The Express. — London, England, 1860-11-29 00:00:00

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" Sum; " says Loexe, referring to Sir Roemer Foam, and other advocates of absolute monarchy and the divine right of Kings, " Slavery " is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so " directly opposite to the generous temper and " courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be " conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it." If this was matter of surprise in Loam's day, two hundred years nearer the times of feudal supremacy and the general prevalence of arbitrary power, the wonder of finding any Englishman capable of taking such a position is certainly not diminished now. If, however, these opinions are still held in any loarters, it is far better !they should be pub licly avowed, instead of being privately circulated as the esoteric traditions of a class or order. If there are those who still think that any form of mixed or limited monarchy is neoessarily anarchi cal, and that the arbitrary will of • single man is the best possible government under which mankind can be placed, let us know who they are by all means. On this ground we heartily welcome the extraordinary letter on Oast- BALM, signed "Rosier MONTAGU, M.P.," which appeared in the columns of a contemporary two days ago. It is impossible not to attribute • re presentative character and value to this singular document ; the writer being evidently one to whom nature has denied the power of forming any, even false, opinions of his own. He panellises apparently the cuckoo or parrot faculty of catching up and incontinently repeating the sentiments of those with whom he emaciates. In the lan guage of the phrenologists, be has large acquisi tiveness and no caution ; and his total want of an- 1 Lion must be a terrible embarrassment to his friends. Without any sense of time, or plate, or fitness, he blurts or babbles out the very senti ments they would mast carefully conceal from public view. lu • word, he is one of those half saved innocents to whom nature has denied all feeling of public propriety, and who is, therefore, just the man to betray and expose his friends by his terrible indiscretion. This private lose and grievance is, however, a public gain. The whole value of the letter lies in its representative character. In themselves its contents are, indeed, too contemptible for serious discussion ; and were it simply the expression of an isolated opinion, the epistle would be unworthy of notice. But as the unwitting manifesto of a class or party, it is a political curiosity of the greatest interest. It throws an instructive light on the boasted liberality of certain sections amongst the upper clause, and gives an unexpected shock to the general belief in the political enlightenment and progress of all orders in the nation. Who are the people that still hold these monstrous and exploded dogmas touching the nature and founda tion of government which Lord ROBERT MONTAGU glibly repeats as self-evident truths f How did this young nobleman get them I They must be the maxims of a class, for he enounoes them not only without the least misgiving as to their cer tainty and truth, but apparently with the as surance that all the world will accept them without inquiry or dispute. This serene confi dence in his own views and self•complacent ignorance of all others must be the result of early training and the habitual intercourse of social life. In a word, the aristocratic and exclusive circles in which Lord Romer Mowrsao moves support the worst excesses of arbitrary power, and denounce the noblest forms of patriotism as treason deserving only of death. It is something to have learnt this much on such unexceptional tes timony. It had generally been imagined that the views of even the extremest Tories had of late years undergone • great change, that they had abandoned their extreme opinions, and brought their political views more into harmony with the spirit and tendencies of the age. But this it seems is, after all, a mere delusion. Amongst the more politic of the titled Conservatives, young and old, there is indeed a veneer of verbal liberality and affected sympathy with public opinion, but the moment it is scratched the old coarse grain of hereditary assumption and settled contempt of the people immediately ►ppears. Here is Lord Rosser MONTAGC, for example, M.P. for an English county, and a defender of small parlia mentary boroughs, a "warm friend of the " Established Church," as D , KI tells us, who " will not consent to her influence being 101- 11 paired." This exemplary young nobleman is second son of the !hike of M ANL - Hurts, and was educated at Trinity College, Cam bridge. He can hardly have picked up his political opinions at college, though, we believe, there is a manual of moral and political science—Seivell's Christian .1/..rals—well known, if not in nos, at Oxford, where the divine right of Kings is laid down u • first principle supported alike by reason and scripture. Cambridge has, however, produced no such orthodox manual of mediaeval science, and Lord ROBERT therefore most probably took the rrineiples he avows with him to that seat of ;,:arsu:,z, and, what is a far greater marvel, brought them safely away of any kind. Till the not, it is truo, honoured the extent that might from his singular want occasionally delivers a speech Commons in which the that have been dropped by everybody are carefully picked up, strung together in a schoolboy declamation, and confidently paraded