The Express. — London, England, 1860-01-11 00:00:00

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Aild WOMAN. Ibff; eit e lle kb et b. komp. 1101 WATILD •T LONDON RIUDOIL Tr a t LONDON, WEDWBSDAT. lAN. 11. TIE •Deelarat io• at lb* elation° Laity,* which we lately published, is doing good. It is provoking a reaction in favour of Catholic and English, as dis tinguished from Papist sad ultramontans principles. Vltramoutane, indeed, is no longer a correct de scription of those tenets which are only found in priestly colleges, in despotic courts, and in monastic establishments beyond the Alps. Proclaimed on the housetops in France or Ireland, they make a noise, but do no bum. Cardinal WISEMAN can always count upon the zeal of a few converts and the es thasiasm of a few fashionable penitents in his diocese of Westminster, where his ring has not yet lost its charm, and the purple robe impasse on the imagination of the dilettanti. In Ireland, where 1)r. CULLEN teaches astronomy, and whore the history of the world as it is expounded ea catlwdrd dates from the Battle of the Boyne, TIM( rages sod DUBLIN loam, because the people of the Roasegna have pronounced their own emancipation from disabilities far move grievous than those against which DANIEL O'Conwst.i. thucdered in the ears of • British Parliament. The meek and lowly jester of the searisty, M. LOUIS VIMILLOT, finds a congenial interpreter in that professor of assassination by vitriol, Mr. Joins Mrrcuci. Yet it would be monstrously unjust to the great body of our ►oyal and intelligent fellow-countrymen in the sister island to suppose that a CANTWELL or a CULLEN represents the feeling er the intelligence of Catholic Ireland. These tem pestuous prelates are well understood to speak from the ene of a foreign prompter, and the part that is est down for them in Latin they are apt to translate ioto a somewhat extravagant Hibernian dialect. In England of course Papal agitation is less voci ferous, though little lees illogical. In Clifford street it denounces the right of the Italian Catholics to know their own wants, or to manage their own affairs, and it contends that a protectorate of foreign bayonets is indispensable to the independence of the Holy See. This Declara tion rises to the dignity of a scuffle and a shout in Hanover-square Rooms. Bet if we put all these demeostrations together, and cast up the names of their promoters, we ►hall hardly be justified in im puting to Our fellow-countrymen of the Catholic Church the practical abjuration of their own dearly won liberties, which all this indiscriminate and in continent denunciation of the Catholics in Central Italy so di.utrously involves. Happily, in a land of unfettered speech and unlicensed printing, reason and right are pretty sure to have the last word, though bigotry and injustice have the first. The Papal demonstrations have had it all their own way for the last week or two; and a careless observer might imagine that these stiff-necked victims of emancipation were sighing for the bondage of Egypt from which British legislation delivered them, when they would fain, like the later Pharisees, bind burdens upon the shoulders of their fellow churchmen abroad which they would not Do much as touch with a finger in their own free country. Yet we think nothing to so remarkable in these meet ings and petitions as the obscurity of the speakers and the scarcity of the signatures. A few names no doubt have lent authority to the nameless crowd, but if there was a Pattie on the side of Papal misrule. there was a PETER on the side of justice to Italy. If a Fettriteo sounded the alarm for ANTONELLI, a Fieroat. echoed the protest of a D'Axtotto. The address of a certain number of English Catholics to Lord Patiteitsioe was any rate sot unworthy of mee accustomed tu breathe a liberal and a tolerant air; and now we have a Catholic gentleman of deeply religious convictions and unexception able pabdic and private character stating is a lager to as eminent oe-religioaist his reasons for declining to put his tome to the " Deedaratios ' favour of the Wapiti power of the Pm. Joss Bstiore's letter to Lord PRIM it sash a letter as a bighssiedeeknd tsipsafentieea Naglin gentlemen might have written when England was Catholic, gad whoa Catholic Englishmen IMOD so abetters et Pepsi supremacy. He takes the " broad and isiellessible rind* of justice" as the basis of his objesting to the principle " that the inhabitants of the Papal demising stand ins dif " ferent position from the people of any other " country, an are debarred from the right that has a been practisally exceeded to all other nations, o f a changing or modifying their form of government " wording to their own view of their necessities, or " their political predilections." As a sincere church man, he feels " • great disinclination to any view " which has a teadseey to confound the spiritual a authority of the Holy Bee with the temporal " power of the Porn;" and, "as a liberal English "man," he "cannot honestly avow any feeling of " sympathy with • despotism, however naiads " tared ;" but above and before all he contends Sat this question " ought, like others of the @nig " kind, to be settled between the governs a and the governed." We cannot but congratulate our Catholic countrymen on this noble vindication. It will relieve them from the harden and the Wpm of a degrading complicity with the most blasphemes@ of despotisms. We say "blasphemous" advisedly. Before us as we write is a Letter to Cardinal