The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1857.

valour—traits as majestic and soul-moving as antique
lisbxy and poetry have ever recorded. By ourselves
Ire may form some conception of what the life of
oar countrymen and countrywomen in India mast
haic been. Awful as was the suffering, there must
have been a ao leas awful joy, equivalent to long
years of ordinary existence. There has been many
a " happy warrior" in India this year ; and many a
civilian, many a woman, who has found in the
fall tension of every faculty, the vivid sensibility
of all affections and passions, and new life
so prodigious that it was not worth con-
sidering whether it was most painful or
plessiocable. Perceiving these things, and,
moreover, that the sterling quality of our race
and nation has been proved as splendidly as it ever
was in the presence of the Norman Conqueror or of
the Spanish Armada, or of the world in league
against as, with Napoleon at its head, or of all
plague, pestilence, famine, or other calamity that
England has ever sustained, we who survive may to
thankful that we have witnessed such a year, *hike
still grateful that some who could, as well as some
who could not, have borne the storm, went to their
rest before it broke over our heads. When we
further consider that by the manifestations we have
witnessed we may learn more than was ever known
before of the relation of the old pagan to the modern
Christian times—the relation of an age of passion
to one of convention—the relation of a barbaric
niyime to one of civilisation—and we may regard
this year as one of unparalleled instruc-
tion, or at least as inaugurating such a
period. Not in vain may many a daughter of
England h►ve wandered alone in the Indian night,
or one here and there have satisfied her soul with
vengeance : not in vain may our heroes have sat in soli-
tary peril, keeping murder at bay by the glance of
the eye and the tone of command : not in vain may
the soldiers' heart have at once hungered for
slaughter, and sickened at the monstrous scale of it;
not in vain may have been the unintelligible horrors,
the dread suspense, and the wild despair undergone
by British hearts on both continents, if the one may
be thereby established in true relations with the
other, and the European and Asiatic natuna be
brought into a better understanding.
The year is over and gone it has been got
through ; and the crisis in India with it. It re-
mains to be seen how much we can learn from
calamity of our weakness and our strength, our
mistakes and our capacity, and of the exact value of
our civilisation under the fiercest strew to which
civilisation was ever exposed. It remains to be
seen how we can " better the instruction" given by
our cruel torturers, so as to do the races they repre-
sent the most good, by coercing what is savage in
them, and giving them the benefit of their own good
qualities, secured from the operation of the bad. To
some of us it may be most congenial to regard the
year, as such did the fast-day, as one of humilia-
tion; and these had best follow their natures: but
it may be nobler and more useful to regard it as one
of exhilaration—at least in the retrospect. The
best patriots are those who think no cost too heavy
for social wisdom, and for any enlargement in the
tree theory and practice of social duty ; and if,
Omagh our adversity of this year the civilisation
st Asia generally, and the welfare of India in par-
ticular, should take a new departure, and we our-
selves should feel released by the shock from any
bondage of convention, or perils of indolence and
levity, we may well consider the year 1857 as not
only one of the most memorable in our annals, bat
of the grandest and most blessed in the experi-
e of our race and nation.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DEMMER 31.

A REPORT laid before the House of Commons just
before Parliament adjourned lets some little light in
upon Burrow's noble Foundation, the Charterhouse.
The Report le the work of Mr. Inspector of Charities
Butazow, son of Mr. Commissioner of Bankrupts
Btualow, and a member, therefore, of what may
be tensed a functionary—perhaps almost a Barnacles

—.—
family. It is not by any means full or sufficient in
its details ; it traces imperfectly the history of the
Charity ; its account of the actual state of the Foun-
dation is somewhat confused. It treats with all

becoming reverence the great people who monopo-
lise its government and p►tronage. It quite agrees
with them that the complaints of the Poor Brethren
are unreasonable ; and u for suggestions for the
I augmentation or improvement of the school, Mr.
Inspector of Charities SKIRROW hu none to make.
He is too discreet and proper a functionary and
Barnacle. Nevertheless, the Report, dealing with

