The Express. — London, England, 1861-11-20 00:00:00

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Velmare, Itubioas, Cuckarcll, J. IlstAbaws. Kra V. IlAithews.—Commieseat B&ITA NNIA. TO WM. & Till WIDOW'S 110 N. Ur. Jame Holloway awl )Ira & Los& —Tomo of Dap sad Mookeys.-11. Maw ...MOB,. C. Voplwa.—flit BLACK DOCTUIL-1104 JACK AND JA4ILIS BIIASTILLIL—Uommum at &I. NUM WAN= AT LONDON 'WOOL TO DAT —UOIIIIIIII at VA L...... Asingems. a. 41 To-reaaor —Mooing a Ids.. ... Albarma. la. tin. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOr. 90. TO OUR MILDER& SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE. A !ate edition of the Express in published every evening during the racing enuon, containing the results of the day's races. tivirssvion drams are just DOW Go rage. For a year past all London has crowded to see a young girl seem to be drowned, and the startling reality of her dying streaks has won for the piece • European fame. Through the summer we hardened our nerves with the spectacle of the real dangers risked by !Suisun( and his imitators for our amusement. As Christmas draws near, there fore, we may expect an unusual presentment of counterfeit horrors. At that season, indeed, we look to be terrified. Ghosts, murders, secret doors, dark !anthems, crape vizors, are the natural food with which the imagination expects to be fed as we gather round the gleaming firelight in the heavily-curtained room. Thrilling incidents of fiction become for us a part of our daily life, as the shortening days drive us inward and shut out the cares of thu real world without. This year we shall be critical and exacting in our demand of startling effects. Our novelists and dramatists will have to look to it, if they hope to make dream land interesting to our somewhat sated fancies. But for the present they are thrown into the shade by the appearance, in the reports of a Police court, of one of their most threadbare incidents. The little circumstance that among the actors were Mr. YARDLEY and Inspector Dosov•x, gives to one of the most hackneyed devices of their art an interest which eclipses the most novel and highly-wrought scenes of the Lyceum or Adelphi playwrights. The facts, so far as the plot was developed on Monday, are very simple. An old and invalid lady resided in Fulham-place, Maida-hill, her establishment consisting of two female servants, her own maid and a cook. On the 24th of October last, about nine in the evening, she sent her maid down stairs to bring up her supper. Ere the maid returned the door of the room was opened. Two men entered, their faces concealed with =aka, and before the old lady, sick with terror, could gasp out a scream, one of them secured her silence by a stunning blow on the head. When the maid carne up-stairs with the supper tray she saw her mistress lying bleeding and senseless, a man stooping over her, and another man rifling the drawers of the dressing table. Flinging down the tray she rushed screaming to the stairs. The men rushed past her, opened the front door, and escaped. So much is certain. The rest of the story stands as yet on insufficient evidence, and must be for the present taken with some grains of doubt. The cook deposed that a little before her fellow-servant came down for her mistress's sup per she had admitted into the house a woman of the name of Cotter, who had acted as nurse to her mistress during the preceding winter. This woman, after being a few minutes in the house, proposed to go out for some gin, and borrowed the latchkey that she might let herself in on her return. When she came back she threw the key ostentatiously on the table, and desired them to observe that she had re turned it. At this time the old lady's maid was in the kitchen, waiting to take up the supper. When the maid had gone up-stairs, and the crash of the tray was heard, the cook made an exclamation, but CoLLZY said " it wee nothing." When, imme diately after, the alarm was raised, COLLEY called the hearers loudly to witness that she was inno cent. To the police officer who subtequently ap prehended her she gave various and contradictory accounts of what she had done that evening. She was, therefore, placed in the dock, along with two men who had been concerned in seem former robberies of plate, and who had been observed in the neighbourhood of Fulham-place about the time of the bur glary. Against them, however, the er . denoe of identification is as yet very Unperfect—the old lady being too ill to attend the court, and her adamant naturally enough being uncertain of the appearance of the men whom she had so suddenly and im perfectly seen. Such is thu outline of • story which would seem natural and ordinary enough if told of some lonely house by a heath, but which is sufficiently startling when the scene is a how.* in a frequented, gar lighted, and police-watched street in Londoe. Whatever may be the ultimate success of the cificiahi in detecting the individuals guilty of the crime, it is beyond doubt that the crime was committed, and committed by means so simple, that, as Hr. YARDLEY remarked, none of us can be assured that we mir es/vim rest in safety from • similar attempt. Taking the evidence of the cook to be true (and if it is not true it would only make the difference that she henelf wee the guilty party instead of the woman she accused), we have the fact that at an early hour in the evening, when all the world was still astir, a woman !whom character had been vouched so far that she bad been for months a trusted inmate of the house, opens the front door, gives admisaion to a couple of ruffians, who walk upstairs, and in the brief absence of the attendant nearly murder the mistrals of the bowie in herown bedroom, and are within an ace of escaping with their booty. Against such contingencies it is evident we are all defenceless. We can do no more than in quire the previous character of our servants; we cannot secure that their character shall not change even while in our son We ; we cannot, with every THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1861. possible precaution to exclude " followers," assure