The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-28 00:00:00

JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy
ht, at malleable value, and the workmanship at
minimal* manuisotareri Ow. The ol4in the chaise Luz-
eanteed, and re-purchmed at the peke charged.
Here's the note.
How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat.
The homier of the gold, and charge for Mahlon.
figAurewl.
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ante and profitable sale
which the blind can work.
attempt, even on a very small soale--the immense
advantage of the simplest organization, is seen
already in the workshops and classes in London
and Edinburgh, where women earn a shilling a day
at the sewing machine, and many of the men earn
their living, and a comfortable living, by piece-
work. It is to be hoped that the proposed scheme
will be so supported as to give it a fair trial It
cannot but be an improvement on the present state
of things ; and if, as one result, it should be found
that more and more of the blind come up to Lon-
don from the country, the remedy is plain—to
pursue the same method in the provincial towns.
The class is a definite and limited one, and it can
never be a mistaken charity to educate and open
employment to any proportion of it.
We cannot but hope that ere long we shall find
the deaf and dumb worshipping in their own
chapel and studying in their own lecture-room, and
the blind growing up into an equality with
the rest of society, from which they will be
distinguished only by having four senses instead
of five.

Le;Toil
Assays made of chains and jewelry for Is. each.
N.B. This establishment te closed at 6 in the stoning. and on
1/8624ars at 1 ° °kelt' ------------

MESSRS. WATRERSTON and SON,
Goldsmith, and Jewellers.
PIM Beady for inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLIKILY,
of the Latest Dodos, suitable for
WEDDING I'itIiSENTS an
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S.W.-YEAR'S GIFTS.
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OVERCOITS.--iiiIdLLTON and KIMPTON
call especial attention to the NEW WINTER
rasa
tor
OVIROOATS, and invite an early inspection of the wash N.B.
Swansea garments always on band.
No. 106, Strand, oViadtr Itetwr

LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC
ZOOM foe Gentleman.—Remember. we wait for Jou at
w EVANS," after the Count-gareen Opera, %ad the Theatres.

vie oJrroreso.

TO 00/LHESPONDICNT9.
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. nue be et Ike OM*, 111. Bouvertratteet, by Two
lar=k oa ile deg et pebilestka.

THE Court of Aldermen sat yesterday to con
sider the appointment, by the Quess's Govern-
ment, of Mr. Russzu. GURNEY to be one of the
Commissioners of the Jamaica Inquiry. It was
necessary that the Court should take notice of the
appointment, in order that it might, in the first
place, give its sanction to the proceeding ; and in
the next, provide for the performance
the
duties of the Recorder during his absence. Look-
ing at the importance of the functions to which Mr.
RUSSELL GURNEY his been called, and the high
and honourable testimony to his character implied
in the nomination, it might have been ex-
pected that the first impulse of the Loan
MAYOR and Aldermen would have been to
congratulate one another on seeing the
services of their officer so highly appreciated by the
Government and the public. It was with other
feelings, however, that the LORD MAYOR intro-
duced the subject to his brethren yesterday. Ile
spoke of it in the tone of complaint, much as Mr.
Bucisrorrn might be entitled to speak if some rival
manager had spirited Mr. SoTtirme away without
his knowledge. The Aldermen evidently think
they have a property of some kind in Mr. RUSSELL
GURNEY : he is one:of the City " company," and
must not receive proposals to " star it" elsewhere.
The LORD MAYOR " must say that he was some-
" what surprised that the Government had not
" communicated in the first instance with the Cor-
" poration, and that a high officer of the Corpora-
" tion should have accepted an appointment with-
" out communicating with the Corporation." We
should probably do the LORD MAYOR injustice were
we to assume that these sentences expressed
his personal view of the matter. A more
likely explanation of them is that he was
merely uttering what was expected of him, what
in his position he " must say." A few words
from the Recommit showed that the course he had
taken was most honourable to him, and quite con-
sistent with his duty to the Corporation. He had
accepted the post only from a strong sense of public
duty, and entirely subject to an arrangement being
made satisfactory to the City authorities. Alderman
COPELAND, in proposing that Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY
receive six months' leave of absence, could not help
remarking on the manner in which the arrange-
ments between the Government and that gentle-
man had been brought about, as an instance of a
" disposition at the present time to curtail the
" rights and privileges of the Corporation of Lon-
" don, and he thought it was their duty to protect
" these rights and privileges by all the means in
" their power." These Aldermen seem to be
incorrigible. They are disposed to question the
right of the QUEEN to the services of one of her own
CounseL They will probably go on talking in this
way until their petty obstructiveness and want of
public spirit make their rights and privileges a
nuisance which their neighbours will no longer
bear.

