The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-15 00:00:00

TURKEY. Mon run cowsrosziesr OP TEI DAILY XEWL) CONSTANTINOPLI, Jew. 1. A s Air as we can learn no incident worth notice bmoses ered for several days at the seat of war. The British works are pregresabag slowly, but still in es/)dote, and It is time, mippesea that before the end d January the allies will tint iss I. a position to un &stake any important amine operation. This is wet u nfortunate —all has been too late, and winter myriad the elite of both armies. The Duke of Cambridge quits Constantinople to. Bay with his aides-de-camp by the French mail et Thabor. His royal highness has been suffer- Cslightly from the effects of intermittent fever, esetracted in the Crimea, for which, it is to be hoped, Ms native air and a little repose will prove an effeo gal remedy. Prince Napoleon also is expected shortly to return to France. In consequence of some outrages committed lately 1 y Greeks and Italians on French soldiers, General Lenin has issued an order of the day providing that the troops under his command are in future to g o out armed, and that any assault on them will be wondered a capital offence and punished accordingly withis the space of 24 hours. The French patrols have been thus assisting the Turks during the night, at the theatre and other places of public resort, for the preservation of order. Soros days ago, a British transport, No. 119, laden with ooals, was completely consumed by fire. Her (erg o, it appears, had been damp,combustionwas epee teeeoes—and, notwithstanding all the efforts of the ships of war in port, it was necessary at last On tow the vessel out towards the coast of Hayden Puha where, after having burned for 24 hours, she finally went down. Admiral Dundee quitted this in the Britannia, in company frith the Trafalgar, on the 27th ult. Reinforcements, huts, winter clothing, and other requisitss,are daily arriving for the allied armies in the Crimes. As regards expedition, a considerable improve ment has taken place, in consequence of the late French postal arrangements. By the last packet of the .;oth ult., I received the French papers up to the 20th, and the Daily News of the 15th and 16th. The cholera is now happily almost quite extinct, but the occurrence of one or two fatal eases at Pera has caused quite a commotion, and startled this celebrated faabourg from its perennial quietude. Patricians sod plebeians have been for some days on the shirt, and are all, I may add, ardent, inflexible tontegionists. lu days of yore, when pl.egue was seldom absent—either in a sporadic or epidemic form —every house was a stronghold, a well-conducted caret, and completely isolated from the outer world. This system of self preservation, founded on local traditions and the experience of ages, was, I must confess, invariably attended with the best results; and the European colony enjoyed, as is well known, comparative immunity, while hundreds of the Mussel man population were daily swept away by each successive invasion of the epidemic. These rigorous precautions at the present day are happily no longer required in respect to pestilence, which has gradually subsided and finally disappeared since the foundation of the sanitary institution in this country. The Franks, nevertheless, still adhere to the old system of "Noll me tenger." in reference to a variety of other visitations—cholera, variola, scarlatina, and the like. Apropos of this, I cannot forbear to mention a ludicrous incident which occurred a few nights ago in reference to one of those gentlemen, a bus believer and sturdy advocate of these doctrine,. On return ing home from the theatre to his utter dismay he descried one of our " tars" stretched lifeless appa rently, close to his house door. Cholera and contagion were ever uppermost in his thoughts, and by the dim light of a small lantern his excited imaginings soon conjured up sunken eyes, livid surface, mid other evidences of the foe—although not exclusive evidences—contaminating his very threshold. To get rid of this abomination anyhow was necessarily his first impulse. Off he posted to the next police station, and there having made known the object of his errand he returned promptly to the spot with a posse of auxiliaries. An inquiry was held forth with, the leech presiding, hut, true to his system, at a respectable distance, hallooing out at the same time, and poking vigorously with his stick to restore the sinking tar, all was to no purpose. The chief police man also gro ped about for the pulse, but declared emphatically that the game was up, end Aersel Creed,. in po.seesion of his prey ! It only now remained to shoulder and remove the counts clelicto— the chief caves., in the post of honour supporting bead and trunk, and two others the lower extre mities. The procession bad scarcely commenced, with slow and solemn footfall, when, lo ! up came a Jew boy, who in his manifold characters of guide, broker, used interpreter, had picked up a few words of our languag e , and acquired besides, as the event proved, some knowledge of the nature and habitual adventures of our jolly tars. Thus, stepping up boldly, he declared at a glance, " non e muerte, ma troppu heel° ;" and lustily vociferating, "Jack, Jack, old boy, ship too much cargo!" and seconding this apostrophe by a vigorous tug at the ear, strange to ray, when all else had failed, this last expedient was crowned with wondrous success, and instantly restored animation. The first and immediate re sult, the proof positive, was a tremendous blow from Jack's iron fist, right on the nose of the back ensile ' and " life's purple tide " flowed in torrents. This sudden incident, as may be imagined, at once dispersed the convoy. ha was instantaneously loosed, and pitched overboard by his constituents, and again on his lege in a twink ling, amidst roars of laughter. He was led off by his deliverer from the scene of action. The poor cavass excited, I regret to say, much untimely merriment. FRANCE. PDIII7 OP TIM DAILY POWS.) PARIS, StiTURDAT ETIONING. The telegraphic news which Punt you ouTtearselay night of a fresh invasion of Turkey by Russia is (although I find it has been doubted in London) abundantly confirmed to-day. The Constitutionnel after quoting two despatches stating the object of the Russian movement to be to harass the Turkish troops about to depart for the Crimea, says, " We Baty add that the Russian army has crossed the Danube on three different points and in considerable susee, and that the movement of the Russians ap pears to form part of an ensemble of strategic ope ration." A Vienna despatch, dated this day, Jan. 13, gives farther remarkable confirmation of the truth of the original news; it says—" The Russians have entered the Dobrudcha, and have driven the Turks with loss from Toultcha to Babadagh. We are without any recent official intelligence of this affair : Colonel Manteuliel will leave this evening." It appears, therefore, that a despatch published in London yesterday, and accepted by. an evening represented as