as original discoveries. Then, moreover, Lord Rosatr patronises the working classes, and coos lousily cognate with them in a delightfully ma mental manner. Not long since, for instance, he took the chair at a public meeting of artisans, and quoted Longfellow. But notwithstanding all this, when he gets back to " Invernam " terrace," and mingles amongst his own order, he boldly denies that the people have any rights at all, and morn that they cannot legiti mately lift a hand against the worst tyranny under Heaven. We are heartily glad that he has at length spoken kis mind, and only wish that others who hold the same sentiments would follow his example. Henceforth, however, there can be no mistake so far as Lord Roarer MONTAGU himself is concerned. If the people of Huntingdonshire re-elect him it will be with the full knowledge that he is the public apologist of tyranny, the only Englishman who in these days has dared to outrage the public ear by defending the base and degrading dogma of political slavery. If any body of working men ever again ask him to preside at their meetings, it will be in perfect recollection of the fact, never to be for gotten, that he has denounced the purest patriot and noblest hero of the age as guilty of treason and worthy of death; that he has called Gsax- SALM a "filibuster, murderer, and cutthroat " adventurer." If any body of Englishmen share theme sentiments, let them select Lord Rosier MONTAGU as their representative. But if not, he will henceforth be justly condemned to the con genial obscurity of his own narrow circle and his own exploded doctrines. THE great SIMI= case, that has occupied for nearly three weeks the entire time and attention of Sir C. Cal/SWILL, Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN ; and Mr. Justice WILLIAM, has at length COMO to an end ; and the nnsatidactory result is, that a cause that has for upwards of a fortnight obstructed and impeded the regular business of the Probate and Divorce Courts, is declared to have been a piece of "unjustifiable litigation," so that literally hun dreds of divorce cases and scores of probate cases have been postponed to make way for what the Court has found itself obliged to characterise as a " relentless persecution " by the petitioner, Mr. SHEDDES, of " an aged man of unimpeached in " tegrity." Much curiosity and some practical sympathy have been excited by the advocacy un expectedly mimed and ably sustained by the pe titioner's daughter, Miss SHEDDEN ; and the Court in its judgment has not included her in the sweeping condemnation passed upon the petitioner, although its remarks must have given her ample food for very bitter reflections. Still the public— especially when they learn that this case is only the precursor of others of the same class, and probably to be in like manner recommended to their sympathy by female advocacy-- will be disposed to grudge the time de manded for the purpose of obtaining for each applicants barren declarations of legitimacy ; or will at least be inclined to insist that such eases shall be heard and disposed of before some more fitting and convenient tribunal. The activity of the SHILDDINB in their own un righteous cause has been allowed to work a public wrong, and one that has yet to be remedied. The history of the statute under which the Divorce Court had jurisdiction of this cause is curious, and may be of interest, although it involve the story of the SHZDDITSB themselves, which, clothed in legal verbiage. and encumbered with minute de tails, has, pediaps, been scarcely comprehended by the majority of our readers. The petitioner's father was of Scotch origin, and went to America in the year 1764, and with the exception of a short visit to this country in 1768, resided in America, and carried on business there as a merchant until his death in 1798. In 1793 the petitioner, Wiwas 81118/111, was born, and his mother, Asir Wnams, who had lived with the petitioner's father for some years, was formally married to him six days before his death in 1798. On the assumption that this marriage did not legi timise the petitioner by the American law, although by the Scotch law it would have had that Offset, Rosier PATILIC/L, who was nephew and next male heir of the petitioner's father, claimed his landed property in Scotland ; and on the arrival of the petitioner in Scotland for education a suit was in 1803 instituted by the petitioner's guar dian against Rosa= Parana to decide the vali dity of this claim. The Court of Session decreed' in ROBERT PASSIM'S favour, and from that decree there was an appeal to the House of Lords, the appeal case being drawn by Lord (then Him) BaoroaAir, who was also one of the appellant's counsel at the hearing, which lasted four days : but the House of Lords affirmed the judgment of the Scotch Court, and confirmed Rosier PATRICK in the possession of his uncle's property. The , petitioner, Wuziax SHIDDEN, at first entered the East Indian naval service, but soon relinquished this employment and engaged in mercantile pur suits abroad ; and, after amassing some fortune, returned to England, with apparently the express intention of prosecuting what he deemed to be his rights to his father's Scotch setae. Accordingly, in 1848, he eommenced fresh proceedings in the Court of 541.014 in which he complained that the former judpment had been obtained by the fraud of the Pararcis in concealing certain letters, which showed that the petitioner's father had always in tended to return to Scotland, and conse quently had never lost what