The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-26 00:00:00

THE Ex?:

crediting modem minutiae ia about to receive a wholesome

part of London, and whose ; appointment to •
country parish had, on this ground, been sneeses:`,
fully opposed by the Poor-law Wooed. Secondly, I
they peremptorily closed their doors to all wit-
neasea, save those sent by themselves or from
Whitehall. This was their revenge for being
forced into the path of common duty ; and if it
can be proved that they, or their officers,
have now been again refusing admission illegally,
it is to be earnestly hoped that no false tenderness,
no timid craving for popularity, will interfere,with
the form of retribution it is the prescribed duty of
the Poor-law Board officials to enforce. To con-
tinue repayment out of the common fund to any
parish which neglects the conditions under which
alone it can be claimed, is to offer a premium for a
recurrence to the old brutality, cruelty, and neglect.
Passing to a more welcome theme, we are happy
to inform our readers that the stringent comments
and sharp criticism of last winter continue to bear
fruit. A careful inspection made night by night
of the West-end streets which were formerly fullest
of the homeless has brought wonderfully few cases
of real helpless destitution to our notice. In only
one instance did our interrogatories receive the old
stereotyped answer, "Sir, the workhouse is full,
and they won't let us in ;" though in several, igno-
rance, real or professed, of the abetter provided
there was given as the cause of the speaker's lying
in the street. If every one accosted by a
be,,.,ar at night would take the trouble
to listen to his or her plea for alms,
and on finding it to be " hungry and
homeless" would prescribe the nearest workhouse
as the remedy, and if the police had injunctions to
clear such places as Covent-garden, taking the
lingerers t) the workhouse or the station-house,
according to their class, the merciful provisions of
the Houseless Poor Act would be even more effec-
tually carried out, and comfortable well-to-do
London might go to rest with a well-founded con-
viction that it is no longer possible that any half-
starved wretch is perishing at its doors.
The parish of St. Marylebone continues to afford
a singular illustration of what may be accomplished
by giving a fancied opponent fair play. The num-
bers of casuals applying for relief have actually
decreased one half since last year. This, too, in
the face of comfortable wards, in which tires
axe kept up all night, and a dietary
liberal beyond the average agreed upon at
the guardians' meeting at St. Martin's Hall.
" You're manufacturing on 'em, you're manufac-
turing on 'em," was the mournful ejaculation of a
Clerkenwell guardian on inspecting the casual ar-
rangements of St. Marylebone a few mouths back ;
and this was repeated, like Dominie Sampson's
" Prodigious !" but with increased and increasing
pathos, as item after item of care-taking was dis-
played. Yet in spite of all, the casuals decrease.
Tho Marylebone guardians were among the loudest
in their indignant protests against the fancied in-
justice of the Homeless Poor Act, and the mon-
strous fillip it would give to vagrancy ; yet the
Marylebone guardians, having determined to carry
out the law—" just to show them what it will
bring us to," said one speaker at the time—can now
be quoted as successful examples of the benefits to
be gained. The reason is simplicity itself. Task-work
is enforced with wholesome vigour, and considerable
discrimination is exercised in the treatment of the
worthless idle scamp, the casual ward habit , and
the man or woman compelled by misfortune
to claim its shelter. It is a mistake to
suppose that there is any difficulty in this.
Given intelligent and willing administration, and
the causal ward may be soon made unpopular to
vagabonds and impostors, even while it is more
than ordinarily merciful to the unfortunate. lint
as encouragement to workhouses which do their
duty, no less than as a wholesome warning to those
still sneakingly stubborn and recalcitrant, unflinch-
ing punishment must be awarded where open eva-
sion of the law is proved. For this reason we
commend the Clerkenwell case to the attention of
the Poor-law Board, claiming that the charge
should be as publicly dealt with as it has been
publicly brought. If false, the guardians should
be exculpated ; if true, the ratepayers should know
it by being called upon to pay for what would other-
wise have been provided for out of the common
And.

check.
Acosta's' to the TlesgrePh all whoa.. soguain*lwith
popular feeling, whether at Paris or Berlin, must own
that the state of feeling existing in these capitals is but
too likely to end in hostilities, and it can only regret the
probability that ere long the supreme direction of Prus-
sian policy may pus into the hands of a less able and
sagacious statesman than he who was bold enough a few
days ago to ask a German parliament what they would
expect to gain by a struggle with France, even if crowned
with success.

