The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-31 00:00:00

TIIE REVENUE.

least was the rebakod diplomatid. It is true the

analogy was disclaimed lest winter, and the world
wee told that it was misinterpreting wards which
sent nothing prophetic ; bat here we an, at the
wd of twelve reontaa, reviewing a year of which
those words were the programme. It le a period
which we may look hack upon, in all earning time,

without shame, if not with gratifieatioo, as ftir u

ear national character and oondast an asecorasi.

It has Use a seassa of proof of oar loyalty and

preview. So also has the

goad messed at Imam sad of our spirit, prudence, and
definite principle la ear Ihnign relations. The close
of the year finds as MIS clear than before about the
grounds and spirit of our policy ; more satisfied of
oar sabstsatial unanimity as a free people; and
more smashed and elevated in our citizen temper
than it was possible to be in a tranquil time, and
amidst the everyday life of nations. We have wet
maeh that is painful to look back upon; sad a great
deal that we have reason to rejoice is.
Aasoog the richest of the blueing* of the year has
been the restoration of national security, by mease of
the renovated martial spirit of the people, and the
patriotic impulse communicated by the aspect of the
Continent. The progress made in the reform of the
army is considerable. We wish we could say, in our
military system; but the Purchase system stil
exists. AU that can be effected while it holds iN
ground is now done with a real and thoroughness
aakaown in our experience and that of our fathers.
•fie reforms recommended by the Sanitary Commis-
Mon of the Army are successively coming into
action ; and we have now the Medical School,
' Council, organisation, and improved position of
medical officers which were necessary to secure the
health of our soldiery. They are now cared for in
all means of health, education, comfort, and pleasure,
r as no British army ever wu before; and we
I look far a proportionate elevation of cha-
• meter in the force, as the profession becomes
desirable for, and attractive to, a higher class
a of men. The practical establishment of coin-

petitive examinations, on the threshold of military
office, is the virtual doom of the Purchase system ;
and those examinations hays obtained fresh sanc•

tion and authority this year. In our naval interests
we have not advanced so far. The Admiralty has
not yet redeemed its character as the War-office is
doing; but we are moving on towards reform, and
are resolved on efficiency in that department•
Vigorous measures have been taken for the pro-
viding end manning an adequate fleet; and the
behaviour of our Channel fleet in the tremendouv

storm of the 26th of October shows that we have not
trot our seamanship.
Our Volunteer movement spe►ks for itself. The
spirit is fine ; and if there are defects and mistakes.
either it principle or from absence of general pens-
triples, in the practical realisation, it is well that we
should ba early aware of them. This year hue
evolved the patriotic and martial spirit, and brought
out a good deal of the raw material of the most
Imitable force in the world. Next year ought to afford
and apply a comprehensive organisation of this na-
tional force, and to open wide the door for a popular
entrance into it. National defence is an affair in
which there should be no respect of persons except
on the ground of a higher manhood; and the time
has gone by when there was danger in teaching the
use of arms to the balk of our people. After all that
remains to be done, the year 1839 will always have
the honour et having originated a national defence
which will keep danger not only at arm's length,
but below the horizon.

Such troubles as have arisen in the interior of the
kingdom have not been of • political character,
except the sedition of the Phirnix Secret Society in
Ireland, the culprits in which were dismissed with a
fright and a warning, alter more or less detention for
trial ; and the recent agitation among a portion of
the Irish catholic on behalf of the Pore's temporal
dominion. Both are ill-grounded, and therefore
ephemeral. Some serious rioting was caused in the
spring by the iojadicioits attempt of HATAZZI to
attack Romania= in the Galway district. Nearer
home we have had disturbances on affairs of religious
administration, in which there has been, as in all
such cum, much mutual provocation, and abundant
bigotry, presumption, and sacrifice of greet things to
small on the part of innovators, with considerable
evidence of fallibility on the popular side. The
metropolis has bees divided into thirty districts iry a
Climb Defence Association for the purpose e( re-
noting unwelcome legislation, and other restrictions
distasteful to Churchmen as such. No lass zeal must
be shown by ecclesiastical authorities in preserving
the rights of the laity, and the liberal scope of the li
Establishment, unless their Church is to become a
scandal in the Protestant world. Such cases ea Mr.
Poota's in the spring, and the recent disturbances in
St George'. in the East, are heard of far and wide,
and will do taisebied where nothing is known of the
faithful and peaceful ministrations of a devoted
clergy, in their quiet parishes. Church questions
have owed a geed deal of anxiety during the past
year ; and they will secasioc wore and more till the
sathenties mom themselves more adequate to their
(auction. The Church-rate question is obviously
sear its settlement ; and further reforms may pro-
bably follow oa Its trwk.
This was the year destined to clear op the mystery
of oar Polar explorers. Lady FRANKLIN'S little
yacht, the Fez, returned in September, and Captain
M'Curiroca bee presented the world with the las*
particulars of the fate of Frustums and his gallant
company. Amidst the gesetal proud sorrow for
their loss, it is some comfort to know that the old
commander himself died, not of hardship and starva-
tion, and weary battle with despair, but in his own
ship, before the worst of their sufferings overtook
hie comrades. The great geographical problem has
been sabred, and the chapter of our naval history
which his been so interesting to our generation—the
min of Polar explorations—has been closed this
year, at least till it can be extended under less
perilous conditions.
We have been to wheal again in Science and
Social Study, as we are likely to do every autumn
henceforth. The British Association meeting at
Aberdeen, under the presidency of the Palace CCIN•
son, and the Social Science meeting at Bradford,
under that of Lord SUAFTESBURY, yielded mush
wisdom and high satisfaction to large assemblages of
the most cultivated minds in the nation. Our festive
celebrations have been remarkable; the BURNS cen-
tenary in January, the HANDEL centenary in June.
sad that of Scutum' in November, form a singular
group for one year. The performance of sonic of
HANDEL S oratorios on the scale possible in the
Crystal Palsce constitutes in fact an era in the hie
tory of music in England. It is worth notice that
the great traditionary place of amassment to while
se many associations era attached has this year dis-
appeared. Vauxhall closed in July—the ground
being wanted for the improvements of the day-
sheet/sr sort of demolition, which violated no agree_
else nesociations, took place in February, when the
lest *owlet hulk. the Stirliny Castle, was vacated,
and the staff broken up. That terrible institution,
the hulks, is abolished.
Some cheering social changes have taken place, by
means of seal and kindliness which are themselves
full of social promise. The Early Closing movement
and that for the Entardaylialf-holiday have madeg rest

