The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-24 00:00:00

TRI EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1861.

issigeds at royalty wiveioped is crape. Thew followed Mr.
C. Peak M.P. for the bermes ; the mayor, insgietrsees
akkruiete, sad easseillare, sad a large number of the
istatetwate of the tows, who &needed is deep mouraseg.
ihrlue service was alto performed is various churches sad
chapels, when an tams were preached respecting the ems-
tot @vest. The church bells reng maid peals darts. the
triondwis, and altogether the asee was 'Si wide\ bee eel•
door bees witoessedut Nothoghatu. The beaks dosed seta
ase p.m.

NORWICH, Iloximr.

Thu funeral of the late Priuco Consort was ob-
served here this more* with mach *otiosity, a egesial
servim being held at the cathedral, which ins attended by
the Mayor sad Tows Catacil, the Hi/taint:dee. sad cam
local fuectaseriee, w►il. the volunteers of the city and
netribbourbood also Mused in the general espremirm of grid.
The shop were almost all closed, sad the whole city rei-
dined is its insterial mopeds the sincere sorrow which the
late moareful wrest has elicited in every breast. The ser-
vice ins apponated to conuesees at It am., but from a
much earlier pined the doors of the cathedral were besieged
with eseer crowds, who having—after much patient es-

durance- -obtained an entrance into the venerable fabric,
were for the most part accommodated in the galleries Over.
looking the cbuir, which was set apart foe the volunteers.
Three last searched with the town council and civic mi-
mic* from the Guildhall, their Gov lurid playing the "Dead
March" in Serf as they entered the cathedral, the moura-
ful strains reverberating solemnly through the Wog-drawn
nave, while the &demo Dotes were afterwards taken up by
the organ. The uniform of the Norwich Volunteers 1 a
dark grey with black facies& and as they entered and took
their places (to the number of MO) in the choir, the affect
produced harmonised well with the ocamion. They were
preceded by the Norfolk Xseated Corps, whose gay scarlet
rebored the otherwise sombre trim; sad a few of the
Yarmouth Artillery Corps were she pmeset.
A few =Motes after II the smoke eamineamd, the lames
and prayers being read by the Hos. and Very Nev. the
Dean of Norwich and the Nev. Oases Heaviside. The
whole service was of a penitential seed mournful oast, the
only musical portion' being the tethers "How are the
mighty feller !" (Handel) and a pastel vivification of the
90th halm, "Lord, thou haft been fly people's rent."
Huth were admirably given, the sake having especially
very pleasing effect. At the aloes if morning prayer, the
Litany being omitted, the Bishop of Norwich amended the
pulpit and delivered an impressive discourse from Ukiah vi.,,
v. 1 —" The Lonl's voice crieth unto the city, sod the mat
el wisdom shall see thy name : hear ye the rod, sad who
bath appointed it."

At the close of the sermon, which eras listened to Tie
much attentios, the procession of municipal celebrities wee
reformed, sad passed out of the cathedral as it bad entre&
by the groat west door, the volunteers forming a guard ad
honour °ninths, aide.

CAMBRIDGE, II °Kura.
The shops and public institutions here Lave been
universally dosed throughout the day, and there have UM
special awry Was at several of the cburebee. The corporation,
Mr. AMennea Manley sillatatiag as deputy.mayor, &Maeda
Bs. Maryle4ho-Lerg, whore a ammo§ wee preacbed by the
wares dr** the is. J. 0. Hoene. Y esisrday (Sun-
day), lb. " Deed Marsh; in Seel, mad this Handers
wan% " The trumpet dall mead, and the dead shall be
usised." wan entemaly pirearseed at 'Malty Oallsge Chapel
Temiay thane wee special awoke at Ling* and the crowd
ma, if powilds, s1&B pea. then at N. Hwy's. The nail.
sal minima nes fumes la 0, the Dud Eseeli" is Sind,
and Hordes foam' .Mhos, " Wks ton ME based bin."
Thenessbeis ',the oar esseasdlissisehes es the ealisise.
_ _

