The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1862.

"oar countrymen, sod put an end to offences
0, against humanity and thy, kw of nations."
The wild projects which UM telegraph i daily

bringing from Madrid, &Mb ibayare; atteibideel
to the Ministers of the Queen of 8 ram, receive no
countenance in the &VISOR'S speech.

On financial matters the Eurenoa has, of course,
nothing very new to say after M. Poeta. Meet-
ing the representatives of France for the first time
since the celebrated penitential confession which
the country received so incuriously, he was obliged
to talk • little about the deficit, especially as new
taxation is proposed. The ENIPEROWN argu-
ment is a little inconsistent ; he seems to say
that the irregular outlay has done • great
deal of good, and must not be allowed to occur
again. Why expenditure which " has given
" increased vitality to all useful works
" throughout the Empire," and can be appealed
to ea the source of the increased public pros-
perity, should be suddenly interrupted, and that,
too, at a time when, as we are told further on,
provisions are dear and employment is scarce, and
the people suffer, and new taxes are required, are
questions which we leave to be settled between
the &draws and M. FOLrLD. We have no desire
M figure among those crieurs who are always
reedy to discredit the most praiseworthy acts and
atieenderstand the purest intentions of the great.
We only hope that the economical necessities to
which the Emmaus candidly attributes the merit
of his financial retrenchment, may lead him to base
the prosperity of his Empire more and more on
the liberty of commerce, and on the co-operation
of the intelligence and virtue of France under •
free constitution.

1? seems that the difficulties with the Cadets at
Woolwich have been solved, like a good many other
official difficulties. A new Governor has been
appointed. The officer who had the chief direction
of the studies of the Cadets is said to be super-
seded, and the Academy is about to open under
an entirely new set of regulations. It is needless
to recur to the history of the disturbances which
led to these changes, or to repeat the just censures
which were peeped upon the Horse Guards for
appointing men who, however excellent as military
officers, were unfitted to discharge the very peculiar
duties required of the managers of such an institu-
tion as a military college. It must be assumed that
the C..MNI osa-iw-Cuier has seen his mistake, and
has taken efficient means to remedy it. And if
report speaks truly, the officers who have been
selected in place of those who were lately in au.
thority are persons of name and discretion. But
amid the general congratulations it is impossible
to forget the fate of those few young men who are
now suffering the penalty of their not unnatural
insubordination. It is abundantly clear that the
proposed change would never have been made had
it not been for the petty rebellion which oc-
curred. It is admitted that the young
men remonstrated in vain. Their complaints

were suppressed by the late Governor ; and for
this high-handed imprudence that officer warn

quietly rebuked by the COMMAND/at-IN-CHI/CT him-
self. It is no exaggeration, indeed, to say that
the young men were driven into open rebellion as
a lad resource, and that by open rebellion they
have actually succeeded in obtaining the necessary
reform. It is no doubt difficult for persons in
authority to overlook the riotous conduct of those
under their control ; but there are cases in which
even this is more judicious than to persist in
ignoring the real character of what has occurred.
It is obviously idle for the COMMANDIII•IN-
Cdfir to persuade ether the public or the Cadets
that the authorities at Woolwich were not more to
blame even than the young men under them. It
may have been necessary, in order formally to
save the credit of the Governor and his staff, to
rusticate the ringleaders of the riotous Cadets. But
now that the staff at the Academy has been changed
it would be injudicious and even unjust to persist in
enforcing the penalty which some of the Cadets
have been condemned to suffer. It is obviously a
ease for leniency, and the prompt remission o the
sentence is the natural remedy. It is not simply
that by adhering to the sentence both the
Cadets themselves and their parents or friends must
suffer serious inconvenience, but it is that such
conduct on the part of the Horse Guards and the
War-office would show an almost vindictive spirit
of obstinacy and injustice. The Ordnance corps
is now recruited from the whole youth of the
empire, and it is of the utmost importance to the
public service that the Cadets should be selected
from the Elite of the British youth. It is absurd
to suppose that either parents or sons will expeud
their money or their time in preparing for the
competition for entrance into Woolwich if the suc-
ceed& competitors are liable to be treated like
those who are now undergoing the penalty of rusti-
cation. Indefensible as their conduct was, it has
been substantially admitted that their grievances
were real, and that those grievances required an
immediate remedy. That remedy has now been
granted ; but its efficacy ought not to be rendered
doubtful by the continued punishment of lime
whose pardonable violence was the real cause of
the changes now about to be carried into effect

ebe Court.

