The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

LED.

Dec. 1.
Phcenix, Pope Bombay
Tamaulipas (ss), Baker,
Bordeaux
Catherine, Hansen, Christiana
Decti 2s
Dreadnought, Samlielg•
Nt 'York
Miirgad
America, Salter New York
Pa i inurus, Ardine Calcutta
Belle, Lee Bahia
Elizabeth, Meyer Santos
Imurreix Pnterc_
Antarctic, Stonier ; James Foster, jun., Abeel; Ellen Austin,'
Garrick ; Andrew Jackson, Johnston ; Constelletion, Mulliner ;
Cons•itution And Invincible; all hentie NeW York
Ilavelock,'Vohngl heilce lit Boston
Westmoreland, Demi, and Golden Light, both hence at
Philadelphia
Esmeralda, Meldrum, from Guadeloupe. at Pensecola
Kate Prince, hence at New Orleans •
John Clark, hence at Baltimore
Eastfield, from London at Valparaiso
Euphrates (ss); hong at Genott ,
Mary Ellen, hence at 1.4 Libertad
. Falai/Oil, from Aldo etßarbadoes Toe Liverpool : ••
VESSEL'SJtKPORT. • •
Report of the ship Compromise, Zerega,lrtmi 'New York ;
sailed Nov. 7, arrived Dec. 3 • .
Strong westerly gales till the. 23rd ult. ; easterly gales since.
Nev. 28, lat. 49 80, lob. 12, exchange t. Is with the ship
Ellen Hood, bondwen,- •Nt 305 o head. of Kin...
sale passed the. hariltle tintgri d westi in coin-
piny *it h the barque Diangeiine 'the tneriein barque
M. L. Frank ; thirty odd aquare-rigged.sailin
SPOKEN....' •
Trebizonde, hence for Baltimore, Nov 24, off Old Head of
Kinsale ' • ;
Excelsior, Nov.2l,•off New York
Africa (s), suproSed„liente,Mr NOW ric' 24; ; 60W
Wingkof the Wind, Renee for Bombay, Sept 23; 268; 83E
W H Wharton. Philadelphia for LiVerpool,• NOV 47N, 30W
Nicholas Biddle, Savannah for Liverpool. Nov 19, 42N, 32W
Hartford, Savannah for Liverpool, Nov 22, 48N. 27W
Eothen, hence for Monte Video, Nov 29, 50N,41W
OUTPORTS. i• e ,
Deal, Dec; 3.. ! • pol3natse,
Cantppl ' • • • • •
Dec.Fa 3.=--Arrived : Gerda,. from. Fasseln ; Ann
ttrant, New York; Londen, AqUina ; Napoleon, Havannah.
Queenstown, Dec...3.4.-Arrived;: Acme, from New York ;
Amaranth; Quebec ; ' Ann Percival, lionduras ; Indiaman,
Callao ; Cherub, St. Michael's ; Dimda,llc; St. John; NAL ; apes
Nostra, Maracaibo; Morning Light; sew. petrellen,
Taganrog. Off : lierild,DpmirarA fur -• • •
Dublin, Dee; t Eagle, Wain Marseilles; Eliza-
heth,; Venite Saha, Rotterdam ; Teinora, London ; Caroline,
Btirdeaux. Sailed : Beres, for London •, Cequette, Santander.
Belfast, Dec. : Konigsberg,:,frcim Taganrog.
Sailed : General Sale, for Troon. • • .; .
Greenock, Dec. 3.---Arrived H Ellie, from avre ; Elbe, New
York ;• Carl Pettre,
R .Alexandria LeVant; No* York;
New York ;Sake,n Roden. •
Leith; Dee. 5,-trited t tineen, frOni ilayerine j Agnette,
CopOnhaell.

Emigrant, Arentz,
Constantinople
Cumloden Castle, Young,
Aid Janeiro
Ridlef,
Gittee
Cieros....Atitltierp
Bonne Malourie, Desquitz,

