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

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Aldus dl Mod& the celebrated ter vim Darsess.—And NUT DOOL—Oemaeae• at ball- pad?. SILITANIILL MaNCE JONATHAN WILD.— The Halbuin Aida—N W -11LY MONSON. Mrs. H. Tared& Km W. Cranford, sad Kra B. Lau.—And TIII t !LOWE& Ilia Z. Clayton. —Cabussoce talt.gest & ZION WAS AT LONDON WOOL ?IH DA T VOIMill& IL Illa....AilmsiL IL 450. 10•Koasow—Mestasi. IL ea....AMomism TD. aft. LONDON, WEDIVESDAY, DEC. 12. Ir is cheering to find the liberal party of all hues and shades in France taking heart of grace, and accepting, neither with mock mo desty nor in sulky silence, the concessions an nounced by the decree of the 24th of November, and interpreted by M. os PLiSIGNY in a couple of Circulars to the Prefects. The second of these Circulars, which immunise the form of a chapter from an unpublished essay on the British consti tution, has not met with quite so grateful and flattering a reception as the first. The tone and temper of both these suggestive documents is candid and generous to a fault. This seems to be generally acknowledged. The new Mr.viirta of the Is - risme enjoys reputation, even among po -lit ical adversaries, for sincerity) and disinterested ness not always found among the intimate ad. herente of the Empire, and which lends to all his public declarations a dignity not always attain able by an ardent convert to Imperialism, such ea his immediate predecessor, M. Bittxurir. M. us PEBEIGNY, in short, has a reason for the faith that is in him • the faith in liberty under the Empire ; whic h to many of his country men seems almost as romantic a conception as love in marriage. It is probable that only one who was a Bonapartist when Bonapartism was in prison and in exile—a refugee creed, and a quasi republican doctrine, would pretend to justify this faith nine years after the establishment of the Second Empire. But as M. DX PRILSIGNY in his former Circular explained to the Prefects with perfect ease how nine years of what is invidiously called arbitrary power were an indispensable pre. face to a new era of public liberties ; so, in his latter may on the liberty of the press, he has no difficulty in proving, text in hand, that the laws which govern the pram in England are "a terrible " arsenal "—he might have added, of spiked guns and weapons out of date. It cannot but be flat tering to Englishmen, that a Minister of the First Empire should, with a fine Roman hand, talus up our constitutional history where HALLAM and Macarn.ar left it, and, while conveying instruction to French Prefects, throw new light on Dome obscure passages of English history. Our new Essayist has availed himself of a long residence in England to " penetrate himself " with the spirit of our laws and liberties ; and hu traces them back, by a natural principle of selection, to the troubled period of the accession of the House of HANONSR. Long after the abolition, or rather the expiration, of the censorship in 1694, and even after the consolidation of the Hanoverian dynasty—as late as 1819, and even as 1848, M. Ds Psiunowe notes with complacency that "the English Parlia ment did not hesitate to give to the Government "the means of forcing the jury to defend the " State ;" and he cites, as the latest production of the " terrible arsenal," a Bill parsed (for a single year) in 1848, by which • brace of Irish rebels were brought down and bagged. Although M. Di PEARIONT begins by bearing witness in very handsome terms to the " noble spectacle" of the liberty of the press, as it is openly exorcised in England, he manages somehow to leave an impression on the reader's mind that this liberty is of a comparatively recent growth, and exists at this moment by sufferance, and during good be haviour rather than by right. He is equally struck by the " extreme liberty " and " the rigour " of the law ;" and we need scarcely add, that it is on " the rigour " and not on " the ex " treme liberty " that he expatiates. French public writers will be consoled by the assur ance that after three revolutions they are not more than a hundred and seventy years behind their neighbours in the pursuit of liberty. Yet there is reason and truth in the distinction which M. us Premix . draws between free discussion of the policy of a Government or the acts of an Administration, and attacks on a reign ing dynasty, or the established order of the State. Nor can it be denied that party journalism in France from 1815 to 1851 has often struck at the established order of the State. This wee so under the Restoration, under Louis PHILIPPI, and during the brief crisis of the Republic; each petty in its turn—Legitimist, Orleanist, Republican, conservative or destructive —has in power maltreated, and in opposition abused, the liberty of the press. NAPOLEON L could not conceive any organized expression of public opinion in a country where it was the busi ness of the constituted bodies of the State to think, speak, and act. Neither CHARLIE X. nor Loots PHILIPPI found it possible to live with or without the liberty of the press. The reactionary press employed its liberty to destroy the Repnblic of '4B, and the Second Empire simply adopted the prin ciples of the First. The first right and dnty of every government is self-defence, and in France, unfortunately, no government for the last seventy years has com manded the free and full assent of an united nation, as the representative equally of right and fact. It is not only that in France the tendency of liberty has been always revolutionary, but that the pray tice of power hoe been always arbitrary. It is difficult to imagine the press enjoying a right of discuwing without restraint the acts of the ad ministration when the responsibility of administra tion is covered by a practically irresponsible Chief of the State. This, however, is the problem which M. na PESSIONY, with the utmost frankness and ben'•volence, invitee the independent press to solve. No doubt if the Minister were half es well persuaded as he ought to be that a dynasty founded on the national will, and ratified by the suffrages of eight millions of adult Frenchmen, could have nothing to lose fronr a discussion of its very origin, In misfit ex change the system of " warnings" for aeon mare legal weapon borrowed from the " terrain " arsenal" of English legislation. Hut that happy confidence is still far off. For the present the French Frees must make the best of " the oppor " tunity of displaying their patriotism" which