Charity which had, because of the magnificent
pereonages in whom the management was vested,
'leaped former inquiries, brings into pretty strong
relief abuses which the Inspector has failed to see.
"The Hospital of King JANIES, founded in Char-
" terhouse, at the humble petition and only meta

—.—,
" and charges or TIIOIIAB SUTION, Esquire " (u the
Foundation of the Old Muter Gunner of Beranek-

on-Tweed, who on his way to London, where he be-
came a great merchant, brought up with him a con-
siderable fortune from the coal mines of Northum-
berland and Durham, is legally designated), is now
two centuries and a half old. Surroot endowed it
with large estates in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Lin-
colnshire, Wiltshire, Hants, and London ; he bought
for its site the dissolved Monastery of the Char-
treuse; he procured Letters Patent from the Crown
for its creation ; he gave it the patronage of nine
excellent benefices; he left its future management
singularly free from embarrassment in the shape of
elaborate regulations ; and conferred on its Governors
ample power to extend its usefulness.
Sur-069 was a wise and experienced man of the
wend ; and in the sixteen Governor, whom he ap-
pointed, he took especial care not to confine his
selection to any one class of society. Ile composed
his Corporation of sagacious peers, pious churchmen.l
great magistrates, and eminent merchants. Now.,
the first great fact that Mr. Inspector of Charities
Storshow omits to notice is, that this mixed and use-
ful element has subsequently been extruded from
the government of the Charterhottre, which has be-
come essentially aristocratic. There has not, we
believe, been a man in the government of SUTTON'S
Hospital of Surrox's own class for the last century.
The great lords, and bishops, and statesmen who
have dominated and do dominate over it have stuck
most gallantly to their own "order" in the self-
elective powers conferred on them, and have most
rigorously excluded the middle clam linden business
men. By way of propping up their system and of
clothing it with still higher authority in the edmin-
istration of its patronage, they have illegally and
anstatutably banded over nominations both e poor
brethren and poor scholars to the Greer!, the Prince
CONSORT, and the Prince of WALES, and this onlaw-
hil transfer of power and patronage, we are awry to
say, the Court sets the bad example of exercising—
another fact of which Mr. Inspector of Clarifies
Sxtnaow takes not the slightest notice.
The consequences of great people monopolising
the government of Surrooes Hospital aro manifold-
First of all, great people cannot attend properly ; so,
though the original Statutes directed that the Orders
of the Governors should only be legal when made at
an assembly when a majority of the wholebody was
present, five of the sixteen may, it is now enacted,
make Orders. But, though great people cannot attend
regularly, they like to exercise patronage ; so, though
by the Letters Patent SUTTON endeavoured to obtain
corporate and common responsibility for the proper
appointment of objects for his charity, the patronage
is now distributed amongst the Governors, indi-
vidually and separately, each nominating when his
turn comes round, whether he attends the Assem-
blies or not, Next, great people taking merely a
nominal share in the government of Foundations,
the patronage of which they dispense, must have
some working man as a Governor ; so, in utter disre-
gard of all propriety, consistency, and order, the
aristocratic Governors of the Charterhouse have
actually elected as a Governor their thief salaried
officer, the Muter, thus confounding administra-
tive and executive functions. Then great people are
seldom economical in their management, and while
the Muter, Registrar, and Schoolmaster of the Char-
terhouse are all substantially paid, the Poor Brethren
complain they cannot live on the money allow-
ance of 261. a year allowed them; and in the
course of two centuries end a half, the number of
poor scholars has only been increased by four, became
though the Letters Patent ordain that the increase
ed Surrox'4 Estates " shall be employed for the
.ssaintenance of more and more people," the increase
bea chiefly been eaten up by salaries and 'unneces-
sary outlay. " The number of scholars," says Mr.
Inspector of Charities Smanow, with easy and
graceful familiarity, " nowadays is limited to 44."
The income of the Charterhouse is, t. now-a-
days," about 23,0001. a year, and, on the expiration
of other two years, it will probably amount to
nearly 30,0001. During the ten years, 1845-64, its
total receipts were 209,9601. The Hospital has eon-