ourselves against their admitting those who will take summary precautions against future fault finding. This subjection to the sudden assaults of daring crime is a possibility from which, even in the highest stage of civilization, we can never wholly escape. At any moment we may be un consciously entertaining a COURVOISIER, or our servants may be unwittingly giving facilities to a Coixev to open the door to robbers who will bide behind doors and curtains till they find us alone. Our chance of security against all such possibilities lies in the probability of detection. Tho remarkable circumstance in the present case is that that probability should have been dared, and so nearly, if in deed it shall not prove to be altogether, avoided. In such a case the police are bound to redouble their efforts, for our sole reliance rests upon their watchfulness, and their watchfulness has been defied with impunity. Whether we shall have one or two scoundrels at large, more or less, does not signify much ; but whether any scoundrel can by such easy means perpetrate a safe robbery signifies a great deal. Not a little of the comfort of English homes and firesides during the ensuing winter will depend on whether the real burglars of Fulham-place shall find themselves speedily " wanted " by the ministers of the law. THE DOSS OP THR SHIP MARMARA AND TWENTY-BEI7N LIVES. Intelligence was received in Liverpool yesterday by the Africa of the total lose of the ship Maritana. The following is from a statement by one of the saved : "The ship Maritana, Captain Williams, from Liverpool, on Sept. 25, for Boston, with 15 ngers, cargo of about 900 tons of coal, 100 bales wo od an assortment of potash, irou, and steel, consigned to Mews. Page and Co., made Highland Light, Cape Cod, at 4,30 p.m. on Sa turday, Nov. 2, and Race Point Light at 8.45 p.m., wind strong from eastward ; kept on her coarse for Boston Light, which was seen at 12.45 midnight, weather thick, when the order was immediately given to tack ship, but before she could be brought to the wind breakers were discovered, and she struck on Egg Rock, sometimes called Ball Bock, about one mile seat of Boston Light. There was a very heavy sea on, which con stantly broke over the vessel with terrible violence. NM mithstandir.g this the ship's longboat was soon got over board. Five of the seamen got into it to run a small line ashore (not knowing where they were), to which • hawser was to be attached, with the idea of saving those on board ; but the Met was stove almost immediately, and the men hauled on board the ship. The other boats were also soon crushed to atoms on the davits by the sea. The masts were cut away at about 3 a.m., when nothing remained to be done but to wait patiently for daylight. The ship being a very strong one, held together until morning, leaking but little, she having no water between decks, but chafing very harshly on the rocks. About 7 a.m. on Sunday, Captain Williams was amidships, when he noticed that the vessel was breaking in two. He shouted, "Look out for yourselves," but spoke no more. The ship sepa rated just where lie stood. He fell below, said was crushed to death as the vessel closed to together again. The scene which ensued is described as terrible. The affrighted ngers and crew had lost the guiding spirit of the v and, amidst intense excitement and confusion, they straggled against the fearful death that stared them is the fare. Five seamen swam ashore, and seven others saved themselves on the poop. The remainder of the crew and passengers were swept off the wreck and lost. The body of Captain Williams was found. His head must have been struck by a timber, as it was dreadfully jammed. The Maritime bad a crew of 21, all told, and five male and ten female passengers. The followi i vz s. the names of the lost :—Captain G. W. W" of Providence ; Mr. W. R. Carnes, of Boston ; ohn Wiainness, of Prime Edward's Island; Winfield West, Henry Green, John Ellis, Daniel Hunter, August Shiverie (French boy), William Jackson, David M'lmiarie (seaman), Edward Barrett (cook). Paasengers.—Mr. Pratt and two daughters, Eliza Boxier Y.ug lady), Mr. Clark and wife, Mary Flanigan (sister of o o h u n FlAnigan, saved), Maria Byron and Elizabeth Byron, of Dublin, Ireland; Patrick Reagan (boy), Thomas —, pseengers' cook ; a lady and daughter having friends in Concord, Massachusetts, or New Hampshire, unknown ; sad • woman unknown. A nephew of one of the owners was also drowned. " The following were saved : "James Dunagh second officer ; the steward of the ship (name not given), John Manning, Henry Tucker, Richard Moor, Walter Munson, Thomas Haynie, W. F. Marble, Charles Hanson, and Joseph Roden (seamen), Christopher Rhodes and John Flanigan (passengers). The bodies of Captain Williams, Eliza Bozier, Lucy Pilaf, William Jackson, and Thomas floated ashore at the lighthouse, and were brought to Boston in pilot-boat No. 2. The body of the lily passenger (name unknown) was recovertd. The Heritans was a fins vessel of MI tone, built at Quincy, Maseschuaetts, and owned in Providenoe." THE LATE OALES.-LOSS OP TWO OTHER HULL STEAMERS. -4.- The heavy gales of Wednesday and Thursday last appear to have raged with even greater fury on the conti nental shores of the North Sea and the Bata than on the English coaat. Among the more serious of the many wrecks reported is the total lose of the Lion steamship, 1,400 tons, :trading between Hull sod St. Petersburg, which took place near Ostergarn, on the Island of Goth land, in the Baltic. She was one of the many steamers which were ordered out of Crowds& on Thursday, in con sequence of winter setting in. The telegram stein that the ship is a total wreck, but that the crew were rived. It is believed that in her course up the Baltic she fell in with the dreadful weather, and went ashore. She was • fine first-class vessel of 330 hone-power. She was to have brought a general cargo of Russian merchandise ; but it is not known whether she had time to ships large stock of tallow which was consigned to her. If she had shipped it, her lon will involve • very considerable amount. The