Wlsne•x on the Pope, his Rights end Dense, by a Catholic Layman.' In thirty brief but mas terly pages this writs: traces the origin, and analyses the elements of the temporal power of the Papacy. And what are his condo sions ? Mind, it is a sincere Catholic, professing the deepest respect and reverence for the Hoed of the Church, who was asked to subscribe the " Deals " ratioo." He takes enrage to submit the four propositions eontained in that document to his own amecienoe as a Catholic, and to kis own reason as a free Englishman. He asks himself, and he asks the CARDINAL, whether these propositions--condemning the separation of the Romagna as "'energies dell " order, authority, and government"—alarming the temporal sovereignty to be the safeguard of the spiritual power of the Papacy; demanding that any change in the Papal Government should be left to " the unfettered judgment and unquestioned bens. " 'Gleam of the Poe'," and denouncing the rebel lion of the Romagnol population as " ankle_ " tifiable"—whether these political, moral, and thee. logical doctrines are in accordance with the peat, not only uncensored, but much lauded, action of British Roman Catholics; or " consistent with " the teachings, or coodecive to the interests of the "Roman Catholic church?" He cites BT. THOMAS AQUINAS, who has written that "the kingdom is "not made for the king, but the king for the king " dons ;" and he demands the production of any Church authority, in the teeth of reason and history, declaring that the existence of temporal sovereignty is necessarily inseparable from the Popedom, or that the authority of kings and other governors is above question and beyond control. Taking history to task, he shows that the origin of the Port's temporal power was the discontent and disaffection of the subjects of the En- Paso" in consequence of his inability or indisposition to discharge his duty by them. He shows how the sovereignty of the Duchy of Rotas laving been conferred by the people on GREGORY that Pontiff sought the protection of Coast= MARTEL, How Sterrett( IL, as exile in Francs, sought the aid of the tamper PEPIN, and by that King wee restored to Rome sad presented with " the Rearchate of Ravenna, now the Romagna ;# how, subsequently, Cninteensortx was " not elected " Emperor by the Pope alone as the Head of the " Church, bat by the Pope as the organ and repro " sentative of the Roman people:" how up to that period " the Popes were elected by the citizens of " Rome, laymen as well as emlesiastice—subject to " the sanction of the Emperor ;" how the successors of CHARLEMAGNE claimed the right of " exercising • a direct power of nomination ;" how by a decree of Mellows IL, " the powers of Emperor and people were alike set aside, and the election " of the Pope practically vested in the Conclave of " Cardinals; " and how " thenceforward the tem " peal sovereign of Rome became an absolute " monarch," and " subject to all the vicissitudes of " a temporal sovereignty." The "Catholic Layman" goes on to ask—and he confesses that "one blushes, " e% en in the retirement of the study, to be obliged " to answer this question in the nineteenth century" —" whether there are any each things as reciprocal " rights and duties between a people and their " sovereign ?" He appeals to the history of Catholic England for a reply : to the " Catholic Archbishop " who was mainly instrumental in extorting from "JOHN the great charter of English liberty ; " " the Catholic Parliament" who framed the " Statute " of Provisoes;" to the Catholic King EDWARD 11/, who resisted the POPE., to whom the Eneeacm and the French KING had submitted. He quotes DANIEL O'CONNELL'S declaration—" I am sincerely " a Catholic, bat I am no t a Papist." He quotas Mr. Som., who, in the House of Common., at the time when Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR had called the attention of the Four Powers to the abuses in the Roman States—distinguished "between the Italian " potentate and the spiritual head of the Catholie " Climate" And in anticipation of the Irish grievances of Dr. Ceurer, he recalls the frot that it was a POPE that sold the in dependence of Ireland to England for the sake of Perii's pence. He supposes this sale to have taken place in GEORGE the FOURTH'S time, and DANIEL O'CONNELL to have denounced the bargain. "On which side should the sympathies of " Catholics be found ? Should they be directed to " the Pore who lost his tribute, or to the people " who preserved their freedom ? If that were our " case, we should expect the sympathy seen of the people of Rome ; and should we not do unto " others as we would that men should do entails?'" e What specialty, then," the " Catholic Layman" asks, "remains in this Italian question which should " distinguish it from that of any other people dims " tistied with the government under which they " live ?" There is, indeed, a " specialty " which gives the Italians a better right than Irishmen can claim to decide it—the simple circumstence of its being an Bahia question. The " Catholic Lay " man" sums up his argument in the following posi tions—That the temporal sovereignty of the POPE is in no way essential to his spiritual power, and that the latter is in feet entirely independent of it. That as a temporal sovereign he is responsible to his sals.' jects, like every other Christian sovereign, for the just administration of his rule. That the people the Romagna have equal rights with other people to assert the redress of their own grievances, and that the immutable principles of law and justice cannot be made dependent upon the unfettered judgment and unquestioned benevolence of any temporal sovereign......." To contend that temporal ewe " relynty u essential to the existence of the giro.' eel "power of the Pope is to commit this Chervil • Th• Peppa• hi• Rights and Duties. A loiter to lila &Biasses Cardinal Wiseman. By • Ciiihelle Layman. Ridgway. ,If I, —.aged the Emily Seymour, wog the Hon. B. R.R., and Mr. dlesitia The band of the let ILA Gorge d aria LLk uble otartnat t ." mama ...... Hee t imiNk itgess ibi E lk., so, " . - m"" groom —ram nese • f g p ae gg a w " ..... riatt• Mr katie p &Me bead perkeined in the Dubi n.