The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-25 00:00:00

VOLUNTEER OFFICERS.

The following important document has just been
issued :

" Wor.Offies, Dec. 8, 1860.
"Memorandum for Commanding Mons of Volunteer
Corp..
" The Secretary of State for War has recently had under
his consideration the reports of tits various inspections that
have been male of the volunteer corps of all arms throw/h-
-ost the kingdom ; and, while expresatug his great. satidac.
tion at the high degree of efficiency attained by many of
these corps and the considerable progress made by the ma-
jority of them in their drill, especially at the amount of
time, labour, and attention which many of have be.
stowed on the acquirement of a thorough knowledge of
their duties, he feels bound also to observe that to a ;rest
portion of those officers who have not before served con-
tinued study and an increased knowledge of their duties
appears to be essential, if they desire to prove themselves
fit for the important commands with which they have been
entrusted.

regards non-attendance at drills, the Secretary of
State reguarda the attention of officers to the Rth clause of
the Act 44 George 111., op. 64, which specifies the mini-
mum number of drills at which attendance is necessary. to
reader them effective.

The Secretary of State feels it to be his duty to all the
volunteer corps to secure to them, as far as is poesible, the
advantage which so many already enjoy of efficient of
thoroughly versed in their drill and &Alm
•,„ "The high degrr of intllligeoes powered iy themat

rat it is imesTigie-that;noffleer who has not a competent
knowledge tow to command and instruct his men can long
maintain hie influence and authority over them, even if sup-
ported by the weight of local position and connexion'',
while it is evident that in the event of the volunteer force
befog called out for actual service the place of the incom-
petent officer would have immediately to be supplied by •
person fit to command.
. _ _

"The adjutant of a battalion of volunteer in charged
with its inatrusiiou, and he is held responsible, under the
officer oonunanding, for the efficiency upon parade of the
°Moen, unless It is shown that they have neglected to
avail themselves of his astrices._

"The Secretary of &ate for War hopes, therefore, that
the officer. of volunteers will do their utmost in this respect
to support the adjutants of their respective battalions.
"Di GRIT AND RIPON."

The annexed circular memorandum respecting
non-commissioned officers for clerkships has been addressed
to the army at home and abroad :
" Hone (thirds, Dec. 18, 1860.
" With reference to the circular memorandum, dated
Horse Guards, 6th July, 1857, relative to the appointment
of retired or pensioned noncommissioned offioe's to clerk-
ships in the six out-stations branches of the War D.:part-
meet, his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Me hereby notifies that he has received a communication
to the effect that the Secretary of State for War has de-
cided for the haws to appoint men of the clam above
mentioned only to clerkships in the manufacturing depart-
ments and purveying branch, admission to the military store
breach being reserved foe such candidates as may be found
eligible under the petrel regulations prescribing the quali-
fications of clerks at outstations of the War-office.

--TriliretieA Or ieriidOwetiltoll----0;;;11111110;e:1 o7fio ern from
every arm of the envies, whose name. may be favourably
brought to the notice of the Secretary of State by hie royal
highness will, upon vacancies °warring, be eligible for em-
ployment as clerks in the purveying or manufeetaring
de-
partments, provided they produce the certificates and pass
the examini.tion required by the annexed memorandum.
"Candidates for these situations will ragtime to send
their applicatious to the military secretary, with the neon-
eery certificates. "By command,
"Lunn, YORKZ BCARLETT, Adjutant General."
"MICUILISHED AND TRSPORART NON•CONNISSIONKD OPTIC=
MEIJER DI TEL PURVRTING AND manor/imam; DEPART-
MEETS.

oMiclidstes for the situations of established non-com-
missioned dicer clerks in the purveying and manufacturing
dopilleneuts must possess the following qualifications :
" *l. They must be under 42 years of age.
" 2. They mart be of good character.
" 3 They must be in good health.
" They will, consequently, be required to produce satis-
factory evidence on these points and will not be noted for
appointments without the production of a stood character
from their late commanding °Soon, transmitted through
the military secretary to the Secretary of State for War,
with the mememendstion of his Royal Highness theGeoural
Commanding-in-Chief. Candidates will be examined by
the Civil Service Commissioners in the undermentioned

12-ninclear
_ _ " FUR P

" 1. Exercises to test haudwritiog and orthovrmphp.
" 2. Arithmetic (including vulgar and decimal fractions).
"3. English composition.
" TIMPOILLaT CLIRKB.

