The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1866.

ing-house the failure to answer lettere, or to fulfil
orders, for a day, may sometimes be of still more
material detriment. There is, therefore, a reel
sacrifice made, which may AO be more than can
possibly be covered by the saving of wages, even
when these are deducted for the day. But a wise
and generous foresight can perceive a larger bene-
fit, that brings an ultimate and indirect reward.
The mutual kindness that binds together every
class, the better health that enables better service
mind that brings
to be given, the more cultivated
new faculties into exercise, all these influences are
the final guerdon of the present sacrifice which
employers make in granting to those in their em-
ployment an ampler leisure, or an occasional entire
relief from toil. And as the custom gains a
fuller recognition there will be the fewer draw-
backs attending it. When the public quite
understands that at certain seasons no
business is to be done, it will cease to expect
any, and no inconvenience will follo
for. w
Andfrom
a neglect that is foreseen and provided ,
on the other hand, when a holiday can be looked
forward to with certainty, it is likely to be em-
ployed more beneficially than when it comes only
by a species of fortuitous and sudden agreement.
By-aud-bye we shall reach by mutual concession
a point at which arrangements may be made on a
more definite basis. At present, the question is
in its most trying, because a transition stage.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES•

(THIS DAY.)

THE OCEAN YACHT RACY.
The Times regards the above remarkable race, in
which for a prize of 18,0001. three yachts have just
crossed the ocean from New York to Cowes in a space
of time which would have been fair even for a
powerful steamed, as expressive of a spirit which
has been remarked for some time past as on the
increase in the states. The Americans are fast
becoming • sporting people, and as they are ad-
venturous, famine, fond of excitement, persevering, and
acute, they have all the qualities of sportsmen. What
they can accomplish as well as design this very yacht race
proves. There is, indeed, no other such match on record.
Some of our own merchantmen have occasionally raced
against each other from China to England, but theseere
large clipper ships striving to get a few hours' start in
the way of business. It was reserved far the Americans
to send three yachts to do in the Atlantic what is
usually done in the smooth waters of an inland sea,
and to carry on a race of this kind, not for few hours,
but for a whole fortnight, through night and day. The
success, however, of the Henrietta is as complete as that
of the America a few years ago, and far ir.t.re surprising.
Perhaps the comforts of these vessels might not be exactly
suited to our tastes, but they teach us something never-
theless. It is well for progress that there is a nation
which knows no trammels of routine and sin inks from no
experiment, however hazardous or audacious.
The Herald suggests that possibly a return match may
be arranged, in which an English sail may be hoisted
against the winner, with every prospect of • fair trial of
seamanship and speed.

