The Express. — London, England, 1860-12-13 00:00:00

~r IFT .. I I H rIPERIAL TURKISH SIX PER CENT. WAN. giraattemed by epeel&l Pitman of Ids Imperial Majesty the sultan.) Moms. J MILES and Co.. the Coatraetors • ?width Loan. have instructed the (Adidas Agency of the BANK of TURK KY to neetee enbertiptlone oa savant of WI Maw NO trance, or g. 6.010,000 Martlng. offered to the pahlie at Parts. Leactoa, Antwerp, Bresaals, Amsterdam. and llaiaters. Tho Loan hr redeemed at per by mans of • shales land to sit years. la half marty dnertoga the are. drawtei b lOU Ow: ,0 June, leaf. and the obi Moue drawn veil! be paid at pa .A the Id July following with inkrest. par usi memos an melosed for the payment of interest and slaking fund, with!' revenue. were 'amid bit Year f"r al.ted.S•o staling. Tide *Multi, wtn be mot in equal monthly rwiaittasioes to the ocetrartors at their lepreladathst. The Above aukNiot tweed. the n.tuurests. and the balance will be Imakki over to the Tartish finance lthateter . . The • -ntractors with the approval of the Turkish Govern ment, hare appointed roar C. Onatialiolloll at Constantino& to receive the revenues se well as hair at Perla, sod the London Workers of tkt beck of Turkel, to we to tbetz appticatiso lb* doll. .4 thu Coounintoo *di be conlysed by so hoped& Oman — The lowa will be represented by obligations of the Torkbh t'S monument 44 SOO bases. oe SP) Aarhus. bearing interest at the rale of a per eve& per ammo, payable half yearly, at either Lou .low or Parb ead than obligation, win ta. famed as the peke ey 3:1 So trams or /12 lea etertlag. awl will be redeems& at the rate .4 Su trance. or as sterling. Latereet to commistie as She Itt J winery, 1,61 _.•. . . . . tt.h••••• • larva calruglort may be had. it matted. Thew of ligation& will be lamw..l ob the tullowlag cab - Wet.' ou the prky of testae. els. 10 per Peet as i r.it ne sppliesitee. 16 .. • alO slap 4 alliitareut. 16 tie the 30th January. 11111. 11 ~ =h Irebroary„. Jilt %lank .. 14 ~ irtti ob Ac ik. „ hay parties &dross of pile; their la full wag be eu•lthi!le • &dotage of ta at the thee alloehmert. Um default of payment of say =Manville at the Was sem& pinatas payments to be luristied. The dep. am ua appliretion be ameeted to the meet el each se bectiiv r, had. in the teem{ of each deposit eaosedlag the amo ,• =edrat tie upon all d mud, the balance .W be Immediebsty The deetetneh of the obligations will be cendected In the Weal manic to the preemes of the Ambeematior of the asibilms Poeta. la Leaden oe at Para the cumin/tom of the Lem ee W it represestatives, and a N.earl Publk. The amber. .4 the obligations draw o will be advertised la use or more .4 the dady papers to leinvion sod at Paris. Amami...am for allotment to be end to the =.4 the beak of Turkey , Ilmogataterert : t r .: ft , Lebtruek, sad Co., kamsloaboeseeteest Cabo. beak d Laadm. Prinome-street Vona. of appltastion say be WALD:ma of the above, or from Yearn J. Butchlasoe sad noes. eactievert Mews Illcarda 11. Aagelneurt. Imperial Tartish Mtiner lest. Lola InUtAlgationa, payalie att Mine of Francs or an each. lamed under tie Spatial mum of Ina imperial MaJeaty the Sultan. To the Agree of the liana of Turkey. Gentlemen. —Haring paid to *Nam ths sou of hiews depart se Oblipailane Übe ohs.. Look by mount pa to allot no OM adsaust of oblidadiasa and 1 to amain lie amen or my Ins issaber may Os to me, baldest NOM lam of par maw Name Addrafe Profetion R Win= Date BANK of TIIRKRY. reavroas. Rummell /Wee. Reg. Ws. Gladstone, Vag. H. G. GerAlm, lAq. X. L Roducanach. In. A Alle,,u. 4 1 A. Belted, Kn. T. I% 111m..ii, L. A. Alahver.ll, Req. B OM nue. Rae C. K. Ransom, req. P Ram limq A. P. ms , roiord.w. NMI Z Atetamankh &blind. Esq. O. Tann, En Bedew A. N. Tublni, Lei Gann). NOTICL li BLUNT CIV , tilt We OYI/1018 AI W lAA AA L=4., en RAMOYED la 3e. N 3learimbeetent. LC. Dee. IL WI& A. WILUN, fisorstary. frO the ELECTORS of the BOROUGH of t o so Ord duty Dow is to thank the U 77 Meows who so lystioorably mistimed their prosaism by for sae =Ziy in the tam of intimidation um In use I thank them On,ersty, and had tithe kept talth with toe ao they did, I ahuuld this day hays been Amber toe esethwark Ttsepnroinst levitation received by me from a great public mrellt a aft, I had declined again to contest the borates, and the promises merle to as, promises runnel by the ',trout.; tut 0.14.1t1011 of the leading members of my various committees, wines Integrity is beyond all question, amply Jun ttllsd lb onildent tone I maintained throughoet the ocristeen; but the n...112a resorted to by my oppouente to placenesta a Wee got toq , ,re lay brother el.-tore hare evidently wei mewed lie intended. I honour the working men of deathless* tor their strong detestauun the leek -- In • hlcl I entirely and anireservedly putsches... hut I regret the credence which t heir warmhearted. acv lisdu...ed them too readily to give to the poem perversion of my eentlm• nta upon that treation. To the Chairmen sad all the members of my numerous Com mittees 1 am ,pevially Indebted for their moo kind and 'askant aseistahce. aad with beat snakes kw the cestiouous prosperity of Mouthwark, . . I nmagn, very sincerely yours, G. BCOVILL. 4t, olive s. , aout►w►, 11th Due.. 1101. NSW WORK SY MIL CLAIM MCKIM. St at _ _ _ _ _ ALL Till 'YEAR ROUND, atV4TIMMA#TIOIII4 • New kola sti;;;"7 • as Dimwit Coelimed tram week to we l ds rata completed to •ogost. Potelleleed she to Mod* Ma and HAP/early Yakima,. at kk 11 Fltrawl. N .C. aa4 by Clayman Lug Ha ll , , Loam dr Deomolier, prke I • 11211•0 E Yll.Oll THea um. Wag the to. Ileaatear tar Clarlatwoo. 4: .. 6.1: 111211'13 HALL RESTAURANT, Idesist4trest soll Nacaday. 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Thelleclomia Assloi—Nlapeßatertalasmol.-I,ILY O'CONNOR. lira A. Yam.Ad, My CrsaiLnl. aa.l Mit 8 law.