"1. Exercises to test handwriting, orthography, and
gramma" 2. ILI:I:Let* el tory.
" In each of these subjects the candidates must pass a
satisfactory examination."

CHATHAM, Dec. 24.
The whole of the troops composing the 3rd
battalion of infantry at this garrison were drawn op on
their parade ground at the Hut-barracks this morning for
the purpose of hearing read the findiug end seutents of a
district court-martial which recently assembled for trial of
an incorrigible character, named Francis Brady, a private in
the lit battalion of the 19th Regiment. The primmer was
arraigned no a charge of Mashing aeon-commisioned officer,
named Tanner, a violent blow in the face daring the time
he was in the execution of his duty. On being placed in
ecefumment the prisoner refused to undress for medical
inspection. He is a man of erceedingly bad character, and
be Isa been twice before tried by court-martial During
his trial he behaved with the greatest insolence to the presi-
dent and members of the court, abusing them and assailing
them with the most shocking oaths. The court fund him
guilty, and in consideration of his former bad character
. .

rationed him to be imprisoned in Fort Clarence for two
years, at the expiration of which period he will be tried for
his conduct before the court.

Upwards of 200 non-commissioned officers and men of
this division of Royal Marines have been granted leave to
spend their Christmas holidays with their friends.

CtogascsArior or THE &rm Daror BenAmcor
BURIAL GROUND. —On Thursday last the Right Rev. Con-
nop Thirlwall, D.D., Lord Bishop of St. David's, visited
Pembroke-dock, foe the purpose of consecrating the burial
ground recently set apart and enclosed for burying the
troops of this battalion and arsenal. At 12 o'clock his
lordship, attended by his chancellor and a numerous assem-
blage of the neighbouring clergy, and aesompanied by the
protestant troops of the garrison, proceeded to the enclo-
sure, and there consecrated all that portion of the ground
devoted to protestant burials, that for the catholic. having
been conspicuously apportioned off by stakes and ropes.
The party then returned to the officers' mom-mom, where
en elegant dejeaser was prepared, of which both the pro-
tertant and catholic clergy were alike invited guesta. His
lordship left by the 4 o'clock train on his return to Aber-
gwilly Palace. A great number of persons attended to
witness the imposing °memory

THE QUEEN'S COLLEGES.—lmportant changes are
rumoured u about being proposed in the administration of
the Queen's Colleges, which, it is stated, will be brought
under the consideration of parliament during the ensuing
session. It is understood that one of the alterations in-
volves the discontinuance of two of the ridentahips, the
governing power over the three colleges 'es vested in one
individual, to be president of the three odleges, end resi-
dent principally in Dublin. The local duties of the pre-
sident will, according to the plan suggested, be performed
by the vice-presidenta, and the money saved by the re-
duction in the number of presidents will, it is stated, be
expended in augmenting the Wanes attached to estend of
the professional chairs, the inadequacy of the remuneration
having been frequently a topic of well-grounded observation.
It is believed to be also the intention to reduce the number
of chain in each college to twelve, inclusive of the vice-
presidents, each of whom will be required to fill one rat the
professorial chairs in addition to discharging the duties of
the vice.presidents. The above, of oourse, rests on no
authoritative foundation, but it is understood that, so far
as can be arranged, consistently with Justice to existing
in rata, the changes to be us& will be in the direction
• —Cork Constitution.
MR. BAss, M.P., CIE PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES.
—On Friday last Mr. Bass, M.P., attended the annual
"harm of beef " dinner at the County Hotel, Derby. In
responding to the toast of " The Borough Members," Mr.
Bass said the appmbation of his eoaditumita was the only
reward he hoped for, which be was thankful to say bad
been freely bestowed upou him. Ho had had 00 intention of
noticing bin recent speech at the Mayor's dinner at Derby;
but after hearing Mr. Gisborna's amusing ressni.,, he could
not par it over in silence. Be was in a po..itiou to ghee
that his remarks would occupy the attention of parliament
at • very early period. Some of his friends hail viewed the
matter in an angry light, and one of them had said,
"What is Base talking about if it is not malt and hops +."
Wall, be (Mr. bun) realised betook great interest in malt
and hops, and he thought be tuiderstoral them ; and if hon.
members would content themselves with talking about
things they understood, it would be a step in the right
direction. The number of speeches made by metropolitan
members was nearly a thousand, and as there were some
silent ones amongst them, he felt it necessary to say who
mad. tb,,, speeches ; but he disclaimed an, personal feeliog
pas the subject. It WAS the general hid .h ing tlirouout
r
he country that too much speaking was done, and he hoped
what he had said would lead to an alteration.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 26.

