The Express. — London, England, 1861-11-27 00:00:00

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Yalu, Males. /ttawrr. Mks Wand GM Mum V. Maiikana—Commass at Te. lIIIITANKI4. Tots Ivionia, Me IL Clylai.— trwape at Dora amobsys.-11. Etialr.- Mina C.. 144.112& —l4r I Plempu,u. -WI WIDOW'S SUN. & lema—Ash4 IRS MUDS UV ALD&&II.-Commems GS tlg. KM 1421111 AT LOSSOII MUM 11 DAT —Meniaa ea. Ma.... Mtmassis. OIL lila Tossahow —Monis& Mk 15..... LlPArases.ll4. Ms. - - LONDON, WIDNEWAY, NuV. 27. Tarr terrible estmilrophe which in Edinburgh has just overwhelmed with destruction as many human beings as would make the sum of the inha bitants of a a:maul village, is one of those dis asters which turn for the moment the most care kse into month:era We are half prepared each morning to learn that an accident to which the nature of their avocations makes them notoriously liable, has the day before hurled some souls into eternity. Battles, wrecks, explosions of firedamp, the mur derous issue of angry omega, touch our feelings of pity or of reprobation, but do not startle us with a sound of utterly unexpected horror. But that in Coe of our chief cities five-and•twenty families retiring to rest on • Saturday night, should, ere the Sunday dawn, without one instant's waruiug, be crushed to death beneath the ruins of their etwasion home, is a calamity which it would have been esteemed madness to predict, and for • parallel to which we must turn to the records of those lands in which earthquakes or volcanic eruptions assert nature's terrible absegtb. Nor, Inked, is there wanting in this sae even some thin of the element of personal fear which eye witnesses of these coovulseime tell us forum ass of their most prominent features. This house which fell like • pack of cards, without further notice than • scarce observed sinking in one of the ceil ings • day before, may be the type of thousands beside. The sleep of its inmates was broken by no dream of danger more than whispers by our own pillows. The age of the building was but 300 years, not more than that of many another dwelling in town or country ' • and, indeed, carrying in back to • time when houses were built of materials better calculated to stand for centuries than our more flimsy erections are for ea many decades. The part which was visible was, it would appear, sound enough—since it excited no alarm in the mind of the builder who impacted it the day before. But what was not seen was that on which everyth'ng depended, and this, throughout the whole building, must have been decayed almost to powder. And thus the stillness of night, when not a footstep crossed the floors, nor a breath of 'skid shook the walls, the hour arrived at which the pile could no longer suppoi;; even its own weight, and it sank in one indiscrim'nate crash upon the sleepers, who were never again to ,wake on earth. Our part, however, is not fiat of moralism. We leave the text of lee's chances to other preachers. Our task is to urge those tolerably obvious considerations which shall make unfors- seen accident a leas fruitful cause of calamity than it is. In the present cam several days must pro bably elapse ere the ruins which still entomb so many human remains are sufficiently accessible to allow of an accurate investigation of the state in which the building had been, and of the point at which the law first broke out. But in the mean time it is scarcely possible to believe that decay so extreme should have existed without giving some indications of its presence which ought to have drawn attention. It is scarcely possible to sup pose that the floors were all perfectly level, the doorways all perfectly square, the walla perfectly upright and solid. Where, indeed, is the old hones in which such indications of perfect soundness are to be found 1 We grant the rarity, but we cannot grant the conclusion that such appearances are im material. They are, in truth, every one of them, signs of weakness, whether that weakness lie in the original corstruction or in superinduced decay. Wherever they exist they are warnings. A close may show that the weakness is not dangerous, that the tim bers are not subjected to a breaking strain, and that their substance is sound. But to accept such appearances without investigation into their cause and extent is to invite destruction. It can not be supposed either that these warnings were absent in the old house in the Edinburgh High street, or that if a thoroughly efficient examination had been made, the real peril to all the inmates would not yu ckly have been discovered. We peas over the inspection made by a builder on Saturday, for it was obviously only to discover whether there were symptoms of a recent settle ment, and it left untouched the question whether there ;were older settlements which indicated • long existing insecurity. If such there were, as in ell human probability there must have been, the heavy responsibility of this catastrophe lies with those who, seeing it, were as though they saw it not. It is, however, • responsibility which lies upon the owners almost exclusively. Mere tenants cannot be expected to take upfloors, to examine into the soundness of joists, or to scrape off plaster to trace out a crack in the walls. They rely, se they are entitled to do, on the landlord having ascertained that such appearances do not indicate real danger, and on the obligation, as much moral as legal, which Ns upon h'rn to make sure that the building is fit for the purpose for which it is leased. Such an obligatieu becomes strengthened when the tenants are of a clams little capable of judging for themselves respecting the nature