paris were rather more offered. Very little change oc curred in the rata, which were quoted as follows : Ataitsrdam, S maths, 11.19* to ; ditto, 3 days, 11.17 to ; Rotterdam, 3 mouths, 11.19; to 1; hatwerp, 3 mouths, 25.55 to 60 ; Hamburg, ma. bane% S mouths, 13.8 to ; Paris, 3 days, 25.24 to 32; ; ditto, 3 mouths, 25.60 to 65 ; linuiltfort,on.theasins, 3 mouths, 118; to ,• Petersburg (par rouble), 3 months, 32; so g ; Visor, ed. do., Smooths, 14.50 to 60; mesto, it. So., 3 mouAs, 14.50 to 00 ; Madrid, 3 months. 48* to j • Oaths, 8 Tomtits, 451 to 1 ; Imihorn, 3 months, 25.70 . t0 75; Goma, 3 months, 25.70 to 75 ; Mika, 3 months, 25.70 to 75; Naples, 3 months, Mlle ; Morino, 3 mouths, 1181 to ; Swum, 3 mouths, 1181 to ; Lisbon, 90 days, 51g to 32 ; Oporto, 90 days, 51f to 52. _ . As the prospect of concessions being made by the Federal government diminishes that of a de struction of the Southern blockade, the price of cotton at Liverpool has risen &boat id. per lb. since Friday. Animation was observable yesterday, the sales reaching 15,000 bales. At Lloyd's, owing to the increased prospect of peace, there is a less active business in war risks, and yesterday's quotations are rather lower. On ships to India and Australia the quotation is 20. ; to China, 30s. ; and to New York., 4 to 5 guineas. From India 30s. has been paid ; from China, 30s. to 40s. ; and from Australia—gold, 50s. ; and wool, 35e. The steamer North American, with the mails from Canada and later advice; from the United States, is expected at Londonderry to-day (Wed nesday). The Africa, from New York, is due at Queenstown on Saturday, with the reply of the American government to the demands of the Eng lish cabinet. The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 164/., and the South Eastern a decrease of 1,8211. At the meeting yesterday of the Grand Trunk Rail way Company of Canada the report of the directors was " approved," and that of Mr. Watkin was re ceived and adopted. This gentleman was also thanked for his services. It was likewise resolved that the board shall appoint au agent representing all classes, with the fullest powers, to proceed to Canada, to continue negotiations with the govern ment and to carry out the re-organisation of the undertaking. The government and legislature of Canada are to "be impressed with the importance of prompt action in dealing with the question of the postal subsidy and its capitalisation as the only practical means of relieving this concern from its financial embarrassments." The result of the meeting of tbe General Endow ment Association, held on the 20th instant at the London Tavern, was that the report of the com mittee of investigation was unanimously adopted and referred to the directors to carry out in its in tegrity, it being understood that they will report again to an adjourned meeting which will take place on the 27th Feb. The practical effect of this resolution is to reduce the annual expenditure from 3,0001. to a sum not exceeding 1,6001. or 12} per oent. on the premium income, thus ma terially improving the position of the association. A general meeting of the Commercial Dock Company is convened for the 10th January to de clare a half-yearly dividend. The second annual meeting of the London and Mediterranean Steam Navigation Company is called for the 30th inst. The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed Fridaynext, the 27th inst., a special settling day in the scrip of the Telegraph to India Company (Limited), which is to be marked in the official lists. A petition for the winding up of the Folkestone West Cliff Hotel Company (Limited) is expected to be beard in the Baoptcy Court on the Bth of January. The interest is advertised on the First Preference Six per Cent. Bonds of the Northern Railway of Canada. The Admiralty have taken up the steamer Hibernia for the conveyance of troops to Halifax, or Bt. John's (New Brunswick), and the Palikan and Ajax, to carry stores to Bermuda. The ten ders for Jamaica were declined. Mews. Aveline, Macrae, and Co. were yesterday appointevi agents for Lloyd's for Rio Grande do Sul and Porto Alegre ; and Messrs. Rose, Duff, and Co. spats at Berbioe. Subjoined are the latest quotations of insurance, gas, duck, and other shares, as given in the last Stock Exchange list : Insuranco.—Atiss, 111, I ; Commercial Union, 1 j ; Eagle, 71; Globe, 971 ; Guardian, 48f ; Lancashire, lf ;• London and Provincial Marine, if ; Mercantile Fire, ; .ocesa Marine, 101, f ; Roysl Exchange, 300 ; Thames and Mersey Marine, 3i. Gas Light and Coke.—London, 66 ; 701; West minster Chartered, 661, 74, 4. Docks.—Loudon, 59; N ictoria, 98. Canada—Birmuigham, 90; Regent's (or London), 221 ax div._ _ _ i(atervrorka—Barbs, N. Bridge—Vauxhall, 181 ex die. TUE&DAY EVENING. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 901 to I ex div. for the 9th Jan.. opened this morning at 911 " buyers," and closed at 91 to ft both for money and the account. The official business report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consuls, 911, 91, 4, 904, 911 ; ditto for account (Jan. 9), 911, 91, ; Beak Stock, 234 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 93,1, New 'ive p T e i t i • re c e . P t e . r gOc n r,. ' lo 9 3l, ' t1 4 ;1 4 ;4 t0 I ,_ ; div. ; ditto fur account, 1033 *, ex div. ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 143, 98* ; ditto 1884, ' • ditto Bonds, 12a.prem. • Five per Cent. enlaced" rupee paper, 99*; 'ditto Five-aud-a- Ralf per Cent., 1021, 103, 102. The India Five per Cent. stock was in great demand and rose ft per cent., leaving off at 1034 to ex div. for the account. There were likewise more inquiries for the rupee paper, which was firmer. The March Exchequer Bills were quoted 9s. to 125. prem. ; and the June, lls. to 14s. prem. There were some sales of India Bonds at 12s. prem. Foreign stocks were generally firm. Turkish rose about per cent., the Loan of 1854 closing at 781 to 79, and that of 1858 at 681 to 69. Mexican Bonds, however, after being marked 28, left off lower than on Saturday, at 27} to ; Venezuela Three per Cents. have improved to 211 tof ; Buenos Ayres Six per Cents. were firm at 88 to g°. In the market for Bank shares the only feature was an improvement of about U. in Oriental. Na tional Discount and Madras Irrigation shares were inquired for. The closing quotations for shares in new under takings to-day were as follows :—Ocean Marine Insurance, 51 to 5; prem. ; Thames and Mersey Marine, 11 to 11 prem.; Universe.' Marine Insu lt to ; London and Provincial Ma nfaus,l dis. ; MersantileFirs,l toll prem.; Cons ume:al Union Mrs, to 1 dia. MINES. Both the Stock Exchange and Mining Examen are closed to-day, and no business is gain for ward in mining shares. RAILWAYS. To-day being kept as • close holiday ea Mr Stock Exchange, we have no report to make limier this head. THE AMERICAN WAR AND BLAVERT. The following is an extract from a letter dated Philadelphia, Dec. 2 : " Why is it that England is untrue to her time-honersi testimonies, and fens at this eritioal time to give mesa support to those Who ere called upon to struggle amid& fearful wrong? I know the reply will be that the Nee* has not as yet declared absolutely for emancipation ; hat surely those who say this have riot put themselves is thought in the place of the government at Washiegtes, and imagined the fearful difficulties attendant on any ohmage as to the lot of four millions of people degraded by slavery. They fail to see that, even in this time of *Own ing, it is impossible as to so weighty a matter to prsossd otherwise than slowly. Yet under this °amenity how meth really has already been accomplished! Forty themes& slaves, it is estimated, have either obtained their freedom or have disappeared hem Missouri alone. I saw, a day or two ago, • letter from a young man on the staff of General lane, of the Kansas Brigade, which stated that there were in that brigade 500 negroes mounted os bones belonging to their former masters. The Act of Campine freeing the slaves of those io arms against the .govets meat, or giving aid to the rebellion, does in effect gipve tide to freedom to hundreds of thousands of the negrom. At Port Royal the blacks have come withia our lines in great numbers, and the latest accounts state that the determination of all who can escape to leave their masters is continuallymeerted. It is said, too, that, so fares the slaves are concerned, au advance into the country from Port Royal would undoubtedly be followed by an immediate rush of the whole population towards our camp. " But the very fact of the war is fatal to the inumach as it makes slave labour unprofitable. being now worthless sea article of trade, the *Mere name be sorely put to it to maintain their hands. As • farther result of the war, the recapture of fugitives in the Northers States has, of noun, wholly ceased. In all the border slave States—Maryland, Kentucky, Western Virgin* sod Missouri—the feeling in favour of emancipation has grows almost as rapidly as it has in the free Slides. Leading sea of both political at the North have declared= for them:lie y. A New York Dem Cochrane, he would take the slave by mi thtlead, put • musket in it, and bid him in God's name strike for the liberty of the human raoe,' and Mr. Secretary Cameras, who was present, fully endorsed the sentiment. " Supposing it to be • true theory that slavery is about to disappear here, the utmost importance attaches to any