Cette
Aconcagua, Graves,Valparaise
Ann E Hooper, Hooper,
Philadelphia

iktARITIME EtTRACT. S:
LIVERPOOL; DeCember 3.
the Ilidry Ellen, hence at d Liberttid; with loss of captain
:old all her eke*, ekCept ifnb bdi: •
VAC tiOW 6ereW-steamer Talisman, intended for the West
/mila trade, arrived here from Greenock to-day.
The Cadovius, arrived here to-day from SaVanilla, with loss
of bulwarks, having been in contact With the brig Morning
Star. • .
The Fairin Queen. froth Izindent, drfiVerl here; bias. stern
started, tied lost jibbdoili and liedkeear, by eentatit Deb. 1,
*ith the schooner Ellen an Mary, of Prestdn. -
The HaVelock, Young, hence at Boston, encountered bad
weather.
the J: M. Wood, for Liverpool, todk fire at NOW Orleans on
the of Nov. 18: . .
The onia (es), Which ariii;ed here ,;etteidely, In coming out
of Col' tt ikot do shore; damage trifling. Encountered heavy,
'*eather, lost boats and lce bulwarks, and put into Ferrol,
Nov. 26, for planks.
The Sphynx, of London, put in with loss of boats in a severe
gale, lying-to for three days.
The barque Kilblain, Skelton. of Whitby, timber-laden, was
passed Nov. 19, lat. 41, lon. 31, waterlogged and derelict, by
the Oncanasta, arrived here.
Pernambuco, Nov. 13 : The Grunt's, from London, foundered.
Falkland Islands, Sept. 22 : The Celonsay totally lost ; crew
saved. Harriet Humble, from Callao to Mauritius leaky, dis-
charging
Queenstown, Dec. 3: The Endymion, from Liverpool for
Madras, leaky in topsides. Alliance, St. John, N. 8., for
Liverpool, leaky. Elizabeth Caroline, Cardiff for Rio Janeiro,
leaky. Julia, New York for Liverpool, leaky. Emily. Quebec
for Maryport, rudder damaged. Splendid, New York for
Liverpool, leaky. Surinam, New York, slightly damaged,
from collision with the barque George Phillips. Mary Black,
from Maracaibo, lost foretopsail. John Scott, from Cardiff,
Pumps choked, and loss of boats.
Lloyd's, Dec. 3 : The Alexandrtr Bartlett, from Realijo for
Liverpool, sunk off Port William Sept, 4; crew saved. A ves-
sel, supposed to be the Vancouver, from Liverpool, was ashore
near Maranham Oct. 27. The Eliza Jones, for Liverpool, put
back to Rio Grande in a sinking state, having struck the bar,
and was put aground.
Kilmabridge, Dec. 1 : The Lydia, from Liverpool for Monte
Video, on shore near this, is a complete wreck, and will go to
pieces the first gale from seaward; some of her cargo 'ass
broken up in the hold ; steps are being taken to save as mach
as possible.

Valparaiso, Oct. 18: The Acacia, arrived here from Swan sea,
spoke the British barque La Serena, in lat. 59 S. lon. 72 NV..
for Coquimbo, with loss of bowsprit, having struck an icet 'erg
Sept. 19 ; all well on board.
New York, Nov. 21 : The Erick, 4ncircio, frnrn Lisbon, Y ter(
partiAlly disrhasttl.

NEWS OP. THE DAY.

. •
The Empress Eugenie, in the quality of a lady of
rank and distinction travelling for her health, has been
invited as a guest of our beloved Queen to Windsor
Castle, and the august visitor has accepted the invita-
tion Bs a eomifiatid; Her ittiperial Majesty; thnugh
crossing the portals of the palace of trighifid4s Queen as
the Countess la Motto Beauvron, is most happily and
fitly preceded by the most abundant evidence of the
heartfelt respect and esteem, in which she is held by all
classes of the people ober whom Queen Victoria reigns.
The bisit *ill bb fibt oink d pritate one, bUt -Very brief
it will, however, it is to be hoped, be the forettinner of
many succeeding ones, and that this hope is shared by
the Emperor may be gathered from the concluding
sentence of an article in the .3foniteur, alluding to the
warm and enthusiastic reception of the Empress in Eng-
land, in whieh his Majesty, through his official journal,
thus aptiesseS himself —"These sympathetic manifes-
tations on the part of the English nation cannot but
draw closer the ties which bind the two nations, and
prove, iii d striking rttanner, how well the good sense of
the masses knows hott id treat the violent and incon-
siderate attacks of which a certain portion of the press
fears not to make itself the organ."
ii4ot shine days past, as is known, rumours of an.
arrangement, relative to the cession of Venetia, have
been circulated in different journals in this country and
abroad, but especially in various German papers. The
Ifiandtifi• df iritiltid; of the 29th ult., a journal sup-
posed to be well informed dti did Object of the inten-
tions of the Austrian Government, reprodtices these
withoutor e
contradicting
ttrhaderi expressingtngh
t eits belief in their
m a s
" unexact," but
reports,
correctness,
concludes with an admission that there is " something
in them." This of itself is "something," attd it is
devoutly to bo hoped that whatever it is, it will take a
definitive and satisfactory form before next spring, by
which period the time for negotiation will have passed.
Why the semi-official rays should take the present
opportunity of denying, as it does in its issue of to-day,
that " we believe we can affirm that such a question has
never been mooted in the councils of any power without
exception." But may it not, for all this, have been
mooted in some unofficial form
There is no other foreign news of any importance.
The British ship Clyde, 1,343 tons, from Calcutta to
London, with a crew of thirty-two hands, and a valu-
able cargo, was abandoned on the 9th of October. She
had encountered severe gales, lost her masts, and sprung
a dangerous leak, when fortunately an American vessel
hove in sight, and took the :crew on board. They set
fire to the Clyde before leaving her, A large ship,
called the British Merchant, was also totally destroyed ,

