The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-15 00:00:00

SPORTING.

Barnia ATIKANCHESTER.—FaIDAY.
YANCHNlfftffit'llrEtPLECHAffft
7 to 1 out leo Field (off)
TUN DEWY.
6to 1 opt Dundee (off)
" •10to I ' —pi lift (4)
16 to 1 pwatus (off)
20 to 1 Kettledrum (off)

25 to 1 10stiko11

25 to 1 Dictator (I)
30 to 1 Nautilus (t)
20 to 1 Fakattooe (t)
50 to 1 Foot Stsoloy (t)
if to 1 (hesio It)
Nothisf dew ea any other treat.

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kAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADNIRALTT, 14.—PRomanoNe AND APPOINT-
arena —Eogiirers W. Lionnison, promoted to chief me.
neer, and appointed to the Hewn ; and W. Hall, mended
to ehief engineer, and appointed to the Asia, for service 1311
the Tribune.

Engineer A. Bain to the Asia, for service in the
Duke of Wellington ; T. T. Murray to the Indus. for ger.
vies in the Gibraltar ; J. Riley to the Cumberland for
service in the Rodney ; and R. Moore to the Cumberland,
for service in the Newcastle.

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 12.—Corps of Royal Marines.
—ollplain Richard Hemp Connolly to be lieutenant -colonel.
Mee Hacker, deceased ; First Lieutenant Richard John
Hardy Douglas to be captain, vice Connolly, promoted ;
Second Lieutenant Sydney Vere Alston to be drat lieute-
nant, Moe HOWL', promoted.—Gmette.

PORTSMOUTH, Dsc. 14.
The Osborne, peoldle-wheel steam yacht, Mester
Commander G. M. K. Bower, arrived last evening from
Madeira and Lisbon.
The Rinaldo,l7, screw skap, and the Pbilomel, 5, serew,
ere ordered to be rigged and *cod in the first class steam
reserve.

The Retribution, 9e4 paddle-wheel frigate, Commodore
Edson, C. 8., is expected to be paid off about Friday next.

SAILOILIe HOKE AND DESTITUTE SAILORS' AST-
unt.—The amiably meeting of directors was held as
Thuniday, 13th instant, at the Sailors' Home, Welletreet
Captain C. J. Bosanquet, R.N., in the chair. The mere-
-1 taacented the isoxsantis, by which it appeared that the
a of boarders in the Home has lately been very kne,
ea army as 350 seamen baying been lodged in one night.
The gums of money remitted home by seamen shoe May 1
amounted to 14,7211. fie. 9d., and deposits in the Board of
Trade,savinge bank to 2,3991. 12e. 9{l. A donation of 1001.
wee forwarded to the directors by an anonymous friend
I=hbiesaraOrnmaney and Co. The secretary reported that
visits have been paid to the Home by a French gen.
Boman connected with the " Menageries Imperials.," with
a view to the establiehment of a similar institution at Mar-
seilles for the seamen of that company. Tenders for the
supply of provisions for the quarter commencing Jan. 1,
1861, were submitted, showing nearly the same prices se
for the current quarter. The seamen enrolled. at the
Sailors Home for the naval reserve number 332. With
reference to the Destitute Sailors' Asylum, it appeared that
during the past month 70 distressed sailors have been re-
lieved not only with food and shelter, but also with a sup-
ply of warm clothing, and ea winter advances the number
may be expected to increase daily.
Tag LATZ Da. CROLY.—The arrangement for the
funeral sermon of Dr. Croly has been most opportunely and
judiciously carried oat. The fame, character, career, and
perionisel of the great City divine were all strongly marked
with individuality ,• he wag neither one of the crowd, nor in
his own clerical and literary circles did he occupy any ordi-
nary level, but stood above and apart in his own strength of
mad and (Wafts of wisdom and learning. It wag but fit-
ting, therefore, that the utterance of a funeral oration from
the pulpit so long adorned by the august presence and wad
eloquence of Croly should be pronounced by a men of
similar scholastic tastes and stainments, end fof mental
calibre not inferior to the departed preacher. Dr. Cirea
will preach this (animal sermon ea Beadily morning neat, at
St Btephen's, Walbrook, sad the esaaregados will fad is
him many striking phrwhal mad 'math theemblaseee to the
good pastor they have lost. • gegikeleary meeting was
held at the Mansion boos. yerterday (Friday). presided
over by the Right Boa the Lied Mayne. ler the rupees of
taking into onosidemtan the bed roam at Ink* hamar for
a suitable and lemma memerial of the late reverend doctor.
A -eating was else WA be the vegety-rocan of lit.
ati leg the paws of ban* as address of con-
dolence to the family of the late reverend doctor—City
Prat.
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ROYAL VICTORIA SIIIRRY.—Thin celebrated wine,
oseidomi exelnrively to the liarepams and Colonial Wise CM-
=
,48 In, ?stimuli, ls the net gild fatourite of the wise-
emeanunity, sod, being found to most foohionable
It V simply neeesury to state that as a Manor 'Me
N Mai sseled4.l, whilst to the Invalid its delicate sad soft
Maw Iggerts renewed vigour, end ?tedium the most sabeter?
Abet grim the tie: sots system. The retortion of duty ambles
ttie of the Yunmean and Colosial Wine Company Is
elhir Ws Only excellent and natural wine at the wolmlartully
`I pin se TrientrAeren Shallop per dozen, bottles and MINI
iiiidaftl.--(Adv•rt far 'Rent