of any suspicious symptoms—or *impelled to live in houses of which few can be found wholly exempt from like symptoms. But it lies, we are bound to remember, upon everyone who himself, with his own family, occupies, or who lets for the residence of others, a house in which the smallest symptom of weakness can be detected, without taking due care to ascertain whether the weakness is of a char rector which renders it dangerous. It is very probable that in Edinburgh this duty ary be made somewhat more difficult by the peculiar system under which a house is often the property of limey dit:vrent owners, each holding THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 27, 1861. in exclusive right a single " land," or floor. We I must presume, however, that the law of Scotland adjusts the rights of these successively ascending owners in such a way as to give to any one of them • remedy against perils to which he may be exposed either from above or below. Nor do we doubt that there is some method by which our Northern neighbours can bring a public authority into operation for the purpose of compelling the inspection, repair, or demolition of dangerous structures. We, too, have our public bodies charged with such duties of teddeship, and our staff of inspectors by whom they carry out their behests. But the futility of all such arrangements, at least on their present footing, has been demon strated, not merely by the Edinburgh disaster, but by not infrequent, though less appalling, accidents of a similar nature in this and other cities. We shall not, in our present want of knowledge of details, dis parage the functionaries of Edinburgh, nor invoke the heightened activity of those of the metropolis. But in such cases it is obvious that public inspec ' tion can never supersede the duty of private watchfulness, and we are bound to remind those on whom such duty rests, that neglect to investi gate thoroughly the causes of aught by which danger may possibly be indicated, may result in a loss of human life as much due to them as if they had lured their unconscious victims to crop a chasm on a half-aawn-through plank. Irk Court. WINDSOR, CABTLE, Nov. 26. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Primus Alice, the Prisons of Loudness, the Prince of Leiningen, Colossi Use Has. Sir Charles sad Mime Phipps, Major hlpbinstese, sad Yr. Rosa The (been, esempasied by Prisons Mks, walked in the pens& of the Castle tole serniss. The Prises Omer., Weeded by Colonel the lion. A. Harding% retuned tram Yedingley Hall at half-pest one o'clock to-day. The Earl 14 Clutha= and Lieutesist•Colosel esvesdialr hare moos ded Vireeest Ton:sites and Coked the Hoe. A. Liddell as Lord and Groom is Waiting. Mr. George Prederkic Yawn bad as Worrier, with Fir' Rumen yesterday al the Fes. A ilspetalicie from the ipt al Lust** Bermondsey, sad Nowise's, with referees. to the labmakesest of the Themes, sesistisi c 4 Mr. Frederick Davin" Mr. B. Denser, Mr. J. Pea, esd Mr. R. Taylor, had art 'Mamie. with the Right Hes. W. F. Carper, X.P., at her Majesty's Mks el Weds, is Whitshetbesse. The Judicial Ossmdmes of the Petry Council sat yester day. • prdittse hoes "Maim Loll Salmi v. Dam Doss Dolt sed elhore,"rte disehmge cedar r. .J leave to appeal, we. her An appeal frees BORA Hes duns, " Hedge v. the AlluesepOeseral cif BMA Hee difses' was lewd. The Ire premise were the Lards Jim time Lied Brum sed Tamer, Sir E Ries. air 7. Cot. rim tlr L Peel, and Mr I. Oeivile. were reesked yeiterday at the Colonial-aloe fro7sWe ' reed High Comsdesiseer el the lonien Islands, mid frees the Oscreeser el Oihniter. Despatches were cent to the Goverares d 311alls.== Kong, Labuaa, the MAMMA% Yd the auss Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Moot Noble Edward Adolphus, Doke el Branweeit, to be lord•lieatensnt el the esuaty d Done ; the Bight Honour. able Francis Theme de Oney, loot Cowper, to be Iced lieutenant of the emir al Bedford ; the BIM Besostable Benjamin, Led Liesteme, to be lord-ltentsewat of the want, of Idenineuth ; they reepeatively (we Ivan (new yes terday's Gazette) took the oaths appointed to be talus there upon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, on the 20th hat. Hi Royal Highness the General Commanding-in- Chief yesterday evening honoured an entertainment at the Royal Artillery mew, Woolwich, w.th his presence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Ames& left Orleans House, Twickenham, yesterday for Hatfild. oa a visit to the Masque and Marchioness of Bellebery. ♦ distinguished circle have assembled to meet their royal bighaseses, the goeMs emsprising he Excellency the Amides Ambassador end the Gneiss d'Appooyi, the Earl sad Concise' of Clarendon and the Ladies Vil"ers, the Earl Drowelow, Count Wimples, Count Brandenburg, the Dui sad Countess of Hardwiclus, Viscount Chelsea and the Hoe. Mies Cadogasi, Viscount Hood, Viscount H inchiog broke, Laid West, Lord Loughborough, Viscount Yahoo, Lady Medea Alford, Mr. Cost, lice. F. Lygon, Mr. Vivian, Mr. Peel, he. The Earl and Countess of Derby are entertaining a sucosesioe of visitors at Knowsley Park, Learceshire. The Countess of Fife arrived in town a few days der bees Seethed. Tile earl is expected early out week. Hi lordship bee takes a hewn is Grosvenor-place, late the neidenoe of Lend Lilt:ed. T!te Earl aodCountoss of Voila= are entertain ing a oldest circled Gorhuabwy Perk, The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith have left the Doke and Dashes. d Beeeleneh's seat in Scotland for the Marquis and limettioners d Aberoorn's seat, Beran'e Coart, maw Tyrone. Vineount andVisenuntess Campden have returned