The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-16 00:00:00

(ECOND- HAND PI.%NOFOR rES. la 'SCAM WALE. rad Co. h.' a WV ..." 411 .„ NZ 01 Pecabd Ear.? Plan.4ortes. b IM 111 . 4 liasels, ends I priera 301. IlegroVetreet ST. JAMES'S HALL RESTAURANT, t thwt wo Moiety. Lar.4l-..,.. I. •mrs - s lhastlks. Lae% awl lowlttielerS. W)L 41131ALD, Preprister. cbt exorrofs. fiI . CppniONVIDITS. Attainments Satinet K ati TM Itqrses Vein Evens tem mar •• tin lll. llementstme, 07 Iwo • era sr tte w dpallesiis. MATICAULT. ~I , • vtarad sll E k , TI Or% T 1) (-omen. Moors. Chip apt Mi. k.t..ne Mlss Fa no* "Itfrftg.—Asd grriN t 41.1 Lt II Ail) If FA rilltroltre ; W. iirelminNi and a Now AO I !Uri Cole. theLeciemins, Mile Y. Wiriest, Was li. Wool's& Thtt !same. TU6ItAIOI3I 11110TULA. 4 . Mroors. A. Como 41.4 t tho poet aka WWI NM). Sr**. or. U.Arlomotit Yrl.l aa I The II mof the thrrthboo larado. Mow. Notamona A %Ilk. II( Tomlin., Mi. A. Fong. It JANIS'S Ills EVE7I3IO, WlYts JOUR S4L —THE 14LE OE ST. T µalum Shwa A. Wtipausi Nis Bac kinittum White. —*.4 ES 10Y . or. nor saa4oo Meet Vt. 414 it Sebattre , 3146 t, qt.Camte,lltrt.trt, dc ft,ratt 111 UTA% X lA. tall IMMO, TIT PSI ?F(.i — AND THE CARE. Mown. teat. Parrs. Jraa lowa. WI. sad Newham 11.111 e t . Mr. Lute. Uri. W. rno:for4.—A.4 A N1L...A.4; TUL SAA. Near. aod .amythours. ETON WATIN AT LONDON BOWL Ti) hAT —Denim Si Uzi .... A. "Ili 2t-siciim—Slorstai sa 47. LONDOV, WEDNESDAY, ✓AN. 16. nary additional Members of the House of Commons have subscribed the appeal to Lord PALMERNToPI in favour of • reduction of ex penditure which appeared in our columns last week. For our part, we see no reason why it should not be signed by one-half of that Assembly ; and if closely pressed, we really know not why it should not he endorsed by the other half. Those who are at heart most in favour of high estimates could not do better than make this waive offering to frugality; and those who differ from one another on every conceivable detail of reduction may nevertheless concur in taking this one step together. Put plainly, the case amounts to this, that Seventy-two Millions in tune of peace is more than anybody likes to have levied in the shape of taxation, and more than anybody cares to defend in the lump as indispensable. It is something to bring people to say so este flute, and in a clear and audible voice, on the eve of the legislative session ; and as furnishing an •xceptiorable text from which to preach re mission and retrenchment, the address to the Paten is very well in its way. But after all, everything must depend on the wisdom and force of the preacher. Moving discourses we may have, and no lack, from all manner of gifted and giftless tongues, whereof no visible fruit whatever will in all likelihood come. The nett result of national economy sought to be achieved must de- ' penal in the main on the judgment and skill of the Minister whose business it will be to turn the pre valent feeling to account; to take the general profession of repentance for what it is worth, and no more ; to test its sincerity by practical proofs as far as it will bear, and no farther. Any Mill. take on this head would be sure to provoke re newed relaxation of the national purse-strings, and to postpone etti..ctive economy till what might prove • less convenient season. It is in the amp .I's.a that the genius of the financier is awns, as much as that of the painter. Anybody can make a suggestion, or present an ob ject or point of view worthy of study. He who is entrusted with the task of combining and harmonising all must be left • generous dis cretion as to what he will put prominently for ward, what he will but lightly touch, and what he will omit altogether. If when it is finished his desik,ni does not satisfy us, we may reject it and call in another pencil to our aid ; but we repeat that in • question of comprehensive financial re form it is the CHANICZLLOR of the EXCHEyt:ER to whom the duty belongs of summing up, and leaving the issue to the jury by whose verdict we are to abide. Meanwhile two methods of proceeding are advo cated with a view of bringing public opinion to bear upon the cogitative faculty of our Finance Minister and his colleagues. According to one theory, " More is to be done by choking up the " fountains than by buffeting against the full " stream of extravagance : " and the mean ing of this admonition, so far as it is explained by its authors, is, that we should look to administrative reform of the Admiralty and War °lice rather than to any curtailment, or limitation of votes in Committee of Ways and Means. The alternative doctrine goes deeper into the matter, and, rejecting the potion that the bronze mouths of the official fountains in Pall-mall and White hall are the real sources whence the prodigal torrent tows, they urge the necessity of drying up a por tion of the stream, if its wasteful tide be really thought too large. It is certainly not easy to con trovert the force of this line of argument. So long as the Treasury has seventy-two millions to spend, spent they are tolerably certain to be. a r dminiairative reforms are excellent well in their way ; and we would not be understood as mutter ing a word in deprecation or in depreciation of them. But after classes B, C, and D of per manent or supernumerary clerks have been cut down to the rates uamed in Trea sury Minutes as adeiinate for the pay ment of those who come within the categories of 0, l, and Q respectively, and after parti tions shall have been broken through and extra staircases cut off at the expense of so many thou sand pounds, for the sake of economising thirty shillings a week to a half-employed messenger— and when hot-water pipes have been put up on im proved principles, to save ordinary tires, and steel pe:Ls have been contracted for by the million, to avoid the scandalous waste of quills—we greatly fear that we shall find it impossible to congratu late anybody upon the immediate advantage of the change, save the fortunate contractors who may have been favoured by the departments with the