an amnesty for all past "warnings" be stows. M. DI PZILSIONY is fain to admit that in England, even in the worst of times, the press has suffered only from the extreme rigour of the law. He is far from proposing to imitate our severe legislation. The French press is to continue to live under no law, but at the mercy of any Minister whose ambition it may be to be remembered in history as a happy accident. In "the terrible arsenal "on this side of the water M. Di PERMIAN; in the whole range of his historical researches, has found nothing ana logous to an Imperial system which holds private property, public confidence, and administrative re sponsibility in the hollow of a Minister's hand. However, our French contemporaries will have the satisfaction of being killed (like old ladies' lap dogs) by kindness—not by rigour—if M. DI PEE SIONT remains in power. Nothing can surpass the friendliness and frankness of his language. He takes out the gag ; and puts a respirator into the mouth of the press, which is not yet strong 1 1 enough to suffer the keen air of responsible freedom. Perhaps, after all, our contemporaries are lucky in not recovering liberty by a decree. The one thing needful to them is law, however rigorous ; s jury, however loyal, in preference to a Correctional Police Judge who rates his sentences as so many steps to promotion. It may be better that the French press should look to the Chambers for its emancipation than even to the good graces of a Minister so generous and indulgent as M. DI PESSIGNY. erbe Court. WINDSOR cams, Dna. 1L The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh and Colonel Oliphant arrived on a visit yentas*. Her Majesty's dinner party also included Prince Alfred, Princess Altos, Primes Loma of Here, the Right Hoe. Sir Chula Wood, Major-General and Lady Emily Seymour, N Seymour, the Hon. Mrs. T. M. Biddulph, Sir Janne Chick, end Harm Von Weeterweller. The Inuid of the Scots Fusilier Claude pinyed dining dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the drawing-room. The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Prime Alfred, Princess Alice, and Priam Louis of ROM rode out on horseback this morning, attended by the Hon. Roily Cathcart and the Equerries in Waiting. The Prince Consort, with Prince Alfred and Aims Louis. left her Majesty in the Park and went out shooting. Si r Charles Wood had the honour of accompanying the Royal Torty. The 'Wettish Dhuleep Singh, Colonel Oliphant, and the Right Ron. Sir Charles Waal have lett the Castle. Viscount Torrington and the Hon. H. &Avail West have serenaded the Furl of °Lithium, and Cokeel the Hon. A. Liddell as Lord sad Gram ia Waiting. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yrter day. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, `The Weermouth and Loudon," waa concluded. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " The Icledom and A. if Stevens" was commenced. I;Wipateiieewere re;:eived at the Crdonial-officie yetterday from the Lord High Ooewainaleeer of the 1012i1112 Weada Deepat, bee were tent to the Governors of Matte and Gibraltar. (MDR LAM MOWS GL WINDSOR CARYL; Dna & -Thi n day had audience of her . Majesty Excellency the Count Rudolph Appou matessallor from the Emperor of Amelia, to deliver his • to whirl audience he wee intro duced by the Eight Hon Lord John Russell, her Majesty'. hincipal Secnkbry of State for Foreign Affairs. WAR-0 1 = Die. IL—The Queen heal been graciously to make sad ortkin a geol statute of the Most oneemble Order of the Beik for sppointing Lord Lyons, b Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plimipeasetiary to the United States of America, and the t Honoarable Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart., Ca sad Governor-in-Chid in and over the Province. sf Oaasda, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, sad the blended Prince Edward, and Governor-General of all her Majesty'. provinces in British North America, and of the Inland d Prince Edward, to be extra members of the civil diviaion cif the sesond elms, or knights commanders, of the mid Mast licereaulde Order. WHITIMALL, Die. 10.—The Queen has been phoned to direst letters patent to be pawed under Shapes& 'sal, granting the dignity of • knight of the Caked King dom of Great Braids and Ireland unto Jaen Edouard Itmono, Eaq., Eat peals* judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of Mearities. The Queen has also been pared to direct lettere_ patent to be pseud under the great seal, panting the dignity of • Ithight of the United IC.dom of Oreaa Britain and Ireland unto Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Soots Ww4E, Beog.l Engineers, Superintendent of Tri ,, and Surveyor-General of India. WHITEMALL, Doe. 10. —The Queen ham been pleased to appoint David Robertson, of Indykirk, in the shire of Beranek, Eaq., to be her Majesty's bandeaux% and Sheriff Principal of the said shire of Beryl* in the room of Jamas, Earl of Liederdale, deceased. Foamw-omen, Die. i.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Anson Gonzales Zebala ea Coo. sul at Malta for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. Foams-omea, Dec. 11.—The Queen has been paa?usly plowed to appoint Lord . Napier, _now her Ma jesty s Envoy Extraordinary and Munster Pknipotentary to the Lug of the Netherlands, to be her Majesty's Am. losieador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of AR the Russian; hr John Fawns Crum toe, K.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Paul. potentiary to the Emperor of All the Roexias, to be her Ma jeetv s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain Sir Andrew Buchanan, K.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary to the Queen of Spam, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands ; and John &vile Lumley, Req. late Se eretazy 4, her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinop le, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Embus,' at Bt. Petersburg. Fuemx-once, Dee. 11.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Daniel M. Hackies to be Consul Ist Cape Town for the United States of America. A contemporary states that the bishopric of Worcester has been offered to end declined by Archdeacon Law. The Duchess of Montrose will leave Belgrave square early next week on a tour on the Continent for a few weeks. The Earl and Countess of Stratlbroke ha►e arrived in Belgravenquare from Manila= Hall, Suffolk. The Earl of Jersey, who has been seriously indisposed for muss days pan at Eton, M, we are glad to learn, programing fa►ourably towanle recovery. The Countess of Cork has left Marston House en &Ads to bar niter, lAdy Margaret Beaumont, at Sylvan Hall, Northumberland. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will leave Ounbridge Home tomorrow for Broadlands, where her ladyship intends to receive mousey next week. Viscount Castleroese liar taken a house in Bel grave-square, late the residence of Sir Robert and Lady Easily Pea. Viscountess Ashbecok has left the Burlington Hotel, °ark-street, for Oxford. Count Blondoff has taken a residence in Eaton- Lady Bateman gave birth yesterday to a daughter. at his lordship's residence is Lower Brook street. Her kidyship and her infant daeghter are going ea favourably. Lord and Lady Chelmsford and Hon. Miss Thesi pe have returned to town from visiting the Marquis and Marchiouees of Salisbury at Hatfield. Lord and Lady Headley have left Orford House, Barmy, for Brighton. Lady Hermione Graham was confined yesterday morning of • ma, at the Doke of Somerset's official mei. deuce, Whitehall. Lord Arthur Hay has arrived in town from Yeager HOMO. fladdiggtonshire. Use ladyship remains at Yeller Roam. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel and Lady Julia Has have len Lyons on a tour in Spode. 81r Joeeph Hawley has arrived at his residence is Eaton place, from Scotland. WEDNESDAY E' • LA k TFaST TfiI f naLIGINCE .• GAJITA. A letter of the sth, freed the Piedepiontese quatt 'ten outside Gaeta, in the P'erae, Nays It was only by way of experiment that some of S. Piedmont's. lotteries of Monte-Portola opened fire two days ge. There were only 27 guns used, but from tie &sage does in the batteries of Ifeate-Orlando, as ides may be formed beforehand of what the West of the bombardment will be when Gemmel Cialdini shall open Are with the 107 gam which be is about to phase in palace. The artillery of the place replied with a very heavy are, which has gone on increasing since the besieged were able to discover the works which the Piedmontem had executed ea the aide of the isthmus and boyced Youto-CAmea. Our losses have, therefore, sensibly inaremed dories the hot four days. The hospitals, partienlarly that of the Borg*, are already full of wounded, sad accommodation is being prepared for others. POLAND. A letter from Warsaw, in the Breslau Gaze. tte, rays: On the 21)th ult., the anniversary of the Polish revolu tion, several persons had ordered a funeral service to be performed in the Carmelite church of Warsaw. Everything pared off quietly till the close, when the persons pre sent struck up a hymn in favour of the deliverance of their country and against its oppressors. The officiating clergyman vainly requested the parties to stop and the organist ceased playing, but one of the persons present took his place and accompanied the 'lacing. The mine parties intended to meet again in the evening, but when they reached the church it was closed. They then abominated the status of the saint at the church door, and an immense crowd collected. The same hymn was then repeated, some maxis kneeling to sing it. The crowd afterwards quietly dispersed, singing as they went • meg of which the berths. was " Poland is not yes lost I" There was no interference on the part of the police. FRANCE. PARIS, WILINVIDAT MORNING. The Manifeur publishes a decree, fixing the duty on dry vegetables and their meals at 25 centimes 100 kilogrammes, whether imported into France by sea or land, in French or foreign vessels, until the 30th of September, 1861. The vessels also will be free from tonnage dues. AUSTRIA. vziorxe. WID3II3DAT. The official Wiener Zeitang of to-day announces the appointment of Field-Marshal-Lieutenanta von Schmerling and Mertens as substitutes of the Minister for War. Count Emmericks-Miko has been provisionally appointed President of the Stadtholdership of Transylvania. THE= UNITED STATES. QUENNIMWN _TOMMY Ni.,.e The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com pany's steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Petrie, from New York on the tat inst., has arrived hers. She brings the Irish mail and 2,600 dole. in specie. On the Bth inst., she passed the ship City of Lincoln, waterlogged and abandoned. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tines states that the fears of • secession of Southern states were subsiding. Many Southern members of Congress had arrived in the capital with their families. The New York Herald says that the feeling for oeaaiou in the South had not abated. Advice' from Havanuah are to the 27th ult. The sugar market was dull. Freights inactive. The yellow fever was making sad havoc among the ship ping at Jamaica. NEW YORK, Nov. 30. Money abundant , but dull at 7 per cent. for loans ou can, owing to the want of confidence. Exchange:—Brokers bills, 104 to 106. Stocks opened steady, then relapsed, bet were again steady at the aloes. The Mowing an the latest quotations :—New York Centrals , 754 to f ; Erie d ra! m,..„„57, to f . State Stocks, f per cent. lower. Co unchanged. Pales, 500 bales ; middling Upland, 104 c. Flour heavy and irregular ; sales, 9,000 barrels. Wheat heavy sad lower. Cotton unchanged.. Sugar and coffee steady. Provanons lower. Freights firm. LATEST. NEW YORK, DEC L Stocks are dull and rather lower. Illinois Central, 57 ; Erie, 281 ; New York Central, 74j. Tho cotton market is dull. Shillling Upland is quoted 10}c. to 101 k. Bread stuffs are heavy, and all description have slightly declined. The market for provisions is heavy. Pork is hard of sale, and lower. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. M. The cotton market ia very dull. /diddling Ua declined to 91c. to 91e. The sales of the week amount to 45,000 bales. Receipts during the name period, 57,000; sad ex ports 40,000 halm Receipts below last year, 195,000 bales. Sterling exchange is quoted to prem. LIVERPOOL, WIDNZSDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Blanchester sailed to day for New York, with 7,6311. in specie. SOUTRAMPTON_ WIDIt iBDAY. The United States mail slimmer Fulton, Captain Walton, which sails to-day for New York, takes 49,490 L, all 3uvereignft, and nearly 200 passengers. 