The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-09 00:00:00

LONDON', WEDNEHDAY, JA.N. 9.

Mot proclamation of the King of Pal:sins "to
" 11:y People" belongs to an order of compositions
with which wo happily have only • remote and
historical acquaintance. Our sovereigns on
ascending the throne do not remind us that the
nation eweA its greatness to their house, nor under-
take to protect and support the national life. Such
professions as King WILLIAM 1., with the best in-
tentions, volunteers to his subjects, would only
astonish us. Even those whom Mr. CsatxtE has
persuaded to a sentimental hero-worship would
start instinctively if the images of their
fsncy seemed to be about to become
real. The Kv.u'a proclamation then must be
taken with close reference to the circumstances
of Prussia, and it may readily bo admitted
that the House of Hourvzotutzx has done
far more proportionally for the greatness of the
monarchy than any other royal house in Europe
has been able to do for the State it governs.
Having recognised this extreme self-consciousness,

that ho sees the sources of the ;trengflr of Plrussis
in the active dere►opment of her spiritual and
moral forom, and in the truthfulness of her reli-
gious feelings, equally with the improvement of his
army, acquire new importance when viewed by the
light reflected froni the character of the Regency.
The KiNc's words can imply nothing less than that
liberty in Prussia is to be progressive and conipre-
htmaire. The tone and air of the whole proclamation
express • feeling of unrest. Prussia cannot
remain as she is. The KING knows it, and shares
his sentiments with the nation. His look is
onward. May he have courage, and patience, and
enlightenment equal to his task.

The Secretary of State for India in Council him
appointed Major-General Sir Rol*. Napier, K.C. 8.,
Bengal Kngineera, an ordinary member of the
Council of the floveruor•General of India, in the
room of Lieut.-I:eller:0 Sir James Outtaun, Bart.,
C.C. B. , realigned.

Vim Court.

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(*M)RN E, J►N. S.

The Queen awl Prince Consort, aueouipanioil by
the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur,
Princess Alihx, and Prioress Helena, and attended by the
Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, went this morning
board the St. George, 00 gun screw steam ship, C..ptaiu the
Hun. F. Egerton, moored off Osborne.

The Lord Chancellor returned to town ott Yonaty aver
leg from Torquay.
bespatches were received at the I 'olortid-office yeatarday
from the governors of the North Aseerimn Provisoes
bespatthes were sent to the goversor al the Falkland
Nandi

(non Law 111FSI1eA ssaarra)
COURT lIIIV RN I NO. —LOIALCILAMJUIJILA I N
J %N. N.--Orden for the court's going into mourning oil
Thursday neat, the 10th instant, far his late Majesty the
King d Prins* viz.: The ladies to wear Mick talk, fringed
or plain been, white gloves, nceklimes, and ear-rings, black
or white shoes, fans, and tippets. The gentlemen to weer
black (untrimmed, fringed or plain lime*, black swords and
buckles. The court to change the mourning on Thursday,
the Nth instant, viz.: The ladies to we.: black silk or
velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or
white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black rib-
boos. The genth-men to wear black *oats, and black or
plain white, or whito and gold, or white and silver
stuff waistcoats, full-trimmal, colmred swords and
buckles. Awl on Thursday, the Mat instant, the court to
go out of mourning.
WH ITZH A LL, JAY. 7. —The Queen has been
pleseed to order a conge to pane the Great Seal, em.
meanest the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church el
Worcester to elect a bishop of that see the same being
void by the death of the Right Reverendl Father in God,
Doctor Henry Pcpys, late bishop thereof ; and her Majesty
has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and
Chapter, Henry Philpott, Doctor in Divinity, to be by them
elected bishop of the said see of Worcester.
Downian-sralsr, Jax, 7.—The Queen has been
pirated to appoint Sumac Creelman, Fey., to be a member
of the legislative Council of the Province t 4 Nova Scotia ;
and Andrew Nicol, Eaq., to be a member of the Legislative
Council of the Island of Ceylon.
MAFT/ER or Tug HOIDIEN-OFFICE, Jaw. 1.--The
Queen has been plessed to appoint Arthur Henry. Paget,
tot., to be hire of MOM, to Her Majesty, vise rilinm

