The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-01 00:00:00

GARIBALDI AND THE CITY OP LONDON.

The following correspondence has taken place in
reference to the intended motion about to be brought for.
ward in the Court of Common Council, on 'Mundy=
February 7, to present the freedom of the City of
to General Guibeldi. All lovers of liberty will desire its
MOM&

(Cu 77.)
"30, Biehopagato-street Without, Loadou,
Das. 7,1,40.
"To General Garibaldi

" have heard ere this of my in-
tended motion, as a member of the Court of Common Coun-
cil of the City of Loudon, that the freedom of oar ancient
City be presented to you, as a mark of appreciation of you
in the cause of Italian liberty, &c. I am desirous of knowing
whether you would accept the honour if voted to you, and
if you could pay an early visit to Wand. Your favour-
able reply would, I doubt not, obtain a unanimous vote of
the council.

" You will excuse the liberty I take of writing to you,
feeling the immense good to be derived to the cause of
Italian freedom, if the motion could be carried, and if so,
your early visit to England
" arranged
With feelings of admiratn
•o your put life, I humbly
hope you will be protected by the Almighty bead, to be in-
strumental in carrying out and realising a consummation
devoutly to be wished, vie : s The entire froedum of the
sunny land of Italy.'
" With fervent hopes and beet wishes for your health,
I am, sir, your obedient Kerma, " Joun EIC9ARDBO3.
" To General Garibaldi, Capters, Italy."

WoPY.)
"Camas, Jan. ?I, 1861.
" Sire—lt is my wish to make a journey to England, so
that I may personally thank that generous nation for the
moral and material sympathy and support which they have
given to the Italian cause, but for the moment I cannot
indicate to you when I shall be able to give effect to my
heart's desire.

the meantime, allow me to thank you for the in-
tended civic motion, which I approve of with all my heart.
" With esteem and affection, your devoted,
(Signed), "G. GARIBALDI.
" Mr. John Richardson, in London."

THE GLASGOW GAR IBALDI FUN D. —OR Wed-
nesday afternoon, a meeting of the Garibaldi Italian Fund
Committee, and friends of the cause, was held in the Queen's
Hotel, Glisegow, for the purpose of receiving the report of
Mr. John M'Adam's visit to Italy, of adopting a memorial
to Lord John Rumen in favour of non-intervention, and
for the transaction of other business. Mr. Goodwin wan
called to the chair. The proceedings were opened by Mr.
John M'Adam, who read the report of his mission
to Italy, which vow adopted, accompanied by a vote of thanks.
A memorial to Lord John Russell was then adopted, which
after expressing entire confidence in his lordship's truly
British policy, his love of constitutional freedom, and his
sympathy with the oppreesed, as evinoed in his long, con-
sistent, and honourable career as the distinguished leader
and champion of civil and religious liberty—urged. moat
respectfully but energetically upon his lordship, in the
interest' of humanity, justice, sod freedom, that immediate
steps be taken by her Majesty's government, by remon-
strance, protest, or otherwise, to insist that other powers
not immediately and personally concerned shall, in all
respects, carry out in its integrity the principle of non-
intervention in the affairs of Italy and the continent
generally, so that his lordship's aspirations may be consum-
mated, and."lser Illaisages goostament may turn tlMirc
to the gratifying prospect of a people building up the ed
of their liberties, and consolidating the work of their
independence, amid the sympathies and good wishes of
&Irene.

ThE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The Gresham Com-
mittee assembled yesterday, under the presidency of the
Lord Mayor, to receive the report of the appointed judges
on the merits of the different designs to cover the Mer-
chants' Area with glass. The judges were the Lord Mayor
and the Master of the Mercers' Company, professionally
assisted by Mr. W. Tile, M.P., and Mr. George Smith,
architect to the Ketoses' Company. The first prize for the
beet deign was awarded to Mr. Frederick Sang, of 42,
Chat-incomes ; the second to Messrs. Driver and Buck, of
the Brighton Railway Enginesn'-olles ; and the third to
Mr. Francis Fowler, of 42, Fleet-street.
A PUBLIC MEETINU AT GALWAY.—A stormy
scene occurred at the last meeting of the Galway harbour
commiseioners. The Rev. Mr. Daly complained of obser-
vations made on a former day by Mr. Morris, who sharply
retorted, and a hot encounter ensued. The reverend gen-
tleman said he would characterise a statement of Mr.
Morris by a word of three letters; and Mr. Morris inti-
mated that but for the rev, gentleman's years and profes-
sion be would knock him down, and declared that lie would
never allow him to act as a dictator, as he bad been, be
sail, in the habit of doing. The people, who were lately
loud in their expressions of gratitude for the substantial
services rendered to the town by the reverend gentlemi
seemed rather to have deserted him on this occasion, and
applauded his assailant.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT AND RAILWAY.—*
Yesterday the standing orders of both Houses of Parlia-
ment were declared to have been complied with in respect
of the Bill for the Thames Embankment, the promoters of
which waited the day prior as a deputation upon the Right
Hon. W. F. Cowper at the office of Woods mad Works,
Whitehall. The object of the measure is to authority the
embankment of the Thames on the Middlesex side between
Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges, so that it may be
rendered available as the site of a main sewer and of a
railway, and afford space also for a road and for approaches.
The estimated expense of the embankment, works connected
with it, road and approaches, is 600,0001., sod of the
railway, 75,000/. Power is proposed to be :::2
to the Commissioners for Woods, Forests, sold f
Revenues, to contribute any funds that parliament
may place at their disposal for that purpose
towards the undertaking, and In consideration of such cos-
tribution they are to have vested in them certain embanked
lands, and exercise a certain control over the undertaking. ,
It is to be competent for the Metropolitan Board • of Works
to construct in the embankment a sewer for the main drain-
age of the metropolis, and contribute a sum of 400,0001. nut
of any funds placed at their disposal by parliament. The
approaches to the roadway will be from Whitehall-pbtoe
and Waterloo-bridge, and the eastern end of the embank-
ment will unite with the line which the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway are authorised to construct to Forting-
dun-street, there communicating with other railways having
terminal stations in the City ' - and power is to be given to
such railways to 000tributs. Borrowing powers are to be
sought in addition to the original mMia, to the extent of
100,0001. The work is proposed to be completed in five
years.
THE Bommay SKRIMADERE. —These popular
!minstrels are now giving their closing performances of the
season. If the law bad permitted the performance at St.
James's Hall of a series of their burlesque operas, so highly
successful in America, and also on their first appearances
in this country, their stay would have been of a much longer
duration. The present season will terminate on Saturday
evening, the 9th of February, on which occasion the enter-
tainments will be for the benefit of It. Bishop Buckley (ge-
neral manager), with an entire change of programme, and
several attractive novelties.

