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Ws Buckingham While.—Asd as 'statements. es titled DYMION . or. the Naughty Soy theterted tortbeldoon. Messrs. C.Tesag and gamy Allow it Caw, Herbert, t low. MOH WATER AT LONDON DIMON. TO DAV —Manisa lh. laa. .... Attrrhoos. lh. 37a TO•0060117—lioralaa lb. as. .therhoeu, th. 21.. LONDON THURSDAY, DEC. 27. A noon hater is a character not to be despised. A good railer also has his value. He gives token of energy, and if this be accompanied by honesty, nothing can be more useful. DEMosTH ENE-, and were famous scolds, and there are persons amongst us who, without exactly all their elo quence, have nevertheless acquired honourable fame as excellent vituperators. Somewhat to the world's surprise, the Prussians have come out in this character. A few months since we were startled at the heartiness with which a Prussian Attorney-General abused the English nation, or the travelling portion of it, as brigands and bullies. We marvelled what Eng land could have done to have deserved this burst of Borussian spleen, until we were informed that the anger proceeded from one of that ousted and retrograde party which considers England as the den of liberalism, and which comprehends Lord PALM LIAToN with G•111111ALDI and MAZZINI in wide anathema. We are happy to see that we have been since avenged of this old retrograde Maxrsurrn. faction, not by our own diplomacy, but through the instru mentality of one of themselves. The malversation of the Police Director, STIRSEE, having been discovered, he was put upon his trial, and a cer tain Attorney-General, of the euphonious name of SCHR AA; was entrusted with the task of prose cution. This SCHWARK had an old grudge against the police, as his colleague of the Rhenish dis trict had against the English, and the former could no more resist the temptation of delivering a philippic than the other. In a most virulent speech Sr liW A Rl4 exposed and denounced the con duct of the Prussian police for years ; its illegal arrests and detentions, its meddling with money claims and trials, in order to extract private profit from them, and so on. The prosecution succeeded; for the pleading not only blew M. Sr lEBER out of the water, but has mined and exploded the police office itself. And the whole affair, with its die closures, gives so complete a handle to the Op position in the Chamber, that there is a strong probability that it will enable them to overthrow the whole Ministry, HUH INZOLLZAN and ScH LEIN ITZ included. The S.:HWARK and Sn►.eze quarrel has indeed proved the signal for a new onward move for the liberals inGermany. For the last six months these have been compelled to pause and look on until it should be ascertained whether the Austrian Go vennuent would prove sincere, practical, and wee resale!, in its threatened constitution and reforms. And it must be confessed that there was nothing which the thorough German patriot more dreaded than the Emperor FRANCIS Joervu issuing such a con.tatution aswould regenerate Austria, and group and attract its provinces once more in a centre of unity at Vienna. For ►n Austrian Empire, re knit and regenerated at Vienna, would render it impossible to found or form another at Frankfort or Berlin. Some of the most experienced men in Germany think that the Austrian Eitremm would have succeeded had he, in following the example of the CZAR and the French Euranoa, flung himself on the democracy of the country and set aside the suggestions of the aristocracy. Had FKA 'll.l Jowls adopted the conclusions of the min , rity of the Commission of Twenty-one, and established unity and equality of representation throughout the empire, he would have finally overcome the op position of the magnates in the feudal crown lands, and have nullified in a great degree the popular party and leaders in Hungary. The Emremia, however, thought fit to follow the advice of neither majority nor minority, and to grant neither the historic institutions of the Clani.Szochen party, nor the opposite recommenda tions of the minority. These were far more demo cratic than liberal, and leading men of that minority were heard to say, that they prized equality more than liberty, and municipal liberty more than a general constitution. However, the Minima maintained Ilaesasw , that immovable representative of a stationary policy, and by satisfying no party in Hungary, has placed that country on the brink of a convulsion, whilst the centtitutions given to the other crown lands are regarded with derision. After Hungary, the countries most important to orgmize wisely and liberally were the Tyrol and Styria. For, since the Treaty of Villafranca, these have become frontier provinces, called upon to defend themselves against Italian invaaioo. For this nil it was not merely fortifications of stones that were required, but the possibility of com paring th-ir government and institutions favour ably with those of the new Italian Kingdom. The districts on the western bank of the Lake of Garda have now sent their deputies to an Italian Parliament, as well as chosen the members of their local municipalities. On the eastern bank nobles and clergy are to occupy half the Diet, the other half being named by the chief magistrates of the towns and the highly taxed section of the farmers. The Tyrolese, at first not ill-affected to the House of Austria, and ready to defend it against that of Sardinia, have in a few weeks come to compare their condition with that of the Italians ; and the result i., that their arms are dropping from their hands—and this in the land of Ht iTER. The _ it of Hungary is a far more serious affair than that of the Tyrol ; but it cannot be handled in a paragraph. If the government wished to I..ree an insurrection there it could scarcely have taken steps wore directly tending to it. The THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING , DECEMBER 27, 1860. appointment of the most unpopuble-maa it could find to preside over the different districts was as exceedingly nab act. A change has glace ittsit made in the Government. Gextrommeu tes resigned, or has been dismissed. But is these aught to be hoped from the