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7 / tt f, EWSPAPER -1 1 .(••••:,; i . Cl ' : ( s :l a - t v 5 7 . ...7 axa ~, t , /l. • 1 1.4 c , , • e 1 (Stamped, id. Additional) [TWOPENCE. No. 4.490.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY ING, JANUARY 2, 1861. IWITT and MOORE'S ArSTRALILN LINE rAI It IT still' —rur SYDNEY Direct last 0 rr• l l7l7.ser Lo t t .* lu r.Blatt .ler • tree hs the Lowish Netts liar • r0w:n°.11.414 plop. and first aressers•detlees Per chs ratnu paserawm —For term, a emelt a w ty to Str . f B WALK Lk, 13*, St. Hach s / Ls, .011 arid LlMtkh 9. Balite? street, gIeUEEN'S COLLEGE INSTITUTION tur LAMA Tutor pork. cudgel-road, Gordon. NEST TEEM COMMENCER Jemmy LS, tlot Foe for Iteuidano—la L'pper Pohool. Oo E = Ai rr .unitan : Junior sehooL annum "ane per annum Reboot ;n olineerr per Aisuunr. Gover ie se student' fllellfted fro of Zoll irulocia f in 'cur l'ertir.-ttes granted. For ailLdnael of the cower, at Whir«. asid Prq•Pectlaes• wan tia of relerend patrons ma/ harpsieurres, and dal of poen Law -wen and tauter*. address Kw MOM Lady• Principal ad th... THE 1109 T HON. MR. CARDWELL, MP., AND MR. LANGSTON, M.P., AT OXFORD. will Mrs, With im that, although the Ameticane appear to be threatened 'Mom themselves with miry danger, from division and dimion, the common feeling of the whole Anglo-flaann race has, b 7 that auspicious visit, been drawn more closely and united more finely to the com mon mother of the whole race, from whom all its virtues and all its honours have dssanded. (Ohms.) Gentlemmenm,,` at home we have not, indeed, been blessed with a favoarMM season ; but such is the lability and such have been the litteeinge of the comb., that we oan now meet an adverse sawn without being &dm to our centre, as we used to he in fawner times, and, notwithstanding the die eukies with which we have had to contend, we have had on every rids a kiyal, a us, and a contented people. (Cheers.) In time b er: Peru ngs I am happy to say that the sister island shares in a signal and remarkable degree. (Hear, hear.) She has been more severely tried probe* by the emerityg i Le d vear that has just gone by than her Mier deter, . The time has not long pared when there wo d have been an imitated popuktion had not the pursuits of industry been opened to them, for there were no means of obtaining wagee for their labour in that day. But these times happily have gone by, sad now is Ireland there is growing up a spirit of redu*ry, a dial, for improvement, a thrret after the knowledge of the bleseinp of education, which bids fair year by year to rake her more and more in the scale of the nations of Europe' and depend upon it that side by side the two deem. Idnekswi will continue to Sourish and bn preire-,llne rated empire, the envy of surrounding natio'', and the happiness of at peoples who inhabit them. We have sem is the past year that spestacie upon which my hon. friend and oolleegne dwelt—we have seen this country Mingles' ono men, delarmined that at whatever sacrifice in perms and in peek* that mot be done whit i mint ear delimits the lissom and the intermasof the emote% and we havirpmeseted to no • spreads such as I will-mature to smite other senntry ever presented before, and which no other wintry can at this moment prement Ira conclusion I thank you besotly for the kindness with which you have reneived as, as well as for the public /narks of confidence with whisk you ham &wowed me. I believe that, not withirtandiag the abortooluirm, whatever they may be of the yyeeaari which has just expired, I hope and trust that the condition of the country in which it is ourpilvilege to live is destined to be more and more a muse of happiness to the subjects of the Queen, the object of admiration and imita tion of other nations of the globe, and to be, thanks to its popular and free institutions, the ark of rational and well end liberty. (Loud cheers, in the midst of which the right how gentleman resumed l& seat) The health of the Chairman, the Mayor, the University of Womb and various other local toasts were then given, and the proceedings terminated. UNIVERSITY INTE4IJGENCE. OXFORD. JAN. 1. LIXOOLN Cora ma.—lmmediately after the funeral of the late rector of this oollege (Dr. Thompeca), which took plea thh Holywell Cemetery, Be ige • fellows, viz., Rev. 01111/ Fowler, M.A., Rev. Mark Patthae, 8.D., Rev. Frederick Metcalfe, RD., Rev. Wsahbourne West, 8.D., Rev. John Hodgson Des, ILA., and William Walter !ferry, M.A., held a seniority, and naiad to cite the whole of the fellows to meet in the College Chapel at 8 o'clock on Friday morning, the 25th of January, to elect a rector in the room of the late Dr. Thompson. Reveal names have bean mentioned as likely to =weed to this valuable headship, which is stated to be one of the best in the university. Among them are those of Mr. Patteson, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Mackell Vioe•Pri= of Magdalen Han, and Public O rator , and Mr. Professor of Pastoral Theology at queen's College, Birmingham. THE LATE SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OE LIFE IN PLYMOUTH SOUND. On Monday an inquest was held on the bodies of Edward Hoek's, Jamie Toms, David Libby, Walter Hoeken, and Jolla Clapp, the crew of the schooner Speed. well, which was wreaked on S a t ur d ay a ft ernoon , b e t ween learnt Point and Hooe lake, just under Mount Edgrumhe , under t e circumstances_ reported in our Mopday's =pram- Moo. Mehemet was held at Maker F Won Jetoe, county Dormer. The first whams called was William Remy who mid—l am a master in the Royal Navy, l ied chief officer of the coast guard station at Ormsaud, in the pariah of Rome. About eight o'clock on Saturday morn ing I was at Cawsand, and RAW the Speedwell at anchor between Redding Point and Hooe Lake, under Mount Frlgcumbe. Just about ten o'clock a steam Inv came out and took bold of the schooner with a rope. The tug, however, shortly after left, and went towards Plymouth, but I cannot say whether or not the rope parted. When I saw the perilous position the schooner wee in I sent round two of my day men to watch her, but it was impossible t o waist her, although I sent two lines in cam the men on board the schooner should take to their boat. I went shortly after them, and saw the sailors take the boat on board and bale her out. The 'reseed was then at anchor. The crew in the course of the day pulled down the burgee from the maintopmast—a mall narrow flag bearing the