The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1869.

" course of studies for them. Those who had taken
" part in giving the instruction in the College had
received benefits of a kind which they had not
" calculated upon. They knew infinitely more the
" value of the professions to which they belonged,
" and were more united to each other, since they had
" entered the College of Working Men." In point
of fact, they had discovered the College to be as
useful to themselves as to those for whose benefit
they had founded it.

This is a testimony to the worth of our honest,
hard-working classes not without its significance.
It shows that no reason can really be alleged why
there should be a political gulf separating the hands
and the feet of the political body from its other
members. The result is not surprising when we
reflect how much of Poetry, Art, and Science has
sprung up to vigorous life, in spite of every difficulty.
from this fertile intellectual soil. If some of the best
hearts and heads of the day have found themselves
benefited by an intimate and generous association
with the Working Clerics, why should not the expe-
riment be promoted os a grander scale ?
If men of refined intellectual culture, of un-
doubted high position in the ranks of literature,
have found themselves improved by collision with
those of the working classes, with whom they have
sought to bind themselves by social ties of mutual
obligation, why should others fear the extension of
the principles Among our workmen there must be
a vast number, and that number would be greater
still if properly cultivated by such ennobling sym-
pathies as we have been describing, whose voices
would be of the greatest benefit to the State. In
reality this is no new-fangled innovation. It is but
going back to the first principles of our political
representation. The handy-craft of the skilled
workman is a valuable element of the State—he
has something to protect as valuable as the yeoman or
the leaded freeholder. to exercising his hands he has
instructed his head, and it is true political wisdom
to give him a vote for the Representative by whose
voice he is to be governed. No one can deny that
this is a living principle of the English Constitution.
How far we have departed from it can only be
realised by far-sighted, honest, unprejudiced men,
who, like Mr. MACRICE, have perceived the danger-'
ous chasm sundering the most powerful elements of
the State. Working Men's Colleges are not the only
means of remedying the evil. Every act of sound
political justice and recognition of the working
man's true value ; every step that is taken to im-
prove his moral and social position, to give free
scope to his energies, and free expression to the
human sympathies within him, is a fresh rivet to
the links which bind us together in the ties of our
common humanity. Thus united by the bonds of •
holy brotherhood, founded on the immutable laws
of justice and truth, the body politic need fear no
convulsion within, and would be prepared to meet
bravely and fearlessly any enemy from without.

gbe Court.

WINDSOR, lee. 8.
The Revd dinner party yesterday included the
Prince o Wale, the Hoa. Charles A. Gore, Caicos! the
lie. R. Bee% Bk. W. Patagerald, and Captain Grey.

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The tame mod NIKO Consist mead In the Hotne•perk
this maniac, and video" the Racism' of Kent at Prognaore.
The Prince of Wake redo out on horseback, attended by
Colonel the Hon. R. Bence.

The Hon. Charles A. o,tre and Sir. W. Fitzgeral l left the
Castle in the forenoon.

SUNDA T, JAN. 9.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
yesterday.
The Queen, Priam Consort, and the Prince of Welt'
the ladies and gentlemen of the Comet, and the domeetfa
household, 'mauled divine marries to-day in the privets
chapel.
Meetings of the Cambridge University Cmurolwionere

were held at 6. Adelphi-terrace, oat Tuseday the 4th, Witt-
esiday the 6th, Thursday the 6th, and Friday the ith tust.
The cemodesiseers prurient were the Bishop of Chester, Lord
etealey, M.P.; the Right Hon. Lord Itotice Turner, the
Eaglet Hes. SO Laurens* Peel, Viee•Cluteveller Sir William
Page Wood. the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, and Mr. Horatio
Despatches were received yesterday et the Colonist-ogee
from the governors of the settlements on the Wee Coma of
Africa. Despatches were received on Saturday from the
Lord Hugh Commtwittner of the lonian Wands. Despatches
were met on Saturday from the Colooial-offloe to the
Governor of Falklaud's Island.

DEP.UTORB OP TDB PRINCE or W4LES.
/THIS DA Y.)

This morning his Royal Highness the Prince of
Asir end attics left Windmr per special train, at a quarter
to le o'clock, for Folkeritone, tel Guildford cud the South-
Restore Railway, es route to the Continent.
His Royal /Iglus.= lb., Duke of Cambridge accompanies
the Priam se Aar as Folkestone, where it is expected • review
sad inspection of ths Wimps st Shornelifie, Including the
100th Casediaa Regiment (Prince of Wake' Oct.), will take
picr
Tr Prince of Wales will afterwards embark for the Con-
trast from the South. Eastern Company's spacious sad con-
rater errs at Folkeetoue.