ship and cargo were partly insured at Lloyd's. Oa the coast near Teal and T'erechelling some fifteen vessels are reported to have been lost. Marge Norwegian berg" called the Jaime, Captain Bessesen, bound to Antwerp, from Alexandria, was stranded ow Tend. The only one on board who was saved was the pilot. A large Russian barque, called the Haleyoe, bound to London from Jaools stedt, was wrecked, bane( been blown ashore by the gals. The crew were saved. A Prussian schooner, called the Vomiter* la len with barley, bound to Vrislasch, was stranded, and several of the crew were drowned. The ship and cargo are telegraphed to be lost. Among the other vessels which are reported to have bees blown ashore by the storm on the same reach of coast are the schooner Paz, from Dieppe for Newcastle the Danish schooner Stastersad , from lioness for Gibra ltar; and the Emma Elias (Russian), from Dublin for Pillau. A cata logue of disasters has been communicated from Heligo lead, Cuxhaven, and other places near the mouth of the Elbe, where the storm is described as having been very sever. The schooner Calumet, bound to England, was totally lost near Nieudiep. The Prussian schooner Cita, from Limerick for Memel, was stranded at a point called Nis. The crew were saved. The telegraphic 'deices from the Hague also furnish long lists of casualties resulting from the recent severe weather. Several ships are stated to have been stranded. The Blue Jacket, Captain Hargrave, from Antwerp for Ipswich, which was blown up the coast by the gale, went ashore at Loodsuinen, sod two or three of the crew are stated to have perished. Similar acoounts have been received from more northern ports, and it is feared that the full extent of mischief occasioned by the gale is yet to be learned. A Hull correspondent writes :—A second Hull vessel sup to be lost is the Enchantress, • screw steamer longing to Mr. Depledgs, merchant, High-street, Hull. She was 300 tons burtheo, and was swaged in the Rot terdam trade. She left Hull on Wednesday last, and though she should have completed the passage back again to Hull by Sunday, nothing has since been beard of her. She has never arrived at Rotterdam, and it is generally believed she must have goes down in the storm with all hands. LIBERTY OF THE PRIM IN SPAIN.—The liberal journal, the Iberia, has been again condemned in a penalty of 40,000 reale, for having, io a correspondence from London, contained remarks in praise of Don Juan. Sinai the Lt of April this journal has paid 151,000 realm in the shape of penalties. An attempt is now, we (Galilnami) understand, making, with some prospect of snocess, to obtain the con sent of the government for the establishment of a German Theatre in Paris. The name of Madame Brawling, who enjoys a high artistic reputation in Germany, is mentioned as the principal promoter of this design, which is very popular among the numerous German residents in Paris. Such a scheme would probably, however, stand • better alum of success, were it combined with • more extensive plan, which is also talked of, by which other foreign dramatic representations would be introduced. In addition to those of Germany, it is suggested to have those of Spain, Italy, and England in turn, at regularly stated seasons, so as they might not interfere with each other. The following paragraph is going the round of the French journals :—" An unpublished volume of Vol- Mire is about to be brought out by Henry I'lon. The manuscript was found among the papers left by Diderot. H. Feudist du Conches, • most competent judge in such matters, declares that there can be no mistake as regards the authenticity ; the writing is Voltaire's, and the ink and paper are of hie day." Among the passengers by the Africa, which has arrived at Liverpool. is Archbishop Hughes (Roman catho lic), of New York, wbo comes to England, it is reported, oa a "diplomatic mission." General Scott and Mr. Thur. low Weed, who were expected to leave by the Africa, did not do so. Or Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 19. The Queen walked in the grounde of the Castle thin morning, attended by Lady Augusts Bruce. The Prince Consort went out shooting, attended by Colonel the Hoo. Sir C. Phipps, Colonel Ponaonby, and Colonel the Hon. A. Harding.. The Princess Alice, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, drove to Watfonl in a carriage-and-four, and honoured the Countess of Clarendon with a visit at the Grove. Hun Royal Highoces returned to the Castle in the afternoon. Primer Liens rode in the Riding•bouae. The queen end Prince Consort, accompanied by Princess Alice, drove out yesterday afternoon, and honoured the &dike Minister and Madame Van de Weyer with a visit at New-lodge, Windsor Forest. lo attendance were the Marehioessa of Ely and the Equerries in Waiting. Mr. Thomas Earle has been honoured with a sitting of the QllllO3, to enable him to complete his marble statue for the People's Park, Kingston-upon. Hull. The Duchess of Athol. has succeeded the Murchiouess of Ely as lAdy is Waiting to her Majesty. A Cabinet Council waa held yesterday at the official residence of the flint Lord of the Treasury, iu Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. Curnewall Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Ablerley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Mr. Lyons ll'Leod aed the Rev. W. Ellis had an inter view with Earl Rummell, at the Foreign•oB;ce, yesterday. Her Majesty's Cimmiuioners for the International Ex hibition of 1862 held a meeting at .their offices in the &mod, yesterday. The Finance Committee also held a meeting at the Strand yesterday. _ The Rev. Moran Gregory, accompanied by the Secretary of the City Orthopedic H ptal, llatton•garden, had as interview with Farl Ransil yesterday. The Right Hon. W. Hutt has returned to town from Gitaide. Despatches were received yesterday at the CoLonialwelre from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands and from the Governor of the Bahamas. Despatches were seat to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, lobos*, the Mauritius, and the Australian Colonies. HI Excellency the Belgian M iniater, with Madame Van de Weyer and NW Virden' Van de Weyer, left New Lodge, Windex Forest, yesterday, on a visit to Lead sad Lady Como" at Stowe Park, Haileywn-Tliwnsa. -_ . _ Thu Marquia of Doutviall and Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley have arrived at Harellsid Home, Ushaidgo, from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Erroll have arrived in awe from &gam Orlls, Abordmmaltim. The Earl and Oenntese Conrtown and family lam arrived at Thome. Hotel, 13erkelerequare, from Izedaad. Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the lies. P. Glut have arrived in South Audlerstreet from • Mora visits. Lord and Lady Rodney and family have arrived at Thomas's Bahl, Berkeley-square, from Brighton. _ _ The Earl of Elgin, Major Findlay, Major Gerard at Roche°lee, sad Archibald &too Steuart, Fag., arrived at Hamilton Palace ow Wednesday last. The Earl of Dalhousie has arrived from Brechin Ossfile, ow his way to the south of France, where it is aadentood has lordship will pass the winter. The marriage of Mimi Jarvis, daughter of the ksta Lord Chief Justice Janis sad lady Jervis, to Ed ward, shiest sac of t h e Has. Edward Swyafsu Parker Jervis. of Aaloa Hall, Suites Coldfisid, Staffordshire, will Saks pawn early ia Dassadrim We (Buryend Norwich Post) have great pleasure IN seoeumieg the intended marriage of the awl Jereirs, the heir to the Marqnisate of Bristol, to Miss Geraldine Amu. yeuegmst ilaughier el the late MaJor-Gemsral the Ham George ABM, sad slam of Lord Forester. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Hon. Mn. Olmdmiciesa and Miss Gladstone, are the guests of the Dean of Christ Chunk, Oxford. The right hon. gentleman's skit to him enaslitnenta is well timed ; he will, we under stand, take part ha Ike proceedings at the sdr,"e at the new Museum two", given by the trustees of Dr. Ratcliffe, of , whisk be is one ; and atm at the meeting at the Sheldonian Theatre, "Per Um Education of the Middle-claases in con masks with EL Nickolas Collage, Lancing, Sours, over whisk the VicmCianoellor will preside. The Dukes of lffewertki, KAI., mid Marlborough, the Bishops of Oxford, Olireeeter, and Rotessarr, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P., Mr W. HlSibooolo, BRA., P., J. G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P., and the Mayer of Oxford will attend. Some extraOrclinary circumstances occurred on the &pastors of the Africa from New York. No official intimation had base gives to the British Camel respecting the necessity of venom embarking for England being pro vided with passports, but previously to the departure of t►e Africa, a polesmasa was scat ap to the Consuluoffice to request that as edsial s►ould be sent to the cosy. The Viee-Ooseal pesseeded there and found a body of police draws up, is whose presence the passports were made out. As the Africa wee PM getting under way two police oaken boarded the vowel, and attempted to arrest an English lady from Georgia, who had • puiport. The lady reshoted the capture, sad Captain Shannon, finding they had ao warmet for her arrest, declined to allow the officers to remove her. They departed without the lady, but in. Basted that the Africa would he slopped at the Narrows. by the Federal vocal as guard there. The steamer, however, puma usunolested. The puesagen by the City of Baltimore, which arrived at Liverpool on Saturday last, hid their passports nerved oat in the same loose manner. The City Councils of Philadelphia presented General M'CleUan with a sword, on the 3rd, which be acicsowledged as follows :—" I ask you, sir, to give my minuet and deep thanks to the hooourable body you repro seat for this entirely unmerited compliment. I ooukl thank you better if I thought that I deserved it, but I do sot feel that I do. Nothing that I have yet accomplished would warrant this high compliment. It is for the future to determine whether I shall realise the expectations and hopes that have been centred is me. I trust and feel that the day is sot far distant when I shall return to the place dearest of all others to me, there to wend the balsam of my life among the people from whom I have received this beautiful gift. The war cannot be long ;It may be despe rate. I ask is the future forbearsooe, and cow adeoce. With these we oan accomplish all ; and while I know that, in the great drams which may have our ►earts' blood, Pennsylvania will not play the lust, I trust that, on the other band, she will play the highest and noblest part. I Will thank you, and snails ask you to wavey to the councils my roost demure thanks for the sword. Say to them that it will be my ambition to deserve it hereafter. I know I do not now." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Nov. 17. A very serious fight is expected in the Chamber on the debate on the address, which begins on Wednesday. The ministry is using every exertion to rally liberals of all shades to its standard ; a de fection of only half-a-dozen votes might reverse the majority. The Ghent protectionists have resorted to a new device to support their cause. They now affect not to oppose free trade in principle, but they urge the government to alter the tariff by a simple act of parliament without any treaty. Make no engagement, they say, with England, for she wants much from you, and can give nothing that you want in return. The following passage in their petition is a smart hit at M. Frere :—" Those who were deceived about the gold question are very likely indeed to be wrong again." This alludes to the introduction of French gold, which was strenuously opposed by M. Frere, who was beaten upon it in the Chamber, and it is now admitted on all hands that the measure was a good one. Petitions are being got up among the work men, complaining that English purchases raise the price of agricultural produce. BERNE, Nov. 15. The government of Geneva has just notified to ' the Ftxleral Council that some French gendarmes have arrested an individual at a spot near Jassy, situated 120 metres within the Swiss frontier, which act constituted a fresh