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Mesdames Tama n, Elaworthy. LLTOiIU. and C. Leclerc.

BRITANNIA.
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CIRCUS: OR, THII PACS 10.11 THZ GOLDEN APYLIS.
. sad Udine. Steetaiebaeh.—etnnoe Bevanl—Ohna—Bleower
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To-atcasow Wanda& 101 s. —Menton, Ilh. 445.

LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 28,

Ir is not without ample reason that we rejoice
at all times at the thought of what Christianity has
done for the suffering and helpless who, under
ancient systems of society, were left to perish, or
put out of life, as unable to maintain their place
In it.
Our success has practically been less with the
blind, than with the deaf and dumb and the
idiots, though, from the material supplied, it should
have been greater. There is nothing in the case
of the blind which condemns them to a much
lower level of mind than those around them. To
the formation of sound and accurate ideas there is
no fatal obstacle in them—no impediment but the
deficiency of means of perception by one sense out
of several. There is no need to prove that the
minds of blind persons may receive (in proportion
to their natural powers) any degree of development
which does not depend on external action guided
by the eye. The difficulty in their case is in pro-
viding them with occupation and executive
ability ; and this difficulty would be found very
much less than it now appears if we all understood
the case as well as we easily might. The most
intelligent friends of the blind are constantly re-
minded of the saying—nearly the last saying—of
the blind Professor SAUNDERSON about thin
matter. On his deathbed he was conversing with
a friend, who expressed surprise at his power of
knowing something that they were talking of, when
Dr. SAtiNDERSON said that it was • constant sur-
prise to him that other people were surprised
at his knowing or doing what there was no
more difficulty to him than to them in under-
standing and doing. Society is too like the
great mathematician's neighbours. They assume
the blind to be incapable of doing a multitude of
things for which sight is not really requisite. This
mistake causes double injury. It discourages
much education of the blind which is quite feasible ;
and it creates distrust of what they actually
achieve. It is a curious fact that the handiwork
of blind women does not sell so well when its
origin is known as when it is supposed to be done
by ordinary workers ; and the best qualified
musicians and teachers who are blind have to
struggle with a strong impression that they must
be somehow imperfect in their business. There
is less difficulty of this sort in countries where
labour is comparatively scarce than in our own.
In America the blind are not only instructed to
the highest point yet attained, but more readily
and graciously employed in their subsequent
vocations. With us, indeed, the case is so painful
that we cannot too soon set about seeing what can
be done towards rescuing the great majority of
our blind neighbours from the poverty; helpless-
ness, and unhappiness from which they suffer.
There are, we are told, 30,000 blind persona in
the United Kingdom, nearly • tenth part of their
number being in London. The great majority of
these thirty thousand people are in • state of des-
titution.
The asylums and schools can receive
only • small proportion of the whole number ; and
of those who are educated only a few are able to
support themselves, wholly or partially, after
leaving the institution. The case is far otherwise
with the deaf and dumb, as we need not explain.
They may imagine themselves capable of doing
many things in which they cannot but fail, but
there is a wide range of employments—as the
whole department of accounts, correspondence,
copying, &c.—in which they have an equal chance
with others. The appeal on their behalf at pre-
sent is accordingly, not for the sort of help needed
by the blind, but for means to open • place of
worship for their method of language, and a lecture
and class room for evening instruction for the
adult deaf and dumb in London. They have divine
service at the Polytechnic Institution ; but they
want a commodious chapel ; and, as there are
nearly 2,000 of their order in London, there is s
need of a place of study and common improve-
ment in the week-day evenings, where they can
improve and enjoy themselves in • society with
which they can freely communicate. The needs
of the blind aro more urgent than this. There is
no more reason why they should be beggars or
dependents for life than the other class. If so-
ciety did but believe in their capacities and help
to develop them, there is much for them to do,
and scarcely anything that they could not learn.
If they could grow out of their ignorance, they
would grow out of their helplessness in a way
which would astonish the world. But as it is
what can they dot Blind asylums and schools
are very expensive, and they can receive only a
few hundreds of the many thousands of claimants.
Is there no more effectual mode of putting those
thousands in the way of helping themselves ?
In answer to this question, we are glad to see a
scheme proposed for putting all the blind in Lon-
don under • benevolent supervision, through which
education and industrial training may be far more
widely extended at much less cost than hitherto.
London would on this plan be divided into districts
each of which would have its school and workshops;
and au agency would be provided for the further-

their boot to convict end alograrie Co able commit of the
Clown.