THEY MYRTIRIOCT DISATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN IX
GLOUCIZTERBIHRIL —The inquest on the body of Mary
Reed, the young woman who wax found d. ad an a field at
liambrook, in Gloucestershire, under the extraordinary and
mystenous circumstances reported in our columns yester-
day, was held on Wednesday. The evidence of several
other witnesses having been taken, John Bowyer, the young
man who was keeping company with the deceased, and
who was seen with her just previous to her being found
dead, waa called, and having been sworn, the coroner
cautioned him not to say anything which might crimi-
nate himself. If he had committed any crime the law
of England required that it should be proved on the
evidence of otherr. With that caution he told him
that he was not obliged to lay anything which would minis
nate himself ; but if he knew nothing that would criminate
himself he might have no hesitation in saying what were
the real facts in connexion with the death of this poor girl.
lie bad already told two different tales about this matter,
and he had now better not say anything at all than say
what was not true. Bowyer said, " I will say nothing but
udwithat tbithe dteeemedime, am"! lErowy
awbhatit. isltruw.e.
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everting. She was Esther fainty then, and stayed with her
nothing more about it. The coroner having summed up,
the jury returned a verdict to tln effect that the immediate
cause of the death of the deceased wu biemorrhage, but
whether death had been accelerated by violence there was
no evidence to show.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 1.

Tim Court of Queen's Bench has at length
decided that there shall be no further judicial
inquiry into the mystery of the Road murder.
As the supreme court by which all inferior judica-
tures are directed and controlled, and presided over
by one whose office constitutes him Chief Coroner
of England, it has pronounced that all has been
already done which the law of England enjoins or
sanctions. SO authoritative an exposition of the
law must lie accepted, nor, perhaps, may there be
ultimately cause of regret that at the cost of one
appalling and undetected murder we have learned
exactly what is the provision which our system
makes for the discovery of secret crime. For in
the present instance we have ascertained that the
whole powers of the system have been put forth.
It is admitted indeed that there may have been an
indiscretion on the part of the coroner in not exa-
mining Mr. Km, but it it viewed as an indis-
cretion too trivial to call for • re-opening
of the inquiry•. The Court of Queen's Bench, we
are told, does not sit to correct a mere error in
judgment, but cases of judicial misconduct. We
are glad that it has not gone on such a ground.
There is no possible system in which errors of
judgment may not occur. What we have now to
do is, dismissing from our view any such inaccu-
racies of administration, to consider the whole
effect of the law, of which, the Judges of the
Queen's Bench inform us, a fair and proper in-
stance is found ut the case to which so much at-
tention has been turned. Let us go back to the
beginning, and see what are the means which the
law supplies for the detection of strange, mys-
terious, and novel forms of guilt.
There are but two such means. If the guilt
fall short of manslaughter, there are but the efforts
of the police. If death is the subject of inquiry,
there is the additional engine of • coroner's in-
quest. Who is the coroner 1 In the Wilts case,
a retired surgeon ; in other counties, often an at-
torney, or IM attorney's clerk, often a gentleman of no
profession—any one, in short, whatever his quali-
fications, who can make interest, social or politi-
cal, sufficient to secure a majority of the free-
holders with whom the election rests. Who are
the jury ? Twelve common jurymen of the neigh-
bourhood—a clergyman perhaps, • farmer, a
baker, a grocer, a gardener : half of them proba-
bly not able to write their names. Before such a
tribunal come such witnesses as common rumour
may induce the coroner to summon. Let us grant
that all parties do their duty as faithfully and as
sensibly as Englishmen may be trusted to do any
duty, but still two inevitable defects must mar
their efforts. The first is, that neither coroner nor
jury are trained to sift evidence, to follow slight
traces of guilt, to distinguish and estimate at their
true worth Übe and futile gossip, and important
though slight seeming facts. The second is, that
the inquiry is practically limited as to time.
It must commence immediately—it cannot
be continued indefinitely. All must be
done in court, and a court must sit
in virtue of formal adjournments. Neither
coroner nor jury can afford to give the time which
an obscure investigation may require. When the
immediately suggested witnesses have been ex-
amined, the verdict must almost perforce be re-
turned. When it has been returned, there is no
resuming the inquiry, whatever new evidence may
be brought forward. At least there is no resum-
ing save in virtue of the writ of the Queen's
Bench, which, after months of delay, much argu-
ment, many affidavits, and incalculable costa, may,
or may not, be granted. In the days of EDWAkD
11. the statute which established this method of
procedure was probably the best that could be
devised. Then locomotion was difficult, popula-
tion thin, the pursuits of everyone well known,
the motives of conduct few and simple. Is it
probable that what then sufficed will serve in the
days of Queen Vic-roata, in the days of railways,
electric telegraphs, • swarming and ever shifting
population, science offering every hour new re-
sources to occult crime, society suggesting the
most complicated, various, and profoundly hidden
motives for its commission ?