A sneer May, such as the poets describe as fit
for rustic fêtes and outdoor festivities, has seldom
been seen by the present generation ; but webers
at length • genuine orthodox December. The
Christmas of 1860 is as bright and cold, as keen
and frosty, as the most ardent archnsologist, the
most passionate enthusiast of antiquity, could pos-
sibly desire. The weather is of the primitive and
poetical type described so minutely by Wssixxo-
Tux Incise in his charming hut somewhat mythi-
cal paper on " Christmas Day." The American
essayist, elaborating this account, if not from his
own " moral consciousness," at least from • care-
ful study of early English literature, describes the
Christmas morning on which he was awoke by the
pleasant music of chaunted carols in the corridor
outside his panelled and tapestried chamber in
Bracebridge Hall as " extremely frosty," all the
trees and every blade of grass being covered with
fine crystallizations, while the frown evergreen
foliage glittered with dazzling brightness in the
morning sun. To-day, however, we have not
only Arctic frost but Alpine .now. Old Winter,
with his icy breath and "head made white with other
" snows than those of age," has appeared in person
to claim the festive anniversary as his own. Few
of the young people who have joist returned from
school, who fill the streets, bazaars, and exhibi-
tions, and look forward with the liveliest impa-
tience to the pantomime of to-morrow night, have
ever seen such " seasonable" weather. The
country is still white with the unmelted snow of a
week ago, the streams are frozen, the roads iron-
bound, the pathways cut into dangerous slides by
audacious urchins, the ducks in the Park waddle
in sore perplexity or stand in blank amazement by
the side of their indurated element, while the
unfortunate sparrows on the housetops are driven
to their wit's end for a morning meaL The scene
out of doors is indeed such a complete realisation
of " Christmas in the olden time" that we almost
expect to see the wassail bowl passing from house
to house, and the mummer in their quaint dis-
guises traversing the streets from one lordly man-
sion to another. The return, however, of such
obsolete Christmas weather will scarcely bring
back the ancient customs with which it is tradi-
tionally associated. The Qo zate will hardly celebrate
Christmas by sitting down to table with the
palace servant, nor the Dean of Wasrsrxersa sing
a carol in the Hall, nor Prince ALBIET serve the
Prince of Waxes at table, • server bringing in
the boar's head with trumpets, as HiNICY H. is
said to have done for his eldest son. Nor will
the gentlemen of the Inner Temple repair this
morning to their hall and breakfast on "brawn,
" mustard, and malmsey ;" nor English country
gentlemen summon their neighbours and tenants
at daybreak to regale them with "strong beer,
" toast, sugar, Witney, and Cheshire cheese."
Above all, what is said of the older season—

A Christiose withal oft would cheer
A poor maces heart through half the year—

will scarcely be affirmed with truth of the modern
eelebration. Some features of the season, how-
ever, remain pretty much as they were two hun-
dred years ago. "Now," says a quaint writer of
that date, "capons and bens, beside turkeys,
" geese, ducks, with beef and mutton, must all
" die ; for in twelve days a multitude of people
" will not be fed with little. Now plums and
" spice, sugar said honey, squeeze it among pies
" and broth. Now or never must the music be
" in time, for the youth must dance and sing to
" get them a heat, while the aged sit by the tire."
In these substantial respects all who have gone
through the Christmas markets or visited the
poulterers' shops, or who anticipate ■ Christmas
dinner, will acknowledge there is littlo perceptible
change.