7le astescit for the quarter coded this day is,
no that tee the whole year, extremely favourable.
The total increase epos the qmster, which is
shoat 110,0001., would be upwards of ;00,000i. bet
M as oesideatol dieniaatium outer the heed of mill-
oelloommem attributable to the very large receipts
from the sale of old stores is the cum/speedier
quarter of the pmeedimgyear.
to Ututoms there is as moms* of about 12,0001.
Excise shoos as smeelem of about Ki 4,0001.
Lod sad Amused Taxes exhibit as iacroase of
4 I .1 ma

Tata lasses Tan yields an Increase of about
390,0004. owiag to dot sortooot,d rate of duty.
Them fa a drawer of 30,0010/. under the bead
I'r uldw, aad o( about 11,00 W. in Stamp,.
l'rowa Leads are all but Matioaary, bat the item
bt .cellaneses, fur the reason stated ahoy*, shows a
&creme ea the quarter of about 601.3.0001.

In the twelve inewas, the iIICTIMO upon Customs'
is about ;30,000/., and that upon Excise about
1,4 Z44),1)00/ Land and it*seesed Taxes are
sw °lista by nearly 73.b0a, while the re-
ceipts of ths Post-otEos extubit an excess of about
160,0001.

la the lissome Tax, the decrease for the year is
more than 1,500,0001., owing to the diminished
rate of doty as compared with that of the oor-
reepooding period lief year.
There is a very slight variation under the buad
Crown Lends, and in the Miscellaneous Receipts the
diminution amounts to about 718,00 W.

The net decrease for the year is nearly 220,0001,
But for the cease already explained, acc.unting for
the diminution ander the head Miscellaneous, and the
redaction is the rate of homes Tax, the Ite,enais
for the year would hats yielded as increase of
more than 2,000,0004

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND I.IFTY-NINE.

IT will be e twelvemonth to-morrow since the few
words was spoken at the Tuileries which fore-
shadowed the tenets et a very remarkable year.
We..freer may happen in the coming time, the year
1439 will bee marked era in the history of Europe; as
introducing the inevitable struggle between the des.
potian.s, democracies, and constitutional and Papal
kys*.ms of Europe. During the latter weeks of
'f-f4 there had been tokens of disturbance and
ruin..ur. of war in F.rati rn Europe and in Italy.
On New Year'a•day precision and certainty Wan
Riven to m.,. floating expectations by the French
EN ptitok's memorable remark to the Austrian am-
Asaeador. The incident was the more sig-
nificant from its resemblance to the mode
in which the prem. of Amiens was broken
up hy the firs N‘riii.lo:s, at a Itv i•ft in
the man place, when the English =hes-

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING,' DECEMBER 31,

for alas*. the

indistsial sphere at women, sal quelifylogilielt to
occupy it. The ostablishmeatof Drinking... Middles

in London and many parts of the country has pro-
moted temperance, and bestowed a vast amount of
comfort. A system of waterworks, opened by the
QUEEN'iI own hand in the autumn, supplies Glasgow
with a much needed abundance of good water. A
new system of hiring agricultural servants, in several
oral districts, is to succeed the demoralising and I
[animus practice of mops and statute fairs. The
introduction of new and comprehensive agricultural
ieachinery has manifestly given importance to the
agricultural labourer, and opened to him a higher
lot of consideration and comfort. There has been
a further development of the National Lifeboat Asso-
ciation, which becomes a more important institution
with every season of storms ; and, fearful se has been
the loss of life this year from disasters at see, it
would have been considerably greater but for the
lifeboats recently stationed round the coast.
It may seem strange to associate such improve-
ments as that of the Armstrong gun with the bene-
ficent deeds of the year; but if it be true that every
addition to the meets of destruction in war must
hasten the abolition of war itself, we ought not to
' shudder at the invention of such a weapon. It will
constitute a date in military history, its introduction
into the artillery service of Groat Britain having
taken place on the 28th of last February, after
abundant testing at Woolwich. The Great Eastern
is the bulkiest of our late achievement,, and the
most conspicuous in the eyes of the world. Her
fortune* are not brilliant at preeent, but 'he has got
off the stocks, and down the river, and out to esa,
sod round to Holyhead, and back to Sonthiumpten
Water; and thus, through a long series •
misadventures, the big ship has become an aeon
plished fact, which may introduce others, with
leas risk and damage hereafter. The Red Sea cable
is at work. We ought to have had one direct to
India before the entrance on a new year; but we
may be thankful for what we have, as far as it goes.
We are assured that communication with India

NEST IN'

(ELLIGENCE.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, P/TDAT, Dec. 30.

The New Prussian Gazette (iron Zeitinsg) says:
a A/seceding to current reports Prince Hohen-
zollern Sigmariogen intends shortly to give up the
Presidency of the Council of Ministers, and to
assume the commend of the 7th eorps•d'arrnee."

would have been open before this time, but for •
defect in the cable extended from Candia to Alex-
andria. Oar dock scoommodation is extending

largely, both in England and Ireland, and railways
are growing rapidly in Ireland, where manu-
factures and commerce are ameliorating the condition
and character of the people from year to year.
Several lines and branches have been completed in
England in 1859: and the prosperity of almost
every branch of industry permits no pause in such
works of utility. The main-drainage works in and
near Loudon are fairly begun, and would have been
further advanced but for the Strike. It must be
left to future years to show the working value of the
enterprise, and also two other things:—whether
we have sense and ability to make a proper use of
the sewage to be conveyed away ; and whether we
shall follow up this great drainage work with such
arterial inland drainage u is indispensable for the
full prosperity of agriculture.
We have had a series of calamities this year,
though the sense of them ham been much overborne
by a high general prosperity. Lives have been lost
by explosions, by fires, by the fall of old houses, and
other accidents, which may be considered pre-
ventible; but far graver hays been the casualties
from the violent caprices of the weather. We have
had floods and drought ; frosts in April and October,
cutting off fruits and roots ; and extreme heat and
violent storms in sturamsr, injuring the hay and other
crop.. Hurricanes in all the four seasons have
caused fearful calamities at sea; and the loss:of the
Eastern Monarch, the Sovereign of the San, the
Alma, the Paramatta, the Repress, the Royal Charter,
the Indian, and the Blervie Castle, will make the date
of this year a mournful one to hundreds of families.
Lastly comes the consideration of our loam by
death among distioguished citizens at home, and
great men abroad.

