The Express. — London, England, 1860-12-22 00:00:00

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Taassiow—Mendm la. M. Afterriaa. lik. Ina LONDON, SATURDAY, DEO. 22. Te z good old fashioned Christmas has oome back, " frosty, but kindly ;" and it comes with all the messages of peace and mercy, all the traditions of clarity and goodwill, all the memories of Divine compassion, which for eighteen centuries have thrilled like the joy of a single household the warring and divided worshippers of the Cause. U the snow storm lends a keener zest and a richer glow to the comfort of the family fireside, it must awaken a more poignant pity for the homeless and the destitute, and inspire a more awful ten derness fur the starving and the outcast. Indeed to all noble natures the " happiness " of Christ mas is dimmed with tears, not only of private and personal sorrow for the absent and the dead, but of a troubled and yearning wonder at the immense mystery of mortal destinies. " The whole creation " groaneth and travaileth until now ;" and to two thirds of the civilized human race life is, at bed, a blind chance, • battle in the dark, • penalty without judgment or reprieve. When we look at a drop of water through the microscope we see an epitome of the life of millions of mankind. Whether the spread of education, the growth of political freedom, the euergy of religious proselytism, the conquests of science, or the electric forces of opinion, are to result in the deliverance of multitudes from this helpless state of bondage to the lust of glory, the disordered ambition, or the pride of power, of half a dozen rulers of armies and their parasites, the next half century will show. To clever peo ple the question seems ridiculous. Ths messy will always be the many, and the few will always be the few ; the few rich and the many poor, the few win and the many ignorant, the few leaden and the many led. Poverty is necessary for the display of Christian virtue, and war is occasionally beneficial in promoting • chivalmus spirit and in weeding surplus popula tions. Such is the philosophy of clever' people. Any oilier doctrine is silly sentimentality. And yet—silly sentimentalists or not—at this particular moment we cannot help observing that even Monarchs and Ministers of State spend their Christmas like the rest of their fellow-creatures, and celebrate in many solemn, festive, and homely ways the good old tidings of peace on earth and goodwill to man. For • little while there is a lull all Europe over, except, perhaps, at Gaeta, when FIANCES 11. is desirous of burying himself under the patronage of a French Erna- Row and the caeemates of a fortress. By common consent the annual armistice is tacitly inaugurated in every hostile camp of home and foreign politics, and for all the European " questions," upon the issue of which hangs the fate of nations and of Empires there is one month's amnesty and oblivion. The stillness of the snow clad earth is scarcely more intense than the stillness of the world of public affairs at Christmas. And like the stillness of nature laid to winter sleep, this political stillness is tremulous and thrilling, for beneath it is the unknown promise of the com ing year. Shall it be health, plenty and pros perity, or plague, pestilence and famine I Shall it be peace, freedom and international reconcilia tion, or war with all its miseries and follies, for the satisfaction of a young headstrong Emperor's self-love I We were saying some weeks since that within five months the peace of Europe must be made securer far than any Congress of the Powers has ever made it, or • war mint break out in which principals would soon be seconds, and Venetia but a spark in the devouring conflagration. Time moves silently and relentlessly on, while Milliliter* and diplomatists are making Christmas holiday. A month after the British Parliament has met it will be too late to talk of special envoys to Vienna ; of equivalents, and guarantees. Too hire, we know, is a favourite phrase with monarchy in these latter days. It may be that the Emperor FRAN. 14 Alegre has chosen it for the epitaph of his house and reign. But the English public has not forgotten the miserable makeshifts and delusions of statesmanship in the first months of the year before last, the abortive missions, the impotent negotiations, the reckless romancing of Mr. Disc Acit in the House. The war came which I everybody out of Downing-street knew must wine, and Europe had to thank Austria once more not only for her obstinate refusal to prevent, but for her headstrong precipitation in provoking the conflict. Austria did not drift but drive into war ; it is a triumph of statesmanship when a war takes Europe by surprise ; and this is the sort of triumph which the diplomatic art of "drifting" is not unlikely to celebrate next year. Never easeredly will the saving wisdom of go vernments and the farsighted beneficence of di plomacy hive achieved • more remarkable success. Perhaps it may be argued in excuse that diplomacy can only deal with secrete ; an d th at the war announced for the spring of 1861 is beyond the pale of diplomacy precisely because it i. an nounce d beforehand by vulgar lookers on. This ex cuse nay servo in some degree for the brilliant failure at Vienna in the spring of WA, but it will K far more apposite on the coining occasion 11111C0 the Liberator of the Two Sicilies has limped the very hour for the final struggle, and sum mooed a nation to his standard.. There is reslly nothing left for diplomacy to do, except in deed, to premien the peace of Europe hithe only possible way it can be premix-red :by peessieding the young Emperor of AUSTRIA to be content waft one great defeat, with an insolvent treasury, with dieaffection in all his provinces; and to consider • little the convenience and comfort of his friends and neighbour% before he twelves upon • second and more complete catastrophe. It is nothing that France adds • battalion to all her regiments ; this time, at least, we know that the EIIPIIROS wants peace—it is nothing that Sardinia is arming to the teeth, for we are certain that Count CATOUR would be rejoiced to settle the Venetian question honourably