The Express. — London, England, 1860-12-20 00:00:00

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Nom MAW sad T. Xis Oned—TLl MU Of/ R. TAM& D Norm Donr, Wawa : L& Nerldni. Ma —And NW Doollll.—Omenno hymn T. EON Wait AT LONDON HMO& TM DAY —Maas 71 1..... Altarsoaa. 71. Toornog-nliaming. 71s. Alliattaa, It. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. SO. Tu s system of Purchase in the Amoy has ens tained some rude shocks in Pediment and in.** press. But mere opinion might have ecenhated for years with no other weapons than justice and good sense the privileged unreason of the Horse Guards without inflicting so much aa • scratch upon that brilliant cuirass, had not a timely scandal disclosed to the public contempt a system of absurd and profligate corruption. When a law court got hold of an army tailor and a select party of jobbers who bad undertaken to get • young man into the army "for • consideration," the sale of comininsions was suddenly stripped of its diciest official disguises, and betrayed in all its vulgar nudity, to the shame of its patrons and the derision of its assailants. Nothing like a Police-court to hold up a mirror to conventional respectabilities, and to let the garish light in upon institutions too jealously preserved from the scrutiny of the vulgar ! The Westminster Police Court has just supplied an admirable counterpart to the army tailor and oomnsimion-broker revelations. This tune, however, it is the Churclevisible and militant, we find sitting to his Worship for • likeness, which for downright actuality can only be compared to the artless cruelty of a shilling photograph. Here it is in all its beautiful simplicity. A certain Mr. JOHN Ceara/is, described as a man of gentlemanly appearanse and " • labourer," endowed with not quite half a doss. varieties of name and title, one of which was "Captain " !lowest)," another, "HQUILAN HAJWINti; lig.," another, " Major Cmarnaist," was charged with obtaining 300/. under fake pretences by the este of an advowson. Mr. Joan Pool.; • clergyman ' and " clerical agent" (ea ecclesiastical VINIRiOn of army agent), had received a communication from a Mr. M us, also a " clerical agent," respecting a living in Devonshire,some twenty miles from Exeter. He was referred to " Major Clue " Nes," who, it appeared, was anxious to dispose of an advowson and next presentation to • living in those parts, which he had purchased five or six years ago for a relation who was lately dead. The Rev. Mr. Foote, in his capacity of "clerical ' " agent," called ou Major CRAPIIAN ; and inquired the name and place of the living, which Major Cuaritier hesitated to give, though he gave his reasons for declining the information. The Maio& had on a previous occasion been " driven into a " corner " by a clergyman who professed to be • purchaser, but could not be brought to book. The If AJ•ie, therefore, justified by former experiences of clergymen and clerical agents, required a deposit of 30411. as part payment, and a contract to be signed, a draft of which he produced on the spot. Major ems.rw•ie moreover alluded in a by-the-way manner to the pleasing fact that he was next door neighbour to the Archbishop of Caerrasear, at Shirley, near Croydon, and was on wet friendly and even confidential terms with his Grace, who bad talked aver some private transactions of his own with the MAJOR. Mr. POOL/4 albeit not a clergyman only, but a "clerical agent," wee, by his own avowal, fairly " thrown off " his guard " by these playful incidental allusions to the knotaisnor, and was late tied that the Mama was • man of sub stance. Thereupon the MAJOR produced an agree ment ready for Mr. Poots'il signature. Bet Mr. Foote could not accommodate even the intimate friend of the Archbishop of CANT/LI/BURY to this extent on the instant, without consulting " • bar " raster or solicitor." To this the MAJOR made no objection, only assuring Mr. Pouts that it was " all right." Mr. POOLE consulted " • barrister," and was informed that aa the agreement was in due form he might sign it on his client's behalf. Accordingly an agreement was signed by the Mama (and attested) and subsequently by Mr. Nina, to the effect that the one would buy and the other sell, ke., etc. (in the following Saturday Mr. Poetic gave the MAJOR a cheque for 300/. on the London and County Bank. Business being thus concluded, the MAJoll became expansive, and as sured Mr. Pouts that his client would receive " • " Devouahire welcome "—whatever that may be ; --probably something not absolutely butter, but in the nature of clouted cream--and he then for the first time pronounced the name of the vendor, to wit, the Rev. WILLI/01 BURR DOI/R -ios, Vicar of Spreyten, near Okehanipton, Devon. Mr. Petits lost no time in seeing what " • Devon " duns wekeinie" might be worth, and was off to spreyton by the very next train. The Devonahire welcome he encountered at the Rev. WILLIAM BLARE Doveree'A residence was one of blank stir pest. "I don't know you ; I know nothing of Major 4!HAPMAX ; he is a total stranger to me; I am " incumbent here ; my father left me the living in " l.ia will, and I have never thought of selling it." Th. se were among the Rev. Wixom' Buttes Do: crux's ejaculations when Mr. Pooh', the eta agent, arrived in hot haste, with Major Cues PRAM'S contract for tho sale of the &decimal of Spreytoe in his hands. Mr. Puoia records that he felt "in an awkward position" at the vicarage; and we can easily believe it. Fortunately it turec.l out that the two clergymen were old and early friends, ai Mr. Punts stayed to tea. The saute :.ight he was rushing beck to town as fast es eteati. omit' carry him to get his cheque for :WO!. out of the London and County Bank. Why should TEN!, RIM we forbear