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Shipwreck of the German Emigrant Ship
Wilhelmsburg.

MR. COBDEN AND THE "TIMES."

Tice following additional correspondeneelas been
'rwarded to us for publication :

LOSS OF THREE HUNDRED LIVES.
It has been briefly announced that an emigrant vessel
which left, Hamburg for Australia a short time since with
about 400 persons on board was lost on the coast of Holland
during the recent storms, and that nearly every soul on
board perished. One of the few survivors has furnished

Midhurst, Dec. 18.
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to Mr. Bright and myself the design of promoting by vio-
lent, illegal, or immoral means a redistribution of the land
of this country. Had you contested yourself with this
that of the equal testa-
havesimpl
iendvi
os
naTeodwfaoiri tusmigh another have
mentary division of land, for which you have no better
foundation in anything that ever fell from us than for the
epassed in silenca ; but you
theory,
former and heavier aspersion. You now ask my acquies-
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show the connection between your former language and
your new accusation—against which grammar, logic, and

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burg, Captain Gross, belonging to the house of Godafroy
and Son, was lost on the coast of Holland, and that few
lives were saved. Among these few lam one, and there
are also 15 of the crew saved, and about 25 of the passen-
gers. About 300 men were drowned or died in the terrible
night from Thursday to Friday, and among these were the
captain and the aged doctor, No clothing was saved, as all
was washed away and strewn on an unknown coast. Of the
Wilhelmsburg, one of the largest vessels sailing for Ham-
burg, nothing remains but a portion of the after part,
which, in consequence of the strength of the deck, still re-
mains a little above water. I will briefly tell you our adven-
tures from the time we sailed. We left the city for sea,
having on beard from 315 to 320 passengers, and had a fair
wind. We had not been long at sea when we encountered a
westerly wind, which increased from day to day, until it
became a storm which we could make no head against, and
were driven back to the coast. In the night from Thursday
to Friday the storm raged so violently that the sails which
were stowed were blown away, and those which were set
were more or less split. None of the sailors dared venture up
the masts, and we feared they would go every minute. The
vessel was driven about in a terrible manner by the winds
and waves, and at last she could no longer be steered.. About
1 o'clock the captain gave orders to sound with the lead. We
did so, and to our horror found only 17 feet of water. We saw
that we were lost, and in a few minutes the ship struck for-
ward, and with a terrible shock she afterwards struck aft, The
rudder then gave way. We immediately proceeded to cut
away the masts, but they broke off like sticks, and their
wreck beat great holes in the deck,through which the water
poured and filled the 'tween decks. Another fearful crash
was heard, and the ship broke in two amidships. All who
were in the fore-part of the vessel and 'tween decks were
drowned, as the one sank with all who were there, and the
other was full of water. Thus 250 lives were sacrificed to
the waves in the space of a few minutes. It was a fearful
sight. Yet we could do nothing. In such a moment one
has enough to do to think of himself, and has also enough
to do to save himself. The after-portion of the vessel also
sank in a few minutes, but was not entirely covered with
water. The lower portion held together, but was imbedded
in the sandy bottom. Now, however, one sea after another
rushed over the deck, tore away the bulwarks, and carried
off all who could hold on firmly. We all jumped into the
largest boat, which was firmly jammed in between the
wrecks of the masts and water vessels. Behind and before
me lay dead and wounded, and among these was the cap-
tain. Thus cowering together in the boat, exposed to every
sea which swept the vessel, sometimes lying on the dead,
at other times packed between corpses, I awaited the dawn
of day. It was quite 7 o'clock when we saw a northern
barque in the distance, with her masts cut away, but other-
wise holding together, drive upon the strand. Her crew
launched their long-boat,and fortunately succeeded in land-
ing. We followed this example, although our boat leaked.
Men now came from behind the masts and water ves-
sels and from every corner of the deck, almost blue with
hunger and frost, but anxious to get to land. There were
about 10 more than the boat would carry; but, as these were
passengers, come of the crew were compelled to remain be-
hind,and amongst these I was one. The boat left us with the
promise that we should soon be fetched from the wreck. The
boat, however, soon stuck fast, and those who were in were
compelled to wade to dry land. The tide now ebbed,and as the
boat lay high and dry we were compelled to try and save our-
selves, as we could expect no help from the shore. We
therefore patched up a small boat the stern part of which
had been broken away by the waves, and this frail barque we
launched in the darkness into the sea. The waves fortu-
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towards our comrades. The next night, like the last, we
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was the island of Terscheliing, and here we remained till we
could be sent to Harlingen. Of the 300 passengers only 24
men and one woman are saved, and, with the remnant of the
crew, are reduced to a state of utter destitution. They are
now at Hamburg, where they have been treated kindly ;
but one or two have left for England, with the intention of
finding their way to Australia in another vessel.