execution of the business. Bescms, to the rescuet fat not a spider's web escape. We despise not the day of small things, and shall duly note and acknowledge every sinecure sofa and unthrifty Tur key rug that is bundled out and sold for what it will bring to the second-band furniture shop. But when all has been said and done, we have a painful misgiving that onr Seventy-Two enemies in the shape of millions sterling of taxes will not look appreciably less than they do now. There are 1 nd....1 branches of the Civil Service that might be rut down to looms purpose, as well as the Vi'ar die e and Admiralty. But so long as the question ..f Ways and Means is postponed to that of Supply, awl so long as the comforts and pleasures of those tr io, ...pee , popular burthens are stinted or lavish Jere ru proportion to the total amount of money ~s,•h year, we cannot help feeling a dismal ~ •oi mon MO Or, VorVercing o::e.s . Kill provide 1.., I' •• h •^y or ratiwr :'at they w. 2.11 make 1.1 provi7e fir theta. The more taxes laid on, the better fee them and the worse for t.s. Change and chop it, refit and remodel it, combine and divi.ie it, how , ever you will, this is about the upshot of the whole matter. If the House of Commons, or, as we like ,to speak inoderately, if one-half of the House of IComnions were practically and directly responsible to th.• people, through the medium of independent cout!ituencies, for the votes they give in Commit tee of Ways and Means, there would soon cease to be too much voted in Committee of Supply ; for the best of all possible reasons, that there would not be anything to throw away. And this is one reason, perhaps—we might say it is the one great reason—why so large a proportion of both Houses object to Electoral Reform. They understand perfectly that it means Economical Reform, the thing of all others most abhorrent to luxurious and listless sensibilities. If the people at large are content, therefore, with Seventy-Two millions of taxes (besides the coin of collection) in time of peace, or if, being discontented therewith, they only want to be indulged in a good general grumble, they will leave the matter where the appeal to Lord PAL welter ex leaves it. The friends of frugality threaten the PREMIER with their displeasure if he does not prepare to retrench ; but as they do not condescend to particulars, the gallant and gay Lothario of legislation will probably make them a very handsome reply, in which he will say that he " entirely agrees with them, and that all " they have said shall have the best consideration " of her Martsrv's Government with • view to " curtail all superfluities of expenditure, and re " lieve the industry of the country—in a certain " sense." Just so ; and when a deputation shall have received this highly characteristic and emi nently patriotic answer, and the same shall have been sent for publication to all the newspapers, we shall discover that we are uncommonly near the point at which we began. Then will oome the practical question, what is to be done, and how to do it ? At present we are about the preface : very respectful, proper, tantalisingly vague, and philosophically general. Only let it be borne in mind that as fair words proverbially furnish no condiment to food which is hard to digest, so general admonitions to economies do not produce the remission of taxes. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY . EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1861. THE EXTRADITION cAse. The following interesting letter apiwarm iu the inaease of such vast importance in ita consequences as that el the fugitive slave Anderson, I trust you will allow an to occupy a small portion of your columns in order to point out to your readers the circumstances under which the British *Misters ratified by act of parliament the treaty under which the sarreader of Andersou was chimed. Cie the second reading of the bill in the House ef COllllllOllll as the 11th 14 August, 1141, Sir Frederick Pollack the Ationsey-General of the day, explained the objects of the bill. He was followed by the late Lord Illethulay, who, in the course of his speech, made the following remarks. He mid: Take the came of a slave who had committed murder in his own defence. Suppose a man scourged him, pursued him. The slave had surely the right to resist, and, in his defence, to kill his asmilant. By thellaw of England that would be justifiable homicide. By the law of Georgia it would be murder," dc. The Attorney-General said— " That in all the came put by the right hon. gentleman no doubt could arise. The bill extuessly said the fugitives must be tried by the laws of the country where they were found." Mr. Macaulay salted " Wbether be wag to understand, then, that an action not criminal in a free maim, would be held not to be criminal in a •i►re e• . . . The nev.General said - " He was of opinion that an Ca s hsh uu, a uta.ae .001 sot be at liberty to enter into the que.tion as to whether tb fugitive brought before him was a slave or nut. He mild oily enter into such questions of common law (which, of comae. meets English law), as ought guise out et the ease • and if the accused person was not shown to lea minium:l, ou estrolition could take place." Viscount Pahnerston- • " Did not gum far as sortie of his friends as to the effects of this bill, and the explanation of the hon. and Warped gentleman had gone far to remove the apprehensions which he might have entertained. He understood that is no owe where a .lave was charged with the offence of murder or robbery would any English magistrate be justified in deli veries him up for trial, unless the offence he was charged with was one which was looked upon as murder or robbery by the law et yanland ; and he apprehended that any act that a slave might commit in resisting the coercion of his master could nut amount to murder, and would not justify • magistrate in giving up the fugitive." The Attorney-General said nothing to qualify hie pre vious explanations, nor did any other member of the go vernment dissent. (In the contrary the mount