The Express. — London, England, 1865-12-27 00:00:00

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HIGH WATT& AT LONDON-33 1 DM Mu Du gamin& U. .... Miasma, OIL 295. Toaionow-• Yoruba, itb. 60e.....Aftersoce,101. LONDON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 27. Le spite of the pressure of great and small agricultural societies, and other representatives of the farming interest, Government has re fused to issue a compulsory order forbidding the transit of live cattle. But it has so fax increased the powers of the local authorities in this respect that all th e good which a general man date could have effected may now be secured by the action of these local bodies. The former Orders in Council were defective in two particulars. They constituted in country districts the magis trates in each petty sessional division the local authority. This subdivided a county too much, and required, to make the orders really efficacious, that they should not only be approved by the ma jority of the magistrates in the county, but by a majority in each of its districts. The remedy pro vided now is, the enlargement of the districts from those of petty sessions to those of quarter sessions. The second defect in the former rules consisted in their not committing to the local authority power to prohibit the movement of cattle within the district, the power given being re stricted to prohibiting the importation of cattle from other districts. The necessary authority for controlling all local traffic has now been accorded. ' Thus there is now vested in the magistrates of each county the means of as fully preventing the spread of the plague by contagion as if an impera , tive order applicable to the whole country had been issued by Government. For by the former rules, which are still in force in this respect, any local authority which, being contiguous to others that have taken advantage of the powers con ferred upon them to stop local traffic, should, by itself refusing to adopt them, render them nuga tory in the neighbourhood, may be compelled, by representation to the Home Office, to conform to the practice of its neighbours. At the same time there is the obvious advantage in em ploying local agency, that the regulations of each district may be adapted to its peculiar con dition and necessities, and that parts of the country which are free from the plague shall not be subjected to the same vexatious system of rules which may be desirable where the disease has actually appeared. In some quarters nothing more than the stoppage of importation is demanded by prudence ; in others, the stoppage of internal traffic is necessary for the fair trying of the experi ment ; but it would obviously be impossible for any government rule to adapt itself to the variety of circumstances which lies between these ex tremes. We cannot but think, however, that the main tenance of the principle of localinetead of centralised action will be attended with • further advantage at the present stage of the disease. It will allow the real opinion of those who are most interested in the suppression of the disease to be in dicated on the question whether the stoppage of traffic is really efficacious, or whether the inconvenience and the cost exceed the pro bable benefits. It must be remembered that stoppage of traffic is no more a certain specific than arsenic, or chlorine, or any other suggested preventive. If it were a certain means of extir pating the plague we might count up the evil against the advantage, and, probably wisely, de cide in favour of the adoption of the method. But it is only an experiment. The disease has hitherto been so erratic, that we can only say that we know that in some cases it is contagious. But many animals out of those exposed to the infec tion escape altogether, and many are seized where there has been no infection, save such as no Order in Council could reach, the infection carried by the wind, by birds, by food, or by some other medium equally beyond our control. In these instances even the advocates for the contagion theory can only suggest such possible methods of infec tion as these, while others plausibly argue that there is less probability of an infection so subtle than there is of a general predisposition, breaking out from some special exciting cause other than contagion. Thus, at all events, it cannot be said that there is ground for expectation that the stoppage of traffic will do more than remove one of the sources of diffusion. Now, for • mere experiment or par tial benefit of this sort, it is obvious that the parties concerned will naturally not be always disposed to submit to the sacrifices which they would make for the sake of a certain remedy. And we must think that it is for them to judge, rather than for the Government to judge for them. If • prepon derance of opinion is shown in favour of the adoption of a uniform rule, it will be easy for Government hereafter to make it universaL But, at least, it is desirable in the first place that we should know how far the opinion is general. This is the more necessary because the action of the representative agricultural bodies on this ques tion his hitherto been at least peculiar. They have not urged the local authorities to use the powers which Government has given them, nor have they pointed out what farther powers should be conferred on them, but they have united in urging Government to resume these powers, and supersede the local authorities altogether. This certainly seems to indicate that the persons who have undertaken to speak for the trade have felt considerable doubt whether the trade would sup- port them. But if the measure would be so un popular that the local autho • do not the responsibility of executing iriabdig it is clear that it would not be leas tab tar 1f • eimp cuted by Government. And Ass bly • thee question would arise,whille hot in the background. A rulett•elekills by • bid authority, for the benefit of its own dietrict, would not afford any good claim for imperial compensa ticm. But a rule enforced by Government for the benefit of the whole country, but at the coat of a particular trade, within which it was deemed objectionable, would afford a very strong basis for a demand that the country should reimburse the loss. We think for these reasons that Government