The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

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Masora C Yuma toal Bah". • Ma." m l- Carmilarberk sad /tomer —ts. , taaseare at hatt-past NRITANNIA. TRU Imam THE PRINCK AND Tiff: OGRE. Messrs. NU, Puny. Jean L.nle, RO.y, art Newham . 11.114. C. Stepluni. Via I•.+sana. Mr. M. Craisfiw4. —And A MEmS %I: F. VltioU VIZ 'ILA. Mews. Voyaokis ANA Amytkimon. Mrs. C Yartbuld. Ulan VAT= AT LONDON lUUDOR. TEN DAT—Mandy, a 4 M 5..... Mamas. Al MAL TOOlSlCAP—liendego AA Ha.— Mimosa, MA Ulm. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. SO. Ile would have beet a bold prophet who had ventured, even a year ago, to predict that the necessity of the Austrian Empire for the security and peace of Europe was about to die out of the number of our prevailing political superstitions. No demonstrations of the factitious composition of the A ustrian State, and the impossibility of a political unity consistent with freedom ; no exhibitions, however striking, of the horrible means by which the Imperial power was upheld, could avail in the least to wean politicians of the school of 1815, from their wilful confidence in a system of government which was a disgrace to Christendom. In a candid moment it might be conceded that the terrors of Spielberg or Josophstadt, of the enforced enrolment for military service and of tho stick, were not dignified expedients of govern ment ; but it was tacitly understood that if by their employment the Est eMion could preserve his ' throne and keep up a large army, the world was bound to feel much obliged to him, and overlook the means in admiration of the end. If the Austrian Government had proved as safe as it was iniquitous, we should have been doomed still to hear of its paternal wisdom and beneficence. Nothing less than the insolvency of the Monarchy, anarchy in the States, and the repeated defeat of the Army, was required to convince the admirers of paternal despotism that Austria was not a bul wark of Europe and a guarantee of its peace. Now that the Ministerial journals at Vienna complain that in the most important kingdom over which the EmPLltua rules, justice is no longer dispensed, since the imperial judicial authorities cannot act; that articles of State monopoly are openly sold in defiance of the laws, and that the direct taxes can not be collected, our public men, and the organs they inspire, are compelled to regard the dissolution of the Austrian Empire as by no means impossible at an early date, and are beginning to consider whether the calamity world be so great after all. In quarters where we are not accustomed to look for the expression of extreme opinions, and where it is even still thought a proof of wisdom to deride the patriot's faith, the question is raised whether Eastern Europe would not be u well guarded against Russia by warlike Hungary with her crown lands, and the States which her freedom and power would attract to her, as it can over be by Austria, compelled as she has been, and may be again, to throw herself on the kind consideration of the Muscovite. Wu have not raised this question, so full of import for the cause of civilization in the East of Europe, nor can we discuss it in any merely incidental con nexion. But it is something to see that a political reconstruction of the countries on the Danube, perhaps more important to the world's progress than even the constitution of a Cuited Italy, is making way among those who form opinion in this country. Austria has failed in her mission of civilizing and consolidating the ruder peoples who own her sway, and has distinguished herself by employing them to disooursge, insult, and suppress the nobler races whose moral and intellectual superiority en titled theui to ascendancy, and by whose help alone she could expect to maintain her authority at home and her consideration in the world. The greatest of these, the Hungarians, have now placed themselves towards the Government at Vienna in an attitude which must soon bring the affairs of the monarchy to a crisis. The address of the General Assembly of Gran to the Emperor FILAI4II‘ Jesaru is a document the like of which his MAJcvvy has never rrn•ived before. The is now in possession of a frank opinion of his Government, tendered by those who are best able to appreciate its results. " The wrongs done " to the Hungarian nation," they affirm, "cry " aloud to Heaven." They complain that, deprived of the protection of their own laws and their ancient constitution, they have been harried by exacting foreigners levying exor bitant taxes. " What high prices have we not to "pay for justice! At midnight the tools of an " arbitrary power have entered the houses of our " hest patriots, and in spite of the entreaties of " their children have loaded them with chains, " and removed them to some distant part of the " empire, where they were placed under military despotism." As for their demands, they aro as explicit as the statement of their grievances. They require nothing less than a return to the laws of 1848, and the ancient legal basis of the relation of the people and the sovereign. The nation cannot accept the Imperial diploma of October the 20th as a substitute for the old foun dation of its rights. "By the Prag " mane Sanction, your 51s.inery is as much " bound to uphold the constitutional rights, privi " loges, and independence of the Hungarian " nation, as the nation is bound to be faithful to " the Kira, and to recognise his hereditary I" rights. The diploma, however, iolates several " of the rights guaranteed to the nation, rights " which King CHARLEY 111. (the Emperor " CHARLES VI.), your 31.4.inerv's ancestor, swore " for himself and his successors to uphold. Your " MAJEsty insists on the payment of the taxes, " but they, in virtue of the Pragmatic Sanction, " must be