violation of Swiss territory. The affair is doubtless not very grave, and will probably be speedily arranged, but it happens at an unlucky moment. The Federal Council has not yet replied to M. Thouvenel's note concerning the Dappenthal. The reason for the delay is believed to be that the council is waiting for authentic evidence that French troops really did invade the village of Ores soniiree. The Federal commissioners have returned to the spot to make further inquiries. The Fede ral Council, moreover, it not unanimous as to the course to be taken. Some of the members wish to confine the present negotiations to the Dappes affair, while others think it expedient to take this opportunity to settle the Savoy question, and pro pose that any commission in the valley of Dappes should be made conditional upon suitable guaran tees to be given by France for the neutralisation of Upper Savoy. A sad event occurred to-day at Berne. M. Blot, the chancellor of the French embassy, died suddenly in a fit of apoplexy ; he is universally regretted. M. FOULD AND HIS COLLEAGUES. The Paris correspondent of the independence Beige says that an extraordinary meeting of the council was held on Sunday, and that the require ments of M. Fould met with the strongest opposi tion from several of the members. "Natu rally," says the writer, "the opposition first proceeded from M. Walowski, who con- 1 sidered that his functions would be almost annulled if the demands of M. Fould were complied with. M. de Persigny backed up his colleague M. Walewski with great warmth, and M. Rouher gave his entire support to his two colleagues, although he was an advocate for calling M. Fould to the Ministry of Finance. The cabinet thus found itself divided into two camps. The discussion became extremely warm, not to say stormy, and the Emperor, who was at once the arbiter and the witness of the scene, is said to have manifested his impatience by hastily quitting the council room without giving any opinion." WARLIKE PREPARATIONS IN ITALY. A letter from Naples of the 16th , in the Italia, Nays :—" The utmost activity prevails in the dock yards of Naples and Castellamare. An order has arrived from Turin directing all the vessels to be repaired and re-armed. They are required to be ready for the spring, and M. Tholoeano has given directions that the workmen should be employed even on the Sunday." THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. The Constantinople correspondent of the hide pesdasce Beige says that the conferences relative to the Danubian Principalities have been delayed in consequence of the refusal of Austria to admit the representative of the Italian government to take part in the joint deliberations. The envoy of King Victor Emmanuel has insisted on the right of his sovereign to take part iu the recision of an inter national act to which he hail been a party equally with the other powers who signed the treaty of Paris, and the members of the conference are now engaged in endeavouring to turn this difficulty. (alma's irnsosams.) FRANCE. PARU3, Nov. 20. The idoniteur of to-day says :—"The foreign press speak of certain incidents alleged to have accompanied the return of M. Fould to office. These rumours have no foundatiou whatever." SPAIN. MADRID. Nov. 20. The Queen is enceinte. Senor Roe Olano has been sent on an extraonli nary mission to Portugal. Marshal O'Donnell is 'convalescent. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 20. The election of the persona qualified to vote for the return of members to the Prussian Chamber of Deputies took place yesterday throughout the king dom. The result of the elections in Berlin is decidedly in favour of the libends. Telegrams received here announce that similar minks have been obtained in the provinces. " A Paris notary," says the Nord, "hea received the will of an old German, who came to Paris to ' enjoy Ids,' as he called it, and died there, childless, es the 20th of October last. He has bequeathed the whole of his fortune-400,000fr. (16,0001.)—to those who made the kat years of his life pleasant and agreeable. It is said that several writers of romance, feuilletosists, musical wen rims, dramatic authors, painters, and theatrical artists, are the fortunate legatees, and that the legacy of each person is in proportion to the pleasure which his talent afforded to the testator. It is added that he wishes bis will should be made public, is order that others might be induesd to ' go and do likewise.' " George Frederic Freytag, the celebrated Oriental scholar, died to the 16th of this month, at Dortsedorf, near Bonn. He was the author of several Arabic works, the principal of which was his peat " eon Arabico-Latinum," in 4 vols. (1830-1837). A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 11th, in the Cologne Gazette, observes :—" The subject of genera conversation here is the arrest of /foie. Europese, a lady moving in high society, and the wife of the marshal of the nobility of Tivar. She received last year a strong repri mand, and was even sent to a Axed place of residence in the interior, for having emit a petition to the Emperor, praying for a constitution. She has just been arrested at the fros tier when coming from abroad. According to some accounts, • collection of revolutionary pamphlets were discovered concealed under her crinoline, and secorelieg to others • number of compromising letters addressed to warty 150 persons of the upper dames." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OW'S PARIS, TUESDAY Emma. Dr. Veron's quaint paragraphs in the Constite f ;motel are the principal subject of political discus sion to-day. The doctor having been the first to get wind of the great Fould affair, his articles are DOW closely scanned, on account of the possibility of their being founded upon some scrap of official information, but the vein of authority which they enjoy will soon be worn out if he does not put a check upon his natural eccentricities. The follow ing astounding paragraph has occasioned much amusement : It has been rumoured for the last two days that his Excellency Count de Morny ;id very seriously negotiating for the purchase of the Pays. This report is coincident with an article in that journal cont►ining most just and warm eulogies of the character and talent of the President of the Corps Legialatif. If this is meant for irony, it is assuredly very cutting. But there is considerable doubt on that point. M. Veron is a member of the Corps Legis latif by the grace of the government, to which he is " devoted," and would hardly offer an intentional insult to the president of that assembly, more especially when that president happens to be a personage so very closely connected with the Emperor as M. de Morny. Nevertheless, it is dial cult to conceive that even the long habit of wearing a livery could so blunt the perceptions of a man of ordinary common sense as to render him capable of framing such a sentence as the above in the belief that he was paying a compliment. M. GrandgaWot, the degomme, who has "the honour of knowing M. Veron," and has "sometimes" been reckoned by Lim as of the number of his friends, complains of the above announcement as being " most disobliging." He does not say precisely whether he considers it dis obliging towards himself or the Count de Morny. Very naturally he wishes to affect a solidarity with the latter, who is his patron. The Count de Morny, ho says, never stood in need of such "coincidences" to obtain from him the homage due to " his great and fine character." He calls to mind that both in the Constitutionnel and the Pays he never failed to praise him, and this nobody will deny. In con clusion, M. Orandguillot knows nothing whatever of the alleged sale of the Pays. It does not, how ever, at all follow that Verou's account may not be true. Orsndguillot would not be likely to be taken into the confidence of the negotiators till the transaction was completed. Dr. Veron also fathers the following para graph, which was much discussed at the Bourse : If we are well-informed. the Minister of the Intenor has submitted to the Emperor a project, which may be called both political and financial, consisting of a disarmament, with the maintenance of the staffs. This measure would be complementary to the new financial measures confided to M. loull The disarming would not only be a new and favourable guarantee of confidence and prosperity for France, but also a fresh and powerful one for all the governments of Europe. It would be general peace crown ing the glory achieved by the French army on fields of battle. If we are well informed, the Emperor will visit the Queen of England during the Universal Exhibition of London. The project of Count de Persigny, submitted to the Emperor, will, therefore, be at the same time a new and great political and financial measure. The P;esse laughs at the tax on pianos, and thinks the statement about the reduction in the army very obscure and unsatisfactory. At the Bourse there were great fluctuations, with a large amount of busiuess. Yesterday's article in the Patrie was considered more serious than that of Dr. Veron, and it was inferred that a reduction in the army might be really hoped for. The Rente varied between the figures of 70fr. 20c. and 69fr. 96c., and closed at Oft. 85c. for cash, and 70fr. for account, with a rise of 200. in each case. Mobilier rose llfr. 85c., and the Italian Loan 25c. Railways, after being higher, left off with little change. Father Lacordaire, after having received extreme unction, and taken a solemn death-bed leave of many friends, suddenly rallied on Sunday week, and has been improving ever since. According to the Pays, General Cialdini is really expected in Paris, but only for a short time ; he intends to proceed from Paris to Madrid. THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA- LIAR YAMS. 9011TILUIPTON, Nov. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the heavy portion of the ►bove mails, arrived at the Needles at 2 a.m. this morning, but in consequeuce of a thick fog she brought tip in the Solent. Her mails arrived here by steam-tug about 7 o'clock, and were despatched to London by the 8.40 and 8.50 trains. The ship's pupate and despatches not having been sent on here with the mails did not come to hand until the Ceylon's arrival la the docks, at 12 o'clock. The Ceylon beings 86 passengers ; gold and gold dust, 117,2801. ; specie, 2,5001. ; valuables., 3,0001. ; precious stones, 2,500 rupees ; sad the following ouzo, via., 1,200 sacks wheat, 600 sacks beans, 794 cases dates, 52 ewes ditto, 80 bales sauna, 4 packers tusks, 260 boxes manses, 4 octaves wine, and 120 packages sundries. The riling transport Niaa ;as about embarking at Alge siras 200 convicts condemned for life, who are to be con veyed to Samar (Island of St. Domiogo). The Spanish screw frigate* Leatland and Concepcion ar rived at Santa Cruz de TouslEs on the 10th ult., and left for Havannah on the 19th. The steam4loop Patino arrived at Banta Cruz on the 23rd. The Norwegian screw-oorvette Norueu, 20 guns, lett Cadiz for the Antilles on the 4th. The Spanish transport Alan left Cadiz for llavannah on the sth, conveying the 3rd battalion of Marisa& The Alicante. with tho 4th battalion, was to leave Ma laga for Cadiz on the 6th. The Cadiz Constitutional states that the expedition which is being organised at the Havanoab, destined for Mexico, is composed of 12 war vessels, eight of them of the first class, with government and merchant transports, sufil. cient to convey 6,000 men (infantry), '3OO artillery, 200 en gineers, 150 horse, three batteries, together with military and civil employis, hospital and stores attached to the division. The Spanish army is at present composed of 271,000 met and Zi.ooo horses, including the forces in the colonial. The artillery minders upwards of 14,000 men. The war steamer Vulcan° left Algesiras on the 29th with despatches for the Spanish cbarg6-d'affaires and for the Moorish government, announcing that thequeations between that empire and Spain had Lees arranged. Prince Maley el-Abbas and suite paid a visit to the mint on the same date. Fut4sitst. or MR. T. S. Duitomtits —We are in formed that the interment of the late highly-respected member for Finsbury will take place to-morrow (Thurs day), at Kensal-groon Cemetery. The procession will have Sussex-gardens at half-past 10, and is expected to reach the A correspondent, writing from Chamounix to ' cemetery about 11. the Courrier do. Alpes, mays :—" I think it will not FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. IB.