The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-25 00:00:00

(Stamped, id. Additional) [T WOPE NCE .

P tion in the harbour has been tolerated by the authorities of
the state, and while the act of which you complain u in
perfect consistency with the rights and duties of the state,
it is not perceived how far the conduct you propose to
adopt can find a parallel in the history of any country, or
be reconciled with any other purpose than that of your
government imposing on the state the condition of a con-
quered province. F. W. nectars.
SECOND COMMUNICATION FROM MAJOR ANDIRNON.
To his Fhicellency Governor Pickens.
_

Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your communication, and say that, under the circumstances,
I have deemed it proper to refer the whole matter to my
government, and intend deferring the course I indicated in
my note this morning until the arrival from Washington of
such instructions us I may receive. I have the honour,
also, to express the hope that no obstructioas will be pissed
in the way, and that you will do me the favour of giving
every facility for the departure and return of the bearer,
Lieut. 1). Talbot, who is directed to make the journey.

ROBERT ANDEMO- N.

Governor Pickens immediately granted the permission
desired, and directed Lieutenant Talbot to have every fa-
talky and courtesy extended to him, as bearer of despatches
to the United States government, both in going and re-
turning.

The steamship Marion had been seized by the
government of South Carolina for state's service.
The following are the latest despatches :

Oumuzsros, J.tx. 10.

Despatches noting that the Dallied *fates sloop of war,
Droaidyn, is coming here with an armed force, create the
most intone excitement. Great preparations are being
made in the harbour to receive her.

A large steamer called the Marion, of the Charleston and
New York line, bas been purchased by South Carolina,
and ordered to be reseed for • man-of-war. Her upper
cabin is to be taken off, and she is to be supplied with a
complete armament.
The buoys in the harbour have been removed.
The Brooklyn will be fired into. Fort Sumter will then
open on the South Carolina fortifixtions, and the fight will
become general.
The people are preparing for it, and for the worst.

The itroOklyn cannot come in without a great fight.
Major Anderson will inotect her. He only Fledged him-
self not to prevent communication between the South Caro-
lina forts until Lieutenant Talbott came back.

A steam tug caller! the Aid left the wharf to-night for
the purpose of reconnoitring. She is mounted with one
gun, and is under the command of Lieutenant Hamilton,
formerly of the Federal Navy.
There is much talk of sending to Savannah for tug-boats,
to take the place of gunboats.

ALBANY, Jai. 10.

The news of the attack upon the Star of the West created
great feeling in this city. But one opinion is expressed,
and that is for immediate action on the part of the govern-
ment to maintain the Union at all bawds.

A despatch from Washington was posted in the
Exchange Room at Boston, on the 11th, stating
that the government is determined to reinforce
Major Anderson, if Charleston is destroyed in con-
sequence.

A despatch from New York says, "The steamship
line between that port and Charleston has been
abandoned, in consequence of the seizure of the
steamer Marion."

A Charleston despatch of the 11th (the latest
received), says "Thu excitement here has some-
what abated in consequence of the pacific news
from Washington. Enlistments continue quietly."
The money market was abundantly supplied, and
loans on mill were easily negotiated at 4 to 6 per
cent. ; prime short paper was taken at 6to 8 per
cent.

REFORMATORY CONFERENCE AT
BIRMINGHAM.

BIRMLSOHAM, THURSDAY.

Last evenings meeting was bald in the Town
hall, in connexion with the conference reported in theme
columns this morning. The hall was crowded. The
Mayor presided ; and amongst those present were the Earl
of Shrewsbury, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Ingestre, Mr.
Scholefield, M.P., Mr. U. I). Hill, Q.C., the Rev. Dr.
Miller, Mr. Charles Retold!, Hon. Secretary, &c.