aequently no lack of fund.. 'What is the amount of
good donewith this fine income? Simply this-110 Old
Brethren are lodged, dined, and allowed 251. a year;
and, as their necessary expenditure is at least 161.
a year above that sum, and as to secure admission
they mast be devoid of other means, they very justly
complain that they are not maintained as Surrox
intended they should be ; 44 Poor Scholars are fed
and educated partially at the cost of the Foundation ;
and about 1,1001. a year is spent (with doubtful
legality) on University Exhibitions, and some 2501.
in donations. It is one of the worst faults of Mr.
Inspector of Charities Sufattow's slipshod Report
that it does not state, or enable the reader to find out,
the actual expenditure on the Old Brethren, the Poor
Scholars, and the Exhibitions; but the accounts he
publishes show a wasteful expenditure in salaries,
allowances, Ice., in which a new scheme of manage-
ment would soon produce large economies.
But improved management is not to be expected
in a Foundation the government of which is mono-
polised by Lords Spiritual and Temporal who have
other things to attend to, and over which a person
of such imperfect tense of moral responsibility pre-
sides u the present Master of the Charterhoase.
Though the terms of the Foundation do not require
that the Muter shall be a clergyman, though the
duties they assign to him are the very reverse of
ecclesiastical, and though they require him to be an
unmarried man, the Master is married and is a
clergyman. But that is not the worst of it. Although
lay management of public institutions and property
is always better than clerical, the Statutes expressly
say of the Muter :
lie shall neither have nor accept of say place of prefer-
ment or benefit, either in Church or Commonwealth, whereby
be may be drawn from hie residence, care, and charge of
the hospital, and if he do, in such case he shall leave that
place, or be displaced if be refuse to leave it.

But, under aristocratic rule, the present Muter is
the most eminent pluralist left to the Church. He is
Vicar of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and has cure of
10,000 souls there; he is Archdeacon of Middlesex,
and, as such, one of our Diocesan's" eyes ;" and he is
Canon of St. Paul's. And all these various heavy and
inconsistent ecclesiastical duties of Archdeacon HALL
he "deposed" to Mr. Inspector SEHIROW—and the
Lawyer of the Hospital " deposed" to the same effect
did not interfere with his duties at the Hospital ;"
on which "depositions," made, we presume, on oath,
Kr. Inspector SKIEROW waxeth regardful, not of
the welfare of the Charterhouse, but of the Church.
Assuming this to be the case "—Mr. SIIIIEOW does
not say it is or it is not the case, as might reasonably
have been expected—" the question might occur "
might, indeed!—must is the word—" whether the
" care and charge of the Hospital interfered with
" his duties in the Church ; but that "—Mr. SICIIV
now grows frightened at his own andaeity—" is
" clearly a question wholly foreign to the present
" inquiry, and falls within &jurisdiction other than
" my own."
For the performance of his duties as Muter of the
Charterhouse this more thin CESAR of the esta-
blishment, soya Mr. SKIRROW,
Receives a salary of 8001. a year, sad enjoys the perqui-
site. and allowances already mentioned.
The Heater's home, or lodge, contains many and very
handsome apartments, wbich are la most part tarnished at
the expense of the Hospital.
Now, what are these " perquisites and allow-
" ances," which, in addition to 8001. a year, and •
large, handsome, and well furnished residence, this
Master of the Charterhouse, this Rector of St.
Giles', Cripplegate, this Archdeacon of Middlesex,
this Canon of St. Paul's, " enjoys ?" First of all,
his enjoymenta consist in 30 dozens of albs. candles,
30 gallons of oil, end 01. for firewood, yearly, and
71.10 e. once in three years for linen. These are his
minor enjoyments. His greater luxury consists in a
daily table, and the Master's table costs the Hospital
4161. 31. 2d. a year. At this table, however, the
Master dispenses hospitality to the other Officers.
Far be it from us to charge Archdeacon HALE with
anything graver than such a total want of all tense
of moral responsibility as sets all improvement in
the Hospital at defiance. But then the Mastership
of such • man is only a natural consequence of
Great People monopolising the government of a
Foundation for the sake of its patronage ; and there
lies the secret of the anomalous circumstance that
the usefulness of St:TION's Foundation does not in-
crease in proportion as its revenues have augmented.
To this Mr. Inspector of Charities SKIEEOW, ion of
Mr. Commissioner of Bankrupts SKIREOu , is, how-
ever, as blind as a bat.

