The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-07 00:00:00

TIIE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7 1869.

I and officered, and respectably manned, bursting into
violence and disorder in Portsmouth Harbour, and
disgracing the service by an exhibition of open
mutiny. The Port-Admiral may have had his
new»s for keeping the crew of the Princess Royal
on board while the ship was preparing to pay offi
but what reasons he can have had for baulking
"bony men or their run ashore, and harrying them
beek as board front the dock-gates, it would be sa-
tisfactory to an ignorant, but not unjust, British
public to be informed. There is no clam or order of
shore-going men that we know of who would endure
such tricks upon their patience, and such tests of their
good behaviour, without murmuring ; and we are
not aware that lace, who has been serving four
years on a foreign station, and cooped up on board
ship for weeks, with the pleasures of the " Point"
crowding thick upon his soul, is lam eager to stretch
his legs when he has only to jump ashore, or less
susceptible of disappointment and vexation if his
feelings are unamerearily played with, than the rest
of his fellow-creatures. We must say we think the
MIMS of the Princess Royal have good ewe to feel
hurt at this sudden conversion of seamen into convicts
by the nod and beck of a venerable Port-Admiral,
who labours ander the disadvantage of not know-
ing his own mind for five minutes to-
gether. We don't foe a moment pretend that
the seamen who are now lodged in Winchester Oaol
eight not to have returned on board ship in the
sweetest of temps, the happiest of dispositions,
sad the chearfallest of spirits, content at least with
blessing the Admiral In sulky silence ; but men will
be men, and mailers will be sailors, end after a four
red semmissicm Portsmouth is pleasant, and the
shore ie sweet. Discipline must be preserved, and
disturbanse must be punished, but when authority is
satisfied it behoves us to implies whether authority
has been discreetly and prudently exercised. When
• correspondent of the Deily News," Natitious," writ.
lag as • mon-d-war's man, with the experience of
twenty jean' sortie% on the difficult question of man-
aing the envy, pointedly Wed, " What do admirals or
past-captains know of the wants or wishes of a
• asaman !" we acknowledge we were not prepared
to interpret his question in a literal sense. One
would suppose that there must be some reciprocity of
feeling and some mutual sympathy among all ranks
in the service. And so we believe there is nowa-
days, in tolerably happy ships. Bat between an ad-
miral of the very old school and ship's companies of
modern days the sympathy is evidently imperfect, and
the mutual understanding sadly at fault. The mis-
fortune is, the public fail to perceive that it
is idle to offer tempting belts to the better clam of
seamen if a well-trained NOW, on the eve of paying-
off after a long soanieniem, are liable to be driven to
desperation by the changefal humour of • Welty Port-
Admiral. " Nearly all seamen," writes 'Nasdaq's,'
" feel and think differently to what they did Mess
"or twenty years sines. It is the small things In a
" ship that maim slimy or happiness, and until they
" an attended to, and a real interest taken in the
" welfare and comfort of the men, the Berries will
" never be popular." All the bounties in thewerld will
MVO.' fill our ships with anything better thee a pack
of tinkers sad tailors, cabmen and poachers, if true
seamen are not well treated when we get them.
True seamen, it mast be »membered, are no lovers
of lax d;eciplize; they do not even like an 0601 r
who le not strict and stern in duty ; but they look
for rsasooable indulgence at reasonable times; as,
for instance, when the ship is alongside the dock-
yard jetty, fitting out, or paying off, they object to
be treated ea if they were " made of different
" materials " from their officers, and as if a ship
were a prison. It is difficult to exaggerate the bad
effects of such a scandal as this of the 12th of last
November at Portsmouth. It will rankle in the
naiads or a whole generation of enso-of-war's men,
and be growled and grumbled over in every ship of
every squadron.
How can we be surprised that not a twentieth of
ear national seamen come from the merchant service,
sad that thousands take the first opportunity of
leaving the Navy, if, in addition to the smaller
but scarcely lees bitter grievances of half
allowance of grog, of shrivelled beef and
oily pork, of poor diet and bad cookery, of sickening
deficiencies in the " doctor's department," of the
forted servitude of pensioners, and all the crewels&
of complaints which our correspondent "Nauticus"
has enumerated—if that worst of all grievances, arbi-
trary confinement on board after four years' service,
is inflamed by • Port-Admiral into disorder and
mutiny, and then sent to cool in a common gaol P It
is to be hoped that these refractory seamen will at
any rate be kept apart from any contact with civil
misdemeanants; so that when their term of imprieas-
mint has expired they may be set free without that
feud loss of self-respect which is part of the
expiation of civil Grime.

The Nord stated that Lord Wodehome, Under-
Illoarotery of auto fon Foreign Attain, will set es io.und
phsalpotaatiary of England at dot Cower.