has done well in refusing to go further than confer ample powers on the 'arming interest for its own protection, in so far as any regulation can afford protection. Where an incalculable dislocation of business must follow from the adoption of • remedy, its adoption should be voluntary. The principle of taking tha butcher to the cattle may possibly obviate some sources of contagion, but it as obviously introduces another, for the wandering butcher and salesman must carry infec tion with them in their rounds, if it can be carried. And the abolition of markets is too serious • thing to be enacted by a mere government minute, on the representation of certain leaders in farmers' societies. It cannot but tend to make prices un certain, for in one locality the farmer will be wholly in the hands of one or two butchers ; in others the butchers will be in the power of the farmers. The public, however, is always the sufferer where trade cannot be conducted by fair competition. Doubtless there are districts where the change could be effected with little difficulty, and in those we may hope to see the experiment tested. But it is well that Government should await the result, before enforcing a doubtful bene fit on districts where public, opinion is adverse to its voluntary adoption. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TBIB DAY.) Ten IMPORT OF TIM CAPITAL PIIMUSHMINT COMMISSION. Noticing in the cane of the above document the departure from the rule by which reports made by royal commissicseers are kept from the public until they have been presented to parliament, and assuming that the con temporary (the Star) tyke yesterday gave the Capital Punishment Report to the world &dyed his infor matics from a satisfactory quarter, the Daily News repeats the terms of the commissioe. aid proceeds to pronounce the recommendations of the commiasioners, as far as they extend , t o appear sound and practicable. It will be remembered that they propose to inflict capital punishment only in two cases ; first, where • murder has been deliberately committed, with malice aforethoight, and where the radios has been found a fact by a jury, Instead of being considered as involved in the very got, as at present ; secondly, where murder has been committed in, or with a view to, the perpetration, or escape after the perpetration, or attempt at the perpetra. Mon of murder, arson, rape, burglary, robbsey, or piracy. The Deily News is of opinion that these nommen &time will greatly facilitate the administration of criminal justice, by diminishing the extent of discretion reposed both in judges and in juries, and by defining more accurately the duties of each. The only other result of the long deliberations of the commissioners is that sentence of death should be executed within the precincts of the prison under proper regulations. Bat certain important questions which have been often diseased in parliament and in the prep they evade. Do they approve or disapprove of the Home-office overriding the opinion' of judger; and juries If they think that some sort of appeal is absolutely necessary in criminal cases, do they believe that the Home Secretary and his sub ordinate of the day constitute the beet tribunal by which so important a jurisdiction can be exercised? Do they tell the public nothing of the manner in which the Home Secretary practically exercise the royal perogative of mercy or of the principles which guide that minister in advising his royal mistress to grant pardons and to com mute sonatas? Above all, do the commissioners vouch safe no opinion on the subject of blame criminals? These things they have wilfully wad by, recommending that another commission should be appointed to report upon the points which they have declined to express an opinion on. Probably the best plan would be to re-appoint them, with the distinct understanding that they should complete the inquiry which they have begun. The Post discusses very fully the various features of the report, specially noticing the recommendation in cams of supposed infanticide. Referring to the distinction which th e commissioners have made between murder with general or express =diction the enabled and manslaughter on the other, the Poet says many would think that the hotheaded, pea Monate man, reedy to take the law into hie owe hands and kill anybody at • moment's notice, is the more dangerous member of society of the two, and that, consequently, the severer quantum of punishment is more applicable to his case in order to keep him in cheek land pro- tect society. The law provides redress for insults to oneself, or to one's wife, or daughter, or mother, or any other relation ; and if the ioeult, real or supposed, is so slight that it is beneath the notice of the law, it ought not to be deemed a sufficient excuse to reduce • homicide from murder to manslaughter. It would have been as well if the report had discussed whether it is expedient to reduce the cases of homicide in which hinging is the penalty, at a time when the tendency to destroy human life in a certain section of the criminal climes is at least as strong and as great as ever it was. If • man commit only one murder, he is liable to the same quantum of punishment as if, like For ward, alias Southey, he had committed half a dome, end the Post suggests that this objection might be got rid of by awarding, in cases of " great enormity," to use the words of the report, • certain number of floggings prior to execution, To say that this report is one which will satisfy those at whose instance the commission was issued would be, the Advertiser remarks, to give it more praise than it deserves. But in judging it, we must bear in mind that it is essen tially, though perhaps not intentionally, tentative. Some of the commissioners would go further than their colleagues are prepared to follow them. But even these recommend the abolition of capital punishment to a certain extent. This is an answer to those blind advocates of the scaffold who in the vest pollution and infamy of the practice of hanging think they perceive an institution essential to the safety of society. Even those commissioners who hesitate to recommend the abolitic of capital punishment admit its corrupting influenee. The Telegraph thinks it would be premature to express • positive opinion upon the report until we have seen the evidence on which the conclusions are founded. For example, it should give the exact criminal statistics of those countries in which the capital mashy is now unknown. If executions ceased, won'd human life be safer or less safe than at present?