Cbt Court.

WINDSOR CANTLE, Zip. 31.

The following visitors arrived at the Castle
yesterday afternoon :—The Duke of Cambridge, attended by
Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald ; the Prince and IPrisome
de 'Marine, and Princess Francois d'Orleans, the Earl and
Constar Grey, Lord Join, Manners, Viscount and Viscous.
ter Giellarema, sad Colonel sad Lady Emma Talbot.
Her Majesty's dieser party included the Princess Alice,
the Earl of Shelburne, Colouel Seymour, C. 8., and the
visitors who arrived in the afternoon.

The band of the &zeta Fusilier Guards played during
dinner.

Her Majesty's private hand performed afterwards in the
drawiag•room.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helens, Princess
Joinvißs and PROM/ Francois. of Orleans, drove out in •
carriage-and.four this morning. Colonel the Hon. .1. N.
Hood was la attendance on horseback.

The Prince Cower*, accompanied by the Duke of Cam-
bridge and Priam Joioville, went out shooting, attended by
Colonel Ponsonby and Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald.
Viscount Castlerosse and Colonel Talbot bad the &non
of accompanying the royal party.

The Trustees for the International Exhibition of 1942
met us Wednewl.,y, at South Kensington Museum. Pre-
sent : Earl Grauville. the Marquis of Chandos. Mr. Thomas
Baring, M.P., Mr. C. W. Mike, and Mr. Thomas Fair.
Isdrn.
limpet•hes were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong one, the West Indies,
and British Columbia.
Despatches were mot to the Gomm. et Canada.

His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the
Baronets Broome gave a grand dinner Lot evening, at
Cheelum House, to ilia Kzctrllency Lord Napier and Lady
Napier. The dinner party included the Ducheae of Inver-
ness and YIN Gore, Lord and Lady John Russell and Nile
G. Itazsell, Lord and Lady Wodehonee, Lord and Lady
Herbal of Lea, Count Bibles, Count Blouduff, Lieutenant
Coloerdand Lady Elizabeth Rornilly, Lieutenant-Colonel

and Madams Novitsky, Mr. ilammontl:Mr. Lumley, Mr. de
Gas wed Mr. Babouruff.

Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Dee Vceux have
saliva at Thomas's Hotel, Berkelepoquare, from Drake.
lowa, tear Burton-on-Trent.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has con-
tributed 80/. to the Coventry Relief Fad

In a letter to a contemporary, in the coulee of an
argument brought forward to discourage ladies from buying
Coventry ribands these words were uned:—" The Coventry
manufacturer is well aware of the dimintion of his profits
on ribends, because the present demand newt be regarded
as scything but artificial and temporary, and will not be
likely to employ his capital so recovered in a continued
production of them. He will invest it in Kees other entirely
different branch of trade." Lady Leigh writes Allow
me to observe that Mr. Moriey's arguments lead in general
way to the conclusion at which ►e would wish us to arrive ;
but in this special case I am happy to my that I have
direct unrances that the Coventry riband manufacturers
are about to make large investments of capital in improved
machinery for the production of ribanda Those ladies,
comsequeutly, who are buying Coventry ribands are giviug
present relief to Coventry, and the means of being hide-
pendent of it for the future from any sources but those
drawn from the enterprise and industry of her own citizens."

When the coroner and the jury have performed,
or failed in their Mak, there comes into play the
agency which, save in manslaughter, is our sole
reliance—the investigations of the police, the
researches of the detective. Who now is the
detective ? Generally a promoted policeman, one
who, for good character, activity of body, sharp-
ness of mind, and development of the organ of
individuality, has been raised from the ranks.
Such a man is undoubtedly an excellent thief-
taker. He knows the haunts, he never forgets the
faces, ho can almost tell the handiwork, of each
particular pocket-picker or burglar. But he is
not usually an educated man, and he never mixes
in the society of educated men. And thus it
happens that when a crime unwonted in circum-
stances and impenetrable in motive occurs he is
helplessly stranded. His experience, his know-
ledge of men, are too limited to be of ser-
vice in this new case. He has no idea of
what scientific appliances may effect, and
therefore he lets traces of their use
wear out unnoticed. He has no knowledge of the
feelings and passions which work most strongly in
the trends of the educated and the sensitive, and
he is equally ignorant of the restraints under
which they can be laid. So he thinks love of
gain the only cue to robbery, and revenge or fear
die only possible inducements to murder. But an
equally fatal objection to hie method is one for
which he is not personally responsible. He can en-
force no discovery. His inquiries may be answered
or not, at the option of the persons to whom they
are (Mt. He dare not arrest a suspected party
until his suspicions will bear investigation. But
till some one is arrested, and placed before a
magistrate, the police have no power of compelling

