The Express. — London, England, 1860-02-07 00:00:00

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In the first plaos it seems that. according to the Wu -office, the number of Volunteers amounts to between 60,000 and 60,000 men, and that they are daily increasing. It was stated the other day that the numbers oo the let of January amounted to more than 70,000; but we should not be surprised to find that the Government estimate is nearer the fact than that of Mr.DODLET BAXTER. However, it is obvious that in either PM the force is a very ooneidersble addition to the de fensive resources of the country ; and it is quite large enough to demand a special organisatioc I Moreover, it is satisfactory totfind that the Vole's teen have not cootented themselves with debating about the colours of the uniform, or strutting about the streets in their new clothes. They have applied themselves with diligence to the drill ; and the UNDIR-SECRITART for WAR mune the country that the Vo winner corps have made surprising pro ver. and will to • short time, according to the opinion of competent military men, form very ell meet troops. It is only necessary to go and see some of the corps witch dri,i in London, and to observe the diligence and assiduity with which their members attend to it, to be coavineed that the opinion of the military men me no idle compliment. Indeed, it is abundantly clear that there is much more of the military spirit about our population than I. at first apparent. Young men join the VoinDICIIII from • venom, love of soldiering, and there can be little doubt that with judicious care the Volunteer corps may become • permanent institution. Much of the superiority of our Army deposits upon the fact that it is recruited by voluntary enlistment. No man becomes a soldier unless he has • genius for it. And the same principle of voluntary service is applied still more distinctly in filling the ranks of the Hale Vol un tears. True important question raised by Lord VIVIAN Islet night concerned the amount of pecuniary assist ance which ought to be supplied by the Government. Only a few days sin.," a e ventured to caution the MI "IMES of WAR against spending any considerable sum of public money on the Volunteer. The force is essentially a free-will offenog in its character, and it is clear that the larpr number enrolled are dented from the upper and middle cisme. They are just the per or who can afford to pay fat themselves. The Government therefore very wisely refuse to supply the Volunteers with clothing, or with butts and practising ground'. Nor do they profess to pay daily wegee to the oluuteer artillerymen. Indeed, if such aid were afforded, it te difficult to pee in what respect the r..luntters would C ffer from this regular Militia, tact pt in the time during which the latter require to serve. For consider the assistance which the Government do propos" to afford. At present every Volunteer r.thman is supplied with his arms and hi* eaimuniion : the MOW Is done for the artil lery. Besides this, it is proposed that the various companies throughout the connicy shall be instructed by drill eery/sets, and fur this purpose a plan is in contemplation by which soldiers who have left the Army may be used se instructora. This is evidently a vital point. The expense of paying a sergeant for every group of riflemen le, very considerable, especially is those *entry districts where the towns and villages are smell and scattered. But the eingeant's drill is the foundation of the whole system, sod unless three teachers can be made to penetrate to the remotest districts, the ride movement must be wetland to the larger and more populous pieces. TOO Government, therefor*, will am most judicionsiy 1.• man drill sergeants. The next thing is ti °onset mattered companies ot fractions of tomplales into battalions. This will be • considerable difficulty. For where men are employed in business it is no easy matter to find a time at which all shall be disengaged. At the same time it is es sential that the twrety or thirty or even ten from each village 'balk be able to unite themselves and to act together. Volunteers to be of any are as a defensive form most act in • body, and be ready to obey the command of one man. Now, es we under stand the government plan, there will be an In spector to define the limits within which the battalion is to recruit its companies ; and this Inspector is to be assisted by six Assistant-Inspectore. In addition to these, each battalion is to be furnished by the Government with a paid adjutant—a regular military man. If the various companies supply themselves with officers oat of their own ranks, they will do as much as can be expected of them. The seesseity of appointing a military man se adjutant- to commend in fact the battalion— is a matter of obvious necessity. And the only thing the public need insist upon is, that this adju tant shall be a capable officer. No doubt hosts of ►alf-pay officers will gladly accept the post. With regard to the inspection, the wisdom of this part of the scheme is somewhat doubtful. Colonel' It'Muatio, the Inspector-General, is an able man, and in command of the Military Train showed eminent ability. But what shall we my of his six assistants ? Inspectors is an ominous term. The word stinks in the nostrils of the British public. Ave there not enough of Inspectors already !) There is one for the lafeatry, one for the Cavalry, one for the Guards. la sheet, they exhaust the nomenclature of the Staff. Some are chief, some are assistants, some are deputies, some are assistant