The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-02 00:00:00

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THE 143r1F'RESSa WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1867.
JOHN BROGDEN, the shifting state of markets and other causes, to nun understand the weed it is (stingy inappliesble to LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
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losses which it would take a large portion of the what taken place, or is at all likely to take plass, in —.----- GREAT SNOWSTORM IN THE METROPOLIS.
DETENTION OF THE HAMS AND ALMOST TOTAL
ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, wages fund of the concern to repair. Still thek the Northern Mates- What we are seeing
is
simply
new
(=ma's seizeasits.)
SUSPENSION OF THE OMNIBUS TRAFFIC.
16, IiENRIEFTAsSTRF.ET, COVk:NT-OARDR.N. ' proof that, under the Federal constitution, no revolution
suspicious and reluctance, taken in connection of a political ammeter can ever be needful. ITALY AND TURKEY. With the glass at 6 degrees below freezing, as
JOHN BROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. with their increaaing power to abstain from labour The Tisset suggests as a remedy against the state of FLORENCE, JAL 2. regietered by Negretti and Zambra's thermometer, the
for long periods, must be brought into the account, unpreparedness in which • large institution is usually It is stated that the Italian government has weather last night indicated the approach of snow, which
JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS, for either those feelings must be removed, or the found on the alarm of a fire that there should be every recommended the Porte to grant the evacuation began to fall slightly soon after 1 o'clock this morning.
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now and then, an alarm, such as is part of the regular of the fortresses demanded by Servia. A strong wind which was blowing from the north"
JOH N BROGDEN'S GOLD ALBERT CHAINS. industry of which they are the object will always
rest on an unsoundbasis, and be perpetually liable to discipline in the Queen's navy. There, on the sounding west at the time, continued till about half-pest four, when
interruption. It is satisfactory to observe that em-
of • bell, every man on board nuts to his post, and SPAIN. the snow came down rapidly. The home-sopa were soon
JOHN BROG DEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. I ever? contrivance is put into immediate use. This MADRID, Jot. I. covered, the roadway brought to a level with the
p °yen, especially in the north of England, are is the only way to secure the competency of the A royal decree has been issued removing
beginning to look at this question in a practical men, Ithe engines, and the other material devices • - • imposed drifted it, the snow lay nearly two feet deep. The traffic
the tag pavement, and in some parts, where the wind had
BENS ON'S WATCHES. manner, to regard the present disorganized condi- the only way to be sure that the pipes are not choked, the ow.ng to the hem, state of the roads was greatly
of 10 centimes upon the railway dividends, . _
f.s and GO, Ludeate-h111; 25, Old Bondvtreet. and appointing a commission to examine what .
tion of industry as the result of natural causes, hose not rotten, the valves in working order, the screws impeded, the horses being unable to keep their footing.
BROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR other assistance can be given to the companies r'n
Those gentlemen accustomed to proceed to the
mingled undoubtedly with much ignorance and not loose, the joints not stiff, and all the gear thoroughly
for CHILDRENS DIET.
To obtain extra 'wont by the sale other kinds are sometimes misconception, rather than as a crime, and to
in •
serviceable The Times recommends that once or twice a order to determine the bases of a bill to be sub-
offered instead of BROWN and POLSON'S. endeavour to repair it by modifying the arrange- year, the night, and certainly on one Sunday at least. mitted to Congress. City per 'bus to their offices were in Mast eases
disappointed ; but where business was urgent, a hansom
"John Brown," "John Colson," Is signed by:be:makers on a director, or other official of the company, should walk or four-wheeler was engaged, driven in tandem. Much
each packet. meats under which capital and labour at present into the Palace and ring an alarm bell. He would then OVERLAND MAILS, delay was occasioned in the late arrival of the mail trains, ,--___
co-operate, so as to make them more agreeable to be able to measure the real efficiency of .the pummel and CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. which were in some instances nearly blocked, and the
gut erprefso. , the workmen, while they promote rather than material preparation against fire-as it appears, hitherto, a SUEZ, Dec. 31. drivers of which had to act with motion. The Scotch and
impair the interests of the employer. When the matter of blind confidence and self-deception. The Bengal arrived at 8 p.m. to-day (due Irish mails were some hours behind time. The fish con-
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. ! old system works well, it does so less in virtue of When the tory and Adullamite journals suddenly dis- January 3). Toyed to London by the Great Northern Railway had not
Advertisements Intended for "The Express," London Evening any peculiar merits of its own, than because all cover, says the Star, on the same morning that the task of
OUTWARD MAIL OF DECEMBER 12-18. reached Billingsgate at half-past 11, and, with the exec?-
Paper, must he at the i Slice. 10, Bourerlevireet, by two ' .. the year must be the reform of parliament, we may con- Sion of that brought by screw or yacht, the market
