The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1867.

Surely the sceptics will now believe in clair-
voyance. It enabled us to foretel, some time ago,
how our Chancellor of the Exchequer will meet
the Income Tax agitation in Parliament. Yes-
terday we had his rehearsal to a deputation which
waited upon him on the subject, and we have
turned out to be almost verbally correct. Some
appeared to imagine, from the language of Admi-
ral BERKELEY at Gloster, and of Lord PANMURE
at the Scottish fete, given in his honour, that Sir
G. C. LEWIS and the', War Secretary were under
orders, in their separate departments, to adapt
themselves to the popular demand. There
is no denying that it looked on the part of
Government like an understanding among its
members. " Don't let as commit ourselves, but
let us say all we can to keep them quiet till it is
too late." It was but too plain, however, as it
appeared to us, that there was room, not merely
for a coach and six, but a dozen such coaches
abreast to be driven through all that was said by
the military and naval Government spokesmen.
Well, Sir G. C. LEWIS has adopted almost
our very words,—he did not mean, he said,to take
advantage of the particular wording of the statute"
—" of course the Government would not think
of continuing the tax on account of the wording
of the statute, if it were not needed ?" and " hav-
ing made this statement, be must add with regard
to the rate of the Income Tax, that it was not a
question of taxation, but of expenditure, and con-
sequently the question was, what would be the
amount of the expenditure the following year ?"
—" they must see that the Government, without
the deputation proposed another tax, could not
be expected to give up 8,000,0001., the amount
of the proposed reduction." Such was the sequel
to the Exeter Hall meeting on Wednesday, and
the hundreds of meetings held all over the country.
" Gentlemen, I must spend so much, you must there-
and that you cannot do without
fore pay so much,
the income tax at the war rate."

Well, there is yet a long week before the
QUEEN'S Speech is delivered, and we trust that
week will be so used as to make that vague docu-
ment a little definite on the grand topic. We
know, now, Sir GEORGE'S mind, and we must
say we like him all the better for telling it to us ;
and telling it perhaps as fully as we could fairly
ask of a Minister before he meets our authorised
representatives. We understand each other
now ; and we should think the country will brace
itself to the struggle ; that it will try whether the
people of England, or the aristocratic expenders of
her money, are to get the day,
journal
to know the mind of an ox-Chancellor
suthpepoEx-
chequer, endeavoured the other day to
provedetail that we could do without the IncoraeTaixn
entirely by cutting down expenditure arraly to
that of peace ; and most certainly with such a
peace as we have got, we ought not to be cursed
with a War Income Tax also. Sir J. PABINGTON
also has denounced the GLADSTONE sophistry,
which treats schedule D so unjustly, that those

who are mulcted, their books ransacked by inqui-
sitors, and their word of honour belied, feel jus-
tified in evading it if they ,can ; for we lay the
evasion of the tax much more on the roguery of
the tax itself than on the roguery of its victims.
Even the Daily News has at last failed the Free
Traders, and broadly avowed that such is the
obnoxiousness of an Income Tax that go—go
entirely, it must, and that Free Traders must
content themselves with getting duties laid on as
smoothly, and evenly as they can !
It comes then to this, that without the Income
Tax the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have
some 55,000,0001. to meet next year, an expen-
diture which ought not to be more than 5 2, 000, 0001
after- the Peace of Paris ; and must either " cut
his garment to his cloth," or supersede an income
tax by a property tax. In the latter case he might
repeal all taxes on necessaries of life, and
leave them only on luxuries, like tobacco
and spirits, and other things in which
they are but little felt. The fiscal inquisition,
loathesome to every Englishman, and its torture
exacerbated by the pressure of a war rate, will be
endured no longer. The ante-Parliamentary week
must make this unmistakeably plain. A decided
nation is like a decided man, who clears the way
for himself by the very fact of his decision.
We may think a man prejudiced, ignorant, mis-
taken, or what we please, but if we know that he
and we must jog on together, and that he will
have his way, why there is nothing for it but to
let him have it. We may grumble as we do at
the weather, but we can't help it, and square our-
selves accordingly to either. Now Ministers
generally wish to "jog on" with the nation. What
the nation determines must be submitted to, there-
fore, as a shower of rain must. They would not
yield to a party antagonist, but the vox populi—
why, it is the voice of the maker of Ministers,
and bow to it they may and ought.