—that is really the grand questioo, and all vague maculations as to the abstract propriety or impropriety of our prreeut system are of subordinate importance. Evidence throwing light upon this part of the subject ought to be forthcoming. The Star forams that It will need all the vigilance of those who advocate the proposed changes to preserve the work of the commission from mutilation in the progress of the consequent measures through parliament. We have a painful recollection of the anti-reforming tendencies of law lords and bishops, and of some country gentlemen who have a higher regard for the preservation of game than the sacredness of human life, end whose tactia will no doubt be insidiously exercised for mischief if public opinion does not keep the government alive to its duty. As some members of the commission, by their appended declaration, may hold themselves free to advocate a more complete change than the report recommends, as the present Prime Minister and many of his cabinet are avowed opponents of capital punish ment, and as many of the most notable additions to the legislature effected by the late election are pledged to sup ped total abolition, more even than the commissioners suggest may possibly be accomplished ; but for the work they have conscientiously performed they deserve, the Star says, the hearty thanks of the country. Timis observes with satisfaction that the Court of Common Courted have accepted • report from their Police Com mittee, which propos that the force should be inc= by fifty additimal mu. at an emenal rues* et : though thie addition will hardly he foiled Ingham* The City fame already inadequate the. duties Miguel It, and thgee duties wiabe most increased, U the "w 4411.1.14111 Pin 4011111. It WOW be to look brarard to the eelargement of all, or even of dm Milliority, of the narrow lanes in the City. Land is too valuable for such • gigantic improvement. But it ought to be the object of the corporation gradually to construct ample thoroughfares between at lout the main centres of badger. A very few streets like Cunonatreet would be sufficient to afford an immense relief. It is to this necessity that the Metro. polite° Board are directing their energies, and we hope their example will not, be lost upon the corporation. The Tines bad mesh sooner the City sad the vestries should do the work for us Luisa of compelling us to do it for them, u would shortly be the cue ; and it weloomes the display of • little more energy even though it be at the Lot moment. The Star Sods in the scheme of the City of London for making their own gas at West HIM a plan which may be executed with great advantage to the public of the City. The profit now pocketed by the companies who poems lb* monopoly comes out of the purses of the gas mamma ; whatever profit the City Corporation gas department may make is to go to common purposes—to improve the City and its streets. The Stor Mosta that this Gas Bill and the bill for the regulation of the street Maio may prove the commencement of a new and better ors in the local government of this metropolis. Tag sillition DODOXT. The Post calls attention to points of distinction between the Front* and Foglia systems of finance, which must be bane in mind by those who desks to understand the report of K. Fonld, and expresso its hopes that the anticipations of the French financial minister will be realised. The Isipieor is tally alive to the ..amity of reducing the national expeediteur end of economising the notional Annum No are oonfessedly has done more to secure the meadows of the people than Y. Foald, and under hie ad nelnishetlon we are justified in believing that the fineeciss of the empire will at all events be so regulated se to produce the most favourable results consistent with the enormous expenditure for which provision most be made. The Telegraph congratulates Frlnee on the sacemetal inns of her policy. She now evidently understands the net way of promoting prosperity end castestment. Slowly sad eau tioualy she has entered into the path of freedom from mo nopoly end commercial restrictions, but the swam which has followed her Ant measures will animate her to advance still more resolutely end rapidly cc the same track ; and who can tell what increase of resource sad activity she may yet erparienoe ? Fourteen millions in the Ministry of War, seven millions in the Mieistry of Marine, 1,800,000 Kr. is the Ministry of Oommeros And Public Works, six millions in the Ministry of Finance, end s coesiderable laving too in the extraordinary budget—theee ere good sweats of more comprehensive dimioutioas from year to year. Let such retrenchments continue as they have begna,end every reform becomes possible. The Star ventures to suggest that the financial specula tions of K. Foetid area little too hopeful—a little too much based upon sanguine expectation s and prophecy. 1864 shows a heavy loss; 1865 may possibly balance ; 1866 looks likely to show s surplus ; but 1867 promises surplus so large that when h elds got it the minister proposes to begin paying off debts with liberal hand. Every year promises the Frenchman to pay handsomely, end until it has long gone by nobody knows whether it hen paid or not ; at lest everyone finds out that it only bequeathed a more or less heavy deficit. Such 'system of keeping the accounts appears to the Star little likely to promote any national earnestness In themes* of eoonomy. If, however, Franco is may soilous that M. Foald's predictions for 1867 shell be realised she has in her own hs ode the power to enure the accomplishment of the prophecy. . 1011013 T INTELLIGENCE. . THE ITALIAN MINIIERY. The Hord of yesterday says : The reseestituis• of the Italian ministry* tenet with strious difficult.