The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

REPRZSENTATION Or SOUTH WILTS.

Yesterday a candidate for the representation of
Southlta, in the roma of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
in the person of Thomas Fraser (trove, Eaq., of
7erPandloure, Wilts. Mr. Grove is • magirtrate for the
county, and a deputr.lieutertnt, and it is route than pro-
table that be will obtain the support of the House of rem.
broke. No candid•te ha. yet bees spoken of in the cos-
servative interest, the thakulty being to find a fitting man
with *Raciest Inikiesoe to obtain eves a chance of the
Incest stet Is his adders Mr. Grove say. •• As • red-
dest landowner in this division of the county, when my
family has been so long settled, 1 conceive that I shall be in
• Pnwitos. should I he so fortunate a. to be elected your is-
presentative, to act its furtherance of the local and
nasal intonate of the community. A sincere amerabsr of the
church of Empanel, I sin desirous of securing. perfect liberty
of eonecience to the member, of every religious persuaros.
Although I do not sympathise with the ultra-Wry party, I
am, nevertheless, far removed from the so-called Manchester
School, whose doctrines I consider both delusive and dap.
genius. I amprepared to give a 'etersl and independent
support to Lord Palmerston's government, believing a. I to
that it repressor the views of the majority of the thinking
public, and has deserved well of the country. It will be
pnilably out of my power personally to canvass every voter
in so large • constituency, hot I shall endeavour to wait as
Mini as possible, and thus give the electors an opportunity
of learning more fully my political sentiments. Should you
phial, me in the honourable poaition of your representative,
it will be my object, by • faithful attention to the hi:Alper
of the country, to merit your permanent confidence, and
thus prove that on this occasion it has not been misplaced."

VW Wourt.

OSI3OHNS, JAS. 4.

Prince Leorold of Hohenzollern arrived at
Southampton yeitcrilty front Lisbon, aid earn. to Osborne
on ;.‘ visit to tier Majesty in the royal yacht Fairy, which
was sent to Southampton to fetch tie Prince. no Prince's
suite manta of Baron de Mayenisch and Count de Rantzan.
His Serene flightoNS will leave to-day for Dover, on his
return to Germany.

Despatehe. were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Lord High Commissioner of tb• lonian Is

The Canada. Club entertained the Governor-
;mend of Canada, onWedneeday last, at the Albion Tavern.
A munerima and distinguished party amembled to meet his
excellency.

A telegram frmn Dublin says :—" Mr. Brewster,
attnrory.general under Lord Aberdeen's government, acci-
dentally shot off his arm while on a visit at Mr. Bernal
Osborne's, near l'lneoreL"

Lord Broughe.na has passed through PatiN
rout, for his seat Cannea, where his lordship intends re-
maining until pat before the meeting of parliament.

The Dochem de Malakoff has accompaniell the
Marshal her husband to Algiers.

We (TiharA) have much pleasure in annoeuring
that Lard lobe Rummell has offered the yew appointment
of Seerete.ry of Legation Japan to Mr. Oliphant, who
accompanied Lon! Elgin in his nest visit to Jedda, and that
Mr. t slipbaut ha. accepted the post. Mr. Oliphant iv well
know° to the puLlic as the author of " A History of Lord
Mission to China," as well RA several other Tales
of Travel I. almost every part of the world.

The Committee of the Pipit-office Library and
Litcrary Ac-oriation have (as we have already announced),
with the approval of the Postmaster-General, made arrange.
ments for the delivery of a course of lectures to the mem-
bers and their friends, between the commencement of
January sad the end of May next. Most of these lectures
will be given by gentlemen of eminence in the literary
world, and the proceeds arising from them are to be devoted
to objects of the smociation. lust night the first lecture
of the rellElo was delivered by Mr. Anthony TroMope, the
novelist, in the " Returned Letter-room " of the General
Poet-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, to • very ntunemus
audience, composed chiefly of those employed in that ex-
tensive department of the government service.

The Friday Evening Lectures of the Royal luxti-
tation for the *melon before Enter next comprise course*,
by Prof. Tyndall, "On the Action of Goma and Vapours
upon Radiant Heat ;" by Dr. D. C. Weibel), "On the Ica.
lure of the Urp•Sea Bed, and the Preemie, of Animal Life
at Vag Depth+ in the (keen ;" by H. F. Charley. Eat,
"On English l'oetry in reference to Music:" by Dr. E.
Frankland, •'On some Phenomena attending Combustion in
Rarefied Air ;" by Prof. H. D. Roger.. "On the Origin of
the Parallel P.oada of Glen Roy ;" and Lectures by Prof,.
Faraday and Huxley, of which the subjects are not yet de•
termined.

Mews. Hurst and Blackett, it is Paid, are about
to start a new shilling monthly magazine, to be edited by
Miss Muloch.

" The great teak of editing and printing the
materials of English History—undertaken by Sir John
Hominy," says the Athemerms, " goes on famously. At the
end of the year we count no lees than twenty separate
works, twentydive volumes, of more or leas value, and all
originul—adding thousands of new c:etails to oar knowledge
of the historical life of our ancestors. The new year
promises to be not less rich than the past."