name of the ship, Speedwer—and pat it in the fore lining. The whole of the crew ' wraTeki four men and one boy, thew took to their boat, pulled toward' Redding Posm, with the head of the boat to the eartward. They evidently tried to weathor Redding point, bat the first sad they entered wallowed the boat up. The met were all immersed ia. the water,. mad only two of them appeared again. .One of my men get within • distance of fear yanks from one of them, when the sea eat him 11011111, lad it yam mach as we maid do to hard him in. The whole of the crew were lost to sight moans than awe mimeos. When I Sett saw the vowed in thrumming she had a pilot jack at the fore crass tree, and • bargee at her muntopromt. There was no sigma of diebson ; for what weemarder • sigma of distress is an amigo tamed upside doww. But she had no ensign on board at all, aid 1 considered, hem the hat of her having the SIM jack wing that Me wanted aphid to come to her : but it was impeemble fora pilot Mg° neer , her, on account of the boisterous state of the wattle's.. When the steam tug Mt I thought els was genie to Plymouth to obtain sesint• &ace, but I did net see her 'stun. One of thrjurymeo asked whether if the coast gnarl had been supplied with a rocket apparatus the deceased's live' would not .have been saved . _ - WEEKLY STEAM COMMUNICATION to NEN% iosa.—The LIVE-ErtwoL NEW youE. and rirtu.o.Lrin 411LA'll SHIP COMPANY Inteml tirsput•lune Owe till towered Om Screw Steamaltipe, caning at Quutostuwu I. ralt pIIII4IIIIMI 211.1 tifspalk . hol. as follow, • yenv LtN ERPIIOL WOK MOW YORK. A ROYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Picea .Cl. dilly. the handsomest and toot proporttoue4 rooms to are GIES for CONCERTS and DANCING. Conducted the well known artist, Moen Anthony Lamotte. of Parisian rah-tort y. M Bonbon* the greatest menet player In this eouniry. pia), solos aightky Down open at half-past 7. Dancing at 9 .. s cloch. A . 1/1. N b —A tasimilimet tmaLletßstM reading-room la added to this ottablldomost. WINS, Val. This Day, Jas . V WO. V4•Jor.lay, Jan. A ET NA, Wednesday. Jan. 16. And every succeeding Wedinaday. t•Ahin piusseg. LA 17. and *2l gn mesa aeoaallue to the areena canard pananr,h Innen. 'scholia( all prortaims Pageragers toe Canada and the Welters (Batas hone/ eaten ce very aiingageoug terms —Fir Wiper redesign ~d WAX 1:4eir"":" iiimcA —Thar anamon ea et Cork Saelam, es both out ward sod Ikeneword JIIIIIMIVR I. land and " 0011 " Mak RITISH and NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL NAIL STIAII FUIPs, appointed by the Admiral to ajK between Mgt:plaid and A1:11' VoRK Direct, and far tot LIVERIrea....i r..,,,10N. tiar lkoton alopa a gi. f... .ging HAL.ITAX to land and woody* paornolv and bet • Me following or ether vessels are appointed to Oat, reaped ASIA, for % I:W 1 ottli olireet. Saturday. Jan. 5. AIM. tftd. b.r 1311ST0N, SA l tpuy,J,,,, il, •AILAMI„ for NEW VORA direet, Salunlay, Jan. (9. • rAttpg l" Nola and good% for Naomi alai Havana, to be -ansfern..ll .0 N... V. , rit on Nord the it.ll A.K. Kano* Prosage wavy. Inclarting newarde lee and parelakei. bet Oast wines or !bloom wliok or be *braised an bawd :—To algal and Boston thief cabin. de:. woad cabin. Lit. To ow York. elder 110.114 Co . eeeurul cabin, tlB. Freight to Labia; boaton, and New York. £3 per torn. and I, par cent. prl w. Small heat*, Rs. emit and upwards. Thine eleouweitipt To ecommodattos for a Molted number of retool robin pas cora —Yee prose of after lafonsatlon apply to J. It. Yoord, I. 044 lliewl4trima. Landes ; D. Currie, Harr*, mod 12, Mee de bons, heir ; O. and J. Door, Dochanaaotrook Gloom : 1 D. sod C. rine. Watatirist, Liverpool. THiLONDON PAVILION, Tichbornerstreet, llsymairaL—tf yip mast to speed • pleasant erodes., se to the LONDON TAY JON. the Deed renal. le Landes. sal the beat CONCLIT. AtElrice thy refreshment Deka% M.— inwliall Ant" RUM Ganerisa te. OXFORD UNITERSI7Y.—OOI7NGTL-0/71CF, WH/Tll - JAI. I.—Where,s under the provisions of an act, in the late session of ppaarrliament, intitnisd "An Act provide for the mud ion of an °ellipses., which has been laid before parliament, in a report of the thdord Uni versity C00:11111111110Dell," her Majesty has been esed i ty her orders in council of the 9th June and Bled em 1860, to refer, for the c oed dsration sad advice slf a comsat tee of five members of her privy council, en anlinants, framed by the Oxford Universal Contraitsioans, in relation to the College of St. John the Baptist. in the University of Ozford, and several petitions in favour of and against that ordinance : Notice is hereby given that the said ordinance, and the report relating to it from the mid commissioners— the objection of the govemmag members of the aid ca and tbs above-mentioned petitions in relation thereto will bd taken into consideratiou by the committee of the Leeds of her Majesty's most honourable privy council to whom doe matter has been referred, is the council clamber, Whitm hall, fa Wednesday, the 23rd January next, at eleven o'clock. —AIITHIIa ULU& Gazette. BRIDE CAKES, One to Twenty Gui nea s eaah— a Cake for eve guineas; Dundee, Madeira. and Babel Cakes, fres Is. to lea each ; • ler,* anortment et Almond Cakes for dessert, la id. per lb. Soups, Jellies, Ovum and bag. Tartlets. Ball Supper,. and Wedding Brisbane provided. —Pt MALL. Coat and Cabectioser, 102. BAVONIigeL REDILTCTION Of THE Win DIMES. EUROPEAN and COLONIAL wixi cohort. I!; am-man, London. The above V t 4,lny has Leap tested for tlu, purpose of lap , Ma* 0112 .17. sod Private Families stab PL IN of the est character, at awing of Slf per tent. ROYAL VICTORIA SHERRY ..t7& per dozen. The Otandard of Excellence.) SPLECIMD OLD PORT, ten years In the wood S7& per dozen. SPARKLING EPEILVAT CHAMPAGNE SAL „ BT. JULIRY CLARET, pure and without aridity Us. FINDS/ OUGNAC BRANDY (Palo or &elm HA and sft. HUNGARIAN CROWN PORT, SHERRY, de TOL sad SY. The anon cur Introduced Into Una country. CANADIAN and UNITED ESTATES MAIL .ATEASIZII4.—WorkIy Communlealass by Abeam between Lnerynol and An:rem—shortest Passage by Ana—The Mos erel Orme Banuaallip Company's Ilrsdelses full-powered Clyds. null Mad Steamon .111 soil from LIVERPOOL ersey Thursday. CANADIAN. Thu: uday, Jan 3. Pod NORTH BRITON. Thursday. Jan to, Dal. DOBILIDAN, Thumdm, Jun 11% Pod lIIBIRNIAN and N01:33 LC I3N lour bulldlng Ridge of To Portland —VIM elms, Ain Ilia aaa us tba: UtaraeMatr, g.s : steerage, L 7 71. Tbr M: Wan. Nem York. Montreal, Uansllton, and Toronto . aollste. Cu steera,,v. A.'S S —For further revtlerdegn giddy SABEL 11114 i AP.A.RILK anemia, 11. Water street. and 3 asaaat . al, !Arturo Ua a. tharpoot . 