= tits feliewhap , pi ma rolo s, ;khr i f lL " stinearrran whisks Praia as Mr The Qum. aesesurr Wed by irlite•; Lenhos, walked in lb. Holm 'test litin recesiag. end visited the Dubose of Hat et r, sw a m The Wines Ocelot, Andel by Kejor-Greed the Hon. 0. Gary and Liniment-0*os( Poneonby, went to London W presided at • Trititag of the Nandi of tin Hertioultnraj Meiji,', at South Heasiegten. Ilse Prince el Weise went oat hunting, attended by biejor libieneri w Ilia. R. Drees end Captain Grey. 1 Prism Anse sad Prisms Hellas rode in the Riding- Mr. Fisher left the Cade In the afternoon. Visoreurt iceshenton and Lleatonant.Colaal F. Careodiah have anectraded the Bart of Canners and Bear•Admtral the Boa. Sir H. Kappa as Lord and Groan ha waiting to her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterd► afternoon at the official residence of the First lard of the Treasury, in Downing-street. It was ►ttended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir 0. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Earl of Elgin, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. Viscount Pshoorsics arrived in London yesterday morn in the l * V a met, ag for BWindsor e roadlands,.ltite. His kiedahip left tows The of Newestle arrived in town yetimday morning from his seat, Clamber Park, Notts. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had aa interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. A deputation cm the Lansing 'latent had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the oHce of the Beard of Trade. The deputation consisted of Kenn. Reginald John Richardson and Edward Wynne (Manchester), and Yr. John Robe= (Aahton-tuader-Lyna). Despatches from the Governors of the North American Provioosa end of Heligoland were received yesterday at the Coionialsece. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort an receiving empsay at Badminton. Maria Marchioness of Allosbnry, accompanied by the Hoe. Colonel and lire. Needonald, have left Badminton. the sat of the Doke end Deaden of Beaufort, for Btrath lieldtge, Rants. The Marquis of Aberoorn, who hu been paying a twist visit to Ws sum fn Leland, will return to Brocket Hall ta a Sew days. The Earl and Comte= of Lichfield hare returned to their residence In Britton-street, from visiting the Mar &lotion of Aberoorn at Breast Hail. The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Moly no= Lays left town on • viat to the Earl sod Countess Simmer at Altherp Park, Northamptonshire. The Countess (Dowager) of Craven has arrived is town on a vWt to the Bari sad Counties Craven, tem Hamat•ad Marshall, Bats. Viscount and Viscountess Valletort arrived in town yesterday from visiting the Marquis awl Manlike's' of Aberocen, at Brooket Hall. The noble viseosat sad Macenatme will leave town to-day for Mount-Ildgenmhei Devonaltim. Lord Methuen arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Line Stephens have arrived at fartlllon'a Clarendon Notal, from Lynford Hall, Brandon, Norfolk. Amongst the company at Brighton are Lady Rosa GreyMr, the Marquis aid Marobionem of Normanby, Lady Williams, Lord and Lady Shaftesbury, Lady Palusakumn, Sir Williams Tophans, Lord mad Lady Granville, Genera Ludlow, Sir John sad Lady Maxwell, Sir William Framer, Bart., Mr. Pawnee, M.P., &o. Mr. Charles Sharman Crawford has, in conse quence of ill-hesltb, resigned the office of poor-law inspector in Ireland of the senior class. The salary attached to this office is 7001. per annum, exclusive of an allowance while in the Coda or It. per day and any summits Mooned in travelling. Mr. Caner George Otwsy fs the only officer now melanin of the demote which Mr. Crawford belonged. Mr. Crawford (who is a sou of Mr. W. Sharman Crawford, of Crawfordabon) is a barrister, having been called to the her In 1839. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., and Mr. H. Peue, M.P., h►ve promised to be present at the annual meeting of the Middlesbrough Mechanice' Institute, to be held derbig the present math. • l i ri oni, IXPRESB, WEDNESDAY EVA JANU. ..- in " pmiseiple I *say." ATo dm* Ow* righteto -Cu lseurr. I. sir " his ruitid is to blaspheme: as Popi as . tyrant:* .—•—• is jut Hair, 0! email'. It is lilt s Plelestalld hands. .