The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1863.

remedy is, of course, a great curtailment of pro-
duction, and this is precisely whatis being effected,
as is attested by the closed mill; diminished con-
sumption of cotton, and diminished exports of
goods and yarns.
We repeat, therefore, that it is merely • ques-
tion as to the time when the demand for goods for
consumption at home and abroad shall so far over-
take the stocks as to establish prices which will
enable spinners and manufacturers to buy cotton
at its increased quotations and work it up. The arri-
val of this time must be accelerated by the large ex-
tent to which the mills have beenclosed. The more
idle the mills are, the less cotton do they consume,
and the fewer goods do they produce, and this
action must operate in the long run both to depress
the prices of cotton and to raise the prices of goods,
through the stock of the former increasing, while
that of the latter diminishes. Such is indeed the
only mode in which that adjustment of the relative
prices of cotton and cotton goods can be brought
about which, as already remarked, must form an
indispensable preliminary to the reconstitution of
our cotton industry upon a solid basis and to the
renewal of general employment. 110 panacea put
forward by Government, or any other D4till en
machine, can be half so effectuaL Indeed,
any official or legislative tinkering with
the cotton trade is to be deprecated now
more earnestly than ever, because it would
have the incalculably mischievous effect of dis-
arranging everything at the very time when
manufacturers and merchants have learnt clearly
to discern the legitimate point to which affairs, left
to the operation of natural laws, will ultimately
tend. It is our duty, individually and collec-
tively, to do our best to relieve the present severe
local suffering, but those who advocate any tam-
pering by Government with the present recupera-
tive movement in the trade ought to be denounced
as traitors to the common weaL The very want
of employment, the painful effects of which induce
well-meaning but illogical people to cry out far
State interference, is, by reducing the
production of goods, the most powerful
agent of all for recovery. If people will have re-
course less frequently to declamation, and more
often to charitable personal exertion and sacrifice,
at the same time abstaining from all attempt to in-
terfere with the wholesome operation of the
natural laws of commerce, the reign of famine
and typhus in Lancashire will be abbreviated more
surely than by any means we know of. The re-
quisite equilibrium between the prices of cotton
and those of goods is being slowly but steadily ap-
proached. When it is reached the mills will re-
open for work, but they will not do so until then,
neither is it desirable, in the permanent interest of
the trade, that they should.
It is the more requisite to insist upon these
points because there is a popular, but fallacious,
notion that the stock of cotton is exhausted. The
fact is not so by any means, the aggregate stock
in the kingdom being now about 433,000 bales.
At the beginning of January last it did not ex-
ceed 700,000 bales, and at the beginning of Ja-
nuary, 1860, it was but 594,000 bales, so that
the immediate deficiency is not absolutely alarm-
ing. Of the present stock the proportion at
Liverpool is 394,000 bales, the discovery having
just been made, under circumstances which loudly
call for authoritative explanation, that the quan-
tity is in excess of the estimates hitherto put
forth by 100,000 bales, representing a value of
probably at least two minima sterling. In other
words, it has been found that we possess cotton
sufficient for five weeks' oomsumption more than
we knew of before. This is, of itself, no small
gain. But it may be pointed out that the 433,000
bales which are known to be held at this moment
in the kingdom are sufficient for nearly twenty
weeks' consumption at the average rate of
the whole of the past year, which was of
course much above the greatly reduced con-
sumption at this moment. Confirmation is
thus afforded of the view that what is really
wanted is not so much cotton as an equilibrium of
prices between cotton and cotton goods. Our
mills could of course go to work pros-
perously at the moderate and prudent
rate of, say, three days a week on the
existing supply of cotton, even at the present
high prices, did the prices of the manufactured
fabrics present a proportionate remuneration. But
it is just here that the shoe pinches, for the prices
are not remunerative. This is the point, then, in
which amelioration is most urgently needed. The
ratio of decrease of 50 per cent. has held good is
rather a singular manner in the cotton trade during
the past year ; for instance, we have received
50 per cent less of cotton (the imports of all kinds
into the kingdom having been 1,445,051 bales,
against 3,035,728 in 1861) ; we have used, as
shown by the statistics of the consumption before
cited, 50 per cent. less ; and we have exported 50
per cent. less of yarn. Its also calculated by com-
petent authorities, that, putting America entirely
on one side, we may get in 1863, from all quar-
ters, 50 per cent of the ordinary supply of cotton,
which would give the workpeople 60 per cent of
their usual employment. In other words, all the mills
ought some time in this year to be restored to
half-time. It need scarcely be said that, after
what our poor people have gone through, even
this moderate gain would be hailed with lively
satisfaction.