LORD DUFFERIN AND IRISH EMIGRATION.
Lord Dulferin, in a second letter to the Times, ad'
dresses himself to the question how far the relations of land
lord and tenant have been the cause of the greatemimstion
which has taken place from Ireland during the last twenty
years, coming to the conclusion that the emigration has
not been confined to the occupiers of land, nor even con-
sisted mainly of them, as must have been theme if " the
landlords have been the cause of the emigra" and if
the emigrants were wanderer; driven forth homeless by
wholesale evictions. Small holdings, he says, have largely
increased of late years ; and it is only the poorest class
of ootticra who have given up tbe". land and sought a
more favourable lot elsewhere. As to Ulster, where
tenant- right prevails,the emigration f rom that provinee act's-
allyexceeds the emigration from two of the other provinces,
and is only slightly exceeded by the average of the three.
An illustration of the mode in which his lordship oonducta
the argument will be found in the following postscript to
bis letter :—" This may not be an inconvenient opportu-
nity to corzect another erroneous impression which very
generally prevails respecting the enormous areas of arable
land which the landlords of Ireland are supposed to be
converting into pasture,—exterminating men in order to
make Ireland one large cattle farm, ea it is often put,—
the real fact being that there were 422,822 more acres I
under cereal and green crops in 1863 than there were in
1847. It is true during theme last three years a change is
taking place in the opposite direction, and het recent rise
in the price of all stock w 1 probably still farher encou-
rage its propagation ; but such a cireumstance is hardly a
subject for lamentation."

MISCD.LASEOCR TOPICS.
The Daily News returns to the subject of the cholera,
iti causes, and the most efficient precautions to be adopted
against its return. • The coincidence of the epidemic area
with the east-end water supply is noted and the moral
drawn that it is suicidal for us to allow the main-
L tenance of a monopoly which virtually condemns us to
ran the risk of imbibing a deadly poison. The directors
of wiiter companies are only human in their desire to
realise large protlti, but the Daily News entirely agrees
with the La sect, that the companies " would have no
just ground of complaint if they were offered the alterna-
tive either of going to sources removed from contamina-
tion, or of an immediate declaration of free trade in

water."
The Star condemns the attempt of the Ulster presby-
Wiens to obtain an increase in the maim &Rum, and is
certain that a parliamentary discussion of the question
will result in the abolition of an unjust and perilous pri-
vilege. The Star also protests against the way in which
the Tim a " dallies with certain contingencies in which
we should take up arms. The less," it gigs, "we hear or
think of the ' long series of precedents' by which,
according to the Times, oar line of conduct in any future
outbreak of the Eastern question is traced, the better for
our peace, the better for our prosperity, the better for our
honour, and the better for the civilisation of the world."
The Standard is informed that at last " the people who
call themselves the Jamaica Committee have taken a
step towards their amateur prosecution of ex-Covernor
Eyre, and have served a writ upon that gentleman, citing
him to appear and meet certain charges in a court of
justice. We infer from this that they have their organi-
sation of attack prepared, their 10,0001. subscribed—at
any rate nominally—their witnesses catalogued, and their
private transports chartered for the conveyance of negro
evidence wholesale from Jamaica to England. May we
also presume that the ' six hundred others' who are
advertised as lengthening out the committee list, al-
though their names have never appeared, will be at length
forthcoming, because some persons may feel alittle curiosity,
not to say doubt, about the matter. However, anything
is better in an affair of this kind, than indefinite delay.
Even now the form of the indictment is not settled, and
we believe it has been with considerable difficulty that
upright and distinguished members of the bar have yielded
to legal custom and accepted retainers in so scandalous
a cause."
The Post, apropos of the deficiency of judges, says it is a
question deserving the serious attention of the legislature
and the public, whether, in case of ally alteration, it would
not be as well to try the experiment of a superior court iu
one of the large towns of the most populous and manufac-
turing part of the country, such as .Manchester, to serve
as a chapel-of-ease to Westminster-hall. Three judges
from Westminster might be draughted down there, and
their places +supplied by fresh creations.

Eta Court.

OSBORNE, Mc. 25.