Tray, at LI% the let wed SW Ombridgeohin (Towe)
Ark carps paraded re the Iforket-bill, awl the bawl el the
atie haw* performed the "Dead Me r' L /IA
the two corps peasseded to Greet fft. Meek
where as appropriate woos ww mashed by
the Am Dr. Jilin* Of Trinity College, relies proles
oar d illy laity. Tice Waive moiled was neprlcedeatak
awl w. wend Wildly by the nelawbely acclaim sad the
whierily of the preaoher. Oa the threw IMO the vi e&
shamble (Dr. M M.. 1 gem. Oallope). the mikes of
• Obrielre. Jim. ill Peter's, Triaity Balk Clete,
lhowlerele• Owpes Whew the provost of Lag's. sad
• weether el redeems mad doctors. The pit of
the sine, the gellerle• sad pews were all
lemely wed. sad Madre& wow limy usable
to obtain wassierea. Ihech 111.40 the crowd, iodeed, tkot it
was lA* Ellieeity the Irwin Bedell, with his mere veiled
le reaps. meld mete way tar the mewed mach.' up th•
body el las elsorelb. The seines nalsisiasi
astwtarfrogabi tie ages arwill, we aril imprireive.
The prehater teak hk tout trim ILChrisisks we, het part
of do 24th roue, 6' Lad .1 halt and Jinni= Emma
for Jelail."

Maid peals will le nag at IL Mrla ad &Mt Aa-
dram's ale emalag, sad lie bawd of law Cambridge Velar.
aity Ulla mill play dm " Dead lima,* is Said, by trieek-
liglit impede, the Wale Baum

CANTERBURY, Nonoar.
A Mame feeling of sympathy for our bereaved
Qum peewit I. this chq, sad is entwantly mediated in
the swabs attire of the pent hulk of its laisalitesta To-
elm hem dem, tall two, Wipe vs. steepeided,' and the
pees hi M the Cathode* Itsilsd laseseandy, end everything
appland EA and metweeltely. A spedel service was psi,
lemned at tk. Ombeist, whither went the mayor sad
aerseestism sea s met us_.. of elthess, the satire
Whin Meg aremated in sway pest. The Tay Rev.
Dim MAW proaisil es stemest eel inpesalve swags
hem the 37th verse et the llth eiteper of flt. Jelme—"Ad
rum at them said, email est this esea, whisk opened the
eyes of the tilled, have mired that even this ma Amid
ass twee died!"

DUBY, iOIIDAT.
The day of the funeral of his lists Royal Highness
the Prior Cowart wee observed at Darby Is a very appro-
priate moaner. The Mayor had Weed • Miss requesting
the trademnes of the tows to ekes their shape from 10 me.
no Morley until 1 p.m., and hie worship's suggestion was
strictly complied with: appearance Of till Wink Wag
°I "tae Al 00 Roods, s. At $ o'clock intlie morniegmunled
ininute bells burr to toll from every church tower, thin
reminding the ialialitants of the sad eniremosy about to take
place. At 10 o'clock the four Derby Comprise of Voles-
teen &rambled in the Market-place. At a quarter to
11 o'clock the proceesion moved from the Town-hall to the
park thank of AU Sainte, where a special sorra was held.
Aloft the lice of route from the Towo-bell to the church
there was an immeom ressablage of epestators, a very
large proportion of wheat were in deep 'mourning, mad
whose decorous conduct was in strict keeping with the
melancholy occasion. AU Marta' Church, which had been
very beautifully and appropriately draped for the moo vies,
was crowded is every pert, sad the service was a swot
poleaxe use, and peculiarly adapted for the twession. No
anthem WU sung. Out the &sir (limited De Prof media.
The incumbent read prayers, sad afterwards preashed, the
meteor of his discourse being token from the opening sew
Isom to tie service for the burial of the dead, as re-
tool...a in the 11th chapter of the Gospel according to St.
John, and the Lith and 2tith verses.

The bells of the diffrent churches continued tolling until
• late hour in the afternoon. The working classes observed
the day as strictly as others, the daily stalls in the market
being abandoned, and there waa scarcely an artisan who
did nut wear some emblem of mourning.

VOIrNMOUTH, MONDAY.
To-day has, so far as outward appearances
coseerned, bees a ley of game weentistg. Der
tog port of the day seedy every plass of brim= was
completely elcoed, end in the bank streets ea well as the
priscipel busmen thormighferes, the tokens of mourning
were every ehere etlnbited. Ilex Ye}sety's request WIN
Aridly complied with, sad so fuse have bees Eyed during
the Jay.