At the last meeting of the Lancashire Relief
Committee at Dublin, a letter was reed from the Rev. Mr.
Heaney, • priest at Blackburn, who said :—" From a
twelvemonth's experience as • member of every committee,
and, with one or two exceptions, every sub-committee, I
feel great pleasure in being ►ble to say that in Blackburn
the catholic* have received • fair and impartial share of
public relief. How, then, may I ask, can any catholic
journalist, either in Lancashire or Ireland, lend his infln•
once to stop the charity of those who thick proper to use
their right of giving their money for the support of • people
who are even now suffering most severely without say
fault at theirs?"

Mr. Wollaston Ramadan is appointed Vice-
Causal at Satan° do Cuba.

THE MIN omit Y .—Visootant Palmerston remains
with Lady Palmerstoa, at his seat, BroacUands, Hants.
Earl Russell is at Pernbrokelodge, Richmond-park. Mr.
Cardwell went on Friday to attend the Queen, at her Ma-
jesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Secre-
tary Sir George Grey went, in the early part of the week,
to pay a visit to Lord Harrowby, at hi seat, fiandoo-hall ;
the right hon. baronet is expected to return to London to-
MOROI, (Monday). Sir C. Wood remains in the ncrth. Br.
Gladstone is at Hawarden Castle, and the Duke of New-
castle at his seat. Ctumber•park, Notts. The Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers, president of the Poor-law Board, and Mr.
Millie Gibson, president of the Board of Trade, have been
io Loudon during the week.-06eerrer.
DIMNESS AMONGST THI CAMSON °FIXATIVES IN
lITLAIM.—The Freemen's Joanna! says :—" We have re-
ceived a communication from the operative cotton hellion of
Dublin, from which we learn that for three months three
operatives have been on half time and half wages, and that
DOW the great majority of them are altogether with•
oat work. These poor men—patient and tumora-
-1 plalnieg—bore up against the misfortune that had
overtaken them with heroic fortitude ; but hunger
will beeak down the bravest &tempt us, and the.*
operatives are but men. and being men they appeal
through us for some aid under the trying circumstances of
their position. They bare no " hank.boolts" to fall beet
upon—no savings of years to draw imbe—so spare furniture
I. send to the pawn-oMee ; for in the bust days the average
the fell hanellks did not exceed l a week, while
riln :m of
it, of the handvdid not reach even abet Sgere.
feel assared that something will be dose for these patient
saffereve, who in common with their brother operative. in
' Leneseltire suffer from the one sans—• muse wig Whki
they have and can have no possible control."

gbe Court.

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OSBORMIL, JAL 3.

The Queen drove out yesterday, attended by the
Countess of Gainaborough and Mejor•General the Hon.
A. N. Hood.
The Right Hon. E. Cardwell arrived yesterday, and had
an audience of the Queso.

SUNDAY.
Her Majesty drove oat yesterday aeseinpanied by the
Princess Beano&

Colonel the Hon. A. Harding. attended on boneblack.