13, North Wall, IMAM; ang , crert. Londonderry. Battles and packages Included, audits dozen cane tree to say railway station in England or Wales. Prke MU tree t appli cation. Terns cask. WILLIAM ILICIDTIPPING. Ilsearier. - 6 - 1 , Was. ' "OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT AT THE SEATI NVINES and SPIRITS, 333, Strand (late SRORT's , opposite S.taenet House.—Pull value for reedy Money. —Good Port and Sherry, he gallon Croft's Port and an ey • Sherry on draught Cluinipsme, 300 IMAM : Hen assay's gnat old Brandy, ?Oa Won Oin, litelie•t strength, sweet or plain, 12a. . tlne•t old Jamaica Bum, las ItAnea Irish and scotch Whisky, 17.. gallon. (Prom Fuqua.) nALITION.-WA'THERSTON wad BROODEN IL, recommend the public to have the Carat Gold stated on the lavolee—" Pine Gold and Pure Gold; as applied to Jewedmy, brims a &Wont! tt' THERSTON asd BROGDEN'S OOLD CHAINS, and all article+ nienufactwwid by them, are sold upne this principle, sud at the inanufacturene prices. Manufactory, 19, Hearletta.strect, W.C. Assays mute of chains and Jewellery cit. 13 each —N.B. This estaidishmeut closes at 6 la the evening, and on Saturdays all. The witneae t in reply, stated it would haw been perfectly wakes in this instance, for even if they had had one at their disposal the surf was so great that themen would have been. drowned if they had attempted to drag them through the heavy sea that was sunning at the time. The Coroner—Were there aey large ships of war Inside the Breakwater, I_l OTHENBI;RO.—ReguIar weekly Steam Com- VS toonleatloa.—The nee flutelen screw ISONWT LONDON, .pule DIA DBUEII. will dear outwards toe lb. above port To n .rroo Thursday, inl Ingtant. Excellent aerrommodatlon foe paet flora Fares. &Iloilo. a. 3 3a . ecoesd ekes, lt2 2t—Fee tnlielt, wimp. &at. apply to PIII man, 0111AVII. wil PHIL LIPPD, U. Zoo44mien, Yeachurdvntripat le Witeme—One man-of-war and a steam sloop, The Coroner—Could they have seed the perilous position in whieh the schooner was? Whams —h is most likely, Vibe had bad a peoper signal of distress dying ; but, nautically speaking, the pilot pick and the binges were not a signal- The Cferoaer—lf the men had heisted a sigma, would you have had any menus of saving them Witness—No other than throwing the lines to•them. It would have been impossible for any Mahone to have puffed the enamel off. I have no Wigan* at my station, but I should say there was one at Plymouth ; but I could not . telegraph there with my flogs, for I could not say the vessel was In distress when she had no signal flying. Some other witnesses having bees examined the coroner • summed up ; after which The Foreman said—The verdict we find is that of "Acci dental death," and we wish to say at the same tame that Mr. Williams and his men did the utmost in their power to rescue the men ; but we think that a great censure should be laid on the commanders of the men of war in the Sound, and also on the harbour master, far it is evident that the ship, having laid where she was for so many hours, must have been seen by the harbour mute/ and the commanders of the vessels. SEWING MACHINES.—WHEELER and WILmoN'S noted " LOCK.STITCH" SEWIXO SIACRINLY. Speed tress 1,2e0 !,000 stiaelses per minute. —sale Lusisia 462, Oslorstelnet. Descriptive pamphlets gratis. BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. Incorporated by Royal Charter. 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JOZZAIrB COPAHINE, or Booobarotod zi mink adalebtared le the Pui sad Lobos and didisowiedged sr the WM rely der didelds dkiessa (Low* ad Nov b. 1810 A egg, broltdsol ea syelledlta PR lb, 4, id . at °ADVIL JOMVII, lead cbeadolt WA mutat, Lemke . IX Am IL Qmsells, Pada ; art lbw dhadabla. lies by ptab IL ft RE-Mir-rums or Maxim or rot Mew= Duct Buenos— In accordance with the prociaions of the act of parliament, Nears. Eyre Evans, Charles Turner, W. Inman, F. Shand. H. Seger, junr., and W. Y. Mess, retired by rotation from the Mersey Dock Board. Yesterday a ape cal meeting of the board was held for the election of mem bers to snowed them ; but on • motion of Mr. Denham, secceded by Mr. Wilson, who highly eulogised the way in which the board had conducted their business during the pad year, the whole of the retiring members were re-elected without oppoaition. NELPoLITAN IILPOITS.--BOARD or TRADE, WHITE BALI, bac. 31.—The Right Ron. the Lords of the Com mittee of Privy Council for Trade have received from the Secretary of elate for Foreign Affairs a copy of a dosmtch from her Majaaty'sCanind at Naples, enclosing • trawled= of a Bann paldieloid in the camel journal of that city on the 10th Inataat, providing that merchante importing wheat sad other cereals for warehousing shall enjoy the followin4privileges : 1. Facilities for hiring warehouses ; 2. The he of re-exponina the said grain to other Italian ports, or to foreign countries. The parts at present autho- rised to have such warehouse, are Naples, Ca' stellarnare, Paolo, Piano, Cotrooe, Taranto, Brindisi, and Pescara.— eeeate. I Bona KENNINGTON 8..1 tarry. —Week ending Dm 29 (Christmas Week).—Free days. 10,249 ; free eveninp, 3,990 ; total, 14,11'9; from tU - op ea f ec o f th e lbseent, 1,11108,421. OXFORD, Tuaracr. The annual festival of the Ancient Order of Drabls in this city took place to-day when upwards of 44)4) members of the fraternity dined together at the Town Hall, undiu the presidency of Mr. Past Arch Thompson, who was spoeted by the Mayor of Oxford, the ea-Mayer, the Sheriff and ex-Hheriff, the city members, Mr. Lupton, M.P., and tho Right hien. E. Cardwell, M.P., besides many of the prmctpal inhabitants of the city. The cloth having been removed, The CHAIM!' 