Several Sovereigns have died this year : the
Kings of NAPLE% and of SWEDEN, the Emperor of
Morocco, and the Bey of Isms. The death of
the bride-Quoen of PORTUGAL occasioned sorrow
throughout Europe. A long list of British Peers
is in the necrology of 1839, among whom Lord
MINTO, Lord WESTMORELAND, and Lord WALDIS-
GRAVE are perhaps of the most general interest.
Two Earls of JERSZT, father and son, dying within
the same month, was a pathetic incident. Of soldiers
we hare lost General JACOB, whom place ORR
hardly be filled; and Himont, LUSHINGTON
and Sir W. ETEL The Church has lost two aged
Bishops—the Bishop of BANGOR and Dr. MALTBY;
mid also Dean ERSKINE of Ripon. The Di semen
have lost a great man by the death of the Rev.
JOHN ANGEL Jamas, of Birmingham. Two India
Statesmen have departed: MOLGITSTOART EL.
IMINSTONE, and Mr. SHEPHERD, of the India
Connell. Abroad, the ancient NIIITTERNICH has dis-
appeared from the scene, after witnessing the doom
of his policy ; and the Chinese magnate YILII—no
less a man perhaps in his stern sphere. With far
deeper ooecern we have witnessed the departure of
the Marquis LAJATICO, in the very day-spring of his
country's liberties. The most conspicuous loss of the
year is that of HUMBOLDT, whose life was the same
thing as an era in scientific ►istory. At home we
have had our own losem—the last the heaviest—not
forgetting in the world of intellect and learning, the
death of Manua. Jonsson in March, and of Professor
Shaun in September. Dr. Lawmen died in April,
and Professors LEE and G. Vilma in May and
November.

In applied science, we have been bereaved of
several of oar greatest men, as BRUNEL sod RO-
BERT STIPHINSON, the first engineers in the world;
aud RICHARD HAMILTON, the architect, the finder
of the Rosetta Stone, the promoter of the Elgin
Marbles, tad procurer of many Egyptian and Italian
works of art, t►e effective trustee of the British
Museum, and the founder of the Geographical
Society. In literature we shall meet no more
several familiar minds and voices. blecAniAr is
gone ; and HALLAM, and Luca HUNT, sad DR
QuincEr, and Sir leHsa STEPHEN, and Lady Mon.
GAN, and Lord /dolma of the old Edinburgh coterie,
sad BATLE Sr. JOHN. Abroad, WASHINGTON
IavING and WILLIAM Eamon have departed,
and Ls TOCQUEVILLE. The ravage has not
been lees among the artists. Germany has
lost SPOHR. Of planters we have lost LESLIE, and
HIPPINOILLT., and DArin Cox, and FRANK STONR.
and Limes WARD, the father of the Royal Academy.
BACON the sculptor is gone ; and among singers, the
lamented HOMO. Jams BALL'S name ought to be
recorded as that of a generous and discerning friend
of artists and patron of art.
Thus does this day bring the duty of burying our
dead in the dead year, not as forgetting them, but
as bidding them, as we do the old year, a grateful
farewell, while we tarn from the past to the future,
and prepare to sweet its ditties, and, if need be, its
dangers.

THE Dioczez or DVZHAX.—The Bishop of or-
Issai des just dewed • stetermeat Ulastratlse of the amount
of operates! Sossitatica i tbi. Simon, froni which his
lentstalp coattails that so slisettial Impression can be
wade on the destitute maw eakes each ample annual sib-
inriptions shall be Mewl ea will furnish stipends fur about
fifty manias.* cisry. 1a Mammas* of Ih4 übject, • pub-
lic meeting is to be held in deiressile on the I ltd proxlao,
et which Earl Orq wW take the chair.

*Ow"
1859.

PONTIFICAL 00VIRNMENT.

It has been often said that the hierarchy of the
Roman Catholic Church labour more to Increase the

power of their order and sustain the temporal sway I
of the Pope than to teach their flocks as Christ
taught. Ample proofs of this coarse of action
appear among the papers left by the Pontifical
government at Bologna, and which are now in course
of publication by the existing powers. We find •
bishop in his diocese, and that belonging to France,
doing all the duty of the head of the polite. He has
an army of spies in his pay, who are employed to
watch suspected persons—indeed, in case of need, the
bishop will kayo his see and go to Marseilles to do
that honourable duty himself; he inspects the ports
of Corsica to ascertain where the enemies of the
Pope might make a landing, and he has an armed
force ready to disperse them ; in short, as chief of
police on coast guard, Raffaelle, Bishop of Ajaccio,
is a model. How he watched over the religions and
moral welfare of his people is not told, for no allusion
is made to such things in the letters which here fol-
low, except that for a small bribe, administered by
their pastor, they would betray a refugee.

Fre Rafaelle,Bishop of Ajacoto, to Monsignor Marini,

Go;ernor-of ROme.

Yost Rev. Racelliony,—Monsigaor Cleibist, Bishop of
Miss, who before going to Rotas wished to ,Wt oar Island,
will dsliver this latter.

I am hippy to be able to confirm what I had tits hamar to
relete In my letter of the 18th of August, In reply to your
untamed favour of the 22nd of July. In Cain no one

even dresmsof tanning the silks oestioh dangereas expesii-
dome. I gather this certainty from inionsation sweetly pro-
mised from every part of the island. I do not bar, thank
God, to be deceived by my priasta. They yield to aces in
devotion and affection to the Roman Pontiff. Finally, I may
add, that while I live nothing shall be attempted against
Boma in this my diocese.—l em your most rev, excellency's
moat devoted and affectionate 'avant, _ _

RATIPABLI:I, Bishop of Ajaccio.