the true version of the affair, in which it as presented that the Turks had been the aggressors and been defeated in Bessarabia, is altogether wrong. PARIS. SUNDAY. The council of prizes has pronounced the Russian ship, Couriren, detained in the South Sea by the steam corvette, Phoque, of the imperial navy, a good and lawful prize. It has ordered the restoration of the cargo to the neutral subjects claiming it, in con formity with the declaration of the 29th of March last, in which the Emperor renounced the right of seizing neutral goods found on board of the enemy's vessels. Bat this restoration has been made subject to the payment of the freight, which has been ad judged to the captors. The council has further or dered that objects found on board and claimed by the captain as his private property shall be returned to him. The Coe qLegislatif sat yesterday at two o'clock, Count de blorny, President, in the chair. The bill concerning the ass;gnment of mortgages was the first subject of deliberation, and Mes srs.. Adolphe Debelleyme, the bringer up of the report, Legume, and Allart took part in the debate. The two first clauses of the bill passed, and the debate was adjourned to Monday. A report was brought up by M. Revell on the bill for caning out in 1856 a contingent of 140,000 men from the class of 1864. The Marquis of Aodclarre laid on the table a report on the bill foe effecting an exchange between the state and the "presbyteral " council of Rittereoffen (Bas Rhin). PARIS, SUNDAY EVININO. Some details, which I believe to be correct, have been communicated to me of the recent negotiations it Vicuna. On lan. 6, al you are swam Prime (TROY Till THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1855. INDIA AND CHINA. the grosad upon the payment et the taxes freely lamed oa that kind of poverty. An. 8. At the expiration of the sleety...nine years the _ _ Egyptian government takes the plane of the company, and enter, upon all the rights and privileges till then enjoyed by the company, taking formal peuresion of all their establishments. The amount of indemnification to be paid by the Egyptian government t, the Sues Canal Company for their moveable property and asaltriel, will be filed by friendly negotiation, or by umpires, provided the parties cannot come to an amicable nadentaqding ss to the sum. Art. 9. The statutes and bye•laws of the company mast be laid before u by the directors of the company. and re ceive our sanction before being promulgated and becoming binding. Any modifications or alterations of the same at any later period also require our sanction. The before mentioned statutes mut contain the names of the founders' of the undertaking, and we reserve to ourselves the right of giving them our sanction. They will contain a nominal return of those persons who mainly contributed to the execution of the important enterprise by their capital, counsel, or personal assistance. . . Art. 10. Lastly, we promise for ourselves and for all our Egyptian officials, our honest end hearty co-operation in the execution of this useful and great undertaking. Given at Cairo, Nov. 30, 1844. Oortchakoff suddenly declared that he had orders to accept the four points (which had so recently been declared incompatible with the dignity of Russia) and that he was prepared to negotiate. On the 7th the different clauses of the interpretation put upon these four points by the Western Powers were slowly and distinctly read to Prince Clortchakoff, and at the end of each article he said, "I accept that in the name of the Emperor of Russia," But when the reading was concluded, he mid in a general way that he was not prepared to admit any excessive encroachment upon the independence of Russia. (The French expression was, Qu'il no fallait paa trop mettre lo main our tit:dependance de la liusste.") At the same time he said he was fully empowered to treat for pesos, and desired that the negotiations should begin immediately. The Austrian Mi nister, M. Buol, then spoke. He congratulated the conference upon the unanimity of feeling which prevailed, and supported Prince Gortchskoff's demand that negotiations should be opened at once. M. de Bourqueney then said, in the name of himself and Lord Westmoreland, that this was impossible, as they had not sufficient powers, and, moreover, nothing definitive could be done without the pre sence of a Turkish plenipotentiary. The meeting then broke up, M. Buol requesting the French and English ambassadors to obtain full powers as soon as passible. This narration is consistent with the remarkable telegraphic despatch which stated that Count Buol had " invited" the represen tatives of France and Eng'and to treat for peace. There was an initiative taken by Austria, which was not acceded to. After the above conference M. Bun', gave a large evening party, at which Prince Gortcha koff was present. The Austrian minister appeared quite joyous, and spoke confidently of peace being in hand. M. de Bourqueney's conversation to the friends who pressed around him was in quite another tone. lie said he must wait for instructions, and before instructions arrived Sebastopol would . probably be taken. SPAIN. ' A lithographed correspondence gives the following short analysis of the sitting of the Cortes of the 9th.: M. Pacheco having incidentally proposed a declaration by the house that the question of the royal sanction should not be open to debate,tbe Minister for Foreign Affairs begged the deputise not to lose time is vain discussion', seeing the critical circumstances in which the costar, was placed. M. Pacheco would ask the miui ter whether be would say that as • Bpaniard end a loan of honour, it was his duty to with draw his amendment on the ground that it was unnecessary foe the exercise of the legislative power. The minister having replied affirmatively, the amendment was with drawn. M. Moyano then rose and said it was desirable that the house should know what were the grave sod criti cal circumstance to which the Minister for Foreign Affairs had referred. M. Lusurisga answered :—" I described the situation as grave, in consequence of news both foreign and domestic which has reached me, but which I cannot com municate to the house. (Immense sensation.) But the government hopes to triumph over all obstacles, seconded by the patriotism of the house and the country and the rec titude of its own intentions." The precise object of M. Pacheco's motion is not very clear in the above report. The Diario Espanol of the 9th, gives the following as the text of it : Considering, first, that the royal power of Dena I •abella IL is recognised and proclaimed by the Constituent Cortes; second, that the prerogative of assenting to onli dinary lees is • necessary condition of royal power; thirdly, that the suspension of the legislative power at the present time would be prejudicial and fatal to the welfare of the state ; I ask the Cortes to be pleued to declare that there is no ground to deliberate upon the report in ques tion. Signed, PACIIICO. The Diario says there was another motion