THE passengers in the London streets yesterday
could not fail to be struck by the unusual aspect
they presented. While the traffic was th
holi-
at of an
ordinary week day—augmented only by the
day crowds of Boxing-day, a full half of the shops
in the principal thoroughfares were closed. Busi-
ness in many of the great warehouses, counting-
houses, and offices, was also suspended. It was in
fact a partial holiday, though neither a Sunday
nor one of our religious festivals, and it was not
the only week day thus observed, for Monday had
been also, though to a smaller extent, similarly
dedicated to recreation. This addition of a day
to the recognised and semi-sacred holiday of
Christmas is a very modern innovation. It is
only some dozen years back that, on occasion of
Christmas-day falling on a Friday or a Monday,
the suggestion was first made that the half-holiday
of Saturday might be made into a full one to
afford a larger relaxation. The example thus set
has been improved upon, until now it is almost
recognised that on whatever day of the
week the church festival falls, ono day of
secular recreation should be added to it. And, 11
indeed, there are symptoms that the principle 1,
may, in no long time, be extended, so as to give
a complete triduum of relief front toil. Such is
the history, as wo can all at present recall it, of
an innovation which, perhaps, in a few years more,
will grow so established in our practice, that
people will look back with something of surprise
when the fact is suggested that till the middle of
the nineteenth century Englishmen observed but
one day's holiday at Christmastide.
But, indeed, the innovation is only ono symptom
of a growing tendency. Tho Saturday half-holiday
is itself a scarce folly won institution, and it dates
only from the commemement of the Volunteer
movement. The same stimulant has strengthened the
liberty claimed from the chains of business on Easter
Monday. In many provincial towns a whole summer
day is selected by general consent to be devoted to
holiday Makin„ without reference to any season of
the Church Calendar. Some manufacturers, in
like manner, give to the hands in their employ
a full holiday ~nee a year. Efforts again are being
made in almost every branch of labour to shorten
the number of !lours included in each day's work.
Some strikes have had that object for their motive.
In other cases it is the subject of mutual arrange-
ment between employers and employed ; in others,
the public is entreated by both parties to render
it possible by limiting their demands to certain
hours. All these accumulated evidences show
that there is a very strong inclination working in
the minds of every class to restrict the ixirital
of
labour, and to increase the acknowledged periods of
absolute rest or recreation.
With such an inclination, kept of course within
the bounds of reason and practical convenience,
all thinking mm must concur. The liberty gained
may of course, like every good thing in the world,
be sometimes used unworthily. To certain indi-
viduals Sunday is only an opportunity for
getting drunk or doing worse, and Christ-
mas-day, as many among ua can testify,
is to a considerable extent a day for
incurring the subse meat pains and penalties of in-
digestion. But the old caution is needed, that we
must not argue from the abuse against tho mode-
rate use. And it is something that this increased
demand for leisure coincides with an increasing
tendency to resort to intellectual rather than
animal recreations. Books multiply every year in
arithmetical progression, and if nine-tenths of them
are trash, and some of them unwholesome trash,
they are at least better than dram-drinking and
dog-fighting. Libraries multiply, penny readings
attract, newspapers attain unprecedented circula-
tion. At the same time some of our grosser vices
hide themselves away. To be tipsy is now a dis-
-ace where it was formerly a credit, swearing and
fling went out of fashion together within the
tory of the present generation. We are bad
tgh yet as a nation in all conscience,
there is at least a healthier public
Union which boldly denounces our badness,
makes it sometimes ashamed of itself.
ld the tendency to gain more time from work
purposes of recreation must, on the whole, be
salutary movement when we find that the re-
creations have at the same time a tendency to
aw less brutal, awl by stages, however disap-
intingly slow, to become more moral as well as
ire intellectual.
There is also some material for happy augury in
se readiness with which the desires of the am-
toyed have been acceded to by employers.
I some cases the liberality has been carried so far
to grant the holiday without reduction of the
pay. This is perhaps as kind a form as benevo-
ewe and good feeling can in such relations
assume. But even where the day's wages have
lot been allowed, there must in moat cases be a
rood deal of inconvenience and some loss. To
stop business for au entire day cannot but be
attended with a certain degree of dislocation
of profits. In a shop, for example, it is
by no means certain that the intending
purchaser of to-day may not have become a
more prudent man by to-morrow ; and in a count-

