The Express. — London, England, 1860-12-10 00:00:00

EIND-HIND PI•NOPORTZIL MALI. awl Oa. lisos • bop sissraoall at br Ow saw* mamma swim r mob md•••• /111•1111. iiNalbeNINA T. JAMES'S HALL RESTAURANT, Itepeatetiort Meathlly Dimas, WWI*. Liquors, DU f.e. families, Ladles, W Gastbra WM . DONALD, Proprietor. Bile erPrefsli• TO 001ULZSPONDECTIL lawetboomoods tolkoodwi for "TM tor row" Lon.lnn P:vottlas Paper, mobs as the 'Mak 141. ftwoolootreet, b 7 Two WOW*r Ow iloy of pwlibmilloft lI.A_TA4 I IMt Tin Ivinn. AN CNIN/DWIEJL ItswomollOpodale. Lours. Csmsesa ri beiliewe ; YID/pa Isiewlek. MU. Talbot —JILVNT USD AT LAIL Nisi Use Ilarord.—Azd TILE At N ASO TIM WIND. The laclersqa—Commelice at 7. 11113CIICS. TIP 'Tomos, pram( 4.11112. lir. T. Matthews sad Miss Mum —79 g 00=CJIN SMOTIZIA. Mew% /whew. A Nada wed Meadows: Mr Blanss.—Awi TIS GARIMAXIM LICVZSMANINIS. T. JANIIIIL_ Ttir Mum STILL WATERS RCN DW. Moms Allred WWis mod Ism. MEL A. Wyss, Mos licabwt.—• /SLACK PVI A MACE rat& /Alms tl Mom islobralid visa Dar ••••—As4 Jilt DOO/L—Oommo• at part 7. BRITANNIA. --.... THINITHOWHIIDOC‘THE ►TRENCH JONATHAN or I LD Too lodanda Arab&—Nlmor Zatertalworat. —LILY MOON SOIL 111" H. Twofold, 14e. 0. Croydon'. •Jud Hes. 1 1 .1w0. A all THI THAI= FLOW= Illso IL Clayton. —Commoseolultpast 6 ZION WAyilt_ll2 114111011 111.1DOL no Dai - - - -is.iiiikiThi - 5i....77.11&:.7 4 - 41L mumacip—sagert& 41k. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 10. (40itiot - 4 news front China! Pekin in OW hands, and the Eisrzsoa's stammer palace taken and sacked. Was there ever such a thing known be fore—the capital city of a third part of the human race captured by a little army of six thousand men t These are the dramatic and patriotic aspects of the news given in the Foreign-office Telegram, and let them be taken at their full value. The valour of our armies has a worth of its own not depend ing on the wisdom of its direction. Ina day or two our Special Correspondent will probably be describing the feats of skill and courage by which these great results have been achieved, and as we read of them we shall remem• ber that it is only by accident that one in a thou sand of the heroic doings of our soldier can gain commemoration. But now for the consequences. That which some have been so long clamouring for, and which so many others have dreaded, has at length happened. We have been drawn on by a train of circumstances to enter Pekin by force. We had only to resolve it end it was done. Let us, then, see what we have gained. A Ministerial contemporary, summing up the results with no disposition to under-estimate them, says :—" We " have at length pursued our unscrupulous enemy "to his last imperial lair. We have taken the " gates of his capital (with four millions of inha " bitants), and we have sacked his palm*, with "an incredible amount of spoil." And this is really about the truth ; certainly the most that can be made of it. The spoil of the palace will of course be the reward of the army as prize money, the gates and the empty " lair" remaining for the nation. Thin is at present what we have got in return for the enormous expenses of the expe dition. We have got into Pekin ; that was always possible, and even easy; but how are we to get out ? That is the practical question for England— a question of taxes on income, taxes on tea, taxes on sugar, taxes on paper. We sent out an army to support our diplomatist in making peace, and it has driven peace further off than ever. The central principle of all our policy since the appointment of Lord ELGIN as plenipotentiary in 1837 was the assumed necessity of getting access to the central power in China. We would no longer be put off with Com- missioners at Canton, Comminioners at Shanghai, or Commiasioners even at Tientsin. An Ambas sador at Pekin, in direct oummunication with the imperial Government, was the rim, pal /MI6 of the peace of 188. To that we have been, as we dreamed, steadily working up. At the date of the last mail we seemed to have almost touched it. This mail was to have brought us word that Lord Ell:1S had been received by the &dreams, when to ! the &wawa disappears from his capitol He is gone nobody knows whither, and left us the gilt throne and the peacock's feathers. We have taken Pekin—we may say we have taken China. But we don't want Pekin, and we can't afford to keep China. We wanted to find a govern ment that would make a treaty and keep it, and the only govenunent there washes taken fright and run away. That government his been frightened at us from the first. Fear made it refuse so long to have us at Pekin ; nothing but fear, u Lord Eton( wrote home after signing the treaty of Tientain, made it consent to receive us there. Fear made it resist when Mr. Bauce was about to take • formidable flotilla up to Tientsin, and knowing all the we have managed so well that now we have compelled the government from fear to abandon its capital. What rational man would believe that our only interest with this timid, home keeping nation was trade The flight of the Etrrrtn• leaves us with China on our hands. What can we du with it 1 There is nobody to fight us, nobody to make peace with us--unless the rebels will be good enough to un dertake that duty. Until somebody does it we cannot come away without being ridiculous. We have lost our enemy, and if we cannot find one we must invent bins. We are well aware that there will he plenty of advisers in this awkward conjunc ture. If the country would only open ita eyes, and consent to see in the consequences of its own errors • " wonderful leading of Pro videntx," what hundreds of younger eons in the three kingdoms would cheerfully sacrifice their prospects in Canada and Australia to go out and govern China for England. Residents, col lectors, magistrates, anything you please, if they may hut he permitted to serve the dear old country. Investment in China is not a favourite speculation just now, when we are sending regiments from Cal cutta to keep the peace threatened at Bombay. Rut let them not he discouraged ; things do not always happen as the nation intends. if wishes are against them, the stream of events is in their favour. We are in China, hut when we shall get out, and how large and costly our establuhusenta may become before