by M. Ordax y ATMs', also demanding that the question should not be discussed, but for reasons totally dif ferent from than advanced by M. Pacheco. PIEDMONT. DEBATES ON THE SUPPRESSION OF CON VENTS BILL. TURIN, JAN. 10. The debate on the Convents Suppression bill conti nues with great animation. M. Gustave de Cavour I delivered a carefully composed speech against the measure, ably appealing to those members of the Left who incline to accept the argument always put forth by the church of Rome when she cannot be predominant, that all she asks is liberty. In support of the ,view that the bill was hostile to general principles of freedom, he quoted an expression that lately fell from a mem-' ber of the extreme left, M. Moja—" that he was leaving every man free to do what he pleesed, even to make himself a monk if be liked it." M. Moja, however, explained that when he had advocated liberty for everybody, it was upon the assumption that nobedy should be privileged. Now the Catholic Church in Piedmont was armed with a great number of privileges which it was the object of this bill to de stroy, and it was upon this ground that it had his support. The groat speech of the day, in favour of the measure, was made by M. Brofferio, leader of the Extreme Left. M. Brofferio accepted the bill as an instalment, but would say at the same time that ministers had shown themselves very feeble. They made exceptions to the general abolition. In these exceptions all the monks might find a niche to shel ter themselves against the operation of the reform. Preachers were excepted, and the ccnscquence was that every monk would preach. Educational establishments were excepted, and they might expect to see every fra ternity of monks opening schools. This would be a great calamity, because all convents acknowledged allegiance to Rome rather than to the country. In conclusion he said : " The Minister tell,' us there are' in Sardinia 400 religions houses. He wishes to sup. preen, we will say 200. I will vote for this sup pression. If but 50, I will vote for suppressing the fifty. If but ten I will say ten. If he will only get rid of a single monk, I will say, away goes the monk. (Loud laughter.) I will content myself with that—but I will wait, having faith in the future, and being persuaded that it will bring us better times and better men." TURIN, JAN. 11. I After poet-hour yesterday 11I.Viz y(a member of the Right) replied to M. Brofferio. As a judge, he I naturally touched upon the legal part of the ques tion. Admitting, for the sake of argument only, that the state might rightfully resume what the state had given, he contended that private legacies to reli gious houses were sacred, and that if the state seised upon them, they ought at least to be given back to the heirs of the donors. M. Asproni (a priest) supported the measure. He protested against the bishops' petition, which in his opinion was violent and indecent. The goods of the church, he contended, were the property of the poor, I and he is reported to have added, that the nation was therefore justified in taking them, because just now it was in a state of extreme penury. The only fault he found with the law was that it did not go far oasough. To-day, at the opening of business, Count Caveat ,mounted the retreat of M. Dabormida. This enr nemsesment occasioned a great sensation. Some pimple said the minister had resigned on account of the Ratazzi bill, but the better opinion was that he was not satisfied with the terms of the new alliance with the Western Powers. It was reported that he required, as a condition for the alliance, the aboli tion of the sequestration on the property of the Lombard emigrants. M. Valerie (Left) said the statement just made by the minister would deeply interest the cesantry, and he trusted government would fix a day to give explanations as to the reason for M. Dabor- Batas retirement. Count de Caveat replied that government would very shortly have to submit to the house a proposition which would call forth the explanations demanded. The debate on the Con vents Bill was then resumed. After two unimport ant speeches in favour of the measure, M. Della Mar gherits, an influential member of thelExtreme Right, spoke against it with extreme vehemence. The de bate was going on when the post left. HAMBURG, JA.x.lO. The British merchant steamer, Lady Seale, ar rived here yesterday afternoon from Hull with a signal of distress flying ; and on her coming into the harbour, it was ascertained that he s was on fire. Assistance was promptly afforded, &Ltd four or five of our floating fire-engines played unceasingly on the unfortunate ship for a long time, but without bang able to extinguish the flames. There being, therefore, nothing left to de than scuttle her, she was at a late hour taken out into the stream and sunk in deep water. She had a valuable cargo of British manu factures and cotton twist on board, which, though saved from destruction by fire, will be almost as, cosepletely ,oiled by the water., THE OVERLAND MAIL. OM SUBMAIIIII LID BRITIIII TILMIZAPIL) The correspondent of the Daily News at Tried* writes : TRIESTE, SIATILDAT. The steamer Australia arrived this afternoon at five o'clock, in 112 hours from Alexandria. The India and China mails reached Alexandria on the 31st December, and left per Indus on the 1 8th January, having been detained by bad weather. The data ate: Calcutta, 13th ; Madras, 10th ; and Bombay, 14th Dec.; Shanghai, 20th ; Canton, 23th ; and Hong-Kong, 27th Oct. The Burmese ambassador had arrived at Calcutta, and had an audience on the 11th Dec. The Nepauleae army is to march through our territory to attack the Grand Lama. Sir John Bowring had returned from the north without reaching Pekin. The rebels had captured a large part of the im perial squadron, and there was a panic at Canton. At Calcutta money well becoming mare valuable. At Bombay exchange was at 2s. Id.; money scarce, and trade dull. evidence, or an infoimation, without sending for the party slimed ? Mr. Perry—Oh, dear no. Alderman Wilson—ln the ciao of en spoliation for a mandamus, or for a rule for • criminal inform-Won, the judge reosives the evidence and grants a rule nul, or re fuses the application. Mr. Parry—l guarded myself against complaining of that. On the contrary, allow me to say what I think would have been your duty under the circumstances, the matter having been brought to your attention by Mr. Aldridge. I made no charge. Ido nut say you were not perfectly Justified in hearing the statement; hut I do nay that I think that the information should have been private in the first instance, and only made public after the mat complete investigation. As regards • moti mi for a mandamus or a rule, it is a very different thing, because Mr. Aldridge made so charge what ever. Alderman Wilson—Mr. Aldridge made an application. Mr. Parry—No charge—he made a statement. Alderman Wilson—When • party applies fora Inn=Ons or a warrant, the magistrate cannot tell in the first instance what evidence is to be given. Every day • dozen persons make applications for summonses or warrants. Mr. Parry—Mr. Aldridge made no application. He began his statement by saying, " I beg to guard myself against making any charge." Alderman Wilson—He mode so long a statement that at the present moment I cannot remember ir, but knowing that rep-rtars were present, and that Mr. Wardroper could not be prejudiced, l'thought it my duty to request his attend ance that he mightfinow what wu said. Mr. Aldridge—l have here the °liaise' report in the newspaper. 