But though in some respects the form of its
celebration is changed, Christmas remains the
same, and it will be our own fault if we do not
welcome it as heartily and enjoy it with as keen a
relish as the most generous and hospitable of oar
festive forefathers. It is still the season of family
meetings, friendly entertainments, and social fes-
tivity, and the whole worth and meaning of such
reunions depend on the spirit that animates them.
The very essence of the Christmas spirit is good
feeling, genuine kindness of heart, and true cha-
rity. If these are present at the Christmas board
the true secret of enjoyment is there, and it mat-
ters comparatively little what else is absent.
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than
di a stalled ox and hatred therewith." And though
we with none of our readers quite such bitter fare
to-day, they would iU exchange even a genial
dinner of herbs for the ample but frigid or
ostentatious banquet " *here no kindness
se is.” Few things are more satisfactory,
especially at this season, than a good dinner ; and
he who affects to despise it Inuit be either above
or below humanity. But though a good dinner is
not to be scorned, die man who would leave his
friends to secure it is a most righteous object of
contempt. And however much he may eat or
drink in honour of the season---though he should
effect a substantial breach in the baron of beef,
clear milhty ~rl, of podding to its centre,
and .iliatl the brown October till all is blue, he

haa neither part nor lot in
Christmas. Looking to the

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forth

the day, we are by no means disposed to believe
that it was better kept formerly than now. The
stria cd celebration was, indeed, more stormy and
motive, the merry-making more boisterous
thin at present, but the feeling excited-wee lase
pure and deep, the influence of the whole far less
salutary. Those enormous gatherings in baronial
halls and country houses were, indeed, essentially
barbarous and unsocial. The multitude of poor
dependents caroused for a few hours at the
rich man's table, instead of sharing the good
things of the season with their families at home.
In modern times the celebration of Christmas has
gradually acquired more and more of the social or
family character. While there is far less of
public feasting than there used to be, there is at
the same time infinitely more quiet domestic en-
joyment. Instead of a few great gatherings, a
thousand homes are brightened and made happy
by the presence of the head of the family and one
or more of its distant members. How many
happy family reunions there will be to-day. How
many children, also, who have long since left the
paternal root, will return after months or years of
absence, to look once more into the living eyes
that were the lode-stars of their early life, and
which though, perhaps, now dimmed with age and
sorrow, will kindle to-day with their own bright.
ness, and beam on the gathered circle with undi-
minished affection. How many hearts will beat 1
at the sound of well-known voices, how many eyes
will fill while the details of events known hitherto
only in their general outline are rehearsed; and
how much a few hours of such will do to
revivify, strengthen, and perpetuate the memorise,
influences and associations of home. Nor is
Christmas at all less sacred to the claims of friend-
ship—less the season of good wishes and kindly
gifts, now than formerly. Everyone may tend to
swell the general sum of happinees in his war.
Those who cannot nuke costly presents can at
least give kind words, and they are often the most
precious of all gifts. But there are others who
have a claim upon us at this season besides Me-
tions and friends—the helpless and the needy.
We ban, it is true, the poor always with us ;
but, like the atmosphere which surrounds and the
clothes we wear, we are for the moat part uncon-
scious of their existence. A sudden fall in the bare-
' meter, however, quickly calls both to mind. The air
becomes so pressing that we have to fortify our
▪ against its influence, and the poverty always
haunting our street becomes painfully apparent,
and strikes on our quickened senses. The season,
too, by the natural force of contrast, rouse us to
the claims of those who are cold and hungry,
homeless and destitute. The blazing fire and
generous fare remind of those who at this season
1 have uo fire to sit by, and it may be no food to
est, and of others who, though not reduced to such
absolute destitution, are still struggling on under
privations and hardships difficult enough to bear.
It is well to cultivate such thoughts with the sym-
pathies they awaken, and the active benevolence
they teach. We shall enjoy this sacred season
none the less for having practically remembered this
amongst other long neglected duties.

gbe court.

WINDSOR OASTIX, D. 24.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice and
Prune Louis of Mae, walked in the grounds of the Castle
this morning, attended by the Makb of Honour in Waiting.
Priam Louis skated on the ice in the Home Park.

The Prime Consort, with the Prime of Wales, Prince
Alfred. and the Prince of Leinimren, wont out shooting,
landed by Major-General Seymour and Lieutenant-
Ceisma Koppel.

