The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENINeICEMBER 29,

of the county bestirred themselves in good time to
form a choice committee, presided over by ,Lord
CARLISLE, to plan the festival and carry`it through.
But news soon arrived that London was to be the
centre of the celebrations—the London scheme
ignoring Stratford altogether. Stratford ac-
quiesced, and prepared to work in a humbler way
for its own satisfaction and pleasure. It would
have its local festival, paid for by local sub-
scription, and leave the metropolis to act for the
nation.

But this, again, would not do. The provinces
bad no notion of celebrating the day anywhere
but at Stratford, or with their faces turned towards
Stratford, as the birth and death place and the
early and late home of Siesxamaz. Aid and
support were offered on many hands, and the local
authorities have evidently had no option in the
matter. The original scheme has been revived.
The names of the Vice-Presidents are in good
accord with that of the President, and make a
noble show ; and the working Committee, under
Sir Roamer W. C. Hssuros, K. C. 8., as Chairman,
promises well for the entertainments. The object
is to raise money, by these entertainments and'
otherwise, for, first, the endowment of one or more
Scholarships to the English Universities, open to
competition among the pupils of the school of
King EDWARD VI., at which Suszarzsaz received
his education ; and next, the erection of a Monu-
mental Memorial at Stratford. The entertain-
ments proposed are a banquet on the birthday it-'
self, Saturday, the 23rd of April, presided over
by Lord Csiecists, and attended by many men of
mark in literature and art, and by ladies ; and in
the next week, excursions among Seismirsraz's
haunts, reading of his plays, a concert, and a
fancy ball of Shakspearian characters. All this
has been planned, and participated in by almost'
every country gentleman and eminent citizen in
the neighbouring counties, and made known
wherever they are known ; and yet the whole
scheme has been so completely ignored by the Lon-
don Committee that many who would have been
delighted to help and enjoy the country celebra-
tion have joined the London organization in
ignorance of there being any other. As soon as
the Mayor of Stratford made the state of the
case known in London, money was freely given
there, and names for the list of Vice-Presi-
dents. There is no reason to suppose that there
is any ill-humour anywhere; and Stratford ex-
pressly declares its good-will to the Metropolitan
undertaking. But there should be concert, if not
a junction of foretell, if the occasion is to be pro-
perly used, and some permanent memorial to arise
out of the celebration of that day. It should not
be overlooked that the Stratford authorities have
undertaken an onerous and costly scheme in de-
ference to the public voice of demand, and that
they ought not to be left to the chances of such
support as the last moment may bring. But it is
also to be remembered that the matter will be
discussed a hundred years hence, with sharp cu-
riosity, to discern what the appreciation of Sass-
amass really was about the year 1863 ; and thus
the disgrace of a failure will be as fresh and strong
a centuryhence as it can be next May-day, if such
a misfortune should be in store. That it may
' not, there should be immediate activity on some
distinct and common track—such, for inst.nns„ as
Manchester has marked out. Let each place have
some sort of commemoration at home, if it so

pleases ; and let it raise its funds avowedly for
two objects—to pay for the festival or memorial
(or both) at home, sad to aid the Stratford Memo-
rial, or Scholarship, or both.
There are two centres of action, in London and
at Stratford, common in their aim and spirit, bat
differing widely in their methods and the parti-
cular character of their enjoyment. Let all loyal
lovers of the poet draw towards the one or the
other, and if anyone hesitates which, let him sup-
port he country centre, as probably the weaker,
while certainly not the leas interesting. Here are
four months before us. They cannot be too ac-
tively and carefully used if the 23rd of April is to
yield honour at once to our SILLICAPEARE and our-
selves, without any alloy of mortification or regret.
Liverpool has had its public meeting, after Man-
chester, and has appointed its committee for the
joint object. Every considerable town in the
kingdom should follow the example without delay.

William Makepeace Thackeray will be buried at
Kepis'-green Cemetery, on Wednesday, Dec. 90,
at 12 o'clock.

be Court.