OSBORNE, Dec. 27.
prim een went out in the morning accompanied
by a Beatrice, and in the afternoon with Naar

Ithlona.
her Majesty's commend a Cbristmu tree was pm
pareßyd at Osborne yesterday afternoon, with presents of
;books, toys, &a, and plum pudding, for all the boys and
girls of the Whippingham Schools.
Soon after half past four o'clock her Majesty entered the ,
"tall with the Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince
Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, when
children, about 100 in number, were introduced, and
I received their presents from her Majesty and the Royal
I family.
The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting ware in attendance.
I and the Rev. G. Prather°, rector of Whippingbein,
Prothero, and their family bad the honour of being invited.

gam•

TRZ NATI.
Acting spontaneoudy, unlike the Bores Guards, the
Admiralty, the Daily News sap, has jut published a
statistical " Report" on the crimes committal and the i
punishments inflicted in the royal navy during the year •
1863, and much of the contents will be cheering to those
who have the welfare of the service at heart. The report
proves that, es to sobriety, usually supposed to be the weak
point with sailors, the good men prevail in numbers by no
means out of proportion to the prevalence of the same
offence in any town population of like amount, and this
although every cue of intoxication in the royal navy is
sure to be found out, and though the cues represent mini
offenders who repeat the offence again and again. The
punishments, too, appear to be monopolised by a oompara-
firefly small number of men. As to the serious crime of
mutiny during the year, out of 15 cases of mutiny in the
service, no los than 14 are attributed to the " injudicious
management" of one officer. The general body of
blue jackets are on the whole exceedingly well-behaved,
and if the few incorrigible ones were got rid of entirely and
turned out of the fleet, the rest would be better still. It is
gratifying to notice how the me of the lash is booming
daily more and more rare in the service. That it must ere
many years are over he altogether abolished is as certain as
that the navy will improve in character when flogging no
longer exists. If these "reports" are issued from time to
time, they must create emulation amongst captains, offi-
cers, and seamen regarding the fronded of their respective
ships, and lead to greater care than ever being bestowed
upon the discipline of our ships. It would be well if slmi-
lar statistics were furnished by the authorities of the sister
service. But in these days the navy is ortainly far ahead
of the army in all matters of useful reform.

,

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey lett town on Tuesday OD
• TIER to Lord Northbrook., •t Stratton-park, Hants.

THI CHURCH OP INOLLND LIM TIIIIIO UMW( CHURCH:
8114001 AI 1/6/71.
It appears from a letter of Prince N. Orloff which hes
come into the hands of the Bellin correspondent of the
Times, that so recently as e ultimo the prince was
present by invitation at • meeting in London for the esta-
blishment of a regular and formal intemommunion between
the church of England and the Russian church. The Bi-
shop of Oxford presided, and there were present the Bishop
of London, the Bishop Coadjutor of Edinburgh, Dr. Pussy.
Yr. Liddoc, Dr. Williams, Canon Wordsworth, and many
other clergymen and laymen, eighty altogether. The
Russian church was represented by the Prince, Count A.
Tolstoi, and the Russian chaplain In London. The Time'
cannot prams to have read the prince's letter with plea-
sure, for it appears that a number of good men, some occu-
pying important situations in the church, compromised
themselves to • certain extent, sad pined sheolutely
nothing by it. The prince says that having waited
to hear everything that bishops, and clergymen,
and gentlemen had to say on the subject, he
rose to make what he evidently considered a revelation to
the English mind—viz., that in his own church, strange as
it might seem, the subordinate members are not at liberty
to decide any ecclesiastical question, being entirely guided
by the rule and directions of their church. The sequel,
of course, was that no resolutions were passed ; indeed
Ilene could be passed, for, as the three Russians present
were without an atom of authority to conclude anything,
to represent anybody else, or to express an opinion, they
coald not even epee • reeolution ta intercomunion
between the two churches was desirabhle,t or even possible.
After the meeting, the pr:oce, es if desirous to bag better
game than he had found at the meeting, went off to our
Primate at his house in the country. Dr. Longley
said that he should like to send two bishops to
Russia, • Jimmied!, wash enough, but upon herring the
priaoe's objections, put it off. The Times maks,
with all submission, why this move in the direction of the
Russian church? It is scarcely possible even t r dispute
with the Eastern church, so widen the intervening calf,
so utter the incongruity, so wanting the common
ground for a controversy. The Eastern is en absolutely
iron system. There is no mach thing as opinion in Russia.
The church is there a state engine, under the disguise of a
oatholie orthodoxy. Why should it communicate with
the Church of England, of all churches the meet dangerous
to religious or political despotism? The oorrsepondent
slily hints at objections which, if we took the trouble
to argue, we should ourselves feel es seriously as the
Archbishop of Moscow does his owe. Did we know a
little more of the Russian church we should not be so
ready to ask to share its gaberdine. We have no doubt he
has only too much to say on that point.