'I gave the usual loyal tour, which were met enthmisatitolly received. The next toast was "The Army, Navy, and Volunteers," which was drunk amidst loud cheers. The City Volunteer Ilan& which was present, afterward' played a emindlon of military airs. Captain PAYNE retuned there After giving the tout of "The Grand Lodge of Fla dand," Lodge lie (the Oxford Lodge), and all the Lodges l ie The &AIRMAN pro ed "The City Members," which wet received and drunk with loud sheen. Mr. J. H. LANGSTON, M.P., as senior member, tint pro ceeded to return thanks. After a few introductory Arr estor, he observed that as far as public affair* went with reaped to this country, he thought they would concur with bin that as compared with lad year the public balance wia a very knowable one. Daring the cone of the year a most impatient movement had taken place, namely the volunteer movement. (Hear, hear.) However effective our small army might have been there could be little doubt that without the assistance of that important body which had aprurzg up in the course of the year, our army would not have been equal to the defence of oar shores, and ow navy would have had to be kept close to our notwithstanding its presence might have been required elsewhere, because we should not have liked to have trusted to or other sources of defence in the event of its being sent far away from home. That feeling of insecurity had, however, been entirely removed, and they now experienced a confidence in the resources of the country, which few could have experienced at the com mencement of the year. (Hear, hear.) When they met in that hall last year, the unfortunate a ff air in China had made it necessary to the government to equip • force in order to obtain redrew for the insult which had hoes offered to our fiag. Happily, our efforts had been crowned with swear —(ew, hear)—and he trusted the Chinese autho rities would not be anxious to invite us again to renewed hostilities. Theo, again, if any feeling existed that the great army which the Emperor of the French pr emised were animated with a desire to invade our si he trusted that the treaty of commerce, which= been so effective during the first year of its existence, might be the means of producing • better feeling between the two countries. (Hear, dean) He congratulated every one who was a friend of liberty, =duke felt desirous to see it extended over the whole world, at the events which had recently taken place in Italy. (Cheers.) From the infer illation they now pooremed, lb thought it probable that in the course of the spring it might providentially occur that that great country might find itself united in an indepen dent and liberal government. (Cheers.) When he ad dressed then' last year he ventured to express not only • desire but • belief that a measure to which he would not now refer would become the law of the land. He did nut know what might be the intentions of the government with regard to the measures which they might bring forward next session, but he trusted that by the measures which they conceived were really necessary, and which they thought they could pan, he should next year be able to make • favourable contrast, as far as regarded the work of the session to the par . one. ( ( heers.) Mr. CARDWELL. M.P., ON new was received with load and prolonged cheering. After some preliminary renierim he said—ln the review which my hon. friend and colleague has taken of the year that has just pared I generally ocoa cur on ,butif b !ie will of jpic h r e m me I a will venture s. to it say a few word, very customary this recess to say that it was—like, I am afraid wry, some of the trees during the past autumn—more leaves that fruit. But, gentlemen, in the past, en in every preceding session, we h. ad noble e ff orts - of which probably no other popular assembly in :h k e qu i s = ever was privileged to listen to. We had high and lofty expressions of the position of our country in the face of other nations. We were worthy of the leading representatives of those free and generous principles, and though I do not think we can measure the House of Commons by one session more than you can measure a farm by the produce of one year when you have not had an abundant harvest— though you cannot measure the House of Commons by the bills pared in one session, yet I say that among those 160 bills which we passed into law there will be found many that were the result of great labour, that were the off pig of deep thought—and though they were not matters of party conflict or of keen dispute, yet by the constant co operation of all parties, they were cared into law, and will produce lasting results for the benefit of the whole community. Gentlemen, I say that with your popular in stitutions, of which the Hour of Commons is the chief, and that free press which, co-operating with your other popular institutions, collects and distributers the united intelligence of the whole of the people, you now present the spectacle of • country in which the character and convictioas of the whole people are conveyed, and the general voice of intelligence prevails in the last resort. I say that these institutions give to your councils a weight and a force which no other trate tins have ever given to the councils of any other nation, and which even among yourselves never were raised pro bably to a height grader than they are at the pr esent time. (Hear, hear .) If you refer to that nami.lve of events at which my friend and colleague has glanced, the narrative of the events in China—a narrative which, whether you speak of its horror* or whether you speak of its triumphs, aiiumphs, so tinged with the colour of eastern fable that you can scarcely believe it is dry reality you are reading—you see there the energetic arms of popular institutions carrying on almost at the antipodes • great expedition with as much success as if it were carried on within one day's distance of our arsenals and sources of supply. (Hear, hear.) You see nothing left to admire in the signal skill of your commanders, in the heroism of your troops, and in the wonderful success of those arms of war fare which have now been tried for the first time in actual war, and which are destined to exercise such important effects on the result of all future coeflicta—arms of which England, the metropolis of art and of science, is so naturally the inistresa that you may depend upon it the main com mand of such weapons will ever remain with this favoured and powerful country. (Hear, hear.) But, with your per mission, I will may a few words with regard to other triumphs which thh country bas been rmitted to achieve during the put year. First, I will re fer, as my friend and colleague referred , to that treaty which has been concluded with Franca, and host which I sincerely trust you are des tined to receive sigual benefit,. (Hear, hear.) It was by a treaty which this country concluded with • foreign power that the mischievous espartos between England and France was caused. You know that at the beginning of this year the wall of protection, as impassable as the wall that the Tartan built on the frontiers of Chisa, sur- Traded the commerce of France, and separated England and France, the two countries in the world most formed for friendship and for mutual association. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, by whom was that wall built' There used to be a commercial intercourse between England and Francs ; but the historians of the last country tell us that by • tii r all which, with mod mischievous ingenuity and moir e skill for evil, our negotiator' contracted with Godard, we succeeded in securing for onmelves the com merce of a comparatively small country and excluded our selves from the benefits of that great commercial intercourse with France which I trust has now, by another treaty, been open 4 to both countries. But great as undoubted) are are the lite of oosimercial intercourse between i and France, they sink into utter insignificance in c e ozi d pia noon with those other benefits which may be ex to follow in their wake. Can you be surpneed if t he expe rience of the last century and the early part of this century was hostility between France and England. the two foremost countries in the world, when ill-contrived legislation shut us out from the benefits of continual and reciprocal commerce? But when you breakdown the barrier and invite them to mutual intercourse and constant friend ship, you bind the two nations in the recognisances of corn. man, neutrality, and concord ; and 1 trust the whole Mahood world is destined to receive blessings yet me imagined from the intercourse which is likely to take plain between there two peat and powerful countries. (C h eer..) My bon. friend and colleague has spoken to you of Italy, and you have watched with interest and with delight the conflict in which that noble people have been engaged. You have seen the clergy and the laity, the rich and the poor, side by side, contending to shake off the tyranny to which they had been so long subjected ; and what does the peat minister of Italy tell you is his aim and object ? His aim and object are, he says, to raise his country after the example and according to the model of Eng land, which be truly designates the classic mother of liberty. (Cheers.) And you know that with respect to Italy the conflict is not over when the strife of arms has ceased. But the real question is, whether, when the victory in the field is woe, they will be able to build up for them. selves those popular institutions under which they desire to be governed, which they have to create by their own management arid their own exertion, but which you, by the blessing of Providence, have deri ved as an inheritance from your ancestors, ad mean to transmit unimpaired to your r ch this poster ity. cou try "Th h e o e l r tlVin B &e ni fa uc c i e'o t f im k!Uro lo pa r t4e (t=7.l Now let us turn to the other side of the Atlantic. My friend on my right has reminded you that during the past year it was your pride and privilege to have as resi dent amongst you here the heir apparent to the British throne. You watched, therefore, with special interest and affection the visit that he paid to the colonies of the crown and to that great Republic on the other side of the Atlantic, I whose origin is the same, whose language and whose liters , true descend from us. You can appreciate better than then the effect which that visit ham produced, and you DR. CUMMINS ON THE OLD YEAR. last night, Dr. Caroming delivered a lecture at the NaMoual Scotch Church, Crown-court, Covent-garden, his subject being "A Retrospect of the Year." Having selected as his text the 13th chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to tire Romans, 12th verse, "The night is far spent, the day is at band," he proposed to inquire what were the symptoms that the night was passing away. Dr. Arnold, be said, had expressed his conviction that we were approaching the end of the world, and the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord Carlisle) that if the Book of Daniel were inspired it was evident Mat we were on the eve of the most stupendous events the world ever witnessed. He himself had said that looking to the various epochs mentioned by Daniel It solOt be gathered that the world would be at an end in 1867 or 1364 and this seemed to be plain, for Christ was born, as they had the authority of many writers for 'eying, in the year 4132, to which if 1560 were added it would show that we had nearly completed the • 4 6,000 th ear spoken of by the prophet, and should be close on 7, which was to be the period of rest. Referring to Palmed be said that from the heights of Lebanon to the sae, 1,800 , years, there bad been nothing but dark ness, yet in the year 1860 it came before the world as the pelt crisis of the East. Far different things were 'Widen* in store for that land. The Emperor of Runk I had thole 350,000 members of the Greek church who were looking to him, while there were looking to the Emperor of the French 250,000 Roman eatholica. Considering the love be had for annexation, it was not improbable that the Eldest Son of the Chinch--a very naughty son the Pope frequently fared him—would, at no distant time, consider that it would be well to none: Syria to France. This annexation, if atterppted, would lead to a general war, for it would oon- l atently be asked who was to have Palestine, which was the 1 gangway to Indira Another evidence thatthe night was passing 'away might be found in Turkey ; for in Turkey in Europe there were now nine millions of professing Christians, while 1 there were only two-and-mhalf millions of Mahommedans. Anothettevidence was to be found in China. Whatever mlghhtil their judgment of the poly or principle of the late war, they would all agree that the sword, terrible as it was, had opened up a path for missionaries of the gospel, and access had been secured to a capital which fora thousand years had been pronounced unapproachable. With regard to the United States the rev. gentleman quoted from the New lon Obeerrer, and expressed an opinion that, under the guidance of Mr. Lincoln, the new president, the States would get rid of that which was a fever in the heart of America. Another evidence of the ' g away of the night was to be found in Italy. hen he preached at Exeter-hall not long since, when his own church was being enlarged, he stated his conviction that the power of the Pope was on the eve of dissolution. Some of the newspapers owls capital out of it, and ridiculed the idea