to Campden House, Gloucestershire, from visiting the Earl and GAlntas• of Derby, at Knowsley Park. The following appears amongst the announce ments°, marriages in the papers of this morning :—" At SR John's, Paddington, Edward Cholmeley, eldest sea of Sir Edward Charnel/I Daring, Bert.. to V ISCOUII tee• Forth, eldest daughter of the Hop. Adolphus (lapel, and mod. daughter of Viesouot Maynard." Lord Palmerston and the Minister of War, ac companied by the Director-General of OnMamie and other officers, west down to Shoeborynews yesterday morning by special train to whom a series of experirnenta to be made with this Whitworth dose supplied to the government. Mr. Whitworth himself wee present. Lord Chief Justice Erie has Rent a donation of 10f. 10s. to the National Lifeboat Inotiention. The Dublin Reciting Muil contains a requisition to the Lord Mayor, preying ►im to convene a public meeting for the purpose of ommidering the propriety of paying • tribute of national respect to the late Earl of Vinton, "in consideration of his great exertions to edvence the material interests of Inland." The proposed tribute is samitizeed by ths.lard t'rim•e, the Lord Justice of Appeal, and the Lord Chief Justice ; and the signatures of 41 peon, 111bannets, 51 members of parliament, and 11 se-11.P.'s are taxed to the requisition; together with those of the priecipal inerchatits sad traders of Dublin and other Irish pone, without distinction of creed or party. The signatures of members of the Irish bar are also nume rous on the lat. DIATH or THE COUNTAIS (Dovreoia) 01111 Y. The venerable widow of the late well-known statesman expired yesterday femmen at her residence in Eatonaquarn The count«r bad been 11l only • few days. The late Dowager-Conetem Mary Ellsbeth, who was the only daughter of Wm. &abases, lint Lord Ponsonby, was born March 3, 1775, so that the deemed was in her 87th pan She married, Ne►. 18, 178{, Charlie, the second and late Earl Grey, by whim she had • family of sixteen children, twelve of w►am have survived their mother, namely, the Earl Grey, Major-General the Hoe. Chao Grey, C. 8., secretary to his Royal Highness the Frieze Consent; Rear admiral the Hee. air Fredk. W. Grey, K.C.8., senior, Lord of the Admiralty ; the Hon. and Rev. Jobs, t►e Hoe. and Rev. F. R., the Hoe. Harry Cavendish, and Hoe. Wm. Ceo. Grey ; sod daughters, Lady Elizabeth Belted, widow of Mr. J. C. Buttes' ; Lady Caroline Barriegton, widow of Captain the Hon. George Barriegton ; lady Georgians, unmarried; and Lady Mary, married to the Right Hoe. Sir Charles Wood, Hart., N.P. Information of the countess's death has been sent by telegraph to Flo rence, where the Earl and Countess Grey are at present residing. PROFINNOR Jowlerr.—ln a congregation held at Osfoed yesterday. at 2 o'clock, which was very sums rously attesdeil, the form of statute for endowing the Regius Professorship of Omsk was submitted to the vote of the house. Considerable excitemeet prevailed, as it was apparent that the votes wore being given almost equally for mid spinet the statute. The two proctors, having taken t►e votes of their respective sides of the house, compared their lista ; shot which the senior proctor, amid pro• forted edema, declared the decision of the house to be against the statute The numbers were understood to have been as follows : —Placet, 9G ; non-plant, 99 ; ma jority, 3. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. A BRITISH STEAMER BOARDED BY AN AMERICAN MAN-OF-WAR. CAPTURE OF CONFEDERATES. (By arcysze nixoseye.) (FROM OUR mac CORRESPONDENT.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail steamship la Plata has arrived here from the West ludies. The Royal Mail steamer Trent was on her way to St. Thomas with the Mexican, Havannah, and Jamaica mails, when, within a short distance of St. Thomas, she was met by the Federal man-of-war San Jacinto. The latter fired first a shot and then a shell across the bows of the Trent. The captain of the San Jacinto ordered Captain Muir, the com mander of the Trent, to go on board the San Jacinto with his papers. This was refused. The captain of the latter then boarded the Trent, and demanded to see the pas senger list. This was also refused. The commander of the San Jacinto then laid, "It is no use mincing the matter ; we have evidence that you have persons on board that we want, and you must give them up." Captain Moir refused to do so. The Federal commander then waved his hand to the San Jacinto, and several boats pushed off, filled with armed men. They took Messrs. Slidell and Mason, with their two secretaries, Mr. Eustaoe and another, out of the Trent, and took them on board the Jacinto pri soners of war. This proceeding was protested against by Captain Moir and Commander Wil liams, R.N., the Admiralty agent of the Trent. The Sumter has not been captured. She was at Martinique on the 11th instant, landing prisoners. The Federal man-of-war Iroquois left St. Thomas in pursuit of her. The despatches of which Messrs. Mason and Slidell were in charge, were overlooked by the com mander of the San Jacinto,and have come home in the 1* Plata. Commander Williams, R.N., the Admiralty agent on board the Trent, who was present when the Trent was boarded, goes to London immediately to report to the Admiralty. (IT azurn's mum)] SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNIUDLT. The following are the details of the capture of the Confederate Commissioners, while on their voyage from Havana to St. Thomas in the English mail steamer Trent. The steamer Theodora, with the commissioners on board, ran the blockade at Charleston on the 18th October last. 1 Mr. Slidell