We feel the mast assured confidence that in 1
asking for an overwhelming national demonstra-
tion against the War Income Tax we are but ask-
ing virtually for the salvation of the PALMMISTON
Administration. If the nation does not compel
Sir G. C. Lewis to threw overboard his hints to
the deputation, aid to announce at irst enough to
satisfy it, the result must be that Lord DERBY
and He of Buckinghamshire will renew their
old proposals and will walk into office.
We feel equally assured that the estimates
will be adapted to what it is ascertained beforehand
can be got from the nation, and that we need not
be under the least apprehension of any financial
difficulty from compelling a Chancellor of the
Exchequer not to squander them. Respecting
duly our personal finances, is the only means of
teaching Governments to respect the national
finances. We are asked, perhaps, to show them
how they can do with the sum we leave them :
that is their concern. If one Government cannot
another can, and horrible as it may seem in the
ears of the happy families, and their happy circles,
there are worse appointments made than putting
such men as JOSEPH HUME or Mr. WILLIAMS at
( the head of tke national Exchequer.

We have no doubt Sir CORNBWALL thinks he
has very nicely broken the ice, and that he will
now have a tolerably free passage out of his diffi-
culties when Parliament meets. Adjustment to
varied classes of income an impracticable feat—
sixteen pence in the pound not asked for by sharp
practice or a sentence in an act, but from the de-
mands of expenditure—can the country trouble
him any more t A little time will show whether
the BzikKaLET dodge, the PAITINCIIIRE dodge, the
Lawis dodge, each or all of them, will serve the
purpose. We are awake now ; and we hope
Ministers will not catoh us again napping. The
motto still most be---AGITATE ! AGITATE ! I AGI-
TATE ! I i —and no time to be lost 1

The remarkable speech delivered by Mr. ROE.
BUCK, on Thursday evening, at Liverpool, startles
thegeneral public into attention very appropriately
upon the eve of the reassembling of the Legisla-
ture. It will be found upon examination to be
an eminently useful speech—a speech worthy of a
genuine and practical Reformer—a speech not un-
worthy of having fallen from the lips of the Hon.
Member for Sheffield, in his important and respon-
sible capacity as Chairman of the London Admi-
nistrative Reform Association. Higher praise than
this it would be difficult to accord to the re-
marks uttered only the night before last
by Mr. ROEBUCK before Mr. LAWRZNCE
WORTH, M.P. (the Chairman of the occasion), and
his Financial Reform Associates of Liverpool.
Nevertheless, it is commendation to which these
energetic remarks are in every respect, we con-
ceive, eminently well entitled. They were not
merely well-timed, moreover, in reference to the
interests of Reform generally—now that we have
arrived, in a manner, upon the very threshold
of the re-opening of Parliament—but they are well-
timed also in a very peculiar manner, in so
far as they affect the speaker's own political
reputation. Viewed under this twofold aspect
they can scarcely, we believe, be regarded any-
where by a really sincere Reformer, without ex-
citing in his mind sentiments of strong and un-
affected satisfaction.
In the very preamble, or exordium of his
harangue, Mr. Itozsucr intimated that he viewed
the occasion upon which he was then speaking,
as significative of a formal adhesion between the
Administrative Reform .Association of London
and the Financial &form Association of
Liverpool. Gracefully conceding to the latter
when he avowed this, the merit of a very
marked priority-1848-0 haring witnessed the
formation of the provincial, as 1864-55 witnessed
that of the metropolitan Association. Neverthe-
less, remote from each other as were the periods of
their respective inauguration, and dissimilar as
were their general outlines—those of the Liver-
pool Association being in a manner as restricted
as those of the London Association are compre-
hensive—Mr. Rozurrcx, as the chosen President
of the latter, strenuously, and cordially, and
reasonably, insisted that their aim might be
regarded as nothing less than absolutely
and literally identical. That aim he defined
thus simply and significantly—That every
one in the community should be taxed according
to his means ! Nothing more and nothing less
than this. For in the realisation of that single
project how many and ho' various the reforms
necessarily requiring to be accomplished as mere
preliminaries !