substitution of M. 84:111(ERLNO in his place ? Seesaws° was minister in 1849, and is no doubt an able lawyer ; but his ability was at that time directed to the introduction of the Austrian code into Hungary, than which no one measure of the Vienna Government has proved more dis tasteful to the Hungarians. Is M. SCHMEELINO the man to give the Hungarians the autonomy they require, or to render more palatable that which they reject ? Austria, therefore, we much fear, offers no pro spect save that of political convulsion. Prussia seems to be on the eve of a great ministerial change, the nature and consequence of which depends much upon the manner in which the Pelee' RIMANT takes the votes and decrees of the Chambers. If a liberal Ministry be formed in Prussia it almost inevitably comes into collision with the Frankfort Diet on the subject of Hesse Cassel, of which the existing Chambers demand the restoration of their ancient constitution. What is more serious to us, a liberal adminis tration at Berlin would not only quarrel with the German Diet on the subject of Hesse Cassel, but with England on the question of Schleswig. Our public men in England entertain the most anti- Prussian and anti-German opinions as to how Denmark is to be politically constituted and di vided ; and the project of an Anglo-Prussian or an Anglo-German alliance against possible dis turbers of the public peace may completely split upon that rock. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. TURN, Drc. 27. Countikvour has been unwell. He bas been bled twice and is now in a more eatiafeatory Mete. Signor Riccardi, the eon-in-law of Farini, is dead. NAPLES, Dm 25. The individuals belonging to the classes of 1857, 1858, 1869, and 1860, have been called to military service. Those who have been sent home are to be in readiness to resume military service when required. NAPLLS, D. 26. Several persons have been arrested on a charge of having been in correspondence with the Roy alists at Gaeta. RONK, Dac. 23. The liberal party is irritated against the police for having ordered the closing of the Castenuovo, and has set up an open opposition to the measure. The last allocution of the Pope has not yet been published. The Giornale di Roma publishes a protest, signed by 22 prelates of the Marches, against the acts of the Sardinian government. Several thousands of soldier+ who left Gaeta and entered the Roman States, are returning to the Abruzzi, where the reactionary movements con tinue. ITALY. • THE SIEGE OF GAETA: . LETTER FROM VICTOR EMMANUEL TO, Mir FRANCIS IL (non OUR &recut oocantrownerr.) NOLA DI GAETA, Day. 14. The same uncertainty still prevails in our camp. Are we going to have an armistice or are we not ? This is the question the officers ask one another. Since orders were received by General Cialdini to discontinue the fire of the battery of rifled guns which we have established on Monte Cristo we have not resumed it, quite indifferent as to whether the besieged followed our example or not. When we made General Salzano acquainted with the orders received from Naples, the Neapo litan commander-in-chief declined to enter into any compromise, saying that his royal muster had nothing to do with the proposal made by the trench cabinet. It is, therefore, evident that up to the present day the enemy has not ac cepted the overtures which were made by Louis Napoleon, and which King Victor Emmanuel has tened to follow at once. The batteries of Gaeta were, indeed, silent for about 48 hours, and this was the fact which led us to believe that Francis IL had really made up his mind to go. These hopes were, however, dispelled, for last night the be sieged fortress began to tire again with its usual liberality. We have, therefore, come to the coon elusion, that the short respite they gave us was the effect of a battery of 16 pieces with which we had opened fire on the right side of the fortress, and of the rifled one we have estab lished on Monte Cristo. The success we obtained with this last was so great that even the fair Queen got afraid, and sought refuge on board the Spanish vessel which is lying in the harbour. Two shells from this battery went through the roof of the military hospital and exploded in one of the wards, to the great consternation of the sick. The poor creatures were so terror-struck that they ran into the street, and the sight was most dis tressing. The particulars of that lament able occurrence were given me by a captain of the Neapolitan staff, whom General Salzano sent here to remonstrate. The offioer came to Cialdini with • ridiculous air of indignation, saying that it bad been agreed no bombs or shells should explode in the building where the black flag was hoisted. Cialdini, who knows well how to deal with fan /avow told the captain that he was too expert in military matters to have for a moment entered into such a foolish arrangement. " I have promised your general," added Cialdini, " that my gunners shall never point their guns at any of the build ings marked by the black flag. But between such a promise and that you attribute to me there is • wide difference. How can we undertake that not a shell from our rifled pieces shall explode in certain buildings when the guns are fired at a distance of 4,500 metres ?" There was no answer to be given to such a question, and the Neapolitan captain was at last obliged acknow ledge that the Piedmontese general was quite right. But if such has been the disastrous effect of a few rifled guns, what will be the position of the be sieged when Cavern's guns arrive ? These new im plements of destruction can be brought to bear at the distance of 5500 metres, and their practice is reported to be so perfect that at such a distance the shells can be lodged within a circle of two yards diameter. We rather expect that both Francis 11. and his generals will be taught a lesson they will not soon forget. When one considers the sacrifice of life which the taking of Gaeta must cost, one cannot help feeling indignant at the useless obstinacy of its de fenders. Had Francis H. the most remote chance of reconqueriug his former state, I could under stand it. But even supposing the worst