The Express. — London, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

If be OxpreofS• TO CORZISPONDINTS. i 404•64 kr "The Twos; Weida Vain wpm, ZPrerit OM" 0. 30114/1144 , 2091.117 Tee Ali* Il• the do et pallissia. SIGH WATIR AT LONDON 3111 DON. DAT—Narraig, ob. es. 7eractiansw—lienbi, lol . 112 a.. •k lOC Or - LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1117 T"olutow ti*Atitsbees of the Malssesehe Board of Works atestsbiApPollitmesi of the ZOO lincanner, in Bariiestun Ham • to' elect • sheirmas. The inhabitants et Louisa an looking ▪ otereesed to this Meeks es to something that will ...Sseibbibeas with a test of the capacity of the sew • tesethessiestodisobarge the duties that oreaboat to devolve en. them. A judicious selection of &Chairman will be essepted so • geed omen of their fature sm. Nome. It is set easy to say what seneent of reedit is dee to the rumours that Lord Inations and Sir Joan firm= are to be pat is emaimatioa ; bat apart hem all considerations at the • per meal autos of these gentlemen for the siteatioa, these is ow that is sollpisal to put them oat of the field. 'rho onerous duties of . , the Chairs= of the Metropolitan Board of Works • ars encash to require the whole time sad attention , r of say one maa ; so, if properly dimelearged, are those ...or a member of Parliament; it is anesquantly he poseible that any one man sea fill both aims at the sails time. The same ottemisa applies to Mr. Ron mum, for whom a claim wee put Onward by a oar . seepoudent in our yomerday's impeendoe. There is another objection to the choked &member or Peas. , meat : it would neosseuily impart a political chorister to the prossedinge of the Board. Peas, hem Palk mentary esididates, as mainly oat of the guidon, we find four gentians* teadering their .emtviess to the Board—Mr.Jsas, Mr. W. Hawse, Mr. Tunis, and Mr. Orton. The first three are known as men of intelligence, and deservedly esteemed by theme who are acquainted with them. Their seising forward se madidatse for the Mice is a sign thstibieeportaace is duly estimated. Mr. Ina urges is sepieert of hie claims the madame hi has gathered by acting as chairman of the Metrepelltaa Commission or Ileweri. It is no doeM a resommeedation Ire a miedidate that he is not a stranger to the dodos aides Mlle he mikes to fill at the same doss the neeialmiM it the Beard will re. I member that Mr. 'EBB'S experhaos has bees idol as skins= of a communion Aide they have Mesa leMbintod to supersede besammitol sot warheads" ' . Yom. There is a risk of his Waging the di ' Wide.' of the ex-sommisefin shag with him I end also of his retaining his aseassioes with thorns Mesons which have bees mispesied el giviag.it an ' ardlis hies. Mr. Howie else mob his aims epee aziatimes abhdesil as a smarms of the emessimiele• she. These is Ws difileasse, however, Meant the • satsedmits of Mr. JIBS and Mr. HaWee—oste Welk** lamer by the discharge of the famodens I of shafemas Use enabled the pablie to jags of kis espasity to preside over sad direst the dieesmisas of a deliberative assembly, Mr. Hawn has only occasionally " presided over the mistier' of the ' earlier sommissions." There is nee part of Mr. • HAWES'S address that is sot vary clearly is- ' Miligible—" I am not," he says, "a peaty ass, or an abuses of sey extreme views.* Of sours@ Hawse cannot mean " party" or "extreme views"' to be taken in the political seam of theme phrases. He must mean that he is not assembled to say of the pleas which divided °plaice in the old Ommaisalt ' of Sewers; that he is ow of those eareising pone who would coosiliate this man by *idly a pert of ' his @theme, and that man by adoptieg aped or lib There is a specious show of inebgentisess aid nor tier judgment about snob passim; bat they are ohm used as a cloak to a timid sad time-serving disposition. Mr. Tuition tells the Board that he has diligently studied the law; that he has practised us a banister; and that he has been an active and approved magistrate. All this may be true—is true; and yet Mr. TIMM may be deficient is the penalise knowledge sad aptitude required he the Chairman of the Board of Works. Mr. Tirane; indeed, Wes care to inform the Board that he cow pied a " high position in the Cambridge Mathemati cal Tripes of 1827 ;" but we have luiown many clever young fellows who had the elementary mathematical weds at their fingers made whoa they left College, and have contrived to rub off all that learning in the course diem thee twisty-eight years, amid the jostling and paahiag at other avocations. Of Mr. Orros's address we have only to remark that the following hint smacks a little of bribery : "Thum who render service ought ant to be at personal agease, and one-half, or a considerable portico, of the Obakann's saluy ought to be devoted to this object." Illineeritioiemson the addressee of the candidates are . sit Mined as conclusive regarding the validity of I their claims, but simply with a view to remind the members of the Board that, in fixing their choke, they must look for something more than Emir words Mel professions. The first requisite in a Chairman is leisplahmee, both of temper and position. The neat is that blended firmness and suavity whisk enables a president to keep oaten to the point mittens unduly encroaching on the liberty of debate. UM, comes some practical expedites. be dealing with tits espies likely to come seder dismission at the Board, and a sound preetisal jedgmaat be aeon posted emergencies, or when now toples are lereashod. It than qualities are united is any sae of the throe fins-named candidates, let the choice of the Board fall epee him ; if not, there is no necessity for weaning • *sir regards to the volunteer solicitors for ofike—let them search among their fellow-citisons till they dad a better man. The Chairman, be he who he may, is emote be besieged by Government, seeking