o'clock ou the day of publication. parties can rest in it. East if anywhere it fails toThe Rangoon left for Bombay December 28,
satisfy and breeds discontent, then, instead of fight- dude that the word has gone nd to pre the comer- offered none for sale. The butter salesmen in
DRURY LANE. ing for it as if it were part of the natural order of votive public for • tory reform bill. The journals which at 1 p.m. Norgatemarkei also experienced great inconvenience
Title Evitsiso, A DA% AFTER THE WEDDING -And spent last year in endeavouring to prove that below the OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. by the non-anival of goods from the north and
N I MBER NI l'. Nlesianics L Thompson. Hudspeth, Seymour, society, the wiser course will be to ascertain in ten-pound limit there was social chaos are able, with their GIBRALTAR, JAN. 1. other pails, and many would-be purchasers left after their
Caribous. it % soilenholf : Monica T. Matthews, Clifton, Master what other arrangements the interests and new light, to descry an intelligent class beyond the exist- The Syria, from Southampton December 27, patience bad been wen tried. In short, the interruption
Bosclle.'Boleuo, Lima, Connack, A:c ; Minks. Bolenuaud Marlon.
feelings of capitalists and labourers can be Mg line which is worthy of being admitted to a share of arrived this morning, and leaves at 1 p.m. for to business has been serious-end at the time we
HAYMARKET. I political power. The natural inference seems to be that write the streets are almost deserted by vehicles,
Tilts Evrsien. A MERE till LI) Moms. Howe, Gordon, ,
, more completely harmonised, and to adopt
.t, . m‘adauw, chipeendale. Fitzwillinni. Laws, Powell, Re -A 'them. This is what was done two years ago at the cabinet has made up its mind to lay a bill on the table. Alexandria. All well. Experienced good weather.
the appearance of an omnibus being • rarity. The that-
BOMBAY MAILS. r.e...toN Volt LIFE. Mescra. ',ahem, Roger,. Clark -J EN NY I But if left to themselves the House of Commons will monster at half-past 11 stood at freesia& point.
LIND AI LAST. Ilissßurke.-And the BALLET. Millie. SuPhit 1 Messrs. Beines's colliery, with the best results ; betray the people in 1867 as they did in 1866. The people MALTA, JAS. 1.
In the neighbourhood of Fulham, the snow was so deep
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PRINCE S'S I and we reported, on Monday, the adoption of most fight their own battles, by meetings, demonstrations, The Tanjore left at 2 a.m., and the Ceylon at 7 that many of the doors and windows were literally blocked
TEM genera. BA RNABY MIDGE. Menem 8. Calhaern, a similar plan by Messrs. JOHN WARDLE and Co., petitions, organisations, by every constitutional method, a.m. to-day. up, and before egress sad ingrem could be obtained the
P. Villiers. J.O. Shore, slot G. Honey: Misses Animate Thom-
. and Kath,,,,taa Roam... atra It ~,agag. am una C. Eon_ of the Denaby Pottery, near Rotherham. There and without pause, until the victory is won. The former may be expected at Marseilles on heap of snow had to be shovelled and swept away. Bannon
man.-And THE IN VISIBLE PRINCE. is nothing new or revolutionary in the proposal to The Standard is surprised that Kr. Jacob Bright should the 3rd and the latter at Southampton on the 10th both in Fulham and Putney appeared to be in • state of
Lt CEUM. harmonise the interests of capital and labour, nor protest with such vehemence against the " slight mis- hurt suspension, and the only persons who were seen in
TEM Evros°. THE TWO COLTS. Mr Widdlcomb.-And representation" of the lolling/illy Berk's., and should an active state were the men and boys who were piling-up
Rol HE El' NMI: Messrs Feebler, Emery, Cowper. Moreland, does sacredness attach to any particular method affect such indignation against the writer who has 0 YARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
the snow from the front of the shop-doors into heaps and
Fitzpatrick. Dillon. Reynolds, Lonms, Andrews, Anderson, do'. ; of doing so. That which moat completelysatisfies MAILS.
" slightly embellished the text from whi he was mounds by the side of the road, which, however, could not
Mrs. L ,wl Misses lieurade Grattan and C. Leclerc o.
' ' ' all parties is the best plan. The partnerships of quoting." If Mr Bright has f ledyet to indoctrinate The Nyanza, from Southampton Dec. 20,
al be seen, as the snow was on a level with the pavement.
STRAND.
Tore Emma, NEIG rim- RS -After which sail produced industry which are being formed here and there the working chum with the monstrous figment that the arrived on the 29th at 1 a.m., and left at 2 p.m. Then was , lute that of =ow in Wandsworth-fields sadist
Grand Burlesque, BUY FAWKES.-And AT THE unite the capitalist and the laboure
•Gr in close conservatives are their natural enemies, it is not because for Alexandria. the neighbourhood. The police-van which is used to remove
SWAN.
bonds, and by conducing to their mutual pros. he has shrunk from any amount of falsehood and mis- The Delta, from Marseilles Dec. 28, arrived on prisoners to and fro from Lambeth,Smithwark,andWands-
HOLBORN. perity tend to strengthen the productive and corn- representation necessary to woomPlioh his purpose. Mr. the 30th at 7 p.m., and left at midnight for Alex- worth police-court was unable to leave Wandsworth-station
TAN EVENING, MY TCEN NEXT. Mr. Delmore: Ruses Bright must not expect to monopolise the delightful pri- this morning on account of the snow, and • sergeant and
mercial power of the country. Strikes and lock-
Foote and Lennox.-And FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Del-
more, Make, Yollaire. Ac.: Mesdames F. Joseph; C. Saunders, outs are driving us to these improved arrant • constable were despatched to the prisons for the mi.
