The Express. — London, England, 1861-12-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1861. EU-D E-V I Pure PALE BRANDY, can be conceived more natural than that the slave EA tea Per Pike. Is dinnestrand. upon smal/ 111, to 4° Pe- without anus should light the hteondiary torch ; cuttingly tree bins acidity, sad very .paler to recent Imposts. time of Capone. is Prima beaten an. per dor. or Ins cam and that the shaken and defemeleas fruit of his he the cosatry, tea Sails-ay airtime. paid. N" AO°°t° and to toil should seem to him the proper object of obtalasd eddy HILNIKY BRITT add Co., Old Foothill e tarry. Holborn. LC are no politicians ; but there are men every where amongst them who are capable of making them understand that if the cotton crop be sent to England their masters will be the richer and stronger for its exportation ; and that if it be destroyed they will be all the lees able to chain them down again. The logic of slave-grown cot ton is too fearfully simple to be misunderstood ; and if so, what becomes of the bribe dangled at the sword's point before the eyes of our manu facturing industry t HARMONIUMS. - NSW MODEL MANZI. BULL obi WOOD. Sin, Regent-street. gat erfrefifi. TO 00111MPONDIJIT3. Avertlimadabe 'abraded Mr "TM. Moms " Loudon 'aiming Paper, meat be it SW 14 110/1•1111•48,4411. by Tao Womb ad Ma day at ■ATIIAILIT. 1 p;i4 Inane. OM AIIitICAN OikSIN. Mama sothem Mn . Mr.. C. Vaasa. MissOUver. —MY AI•NTS ADVICE Mr ,oth..rn -IikIMMIAW, MAGNUM'. AND DIADMAW. Mr Duckstmte. IrAMILY JAllll.—Cveumace AST. nu NCISMIL int Court. For the liso;fil.iitiTis - as Tits EVisoss, ANUYKIS 111101VS?-tglIMICKET ON TOE I 9 ARTH. —An Address by Mrs. Sibling —Mr. sad 21n. Howard Pur. Entertainment. —AM MI JACIUML WINDSOR CASTLE, Drc. 18. The Queen had several hours of undisturbed sleep last night, and is calm this morning. R. JAWIffS. in 14 Hexing, A WIITS JOHILHAL lI Ir. 0. vinlest. Mr Kale Terry. —Tint POOR If UHLMAN. Yr. A. %iglu.. TII It WARMS() .4111101. Nowa O. VI Clarrics. HelAt. tee . Mb* Herbert wet Yra Y. liaobamta—Cammouce at 7i. The account of the health of the Queen, issued at Windsor Castle yesterday morning, announcing that " the Queen had several hours of undisturbed sleep but night, and is calm this morning," was exhibited to the nobility and gentry at Buckingham Palace. Amongst the long list of Moe:ries ware the Italian Minister, the Netherlands Minister, the Greek Minister and Madame Tricoupi, the Peruvian Mieister, the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Musurus, the Portuguese Minister, the Brazilian Minister and Madame Moreirs, the Russian Ambassador and Baresses Brunnow, the Bevarum Minister and Barmier de Celt°, the Danish Minister, the Spanish Minister, M. and Madame Conte ; the Consul for Haze Weimar, the Prussian Consul-General and Madame Kebeler, the Cansul-General for Mecklenburg !Schwerin and Mrs. Knott, the Charge d'Affairee of Haiti ad interim, the Consul of the Argeritiae Republic, the Earl and Counters Russell, Sir J. and Lady Lawrence, Sir James Palmer, President of the Legislative Council of Victoria, Mr. Roebuck, M. l'., Mrs. and Miss Roshnek, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mn.s Gladstone, and others. The Lords of ber Majesty's Most Hoe. Privy Council bad a meeting yesterday at the Couocidoffice, Whitehall. Premet— Earl Granville, the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Rumen. lord Stanley of Alderley, Sir George Gray, Sir George Coniewall Lewis, the Right Bon. I'. Mileer Gibson, and the Right How. C. P. Villiers. Mr. Arthur Helps, the Clerk. and Mr. Edmund Harrison, the Deputy Clerk of the Couieil, atteodaL After the soestieg a Cabinet Council was held at the Council Mice. Despstehes Were mot from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Goveirsees of Csuatla and Malts, aml to the Lord High Coamiriooer et the lonian Islam& His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau has arrived at Footoo's Hotel from flermaoy. His Excellency the Belgian Minister, who has been suffering from indisposition for some days peat, at New Lodge, Windaor, is somewhat better. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Steffurd !louse, St. James's, yesterday, from Lilleabiall, Slaropibire. The Duke and Duehesa of Manchester have re turned to Kimball= Oast* Heats, from visiting the Ferri and Counts= al Derby, at Knowsley Perk, Lancashire. The Duke of Argyll is expected immediately in Loudon from the Oeetiwat. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Victoria Cana have arrived in town from Brighton. The Manion, and Marchioness of Headfort have left town for Ireland. The Earl and Countess Spencer arrived yester day at Speimer House, St. James's, from Altborp Hall, Northamptonshire. The noble earl will not return to his °pantry seat until after the funeral of the late Prince Con sort, to whom the awl was groom of the stole. Viscount and ViSCOallt4.llll Caritlerl.g4o Lac ar rived at their residence, in Won-plane, from their seat, Killarney, Ireland. We learis from the Irish journals that his Exoel tiacy the Lord-Lientimant will not return to Dublin until after Christmas. It is his inteation to to present at the funeral of his Royal Highness the Primo Cowen& Tue gold soloing news from British Columbia, by the last packet, is still good. Out of the 1,200 miens in Cariboo, 150 have geared from 1,000 dollars to 20,000 dollars during the season, aad a large number have mid, good wages, aad secured valuable claims for Dent year. For the peat two or three years farming also in British Columbia will be moat remunerative, on account of the high prices which barley sad oats command. The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury wax yesterday prorogued in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, by the Vicar• General, Dr. Traven Twiss, under a commiesion from his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, pursuant to the royal writ, to Wednes day, January 8, 1882. Tan BIRHUP or GLOVCLITER AND BRIBTOL Some delay will take place in the enthronement of the Right Rev. Dr. Thomson. who was consecrated to the bishopric of Giouceeter sad Bristol on Sunda y last. Prior to the eethrouement of a bishop in the cathedr.il of his diocese be must do homage to her Majesty, and this core. war, in cotsepience of the lamented death of Lis Royal Highness the Prime Consort, must for the present be postponed. TYPHUS Fey= as WINIASOIt CANTLP..