we get out, the wisest statesman cannot imagine. Already it is announced that the forces winter at Pekin and Tientsin. We have been helped out of so many embarrassment• by • wisdom higher than our own that we cannot but hope to be helped out of this ; but certainly we have contrived to get into a pretty slough ! Tu►. niiniaterial papers announce that the awn tents, .4 death passa..l on Anne Padfield has been commuted to penal servitude for life. The Aserrer adds thst thin extanoion t 4 mercy has been granted upon a careful vs.uselerstion of all the facts .4 the vase as diaclomeal at the trial, and is in no degree um:l...L.lde to the mad.. by the prianter *MCC her conviction. This is well. It was the facts proved in evidentx that made the prospect of ' the poor woman's execution so dreadful to con template, and on them the commutation has very properly taken place. We record it to the honour of Sir George Lewis that he has not roluirol the signature of memorials and petitions before procuring the mitig►tion of the sentence. He has done his duty. Anne Padfield goes into penal servitude, and we shall probably not again hear her name. We hope that, delivered from fear of death, she will learn in her prison what was the source of the pity felt for her by a humane and Christian public, and that by the recent manifestation of public feeling she may be taught anew the sacred ness of human life. But will the public, delivered from the threat of a great shock and scandal, now settle down comfortably under a state of the law which tempts to, and almost compels, infanticide, until the "indiscretion" of a jury again plunges it into embarrassment trbe Court. WINDSOR cents., Duo. 8. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yesterday. is the evening her Majesty and the Prism Consort, accompanied by Prism Alfred, Princess Alice, and Prince Louis of Here, visited the Duchess of Kent at Promote. The Queen, with the Princess Alice, walked in the grounds of the Castle this morning. Princess Beatrice took a carriage drive. The Duchess of Kent and Prince and Princess Leiningen visited her Majesty from Fromm*, and took luncheon. In the afternoon Count Apponyi was presented to her Majesty, at an audience, by Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to deliver his credentials as Am. bassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiiry from the Emperor of Austria. Countess Appouyi was also presented to her Majesty. The Prince of Wales arrived from Oxford, attended by Major•Gecenl the Hon. B. Bruce and Lientenaut-Colonel Keppel. The following visitors also arrived at the Castle. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Frederick Peel, the Hon. Henry George Elliot, the Hon. Captain J. Denman, of her Majesty's royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and the Rev. Dr. Phdpott, Masterof St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. Mr. Thomas Earle has had the honour of submitting (for inspection) to the Queen and the Prince Consort his model sketch of a sitting figure which he is going to execute in marble for "The People's Park" at Kingeton•upou-HalL In the evening the royal dinner party included the Prises of Wales, the Prince Allred, the Princess Mice, Prince Louis of Hesse, the Princess of Leiningeu, Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce, the Hon. Mrs. T. M. Biddulph, Baron von Westerweller, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, and the above viaitors. The band of the Royal Hone Guards played during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the drawing-mom. _ _ SUNDAY, Dec. 9. The Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince.. Belem, Primers Louise, and Prince Louis of He..., the Indio and gentlemen of the Court, the visitors staying at the Castle, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. Dr. Philpott preached the sermon. Captain the Hon. J. Denman has left the Castle. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Couocil eat on Saturday. An appeal from Bengal " Arethoot v. Coch• rano " (part her ra4 worn concluded. Judgment warn post poned. 2HII EMPRESS OP THE FRENCH. Tile Empress of the French paid an unexpected visit to the British Museum oe tkiturdey &Hermon, and was conducted throceili the various apartments appropriated to the extensive collection of books by Mr. Yanizzi, the principal librarian. Her Majesty expressed her admiration of the noble proportions of the magnificent new reeding room, and appeared to be highly interested in the details of the arrangements for facilitating the supply of books of refer ence to the numerous readers. After inspecting the other departments of the national collection the Emmen de parted, the visit being of so private a nature that may of the students in the reading room were not even aware it had been made. The Empress also visited the cattle show on Saturday, accompanied by the Duke of Atholl and her suite, and the stewards, Mr. B. T. Brandreth Gibbs and Mr. Bouillon. On Friday evening the Eloper, attended by her usual suite, honoured Madame Tnasaud with a length' coed visit of two hours, and made a complete inspection of the numerous effigies and other objects contained in the pl. lery, with which she appeared much gratified. Her Ma jesty's. arrival being totally unexpected no preparations had been made fur her visit. She preserved a strict ince'. site, end was scarcely recognised by the company assembled in the rooms. Yesterday the Empress attended divine serviee in the Farm-street chapel, and afterwards lunched with the Duchess of Sutherland at Stafford House, where hie Ex eelleacy the French Ambaiirdor and the Countess Flabault and lUDs. De Flahault, the Earl Granville, Viscount and Visecuntees Palmerston, and Lady Victoria Ashley end the Mimes Lamellas had the honour of meeting her Imperial Majesty. We sincerely taunt her Majesty's health ban been improved by bar visit to this country, and that she wil carry back with her none but phasing recollections et her short stay amongst us. There will be a Chapter of the Garter at Windsor on the 17th instant, when the Nuke of Newcastle will be elected one of the knights ut that illustrious order. His Highness the Mah►rajah Duleep Singh has arrival at Claridge's Hotel from a tour of visit.. The highass leaves town to-day for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Yajasty. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester will leave town is a kw days fur Kimbulton Castle, Huntingdonshire. _ . Lady Georgians Fano, who has boon on s tour in the United Mites, was at New York when her Let lettere were despatched to this country. Her ladyship is expected home by Christmas. Sir John and Lady Pakington are surrounded by a largo party stWastwood Park, Druittrieb. Tlia - Cotintedui of Egliuton gave birth to a daugh tor, at Edinburgh, on Friday. We (Times) have remain to believe that Lord Na pier, at present envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo• tentiary at the Hague, will shortly proceed to St. Peters burg, at which court he has been appointed ambassador. The Count Apponyi hu been appointed ambassador of Austria at this court, and it ia understood that, as soon as the fall of Gaeta has !eft the continent of Italy free from the Bourbon srmy, the C.unt d'Areglio will present his credentials as ontliewnelor of Italy. A new plan is about to be adopted to increase the facilities afforded to the business public by the various corps of, commissionaires now established in Loudon and the principal provincial towns. Om and after the let of January they will thatributo gniteitoualy a printed monthly paper to be called the Cwainissionairve Circular, containing full particulars of the several stations of the corps, their au. thorised scale of charge', the principles on which the body is ounstitnted, kc., accompanied by • sheet of advertise ments, which will ho inserted on terms similar to those of other publications. Twenty dimmed copies are to be given out, of which 16,000 will be far London, and the re mainder for Diddiu, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manzhester, Birmlagham, kt. Primus ALWARD IN AFRICA. —Prince Alfred somas to carry • friendly memory of Aberdeen and the Scottish north slag with hint eves to the oat-of-the.way world of South Mites. While at Natal is the end of September, he paid a visit to the little village of liarramitk, which is called se, we presume , in honour of the lately deceased veteran, whim nears it so closely rumbles. The prima was &Healed by Sir IL Grey, Governor el the Colony, and Major Cowell, the young prince's Go velour. An address was very 'ritually prorated to the royal youth, not the leas heartfelt for the datum from home. The gentleman appointed to present the ad- dres wee • geotlensan tram Mienlesen, Mr. N. J.M'Kechnie, sou of the /ate Rev. Mr. Illteehnie, Woodside. Combea tamers are not to be met with at every tows is Natal, and Mrs. %whole had prepared cartels case, sot, we pre sume, such as are most char.icteristio of tie "land of cakes," for the prince's refreshment. (in his royal highness being informed that they had been made by an Aberdeen lady, he said, brightening up with even • more sunny look than that he knew Aberdeen well, and fur the sake of • and the lady together, he asked permission to put tin am of the cake* in has pocket. —Aliere Breve/4 MATH or LADY AIieLAIDI MUZIAY.—This be *evolved lady, whose married life has been • series of bias !acacia to the district where she has fur many yeas resided, died at Ochtertyre House, Perthshire, on the earn lag of Thursday Lat. The proximate muse of her decease was • very painful organic effsetioe, cweasioisiug ezesesive debility ; sad which was likewise the malady of which the Maiehiooess of Bate, Leidy Adelaide's sister, dial so recently. Both these wean. pintail ladies were daughters of the Bret Marquis of Bata Lady Adelaide was the second wife of Sir Wiliam Keith Murray, Hart., of Ocbtortyre Hy her kindness of heart mud domestic virtues she had endeereil herself not only to her own circle, but to the whole of Strathearm where the memory of her frequent seta of barivoleuee will long sorrier. Her romann will, we underataud, be intoned in the nmusoleuni of the Murray. Ochtertyre. —Edinburgh Courant. THE MAIL VI OF SALINBCRY. —lt afforill us novel pleasure to learn that the Marquis of delishury, up to yester&y afternoon, was proirrenitog as favourably ow could be desired after his accident ou Friday. The noble marquis, it r. amrs e, had shot a rabbit, and was taking it up WIN a rabbit passed. (Allows! Taylor, M.P., who was was of the 'arty, not seeing hi* lordship, bred at the passiug rabbit, when 4 p0(14110 4of the shots struck the left leg of the moonlit.. After the accident the 'mu-quill was conveyed to listrield Hu AIM, with the ussist.ouce of Lu friends, iu A Vilalae• • I. THE EtPitESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMntift IfWet LATEST INTELLIGENCE.' -, fed *other cerreepond - enta, have said all this dame of times within the last ten years, but it is a great thing to find the folly of seizing foreign journals ronotatie in France by a newspaper of such large circulation as the .Sickle. The Emperor yesterday paid a visit to M. Fould at his private residence, and remained closeted with him for upwards of an hour. As the aide-de-camp who accompanied his Majesty remained all this while iu the ante-chamber, attention was directed to the fact, which has occasioned no little excite ment in certain quarters. I do not, however, apprehend that M. Fould is about to return to office, at least for the present. He has made his arrangements for passing the winter at his country seat near Tarbes, and proposes to leave Paris immediately. It is confirmed that the Phase has changed hands. The new proprietors are M. Emile de Girardin, M. Armen. Boum:aye, and M. Rouy. M. Nefftzer retires. PARIS, SATURDAY Evixnic. You in England are in a better position than I am to judge whether M. de Persigny's long lecture on English law merits the encomium of the Patrie, that it reads like a chapter of Montesquieu. I can only say for the moment, with the same candour with which I spoke well of the new Minister of the Interior's first circular, that this one is a woeful dis appointment. Unless explained away from its ob vious sense it will go far to obliterate the good and conciliatory effect produced by the original mani festo. Even M. P. Limayrac, in the Patric, admits that though it is " very fine in words," the pro gramme of the sort of liberty which it proffers is