The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00

TROSECUTIONOPPIDPBBBOR LEA LD BY THB

PBUSSIAN

In the autumn of last year the famous Pro-
fessor Ewald was deprived of his office in the HE/Hinges
University, on the ground of his being nimble to take
the oath of allegiance to the Prussian gevernment, while,
at the sense time, liberty was granted him to oontinue his
lectures. But • few weeks ago be received • govern-
ment order to discontinue his lectures, on the ground of •
pamphlet which he had published in praise of the Hano-
verian king and people, and sharply criticising the Prussian
government. This pamphlet, entitled, " Lob des Kunio
rind des Voiles," is already in the second edition. It hap
been widely read, and it is well known that • large num-
l•er of people of all classes and in all positions have groat
sympathy with the feeling so eloquently expressed in it.
Accordingly, • charge of treason against the Prussian
government has been laid against the famous professor.
He will be tried on this charge within • few days, and it is
not impossible that the end may be hies imprisonment. Not
only will the learned world of Europe watch ansicurdy
this trial, the people of the land recently annexed to
Prussia have a deep interest in both the man and the
matter.

The lbsenetel condition of the country clearly indicates
the nearmity of withdrawing the paper stoney, and of
retaining to specie payments at the earliest possible
The total mei* /rim the mime, intoned revenge,
and other sources far the fiscal year aiding the 30th of
last June, were 406,000,000 dollars, thus reducing the
public debt by 28,000,000 dollen ; but for the year ending
the Id November, 108111, the debt shows an increase of
36,600,000 dollars. The intimated receipts for the fiscal
year ending June 80,1060, are 341,000,000 dollar., and the
(*basted expenditure 386,000,000 dollars, but the expen-
diture for the War Departosent during the past three
years has exceeded the estimate by 176,000,000 dollars.
The army is now reduced to 48,000 men of all arms,
and the Secretary of the War Department believes a
further reduction of the infantry practicable. The naval
forte is now reduced to 206 vessels, mounting 7,040 guns.
Mr. Johnson cordially approves the policy of Congress
towards the Indians. With regard to foreign countries
he says :—" Our foreign relations are generally satis-
factory. No particular regulations concerning the
colonial trade and the fisheries can be accomplished until
Congress expresses its judgment on the principles in-
volved. Other questions, however, are open for adjust-
ment between the United States and Great Britain.
These relate to the rights of naturalised
the title to the Island of San Juan, awl
the claims of citiien subjects of both countries arising out
of the late war. The negotiations upon these subjects
are pending, and I am not without hope of being able to
lay before the Senate during the present session protocols
calculated to bring to an end these justly excited and long
existing onntrovenees.

The Paraguayan difficulties are undergoing inveetigit-
tion. M•Mabon will be fully sustained by a
naval force in demanding explanations and redress from
the Paraguayan government. The government of the
Sandwich Islands is continually disturbed by apprehen-
sions of unfriendly political proceedings on the part of
the United States. The Reciprocity Treaty lately con-
cluded will restore eonlidence until the people of those
islands, at no distant day, shall voluntarily apply for
admission to the Union.

Our relations with Mexico are marked by an increasing
degree of mutual confidence.
Explanations and satisfaction have been demanded of
the President of Hayti for the injuries sustain'," by Ame-
rican citisens.

The policy adopted by the administration in maintain-
ing strict neutrality between the belligerents in Japan
has been frankly and fully sustained by the enlightened
etnenrrenee of Great Britain. France, and other coun-
tries

President Johnson recommends an amendment to the
constitution, which would provide for the election of the
Provident and ornately by the people direct, and also the
limitation of the terms of office of the Federal fudges.
The Message concludes with expressing • fervent hope
that Providence will inspire Congrese with wisdom and
reverence for the constitution, and grant • speedy return
of happiness and prosperity to the whole country.