The Queen distributed Christmas gifts rester
day afternoon to the labourers on the Osborne Estate
and their wives, who assembled at four o'clock.
Soon after four, the Queen, accompanied by Prince and
Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, Princess Destriee, and Prince Henry of Prussia,
entered the servants' hall, where the gifts were laid out.
Her Majesty then, assisted by the Royal Family, distri-
buted the presents.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in at.
tendance.
The Rev. George Prothero, rector of Whippinghani
Mrs. Prothero, and their family, had the honour of being
invited, and alio the Rev. R. Duckworth.
The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess I
Louise, and Prince Arthur, attended service at Whipping.
ham Church this morning, where the Rev. G. Prothero
and the Rev. R. Duckworth officiated, and administered
the Sacrament of the Holy Communion.
1 I'rince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also attended
I Divine Service at Whippingham to-day.

The Marquis of Exeter has somewhat improved
in health during the last ten days. Several of the
members of his lordship's family remain at Burghley

House.
The Earl and Countess of Durham are enter-
taining a large party at Lambton Castle, Durham, during

the Christmas.
The Earl Howe is suffering from a severe attack
' • •

of gout at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire.
Lady Victoria Larnbton gave birth to a son on
Monday, and both mother and infant are progressing

favourably.
The price of admission to the Paris Exhibition
in the Champ de Mars has long been discussed. Sugges-
tions have been 'offered that one day in the week should
be set aside on which sfr. should be charged, others that
on Sundays only 25c. should be paid. The Imperial Com.
mission has just put an end to all uncertainty on the sub-
ject by announcing that the price will be rigorously ifr.
each, without any exception.
The Messrs. Galignani have just been presented
by the British governfnent, through the Embassy at Pars,
with a splendid epergne in solid silver for the centre of a
dinner-table,with an inscription engraved on an escutcheon
in the lower part of the pedestal, declaring that it has
been given in acknowledgment of the benevolent spirit
with which these gentlemen have, during so many years,
assisted and encouraged various objects of British charity
abroad, and especially of their liberal conduct in lately
building an hospital for British subjects in the French
capital. This beautiful work of art was accompanied by a
letter from the English Ambassador, Earl Cowley, couched
in flattering terms.
CHRISTMAS MORNING IN EXETER CATHEDRAL.
—Yesterday an interesting scene was witnessed at Exeter,
where the custom is continued of welcoming Christmas
with " hymns and spiritual songs." During Christmas-eve
the parish choirs perambulated the city singing anthems
with instrumental accompaniments, and the ceremony was
protracted through the night. At a quarter past 7 o'clock
yesterday morning there was a large assemblage of persons
in the nave of the cathedral. There was also a muster of
the choir, and the Old Hundredth Psalm was sung in the
gallery to a full organ. The scene was strikingly pictu-
resque, and the more so as daylight began to stream
through the windows. As the last verse of the Psalm
pealed forth the crowd began to move, and the spacious
edifice was soon left to the more devout few who remained
to service in the Lady ChapeL

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,S, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER, '26, 1866

DENCM.

►TEST nrr

BARON ItICASOLI ON " A FREE CHURCH
IN A FREE STATE."
The Italia contains a letter from Baron Ricasoli
in reply to the bishops domiciled in Rome who ap-
plied to him for permission to return to their
dioceses on the 15th, the very day on which the
late circular of the Italian minister, removing thd
e
exclusion from all the exiled bishops who desire
to return, was issued. In this reply Baron Rica-
soli gives the bishops to understand what his
meaning of " a free church in a free state "
is. After referring to the United States of America,
whore, as evidenced by the late Roman catholic
synod held in Baltimore, the Roman catholic church
enjoys perfect liberty, he says :—" By the side of
the Roman catholic church rises up the protestant
Temple, the Moslem mosque, the Chinese pagoda ;
by the side of the catholic clergy the consistory of
Geneva and the congregation of the methodists
administer their affairs. This state of things does
not beget either confusion or irritation. Why 1
Because no religion asks from the state special
protection or privilege ; each lives and developes
itself under the egis of the general law, and the
law, equally respected by all, guarantees equal
liberty to all. The intention of the Italian govern-
ment is to show that it has faith in liberty, and
that it means to apply it to the utmost extent that
is compatible with the interests of public order.
It therefore invites the bishops to return to their
sees, front which they have been exiled, precisely
on the ground of public order. It imposes no con-
dition on their return but this, which attaches to
every citizen who desires to live peaceably, namely,
to discharge his duty and to obey the law. The
state engages that they shall not be disturbed, but
then they must not ask for any privileges if they
will not submit to any restrictions. The principle
of every free state—that the law shall be equal for
all—admits of no distinction of this sort." Then,
alluding to the different circumstances under
which the church was established in America and
in Europe on the downfall di the Roman empire,
the baron proceeds to say :
But whilst the nations emerging from the chaos of the
the middle ages were readjusting themselves and entering
the road of progress indicated by God, the church claimed
to communicate the immobility of the dogma of which it
is the guardian to everything sith which it had relation ;
it saw with disquietude the development of mind,
the multiplication of social forces, and declared
itself the enemy of all liberty by denying them t
precious and incontestable of all—the liberty of con-
science. Hence originated the conflict between the eccle-
siastical and civil power, because the first represented en-
slavement and immobility, the second liberty and pro-
gress. How can this conflict be brought to an
which
end?
Liberty alone can bring us to that happy situation
you see existing in America. Give to Casar that which
is Ca:sar's, and to God that which is God's, and peace
between church and state will not be disturbed again.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, DEc. 25, EVENING.
The following medical bulletin has been pub-
lished here to-day :—" Prince Gortchakolf s health,
which was lately such as to afford serious ground
for alarm, is now much more satisfactory, and all
danger has passed away."