0680111.13. Dm. 26.
The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday
afternoon, accompanied by the Princess of Wales.

D. 27.

The Queen, Prinoe Alfred, Princess Hidesii, Primus
Louisa, Prime Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Priaceee Heber
lake attended Divine envie* tide =vein at Odom, lame
the Bev. G. nether° performed the serviee.
The Prince and Primer of Wales attended aervios at
Whippiecham Ch ref

Tai MINDY/ST.—Lord Palmerston is residing at
his seat, Broad Lade, Meta. Earl de Grey and Ripos has
departed for his country residence. Studley Royal, sear
Ripon, Yorkshire. Mr. Milner Gibson also left town a few
days ago. All tho other members of the cabinet are also
absent from London. Several of the ministers are expected
to return to town in the second week indemnity, and after
their meetiog the Queen will hold a privy coned, at which
the day for the meeting of parliament wm be detaradaed
on, and a proclamation leaned summon'sg both boons to
moot foe the doopstob of public burl WI& —Observer.

The Queen will return it is said, to Windsor
°antis es the Ilth of Febn:ary next. Her Majesty will
afterwards mode at Windsor for esveral month'.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
et Wales will return to Framers Lodge on the 2nd of
Amory.

His Excellency Count de Lerradio, Portuguese
Xisister at this Court, bas jest retested (rocs the Coati-
asst.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are enter•
lasing homily party at Goodwood, Sows.

Viscount and Viscountems Palmerton are enter-
taining a limited circle of friends at Breedlesda, Hants,
The Earl and Countess do Grey have made
arrangements to leave town to-day for Studley Park, near
Ripon, Yorkshire, for the holidays.
The marriage of the Hon. John Major Henniker,
eldest son of Lord mid Lady Henniker, with Lady Alice
Cuffs, daughter of the Karl and Counters of Dam" is
posted to take place early in the week after next, At
present the 11th or 12th proximo is mused.

•
DEATH OF VISCOUNTESS BOYLL.—We have to
announce the patasature death of Viseountss Boyle,
which lamentable Great marred ea Saturday night Mat.
Ear ladyship bad been emilloed a week previously with a
ass, bet bad symptoms earned. which resulted fatally.
The late viscountess was third daughter of Hoary, the late
Earl of Harewood, by Lady Louisa, woad daughter of
Thomas, mead Marquis of Bath. She married Ia ISM
Visersuat Boyle, eldest son of the Earl cad Countess of
Shannon, by whose she loaves three infant sous. The late
viseountass was sister of Lady Louisa Mills mad Lady
Wbarscliffe, sad Riese of the Duchess of Bacchus& and
the Dowager Chastens of Elleamere.

The fint of the usual course of lectures at
Mistress at the Royal Institution was delivered cm Satur-
day by Prate/am Trucial' to a crowded audience ; sad,
though them lectures profess to be adapted to Ismail,
hearers, the majority of those preseat had bug pawed the
age of boys and girls. The subject of the lecture I.
"Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Notion," or what is
eseseseely known as static mid voltaic eleekinty.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

TUE REPOI4 ADVICE OF ENGLAND
DENMARK.
The Paris Prase of to-day says quite Biliously
that England proposes to Denmark the sacrifice of
Holstein, which would be attached to the Germanic
Confederation, and Denmark would receive as com-
pensation the Duchy of Schleswig, which should be
bound definitively and indissolubly to the
monarchy, freed from the jurisdiction of the Diet.
The Temps has a similar report.

(IZETTIEWS

THE DANISH MINISTRY.
COPENHAGEN, Dze. 28.
It is now most probable that the ministers will

remain in office. -On Saturday last the members of
the cabinet and several eminent statesmen belong-
ing to different political parties in the Rigsraad had
an interview with the King. They were all unani-
mous that a legal suspension of the common con-
stitution is now impossible. The reasons stated
were that wherever the federal troops have entered
a revolution hes been accomplished under their pro-
tection, by which King Christian has been deprived
of his rights as Duke of Holstein. The Pretender
has also been proclaimed, and any expression of
loyalty suppressed, all in the presence of the
federal troops. The principal clergyman in Alfons,
was compelled to fly from the town for remaining
loyal to King Christian.