to tern hEm patronage into convenient shansols on the one had; and by jobbing projectors, engineers, Wag* taste, and contractors, of all shapes, mime, aid dimensions. on the other. A man with WM, of purpose, and a will of his own, is indispeassMe. IT is not without some experience of the lite rag capacities and tastes of uneducated or half-eds.' cared men that we speak of the fatal error which we have found pervading the naiads of patreas et the poor, from one end of the kingdom to the ether; mid all that we hoar from the seat of war about the soldiers' reading coefinse oar low established opinion. The mistake we refer to is that of regarding the minds of uneducated uses asehildieL Nothing can be more mischievous them this. Is the present case, the soldiers are ea little like being chil dren as philosophers. They know life; they know passion ; they know human affairs sad interests In a way which makes their point of view, is regard to literature, as unlike that of children as if they were tow time. wiser than they are. Yet, Rot owl, have the Clapham Scheel and their followers erammed model with tracts which eves small chains have a right to resent, but the very beet totems (la an ex• peso maser) for the popular reading have Mee isto the erne (not to my sin) of writing dews to tie leveler mind. almost every poplar serial .1 the wont time Is written with the IMSIMIN ll= whisk THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1855. VP COW. INTELLIGENCE:: Dn. 17. • - TSB 4' Oa =r at i= 'aka Abe Prbam Pristine . *rise earvhio rose d a y' lat iV e gai Me* &seek; caele the Bev. c • ere s „ Bloomy_ *kir dm Ass. Bea ' as Ilaidiff • Beams la W • Sir Janes Clark arrived from ea Saturday, and • mused to-day. OF KARS. Its following is the intellipnos from Bare, pub lilted by the Nand**&kilt of Vienna, a telegraphic eansaary of which appeared in the Express of Sa turday: "The Agent of the Anglo-Turkish Nsvigation Company of Trebiesod bee 'leaved woe letters from an English aloes at bearing the date of Nov. 11. The position it ate-besieged was desperate, nor did the otaussadec ot the Etonian outposts pat any obstacle in the way of the passage of letters car rying to the Wert tbe news of an inevitable disaster. Awarding to ;the Wawa referred to, the besieged, oared to capitulate if they might retire to Baseroum. This condition General Notwavieff refused. • depataties of My wain and II WIWI Masks,. bad ow istweisw with Ai M ilh fs &wpm yesbieday, at hie sieisi sullions Is Domain- Diopatass from Um Seversen d SW IN& Animism Provisoes, owl Wee frau dm Govieser M Osyks, were re saved yessuday M Ik. Colosialwalos His Enoslimy M. Dim Norwegian Minister of Stale at litaakbols, has arrived la Loadas trams Paris. The Duke of Hamilton is expected in town, in a few dam beta lima& Castle, on his way to Nile, to meet the Dubois and family. Tito Ifenhionses of Ely lams town today for Oaboess, to take 'km tam as Lady is Wages:ea the llama. Mr ladyship ham ready mewed Iron Ur is. seat iadispesitiow. Tb. Canton Woos Lielimassuo his left the nsideses of the Hammiest lonsttea, es • visit to the Marl awl Coaster Howe, at GomaL Visoonntses Palmerston will have a " rocepdon" I' On the 10th the Wilma made a sortie with the hope of forcing the pump of • defile which would have opened to them the road to Haman Bale, but the attempt was unenceseshal." HAMBURG, Dm:. 16. The Russian pastels convoked at Bt. Petersburg have already held myna meethip at the Admiralty end the Ministry of War. At the end of December , they are to meemble as a permanent great council of wan to-sorrow 'semis'. Os Thursday, or at latest ea Friday, the molls Pressler mad hos ladyship will leave tows for Bresdlasda for the Christmas rooms _ WARSAW, Dz 0.14. Viscount Balsas* we regret to learn, endues@ very ill. The latest aumniate are rather more favourable. Lord and Lady Loodeeboroagh, sad party, arrived is tent, yesterday, tram Griartes Park, Yorkshire. The sable lord sad be ledge/Lip go today er 8t Lieeard'rea. Su. The government bee levied a new tax on Poland. in the shape of a voluntary contribution for the benefit of the defenders of Pubeiotopol. Every peasant will pay a nut equivalent to 20 centimes. M. de Poulton has left for St. Petersburg. BERLIN, Die. HI Lord snd Lady William Familial kit town yester day, ter tkelr met, Devalue' Mall. Norfolk. Lord Cochrane, accompanied by Mr. Maridnnoo, M.P., embarked at Meadow, yesterday, for Bealope, ere roofs ter Tails. - - It is announced as sathentio news that, in the middle of November, Prussia cent a despatch indiefe to St. Petersburg, urgently soliciting the acceptance of the:interpretation of 'the Third Point made by the Allies. Ras is has not yet sent any The Lady Margaret De Bergh, eldest unmarried daughter of the Marquis sad Marehisaas of Clearkarde, is about to form a matrimentel &Bowe with Mr. Wisd om* B. Beaumont, M.P., of Byweli Hall, Northea• besimid. AUSTRIA AND. THE DANUBIAN PRO VINCES. THE GUARDS' MEMORIAL. The Comtilidionsel admits into its columns as pri vate correspondence from Milan (dated Deo. 10) the following specimen of Austrian insolence : I au soared at the moment of closing ay letter that the Austria's goversasut shows itself decidedly disposed not to allow of say Asap is the Dinghies province% unless it shall be speed u the primary essalisso et the innevatioas, is laves! a Moms el the hews el Or Emphasis with the sovereignty of the new Weiss/UM slats to be anted. If this propositios should be wooded to, however, by the Powers interested, Austria would frankly eater into the Western Anal, and wield eves, If sesessuy, bosom a belligerest Oar uscusiag uttemporeviss midst, ix salam i thel tut of die ateassrisl jest addressed to Mr Majesty by the Cassels sod LisataautOColseals at tka Bripde of Goasda. The stateateate to the first part of tai serodel ars thrilled rider