The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 19. THE wants of the season, so forcibly brought home to every one of late, are, fortunately for us, only transient evils a short strain upon the purse-strings of the charitable, and all will go' right again. The grip of winter must soon be loosened, and then we shall bear no more of those crowds of willing labourers whose urgent claims for bread have for a time confounded the duties of the police magistrate with those of the relieving officer. Hut neither these casual poor nor men like the poor Coventry weavers are ever likely to become a permanent burden to society ; milder weather and the revival of the particular branch of trade will restore their independence, and render the extraordinary aid now so liberally offered unne cessary. It is the regular pauperism of the country, the demands for which are constant as any other tax, which does not vary with the season. The fairest of weather and the most prosperous of times may afford us perhaps some fractional reduction in the poor rate, and we have certainly some cause for congratulation in a gradual diminution of pau perism, noticeable in the last few years ; but the burden remains to be borne, and the worst of it is that as regards a very large clam, and that the most helpless and costly—the insane paupers— there has been a progressive increase out of pro portion to that of the population. The statistics of ;super lunacy are not very complete, but from the last report of the Commissioners we learn that during the sixteen years ending January, 1859, the i number of pauper lunatics in England and Wales had nearly doubled. In Scotland and Ireland the results are similar ; so that at the present time we may consider there are in the United Kingdom from 40,000 to 50,000 paupers in various degrees of mental incapacity, from the child idiot to the furious maniac, to be fed, clothed, tended, and treated medically. The cost of maintenance, with the salaries of officials, may be estimated from the example of the Chester Asylum, where the weekly cat is stated to be Bs. 2d. for paupers of the county, and 14a. for them of boroughs or other counties. At a moderate estimate, there must be something like a million and a half annually ex- pended in taking charge of the insane poor of the ktsgdorn• In a financial point of view, then, the claims which arise from this most dependent and wretched class of the community are gradually assuming an importance which, in addition to considerations of social well-being, makes it neces sary that the sources of this increase in pauperism arising from insanity and idiocy should be traced, and, if possible, stopped. That the melancholy fact exists is proved in the most practical manner when we observe bow rapidly the lunatic asylums have sprung up in almost every county in Eng land ; and in several instances which could be named these buildings have been repeatedly e nlarged, as in the case of the two great asylums of Middlesex —Hanwell and Colney Hatch—establishments that have grown into perfect colonies of lunatics. Turning to any of the reports of county asylums we find a general complaint of the want of accom modation : in some cases the recreation room is obliged to be turned into a dormitory, in others there are certain inoffensive idiots and poor creatures described as "oecsaionallynot quite right " in the head," who are allowed to remain in the workhouse or to live with their friends be cause there is no room for them either in the pauper asylum of the place or in that of the neighbouring county. In Ireland especially, such is the want of proper house room for pauper lunatics that the gaola are used as madhouses, and in Tipperary they are said to dentain almost as many lunatics as convicts. The Commissioners appear to contemplate this as sociation of criminals and madmen with amazing nnir , ti when they say, "The sane no doubt suffer " from a protracted intercourse with their ma " niacal and idiotic companions, an inconvenience " which can only be obviated by fostering the " hope that, though their detention is rendered " necessary by a due regard to public prejudice " and the public safety, their liberation is to "• be dependent upon their own good conduct. " The principal difficulty to contend with arises " from • perversity of disposition displayed by " convict+ principally on admission. They give a " bad example to their fellows ; so much an, that " the resident physician would, if the arrangement " of the house admitted it, have them placed " apart." No one would suppose that anything AO like the Borate's prisons at Naples could be permitted to exist no further off than Ireland. The Contraissioners describe the Irish asylums as choked with chronic cases, a very narrow space of disposal for recent ones, while outside the walls there is • large lunatic population requiring separation from the sane. In Scotland also a large proportion of the insane poor are living either in the workhouses or with relatives, and ronse , l nently rein.ived from all systematic control. In the union workhouses in England, the practice of admitting ii:iota of both sexes and all ages, though constantly condemned, still goes on, and dime can be no doubt that this is one of the sources of peeper idiocy—indir,ctly, 1-y tli; love ti that pre pki.:ty to oil bib,t• which is so r.rong in cl.sldren, anti which is nut alt...4tther wanting in adults of weak intellect ; but in a fat more direct manner is the stock of pauper lunatics kept , ip. It appears to be by no means to rare as would be supposed, neith,r is it very surprising, that amongst these imbecile% the greater number of whom arc females, whose imbecility often takes an erotic turn, there should be many cases of illegitimate children, the fathers of which were as idiotic as the mothers. We can imagine few