Load Derby, then (if I mistake not) colonidsecretary, used thew words : _ _ " No fugitive could, under the treaty, be surrendered as a murderer unless his offence were such as our laws would qualify with this epithet." Inaba no comment upon the above extracts from Zeno rd, 35d Series, voL dui. , p. 565-579, beyood calling attention to the fact that the worts of the treaty, jot:lodine its ro sin, to the effect that the evidence cd "criminality" must be endow of that which would constitute an offence in the where the fugitive is "found," are expressly, sod rseited in the English act which thus passed its ascend wading ; and that the Canadian act is a mere sub stitute ter the English act ou carried through the House of Comitteen I lave the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, Temple, Jana II Gamut DINMAN. INTIIIISATIONAL ISXMIIIMON or 1562, —lt is s tated es sallaseity that if as International Exhibition, of Works of Art asd Industry keel sot ban announced to take place in Landes is 142, it was the intention of the Emperor of the French that oDe should be held is Paris, but th►t now the French will sire way to the British exhibition. FIMEION-OPTICIS, JAM. 14. —The QIIVell has been pleaaeti to approve of Dee Juan Fair as Vice-Coalarl is Loudon foe the Argentine Republic. —Gazette. REPRESENTATIiiN or LEICIESTER.—A notice ap neas. in yesterday's Lumina llaztite that the Speaker of the House of Commode will liege Lie warrant for the elec tion of a member to serve in parliament, in the room of the late Dr. Noble, at the end of fourteen nape. WENTNINSTER. PALACE Hare.—This eatenaivo dreams is now completed, and will be opened to the pub he by the aid of the mount. It lie a fine building, occupy ing an catenates frontage is Victoria-street, and overlook ing the Houses of Pediment rod Westminster Abbey. It is six stogies high. The porch or entrance consist' of an Mundy sculptured design and the gramil entrance has an imposing over it to the roof laminating in a sky-light. The pares are lighted by side windows. The public coffee rosin la 90 feet long by 30 wide, the richly ornamented bring supported by seagliol a columns. Next to it is the sem, 70 feet long, with numerous reception ream, a liksvy coffee-mini, and smoking rooms. The ether Marisa comprise sitting-rearms rod suites of aputasesta, and now 120 bedroom, and baths. The ex tent el the stroctore may la inferred from the fact that than a e 700 rooms in all, 140 of there being occupied by the hadia Council. The cocking department, which already upplies the 111116 House, is on a scale commuusurate with the ether departmental, and the general tariff is similar to ' those of the Great Western and Easter' Hotels. The hotel it is expected will be a great accommodation to persons visiting London dunng the parliamentary maim. Owing to the greet height of the building ' and the consequent tedium aeccrit that would have to bemade to get upstairs, sa Ingsaious contrivance in the shape of a hydraulic lift has bora &Biased, by means of which, seated on is so& with their hemp, visitors may ascend and demand from or to any of the six stories at placate:. CAEDINAL WISEMAN AND THE Pure—The Kate r. dee lterine, after stating that Mr. Pope Ramsay, IL P.,hea arrived is Rome as the hearer of papers ena ysy a pledge on Nos part of the Roman catholic' of the United Kingdom to pay a yearly tribute of one million Roman dollars to the Pops, proceeds to say that Cardinal Wiseinan, on the other band. has written as epistle to the Holy Father, expressiug his grief that in spite of the most loam* efforts to exact contributions, he ha met with eery imperfect success. "The cardinal states that he bog received everywhere plentiful asurances of rendinees to con tribute towards the support of the 1 , Ir ., spiritual dignity, but strong expressions of indisposition to expend money upon armaments for the political enthral ment of his subjects. .t conecientirms sense of duty bog accordingly impelled Cardinal Wiseman to represent to his Holiness that the catholics in this kingdom cannot be brought to support the Pope in Ills struggle for temporal power in the manner that might have hem , hoped ; that the majority have been unfortiusatele infected with the petu- Ipolitical notions current ia this country, aod that he Rod. himself bound respectfully to tender to his Holiness the melancholy advice that his intyrests, in the and coadi• flu of it o. t. icould b.. best comel*cd i,y ca n ing to an use sla•st:.giLtig with Victor Irbt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, JAM. 15. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred sal Primer Alice, the Hoe. Mrs. tiny, Major• General the How. K. Brace, Colose! the Hon. Sir Charles and Miss Phipps, Lieut.•Cobmeel Keppel, Major Cowell, R.E , and Major Elphinstowe, The band of the Soots Fusilier l;uard., played daring dinner the Overture, " Robin Hood Selection, .Loinorah" Meyerboer. Pan song, " a Enke' Mendelran. Ga.lop, Royal flout' Her Majesty's private band shortwave performed in the drawing-room the Overture. " Zerline atiertion, " Itretwa" The musk In "A Winler's Talc" Air de hang•, " Vain ...... Auber. Weber. Hattoo. Rusatul. The Queen, with Princess Helena, walked to Frogmorc this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kent. The Prince Consort, acc"mpanied by the Prince of Wales., went to Virginia Water to skate, attended by Lord annoys, Lien. tempt-Colonel Kingicote, Co',onel Ponsooby, and Lieute. sant-Colonel Keppel. Prince Alfred took leave of the I s tueen, the Prince Con sort, and Royal Family, and left Windsor at half-past 9 o'clock, for Devonport, attended by Major Cowell, ILE, to embark on board the Si. George, screw eteamgbip, 90 guns. His Royal Highnew visited the Duchess of Kent last evening, at Frogman. Prince Arthur skated, attended by Major Elphinstone. Prince Leopold took a carriage drive. Lady Macdonald bag succeeded the Counters of Gains borough u Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY. Prince Alfred arrived bere this afternoon by express train, and was received