The Prince/is Louis of Here took set airing.
This morning the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, PAWS
Leopold, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Louis
of Hesse ettanded divine service at Whippingliam Church.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Lord High Commiseiceer of the lonian
Islands, and from the Governor of the Falkland Island,.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta,
Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lbuan, Canada, and to the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

THE PRINCE or WILL/ —His Royal Highnesa
the Prince of Wales is expected to Tint his recently
acquired estate at Sandringham, Norfolk, to-day. It is
understood that Ike Prince will travel from town by a special
train on the Great Eastern Railway to the Wolleiton
Station on the Lynn and Hunstanton branch, which is
within easy distance of the mansion. In that case his stay
at the Lynn Station will be very brief, and it is intended
that the visit shall be of a strictly private character. A
portion of the Prince's stud and carriages were to precede
him, his royal highness proposing to devote some attention
to field sports. The mansion at Sandringham hoe received
several additions, Ro., but it is expected that its interior
fittings will yet be greatly enriched. Probably in these
matters, however, the tastes of theprincess Alexandra will
be consulted, and nothing further will be undertaken for the
present.

THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA. —A Copenhagen letter
of the 30th ult. says :—" The Hoe. A. B. Paget, the Eng-
lish Minister at this Court, end M. Ball, the Danish
Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has received special powers
from the King on the subject, have comnaseced the necessary
negotiations relative to the marriage contract of the Prim-
es, Alexandra. A sum of 100,000 rix dollars (about
12,0001.) to be voted legislatively, will be allowed by
Denmark to the Princess. A lady of hour= is to accom-
pany her Royal Highness to London, but will only remain
with her during the stay of the Prince and Princess of
Denmark in England. Prince Frederic will probably stop is
that country for some time after his sister's marriage, and
he intends, it is said, to study for some months at Oxford."

The Naples correspondent of the Times writes :
All that concerns any son of our Queen must be of inte-
rest to Englishmen, and we frequently hear much pleasant
gossip. " nue several times been on board here and else-
where," said a gentleman to me, "without finding the
Prince. He was up aloft, I was told. At lent I met him.
who I Missend, ' War, I am unfortunate ; your royal high-
ness is alw►ys aloft when I visit the St. George.'"

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchene of Cam-
oridge and the tPrinotas Mary intend to honour the Duke
and Duchess of Beaufort by a visit at Badminton featly in
the ensuing week.
The Duke and Dneheas of Bucoleuch are enter-
taining a enooeedon of visitors at Delkeith Palaoe, near
Edinburgh.

The Duke and Duchess of Montrose are shortly
winded in Belgrave-nquare from Buchanan Howe, Stir-

The Marquis of Tweeddale has loft town for
Seagate, Kent. We (Peat) understand that Colonel Lord
Arthur Hay, who by the death of his brother, the Earl of
Gifford, becomes heir apparent to the family honours, does
not intend to take his deceased brother's title, but will
adopt that of Viscount Walden, an old title conferred as
far beak as 1691.

The Marquis of Donegal' laid week entertained,
at Harnstead Park, Berke, the Duke ol Cambridge, with
other visitors who had been invited to meet his royal
highness. The noble marquis's preserves being well stocked
with game some excellent sport was afforded,

The Marquis Conyngbam will leave Hamilton-
plass in a few days for his seat in Inland.
The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have
entertained a =cordon of guests during the past week at
Apthorpe, their seat in Northamptonshire.
The Earl de Grey Etas returned to town from
Studley Park, mar Ripon, and resumed his official duties
at the Warofilee.

The Countess of Fife arrived at her residence in
Grosvaeas-plasa on Saturday from hton.

Lord Henry and Lady lllrica Thynne have
returned to Maiden Bradley from Wort Ling.
_ _

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.,
has left Whitehall•gardens on his return to Ireland. Lady
Emily Peel is staying at Nice for the winter, and we learn
that her ladyship is in improved health.
Lieutenant-Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Totten-
ham, family, and suite have arrived at their Irish residence,
Woodstock, county Wicklow, from their seat in Wales.

The Duke of Sutherland arrived at Naples
yesterday week from Kama Use on board his yacht the
Undies.

The Duke of St. Albans has gone to Corfu.
We (Dublin Evening Mail) are happy to be able
to state that Chief Justice Lefroy has satirey recovered
from his recent indisposition, and is at present on a visit
with Sir John Ribton, Bert., at Bray. It is his lordship's
intention to open his own court on Monday week, the first
day of next term.