so characteristic of royal proclamations in Prussia,
we are led to inquire for what part of the policy
of his House the new limn is most in-
clined to take credit, in order that we
may learn what in it he is most disposed to
Mutate. And here it is very satisfactory to find the
KIM: uniformly adducing the representative in-
stitutions of Prussia as those which best express
and must nobly commemorate the enlightenment
and magnanimity of his family. We are here consi-
dering the situation of a Prince assuming the
government of 18,000,000 people, of a State in
which there is some excuse for saying that for
twelve years constitutional government has been
on its trial, and wo therefore overtrick for
the moment the minor distinctions which may
exist in the working of the representative
system. Anil we record it to the honour
of the new Ktmo, that, even while he
employs the traditional language of his
House in speaking of the position of the monarch
in the State, he glories in the expansion which
has been given to the notional life in the Par-
liamentary institution, founded by his brother and
predecessor. It is notorious that FREDERICK
WILLIAM did not at first contemplate the este.
blishment of a direct parliamentary representation
of the Prussian nation such es now exists. The
failure• of thu United Diet and the revolution of
1848 were necessary to convince him that
feudalism could not be adapted to the govern-
ment of men in the nineteenth century, and the
experiment was nada which has resulted in the
existing constitution. It was Ices believed that
the Prince of Parana was CM of the least'
friendly observers of that experiment. Yet the
Prince no sooner acceded to the direction of
affairs as Regent than he imparted to the govern-
ment a tone of liberality before unknown in
Prussia. His firet act was to dismiss a minister
who had basely succumbed abroad to Austria, sur-
rendering with the honour of Prussia a federal
policy which had for • time made her the Power
of Germany, a minister who had sacrificed the
rights of the nation to the nobles. His woad
act was to replace the Marrerrrri. administra-
tion by a cabinet of men known for national and
liberal feeling. The appointment of the ministry
of the Prince of lii/ULIZULLERK-StamAsuicmc was
hailed with enthusiasm by public opinion in
Prussia, and the elections which followed at the
end of the year 1858 bore witness to a universal
revival of political life. The feudal parliamentary
opposition, so powerful before, was completely de-
stroyed.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister awl Madame
Van de Weyer harm retorsed to New Lodge, Windsor
Pause, front • tour of visits.

The Duke of Newcastle in entertaining company
at (lumber Park. Has grace is expected in town on the
18th inst.

The Margnis and Merchionem of Clanricarde are
expected in town in a few dap from Portumna Castle,
Galway.

The Countess of Jenwy lute taken s lionae at St.
toeard'eon•'Sea, and will move there with her family in a

few days.

Thu Countess Dowager Grey, who has been
seriously indisposed al late, is now in better health.

Visiutuat :Jocelyn and the Huu. Frederick• Joce-
lys Lave been suffering from an attack of measles for some
&WS Pad.

L;r11 and Lady Churchill have Mt the St.
themes Mold.

LOW Metheun has left the St. George's Hotel.
Count Maximilian Esterhazy has arrived at
Chandra Home, from Vistula, to enter ape lis duties 61
etts••hi to the Austrian Embassy.
It is announced that Dr. William Stokes has been
appointed her Majesty's physician in inalaad, in the room
of the late Mir Henry Marsh.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

It is with much pleasure we (Woh,:rharnpfsii
Chronicle) are enabled to state that since our but publica-
tion a decided improvement has taken place In the health
of the Earl of Erse!ford, and that strong hopes are now
enkrtidued of the noble earl's complete recovery.
Mr. Brewster propylaea favourably under his
resent accident. It is hoped that amputation of the head
may sot be monitory.
We (Edinburgh ('ourant) learn with deep regret
that the health of Lieuteaaat-Volonel Sir H. L. Playfair
is ouch as to be the subject of melons anxiety to kis
friends.

A3LNESTY FOR HUNGARY.

The conservative journals announce that Mr.
Hemet* intends to come forward on the conservative in-
terest at Leicester.