'VEI4(3I EXPRESS FROM FARM —7—e-- Dew mg own commarommar.) PARIS TGOIDAT The emplaned amnesty to the press in respect of all warnings scored up against it appears in the , Moniteur. The decree, however, does not apply to judicial condemnations ; but it is hoped—and, in- deed, scarcely doubted—that a further measure of clemency will relieve journals which, like the Gironde of Bordeaux, to whose case I alluded the other day, are on the eve of suppression merely on account of two trivial sentences. The clean sweep made of all old warnings would be of little conse quence if it were not the beginning of a new policy. Warnings have been wiped off over and over again, but the application of the system which generates them very soon got the majority of the newspapers into the old mess. The really important part of the present amnesty is that it conveys a promise that warnings will only be in flicted in future for " attacks upon the state"—an expression which, by the light of M. de Persigny's circular, must be held to mean attacks upon the Emperor's person and dynasty, and the principle of his government. This is a real and most extensive reform, for a perusal of M. Vingtain's interesting collection of warnings given since the coup d'etat will show that they were often inflicted for causes widely remote from attacks upon the state, and sometimes for the most trivial motives, such as "false news" of no consequence, or finding fault with a new manure recommended by a prefect. M. Nearer says, in the Prune, that it would be ungracious to doubt the boon announced by M. de Persigny, and its only criticism is that since there are no legal guarantees for the promises which the minister sincerely means to keep, the situation of the press is "more agreeable than regular." According to • rumour circulated by a semi official lithographed correspondence, the Emperor meditates another Jim Crow evolution with respect to Italy. It is said that he means to hark back to his Villafranca scheme of a federation, and to renew his proposal to the powers to meet in con gress, pointing out the "anarchy" in the Two Sicilies—an anarchy, by the way, greatly and pro bably purposely exaggerated by the telegraph, which took its details from a legitimist journal in the south of France—and the courageous resistance of Francis IL, as evidence that Italian unity is a chimera. A report emanates from the same source that M. Fonld is going to Italy on asecret mission. Telegrams have been received at Toulon, order ing the steam-frigates Moe and Eldorado to Alex andria with troops and provisions for the reinforce ment and revictualling of the French army in China. The Bourse, after opening with some animation, became dull at the close, and the Rente, which bad touched 69fr. 10c., left off at 68fr. 90c. (with a rise of 10c.) for caah, and at 68f. 90c. (with a fall of 5c.) for account. Mobilier fell 3fr. 75c. The Orleans Railway rose lfr. 25c., but the other lines were lfr. 25c. lower. Mgr. do Bruillard, ex-Bishop of Grenoble, who is 98 years of age, is very seriously ill at his chateau at Montfleuri. There are now no less than six vacant Nees in France. The Emperor does not fill them up because he knows the Pope would not confirm his appointments. This state of things cannot last much longer. The Emperor must either reconcile himself with the Pope or become a new Henry VIM A frightful accident has just occurred at Vienne on the Rhone, on the occasion of the inauguration of a new statue of the Virgin. A platform gave way, and upwards of forty persona were seriously injured. It is not stated that any lives were lost, but among the wounded are Mgr. Fransoni, Arch bishop of Turin, the Bishops of Valencd and Vivien (the latter has a leg broken), the sub-prefect of the department, and the curd of Vienne. F, DECEMBER 12, s SOU4WARK ELECTION. DECLARATION OF TM POLL.-(THIS DAY.) The formal declaration of the results of the above eleetien was made this ramming at Taylor's Repository, 'Elephant and Castle , by William G res h am , E sq., Hi g h IkalitL A space had been railed off in one of the galleries for the borough officers, candidates, and their immediate friends, and a large crowd assembled in the body of the building. The excitement was, however, considerably less and the proceedings more orderly than in the earlier stages of the election. Mr. Layard was received with hearty cheering on his appearance, and there were some calls for Mr. Scovell, but that gentleman did not attend, an apology being made for him on the wore of indisposition. Mr. GRIISHAY (the high bailiff), having obtained silence, announced that the numbers for A. H. Layard, Esq., were 4,72-(great cheering).-and for George Scovell, Esq., 3,377, the majority for the former being 1,195. (Continued cheering.) Mr. Layard had therefore been returned as member to represent them in parliament. (Loud cheers.) Mr. LATAID then WOG forward and the cheering was loudly repeated and maintained for several minutes. The electors had, he said, nobly redeemed the pledge which had been given him on his first coming forward. He had been told that he should be returned without a farthing of expense, and solely upon principle and public grounds. He bad come down to contest the borough in a manner worthy of an English gentleman and of a great and enlightened constituency. Hs had carried OD the contest in that spirit, and the constituency had in a similar spirit supported him. (Loud cheers.) At one time a great deal had been said about local interests, and it was sought to make the election a matter of personal interest. But he had a different view of local interests. He believed that local interests, properly understood, were identical with the great Interests of the nation. (Cheers.) He had been accusal of sneering at vestries, but had done nothing of the kind. He even liked Lord M ayor's shows (oh, oh)-at least, he liked uncommonly the turtle with which they usually terminated. (Laughter.) He liked these shows, and he liked vestries, because he knew that municipal institutions were the cradles of public liberties, and that whenever they were absent, and neutralisation pre. veiled, liberty was not He hated centralisation. (Loud cheers and some interruption.) If the gentleman who in terrupted was a friend of Mr. Scovell's he had only to tell him that he entertained no feelings of animosity against that gentleman. They had had a fair stand-up tight for the borough and he (Mr. Layard) had won, but ' now that the battle was over, he wished to retain noue but friendly feelings towards everyone. (Cheers.) He be lieved that if local interests were made the highest claim of a candidate on a constituency the imperial pa rlia ment would soon sink into contempt, and cease to be the interpreter of the sentiments of the country and the admiration of the civilised world. What Englishman could refuse to postpone his private interests