The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SAruatur Montio.
The Monittur publishes the supplementary con-
vention concluded between France and England on
the 16th November.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, FRIDAY.

The Prussian Gazette announces that M. Stieber,
director of police, has been relibved of all his
functions.

GREECE.

ATHENS, Nov. 28.

A royal ordinance disaolving the Chiimbera was
read to-day, and was received by the deputies with
cries of " Long live King Otho !"
Tranquillity prevails.

TIIE UNITED STATES.

QIIKIENBTOW N. FRIDAY.
The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's steamer Edinburgh, Captain Kennedy,
from New York on the 17th inst., has arrived. She
brings 176 passengers, dre.i. but no spade. Ilhe
experienoed a strong breeze sad heavy sea during
the latter part of the voyage. Her news has been
anticipated.

LIVERPOOL, FILIDAT.
The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's screw
steamer Anglo-Saxeo, Captain Ilallantine, which
left Quebec on the 17th instant arrived in the
Missty at • late hour last evening. The news
from the United States has been anticipated by the
arrival of the Atlantic at Southampton, and the
latest commercial intelligence has already been
published.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

OUTHAIMON, B►voan►v Momenta.
The Tamar has arrived with the West India mail
instead of the Shannon. The Shannon broke down
going out, being 23 days reaching St. Thomas.
Her Majestars ship Icarus has lost five officers
and 42 men ; the Imsum three officers and 10 men.
The Hydra gone sickly to Bermuda.
All the outward interoolonial mails per Shannon
have been left at St. Thomas. Three-quarters of
• million of dollars of specie left behind at Colon.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY Eying's°.
The Austrian question assumes daily more gigan-
tic proportions. Hungary is becoming power"
to which sister nationalities are gravitating. iteu.
mans and Servians demand re-annexation to this
glorious old kingdom, which, as head of a Dane-
bian Confederation, may yet dictate terms to
Vienna. The danger which threatens the house of
Hapaburgh in this quarter will clearly necessitate
the diversion of large bodies of troops from Venetia
to the Moldo-Wallachian frontier. This diversion
will be as good as an additional hundred thousmi
men to the Italian army.
From Italy we learn that the Pope's plan, talked
of some weeks ago, of creating an alter ego- .a Wert
of ecclesiastical moire du palaia—has broken down.
Canon law was against it. Time, I believe, will
show the correctness of my opinion as to the pur-
chase of the most sweet voices of their eminenee
the cardinals, despite their present disputes and
differences.

The Bourse was calm. The settlement paoied
off easily ; scarcely any variation in prices upon
yesterday's market. The Bente left off at 70fr. 33e.
both for money and the account, being a fall of
sc. in the former. Credit Mobilier fell 21r. 50e.
for money, and Mr. for account, leaving off at 775 fr.
and 771 fr. 25c. respectively.
The Pays says the meeting of the Corps Legis•
latif will not take place earlier than usuaL The
Senate will meet before that period (the end of
January or the beginning of February), in order
to discuss and vote the various reforms named to
the decrees of the 24th November, as also the form
in which the address is to be drawn up and voted.
The same journal doubts the truth of the story
circulated as to the attack upon the town of
Aquapendente, which, it observes, is within the
limits of the French occupation.

EASTER DGEB AT ACCRINGTON.

(From the MascAeeter Examiner.)

On Wednesday morning Mr. John Newton was
served with • notice, eit4na him to appear before the
magistrates at New Aoartngton, and show cause why
warrant of distress should not be issued stalest him to
compel the payment of 11d., the amount of Easter dues
alleged to be due from him to the Rev. It. N. Whittaker,
vicar of Whalley, with 10s. 6d. costs. The court holm
was crowded by the respectable inhabitants of the town.,
Mr. Charles Hall, solicitor, appeared as the representative
of the vicar.

Some obiectiena,r which were overruled, having been
taken to the form of proceedings,
Mr. Newton said—Gentlemen with your permission, I
will date the reasons why I object to any distraint upon my
goods. First, Ido not believe there should be compulsory
payments for the support of religionoper still is my
cooviciite that no man should be coin to support a
religion from which he conmenti y dissents, and to
uphold a church that he never enters. I look
upon a compulsory tax for religious proposes is in
direct opposition to the progress inherent in man, the
tendinous of the age, and the spirit of the gospel.
(Laughter aloud, from Mr. C. Hall.) Second, there is no
clear and distinct notion relative to the law upon Easter
dues. You may consult the most eminent men in dm
legal profession, and no two will give the mime opinion. My
third lemon for objecting to this claim is the peculiar
government of the church, which not !infrequently puts
forward men as the guardians of her interest not at 01l
imbued with the spirit of godliness. Take for example
some of our charchwardens ; they are not remarkable for
t.lptiziety, distinguished for their temperance, or re•
for their morality, yet they are peculiarly the
guardians of the church and her pnncipsl defenders. I
cannot support a church whose officers are ungodly and pro-
fane lase.