-1111EDICrit cAsTLZ, mations fist a " WWII ImTnateldes alma* snit " 4 " Hor Helealligginse Party yesterday lal bill all 'only mistaken if all his fellow-Catholicomto hare p r i m , o f W a y., th , pd, cm , ,Ace. Lady Eva Rehm= English hearts in their bosoms will not, like this w as B ereeer , Si r j ams c ak. m.o,„ n i itat the Catholic Layman," entices proud of their faith, bat Bruce, captain Grey, Hey,* globiateas, GA as the " still foithfal to liberty." Flaw. who arrived la tin dissmaa kem Wort . . . • \ . TEE EARL OF NdILNEBBURI ON OUR DE- !INC'S ARD THE lIALLAN W4l. On Monday evening the Earl of Malmesbnry, whose country seat, Heron Court, is near CMatohurch, and Admiral Walcott, M.P. for the borough, attended the anni versary of the Vales of Avon and Stour Fanners' Club. The Berl of KALIIIMBORY, in responding cc behalf of "The Army," said (with regard to the propoeition for forming an artillery volunteer corps)—l have ascertained that, probably from a necessary economy, the government have decided that an batteries will be erected in towns which ars sob either emomercial or military towns, and that they could not ecusider Chrietchurch as coming under one of these categories. We should therefore, although permitted to have practising batteries—although the government would seed as down • couple of guns for the purpose of ill end instruction, still, reedits/1y speaking, we shotakl be liable to be sent, when a serious secanket 000nned, the whole way to Callehot Castle or to Portsmouth, which is evidently out of the sphere of local volunteers. (Hear) This being the case, I should retioronsead—end I expect that the inhabitants of Christ church and the locality would probably meter joining in the general movement of their fellow-countrymen in other parts of the kingdom—the formation of a volunteer rife corps instead of one of artillery. (Cheer..) I very mush regret that we are drives to this alteruative, because on the ground of utility, artillery is ate of the band all denotation the west ; sal I am persuaded that if we Dad fortifications within oar reach we sboald have been more useful as artillery thaa as riflemen. Still, there as be no doubt that volunteer °urge of rifl. , men may be of service. It would be a slur upon us if Christchurch were behind the rest of Great Britain, and I trust that ea effort will be made to robe a respeotsble corps of Malaga. (Cheers.) The Bonus Baez, in reply to another nest, said—l am, in deed, deeply touched et the very Battering speech which I have just heard from Mr. Tim. Compliment* are commonly paid on these orteeelme—oompHnients of custree—compliment which are expressed of course, and received of course, yet mere compliments they are • but more then that has been expressed, se far as m pe r sonal feelings an concerned, by my friend Mr. Ties ; for you may sefely believe me, that among the changes and chances of public life, its immense anxiety in each a position es that welch I had the honour of bolding for some fifteen month; in very difficult times; when relieved from the heavy weight of responsibility—a responsibility almost too much for human nature on many recision. to boar—you may safely believe that being relieved from such a responsibility, and returning to • quiet home and to demesne habits from to stormy a sphere es that which I have left, it is the greatest satisfac tion that • men can possibly feel to know that his neigh bours, whom he knew before taking a heavy leek, meet him with open Wads and miller feces when be returns to scenes so ditft:reet from those stormy ones. Ido not boost of baring succeeded In the great teak that was before me. I did not prevent a great and a Woody war—l did not prevent the deaths of some 80,1000 or 100.000 men who fell on the fair and fertile plates of Daly ; bat MY I believe, with the help of God, I did einvent-1 prevented • general European war. (Chews.) This, I believe, with the help of God and the suleissee day colle•guee, I did prevent—the extension of the war beyond the sphere to which it was conined : sad if my word le doubted, it I. proved by the staannents of the Emperor of the French and of the Emperor of Austria themeless—the use oomplaining that he was not assisted by England, the other saying that Prussia did not COMO to his aid and both tin:ornateness bring those which prevented their continuing the struggle any longer. (Cheers.) It has been properly stated this evening, that this Is not a political meeting; but I should not be acting respectfully to Mr. Tice, who has jest spoken, or to you who probably listened to him and heard his remarks on me with pleasure. if I did not soy that to the last day of my life I shall always thank Heaven that I was the humble mean. of preventing • war which I believe would have extended to as great • length of time as that great war which swept away so meaty millions of men and swamped so =say millions of mosey. (Loud cheers.) THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN FRANCE. TO Till IDITOZ OT TNT lianas& flis„—My knowledge of year habitual readiness to defend the rights et British subjects, whether at home aft *breed, indices me to send you without delay an acermat of the very singular, and, I believe, absolutely unprecedented treatment we have just met with here at the hands of French authorities. Aa English church open for the last two veers. sad regularly attended by several hundreds of our Iteentry people, has just been closed by order of the Minister of Public Instruction, without any ears assigned, in this the capital of a civilised onntry, and in a manner calculated to excite the just indignation of every thinking man. I must state the facts briefly. In December, 1667,a formal application was made to the Minister of Public Instruction for leave to open a church where Divine service should be performed aooordi A ug to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of Eng land. Two gentlemen, functionaries, were ern c to me by the Minister to make inquiries, bearing their written credentials; they reported; and fina'Lly, one of them returned about