the following heads: "I. The Repel warrant, 6th Oetober, 1854, estellishiag a 'new myths of preasotioa is the higher ranks of the " 11. The =bled of inquiry—Whether the odds= of the Gaards will rseeit the polities of Coma= M gaisitly as the Odeon of the Use, or the rousse, sada the systole iaastarated by the Royal Wariest 6th October, 1864. " 111. The Cosetitation of the Brigade d Chards sad of the Lae esepared. " IV. The Royal Warrant, lid October, 1864 ; its pia eiple ; and the shear effected by it. " V. negated:se at:lmae an : 1. Revolt= Rapide n. aiwiesers, I. reseaussadisp the startisp-paiat foe the real of Colossi to be lied at the polities of Liestesaat-Oolcatel in the Lae, asd of Adis. alder (or Meant= Moor) la 1 1 the Chards. meted fairly to the Gaude t 2. Rave adding iateteets Nan earefellyineteeted The seesserial is to them submit to bee Majesty that the above questions MISS be satyrs/el la the negative • sad. la support if that 'plaice, they uadertake to dessoestrets two ptepositioes, the Gres Nisi that the firing of Ile stutiap•poiat fee the reek of Oeleasi at the pubic& of Astleg its* is the Guards will be most mental to the iatereste of the Meets of t►e Guards la ell feta* times, iaaraush se the greeter put of the slay will leasehrward neesisatily anise at that task with less sor tie., ced as younger nese, than the Metes of the Guards. 17ader this bead they pressed to urge that the eoupers live Width of envies in whisk the positions of Lieutenant -001111111 of the Liao sad Aetieg Major of the Guude—that is. the rupiahs studs' points for the Line sad the Gust* —are &leasable. is coaeldstably longer la the Guards this to the LW, and that the effect of the disparity ea the him preisetiory of the Guards will be that Gairdsnyea will be dlistaiteed is the rase by unify all Liaises' who ere pun. assets. _ _ _ The menniolists thee enter upon the Weft, nun* there is say Owe of the araparative positions of the Guards and the Lies bong approximated, erring M ecisolusioa in the negative. • The mestorislists, amain that they have made geed the weeding propositions, proceed to invite her Maisie" Wen* to the Minds/ 'dentinal prepositive, vie.: * inert Prepositioe :—That the system of pewee* ereilleelonin by the Royal Ceetraissioners. and a* eapeeli, with respect to the Captains and *stone* Onemsis of the Guards existing es each at the pine= the report was Win, mast pries at ow, and has premed. to Individual *taw, with pen*, =jest, led Mel severity os then adhere ; eel thellietheekte Week of fa* ea the part of the matildlies, axt lb are* opposed le sed at misses with the priedpal of Moen he weed haw* which the report *ageism sad aims, amt we which It wawa feadenentelly to proceed." Raving, es they believe, established the lesrashig, ere ninedelists pressed to suggest a remedy, sellBllllra her Majesty's sonsiderstion the following prranges.e • "1. That the Captain sad Liestonsat.Onsins of Ihs Guns, mistily as such ea the Sech Jane, 11gd, dmeli receive their nab of Coiled ea eempletioa of three pod service as Captains sad Lieutenant Colonels; and "2. That the period of servile after which it wed* be equitable to gent the rank of Colonel to the Capes* OM Lientseat.Coneek who hen attend that weak eallee quietly to the 20th of Jae, 1864, should be reensidated, with the new of giving them as rasa thaw la the roes of prow* with the Rae." Ire einsieeke, the memorialists venture to express a hope that her Majesty will lend a favourable ear le this respectful remeestrease and appeal, and will be gresionsly pleased to direst as inquiry to be made tato the sestemeets whisk they ban submitted for bee Majesty's sonvideratioe. " Your nomoriallits do set doubt that sow *we *ea may have arises from the West d the melees is hem previously to your Majesty's wrest of Ohs Bth el Gibber, 1864, giving a 'sedan* advantage to the Geed% and that it was necessary to sake ensagassets tide might reader the Nevins mere equal; bet by the Wes be while this object hie bees attempted the reek of One* wed lantearecColeatel, which is sabeseative reek, kik** sena of even Less sleet an w thee If it bad been West rank,—ead year menorialiate awn bet be. Yen that, whoa the aright sad peculiar 'Wester of the ▪ of On* are resolileed, end when the einem 'Wen la which they are sow, fot the fiat time, }lent by year Majesty's warren are filly utelintsod, your Measty will seaside, that it is sot equitable that a sow wash has ever pined itself seated to sone in military wit and Is devotion to the envies of year Majesty's Royal pennesson ad of yourself, should set any be deprived of the easiest diastases and privileges neforrel by the Sovereign Is former URNS upon the Gimes of his Guards, but should find those very privileges ad Was. tips neverted Into a positive disqualification sad Wary, to the elected redising them, ladireedy, to a peaks of obsolete Isbbdeelq and &episodes :—.1•11 your Kona enlists mesa humbly beseech year Majesty that If the sawn tun Snags submitted to your Is this Mo ms* are best sionista is themselves, ad jellify the eniesine they have ponied eat se rioultieg frees this, the Oases of *Guards may be nosed ins punkin whin will rectify the amenity sow established to their wiled*. sad gin them a fair chow of wiling at the gnat ebjeet of the soldier% asslake, the pest of einseand, as rapidly as their windes of the Liee—is a widen, is Ant, whisk will pet them apes a footing of equality with the namileter of your Majesty% servile. "And year Memorial* faithfully prey. "Assist. F.K., Colossi of the Grenaierinea. " fernernen, Gemini, Calomel of the Odimpeen Gawk. "G ese; v l A tn=nteral, Ginn ef Seem p " Tenths WeeliVinsail 1/selseeseCalend, Cimmaarlei landbir Georth• "G. P. Urrelnikeemee UsetiesshOeind • Cowmen. Oilainan Goan "G. Mcwasme. .pest end Connemra lila "August 17,110." will, es 4 isty bwied, .I__ .J. sloths. the erroneous easeeptioa--with s Pigsty, half- ironical, smart style which is as eorruptias toque popular taste es we hark • to • it snaoseptable. This Wee ' view • - vice of some of even the • eals, it is with so smell • we . 