Aisodo, March 17, 1846. - -
In another letter the bishop refers to a communi-
cation from the Governor of Rome, which intimated
suspicions of a conspiracy in Conics. He replies:

this, bat in anything of which my lowliness to capablo. I
sball think myself honoured by the oondsmention of poor
most reverend escalleacy.
In this hops I kin the hands of your most mewed ez-
oallency, and hays the honour to be, with esteem and respect,
your most reversed excellency's most humble and obsequious
servant, N. N., Viaar of the Holy Moe.
Forlimpopoli, Oct. 31, 1838.

We have been told that the inviolability of con-
fession in the Roman catholic church is surrounded
by the most tremendous defences ; that bulls without
number, excommunication, and all the terrors of the
church secure to the penitent the fidelity of the con-
fessor; but we see here how such barrien break
down when the interests of the temporal power of the
Pope are to be served. .

If such a thing had been I moat have known it; our
priests of the island are attentive, discreet, and sharp-sighted,
besides the other means I have employed for the same par-
pose. Nothing u yet has occurred in Corsica, only I may
point oat to your excellency that some unknown ponces,
wetly with long beards, have appeared on the island, under
prima of purchasing forma, or other mercantile gramme-
Ikea. • • • Funioorbo is a solitary spot just opposite
Chita Vecchia, and almost cut off from the rent of the
Wand. The shores of Portoveochio and of Bonito:110 ere
almost uncultivated, oovered with bruahwood, and without
ishabibsars; these are the places where a certain number of
swim might Isla =observed, and thence throw themselves
ca the Italian coat. I shall mad parsons fitted
for the work, well acqualated with the country, to
those plane, and It saamaszy I shall send a man
I ma tram, who is In my mondemos, to Sardinle,
sad also to Marmillse, to welch what is doing there, sad r
shall report to your excelleacy. • • • Here the people
ere amity managed—always, be it eadmenard, with the help
of a anal gratuity—for they are very poor end la want of
emoything. It le trait there ars • few legalise who enjoy,
Ice the present contingency, the favour of government, who
would, perhaps, see with plume Italy on fire and the
Sovereign Pontiff in trouble and &Mow; but we need not
kw their bad will if doe preoeutkoms be token in Corsica.
Thin en always some little expeems, sad I have no funds.
• • • Your most reverend ezesileacy's humble sad
devoted servant, RLFI•ILLLE, Bishop of Almelo.
Ajsodo, Jan. 12, 1846. . • _ .

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Monsignor Marini replies approving of the Bishop's

The interrogatories which are considered too ion
for insertion in the Monitore di Bologna place the
arcane of ecclesiastical justice even in a stronger
light, and show on what proceedings are bued accu-
sations that lead to arrest, imprisonment, exile, or
death. These and other documents will be published
in a separate volume.

CO Court.

WINDSOR CANTLE, D.c. 30.

Her Kejestei dinner party yesterday included
the Prises al Wilde sad Primmer Alien, Iced John Rue-
sell, the Rev. Lord and lady Wricaholoy Rare% the been
of Windage sad the Hes. Ilse. Welleeloy, MajorOeaeral
the Hos. R. Basset sod LealmatoOolaird Heppe].
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suggestions, and promising the necessary funis.
Ile adds that the Papal government was taking
measures to protect the western °out j on the aide of
the Adriatic that was unnecessary, owing to the pre-
sume of Austrian misers.

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The Bead et the Omaha Garb wee In attendance, and
played daring dame the--
.n... hem" Sum*.
—dee Doane A...101*W ...... 'Se Doke et B,4.'Alberegghc.
LMre ftea.th '' Cherhotoen " D
" Dar releettots" Weber.
Her 111.4aety's Private Beat aherweede perketaed to the
drawing-room the—
Oal Overture. "Le Doceleo Ads" ...
Mellen
Inmate, sad Trio lieldn.
Bolen. de la Timm
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The Queen, with the Pitmen Mee, walked ta the Hoene
Park the rhersiag, eel visited the Duchess of Kent at

In another letter to the Governor of Rome from
the Bishop of Ajaccio, he notes a fatiguing journey
performed to inspect the ports of the Corsican pro-
montory. He speaks again of the deserted shores of
Portovecchio and Bonifacio, and adds, " bat even on
the coast I have persons I can depend on, with arms in
their hands, who would disperse the refugees." With
one extract more we shall close the episcopal cor-
respondence. He speaks of a number of refugees
assembled at Marseilles:

NeiMoTe.
Toe Prince Consort, soooaigautied by the Prince of Wake
and the Prince of Leinkuten, went oat 'hooting et Bagettot.
Princes. Helena and Primer L2lllOll rode en the Riding.
house.
Lord John Rummell left the Castle in the forenoon.
The Hon. Beatrice Byng end the Hen. Emily Cathcart
barmy:m.4od the Hoe. Eleanor Stanley and the Hoe.
Horatio Stanford se Melds of Honour in Waiting to her
hfejeaty.

I ate told It is the Wootton of these seditious ram to
oaks a certain Montan their chief; he is a Comic=

Desoatchee were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governor of Malta, the Lord fiigh Commissioner
of the lonian Islands, and the Governor of Labaan.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North Ame-
rican Provinces sad the Governor of Bermuda.

The Duke and Dachas of Somerset arrived at
Wimbledon Park yesterday, from visiting Viscortat sad
Visooontess PalsnmeSon, at Broadlaods, Hants.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick have arrived
at their maiden°, la the Stable-yard, St. James's, from
Warwick Castle.

The Barl and Countess of Chesterfield are enter-
Wain a easel party at Bretby Park. Derbythire.
The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies
Craven will leave town on Monday, on a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, near Watford.