reliable statement as to the resales of emancipation in Mee West Indies. Happily we have each a statement in • week published in this country within the present year —' Bemire Ordeal of Free Labour in the British West ladies.' No thing could be more satisfactory than Mr. Sewell's narratives of whet he saw and his most careful comparison of the condition of the islands before sad since emancipation. Every island was visited, and in the case of Jamie& I believe every parish. The thoroughness of the book is indeed most remarkable, and the abeenoe, too, of prejudices or party feeling of any kind. With regard to nearly every island but Jamaica, the advantage of the change of system. both as to commercial results and as to the condition °Me blank population, is established beyond dispute. As te Jamaica, to which oue-half of the book is devoted, the de cline of sugar cultivation is, of course ' admitted, but the tact that this decline began long before emancipation is an fully shown. The diass since emancipation is accoested for, the cause being want of capital, failure of the plaster, to pay punctually the low wags they had agreed to pay, mismanagement of every kind by the planting interest, ai l aliseateessin. As to the whole question, however, owe ef Mr. Sewell'e concluding remarks is, 'lf free labour be tested by any other gauge than sugar production, its sas ses in the West Ladies is established beyond ell cavil and beyoed all peradventure. If they merit any consideration whatever—if their P = peudenoe, their comfort, their industry, their edu cation, form any part of • country's prosperity theu the West Indies are • hundredfold more proms:ow now than they were in the most flourishing times of slavery.' One more extract I must give you from Mr. newell's final chapter The act of British emancipaliea has been widely abused bat its detractors must live among the people it diseuthie ll ed if they would learn the vales all which it can be estimated. Time, which develops the free dom which that act created, adds continually to its lustre, and long after England's highest achievements in arts or in arms shell have hero forgotten, this grant of liberty shell testify to the grandeur of her power and to the magnanimity of her people.' "The Americans have said much in the way of censure of England, especially of late, but a sentence like the above ought in its measure to make amends. I am proud of the book from which I have quoted as being the work dose at my own countrymen. I rejoice that the vindication of that great measure of British justice has been made on this side of the Atlantic. It might perhaps be asked whether Eng land of the present day has nut faltered in the defence at her great set of sacrifice—whether she has been steadfast as to her belief that what WAS so clearly a deed of mercy as well as of justice would assuredly meet its reward. One might point to the columns of the Times and to ' Carlyle's Letter-day Pamphlets, and to the oesisiosal remarks of your statesmen, as evidence of this unfaithful ness. Let me mention what was said by the represeatative ' of your Queen in this country/ the predecessor of lard Lyons, at bis own table at Washington four yews ago, as a further evidsuos. He maid he considered the British Act of Emancipation a fatal error, and that it had been the ruin of the West Indies. An American who wee present could not, but at once milers his surprise at such a remark coining from an Englishman, and add that in his judgment there was no act in all her history for which England was more entitled to honour." THE DRAIIATIe PILOFEWON. A terelhei of the masafters of the metropolitan theatres, lied the sabre of the dramatic profsmioa, was held yea tenley, is the salons of Drury-laos Theatre, for the pore se s l imiK to an address of condolence to her Majesty on the death of the Prince Coesort. The meeting nee sell at teeded by the ladies and reetlemen of the profane'. Br. Barn was celle d to the c h air. Mr. E. T. SMITH having read letters of apology for ob. smog oa various grounds, from several managers, said he lad esavroed this meeting, u lessee of the principal demobs Maitre in tie metropolie, to enable the members of the preassign to express the sorrow they felt at the recent bereavement of their beloved Queen. He thought it was their ditty, not only as members of a profession much indebted to royalty for its patronage, but as catnens, thus publicly to express their feelings os this melancholy owe -604. Me would therefore more, "That this meeting of the dramatic profession tender their cordial sympathy sad heartfelt regret to her Majesty at the great loss both her MANCHESTER. Yesterday, the Mitucheeder City Council held a rpeeial meeting to