things more degrading and shocking to humanity than such occurrences as these. That these pitiable imbeciles should be exempt from the law which compels the separation of all dangerous lunatics, and that they should be permitted to lead a life free from all kind of proper restraint, occasionally even discharging themselves from the workhouse and associating with any of the depraved clodpates of a country village, is a monstrous indecency that calls impera tively for an extension of the powers of the Lunacy Commissioners over workhouses, and indeed all imbeciles of the pauper class. There are at the present time no less than '7,963 pauper lunatics living in the workhouses of Eng land ; while 4,892 are residing with relatives, and 906 live in lodgings or are boarded out : of the latter rather more than one third are chargeable to Welsh parishes. It is most desirable that it should be ascertained whether there are other causes fostering insanity and imbecility amongst the impoverished and ill conditioned classes of the provinces, beyond the very evident source which we have pointed to in the permitted association of the insane with the sane. Probably it would be found that poor food and had air are causing the number of pauper idiots to be more than twice :is great in the south-eastern division of England, for example, as in the metropolis, and it is for this class that provision will have to be made, not for the violent and dangerous, for they are already separated by law. In such case we may hope for some diminution to come from the more universal adoption of sanitary measures ; but it is clear one of the first steps to be taken is to put a stop to the indiscriminate mixture of insane and idiot paupers with the population at large. With the present lamentably imperfect statistics of general insanity, however, it is impossible to say whether the increase in pauper lunacy is peculiar to the clam, or if it is not due to the prevalence which it is admitted exists over all ranks of so ciety ; this is a question of vital importance which should be decided, and we can suggest no readier way of obtaining an answer to it than by means of the new Census. THE Dt Kr 01 BOTIIIIIIILASD. —We are happy to learn that the Duke of Motherhood passed a very favoura ble night on Thursday, and was considerably hotter yester day morning, when the I►t account. were despatehed from Treetham. Hi, Excellency the Belgian Milliliter and Madame yen de Weyer, the Earl of Sefton, ate! Lord sod Lady Moneys, have artived at Newham Park, where the Countess of Waidegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., are re ceiving a distinguished circle of visitors. Hi; excellency Lord Napier is expected to arrive at 31, Doverainet, next week, from the Hague. The Martinis and Marehioneem of Salisbury have bole estertaising their Royal llighoes•e, the Duke rod Dachas d'Atunale, aid a select curie, at Hatfield, during the week. Viwouut Pal norston will pails through town to day, from Broadlamb, on a riot to hoz Majoaty, at Windsor Cootie. Lord and Lady John Burnell end family will arrive in Meehan' on 'holiday next, from Pembroke Lodge, Riehaeei.perh, ter the essees. Lord and Lady Norreys will leave Nuneham Park, oa Moaday, for Towards" Hall, Laws tire. Lord and Lady Eusta;* Cecil have arrived in • town from Hatfield Home. HI lordship has take.) a rridence is Belgravestreet for the meson . The tuarrunice of the Lady Milk" widow of the late Lord Milford, and daughter of the EArl of Wicklow, with the Hoe. Mr. Eyre, will take place after Easter. The Right Hon. Frederick Peel lute taken a mimics is Chesbautplace for a term of seam Mr. sad Rev. Peel ace at present occupying the Countess of ado doe's residence in Carlton House•terrace. Lady Leigh gave birth to a I4on at Stoneleigh AWN?, Warwickshire, on the 13th. Lord Chelmsford paid a visit on Thursday to the priselpel law courts in Dublin. The Eremitic Post says : "Yesterday considerable interest was excited at the Foes Courts by the sppesiance of Lord Chelmsford, who entered the Court of Error, whero seven of the judges were sitting ; namely, the Lord ("mof Justice of the queen's Bench, the Lard Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord thief Berea of the Exchequer, Mr. Justice Bull, Mr. Justice Pitsgerald, Mr. Justice Hayes, and Mr. Justice Christian. Os the entrance of Lord Chelmsford, the judges rose sod received him with the greatest cordiality, all of them shaking h►nds with him. The sable and learned lord took his seat on the left side of the judge, and remained there for some time during the argument. When it became known that he was present, there was a regular rush of visitors and strangers into the court. Ho also visited the Consolidated Court, where Mr. Justice Keogh was pre siding ; the Court of Chancery, where he paid his respects to the Lord Cluumellor ; and tho Rolls Court." The energy, ability, sad zeal of the Earl de Grey and Ripon have no isprowed the leaders of the volunteer movement, that it is not unlikely they will select the occasion of hi. temperer, retirement from the War• office to exhibit their sense of the services he has rendered to the cause, by means worthy of it, of them, ■od of him. Indeed, we (Army and Navy Gareth.) understand that the Duke of Manchester, amociated with noblemen and gentle• men who have had an opportunity of judging Lord do Grey and Ripon's real merits in the administrative depart. meet of which he had charge, has already takea steps which will lead to such a result. A rumour is current that the navy estimates for the present year will, when presented to the House of Commons, show an important reduction in the number of seamen required for the use of the country. We (Arm? and Nary Gann.) understand that a vote will he mind for 4,000 M lees than was demanded Out session. We are told that the