aIIIORNE, :LS. 27.
The King of the Belgians is remaining at
Buckingham Palace, but is expected 'hardy to return to
Osborne.

The Duke de Nemours visited the King of the Brigiaus
yesterday at Buckiegham Palace.
Despatches were received yesterday at the ColoniateMoe
from the (}overman of fit. Helena, Malta, Ceylon, and Hoeg
Kong; despetches were sent to the governors of the Austra-
-1 lien colonies, the Mauritius, and Labuso.

Castwier Conscm—Summonses were issued
yesterday fora Cabinet Council at the First Lord
of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-
street, at three p.m.

THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL FENIX—The
amount received la skl ci the food for raising a memorial to
the late Prince Consort, op to yesterday afternoon, was con.
tide/ably over 18,0001. Amongst the principal amounts re.
mired yesterday we. 2411., being s subscription of one
guises each train the members of the Stock Exchange, per
Mr. Hartridge ; 1001. from Yeasts. Day and Martin; SU.
from Vice-CbanneUor Kindersley ; 211. from Sir James
Wigram ; and 211. from Henry Hunt, Esq.

His Majesty the King of the Belgians is ex-
pected to leave Buckingham Palace to-morrow to join the
Queen and royal family at Osborne, basin quite recovered
from his severe cold. In consequence of his Malady's
indiapaaition the King will not pay his intended visit to
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
visited their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princes'
Leiniages, at /buddies Hotel, yesterday.
The Duke of Nemours visited his Majesty the
King of the Belgians yesterday, at Buckingham Mace.

The Duke of Newcastle isa returned to Thomas's
Hotel, Berkelora:ram from Gimbal. York, Notts. .

Frances Ann ]Marchioness of Londonderry has
been surrounded the LA few weeks by ► family circle at
Wyoyard Park, anscept whom were the Duchess of lit
Albans and Viseount Falk/sad sad Lady Diem Scandals,
the Duke of St. Albans, the Duchess of Marlborough, the
Fan and Countess Vane and Indy Frances Vane, Loot
Adolphus and Lady Susan Vane Tempest, Mr. Henry Kill-
bank, Sir Hedworth Williamson, Mr. Georg B►tsson, he.
The Earl and Countsom of Dartmouth have
arrived in Grawsmorwqnare from Patehull, their seat in
Warwickshire.

The Earl of Rosalyn has left Claridge's Hotel for
Dysart Home, N.B.

His Excellency the Earl of Elgin, accompanied
by the °onetime and family, intended to leave town to-day
far Calcutta, to mums the duties of his new appointment
as Clovarsor-Geoeral of India, as esesessor to the Earl Can-
ning ; but we undentsad the noble esti will delay his de-
perture from London until the anima d the Banshee at
Marseilles, which Teasel is to take the noble east and coun-
ts end suite to Alexandria, on their way overland to
India.

A serious accident occurred on Tuesday last to
Mr. Mallet, of the Foreign-ollioe. While walking in Ken-
, singtostore his foot slipped on a slide, sad, falling to the
ground, he metered his leg. We learn that, though suf-
fering greatly, Mr. Mallet is progressing favourably.

The following is the list of preachers at St.
Paul's for February : Feb. 2, Rey. T. Rowlett, rector of
St. Margaret's, Lothbary ; 9th, Rev. J. Kemp*, rector of
St. Jeatees ; 18th, the Bishop of Ohio, Dr. ifaollvalue;
lid, Rey. Daniel Moore, iocumbest of Camden Church,
Camberwell, and lecturer at St. Margaret's, Lothbury.