to add (for it is no dlliita to *For ' CHAPMAN) that the cheque bed, itesn &Wady oohed I So fax the Rev. Mr. Poets, • "olerloal "spat." Now let us listen to Mr. Mara, also a dueled agent, though not, it seems, • "reverend " "Om .Mr. MA= states that Major CHAPMAN had end upon him on the subject of the advowson and next presentation, and had mentioned that the incumbent was about to to presented to • higher benefice • that the commuted tithes were ' worth 1301., glebe land 1251. ; and that the house, garden, stables, conservatory, and other accessories to the spiritual trust of this pretty Devonshire pariah were worth " certainly not lees " than 401. per annum." Mr. Mgrs pronounoed the advowson to be worth 2,5001., but the Maros, being "preened for time," was willing to take 2,4001. He had not given the name of the living to Mr. Mgrs ; but this, as Mr. Mats frankly avowed, was " not uncommon." The Rev. Wn.uax Bxsza Dovrrow's exami ' nation on oath elicited the curiously conflicting statements—that he know " the prisoner, " Mr. CHAPMAN (now described in the police- sheet as " a labourer "), as a " Captain Hows.ao," whom he had met at a lodging-house in Exeter four years ago. That in the latter part of last summer he had had some communication with a person sign ing himself " Jou& Cuarmax," and expressing his wish to purchase the advowson or next pre sentation to the living of Bpreyton for 2,7001. ; that the contract was prepared by Mr. Demotes lawyers and signed by himself, but that Mr. Doveros had received information from Croydon which induced him to refrain from parting with the contract. Mr. Dovarow says he had not sold the advowson some five or mix years ago, but had intended to sell, and had advertised, some months since, and en ployed a Rev. Mr. liosaowe (also a " clerical agent ") to sell it. He had heard from " Mr. " Ciantax " on the business, and had sent to that puma tie list of fixtures, and had deter mined lad October to close with him for 2 97004 to be paid in January asst. It was gamed that this Mr. Cruris&N was no ether thin the prisoner now accused of obleinkig 3001. on false pretences. UWn were.produoed from Mr. Dovarox's soli titan to tide Mr. Casrxxx enclosing dra ft of con tract signed by Mr. DOVNTON, conveying the adrowaset to the purchaser, "his heirs and assigns," thereby, in fact, making a conveyance to Mr. Caere" or whom he should appoint, and °arming the right to undersell. Mr. Case awes copy of the contract was duly attested. Mr. Dovasau went to slop upon the bargain ender the impression that by detaining one copy of the contract he had annulled the other. Now, Mr. Doveroe had told Mr. Foote that "he knew " nothing of Mr. CuArmin, and had made no " contract to sell," in the face of &letter in his own handwriting, and produced in court, in which he moored Mr. Cirarstat that he had not intended to sell the living for leas than 3,0001. exclusive of the fixtures, but for reasons of his own bs would accept Mr. Cu/mimes offer. On the part of Mr., ar Major, CHAPMAN, it was denied that he had ever talked of being intimate with the Archbishop of CANTialllll s that he was identical with a namesake advertised in Shible's Gareth, or that he had committed depredations in the neighbour hood of Barnstaple—for these were the somewhat vague and irrelevant counts of Mr. Dorztosli indictment against the prisoner. On the contrary, the Major Osmium who appeared in court as JOMN CHAPMAN, " a labourer," bad served two years in the 13th Light Dragoons., and four years in the 53rd Foot. No reader of this extraordinary cue will be surprised to find that the Magistrate held the contract to be not the less binding on both parties because the one had detained his dupli cate of an instrument of which the other produced the counterpart. The Magistrate in declining to make an order for the restitution of what was left of Mr. Peota's cheque of 3001., appeared to take • rather unfavourable view of Mr. CHAPMAN'S pert in the transaction. But whether or not we are to regard Mr. Clues= as an injured party, we should be doing a groin injustice to the Vicar of Bpreyton if we ventured to regard him as a victim of apostolical simplicity, or to dismiss Min with the respectful commiseration that becomes= unworldly and self-denying dupe. Meanwhile, amidst all this strife about the crook, what has become of the flock THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. in addition to the wirings firms previously announced as intending to 'WAWA closed on the 24th Met., we have now the pleamire of recording the follow= having adopted the arrangement :—Masers. Coster, Lbenn.tht, and Co. ; Meson. Spends , BeggsHy, Weanll, sea Spence ; Moors. Ward, titers, and Sharp ; Hems. J. B. and W. Nemll and Co. ; Merin Biome, Davie. sad Hales ; Mews. Moat, Brown, and Co. ; M. Vyse end flow, mid Messrs. Hugh Jones and Co. There nun but little doubt that the dosing on the 24th will now be sheer gemerally °revved. The rep retail none ia tie ia the snow trade. win task sena liberality towards ear filer, am Try newarly esters( into the arrangement kw sensizufg sherd as Money, the 24th ion., the ohjeel has le pve the easiMnets and others the advantage el the.. aeeteseKve dye wherein to visit their family connexions who stay happen to lire at a distance from the metropolis. The fol =dross have already Osman their istestics Uremia ear is all probalslity °then will wen eirelly be added to the lir Mews U. Hitcher* awl Co. ;61desers. Jame lipene sad Co. (dr. Paareohnealined) ; Mows. Hervey eat No. (Ladiste.hill); Messrs. Willey sad Ike =err) • Hews. Clipper Bees, seed Oe. 10111011. Led Messrs. Sha:rimid. Hdperm, sad Or (illeheressiretror). The INISMIIMIIMS is also ereadiag rapidly is no esimelne end ssetheekrino the far