without striking a blow. But the honour of France is doubly engaged towards Venetia ; first by the treachery of Campo Formio not yet redeemed ; secondly, by the words "from "the Alpe to the Adriatic" not yet fulfilled. And as to the Sardinian Government, it must win Venetia or lose Italy. Nor is this Venetian , question a question of military ambition or poli tical intrigue, though by exasperation it may bo om:tie an instrument of both. It is in its present aspect such • question as any simple family making holiday at this happy season can appre ciate as well as the astuteet Cabinet. It is before and above all, a question of life and death, of home and household, and property, for two millions and • half of human beings. Doubtless it is part of the Italian "idea," and of the political programme of Italian patriotism, that the inde pendence of the Peninsula must precede its unity. To talk of the unity and independence of the Peninsula is absurd while Austria holds the Quadrilateral. But for the people of Venetia it is something more than an idea, however grand, or an aspiration, however exalted ; it is the question of living the life of freemen, or of enjoying Aus trian taxation, conscription, silence solitude, dun geons enlivened with fusillades, and violent death escaped by exile. Surely this is a question which any Englishman who knows what it is to have a country and • home, public freedom, domestic security, and equal laws, can answer without con sulting the diplomatic augurs. The rumours which reach us of attempts at an amicable settlement, and the pamphlets ' which are coming out in Paris, are not altogether reassuring. It is of little avail, we fear, to impress upon the mind of the Emperor FRANCIS Joinern the extreme imprudence of an Emperor, notoriously insolvent, making or sus taining war. To young Emperors, wars, in which hecatombs of human lives are sacrificed, are so much " wild oats." Enterprising spendthrifts don't renounce the stud or the yacht because they are " hard up." Insolvency is sometimes an irre sistible temptation to extravagance. It is a precipice over which the giddy climber must go. The pamphlet lately published at Paris, attributed to an eminent capitalist, and even to Imperial ril -1 vision, is admirably reasoned, and would convince any capitalist, perhaps even any Emperor alive, except the one to whom it is addressed. Its only fault is that it is written by a rich man in his senses to a man insolvent and in a passion, whom with much provoking coolness it recommends to give up in time and for • consideration what he cannot keep. Of course, it is obvious to every body out of Austria, or rather out of the Court of Vienna, that Austria has everything to gain by parting with Venetia e for a handsome sum. But the Emperor Fas.wers Josses's blood is up, and his army is full of fight. The threat of European capi• talists to withdraw their credit from the Austrian Government is lightly felt in those quarters. Indeed the Austrian Government will be agreeably surprised to learn that it has any credit to lose in any money market in the world. It remains, therefore, to be seen whether there are in Austria itself influences strong enough to curb an EMIT,' Boa's temper, and to control the policy of the State : or whether among the rest of the m etalled Great Powers there is energy enough to save Austria in spite of herself, by binding her over to keep the peace, and purchasing Venetia for Italy on fair and honourable terms. But such a settlement must be abso lutely concluded on its own basis, not hampered with guarantees or with eventual compensations. The British people will most certainly never con sent to guarantee the dominions of any Power. And to promise Austria territorial compensation in the East of Europe would be simply to light an inextinguishable funeral pile for the Turkish Empire. (nom cur insar's auxin.) WINDSOR CA/111.1, Din. 17.—Tbe Queen, as Sovereign of the Most Noble Order al the Garter has loses gmeioury pleard by letters 'latest, under Her itozalSign Mammal and the Great Seal of the Order, brariag te this day, to dispense with all the statutes and regulations usually &served in regard to installations, sad to great unto the Most Noble Henry Pelham. Duke of Newomtle, Knight of the said Most Noble Order, and duly invested with the wipe thereof, hill power and authority to exercise all rights sad privileges belonging to • Knight Companion at the Meet Noble Order of the Carter in ea full and ample • sensor as if he had been forma installed, any decree, rata or sop to the aostrary sot Irosawn-orrics, Deo. 12. —The Queen has beau pecieeely plowed to appoint Fraser Howard Vow, Esq., sow British Via-Cord at Jed*, sad Acting Curial at Ka 'opus, to be her Harry's Consul at Kauagavra. Foitriwv-orricle, DSc. 19.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Kr. Jobe A. Callender as Consul at Edinbargh and Laith ; of Mr. Charles Cotesworth as Mo sul at Livemool ; Hr. GeorgeNewanham Harvey as Consul at Cork • et Mr. Thomas &yarn as Consul at New port, South Wa in' amyl of Mr. Edwin Fox as Vim-Coosa in Lando°, for the Repablio of Liberia. Douai/co-emu; Day. 19.—The Queen has been pleased so appoint Stewart Campbell, E to be on. of her Majesty's Cattiest for the provisos of N ov a Scotia : and NV ilium Lard's Furlesp, Esq., to be • member of the Conseil of the Oland of Monteernst. Till CLERICAL PIIND AND POOR CLRLOT.—The committee of the Clerical Fund and Poor Clergy Rolle Society have made during the past year grants to ninety poor clergymen, incumbents and curates, amounting to 303/., and to eighteen widows of clergymen, lilt. ; a total of 1041. In addition to these grants of mosey they have distributed Dolor than one hundred parcels of clothing, sew and old, the estimated value of which is 3241. The society aea of the most valuable in the metropolis, as Se bounty is given in money and clothing to the poor clergy and their widows in &island, Wales, and Ireland. Came/Male OPTIONAL 81711111011 L Die. 1860. — The number of juniors who were examined at the various centres were, Scripture, 279; church eathechiam, 220 ; English moil... Awn, E5O ; French. 