by fire in the port of Sydney, on the 10th of September,
while loading for London.

A dreadful colliery explosion has taken place in a
mine belonging to the Risca Coal Company, in Wales.
Up to the time of the latest information, at least 100
persons appear to have met a frightful death, and it is
probable that even 120 have been killed.
The following notice was issued from the General
Post Office on Saturday, viz. :—" It is understood that
the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company
will not have a vessel to despatch from Galway to
America this day (Tuesday), the 4th December. The
service will therefore be necessarily omitted."
When the mail packet Atlantic left New York on the
17th ult., there was such uneasiness felt in that city
respecting the political agitation in the south, that a
number of passengers who had taken their passage in
the steamer refrained from proceeding in her to Europe.
The condemned convict Cowley, who was sentenced
to death for the murder of his illegitimate child at
Oundle, at the last sessions, and who was respited, has
now received a commutation, his capital sentence being
changed to one of fifteen years' transportation.
The official returns of the emigration from the Mersey
for the month just concluded have been made up by the
Government emigration officers, and, although they
present a marked diminution when compared with last
month, still, when contrasted with the corresponding
period of 1859, there is little change to notice in the
aspect or character of the trade. The total number
of passengers in November amounted to 2,798-161
cabin and 2,637 steerage, of whom 844 were English,
315 Scotch, 1,381 Irish, and 97 were natives of other
countries. During the previous month of October the
aggregate numbers were 316 cabin and 5,300 steerage
passengers, while, during the same period of 1859,
"under the Act," the official returns numbered 3,286
souls-112 cabin and 3,124 steerage passengers; " short
ships " " not under the act"), Cunard, Cana-
dian, and other Royal Mail steamers, carried out 1,541
passengers, against 948 in the corresponding period of
last year. To the United States there were cleared at
Liverpool, " under the Act," 125 cabin and 2,008 steer-
age passengers, 498 of whom were English, 138 Scotch,
1,174 Irish, and 73 of other countries, against 256
cabin and 3,959 steerage in October, and 67 cabin and
1,842 steerage in the corresponding period of last year,
" Short ships" to the United States conveyed, during the
month, 1,256, chiefly cabin passengers, and to Canada
150 souls. To Australia the emigration has been very
dull, the total number "under the Act," inclusive
of the Government emigrant ship Shackamaxon, only
reaching 748 souls-26 cabin and 722 steerage,
of whom 346 were English, 177 Scotch, 175
Irish, and 24 foreigners, while during the cor-
responding month of last year the number reached
1,023-30 cabin and 993 steerage, 34 passengers
were conveyed by " short ships" during the month.
A somewhat novel feature in these returns is the
shipment of no less than 10 cabin and 32 steerage
passengers "under the Act"—all Irish—to Buenos
Ayres, in the La Zingara. Five "short ships" were
also despatched with 31 cabin passengers ; eight passen-
gers sailed in "short ships" to West India ports. To
Africa, the West African mail steamer conveyed 53, and
a " short ship" two cabin passengers. There has been
no direct emigration to New Zealand during the month,
although the Melbourne vessels took passengers for
Auckland.

. We regret to announce that the Royal West Indian
Mail steam-ship Tasmanian, which sailed yesterday
afternoon from Southampton, has gone ashore in Tot-
terill Bay; it vas, however, hoped that she would be
got off with the flood tide.

THE PROCTORS, THE LADIES, AND THE

STUDENTS OF CAMBRIDGE.