el Wore. Y Henna. Dawt, end Ow, dienerweet ; sad= Flarrey, Mb* sed Ow, Knightsbridge. as levies as. seaweed that Istadoes to remain rend es ties An. The learn ins is a wren of trades an adopter( the sine The Earneao sad Odors' Wise irtirril, end as weed that their 'stab. =eel magi Riffs creed as the Ithh, We lave ben idseened thee es elleil anise wee lasted yeeeseday thee lie wide of tie gerenimeni airs gal be /turd on ileeiny se Wei es Twirler awl. ROYAL INDIAN MILITARY COLLEGE, ADDIS COMES. The distribution of prizes to the eneeerdol eettete ia the examinations for the put teem tee& place yesterday, in the large hall of the college, under the presidency of M. James Wsir Hogg, But., one al the members of the Indian Counal, in the absence of Sir Charles Wood. The event has lost much of its sttrsctioo since the management of the institution woe transferred from the l'ommuir to the Crone. Meld is no longer a public exam natioo ,4 the cadets, and invitations are not sent, sa under the old rOpisse, to a lame number of distiagnished persons to witness the eirsmony of giving away the different reward'. ha A — s — taa 11 yot ladies and gestlemen were admitted into the bee be the chaumaa, Major. General Sir Freieria • t.. B. (the lieutenant - Governor of the Wiese). Homily (the Vice-President of the Ceased of Military Education), and Colonel Elwyn, a seeseber of the same ceased, so person of note wee present. At ea earlier hour is the monies Sir Fred. Abbott reviewed the cadent, abet a huactred in number, in the parade esart and expressed hie satisfaction at the skilful manner to which they acquitted themselves. Previous to the distribution of prizes, General ROMILLT reed the foil o wing memorandum of the Council of Military Education, by whom the examiaatiose an now conducted "1, Wititehall-yard, Dec. 17. "The Cowmen of M il itary Edueatiow, in forwarding the aocompsayiag retorts of the examination of the cadets of the A clam at the Royal Indiae Military Caller , have to state that the program cannot be fairly compared with that which has hitherto been mined, but, ooesidering tLe very limited time allotted to the course of study, the council recommend that they shall all be commissioned. and that the ma first as the list be appointed to the Engineers." Y-. . .• Slit Cot*. _ • _......._ wninson bents, Dio. 11 There was no addition to the royal dinner party yeeasaley. The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Primer MK trines.' Helens, and Prince Louis of Huse, leek -Winiewhy a special train on the South Western Railway, at tee Aloe this mending, for Alderehott Camp. In aileadanes were the Tioa. Emily Cathcart, the Hon. Hersh& fliapford, Ilejoe.deneral the Hon. C. Grey, Helot. Gerona Seymour, Hair Du Plat, Berm von Weiterweller, aid the Wafter of the Howietiold. Dapskir were received attlwOolocial-ollice, yesterday, haw the GRIMM of Gibraltar. Dugs tabu were sent to the Governors of the Anibalhut Wooten, Ceylon, Hong Bong, Labunn, Mauritius, and (Ends. Tam LATE EARL or Armaaamr.—Tbe mortal re mains of the Earl a/ Aberdeen are to be removed front Aron-hove to•monow forenoon for interment in the family yeah at Stamen amok piddle..:. The funeral, is cc• academe with the laite owl's axprewed desire, will be sea darted es privately as possible. His Hicellency the Brazilian Minister has left town for Brighton. The Duke and Duchess of Atholl have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The Marquis of Exeter, who arrived in London on Tuesday from Windoor Cutle r will laws town in a few days for Burleigh Houle. The Earl and Countess Spencer have returned to . Altborp Park, Northamptonshire, where they intend to re mice company during the Christmas holidays. The Counters of Clarendon and the ladies Vil liers have returned to the Grove, Watford, from visiting the Countess Cowper a$ Wrest Park. The Earl Granville lefttown yesterday for Paris, with the intention of pmin g s few weeks in the French capita_ Lord Wodehouee left town yesterday for Kim berley Park, hie seat In Norfolk. The noble lord will m ama hie duties at the Foreign-4km at tie earl of the u sage moth. Lad West has left town for Buokkurat Park, MUM. On Tuesday Sir Walter and Lady Caroline Stirling entertained at dinner at their residence in Port. man.equare, Visconntew Torrington, the lion. Sir Francis, Lady, and NW Mapleton, Sir James, Lady, and Kim Weir Rog" Mr. Choir Rou t time Roe. Rimy Mapleton, the Rea. Oolong Bye& Captain Jedlife, He Williaso Ably, Dirt., he. The Right Hon. Sidney lisrbeet, M.P., and Mrs. Rabat are istartilaing the Redd Osumi this Hati and Omuta, de (Spy sod Pip" Viscount and Viscountess Sawirks. Viscount and VisPuntsis Infield, the Hight Han. Mr Germ C. and ;Lady Thanes Lewis, Hon. Sidney Mode, Han. Robert Neu* Mr. sod Lady Sells' Versos, Haunt Stiosiseirt, and Ilk. R. IL Minns, M.P., at Wilton Homo, our Salisbury. Mr. R.. 8. Ralfowd, KP., sad Ilra. Ho'ford, will return to their manilas in Parka/ e, early next week, from their seat in Gloucestershire. The Countess of Darnley gave birth to a daughter at Cobham Hall, Kent, oa Tuesday last. We regret to hear of the !serious illness of the Duke of Bedford. Lord John Russell and other members of the family are with his gases at Woburn. Lord Seymour, who has been some months in Elisily aid the Neap*lllsa abates, with the English rotas. Seers vadat Coload Eased, to whom his lordship noted Jo military escestasy, arrived in town yesterday from half. Lord Cranworth is at present in Paris. His lordship, it is said, is collecting information respecting the judicial organisation of France. On Tuesday he attended • sitting of the Court of Assizes, and watched the proceed. imp with peat attention. Lord tialmetwten has consented to lay the foun dation