I.II9CELLASEOUS TOPICS.
The Post attaches serious importance to the promediogs
of the American Congress with regard to the Mexican
empire, and allows that as a matter of fact the United
SMUG are as fairly entitled to claim a special mission as the
France of the second empire. The new empire has proved
a failure, it being no secret that without a French army
Maximilian could not maiotain his present position for a
month. Nevertheless, the Post hopes the American
people will not force the French Emperor to elect between
accepting a war with the United State" and withdrawing
his army under a threat,
The Times concludes that the feeling in this country will
be that President Johnson is right in the terms he offers
to the South ; and the radicals who insist upon full political
rights being given to the negro are wrong ; and that the
American people themselves are so naturally impatient for
the restoration of the union that they will tolerate no
obstacles in the way.
The Telegraph does not marvel that there should be a
considerable amount of discontent in Ireland when such
proceedings are reported as these at Monaghan, where
thirty notices to quit have been served upon the best farmers
on the estate because they did not vote with their landlord
at the late election. One of the tenants in particular is
said to have recently expended nearly 1,000/. upon a house
which he is now ordered to leave. Cues of this kind go
far to explain the existence of Fenianism.
The Times gives the principal facts from a distressing
statement by Mr. Clarke, the sanitary inspector, describing
the circumstances of two or three cues of typhus fever in
Norwich and its neighbourhood.Under the:present system it
is hopeless for these poor people to try and obtain proper
nursing. II some provis'.on had existed for at once iaolat.
ing under proper care the persons who were first attacked,
the greater part of the suffering and death re-
corded in this ease might have been avoided. It
is simply necessary to appropriate for the service of the
sick a healthy cottage, and to obtain a good nurse to live in
it and take charge of the patients.
Sorely, in almost every
parish there are some good people who would guarantee the
small rent of such • little hospital, and would make up
deficiencies in an expenditure which they might be sure
was usefully applied If the poor were brought to under-
stand the infinite boon inch an arrangement would confer
on them, they would la glad to contribute their small sums
themselves.
The Daily News accuses the late Italian ministry of
wantosly provoking the Assembly to take up a hostile posi-
tion. Signor Sells, of course, can no longer be Minister of
Finance, and the transfer of • few other portfolios may be
made with advantage. But it does not appear that the
time is come for a radical change in the political character
of the Italian ministry. Certainly, however, it is not a
moment to soon for its leading members to Nigh to study
the legitimate art" and minor virtues of parliamentary
management.

E 410.114
BEE 28, 1865.

Wier INTELLIGENCE•

THE EXCLUSION OF THE " INDEPEN-
DANCE BILGE" FROM FRANCE.
The Ind4petsdanee Belge of yesterday evening

