The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

2 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1863.
(PRIZE MEDAL AWARDFIL; 1 surgeon that her husband took some tinnily. It ' LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. onpied Lookout, and was expected to intercept'
It. VELLIN LLEIPS PATENT S wttli PORTsquare
MANTEAUS and
is obvious that the precise words of Mrs. Litter —4.-- •
--.-- the Confederates in the vicinity of Roseville,
TRAG BAG
LAMS WARDROBE TRUNK& DERBSTIMAGS, was were of the utmost importance ; and it is well AUSTRIA AND THE DUCHIES. fm's namisAms.) and in the region east of it. At the same time 1
diver
ISailing&
(Pr the Asia.) Sherman assaulted the north east of Missionary
DPATCH BOILS& WRITING and DRESSING CASES, and . known that any witness may be recalled before the
STATEMENT OF THE AUSTRIAN FOREIGN (P
GOO other artless for home or continental travelling. Illustrated MINISTER.and was repulsed with heavy loss.
eatalogues post free. prosecutor's case is closed, and compelled to answer NEW YORK, Nov. 13, EVKIIINO. Ridge,
Also Allen's Barnet Furniture Catalogue of Portable Bad any legal question. The poor man might have M. de Rechberg has made the following reply to Cinoinnatti despatches assert that firing at But being reinforced he renewed the as-
an interpellation respecting Schleswig-Holstein : Knoxville was heard on the 22nd instant at Cum- mills and reached to within twenty yards
st:tdseretawerik Ball Chairs' Waakhan"ands. °lntim"' ar" been suffering from some malady which required
J. W.
"MN' Manst6CeUt." sod Pat'int". 17' West siren'''• such a stimulus, or the quantity may have been of The treaty of London (said the minister) las Noland Gap. of the summit, but was flanked and compelled to
&scion. w.c.
created for the powers which took part in it, under Knoxville is not completely invested, tit Con-
trifling amount. At all events, as it was of retire to his reserves. The Confederates then
IT ROUSE RS.-Speciat attention is called to the the utmost importance that the surgeon should the relation of public law, some fixed obligations federates having withdrawn from the south side of massed heavily on Sherman'sright, but Grant started
A- new WI N TER STOCK . 11114 gentlemen who do not mind
pa) ino a fair price for a goon Pal 7 of Tr
use
eau dtTelDl OD I have been allowed tore peat with which the powers cannot eveu in their votes in the river. two columns, which broke the Confederate centre
luterial and patterns that cannot be excellent, atthe preciae terms used - •
Iby Mrs. LILLEV, to deny him this privilege the Germanic Diet, put themselves in contradiction. Burnside has orders from Grant to hold Knox- and gained possession of the ridge, the Code-
it AIIILTON and HI lIPTON 13,
10 ~ Strand. opposite Exeter Hs& The treaty of London forms •• whole with the regula- vine, and has informed the inhabitants that he dente main force being driven northward towards
was just neither to him, nor to the dead soldier,
lions which preceded it. If Denmark invokes the should do so. Sherman, who opened fire upon them, driving them
ALFRED WE B B MILKS, nor to the wife. To this however, the prisoner,
Colonel CeAwiav, objected, and after along argil-
Everybody knows Mr. MILES, treaty, Austria and Prussia can reply to it that it NEW TORE, Nov. 24. disordered down the western slope of Missionary
REMOVED from Bond-street, to 73, BROOK seem' Hanover- must first fulfil the preliminary obligations. Advioes from Charleston to the 20th inst. state Ridge, and across the western ridge of the Chick-
square, In 1959. The les. mousses (originated by him, in all ment it was determined to refer the matter for
the New Patterns for Winter, ii better than ever." the decision of the Judge-Advocate-General. King Christian IX. him inaugurated his reign that the sea wall of Fort Sumter had been destroyed, &malign.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO GENTLEMEN.
A. W. MILKS begs most respectfully to announce that his The case was so referred, and the Judge-Advocate-
_, by an open violation of the stipulations. This is and that the Confederates were constructing bomb- General Hooker now holds Lookout on the right.
dock in the various departments of his establishment is now General decided that the question was legal, an.
why Austria and Prussia vote fur the suspension of proofs OD the ruins. Palmer and Granger hold the centre between Look-
replete for Over-coats, Vesting'. Bedford Cords, and scarlet
be put. It was rational to suppoae that the .
waterproof cloth for hunting. The wool-dyed Black and awe might . . the voice of Holstein in the Diet while recom- General Gilmore's batteries threw 21 shells into out and Missionary Ridge, and Sherman holds
Crock Coat& 60e. A choice of 50 pieces of indestructible wooded
West of Ragland Cloths. ESTABLISHED 1861. Only address. Court would at all events follow the opinion of
mending the promptest application of the executive Charleston on the 17th, and 15 on the 19th. the left, with his right on Missionary Ridge and
this judicial officer. The prosecutor declared it to
measures. The objection that this execution implies The monitor Lehigh grounded, but was got off his left on Chickamauga Creek.
HOW COLD IT HAS BEEN.-NEGRIITTI be for the interests of justice that the question
a recognition of the rights of Denmark is untenable, considerably damaged. The Federals estimate their captures at 5,000 to
and UMBRA'S celebrated TNERMOMETERS win cow- should be answered,
and the only objection of the
wetly register the lowest temperature. Price. 31.6 d -1, Hatton-for the question of succession rests completely NEW YORK, Nov. 24, EVININGI. to 10,000 prisoners, and 40 guns. Their loss is
garden: 60, Oornhill . 03, Fleetetreet . and ltt, Regentatreet. prisoner was that it could not legally be put. If intact.
agents wanted. the President did not intend to follow the opinion
with the system followed at Copenhagen, which firing was still heard at Knoxville. It is supposed that Grant will pursue Bragg, or