actual number of able ...amen will not be in ray way affected, but that it m the desire of the Lords of the Admiralty to get rid of some useless coant.guardsmen. The Limerick correspondent in Saunders tele graphed yesterday to the effect that "Consideruble gratika• Lion prevailed at this city to-day at the announcement of Mr. Makohnoon, chairman of the Royal Mail Atlantic Com pany, having purchased from Mr. Merges his immense inte rests as the chief shateholder in the limerick and Foynea Railway, with the view of tmuderring the mail service by I the oompany'a Meaner' from Gslway to the Shannon. The rumour is credited in ►ll mercantile circles." At Hereford, duriug the lung front, the Rev. John Yens, vicar of St. Peter's church, in that city, has fed with a warm meal an average of 100 navvies, at noonday and at sight, is his schoolrooma adding • gift uf bread and cheese to the married men to take home to their wives and children. Thu will of Alderman Sir Georje Carroll, Knt., was proved in the London Court of Protette ou the 15th inst., and the personalty sworn under 120,000 t The execu tors nominated are his relict, and Joseph Maynard, req., of Coleman-street. The will bears 'bate the oth of April, 11059. The testator's will contains the following disposi tions :—He bequeaths to his widow • life internal in his entire property, subject to the payment of certain lepcies and charitable bequests ; to his son-in-law, the Rev. H. E C. Cobden, M.A., teeter of Teinibley, Retie, be leave, a life interest in the sum of 10,000 f. ; and on the decease of this gentleman, the principal is directed to be paid to the testator's grandchildren, who also, on the de cease el Lady Carroll, take the entire residue of the estate. There is • ispey of 3.00J1. to his p, ~t tn-pliew, Horace Tahourden, aed also one of 1,000/. to his executor. Sir Crory bee contributed the sum of 500/. to each of two in ;itutions. one of them heing the most prominent of our Ho.!•.tsl ; the tither to the Asylset for Idiots. Vie Court. WINDSOR CAMTLE, Jail. 16. The Ducbm of Keut visited her Majesty yes terday, and took luncheon. The Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Chartres, west to elude on Virginia Water in the afternoon, accompanied by the Duke of Manchester, Lord Proby, Mr. Gibbs, and Mr. rhino. I■ attendance were Lieutenant• Colonel Ringsoote, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Ponsonby, and Captain Grey. The royal dinner party inelmied the Prince of Weet, the Princess Alice, the Duke of Maine, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Lord and Lady Proby, Lord and Lady Stan ley of Alacrity, the Hon. Mn. Grey, the, Hom Major- Geoeral It. Bruce, the Right Hoe. T. Maser Gibson, Mr. Gibbs, Dr. Baly, and Captain Grey. The baud of the Royal Hone Guards played during dingier the Pas Redoubt( Overture, The Barber of Revills" Vslse, Jurists:l Ball Thus" Strauss. Selection, " Maio" Polka, '• nisch Pratch " The third &lunatic performance this season took place in the evening. The following was the programme : A comedy. in two acts, by Hr. Tom Taylor and Mr. Char. Reads, entitled— MASKS AND FACES; or BEFORE AND BEHIND THE CURTAIN. Sir Chutes Pomander Mr. A. Wigan. Mr. Ernest Vane Colley Libber Mr. C. Selby. wain leWed Mr. B. Webster. Lysintaehme biped MU Craddock. Mr. Piaui Mr. tituart. Mr. **per loon Burdock Mr. R. Romer. Colander Ilundedon Call B Pimps, Mager Craddock. Mrs. Vane Pegg WelMaggen KAU (Mee Mra Iliza Triplet Ilesakine Mix Hamilton. Maid Mlss Morrie After which a comic drama, written by Hr. Charles Mathews, entitled MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Uncle Foosle Fells Budd Mr. Dewar. Edward Waserley Mr. Ashley. Thomas Mrs. Quiekedget Mrs. Ellen Rudd Mn.Fitsoalsorne Under the D.reetion of Male Manager Mr. George Ellis. The theatre arranged and the teener, painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. Shortly before half•put 8 o'clock the Queen and Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, Princem Louie., Prince Leopold, and the Duke of Chartres, attended by the Ladies and Gen. tlernen in Waiting, and accompanied by the dinner corn. piny, entered the theatre in St. George's-hall, when the performance immediately commenced. The following bad the honour of receiving invitations, and were }resent:—The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, Mr. B. and Mks Van de Weyer, the Hon. and Rev. C. L. and lady Caroline Courtenay, the Hon. and Rev. Edward and Mrs. Moore, Mimeo Moore (2), lady Sophia Tower, Mimes Tower (2), Mr. H. Cox, Mks Con, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mills, Mks Mills, Mrs. Seymour Bathurst, Miss and Mr. Batbunt, Mr. and Mn. C. Bar nett, Mr. and Mn. John Leslie, Colonel R. Howard Vms (commanding officer, Royal Hone Guards), Lieutenant Adderley and Cornet Itmhout (Royal Horse Guards), Colo nel Dalrymple (commanding officer 2nd Battalion Scots Fualier Guards), Lieitteoant-Colonel Campbell and Captain Shelley (2nd Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards), Lady Fanny Howard, Colonel the Hon. Sir C. Phipps, MO Phipps, Mr. Romaine, Major• General and Lady Emily Seymour, Mien Seymour, the Hon. Mrs. R. Bruce, the Hon. Mn. T. Y. Biddulph, Lady Couper, Mr. R. and Min Cooper, the Rev. W. R. Jolley, Major Elphinetone, R.E., and Mr. Wood ward. Her Majeity's private band formed the orchestra. Refreslunenta were served in the Waterloo Gallery. . _ . The Queen and Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wiles, walked in the Home Park this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmme. The Prince of Wales took leave of her Majesty, the Primo° Consort, and royal family, and left Windsor at 12 o'clock for Madiagley Hall, Cambridge, attended by Major General the Hon. R. Bruce and Captain Grey. The following visitors have left the Castle :--The Doke of Chartres, the Duke and Masses of Manchester, Lord and Lady Proby, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gilson, and Mr. Gibbs. A deputation from the Gemini Shipowners' Society had an interview with the Right Hoe. T. Milner Gibson yester day, at the office of the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. James Anderson, chairman ; Mr. George F. Young, deputy chairman ; Messrs. William Phillipps, Clifford. Wigrani, and W. Beau, secretary. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in London yer tertlay from Hawarden Castle, Chester. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honour able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber, and resumed the consideration of petitions agaisuit the ordi• mores of the Scottish university commissioners with re- Terence to degrees in surgery and in medicine in the Uni versity of Edinburgh. Mr. R. Palmer was heard in reply. A deputation, consiatiog of Sir K. K. Lama, Bart., M.P. for Great Yarmouth ; Mr. Edward Hawes, M.P. for East Norfolk ; Mr. John Dent Dent, M.P. for Scarborough ; Mr. C. H. Chamberlin, Mr. Isaac Shuckford, lb. A. D. Stone, and Mr. Maimprice, from Great Yarmouth ; Mr. Henry Wyrill, from Scarborough ; and Mr. J. J. W. Cowing, from Lowestoft, had as interview yesterday with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson. Despatches were seat resterder from the ColoniaLedice to the Governors of Conde, Behawies, end Malta, and to the Loni High Commissioner of the Icahn Islands. s. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 11161. ARRIVAL or THE PRINCE OP WALES LW CAMBRIDGE. CAMBRIDGE, FamAT EVILYING. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived here this afternoon, but there was a total absence of any official demonstration on the part of either univeraity or town, in accordance with the expressed wish of the Prince. The time of his arrival got wind however, and some thou. sands of the townspeople crowded the windows of the houses and the footpaths on the line of route, the number of the fair sex predominating in the ratio of about two to one. Such of the inhabitants as were in possession of flags exhibited them, but these were all the signs of anything unusual being on the tapir. The train which conveyed his Royal Highness and suite was made up by the Eastern C,onntiss Railway Company ; it consisted of a saloon and break, with other adjuncts, and WM sent round by Kew to Windsor, whence the Prince started at twelve o'clock, passing by Kew and the North London line, and so on to the Eastern Counties main line at Stratford, and through to Cambridge without change of carriage. Mr. R. Sinclair, engineer of the Eastern Counties, and Mr. James Robertson, ' general superintendent, had the management of the special train. His Royal Highness was accompanied by his governor, the Hon. General Bruce, and Captain Grey, equerry in waiting. The Hon. Mrs. Bruce nod other members of his Royal Highnesses household were in the train. The arrival at Cambridge took place at ten minutes before three, and some little delay was occasioned owing to the non-arrival of his Royal Highness's carriage, which bad been ordered for three o'clock, and then made its appearance. The Prince and attendants crossed the station to the town side, but returned to the refreahment.room till the vehicle was announced : this latter was one of the royal private ear rings; with a pair only, and on the entry of the royal party (the Prince, General Bruce, and Captain Grey) proceeded straight by the hacks of the colleges to Kadingley Hall. The absence of the scarlet liveries deceived the spectators, and as the Prince did not occupy the seat of honour in the carriage more than a moiety of them never caught a glimpse of him at slb The Mayor of Cambridge (Charles Finch Foster, Faq.), Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Sproul (district superintendent, Pastern Counties Railway), and Mr. Morris (Cambridge station master), attended the royal party at the station, which was laid with cocoa nut matting, and the sp preaches to which were kept by Superintendent Kent and the railway police, with Superintendent Turrall and the borough police. Numbers of persons lingered long after the Prince had deprival, but some amusement was afforded them by the piANIV of vehicles containing mem. arse of the household and luggage, and half-a-dozen of the Prince's stud. One prominent occupant of the special train was a huge black Newfoundland dog, which, it is mid, his Royal Highness brought with him from America. The train occupied r longer time on its passage from Windsor to Citiihridvi than would otherwise lave been Ithe cast, owing to the precintions rendered necessary by the recent adverse weather. LATEST INTELLIGENCI A PRUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN ALLIANCE. The Augsburg Gnatite again states that a treaty between Prussia, Austria, and Russia guarantees to Austria the possession of Venetia. The Debate of to-day, while doubting this assertion, observes that very intimate relations exist between Austria and Prussia. In order, it is said, to secure the co-ope ration of Prussia in the Venetian matter, Austria will follow the Prussian policy with regard to Schleswig ; she will recall from Cassel her charge &spirts, who has compromised himself for the Elector, and will name another diplomatist who will support the partisans of the constitution of 1831 ; she will adopt the Prussian plans ooncerning the reorganisation of the federal army ; and will even push her condescension so far as to leave t., Prussia, if necessary, the supreme command of that army. PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia, on the Nth, sent for all the generals present at Berlin, and (according to the New Cl= ffeof Prltasict) thus spoke to them : I have been called to the throne at an epoch full