The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-26 00:00:00

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MN WATS' AT lONDOS RATDIII. Toe DAT —lllsralme, A/Uprasse. at. UR. TtpaismimP-11•11.5. Afternoon. ft. 4en. LONDON, :UTURDAr, J N. 26. THY. American Revolution advances. Missis sippi, Florida, and Alabama have now seceded fr au the Union. But it is must important to observe that none of the Northern or Border Slave States have taken any definite step in the same direction. And these an: the States which would suffer immediately in the event of the Slave separating from the Free States. In such an event, what is to prevent the slaves escaping across the line, and the slaveholders of Kentucky and Virginia losing much of their property ? The same mail which brings this intelligence brings also the Message of President BITH•NAN with respect to South Carolina. If the original message to Congress was weak, the present lucubration is, if possible, still weaker. The events which have lately occurred with reference to South Caro lina are related with sufficient accuracy—the duty cast upon the PRESIDENT to protect the property of the Federal Government is asserted with sufficient distinctness and an intention to perform that duty is plainly intimated, although it is admitted that nothing effectual has been done in pursuance of such intention. On the contrary, the hopes of the PRESIDENT of a peaceable solution have proved vain. Not only the Federal buildings, but the stores of arms and ammunition belonging to the Federal power, have been seized and appropriated by the Secessionists ; and to crown all, a vessel car rying reinforcements to Major ANDERSON in Fort Sunit.:r has been fired at and damaged by the guns of the Charleston batteries. According to the PRESIDRNT the Union was never before exposed to more serious danger. The imports have fallen off with a rapidity never yet known in time of pease—the Treasury is empty and can pro cure no money—trade is paralysed—manufactures are stopped—the best public securities are suddenly depreciated, and thousands of poor workmen are thrown out of employment. The emergency is unparalleled, and yet—what does the PIUS/WENT of the great American Republic propose to do? To meet these portentous difficulties what remedy does he suggest 1 With the exception of a faint reference to some revival of the Missouri compromise —to a prohibition of slavery north of a certain line—positively nothing. Having nothing to 'mimes; he casts all responsibility upon Congress, and conjures them in the name of the Union to devise some remedy. What that remedy may be it is no business of ours to suggest, but if the Union is saved it will certainly not be by the energy of President BUCHANAN. PeiN. irt.L4 to which, as a nation, we have practically assented are—that every individual in the nation has a right to • subsistence—to the absolute necessaries of life—from public charity, if he cannot otherwise obtain it ; that, for pro• dential reasons (genial and not sordid considera tions), such legal charity must be of a strictly ab stinent character ; that it is for private charity to du whatever else is needed, to give other aid than bare food and shelter, and especially to prevent, as far as possible, that resort to legal charity which must always be more or less of a disgrace, and therefore demoralising. The theory is that this spontaneous charity is really private in cases which require the gift of actual food and clothing. The department in which private or spontaneous charity may fairly be publicly administered is that in which particular classes need • special aid, involving nu disgrace to the recipients, because they could not have created the resource for themselves. (Mr Hospitals, Ragged Schools, Reformatories, and wine few Homes and Refuges for classes of per sons in peculiar danger or disadvantage, are of this kind ; and, though there is always mach that is questionable in a system of official man agement of benevolent funds, our public chari ties of this class are • blessing and a credit to the elinini )))) ity. But we have long passed the line—and of late outrageously—which divides this social blowing from the social curse of a public administration of private alms, in the form of the absolute necessaries of life. In other words, we have taken out of the hands of the Poor-law office its proper work, and have done it as ill as it was ever done by the town guardians and county magistrates of thirty years ago. We shall suffer over again what we suffered then. Our police offices have been converted into relieving offices, thus associating the idea of success ful mendicancy with the solemn impressions belonging to courts of justice. We have crowds in attendance who had no cos e..ii at the police court at all ; and bags of looney emptied among them by hands which had , iiiite another kind of work to do. It is no par: of the duty of police officials to do the work of the relieving officer on the one hand or the charitable citizen on the other. In the same way, all the associations for relieving hunger, cold, and nakedness become vicious in principle as soon as they are made public. We may use the con venience of association, and cannot avoid pub licity in takiiil care of the sick, the unprotected, the blind and deaf, the ignorant. and the over- tempted ; but the actual subsistence must be otherwise imparted, if we would not create:evil instead of curing it. It strikes everybody that nowhere (but in the exceptional case of Coventry, which has other reasons for the distress) has there been anything like the pressure we have witnessed in London. The reason is, unquestionably, to be found in tho extent and notoriety of the London winter cheri ' ties of the last