deputies. If there is one matter in which the British constitution shows a plethora it is in the matter of inspectors. And one of the reforms most needed in the Staff of the British army is to reduce this excess. Mr. SIDNIT HERBILAT will have difficulty enough to maintain the Staff as it is without adding six or seven more to its ranks. In every other respect it seems that in this Volunteer movement the Government have acted with prudence and economy. The question is, whe ther these six Assistant-luspectois might not be dia pulsed with, leaving their duties—if indeed they will have any—to be performed by some other functionaries. NOBLE speakers in the House of Lords ars very sen sitive to the scandal which they conceive is brought on the government by the continuance of disorder at Bt. George's-in -the-East. Lord Blocclistes piety is shocked by the desecration of that church, but we Wes from his speech what we should have valued more than his sentiment --- his opinion of the relation of the law to the case. We should have been glad if his lordship had explained why the Imperial Government should be held responsible for the state of that perish, and whether it would have been equally bound to interfere if the riots had taken place in a church at Manchester or Leeds, or whether there is one rule for town and another for the country. Tilers is a general law applicable to these parochial derangements; if it is not sufficient, let it be amended. A most extraordinary doctrine was put forward by both the noble Lode who spoke lint night on this subject—the doctrine that the putting down of this nuisance has nothing whatever to do with the causes oat of which the disturbesose arose. That is to say, the government is to allot its eyes and use force. This is the Austrian system, and will not do for England. Noble lords who are petulantly emphatic about " this nuisance—this disgraceful nuisance," should recollect how many years the worshippers of St. George'rein-the.East have had to endure, without the least hope of aid from their lordships, the nuisance of having Popery flaunted in their faces at their own parish church, or of having to wander elsewhere in search of a Protestant service- To refuse to look at the causes of the disorders in that parish is to retries to understand the remedy. A strange mob is at St. George . .., bewares the proper congregation is absent. Bring beck the coagregatics —and nothing is easier -and the mob will slink away. No other plan will be efficacious even to the paltry end of " putting down scandal." The Secretary to the Memorial to Sir Gamma C. on this subject, calls our attention to the fact that that document is not an expression of party opinion, but has been signed by persons "of all mike " and VaTiONS religions views, amongst wham are " noblemen, dignitaries of the church, members of " parliament, Queen's counsel, &c., &c." We had already remarked the fact. In the list of the general committee forwarded to tit, we had been struck with the aide range of the siguaturee. There is the British plenipoten tiary at Hanover ; • Professor of Arabic at Cam bridge ; • member of the Guards' Club; a canon of Jesus College, Oxford; the inevitable vicars of Frome and East Brent; and a crowd of gentle men living at Brighton, Bognor, or Belgravia. One thing only is wanting—a strong representation of St. George's-in-the-East. This is • ease for non-intervention. Mr. Knto must settle matters with has parishioners, under the protection of the law of the land. We infer from what fell from Sir Gsonos Lawn; last night, that the rev. genUet•aa must not look for any extraordi nary assistance hem the Home-office. bir Gtoaoit Loris said :—" The Howe is aware that the law " dose not arm the patios with the power of sum " mart' interference in case of a noisy disturbance, or " of an interruption of the silence, order, and quiet "of public worship. I have taken the steps which " appear to me necessary for maintaining the public " peace. The steps which I hive taken, and which " have been taken by Sir R. MAT:4E, the Chief 6d of Police, appeared to me adequate " for the purpose of preeerviag public order and pre " venting broaches of the peace. Beyond that lam " not prepared to go, and I can only express my regret that the mode of performing divine worship " which the Incumbent of St. George's-in-the-East " thinks at to adopt should be anon u to create " there disturbances." (Cheers.) We hold this to be a wise resolution, for of all ways of attempting to promote the public peace the most hopeless and foolish would be to employ the public force to maintain detested forma of worship against the will of the parishioners. DILATE Or SIR HENRY Fa IttlAZ, RULT.—WS Mw So mood ibe &Delft fal klus:y FoMtu, Bet, of Relskes, mud, col Ruabswigh, vbu died on ?ruby bet sit kis owut la restlead. Diocese or LorOor.