was accompanied by his wife and three daughters. They left Havana on board the Trent on the 7th inst., at noon. At noon, on the Bth inst., as the Trent was approaching the narrow passage between the reefs opposite the Paradon Grande Lighthouse, Old Bahama Channel, a large war vessel was ob served waiting ahead, and showing no colours. On coming nearer, the Trent hoisted her ensign, which met with a response from the war vesseL When within about an eighth of a mile the stranger, it is said, fired a round shot across the Trent's bows, at the same time hoisting the Ame rican flag. Immediately afterwards, it is re ported, she fired a shell from a long pivot gun on her forecastle, which burst about • hundred yards to leeward of the Trent. Captain Moir, of the Trent, thereupon hailed the captain of the other vessel, asking what he meant by stopping his ship. He replied that he wished to sends boat on board. At the same time one was lowered, containing two officers and ten men, and sent alongside the Trent. The officers boarded the Trent, and demanded her list of passengers, which was refused. Lieutenant Fairfax, the officer in com mand of the party from the war steamer, which proved to be the San Jacinto, then said that Captain Wilks, his commander, had received reliable in formation that Messrs. Slidell, Mason, Eustace, and Farland were on board the Trent, and de manded that they should be given up. This was most peremptorily refused both by Captain Moir and Commander Williams, R.N., the naval agent in charge of her Majesty's mails, the former stoutly denying the right of the Federal vessel to take any person from under the English flag. The commissioners were standing near and boldly declared that they were all present, but being on board a Brit.sh ship, claimed the protection of the The lieutenant then said he would take charge of the steamer, and waved his hand to the Ban Jacinto, when three more boats were sent along side, in which were 30 marines and about 60 sailors. Commander Williams thereupon made the fol lowing protest : "In this ship I am the representative of her Majesty's government, and I call upon the officers of the ship and passengers generally to mark my words when, in the name of the British government and in distinct language, I denounoe this as an illegal act, an act in violation of international law, an act indeed of wanton piracy, which had we the means of defence you would not dare to at. tempt." . The men in the boats then boarded, and came on the deck of the Trent, with bare cutlasses ; and the commissioners were forthwith arrested and forced into the boats. Mr. Slidell said he hoped the ease would be fully represented. The Americans stated that they were short of provisions, and asked for a supply to maintain the prisoners. Captain Moir furnished them with sup plies, but in so doing stated distinctly that they were for the exclusive use of the four gentlemen. The American lieutenant afterwards said his orders were to take Captain Moir and his papers on board the San Jacinto, and that the Trent was to be moored nearer. Captain Moir replied, " You will find me on the quarter deck. If you want me , you will have to come there for me ;" and immediately afterwards walked on fleck. 1 The lieutenant, however, called his men toge ther and ordered them into the boats, finally telling Captain Moir he wanted nothing further. The boats then returned to the San Jacinto, and the Trent proceeded on her voyage. The despatches of the Commissioners did not fall into the hands of the Americans, but have arrived in England in the La Plata. I The indignation on board the Trent was so great that every person was willing to take part in the defence of the ship, had an order been given. This was, however, out of the question in presence of such fearful odds. The las Plata, with the above mails, brings 102 passengers, 2,264209 dole. in specie, and 1,672 packaged of cargo. Trade, both import and export, was improving at Jamaica. Exchange ruled, 90 days, ball per cent. premium. Barbadoes crops looking better. Markets had slightly improved. Exchange, 30 days, 4921. Demerara markets were improving. Trade, however, was dull. Exchange, 90 days, 480 dole. The news from Chili is favourable. The new ad ministration was progressing satisfactorily. Valparaiso exchange, 90 days, 46. AUSTRIA. " The Austrian government," says the Nord of to-day, " appears at last to have determined to submit the budget of the state to the Council of the Empire, who, it is known, do not represent half the provinces of the Austrian monarchy. This resolution will be announced to that assembly by an imperial message, explaining the grounds of that measure, which is in opposition to the terms of the constitution of February, but which necessity seems to require. It results, moreover, from this message, that the government limits itself to simply taking the advice of the chamber, and that it only regards the actual Council of the Empire, in its restrained condition, as a body purely consultative, which is iz flagrant contradiction to this constitution, which seems to know neither how to live nor how to die. This state of things seriously disturbs public opinion, and the Austrian Gazette makes itself the echo of this anxiety by demanding that the vote of the budget shall be left to an assembly really representing all the countries of the empire, and calling urgently for • law which shall regulate in an invariable manner the application of the exceptional juris diction and of the state of siege, as well as the responsibility of the government. In fact, wherever • simple ministerial decree can suspend the