The Sun. — London, England, 1867-02-02 00:00:00

E YRE PROSECUTION COMMENCED. PROSECUTION of Mr. EYRE, late Governor of Jamaica.--The Committee of the Eyre Defecce and Aid Fund beg to call the attention of the public to the fol lowing facts: . The Jamaica Committee are preparing an indictment against Mr. Eyre for murder. Four actions have been actually commenced azainst Mr. Eyre and Colonel Nelson for alleged Illegal arrest and false imprisonment. The Attorneys of the Jamaica Committee are Also the At torneys for the Plaintiffs, and one of such Attorneys is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Jamaica Com mittee. It is earnest'y requested that subscriptions may at on( e be paid to the credit of " The Eyre Defence and Aid Fund " with the United Service Company (Limited, Bankers and Army tnd Navy Agents, 9, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; or Messrs Smith, Payne, and Smith. 1, Lombard atreet, E.C. A 11 communications to be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, 9, Waterloo-place, Patl-maii. HAMILTON HUME, Hon. Sea THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. P. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Colman's Comedy of JOHN BULL. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. T. Swinbourne, E. Phelps, Barrett; Mesdames Hermann Vezin, Isabel Adams, H. Vaudenhoff. To conclude with the Pantomime, entitled NUMBER NIP; or Harlequin and the Gnome-King of the Giant Mountain. _ . _ _ Commence at a Quarter to Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone, TO-NIGHT, A LESSON FOR LIFE. Messrs. Eothern, Chippendale, Compton, Howe, Kendal, Gordon, Rogers, Braid, Clarke, Vincent, &a. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, Wright, &c. Alter which, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. Buck stone, Howe, Warren, Vincent, &c.; Mesdames Chippendale, Modre, Burke, Hill, Sidney, ezc. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM TIIEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING. ROUGE EP NOIR. Maurice D'Arbel a Gambler), Mr. Fectiter ; Messrs. Emery, Evans, Moreland, (Fitzpatricir, Dalton. Reynolds, Born , . s, Newbound, Andrews, Anderson, Vivian, Bennett. and Edward Price; Miss Hen rade, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss Grattan, and Miss Carlotta Leclercq. Preceded by THE TWO POLTS. Mr. H. Widdicomb. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Mr. Vining, Mr. J. G. Shore, and Miss Katherine Rodgers. Followed by. at 8 o'clock, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mrs. H. Marston, Miss Montagu, Miss Katherine Rodgers ; Messrs. F. Villiers, J. G, Shore, Calhaem, H. Forrester, and Mr. Vining as Badger. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. New Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. THIS: EVENING, LONDON ASSURANCE. Messrs. G. Vineent, Addison, D. Murray, and Mr. Charles Mathews; Mesdames E. Farren, Milly Palmer, and Charles Mathews. After which, ROMANTIC IDEA. Messrs. G. Vincent, Addison, D. Murray, and Charles Mathews; Mesdames E. Farren and Charles Mathews. Doors open at half-past Six; commence at Seven. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, MY TURN NEXT. Mr. Belmore, Miss Foote, Miss Lennox. After which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Belmore, Blake, Garden,Vollaire ; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. Saunders, B. Foote, Raymond. TILEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, ➢ir. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, Feb. 2, at Seven, A SISTER'S PENANCE. Miss Kate Terry, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt; Messrs. H. Vezin, Billington, Ashley, Eburne, Romer, and Stephenson. To conclude with the New Grand Burlesque of THE MOUNTAIN DEIU; or, THE KNIGHT, THE LADY, AND THE LAKE. Messrs, J. L. Toole. Paul Bedtord, Ashley, R. Romer, and C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt, drc. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, NEIGHBOURS. Messrs. Parselle Belford, and G. Murray ; Misse. bwanborough, Johnstone , and Hughes. 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PERILS FROM POISON.—A family named Wright, at Havre, has just narrowly escaped poisoning from eating food cooked in a copper utensil in which verdigris had been formed. The lives of about 30 persons have been placed in danger at Znaime, in Bohemia, by the mistake of a baker, who inadvertently put some arsenic into his bread, instead of giving it to the rats as he intended. Many of these per sons continue in great danger. The Frankfort police has forbidden the s a l e o f th e f a b r i c k now as g reen tarlatan, as it is dyed by colours composed in great part of arsenical preparations, and is consequently very injurious to health. THE LAST OF GAINSBOROCGH'S " SITTERS."—A lady has just died at the age of 85, Amelia, widow of the Rev. D av id W illiams, D.C.L., whoso portrait was painted by Gainsborongh when she was a child. Gains borough died in August, 1788. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 30m.—Afternoon, 12h. 57m. ro-Moßßow.-Morning, lh. 14m.—Afternoon, Ih. 46m. ttg nit - LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 2, 1867. At the usual meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works yesterday a matter of considerable im portance to Londoners came under notice. The General Purposes Committee presented their report, submitting the result of their negotiations with Sir THOMAS WILSON respecting Hampstead-heath. The object of the committee was, of course, to ascer tain upon what terms Sir THOMAS would consent to surrender his manorial rights for the benefit of the public. The settlement of the question is the more pressing, inasmuch as Sir THOMAS is not con tent in the exercise of his authority with merely temporary interference with popular enjoyment, but is bent upon doing lasting mischief, enclosing some parts of the heath, digging up others for sand, and threatening the lovers of blue skies and green grass withthe ruthless invasion of bricks and mortar. It is very much easier to destroy than to create, and if we let Hampstead-heath, with all its rural picturesqueness, vanish out of our grasp, all the boards and vestries in the metropolis will not be able to restore it. We may have parks, in deed, people's parks and aristocratic gardens, but although