On Wednesday a public meeting, under the pre-
Mammy of Earl Fitswilliam, was held at York, for the
promotion of various objects connected with the interests
the church. The Archbishop, with whom the meeting
originated, Meted that in his diocese one-third of the bean
goes were destitute of parsonage-houses, and one-fourth of
the livings were under a hundred pounds a year in value.
To remedy them evils, and meet a deficiency of church
aoconimodation, the basis of a society was agreed upon,
with proper officers for its manageinent. With a spirit of
earnest liberality, Earl Fitzwilliarn has subscribed 2,000/. to
the funds for carrying out this laudable scheme.

In addition to the 'aroma other subject. taught
in the different eluded of the Crystal Palace School cif Art,
Science, and Literature, the scheme of which he. been.
explained by us on former occasions, two new courses
of special instruction were opened yeaterdey, at
twelve o'clock, by Dr. Christopher Drown, who gave has
first lecture on botany, sad at half-past two, by Dr. Les-
barter, on "Physiology Applied to Health and Ed.sden.■
They were both numerously attended, ladies and young
people being the majority ad the audience.
M. Henry Murger, a poet and dramatist of ocm-
gideralde renown, has just ied i haw" at the early so
at 39. Hie most celebrated work was La We de &Moe,
• drama whisk bad a weeder/id ma at tbe Varietis tea
years ago, and was lately revived at the Vaudeville.
The French official jovenala oontnulict a report
that the naval school of Drat is to be abobabod.

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any one to give them information. esquetien- LATESTINTELtIGENCE.—
ably it is right that they should not have such I
power—it is too perilous to be entrusted to such
hands. But the fact that those to whom we dare
not give authority to put a question are the only
persons whom our law constitutes the detectors
and investigators of crime, is conclusive that the
system of the law is radically bad.
The defects of the law point out the remedy
required. Our present error is that for the detec.
tion of murder we employ men without special
training ; for the detection of all other crimes we
employ men who have none but the narrowest
special training. By nil means let us keep our
detectives; they will work no less efficiently in
their own peculiar aptitudes if we subject the re-
sults of their efforts to the revision of an educated
lawyer before they are laid before a magistrate.
But let us give to them the benefit of the direction,
whenever it may be needed, of education, of legal
knowledge, and of acquaintance with other classes
than those which recruit the profession of crime.
How this may be done our columns have already
shown. Our correspondents have detailed to us
the methods by which, no further off than in Scot-
land, it is done. We may profit by the experience
of our Scottish friends without in all cases adopting
their system. There are in it some parts which are
repugnant to our notions of fair play, and these we
shall do well to leave out. But there is nothing
contrary to our ideas of justice in laying the duty
of prosecuting crimes upon the State, and in per-
mitting the State to appoint paid lawyers and
barristers to conduct all its prosecutions, instead
of, as now, paying them in each separate case by
fees allowed by the court, disbursed by the
county, and at length refunded by the Treasury.
Nor would there be danger to the constitution if
we wore to give to such lawyers and barristers,
appointed by and responsible to the Attorney.
General, who in his turn is always responsible to
the House of Commons, some control and direction
of the detective police, and some power of calling
witnesses before them for examination, even though
suspicion be still so immature as not to warrant
the arrest or accusation of any. Such a conso-
lidation and enlargement of our system would
give it far greater vigour, .cuteness, and com-
pleteness than it now possesses. We should
diminish the number of trials, but we
should largely increase the number of con-
victions. Expense we should certainly save.
What is now done for separate fees would be
done more cheaply as well as more efficiently if
the fees were all bestowed on selected lawyers.
By the mere abolition of the clumsy and inefficient
Coroners' Courts we should gain 60,0001. per
annum. In Middlesex alone we should gain be-
tween three and four thousand per annum. It is
obvious how long • way such a sum would go to-
wards the salaries of the attorneys and barristers
who might be required to conduct the Crown
business at the assizes, and to take order for the
discovery of crimes in their interval. Is the AT*
TORNEY-GENERAL too busy this year to initiate
such a reform I Or will some independent
Member not venture to win for himself the credit
of conferring on the country a benefit so palpable
and so immense

THE SIEGE OF GAETA.
LETTER OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.
The following telegram bail been received by
Mr. Renter :

ENOA, Jag. St.
The Gm Q
eite di Genoa publishes a letter, dated off
Gaeta, Jan. 28, stating that a French despatch
boat had brought a letter to General Cialdini. con-
taining a letter from the Emperor of the French for
King Francis 11., counselling the King to cease his
resistance, in order to save himself the humiliation
of a capitulation. The letter brought by the flag of
truce which was sent from Gaeta on the 28th Jan.
to Admiral Persano, was supposed to have con-
tained a reply to the Emperor's letter.

The fire of the beiegers had (*need great de-
vastation in Gaeta. The Italian fleet had been
increased by one vessel of war and one frigate.

PRUSSIA.
THE ADDRESS OF THE CHAMBER OF
DEPUTIES.

The commission appointed by the Prussian
Chamber of Deputies to prepare an address in
reply to the royal speech, have concluded their
work, and a full analysis appears in the Nord
of to-day.