The Right Hon. J. Napier,ex-LOrd Chancellor
of Ireland, still continues his weekly lectures on " Butler's
Amlogy" before the Young Men's Christian Association at
Dublin. In the fourth of the smile, delivered es Saturday
evening, he performed a glowing eulogises es the obaracters
of the late lamented Prince Consort sad Lad Fglinton, the
late popular Viceroy, instancing the univalent esteem which
they commanded as a proof of Butler's theory that public
honours are the natural rewards of public virtue.
Some interesting facto respecting country notes
and cheques have been brought to the knowledge of Mr.
Mayo minor the commencement of his duties as financial

oSosr of the Introstrial Exhibition. There are many
persons who still hold notes of country banks that have long
sire stopped payment, greasy, dirty, and well worn docu-
ment* and upon every occasion on which a chance
arise of converting Wes worthier representatives
at pew money into more substantial forms of currency
the holders test their convertibility. Some attempts have
hese made to obtain the meson tickets in exchange for
these " shin•plasten ;'' bat Mr. Mayo is not " a young man
from the country " to be so easily taken in, and the coated,.
racy banded together fur the purpose of dealing in notes of
banks that have stopped payment, or in the purchase of
blank forms of cheques at one shilling each, will And no
opportunity of doing business with the Commissioners of
the International Exhibition. With the view, therefore,
of preventing these fraudulent attempts, it lus been de-
cided that no cheques or country notes shall be received as
payment for season tickets.
A request for permission to exhibit at the Inter-
national Exhibition has just come to hand from a monarch
who claims admission among the nations of the world. It
is King Radium 11. of Madagascar. Au intimation to the
effect that his Majesty is desirous of exhibiting has been
forwarded through the Governor of the Mauritius, and,
though somewhat late in his application, under the pecu-
liar circumstances of his case, a point will be strained in
order to admit the products of Madagascar to a place among
the industry of all nations.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE PRIVATEER 817MTER.
A letter from Gibraltar, dated January 90,
or

You will have already heard by telegraph of the
arrival of the Sumter in this bay. On Friday night a
manage was received here saying that she had left Cadiz,
but that her oouree was not known. Al the wind was
favourable for the pelage of vessels through the Straits to
the westward, it wail thought not unlikely that she would
steam for Gibraltar, with the object of intercepting the
many Federal merchantmen homeward bound.
On Saturday morning signal wee made from the look-
oat on the summit of the rock that the Sumter was mix
miles to the outward, capturing two large Federal ships.
The news, as may be imagined, caused the greatest excite-
ment, and everybody rushed out to catch a glimpse of the
privateer and her prey.
The seizure was accomplished simply enough ; no de-
fence could be made. A boat's crew was sent on board,
the Federal flag hauled down, and the thing was dose.
The cruiser was evidently used to her work. No time was
lost in searching the prizes, the few valuable effects wise
removed, the match was lighted, and in another moment
the blazing ship was fast drifting away with the current.
When evening closed the flames were still viands, darting
upward in fitful Rashes on the eastern horizon. The first
ship taken was laden with sulphur, consigned, as the
master endeavoured to make out, to Baring Brothers, but,
as Captain Simmer afterwards remarked, sulphur being the
principal ingredient of gunpowder, and its exportation from
Esgland being just at this time prohibited, it was considered
siffwell to destroy it, especially us the master had no papers
to show.