In the course of some remarks at the close of the after-
noon conference, Lind LYTTEtTON said—lid could not feel
the force of the objection raised to these grants by his able
relative, Mr. Gladstone, because he did not think that the
expense of the present system of *dualities weighed at all
inconveniently on the taxation of the country • and, in feat,
his own opinion was, that the country could pay • great
deal more for • more satisfactory system. (Hear, hear.)
He was a friend to the present system in its general: prin-
ciples, but he hoped that the result of the present investi-
gation of the question by a royal commission would
. be a decided improvement its detail. (Hear, hear.)
Having adverted to the fact that the discussion that day had
been confined to one particular clam of education, and re-
marked that he trusted the whole question of national edu-
cation would thereby be opened up, his lordship went on to
enforce the necessity of raising and enlightening the lower
classes. It was, he said, impossible to look at the state of
the world—particularly of America—and not feel that a
time was coming when the principles of self-denial sod
fortitude, and intellectual observation, would have to be ex.
ercised by all dampest especially that class to which he
had alluded. Arid this being so, it was impossible to shut
their eyes to the corresponding neemaity which was arising
for education. (Applause.)
The evening fleeting having been opened with • few re-
marks by the Id/twit,
Dr. Gurnate addressed the meeting, narrating some in-
teresting anecdotes. You can never (he said) make men good
by punishment. The Gospel is not &Gospel of punishment ; it
advocates no forcing system ; but • system of love, and not of
punishment. And whet does any wime Christian do with his
family ? Does he for eves keep the whip cracking over the
heads of his children ? He may punish—and punishment
in due measure I believe in : but d a lather is to have an
obedient family be must mingle with punishment u large
111011111 re of loving kindness. (Cheers.) And do you think
to make these poor children obedient by punishing them in
Uslll face of God's Gospel! Believe me it is a failure.
(Hear, hear.) Now we do not wish to go to the govern.
ment and ask them to educate our children. If the govern-
ment said to me, " We will pay you the 2,2001. that you
spend on your Ragged Schools in Edinburgh, on condi-
tion that you will baud the schools over to us," I
would answer, "Keep your money." (Cheers.) The
power lies in the Christian kindness we blew to work on
these infanta, and what we say to you is this—if you don't
help to educate these children without the prison you must
educate them within the prison. (Hear, hear.) I. it •
better thing to let disease rage anal ravage in • com-
munity, and to cure it afterwards, than to prevent it enter-
irg into the community! (Hear, hear.) But this is the
government way in these days. It is a grand thing to give
a man the fever and then to cure him ; hut it is better to
drain and cleanse the town and prevent the fever from
coming. (Applause.) Think of the government refusing
money to save • man's leg, but giving him money Unto,'
to buy • wooden leg when the limb is cut off. (laughter
and cheers.) The government give much more to the re-
formatory schools than to the ragged schools. They give
much more to those who cry out for reformatories than to
those who demand prevention. (Hear, hear.) That may
be very agreeable to your English notions, but in Scotland
we think prevention is better than cure. (Laughter.) And
not only this, the government give 1,200,0001. a year for
education. How much of that goes to ragged schools!
Oh, some say, government is • sensible body,
and your ragged schools, as far as schools go, get
an immense proportion. What is that proportion ?
Why they put us off with a misers.' le pittance of 5,0001.
out of this 1.200,00 W., to save these wretched children.
(Applause.) They give to every inmate of the reformatory
schools Is. each per day, and to every child in the ragged
schools • coin which does not happen to exist, so small is it
in amount—(laughter}--they give to every ragged school
child half • farthing. (Laughter and applause.) I never
heard the like of this. It is the most extraordinary thing
ever done. I would not quarrel with it only that the go-
vernment give burnoose sums of money to those who are
perfectly able to educate their own children. (Cheers.)
Well, then, to come to the third resolution of this morn-
ing, it was moved by Dr. Miller and seconded by Lord
Ingestre, and it,is as follows :—" That the experience of the
List eighteen years has proved that this portiou of the
population is reached in many district. to a considerable ex-
tent, and can be effectually raised by ragged anal industrial
schools; but that schools of this clads, wl.ich, to be
good, involve much pewter expenditure than ordinary
schools, cannot be permanently supported in the required
effleinicy, or extended to all the districts requiring them
by voluntary aid alone." Now, as regards voluntary aid
we have done much by it ; and in Edinburgh we have done
great deal ; but all we have done in that city leaves us
in this puntioa, that large numbers of children ore Irvin;
there who should he in ragged schools, who would be there
only we haven't the money to pay fur them. Look at the