THE EXECUTIONS IN ROME.
FLORENCE, Dsc. 5.
I cannot help thinking that the state of public
feeling in Italy created by the execution of Monti
and Tognetti is not sufficiently appreciated in
other countries, and that the real facts of the case
have not received, even from those journalists
best disposed towards the interests of the Italian
people, that calm and impartial consideration
which they may fairly claim. The political, and, if I
may so term them, even more, the humane demon-
strations now making in all Italy against the
Papal government for the execution of the two
men, are acquiring every day greater importance.
They are certainly much more iluportunt
than the Baudin demonstrations in Paris,
and for the time they overshadow all other
events. One has only to glance at the
articles in the provincial and popular newspapers,
at the subscription hats published in the same,
and at the letters, generally short but sufficiently
energetic in tone, in which the proceedings of the
Pontiff are emphatically stigmatised. Take, for
example, such an article as the following, which
appears in the Genoese paper, the Rinnovamento, of
the day before yesterday—l quote it on account
of its tone, not that I by any means subscribe to
the historical deductions which the writer has
placed in sue cession :—" Jesus dies and liberates
mankind from darkness, and then darkness again
gathers over the throne of the Pontiffs, who
are drunken with their temporal authority,
but now the death of Tognetti and Monti
will cause these clouds to disappear, and the
true light of Christ will shine forth and shed
peace over the whole of Italy." Small subscriptions
are accompanied by letters such as the following :
" I send my mite as a protest against him who
calls himself the Vicar of Christ, and who, whilst
perpetrating deeds of blood, dares to invoke that
till red name." Or again, "As a protest against
the execrable act of vengeance perpetrated by the
assassin ' Pope-King.' " One often hears accounts
of ecnversations that have taken place at
Rome beweeii the Pontiff and the foreigners
admitted to an audience by his Holiness,
in which the Pope is always represented as saying
that the hostility to his government is only the
work of a few revolutionists. If it were possible
by any process to furnish a corrective to the deep-
rooted prejudices of en aged priest, that corrective
might best be found in the perusal of the many
hundred of journals published in the peninsula
during the last fortnight—for the deep and unani-
mous chorus of indignation which they pour forth
would suffice to convince even the most incredulous
of the feelings entertained towards the court
of Rome. The course of the Italian ministry
has been marked by much prudence and
tact, and has greatly contributed to strengthen
its position in the reassembled Chambers.
Indeed, an attempt has even been made
to call in question the sincerity of
General Menabrea's declarations on the subject.
There appeared, four days ago, the first number
of a new Journal, the Corrispencleriza Ballistics, pro-
fessing, hke the real semi-official Corriaromienre
Italieuse, to be able to procure information from
government source., and the first specimen of its
reliability has been the publication of an apocry-
phal note, purporting to have been addressed by
General Menabres to the Tuileries, and apology-
sing for, or extenuating the language held by the
premier in parliament. General Menabrea has
instituted a prosecution against the authors of
this impudent forgery.

Mire Emily Faithful' will liwturn this evening
on the Claims of Women, in the Queues Oonsert.rooina
lianovnr-square, at Welsch.

The prizes and certificates gained by com-
petitors at the Oxford local examination for the London
district, held last summer, were d.tributed yesterday
afternoon, at Willis's-rooms, St. James's, in the
of an audience sufficient to fill the old Almack's Ball-
room. Mr. Gather's, Hardy had promised to give away
the prissy but the right hon. gentleman had an engage-
ment ut Windier, which prevented his performing this
task. In his absence the chair was taken by
Dr. Haig Brown, the head master of the Charter.
house School, who, in opening the proceedings, congratu-
lated his audience upon the success of their examinations,
and informed them that in this, their 10th year, 09 par
cent. of the senior, and rather more of the junior, clams.
bad pasted the test—a test which had been every year
becoming more and more severe. After this &anomie,-
ment of the result of the examinations he darkened him-
self more immediately to the winners of prizes and Gerd-
Bodes, and especially Impressed upon them the import-
ance of education to the prosperity of nations, ad-
ducing the instances of Holland and Spain as evidences
how farcultivated intelligence might triumph over adverse
circumstances, and of how little use were more natural
advantages in the absence of intelligence and cultivation.
He congratulated most warmly those who had obtained
joins in these examinations, but cautioned them against
being satisfied with the success which had already at-
tended their efforts. They mud not regard them prisms
es the rewards of a finished career, but rather as Imes-
fives to renewed endeavour and further programs. Above
all thi let them not fall into the error of
knowledge for the asks of the rewards which ra
. they did so they would certainly fail of
the plane. The 111011..wh0 had vendered the
motion to sesskind, aneirbose mum would live
in the rineindwance of posterity, were these vibe
waked for love and not far gain. This standaed
;inse
might to some seem high, but he reminded them of the
quaint words of George Harbert,
Who Mass the sky shave higher far
Than le who aim a tree.