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common sense at cite rebel.
I will not allow you to divert me from the real question
at issue into a new discussion as to the comparative merits
between the equal division of real property, as it exists in
France and a great part of the Continent, and the custom of
primogeniture as it prevails•here. That is a subject fairly
open to discussion in our Law Amendment Societies or the
Social Science meetings, and as it can affect the pocket of no
living proprietor it is not likely to lead to a very impas-
sioned debate. But I must point out to you how impoisible
it is to reconcile your present plea with your former lan-
guage. You now profess only to impute to us the design of
favouring the equal division of landed property among all
the children at the death of a proprietor. But this will not

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correspond with your reiterated charge that we contem- I
plated a division among the poor of the land of the rich.
What you now affect to consider to be our object is the divi-
sion of the laud of the rich equally among the children of
the rich. I must bring the question to the test of your own
language.
In your leading article of December 3 you alleged that
the small States of the Continent regarded a Congress
with the "satisfaction with which the poor might regard
Mr. Bright's proposition for dividing among them the
lands of the rich." I now infer from your new interpre-
tation that I am asked to construe this as meaning only the
satisfaction with which the children of rich landowners
would regard a proposition of a division among them of the
lands of their fathers.

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Fatal Collision on the Scottish. CeLtra]

Railway.

(Front the A'orth British .Daily Mail of yesterday.)
On Saturday morning we were able to announce the fact
that a collision attended with serious consequences had oc-
curred the previous night near the Dunning Station of the
Scottish Central Railway, and that two men had been killed
and other three severe!), injured. • _ .

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Dunning Station is nine and a half miles south of Perth,
and 53 miles from Glasgow, and the dire catastrophe oc-
curred between the distance signal and Dunning Station,
on the down line of rails, about half-past five o'clock
p.m. A down train had arrived at running Station, and
was a considerable time detained there in shunting.
While doing so a ballast engine, with one third• class
class carriage attached, came up, also from the south, on
the same line of rail, and drew up close to the rear of
the goods train, which had not started off on its journey,
and within protection of the distance signal. The carriage
was filled with platelayers, who had been engaged dur-
ing the day working on the line near Blackford, and
who were returning to their homes at each of the stations
on the line up to Perth, including •Forteviot and Forgan-
dem. Some time afterwards another goods train of 31
trucks, from Greenhill, came up, ran past the distance
signal at full speed, and into the ballast and other goods
train, producing a scene which forcibly recalled the dread-
ful spectacle presented by the AVisehburgh collision last
year. Happily the workmen in the ballast carriage had all
got out but five, or it would probably have rivalled that
catastrophe in the loss of life. The destruction to property
is not so extensive as that which took place at Winchburgh,
although it must be very considerable. Both lines were
blocked up with a dozen broken trucks, and the passenger
carriage was smashed into very small pieces, while the en-
gine and tender of the train which did all the damage—a
very heavy ene—was damaged so as to render them well
nigh useless, and the ballast engine and tender were like-
wise a good deal broken. Some of the vans had been thrown
right on the top of others, while one or two were knocked
on end as if they had been lucifer-match boxes, and others
were so reduced in size that only their mere framing re-
mained intact. The down rails were twisted and broken,
and the debris heaped around was very considerable.
As soon as the sound of the collision reached Dunning
station the attendants there. ran to the spot and gave
speedy help to the injured ; while, at the same time, a
telegram was sent to Perth informing the chief officials of
possible they arrived in two
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were in the carriage had been extricated alive from its broken
fragments, but two of them died in the Dunning station-
house soon after. Their names are William Morris and
James Bowden, both married men, who have left widews
and families to lament their loss. Morris, who was an elderly
man, resided in Perth, and his family are all grown up,
some of his sons being drivers on the line ; and Bo wden is a
younger man, who lived at Forteviot. Other two men,
named Matthew Reilly and George Cunningham, both re-
siding at Forteviot, were found to be much injured. After
being attended to by the surgeons they were carefully con-
veyed to the Perth Infirmary, where they arrived about 10
p.m. Reilly is badly injured in the chest, and he had also
his foot bruised ; but Cunningham's injuries. which are
chiefly on his back, are believed to be more severe. How-
ever, he has youth on his side, being only about 30 years of
age, while Reilly is at least 20 years older. Both were re•
ported on Saturdayae being slightly better, although neither
is out of danger. The other man who was hurt was able,
with assistance, to walk home, and no serious consequences
are apprehended on his account.
Immediately after the sufferers had all been extricated
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and vigorous measures were
taken to clear the up line, so as to permit of the usual
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strong force of men were gathered to-
ghpoints,i t
h s little delay as possible on the
ono line of rails. This was accomplished by midnight,
when the south express, leaving Glasgow at 9 o'clock, which
arrives at Perth at 11.20 pane was able to proceed. In con
sequence of the stoppage of the line the passengers by the
and attended
r
trains leaving Glasgow at 4,15 and 6.15 p.m., and that at
7.30 pan. from Perth were detained, they having to leave
the carriages and walk to others whch were iu waiting for
them at the ether ends of the blocked part of the road.
From this co.
• use the latter train did not arrivo in Glasgow
till midnight.
Who is to blame for this sad catastrophe it is not for us to
say at present. The distance danger signal was shown, it
is averred, but the di iver says he neither saw it nor any tail
lamp at the ballast carriage; in fact, that he saw nothing of
the preceding trains until he was within 20 yards of them,
when he had, of course, no time to pull up. Under these
circumstances it is wonderful that more casualties have not
occurred, and that the drivers and stokers of the trains were
not injured. Mr. John M'Lean, the procurator-fieeal for
the county, was early on the ground on Saturday, and com-
menced a beareliog investigation into ell the eirtualetenees.