THE ATLANTIC YACHT RACE
COWES, Dec. 26.
The Fleetwing arrived at 2 a.m., and the Vesta
at 3.30 a.m. to-day.
Great excitement prevails here in consequence
of this race and all the yachts arriving so
closely together. The three vessels are lying off
the Royal Yacht Squadron Club House, by the
members of which club the yachtmen have been
most cordially received, especially those belong-
ing to the Henrietta. Hundreds of boats
with visitors arc sailing round the yachts.
The winning yacht, the Henrietta, with Mr.
Bennett, jun., the owner, on board, is commanded
by Captain Samuels, formerly of the clipper
ship Dreadnought. With the exception of
the Dreadnought the Henrietta made the
quickest passage on record. She had no
accident and did not lose a rope, and made
the entire pvssape from New York to Cowes on one
tack ; the greatest run in one day was 280 miles,
her least 113, and that was on the 19th irst. when
she laid-to in a heavy storm. The Henrietta
averaged throughout the passage 218 miles a day.
On the 12th inst., the day of starting, the
Henrietta passed the Vesta at 6 p.m., and was
compelled to shift her course, to shake the Vesta
off. Heavy squalls, snow and sleet.
The 13th, squally.
The 14th, moderate breeze.
The 15th, cloudy, heavy with hail and snow, and
squally.
The IGth, heavy northerly winds.
The 17th, north-easterly winds, with heavy
squalls.
The 18th and 19th, heavy cross seas.
The 20th, strong westerly winds.
The 21st, steady swells.
The 22nd, southerly wind; cloudy.
The 23rd, smooth seas.
The 24th, weather threatening; squally.
The 25th, brisk south-westerly winds.
The Henrietta parted company with the other. 1
yachts 24 hours after starting and saw
nothing of them afterwards till their arrival at
Cowes. The same with the Vesta and Fleetwing.
The Fleetwing, when eight days out, en-
countered a heavy southerly gale. The sea
boarded her at 9 p.m., and carried away her jib-
boom, and washed six men overboard, including
two quartermasters, all of whom were lost. This
caused a deficiency of hands on board, and to
that and her loss of canvass is attributed
her losing the race. The Fleetwing was com-
\manded by Captain Thomas, of the packet
ship New York. The Fleetwing is a beautiful
specimen of marine architecture.