IAO NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT ! of the Judge-Advocate-General he ought
wounds the rights and the self-respect of Germany. Advices from Chattanooga to the 23rd inst. if unable to do so, will send a force against
.2., We sup at EVANS'S, Covent-garden, after Julnen's not to have asked his opinion at all.
Cotwert. The Austrian troop* are ready to march at the first announce that two divisions, under Granger, had Longstreet, who has invested Knoxville with
Fairest and most Interesting of Cabbies 1-31773 country gee If the President originally intended to follow .
Heinen to the Rue de Kidney, Conatuarden. signal given at Frankfort towards the Lower made a reconnaissance to ascertain the Confederate batteries, his rifle pits being close to the Federal
his opinion, but afterwards changed his mind, it
Elbe. On the other hand (added IL Rechberg) position and obtain possession of two elevations in works.
MR & LIRR I P It R'S LODGINGS.
Austria cannot take any responsibility as to an front of the Federal left, half-way between the Bragg reports as follows, on the 23rd :-" We
him to do so. But the military mind is not like
intervention by force on the question of succession. Federal lines and Missionary Ridge. The Federal hold all the roads leading into Knoxville, ex-
LIFEBOAT SERVICES.-tin the recent other minds, and therefore it is perhaps not un-
A return upon the legal situation made for this guns commanding the position, only one battery cept the one between Holsten and French
heavy isles. some of is. Boats of th b TIONAL Lint intelligible that the President should have de -
BOAT INSTITUTION saved eighty four penons Dora different ~ . question by the treaty of London would have was taken into action. Granger moved forward at Broad River, and Jones's cavalry might close
wrecks. The Committee of the Institution earantly APPEAL mined to ask Dr. BARN "LO explain his
to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the con- 44 • uncalculable consequences for the interests of Ger- 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and remained in line that. The Federal cavalry is almost broken
tinned heavy demands on Qs InsUtution's 125 Lifeboat ',am evidence, and to state the words by Mn.
many, and it would be essential that upon that of battle for three quarters of an hour in view of up. Wheeler has cut off their train between Gm-
bh...attests. " LILLEY when she told him that her husband
Cnntributions are' received by
RICHARD London and Country "drank." . point an arbitration preceded execution. It the Confederates. He then engaged the Confede- berland Gap and Knoxville."
Bankers . and by the Secretary LEWIS, Req., at the But it is not surprising that this deci
Institution, 14, Johnatreet, AdelphL most not be lost eight of that the Duchy of rates, whilst the artillery in the Federal fort opened The Richmond Diapotch of the 24th says :-
heMon should have staggered the prosecutor, or that
Laugnburg is incontestably a part of the Danish upon the Confederate rifle pits and camps behind " There are rumours of a Confederate occupation
should have asked the President what the opinion
rr of the Judge-Advocate was against the legality crown. M. Rechberg recalled the fact that the line of fighting. The Confederates did not of Knoxville, but nothing official to this effect has
aft, (gpeso
of the question. As we have said, the opinion of those who have the most right to the suc- reply, having no artillery at that part of their en- transpired."
... that functionary was that the question was per-
cession, voted for the line of Glucksburg in trenchments. Grangerthen occupied the elevations Two thousand Federal' have passed through
TO OORRIMPONDINTS. fectly legal, and might be put either by the prose- the supposition that the entire monarchy would upon which he directed his attack, carried the rifle Rodgersville, and five regiments through Jacks-
advertisements Inteeded for " The Express' Landon Iniales return to that line. He concluded by declaring its in front, and moved through the forest before borough, en route for Kentucky.
ria, must be at the once, to, Booneleatrest, W Two cutor or by the court. It needed no Solomon to
iiit ea Me day of pablicatlon.that Austria was decided to make common cause him, driving in the Confederate pickets. He General Meade is mud bound.
'ye at this conclusion, for it is most certain
that no judge in Westminster-hull would have with Prussia, to respect also, in this question, the halted his advance on reaching further rifle pita in This being Thanksgiving day no business was
COVENT-GARDEN. hesitated for a moment to return the same answer, law and the treaties, and to sustain with all its his front, where the Confederates awaited an transacted.
THIS IMMO, BLANCHE DE REVERS. Kean. W. N. . forces, in the limits of law, the interests of Ger- attack, which he did nut make, his object being to
Weiss, H Corn, A. Cook, A. Si Albyn, and W. Harrison : Mimes The result is that the Judge-Advocate has been
THE MURDER OF A FRENCH OPPICBR IN
L Pyuc. Hiles, and Heywood -And the tad Act of rtis DESERT Sir GE"Roz WirrnEa.&u, and his many and the sister populations of Germany. obtain the heights on the Federal left, which will
PLOWER -Conductor, Mn'. A. Menem -Commence at r. overruled byJAPAN.
military coadjutor", and a dead woman has been secure from a flank attack any column moving to .--...
II A YMARKIT.
THIS M 33130. SILKEN FETPIRS. Meows. Howe, Iranian, and compelled against the laws of evidence to bear PRUSSIA AND DENMARK. turn Missionary Ridge. A battle was imminent (From the Extra to the Japers Nereid.)
C. Mathews ; kin. C. Mathew& -E GOLDIN name. Mr. YOKOHAMA, WIDRISDAY, 007. 14, 7 P.M.
and Mr& C. Mathew& -COOL AZ A CUCUMBER. Mr. C. witness against her own husband. The Prussian chamber having adopted a motion on the 24th, unless Bragg retired. Deserters re