—The Bishop of London be losakaisst she Rs.. %herd Hear, lidhck, MA W , el QOM' • Calabgairs , we view Itrchtuat. ilt s/At" s• ship mem d 6i. Omer Dear, &reed, ristidarsd Trost by the radapastiss at the kn. Moamar Chart Wass. ILA.; sad has limn. dm 8.,. sassed Thorium, MLA, Qerea's Colle g e, Oohed, ow et the esi ricer% et the IwM Dram lire kb*" io the incustamay of Si. jades erre, Whheashel, nedered err by the paellat nest at the law. led Wks. Tag &sr =now MEMORIAL —The Stephanie 11111111.1611 MOW eel Miceanks . laseitata at W beat ea the site el re ruses when the late Iron %plusses wee heve, will to Derma/ 'past by laed Reverwersh es !Aft art, al re e'er& The our will be celebrated by • vast isiris andessostt is the sandai. . ',gilt erniris WINDSOR CASTLE, Fn. 6. The Queen and Prince Consort walked in the Home Park this morning. Princess Alice, Princes Helens, and Princess Lodes rods on horseback. K. P. Joubert had the honour t 4 eabsittlag, on Saturday, to bar Majesty and the Prime Consort opoolaisso of his now tirrantiou fir photographs fa ariamei ohms burnt in on glass and on china. _ _ The Judicial Committee of the Privy Canned est yester day. As appeal from Madras, a Pashas v. Kneels Nether (pert heard), was concluded. The Led' present wen Lord Kingdoms, the Lords Justices Haight Bruce and Turner, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. Ryan, Sir L. Peel, sad bar J. Col vile. Despatches were received at the Colontalmfdoe yesterday from the Governors of the North American Pro/tame, the Governor of Falklead Islands, and from the Lard HighCorn toisemaer of the loaisa Islaads. Despatches were mat to the °overawe of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, mad St. Halms. MAPPINW ILWTBO.BILVEK PLATE. siv i v elm So7llllla m llasalisturen Anew, m i. * u.k. Yid moiliMms %P.m raft kn. I•Monver Pleas MI gird Ather. 0111116 Klee a. miss libli dem . 6,... Paled 1 ,51 =la K ., rbseel 41111111 I 4 • 74 7$ 0 36 66 0 M S Pardo] • 4 E 1 *: V= .*** 11; .1 1 I ' : • : few tame =Leas } pagaillsois plow trmalso is at lb* mosalogana la diem Ow gamma ' tom *Pat at aml Am. awake la iota at 806.• aw ramrod tar imam at -lair tat Mak lam Eli% aarae awl rallibemli sapaylap. Was martat tab/ pol. ann. VAIRMTu au. a sai ds. am. limismonii. : wmaaalan. Gam. Oailm Woe% COLOURED FLANNEL SHIRTS. W W vitamin sad 01.111111 T . WI. Mimi& H ARMONIUMb-NEW MODILL.--CitAlliat. luct LK. obi OL 114. liamO4o•9l. BENSON'S WATCHES. Firm " Perkolift of arm`'—aleselat ft*. OW iiiiir... f Pew. Mawr weft. ****** • ******* •- - • • 11: l• and Me giuml. to. =4oi - - • nlia • lessi MOW& SI arl U. Medea. 1.4. TIMM sad LUBIN'S WRIT SCENTS.— A. Willie lira Itiostimml. Namlle. sod I.l* gam ke aid" N. twelia.-1. x ot 11.0444 Na. Lista VIOLATING CARDS at WHOLUALE PRIM. la Ise mad Chrob Lis Pillena. aplomb* mg ft*. Chiba rerbet=r7O L Olßll lasels olierZemst... "l ll.lt " monirroomAruic EXHIBITION. POUILW•ra etUlrviesarsiao larsraa e's. rag as asses wor no*. red pormoured immi le So Owl ell peleilare. agile ; owlools soll meet emir as IC gum% WM. L.... 5... TERROSCOPIC ILLUSTRATIONS of &=.2staclNk ar i eg l•= k :i lalne••••• Tam. OdenAistesi emir a THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 7,' 1860. THE EIGHT BON. W. Z. GLADSTONE. We are glad to state as the result of inquiries madie at the residence of the Chaneellor of the Exchequer this morning, that the night hon. gentleman is ping on very favourably. He is better than he waa yesterday, and war up this morning for the dist time dace his attack. Dr. Ferguson has strictl► enjoined that the right hm gentleman should not think of leaving his chamber till to. sorrow at the earliest, and in submfeslon to that idyls it w.e determined that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should defer his daaatial statement until Friday. Much waist) err evinced derlag yesterday sad to-day as to the heath of the Cheacellor of the Exchequer, end among those who pare sally celled In Downing-street to make Squires wen the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sir W. 0. Hinter, Dr. Philllmore, Lady Wealsok, Lady Willies Fowlett, Karl Jeri:era, Lady Theresa Lewis, Gem. Sir William and Lady Oomm, the Earl end Countess of Derby and Ledy Emma Stanley, Count de Platen. Lord John Manners, Mr. 0. G. Maroons. M.P., Hon. A. Eger toa, Lord Robert Montague, Sir W. H. sod Lady Mary Farquhar, Lord Herb, the Right Hoe. Sir Geese and Lady Grey, the Right Hoe. Sidney and Me.. Herbert, the Coun tess Beauchamp, the Right Hon. T. Miles sad Mrs. Gib son, the Vice-Chancellor Wood, Baroness Brays, Bir Staf ford Noritic•e, and • great many of the ambers of the House of Cosmos of all diode* of pinks. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will entertain • soccer ion of distinguiabsd company during the next fort night, at Badminton. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Pruner Mary will arrive this evening at Badminton from tewn. The dab's to:hotrods meet "on the lawn" to-morrow (Wednesday), when, in compliment to the royal visitors, there will be a splendid and brilliant geld of the sporting gentry for mile. around. His Royal High ness the Prince of Orange, aoompanied by hie Exestleney theNethsrlands Minister, attended by Count Bylandt and the other gentlemen of his royal highness's suite, will visit the duke and duchess early la the amain weak at Bad minton. Tn. Marquis and Marchioness of Saliabury have arrived in Arlloton-street from Hatfield Hones. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford left Hamilton-piiiss ysisrtlay, ea a kw of visits. The Bari of Dalkeith, M.P., has taken Lord Wharnaliffs's mansion, fa Carma-stritst, fora brief ants. Colonel the Hoe. J. Lindsay, M.P., and Lady Sarah /daddy, have arrived at their riddance in Portant - pears, (ran leureahire. Sir John Bowring is in Pans. Mr. J. H. Parker, F.S.A., proposes to commence his series of lectures on the "H4togaf Architecture in Eng land," at Ozford to-morrow. Tea first lecture will comprise the periods of the Ancient Britons, the Romsnised Britcse, and the Angio-Sszons. The Wares will be ceatinnsd on the following days:—Wednesday, Feb. 16; Townley, Feb. 21; Tuesday, Feb. 28; Tuesday, March 16; Tuesday, Kara 13; each evening at il o'clock, in the society's rooms, liolywell. A. J. B. Bereeford Hope, Esq., delivered a keeling last evening, in the St. George's Han, Canterbury, to t►e inemters and Moods of the Church of England Young Hen's Literary Association. The subject of the lecture was " How are we governed f" Tne Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross (Dr. Fitzgerald) is at direct issue with • portion of his clergy upon the subject of extemporaneous prayer meetings, or re vivale, similar to those which had agitated the north of In land for the better part of the year just closed. His lordship him, in fact, prohibited them from &Mewling such meetings, and h•e addressed • long letter on the subject to the laity of his dimes. The vestry of St. George's-in-the-Eeet have ap pointed Thursday, the 16th instant, for the *Motion of a lecemeir la the room of the Rev. Ilogh Alias, LA., who has boa premeted to the rectory of St. Georgie, South wark. There us a ocosiderable camber of candidates, but It le thought *et the cboioe of the vestry will fall upon one of the following:—The Rev. Cheep lastreas, 8.A.. of St. John's College, Cambridge, new et Disytoo, Futhall, Wiltshire, late carats of Storm ; the Rev. Thomas Riots ordeals, of St. Bess Theological College, Incumbent of St. Matthew's Cherub, St. Gouge's-le-the-But ; the Rev. J. P. Courts oay, 8.A., late carats of Whinschapel. Ote Sunday the Rev. H. Caddell, LA., vicar of St. Peter'., Colchester, requested the payers of the moire- Baths on behalf of the Lord Bishop of the Maw, who ie suffertng from SitiOila ii:60•11 j also It, the Rev. Dr. Marsh, rector of Beakeuhama, Kent (formerly vicar of 81. Pews's, Colchester), who is likewise alarmingly indisposed. The Sussex AdeertUer states that at the interview of the hop-planters with the Chancellor off the Exchequer, oa Friday, it appeared that it was wet Kr. Gladatoss's laisetka to touch the tax ; nevertheless be wee fully alive to He emequal pressure upon certain districts and planters, with whom it rested to propound scare remedy. ECLIPSE OP Ti MOON eels MORNING —A partial eclipse of the moon took plan.. Ude seereleg, soon of 1 o'clock. TM state of the wailer yes pettallerly Tearable for the eborvaties of t►i beautiful passonssom, the sky befog without a eked. Of late there have been few opportunities of taking " glimpses of the moon," as it has reined almost every night, and clouts have been so pre valent that the ally way of know* whether there was a fall moon, or no moon at all, was to commit an alms:tack. This morning, however, the mom shone with all her wonted splendour until about eine Wastes O'er 1, when, about an hour after she bed pared the meridian, an obecuration to k place which extended slowly but sorely for more than so hour. Wass the Wipes was at in maximum, eight-teethe of the moon were darkened. It u some years slaw a loner eclipse has taken place the rarities plosse of which could be watched without interruption from clouds or fog, and a long time may elapse before the recurrence of such as extensive and well-dedned obscuration of the " gentle moon" may be observable. About an hour mad a halt after a great portion of the oda had looked " as dark as Ei oho" she presented more then her ussal brilliancy, and the planets in her loomediate violably also appeared to be more resplendent then ever. ROCHESTER ELECTION.—ME. MONET AND HIS itecrtos foie:mop swim". in lb. Ilasiereies Jeered :—" Ceases Club, 13t. hellea 0. Feb. 4, 1860.-84, I toe, by • Neobseter aewepapsr that the amounts of the late eke** have bola published this week. Now that Nary pabildied, marling that I may like to pay MAMA be regarded hot as • pare gift. I hare by this post, with the ideate assaptiost of two bad owes that do mot de mire It, seat • eitequs to *very trideessaa whose °fished would woe reduced by my committee, ler my share of the .am so Mooed. I Mist you will do me Mu jostle. to publiob this huer la your mat impreasoo. I regret to hoer of all that has occurred in Raohestee daring the lam le• =oaths. Oar party might hive found. if they bed kaowa me better, that the sore they were brought tow from 'ay teuipmery difficulty, the mon maleuely would love swik to then sad their seas.—Your faithful servant, Galatia BOOZY Motley." _ _ ST. PANcpAS AND NORTH MIDDLESEX NITLE BILIOADI.—The senior of this important corps hove Jest bees ateepted by her Majesty, snd an intimation of the Ism was nods 'someday assails, to the ossabere es drW st the Vestirbal. The lest compthy is amity blond, sod its seem will haws ben elected by ballot by to -Norm' evoehdt. Time aro s stacieot number of enrolled effeinlvs menstmo to brut two other companies, and stops will shortly M lass fur tlist% ti l . c l u egotistions are, msreover, la for as of the corps with that be• is to Uolvereity e. usicrit ow PATINTI, Shure lLsitaxorox.— Xembro of visitors kw she week estilai Feb. 4 :--11lorsises. sossu 1,048 ;m koe daily ((M y armies's, 774; soul, 1842. 