open to objection on the score of more than one practical difficulty. The Opinion Nationale, feeling the difficulty of criticism, reserves its opinion. But M. Nefftzer, in the Preset, says at once that the cir cular "does not realise the hopes indulged," and declares that he would not have dared to say so frankly as M. de Persigny does that lie, the Minis ter of the Interior, possesses a " discretionary " power over the press. The best thing in the letter is the declaration that M. de Persigny submits every act of his own to public criticism, and desires the prefecte not to shrink from the like test. If this doctrine is to be acted upon the practice will be undoubtedly a novelty, but the misfortune is that it is not put forward as anything new. The main scope of M. de Persigny's argument is to justify the imperial mode of deal ing with the press hitherto, and to show that the time has not yet come for any substantial change. If he really means to be more liberal than his pre decessors, the style and composition of his pro- olamation is decidedly not happy. He does not give sufficient relief to his good intentions. The collegians of Paris had a gala day yesterday at the Sorbonne. The announcement that M. Saint Marc Girardin was to lecture on the French poetry of the eighteenth century, and especially on that of Voltaire, filled the great room to over flowing. Although the terms of the programme held out small promise of any allusion to the poli tical events of the hour there was a general feeling that the professor would contrive to bring them in, and before he took the chair the closely packed stu dents manifested their expectations by calling out " Canstiiationnel ! Pays rill a peculiar tone, which betrsyed little respect for those journals, and pro voked great laughter. The hopes of the auditory were not disappointed. Adopting the criticism of Boileau and Voltaire, that all Racine's heroes were French courtiers, M. Saint Marc Girardin by an easy transition, observed that the great mi sfortune of LOWS XlV.'s reign was that lie had no opposi tion. Many adroit allusions to the present state of things followed, and, alluding to the satisfaction given or at least promised, to the lovers of parlia mentary government by the decree of Nov. 24, the veteran professor said, with untran- ' slatable wit, " I have been called a rectaant, but now I find myself a ream/rift" I am afraid that one of the Home-office runners, whose peculiar functions M. de Persigny has not yet found time to take iuto consideration, must have been round to the papers, to order them to say nothing about this remarkable lecture ; at all events I cannot find a word about it in print—not even in the Debati, which is in the habit of noting all M. St. Marc Uirartliu's sayings and doings. Pamphlets are again the order of the day. M. Proutlhon has been inspired to write one on the new political phase, and the Press makes favour able mention of another, entitled, " Couronnement de l'Edifitsi—Libertti Demucratique," the author of which is M. Clement Duvorno4, the lately impri soned editor of the Courrier tie Paris, in which it is particularly insisted that so long as the French government retains the arbitrary and dictatorial power over the press which it now exercises, so long will it be hold responsible in foreign countries for every phrase published in France which by even the most far-fetched inference maybe thought menacing to the peace of the world. M. Prevost Paradol has also brought out a pamphlet entitled " Parlia mentary Government," which reproduces the mas terly article that appeared iu the Debuts a few days ago. The very probable report is circulated to-day that Prince Napoleon will succeed his father as Presi dent of the Senate. SOUTHWARK zucrIoN.—(THIS DAY.) -• - THE NOMINATION. The nomination of candidates for the vacancy in the representation of the borough of Southwark took platy at 11 o'clock this morning, in one of the galleries of Taylor'. South London Repository, opposite the Elephant and Castle. The interest attached to the proceed. inp was rather increased than diminished by the previous retirement of Mr. Fawcett, narrowing the contest to Mr. Layard and Mr. ficovell, and a vast crowd assembled. The former was the drat candidate to arrive at the hustings, and he was greeted with tremendous plaudits. The reception of Mr. &oven, who came there immediately after Mr. Layard, was scarcely less enthusiastic. In fact, the partisans of the two eau. dilutes appeared at first pretty aqually balanced in numbers and power of lungs, the remarkable fineness of the weather having no doubt a stimulating and invigorating effect. Mr. W. (ADMAN, high bailiff, presided over the pro. The usual formalities having been posse' through amid • continued uproar, which reduced them to a perfect farce. Dr. EVAN JONDI proposed Mr. Scovell. They had, he said, to decide between the two smiling applicants for their suffrages. (Loud cries of "The Bull.") Let then' examine the qualities and antecedents of the gentleman whom be proposed. [These words were scarmly uttered when a person in a gallery opposite that where the hustings was, exhibited • whip with several thong*, and twirled it round in • vigorous manner. This pantomimic proceeding led to his being violently bustkl by some of the more zealous members of the Sweet! party ; a regular mei& ensued, in the midst which the whip was captured ; the police were called in ; and it was ilveral minutes before anything like order was restored.] Mr. Joan Hiitflis seconded the nomination of Mr. Scored, not a word that be said being audible at a distance of two yards. By this time it was manifest that the contending parties had come with a determination that the opposite aide should not be heard, sod the place of speaking was supplied by the rival exhibitions of placards and pictures bearing upon the supposed merits or de. merits of the candidates. Tremendous cheers were elicited against Mr. Leyard by the spectacle of • brick. bat, having reference to • plumage in his " Nineveh," in which he describes himself as assisting with that missile in urging on the Arabs to draw the bull out of the sand in which it was embedded. It is rumoured to-day that the Duke of Malakoff, who was lately gazetted cc Governor-General