The Observer says that the trustees appointed to
carry out the intentions of Mr. Peabody in his munificent
gift to the poor of London have visited various localities
and selected sites for improved dwellings Plans have been
drawn and contracts are in progress.

In a letter from Mr. Henry J. Raymond, pub-
li►bd in the New York Tinier, giving an amount of the cabi-
net crisis ad its miuses.weread:—" President Lincoln listened
with attention to all that was said. Hs et:premed the pro-
found solicitude which be felt on the subject they had
brought before him, and the overwhelming anxiety which
oppressed him concerning the oondition of the country and
the progress of the war. What the country wanted, he said,
was military vetoes& Without that nothing could go tight;
with that nothing could go wrong. He did not see haw the
measure proposed by the committee would furnish the
remedy required; if be had a cabinet of angels they could
not give the country military success, and that was what was
wanted, and what most be had."

The death of the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris
has reduced the number of French cardinals to 6ve. The
following are their names and ages :—Cardinel
Archbishop of Chambery, born the 28th of February, 1748;
Cardinal de Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons, born 30th of
October, 1787; Cardinal Ganes* Archbishop of Rheims,
born the let of May, 1792 ; Cardinal Donoet, Archbishop
of Bordeaux, born the 16th of November, 1795 ; and Car-
dinal Mathieu, Archbishop of Breaocon, born the 29th of
January, 1796.
Riatori made her first appearance in Maria
&oar& a few nights ago at the Fondo, Naples, and was
rewired with enthusiasm. Oo the following evening
OisdiUu was performed, is which the great actress took the
principal character. During the faro* which followed •
Falafel event occurred. Tho audience were leaving their
smote in that lode and noisy manner which has of late con-
verted the theatres Into bear gardens, when one of the
actors, who was evidently much annoyed, remained with hie
arms extended, p walyeed as it were for several seconds, and
then fell back apparently dead. The curtain fell directly,
and the poor fellow, who had had an apoplectic stroke, was
taken home in • daemon. state. Norma is still the stock
piece ►t Ban Carlo. Titian; was expected about the sth
or 6th.

The new number of the Revue dee Deux Monde,
draws a forcible picture of the distress in the cotton manu-
facturing districts of Normandy, sod makes as eloquent
appeal in their behalf, and very properly rebukes the French
pries for their silence on the subject. In the department
of the Lower Seine alone, 100,000 workmeo —that is to say,
100,000 or 300,000 persons—are now reduced to absolute
destitution, and their prospects show no chance of improve-
ment for many month, to come. According to the Arch.
bishop of Rouse the railway atatioss are besieged de, and
night by troops of children beseeching the charity of the
yeasengers as each train arrives, sad bands of hunger.
stricken artisans wander about the country from farmhouse
to farmhouse imploring shelter and breed. This is the state
of things vouched for by the archbishop in his pastoral
letter, and yet, as Y. Pomade very justly asks, is it not
singular that, with one solitary aroispisos, nose of the Paris
papers have thought fit to make kaowa this appaLliss
distress to their readers I

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PRUSSIA.