granted by the Diet." And again, " The Hungarian Constitution is • thousand " years old, and a thousand years have the " Hungarians had to do battle in its defence. " Such a prolonged struggle and the continual " violation of onr laws have made us distrustful." Ilia 3111.1E4T Y is invited to speak openly, so that there may be no doubt as to his intention, and to avoid half nieasures, so that the Prince and his people may be reconciled. This is the invitation, we might say, the summons, of 15,000,000 out of 36,000,000 of his 51sJr.Ary's subjects. It is their firm and respectful reply to the menace which, in the expectation of foreign aid, he addressed to, THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1861. them. Should Hungary successfully assert her rights without separation from Austria, shc can st.nreely become less than the head and heart, as well as the arm of the Empire ; but such a transfer of power implies the renouncing of so many aspi rations and ambitions of the House of HAINSURt:, that we can scarcely conceive it possible. The strong probability is that the contest will be carried on till it results in war. It is to that contingency that the most thoughtful and energetic minds of Hungary are now anxiously but courageously look ing forward. Tim Daily publishes this morning the cor respondence which took place a few weeks ago be tweuu the Cabinets of Loudon and Berlin on the Dano-Germanic dispute, together with the Danish Menioranduie which gave rise to it. Parts of this cor respondence have already appeared in various foreign journals, but they have been too fragmentary and one-sided to convey a fair or even intelligible idea of the a hole. The must important despatch of the series, for example—that written by Lord JOHN It' asm.i. to Mr. liberties, on the Bth of last month—has not appeared at all. This despatch defines the position of the English Government in the matter, and discusses the two main points at issue between Denmark and Pram* the means proposed for the temporary pacification of Holstein, and the right of the German Powers to interfere in the internal administration of Schles wig. It is the more necessary to call attention to this important document, as the views expressed by the British Foil k.IGN SEGRETARV on these ques tions have been misunderstood or misrepresented, not only by foreign journals, but by foreign Mi nisters of State. To point out and correct these miarepresentations becomes a duty when tho question to which they refer threatens the peace of Europe. The differences between Germany and Denmark are precisely of the kind that may be amicably arranged, and Great Britain, as a friendly but ueutral Power, is sincerely anxious to bring about a peaceful solution. In order to secure so desirable a result, the efforts of the mediating Powers must however be seconded by the support of enlightened public opinion. On no subject, indeed, is it more essential that public opinion should be kept well informed, for there is probably none that has been, and still is, subject to a greater amount of habitual mystifica tion throughout a large section of the European press. This mystification extends alike to the smallest details of news and the most important official documents. So far as the German press is concerned this mystification is often probably innocent enough, and may be so in the pre sent case. Thu passionate advocates of a fa vourite theory naturally put the most favourable construction on a foreign despatch partially com municated and indifferently understood. Excited feeling, strong prejudice, and imperfect knowledge may easily explain a large amount of honest blundering and misrepresentation. But Baron SOILLINITZ can plead no such excuse for his elaborate misunderstanding of some of the most important points in Lord JOHN ROWELL'S despatch. Indeed the whole tone of the Prussian Foreign Minister's despatches on this subject is so disinge nuous, that the mistakes into which ho falls, and the mystifications he practices, must be attributed to design rather than to ignorance or heedlessness. What a notorious intriguer said of language, that it was given to conceal our thoughts, while no doubt largely true of diplomatic language in general, is peculiarly and literally true of the language which the Prussian diplomatist chooses to employ in his reply to Lord JOHN Bus:int:a despatch. Two instances of this will for the pre sent suffice. In the body of his despatch the English FOREIGN SECRETARY refer to the reasons which had influenced the British Government in undertaking to forward the Danish Memorandum to the Cabinet of Berlin. These were mainly the desire of preserving unimpaired the integrity of the Danish monarchy, and, as a natural result, of bringing about an amicable settlement of the d,s pute about the German Duchies. Her MaJnery's Govenuuent " confess," says the FOREIGN SECRE TARY, " that they take an interest in the integrity " of the Danish monarchy, and should be sorry to " Dee the force of Denmark, which is not con " siderable, weakened or impaired." Ho then refers to the two plans—the one formerly pro mised and the one now proposed by Denmark— for the pacification of Holstein, both of which Prussia has alike rejected. "Her Kt./wren " Government," says the despatch, " would have " been glad to see all parts of the Danish " monarchy fairly represented in a Parliament at " Copenhagen. if that is unattainable, they " would have been glad to see Denmark and " Holstein assume an equitable portion of the " burdens necessary to be borne for the mainte " nance of Danish independence. The despatch " of Baron SCHLZINITZ, of the Bth November, ap " pears to reject this scheme of settlement just as " the former scheme of equal representation had " been before thrown aside." Lord JOHN ROW ELL here plainly refers to the Constitution