Prises Arthur skated on the ice, attended by Major
FarstslasSase, R. Z.

The Duke of Northumberland has nominated the
Rev. Robert Henniker, M. A., to the district or new palish
alSouth Charlton, near Alnwick, recently founded by hie
ipsoes ealutifiosoce.

The Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven
heave town in a few days on a visit to the Earl and Coun-
tess of Clarendon, at The Grove, near Watford.

The Earl of Fife arrived at his residence in Wil-
tsn-ersiesot hat evening from &caked.

Lord and Lady Haetinp have been entertaining
succession if visitors at their seat, Melton Constable.

The Bareness Lionel de Rothschild ►ud Miss de
Rothachild and Barges= Alphoom de Rothschild will leave
Kingston House on Wednesday to join the company shout
to essemble at Mostatore, Bedfordshire.

The Lord Chancellor's Vicarage of Nueson, near
Dawtry, Nottinghamshire, bin become vacant by the death
el the Rev. WM. Thorp, M. it., of Jeans College, Cam-
bridge. The benefice is worth 3601. a year.
With regard to two of the most important articles
in the new treaty with China, the Times says " That the
island of Chums should by once again evacuated may adsoft,
perhaps, of a difference of opinion. We believe it would be
only ► vexation and ►n espouse, sod the French seem
to have been of the erne opinion. It is s beautiful island,
and has a fine harbour, but it is mach more preitabis to
use it than to possess it. The acquisition of Kowloon he •
real be•eit. It is a small peninsula directly opposite
to Hong Komi, and forms the northern shore al
the harbour el Hoog Kong. It is now s refuge for
pirates and for the wont characters among the Chinese
population of Hoag Koug, and it is almost necessary for the
security of that posesenoo that it should be subject to our
police regulations. What is perhaps still more important,
it has ► healthier climate than Hong Kong, and will enable
os to lodge our troops in barracks where the mortality
will sot be so frightful as it lute hitherto been, and white
the men may be secured from the temptations white bays
hitherto, even more than the climate, caused the =usual
loss of life upon this station. This is not a conquest, or
eyes en acquisition of territory, it is merely the acquisition
a • piste of building land."

BAZTNOLOYSW% HOP/ITAL. —Yesterday a
deputation from the executive body of this famous metro-
politan hospital, winds was founded upwards of 750 years
ago, waited Imes the Lord Mayor, at the Maosiosolom,
and apprised hi lowdship that the home committee a Go
institution had mimed an uaaannous reeolutioo mews.
weeding him to the General Court of Governors • • it Rai
proper person to fill the (Ake of president of the bolinal,
which had become vacant by the pecent death of Aliarmea
Sir (horse Carroll. The gentlemen composim
deputation were Mr. W. Foster White, the Linter
of the hospital ; Mr. Serjeant Payne, Mr. Deeper,
and Mr. Alexander Jones, lawmen • Mr. James
Bentley, a former noway:. Mr. Daniel Britten,
Mr. William Gilpin, treasurer of Christ's Hospital; Mr.
Anderton, a mamber of the Court of Common Comma ; Mr.
Charles Hill, sod Mr. John Morley. The Lord Mayor,
while appreciating this mark of ooefldene and nowt*
keltated at first, from a conscientious feeling, to assume this
responsibility of the old e, haring regard to the duties now
imposed oo him as chief magistrate of the city. and to Ids
somewhat advanced age, lest be might possibly fail to ewe
eatirfaetion to the governing body of the hospital ; hat oa
the deputation representing to his lordship that the flin-
tier,' 'widest to the political of president would occupy
bet little of his time, and that it was simply as hoooniry
distinction they wished to confer on him he readily and
cheerfully eoeseeted. The atm has invariably been filled
be a man of mote in the corporation, selected exelainely
from aiming the members of the (Wart of Alders", and
the governors have occasionally passed by the Lewd Mayor
for the time being in the election ; but on this occasioa the
bowie committee have esairimouely paid tits present chief
mogistrate the complimest of memorandum him for op-
Fointment .Mir George Carroll held the adios from MU
until his death.