few years. Elsewhere the guar dians of the poor have exerted themselves, and shown resource as well as activity ; and private charity has been watchful and diligent, as it always is if left to do its own duty. In the metropolis—in the very heart of the empire—the Poor-law administration has scarcely come into view at all, and we seem to have had almost as much of its work to do as it it did not exist. We shall be told that this is our own doing—that we assumed the business ourselves, stepping in be tween the poor and their proper guardians : and we shall hardly escape without sonic taunts for having bred more destitution for next season than we have relieved in this. There must be am end to this pernicious confu sion and mismanagement. The great question is how. The difficulty is greater than it would have been this time twelvemonths ; and it would then have been greater than the year before : which is a reason not for hesitation but immediate decision and steady action. ku equaluied rate levied on the metro polis and neighbourhood would have afforded scope for such an enlarged Poor-law ad ministration as would have met the special calls of the season. As it is, the poorer parishes are ruinously burdened, and yet unable to cope with the destitution about them, while the rich parishes which have few or no poor are rated so low that hard and careless citizens give next to nothing, and the liberal throw their money in handfuls into some advertised fund, in blind trust that it will be well administered. We must see that the Poor Law is so dealt with in Parliament this session, as that it may, at less cost to society, do much more good; and be rendered able to meet any emergency caused by weather, as it was designed to do. An equalised rate ought to be able to cope with any natural amount of real de stitution, in any season ; and we must take care that it is rendered sufficient. Again, we must mend our methods of charity—send no money to police magistrates beyond the original and special purpose of their fund ; cease to throw our money into the lap of any society or committee which invites the poor to come and beg. We may give, freely and abundantly ; but it should be by pri vate methods, directed by our own knowledge and judgment. If the guardians could undertake all the overt and desperate cases, and we would look to the more delicate and hopeful cases within our own observation, or that of private persons whom we can trust, we should soon extinguish the temptation, the scandal, and the unfathomable misery of such a prevalent mendicancy as has dis graced London this winter. It may seem easy to give out from the bench of the police-office that, now the weather has changed, no more per sonal applications for relief will bo entertained ; but the evil is not at an end because the independence of thousands of homes is de stroyed, and the self-respect of a multitude of our fellow-citizens broken down. It will take a long time to build it up again ; but those who really wish to do good must set about it. There is no great merit in giving money out of a full purse. Let good-hearted Englishmen show that they can do something better, by applying them selves to the work of systematically obviatingdestitu tion, instead of trusting to random and temporary ways of getting rid of it. MILTING Or PARLIAMZNT.—The following circu- Lir has been addressed to the liberal members of the House of Comma.: - " 94, Piccadilly, 22nd January, 1961. Sir, -As matters of considerable importance will come under diacomiou at the meeting of Parliament on Tuesday, the kith of February, I shall feel greatly obliged by your attendance in the House of Commons on that day.-I have the homier to be yours faithfully, Par.serurrom." LORD BROUORAM AND THR &SHIM:HAM CON MEWL -The following letter was received by Mr. M. I). Hill too late to be read at the meeting on Wednesday : - " CABINS (Var.) Jan. 19.-My dear Hill, I have again to express my peat regret at 991 king able to attend the conference. You may well believe how deep an interest I take in it. There wants some such thing to give one com fort in these times, when such untoward events are, it is to be feared, in pngresa. The difficulties unhappily interposed by various causes (wine of a kind not easily removed) to the settlement of Italy under a constitutional government, freeing her from the wont tyranny of modern times, and above all, the alarm felt by all the friends of human im. peovement at the risk of disunion in America, are natu rally uppermost in one's mind at the present time. How much it is to be wished that the contending parties in both Italy and America would take a leaf out of our books, and learn the wisdom as well as virtue of compromise and mu tual concession T Our constitution is the genuine (result of this wisdom. I heartily wish Gnomes to the conference, and believe me, sincerely yours, H. BMOUGHAM." The United Serrico! Gazette of tu-day,after quoting from the Express of Out evening the communiaition U 713 to the new government order as to the rifles of volun teer, adds, "We are further informed that in the cases of corps the men of which have purchased their own rides, the order is equaUy imperative, the government, however, eggreefag to pay the cost price of the area on their being &hewed up." The Critic says :—" Mr. Thomas Crosrt, better knows as 'Tam Crow,' for .sty years the driver of the Lytm Goa* is shout to appear la literature, an the author of The Autobiography of a Btage•Coachmau.' Haviog bees 'a load of anecdote' wheo seated no his box, and patronised by the Norfolk gentlemen, whom he amused by ►ie racy conversation, he will no doubt have a good deal to say that is amusing both about himself owl some of the leading characters of the district. The work will he doll• cated to Mr. Villetsois, the master of the Narfolk fox bounds, and be published by Yearn. Ilurst and Blackett." • THE Sc E OF W. Mt •LATER.