LORD DUFFERIN AND IRlsal EMIGRATION.
Though Lord Dutferin is capable of something better
than supplying the House of Commons with plausible
excuses for refusing to entertain the Irish pies.
tion, the Daily Neri fears that this is all his letters
will accomplish. The point is not whether emi-
gration under present circumstances is a necessity, but
how to alter the circumstances which make the depopula-
tion of Ireland a condition of its well-being. Lord Duf-
ferin treats the existing arrangements of Irish society
as if they were without cause in the past as well
as without remedy in the future. When he deals
with the effect of the legalised injustice of Irish
Landlords in producing emigration, he is satisfied with
reasons which explain only so much of that emigration as 18
not exceptional—as does not exceed the British and
German parallels. He takes no account, again, in discuss-
ing the result of evictions, of emigrants who are driven
away by the general sense of insecurity which those evic-
tions produce. As to his figures respecting the number of
occupying farmers, it appears in reality that the increase
between IS-11 and 18411 in the number of farms above 15
acres is due to a much larger decrease in the number
of farms of less than that extent. On the whole, there
were not, as Lord Dutferin contends, 110,000 more,
hut 120,00 fewer occupiers in 1801 than in ISI1—
the dispossessed belonging to the class of tenants holding
under 15 acres, twice as much as the average quantity of
land held by the farmers of Belgium and the Channel
Islands, of whom Lord Dufferin appears never to have
heard. Trying everything by the test of present circurn.
stances an•l'lluitish analogies, he gains au easy victory over
imaginary or incautious opponents, hut one which was
scarcely worth the winning. When the day comes for a
settlement it must be hued on larger inductions,
and will include wider issues than Lord Dufferin
has thought it necessary to comprehend in his survey.
His lordship ia fond of speaking of the ownership of land
as a trade or profession, but the laws of entail, primo-
geniture, and settlement withdraw land from the ordinary
operations of commerce, and tend to accumulate it in a
few hands, If he is not prepared to advocate the aboli-
tion of these laws he shifts from the principles of mono-
poly to those of free trade, as either serves his purpose,
and tries to enjoy the advantages at once of protection and
of open competition.
The Star thinks Lord Dufferin is far too genial ant
balmy a politician for these grins and harsh realities. lie
is bewildering himself and trying to bewilder us to no
purpose. Can he tell us why Ireland is not able to main-
tain even in semi-starvation a population not nearly so
dense—nay, not half so dense—as that which Belgium
maintains in comfort and happiness! Can be tell
us why Saxony, and Baden, and Wurtetuberg,
and Northern Italy, and many places not at
all blessed with any specially favourable conditions
of soil or climate, are able to maintain a mach denser
population than Ireland! There must be some cause for
this, and one would like, if Lord Dufferin will discuss so
ungenial a question, to hear what he thinks the cause is.
Perhaps, if he persists in discussing the subject, in a third
letter he will frankly confront the fact that
thennditin
of Ireland is not perfectly satisfactory, and attempt
to conjecture the reason why.

portal design al Inviting his subjects to a share of his re- '
spetwitility is reorganising his kingdom. If they eau
[ 'Weed be egrodeg, his task will be wiledperform ;
justified.
if they
sun differ lespelsoly, his past absolutism e

Vie Court.

--.--
OSBORNE, Dm S.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with
Prince and Princess Christian ; and her Majesty, accom-
panied by the Princess, drove out this morning, attended
by the Dowager Duchess of Athole.
Princess Louise drove out this morning, and
of Prince Leo
ssia -
pold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry Pru.
walked in the grounds.
Prince Christian rode this morning, attended by Major.
General F. H. Seymour.
Prince Arthur left Osborne to-day for Greenwich-park,
attended by Major Elphinstone.

On Friday and Saturday last, the 21st and 22nd inst.,
and on Monday, the '.'.4th inst., the Royal Bounty and
Royal Gate Alms, to aged persons, blind, paralysed, and
other meritorious poor, who bad been selected by the Lord
High Almoner and by the Sub-Almoner from persons who
had been previously recommended by the clergy oft e
various parishes in and round London, were distributed at
the Altnonry-office in Scotland-yard, and on Wednesday,
the %th instant, the payment was resumed.
The number of persons relieved exceeded 1,000.
The distributions were made—under the directing care of
the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner, and the
Rev. Dr. Jelf, Sub-Almoner—by Joseph Hanby, Esq.,
Secretary and Yeoman of her Majesty's Almonry in

Ordinary.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong-
Kong, Labuau, the Australian Colonies, the Cape of Good
Hope, Natal, and Gibraltar.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
dined with the duchess, his mother, and the Prince and
Princess of Teck, at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, enTuesday.
The Earl Howe is more seriously ill than many
of his friends are awaie. The earl is suffering from sup-
pressed gout, and much anxiety is consequently enter-
tained by his friends.
Mr. Gladstone has now regained his accustomed
health, and will shortly leave Rome upon his homewar
and
d
journey. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Ur.
Mrs. Cardwell are still in Rome.
The Premier Duke of England, Henry Duke of
Norfolk, and Earl Marshal, completes his lath year to-day.
Some important changes are to be made in his grace's pro-
perty when be attains his majority in Vbs.

THE OCEAN YACHT RACE.

(BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(PROM ern OWN CORRITSPOIMENT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY,
Mr. Bennett, the owner of the winning American
yacht Henrietta, came up here yesterday, and
after 'visiting the United States consul proceeded
to London. He returns to-night to Cowes to
dine with the members of the Royal Southern
Yacht Club.
The crews of each yacht numbered upwards
of twenty men. The six men lost from the
Fleetwing were standing on the quarter-deck
smoking, and laughing and talking, when they
were washed overboard. The yacht hove to im-
mediately, but no sign of the men could be seen.
Some of them are married men.
Great numbers of persons have gone to the Isle
of Wight to see the yachts. If there is a race be-
tween the American and English yachts the stakes
i will be advanced to 20,0001.

COMMENIAITUTIOV.L TRAV.-LLER" BENE
DA VOLENT
INST-(THIS Y).

The ordinary half-yearly meeting and election of
the above iustitution was held this day at the London
Tavern ; Mr. WS oN LS in the chair.
Mr. liaises, the secretary, read the report of the com-
mittee of management,which stated that the
,towingceipts
for the past year limounted to 2.21i.V. :faban in-
crease of :t•idt. over lti;., and r',oo/. over those of ;but
of the receipts the sum of 37.0/. was invested, raising the
funded property to 6,6110/. Including the amount in-
vested in Union Bank shares, the entire reserve fund now
ammuts to ;,-littV. There were live candidates for an-
nuities, three of whom wt re to be elected this day. The
37 pensioners who will this day be upon the funds de-
pend almost entirely upon the benevolent exertions of the
subscribers. The report concluded by an earnest appeal to
all conirnercial travellers to rally round the institution
that the managers might be able more widely to extend
its benefits.
The Cu I Russ moved the adoption of the report, which
was duly seconded and adopted.
Mr. CilEUElf then moved a resolution that in June ItOl7
the amount of annuities paid to members should to
ould be
raised from 40/. to ;Al. per annum, and
widows of deceased members from 270. to :it/. per annum.
lie strongly enforced the resolution, which co
state uld be
safely adopted consequent upon the flourishing of
the hinds. Their income WAS now upwards of 2,000/. per
annum, while the cost of the pensioners now on
the fluids
was 1,W4/., therefore there was an ample margin for the
increase proposed by his resolution.
Mr. J t.): Eh seconded the resolution, which he said had
the entire concurrence of every member of the board of
management. The resolution would be retrospective.
After some discussion the resolution was adopted, and
the committee and other officers ha, Mg been apPointed for
the ensuing year, the prueeedings concluded witlf a vute of
thanks to the Chairman.