1 made no charge against Mr. Wardroper. Mr. Parry—As you have mentioned, as an analogy, the appliertion fur • rule for a criminal information, that is always made upon toe oath of the person. There was no oath here, but • mere statement on the part of Mr. Alderman Wilson—We do Lot grant a summons on oath. It Mr. Aldridge applied for a summons it was my duty to hear him. Mr. Parry—Where the duty of a magistrate begins and ends is a topte of some nicety. If I were in the position of a magistrate here, and a person came before me and in refer ence to any matter asked my advice, I should give it him but unto" ha mule a specific complaint against some body I should not allow him to go into an ex parte state ment; and, beyond all question, if a gentleman in ?dr. Alrdridge's position had come to me as a magistrate, and sail" 1 have no charge to bring against anybody," I should Pave replied, as a magistrate, 't I cannot listen to you : ii you wish publicity to be given to anything you must take upon yourself the responsibility of doing it, whether by means of a newspaper or through any other channel." Aldermen Wilson—l consider that I sit here as a magis trate to administer the law, and to administer it equitably. Mr. Parry—According to law. Alderman Wilson—For a quarter of a century I have en deavoured to administer the law equitably as well as le. gaily. I was sitting here as the representative of the Lord Mayor of London, who has the interests of his fellow- Magmas most deeply at heart. lie is acetssible to everybody who can give him information for the bent tit of his fellow citizens, and by Cis hearing matters of this description he has ultin rendered most essential service to the community at large. I think the Lard Mayor would be very culpabie indeed if be shut his ears to a statement of this kind. You snake no allusion to the lOW or live letters which were read , here under initials not Mr. Wardroper's, each applicant to inquire at a different place, the salary attached to one situation to be 1501. per annum, with a deposit 01 400/ , the salary attached to another to be 2501., with a deposit of lad/. The security to be given was Urea a ship which Mr. Wardrupr r sail was His own, and which he had not eves chartered. lie said he had goods on board the ship, when in reality he had no golds on board the ship. Was that a bone tide transaction ? Mr. Farry—Most bona fide on the part of Mr. Wards roper. Alderman Wilson—So far from any injury being done to Mr. Wardroper it it is a bona fide transactioe, end if Mr. Wardroper is really the party you represent Lim to he, having written letters to the newspapers, and the whole of the prose having given an account of the prceeediogs Li this court, be will now have ten times the quantity of loads to send to the Crimea. False statements have teen made La . the public throughout the transaction. First of all, with regard to the ship—he had not got the chip chartered. Ile bald he did not know that the bargain was completed. Mr. Parry—lt was so completed that Mr. Galt holds hint to his bargain. Alderman Wit/en—lle did not know it at the time he was here. Sir It. W. Carden—l was present on the first OCCA ion that Mr. Aldridge made his appearance here, and both as as a magistrate sad a one of the public lam greialy in. ! deride.' to Mr. Aldridge for the inquiry he has ins'ituted.i What the result of that may be I cannot say, but still I think it has opened the eyes of the public, and induced them is inquire before placing their goods in the hoods of Mr. Wardeoper. I will dr fy any person to read ono adver• casement after another without seeing that this transaction was one of a very suspicions character. (To Mr. Parrs You have alluded a good deal to the money realised by Mr. NYardroper be the s .le of s. me property. Ckli you t .t: what row Mr. Wurdroper's agent, Mr. Mardi, has to Pis credit wider thus de ? Mr. Parry-Irioo/. Sir R. W. Carden—Do you say that? Mr. Parry—Ot my own knowledie I -*milt say it. Mr. Marsh—l sold the property for 1,/.101. S.r W. Cardea—Whot are the tharg-s upon it ? Mr. Marsh—There is a mortgage of 1,00/. Sir It. W. Card, a—There arc two mortiagrs, are there not ? Mr. Marsh—There is one of I,CBOI. and another of 1141/. Sir It. W. Cardin—ln point of tact you do nut consider that you bold 1,5001. to the credit of Wardroper. Mr. Marsh—No. Mr. Parry—Would you not hand ever to him the 1,5001. ? Mr. Marsh—No; the mortgagee takes his share first. Sir It. W. Carden—All that awoken! a little suspicion. A great deal has been said a b ut Mr. Aldridge. lie is a very highly respectable man, and has come here with an impression that he was doing a great public goad, and I believe 1:e has accomplished his i,urpese. Mr. Perry—l can neither alter your impressions nor con trol them. I have discharged my laty; you have Limed my statement, and 1 sincerely Lope that the matter rni:y he allowed to rest, Sir It. W. Carden—Mr. Parry's statement is as fair and candid a statement as any advocate ever made. 1 have no doubt he believes all that he state] ; but it will be found, upon inquiry, that Mr. Wardroper is not in a position to embark su an undertaking of this nature. Mr. Wardroper is of a most respectable family no doubt, but there may he other parties behind the scenes who are pulling the strings against him. Mr. Parry—l know nothing abut the wisdom or emu mercial skill of this scheme, which was enter, d into fy Mr. Wardroper in good faith, expecting that it would answer. I would rather not give my opinion upon the 'shame; I dare say it would not have answered. Mr. Aldridge—The learned counsel has endeavoured to show that pouibly rivalry in trade had induced me to bring the matter forward. lam not a shipbroker. lam what 1 em represented in the " London Directory " to be, and hive resided in my present house 13 years. Mr. Parry—You cannot have higher testimony than S.r Robert Carden bee borne to your character. Sir R. W. Carden—We are both very much obliged to Mr. Aldridge for coming forward and taking the troub'e that he has done. The parties then left the court. THE FOLE T. PLACE M UR D BR. --•- From inquiries instituted on Saturday it appesrs that Lu , gi 13ararelli, as:well as Mrs. Lambert, as etc is called, are both bkely to recover from the injuries they base re ceived, a decided improvement having taken place in their condiiion. Barantlii, as has already bsen stated, is a native of Ancona, 114 on Thursday he was so much better as to be enabled to sit up in bed and write a letter to his mother, who is living there. In this letter it is