The other vessel taken, a large barque, proved to be
laden with an Engtieh cargo, so she was mimed. and came
in here yesterday.
In the evening of Saturday the Swaim anchored In this
bay. On Sunday I went on board, most anxious to see the
celebrated craft that has led the Federal navy a dame ever
so many miles of ocean.
When going alongside I could searoely believe that so
poor a venial could have escaped so may dieser& She is
screw steamer, with three mune, a teasel strangely out of
proportion to her size, and a tall black ►ull so high out of
water that she gives you the idea of being insufficiently
ballasted. Four 32-pounders peeped from her sides, and •
large 8-inoh pivot gun was on her main deck forward.
Before she was fisted for her present work she was • Tee-
nager ship, running between New Orleans and the fla•
venni& Her unsightly appearance arises from the skis-
does that lave bees ends la her deck& I. order to afford
more eireessiedatim. sod to give more cover for the engines
and guns, a light, Wpm, fedi deck has been built over
what was originally the only desk of the ship. This raises
her an additional 10 feet out at water, and a► the we time
dwarfs her was sad fans& She is wink and leaky. Her
engines are partially above the Wet leek, and, with the
object of preserving them from the sleet, of goehiel. the,
are surrounded by s cylioddeed mho( of nixdwak weed
covered with half -inch iron han—a very poor prelediesi
against an eight-inch shot. Her *flews and crew weaker
90 in all. The latter are a hardy, devil. me-nee set of fellow,
ready for any work—men who would stick at nothing. '
They are of all nittollll-OVOO the Irish brogue wee smug
them. The commander, Captain Simms, is a reeenved,
determineddooking man, whose left head knows sot when
hie right doeth. He received me most °Dui-Woody, and
took me over his ship. I expressed my astonishasset at his
imps from Martinique, when, with great clearssea, and
with tie eminence of a diagram, he showed me bow he had
no the blockade—deluded the Iroquis. Captain Palmer
may be surprised to learn that he wee beaten at his own
weepone The Coufederstes dimmivered the nature of the
signals that were to be made from the shore when the ship
got wider way, and the trap was laid accordingly. As the
evening gun fired the cable that held the Sumter to the
wharf wee leased, and she darted out, under the shadow of
the land, to the southward. At the first turn of her screw
the signal blue lights blazed from the shore, and the
Iroquois, at full steam, made for the south of the harbour,
to intercept her. Keeping near the land .for • few miles,
Captain Simmer' suddenly put his skip about, and ran in •
northerly direction, while the Iroquois continued her
course, sod in three hours the two vessels were fifty miles
la- _ _ .

The French ship, which, it will be remembered, Captain
Palmer meations as having left the harbour at the same
time, was, he will be happy to learn, no other than the
Sumter doubling back to the northward.
The Akbar, of the 22nd inst., a paper published
at Algiers, has the following :
On Monday last, between 10 and 11 In the evening, an
event °warred opposite Post Peeeade, which will, doubt-
' lees, soon be explained. Meantime we have received the
following details :
"About 10 o'clock a heavy cannonade was heard at sea
distinctly by the tokelitants of the village of St, Buena.
It was also beard at Algiers. A fisherman, who had been
out late, was for a short time in danger from the projectiles
of two vessels espied In combat. It is supposed that a
naval combat was taking place between the two American
ships, the Sumter and Iroquois."
The Moniteur de l' A lgerie says
On Monday, between 10 and 11 in the evening, a well•
sustained cannonade at sea excited the population of
Algiers. Two police agents were immediately sent to Pee.
earls Point, in which direction the guns were heard. The
coast-guard officer on duty gave the fo!lowieg report :
" Two vessels, about six mules out at sea, were engaged in
combat. When the fight was over one of the vessels hoisted
a flag on her cameo and went out of sight. The combat
limited about one hour."
To-day (Wednesday) a steamer with a red funnel with
a black stripe at the top was signalled off Cape Matifon.
She leas three masts, heavy canvass, and stern deep in the
water. Ow melt* Cape Matifon she suddenly tacked, as
if giving chase to some weal, and was lost sight of. She
li&B again sem in the evening off Point Peace& This ven-
ial has all the appearance of a pirate. She appears to mount
about 20 guns, and @betook' like a trader turned into a wea-
sel of war. She hoisted no flag while cruising in the Bay of
Algiers. It is generally believed here that she is the Sumter,
which left Cedia on the 17th, and which gave chase to the
vessel she attacked on Monday evening.

(Isom'® TILICHIAXIL)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Jam 28.