FOREIGN-OFFICE DEC. 22.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of' M. 0. von Ernsthausen as consul at
Calcutta for his Majesty the King of Prussia.-o=ette.
A KING IN HIS OLD AGE. —When a young lion
reaches the age of two years be is able to strangle or pull I
down a horse or an ox ; and so he oontinues to grow and
increase iu strength till he reaches his eighth year, and
his talons, teeth, and mind are perfect, and he grows no
more. For twenty years after ho arrives at maturity his
fangs and talons show no signs of decay ; but after that
he gradually becomes feeble, his teeth fail him, and he
grows "cubbish." He is no longer a match for the tre-
mendous buffalo ; he is overmatched even by the peaceful
ox, so he prowls around the cattle krawls, and snatches a
1 lamb or a kid just as he did when he set out with his
parents, nearly 30 years before. A woman or a child at
night shares the same fate. His strength and sight
now decline more and more, till the mighty lion grows
lean and mangy, and crawls about from place to place,
, eating any offal be can pick up, and despising not even so
! small an animal as the field-mouse ;so he starves and
dies, or is fallen on and slaughtered by a few cowardly
1 I knocked or discovered unable to move beneath a tree, and
. I on the head by some wandering hunter.—South
African paper.
NEW POTATOES Yoe CHEISTMAS.—In Melton
market on Saturday, and again on Monday, Mr. Muckell,a
greengrocer, astonished his customers by offering " new
potatoes, Christina,." The novelty was so great that some
of the beet tubers sold for over Id. a piece. The potatoes
had been grown in the open ground, and the crop was
planted in August instead of in the spring, the remarkably
moist and mild season bringing the produce to (per-
fection.