stows of the Hartley biotite* ■t Beethamploa, ces the Bth proximo. Lord Brougham is to be Invited. It is expiated that the company who will be spending the Christmas festivities at Breadline. the seat of the Premier, will oleo be present at the ceremony. The Sixthly Insti tute will be for the purpose of prochoting oedema and the higher kinds of literature. The building will cost 10,000 f., sad will be endowed with 30,0001. The English Minister, Sir A. Buchanan, has give glad Mtge at Madrid I. honour of Sir Robert and Lady Mal ; at ems of them the Duke and Duchess de Tetuan, and newly all the diplomatic body were present. We have received from the council of the Art Union of London a proof from the plate by Mr. J. T. Wnlmore, A.M.A., after the well-known picture by Turner, "Italy: Childe liarold's l'ilvirasge." This floe engraving of one of the master's best works consiitutss, together with the right to select works of art and Mbar prises, the return for the Oasis subscription of each member for the curreot year. On Tuesday evening Mr. Charles Diekewi gave a raiding at the Mechanics' Institution, Chatham, of which he is the president, in behalf of its funds. The pieces read were the " Poor Traveller," "Boots at the Bay-tree Ina,• and " &key Camp." The large room of the hietittite wen orowded with naval sad military ordcers, the heads of des pertinent', sad the elite or the neighbourhood. Mr. Dickens met with a complete ovation at the close of his podia& SALE or Wanm-coLorra DR4WLNOB.-A sale by auction of an excellent collection of watercolour &swims took place yesterday at Messrs. Foster's, in Pall-mall, v*ia woe numerously attended. The following are some of the prices realised Prout, view at Ramo-. dyl6 J corneae • S. Palmer (a pair), suseetn, 3 6 guineas; B. Dmmin, coast' scene, 15 guineas ; Hambladon Ferry,Ar i e same, 19 guineas; K. Warren, view in Kent, lit • De Wet, view at Patterdale, 20 games ;J. D. &Miler:lake earns, 28 guineas ; W. Hunt, college and tree, 42 ;guinea. ; Bir kett Foster, two views oa the Rhine, 464 guineas ' J. Lewis, scene in Venice, 42 guineas ; Copley Fielding, land s/am 36 &them; and Bempioa Pam, by the may SS , guineas • J. 11. W. Tamer, vigaette illustration to Moore's 'Epicurean, 25 phases ; Teerkesburg. by the aim% 25 guineas ; Sdarmiti, try the sem, 31( guineas ; Sidney Cooper, cows, 41 mama da. The total amount realised was 1,454 f. After the drawings were disposed of there were a few Mustrated books sold, amoneirt them a pinbecribses copy of David Robert's Holy Land, which filched 53 re. Tag VALUE or A New Illy= SSALll.—Yeetect day at the Auction Mart, Messrs. Hammond and Clout olre ' red to public auction two thirty-sixth parts or Ames ia the King's moiety of the New River Company, being vir tually an original half-share. The auctioneer stated that the undertaking was commenced in 16011 and completed in 1613, and the reeources of Sir Hugh Myddleton being ex hausted before the work was completed, he applied to the crown far additional money to carry out the work, and made over half the property in return for half the expenses being In 1636 Charles 1. granted his moiety back to Sir nnggh Myddleton on condition of an annual payment of 500 f., which payment I. charged on the King's shams, and distributed over them by the company before paying a divi dend. For 18 years after the undertaking was completed there was no dividend paid, and the share' were given away grads. In 1753 Pennant nays the shame sold for 10;000f, The dividend last year amounted to 4411. 6s. &L per sham, and the auctioneer stated that when the teams of the house property belonging to the company expired, and ae the metropolis increased, the income of the company would be enormously increased. The lot sold fur 8,700 f., making the value of a whole share 17,4001. This makes the value of the " adventurers' " shams in the property, from not being charged with the payment to the Crows, about 20,0001. THE WAR IN Naw Z zsistio. —Seven attempts seem to have been made In the course of the present year to dislodge the Maoris from their rude fortifications, and in every case we have sustained or simulated a reverse, though in one it was retrieved by the gallantry of Captain Craeroft. The first was on the 15th of Marsh, when Colonel 041 had an unfortunate skirmish with the natives neer Waiters. The second was Colonel Murray's famous attack on the pah at Waireka, on the Nth of March, when, after the regular sol diers had been recalled, the nab was carrad and the volunteer, rescued from destruction by fifty blue jackets. The third was Major Nelson's less discreditable repulse at Waiters on the 27th of June. The fourth was on the 10th of September. Reinforcements had in the meantime been received from Australia, and General Pratt took the field with 1,500 men, No moaner did the natives open fire, than a retreat was determined upon, though the volunteers were ready to advance into the bush, and we blush to add that one deed body sad several military accou trements fell into the heeds of an enemy variously estimated at 100, 50, and "less than 50." strong. The fifth was on September 19, when Major Hutchins, with 600 men, abandoned the attack of a begs psh for want of mor tars. We are unable to fix the date of the sixth, but the force which retired, uninberieg 500 bayonets sad 3 guns, was under Colonel Leslie, and was mad to hays had , strict orders not to return the enemy's Are, in case they I should interfere with the filling up of certain trenches which served as a cover for native marksmen. The last Iwas on the 9th of October, wider Gmeral Pratt, with about 1,000 men and some heavy guns. This expedition bad not returned to camp when the mail left, but it had already ) deelloc.l the siege