that the mightiest power in Europe was in danger, but now the poor old man, the Pope, in his allocution was lift ing up his hands in despair, and calling upon his foes as well as his friends for assistance. At present France ap to be the protector of the Pope, but they might i depend upon it that the French army was merely in Rome as a gaoler to the Pope, the intention being to dimmed him of his temporalities. The Pope certainly would not continue in Rome without temporal power, and the silence of the Pope from Rome would be the virtual dissolution of the whole Roman catholic system. With regard to home affairs, the rev. doctor argued that "the day" is at hand by evidenom gathered from the revivals in Ireland, as well as the pro green of religion in England and Scotland—eminent men as well an unlettered persons being engaged in preaching in theatres, convert-rooms, from omoibuses and cabs, and from the corners of the streets—an well as from the general spread of education amongst all classes of the people. THE CHURCH•BATB ABOLITIONISTS AND THE COMING SESSION. Yesterday we inserted an address to their sup porters from the Committee of Laymen, and to-day we may call attention to some resolutions of the Executive COM. mitten of the " Liberation Society," which may be regarded as in the nature of • reponse. That bad y points to the that last session no fewer than 610,87 T persons petitioned for the entire abolition of church rates, while only 197,687 prayed for their coetiatmeoe, notwithstanding months of exertion to get up petitioms. A repetition of the demon stration is regarded as " superfluous," and the anti-rate party are requested to reserve their energies for other mea sures. The following, from an article in the Liberator, shows the spirit in which the struggle will be entered upon : " The abolitionist* have before them a great opportunity. If they only Just carry the measure through the lower house, as was done last session, they will !We not only valuable time but political prestige, end will expose them selves to future risk of the most serious kind. But, if it be carried with a high head, as under present circum stances it ought to be, the House of Commons will regard the question as virtually settled, let the final issue corm when it may. It must be made palpable to the lead dis cerning politician that the idea of perpetuating church rates, of throwing upon them all the voluntarily-erected district churches—of contracting the present powers of parishioners, and of so fastening upon them the exaction that resistance will be useless— is one which may be banished to the region of political drama, or be added to the catalogue of bygone political follies. Two months of wise and strenuous exertion, in every quarter, and on the part of every man who has the moms of the good cause at heart, will practically effect what should be felt to be the great work of the volun taries for this new year 1861. We make our appeal to them in remembrance of what they have already done. Lest year they did all that they were urged to do, and did it thoroughly. Dissenters, indeed, have never yet been beaten when once they have solemnly resolved to conquer. Let them so resolve now, and then we are certain that they will perform es well as vow. They have not onl • good cause, but a good practical messum. They are y united in spirit and aim. They have the experience of many years of agitation. They have some approach to good and general organization. They have larger funds than are likely to be at the command of those who are arrayed against them. They have an unquenchable ardour, and they have the stimulating recollection of many previous vic tories. Lot them now fly to their allotted labour, and dick to it till it be crowned with glorious mows." ROYAL FRZI HOSPITAL, GLAY'B-LYN-1101.D. - The Dumber of patieuts relieved et thin hospital daring the week midi% Dec. 29,1860, was 1,679 ; of which 496 were new Mel TnE Psarserrox or MICHAHIIOI.—" In short, all the Improvements for our convenience and comfort, dating from a state of barbarity to one of high civilisation, are but the cumulative results of Inventive lwnnity: and In no instance is this mere clearly seen than in the history of those beautiful in motions which have from time to time been brought to bear upon the science of Horology. Trace its hidory from the time of the Romans with their clepsydra or water-clock, and Alfred with his candles, from hour-glare' and aran-dida down to that miracle of ingenuity ' The Watch.' and see how improvernenthas rocceeded improvement, until at Lest those now manufactured by Henson, of Ludgate-hill, London, have beau characterldkally described as 'the perfection of mechardmis.'^—Standard. Ben ton's lUustrated Pamphlet, post free for two 'temps, is dewily tire of every construction of watch now made. Watches rte by pest to as parts of the glob.--(Atreettessesat) The pent of newspaper correspondent, besides being responsible, bas become dangerous. Is their published letters these gentlemee are modestly sparing of allusion to any personal mishap, but their hiir-eedth escapee and adventures all over the world would fill • volume. One ready writer was all bet shot as • spy don* the Carlist war. It required strong int/romans to save the life of an other who was taker', note-book in hand, when the Bases and Schleswig-Holsteisers were at loggerheads. In the Russian war the letters of • third, who was at Shards with Omar Pseha, were nearly brought to • close by halfei.dosen Bashi-Bnouks—these gentry smiling him with hatchets sod muskets for his unwarrantable 'interference when they were stealing his straw. Special eorrespondente of the Times were cooped up in Silistria and in Kars, and endured all theprivations and perils of those memorable sieges. At Sabin a troop of Cossacks made • swoop upon the cone spoodest of the Daily Note,, who esca ped only by his free use of whip and spur. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle was nearly frozen to death in travelling from Erzeroum to Kars. Mr. Woods was saved by a miracle I from going to the bottom during that fearful November storm in the Black Sea, but happily survived to sketch the Atlantic cruise of the Agamemnon, and to describe I in brilliant word-panning a great internatimeal visit. I Mr. W. H. Knoell must bear a charmed lila, for i after bronchial attacks and dysentery, induced by Crimean cold and exposure—after being nearly sabred by mutineer lowan in Jodi, lamed by the kick of a hone, and struck down by a coup de aoleil—he still wields every week in the midst of us his graceful, genial pen. Later 'till, Count Arrivabene, the Italian correspondent of the Daily News, who could not resist the temptation of joining in a cavalry charge, was taken prisoner by the Neapolitans, and only restored to his friends when they had given him up for dead. Praderderum periculorunt dulcis est memoria, as in the Latin grammar it is written. But other writers at the seat of war have not been so for. innate. Poor Mr. Tucker, on the staff et the Rlustreded London News, carried by his ardour into the thickest of the fight, wasshot through the head before Capra. The last and saddest episode in this eventful chronicle is the fate of Mr. Bowlby, the special correspondent of the Times in China. The loss of such a man at such a time, and in such • way, is irreparable. Through his eyes all England hoped to see the battles that were fought and the heroism that was displayed by her Does in the Feat : through him we hoped to get our first photograph of Pekin, our first impressions of its palaces and people, our find glimpse . of the Imperial Court, with its throameg niandarins and princes. How eaprty imidd we have read his description of the Summer Palace, with its glittering fountains, its miles of terraces, its wondrous gardens, and the more than barbaric luxury and glitter within. How vigorously he would have recounted the sack and burning of this fanciful sod costly structure. What • life-picture we should have had of the ratification scene at the Boards of Ceremonies. But this was not to be ; and just as his tale was awaited here with the greatest expectation, and had aroused the greatest interest, the narrator was struck cruelly down. We hope that no considerations of red-tape will prevent his bereaved family from sharing in the " compen satios money" OD properly demanded from the Chinese go vernment. Mr. Hewn), was in China on the people's bem oan, and lost his life emphatically in the public service ; and the nation for whose information he wrote, and the army whose gallantry he recorded, manly owe some fitting tribute to hi memory. However this may be, Mr. Punch, whose love of fun is ever leas than his empathy with misfor tune, and whose laughter is sometimes close akin toners, on his own and the public behalf deplores this public low, and calls on his myriad readers to hold in kindly and In sorrow ing remembrance the unhappy historian of the last Chinese war. SPURGEON'S METROPOLITAN TABERNACLR.—Latt evening a meeting was held at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, to promote a new-year's offering to the build in fund. Mr. W. Roupell, M.P., took the chair, and after a hymn had been sung, and pla yer o ff ered, the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon declared the balance of the funds to be 1,275/., which would leave about 5,000/. to be raised out of the 30,0001. required. Mr. Reaps'', who was received with , deafening cheers, said that he addressed them as hie true friends as they had all proved themselves to be. He relied upon the meeting to support him, and reminded them that they met to give their New Year's gift unto the Lord, in • house a credit to the architect and the artisan, and to the committee, who bad worked so nobly to obtain the sinews of war, which would enable them to work all things together for good. He could not but applaud the feelings which led the originators of the building to seek to do so without the pollution of debt, and be was sure that if they worked well together, South London was strong enough to do that, as he (Mr. Roupell) hoped and believed they would. As a churchman be had the heartiest wishes for the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon and his success. He had ever been foremost in advancing the interest of various charitable and benevolent institutions of all creeds and sect.. He (Mr. Roupell) was justified in calling on all who had any feeling of well-being towards South London to assist in the good work and on the true voluntary prin ciple, by which they would do without church-rates, to bring their influence to bear on opening that splendid build ing in which they were met, and of which it was a niagni fleent embodiment. As the local representative of Lam beth, and as one of themselves, free from the narrow restrictions of parish separations, ho hoped tney would, as he intended, commence the new year with adding their sup port to a good work. The honourable member resumed his seat sand loud cheers. '.the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon then an winced that 9101. had already been collected towards the present LOOM asked for. Numerous ministers and gentle men addressed the meeting ; and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedi ST. GEOROER'S-IN-THE-SAST. —The Rev. Septimus Hansard, who wan appointed curate in sole charge of this parish when Mr. Bryan King, the rector, left, having re signed in consequence of the clearance ordered to be made by his lordship of all the ecclesiastical deoorations which gave offence to the parishioners, the service, have been takes during the last few weeks by his lordship's chaplains and other gentlemen who offered their assistance. At length, however, a permanent appointment ham been made—an ap pointment, that is, which is to last until the rector returns to his pariah. The clergyman appointed by the bishop to take the sole charge of the pariah is the Rev. Alfred Ow, Theological Associate of Ring's College, London, who was ordained by the Bishop of Winchester in 1857 to the en racy of Christ Church, Brixton, of which the Rev. J. Wean. eel Homey, M.A. is the incumbent. More recently Mr. Cay bur pee n officiating as curate of St. John's Church, Deptford,under the Rev. C. F. Money, M.A. He is as Eomplical in his theological views, and very strongly to the extreme ritualistic observance; to which Mr. log we. attached. Some apprehensions prevail in the pa riah that the rector on his return will insist on a restoration of some portions of the old discipline of his church, he having stated in his recent letter to the Bishop of London that he cannot be expected to comply with his lordship's , orders. Mr. King left this parish on 'Wednesday, the 25th of July hat, so that next July his twelve months' leave of absence will expire. BLOCKED PP tt4 TRIG Show.