stated he detailed his hor rible position, and the crime he has committed. fie re quested that it might Ise posted without delay. Considering the frightful injuries he received, added to the eerie= posi tion in which he is placed, he appears to be recovering with singular rapidity. As he gets fetter he, however, seems to be more restless about the ultimate consequencei of bit crime, which he frequently refers to, and as frequeatly expresses a hops that he shall die. This circumstance has induced the authorities to direct him to be closely watched by a police constable, both night and day, an apprehension being entertained that whenever he has regained sufficient strength, and the opportunity offers, he will make some attempts upon his life. On Thuisday, while some of the medical gentlemen I attached to the hospital stiff were standing rioind his bed one remarked how much better he looked than, he Lad done on the previous day—oa which Baranelli bitterly remarked, "yes, you an making me wen so as to hang me," or words to that effects On Thursday morning a respectably-attired man made an application to be admit d to the hospital to see the mur derer. The earnestness of his solicit induced inquiries as to who he was, and what was his object in wis'Org corn— pliaace with his request. It tome d out that this person was Mr. Williamson, the husband of the woman with whom Baranelli has asserted to has been on such intimate terms, I and who has been, however innocent, the unfortunate MISe of the catastrophe. The application was refused. Mr. Williamson stated that hie object in seeing the mur derer was to ascertain from him what had become of his child, about a year and a half old, which he believes t 3 be kept away somewhere at the instigation of Biranelli. A letter which B Ili wrote on the night preceding the murder, addressed to hire. Williamson, has already bean published, and from which the fact is clearly established that he premeditated the tertible act. Another letter, written on the same evening, but without any superscrip tion, in the mamba's handwriting, also in Italian, confirms the determination of Bstetielli to commit the crime. The description given of Bareaelli at the house ,t 33, New man 'tree, where he took a lodging after he was turned cut of Lambert's house, was that of au apparently, quiet, Inoffensive man, although it was remarked that he appeared exceedingly melancholy and depressed in his manners. He was known to be up, from • light in Lis room, the whole the Saturday night prior to the commission of the murder. of MISS MITFORD. Mary Russell Mitfeed died early on the morning lof the 10th inst. Her decline has been so pro tracted that there can be no surprise or shcek mingled with the sorrow with which the English public will hear of her death. She was old,—havieg been born in Dec., 1786 ;—and since her fall from her pony chaise, in the autumn of 1852, her life has been understood to be very precarious. The interest which has been taken in her state might appear to be disproportionate to her abilities and her achieve ments: but, if it is so, there must be a reason for it ; and the reason is that she was so genial and so cheerful as to command the affection of multitudes who would have given no heed to a much higher order of genius invested with less of moral charm. There is nothing so popular as cheerfulness ; and when the cheerfulness is of the unfailing sort which arises from amiability and interior content, it deserves such love as attended Mary Rua sell Mitford to her grave. Her clnlity was very corsiderable. Her powers of description were unique. She had a charming humour, and her style was delightful. Yet were her stories read with a relish which exceeded even so broad a title as this —with a relish which the judgnirut could hardly account for or justify ; and this pleasant compelled enjoyment was no doubt ascribable to the glow of good spirits and kindliness which lighted up nud warmed everything that her mind produced. She may be considered as the representative of the hotu.e- hold cheertuineea of the halfo of literature. Her tendencies showed themselves early. She took up the pen almost In childhood, and was an aeoned poet, in print, before she was four-and•twenty. How ever hard was her filial daty when she was herself grow log old, she had all her own way in her early years ; and her way Feems to have been to write an immense quantity of verse as the pleasantest thing she could find to do. Shb Tres born at Alres. lord, in Hampshire. Her lather was a physician— one of the Northumberlat d family of Milford& Her mother was the child of the old age of a Hampshire clergyman, who had seen Pope, and been intiwato with Fielding. Hi. r father was, as it is understood, disliked and disapproved, if not despised, by every body but his devoted daughter, whom infatuation it was to think him something very great and good; whereas, there seems to be really nothing to remember him by but his singular and unaccount able extravagance in money matters, and the selfish . . nese with which he went on to the lest obtaining, by hook and by crook, wetly indulgences, which nobody else in his line of life, however independent of ciedt tore, thought of wishing tor. 1)r. Mit ford ran through half a dozen fortunes, shifted about to half-a,dozen grad residenews, and pagsed the last quarter of a century of his life in a cottage where,bumble as seemed his mode of liv;ilg, he could not keep out of debt, or the shame of perpetual begging from the fiieuda whom hie daughter had won. His only child was carried about, before she was old etough fur school, from Ali esford to Reading ; from Reading to Lyme; and thence to London, where, when she w asten. years old, her father was making up his mind to retrench, and Co something at last; a resolution which went the way of all the f, rn.er ones. It was at that time that the we ll-known incident happened which Miss Mitford re lated with so much spirit half-a-century after wards. The little girl chose for a birthday present a .utters - ticket of a particular number, to which eh° etude in spite of much persuasion to change it, mid which turned up a prize of 20,0001. This money soon disappeared, like some 40,000/. a Welt had vaeisl'ed before. Her father put her to school in London; and there sho spent five years, while he was amusing himself with building a very large house, lour miles from Reading, to which sho returned at the age of fifteen, to write poetry and ' dream of becoming an authoress. After 1810 she put forth a volume almost every year. This was all done for pleasure, but she was meanwhile giving up to her selfish father one legacy utter another left to herself by the opulent ramifies on both sides, alter tier mo ther's handsome fortune was exhausted; and hence at length arose the ueeessity of her writing for the sake of the money she could earn. In their poverty they went to lodge for a bummer at a cottage in the village of Three-mile Cross, near Head ing, and there they held on for the rest of Dr. Mitford's long life. The poetess