admirable and agreeable in their way, they can never rival the charms of an actual bit of nature. Londoners are fully sensible of this, and while the wealthy and professional classes hurry off during their leisure season to seaside or country some hundred miles off from metropolitan dust and traffic, those who are more restricted in time and means feel the same craving for air and nature, and snatch a brief holiday at Hampstead or Epping Forest. Let them make the most of both, " with the sky above their head, and the grass beneath their feet," for, thanks to the en lightened improvements of modern times, they will not have either much longer. Hampstead-heath is in imminent peril, and another generation or two will hear of its past pleasures with the same kind of surprise as we now listen to tales of the Fleet ditch or the little village of Charing. Whether the name of Heath will still be retained in mocking remembrance of what once was, after the fashion of St. Giles and St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, may be a matter of speculation ; but, at any rate, it is more than probable that prim terraces will replace the hills and dales, and rows of stuccoed villas will efface the tradition of ponds and donkeys. It is not an agreeable prospect in the eyes of most of us, though we may not in actual computation rate the money value of the Heath quite so highly as Sir THOMAS WILSON does. The lord of the manor may well be reluctant to resign his rights when he seriously believes the value of the land to be from £5,000 to £lO,OOO an acre. The result of the interview between the chairman of the committee and Sir T. WILSON was that the chairman distinctly put it to Sir THOMAS that, pro vided an arrangement could be come to between the board and himself for the purchase of the heath, they would be willing to join him in an application to Parliament for the purpose of obtaining the necessary powers to enable him to grant building leases of such portions of the adjoining lands as the board might not require for the purposes of the public, and that in all probability Parliament, hav ing regard to the fact that such an arrangement would secure the heath to the public in perpetuity, would accede to the request. Sir THOMAS, however, was not inclined to agree to this proposition, although to ordinary mortals it appears a very favourable arrangement. He argued that he saw no reason why he should sell his property at Hamp stead to benefit certain parties who had for years opposed him in obtaining his rights. The " certain parties" to be benefited are, in fact, a large propor tion of the three million inhabitants of smoky Lon don. The price which Sir THOMAS put upon the land was so exorbitant that we should almost ima gine he meant it to settle the question, and to show that he did not entertain the idea of coming to any terms at all. He could hardly be serious when be estimated it according to the price which had been paid him by the South Eastern Railway Company for some land which they required at Charlton for their line. As we have said, Sir TIIO3IAS estimated his property on the Health atfrom £5,000 to £lO,OOO an acre, whereupon, of course, the negotiations came to an end, and the chairman, after expressing his astonishment and regret, abandoned the attempt in despair. It is one thing to negotiate for the transfer of ordinary waste land, and another to make an offer for the river of Pactoluz and the sands of Ophir. The prospect of London holiday seekers is but a poor one. They may as well wish to disport themselves on the veritable " Tom Tiddler's ground," so dear to children, as to ex pect to run races or make picnics in the Vale of Health. Like most disputed affairs in England the matter has got into Chancery, and there is no thing to be done by the Committee but to " watch the proceedings before the Master of the Rolls." The prospects of Epping Forest are not much better, excepting that a committee has been formed, who are of opinion that the public have very strong rights over their favourite forest, and intend to take active steps to assert the same. The dense popula tion of the east of London value this place of resort very highly, and it is cruel indeed that they should be deprived of it. We have heard a great deal lately about the lack of sanitary arrangements in that - part of London, and we are most of us familiar with the dreary and depressing nature of their dwellings. The recent visitation by cholera has shown us pretty clearly what their physical power of resistance is worth, and fresh air is one of the great remedial agents prescribed by all to raise the tone of the overworked and underfed. Epping is an easy distance from the East of London, and it offers advantages and pleasures which no park or even common near at hand can give. What, then, is its present position, according to good authority? Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, M.P., speaking on behalf of the Commons Preservation Society, told the meeting which assembled at Mile-end " that half the forest had been enclosed, and the other half would soon be enclosed if the people did not take active steps to prevent it." The Marquis of TOWNSIIEND, who presided over the meeting, very sensibly said that a great movement was being made on behalf of early closing, but it . VI was of no use to give working-men the facilities of going out unless they had places to go to. If Hampstead-heath and Epping Forest are to be taken from them, the summer evenings of the arti- zany of the North and East of London will lose half their charms, and certainly more than half their benefits, because the attractions of the too alluring public-house will be so much en hanced. The arguments adduced by the several speakers at the Mile-end meeting were not new, but they were certainly very cogent, and we are glad to find that the speakers for the most part believe in the existence of tangible rights on behalf of the public. Parliament will have plenty to do this session, but THE SUN, LONDON, SATCROAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1867 we must hope that it will find time for the discussion of this matter, because the necessity is a pressing one, and the mischief, as we have said, once done cannot be undone. Let the Government inquire into the matter and suggest, if they can, some prac tical