—AAA /*RAI= runru. MIN L Clayton. —Cosaamaie•tual-post 11101_WATIA AT laltDOl! SIUDOL um Dsilit;riiiiTii: f.....iMr:: ik. I. rorapor—meniii. st. 115......411mnr5" a t3m. --- LOIDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 13. Two Yeas have recently appeared in the local and ot!.a•r papers designed to illustrate " the bane " fiend t-tleets of the Proctorial jurisdiction," as exereue .1 at Cambridge. The writers are both clergymen—one being the late, and the other the present, Secretary of the Cambridge Female Re fuge. flair object is to support the Proctoriel system and raise it in public estimation by show ing '• the important influence which the office of " Proct.a. WY been so often found to exercise in " the r..t , ,e. , rtios of fallen women, as distinguished " from their cornctioss." The present Secretary, Mr. Pi , 0 , r7, says that, having been upon the Com mittee of the Refuge for the Rat twelve years, he can " testify hot only to the kind anxiety that the " Proctors here always shown for the restoration • of the poor fallen girls, but &Leto the important " help which has been rendered to the Refuge "by the ordinary work of the Proctors. We " have always found the Spinning House," he adds, " a kind of feeder to the Refuge." Mr. TETI one, the Lae Secretary of the Refuge, after referring to instances in which the Proctor had pa-.. 1 uulOrtunate girls from the Spinning Houma to the Refuge, adds: "These are facts " wLa S 1 Lank it would be wise to make public. " The popular idea of our Proctorial system as " a mere instrumentality devised for the coercion " and imprisonment of prostitutes is so palpably " unjust, that anything that relieves it from that " and rshibita it in the light of philan " thropy and Christian benenciuce, cannot Lut M EZfl- " be usefuL" These writers of the Proctorial system • i t•• being a philanthropic and Christian agency for the reformation of fallen women. A weekly con temporary who ham from the fint championed the exceptional power of the University authorities to the uttermost, takes very much the same position. An article on the subject which appeared* in last week's Saturday Review, is mainly occupied with illustrating the beneficial influence of the system on the unfortunate clams against which it is directed. On this ground the writer contends that a similar agency would be • great advantage in every large town if it could only be administered as it is at Cambridge. In large cities, however, the power would necessarily be entrusted to subordi nate officers, whose favouritiain and tyranny would do more harm than good. " The powers claimed "by the University," adds our contemporary, " are naves emitted to subordinates, but are " always exercised under the eyes of officials who " are clergymen and gentlemen. Whatever mis " takes the Cambridge functionaries may commit, " they are never guilty of favouritism, or cruelty, "or corruption. They are sincerely anxious to " reform where they punish." This new defence of the Vics-Coaxemut's summary jurisdiction is worth considering a little. First of all, however, there is a matter cif fact to be determined. What is the object of the Proc torial system ; is it Imply protective, or reforma tory t Were these extraordinary powers entrusted to the University authorities for the benefit of the undergraduates, or of the fallen women t We had thought there could be no doubt at all on this head. But Mr. 'brooms says, " The popular idea " of our Proctorial system as a mere instrument " for the coercion and imprisonment of prostitutes "is palpably unjust." Is this popular notion, however, ia reality either unjust or untrue I Surely these powers are entrusted to the Univer sity for the very purpose of protecting the under graduates from temptation by driving these unfor tunate women from the town. The imprisonment is designed to effect this primary object. But, leaving this point, it is important to inquire into the real validity and worth of this new defence of the Proctorial system on philanthropic grounds. We are told that the Proctors are sincerely desirous to reform, as well as to punish ; that the system is in fact a philanthropic and Christian agency for the reform ation of fallen women ; and that on this ground it is entitled to public support, and ought to be re tained in its integrity. We must confess we do not feel the cogency of the argument. It seems to us to proceed on a confusion of things distinct in themselves, and which it is most important to keep separate. Philanthropy is a very good thing, very essential to the public weal, and so also is justice legally administered ; but it does not in the least follow that extraordinary judicial powers ought therefore to be entrusted to the hands of philanthropists. Indeed they are of all others, perhaps, the very class who by tempera ment and mental constitution are least fitted to judge impartially, and exercise large powers with the greatest wisdom and discretion. Our ener getic social reformers are most frequently men of strong wills and narrow intellects, of ardent sympathies and few ideas ; and their benevo lent impulses confined to a few channels, acquire an absorbing influence that is fatal to calm judgment and dispassionate inquiry. They become severe and exacting on behalf of their own favourite schemes, and from the very best motives are quite capable of harshness, severity, and injustice towards others. The public has recently been scandalised by an extreme instance of the tyranny which a false and narrow idea of education may exercise over the mind of its vie tim, and the brutal cruelty which a perverted notion of duty may produce. This is a rare instance, but it illustrates the principle neverthe less. There are none more cruel and unjust than those who, acting under a false sense of duty, attempt to force on others their own narrow ideal standard of virtue. And to entrust summary judicial powers to those who by position or pro fession have a loftier standard