of dangers, and with the prospect of combats in which I shall perhaps have need, gentlemen, of all your devotedness. If I and the princes who, like me, desire the maintenance of peace, do not succeed in turning aside the storm which is rising, we shall have need of all our forces to resist and to defend ourselves. I am happy Yo see Field-Marshal Wrangel, who is always full of rigour, still at your head. For you, my dear Minister of War, I have not prepared a bed of roses, and you must courageously labour to make the army what it ought to be for the future protection of Prussia. Let us not indulge in any illusions. If Ido not succeed in turning aside the conflict, we shall be engaged in a combat in which we must vanquish if we are not willing to be sari. hilated. The Chamber of Deputies at Berlin the day before yesterday elected its bureau for the first four weeks of the session. M. Simeon was nomi nated president by 204 votes to 82 ; M. Grabens first vice-president ; and M. Mathis second. In the Chamber of Nobles, Prince liohenlohe was elected president by 150 votes to 10. FRANCE. PARIS, JAY. 19. The Moniteur publishes a decree reducing from 40fr. to 10fr. per 100 kilogrammes the figure at which merchandise imported into France is taxed according to the nett weight. NAPLES. THE NEW COUNCIL OF LIEUTENANCY. TURIN, JAN. 19. The Official Gazette publishes a royal decree, con firming the nominations by Prince Carignan of the members of the new Council of Lieutenancy for Naples. The names have already been announced. They are : Liborio Romano D'Aossa Justice. Spaventa Laterza Imbriani Public Instruction. Mancini Ecclesiastical Affairs. Oberti Public Works. A Finance Committee has been instituted under the presidency of Signor Manna. GENOA, JAL 18. Troops embarked here yesterday for Naples. Two frigates have left for Gaeta. ROME. SOME Ja.s. 13. Some arrests have taken place on account of the political demonstration in the Apollo theatre. A portion of the population of Gaeta has arrived here. DENMARK.-NAVAL PREPARATIONS. COPENHAGEN, JAL 17. A royal decree has been published calling out 6,700 sailors from the kingdom of Denmark and the Duchy of Schleswig. The steam-frigate Sjoelland has been recalled from the West Indies. An address, signed by all the members of the Laudthings and Volkathings, is lying for further signaturein the public places. This address contains a request to hie Majesty to resist every attempt from abroad to interfere with the internal affaira of Denmark, and also prays that his Majesty may not abandon the Danish nationality in the Duchy of Schleswig. The address concludes with the request that liberties may be granted to Schleswig, in conformity with the Danish constitution. HUNGARY. PERTH, J. 17. At the general amembly of the representatives of this city, held to-day, M. Desk opposed the im mediate assumption of the judicial power by the Hungarians. He said, "At this moment we have only to choose between Austrian laws and anarchy." The proposition of M. Desk to preserve the Austrian laws until the Jude' Curie shall have ordered the transfer of the offices of justice was agreed to by the assembly. MONTENEGRO. CATTARO, JAN. 17. No attack by Montenegrins on the town of Spuz has really taken place. An attack was intended, and was only prevented by the representations made to the Montenegrins by the Austrian, French, and Russian consuls. The Prince of Montenegro withdraws his troops from the Turkish frontiers, expecting the satisfac tion promised to him by the Porte. The government of Victor Emmanuel has de termined to issue a new bronze coinage, which is to be struck in Milan. The number of coins required is far greater than the amount of our own coinage of bronze now executing. Messrs. Ralph Heaton and Sons, of the Mint. Birmingham, have obtained the contract, and haul to pro duce 732,000 pieces per day, commencing on the lot of April, NW.. A letter from Rome of the 12th. in the mule, says :—" General de Cutrotano leaves this evening for Paris, on a mission from Francis A letter from Padua of the Etb, in the Opirtione of Turin, mentions the death of one Antonio Nicolai, eget 23, in the prison of Padua. He is stated to have been one of the 79 prisoners whom the Duke of Modena took away with him on his flight from his states. Of them Nicolai is the third that has died, and the survivors are still kept in prison. . . . . A dramatic story about the unfortunate loves of a French corporal and a Mollie. Denise was lately pub lished in the legal journals of Francs. A restaurateur of AsniZrea bearing the curiously appropriate name of Cease. grain, now writes to the papers to say that if the military authorities and the rel►tions of the parties will combine to viable the loves to marry. he will supply a wedding dionrr gratis. This is an amusini, instance of the advettiiing genius of French tradesmen. The Lerma Herald of the 10th says :—" Two days ago a son—the seventh—was born to his Majesty the Sultan. Immediately after the auspicious event the palace band played a 11111eCOM1011 of lively festal aim in the ante court of the barrio in hcno• r tf this addition to the imperial family." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom out owN wirr.) EVENING. The legitimist and papal journals—Gazette de France, Union, Ami de /a Religion, and Mande— loudly express their disappointment at the witL drawal of the French fleet from Gaeta, and, not withstanding all their hectoring about the valour and determination of Francis H. and the strength of his fortifications, they evidently look upon his cause as lost, and are prepared to fix the responsi bility of his fall upon his late " best friend," Na poleon 111. They affect to be most especially shocked at the blunt avowal of the Afoniteur that the only object of the obstructive intervention was to "cover the retreat" of the " unfortunate " King, thereby showing that the French Emperor had a settled opinion from the very first as to his chances of success. The Gazette de Prance " blushes" to hear the unoontradicted assertion that remon strances by the English government have had some thing to do with the recall of Admiral de Tinan's fleet. The Prase, though having the explanatory paragraph in this day's Monastic before its eyes, writes is the following doubtful and curiously cautious manner about the new system of recruiting recently announced by the Monitear de rAr„,se The question is here and there discussed whether this new combination, which, in point of fact, calls the whole contingent into active service, is more warlike than pacific. It would be difficult for us to give our readers any detailed explanation on this point. All that we can now say is that the tand,Thr system, praiseworthy in an eeooomical point of view, is not necessarily more menacing in France than on the other side of the Rhine. The Havre journals speak of a new order for 200 gunboats having been given to private builders. Mgr. Saoconi, the Pope's nuncio, who some time since left Paris under circumstances which were thought almost to imply a diplomatic rupture, is now, they say, coming back. The Pays gives it as positive that he will be at hia post on January 25 ; but the Pcdrie, less affirmative, says "it appears to be thought that he will quit Rome" about that time. Both the above journals have received the news that the electoral circular of the Sardinian cabinet appends to its pacific programme a solemn promise to use every effort to obtain a favourable solution of the questions of Rome and Venice by diplomatic negotiation. The French papers state that M. Hall, the Danish minister of foreign affairs, has sent three identical notes to the representatives of Denmark at Paris, London, and St. Petersburg, with a view to call the attention of the three great powers, par ties to the protocol of London, to the direct threats contained in the recent proclamations and speeches of the new King of Prussia. I am disposed to think that this is the only foundation for the news that France, England, and Russia had actually espoused the cause of Denmark against Germany in the Schleswig-Holstein question. The Bourse was heavy, but a little firmer at the close than during the greater part of the day. The Rente fell sc. both for cash and account, closing at 67fr. 20c. Mobilier fell 3fr. 75c. Railways were a shade better. The Louis Napoleon Docks were quoted to-day for the first time under their new name of " Magasins Generaux." Eight old shares go to form a new one. The 3fr. per 100 kilogrammes differential duty upon sugars abolished yesterday was the last yes. tige of the protective colonial system. This duty had been found by experience to be a complete failure, even in a protectionist point of view. Nevertheless, the Union pathetically exclaims, " What will now become of the colonies l " THE INUNDATIONS IN HOLLAND. (IRON .1 CORRIESPOND/C(7.) ROTrERDA-11, JAx. 15. If the diitrehr of the homeless poor in London is great at this inclement season, that of the inhabitants of the district through which the river Waal wends its course to join the Mame is frightful to an extreme. In the be ginning of January it was observed that the vast accumu lations of snow in this district was musing the rise of the river to a dangerous extent. With anxiety and dread the inhabitants' watched the daily increase of the invading waters, now laden with immense masses of ice, and strenu ously exerted themselves to strengthen the resistance offered by those artificial beeriers by which alone Holland is preserved from total submersion. But still the flood rose, and the ice.masses formed themselves, as it were, into huge battering-rams, pressing with their irresistible strength against the dikes and dams. The sound of the church bell, clear and ominous in the frosty air, kept telling the sad tale of imminent danger, and warning all who could labour to aid in tho good cause and those who could not to prepare for the worst. Higher and higher rose the waters, and soon the surface of the ponderous shifting ice-man stood within half an inch of the dike-level. Good God ! should it rise that half-inch higher, their cottages, their cattle, their provisions, their all would become a prey to the unsparing havoc! Then rose to heaven many a prayer for help—for mercy ! At last a bulging out in the dike directed the anxious gaze of all to one spot—for the waters were pressing bard upon it. With the strength and energy of despair they tried to stay the progress of the flood as it sought egress from its narrow channel into their fields and dwellings. Xerxes as well tried to bind the ocean in chains. Suddenly the dike yielded, and the waters poured through—the ice-masses end the flood rose above it, and swept on in their terrific course, submerging fields, haws, and cottages, drowning the cattle, destrm Mg all. The aged and the sick, the women and children, sought a refuge in their attics, where, benumbed with cold, without bedding, elothes, fire, or provisions, they had to pass days of inexpressible terror—of horrible starva tion. For a long time it was impossible to approach them, mid it is feared many 44 cottage has been swept away in the flood, and its inhabitants frozen to death on the lee-elusive. One family of seven persons was roamed from the attic in which they hail eought shelter, so thoroughly exhausted by cold and hunger that they could not even answer the questions of their deliverers. A poor mother, with her infant, to which she Lad given premature birth, was lying in bed in the bleak attic of her homely dwelling, while her husband, from as aperture in the roof, sought, by cries and signals, to attract the attention of a few brave men, who at the imminent