is called his Scotch domicile ; and, therefore, that his marriage was good by the Scotch law. Among these letters was the letter denounced by the petitioner—not then, but at the recent trial— as a forgery; and in what Is called a supple mentary case a previous secret marriage was alleged ; but the only proof of this consisted in the open cohabitation of his father and mother as man and wife prior to his birth. The Court of Session again decided against WILLIAM SHEDDLN ; they held that there was no fraud, that the letters did not have the effect alleged, and that there was no proof of a marriage previous to the birth. Wu, Lux SSZDDIN again, in 1864, appealed to the House of Lords, and after a hearing of twenty days before Lords CILANWORTH, Bv. LSONARINI, and BILOCONAS (his former counsel), WAS once more—and as might be supposed at last finally— defeated. The case upon this hearing was in allegation, and almost in evidence, identically the same as it was developed at the react hearing in the Divorce Court ; as is obvious even from comparison of their Lordships' judgments with that just delivered by Sir C. Cantwell. ; and the forte of th e i r Lord s hip s ' arguments and conclu -1 Eons would to ordinary minds have been thought them, _ pockets might citing them again to disprove WILLIAM 811EDDEN'S legitimacy. In the Parliamentary Session, therefore., of 18158, a Bill was brought in and passed through both Houma "to enable persons to establish " legitimacy and the validity of marriages, and "the right to be deemed natural born subjects." It passed almost unopposed—but one member was found to object that litigation might thus be re opined. It was urged that "after a man had " litigated to the utmost in the courts of tin " country, and had established his rights to the " last, and had been put in possession of the " property--after all, his right might thus again "be disputed, and a new litigation set on foot "to disturb his right if not his possession, " wed establish that of another person." Hp a anions coincidence the member making this objection was Mr. Partucx's leading counsel M tin mend trial ; but the only effect of his ob- Jodi= at the time was the addition to the statute of an ambiguous clause that might mean anything or nothing. The Divorce Court was then in infancy ; and the Legislature, having no promisee* of the extent to which ill assorted couples would pray the interference of Sir C. Osseeweit, and only too fearful that his position might be so much a sinecure as to give no excuse for the pecuniary burden of an extra court which they had imposed upon the country, could think of no tribunal before which legitimacy suite could more conve niently be instituted than the Divorce Court. And minder this statute the SIIIIDDE4 case has been re vived, like a mummy, and with much the name result. The complicated details have resem bled lir munerous wrappings of the dried and withered Many, and when the details have been mastered and elucidated, and the wrappings all unwound, both the case and the corpse dissolve in thin air. Upon the propriety of Sir C. CRESS wsiem comments on this case it would be as im pertinent as it is perhaps superfluous for us to observe, and we may safely leave our readers to draw their own inferences ; but upon the impro priety of this and similar cases being allowed to engross the already overweighted Divorce Court, we trust that the public will allow their voices to be beard, and in no unmistakeable terms ; and we again warn them that this is no solitary case, but is to be followed by others no leas lengthy and of much greater importance. We must not be understood to decry the value to individuals and families of these declarations of legitimacy, however small their practical result may for the time appear ; but they are not to be preferred to the consideration of those COR4I that affect the happiness or misery of multitudes of families, and for the determination of which this Court was originally constituted ; nor is there any reason why legitimacy causes should not be de cided before juries and by the judges of the Superior Courts, as in ordinary civil mita. ti Till ; •EXPIES* WPM Ek O wi4,firci irresisll4 uto *mind; • SOO*. wet* he pence. Sob; ikowever, , did ni# 1 k Wn.uass ml them m public to 8111EDDEFOD did 110$ think other twits, piers, have been expected and laymen, whom he or his daustiter contrived of reserve. But he to interest in his behalf. If the PATILICILS could peach in the House of no longer be directly attacked, they might be in- the exploded fallacies directly assailed—if the estate could not be taken id by everybody else from them, their pockets might be invaded by THE CHINESE WAR. Lord Elgin's despatches and their enclosures, if they do not add many important facts to our pre vious information, throw much useful light on those previously known. It will be sew that our Plenipotentiary does not adopt in its extreme form the imputation of treachery made by Sir Hope Grant with reference to the interruption of his march by Sankolinsin. With much discrimination he writes of the renewal of hostilities on the 18th of September : To hawed conjectures rte the motives by which Chinese funstionazies are actuated is not a very safe undertak ing end it le vary possible that further information may modify the views which I now entertain on this point. I am, however, disposed at present to doubt then having been a deliberate intention of treachery on the pert of Prime Tsai and his colleague, but I apprehend thee the General-in-Chief, Sang•ko-lin•itt, thought