WOOLWICH. MONDAY.
Iu acoonlanoe with orders minute guns were
fired Ibis afternoon during two holm, by a battery of
loyal Artillery at the prriace, and treat the Fiwned flag.
skip at the dockyard, is eorequeoce of the funeral of his
keys' illigkans the late Prince Comport. The Snit thirty
gees ewe fired by Use Royal Artillery ; the second thirty,
by the imam of the Piped ; awl the trios dunng t►e
meted beet was conducted in the same altersate master.
teerksaen at the several goyeroment diminution woes
sintieyed as wool, ou soonest of the urgent &mad he
Yon tondos. ; but is the tows of Woolwich the shops
we goserally chord, awl this *eosin the bells of Übe old
pate &web nag s said pee/

CHATHAM, MONDAY.
This day has been observed as ono of real mourn-
* hy all claeeee to Clutha's sad the adjoisiog city of
Bean tor, and the utinuat respect has toss mid to tho

romory of Ida late Royal Highona Iloatitoo Omak
As nod se the bogs salablohnomta below Ira bus 11111•

tWf wmpendsd tie whole day. aid elisegli ions Itrw
shops partially epeeed in the morning, wary asp is the
lowa, without a single esesptioa, was entirely eland ham
11 as till 2 p.m. At the prrison only a few nmemany
pander of the troops were held. By direetian of Major-
Genewal Eyre minute gees were and fan the Cornwallis
tottery sal the Wellesley, 74, from 3 p.m. until soasst.
All the government seteblishmente, with the exception el

the dockyard, were either entirely or partially closed
t►roughout the day. It had been intended for the Mayer
wed Corporation of Rochester to bays attended the cathedral
in state had there been a special funeral service, as at most
ether cathedrals, bet the Mayor was informed that such
would not be the ow. During the day the great ben of
the cathedral tolled at intervals, and from sax to saves this
evening. The most poignant regret is felt for the death of
the estimable Prises by all deems, and the mourning for hie
late Royal Highness is emeedingir pwral.

The day was observed with similar solemnity
is Dublin. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, and in fact
i• most, if sot all, of the proviscial towns is Engliarl.

As address of condolence with her Majesty was agreed to
at a meeting of the Benatus Academicus of the University
of Edinburgh on Saturday.
At an intrsonlioary meetleg of the Royal College of
Physiciaos of Edinburgh., held in their ball ou Friday, the
20411 December, Dr. Craigie, President, in the chair,
it was anaaimenaly weed to present to her Majesty an
Weise of sympathy and condolence upoo the occasion of
the bereavement which her Majesty and the royal family
hare sustained th the death of she Prince Consort.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 24.

THE despatch which M. Tnocrvnua has ad-
dressed to the French Minister at Washington is
one the importance of which appears at a glance.
Whether regarded as an exposition of law or a
declaration of sentiment it is one from which the
mast weighty consequences may reasonably be ex-
pected. Bearing date only three days after the
instructions from her Mailmen Government under
which Lord LYONS has demanded the release of
masers. MASON and Swum., it should have &e-
-1 rived in ample time to form a serious element in
the deliberations of the American Government
upon that demand which it so energetically
supports.

M. Titoevsnat's statement of public law in
its applicability to the boarding of the Trent is
most luminous and complete. He introduces no
new points, nor does he confirm the position he
takes up by any new arguments. But his de-
spatch, conveying as it does the deliberate opinion
of a disinterested Government, and that one a
Government of the very first in the order of intel-
lectual and political rank, supplies the one thing—
authority—that was wanting to the English case
as king as it rested on the opinion of English
lawyers. We are aware that exception may
be taken to this language ; we know that
there are writers prepared to maintain that
the decision of the plaintiff's counsel
readers that of the judge impertinent. "Let us
" try our own case" is advice which within the
pest week has been addressed to the nation, and
the suggestion that our claims upon the Cabinet of
Washington could derive strength from the recog-
nition of a third party has been at one time treated
with contempt, and at another resented as an
insult. We shall be curious to see what room this
supposition leaves for the acknowledgment of that
legal and moral support which the French Govern-
ment has undoubtedly given by this despatch to
the application presented by Lord Lyon's.
The Times declares its anxiety to know what
the advocates of arbitration will say to this French
decision on the legal questions connected with the
i boarding of the Trent. We have no exclusive
title ici WNW' for them ; but we think we
Sr. in a position to form a tolerably cor-
rect opinion. What they would say, if the
assumptions of their opponent. were correct,
if—as has often been asserted—they were indif-
ferent to the dignity of the British Government—
connivers at lawless and violent acts--Epicureans,

