The Express. — London, England, 1861-12-17 00:00:00

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Tls IlVtialk Till CAJCIERT ON THE HEART - B.—A Bean tram MAI7I4ETH. —THE LOST LITTER. —A Name fres FAUET AN U MAAGUILITIL—AM TUE BLUE JACEBTA PT. /M EM Tug imam • 011illi.10011.NAL Mr. 0. V 1•126. MN Raft Teiry.—THE POOR NONXIIIAN. Mr. A. i ch lr= 00•11.010.1 0011001.. Mama 0. ilia . Mir 1100.0 mirlsa Jl•Wara•.—Ormmomift. SWAM a. Tins pew. TSB INIOULLIO OIL—Tr Wising= Lofted.lWes. TIM MAXOI r WM . HIM ANDS Or *UMW& n. Z. Tansli.4=ra• MO Warn AT 101111111,_ NUM ramei r em-lissekse Messarak Wm. -111=04. IL Ns- alms," fils. Ns. LOZDON, fiIIBDAY, DEC. 17. lx the PRINvE Co,oiost the labouring classes have lost an unostentatious but enlightened and zealous observer of their condition. Before more than a superficial attention had been paid by the higher classes to the necessity of improving the physical condition of those in the lowest posi tion, ho gave a powerful stimulus to improvement by the erection of a model cottage, at his own expense, in connection with the Exhibition of 1841. He had been in quiet communication with sanitary reformers on this topic, and was confidently looked to for further manifestations of interest in the same direction on the occasion of the Exhi bition to be held next year. There is good autho rity for affirming that if the sanitary condition of agricultural labourers were as well attended to by proprietors throughout the country as on the estates of her Mariam, without any social dis turbance, the death-vs* e►en in that class, which is so much above the rate prevalent amongst the labouring climes in towns, would be reduced by nearly oue-half. His speech on the subject of the condition of domestic servants will be remem bered for its soundness, and for its startling clear ness of view, and for its benevolence in relation to the interests and condition of that large class of the community. His speech, as President of the Educational Conference, when he pointed out the place which the early earnings of children must have in the budget of the poor man's family, developed elementary conditions affecting the question of popular education which, except under the half-schuol-aine system, had not commonly received due consideration, even from professed educationists. He was in advance in seeing the economical value of art-teaching, as well as its refining social importance. In these courses ►e had no doubt the entire sympathy of her MAJesTY. To superficial observation he might appear to be cold on social topics ; but it was only because he had that calmness, and quiet persistency of obese , vation and dispassionateness which is really neces sary for their most efficient treatment. It would have been easier for him to have obtained a higher and warmer popularity by other pursuits, deemed more princely, and befitting his high political platform, than those in which be laboured to obtain sound preparation for the improvement of the physical, intellectual, and moral condition of the lowest classes of the population. The breadth of hie view is exemplified in the fact, that when in his position as President of the Society of Arta, the project of an Industrial Exhibition was first submitted to him simply as an exhibition of English industry, he replied, "Why not make it an exhibition of the in " dustry of all nations?" Ho was well aware that such competition would tend to the sound industrial advancement of the country ; that it was important that its condition in respect to the arts should be confronted with that of other countries. France had had previous exhibitions, but of another character. Under his auspices the lnternational Exhibition became a great con secration of industry and of the arta, said an institution imitated by all civilised popula tions. What a void does his loss occasion in its next celebration ! There is in preparation for the next year, besides a meeting in the metropolis of the Association for the Pro motion of Social Science, a meeting of the kindred continental association, the Congress de Bienfaisance, in continuation of the meetings held at Brussels, Paris, Frankfort, and Vienna, for the promotion of measures of social and admi nistrative improvement. The Panics's high and commanding intellectual position had canoed him to be regarded as the future President, the one most qualified to give to the proceediagis a be fitting international character. Who may worthily fill his place I To those who have had business relations with him his speeches were well known to be in every sense his own, and to be characteristic of his own mind and studies. When his position is considered, those of his addresses which went beyond the requiraniente of State etiquette will be acknowledged to be of the highest public clan of our time. At the meeting at York, where several Prime Ministers sod practised orators noire, it was ac knowledged that the speech of Prince Masse had an intellectual pre-eminence corresponding to his superior position. The last characteristic speech he mado was at the opening of the Station al Congress in London, where he ecimed a mastery of the science which professors from all porta of Europe were assembled to promote. le hie appreciation of the arts of peen he was the promoter of a new branch of the Order of the Bath, instituted in order to furnish a means of honouring civil merit. His own tastes were known to be for scientific and intellectual companionship rather than for the common aristocratic society. His toter, QUITZLIT, of Brussels, speaks of him, from his knowledge as a tutor, as a thoroughly intellectual and good man, who, if he had not bean • Prince, would have attained to intellectual eminence from a lower station. He brought scientific professors into the palace to give instruction to the royal children. It was at hi. instance that a place was given to Dr. LTtin rtAl PAIR in the royal household, and that a home was given to Professor Owe", in Richmond-park, and to FARADAY in the palace at Ilauspto:..