for Italian unity the Bourbons will never be recalled to the throne of Naples, for the civilised world has condemned them. It is not, therefore, the fault of Victor Emmanuel if their misgovernment and tyranny has brought him to Naples. It is not sufficiently known in Europewhat the King of Italy lies done to bring the son of Ferdinand 11. to a sense of justice and the adoption of a wiser policy. I have just now oome into possession of a copy of a letter, which was addressed by Victor Em manuel to Francis 11. when the former was at Florence. The letter deserved au answer, though it never received one. Dear Cousin,—lt would be umlaut for me to point out the political state of the peninsula, since the great victories of Magenta and &Merino annihilated the influence which Austria exercised upon our country. The Italians are no more the people of thirty years ago, to be led like sheep by their rulers. They have acquired the full knowledgeof their rights, and they possess the wisdom and strength necessary to defend them. Public opinion has on the other hand sanctioned the principle, that every nation has the ineon teatible right of governing itself as it thinks best. When once the overpowering influence of Austria was conquered, it was natural enough that the people of Italy should get rid of the minor princes and try to constitute • power ful and independent community. We have, therefore, reached an epoch at which Italy must be divided into two powerful states, one in the north the other in the south, which, by adopting a similar course of national policy, should assist the Italian leading idea of our times, which is unity. But to carry this project into effect it is, I firmly believe, necessary that your Majesty should at once abandon the fatal course you have hitherto pursued. Should you resist my pressing advice, which I beg you to believe is the result of the truest affection for your welfare, and for that of your royal dynasty—should you repudiate my friendly proposal, a time may come in which I should be placed in the terrible alternative of endangering the most urgent interests of my own dynasty or of be coming in fact the chief instrument of your ruin. The principle of dualism, which, if successfully established and honestly carried out, will at the same time ensure our happiness and the happiness of our country, may be still willingly accepted by the Italians. If you allow • few months to pus without following the friendly advice I give you, your Majesty will, in all probability, expe rience the bitterness ofof those terrible words, "It is too late," as a member of your family did at Paris in 1830. The Italians will then concentrate in me all their hopes, and there are duties which, how ever painful they may be, must be fulfilled by an Italian sovereign. Let us therefore work together at such • noble work ; let us urge upon the Holy Father the necessity of granting the requisite reforms ; let us unite our states in a bond of real friendship, from which the greatness of our country will sorely spring. Grant at once • liberal consti tution to your subjects; surround yourself with the In fluence of the men who are most esteemed for all they have suffered in the cause of liberty ; dispel all kinds of suspicion io your people, and let an everlasting alliance be established between the two most powerful State! of the Peninsula. We will then work together to insure to our country the great blessing of being the sole arbitrees of her future destinies. You are young, and experience is not generally the lot of youth. Allow me, therefore, to impress upon your mind the neoesaity of following the advice I give you in my two. fold capacity of a near relative and of au Italian sovereign. I anxiously wait by the return of the confidoutiel courier who will present thisletter to your Majesty a satisfactory answer —Believe me, your Majesty's most affectionate cousin, Florence, April 15, 1860. Vlcrort Egriarrucr.. Well, to this letter not only no answer was given, but the orderly officer who took it to Naples was not even allowed to deliver it to the king, as he had been directed to do. It was just on that occa sion that the first domestic quarrel took place be tween the young queen and her obstinate husband. This lady having beard of Victor Emmanuel's letter, telegraphed through a friend to Commenda tory di Martino, then at Rome, to ask his advice. Di Martino answered that it was of the utmost importance that the proposal of the Sardinian monarch should be accepted at once. The unhappy queen, therefore, urged her husband to accept but the disastrous influence of the Queen Dowager had already borne its fruit. Francis 11. obsti nately repulsed the wise advice of his young con sort, and from that moment the fate of the Bour bons of Naples was decided. You know thn rent. Dec. 16. The tire of the place still continues with the usual briskness. As the left flank of the Sardinian positions was thought not to be strong enough, General Menabrea ordered that a bridge which crossed the wain road leading to the short, of the open sea should be blown up at once. This geration, which was intrusted to Captain de la Poe* of the Royal Engineers, was both most difficult and mast dangerous. The bridge being situated on an open pieos of ground opposite to the bastion which surrounds Monte Torre d'Orlando it was necessary to destroy it under the heavy fire of the place. the operation was, however, auccea fully carried out by the gallant captain, although with the loss of a few men, who were hit by the Neapolitan shells. Foreign officers are daily arriving at our camp to inspect the siege operations. A few days ago a Russian General came with a letter of Count Cavonr. He was, of course, very much Med by both Cialdini and his officers, because his visit had great importance in a political point of view. The Russian visitor did not the least dia ries his opinions on the matter. Hee -1 rag said that he had got the authorisation of his imperial master to come here, he hastened to add that all true Russians viewed the present strug gle between the new King of Italy and the late King of the Two Sicilies as a stru ggle between Austria