of a pah of somewhat more than average strength. —Tina. P DECEV#E ',I - 1 1‘ , LAMS INTELLIGB L, CHINA. FOREIGN-OFFICE TELEGRAMS. MASSACRE OF THREE OF THE ENGLISH PRISONERS IN CHINA. FOREIGN.OFFICE, Deo. 20. The following telegram has been received this afternoon from Sir J. Crampton, dated " ST. PETERSBURG, Dso. 20, 1 r.x. " Prince Gortcbakoff has communicated to me the following report from General Ignatieff of the European massacre by the Chinese : " English : De Norman, Mr. Bruce's Attachi ; Anderson, chief of Lord Elgin's escort ; the Cor respondent of the Times. " French : Dubat, intendant of the French expe dition, one of his aide.de-camps, and a colonel of artillery. These are the only names cited by Gene ral Ignatief, but the total number of victims is nineteen." FORZIGN-OFFICE, Die. W. Sir John Crampton reports yesterday that Lord Elgin, in a letter of the Bth Nov., informs him of the ratification and publication of the treaty with China, and of the march of the army to Tientsin. His lordship makes no mention of the prisoners, but states that be was indebted to General Ignatieff for the manner in which that Minister had promoted the object of his negotia tions. FRENCH TELEGRAM. The Moniteur of to-day publishes a despatch from Baron Gros, dated Pekin, 7th ult., received via St. Petersburg, confirming the signature of peace : " The Shanghai ultimatum had been accepted by the Chinese. The ratifications of the treaty of Tientsin had been exchanged. Sixty millions of francs would be paid to France as an indemnity. The emigration of coolies had been authorised by the Chinese government. Churches, cemeteries, and their dependencies, whieh formerly belonged to lie Christians in the whole empire, would be restored. "A Ts DOHA and Do sine Saloon were to be snag in the Cathedral of Pekin after the replacing of the cross on its summit." THE CHINA MAIL. The next China mail is due at Malta on Battu , day. It should bring advises from Shanghai up to the 7th ult., and from Hong-Kong up to the 12th tilt. If the telegraph is working between Malta and Sicily, we may expect a telegram with China news the day after to-morrow. INDIA. We have received advices of a week's later date from Bombay, viz., to Nov. 23. The last mail announced that a soldier of the 6th Bengal Europeans had been shot, and the regi ment itself disbanded. Sir Hugh Rose's general orders, confirming this news, have now been received. They present a melancholy picture of the state of indiscipline to which the sth had been reduced, and the utter helplessness of the officers to restore a healthy tone in the regiment. The determination of the Commander-in-Chief to dis perse the mutineers through the remaining regi menta of the local army has caused much discus sion. "It appears moat imprudent," says the Bombay Gazette, "to give these men the opportu nity of committing fresh mischief on a much more widely extended scale ; and it is by no means clear that other local regiment. are already so free from all taint of disaffection as to be exposed with impunity to the dangers of com panionship with irreclaimable mutineers." Lord Canning *as to leave Calcutta on the 19th by rail for Rajmahal, whence be proceeds by steamer to Benares, arriving at the latter city, it was expected, in the first week of December. His lordship goes from Benares to Jubbulpore. The remonstranoes of Lancashire against the Indian tariff of valuations have at last borne fruit. The report of the Calcutta committee explicitly condemns the Calcutta tariff of April last, as "in equitable in principle, and, ea regards many of the chief articles of import, excessive in its valuations." The committee, consisting of Messrs. Spooner, Buller', and Eden, in a conference with the leading firma of Calcutta, have decided unanimously in fa vour of the adoption of the following alterations : 1. Grey wire gouts to be valued by weight.-2. The substitution of English weights for the Indian onto in Customs calculations.-3. A uniform tariff for all India upon the Bombay plan.-4. The exclusion from the tariff of valuations of goods which do not readily admit of distbact clarification. The committee also recommend that • vast number of articles of petty trade which bring little revenue into the treasiuy, and hardly repay the cost of collection, should be transferred to the tree list. We take the following from the Overland Friend of India : It will gatify the enthusiastic supporters of irrigation canals for India in England to know that the Nizam of Hy derabad hes consented to cede to na all the land on the left bank of the Oodavery. The navigation, hitherto hampered by a 5 per cent. duty on all cargoes, will now be freed by its abolition. The two southern of the assigned district.'—Dharmeo and Bonbon, will be exchanged for all el Beret that le not already ours. We shall thus be in pommies of the richest cotton distriot fa India, which will fa three years be opened up by the railway from Bombay to limper*. The Nisam, however, still banish that we shall merely hold Baru as we have held the four amigned dis tricts, in hunt to pay the. contingent. On any terms the acquhdtion of the left beak of the Godavery and the whole of Dune is a subject of congratulation. The following ie the commercial report : There has been bat little business done daring the fort night. The trade in piecogo . ods, owing to the combination amongst the hasaar-dealers, u almost at a standstill. In cotton bat little business has been dons, sad the pvioe hes declined since the last mail left. The Nosey Market tight, and the rates of discount have bees is ossesquence raised. . _ We now quote cotton, Dbollerah, Rupee, U 7 to 118 ; Broach Rupees 118 to 120 ; nod Ootnrewditee. Rupees 107 to 110. - _ _ _ Froighte