-court. H Li' THE EXPRESS, TUESDAT EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1861. Or Court. HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, MONDAY, IS O'CLOCK A.N. " The Queen lira had some quiet sleep during the night, and remains as calm as, under her affliction, can Ita *spec:WV_ Tbii Duke of Cambridge left the Castle in the afternoon for Loodoc. The Dodger of Cambridge and Primes, fiery arrived horn Kew in the afternoon. Major-Geoeral Seymour. Equerry to the Queen, has left EogLod for the continent to attend the Priseess who is exported over immediately. The bulletin issued at Windsor Castle yesterday morning announcing that " The Queen km had some quiet sleep during the night, and remains as calm as, under her attic• Lino, can be expected," was exhibited to the nobility and gentry at Buckingham Niece. Among the inquirers were the Bavarian Minster and Bsroness de Cetto, the New Granada Minister, the Russi►n Ambassador and Barn.. Brusnow, the Netherlands Minister, the Austrian Ambas• sacks sad Counter Apponyi, the Greek Minister sad Madame Tricoupi, the Portuguese Minister, Y. and Madame Ernest de Bunsen, the Attaché to the Prussian Legation, Lord and Lady Proby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Miss Sumner, Lady Brougham, Lieut.• General Sir 0. Bowles, Berm and Lady Anders:es Q.C., Sir It. sod the Hots lady Airey, Earl sad Constraint Clamed= and Ladies Villiers, Dowager Comae= Wesisoomlimd, Ho.. Admiral and Mrs. Deneembe, Dowager Lady Baglan, sad lady &sale,' of Alder*, Mr. and Km Frederick Peel, Dowager Viscountess and Mee Hardie., General Sir J. and lady Burgoyne, Admiral Sr G., Lady, and Mire Sy. moor. Lord and lady Kenyon, t►e Lord Justice, Lady, and the Mires Turner, Mr. H. °ravine, Lord Chief Baron and Lady Pollock, Lady lEiatin,Liertiewant•Coloael and lady E. al Rm. the Marchioness of Waterford, Professor Owen, the 800. if . Brand, M.P., the Lard Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Sir Charles Young (Garter) and Lady Young, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Lord Dufferin, Jam Duchies of Marlborough, Dowager Lady Chola° and Miss A. Seymour. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Rectal'', Earl ad Countess of Erroll, Vioe•Chaocelor and Lady Lieutenant• Colonel and Lady E. Caveodish, - . Mr. Whataly, Q.C., Lady Hairy Spencer Churchill, Duchess Dowager of Argyll, Sir W. sad Lady Jo Uiffe, Lord and Lady Templar:am Mr. Chichester Fortino , " Counters Dowager of Jersey, two Ladies Poosonby. lady Deena, Sir J. and Lady E. Tensest, the Marquis cf Aberoorn, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, the Narvik of Bristol. Mr. C. Wentworth Hake, Dockers Dowager cif Norfolk, Lord sad Lady Fain, the Masher of the Rolle, Lientsemat-Gewand ad Miss Oavendisii, Mr W. Toyama, Oakes' Cooks, Lord ad Lady liana Been, lamilearat Brace, Mr. Marnribsaks, Sir &Imam' Anion's, Mr. Coal thurst, Mr. Eland Harriers, the Duke sad Duchess of Buckingham, Mr. sad Mn. FAlgar Bowing, Countess Fitz. trillion), Sir F. G. and Lady Moon, the Earl and Countess of Caniarne, Dowager Coultas of Caraarvon, Mr. W. Ewan, M.P., and the Mimes Ewan, Sir G. Rayne, the lard A.dvociate and Mrs. Mottareiff, Sir Alan Ilaartb, Yr. Haman sad Frances Countess Waldegrave, Lord St. Leans* the Duke of Rutland, the Marchioness of Coin egham, Me L sad lady Head, Sir J. and Lady Emithope, Lord and Lady Colville, Lady Westbury, Earl of Mashorongh, Lady M. Alford, Mr. G. Gedwis, this Sod sad Omits= of Kiawiall, Lady Frames sad Mks Ocedea, Geassal Sir F. Stavin, Earl of Leaman sad Lady E. llkoonsk the Right Hon. R. Lowe, ILP., the Right Hos. W. mid Mrs. Beredord, Lord and Lady Radatoek, Mr. law. rens sad the Meer Lawrence, Miss Burdett Coatis, Sir T. Phillips, Mr. and Mn. Farquhanon of Irrerciaald, the Earl of Chunrillina, the Hoe. Robert Heade, the led of Elleaborciagli, Duchess Dowager of Beau tart, Oak:eel Sykes, ILP., and Mn. Sykes, Mr. and Mrs. Healey, Mr. Merriman, the Chief Rabbi, Vice- Chancellor sad Lay Page Wood, Mr. C. P. Villiers IL P., tits Right Hen. B. sad Mrs. Diana, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbraham Taylor, the Marquis sad Noteblowoos of Nersmaloy, Mr. sad Yrs. Cardwell, the Bishop af Lades and Mrs Tan, Sir W. sad Lady Venn, Sir C. aad Lady lanisba, Mr. sad Mn. Mott, the lion. Smear sad Mrs Lytteitca, Captain Cooling, Mr. Justice and lady isidiag, Sir W. sad Lady Hoe* Colonel sad Mn. Mande, the Earl sad Counter of Zetlaad, lady Cbaatry, Mr. Wray. lady Georgna Orsy, Mr. sad Mrs. A. West, Mr. sod lady Y. Wen, lady Bodd„ Lord sod Lady De Tinley, Lady Howard, Mr Z. sad Lady Pearson, Hen Mr. and Mn. A. .Xlmeled, Fart and Oenatass Graven, Sir Moses sad lady Illoolk‘oro, lid mad Ociontess De Orey, Viscount Clubman% the Chaplain-General and Mn. Gni& Baton and Banmess Lionel sod Min Rothschild, Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild, together with numerous oases. The Right Hero. Sir pwp Grey went to Wirehair Meth yesterday morning. The right boo. berceet returned S. tondos is the enmities. Deepaielsee wen reseived yesterday at Use Colonial-office from the Governess d Oeasda, the Bahamas, and Heßac). had. Dispatches were seat to the Lord High Commis. Meow of the loam Iskads, sad to the Corwin:, of the West fish' lissom sad British Columbia. HIS ROYAL MORN MI Pal NeY LIOPOLD. Oolisoll W. B. F. Minidisk, Groom in Waiting to the Qum, leaven fee Omni immediately, to take chine a Nee Prime, i■ the phew of General Sir Edward Bowater, whine death we eamensed yesterday. Tirs Kum oV Maio - via.—ina Majesty is ex piated*, arrive le Leaden is a few days howl Hanover. Hie Excellency Oast Kitheasseas is expected al the Ha noverian legation to4wwwww is order to welcome the Kiwi. who will reside at Ike legatios diuiai his sojourn in this conatry. Tim Kiwi or TIN Buotawa.—We learn from good authority that the Meg or the Belgians will shortly antes on a visit of madame* to the Queen. His Majesty co embarking at Wiwi wM go direct to Osborne. We understand that his Excellency the Belgian Moister has been copilot* to his rosicleoce, Now Lodge, Windsor, for wow days pa* by *disposition, sod is not yotsolliekotly recovered to sesame his (Arid duties. His Isoeileney Count Wacbtmeister, the newly appointed Minister for fiwasiss sad Norway, has arrived is Oreereser-pines tress Swedes. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare have WI %Rad House for t►e Duchess (Dowager) of Stahl/s -had's sea; Cheeks, screr Maidenhead. The Ltd and donntess of Shaftesbury arrived in tows yesterday from At. °dim Nisitiihirc Viscount and. Viscountess Palinereton are ex pected to lam town is a few days for ftroallande. Lord Londenborongh has left thus country for • smiles in the Modiesseasess, sod purposes to winter in NUS or Sirit. tly Herbert will shortly have Nice for Genoa. The youthful Lord Herbert, encoded by Mr. Badtaase, he. left town to meet her ladyship. Mr. and Mrs. Chatoberlsyne entertained last wash. st their sest, Cranbury Park, sear Wisclieder, party of friends to meet kis &Irene Hirpheees the Prince of Lettingen:. Aram, the einspeny am.-bled were the Earl el Wks, the lad et Uxbridge, Viscount Turnoar, Sir Frederick and Lady Hatharst, ko. CHANCILIALIZIP a CAMINIDOS iky UN &sae hie keys! Higbee= the Pricer Consort the Chaneelkinidp of the Hideosity of Cambridge becomes esermi. Modesties el s Chancellor must be within 14 days shwas vessay, and is wore bergerter et. His Royal Higbee= wee sleeted Is 1017, es the dark of the Duke of Ifartkortmbodesd, es whisk occasion he was opposed by the Isle Ned of Pawls. Os the part of Easy members of the Usirseeity, a desire prevails to elect the Priem of Wales se ensenwer fie his father. bat hie extreme youth it is dheingld may be a bar to that wish belag ful9llnd. Amongst Wog swelissin whom cum ere freely nreationed in con geries with the sheacelicesiip are Lad Falinanton, of St. Jeksh Collage (M.A. 1806); the Duke of Drresshate. of Thu* Clellege, who was emend wrangler in 1811; the Frei of Hardwicke. of Queens' College (LLD. 1838); the Mar. qui of lassiewsra sir Malty College (LLD. 1811) ; the Dori of Telles& of Trinity College (ILA. 1818); the Duke of istaissalk. of St. John's Collage (M.A. 1137) ; and Lord Lysdhuurt. of Triolty College, at mew Lard High Steward 111 the traivereity. &CUFF or ART{.—We ere requested to state that Y coaasemiare of the lensatted &ea of his Koval Ilistiness the Prises Comfort, the President of this society. the meeting appended f or to-niarruw, the lath inst., will net Übe place. Rinthiel a " Perfumed Almanac" for 1862 is the best eseented sinless, of the kind that has yet appeared. Met.% tatte e. diaphowl in the erearnental desire, and the perfume Into the hares la sweet and pleaaast. A " Violet fr 1461," has been published with the Luse diatioctive pro. pular. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. -.- OFFIOUL BIILLITIN. -(THIS DAY.) WINDSOR CASTLE, TCZYDLY Noumea. The Queen has passed a quiet night, and slept several hours. Her Majesty continues calm. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. We are authorised to state that the funeral of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort will take place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on Monday next, at 12 o'clock, and that, in accord ance with the understood wishes of his late Royal Highness, the funeral will be a private one. All the details of the funeral have been in trusted to Messrs. Banting, who have for so many years conducted the royal and public funerals in this country. But, few and simple as are the rites which mark these solemn occa sions, a great amount of preparation is neces sary beforehand. St. George's Chapel, Windsor, where the interment will take place, has to be draped and carpeted with black, the royal vault to be opened, and time allowed foe the arrival of the representatives of foreigu courts who will be deputed to attend on this occasion. All these arrangements have been carefully con sidered, and the shortest possible time in which they can be completed is by the date we have men tioned. At the funeral his Royal Highness the Prime of Wales will act as chief mourner, sup =by the Duke of Cambridge and by the Crown of Prussia. The remains will be laid in the royal vault. There are two vault. beneath St. George's Chapel—the Gloucester and the royal vault. The former was finally built up after the interment of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the last member of that branch of the house of Hanover. The royal vault is kept apart ex cluaively for the coffins of the immediate members of thereigumg family. Three gates close the entrance to this final resting-place of departed royalty, the keys of which are kept by the Sovereigo,the Lord Chain berlain, and the Dean of the Chapels Royal. Except for the burial of the Queen Dowager, who was laid by the side of her royal husband, this vault has not been opened since the death of William IV., and the descriptions which were put forth by some of our contemporaries as to the place in which the coffin of the Duchess of Kent was temporarily de posited in this mausoleum were purely imaginary. The royal vault was never opened ou that occasion at all, and the coffin only remained at the entrance to the first gate till the mausoleum at Frogmore was completed. During yesterday the inner shell and leaden coffin which will enclose the remains of the Prince Consort were forwarded to Wiudsor. According to custom, the body will be interred in four coffins„ the inner one or shell being of polished mahogany cased outside with lead, then an outer, plain, but very massive, coffin of mahogany ; over all comes the state coffin or case, of crimson velvet and with massive silver gilt ornaments. On the leaden coffin is to be a silver plate, engraved with the style and titles of the deceased Prince. The outer mahogany coffin will simply bear a plate with his name and the date of his birth and death. On the state coffin will be the customary silver-gilt plate, bearing an inscription similar to that on the leaden coffin. "The Emperor and Empress of the French, on receiving news of the death of the Prince," says a Paris letter in the Journal de Rouen, " immediately sent • telegraphic despatch to Windsor, expressing to the Queen their deep and in the evening • cabinet courier was to leav e or t ior London with two autograph letters for her Majeety. The Emperor has besides decided that, without waiting for a notification of the demise of his Royal Highness, the court shall go into mourning." The Paris Motaiteur of to-day announce,s that in consequence of the death of the Prince Consort the Emperor will go into mourning for 21 days. The Belgian Moniteur of last evening states that the Belgian court will continue in mourn ing up to the 14th of Febrnary next. The same official journal, in the course of an article on the deceased Prince, observes : "Liberal, firm, and enlightened, of • supe rior education, versed in the sciences (which he cultivated almost with passion), Prince Albert loved to surround himself with intelligent and use ful men, whom the amenity of his manners, the qualities of his heart, tho nature of his mind, and the variety of his information drew towards him. Prudent in the councils of the state, endowed with great judgment, of unshaken political probity, his opinion was eagerly and respectfully sought by the men who directed the destinies of England. The English people, whose entire affection he bad secured, had profound confidence in him. The Prince took pleasure in originating reforms which his remarkable intelligence enabled him to under stand. He used all the great influence which he pommelled for good. Death has smitten this brilliant organisation, this enlightened and benevolent man, this affectionate husband, this tender father, this Prince so devoted to the interests of his new country and to those of humanity at large. It is au immense loos for the country to which he consecrated his beautiful life. It is a family grief for the dynasties of England, Belgium, Portugal, Saxony. - Every heart will participate in the grief of the august widow and children whom this terrible blow has overwhelmed. Every Bel gian will share in the profound affliction which our monarch and his family experience for the unlooked-for death of their illustrious and beloved relative." A supplement to the London Gazette Ertra ordinary of Sunday was published yesterday, giving the following directions with regard to mourning : LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S 01IYICT, Dec. 16. Orders for the Court to go into Mourning for his late Royal Highness the Price Consort :—The ladies attending court to wear black woollen studs, trimmed with crape, plain linen, black shoes cud gloves, and crape fans. The gentlemen attending court to wear black cloth, plain linen, crape hat bands, and black swords and buckles. The mourn ing to commence from the date of this order. Ceases or Ames, Dec. 16. Deputy Earl Marshal's Order for a General Mourning for his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort :—ln pursuance of her Majesty's com mands, this is to give public notice, that upon the melancholy me:ma of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, it is expected that all persons do forthwith put themselves into decent mourning. EDWARD G. F. HOWARD, D.E.M. At the Court of Common Council yeallerday, it will be sees by reference to another column, a resolution of nondolesee with her Majuty in her at was solemnly pseud, and this course was followed is more than one provincial town. In all part of the country from which we have received sdviesa the same feeling of sorrow aad sympathy as those diaplaved is the metropolis have been manifested, and the public evi dently regard the demise of his Royal Highness, not only as • severe bereavement to our most gracious Queen, but at this moment u a great public loss. We are gratified to Ism (from oar Windsor correspondent) that her Majesty continues to sustain her heavy trial with undi minished fortitude. Her Majesty was advised by the physicians to leave the Castle an early as possible after the death of the Prinb Consort, sod yesterday was tho day first filed upon for her departure to the Isle of Wight. It was afterwards postponed till this day, but her Majesty could not make up her mind to quit the Castle at so early a period. To-morrow (Wedseaday) is the day now sexed, both is said to be very uncertain whether she will not join the Prince of Wales at Progrnore until after the funeraL The Prince Consort expired to the apartment known oa the King's-roorn, in which King George IV. and William IV. died. At an early hoar yesterday morning orders were received at Portsmouth to coal the royal yacht Victoria and Albert with all deerateh. It was supposed that she would groomed to Bermuda, to receive his Royal Highness Prince Alfred fres the St. ()verge, 91, and return with him to England. It was else thought probable that if the Princess Frederick Wit limn of Prussia has not already started for England, the Black Eagle will be despatched for her service. It will be seen, on reference to our telegraphic intelli gent*, that the Crown Prince of Prussia is expected to set out for Windsor to-morrow. The Princess Royal will, it is feared, be unable to accompany him, on account of the state of her health. The Mark-Lane Express says : " In our own repeated visite to the royal farms, in re cording his successes as an exhibitor, and in noticing the favourable auspices with which he commenced his year of office, we have from time to time testified to all the Prince Consort was doing for agriculture. His was no merely idle, passing patronage or casual aid, but it was rather • pursuit he delighted in, and one that he followed out with equal energy and Advantage. The most practical man could not go that pleasant round from the Flemish farm to the Nor folk, and so back again by the home and the dairy, without learning something wherever he went. The very last meeting which we believe the Prince ever presided over was that of the Agricultural Council in November; while the culminating point to such a career should have been but during the next few months. Regarded either as one of the arta generally, or more especially as a grand gathering of that society he had consented to preside over, the Great Exhibition was undoubtedly growing from under the late lamented Prince's design and development. There is • settled gloom now east over its prospects, from which it can, never hope to recover, oven if, under the circumstances, the project be proceeded with. The bustle and crowd of a World's Fair will scarcely harmonise with the heavy heart of the august lady, in all the fresh, bitter pang of her widowko)d.