that they had compromised his military position by allowing our army tO establish itself so near his lines at Chantkialwan. He sought to counteract the evil effect of this by teak* a pest swegger of parade and preparation to resist, when the amid armies approached the camping ground allotted to Ursa Several of our people, Colonel Walker, with his escort, ray private secretary, ltr. Loch, Baron ros' Secretary of Em. Comes de &stud, and claw, mined throve' the Teener army daring the course of the morning on their way from Tug-how without enceentring any rude:sem or ill treatment whatsoever. At about a quarter to ten, how ever a French conualmariat caner was maaulted by some Tart ' ar soldier under circumetthoes which are not very dearly ascertained, and this incident gave rim to an armee ment. which soon became general. On the whole, I come to the conclusion that in the proceedings of the Chinese ple• nipotentiaries and Coennandee•in-Chid in this instance, there was that mixture of stupidity, want of straightfor wardness, suspicion, and bluster which characterises so p lurally the conduct of affairs in this country ; but I onset believe that after the experience which Sang•ko-lin-sin bad already had of our superiority in the field, either he or his civil collieries amid have intended to bring on a conflict in which, as the event has proved, he was so sure to be wonted. At the same time, the facts that ho covered by his guns, and with a portion of his troops, the ground amigned to us, and that a French officer. returning from Tong-chow with the knowledge sod consent of the Chinese plenipotentiaries, was smutted and killed oe his lima, entirely justify both the charge of bad faith which has been brought spinet the Chimes authorities for their con. duct in this instance, cad the proceedings of the allied . . . . . comenanclenie-chiet which have e;erued theiehom. It will be observed that when the mail left Lord Elgin was in communication with the brother of the Emperor, the Prince Bung—the former cote mimioner, Prince Ai, I, or Tsai, under whose mis management the preparations for negotiation had been interrupted, having been deprived of hie com mission. This fact should make the friends of the pri soners, English and French, at Pekin, perfectly easy as to their safety. it is evident the Chinese desire to make peace, and equally certain that they know that their interest lies in behaving well to their in voluntary guests. THE LATE EM CHARLES NAPIER. The following ie a copy of a letter received from the Portuguese Ambassador, expressing the .deem in whisk Sir Charles Napier was held by his Majesty the King of Portugal: " LooLloo, Nov._ 23. "Modem,—Ehe Majesty the King of Paeturei, my august sorer*" has ordered me to express to you, in his royal name, the profound rid which his Majesty felt at the news of the decries of the illuatrione and brave Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Count of Cape ht. Vinoset His Most Fsithful Majesty, wishing, mower, to give a rube and extraordinary testimony of the high °maiden. tics in which he held the important se AIM rendered to the cause of the legitimate throne and of the osentitntional imiltetions of Yortagel by the mid brave sehnimil. Count of Clap M. Vibrant, had ordered the Parteguena royal wry to p tale remuitier for three days. I request you will please to easinianimai these determinations of Hie Most raithfal Majesty to the whole of your family, sod you may she publish them if you think wpm. Havingfailllled the orders et my royal sovereign, permit me, madam, to avail Myself of this opportunity to repeat die erprendon of my Fist, sod the assurance of the respectful consideration with which I have the honour to he, malalli your MOO uhorlout humble servant, " LAT 1,41010." , WINDSOR CA The Royal dinner party yesterday included thel• Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Prince Louis of Hesse, the Lord Chancellor, the Permian Minister and Conntedujbern• siert Lord and tidy Wodehouse t General Lord of yiII tie Right Hon. W. sad Li. Cowper, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, the Hon. Mrs. l3iddulph, Baron von Weaterweller, Major Cowell, R.R., and Major Elphinstone, R. E. lice Queen sad Prince Consort, accompanied by Priem Alfred, Primer Alice, and Prince Louis of Heise, rode out es horseback this messing, attended by the Hon. Eleanor Manley and the Equerries in Waiting. The Duchess of Kent and the Prince and Princess of Lelningen visited her Majesty from Progrnore and took luncheon. The following visitors left the Cantle to-day :—The Lord Chaimllor, Count and Countess Bernstorff, Lord and Lady Wodebouse, Lord Clyde, the Right Hon. W. and Mrs. Cowper, and the Right Hon. Robert Lowe. Mr. Childers had an interview with the Duke of New castle meter*, at the Colonial.office. The Lord Chamaellor gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ili. nisten last evening at his residence at Kaightabridge. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Au appeal from New Bnuiswick, " Bt. Andrew's and Quebec Railway Company v. Bookdeld and King" (part heard), was concluded. Judgment wan postponed. The Lord., present were Lord Chelmaford, the Lords Jus tices Knight Brum and Turner, and Sir J. Coleridge. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury is expected to wire in town this evening from Hamilton Palace, N. 8., the meat of the Duke and Dothan of Hamilton. The Hari and Countess Cathcart have arrived at Yaorip'. fidek from Woodird, rmar Think. Laid De Lido and Dudley has arrived at the lit. Oearge's Hotel. The Hon. Spencer and Lady Harriet Cowper arrived at the PaviSon Haiel, Pollaellese, on nimbi. lad, sad left on the following ay he Paris The Hon. Mr. and Mr.. Franeia Stonor have wt Loam on a visit to Oolong! sad Mrs. Challoner, at Pectoral! Park, war Windsor. The Duke of Beaufort, we (Bath Chronicle) are glad to state, is sufficiently recovered to take a airtime ; and confident hopes are entertained of his taking the aottve niansgemstit of his hounds before the expiration of the meson. In reference to the marriage of Captain Grey, son of Sir George Grey, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- I aster, and equerry to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales during his tour in America, to Miss Harriett Jane Pearson, which took place at Cheltenham on the 20th inst., as already announced, the Cheltenham Examiner has the following :—" Amongst the persons present was a young man of aristocratic bearing and pleasing manners, who seemed to be a stranger to everyone but the gallant bride groom. He did not sign the record of the marries* as the rest did, and won alter the ceremony he is said to have disappeared. The gossips, who were uninvited spectators at St. Luke's, have set him down as no less a personage than the Prinoe of Wales, with whom the bridegroom is understood to be in high favour; and we are not in a posi tion either to say that they are wrong, or to confirm them in their opinions." We regret to learn by the last accounts from Napiss, that Admiral Mundy was ill of the small-pox. The Bishop of London last night addressed a crowded meeting at the Amwell-street Parochial Schools, Clerkeowell, on the subject of church extension, in a lengthened and eloquent speech. The meeting was held upon the occasion of the site for a new church in Clerken. well having been granted by the Charterhoose corporation. The bishop stated that, out of a population of 28,000 souls, church accommodation at present existed for only 9,000. DsAn or BARON BONS lIN . —We sincerely regret to announce the death of this distinguished man. This melancholy event took place at Bonn yesterday morning. Baron Busmen was in the 70th year et his age. —Times. DKern or OoLoma. Kimura Trim. —We are sorry to announce the deism of Colossi Limeys Tynte, who expired on Monday at his family mat, Bidwell House. Somerset, in his 83rd year. The late colonel for ins., years represented Bridgewater in parliament. He was co hefr to the Baronies of Wharton and Grey de Wilton, and representative of the ancient Wake of Kemeys and Tynte, which Wanton browns extinct on the decease of his maternal seek, tie late Sir Merles Honeys Tynte, Bert. • THE EMPRESS OP TIE FRENCH. The Empress Eugenie and suite, accompanied by his Grace the Duke of Athole, arrived at Dundasetreet Station, Glasgow, at nine o'clock on Monday evening, and proceeded to the Queen's HoteL Her Majesty's arrival wee not generally known, and consequently there was no demon stration of welcome. On Tuesday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, the Duke of Hamilton presented the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mr. Turner, town clerk, and Dr. Strang, city chamberlain, to her Majesty, in the Queen's Hotel. The Lord Provost pee the Empress a cordial weloome to Glesgow, and presented an address by the magistrates and town council. Her Majesty expressed her thanks to the Lord Provost for the cordial sentiments con tained in the address, and sincerely hoped that the amity and kindly feeling at present subsisting between Great Britain and France would ever continue. She regretted that her stay would be so brief, but hoped that she might on • future occasion have it in her power to visit her friend the Duke of Hamil ton, when she trusted her stay would be of longer duration. Her Majesty then drove through the principal parts of the city, and visited the cathedral, the different parts of which she inspected with peat interest. On leaving, the Empress and mite proceeded to the Queen's Hotel, which she shortly afterwards left in the Duke of Hamilton's carriage, for Hamilton Pekoe, where she was cordially weloomed by the duchess. Her Majesty was shown through the magnificent palace, and the surrounding grounds,.and after luncheon returned to Glasgow early in the e The Empress left for r lans by the 7 o'clock pp to n ch a. train f , en Lomond and Latrine. Theimpress of the French, while at the station on her way to Perth, is said to have had her attention drawn to a moldier in extreme fil.health, but bearing upon his person several decorations fur actual service. Prompted doubting by sympathy for his infirmity, she gave him • small dona tion, when one of the attendants, with more officiammess ta i : e rr reminded her Majesty that she hid a man who had fought at Waterloo, "Then be is the more dmerring," replied the Empress, "for be one tided with a Min enemy." THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE WEHEYANE--• The Toronto Christens Gaonless announces that ties Prince of Wales has prenatal a &motion of 800 dollars to the Victoria Ws as College, amid% to furniaii prim for amid distribuiaos. GnoLootexi. Socurre.