:1:1E1
inserted in the Ignite/a ao-day, is certabil
most unreserved adheaiolt to the congress
hes been received. Belokow comes it that
favourable letter, dole November 18, has
kept back all this while I
On Christmas eve, Nubar Pacha, the special
envoy of the Pacha of Egypt, was served with a
writ, at the Grand Hotel, Boulevard des Capueines,
on the part of M. F. de Lamps. "M. Nubar,"
as he is somewhat irreverently called in the pro-
ems, is charged with having libelled M. de Lesser
and the Suez Canal Company, in the case for opi-
nion laid before MM. Odillon Barrot, Dufaure,
and Jules Fevre. Damages are laid at 300,000 fr.

POLAND.

(PION OUR SPECIAL COI

KREUZ, POSEN, Ore. 23.

However devoutly the lovers of European order
may wish it, the spectre of the Polish insurrection
refuses to be laid. It must be confessed that it is a
most barefaced ghost to walk abroad after it has
been cut by all its friends, but walk abroad it does,
and seems likely to do, through the night of winter,
if, indeed, there is to be a winter, which seems
doubtful at present. The elements alone appear to
have pity on the Poles. It is well known that the
Marquis Wielopolski fixed the recruitment for Jan-
uary, because he knew well enough that in theevent
of an ordinarily severe winter an insurrection
would be impossible. But for the extraordinarily
mild season, the lads who fled into the woods in the
latter days of January must have been frozen out
long before their sticks were changed for rifles,
which was effected by Langiewicz's skill in gaining
over the artisans in the government iron-works in
the district of Szedlowiec. That was the decisive
stroke, which gained Langiewicz the dictatorship,
but bitterly have Szedlowiec and its eaten& vil-
lages suffered for lending an ear to his persuasion.
In the course of last summer I had occasion to pass
through the district in question, and found one
vast scene of desolation, the post-house alone stand-
ing erect amid the debris of charred brick and
rafters. The site of each house was marked by a
tall lank sentinel—the chimney—which, I suppose,
from being used to the thing, had not found itself
inconvenienced by a little extra heat. One of
the burnt-out iuhabitauta related to me some
of the particulars of the scene, which surpass
description. In vain the more humane among the
officers stationed themselves in the doorways to
guard the inhabitants from outrage, for the
drunken soldiery swarmed in at the windows, and
attacked their own officers in the rear. The im-
petus which that brilliant stroke of Langiewicz
gave to the insurrection is still bearing it on, so
that now in its twelfth month it gives vigorous signs
of life. The latest accounts from the theatre of
war describe a successful attack of a baud of insur-
gents, freshly formed in Galicia, on the garrison of
Michalowice. Stationed only four English miles from
Cracow, the Russian soldiers, whose misfortune it
is to garrison Michalowice, lead a most unenviable
life. To judge from the appearance of the
men, who were hanging about the place on the
occasion of my visit, I should have supposed that
the greatest thieves and vagabonds in the whole
army had been sent to do penal service there, had I
not afterwards met with more villainous-looking
faces among the troops in the interior of the
country. Penal service the defenders of Micha-
lowios certainly do, for they act as a target, at
which freshly-joined insurgents take their maiden
shot. Scarce a night passes but what the alarm is
given, and the men are worn out by sheer want of
rest. On the 14th of the present month a more
than usually vigorous attack took place, and the
Russians, taking to their heels, left the Custom-
house a prey to the insurgent& These last, when
they bad possessed themselves of the money chest,
and destroyed the books, &c., in their turn beat a
retreat, not caring to await the return of the
Russians with reinforcements from Miechow.