for the entire monarchy proclaimed by the King of DENMARK SIX years ago, in fulfilment of the royal proclamation issued at the close of the war in 1852. In that proclamation the KINu promised to frame a new constitutional govern ment for the whole monarchy, with a common parliament elected on the basis of equal represen tation. Population was naturally taken as the standard or measure of the equal representation. The number of members elected to the common parliament was proportioned to the popula tion in the various parts of the monarchy. Against this equitable plan the Holstein Assembly protested, on the ground that each part of the monarchy ought to have the same number of representatives, irrespective altogether of its population. A word or two of explanation will make the truo nature of this claim apparent The I Danish monarchy consists of four parts—Den mark Proper, or the Kingdom of Denmark, and , the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg. The parts of course differ very widely in wealth, population, and territory. While Holstein has 500,000 inhabitants, and Lauenburg only 80,000, Denmark l'roper has a population of a million and a half. The Holstein Assembly therefore claimed that an insignificant Duchy like Lauenburg, with fewer inhabitants than a thirl•rate English town, should send as many representatives to the corn- MOU Parliament as the Kingdom of Denmark. The Government of Denmark having refused this irra tional claim, Holstein rejected the new constitu tion, and was supported in that step by the Ger manic Confederation, with Prussia at its head. The liberal constitution, therefore, which, apart from foreign interference, might have healed the differences with the Duchies, and brought the various parts of the monarchy under a single representa tive government, was overthrown, mainly through Prussian influence. No man in Europe knows all this better than Baron Scinmerrz. Yet how does he reply to Lord Julie's allusion to the rejec tion of this constitutional scheme t Referring to Lord Jons'a statement that the British Government would have been glad to see every portion of the D an i s h monarchy adequately represented in ' general Parliament at Copenhagen, ho adds : " On our part, we have not the slightest objection " to such an arrangement ; and if a contrary ink.- " rence has been drawn by Lord JOHN Rugsm.i. " from my despatch of the Bth, this can only pro " coed from a misinterpretation of my views. Nor " did we, as Lord JOHN Muslims. supposes, ever " reject the plan of an equal representation for " the different countries. On the contrary, we " hare affrays urged the Danish Government to " fulfil the promise that the Monarchy should be " granted a constitutiou, he4owing U/‘ equal amount " rights upon each f the various countries con " tin t ; it." We emphasise the sentence in italics because it would be difficult for the most audacious diplomatic cunning and duplicity to go beyond it. The natural infer ence on reading it is that the Prussian Govern ment had supported a constitutional scheme of general representation. What it really means is that the Prussian Government upheld the irrational claim of Holstein, that each Duchy should have tho same number of members as Denmark Proper, by which the German Duchies, with less than a third of the population, would have outvoted the entire Kingdom. It is in substance precisely the same proposal as it would be to give Scotland, Ireland, and Wales the same number of parliamentary representatives as England. Thu other main point in which Baron Scinansirz seriously misinterprets the English Minister's despatch relates to the right of interference in Schleswig. Lord JOHN RUSSELL points out that in the correspondence of 1851 there is a' " distinct renunciation on the part of Austria " and Prussia on behalf of the German Confede " ration of any competence to extend iho federal' " law over Schleswig." He adds, however, that the promises contained in the King of DE:QUARK'S proclamations of that date his Danish MAJESTY is bound in honour to fulful. These promises, however, referred to principles of government, not to the details of administration. On this latter point the British Minister is most explicit. "But " neither in form nor in substance, as it appears "to her Ms.inerv's Government, do these pro- 1 " miser give a right to Austria and Prussia, or to " the German Confederation collectively, to in " terfere in all the details of administration in the " Danish Duchy of Schleswig. If Schleswig were " incorporated with Denmark, if Schleswig were " deprived of its separate constitution, Germany " might claim a right to interfere. But if the " regulation of each Church and each School in " Schleswig were to be the subject of interference "by the German Confederation, it is clear " that the sovereign rights of the King "of DENMARK would exist only in name." It is these very details, however—details of the smallest kind—which constitute the ground of the Prussian interference in Schleswig. Baron Scautiwirs represent/ Lord JOHN RUSSELL as ap proving of the principle on which Prussia and the German Confederation claim to interfere in Schleswig, while he denies that any attempt has been made to meddle with the details of adminis tration. But nothing could well be a smaller point of administrative detail than the language to be used in the common school of a Schleswig village, where half the population are Germans and half Danes. Yet this is one of the main points in which Prussia claims the right of interference. Ebt court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jar. M. The following vixitora arrived at the Castle yesterday afternoon : —The Cuuutess Cowley and Lady Feeders Wellesley, Lord and Lady Ebory, General von Bonin, Colonel Blumenthal, and Captain von Bonin. The royal dinner party included in addition the Princess Alice and the Dean of Windsor. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guanlii played during dinner the— Fantasia, " Itemlnlieences of Auber." Vales, Stars of the Neat" SOnstloo, " II liarlary Sreua ed Aria NI. Posts Quadrille, inmonelis are cumin gJulnen Her Majesty's private bend afterwards performed in the drawing room the— &Wonla, "Jupiter," Allegro. 'flume, Andante, Cantabile, Minuetto, and Trio, Finale The queen, accompanied by Princess Alice, walked in the grounds of tho Quit.lo this morning. The Prince Consort went to the Wellington College, attended by Colonel the lion. Sir Charles Phipps and Colonel Ponsonby. Princess Louise rode in the Rlding•honse. General von Bonin, Colonel Blumenthal, and Captain von Bonin left the Castle in the forenoon. The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded Lady Macdonald as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. The Duke of Newcastle left town yestenlav on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Dsspstches were sent yestenlay from the Colonial-office to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. His Excellency General von Bonin listi returned to Manrigy's Hotel from Windsor Gulls. The buchera of St. Albano and Lady Diana Beauclerk leave town today for Mentmore, Bucks. The Earl and Countem of Derby will return to town oo Friday from Knowsley Park. The Earl and Countess of Fife and Lady Agnes Duff left town yesterday for Folkestone, on their way to the Continent. Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Cambridge House yesterday from Broadhurls, Hants. Viscountess Jocelyn and family arrived in town yesterday from Broadlanda. der ladyship and her family have quite recovered from their late indisposition. The Right Hon. W. F. Cowper and Mrs. Cowper have »tamed to town from visiting the Countess Cowper at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. Tho Right lion. Abraham Brewster has so far recovered from the effects of his late sorious accident as to be able to resume the discharge of his professional busi ness. The learned gentleman attended on Monday in the Ch►ncery Appeal Court, Dublin. He appeared remarkably well. although somewhat reduced, and still obliged to sup port his arm in a sling. _ . Him Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, accom panied by his secretary, Craig, Sae., arrived at Dublin cc Mooday seeming front Holyhead, per the City of Dublin &genii-east Comiany's steamship Laster. Earl de Grey and Ripon bun intimated to com manders of volunteer corps that, with a new of promoting as mart) as possible a knowledge of the rifle among all classes el volunteers, be will be prepared, after the lit of Aped. 1861, to sanction the gratuitous inane of ride ammunition to volunteer corps. Him lordohip does not intend that this grant should be in addition to the quantity already allowed to be purchased by oiria, but that the difference between the proportion issued gratis and the quantity which has hitherto been allowed to rifle corps may bo continued to be lamed to them at cost price. Mr. Buxton, addregrott Lis con‘titnents at Maidstone last night upon the disruption of the United Staten, end its probable effects upon the supply of cotton to this country. Having traced the rise and progress of slavery in America he urged that the present crisis, though it might seriously affect the existing commerce of the country, would, in the end, prove beneficial, by rendering us less dependent upon the United States, and opening out other fields fur the production of the raw material in India, Africa, and our colonial possessions. The annual meeting of the Pontefract Mechanics' Institution •as held on Monday night, and was attended by • numerous and respectable audience. The Maroa (J. E. Robinson, Eaq.) took the chair, and the meeting was ad dressed by Mr. Milnes, M.P., the Rev. The e . fit a i e f or th (the president), the Rev. Sir T. E. Bloomfield, the Rev. J. Baker, the Right Hou. J. Parker, Mr. Winderapin, and others. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The following telegram has been received by Mr. Renter : THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS. PARIS, WIDNESDAY. The Moult, ur announces that a first warning has been given to the Courier du Dimanehe. The letter of Count Persigny, Minister of the Interior, in explaining the reasons for this decision, says : "I should betray the interests of the state iti toler ating discussion on the principle of the imperial government, and still less that this principle should be outraged." The Minister adds :—" I have learnt that M. Ganesco, author of the article in question, and editor of the Courrier ,In Dimond e, is a foreigner. lam astonished that he should have come hero to insult the institutions of France, and I have ordered the prefect of police to expel him from France." The Monitenr also announces that the committee for examining the menatus counaltunt on the pub lication of accounts of the sittings has decided that these accounts must consist either in a full reproduction of the debates, or in an account of the sittings drawn up under the authority of the President of the Senate. THE ELECTIONS IN ITALY. TURIN, TUESDAY. _ _ _ The elections for North Italy are now all known. They secure a large majority to the government. In Lombardy they are better than they were last year. The Mazzinian party has been completely beaten. The returns of the elections from Naples received to-day are good. It may be calculated that two thirds of the elected are favourable to the govern ment. The first news of the elections in Sicily is very good. Messina, Syracuse, and Catania have re turned leaders of the Moderate party. Crispi has been defeated at Palermo. SICILY. A letter from Palermo gives the following : " Palermo is tolerably