—The following paper will be tend at the =eaten on Dec. 5 :—On the structure of the north-west Highland, of Scotland, and the relations of the panes. red sendetcae, and quartzite of Sutherland and Roes. By Pedessor Janus Nicol, F. 0.8., Ac. Tan SMITHFIELD Corn Carr= Snow. —The number of entries are slated to be above the general ave nge, and by the rule of the club all animals intended to be exhibited et the show must arrive at the yard before 10 o'clock on the evening of Saturday, the Ath December, after which hour none will be admitted. With regent to the implements none will be admitted after 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th December (next Thursday). The private view will take place on Monday evening, December 10, after the awards have been made by the judges, and the show will be opened to the public on Toceday, the llth, l and remain open the three following days. Sam( OF HIGH CLASS FANOLISH PICTURED .111 Oreer.nousz. The small but valuable collection of Eogiish pictures, the property of Thomas Sheppard, Fag., of Ousby.house, North.benk, Itegent'slerk, wet on Tues. day disposed of Mesas. Foster, of Pall. mall. The fl ' lowing are deserving of notice :—Lot 34. C. R. Leslie, "The Nuns sad °envie site 14 Inaba@ by 12 (earehased at the late Mr. Les li e's sal•)-24 gideeas. Lee 41. J. Webb, 1855, (levelly, Devonshire, • line lend. esime, else inches by 29-29 guineas. Lot 42. L . y .,,A the Grand C phased a atisL ier. Venioe toa rm, )— azz 46 lashes Lon 45. lYebb, 1859430, Monet Orgueilob.oomit of. Nceirandy, • grand exhibited work, 'panted ea awes; MO 93 inches by 54-71 railhell (Wylie). Lot 46. Minors, R.A., "The Bouquet," a beautiful female figure holding in her hand a bouquet of dowers, on ammo, ' size 14i inches by 14-69 guineas (Pitspatrick). Lot 47. E. M. Ward,ll.A., " A well-known Episode in the Life of Lord Byron, containing • Wilting portrait of his lordship, on anus, use 30 inches' by 224-50 virtue (Colls). Lot 48. C. R. Leslie, " The - Pond Mother,' the well known exquaotely-fiaished work, on canvas, size 29 inches by 23-175 guineas (Woodrolfe). Lot 49. J. Philip, 8.A., "Catechiang the Independents," the highly important exhibited work, painted on comae, sins 5 feet 1 itch by 3 feet 4 isehes-245 guineas (Bought). Lot 51. T. Cray. wick, ILA., sod W. P. Frith, B.A. "Corning of Summer," • splendid landscape ; this highly important exhibited work may be cousidered one of the unset examaplee of the scan. Lined efforts of these talented artists-310 guineas (ditto). ATEStk. lik - ELLIGENCE• • -nt•v PRUSIIIA AND ITALY. ' The Nord of to-day contains the reply of the Sar dinian government, by the pen of Count Cavour, to the despatch of Baron Schleinitz, in which the late policy of Sardinia was censured, although the importance of national unity and independence was acknowledged. Count Cavour having expressed his pleasure at the recognition by the Prince Regent's government of the national idea as one of the essential elements of public law, proceeds to insist that the question of the Marches, of the Umbria, and the Two Sillies is purely an Italian question, and in no way affects the rights of other powers. As to the mo tion by treaties of the territorial divisions of Italy, %n it be said that the clauses of a treaty are to imply the complete and perpetual abdication by the nation of its right to regulate its internal affairs T "It cannot certainly be the Cabinet of Berlin which would wish to sustain such a doctrine." Europe had long admitted that the condition of Italy needed amelioration, but the governments of the tumor states, of the Holy See and of Naples persistently refused to follow the counsels of Europe, and Austria even invaded Piedmont, proving to the Italians by that act that the Peninsula could have neither security nor independence until it was united into one state. With regard to the complaint that the Sardinian government assisted the , discontented populations, Count Cavour quotes ewe from history in which other European states have acted in a similar way under corresponding circumstances. Europe, he adds, ought not to lose sight of the fact that the government of King Victor Emmanuel is in Italy the only conservative power capable of overcoming the really revolu tionary spirit. *•sw-1 It is neither just nor prudent to debilitate this power by isolating it and forcing it, so to speak, to rely, in given circumstances, upon elements which may become dangerous. Europe ought rather to associate itself with the efforts of the King in the intereet, of order and peace, and in aiding him to MUMMA the difficulties which surround him. We have nothing to hide : we have nothing to misrepresent. We are Italy : we act in her name. But we are also the moderators of the national movement ; oar efforts, our con stant care have no other object than to direct it, to retain it in the proper course, and to see that it does not become tainted by impure alloy. We are the representa tives of the monarchical principle, which in Italy had dis appeared from men's hearts, convulsed by popular ven geance. This principle we h►ve raised up spin ; 'we have revived its force--we have given it a new consecration. It is our present strength, and it will be our shield in the future. Confiding in the justice of the muse which we defend and in the rectitude of our inten tions, we hope to solve and vanquish the difficulties of the situation, and when the kingdom of Italy shall be con stituted upon the immovable bases of national and mo narchical right, we are convinced that Europe will not ratify the severe judgment of which we are now made to feel the weight. THE FRENCH IN ROME. The Pays says :—" Sundry despatches from Italy, dictated by interests which it is not difficult to appreciate, insist upon spreading the report that our troops are about to give up to those of Pied mont the occupation of Rome and the patrimony