to the public good! (Hear, hear.) Mr. Scovell's arguments relative to the local character of the city members toll against himself, for it proved that the local interests of the metropolis were already fully hid, and that it was time some men were returned solely on public ground/. At present the army, the church, the law, and the merchants were represented-all classes, in fact: but one, and what clam was that? Why, the working man's c lass (Land cheers.) He (Mr. Layard) felt that this plea of local interests was merely another plea for capital. (a; roans.) Were they to make the House of Clow- Mona an asylum for superannuated capitalists ? (Load cheers and laughter.) If the capitalists were to be everything how was the working man to find his way into the House of Commons! (Hear, hear.) Local interest meant money, meant the hiring of public-houses, the handing of five-pound notes in envelopes to electors. (Laughter.) But of what use was such a system as that in snob a borough as Southwark? In a few days they would know what the election had cosh He had not bad even a lawyer -he meant no offence to his friend on his left. (Loud cheers.) Even the check-clerks bad given their services gratuitously. (Hear, hear.) If then this borough could be gained without anything but legal expenses, which by the way were still far too high, there would soon be a chance for the working men to get into parliament (Cheers.) He had not brought down a crowd of men who from their faces and condition he be lieved to have come from the sister island, to hoot, to howl, and to bring disgrace on election proceedings. (Loud cheers.) What was the great argument used by the tones! It was that if you Lad great constituencies you would have incompetent men, because local interests would prevail, and bemuse it was generally such men who had meet local interest-(a laugh)-and that if you wanted competent men you must have rotten boroughs. He had come down to oppose these local interests, and the result would he felt throughout the length and breadth of the land. If they wanted reform in parliament, let them reform the consti tuency, and that would in itself be a reform of parliament. He was proud of the result ; he was proud of his friends, and it only remained for him by his conduct in parliament to make them proud of their selected candidate. (Cheers.) Who was it that had won this Inksrman of the constituen cies ? It was the working man, as the state of the poll dur ing the dinner hour on the previous day proved. (Cheers.) He was glad that those petty intrigues which were a disgrace to the borough had failed, and he hoped they would never see them repeated. (Cheers.) Let them look at what had been the position of the working man during tho last few years. The working man carried the Reform Bill, but had Leas yet profited by it ? No. ("That is a fact.") The working man had astonished the world by his moderation in victory, and it was said now that he did not want any further reform bill. Because the working man was tranquil, ho was called apathetic ; because he did not disturb the country, or cow -1 mit breaches of the peace, or hold tumultuous meetings, it was said that lie was satisfied with the scanty political pri vilege he at present enjoyed. Wluitdid their opponents want? Did they want such demonstrations as the destruction of mills or manufactories? If they did, let them base it. (Cheer* and some dimmed.) They (the tories) seemed to forget the which the working man had made in intelligence during the last thirty years. They forgot what mechanics' institutionsend popular authors and the free press bad been doing in enlarging the mind of the working man. Bemuse he was quiet they believed him to be doll, whereas the fact was that never had the working man been more alive to his political interests than he was at the present moment. (Hear, hear.) The working man's improvement was, in fact, greater than that of any other class in the state, and his improvement bad compelled the improvement of other classes. He (Mr. Layard) was told that the intelligence of the working man was dangerous to the state. He scorned such so imputation. Take, for instance, the case of the volunteers. Had the agricultural classes supported that movement 1 on the contrary, was it not the great manufacturing towns who had filled ranks of the volunteers ? Who but workmen had raised the Ber mondsey corps! Look, again, at America. Sixty years ago the volunteer movement commenced there amongst the working men, and now it included the most enlightened chimes in the country. If the working men were armed and disciplined, and too wise to interfere or to allow their rulers to interfere in the domestic concerns of other countries, they could then insist on the reduction of extensive armaments, and the consequent abatement of taxation. They would here a voice in the disposal as well as in the paying of the taxes, and then they might hope for sonic reduction, but so long as the taxes were expended by an exclusive class, so long would the awe be hopeless as regarded any reduction. (Hear, hear.) Lot him take an iustance of whet the influence of the work ing man had already done with respect to foreign affairs. Fifty years since the working man of England had no voice in either war or peace, and the consequence was that the country was constantly plunged in extensive wars. Money was then lavished in millions, not to assert liberty, but to uphold tyranny and oppression. At that time there was not a despot who felt his throne to be tottering under him but he appealed to this country, and our governing classes were allays ready with the millions of the people's money to uphold him. (Cheers.) And what had they done for this country in return? Were we more liked on the Con. tinont On the contrary, we were hated. (Beer, hear.) Had the deepota ever done anything for us in return? (" Never.") How different had been the ease during the last three or four years, when the people, the working men of England, insisted on their voices being heard on foreign affairs. They had declared emphatically for the people and against the tyrants ; and one of the earliest demonstrations was made in the Borough. (Hoar, hear.) He was not going to pass an enlogitun on the conduct of Barclay and Perkins's men, but this he would say, that the spirit which bad moved them wan noble and praiseworthy. What had occurred in Italy ! France went there with her army, hut the people of France felt no interest, because they felt that their own liberties being