of rectitude than the majority of their fellow-men, is not the best or safest method for securing the impartial admini stration of justice. In our ordinary courts the judges are laymen— men in all respects of like passions with ourselves, and they judge the offences of criminals brought before them according to the tenour of the law, and the ordinary usages and maxims of society. But in these University courts the judges are spiritual persons--clergymen. They have a higher standard than other men ; they naturally look not simply to the guilt, but also to the sinfulness of an action, and accordingly pronounce severer judgments. We du not question the motives of such judgment.. Those who pronounce and act upon them are influenced by strong convictions of duty. It is for the good of the culprit they adopt a severe course, that may be, and perhaps often is, painful to themselves. The very fact that they have this notion of reformation in view and feel bound to act not simply as magiii- Ultimo but as missionaries, will almost of necessity vitiate the exercise of their purely judicial powers. In their zeal to effect the higher purpose of refor mation they will naturally enough neglect the technicalities of the law. Our contemporary freely admits this evil result of the peculiar jurisdiction. " These academical functionaries," says the Reforday Review, "who are universally clergymen, " have evidently considered themselves as admi " nistering a paternal and patriarchal jurisdiction, " but no harm will be done if henceforward they " are compelled toobeerve certain prescribedrules." The evils of this peculiar jurisdiction are however far deeper and more essential than our contempo rary is disposed to allow. if it is true, as we are told, that the University authorities are bent on the reformation of fallen women, that is one of the very strongest reasons why they should not be entrusted with summary powers for judging and punishing them. This kind of real on the judg ment seat will naturally lead to acts of harshness, severity, and injustice. On the other hand, even if deprived of these judicial powers, they would still be *Me to carry on quite ea efficiently, Woad far more efficiently, the work of reformation to which they are so laudably devoted. Ligon o x or CIAPLAIN OF THII CITY OF LONDON Comm.—At the nand weekly neseling of the board of guardians of the Cky of London Ueion, held in Um board mole is It. Mary Axe, on Taseday, Mr. Alderson Alibis' presiding, presiding, the eleetim of • chaplain of the asks io the most of the Rev. Fmk:rick Pearce Pocock, was proseaded with. The election excited the greatest interest arose( the guanines, upwards of NO of whom were most at the wiersting. flare Wire 21 candidates for the office, hot the number had pre• stonily hem reduced to six by • committee of the whole board. These six gentlemen were the Rev. Thomas Appleby, late curet° of It. Botolpk, Aldipte, the Rev. F. Hrtaley, the moot chaplain of the East Landon Usto4l . , the Rev. E. Day, Rt. Anne, Linn/toms . , the Res. F. C. T. Hobbies, curate of NC Bartholomew* Beth' hillimen, the Ray. CI. MAsres, late curate of St. Andrews, St. hinarae, end the Rev. Peter Prescott, estate of St. Mary's, Peckham. Shows of heads were taiso foe the several candidates, end ultinately the contest was left to be decided by poll two,' the Rev. Mr. Hodges and the Rev. Mr. Prescott. At the c 1.4 ., of the poll the u..nobers were fur Mr. Prescott, 40, for Mr. Hodges, 39. Mr. Prescott wo declined elected, reel h.• thnuirrl the guard's'. for the appointment. The . heard thou adjuttrued. Iit3DAY erougt. . . WINDOM bIiNILA:Dic. it There waa no addition to the royal ginner party yeelarday. The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and Prises Louie of Haws, left Whitler for Oxford at a quarter past 10 o'clock this morn ing by a special train on the Great Western Railway. In attendance were the Duchess of Athol, the Hon. Emily Oatboart, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Major Du Plat, and Raron von Westerwedler. Oa arriving at Oxford, where the Prince of Wales (at- Mended by liajorGeneral the Hon. H. Brute and Liendesaant- Colonel Koppel) was in waiting, her Majesty and the royal party were conducted to Frown-hall, the Primer's residence. portly alter, the Queen, attended by the Vies. Chancellor and the authorities of the University, proceeded to view the different colleges and other object of interest, and returned about 2 o'clock to lancheon ►t Frewin.hall. The Vice tikencellor end the Dean et Christchurch had the honour of ►e!e` invited to meet her Majesty at luncheon. At ten minutes to 4 o'clock the Queen and royal party kit Oxford, and arrived at Windsor Castle about 20minutes past 5 o'clock. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yeoter day. An appal from the High Court of Admiralty " The Madan," end "A. H. Stevens" (pert baud), was ooncloded, and an appeal Erma the ammo court, " The Julia," was com monori. The lords prima ware Lord Chelmsford, Lord Kingsdown, and Mr Z. Byes THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO OXFORD. OXFORD, WIDIMIDAY. Her Majesty visited this University and city for the first time duos her toned A to the throne this day, but rather in a private capacity, as no demonstration was regnired either on the part of the University or city. It was generMly understood that the object of her Majesty's visit was a complimentary one to the University authorities, by way of recopisdng the attention pod to his Royal High. o• the Priem of Wales, nil as a parthig compliment on his leaving the University. The Queen, emempanied by the PrinesOoenet, the Prince's Alice, Prises Abed, Prince Louis at Hem, Lord Charles Fitzroy (equerry to the Queen), Major Du Plat (equerry tothe Prince Consort), the Ditcher of Athol, sad the Hon. Mw Cathcart, arrived in Orford by the Great Western Railway at 11.25. They were