quiet, and the arrival of some three thousand Genoese troops has re assured some of the timid people who were dreading more insurrectionary movements. The weather is very changeable and damp, and the English in valids hero are complaining very much. The Amphion is behind the Mole, where I hope she will remain until April." Another letter from Messina, dated 22nd, states that 3G4 women, wives and daughters of the prin cipal officers of Francis IL's army at Gaeta, had arrived at Messina ; they were placed at the Lazaaretto, where they were in great distress from want of food. A number also of Francis ll.'s officers had arrived, and wished to join the troops in the citadel, but the general in command refused to admit them ; they, therefore, had nothing left but to go to the Lazziretto, where they were almost starving. HUNGARY. PEEN, JAY. 31 The general assembly at Waraadin has unani mously resolved upon the annexation of Croatia, and the restitution of the Thur island to Hungary. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : THE SIEGE OF GAETA. NAPLE'S. a %N. 2A. A flag of truce was yesterday seat from Gaeta to the fleet. An Italian steamer immediately proceeded to the fortress, and the firing was afterwards suspended on both sides. Deeerters from the Bourbon army speak of a project to surrender Gaeta. The fire of the Cavalli cannons has been mar vellous. RUSSIA. ST. P 1 I, JAN. 29. It is asserted that the Grand Russian Railway Company is about to contract a loan abroad of 25,000,000 roubles, in bonds of 4 per omit. The price at which these bonds are to be issued is not yet known. No doubt is entertained here as to the success of the loan. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. EIOUTHAYPTON, WZDNIIIDAT. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pere, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 03 passengers and a general cargo, including raw silk, value upwards of 160,0001, On the 20th inst. she pissed her Majesty's ship Firefly, steering east. The Ceylon had left Gibraltar for Alexandria. The Mavroconlatos, with Garihaldians on board, left Gibraltar for London on the Zird Met. Previous to her de. pat-tare the Oaribahlians addressed letters of thanks to his Excellency the Governor for the kind treatment they had received. The British steamer Victor, from Plymouth, had arrived at Cadta. On the 17th inet., the Marquis de la Victoria, bound to Tetuan with a squadron of Albuera cavalry, was run into by a schooner. The Emily Wylde, with a cargo of Indian corn, had loft Ilasagan for Cork. West accounts from Melilla state, with respect to the question of limits, that the Chief of the Kabyles continued to boll meeting,. The Moors of Frajama and Cobierizas were opposed to giving up their homes, unless the Emperor indemnified them for loss, and preferred paying tribute to the Queen of Spain, if protection and security of property were gua ranteed to them. Gibraltar : Exch►nges and freights were unaltered. It is stated in the Paris correspondence of the independence that M. Ledru Rollin being desirous of return. Mg to France, an opposition is raised on the ground that he was condemned to transportation for taking part in a conspiracy against the Emperor in tho Tibaldi affair. M. Rollin contends, however, that be is included in the amnesty, and his views have been stated in a meinoire pre• seated by M. eremieux. The question will shortly be decided on authority. The Italian papers publish a letter from the lute Bavarian Minister at Turin to Count Cavour, announcing the suppression of the legation at the Sardinian Court. The ex.minister, who writes from Rome, expresses his personal gratitude for the courtesy which he has also received. The Perecreranzes states that the celebrated com poser Verdi will be elected as a deputy for Turin. Signor Verdi is well known in Italy for his patriotic sentiments. The journals of Turin describe the successes of Giugliei and Madame Titiens in that city, already an nounced, as nearly without example. _ . At Rume, the Parisian favourite, Mdlle. Plunk3t, has turned the hands of half the city by her dancing in a new ballet called La Gioeoliens, something akin to Ennerabla, composed for her by Rota. From Genoa wo (Gaiigtia hi) learn that the new star, ltdme. Galetti, continues constantly rising ; her Norms and Lucresia recalling the most palmy periods of opera in Italy. . - - Some difficulties of execution we (Gatigneoli) hear threaten to retard the production of Herr Wagner's TlMM hamar at the Onnd Opera. An intention now suista of engaging M. Faun, it is said, to replace Morelli u the bari tone. We hops all this will not realise the old adage, "Much Ado about Nothing." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nos ons ows coassaroxossr.) PARIS, TrUDAY EVENING.. The question whether the journals are to be allowed to make " comments " upon the speeches in the Senate and Corps Legislatif has now become a very practical one, and is anxiously discussed. The &irk and Presse have already announced that they intend to try the right on the very first day of the session. M. Darimon, one of the members for Paris, has an article in the Prose remarking upon the absence in the Moniker of the financial statement which hitherto has always been published several days, and sometimes several weeks, before the opening of the session. He trusts it may appear before Feb. 4, as the budget this year will, on account of the free-trade measure, be unusually important, and the debate ou the address must necessarily be connected with questions of finance. It is rumoured that Lord Dufferin has resigned his commission in Syria, and that in consequence the English government wishes to postpone the conference which has been announced, but that France insists upon the conference meeting on February 15 at latest, in order that she may know at least fifteen days beforehand what resolutions are taken with reference to the prolongation or termination of the French occupation, which, by the existing treaty, comes to an end on March 3. 