Prizes and certificates were then delivered to 96 Maids
in the senior, and to 908 students in the junior clams.
After this somewhat tedious prams had been gone
through, &sake were voted to the ezawinere, the Parr.
C. Hill and Meows. Sothint7 and Ellis ; and the proceed-
ings closed with a munibir acknowledgment of the services
of the chairman.

MR. GLADSTONE AND iris CONSTITUENTS.-
A meeting of the newly constituted committee, formed for
the purpose of projecting suitable arrangements for the
reception of the Premier on his liut visit to his consti-
tuents, took place on Tuesday night, for the transaction
of business, in the Lecture-hall, Greenwich, Mr. W.
Angcretein, in the chair. There were many of the morn
influential of the electors present from all parts of the
borough. At the last meeting of the same gentlemen the
advisability of inviting the right hon. gentleman to a
banquet was decurved. but abandoned fora great public
remit), n in the largest possible building that could
be obtained, and it was resolved that Mr. Angerstein
should wait on Mr. John Penn, the eminent engineer,
to ask his consent for the use of a large "fitting shop"
on his premises, which it was said would hold mans, thou-
sands of persons. Mr. Angerstein reported that he
had bad an interview with Mr. Penn, who informed
him that the building spoken of could not be made avail-
able for the purpose contemplated, and the committee
were therefore in the same position as before. A oor-
rcetondence which had taken place between the secretary
of the committee and the representative of Mr. We 'stone
WWI read, from which it appealed that an impression
existed that in consequence of the pressure of business
thrown on the shoulders of the latter at the present
juncture there would be no possibility of his meeting his
constituents until the day came for his re-election. This,
however, was not certain, and it was resolved to defer
the consideration of procuring a place of meeting suf..
ticiently large until some further communication could be
had with Mr. Gladstone himself.

TEE REFORM LEAOVE.—Last evening a special
general meeting of the council of the Reform
was held at the offices in Adelphi-terrace, Mr. Edmond
Reales in the chair, for the purpose of receiving the report
and financial statement of the electoral committee, re-
specting which so much angry discussion took place at the
last ordinary meeting. There was a verilarge attendance.
TEE REPRESENTATION OF WAR/HAW—Mr.
William Montagu Calcraft, brother of the late member,
has come forward in the liberal interest. On Tuesday
afternoon be issued an address, in which he states that his
political
'principles "are similar to those" which his
brother supported when in
.parliament," and that he
" concurs in the opinions contained in the address" his
brother issued "only a few weeks since " and further,
that " if elected he ts prepared to support Mr. Gladstone
and his policy." Mr. Drax is again ut the field in the con-
servative interest.

THE REPRFALNTATION OF DIMPSIESSHIRE.-
Sir Sydney Watertow dm arrived at Dumfries, and cir-
culars are already in possession of all the electors, inform-
ing them of the possibility of the election being found
invalid, and requesting them to sign a form promising, in
that event, to support Sir Sydney.
COMPLIMENTARY BAHOFET TO MR. BERNAL
OPBOHM —Oa Tuesday night the friends and admirers of
Mr. Bernal Osborne entertained him at a public b enquet
at the Exchange-ball, Nottingham, when there was a very
large attendance. The chair was taken by Mr. Alderman
Birkin.

CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AORICFLTERE.—A very
numerously attended meeting of the council of the Cen-
tral Chamber of Agriculture, at which deputed members
from provincial chambers met the regular members of
the council, took place at the Saliebury Arms, Fleet-
street ; Mr. Jasper More, president of the Central Cham-
ter, occupied the chair. After the transaction of general
business, the council proceeded to the appointment of a
treasurer and secretary, to which offices the late occupiers
of the mine, Messrs. C. Clay and John A Igenton Oarke were
eeverally Ic-elected. Propos:As see discussed fur the
purpose of extending the influence of the Chamber of
Ay) 'culture Jultreel, which, it was announced, would
hehtefotth be issued weekly, in an improved form, and
under the editorship, as before, of the secretary of the
Central Chamber. The report was read and received
unanimously. Mr. May, representing the North Cheshire
Chamber, and Mr. Rigby, of the Cheshire Chamber, re-
erectively moved and seconded a resolution to the effect
that the cost of "stamping out.' the cattle plague in the
county of Chester should be made a national charge,
being, us it was, a measure adopted for the national
benefit. The motion gave rise to considerable discussion,
but was ultimately withdrawn. The council. then pro-
ceeded to select a series of subjects for discussion during
the ensuing year. Lord Bridport and Lcrd Berner' re-
commended as the three subjects which should take pre-
cedence of all others, the best substitute for the malt tax,
the subject of local taxation, anti the prevention of con-
tagious diseases of sheep and cattle by legislation. A
show of bands was in favour of the subject of local taxa-
tion being the first to stand on the and Mr. Andrews
was to have precedence for his resolution on the sobject at
the next meeting of the council. The subject for the
second meeting was decided to be that of waterside
markets; and the third was declared unanimously to be
the beet substitute for the malt tax. It was decided that
the ensuing meet:nes of the council should bo held ott the
first Tuesday' in the months of November, December,
February, March, April, and May. The meeting now
become a general one, and its first business was to ap-
point a vice-president Sir Maury Lopes,M.P.. Mr.
Wells, M.P. for Peterborough, and Mr. Howard, Y.P.
for Redford, were respectively proposed and 'seconded.
Sir Massey Lopes withdrew on the 6,i lof his 'edifies
I.eng of the Fame school us those of Mr. C. S. Read. On
the mines of Mr. Wells and Mr. Howard being put to the
meting, lilt. Wells was chosen by the majority. Eight
nu rs of the council were appointed in the place of
eight others who retired by rotat.on, some of whom were
re-elected. Mr. W. B. Clare and the Rev. Mr. &Mann
were elected auditor. Other routine business was trans-
acted, and with a vote of thanks to the chairman the pro-
ceedings terminated.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A STUDENT OF
emus! ("newt. OlFORD.—Cousitlerable apprehension
(lists in Oxford at the sudden and mysterious disappear-
ance of Mr. William Brookes, 8.A., of Christ Churoh, who
left college on Sunday evening last, at half past seven,
when he was wen by the porter, and has not since been
heard of, although every possible inquiry has been made
by the authorities of the society and friends of the
massing gentleman. Mr. Brookes wee a gentleman of very
studious habits, having obtained the bighorn honours at
his university, and has been latterly ealLalrsdM a Flys"
tutor at Chant Church and elsewhere. The following_ is a
description of the missing gentleman :—Height, Eft. Tua.;
I'M 23 ; slight build, fair oompleniess. aght auburn
moustache, wore a black pot bat, overcoat of Oxford
mixture, underneath, it is supposed, a dark-blae flannel
boating jacket and dark trousers; dark Stnpe sh'euitui
carrying a silver black guard, eye.mook
bunch of keys in his et. Me father of Yr. Brooker'
arrived in Oxford on Tuesday, and should nothing be
heard of the latter, the river, which is now in • very swollen
state, will be dragged. The university, city. and minty
police are actively engaged in searching for the missing
gentleman. and full particulars have been forwarded to
the Intint Gentle.
The llaNts Independent of yesterday states that
the two old established Southampton private banks of
Meters. Maddison, rears% and Hankies':elk and of Maws.
Ai barley and Darwin, are about to be amalgamated.
ilurniulan's tea, selected from, the vriag gather-
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teelirto. Purarlk EanibEl, and elitatuala Walt Rh Ilk
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