While the chamber (says the address) has saluted
with satisfaction the men by whom the King's
throne is surrounded, it confidently hopes that the
government will exert itself to consolidate more
and more the administrative unity which is so
necessary, and that it will understand that its in-
terest is to execute its measures by means which
will assure a loyal and complete concurrence. The
chamber will scrupulously examine the credits
demanded for the organisation and increase of the
army. It will experience true satisfaction if
it finds that the new organisation of the army
rests in the limits of the legal bases of the military
constitution, and if it can be persuaded that the
disposable resources suffice to cover the augmenta-
tion proposed in the army, without unduly increas-
ing the public expenses. The chamber hopee,with
the King, to see the solution of the question of
the land tax, and the reform of the mar-
riage laws. It is of opinion that the legis-
lative action ought to be accelerated in order
to achieve the development of the constitution, and
to fix the limits which separate the law and the
executive. The chamber has learnt with special
satisfaction that the government is upoa the point
of entering into negotiations with France relative
to commercial relations with the Zollverein. These
negotiations not only lead to the hope of a consider-
able increase of trade, but they also open up the
happy perspective of two great nations finding
fresh encouragement to rivalry in the works
of peace. The chamber thanks the King for
having, by his interviews with Sovereigns,
obtained guarantees for the continuance of the
European peso. ; it thanks the King also for
declaring the defence of the integrity of the
German territory the first duty of its German
and its European policy. The chamber shares the
desire of seeing the military constitution of the
confederation revised ; but it also feels the neces-
sity of declaring that a better organisation of the
federal army will not suffice to satisfy the legiti-
mate wishes of the German people. The unani-
mous accord of all the governments and all the
German people, even when established, does
not offer guarantees of permanence and
energetic efficacity save when it is expressed
in political institutions conformed to the needs
of the age, and responding to the aspi-
rations of the German nation towards a more in-
timate union of its branches, and when it secures
1 to Prussia the position which is its right by its
history and its strength, and which is justified by
the inseparable interest of Germany and Prussia.
The chamber confidently hopes that the govern-
ment will succeed, by the energetic use of all the
necessary means, in re-establishing the constitu-
tional state in Electoral Hesse, and in restoring to
a loyal and brave people their just rights. The
chamber recognises it as a natural duty
that Prussia, in concert with her allies,
should bring about a fitting solution of
the question of the German duchies, and it has
the assurance that in the event of the federal exe-
cution taking place as to Holstein, the right of
Germany with regard to Schleswig will be reserved.
Prussia will recall the imperial expression that
her destiny is to live in the enjoyment of her
ac-
quimi possessions. Always ready to defend with
all her strength the national interests and the in-
tercets of Germany—for are not those interests hers
which belong to those of her own blood I—her
people will grow in political civilisation under the
new development of civil and constitutional insti-
tutions,
and will find in them the surest means of
destroying the subversive spirit.

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FABRUART vl, 1361
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THE SCHLESWIO•HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
HAMBURG, Tsuisra.
According to advices received here from reliable
quarters at Copenhagen, the great European
Powers have urgently requested Denmark to grant
concessions to Schleswig-Holstein, and have hinted
that they would by no means recognise any blockade
of the German casts which might be declared by
Denmark in consequence of federal execution being
despatched to Holstein.

TURKEY.
THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF SYRIA.

The Paris papers publish a telegram from Con-
stantinople, dated 90th inst., according to which
Prince Labanoff had remitted to the Porte a memo-
randum and further documents in reply to the re-
port of Kiprisli Pacha. These documents were ac-
companied by an energetic note demanding the
convocation of an European conference at Con-
stantinople.
The same telegram states that the Porte, having
been called upon to unction a prolongation of the
French occupation of Syria, had replied that she
must insist upon the execution of the Paris con-
vention.

EILPRESS FROM PARIS.
trim oua own °Dammam:ff.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
There is something infinitely petty in M. de
Peesigny's vindictive conduct towards M. Germano.
If the main object of punishment be example, the
government has nothing to gain by sending M.
Gamic° out of the country (and thereby ruining
him), because there is no other instance of a
foreigner being the proprietor and editor of a
French journal. In this business the minister
gives way to a burst of ill temper which betrays a
hatred of the press, and goes far to damage the
reputation for liberality which he had acquired by
the circumstances attending his recent accession to