—A letter from Boulogne, dated 31st December, states that on account of the vast accumulations of snow, several of the trains from Paris had been detained thirty hours beyond the appointed time on the route, and that two due on the evening of the 29th were blocked up the whole night near Etaplea, se also the express train which left Boulogne at 5.30 'p.m. OR the 29th, with sixty-nine passengers, drawn by three loco motives. Provisions were sent to the snow-bound tie' vellere from Boulogne. On the .13th the thaw set in, and the next day communications were reopened se usual.. ' About half-past sift on Sunday night a fire waft discovered in the bottom story of the warehouse concocted . with the premises of Meears. Briggs and Co., flaxliners, Hunslet, and before the flame,. could be estingu i the whole of the building in which the fir* originated, with its contents, was destroyed. The building thus destroyed is known as the Silk Mill, adjoining the Hunslet Railway Station, and it consisted of a large warehouse and dwelling house, 110 feet loot by 30 in depth, the former being three stories high, exclusive of attics. At the other extremity it adjoined a new warehouse, and both these, at the time the fire broke out, were filled with raw material, the firm having • large sod valuable stock of flax and tow on hand. Fortunately it was disconnected with the mill premises, which stand at • right angle, being separated by an open passage and court, or the damage would have been much more serious than it is. The fire was first discovered by Mr. William Briggs, who occupied the dwelling-house, and an ahem was immediately given. Mcssengeni were despatched to Leeds for the engines, and the workpeople in the oeighbourhood were soon on the spot, but the almost inevitable delay which occurred before anything hie ade quate assistance could be obtained gave to the names a mastery which it was afterwards found impossible to over come until the building had been gutted. The inflammable nature of the material mined the fire with astoniabing ra pidity from one story to another, and the flames Mast the windows and the roof with • force which nothing could check. Finding it impossible to save the building, the at tention of the firemen was directed to the adjoining ware house, and the roof and floorings of the old building having fallen in, they gradually brought the fi re under control, and about one o'clock all danger was past, the new ware house having escaped with but alight injury from fire. Some few boards next to the wall of the old warehouse, as well as a small quantity of flax, were burnt, but the chief injury was caused by water, a large quantity of flax being damaged in that way. The books and furniture were saved, the latter being very much broken in the process of removal, but with this exception the building and its contents became a heap of ruins. The debris, largely mixed with flax, continued to smoulder the whole of Monday, and workmen were engaged in removing such parts of the burnt flax as they could recover, but it will not be of much value. The tire is supposed to have originated from spontaneous com bustion. The damage is roughly estimated at from 11,0001. to 12,000/., which is covered by insurance to the extent of two-thirds in the Lancashire and Imperial offices. The new warehouse is insured in the Caledonian. Seriou4 complaint has been made as to the want of organization and unity of action in the fire brigades. One engine was frozen, and nearly an hour elapsed before it could be brought into play, and there was a great wont of direction and judgment. There was a water-plug on the premises, but it was practically use less, as there was not sunk:lent pressure toforce the wator on the fire. FURTHER. DETENTION OF THE INWARD MAILS THROrtal SNOW AND FLOoD.—Yesterday morning, the principal officer of the circulation department of the Poet office, reported the absence of mail bogs from the following places, viz. :—Downham, Lynn, Petworth, Abergavenny, Brecon, Crickhowell, Poot-y-pool, Wrexham, Llangollen, Ruabon, sod West Hartlepool. The effects of the late severe mow fall are, therefore, now manifestly felt in the malt bonrhood of Norfolk, and North and South Wales. In the midland and north-western counties, the flow of water from the highlands caused by the sadden thaw, has caused floods which have already seriously retarded the traffic on the lines of railway. By a distinct announcement issued yes terday at the Poet-tam, the public were informed " that the delivery of letters that (Tuesday) morning, commenced at • later hour than usual, in consequence of the late snivel of the North Western and Midland Railway trains. THE BIRKENHEAD STREET RAILWAYS AND THE CABMEN.—At • special meeting of the Birkenhead Commis sioners yesterday some discussion took place relative to the annoyance offered by the cabmen of Birkenhead to Mr. Train's street railways, by walking their vehicles in front of the railway cars, and thus causing conaiderable incon venience to passengers. The chairman (Mr. J. Lain!) said that the law clerk was of opinion that the commissioners had power to punish the misbehaviour of cabmen, sod that thq were at all events determined to try the question. He believed also that in the next tension a bill would lie in troduoed into parliament granting corporate bodies and commissioners permissive powers relative to the layiug down and management of street railways. One of the mem bers of the board (Mr. Geo. Harrison) said that if the cab men of Birkenhead persisted in their conduct in reference to the railways. he and several other gentlemen were de termined to start a Limited Cab Company in opposition. SCHOOL OF ART Fox BISEENHEAD.—At the meeting of the Birkenhead commissioners, yest er d a y, D r. Baylis, chairman of the library committee, mad that the COM. mittee had declined to take charge of the school of art, as they did not feel justified in incurring the responsibilities attached to it, while they were also short of funds. Not withstanding this the board had sent down a master from London.Mr Land, chairman, said that be and Mr. Hern iae had arranged to open a school of art in the township on to the iso th ril eir m%i w si e t oner fo u r si t b h il e it use Y' " of ih som ey e in of te t ati he ed varan a t pply rooms in the Monk's Ferry Hotel. They also intended to apply to the London board to seed a second Master. CRYSTAL PALACE. —ONE SHILLING BAT. TmestiAT, JAN. I.—Admissions on payniant, 9,141; ditto hy eareeMidain, 6111.—Total visitors, 2,70 .•