During the coming season of his concerts, Dr.
Wylde 11111:1011.11.X.,, as a feature, the " Antigooe" muaio of
Maatdelaaohn.

Among other opera rumours, it is said that Mrt
Smith intend■ to produce " trn Hallo in Mischa's," Signor
Venb's Lot opera, at her Majesty's Theatre ; and that
Mdlle. Tietjens and Signor Giuglini may possibly sing at the
Coveut-Garden Opera —G luck's "Amide," we (Athena um)
understand from Paris, is about to be produced at the
Theatre Lyrique for Madame Viardot in the course of the
Wing. _ _

- The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes,
which commences its sittings on the 18th inst., has Is 7 uses
set down for hearing.

The hearing of the All Souls' College case re-
lating to the election to Fellowships will be heard before
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the visitor, with Lord
Wensleydale and Dr. Travers Twin, Q.C., as hia assessors,
on Tuesday, the Bth inst., at 11 a.m., at Lambeth Palace.
The counsel engaged are the Attorney-General and Mr.
Coleridge, for the petitioners ; and Mr. &Till, Q.C., Mr.
Kailas, and Mr. Granville Somerset, for the college.
The contractors for the uew bronze coinage are
Messrs. Boohoo and Watt, of the Soho Mint, at Birming-
ham, where the work is carried on. The total quantity to
be made by them in the course of the next two years and
a half is stated to amount to 1,800 tons—a speed which
involves the striking of 400,000 pieces per day on an
average during the whole time.

Laid evening, there wae a grand volunteer ball
in Leeds. Nearly 800 ladies end gentlemen were pre.
sent. The general attendance included the Mayor of Loads,
and numerous oMoers and members of the ride sod artillery
corP.

A mounter entertainment wrni given at Crewe yes-
teaday by the directors of the London and North Western Had -
way Company to their workmen, on the occasidn of the comple-
tion of a new workshop. About 3,000 persons sat down to tea
in the workshops, which were splendidly decorated for the
occasion, and the tea was nude in two gigantic and original
kettles, two locomotive engines being employed for the
purpose of making the " Chinese brew." Several of the
directors were present, and the evening appeared to be
spent in the most pleasant manner.

The Naturday Reviet,- of to-day contains en
account of an moat of Snowdon oo the 28th alt., by three
gentlemen and a guide :-- • • " At our left was the noble
sweep of the snow-caruice, like the stiffened foam of a vast
billow which had shivered itself upon the rocky edge.
The huts at the top were all encased in ice, sad from
their chimney. and projections the snow was drawn like
a kind of plumage by the wind. The crystals bad
set themselves so as to present the exact ap-
pearance of feathers, and in some oases these
were stack against a common axis, so as accn•
rattly to resemble the plumes in soldiers' cape. It was 3
o'clock when we gained the top. Above sad behind us the
heavens were the demist grey ; towards the western horizon
this was broken by belts of fiery red, which brightened to
mange and yellow as the region where the sunbeams
escaped from the cloud barrier was approached. Beyond
this point, the entire mountains of Flintahire were flooded
with glory —the sun shooting through the gape in the range
and enabling us to track the course of his coloured beams
through the air to the places on which their radiance fell.
Hardly on Mont Blanc—hardly on Mont Roes—hardly on
the Gorner.grat—hardly even on the Mer de Glace in winter
—had we seen anything to excel in beauty this scene from
t►e top of Snowdon."

The Paris correspondent of the Tinges writes :
" Swarms of political agents, volunteer or official, have
bees off and on in Paris from various parte of Northern,
Central, and Southern Italy for some time put. Several
have had audience of the Emperor, but to all, I bear, he
has held pretty nearly the same language—namely, bin
decided preference of a confederation of states to a united
kingdom in Italy. The plan which Le would propose—on
the seine authority—is that Austria should be persuaded
to give up Venetia ; that Victor Emmanuel be named
King of Piedmont, Lombardy, Venetia, Parma, and
Modena ; the King of the Two Birdies to be restored, as
also the Grand Duke of Tuscany ; the Pope to hold the
Patrimony of St. Peter, and to govern the Legations. the
Marshes, and Umbria by a (hand Vicar. The plan is
pretty much the same as the old one."
We read in a letter from Rome, dated Cheintmas-
day :—"This morning in the basilica of St. Peter's the
usual high man was celebrated, the Pope officiating. The
ceremony acquired unusual interest from the belief which
many entertain that this is the last Christmas-day that will
thus be celebrated in St. Peter's by a sovereign pontiff.
Nam over, the Pope was carried out of the church in his
portable throne, according to custom, preceded by the car-
dinals, bishops, and all his court, Lie triple crown on his
head, before him the two great fans of ostrich feathers, set
with the eyes of peacocks' feathers, symbolical of the vie-
lance required of his holiness and also of the supposed fact
that the eyes of all men are fixed upon him. Hardly ever
more than at the present moment did the iymbol indicate
the truth, especially as regards the vigilance neeemary is
his present most difficult position. For the first time on
as occasion of this kind, the Papal Zouves (Fnneo•liel•
friend were oe duty among the troops forming the double
line through which the Pope was carried."

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