with great cheering. His Highness will emlark to-marrow on board the St. George, 90, screw, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton , which is bound for the North American station. DEATH OP THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND. His Grace the Duke of Sutherland died at his Kent, in Staffordshire, on Monday night. The deceased duke was born in August, 1786, succeeded his father as second duke en the 19th of July, lfr.k.", and inherited the Scotch honours of his house upon the death of his 'mother, in 1839. On the 27th of May, 1823, he married Harriet Elisabeth °earshot', third daughter of George, sixth Earl of Car life, by whom be had issue five sons and six daughters. His pace was summoned to parliament in the lifetime of by father, as Baron Gower (the former dukes barony). He was high steward of Stafford, lord-lieutenant of the county lot Sutherland, and custer-rotulorum of Staffordshire. He suceeeded by his son, the Marquis of Stafford. The Earl Granville, the Lord Presitleut of the Council. as ministerial leader of the pversment in the Home of Lords, will give the customary parliamentary dinner on the 4th of the ensuing month to a numerous circle of peen, supporters et the ministry. The Earl of Derby, as leader of the conservative party in the House of Lords, will give • banquet on Monday, the 4th proximo, at his mansion, in St. James's square, to • large circle of hhipolitical friends. On the arrival of Lord and Lady Herbert at the Wilton Station, on Monday, they were met by a Loge num ber of the inhabitants of Wilton, beaded by • band of music, who escorted them to Wilton House. The noble Red and lady are entertaining a select circle, including the Earl Geordie, the Earl and Countess Somers, Earl Cowper, Count Paden, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart, the Right Hon. Henry T. L. Corry, Mr. Belford, M.P., and Mn. Helloed, and Mr. Montgomery. We understand that Prince Victor of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, grandson of the Duchess of Kent, will shortly be married to Miss Lama Wilhalmina Seymour, youngest daughter of Admiral Sir Geo. Francis Seymour, G.C.S. sad G.C.H. His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Wurtern burl; Sidi/6d at We Col.rwmtuu Hotel b. treuiug from the His Excellencythe Belgian Minider and Madame Van de Weyer have left New Lodge on • visit to Mr. Har court and Frances Countess Waldegrave, at Nuashans Park, Oxon. - . The Duchene of Buccleuch will leave Belgrave square in a few days for Dalkeith Pahice, in order to be present at the wedding of Lady Florence Lamellas and Lieutenant-Colonel Oast. The Earl and Countess of Dal bath remain in town. The Marquis and Marchioness de Beauforte hare left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris._ The Earl and Countess of Hopetoun left town yesterday for Holywell Hall, near Stamford. The Earl of Shelburne left Lansdowne House yesterday for Bowood. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston willreturn to Cambridge House, about the 24th inst., from Brostßands. Viscountess Jocelyn's children have su far recovered as to lee considered out of danger. Lady Frederick Bentinck and Mils. Lane Fox leave town this week for Brighton. The Ladies Laaceßea leave town in a few days for Delkeith Palace. The marriage of Lady Florence Lamellas with Lientenent-Colonel Cast is postponed from the 29th to the 31st inst. Lady Caroline Neeld has arrived in town from visiting the Earl of Shaftesbury at St. Giles's, Dorset. The Baron Wylde and Lady Mary Wylde have arrived at their residence in Grafton-street, from a tour of visits. Lady Molesworth has left town on a visit to Lord Broughton, at Tedworth House, near Marlborough. The Countess of Portsmouth gave birth to a son at Eggenford Home on the 13th inst. Sir William Jardine, Bart., be. arrived at Cavandish Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Jardine Hall, N.B. The estimated cost of extending the Eastern Comities Railway from Shoreditch to Finabury•eirens is 600,0001., with power to borrow 200,0001. The line in in tended to run from Arundel-street, Bethnal-green, pamoing through Mile-end New-town, Spitalfieldt, Shoreditch, Nor ton Folgate, Bialtopegate, London-wall, and terminating et Blongleld-street, Finsbury Chapel. The east of the com pany's proposed extension from Wendon to Saffron Walden hi 25,000/. - - . The construction of a central railway station in Fiosbury.circue is for the purpose of aceottunndating the trifle of the Metropolitan, Eastern Counties, and other railways. The estimated cost of carrying it out is 1,900,000 f. It is proposed that the Eastern Counties, Greet Northern, Metropolitan, Midland, Great Western, and London. Chatham, and Dover Railway Companies should be authorised to subscribe towards the undertaking. A saw street is proposed to be made in connerioa with the dation from the south end of Circus-place to the east side of Moorgate-street. A most interesting case will come before the Tri bunal of First Instance at Paris on the 25th of the present month. Madame Bonaparte, first wife of the late Prince Jerome Bonaparte, eit-King of Westphalia and uncle of the Emperor Napoleon, and her son by her marriage with the prince, claim to inherit their part of the personal property left by the prince. Madame Bonaparte, who is now in Paris, wan an American lady named Paterson, and the teal object of the present nit is to reestablish the perfect !agility of her marriage. A Constantinople letter says :—" The Russian General fiebastianoff arrived a few days ago in Pea from Mount Atha*, where he has been employed for nearly two years, with a staff of no fewer than thirty assistants, taking photographic copies of the biblical and other ascent to be found in the various convents of the mountain. He is said to have secured 16,000 negatives, amongst whi c h are copies of an Old and New Testament of the ninth century, sad one of the Psalms of the seventh. From the positives of the copies thus made lithographs will be taken in St. Petersburg, at the expense of the government, for pre sentation to the chief national libraries of Europe. Polities, however, as well as photography, are said to have occupied the general's time and attention." From Rome we learn that Signora Carlotta Pocchioi died there shortly after her confinement. This lady, who must be wsll known to the frequenter' o f H e r Majesty's Theatre. wan 'marled about a year ego to Signor Pasiusle Boni, the wer,known mn;tre flu baltd. CRYSTAL PALAcIE —ONE SHILLING DAT. -- ; Ttg.uar, JAN. ro. us on payment, 1,540; ditto by swan tickets, 724.