It the Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster,
the Lord Chief Justice EARL, and a special jury
have been engaged for several days recently,
hearing the case of KEMPE V. NEVILLE. This
was an action for false imprisonment in the Spin-
ning-house, brought by EMMA KEMPE against
the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University,
Miss KEMPE is a young lady, 24 years of age, a
milliner and dressmaker, of Cambridge. In 1859
she became acquainted with Mr. GRAHAM, of
Emmanuel College, at a promenade concert at
Fenner's-grounds. In January last, Mr. GRA-
HAM, having recently taken his B.A. degree,
invited some of his friends, and EMMA KEMPE
among the rest, to a private party at Shel-
ford, some five miles from the city. She was
to be accompanied by her younger sister, who is
fourteen years of age, and some other young
lady acquaintances. There was to be a dance and
supper. They were to go and return in the "bus'
—going at six and returning at eleven or twelve.
When EMMA and her sister stepped jauntily into
the " bus," they found Mr. GRAHAM there and
another gentleman. There was also a musician.
By-and-bye four other friends entered the vehicle
and joined the travelling party, which now num-
including the fiddler.
Nb eor eddo
uhbatl fa-
lal- ssceoerme
epderpsloenass'ant and promising, and
all looked forward to a most. delightful evening's
amusement. But, alas for the uncertainty which
attends all human arrangements; it was not to
be. The ladies all smiles, and the gentlemen all
gallantry, could scarcely have exchanged warm
congratulations on meeting, and have seated them-
selves comfortably in their places, when dismay
fell upon every heart. The omnibus had not got
further on its way than the Town Gaol, when
the rude hand of proctorial authority put an end
to the felicity of the journey and the pleasurable
prospects of the party. The two gentlemen, on
being challenged by the Proctor, got out, and
left their fair friends and guests to their cruel
fate. Instead of proceeding to Shelford, the
omnibus moved towards the Spinning-house,
within the walls of which EMMA and the other
ladies Were dragged, and after a few questions in
a private room EMMA was Incarcerated in a cold
little cell, where she spent a miserable night.
Next day her nice dress, intended for the ball,
was taken from her, and her elegant figure re-
morselessly wrapped in, a coarse check dress
—the prison uniform—and she was removed to a
still worse cell, It was very cold. For break-
fast she had bread and cold tea ; stuff they called
soup she had for dinner one day; potatoes and
fat beef another day ; and gruel at night. Her
mother offered, but was refused permission, to
send in some small comforts to her daughter, who
had Only recently recovered from rheumatic fever.
In addition to these hardships, and to crown all,
-she-was-submitted to the personal indignity of a
most offensive private examination by a medical
man, Although sentenced to fourteen days'
imprisonment, the Vice-Chancellor succeeded in
finding out his mistake in the course of four days,
and EMMA was again set free. She returned to
her mother's house under the shadow of night, no
doubt greatly affronted, if not also broken-hearted.
It has been found wholly impossible to prove her
guilty of any improper conduct, or even of any
act of indiscretion other than such as is generally
considered quite venial in the flirtations of a milli-
ner's girl. It has not been asserted in Court that
there was any just ground for imprisoning the
girl. The whole defence rested on the supposed
rights of the Vice-Chancellor to commit on suspi-
cion, and on the non-liability to review of any
sentence he may have pronounced.

The jurisdiction of the Vice-Chancellor and
Proctors of the University of Cambridge and the
Institution of the Spinning-house are, no doubt,
very ancient. Their functions hive been equally
varied. Originally we are told that it was the
duty of those gentlemen to see to the cleaning
of the streets. Having forsaken the task of
removing physical filth, they seem to have
betaken themselves " with a will" to the scaven-
gering of moral impurities with a strength of
besom which carries clean and unclean before
it. Formerly it was part of their avocations to
flog such of the students as might be detected
publicly bathing in the classic waters of the Cam.
From this laborious:undertaking they have in late
days turned aside to inflict intolerable stigmas
upon the fair reputation of females suspected of
endeavouring to entrap the male residents at the
University 'into impropriety. The morals of the
gentlemen of Cambridge are evidently not to be
trusted. Neither are their tendencies to err to
be corrected or kept in check by the ordinary
moral agencies considered sufficient in other
communities, great or small, classical or not. In
Edinburgh, the great Scotch seat of learning,
where a scarcely less number of young men is
assembled from all parts of the world, than meet