We briefly announced yesterday morning Um I
death of the Fart of Aberdeen. The deceased peer, had
belie d,rroold, in a few weeks have completed his 77th
year, having loon born in Edinburgh in 1784. The first im-
portant diplomatic poet }leaned was the embassy at Vienne
This was entrusted to him in 1813, his age being at that
date no more than 29. It was at Toplits, in November,
1813, that, as ambeseedor to Austria, he effectuated the
nagetiailkes which included the father-in-law of the
Knierve.Nepoloce in the general combination %piing Im-
perial Frazee, end precipitated the catastrophe, the fiat
sone of which closed at Fontainebleau. In conferenceq
negotiations, treaties, and compacts preceding east
following the sojourn in Elba, and these male
which, after the battle of Waterloo, were presumed
to place on a basis of unassailable strength the designs of
Moissess is the interest of their respective toasters, Lord
Aberdeen took pert, and acquitted himself with creditable
ability within the line prescribed for him by the cabinet.
It would be inexact to say that in his diplomatic capacity
Lord Aberdeen initiated a line of policy, but he doge rely
represented and supported that with which he via alleged.
In the year 1828, after the brief admehmation ef Caulks
and Lord Goderich, the Duke of Wellingtoa vedette* to ,
form a government, in which Lord Aberdeen ma neethaseed
to the Foreign-office. He shared the fortunes sad ninfee-
tunes of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Bed sear
equent on the disruption caused by the Emarxdpaika AAA
and he stood side by side with them during the e4Mii-
tudes of the Reform era. Of course be took eMeszeinakti
left it (on this oecaeioa, however, for the Colonies)r
'vie abed seeterreene iatemeganna of ,1834.35 ; And meek
oersitkeeferieuned • hie ekt penition 'thee Fortis:meeker
when, in, 1841, Sir Rebid Peel obtained a more durable
lame of power.
From the &Hof Sir Robert Peal down to the formation of
the coalition ministry in 1852, Lord Aberdeen experienced
another long interval of exclusion. in February, 1856, he
was succeeded by Lord Palmerston. Since then Lord Aber.
deen has not Ultima prominent pert in polies% though co-
oasionally addressing the peers, and always listened to with
the peculiar deference which is paid to only two or three
oilier members of the house. Hriess known to have been
honoured in a special meatier with the personal confidence
and esteem of his sovereign.
,Lord Aberdeen was the fourth in succession is the
Scottish earidomoehich wee created in 1682. • 11'1814 he
'was mated a viscount of the limited Kingdom. He Inc-
'eted hie gamtifather in the family estates and Scottish
honours in thik you .1801. He was re/fried twice ; first,
in 180, to a daughter of the first Mirqua of Aberoorn, who
died without ossie in /112 ; seecradly, in 1815, to the
relict of Jimfis Ifiseenit Flanratoa. ibis lady's son by her
first haste& oreilese subserresetH the Mooed Marquis of
Abeseeekt so-that *coalman jueti demand was son-in-
law to tba fiat end Megfether 19 the grwast marquis, to
whom his son, Lord Heade (by the wooed marriage), the
present earl, is of, coarse helf.brother. On .his retirement,
in 1855, he received the Masotti- of die 'vacant Garter. He
was also a Knight of Shit' Scottish Gate of the Thistle.
His lordship was Chancellor tenacity and Rim's
Gelleges, Aberdeen, Ranger of Greenwich-park, sa Rider
Brother of the Trinity Home, and fur same time President
of the Satiety of hatiquiries. His lordship) diametion
was much confided in by his ocriintrymen of the Presbyterian
pernession,; and, during the divides which arose upon the
patronagei or'" *tendon " 'quiriiiOu, he acted for a while es
,kind of uMpite beware the contending parties ; but his
mediation could not leek% trial rupture. A
. We dee frond el Peerage" that the Gordan, &et
of abledesioah4 dideinaloda, Dukes of Gordon and 7/4Z.
Val" of limeys. derive from a common progenitor—the
earl preserving throogboet nude descent, the dukes spring-
ing from the heir-female pf the senior line, Elizabeth Gordon.
An arionlor, Patrick Gordon, of Methlic and' Haddo, grand-
son of Patrick Gordon, of Methlie, slain at' th 6 battle of
Arbroath, obtained' charters under the great seal, from
James 111., in 1481, from James IV. in 1505, and from
James V. is 15/e.