1868), 186,124. z•isto tie epos* of die e 12, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ROME. SPEECH BY THE POPE. The Journal. du Debsts of this morning publishes the following extract of a letter from Rome dated the Met Mt : "The Holy Father went the day before yesterday to Calilts to visit the new seminary which is being established there for giving some young peo ple of /South America, who are destined for the priesthood, an ecclesiaatical education. His Holiness personally administered the commu nion to the pupils and to many persons admitted to the solemnity. Immediately after the termination of the religious ceremony, the guests assembled in an immense hall, where they partook of refresh , meats. Here the Holy Father heard two short speeches, one from the director of the establishment and the other from Cardinal Barnabo. The Pops, immediately succeeding the Cardinal, replied, in substance, that he was grateful for the thanks ex premed to him, but that his devotion to catholicism was only that of his predecessors. The trials which he experienced, others experienced, and remained triumphant. One remedy alone existed against the perverse doctrines prevailing in a por tion of the Christian world, and against the dis loyal manoeuvres which attacked the church—that remedy was constant prayer. What he asked from the catholic world in making an appeal on behalf of the justice of his cause, wu prayer, incessant prayer; bat he must add that WOK was there a bitterer trial or the peril more menacing. It wee in Italy that the perversion of men's minds was mast to be seen ; it was in the Peninsula that a spirit of revolt against all which is sacred found nourishment and support. The distinction between truth and falsehood was lost; vice became virtue ; virtue wu called vice. But neither humi liation nor martyrdom, nor captivity, could shake the confidence of the church nor the firmness of its head. " The words of Pins I& produced a sensation amongst the auditors, and subsequently in the city. That, doubtless, which added to the natural effect likely to be produced by such a speech, was the extreme animation with which it wu delivered." THE FRENCH ARMY IN ITALY. A private letter from Milan of the 3rd inst., received from an officer of rank in the French army, observes that the affairs of Italy must be assuming a very important upset, as all the divisions of the French army had received orders to be ready to march at the first notice. Rumours were rife at Milan that Florence would soon be the head-iluar tens of the army of Italy, which would be pet in movement the moment the Neapolitan troops set foot on the Pope's territory. These regiments are at their full strength, tad the feeling seems to be pretty general in the army that the spring will not pass over without a collision in Italy. It is said that the French government has addressed a note to the Austrian government recommending her not to make any movement in Italy, otherwise that Austria may lose all her possessions in the Peninsula, and even the Pope run risk of losing the remainder of his territory. FRANCE. PARIS, TvIISDAT. The Mositeur announces that the Bing of Sar dinia, wishing to acknowledge the services of the French army in the cause of Italian independence, has placed at the disposal of the French government 780 crosses of the order of Santo Maurizio Lazzaro (the military order of Savoy) and 8,000 medals for military valour. SARDINIA. TURIN, Pas. 6. The Commander Desambrois having been recalled at his own request, the Chevalier Constantin Negro bamboos appointed chargé d'affsires at Paris. Coast Ares will also leave for Paris. M. Parini has arrived here. Baron Ricasoli is also expected at Turin, to settle the question of the new vote to be given by Central Italy. The town of Como has offered to the Marquis de Pepoli, from Bologna, to elect him as their repre- sentative in the Sardinian Chambers. The departure of the King for !Allan has been fixed for the lath inst. CENTRAL ITALY. BERLIN, MONDAY. The English government, in making to Austria, with the consent of France, the proposal for the settlement of the Italian question, announced in yesterday's message, stated that in exchange for the points to be agreed to by Austria it would be under stood that Sardinia will respect the Austrian do- minion in Venetia. Austria, in her reply, already mentioned, said that she herself will know how to protect Venetia. HANOVER. HANOVER, MONDAY. The English Government has offered to Hanover a delay of three months, commencing with the 16th February, for regulating the redemption of the Stade dues by general conferences with all parties Interested. Hanover has refused to settle the question by general contemner, and has proposed a special agreement with England. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. MADRID, Faa. S. The Queen has congratulated Marsha/ O'Donnell and the Spanish army for the victory obtained on the 4th instant. In all the provinces the news of the victory has been received with enthusiasm. Intelligence from the seat of war states that Ge neral Echague has entered the valley of Anghera, where he destroyed 200 cottages and took one cannon, a quantity of cattle, and munitions of war. SOUTHAMPTON, To LIDA Y. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, Captain J. S. Field, has arrived. She brings a small mail from Gibraltar and Malta only, 16 supernumerary and 18 distressed British seamen, 1,2001. in specie, and 1,000 packages of cargo. The Ripon encountered terrific weather through out the peasage. Gibraltar exchange as last quoted. By this arrival news from Morocco is two days later than that brought by the Ceylon. The Spanish army before Tetuan was 30,000 strong. The Moorish ace cunt of their losses in the battle of this 23rd ult., gives 28 killed, the same number wounded, and 6 prisoners. The Moors captured a Spanish officer. The Spanish army was occupied in the construc tion of works to weure its positions required for an attack on Tetuan. A star fort was also being constructed in ths right front, and small steamers were waiting to convey the artillery up this river. Sickness had increased in the Spanish army since its encampment in the plains of Tetuan. Marshal O'Donnell was chitty occupied in