of Mr. G. NEWMAN proposed, and Mr. WILSHIRE seconded, Mr. Layard ; both were judiciously brief. Mr. Scovabt, who was vociferously cheered, then ad dressed the meeting, but the noiaa was so great that only • few seutences of his speech could be heard, though Mr. Liyard, with others, exerted themselves to obtain silence. A fight on the hustings behind him, and again the mapped. ance of the whip, were circumstances very =devour able to the effective delivery of Mr. Steven re marks. He began, however, by cautioning the electors of Southwark not to be led away by what they would hear (if they could hear it) from his hon. opponent, who would no doubt say d great many things calculated to delude them. Although lie regarded Mr. Layiud as one of the remarkable men of our time, and would not speak a word against his personal character, he did think Mr. Liyard, if he wished now to get into pediment, might fiod • constituency for which he would be more eligible than for the borough of Southwark. Fur his own part, be (Mr. Scovell) came forward not only as an indepen. dent candidate, but as one who would be the local represem Wive. He would do all he could, if he were returned, to defend the privileges aad to promote the interests of the borough, for he stood before the men of Southwark as one of themselves, living amongst them and iden tified with them in every way. In the House of Commons, he would always be found ready to advocate the cause of the working classes ; he was in favour of vote by ballot, of triennial parliaments, and of household suffrage. Any well-considered plan fur settling disputes between masters and men should obtain his support, with a view to obviate the evil of strike*. He was • sincere churchman, and he would, for the sake of the church itself, be in favour of any plan for the satis factory settlement of the church-rate (lunation. With regard to our foreign policy, be agreed entirely with Lord John Russell on the principle of non-intervention. At the same time, he should be prepared to support the present government iu vigorously carrying on the war with Chins to its utmoist legitimate result. He hoped now that the electors of Southwark would exercise their own judgment upon this occasion, and they might be well assured that, if he were elected to represent them, he would have sufficient courage to defend the rights of the people in par 'lament. Mr. Scovell concluded amidst touch cheering. Mr. LATAILD then presented himself, and was received by them immediately iu front of the hustiugs with such a roar of hisses, groans, and whistling that he was unable to pro ceed for a long time. In the more distant perts of the as. semblage, however, the reception of the hon. candidate was of a very different character. His friends wens numerous, and cheered him most vigorously. He at length proceeded to say that he appeared before them on that occasion as a candidate for their auffrages. He had not one weed to say in disparagement of the personal character of his bon. oppouent Mr. Scovell. Mr. Seovell appeared before them as the local candidate, and he asked for the suf frages of the large borough of Southwark on local grounds. The question was not whether Mr. Stovall was worthy of their respect on local considera tions, but whether he was the fittest person to repre sent so large a borough as that of Southwark in parliament. He hoped the electors would not be swayed by any such considerations dA that of local interests. Local interests meant the influence of money and of petty motives. Local interests were the nark of barbarous times, and if they ware to prevail they could never have a great and united national party. He asked them, therefore, to put aside the silly consideration of local interest, and to select their candidate on the broader and better grounds of general principles. Ile had been charged by his hon. opponent with importing personalities into this contest. He denied the chaise alto gether, but his opponent could not so mealy deny it on his part. He had heard that Mr. Fawoutt had mole over his supporters to Mr. Scovell. He was sorry to hear that became he thought that Mr. Fawcett, to whom he wished well, and who be believed would do them honour if elected, ought to have retired without leaning to either party. It hail been reported that he was opposed to the puldicaus. That was a charge got up by his opponents. He was not against the publicans, from whom, on the contrary, he got considerable support. He hot been in parliament before, and they knew that he had always taken an independent course, and he should do so again if returned by the great constituency of Southwark. He called upon them therefore, to come early to the poll, laid to show by their votes that they considered him the beat representative. The hon. gentleman then retired in the midst of groans and cheers, which, indeed, had never ceased during the brief period he was @peeking. The Ilmit BAILIFF then took the show of hands, which was very decidedly in ,favour of Mr. Layard, and so de dared by the High Caitiff. A poll was then demanded on behalf of Mr. Soovell, which was fixed fur to-morrow. Mr. SCOVELL proposed, and Mr. LATAND secouilod, a vote of thanks to the High Bailiff, which terminated the procealiutp. Algeria, has so stronglyexpreaaed his diainclinatiou to leave the snug quarters at the Chancery of the Legion of Honour, in which according to all prece dent he had good reason to suppose himself installed for life, that the Emperor is obliged to cast about to find some other berth for Admiral Hamelin, who was removed from the Ministry of Marine, on the supposition that the man of Sebastopol would make way for him. The Bourse was a little more animated than yes terday, but still very dull. The Route for account left off at 09.15, with a rise of sc. Mubilier rose 1.25. The Orleans Railway rose 2.50, and all the other principal lines were exactly 1.25 higher. Shares iu the Dfirisi Bank are iu wonderful demand, and rise every day. Judge Poinsot was buried to-day. An immense array of legal celebrities appeared at the funeral. The pall-bearers were the President Devienne and M. Procureur-Oeueral Choix d'Este Ange. M. Poinsot, who rose to be one of the most eminent magistrates at the Palais de Justice, was in 1830 au attorney's clerk at Troyes. M. Casimir Perier, who was a landed proprietor in the department, first brought ban into notice by giving him a judi cial appointment. Yesterday a man was arrested at Bar le Due on suspicion of being the murderer, but after au in quiry he was discharged. The celebrated French dramatist M. Scribe has just retired from autlionhip on an inoonie of more than 7,000/. • year, the fruit of his literary labours. (her the portico of his country seat, the chateau of Merincourt, is the following inscription : Le theatre a poyt cet sayls champkre, VDUs qui passes sa in t ! Je sous le duel peutttre. • - EARTEIt DOLS AT AveßlNGTON.