action of the law, arrest the course of justice, and threaten individual liberty by interdictions and decisions of court-martials, the constitution and the laws protect no one ; they are no more than waste paper. The Chamberof Deputiesdoes not, however, appear to be of this opinion. After a long discussion it has accepted a portion of M. Khiudi's amendment, which says ' no one can be withdrawn from his natural judges; but it has rejected the second part, which is the guarantee and the com plement, ' exceptional tribunals cannot be created.' Thus, then, the government is free, as heretofore, to substitute the administrative and military fur legal justice, and this bythe consent of the chamber, which is called upon to found the constitutional existence of the empire of Austria. Let him who can explain these anomalies ; at any rate, they seem to prove that • people who so badly un derstand the practice of constitutional principles ought not to arrogate to itself the right to muti late and suppress the oldest constitution in Europe —that of Hungary." HUNGARY. We read in the Surgeny of Path, of the 22nd hut : "Today the houses of all functionaries and members of the municipality have been filled with soldiers by the order of the Administration of the Finances, and it was announced to the commune that so long as the functionaries would not them selves collect the taxes, and would not undertake in writing to collect them in future, not only these officers, but also the representatives of the com mune, would have to provide accommodation for military bailiffs. "The commission assembled in extraordinary session, and the burgomaster, Samuel Mesoo, re signed. An ecclesiastic afterwards declared that the people were very much dissatisfied with the military bailiffs, and that the general opinion was that the best course was to abandon a useless resistance, and resign themselves to what was inevitable. He then proposed a worthy old man to fill the post of burgomaster. These proposals were adopted, and the new burgo master entered upon the discharge of his duties. The result is, that an order has arrived by telegraph to withdraw the soldiers. We may, perhaps, be reproached for having acted as we have done ; but let those who blame us have forty soldiers to lodge, and they would certainly change their opinion." • (aacrrsa's var.aowis.) SPAIN AND ITALY. MADRID, Nov. 28. Baron Teooo, the Italian Minister, has at his request received his passports, and left Madrid this evening for Barcelona, whence he will proceed to Marseilles. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nou OUR OWN PARIS, TUKBDAT EVENTS°. There is now between the policy of the Vdroti directed Constitution/id and the Guerronniere inspired Petrie this marked distinction, that whereas the former commends the Emperor's " wise delay " in withdrawing from Rome, and speaks of the unity of Italy as a thing to be one day accomplished, the latter openly advocates the temporal power of the Pope, and is against the unity of Italy altogether. The Conetitationnel !of this morning affirms that the Petrie had "no right to say" that the Emperor had rejected M. Ricaaoli's programme, the fact being that he had " merely declined to interfere," and had expressed no opinion on the substance of the proposition. But the Petrie to-night returns to the charge, and asserts that the reason why France declined to in terfere was that she did not approve of the pro gramme. While this controversy is going on, I hear rumours that Dr. Vifron is not likely to remain at the head of the Conatitutioattel. lam much afraid that the anti-Italian policy is getting the upper hand here. There are various rumours of ministerial changes this evening, which I think worth mentioning, as symptoms of the great struggle which is undoubt edly going on between the Emperor's nearest coun sellors. M. de la Guerronnihre is spoken of as likely to supersede M. Rouland in the Ministry of Public Instruction. Such a change would be most lamentable, and a decided sign of truckling to Rome. It is also said that Count de Persiguy's position is not secure. I give these rumours merely as such, not knowing anything of their truth. The Pays, referring to a rumour circulated by the Independence, denies that M. de Morn) , exer cises an influence in the Pays, " resembling, either much or little," that which M. de la Guerronniere may possibly exercise in the Petrie. General Miramou, says the Pays, lately wrote to the Emperor to explain the part which he would propose to play in the affairs of Mexico. Miramou seems to have obtained the acquiescence of the Spanish government to his plan, which is to take advantage of the triple intervention of the powers to effect a landing on the Mexican coast, and to overthrow Juarez by a coup de main,. With this view he has ordered 1,500 muskets in Belgium. The Emperor, notwithstanding Miramou's urgent solicitations, has positively refused to grant him an audience, and it is, therefore, to be infeued that his Majesty disapproves the young general's pro- jected interference in the affairs of Mexico. The departure for Rome of the Marquis de Lualette, which has several times been postponed, I is now fixed for Thursday, the day after to-morrow. The new ambassador to the Holy See takes with him, as secretary, M. Tissot, formerly a French oonsul in Turkey. The Bourse was less crowded to-day, the novelty of the free admission having already worn off. Sales predominated all day, and it is thought that the market has been considerably overbought. Some uneasiness is felt at the rupture of diplo matic relations between Italy and Spain, which coincides with rumours of ministerial changes here. The Rents fell 25c. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 69fr. 900. and 70fr. 150. Mobilier fell llfr. 25c. The Loan continues much depressed ; it fell to-day 20c. Railways, not having shared largely in the late rise of the Bente, were less effected by the reaction : Orleans fell 7fr. 500., but the other lines scarcely more than 2fr. 50c. A most daring murder was committed in broad daylight yesterday afternoon at a small eating house, No. 9, Rue St. Placide, Faubourg St. Ger main. The house belongs to a brigadier in the police force, and the business was principally managed by his wife, assisted by her niece, a little girl 11 years old. At half-past 4 in the afternoon a nephew of the brigadier watched an opportunity when he was out, cut the throats of the woman and her niece, and made oft with a sum of 1,500 fr., which he knew the family had lately received from the country. The husband, on returning to the house after a short absence, found nobody in the front shop, but on going into the kitchen he stumbled over the bodice of his wife and her niece, both quite dead. He at once suspected his nephew, and the latter was arrested at his lodgings with the 1,500 fr. upon him ; he had taken the precaution to change his clothes, but had not washed his hands, which were red with the blood of his victims. The remains of Rouget de Lisle, the author of "the Marseillaise," were translated a few days ago from the old to the new cemetery of Choisy le-Roi. M. Perrotin, Blranger's literary executor and the publisher of his works, superintended the exhumation and removal. The following inscrip tion is engraved on the tomb : Id repose Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, rre • Lons-le- Saulnier an 1760, moat a Choisy-le-Roi is 1836. Quand la Rivolution Francais., en 1792, out • oontbattre les Roil it lni donna pour rakers le Chant dais Marseillaise. ITALY. ROME Nov. Z. On the night between the 23rd and 24th inst. a detachment of French troops: made 110 brigands prisoners, near Alatri. They also seized two cannons in the mountains. NAPLES, Nov. 26. The Official Journal of to-day announces that the brigands are being concentrated near Ricigliano, and that General Della Chia has despatched troops to meet them. TURIN, Nov. 26. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the Neapolitan members, the Duke di Protoand Signor Maddaloni, laid on the table of the house a petition demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the state d things in Naples. This petition was worded in ex tremely violent terms against Sardinia. The cham ber decided that it should be read in public sitting. Great sens►tion has been created by this incident. The Official Gazette of to-day publishes notes which have been exchanged between the English and Italian governments relative to a proposition that Italian vessels entering lonian ports should enjoy certain immunities, and that English vessels enter ' log Italian porta should be similarly favoured in return. RUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 26. Letters received here from Bt. Petersburg state that the resignation of Admiral Putiatin, Minister of Public Instruction, was momently expected, and mention General Titoff, formerly Russian am bassador at Constantinople, as his probable suc cessor. According to the same letters, General Kryjtnowski has been appointed to succeed the late General Gerstenzweig in the military governorship of Poland. AUSTRIA. AGWAY, Nov. 27. _ - The General Congregation of Croatia has, under certain reservations, ordered the military levies to be made in Croatia. The same congregation has also notified to all the functionaries that all official correspondence is to be conducted in the Croatian language. EXPORT OF SPECIE. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 27. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Elton, sailing hence to-day, takes out for Bombay, bar silver, 231,9231. ; silver coin, 350/. ; bar gold, 5,0601. ; sovereigns, 23,2801. ; watches, &c., 7011. 1.35. AMERICAN FINANCES. The drafts upon the United States Treasury during the month ending the sth instant amounted to 10,300.000 dollars, of which six million were drawn from New York. The unavailable bullion fund amounted to 902,000 dollars. The total balance to the credit of the United States Treasury in the States now under insurreco tioeary control was 6,500,000 dollars, and after making • deduction for the unavailable balance, gave the available balance of 4,500,000 dollars. IMPERIAL PRESENT. —The Emperor of the French has presented four picked rams, from the royal flock at itambouilliit, to the King of Hawaii (Sandwich Islands). They are now in the care of Mr. S. Spencer, an officer of the Hawaiian government, o has brought them to Englund en route for their destination, where fine wool. rowing is booming • very profitable business ; the King himself having established • large flock in order to encourage others in this useful branch of productive industry. The Emperor's present will be highly prized and appreciated. _ _ _ _ - - - - I"RUS4IAN CENSUB.—The Gazette de l'Etoile of the 23rd iustant publishes a notice from the presideut police at Berlin annouticinu that the census of the popes, Vol', which is taken every three jean for the Zollverein, will be taken on Tuesday, Dic. 3, at Berlin, as well as in the other towns of Prussia. . _ bcnix•r ---- divonaTZ-tite municipality at Turin has ordered a slab of marble to be inserted in the front of the I palace in that town which lately belonged to Count Cavour, bearing the following inscription :—" Count Camille de Cavour was born in this house, August 10, 1810, and died in the same, June 0,1861. A memorial platted by the mu nicipality." A Net/ MODS or DUILLINO.