and Italy. " I wish you ," said the Rus sian general to au officer of the Sardinian artillery, " God speed, and may you in a short time revenge on the Mincio and the Po Austria's treacherous and ungrateful abandonment of us in the Crimean war." Some officers from the Danubian Principalities are also guests at our camp, and they most heartily fra ternise with these brave Italians. The French, you know already, are not great favourites here just now. Since hurt night a report has bn spread that Admiral de Tinau had received orders to remain—news which, accord ing to the Neapolitan deserters, was also spread at Gaeta, to the great satisfaction of Francis 11. and his generals. What will be the result of this doubly-faced policy I canuot tell, but what is cer tain is, that the Italians are thoroughly sick of it. Louis Napoleon makes the proposal of an armis tice, which is at once accepted by the cabinet of Turin. The same overtures are made to Francis IL, who is told that if he does not accept, the French fleet will retire. He decline% and the French vessels not only remain, but they are increased by a screw frigate and a brig. How long will Europe endorse this bullying policy of his Imperial Majesty 1 When will she call on him to respect the principle of non-intervention laid down in the treaty of Zurich ? These are the questions which Italians put to me without my being able to answer them. The new incident that Las occurred in this question as regards the French policy has made the more impression upon the Sardinian officers, inasmuch as the sudden appearance at our camp of General Guyon, chief of the staff, was re garded as a proof of the good offices of France, and u the forerunner of Admiral Barbier de Tinan's prompt departure. This, however, has not been the case. Hence an increasing feeling of distrust towards Louis Napoleon and his government. Dec. 17. In spite of the bad weather our workmen have made wonderful progress, and within a few days we shall have surrounded Gaeta with a double line extending across the isthmus from one sea to the other. If therefore nothing happens to stop our works we shall be able to open a tremendous fire against Gaeta by the 6th or 7th of next mouth. It is a long time to wait, but you must bear in mind that the difficulties General Menabre* has to contend with can only be appreciated by those who are acquainted with the ground, and who know bow strong are the posi tions of the besieged. To get rid of a part of the garrison Francis 11. has shipped the two regi ments of his guards, and sent them to Ter racina. On arriving there the repudiated sup porters of the Bourbon cause made their way to our camp, where they arrived yesterday evering. About 8(10 of them were sent to Naples last night ; the others will follow either to-day or to-morrow morning. This is the way iu which the son of Ferdinand U. treats poor soldiers who have sacrificed the comforts of life and family affections for his welfare. A letter of the 18th inst., from Fermo, says : " We can assert that the Cardinal Di Angelis, now at Turin, has addressed a circular to the curds of the diocese of Fermo ; he orders them, on pain of excommunication, not to supply the list of recruits for the new levy. The curia, having met in council, have resolved to obey strictly this order. The most ardent defender of divine right in this conclave was the curb of the Carmine of Fermo." The following order of the day has been pub lished at Napier : For the honour of the body to which they belong, I re commend the officers and soldiers of the Southern army to abstain from every act which partakes of the nature of noisy demonstration. My fellow-officers and soldiers, now that the campaign is over, the leas that is said of you the more honourable and honoured you will be. Imitate Garibaldi, who is collecting himself in solitude for new enterprises. The General of the Southern Army, Dec. 15. G. Swim. THE SUPPOSED ASSASSIN OP JUDGE POINSOT. The Siitle ways :—" It is known that the sup posed wassin of President Poinsot is named Charles Jud, ands a malefactor of the most dangerous character, against whom a writ of arrest has been issued. The following is the description that we find on this subject in the Univa Boar guigneame Jud, who hu recently acquired a celebrity equal to that of the moat celebrated miscreants, was on his way to Dijon in the early part of last month. When on the 12th of September last he assassinated ins carriage in the train from Retort to Mulhouse the Russian Dr. lieppi, be was already under sentence of twenty years' hard labour. On the 3rd of November he was travelling in a compartment of a second-clarriage in the train from Mar seilles to Baia, with a young civil engineer of the Hanle of Haiti, who was returning from Constantine. He made his acquaintance during the journey, and on the 4th they stopped to Dijon at the Hotel of the CO' te.rl'Or, with M. Gillet, in Rue Guillaume. ' Beware of my travelling com panion , he said to M. Gillet, for he had not • sou in his pocket; I have lent him 20fr. In the evening, when the engineer ceme back to fetch his things, be found that his double•barrelled gun, his shooting license a pistol with an ivory handle, his powder-flask and shot-bag, had been stolen. His travelling companion, J ame.s Jud (that was his travelling name), had vanished. The police instantly signalled him, and his description was sent to Paris. On the 28th of November this dangerous criminal was arrested and confined in a luck-up house, but he ma naged to get rid of his chains, when he fled across country, after knocking dawn three guards who tried to stop him. At the time of his arrest they found on his person some Russian lank notes and a double-barrelled min, which had been doubtless stolen at Dijon. It was eight days after this escape that the assassination of M. Poinsot was committed on the Railway of the Ease" The following English physicians have had the high honour conferred upon them of being elected Asso ciates of the Societe Medico-Psychologique of Paris, viz. : Dr. John Conolly, D.C.L., of Hanwell ; Dr. Forbes Winslow, D.C.L., of London; and Dr. Bucl.nell, of Devon. PRUSSIA AND JAPAN.