intrenchiug the position to secure the army spinet any disaster which might seise from an interruption of the communica tion by sea. . . . Every exertion was being need to complete the tortifloation round the Custom-hostile. Private ac- counts say that cholera continued its ravages. In one day 200 men had been removed to Ceuta. Complete silence reigns in and about Tetuan, and there is no communication between the contending pares• NOVA SCOTIA. HALIFAX, JAN. 26. LZOISLATITI COUNCIL CHLNII3I, JAN. 26. At half-put 2 o'clock, p.m., his Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Malgrave, Lieutenant- Governor, came in state to the Council Chamber, and being seated, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod received his Excellency's command to let the House of Assembly know " it is his Excellency's will and pleasure they attend him immediately in this house," who being come, his Excellency was pleased to direct that the house return to their chamber and choose a Speaker. The representatives retired accordingly, and, after a brief delay, re-entered the Council Chamber, and presented Stewart Camp bell, Esq., as the Speaker pro test. His Excellency approved of the choice, and opened the session with a speech to both houses. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (71011 OUR OWN OONISSIPONDIXT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVININO. M. Peyrat, who has just returned from a tour in Italy, has an article in the Press* expressing very great anxiety about the present critical state of that country. tie represents the all but unanimous opinion of the inhabitants of Central Italy, including that of the Tuscans, who were at one time lukewarm on the subjee , , as being that their only chance of salvation hes in annexation to Piedmont. But he is greatly struck by, and he says that the Italians are frilly alive to, the dangers which threaten them on all sides. Austria, who, by the fact of the an nexation will consider herself freed from the engage meets of Zurich and Villafrancs, has 150,000 men in Venetis, and she is arming her fortresses as if she were on the eve of a new war. The Bing of Naples has an army--not, as has been said, a simple army of observation, but an army ready to take the field—encamped in the Abruzzi', the Marches, and on the banks of the Garigliano. l Austrian agents are continually running backwards and forwards between Vienna and Verona, enlisting recruits who are sent to the Pope by way of Trieste and Ancona, and these agents are in con stant communication with the dethroned dukes. A struggle appears inevitable--the Italians regard it as imminent--Piedmont is preparing for it. If this struggle should come can Piedmont sustain it unaided ? M. Peyrat's answer is, " Evidently she cannot." But who is to help her? The sympathies of England are not doubted. But for divers reasons she will not send a single regiment to Italy. Diplomatic support is all that can be expected from England. If it be tree that Russia was favourably disposed a year ago, her views are much changed to-day; moreover, Russia is too far off, and has enough to think of at home. It would be puerile to reckon upon Prussia. There remains France with her 60,000 men in Italy. But are the Italians very sure that the French government would be disposed to undertake another war on their side of the Alps? Are they even sure that the French government approves of the annexation of Tuscany ? Not only is this far from certain, but there is reason to believe that difficulties have lately arisen between the two governments on the subject of Savoy and the county of Nice. • • • If Piedmont had an army of 200,000 men the situa tion would be greatly simplified. But she has at most from 40,000 to 50,000. Nevertheless she must go forward. "The forced situation which the pru dence of the Italians has hitherto successfully contended with is the natural result of the peace of Villafranca, that is to say, of the main tenance of Austria in Venetia. It is now clearly de monstrated that this sudden peace and the treaty of Zurich excluded every practical and definitive solution of the Italian question. The Emperor of the French speedily perceived this, and was indeed already con vinced of it on the day when, calming the enthu siasm of the presidents of the Senate and Corps Legislatif, he told them how much it pained him to leave his programme incomplete." The Bourse has been very heavy, owing partly to the news of the Austrian armaments in Venetia, and partly to the postponement of the budget in the English parliament. The Rents fell 30c. for cash and 200. for account, closing within a shade of the lowest prices of the day, at 67fr. 55c. and 67fr. 60c. Mobilier fell 10fr. The railways were doll, with very little business doing. Orleans fell Bfr. 76c. ; Northern, 7fr. 604. ; Ljons, 7fr. 30c. ; and Southern, 6fr. 26c. Eastern rose 2fr. 50c.; and Western, I fr. 250. A grand legitimist wedding was celebrated on Saturday, at the new church of St. Clothilde, in the Faubourg St. Germain. The Baron de Brandois, a man whose ancestors were famous in Poitou during the middle age., was married to the daughter of the Marquis de Malet. The Bishop of Poitiers—he who lately designated the Emperor as the False Prophet mentioned in the Revelations—came to Paris ex pressly to perform the ceremony. An imposing gathering of the fine )fear of the noble faubourg thronged around the altar, among whom were remarked the Dukes d'Uzes, de Cereate, de Ransom, d'Avray, and de Lorge, the Count de Larochefon cult, the Count de Malet de