received by the Prince of Wales, Major•Oenenl the Hon. R. Bruce, sad lieeteeentOolonel Koppel. The Oxford City Volunteer Rifle Corps attended as a guard of honour, and presented arms as the arrival of her Majesty. The royal party at once procieeded to Prewen Hall, and shortly after paid ► visit to Christ Church, Magdalen Col lege, New College, the University Museum, Bodleian Li brary, Divinity Schools, Convocation /loom, Examining Schools, Sheidonian; Theatre, and the New Chapel of Balliol, and Exeter College Chapel. The royal party them went to Yrewen Hall, the residence of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, where they partook of luncheon, after which they visited the Taylor Gallery, Taylor Institution, and the Radcliffe Library. About 4 o'clock the royal party proceeded to the Great Western Railway Station, where the Oxford City Rifle Corps again attended as a guard of honour and pre sented arms on the arrival of her Majesty. Soon after 4 o'clock her Majesty and suite left Oxford amid the deafening cheers of some thousands of people. Throughout her Majesty's progress through the University sad city nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of all classes. DEPARTURII Or Till IMPRZS3 OF Till PBSNCH. Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of the French left Claridge's Hotel at eight o'clock last evening, on her return to Paris. Her Imperial Majesty, with the members of her suite, left the hotel in a private carriage, and arrived almost unobserved at the railway station. Mr. Toulon, ow of the directors of the South Eastern Railway, with Mr. gborall, general manager, and Mr. Knight, super intendent, were in attendance to receive the Empress, and I ocaducted bar Imperial Majesty to a reserved first-class comparintrat in the ordinary night mail train. The Em press wee etessapanied to the station by the Duke of Athol. The fact of the Imperial presence was not known to the gearenl pod& on the platform until just previously to the mail leaving, when • few persona approached the carriage in which the Empress sat. As the train moved out of the station • loud outburst of cheering bide the august traveller " God speed" other journey homeward. Just before the train started the Empress spoke to Mr. Claridge, who had attended her Imperial Majesty to the station, from the car riage window, and expressed her great satisfaction at the comfortable privacy she had enjoyed while under his roof. The Empress lima to sleep last night at Durielant's Pavilion Hotel at Folkeet.ine, sod embark la the French imperial yacht La Heine Hortense this morning for Boulogne. FOLKESTONE, Tarnisruy Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of the French, after pawing the night at the Royal Pavillon lintel, embarked at 10 ►m. this day on board the imperial government steamer for Frame, amidst deafening cheers. THE MARRIAGE OP THE PRINCESS ALICE. We (Morning Pool) can positively contradict a paragraph, originating in a weekly paper, and copied int* several of the daily journals, announcing that the muriap of the Princess Alice with Prince Louis of Heese•Dermstadt had been definitively settled to be solemnised in London during the stunting season. The alliance will not take place until 1862, when the Prince'. Alice will have attained the age of 19 yearn. The Duke of Atholl leaves town this morning on • visit to her Majesty at Windsor Coati& . . Lord and Lady Aveland have been entertaining a eneesseion oi dawn during the lest fortnight at Nor mentos Park. The company has included Maria Mar chioness of Ailesbury, his Ifixoelleacy the Minister for the Netherlands, hie Excellency the Itaverbul Misiatar. the Earl and Countess of Gamperdowa, Lord aad Lady Lyre dee, Lady Howard de Walden, Viscount Campden, Hoe. Mr. Calthurpe, Hon. Mr. LIII., Hon. G. H. Heathoote, M.P., ke. _ _ - . - Sir G. and Lady Broke Middleton have left &radium! Park, where they have been enketalning a select Arai of friends for several weeks, and have arrived at Broke Hall for Christmas. Miss Contra' dinner and evening party, announced for this evening, is unavoidably postponed. The gentlemen cadets belonging to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich have entered upon their ball-yearly examination ditties, preparatory to closing the establishment for the Chrlatmas holidays. The usual se sembling fur the distribution of prizes will take place on Tuesday, the 18th inst., which the Duke of Cambridge, in his capacity of President of the Council of Education, has consented to preside over and also to inspect the company underarms. The two new wings, situate at the extreme angles of the budding, are programing towards completion, and are expected to be reedy for the reception of the cadets on the resumption of their duties after the Midsummer vacation, when each student will be afforded the long desired advantage of • separate sleeping-room ; and the inconve nience now experienced in Ws want of appropriate class and lecture-rooms will be effeemelly remedied. The architectu ral appearance of the exterior will be also considerably im proved. It is stated that the government of Prussia " has commenced a state prosecution spinet eleven English gen tlemen, residents of Bonn, who drew up a protest against the scamislows speech uttered by the Precursor du BM, and inserted the same in the local paper." " Now, although acoording to the internatiosal law," observes the new, "an Engliahman residing in Prussia must yield obe disuce to the laws of the land, even though they 'be unreasonable and severe, yet in this cue we think the accused are milted to the consideration of the British government. These who read the protest in question will remember that it wee perfectly harmless in character, and, though, perhaps diverging unnecessarily into other matters, could give no legitimate cause of offence at Berlin. The real offence has been the commute el the