The rise of the great Mr itropolitan Reform As-
sociation Mr. ROEBUCK ascribed to the Finan-
cial Reformers of Livei;pool, in a manner as
earnest as it was pictrfre ique. He attributed
it directly to the horror the
people of England, in thir, very midst of the I,ate
lweairthnedwth:ch
Crimean contest with Ftussia,
at their
noble army " an 'army," said
the speaker,
g never surpassed for its effici•
-dncy, for its power,
and for its will"--way, ic ,
q""tuadling away, was
being destroyed, not 'by th
.6 arms of the enemy,
but by the accursed in
Ministry .1" Then if dcrnttty of purpose of a
. was, he exclaimed—" And,
when the people •
of England heard that this their
gallant army •
u in all etas thus being destroyed, they rose
p
their magnanimous and magnificent
array of
anger and power, snd they put down

the administration under which that evil
happened." Ther, it was that the Administrative
Reform Association of the capital upon an
ampler and a grander scale than its prototype
—took pattern and took courage from the course
pursued, ever sinc3lB4B, by the Financial Reform
Association of L:verpeol. The purpose of that
new political League in London being to put an
end to the cause of the mischief—that being, as
Mr. ROEBUCK boldly:defines it, " the Aristocratic
Government of this country I" Inspirited by which
patrioticpurposetheAdministrativeßeformers have
now, as the President of their Association informs
the publio at large, an organisation so complete
that it enables tllem, whenever they please, to
communicate with somebody in every post-town in
England ! The endeavours of this energetic
movement being, at the present moment, threefold
—firstly, to discover the mode of taxation itself ;
secondly, its collection ; and thirdly, its distribu-
tion. No wonder that, talking to a sympathetic
audience upon such generalities—no won-
der, we say, that at such a time,
and under such circumstances, Mr.
ROEBUCK found himself in a manner constrained
to note in a particular manner that great and
crying Grievance of the Hour—the Income
Tax ! No wonder that, talking of the Income
Tax, he should take occasion to reiterate his old
dogged, unanswerable, knock-down argument—
" That a man who ha 4 a hundred or a thousand
a-year from funded or landed property was far
more able to pay a tax of 5 or 6 per cent, than a
man who made a hundred or a thousand a-year
by his brains or his labour." Further, still,
Mr. Ronsucit added—" My argument was
this—that a man who had a hundred a year
from landed property and spent that hundred—
and if sickness came upon him, or if he died,
there was the hundred a year still for his family.
But I said too—and little did I think how soon
I myself would be an example of the fact—sup-
posing a man belonging to that elass—whieh cer-
tainly is not very popular—the class to .which I
myself belong—a lawyer—suppose that man made
a thousand a year in the arduous exercise of his
intellectual faculties, suppose from year to year
he went on making that sum, until loy the overtax-
ing of brain he was stricken down in a night ! "
What then Where is the 1,000/. per annum ? Where
in a lesser case are the '5OO/. a year—the 4001.
a year—the 300/. a year—of the over-wrought
professional man, of the man drawing his income
annually not from funded or landed possessions,
but from " the sweat of his brain ?" Gone !
A. cruelty—we take it—wholly unjustifiable !
An argument altogether unanswerable !
No—
the Income Tax as at present levied is a wrong
so flagrant, and by this time to the country at
large so entirely obnoxious, that—it cannot by
any possibility be persisted in by this or by any
other Government. Mr. ROEBUCK has confirmed
our impression to that effect, whatever may be
implied by that official jargon of specious gene-
ralities with which the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer—as in duty bound—wards off the home
thrusts of a pertly perverse Deputation !

If the new Chinese War has been rather singu-
larly and strikingly inaugurated by the bombard-
ment of Canton—the new Persian War has been
opened in a manner still more startling and ex-
traordinary. Our expeditionary forces against
the dominions of the SHAH have celebrated the
commencement of their warlike operations, both
military and maritime—the latter under Admiral
LBRILE, aided by General OUTRAM, by taking pos-
session of the island of Karrak, and forcibly occu-
pying the seaport of Bushire—the former under
Brigadier CIIIMBERLAYNE, by coolly returning
upon his own footsteps along the Khyber Pass to
Peshawar ! The celebrated feat accomplished by
the King of FRANCE with his 40,000 men, being
about equivalent to the one last mentioned ! The
next news will be, of course—supposing this intel-
ligence as to the retreat of ONAMBERLAYNE with
his 5,000 sepoys be confirmed—that Col. JACOB
has emulated his compatriot by withdrawing his
troops in like manner along the Bolan Pass to
their Scindian starting point near Shikapoor. In
which case DosT MATIOMMED and his Ameers
will have to bear the brunt of the
encounter, such as it may prove to be, with the
Persian warriors despatched across the western
frontiers of Cabul—suppoiing the design be still
entertained among the Affghans of reasserting
their right of sovereignty over the Heratees. Ge-
neral Sir J. OuTRAm and Admiral Sir H. LEEKE
being left all the while to mpke the best they can
out of the unfructile conquest of Bushire, out of
the valueless possession of the Island of Karrak,
and out of those terrific atmospheric peculiarities
of the Persian Gulf, which are the terror even of
the almost case-hardened inhabitants of the Bag-
dad Pachalic !