remedy. The right of the lords of the manor must be clearly defined, and arrangements made for buying them out on fair and equitable terms. It will not do for lords of the manor to assume the rights of freeholders, and put fancy prices on the land which they claim. Matters of private interest are not settled in this way. Why then should an affair which so closely affects the health and well-being of our over-crowded population be disposed of by the parties most closely concerned? It seems as if a good understanding could never be come to by the Prussians. No matter what is ' undertaken, there is always some Power at work to undermine it, or some evil influence to cast its malig nant spell on the proceedings of the authorities. Thus the Upper House rejects what the Lower House sanctions, and so on to the end of the chapter. We cannot deny, however, that in the last exercise of their authority the Upper House has done wisely and well. They have rejected the Bill passed by the Lower House for affording remuneration to the members of the North German Parliament. This is a very sensible decision, because the system is a false one, and cannot fail to produce evil results if it be put into practice. The sort of men who would thus be got together would not be likely to resist the encroachments of the Berlin Go vernment, or to carry on successfully the great work of German unity and national renovation. We hope that this absurd and inconvenient idea is now done for, and that the scheme will be aban doned at once and for ever. We have very little confidence in the future of this much-boasted Par liament for North Germany at the best ; but it will be giving it no chance at all if it is to be formed on such a foundation. They must see who propose the ♦ast undertaking that it will be difficult at the best to unite so many different interests together, and it seems strange indeed that any one should be so infatuated as to propose such a thing as paying members. We have had enough in all conscience of such doings in America, and yet we see that there are politicians infatuated enough to seek to try the experiment at a critical juncture, and under cir cumstances which call for all the measures that pru dence can foresee, or that experience can carry out. It would really seem as if we were never to have the last of Mr. BRIGHT, what with one thing and the other. He is always undertaking to effect something wonderful, or to draw some significant conclusions from passing events or contemporaneous speeches. Last night at Manchester a meeting was held in the Free-trade Hall, for the purpose of hearing THE O'DoNoGHUE discourse upon the im portance of a union between English and Irish Re formers, Mr. BRIGHT occupying the chair on the auspicious occasion. In introducing the business of the evening to the assembly Mr. BRIGHT declared that he was un accustomed to take the chair at great popular meetings, but yet he felt confidence in his undertaking, and the satisfaction he experienced was partly drawn from a remarkable source, namely, that it was his province there to listen and not to speak. In pursuing his task, the chairman went on to say that THE O'DONOGHUE was a worthy suc cessor to GRATTAN and O'CONNELL, and they were the only ones that had done anything great " to deliver Ireland from the injustice that has marked the rule of England." In commenting upon his recent visit to Ireland Mr. BRIGHT spoke with his usual want of caution and ab sence of moderation. He did not blame those men who were opposed to England, although he knew that there was a very considerable party hostiie to England and the English; and the reason why he did not accuse them was, that " he thought in his conscience that nothing could be more justi fiable in Ireland than a dislike for what Ireland has seen for a long period of the legislation of the Im perial Parliament in regard to the great and perma nent interests of the country." We suppose that if his present orations as an English agitator fail him, Mr. BRIGHT will cross the Channel and bid for the office of a Head Centre of Fenianism, or something of the sort. He does not agree with the man who thought to cure the ills of Ireland by putting it under water for a fortnight ; but he would like to float it 2,000 m of il t e h s e t g o re t a h t e u w o e i s t t e w d a s r, ta d te a s nd of t A o m m er a i k ea e it a but u t portion t t i h o i n a is not possible he passes on to consider things as they are. First of all we learn that the Tory party, although a minority, is yet a very powerful minority in the House of Commons. The aspect of affairs is in- deed hopeless, because if by ;stretch of imagina tion we could believe that there are in this Go vernment " intelligent and capable men," yet if they sought to put their plans into execution they could not carry them out. The reason would be the fault of their followers. " The party is a blind party and a perverse party ; its principles are formed upon a disregard of equality and justice, and I hope that before long, as a party governing this country, that as its rise to power during the last year was built up upon tactics the most base, so its fall will be as rapid and as ignominious as to correspond with its rise." Mr. BRIGHT'S hope of improving the condition of Ireland is about as impos sible as the idea of some enthusiasts that it might be floated off across the broad Atlantic to join the republic of the Western World. If he were Minister of this country he would do wonders, and would let every political prisoner free. After this extravagant tirade against the injustice of England and the wrongs of Ireland had been delivered by the chairman, an address was presented to THE O'DONOGHUE, who declared that he " regarded the meeting as one of peculiar and even momentous significance." He then went on to argue that only the Irish could understand their own griev ances. The hon. member then proceeded to ex plain the rise and origin of Fenianism in most glowing language. Sympathy has always existed between the Irish and the Americans ; but, owing to improved facility of communication of late, it has taken a political shape, and hence the " grow ing strength of those who, from despairing bands of flying and crouching emigrants, have gradually swelled into a great nation, confident in their might and almost frantic with the