% M. de la Marmon has not yet succeeded in seeorophihtlesr the task entrusted to WI by the Sing, and the neeerteloty resulting from this aslay gives tree scope to the imaginations of the Italian journals, ends which has its ministeri al li st q uite complete. cording to the Turin Gazelle, the new cabinet is coal. posed provisionally of M. de la Marmara es Proddeat of the Council and Minister of Fore i g n Affairs, M. Chisreo " Minister of the Interior, M. Lanza en Vinous Minister, M. Brigoone as Minister of War, M. Permits, as Minister of Marine, and M. Dipretia en Minister of Publ. Works. The Nazism, on the other band, speaks of M. Jartini as Minister of Public Works, and of M. Vlsoonti-Venorla an Minister of Foreign Affair. Aceordieg to this arrangement M. de la Manure would take along with the presidency of the council the alike of War Minister. According to another rumour, it will be proposed to the Chamber to suppress the ministries of Marine, Public Instruction, and Oossmeree. Shirefslil Iscosion, Is. per Cents., I a•llalf per ( (azgrsit's rxr.seassia) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Mc. 16, lgomasa. Washington despatches assert that the late popular and congressional manifestations of sym pathy towards Mexico had led to a correspondence between M. Montholon, the French ambassador, and Mr. Seward, in consequence of which M. Mon tholon despatched the Chief Secretary of Legation to France on Wednesday last for definite instruc tions regarding the Mexican question. It is rumoured that M. Montholon has intimated to the Federal government that in case a Federal minister is accredited to Juarez the French Lega tion will leave Washington. It is stated that a cabi net meeting was held yesterday upon Mexican mat ters at which General Grant was present. The New York Tinter contains a rumour that General Logan will, after opening relations with Juarez, propose a treaty of commerce between the United States and Mexico, guaranteeing to American citizens impor tant rights and privileges on the transit lines on the Mexican gulf to the Pacific coast, and opening the Mexican market free to American manufac tures. In exchange for these privileges, which could be guaranteed if necessary by military inter vention, the United States would lend Mexico 20,000,000 dollars or guarantee Mexican bonds to that amount. General Logan dined with Senor Romero in Washington on Wednesday. The Rouse of Representatives at Washington have adopted the resolution concerning the admis sion of the Southern members, as amended by the Senate. The house subsequently passed a reso lution embodying that portion of the resolution which the Senate had rescinded, whereby it was provided that the papers and credentials of the I Southern members shall be referred to a committee without debate, and that no member shall be ad mitted until Congress declares his state entitled to representation. The house has unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that• treason is a crime and ought to be punished. The Secretary of the Treasury has announced that Spain and Chili will not be permitted to bring prizes into Federal porta. In the Senate Mr. Wilson's bill declaring null all laws of the Southern States recognising any in equality in civil rights on account of colour, was called up and discussed. Oregon has adopted the constitutional amend ment. President Johnson has informed the provisional Governor of Georgia, that whilst sanctioning the inauguration!of the governor elect, this inauguration will not terminate the duties of the provisional governor, who will be informed of the time when he will be relieved. A communication has been received by the New York Chamber of Commerce, recommending that a national cotton growing convention should be held to take measures to raise the cotton crop next year equal to that of the year preceding the war, namely, 5,000,000 bales. The Fenian President Roberta has issued an inaugural address, calling upon the Fenians to act promptly. England must meet privateers on every ocean, and must be struck wherever she is most vulnerable, and where the Irish at home can be best assisted. The Fenians are said to hare over 2,000,000 dole. in voluntary cash subscriptions on hand. A government sale of 3,000 bales of cotton has taken place in New York. Middling fair Orleans and Memphis were quoted 53. Strictly middling, 50} to 511. The Hibernia, Java, and the City of Dublin have arrived out. NEW YORK, Dgc. 16, Ilogruma. Money abundant. Gold, 1461. Exchange on London, 160 ; on Paris, 3.521. Stocks firm and advancing: New York Centrals, 961 ; Illinois, 134 ; Erie, 931 ; 5-20 Bonds, 1031. Cotton good inquiry : Middling Upland, 49c. Flour slightly firmer. Wheat advancing. Corn slightly firmer. Provisions quiet. Coffee steady Sugar quiet. Molasses dull. Petroleum dull : Crude, 41c. to 411 c. ; refined, 66c. to 661 e. NEW ORLEANS, Dac. 12. Cotton : Middling, 46c. to 41e. Stock, 146,000 bales. MEXICO. EW YORK. Mc. 16 . Senor Romero has received advices from Mexico announcing that Escobedo after raising the seige of Matamoros left for Monterey to raise resources. Juarez has written a letter to the Mexican consul at San Francisco, stating that his family and per sonal interests incline him to retire into private life and that he will joyfully resign the presidency l assoon as a new election can be held. CALCUTTA, Dio. 15. tiiipi'improving. Exchange on Government secnritiee :—Four ; Five per Cents., 1041 ; Five-and a., lief. Freight, 40e. CHINA. (8y Omakad Telegraph from Gallo.) CANTON, Deo. 1. Total export of tea to date 92,00U,0001ba. Ex change on London, 4e. 7d. SHANGHAI, Nov. 26. The markets are unchanged sines the departure of the French steamer. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Nov. 25. Shipments of gold since the departure of the last mail 86,7 W ounces. ICS TOPICS. The elaborate report of General Grant on the late war is rendered specially remarkable, observes the Times, by the feet that it explains a new and successful system of tactics which in twelve months' time brought the war to an sod. What this method was, on what principle it was baud, and bow it was carried into execution, is very intelligibly told. The grand principle of the whole system was no-operation. The scheme of Sherman's campaign was dictated by Grant as were others less important and less fortunate. That the 000federsey is a thing of the past, is undoubtedly dee to the military arithmetic of General Grant ; and terrible though the cost was, it may well be questiocel whether an indefinite proloogation of the war would not have cost both parties still more. The Telegraph says that General Grant's report tells the story of the last year of the war simply, uneffectedly, truthfully ; he is one of natures gentlemen. Underithe patient end farsighted policy of M. Doak, Hungary, says the Daily News, has advanced to a position which enables it to feel itself the arbiter of its own for. tones, Events have justified the course which he has hitherto taken ; but what he has now to determine is not how to get back the national rights, hut how to use them now that they have been restored. An imperial represen tation of some kind, whichtto ensure prosperity to the em pire is essential, need not imply any mcdifioation in the internal autonomy of the various unite of which the empire is composed. The conduct of the foreign relations of the empire must be reserved for the Imperial Parliament at Vienna; and therefore the aggregate estimates for mili tary purposes ; but it each province contributed a fixed pro portion, periodically revised if need be, of the impe rial expenditure, each diet might be left to raise its proper quota by such measures of taxation as It likes best. Thus, each province would have its own budget, although a portion of the estimates foe which it I would have to provide would be beyond its own control. And it Hl* objected that Hungary would in this way not be able to determine the use to which her own troops might be turned, all that can be said is, that if a people numbering more than a third of the total population of the empire, and trained by long habit to active political life, cannot modify in all important respects the policy of the federal government, all the most elementary lessons of history will have been proved to be utterly valueless. Dimming the conclusion of the Bhootan war, the Times thinks that the Indian government is competent to decide as to whether we have lost sight of what our position de mands, and sees no reason to think that we have receded dishonourably. Clearly, however, the mission to Bhootan should never have been sent. That one mistake has been the source of all our troubles. Int Court. OSBORNE, DLO. 26. The Queen and royal family walked in the ground. yesterday afternoon, and in the evening Prince and Princess Leiningea dined with her Majesty. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colooial•offies from the Governors of Canada and Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lebow, the Australian colonies, the Caps of Good Hope, Natal, and Gibraltar. The Duke of Hamilton left town yesterday for his seat, Eaton, Suffek, to entertain • select shooting misty during the week. The Earl of Cork and the Hon. Captain Boyle, aide-de.eamp to Lord Wodehouse, leave town to day for Ireland. Sit Hugh Cairns, M.P., Lady Cairns, and family leave town this week for the south of France, where they purpose remaining till after the meeting of parliament. As some erroaeons statements on the subject have appeared we (Post) are glad to learn that the general health of the learned gentleman is perfectly good, and that a change for a few weeks to • warmer climate is undertaken merely as a precaution agaiost the recurrence of a weakness of voice from which, during some part of the past year, he was suffering. We (Times) have reason to believe that Lord St. Germain nu resigned the office of Lord Steward of the Household, and will be succeeded by Lord Beesborough, who has been for many years Master of the Buckboards. Her Majesty has been pleased to advance Sir Roderick Murchison to the dignity of • baronet, "in recog nition of distinguished merit and attainments." The anniversary meeting of the Anthropological Society will take place on Tuesday. January 2, when the annual address will be delivered. The fellows and their friends will dine together in the evening at St. James's Hell. THE CRT OT LONDON. Al no set like the proposed City of Lasko Tiaffie Rep- Wiwi Bill an be effectual adios rigerosaly enforced, the FRANCE. PARIS, Dm 27. An imperial decree has been published to-day appointing the members of the Presidency of the Senate. They are the same as before. By another decree MM. de Sexy and Saint-Marsault and General Gudin have been raised to the dignity of senators. ROME. ROW. Dze. 26. The Pope, on receiving the congratulations of the cardinals on Christmas Day, replied that God had never abandoned the church in tempestuous times. His Holiness called to mind our Lord sleeping in the storm on the Lake of Genneasareth. "At the present times," said his Holiness, "Christ seems to be sleeping, but be is watching for the defence of the church. The future is in the hands of God, and the triumph of the church is inevitable," The quarantine which was established on the Roman frontier on account of the cholera has been abolished. INDIA. (By Moot Overlaid Telegraph.) BOMBAY, Die. 16, 1 r.m. Manchester goods improving. Cotton steady. Dhollersh, 430 r. Shipments of the week, 37,000 bales. Exchange on London, 2s. lid. Freights, 335. The latest London date is Dec. 2. i EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE FOREIGS. DMZ OUR OWN 00111NIONDINS.) PARIS, TUMMY Evxmsg. The French government has prohibited the culation of the Independence Beige in France. The Petrie gives the following extraordinary explanation of this extraordinary measure. The government has resolved to assimilate sa fer as possible the legal conditionsof the foreign press to those imposed upon the French press. The Indipewlence Beige having been several times seized, each seizure is to be reckoned as a "warning " and, just as a French journal may be suspended after three warnings, a foreign journal will be interdicted after three seizures. This ingenious theory has been broached before, but was taken for a joke. In now professing to act upon it, the French government is showing its teeth 'without being able to bite. It will strive in vain to effect the darling object of exercising jurisdiction over the foreign press. It may bribe, as it often has done ; but the wretched prints which it subsidises always perish faster than it cane to fiud the money. It cannot intimidate, because the knowledge of the fact that a certain paper contains French news which cannot be read in France will always procure fgr that paper additional readers elsewhere. There can be no halting between two opinions on