—Woit..OTTER, FICA HAI , —At lent the paws , orei • Pt- for the election of a nee Bishop of Worcester in the room of Dr. Pepy'o deceased, lies been received by the dean sad chapter. After ammiderable delay, occaeioned, it is said, by the difficulty shout the future residence of the biebop, the dean soil chapter have a meeting, and Wedeeeday next is appointed for the electioe of the bishop. The bishop nominate iDr. Philpot) has appointed A. U. Hooper, Fig. of this city, proctor, his seeretsry. WlND:sun Cants, JAte. 22.—This day had audience of her Majesty : General de Bonin, on a special minion from the King of Prussia, to deliver • letter an winning hi. Presenin Majesty's ocemeion to the throne ; soil the Count de Bernstovff. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoteutisry from the King of Prussia, to deli ver his new credentials. To which audiences they were respectively introduced by the Right Hon. Lonl John Rus sell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary State fur Foreign Affaini—Umerte. — TIU WHING-,TEEET, JAN. 24. —The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Yamamoto Din, Fip., to be tremens fur the blend of Ht. Luria; and Jobe Palmer, Pal., to he treasurer for the Island of Domieica.—Gaterre. hloAtti. tic Te.ter., WHITEHALL, JAN. 25.—The Right Hun. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Conseil for Trade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairo a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's ambassador at Paris, enclosing a copy of a French Imperial decree, Wog the import duty upon gilt or silvered copper, spun on thread or no talk, at 100 franca per 100 kilo grammes, ischoling the additional decline. —Glareffe. 84.AR1, or TRADE., WHITEHALL, JAN. 22. —The Right Hoe. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Camel! for Trade hereby give notice that the .Voaiteer of the 19th instant contains a French Imperial decree exteoclieg to goods suhject to duties of 10 francs per 100 kilogrammes And upwards the privilege of paying duty oo their net weight may, which privilelte liar hitherto been rootlets' to goods subject to duties of 40 francs per 100 Likgramni,s and upwards.— Getteffe. SW Can. WINDSOR CASTLE, JAZ 25. The royal (limier party yesterday included the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Allee, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Earl and Countese of Tankerville, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Lord Waterpark, the Right Hon. the Speaker, the Right Hon. B. and. Mn. Disraeli, the Hon. Vice-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundee, and captain Purey Coat. The band of the Royal Hone Guards played during dinner : Pm Redouble overture...lSe Hebrides" Valise. Der Vrosmet Kelectkai, "Blanca - Belle. Quadrille, "Dlnoorah" Strauss. The fourth dramatic mimosas tik uMaoo took place in the evening. The programme vac as follow.: A Play in Ave acts, by sir Mined Behrer Lytton, entitled RICHELIEU ; 01, THE CONSPIRACY. Loni the Thirties'lt iimeton, Duke of Orleans kb Bream . Banda. !favorite of the [fat;—Firet ema Gentln of the Chamber . _. . Caramel ltichelicu Mr. Phelps. TM Chevalier de Mauprat Mr. tiermaun Vesin. The Siker de Beringtien In attendance aa the Ittai—oue of the eauspinton, Mr. 3. G. shore, Jo=Ea Capuchin— Ittrbellcu's con ) Haggai ha °Seer of Ildmilinfs House hold Guard—a Spy) Francois 'Yin' Page to Itheliallsal Dr tlaremoot a courtier Mr. C. Vent.)). Governor of the Bastile Captain of the Archers Pint Secretary Served Secretary Third Meeretary Mr. Henry. Page Julie de Menniiir NE Orphan—Want to Itlchebee, Marnni oh Lome Is ftfebeUetes pay, l' ruler the dinettes of .... Kr. W Budhani Donne. Stage Manager Mr. George ELM The Theatre arranged sod the *ornery painted by Mr. ThiltuAk Grlcve The Queen and Prince Cowart walked in the Home Park this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kentat Frogroore. The Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Alice, and Princess Mary of Cambridge, drove out in an open carriage and four. Princesa Helena rode in the Riding•hoaee. . . . The following visitors left the Citale in the forenoon :- The Lord Chancellor, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Right Hon. the Speaker, ViorAdmind the Hon. Sir R. S. Dundee, and the Right Hoe. B. and Mrs. Disraeli. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday afternoon at Frogmore Boum. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the Pint Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John Russell, Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Duke of Somerset, Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, auol the Right Hon. E. CardwelL Mr. James Anderson (chairman), Mr. Geo. Frederick Young (deputy chairman), Messrs. Wm. Phi Rippe, Frederic Homes, W. H. Tindall, Clifford Wigram, George Marshall, re A. 0. Robinson, and Wm. Boner (sectary), a deputation from the General Shipowners' Society, ou the subjectsof re ciprocity and belligerent rights, had an interview with Lord John Russell at the Foretgn-office yesterday. Sir James Dalrymple fr.:lphinstoine had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle on Thursday. at the Colonial-office. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday front the Governor of Newfoundland. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commiwiooer of the lonian Islands and to the Governors of the North American Colonies and Bermuda. VISIT OE HER MAJERTY TO THE CITY.—We learn that her Most Gracious Majesty intends visiting the City of London early in the ensuing season, for the purpose of inspecting the beautiful church of St. Michael, Cornhill.