says:
We learn from the Paris journals that a decision of the
Milliliter of the Interior has just prohibited the circulation
d the bdipendance Beige within the limits of the territory
of the French empire. What is the cause of this act of
rigour, which comes just at the moment when the approach
of the opening of the legislative wagon ham led some
peewee to commies a hope of a more liberal pelkry—on
the MOTTO'', of the day when the administration, by a
precedent which all the journals have thought destined to
become law, seemed itself to wish to bring new tempers•
melds for the use of the arbitrary powers with which it is
armed against the press I It would be very difficult
to guess, and consequently to dote it. The rumours which
certain Preach journals bring us indicate that tt is intended
to establish for the foreign press, or perhaps especially for the
Intilpendwice, a rigid( more or less analogous to that which
regulelee the situation of the French press ; that the
seizures to which we have been condemned too frequently,
and which the administration has not troubled itself to
explain, are now considered equivalent to so many warn-
ings ; and that after three of throe WRNS we have fallen
suddenly under the blow of a enspension, like the French
journals which have been warned three times. If such is
redly the new doctrine which prevails at the Ministry of
the Interior, we shall have to disease it hereatter,
for at this moment all diecussion would be melee'.
Our French readers, whom it expressly interests, will know
nothing about it ; but we shall return to it. What we
wish to establish now is that the Indipenclance bas
ys
not
departed from the line of moderation which it has alwa
observed in relation to the French government is in rela
tion to all foreign governments ; that it is impossible fee it
to be reproached with any attack either upon French insti-
tutions or upon the chief of the state or upon the dynasty ;
that it is the victim of a bad feeling towards it, of the ex-
istence of which it has not been ignorant for some time
past, at the Ministry of the Interior—a feeling of which no
one has deigned to make known the motives cc
the pre
tests. What is tine is that such a pereeratioa has not
been created against us since the ministry of
General Espinosa), a ministry of unhappy memory by
general consent ; and, moreover, some quite excep-
tional circumstances are known which might
explain severities inexplicable at any other time, especially
in a moment of calm, of pacifioation, and of liberal Wades•
cies like the present. Further, until the cookery is de-
monstrated we wish to attribute the measure which is
directed against us only to the malevolent dispositions to
which we have alluded above, and we cherish the belief that
it is not necessary to see in it an indication of the actual in-
etiolation, and tendencies of the imperial government. The
future will soon tell us whether we have deceived our-