case of a poor wretched woman— she is neither a criminal
nor has she been in gaol ; she has been and is struggling
hard for her daily bread ; and what is rho to do to educate
her children' Some people talk nonsense, and say if you
ro on feeding as well as teadans you will soon have all the
ragged children in the town in your schools. Well, the
mother doesn't care a 'tray for education • the father cares
for nothing but that cursed bottle ; and he sinks his soul
in drink, and so does the mother. We have bad the ease
over and over again. There is the
vagrant and there the
parents."We want you to send the child to school." "Oh,
but we can't afford it." And so the child is kept at home, and
is sent out to steal and to beg, and the father and
mother live on the promeds of the beggary and
thievery. (Hear, hear.) The consequenia 114 that
we have the greatest difficulty in getting children to come
to school, and unless we bridge over the gulf by bread
nothing can be done. Accordingly we have set up schools.
The children come at seven in the morning—and come in
rags and not in decent clothes, for that wouldn't do ; they
would rto the pawn-shop too soon. (Hear, hear.) The
first thing they do is to strip—not to be thrashed--(laugh.
ter)--but washed ; sod we have a loos bath as long as this
gallery, and we make them march elm it as slow as if
they were attending a funeral, and the asmesquenos is that
they get what many people are fools enspall not to get, a
delightful bath. (Hear, hear.) What somas after the bath?
Some of you are, I dare se Sootehmea, and will trader.
stand me. They get a grand of paid,' and milk.
(Laughter and applause.) Then comae prayer, and
a portion of the Scripture is read ; Uses the work of
the school begins, and occupies four hours of the day ;
the children learn to read, and to write, and to cipher
and they learn carpentering, and boxinaking, and shoe.
making. (Hear beer.) Why all our girls wash their own
clothes and mesa them, and clean up the house, and cook
their own food. (Hear, hear.) The fact's I believe they
would make better wises for the workman thee marl
woman with km ribbess in her bonnet(Cheraw )
many of the boys make the clothes for our school, and
mend them, and a. large number of them employ their time
inimaking vatic:au'other useful articles. Then we have so
many boon for play. In fact, the chiklres were the pic-
tures of misery before they came to the school; now there
are no children happier. (Chem) They come to us at
half-pad saves in the morning, and at half-past seven at
night we take otf their school dress and give them back
their rag!, rod they go home—and the rags are not worth
the pawning. (Loud applause.) We never keep a child
from home unison the house is an infamous den of iniquity or
the parents cruel ; we know that in the bosom of the child,
worthless as the parents may be, God has planted a link of
affection, and what we want to do is to improve and
strengthen that tie—(mar, hear)—tied we have known
instances where these poor children have even carried sal.
vation to their homes. (Cheers.) Bet all this, ladies and •
gentlemen, requires e we mud feed sad we must
clothe them—it entail the expense of teaching, sod of
housing a few of them, and I my that they deserve this
fostering care—they deserve the most fostering protection
and help of the government (Cheers.) And now I come
to the last of these resolutions. But you will very naturally
say, "You have told us what these ragged hors do in
school ; now tell us what they do out of school." Well,
they just get on as well out of school as they do in—they
get on hi a way we never expected. We fancied that we
might get some fifty out of every hundred that would do
I well—Weld, we should have been very thankful to
have laved fifteen out of every hundred who might
otherwise have been criminals—but in place of that we got
—why, I will just take you down to Edinburgh with me
to-morrow by train—l will show you as respectable boot-
makers and shoemakers, and carpenters and boxinaken,
sad shopmen and clerks—l will show you as r spectable
men and women, who have come out of our ragged malteds
as _you will find in any class of the community. (Cheers.)
I'll tell you, now. M%en they were getting up banquets
to the soldiers of the Crimea, and to all the mad members
of parliament, we thought we'd give a banquet to our
ragged bairns, who bad fought as great a battle as any Cri-
mean soldier, and far harder too. (Applause.) All of a
sadden the thing was resolved on ; all- of a amides the
the thing was done. We have them, you know—these
ragged school scholars that were—cutting down the forests
in America ; we have them healing sheep in Anatolia • we
have them in the navy ; and—what dye think?—here
was an odd thing iu this way—we had a competition
among boys in the navy, and the togged school boys
carried of the highest prise. (Cheers.) We have them in
the army, too. Just the other da I had in my drawing
room one of my ragged school scholars. " What was he
doing there? you ask. Well, he was just standing beside
a very pretty sirl—ilaughteri—dressed like a duchess, with
an monotone crinoline„ and all that. (Laughter. ) There
he was ; and on his breast he carried three medals. (Cheers.)
He bad fought the battles of his country in the Crimea ; he
had gone up the deadly march to Lucknow, and rescued the
women and the children and our soldiers there—(cheers)—
and I was proud of my ragged school boy when I Bair him
with his honours. (Renewed cheering.) Well, as I mad, we
resolved to give aha uet ; we furnished one of oat bad,
nom, maul and it with gas, and laurel, sad ivy,
and the seral-beaded holly—and the quantity o( tea and
toast! It isn't to be told. (Laughter and cheers.) We Jost
sent away through Edinburgh, and in a day we got 154 all
doing for themselves. I was master of the ceremonies. So
I heard a great rush of feet-1 was standing et the door,
you know, to receive my company—and I could not be-
lieve my eyes when I saw the succession of good-looking
respectable young men, and the succession of comely, vir-
tuous-looking happy young women. (Clean.) A girl
up smiling, and she said, ' You will remember use to Dr.
Guthrie ; this is my man"—(laughter)—and then a great,
big, honest-looking, burly fellow came up, and he said,
You will remember me, doctor ; this is my wife." (Re-
newed laughter.) And they filled that room. I never saw
a more respectable company. And how they laughed and
sung, and we prayed too—we prayed. and we gave them
advice. (Cheers.) I never spent a happier night—
no, not in the greateet, noblest house I ever was in—than I
spent when I entertained my ragged school children. (Ap-
plause.) Well, that is what we have done; and what we
have dune in Edinburgh has been done in every town in
Scotland.