. - -
cowards, lovers of peace at any price--ever against
their country, right or wrong—it is not for us to
imagine. What they will say is, we think, pretty
clear. They will say that whatever takes the
question between England and America out of the
region of sentiment sad passion, and places it upon
the social ground of prescriptive obligation and
duty, must be so far good ; they will hail with
profound satisfaction the testimony of a neighbour-
ing and rival Government that their country has
In this matter beau in the right ; and they will
rejoice to believe that, by the act of the French
Government, the law has received an accession
of moral force which ought to make its authority
irresistible at Washington. They will see in M.
Tnouveirees despatch a powerful means to the
end which they have uniformly pursued—peace
and the honour of their country.
M. THOUVIINEL, it will be seen, not only lays
down the rules of public law bearing upon the
case, he also applies them. The case is
OD clear, he says, that tho Cabinet of
Washington cannot hesitate as to the
course to be taken. The American Government,
he declares, would bs acting in obedience to a
just and worthy sentiment in releasing Messrs.
Mssox and Smear., and in giving such explana-
tions as shall take its offensive character from the
act of Captain Wrutss. M. Tuouvarrea appeals
to the interests of the Federal Government, and
observes that it has no object to gain by provoking
a rupture with Great Britain. Tho French Go-
veniment would see in such a breach of friend-
ship a most deplorable complication of the diffi-
culties with which the Cabinet of Washington has
already to contend ; and it is in the spirit of true
friendahip that it thus declares its, opinion. De-
clarations so friendly must have immense weight
at Washington ; and, aided by the good advice
which eminent Americans in this country and in
France have sent home, by the personal presence

sad representations of General Scar; and by the
discussion of the sound portion of the New York
preen, they will greatly strengthen the hands of
Mr. Ltswout.

This French despatch presents the Emperor
Exzoiroir in a novel character, that of a peace-
maker. We confess we are partial to this now
aspect of his MAJZSTT, and shall be happy to
have occasions for renewing our applause. The
spirit in which M. THOVVENXI:I3 despatch is con-
ceived is unexceptionable. There is no affectation

of a virtual intervention, which would not have been
admissible in form. The French Government
strictly confines itself to its own ground, while its
objects are neighbourly, humane, and universal.
In England this message sent from Paris to Wash-
ington will be accepted as an act of friendship,
and when the perturbations and excitement of
the present hour have passed away it will be
regarded with similar satisfaction in the United
States.