—T0t51 vi.siturw, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE UNITED STATE& ENERGETIC ACTION AGAINST SOUTH CAROLINA. LIVERPOOL, WIDIrDsDAT. The Cunard steamer Jnra, from New York on the 3rd inst., has arrived. President Buchanan was about to send to con gress his answer to South Carolina. He refuses the demands of the commission, and informs them that he not only intends to collect the revenue and execute the laws, but also to defend the property of the United States with all the force at his com mand. Two war steamers were to be despatched to Charleston. It was rumoured that all the im portant posts in the South would be immediately reinforced. The mil itia of Columbia was to be reorganised. A commander had been recommended by General Scott. Mr. Maclntire, of New York, had been nomin ated collector of the port of Charleston. The revenue would be collected by a cutter. It was reported that the government fortifications and arsenals had been seized in North Carolina and Georgia. The warlike preparations continued iu South Carolina. In the New York State Legislature a resolution had been proposed authorising the governor to tender to the national administration 10,000 militia to put down the insurrection in the South. Advises from Havannah were to the 30th Dec. The late lame of Treaanry note , ' had failed to afford relief, and had not been generally received by the merchants. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE NEW YORK, JAN. 3. The New York money market is easy at 7 per cent. for first class paper. Sterling exchange, 104 to 105. Stocks opened at an advance of 2 to 3 per cent., and closed Arm, bat leas excited. The following were the latest quotation.:—New York Centrals, 78i ; Erie, 40 ; Blind., 784. Cotton buoyant. Middling upland, 124, 124. Breadstuff' firm. Flour— ante and Western had advanced 3e. to 10e. Provisions steady. Freights quiet. NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 2. Sales of cotton today, 18,000 bales ; middling, llto. to 12c. Freight. fur cotton to Liverpool, 11.16. SOUTHAMPTON, Wianrcsn.tv. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Borussia, Captain Trautman, from New York on the 2nd inst., has arrived off Cowes. She brings 65 passengers for England, France, and Havre, but no specie. On the 6th inst. she spoke the steamship Bremen, and on the 12th the American ship Ashburton. News anticipated. THE THREATENED ATTACK UPON VENICE. It is reported in several quarters that General Turr has consented to act as mediator between Count Cavour and Garibaldi with a view to pur auade the latter to postpone his threatened attack upon Venice this spring. The Paris Patrie gives the following fuller intelligence on the sub ject : _ _ "We learn by a Genoa letter, of January 12, that General Purr had left the evening before on board the Ichnusa, an aviso placed at his disposal by the Sardinian government, for Caprera, where be was to see Garibaldi. It is very positively stated that the Piedmontese Prime Minister is certain of a large majority at the coming elections, and that, relying upon that ma jority and the advice of the great conservative powers, he will renounce the project of attacking Venice, and will ask for a pacific vote from the Italian parliament. General Purr, who has now the rank of a brigadier-general in the Piedmontese army, and is a very practical man, is sent to ascertain Garibaldi's intentions. We are assured that before embarking he bad interviews both with the King and Count Cavour." THE SIEGE OF GAETA. TURIN, JAL 16. Another French vessel will leave Gaeta imme diately, and one single vessel of the French fleet is to remain there until the expiration of the armistice. It is not true, as stated in a telegram dated Rome, 14th inst., and originating with the Paris Prase, that General Cushlini bad refused to sus pend the siege works during the armistice. The works are suspended on both sides. VIENNA, JAN. 15. The Austrian atrztte says :—" During the last few days Russia has repeatedly despatched notes to Paris declaring her determiustion not to acknow ledge the blockade of Gaeta by sea under any cir cumstances." In the political circles of Vienna it is said that King Francis 11. has written a letter to the Emperor of Austria in which he declares his firm resolve to continue the defence of Gaeta to the utmost. ROML ROME (vii Marseilles) JANGI3. The reactionary movement in the Marches has been suppressed, but is on the increase in the Abruzzi under the influence of Count Trapani. General Rivira baa been sent to cause a rising of the people in Calabria. Political manifestations continue to take place in the theatres in Rome. The Dowager Queen of Naples and the partiaana of King Fraucia 11. have been thrown into a state of great consternation at the news of the departure of the French fleet from Gaeta. _ _ _ The Pope is said to be much gratified with the results which will accrue to the Catholic church from the succems of the allied armies in China, and also with the seceedou of the Bulgarians to catho licism. The Papal Zouavea have left for the frontiers, but will be entirely unsupported. MARSEILLES, Ji.x. 15. According to news received from Rome to the 12th inst., popular liberal manifestations had taken place in the Apollo Theatre. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 15. The Berl;ng&i,c Ti(hlede states that the works in the navy-yard are being carried on as energetically as the state of the weather will permit. The same journal states that government is about to publish a provisional law calling out 4,000 sailors. HUNGARY. A letter from Raab, in the P restrirg Ga:ette, says:— " Koamth, Klapka, bless, Kmety, Xantus, Beko and Roney have been elected members of the Com mission of the comitat of Raab, in the midst of the most enthusiastic acclaraationa. A certain number of bonveds assembled here on the evening of the St. Sylvestre, and came to a resolution to erect a monument to the memory of the combatants who were killed io the m.i.4l3 , eurlioud of Raab for the Hungarian cause. The honveds of the comitat of Comoro have erecte4 a monument to the Han gariana who fell in the battle of Acm" MTH, JAL 15. The committee of the Coinitat of Neutra has re solved on the following programme, namely A responsible ministry for Hungary; a Hungarian diet, elected on the basis of the law of 1848 ; the removal of all except Hungarian troops from Hun gary ; the Hungarian troops to take an oath of fidelity to the constitution of 1848 ; reorganisation of the national guard ; and, finally, a request to be made to government that a liberal constitution may be granted totbeother crown lands of Austria. FA/_'E. PARIS, WZMITADAT. The Mon deur in its bulletin of to-day says The report of the formation of a fourth regi ment of Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard is inexact." SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 15. The Prince of Asturias is suffering from a severe sore throat. The Currespowlencia Awfo9rafa denies the reports current of a dissolution of the Cortes e and of a modification of the ministry. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, JA.V. 15. The leave of absence granted to the Marquis de Turgot, French ambassador, has been prolonged for time months, MONTENEGRO. CATTAIIO, Jac 14. There is a report current here that on the 9th instant 2,000 Montenegrins made a sudden attack upon the town of Spitz on the Albanian frontiers, and arrived as far as the gates of the fortress, where they were repulsed with great loss. THE MEDITERRANEAN. The Petrie says : " It is reported that the garri sons of Malta and Corfu have been increased to twice their former strength, and that the English authorities intend organising militia at these places. It is also said that the English squadron in the Mediterranean is to be reinforced." IN, TUIDIDAT. The Russian steamer Alexander 11. with a cargo of fruit, seventeen days from Messina, and bound to Copenhagen, put in here this evening short of coals. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova OW PARIS, TUESDAY EVEIRDCG. It is curious that the Pays, an anti-Italian journal, and the Opinion Nationale, hitherto the warmest advocate of all the Parisian press for Italian unity, have both leading articles headed " Peace or War," and both come to the same con clusion, that Italy must postpone the acquisition of Venice. The Bourse opened with some firmness, but afterwards became very heavy, chiefly owing to a fall in the Credit Mobilier. It was rumoured that the latter establishment had refused to make fur ther advances to some building contractors in Paris ; that the latter were likely to fail, and that the failure would involve the Mobilier in a very heavy lone. It was also said that the Emperor had sent an accountant to investigate the affairs of the Credit Mobilier. The shares fell 20fr. The Rente fell loe. for cash, and 10c. for account, closing at the lowest prices of the day, 67fr. and 67fr. sc. Railways were all lower. The rumour is set about that Prince Napoleon and his wife the Princess Clothilde may shortly go to Turin. Last evening there were symptoms of a thaw, and the side streets of the Boulevards and the Rue Riven were quite dirty. The frost took up again, however, before morning, and the skating in the Bois do Boulogne to-day was capital. Extraor dinary pains are taken to keep the ice in good con dition. The snow or rather rime is carefully swept away, and men arc employed with fire engines to water the ice, so that a perfectly glassy surface may freeze. The " awkward squad," of course, forms the majority of the performers, but their mishaps are less laughed at than they would be in London, and so they are encouraged to im prove in an art which, though of no great diffi culty, cannot be acquired without practice. The Count de Moray, au accomplished skater, is fre quently on the ice ; his countess, although for a grande dame she gets along very respectably, dis appoints those who expect to find a Russian lady quite a proficient. The Emperor once appeared among the crowd of skaters last week, and pushed the imperial prince before him in a sledge. All the swans and ducks who habitually live on the lake are congregated together in one corner, where the ice is continually broken to give them a place to swim about Tho town of Neustra, in the county of the same name, in Hungary, has been the theatre of ► very remarkable patriotic dentoteitratiou. The old honreds of the place, that is,the men who formed part of the national army in 1848.9, assembled in their uniforms, and gave a grand serenade to Count Lajas Karolyi (not the same personage as the noble of Pesth), fo-ixpan of the county. They moreover pro claimed the count, amidst deafening acclamations, honred (honorary honred). After this ceremony they paraded the town, and their appearance in the national uniform, which was so long prescribed, excited immense enthusiasm, and drew tears from not • few. The cries of "Miro it ka:a r and "Rijn' a azabadany (" Hurrah for the country !—hnrrab for liberty !") were loud and long, and the hoßreda, one and all, declared th►t in spite of their wounds and fatigues, they were ready again to take arms for the national cause. . _ _ Tobacco, in Hungary and in Italy, has been the cause of considerable rioting of late. There wan a san guinary row at Nagy Pores, in the neighbourlexel of Pesth, on the sth of January. A farmer was found belling some bundles of the plant grown on his own farm, as used to be the common practice before Schwarteenberg and Bach upset all the immunities of the kingdom. A fiscal agent wanted to arrest him, and a man was Mot by the gauger. The peo ple of that populous town rose in defence of the fanner. Tbe troop! were out, and seven or eight killed. The Mayor of Strasbourg, Coulaux, has issued an order that all bulls one year old should have an iron ring in their nose to be held by, as "such animals are apt to break loose among peaceable citizens." The order is connterined by Mignelet, prefet du Ibis Rhin. M. FECHTZR, THE ACTOH.