office. He has gratuitously put arms into the
hands of the opposition deputies, which they will
not fail to make use of in the debate on the address
next week. What a formidable man foreigners
must suppose M. Genesee to be, since the French
government, although in a new-born liberal mood,
felt it necessary to resort to such an extraordinary
measure as that of sending him out of the country.
Now, who is M. Ganesco A Wallachian, who
came to Paris many years ago, when
quite a lad, and who, unaided by for-
tune or patronage, had by talent and energy
raised himself to a respectable position as a journal-
ist—nothing more. He was no party leader whose
influence was to be feared, and the circulation of
his journal was not extensive. Yet because be
happens to be, technically speaking, a foreigner,
though, in reality, • domiciled Frenchman, the
minister, not content with " warning" his paper,
says, "0 ho ! I find it is in my power to inflict a
punishment upon you which I could not legally
visit upon any other journalist ; you are a foreigner ;
what do you mean by insulting Freuch institutions
There is an article in the code which enables me to
send you out of the country by my arbitrary will ;
away you go ; I have told the prefect of police to
take you off at once ; go, and learn in beggary and
exile that the great French emperor will do a mis-
chief to any foreign journalist whenever he gets
one in his power, which unfortunately is not often."
That is the real signification of M. Ganesco's
banishment. As to the article incriminated, its
greatest fault is an assertion (which, whether true
or not, is countenanced by the Pram, and many
'other journals), that in the late elections at Naples
universal suffrage was distorted by violence,
coupled, I admit, with an insinuation that what he
said of Naples was not without historic application
to France. Well, the misfortune is that there is no
doubt whatever that pressure, and a fearful amount
of pressure too, was exercised upon the elections of
1851 and 1852. Everybody not in the immediate
pay of the French government said so at the time.
But now, when all the world is agreed to say as
little as passible about the origin of the present
dynasty, to accept it as an accomplished fact, and
to hope the best from its continuance, can it be
wise of K de Persigny to provoke an issue
about a paint of history which cannot
be changed 1 M. Ganesoo's article contained no
attack upon the French government, proposed no
reforms incompatible with its existence, or even
pointing to the expectation of a change of dynasty
before thaw reforms could be executed. The
" insult to our institutions" is only to be made out
by the insertion of inuendos and the nice scrutiny
of passages which would not strike an ordinary
reader as containing any offence. In reference to this
ticklish subject, the journals are for the most part
as silent and cowering as a brood of chickens when
■ kite flies over a poultry yard. The Dikes very
shortly states the facts in such a manner as to
imply its disapprobation. The Miele alone ventures
almost to speak out. It says :

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERIIBURG, JAIL 31.

The Imperial Bank will from the 6th to the 11th
February receive subscriptions to the new loan of
12 million roubles in Metalliquea, Waned at par,
and bearing 4 per cent. interest.

THE UNITED STATE&
LONDONDERRY, THURSDAY.
The Canadian screw steamer Nova Scotian,
Captain 31%Luiter, from Portland on the 19th
inst., has arrived here and landed all mails. She
brings 64 p ssenagers.
Her news has been generally anticipated by the
Bremen.

Wel had renurked M. Ganesco's article, and meant to
have noticed it, but now we can neither discuss nor refute
it. The form of the warning differs from that hitherto
need. It has been customary, and a good custom we think
it is, to mention in the warning the substance of the pas-
sages objected to. But in the case of the Courrier drr
Dintrache the whole article is attacked. The second
measure adopted against the writer of the article seems to
as very severe. The administration having accepted a
foreigner as principal editor of a weekly paper, the same
motives which led to this departure from the rules gene-
rally observed, ought to have militated spinet this extreme
measure of the Minister of the Interior. We will yet hope
that M. de Persigny will revoke his order of expulsion. It
is a serious thing to send into exile—to banish from his
adoptive country—a man who years ago staked all his inte-
rests in Franoe, who has been leading here the life of a
Frenchman, and who bad created for himself a position
which he cannot find in another country.

At the Bourse, after considerable fluctuations
connected with the settlement, the Rente nearly
recovered the fall of yesterday, leaving off at
68fr. both for cash and account, with a rise of
35c. ; Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. The railways were
from lfr. 250. to sfr. higher. •
The Pays notices " under all reserve " tho
receipt of a despatch stating that the representa-
tives of all the powers who remained with Francis
11. at Gaeta had protested against the blockade
/acclaimed by Admiral Persano, and that their
protest had been approved of by their respective
governments.
M. Picard has gone to Troyes on a special
retainer to defend M. Rambourg, member of the
Corps Legislatif, against an action of libel brought
by the mayor for some statements impugning his
impartiality at the late municipal elections.

WRECK AND LOSS OP FIFTEEN LIVES.

PORTSMOUTH, FR►DIT MORNING.

The barque Victor Emmanuel, of London, with
general cargo, from Alexandria, went ashore at Cliff•end,
near Blackgang Chine, Chale Bay, Isle of Wight, at
8 p.m. on Wednesday, and by daylight yesterday was a
total wreck, with a loss at 15 lives out of her crew of 19.
Captain Box lost, after gaining the cliff. The boatswain,
Burns, and three men saved. Four bodies recovered.

BEamUDA.—Lioutenant-Colonel Harry St. George
Ord, R.E., at present Governor of Dominica, is to succeed
Brevet-Colonel Freeman Murray, as Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief at Bermuda.

REPEAL OP THE HOP DOPlCA.—Yesterday after-
noon a numerously attended and influential public meeting
of the landowners and hop planters of Kent and Smeex was
held at the assembly-mom of the Star Hotel, Maidstone, to
promote the objects of the recently formed Central Asso-
ciation for obtaioing the total repeal of the excise duty upon
home-grown, and the import duty upon foreign hops. The
chair was taken by the Right Hon. Earl Amherst, and
amongst these present were Lord Pevensey and Mr. D(111014
the members for East Sussex ; Lord Holmesdale and Sir E.
Films; members for West Kent ,• Sir Walter Stirling, Mr.
Beresford Hope (Bedgbury Park), Mr. C. W. Martin
(Leeds Castle), Mears. Body, Neve, Nash, Punnett, Smith,
and other exteusive planters from both counties. The
chairman briefly referred to the objects of the meeting, and
expressed the utmost satisfaction with the unity of feeling
which now prevailed amongst all sections of hop planters.
He was perfectly convinced that the time bad arrived
when the hop duties should be abolished for
ever, and they had only to persevere in the
agitation which had been so well commenced in order to
accomplish that object. The hop duties were not to be
depended on as a source of revenue, and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer would act wisely to give up the tax altogether.
Lord Holmesdale, M.P. far West Kent, proposal the first
resolution, to the effect, "Tat the customs and excise
duties en hops are impolitic and unjust to the planter., and
injurious to she public." Mr. Simmonds, of Maidstoue, se.
winded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Beresford Hope (Bedgbury Park) proposed the second
resolution, expressing approval of the farmstion of the
seVtoc
Central As promoting the of the excise
omation for
aidegoism dation upon hops, and - the co-opera-
tion and insistence of the meeting la su riptiors and
otherwise. Mr. Dodson, 31.1'.,. scandal the mottoo, winch
was supported by several other gentlemen, and earned
OM. COL