Sir Francis H. Doyle, late fellow of All Souls
is a candidate for the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford,
which will be vacant next Easter Term.
A stained glass window has been erected in
Kingsworthy Church, Hampshire, to the memory of the
late Lord Northbrook. The following in the inscription:
"This window is dedicated by the people of Kings-
worthy to the memory of the Right Hon. Francis Thorn-
hill, first Lord Northbrook, of Stratton, in grateful ac-
knowledgment of his generous benefactions in the parish,
and in the hope of perpetuating the influence of his pious
and beneficent example. lie was born April 20, 1796, and
died Sept. ti, 18fiti."
A new church is to be consecrated at Stock-
bridge. Hants, by the Bishop of Winchester, on Saturday
next.
In the list of persons just decorated in France
with the military medal of the Legion of Honour there
are ten veterans who have been allowed to reach
the very verge of existence before obtaining this dis-
tinction. They are as follows :—Cremieux, aged 90,
wounded in the Spanish campaign in 1812 ; David, 88,
wounded also in Spain ; Valliant, 87, his left arm taken off
by a cannon ball at the battle of Eylau ; Heerlen, 82 ;
Vast, 82, lost bin right arm in action ; Witmer, 79 ; Gal.
lerne, 83 ; Dominique, 85, wounded in Calabria ; Flenri-
court, 82 ; and Pari:re, 79. In spite of their great age,
their wounds, and the fatigues through which those old
soldiers passed, they are in excellent health. The senior
of the Invalidea is an old soldier named Magnanas, aged
94; years. He lost his left leg so far back as the year XIII.
(1894), and it was only on the 31st of December, 1864,
that he got his cross.
MR. KENDALL, M.P., AND MR. BRIGHT.—Mr.
N.
by one Kend
ofall,
his M.l'.
constituentoras, Mr. W. t Cornwall, has
orthy, H been irterro
of gated
. N St.
Columh, concerning some remarks which the hon. gentle-
man made concerning Mr. Bright at the recent agricul-
tural dinner at Callington. Mr. Kendall says he has not
read the report of the speech to which Mr. Northy re-
ferred, but adds :—" If you wish to hear precisely what I
have to say about Mr. Bright, I think you will soon have
an opportunity, as I intend to speak freely about him
whenever I have an occasion. Or if your wish is to have
my opinion of your friend in writing, I beg to say I
believe him to be the moat disloyal, the most mischie-
vous, and the most dishonest member that the House of
Commons has seen for the last half-century."— Western
M•rning News.
CHRISTMAS BENEVOLENCE IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
—Sir John Simeon, Bart., 31. P., gave 10 score of mime
ox beef to the poor of the parish of Calborne. Mr. Seely,
M.l'., gave 101 be. of meat, with flour, plums, sugar, and
tea to each poor family of Brook, where Garibaldi resided
while staying in the island. Sir H. P. Gordon. gave beef
and fruit to each poor family in Shorwell. Mr. J.
Jolliffe gave ox beef to the labourers on theroast Yafford
Estate. Sir Henry Oglander gave a dinner of beef
and plum pudding to the National School children at
Brading.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The Times contrasts the autocratic policy which Russ'a
has suddenly adopted towanls the Roman catholics of the
empire—the Czar determining to be his own Pope,
and straining every nerve to bring into the or-
thodox church the catholic portion of his subjects—
with the diametrically opposite course which Italy is for
the moment proposing to follow, in ceding all the rights
hitherto exercised by the Sovereign over the clergy, and
offering to the court of Rome a compact upon the broadest
principle of a free church in a free state. Baron Ricasoli's
letter, which appeared in last night's E.: prass, strikes the
Times as a perfect phenomenon in Italy, even in the
latter end of the nineteenth century, and it hints that
some preliminary work may be required before church
and state in Italy can fairly run their race of freedom.
In order that the state may hold its own against the
church, en immense reduction must take place in that
wealth and in those numbers which give the latter its
overwhelming strength. The mere attempt to organise
Italy, in religious matters, on conditions somewhat analo-
gous to those in which most of the Transalpine nations
have long been placed, would be tantamount to a com-
plete social revolution.
The courtesy which characterised the speeches made at
the reception of the new American minister at Paris, not-
withstanding the serious nature of the difference which
has existed between the two States, is. observes the Dail y
Nero, a piece of political calculation in entire harmony
with the conduct of the two parties from the beginning of
their embroilment until now. Each power has steadily
pursued ends antagonistic to those of the other, without
once permitting itself to be betrayed into those expres-
sions of feeling which generally only serve to embarrass
the policy or position which they emphasise.
The Herald hails with much satisfaction the report that
the Emperor of Austria is going to convoke a sort of Con.
stituent Assembly in which each nationality in the empire
is to be duly represented. Nobody can object to the l
im-
b

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
THE TRENCH EXPEDITION TO THE
COREA.
The Chug' Mail of Nov. 15 states that the flew'
of the burning of the General Sherman
American
schooner by the Coreans and the consequent death
of all on board is oonfirmed. P assengers and crew
were tied on their berths and burned with the

EXI--C--B.ESS FROM PARIS.
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Molt 01111 OWN 00101ii5a,......_
PARIS. Wzrarisaux Emma.
The Emperor will preside to-morrow at a meet-
ing of the Council of State, to consider the plan
for the reorganisation of the army in its ensemble.
Senator Gueronniere's journal, La France, takes
upon itself to say that the original pro-
ject has undergone " profound modifica-
tions." It is very doubtful what this may
mean. I am afraid it only signifies exten-
sive verbal changes, which will makeh nomeasu essen-
tial difference in the vicious parts of te re.
So long as the government, no matter
in what
form, asks for more men and morethe coo money, so
long will the just dissatisfaction ofcountry
increase, and so long will the suspicion
of foreign countries of the Emperor's designs con-
date just
tinue. M. Sens, the government candi
tell e
elected in the Pas de Calais, was forced to
constituency, in his last address, that he thought
the project put forth in the Ifoniteur susceptible
of " profound modifications"—the very expressicu
now used by La France. But M. Sens, when he
talks of augmenting the army without materially
altering the present figure of the contingents,
merely parodies the celebrated manifesto of a can-
didate who went in for "dear corn and cheap
bread."
A commuueque to the Opinion Nationale denies
the truth of the report that Lieutenant Lannes de
Montebello had been struck or in any way as-
saulted by his captain. Thus falls to the ground
the principal reason which had led the public to
doubt on the complaint of the Duke de Montebello
whether injustice had not been done to his son.
The official communication rther says that
although the maritime prefect o fuf
Toulon was in-
formed so long ago as April 18 that Lieutenant
Montebello had in no way been insulted by his
captain, and that a court-martial on the latter was
refused, it was not till Nov. 20 that Lieut. L
n,
aunesiode
Montebello had thought fit to resign his commiss
for which step he gave at the time no reasons. In
this state of things it will be difficult for
üb-
the
young lieutenant to prove that his father,
in p
licly interfering on his behalf, was not actuated by
an expectation that his name and rank woulisedd ovaer-
ride the ordinary course of justice as practt
the Ministry of Marine.
Prince Metternich, who, according to some news-
mongers, was to make a long stay in Vienna, and
perhaps become Minister of Foreign Affairs in
Austria on the basis of a French alliance, will, I
understand, return to his post in Paris in time for
the New-Year's receptions.
The Bourse was very firm. Bente rose 25c.,
both for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 75c. and
69fr. 72ic. Credit Mobilier is recovering, and rose
18f r. 75c.

ship.
The French fleet, consisting of one frigate,
three corvettes, and four gunboats, left for Cores
on the 11th of October, and on the 15th entered
the town of Kanghoa, some distance up a river,
described as a small place of only 10,000 inhabi-
tants, nearly all of whom deserted the town on
the French approach. The fact of the murder
of the missionaries is fully admitted by
the Core,ans, and a mandarin who was captured
and taken on board the admiral's ship
seemed to glory in the fact. The Kin
to
invited
the French admiral to proceedto the capital
negotiate ; but this was
vase,declin as a trap was
suspected, and a despatch sent instead, in
unishment of the
which demands were made for p
mandarins who had instigated the murders
for the apointment of a plenipotentiary. and
had been brought to the French by a Corean con-
vert that junks containing stones had been sunk
in the river Seoul, between Kanghoa, and the
capital ; and that the Viceroy had despatched an
army of 15,000 strong to attack them. The Seoul
is officially declared under blockade by the French.
There is not much news from Japan. The new
Tycoon is desirous of peace, and the war in the
south is suspended.
Subjoined is the official notification of the death
of the late Tycoon. It is curious as an illustration
of Japanese ceremonials. that Jai
Time, from
which we copy it, remarks that e orders to the
public would seem to imply that disturbances were
feared."
Kubosama having fallen sick, and the remedies used
having failed of success, he departed this life at Osaka, on
the 2.9 th August, at C, o'clock in the morning, ; all building
and use of musical instruments are therefore to be intro-
rnitted. Shotsubsahi Chiunagon, who had previously been
appointed heir, is Irons the Tith August styled I'yesama.
This decree having been issued, you will take note
thereof, and communicate it to all householders
office,
with-
out exception. Given at the government
Tobe. lu consequence of the intromission thus
decreed, the wargates will be, shut from 6 o'clock in
the evening, and the side gates will be left open for pas-
sengers. The nanushi and landlords will patrol day and
night. In unoccupied lands, sud where there exist no war
gates, such are to be provided at once. In all the streets
the shop curtains are to be taken down, the shutters on
the left and right to be let down, and perfect order to be
kept. In the iands held of the governnient,waterbuckets,
numbers corresponding to the length of frontage, are to be
where busine es
placed before the houses. Bath houses, medical and mil.
nary, buckwheat shops and other places,
requiring large fires is carried on, must close at 6 o'clock in
the evening. Fights, quarrels, and other noisy proceedings
must be carefully avoided. The above orders waving
ben
issued you are requested to affix your seal in ackg-
ment and return the circular after it has gone the round.
October 5, 6 p.m.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAZS.)
TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 2il.
The Porte has again addressed energetic remon-
strances to the Ureek government on account of
Greek soldiers ',having disembarked at Candia,
among others volunteers coming from Greece.
The Porte also remonstrates against the concentra-
tion of Greek troops on the frontier, and has de-
clared that it will hold Greece responsible fur the
consetiuences.
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THE BOMBAY MAIL.
SoI;THAMPTON, Dec. 27.
The Peninsular and Oriental Companys steamer
Poonah arrived here to-day with the above mail,
47 passengers, 4,734/. in specie, and ;;83
packages general cargo. From Alexardria to
Gibraltar she experienced heal winds and
heavy seas.
The British war ships Skylark and Redpole, the
American turret ship Miantunomoh, and the sloop
Auguste were at Gibraltar. The Prussian frigates
Gadzelle and Midge were at Malta.
The exchanges at Gibraltar are unaltered.