CoNSZCRATION or A NEW GRIMM AT KLYSING-
TON. —The new church of St. Pond's, Oselow-winisre, South
Kensingtot, was yeet.rdey consecrated by the Bishop of
London, who afterwards preached in the church to • larr
c.,ogregstion. The building. which I. calculated to bold
about 1,500 persona, is iu the plainest Gothic style of archi-
tecture. Nearly one-fourth of the sittings are to be free,
or let at a merely nominal rent.
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' BONN

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We have received from Bonn a ro.aaort o 1 the
trial of Dr. W. C. Fem., the Be.. J. S. 4fl m, Mr. P.
F. H. Baddeley, Mr. Barad Rapp Major E. B. Camber-
land, Oirerin H. P. Drummed, Mr. F. P. Washington.
Colonel (1. C. Itookfork Lieutenant C. T. 'Alamos, aad

Lientiment-Ckimeel Olddeld, countrymen of ours residieg at
Bonn, charged with the offence of insulting Vie Sterate-
Procurator Miller in a matter relating to his race, by pub-
lishing in the Cologne Gazette and Bonn Gazette a joint pea
test against the language applied by that functionary
to the English nation when he was prosecuting
Captain Macdonald for an alleged tumult. The trial
took place before the Landesgericht, or provincial court.
Dr. Busse was the judge ; Ober-Procurator Ammon repre-
sented the Prussian goresnment ; and the Advocate Ben-
nerscherdt defended the accused persons. With the ex-
ception of Mr. Washington and Lieutenant Thurston, all
the defendant. answered to their MAIM ; the other two
were declared emitumacions, and tried in that character.
After the reeding of the indictment, the court proceeded
to receive the declarations of the amused parties. Dr.
Walter Copland Perry, who spoke in German, said that
be drew up the incriminated document, signed
it, and after it had been signed by the other
defendants, caused it. insertion in the newripapen.
He had resided in Germany many years, and had on former
occasions acted in the name and on behalf of his fellow-
countrymen, and made himself mom or less their organ.
He had done so in the Macdonald case. He justified the
expression, cowardly (feige), in the protest by the conside-
ration that the Staata-Procurater Miller had attacked his
(defendant's) countryman in a place where no one was per-
mitted to answer him. In reply to the question of the
court, asking, Why, instead of publishing this protest, he
did not make a complaint in the proper quarter, so that it
might be inquired into ; Dr. Perry said that Miller
had Insulted the general body of Englishmen publicly, iuxl
publicly, therefore, the English nation mud be vindicated.
He was not aware that Miller could be dealt with judi-
cially for his words ; it seemed more natural to him to
sipped to the public through the newspapers.
The Rev. James Stuart Murray Anderson admitted that
be had signed the protest. He had been in court when
Miller used the words which hid become notorious, and he
eland the feeling of his countrymen that they mud be
pal itdy protested against. He shared to the full the
liirdidig4 of Dr. Perry. He considered that an
esailled-for insult hed been offend to the whole
English action, one that could not be allowed to pass un-
noticed. He distinctly heard the word " impede t"
(nnversolaint) spokes of the English by Moller. The Judge
remarked that in the protest Captain Macdonald's imprison-
meat was spoils at sa if it hod taken place without just
awn, sod then it w also mil that he bad been dragged
into a dirty pal. Mr. Anders= mid as to the first, it was
Ila opinion ; se to the second, he could not say the prison
was one of the alienist, for he had ens it.
Mr. Budd ley stated he had signed the protest in English,
not knowing that it was about to bepthlished without farther
discussion. He bad heard Mikes weeds in court, and con-
sidered that they applied, not to the whole English nation,
but to Englishmen on their travels. He set down the
insult to private feeling, being unable to conceive any other
motive.

Mr. Rapp being next examined, lad he signed the pro-
test, of course supposing it would he pablished. He had
had no hesitation in imputing the leagnege of Moller to
private feeling, became he could not for • moment Imagine
that he was expressing official sentiments. He had pre-
ferred to appeal to the neospapen because he believed that
any complaint made to the government would not have been
acted on for months, and that then It would have led but to
• slight reprimand, of which very few would have heard.
The English, however, had been publicly insulted, and
must be publicly vindicated.
Major °sunbathed said he had signed the protest in
manuscript. He denied, however, that he was guilty. The
only guilty party he knew in the matter was Moller, who
had insulted the whole Euglish nation. That functionary
bed called his countrymen " blackguards,* an expression
which had never been applied to him in his life before.
The Judge here appealed to the interpreter, inquiring
what the word " blackguards " meant. The interpreter
said g meant " hundsgemeinen keel ," but was not • fair
rendering of M. Makes epithet.
Oaptain Drummond said be had signed the document
without intending to insult any one, but simply as a noose•
nary looted.