— Cif y Press. The Countess Amherst has arrived in Grosvenor square from Montreal, Sevesosks. Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yester day from Breedlands. Her ladyship and Viscounts= Joce lyn and family will not return to town until Monday. Lord Campbell has returned to Btrathedeu House from visiting her Majesty at Windier Castle. Lord and Lady Herbert of Lea have arrived at their residence in Belgrave Kum% from Wilton House, Dear Salisbury. Court Jaucourt arrived at Albert-gate Houae yes terday, from visiting the Fed and Countes+ of Wiachilsea, at &And! Park, Kent. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have arrived at Grosvenorirate from Windsor Cadle, where they have been on • visit to her Majesty and the Prince Consort. The Ron. Evelyn Ashley arrived in town yester day from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. at Broadlands. Sir William and Lady Somerville arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Wednesday last, from the Continent. On the following day the right hon. baronet and Lady Somerville arrived at Farr/ince'. Hotel. Convocation will assemble for Multiuse on %A way, Feb. 6, and the sessions will be continuous for the two or three days immediately following. The Atheneum announces the formation of ;inch a committee as has rarely been formed in England, for the purpose of raising a Duodonsid Statue Fund. Lord Brougham is the chairman of this committee ; and in the list, though it is only just begun, are already the names of the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke d Bedford, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis Townshend, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Headfort ; the Faris of Shrewsbury, Scarborough, Errol, Harrington, Hardwicke, Forteacue, Fife, Durham, and Bective ; Lords Baynham, Beauelerk, John Manners, Ibrington, Paget, &atom), Napier, Brougham, and Bel. haven ; Sir John Pakington, T. Milner Gibson, and C. Tennyson D'Eyncourt ; Vies-Chancellor Stuart ; Admiral. Sir Augustus W. Clifford, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Sir 0. F. Seyniour, Sir F. W. Austen, Sir Houston Stewart, and Hobert (;odor ; the Marmot Liverpool, Manchester and Salford ; together with a long list of intellectual, and commercial notabilities. Mr. C. B. Earp is the secretary of the committee, which in a few months will probably include the name of nearly every man of eminence in England. The Botley Farmer,' Club, one of our moat active local agricultural societies, resolved at their meeting kit week that "on account of the monopoly they enjoy, and the large quantity of land they have severed and destroyed, the directors of the London and South Western and other railways are under a moral obligation to render every pos sible assistance towards the improvement of the land io the neighbourhood of their fines, by transporting, at the lowest remunerating rate, chalk and other minerals needed by the soil, and laying down or assisting others to lay down the necessary sidings for the purpose, in situations most convenient to the owners and occupiers of the land." The immediate occasion of this discussion was the refusal by the South Western Railway Company to undertake the delivery of 20,000 tons of chalk at a point upon their line to which no engineering objections existed, and at " any fair rate" of payment for the carriage of the same. The Cambridge Lulep•ndeal observes of the list of honours at the Bachelor of Arta' coninienee ment, " The hopes and fears of the Honour students are at length at au end ; they now know the best and the worst of the fate they have been expecting ever since they came up as Freshmen. Mr. Alai", who has gained the poet of honour, is, we believe, a dissenter, the son of a dissent ing minister, and was educated at the City of London School —an institution which seems likely to occupy a very leading place among the educational centres of the country, furnishing many high men for the universities. The smaller colleges have done better than usual ; Magdalen has the second wrangler ; Pembroke, too, has distinguished itself, having two wranglers among the first seventeen." We reel in the Atheronern:—" Many of our renders lave walked down a favourite resort of artists in snmmsr•time, called Milfield Lane, Highgate. It is with great regret we observe that a wholesale cutting down of trees is taking place there, to such aa extent as entirely to destroy the picturesque beauty of the 'wale. If we am correctly informed, Lord Mansfield as the great authority in that pan of the world. Should such be the came, may we entreat him to spare the trees—their value can be very little compared with the delight afforded by their presence to many a painter and lover of rotate who, if this destruc. tiro by perbvvered in, mu•t Le drivcu from a fa vouriLe haunt." I THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CHINA. The China Mail of Dec. 15 ha% the following summary of news : The only event of importance which has occurred is the arrival in Hong Kong of a great part of the expeditionary force. In our last overland issue we mentioned that the treaty had, with the Emperor's consent, been posted over the walls of Pekin ; that the Russian minister had taken up his residence in that city ; and that Mr. Adkins, of her Majesty's consular service, had also been left there to prepare • residence to be occupied by Mr. Bruce early in the spring. At the time we wrote the allied armylwaa on its way to Tientsin, or had already arrived there. The further arrangements for the despatch of the army have been carried out with promptitude and skill, though the cold on the Peiho and in the