English prase, which perhaps gave M. Stewards amines to expos* the misdeeds of which the impneoruneut of Captain Macdonald warn one of the last. Should the government persist in this proceeding, it eta only he looked upon as • deliberate attempt to enforce on the numerous English on the continent the same gleam respecting what they see and hear us already prevails among the well drilled !tumults." LATEST EVE: INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. • GAETA (via ILirseillee), The bombardment of Gaeta has recommenced. During the night shells reached several buildings and even the hospital. The Queen hurried from one battery to another, encouraging the soldiers. The King insisted on her withdrawing to the casemates. The fortress of Gaeta energetically returned the fire of the Sardinian batteries. NAPIAB (via. liarsofilea), DEo. A. It is asserted that England, France, and Russia have requested the King of Naples to cease his fruitless defence. It is announced that Victor Emmanuel has desig nated General Cialdini for occupying Rome in the event of the departure of the Pope. Au Englishman, formerly in the service of Garibaldi, has been assassinated. ROME (via Marseilles), Mac. & Colonel Masi has evacuated Orvieto, which it is said will be occupied by the French. The enlist ments for the new Papal army are being actively carried on. Half the Neapolitan army who had taken refuge in Roman territory have quitted the country. Most of them joined the insurrectionary bands in the Abruzzi. Many of their officers have joined the army of King Victor KmmanueL Sixteen bishops of the Marches, five of whom are cardinals, have protested against the presence and the measures of the Sardinian commissary in those provinces. PERUGIA, Dec. 12. The decree of the Marquis di Pepoli, suppress ing all the religions orders, makes an exception in favour of some orders which have deserved well of the country. The same decree entrusts the government with the charge of the religious treasury. The convents of Umbria have been closed, with the exception of several establishments to be con verted into hospitals and schools. Pensions are granted to the members of the religious orders which have been suppressed. Rentes to the amount of 100,000 lire are assigned in favour of some charitable institutions of Umbria; the; surplus remaining in the religions treasury will be applied to religious works and public iustrue tiou- PALERMO (win, Marseilles), Die. 8. The Lieutenancy Council has officially demanded the maintenance of distinct laws for Sicily until the assembling of the Italian parliament. BERNE, WIDNIBDAY. According to private advice. received here, General Michel is to make the necessary arrange- ments for disbanding the foreign battalions sent from Gaeta to the Papal States by King Francis 11. RUSSIA. ST. rETILESSUBA WICDNISDAT. The Russian mission in London having been raised to an embassy, Baron Brunnow, minister plenipotentiary of Russia at the Court of St. James, hm been appointed ambassador to the same court. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAstproN, THURSDAY. The Royal Mail eteaa&er Atrato, Captain Woolly, with the above wail', has arrived. She brings 37 pasaengers, 1,475,978 dollars in specie, and 2,340 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas on the 29th ultimo. The Shannon was to sad on the sth inst., under canvas, accompanied by the Trent. There are no mails from POl4O Rico, as in oonsequence of the severe weather the Toilet was unable to communicate. All was quiet at Chili. The Copiapo silver mime continued to yield well. News from Peru iudicatee an open rupture with Bolivar . The United States Minister had not succeeded in arrang ing the difference with Peru, and had demanded his peas. ports. Tranquillity had been established in GuayaquiL A se►ere ohm* of earthquake had been felt. The Pole Star, from Liverpool, ►od the Forest King, from Swansea, had arrived at Valparaiso. Her Majesty's steamer Vixen was to leave Callao for England on the sth inst. Santa Martha was still in possemion of the government forcers. The commander of her Majesty's ship Cadmus had attempted to enter the city of Carthagena, but was refused admission. The Governor thought that he intended to attack the city, and ordered all the English residents to be executed immediately the first English shot was fired. Business was dull at Valparaiso. Specie scarce. A rise in the rated interest wan anticipated. Silver bars pure were quoted 10.871 dole. per mare. Exchange on London, 60 days, 43id. per dollar. Freights to England, Its. The yellow fever had abated at Jamica. The weather at Trinidad and Demerara was favourable for planters. At Barbados the crops were promising. Exchange, 30 days, 490 dole. DECEMBER - 18, 1880. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nos an ow! ocausroxam.) PAIUS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Prase has reason to think that the position of the newspapers liable to the consequences of judicial condemnations has not escaped the atten tion of government, and that the shortcoming of the amnesty, which has been so generally com plained of, will be remedied before New Year's Day. The delay is attributed to legal formalities. It is the Minister of Justice, and not the Minister of the Interior who is concerned in this matter. It has been pointedly remarked by the SiScle that among the many harsh laws invented in 1852 to harass the press and circumscribe its influence, there is one especially the maintenance of which will not be consistent with M. de Persigny's new doctrine that the press is to be as free in France as in England, save only in respect of attacks upon the state—namely, the law which requires the permission of the government to found a journal. The opinions of the Minister of the Interior upon this point are brought to the test without loss of time, for I understand that on Thursday