risk of their lives were endeavouriog to make their way between the ice-blocks in order to rescue some of their perishing fellow creatures from destruction. They went to the poor fellow's help, descended into the attic through the aperture in the roof, through which they returned, bringing with them the mother and her babe. It With time, for the waters had already risen to within two inches of her bed. The distress and alarm of these districts ern great, for the evil may have only commenced. Should a sudden thaw set in, or the wind blow fiercely from the north-wear, God knows what additional misery and destruction will ensue. Subscriptions are pouring in from liberal hands for the relief of the suffering thousands, cast by this calamity in penury on the world. But it will require the expeuiliture of barge sums to provide for even their more pressing necessities. Even as I write, fresh in telligence arrives from the inundated districts detailing additional scenes of wretchedness—people dying from hunger and cold ; their houses cut away by the ice, as cora is mown down by the harvester's scythe : a church which had stool hundreds of years swept down, as • puff of wind s weeps down a house of cards ; and the prospect is even yet mare fearful. IfolLsiel has often suffered much from inun duties* but never within the ...eirezy of living man has en inundation beeu ivevainatied eith as reach dietress eau sk• struction —with so much heartrending grief and drsapar. 464NDONMZNT OP TH. SHIP HIACCLTS. Yesterday Captain Halsted, the secretary of Lloyd's, received a despatch from the Board of Trade, an sauteing the absadonment of the British ship Hercules: " British Consulate, New York, Dec. 31st, 1800. "Sir,-1 have the honour to acqu a int you, for the infor mation of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of the wreck and abandonment at sea, on the 18th inst., of the barque Hercules, of London, Captain Thome Hoehn' s, meter, bound from Quebec to London, with a cargo of timber and deals. The master and crew were res cued and taken from the wreck by the ship America. of New York, Captain John E. Satter, master, bound from Liverpool to this port, and were landed here and pitued in my custody this " The Hercules a = r lrom Quebec. on November 15, and after a succession of heavy gales became completely water logged on December 10, the crew retreating to the top, where they had sec ured some provisions for two or three days. Notwithstanding the decks were completely swept, boats and spars carried away, and the deck burst up, the master succeeded in drifting the ship with a chain table, and made sail standing to the eastward, until the 18th, when the American was fallen in with. The greater part of the Hercules crew insisted on abandoning the ship, notwithstanding the entreaties of the captain, who offered them rewards to stand by her, but they would not. From the reports of Captain Santa, as well as of Captain Hoskins, I consider the men behaved in • cowardly, tf no: is a mu tinous manner, sad I have refused to subsist theta at the publi expense.—l have, fee., (Signed) " E. M. ARCHIPALD A2ting-Consul." The Hercules was insured at Lloyd's. Among coming entertainers, M. Musard, Paris, is announced to hold promenade concerto in St. James's Hall. The first conversazione of the Musical Society will take place on the TM, at St. James's Hall. On making up the accounts of the last Norwich Festival, it appears that a surplus of 916/. is the result. The new opera house in Paris is to be designed in competition, open to all the world. _ _ The first meeting for the season of the members of the Royal Institution took place yesterday evening, on which occasion Professor Tyndall delivered a lecture " On the Action of Gases and Vapours on Radiant Heat." M. Menlet, since the foundation of University College, London, Professor of the French language and Literature, and well known ea the author of many educe. tional works, has resigned the put he ham held for ho many years with honour to himself and benefit to the college. The council expressed, at their session on Saturday last, their extreme regret at losing his services. Mr. Hawkins is now retiring from the keeper ship of antiquities at the British Museum. Mr. Birch, u senior offloer, will succeed him ; but great changes (says the AtAenauss) in the administration of this department are expected. Mr. C. T. Newton, who left the British Museum to made in the Levant, and whose researches at Nitylese, °Woe, and kialicarnaams are so well known, has quitted the Comdata at Rome, sad returned to settle in Loodot. Mr. Holman Hunt's picture " The Finding of Oar Reviver in the Temple," lam been removed from the German Gallery for a period of about two months, in order that it may be placed in the hand, of the engraver ; ►t the expiration of that term it will be again exhibited. "These are early days," says the /thistrfik./ Times, "to speak of the next Exhibition, but, from all sides, we bear news that promises an excellent picture show. Mr. Hook bas been in Cornwall and has three pictures in hand, of which those wko have seen them speak in the highest terms. More of these ►non ; safficient for the pre. sent to say that the subject of the principal picture is 'The Departure of the Cornwall Smacks for the North Sea Fish ing.' Mr. E. H. Ward has shaken off the apathy which seemed to beset him, and is at work on a picture which will not only restore him to his former position in the eyes of the public, but will greatly increase his fame. Mr. Phillips is away in Spain, and Mr. O'Neil is going, it is said, to Australia in no emigrant ship, for the purpose of studying character on board. But the greatest news of all is that Mr. David Roberts, instead of dying away,as is his wont, to Spain, or Italy, or the Holy Land, has been spending the autumn in London, and