Gulf of Pechelee was extremely trying before the greater part of the troops left., the thermometer being so low as 13 deg., with one or two heavy falls of snow. Our latest dates from the Peiho are to the 3rd instant, when the river was completely frozen up, and ice was beginning to form round the shores of the Gulf. The 2,500 English who, with • quota of French, have been left at Tientsin will have to undergo a severe winter, bet they have all been comfortably housed ; the warmest clothing ►as been provided for them, sod their houses are well warmed with stoves, in which is used a very• clear burning coal got from some mountains in the neighbourhood of Pekin. Brigadier-General Staveley has been left in command of this force, and Mr. Bruce also winters in Tientsin. There have been some unpleasant re ports going about is Canton and Hong Kong of some new disaster in Pekin, but we cannot trace these to any reliable source, and, after recent events it is not unnatural that they should arise, though without foundation. His Excellency the Earl of Elgin left the Peiho for Shanghai in the Peruse, which he reached on the 4th instant, and Sir Hope Grant in the Granada, for the same destination. They have both started, or are about to start, for Japan. It is rumoured that Lord Elgin will proceed direct to Singapore,without calling at Hong Kong. Major- General Sir Robert Napier has already left this for Calcutta, and Admiral Hope is expected here every moment in the Chesapeake. Thus the campaign in China is over for the present, and we may expect a pause in the progress of events in China ; but it is very doubtful whether it will last longer than eight or nine months. Though the rebels are pretty quiet near Shanghae. yet the waters of the Yang-tsze and of its branches in that neighbourhood continue to be infested by pirates. In our Imt issue we gave an interesting account of a conflict which Mr. T. T. Meadows, H.M. Acting Consul, had with four pirate boats. We regret to learn that another boat, with three foreigcers on board—Mr. Christisoo, Mr. Johnson the master, and Thomson the mate—was not so fortunate. They were well armed, but, being taken by surprise, were all three murdered by the pirates. A few of the expedition who have reached Hong Kong have been extremely fortunate in their election of plunder, and count their gains by thousands of pounds. The town has been quite overwhelmed with fur coats, silk cads, jade-stone ornaments, and other articles taken from the Emperor's Summer Palace. These, when sold by auction, have fetched high prices, and were bought chiefly by the Chinese. The rebels in the 'neighbourhood of Shanghoe have been keeping quiet of late ; there is no news from that quarter either of their further progress, or of their having suffered any adverses at the hands of the Imperialists. Of the re. ported rebellion, or riot, in Shensi no further, or any certain, intelligence has been received. Ningpo bas not yet suffered from the threatened attack of rebels ; and from Amoy there is no news. From Fuhchau there are rumours of new inland taxes having been imposed, by the Mandarins, on foreign goods going into the interior. Further measures have bun taken by the native authorities to protect the city from any Can tonese pirates who might feel disposed to revenge the severe measures which, as described in our last issue, had been adopted ag►inst that fraternity. Canton has been visited, within the fortnight, both by Baron Gros, the French Minister, and by the Ameri can Minister, Mr. Ward. ' Much discussion has been caused by the leisure by the French, and despite the remon strance of the governor-general, of the site of Yeh'sYaruun, in order to erect upon it a Roman catholic cathedral. The only plea which has been advanced in excuse of this act is the absurd one that • number of catholic churches are said to have 'been destroyed in Canton more than a century ago. Large mums of money, probably an instal ment of the Pedemnity money, have been removed from the city by the British authorities. We mentioned is our last that permission had been granted to • foreign steamer to run in the inland waters near Canton, and have now to record that a trip has been made with perfect safety. On the 7th instant • violent conflagration occurred in Can ton between the custom-house and the Shanieen site, de stroying about two hundred Chinese houses, and property, in all, to the value of about • latch and a half of dollars. In Hong Kong there has been another fire, in the Tat pingsluing district, destroying eighty-one houses and pro perty to the value of 56.000 dollars. The Civil Service Abuse Commission has come to a pause in its inquiry into the conduct of the Protector of Chinese. It has called on Mr. Caldwell to reply to the charges already made, that it may adjudicate on these before making further inquiry. Some dissatisfaction has been felt in regard to the new land which, at Kowloon, has been added to the colony, as it is understood the naval and military authorities have claimed more of it than they are entitled to. THE CALCUTTA MAIL • The principal contents of the Calcutta papers of Doc. 22 consist of a report of the public meeting to adopt a petition to parliament praying for publicity of accounts, restraint upon the Secretaryof State for India with regard to spending the Indian funds, the opening of the legislative council, &c. The distinguishing characteristic of the meeting was the unanimity of feeling which pervaded all classes of the community. Thu Hurktfra says : Fully one half of those present were natives, and this fact was alluded to by several of the native speakers as being a pledge of a reunion between themselves and their European brethren. a termination of the bitterness of feel