—IS it pos sible that there is some defect is the drains or vaults of Windsor Castle which fever? LAU than two years ago Wiodaof 1111111 the seat of a virulent epidemic, and on investigation it was fouled that the cases of fever occurred almost exclusively in the high legalities of the town, leaving those Assets end were where it might be expected to prevail untouched. Deaths occurred in close proximity to the castle. if sot in Use castle itself. We ask moat seriously, after the dreadful loss the nation has just sustaieel, whether there may not by possibility be some thing hetwern the walls in pent-up drains, old wells, or eeespools, ages perhaps is dime, which may, in thee. later ay., be poisoning the atleillephere It is well known that denim in say term at Winegar IN apt to take on a typhoid type. —Medical Oireulsr. . ALVIDILYT TO TIM Duman or BIcIIMOND. Yietenlay heleg the eat* minket day at Chichester, the Eeet-drest ma, as mal e NI of peas for sheep. Her pm was sitting alone he si we re. ea the oppoite Bide of the road to the wattled The eueskenen having desoreeded from his seat upon a. am* while he was Meat the now madm in mewing ems *Mies startled the horse, which become melba Her gnus, with great sell-poesessios, attempted to man* the saiseel, bat could sot enomed, for It int backed on to the pavement and the. made • rash to torn tumid. Is dais this it beau* eateagled moms the wattle", which tweed the irehkle over. Her grim was thrown out, but fortunately without any injury, inceptieg • alight gosh ou the cheek, and having been assisted to rise walked across the rood to Mr. Mason's shop. The horse the vehicle on its side for sev e r a l y ar d s b e f ore it ' ir iw li t e restrained. —Drip/dint Uoutte. AtVIDENT TO THE falL OF BoWTH.—The Earl of Howth met with • severe accident a few days awe fa Northamptonshire, while out with Lord floutheeeptmes hounds. His lordship, who is a very bold rider, charged • ditch or dike, the banks of which were separated by a chasm of needy al feet wide. The horse touched the opposite bask, but unfortunately fell back into the dike, and ili fall ing rolled epee Lord Howth, who sustained even injuries about the hip and tbisk. Hie lordship travelled to tow. tie same eyelid', sad has since been under the on of Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Teems. Although the injuries are very serious, it is hoped the sidle earl will moon recover frogs the offsets of the aosideat PIIDUDINCT OF BREHM - ELL AND BETHLEHEM Homirrrms. —The election of a president for three two in stitutions, is the Mal of the late Sir Peter Laurie, took place yesterday. when Mr. Alderman Copelind was chosen be • majority of four-48 having voted for him, end 44 for Ur. Alderman Pined RiIIIOVAL OP THE O'BREENIFIVZ MON THE CON- NiexioN or THE PEACH—The Dahlia Emilio, Mal understands that her Majesty's writ bee passed the Great heal superseding the O'oogline in the commission of the pia:me for the counties."( Cork sod Kerr,. The 0' Donoghue. i M.P., as will be MS by the following communicative, I had previously withdrawn his name from the committee appointed at the lose agitation muting in the Dublin Routed& It will be recollected, that, et the meeting ,is question, the O'Dmeghse, sail other speakers, ; deeded the pressed • favourable opportunity, war be tides Engle* and America being probable, of riling the ery et "Jostles to Ireland :"—" Derriquin Coale, Lestimare, aesday. Gestlonees—On Thursday evening I received year Imams of the 10th Ind., esquaintieg me that on that engin UM eenneittes Dominated at the Retards wee to meet Ad the Int UM.. I VOW beg to inform you that I withdraw frees the committee, as, upon reflection, I see that the rem latim append:lag it was too keenly adopted. and, more. over, that the ecessnittes, se at pretreat constituted, is the skeseee of assay well-known **men, cannot command the mantel:we of the eountry.-1 am, gentlemen, your faisMot servant, Oliottoungs." THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. The following official orders with regard to haourniog in the Army, Navy, and Royal Mariam, IMMO yesterday published in a supplement to the London Giadte: Home Guards, Dee. 10. Orders for the Blooming for the Army, for his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort: The Geaeral Commanding-in-Chief has received her Majesty's commands to direct, on the present melancholy occasion of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, that the offioers of the army be required to wear, when in uniform, black crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, over the sword-knot, and on the left arm ; with black gloves, cud a black crape scarf over the sash. The drums are to be covered with black, and black crape is to be hong from the head of the colour-staff of the infantry, and from the standard-staff of cavalry. When officers appear at court in their uniforms, they are to wear black crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, over the sword-knot, and on the left arm ; with black gloves, sod a black crape scarf over the sash. By command of his Royal Highneu the Duke of Cam. bridge, General Commanding-in-Chief. JAILL6 Yoa►a Scaithkrr, Adjutant-GeneraL Admiralty, Dec. 18. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. Orders for the Mourning for Ogicers of the Royal Nary and Royal Marines, for his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort : The Lonle Commissioners of the Admiralty have re ceived her Majesty's commands to direct, on the present melancholy occasion of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, that the officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines be repaired to wear, when in uniform, black crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, over the sword•ksot, and on the left arm, with black gloves; and the officers of Royal Marines, in addition, a black crape scarf over the sash. The drums of the Royal Marinew are to be covered with black, and black crape is to be hung at the head of the divisional colour-staff. When officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines appear at court, in their uniforms, they are to weer black crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, over the sword-knot, and on the left Irlll, with black gloves, and officers of Royal Marines, in addition, a black crape scarf over the ash.