RETIREMENT or Ma. JONTICZ CREF4SWELL.,
Yesterday a notice wee exhibited at the Judges' chambers
that Mr. Jostles Crewmen would attend to trawled twines@
on Friday neat. In • short time hie lordship will retire
from the Court of Common Plea to take his seat in the
new Probate Court.
TILE LAW OFFlCEL—Yesterday the law offices
were opened after the Christman recess, to anticipation of the
ensuing Hilary Team, which commences on the 11th of
January.
THE CASE OF THE Qt'EEN T. ROBINvOV.
DIATIt OT MA. Awn MRS. CAHILINOTON.—Our obituary
• fortnight ago recorded the death of Mr. and Mrs. Carring-
ton, formerly of Cheltenham, which event took place on the
same day, on Sunday, the loth inst., at their residers° is
London. We sines learn that on the morning inquestion
/dr. Covington was found dead in bedroom, having been
struck by apoplexy, and the intelligence being incautioualy
end abruptly communicated to his lady, she, too, was
seized with apoplectic symptoms, end died the more even-
ing. Mr. Carnagtort was formerly in the Ceylon Civil
Service, and latterly had resided for many years
to Cheltenham, where he occupied a good petition
in society and wax much respected. A. few years ago one of
hie daughters wee married to Mr. Omwell Lloyd Evans, of
this town, and her conduct has since formed the subject of
numerous investigation@ in our courts of law. The unhappy
stigma attivhcd to three proceedings induced her /*rents to
leave Cheltenham and remove to London, where their titvitli
occurred within a few hours of each other ander the melan-
choly circumstances above narrated. It is more than pro-
bable that the daughter's unhappy position, and the anxiety
caused by her approaching appearance in ihe witness box,
were the proximate mows of the final catastrophe. Mr.
Carrington at the Mao of his death was in his .3.1 year,
Mrs. Carrington being some 17 years 161,103210T.—Chettruham
Eumminer.
CELEBRATION OF TTIE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MAR-
RIAOI.—The motion brought forward by Councillor Hope
at the meeting of the Edinburgh Council yesterday embodies,
we think, a nuggeation worthy of attention. Dentine's, the
higher and middle chimes will hove their dinners, balls, and
festivities in honour of the merriage of the eldest daughter
of our gracious sovereign; and It would certainly give an
appearance of universsley to public rejoicing if the working
dames were also to Lave some entertainment on the Immense'
other than that of feasting their eyes and ears on the ine-
vitable remibe and crackers which the occasion will, doubt-
less, call forth. A soirie on • large scale, at • low admission,
and with substantial attrectione, in honour of the event, Is a
' very good idea and we hope it will be taken op and spiritedly
carried out.— Edinburgh Express.
The Manchester town council having, as already
retorted in these columns, unanimously pasted a revolution
of thanks to the executive committee of the late ArtTressures
Exhibition for their able cud arduous services in its manage-
ment, the presentation of this testimonial on behalf of the
corporation took place yesterday afternoon in the mayee's
parlour at the Town-ball. A ski. Uner was provided by the
mayor, 11r. Iris Mackie, at which were present about eighty
gentlemen, including, besides the members of the executive
committee, Sir J. Potter, M.P., Mr. Kershaw, wr., Mr. J.
render, Sir J. Watt.. and the member, of the town council.
GIFT TO Tilt Sochi KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—

Priej; Napoleon he. Immo 6;;;tiuTo" of
c.ousou on Education a very Interesting PpeCil3loll of Gobelin
tapestry, the subject being "Arils presenting the dagger to
he humbled Pietas, eller leaving 'webbed herself." This
OM of work woe given on his marriage in 1807 to lerom,
King of Wastpbelia, by the Emperor, his brother. Prince
Jerome has lust given it to his son Prince Napoleon, in order
that it might be presented to the Museum of Art at South
Kensington.
TnE STATE OF EMPLOYMENT IN MANCIIFATER.—
The weekly return published yesterday showy an increase of
persons out of weak, the number bring 9,382 against 9,228;
increase, 156. The number on short time has decreased from
21,872 to 20,975; decrease, 897. There his been an int-
morn:sot in more workpeople having gone on fell time, the
tototoer laid week being 19,286, whilst this week it has in-
creased to 16,243; Improvement, 967.

bt Court.