looked round • her, and described in prose what she saw, sending the papers which, collided, farm the celebrated e Our Village," to Campbell for the New Monthly Magazine. Campbell made the mistake of rejecting them—an error in which he wits followed by a great number and variety of other editors. It was in the Lady's Magazine, of all plates, that articles destined to make a literary reputation of no mean order first appeared. They were published in a edit used form 'in 1823, and from that time forward ,Miss Mitford was sure of the guineas whenever she chose to draw I I for them in the form of pleasant storks under her well-kaown and welcome signature. Few of her many readers, however, knew at what cost these pleasant stories were produced. They seem to flow easily enough, and their sportive style suggests anything but the toil and anxiety amidst which they were spun out. It is observable that each story is as complete and rounded as a sonnet, and provided with a plot which would serve for a novel if expanded. Each has a catas trophe, generully a surprise, elaborately wrought out in concealment. It was fur stories of this kind that Miss Mitford exchanged the earlier and easier sketches from the nature around her which we find in "Our Village:" and the exchange increased im mensely the call upon her energies. But the money must be had, and the Annuals paid handsomely. and thus, therefore, the devoted daughter employed her talents,spoiling her father,and wearing hermit out,but delighting an enormous number of readers. After frit tering away the whole day, incessantly on foot, or otherwise fatiguing herself at his beck and call, and receiving his friends, and reading him to sleep in the afternoons till she had no voice left, the hour came when she might put him to bed. But her own day's wo:k still remained to be done. It was not a sort of work which could be done by powers, jaded like here, without some stimulus or relief ; and hence the necessity of doses of laudanum to carry her through her task. When the necessity ceased by the death of her father, her practice of taking laudanum ceased : but of course her health had become radi cally impaired, and her nervous system was rendered unfit to meet any such shock as that which over threw it at last. Miss Mitford so toiling by candle light, while the hard master who had made her his servant all day was asleep in the next room, is as painiul an instance of the struggles of human life as the melancholy of a buffoon, or the heart-break— that "secret known to all"—of a boasting Emperor of All the Ruseias. Dr. Mittord died in 1842, leaving his affairs in such a state that relief for his daughter had to be obtained by a subeeription among her friends and edinirere, which was soon followed by a pension from the crown. The daughter inherited or contracted come of her father's extremely easy feelings about money and its sources and uses: but the teuiptatioa to that sort of laxity was removed or influitely lessened when she was left alone with a very sufficient provi sion. She removed to a cottage at Swailuw heal, near Beading, in 1851; and there, with her pony chair*, her kind neighbours, her distant admirers, and the amusement of bringing out a succession of volumes, the materials of which were under her hand, she found resources enough to make her days cheerful, ' even after the accident which rendered her a suffering prisoner for the last two yeats of her life. See remained to the last the moot eympatliising and indulgent friend of the young, and the most ga b ri mo re striking or more genial t han when she was dg d h - c o h t n u : m dai n o t id u o r nb e s a e. i . s o .i f it iaol c o iwt3 m e. r r ot a .fr d m e shi mind dl t p u al el ls . isd e s o. heart a e hret o f wwa s a a l I sn cies! stilts citilly dying by inches, and alluding with a smile to the deep and still bed which she should scion occupy among the imoshioe and flickering shadows of the village churchyard. Finally, the long exhaustion ended in death. Though Lot gifted with lofty genius oecommand lug powers of any sort, Mips .Milford Ites, been sufficiently % conspicuous in the , essay history of er b time to claim an expression of.respeet and regrdeln her leas ing us. Der talents end • her eharaser's*e essentially womanly; and i she was fortuisetee in living in an age when wow& ability in dOe maiTisio partment of letters obtains Me ' tsad obtftts* as sieeerely and readily as 4sfe ly cb ' 1' m mends reverence andaffittfeti • 'leery pp ail Kern. ' -5.4.1 I I PACKAGES AND PARCELS FOR THE CRIMEA. VESTIGATION AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday the justice-room at the Mansion house Mae densely crowded by respectable persons who had been attracted there by reason of its having become known that Mr. Parry, the barrister, was to attend and make a state ment on behalf of Mr. Wardroper, whose proceedings had been called in question by Mr. Aldridge in connezioa with ahartering a vowel called the Sparrowhawk with stores to the Crimea. Mr. Alderman Wilson and Sir It. W. Carden were the presiding magistrates. Mr. Parry said—Sir, I have the honour of attending ' before you and Sir Robert Carden according to the promise' I made on Thursday last, when, owing to some ntiesppre lassedes of the hour at which Mr. Wardroper was to attend, =ere unfortunately absent. You are aware that no charge—no charge of any kind—bar been made I MOM Mr. Wardroper. A entails stmement was made I publicly to you as a magistrate which induced you to make certain inquiries and to solicit the attendance of Mr. Ward roper. Vs hamster I may think of then matters being in vestigated before magistrates without any formal charge being made, I do not make any complaint of your having instituted inquiries in the first instaree, may wish, end I certainly wish it on behalf of Mr. Ward roper, that these inquiries had not been made public, and that you yourself, as. a magistrate, had taken care that they should out be made public until Mr. Wardroper had had an opportunity cf stating the facts of the cue himself, and of fully investigating and allowing you fully to investigate the matter. However, that having been done, Mr. Ward roper seems to me to have no alternative but to appear here and to state to you what really are the facts of his case. I say most distinctly that lam not disposed in any way whatever to say anything in reference to Mr. Aldridge, or in reference to any motives that may Dave animated Lim. It is possible that he may have been ani mated by the best motives ; it is also possible that he may have been animated by motives of commercial rivalry. He himself beicg in the same trade as my client— a shipbroker—not a wholesale grocer, as I am given to understand, it is possible that he may hare been sui mated by motives of a less worthy character ; however, am iodiffereut as to him or as to what motives may have actuated him. My sole object is to make • statement of the facts to you, and in reference to Mr. Wardroper, and to court the fullest inquiry by yourself in any way yen