4 t &taxers's and hin.Ocs • • among our soldiers inNihe with our remembreoee of the time whets it was eon- Aft to and hilitcnr_ in On 59 1 00 1 _144w AN*. the Bible. It agrees with the fact which appears so mionsalcom to many peeple--the immediate geom. tion of any number of editions of " IBiakopere" . rt ketiCtirAtograit Shakspste" which is especially pops* in Swamp. Mr. SrOIIT deserves the pleasure of knowing this. for his steadfast faith lathe popular love of "Shak opee*" tet than who would de good in the Crimean upend over "Shairepsres" and "Milton? to the utmost practicable extent. What alms P We need not waste words upon the tract question. The Chaplains themselves find that, to keep men from the abuse of- their winter seeping% tracts are not the thing. The very feria is objectionable; yet more the mode of address. We need not go farther. ,If "humble cDttagers," the favourite neighbours of proselyting gentry, throw the tract into the lire the asorsent the lady has tamed her beck, such effusions are not likely to find favour with soldiers. What else, then? Why--ecnteidering the conditions of the average camp atiod—we should say the highest order of imaginative and dramatic litenkure, in the first place. It is not so very long sines a large edition of CAW'S "Dante," in double column, very cheap, was bought ip in &few washy the working-class And where is the wonder P In our own youth or early manhood—(ilts state of intellect most nearly parallel with that of the halt educated mac)—seek was oar taste. Did We aot aU revel is _ Mucci, drums. RUM. and other glorious old posts P Next, we should say, in this particular c history, in the form which will bring it warm to the sealer's heart—that of Despatches. Let the " Wel- Mersa " and " Nelson Despatches" be tried; and "Peninsular War;" with, of course, frouren's "Life of Nelson;" and other good biogra shies in either senior, if such there are. We imknowleage that we would throw Pumice freely before the amp readers. They would soon show whether they liked it. Voyages and Travels tiers should be in abundance: the old voyagers, COOK and ANSON, and all that we loved whim we were young. On of the first of AMNION sibeisre says that the best American book yet Irritate is levee's "Columba,' It is biography set verges in one; exactly fit for our purpose. Afrlt mid Polar discovery is found to be extremely in ineeting : so PARK and NAST should be plentifully ~,gelled. Huc and Cisarr's travels in Thibet and OW are singularly interesting; and the American fraweihr &urgers has left a sob of bootie, from his Neils set Egypt to his Central Amities, itsecaelled flu Oreillary tied unsurpassed fee effective theeriptiou. 1 1145 hairs sou, though few, really pod medals, of efriskSteise. Plaines's are perhaps the best, as aim sod simple, genuine, and unpretending; bat Suiten of that clam, though it may fill vacant =mast always take • lower place than este em/As written from their own inspiration, anil set addressed to may particular public. "Pilgrim's Prognse "RolaimaCtimese; " Arabian Nights," any bosh instils& by time and the generainfikage, will eerier the mist% frith and love more than the very best whisk ass possibly have been written for him, or his gime, se his time. This may be on seem why we Mi novels objected to, in the same kWh with tames. No doubt, the subjective effu sing which appear seder the name of novels in the present phase of the national mind are oat of the trestle& But why not ikon's gavels? What can the men have better than those objective presentments of mins conditions of human life P And who will vesture to exclude Dice= P No szoomanteisatiss of "novels" will do, whish comprehends 800 Tr and DICKENS. If Bowes semis should Wore the reading of his Life by LOCKIANT, SO mush the better; and that charming pins of biography may hatiedues Boswnee " Jobases." But we cannot undertake to furnish • catalogue of a Crimean army Mary. We only offer a few Mate, with a foot, to des oar discourse. While the world in general aggress the popular rage to be nelealvely foe fie d., tbelesimillers can tell that the money of the wishing sissies is spent mainly in scientific works. We semelves happen to know that in the game epees of time which it took to sell little mew Mesa two thousand copies of " a highly peplee novel," by one of our west suomodul novae% twelve thousand copies were sold of an expenhe illustrated geological work in Ave volumes. Oat Crimean soldiers are doubtless very unlike our read. ing artisans; bat still, there must be some among them who share this taste with their countrymen at been. Let such tastes be elicited by the wine Meads of the soldier on the spot ; and then let them be gratified. We commend the whole of this most miens subject to all who think of sending books to the Orissa, from the QUINN and the SECILETAIMAT WAR to the country gentleman, the clergyman, the shopkeeper, and the schoolboy. No trash must go I bat every book of inherent value will find its plan, mad yield profit and pleasure. &MID Or Hiairn.—Thir honorary nrcretary of the ♦seoeiated Itegiatrare Society had an interview with Kr. Mom, es Saturday, relative to the present state et the law as to Napalm:pry vaedaaties, SIR COLIN Caltreau..—Tbe baggage sod amp rsguiresseatsof this distinguished asaa leave this day ter Wm Crises. &r Colin follows sheet hentediately end pea seeds to his de.tinelion vie Paris. In the latter be will sake a very brief stay. ♦ menial steamier will be at his disposal at Marseillse. ?Amorous Manumit= Acr.