—The Berlin journals of the 22nd state that a German merchant, writing from Yokohama. in Japan, confirms the fact that the negotia tions for a treaty of commerce between Japan and Prussia, which bad been commenced by Count Eulenblug, had been embarrassed by • number of difficulties raised by the Japanese government, but that the count had declared that he would remain near the isluid with his squadron for eight months in the hope of removing them. Abraham Lincoln is a gaunt giant more than six feet high, strong and long-limbed. Ho walks slow, an d , like many thoughtful men (Wordsworth and Napoleon, for example), keeps his head inclined forward and downward. His hair Is wiry black, his eyes are dark-grey : his smile is frank, sincere, and winning. Like most America', gentlemen, he is loose and careless in dress, turn. down his flapping white collars, and wear, habitually what we con sider evening dress. His head is massive, his brow full and wide, his nose large and fleshy. his mouth wane and full ; his eyes are sunken, his bronzed face is thin, end drawn down into strong corded lines, that disclose the machinery that moves the broad jaw. This greet leader of the " Repub lican " partv—this Abolitionist—this terror of the " HMO mats "—this honest old lawyer, with a face half Roman, half Indian, so wasted byclimate, so soirrol by a lifo's strug gles, was born in 1809, in Kentucky. His grandfather, who came from Virginia, was killed by the Indians. His father died young, leaving a widow and several children. They re moved to Indians, Abe being at that time only six years old. Poor, and stniggiam, his mother could only afford him some eight months' rough schooling ; and is the clearings of that new, unsettled country, the healthy stripling went to work to hew hickory and gum-trees, to ple with remonstrating bears, and to look out for the too freq uent rattlesnake. Tall, strong, lithe, and smiling, Abe toil ed on as farm-labourer, mule-driver, sheep-feeder, deer-killer, woodcutter, and, lastly, as boatman on the waters of the Wabash, and the Ili nusippi.—Oate a Week. (nom out ow' col BEYROUT, Dec. 7. - , The subject which is chiefly occupying all nieu'., minds here at present is the question as to the departure of the French. That by the terms and conditions of the convention their term of occupa tion will be up on the 16th February next we all know, as it was on the 16th August that they landed in the country. In my opinion their lepar. ture would cause a panic, and a general exodus of all the Christians that could by any means get away, and we must remember that in thi s part of Syria—from Latakia in the north to Tyre in the houth, including the Lebanon and anti-Leban.,i, ranges—the Christians of various denominations form three-fourths of the population. Nay, so much is the departure of the French dreaded that I know many native Christian families in Beyront who have parted with jewels, or realised on good., or sold land, so as to have by them available at ally moment the money required to take them away. And, much as this want of confidence in the Turkish authorities is to be lamented, we who saw all that passed in May, June, and July last cannot wonder at it. There is no doubt that Fuad Pacha is gradually gaining the confidence of the Christian population, but it is equally true that if the French leave Syria during the next sir months—or until there is really some appearanm of things being placed on a proper footing—all the good that has been done will be undone. - Then, again, the fraternisation which on all pos. aible occasions takes place even now between the Turkish soldiers and the Druses is naturally a source of no small anxiety to the native Christians. No longer than about ten days ago a party of Tur kish soldiers was sent up to the village of Bteta in Lebanon to search the houses of the Druse Sheiks and others, for plunder taken from the Christians (luring the war. A European gentleman who was an eye-witness of the scene told me that the Turkish troops passed the day in feasting and sings.• with the Druses, and came away with rubbish of the value of two or three pounds, saying the village contained no more plunder. The very next day a party of French soldiers was set to search the same village, when property recognised to have belonged to Christians, such as church plate, jewels, &c., to the value of more than 2,0001., was found in a very few hours. The French search wars made under the directions of a French resident iu the mountains, by order of the general, and with Fund Pacha's approval ; but no sooner did the Turkish governor of the district hear of it than he did his best to stop it. And this is but one of the instances which are happening every day. Damascus still remains the greatest of the Syrian difficulties. It appears useless for Christians to attempt to live there. They not only are openly insulted at every turn by the Moslems, but the hitter tell them daily and hourly that they are only waiting for the French and Fuad Paella to depart in order to repay with tenfold interest the lives of their co-religionists taken by Fluid when he tine visited Damascus. A respectable Moslem of Da tnascus said lately to a native Christian, in whose word I have every reason to believe, that the Mos lems of Damascus had sworn on the Koran that as soon as the infidels had left Syria no Christian should be left alive within a summer day's journey of the holy city. I believe—and you must allow that my long experience in Syria has been of some use in prognosticating what was to take place iu the country—l believe that if we want Syria to be quiet, and don't wish for a renewal of the horrors of last year, the present French army of occupation must remain at any rate over the spring. The mortality amongst the Christians of the Lebanon is something fearful to contemplate. The bad and insufficient food which they have had to put up with, the want of houses to shelter them from the weather, and the mental anxiety, only too natural to men who have lost their all, and to women who have lost their husbands, sons, brothers, and fathers, is beginning to tell upon them. I have the authority