Graville, General de Larochejagnelin, Baron de Daman, Baron Stguier, the Marquis de St. Animate, and the Marquis de Talhouat. The Conseitutionnel says In consequence of the resolution of the government to reduce from 140,000 to 100,000 men the contingent of the class of 1839 tor the army and navy, we are assured that the soldiers of the clam of 1833, whose time of ser vios does not expire until December 31, 1860, are about to be discharged." The British government has just presented Capt. Hormel, of the F. each vessel Lusireno, of Havre, with a te krone, for haring rescued the crew of the Birkenhead. The French Senate will hold its sittings during the coming erosion in the splendid t►rone-romm of the Luxembourg Pekes. Workmen are now sugagel in making the necessary arrangements for that purpose. The Prince Regent of Prussia has not returned any reply to the addresses on behalf of the Pope sent him by the catholic bishops of the kingdom. The Holy Father, ►owever, has written to the Arehbiebop of Cologne, thanking him end the other prelates for having urged the prices to employ his influnios In the congress in support of the tem poral rights of the Holy Bee. in Prussia the Minister of the Interior has just ordered that the beetinedo. as an instrument of puolehment for prisotiere, shall be abolished. The WOO minister bee de sided that certain public fnuctiousries who doting tte last ten years have, for political or religions *!•noes committed hi 1848 and 1849, been deprived of the sueosedve stamen tations of salary to which they had beenentitled, shall for the raisin now%) the yearly amount. THE COMMERCIAL TW FT. The Ind4petsdamee Beige nays that the proposals to be submitted by Mr. Gladstone to the Roues of Commons as a consequence of the commercial treaty, which, it says, was to bare beta ratified on Satinday at Pans, are se follows " Abolition of duties on all articles of French manu facture. " Arsimilation of the duties on French spirits with au of English colonies. The duty on those flret-named is at present 16s. a pike, on the °thews only is., the duty on French brandy would thus be lowari 85. • gallon. "Immediate reduction of the duty on French wine to ..be extant of 2a. 9d. a gallon. The duty at present being ss. 9d., the new duty would therefore be Sts. a gallon. "A second reduction of this duty from the Ist of April. 1861, so that the duty might then Ed a shilling less or a shilling more, according to the quan , ity of alcohol it con tained. "A merely nominal duty on corn, tour, and articles made of guar. " Reduction more or less important of all duties on articiv Imported from France. _ . "England merry 1 the right of alluring other na tions to participate in these reducCons, ea well as of modifying the duties on wines and spirits, if the changes in our tariff should render such modifications desirable. " Fiance on her part tutdes takes to make the following ocincessions, none of them however to take immediate effect " Reduction of the duties on English coal and coke to • level with that on the same commoiities ooming from Bel gium. . . Abolition of the duties on wool and cotton . Reduction of the duty on iron and machinery. "Abolition of prohibitions for which ad valorcni duties not exceeding 30 per mat. should he wthedtuted." By a recent decision of the Minister of Public Instruction in Prnada, Jew are to be allowed to roods. the doctors in philosophy, and, in outmequence, the oath which is taken by parents who obtain that degree isto be modified. It is stated in a letter from Palth that the Au tail's authorities have prohibited the keepers of all place, of public resort from allowing the national march to be per formed under pain of arrest, and of having their licenses with drawn. The march is familiar to the public of Western Europe foom having hem introduced by Berlioz in his sym phooy of Faust. A letter from Rome says :—" It is perfectly vain for the Pope to rely on the material support of his mem swiss the moment the moral prestige of the French pro tectorate is removed. It is even doubtful whether Napoleon could supply the Papal government with pertectiy cohabit trumps. What we have here at the present moment is bat a poor specimen of French steadiness. I see at every step soldiers walking arm-in-arm with men of the people, cud there is a dangerous amount of fraternisation going on between them at every café and wineshop. Some battalion', I am told, had to bemoaned to their barracks." _ _ - Count de Fontenay, a retired officer of small for tune, mot baring ready money to spare for the Lsmartine sabscriptioe, out down the hetet tree in his garden, sold it r and remitted the prom& to the post. A few days after wards he rewired in return the following pretty verses : L'erbre coup; per tol pour men fairs one offrande, Arracbe d'iii be., plus bout vs *souk. Je re demand. pas a Dien to le rends; Car l'ombre la pins donee eat on bean souvenir I Los Magnum de see nide guard vu mashes, N'y ressemblerout plum 'ear chcenr aeries; Mils ils pzouilleront plus pill qua to fenetre La tunsique du mar qui now dit : To s bien. LAYAkTINE. M. Bouchard, one of the most eminent wine merchants in Burgundy, died lately in hie native town of Bi&UDC, at the age, within a few weeks, of 101 yang. The King of Sweden and Norway has awarded a medal to Commander Multiage O'Reilly, R 5., in acknow ledgment of his services in heaving off the rocks, Iset October, in Gibraltar Bay, the Swedish corvette Ornin (Eagle), sad the Admiralty have sent out this deooretion to the Commander-in-Chlef in the Mediterranean for pre sentation. M. Michel