—The Queen has been be without interest to you to have an exact ac- pleased to approve of Mr. Heinrich Denenberg, as Coned count of the extraordinary number of tourist' • who at Singapore for his Boyal Highness the Guard Duke of have this year visited this place. From the official °ldenbur g h ' —Gagette • list it exceeds 9,000; among whom there were 4,169 Dowsixo-arszar, Nov. 18.—The Queen has been English and Americans, 1,993 French, 712 Germans, and be es l " seci to be • P" M " 35ti Russians. The other manes stand for mu c h lowerof ite".-e Iwgrlative CeoarH 01 the 'aloud of Jamaica.— &we numbets. Under tho head of Spain only 26 names are se t HITERALL, Nov. 19.—The Queen has been There are *me Tube list." giv eeeeprised in the general pleased to e and grant unto Lieutenant Henry Chad Cattley, of Feser's Irregular Csvalry, her Majesty's royal Rooooni, the great Italian singer, has just ob. license and perrakisioa that he may accept and weer the tined a groat triumph at Manikins, not for his singing, insignia of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Ho n our of but for his admirable th s e - Fiftk Class, which his Majesty the Emperor of the Presence of mind- While Performing French has been pleased to confer upon him, as a mark of • duet with a Mdlle. Marti, in Coterentola, her gauze dress his imperial Majesty's approbation of his distinguished asr- Waa let on fire by the footlights. Bonconi seized the dress vices before the enemy during the late eembihett British and In his heeds, and immediately extinguished the flame , but French °paranoias against China. —Ga.:erre. ~ without in any way discontinuing his execution of th e Wgirmwa Nov. 16.—The Queen has be e n pram, quietly finishing the phrase be had commenced when monPlemed to , Prise" Barton the Rev `lay, i ‘ n - the in oo G i i i l ay ß" ot . t ha:f t erd the prima donna's skirts began to blase. This " startling o og dimes of Ely, vacan he t by the death of the Bereaved incident" excited the enthusiasm of the audience to the Timothy Fysh foord Bowen—Gazette. highest pitch, as well it might. Snow was an inch deep in Norwich on Monday. ZIPLLNATION, 3.—Baratiteler earreeleliiiiiiiai,;id to 32 deg. at mean sea level; each 10 feet, of vertical Hee, causing about one hundredth of an loch diminution ; and each 10 deg., above 32 deg., causing nearly threedutudrodths increase. k: —Expored thermometer in shade. M.—Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew point,. D.—Direction of wind (trio—two points left of mag• Beth:). F.—Force ,1 to 12--estimated). ,1 to 01. I.— b, bide sky: c, clouds (detached.. f, fog; h, hall 1, lightning; m, misty ihazy) o, overcast ; r, ruin; a, wow; t, thunder. (2.—tiesdistarbance (1 tog). 1.--Calm. parnors TO THIS WORT. 1111.11A.41tRIFORI FRIDAY. Britain—W. to ii.—Ftesh to W. to S.—Yresh to strong, some strung. rain. retand—\.W. to S.—Fresh to a. to N.W.—Strong, rainy. strong, some rain. Coast—N. W. to B.S. W.— Fresh. England LW. to S. Fresh, tine. B. to \.W.—Fresh, flue. 8. to N.N.W.—Fresh, flue. THE Cssumx aimJos.—We bear by electric telegraph that the writ for the Carlisle election arrived there today, and that proclamation was made from the market cross that the nomination will take place on Mon day, and thepolling on Tuesday next. EAST WORCESTERSHIRE ELFATION.—At a meeting of the leading conservatives of East Worcestershire, held on Monday (says the Warerhantpl,,n Ch runi,le), Sir John Pakington in the chair, it was resolved that no opposition should be offered to the return of Harry Foley Vernon, PAT, the liberal candidate. PRESENTATION TO THE LATE GOODS MANAGER 01 THE WEST MIDLAND RAILWAY.—A abort time ago Mr. Thomas Hibbert retired from the office of goods manager on the West Midland line, in order to eater upon a more lucrative appointment on the South Western Railway. lie held his former office fur nine years, and won the respect of the officers of the company and many mem bers of the community with which he was connected io business. It was resolved, therefore, to present him with some substantial marls of the respect in which he was bet. A subscription hat was accordingly opened, end very woo 220 subscribers bad given in their names, and upwards of 300/. was realised. This sum was expended in the purchase of a dinner and dessert service of plate for twelve, a beau tiful gold chronometer watch and guard, and neatly a neat, C containing 100 guinea*. Wo/, hampfisi THE DIRTRERRED OPERATIVES OF BLAcKBURN.--• A provision has been made to aid the distressed operatives of Blackburn and district. Additional rates are beiog levied throughout the union to eatable the board of guar die= so meet the extraordinary demands which will ouubt leas be made upon them duriog the ensuing winter. The guardians have taken the matter up meet vigorously. It is proposed to employ. all the able-bodied males oo the works of the new workhouse in coupe erection at Grimahaw-park, and to pay each labourer the sum of ls. 6d. per day. The work required of thew is to excavate the ground connected with the work house, the whole of which has to be first thoroughly drained and seemed, and then tilled in readiness for spring. This will find employment for a large number of 'people ; and, should other labour be required, the guardians propose that the corporation should find some other work in the Corpo ration Park, or elseiwherel upon the extensive improvements being effected throughout the town, the guardians contri. butiug out of the poor rates to the expense thus incurred. Already a body of men are employed on the new eorkhotve property, and others are being set to work. The propo , il to hold a public meeting in the Town-hall, t 3 devise the best means of raisin subscriptions to meet the threatened crisis, was entertained at a private meeting of the council, the local members of parliament, and magistrates, C lrnr, potry, overseers, and guardians of the poor, in the Council Chamber on Monday. After considerable ili,cussion, it was the unanimous opinion of the meeting that it was in expedient at present to hold • public meeting on the sub ject, and that the meeting proposed to be held to-morrow (Thursday) evening should be postponed. From the returns of the relieving oM' ars for the past week we find that the number relieved was 3.123, or $29 in excise of the number relieved in the corresponding week of last year. at an extra cost of 21f. lie. 5d., and total expense of Id. There is also an increase in the number of inmates io the workhouse of 90 over the corresponding week of last year. bilntrin• IN IRELAND.