employing bin time in painting our giant metropolis as seen from the river. London from the Thames (at least, modern London) has never been painted. and Mr. Roberts is said to be as delighted with his subject as there is no doubt the public will be with l his work." The first liampatead conversazione was held on Thursday. Sketches:were exhibited by Messrs. C. Has& ke. ; paintings from the hands of both the Mein". Chalon, T. Feed. Nicol, and others; and many drawings contributed to the Old Sketching Club by Messrs. Chalon, Stanfield, Roberta, Ac. Mr. Frith bas undertaken a commission to point • picture representing the departure of a railway train - to contain an immense number of figures and inci dents ; this is to be upwards of ten feet long. The price to be paid for it is unprecedented. Mr. A. Solomon (says the A thsnrrusi) has brought, as fruits of his tour in the Pyrenees, six pictures— one representing some English artists sketching the peasant girls of a place visited by the painter ; next, the visit of a Sister of Mercy to an old woman who is spinning; another, showing a girl carrying • large sheaf of box-tree boughs on her head fur fuel ; • fourth represents a girl with a distaff. Two others are of Iles importance. All have been painted from nature. Mr. Simeon Solomon is eagaged on a picture of Ruth and Naomi. It baa been stated that various objects found by M. Lenormant in Greece and Syria had been *lint to the Louvre. Among them is a marble bust of a priest of Eleusis, wearing the hair in sacerdotal fashion—such as is described in books, but never before seen represented in a work of art ; se% end bas-reliefs and inscriptions ; some Pital . Indian articles of jewellery; and lastly, the arms of a war rior of the hordes of Mark, which were found in an exca vation at Eleusi%. The }Wile dee Beaux Arts has also re ceived from M. Lenormant sixteen large boars containing model.' of ancient sculpture, and among them one of the principal fronts of the eastern frieze of the Temple of Theaeus, representing the expulsion of the Pallantides from Attica. A memorial, very respevtably signed, has been (meanie,' from this town to the Duke of Newcastle fear the Leieratv Afrecury) as colonial minister, on behalf of Anderson. the fugitive slave, who has been recently tried be/on-the Canadian Court of Queen's Beuch, and sentenced by that court to be given up to the Southern slaveholders, praying the duke to give immediate instructions to the Canadian authorities not to surrender him without an order from her Majesty's government. . _ DEATH Or TELE DEAN OF EX ETER.—The Very Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe, M.A., Dian of Exeter, died at hie residence, it. the Close, Exeter, on Thursday morning, about 7 o'clock. DEATH Or MRS, STANLEY.—Mtn. Stanley died of acute bronchitis on Thursday morning at l o'clock:, to the and of her daughter, Miss Emma Stanley, who had been throughout unremitting in her attention. Mrs Stan ley via. in her eisty-ninth year. Ac an actress she en joyed for a considerable psnod the favodr of the public, and fur many years remained a member of the Haymarket company, where btu) held an important position as the representative of matronly eliart,tent in tragedy and comedy. Mrs. Stanley was the granddaughter of John West Dudley Diggs, a member of the noble Lunar of De La Warr. Her maiden name was Fleming, and in her early life she gained a prominest statics on the boards by her fine Her appearance, as well se by her histrionic talent. Her husband, Mr. George Stan ley, has been dead eene year , . He wee an excellent actor, and at one time divided public favour with Mr. William Murray, of Edinburgh. Mies Emma Stanley, since Monday, had been compelled to suspend her representation of "The Seven Ages of 'Vomit," at the Egyptian Hall. The im portant all that her mother, Mrs. Stanley. tendered is facilitating the rapid changes of costume dulling the enter tainment, constituted her, though unseen, a moat indis pensable adfunet.—Ere. AN OLD AsTRIAN IN THE WOKKHOVIE.-111 the Bl ac kb urn aorkhouse are 82 inmates whew , united ages amount to years, or an average age of 75 years, and 13 dale. Tin oldest female, born iu 1772, is named Miss Ann Slaiuley, who, for upwards of 50 years. delighted the busy thousands a‘sembled at the country fain, else having bean en actress at Mr. Wild's Travelling Theatre during that king period. The old lady is comfortably homed mad well taken ears of. ST. PHIL' Ps, BrrliltAlsOßEEN. —For several vesirs the poor of thin district parish and the children of all the schools have been entertained by the incumbent, as moo after Christmas Day as possible, with the fare which custom has consecrated to the season. On Tuesday evening last the children of all the schools, nati ona l, hsga . eilolay, Sunday, and evening Khoo); after plummiko and tea, and Port' singing and speeches, received prizes (which had been sus pended all the evening from Christmas trees before them) according to their merit*, and when, no prize had been merited each had a little presents ()s the evening of New Year's Day 503 of the destitute poor sat down to a dinner of beef and plunipodding, with the etceteras, in the new schools In Oub-row. After the dinner severs! speeches were delivered on I.llbi cts 1 . 1 m nort , -1 with the none stir life and daily duties of the hearers. the • weal' be a soak who abou Meet .haw been Tina Prop Pa noon of fic walk' tow tbrei Lowe WC.= Scn oonYi( mitto A t Hem. street. Elizat The that th that le notwit ant di earious teen ca the eat respect peace f The TITE RI Clan placed Lampe Baru the p about the fa abe hai taken t wafer Mr. N chaplain sense of .v , .. Hydepa ing polio Sottor the defei hind him meant h: geutlemi of one, and it ci Mr. T stable's) tempt at The o fondant 1 the back very dru Mr.E a Wound dine the kir. Ti Passed ol