PROROGATION OF PARLIAXLIFT.—(THIS DAY.)—
This morning the Lord Chancellor once more attended
at the House of Lords, for the purpose of proroguing the
imperial parliament. There were, however, no peers pre.
gent, and there was DOE the usual official visit on
the part of the Yeoman Usher of the Black
Rod to the House of Commons, the whole of
the proceedings being condooted in themet st oene of Lords.
The new parliament will, on Thursday, of February
next, assemble for the despatch of busioems. In anticimi•
tion of the opening of parliament by her Majesty is person
the House of Lords is undergoing a thorough cleansing, and
workmen are and will be actively engaged, not only in the
great chamber but in all the approaches to it, peers' rooms,
committee rooms, and the various offices. The House of
Commons, too, is being made as smart aa it is capable of
being made for the reception of its new occupants.
Franoes Countess Waldegrave and the Right
Hon. Chichester Forkene are receiving company at the
Chief Secretary's Ledge, Phcenlx Perk, Dublin. The
visitors include the Count de Paris and the Duke de
Chartres, the Lord Chancellor and Mrs. Brady, the Earl
and Countess of Chszlemoot, the Earl of Granard. Lord
James and Lady Rachel Butler, Mr. and Lady Louisa
Tennison, Sir Hugh Rose, Sir Thomas and Lady Lemons,
Sir Erskine and Lady Perry, Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Ac.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left town on
Tuesday, on a visit to Lord Northbrook at Stratton Park,
Sisk.
Lord and Lady Elcho hoe arrived at their
residence in St. James's-piece, from a tour of visits.
The marriage of the Earl of Sandwich and Lady
Blanche Egertoc, youngest daughter of Harriet Countess
of Ellesmere and Francis, first feel, took place yesterday at
the elegant church erected by the .Earl of Eliminate, the
grandsire of the present peer, at Hatediford, Surrey.
The death of Major-General John Fitzmaurice,
K.H., liciiteciant of her Majesty's Body Gaud, took place
on Christmas-eve, at DTROOD-green, Ealing.
The nephew of the late Sie Charles Eastlake
writes to a contemporary to gay that his uncle was in Italy
on his official and annual tour in search of pictures for the
National Gallery.
The Liverpool magistrates were discussing the
relative sobriety of Manchester and Liverpool yesterday,
sod from the statistics laid before them (says the Max-
cheater Examiner) it would appeer that Manchester is a
paradise of morality compared to its western competitor.
The figures laid before the magistrates showed that Man-
chester, in 1864, with 1,884 beerhowies, hal 3,587 convic.
tiers for drunkennese ; wh"st in Liverpool, with 1,001
boathouses, the conviction amounted to 14,002. One of
the magistrates, however, thought lightly of these statis-
tics, and explrined the wide disproportion between them
by the difference of the police regulations.
The Penians in prison in Dublin were each sup-
plied with a substantial cake on Christmes-day by Mrs.
Stephens, wife of the escaped Head Centre.
It appears that the Cork Flax Spinning auJ
Weaving Company is progressing most favourably. The
Cork Examiner states that the shareholders now possess
a fine stook of Six, which, purchased on the most favour-
able terms, will carry them well into next year's crop. This
is most fortunate, as there has been a considerable advance
in the pries of the raw material, owing to the general poor-
ness of this year's yield, especistly in the northern counties
of Ireland.
The Ulster Observer states that from Saturday
night till Monday night last 144 persons were taken up in
Belfast for drunkenness and other crimes.
Mr. Sidney, Q.C., applied in the Court of Queen's
Bench, Dublin, on Tuesday, for the release, on bail, of
Edmond Daffy, one of the Fenian prisoners confined at
Kilmainham, on the ground that he was suffering from
pulmonary disease. Mr. Barry, Q.C., on the part of the
crown, consented, and the prisoner was let out as giving
bail, himself in 500/. and two sureties of 2301. each. A
similar application was made for Crowley, from Gslway,
and refaced.
A letter from Stockholm says :—"The gay and
fashionable circles of this city are about to sustain a great
loss in being deprived of the valuable services of Baron
Stediogh, who has for some time discharged with energy
and success the duties of the director of the royal theatres
here, but who has recently been appointed Minister Pleni-
potentiary from this court to that of Madrid. The two
employments may be thought to be of a very opposite
kind, but there is no doubt that Baron Stedingh will be
fortunate enough to give the same satisfaction in the one
as he has on all occasions done in the other ; and perhaps
it may be discovered that the diplomatic training in the
green-room may have been of the greatest service to him
when be may be required to turn the lessons he bad
learned there to practical account in the new end higher
sphere of duty to which his Sovereign has called him."
The Thc:dtre des Arts at Dijon has just been the
scene of a singular incident. A young actress named Frain-
bert, being irritated by a hiss after singing an air during
the performance of the Barbier de Senate, addressed the
words " Imbecile ! Bete!" to the author of the mark of
disapproval. For this offence she was, on the following
day, condemned by the correctional tribunal to a fine of
two francs and the payment of costs. But on her appear-
ance on the stage in the evening. she was received with
such a continued uproar that at length the curtain bad to
be let down, and the actress came forward with the director
and apologised to the public, alter which the performance
was allowed to proceed.
A Madrid letter in the Temps states that M.
Montariol, a Spaniard, has solved the problem of sub-
marine steam navigation by the invention of a vessel
which can remain for hours at a considerable depth, can
discharge cannons from below and even act as a ram for
piercing the hulls of iron-clad ships.
The Spanish journal Esperanza states that the
cholera ban broken out with great severity at Santander.
On the 22nd, 130 cares and 56 deaths occurred, and on the
following day the number of the latter had inc eased to
60. Among the victims is the governor of the province.
TuE Bisnor OF LONDON'S FUND. —Of the quarter
of a million already subscribed among the 3,000,000 inhaon's
bi-
tants of London in support of the Bishop of Lond
Feed, exactly ooehslf is given by 90 perms.
THE " RECORD" AND THE COCHT.—The Record
lately published' * review of the "Life and Letters of the
Rev. F. W. Robertson," in which it sharply criticised Mr.
Robertson's biographer—the Rev. Mr. Brooke, English I AMERICA.
chaplain at Berlin. Is Tuesday's Record there is a letter ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN.
from the Rev. Dr. Sperms, of fiarylebooe, defending Mr.
Brooke spinet the strictures of the reviewer. In order . SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 28.
to show that Mr. Brooke not open to the charges of The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen,
" coarseness and vulgarity "insplied by the reviewer, Dr.
spencer uy,.." When I knew sir. Brook.. „liar he from New York on the 16th at., has arrived here
never was ; coarse he never could be. His disposition with 110 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bre_
was of the most loveable I have ever known, of which, if men, 260,720 dole. for England, and 308,200 dole.
any additional proof were wanting. it might be found in
the fact that, at the instance of the Princess Royal, to for France.
whom he was well known, doubtless in Berlin, he was
eelected by her Most Gracious Majesty to preach in the On the 17th blot. she spoke the steamer America,
private chapel at Windsor one
Sunday the 3rd. Minot. It from Southampton, off Sandy Hook.
would be well if such strong language were avoided, and • Her news has been fully anticipat,ed.
more of the straMfer iw modo mixed up with the Arta&
is re in theological discussions, and the truth drams I
spoken in love." Commenting on this letter, the Record "We are happy to annonnoe," says the Belgian
pya • De. Spencer concludes by letting us tato a Coen Monsieur, e that, in consequence of the accession of the
P▪ as and informing us that it was at the request of the
Princess Royal of Prussia, when at Windsor, that her Duke de Brabant to the Crown, Count de Planar, has se*
Majesty lately invited the Berlin chaplain to preach in oepted the Presidentship of the Belgian Commission for the
the Royal Oltspet If this be correct, we can only remark uoiyereel Exhibition of Paris."
ant we deeply grieve over eke spreadiog influence of As Mdlle. Isabelle, the flower girl of the Paris
German scepticism in high quarters. There was a time when
the Princess Royal requested that an Evangelical clergymen Jockey Club, was retuning home lets • few eveninp ego
should by sent to Berlin. This good desire was over•reled with the receipts of the day she was attacked by an ba-
by the higher pewees, and, if Dr. Spesoer's story be true, divides' In the Rue du Port Mabee, ben sweep:led is
it is melancholy to be informed that ere who has drink too defeeidngher property, although not without mortaining
deeply into the pots= of Genres rationalism, was invited,
on some severe contuitoos. She still confined to bed,
Wiedsor." the special request of the ninon, to offininto at bat has been better during the last two days.