the 20th of December, 1867, to inform me on the part of the Minister th at the chapel might be opened forthwith, but that; a written authorisation might not be g i ven for soma time, if at all. The chapel was opened accordingly, consider ably enlarged shortly atter, and has remained open for upwards of two years undisturbed in any way. I must now mention another cironmetnece, which appears to be the hidden cause of this unprecedented act. Finding that there was a population of from at least 2,000 to 3,000 Anglo-French in Paris, speaking Franca habitually, and still professing the faith of the Church of England (more than half the children and young persons in our Sunday school are in this predicament), my churchwardens and myself considered it highly desirable to hold a French Church-of-England service at four on the Sunday aftemoons, and such a service has existed and has been very well attended by French and English and Anglo-French for the last two months, without a shadow of opposition from any quarter, save a rumour that the Roman clergy, or certain of them, were unfavourable to it. The service lasted about an hour, and consisted of a simple translation of our evening prayers, with two hymns translated from our hymn book, and a short sermon, and this was only one oat of five Sunday services. On Saturday last, at a little after twelve o'clock, two men, functionaries, entered my room, bringing with them a formal prohibition on the part of the Pellet to celebrate Divine service in any way what, ever in our chapels. Lord Cowley was absent—a kat which had possibly been foreseen; and Saturday, it will be perceived, was the day on which the notice was served. Anxious to avoid the great scandal which would have resulted from closing the doom on the Sunday morning without any previous an. nouncersent, I went straight to the Embassy, sad consulted oar Charge d'Affaires (in the abeam of Lord Cowley), the Hon. William Grey. He me• pressed much interest, and advised an immediate application to the Prtfet for a grace or delay ex tending over Sunday, and I took a letter from his to that functionary. This gentleman, however, said he could do nothing, being the simple agent of a higher power, M. Rouland, Ministre de Pin/traction Publique et du Cults. To him I proceeded forth with, and not being able to see him, left a written statement, laying before him the lamentable scandal that would arise from the stoppage of Divine ger- ' vice on the Sunday morning in our English church. I was then fortunate enough to find one of my churchwardens at home, and returned with him to the Embassy, where Mr. Grey kindly promised to support our request for a delay. At half-past he obtained the permission from M. Rouland to open the church for a single day ; and this on the express condition of the giving up cf the French service, which he (M. Rouland) stated to be the great offence. Another cause of offence may possibly have been given by the recent restoration of two wanderers who had strayed to Roman pastures to our fold, as well as the recent reception at the holy board of three other converts from Popery. But be this as it may. It were hard indeed , if, while the Roman Church is allowed to make its inroads in all directions, it should be forbidden to the Anglican to receive those who may be drawn to her by what they think the superior force of her attractions. Ia any case our church is now formally closed, and all English services are prohibited, as well as the French one. I wrote at once to his Excel lency Lord Cowley, laying my coo before him; bat, on mature consideration, have arrived at the maw sion that we are not justified in implicating him in the question of French services. We prefer going straight to the foot of the throne—l mean to the Emperor of the French—and appealing to that sense of right and love of religious liberty which we hope sod believe to be powerful in his breast. I have accordingly this day addressed a petition to the Emperor, together with a letter to the Emperor's private Secretary, M. Mocquard, explain. ing briefly the reasons for which we have thought it expedient not to cast any farther responsibility in the matter of the French service on the British Embassy. Although we may be only a few hundreds in number, we think all men wilt feel that Englishmen at large have an interest in this question, and that the closing of an Roguish church within a few hours of Sunday service, in the city of Paris, without any previous warning or notice, is not calculated to promote a cordial understanding be tween the neighbour countries. But we await calmly his Majesty's decision, relying on his sound sense and inability of being in fluenced , by priestly or other intrigues ; and with an equally strong assurance of your sympathy end that of every true-hearted Englishman—l am, Bc., ARCHER GURNEY, Incumbent of the English Church, 17, Rue de la Madeleine, i Paris. 