—By command of their Lordships. C. Yawls. Our Windsor correspondent writte last evening : " Every necemary arrangement had been made up to a late hour on Tuesday evening for the departure of the Queen from Windsor for the Isle of Wight, this morning, and the direc tors of the South Western Railway had received instructions to have the royal carriages in readiness to leave Windsor for Gosport precisely at 10 o'clock. " It is now said, however, that the Queen will not leave Windsor before the arrival of the King of the Belgians, which will probably be tomorrow or the following day. Although Lord Alfred Paget went to town this morning to make fresh arrangements for her Majesty's journey eitbe to-morrow or Friday, it is said to be probable she will not leave until after the funeral of the late Prince. "'Workmen are engaged day and night in making the ne cessary preparations within Elt. Cleorge's Chapel for the funeral soleiruities on Monday neat. " The postponement of the royal journey was not known here before 10 o'clock last night." The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland has, though not generally known, been @toying with the Queen at Wind sor C.uale since Monday morning, at the request of her Majesty. The soothing presence of the duchesa has been • source °lsom° consolation to the Queen under the poignancy of the grief naturally consequent on her Majesty's memo affliction. style of the building. It contains, like other prisons, some " condemned cells," but it is in no way whatever specially assigned to be an ante room to the gallows. M. Gueruult, of the Opinion Nationale, chafes terribly at the news, which he cannot ignore, that the Emperor's government, whether " spontane ously" or otherwise, has expressed au opinion that in the affair of the Trent international law was violated by the San Jacinto. In the fear, which I think in various points of view extremely prema ture, that France will join her forces to those of England, in the event of an American war, he exclaims : Why conceal our inmost thought? France has but one enemy in the world ; that enemy is England—or, rather, the English aristocracy, which during tive•and-twenty years raised Europe against us, and twice conducted a coalition to the walls of Paris. Hure follows a grand philippic against the Eng lish aristocracy, and Lord Palmerston as one of its prominent members. NAVAL AND MILITARY. THE DEPARTURE OF THE GUARDS. (THIS DAB'.) This morning a great number of persons, at an early hour, assembled in the Wellington Barracks, St. James's-perk, on the occasion of the deputy -11 of the first battalion of the Grenadier Guards (under the command of Lord Frederick Paulett) and of the second battalion of , the Fusilier Guards, commanded by Colonel Percy, for Canada, The Maws and privates paradox' about 7 o'clock in front of the barracks, in heavy marching order, and there was not a man absent. The bands of each battalion were not present, iu consequence of the melancholy death of the Prince Consort. The whole body started about eight o'clock for the Waterloo station of the South Western Railway, Waterloo-mad, where tra , -is were in waiting for their conveyance to Southampton, at which port the Adriatic and Parana merchant ships wait for their reception to convey them to Canada. There wee much enthusiasm displayed by the battalioa of each regi ment, who were loudly cheered all the way to the rail way station. The wives, children, and relatives of the IMO accompanied them to the station. ADMIRALTY Dice. 18.—ApPoivrAtENPIL—Lieute mob. J. O. Hopkins, to be flag lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Daeres i and G. W. Gregone to the Britannia, additional for service with the naval mists. Masters Aosistants—W. N. °colon, to the Swallow; and, H. T. Grimace, to the Victory, as superoumerary. Assistant-Surgeon W. Roche (A.), to the Orlando. Assistant.Pkymasters—W. P. Tayler, to be secretary's clerk iu the Edgar; and B. Mitford, to the Nile, as super. Chief J. Oliver to the Orlando. Engineers—F. W. Sutton, to the Orlando ; 0. Booth, confirmed as engineer in the Impirieuse ; J. King, to the ludas, for service in the Prospero ; and J. Lawler (acting) to the Indus, sa supernumerary. rnit-class Assistant-Engineers--R. W. Watson, to the Orlando ; W. Fenton (A.), to the Indus; and A. Lawton (acting), to the Orlando. Second-class Assistant Eogineere—W. B. Trenwith, to the Orlando ; and T. M. Thompson, to the Indus, for service in the Charon. ;ill; gSec ond-clams Aseistant Eagineers—A. Wilson, to the Judos, (or service in the Prospero ; J. Craig and A. Gibson, to the Orlando. _ _ _ _ The appoin t ment of W. A. Stevenson, as additional sur geon of the Orlando, is cancelled. SIITAI9IIA. Tus violas. YIN 111:01/UlD WM—TM Wondrous ttntiss. —Kr. J. Phimplus. —THE BA NIJI I QULEV. Wag L. Claim—AM TklE .1111111 tar ALLK:ATL air.. L l'arauld.—Oneniese at K. item ways' LT failliat 111110/11 TS DWZOISSI, ni...7.7asfilaw" a. Lm. twaMau+—warm aL dIS •• • • ---- W NDON, THURSDAY, DEC 19. We are daily told that war with the United States could insure an immediate supply of cotton to the stinted looms of Lancashire. Cotton is the forbidden fruit which manufacturing industry is tempted to snatch at any risk of consequences. It looks fair to the eye and good for food ; why not clutch at what hangs rich and ripe within our grasp, reckless of mere moral obligations T It is the uld story : the dazzling lure is held out in the form of instant and tangible gratification, in the hope that the dictates of self-restraint may be forgotten. Aand what if the lure be itself no better than a is ? Is it eertain after all that the friends of slavery, who were so anxious to commit us to a quarrel with the Free States of the North, could make good their loud premix) of cotton supply 1 We ourselves look with incredulity at the contingeneyof war—we shall never believe that the Republic will refuse todo us justice, in the matter of the captured rebel emissaries. We trust they will be, as they ought to be, liberated ; or, at worst, that the question may assume a form in which it may be properly left to arbitration. Those who wish fur war, on this side of the ocean, try Ito beguile a portion of the great industrial community into complicity with their selfish and sanguinary pur pose by the bribe of cheap and abundant cotton. Yet it is doubtful whether an increased supply of the raw material in Liverpool would set more mills working full time at Manchester, for some months to come. Close and calm observers of the market for manufactured goods are of opinion that had there been no blockade of the Slave States, the factories of Lancashire would now have been working short time. Waiving this calculation, however, let us ask plainly how do we know that England's alliance with a slave-hold ing Confederacy would secure the safe transportation, from the plantations to the sea ports and from the seaports to this country, of the cotton crop of 1861, now lying in up-country stores, unsold and unsaleable ? Such an alliance would be a declaration of war to the knife against the United States. It would justify, because it would necessitate, measures which President LlN in his Message to Congress, declares it is his earnest desire to avoid. But with a rebel army menacing Washington, and an English fleet menac ing New York, will anyone say what sort of expe dient the exigency of the case would not dictate 1 In the midst of the enemy lies a combustible mass, unorganized indeed and inarticulate, mute and motionless, but of a destructive capability terrible to think upon. What man of intellect or con science who knows anything about the matter will dare to talk loosely or lightly about the iguitability of this fearful mass, ignorant, impul sive, reckless, and resentful? For years the tan talizing whisper of freedom has been among these millions the password by which hope deferred has contrived to dissuade them from premature con spiracy. Let the long-listened-for knell of " Emsmcirsrws " ring out from Washington, and who will say how far its reverberating echoes will reach, or what its effect will be Our pro-slavery contemporaries remind us daily that up to the present time theru has been no revolt of the coloured race against their Secessionist masters, and that but a few thousands of fugitives have come into the Federal lines. Our only wonder is, that so many should have come, considering the scrupulous abstinence of tho Government and its generals from saying or doing anything calculated to encourage the hope that the war was waged for Abolition. The negroes may be bad logician. ; but they are not so much below the brutes to whose condition the advocates of a Southern alliance would eternally consign them, as not to know when they are beckoned to, and when they are bidden to be gone. Let the significant words— " Now or never "—be uttered along the whole line of contest simultaneously, and who will venture to say what the issue may be ? To persons living in a state of society like our own, it is difficult to make intelligible a feet which line at the core of this fearful question. Wherever multitudes are held in subjection by a dominant class, there exists a marvellous power of communi cating intelligence from distant point to point which ham always baffled the most watchful scrutiny, and tilled with perplexity and fear the most sagacious system of oppression. There is not a misgoverned country in Europe where the cipher of diplomacy and the signals of police have not frequently been anticipated by the spontaneous telegraph of stilled discontent ; and there is not a minister of misrule who has not frequently been startled at the magical identity of popular expressions in places the meet remote, testifying their knowledge of facts and circum stances which he would have fain concealed. And will any wise, humane, or Christian man presume to say what the consequences of a call to insurrection would be 1 We look upon the possible prospect with no other fee , ings than those of the gravest apprehension and dread ; and we should be sorry to give utterance to all we fear on account of both oppressor and oppressed, helot and master; but we put this question to all thinking men, whatever their opinions or prejudices may be—what chance would the piled-up produce of slavery have of escape from destruction in the first frenzied outbreak of the slaves 1 We speak not ben with reference to negro calculations ea to how medial bondage might be most prevented in future ; nnr do we venture to guess what wild dreams of agrarianism might prevail in the first delirium of hisiration. Only this we ask, and bid men ask themselves who wish to look unpre sumptuously whither events are tending—what (From the Reerord.) We understand that the illness of the lamented Prima originated in his baring slept in a damp room on his resent visit to the Prime of Wales at Cambridge. It was after wards increased by attending a review of the Eton Vo lunteers, when he said that, although he had put on two fur coats, he felt as if cold water had been poured down his back. Unhappily his royal highness was averse to medi doe, and, even after the character of the fever had de clared itself, be objected to all active remedies, and especially to his being confined to • recumbent posture. He was each day occasionally wheeled about the apart ment& which he occupied, until Friday, when his state, which even on Monday and Tuesday was critical, had be come nearly hopeless. His royal highness himself bad a presentiment that the illness would be fatal from the time he heard of the nature of the foyer, which was the same as that which carried off the King of Portugal ; but it was not till after her Majesty's return from her drive on Friday that she realised the danger, and for twelve suc cessive hours she watched over the Prime with affectionate solicitude, and without intermission. Lest year an in cipient attack of the same kind had been warded off by the prompt measures resorted to by the lamented Dr. Bsiy, who was able to overcome the Prince's repugnance to active medicine. On the present °oration, we hear that this repugnance was not to be overcome, and therefore that the Court physicians cannot, at all events, be blamed for active treatment. His royal bishams was masons= almost to the last, but oocasiosally wandered, and is his delirium his thoughts seemed to be occupied about the Prince of Wales. We have mum to think that there is no ground for the statement that his royal highnees took leave of the Queen sad royal gamily In three Isaguagos. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. THE CHANCELLORSHIP. CAPABRIDGE, Drc. ld. The Vice-Chancellor has given notice that there will be a magnmation to-morrow (this day), at 12 o'clock, to declare the office of Chancellor of the University vacant by the decease of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The Vice-Chancellor has further given notice, that two o'clock on Iloaday next, being the day appointed for the Naiad of his Royal Highness the Prince Canon, lib Chancellor of the University, a merinos will be preached at Great Saint Mary's Church by the Relies Professor of Divinity. In consequence of the decease of his Royal Highness ►ll festivities in the college incidental to Use season have been gives up, and all invitations recalled. - Then has appeared in some of the London journals a list of names of noblemen likely to be nominated to succeed the late lamented Chancellor; this, to ray the least of it, is pre• mature. At present but two names have bees men tioned here— those of Lord Palmerston and the Duke of Buccleuch. Both noblemen are of St. John's Dollop ; Lord Palmerston proceeded M.A. 1808, sad the Duke of Bee clench in 1827. As yet, however, nothing is decided, and of equal is not likely to be until after the °bunnies of the Prime Dessert. The shops here have universally and some private homer partially closed since Monday, and will re mks so up to the funeral. A number of amusements sad other matters an also postponed. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. We understand that Means. Leaf, Sons, and Co., Mama Celdecott, Sons, and Wills:mks, end Mews. J. sad R. Morley, warehousemen, of the City, intend keeping their . . establishments closed from Saturday afternoon next until Thursday morning, thus affonliog their enployes an un broken absence of four days from business. The inoregeneral feeling among the City houses appears to be in favour of opening on Tuesday and keeping closed on Thursday, the 21ith lust,, which is the arrangement most likely to be chosen by the retail firms, many of whom have ;heady announced their intention to that effect. In all mass Monday becomes • blank, owing to the funeral of Use Prince Consort. Wed nesday, being Christmas Day, Is, of 0011111001 dill non. . -- Ciratxrat.ta Cam.—lt w ill gladden some me tropolitan hearts to learn that Norfolk will do its best, as lineal, in the supply of grew and turkeys fur Christmas dinner-tables. Ooe Normal poulterer alone has 7,000 geese available for " entrances inwards," as the Custum•howie *Seals ay. 111:101011. —Yesterday the following notice was posted in the reading-room of the museum, our. roanded by a black Loader : "The British Museum will be closed os Moodsy, Dec. 23, being the day appointed fur the (anneal of his late loyal Hiatuses the Prince Consort." A *dim to the same effect was also exhibited oa the ealrenee pies It may also be coavenient to the readers at the maseuni, said to general visitors, to motion that, sesording to mutual enstion, the whole of the museum will be dosed frees Wednesday week, Jan. 1, to Jao. 7 (both days inclusive), to afford all the attendants their periodical holiday. EARLSWOOD FOR IDIOTS, RID-3111L.-411 eresenaciace of the mach to be lamented death of his Royal Highness the White Consort, the medal eatertminamat, which was to have taken place this week, ha bees poet passed. The Priam took a special interest la this charity. Rod it may be remembered that. in edditioa to lag= first stove mid opining the building, Ms Hegel twice visited the e.ylam, and was one of its royal patrols& PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, dated Sunday, says : " The news of the premature death of Prince Albert has produced a feeling of the deepest grief at Berlin. The whole country deplores his loss as a great family disaster. The same feeling will evince itself throughout the whole of Germany, which never ceased to love the Prince as one of her own sons, and to venerate him as one of the most honest political men of this century. The Prince, on his part, despite his sincere attachment to his adopted country, had not forgotten his native land, and on more than one occasion had shown his serious solicitude for its interests. When, after a temporary misunderstanding between the two coun tries, so detrimental to both, a better feeling sprang up between Prussia and England, Prince Albert certainly contributed greatly thereunto by his influence. His loss is a great one, not only for Great Britain, hut also for us. Of the heart rending grief of the Princess Victoria I shall not speak ; it will be fully understood by every deli cate mini. The despatches received the day before yesterday fully prepared us for the sad catastrophe. The news of his death was received in the middle of the night. A supplement to the National Gazette announced it this morning to the public. It caused quite a consternation in every class of the popula tion of Berlin." THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. A letter from Naples in the Debats says "Torre del Greco has been almost entirely de stroyed, as fifty houses have been thrown down and the others greatly damaged. General de la Mar mon has placed La Favorite Palace and the Royal Casino of Portici at the disposal of the fugitives. Traffic on the railway having been stopped by order of the general, the steamer Amalfi makes four voyages per day from Naples to Castellainara to convey gratuitously the unfortunate inhabi tants of Torre del Greoo. The ancient Drago, a river which had disappeared, has burst out again, and swept down the fountain of the Dodici Can nuoli, which has caused an inundation in the neigh bourhood ; the sea has fallen back more than three feet, and is in ebullition on the shore. The houses which line tho high road are being propped up, and the Neapolitan masons, with extraordinary bold ness, work iu the midst of a continual earthquake. The eruption of the large crater on the summit of Vesuvius has almost ceased ; but men of science predict that the earthquake of La Torre is the pre cursor of an immense eruption. Foreigners are arriving from all parts." (acorn's =mama.) FRANCE. PARIS, DEc. 19. The Moniteur of to-day publishes a decree open ing the Custom-house of Strasburg for the impor tation of woollen and cotton yarns of every kind of Belgian and English manufacture. The Custom-houses of Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Valeuciennes, Strasburg, and Chambery, are added to the number of those which have already been opened for the direct importation and clearing of English and Belgian textures taxed ad valorem. The Mositeur, in its bulletin, gives a categoric denial to all the reports of modifications in the French ministry. Count Pourtalis, Prussian Minister at the Court of the Tuileries, is dead. SPAIN. MADRID, Dtc. 18. The Marquis Vega Armigo has been appointed Minister of Public Works. Mr. Schurz, the American Minister, has left Madrid on leave of absence. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Pera, with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Australian mails, wired off the Needles at 10.25 this morning. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM 001 OWN PARIS, WZDNINDLY EVOITNCI. The terrible M. Troplong—true to bis singularly appropriate name, true to the genius which pro duced those ponderous and innumerable volumes on which rest the foundation of his legal fame, and in which the simplest propositions are cruelly de monstrated with legions of unnecessary words— yesterday inflicted upon the Senate his report upon the Senatus Consultum, destined to give legal shape and validity to the alterations in the consti tution, decided upon by the Emperor last month, and explained rationally and fully iu the celebrated letter of M. Fould. This awful document occupies fifteen columns of close print in the Mui/ear : it is four times as long as the American President's Message ! and the only q. e. d. is that the Emperor is right—quite right—aud not by a hair's breadth too much or too little right, which every body knew before. I cannot attempt to analyse this long-winded essay, which I seriously doubt whether any human being in the world— that world now so much occupied with really important matters—will have read through atten tively, unless it be M. Troplong himself. In order, however, to perform my duty as an impartial chronicler, let me record that M. Grandguillot, in the Pays, says of the performance, " It is a com plete treatise, in which we admire at once the impartiality of the historian, the sebnoe of the jurisoonsult, and the profound wisdom of the statesman." The Temps asserts in its " Latest News" that "the French government has made overtures to the cabinets of St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Berlin, with a view to such understanding in regard to the questions raised by the Anglo-American con flict as may lead to a common action, in the even tuality of • mediation." The "inspired" prints say nothing of this news, which comes under the bead of "important if true." The Bonne was in a slight degree favourably affected by the New York news of the 7th, which is considered more pacific. Rents rose 10c. for cash, and 200. for account, closing at 67fr. 10c. and 67fr. 40c. Mobilier rose llfr. 25c. The Orleans Railway rose lofr., and Lyons and Southern sfr. each. The other lines were only a franc or two higher. The Italian Loan fluctuated greatly, and left off rather lower. The French journals, in commenting upon the symptoms of war between England and the Northern states of America, which unfortunately are but too threatening, lay undue stress upon the report that MM. Mason and Slidell have been transferred to the prison bearing the ominous name of "Tombs," and which they assume is destined exclusively for the reception of prisoners condemned to death. The fact is that the "Tombs" is simply a prison so named from the architectural THE CADETS AT THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH. The half-yearly examination and distribution of prizes to the cadets of the Royal Military Academy, Wool wich, '<ilk place yesterday. The proosishop are usually conducted by the Duke of Cambridge, who last week sig nified his intention of being present, but In consequence of the lamented decease of the Prince Consort his Royal High ness deputed Lieut.-General W. T. Really', Vioe-Prssideat of the Council of Military Education, to act on his behalf. The cadets, to the number of 256, having gone through • series of evolutions, at half-past 12 o'clock proceeded to the painted hall, where the report was read, pnor to the distri bution of prizes. A correspondence was also read between the Council for India, the General Conimandieg-inatief, km., relative to the Pollock prize of • gold medal, hereto fore awarded at Addiscombe to the cadet at thst college who had risen highest in merit sod maintained good sad mural conduct. This prise was now awarded to Mr. C. Beau champ. Three additional prizes were also awarded to Mr. Beauchamp for surveying, chemistry, and fortificatimi. The regulation sword for exemplary conduct whilst at the institution was received by Mr. Villitamee. The other prises having bees deliver 4 Lieut.-General ENOLLTB addressed the cadets at some length, referring in severe terms in the course of his re minks to the late riotoua proceedings at that institution. He was commanded by the Duke of Cambridge to say that the competitive plan would be continued. It was • system adopted by the government of the country, which decided on the amalgamation of Adduicombe with Woolwich, and all should have equal advantages. Having referred to the minor grievances, he said the new organisation had effected eouiderable change, and the governor was ready with, and had in fact proposed some alteration in the regulations ; but he could not be expected to enter fully into the details until the result of the amalgamation between the two services had time to settle down, and it was really amertained what was requisite. The cadets thee marched from the hall, and proceeded to their respective homes for the Christmas vacation. PRECEDENCE or VOLUNTEER OrrICER/L—Vo lanteer officers, according to their commissions, are oct to take rank in the army, except during the time they are called out into actual service. Ily the lffith section of the 44 Geo. 111., cap. 54 (Volunteer Act), volunteer officers take rank with officers of the regular end militia forces as the juniors of their rank. Whereas section 12, page 4, of the Queen's regulations states that field officers of the regular marine and militia forinis take rank above all officers of yeomanry and volunteer corps. The following communication has been received from the War-office by Lieut... Col. Haworth :—" Sir.-1 am directed by Secretary Sir George Lewis to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th inst., and, in reply, to explain to you that sec. 26, act 44 Geo. 111., cap. 51, is still in force, _and that sec. 12, page 4, of the Queen's regulations is based upon a misapprehension of the act 46 Geo. 111., cap. IZ, which only applies to officers who received their commission, from King George !IL —I have the Ir mour to be, sir, your obedient servant, N. Allinnix). —The officers commanding Ist bri. gale of the Fast Riding of Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers, Scarborough."—Eastern Comeau' Herald. The Outline (the clerical journal of Malta) makes the following announcement:—" Yesterday Mr. William Peel, an English gentleman long resident in this island, abjured proteetantistn oa Lis deathbed, in the village of Nexsro, and having received the sacraments, expired 'timing our Lord, and in the bosom of the catholic church, to the immense joy of his family and of all the population of the village." _ _ Thu Malta Times of the 10th says :—" Another wart-martial was held yesterthy on board the Hibernia, to try Commander G. B. Nicholas, on charges of cruelty in excessive punishment of two boys of the crew for breaking their leave at Gibraltar, and repeating the punishment for the Berne offence. He was found guilty end sentenced to be dismissed from the service with disgrace." The Camper's Museum, purejuuseil by the Em peror Napoleon from the Papal government, has been de posited in the Falaia de l'lndustrie, where the public are to be admitted to 'alit after the let of January. Dr. Sehonberger, the first Jew ever permitted to exercise the profession of an advocate in Hungary, was sworn ie at Beth on the 11th inst. ROYAL ACADEMY or MUSIC.