of St. Peter. This report is not the less radically false because it is repeated two or three times a month, and we again give it the most formal denial." FRENCH ADVICES FROM CHINA. PARBI. THURSDAY. The Muitileur publishes General Montanban's re ports from the French head-quarters in China. The General states that the prisoners of the allied army who were carried to Pekin were well treated. On the side of the French, besides some soldiers of the escort, Colonel Grandchsmps, the Abbd Duke, and M. Delauture were made prisoners by the Chinese. THE PAPAL TERRITORY. TURIN, Nov. 29. The Monitore Toecano publishes a despatch an nouncing that about forty volunteers from the duchy of Castro had invaded the town of Aqua pendente. They disarmed the pontifical gendarmes, and hoisted the arms of Savoy. The papal governor escaped, but nineteen gen darmes were made prisoners. NAPLES. NAPLES, Nov. 27. 1,700 Garibaldians who have chosen to return to their homes have embarked for Genoa. The em barkation of as many more will take place to morrow. General Sirtori has issued an order of the day advising the offioers and soldiers of the Southern army to abstain from making any demonstration. AUSTRIA. VIIINNA, THURSDAY NORNII:a. The official Wiener Zeituag contains the following appointments :—Count Apponyi, Austrian envoy extraordinary at London, to be ambassador to the samo court; Count Leopold Wolkenstein, council lor of the empire, to be Captain of the Province of the TyroL VIENNA, WEDNILIMAY. The official Weiner Zeiteeng contains au Imperial decree appointing eighteen Obergeapanes. The same journal publishes a ministerial ordinance, dated the 26th Inst., which orders the speedy com mencement of the elections to the new municipali ties in the German Austrian provinces, on the basis of the communal law of 1849. DISTURBANCES IN HUNGARY. PESrH, W 1921,047. On the 26th instant, while Count Caroly, Ober gespann of Szathmsr, was passing through De brecrin, a torchlight procession, accompanied by bands of music, was formed in his honour. These demonstrations caused some disturbances, which resulted in • military intervention and the arrest of from twenty to thirty individuals. VIENNA. Wionsokr, Noox. There were very serious disturbances, with loss of life, at Debreczin and Eperies on the evening of Monday. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 28. The question of the limits of the Ceuta terri tory has been definitively arranged, in conformity with the treaty of peace with Morocco. The Cortes has voted a pension to the Infante Don Sebastian. THE EAST. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 21. The documents connected with the Prench loan have been signed by the Porte. They go to Paris to-day. General doubt is still prevalent here as to the conclusion of the affair. The rate of exchange ix still risinz. Money first chute p►per is very scarce. The Bulgarian community prorate to secede to Roman catholicism, because the Porte hm reins,' them a separate patriarchate. A heavy storm passed over the Black &a last week. Many wrecks are reported. There is no news from the provinces. UNITED STATES AND CANADOZ. LONDONDERRY. WznxisDAT Evzank.. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Anglo. Saxon, Captain Ballantine, from Quebec on tb 18th inst., has arrived, and landed all mails. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. General Sanford has caused the arrest of Colonel Corcoran for refusing to order his regiment ou parade at the reception of the Prince of Wales. Intelligence from the South is similar to th a t received some days past. There is evidently a strong sentiment in favour of union struggling to the surface in the slave states. Accounts from Charleston to the 15th Met. state that South Carolina would under no circumstauces back out of the position it had taken. The Ame rican flag was not recognised in the state. The Go vernor had been offered 100 men by Baltimore, and 500 by Jersey. In consequence of the state of affairs, the mayor bad discharged a number of labourers employed on public work*. OONNDERCIAL INTELLIGENCE Stocks irreiarz;ii;;Ter4,itiairC3Oiiress. Money more active, but rates imitate.. Exchange quiet. Flour; All descriptions heavy declining. Wheat heavy and lower. Corn steady. Oats quiet. Pork aid lard dull; small sales. MONTREAL, Nov. 17. Flour dull. Wheat inactive. Per lower, quotatioas being 674 c. to 72)c. Ashes dull. Provisions unchanged. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, Nov. 17, Encino:3. The steamships Atlantic and Edinburgh have sailed for Europe ; the former with 80,000 dole. mspecM. Stooks are lower and unsettled. The following are the latest quo tations :—New York Central, 72) ; Illinois, 57 ; Erie, 28. Exchange unsaleable. Cotton declining : middling upland, 11)c. to Mc. The markets for breadstuff' are heavy, and all description, have declined considerably. Pork is heavy, and much lower. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 16. The cotton market is heavy, and quotations have declined ie. The sales of the weak amount to 47,000 bales ; receipts during the same period 61,000 balsa. Reoeipts below last year, 150,000 tales. Exports, 51,000 belie. Sterling ex change, 24 to 4 prem. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAIL PLYMOUTH, TEUIBDAY. The Dane, Captain Hoffman, with the above mail arrived at midnight. Her data are Table Bay, Oct. 22 ; St. Helena, Oet. 30 ; and Ascension, Nov. 3. She brings 13 passengers, 2,0001. in specie, and an average general cargo. Sir George Grey would leave Cape Town shortly for Kat fraria, whence he would proceed to Natal. Admiral Koppel was still at the Mauritius. Her Mapety's ship Forte left the Cape on the 22nd Sep tember with naval detchee for the Mauritius. Debentures for 130,0001. to be called for in London are to be issued on the Ist of January neat. Cape Colony and Natal were pepxring for the representa tion of the South African colonies in the forthcoming inter national exhibition in London in 1862. . . The }Bishop of Cape Town had convoked the Synod for January next. The Mon:market at the Cape was much weave. I nunivaata were in want of employment and wages were low. Meat and bread were dear. Trade was reviving. The Dane, brings a petition from the wine farmers to the Queen, complaining of the new commercial tariff, was sent by this mail. The vine disease was making its appearance, and fresh lean for the vintage were excited. Dutch weights and measures were to be illegal after the 14 of January next. The Eastern Province was laud in its demands for separation. Demonstration meeting' had been held on the subject. Paymaster Seveke, late of the Ikscawen, was drowned while crossing the bar of Zanzibar with despatches for Dr. Livingstone. The Wasp bad gone to the Mauritius for repairs. The Lyra was cruising along the oust. The Sidon was in Sinion's Bay. The Lord Clyde took fire, and was abandoned 50 miles off Cape Recife. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nON QUA OWN PARIS, WEDAD3DAY Evora. Some time must necessarily elapse ere a just ap. predation of the legislative changes announced in the decree of the 24th of November will be arrived at. Nevertheless it is not difficult to perceive that the more the subject is examined the more the re forms find favour as a substantial benefit conferred upon the country. This benefit consists, perhaps, less in the actual changes themselves than in the moral effects which they cannot fail to produce. To call them shadowy, and to imagine that they are mere bubbles held out to amuse the country with a show of liberty, is to attribute to Napoleon HI. a reckless handling of edged tools, upon which so acute and far-sighted a man would assuredly not venture. He knows the full consequencis of what he is doing, and he knows that he is placing in the hands of the country a moral force which time and the course of events cannot but develops more and more. It is impossible that he should not know all this, and, knowing it, he signed the decree of the 24th of November. Profound, therefore, must have been the conviction on his mind as to the necessity of the sacrifice eo doubtful in its results. It is evident, too, that this moral influence must, in spite of legislation, make itself felt as regards the press. You cannot suffer your ministers to listen to speeches in the Chamber of Deputies, and to answer those speeches, then print those speeches word for word in your official journals, and • yet refuse to other journals the right of printing and commenting upon them. Common sense will be against you ; public opinion, of which you are now confessing the omnipotent force, will condemn you. Of course there will be some sort of a struggle, but common sense and public opinion will gain the upper hand—in the long run ; and though an absolutely free press is out of the question, we may see that institution holding its own even under the successor of the first ' Napoleon. The Bourse was calm to-day, little doing, and trifling fluctuations in prices. The Rente left off with a rise of sc. for money, and a like fall for the account, the closing prices being 70fr. 15c. and 70fr. 20c. Credit Mobilier rose to 772 fr. 50c. for money, and Mfr. 75c. for the account. THE SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE. We oopy from the etimanach de Gotha for 1861 (its 90th year), which has jut appeared, the follow ing information respecting the sovereign houses of Europe :—" Europe contains at present, Including the dispossessed Italian provinoes, 47 sovereigns, of whom the eldest, the King of Wurtemberg, is nearly 79 years of age ; the youngest, Prince Henri XXIL, et Reim Gab, is 14. After the King of Wurtemberg cane the Landgrave of IlessorHanburg, who is 77, and the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (since dead), who is 75. In the order of age the King of the Belgians stands 6th, the Pope 7th, the King of Prussia 10th, the King of Saxony 13th, the Emperor of the French 18th, the Emperor of Russia 24th, Queen Victoria 28th, the King of Sardinia 31st, and the Emperor of Austria 40th. According to the length of their reigns the sovereigns are thus abased —The Prima of Schaumburg-Lippe, whose accession dates back 73 years ; the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen who has reigned 57 years; the Prince of Schwarburg-Rudolstadt 53 yearn; the Duke of Anhault-Drees-Coethen, 44 years; nine sovereigns, among whom are the King of the Belgians and the Sultan, have reigned from 20 to 30 years ; fourteen, comprising the Kings of Prus,ii, Bavaria, Denmark, Holland, Sardinia, and the Emperor of Austria, from 11 to 19 years; eighteen save reigns, among whom are the Emperors of the French and Russia, the Queen of Spain, the Kings of Saxony, the Two Sicilia, and Sweden, have reigned less than 10 years- The last sovereign who ascended the throne is the Graud- Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg•Strelitr." Since the work mentioned above appeared, Prince A.1 , i1- phns George of Schanmbarg-Lippe has succeeded his fatli..r, s who died on the 21st inst.