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Again, in your letter to me of Dec. 7 you stated, "'these
speeches are diecnssed elaborately in two leading articles on
successive days, and in each of them certain passages are
interpreted as recommending a repartition of the land
among the poor." Now, the word partition or repartition
means simply a division, and not a bequest or inheritance,
and yet, with our dictionaries at hand, you now ask me to
interpret the " repartition of the land among the poor" as
only meaning to say that Mr. Bright and I wished to compel
rich landowners at their death to leave their estates equally
among all their children. • And in your letter to me of Dec.
11, you "repeat'' the assertion that "certain passages" of
our speeches " bear no other interpretation than that
ascribed to them." Now, up to that date you had put no
other interpretation on those speeches than that they advo-
cated the division of the land of the rich among the poor.
The poor we are now told to interpret to mean only the
children of rich landowners I
Then, I suppose, we must altogether agree to forget that
you coupled us with Gracchus and the agrarian system of
Rome,
No ; in the teeth of all these proofs in plain, unmistake-
able English to the contrary, I should be sacrificing truth
to courtesy were I to affect to concur in this new version of
your language, which does not admit of two meanings. I
note your recantation, but repel the attempt to raise a fresh
issue to covet your retreat under a fire of minor accusations.
I will conclude this correspondence with merely remarking
that the blow which was aimed at the fame of Mr. Bright
and myself has missed its mark. How far the recoil of the
weapon may affect the hand that levelled it time will show.
—I am, Sir, yours, &C., R. COBDEN.
J. T. Delete, Esq.
P.S. I cannot compliment your political economy. You
reproach me for having made the " concession" to France
of undertaking- to levy no export duty on coal. Sir Robert
Peel had abolished the export duty on coal for the benefit of
England a dozen years before the French treaty, and all I
engaged was that for ten years more we would not be so
foolish as to put any impediments in the way of our ex-
ports. As for the paper duty, it is the interest of the British
public to buy everything in the cheapest market. It
foreigners put foolish restrictions on the export of rags, it
is as additional reason why we should take their paper.
This may,—and lam sorry for it—for a time, but only for
a time, be iDjurious to our own manufacture of that
article, in which I believe you or your family are largely
engaged. The difference between you and me in 1860 was,
that I was looking to the public interest and you were ad-
vocating the interest of a class.