—M. Feebter, the actor, some time ago took on lease, at 2,000[. a year an apartment on the ground-floor of the house, No. 20. rue de Hamlin. At the back of the house is a garden, part of which was specially reserved for M. Pechter, the rest being for the use of the other occupiers. On Saturday M. Feehter brought an action before the Civil Tribunal against his landlord, M. Mirabel-Chambaud, to have theleasodecisred null and void, ea the ground that a large tree which stood in his garden when he hired the apartment had been cut down, as had also • quantity of shrubs, and the oomiequence was that he was deprived of the pleasure of studying his parts beneath the tree, and was, moreover, exposed in his rooms to the inconvenient glare of the sun. The landlord. in reply, after expressing surprise that the actor should have been in the habit of studying his parts beneath a tree. said be had cut down the tree in compliance with the wish of the occupiers, and after communicating with rn eLl e t .Fechter, who made no objection. He ridiculed the idea of any one complaining of having too much sun and light in Paris, and said that the real reason why Pechter wished to be relieved of his lease was that he loot obtained a long engagement in England. and did not like to pay rent for an apartment in Paris which be would not occupy. The tribunal, however, held that the grievan,es Feebter .d w•- re leaHimate, 41oelated the leao: ..t a. ea.'s. an,: t.le landlord to pay him:lot.X.—Ocrb,..noa,. ITALY. (nol ous oint NAPLIA da.s.9. The remainder of the British Legion 150 in number, under the command of Captain Davidson, left yesterday morning for Genoa by the Ettore Fieramosca, a government vessel. " I inspected the accommodation," said the writer, a military man, to me, "and found all satisfactory. There now only remain Lieutenant Dowling's company and the sick." That they have been sent off so soon after the complaints which I made to you last week may be attributed to the strong expression of feel ing on the part of British residents, and especially to the exertion's of our respected chaplain, the Rev. Giles Pugh, and of Mrs. Lydia Whyte. Both, I believe, and certainly the latter, have visited their own countrymen in Salerno, and distributed amongst them clothes and money. I have just heard, in reference to the expected demonstration on the morning of the Bth, that it proved a failure in consequence of the arrest of the ' chiefs of the movement on the day before. In fact on Monday afternoon 95 officers and 18 superior officer, were arrested, together with many civilians. Extensive correspondence has been discovered, and arms directed to Colonel Babalunga, so that the authorities are pretty . well in ion of the threads of the conspiracy. Sti the fi xs reaction is troublesome, and in some parts formidable, as in the Abruzzi, where the government has been com pelled to send a strong force. Again I say the French are responsible in a great measure for these Sires which are continually bursting out; for but for them Francis 11. would be no longer in Gaeta, and the strongest hold of reactionism would be destroyed. General Ruggiero was brought in under arrest on Monday, and will be tried by court-martial. He it was who led the Neapolitan troops into the Roman States. JAN. 10. Yesterday we had a fresh importation of the mobilised National Guard of the north of Italy, being a portion of a battalion from Turin, and another from Milan. They are very fine looking men. Besides these we have already received two other battalions—one from Florence and the other from Bologna—which have been sent into the inte rior, and I believe that the destination of the new arrivals will be the same. Towards the end of the month a battalion of the National Guard of Naples , will leave for the north. FEARFUL ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL WAY, REAIi LINCOLN. A serious railway accident, attended with losi of life, and injury to several persons, happened on the Man chester, She ffi eld, and Lincolnshire Railway, near to Greet well, Lincoln, on Monday evening last. From all we have been able to gather, it seems that the 7.45p.m. passenger train entered the cutting at Greetwell a little behind its time. On nearing the Lincoln end the tire of the engine. wheel came off, the engine ran off the rails, dragging the carriages after it, and ran into the bank, which at this pant is from six to eight fret high, and then turned over on its side. The cleaner, Frederick Taylor, of New Holland, fell o ff , and the engine fell upon him, the lower part of his body being underneath. Of course he was killed upon the spot, but his bodwas not extricated until 6 o'clock the following (yesterday) morning. The engine-driver was thrown upon the hedge, and his head was severely cut. The tender was thrown upon its side in such a position that it formed an arch, under which the stoker crept, and so escaped unin jured. After the tender were three fish trucks, all of which were thrown over, and the contents of the vans were strewed about in all d irections. Immediately following the fish tracks were the passenger carriages, in the first of which were several paisengers. On the seat nearest the engine was Mr. Clarke, of Horncsatle, whose NMI was sitting in another part of the carriage. The passen gers were first made aware that something bad gone wrong by hearing a loud noise and feeling a sudden jerk. Mr. Clarke at once jumped over the seat in front of him, and bad no sooner done so and reached the centre of the carriage than the end was forced in, Mr. Clarke, jun., having his legs meet severely lacerated. The