FASHIONS DOE FEBRUILAY.
(From 14 "WC.)
- - -

The extreme severity of the winter has caused fug
to be much in request, end there is in this material, uis
all other things, • fuhion. This season, Astra= is moat
in vogue. We Sod fur need, not only u • trimming foe
mantles, but elso for dream. Two or three bends, sbudi
• quarter of a yard in width, placed upon • velvet skirt,
produce • good effect. Long p•letbts of cloth or velvet are
trimmed with martin or Adman, in wide bands. Large
b•squines of velvet cloth—blue or violet—edged with Astni-
Inn are very ilistinguies. The little velvet shawl, trimmed
with wide lace, is reserved for visits of ceremony, and the
colour of the velvet must match that of the drew.

For young persons, very charming scarfs are made of
black or blue velvet, piped with white satin. It is vary
graceful sad simple, and more novel than the cacique,
though this is far from beincahandoned. Monkey fur is
also very fashionable. Chinchilla is becoming more so,
and swan's-down is much worn on pelerincs for the theatre,
and to trim wedding cheeses.
The Zouave vest is more and more indispensable for
indoor dress—for the more simple as well as for the richer
toilettes. It is madeeither in braided cloth or velvet. The
favourite colours for those of velvet are black and Solferino,
with embroidery of gold or silver, and pearls. Astra.= is
also used to trim them, but this is equally suitable for cloth.
Black, brown, and Louise blue are the colours preferred for
the cloth Zouave.

Opera mantles are now made exceedingly elegant—some
of white eachensire, bordered with crimson or black velvet
and gold, with gold and white tassels. The Sultan is one
of white or coloured cachemire, richly embroidered with
gold. The most simple and suitable for young girls is •
burnous of striped thick and transparent white, alternately
lined and edged with white silk. White cachou:sire, or white
satin sorties de bid, are frequently trimmed with white plush.
A burnous is sometimes made entirely of white plum's, with
beautiful tassels of dead gold hanging from the hood.
The material called drouguet is in great request for home
dress this winter, and it is made now in such rich and ele-
gant designs, that it may rank next to velvet. Velvet of
various colours is worn.
For evening dress, there are many light and beautiful
&tam Tulle is more in vogue than tarlatan, though that
is still fashionable for young girls.
There are many dresses of gauze, checked with colons, or
embroidered with gold or silver; others of striped gauze;
and sane of grenadine, worked with velvet. White grena-
dine, with a pattern in rose oolour (rose de roi), or with
natural flowers dotted over it, and silk tulle embroidered
with chenille, make exceedingly pretty and tasteful ban
dresses.

Very elegant ball draws are made of satin, either of roes
de rot, green, yellow azure, or lilac. Satin is also worn foe
visiting dream, in brciwn with a black pattern, or of violet
and of Russian leather colour. Tulle, spotted with gold,
forma a charming tunique, opening over a dress of tarlatans
covered with narrow tionaces, or tulle worked with rings of
chenille and gold, or in silver. Flounces are more and more
rarely seen, excepting in full dress ; flit trimmings placed
round the bottom of the skirt being decidedly more stylish.
Thick materials are gored. Bodies, high and plain, with a
point or a band. Sleeves, tight or open, the former cur.
tainly seem the most suitable for the cold weather, bat the
latter permit a greater display of lingerie.
Low bodies are now made straighter Reran the top than
they were formerly. Plastrons of velvet, or of gold or
silver cloth, are frequently placed upon the body in/Mid of
sashes.
Pointed bodies are still generally in vogue, and are made
either with drapery, or with a berths trammed with rows
of lace. Bodies, either drawn together or plain in front,
very low on the shoulders, with a scarf sash, are much a is
mode for young girls. Flowers are used greatly for trim-
mings, placed either in bouquets or in long garlands.
Bonnets are still worn very large, and high over the
forehead, and the trimming is worn either un the top or
round the crown ; and sometimes a wreath of small feathers
la placed round the front. Velvet and silk are used to-
gether, and often the feathers are white and black, what-
ever colour may be used for the bonnet. A bonnet lately
made for one of the ladies of the Empress's court was very
distingui, and worth describing to our modem. It was of
black velvet, quite plain, with the exception of a trimming
round the front formed with very small blue feathers as
light as marabouts. This trimming is equally elegant in
either black or white feathers.
Another black velvet bonnet had the curtain made of
white blonde, and the trimming a bouquet of small feathers
fastened inside, and falling gracefully over the front. These
were of two colours, two green and one white. It is equally
pretty with two roles de rot and one white, or violet and
white ; but there roust always be one white feather in this
style of trimming.
A third was destined for • young lady, and was mods
of white plush, edged with tulle embroidered lightly.
Bouillonnes of the same across the front, both inside and
out ; the only trimming, a small bunch of roses just at the
top. Flowers are much worn even in coiffure,but feathers are
gaining favour, and are certainly most elegant and graceful.
Diadems and combs are also much used, and are becoming
to some styles of beauty,. but the diadem is not well suited
for very young faces, which always look beat with • simple
headdress.
Touquets are much worn. The one styled Henri 111. is
a padded band of black velvet with a gold cord twisted over
it, and ornamented with • white feather. Another is of
matted gold fastening a magnolia. Gold nets with pearls,
ears of corn with diamonds, or • coiffure of vino
eaves with black grapes and daisies, composed of diamonds,
are all much admired.