spirit of retalia tion." Really, w hen we think of the doings in New York just now, and the confession of STEPHENS'S Wing, and his former friends de nouncing him at every meeting, we think that the word almost might have been omitted in this grandiloquent description, or quite frantic substi tuted for it. We are, however, in more danger than we ap prehended, and those who have been foolishly re joicing in the present quiet aspect of things must now learn their mistake, for TIIE OTONOGIIUE de clares that nothing will put a stop to the combina- tion unless a " voise goes across the Atlantic to announce that a new era has begun, of equal laws and of equal justice, and that the past must be for- gotten." It is a matter of regret that any one in an influential position should use such language, and thus foster the very spirit of discontent upon which they are discoursing. We cannot agree with Mr. BRIGHT in his concluding observations, that the result of this meeting will be beneficial both for England and Ireland, and that its memory would last for many a day, probably after all present were forgotten. To spread the feelings of against existing authorities is always a very undesirable thing to do, and there is nothing to rejoice at in adding fuel to the fire of discontent that has already been productive of such pernicious effects. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARTS, Friday Evening. News is still scarce, and the fabricators are again occupied in drawing up sensation articles, or in contradicting some of their recent effusions. Count de Barral, Minister of Italy at Berlin, has been appointed to the same post at Vienna, and has left Florence to return to Berlin to take leave of the King, and present his letters of recal. There are splendid fetes at Leipsic, on the occa casion of the visit of the King of Saxony to that city. The discussion of the project of law regulating the relations in common between Austria and Hun gary proceeds with activity. One of the amend ments supported by the Deak party, and couched as follows, was agreed to :—" Every point respecting the direction and military organisation of the entire army is recognised to be within the exclusive com petence of the Emperor." A letter from Stettin, dated Jan. 24, gives some interesting facts relative to the great increase in the maritime reserves of Prussia since her recent aggrandisement. The three provinces washed by the Baltic, Pomerania, the province of Prussia, and Schleswig Holstein, have upon that sea a develop ment upon the coast of 163 geographical miles. Hanover and Schleswig Holstein have besides upon the North Sea a line of coast of 55 geographical miles, The elements of maritime activity upon this vast extent are particularly concentrated towards the coast. The Prussian Ports of the Baltic servo as outlets or provisioning points to the basins of the Niemen, the Vistula and the Oder, composing, with the territories washed by the rivers flowing into them, an extent of more than 3,700 square yards of Russian or Austrian territory. These ports, having nothing to fear from the opposition of Meek lenbourg and Lubeck, are thus placed in a position to obtain exceptional prosperity. The Holstein and Hanoverian ports of the North Sea, in the valley of the Elbe and Ems, must add very greatly to the maritime influence of Prussia. The latest news received in Paris from Mexico is not favourable to the cause of the Imperialists. Zacatejas, the chief town of the State, and Guadala jara, the second city of Mexico in regard to popu lation, have been occupied by the Juarists. Ortega, whose arrogant pretensions has caused dissatisfac tion even among his own adherents, has been made prisoner by the troops of Juarez. The Congress which had been convoked by the Emperor Maxi milian, to give him advice as to whether he should abdicate or not, seems distasteful to the Republican chiefs, and the idea will probably be abandoned. Thus, in short, the affairs of Mexico are in a more entangled and difficult position than ever. The Patrie, of Naples, states that numerous bands of brigands have been concentrating upon the Pontifical territory for some days past. Lord Gray of Gray died the day before yesterday in Paris. His lordship was nearly 70. He has resided in Paris for some years past. There is another change in the weather suddenly, which is not an improvement. It has been dull and rainy to-day, but still warm for the season. The report in well-informed political circles is that at the meeting of the Chambers a request will be made by some leading members of the Opposition for permission to put questions (inter pellations) in regard to several points of foreign policy, and particularly with reference to Prussia and the new position of the States of Germany. All sorts of conjectures are in circulation as to the pre cise nature of the new law for the regulation of the press. One of the papers says that the Govern ment is disposed to facilitate the establishment of new political papers without reference to their politics. Prince Paul de Broglie, a Lieutenant in the Navy, has resigned his commission, and is about to enter into Holy Orders. The Prince was born in 1834, and is the second son of the Duke de Broglie, member of the French Academy. A literary paper in Paris having proposed for discussion the question, " What is a Woman ?" a correspondent sent to the editor the following answer :—" A woman is a small article of luxurious furniture, which ought not to make the j ourney of life without a label, inscribed 'Very fragile."' The second ball at the Tuileries the night before last was very splendid, animated, and numerously attended. Their Majesties opened the ball at ten o'clock. The Empress was simply but tastefully dressed. Her Majesty wore a white muslin dress striped with yellow satin, and ornamented with compa n y, first hours of the bunches of grapes. During the evenin g th e E mperor had a long conversation with the Prus s i an ambassa dor. Prince Napoleon Jerome a n n y. 1 c the s up perwas Princess sservedu Matilda m ed with t w emr spiritamongdn gh tf during r ne the rg th which dancing w as re morning. _ Madame Marie Sass (Madame Castan) the well- known singer, representative of " L'Afri caine," "La Favorite," and "La Juive," has instituted a suit for separation against her husband on the ground of brutal treat ment, cruelty, and violence. The Tribunal (the First Chamber), in the absence of the husband, who did not appear, decided that the case was proved by documents and testimony, and gave a decree in favour of the separation. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following circular from the War-office, signed by Lieut.-Gen. Sir E. Lugard, R.C.8., Under-Sec retary of State for War, was yesterday promulgated for general information : The Secretary of State for War has approved the follow ing arrangements for promulgating regulations and in structions to the army :-1. The practice of issuing circu lars on distinct subjects is discontinued. Special separate circulars will, however, continue to be issued on subjects of a very pressing nature, but the orders therein contained will also bo incorporated in the next army circular, which will thus bo kept complete as a record. 2. The army cir cular will, foi the present, be issued monthly, and will con tain instructions relating to finance and the duties of de partmental officers, together with such regulations on these and other subjects as the Secretary of State may see fit to promulgate for general information. 3. Unless other wise expressed, each clause will apply to home and foreign stations, exclusive of India. Commanding, financial, and departmental officers will be held responsible that the various regulations and instructions are carefully complied with. The following officers of the Royal Engineers are ordered to join the headquarters of the corps, at Chatham, on the 14th inst.—viz., Lieut. 11. J. H. Logan Home, Lieut. W. A. H. Hare, Lieut. J. C. Pottinger, Lieut. A. 0. Green, Lieut. 11. M. Cham bers, and Lieut. J. F. Lewis. Notwithstanding the activity which prevails in the various establishments at Chatham dockyard, and mole especially in the shipbuilding department, an order has been received from the Admiralty directing a number of the workmen, consisting chiefly of hired shipwrights, drillers, rivetters, and labourers, to be discharged from the establishment this afternoon. The reason for this order is not that there is an insufficiency of work just now for even more than the number of workmen employed at Chatham, but solely because the amount allowed by the Treasury for the artisans' wages will be ex hausted before the close of the financial year. The following non-commissioned officers and men at Chatham garrison have been awarded silver medals and gratuities by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge for long service and exemplary condu 14th Regimentct: — Colourerg , eant P. Butler, 2 d battalion of the Private W. Carney, 2d medal battalio ad nnogfrathtneiBty of i thßegs ; Regi ment, medal and £5 ; and Private M. Mullins, 2d battalion of the 17th Regiment, medal and £5. L A TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Feb. Gold, 134. Sterling Exchange on London, 1081; Illinois, 114 ; Erie 561 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1074. The Stock Market is firmer, but trade generally is depressed. ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 2. The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New York on the 23d ult., arrived here at 1 a.m. to-day with 69 passengers and $76,220 in specie. She landed all the mails except those for Liverpool and Scotland and proceeded for Liverpool at 1.20 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, Jan. 23, Morning. Resolutions have been introduced in the House of Representatives declaring that Civil State Go vernments do not exist in the South, and that the South is not entitled to a voice in ratifying Con stitutional amendments. The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided that Alabama was de facto a Government under the Confederacy. It is reported that a rerious difficulty has arisen between President Mosquera of Columbia and Mr. Burton, the United States Minister to that Republic. The latter had demanded his passports. A meeting in aid of the Cretans was held yester day in New York, at which the Mayor, Mr. Hoff man, presided. Funds and clothing were subscribed. The Indians in the Western plains are becoming warlike and troublesome, and have recently perpe trated numerous assassinations. N. P. Willis is dead. Two more Fenian prisoners have been sentenced at Toronto to be hung on the Bth of March. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Jan. 23. It is reported that a severe conscription is being enforced in the city of Mexico, and that the Em peror Maximilian has decided to abdicate if the National Congress should refuse to sustain him. Mexican advices received in Washington on the 23d January assert that Juarez is in possession of Matamoras, Monterez, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Aguas Calientes, Guadalajara, and the greater por- Lion of the roads leading to the city of Mexico, so that in the event of a successful fight with the Im perialists, who had gone to meet the Liberals, he would be able to occupy the capital. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tanjore arrived off the Needles at 10 40 a.m. to day. THE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTIIAMPTON, Feb. 2. The Royal Mail Company's Steamship Oneida arrived off the needles at 11.25 a.m. to-day. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2. The concession for the railway from! Kursk to Kier has been granted to Messrs. Merck and Dol gorucki. The length of the new line is to be 438 versts. The capital for the formation of the com pany is fixed at 4 million roubles, and the shares will be issued in pounds sterling, francs, thalers, and Dutch florins. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 2. It is understood that Prince John will leave this capital to-morrow for Athens to undertake the duties of Regent duing the absence of the King. Immediately upon his arrival King George will start upon his visit to Copenhagen. ROME AND ITALY. ROME, Feb. 1. The Official Journal of Rome contradicts, as wholly unfounded, the statement that the conven tion between the Italian Government and M. Laugrand Dumonceau had been preceded by long negotiations on the subject with the Holy See and the Italian Bishops. It further says :—" The assertions of the Italian semi-official journals respecting the opinions of the Holy See upon that operation are entirely untrust worthy, and are a manoeuvre employed to gain time and mislead the public, in order to facilitate the consummation of the impious and anti-projects which they are secretly preparing." SYRIA. MARSEILLES, Feb. 2. Advices received here from Beyrouth to the 23d ult. state that France has obtained the restitution of the confiscated property of Joseph Karam and a general amnesty for the Maronites. Joseph Karam had entered Beyrouth with the French Consul-Gene ral, when the population, it is added, raised shouts for France and the Emperor. Joseph Karam had visited the foreign Consuls, and had left Beyrouth with his friends for Algeria, where he will in future reside. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, Feb. 1. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Said, with the above mails, arrived here at noon to-day. FRANCE. PARIS, Feb. 2. M. Marino PapadopouloVreto, a Greek publicist, has been nominated Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. TEE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. (From the Correspondent of the Times) ATHENS, Jan. 24. On Sunday night the Salamander, a French gun boat, accompanied by an Ottoman frigate and cor vette, arrived in the Piraeus, bringing back 440 Greek volunteers from Crete. Arrangements were made for landing them next day, and the Greek Government informed the French Minister that their arms were to be delivered to the municipal authorities. Nothing happened to induce either the Demarch or the military commandant to suppose that the landing of these volunteers would be at tended with any extraordinary difficulty. But the opinion of the democracy of Athens had not been heard. One of our own great philosophers, who had no fondness fot statesmen and rather a weak ness for cobblers, observed that there are few things more difficult than to persuade cobblers and politi cians of their class that they do not understand government better than Prime Ministers. This class at Athens took counsel during the night on the ques tion how the degenerate volunteers from Athens, who declined to suffer death by starvation for the glory of Greece, were to be treated in order to save the honour of the country. The question seems to have been put fairly, though it was not answered wisely. Before morning the mind of democracy was worked up into one of those strange fits of national insanity to which mankind is liable. At an early hour on Monday democracy set off to walk from Athens to the Piraeus, which occupied a good hour. A few of the volunteers on board the French ship, who were informed that their families were ready to receive them, landed early and walked home quietly. But when the general dis embarcation commenced the populace of Athens and the Piraeus was already assembled on the quay, and the Volunteers were received when they trod the soil of their native land with what a Greek news paper calls a:hailstorm of paving stones and a shower of cudgels. Some jumped into boats, others were knocked into the sea; but the French ships were at hand and they were all saved. A few, however, fell wounded on shore, and they would have been mur dered on the spot if the police had not saved them. For some hours the rabble had the upper hand, and a Ministerial paper describes what it calls the " magnanimity of the Greek people." It says that incessant shouts were raised of " Death to the traitors ; strike down the deserters ; throw the blasphemers of Hellenic glory into the sea ; murder the wretches who have saved their lives on board. Turkish ships." The bells of the churches were kept ringing, the drums of the National Guard were beating, and the citizens were firmly resolved to murder every man who had returned from Crete. This statement is confirmed by eye-witnesses, both Greeks and foreigners. The newspaper which contains the above notice declares that two or three were mur dered, in spite of all the endeavours of the police to save them. Several wounded men were carried to the Custom-house, and one at least was not expected to live. This plan of encouraging volunteers to go to Crete by murdering volunteers who return will, if it prove a successful mode of recruiting, supply undeniable evidence of the power of Hellenic patriotism. The men whom the populace sought to murder were enrolled by the Cretan committees as chosen soldiers, and furnished with arms and one month's pay. They have fought like heroes for at least two months, according to the testimony which the coin- mittees and the press published up to last Saturday. We were told last week that these very men had repulsed three attacks which the Ottoman forces made on Aghia Rumeli, and for weeks it has been reported that every volunteer killed habitually seven Turks or Egyptians weekly. Now the same men are called brigands and sheepstealers. IVhen the committees in Greece left them without pay, and the General Assembly of the Cretans left them without rations, it is very likely that they helped themselves to any food that fell in their way. Sir Charles Napier, whose grim sayings are not easily forgotten, used to say when he was Governor of Cephalonia, that be knew a very pious Greek bishop who had once lived by sheepstealing, which at a later period he called his " pastoral" life. It would, therefore, be unjust to examine the pastoral habits of the volunteers in Crete with close scrutiny. Many of those who have returned are sick; some are wounded, and all risked their lives many times from Turkish bullets before the encountered Greek paving-stones. Their appearance is sufficient evi dence that they have encountered severe hardships. Yet those who remained comfortably at Athens while they were marching and starving on the snow mountains of Crete endeavoured to murder them in cold blood as a sacrifice to Greek vanity. The Government has been weak enough to humour this assumption of executive power by de mocracy, and has flattered the popular frenzy in stead of calming it. The volunteers were landed on a desert islet in the Bay of Salamis, on which there is a small chapel of St. George. It is to be hoped that they were supplied with tents and rations. Thus Greece rewards those who fight in her cause, The flank movement of Mustapha Pasha, which turned the Greek camp at Zurba, and enabled him to occupy the whole province of Selinos without losing a man, compelled the Volunteers to