—The nifty mat of the perish of Bt. limy Abbott% imainglea, et their westing, ea the 12th list, eluded Mr. William Hawk" of No. 8, Leedom' Umber, Maui% toa, a mamba of the Metropolitan Board of Work.. Tux Witrrumsras PLAT.—The third and last reprematation of the Phoresio was alma lest sight by the elsoreni of Westminster. There was the same fell sodium as ea the forms eights, sad the some dbpositioa to ealey the sußset 'Mats of the play. The yang Idstrice else teed more late the mak spirit d the insatiate tad lea guer with each medals. The campahy last Walt Weleded M. Hawses, the Turkish Amboweder, sad Modems Mamas, the Earl of Demo. the Bev. Dela llliblea, Dr. Dolgellau*, Mr. Darby, &a WI r. the 24th inst., will be kept me • holiday here, eheya all skied, die., than "dig trade aeshisata the epportulty e/ Adria; their Meads for eke* dye. The Vienna Prue* relates that oa the 13th hot, sheet sue, es tin Majesty the Balm= Elisabeth was presediag So Schoolmarm IS • e•etrte sad four, the hare toe► fright I. the Mukha*/ High-street. The rash sea "admired to stop dm by taming Ms late • ' oenew id. stair. The hones however rrs►ed bask to the Nigh street, the twe leaden brake row, and therashass brag balled frost hie hoz wea severely Word. The two wheelers brae sow wholly vorestrebted dashed es, alma a carte" ming is the 'orrery &Mies, with peat promos dried, drew up hie ear ems the Mr* sad is tide memoir stepped this light et the soisela Het Ideleety dogleg the whole of this oesarrear pureed her rail wirress, stepped itarowilately isle • private mires pear lag seer et the tire, sad drove bask to the castle (Set bud meld the red she.. at Ohs pawls, as Mr Ks/Baq deleeiiw gresssibilsallalima i siasessesssimp. ACT OF EXCOMMUNICATION AT COBLENTZ. We fad in the Journal de IVvue4fort once mime details relative to an "azewneranication" which has 'just been pronannosd at Cotteatz. The narrative kill as follows : COBLBNTZ, Du _l2. Oa Beasley we were vitamin of a carssaoay sal& be. sot boos performed for osatoriss, vis.—aa szessalmalas dims--tlis gabfest Wag floastag, a sasrobsat at Cables% win was &wooed from his first wife. sad sight years ago vourled by the civil authorities °lay to bispTeess - t oue. Last summer M. Senate, wee emiseaded by the sleepy to esparate from his Mk, sad not obey*, their deem, he was re fiesday ezeommuskated. • Dean Krum% sitar piasbiag a masa sadist the 'Nil marriage, pat on some other sacerdotal garments sad amempasied by two demurs bearing west tapers r:ad— stsediag to the middle et Use ehsreh—the matesee of en semmaaleatioa nabs* M. Boasts. and his lady. H. Asa ezilagaished the War. saying that the isdividaale named were aot worthy to aes the day of the Lord, sad throwing the candleetieks to the posed. brooking them to pieces, 'schizoid, " Let the bells sowed the funeral kaell !" We fasmeiiately heard the sound of bells end the chaste for the dead. _ _ TM Dees, is emission, preelelsed that se sae who soever wu to hold waistless 'with the ateestassiested, to agate them, tte. This prohibitios hoe set had sash effect, Ise their hoses hos bees Wed ever else. with 'Won, sad at sight they have bees mewled. The (Nelms Gazette publishes a letter doted Odessa, Nov. 80, mentioaing a large fire at the military settlements, from which the cavalry have j oat been drawn. Viet stores oolleoted by the troopers for men sad horses have been destroyed. Count Schwerin, and ninety liberal members of the liberal party in the Prussian Chamber, have given notice of a motion which will bring before the cham ber the whole question of governmental interference is elections. The motion declares that, during the verification of the powers of members, it has been sufficiently shown that, in the recent elections, the liberty of the elector was seriously iaterfered with, and that conedtutioual law and the dignity of the national representation demand that the facts be thoroughly investigated. BERLIN, Duo. 14. The Prussian Mors Gazette publishes the general result of the crops of this year for the whote of the a:anarchy, made up from 267 official reports from different pliers. Taking an average harvest as 1, the following is the inoperative result:—Wheat, 0.81; rye, 0.88; peas, 0.87.; barley, 0.96; oats, 0.98; po -0.61; rapeseed, 0.77. The total average of the lest ten years gives for wheat 0.92; rye, 0.89; peas, 0.82; barley, 0.91; oats. o.9lpotatoes, 0.813—0 f an average crop. $ o that the harvest of this year shows only for barley and oats a surplus on the average of the last ten years. All other articles of produce are considerably lower. INJURY TO FRENCH PAINTINGS HT PIRA The distribution of the prism and medals awarded be the pupils of the Imperial School of the Beaus An. Pork, dada' the year 11154-66, whisk took place in the Amphitheatre dui guides of that establishment. as. marked by a sad disaster. AS a►eut alas o'oleek la the morning, ewe of the pipes of the ealorifire, in the graad amphitheatre, Where the atria, wee to take pleas, had become red hot, Ood had at Are to the 'strode prepared for the ceremony. Fortunately the lames were perceived is time to prevent emir spreading far, bet the estrade, Main, hanging, sad lisp were sonsmeed. end the paintless oa the wall, by K. Itrierodie, Wend. It wee in eousequense of this amident lint Ibe distribattra took pleas is the Amphitheatre dui *SAM. At the aommessesmat of the prossedings K. Field, BM meter of State, ramie, to the Are, sap:sued himself se Mews : .4 having the lesser of *posing this eitsieg. I wished to ewers smelt of the amuse el dames Waisted as the Ilse seek of one the heads of this wheel, sad I as happy to 'tats that the knal-eyele of )1 Dale axle has sot bees seriously Wised by the Ire whisk broke oat is the muse of the esorsisg." Llsfortesately them is too mesh ruses to bailors that N. g eo id was tea isaildap. sad that Peal Dsieresbes great seek has remised irreparable damage. We rest la the aoseast el the saddest gives is MN Deis* : a