YOUNG'S TYPE-CONPORING 437) DISTRI-
BUTING mAdetsza.

The public will recolleet the introduction, some
years since, ell the first of these ingeniously contrived ma- •
chines. The Family Herald was, we believe, at first
printed by it, but several difficulties which arose in the de-
tails induced the proprietor, after a short time, to revert to
the old system. Ever since Mr. Young, the inventor, con-
fident in the soundness of his principle, has applied Min-
self sedulously to the improvement of the mechanism, and
now believes that he has completed a machine which is
perfectly calculated for the poetical business of printing.
The present specimen consists of a row of grooves set up-
right in a home, and comninsiestiug with a key-board ex-
actly similar to that of • piano. Behind is au inclined plane,
sloping down to • point, where the typos slip through,
letter by letter, into • galley, from whence it is transferred
to a frame in which the composed matter stands as in •
newspaper form. The compositor sits in front of the in.
stnunent, and plays his sonata, the score of which Is a
page of copy which is placed before him. Be works with
great rapidity, and it is alleged can set from twelve to
fifteen thousand letters an hour. The great improvement
claimed for the present machine consists of a series of inge-
nious contrivances to prevent the upsetting or misplacing
of the type dozing its passage down the inclined plane. When
the form is full the set-up matter is taken out
and "made up" into pages in the ordinary manner. A
sough proof was shown to us which had been prepared in
this way, and it was quite as clean as an ordinary first proof.
The calculation is that one compositor, with three "justi-
fiers," will be able to do the work of sixteen working in the
ordinary way, together with • great saving of time. In ad.
ditiao to the composing machine, Mr. Young has also pre-
pared a distributor, which, when complete, will work with
equal rapidity. lie expects that his invention will recom.
mood itself to newspapers and other establishments when
esomaions arise where a great deal of copy must be set up in
a little time. We have ourselves great doubts as to whether
Mr. Young will, by any contrivance, however ingenious, be
able to supersede the directing power of human intelligence
is so high • elms of mechanical art as printing.

The Crystal Palace Poultry Show, which closes
this afternoon, has bees in all respects by far the most sum
essidul of say held at the Palace. As to-day is one of the
few shilling Saturdays in the year, • large attendance may
be looked for. Professor Pepper will commenze a series
of lectures this afternoon, illustrated by dissolving views.
SMITHFEBED CLUB Cams Suow.—Yesterday was
the fourth and last day of the show of the Smithfield Cattle
Club, and although throughout the day the bazaar was by
no means so num, rously attended as on the two preceding
ones, still towards evening the crowds which arrived in rapid
succession from every part of the metropolis was enormous.
So far as the sales of prize stock are conceruod there were
only same few specimens remaining unsold. The show
finally closed at nine o'clock last evening, and it is computed
that something like one hundred thoussmi persons must
have passed through it within the four days.
Me. COBDEN AND THE FEEEDOM OF THE CITY'.
—Many strange rumours have been circulated to account
for the delay in the presentation of the freedom tollichant
Cobden, and, as is usual in such cams, these have barn of
the meat contradictory nature. We (City Pre.) have not
thought it necessary either to refute or expl., in statements
that had no groundwork in fact, bemuse we knew that time
would bring all the rumours to a proper and. But it will
be none the lees acceptable to the public to hear Mr.
Cobden's own explanation of the delay, and we subjoin a
letter from Mr. Cobden to Mr. W. Connell, C.C., which
will suffice to put an end to doubts and rumours on the suls.
ject :—" Paris, Dec. 7, 11460.—My_ dear Sir,—l am greatly
obliged by your tied inquiries. My general health is per-
fectly good, but lam suffering from a slight renewal of
bronchial irritation, caused, I presume, by the unfavourable
weather. I have no faith in any other remedy for affections
of the respiratory organs but that which is conveyed
through the air we breathe, and I am going to Algeria for a
month or two, in quest of a clear sky and a warm climate.
Oa my return to.&gland, I shall hasten to present nip
at the Guildhall, to acknowledge the hoursr of the Free-
dons of the City, which, under your auspices, was conferred
on me, but which circumstances beyond my control have so
long prevented me from receiving.—l remain, sincerely
yours, It. CORWIN. —W. Column, Faq.—P.S. I leave rani
tomorrow for Marseilles."