t. London, 91.16 x. ; Liverpool, 31., and Chins rupees, 30 ply Gandy. The follow* is &bat of quotations : Landon (Credit) six moth& Eight, 2s. 1 d. ; ditto Dant silents, six months' sight, 2s. Ifd. ; ditto Book rates, six months' sight, 21. ld. ; Wont* three days' sight, 1001 per cent. pm. ; Madras, 30 days sight, 99 per omit pm. ; 60 days sight, Its. 996 to 217 per 100 llols. FRANCE. PARIS, THITUDAT MONO. The Moniteur contains a decree remitting all condemnations which have been pronounced for offences and for infractions of the law in con nexion with the press, and nullifying all prosecu tions which have been commenced. The Constitutionnet publishes an article signed by ita chief editor, M. Grandguillot, on the question of Austria and Venetia. M. Graudguillot states that solutions of that question are everywhere sought after because it is instinctively felt that a decisive crisis is approach ing. All Europe seems to have apprehensions for the coming spring. He is convinced that the z ', 1860, A s 4 glom of the gown/In:lent of the Emperor will itiow how to prevent a struggle henceforth without Vily object. Tan situation of Austria in Venetia is deplorable. Everything is possible in Venetia except that which now exists. M. Grandguillot expresses his conviction that Austria, who knows how pro vinces are gained, will also remember how they are lost. Be believes that Baron von Schmerling sees things in a different light from General Benedek, and that the baron has already weighed the chances of a new struggle. DEATH OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER OF SWEDEN. EMOOKHOLM, WWNZSDAT. The Dowager Queen of Sweden, the widow of Bernadotte, died suddenly yesterday evening. It is mentioned u a singular meideat that her Ma jesty was about to visit the theatre to witness the performance of Calderon's play, " Life is a Dream!' INUNDATIONS IN PORTUGAL. MADRID, Die. 1& Disastrous inundations have taken place in Portugal. TURKEY. OONEIMINTINOPLE, Dec it The Sardinian ships which were stopped at &dins have been released, and will take their cargoes of munitions back to Genoa. Thei3Tiltanlia:c;;nenced retrenchments in the expenses of the Palace. News from Podgoritza states that a conflict had taken place between the Turks and the Monte "m The officials of the New Roninelian Commission have been nominated. The Principslitiee are tranquil. The Viceroy of Egypt will shortly proceed to Mecca. THE DA.NIIBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. JASSY, Din. 18. It is denied here that the Moldo-Wallachian government participates in the Hungarian move ment.. THE UNITED &TATES AND CANADA. LONDONDERRY,WIDNINDLY. The Canadian mew steamship Nova Scotian, Captainbi'Mmiter from Portland, Maine, onthe Bth inst., has arrived here and landed all malls. The City of Manchester and the Saxonia bad arrived out, The President's Message was considered weak and unsatisfactory, both by the North and South. The President had announced his determination to send no more troops to the Charleston forte, and stated that everything would be done on his part to avoid a collision. The Breckenridge members of the Virginia Electoral College had resigned, and allowed the whole State vote to go for Bell and Everett. The powder mmaaggaa of a Spanish frigate had exploded off Brooklyn. Three persons were killed and twelve wounded. The Georgia Wate had rejeoted a bill calling a Convention of the Southern States. This was received u an indication that Georgia would secede. LIVERPOOL, THURSDLT. The Montreal Ocean Company's ateantahip North American, which sailed to-&y for Portland, .only took 1,777/. 10s. in specie. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. trios ous OWN PARIS, WIDIVIDAY EVINOIO. It is complacently given out this evening that K Lavalette has at length brought the Porteto under stand that France is the Sultan's only true friend, and that the French ambassador, at the date of the last despatches, was on the point of concluding an arrangement, in virtue of which the French army in Syria would prolong its occupation for six months beyond the time originally agreed upon. It is Indeed mentioned, at the same time, as a mere little difficulty hardly worth notice, that Sir Henry Bulwer had objected that the term of six months having been expressly limited by the convention of Paris, the Divan had no right to extend the time without the consent of the powers, parties to that convention. It is, moreover, admitted that M. de Labanoff, the Russian ambassador at Constanti nople, on being referred to, declined to express any opinion on the subject; but then it is said that he privately assured M. de Lavalette that be was en tirely of his opinion, but he would rather not say so openly, because England would be sure to take advantage of the accord between the repreeenta fives of France and Russia to bring him (If. Laban off) into discredit with the Porte. Thus stand/ this very pretty business as represented in French diplomatic circles. It is nonews that France never meant to keep the engagements she reluctantly entered into by the convention of Paris, and that she certainly will not withdraw her troops from Syria at the end of the la months. I may add that she will as certainly keep them there after the pro posed extended period. However, as we are just now such very good friends with the Emperor, I suppose the end of it will be that we must let him have his own way, and submit to be done, if not duped.