OVERLAND MAILS.
BOMBAY MAIL.
SUEZ, Dec. 91;.
The Malta arrived at 7 a.m. to-day (due the
28th).
OUTWARD MAIL OF DEC. 4-10.
The Nubia sailed fur Calcutta on the 20th inst.,
at 4 p.m.
OUTWARD MAIL OF DEC. 20.
GIBRALTAR, Dec. 25.
The,Nyanza arrived to-day at 5 a.m., and left
at 10 a. 111. for Alexandria.

AMERICA.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 27.
The North German Lloyd's steamship America
has arrived with 113 passengers for Southampton,
Havre, and Bremen, 43 sacks of mails for Eng-
land, 295,323 dollars for London, and 5,000 dollars
for Bremen.
I Her news has been anticipated.

WEATHER REPORT.--(THIS DAY.

TIMILSDAT, DZCII2IB2 R 27, 8 1.11.

Y:F.IARICS.
Yesterday and last night harometricpressure decreased rapidly
over the liriti,h 1,1(.4. and very strong westerly and south-
westerly winds prevailed on our coasts At Liverpool the pres-
sure was 21lbs. on 'aware foot. at ft p.m. This morn
V. ing the
have become more moderate and veered to and N.NV.,winds sod
barometers have risen almost as rapidly as
coast they. had previously
fallen. Rain has been very general on our . re

ITALY.

A grand picture representing the downfall of
Poland, by M. Matejko, s national artist, is exhibiting at
Cracow, preparatory to its being sent to Paris, where in
the Palace of Art and Industry it will appeal to the gene-
rous sympathies of the French.
The death at Padua is mentioned in the Italian
journals of M. Silvestro Camerino. lie leaves a for .une of
42 million francs. More than half of it goes to a nephew
hitherto not in good circumstances, and the remainder is
bestowed in legacies, bequests to religious institutions, and
in making provision for the numerous servants of the
deceased. M. Camerino could scarcely write his name, and
fifty years ago he was working as a common labourer on
the formation of the postal road between Rovigo and
Poiseuille.