All this blundering and bungling in regard to
Persia cannot but necessitate, we conceive, from
the approaching Parliament immediately it shall
have reassembled, a new and very urgent demand
for explanations from the Ministerial organs of
her MAJESTY'S Government.

The reader who has followed the Emperor of
A.IISTIII/ in his tour through Venice and Lom-
bardy can hardly fail to feel a sort of contemp-
tuous pity for that much-deceived Monarch.
Instead of a triumphal progress, what a reception
has he everywhere experienced ! Vainly has
official ingenuity been taxed to gather crowds of
claquers in the streets, aid marshal groups of
native sycophants in the palace and the theatre.
" GOD bless him " has died in the throats of the
venal—the noble have eschewed the palace as they
would a lazaretto—the theatres have been de-
serted by their usual habitues. A melancholy
young Monarch, surrounded by his guards
and officials, and shunned by his subjects
—sometimes even hissed such has been
the spectacle
that has been everywhere pre-
seated, save at Milan, where the attitude of
the population has been, and is, positively
menacing. Had the Emperor anticipated anything
like this he would never have undertaken so
memorable a tour. One can hardly say whether
the sullen apathy or the savage pasquinade would
be most ungrateful to the Imperial mind. What
a frightful satire is that triumphal arch at Milan,
paid for from the Imperial purse, and topped by
the population in the night with a crown of reit
skulls I Is it a subject of congratulation or the
reverse that the satire can hardly be said to be
exaggerated ? For what has been the character
of Austrian rule ? Has not murder gone hand
in hand with oppression ? Have not the noblest
been crushed with the strong hand, and the fusil-
lade and the scaffold crowned the arch of the
prison ? Has not the press been silenced,
the free interchange of thought forbidden,
the aspirations of freedom quenched, as far
as might be, in blood ? Who of all the Ishmaels
from truth and honour—who of all the sycophants
of tyranny, is
shameless enough
questions with a denial ? Must we stop here ?
Is there nothing but pity for the mortified oppres-
sor—not a word for the W
people ? to meet these
e have greater
hope than ever of a future for Italy worthy of her
renown—worthy of freemen. An inextinguish.
able hatred of oppression is a vindication of Eter-

nal Justice ; and in the protest of the Lombardo-

Venetian provinces we recognise a notable vindi-
cation of the inalienable right of man to be free.
The seed is in him—fire cannot wither it ; blood
cannot drown it ; the scafeld cannot blight it
with its deadly shade ; serried ranks of bayonets
but serve to develope its fertility. To every
, tyrant of Europe, to every oppressor in the
world, we say—Look at the progress of the
I Austrian KA.IsEn through his ill-gotten posses-
sion'! The rumble of his artillery, the clank of
his cavalry, the measured tread of his infantry—
the sharp detonation of the fusillade, the sigh of
the prison, and the groan of the scaffold, are
hardly yet dead on the ear ; and the people, in
the shadow of all his legions, in the hearing and
sight of all his menaces, despite what he has done,
and may do—the people in their inmost hearts
are free ; and, in the indomitability of the im-
mortal principle with which the LORD of all
worlds has endowed them, hesitate not to indicate
as much to all whom it may concern ! The world
moves—such a people cannot be expected to
stand still.

SHAMEFUL WASTE OF GOVERNMENT
STORES.