—A letter from Warsaw, in the Preeurseur &Anvers, gives the following strange account of the death of General Oerstenzweig : " The general, partly from obedience to orders, partly from natural severity of clispotitiou, had arrested a great many Poles, and Mid placed them in the citadel. Shortly after fears were entertained that an insurrection would break out, and that, consequently, numerous prisoners in the citadel would be an embarrassment. Accordingly,the commander of the fortress, in conjunction with Count Lambert, ordered several of them to be released. On hearing this, General Gerstensweig went in a state of great irritation to Count Lambert, reproached him with having acted from fear, and called him a coward. As several righters of the staff were weent, a duel seemed inevitable ; but, as a hostile meeting between two such high personage. at that moment might present great inconvenience, it was decided that one of the two should kill himself the same evening, and that lots . should be drawn to decide which it should be. The lot fell on General Gerstentweig, and he fired three times with pistols at his head, the last time inflio.ing a mortal wound. These incidents explain why General Lambert shortly after left suddenly for St. Petersburg." BALL TO THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AT COMPIEGNE. A letter from Compihgne gives the following details of the ball given to the Empress of the French : " Persons of every class al society were invited to this ball, and the general of might be seen next to the private soldier, and the Emperor's ministers in contact with the peasants of the neighbourhood. The whole of the ornamentation was of a military character, arms of every Wed being most ingeniously grouped together fur the purpose. At half-past seven the principal gate of the barrack was thrown open, and in a quarter of ea hour after, between 2,000 and 3,000 guests crowded the temporary ball-room. The baud of the Glikke played their most brilliant waltzes and quad rilles, and the dancing, which commenced at once, never flagged the whole night. All etiquette was banished from the fife, and hence the arrival of their Majesties was not waited for to commence the dancing. The Emperor mine in a little before ft, the band playing the well-known air of Queen Hortense. His Majesty pl►ced himself in a tribune on the right, just above the entrance, and almost home. diets:ly after the Emprem, in whose honour the fete was given, took her seat by his side. The Emperor was in hunt ing costume, and the Empress in a goy riding dress, with an elegant bat and feather. The Princess Anna Murat and the ladies of honour were all in out-of-door dresses, and it was evident that the day's hunt had terminated later than usual. Another tribune on the left wee reserved for the ladies who were guests at the palace, and the gentlemen be. longing to the court had seats assigned them below the two tribunes. After the applause with which the entrance of their Majesties was greeted bad subsided, two non-commis sioned officers—one a Zouave, and the other belonging to the Guides—arid an refamt-de-troupe of the former corps, came forward and presented magnificent bouquets to the Empress ; immediately after, a sergeant offered to their Majesties the rim cl'Aoniscur, which they drank amidst loud acclamations. Their Majesties then descended from the tribune, and walked round the ball-room accom panied by the ministers and the high °Moen of their house holds. They remained to within a quarter to 9, when they withdrew, accompanied by loud cheers. The fete COS. tinned until two in the morning with immense spirit, both the country people and the soldiers dancing with tremen dous energy to the last." THE BANK OP DEPOSIT. The agents at Bath of the above undertaking have Mined the following circular :—" Now that the report of the accountants of the above company is before the public, we think it due to you and to ourselves to state that we view with the utmost sorrow and indiguation the gross deception which bee bees pine upon you and upon ourselves. We are all the victims of • series of most un heard of and 'yearned° fume. In UN and 1858 mem ber" of this losl board thbly examined the plan of the institution, which appeared to be quite satisfactory, mid to afford • simple and secure investment for the hard earnings of the industrious ; and in aid of such • laudable object we readily undertook to watch the bud. flees of this district. In the course of our labours we con tinually urged upon the directors the propriety of strengthening the position of the concern by paying up and Scenting the full amount of the capital stock, being 100,0011 f. This, we were repeatedly assured, had been eff sated. Thin 1860 the folJowiag report of Mr. Nelson (the eminent actuary) was received by us. " Extract from Yr. Neison's report, dated London, July 12, 1860. " The (moral statement of the aggregate mods and liabilities of the association, as presented In the report, shows a balance in favour of the association of no les than 58,1131. 13a. 4d., which is an exceedingly gratifying result. . . _ . remeMs only to express my satisfaction at the result a/ the inquiry, and to urge the importance of giving • wider, mere extended, and comprehensive range to your operstions.