LULLS DAISY. Miss Hands. This is a serious matter. The whole proceedings in favour of the recognition of the Prince of Au- ported that he was falling back to the rear of Scarcely one year has elapsed since we recorded,
.
LYCIIIM, and the finding of the Court may, perhaps, be in- gustenburg, despite the efforts of the government, Chickamauga station. is the barbarous murder of Mr. C. L Richardson, one of
the foulest crimes which hu ever stained the annals of any
Tan Immo, UNCLE BABY. Mr. Wlddloonsb mid validated. The rejection of legal evidence is not who are desirous of recognising King Christian IX. Meade's army was reported to be prepared M 00unta7. The inevitable consequences of this crime have
Mks C. a, DILMONIO. a Love Story. Noun.
Imbia. Risen, tames, and Jordan ; Misr less important than the admission of illegal evi- as the legitimate sovereign of the duchies, if he will attempt the passage of the Rapidan immediately, not had time to be fulfilled, when we are called upon to re•
Tony, Lanais, sad 'ass Mrs. Le&
deuce. And in either case it may be the duty fulfil the obligations of the treaty, the rumour is if the condition of the roads permitted. The rivers coed another of a similar, or, if possible, yet more &sued
siltrealelfLa. of the Court of Appeal to remedy the evil by current at Berlin that the chamber will be die- are, however, much swollen by the rain. dastardly character. This afternoon, about four o'clock,
Tea STUMM TIM BOLTZ& Mr..l. Taylor, Pant Dentin.
end Mess. Pleen.-THR JIWIPAI OF THA TEMPLE Mr. setting aside the proceedings. solved. That body, indeed, are pledged by their vote Lee is strengthening his works on the Rapidan, information was received by all the various consuls that
Reynolds and Miss & Mils& -And THE GIZA? GHOST the body of • foreigner had been diacovered at • village
EFFECT. Mn. Z. Yarnoid.-Cominewee at balf-past 6. to withhold supplies from the government save in anticipation of an attack.
named Idongayah, about three miles and a half from
int Courte for a policy which has the independence of Lee's army is estimated at from 50,000 to 00,000
this settlement. Mr. Von Brandt, the Promise Con-
Sclileswig-Holatein for a end. strong.
RION WATIR AT LONDON DITDOIK it eel, with Lieutenant Applin and the Military Train
Tom DAT -Morning, 8n MIL- • Animals- Mt- 17Im- WINDSOR essru. Dec. 4. The last sitting of the Prussian Chamber was General Forster has temporarily superseded escort, immediatelymended tothe spot indicated, which
lt.morteow - liceullai sh• 61-10 Alkm°ll% MB- 210. Viscount Sydney arrived at the Castle yesterday, marked by a curious incident. M. Loewe having General Burnside, who retires on a short leave of is on the Tokrido, and the French escort was meet to follow 1
The dinner party 'minded the Prince and •Princees of on the previous evening designated as "traitors" absence. Mr. You Brandt. Mr. Bleckmao, of the French Ligation,
LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5. Wales, the Crown Prince and Primes of Prude, sod the statesmen who signed the London protocol, It is rumoured that Sherman's corps has been proceeded with two chasseurs by the country read. aizl.
overtook Colonel Fisher, United States Consul, and
Prioress Helena, the Earl and Counts,, of Clarendon and M. Bunsen, representative of Bonn, and the detached from General Thomas's army, in order to
Lady Constance Villiers, Vincent Sydoey, Major-General Jenkins, with some Japanese officers as horseback. They
LORD WODEHOCSE is about to proceed to „ad Led Emily• •
y Seymour, Lidy e.g. Burirgtor. Dr. son of the former Prussian Ambassador oPerste against Longstreet. went on towards the same place,ldongayab,when coming on
Copenhagen to congratulate King Coloniser LX. Hohmann, Mr. Fisher, and the ladies and gentlemen in at London, to defend his father's character It is reported that the Governor of Maryland the turning to Hammiest', about 1 i mile from this settlement,
On his accession to the throne. He will be fur- maim. declared that the latter signed with regret, and will refuse to grant commissions to the newly and about 20 yards beyond the bridges over the Canal, they
nished with instructions from the British Govern- The Quasi, accompanied by the Princeu Louise, walked only from devotion to the late king, the document elected congress men. law lying across the narrow pathway the horribly-mutilated
ment relating to the affairs of the Danish monarchy and drove in the grounds this morning. which modified the law of succession in the duchies. The 13th Federal army corps, lately operating in body of Canine, • eub•lieutenant of the Ted battalion of
at the present time. The Crown Prince and Primus of Prussia went to Lon- o many times," said M. Bit n, o have I heard the Team country, embarked at Brashear, city of the Masseurs d'Afrique. It is difficult to describe the con.
don this moraine, attended by Countess Hohenthal, Count dition of the body of the demand, some 20 wound' haring
him say that the first cannon shot in Euro
Pe Texas, by way of Berwick Bay.
Furstenstein, and Major Yon Schweisitz. been hillicted, any one of which would have been NA.
YESTERDAY was the fifteenth day of the Court- The Earl and count.", of Clarendon and lady cee.. would annihilate that work." The Northern press urge the reinforcement of meat to produce death. The see, (the bridle arm) was own.
Banks on the Rio Grande. pletely severed from the trunk, and with a part of the reins
Martial at Aldershot, and, judging from the past, stance Villiell left the Castle t. 4117. (swim's rezzcates.) Some excitement still exists at points along the yet in the hand, was found nearly ten paces from the body.
it is no exaggeration to say, that had the trial The Queen will hold a Privy Counril on Tuesday, at PORTUGAL. Federal frontier for fear of a Confederate excur- The villagers profess the most profound ignorance on the
)313eu .condeeted according to the system of the Queers
0„,,o subject, but we have beard that they have said that they
°- ARRIVAL OF MARSHAL FOREY. Mon from Canada.
courts at Westminster, it might have been con- The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yestee•
chided in less than half the time which it will day. An appeal from Cozad*, " Brown r. Guen (part Marshal Fore landed here yesterday and has more.
Y bourbood, and that one of them, an old woman, declared;
LISBON, Dgc. 4. The draft for 3,000 men is progressing in Balti- observed three strangers (""w"ded men) In the neigh-
that, hearing cries, she looked out from her house, and saw
probably occupy. The necessity of passing every heard) was
J. resumed. The lords present were Lord Kings-
own, Sir Coleridge, tad Eir E. Ryan. paid a visit to his Majesty Dom Fernando to-Zay. The steamer Banshee, captured on the 21st two men passing quickly by, one of them with his garments
question through several hands before it is put, d '
He will leave on Sunday for St. Ramiro. November, has arrived at New York. covered with blood. The officials, of course, profess to have
and of waiting until an officer has written down both Deuatches were seat yerterday from the Colocied-office . • • • • •
to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Serious election riots have taken place near Admiral Lissovski, with several vessels of the no clue to the dastardly murderer. M. Carous had gone
the question and the answer, is tedious and trying.out in the afternoon, as was his usual practice, for a ride.
After all, however, this is a mere wade of time. - -. Oporto. Russian fleet, has left for Washington.
He was totally unarmed, not having with him even the
But the manner of conducting the trial is amore THE ILLNESS or LORD Etore.-A telegram was SPAIN. The movement among the laboariog classes for
small pocket pistol which he sometimes carried.
serious affair. Public justice demands that the received at the India-office yesterday to the effect that up NEW SPANISH LOAN. higher wages continues.
trial should be conducted according to law. But to the 17th ult Dews had been received of Lord
death, though that no
at event was dally expected. Elgin's MADRID, Dec. 4. COMMERCIAL INTELIMENCE
WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.)
the decisions of the Court upon some of the point; Their Royal Highnesees the Duke and Duch The Bank of Madrid has contracted a loan with NEW YORK, Nov. 24, Evwzo.
SarinDAY, DECIDISZI I% 8 A.N.
submitted to them have been so singular, that d'Aumale will to Orleans House, Toicket to- the house of Rothschild for 100,000,000 reeds in Gold opened yesterday at 531, and has declined
,
it may be interesting and curious to point them out day, from Dadbrook House, Essex. silver ingots. to 50k, under more favourable military advice". B. IR D. W. 7., I.i Q.
.1. IL &
..... se IS 4 &W. 7 165. on London, I
Let it not be supposed that in doing so we desire to Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Exchange Nawn ..... - 1124611 I Z. 03 si e-4• I ft o all 2
iii prejudge the case of Colonel CPA wunr, or even to Edward of Saxe Weimer, who have been ruddieg at Mal- ITALY. Apprehensions of increased tightness in the seerde
TURIN, Dec. 4, Eordnito. 19.4091 5 &w. 9
.is 96 e - 6
throw any reflections upon Sir G. Weraanam. and combs Lodge, sear Goodwood, were visited on Tuesday by de t• , the French ambassador, arrived •
money market have depressed stocks. The closing I'6"e 111.73.61 4 W.& W. 7 is - 3
his colleagues. Military officers, like the majority their Royal Rithri..A.eneeele thhe.Dn,...„nhensaeraidint Cnuensoenernerbriage ali the today :-New York Genital, 1321 ; Scorboronstt ma * 3 &w. 817 ft 0 - 4
quotations are
here last mg. ht.Greencastle.- gate Fell I W.& W. 7! 6 la r - 5
Princess Ran
of mankind, are impatient of technical roles of " r----- -'' --Y
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Illinois, 124 ; Erie, 10n.Galway
lunched at Moloombe. The royal duchess and Princess The Stampa publishes • intelligence from AtheueValencia - - -•- - -- -
law, and ignorant of them even if they desire to Mary, before returning The steamer Constitution left San Francisco on. (aweeeiee _ 17. _ _ ___ _ _ _
to Brighton, west over Goodwood confirming the statement that great agitation had
follow them. Theoretically, no doubt, the MOM- Hones, accompanied by Prince ;Lid Princess Edward of been caused by the treaty stipulating for the the 23. rd November with over 1,000,000 dollars in ktleorp.oos,
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ben of a court-martial seem to be bound to follow Sme-Weirear, specie for England. emblem es et a mew. 15 ft la ant 0
demolition of the fortifications of Corfu. Penman . - 4
these rules, end the presence of the Deputy The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and family IMPORTANT FROM CHATTANOOGA. Brest - 1,
Judge-Advocate to advise the official prosecutor arrived at Goodwood Park, Sussex, on Wednesday last, GENOA, Dec. 4.
and of counsel to advise the prisoner, is almost from Hilliogdou, where they made a short stay, on their The steamboat Flavin Gioja this morning ran GREAT SUCCESSES OF THE FEDERALS. Litocbefort.thi".. .... !111031.1636'1111. 02 8.8.ww: if 11 e- t
Plymouth Mt, 51: 3 &S W. i 6 ft o - 4
an admission of the theory that ought to be ad- way from Gordon Castle. The duke and duchess will aboard the French steamer Mozambie, which The following telegram, although landed at memos* samm. a I W. 1s es 0- 4
hared to in practice. But it is evident that the remain at Goodwood until the meeting of parliament. foundered ; all on board were saved. 1
Roche's Point early this morning, was only deli- rL,,,r-r...::::::241,:.,AZ(*. . 1 ri 0 - '
Court have considerable doubts upon the point, • His Excellency Count Apponyi returned to the,
d Austrian Embus Embassy on Thursday evening, from visiting the vexed by the Electric Telegraph Company at Mr. ,:eeioves ob.._ ,i.ti eei i 1 3.3 f. 0. 5
10 o - $
indeed they do not claim a right to override teseede and is...chine ing'
EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Reuter's office at 1.5 p.m. today :
... of Ralinkor, ma. 14400.13 10....

YESTERDAY was the fifteenth day of the Court-
Martial at Aldershot, and, judging from the past,
it is no exaggeration to say, that had the trial
been .conducted according to the system of the
courts at Westminster, it might have been con-
cluded in less than half the time which it will
probably occupy. The necessity of passing every
question through several hands before it is put,
and of waiting until an officer has written down both
the question and the answer, is tedious and trying.
After all, however, this is a mere waste of time.
But the manner of conducting the trial is a more
serious affair. Public justice demands that the
trial should be conducted according to law. But
the decisions of the Court upon some of the points
submitted to them have been so singular, that
it may be interesting and curious to point them out.
Let it not be supposed that in doing so we desire to
prejudge the case of Colonel Caavristr, or even to
throw any reflections upon Sir G. Wentz's/ay and
his colleagues. Military officers, like the majority
of mankind, are impatient of technical rules of
law, and ignorant of them even if they desire to
follow them. Theoretically, no doubt, the mem-
bers of a court-martial seem to be bound to follow
these rules, end the presence of the Deputy
Judge-Advocate to advise the official prosecutor,
and of counsel to advise the prisoner, is almost
an admission of the theory that ought to be ad-
hered to iu practice. But it is evident that the
Court have considerable doubts upon the point, if
indeed they do not claim a right to override
the ordinary rules which prevail in courts
of law. On one occasion at least the
President has declared, " We are here bound
" to decide according to understanding, and so-
" cording to the customs of war. We cannot be
" bound by the nice technicalities of the civil
" law." If this theory be correct, it is difficult
to understand the reason which has induced the
Court to tolerate so many legal objections, or to
waste so much time in hearing them debated. If
this theory is not correct, it is obvious that the
President of the Court• Martial practically admits
his ignorance of legal principles, and this admis-
sion proves the necessity of providing a court-
martial with an assessor whose opinion
should be binding in legal questions. If
the Court-Martial has a code of law of its own,
let the President dispense with legal discussion ;
if it has no such code, let him be allowed to ascer-
tain the rules of evidence from some educated
lawyer, and be compelled to follow them. But,
unfortunately, during the present trial the Presi-
dent has followed neither course. A mass of evi-
dence his been admitted which is obviously irrele-
vant, and at last the Court have adopted a course
in one particular instance which is strangely in-
consistent with either theory.
It may be remembered that some days ago Assis-
tant-Surgeon BanNerr was called to give evidence
as to the cause of LILLEY'S death. He produced
a report in the addendum to which it was stated
that be had ascertained from inquiries that LILLEY
had taken a certain quantity of brandy. It is well
understood to be against the rules of evidence to
ask Dr. Banearr from whcm he obtained this in-
formation. But unfortunately the surgeon was
permitted to answer the question, and his reply
was that ho obtained the information from Mrs.
LILLEY. What was the consequence I By a ruse
of the prisoner's counsel, Mrs. LILLE; the deed
wife, was as it were summoned from the grave to
destroy the character of her dead husband,
through the mouth of the assistant-surgeon. Of
course, the prosecutor objected to this sharp
practice. He protested against it at the time, and
a day or two after he desired to recall the as-
sistant-surgeon in order to ascertain the exact
words which Mrs. Litiry used wheu she told the ,