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
WINDSOR, Dzo. SO.
The marriage ceremony of the Princess Royal and
Prince Frederick William of Prruraia will take place at the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, on Monday, the 25th of January.
There will be present on the occasion, besides the royal
family, the King of the Belgians, the Duke of Brabant and
the Count of Flanders, the Prince and Princess of Prussia,
Prince Frederick Charles (nephew of the King, son of
Prince Charles), Prince Albert (brother of the King), Prince
Charles Albert (eon of Prince Albert), Prince Adalbert
(omen of the King), and the Prince of Hohenzollern Sir
marittgea ; the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, and
Prince William of Baden (brother of the Orand Duke), and
the Duke and Duchess of Sale Cobourg, the whole of whom
will arrive in London from the Continent on the 16th of
January and the following days, and will be her Majesty's
guests at Buckinglem Palace; while apartmenta have been
engaged for their respective suites at Farrance's and Fenton's
Hotels.
There will she be present on the occasion Prince Edward
of Sale Weimar, the Prince and Prime' of Hohealohe
Lsngenbarg, Princess Feodore and Prince Victor of Hoban-
lobe, and the Prince of Leiningen.
Her Majesty, the Prince Cooed, anti the royal family
will arrive in town on Friday, the 16th of January.
A series of theatrical representations will take place at
Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, the 19th; Thursday,
the 21et ; and Saturday, the 23rd of January, at which her
Majesty, the royal family, and foreign visitors will be
present.
Iler Majesty will give a state ball at Buckingham Palace

_
en Wodnesday, January 20.
Prince Frederick William will antra on the 23rd. After
the marriage ceremony, on the 26th, the Prince and Primate
Royal will leave Buckingham Palate for Windsor Castle,
attended by a limited suite.
liar Majesty will give that evening a state concert at
Buckingham Palace, to which the persona present at the
marriage ceremony, the Corps Diplomatique, the members
of the Government, and a number of the aristocracy, will be
ins ited.
On the 26th, most of her Majesty's gawks will return to
the Continent.
On the 27th, her Majesty and the Prinos Consort, with
the junior members of the royal family, will join the young
married couple at Windsor Castle, where, on the 28th, her
Majesty ti PI hold a Chapter of the Garter, for the purpose of
investing Prince Frederick William with this distinguished
Order. The Knights of the Garter attending the Chapter
will be her Majesty's guests oaths Coatis, and wig be present
at • grand banquet to be given in honour of the occaska.
On Friday, January 29, her Majesty, the Prinos Consort,
and the royal family, with PrMoe Frederick William and
the PI ;Weill ROTA', will return to town, and be present in
state at the representation at her Majesty's Theatre in the

evening.
On the following day, Jeunary 30, her Majesty will hold
a Drawing Room, at St. James's Palace, for the purism of
receiving congratulations on the happy event.
The departure of their Royal Highnesses is fined for Taw
day, February 2. Their Royal Highnesses will embark at
Gravesend, in her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, and
cross over to Antwerp.
The Duchess of Kent, with the Prince of Leiningen, and
attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Lady Augusta
Bruce, dined with her Majesty yesterday. Also the Porta-
game Minister and Counter de Las :ladle, and Sir James
Clark had the honour of being Included.
The bend of the Soots Fusilier Guards wee in attendance
end played in the Castle during direr.
Her Majesty's private bend performed in the drawing room
the Mowing mulatake :
Overture, " La Part an Diable"
Duo Contestants, " Ls Prophete," piano 1 Rubinstein and
and violin, Meears."Cuelas and Retoinyi J Visurtemps.
Selection, " 11 Seraglio"

The Queen sad Prima Comet, accompanied by the Prin-
ease Royal, walked In the Home Perk this morning.
The Portuguese Minister and Comics; Larradio left the
Castle in the forenoon.
The Marquis of Clanricarde had an audience of her Ma-
jesty to-day.