2E4 ; German, 15 ; total examined, 2 , 14. Seniors : Scripture, 90 ; common prayer, KO; French, 7f. ; thernan, 12. Total examined, 96. The numbers el Medea. who declined the examination in Scrip ture, he., is the years 18513, laso, 1510 respectively were as follow 1858, 11; MS, 7 ; 11. TUN EARL op ADZIDENSeI FUNZIAL. —The late Earl af Aberdeen was buried yesterday morning at the new duet* of St. Jobs the Evangelist, at Greet Stanniore, Middle•ex. The funeral procession left Argyll-house shortly helm eleven o'clock, the mournful cork , * cosseting of a Mere and six and eight corning cal *as and four, with the customary attendants. The funnel rorfinie proceeded at a slow pace as far as Kilburn-gate in the lidgwarerned, at wb*.ch poet the Queen's and other private aureate turned otf. lin the funeral procession reselling the church at Great Stanniore, the scred edifies won thronged by a re spectable and decorous congregation. Out .4 respect to the of the deceased uobleman the majority of the inhabi tant& clued their houses &mpg the period of interment. After the euatom,ry relMions rito the body of the late earl was depleted 10 the family vault, in which is deposited the lashes of his lordship's two wives, Lady thdherioe Hassiltes awl Harriet, daughter .4 the floe. John lisuglas. la the sine vault .1 1 1 T WHIM' of the deemed earl's children, who died prematurely. A letter fr Naplem 'kitten that f4iumnr Farini has an 100•11101.11 41, fever, which prevents ha cuntinuotal attention to his official duties. eOllll. • • WINDSOR CAME, Di 4 U. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with Prin cess Alice, Princess Helena, and Prince Louie at Here, arrived at Windier Castle at four ,'block yerfettin, from Alderahott. The Prince of Wales arrived from Oxford University yes terday afternoon, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel. Lord Augustus Loftus, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, and Lientenant.Cenend Sir Harry Jona, likewise arrived at the Castle on a visit. In addition to the above, the royal dinner party included the Prince Alfred, the Primer Alice, the Prince Louis of Heim, the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, the Hon. Mrs. T. M. Biddolph, Sir James Clark, Baron von Westerweller, and Major Cowell, L& The toad of the Royal Hone Guards played during din. Der. Her Majesty's private tend afterwards performed in the dnwing•room. The Queen and Prince Consort, amempanied by thePrine• of Walee, Prince Alfred, Princes Ali" and Prises Louis of Hesse, walked in the Home Park this azoniag. The Duchess of Kent and the Prince and Primes of Letningen vidted the Queen from Frogmore and took luncheon. Lord Bloomfield had an sadisme of her Majesty on being appointed Ambamedor at Vienna, and Lord Augustus Loftus on being appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin. They were introduced by Lord John Russell, her Majesty's Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs. Lord John Nowell had an audience of tbn Queen. Vieootint Torrington and the Hoo. Mortimer liackoills West, Lord and Groan in Waiting, were in attondanes. A deputation, appointed at the public meting on the 12th inst., for the purpose of drawing attention to the !moonily for additional legWation in reference to arterial drainage and general rattail works, had an inter view with Sir G. 0. Lewis yesterday, et the Hotoe-cifika; The deputation was intsoduoed by Sir John Villiers Shelley, Bart, M.P., and ocsuisted of Sir Henry Vaviaorsr, Bert., Mr. J. H. langstoo, M.P., Mr. J. M. Heethcote, Mr. John Clutton, Mr. John Algernon Clarke, Mr. W. Fisher Habil; Mr. J. Bailey Denton, and Mr. Richard H. Grantham. His Highness the hinoe FULthierill and Count Meeks Myrtle bare lift tke Hreeemiok Hotel far Park. His Excellency the Count Persigny has left Allartissas Hews for Park The Duchess of Sutherland and his Excellency Uwe Earl of Ouliale have left Stafford House, St. Jamie, for Trentham, Staffordahire. The Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon have retuned to their villa at itoebsinpton, from • visit to the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, ILE, and Mrs. Herbert, at Wilton Howe, neer ashsbw7. The Earl of Wilton has left Melton Mowbray on a visit to the lisri of Stamford and Warrington, at Ihmilk Hall, Staffordshire. The Karl of Malmesbury comes to town on Mon day from Heron Court, Hants. Colonel Taylor succeeds to the position lately held by the Right Hon. Sir W. Hylton Jolliffe, In oonaezion with the conservative party, and will be wilted in the wen* session by Mr. Whitmore, and also by the Hon. Gerard Noel, member for Rutland, who will All the vacancy maned by Sir W. Jolliffe's retirement. The Lord Bishop of London will hold hie Christ mas ordination for this year in her Majesty's Chapel Royal, Whitehall, to-morrow morning (Sunday, the Wad Usk). The chapel is free to the public. The Rev. W. C. Mar" D.D., of Trinity College, Dublin, minister of Quebec chapel, Portman-square, bas been specially requested by hie lordship to preach on the ocessiou. The order of morning prayer having been read at 10 o'clock, the sermon and ordi nation service will commode at 11 o'clock. The elevation of Dr. Philpott to the bench of Bishops will came a mane, is the miniterebip of Catharine College. " Rumour," rye the Casigwidgc hidepersclest, " is already buy with several names; smug the non-maiden* the Rev. W. B. Hopkins, of Wisbecb, and the Rev. R. Blakelock, of Oirningbam, Norfolk ; among the residents —the Roy. F. J. Jameson, end the Rev. C. H. Robinson. We believe there are only five electors, of whom Mr. Robin son and Mr. Jameson, being Foundation Follows, are two; and if, as is stated, these two gentlemen have secured ano ther vote each, the ' odd man' will no doubt eessider him self as somebody.' • The Rev. Bryan King has just addressed &second letter to the Bishop of London, designed as " a public and solemn protest" against the conduct of the bishop towards its author and hie parishioners. The letter resumes the history of the St. George's riots from the point where the other letter left off, and concludes as follows :—" Even you, my lord, can scarcely be saoguine enough to imagine that I shall respect the