ing, or " antagonism of race "as it has been called, which has existed since the mutinies. The Europeans showed their willingness to let bygones be bygones as proposed by Bobo Itamonath Tagore by loud cheers. The first resolution was proposed by the President of the Chamber of Commerce, seconded by the Master of the Trades' Association, end supported by Baboo Ramonath Tagore, a brother of the late Babe Dwarkanath Tagore, no well known in England. The next resolution was proposed by Rajah Pertaub Chewier Singh, president of the British India Association, and one of the Largest reminder. in 'kepi, seconded by Mr. Peterson. of the Calcutta bar, who was followed by Baboo Lhgumber M , ttre, • Hindu° merchant, and Ameer Ali, a pleader in the guilder Court, who was dining the mutinies in great disfavour with the European corn. inanity on account of his having been selected by Mr. Hal. liday as drynnrse to Mr. Samuels, when that gentleman was sent up to Behar. Tho cordial reception which Ameer Ali met with from the European part of the assembly, was a full proof that they were willing to forget all former grievances, awl cordially to join with their native brethren in the present movement. The lastresolution was moved by Mr. Fitswillistn, agent of the Mercantile Bank, and the petition read by Mr. Brett, managing proprietor of the Englishman newspaper. These name% will show how sincere all ranks are in their feeling that there is great danger in the course taken by the Secre tary of State with regard to expenditure of the Indian funds, and we are sure that the alarm will not be less felt in Eng land, when the English people become aware of the enoi - mous bribing power which the office of Secretary of State for India, as at present constituted, has thrown into the heads of any ministry which is ns unscrupulous in the use of it as Sir Charles Wood seems to be. Of commercial matter% the Englishman, aa' : lloth the import and export markets remain torpid, and although, under the temporary stimulus of speculators, tempted by the decline of 5 per cent. paper to a discount, it has rr.•overed to the extent of four atoms premium, there is no chance of perms sent improvement in the face of the knowledge that large amounts in paper are coming ot.t, and a still larger quantity is in the hands of holders here, who will take the first clutiew of gettiug nut without The ac knowledged helplessness of our government in matters of finance, the incapacity, carelessness, and want of tact in their civilian serlista in the financial department, and the saaarases that Sir Charles Wood's gift to the Mysore princes is to be paid by investment of re suscitated paper, confiscated by government, in fact Wog so much added to the national debt of the oountry, all tend to increase the sensitiveness of the native capitalists, and their conviction that another loan will become necessary. And so, though the deposits and cash balances of our banks are monthly increasing, government securities are • drag, and money lies without investment. As yet all was conjecture as to the probable yield of the income tax. It is expected by the supremo government that the net amount from this source will be about one million sterling. Mr. Reuter has received the following telegrams ITALY. THE BOMBARDMENT OF GAETA. NAPLES, JAN. 25, 5 P.M. Yesterday the bombardment of Gaeta was con tinued by the Sardinian fleet. Gaeta has suffered much from the bombardment. The fire from the batteries of the place is feeble. General Cialdini has boat but few mem A Sardinian gun-boat haus been damaged. NAPLES, 240, Evr.vixo. The bombardment of Gaeta continues. Liberio Romano, Minister of the Interior, has ap pointed a commission for the publication of histo- rical documents concerning the Bourbon dynasty taken from the archives atNaples, and dating from 1790 until 1860. DISTURBANCES AT ROME. ROME, JAN. 22 (vii Marseilles). Riotous demonstrations of a most serious cha racter have taken place in the Apollo Theatre. The performance of "U Trovatore" has been pro hibited. Some students have been expelled from the University for having distributed tricoloured cockades. ROME, JAN. 24. One thousand Sardinians have attacked the con. vent of Caaamali in the Roman States. They dispersed the reactionary band, set fire to the convent on the night of the 22nd inst., and afterwards re-entered Neapolitan territory. The monks saved themselves by flight before the commencement of the attack. HUNGARY. PESTH, JAN. 25. The Comitat of Pesth has reaolvol to firmly maintain the laws of 1848. The Comitat of Honth not only demands that a responsible and independent Hungarian ministry should ,be appointed before the opening of the Diet, but also requests the annexation of the pro vinces formerly belonging to Hungary, and the earliest possible convocation of the Diet at Peeth. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE CASE OF PATERSON v. BONAPARTE. (►BOY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY Emilia, 6 o'Culcic. . _ I have this moment left the court where the great case of Paterson v. Bonaparte is going on. Berryer—the illustrious Berryer, who was called to the bar just fifty years ago—spoke for four hours and a half without a moment's interruption. 