1 The Bourse was firm, and a good deal of busi ness was done. It is now given out that the imperial speech will say nothing about the King of Prussia, and will be altogether pacific and con ciliatory. The latest despatches infer the pro bability of the surrender of Gaeta without more bloodshed. The Rente rose 25c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at fiBfr. 10e. and 68fr. sc. Mo bilier rose Mr. The Orleans Railway fell 3fr. 75c., and Northern 2fr. 50c., but the other lines were from lfr. 25c. to 3fr. 75c. higher. "It is Mated," says the Petrie, "that regular communication is about to be established between France and China via Egypt. The vessels appointed for this service will run from Marseilles and from Suez on the one hand, and from Shanghai on the other, and will touch at Segon, chief town of the French establishments in the empire of Annam." GARIBALDI AND THE ITALIAN EMIGRANTS. The emigrants scattered throughout the several towns of Italy have formed themselves into a general com mittee, and appointed Garibaldi their president. They named • committee for carrying to Caprere an address, which, while thanking him for what he had already done in behalf of liberty, expressed the confidence they had in an entire and speedy deliverance from the tyranny that kept them away from their homes. But the committee, having informed Garibaldi of their intentions previously to their setting out on their journey, received from him the following letter : " I am very grateful for the mark of distinction which the Italian emigrants so kindly wished to confer upon me when they declared me by acclamation their honorary pre sident. I gratefully accept this honourable title, and I beg you kindly to express tothe emigrants my gratitude for their goodness in sending to me a deputation as bearers of au address, but I beg them to spare the deputation a journey to Capreni, seeing that I am about to be absent for a time, the length of which I do not know. "GARIBALDI. "Capra's, Dee. 26, 1860." GARIBALDI'S YOUNGEST SON. Ricciotti Garibaldi, the youngest son of the peat Italian patriot, was last night presented with ea address by the workmen of Messrs. Evan Leigh and Son, engineers, Miles Platting. The address was intended as ■ compliment to the illustrious father of the youth, who has lately boon the guest of Mr. Evan Leigh, and it was couched in the following terms: "We, the workmen in this establishment, feel desirous that your visit to the city of Manchester should not termi nate without some slight memento being placed in your hands, which may in future years refresh your memory with the thoughts of pleasant hours spent at that period of your life when the guest of our employers. We also desire to express, through you, our admiration of the noble and brilliant services rendered to the cause of freedom by your illustrious father, and we hope that Providence will watch over his valuable life and that of his family, until he has perfected that which we believe to have been his night dreams and morning thoughts for years, namely, the entire emancipation of the fair land of Italy from despotic thrul. dum ; and when that is accomplished, may the evening of his life be passed in calm tranquillity, peace, and harmony, in the bosom of his family. (Signed on behalf of the workmen) "THOMAN .OUTER, Chairman." Master it. GIRIBALDI was loudly cheered when he rase. He bad looked rather serious before, but his countenance beamed with delight as be witnessed the cordial outburst of feeling. He said, in a pleasant voice, and in good English: —" Goutlemen,—l thank you sincerely for the compliment you have paid to my father through me. lam sure he will be much gratified on perusing this beautiful address, ex pressing your thoughts so feelingly about the cause of free dom, which he has so much at heart, and your kind wishes for his welfare. Few things are more calculated to cheer and stimulate him in his arduous undertaking for the inde pendence and happiness of his country than the warm sym pathy of the intelligent working men of England." (Loud and continued cheering, followed by hearty cheers for his brother and sister, which were also acknowledged.) Master Garibaldi is in the 14th year of his age, and is being educated at Birkenhead. He is likely to return thither by the end of this week. Last evening a lecture on " William Pitt, the Politician," wee delivered by Mr. Fawcett, of Cambridge flall,and one of the candidates for the representation of the borough of Southwark in parliament during the recent contest: The lecture ryas delivered in the National School. room, Star-corner, Bermondsey, and was addressed more particularly to the members of the Bermondsey Working Men's Institute. There was a numerous attendance. Yesterday afternoon Professor Owen delivered the wend of his course of lectures on fishes at the Royal Institution. The circumstance of the proposal for an exchange by the Rank of Fnince of 1,200,000 f. in ..ilver for gold from the Imperial Bank at St. Petersburg haring been broken off (says the Times) has created some surprise, and led to conjectures as to the possibility of political feeling having been mixed up with the event. The arrangement was eon. entered an accomplished fact both ha Paris and St. Peters burg, but the Emperor of Russia is understood at the last moment to have refused his sanction. BOARD or TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 29. The Right Hon. the Loris of the Committee of Privy Council for- Trade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreige Affairs a copy of a French imperial decree, abolishing the surtuxe of 3 francs per 103 irilograinmes, fixed by the law of the 23rd May, 1870, upon foreign sugar imported into France in French vessels, from conntnes out of Eumpe.