* Many stories are told of the royal courtship, meal whirl, if not true, is at least graceful. It is stated that the deceased Prince playecithe part of a royal lover with all the grass peculiar to his house. He never willingly absented himself from the Queen's society and present* and her every wish was anticipated with the alacrity of an unfeigned attachment. At length her Majesty, having wholly made np her mind as to the issue of this visit, found lines& la some measure embarrassed as to the flt and proper mesas of indicating her preference to the Prince. This was • perplexing task, but the Queen acquitted herself of it with equal delicacy and tact. At one of the pals belle she took occasion to present her bouquet to the Prince at the conclusion of a dance, and the Dint was not lost upon the polite and gallant German. His close uniform, but toned up to the throat, did not admit of his placing the Persian-like gift where it would be most honoured ; so he immediately drew his penknife, and cut a slit in his dries in the neighbourhood of his heart, where he gracefully de- ' posited the happy omen. The necessity of reforms in the university is dis cussed, and the most eminent of the Russian pre heats continua to demand through the press greater liberty of instruction. The Journal de St. Pettrabourg publishes an im portant note, believed to be official, relative to the affair of the Suttorina. The Russian journal as serts that the Austro-Turkieh Convention of 1853 relative to the territory and to the Austrian mili tary road was virtually abrogated by the treaty of Paris, by the terms of which Austria, as well as other great states, is forbidden any ibolated intervention in Turkey, and, consequently, taking summary justice for itself without previous concert with the other guaranteeing powers. The Russian government declares, through the Journal of St. Petersburg, that these governments must cause the principles to which they have given their guarantee, to be re spected, and that, "as long as Russia has a voice in the peaceful councils, and its weight in the balance of the forces of Europe, such an interven tion shall not take place." The Nord believes that this article is but the echo of • more direct official communication, and that we have not heard the last of the affair of the Suttorina. (sztrrn'e numaAmlL) FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 17. The Moniteur contains an imperial decree dis banding the 103rd Regiment of the Line and the let Regiment of the Foreign Legion. Another decree deprives M. Laprade of his Professorship of Literature and Fine Arts. A ministerial report, which precedes the decree, explains the motive of this resolution. It states that M. Laprade published a piece of poetry in the Correspondent, containing injurious allusions to the Sovereign, elected by universal suffrage, and to the nation which he gloriously governs. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Die. /7. Zeitung of to-day announces to both PIUMOUS SO TO WOW. MBA= WORM WIVILIDAY, N. Britain—S.W. to W. sad B.W. to N.W.—Fresh, some rota N. W.—Fresh, some rein. or snow Ireland —B.S.W. to N.W.— !JAW. to W. and N.—Ralny, Freak. some rate In gaiters. to places stow. Central—W. to N. sod N.N.Z. W.d.W. to N. W. end N.- -Fresh to moderate, duo. Fresh or moderato, Mac LCeest—W. to N. W. and W. to N.N.W. sad N.N.Z.— N.—Moderate to trash, tine. Modena* arse. N. Zasrland--Shnilar. W. N.W. to N. and NAPA Moderate, fteht, ens. WLA.NATION. _ _ . B.—Barometer corrected and roducad to 99 deg, at masa am level : each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-handveith of an loch diminution : and each 10 deg., above U des.. candy': nearly three-hundredths increase. P..—ltrpofted thermometer in shade. 11.—Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew point). D.—Direction of wind (true—two points kfi of mag netic). Y.—Force (I. to 1g estimated). C.--Cloud (1 to 9). I. b, bias sky: a, dead. (detached): f, fog: b, ball: I. lightning in, misty (hag) ;o, overcoat ld r, rain San. t . thunder. —mu diatarbeoce (1 to 9). W.—Wet, min -fall. or coo., or hail, since tut report, in inches and decimal'. & tem. The Christmas season is in fall bloom through out Berlin, with reel forests of Chriatmu trees, booths full of sweetstuffs, hooey cakes, ornaments and playthioge in millions of nice end fancy contrivasces. Hundreds of shops and public halls have been metamorphosed into exhibitions of recreation sod wonder. The theatres are perform ing in aid of contribution, to supply the children of the poor with indispensable Christmas presents. The stores sad shops of confectioners and coeditors are teeming up to tie ceilings with the truly native inimitable, and, it would appear, unexportable "honey cake," which is consumed at every Christmas in quantities ontsweetening whole hundred weight. of plums sad suet which the English nation and all its colonies could oppose in the shape of plum•poddiogs. Politics will be forgotten until after the Boxing.day, and all Berliners sweeten their Christ mas-days with honeyed bard-bake, and keep on wandering from one exhibition to the other, visiting each other, and making merry and happy by allowing themselves to he surprised by presents, and distributing, sending, and posting them for sweethearts and relations of every degree. LATEST INTELLIGENCE ENGLAND AND AMERICA. Last evening's PatrW contains the following leading article : " It results from the latest information that the maritime forces of North America are so inferior to those of England, that the struggle, if it should take place, will be neither lung nor serious. The Northern fleet has but a single first class steam ship ; the squadron which England sends to the American *oast in January will have ten. The