30, Faubourg ht. Honore, Paris, Jan. 9. LW. much regret the temporary sneers of the jealous or isnotical persons who have interrupted Mr. Gurney's zealous and useful labours. We know him to tea man of high honour, who would make no improper ties of his position as minister of an Eogllsh church in Paris. In our opinion he has done wisely in referring his cause directly to the Em peror, who cannot approve of the uneeremonione manner in which an English congregation has been treated, and from whose w justice we are persuaded Mr. Gamey may expect full Iredre) DRINKING FOUNTAINS. TO TNT ZDITOIL Or TNN =PRIM Etit,—R very handsome and novel pills.; drinking foostaa has jest boon termed at the egret, of the Uxbridge end Xdpwarn roads, at the tope/ Oxford-street. The design is ere, appropriate, the pillar beteg supported by Hass segos asodelled from nature, with dsooratione en the sides toustalt the basin (unto which the wetsr rens) rests apes dues read beads, which are very botutituliy oast, and the task bolding the wetrr is eupported by three pillars, the whole standing &boot six test high, with • dog driokiag tank supplied boas the fountain. The water, which is supplied by the Greed Junction Watsr Company direct frogs the main reservoirs at Moreton, is very purr, and will prove a great boos to the Public. Coos MS Of the dries of the foluttsfale the following ascription ..—•• Tina drinking ibeateist WWI given to the perish of Peddiestos, for the bow& said bad* of the public, by tba Baron de Bliss, ei barkinsy-boue, Hyde pork.sqssza 1859.—Wila Brothers, flealpiorr."—l am to., AN OLD CORRESPONDENT. WSJLITAN MISSIONS. Yesterday afternoon a devotional .acting, convened at the request of the secretaries el serval sellselooery socktles, was hod in the large room of On Wesleyan Cectenary Hall, in Biehopesrate-streer. con ducted by the Mewls( gentlemen :—Rev. Dr. HOOla ; Gene ral Alexander Rev. Mr. Latrobe, of 'he Mor a vi an bli se i osa ; Rev. Mr. Wil ; on, from the West Indies; Rev. Mr. Stay, South Africa; Rev. Mr. Chapman, formerly principal or the College at Palamootta, fl , uthern India; Rev. George Osborn, and Rev. W. Arthur. The object of these meetings is to info.* enemy into the mission field abroad. The Wesleyan Society's attention at tie present moment fa more sped- Smlly directed to those extensive and newly-opened tracts for the treimmitsion of Divine intite—Clina, Africa, Japan, sail the South Seas. ~. 11, 'AT .INTE _223T1 ..LLIGENCE. • MI PAPAL STATES. LETTER OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO THE POPE. , PARIS, WIDWISDAT. The Mowiteur publishes the speech addressed by the Pope to °vial Goyon, and says, " We believe that this allr4ion would not have been pronounced had the Ptpe received the letter sent by the Em peror on the 31st Number." The Monaeur publishes this letter, which says : " Among the great reasons which induced me to conclude peace must be reckoned the fear that the revolution would assume larger proportions. If the Pope, according to my demand, had oonsented to an administrative separation of the Romagna, and to the nomination of a lay governor, those provinces would have returned (rentree) to his authority. Unfortunately, the Pope would not do it, and I have been powerless to arrest the establish ment of the new role. The Congress will be assembled, the powers will not deny the loom testable rights of the Pope over the legations; nevertheless they probably will think it better net to have recourse to violence for subduing them, because it would be necessary to again occupy the legations by military for a long time, and this occupation would keep up hatred and illwill among the Italians, and would perpetuate irritation, un easiness, and fears. " I believe that the solution most suited to the interests of the Holy See would be to make a sacrifice of the revolted provinces. " If the Pope for the tranquillity of Europe would renounce those provinoes, which for fifty years have mated so much trouble to his government, the powers would guarantee the possession of the re mainder of the States of the Church. " I do not doubt that order would be immediately re•establiehed. The Pope would limye to grateful Italy peace during many years, and to himself the peaceful possession of the States of the Church." The Emperor then recalls his devotedness to the catholic religion and to ,the Pope, and concludes thus : " I have expressed without reserve my thoughts before the Congress is assembled ; bat I request your Holiness to believe that its decision will in no way alter the line of condant I have always observed towards your Holiness." THE POPE'S SPEECH TO THE FRENCH GENERAL. On New Yeses-day, General Goyon, the Com mander-in-Chief of the French army in Rome, pre sented the °Moors of the division of occupation to the Pope, and addressed his Holiness as follows: "Most Holy Father,—We come once again with the same ardour to prostrate ourselves at the foot of your double throne of Sovereign Pontiff and of King, and to bring to it the expression and the as surance of our profound respect and entire devotion. "If the great everts of the past year have not given us our share of the glory upon the field of battle, we have been able to console ourselves with the thought that we were on the field of honour of catholicism. " Deign to receive, Moat Holy Father, the senti ments of my brave and noble subordinates, of whom I am at this moment the interpreter." The Pope replied in the French language and extemporaneously. He said : " In the last few years which have glided away, it was a subject of consolation, but in this year it is for me &double subject of consolation, to see the French army take part in the exceptional position of the States of the Church. The assurances of the devo tion and of the love of this army are also a great source of consolation. I invoke the blessings of the good God upon the portion of the army which is here, and the whole army which is in the French empire. But, prostrate, I pray the good God to blase the generous French nation ; I prostrate myself at the feet of the God of Mercy, who is and will be for ever, and ask Him to load with graces and knowledge the chief of that nation ; that courage may be given him to condemn those perverse prin ciples which cannot be in harmony with the Church, and wb are a monument of hypocrisy and of ignoble contradictions. I hope—nay lam wrong—l am persuaded that the Emperor will receive light from God to condemn those principles. I may add that I have some former documents in my hand which were sent me by him, and which are in con tradiction to those principles. With this assurance, I am convinced, and, with this condition, I bless him, I bless his august companion, the Imperial Prince, and the entire nation." The telegram from Paris states that the speech of the Pope is published in ,the Moniteur. The copy which we give above is translated from this morning's Debats. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, TrESDAT. The Austrian Government has ordered Prince Metternich to declare to the French Cabinet that it would decline to enter into negotiations ou any other buis than the agreement of Villafranca or the treaty of Zurich. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, TrISDAY. The Conference for the discussion of the question of fortifying the German coasts wu opened here yesterday, under the presidency of Lieutenant Moltke. Today the Prussian project fora system of common defence was submitted to the Conference. SPAIN AND MOROCtn. MADRID, JAN. 8. The Spanish forces have moved forward, having provisions for live days. The stormy sea and the rain prevent communication with the squadron. MADRID, JAN. 9. The storm has ceased. The communication by ships between Ceuta and Algeciras has been re-esta blished. There is no more any telegraphic commu nication with the army. The Empress (says Galigaani) has just given a fresh proof of her goodness of heart by madam to General Dieu, who la still suffering from the severe wound which be received at dolferiso, a mechanical bed. Her Majesty added to the vales of the gift by sending with it a ineraage expresses Mg a hope that it hould tend to expedite the General's cure. A number of the protestant clergy of Prussia recently presented to the Prince Regent an address, praying him to coolie • metal synod to draw up an organic con stitution formfthe evangelical church of the kingdom. The prince, la hie reply, said that be could not comply with the . _ request, me neither existing circumstances nor the text of the law permit him to act in such a summary and energetic meaner. The question of the interests of the evangelical char& will therefore be examined in the district synods, which are about to be organised in conformity with the now coongazial law. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (non on OWN PARIS, TVIBDLT BUCKING. The Petrie anncranoes that Marshal Caarobart leaves Paris to-morrow for Naacy, the seat of his command. This looks like a contradiction of the rumour that he was ordered to Rome to supersede General Goyca. The Emperor,acoompanied by the Prince of Orange, reviewed several battalions of infantry this morning in the mart of the Tuileries. The Empress and the Imperial Prince were in the balcony of the central pavilion. I hear that the Gazette de France has received warning this afternoon. News has arrived that the Pope made a moat violent speech to General Goyon ou the subject of the pamphlet. _ _ I mmitioced on Saturday last that M. Lionville had resigned his seat in the Council of the Order of Advocates, for the purpose of giving the bar an op portnnity to elect M. Emile 011ivier. lam now in formed that the council, after deliberation, has refused to aosept M. Lionville's resignation, the majority being of opinion that, under all circum stances, it is not desirable to make the proposed professional demonstration while M. 011ivier's ap- Peal is pending. The Count de Marceline (formerly secretary of the French Legation in London, when Chatesubriand was ambassador) writes to the Union that he with draws his pretensions to the vacant chair of the French Academy in &Tone of the Abbe Laoordaire. Having stood second on the poll at the last election, he might reasonably hope to be elected now ; but he says, " I should for ever reproach myself if I were to deprive the eloquent and catholic orator of so much as a single vote. I should have ill profited by his teaching if I were not able to sacrifice even the dearest object of my ambition for the sake of that additional glory and renown which his holy preach ing and excellent works may receive from the academie crown." Father Laeordaire has arrived in Paris, from Toulouse, to make the usual canvass for the election, which is fixed for January 26. The Bonree opened very heavily. The uneasy istate of diplomatic relations between Paris and Rome occasioned considerable anxiety. The Rente for account fell at one time to 88fr. 30c., and although it subsequently became much firmer, the recovery to 68fr. 45c. was still 10c. below the closing price of yesterday. For cash, however, there was • rise of 16c., the last quotation being 68fr. 66c Mobilier fell Bfr. 76c. The Eastern Rail way rose 2fr. 600., but the other lines were from 2fr. 60c. to 6fr. lower. The Press. says in its weekly commercial re view : The retail dealers, who generally do a large business in the last fortnight of December, ars this year very dim.. tented with the result of the sewn. In almost all the shops the sales have been fewer than last year end the wet weather greatly injured the stalls on the