(armies nricaulus.)
FRANCE. _ .

PARIS. Dec. 28.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes the
decision of the Supreme Council of Public In-
struction, in the case of the seven students, with a
long preamble setting forth its reasons. The de-
cision of the council of the Academy is confirmed,
but the term of exclusion from the Paris Academy
has, in the case of Brigourdan, been reduced to
two years. Rey, Lafargue, Jaclara, Casse, and
Losson are excluded from all other e acadmies
throughout the empire for two years, and Reynard
for the space of one year.

OPENING OF THE SPANISH CORTES.
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.
MADRID. Dec. 27, Emma.
The Queen opened the Cortes in person to-day-
In the speech from the throne her Majesty
said :
" My desire for pesos has not been able to pre-
vent the commencement of hostilities between this
country and Chili, which had obstinately refused
to make amends for wrongs done to the Spanish
nation during the Peruvian difficulty. The govern-
ment will give an account to the Cortes of the pro-
gress of the war, and of any negotiations that may
take place in connexion therewith.
" Desirous of respecting the independence of the
states of South America, founded on the ancient
colonies of Spain, I have signed a treaty recognising
the independence of San Salvador.
"My relations with the other foreign Powers
continue favourable.
" Various reasons originating in a desire per-
manently to promote the interests of the nation
have induced me to recognise the Italian kingdom,
but that recognition cannot weaken those feelings of
respect and devotion to the Holy Father common
to all the faithful, nor lessen my firm intention .to
watch over the rights of the Holy See.
Her Majesty in referring to the financial difficul-
ties spoke of the necessity of increasing certain
taxes and reducing the expenditure in order to
balance the expenditure with the revenue. A bill
would be introduced with the object of extinguish-
ing or liquidating the old and of reducing the float-
ing debt. Other measures relating to the national
domains would be presented for the consideration of
the chamber at the same time as the ganeral budget.
Bills would also be laid before them tending to
promote municipal liberty, and to harmonise the
interests of local administration with the interests
of the government. Another bill for the prevention
of the slave trade in the Antilles would also be
presented.
Her Majesty complimented the army and navy,
and concluded as follows :—" I am convinced that
labour and production cannot be developed where
order and liberty do not exisL My government,
without being uuoasy about the attitude of political
parties, will pursue a tolerant but firm policy, will
repress disturbances without cruelty, and will
respect the law. I hope it will overcome all diffi-
culties, relying upon public opinion as represented
in the chambers."

MADRID, Du. 28.
The frigates Vadras, Almansa, and Trinidad are
about to leave for the Pacific.
The diplomatic corps was received yesterday by
the Queen.
The Papal Nuncio, as senior member otthatbody,
congratulated her Majesty on her return to Madrid.
The commission for the reform of the customs'
tariff and the differential duties levied on vessels of
foreign countries is actively engaged in its labours.

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