Birmingham was yesterday enveloped in • dense
fog, ;sodas awl immoveable throughout. In the middle of
the day reading or writing was impossible, and the shops
sad ether places of Weimer were lighted up all day.

The following letter from Count Cavour is in re-
ply to a eranuradeaties addressed to him by Mr. Edwin ,
Jame, ILP., eia the eubjeot a/ the introduction of • law -
analogise, to oar " Haber Corp..," and a measure for the
institution of a tribunal for immediale ptblie investigation
tato all charges of a penal nature similar to that in use by
oar polio@ .
'IE7O Foreign Affairs, Turin, Nov. you
have—l to thankyou for the letter in which you
have augmlied to se the introduction of the law of ' Habeas
Corm'? into the eyries ot Italian legislation. lam fully
aware of the temerimar at that guarantee of individual
liberty, and I beg to roue you that we have already made
peat rivannie in that direrioa. Aeoordiug ,to the present '
state of our law, every prisoner mast within twenty-four
leer be 'examined by gumbo *kid sathority, who, in
purrattee of by no means arbitrary rules, either orders
the immediate discharge of the accused, with or Without
Nal, gic oontinur his arrest, at the same time taking
!tope for placing him at oboe on his trial. Every
Wl:Varrest, duly proved, subjects the functionary
ahan. have caused:, it to ..inqairy and punishment.
At the same time I quite acknowledge that the strict juin-
' dial settee given by the law of babe's corpus to persons
illegatnyAn'ested assure more car pletely the liberty of the
, individual. I will at oace bring the subject under the -
notice of my oollerme, the Keeper of the Seals, within
4; w special penvir e are all questions of penal legiala-
t: and I have no doubt that he will propose to the par-
tto approsiniwie be nearly as possible to the law of
is thil•inalt".; liy.collegrue, Idinghotti, iv pre.
parlors law Which- iU coat* moat complete self-govern- '
'rat on all the provinces and communes. In this matter
ales it is our endeavour to accomplish by other means the
mare results which England, the clerical mother of all
liberty,tre almadynereved. Allow me to renew to you,
with theirs for the interest you take in the cause of Italy,
the sere mead ray meet distinguished coridetation.
"lb Edwin Jamie, Esq., lid'., kc." "C. Carona.