boulev ards. The first week of the new year is almost always dull ; but few purchuee ere made after Jemmy 2. The manufacturers naturally feel the effect of the stagnation of the retail trade; and thote that were in full work in September have for the moment nothing to do. The export business is almost at a standstill. Orders are generally expected goat this seism of the year from Ramis, but owing to the moue . awry Mai. which ilia for some time prevailed, sad still COM times, at St. Petersburg and Moscow, the dealers in that country have not transmitted their usual commands. The same heaviness prevail, as regards Germany. At Rouen, Nathanson, and Lyons, business has been also flat daring the week. The cotton market at Havre ham been quiet, but prices In a general way have undergone but trifling earls tbs. Little doing either in raw or refined sugar in Paris, but prices firmly maintained. In the corn and wine markets then is no change worth noting. INDIAN SECURITIES. TO Till LOTTO% OP TIM =POW. 811,—The Times of the 9th inet. has an article on "Indian Becurities," which is intended to prove that the great absorption of these into this market Is iojarions. The first segue:ant le that the supply is unlimited, bemoan 40,000,0001. to 80,000,0001. mote of the stock is held abroad; but surely a great portion of this will remain there with the Indian capitalists, when they see the estimation the stock is held in here. But, suppose ft all cams ? The writer of the article overlooks the most important result scorning from inch a state of things—viz., that the larger ailment of interest is far better paid to English holders, who will spend it here, than it would be paid to Indian capitalists, who would spend it there. The payment of these interests here makes Wiz a direct good to this country at once. In effect, India is now (by the large Waren she has guaranteed to these eecurlttee) paying am saurian* revenue in return for our expenditure, proranica, to., to.—l am, &c., E. C. M. Norwiob, Jan. 10, 1860. THE DUKE Or CASIBRIDOE AND THE LONDON RIFLE BitioAnn.—We understand that the Lord Mayor President of the Council of the London Rifle Brigade, has this morning received from his Royal Highness the Duks of Cambridge an answer to an address recently presented to him on behalf of the brigade, praying hie royal high ness to accept the coloordcy of the brigade. We believe the duke has intimated his assent, a fact which, no doubt, will be highly gratifying to the members of the bri gade, se the address was most numerously signed. As his Royal Highness Prince Albert is Colonel of the Hoe. Artillery Company, the City of London, in a military point of view, will now be strong in royal patronage. The Lord Mayor himself is known to have entertained a wish to command the brigade (es Mr. Alderman Wilson commands the City of London Militia), but of course the claims of the Duke of Cambridge at once cast the pretensions of his lordship into the shade; and probably no person now feels the propriety of abandoning those pretension" better than the Lord Mayor himself. According to a statement just prepared the im port►tion of coal, seaborne and by railways and canals, into Lthdon during the year 1859 was—seaborne, 10,693 ship% 3,299,170 tons; railway, 1,191,169 taut; and canal, 16,964; making the total 4,607,303 tons. These figures show an Masses of 32,721 tone, or about 1 per cent., seaborne, and 648 tons by mil (a merely fractional per-oentage); and a de creath of 3,260 war, or 16 per cent., b$ canal. The entries of ships by the prinoipal factors daring the year were—Hill, Wood, and Hughes, 1,763 ships; Maraball end Page, 1,138; Dine, Harris, and Co., 1,364; Chaytor, Webster, end An drews, 968; 8. Clarke, 620; William Moines, 698; Taylor and Plowman, 635; F. D. Lambert, 506; Metcalfe and Cory, 870; Charleton and Watson, 864; Miller and Potter, 173; and Smith and Stanfield, 47. A letter from Boston (U. 8.) dated the 28th ult., mays :—" Fanny Kemble Ia here, reading Shakapearo with eminent moms, every reading being crowded with the airs of our aristocracy—meaning some people who have brain, and more who have mthey. She is just a$ rivulet as when the first reed here in 1849. She acts as well as reads her chief characters. Her Shylook is perfect —I never saw • better one on State-street, which is our Rialto." A Berlin letter, in the Gazette of Southern Chreeetty, states that the beam of the reorgsnismion of the Prundan uwy have been decided on oy the ministry. The infantry of the line on the race footing will be increased by 40,000 tneo, and will be 125,000 strong. The cavalry , will, be increased from 19 000 to 24,000, sad the artillery, from 14,000 to 15,000. The total strength of the line will be 170,000 men. This will entail an additional expense of 24 millions of trues. ------- -- ----- WHITTINGTON CLUB.—Last evening the annual juventle ball in c..nnexion with this portaer inttitution wee Orld to the large hall in Atnodrl-street, Strend. The juvenile portion of the entertainment commenced at 7 o'clock and terminated at 111, when the adult vi.itots took poweeeion of the door until 2 o'clock this morning. In the interval of denting diasolviog views end other entertainments were introdaced. The cooree of lectures and entensinmente announced by the managing comooltios for the new year's quarter ere well calculatid to sustain the populerity as well I SA to pleaee the members and friend' of the institution. Mr. 8. C. 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