last 31. Emile 011ivier, the de puty for Paris, lodged an application for leave to start a new weekly paper, to be called either La Liberii, Le Suffrage Universe!, or L'Electeur. He has not yet received any answer. There is an idea in the highest quarter of re organising the ministry of the interior, and dividing it into four grand directions. It is suggested that, under this new arrangement, M. dela Guerronniere would be director of the press, M. Boitelle, director of public safety, retaining at the same time his present office of prefect of police, and that two other directions, the duties of which are yet to be defined, would be confided to M. de Saint Marceau, prefect of the Seine and Oise, and M. Thuiller, another prefect. lam even told that the only hitch in the way of the comple tion of the scheme is that M. de Saint Marceau stipulates that he must be made senator, and the two existing vacancies are wanted for General de Goyon and General Montauban. Senators, how ever, die off very fast, and I should think M. de St. Marceau would be satisfied with a promise of the next vacancy. M. de Monnecove, government nominee, has been elected to the Corps Legislatif for the Pas de Calais by 17,000 votes against about half that num ber split between two independent candidates. It is rumoured, but, I think, incorrectly, that M. Thiers means to stand for the Corps Legialatif at the next vacancy. I have reason to think that the Chamber will be convoked much before the usual time. The Empress is expected at the Tuileries to-mor row. The &Lek amusingly enough states on its front page that she passed the Rives station (near Lille) on her way to Paris on December 9, and that the Emperor and the Imperial Prince went there incog. to meet her. As you are aware, she was in England at the time. The Bourse was heavy during the greater part of the day, and although the Rente recovered from the extreme point of 68fr. 60c., it left off with little animation at a decline of 5c., the last prices being 68fr. 80c. for cash and 68fr. 85e. for account. Mobilier fell sfr. The Orleans Railway fell Sir. 75c., and the other lines about Mr. 25c. M. Bare, the celebrated questor of the National Assembly, who lately returned from exile under the general amnesty, appeared in his robes at the Palais de Justice this morning to defend the Union, he having replaced M. Berryer, who was originally retained. The cause was put off for a week. A very extraordinary and fatal accident occurred on Sunday on the Northern Railway. The driver of a luggage train, being behind time, and fearing to be overtaken by the express which leaves Valen ciennes at 10 p.m., threw down several petards on the line, in the hope of making the fast train pull up. M. Delpouille, au army contractor, who was travelling in the express train with his young wife, being alarmed by the explosion of one of the pe tards, opened the carriage door, and either fell or threw himself out. A train passing at the moment on the other line of rails crushed him to death. His wife slept on unoonsciously for a quarter of an hour after the accident, and when she missed her husband uttered piercing cries, which were heard iu the neighbouring carriages. She learned the fatal news at the Douai station. SCIILESIVIG HOLSTEIN. A letter from Copenhagen states that the prof fered mediation of the English government between Denmark and the Germanic Confederation, in the affair of Schleswig Holstein, has been declined by the Prussian cabinet. The question will conse quently come before the Diot of Frankfort in one of the approaching sittings of that assembly. We learn that the Martinis Mario de Candi►, father of the celebr►ted tenor, M. Mario, has been ap pointed by King Victor Emmanuel. Commaoder•in.Chief of the military division of the island of Sardinia. . . - - King Victor Emmanuel has ordered the court of Turin to go into mourning for a week for the Count of Syracuse. The municipality of Naples have decreed a statue to General Garibakli, to be erected in one of the public squares, to be called after him. It has also decreed medals of honour to those of the National Guard who have distin guished themselves during the late memorable events. A Berlin letter of the 10th says :—" The Prince Regent left Berlin this afternoon, accompanied by Prince Charles, Prince Augustus of Wurtemberg, Princes William and Bogialaw Badziwill, the Minnie:a of State von Aurae. weld, you Schleinits, von Schwerin, and von Puckler, for Wolmirstedt, on their way to the letelingen forest, iu Prim:Liu Saxony, where the royal party intend to partake of the sports of the chase. Prince Frederic Charles was to join the party at Potsdam, and the Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Magdeburg. The Prince Regent returns to Berlin on Thursday." Hanover is at present quarrelling with all her neighbour oa the subject of ►er frontiers-with Prussia for the delimitation of Liumbourg-Balawedel ; with Olden burg for that of the possessions of the Duke d'Arezuberg ; with Hchaumturg•Lipps for the rights of sovereignty over the fiteruuder-meer ; with Meckleuburg for the islands of the Elbe ; with Holatein•Leuenburg for the Bohm ies of the Lower Elbe ; with Bremen for the limit of the baillage of Ottereberg ; sad with Hamburg for a part of the Elbe below Moorburg. It is stated that the Chambers of Commerce of Marseilles, Montpellier, Mimes, Narbonne, sod Heliers have again very recently sent pressing representations to the French Minister of Commerce on the scheme to oorue into force In this country on the let of January next of differential dutios on wine by alcoholic beets. The presi dent of the Associ►tion Viticole, of Burgundy, oleo sum moned the committee to meet him at Beaune, for a similar object ; and at Perpignan equal hostility is said to exist, am their wines would he hued 140 per cent. more than those of Bordeaux. Flotow's opera of Marta has boeu revived at the Italians at Paris this week, being suns by Milmee. Albuni and Battu ; with Mario, Gruiani, end Zucciiiii In the principal male characters. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, Widormune. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Clumpan)'s screw stormier City of Baltimore, Cap tain Petrie, which left New York on the Lt inst., arrived in the Mersey this evening, after a very fine run having made the passage out and home in 28 days, including all detentions. Thanksgiving day was observed in New York and neighbouring states ou the 29:1 ultimo, with the usual solemnities. The State Department at Washington had re , calved official despatches from Mexico. The liberals had been successful in several engagemeuta. Miramon was still at Mexico, in command of 9,000 men. He intended to attempt the defence of the city against the liberals, who were rapidly advancing. The report that the British Consulate had been robbed of 1,000,000 dollars is confirmed. The New York Shipping and aminiercial List of the let lust. says : The week has been a comparatively quiet one, under the reaction from the excitements in financial and political cir clet, which diatiuguiThed ill predecessor. Thursday, being Thanksgiving, was a dies non in the business world, and, as usual after a holiday, yesterday but little disposition was shown to activity in any quarter. On Weduealay the Charleston banks suspended specie yments. AU the St. Louis banks, with one exception, have done likewise. The New England banks stand and as long as our own maintain their present position, there is no reason to believe that any of them will succumb to the pressure. The European mails, by the Arabia, reached our post office yesterday morning. The private &deices are of a character to admouish us of a crisis iu London and Paris,as soon as the news of our troubles here reached them. Even as it is, the heavy and constant drain of bullion from the Banks of England and France was beginning to tell ri seously upon the monetary and mercantile interests of both countries. One feature of it was the advance of the rate of disiount at bank to 6 per cent. By this time there can seareely be a doubt that a still further advance has been announced. December, in ordinary seasons is never specially noted for its activity in trade, and it is tolerably certain that this season is to prove uo exception to the general rule. Mer chants and men of business manifest more disposition to close up old accounts and adjust existing balances, than to open up new accounts or engage in new enterprises. In the course of the week or so, there may be a lively shifting shout of money to pay interests and dividends, and to meet other obligations usually maturing at the end of the year; but, apart from this, we can see nothiug in the presset or future in cooflict with the very general belief that we are to hare a very quiet time in money and business until we are , pretty well into the new yeas. The banks continue to discount freely to their regular customers, but elsewhere there is as much indisposition as ever to buy paper not strictly A No. 1, and figures show • but little abatement front the high rates ruling during the last fortnight. The minimum rate for "gilt-edge " u l2 per . cent. We reproduce the quotations of last Tuesday :—Loans ou call, stock securities, 7 to 8 per cent., per annum ; ditto other good securities, to 9 ; prime endorsed bills, 00 and 90 days, 9to 10; ditto, 4 and 6 months, 10 to 12 ; first elms single signatures, 18 to 15 ; other good bills, 18 to 24 ; names less known, to —. The stock ma rket, since our last, has been dull and saltless, with feweropmations than usuaLand accompanied I by a fowling of marked caution on the part of both buyers I and sellers. On Wednesday a noticeable feature was a further decline on the leading Southern State Bood,, the depression was shared in greater or less deem bs r way and other inenrities. At the second board , p rather firm at the stork but towards the close there further decline sad the market left off very dull airdh.., Yesterday the cleanup were on • moderate scale, • lower prices for the leallingncultive descriptiou r ; market closing flat. The fo are the closin i tatious :—N.S. Fives, 964 to 98 5 • Tennessee Sista, 76 ; Sixes, 795 t 0795 ; /Email Sixes, 00. Pacific Marl, 79 to 805 ; New York Central Itsilr..l •, to 75 ; Erie Railroad, 29 to 294 ; Hudson River La& 43 4. to 435 ; Beading Railroad, 545 to 35 ; Michig a n r via, 49; to 50; Michigan Southern Guaranteed, 'Mt Panama Railroad, 1135 to 114 ; Tllinois Central Railr, 57= ditto Bonds, 75, 865, to 87. Eimitrica. —Drawers have advaoced t rates, but the market is dull, with little done for steamer. We quote bills on London 101 to lir , Mr. 375 c. to Mr. 470. ; Antwerp, Mr. 42 , c. less ; Amsterdam, 395 to 405 ; Hamburg, Ail „ Bremen, 75 to 76 ; Frankfort, 40 to 404 ; and Tinders, to 70. LONDONDERRY, Turn-o% The Cunard screw steamship Palestine, Ca',; Muir (chartered by the Montreal Ocean Stealth Company), from Portland, Maine, on the I,t, arrived and landed all mails. Her news has been generally anticipated by City of Baltimore. THE NEW TURKISH LOAN. The prospectus of K Mires' new Turkish Loan Maned yesterday afternoon. It states that Me, J. Mires and Co. have instructed the Lon agency of the Bank of Turkey to receive alba Lions on account of a loan of 125,000,000 fr., 5,000,0001. sterling, offered (we presume, in first install* to the public at Paris, Lon , Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Hamb i The loan is to be redeemed at par by means sinking fund, in 36 years. It is explained special revenues are assigned for the paymenl interest and sinking fund, which revenues farmed last year for 1,282,5601. sterling. amount is to be sent in equal monthly remitta to the contractors or their representatives, and balance is to be handed over to the Turkish Fin: Minister. It is also intimated that the contras with the approval of the Turkish governor have appointed four Commissioners at Cone: nople to receive the revenues ; as well as fon Paris ; and the London directors of the Ban Turkey, to we to their application. The loan is to be represented by obligal of 500 franca, or 201. sterling, bearing tereet, at the rate of 6 per oent per annum, able half-yearly, at either London or Paris ; these obligations are to be issued at the pri 312.50 francs or 121. 