His Excellency Count Apponyi returned to the
Austrian Embassy cm Thorsdiy evening, from visiting the
Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield Rouse,
Berta.

We learn that the Earl of Westmoreland, while
on a visit to the Emperor of the Preach, at Compi4ns, was
seised with a violent attack of Mama from which serials
rendre were feared. The Emperor seat for his owe
ddaoe from Paris, and it ii now hoped that hie lordship's
malady will yield to medical treatment.

(ISDN 001 OWN

NEW YORK, Nov. 25, Evratuto.
(Per the Asia.)
(By telegraph to Halifax.)

strorig
unsettled.

MIDAS. ON TEM NC
&W. to N.W. sadlf.E, Noain-/Lagr. N.W. to
strong gam at toter- squally,
vats, with some snow
or rain.
8.3. W. to N.N.W.. WEST COASTS. W. to N. and N.V.E.
gales, aquas of hall strong. unsettled,
and snow, or rain. some tall.
&E. to S.W. and N.W., SOCISCoing. W. to N. and back,
strong to gales, with strong, squally, un-
rain at times. settled.
E.S.E. to & and S.W., SOLITE-EAST. B.W. to strong to
strong to gales, some fresh, squally, some
rain In places. rain.
South Cone on all coasts this Saturday) morning.
Noethilaat=Calthneas to Lincoln. WeatmDonegal to H,aam.
wall. B°4lll2=El:task Channel awl Biscay Bay Cowls. South.
HastmStralt of Dover to Liwoloshire and Heligoland.