The inTioceedizg speakers were Mr. Scholelleld, M.P., Mr.
M. I). Hill, Q. C. Dr. Miller, Mr. W. floskyns, Dr. Morison.
and Lord Lyttelecin.
After speaking in the most eukiistic terms of the
paper reed at the conference by Miss Carpenter, Dr.
Miller said he hoped that when this subject was brought
before the House of Commons it would be moved that
every member of the house should be compelled to read that
piper, and be obliged to lay his hand upon his breast and
my so before he voted. (Laughter and cheers.)

FATAL Bon en EX PLOSION.—On Tuesday eren-
lag, a terrific boiler explosion happened at the Cockahut
Colliery, near Wolverbamptos, belonging to Messrs. Aston
and Shaw. This is the second fatal boiler explosion which
has occurred at the acme colliery within nine days. In
, this case, as in the previous one, the boiler was used to
work a pumping eugine. The boiler hail been cleaned out
during the day, under the direction of the managing en-
gineer. It had either been again set to work, or preparation
was being inside to set it to work, when it exploded. Elwell,
the engineer, was then in the hovel, which was built
up against the boiler ; and there was with him John
Legge, the eegineman, who had just taken charge of the
engine and boilers from John Evans, the day engineman.
The boiler, which is supposed to have weighed about five
tons, was rent into two portions, one of which was about
tons. These pieces, after being thrown about aK
feet or :10 feet in the air, fell in opposite directions
each about 2(10 yards from the original seat, and the hovel
WWI laid in ruins, and Elwell and Legge, in addition to being
fearfully crushed in the debris, were for some time subjected
to streams of hot water and steam which flowed upon them
from the holler which stood by the side of the exploded
one. Elwell was found dead, standing up :ig.sinst the fire-
place, and Legge sitting down at the opposite end of the
building. Legge was taken to the South Staffordshire
Hospital, but died within an hour after his admission.
Evans who was leaving the place at the moment the explo-
sion took place, was severely scalded, but he is expected to
recover. The stack has been dedroyed, and the engine-
house is a comparative wreck. Au examination of the
boiler leads to the opinion that the plates had become red
hot or nearly so, from a deficiency of water ; and a close
observation reveals a hidden seam rent. Mr. Baker, the
government inspector of mines, has been at the colliery, ex•
amiug all the boilers and engines there, assisted by Mr.
Wright. The inspectiou showed that some of the ap-
pliances were of a most primitive and dangerous character,
soil that the men who lied the engines in charge were
lamentably ignorant of the duties they had undertakes to
perform.
_ _