Tin teals rime from Windsor to Fel keetone Harbour direct,
without cheep of carrago. =4 the thee oci.upied ou the
*whey will be seder how hours.

The Nord of to-day contains a letter from
Berlin, dated Friday last, in which we reed :—e We are
expecting the sipeoucarnant of the Priapus Frederick Wil-
liam from day to day. The scpuchettr of Queen Victoria
and ea 'Weigh Ruse are on their way. Auothar nurse of
the Blueish province will be at the disposal of the Priapus,
who, I should add, remains marvellously well. On the
ecession of her delivery 111.41111 of the political prisoners and
Wilgus look for an amnesty. Bey the hope be fulfilled."
It is mentioned in another letter that the nurse now in the
royal household is the wife of • husbandman in West-
phalia.

The Right lion. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper have
loft rows ea a visit to the Earl de Grey, at IVnet Park,
Bedfordshire.

It is rid that the wasion will commence in the
bet west al February, rod probably on the first day of the
mesa*.

The monument to Sir William Petty, which his
bra .seemed by R. Weetweeett, Lq., at the &elm of the
Nevin. of Lenettownt, is now bruin pieced within the
Abb.). rburell at Ramsey.

The Brussels leJ/peadance of yesterday eontains
the following telegram from Berlin, dated Saturday:_•' The
report tA the betrothal of Prince Nepotism Bosaperte to ihs
Price-am Citadel, daughter of the King of Sardinia, le cir-
culated and accredited is the beet informed circles Mows
capitol.- The princess, who ids the eldest of hi. Majesty's
children, we. born on the 2nd of March, 1813, sad
therefore, he but metres on the Zed of Marsh seat. Prises
Napless is la Ws 3&h year.
In a letter from Madrid we read:—" The Count
de Paris merino naiusissimpins of sympathy from all clams
at Seville. At the theatre, in the streets, sad Indeed every-
where, he is *shoed with respect. On the 29th all. the
Duke sad Declare de Montgeneeer gave a grand banquet in
his boasts% at which the principal authorities of the province
and the principal members of the S.ville aristocracy erre
prat..,

Scott the other day, and captured the town, killing
half-a-dozen of the inhabitants in the null*. The
object of the assailants was to release one of their
band who was in confinement on a charge of murder.
It is furthermore reported that a gang of Kenai'
marauders had ravaged Vernon county, Mo., killing
a citizen, and carrying off valuable spoil, in the
shape of horses, cattle, and negroes. Other depre•
dations and murders are also reported, but there is
no doubt that they ars all greatly exaggerited.
California advice, to the 6th ult. had reached
New Orleans vi► the Tehuantepec route. The news
is unimportant. Money was easy. Mining about
as usual, and business quiet. A telegram from New
Orleans says The governor of British Columbia
had issued proclamations revoking the Croton grant
to the Hudson Bay Company, organising the colo-
nial government, legalising his previous acts, and
adopting the laws of England." The ships Stam-
boul and Nazarene, from London, and the Abby
Brown, from Liverpool, had arrived at San Francisco.
Havannah dates are to the 23th of December.
The holidays had produced general quietness in the
markets. Sugars were unchanged. Sterling ex-
change was at 13 to 131 per cent. prem. The new
Spanish officers had made overtures to the French
government to intervene to prevent any revolu-
tionary movement contemplated by the inhabitants
of Cuba. General Concha was not consulted in the
matter. There was good reason to believe that
there was a revolutionary movement on foot among
the people of Cuba.

LATEST.
(IT TELIOILAPH, VIA HALITAX.)
NEW YORK, Dec.3o, EVENING.
The steamship Illinois arrived here to-day with
the California mails of the 6th instant, and about
1,500,000 dole. in gold. There was about 333,000
dols. left at the Isthmus for the English steamer.
Advices from Nicaragua state that a revolutionary
scheme was in progress there among some of the
natives, in conjunction with the filibusters, who
were expected to land in and be assisted by Hon-
duras.

The latest dates from Valparaiso estimate the loss
by the recent fire in that city at 3,000,000 doll.
Three entire streets were destroyed.

TORONTO, Doc, 30.
The Canadian Commissioner of Public Works has
resigned. His colleagues insist on carrying out the
projected removal of the capital to Bytown.

AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

The African Mail Steamship Company's screw
steamer Athenian arrived at Liverpool on Saturday
afternoon with 16 passengers and 2,679; ounces of
gold dust. and a cargo including 127 pieces 1 cask
and 1 package of ivory, 10 bales of cotton from
Lagoa, 237 casks of oil, and 179 bags of cochineal.
This was the first voyage of the Athenian in the
African Company's service.
There is no news. Trade was dull at all the ports
on the coast. It was entirely stopped at Accra, but
expected to be opened in a few days at New
Cithbar.

The steamer Sunbeam, of the Niger expedition,
left for England on the 26th Nov.
The expeditionary steamer Rainbow was in har-
bour at Fernando Po. Mr. Fairweather, of the
Niger expedition, died of dysentery on the let
December.

Two STEAM-Snip COLLISIONS.—The particulars
of two alarming steam-boat collisions near the month of the
Thames, involving the lose of two vessels and the running
another ashore, were received at Lloyd's on Saturday. The
eeriet, cstaatrophe took place on the evening of Thursday.
The Lord Panunue screw store steamer in ballast, was on
her way from New:rale to London, and when about the en-
francs of the river, SODA few miles below Sheerness, the
Dement screw collier, bound to the Tyns from the Themes,
ran into her with fearful force. It was very soon discovered
that the Lad Panmure was rapidly tiding. The crew sac-
omded in getting away from her, and she sank in 12 fathoms
of water. The evening is described to have been very dark,
and both ships are reported to have shown the proper I,ghts.
The other collision took place In Sea Reach, just above the
light. The brig Seadrift, Captain Moore, from the
Chapman light.
coals, was making her way up river on Friday,
her course being in mid-channel, when the Great Northern,
mew-steamer, came in collision with her, and sank her in
seven fathoms water. The Great Northam was also so much
damaged that she had to be run ashore on the Essex side to
prevent her from foundering.
How CAPTAIN LUDLOW, OF THE ARIEL, NET HIS
DRATK.—The manner in which Captain Ludlow,of the
Bream, Southampton, and New York steamship Ad met
his death was as tellOWll:—He had caused his engines to be
slowed down, and brought the ship head to sea. Expire-deg
that the machinery would be disabled in the heavy ma, he
had canoed a drag to be prepared for such a contingency, and
was standing forward giving orders when a tremendous sea
broke upon the forward deck. CSI/Will Ludlow, at the
lament, was cautioned by the second mate, who was stand-
ing new him, to "look out," but he had tamely spoken
the weeds when all were submerged apparently ten
feet under water. Both the first and second mates
were badly injured, and, for the instant, it was thought
that the steamer had foundered. The main-hatch errs
broken in by the see, and many tons of water went below.
Captain Lualow was knocked down, and the heavy drag,
comprised of plank and timbers, struck him in the aide. He
wee found lying upon his back, with his cap 'malted off, his
eyes closed, and apparently insensible. In this condition he
was conveyed to his room. He revived sufficiently to (peek
• few words, the last of which were, " tell the commander I
died at the poet of duty." lie then sank back and ezpii ad.
The injury was on the left aide, two or three of the rib+ being,
broken, and the fragments penetrating the heart. lie was
amid to New York, and interred there,.