United States did possess at the moment of the separation six fine screw frigates, but the North has now but one of these, the Wabash, 46 guns. England will have twelve screw frigates in the American waters besides the ten vessels above men tioned. We say nothing of sailing vessels, cor vettes, gun-boats, and transports, which are of small account now in naval combats ; and besides, this part of the forces of the two nations is about equal. The American navy, like the English navy, is brave and well organised ; but the physical dispro portion of the two fleets is so great that when we look at the conduct of President Lincoln's govern ment, and the vote of Congress approving the act of the commander of the San Jacinto, we are tempted to think that the defiance to England is but a device of the North to escape from a situa tion which the impossibility of conquering the South renders intolerable. As to the war of privateers, which was so fatal to England in 1812, that is not to be apprehended now, and for this reason amongst others, that in 1812 most of the privateers were fitted out by the Southern states which will not now be at war with Great Britain. Moreover, the invention of steam has rendered privateering much more difficult. In making these observations we have no intention to take part with one side or the other, but merely to convey information based upon most undoubted facts." DENMARK. "The identical notes sent by Prussia and Austria to Copenhagen," says theNord, "are far from being favourable to Danish pretensions. The two Ger man powers do not consider as sufficient the con cessions of Denmark, which besides have already been rejected by the States of Holstein. Those con cessions, having only a provisional character, can not, it is said, offer the elements of a definitive solu tion of the difference. The cabinets of Vienna and Berlin remind Denmark of the arrangements to which she consented in 1851 and 1862, but which she appears to have completely forgotten. On the whole the reply leaves the question in absolutely the same state. In Denmark this result appears to have been foreseen, and preparations are being made to support the conflict which is considered in evitable, especially as the Danish people and the Chambers appear not only to support the ministry, but even to exercise pressure on it,iu order to make resistance as inflexible and energetic as possible." PORTUGAL The Kiug of Portugal has addressed to the Mar quis de Loule the following letter, charging the President of the Council to express his Majesty's gratitude to the Portuguese nation for the testi monials of sympathy which they have lately shown hun : Lisboa, Dec. 2. My dear Marquis,—There are griefs which we feel, but cannot adequately express, sod min* is of that number. The teen which flowed fur the death of on* beloved brother wore Kama, dried when another tomb opened to receive another of my brothers who devoted his whole existence to the happiness of his people. 1 cannot, however, notwith standing the cruel grief which oppresses me, omit express• dog, not only to the inhabitants of Lisbon and Oporto, but to the whole kingdom, my deep gratitude for the proofs of love and sympathy which they have displayed on the occa sion of the death of my brother, King Don Pedro V. When grief and monruiog are spontaneous they constitute the noblest epitaph to which a king can aspire. My grief is great, but I !pray, you, Marquis, to make known to the Portuguese that my gratitude is not less great. Louts. RUSSIA. Letters from St. Petersburg state that the council of ministers recently created have already held a sitting, at which the Emperor Alexander instructed each of the ministers to present him with a project of reforms in his particular depart meat. His Majesty, moreover, expressed his disapprobation of the slowness with which the re forms already decreed have been carried out. The same letters announce the approaching dissolution of the Ministries of Domains and Hereditaineute, which have become useless since the emancipation of the serfs. The Minister of Finances will be entrusted with the collection of the taxes from the newly emancipated people. Various other reforms are being prepared. Count Dmitri-Tolstoi is appointed director of the department of Public Instruction. The that the budget will be Houses of the Reichsrath to-morrow. Baron Balmerling will make the communication in the name of the Emperor. The parliamentary clubs have agreed upon the course to be pursued in reference to the budget The resolutions of the Reichsrath on financial questions will be as legal as if all the provinces of the empire were represented. These resolutions will, however, only refer to the non-Hungarian provinces. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. 01101 t OUR MI PAUL% limper Eviorato. The fragments of the American President's Mes sage hitherto received by telegraph are read here in a very unfavourable sense, and the vote of thanks to Captain Wilkes, said to have passed Congress unanimously, makes a still worse impression. At the Bourse many people regarded war as certain. The Reute fell 20c. for cash and 30c. for account, closing at the lowest prices of the day, 67fr. 25a, both for money and time. It was rumoured that Consols, which were telegraphed 4 per cent. lower in the morning, had sustained a further fall. The Italian Loan fell 450. All the railways were. lower : Orleans fell 7fr. 50c. ; Northern, 2fr. 50c.; Eastern, 3fr. 75c.; Lyons, Mr.; Southern, 6fr. 25c.; and Western, 21r. 50c. The Patrie persists in the account it gave of General Scott's reasons for suddenly going back to America, and asserts that the note it published was furnished by a friend of the general, and at his request. I can only say that other friends of the general, who saw him daily, positively deny the truth of the Patrie's version. The report that the Minister of the Interior wa.s about to remove to the Louvre is very positively contradicted ; the arrangements made at vast ex pense in M. de Persiguy's palace, in the Place Beauvean, are said to be satisfactory and de finitive. The Itans says that the Emperor Napoleon has purchased front Prince Demidoff, for the sum of 1,1500,000 fr., the Napoleon Museum of the Isle of Elba. In its sitting of Saturday last the Academy, of Moral and Political Sciences, adopting the report of its section of Legislation, Public Law, and Ju risprudence, on the papers presented to compete for the prize proposed for 1860, the subject of which was, " Trace the origin, variations, and progress of Maritime International Law, and show its relations with the state of civilisation of dif ferent nations," awarded the prize to M. Eughne Cauchy, formerly Maitre des RequOtes, at the Council of State. WRATEUDI REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TVINDAT, Demos 11. • Lt. It NAM Lallli ' K O AItI , KOSIAZ POMO= siussas GALWAY .. ,imisa o.ie~ ra j vcaran Qosamoirst Y AlXotrfl l7 LONDON Dow= POSINIIIOOIII 10.111 • PoltiLLl D '10.7 , 1 PL =OWN ... 