Bi tor Momolo Mortars, who., child was oar-
loptPLoody baptised by . summit mad, sad atdooted hem
Ile parents to this frivolous protegee, is sow to Leaden.
Neva. bed so interview with the Emperor Hapelsea, he
Ye nee Wished the mwropolui of Ragland, to Manes the
Wadi gemenseset Is bring Me ems helm the forthermeing
=ea llama 'Bairn M. Mortars is of Hebrew ea-
bet maim* be. a to. time soceeof the blood of the
sY Besese; M seems deeply to led the loot of hie child, who
le sew sight yews old, aed is detaised by the Janata at
Rem. Mel be esteemed at Bologna, the antheritim Mere
weld have complied with the dictates of our cosmos hama
allysad mould have delivered him to hie *Seed parents.
M. Mortara bee called upon the late Lotd May .e, Be Culling
Resdkip (*airman and deputy-ohairman), and Morn.
filereep, M.F., sad B. nowt, the official escretariss for pro-
cure, the sigeatur• of the Morton proteet, to mere them of
hie gralitade, and to empress his sailmatiou of the Christianity
which bee Redacted, la ibis country, results so different from
three mbilited in the 000doet of the authorities It &MN.
We ban much pleasure in stating that the report
of the drib of Mr. O'Reilly 0n... who fell down the hold
of tbe elesesse Prime Albert, ropied by bone of our oatmea-
l/cm the Dublin papers, is neionwied.
Meirrerresee'...Veswest of yeeterdsy pobluties • sots from
the purge= to easederies upon the unfortunate man,
dated Monde y menting, stating that be has bed a conemioe
of the brae hem the fall, and although be cannot to coml.
heed hee hem ell dearer, he relay Is comidend .. program-
* favoseekky. He costumed to Weems favourable state
up b yeeterdey raistag.
Tin 7000 LIVERPOOL Bloat= AND rum
Lorna ro min Paexcit Er Pinot—TM mime of the
flow "Liverpool mercheets" who wrote to lbe Felleal Nor
m.oit• Oeffrey B. Mae, cotton broker; Mr. Remy
of to. at of 8101101. Gookon, sod Co., Mr.
Predarlek I nag, .1 the muse Arm, modem brokers : Mr.
&meet Mellor, of the era of Miller wed tioatitall, in the
Brawl trade. The neutral feeling in the losallay is that of
Winona; at use preemption of the ,fier " owl ths
°pimsa esperewd to the me. ropolitee, Mseeimeter, seed
previedel Journals, hem met wish she bawl evapaby sad
appfuVal of sit perms tut the Limped Enebenge. As •
matter of more, lb..obJect hot fumed the demo of avers'
"squib.," sad • telegram wee posted 11 Me mere-room,
yesterday, beteg se mast copy of ose et the Wieloi des-
peahen to 'I. tIF et that a, denglited ere tbe Raptor will
W political penetretion displeyed by the low worchoota
that lo bed invited them to mks mats is the epproachieg
Cutaat or LORD WILLIAM ROWERS KEITH
DOIMILMA—We veva to MlSolliall Om death of this 'loblo-
llies, pewit ite of the Intl sad Moth itorqoi.•• of
Otomobwey. Lod Keith Dangles nFwtad the Downie.
Bomb' In portionless for Timer., eai wee sae of the Cement'
el the Duke Oi C 1.,... whea hie royal Mightier wee Lard
High Athalr•L He was bore in 171k1, nal deed ow the 6th
lasiont so W reeklenes to Chselham.plear.
0•001? COLLROL.—The Right Row. Dr. Ulla.
t 0.,.. Iwo iippeinitil the Very Rm. Omege Mogen, D.D.,
Peesidear lea May. Calk ire, Omettola tbs mem of the
w. De. W.S.rk Dr. Merges to. been wwwwwwl with iho
CMhw it may .m ono NO ellemelen bee gime pest
mmsYhefistiwhe the Swoop Ceilidhs trey, ef which he
ems dialeselehal amber. The Raw. Grew Northam;
iswarry • airgreri ei eel Chunk IBache& h.. Mon
=A& yoopionieno the Colippi,—bew,.ol...

ZDr ann.

wIIiDBOR oAaTLI, Duo. 6.
Than was no addition to the royal diarisr party
yeetardey.

Hee
rocs lie liefestre rivets bead landed ht the Drawing-
the wades.

The Qum mil Primo Consort, esserepenlied by Prisms
Alice, Prises azdusr, Prince Leopold, Priem, Helena,
Prins.. Looks, end Prisons Dllittle', lift s. Cagle at
halt-pest sight dole& this iscesiseg for Chisorre. The inks
In attendsase ewe the Doane et Ashok, the Hon.
Eleanor Beesley, Ilsjor-Cleseral the Has. C. Orey, Captain
Ds Pk; Ilejor Illphiseesee, Li L, ski the llisetar of the
HavieshelL

• guard of Moons fits the 9ed beittelien Greedier
Goode, with the bend of the mews; Mid do vs"
honours at the Windsor Railway elation&
The Prints Consort, attended by Oohing the Nos. A.
Hood sad Caplets Da Plat, wont to Landes yesterday, and
slatted the inhibition of the Smithfield Club in Baker-streit.