and reside at Cambridge, the students require no
such rough tutelage. In the smaller university
cities of the north no inconvenience is felt from
the want of proctors and spinning-houses. Nay,
more ; we venture to say that the moral propriety
of any Scotch university city will stand a most
favourable comparison with that of either Oxford
or Cambridge. We write not from hearsay or
conjecture, but from the closest personal observa-
tion. How are we to explain this enigma ? We
believe that the facts, when properly read,
demonstrate a truth now gradually becoming
more and more understood. Attempts at merely
external repression of such a crime result in
effects diametrically opposed to the object in view.
Pruning the buds and branches only strengthens
the roots, and prepares a fuller crop for a suc-
ceeding season. To remove or prevent such a
moral evil we must strike underground and
destroy the rootlets. We have had abundant
illustration of this proposition in our own town.
In lieu of a Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, we have
had the society for the suppression of vice and the
indiscriminate persecution, or, if you like, prosecu-
tion, of all interested in the unhallowed profits of
" the social evil." What has been the conse-
quence ? A palpable aggravation of the mischief.
Has not Major GREIG, the chief constable, by
his carefully-prepared statistics, and accompany-
ing remarks, abundantly proved the truth of this
assertion ? It may have consisted with the wis-
dom and enlightenment of the seventeenth cen-
tury to build spinning-houses, but we feel assured
that the experience of upwards of two centuries
has taught us the folly and inadequacy of such
means to the end proposed. If spinning-houses
are good for Oxford and Cambridge, why do we
li
not have them elsewhere ? Why not also have
a spinning-house in Liverpool ? Certainly there
is a far greater field for its operations. We have
an immensely larger community of young men,
with perhaps an equally disproportioned amount
of money and wits. Assuredly we have an
alarmingly numerous class of frail ones ready to
take advantage of the plenitude of one and the
scarcity of the other. If common sense and
practical experience tell us that spinning-houses
and proctors are inadmissable, unjustifiable, and
ineffective remedies here, what is there in
Cambridge human nature to make thorn more
likely to succeed in doing good ? Are they
not mere cobwebs in a corner of an old house,
which ancient privilege and long prescrip-
tion have alone saved from demolition before the
brush of general progress and civilisation ? If
so, let them now be swept away, as not only
unnecessary, but mischievous.
Such an institution is, moreover, an anomaly in
the administration of justice. The case we have
cited and the defence put forward, in support of
the authority claimed, abundantly prove its exer-
cise to be utterly inconsistent with the proper
freedom of the lieges, repugnant to common
sense, and an insult to British justice and fair-
play. The Vice-Chancellor professed no regret
for his mistake ; but, on the contrary, sottght to
maintain his perfect right to do the same thing
again under similar circumstances. Even were
he successful in proving that by charter or pre-
scriptive right he was justifiable, we say such a
state of matters is insufferable, and must be
instantly reformed. Longer to tolerate such
a nuisance, were to initiate a retrograde
movement in the history of our individual
liberties and freedom of action, and to afford
a precedent to justify the introduction into
this free country of the French loi de suspect
—a mischievous enactment, the consequences of
which were illustrated by the plaintiff's counsel,
when he asked, " Were there not now thousands
pining in the swamps of Cayenne, under the law
of suspicion ? What was it that crowded the
guillotine during the French Revolution, under
the power of ROBESPIERRE, DAYTON, and others,
but the right to arrest and execute on suspicion ?
It was the law of suspicion that dyed the waters
of the Rhone in the time of CARRIER, and it was
the law of suspicion that had filled the prisons of
Naples." We will have no such law in England.
Away, therefore, with proctorial authorities and
spin nin g-ho uses,

INTERVIEW OF THE EMPRESS EUGENIE
WITH THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND.

The -Duchess of Sutherland, the Mistress of the
Robes, arrived in town on Saturday evening from
Trentham, Staffordshire, by order, to meet the Empress
Engenie at Windsor Castle. The Duchess, by a sin-
gular coincidence, met the Empress on Saturday while
travelling on the Trent Valley line, and had an inter-
change of compliments. Before the Empress pursued
her journey to Leamington, the Duchess of Sutherland
had time to forward a basket of grapes to her Majesty
culled from the vines at Trentham.

DRE ADFUL COLLIERY
EXPLOSION.

MORE THAN 100 PERSONS SUPPOSED
TO BE KILLED.