acts of your late illegal aggremion upon my return to my charge." Mr. Bailey, curator of the Soane Museum, died ea the 17th init. The appointment of a ammewor mats with the Royal Academy. Mr. Noble baa received a oomminaion from government to execute the national monument in memory of the lets sir John Franklin, for which 2,0001. bee been granted by parliament. The monument will be planed m The special subjects eelected for illustration at the monthly rosetinp of the Archie*logical Inetitute in the ensuing asseion, ere :—For February 1, Antiquities of Breese ; April 5, Mediaeval Embroideries, Timms, and Binelhigs of Books ; June 7, Antique Gems and Intaglios. We read in the Illustrated London New.:—" week or two since we asked whom the Lorenzo the Mag nificent ' could be who had given Mr. Frith a ten.thommail. pound commission! We trust that some kind friend will set us right if we an in error. Our information, which we have every remise to believe correct, points to M. Flatou, a gentleman well-known in 0011081i011 with the ' emu. mercialities of art,' as the Usseeteus who is prepared to give the 10,00 W. in question. The picture contemplated by Mr. Frith is said to be ' Life at a Railway Station.' " M. Berlioz is said, in the Gazette Must...ale, to be at work on a ono act opera, on a subject take. from Shako• Pans. Mr. H. Leslie's new cantata, the title of which is " Holyrood," will be produced on the let of February. M. Vienztemps in coming forthwith to England, to play at the Popular Concerts, and will appear ►t their recommencement, early in January. Among works completed or in progress we (Atha/rum) hear of musical dramas, by Signor &him, Herr Molique, Mr. Frank Mori, and half-a-doseu other English aspirants. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean are playing to crowded houses at Cork. The Lords of the Admiralty have resolved that Monday shall be kept u a holiday in their department. This decision will have the effect of giving to the clerks and others, whose attendance would otherwise have been uromary, a respite from work of three clear consecutive days. The volunteer class at Hythe, which has just concluded ita course of instruction, is tho largest that has ever been at the School of Musketry. The total number present was 96, of whom 32 are captains, 13 lieutenants, 14 ensigns, 51 non-commissioned officers, and 13 pri vates. The shooting of several of the best marksmen was of the highest order, especially at the longest ranges. The " figure of merit" at the lower ranges was 45.02, or just about the average for volunteers, which for tho last gee courses has been 45.20. The average for the rune number of courses of officals of the army is 44.06. The annual ball of the Excelsior Boat Club Will take place at the Club-house, Crevrn and Sceptre Hata, Greenwich, on Wednesday, the 2.'ird of January, *I, tinder the direction of the following members :—!fart J. F. Delany (commodore), P. K. Holdsworth, G. 0. Brows, W. Myatt, J. Orating, D. Green, C. A. Curwood, sad J. B. Brain, honorary secretary. A new issue of bronse coin, to the amount of 1,500,0001., is about to take place in Prance. . . Tax BfEHOP AND THE 80CIZTI* 01 Fiutens.—ln connexion with the discharge of his is. copal duties, the Lord Bishop of Durham visited Dar liogto• last week, and during his visit he became SW guest of Mr. Joseph Pease, • member of the Bociskv of Friends. The clergy of the district were invited to meet the bishop at dinner, and prob..* such • company never• before ass, mbled under the roof of one of WS clam of denote's to which Mr. Pease belongs.— Yorialtire Giudie. 'TEST INTELLIGENCE. ALL TIM at MIRCHANTS' PROM& NOM ammo ind Ow: t in =at Mb: ALUM'S PATIENT PORTMANTEAUS and mamma° Baal with lALifir D&= TIMM, DIM = rr agL e, Myer 11111 ZATIV DOM WITTING and 1111.111181X0 CAM. and NO WNW waking for bone or continental travelling. Illustrated ter Mk by pont nor two Nampa J. 18 4. 1 1 8 1.1. ZN. late J, W. and T. Mks. Urinfactsrer of M are Bernet Pernitnre end billitanOwilltliee one sewage can.. wo, U and 21. arm& Lora STOLEN I[lBBEl3 and BOX-HIS-EARS. 7116 Row hake Pekin= kr 1.111. MIME u oil LIMN. MEW 11101%D4rilit MARNONIII3IB—NSW MODZIA.— A.& CRUM. MALI, sod Os, •1. 1110114-e4ose• TEE EXPRESS, „SATURDAY -MININING, DECEMBER 22, 1860. FRENCH ADVICES FROM CHINA. The Moniker publishes the following : . "Ourtain organs of the English press persist with the most inexplicable obstinacy in entertaining their readers with accounts of fabulous spoil with which every French soldier will return after the pretended sack of the Imperial Palace of Pekin. The only reply we can give is to publish textually a letter written by General de Montauban to his Ex cellency the Marshal Minister of War, dated the Bth of October. It will be remembered that the ambassadors of France and of England entered Pe kin on the 22nd of October, and that peace was signed on the 28th : " • Heed-Quarters before Pekin, Oct. 8. " Monsieur le Marichal,—lt was agreed between Geo,. tel Grant and myself to proceed ►o Yuen•miog-Yuen, the summer residence which the Emperor always occupies, four leagues north of Pekin. " ' This country is so cut up by roads, thickets, kr., that General Grant and his army lout their way, and I arrived alone, in the evening, in front of the palace, which was in charge of a Tartar guard. " ' Despite • long and fatiguing march I ordered the palace to be occupied at 7 o'clock in the evening, and forcing an entrance I had two officers and some soldiers wounded. The Tartars evacuated the palace entrusted to their care and lost some men. one inferior mandarin being killed in the courtyard. I ordered the palace to be occu pied, and went there myself early next morning. It is impossible, M. le Maritima, for me to describe to you now the wonders of this imperial habitation. Nothing la Europe can convey an idea of such luxury. I shall not attempt to describe its splendours in these hasty lima I shall have the honour to write to your Excellency at pester length by next mail to give you a full description. " s I placed strong posts at all the outlets of the palace, so that nothing might be disturbed until our allies arrived, to whom I immediately