THE SALT TRADE OF THE MERSEY.—Thee rvat
incoavenienoe which has been inflicted upon the commerce
of the Mersey, consequent upon the negligence and apathy
of the River Weaver Trustees during the Late feed, was
yesterday (Thursday) again brought before the Mersey Dock
Board by Mr. Boult, who presented a memos is) on the
subject from the captains of vessels carrying .alt cargoes to
Bombay, Qilcutta, and other ports. Mr. Boult agaiu urged
upon the board the advisability of their taking prompt
steps in the matter, as it was of gre iat ntere4 to the
Birkenhead Dock estate. The Chan-moo said the board
amid not well interfere in parliamentary matters con-
nected with the River Weaver, led they would forward the
memorial to the River Weaver Trustees and the Board of
Trade.
THE CONNTRUCTIoN OF THE BIRKENHEAD Doexg,
—The present condition of the Birkenhead Dock works
elicited energetic complaints at the meeting of the Mersey
Dock Board yesterday (Thursday) from Mr. John latC
who said that the works were proceeding very slowly, the
quays were dovenly managed and dirty, and not Dearly so
well looked after as those of LiverpooL The Chairman and
various menders of the Works Committee said that the
faults complained of arose from mistakes connected with
the docks before they came under the control of the board,
and considering the magnitude rind variety of the works'
it ICUworks, at present impossible for them to bees satisfactorily
mana;ed am the docks on the other side of the river.

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THEGE are no doubt periods at which a paper-
knife or a penwiper of tolerably ingenious construc-
tion might till the office of Cabinet Minister.
But the present is not one of these periods.
Every Minister has enough to tax his powers, and
Sir eII•ItLEA Wool" in particular has been selected
for a post of surpassing responsibility. He is the
Dictator of India—practically the absolute master
of many millions of Eastern people and many
thousand Europeans—and that just after the most
funiiidable revolt which ever threatened British
power has been quelled. No English minister was
ever clothed with powers so extensive, and
at no period of our history was the task of '
governing India so full of perplexity. The'
consequences of failure in this momentous
task are too great to be accurately defined.
The loss of India—or even another revolt—would
not only seriously affect our prestige throughout the
East, but would ruin thousands, perhaps entail
a national bankruptcy. The enormous amount of
capital, drawn from the pockets of every clam in '
this country, which has been invested in India,
makes the permanent prosperity of that country a
matter of concern to almost every family in these
realms. It has, indeed, been universally admitted
that the finances of India were utterly disorganized,
and that unless the expenditure could be reduced
either the income must be increased or insolvency
Wait inev Rabic. To remedy this state of things a special
officer was appointed by the Government and sent out
to Calcutta, and it was confidently expected that
heixeforth not only the fivancial state of the coun-
try would be made public, but that the control of
the finances would be left practically in the hands
of the new Chancellor of the Indian Exchequer.
Consider now, for a moment, how Sir Qualms
Woo.. has interpreted his duties and proceeded
to Mil them. When the powers of the Indian
REVILLTAILY were increased, it was considered essen-
tial to furnish him with the means of forming a
correct judgment upon Indian affairs by consulting
eminent men practically acquainted with that
country. A Council was created ; and it was spe-
cially provided that none of them should sit in
Parliament. Most wen of ordinary intelligence
and reasonable modesty would probably consult
such a Council, and would, in most cases, defer
to their authority. But Sir CHAIM'S WiKll/
does neither one thing nor the other. In the
most important matter ever submitted to his judg-
ment—the organisation of the army—ho not only
contradicted himself, hat he ignored the opinion of
every officer of eminence in the Indian service.
What follows I It is notorious that the state of
the Army in India is far from satisfactory. The
Indian officers, who have been set aside and prac-
tically insulted by Sir CHABLV4 Wil01), are discon-
tented and moody, and cling with natural predi-
lection to the opinions of such men as Sir Jams
(ItTKAM and Sir .14,11,: LAWKENcE. The
native troops of Bombay and Madras ask,
with something like indignation, whether dis-
missal from niilitary service is the re-
ward for their fidelity in the hour of danger.
The Royal troops, finding that they are the only
army in India, and appreciating in all its due im-
portance the fact that the Government cannot do
without them, are disposed to make demands,
which however extravagant are still difficult to
refuse. It is, unfortunately, too true that the
spirit of discontent amongst the Indian armies is
gradually increasing, and there is corresponding
alarm amongst the most far-seeing of the Indian
statesmen.