Midhuret, Friday Evening, Dec. 18.
sir—l am compelled reluctantly to resume my pen, after
having sent to the post what I hoped was my final com-
munication. Bat this mornings Daily News which has
just reached me, contains a statement which cannot with
honour be passed over, either by you or myself in silence.
In the first leader of that journal I have read, for the first
time, the following passage, which purports to be an extract
from a leading article in your journal of the 26th of Novem-
ber on the following day, commenting on the speeches of
Mr. Bright and myself at the Rochdale meeting
" Thii language, so often repeated, and so calculated to
excite discontent among the poor and half •informed, has
really only one intelligible MEANING. Reduce the elec.
tonal franchise; for when you have done so you will ob-
tain an Assembly which will SEIZE on the estates of the
proprietors of land, and DIVIDE THEM GRATUITOUSLY
AMONG TILE POOR.'
duce the franchise, but certainly not as a step TO SPOLIA-

I sincerely trust there is some inaccuracy in this quota-
tion, which is not only a libellous outrage on two member s
of the House of Commons, but a dire insult to millions of
honest and industrious Englishmen. If it be a correct ex-
tract from your leading article, which I have no means of
verifying at the moment of writing, it is in direct contra-
diction to the statement made in your last letter, that you
never imputed to Mr. Bright and myself the contemplation
of any more violent means of dividing the land than by a
change in the law of succession. Assuming the words to be
correctly given, you charge us distinctly with aiming at the
SEIZURU of the landed property of the country for GRATUI-
TOUS division among the poor. You will at once see that
unless this language be unreservedly recalled it makes the
statement in your last letter simply a mockery and an un-
truth.—l am, sir, yours, &c., R. CoBDEN.
3. T. Deane, Esq.

Sir,—l received your second letter, dated "Friday Even-
ing, December 18," only last night. The quotation you take
from the Daily News is so far inaccurate that it dces not
convey the same meaning as the whole article from which
it is taken does. I enclose that article and that which ap-
peared on the following day. I add an extract from an-
other, which has been published since ; and, having now
given you all the means necessary for obtaining that redress
which purported to be the object of your first letter, I beg
to retire from the personal part of this controversy.—l am,
sir, your obedient servant,
Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.

JOHN T. DELANE,

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGI3.—A vacancy having
been created in the chair of Scots law by the lamented
and sudden death of Mr. George Ross, advocate, who has
filled it for two years, the Faculty of Advocates met on Fri-
day to exercise their privilege of selecting two names to be
presented to the curators of the patronage. The Faculty
unanimously selected as the first name Mr. G. Moir, advo-
cate, sheriff of Stirlingshire. Mr. Moir was called to the
Scottish barin 1825,and from 1835 to 1840 filled the chair of
rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edin-
burgh, but resigned it in consequence of increasing profes-
sional practice, and the chair has subsequently beeed till
1845 by Professor Spalding, and since that date by Prueessor
Aytoun. The second name chosen—the advocates bei‘inrg
required to present two—was the Dean of the Facultyc(uria,
Moncrieff, Lord Advocate, M.P.), who is sent totthhaet
ey
tors as a nominal candidate in the expectation
° the
open-
ing will, annual, choose the first on the list.
of the university session inprNinoevaeAmibfreerd,oStelaievdpoi;alraorrfintheee
classes have been attended by bed art-
William of Hesse, who have for the .
time
es
left on Friday
ments in Ilolyrood Palace.
for the Christmas holydays, The
ed
princes
rly in
ne
JAalnfureadryr.eturns
again to his studies in Edinburgoleae
Mn. STANSFELD, i'riday, Mr. Stans.
fold, Junior Lord of the Admiralty, who has
been making a tour of the naval dockyards, and inquiring
into their management, arrived at Birkenhead on a visit to
euir.ri.TohnhiLs
Laird, for
ng
and left London on Saturday.
he visited the Birkenhead docks, Messra,
docks, and minutely inspected
Clover and Clayton's graving
she extensive works aed docks of Messrs. Leirti Ilrothere.
lle also went on board the Agincourt, at pres€.ut in course
of construction by the firm. Tim suspected rants under
seizure in the river were visited. On the Livcrpeol side
Mr. Stansfeld confined his attention to the Canada Deck,
the Sandon Graving Dock, and the new steam docks. He
boarded the Inman steamship City of London, During
his visit Mr. Stansfeld made particular inquiries into the
progress of all works on Loth tides of the Mersey. He
was accompanied by Mr. Walker, one of the chief auditor
to the Admiralty.
DIRECT COMMISSIONS.—The next examination
for direct commissions will take place at Chelsea Hospital
on Monday, the Ist of February, 1861,

S'

'AMP-ED ....sd.

LE JOUR DE L'AN.