(PROM OUR OWN CORELSPONDENT.)
FLORENCE, tow. 22.
A circumstance happened the other day at
Genoa, which I heard an influential person hero
referring to as forming in itself a sufficient defence
and apology for Admiral Persano, should it
occur to him to offer it to his judges. A
ship in the harbour caught fire. There
were three vessels of the royal navy at hand ;
and they wore ordered to fire into her for
the purpo7e of sinking her. Not one of them suc-
ceeded in hitting her with a single shot, and one of
m
them aiveuvred so badly that she rankhrele
against some portion of the masonry wor of
harbour. Valeat quantum. But it is, of course,
needless to say that, let such an incident be as
sivificative as it may, it does not furnish an
answer to all the charges against the admiral. I
hear that his wife is not permitted to see him. As
this measure is unquestionably not dictated by
any desire to add to the affliction under which
Admiral Persano is labouring, it must be supposed
to have reference to the damaging revelations
which it is said that he is prepared to snake.
The session of the Chambers which has just com-
menced will, it is probable;be an era of revelations
on many points. Already broad assertions may be
heard from persona whose position would seem to
give a certain weight to their words, affirming that
which I sonic months since ventured to hint in
your colunuis might some day prove to be the case,
viz., that the whole of the late Italian campaign
was "urn's trixta enunqin," a sham, and what in
the language of the ring is called "a cross fight ;"
that Italy, dragged blindfold by certain of her
leaders acting under the inspiration of French
counsels, was minded to do as little harm as
might be to Austria, compatibly with the absolute
necessity of seeming to do her utmost to that
end. ; that assured of obtaining Venetia,
she—that is to say these certain leaders
was thus false to Prussia and to her promises.
It does begin to seem likely that the truth
of all this will come out. It is still, how-
ever, possi—.e that the real facts may be sup-
pressed. The nation does not possess the same
means of dragging such matters to light as the
English public, and is far less skilful in using
such means as it has. Nor is the nation as deter-
mined that truth shall be told as England would
be in a similar case. There is not enough of the
fiat justitia, /lief ashen feeling. A sufficiently
alarming prospect of the " ruin" of the social
" heavens " would probably suffice to make the
,v. i Extreme. of the Chamber see the ex ie-
,ses. majority 1
I 11 w* rglr-V--'
\ ,!I to diency of not digging too deeply into the
--11 well of truth. Nevertheless, personal pique,
personal interests, and the necessities of personal
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.29.56 42 W. 21 6 3.W. no 0.07 i 1 defence, may bring about what mere love of truth
Allitoolll ,19.14!'45. N.N.W. 3• 9 Yr. ro 054 3
Greencastle .W. 76 4NI S.W. 4 7 W.S.W. rc io s,•l 2 and justice might be insufficient to accomplish.
1— 1 And . .. we shall see what we shall see
Lare Clear
iverpool 29.77 45 w.N.w. 4 9 W.N.W. o ,0.26 3 France, it is said, is very angry that the King's
Holyhead 29.81 46 W.N.N‘.. 8 9 5J4 W. oc 0.15 7
Pensance 30.19 40 N.N.w. . 6 8 , W. Irc i 0.09 4 speech contained no word of " gratitude "to
France. The framers of that speech would hardly
west i woo 48 N.N.W. 65W.N.W. i r• 0.12 6
Lone . 30.04 50 N.W. 3 7 , B.K loc 0.35 5
Ihr:hefo... 30.16 48 W.B W. 3 3 S.E. . o -- , 2 have dared, in the present condition of the public
Plymouth ... 29.93 49 W.N.W. 5 9 W.S.W. e 0006 3 • •
Weymouth .. 29.05 46 N. . 4 8 NV. c 4 mind with reference to the recent events, to insert
Portsmouth.. 29.87 44 N.W. 4 6 W.N W. re 0.11 8
tot hatove
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London .... 29.75 43 N.V. 4 9 W.N.W. rc 0.10 - „ „. r_
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Helder — - - -•- i been too dangerously exasperating to the latter.
Last night the city was full of rumours of the

most painful kind as to the Emperor Maximilian.
Of course the same, in a more or less modified
form, have traversed the atmosphere of London
and Paris. Here persons the most likely to have
real information on the subject declared it to be
certain that he was dead—some thought by his
own hand—others by the act of his French pro-
tectors. That the latter monstrous supposition
should have been believed to be true by many here
may furnish an indication of the state of men's
minds and sympathies towards France.
I have heard a rumour, born, I think, on your
side of the Alps rather than on this side, of the
cessation of business of the Anglo-Italian Bank,
and I allude to it for the purpose of assuring any
of your readers whom it may interest that such a
report is wholly without foundation. I have before
me a circular from the manager issued on the 19th
of this month, setting forth the cessation of those

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