—Another scene in this drama (says the .Vandtester Examiner) took place un Thursday, about twelve o'clock. The sergeant of police, along with a Dumber of his staff , emu e in plain clothes and others in uniform, presehted themselves at Mr. John New. too's, and made a seizure of six pairs of bouts fur the Easter dues with WM. The boots wen, valued at 41. Mr. New. ton offered act the least resistance, but allowed the officers to make their own selection of goods. They then proceeded to Mr. William Crenshaw's, auctioneer, and took three watches, valued at N., without any other process than a mere verbal ontiniunication of the nature of their bushier. The warrant spe'cifies that if the Easter dues, together with costa, are not paid before the expiration of three days, the goods will ho publicly sold to realise the amount, and from niformatiln which we have received, we understand that the goods will be sold by public auction atthe Court House, On iiigsday smut. Much escitenieut prevails in the town, sod, no doubt, the sale on Monday next will be well attended. We understand that no Accrington auctioneer could lo eursted. Lut the *olleitor for the vicar of Whalley has the services of Mr. koehuck, of bleckburn, to officiate. OVERCROWDING IN Oort.tous.-111.r. H. Tucker, magistrate for the county of Berke, has lately employe! two persists -the relieving office,* of the Faring,loul'uion— to visit every town and village in the uuion, in order to obtain easel information as to the acceionsodation and lit 1111• her of inmates in every cottage. Their reports are rather voluminous, embracing the name, of the tenants ut the various cottages, with tabular statistics, extending over wore than eighty pages of manuscript, but Mr. Tucker !us, published a digest including some of the worst el.sus ietarted. The story is full of liorry-is. In no fewer than ten of the 0111.611 ties occupiers of these wretched hovels made mull worse by taking lodgers. In one ins i•taiice a man with thine children, awl wily one Buell wont to live in, actually takes three lodger.- two men and woman ; in another, a turn and his a ifs with fits, children receive a supernumerary inmate into their miserable also t weet, while of one village it is said generally that, though the families are all huge, idol the single lisdrooms all own, "the majority take lodgers." The °sample postures! seeing to pass the limits of credibility. one small sleeping room was all that a labourer laid fur himself, his site, null five children ; and )et in this t Ken his wit. punitively receiving five ludgeis, two men and tlu u %ulae. Of souse cottages of which it is reported that •' they are scanals rat to live in," the words are added, " said to he exteriestiral property." DONALD •N D THE etwliNEVe.-I'wo sparks front London, while isejuying Moonset% es *mow; the heather in Anoleshire, last autuuta, twine upon a deer it shepherd reading ou the top ut the hill. nes avoided him by reinarldnr—" You have a tine view hero; You will eve a greet way." "Ou s)e, on aye, ferry gloat way_ " "Ali! Ali ! You will see America irons here " Farrar that that," said Donald. "Ah ! hose t!s t so, j u kt s .$1 till the must Lungs ass, au' you'!. • ;le • mune !" b;s!i aefGalf. littik MARRIAGE OF THZ PRINCESS ALICE. --....-.- The negotiations for the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Alice with Prince Louis of Hesse Darmstadt, which have from time to time been informally mentioned in the newspapers, are now completed, and the wedding is to take place in the spring. The affectionate interest which the public take in all that concerns the happiness of the royal family is in a very slight degree complicated in this instance with considerations of national policy. The little Rhenish court of Hesse Darmstadt, at which we are represented by our minister to the Germanic Confederation in his spare hours, is not one likely to draw us into wars, and if Prince Louis pleases the Queen and the young lady he may very well please us. Prince Louis sustains the same relation to the reigning Duke of Hesse Darmstadt as the husband of the Princess Royal to the King of Prussia. In each state the sovereign is childless and each of the two sisters will be the wife of the son of his brother, the heir presumptive. Prince Louis will be 24 years of age next September. 1113 has the rank of a captain in the Prussian service, and is titular colonel of a Russian Hoerr regiment. He is only distantly related to the foolish and tyrannical Elector of Hesse Cassel, who has just dissolved the Hessian Chambers, and who will certainly have to join the Duke of Modena and the Grand Duke of Tuscany before he is much older. THE DUKE OP NEWCASTLE ON HIS AMERICAN VIM?. We gave on Saturday an account of the installa tion of the Duke at Now a{ls am Provincial Grand Mater of Noteingham. The follow* is the speech of the noble dyke at the banquet over which he presided:--He maid— After leaving this country he went to another which, it wee true, did not at present own the sceptre of Great !Britain, and therefore, throughout the many thousand Mike through which he had Bevelled, there was not the same loyalty because there was not the call for it in a country which warn not subordinated to the crown of England, but there wee au amount of respect, of attachment, of veneration, and of love for the Queen of this country, which far transcended anything that could pos sibly have been expected. (Cheers.) It was • tribute on the part of the American people; it was • demonstration of their veneration fur &rale excellence ; and it was eleu • prim( of their deep sod bating attachment to the mother