REFRIBENTATION OF AIIaRDEENBIIIRS.—A
'Woo signed by upwards of 800 electors, having been pre.
seated to the Hon. Arthur Gordon to become • candidate
for the representation of the county of in come-
quturce of the vacancy occasioned the elevation of Lord
Haddo to the Mr. Gordon expressed his high
sense of the honour done him by this mark of confidence
and esteem ; but as another candidate has already been
for weeks before the county, he "declines, under existing
circumstances, to enter upon • contest where he should find
himself, in consequence of their previous pledges, arrayed
in personal opposition to friends whom be esteemed.
to many of his attached tenantry, and to connexions
of his own family." A circular has, since the receipt of Mr.
Gordon's reply, been addressed to the electors who signed
the requisition, stating that while the motives which
prompted him to decline acceding to their request are
worthy of all respect, they are not sullicieut to deprive the
electors of the privilege of electing him.
THE REPRESENTATION OF CORIL—II is generally
stated that Thomas St. John Giant, Fan., Kilmurry, win
put himself forward as a candidate for the vacant sett in the
representation of this county, caused bythe elevation of Mr.
Deasy to the bench as the suoce.aser of Baron Greene.—Cork
Constitution.
Rernicsenritisors OF BRADFORD. Yesterday
morning, Mr. T. Salt, M.P. for Bradford, met his executive
election committee at Bradford, and stated that he should.
immediately on the reanonnbling of parliament, accept the
Chiltern Hundreds. An address to the electors was subse•
quently issued by the hon. gentleman, in which he stake
that he is led to take this step hy considerations of health.
He says that, "after two years experience, he has not sub
ficient stamina to beer up under the fatigues and late hours
incident to parliamentary life." It is probable that Mr. W.
E. Forster, of Wharfesicle, Otley, will be invited by the
liberal party to become a candidate, and if they are united
he will no doubt walk over. Mr. Forster contested
Leeds two or three times without somata, and is an enlight.
sued and thorough liberal in punch,.
ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW-CROSB.—We are
glad to dud that the subscriptions in aid of the funds for
covering in the swimming-bath, to enable it to be used
throughout the year, are =ratting. Since our announce.
meat of Lord Glasgow's donation of 1.W., the following
eactributions of W. each, besides others of smaller amount,
have been received, viz: The Marquis of Tweeddale, the
Marchioness of Thomond, Admiral the Hon. A. Buncombe,
M.P. (second donation), Admiral Mainwaring. J. Btoddart
Douglas, Eaq., and C. beard. Esq. About Itlo/. more will
be sediment to complete the design.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE RIGHT HON. R. NISBET
HAMILTON.—A few days ago, during • battas on the es-
tate of Archerdeld, the Right Hon. R. Nisbet Hamilton
was shot in the cheek. The injury was comparatively
slight, and although the quantity of blood which issued
from the wound at first alarmed his friends, after the
wound was dressed Ms. Hamilton was enabled to continue
the sport. It was supposed that a lead drop had diverged
by striking • tree. One of the servants of the establish-
ment of Arcbertield was also shot in the face, the drop
being afterwards expectorated. The number of game
bagged was rather under the usual amount on previous
occasions, being only_about 470 head.—Stuarford Mercury.
ACCIDENT I'o MR. EVANS, M.P.— )u ThUralay
evening, the 24th ultimo, Mr. T. W. Evans, M.P., while
riding on horseback from Allestreo to Vs'irkaworth, met
with • severe accident. It was publicly announced that
Le would give his talented lecture on "air Thomas Browne,'
for the furtherance of the interests of the Mechanics' testi.
Lute • in accordance with which he left Lis re..idence at sir
o'clock, alai Living proceeded a short distince the horse
fell, and rolling upon Mr. Evans bruised one leg severely.
The audience was waiting his arrival until neatly nine
o'clock, and thee gradually dispersed. Mr. Evans, in a
letter to the president, states that besides the shake and
braless he las nut received any serious injury.—Noffing.
Cass Journal.. _ _ _

PRINTERS' Alismars.—We have received a letter
from " ()ne of the printer* who set up Alexander Smith's
' Life Drama,'" on the subject of Mr. Pycroft's story of the

" see the pale martyr with his shirt on fire."
No such blunder was made, he says, in Petting up the poem.
A curious blonder, however, actually did occur m the
setting up, wbioh was fortunately detected by the reader,
and so never mime under the public eye. There is a Las
in the poll".
Lipping his lemon on a conch secure."
The compositor, unable to make anything of this, produced
as follows:

" Rippino his lemon on n couch secure."
This was a case ut "sharp printer" with a vengeance.—