The Earl and Counters de Grey are staying on a
vigt a Viaooent end Visomintess Palmerston, at their seat,
Headlands, Hants. _ _

The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mn.
Herbert are entertaining a lags circle at Wilton Houma,
neer Salisbury, the guests including the Martinis and Mar-
chioness of Atlesbary, the Earl of Clonedthem, Count Strur
kaki, Viscount end Viscountess de Vasa and Hon. Mies
Vasey, Visoount Gifford, Lord Ashburton, Hon. Sidney and
Hon. Herbert Meade, Mr. Gaud and Lady Augusta
Start, &a.
The Right Hon. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper are
staying on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston at
Broodiest& - -

Lord Clyde, we (Dove► Chronicle) are informed
from an authentic source, will, in all pent:ability, arrive in
Dover from India by the overland route, oid Manian, on of
about the 16111 January next. . . .

Among the arrivals at Torquay during the past
week are the Hon. Lady Doran end Mime Dtuocan, Vis-
count aad Viscountess Bury, Eon. Mrs. Yorke, Mims V
Mr. Yorke, Boa. Mir Moron, the Right Rey. the Lord
Bishop of Decry, Re., Re.
The farewell address of Viscount Duncan to the
electors of Forfarehlre, on ascending to the peerage as the
Earl of Carocerdown, has been issued. Hie lordship, ad-
dressing what is to a great Went • manufacturieg se well r
ea sgricultural °antinomy, specially alludes to the vest
•

adventurer, sad was • Lemons guerilla colonel fn the time of
Ilepartero. • • • If your excellency approved, I would
piece at his side in France same ems who would let me
know what was plotting ; and if necereary I would go my-
self to Yaresilles and live in the house of his uncle, General
Gnarl, • good mac, and devoted to me. • • • It Is
needless for MO to otiad a man of so much parepiescdty as
year esoelleney that the most profound seamy is necessary
In such matters.

The next letters are a correspondence between the
vicar of the Inquisition at Forlimpopoli and the
Governor of Rome. The vicar relates the confeesion
of one of his penitents, which being in part political
the penitent had apparently suspected he might re•
veal, and exacted a special promise of secrecy, which
the vicar thought it for the good of the church to
give—and to break, se the following letters show.

In this ease the names are suppressed :
To his host &emend Excellency Monsignor the Governor

of Rome, (Private.)

N. N., of this town, presented himself to me is the dis-
charge of my sacred aloe, to make TatiOtUl commemicatioas.
found the greater part ware rather political than belaying

ti the Holy Inquisition, I therefore thought it hest to draw
out an extrajudicial interrogatory, ratter than mix tip our
tribunal with things not belonging to it; and I consider it
my duty to Lenard this paper in the original to your moat
reverend excellency, that you may take such precautions as
may be deemed aecewary. • • • N. N. intrusted me to
be secret that ha might not fall a victim to some concealed at-
tack, :and I, In my desire to serve the good cause, gave him 1,
my promise, which I hope will be well maintoisisd, depending
on the prudence of your moat reverend exeelleney. if you
think me capable of making further iaterrogatolies on the
subject, I do not refuse the task. I shall be proud if your
most reverend excellency shall deign to acknowledge the
receipt of this present, along with which you will
find the interrogatory and some fragment* of a printed
book. In this expectation, I enbeceibe myself your most
reverend excellency's moot devoted and obedient servant,
N. N., Vicar of the Holy Office.

Forlimpopoli, Oct. 10, 1838.
Monsignor Vanimilli, Clamor of Rome, to Signor N. N.
Vicar of the Holy 081oe at Forlimpopoli. (Private.)

I have received the secret packet sent to me by
V. B. T., sad I have examined the spontaneous con.
lesion of N. N. on political matters which you have
drawn out. Ton are most meritorious and worthy of praise
for poor vial end for your conduct in regard to N. N. As to
the spontaneous confessioo, I wish yon would occupy }ourself
In trying to ascertain the motive why, urged by remorse,
he so long delayed to mike the said confession; sad also
question him as to why at one time the secret society treated '
him ill, and it would he well to insiousto that he should not
keep back any information on these points he may further
acquire, either as to the secret societies or on revolutionary
teszasurres, warning the said Signor N. N. not to take part In
the seise of the societies, nor against the government, but, in-
dependectly of any complicity, toe ,lkct and give informstion
of whatever may coma to hie knowledge on the above-named
subjects. I proceed to confirm the assurance that lam with
wrens, L. V•NICELLI, High Police, Rome.
Oct. 15, 1838.
From the Vicar of the Holy Office et Forlimpopoll, to the

Governor of Rome. (Private.)

031;:tneretal resourcea sad markets of led* which be has so
assidnoualy labnred to enlist in developing, and gracefully
refers to the general est:cessions of sympathy with the Com-
perdown family on the removal of its late venerable head.
A lecture on the importance of friendly minden
lot the working dams wee delivered in the Lecture Hall,
Derby, on Tuesday evening, by Mr. Tidad Pratt, the
registrar of friendly societies. Mr. T. W. Evens, M.P.,
co:spied the chair; and there wen. sib present Mr.
M. T. Hass, M.P., Mr. H. F. Gisborne, Captain Holland,
and several other influential gentlemen.

Major-General the Hon. T. Ashbarnham,
will succeed to the ooloneloy of the 82nd Regiment, vacant
by the death of Lieutenant-General Hamilton. The or
loweloy of the 88th Regiment has also beoome vacant by the
death of General Blunt. By this event Colonel Walker,
C. 8., of the Scots Fusilier Guards, betimes a Major-
Getterel, an I, in consequence of his promotion, Colonel

Ridley, Colonel Dalrymple, Captain the *Hon. R. Most, n,
and Lieutenant Stephenson respectively gain a stop of regi-

marital rank.
Mr. Saunders, author of " Leveed Martyrdom,'
lea a new domestic drama in the hands of the Adolph!
management.
Mr. Mitchell has engaged the London Glee and