The following is the text of the address presented
on New Year's-day by the municipality of Berlin to
the King of Prussia, and which they had refused,
lie has been before mentioned, to communicate pre-
liminarily to the Minister of the Interior :
Most High, Powerful, and gracious King and Lord,—At
the moment of entering upon a new year, we yield to the
desire which brings us every year to the foot of the throne,
in order to convey to your Majesty the assurance of our
most siemens devotedness and most respectful homage. It
is from the bottom of our hearta that the wishes' arise which
we express in the name of the citizens whom we represent.
May the Almighty take under His holy keeping the life and
health of your Majesty. May He bless the solicitude of
your Majesty for the welfare of our country, and mown it
with happy fruits. It is that devoted and indefatigable solici-
tude which strengthens as in the confidence that your Majesty
will succeed in putting an end to the serious complications
with which—we believe it to be our duty to declare this to
your Majesty frankly—we enter upon the new year. The
lamentable conflict which termin►tes the year that
has just passed away, without having been settled
in the year which has just opened—that conflict
which places in dispute the bases of the con-
stitution—the longer it shall last the more will it
create confusion in the minds of the people, mod the snore
will it prejudice the prestige of Primo' abroad, which rests
on the union of the King with the country. May it plasm
your Majesty to enter on a path which will take from us
discord, and lead to conciliation. This truly patriotic wish
now exists io every heart. We persist in the conviction
that the illusions which the enemies of Premiss and bee
ocestitution found upon the continuation of internal
dissensions will be scattered by the high wisdom and justice
of your Majesty ; that this year will be a year of prosperity
and moms, and that it will contribute to advance the
happy result of the exertions which your Majesty, as you
declared in your rescript to the municipal authorities of
this city, on the Nth of March, 1960, devotes, and will ever
devote to the true union and strength of Prussia and all Ger-
many. We are, &c., the Municipal Councillors of Berlin.
Jan. 1, 1863.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(non °us OWN

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENDIO.

1 The Opinion Nationale publishes an almost in-
credible document from Rome. It is a permit
given to a Jew to stay a few days in Velletri, which
runs as follows :

The Vicar-General of Velletri, having seen and recognised
as regular the passports required by the law, hereby grails
permission to the lanielite N— to slaws in this town
for the space of days, for the sole purpose of transact-
log lawful business, enjoining him during the whole time of
his stay to go home to the lodging which he may choose
within one hour after sunset at the latest, and not to leave
it before sunrise ; and interdictiog him from ►ccess
to any monowiery, conservatory, or other pious place
subject to episcopal jurisdiction; also from using any
affectionate and familiar terms in convening or treating
with Christians. The breach of any of the above prescrip-
tions will be visited irremissibly by the penalty of imprison-
meat and a fine of 5 crowns, to be applied to pious uses.
Given at Velletri from the vicarial residence, this
day of 1862.

The Vicar-General J. Vista en. Eli.
(L.S.) The Criminal Secretary of the Bishopric,
Giov. JLSOSNGFIL

The Opinion Nationale ogee several instances
without mentioning names (lest the victims should
be exposed to fresh cruelties) of monstrous oppres-
sion of Jews in Rome. They meet with every kind
of injustice, and dare not complain, for fear a
worso thing happen to them. One of their tribe
thus expressed himself on a recent occasion :

How and to whom are we to complain ? We are warned
that on the slightest remonstrance from us some discharged
servant, or somebody or other with whom we may have had
deviling', will be found to declare that they have baptised
our children, and then our own flesh and blood, the soul of
our life, the hope of our redemption, will be taken away
from us for ever. The house of Jacob suffered less in
Egypt than we do in Rome. Pharaoh contented himself
with killing the first born ; be did sot keep them and bring
them up to be the cruel enemies of IsraeL You in France
are free, bat whet can you do for our deliverance? Have
you been able simply to achieve the liberty of Edgar Mor-
tara? And to think that French sentinels mount
guard throughout Rome! Why cannot you at least
help us to quit this country? The law and the inquisition
detain us here, and will not release their wretched prey.
Where is the new Moses? We have but a tingle hope left,
and that reposes on the heir of Napoleon L, who was for
you in France a liberator, a legislator, sad a warrior. Will
this hope also deceive us? May the Eternal who rules the
hearts of princes dispose him to pity and justice !

It is indeed a curious subject for reflection that
the troops of Baron de Rothschild's guest counte-
nance the barbarous legislation of the Pope against
the Jews, and stand between the stolen child Mor-
tara and his parents.
The France says that on December 28 the
governor of Gibraltar harangued the troops of the
garrison, and assured them that there was not a
shadow of truth in the reported cession of the
place to Spain.
The Prance denies, with much indignation, the
statement, in a correspondence in the Times, that it
had received a subvention from the secret service
money to enable it to start.