of Colonel Burnaby of the Guards, that excellent English officer who has volunteered for the mission of helping the Christians to rebuild their es , for saying that in very many of the Christian villages the people are dying at the rate of sixty per cent. per annum ! This is something fearful to contemplate. At this rate the whole of the mixed districts of the mountain would be entirely depopulated in less than two years. And remember this mortality is, notwith standing the large sums spent by the British Syrian Relief Fund and the various French charities to relieve the sufferers. The French have just allotted the large sum of 48,000/. towards re building the burnt-up villages ; but these cannot be repaired in a day, and before they can be so, many hundreds, aye thousands, of the Christian peasantry of Lebanon will have died from the effects of want and exposure. Lord Dufferin and the other commissioners of the five powers are still at Damascus ; they return here to-morrow, I believe. 1 understand they are astounded at all they have seen, and at the tales of Moslem insolence they hear ; in short, that they believe their task of settling the Syrian question to be but just begun. Abe court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dic. 26. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday com prised the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, and the Princess of Leiningen, the Prince Louis of Home, the Prince of Lsiningeo, Lady Caroline Barrington, Major•- General the Hon. 0. sad Mrs. Grey, Major-General the Hon. R. and Mrs. Bruce, Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles and Mk. Phipps, the Dean of Windsor, and the Hon. Mrs. Weller Isy, the Hon. Mrs. T. M. Biddulph, Baron von Wester welter, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel. Major Cowell„ Major Elphinstone, R.E., and Mr. Woodward. Ludy Augusta Bruce and Lady Emmy Howard had the honour of joining the party in the evening. The Queen, accompatied by Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Louis of Hesse walked in the Home Park this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kent at Progmore. Prince Arthur and Primo; Louie of Hesse skated on the ice. The Prince Consort with the Prime of Wales and Prince Alfred went out shooting; attended by Major• General the Hon. R. Bruce and Colonel Ponvouby. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell and Major Du Flat, left Windsor Castle at half•past 2 o'clock to-day for Dover, en route to Berlin, where the Prince will remain for a few days on a visit to the Prince aced Prince.. Frederick William. His Royal Highness will afterwards visit the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg at Gotha, and return to England by Brussels about the sth of January next. It hi understood that Prince Alfred will embark at Plymouth on the 15th of January in her Majesty's 'ship St. George, Cap tain the Hon. F. Egerton, and proceed immediately to the North American and West Indian station. General Sir Edward Bowater has succeeded the Hon. M. Sackville Wert as Groom in Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Pomonby has succeeded Major Du Plat as Equerry in waiting to the Prince Consort. On Friday and Saturday in the put, and on Monday sad yesterday in the current week, her Majesty's royal bounty and gate alms were distributed to aged and meritorious poor in lAmdon and ita vicinity under the superris , on of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner ; the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Sub• Almoner, by Joseph Hanby, Fag., Secretary and Yeoman of her Maiesty's abnonry in ordinary. The applications for aid were unusually numerous. The num bers relieved amounted to nearly 1,000 pane•. Despatches were received at the C,lonial•of(lce, yesterday, from the governors of the North American provinces. Despatch= were sent to the Governors of Canada, the Australian Cobalt's, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, Mauri tius, Malta, and Gibraltar. Lady and the Miaaes Graham Lave arrived in Park-street, from Vienna. The Right Hou. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli hare pawed through town for lialdon Howe, Ex eter, on e vent So fier Lawrence and Lady Palk. The Right Hon. Sir Edmund Head, Governor. Gesand at thaweda, sad lAdy Head and the Misses Head, have left Flleffllltell Hotel on a visit to the Duke of New castle at Clamber P. We (Poet) are requested to contradict the report at the weak state of the Earl at Yarbareemdt ; him lordship's health is, ou the coatrary, greatly improved. We (P,...0 understandthat a marriage will shortly take plane between Caplan' Ferguson, of the Grenadier Guards, only sou of Admiral Ferree)), of Pitinur, N. 8., and the Hon. Mrs. Fagusoa,ead MIMI Hood, eldest daughter of the Hoo. Colonel sad lady Nary Hood. Marshal Pefinder, Doke of Malakhoff, still occu pies the hotel of the Legion of Honour, where be is to be replaced by Admiral Mamba The marshal, previous to his departure for Algeria, is organising his administration, and selecting the feectionerie■ who are to accompany him to Algiers. The government of the Duke of Malakboff will be a perfect vice•royaly. He will be completely hide. pendent of the ministers, and will communicate directly with the Emperor. Marshal Mosier will quit Paris next week to take possession of his command. A letter from M. Kossuth to a friend in Paris contains the following purge relative to Count Ladislaus Teleki :—" Had he really travelled with a false passport? Ido not know. Rot I declare, on my honour, that be travelled on his private affairs only, ■od that his excursion to Germany had nothing whatever to do with politics." The conduct of the Porte under similar circumstances pre. smite a striking contrast to that of the Saxon government. A letter from Runic, of the 18th, says Poli tical discord has now invaded even the euphonious pre cincts of the Philharmonic Bomety. Stormy discussions took place last night lathe green-ruorn of theft accomplished amateurs, with regard to the mode of conducting the repre sentation of an opera in Prince Torlonia's newly constructed theatre, the Aliberti, for