Madrigal Union for a aerie: of performances of English part
music, to be given at the Dudley Gallery in the Egyptian
Hall : the first on Monday nee'.
Miss Dolby announces two soirees of chamber-
MAC early in January.
" At the gentle soliciting of Mr. Thackersy," says
the Atheneum, "hacked by the proffer of a graham a line,
the post-laureate has written a poem for the Carrakiil Nero
sim. The poem is abort, and bears the title of 'Tithes.' "
The programme of the Artiste' and Amateurs'
Bosley for the ensuing season includes four public exhibi-
tions at Willis's Rooms. The first gathering will be held
on Thursday evening, February 2; the second, March 2;
the third, March 20; the fourth, Nay A. Mr Harding is
president for the year ; Mr. H. Ellis the hon. seceetary.
" We cannot believe," says the limes of the late
Lord Macauley, " that all that is left of each a man will be
allowed to mingle with the dust without at least thorn
honours which we lavish on warriors who have been the
scourge of their specter, or on statesmen who have done more
to mislead then to improve it. To one Lord Macaulay's
own noble worda, 'one cemetery only Is worthy to contain hi.
remains. In that temple of silence and recoemliation where
the enmities of twenty generations lie buried—in the great
Abbey,' which contains no nobler dust, there should be in-
terred the remains of him whom no Englishman can name
without pride or reed with,nt the purest pleasure and the
highest instruction."
Lola Monter le °tared to a very numerous audi-
ence at Mosart.itell, Ne o York, on the evening of the 1504
on the subject of " John Ball at Home Some 3,000
people ware present.

Meet Reverted Excellency,—l have the honour to send
with this the replies to the interrogatories suggested by your
most reverend excellency in your venerated despatch of the
16th of October. Redaction and prudence made me await a
favourable moment to avoid ascrideiog to the faction the car-
een I wu to interrogate, sad perhaps delay too long in my
duty to our moat reverend excellency. I hope, however,
that if your most teverend excellency will deign to consider
the gravity of the matter, and all the cunning of the sodas
tile. end the risk to which the penitent is exposed, yea will
pardon the views which have made me think delay mammy.
It I should be ulteriorly emplojed, not only in matters like

THE CHIEF COMMISSIONERSHIP OP WORES.—••
Speculation et the west end is busying iteelf with the manner
in which the Chief Conituissionership of Works, recent by
the death of the Hight lion. H. Fitzroy, le to be tilled op•
The moat credible rumour circulated lest evening was that
939 Oifio9 bad been offered to Sir John &modem, whose eo•
ceptenes would render neoesisry a new election fur the Writ
Asotbee report gives the vacant department to the
Hight Hon. W. F. Cowper, to whore prevent datiss at IM
Huard of Trade Lord De Orgy end Ripon would succeed:.

PASBENTATION TO SIR AIWIIIBALD ALISOS.
On Thursday atter:noon the Sheriff-Principal of Lanarkshks
was, on the occaelon of the expiry of thr twertiy-tlfth yeas
of his legsl omnesion with °largos-, preesntrd by the
Faculty of Procurators with hie bust In marble, Among
those present at the presentation were Lied Ardmillan. Sit
James Campbell, Lieutrsant-Colonel Alison, the Lad Fro-
root Miller, Walter Buchanan, M P., Robert Dalgliek
M.P., A. B. Shand, Advocate-Depute, Sher:ft Bell, Sheriff
M.Farlan, Sheriff Stratbern, Sheriff Log* Lady Aliso',
Mrs. Colonel Almon, Mrs. Black, hire. Stafford. The Nan
01 she Faculty of Procurators presided.

EITMORSIVI STITII3I OF WISILIMENT.
Alias fit, a rawartehr kers. Bar, la the
ci Saws. limy Jabs sod Derrllkeoß,rraMrsera
wick fir weer ia writers dapartrest, wee
40a, aerrifas as ea earailve groan of raberiserst r
lire. Shard Lew* of Orr blarilerailrehait, eppeared
fw tala parnitios. sd Ines hie rears streawat it ro-
wer the pram kid bra o tha wirday of Marc
Nadi ha Imre rare " clerk kr were Is she whale-
s& ram ram," rd Is bed kr eke enter far hi=
weakly ea eel's ea aroest mar kr the Rymer
sl err. Oa the lab ef the rear swath be salved the
wooer of 1114.., be white woo eaterd • SIM at OIL
ea dr le • ma ward Pim, rash the Weser
W 'gm void; sad era es the fled the plaesag re.
err • brew seer if 114., ha whir wee the ma
el li. M r brag paid le P. The bawl wee oily dr
rowed ea • sea, Barr Baas. hair reliniey iir
Bars eorry whoa Pisa rebel far the MOIMPINdi dr ha
He bed so err the Ire bed bra raked le wry
wrap rims, Weed, awl that be afraid be Jr ha foam est
ria pine wkla the ether cre.
. _

Hip Johi;i7taises. • dirk ia th• preestalseur usaloy,
raid pay`/ the prime/etas areesse woad by ifs hosed
mamma as above. la wake we the menu se paid to
Wm esaer. al 51 Werdeue-elesee, NU le bloat
sasiaid the sinsames. ma • ge/ag yuftrier wee Sold they

--lampr-aTear Webb, et the 0 divides, said dr ishicitlas
tot( mem be edged be • need.
Tbe M tIM mart of Mr. Lewis, te-
en Friday ow.

CLIRIENWELL.
111101TANT TO C&TTLZ D 1141.3115. OTALIIIRS, &C.
Mr. Mir Prim, a sarster botcher, carrying on boatmen
240111Whili, wo charged by Mr. W. Lova.
oe ,inalconstabia at tin Royal Society foe the Prevention of
frothy *hobos* a Mows —" For that you did wavy
od awry is sad upon • cart certain entrain, to wit, SIM
11•16. illllO6 a manner and panacea ate to ',abject Ira
tamale to stooteesay pain and eatiertag, contrary to tho