Bessie Foote. Fiddes, I.ennux, Raymond, A.c. sonen who have been remanded, with directions to take
Drente, which centaur a promise of peace and per- ovilppoti--eonfts. perverting rymtinff the Long.- doge and opinions of his andria'
EXPRESS FROM PARIS. them by rail. On the South Western Railway many
Tins gyrwin. TRE PrINITCAiLfrIA„*. THE „lar, ISLAND . manence, and we suspect this is all the good they _.__---
OR, THE THREE KINGDOMS OF PEARL. GOLD, AND' are doing or can do. the !Court. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) of the trains had two engines attached to them.
No accident through the snow had been reported at the
SILVER. Mrs Lane and Miss Jacolm.-First-rate Pantomimist& --8,--- PARIS, TUESDAY Eenemet. Wandaworth policentation up to 11 o'clock this morning,
-And THE SKELETON CREW.
OSBORNE, Jae. 1.
The Constitutiontiel yesterday, while attempting at which time neither the magistrate nor his clerk had
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OUR CONTEMPORARIES. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. afternoon, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole ; to refute a criticism of the /Abate upon the reor- attended, no doubt being delayed by the snow.
TIM DAT -Morning, Ilk 4em Afternoon, Ob. Om.
To-MORRoW-Mornbig, uh. tint Afternoon, Olt 3llen. (THIS DAY.) and her Majesty and Princess Louise walked, and rode on ganisation of the army, gave incidentally as news
ponies, this morning. a sketch of a modification of the project which the ROMANTIC CASE.
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THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE PROSPECTS OF EUROPE.
Prince and Princess Christian went out walking. lisdependatice Beige had published two days before.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2. The LilrertZ gloats over this as a " first modifies- ARRIVAL OF ;Tor
AVBIII. TICHBOIA. RNE, BART.,
The Times is far from disputing the importance Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
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which may be attached even to the few commonplace office from the Governors of the West India Islands, Hong tion," but at the same time it reduces it to its real
(or ELECTRIC TEJORAPIL)
ONE of the best signs with which the new year sentences uttered by the French Emperor at yestenlay's Kong, Ceylon, Malta, and the Falkland Islands. Des- proportions, and disposes with perfect accuracy of
(FROM OUR OWN CoRRENPONDENT.)
opens is furnished by the movements now visible reception ; and the hopes and wishes of Napoleon for patches were sent to the Common of the West India the impression which the Constitutiminet article
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
in various directions for healing the breaches which peace ought to be equivalent to a guarantee of Islands, British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, Bermuda, was calculated to produce, that the annual impost Sir Roger Tichborne, the long lost heir to the
have been made in the relations of the employing its continuance. There was a time following the and the Australian colonies. of blood was to be reduced from the 160,000 men baronetcy and estates of lichborne, near Alresford, in
and the employed classes. Twenty years ago we general confusion consequent en the disturbances of 1848,
were much shocked by the strange theories of labour when he held the post of an international policeman, but THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALLY,-Their originally contemplated to the 100,000 which has Hampshire, has arrived at Tichborne from Australia. He
lately been the (very high) figure. The Liberte was immediately on arrival recognised and acknowledged
and capital which were so rapidly making way on for the discharge of so jealous au office it was necessary Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and
that his motives should be essentially pure, and his his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh reached says : by his tenantry and by the inhabitants of the neighbour.
the other side of the Channel ; but there are now acquisition of Savoy and Nico was • blunder which Holkham Hall shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday evening. On one point the economy of the project is materially heed.
large districts of our own country where a really lowered France in her own est'mation, and exposed her The Earl of Leicester received his royal guests at the sta. modified. The charges remain as before, or nearly so,
efficient plan of combining the two great factors to unappeasable mistrust. Still, up to last spring, he might tion. The Prince and Princess of Wales were accom. and the sacrifice which the oountry is to make i. almost THE ELECTION RIOTS IN WATERFORD.
of production would be welcomed by all classes, and have stopped a war, or have given it such a turn as pruned by the infant Prince Albert Victor. Major Grey as great se was at first contemplated ; but the executive
DEATH OF CAPTAIN KELLY.
where almost any " organization of labour " would would have laid Central Eurdpe at his discretion. Instead and Viscountess Walden were in attendance on their Power is not to have the power by • mere stroke of its
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• be regarded as a change for die better after the of this he put forth claims for compensation, and - royal highnesses. The ten . party staying at Holkham cam- pen to call out the 600,0(K) men of t...he
be necessary
Arybtodl
DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.
dared, as it were, his tacit complicity with the depre- prise the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis presented to the Corps Legislatif will
experience of disorganization in 1866. The last Captain Kelly, harbour master, died this morning