compromised their government could not be in earnest in furthering the came of liberty anywhere. Heed* what had been the re cent conduct of France in Italy ! Every step France had taken since the great battles had been to im pede the progress of liberty. (Hear, hear.) If it were not for the recent conduct of France at Rome, NaOss, and Gaeta, Italy would at this moment bo free. (ild cheers.) Look, on the other hand, what had been the con duct of England? The people had prevented despot favouring wiry had prevented the levy of new taxer on their tea and sugar. but they had given that moral support to Italy which made that country what it was. (Hear, bear.) He could tell them that the greatest ge- ! morals and statesmen of Italy had declared that they owed more, and had gained more by the moral support of England than by all the armies of France. (Loud cheers.) Why was that! Because in the matter of Italy the working men of England had insisted on their voice' being heard, for it was a fact that the higher classes in this country gave all their sympathies to Austria. At a dinner. table at the West-end, be had heard nothing but svinpathy for Austria and discouragement for free dom, and it was only in such places as Southwark that there was any real sympathy for liberty. That denunciation of tie working men had reacted in the despatch of Lord John Russell. He did not mean his first despatch—(oh, oh !)—but the second, in which the noble lond, with the aid of Vattel and Grotius, proved so clearly that the Italians were fairly entitled to have the management of their own affairs. It might not have been necessary for the noble lord t, g„ back two hundred years to search for the opinions of %be., venerable bookwoesis of a Dutch university, but he should look to that despatch as a foundation for the creed of liberty both at home and *bread. He was going into p ar . lament unpledgetl, but Lord J. Russell and his policy should receive his disinterested support because the noble lor t l in his last despatch spoken the sentiments of the men of Southwark. (Loud cheers.) He warn not going into pa r . lament pledged to support the government, but he would support any government who represented the feelings of filo people of England. After some further observatiots, hon. member concluded by proposing a vote of thank s t, the High Bailiff. soote e tr Thezegroan apologised for the abs ence ~f M. who, he said, was physically unable to attend, and the proceedings terminated. The following is the official analysis of the polling in the different districts : &oven. Layard. Parish of Bermondsey 1,188 ... 1,944 „ ltotherhithe 240 ... 236 „ Christchurch „ St. George Bt. °lave and et Jahn 4lB ... 160 „ St. Saviour and St. Thomas 504 ... MO Total .. 3,377 ... 4,572 THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.-(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of this society t.x,k place at noon, in Hanoverequare ; the Earl of POWIA, president of the year in the chair. Amon g th ose p retest were Lord Berner% Sir J. Shelley, M.P., Mr. Lan gs t on , M.P.. Mr. Hayward Barker , Mr. W. F. Hobbs, Mr. Owes Willis, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Berthropp, Mr. H. Curbet, Mr. Fier% Mr. T. C. Morton, Ac. The CBAIIMAN, in opening the proceedings, adverted to the loss the society had sustained in the death of the links of Richmond, Who had, he said, three times filled the aloe of president, and always manifested se eat interest in the proceedings of the society and always did all in his power for the beuefit , of agricul ture. He regretted to say thst the meeting sl owi n g terbury involved some loss to the society, to the geographical situation of that city rela tively to the other leading towns. The importance of the district of Kent, however, justified the holding of the show there, and he anticipated that great benefit would result to agriculture. As regarded the selection of Leeds for the next show, he believed that that w ou ld prove • most satisfactory decision in a financial point of view. Mr. H. Hat Dias then read the following report " The council have to report that the society consists at the present time of 85 life governors, 95 annual governor, 1,098 life members, 3,651 annual members, and 18 honorary members, making • total of 4,942 names on the list. The zumnbers of the society will have shared with the council thWlr sense of the great loss they have sustained by the demi*e of the Duke of Richmond, one of the trustees of the society, and will loos cherish the memory of one who had filled three time* the office of president, and always evinced a warm interest in the affairs of the society. The council have elected the Duke of Marlborough to fill the vacancy among the trustees, and Mr. Owen Wallis, of Overtone Grange, Northampton, to supply the vacancy among the general members of the council, created by the resiguation of Lord Southampton. The statement of accounts for the half-year ending 301.11 June, 1860, has been approved by Messrs. (biller, Ball, and Co., public account ants. The funded capatalconsista of 12,000/. stock, and it is hoped that a large portion of the arrears of ,subscription, amounting to 1,472 t., will be shortly paid up. It is found that many members cease to pay their subscriptions under the impression that in this way they can terminate their membership ; but the council deem to remind them that by the bye laws all members ere bound to pay their annual subscription until they shall withdraw from the society by a notice in writing to the secretary. Every claim against the society has been discharged, • complete system has been introduced into the accounts, and the council feel confident in stating that the finances are in a favourable condition. It has been decided that a com plete list of the members shall be published in 1861. Since the last general meeting, Professor Voelker has delivered a lecture on oilcake, pointing out the composition and feeding value of different descriptions, and the means usually adopted for adulteration. The country meeting at Canterbury, though instructive in the varied character of the implements displayed and the nature of the live stock exhibited, did not prove successful in a financial point of view, and has entailed a considerable charge on the general funds of the society. The council have to acknowledge the hospitable reception accorded to them at Canterbury by the mayor, as well as the valuable and zealous assistance afforded by the mayor and corporation, and also by the local committee, in carrying out all nemeary arrangements. The council have settled the live stock and implement prize sheets for the country meeting, to be held next year at Leeds, and in addition to the usual prizes, classes have been introduced for Sussex cattle and Cleveland horses. The trial of implements in 1861, according to the quadren nial system in force, will comprise drills, manure distribu tors, horse hoes, hay machines, mowing machines, reaping machines, horse rakes, carts, and wagginut Prizes amounting to 2001. will be offered for the beet appli cation of steam power to the cultivation of the soil. The council have Axed that the Leeds meeting shall take place in the week commencing Monday, July 15. The implement-yard will be open on Monday morning, on the payment of ss. ; and the cattle-yard will be opened, with out any additional charge, as soon after 1 o'clock as the judges have concluded their labours. On Tuesday and Wednesday both yards will b e o p en a t 2 s . 6d. • on Thurs day sod } riday at Is. This arrangement will afford the necessary facilities to all climate of that populous district. The society have, from time to time, been favoured, by order of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with copies of despatches received by her Majesty's govern merit relating to the agriculture of Denmark, which will appear in the forthcoming number of the journal, and with otters drawing the attention of the council to the cattle disease, and to • plan for economising seed corn." Mr. S. Stormy, in moving the adoption of the report, contended that the course pursued for the encouragement of stock breeding required to be carefully considered, with • view to the adoption of improvements. The ob ject to be attained was, in some cases, pro moted by most extraordinary means. An illus tration of this was afforded by the feeding of young stock with large quantities of milk, stud he had even heard that it was not uncommon to give shorthorns who were to compete for prizes as much Loudon porter as they would drink. (Laughter.) He thought that efforts should be made to improve the breed of cattle in remote districts like Wales. By calling attention to the backward state of stock breeding and agn • culture in such districts the council would take the first step towards improvement. He then adverted to the de fective state of the dwellings of labourers generally, and contended that the council might legitimately institute an extensive inquiry on that subject. After some diacussios the report was adopted. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, TOZSDAT NIGHT. The African Mail steamer Athenian has arrived with advice* from the West Coast of Africa, 1,837 ounces of gold dust, 8,8001. in specie, and a full cargo, consisting of palm oil and ivory. Her dates are—Ferna nd o Po, Oct. 28 ; Cameroon, 30th ; Old Calabar, Nov. 1 ; Bonny, sth ; Benin, Sth ; Caps Coast Castle, 14th ; Sierra Leone, 41st; Teneriffe, Dec. 1 ; and Madeira, 3rd. The Athe nian brings no news of importance. Trade was dull, and the country quiet. Signor Mancini returned to England on Monday. Advises from Constantinople state that Omer Paths is eesionaly indisposed. The performance at the theatre of Niamey was Interrupted by a painful incident on Thursday last. After the flint act of the Pardon de Ploertnet, M. Brucker, the leader of the ortheetra, having gone on the Wage for some pupae connected with the performance, fell heavily to the floor in an apoplectic fit. Be was removed to his residence, where he died shortly after. The Charirari publishes a caricature, in which two Chimes mandarins are represented in the background in great affliction, while in frost two French soldiers appear in the utmost delight at beholding • silver piece of Mr. dancing about most joyously. "Ah I" cries out one of the soldiers, " that excellent Mr. piece. Here, then, it tune up again. Who could ever have imagined that it would have found • biding place in China!" " Ay," replies the other, "and see bow happy it wean to again beheld its aoontrimen.• A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" In society an affair which has occurred at the Cercle Imperial is the subject of much conversation. The cashier, or steward, I know not what is his right title, but a young man who kept a carriage and lived in grand style, has taken to flight, leav log a deficit of a hundred and some odd thousands of francs. This has caused great agitation in the club ; some members say that the Committee of Surveillance ought to pay for not having been sufficiently watchful ; others that the sum must be put down to the account of profit and loss." LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE ITALIANS.—A few Mihtneee, interpreting the eentiroenta of gratitude by which Italy is actuated towards her illustrious advocate before the Areopagus of Europe, have conosived the idea of promoting a general subscription. to be extended to all parts of Lom bardy (without, however, excluding the rest of Italy), for the purpose of offering to Lord John Russel!, se a grateful acknowledgment of his efforts for the national cause, a endue in Carrara marble, the work of the distinguished Milanese sculptor, C. Romano. The figure aymbnlisee the " Conviction of Italian unity," and represents a beautiful maiden in a sitting posture. On her arm she wears a brace let, on which is graven the motto, " Italia Una," and her eyes are intently fixed on a diadem which she boWs between her band+, and on which are executed in relief the memorial "miens of the various territorial divisions of hely.— Prospectus of Me Maoism. Container.. _ - The number of patients treated at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women sod Children, lidwerds-etreet, Fortmupeguare, during the week aiding Dee. 8, tree Mk et whack 1134 yen new eases. NAVAL AND MILITARY. (From last niAt's Gazette.) WAR OFFICE, PaiL-MALL, Dec. 11. Royal Reement of Artillary--Seeond Captain Charles Paulett Raton to be captain, vice 13ayly, removed to the supernumerary list ; Lieutenant William Janice Hall to be second captain, vice Raton ; Second Captain Brymer Francis Schreiber to be adjutant, vice Rotton, promoted. Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant George Le Breton Simmons, with temporary rank, to be lieutenant, with permanent rank. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederic Henry Baron Methuen, Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Militia, to be one of her Majesty's Aides-de-Camp for the service of her Militia Force, with the rank of colonel in that fuice. ADMIRALTY, Dec. G. Corps of Royal )farces—Pint Lieutenant Francis Walton to he capes* vies C. B. Paste, to half-pay ; Second Lieutenant Henry WMists Frampton to be first lieute nant, vies Walton, promoted. ADYISALTY, DZC. 11. —APPOINTMLNTR.--0011- mandato H. B. Bereeford, to the Bdinburgh, additional for service is the coast guard ; J. W. Webb sad G. B. H. (lora, to the Afar. additiona l for service in the omit sward. Acting Assistant-Surgeons Dr. J. Lewis and G. Clark to be additional to the Victory ; Dr. G. Monteath to the urn mortalitt ; W. H. O'Toole and J. F. Parr to be additional to the Impregnable. The undermentioned gentlemen have been nominated to naval cadetship. : —Mews. A. B. Brooke, A. M. P.. Hamilton, T. B. Howard., V. ICSOZ iar .i i Lawa, C. G. E. Michaelson, F. Moreland, J. C. t, J. W. Eames; the Hoo. Willonhliv, A. M. Bo es, C. B. B. smith, W. J. Talbot, C. Tufnell, A. Vaulter. and H. B. B. Wood. CHATHAM, Die. U. The following royal warrant, issued by command of her Majesty, was promulgated at the garrison this morning Victoria R.—Whereas it is expedient to remove any doubt as to the grant of field allowance at sixpence a day, under the provisions of our royal warrant, dated 16th August, 1866, being limited to the Loops of our army at the then seat of war, our will sad pleasure is that our said warrant is hereby cancelled—Given at our court at St. Jainell's. this 14th day of November, 1860, in the twenty fourth year of our reign,—By her Majesty :s command, S. lixasart." PORTSMOUTH, Dlc. 11. A court-martial assembled on board the Victory this morning to try Pnvate Joseph Mansell, of the Royal Marines, serving on board the Excellent, on the charge of striking Sergeant Hampton, his superior officer, on the morn ing of the t;th lost. The court was composed of Roar- Admiral Erskine (president), Commodore H. E. Edgell, Captains Fanshawe, Harris, O'Callaghan, Wilson, Coote, Eaton, and Hancock, together with W. J. Hillyer, Esq., Deputradge Advocate of the Fleet. It appeared from the endenee that the prisoner was on the day in question placed as a sentry over two boys, who were prisoners, and whom be had allowed to read books, kc., contrary to orders said to have been given. Sergeant Ibunpton reported him for so doing, and he was brought before Commander Her- hen, then in command of the ship, and by that officer was adjudged to be placed on the black list for Eve days. On receiving the sentence he stepped forward and struck Hampton under the ear. The sergeant fell, and before he could rise again the prisoner repeated the blow, in the presence of his commanding officer and of the commander of the ship. According to the evidence el the sergeant, corroborated by other officers of the ship, it ap peared that there was no written order prohibiting the prisoners from reading, but it was alleged that verbal direc tions were given to each sentry on going on duty, a state ment, however, which the prisoner denied. Mansell pleaded guilty, expressed Lis sorrow, and pleaded is extenuation, that Rampton bad on previous occasions given provocation, by reporting him without any just MM. The two boy. were called in his behalf, and stated that they had rend hooka in the presence of other sentries, with the knowledge of Sergeant Hampton, and had not been interfered with. The court, after an hour's deliberation, found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him to receive 48 lashes, and to he imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two vases. We understand that on Tuesday neat a court-Martial will be opened, to try the officers and crew of her Majesty's s h ip Perseverance for the loss of that ship on th e leips Ter& Wand._ Ths Megan, screw trOOP ship, Commander Henderson, arrived at lipithitail ysOoaay from the Mediterranean, from whence she broosia a number of passengers and invalids. This lands have bees transferred to the Victory, the serious Cu. Wag removed to Realm. Hospital. 1 RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION. (From the Dublin Evening Post.) DUBLIN, Tcsistur ETEmbrc. From the annount..*mmt made by Mr. Card well, the chief secretary, towards the oloae of last session, the public were prepared for the re• construction of the National Board. Greet interest and anxiety bad been felt sIS to the new appaintmentd, by which the equalisation of protestants and catholic& pro mised by the government would be accomplished. We have heard that the arrangements are not yet completed. but we have reason to believe that rumours which have been prevalent u to certain of the ►ppointments are well founded. It is said that Sir Thos. Bediogton, the Right Hon. John Hatchell, end Mr. James ()Terrell, retire from the board. and that Lord Dunraven will take the plwa of Sir Monis. !Winston ; Mr. Waldron, aL, M.P., that of Mr. James O'Farrell, and Mr. Serjeant lAwson that of Mr. Hatchell. The additional ►ppointments are—Cbief Justice Monahan, Chief Baron Pigot, Mr. John Leutaisoe, D.L., and Mr. John (Megan. We hear that there will be an additional presbyterian appointment, to complete the protestant representation of the board. MUSIC. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mr. Sims Reeves, whose place during three weeks past has been filled by Mr. Swift, resumed his part in ti a Hood last night, and was welcomed with the utmost angle. gym by a densely crowded house. At the fall of the cur tai• Mr. Reeves, Madame Sherrington, and the othc7 prin. cipal singers appeared before the footlights, in obedience to • loud and general summons. M. Charles Halle conducted. Two more performance. of Robin Rood (which thus achieves its 30th representation), and two of Italian opera, with Madame Titles and Signer u the " bring the pre-Christmas season to an end. Tho theatre will then close, and not reopen until " Boeing Night," for which propitious anniversary an English adaptation of Victor Masses Brine Topoze and other novelties are premised. A RARE EAGLE IN CORNWALL.—An inimatun . specimen of the spotted eagle tatiPti nerrin) wee Ort by the steward of Mr. F. Bold, of Trehartha Hall. in a large ensert adjoining the open and extensive nee.ri mxir the Cheeeewring and Kilmer. The wings, wing-oovartA. seapo laries, and shoulders are marked with oval-shaped soots of different sizes ; these spots denote the bird in the find and second years plumage, the spots wearing out with age. nearly one half the size of the golden eagle. We ht, 4lb. los. ; length, 27 in. ; extreme width, 5 ft. 5 in. !,