The dekwilmat baying pleaded net talky to the charge,
Mr. Low skied Guest sad 9•11, two *Sows et the seekty,
ea Wow evidence lit spreeret Wei ea the 23•111 Yet. they
..r, is the Torit-wed, Ltreg'weeces, where they saw the
!wawa deielog • mt. is whist' were • sus-
rd esteem, and se be }word them they oh-
ereei five et kw wives Eying ea the hack of
;is cart with their heed* sad web behest •
Inc WWI over the tailboecd. Thar* went Wee twe is she
trot tying in the sem pucka. The art wee gulag at
.10ett pace, sod the =Wks of it nerd the he et the
odrer to ditsite sad knot violently *pair* mesh Wier.
They (the oaken) followed the dehaikeet sheet NS fade
tato the cell wartett when he etegrstr sod ups
the calm they fowl their brie muck beflawed, the eekyesse
lad • gleamy egpwrameey end were blood-eb4 mot tMj
were ell brewsktg at the month. When the edermle wwe
WlOll out et the wet digereered to be In • wake at stupor,
led emit net Wow& spiels le the ddetlant st the
thee, sad plikeil elk le his the amity at esayeying the
saw& la dot way, when the ikkalmat replied that be
aid met blip k, and that thus woe plenty et others did it
se well as hes

—Pebt•Tetalehis folly combined the
also Mimes, NA Wed that he had sees the
*Wag the ems .at dor bet the caw vire this all is
the dart bfmg th • roper milks, sad the &indent at the
his <aril fie sittaties ie the •Itertoke•
_ _ _

is ratty le the slogs dr dmindeot dmaisd that he was
guilty af emir le de elm* what he did
woe without{ • thaught. hod ee dere to infringe de
W, sod rde orralle lad Ord hi had shared his rode
d weryleg de sodralm it hi was laterlertd with.
W. Trebles moil hi resedested that years ago it vaa
red as prudes to navy these poor &roads is the way
=1•1 la hod lisped that ia thre days amoog all
mra degrades hod bra doss away with. A very
t hokum bit had twoo prodded to rest each cam as time,
mid it bad bum wry rapid, labia op. There could mot be
a Mit la lit MEd at any reasonable ran, that the
rodeo aerryies the amigos la this way ma fraught with
✓od rooky odd mot pot the aelmar to great palm sad
rodres.oppeored, however. that the dafareat hod
mispied a direr pima autos Pb. odors hderfred, he
woad solders the realty to 10.. sad the errs, red los
hoped that would set ma • ratios to him and °thin it the
Man.
Tr Lie ear paid.

SOUTHWARK.
CRAWS OP 110110LAZT.—A coy &tours rstau.s.
Jew Awe, • esilakarru We, us Engel with
• lisreery Is • hoes is thiss-rset, Berectik-road.
Mrs. Jose &Mad, tbs wits at Mic prucator, exhi-
bited mobs se Ulna es ter web wad UN rid that .he
hewed Ms l
imn' st I dark es tho prerious=,
besed ecer eats Bar bechead woo a 'obi
sed werbsd die Isseepb-reed. It 7 o'clock abs
seweirs de truseits tbe lel who ~e br
ece kg. God sbert4 dm b• net As bud a mesh of skim.
Mr rue duselabe lostesdp sad saw tie presser is As
se it jewthe set et the Utile, eltic a writleipaire M
be parrios. Ilbs kit
ulbald et kin sad petal Ida book.
WU they bed ibecdf semis Iserbsr. The resew.
meth km nuke I.by dr esceek op* bast S.
wadi affiskit bar It dr meld ad bt SW p. At tbst
doe. lettestsb tsr bw, • trestsbe um up Is Or spet,
arl polsostar mut
@M=liarku M WI be blew the pieserst se se
He 5.1 wereed botatterkee sod
keys, abbey. Ms GAM esnelp for a railed bo
odds fin Is ps baba •9161101.
strew ei Me dupe as Ids/we rid that tic us
husk
be wt tede
ilissegli. hit sued the wedge. mil that p.. way, as
art
'no mid hr dist bs wee • bed sbeterer, wad
Ewa e.aii be ea dwelt as to kis Urdu Ms tbeuld,
wide o 0 the druntesesu mused hr he s yolk.

The FIZZ IV EINIOUTR-STRERT, CiAttitirwlLL.
—Dr.sth or Two Ptsres.—Tbie are, whir* brake set
es Sesiuday 'debt apes the premier of Mr. Theist, • buss-
draw sad bakestleetent b Rommathastreet, Clothomwell,
her, we regret to my, bees aimed, saloaded with the loos of
two lime. This (ftetesky) Ms. Ereillimod, the
stmertsteadest el the dm resolved telinmeles that
Mr. Thelma, aftee harts, the morghel etiesdesentast the
Royal Free liceptei, or indeed say ether krtl Js., smdd
atford, brd expired hest the seethe et the bone lea
Mired is eavotarung r pea dews the peer
• taw hare aftanrarde eso ado &awes dish hem
einem Minthe reared by the some witertene.
TIM ore le a lasseettahl• eat, foe them ether poetess eve
lyiag is a very precarious state from Wirth, reaieed lath*
andmveara So sabdu• the Ire. It swore that the Ism
spread se fatherly round the shop UM the Iv. persons
became earroasded, aid 'Rheas► illemathe was proms
with the Royal Soviet'', ems" hs wee neethe to laws tool
my one ems is the Widths. it wee net emit after Mr.
Ftero, the formes of the dlstriet. bed 'MOM the them that
inn the unraketanateperesse were seas, sail thes they were
prostte, pray* for
st
Loss or • SHIP'*S CAM ow THS NOSTIIVS-
veat.auD Coati.—TlN Cream of Cestior, • brig belong-
ing to lavervear, has ram whom es the Northumberland
mem, mar to Holy Island, with so one es board. TM
ship's beet was stabaemmetly drifted up sear to Bredwell,
with acithiag is bee except en old jacket, which had bees
oat Into the plug-hole. From the log it that
Me pared the Louring,. tight at gees en Fright.
Thine ill every mesa to fear that the crew, in taking to the
boat, bed perished. The versa, which woe lades with pig
um, hoe !wok= up.
THE Loss OF Ttir ALARM CASTLE.—AII doubt
to to the late of the Menlo Cattle he. bees removed.
The Satimmen on the French comet have emu =Ore amt
of wrecked goods, with, Is mmy flirtation's gad boar
Cotten einem them, sad the ciiptain of the Feather, •
ship belougieg to the General Strain Navigation Compesy,
reports Shot he Oaf, the wrack on Wt.theaday mooring, to ail
eastward of the Verne and Ridge Sande, and POOOll tea at
twelve miles off the Freooh oast, the vied blowing bard M
the time from the moth-went, with • high sea. C.aperds
Rome!, who wee deetatawd to the Fritsch coast by tie an-
derwritere at Lloyd's to collect ell the authentic Isfeemeelcs
on the meisaceoly subject, writes to my. " that the week
of the Skrvie Cattle was teen on Saturday driving about
twelve miles N. E. of C, sat." On Monday night some Deal
loggers mane up with the wreck between the Keatith
K rah gad the Galloper, fifty or etzty mica from the
Vane Read, and they eat It In tow, and suc-
ceeded is 'Oaths It on to the lawn to the imetwerd of Ramer-
gate Hartoor. From Its chattered stale it was evident that
some mind had struck open It daring the time it had bees
duties shoat. It may be remarked that some doubt has
bees axpeeseed se to whether the wreck is really that of the
Bknle Crtle, and an linpremioa bee been entertained that
it belled to some other ship. but Its drivmgabont for so loss
a period would account for its moneybag mitered cliereoler,
and it is only remonable to suppose that It is part of the lost
" A Dover Beatcoth" writes se follows Beeped.
ins the Alp 'tippets...l to be writeltrd ea the Ridge or Verse,
I belie beard thee 1.0 of her bow* have bees men upright
NA IA of water." It may b. stated that the ship was pro
vided with two signal gun. and rackety. !equine. leave bees
made of the kerma of the Itahilvaise on Cape Grimes ao to
whether he had heard any signals of deem. Bred daring the
sight of Taw lay or Wednesday morning, and le answered
that he lad not