The fugal, shish spread rapidly is a4l 1111111. • attooked priscipally N. Delareehe's Bee paiedler i sift anis great pertdestoyed. Tisseestest width hopribbilliste together is dareoyed, tM gismo shill' amend thsosellooof the palatimg Y.ll is imps fess the bests the skew hays SOS is mush a quality that they Isis • heed who et the hottest of the well me West as sot to be removed by ism i ti = Is abort, wish tie eseepties el the mike sea. die portrait of Sebes; shots the ideal see pro. served. Y. Thieroshel seek it empletoly dirks/ed. No ebiligeollably have oessies to mass to the @abject ellida itie;mgablio ablortinto; bet .....0 refral ass st we supra** OWN Pekileig nips OM. will be shoal berg Ivnt at NV' VERRESS FROM PARIS. (MON OUL OWN PARIS, MONDAT EWING. The Vienna eorrespondence of the Constffirtionsul contains to-day a statement which would be of con siderable importance, if its accuracy were not•-Ss I think it is—extremely questionable. The writer affirms that within the last fortnight Austria has conceded to the Western Powers the very point of difference between them upon which the Vienna con ferences were broken off last spring. This is the way in which the writer tells the story :—He calls to mind that Lord Clarendon's instructions to Lord John Russell when the latter left London for Vienna were, that the oblect proposed by the Third Point might be accomplished in two ways: first, by reducing the Russian force in the Black &m in a reasonable proportion ; or, secondly (as an alternative), by throwing the sea open, with the consent of Turkey, to ships of war of all na tion& Subsequently, in consequence of an opinion expressed by M. Dronyn de Lhuys in London, that Russia would not consent to either of the above alternatives, Lord Clarendon, on April 3, sent further instructions, containing, amongst other things, a memorandum drawn up by M. Dronyn de Lhuys of a scheme for the neutralisation of the Black Sea, and at the mine time informed Lord John Russell that the two governments had adopted this new scheme in order to consult the dignity of Russia, and to show their sincere desire to bring the negotiations to a favourable conclusion, The pianos is well known, consisted in a declaration that the ports of the Black Bea and of the Bea of _ _ _ _ _ Azoff should in future be commercial only, and that while those mesa should be open to the merchant vessels of the whole world, no ships of war (with the exception of a limited number of Russian and Turkish vessels for police purposes only) should enter them at aIL The instructions further stated that it had been decided to submit to the consideration of Austria, the two system,— vie., the neutralisation and the limitation system, aed to ask Austria to adopt one or the other, it being understood that, while asecrelatieg herself with France and England to propose one of the systems to Russia, she would at the saute time serve to co operate in the war in case the arrangement proposed should be rejected. It was to be intimated that I Franoto and England would prefer the system el neutralisation in case Austria were to leave the choice to them. Lord John was further instructed that in case Austria should refuse to take upon herself the engagement to co-operate in the wee with Francs and England (in the even tuality of Russia rejecting either of the puniest, to be presented to her by Austria conjointly midarance and England), then:France and England weelkadhere to the system of neutralisation, and in ,illes of Russia's refusal to swept it, the negotiations trwe to be Immediately broken off. Shortly after titre date at time instructions M. Drosyn de Lhuys Went WINO to Vienna, and at his very first inter view with Oast Baca (an interview at which Baron de Boarqesniy, Lord John Russell, Lord Westmore land, and Baron de Prokssoh were present) he ex ' pressed his views with regard to the propositions. It appears from Lord John Russell's despatch to Lord Clarendon of April 10, that Count Baol did not agree to them. He admitted that they would thoroughly acoomplish the end contemplated by thel Third Point, and said that, for her own part, Austria would be very glad to see them accepted, tat that be had not the remotest hops that Russia would consent to them, because the result would be that she must remain unarmed in the Black Sea, while Turkey would be armed in the Boephorus, or at least in the Mediterranean. The correspondence, after amain that it was the divergence of opinion between France and England upon this point which led to the break up of the conferences, premeds as follows :—" Baron de Bourqueney having, during his recent visit to Paris, favourably prepared the ground, the Austrian Cabinet, about a fortnight since, charged our representative at the Court of the Tuileries to remit to Count Walewski a note, in which Austria, from considerations founded on the present state of things, recommended the adoption] of the principle of the neutralisation of the Black Seal as the most fitting means to realise the third guarantee. It is unnecessary to add that the French Cabinet must have been much pleased at such an overture on the part of Austria, since, as it appears by Lord Clarendon's despatch of April 3, that the Western Powers had agreed between themselves that if the choice were left to them the system of neutralisation was the one which they should support." The correspondence concludes with a paragraph showing, on the most favourable view. that there was yet a great deal to be settled by nego tiation upon that, which although a point of high importance several months ago, is, or ought to be, at this moment a very secondary matter, when mini-, daring all that the Allies should insist upon in a treaty of peace with Russia. You will judge how this statement—put forward, be it remembered, in a quarter always most favourable to Austria, and