10s. sterling, and to lit deemed at the rate of 500 francs, or 201. stet Interest is to commence on the Ist January, I The payments are to take place as follows : 21 oent. as deposit on application ; 16 per amt. w 10 days of allotment ; 16 per cent. before the January, 1861 ; 16 per cent. before the February, 1861 ; 16 per cent. before the March, 1861 ; 16 per cent before the 30th A 1861. The announcement has been received with i ference. The auspices under which the is brought out are favourable to the of a premium being established for but the onerous character of the I acceded to by the Turkish government imps the transaction with an essentially specul character, even allowing for the circumstance the Government pay much higher rates for local loans. At the same time such is the d ciation of Turkish stock, that the price of the issue presents no advantage compared with th the loan of 1868. The latter stands at 58 per whilst the new 81i per Cent. Bonds, issued a rate of 124 10s. for every 201., will cost the scriber on per cent., less the usual allows The loan of 1858, moreover, has a prior lien all the revenues of the Turkish Empire ; must be borne in mind that the 5,000 uow offered forms only part of a I scheme. We are in possession of various oulations which show that the cost of the c tion to the Turkish government will be of ratter quite removing it .from the ordinary gory of such transactions. The China Mail, rid Marseilles, is due in 14 to-day. The Shanghai dates al this mail ahonld 1. tober 22. Shanghai is the nearest mail packet eta Pekin. In the Belgian Chamber of Representative Tuesday, • member, M. Commie, having complau passports as vexatious and expensive, and having I mended the totalabolition of thein,the Ministerof dual marked that the question ass, if passports were to I lished fur foreigners, whether measures of sure would not have to be adopted which would lie fa vexatious ; and that, as regarded Belgians going slop government would always be obliged to give they ports in order to enable them to eatahlish their id He thought, he added, that a great thing hail been the abolitioa of passports in the interior. The new Halle& lines for the defence of mouth, its harbour, dockyard, and arsenals, fnensthe of au enemy landward, have made considerable p during the past summer, and the completion of the i main line is now being pushed forward with great 1,500 men being at this time employed in their cc tion, 500 in laying material, and 1,000 in preparing it THE LATH GAI./AIN ANDZESON:—The says :—" The intelligi ace from China regarding the of Captain or Lieutenant Anderson, when a prisoner bands of the Chinese, will create special pain in S am many relatives and friends. Captain An though only 26 or 27 yews of age, bad rendered guiehed services in and had already matelot brity and trust in the Soirees employed under Si Grant in China. When the mutiny in India bra he accompanied his regiment, the Bombay Punjab, where he greatly distinguished himself. I afterwards attached to ' Hudson'a Horse,' in whit betted force be acted as brigade major, servieg wii Lucknow. After the suppression of the mutiny, 601 for employment in the expedition to China, end, ft acknowledged ability he was appointed to an on command to Fane's Irregular Cavalry. He distill himself particularly with the Cavalry Brigade prey And during the taking of the Taku Felts ; and it is i that he had been selected to the honour of color the escort accompti eying the Euglish and French dir officers who were so basely betrayed and so cruelly In private life Lieutenant AaderAon, front his umill generous disposition, was greatly beloved by h friends." THE LOOS OF THE CONNAUGHT.—The Tiede has made its report on the loss of the l'onniii iron steamship belonging to the Atlantic Royal Mail ship Navigation Company. The Connaught ea when off Bt. John's, Newfoundland, and her crew s sengers, amounting in all to about 600 50u1.., in tunately saved. The examination of the Board 0 concludes, " That there is nothing to prove that was lost through the wrongful act or default of a holding a Scant of Trade certificate ;" but it mines that • little more intelligence might ha'o heel in finding out where the leak wan situated. The the ship gave the board a speculation as to the racer fire, but it is only a speculation, awl therefore uo repeating here. WRECK on PADRTOW.—PADNDOV, Last night, about 9 o'clock, the schooner Prinao , e. Haven, laden with a cargo of coals, on entering harbour, ran on the Doomed Bar Sand. The to pitchy dark, but the crew were heard from the sled out for help. The coxswain of the lifeboat ..f th National Lifeboat Institution, with a crew of cif himself included, immediately the information reap I launched the lifeboat and proceeded to the 888.4 . 1. meanwhile, however, a beat from elsewhere tel and taken if the crew. The vessel gill aground, and as them was a heavy ground 8 , 1 when she struck, and the COZI*BIII ; vices of the lifeboat might be needed dui night to carry off a warp to the v,ssel, if eh. again finat, kept the lifeboat awl her crew Om , o clock this morning. This valuable ideboat..lai heavy 'derma and terrific seas, was instrumental the crew of seven men fwm the French brigantine I of Nantes, and five men from the schooner Fredei barn of Ipswich. LONDON GENERAL 01INIRCA CI•UPANY (Li —Traffic receipts fur week ending Dec. 9, 10,10e.'. 4,