like that the investigation should be conducted, and to satisfy you and the public, and those who know Mr. Wardroper especially, that he has not acted in this !ratter with the slightest fraudulent intectien; that, on tho contrary, he has acted only as a man of honour and integrity should act. ' Whatever may be the wisdom of hie proceeding—whatever may be the cummescial character of it—whether the specu lation was likely to succeed, as be believed, and as he still believe' it would, but which of course cannot succeed now after what his putoicty gone forth (because I need hardly say that an investigotten of this kind, even in reference to the most henouralne speculation, would immediately crush it) is another matter. lam only desirous of showing you that he has acted with perfect honour and integrity thoughout the whale of this business'. A ',tate meat was made by Mr. Aldridge to theeffect shut the poor people or their relative., the noble fellows in the Crimes, or some such expression, were prevented from bring defrauded, owing to the public investigstem that bad taken place here. Mr. Wardroper is himself a per son of good family. One of his brothers recently died, who was a surveyor in the East India Company's Movie*. lie has another brother in that service, and he has also a krother a clergymen of the church of England. lie himself was by profession and education a surgeon probably not a man likely to succeed in a commercial enterprise—and for many years lie was attached, if I may so speak, to the household let his Grace the Duke of Riceland as • surgeon, and has the full confidence of that faintly now as to his honour and integrity, and that he is not a man of straw. I hope he may be wrong in ts is idea, but he read in the Tones that anybody who would freight a vessel to the Crimea with a cargo likely to sell there, would sell it at • fair and reasonable profit—' to the extent of 30, 40, or even 50 per cent., instead of 500' per cent., ka commodities are frequently sold there. Ile believed that if he embarked • small capital of which he was possessed in a vessel fur that pur pose he should be able to succeed in his enter prise,. and through the intervention of Mr. Marsh, au auctioneer, and for the purpose of carrying cut the ape• culation he sold the reversion of a property for 1,5.101. lie gave orders rather for the sale of it before be entered into the speculation in any why. That mum y is now at his actual command, and • very great deal of it no doubt wculd have been used by him for this speculation. Ile has never received a single sixpence from any one, because he ab stained from taking even the freight of the goods or any thing of the kind from parties consigning those goods to him until they were actually on bond Lit 'rue Its entered into a negotiation with OH Galt and I believe some other gentlemen to purchase out and out a vessel called the Sparrowhawk, for which he was to give 1-001. Mr. Ward- THE SUEZ CANAL COMPANY. roper told Mr. Aldridge when he called upon him that be had entered into this agreement with Mr. Salt, although The firman of the Viceroy of Egypt , authorizing it was not actually perfected. The fulleet icquiries might hue been made whether this was true or untrue. Those inquiries M. de Ltsicps to forma company for the purpose of were not instituted, but an es paste statement was made by cutting a navigable canal &craft the Isthmus of Suez, that gentleman, which has been of the most serious injury is worded as follows: to Mr. Wardroper. So firm and binding is the contrast Our friend M. Ferdinand de Lesscps having called our considered by Mr. Galt, that he holds Mr. Wardroper to it. Therefore when be advertised that he had attention t the advantages which would accrue to Egypt l et b ar l t e e red a vessel, he did that which I believe any ma. from a direct communication between the Red Sea and the under the circumstances might have been fully permitted to Mediterranean, by means of a navigable ship-canal, and do, and did It at the instigation of Mr. Galt himself, who having pointed out to us the possibility of forming a joint said to him, " Why don't you advertise ?" I have the caps eseek company f or this purpose f rom amongst the cap i ta li st , city of the vessel, the tonnage, and so on, in MeGalt's hand writing, these particulars having been given to Mr. Ward s, all nations, we have accepted the proposals he has made roper, in order that he should fully understand the nature of to us, end grant to ben by his present firman the exclusive the vessel; and he was on the point of going down to privilege of forming and directing a company for the puff- Portsmouth, where the Sparrowhawk was lying, when this, pose of cutting through the isthmus of Suez, and making a statement was made by Mr. Aldridge. As regards the ship-canal to connect the two seas, with permission to cue paces by ak ;l n e b llt r idg W e ar wro P s e a r d a tat ry hef throughr i c a ls a t e rem en t o m es Cate all the necessary works at the expense of the said corm opening in the door, and found that the 1%003 was pony, after duly recompensing one indemnifying the private wretchedly furnished, or almost destitute of furniture. Just landholders far the ground expropriated, according to the the reverse is the case. It is full of every fitting furniture, conditions as follows : and has been all along it is • well and substantially furnished room. A statement of that kind would be cal- Art. 1. M. Ferdinand de Lessem will form a jciabstock ealated to mak e . an impression upon your mind, but it is company under the firm of the “Compagnie universals du utterly untrue. Mr. Aldridge also takes upon Wessell to canal maritime de Suer," for cutting the Isthmus of Suez, rebuke the newspaper press for daring to insert the letter making a canal navigable fee large ships, and farming the of Mr. Wardroper it, colonies before making inquiry, end said that if inquiry had been made it would have needful two ports, one at each end of the canal, the direr been found that when he wrote his letter he bad not got tion of which company is entrusted to him. then a apartments. That is not true. On the contrary, the Art. 2. The nomination of the directors of the company rooms were then furnished end had been taken some dsys will for ever remain the privilege of the Egyptian govern- previously. Allusion has ban made to a little bit of paper runt, and they will be principally selected from amongst that was stuck on the outside of the door. The room was taken at Christmas; the rent was paid from that time, and the largest shareholders. for two days there was a paper up until the name was painted, because no kurnemnitn painter could be got to Art. 3. The duration of the con cession is find at 99 years from the date of the opening of the csnai and comple• work on boxing-day or something of that kind. Na doubt Lion of the works. he put the advertisements in the newspapers for a superin _tenactacennait and l clerk, end desired to obtain from them deposits Art. 4. The expenses of the undert ikio g are to be