PARIS. COUNT BISMARCK ON GERMAN AFFAIRS,
The Berlin ireutz Zeitunq publishes some et.
tracts from private letters written by Count Bismarck
wr.) 1
from 1886 to 1864, having reference to his German policy,
pAßlit. Tummy istmenea,, , and proving his oonvicitions on Federal affairs to have tore
long ago settled. In the first letter, dated Sept. IG, 185 t,
The Council of State yesterday heard the report
of the Sections of War and Marine on the subject I:abrußsundlef,crethnece Wurted.o
': inNotodon7blit "Own:* abeismeetiagisl
of the reorganisation of the army. Mamba .atme ma far ea appearances go, but behind our bae,:ile imi -
trio. will remain as friendly as ever to the Danes," sake
Bandon, Minister of War, and his Intendant-
General were present. that the settlement of the question depends upon whetihe
The government press endeavours to make out the Danes can rely upon the &affiance of one or ammo
that the return of the government candidate in the non-German Powers. On April 2, 1858, the count,ahn
'pealdng of the position of Prussia in the Zollveraino
Pm de Calais is a triumph, and a proof that the
`doomed from the very outset," and saying e,
country is not opposed to the augmentation of the she must give notice to dissolve it on the fast es.
army. It would be waste of time to show how portunity, says, " Should the Prussian Chanshir,
this argument proves too much. The organisation interfere in the affairs of the Zonverein, you may be pas
of the ballot-boa is such that it must, in all but , that the pride and ridiculous hauteur of the minor gown,
very exceptional cases, return government candi- ' manta will not allow their own chambers to remain babied
dates. The fact which the official press sinks is '.
hamlthcY will all I'M tu cut as 5•0 a figure es th
. crd • Prussians." Haring remarked that Prussia should ova,
that on no former election for the same district s 1 vont to establish a Zoilverein parliament, on the renew"
the governmtnt candidate obtain so fel, or the of the leapt* in 1865, the writer says :—" The •
eot
i governments will not like the idea. Yet if we wet
opposition candidate so many votes. And, more-
over, as I have already stated, M. Sens, the newly- ' bold and true to ourselves we might accomplish meek
elected deputy, was fain to say, in answer to the Your Mean of using the Florian Chambers as a mesa at
I supporting our aspirations to supremacy mainly ceilidh
address of the opposition candidate, that he was
with my own ; the chambers and the press might hems
prepared to vote for "great changes" in the go the most powerful allies of our foreign policy." e / ~hk
vennnent project. the Zollverein and the Bond," the Count ailis,
The French papers for the last week have re- .. end PrussiPrussiPrussia'sraid= in either, to be eel,
the most stratums i
corded some frightful murder almost every day, jetted to
searching
and in many instances the murderers were in re- , our chambers ; the Ring and his minister,
spectable positions in society, persons above want, \if at all up to their work, can only profit by it." Wittig
faropm St. FesteuarsbAnrg on Aw:tsghnsit,h22,ellBsB., on the tonneau
and moved to crime by the vilest and moat sordid
passions. In Paris a young man thinking it wrong Bismarck say., .. if Austria be .ure talan lof 107; Cart
for his father to marry a second time at the age of Venice, she will know how to provoke an attack fn.
69 took upon himself to condemn his parent to France. Indeed, I am told that she has mutual 6
death for the offence, and executed the sentence bold and irritating attitude in Italy since the je,
with his own hand. In the country, near Rosen, terview in the Bohemian Spa. Since Garitobta
expedition it had been the policy of the van
a schoolmaster of good character attempted to
frovernhment to let matters lo as
becomothsoey
cannily
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violate a niece who was under his protection, and to the people
escape discovery murdered her and her aunt. poison himself would deem it necessary to intYerfsse, Rs
These cases, and others equally atrocious, have help in reestablishing something like the former debit
been already referred to. Another, which I now things. But they bailiffbe disappointed in counting spa
read of for the first time. has just been disposed of Nspoleon--a proba which seems to have been ww,
by the assize court of the Indre and Loire. Some prehended by them since the Toplitz interview.
years ago a chemist and druggist named Pineau set 8° theYandlaaaa to
eaanre trtZeirthe en°dPr againstwiy bitem.fth.
up a shop in the market-place of the little town of either case the restless and impassioned fidgetiness &le
Levroux. Shortly afterwards his sister married the Austria, policy
imperils the continuance of a
brother of a grocer's wife, named Darnault, who In the same letter is the following :—" Speaking ei
lived opposite. An intimacy arose between the Bonapartist', I recollect that the press—national uses
Lion papers, Magdeburger Zeitung, Oggretteriadte Zeitaisi,
two families, which resulted in Pineau attempting
and others of the same bias—have opened a systematical
to alienate the affections of Madame Darnault from
gn
her husband. Being repulsed, he took a pistol
and most
mwtrt I maliciousha vs Cam
een fa.voursable. against
tto my pea
"Rand
MIL
at French ides of exchanging the left side of the Rhine fee
and shot her dead in the market-place,
10 o'clock in the morning. He was de- certain territories in the interior of Germany. I est
fended by M. Nogent Saint Laurent, the represented as leaguing with Prance spinet Falba
pay 1,000 Friederichs d'or to anyone who can prove that
deputy who last year took a prominent part land, acting like a second Count Berries, tic. I entail to
in opposing M. Jules Favre's motion for the
inch a Russo
-French proposal has been so much mbrixqbt
abolition of capital punishment. Now, he
had nothing to say to the jury on behalf of his
to my cognisance. While I was in Germany the only wines