&AC% VEIN COLLIERY, Saturday, Dec. 1,

Another of those dread calamities which but too fre-
quently occur in the mining districts, notwithstanding
the precautions taken in every direction by legistative
enactment, and by measures strictly enforced, by the
managers of collieries, happened this morning, striking,
terror and dismay into a whole community, and in-
stantaneously depriving of life an appalling number of
our fellow-creatures, hurried prematurely, without a
moment's warning, whether prepared or unprepared—
husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons—into eternity.
The scene of this appalling calamity is the Black Vein
Colliery, the property of the Risca Coal Company, and
which has been in work some years, producing a large
yield of steam coal. About five o'clock nearly 300 men
descended to their dangerous, and, as it proved to many,
fatal avocation. For some time nothing occurred to
induce a supposition that anything unusual had taken
place,—neither in reality had there ; but about nine
o'clock, or shortly after that hour, a report was heard,
ominous in character, from the mouth of the pit, creating
instant alarm and intense anxiety upon all hands. Too
well was such a dread signal understood ; and means
were adopted with the utmost promptitude to ascertain
the extent of the calamity.
Harrowing, indeed, were the disclosures made of the
destruction of human life. Here and there, by the
glimmer of the miner's lamp, was to be seen stretched
in the arms of death, a full-grown man or stalwart youth,
struck down while in the full enjoyment of health. Then
again, they stumbled upon horse and driver, both
dead, and their laden tram beside them, a proof
of the instantaneous nature of the blow which had
fallen upon them. Some of the poor fellows were
brought to the surface immediately upon being found,
and the assistance of medical gentlemen, who were sum-
moned to the spot as soon as practicable after the
explosion, was promptly and skilfully rendered. Death,
however, had done his work too surely—human aid was
of little avail.
Ilp to twelve o'clock eleven bodies were brought
up
.to the top of the pit, and taken to the abodes of
their relatives.

At four o'clock no less than thirty-nine lay there. At
that time, too, five carts with straw were drawn up out-
side the works, and a number of men were observed on
their way to the spot with hastily-constructed biers, to
convey away the bodies. All the horses in the pit,
about eight and twenty, were killed. Many poor fellows
appeared almost prostrated when they reached the sur-
face. All looked dejected, anxious, careworn. At the
time named, between sixty and seventy persons remained
unaccounted for.
If all have fallen victims, the bodies brought up, with
those still in the pit, found, and yet missing, will make
the frightful total of above 120 fellow-creatures who
have thus violently met their deaths.
Of the precise cause of the accident, beyond the
circumstance of its having arisen from fire-damp, it is
quite impossible to speak with any degree of certainty.
This evening the place presents a sad and sickening
scene. The deep mist overshadowing the hills surround-
ing the pit, the heavy rain, the flitting of the miners'
lamps in going to and from the pit, the glare of the
immense fire burning at the pits mouth, and reflected
on the pale and anxious countenances of men, and of
weeping and moaning women, all gathered together at
the scene of desolation, contribute to foiforma picture of
the deepest solemnity and most painful interest.

REVIVAL MEETING IN EXETER-HALL.

HORRIBLE BLASPHEMY !

HYMNS SUNG TO THE TUNE OF THE
g, KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS!"

On Sunday evening. a meeting of an extraordinary
character was held in Exeter-hall. It had been
announced by means of advertisements and placards
that Exeter-hall would be opened for a service to be
conducted by three laymen, Mr. Reginald Radcliffe,
Mr. Richard Weaver (who was formerly a prize
fighter), and Mr. W illiam Carter. The promise
was kept, and at six o'clock the doors were thrown
open. In less than quarter of an hour, the spacious
building was densely packed, and it was deemed advisable
at once to close the outer gates. The proceedings were
opened by prayer, in the course of which the Almighty
was earnestly Implored to hold down his arm from heaven

over London for the purpose of converting it, and espe-
cially for the purpose of checking Popery, priestcraft,
Pu-
seyism and devilism. Mr. Carter read portions of the 6th
chapter of St. Mark's Gospel, and in the course of a very
energetic description of the efficacy of redemption assured
his hearers that it was not to be secured by lighting IT
a poor rotten cross or miserable crucifixes, not in
going to churches with fine steeples, or listening to
a lot of fellows with white night-gowns on. All
these were miserable delusions. What was wanted was
real conversion, the two classes in London who wanted
it most being working men, ninety-eight out of every
hundred of whom never went to a place of worship
at all; and the unconverted nobility, many of whom
were canting humbugs. Mr. Weaver followed, and
from the excitement which prevailed immediately he
arose it was evident that he was the principal object
of attraction. He commenced by singing a hymn
to the tune of the "King of the Cannibal Islands,"
in a very loud tone, the auditory taking up the chorus,
the words being, " Still I have no union." He then
took for his text the words, " Herein is love," &c:t
from St. John's First Epistle. He called upon his
hearers not to believe that the great scheme of human
redemption was moonshine and humbug ; but that, on
the contrary, it was able to encircle and to convert
the greatest blackguard in London. There were
many ungodly persons in the hall who wanted shaking
over hell for five or six minutes—if that did not
convert them nothing would. As the speaker warmed
with his subject, he danced up and down the plat-
form and shouted " hell and damnation" with a vigour
which was perfectly appalling. Every now and then
he denounced the unconverted) then appealed to them
to come to Christ, and in the roughest languages
and with the most violent gesticulations called upori
those who believed Christ had power to save to hold
up their hands. About three-fourths of the audience
did so ; " the contrary " was not put. During
the proceedings several young women whose feelings
were operated upon fainted, and were carried out. gr.
Weaver afterwards sang another hymn—" I've a father
in a promised land," to a lively air. Throughout the
evening the audience were kept in the highest possible
state of excitement; and at the close of the public ser-
vice a meeting of a quieter kind was held, for the
reception of the unconverted.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE•

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Dec. 3.