adopt an address of condolence to her (Mr. Goadsby), in introducing the subject, said the cold lifeless form which now rested in the tomb at Windsor was but a few days ago animated by a spirit so philosophic sad full of sympathy with all that was human ising, peak and good, that in the Prince's death the nation led lost • sable benefsetor and friend. The Prince Con sort would by. is the pages of the historian as one who had conferred benefits innumerable nixie the people. (Hear.) Hr. Alderman NEILD wad they had met with the humble desire to offer to the stricken heart of oar beloved Queen their oondoleuce in her deep affliction. In a national point of view the present was no common caw It was not as where& few courtly mourners assembled because one of the mighty once of the earth had yielded to the common lot. It presented the sorrowing of • nation which counted its mourners by millions. He had been much struck with • report he had from two of his friends who visited much amongst the poor. They told him that in every house the foaling was intense the inquiries were most eager bow our Queen bore up Bathe midst of her deep affliction — (hear, hear)—and the inquiry was not seldom socurnpanied with tears. They found the same feeling pervading every house am they went from door to door. (Hear, hear.) He remembered no similar case of mourning, exceift 44 years years ago, on the occasion of the death of the Princess Charlotte. As a nation, we had fondly hoped that under the reign of that princess brighter days awaited us. Some then, might be formed of the terrible blow which severed those hopes for ever. But it was a consolation for those who, like himself, had lived in both the times, to feel that the fond anti cipations of the reign of the Primula Charlotte had been far more than realised in the reign of Queen Victoria. (Hear, hear.) It was, indeed, delightful to feel that God hail so signally blessed the de votion to duty and to the welfare of her people, on the part of the Queen and her lamented Consort, in permitting the glorious reign she had exercised over this coentry. Where, he &eked, in the length and breadth of this wide earth, was there • parallel case to our own ? He asked, but he asked in vain. There was, thee, • deep case for gratitude la 001 for blessings which he believed had never been witiossed in this realm at any other period. Fer the exprosios at feelings like these they were very properly assembled, end be begged leave to propose the following drees:— "To Use Queues Mod Excelled Majesty. " May it piouslyoar Majesty,—We, the mayor, aldermen, and caucus of the City of Manchester, respectfully offer to your Majesty our deep, sincere, and heartfelt sympathy and condolence in the affliction with which it has pleased an all wise and beneficent Creator to visit your Majesty, your family, and the nation. Our sorrow for the death of your Royal Consort is rendered more poignant when we reflect upon the exemplary manner in which his Royal Highness discharged the important and onerous duties which were incidental te%is 11/legacies. Wegratefully remember bow readily his Royal vas encouraged and supported every project which bed • • and ennobling aim, and we rte are in expressibly grieved that he should have been so suddenly removed from amongst us while in the prime of hie useful, pure, and blameless life. We feel assured that your Ma. piety sill, in this moment of profound 'Owing and trial, look for consolation and comfort to the Great Giver of sal Good • and we humbly hops that in your heavy affliction rie;hMajesty may be cheered sod eadaised with the that your sorrow is shared by every household within your kingdom. We venture again to resew the assurance of our loyal and devoted attachment to your Ma jesty's person aced family, and to express our belief that the noble sod endearing example of your Majesty's private life has been productive of incalculable benefit to every class of your Majesty's subjects." The motion was wooded by Mr. Alderman CLARK!, and unanimously agreed to. DOVER. A special meeting of the Dover Town Council was held at the Sessions House on Monday, when the fol lowing address of condolence with her Majesty the Queen, on the Waisted death of the Prince Consort, was unani mously voted : " Most Oflioollll Sovereigo,—We, your Majesty's most dutiful sod loyal subjects, the mayor, aldermen, and bur gesses of the borough of Lover in council assembled, hasten most respectfully to smarts your Majesty of our sincere condolence and heartfelt sympathy on the afflictive be reavement with which it has pleased Almighty God to visit your Majesty sad the Royal Family in the re moval of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The oatiou at large