—fle:cfle. THE DANISH FLEET. —According to the latest document. p. 1,161101, the naval forces of Denmark are com posed of 40 -oil of the line (20 ssihng vessels and 20 steamers) and 70 smaller vessels. Their strength ia as follows : Sailing vessels : 4 sail .4 the line (2 of 84 guns and 2 of 72), 312 guns ; 6 frigates (1 of 80 and sof 44 30-pounder.), 280 n c s ; 4 corvettes of 28, 20, 14, and 11 guns, 73 guns ; 3 of 16 and 12 guns (18-pounders), 44 guns ; 2 schooners of Lugs swivel gnu each, 2 gins ; 1 cutter, with 6 all swivels, 8 guns : total, 717 guns. Steam vessels (12 afloat and 8 building) : 1 screw of 70 30-pounders, building, 70 gins ' • 2 screw frigates of 40 guns each, 80 guns; 2 screw frigates., building (1 of 52 and lof 42), 94 guns ; 2 screw corvettes (12 and 10 30-pounders), 22 guns ;I screw corvette, 16 guns, building, 18 guns ; 2 screw gunboats. 2 guns each, 4 guns ; 4 screw gunboats, building, 4 guns : 5 paddle-wheel steamers, mounting together 24 guns (60. 30, 24, and 18 pounders), 24 guns ; 1 royal paddle-whee l yacht of 12 3-pounders, for the use of his Majesty, 12 guns—total, 32i, guns • flotilla of row boats. 85 in number, mounting together 140 gun. of different calibre, 140 guns— general total, 1,183 guns. In addition to the vessels above mentioned the Danish navy has nine xtenra transports, four of which sre building and will be completed this year. The personnel of the navy comprises 1 iceadmiral, 3 rear lidniirals, 31 captains, 23 captain lieutenants, and SO lieu tenants. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.-DEATH OF DR. WIL LIAM BALY, M.D., PHYSICIAN TO HER MAJESTY. From inquiries made at St. Thomas's Hospital, to-day, we learned that Miss liaidee Power, aged 22 years, daughter of Colonel Power, of Smithies, who was injured in the accident yesterday, is progressing favourably, as also are the sufferers, George Mall, aged 21 years, ticket collector, and Mr. William Fußinger. We regret to state that Dr. William Baly, M.D., of No. 45, Queen Anne street, Cavendish-square, is recognised as the gentleman who was killed. He was principal physician to her Majesty, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Physician to Millbank Prison, and Lecturer on Forensic Medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; and Fellow of the Royal Col. legs, and of Medical, Chemical, and Statistical Societies. His death is a great loss to the medical profession. He had been telegraphed for, we believe, by a patient, and 1111.4 011 his way to the place where the patient resided, when the above accident occurred. The following letter is from a passenger : "I left Waterloo station by the train which leaver at 6.10 and rune direct to Kingston, but calls at all the stations beyond. On nearing Wimbledon it was observed that the train proceeded very slowly, and presently, on looking out, the alarm signals were visible. In a few minutes the train came to a full stop. There wax a hurrying to and fro of officials, but, as usual, no one knew what had happened, anti the passengers were requested to keep their seats. But Chi,' was not endurable after a lapse of about ten minutes, especially as it began to be rumoured that ► train in advance was off the line. With many others I got out of the carriage, and we made our way along the banks. In a few minutes we came to a second train. ' What time did you leave London! 'At 540.' We passed on, and found a third train drawn up. The same inquiry was made. The answer was, '315.' This was alarming. Three trains were now visibly blocked. The passengers (all full trains, it being early iu the evening) wore in a state of almost uncon. trollable alarm, end many, like ourselves, were groping their way along the banks to the scene of the disaster, marked out by the display of red lights, the noise of escaping steam, and the confused sounds that met our ears. At last we gained the spot precisely at the junction of the Epsom line with the South Western main, and in the flash of the Linterus that were moving in all directions we observed that a tender and several carriages bad been rolled down the embank. ment—some 20 feet, at least—and were piled up in a hideous ruin between the two lines. It was not easy to learn whether any passengers bad been killed or injured, many contradictory statements being made. Presently there was a gathering round the spot, voices were lambed, and people drawn together, as around a grave. The moon was just rising above the trees, and loomed round and red through the hare upon a battered corpse that had but a few moments before been dragged from the wreck. The body was that of an elderly gentle ' man, unknown to anyone present. [Dr. Baby.] The spectacle it presented was too sickening to describe in detail. I have heard and read of railway accidents, but never before felt the indignation and sickness of heart which overpowered nee, in common with all present, I believe, at that moment. There, bleeding and mangled in the midst of strangers, the grey hair covered with dust and blood, lay the beloved form of one for whom his family were at that moment waiting in joyful expectation. This was all I saw, but a few moments before 1 was told that a lady bad been carried away who was only able to gasp out that she was the daughter of a gentleman at Portsmouth—a Captain leDonald, I believe--and was expected home by her father. 1 understand there wax no hope of her recovery. This morning I have been told of a second body, which is now awaiting, with the one I saw, a coroner's inquest. It is to prevent that inquiry becoming a mockery and a sham that I beg you to insert this hastily written narrative." THE RECORD OFFICE.