111 lIINDADON .. ba LW. W.ii:W. SAW. S. X.W. w.ii:w. x.w. LW. N.W. NW. N. N.W. THE WINDHAM CASE. COMMISSION OF LIINACY.—(THIS DAY.) The inquiry in this owe was resumed this morn ing before Muter Warren and • special jury. The Rev. H. J. Cheat's, mom-examined by Sir H. Cants —I was engaged to act as private tutor to Mr. Windham by Mr. Babies, who engaged me on behalf of his mother on 27th April, 1856. I wee the first private tutor he had at the whoa. He was at that time in the fourth form. He had this been at Rhin more then half • year. His school work would have been Latin, Greek, and verses. I don't know that he was the oldest boy is the fourth form. It is very seldom that boys es old as 16 are in the fourth form, though it doss so happen occasionally. His spelling was bed all the while he was with me. I did not complain to the " dame " in whose house he was at Eton about his dirty habits in not washing his hands and bee. I did make representations to his mother oo the subject when we were at Filbrigg, and she said, " You must try and cure his dirty habits." When I complained to him about his gluttony and his habit of slobbering he merely grinned. The defect in his lip did not prevent his closing his month. He did not slobber at all times, but only when he was sitting stall at his lessons, or whet he was at his meals and not actually eating. Mr. Windham was my Ant and poly pupil. When I saw bin laughing without apparent muse, 1 have occasionally asked him why he laughed, end be would sometimes reply that it was what he was thinking of, sad sometimes that he could not help it. I never saw other boys bath before their masters in the wild way he laughed. It we • meaningless laugh, as if he was laughing at nothing. It was like the laugh of a person who was without reason. He wee • boy of very wild spirit. Whet he screeched and made • noise without reason, I have asked him what it was for and he could not or would not tell me. He weuk! screed and dance 'about the room and laugh wildly. Some times he would do this in the prowess of other boys for their amusement to make them laugh. I never repotted his nutruthfulness to the heal master, but I reported his riotous conduct in the house to Mr. Ralston ' who reported it to the head master, and he wee flogged for it. That sometimes happens with other boys at Ikon. The habits of a boy as to truthfulness anal clean liness would, no doubt, mach depend upon the manner in which he had been brought up. Young Mr. Windham was, I understood, brought up with his father and mother at home. I never beard, while at Nor folk, that the father had been in the habit of swearing and wing had language. On the first out. don I was at Mau Mr. Windham, the father, was there. Dow saki% to lead me to suppose that he was • primate mem, or that he was in the habit of using oaths or maws language. Young Mr. Windham wee very food of mama into the stable and mixing with the sta ble boys. He was we very fascia horses. While I was at Flibrigg there was nobody but his parents and myself for him to associate with. He was the only boy I knew, at Eton or elsewhere, who showed a taste for being about • railway. I heirs heard of young men who were food of gettingt an engine, if they were allowed to do so to tulz stand about the conduct and mode of drivivg railway anemic That would not indicate weak intellect. When Irw him in the kitchen, making • noise with the servants, he was jumping about and laughing. That was in 1855, when he was fifteen years old. I pee him impositions for misconduct, generally 100 lines of Latin to write out. Sometimes I was obliged to resort to corporal punishment. I have seen the Highland fling clawed, but though it is noisy and there is • good deal of jumping in it, Ido not think it barbarous. When I pueithed him foe brandishing the poker, swearing at the sensate, beating the maids, and other faults, he did not deny that he did so. He did sot tell an untruth about it, bemuse he knew that I had got ieformation from per sons who saw it. When he rode out on his pony at Filbrigg he was 'mealy ever alone. I usually went with him on horseback. When he got off and beat the posy, which he did frequently, he appeared to be dissatisfied with4lig ride mss o t What I mby his riding recklessly was that he with • loose reiu over rough ground, and some times that be would ride very fest. The pony was • sure footed anima. He went occasionally into society in the neighbourhood of Filbrigg. It was generally to cricket parties. He had no opportunity of going out to evening parties, or dining out at gentlemen's houses. He had no staters. It was at Christmas, 1855, and at Fester, 1856, and again at Christmas, 1856, that we were at Tor quay. I believe it was at Christmas, 1856, that he as saulted the gentleman at the party. His mother was with him at Torquay. Mr. Campine was the' panto be aesaulad. He was • forager, as Italian. I had met Mr. Quapana before, and so had young Mr. Windham. I don't kw, that any conversaloa took place before the assault. My attention was first directed to the circum stances by bearing his laugh when I was at the other end of the room. His mother was in the room. I did not complete to his mother about it. (To the Master) — Mr. Campane was between thirty and forty years of age. 110 Sir H. Cairns)—l told Ile Windham's mother that I was dissatisfied with my pupil. When I have been willed upon to protect ladiessgainst his rudeness hews about 16. The rudeness was following them about the room sad shouting. What the ladies said to me was,"Take away thin disagreeable boy." I remember Mrs. Jeffries, the house keeper at Filbrigg. I have complained to her of the con duct of my pupil. I had his mother's coward when I took him to 1)r. Fergusson. I think Mr. Windham had an allowance paid through me when he was under my owe at Eton. He was extravagant, and got into debt. I don't remember what was the amount of his allowance. I paid bas debta—one of them was • debt of 18e. et a putt cook's. Sir H. Cairns—Wee there ever much cord* ty between you and your pupil!