Nor is this all. There is as yet no plan
suggested for the permanent military occupation of
the country. And yet without some such plan it
is impossible to ascertain whether the number of
troops is in excess of what is required. The
Horse Guards have found out the advantage of
the abolition of the old Company. In former times
there was a jealousy between the Indians and the
Hone Guards. Thu number of troops was re-
duced to a minimum. But now the Indian SWIM'
nal and the Hone Guards are agreed. Their
interests are identical. The Horse Guards keep
up the number of troops in order to avoid the
danger of having them disbanded if they should be
sent home. In the meantime the resources of
India are exhausted, and a reduction of expendi-
ture is indefinitely postponed.
Every mail adds to our perplexity. Accord-
ing to the latest accounts, civilians, both native
and European, have been roused to a new fit of
indignation by that conciliatory Minister, Sir
(aim Wool,. At the very time when the
people of India have been called upon to make
considerable sacrifices, and to submit to an income
tax, Sir CHAaLts 11'0(.0—against the remonstrance
of the Govealloe-G Esees 1., and, it is said, without
consulting his Council—has presented 500,000/.
--half the estimated produce of the income tax—
to a rich Prince, the descendant of ono of the
most violent enemies of the British Crown. If
this tribute was due by a treaty, and at this par.
tieular moment, there would be some etzuse for
the ad. Hut, had this been so, it is difficult to
believe that Sir BARNES Pr.seth's the Chief
Justice of Calcutta, and another judge, would
bail e made this grant the ground of an attack upon
the Government. Even Sir BARTLE FRZAZ only
do...tided his chief IT declaring that such subjects
%. rt• h..yond the jurisdiction of the Indian
authorities.

In such matters we are afraid that the Home
Government—in other words, Sir Ciimmrs Wool)
—is supreme. Now, if this is really the
truth, let it be declared openly. Pt is idle to send
out such mew as the late Mr. Jaws., Witnux sad
Mr. LAM: to preside ever the finances if Sir
•," .Iraw upon Ow Indian ex-
chequer at his own .114,cri•tion. It worn! than
melees to have a Council ~f Indian st.itesiutn and

proconsuls if they are first to be overruled by
privileged presumption, and are then to be com-
pelled to remain silent. If Sir Ciimti.r..4 Woon
has not self-knowledge enough to appreciate the
Opinion of such a man SG Sir JOHN LAWAliticli at
its right value, let us hear his own opinion and that
of his colleagues in the House of Commons. It
would be presumptuous to mention the House of
Peers. No Ms wool, no MuNlio, no LAW-
RENcE, was ever yet deemed fit company for a
MALMENIURV or a LYVEDEN. If this could be, the
opinions of some of the Indian Councillors might
be delivered with authority to the public. In any
case, it is neither wise nor just--scarcely indeed
decorous—to allow the Indian Secaersav the pri-
vilege of suppressing the proofs of his capacity for
mischief by silencing the most competent witnesses
of the fact. And it becomes a most serious ques-
tion whether the members of the Indian Council
should any longer be excluded from Parliament.
But things can scarcely remain as they are. The
Government cannot be carried on if the governing
powers are in a chronic state of internal anarchy.
Consider only one thing. What should the people
of India think when they find the chief Judge of
that Empire denouncing the chief Indian Minister
of the QUEEN ? If any case ever required prompt
explanation it is this grant of half a million.
Unless Sir CHARLES WtIOD chooses to anticipate the
discussion in the House of Commons by publishing
the documents connected with the transaction, it
must form one of the very earliest and most critical
subjects of national debate.