mousse with your Majesty the lose of the illustrious Prince, who by his distioguiahed and cube:a lined career, and by his faithful attachment to the institu tions of the country, had woo for himself the universal respect and esteem of all dames of your Majesty's subjects. The unceasing care with which his Royal Highmiss entice raged both literature and the arts and sciences, and with which he festered the sources of native industry and the social comfort and advantages of the people, will ever make his memory revered and dear to the country ; and though removed, as our hope is, to a higher and better sphere, ha, being dead, yet speaketh, and we trustthat the bright example which in his exalted station he uniformly set before others in all the relationships of life, will abide alike an eodunug mosiument of self-denying devotion and cultivated taste and enlightenment, and a pattern to be emulated by all who seek their own or their country's hap. piums and welfare. That your Majesty sod the Royal Family may, in the poignant grief/mulled by this greet cala mity, be supported and comforted by Him who afflicteth not willingly, but for our proelt, is our earnest desire and fervent prayer." After attending Divine service, on Monday, the Town Council of South Shields met in the Council Clam ber, Town-hall, sod adopted the following adds= al eon deism* to her Majesty : " May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's loyal subjects, the mayor, Warms. and burgesses of the borough of South Shields, ia the °panty of Durham, humbly venture to tender to your Majesty, under your great and trying afifiction,pur heartfelt sympathy and ouodulenue on the mournful bereavement whi&your Majesty and the Royal Family haven) unhappily sastaised in the greatly lamented deems of Me late Royal Mishima' the illustrious Coasort of your Majesty. Viewing the death of the illuatrious Prince in the light also of a sallied calamity, we dutifully convey to your Majesty, at the seam Urns, oar deep-felt *ease of the loss which has befallen the °sentry, by the departure from arnocigot us of on. whose easelast solicitude for the adverse meet of British interests, nocsming exertions is the cause of literature, education, art, and senses, and steady support of all such measures as had for their object industrial, agricul tural, moitary, and general improvement, had pined for binned" the attachment of your Majesty's subjects, and earned • reputatios which will long secure for his memory the affectionate regrets and lasting rewerubrauce of • grate- I ul people. " We devoutly pray to Almighty God, that under His divine protection your Majesty may be streogthened and supported in the mad bereavement which, in Hu inscrutable wisdom, your Majesty has been permitted to sustain, and that for many years to come your Majesty may reign in health, tranquillity. prosperity, and peace, over • loyal, an affectionate, and a united people." GLASGOW. At a meeting of the Glasgow Merchants' House held uo Monday, the following address of condolence to the gusto was unanimously voted :—" To the Queen's Most Lustiest Majesty. —Most Gracious Sovereign.—We, th e Dean sad Guild and Merchants House of the city of Weaver, with feelings of profound sorrow, in approach eg the Throne, beg to offer to your Majesty and august family our sincere sympathy and condolence on the severe and sudden berrevernent with which it bee plowed Almighty God to visit you in the death of hie Royal Highness the Prime Consort. We desire. with the deepest feelings of loyalty and affec tion towanla your Majesty, to record the high admiration is which, from hie numerous virtues. the Prince Consort, was held by the whole British nation, whether as • de voted husband, a kind and affectionate parent, ore wise and judicious counsellor. Our fervent prayer is that your Ma jolty may receive that divine support which can alone sustain you under your irreparable loss ; and that you may be long spared to reign over a loyal, affect io nate, and de voted people. " Signed sod sealed with the corporation seal of the Mer chants' House, to mune and by appointment of the said house, at Glasgow, thiiterenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sick one, by "JAIIIII LousoLs, Dean of Gala" ROYAL BCOIEL4II ACADEMY. At a special meeting of the Royal Scottish Academy. on the motion o( Mr. Harvey. LL.S.A., who oc cupied the chair in the absence of the preeideat, Sir John Watson Glrdoo, the meeting resolved to remit to the cowbell to prepare • humble address to her Majesty the gown on the recent national calamity, and to insert in thar minutes a record of a like tenor. The following address has since been adopted, and will at • 'Wog time be forwarded for presentation : " Uoto the Queen's Most Gracious Majesty,—The hum ble address of the Royal Scottiab Academy of Painting, Sculp ture, and Architecture, iDoorporated in Edinburgh by royal charter. " Kay it please your Majesty,—We, your Blakely's dutiful and loyal subjects the President, Council, sod member of tbe Royal Scottish Academy—beg leave humbly to approach your Majesty with the expression of our pro- DISTRIBUTION OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Yesterday, being Christmas-eve, the following seasonable gifts to the poor were distrib uted in the various districts, viz :—By her Majesty's command the gifts of the late Dochem of Kent to the poor inhabitants of Mary Ab bots, ltessington, were coetiessd. They coedited of bread, meat, coal; and blankets. A Christmas dieser was provided by the Duke and Dasher of Cambridge for each poor family in Kew and its vieinity. In most of the metro politan parishes the respective clarpmen, assisted by the churchwardens, distributed tickets for coals, breed, and meat to the deserving poor. In the perishes of St. Mary's bone, Southwark, and Lambeth the ladies' visiting mieletirs relieved the necessities of several damning poor families by the issue of coals, blankets, warm clothing, and other comforts. In the City the ward and parish odious were indefatigably ppmed in administering to the waste of the poor at this hmWvis memo, and the City Kitchen was open for the supply of coals to the poor of the metropolis and suburbs. le amerdease with the annual custom, at the QVlllee Pelson, o Hudson, the governor, distributed amongai the poor &Um' • plentiful supply of Christmas cheer, onaresting of beef and bread, and money was also given to enahle the prisoner to supply themselves with plum pud ding, or oth er dainties appropriate to the season. Owing to the distance which this gaol has undergoes within the last two months at the bands of the Bankruptcy Registrars, the number of the incarcerated has been so reduced, that the allowance of beef and breed amounted yesterday to something much beyond the average of former years. The money distributed amounted to about lls. each ; those debtors who were in circumstances of comparative comfort refusing any share of it. The total number who will speed their Christmas within the walls of " Hudson's Hotel" amounts to 70. - lotieLirrosa' PRISON, HORMINONGXI4/011, the Christmas time will being none of the usual alleviations to its unfortunate inmates. For the last 70 years so heepimet has been left for the Christmas cheer of &Aoki., In this prison, the benevolent 000 fining thew legacies to peienners in the City and Southwark, and Hormernonger-heas We/ just a few feet out of the Southwark dimtriek the prison is deprived of all participation in them. Thanks, however, to the energetic wins al Mr. Regintear Haag" the number condemned to poem see* within the skew walla of Keene'm Hotel leanly mdse. THE GREAT EAST WINDOW IN CARLISLE CATHEDRAL. During the past week the great east window in Carlisle Cathedral, justly said to be the finest in England of the date, has been filled with stained glass iu memory of the late Ik. Percy, Bishop of Carlisle. The cathedral being situated so neer the harden of the two kingdoms had ▪ iffered much from the m a 4:ar, and in the begianing of the present century the east, window shored in the general dilapidation, plate glass was substituted for the " storied window, rightly dight," which had adorned the venerable pile from the 14th century. The change was often lamented by the inhabitants of Carlisle, who were not without reason proud of their cathedral, but the expense of restoring the stained glass made it such an sacenorms undertaking, that even the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, when they spent some 15,0001. in works of restoration in 1854-6, shirked the task. When Bishop Percy died, however, in 1856, his friends set about collecting subscriptions for a memorial to him, and a large sum having been raised, it was thought that no better moment could be reared to the right rev. prelate than to 611 with stained glass the maviffont east window of the cathedral in the see which had has the scene of his episcopal labours. The execution of the work was entrusted to Messrs. Hardman, of Birmingham; and it was one of some difficulty, as the stained ems in the eracieful tracery at the top of the window still remained, having pulsed almost unscathed through the conffagrations and ravages of cen turies, and therefore the lower part had to be hanseelsed with the top. They have accomplished their task very satisfactorily, and the elapse of every year will assimilate still more closely the new to the old part. The in the tracery is illustrative of the