1 speak literally ; the court did not rise for refresh ment until he had done, at about half-past 3 o'clock. I came away with great regret in the midst of M. Allou's speech for Prince Napoleon in order to send you those hurried lines by this evening's poet. I must assume that by the publications made in London you are already familiar with the leading facts of the case, and in attempting to give a sketch of the tenor of the arguments used to-day I shall touch principally upon those points which prior statements seem to leave iu nets! of explanation. I may at once say that the question whether Jerome Bonapart e , when he married Miss Paterson, was 19 or 22, i s admitted on both sides to be unimportant. It is clear that the new law of March, 1803, which al tered the provisions of that of 1792, was known in the United States at the time of his marriage, that he was bound by the new law, and was eves affected by express notice of it given him by M. Pichon, then the French chargi; d'affaires at Wash ington, who did his utmost to prevent the marriage from taking place. It is equally clear that by this new law ho was a minor so long as he was under the age of 25, and that his marriage as a French subject could notiregularly be solemnised without the consent of his surviving parent (Madame Letitia Bonaparte), which consent M. Berryer admits there is no proof that he ever obtained. The new law also provided that a marriage of a French subject abroad should be preceded by the publication of banns in France, and that, it is admitted, was not dune in the present case. The two great questions are—let. Whether the marriage was void or only voidable ; and 2nd. Supposing It to be voidable only, whether the pro test against the marriage which Madame Letitia Bonaparte was made to sign b o y Napoleou 1. was good in form, as being a reclamation in the sense of the code, and made in time in acooidance with the provision that it should be made " within twelve months" of the time when the parties, whose consent was requisite for a regular marriage, " had knowledge" of the fact of the mar riage having taken place. lam disposed to think, judging from the tenor of the commencement of K Allou's speech, that be himself will not, as a lawyer, lay any great stress upon the various shameful and self-contradictory devices which Napoleon I. resorted to in order to have the marriage annulled both civilly and religiously. The assumption in the defendant's written plead. lap that the matter has been decided by "sove reign power," may, I already feel persuaded, be dismissed, as K Berryer dismisses it, as "idle and derisory." The true questions, I repeat, are—. 1. Whether the marriage was void ab initio, and 2. Whether, supposing it to be only voidable, it was avoided in legal form and in proper time. The court to-day was as full as it could peed bly hold. Some tickets for reserved places had been given by the President, but a considerable space was still left, when the docirs were opened, for a rush by young barristers and the general public. There was no attempt to pack the audi ence, and many who had the patience to wait for two or three hours at the door for admission, met with the reward which they deserved. The pro ceedings were opened by M. Legrand, avati for Mrs. Elizabeth Paterson, presenting the following conclusions: That it may plasm the tribunal to declare the marriage contracted on Dec. 24, I tiO3, between the late Prince Jerome and Elizabeth Paterson valid. And also to take judicial cognisance (downer ark.) that M. Bonaparte, while demanding that the marriage of lie. amber 24, 1803, may be declared valid, has never had say intention to contest, and does not now contest, the cirri and political effects of the union contracted in 1807 by Ins father with the Princess Catherine of Wertemburg. M. Berryer, in his exordium, said : The high authority of justice, whose majesty should everywhere, and always, be respected, is a guarautee that I will introduce no matter foreign to the cause. The crowded state of the court is to me a warning that, far from seeking to gratify vain curiosity, I must confine myself to the strict discussion of the legal question. I will abridge as far as possible the statements already before you in my written memorial —a memorial not published prematurely or containing state. ments which can possibly be contested. [This was in answer to a recent paragraph in the Men deur.] My client, Mediae Paterson, the divorced wife and now the widow of the late Prince Jerome Napoleon, has waited nevrly silty years for this day, and now, faithful to the conduct from which she has never swerved, she crosses the Atlantic at the age of 75, and is here before you to ask the justice of a French court. In recapitulating the facts of the case, as stated in the memorial, M. Berryer dwelt at peat length upon the recognition of M. Be. naparte by all the imperial family during a long series of years as their relation, arguing from this fact that notoriety, in accordance with the register of his baptism was, in the terms of the code, indisputable evidence of his status as a legitimate child. He exposed the flagrant contradiction of the imperial proceedings in pretending to judge by a "family council "—a special tribunal, which confessedly had no jurisdiction, except over members of the imperial family that M. Bonaparte was no member of it. He laboured at great length to show that the marriage in question, although objected to at the time by the Freud, • d'affaires, was not " clandestine," or male in fraud of the French law;' that it was only voidable fur want of proper publications and the maternal consent that no legal step was ever taken to set the marriage aside, and that the first Napoleou'edespetate attempts to treat the marriage as void—his repeated decrees, containing implied admissions that all his former acts against the marriage bad boen inefficacious—his correspondence with the Pope, who refused to annul the marriage —and 1113 rejection of the legal opinion of the Arch-Chancellor Cantlocer4s, whose advice he asked : all showed the knowledge of Napoleon I. that nothing but a judicial decision—which it was now too late to ask for—could set the marriage aside. He concluded by expressing his belief that the judgment