—We were very goad friends at times not so at other times. I left my pupil finally at Fader in 1857, when we were at Torquay. I did nut see General Windham see hear from him while kis nephew was with . me. 1 first made his acquaintance a few weeks ago. He asked me to call at his house at Eaton.square. He en pres,ed a wish to see me. I did not see him from that time till yesterday, when I met him in court. Cromaixamiriedhy Mr. Coleridge (on behalf of Mrs. Windt ham)—Wheu Mr. Windham let t Eton he was in the fifth form. I don't recollect what part of the form he was in. Yon may assume, for the purposes of a question, that be was in the middle division. While there he would have to do, Homer 75 lines ; Virgil, 75 linos ; Satires aud Odes of Horace, Livy, or Teams, Loam), Zenophoo, the Greek Testament, the Odyssey, or Telemachus, 24 hues of verses, Lain exercise, and Greek exercises and mathematics. He got through hie work with my help. I cannot uodertake to say he was in the fifth form. Ido not know that he did Homer. There are trials at the school ; I don't know how many in the yew. I believe there are trials twice in the year. Mr. Windham was there two you; and was treated like the other boys. I oovcr saw any other Etoo boy make the names he did, or conduct himself in the same way. I never heard the Ltbiopieu Serenaders. I never beard the way in which they imitate • steam engine and end with a lioiL (Laughter.) I have not, seen my pupil since I left him at Turquey, at Christmas, 1856. I resigned my charge from ill health. I oe my own accord. He-examined by Mr. Fistd—lf my pupil was in the fifth form it was only for a very short tuna before he left. He was ill and not at school in the autumn of 1816, so that lie could not have done fifth form work for many months. His capacity for the week he actually did RYA very small. I think his capacity slightly increased as he went on. His illness wse caused by an injury to his finger, arising from his putting his hand in the lifting machiue, and turning the wheel, which mused • ;tog wheel to come on his finger cud crush it. I did not report his uutruthfulness sand noise conduct to the head master, because I thought it better to treat him privately. His jumping and yelling was nothing like the Highland ding. I me= by riding recklessly that he rode in a way endangering his own safety. He got into debt to the extent of some few pounds. By the Jury—The help I gave him in his studies was to see that lie prepared his lemmas, and put him right when he was wrong. I had to help him considerably more than private tutors usually help pupils. The removal hoot one form to another is by merit, the character of the boy Wag taken into consideration. His removal was the result of the school examination. In his rise 1 believe favour was shown. lie got flogged for not cow straw his lassoes, but not often when I wee with him. His allowance was about the same as that of other boys in the school. It was, I believe, about Is. or 2s. • week. He went to the kitchen because he liked the company of the servants. His principal amusement there was wash* UP dishes. (A laugh.) Edward Hale, examined by Mr. Williams—l am • cler gyman and mathematical master at Eton, and hare been so since 1860. I took part in the instruceion of Mr. Wind. ham. He wee up to me in school in 1855, sail he wee my Titivate pupil in the election sod Easter, 1856. Part of the time raided in the same house with him, Mrs. Wyse's. When he first came up to me I was obliged to have him sit close by me, and wort separately from the other boys, as he could not keep up with them. The boys in the fourth form in Wind ham's time would be generally from 11 to 14 years of 51a I nether could teach him Euclid. We got through a certain amount of vulgar fractions. He could do soy run when I showed him the way to do it, but he could new week out aaythiog like • problem himself. He MU the densest pupil I ewe had. I doe's think he made any sena& advance while be was ander my care. When be tot came up to me he baps to make • row. I made him cow up and sit by me arid told him I would put him in tie " bill," which means that he would be !Welte d to the head master. He was amenable to discoluo then, or, to we another Edon word, he rather " bare He was V . 17 dirty, anal had indecent habits. I advised Fe. Choate' to womb a medical man about him in comeetw ee* He would get the boys round him, end make faces *a dance for their amusement. From what I saw of him I considered him incapable of mental exertion, or ei mint% himself. troaresiaraked_by Mr. Karslake—Mr. Choiles Imo at"' preaeut whim be dW his lesions in school. The etechia; d Mr. Medea ersa,therefore, so far effective. Other bosi coached in the same way bv private pupils if thee are btek• ward. lie did not make a fool of himself is ,caod after I put hire in the bill. I did put him in the IA and be was no doubt H o gg e d. When he cried the noir made was peculiar. It was a sort of "boo, boo," and he ih te teasPleetdally. Ido not know that he was bellied two than other boys. I observed • malformatiou of his r t eetil• I did not know that ho wore au leo!) , Hate, Is the fourth form we begau with compouod I MC fol p 1 mii lod Do very ba,l I TI Priem recou Till to! w The E) Luigi the 1: ta.