Lent. Thraldom, who during the proceedings had oome
Into court, mid he had signed the protest supposing that it
was intended for the English embassy, and not for publi-
cation. He believed, however, the protest stated nothing
but the truth.

Col. Rochfort said he signed the protest bite one night,
his wife bringing it to him in bed. He supposed it was
prepared for the purpose of an appeal to some higher au-
thority.

Lient.-Colonel Old&Id said he had signed the protest
knowing that it was to be published, and thinking that it
ought to be, so that both the Prussian and English govern-
manta might know what Moller had been saying.
Witnesses were next called on behalf of the prosecution
After evidence had been heard to the effect that Dr. Perry
bad taken the protest to the Bonn Gazette, and that the
Be,. Mr. Anderson had paid for its insertion,
Oared Umber:, a royal magistrate, was called, and said
he was present and presided in the police-court at Bonn on
the 18th of September, and heard what the Susta.Pro-
curator Moiler said when prosecuting Captain Mac-
donald. He beg= by saying that the English
bid a peculiar word to designate a person of cultivated
mosswee and proper behaviour—the word " gentleman," but
that many of the Englishmen to be seen travelling on the
continent were unworthy of this appellation, and behaved
se Qat they could only be called boars (Himmel). Accord-
ing tis witness's recollection Beller did not say this of all
travelling Englishmen, but only of some among them. He
bad at the time taken down some brief notes, end one of
these ran: "Many Englishmen—presuming—impudent—
bsen.' He had seen the protest in the news-
papers, and his impression was that its terms
were much too harsh, and that Mellor had not spokes
soma to justify the use of the language of the subecribera
At the same time he could not approve of Moller's way of
'peeking.

Clement Oster, en offiriel of the Bonn tribune], deposed
that he heard Moller's speech, and understood him to reflect
on the misbehaving travelling Englishmen, and not upon the
whole nation, ear even upon all Englishmen who travelled.
Be had been pained to hear Moller use the word "lum-
sselei."

Frederick R. von Dusseldorf, who sat es an asemeor of
the Bonn tribunal at tkiptain Hoodoo*.ld's trial, said be had
read the protest, and the wont " gross" and " impudent,"
without its occurring to him that they were wrongly
ascribed to Miller. He thought, however, that the latter
W not used them in the extensive sense imputed to him.
speech had no pension or hatred itrit ; at the same
limo, netwithatanding the reservations end exceptions made,

whom fait when listeniag to it that some thinge had better
tar WI amid.

Ibs Hagen, an advocate at the tribunal at Bonn,
lliellees reflections were called forth by as obser-
vation et Captain Maeda nald's counsel, that Germans were
too apt to take part aguinst Englishmen, and that in this
are his client had been shamefully handled'

Five other witnesses were called, who declared that in
their opinion the words of Muller applied only to a portion
of the English who travel in Germany.
Mr. G. F. Croesthwaite, British consul at Cologne, who was
neat called, said be was present on the oocasion so often
referred to, and took notes of what passed. Miller said
the English who travelled on the continent were distin-
guished for their arrogance, ignorance, and boorish behaviour.
He did not say " many of the Englishmen who travel,* or
make any such limitation. He had spokes to Miller offering
bail for Captain Macdonald, but he would not hear of it;
on the contrary, be intimated that he would
oppose any application of the kind if wide to the court. It
appeared to witness that Miller had a notion of treating
the English with exceptional severity. In reply to the
court Mr. Cromthwaite said he had observed to Moller that
the affair was one likely to lead todiemreeable consequences ;
Muller said he should proceed according to the use, and
run the risk of that, and added that, since so many
Englishmen behaved as though they were not in a civilised
country, en example must be made.
Witnesses were then called to speak to the occurences at
the railway station. The counsel fur the defence objected
to this evidence, as irrelevant, but was overruled, and Dr.
Yarrow, his wife, and several others, were called. When
theme had given their evidence, the advocate Benneseleid
addressed the court for the defendants in • &moderate but
powerful speech. We shall give the cou-lusiuu of the
trial tomorrow.