Mr. David BWer and Mr. John Charlie Billar bonneted
imehame at t►e Porvign-olliev yemarday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yesterday.
An appeal from the High Court of Chancery, The William
Hutt" (part heard), sae concladel. Lord Cranworth gam
judgment. An appeal from the Admiralty Court, The
Tweet*" wee heard.

DesDa-tohas we reeelyed at t. Colonlal-allies yesterday
horn the 00111=11111 of elks, Sang Kw& Malta., and
Gibraltar. Dagotoliss were sent to the Genonner at Canada
sad the Lord WO Canunlaskow of tie I. I.

LATEST INTELLIOENUE.

SICILY.

News resolved from Palermo to the 117th Novem-
ber, states that the Commander Mantecaleo, Director-
General of the Sicilian police, had been stabbed
whilst walking with his wife and children in the
Place of the Cathedral. The wound inflicted was
very serious, bat probably not mortal. The aesassin,
who was well dressed, seesped. Fiera were enter-
tained that the attempted assassination would be
followed by an insurrection, bat tranquillity pre-
vailed.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PION 01111 OWN

PARIS, TIIUDAT
The Pays, which was yesterday a little in the
arrest of events, now announces that not only Eng-
land, bat Austria, Preens, and Sardinia have sent in
adhesion to the Congress. Contrary to an assertion
of the Morning Past, sent by telegraph from Lon-
don this morning, the Pays says that Count de
Reekberg, the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
will be the first Austrian plenipotenti►ry t M. de
Schleinits will represent Prussia. The Sardinian
plenipotentiaries are not yet appointed.

A Turin letter of December 4, in the Prom, says
that Mancini has published a letter severely criti-
cising General Fanti. M. Muriel says that in
1848 he was greatly deceived about this officer, who
had just than returned from Spain with a military
reputation not borne out by fact.; that Fend stands
quite apart from the revolution, and is merely the
king's general," and that Central Italy cannot
reckon upon his being staunch. He is no doubt a
friend of Italian independence, and a very honest
man. But, adds the letter, he is so bigoted to ideas
of military discipline, that if he were ordered to fire
upon the people of Central Italy, he would do it
without hesitation.

It is reported that M. Empie, the ex-inansger of
the Theatre Francais, has been appointed Inspector-
General of public libraries. The post, which was
originally created for M. Romieu, as a consolation
for the loss of the direction of the Beaux Arts, has
not hitherto been filled up since his death.
The upward movement at the Bourse has met with
a alight check to-day. There was a vague rumour
of an insurrection in Hungary and Venioe, bat other-
wise there was no political news to affect the market.
It is not surprising when we consider that within
the last four or five days more business has been
done than during the whole month of November,
that there should be considerable fluctuations. The
Rents closed for cash at 71fr. 10c., with a fall of
260., and at yesterday's price, 71fr. 36e. for account,
Mobilier left off without change. Spanish Mobilier
fell 2fr. 60e. The Orleans Railway fell Mr. 76e. ;
Northern, 6fr. 26c.; Eastern, 7fr. 50c.; and South-
ern, 7fr.6oc, Lyons and Western lett off without
change.

The Prom says, in its weekly commercial
review :

blear the latter end of November basins, has broom a
Ittl. moors active. People still hesitate to risk capital to
say great extent, but a disposition to nuke spoonistive m-
ambos is now, at length, observable. Pievinelal agents
have made their appearance in Paris this weak to @sleet
aseortments the we year's day. Thies is a decidedly hi-
greased demand for exportation. The last pickets from the
United States brought several orders for Paris and Lyons;
Gormsny also, which for • long time held aloof, has now
resumed her relations with French houses. The principal
Ashok to a real revival of business is the high price of most
articles. Bow matarials an still very dear, and notwith-
standing the long dead season which trade has had to go
through, the price of the annual labour has risen. Buyer@
still hesitate to pay the prices salted, but as stocks are every
where eztremely low, and manufacturers generally aro only
working in execution of spedlic orders, they are la a posi-
tion to make their own terms. The railway receipts sad the
customs' returns indicate a marked improvement la the gene-
ral state of trade. Very large consignments of cods sad
wines bare been sent by the goods welts for toss time past.
There is little doing is aerials. Flour is dull, at wither lower
quotations. The millers are using vary little sew wheat, and
it is generally agreed that the large stook of old own in
granary lamely complaint% for the poor harvest of 1869.

THE ALL.WED BRIBItiT AT NOIWICIi.

MON 001 OWN

NORWICH, TOLSDAT Nlear.

The Town Council, it a meeting to-day, 111;ve
decided to stop the inquiry into the alined bribery preenoee
here by twenty-sight votes to nineteen. The libarals
however, it is understood, take further proceedings ih the