Ut Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, JAL. ?A.

The Duchene of Cambridge and Pril;t:C101 Mary
arrived ye4eag afterouoa, attended by Lady GeraWine
limier mg and Captain P. Cost.
The following visitors likewise arrived at the Castle:
tie Lt,rll Chancellor, the and Marchioness of
Westminster, the Earl and Countess of Tankerrille, Lord
Waterpark, the Right Hoe. the Speaker, the Right Hon.
IL and Mn.s Disraeli, and Vies-Admiral the Hon. Sir R. 8.
Duda..

Her Majesty's dinner party included the Princes/ Aline,
the Prue Sea Minister, Count Berostorff, Gesend Yon Bonin,
Lord John auseell, Colossi Blumenthal, Captain You
Bustin, and the visitote who arrived is the afternoon.
Her Majeet)'s private hand performed afterwards in the
drawing-room.

The 44041eD, accompanied by the Duchese of Conliridge,
Primer Alice, and Princess Mary of Camipridge, drove out
a an opus carriage this morning, and horsoured with a visit
die Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, at New
Lodge, Wiistleor Forest. la attendance were Lady Mae-
&saki, Lady Ger-Jilin° Somerset, and Lord Alfred Paget.
TM Prince Consort went out shooting, stteaded by
Colonel Posioaby. Count Bentaturff and the Earl of
Tankerville had the honour to accompany his Royal
Highness.

The Prussian Minister, Count Bertinoiff, General Von
Benin (on • special mission from the King of Prussia),
Oohed Bhune•thal (A.D.C. to (kitten! Bonin), Captain
Van Boni•, and Lord John Russell, have left the Castle.
The Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Horntia
fßopford have sactvwded the Hoe. Lucy Kerr and the Hon.
)(Lary Bulteel, u Maids of Honour in Waiting to her
Majesty.

A Cnenmittee of the Lords of her Majesty's Moat
Bosworth's, Privy Council mat yesterday in the Council-
elhember ilederimee had been made to their lonlahips for
the esswideraticm of an ordinance of the Oxford University
Oontleisaitems, bearing date the 16th April, IKNI, relative
le et. Jahn Baptist College, in the I;nivereity of Oxford,
and the report of the commissioners, dated 10th June, WA,
addreseed le the Searetary of State for the Home Depart.
meet. Raderewes had also been made to their lordship; of
petitions from the President and Scholars of St. John Bap-
tist College ; from the Master sal Wardens of the Mer-
chant Taylors' Company, in the City of Loudon ; from
the Head-Mseter of the Granitnar School, Reading ; feast
Mr. E. C. Benner, Mr. W. Marshall, Dr. Stanley, aid
LA. Shupe, S.D. The lords present were the Lord Pre-
sident, Lent Craaworth, the Lord Justice Knight Braes.
the Might Hen. Spreseer Walpole, and the Right Hoe.
Behest laws.
Mr. Heips, dm* to the Privy Council, attended.
The Atterney-tlemeral and the Moheitoe-4;eserel were in
atteodanoe as memears.

Mir H. Cures and Mr. R. Palmer were beard by their
lordships.
The trusteed fur the International Exhibition of Ir 4 2 met
at the Coneed-offlos on Wednesday, the 2:trtt inst. The
Bastin was Wended by Earl Omni-die, the Marquis of
Chan*" Mr. C. W. Das, and Mr. Thomas Fairbeirn.
Mr. Joseph Barry had an interview with the Duke of
Xi:wreath yesterdAv. Mr. J. Hillyanl Cameron also had
as interview with his area at the Colonial.otlice.
Despatahas were sent from the Coloeisl-offiee to the
Osswernor of Canada yesterday.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of CilM•
bridge and the Princess Mary have arrived at Windsor
Castle, ea a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Consort.