Last Jiidgineet el t usual contrasts of the happiness of the blessed and the, misery of the lost. The story of the new part just c0m.. 1 pleted is the life of Christ. The window us divided into nine longitudinal lights by slender mullions, and the antral i light, being rather breeder than the others, contras the principal features of the design. The three principal grasps , are—The Crucifixion, with the Mariee at the foot of the cross, and angels at the top and on either side ; the Reser rectioo, with the Roman soldiers guarding the tomb; end, topmost of all, the Ascension, with the apostles below sad angels above. The other lights contain rumor groups inns ' trative of passages in our Saviour's history. Bach group is surmounted by an ornate canopy, and there are two rows of medallion heads of the prophets sad salute. The metalling ' tone of the colomine b blue, which has the desirable effect of subduing the brilliance of Mr. Owen Jones's gorgeous mum calling. The general effect of the " dim religious light" which is now diffused through the sacred edifice is excellent, and such as to lead to the wish that the other windows may also, before long, be maimed to their pristine spisadonr.—Noccoatie Chronicle. THE DEFENCES or Livr.aroor..—We understand that the Liverpool corporate officials have received the most satisfactory assurances from the government authori- ties relative to the question of the defences of the port of Liverpool. ANOTHER FATAL CRINOLINE ACCIDEWT.—TCOAH' day afternoon Mr. Rallies IValthew, the deputy cm roger, held an inquest at the London Hospital, respecting the death of Sarah Williams, aged 31 years, the wife of a tailor's cutter, in the service of Messrs. Moses and Com pany, wholesale clothiers, of Cannonetreet Piet , City. On S.iturday evening last the deceased, while in the act of reaching a piece of paper which was behind a picture hanging over the mantelpiece, her dress ignited, and she immediately became enveloped in flames. She ran scream. ing down the staircase and was followed by a lodger, when the flames were with difficulty extinguished, but not until her body and limbs were fearfully blackened and charred. She was placed iu a cab and removed to the Hospital, where she shortly afterwards expired. The deceased had on at the time of the sad occurrence a very large crinoline petti. coat. The deputy coroner remarked on the dangerous practice of such decoratioes, when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death." TRADE OUTRAGE); NEAR SHIPTIELD.—Two trade outrages were committed on Saturday night at the village of Thorpe Healey, • few miles from Sheffield. A number of nail mskern, reading and occupying .hope in the village, are is the employ of lir. Fayell, of Rotherham. A portals of Mr. Farell's nom have been on strike for some weeks ors question of wages, and great efforts have been made to jades* the " knobsticks," es they are called, to join M the strike, but without success. Amongst the men who have continued to work are John Ilattersley, the foreman, and Charles Butcher, both occupying shops iu the vil lage, in one of which a number of rues were emplo yed. Butcher occupies a house adjoining his shop, and s hou t eleven o'clock on Saturday night was startled by a loud report. He ran out and found his shop in rides. The roof was setirely blows off ; the gable sod wag nearly down, and the bellows and other internal fittings were wholly or partially destroyed. The fragment. of Rom which had been filled with powder were found with • striag attached, from which it is inferred that the "infernal machine" had been let down the chimney. While Butcher and his neighbours were examining the ruins a second re port wee heard, and it was found that a similar explosion had occurred at Hattersley's shop, but attended with some what lees damage. The nail makers having left work some bourn before, no personal injury was sustained. This, how ever, has not resulted from any wish on the part of the "retteners to limit their vengeance to • destruction of property , for a few days ago a can of powder was found sus pended in the chimney of a butcher's workshop, on a work man going to light the fire in the morning, the object evi dently being to blow the shop down while the men were at work, by leaving the powder to be ex pluded by the fire. The criminals have as yet escaped detection. The area of the quartz-bearing rocks at Victoria, is Australia, is estimated at 25,000 square miles. The total area of the extort of land at present mined upon is that colony is 1561 square miles. Thus 89.920 square acres have produced gold to the amount of 92,787,1361, es an average of about Li 0321 per acre, and there yet remise upwards of 15 million acres almost