dater upon condition of •a share in the spoils. Hie moral of Huntly, the Earl and Coun of Kimberley, the Hon. justify the mobilisation. These amendments constitute a
year was a year of strikes and lock-outs, and influence was gone before the outbreak of hostilities-his T. de Grey, kLP.. Lord and Lady Itendleshant, Lord and
notable progress in the opinion of those charged with from the wound received in the Waterford riots.
public attention has been fixed on the evils of this credit for sagacity was damaged by their unforeseen re- lady Suffield, the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, Lord the task of reorganising our national forms. It is en-
kind of warfare to an extent never before known. cults. His exertions at Nikolsburg hardly covered and Lady Stafford, Viscount and Viscountess Powers- coursging to observe that the more the civil element in- WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)
Whole armies of workmen have braved the his retreat. And now his scheme for the re .or. court, Sir Archibald and Lady Margaret Macdonald, Colo- terferes in the question the more the rights of citizens and
—.-_perils of famine in contests with their ganisation of the army at home is one of those taw nel the Hon. W. Coke, the Hon. E. and Mrs. Russell, their representatives is taken into consideration. This. is IVEDNEsDAY, JANCAitY 2, 8 A.M.
sures by which he destroys whatever faith in his infalli- the lion. E. and Mrs. Coke, the Hon. H. Harbord, Slim employers,and Ca ital which p , had been ..
as it should be. The Council of State could not possibly
e Ifttreme. I I /les,
lesion bility may yet exist. Let him beware lest upon his de- Whitbread Colonel Stephenson, Captain Stephenson, the 1 B.
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accustomed to circulate in fertilizing streams, inlook at the question in the same way as a minim
and of further sacrifices France should look to the Hon. E. Yorke (in waiting on the Duke of Edinburgh), composed of the highest military functionaries of the 7 I "
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has been condemned to stagnation. Con- results hitherto achieved. The Emperor Napoleon lies and Mr. B. Powell. Since the arrival of the Prince and army accustomed to look at everything from an exclusively „ri, fr - _ _ - __ _
tests of this kind have not the one compensation spoken in a friendly and benevolent tone to the agents of Princess of Wales at Holkham the weather has changed military point of view. Let ns hope that from one change Aberdeen I - .--' - ;1 i
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Which can be claimed for war in its familiar forms, foreign powers. Has he no words equally reassuring for for the worse, having become very wintry and unpleasant. to another there will ultimately remain scarcely anything =am_ f.liks.! .1.
141.40 R 6 N. B. 3 3 N.E. life -' :
When two countries draw out their forces and his own subjects ? Can he not announce to them . a new This was the case when the Prince and Princess were at of the original project of the Mositenr.
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1 meet in Willed conflict, the result of their en- era of Peace-an era of °penned peace? ? Holkham inJannary, 1866. The Holkham estate abounds The Pays announces under the signature of its V 66111
Cape 011a..:s• WIL6O 612 N_S-
-1 Sketching the manner in which the last few years have with game and wildfowl, and notwithstanding the Mole- secretary of redaction that M. Paul de Cassagnac, iirenasa...:frist 25 E.S.E. 2 2 W.W.I!. csb ' 1 : 2
counter generally supplies a basis on which new
,20. 34 KN./. ' 5 3 8.8. W lac 0.20 A
compelled us to modify our estimate of the elements of mency of the season, considerable execution will no doubt having accepted the conditions of a duel proposed
and permanent relations may be forthwith built power in Europe, the Daily News expresses considerable be done by the shooting parties formed. by M. Henri Rochefort, "which public opinion for Mee ....- SOS 37 N.N.W.
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up between them. A government loses a pro- Lorient . 29.29 37 N. w'. 14 7 N. I a Oyu a
doubt whether any French army would be large enough to '
vine in battle, and perceiving that the loss is make good the Emperor Napoleon's proposition to place - -- - - the last two days has considered absurd," nut Roehefort...'S/ 37 43 W. e 6 W.S.W. r 036 6
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ADDRESS FROM THE CLERGY OF WOL- Paris yesterday evening, accompanied by his PlYmmth • • Aer°
N.W.inal accepts it with fortitude, and makes peace the limit of Southern Germany at the Main; and, review. We ..'51.10 ca W '3 4 NE. ID re 0.31 3
VERHAMPT'ON TO THE QUEEN, seconds and his brother, in order to fight in PoWammith.. 23.04 32 N.N.W. 0 4 N.N.S. Cu' 1 6
with its antagonist, perhaps enters into alliance ing the proposal of the Emperor of Austria of a
law embodying the principle of •• general liability to --..-- London ... 25.07 SO N. F.. ,6 2 N. clot 060 -
with hint, but rarely attempts or hopes to unsettle 13elgium. Two telegrams dated Turcoing, received yiemmith....l.;.:73 221
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a At a meeting of the clergy of Wolverhampton,
what the sword has decided. But the war of 'units"
service' remark. that the Reitharata convened by the Rev. G. Fraser,
will probably Insist on looking meremilitarylLD., rural dean, and in Paris at 3 this afternoon, bring the intelligence rretrryga• rim es n:w; ;2 2 14W. ;ae 1 4
labour and capital settles nothing, and can settle „;A,.....L.,, -Laa -ILA - ...- a-beyond-3- -- .1.- , sw.sn- held about • fortnight since, the following address was that the duel was prevented by the Belgian gun- ffe1der......1 -I-