The Monitenr of to-day announces that the go-
vernment will make a communication to the Corps
Legialatif to-day.
The Paris papers contain the following :—" It is
asserted that the Archduke Maximilian has accepted
the throne of Mexico on condition that the allies
agree to maintain the occupation of Mexico for ten
years."
The battery of artillery whose departure was
adjourned left yesterday fur Mexico.

SPAIN.

MADRID, JAx. 27, Evriugo.

In to-day's sitting of the Congress, Marshal
O'Donnell expressed his approval of the conduct of
General Serrano, and declared that Vera Cruz was
occupied in the name of the three powers.

A Naples letter of the 21at says :—" We are
now at the height of the carnival, sad though there ins
few foreigners here, Naples is very gay. In my last I en•
ported Mdme. Le Marmora's ban, and now I have to speak
d • magnificent entertainment which wrier= kat Battu,
. .

ler by the Duchess of Bovine,. There were a legion of
garde and a sit-down supper for SOD petwass, all the details
of Willa are diSCUMIed with as keen se apposite u that
with which they were devoured. I believe another ball,
en the suns magnificent scale, is in contemplation by the
duchos. Then the Duchess of St. Arpina and the
Countess di Nociglia receive two evenings a week ; while
tea-fights and gossips are matters of course. For the great
public we have masqued balls at the theatres, sad a good
voice or two and an extraordinary danseure in San Carlo ;
but of these matters I must discourse more at length in
another letter. Take it altogether, if the carnival is nut
it is. tinder the circumstances, sufficiently gay ;
and if our effete nobility, who did not appear on the walls
of Gaeta as real cavaliers should have done, and who lament
their sacrifices inertia, while they spend the revenues which
they draw frum Naples in the luxurious salons of Paris—.
if such are &begat, why we an do very well without thou.'.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(now on cows

PAWS. MONDAY Evan G.

The first remark to be made upon the Emperor's
speech is that it is less demonstrative—more in-
colore—than most of his preceding discourses from
the throne. The immediate necessity of support-
ing M. Fould's financial scheme is so strongly felt
that all other subjects are touched upon with un-
wonted circumspection. Uncommon pains seems to
have been taken to expose as small a surface as pos-
sible to criticism. I quite believe tbo report that
this speech was read at a Ministerial Council on
Saturday, whereas the Emperor has heretofore been
in the habit of producing his speech from his
pocket at the moment of opening the session with-
out having previously shown it to anybody. There
ia, I think, little of his own composition in this
production, although in a studiedly ambiguous phrase
of the first paragraph, and the few closing sen-
tences, in which he assumes his favourite character
of un homme ineompris, his hand is distinctly
visible.

The first sentence of the speech affirming that

because "in spite of certain inquietude." the
year of 1861 passed off without war, therefore
peace is " consolidated," will scarcely command
universal assent. If a European war is less
probable now than a year ago, the reason is that
in obedience to the spirit of the age, nations show
themselves less ready to rush into war than
formerly—not that any one of the many causes of
apprehension is laid. What is meant by the
"rumours designedly propagated of imaginary

pretensions" which have fallen of themselves
before the " simplicity of facts," I have not
the least idea, and my ignorance is shared by all
the Frenohmen from whom I have vainly sought
for information. The address, which, though not
precisely as in England an echo of the speech,
is supposed to retied the principal topics, should
clear this matter up. It will be satisfactory to know
that the pretensions of Murat to the throne of
Naples or of France to the possession of the Isle
of Sardinia are stigmatised by the Emperor as
" intaginary,"or that any other causes of uneasi-

ness attributed to France are unfounded ; but the
benefit of the disclaimer is lost so long as a doubt
bangs over the subject.
The emphatic way in which we are assured that
the Emperor regards hie relations with foreign
powers " with the most entire satisfaction " may
fairly be accepted as a pledge of his desire for
peace.