IP,•••.co°

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be a chance of the Rhine, but then Ipiitit:ki'Ci-141 ...\ri
be in the single position which hie dciptOrilitAn*.'4` A,
of his uncle's life will not allow him t4tyck4iliglil:-,4", gliz
I\l4
that is, to be opposed to a coalition. It 'l4cir 414 col-T j,.:7
Itussia, and still be in accord with pa . *iilt'e''..f.fi `;-.-Ala...
but to menace on January 1 what ho cannlimo S

X.IA as

till May 1, and so afford time foiall manner of com-
binations, is not his usual line of action. There is
no other enemy to be threatened, professions of amity
arc pleasant but not scenic, and as to internal
liberties, it is not of theta that, an Emperor of the
French will talk to a meeting of foreign Ariba3sa-
dors. Oa the whole, admitting, as we have said,
the temptatlons
preEs the Em2ercr towards
a coup de theatre, the reaLonable prol)abidty is that
he will cr.:press nothing beyond a r,Trat that his
preposalshould not have met a wider end more ccr-
dial acceptance.

(From the Spectator.)
The salons of Paris are feverish, for the jour de
l'an is cpproaching. Eger since 1860, when the
Emperor with a dersn words seat down the funds
in every capital of the Continent, and broke up that
lei surface, so smooth and so dangerously thin,
which is called the European peace, Paris has been
unable to divest itself of the belief that a coup de
the7Ure so exciting and so successful would one day
be repeated. The temptation, they say, of the im.
promptu Congress., with all Europe in attendance,
the world listening anxiously for the telegram, end
no peesibi ity of reply is to a monarch who esmbhees
with unusual power of ceerecy unusual love for
sudden and striking scenic effects always great, and
this year
may, they think, prove irresistible, The
difficulties of the Empire are, they conceive, thick-
ening fast, the deus ex machinemust descend, and
the clouds could
not open with more awe-inspiring
effect than amidst the combined etiquette and joy-
ousness of the Imperial receptions held upon New
Year's We are to-day in possession of the
talk of Day.
circles to which the ordinary newspaper
correspondent has rarely access, and though we
opinionbe-
sensaoinss based
—terribly strong in a society
as much on a secret
be-
lieve
longing
e for
which the Empire has, so to speak, becalmed—as on
trustworthy calculation, it is well worth the gassing
study of those who recognise that Napoleon may
at any moment apply a solvent to all diplomatic
chemistry.
The lino of argument current in circles in which
argument has not been suppressed by a governing
hate of Bonapartism runs much in this direction,
The Emperor, say the talkers, stands, and knows
he stands, in the presence of three new dangers, two
of them self-created, and one the natural effect of
eleven years of repression: His address t 3 his
Legislature, with its great but dreamy proposal,
followed as it was by a series of refusals reverberat-
ing from every superior Court, had among his own
people two distinct effects. It excited, and 'very
powerfully, the popular imagination. France feels
great ideas as no other country feels anything, ex-
cept, perhaps, menace or new taxation, and French-
men had special reasons for feeling this one. The
conviction, perfectly just in itself, that the treaties
of 1815 were intended to humiliate France, that they
had for nearly for fifty years operated as a heavy
restraint, and that " glory" was impossible until
they were swept away, has burnt itself deeply into
the mind of France. A vague hatred of those agree-
ments, acknowledged by all classes of educated
Frenchmen, by Republicans no less than Impe-
rialists, by M. Thiers as much as Prince Jerome,
has extended itself even to the peasantry, whose
traditions are of the Grande Arnge whose career
was arrested in 1815. Peasants who read nothing
else still read the Emperor's speeches, and as they
deem him irresistible, the acknowledged leader of
the Continent, his pledge that those treaties should
end, should be replaced t4e a new "fundamental
pact" more favourable to France and the nationa-
lities, created throughout all France a sense of deep
and pleasurable excitement. It was increased by
the knowledge that the Congress must first of all
take up the question of Poland, upon which the
strong feeling always existing had been recently
deepened by the unchecked invectives of the press,
and the greedily credited stories of Russian cruelty
to the Poles. That feeling might not survive a
long and still less a disastrous war, but it was
strong enough to authorise the Emperor to begin
one—as he 52id in his speech he would have done