retreat to the cold and elevated plains of Omalos, where only a part could procure food. The rest escaped into the district of Sphakia, descending into the valley of Samaria or Aghia Rumeli, or else wandering east ward to the plain of Anapolis and Loutro. About 1,000 collected in these places. The Sphakiots who had made their submission to Mustapha Pasha advised them to send a deputation to the Imperial Commissioner, asking for permission to return to Greece in foreign vessels ; and they en forced their advice by refusing to furnish food to the enemies of the Sultan. When the proposal obtained the consent of Mustapha Pasha the only foreign man-of-war in Crete which was immediately ready to put to sea was the Salamander. On his arrival at Loutro Captain Lejeune found about 600 volunteers waiting to embark ; but as his own gun boat could not transport more than 100, he per suaded 340 to embark in a Turkish frigate and cor vette, which formed part of the Ottpinan squadron on the southern coast of Crete now co-operating with the movements of the army. About 150 volunteers are said to have declined embarking in the Ottoman frigate from fear they should be carried as prisoners of war to Constantinople. It is reported that other volunteers are desirous of quitting Crete, and two officers of rank in the Greek sevice who received leave of absence to go to the island are said to have sent a demand to Mustapha Pasha to be allowed to return to Greece in foreign vessels. The Imperial Commissioner has granted their demand, but requires them to furnish him with lists of the officers and men who are to be embarked with them, as he will not allow any native Cretan to depart as a volunteer. It is difficult to seize the whole truth on the spur of the moment. The first flush of cool, deliberate 'alsehood and calculated misrepresentation bewilders he unfortunate man who looks into the muddy tor- rent of information through which he must wade. Some of the enthusiastic patriots at Athens assert that the departure of all the volunteers from Crete, whom they have been pouring into the island with so much energy for the last three months, will now do no harm to the cause. It will, they say, only have the effect of reducing the insurrectional move- 'newt to what they term, with a touch of euphem ism, a guerilla warfare; but, as the so.called guerilla warriors must live at the expense of the industrious Christians, those who know Crete well say that the insurrection can only be prolonged as a state of bri gandage. The general opinion among foreigners is that spring will powerfully aid the operations of Mustapha Pasha, and enable the Ottoman and Egyp tian troops to encamp in the high pasturages, thereby ;urning and commanding all the principal passes which now offer so many difficulties to their pro gress. The Greeks cannot expel the Turks from the fortresses, the protecting Powers will not, for they . _ have more important business to attend to, and the credit of Greece is such that no financial combina- tion is possible with the present system of govern ment in the Hellenic kingdom. Brigandage has been somewhat repressed in Greece lately, but a daring attempt was recently :4 1 ' made to levy contributions in Acarnania, which has fortunately been partially unsuccessful. The chiefs of three bands sent a summons to the Demarch of Astakos to pay them 30,000 drachmas, the price of a single English traveller, or Athenian wine merchant, or they threatened to burn down the magazines at Aghios Panteleeemonos, now full of valonea. The brigands omitted to take the advantages to be derived from telegraphs and steamers into their calculation, and Government was iu time to send soldiers and gendarmes from Patras to protect the Demarch and the valonea• But the brigands carried off two young women from the huts of the nomade shepherds in the neighbour hood, and demanded a large ransom for their release. ourt . ci r II HER MAJESTY, &c• OSBORNE, Feb. 1. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Princess Christian, and again this morn ing with her Royal Highness. Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia walked on the grounds this morn ing, and Prince Leopold drove out, attended by Mr• Legg. Prince Arthur and Prince Christian, attended by Major Elphinstone, landed at Stokes Bay yesterday morning and visited the new fortifications in front of Gosport and Portsmouth, round which they were conducted by Colonel Jervois and the commanding officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards honoured Lieut. General Sir George and Lady Buller with their pre sence at luncheon, and in the afternoon visited the barracks of the Royal Marine Artillery at Eastney and the batteries of Southsea Castle, returning to Osborne in the Royal yacht Alberta at 6 o'clock. Sir John Cowell and Capt. von Schroetter had the honour of accompanying their Royal Highnesses. Dr. Robertson had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal family yesterday. BOURSE, Feb. I.—Three o'clock. The closing prices are as follows : 4} per Cents.....„ 99 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 15 Do. end month 69 10 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1465 Bank Shares 3565 Italian Loan 54 50 Do. end month 54 50 Mexican Loan 2l 75 Do. Bonds l4O Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred 'AYE. For Account. Orleans Northern 1195 Lyons and Mediterranean 912 50 Southern 565 Western — Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 393 75 North of Spain — S aragosE a — Ditto to Barcelona — Roman. — The Earl of Eldon on Wednesday last entertained all the old people of Old Shildon, Eldon, and Middridge, at a dinner in the National School-room, Old Shildon, in honour of his lordship attaining his majority. The Rev. H. Spurrier, M.A., incumbent of Shildon, had the manage ment of the feast, and right well ho performed his duty. About 250 old men and women sat down to the repast. The Duke of Buckingham, as Lord President of the Council, had a dinner party on Thursday at Chandos House. Cavendish-square, for the pricking of the sheriffs for the present year. There wore present--The Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Bradford, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Cranborne, Lord Stanley, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, the Right