The home policy of the Prince Regent has not
been bold or decisive, but it has bees at least con-
sistent. Under the Regency the illegal leisure. of
the newspapers, so frequent in the time of M.
Dtmereurret, ceased, and the security of printers
and publishers received new guarantees. The
practice of voting an address to the Crown
was introduced in the first session of Par-
liament convoked by the Regent. In the same
session a blow was struck at the feudal privileges
of the nobility. The constitution of 1850 de-
clared that all the citizens were bound to contribute
to the charges of the State ; but the principle had
never been fairly applied. The grossest inequality
prevailed in the rate of taxation among the various
provinces, and in the eastern part of the monarchy
the estates of the nobles were altogether exempted
from the land tax. Bills for reducing this in-
equality were brought forward by the ministers
of the Regent, and although the term of the
session arrived before they could be carried, the
new policy of the Government was clearly marked
before the whole country. The same bills were
again presented last year, and passed the
Chamber of Deputies by a large majority.
The renewed resistance which the Chamber of
Peers offered to this and every other measure in-
tended to introduce equity and equality into the
administration of the kingdom celled for some
counter-action on the part of the Government ;
and accordingly the Prince, a few months ago,
manifested his determination not to permit the
Lords to nullify the action of the other branches
of the Legislature. He created a number of
liberal peers, who, in the coming seam, will to
some extent redress the balance of parties ; but
will probably do yet more good by reminding
the aristocratic clans that there are ways of making
it responsible to public opinion, and that it cannot
safely abase its political privileges to maintain
obsolete pecuniary exemptions, which offend the
moral sense of the nation even more than they in-
jure its interests.
The professions of the K !NG his declaraticus

VIENNA. WIDNISDAY.

The official Wirgrr Zeituay publishes an auto-
graph letter of the Emperor, dated '7th inst., pro-
claiming a very comprehensive amnesty for Hun-
gary, Transylvania, Croatia, and ficlavonia on ac-
count of such penal acts ►s have merely aimed at a
change in the system of government as established
before Oct. 20, 18110, or which were in any way
' connected with such a purpose. The ministers are
ordered to put this imperial ordinance into imme-
diate execution.

THE SIEGE OF GAETA.
PARIS, WEDYESDAY

Professor Faraday yesterday delivered one of his
wain juvenile lectures in the theatre of the Royal leati•
talks to a very large and faabioaable audience. TINS ail-
eft were placed in the front rows, sod the adults on the
bask sesta and in the pilule% The lecture was on car.
basic acid pa and respiration.
The sale of the Limerick and Castle Connell
Railway to the Great Southern and Western fbinpany of
Ireland was on Saturday agreed to by the &rectors of the
former fiat

The Ommtifidis,littel says :—" It is generally
believed that, in the event of the french fleet
leaving Gaeta, it would cruise for some time in the
Adriatic."

GAETA (odd YANNEILLEFI), JAN. N.
A shell thrown by the Sardinian,/ has penetrated
to the room above that of the King.
The ministers insist on their Majesties taking up
their quarters in one of the casemates.
The shells have/slack:melted the Central HorpitaL
The wounded will be removed to Terracina.
Some Neapolitan hovriesera have been placed
in position. „pm.

" Strange to say," observes the Bury awl Norwich
Poe, Lord Brougham, the eldest living dimples of the
negro, in declining to attend the Boston 'Convention '
on the university of the death of Captain Brows, state*
that the decision, that 'as moo se • slava sets foot ea Fag.
liah ground he is free,' la erroneously moribed to the Fog.
limb courts under Lord 311anilittid, aad was really made by
the judges in Scotland. The great ease of the Negro Bomar-
get was brought before Lord Ileasieli, assisted by helve
Ashton, Willem, and Ashore, in 1772, and alter three sit-
tings the law was declared as above dated. The veteran
lord's mistake is the more singular. that in the Zatiodeopi
&Om; for 1806 with which he was so surly coosseisd. we
had this ease referral to, with the remark—' Among the
heroes and sages of British story we can think of few whom
we should feel a greater glow of honest pride in claiming as
an aaoestor, than the man (Granville Sharp) to when' we
owe the power of repeating with truth :
" Moves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free,' " kc.

Of five eclipses which are to tele puce in the
prom* year, the first will be as Friday next. According
to the As, airy dr Duryea alts Longitodes, it will be as
annular ote of the min, will commence at 44m. pest 12,
and sed at 6h. Wm. ; the central part of the eclipse begin.
raw at lh. 46m., sod ending at 312. Ven. The eel** will
be sera in the central hemisphere, that is, is Madapacar,
Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand.