—The second com petition for the " Potter Exhibltims" took place at the institution on Monday last. The following professors com posed the beard of examisen :—Mr. Charles Lucas (chair man), Mr. G. Maefarren, Mons. Saintoe, Mr. Hoary Wa nts, Mr. F. R. Cox, Mr. Halter Macfarns, and Mr. F. B. Jewicio. atz young gentlemen, all students (not lens than two years) at the academy, were examined. The candidate elected was Mr. G. R. Thomas. The following candidates were specially commended for the talent evinced by them at their examination :—Messrs. A. Williams and FL Weaken. THE GREAT EANTERN.—The repairs rendered requisite to the Great Easters, at Milford Haven, are pro greesiog satisfactorily. The iaterior fittings, furniture, Sic., demolished during the peat s t orm , h ave already been re placed, and the various saloons and berths re-arranged and put in artier. Her paddle-wheels, redder head, and sailing gear are also being replaced , and it is exp ec t e d th a t th e great vessel will be ready to go to sea again by February. She will shortly be put upon the gridiron, for the purpose of dually fixingberpaddle-wheals and fitting her new stern-post. It is understood that the original calculation as to the total cosset militia( her, made at the late meeting of the proprie. toes, will not be exceeded. It is not yet determined ea what service she will be engaged. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY Cr CANADA.—Yeeter day, a special meeting of the bondholders and shareholders of this company was to have been held at the Loadoa Tavern, to consider and take action u p on the report of the state aid prospects of the under Liking, drawn up for them by Mr. Watkia, but wee, in consequence of the death of the Prince Consort, postponed until the 24th inst. THE IVINDHAM CASIL-FuURTH DAY. The inquiry was continued this day by Master Warren, in the Court of Exchequer. The Marquis of Bristol was called and examined by Mr. Chambers—l am the uncle of Mr. Windham. lem one of the petitioners. I have seen him at different times ever since he was a boy, and have known his general character. When he was about seven or eight years old my sister, Lady Sophia, his mother, was on a visit to me at Brighton. My sister was educating him herself, and when she came dot a to luncheon with hint, she came with • little whip in her hand. That was her usual practice. I saw him only occ-- "locally both in my father's house in town and in the coup- try during the late Mr. Windham's lifetime. Immediately after Easter, this year, Mr. Wiodham called upon me in London. 1 invited him to dine with me, and he came. At my table he conducted himself with propriety. All that I observed remarkable was that he had • foolish way of laugh iag. He went to sleep after dinner and snored loudly. That was after the ladies retired. I told him to look in occasionally at luncheon time without invitation, to give me an opportunity of proposing anything to him, but he never came. I saw him twice this year, riding in Rotten row. His •ppeatan a was remarkable and strange. It was a mixture fun and folly. He was riding alone. There I was an expression of pleasure on his countenance, at being on horseback, but mixed with an expression of folly. It was • childish expression, bordering on idiotcy. By Mr. Kanlake—l do not remember whether when I saw him at Brighton he was a mere child in petticoats. I don't think the late Mr. Windham was staying in the house at the time, but Lady Sophia and the boy resided there. I sew him cassette, that before this year at Doe, when I went to see my own son, but I have seen very little of him of late years. I saw him at the funeral of his father. I think I did not see him at all since the period of his father's death and the present year. It was about April or May this year that he called upon me, and I think my invitation to him to dine with me was within two or three days of his first visit, which was, so far as I know, • voluntary one. There were not more than seven or eight persons at dieser. It was • small family party. He joined the ladies after dinner and left rather early. He dined with me on • second occasion, about • fortnight after, and his conduct was the same. His articulation is very peculiar. I have observed • peculiarity about the formation of his mouth. He shows his gums very much. The peculiarity in his laugh was that it was • foolish laugh. There was 'emoting foolish in the exprearion of his countenance when he laughed. Beyond the general invitation I gave him to luncheon I never invited him again to visit me, or to dine with him. I never spoke to him afterwards. When I met him in Rotten-row, we mutually recognised each other. I had people with me, consequently he did not speak to nee nor I to him. On both occasions that I met him in Rotten-row I had ix 3ple with me. I have met him since once or twice during the summer driving • phaeton. By Mr. Coleridge—l first took part in the present promed ings in consequence of a note I received from General Wind ham to meet his other guardians. That was a few weeks ago. I am not personally aoquainied with Signor Giubelei, my sister's second husband. I have spoke to my sister once only since her second marriage. By Mr. Chambers—My sister was about 45 and Signor Giubelei about 25 at the time of the marriage. After 1 had made inquiries I concurred in this petition, but not before. The formation of his mouth has something to do with the peculiar expression and peculiar laugh, but he was unlike other boys in his general demeanour, and I came to the im pression that he was not very wise. I have had very few opportunities of judging of his intellect by any satisfactory process. These proceedings have my entire sanction. ' By the jury —When my nephew dined with me he entered into general conversation, and, as far as I know, spoke rationally. By the Master—There was nothing in hie conduct to attract the attention of the servants or other persons. Mr. Horrocks, who was not in attendance at the opening of the court, was then called, to allow Mr. Chambers to pursue the re-examination which was commenced on the previous day, but there was nothing of any importance in his further evidence. The only answer bearing further upon the case was that he had on one occasion seen a pho tograph in which Mr. Windham