ONE of the best signs with which the new year
opens is furnished by the movements now visible
in various directions for healing the breaches which
have been made in the relations of the employing
and the employed classes. Twenty years ago we
were much shocked by the strange theories of labour
and capital which were so rapidly making way on
the other side of the Channel ; but there are now
large districts of our own country where a really
efficient plan of combining the two great factors
of production would be welcomed by all classes, and
where almost any " organization of labour" would
be regarded as a change for the better after the
experience of disorganization in 1866. The last
year was a year of strikes and lock-outs, and
public attention has been fixed on the evils of this
kind of warfare to an extent never before known.
Whole armies of workmen have braved the
perils of famine in contests with their
employers, and capital, which had been
accustomed to circulate in fertilizing streams,
has been condemned to stagnation. Con-
tests of this kind have not the one compensation
which can be claimed for war in its familiar forms.
When two countries draw out their forces and
meet in armed conflict, the result of their en-
counter generally supplies a basis on which new
and permanent relations may be forthwith built
up between them. A government loses a pro-
vince in battle, and perceiving that the loss is
final accepts it with fortitude, and makes peace
with its antagonist, perhaps enters into alliance
with him, but rarely attempts or hopes to unsettle
what the sword has decided. But the war of
labour and capital settles nothing, and can settle
nothing. Its peace is nothing better than an
armed truce. If at a given time an arrange-
ment is made which an indifferent third party
might upon examination approve as equitable, the
eircumstancea upon which the arrangement de-
pends are always changing or tending to change,
while in other cases the success of one
of the parties is regarded as due to the
pressure which the other is for the time
able to exercise. The master cannot and
does not resign himself to a permanent diminution
of the profits necessary to yield him a fair return
as interest for his capital and to cover the risks
of trade ; and the workman who believes that he
is underpaid works unwillingly, and watches for
the first opportunity of striking again. These
evils are forcing themselves upon public notice,
and it has become evident that there are large
classes above the condition of the workmen whom
they only bewilder and vex. This is the state of
mind which betrays itself in the hoarse chiding of
which we have lately heard so much. There are
some minds so constituted by habit that they in-
variably refer everything which •causes inconve-
nience to some moral fault. They are incapable
of understanding that time and change may make
old arrangements work ill without anybody being to
blame. It would be foolish to quarrel with this
temper ; but we may hope that, with reference to
the present question, the public is getting tired
of it, and that as we have now remained a consi-
derable time in the denouncing and exhorting
stage, we are coming to its end, and shall soon
be ins a mood to perceive that these disputes do
not come of the unmitigated badness either of
masters or of men, but are incidents of changes
which have been gradually taking place in the
ideas of our generation, the inevitable accompani-
ment of a period of transition. A dogged social
conservatism asks testily why labourers cannot be
satisfied to work, as they formerly did, for the
highest wages offered them, without casting their
eyes upon the employers' gains. The question
is not worth pursuing. In nine cases out of ten
they are content so to work. In the tenth, if the
men have the power to decline to work on terms
which, aft.•r all the explanation that is practicable
has been riven, still remain unsatisfactory, their
diaeatisfacti m will be taken by sensible men as an
ultimate fact, lii.o the market value of materials
or the rate of discount, and as neither a subject
for prai,c nor blame. The old school of
political economists took great pains to teach the
men that their labour is merely a commodity,
and they therefore form their own judgment as to
what the consumer of it can be induced, by means
of their hesitation and delay, to offer. Of course
they make great mistakes. While they remain mere
workmen, without an interior knowledge of the
trade, they are not in a position to estimate the
actual or probable profits of employers ; they can-
not enter into the complex calculations which
induce a roan of business to embark his capital in
an undertaking liable, from competition and from