the benefit of the evening schools for the poorer classes in Rome. The greater part of the amateurs protested against the direction of this charitable performance being assumed by a government committee in stead of a philharmonic one, and decd ired that if there was any intention of mixing politics with charity, by getting up in the theatre a demonstration in favour of the Pope, they . . should decline giving their services for the OCCAUIIOII. The female patios, of the amateurs were, if passible, more de cided in the expression of their sentiments than the male— tenon sod ilassi proton& yielding the palm to soprani and contralti. The result was a decide! want of harmony in the philharmonic body—the president, Count Alborghetti, with a minority, who, like himself, have places in the palace, or are from principle attached to the Papal r••'•linio, reserving to themselves the alternative of appealing to the government committee before coming to any definite repo. lutioe." The Bishop of Orvieto has circulated a pastoral letter in his diocese, condemning the circulation of all "ir religious, immoral, rod lying books." The " Bible of Dio dati" (the Urban Protestant version), the almanac called "l'Amico di Cara," the " Four Words to the Inhabitants of Umbria sad the Marches," std the "Compendium of Controversies betwaeu the Word of God and the Roman Theology," are the works especially denounced by Kg. Vespignani. "Burn, burn," be erica ; " remember bow the Epliesians obeyed St. Paul, and committed their boobs to the fl...incs at the desire of the .1 purtle—they did not hesitate to sacrifice 50,000 silver denaris' worth, and you should not shrink from destroying pernicious works like these, which will corrupt and contaminate you." The number of patients treated at the Samaritan Free liospitil for Wornen and ChiLlnoo, Edvranls.street. Portman square, during the week ending Dee. 22, was NS, of which 2.2 were new eaves. AUSTRIA. PARIS, WIDNERDAY. The Pays says :—" The Austrian Council of Ministers at Vienna has decided on demanding from the Pope the complete abolition of the Concordat. Negotiations to that effect have been opened with Rome." FRANCE. PARIS, WIDNIXDAT. The reported arrival of Garibaldi in Paris has been denied. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARA WZDIIMIDLT, 3.25 P.Y. Little business has been done on the Bourse, but the funds are rather firmer. Renter closed at 68.35, or sc. higher than yesterday. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 4 o'clock a.m., yesterday. The mails left for London at 10 o'clock a.m. The lon, with the heavy portion of the above left Malta at 4 p.m. on the 22nd, and may be expected at Southampton on the 31st instant. The Bengal arrived at Suez on the 15th inat. OUTWARD MAILS. The Colombo, with the London mail of the 20th (26th) October, arrived at Oalle on the 20th Nov. The Ripon from Southampton on the 12th instant arrived at Malta, and sailed for Alexandria on the 22nd instant. The ireetia from Marseilles on the 20th Mutant, arrived at Malta at 6 a.m. on the 23rd, and sailed at 10 a.m. AMERICAN MAILS. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Glasgow has sailed for New York with 83,443/. in specie. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Nova Scotian which sailed to-day for Portland took only 5001. in specie. THE ARREST OF COUNT TELEKI. A letter of the 22nd from Dresden says : You have learnt by the telegraph that Count Ladislaus Teleki has been arrested here and given up by the police to Austria. The Count had been staying here a few days on family business, and the police had given him the usual permission to reside here for a limited time. On the 17th he was going to return to Geneva, from which place he had come, but on the morning of that day some police.abeuta entered his room and searched it. They even took from him his clothes, which they ripped up in the hope of find ing some important papers between the cloth and hning. But they found nothing. The police took Count Takla away with them and did not release him again. They se telegram to the Austrian Cabinet to know what they were to do, and on the 19th the answer came that they were to wad Count Teleki to Vienna. The Saxon govern ment, conscious of its odious conduct, did not comply at once with Austria's demand, and desired them to send from Vienna the heads of Teleki's trial. The reply came that this formality wee useless. Yesterday Count Teleki was sent to Vienna. The director of the police appears to be ashamed of his seal, at least he says he is to the aurae. roar members of the aristocracy who come to load him with reproaches. This surrender has produced a very peat emestion ; it has painfully surprised the city. Count Traleki has many relations in our upper circles, and is gene rally esteemed on scoount of his high character." Neither is he merely an Austrian count, but a count of the empire as well, and the Saxon government bad no right to give him up, even if Saxony is bound by a treaty of extradition. CHINA. A Paris letter in the Indipendance says : A rumour is current that it is not impossible that the jxa jected expedition in Cochin China may be countermanded, the Emperor Pu-Due. sovereign of the Annamite territory, having, on receiving news all the explode of the allied armies China, mabifested a wish to enter into an arrangement. The Coestirufilneeel observes : The recent arrival of news from China, rid St. Petersburg, Las sea more demonstrated how rapidly land conveyanos tea beteg intelligence to Europe from that great Empire. The 0001MUlliCaLl0111 announcing the surrender of Pekin and the conclusion of the treaty of peace did not consist of a few lines transmitted by electricity, but of complete accounts. It ioN, therefore, evident that the Rimini government has oromised, rid Kiatcha, a postal service which works with great regularity and despatch. The following appears in the Journal du haore : With regard to the booty made in China, inestimatle conquests in an artistic, and historical point of view are spoken of. The part acquired by France would alone suffice for the formation of an immense Chinese museum. Among other things