The paragraph relating to Italy, although if in•

terpreted by the letter it propounds the impossible
problem of " reconciling " Italian unity with papal
obetiurcy, must be interpreted favourably to Italy
rather than otherwise. Somebody's band must be
forced before the reconcilement declared to be

so necessary can be brought about, and unless we
suppose the Emperor prepared to suffer inde-
finitely that " antagonism—a universal cause of
trouble to minds and consciences "—which he

solemnly complains of, and which he has the
power to put an end to without war, the inference
is that he means, with all the soft sawder possible,
to put a pressure upon the Pope. In confirmation
of this view I am happy to say 'that Mgr. Chigi,
the new papal nuncio, expresses himself highly
dissatisfied with the aspect of affair..
The six lines devoted to America are very satis-
factory. They distinctly affirm the principle of
non-intervention, so long as the rights of neutrals
are respected, and leave it to be understood that
there is for the present no thought of recognising
the Confederated States, or raising the blockade of

Charleston. This is in socordanoe with the infor-
mation I sent you on Friday last.
I am not able to explain what is meant by the
expression of a hope that the Spaniards may find
in Cochin China a reward for their aid to the
French expedition there.
The Mexican war is spoken of lightly, and as
one "not of a nature to affect confidence iu the
future." No allusion is made to the project of
, putting Archduke Maximilian or any other Euro-
-1 pean prince upon the throne of Mexico.
The above are the only leading topics of the
speech, except that of finance, which is treated of
at length, and with a minuteness scarcely com-
patible with the dignity of the crown. On this
head the speech is a mere repetition of articles which
may have been read in the government journals any
time last week. An elaborate apology is made for
the amount of the floating debt, the responsibility
for much of which is thrown, and not unfairly, on
preceding governments. But then the fact is con-
veniently sunk that under this present government
loans making a permanent addition of two milliards
to the funded debt have been effected.
The speech winds up with the expression of a re-
solution, while taking the "initiative" of all desi-
rable reforms, to maintain thee. celebrated "bases
of the constitution" whose only true meaning is that
the Emperor is all in all, though M. Saint Mare
Girardin was warned the other day for saying so.
The Bourse was very animated, and there were
considerable fluctuations in the Bente, which, after
being quoted as high as 71fr. 45c., and as low as
71fr. 15c., left off at 71fr. 30c., with a rise of 10e.
and 30c. Mobilier fell 3fr. 75c. The Lyons Rail-
way rose 6fr. 25c., Southern bfr., and Eastern
2fr. 50e. ; Western fell 2fr. 50e., and Orleans
lfr. 25€. The Emperor's speech can hardly be said
to have produced any efloct on the Bourse one way
or another.

There is now confirmation in various quarters of
the important news I sent on Saturday, that the sup-
plementary expedition to Mexico was suspended.
The Conatitutionnel says that General de Lorenoees

departure is put off for a day or two, because he
is waiting for the Mexican General Almonte, who
is now in Belgium, negotiating on the subject
of Archduke Maximilian's accession to the throw.
It mentions that a battery of artillery, which was
to have gone from Buie ou Saturday, received
counter orders, and gives as a reason that arrange-
ments for their embarkation at Cherbourg were not
completed. But this evening news comes from Toulon
that the troops there have also received couuter
orders, and the suggestion is made that acceptable
propositions for peace have come from Mexico.
It is quite plain that the whole truth is not told.

RM.& SHANNON.
(annals Truarux.l

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 2&
Her Majesty's steam frigate of war Shannon ran
ashore at C►ishot Spit this morning.
Having hoisted signals, she was boarded by
Nicholls, a Southampton pilot, who got her off in
about an hour without damage.

The King of Bavaria arrived at Lyons on &tar-
day. His Majesty, who travels incognito, was not able to
obtain a seat in the (hand Theatre, all the places having
been taken beforehand on acoount of the performanoe of
M. About's Gaetano. His Majesty in consequence went
to the Celestine, and witnessed the performance.
The Vaterland of Vienna states that the Em-
peror Francis• Joseph will again visit Venice in April next,
and that in May be will return co Vienna with the Empress
and the imperial children.