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FOREIGN•OFFICE, Dm. 24, 1880.
The following telegram was received at the
Fortigii,ollloe, irk! iode, at 7.30 p. ts.), !rpm her
Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Alexandria,
dated Dec. 18 :

Mr. Loch has arrived, with despatches from
China, and leaves this day for Malta.
The ratification of the treaty of rientain was ex-
changed, and convention of Pekin signed October
24. The English and French ambassadors took up
their residence in the capital, and would remain
there till November 9. The French army retired
from Pekin on the Ist of November. The English
would remain till the ambassadors left.
A large force is to remain at Tientsin till treaty-
conditions be fulfilled.

Principal clauses : apology from Emperor for
affair of Peiho • last year ; ministers to reside at
Pekin ; indemnity flied to be doubled ; Tientsin to
be opened to trade immediately ; emigration
allowed ; Kowloon ceded to British crown ; treaty
of Tientsin and convention of Pekin to be put in
immediate operation, and to be published through-
out the empire.
Palaces of Yuen-min-Yuen have been entirely
burnt to the ground by British forte.
Bodies of the prisoners who died in the hands of
the Chinese brought in and buried with honours,
in the Russian cemetery, on October 17.
Captain lirabaaon and AbboS Luc beheaded on
or about September 21, after the battle of Pak-
li-chow ; bodies not recovered.
Indemnities expected from Chinese for families
of deceased.

English and French ministers left Shanglia4
for Tientsin.

Major Anson has arrived charged with despatches
from Sir Hope Grant for War-office, and leaves
this day.
Trieste, December 24, 1860.
Signed) H. RAvix.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PIMIN,Ocr. 3L

The treaty of Tientsin was ratified and the con-
vention signed here on the 24th October, by Lord
Zigin and Prince Hung.

The same formalities were gone through with
Baron Gros on the following day.
The indemnity to be paid by the Chinese has
been fixed at 8,000,000 teals in aIL
The following is a summary of the convention :
In Article 1 the Emperor regrets the misunder-
standing et the Taku Forts last year.
Art. 2 stipulates that a British Minister shall
reside at Pekin.

Art. 3 arranges the payment of the indemnity
by instalments.
Art. 4 opens the port of Tientsin to trade:
Art 6 removes the interdict on emigration.
Art 6 cedes Cowloon to the British Crown.
Art. 7 provides for the immediate operation of
the treaty of Tientsin.
Art. 8 orders the promulgation of the treaty
throughout China.
Art. 9 stipulates the evacuation of Chusan by
the British force.

The allied armies are to leave Pekin on the Bth
November.

It is reported that the Ist Royals, the 87th, the
Queen's, the Buffs, and the Matinee proceed to
England.

Lord Elgin resides in Pekin.

The Bmperor is at Zhehol, in Tartary.
Bowlby, de Normann, and Anderson have been
buried with great solemnity.

Brabezon was beheaded about the 21st of
September.

The Abbi de Luc oleo met with the same fate.

The sum of 100,0001. has been exacted for the
families of the British officers who have been
murdered.

The summer palace of the Emperor was burnt by
the British on the 18th October.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 8.
The insurgents are still levying tribute in various
places and are menacing Ningpo.

ITALY.

NAPLI?* Evz!!"'

The King has held a reception of the nobility of
the Court, which was very numerously attended.
As enthusiastic demonstration in favour of his
Majesty took place iu the evening.
The King will leave Naples ou Thursday next,
after having assisted at the ball of the National
Guard.

Farini is about to publish the communal law for
Naples.
The state of the provinces is very satisfactory.
The news from Rome is of an alarminl character.
The Kennard and the %flares, which left Naples
for the Roman States were not allowed to land
their passengers at Civita Vecchia, the pretext
being that 800 Geribaldians were on board.
Against this Mr. Odo Russell has protested.
Lacaita has arrived at Naples.
It is said that a decree is in course of prepara-
tion ordering an extraordinary levy of men between
18 and 66 years of age.