-RESIGNATION OP HR. TURNBULL. Mr. Turnbull writes to the Times, " Having for eighteen months been the object of a persecution involving my personal honour by three societies the chief of which is the ' Protestant Alliance,' I have felt that no other course was open to me but to resign an appointaseut sanctioned bysthe Lonls of her Majesty's Treasury. I therefore bane to request that you will have the kindness to insert the en. cloeW letters." " Public Record-office, Calendaring Department, Jan. 28, 1881. " Sir,— I am at • loss to express the pain which I feel at finding myself still the cause of a religious controversy which seems to be hamming more embittered day by day. Strong though my religious convictions may be considered by some, I am not the less conscious of my own rectitude, and I feel that 1 am the innocent object of a persecution which consistently with the precepts of our common Christianity cannot be justified. This state of things, however, must be now brought to an end; for 1 catnot, for my own individual advantage, allow the public mind to be disturbed by au acrimonious discussion of my merits or demerits, from which no conuttercurate beneficial results can by any possibility arise. 1, therefore, with many thanks fur your kind patronage, and with deep gratitude for the kind protection which you have so feelingly afforded me, beg to resign into your hands the Calendarship of the Foreign State Papers with which you honoured me in the month of August, lsr,V.- --I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient and meat obliged ferven " W. B. TeliNgui.e. "Eight Hon. Sir John Hominy, M.R." " Rolls, Jan. .".1. " My dear Sir,—lt is with much regret that I have road your letter, resigning your present employment. I feel, however, that I cannot press you to retain a situation which subjects you to so much persecution as that to which I have inadvertently exposed you. My regret at your resig nation is, however, mainly founded on the public loss which will I believe be sustained by the discontinuance of your services; nor will it be easy to find a gentleman both willing to carry ou the very arduous task in which vou have been engsgM, and also possaaed of the peculiar knowledge sod - capacity required for that purpose. I ainuot conclude without expressing the high esteem I entertain for yourself personally, and the pain I feel that any society of English gentlemen , professedly founded on religious principles, should have been found to exist in this country who have considered it consistent with the charity on which those principles are based, to endeavour by cc parte statements, and confidential canvassing, to remove from an employment for which he is peculiarly fitted a gen. tlemsn so honourable and trustworthy as I consider you to be.—l am yours very sincerely, " W. B. Turnbull, Esq." "JohN RoMILLY. A letter from Eeeeg (Sclavouia) announces that, during the night of the 13th inst., the Imperial eagles were torn down from the front of the Palatine l'alace and re placed by the &lave flag (red, white, and blue). The Pala. ties, it is said, gave the first commissary of the comitat orders to hoist the &lave tag. TUE SOCIAL EVIL Qu:8110N AT DLIBLIN.—The midnight meeting mode of abating the social evil adopted in London has been tried at Dublin, with a fair promise of excellent results. On Monday night a number of gentle• men went two and two through the city, and presented cards to the unfortunate females whom they met in the streets, inviting them to a social meeting in the Merchants' Hall. Tea and calces were provided in abundance, at tabled ranged round the large room, which were presided over by several benevolent ladies. About twenty clergymen, of different denominations, took part in the proceedings, during the course of which a number of impressive exhor tatious were delivered, accompanied by prayer and the siuging of hymns. Nearly 200 young women were present. and nothing could exceed the propriety and earuestnum with which this singular assembly conducted themselves. Many of them were moved to tears during the delivery of the addresees. Some were extremely youthful, and many had all the appearance of having been respectably brought up. About twenty availed themselves of the offer of the kind friends who originated the movement, and went to the home provided for them. CURIOUS WILL CA/SR.—Judge Keatinge has given judgment in the Court of Probate, Dublin, in a will rase which came before him under rather singular circum stanced'. In July, Im4.W, the Rev. Martin Osly, l'.P., of Rathilowney, in the Queen's County, being on " retreat," with a number of other priests, in the Roman Catholic College of Kilkenny, embraced the opportunity of settling at once his spiritual and temporal affairs, the mot firmer• tant of which was, of course, the preparation of his will. Going one day with a sheet of seta-paper in hie heed into the room where the Rev. Merin. howling and Walsh were engaged in some private business, he told them he wanted them to witness his will, and, folding down the end of a page, he presented a blank portion, upon which he wrote his name, sal they subscribed theirs as witnerves. A question arose as to w hether this was a su ffi c ient corn. planes with the conditions of the statute. The Rev. Mr. Dowling could not swear whether there was any writin. at all on the sheet except the signatures, and if the case luidl rested upon his evidence alone the will would probably have been set aside. The other wituesa, however, swore that he saw some writing on the paper in the testator's hands though he could not say whether it then contained all the writing now upon it. The court held that, under tke dr. cumetances, there being nothing to rebut the presumption that the will was completely written out when pre•ented for attestation, the execution was sufbeient.