On Thursday evening the third annual distri-
bution of prizes and certificates to the successful candidates
at the reced examinations in connexion with the Bast Lan-
ashire Union of Mechanics' Institution' toot plate in the
Assembly Room at Burnley. The hall was suitably deco-
rated, on the walls being hung engravings, water-colour
drat,'" Ice .44 chants of adnuseion ranged_ from 3s.
to aid mare was a tolerably numerous attendance in-
eluding a number of ladies. At seven o'clock the chair was
taken by the Right Hon. C. B. A DDERLIT M.P. (late vice-
president of the Committee of Council on 'Education) • and
amongst the gentlemen preseet announced to take pert: is
the promediap were the Marquis of Hartingtoe, ILP., Sir
James Key Bbuttleworth. Bart., Lieutenant-Colossi Wilson •
Padre, M.P., Bevy. H. M. Birch, M.A., and A. Towneley
Parker, Y.A. ; Mears. Thomas Greene, F. Alleyne
IPGeitchy, Re.
METROPOLITAN BOARD or Wriaitt—The meet-
ing of the board was held yeeterday in the Council
Chamber, Guildhall ; Mr. J. Thwaitee in the chair. The
financial statement was presented, which gave the following '
cash balances in the hands of the treasurer :—Current ac-
counts, 83,98 K. 111. 3d. ; deposit aoreents, 114,0001. ;
total. 197,994/. 10s. 3d. ; government securities, 17,1561.
6s. ld. Tenders were received for covering over the Rane-
Ugh-sewer, near Park-road, Kilburn, and that by Mr.
Thirst for 1,290!. was accepted. A report was received
from the Main Drainage Committee, stating that they had
investigated the duties and salaries of the permanent staff
of officers, and they were of opinion that it was desirable
to include the whole of the subordinate officers in a general •
scheme of classification, each class having a definite
maximum salary, and, a fixed rate of lingual increase. They
recommended that the subordivate officerashould be divided
into four classes, viz.—First class: Salary commencing d
200/., with an annual increase of NC until it shall reach
:WO/. • second class : salary commencing at 130/. with an
annual Mende of 71. 10e. until it shall reach 200/. ; third
class : salary commencing at 100/., with an annual increase
of 51. until it shall reach 150/. ; fourth class: salary com-
mencing at GO!., with an annual increase of 4/. until it
dell reach 100!. The adoption of then suggestions would •
MUM an annual increase in the drat class of 901.; second
clue, 671. 10a. ; third, 35/. ; and fourth, 12/. ; redeem a
total annual increase of the present eddies of 5061. 16s.
After a short discussion the further consideration of this
report was adjourned for a week. The rest of the business
was devoid of public interest.
QUEEN'S Hoerrrei, BIRMINCHIAIL —The annual
collection made in all the churches and chapels of Birming-
ham in favour of one of the hospitals in that town took
place this year on the lad Sunday in October. The returns
basing now been made up, the amount realised was yester-
day presented at a special meeting convened for the pur-
pose ; the Mayor In the chair. The amount was 3,433/.
NATIONAL PROVIDENT INintruvton.—The foun-
dation atone of a new building, at the corner of Grace-
church-street and &stamp, intended for this office, was
laid yesterday by the chairman, Mr. Samuel Hayhurst
Lucas (one of the original founders of the society), in the
CrKsof the directors and a small circle of friends.
board individually sutecribed and presented the chair-
man with the silver trowel used on the occasion.
TEACHING AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE BLIND.—
meeting eau held at the Hope-hall, Liverpool, yeeter- .
day, the Lord Bishop of Chester presiding, at which it was
I agreed to engraft upon the existing society for the " Home-
teaching of the Blind," the establishment of a sale-room
where the produce of blind persons' labour could be disposed
of, and a workshop for the employment of the blind.
Already nearly 1,0001. has been raised for this object is
LiverpooL
LONDON RIFLE VOLUNTEER BRIGADE. —We are
informed the interesting ceremony of distributing the prize
medals to the winners, in the bite competition of the mem-
bers of this brigade at Wimbledon, will take place at the
Guildhall this evening upon the return of the regiment from
its march out to Stoke -Newington. The models will be
presented by the lieutenant-colonel at seven o'clock.
THE THREATENED STRIKE or MINERS IN THE
Gudnateoex Durrater.—We are sorry to have to announce
that the strike in the Adwalton and Glldersome district has
' commenced, the men employed in the Cueitoo Colliery
having suspended work on Tuesday, because two of their
number were discharged by the employer, but were not
furuished with clearance papers, without which they cannot
obtain work in any other pit. Other miaen, who hams
been on what is technically called " bad work," at other
collieries, are unable to give up their situations, because the
masters refuse to give them a note with which to seek work
at other pits.
THE OLD COPPER COINAGE —There appears to
be much misconception abroad as to the mode to be adopted
in the withdrawal from eirculation of the old copper coin.
me. Some suppose that a percentage will be shortly
offered for it by government, and are engaged in hoarding
the money accordingly until that time arrives. There is no
doubt, however, that these copper dealers will have to wait
a long time for their profits. In the fist piece, the prin-
cipal material of which the new coins are competed can be
purchased by the Mint, in the market, at a much lower
rate than that establishment would be compelled to pay for
old copper money ; and in the next place there cannot be,
for aear or two at least, sufficient bronze coin struck te
tly the place of the copper. There is nothing for it.
ore, but to allow both copper arid bronze to circulate
tplstlfi:ltotre thatl time. The
copper . probable
wi atam
to;:entnictoensottantly
eadk-balf or two per cwt.—ieclietake' Marren.