borne My might have gore to the Guarantee Society exclusively by the company, to whom eU the requisite (and I told him so), which would have been a preferable mode grity . lie said that he acted according to the not belonging to private individuals , will be g iven by ofetting security, the Egyptian government wiihout indemnification. Any best of his judgment. and having chartered as he considered, he thought also of chartering another), I appeal to you with fortresses and other works of defence that may be deemed and still considers, and as he will consider, this vessel (and necessary by the Egyptian government will be built at the the fullest confidence, is there any harm in such a specula expense of the latter. tion? This is the statement which it appears to me alone Art. 5. The Egyptian government will receive 15 per necessary to make on behalf of Mr. Wardroper. lam only cent. of the annual net profit on the undertaking, without anxious myself, as this matter has been before the pod the tt . iztacfe w r i a ti l T am il" my pe reckoning the interest and dividends on the shares, which I have wr th M e r fblirt d c w on r riden sh co o in the viceroy reserves to himself the right of taking when rig ht i stateents made to me ss statements of facts. 1 cannot, as emitted, and without any guorantee on his part of the ems- Lou must be aware, personally vouch for them of my own Galion of the works or the operations o f the compete,. The owiedge, but 1 can state them to you and to Sir Robert eemainder of the clear i profit is to be dieided as (el- Carden, and I can solicit the most searchiog investigation. This speculation has now entirely failed , as I n eed hardl y lows : 75 per cent. for the shoreholders , a nd 10 p er cent. for the benefit of the originators of the company . tell you, and it would be impossible for the most honourable speculation ever entered into to succeed Art 0. The tariff of charges for the transit of ships if ex pert* statements were permitted to be made through the Canal of Suez, agreed to by the Viceroy of i in ver rega t rd to Mr. Wardroper does not feel u hrt that y ou b n il a It r o s n ae h d a n ve ae A l i s d a a l i f ro inl n h u complain Egypt and the company, and which are to be collected by Ole agents of the latter, shall be invariably th e acme fur the c o arse i diet no t ' guard & done most the publication of this application Rags of all nations, end no stipulation can ever be ma de in until there coul d have been a complete examination. Mr. favour of any one country that shall not be common to all. Wardroper hu never received a single farthing of money Art. 7. Should the company consider it advisable to fro any one of her Majesty's subjects in reference to this ion, and he has already loet 2001. or 3001. If Mr. Galt Imeneet the river Nile with the Suez canal, by means of a OPe insiT i t i s a u t pon the fulfilment of his contract In reference to the Navigable canal, the Egyptian govern ment binds itself to sparrowbewe, my client will lose upwards of 1,0001. He itie• up to the company the recesmiry tract of land without himself is rather an infirm man, and I am sorry to see that knenneration, as far as they do not interfere with the there has been something like sneering at his icfirmity. lie 'tights of private property. On such lands no texts shall be may be insulted about Me intellects —as I believe he has been—but I have a fect conviction of his being& man of ?Idled for • period of ten years from the opening of t he houour and • gentl eman; and, in tonclueion, Ido most Owl. During the succeeding eighty-nine years, that is to ly hops that as full a statement of these facts on hie Me from the expiration of the first ten years, up to the Nadi behalf will go before the public as of the accusations that' Id the concession, the usual land tel is to be paid by the! were made evilest him. Wilson—Does the learned counsel contend that eeeseelly to the Egyptian government. At the expiration Alderman d fls stessmion the company as only retain pommel= of migietsates 1110014 not hear an en Paste statement or At Shanghai trade was improving ; teas a little cheaper) and a good business doing in silks at re duced rates. Exchange, 6J. 61d. Exchange at Canton, 41. 70. Daring a gale on the sth instant the mule Times and Agenoria got ashore in the harbour of Alexandria. (DT IT:BYLILINI AND DZITISH MARSEILLES, SUNDAY. The Vectis arrived at two o'clock this afternoon with the India and China overland mail. Her despatches have been forwarded. SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS. The royal Brazilian mail packet Severn, Captain J. M. Dillies; Admiralty agent,.Lient. Darby, R.N., arrived at Southampton yesterday, with the South American mails. _ _ Dates of sailing :—Buenoe Ayres ' Dec. 2, 1854; ' Monte Video, 3 ; Rio de Janeiro, 13 . Bahia, 20 ; Per nambuco, 23 ; St. Vincent, 31; Teneriffe, Jan 3, 1855 ; Madeira, 6 ; Lisbon, 9. The Severn brings 31 passengers. The following is the letter of the R.o correspondent of the Daily Nets: RIO DR JANEIRO, Dec. 14, 1854. The Brsziiian squadron sailed for Paraguay on the 10th, and six mote vessels of war are to follow in a few days ; but it is the general opinion that the dispute will be amicably arranged. Provisions of all kinds are becoming exceedingly dear in Rio. The supply of cattle is falling off to an extent which threatens a great scarcity of fresh meat. The poorer classes are beginning to suffer severely. The fact is, that the want of hands conse quent upon the suppression of the slave trade is begin ning to be felt. The yellow fever has entirely left us, and the city was never more healthy than at present. Our coffee and exchange markets have been very active. In imports generally little has been done. Exchange opened on the 9th at 27f d. to 271 d., sod some bills were negotiated at 28d. The total amount passed since the :et we estimate at 340,0001. on London, 800,000 francs on France, and 330,000 mares banco on Hamburg. The market closes very firm at oar quotations. In coffee nothing was done until the sth, when dealers eubmitted to a decline of 150 reis, and a large business was done. The Severn's Hews, although unfavourable, did not produce a corresponding tiled co the market, but great acti%ity has continued to pre vail, and we estimate, the total sales since the Ist at 160,000 bags, of which 100 are for Europe and 50 for the States. Yesterday we noted an improvement in the market, and the better qualities were sold at an advance of 50 or 100 refs. Supplies come forward very freely at the rate of 10,000 bags per day. Freights have ruled somewhat higher. Discousts rule at 7 to 71 per cent. Of affairs in Buenos Ayres, the British Packet of Dec. 2, says, in its monthly retrospect, that business is at a dead standstill. The invasion of Nov. 3 paralysed everything: the horizon is described u turbid and lowering. Tu& CUOLEU has bran out at Saluzzo, in Piedmont. contend thatl TiiE CUOLEU has broken ont at Sanzzo, Jul manna reverence cum IFY.TJ ray.Tw uuccuen" tatuatat Or Piedmont. Fetes. •