to the idea of a peace made by her influence—is a confirma tion of the news of the skintaturn, which, according to a telegraphic summary received here of an article in a London Government journal of this morning, Prince Eaterhaxy has taken to St. Petersburg. At the Bourse the pesos rumours were at a great discount. People who had confidently predicted that the Moniteur was to publish to-day the treaty with Sweden, were out of countenance at finding that the only notice of Sweden in the official journal was the delivery of an autograph letter from the King to re turn thanks to Napoleon lIL for the decoration of the Legion of Honour. Notwithstanding the consider able rise in Consols, the Rents was weak throughout the day. It closed at &Ur. 55c., with a fall of Sc. Credit Mobilise fell 2fr. 500. The Sardinian railway experienced considerable fluctuations, and closed with a fall of 6k. 250. Austrians fell lfr. 250. French railways were from 2fr. 50e. to sfr. lower. The heaviness of the Bourse to-day is the more remark able that the rate of continuations was decidedly eager. Oa the 12th test., Sir Hsmilton Seymour was resolved Is spatial audience by the Emperor of Austria, and afterwards had Mar interviews with Baron de Boor queasy sad the Odium Ambassador. In this 'reeling a Bread bullion in honour of the new Ambassador was given by Priam Paul Estarbuy, Count Buol bebrg tiasaget the Pests. Boron de Branow, Minister at Russia to the O.r. masks Dist, his hind for four roan tho noldsarap d UN tats Baran Charles do Rothschild at Frankfort Tho beads Rum, of Dec. 9, 000binn the Mow lag : " Oa the 14th of lest math his August Eighaeas the the Grand Dale Medea Nieolsiewiteb received the Messier di bin mother, her Majesty the Unseen Alessadra node mesa Coati:the soussat of the Emperor to his marriage with her Higlusess the Pelmets Alexandra d'Oldenbourg, eldest daughter of Priam Pismo d'Oldeabeurg. Au erect se formaate as this nearrige, based upon mutual Mailuation, 'asset fall to eaten tb grief of the Isperial fanny for the creel lees to which, together with the whole wapiti, it was "poled to submit et the begioalag of the present year." The Goma Gauges sensuous that on the 11th a Pisu steamer entered tire port el Ls Spesia, es kir way to Mamillime with a prise, batiag captured a Itualaw vessel d Inbar*, sailing tinder Tamale Wears. . AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (PROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) NEW TORE, Toaaat , DSc, s. °Degrees met yesterday, and the House of m mutative@ was called to order at noon by the elerk at the last Congress, and the body proceeded, e l I I usual, to the election of a Speaker. !Several ba c k as was expected, were made, with no definite result. The parties, cliques, and factions are so mumeae s that no Speaker—a test question—can be o h m , except by fusions, coalitions, or bargain., We have often before witnessed a similar state of things; ruts sometimes the organisation of the house has bee t delayed for several days—woe or twice, for sung week& But you will probably, by the last &maw* to Halifax, on Thursday, get some definite sews, This will give two days' later news from %shiest* by telegraph than I can give you to-day. Washington is a boiling political cauldron at th e present moment. The democratic party, so cell e d, still holds together. They are the only men whe even appear to sustain the President. Few of th em care anything for him. But differing as they de on most, or all other questions, they stand together is their vote en the Speaker, and hope thereby to pus. serve in retreat some order of march, while they ea. tertain no hope of a victory hereafter, except by some skilful strategic movement. If I should hazard a conjecture about the malt, I should my that up to this hoar appearances meta to pprroopise success for the men who (known se or republicans, or anti-slavery men) are now attempting to effect a c o alition with all those dim& footed part isans who, by going with the fusionists, may participate in the favour of the winning re parry. The is not much difference in the numerical strength of the three principal parties—the Frew milers, the Democrats, and the Know-Nothings. , The sympathies of the great mass of the countky are with, the Know-Nothings. This is as true at the south sat the north. But while the Free-soil party is maned to the north, and the Know-Nothings ex, tend over every state in the Union, many of the northern Know-Nothings are Free-soilers Hues the impossibility of forecasting the remit es regards the Speaker. And yet the result is most fitt. portent, not only in respect of our own, but forte affairs. Our policy abroad should be di rected by the Know-Nothing or American party. They alone, as a party, are distinctively opposed to any &violet= of new territory. They wish no more fixelgn tat ir c z moss brought into the administration of oar • affairs. They are not only the most conservative, bgt in fact the only conservative party now amongst m. Of course the war panic got up by the Thus bee subsided. It is here called "the London Tliner wet" —it is known as such. It was a wicked and an is. bulls attempt. It is gratifying to our oommercial world to know that the shipment of gold to Europa has ceased. It has released our banks, and removed the severe pressure which for some weeks has home so heavily upon our financial affairs. I learned this morning that much larger orders for spring good. have gone out by the last Collins steamer, or will ge by this (the Cunard), than bad been expected. 