A variety of contradictory rumours continue to
circulate concerning the publication in a few clay's
of an imperial manifesto, fixing, in a more precise
manner than was done by the recent decree, the
changes which have been thus effected in the
French Constitution, and extending considerably
the liberties and benefits, of which that decree con-
tains the germ. What strengthens the rumour
is the fact that there was yesterday a special
meeting of the Council of Alinisters, which the
Emperor came up from Compiegne expressly to
attend.

The dissolution of the Corps Legislatif, and the
convoking of the electors in the cornices with
view to the election of new deputies, continues
also to be a point much disputed. The Journal
des Debats publishes, under the signature of M.
Prevost-Paradol, a very energetic article, in which
is set forth the reasons which not only suggest
such a step, but render it absolutely indispensable,
as a pledge of the scope and sincerity of the
decree of Nov. 24. The Siecle, while entirely
agreeing with the Debats as to the necessity Of
appealing to the electors to choose new representa-
tives, considers that the convocation of the elec-
tors should be postponed until after the revision
of the electoral list, which must be done in the
month of January next. Nearly all the journals
look upon a dissolution as a necessary conse-
quence, and as the natural accompaniment of a
decree which affects the functions of the Corps
Legislatif. The opposite view is only met
with, in terms more or less affirmative, in the
semi-official press. The Constitutionnel asserts
that there is no intention4whatever of dissolving
the present assembly ; and according to another
semi-official version, that step is only delayed until
the session shall be a little advanced.

Those Marshals who are at present entrusted
with the great military commands have arrived
in Paris, in order to take part in the labours of
the commission for the classification of the officers
of the French army. This commission meets to-
day at the Ministry of the War. Gen. Martini-
prey, who holds a command in Algeria analogous
to that of the Marshals in France, has arrived
here with the same object. Marshals Pelissier
and Randon are at one in this matter, and among
other changes the suppression of the general
councils, in which the chief symptoms of opposi-
tion to the predominance of the military element
are manifested, is seriously talked of. The new
constitution having fixed that a senatus consulte
shall regulate the destiny of Algeria, Gen. Allard
has succeeded in preparing a projet, which was
submitted yesterday to the Emperor. Whatever
may be the fate of this project, it is certain that
the news from Algeria, at the present moment,
betrays a good deal of apprehension on the sub-
ject of the late decision of the Government re-
lating to this colony. What is wanted in Algeria
is the inauguration of a system of conciliation
between the civil and military elements, and this
is scarcely the idea which is suggested by the
appointment of Marshal Due de Malakoff as head
of the government of French Africa.
The financial world has been much moved by
the notice of M. Rothschild, that for the want of
the necessary funds, he cannot pay the half-
yearly dividend on the Roman loan, due on the
first of this month. The Holy Father pleads the
loss of his principal provinces as the reason for
the failure of his government to discharge its
obligations ; and, on the other hand, the creditors
ask why Pius IX. does not close with the offer
of Piedmont, to take upon it all the debts of the
Papal Government, provided the latter agree to
recognise the substitution of that government for
its own, in all time coming. At length, therefore,
the Holy Father finds himself exposed to pecu-
niary pressure in a very aggravated and annoying
form, in addition to all his other sources of
discomfort.

Notwithstanding the prospects of peace in the
Western World, the works for the development
of the French navy, as regards materiel, continue
to be incessantly prosecuted, and the well-knows
o
saying, "if you wish for peace, prepare for war,"
is still the ruling idea. Several new floating
batteries have been finished, and three new
euirassed frigates, on the model of La Gloire, are
being constructed as fast as possible. It is related
that on the occasion of a visit paid by the
Emperor to this frigate at Toulon, he asked the
engineer by whom she had been built, how many
more of the same could be built in the course of $
year. "We might make ten," replied the engl;
neer. " You might make twenty, if necessary,
said the Emperor. This flattering reply, which
circulates throughout all the dockyards, is quoted
as a proof of the confidence of the Emperor in the
skill of the directors of French naval ship
building.