—l have the honour to be, 8.c., (alined) Fit.t.Noe O. P. Nemou.' " Taken from Yr. Nelson's report this 18th July, 1860. " J. Hamm.' " We are deeply injured, and 4mpathise moat sincerely with those who hays been ioduced to place their mew is an institution which up to the last moment was represented bus to be more than solvent. "if opportunity offers we shall most readily give our assiduous to bring the perpetrators of such wickednees to " Janos RIMY COTTISICLL, Bewdley Villa ; WILLIAM THOMPSON, 12, Dunsford-place ; WILLIAM Bum, 7, Royal Circus ; JOHN ICHISLAILIt, 5, Charlotte.street; Joel STOTHILIIT SARTORIAL 41, Gay-street. W. H. Banner, Manager.—Bath, Nov. 28." The Oazate of Bankruptcy of to-day says :—" The parties interested in the Deposit Bank appear willing to invoke the separate jurisdictions of &anon, and bankruptcy ; thus duplicating costs and delays. It is difficult to decide which process is mote likely to be efficacious in laying bare that scandalous anatomy of fraud which the Bank of Deposit, during its existence, has so invariably exhibited. If ' the directors have declared profits out of dividends not realised—if they have made false representa tion—no person can doubt that they are liable to criminal prosecution for disobeying the law. But the partite interested In the Bank of Deposit have adopted a more wise and discreet noun than an appeal to the common law. They have made Mr. Peter Morrison • osnkrupt, and that individual being now subject to the Ban kr uptcy Act, 1861, is liable to all the penal consequences which the new law can inflict upos • fraudulent and dishonest bankrupt; and this without the intervention of any other tribunal. For the piun poses of administration the Court of Chancery may be quite as efficient as the Court of Bankruptcy, but for She purposes of detecting and pun is hing fraud, the latter tribunal p ouj ossa 'Meal which the former cannot directly exercise. We believe that if /systematic fraud is to be de tected and punished, the new law will be found to have con (erred upon the Court of Bankruptcy that civil and criminal jurisdiction which hitherto had been most inconveniently distributed among separate and often antagonistic tribunals. The commercial credit of this country cannot continue to tolerate such scandalous eases of fraud as those of which the Royal British Bank, the Eastern Banking Corporation, and the Deposit Bank, are such flagrant examples. It is satisfactory to find that the duty of bringing the directors of the Deposit Bank to justice has been outmoded to the able bands of Mr. Liuklater, by whom the delinquencies of Mr. Humphrey Brown. Kr. flimeron, and the other authori ties of the Royal British Bank were exposed to public opprobrium. We believe that the subject has not escaped the attention of the government, and that in the measure for the Consolidation of Joint Stock Company Law, which will be introduced immediately upon the meeting of parlia ment, a provision will be made to protect the public ageing; that system of fraudulent assurance which, in the case of the Bank of Deposit, has brought ruin and disaster to thousands of honest but over-credulous shareholders and investors." A Paris letter says :—" The theatres here will be very well supplied this winter with new comedies and vaudevilles by the principal dramatic French authors, who are, as usual, working by twos at each forthcoming play. George Sand is engaged with Alexandre Dumas !ifs and Paul Meurice ; with the former at Les Beauc Morena., dos Bais-Dord, which has not yet been disposed of to any par- Mettler theatre ; and with the latter at a comedy in the style of the Marquis de Villanser, which has been already sold for 18,0001 r. to M. Montigny, of the Gymnasts Alexandre Dumas has not, during his stay in Naplea, at all abandoned this kind of literature, which, if successful at Paris, is as good as a gold mine to those who work at it. He has lately sent, through M. Marc Fournier, to Paris the manuscript of a drama is five acts, of the startling and high 'sensational' type. entitled Les Mohicans de Paris and MM. d'Ennery and Mooquud are negotiating with the Porte St. Martin for the 1 sale of the /Astaire de Jules amen It appears that one of the Queen of Spain's chaplains, D. Fernando do Castro, in a sermon lately preached in presence of the court in the Royal Chapel I Madrid, greatly surprised his audience by proclaiming his adhesion to the doctrines propounded by Father Passagi o au the temporal power of the Pope, and by &avocado/ with much earnestness the principle of a united Italy D. Fernando de Castro, besides being one of the royd chaplains, is Professor of General History at the ter ?malty. The Havre journals state that General Winfield Scott, who arrived at that port in the A rago steamer, sia on landing, honoured with quite an ovation improvised II the officers of the American merchantmen lying in the port On leaving the vessel, the general had to peel under 0 immense American flag held by several officers, and " cheered by au enthusiastic crowd of his countrymen all tli way to the Hotel de l'Europe, which was profusely derv' rated with American and French Sags, as were also 01 American vessels in the docks. General Scott, who is s . e• earipanied by his son, Colonel Scott, and his daughler'a l * law, ban arrived io Paris. General Scott is at the Hotel Rivoli, where his wife has been leas residing. Workmen have just completed the building i t '[ the Camp of Chalons of a protestant chapel intended br the celebration of divine service for such of the troop" are protestant& The building will be inaugurate' Do t year. A Vienna letter states that the municipal o.uls• ail of that city has voted a sum of 10,00 florins to ensblr certain number of intelligent artisans of limited masa W visit the Universal Exhibition in Loudon next year. I 6