The TioiteN is far from disputing the importance
which may be attached even to the few commonplace
sentences uttered by the French Emperor at yesterday's
reception ; and the hopes and wishes of Napoleon for
peace ought to be equivalent to • guarantee of
its continuance. There was a time following the
general confusion consequent on the disturbances of 1348,
when he held the post of an international policeman, but
for the discharge of so jealous au office it was necessary
that his motives should bo essentially pure, and his
acquisition of Savoy and Nice was • blunder which
lowered France in her own est'mation, and exposed her
to unappeasable mistrust. Still, up to last spring, he might
have stopped a war, or have given it such • turn as
would have laid Central Eurdpe at his discretion. Instead
of this he put forth claims for compensation, and ten-
dered, as it were, his tacit complicity with the depre-
dator upon condition of a share in the spoils. Hie moral
influence was gone before the outbreak of hostilities—his
credit for sagacity was damaged by their unforeseen re-
sults. His exertions at Nikolsburg hardly covered
his retreat. And now his scheme for the re-or-
ganisation of the army at home is one of thou mea-
sures by which be destroys whatever faith in his infalli-
bility may yet exist. Let him beware lest upon his de-
mand of further sacrifices France should look to the
results hitherto achieved. The Dnperor Napoleon has
spoken in a friendly and benevolent tone to the agents of
foreign powers. Has he no words equally reassuring for
his own subjects ? Can he not announce to them " a new
era of peace"—an era of unarmed peace ?
Sketching the manner in which the last few years have
compelled us to modify our estimate of the elements of
power in Europe, the Daily News expresses considerable
doubt whether any French army would be large enough to
make good the Emperor Napoleon's proposition to place
the limit of Southern Germany at the Main; and, review-
ing the proposal of the Emperor of Auatna of a
law embodying the principle of • general liability to
military service, remarks that the Reichsrath
will probably insist on looking beyond mere military con-
siderations when called on to decide on the merits of the
scheme. If the Austrian army is to be strengthened for
the defence of the old system, under which all the races
of the Empire have lost heart, and which, as was seen last
July, has demoralised even the Germans of Austria Proper,
then the end will soon air ive. Men only fight with a will
and to the last for that which represents their hopes and
their interests. The great need of Austria is a political
organisation such as will satisfy its various populations.
And for this the Empire has still *Await.
The Telegraph believes that the Emperor desires not
only the prosperity of nations, but the stabilityof thrones,
yet doubts whether we have reached an era of national
tranquillity. The changes introduced by the late war
into the political condition of Europe, and by the conse-
quent elevation of Prussia into • power of the first order,
are of too grave a character not to unsettle the stability
of many political fabrics ; and the Telegraph cannot but
fear that when the brilliant holiday of the Exhibition is
over old jealousies will revive, and that the most dex-
terous statesmanship will be requisite to avert complies-
tions. In the East, too, we see abundant reason for the
general fear that pesos cannot be long preserved.