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—Tickets
for sdrniesion to those parts of Bt. James's Palace to which
spectators will be admitted on the 95th of January are to be
had only at the office of the Lord Chamberlain at St. Jams.ls
Palace.
Her Majesty's state yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, is being repainted end
embelliabed externally and internally for the 'pedal service
of conveying the Princess Royer end the Prince of Fnueio
to Antwerp, en rook to Prussia after their nuptials. She
re ordered to be reedy by the 10th proximo, and she will
after that date proceed from Port/mouth to the Thames. It
I is expected that Gravesend will be the poet of embarkation
for the royal pair, as the length of the yacht will render her
navigation of the short reaches of the Thames above Graves-
end a troublesome teak. It is expected that on the occasion
her Majesty will appoint Captain Denman a commodore of
the Scat class u in the cue of the late Lord Adolphus Fits-
clerence. The engines, fie., of the royal yacht Fairy, Mr.
Welch, master in charge, and the Elfin, Mr. Alfred Balliston,
master in charge, are also being repaired, as they will form
members of the royal squadron. The steam frigates Diadem
and Cusps, 32, Captains Mumma, C. 8., and Mason, and
all other steam ships "available" at the time of the wedding,
will form members of the royal equadren, which will be
commanded in chief by the Hon. Joseph D111:11111. It is ex-
pected that the royal visitors to England from Pruada a the
auepiciou occasion writ be landed at Portsmouth from Peas-
ant,' men-of-war vessels.
" Why," says the Timer, "cram the ceremonial of
the royal marriage into • chapel which does not properly
hold more than 200, though by a portentous squeeze, and at
the cost of treasures of millinery, you may all it up to the
extent of soother hundred or moor Why select for the
procusiona that knot of small courts, corners, and angles
which campmate St. JAMB'S Palace, and which ls about the
most unsuitable and uncongenial scene for • procession that
could be found in London? Why conduct these ceremonials
se Uwe were ashamed of therm, as if we wanted nobody to
see at ?' The marriage of the Princess Royal of England
is a national event ; why should it not be celebrated as such,
Lad the two Banda be joined together, es far as can be, in
the eight of the country ? Why not celebrate it in that edi-
fice which is so associated with the history of English
royalty, which witnesses the crowning of our kings and
queens, and which inspires each deep national recollections
and displays truth memorials of English glory—in Weet-
mummy. Abbey r In that interior thousands, horsed of hun-
dreds, could see the actual ceremony of the marriage. That
would be a great improvement. But, besides the thousands
which could be accommodated in the Abbey, tens of thou-
sands would line the road which would conduct the proces-
sions from the Palace to the Abbey. That would, indeed, be
• national scene. As it is, it looks as if the whole ceremonial
were shut up in a box."
The Duke and Duchess of Ilueclench and family,
who are surrounded by a large family circle at Dowhifl, in-
tend to come to town upon the lath proximo, from Scotland
in order to be present at the nuptials of the Princess Royal
and his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton were to leave
Mos 011 Monday lest, amompankd by their family, for
Rome, for the winter.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Hamilton has returned
to town, from Brighton.
A'iscount and Viscountess Sidney are entertaining
a immeseion of visitors at Frognall Lodge, near Footecray.
The circle will not separate until after Twelfth-night.