Chevalier has been unanimously elected a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences in Sweden. A Hungarian musician, well-known in London, H. Remen)i, has, after many years' residence in England, returned to Peach, and has been delighting his countrymen by his exquisite violin performances. His execution of Rokoesi, the Hungarian Jferseillaim, has, in particular, se cured him enthusiastic applause. The Giornale di Roma announces that on the 25th ult. the Pops received sa address signed in London at • meeting consisting of 2,000 pergolas. It appears from a notice published by Baron Culoz, Commandant of Mantua, on the 30th ult., that the ladies of tbat town have hit on a singular mode of manifest ing their political opinions against Austria—viz., by die carding crinoline. Ladies favourable to the Austrian govern ment continue to wear it, and are in consequence hooted by the popular). in the streets, or somehow disturbed in their devotion at church. It is to put an end to such persecution that Baron Calos has issued the notice alluded to, threaten ing the inhabitants with the severest measure* in case of any repetition of such hostile manifestations. The 'Madrid journals of the 2nd state that some placards attacking the General-in-Chief of the army in Africa had been stn.* on the watts of that city but were tom down by the police. Tne Moorish prisoners at Seville are represented to be much milder in character than had been expected, end elm to be of email's cleanlineee. The Bishop of Seville having paid them a visit, they treated him with profound respect. A most painful sensation wu produced at Ver sailles LID &tardily, by the accidental death of M. Ricbebourg, paymaster of the 4th Regiment of Burma. Ile was nook mg a cigar at the window of en upper room, when the hand rail on which he wee leaning gave way, and falling bead foremost on the pavement be was killed on the epos. THE EXPULSION OP THE "TimEs" CORIESPON DINT Yarn& Rome.—lt appears that our correspondeat's propt ad journey to Rome had beau telegrapted from 'themes, out the Roman government had not then made up its mind on the subject, for, as we have said, be received a outs di seggierno atter three days' coasideretion. The re meentativas ut this country naturally asked what bad happened to change the views of the Roman authorities, end to 'educe them to expel a man who had nista many months of lest year in the city, and woo had within • few days receivei weeniest( n for three months more. But all that could be pt out of the Minister of Polk* wits that our corte.pondeat had been sent away for "State reasons beet known to the police, who had no explanation to render to him or to the prom:nag power." Bathurst was then had to Cardinal Antunelli, the decre . sry of State, but he said that pollee matters ware no concerns of hi., that he knew nothing about the effift ' and would not meddle with It. In tact, everyone referred the complainants to the police for an explanation, and the police merely arserted that they had no t :planation to give. Su the matter now remains, and, though States certainly mum the right of expelling aliens at their pleasure, and no diplomatic muse of complaint exists on the part of England, yet the affair shows clearly the point of mingled tyranny _and weakness to which the Popes government has reso&d, and the miserable subter fuges to which its Mellen ellimns are not aelitmed to resod. Our correspondent &clams that he bad given the govern ment uo muse of offence ; be had openly natal that he was connected with the Timm', and after that had received his tarts. The act of the police wee eviCeilly en after thought, and at seems probable that the Papal counsellors faceted that it would be • fine thing, and a proof of energy, if they did what no other gevandeent pretended to do, an d declared that no one should write news from their territory. The papacy bas • long account to settle with eivilitatioe. A reckuoing is now acknowledged to be at band, and then the expulsion of this gentlemen will be remembered es, though by nu mesas one of the wore, still se one of the meet foolish acts t f which Cardinal Antonelli and boa satellites have been Timm. WILD BOAR HUNT.—The Journal d'Alencow has the following :—"Tne pack of bounds of M. Rattier de Vet veins. , twenty.five in number, lately bunted a huge will boar in the forest near this town, but doer three hours' chase could not bring it to bay, though he idol pd now and tam to attack the dogs. Twelve fresh hmods having been est on, it as Isat stopped, end the dogs attacked it with great determicaro It, however, ripped up several and threw vibe.* in me air. One of the keepers having arrived, tired his carbine, but only broke one of the (olden of the animal. The chat' kegler thee arrived. end fired two belle at its bead, without, however, producing any efLot. Ile, however, ' , plaided, sod then to Igeti one ball in the boar's muzzle, and the other behind his ear. The Met proved mortal, the animal fail tog dead. It wan then found that two of the dogs were dead, ten more mortally wounded, and that several others were more or loos impaled. The boar weiabed 160 kilogrammes (about 3 cwt.). DESPATCH OF AMIMICAN MAILS.—The box at the Liverpool post-office will be open on Wednesday neat (to morrow) for the receipt of lettere, &c., lateadao to be for warded by the Liverpool, New York, ant Philadelphia Company's 'tamer V:go, which toile on that MI for New York, till 10.311 a.m., and on the landing stage with In addi tional fee of 61., which must be prepaid in stamps, until 11.30 um.