His Excellency General Von Bonin, accompanied
by Colonel Blumenthal and Captain Bonin, have returned to
)(swig's Hotel, from Windsor Castle.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will arrive
in tows to-day from Broadleads, Haste, for the anima.
The Duke of Argyll comes to town to-day from
Trentham, Staffordshire, is order to attend the meeting of
the Cabinet miniatem this afternoon.

Lord John Runnel! and family will remove to
Ckwkam•pbee to-day from Pembroke-lodge, Itiehmusd-
Park.

ineaces Anne, blarclaimaraii of Londonderry, kern
'bees enteetainieg the following company at Wynyard Park:
- The Earl and l'outitera Vane, the Countess of Antrim
and Lady Helen M'Donnell, Lord and Lady de L'lsle and
Dudley, Mr. Studio, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. llilainwaring, Sir
David Wood, Mr. Henry Milkanke, Captain Lumley, and
Major Johnstone. The marchioness has recovered from her
late lediapositioo.

The iarl and Countess of Meath passel through
tows ce Toney en their way to Ireland.

Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and family
eons to town to-day fromAlderley Park, Cheshire.

Lord and Lady Aveland have been entertaining
a escoession of visitors at Norroaatoo Pork daring the peat
fortnight. The company has included the Earl Jermyn,
the Pail at Pomfret, Lord and Lady William Powlett, Lady
Egerton (el Tattoo) and the Hoa. Mire Egerton, Lard
Hotham, Major the lion. H. Amon, M.P., How. Mr*. A.
Tinier., Mr Henry Willoughby, General Fludyer, Hou.
Hatthcote, ILP., t.e.

The Has. George Waldegrave and the Countene
et Reams arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, oa
Tuesday lent, en route for the Continent.

Mr. Colley Baru's!' Scotland, of the Oxford
Circuit, has teoeived the rppoiotrnent to the Chief Justice,
@hip of Madras, vacant by the derth of Sir Henry
Devious.

The special services at St. Paul's Cathedral will
be reamed on Russia' evening next. January 27, at 7
chaotic ; fieeethee, the Lord Bishop of London.
Dzam or Ma. are worry to learn
that the above Wilma expired on Tuesday night at
Newby Hall, Y • . The deceased gentleman wee
father of the Counters de Grey and Ripon, the Mar.
chimer of Noethamsen, and Mr. Vyner, the new member
far Ripon. The late Mr. Veiny win son of the late Mr.
Robert gyner arid Lady Theodosia, youngest daughter of
John, second Earl Ashburnham. He marned in 102 Lady
Mary Gertrude, youngest daughter of the late Earl de
Orei, S.O.
TIPTIMONIAL TO Slit W. HATTER, Bela.,
IL P.—The testimonial which is to be presented to Kr Wm.
Hayter, Bark, M.P., next month, at a dinner over which
Lord Palmerston will preside, contains 1,100 01:1001)11 of direr.
la plan, at bottom, the work is a square of 25 inches, with
curved sides. having a height of about t feet 6 inches. The
square base has projections at each of its extreme angles, in
front of which are shells is silver beautifully chased. Over
these projected portions there are taxi adapted to the re.
eeption of natural or artificial Bowers. The central portion
of the work over the base assumes the abacus form, in the
' centre of which is a pedestal of bright silver, whereon
stand. a statue of Siltation with her attendant hon.
Around this pedestal are four cloaked female figures. seem
rally emblematic of Fidelity, Loyalty, Industry, and Jus-
tice: On the front of the work, on a bright silver ground,
is the following inwription :—" This testimonial wee pre-
sented to the Right Hoe. Sir William Goodenough Hatter,
Part M.P., by :tgi members of the House of Cortouons, in
rememhe.suee .4 the courtesy mid eltieiever with stnrh he
rf..rtne.l the (Hie. of I' lithe! !.....avary to theTr,..•
between the Jean IKrl and 1658."