—A brief announcement has reached us cis dreadful agrarian crime committed in the county of Limerick on Saturday night. A farmer Denied Quinlan was shot through the heart near his own house — death, of coarse, being instantaneous. A man who hati been recently evicted by the deceo•ed has been taken into custody on suspicion. ANOTHER MILITARY MURDER. CORFU, Nov. 12. A shocking murder was committed here on the 26th of last month. A soldier of the Ist Battalion oth Regiment, Private Chadwick, shot Corporal Dawdlers of the same regiment. It was a case very similar to that which occurred some time back at Aldershott, when a private sol dier, who had a grudge against a non-commissioned officer, loaded his rifle and shot him as be was sitting at a table reading. In this instance the unfortunate corporal was in his barrack-room, standing up on his bed, arranging some of his things in the rack which is fixed above it, when Private Chad. wick entered, and without even raising the rifle to his shoulder discharged the contents into his side. The murderer was immediately secured, but the unfortunate victim, of whom at first hopes of recovery were entertained, expired in the greatest agony after lingering for two drys in the hospital. The immediate cause of this horrid crime was the awanl of six days' confinement to barracks, to which Chadwick had been sentenced by the officer commanding his regiment for insubordinate conduct to the corporal. It is to be hoped that the prompt execution of the murderer will deter others from perpetrating such barbarous crimes. Corporal Donollan was shot on Saturday, the 26th of October, and died on the morning of Monday, the 26th. The same day an inquest and court of inquiry were held, and the general court-martial, which sat on the 30th, sentenced the murderer to be hanged. This sentence was carried into effect on Friday last, the Bth inst., on the South Parade in the citadel of Corfu. Thus, while the Clearys and kl'Caffrays are still awaiting their trial in England, the murderer of Corporal Donollan at Corfu has expiated his mime on the spot, and no doubt this prompt retribution will prove the most radical cure for these bar barous outrages. The controversy which hoe been opened respecting the ammunition which is by the rules of the service entrusted to the keeping of the soldiers will, perhaps, result in the introduction of some measure of a preventive character. Prompt and condign punishment on the spot is, however, after the perpetration of the crime, if not a remedy for the identical crime that has been committed, certainly the measure most calculated to inspire, by the suddenness of the example, a wholesome dread of the consequences Wen. dant upon the rash indulgence of vindictive passion. NEALrs OP LONDON. The return of births and deaths in London issued by the Registrar-General stake that the high mortality that attends the inclement months of the year has begun to appear in the weekly returns. The deaths in London were 1,078 in the last week of October ; they nee to 1,251 in the following week, and to 1,288 in the week that ended last Saturday._ The mean weekly temperature of the air was above 58 deg. till near the middle of October ; it fell to 45.5 deg. at the end of the month, and in the first two weeks of November wee respectively 42.0 deg. and 311.7 deg. The corrected average number of deaths for the weeks in ten years 1851-60, corresponding with that for which the present return is media is 1,294 ; and it appears that the mortality of last week agrees very clearly with the result obtained by calculation. The mortality from bronchitts exhibits an increase ; the numbers referred to this complaint in the last three weeks are 81, 87, and 131. Scarlatina continues to predominate among the symotic diseases ; the deaths caused by it last week were 101; by diphtheria, 25. There were 62 by typhus, 17 by croup, 3 by smallpox, 6 by measles. Nine fatal cans of scarlatina were returned in Chelsea, Bin St. Norge, Hanover-square, 8 in Islington, 7 in Clerk. enwell, and 4 in the first subdistrict of Waterloo-road. If the five divisions of the metropolis are compared, it will be sees that the greatest number of deaths from scarlatina was recorded in the western division, The complaint seems to be prevalent in Fulham, Brompton, Chelsea, and the Han over-square subdistrict. Nine persons, of whom 6 were children, died in the week from syphilitic disease ; 10 children from want of breast. milk, one in Shoreditch from "the want of food." Two infante, who had been murdered, one by starvation, the other by strangulation, were found in the Regent's-park. Five cases of murder or manslaughter are returned in the week. Two widows, whose deaths arc recorded, had attained the age of 95 years. Last week the births of 876 boys and 898 girls, in all 1,774 children, were metered in London. In the ten correspooding weeks of the years 1851-60 the average num ber was 1,617. WEATHER IRT.• 'HIS DAY.) LT, NI IX. IL L Just 99.711 30 Arnim 77 48 Linz i'49 99awiox Mow= llama .. 29.98 50 GALWAY . OW 49 90.48648.09411 . 06, 47 IrmarooL49 TALiirfu ' 4149 V=ws 15! 47 2 ) t Lams Dovas P 082.30071 30.1101 40 P 0871.6111) 3 333. 871 44 Palm= Pin4ool 90.99 aB fOVIXIMS LW. LAW. W. W.P.W. 8 &IL LIT. W.d.M. W.I.W. W.R.W. W.D.W. W.I.W. W. RAM. S.W. I kb fac chi tyri Na