mentioned i a clock of wonderful workmanship, with carved figures representing the swops all the wardrobe of the Empress of China, he. There has also fallen to the lot of the French an edition of Confucius, which belonged to tho celebrated Emperor Kali -IM, the Napoleon I. of the Chinese, awl having notes in his hand wnting. Among the other objects found in the summer palace, and which are in the part reserved for France, is an elephant of natural size, in gilt and enamelled bronze, aml most magniLcent. A Paris letter, of Tuesday, says :—" Ma is Christmas-day, and such a Christmas-day se belongs to the old-fashioned times. The house tops are white, and the streets are the same ; soars people's hats, and whiskers, and umbrellas ; in fact, the snow, which has fallen continuously for the last twelve hours in Paris, has entirely changed the aspect of everything and everybody out of doors. Railway trains do not arrive at the expected time from any quarter of imperial France, and in some instances the usual mails have not come in at all. The mails from England, Germany, and Italy are all equally delayed. Very white and very wintry look the streets of Paris to-day, and at the mine time very seasonable. Circu lation is almost impossible from carriages stopping on the roads. The restaurants, as usual, have been preparing for an unusual number of customers this evening, for many a Frenchman's happiness consists in dining out on Christmas-day in public with half a doses friends, or alone with • lady, as my Irish acquaint ance expresses himself. In the evening, whilst you are doing domestic delights, and, I presume, grog, many hun dreds of Parisians will be at the theatre. Some may be listening to dramatic pieces, which we should scarcely admit as belonging to Christmas-day. The toy-shops and bon-1.01 shops are already crowded by people who are buying their itsennes. Christmas gifts and Christmas boxes to servants in Paris are carried to an extent unknown in England : no neater what position in life, even though only a little above the positively poor, you will be waited upon and solicited by dozens." The Turin journal Leethardia dates that should Facial be compelled through ill-health to resign the lieu. tenancy of Naples, Count Poom di Nadine, wbo has already held office, and bus the reputation of being one of the most able administrators of the country, is certain to be appointed in his stead. SYRIA. -.-- RUSSIA. General Hasford, commander of the corps in Siberia, has addressed a report to the government, giving an account of an irruption into the Rus , dau territory by the Kokans. Taking advantage of the excitement which prevails among the Mnesulmane, the Hokans collected numemus bands among the nomade Kirghis tribes of the valley of Tchow, and to the number of 20,000 crossed the frontier with the intention of possessing themselves of the fortaves of Kaslek. The enter prise was, however, baffled by Colonel Klopakoweki, who forced the enemy to retire. The Russians are stated to have sustained only insignificant loss, but the Kokans left on the ground about 1,500 killed, and among them most of their chiefs. SECURITY FOR RAILWAY TRAVRLLERS. The French Minister of Public Works has just addressed the following circular to the engineers in chief charged with the control of the railways, calling their atten tion to different measures calculated to swum psaseurrs against such dangers as that of which M. Poinsot was hit, ly the victim. The hon. minister says : "Sir,—The set committed on the 6th inst. on the Eastern Railway has caused the most painful and the must legite mate emotion. The public has seen is this frightful eves: the revelation of a danger, the existence of which appeal to have been never suspected. Doubtless, if we Meet en the criminal audacity required to accomplish such ,t crime, and if we think on the co-operation of circumstances. whieh could alone allow the murderer to escape the survedlatax el the agents on the line, and the very dangers of that attempt, we shall be led to see in this deplorable event only one those exceptional facts which are beyond all ealeulatieo. Nevertheless it suffiees for such a crime to have been mitted fur it to be the duty of the administration to serum:. lowly Peek, with the cooperation of the railway oinipain , for the proper means of preventing the recurrence of it, of tranquillising the public feeling. Among those measures that which first presents itself to the mind, and el d .h in fact appears the most etkctual, would emelt in organising the control of the train in a Ito. moment manner, by means of the circulation agents on the footboards of the carriages prop d r y arranged for that purpose. This system, has already been in practice on the Northern and Southern lines, is, I am aware, not much approval of by the publw• who complain of the frequent derangements which it oes• shins. Considerations of general security must. bores , r. evidently give way to simple questions of *mediae , This control of agents of the trains, etfisied at any pew ] during their pump, appc,rs to he a serious gte , r.u" which ought not to be neglected. It would be well to etr mine whether, in °Phut° complete this contr.!, it soal. l nut be possible to place at the disposal of the pessengets each compartment a visual signal, which could be noised above the carriage, and which would the guard lb' " 1 in the front part of the trait,. This signal might le lighted at night by mein/ of a reflector pintas! above list lamps. There has been also avg.. ted as a useful meaone the establishment in the tarriages ;;bezel tenets. VI . " ing a communication hetweeu 1.4 , 1 a compartment : Ilia system also merits CS..IIIIOI4LiOU. as a l niefa , "r could not escape hum the train ex.. pt at a nin...at • 1 . its speed had somewhat slackened, either on iss u ing stations, or bifurcations, it is important that a surveillance should be stems:bed at those points. your particular attention, sir, to the different which I hare just pointe,l out. lie kfitti enough to sea'' r ` them in concert with the company the control of v! , l' l . confided to vou, and let ma knew as wee as result of that examination. r