of the court would confirm him in that respect for the bench which he had cherished through a long life. M. Allou—:a fluent and very good speaker, and a first-rate advocate, although comparatively little known—opened the case for Prince Napoleon. lie was bold enough to say that the eloquent advocate opposed to him had very little hopes of winning his cause. The case was overlaid with romance, which, from the lapse of tune, it was difficult to r e fute. While speaking most respectfully of Miss Paterson and her family, he could not help saying the facts of the case bore out the statement to be found in history, that she had said "If 1 can be his wife but for an hour I will run the risk She knew of the legal objections to the marriage— , the settleineut provided for the case of its being dissolved, and consequently alms had not contracted it with "good faith" in the eye of the law. The ball giveu at the Tuileries on Thursday was very inunerottaly attended, but the royal mourning. of Berlin and Stockholm kupt away a number of the foreign diplomatic body. The Emperor and Empress retired sPou after midnight. No imperial quadrille was danced. The Emperor during the evening frequently conver....l with ruwley, PAINS de Metternich, and M. *Mr the ttpagielt Ausimuusdur. I FRANCE. PARA Fanmy EVENING. The Patric gives a denial to the report that the French troops are preparing to leave Rome. A private telegram from Constantinople, dated January 24, states that Vely-Pacha has been ap pointed ambassador at Paris. The Paris papers publish a telegram dated Naples, Jan. 22, according to which orders had been given for the trial of some Neapolitan naval officers before a court-martial, for having refused to take part in the siege of Gaeta. The same telegram states that two Neapolitan war vessels only are employed at the siege of Gaeta. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, FRIDAY. The Berlingsk , Tidends of to-day says:—" The Minister of Finance has authorised the Ministers of War and Marine to already apply during the current year a portion of the funds voted for their departments during the next financial year." RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JAN 25. The return of M. de Balabine from 9t. Peters burg to Vienna has been again delayed, on account of the instructions which he has to receive from Prince Gortschakoff in reference to the reported revolutionary iutriguea in Poland, the Principali ties, and Montenegro. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, FRIDAY, 3.30 P.Y. The Bourse has been firm but inanimate. Rallies closed at 67.50, or Sc. lower than yesterday. THE UNITED STATES. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Kangaroo, from New York ou the 12th inst., and which touched at Queenstown yesterday, has arrived here. She brings the following later intelligence from Now York. The Star of the West had returned to New York with troops, and with her bows damaged by a shot. The South Carolinian Secretaries of State and of War had visited Fort Sumter under a flag of truce, but nothing had transpired. Senator Seward made a grand conciliatory speech on the 12th inst., in which he said, " Mutual re crimination and congressional compromises are not likely to save the Union. The constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursu ance thereto are supreme. The laws of the laud are paramount to all state legisla tion. The Union can only be dissolved by the voluntary consent of the people of the United Status in the manner prescribed by the constitution. The Congress ought, if it can, to redress any real grievances of the offended states, and should then supply the President with the means necessary to maintain the authority of the Union." Mr. Seward then proceeded to point out the numerous advantages of the Union, while a dis solution, he said, " will be perpetual civil war." He concluded by saying " that when the angry excite ment bad subsided, and calmness had resumed its sway, and not till then, would he advise that a convention of the people be assembled to consider what amendments iu the organic national law ought to be made." SOUTHAMPTON, t!pelumr.. The North German Lloyd's lucerne; New York, which sails to-morrow morning for New York, will take 7,0001. in French specie and about 13,0001. in specie from England. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. Tho Royal Mail steamship Canada, which sailed to-day for America, has taken 53,1301. sterling in specie ou freight. A Turin letter says :—" The King's Theatre) Testes Regio, has welcomed upon its boards the company from Her Majeaty's Theatre in London, as under the mauagement of Mr. Lumley, and numbering Titles., Giuglini, and other first-rate artists among its performers. Mr. Lamley's speculation turned out a dead failure at the 4'Augennea Theatre, probably bemuse the manager had pitched his pretension, too high, and raised the eutrance tickets to prices which Turin purses cannot compass. His inevitable losses were, however, goodnataredly made np by the royal household, the town corporation, and private persons, who subsidised the King's Theatre, so as to enable the English manager to afford the same treat to the Mat. lotion on the usual charge levied at the door of that first of the metropolitan theatres without loss to the manager. The Troramrc and Norma lave hitherto been tried by this company with indifferent 'access." We learn from Madrid papers that Sir A. Bu chanan, the English minister, had had an audiesre of her Majesty, t o , present a b•tter from the (,Seem of England, in reply to one written by queen Isabela. 4 mit COO boo abo mei met hen OD t own retu by Den Yin Pher clod n 2711. IL not c AI the. 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