PARIS. FRIDAY EVINERG.

The leading article of the Prase is a letter in
six columns of M. Emile de Girardin to Lord Rus-
sell. I have run through it hurriedly, and, but for
the signature, should have dismissed it as a col-
lection of words utterly unworthy of notice. But
M. de Girardin is a journalist of very great talent,
and although I think that, at the present moment,
lie is playing the part of a charlatan, I cannot for-
' get that on many occasions he has done yeoman
service to the cause of liberty, by exposing abuses
with a courage and an ability which dis-
tanced all his contemporaries. He has chosen
to take up breast high the Emperor's pro-
ject of a congress, and he says that the English
journals which write against it must be defi-
cient either in " ideas or independence." He con-
cludes his letter with poor humour, by assuring
Lord Russell of the "indignation" with which he
has the honour to be his obedient servant.
I will not positively undertake to say that in all
the long lucubration there may not be something
worth quoting ; and very possibly some of your
contemporaries may make extracts from a letter
written by a man of M. de Girardin's ability to a
man of Lord Russell's rank and consideration. I
will, however, not be the first to give importance
to what I regard as a shallow mystification. M. de
Girardin, disgracing better antecedents, writes now
in the style of the worst Greek sophists. He is the
type of an idle rhetorician described by an English
satirist.—

A rumour is current that Charleston was shelled
on the 22nd inst., and is now on fire.
Grant reports as follows from Chattanooga on
the evening of the 24th inst. :
"Sherman carried the end of Missionary Ridge
to-day. His right is now at the tunnel, and his
left at Chickamauga Creek. Troops from Look-
out Valley carried the point of the mountain and
hold the eastern slope and the point high up.
" Hooker reports 2,000 prisoners taken, besides a
small number fallen into our hands from Mis.
sionary Ridge."
General Thomas confirms this report.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset will leave
the Admiralty on Monday for their seat, Stever Park, De-
vonshire.
The new Governor-General of India, Sir John
Lawrence, took his departure for India is the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamship Ripon, from South-
ampton, yesterday.

We (Times) have reason to believe that Sir
Gimp Clerk will be appointed to the seat in the Indian
Connell vacated by the appointment of Ira John lawmen
to the Viceroyalty of India. Sir George Clerk, it will to
remembered, has been twice Governor of Bombay, and is
one of the most distinguished civil servants of the liana
service.

MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES FOR THE
ExeuisnWrzc.—Monday, Royal Academy, 8, "Anatomy,"
Professor Partridge ; Entomological, 7 ; Royal Institution,
7 ; General Monthly Meeting. Tuesday, Ethnological, 8,
"The Weddos, a Wild Tribe, Ceylon," by a Tamil Native ;
"Commixture of Races, New Weed," Mr. Crawford ; Syro-
Egyptian, 7a, "Roman Mientration in the Eastern Empire,"
Mr. Black ; Engineers, 8, "Cornish Pumping Engines," Mr.
Morehead; "Closing of Reclamation Banks," Mr. Heppel.
Zoological, 9, "Systematic Position of Palmed*"
Mr. Parker; "Breeding of the Mooruk," by the
Secretary. Wednesday, Society of Literature, 44.
Society of Arts, 8, " Recent Agricultural Progress," Mr.
Morton. Microscopical, 8. Graphic, 8. British Archie*.
logical, Bi, " Brixworth Church," Mr. Roberts; "
published MS. Lives of Beery V.," Mr. Bannister; " Die.
covcry of Well, &C.. St. Duostan's Hill," Mr. Blashill.
Thursday, Antiquaries, 8, "On Early Applies Liters-
tare," C. W. Goodwin. Royal, "Spectra of Chemical
Elements," Mr. Huggins; "Acids from Cyanides of Oxy.
radicals of Di- and Triutornic Alcohols," Mr. Maxwell
Simpson. Friday, Astronomical, 8.
THE CHURCH IN THE METROPOLIB.—The Lord
Bishop of London yesterday licensed the Rev. Maxwell M.
Ben Oliel to a curacy in St. James's. Pentoriville, and to
officiate in Christchurch there ; the Rev. Edward Harm]-
toe Flynn. M.A., to a curacy in the pariah church of St.
Anus, Soho; the Rev. William Baker Fry, 8.A., to •
curacy in the church of St. Batholornew, Gray's innrold ;
the Rev. Francis William Helder toe curacy in the church
of St. James, Enfield-highway ; the Rev. Charles &Ak-
erson, to • curacy in the church of St. Stephen, Padding-
ton ; and she Rev. William Henry Woodman, 8.A., to •
curacy in the church of the Holy Trinity, Lee. S.E. The
bishop has, we hear, fixed Friday, the 11th Mat., for the
consecration of the new church reoently erected in the
parish of Hampton. Middlesex, and intended to be called
' St. James's, New Remotes."
Admiral Liseoveky lieu selected Hampton Roads
as the winter quarters of the Russian Best. The Brooklyn
navy yard was offered, but he dechred en account a the
difficulty of keeping his officers and men on board tear •
liege city.—New York paper.