The stores which were brought home from Kertch by
the Turkish Engineer Corps and landed at Chatham still
remain on Gun-wharf, where they were originally de.
posited, and unless measures be speedily adopted to pro-
tect them from the ravages of the weather there is little
doubt that nearly the whole of the stores—sufficient for
the equipment of an army of 25,000 men—will be ren-
dered entirely useless, if, indeed, that is not already the
case. The whole of the articles, some of which are of a
very valuable description, are left exposed to the weather
without any kind of protection, excepting that afforded
by the coverings of the waggons and the boxes in which
they are deposited, and in that condition they have re-
mained during the whole of the winter, and, in fact,
since they were brought home at the close of last sum-
mer. Among the articles deposited at Chatham are
telegraph apparatus with several miles of wires, all
kinds of carpenters', builders, and miners' tools, harness
and saddlery sufficient for several thousand horses, india.
rubber boats, tents, and every other requisite for an
army in the field. The stores were inspected some months
since by General Sir J. Burgoyne, Inspector-General of
Fortifications, when it was understood that they were to
be immediately handed over to the corps of Royal En gi.
neere at Brompton, to be deposited with the other stores
belonging to that corps, and kept in order by the Engi-
neer troops ; but up to the present time no order has
been given to that effect. The men belonging to the
engineer corps of the Turkish Contingent, who arranged
the stores at Chatham, and were for some time employed
in attending to them, have been discharged from that
duty.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir
G. Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the
Right Hon. R. V. Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley,
the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
The Earl and Countess of Erroll left town last week
for Scotland, where they contemplate remaining until
the month of April.
The Earl and Countess Spencer are entertaining a se-
lect circle at Althorp Park, Northamptonshire.
Lord Broughton is surrounded by a family circle at
Erlestock Park, Wilts.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on
Thursday evening; from Harpton Court, Kington, Here
furdshire. _ _

Sir George Grey returned to London yesterday, from
Windsor Ca4tle.

On dit, that a commission on the claims of the Medi-
cal Officers of the Army is to be issued, over which Mr.
Sidney Herbert is to be invited to preside.
The majority of the Earl of Lincoln, eldest son of the
Duke of Newcastle, is to be celebrated on a grand scale
at Clumber on the 27th, 28th, and 29th inst. The noble
duke is very popular amongst his neighbours, tenantry,
tradespeople, &c.
Earl Spencer will preside at a public dinner to be held
at the Gs )rge Hotel, Northampton, on the 28th inst.,
the object of which is to aid the funds of the Master
Boot and Shoemakers' Provident and Benevolent Insti•
tution, established in 1836. The Asylum is at Mort-
lake, Surrey.
The Right Hon. Robt. Lowe, M.P.,Vice-President of
the Board of Trade, has been on a visit to Manchester
this week.

It is repeated that the ❑ew Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, Sir Alexander Cockburn, is certainly to
receive a peerage. His title will, it is added, be that of
Lord Langton, after the name of the family estates i❑
Berwiok, which now belong to the Marquis of Bread-
al bane.

GENERAL TOM THUMB is compelled to engage a larger
saloon to accommodate his numerous admirers. He will
remain at Regent Gallery until February 2d, on which
day he takes possession of the spacious Prince of Wales
Bazaar, 209, Regent-street.
LONDON TlME.—Tbere is a great difference between
the West-end and City clocks, or, at all events, some o
them. The clock of St. Mary's, Marylebone, for instance,
is 7:i minutes in advance of St. Bride's, Fleet-street
Surely this ought not to be, for the inconvenience and
disappointment are incalculable. _

FATAL ACCIDENT ♦T MILE-END.—Yesterday afternoon
as a bricklayer named George Perry was employed in
the erection of a large chimney at the chemical works
of Messrs. Williams and Fletcher, Mile-end, he was
suddenly seized with giddiness, and fell from a height of
nearly 100 feet to the ground below. He was taken up
with his skull fractured, and at once conveyed to the
London Hospital, but before he arrived there life was
extinct.