Mr. Hall, interrupting—l shall not tolerate this any
longer. That is a personal matter.
The Bench—lt is a matter of toleration ; allow him to
go on.
Mr. Newton—My fourth objection is, that Easier dues
rest solely on the authority of custom, and never have,
except by remote implication, been sanctioned by the repre-
sentatives of the nation. Many churchmen admit that they
do not obey the canons of their own church, because they
think them incompatible with the spirit of the age. Slimly
the people have as much right to disobey old church cataterni
as dery and churchwardens have to disobey old church
canoes. After these observations you will understand
that my opposition is not founded on political, hut re-
ligious considerations. I do not ask you to violate the
laws you are appointed to administer, but Ido ask you to
use your discretionary power so as to secure respect for the
laws and justice to all. For the sake of civil and religious
liberty, I ask you not to issue a warrant of distress naiad
my goods.
Ilr. Hall—All that defendant has said is foreign to the
subject. With regard to the attack made upon a chinch.
warden be* a drunkard, I ask, is this the principle of
sending piety in the land Let me refer to the defendant,
who cannot agree with the public, let alone himself. I am
a eharchwardee, and I know that remark applies to nia.
(Lorlattor.)
Mr. Hall wee here proceeding with great vehemence to
deliver himself of his oration, when the bench told him to
stop, for there was nothing to reply to. Mr. Newton had
brought nothing forward with regard to the law. It was all
a piece of abuse against the church. The church had no-
thing to do with it, and those who thought so were
labouring under a great mistake. The dissenters had brought
it all upon themselves.
The bench granted the warrant of distress for lid. for
Faster dues, and lOa. for costs and expenses.

The commission appointed at Naples to examine
the claims of the oflieen of Garibaldi's army is composed
of General Moreno della Roca, President, and Generals
Salaroli, Sirtori, Medici, COMM; Cocain, and Ferrero.

THIS THREATENED COLLIERS' STRIKE IN THE
Waal. RIDING. —Tbe Colliers' Union in the mining district
of the West Riding, lying between Leeds, Wakefield, and
Bedford, have deemed it expedient to allow the colliers to
continue to work at the old wages for another month,

INCRRABI TO ADMIRALTY ESTABLISHMENTS...
Owing to the perm anout increase of business in the various
departments of the Admiralty at Somerset House, it has
been determined to add to the number of eetablished clerks.
The Duke of Somerset, who holds the patronage of these
antments, has shown his usual impartiality and good
judgment in nominating the whole of the temporary clerks
now serving under the Admiralty to compete for the forty-
two vacancies thereby no:Reim:led. Hitherto every first lord
has kept the patronage fur his own immediate friends. and
supporters, but his grim has set a noble example by giving
all the temporary clerks, whether appointed by himself, his
friends, or opponents, an equal chance of confirmation. The
competitors for these appointments number over eighty,
and on Twnda7 they are all to present themselves before
the Civil Service Commissionem—United &rricc Gazette.

HZ Don SHOW AT BIR3INOH•11. —The Field,
which has taken a prominent part in getting up the forth.
coming show at Birmingham on Monday and Tumidity next,
thus foreshadows its prospect.:—' The pointers and setters
will be by far the most numerous • the former extending
to exactly one hundred specimens, ;ad the latter to forty-
three, including, as we are informed, the blood of all the
best kennels in the three kingdoms. Among the hounds
there are just eh to satisfy the curious, but not to
bring away any M.P.H. from his more arduous duties in
the field. Six deerhounds, and as many greyhownis will
attract the deerstalker and the coarser ; while the lovers
of the field-spaniel will find twenty-one specimens to engage
their attention. The two foreign dogs in this division are
boarhounda, which are very uncommon in England, and
will be regarded with great interest not only by the lover
of the dog, but by the artist and connoisseur. The toy
dogs in the second division will chiefly attract the fair sex
but there is besides a fair sprinkling of nmeniffs, bulldogs,
Newfoundland., and sheepdogs for thee' husbands or
brothers. The foreign varieties in this division include
three Alpine mastiffs, one Cuban mastiff, one Mount St.
Bernard dog, a Russian terrier, an Indian terrier. and two
Maltese dogs?'
Warm Idiaca.—We see by a communication of
N. Duchartre to the Botanical Society of Paris that there
is a great demand for white lilacs for ladies' bouquet., in
Paris in winter, and that as the common white lilac will
not force well and the flowers turn yellow, M. Laurent
aloe meets the demand by causing the purple Liles de
Marty to expand in perfect darkness at a high temperature.
This variety forces very well, and thus treated
produces flowers of a pure white, which do not
acquire any colour if gathered as soon as brought
into the light. The leaves are apt to turn yellow,
however, which is not the case with the Lih.
Charles Dix, which equally can be made to whiten, but
with bunches of flowers not so fine as the Lilas de Marty.
The Persian Lilac will not whiten. These statements are
not only extremely curious hut quite unexpected. Why
the absence of light should produce effects so diesimiler
upon pants so similar as lilac. is a question for vegetable
chemistry to explain. It should be verified and extended
in all directions by those who have to provide winter dew.
ration by inexpensive means; for it is probable that the
peculiarities thus said to exist among one race of plants
will be equully characteristic of others. Gardeners'
Chronicle.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAT.)

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