Cincinnatti despatches to-day state that Knoxville
is closely invested on the north side, but the south
side is open. General Burnside is confid ant of mice....
General Bragg reports on the 19th inst. th►t
Wheeler's cavalry drove the Federal cavalry into
Knoxville, capturing 300 prisoners. The Confe-
derate infantry was close up to the city.
Mobile despatches of the 19th assert that Gene.
ral Taylor had defeated Franklin's forces near
Alexandria, Louisiana, and Weitsel's division near
(place omitted), with heavy loss.
The Federal government adheres to its determi-
nation to refuse exchanges of prisoners until the
Confederates agree to exchange coloured troops.
The Confederates decline to oomply with this de-
mand.

The Countess Danner, the morganatic widow of
King Frederick Fll., is at the Castle of Clarksburg, suffer-
tag from erysipelas.

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PRINCI ALFRED AT THE LORD PROVORT9S.--OR
Thursday evening the Lord Proton of Edinburgh bad the
honour of receiving at dinner hie Royal Menem Prince
Allred and his Good Ducal Highness Prime Wilhelm of
Haw. The evening's entertainment* were enlivened by a
reeding in aostume of the comediettai of The Wonderful
Woman, in which Mr. Toole, Mr. and Mrs. Wyorliman, and
other mashers of the Theatre Royal company, took put
The festivities concluded with a ball.
JENNY LIND AT WINDSOIL—A concert, in aid of
the Wiodsoe Volunteer Ride Corps, took place at Windsor
on Thursday evening last, under the immediate petit/ow
of her Royal flightless the Crown Princess of Prussia, the
Belgian Minister, and the residents io the surrounding
neighbourhood, when M. and Madame Coldseholidt, toge-
ther with Miss Palmer, Mr. W. Cooper, Mr. Pratte°, Mr.
Ehwrove, and the choir St. George a Chapel, gratuitously
rered their valuable airtime. Visitors came from all
(marten. and the tickets were all disposed of several days
previously. Madame Goldirchmidt, who was most suc-
cessful in the various mop she sang, particularly in a
Swedish echo song towards the close of the cormert, was
preceded to her residence by the hood of the volunteers,
who played ‘heir beet in complinieut and gratitude to the
fair songstreert_ -

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, NOV. 25, Emmy.

Who could by geometric scale
Find out the size of pots of ale,
&wive by signs and tangents straight
If bread or butter wanted weight,
And wisely tell what time &day
The clock does strike by algebra.
Nobody now pays the least attention to his
wordy puzzles in Paris, and, in spite of his invita-
tion to Compiegne, I think it is a mistake to sup-
pose him worth listening to abroad.

Gold opened this morning at 491, and declined
rapidly under the military news. The closing
quotation to-day is 471. Money very active.
Exchange on Paris, 3.35. Stocks heavy. New
York Central, 136. Illinois, 1211. Erie, 107}.
Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 106.
Cotton steady. Middling upland, 83 to 84.
Flour and wheat quiet. Corn tending downwards.
Provisions heavy. Coffee very firm. Sugar very
dull. Molessee quiet. Petroleum heavy. Crude,
26 to 261. Refined, 42 to 44.

AF.R.ATID Baran.—At the balf-yearly meeting
yesterday of the Aerated Bread Company, a digitised at the
rate of 12/1 per met. per &DRUM was declared 4261. was
placed to the reserve food, and a balance of 7394 wee car-
ried forward. It was also announced that the result of the
past year's basin*. being satisfactory, the directors will
extend the operations of the company as originally contem-
plated.

The Bourse is more calm, and although the
amount of business done was small, the Rents rose
25c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 66fr.
90c. and 67fr. 10c. Whaler rose 7fr. 50c. Rail-
ways are somewhat higher.

NEW YORE. Nov. 26, lloiumto.

OHIGISAL PALAU:IL ONI SHILLING DAY..
PIEDAL Doc. 4.—Adrainsions nn payment, 789; eft
D 7 arson iieltds. 683 ; Wel, 1,452.

(By Telegraph to Halifax.)

On the night of the 24th inst. Bragg evacuated
Lookout Mountain, moving south. Hooker cc-