'The feeling of confidence among our importers is growing stronger. The reports from the cotton ports and dia. Mists ere quite as favourable as I represented a month age, and your manufacturers may safely set down our = this year at three and one-quarter millim It can hardly fall below this figure unless the meson for the last pickings is very unpropitiou Three-fourths if not four-fifths of the crop are alreadp secured, and it will in quality equal a full avenge, while it is believed that the fibre will be generally 116 year longer and finer than usual. Whatever British and European joureals may lay, the opinion of the American commercial world is that there is now no prospect of an immediate peace. We do not expect it. We do not see how it is liludy te be brought about. Consequently we are for a long European war. We have gainel= g y it already, and we expect to gain more. hue Me will have, and with uninterrupted friendly relatiole we can maintain an honourable and advantage:me position, and shoot far a-bead in our cycle of adventt mint, while the elder nations are left to retrograde, or merely to mark time. With all this fell in vfee and from this point of view only, can a European sum dentand the present drift of American affairs. It has always been a matter of surprise to us Obi people of the United States) that "Englishmen aid Britons all" do not take any deeper interest in Canadian affairs. Canada is one of the fairest and most prosperous provinces of Great Britain. No cm has a fairer future. Settled originally by the best French and British stock, too loyal at all times to be tempted from the genial restraints of British role, wrested from France by the valour of our own fathers (who afterwards achieved the independence of our republic), and standing steadily and firmly by the British throne, it has within a few years nu* on a new career of development and prosperity. The latest aspects of Canadian affairs are exceedingly interesting. A great meeting of commercial men was bald in Montreal one week ago to-day, to consider how an provement in the present mode of levying duties mad best be effected. The leading merchants were about unanimous in favour of substituting ad valorem for specific duties. Now the poor are taxed more heavil, than the rich, and the present system operated on. favourably on Canadian interests. Of 363,000 pantie i o 4to t cen ea Can i sd m a P :d7 r ien t t ed hro o Sh y o t ea n h e e r b . U a si n li f it b w e u d as t S 66 i t m ai: o er. rted oP r i s fro uger adi mothe wele assd countries than the United States. Six thinned pounds sterling worth of coffee, out of 42,0004 vim imported from other countries. The meeting was well attended, and the determination seemed to tali to attempt vigorously . an immediate change in* system which is operating so unfavourably on CAW dian trade. far IRELAND. ~— DUBLIN, Dic.l7. The following particulars of the arrest and matt mitts]. of one of the 'apposed perpetrators of the kit murderous outrage on Mr. Beauchamp, in they WO County, are furnished by a local corresponnt el &solders : It will be recollected that there woe a woman on the read to whom Mr. Raniabottom Rave trifling lam Lin "' Manly before the occurrence. T hu Woman and a little girl, her daughter, have been discovered by the coustabn key, and confronted with a man named flurrass Byrne, whom they have identified u the pence who find the and wounded Mr. Beauchamp. Ac investigatioa took plies In Tallamore on lei Thursday, which we conducted by Ms. Julian, the crown solicitor, and terminated in the fall our mittal by Mr. Winans, /CM., of Byrne, far trial at the Bed asses. The circumstances under which Byrne was greeted end whieb bare led to hie identificatioolers rather &galas. It appears that about three weeks ago Byrne was lee suspiciously lurking about the neignbourhoo4 of Clouser% when he wea aniseed by Constable Purcell of that stain% who °reveled him before John Wawa's, Eli, Tensaw, for examination. Byrne's account of Meal and his Inidases at Memo's was far from being oafish* tory, eonseguently he was dotainsd in custody under as eld act of the Irish prirliamest, still in force. which 1 " W:ill the arrest of suspicious chambers, and their &tenths is prime nth they give security for their future good heicr! Moir, or until the pleasure of the Lord-Lieutenant is MOM respecting them. In the interim the woman and her dale both of whom were present at the attempted assassimiks. wen discovered, and they accurately described annulus who perpetrated the outrage, ha h of whew are opt.' Noted to have been armed with short guns. BPI cowered to the description of one of the assassiost Iwo ekes produced in company with several others t 4 WORM and her daughter they both pointed him Skt, 10` blentifted him as one of the persons who fired. Byres is 8 Native of Newtown, near Drogheda. A man has been 'melted at Newry, in the gsrb a navvy, and committed to gaol on the charge of Wig esteemed in the horrible murder of Miss Sintlb the county of Cavan. The .Freensait's Journal says : We are glad to be able to state that the dispute be." 1 12„ the : i a l y el Dahlia and Liverpool Screw Corr panes adjusted to the sat i s f ac tion of both peruse MONO Illaleolmeen, so laer the rivals of the City of Dahlia COW paay. are new large proprietors is the ....el Naha Company. Deems to be most generally thought that w• most blame fa the dispute rested with the junior orroPIA Wes rebels hos entering into details now Out the k settled. PRESERVATION OF LIVE AT SEA.--TheTa i r epl. ,,.. Comaissionere, with somntendable promptitsde.A.--a whiled of its issportanes, have ordered Clifford's _,_ appsrawas for unlashing, lowering, and iliseuPSlTri'm beats instantly, when laden with say crew , to M the Aaron asalgrant ship, now bound foe Ate lying is the West India Docks, Lissehosse.--tieniussi. The Con .0..04 ars ___, .T. fM was ord. Tito OW" eked at epith Salami en-day aillaga br 210 Dmi l d while saw 84 11.91 10 a we tilts 0 . -- konght Segfal at ; C • unto N Wm Arellint Btu tfaindus B A o v ate of u raungal• The Mos wood err • -. 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