Tuns is a popular medical theory which
teaches that disease is the salutary effort of nature
to expel from the system the engendered poisons
whom retention in the vital organs would be
hostile to life. Aooording to this doctrine, fevers,
gout, or measles are but examples of the via
medicatrix which is ever casting to the surface and
eliminating from the blood the noxious humours
whose internal operation would prove quickly fatal.
If, without fear of an appeal of heresy, we may
venture to liken a great city to a "colossal man,"
we may suggest the resemblance to some such
process offered by the recent history of this
metropolis. Twenty years ago it was be-
coming half suffocated with its own obesity,
and the huge carcase was half poisoned by the
working of its own functions. The daily pulsa-
tions of that tide, which should have carried
health and purity through its heart, were becom-
ing the agencies by which disease was kept fester-
ing within the body. The very food on which
existence depended was so gorged in narrow ducts
as to become often unwholesome and always a
source of danger. The extremity of the suffering
brought about at length a crisis and relief. Now,
railways have removed, by depletion, the more
pressing symptoms of suffocation. The Thames is
in course of being purified, the sewer system has
been enlarged and extended beyond the limits of
the town, and the great cattle market has been trans-
ferred from the crowded neighbourhood of Smith-
field to the free air and open room of Copenhagen-
fields. By improvements such as these the health
and comfort of the City have no doubt immensely
benefited. But there are still within it some
gangrenous spots, and while we wait to see the
success of the efforts to cleanse it from its refuse,
we may profitably use the interval in completing
the arrangements by which its food is provided
and assimilated.
First for consideration comes the removal of
the Newgate Dead Meat Market. Here, under
the immediate shadow of St. Paul's, unchanged in
aught since the rebuilding of London after the
Great Fire of well nigh two centuries past, is still
the great slaughterhouse and meat sale-room of the
capital. Within its narrow passages and courts
more than twenty millions of pounds of meat
annually change hands. Each market-morning
butcher.' carts which may be counted by the thou-
sand choke up the avenues by which it is
approached. While it remains the removal of the
market from Smithfield is shorn of half its benefits,
and, indeed, in some respects actually has proved
an injury. In 1860, therefore, Parliament, after
• great deal of oonsideration, authorised the ap-
propriation of part of the site of Smithfield for
the erection of buildings end the laying out of
approaches for a dead meat market OOMMOIIIIII-
- with the requirements of the metropo-
lis. By lines of railway already projected
it was intended to connect the new dead-
market with the live market at Islington.
It was provided that these lines should have a
terminus excavated below the site of the new
building itself, so as to form no Impediment to
the circulation in the neighbouring streets, and to
permit the meat to be raised at once to the stalls
on which it should be exposed for sale. The
carrying out of the scheme was entrusted to the
Corporation of London. That body seems, how-
ever, not to be pressed by any anxiety to expedite
the completion of its duties. Nearly eighteen
months have elapsed since the Act was passed, and
only within the last few days has the Committee
to which the matter was referred made a preli-
minary report, accompanied with some tenta-
tive plans, which seem not to have
been very favourably reosived. It would
appear, moreover, that even before these plans
could be executed application must be made to
Parliament for an alteration of part of the Act
under which the Corporation holds its powers.
At this rate of progress it will be half-a-dozen
years before we eau expect to see any real pro-
gress made, if indeed Newgate Market shall not
still be found, at the next decennial International
Exhibition, one of them shows of London in
which we shall still invite our foreign visitors to
marvel under what extraordinary difficulties we
prefer to conduct our business.
Since, however, sooner or later, Newgate is to
be dismarketed in favour of more commodious
premises, we may hope that at the same time
power will be sought from Parliament to put
an end to certain nuisances of a similar
nature which are scattered over the town.
These consist in the private slaughter-houses
which are still legal, and which very many butchers
still keep in close proximity to their shops. It
needs not that we enter into revolting details to
prove that such establishments are in every way
objectionable, that the driving of beasts through
the thoroughfares is at once dangerous to the pub-
lic and injurious to the quality of the meat, that
the forcing the poor animals into dens reeking
with blood and filth is • process of gross and
needless cruelty, that the effluvia from places so
used cannot be otherwise than hurtful to the
neighbourhood—or that the carting away of the
skins, bones, and intestines forms an offensive ad-
dition to the already overwhelming traffic of the
streets. All these evils are sufficiently notorious
to Londoners, and custom only makes them for a
moment endurable. But they might be remedied
in London, as they are already in the best
regulated towns in this country and abroad, by re-
quiring that butchers shall only use for such pur-
poses public abattoirs, situated in some convenient
locality and subjected to official inspection.
Already, indeed, means have been reserved for the
adjunct of such conveniences to the Islington
Cattle-market. Five acres of land, we learn from
the report of the Corporation Committee, have
there been set apart for the erection of public and
private slaughterhouses, with every provision for
cleanliness, for ease of access, and for facility of
removal of meat and offal. But it would seem
from the limited demand for the space thus ap-
propriated that while its use is left optional
private slaughterhouses will not disappear from
the moat populous parts of the capital.
The nuisance, however, is one which cannot
be longer submitted to, and which Parliament may

be legitimately invoked to abate. There sin be
very little, if any, plea of vested interests raised
in opposition. The present private slaughter-
houses would be equally valuable for some other
purpose, and the trade would profit from the im-
proved quality of the meat as well as from the
saving of expense in removing the offal. We trust
the Corporation, if they must apply for further
powers ere Newgate Market and its slaughter-
houses be finally abolished, will use the opportu-
nity to enforce the carrying out of this most need
ful further improvement at the earliest possible
date. The public health, convenience, and
decency, not to speak of considerations of humanity,
demand the immediate abolition of the present
barbarous and revolting system.