Another success is reported to have been gained
by a baud of insurgents at Lakow, in Podlachia.
No details of this affair have as yet transpired, but
as I know that district to be one of the few in which
the peasants are decidedly favourable to the insur-
rection,l think it highly probable that the Russians
got the worst of it. In a certain sense it may be
said that the peasantry throughout the country are
favourable to the insurrection, inasmuch as they
are the chief gainers by it. For, in the first place,
they pay no rent, and secondly, they help them-
selves to just whatever they please. As both sides
bid high for their support they feel their own
im-
portance, and make their own terms. These good
times for the peasants will naturally only last as
long as the insurrection lasts, a fact which the pea-
sants are quite shrewd enough to understand, and
are consequently in no hurry to see order restored.
The speech of the Marquis de Larochejaquelein,
delivered in the French Senate, has naturally been
read with indignation all over Poland. I should
not have noticed it, were there not several points
which I can contradict from my own experience.
For instance, the marquis asserts that the insur-
rection is not a national one, and goes the length of
affirming that its friends do not even assert that
character for it. Now, during the course of last
summer, I traversed the whole length and breadth
of the country, and associated constantly with all
classes of Polish society, from the highest to the
lowest, and in the whole course of my travels met
but two Poles who were not heart and soul in the
insurrection. One of these was a personal friend of
the Marquis Wielopolski, and the other had been edu-
cated in Germany, and coald not speak his native
language. "This chief of aband comes from Galicia,"
continues the marquis, "and that from Italy,
while a third comes from France ;" adding, as if it
was some.hing diabolical to think of, that they go
the length of concealing their names. That the
Russians should be annoyed at being prevented by
this harmless expedient from wreaking their ven-
geance on the families of those implicated in the
insurrection is natural enough, but that a French-
man should object to a Pole fighting under what
name he pleases, is not so intelligible. With
regard to the assertions of the marquis, that Miens-
lawski is at this momeut general holm o of the insurgent
forces, and that the insurrection is the workof this
agitator, I am in a position to assert that either
statement is equally false. As the marquis refers
to the Journal de St. Peterabourg as the source of
his information, it is not surprising that he should
be very far from the truth. Oi all European jour-
' pals, the Journal de St. Peterabeurg misrepresents
facts with the least ingenuity, so that I should have
imagined it impossible for any one to be deceived
by it. For instance, in reference to a battle which
took place in August last near Lublin, I read in the
above paper, "On this occasion the Poles left 5,000
dead on the field, while we (the Russians) lost one
man ! " On another occasion, where the Polish
loss is reported as several hundred, the Russians
returned one Cossack as having suffered a contu-
sion. There are other portions of the Marquis de
Larochejaquelein's speech which it would be
equally easy to refute, but as I have some regard
for your readers I shall not Millet say more of
it on them.

21111 FITZGERALD DIVORCE CASE.
—•---
Bettenvorth, father of Mrs. Fi
writes reheating the between
Milford Campbell mid Major ld :
to the aspersions as* ?ably out on my vifierieelsatz
and r, and that of my wife, I am silent; my
will j me, and Ido not fear their decision • but when I
am gravely informed that ths reckless and °fault's Whom
which he wrote to my most unfortunate and ill-treated
daughter were unwittingly penned, when ho was ' oat of
his mind,' it is my duty to demand the tallest public
proof of so incredible an assertion, Thee* letters ex-
tend over a period of many mouths, and if ever there was
method in madam it most have bees in this butane&
Barely if his medical attendant and his family were aware
of theme facts their duty required e very Merest course
of action towards himself, his wife, and her parents. I
challenge Major Fitigerald to show by nalsepesehable
medial testimony that from June, 1881, whin he that
wrote to my wife, desiring her to be on her gaud, to the
very sod of that year, he was irresponsible, by SWUM of
madness, for word or action. Till this is dose, all hosed
men must suspend their judgmeet. Permit me, before I
aoudads, to add a word as to the marrnige of my daughter.
Debaned by a physical infirmity from all pommel know.
ledge of whet pared in court, I Mad from the se
that it has bees sesumed mina falsely that I ealltletws=wh:
the 03•11•150 a and Major Fitzgerald mosey. The Queen's
Advocate might at least have remembered that two
suceendvely in the Arches Court beer the same of
worth, and a deeoendant of the Batteewortha and Ti..
maims could hardly seek increase of social position by •
marriage with one whose name would be Knight in TIM in
the pages of Lodge or Burke."
Mr. H. Bathurst, late captain in the Royal Welsh Fad-
asks, in • letter to the Time:
" What explanation has Major Fitzgerald to give to
Mrs. Mallet end her family of his coadnet in sot
coming forward several months ago with • most ample
and public apology for having so far forgotten him-
self as to indite such 'cruel untruths and imputations 1'
How is it his counsel was not instructed to lasU such an
apology on his behalf during the trial? Does he wish us
ti erstenil that he has been ' out of his mind' sines he
wrote those letters to his amiable spoon, and that be only
biome 'calm' the day before yesterday! Mikan this
can be proved to be the case, it count be less than •
year since he must have been fully aware of the
probable consequences of what you so happily term ' a
headstrong Irishman's ravings.' If be has been ell these
months unanswerable for his actions and raving,'

where were ' his medical attendant and his brother who
had charge of him ? ' Why did they allow these calum-
nies to be written, or, being written, why did they
not make some effort to explain her husband's no
state to Mrs. Fitzgerald, and so, perhaps, render th=Wyce
the means of divesting her mind of the infatuation which
then possessed her? Possibly. they may have done so. but
the public are not aware of it if they did. Nothing is dear,
the trial takes its course, rind Major Fitzgerald quietly
allows these falsehoods to be read in open court without a
word of remonstrance or explanation, with the exception of
a pursing remark from his counsel to the effect that he
trusted the jury would not take ' for a sober confession of
adultery the rhapsodies of an excited Irishman.' Mrs.
Mallet is left to do the best she can for herself, and, having
convinced the jury of her innocence, and having gained
general expression, of sympathy from the prom and the
public, then, and not till then, appears this very email
atonement, offered, not direct from Major Fitzgerald to the
injured lady herself, but through a Maud to her husband.
A fall explanation and apology made some months ago would
have excited for Major Fitzgerald public sympathy, if not
praise ; this after • statement' cap now only excite feelings
of mingled indignation and contempt."

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS.
(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly court and election of this insti-
tution was held thin day at the London Tavern, Mr. GEOIGII
Moon, the treasurer, in the chair.
Mr. LZYNDON, the secretary, read the report, which stated
the iertitution was in all respect. in the most satisfactory
*audition. The total receipts for the year 1863 had bean
6,8371. 3g, 7d., being 7591. more than those of the
previa(' year, and the eimultanems collection
this year bad exceeded that of last year by
2001. Although there had been much illness amongst the
children at the school in the early part of the year, at the
present time all the children were healthy. The Dumber of
children now in the school was 147, bolos 92 boys and 55
girk, and 14 would be elected on the present ocesaion—viz.,
7 boys aad 7 girls. The board of management had modem.
tifiestiee in being enabled to state that his Royal Rieman
the Priem of Wales had accepted the office held by his
lamented father, of patron of the schools. Owing to the
SIMS et the health of the school no pnblip examination had
takes place this year, but the school was in a high Mate of
enclemay. The grow receipts for the half-year had been
3,4961. Via 10d., and the expendittue 2,9301. 6s. 3d., leaving
a balsams of 5641. 3a 7d. The value of the live and dead
stock was 4661., and the rum of 14,3001. was invested le
railway bonds.
The report having been adopted, the hoard and officers
for the mule/ year were then elected, Ad, the business of
the meeting having terminated, the polling for the election
of children into the school was then proceeded with.