succelefal forgery wee practiand as
theT.e.toay Bank, a few Any& ego. A " mew: Table" seas
who arm stopttn• et Ihs I: slot Hotel, gave the " boot." as
otmcs on 1.-wer... Whtteway and 8011, to get osetted
ker turn at the bank, for the .am of 491 He we. asked
frooo whom be got the bill, sad replied from Mr. Davey.
p.m 4,1 Hr. Dair.y wee eppftdrd to the ton, bat wale
carnelt Dart) wbo wom at the Union Hotel. The tall.wlielk
wan overdue. was caehnl, but he. Mate turned not to be •
forgery, Al wino as he scot the money the prntleamm
made troche," sad Lao sot Woos been haeni of. The
vlaw are after him, and it Is to be hoped Its alai be broiled
to tootles. He preati.cd the trick with motor Ins two per-
t... The To-psey Beak will be aby of " reepeetehle ask"
Prweros LIU/.

An Widest ..emend yenteedly es the River
Mann of the awn distreming cheneler, by which twentr
any lime were lest. The alp Greed Trine., which
W been la lattewheed Dealt seam leer rigging set up
and other replan, wee hauled en dozing the is...
of yesterday, sad proceeded lo the =chomp in the
Moyne. The Amen who had ben employed oder. Mr.
B. T. Ryan In making the eriewmary repairs on the Tenn
esek the weed be hermesasee nth the satiebnee at one
labourers, sod, ear Os ship hod ben mode Eng, they pro-
cured a twenty-one bet gig, banging le Thomas Mackey,
Park-road, with the tadentice et going en awe. It appal*,
holmium, that Mackay, vidt his mate, Themes Groom, wife(
with their boat to bring Cape& Hasty Clarke, the
miner of the ship, ashen and while they were waiting
kw bin the men got into the boat, to the ember of
twenty-el& ; en, whew within about 200 yards boa
the Brimeeriek Pbdimil, • blight null come ass,
take would he, ben of no conasqessoe to the
ben if the people ea board had kept their man
The wan, however, was waned up against the nee,
who eat to the wan able of the beet, sod be mar to
amps ism the way they jumped up, the Set of *Melt
ten consibeheg the eterbeiled tembeles of as bon,
led the Sores of the wad be the sell, es swamp
the beet immediately. diesel mom wan we as pier
at the time, among when awe Mr. W. Chelean Bruer
wink belneater, end clam 431 (Verb), who threw a
libelmoy to a maw, need 07ftre, mad was reined.
Mary, the moor of Os boat, was saved by bur ma
Mild Thema@ Mon William Minoball, Imam God-
son, and William lion, who went to the anisesoce of
the drowning mem. Captain Clerks was obit got out,
and be, with the sailor John O'Hare, nil a tabourer
seed 94 yeses of age, named Thos. Kean, wee takes
le as Bonham Hospital, where they wen properly ate
Waded be by Dr. Downs sad his °caws* Thomas
Orem, the bottneen who wee with Mackey, wee
*eked up by Wee won In a boat, who, after they bad
tar him ate beard, look the swamped boat in tow.
They boded Gomm as the George's Pier. Another man
awned Bell was ebb to go hew, as did the °MAT of the
heat, whoa he got same. These were all that are re-
peated to have ben Gored out of the twenty-eine liner
who were in the ben Inaptictor Acton (avowed as wkb
as lapwing statimast from Thomas Groom, which wee
token down shortly after his arrival at the receiving-how :
Meese Groom, 19, Man•street, Toateth- park, states
that shoot four o' clock he left the ship Greed Trianon,
at manor in the ricer, in a small boat, In which he
thinks there ware twenty-eight peasengers, most of them
riggers, and the captain of the said alp. They Intended
to land in the Cockle-hole. When they got to the river
wall the boat bled with water sad wont don. He
(Groom) was picked up in a small boat by William Hill,
Wm. Morton, Stephen BeDjUllill, and a sailor. He wee
landed at George's Pier, and taken to the reoctiries bane
at Prince'. Dock, by police-officer 671, when ha
had a warm bath, and soon recovered ; a surge= was
not required. The boat that wee indeed was leaded
on George's Pier. Mr. Evans gave as the names of
the parties who were in his employ, sad who, he
thought, were amens the unfortunate gallows that lost sleek
lives :—Willima Robin Robert Jaws, William William,
John Then% lease Irvin' George Wholam, Almada
Janson, Dodd Wean, Edward Butler, William Brown,
Gimp Sinn= (a lenity use, better bows is Frame
George), sad •by when memo he did set he.,.