The Dowager lady Duckett and Min Makin
Lave arrived at the Qaerees Hotel, Upper Norwood, from

Edward Ellice, Esq., M.P. for Coventry, his eon
Edward Ellice, Leq., M.P. for Bt. Andrew", and Lady and
Colonel Tait, brother of the Bishop of London, &c., have
arrived at Brechin Castle, on a visit to Lord Pmfrouro.
Hie Excellency Ferukh Khan, accompanied by a
numerous suits, and attended by Captain Lynch, returned to
Claridge's Hotel last evening, frontWates. On Tuesday morn-
ing the distinguished party inspected the Menai Suspension-
bridge and the BritaaniaTubular-bridge. Over the l►tter they
were conducted by Mr. J. 0. Binger, manager of the Cheater
end Holyhead Railway, who explained the nature of this
vat mechanical 'fracture, and its enormous proportions.
His excellency acoompaaied Mr. Binger on foot through
the tube.
We (Scotsman) understand that John A. Allen,
Esq., of Errol, km prerented the Rev. Mr. Graham, of
Aberayte, to Ohs church of Errol, vacant by the removal of
the Rm. Mr. Card to Glasgow.
M. Gonzalez Bravo, Spanish Minister at the
court of London, boa arrived at Madrid.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(110 X OCR OWN CORINSPONDINT.)

PARIS. WEDNIZEILT

The Emperor, who has merely had an attack of
influenza, is better. Ho presided this morning at
a ministerial council, and to-morrow he proposes to
go to Fontainebleau, for a day's shooting. He
will return to Paris in the evening, to be ready for
the New Year's-day reception. No day is fixed for
the sitting of the Council of State in the Emperor's
presence to settle the vexed usury question. I
understand that the Emperor himself, M. Baroche,
and M. Ronher, hold very strong opinions in favour
of the Benthamite doctrine, that the price to be
paid for the use of money is a matter of bargain
between borrower and lender with which no law
should interfere. Very great opposition will, how-
ever, be made to this view. M. de l'arien, the Viet-
President of the Council of State, is against it, and
so are most of the great lawyers on the bench,
the clergy also pronouncing strictly against the
abolition of the wary laws.
I am now able to say upon good grounds that the
Isthmus of Suez question is very far off from 'isolation.
The French government agrees that the canal should
not be made unless in pursuance of a convention made
by all the great Powers; and ss it is understood
that England continues to withold her assent to the
project, it may be considered as adjourned sine die.
The Emperor, wishing to pay a tribute to the me-
mory of Alfred de Mutant, has expressed his inten-
tion to pay out of his privy purse for the ground
upon which a monument subscribed for by the
friends and admirers of the deceased poet is to be
erected.
There have been many fluctuations at the Bouts.
to-day ; but, notwithstanding a fall off in Consols
the market evinced a decided upward tendency. The
Renteepened for account at 68fr. 25c., rose 68fr.
and after a great struggle closed at 68fr. 50c. with a rise
of 25c. For cash there was a rise of 50e., the last
price being 68fr. 55e. Mobilier rose 30fr. The
Orleans, Northern, and Eastern Railways rose 10fr,
each ; Southern, 15fr. ; Western, 25fr. ; and Lyons,
3fr. 75e.
M. Cambacres, whose election for the Aisne was
invalidated, on account of a doubt about his age,
has walked over the course on a re-election.
Tholozas, of the Val de Once Hospital, is
going to Teheran, having accepted the appointment
of principal physician to the Shah of Persia, in the
room of the late M. Ernest Cloquet.
It is said by the maurais plaisants that M. de
Morny hopes to be created on new year's-day, Luke
de Nade, (not Node, as the word has been written in
come English journals), and that should he be
' appointed he will be called Duke de Panade.
Mgr. Lucien Bonaparte, who, having been Of-
dained, might be nominated bishop in partibets at
' the next consistory, has for the present, said nob
episcepari in earnest, and his elevation to episcopal
rank is indefinitely postponed.
It was stated some short time back that the go.
vernment was in treaty for the large edifice at
Bourges which belonged to Jacques Cceur, the fa-
mous treasurer of Charles VII., and which is the
meet remarkable edifice in the city ; the purchase
has just been concluded for 800,000 fr. An English
gentleman in Paris is in possession of the conveyance
of this property to the city of Bourges, with the
signature and seal of Colbert attached. He expots
to get I,oooft. for the document from the municipa-
lity.