was represented in • group of three, the other two being railway porters. It was put into witassee's hands by Lady Sophia. In answer to the Muter he said that his minion would not be shaken as to Mr. Windham's insanity if he hosed him now converse rationally or saw him writ* a rational letter. At Felbngg he believed Bell's Life was re. erlarly taken in. Mr. Windham professed to take an inte- rest in prim fights, but he really knew nothing about fight ing. He seemed to care more for his uncle, the general, than anybody else, and took much interest in his uncle's services to the Crimea, as reported in the newspapers. To the Jury—The letter of complaint to the Vice- Chancellor was written by Lady Sophia, not by Mr. Wind ham. He could not my whether Mr. Windham could write e letter coherently. Lord A. Hervey, examined by Mr. Chambers—l am an uncle of Mr. Windham's and was one of his guardians, having been appointed hi 1858, shortly after his mother's second marriage. I have known him from his birth. Before he went to Eton, one day when at luncheon at the late Lord Bristol's, in St. James's-square, while Lady A. Hervey was present, he put his hand in a tart, without knife, fork, or spoon, and pulled out era at, fruit, and all together. Lady Alfred remonstrated with him, and told him that he should not have any tart. Then he seised a large carving.knife, and rushed at her with it. Pro videntially I came into the room as she was retreating from him and he following her. I bit himon the leg with a hearth broom, when he dropped the knife, began yelling, and ran out o f room. Lady Alfred was extremely alarmed. I was present at the funeral of his father. I bad to com plain to him in consequence of eccentricity of conduct, which was reported to me by the servants ; that hews, showing all the tenants into the room where the coffin was, and making himself very conspicuous. I thought his conduct at church very peculiar . He appeared extremely overcome with grief—he sobbed and cried very loudly, but appeared to be looking about him all the time, and not trying to hide hie face. He was then about 14. He was allowed money front time to time—about 51. a month—bat we found that his 51. would be spent in the first day or so, and he never could give any account as to how he had spent it. He seemed wholly uncoaacions of the value or use of money. He was staying with my father in tit. James's-square in 1858. He conducted himself at dinner with perfect propriety, so much so that it gave me great hopes that he was improving. When we left the dining-room he disappeared instead of coming into the drawingroom. Where he went to I could not discover for 2or 3 days, or what he had been doing. Oo the third day I went tato the diningroom, and there found him with my father's servants with his jacket off and his shirt sleeves tucked up, helping to clear away the dinner things. I called him out of the roo-u and was angry with him, but he did not seem to be aware of the impropriety. From his earliest years he never told the truth, and I could never be lieve what he said. He would tell untruths without an object. Even up to a late period he would cry for very slight muses. At Torquay when he was It, he cried because he was going to be vacci nated • second time, and it was only by threats that we could get hint to submit to the operation. He cried too when the Vice-Chancellor wished him to go abroad in 1858. He would cry like a boy of five or six, and would wipe his eyes, not with a handkerchief but with the back of hand. He would laugh often without apparent cause. It was always • silly foolish laugh. He allowed the saliva to drop from his mouth when he was excited. He WAS amenable to no influence but that of fear. He was generally rational in his conversation ; with one or two exceptions always No. He was so rational on env mon subjects that those who did not know him would not suppose that there was anything wrong in his mind. He could write a letter rationally. I seer saw an irrelevant one front him—th it is. a letter that would show there was anything wrong iu his intellect. No one would consider there was anything wrong with him by Lis conversation during two or three hours unless they knew something of his history. When we wanted him to goabreed be believed that General Windham was urging the Vice- Chancellor to send him abroad, when he might be got rid of by poison, or some other means, in order that his uncle. the general, might come into the property. I endeavoured to disabuse his mind of the idea, hut it hail gat so stroolf a hold upon him that I m a d e no impression. That was one of the occasions when he cried. He was always on his best behaviour with me, for I was strict with him, and he was afraidof me. Since I became his guardian in 18581 have formed the opinion that lie is totally intuit, side of taking care of his property, and his general habits are such that mien' he is plaited under restraint Ins life will be shortened. Cross-exandoed by Mr. Kerslake — When I give that (pi. Moe I =speaking from what 1 have heard, out what I Isms seen. and it is right I should say that my opinion is re/ much formed by what I have seen in the affidavits. and especially that of Dr. Dalrymple. Ido not think that every person who has a habit tending to shorten life should be put under restraint. Ido not think he could tall ra• tionally for two or three hours, except upon carnal sub' iects, or the weather or family smitten. 1 have not identified myself with my nephew in hie amusements sad pursuita. [The case was proceeding when our report left.) Twa WILATILIA ne CANADA.—As doubts exist re• sporting the transports now on their way and about sailitg for the St. Lawrence being able to reach Riviera du Log or Bic Harbour on account of the late period of the yrari we are happy in being ahle to state that st the data of the last &deices, viz., the 3"1 inst., the season in Canada wee notionally mild, so much so that the steamers ply"f between Quebec and Montreal, which usually go lOW winter quarters about the middle of November, were , t! , running, and with army appeanime of a fortnight , further occupation. We learn also that the ditches were not yet sure sign that more mild weathe. , to take place before the winter fairly set in. .%"e ' re aware that the navigation has been stopped in the month of Deoember in &couple of days byan uoustuillyrevere frost, but those who pretend to be well nomainttd with the meteorology of Canada sae that, judging from appearth e * there was every primped Of a very open December. 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