Hon. Clo.thorne Hardy, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Helps, &c. COURT ARRANGEMENTS. We are authorised to state that the Queen will on Wednesday, the 27th inst., hold a Court at Buckingham Palace, at which her Majesty will re ceive the Corps Diplomatique, the members of her Majesty's Cabinet, and other official personages , with their families, to whom notifications of her Ma jesty's gracious intention will be sent by the Lord Chamberlain. RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO WINDSOR. Majesty, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite, is expected to return to Windsor Castle from Osborne on Monday next. Her Majesty will land at Gosport and proceed to Windsor by special train on the London and South-Western Railway. Her Majesty, it I s understood, will sleep at Windsor Castle on Monday night, and come to town by special train on Tuesday morning, in order to open Parliament. The Queen will return to Windsor on Tuesday evening and proceed on the folloW ing day to Osborne. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Ma' chioness of Carmarthen, took a carriage drive yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Plymouth by the Thursday night's express from Paddington. From the Plymouth railway station he pro ceeded to Moorshead's Royal Hotel, Devonport. Yesterday morning the duko proceeded on board the Galatea. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are es" pected to arrive at Stafford House, St. James's, early in the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess Delawarr have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Buckhurst Park, near Tonbridgo Wells. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan and Lady Evelyn Bruce arrived in town on Thursday last from visit ing the Earl and Countess of Westmorland, at Apethorp. House, Northamptonshire. The Earl and Countess of Mountcharles will arrive at their residence at Rutland-gate to-day, from Ciodington-park, near Ashford, Kent, for the season. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) The will of the Right Rev. George Edward Lynch Cotton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta, and Me tropolitan in India and Ceylon, was-proved in the London Court on January 16, by Sophia Anne Cotton, the relict, and Henry Richard Tomkinsont Esq., the brother-in-law, the general executors in India and elsewhere, the personality in England being sworn under £12,000. Godfrey Lushingtent Esq., of Ockham Park, Surrey, and Mr. Tomkin son are appointed trustees ; the:bishop's chaplain is appointed as an additional executor to the estate in India ; and Mr. Tomkinson and Mrs. Cotton are appointed guardians to infant children. The will is dated in 1864, and his lordship died on October 6, 1866, at Kooshtea, in the East Indies, at the age of 53. It was the desire of this venerable prelate to be buried by the side of his predecessor , Bishop Wilson, in the cathedral at Calcutta. He leaves the bookcases which were erected by hile to his successor, and directs that the furniture °I the palace be delivered up in as good condition as he received it. The books he leaves to his wife/ with the exception of a few to be given to personal friends. The plate he leaves for her use, and then to pass to his son Edward. He has made a provi sion for his mother and three half-sisters,and for his daughter, Ursula. There are various bequests and annuities. The residue of his property he leaves to his wife for her life, and, after her decease, to b° divided amongst all his children. The will of Admiral Sir W. Parker, Bart., C. 1 3.1 of Shenstone Lodge, Staffordshire, Admiral of the Fleet, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, was proved is London, on January 15, the executors being Lad/ Parker, the relict ; the Rev. Henry Biddulph, the brother-in-law ; Sir William Biddulph Parker, and George Parker, Esq., the sons. The personalty was sworn under £90,000. This gallant and dis tinguished Admiral died on the 13th November , at the age of eighty-five. The w ill i s dated Juno 27, 1857. There are many specific bequests to the members of his family. He leaves to his eldest son, Sir William, the tureen which was presente d to him by the Duke of Kent ; the silver cup 13 1 the Earl of Ellenborough ; and the sword, orna" mented with diamonds, which was presented to hi° by the Sultan of the Ottoman Porte ; and mall other presentations ; the two first-named are'to be held as heir-looms with the title. Sir Willis' leaves to his wife, Lady Parker, a life interest in his freehold estate and residence of Shenston e Lodge, which, at her ladyship's decease, will devolve, together with all other real estate, to J D° son, Sir William ; he also leaves her ladyship an annuity of about £5OO beyond the provision 1 1 settlement. He bequeaths to his eldest son £lO,OOO, and appoints him residuary legatee ; to his B° , ll George he bequeath s £2,000, i n a ddi t i on to his marriage portion ; and t o eac h o f hi s unmarried daughters £6,000, the othe rs h av i ng rece i v ed the" portion on marriage. The will of John Gilchrist, Esq., f formerly O the city of Syd n ey, N ew S out h W a l es, but formerly of 48, Porchester-t errace , B ayswa t er, was prove' in London on the 9th ult., and the personal in the United Kingdom s w o rn un d er 1100, 00 u There are nine executors and trustees appointed.i, namely, Mrs. Gilchrist, the relict ; William G il " . christ and Thomas Gilchrist, and sons ; John v rt Watt, Esq., the nephew, of Sydney ; 11(9be ,, How, Esq., of Bayswater ; John Walker, 99 - o . } Porchester-terrace ; William H. Dobie, Newton-lodge, Ayr, N.B. ; Thomas Brown, 1 4"; of Albion- street, Hyde P ar k. Willi a m liar„ ro : Ba rker ' Esq., of Sydney, soli c it or ; t oge th er w ith Mr. lv Gilchrist and Mr. J. B. Watt, are appointed e%f tors for Australia and New Zealand. To eac r li vii i o his executors he leaves a legacy of £lOO. will is dated July 13, 1864, and a codicil Alost, 10, 1866, and the testato r died on Nov. 14 at the age of sixty-two. He bequeaths to his_ r riy • a life interest in property valued at " ter' eri leis £50,000, with and h leaves furniture a her the sister, Isabel, widow of Dr. Thomas Gray', ,eor terrace, s . 0. of the city of Glasgow, a life interest of Xp vo , s t The residue and reversion to be divided a nly all his children.