country. He had ise hesitation in saying that the faiths towards the Queen of Great &itain ie the United States of America could not be drag. noted by any other word that he knew of but • passim. rehears.) He had the grati fi cation in the lodge that morons( of easing a brother—he did not know whether he was in the room at that mamma or not—who came freer America. (It was her. anneaaced that the brother iu question was preseet.) He (the duke) wee delighted to find that he wee there, and he should say nothing in his peewees which he would nut my even MOW) attorney in kis abassies, when he stated that the impression made upon his mind by that journey was one which time could not efface. Me was referring now to the powerful pant isfittence which the excellent Queen of this country exceeded over other nations, and mon especially over the with whom we had • common origin, and he was certain that they would sot he wanting on the pretest occasion in that feeling towards her Majesty which had been so generally exhibited elsewhere. Having now re ferred briefiy to the attachment exhilited towards her Majesty in the cameos and iu the United States of America, he might seeks the fact that • nut less striking ilenioaethatioo of affection was recently seen is the anxiety and alarm which he had been told prevailed is this country respecting the safety of his Royal Higbee', the Prince of Wales. (Cheers.) From the manner in which that enlist, was displayed her Majesty might be fully °ma riner., of the ardent aria 'lueut .4 her people. Nur was this less strikiugly demonstrated when his royal highness reached these shores, fur he met with • reception neat eatlausisatk in its nature at every midway station between Plymouth and Windsor. He would now °occlude by ask* them to drink " Health to the Queen and prosperity to the Craft," and to give the toast all the 11111•011iC 140001 M. (Lou,! and prolonged chariog.) His Gitaca, in proposing " The tat of the Royal Family," said that it had Leen the lot of the &ince of Wales, at the aped IV, to reader to his emery a very peat and essential sorties. Many a man bons d a royal family had desoemled into the grave rendering to his fellowmen much less good service than had been rendered by Bd, young prince. Whatever may Le the destiny which Pro IVIVIICO has averred for him, it is it proud thing that he can reelect on this voyage scrims the Atlantic. He believed that nothing so much as that journey could have cemented the good feeling—he end cemented, mind, because Le was awe inreid that they were previously soterteined -- which eiust het weal the %wet:intuitive on the °opiate sides uf theAtlantk. But not uely was it dateable that the existence of thous good feelings should be known ; it was singularly fortunate that they heel already been placed on record WWI Pr by the was. (Chan.) The f e eling betweenan t iV countries just sow was onset peace and goodwill, and woe be to us when the day Anil come that that peace is broken up. He would not say that that pease wee likely bibs broken up, but he would say that it was lan likely—that the likelihood of such an had been greaaly postponed by ' that which lied taken place. (Chaos.) Thisbe Gould may of this extraordinary visit, that they whored in New York I and iu every other important city in the United States au amount of euthualsou which was perfectly extraordinary, from the moment at which they entered Detroit till their deartui e from Portland (Cheerl.) With use solitary ex ception they win with nutimag but enthusiasm, sod, in fact, he did believe that this vat of the Prism of Wales to A merica had does more to eament the good feeling Nowise the two countries than mead possibly have been effected bgi z Erter at• century of diplissecy. The two great oe either cute of the A Uralic had disclosed those f of fraganuty which they aitormieed towards each other. (Chanel His pace concluded by " The health of the rest of the !Loyal with which he coupled the WWl* of hie Royal Mesas the Priuce Frederick Wil liam of Prussia. The taut was drunk with peat rothusiarin and the usual THE TORY WHIP.—We hear that the DOW tory " whip" in the coming session will be Lord Robert yon. tague, who hae recently given the world his caulk, opinion of Geraisldi. U this statement sh..uld be confirmed, uwe expect, the appointment intuit Ln eeomidered singularly appropriate. la the mew crweade for oiChorch sod King," aamounced by Mr. Disraeli, who would more gracefully rally the wavering hurt of roam and boroughtmagen to the party standard, that the latest and Widest champion of &vire right and padre OlbliboDee THI NEWd IMAM CHINA. —At her Majesty's' Theatre ou &duality night, at the coo:luaus el the Int ma of the performance, a gentleman coneocted with the theatre resod w the eture„ awl reed to the ssudiesce the impuelent telegram from China which was remised durum the ater woo, awl which we publish elsewhere. The sews called forth loud and general applause. Tea SoIVEIIIIIGNN 1N raitTINUS. —The Espen, of the nth .ay.:—'• The Duchess Regent of Parma has reduced by half the emoluments of her representatives at the Eu ropean courts. The Gnied Duke of Tueesov and the Ihtko of Modems have detettnioed to suppress ~11 their iepre• mutativw .t the cad of the year. Irma the month of De. cember the troops of the Duke of Moose& will he informed that they sre et liberty to return houm,or to enter the Au.