STRANDING OP THE TYNE.—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.--
But little intelligence has been received here for the last
few days respecting the progress of the spirited endea-
vour now being made to float the steam sbip Tyne from
her rocky bed at St. Alban's. She is still in the same
position as before ; but vessels can now lie alongside her
and be freighted with her stores and machinery. The
endeavour to float her will not be made until the spring
tides are at the highest—viz., on Wednesday next.
HEAVY GALE IN THE MERSEY AND FEARED LOSS OF
AN AMERICAN SHIP.—LIVERPOOL, Friday.—A strong
gale from the north-west swept over Liverpool and
neighbourhood last night, increasing in severity after
midnight, and at four o'clock this morning was at its
height. Fears are entertained for the large fleet of out-
ward bound vessels which went to sea yesterday. ek fine
American ship of 1180 tons, the Confederation, under
the command of Captain earning, was telegraphed off
the Welsh coast yesterday afternoon, and at nine a.m.
to-day went on shore on the south side
She of thehowe v Victoria
Channel and hoisted signals of distress. , er,
afterwards floated off, but having again lost her rudder
she again drove ashore near the former place, hremains, and is expected to become
In thet
Mersey seve-
wreck. The
crew were saved by the life boat.
ral casualties are reported.
THE MAlLS.—SouTHAernote, Friday.—The Royal
Mail Company's steamship Medway, Captein Parker,
is appointed to take out the Brazil and River Plate
mails of the 9th pros., instead of the Tyne. The latter
vessel, lately stranded off St. Alban's Head, has been
lightened abut 200 tone, by taking out part of her
machinery, floats from the paddles, &c., and it is
expected that the trial to get the ship off will be made
on Sunday or Monday if the weather should permit.
Captain Vincent and others are still very sanguine as to
the result. The Tamar, now at -Vigo, cannot be 're-
paired before the arrival at that port of the next Penin-
sular steamer hence (the Madrid), which will take out a
new rudder and crank pin for the 'rawer ; therefore she
will not be able to leave Vigo before the first week in
February. The Peninsular and Oriental C nelpauy,,
steamer Madrid, Captain Bradshaw, will take out the
next Peninsular mail on the 27th inst. ; and the Ripon,
Capt. R. W. Evans, will leave with the Indi,acaandt,C
Jhionya,
mails on the 4th February. The Alhamb p
ra
having been detained by bad weather on the outward
voyage with the Peninsular mails, will be delayed beyond
her usual time of arrival here, and is not expected till
the 26th or 27th instead of the 24th. The Union Steam
Side Company's screw steamer Norman, Capt. Vallint,
sailed hence to-day for the Brazils with about 200 tons
of cargo, specie value 35,0591. 10s., and jewellery value
1,300/.
FORGERY AT THE MANSION-
THE LATE CASE OF
HOUSE.—At the Judges' Chambers yesterday (Friday)
ch appeared
the case of Edward Horace Mon tefiore,
in The Sea of Tuesday,
was mentioned.whi The defend-
ant, who is confined in Whitecross-street Prison, was
arrested on a Judges order as he was about
leaving the Mansion-house on his discharge by the
Lord Mayor on the alleged charge of forgery on the
Cape of Good Hope Bank, his Lordship being of
opinion ' that he had no jurisdiction to entertain the
matter. A summons for the discharge of the defendant
was heard on Wednesday before Mr. Justice Coleridge,
at the suit of a gentleman named Hewitt, from whom
the defendant had obtained a ship in the name of Lacs-
field, and given hie acceptance, payable at the Bank of
England. The defendant, in his affidavit, denied that he
intended to quit the country ; but, on the contrary, was
engaged to marry a lady, and meant to reside in Lon
don. The application for the discharge was opposed by
Mr. Ribton, as counsel for the plaintiff, and supported
by Mr. Lewis (Lewis and Lewis) on the part of the de-
fendant. Mr. Justice Coleridge entertained a doubt on
the matter, and gave the defendant the benefit of it by
ordering his discharge. The order was made on W
nesday, but did not apply to the several detainers
against the defendant. Several summonses, returnable
at chambers on Friday, were served on the patties to
show cause why he shouldnot be discharged at their
suit. The defendant in his affidavit denied that he
intended to leave the country. The parties on the
oth-:r side required time to answer the allegath as, and
the several summonses atuod over till Monday, the
defendant still remaining in Whitecross prison,

LATEST NE WS.

TRIESTE, JAN. 23.

Accounts from Constantinople of the 16th
inst. announce the closing of the Conference re-
lative to the Principalities.

Ten thousand Turkish troops will occupy the
Principalities during the election of the Divans,
with a view to the maintenance of order.
A Circassian chief has arrived at Constanti-
nople, charged with an official mission. The
Circassians have had a dreadful battle on the
coast with the Russians, and all the prisoners
taken were put to the sword.
The English met with little resistance when
they took possession of Larrak and Bushire.
The small garrison of Bushire retired into the

interior.
Brigadier Chamberlayne's force had returned to
India.

PERSIA.

Intelligence has been received from Teheran to
the 19th of December.
The Shah of Persia had visited his arsenals and
concentrated his troops on the eastern frontiers of
his empire.
In the Southern Provinces he had caused a
holy war to be proclaimed.