sent information. A few boon afterwards they arrived, and • portion of their cavalry having joined my column, I appointed two English and two ?much officers to see tha t nothing was touched, and that the two armies should conjointly exercise a strict control. " General Grant and Lord Elgin having arrived, we appointed three commissions of each nation to make • division of the most precious objects. In this division 1 recommended oar commissioner, to select only objects of vales for the sake of art or antiquity. I hope to send to your &Whiny, for his Majesty the Emperor, and for the peat eolleetions of the government, or for the Museum of Artillery, some rare curiosities for France. " • I ;in at present awaiting the arrival of Baron Gras, who is to join me here, Lord Ada being hers already. A sort of convention hail taken place between Prime Haag, Regent of the Empire, and the English Geneeil, in the name of the two Generals-in-Chid. " ' I hut oonasotod to as armistice that Prince Hung might eons to Pekin to treat ; be ham gone some eight isogon off, and the Pamperer is in Tartary. 'I" I beiot you, M. I; Mareohal, to excuse the style of this letter, which I write hastily ; I shall remain here to- morrow, and even until Pekin is occupied by force or other- wise, and I shall then have the honour of sending you a full official report. " I remain, dc., "'MOIiTAUBAN.'" AUSTRIA AND vrszne. PARIS, FRIDAY E111:111:119. The Censtitutionnal contains a second article, signed by its chief editor, M. Grandguillot, on the subject of Austria and Venetia. M. Grandguillot says: " France will never suffer the return to an offen sive policy by Austria in Lombardy." M. Grandguillot explains that another Power, from divers motives, is equally contrary to Austrian domination in Italy. ITALY. NAPLES, FRIDAY. It is rumoured that a correspondence has been discovered between a number of the clergy and Gaeta. SWITZERLAND. BERNE. Dec. 21. The National Council, in its sitting of to-day, took into consideration the decree concerning the construction of military roads in the Alps, sub mitted to it by the Federal Council. The National Council resolved upon returning this project to the Federal Council for a definitive report (to be made in the course of the next session) on the negotiations with the different cantons for its realisation, and on the pecuniary sacrifices which the construction of these roads might involve. The National Council then resolved to adjourn its sittings until the Federal Council should again consider its convocation necessary. HUNGARY. ARREST OF COUNT LADISLAUS TELEKI. pafaDß4i, FRIDAY, The official Drealen Journal of to-diy contains the following "Count Ladislaus Teloki, the Hungarian re fugee, who had arrived here with a false English passport, has been arrested and delivered up to Austria." MONTENEGRO. TRIESTE, Dgc. 21. The Triester Zritung publishes letters from Montenegro, denying the reports that Godinje would be ceded to Franoe foe the purposes of colonisation. THE PENINSULAR MAIL SOUTHAMPTON, fismanAr. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above mail, has arrived. She brings 17 passengers, 1,5401. in specie, and 3,300 packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of oranges. She spoke the Tagus, bound for Lisbon, on th 18th inst. The Tyne e sailed from Lisbon fur the Brazils on the 14th inst. Her Majesty's ship Mersey left Lisbon for the West Indies on the 15th inst. In Lisbon harbour were her Majesty's ship Cen turion and the Portuguese squadron. A great many vessels were anchored outside the bar of Oporto. :At Lisbon on the 17th instant, exchange on Loudon, throe months, was quoted 841 ; Paris, 5.28; Amsterdam, 42; ; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 5.27 ; Bente', Three per Cent., interest from Ja nuary, 1861, 461 ; Coupons, 461 ; Deferred, 27 ; Bauk of Portugal shares, 262 milreis ; Commercial Bank of Oporto and Mercantile Bank, 260 milreis. PRUSSIA. The Prussian Gazette publishes an ordinance of the Prince Regent, appointing M. de Bernuth, pre sident of the Court of Appeal of Posen, Minister of Justice, in the room of M. Simons. "My hopes," says a letter from Berlin, " are based on the nomi nation of this gentleman, who possesses great cape city. Ile will have to re-establish confidence in the legal order, which has been somewhat shaken by the revelations made iu the last prosecution of the police." It is stated in a letter from Berlin that the Prus sian cabinet has addressed a circular to the confe derated States, setting forth the present situation of the difference with Denmark, and proposing measures fur obtaining a solution of it. It is added that on this matter Austria is quite in accordance with Prussia _ _ _ A Berlin letter of the 17th Bays The general security of tho Praeslaa fortresses, both on sea end land frontiers, is a questioe now under coosidoration at the Ministry of War. The fortifications of Stettin are to be augmented ; Konigsberg and Posen are to be raised to the rank of fortresses of tho first class. The aouth. meters frontier, towards Poland, Hunipsry, sod Austria, and the western towards the Moselle, are Iw strongly de fended. The small fortress of Juliers has already been di.. matted ; Sarrelouis, which is not tenable, will undergo the same f►te ; but Trim is to be made a first-clams fortress. It is said that the plans fur furtifyini this last place are in course of preparation. 4 •4- e‘ EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (iruom °us owx PARIS, Pam Ay Monza.. The news from Gaeta is confused and contradic tory. There is no confirmation of the intelligenoe that the on the 19th. Some say that Russia recommends continued resist ance, but there are reports to the contrary, and that negotiations which were broken off were new. This much is certain, that the French admiral still stops the way, and has no new instructions. The Bourse gets worse and worse. There was a little more business to-day, but only in consequence of more sales. The Rents fell 10c. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing at 68fr. 40c. Mobilier fell sfr. In railways there was hardly any alteration. The Munifeur to-day classifies the different ministries. That of the " Emperor's household," being of the most recent creation, is last in rank, but the ministers take precedence among themselves according to the date of their services. Thus MM. Baroche and Magne, though ministers without portfolios, take rank immediately after the Minister of State, and M. Billault is No. 6 among 13 ministers. This decree is important, showing that the ministers without portfolios are in every respect on a footing in point of dignity and im portance with the holders of the older offices. A cartoon of Leonardo di Vinci and a triptich of Hemling have just been added to the Louvre Museum. " Her Majesty's frigate Melpomene, Captain Ewart," says the Malta Times, " has arrived here from Corfu, having on board the Princess of Mon tenegro, who is proceeding to Paris on a visit to the Emperor of the French, at the express invita tion of her Imperial Majesty. It may be remem bered that the husband of this unfortunate princess was not long since assassinated at her side." " A detachment of the first section of the army works corps, in garrison at the fort of Vincennes," says the Constitutionnet, " has just received orders to proceed to Toulon to embark on board a vessel bound for China. Several detachments of ►rtillery are also under orders for the same destinatiou." PARIS, THIMSDAY EVIIIILNO. Although there is no news from Gaeta of a tho roughly reliable character there seems to be no doubt that the armistice is at an end. The positive assurance of the Pays last night to the contrary was ill founded. That journal now admits that Francis 11. has rejected the advice tendered to him. It adds that the only result of that advice was the proclamation of Dec. 8. I am inclined, however, to think that the Pays here makes another mis take. That document was written before the sus pension of hostilities. It is dated Dec. 8, and it was on that day that the Piedmontese shells fell upon the hospital and even touched the Queen's balcony. There is nothing as yet to show that it was published after the armistice. The Patric says that the negotiations have broken down, and that things are now in the status quo ante. The batteries of Banta Agatha and Monte Cristo were to have opened fire on the morning of yesterday, the 19th, and the besieged were preparing for a vigorous re• sistanoe, but heavy rains have greatly impeded the siege works and may possibly have postponed the attack. Count de Persigny has returned from England sooner than was expected. He relieved his substi tute M. Billault at the Home-office to-day. There is no doubt that he had some very delicate diplo matic buainess to transact with the English govern ment--a business which I believe has been arranged to the satisfaction of both parties. It is stated that despatches from Vienna of an "almost alarming character were received in Paris last night." The war party is said to be very violent, and M. de Schmerling has been obliged to threaten to resign, in order to keep them within bounds. The Emperor, it is said, sent for the Secretary of the Archduchess Sophia to the Tuile ries yesterday, and sent him off to Vienna with urgent despatches. The Bourse continues to be dull and depressed. The confirmation of the news of peace with China and the additional fact that the government will get sixty millions for its share of the indemnity produced no effect upon the market. The Rents fell 15c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at' , 68.50 and 68.65. Mobilier fell 2.50. Railcars remain stagnant, although the weekly receipts are very good. The Patric gives a positive contradiction to the statements of the English journals that the French pillaged the Emperor of China's Summer Palace before the arrival of the English. It asserts that the French " waited for" the English, and that the works of art and all the costly and precious contents of the gorgeous residence were " shared in the most regular manner between the two nations, in the presence of the two generals." However de sirous to be impartial, I cannot carry affectation so far as to give oven momentary credit to this state ment, against the circumstantial letters of the Eng lish correspondents, who, I know, do their utmost to state nothing but the truth. M. Dabeaux ' government candidate, has been returned deputy for the Aude. A question will be raised as to the legality of the election, in conse quence of his nut having resigned his prefecture within the proper time before going to the poll. RUSSIA. A letter from Moscow, in the Nord, states that the Grand Duke Constantine, sa Admiral-in-Chief of the Russian fleet, has introduced a series of ameliorations in the maritime schools of the Empire. The Prince had previously effected radical reforms in the organization of the department of naval stores, and he intends, it is said, to continue his reforming mission with indefatigable perseverance. All regards the naval schools, the Grand Duke has, among other things, decided that boys of all classes of society may enter them ; hitherto they, like the military schools, were reserved to the sons of nobles. On leaving these establishments pupils attain the grade of officer. REVOLUTIONARY PROJECTS. Letters from Vienna speak of a Teat plan of re volutionary propagandism, which aims, by mains of a ge neral insurrection, of constituting a Ltge independent Ron main kingdom. This new state would comprise all the Sclavonian countries bordering on the Danube. It is, doubt less, in reference to such au attempt that the government of St. Petersburg has concentrated a large body of troops on the Pruth —that power, like Austria, having an evident interest in preventing the exscutiuu of such projects. Tim growing agitation in the Danubian Priecipalitiee is thus com mented upon by the Oat Deuts,he Post. " There must he a d i stinct plan at the bottom of this move 'Dent. Anne and ammunition are being stored up in Moldo-Wallachia, and the formation of foreign legions is commenced under the auspices of the united government. if we are correctly informed, these preparations are partly intended to complete the liberation of the principelitiee from the suzerainty of the Porte; while soother object is to support the rising of emend other nationalities, both in Turkey and a neighbouring state. However, the ideas of Prince Cows du not seem to be very practical, or even very clear to himself. On the one band, he is willing to assist in the formation of a grand Berman empire (with which the adjoining provinces of Beanie and Bulgaria areprolobly to be incorporated), while, on the other, the HOUtIIIOS also hope for aggraudisehieut beyond their present frontiers. But ere the Magyar legions, which are being organised in Moiihivia, willing to tale part in a revo lution rending to the separation of the Servian Yrrey dins from their own country ? And eau Hemel:Oa 'ohm tern be expected to interest themselves in the union of the Reunifies in Thasyhmeia with their brethren in th e Principalities ? Onetaiely nut. It is as impossible for the rersesetetives et revolutionary ides as for the rulers of routing states to recognise the right of every nationality to constitute itself into • stipend' commonwealth. Reumans, Serena's, and Magyars may be induced to make cominou came et present minuet Austen., but when the real right commences the Servian revulutionime are mire to become bitter opponents of their msociates in Holman. The emigrants way fraternise until the strife het,ins, lint the league sill soon dissolve, and cannot but terunuate in a mutual and destructive contest. The inherent the united national parties, and the circumbt n,e th, t , Russia, Austria, and the Porte are equally maimed 1.5- th e scheme, will probably break up the heterogeneous alliance at no very distant period." BALLOT MEETING AT STRATFORD. A public meeting to promote the adoption of the ballot was held in the TemEeranee.ball, High-street, Stratford, on Thursday evening ; EBENEZER CLARKE, Esq., presided. The Rev. W. H. Bonner, Mr. Whitehurst, Mr. M. E. Marsden, and Mr. Man attended as a deputation from the Ballot Society. The CHLMIIaIf, in opening the proceedings, said after thirty years' experience of political life, his conviction of the necessity of the ballot was increased and strengthened. Mr. WIIITERURAE addressed the meeting on behalf o f the deputation, and exposed at considerable length the undue influences inherent in our present system in support of the proposition that the ballot would be • sufficient pre. ventive against bribery. He read entracte front the evidence of Mr. Serjeaet Pigott, M.P., Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Welford, and other witnesses examined before the recent committee of the House of Commons, referring to the argu. ment that the ballot would lead to electors exercising secret irresponsible power. He said the giving of a vote by an individual was a lees exercise of power, and produced less wide and lase important consequences, than writing an article in a newspaper, but the newspaper writer has the power of writing anonymously, while the voter cannot give an anonymous vote. Tree, this anonymous power was sometimes abused. The speaker referring to au article in the Times on Mr. Gilpin, said that judging from the internal evidence of style it was by one member of the government against another mem ber ; it was • violent attack against Mr. Gilpiu for re maining faithful to the cause of reform, and probably the writer would not have written that article had he been obliged, as in Frew., to sign his name to what be had written ; but the abuse of a thing was no reason against its use. When Mr. Sidney Herbert spoke of the improvement to the press which would follow the abolition of the system of anonymous writing, the Times begged to decline what it called Mr. Herbert's insidious attentions, and said "he knows, and we know, that it is just the anonymous c haracter of the press that baa secured it. independence." Another paper no friend to reform, the Saturday Rerieu' , reviewing Mr. Herbert's speech and the Tires ' article, said, "An anonymous press is noes ry—f for no other reason—be cause it is the only channel through which any man dares to say what he thinks." Substitute "suffrage" for " press," and " vote" for "say," and you have a statement of the argument for the ballot. The two cues are identi fied in principle, and inseparable in lcific. The Rev. W. H. Bosuns thought it perfectly consistent with his character as a minister of Christ to advocate the ballot, and argued for Its adoption on moral and scriptural grounds. He nanstod the systems/ terrorism which the governing powers in the borough of Bridgnorth adopted after the Reform Bill of 1832, and by which they bad gained an ascendancy over the electors at the borough. Re ferring to the objection that promise.breaking would follow the adoption of the ballot, he pointed out the difference be tween the premien given to Mr. Seovell and the votes polled by him, showing that the evil feared existed now. On the supremacy of the obligation the elector owes to hie country over any promises made to candidates or others he quoted Dernoethenes'oration on the "False Embusy," ands, recent lecture on the „ Morals of Electioneering" by the Rev. Newman Hall. Mr. M. E.. MARSDEN and Mr. MAN briefly addreated the meeting. The following resolution wu unanimously agreed to "That the vote by ballot is indispensably necessary to the true representation of the people in parliament, and that county constituencies especially require its protection spinet the undue influence of the landed interests." THE CITY WAEDMOTES. Yesterday being St. Thomas's-day, in accordance with a custom coeval with the corporation itself, the freemen-occupiers throughout the city of London were pub. tidy convened in their respective wards, 2.5 in number, for the election of representatives to the Court of Common Council during the ensuing year. The Lord Mayor presided at three of the wardmotes—namely, Langbourn, of which he is the alderman ; St. Michael's, Coruhill ; and Candle. wick, where the office of alderman, consequent on the death of Sir George Carroll, is at present vacant. In the greater number of the wards the members who sat in the Court of Common Council during the put year wore yesterday re. elected, and it is only in a few that efforts are being made to introduce new representatives, the