had England consented—and to obtain such a result.
of a campaign in peace seemed to most Frenchnien
the 120 plus ultra of strategy; The universal refusal
of Europe to obey the summons has disenehe.nted
the populace, and their disappointment, like the
hailstorms end every other misfortune, is visited on
the Government. The educated classes know the
truth in spite of the M'niteur, tied ti uneducated,
though b.: fit a as to the facts, have an instinctive
sense that no!re maifre is not so strong as he said
he was. "Isolation in Europe," " diplomatic de-
feat," "dust thrown on the flig," these are to the
public mere phrases, bat that Mouravieff goes en,
and that Napoleon does not interfere himeelf, and
cannot make Europe interfere for him, this is a
fact, and one which the masses by no means accept
with pdeasure. Napoleon, who hears from official
reports everything that passes iu France, the very
talk of the wine-shops and gabble of the market-
women, knows well how deep is the disappoint-
ment, and knows, too, that a similar one discredited
Louis Philippe for years, and that he, far more
than Louis Phillipe, cannot afford to fail.
Some striking act, some speech which shall
set the world in movement, would seem absolutely
required to alter the current of national thought,
and remove the impression of failure, and that
speech must be made just when the world from
habit begins to listen.
Again, the Emperor is known to have been
startled, not to say shocked, by the result of the
elections, a result which has been, so to speak, re-
peated by the votes given this week in Paris and at
Dijon. He suffers, despite his cool judgment, frcna
the temptation of day-dreamers—the disposition to
believe that the world is going their way, and ho had
imagined that the masses of France were reconciled
to the Empire. The elections show nothing to the
contrary, but they prove that the townsmen through-
out the country are thirsty for wider liberty, that
the artisans are voting with the rich, and the Em-
peror, who knows best of all men the gigantic efforts
made to divide those classes, is proportionately'
alarmed. The debates in the Corps Legislatif have
proved that the vote of towns has greatly
affect
he iberals
prestige of the Government, for though t
• in ebates on
claim only 35 members, yet in the tria ed the
es, voted
the elections 84, some of them nom
is a swerve,
" against M. de Persigny." There
pond to
too, in the tribunals, which are apt to res
the fluctuations of power in too
barometric a
ample, prosecuted by
style, and editors, for ex getting
move the personal followinn.
acquitted. These things
prefects, aro to their own amazement •
of the Emperos.• almost as mew shimsand it is,
h elf e'
we believe, correct to efarm e shrewdest
faint
the only one who enjoys Beale
has within the past fo t •
r
T. 7 eror that if the Legislature •
informed the Ea ure is not
nmanageable, war, or a further sahmaornegofthseoincia'l likineo
to become n er grant of
Ives. Liberty
when avoidable, exactly the
internal liberty, are the only alternatives,
is not, Bonaparte role,
the dynasty is still not beyond the reach of internal
attsclr, and war, if circurnstaneea:Wou d only allow,
might be the more popular es
Well as the easier out-
let from an unmanageable situation. There is,
salon
therefore, say the 8) reaeon for fearing that
New Year's Day will be marked by some Imperial
utterance, possibly daportant.
We admit the ngerous, and certainly im-
full force of these arguments, at
least as far
s to the influences now working in the
direction of some grand and thcatric coy, but there
are reasons which make such a New Year's gift to
Europe seem to men not longing
for scenes at least
improbable. The Emperorand possibly will,
take the opportunity of abandoning
scheme
publicly
•sio ha
uld s ben
e scheme of a general Congress, and throwing the re•
sponsibility on the Powers whose adhe
lfnwo
withdrawn ; bat this speech by
is only when that which
suggestive of peseta It itse be
h would be a confession that
cent, and such a spec°
exists is to eNist no longer that war in comes immi-
rer to set ? 11.0 is hnown
to
what else is the En pe
that which exists moat continuo to last. Yet
s saddled him with the Archduke
be bitterly annoyed at the conduct of the Austrian
Court, which ha
Max, without affording him the support he expected
in wore, but he cannot a second time menace the
Austrian representative. There is nothing to fight
Austria for, unless, indeed, he draws the sword en
all Germany in defence of Denmark, which he
seems as yet by no means iectiued to do. Popular
feeling might baelt him then, because there would