The Times condemns steeplechases as • pastime ha-
zardous to human life, as involving inevitable cruelty,
and as encouraging the lowest possible form of gambling.
Only last week two horses met with fatal accidents in •
single race for the " Hamilton Hunt Mate," at the Ealing
Christmas Steeplechases. If it be right to fine or imprison
• poor costermouger for beating his donkey too severely,
the same measure oughtsurely to be dealttothose, whatever
their station, who brutally overtax, for the sake of winning
• prize, the powers of willing horses. Steeplechasing, at
be best, is racing, with danger to life and limb super.
added, and we deprecate it, as we should deprecate •
sailing match in which the contending yachts should be
made to steer among rocks and shoals. There is nothing
really elevating in courting personal risk for an utterly
unworthy object ; there is something positively demoralising
in witnessing such exhibitions out of a mere craving for
excitement.

Sir Franei2 Head, while thinking that the Society for
the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals were mistaken in
charging " that quiet, g►me-looking little rider, Mr.
Crawshaw, with cruelty to his horse which broke his back
at the steeplechase at Croydon," says he has always con-
sidered steeple-chasing to be an unsportsman-like exhibi-
tion of valour without discretion. " Voightlander
be says, " not because he was exhausted by cruel riding,
but because, being too fresh and joyful, he jumped only
for height, and thereby throwing himself out of gear for
jumping breadth, his feet, pasterns, and body landed on
the turf in a false position, and so, greatly to the grief and
disappointment of his gallant little rider, down he came,
and for a few minutes remained prostrate, with Mr. Craw-
shaw's leg underneath him. Poor, noble animal! As I
rode home I passed him with his head dangling downwards
from • knacker's cart. Only • few days before I had
happened to pass • horse in the agonies of death front
having fallen at • teat on a turnpike road."

At a meeting of the clergy of Wolverhampton,
convened by the Rev. G. Fraser, ILD., rural dean, and
held about a fortnight since, the following address was
agreed to and signed by the whole of the clergy, twenty-
one in number:
"TO HSR MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUM.
" May it please your Majesty—We, the clergy of the
United Church of England and Ireland, officiating in the
town of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, and
diocese of Lichfield, humbly desire to approach your
Majesty with feelings of loyalty and devotion to your
Makcsty's person and throne. We acknowledge with much
thankfulness the wisdom and justice of your Majeety's
rule and dominion, and humbly beg to expressour admira-
tion of the Christian virtues with which your Majesty's
character is conspicuously adorned. We respectfully
declare our conviction that the softening influences and
bright example of your Majesty's whole career as a
woman, wife, and mother, have, under God, tended to the
increase of true religion and domestic happiness throughout
your Majesty's dominions. We also respectfully declare
our belief that the honour which your Majesty has conde-
scendingly confer.ed upon South Staffordshire by your
Royal visit to Wolverhampton, will, through the Divine
blearing, increase in all your Majesty's subjects in this
district, who 'fear God,' obedience to His command,
I Honour the Queen,' and will be the means of keeping
in their remembrance the unblemished and noble chants-
, ter, the virtuous, active, and btmeficent life of his royal
highness the late illustrious and lamented Prince Consort.
We humbly pray unto Almighty God that be would be
pleased to pour upon your Majesty and your royal house
the choicest blessings of his favour; that He would
grant to your Majesty health, wealth, and long life;
that He would strengthen your Majesty to vanquish and
overcome all the enemies of your Majesty ; and that He
would of His infinite loving-kindness, after this life,
crown your Majesty with everlasting joy and felicity,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Given under our hands
this 30th day of November, in the year of our Lord God

The address was neatly written on vellum, with orna-
mental headings. It was placed in the hands of the
Mayor to be forwarded to her Majesty, and the following
reply from the Home-office has been received, addressed to
the town-clerk :

" Whitehall, Dec. 27, 1866.
" Sir,—l have had the honour to lay before the Queen
the loyal and dutiful addreu (which accompanied your
letter of the 21st inst.) of the clergy of the United Church
of England and Ireland, officiating in the town of Wolver-
hampton, on the occasion of her Majesty's recent visit to
that town ; and I am to inform you that her Majesty was
pleased to receive the address very graciously.
" I am, air, your obedient servant,
" S. H. WaLeote.."

The death is announced of the Hon. Mrs.
Butler, wife of the Hon. Charles Lennox Butler, who
died on Monday at Caton House, Warwickshire. She was
the only daughter and heir of Mr. Thomas Lindsay Holland,
and was married in Mai to the Hon. Charles Lennox
Butler, son of the 13th Lord Dunboyne.

We have to announce that the Hon. John Ashley,
youngest son of the late and brother of the present Earl of
Shaftesbury, died yesterday morning, from an attack of
bronchitis, at his residence in Upper Brook-street, Gros.
venorsquare. The late hon. gentleman was born Dec. 21,
1808, and married, March 17, Is-10, Julia, eldest daughter
of the late Mr. Henry John Conyers, of Copt Hall, Essex.
The deceased gentleman was educated at Christ Church,
Oxford, and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in
183 G.

On Saturday the Lord-Lieutenant and the Mar-
chioness of Abercorn personally distributed, to about 400
poor families resident in the immediate neighbourhood of
the Viceregal Lodge, clothing, blankets, &a., to the value
of over 1201. In addition to the presents given on this
occasion, and their excellencies' donations to all charities
which are brought under their notice, very largo sums are
constantly disbursed to persons found to be in distress,
and every week soup is given from the Viceregal Lodge to
a hundred poor families resident in the pariah and the
adjoining districts.

On one point the economy of the project is materially
modified. The charges remain as before, or nearly so,
and the sacrifice which the country is to make is almost
as great as was at first contemplated ; but the executive
power is not to have the power by a mere stroke of its
pen to call out the 600,000 men of the reserve. A bill
presented to the Corps Legislatif will be necessary to
justify the mobilisation. These amendments constitute a
notable progress in the opinion of theme charged with
the task of reorganising our national forces. It is en-
calming to observe that the more the civil element in.
terferes in the question the more the rights of citizens and
their representatives is taken into consideration. This is
as it should be. The Council of State could not possibly
look at the question in the same way as a commission
composed of the highest military functionaries of the
army accustomed to look at everything from an exclusively
military point of view. Let us hope that from one change
to another there will ultimately remain scarcely anything
of the original project of the Moniteter.
The Pays announces under the signature of its
secretary of redaction that M. Paul de Cassagnac,
having accepted the conditions of a duel proposed
by M. Henri Rochefort, "which public opinion for
the last two days has considered absurd," left
Paris yesterday evening, accompanied by his
seconds and his brother, in order to fight in
Belgium. Two telegrams dated Turcoing, received
in Paris at 3 this afternoon, bring the intelligence
that the duel was prevented by the Belgian gen-
darmerie. The Pays observes that the interven-
tion of the police was manifestly occasioned
by the publicity given to the challenge by
M. Rochcfort's paper, the Soleil, whose pars-
graphs on the subject were reproduced in Belgium,
and that M. Paul de Cassagnac had nothing to do
with it. At the same time his colleagues in the
Pays cannot regret that a stop has been put to a
rencontre which they think ought never to have
been accepted ; and M. Paul de Cassagnac's friends
are unanimously of opinion that in going to the
ground chosen by his adversary, he did his duty,
but " the whole of his duty." M. H. do
Rochefort would deserve to be hardly
used by a jury if after this he should
further thirst for M. Paul de Cassagnac's
blood. It is true that he will probably in that case
have to go without satisfaction. What the cause
of quarrel is I am as ignorant of as the Paris public ;
but I know that the " point of honour" among
French journalists has lately been carried to a
most ridiculous extent. One of the leading topic
of the comic journals in their review of the year
1866 is the prevalence of press duels. Let us hope
that at the beginning of 1867 M. Paul de Caasagnac
I will follow the advice of his friends, and not persist
in throwing his life away in a foolish quarrel.
A Swiss citizen, a native of the canton of Uri,
was some months ago flogged for having published
• pamphlet against the catholic religion. The
Federal Assembly, to which he appealed,
has just decided by a large majority that
he was entitled to no redress, because flog-
ging was an institution adopted in the code
of the state of Uri, and that the Federal
Assembly cannot interfere with the jurisdiction
of that sovereign canton. The Pays, commenting
on the barbarous and altogether antiquated
of the canton of Uri, urges in mitigation the
absurd argument that the "cat-o'-nine-tails" is yet
used in the English army. The logic of the Pays
is that those who object on humane grounds to a
particular mode of punishment for undoubted
crime are estopped from protesting against the like
punishment for no crime at all.

The memorial to be generally distributed among
the Prussian combatants in the sueoesdultempsign is jut
being turned out by the foundries. It consists of a cross
east from the metal of Austrian guns, and bearing on one
aide the following inscription, " God was with us, to Him
be the grilse ;" and on the reverse, " Koniggrfits, July 3,
VOL"

The Prussian House of Lords is being adapted to
receive the new North German nuilansant within itswalls
If all goes well, elections will oome off in January, sad the
new assembly will meet in the beginning of February.
Nineteen of tho French bishops have, down to
the present date, addressed pastoral letters to their clergy
on the dangers which, according to them, are impending
over the Holy See. _ _

Letters from St. Petersburg state that the Em-
peror of Russia bas just signed a decree 'oppressing the
Italian Opera in that city for the year 1867. The reason
appears to be the 4mallneas of the receipts compared to the
enormous cost.

REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT TORQUAY.

PLYMOUTH, TUMMY Mom

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A most successful reform demonstration took
I plasm at Torquay this afternoon under the =apiece of the
local Reform League. The weather was fine, and
business was in a great measure suspended. About
1,000 persons marched in promesion, consisting of mem-
ben of the Reform League and branches a trades unions
In the town. The procession paraded the principal streets
with large banners and six bands. The greatest order pre.
Tailed, and no accident occurred, although the streets
were crowded. At a meeting held on Ellaeombagreen,
lent for the purpose by Sir Lawrence Pit,
)LP., the following resolutions were eathusiiistically
passed : " That this meeting desires to enter a solemn
protest against, and its denial of, the charges of venality,
ignorance, drunkenness, and indifference to reform brought
against the working classes during the last session of par
lament, and declares that no reform bill falling short of
the principles of registered residential manhood suffrage
and vote by ballot will be satisfactory to the people, or be
accepted as a final settlement of the reform question.
That this meeting acknowledges the services of Messrs.
Gladstone, Bright, Mill, and others who supported the
people's claims and vindicated their characters in parlia-
ment, and prays them to continue their labours with
renewed energy until the working classes are fully repre-
sented."