such a matter as this. The French laws on the press are abominable, the worst in Europe ; they are the shame of Frenchmen and the laughing-stock of England, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. Liberty, even as in Austria, has long been the cry of French journalists. The set of public opinion in F ranoe ,as evidenced at every election, must shortly force government to remodel these laws in a liberal sense. The attempt to extend them at this time of day to foreign journals—to " assimilate," in the insolent language of the Paine, the rules governing the French and the foreign press—is about as sense less and contemptible an enterprise as could be conceived. The Phare de la Loire and the Gazette du Midi have received warnings for having, on the autho rity of their Paris oorrespondents, published the false news that there had been political demon strations at the Polytechnic School, St. Cyr, and the Beaux Arta. Maximilian of Mexico appeals to be overflow ing with wealth. General Marquez, his envoy extraordinary to the Ottoman Porte, arrived at Jerusalem on December 6, accompanied by a secretary of legation and M. Pedro de Hato, who is to be installed as Mexican consul-general. The envoy is stated by the Moniteur to have brought with him "very rich presents" for the Holy Sepulchre, and he has moreover announced Maximilian's intention to organise a national subscription in Mexico for the purpose of sending an offering to Jerusalem every year. The Emperor and Empress., in a private carriage, and without escort, went to-day to witness the opening of the new Tribunal of Commerce, trans ferred from the Bourse to a court bunt on purpose, opposite the Palais de Justice. It is announced, but with what is called " a certain discretion " in the phraseology used, that the King and Queen of Portugal were at the masked ball at the Opera on Saturday night. Their Ma. jesties propose to leave Paris on Thursday. Madame Frasey-Berthelier, an admired young actress, of the Bouffes, who was only lately married, has just died from a brain fever, brought on by the fright she experienced a fortnight ago from an explosion of gas while she was performing in Offen bach's charming new comic opera, Les Bergcrs. She was but 22. Her first appearance on the stage was at the Gait, in the Nan d'Ane. The Roman EvBnement, in an article on the dif ferent Cbristmu dishes in vogue in various countries, states that Englishmen delight in turkey, mince pace, and plum keake. A private despatch from Vienna, addressed to the Minos MI Diplornatique, states that on the 22nd inst., at 11 o'clock in the morning, there took place in the parochial chapel of the court, a funeral service for the re pose of his late Majesty King Leopold L One of the most decided brouillards, or, as the French begin to cell it, "fop of England," went over Paris on Sunday night, to the su r p rise and disgust of the Parisians, who have not experienced anythiog like this "darkness visible" before. The authorities provided the pollee with torches, and every preoantion was taken to prevent accidents. The night being Christmas-eve, mid night mimes were to be performed at the churches of most districts of the city, but at Notre Deane and other places of worship the ceremony did not take place, as the fog we. supposed to keep people at home. " Carlotta Patti," says • Florence letter, " has taken leave of us sod is gore to Tarim. She made her last adieux in two acts of Lucia and two acts of the Trariata. That her Lucia was not more successful must be attributed to the mediocrities who supported her. The King humored the two last performances with hie presence. On each oarlike he Miaowed Dearly two acts in the box of the Glued Duelsess Maria of Russia." Two hundred convicts have just left France for • New Caledeala. The first cargo sailed last year, and con sisted of 72 seessdna, 115 robbers, with a fair sprinkliag of men convicted of forgery, indecent assaults, and other ofieucee. These &gam prove that capital punishment, though it may be awarded by a majority of seven to five in the jury-room, is the exception, and not the rule, where murder has been proved. On the 16th Vesuvius was powdered over with snow, and the mountains all round the bay are still thickly covered--s remarkable phenomenon, and promising a severe winter. The Naples correspondent of the Times, writing on the 11th says :—" It is with much regret that, I have to report the death this week of so English geutleman, Mr. I Harkey, eon of the banker of that name. so well known in Ragland. He bad been in Naples nine mouths, and had weathered the storm which had burst open us until bist Wednesday night, when he was taken ill with °holm, and died the next messing. The malady is, however, so much , on the decline that people are beginning to return." No TELEGRANS.-11 is a remarkable fact that yesterday naming tie entire metropolitan prim was without telegisiOie iatelligeses of any description. Throughout Christmas Day, and up to • late hoar on Boxing Day, not one message, 000tinental or otherwise, for the London journals, bad reached Mr. Renter's office. The day which succeeded Christmaa, 1864, brought us three I or four unimportant telegrams from Europium sister, be sides • keg desp•tait from Queenstown announcing the arrival of the Americas mail with sews of that great march of General Sherman which turned the tide of war in fa vour of the North, sad which eventually led to the our. reader of the South. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OP A mu DISTRIBUTOR ON BOXING DAY. • _ This morning Mr. Bird, the coroner for Weit Middlesex, received informa ti on of the suicide of Cqui s K C. Synanada, aged 67 years. It appears that last evening two little girls ennui the deceased gentleman distnbuting tracts et the house in the neighbourhood of Brook-green, Hammernitk, After he had handed a tract to a gentleman 1 4 suddenly darted lances the road and walked quickly into the middle of Brook-green, and placing his bock Iv gannet a tree, be drew from his pocket • large d e w, barrelled pistol. One of the girls attracted the Militia of !Ate pawns by by calling out, " Look, the gentleman s o s heet birds," but before they could rash to the he pined the barrel of the pistol in his nith, and &aeries the trigger, blew the roof of his skull coe. =off. Ere beans were scattered about the gran I s e octants man fen upon the ground in • pose of blood. The nen el the explosion canoed the police a s hasten to the epee, and pain-unstable Dillon, 2y3 T , intently net for Mr. Barrett, 1.R.C.5., but that pall. man's WANG wers el course of no area, the wh o 'krill of the demand being cusp shatt. The deceased's body was then removed by the polies on a stretcher to t hud ' c dead bean The demised was a meant e residing at No. 15, Elm-grove, Hammerweitb, and he bed ace s service Lan newces is the Rea. Bet India Company's service. H e well nun and meth respected throughout the losality in which he neidet Lateerly he had devoted mush of his time to religios, subjects and be had written several trans and pareniss L Is his pocket was found a card on which was Winne "E. C. Symonds." A policenuntable 'discovered la the donned gentleman's coat pocket 150 pamphlet budiam "Symonds' Recommendation" The melancholy arm,. reran was quite unexpected by the deosand'e (nada, f or on Claristainday be was in high spirits and pee a largo party at his hones. DEATH OF TWO IN LEGITI M ATE IL CHILDREN INQUEST.—(THIS the DAY.) This morning, Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, meno.ed at the Green Nan Tavern. anatoll.uld-townoe iry a respecting the death of the two illegitimate mak e nat e of Lane FeikL Elias All mid that ea Satesday evening, the Zed b u t. eke fated the two demassel children under the bed ha a to; room at the house of Mr. Wallace, No. 17, Hagtrinsg. road. They were wrapped up in a shirt, and both wen quite dead. Witness called her mistress, Mrs. Wallace, sad the police were seat for, and Anne Fend, a domestic Nernst is the employ of Mr. Wallace, was Mks* late coded,. Rolle•constabbe Floyd, 449 A, mid that when ha saw the deceased children they were both black in the faint, sad the navel etring was twisted tightly round the ask of ma child. A doctor was sent for, and Anne Feild mafiosi to witness that she was the mother of the children. He then took her into cartody, and removed her to the Fair nary of the Shoreditch workhouse. The mother of the deceased chillrem, Anne read, vu brought op before the court by Inspector Robinson. Ski was a good-looking young woman, appareatly about 25 yam of age, and she appeared to feel her pasitioa amat sly. Dr. John Chen Griffiths, police surgeon, mid that Wad made a post merges examination of the bodies of the de missed children. One of the children had breathed bathed been desegka by the navel string being fishmeal repel the throat at birth. The female cMld was born dead. The first child had been aocidoestally choked. Inspector Robinson said the magistrate had, after heeling the medical evidence, discharged the accused from tasked). was stated that the amused young woman MI pa. dead by • young man, a mechanic whose name is known, under a mantra of marriage. When the accused told bits that she wee enceinte, he at first shunned her, sad finally he deserted her. On this she wae conveyed to the Sham. ditch `i9 orkhonse by the police on the charge of anmemed murder. She stated that on that day her young man was married to another woman. The Ooroner said that he wished the law could punish the seducer as well as the seduced woman, instead of always panishing without mercy the mothers of illegiti mate ehildree. la the present cam be was hany te be able to tell the jury that the child that had been limm alive was accidentally killed. The jury returned • verdict that the two deceased &Helm were found dead, and that one child was sumiden tally choked, as& that the woad one was hors dead. . MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OP A MARRIED WOMAN IN THE stows CANAL. An inquiry Was held by Mr. Richard% the deputy OWOOIR, at the Windsor Castle Tavern, Victoria. park-road, Windlass the supposed suiaide of a inersad woman, named Emily Ellen Pramual, aged 41 rum Louisa Steel, Custom-house-teases, Betlmal.gress, said that she had known the deceased for several years. Labs wee the wit* of George Premed, a porter. She bad bow married 16 years, and dining the whole of that time she and her husband had lived uncomfortably together. Hews given to drink, and he wanted to compel his wife to= him in diatom& lie beanie destitute and went bate green workhouse. She got several good please as a dernatte tenant, bat her husband was te in the habit of goitig after her and taking all her savings f her, =depend's( theta is driak. Through him she lost several plains, - and she at. g re ed pred to be mash upset by it. Her poverty beams so re that she became very despondiag, and whoa she cold get drink she took it. About a fortnight ago her husbini met her, and again threatened to take all her savage hat her. She appeared to be quite upset by her husband's : d anme y s o n: t s:i . d, " " nevi:l to :es: until I ban heard to say "to I shall w :ill myself." George Harrison. a lighterman, mid that be found fa dead body of the deceasal, on hat Sunday morning, In the Regent's Canal, near Twig Folly-bridge, Betlinal.green. It was tally dressed, but had no bonnet on. Dr. Janes Ralph said that the cause of death was üb. cation from drowning. The body had bean at least 14 days in the water. Mr. Burrows said that the reason the deceased's busing was not present at the inquiry was that be had salted du workhouse authorities to grant him day's leave al it yr Bozing.day, sad they had acceded t o his request. • The Coroner said that thecae/ was very painful one. Tht deceased had evidently committed suicide, in conseqtwea of the disgraceful conduct of her husband, but as the rase had no legal evidence of tha t fact, so person having her in the act of jumping into the water, they should Mors an opus verdict. Thejury returned a verdict "That the dammed ww found drowned in the waters of the Regent's Canal, bat how she *Me into the end waters then was no lona en' dance to prove." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY. WZDIMIDAT. Dimud A. • &Z. w . V. L -I Nara aberamm ardromsa ? Caps Clear Liverpool Pampas . variant. Rochefort Plymouth eymouth Portsmouth Loudon Yarmouth Scarborough Bhletda sass fielder SAW. b w. b w.N.w. on 1 1 /. : W. ob 1 - oe N.X.W. co W.N.W. OO &W. al) s. w. i n of s ayr. F 1 04 42 .41 30.84 40 110.44 44 ,•20.110 41 W.I.W. N.N.Z. N.N.W. W. 1 B.W. 69 vv. Fee %%S.W. I el 11.W.as LW. re W.B.W. THCRSDAT. Southerly to westerly, amebic,. moderate - • PIOSAMILI OS NOSTRUM FeiDAY. Doane. &W. and strong N., trade rate to , with to fresh. some rain. Between P. W. and Manx As above.' N.W., varying from moderate to strong. SOON IliaD Variable, moderate to flOveltatall. Chiefly LE. to LW • fresh, One generally, but railing, geode rate to fresh. As next above. Zallritif. As nest above. Northern =Scotland. Weetern--,Treland, odd MA' antelee. Boutheni.insliale Channel sad OAF illtrai• Ileatern:Neet ward imbue and North hes. Mr. Jas. Oaird writes to the Tima of the tette,. meat of the cattle' plague by homeopathy :—"La the attempt to treat this formidable disease, the associatioa in• stitated three weeks ago the first of a series of careful expr rimental trials ia Norfolk. Notice of this was gives Oaths cattle plague oomorissioners, and an capsrisocel riatorflarf magma, under their direction, has daily watched and noted the proceeding'. The association engaged the wavier of skilful and ozporionowl horoceopathio veterinary, wbo, with two competent amistauts, has remained in constant attend sum on tho oasis. The local and personal inflasace of Lord Bury was warmly engaged in our behalf. Bat, note withstanding all the advantages, the Meet of oar first trial ho been, that of 36 roes nadeetakea on the ant day of this month only six remained alive and were convaler cent on the 22nd. The experience we have gained inNor• folk we are about to carry into Obashin. From a fending we piss into a breeding and dairy district, wham the min of the animals is oven of more vital importance. Oar prad• goo is epos to public inspection, sad its mmHg wet to reported." 0 - Trig theAzt Eiwott. an appear to be l ga , / • nninarons monad Geelong. no Um than soma harieg low deetroped in moday we the se v e ral sad am four feetteni • wee killed at AAA', while have bees nem sem the entamental Taber In the Botesteal Oerdene.-- 014104 I PEW. L T., F NI! t IS 41 80.16 44 Ille 10.01 47 30.43 46 *lf sAw. m.s.w. s. BAK ei.w. Le.w. w. - s.w. - I - • . 6 LAW INTELL (THIS DA - COURT OF BANE (Before Mr. Beg M/ II RI JAMB BI ',•. The Wit war an &Mon g tm, i. ' Cm s•bin, aims of ,o / He come to th „ escrlblog his failure e t • , Buoyancy Company." T 1 godiered from the imperfect rill • 10 est oven cart up, appear to be This was the first sitting. De • O. Balaton, of 102, Loudon-yrs aretetor's soignee. Mr. Banes is , • tarn of the amounts. in as BAYOU PHI This warn another first sitting. ' himself as author and harmalist Bloomsbury. The debts are shit • of faint, " insulleleocy of MID/ were deferred until the neat Al sitti ni RI : • The bankrupts were brialmnaln I abut 2,0001. This was • lithos f . band will tristup the former di Ws** pima& ..,...m.,.....,. MIDDLESEX THIS D (Beton Yr. W. H. Balk AN ANTIIIL 9TNTI William Burns , 68, clerk, Ira false minnow the sum of 1.11. lain. with Intent to defraud. wet inlaid him for obtaining of ss. 6d. from Sarah Trimlett, Marie Chamberlain, said ab Chamberlain, of No. 21, Robi knew the prisoner. Os the 541 called upon her at Williamatri and braced two notion to quit them He said that Mr. Parc innweff, and he wished her 1 coned the rents. Before rollected 111. 3s. as net from maid he was to take all Ins n Parnell, who bad sent his: representations to be true, she 'nod a receipt fait She n Ma to several houses in Willie collected the r the money ov er to the John Parnell rid be lived i road, and was ho t for He knew the d i ere=t, but On tba sth of April witsi to Mrs. C a Ids troablo. He hem l";at:y Wee to Mrs. Chamberlain him to sunset rests or recei him to naive the money nollosted. The prisoner had nelleeted, and 'Ones* new' the 7th of December, sithoni him over since. The other indictment was i In that owe he went to Mts. OW" Lintatedoad, millmorimd by ILL Pima Ihs. ed. from her, and reaipi fte r e i h ourimmor irodeavomod • yin t h e employ of la dm gawk of Ns memi . he rousived those different and was only met with by a., The jury found the prism the Assistaat•Judge sent kept to bird labour for twi THE POLL (TN BO! This morning, isrester Vaughan, was occupied di charges of drunkenness, d arising from a too jovial I liCet of these eases were Mated with oousideralals there ware fastens of y harped magistrate from to Oas at taw wu the co Mawr, who wore charged Dempsey sad Folios-Nage Dempsey, it appears, i at Bt. Oilee's in consign which promoted the coo, time back were isotope' for a murderous ass' this cause be bad i to annoyance and i attacked and buten by Sullivan, who knocked h bridal manner. Fowlers the prisoner, who resist« alter his apprehension, a have Dempsey 's life. Two witnessed' was cell altili.stmitroottioa Dams in so flagrai ordered them wholly an' Mr. Vaughan osotood moment, and ordered I to enter into his own surety of 51. to keep ti Burst 30i., or fourteen Thomas Langford ao usaulthig Folio-serge Barton F 30. Ham'bling wu on du Church, and saw the pi of a poor old woman • up some of her dainty Rambling followed I offered to give the e turd fool lemmas • rd Awash the latter. marital so violent] glailnaVe asaistance. tromb Nom aims out • wee Belies, and the Mr. Vaughan toed observing that it wu • selves decently at Obi A cabman. charged his vehicle, enid, " tei rltiliers—The awe &aprons than the streets. Yon ma filtioutan CABI.—A nil Middleton O'Mall was charged before the parlour window meant. and three! Mr. Ricketts. soil appeared o for the defence. Accordieg to Mr. adducted, it appear fondant were mat August,lSA, aed year. At the time in the possession of In the receipt of 18i the complainant ag end that sum h agreement had be together, and cm 81 the deleadant weal several times. sod him three or four found that be c of bed language, the action to 0 over the area Ti the frame. Si house. When he hie wife's bedroom into the drawing.. Have hit her had I bad great difficult geode sad hum station. The del 'mash everythice In answer to went in fear of h violenee. She di dant at hat hens defendant was Si take him I. the Mr. Ricketts bound over to I • metes, of 201. lag the complain a violist MO, Weld make bin towards his fed Mr. D'Syeref Own surety for the sum of 401. • The defesdan LAW Cosy' oat al palliate' iv provided taw tam Admiralty caste scoording =eta. 66MAle TIIMIDAT, DE dab by mon