It is probable tbst Prince Frederic William, as
Crown Prince of Prussia, will be soon nominated Governer
of Posennia, as, since the days of Prelatic Withal', 1.,
this honour has always been conferred on the heir to the
Pramian throne. The present king formerly held the caw.
There is a curious anecdote in • letter from
lame to the Monde, touching Queen Christina of Spain
and the Queen Mother of Naples. The Pope wished to
have their Majesties to dinner on his fete day, in the hope
of making them good friends. Queen Christina stipulated,
however, for the presence of her husband, the Duc de
Risnzares, to which the dignity of the Queen of Naples
would not cosiest. The .Vunde tells us that, in order to
" meet the difficulty, his Holiness invited five cardinals
and the diplomatic corps." We are not told whether the
five cardinals and the ambassadors filled up the vaimacy
caused by the absence of the duke and his better half ; or,
whither, his orate being present, he was held to be WE.
gently sweetened in this mass of eminency and excellency
for presentation to the fastidious fugitive from Gaeta.
The be44/14 of to-day gives currency to a number
of rumour•, :Imre or less improbable, relative to Fniece and
the Eastern re-igustios of Y. Thuaresel is
spoken of as raisin.

The Non! of to-day positively oontradicts the
report that the French fleet before Gaeta will be
replaced by the Russian fleet. It also says that
the cabinet of Turin has resolved to tolerate in-
tervention from no other power than France, and
to resist by force any :Attempt of the kind.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS

THE EXTRADITION CASE.

At the Court of Queen's Bench, Toronto, on
December rt, before Chief Justice Robinson, Mr. Justice
McLean, and Mr. Justine Burns,
Messrs. S. B. Freeman, IL C. Cameron, end Thomas
Hudgins appeared on behalf*/ the fugitive, John Anderson.
Mr. Freeman rose for the purpose of swim that after
consulting with his friends respecting the ease of the Na-
tive Anderson, they had made up their minds to carry the
ems to the Court of Error and Appeal. He (Mr. Freeman)
could not say there vu no doubt of the right to do so, but
be was glad to be able to state that he had replied • oom-
mun ication from the Attorney-General upon thesubjest dap-
ped, and he had his assurance that the °regrows' most anxious
to procure the judgment of the court. above. The Attorney-
, General had gone so far as to say that any exnees would
be borne by the government. The chief difficulty which
appeared to present itself wes the consideration of the
question--were the proceedings a matter of record' Several
authorities he (Mr. Freeman) had looked at showed that the
writs of this description when returned and filed were
matters of record. The practice of the two courts here,
when one of them gave judgment, wu that the other
court would pronounce the same judgment upon the same
facts until the party went to the Court of Error and Appeal.
This was the raison why he (Mr. Freeman) had determined
not to take out a writ of habeas corpus in the Common Plea!,
forth* judges might tell him when he got there they would
follow the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench
until reviewed by a higher court. But if he went to the
Court of Error and Appeal and he was told there he had no
appeal,t he would be in a position to ask an independent
ant of the Court of Cowmen Pleas.
e Chief Justice said the court had looked into the sta.
Wee constituting the Court of Error and Appeal, and after
carefully considering the matter had come to the conclusion
that no appeal would lie. As to what counsel had said with
respect to the Court of Common Pleas, the course in dealing
with ordinary cases was as he had stated it. But in a case,
of this description he (the Chief Justice) thought they.
might expect that an independent judgment would be given.
Mr. Freeman--I understand your loedshipe think there
probably is no rule under the statute for an appeal.
The Chief Justice—l can find none.
Mr. Freeman—l suppose your lordships will make no ob-
jection to the matter being brought before the Court of
Appeal if that court thinks et to hear it!
The Chief Justice—Certainly not. It would be for
counsel to consider whether they were not in the present
state of the case limited to intercourse with the crown. If
they had in view an appal from this country, their object
should be to prevent the prisoner being given up. That
was a matter between themselves and the government.
Mr. Freeman intimated that he bad no fear of Use prisoner
being surrendered while further legal proceedings were con-
templated. The government woe meet anxious to have the
judgment of the Curt of Appeal in the case.