* • All the marshals of France, with the exception o f Marshal Canrobert, who is indisposed, dined with the Emperor yesterday at the Tuileries. The Pays, in its "latest news," positively con tradicts the report of the telegram that the bom bardment of Gaeta had been recommenced, and affirms that the armistice continues. The Preset complains that up to 1 o'clock this afternoon it had not been able to obtain from the post-office its American papers, which arrived yes terday morning, and were delivered the seine day to the Moniteur and Constitutionuei. It stigmatizes the preference as an injustice, which must of neces sity be at variance with the principles of the highest authorities. Formerly complaints of the non-delivery of foreign journals were invariably left without redress, because the Poet-office was sheltered by the Board of Censure, which wax irresponsible to the public. Since November 94 I hope it may be said nous coons changb tout cola. This morning, when the cue of the Union (pro secuted for " false news ") was called on at the Pallas de Juctioe, the public prosecutor stated that the Emperor had just decreed an amnesty which applied to prosecutions commenced against newspapers. The decree referred to, must, I pre sume, be one yet expected to appear in the Moniteur, for the one recently published, relieving the journals from past warnings, would certainly not comprise this case. There can be no doubt that the decree, when it comes out, will be found to extend to judgments recorded as well as to prosecutions pending. The Bourse was not only dull, as it has been for some days past, bat the Rente sustained a con siderable fall, The last prices were 68fr. 65c. and 68fr. 70.3., being a decline of 90c. and 15c. Mobi lier fell sfr. The Orleans Railway fell sfr. ; Northern, 2fr. 50c. ; and Eastern, lfr. 25e. In the other lines there was no change. On December 28 there will be a sale by auction, at the model farm at Camp, near Laved, of 157 bulls, cows, and heifers, of the Durham race, belonging to the state. The suppression of the experimental dairy is stated by the advertisement, which ema nates from the Ministry of Agriculture and Com merce, as the reason for the sale. THE GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE DARMSTADT. A correspondent writes : I have just read in your valuable paper the announcement of the engagement of marriage between the young of Hesse and the Princes Alice, upon which occasien you express the hope that the little court of Darmstadt war in the footsteps of its neighbour, Electorate Rea, Permit me to send you some precise information shout the matter, which I am wall able to give, having eerreil as an otiose for 20 years in the duchy. The difference between the two Ileanan relatives consists in this, that the Plectir by his own will exercises the MA absolute tyranny. ahll means of his creatures carries out his own violent whereas hie cousin, the Grand Duke, yield s to the will el a mist absolute warininister, wh o has soled for the last ten years. The sam e system obtains in both countries, but in one it i s th e moserch lazuli, while in the other it is the minister who carries it out, and who acts towards his master II Metter. niob for instance did to the Emperor Francis. Thus the autocracy of the Electorate is transplanted into the Grand Duchy. This favourite's grandfather was a butcher, and with something of the hereditary mode of proceeding he sends to the right-about any officer that happens to dii. please him, and the passion that has to be paid the officer in retreat being so frequently required, the resources of the state now feel the indiction. The poor prince himself sighs at and laments the arbitrary conduct of his general, but consoles himself with some new change in the uniform of his officers or costume of his offiehls. In the year 1850, during the space of three months, the Chamber of Deputies wee dissolved twice, and an Elector.' law was then granted, by the stipulations of which the mats in the chamber can only be filled by officials, or persons slavishly devoted to the mown. The constitution of this Grand Duchy is, therefore, quite as rotten as that of the Electorate. Great discontent continuos, of course, to pr, mil against this state of things, but the love for the soe c . • reign's family I peat and general, as far as this love is compatible with the great mid general regret, that Ger• manyeleould be governed by some thirtyand odd rulers. This email court resembles, in fact, more the abode of • patriarch by its simplicity and parity, and by the education of the youthful mime cd th e dynasty, than a royal mart filled with courtiers and retainers. The mother of the Prince Ludwig, a moat excellent lady, presided horse over the education of her son, whose tutor, a thorough gentleman in every sense, roared his pupil in those sound principles that form the beet ornamental of your own royal family. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Mare the Lord Chaacelkr.) THE WED CHANOKLIAM AND VIC&CRANCSLI.OR WOOD. DUCH P. BRIGHT. Thi• was an appeal from Vioe.Ch•ooellor Wood. The question involved related to • state of complicated accounts between pertains in • concern for the manufacture of carpets, and the difference between them was mainly •s to the mode in which the &comma were to be taken. The case is of no public interest The Lord Chancellor now gave judgment and alarmed the decree of the Viee-Chancellor, but in giving hie judgment made use of the following observations of opinion that the decree appealed against in these suite ought to be affirmed without any variation. I think that by the declarations which it contains, and the inquiries which it directs, complete Judiee will be done between the parties. I have come to this conclusion after attentively listening to the able arguments at the bar addressed to me on either side ; after having carefully perused the written pleadings, the depositions, and the multifarious documents in evidence; sad after having laboriously travelled through the decree