PITTIOOS TO MI WOW. PSOBABLZ
N.Bettata-8. to W., treat to S. to N.W.,
strong, with rain. May.
and to a Similar.

MOS/ TIVZSDAL
, strong to a ploy

strong gale.
Central--O.L to 8.W., fresh to B.S. F.. to W. and N.W., fresh to
strong. strong, a gale in Mame rainy.
Fs. Coast-8. to S.W., moderate S. to W. and to .W., treat to
to strong, some rain. strong, with rain.
8. ,England—S.K. to W.S.W., Similar, and to a strong gale
moderate to strong, a gale in In places.
places, some rain.

at mean ma

EXPLANATION.
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lend ; 441414 10 feet, of vertical rise. causing about
cd m inch diminution and en% IO deg., above 9t
neatly thee-hundredths increase. 11.—Itaposed
In slide. M.—Motstenett bulb (tor evaporation and den
point). D.—Direction of wind ,true--two points int 01 mit.
nena). I.—Votte Il to IY—estimated). C.—Cloud (1 fey.
blinds :h, blue sky c. clouds ,detached) ; t, foi ; iR, NU
Ughtaine n 4 unlit (bast) o. overcast (dull) r. ribs: a. snow:
thunder. S.--Ses.disturbaax .1 to rais-tin,
or snow, or hall, since lest report, In uschea and decimals. Z.—
Win
Caution Cone (Smith) on Monday.

deg., cau~/m~

The Berlin journals state that the Prince of
Wales will visit the Court of Berlin on his way to Trieste,
where he is to embark for the East.

Aulola* from Turiu state that M. Fariui,
formerly Dictator of Emilia, being afflicted with a grave
malady, has been forced to withdraw for a long time, if
not for a►er, from public affairs.

The literary and professfbnal celebrities of Berlin
of both sexes met in a great public hall to honour the
memory of Leasing on his birthday, Jan. 22. His monu-
ment is to be placed in front of the great public staircase of
the Royal Mean as the third to the statues of &Julien
end Goethe.

An unfortunate man is sometimes consoled at
the sight of one more miserable than himself. The Journal
de Constantinople compares the financial position of Turkey
with that of Austria, and seems to find much consolation
and encouragement in the comparison.
RAILWAY COLLISION NISH. CHELNIbTORD.—AN
accident, which might have been attended with the mast
disastrous cousequenore to life and limb, occurred on
the Easters. Comities line, near Chelmsford, on Friday
evening. The goods train which leaves London for
Witham at 7.50 pm. passed the Ingatestooe station at
eleven o'clock, and on arriving at Ve iilford cutting was
brought to a standstill, owing to some defect in
the engine. The guard iu .barge of the train, finding
it impossible to proceed, went back A distance of
twenty-are telegraph posts, sixty yards apart, making
a total of 1,250 yards, for the purpose of protecting the
train by putting down fog signals, encoding to the com-
pany's instructions under such circumstances. He states
that he laid down three signals, when he heard a whistle,
and supposing it to be a signal for him to return to his
own engine, he did so, but on arriving at the train found
that he was mistaken, and there is now no doubt that the
whistle be heard was that of a train approaching !opts.
stone station. Finding he was mistaken be started back
towards the spot he had left, where it was his duty to
remain until signalled to his engine ; but before he had
proceeded a distance of twelve telegraph poste be heard
the Loudon and Bury train, which leaves Loudon at 9.40,
coming along the line. The train ran over two of the fog
signals, which exploded, but in consequence of the incline,
the sharpness of the curve at that particular spot, and the
damp state of the rails, the driver of the Bury train was un-
able to mill up, /sod the result was, that it ran into the sta-
tionary train, smashing several trucks cootainieg goods.
Intelligence of the collision was promptly conveyed to
Chelmsford, and Mr. Seeley, the station-master, was soon on
the spot, when the &Iris of the broken trucks and goods
was removed from the line, and as soon as possible the trains
prooeeded on their jouraies.—Esser Herald.