I gave to the government was to rely upon oar own uncut
client—who, being a well-educated man, had
forces in the event of a war. Those stupid scribble:sof the
deliberately committed the blackest of crimes—but German press have no inkling that in attacking me they as
that it was not expedient to send murderers to the nullifying the more commendable portion of their own et
scaffold. The eloquence of the advocate succeeded dcavours. The source of these attacks, lam told, is the
in obtaining extenuating circumstances, and the Cobo. tirg
Austrian
1 t who has personal ciao
adulterous and murderous chemist, instead of against
being guillotined, was sentenced to hard labour for prince moss
Austrian reactionary leanings, "such as the
Duke of hieinengen, for instance, the K rcut: Zeittniu, em
life. I would gladly range myself on the side of doubt, would have protected my reputation, as the SIM
the abolitionists of the punishment of death. But dacity of those calumnies must be patent to emotes
the coincidence of verdicts with extenuating cir- among my political friends."
In a letter dated Stolpmiinde, September 18,1861, seas
cumstances with a terrible group of murders pro-
remarks on the uselessness of opposing the scheme of a
yokes hesitation.
A judge of the Tribunal of First Instance of German republic, seeing that all parties will hare nothing
to do with it, are followed by a passage bearing on the
Rheims, M. Luzier-Lamothe, being out shooting position and rights of the minor German sovereigns
on Nov. 2, was 80 awkward or 80 unlucky as to " Among our political friends there are many pedantic
wound three people, including one of his brother people who want Prussia to protect the principle of legiti.
judges, while aiming at a woodcock. In conse- mosey as strenuously in the case of foreign countries SI in
quence of his judicial rank he was tried by the ilieeriteiwmea.c listuat tfiheistioprin noucipalethosft day
moatnasric andn
ii ccii: uusse
one,r va ti vs
so
Imperial Court of Paris, the First President De- longg
as it not recognised and honestlypteicted upon* the
vienne, presiding, for the offence of " wounding sovereigns of eves y country in the world. If carried through
by imprudence." Being found guilty, he was son- by Prussia alone, it is neither more nor less than Quixotic,
tenced to a fine of 100 fr.
The shocking accident on the branch of the and only tends to disable the King and his governmsnt
from fulfilling the more natural task set them by fed,
Lyons Railway from Dijon to Besancon was caused of securing
UnPlesa the co.nstrvattivoengsparti';mrentoiuthince° aced
by the unpardonable neglect of an employe wh
suffered a goods train to go on from the Frainois principle, we shall have to go the length of applauding
the hallucinations of the petty potentates who, supposins
station, and come into collision with a passenger they are powers, avail themselves of the pedestal of ar
other was shunted. Two of the passengers injured
train, which ought to have come up while the own might to play at kings. And yet all this ',ladle ii
unauthorised by the history of the past, is quite new, de
historical, and equally opposed to the teachings of God u
have died, so that the number of deaths is now 14. writer then insist
AL Ronan has in the press a new edition of the Won the
ee
needeights off alTheiceohemehtm"tion The
oerman raillery
" Life of Jesus," in which the author answers M. forces, and of a number, of common institution,
Veuillot's attack upon him, and develops his own as a protection against the losses which mud
theories with much less circumlocution than here- otherwise arise from unnational configurations of tho
tof ore . frontiers of the various German States. He god
on to say :—" I confess my inability to eomprebesi
why we should be scared by the idea of a Repreeentaties
Assembly being either attached to the Federal Diet e
created for Zollverein purposes. An institution lefA
mutely obtaining in every German state, which tbe de-
servatives themselves would not like to dispense with in
Prussia, ought not to be regarded as revolutionary by so
In the field of national amity niodenste concessions wall
bring a valuable return. We might create F. conserves"
common parliament and be thanked for it even by the
libe"
A rals.t
Berlin on October 2, ISGI, the count writes free
Berlin to St. Petersburg that the King had ordered hist.
amplify the sketch he (Bismarck) gave him at Hades, ethl•
ing, " I long to be back in my house on the English OW,
with the calm look out upon the ice of the Neva"
Or
Is
an other letter, dated Berlin, May IS, lt,4—the last al
series from which these extracts are published—Or
to the diplomatic conference which preceded time Dasin
war, Count Bismarck says, " As to my own
view of es
situation, I think it useful to let louse at the code
rence all dogs eager to bark. The Danes ou
rhla be troma
to some noise. Pardon the sporting comparison. The tel
cry of the whole pack will cause fnreigners to look up.ec
the subjection of the Duchies to Denmark as :imply'
possible, and induce them to take into considerate",
grammes which it would be inconvenient for the Prune
government to be the first to moot. With refterence Is
those programmes 1 include the If olsteiners, he choir
pions of Augustenburg, and all who are enthusiastic fa
separate Schleswig-Holstein nationality in the categor
foreigners. The duchies have been a little too beg lo°
toured to play the part of spoilt children in tha Gent
family, and find it the most naturalthing in the wr•
to demand that Prussia should sacrihee herself to their!
tercets without presuming to ask fur a rew„rd."
Further ou the count piously remarcs : " lloweeeri
human wits are incotupetent to fathom these thigg'
From the gratitude I owe to God fir the assist tnoe het'
so far rendered me springs the coandenee tint the '
knows how to turn our errors to our advatttege. I Tel
this more and more daily and become humbler in beat

(nos ors ovn; col

W.,)

A LETTER FROM THACKERAY.

The following letter has just appeared in a Phila
delphia paper :

" Neufchatel, Switzerland, July 21, 18!S3.
My dear Iteed,—Though I am raow in paying
the tailor, I always pay And as with ther slow in paying
the tailor, I always pay him, And as with tailon so with
men ; I pay my debts to my friends, only at rather a long
day. Thank you for writing to nie so kindly, you who
have so much to do. I have only begun to work ten
days since, and now, in consequence, have a little leisure.
Before, since my return from the West, it was flying
from London to Paris, and rife nersa--dinners right and
left—parties every night. If I had been in Philadelphia,
I could scarcely have been more feasted. Oh, you un-
happy Reed ! I see you (after that little supper with
M'Micbael) on Sunday, at your own table, when we had
that good Sherry Madeira, turning aside from the wine-
cup with your tale face ! That cup has gone down this
well so often that I wonder the cup isn't broken and
the well is as well as it is. Three weeks of London were
more than enough for me, and I feel as if I had had
enough of it and pleasure. Then I remained a month with
my parents ; then I brought my girls on a little pleasuring
tour. We spent ten days in 'laden, when I set intrepidly
to work again ; and have been five days in Switzerland
now—not bent on going up mountains, but on taking
things easily. How beautiful it is. How great and
affable, too, the landscape is. It is delightful to be in the
midst of such scenes ; the ideas get generous reflections
from them. I don't mean to say my thoughts grow
mountainous and enormous like the Alpine chain yonder ;
but, in fine, it is good to be In the presence of this noble
nature. It is keeping good company, keeping away mean
thoughts. I see in the papers no ad agent accounts of
fine parties in London. Bon Dieuw I I sit possible any one
ever wanted to go to fine London parties, and are there
people now sweating in Mayfair routs' The European
continent swarms with your people. They are not at all
as polished as Chesterfield. I wish some of them spoke
French a little better. I saw five of them at supper et
Basle the other night, with their knives down their
throat.. It was awful. My daughter saw it, and I was
obliged to say, ' 3ly dear, your great-great-grandmother,
one of the finest ladies of the old school I ever saw,
always applied cold steel to her victuals. It's no crime
to eat with a knife,' which is all vary well, but I wish ,
five of 'cm at a time wouldn't. Will you, please, beg
MMichael, when Miss Glyn, the English tragic actress, !
comes to read Shakespeare in your city, to call on ; F
her— do the act of kindness to her, and help her with I D • 21
FOREIGN-OFFICE, EI • • r wow
his valuable editorial aid' I wish we were going to have . pleased to approve of H. Louis van der
another night soon, and that I was going this very evening de Celle for his Majesty the Kiiig of
to set you up with a headache against to-nionow morning. Ga:ette. Cr e tTIVESTEO
By Jove, how kind you all were to me ! How I like your , THE CHRISTMAS TRAFFIC ON TIIE •
on the (
people, and want to see 'em again. You are more tender. RAIT,WAY. --We understand that the traih:
hearted, romantic, sentimental than we are. I keep on Western Railway during the latter lee the Peces;z
telling this to our fine people here and have so has been unprecedented, and Las
sin Gate
the
belaboured your
d. the paper was turned and powers of the company to the utmost. 0 sa!le____Tfe„.l
the sketch revealed. At the top is written, " Pardon this there could have been but few, if any, short orwier,a,
rubbiehing picture ; but I didn't see, and can't afford or thirty thousand passengers throw:h the
.8n
tern:,o
to write page 3 over again." J—country with prune in tion. With the exception of some very few !
private, that I sometimes think I go too far. I keep inn the day, the platforms and reiteslituent rooms.
_The Queen has t,
back some of the truth ; but the great point to try ana crowded with persons who had arrived or were wet
ding into the ears of the great, stupid, virtue-proud leave by the trains which were constantlY lee °
English public is tbat there are folks as good as they in out of the station. The ordinary number of trunee?
America. That's where Mr*. Stowe's boik has done berm, extra engine power, was anything buKsutlicie,reet.
by inflaming up with an idea of our own superior virtue this extraordinary emergency, and it , tho_ 107_
in freeing our blacks, whereas you keep yours. Com. necessary to more than double the number '17""
parisons are always odorous, Mrs. Malaprop says. lam siome instances it was found necessary to le,l'ate,
about a new story, but don't know as yet if it will be any as three trains for the conveyance of posenger.
good. It seems to me lam too old foe story-telling ; but booked themselves for one ordinary tr This
I want money, and shall get 20,000 dots. for this, of which
TAE with the train which leaves Switelon station'
in.v.) I'll keep 15. I wish this rubbish [the sketch] were The passengers booked by this one tilled thre.
away ; I might put written rubbish in its stead. Not that ns and we were informed that when the P!
I have anything to say, but that I always remember you Wa' deepatched from Paddington there W. ef
and yours, and honest Mac, and Wharton, and Lewis, available rimier left in the station with iner•
amid kind fellows who have been kind to m, and I hope the next train. Of course many of trains wen
will be kind to me again. Good-bye, my dear Reed, and the weather, a heavy fog, was ex
ceedingloy
believe me. ever sincerely yours, but up t • the present we have beard of n emu
"W. I.E. THACKERAT." ever.—Strindon Adrertistr.

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