and the judgment of the Viee-Chancellor, weepy , ing forty peps of • huge quarto volume, closely pelted. Considering my long experience as a judge, and the PO'sition which (however unworthily) I have the honour to fill, per haps I may without impropriety venture to may, with the most profound and sincere respect for Vice-Chancellor Page Wood, that I should have disposed of the appeal, not only with less labour to myself but more satisfactorily and more confidently, had his judgment bean more condensed. My attention has been diverted (join the main questions in the case by elaborate end minute disquisition' se to the baring of con tradictory evidence on subordinate points, and by following the devious paths by which the final conclusion is at last reached. Judgments of such prodigious length, instead of settling have • tendency to unsettle the law, and, instead of sending away the defeated party contented, I can my from my own experience since I have presided in this court that they rather generate appeals ; for although the decree be right some of the various reasons given for it may be questionable, and • fake hope is excited that, impugning these, the decree may be reversed. The verdicts of juries are generally acquiesced in, perhaps because they are given without reasons. Au equity judge who has to determine questions of fact cannot follow this course ; but there is rio ne cessity for his stating from his tribunal all that passed through his mind during his deliberation, with all his doubts and his wanderings. I will farther venture to declare my hearty concurrence in the opinion frequently expressed by one of the most distinguished of my predecessors, Lord Chan cellor Brougham, that when, on account of the in portance and difficulty of a case, judges, after having heard it argued at the bar, take time to con Niter, they will do well by delivering a written judgment. The judgments even of Lord Eldon would have been still more valuable had he adopted this practice, imitating the ' example of that illustrious judge his brother, Lord Stowell, who, by his written judgments, has composed • code of in ternationsl maritime law admired and respected by ill civilised nations. Bat whoever attentively reads the short hand writer's notes of Vice-Chancellor Page Wood's judgment in this case, although he may possibly think that it might have been shortened with out detriment, will certainly find that his Honour. after a most anxious investigation, has taken a proper view of every point to be considered by him, and has left wither side any just ground of complaint. (After going finvilit the facts of the case, his lordship proceeded to say)—l is not think that I am called upon to give any opinion ups any of the contested items left unadjusted; for all there will come to be considered and decided in the course of the inquiries which the Viee-Chancellor has directed. I nine that an appellate judge may properly be called upon pronounce, without further inquiry, a decision on RV question which the judge of fiat instance ought to Imre decided, instead of directing an inquiry concerning it. But I should indeed be slow to impute a shrinking from trouble or responsibility to a judge so painstaking, so diwrimi Dating, so firm, so indefatigable, and so devotedly melons in the discharge of his duty, as VicaChanceild Page Wood. In the present instance, I am of opinidi that, upon the defective evidence before him, be rote.' not with propriety have decided any of the points no which inquiry is directed, and that unless the parties shall world: , agree to an amicable adjustment of these points (which th. might easily do) the inquiries directed, however tedious amp expensive they may be, must proceed. The appeals were dismissed without costa. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ■itisp at Nisi Prins in London.—(Before Lori MI Justios Eris sad n Special Jury.) CRAWFORD AND ANOTHER V. HOTLY AND ANOTHER - BROKIRS AND THEIR PRINCIPALS. This was au action to recover freight. Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Pollock appeared for the plaietie. and Mr. Serjeaut Shoe and Mr. Bensfunl fur tia fondants. The plaintiffs are shipewnen, and at the time i• transaction in question took place they owned th ship Jason, which sailed between London and 14 cotta; and the defendants were ship unit insur , broken. In January last the Jason was advertised to 6. and the defendants inquired of Messrs. Phillips and the broken for the ship, what was the freight he i•r?' After some bargaining a contract was entered into at 4 Li • ton, end afterwards anothrer contract for iron at tie rate. The contracts were in the name of the fender ts, and no prineired was earned. fader circumstances the plaintiffs' case was that the ilefeniia.:. themselves were bound to gay the freight, and this - was brought to recover the amount of it—lli-11. IN. When the plaintiffs applied to the defendants for r emount at the end of the usual two months' er.dii, were referred to the defendants' principal, who, horn's', bacome bankrupt a few days efterwards. In the eon! , the plaintiffs' case it was stated that the shipping 1"1 . described the goods as "shipped by Messrs. Nos . " , Grey, as agents. Mr. Sermaut Sheo addressed the jury * , stating that it t: clear that the defendants had acted as agents ook .• ".. should contend that under these circumstances, and ot ally with the additional fact that it was arranged th defendants themselves should have the " ought not to be held liable in this action as priuviiiil 4 . • Leal witnesses to custom. A juryman said that the gentlemen in the box were ('' - selves It witnesses to custom. • A verdict was retuned f.T the plaintiffs for 1 I - the amount of the claim after deducting the pnnwre