Pr4nce T-Tap::.le,ou 032 the Proly.thr:ity of Mr.,

(From tile Fioncls Corresi:A7:,;isit: oduchlties:Dt3t:2....„,l7_;urle-;::if.1.1±;
been shut in
Prineo Ne.pc:lzon, .1'.7.,c re mouth has
the Senate, is now brmight befo7e the public in an
unexpectc.,(3. tr.onnst.. Teo Natien rc,produ,„,,,
the Vaterland of Vitrna the followiio•-ec "enl
• ter, attri-
buted 10 him, and czzpressing an opinion that war is
inevitable. The name of his correspend,cnt is
not
stated, Tue Nation, while publishing the letter
under all reserve as to its authenticity, says it fittoti
in it the bellicose language of the prince, who seems
to desire a war at any 'price blth in the north end
the south. Here is the tent of the letter in quts.

tion:—
" You ask me whether I believe in war. Yes, I
do. How will it break out ? I will tell you. It
will break out in the spring, ana my father-in-law
will begin it. The situation of King Victor Em-
manuel is no longer tenable. The public. debt in-
creases every year. There must be an end to this.
The King has several_ times written to the Emperor
that he must have a solution, and that be would
rather be plain Chevalier de Carignan than continue
to play the part of a sovereign who is gravitating
towards a precipice. I repeat to you, my father-in.
law has warned my cousin that in the spring he
means to attack the Austrian lines. Believe me
that. this is the way the struggle will commerce ;
the Ring gives way to no illusions; he knows that
Austria will
that his
magnificent army will not yield without
' making a serious resistance. The coequerors will
re-enter Lombard • they will perhaps, occupy
Turin ; but then
the situation will change. How-
ever great
may be -the desire of the Emperor fee
peace, he cannot allow
Austria to destroy the work
of France in Italy. lie 7
himself, to maintain
the hinin gdbote f
n of Italy,.
in
y. Isfp,ihteowof,
-
ever, contrary to all
should abandon my
fathee:pi e tn -
to become once arin Bing
that, after
ric.i,:z.tl.o, n, the Emperor
he would prefer
0 of Piedrnent, and so be
relieved of the responsibility which -
him as King of Italy. What i weighs 131)011
a war, ell
s more probable is
that France will interfere, and
King will have Northern Italy, end the "
Emperor
will disuosc of the south as he thinks fit.”
A few hours will probably decide whether the
above lettere which a Paris journal, with an
the
fear of warnings and suppression before its ~,,e,,
ventures to print, is or is not an impudent forgery'.
If it be genuine, it will p:obably rank as one of
the most stirring eveeits of those momentous times..
This much is certain, that all the recent letters from
Italy speak of preparations for immediate war
which nobody can account for. Prince Napoleon's
etter—if it be his—givis an explanation of them.

TEE GREAT FIRE ET THE CITY.