The day before yesterday, a person having the
appearance of a gentleman entered the office of
money-changer in the Palais Royal, and asked
for gold for two Bank notes—one for £2OO, and
the other for £3OO sterling. It so happened,
however, that the numbers of these notes, which
had been stolen, had been sent to all the money-
changers of Paris and London, in order to put
them on their guard against giving change for
them, and with directions to communicate with
the police in the event of their being presented
for exchange. The money-changer, suspecting
that the " gentleman" was himself the party who
had stolen the notes, made a pretence to detain
the stranger for a few minutes, whilst one of his
clerks went in all haste to give notice to the com-
missioner of the Palais Royal district. The clerk
soon returned, accompanied by a policeman, who
took the "gentleman" into custody, and con-
ducted him to the police-office. The Englishman
—for he was one of our countrymen—exclaimed
loudly against the way in which he was treated.
He asserted that the bank notes in his posses"
sion were gained by him at play, and that h°
knew nothing whatever of the party from whonl,
he got them. But it was soon ascertained that
this individual was the very rogue for whom the
police were in search, and who had got possession,
under false names, of some large sums of money'
In the last place in which he figured he mode
himself pass for a diamond merchant, from LOT
don, whose portfolio and passport he had stolen'

THE NEW CEMETERY.—The competitive designs and
drawings for the chapels, lodges, and other erections
necessary for the new cemetery of Anfield Park, sre
open this week for public inspection at Cuthbert's pic-
ture galleries, Clayton-square. Some of them are veil
beautiful, and the whole will well repay a visit.
EXTRAORDINARY PRESSURE ON THE COUNTY COURT.
—Yesterday there was an immense amount of work
accomplished at the County Court by 11fr. J. K. Blair,
occupying the whole of the day until nearly nine at
night. However, nothing of any great importance
transpired.
LIVERPOOL EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, MOUNT'
PLEASANT.—Consulting Surgeon, Dr. Hugh Neill,
F.R.A.S. ; Surgeons, Dr. R. liibbert Taylor, Dr. Nevins,
T. Bickerton, Esq. ; Assistant Surgeon, Robert Batty,
Esq. ; Treasurer, J. G. Livingston, Esq. Report for
the week ending Dec. 1, 1860 :—New cases : Ees,
69 ; Ears, 26. Prescribed for and received surgical
assistanc,o : Eyes, 320 ; Ears, 100.

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LATEST NEWS.

(BY BRITISH AND IRISH'MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

The Pays says the rumour that Count de
Morny has been sent on a mission to Rome is
unfounded.
The Journal des Debots strenuously advocated
the dissolution of the present legislative body.
Several others of the Paris journals regard such
a step as the natural complement of a decree
which changes the attributes of the representa-
tive body. _

The new French Cabinet met for the first time
on Saturday. The Emperor arrived from Com-
piegne for the purpose of presiding.
The average price of wheat for the whole of
France shows an increase of 55c. per hectolitre
over the preceding month.
The Prefect of the Seine, in an official report,
expresses himself adverse to the abolition of
octroi duties in Paris.

THE FRENCH CHURCH AND THE POPE.
The Pastoral of the Archbishop of Paris con-
oernin 0. the Pope was read in the churches of that
capital, and is considered remarkable for its
moderation.

RECEPTION OF THE EMPRESS OF THE
FRENCH IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.
PARIS, Dec. 3.

The Moniteur publishes an article on the warm
and enthusiastic reception of the Empress of the
French in England. The article announces that
the• Empress will visit the Queen at Windsor on
the 3rd December, and concludes thus: " These
sympathetic manifestations on the part of the
English nation cannot but draw closer the ties
which bind the two inations, and prove in a
striking manner how well the good sense of the
masses knows how to treat the violent and incon-
siderate attacks of which a certain portion of the
press fears not to make itself the organ."

PARIS, Dec. 3, 3.40 p.m.

The Bourse has been firm and rather animated.
Rentes closed at 70f. 50c., or 20c. higher than on
Saturday, . ,

MADRID, Dec. 2.

The Espana publishes numerous letters from
inhabitants of the provinces of Biscay energeti-
cally protesting against the projects of annexa-
tion to France, contained in letters which had
been inserted in the Espana.

THE CESSION OF VENETIA.

PARIS, Dec. 3.

The Pays denies that any. negotiations have
been entered into for the cession of Venetia, and
says—" We believe we can affirm that such a
question has never been mooted in the councils of
any Power without exception."