wards of Cheap, Farringdon Within, Fainngdon Without, Bassishaw, tang. bourn, Lime-street, and Viotry being among the num. bar. In all those cases recourse was, as usual, bad to • poll, which will begin and end to-day. In the ward of Cheap, which returns six members, Mr. Bennett, of Cheep. side, is the only new candidate ; m Bassishaw, returning four, Mr. Deputy Britten retires, after twenty-two years' service in the corporation, and the new candidates are Mr. Augustus Bradbury and Mr. T. Oldie ; in Farringion Without, which returns sixteen, Mr. Harvey was elected in the place of Mr. Surridge, resigned, and a contest lies between Mr. W. Payee and Mr. Yeller ; in Far- Thiene Within, which returns fourteen, Mr. Milliard is the only one new candidate ; in Isuigbourn, send• iog eight, Mr. hiedwin was nominated as a can. delete and a poll demanded on behalf of Mr. Crosley, who sat Let year ; iu Lime-street, returning four, W. G. H. Wheatley aspires to be one of the number; and in Viiitry, sending sin, Messrs Field, Bennett, and Swan are fresh candidates. The wards of Alderegate. Aldgate, Billingsgate, Bridge, Bread-street, Candlewick, Castle Elaynard, Coleman-street, Cordwainer, Coruhill, Cripplegate Within and Without, Dougate, Portookm, and Queenhithe, in each and every case returned without opposition the members who respectively represented them in the oouucil during the last year. This much it will audios to my, for it would be tedious to give the names returned in each. When the returns are complete, the total number of "Commoners," as they ar• called, sent to the Court of Common Council will be 112, in oddities to %aldermen. At the wardmote of Candlewick, over which the Lord Mayor presided, a resolution was tins nimously passed, on the motion of Mr. Jeremiah Evans, and seconded by Deputy Dakin, recording their deep sense of the services rendered to the ward by the late Alderman Sir George Carroll during twenty-one yeani, and of his high character, commercial experience, and kindly disposition. adding that he would be long remembered by them as an upright magistrate, and • high-minded gentleman. Tai MURDER OF A FRINCH JCDOZ.—The Journal de la Haute-Sadne publishes the following deem. meets " A murder was committed on the night of the sth December in one of the carriages of the Eastern Railway, ou the peewee of M. Poussot, President of the Imperial Court of Paris The murderer carried off the following articles : 1. A black end white travelliag rug, of English manufacture ; 2. A leather travelling bag, containing some books on gardening, a work of Dubreuil, and a knife with buck-born handle ; 3. A gold watch, No. 2,63 ft, by Saurian Rue de la Pale ; 4. A gold chain hay iog a key attached, Pet with a ruby, engraved with the letter ; 5. A ports-mounaie, in black morocco, with a steel clasp. The undersigned requests all officers of justice to wont any person Laving such articles in his peaseasten. Paris, 6th Dec., 1860. Cordoeu, Procureur-ImperiaL" The same journal gives the following description of the murderer :—" Murderer of M. Puinsot —Charles Jud, 27 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in height, brown hair, high forehead, long and thin face a ear above the left eyebrow, some of his teeth broken ; beard reddish brown, and, if wore, not more than of ten days' growth. He has some times gone by the name of Jud, and at others of Montalti and Matricou. A warrant has been issued fur his arrest. The undersigned requests all officers of justice to endeavour to arrest Lim—Paris, 10th Dec., Cordoeu, Procateur. HONESTY SINGULARLY REWAHDED.--Rumour has supplied us with the following rare morsel of gossip for this season of jubilation :--Not long since the visitors' book at • large hotel within • hundred miles of the Admiralty Pier received the ma of "a fine old English gentleman, ” upon whose head the snow of seventy winters had left but little trace of its pathway. Being an early riser. he the other day left his couch shortly after dawn, to stir abroad to sip the morning air, and unwittingly dropped his !surge while descending the staircase that led from his chamber. Reach: ing but a short distauce from the hotel before he dis covered his loss, be hastily retraced his steps, and, on enter ing the Louse, inquired of the first person he encountered (a chambermaid just emerging from her teens) relative to the truant property. The inquiry elicited in reply that the femme de ehonthre had herself just found the puns, anti was then on her way to deliver it to the proprietor of the hotel, in accordance with the rules of the establishment. A transfer of the purse to the hands of its owner followed ; mat a cur say glance satisfying him that the contents were intact, he informed the finder that he would not forget her, end then retired. Disappointed, and having bet little hope that the promise would be fulfilled, the domestic soon communicated what had transpired to Kindn of her fellow-servants ; while the gentleman in another direction was devising how the most satisfactorily to all eoneurned he could reward the (pretty, of come) chambermaid. A. few minutes sufficed far the deli. titration ; amid while the finder of the puree was in the ant of commenting rather harshly on the absence of prompt generosity in its owner, the ringing of a boll summoned her to an interview with the veritable gentleman hiniscif. Doubtless with the ra pid ity of thought her niisel sauw.ll the composition of here wersinthe, and fancy added sots lows-oeemed article of dress through the houoty of the =but, to her astonishment, he o ffer e d her his hand tuns, which she aecepted, and on Thursday Lit obtained, as the reward of her honesty, a husbainl.— ben let Chronicle, MEMORIAL.-011 Muiiilay last a meeting of the committee hr rumen a fund for the itieb• mend Memorial was bold at the Ship Hotel, Brighton. TI Lord-Lieutenant, the Earl of 'lathe- der, was voted to the chair. After considerable diactission, it WWI agrecil that the nieworisl should be a bronze statue, awl that it should Is plink in the open air in Sussex. It WllOl shut resolved at 1 , 12 6 misting that the maximum amount of subscription shall us W. each, and Out 3/.—Suasta Etiot.M.