- triaa regiments in Venetia. Thew an pretty goad prs•fs that them Frailty are sufficiently couriaird of the Witty al neetentioo, Men illingh Austria should sucuerd • mewls' the war." Ts EARL or J —We regret tA. learn that the youthful VAR.' 01 Jetsey is routines! at Eiuo 'rem a marioue attack of illogic Ur.. larva...Li anal Scyoooir, kkadhani, Iwrr , WP 01PIPPOL.IMI, it ea rake l u, , jut Lupe. i.e guru of Lie hatisLup'e tccv% try. AUSTRIA. A telegram from Vienna announces that M. de Schulerling, a liberal, has been appointed Minister of State. The Progrea of Vienna, previously re ceived, had the following : " We believe we may express with confidence the hope that the Gazette de Vienne will shortly give a new proof of the firm resolve of Austria to advance in the path which it entered by the Imperial decrees of the 20th of October. This new pledge will be given by the nomination of M. de Schmarling an Minister of State. We learn in fact that the council of ministers adopted in a recent sitting the programme devised by M. de Schmerling as to the internal development of Austria, and that conse quently this statesman will enter the ministry." ROME. We read iu the Journal de Rome of the sth : " The demonstrations which arrive unceasingly at the Holy See from all parts of the Catholic world console the Holy Father, plunged in bitter ness by peening events. The addresses and the sub sidies of the St. Peter's Pence, testify amongst other things to the common love and interest en couraged by the children for their father. We are able to announce that the sum received by his Holi new by means of Peter's Pence exceeds two mil lions of Roman crowns." ROPE, D. 9. Counta Trapani and Trani have arrived here. Count Trani leaves again this morning for Gaeta, whither Count Trapani will also return shortly. ITALY-GAETA. The Foreign Minister of Francis 11. has issued the following notification to Italian merchants : GAETA, Nov. 27. Since the siege of Gaeta four vessels under the Sardinian lag have moored in this port, driven by storms. The King's government had clearly the right to maize them, es they were protected neither by their flag nor by the destina tion of their cargo. The application of the laws of war would moreover have been advantageous to the besieged, seeing that the first of these vessels was laden with coal, and the three others with corn—products of great value far an in vested city. Nevertheless the King wished to show his generosity of taking into consideration the exceptional cir cumstances of the present war, which wee preceded by no regular declaration of hostilities, and his Majesty ordered that the yawls be set free and put at full liberty. But the King does not intend that a concession so benevolent and spontaneous should be interpreted se an abandonment of his rights er as • proof of feebleness. He has decided, therefore, that any vessel which shall appear after Nov. 27 in the waters of Gaeta, bearing the Sardinian Sag, shall be immediately captured by the vessels of the royal navy, and be treated according to the principles which regulate the laws al War. S. °AMU& NAM% vac. & King Victor Emmanuel arrived yesterday, and will remain here for a fortnight. The following have been appointed Councillors of Lieutenancy for Sicily :—La Farina, Director of the Interior ; Cordova, Directorof Finance; Scalia, Director of Public Works ; Pisani, Director of Public Instruction. A despatch received from the camp before Gaeta, dated the evening of the 6th inst., states that a trial had been made of the Cavalli battery against the fortress of Gaeta with terrible effect. HESSF,CASSEL. CA/38EL, Dec. 8. The Second Chamber has agreed by 37against 7 votes to the propositions of the conunittee appointed to examine the question of the constitution. An ordinance from the Elector, decreeing the dissolution of the Diet, was then immediately red. IMPORTANT FROM CHINA. ATTACK ON PEKIN. Me following spperred in • &mud Mition of the Isprese of Maturday]: RELEASE OF MESSRS. PARKES AND LOCK. DEATH OF CAPT. ANDERSON AND MR. DE NORMAN. FOREIGN OFFICE, Deo. 8, lel The following telegram was received this alter noon, at 3 p.m., from her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Alexandria, dated Nov. 30, 1860. Two of the gates of Pekin are in our hands. Parkes and Lock have been returned to us, Captain Anderson and Mr. De Norman have died from effecta of ill-treatment ; Brabazon and Boulby un accounted for. The Emperor's summer Palace taken and sacked, affording immense spoiL Emperor fled into Tartary. Forces to winter at Pekin and Tieutsing. The two Ambassadors at military head-quarters. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor owl owx PARIS, SUNDAY Evuita. The Opin:oa Nationale, which yesterday reserved its opinion upon M. de Persiguy'a new circular, is utterly silent upon the subject to-day, from which circumstance, I think, the legitimate inference is that its mouth must be closed by authority. The Siicle protests against the argument that the legis• latiou for France in 1860 is to be modelled upon that of England iu 1688. It might go farther, and declare with truth that never, in the very worst of times, was the press of England iu such a crippled and degraded state as that of France since Deoem ' bet 2, 1851. I had hoped, and really believed, that M. de Persiguy's advent to power would have put a stop to the foolish practice of confiscating English jour nals. I was, however, mistaken. The Deily News, Express, and Globe are seized to-day. The fol lowing observations of the Sleek are interesting, not only for their good sense, but because it is the first time that anything of the kind has been said in a French newspaper : It is not only the French journals that are subjected in Francs to the regime of authurissitiou: fureigu jouruals cannot be distributed without it ; end iu their case the authorisation is sot given to this or that journal, but is re quired daily fur every particular uumber. lu this matter we are impartial witnesses, and we declare that the juris• diction exercised over the ctrcuktiou of foreign journals is a gnat and perpetual cause of embarrassment for the government. Whenever a number of any foreign journal of repute is nut distribute,' conjecture sets to work, exag gerates, and not unfrequently iuveuts the news or the al tick on account of which it is supposed to be detained. ealumuy and false news in abundance are geuerated by this prwess. But this is nut all the seizure of the foreign jounced is announced by the day's post to every country in Europe, and the fact never fails to be cited as fresh evidence that the press in Erases is Not free. The system of authorising the circulation of journals, whether native or foreign, has this further inconvenience that it rusks the government responsible in the eyes of Europe for whatever is printed is Paris. " Yee antboriee," the government ie told, "and therefore you can prevent;" sad this solidarity is a great source of diplomatic difilculties. It is of no use for the Abaiteur to declare periodically that the govern• went cannot help what the journal'. say Alio cuuotaist answer is, "the greater includes the lee."