everywhere intersected by quartz veins of roister or less thickness, which are age yet intact by the pick of the miner. The hare has been acclimatised in Australia, aed is now running wild there. The African mail steamer Armenian sailed from Liverpool yesterday with the mails and a number et passengers. AMERICAN SLAVERY. The Rev. Dr. Caswall, vicar of Figheldean, for wards to an ecclesiastical contemporary the following ex tracts from a letter which he has mowed from " • cleri cal friend in Maryland well known in We country by hie almost enthusiastic regard for Old England s" " Maryland, United States, Dec. 2, 1861. " I must repeat what I have eft= said before, that I write under a feeling (for humanity aoil for England as the great protector of the interests of civilisation) wholly gape rior to mere love of eoun47. Ido love my native rettatry,, I confess, now, as never before. But on every unmet 1 love England more as my mother country from which all that is dear to me in America is derived. This feel ing towards England is too strong in me to be shakes by any untoward things of the moment. Should the present generation of Englishmen provoke a war wi t h , and succeed in indicting great miseries on ne. it not change my feelings towards England. I know that a generation will succeed to bewail the folly of this age, sad that the grand unalterable facts which make England and America allies must in the end prevail. But shall there be no one to protest against the folly and madness of the hoer I Every steamer that arrives brings new fuel to the Base now beginning to burn amongst us against Old England. It is not in human nature to endure such insulting language es is perpetually used by the —, the —, Sze., and virtually repeated by leading public men at dinners and the like occasions, to the &nada' of justice and mercy. Ido sal wonder that the mss of my countrymen are enraged by it, nor that they daily invoke great Nemesis, and await ea opportunity, which is sure to come, of revenge and retells taon. Sha ll a few diameters be the only ones in England to lift a voice against such unreasonable andgalling provoca lima 1_ I have oever men the man among us who asks any mate rial aid from England. We did expect her moral support. and we feel entitled to that ; not that she can be expected to admire our republican institutions, but that she ought to feel an interest in the good order of nations, in the Nom et society, and the enforcement of law—to say nothing about this war as directly waged against the extension of slavery and of the slave trade. True, it is act en abolitiou war, we cannot stir up servile insurrection, mid we deserve crocheter not doing so, considering our tremendonsteniptation. Bat is it nothing to resist the propagation of the curse ; ix it nothing to say, 'lf thus far, no further' ? We feel that we might to have the moral rlpport of England ; but let that go. I/ only she will not insult us, scoff at us, exult over our suffer iogs, and take the disruption of our republic as afeit ac-compli, all might be welL " I wish you could see, as Ido daily, the desponding looks of our best bishops and laymen —men whose Wit, to everything English has been like the loyalty you ha►e at ammo. Now they say to me, ' Well, what lave you to lay now for Motherland ? The efforts of our lives are bet. We have preached up England as the great nation that might he depended on in every struggle against wrong sad ore rage, against oppression and sedition, and here she is giving all her morel power to a seditious confederacy.' •' Such is the spirit of conversations which I hear every where among men who, if there be worth and character on this continent, are best entitled to be heard. The Times and other public organs are miserably deceived. Unless England and Frans do us the gigantic wrong of nettior the ' Coufederaey' on its lege, we shall destroy it sad sesame our sway over our own. We are persuaded the Smith is as really ours as Wales is England's. Let us alone, sod wean solve the problem how to Toreson it, soil how In Owe it back the privileges and blessings it Las so wally (misted.* The Tagus, which should have left Liabos oath 17th inst. with the Peninsular nails, is three days eiremilee. THE CARE or PARRICIDE AT BILYINGIIAIL —At the publics office at Birmingham, yeeterdeyjedece Kynnersley (stipendiary), James Ifillwerd was btegM op on the charge of shooting his father under the eircwirilmewee already detailed in this journal. The evidence eilinced wu much the same u at the inquest. The psiwsr we committed for trial on a charge of " Maeda • CRTETAL PALACZ,•••O/11 SHILLING DAT.--TWEII. DAT, DEC. 7M. —Ada:limbos on payment, 931; ditiolreellinell Sick" I,o77—total, I,W& IRIB. 1 ,~