A closer examination yesterday of the track of the recent
fire in Wood-street shows in a striking manner how much
it was confined to a class of buildings the interior arrange.
meats and means of communication of which appear to have
been made in defiance or in ignorance of the principles
which now regulate such matters, under the operation of
the Metropolitan Building Act. The warehouses and offices
which have perished seem to have been separated from each
other by thin lath and plaster partitions for the most part,
and only in one instance was there an iron door between
one part of the interior of the came building and another,
such as is now commonly used and made imperative, indeed,
in the construction of warehouses as an invaluable means of
shutting off communication in cases of fire. That iron door,
too, which remains uninjured would have been completely
effectual in arresting the flames in that direction had they
not penetrated by a vulnerable point into the port of the
building which it protected. The use of iron for surety
against fire was most conclusively proved by a very remark-
able circumstance. The large and handsome warehouses of
Messrs. J. and It. Morley, situate at the corner of Ge3shata
and Weed-streets, overlooked by
a large window on the
ground floor at the back the little court in which the flre
originated, and to which it was at first confined. This
large window was protected on the outside by folding
iron shatter, and that more egainst robbery than fire.
On this cccasion for some time the flames played fiercely,
but harmlessly about the outside of the winders-, so guarded
by the iron shutter. Had they once entered Messrs. Bier-
ley's premises at that point, the stock stored inside, and
Upon such a
estimated at from £9,50,000 to £300,030, would inevitably
have been destoyed, if, indeed, the devastation would have
of them
ended in that one vast pile of buildings.
slender condition of safety did property almost fabulous in
value and belonging to a single firm depend in this ease.
The ruins, consisting for the most part of large masses of
andliteraol literally
each
howseidde ionf
charred tinabsr, show how largely wood rather than biick
had been used in the construction if the houses which have
the
ptreareisthoefdt.heTcohme
bfiurest,ibilnedmeeadt,erhiaasi,
supposed to be 300 years old, and which the flames ,v,lc,e,
gap which it has left huge cables of brick, some
powerless to harm, remain standing. It is the opinion of
Mr. Woodtherpe, the district surveyor of the northern
division of London, who visited the spot yesterday, that but
for those formidable old walls :the whole
mass of
ware-
houses forming the cast side of Wood-street and
ejing will
the west
of Milk-street, right up to Cheapside, and ir- 1
their contents some of the most valuable in the city of
London, would have been destroyed. c,
ptain Shaw, too,
the chief of the London Fire Brigade, '
who was out for the
first time after his recent dangerous illness, and could not
resist the temptation to go and
his amazement that in a see the place, expressed
Packed the conflagration has neighbourhood so densely
com-
paratively small an area. been confined to so
tude with which the the truth is that the
steampromPt.'-
fileeengines, six or seven. In
number, were broil
less vigour with ght into action, and theheresiiierte:
which they played
materially checked its first,oo the
that
in spite of difficulti progress from the
e,s to it only
through a few blinds experienced in finding
heafiremen had at
imminent risk to
c 4 courts
theirand ahloleyescver
the tops or lofty
piles of houses both Wt ood-streest and Milk-street, and
through little by-ways before the engines, 13 in all, could
be brought to bear on the harming mass. Fortunately, the
trade books of Messrs. Grant, who aro the largest sufferers
were preserved intact in an iron safe on their premises ; but
about 300 people to whom they gave employment have been
suddenly thrown out of work. The firm is understood to be
insured to the amount of £37,000, that sum being spread
over eight different insuranc T
e offices. heir stock consisted
mostly of underclothing of all kinds, shirts, neckties, um-
brellas, and parasols, of all which they were manufactureis
on a large scale• In one room alone on the third floor they
had 1,200 dozen of fine flannel shirts stored, all of which
have been burnt. They occupied four largo warehouses, four
stories high, two of which have been completely destroyed,
with their valuable contents. Messrs. Morley, notwith-
standing the risk they ran, did not suffer to an extent at all
commensurate with the loss sustained by Messrs. Gran% It
is true their shirt factory, with many valuable machines,
has been burnt, but it was not a place in which they kept
any very considerable quantity of stock, and they only esti..
mate their loss, which is covered by insurance, at about
£t,COO or 5,000. An underground communication nis+eci
and
the shirt factory which has been destroyed '
another part of their extensive premises, and there,
safety afforded by an iron door which of;debt too, the
from the other in the subterranean passage one place
by the result. A considerable amount was established
of s.‘,
collected from among the ruins of Messrs." 'be. was 1)244"
houses yesterday ; but of Messrs. ''.'• Grant's ware-
content, or of the stocks of Mr B''ic.ri'l'e (actor}' "1":1
:its
and Mr. Gnbson, the other -s" : a:ging., Messrs. Heir y,
his llRlONSlrmarsumme ULLA Cr" '`•
') +.,0,, a vestige reuniimi.
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manye
i,i
iiini
,s),lt:tilliiee
eciir'-'_0:,,1; 13 1 wdi u
n'g paid
t '1
TIIE LANCASHIRE,' COAL TILIDE.—WIGAN, S.llur-
drs
having
tcilayncti.c—iil-inills‘t)ltlellayeetnCel.: it
grantedsi
theltf
risae iitihvsant 'fir:en::: so t at.l 01
pertst aboutce nt. a
asked
lot e ra•ebt 11.
,rt.
tut) toin :
:. f, be.inargi:::l(llre
after the " nare2t making 1) tLy to tha lEL of J P-r 1
011,1"?7,: _
The trade durinfr Urn wok has b: en renvirkably,foo: " II
;Len
Trattily a coal dcFp;ltelied bein7, really sniriljn..-,Le
of a
the state of the cotton trade is considered anti( i ,
dull fr(4ht market at Liverpool, trade, a branch
that has extended wonderfully
pest i.:Nv years, is, however, particularly
number of furnaces in blast in the ee
spcets of the winter are very 11:Lrellaar;
considerably to the increased nuronura:::::gr
hwe completely the sated
is
extent th 4 evils uf the sail z, brisk, and the
.v contributes wry
of orders. The pro-
Trade :ems to
efrr'ocrn the lonr; deprusi•:e., road
the irninovement hero wi11,i,000,3311.(,101:11d'ic.2-allltctriacti:4l:loe:ovt.to,
)irto
manufacture.