STEAMER Asnoita. The Earl of Caithness
demur, Captain Murray, cmamander, trading between
Edinburgh and Wink, left Grants% yesterday morning, and
reached Aberdeen bay Met evening about seven o'clock.
At this hour It was not far from low water at our
harbour, end of course, though the steenur's cell was cc
usual expected, it could not be anticipated she would
venture into poet, no signal being up that she should do
so. For the poet, hoverer, ohs attained, shortly after
mem, and the consequence was, that j tiet when crossing the
bar, the went aground a little within the flagetaft and
opposite the South Breakwater. The accident becoming
✓owdily known, and a pretty heavy sea being on, Mr.
David, the captain pilot, who fortunately happens to tf
always in the way whets danger is at hand, got the life-boat
manned and launched, and in three or four trips the whole
of the passenger., about thirty we understand, were safely
Nought ashore. One person, however, refused to gait the
valeel—namely the principal owner, Mr. James Bremner (son
of the weiLknown engineer). Again and again the life-boat
returned with the mole view of getting this gentlemen to leave,
and when it is considered how much he had at stake, his reluc-
moos to quit the ship till the last is not to be wondered at.
Indeed, we believe we are not wrong in saying thaton the anal
visit of the boat, Mr. Bremner was found gallantly endea-
vouring, eingle-handed, to work the engines and back his
reeeel. Seeing this was hopeless., he consented to come
off, and so, happily, by twelve o'clock every one on board
hod been landed in safety. Not a single passenger, however,
bed been able to save any luggage, and it may be roily con-
ceived they were in no very cheerful moo! ; but Mr. Shore-
master Williams, and Mr. Reid, harbour treasurer, who were
early on the scene, followed soon after by Mr. Muir, the
lout agent, saw to the comfort of one end all—the women
beieg !taken to the Stmm Yacht Tavern, and them cared for
during the night. At two o'clock this morning (Setenlay)
the waves were breaking over the merest but the light affixed
to the (peanut was still burning. Watchmen were plies'
at the Torry side to teke care of any goods that might be
washed ashore there. It is hoped that, should the sea be-
come calmer, the steamer may be got off. Tugs were tried
to move her soon alter the accident, but their power wee in-
effeettual. The Berl of Catholicise is said to be worth between
3,0001. and 4,000/4 but, unfortunately, the insurance dots
not cover over the hell of that sum.—Adentems Berald.
THE !MUSSING SHIP Envs.—This vessel, of
which no tiding. could be gleaned since she left Calssz for
Queenelowe, Ise at length been heard of. The ship has been
lost, end unhappily only one of the crew raved ; and although
the wreck twit place ou the Irish roast the survivor was taken
on to Australia bettor° the fate of his vessel could be made
known. Latterly POMO fregments of a vessel were picked up
in St. George's Channel, ',Meta bearing a resemblance to that
of the Minerva then due at Queenstown for order., it was
conjectured that the chip had foundered. The late mail from
Australia 1101:10Utiree that a seaman named David Kidney,
was picked up sowing on • epee on the 24th of July, by the
ship Middlesex, bound to Melbourne front Liverpool. The
poor fellow was in a very exhausted state, and it turned out
that he belonged to the Minerva brig, which had been over-
taken by a sudden ars% and that she capsized and sunk off
Queenstown. The Middleax proceeded on her voyage, but
whether the commander had any opportunity of speaking with
any Teasel bound to England, and reporting the Minerva's
lose to the proper parties, has not tresepired. The Minerva
belonged to London, and was insured at Lloyd's.
WRECK OF A FOREIGN SHIP ON THE bCROBT
SAWDII.—YAMMOUT 11, DAT.—At daybreak this morning
• vessel we erase on the Seruby Sands, which sppeared to he
• foreigner. It blew at the time hard from the northward,
with ammo of bail and rale. The Scratby boatmen. life-boat
was at once launched, bur before she could reach the wreck
it bed beaten off and sunk in deep water. As far as amid be
nem the shipwrecked crew bad taken to their boats. The
lifeboat picked up one bases mew ; the other boat made for a
gnarl that was plving abont With this lifeboat the boat-
men have creditably provided themselves at their own ex-
pense. It a plettetog to observe the alacrity with which the
lifeboats in this noted neighbourhood for wreck., which are
chit Ise under the manse/meat of the Royal National Life-
boat Institute% are lannobed.

NAVAL AND MILI7ARY.

The Right Hon. Lord Loraine, M.P., one of the
member" of the Board of Admiralty, paid an oIBeW vi
M to
the Devomport and Keyhato dockyards on Friday Ism, e
had oonnotinioatioas with the roperintending engineer tad
clerk of the works.

WOOLWICH, JAN, 9,
A gun carriage of exquisite workmanship, menu.
factored at the Royal Carriage Department, for an stills,
piece of ordnance captured ban pirates in the Chinese sew,
end which will be forwarded to Windsor Castle during tb
present week, was placed on the Dial-square, at Wociskt
Arsenal, on Friday last, and inspected bye number of visitors
The °engage has been constructed by the most ekilki are,
sena of the department, the mideriale bring maltogaty sad
brans. The fellow and spokes of the wheels are roved iv i.ai„
latices of wreaths of Bowers, and the body and trail of Os
oardsgeare also elaborately decorated uith carved oniamestel
"rIONAL exteative botldinF, eitaatti
in a portion of the Royal Arsenal bourn as the Cadet,..
Erna, has been nearly completed by the arntractora,
Myers, and will to used as a repository for models, and fir
the large number of war trophies which are now remaite4
in more at this establishment. The building consiats chid'
cf a large hall with spacious galleries, in which the ratites
objects of interest will be arranged.

CHATHAM, JAN. 9.
Yesterday a number of fine young men arrived it
the head-quarters of this division of Bores! Marine Light
fantry from Aylesbury, 'there Captain H. C. P. Dyer her
been very moor...gut in obtaining recruits. Daring last west
a detachment of recruits also arrived from Chelmsford, her.
lag been sent up by brevet-Major Marriott, who is recruit*
in Esau.