father escaped with a few bruises. Upon the accident being made known in Lincoln the station master, Mr. Hawkins, at once sent for Mr. Septimus Lowe, surgeon who with assistance pro ceeded to the scene of the disinter. Shortly after ' the injured man was brought to Lincoln and taken to the Lion Hotel ; the wounds of the driver were dressed in the waiting room of the station. Mr. Clarke having been examined, it was found that no boner were broken, but the left thigh was torn from the knee to the hip. Hundreds of people left Lincoln yesterday morn. jog to view the scene of the accident. The place where the engine left the rails is very visible, although the indentation of the wheels is very alight. The opposite side rails were much bent by the traiu running over, but the rails upon which the train was travelling are perfect, The carriages, flab, Sic., were strewn about in all directions, whilst the engine and tender remained resting upon the bank side, where it bad fallen. An inquest will be held anon the body of the unfortunate engine cleaner this day. ANO7IIIIR ACCIDILTi ON TIM BLANC H ESTER, SHEN YIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAtt.wAT.—AsingularrailwayaoCl dent occurred on Saturday evening on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, between Penistone and Huddersfield. A pa s senger train , consisting of three car riages and a brake van, left Pcnistone, for Huddersfield, at 9.26, being due at the latter place at 10 o'clock. According to an eye.witnesa, the train was about half a mile in the Cumberworth tunnel, • short distance from the Derby Dale station, and was proceeding at a speed of from 30 to 35 mike an hour, when the train ran off the line. The carriages became detached from the engine, which appeared to have jumped off the down line, thereby breaking loose from the camera. After rushing a distance of about 30 yards in advance, the engine came to a stand still, with its leading wheels reared on to the metals of the up line thus com pletely blocking up both lines of rails. After leaving the rails the whole train appeared to have run • distance of 130 yards, tearing up the metals of both lines, and corning to a stop in a transverse position, thirty yards behind the engine. Joeeph Handley, the guard, was thrown down in his carnage by the first shock, but not one of the passengers sustained tiny injury. The guard desired them to keep their sesta, anti ran beck to the Derby Dale station for assistance. A tele graphic communication was instantly made to Shef field, which was promptly attended to by Mr. Sharpe, principal of the locomotive department at that place, who shortly afterwards arrived on the stone of the accident with an engine and &Ludy of work men. Mr. Sscre, the engineer of the line from Manchester, also arrived within a short time with another engine *adulate workmen, who immediately set to work to clear the Meanwhile the passengers, who showed great firmness and presence of mind, were conducted through the tunnel by the guard, and by the aid of • single lamp they managed to pick their way in safety through the slippery road. The down line was not cleared until eight o'clock on Sunday morning. The engine itself was very little damaged. but all the carriages were more or less damaged, and the brake van was a good deal smashed. The cause of the accident is not stated. --- --- FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—About eleven o'clock on Monday night an engine and tender were employed on the Liver pool Dock branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail way in shunting some waggons upon a high level platform (supported by iron girders), when by some means the engine asd tender got upon the platform. It was not, however, calculated to bear their weight, and two of the girders giving way a portion of the platform with the engine sod tender fell, with a dreadful crash, into the street, a dip tanos of upwards of twenty feet. The fireman (John Tur ner) wee jammed between the engine nab tender and killed almost immediately, and the driver, Edward Paemin wag very much scalded. Piuspain has been removal to the Northern Hospital. The body of Turner was extricated with some difficulty from beneath the machinery and timber under whisk it was buried. RAILWAY RESPONSIBILITY IN FRANCE.—An ac count was given in October last of a ballast train having run into • passenger train in the tunnel of Rilly La 3lon tagne, between Epernay and Rheims, on as embraucliment of the Eastern Railway and of twenty passeugem being more or leas injured. On a judicial investigation being made the conclusion was come to that the acci dent would not have occurred it, as aired by the regu' lations, Is telegraphic apparatus had been phiced at the entrance of the tunnel to indicate the precise position of each train missing through it. Accordingly the low authori ties of Rheims instituted a prosecution against M. Vtiigner. peseuger train, and also against the station engineer of the line, one Poirier, the chief guard of the master and a breskaman, as responsible in different degrees for the accident. The trial took place before the Tribunal ..f Correctional Police of that city, three days back. M. Vuigner, on behalf of himself and fellow -accused, said t h a t the regulations relative to a telegraphic ap i.ratus in the tunnel were excessively vague, and that, besides, at the time of the accideut, he was engaged in making experiments to ascertain the bit that could be chosen. The tribunal acquitted the station master and the bred:mean, and e o u d erni , e d N . v u i t ocr and Poirier, each to a month's imprisonment ; the former, besides, to pay a fine of 1,000 fr., and the latter :Mfr.. the railway company being declared responsible for the payment of the money. iiRIDGE OVER THE T11A11E44.-IT, il4 prOr."Wa to construct a new bridge over the Thames from Kew to Brentford. and to make a mad in connexion with it to the !.Itriftbeot of Islewerth sod Ealing. The Croat Weettle Rad- I.tv awl Itrentf.ml Railway are to ‘lll to the u nder- It is to be a toll bridge.