Russia had taken possession of the islands of
the Caspian without the consent of Persia.
The north-eastern Persian provinces are being
devastated by several warlike tribes from the
mountainous districts of Khiva, in independent
Tartary. The Koords are also harassing the
country near the Khali.
The Imaum of Muscat was seeking to annex
the province of Aloghastan to his territories.

MILAN, JAN. 23.

The Emperor of Austria has decreed that the
debt of the province of Lombardy to the State,
amounting to two millions, shall be cancelled.
Their Majesties intend to leave Milan for
Florence to-day (Saturday).

COPENHAGEN, JAN. 23.

The State Council has approved of the answer
to the German notes, and energetically defends the
policy of selling Crown lands. It declares it will
persist in the present constitutional system.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Emperor yesterday received a letter, in
which the King of Wurtemberg notifies to his
Majesty the death of the Duchess Henrietta, widow
of Duke Louis of Wurtemberg, the King's uncle,
and mother of the Queen of Wurtemberg. The
French Court will go into mourning for four
days, commencing from to-day.
A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor
presided, was held yesterday morning, at nine
o'clock.
The state of the Prince Imperial continues to be
satisfactory ; the fever has completely ceased. The
Emperor and Empress were to have honoured the
Italian Theatre with their presence on Monday
night to witness the first representation of " Rigo-
lotto," but the indisposition of the Prince pre-
vented them. Last evening their Majesties were
present at the representation of "La Reine To-
paze" at the Theatre Lyrique.
The Turkish Government has officially signified
its intention to carry out faithfully the text of the
treaty concerning the domestie organisation of the
Danubian Principalities. The Austrian army is to
retire as early as possible, and a Turkish force is
under orders to take its place.
The Moniteur contains the following :—" The
prisoners of Neuchatel have been set at liberty,
and have already arrived on the French territory.
The Helvetic Government, in accord with the
national representation of the country, ha.s acted
in a manner which does it honour, and which is
perfectly consistent with the true interests of Swit-
zerland. The Government of the Emperor had
recommended this measure as long ago as Sept.
last, and renewed its advice by a communication
dated Nov. 26. Knowing, in a confidential man-
ner, the conciliatory intentions of King Frederic
William, and aware that the question lay entirely
in the unconditional release of the prisoners, it
persisted in impressing on the Federal Government
all the bearings of the application made to it.
Were Switzerland at that conjuncture to give a
refusal, France could not any mere dissuade the
King of Prussia, whose spirit of moderation she
highly appreciated, from having recourse to arms in
order to secure a just satisfaction for his wounded
dignity. If, on the contrary, Switzerland were to yield
to the counsels of France, the latter would pledge
herself to urge that concession on the considera-
ilea of the Cabinet of Berlin, in order to prevent
any coercive measures, and to call fora satisfactory
We
solution of the Neuchatel question. thereforecoe to
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congratulate ourselves on the. resolutionth p
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by the Helvetic Confederation. rom
moment it may without fear disband its contin-
t
gents ; and the Prussian government having al-
ready announced that it is ready to enter on nego-
tiations on the groundwork of the differences, a
definitive arrangement, and one conformable to the
interests as well as to t,he dignity of the two par-
ties, may be hoped for.'
The Moniteur contains a notice of the treaty of
commerce which M. de Montigny concluded last
year with the Siamese Government, and which we
have already spoken of, as well as that envoy's de-
parture for Cochinchina.
pr. Kern, the Swiss Envoy Extraordinary, has
arrived in Paris.
The Persian ambassador, Feruck Khan, and
his suite have taken up their residence at 26,
Avenue Montaigne, Champs Elysees. The
im-
mediate suite of his excellency is composed of
36 persons. All the attaches, secretaries, and
dragomans bear the title of mirza' similar to
that of effendi among the Turks. Some of the
aaches have been before in Paris and speak French
fluently. The envoy himself speaks but a very few
words of French, but he is said to be well versed
in the different dialects of the East. For the last
two days several persons belonging to the embassy
have been seen walking in the streets of Paris.
These Persians have already adopted the European
trousers, which they probably find warmer in this
climate, and more convenient than their own.
Some general and superior officers form part of the
embassy. With the exception of the high and
almost pointed Astrakan cap, the uniform of these
officers resembles those of Europe.
BOURSE, Jan. 23.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 6B 5 68 10
New Loan
Bank Shares 4,175 Roman (x d)
Credit Mobilier 1,405 Austrian
Belgian Fives 99:!— Spanish Threes......
Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt