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6 “EUROPE. The Coming Election in France. Tho Naval Fight Between the Greek Cruiser Enosis and the Tark- ish Frigate. John Stuart Mill on Women’s Suffrage. Important Decision on Ritual- istic Practices. ‘The steamships Etna, Captain Bridgman, of the Inman hne, and the China, Captain Hockley, of the Cunard, frofa Liverpool via Queenstown, arrived here yesterday, after very stormy passages, with advices and details of our telegrams upto the 26th ult. Earl Spencer was sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the 28d ult. He will shortly make his Public entry into Dublin, The Eastern question is assuming @ very warlike @spect. The Presse says that prociamations drawn Up in Russia predict a holy war for next spring, The English papers contain notices of the death of Mr. James Disraeli, brother of the late Premier, and one of the commissioners of tnland revenue. The Italian Minister of Finance has eatered an ac- tion tor defamation against the Italia and the Ten- | gero Prim®, for having accused him of extortion in the affair of the lately arranged tobacco contract. fie Indépendance Belge of the 23d ult. announces That the Pelgtan Minister in London is about to re- tire from we ciplomatic service, and that he will be succeeded by Baron Beaulieu. At a mecting held on Thursday, the 24th ult., the Preston manufacturers resolved to go upon short time, as proposed at the Manchester meeting—thirty hours per week during the months of January and February. Ibis stated that of forty-seven successful cand ates for municipal offices at Barcelona thirty are republicans, The details of the elections at Madrid show that 24,000 votes were given to the monarehical edndidates, while only 3,690 were recorded in favor of the republicans. ‘The Princess Mathilde 1s having a model farm es- tablished in her park at St.Gratien. It willbeon a Jarge scale, and in accordance with the suggestions of the Princess Bacctocchi, who ‘has sent there some ‘mall cows without horps. A dreadful explosion, resulting in frightful injuries to nine men, took place at the Oare Gunpowder Works, Faversham, on the morning of the 24th ult, ‘The cause of it has not yet transpired. Ata meeting of Liverpool merchants held. on the @st of December Sir Charles Fox's scheme for con- structing a railway from Liverpool to Birkenhead by means of a tunnel under the Mersey was approved of. The total cost of the enterprise ts estimated to amount to £446,000, but £20,000 only is the sum which iis proposed to raise in the first instance, and that ‘will be expended upon the driving of an experi- ‘Mental tunnel underneath the river bed. The Chamber of Nobles in Wurtemberg has adopted a bill suppressing imprisonment for debt. ‘The Minister of Justice in Bavaria has introduced a measure with the same object im the Chamber of Deputies at Munich. Advices from Florence state that the nomination ef the Marquis de la Valette to the Ministry of Foreign Affeirs has given great satisfaction in the Italian kingdom. The journais dwell with great Pleasure on the fact thatthe Marquis is an “old friend of Italy,’ and express the highest confidence ‘m hus policy. ‘The sudden elevation of Prince Charles of Hohen- gollern to the hospidarsutp of Moldo Wallachia and ‘the intrigues against Turkey, of which the Princtpall- ties have been the scene under rule of the Prussian Prince are intelligible only on the hypothesis of Some understanding between the courts of St. Peters- burg and Berlin, which forbodes mo good to the O:toman Empire. As the harbor of Trouville can be made by ships ef the largest tonnage atall times of the tide the French government have just decided, in accord- ‘ance With the recommendation of a commission pre- sided over by Prince Murat, to make Trouville a port of refuge for shipping in general, and the im- perial Channel fleet in particular. The pier is to be Jengthened and other important works commenced to provide for the easy ingress of shipping to the port during a gale. Letters from Athens to the 17th ult. confirm the mews that Greece is making great preparations for war. The King is said to have declared that he would place himself at the head of the army, if megotiations failed. The Hellenic Independence states that the towns of the realm were illuminated during three nights on learning the rupture with Turkey. King George has written an autograph and confiden- tal letter to the Emperor of Austria, oegging him to observe that the differences existing between Turkey and Greece arise purely from religious antagonism, and that it is the duty of every Christian prince to support Greece, or at least to maintain a strict neu- ‘trality. Y An alleged attempt to blow up the Albany street police station was on the 24th of December investi- gated by the magistrate at Marylebone. A man who gave the name of Barton ts in custody on the charge of throwing an explosive substance into the building, and, on the production of some formal evidence, he hhas been remanded. & A destructive storm swept over tne north of Scot- Jand on Monday night, the 2ist ultimo, The whole of the seaward staging and the stonework executed m the Wick new harbor during the year were carried @way. The Kinross schooner, of Aberdeen, was a total wreck off Stonehaven on Monday night. The crew were rescued by the Salmon covle, except one man, who was lashed to the helm and perished ‘andcr most distressing circumstances, On the 23d ultimo the whole of the North Ridmg rivers, England, were in a state of high food, and the Jow lands along their course were converted into great lakes. Along the Rye some of the villages have had the water in the houses, and at Newsham bridge the roads on each side were impassable. The marsies from Ayton to Yedingham bridge and thence downwards, are @ magnificent sheet of water. Ofcourse all herbage is destroyed. At Mal- ton some of the milis and other works adjoining the river were stopped by flood. A deputation from the shareholders in the Land and Colonization Company waited upon the Unitea ‘States Minister on the 24th of December to solicit his advice with reference to the merits of an emigration scheme which had been devised by a body of artt- sans. Mr. Jonnson expressed his interest in the ob- Ject sought to be promoted, and assured his hearers that whatever he could do to assist them should be done. December 28 were issued the Foreign OMice copies of the report made by Mr. Raseam respecting his mission to Abyssinia and the report of Consul Cameron desoribing the ¢ircumstances of his im- prisonment. They are rather too lengthy for pubii- cation, but they will prove hereafter of historic in- terest. About six o'clock on Thursday morning, the 25th ult., the Pasco lifeboat, stationed at Aldborough, Suffolk, put off in reply to a signal of distress from the brig Fuschia, of Whitvy. The vessel, whitch was found to be abandoned, had run into and dis- masted the schooner Diamond, of Goole, amd the latter was making #0 much water that the crew ‘were obliged to run her on a shoal, whence the mas- ter, mate and a boy were taken on board the life- ‘boat and safely landed. The fate of the brig's crew is unknown. The London Times, December 26, contained a long article, transiated from the astern Star, giving the official account of an interview that took place be tween the Patriarch of Constantinople and two Roman Catholic priests. Tue object of the latter's mission was to invite the Patriarth to attend the Roman ecumenical council t2 Rome. THE EASTERN QUESTION: A Review ef the Conference on the Ensters su eeeerrteame ge’ 8 1s now ira. Bui the most ’ Turk—even the member for Southwark if—does not suppose that such a settlement as that, if fond such were ; ble (which it is not), could be final, very Province that acknowl more or less reluctantly or fictitionsly, the suzerainty of the Porte would be up in arms; every province in European Turkey, in which all but an ‘insigniticant minority, are Christians, would be insurgent before the guerilla war in Thessaly and Epirus had lasted a month, and all the powers (excepting, always Great Britain) that signed the treaty of Paris, for the maiu- tenance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, would be botticholding with the utmost gravity of countenance, each waiting for the moment to break + up the ring and pounce upon the stakes, Who can then define the actual policy of France, of Russia, of Austria, or of Prussia, in the East? Russia, we know, is biding her time; but what is the under- standing between Russia and Prussia, or between France and Austria, as to future contingencies? As. a French contemporary remarks, the Eastern ques- tion Rad in fact me pre-eminently the Western question, Nor Is it enough to that the Powers which cre- ated the Hellenic Kingdom are responsible for the results of that great sentimental enterprise, and that oil that has happened since might have been fore- seen forty years ago. ‘Ihe struggle of the Greek race and of the Christian populations of European ‘Turkey against the Mussulman domination was ap- parently arrested for a while by the creation of the Hellenic kingdom; it was’ really developed and in a Manner sanctioned, That struggle did not begin with the Greek kingdom; nor woald it be at an end if the Greek kingdom disappeared to-morrow. The slow but sure processes of decay by which the Mus- sulman power is Being. Devaremabed. and under. mined throughout its ropean dominions would still go on, while the restless and aggressive genius of the Greek would sow discontent broad- cast through his counting houses in every in. every harvor of Leopol afte sing K of the Bor la, of Coburg, after ‘img of the Bel- naus, a prudent aud discermng statesman, if ever re was one, declined the crown ot Greece be- cause the territory allotted to the kingdom wus not made large enough to furnish an adequate ficid for the legitimate expansion of the energies and ima- ginations of her subjeeta, It was not that he was ‘unwilling to & sinall kingdom, so far as bis own ambition was concerned, but that he discerned at once what the French would cali the irreststibie logic of such a situation as that of an infinitessimal kingdom, representing infinite ace and a des'iny bounded only by a “ lea,”” face to face with an ancient foe, represent faith, atorce aud a most willingly let domination which Europe wou! ae ‘The OE eens, faw ‘ol the whe titled all his ‘antictpations. ‘ The Career of tho Euosis—Her Engagement with the Turkish Frigate and its Conse- quences. , {Athens (Dec. 17) Gorrespondence London Times.) The blockade runner Enosis, with her Armstrong guns mounted, left Syra for her grand expedition the week before last Having: trans 900 of ‘the troops fitted out for the invasion of Crete by the triots of Athens, from Maina to Kimolos, a small sland Ww the north of Candia, 6v0 of these troops were Jans with their arms, ammunition, and provisions for ive days, at a bay near Bali, in the mountains between Kethymnos and Candia, on Sunday even- ing December 6. On the followi Temaining 300, commanded by dD colonel iu the Greek army, with two rifled guns and ammunition, were carried from Kimolos to Prasso- nesl, near tne southeastern cape of Crete; and on Sat December 12, & large quantity of aumu- mition was landed at ada, further west in the province of Khizokastron. Extraordinary exer- ud apparenciy vety injudiclously lavished, 10 adord apparently vel ju Vi ailoi @ pretext for aeonting that the insurrection has again become general. Last Monday, the 14th, the Enosis returned to Syra, having succeeded in ail her operations with skill and daring. Her entrauce into port was attended by an ent with two Tur! ships, of which the captain gives the following report:— As he approached Syra, at a eof haif a mile from land, he was pursued by a ite bearing the flag of an Ottoman admiral, attended by the corvette izzedin, and was fired at with heavy guns, revolvers and muskets, for the ships came, he suys, Within musket shot. ¢ enthusiasm of the crew of the Enosis was worthy of the patriotism of Greece. ‘They returned the fire of the Turks with great effect. One shot from their well-poluted guns disabled the corvette by ane A _— wheel aud another raked the flag ship yw to stern. Shortly alter the Enosis was anchored in the recess of the port the Ottoman frigate cast anchor at the mouth. The fri bore the fag of the lion. Cap- tain Hobart, R. N., who has taken service with we Turks as Colonel Petroupoulakes has taken service with the Cretan comuitiee. Captain Hobart has received the rank of vice admiral. and sssumed command of the Ottoman squadron blockading tue imsurgents in Crete. Hobart Pasha sent a communi- cation to the nomareh (prefect) of Svra, witch states the facts of the engagement somewhat difereatiy from the report of the captain of the Enosis. lie informe the nomarch that about eight A. M. he observed the Enosis, which, after having been Pubiicly fitted ont with Armstrong guns in the port of Syra, ra he believed, returning from landing a large body of armed Greeks to gsist the insurrec- ton in Crete. When he was six miles distant irom Jand he ordered the Izzedin to fire @ gun without shot as an order to the Enosis to bring to, but at the first blank fire of the Izzedin the Enosis replied with ashotted gun, The ball struck the Admiral’s suip and shattered two boats. The izzedin then fired snotted guns and pursued the nosis to within four miles of the port. ‘The flagship followed, anchored, and the Admiral sent a letter to the homarch demanding that the fnosis should be sequestered as a and her process made, aud that the nomarch shouid act energeti- cally and without delay, Hobart Pasha observes that the Enosis has, during the last two years, while engaged in blockade-ranuing, repeatedly violated’ the law of nations, and is uow caught in an act of Piracy which cails for legal punishment. He con- ciudes by demanding a strict judicial investigation in the presence of tlre European consuls at Syra, ‘The homarch and the consuls immediately sent off an express steamer to Aliens for justractions, and in the meantime the Ottoman Vice Admiral remains anchored in the mouth of the port, to prevent tue armed blockade runners, Enosis aad Crete, trom escaping to sea. ENGLAND. Ritualism-Importaut Decision on Church Practices. {From the London Times, Dec, 24, The case of “Martin v8. Makonochie,” in which some of the most characteristic practices at St. Al- ban’s, Holborn, were challen: was yesterday de- cided, and the result is that Mr. Mackonochie is con- demped upon every one of the points raixed, and ta required to pay the costs both of the original suit and the present appeal. This decision is as import- ‘tant as it will be satisfactory to the public. The case has brought to the test of law some of the most prominent innovations of the Kitualists. They were imuovations closely connected with their most char- acteristic doctrines—those, namely, which relate to the Holy Communion. To indicate their pe- cultar belief this sacrement, they introduced a variety of novel a cere- monies sae Soe inane in ‘ the aggregate, these produced @ change so conspicuous as utierly to alter the character of the service, it was, a8 usual, very dificult to describe them with sufficient accuracy for a legal test. At length, how- ever, aiter the Gey ny numerous lawyers has been exerted on voth the question has been brought to a distinct issue, and on that issue Mr. Mackonochie has without exception, con- been fairty chal- demued. ititualism, in has lenged in the highest court law, end has been completely defeated. The issue, though limited, is of material significance, and the condemnation nounced is suificient to prove that the position of the Titualists is wholly untenable, The case may be very Mr. pomp aged was “f~; > with vating the elements during pr conser: ton; secondiy, with 1 fore them during the same prayer; thirdiy, with using lighted candies on the communion table during the celebration of Se hy, Re | ey were not required incense’ int the name “verve mt: Mr. condemned the tse of incense and of water. mitted, however, the lawfulness of lighted candies and considered the kneciing a minor point of order, which, if raised at ail, should be referred to the dig- cretion of the bishop. The judicial committee have now ruled that kneeiing Curing te prayer of conse- eration is contrary to the rubric andyhat lighted candies are not admissable, ‘Chere remains, there- fore, not asingle point on which the adefeodant has susiained his case, What is still more remark- able there is scarcely an argument on which tue ¢vansel for the rituallsie relied winch bas putts ctmaion sere acted ee of kneeling, But ib .¢ = HH al 33 la aT ree et Hy ige ote ne ite bisa proof that selves mixht seem very trivial may. practically volve most material consequences. It 1s a8 nen as itis equally questionable plea that there to show that adoration wag intended by kneeling. ‘The court would, in any case, find it very dificult to judg of intentions and sentiments, and conse- ently it 13 all the more. that it should judge strictly of ‘outward movements.” On this Fsraeka im short, Mr. Mackonochte had violated f dis- ict rubric, and the question could not therefore be reierred to the discretion of the vishop, The use of lighted candles raised a question of even greater significance and importance. They had been treated either asa ore or a3 an or- nament, and on either alternative they had been Justified by an argument which has been extensively used by the ritualsts, and on which, in fact, they base their whole system of innovation. . They have alleged that they are justified in adopting any practice which ‘the prayer book does not ex- pe condemn—in other words, that whatever not expressly abolished is retained a3 lawful. In tiis instance they appeal to certain tnjune- tions issued in the first year of Edward Vi., and their counsel even went so far as to quote a constitu. tion made by a councti held under the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1322, The Court, we rejoice to say, dismissed those antiquarian references as utterly urelevant. They lay it down, in direct opposition to the principal of the ritualists that all ceremonies are abolished which are not expressly retained in the prayer book, This is plainly implled in the pretace, but {t is placed beyond ¢oubt by Elizabeth’s act of uniformity, now applicable to the present prayer book, which prolubits any rite, ceremony, order or form which is ‘not mentioned in the prayer book, and deciares void all prior usages and ordinances, The opening rupric, again, orders ihat “suca ornaments of the Church -and of the ministers thereof shat! be retained, and be in use, as were in this Chureh of England, by au- thority of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of King Edward VI.” The rituaiists have argued from this that whatever was lawfal in the designated year of Edward VI. is lawful now; and through this loophole, as tie reader has already seen, they have introduced tato the controversy not only the shifting usages of that confused period, but the endless and antiquated canons of medieval ec- clesiastics. Al , of course, might be built on such & Lette 2 Roars, gy inte now distinctly expla! ose things only possess the guthority of Parliament which are paereey in the nam rayer book referred to. It is nothing to the point that the candles were lawful at the when the gas was issued. They are not pre- scribed in it, and they are. therefore, abolished. e rubric, they observe, might have sald that such or- nawments should be retained as were then lawful, or such as were then in use; but in fact it says such only as were in use by authority of Parliament, and this ig now decided to mean such as are ¢: prescribed in the first prayer, book, or as are con- sistent with and subsidiary tothem. Asa matter of fact, the use of lighted candles was almost univer- eb discontinued after the Reformation, which af- be Nad a strong confirmation of the view thus taken ol We . The London Times on American Finances. The Times of the 2th ult. in @ long editorial reviewing the financial condition of the United States, concludes as follows:— There is another fact of the gravest importance to be considered by the incoming tration, which, indeed, underlies almost every other fnan- cial question. an en currency, amount >near! ‘warps more or Tons the aaginent of every man in the, United States, It is impossible to take up a State paper— it is impossible to study the expressions of public opinion in the Union without ing how the appre- clation of every financial question which arises for discussion 1s clouded by this atmosphere of confu- sion which envelops all. It enables noisy ignorance | to be loud voiced without the. fear of detection. It prevents the success of the sincere attempts of hon- eat men to seek out the truth. It cloaks the inherent wrongfulness of a hundred schemes of defrauding the public creditor, which are started and occupy attention without apparently e@ suspicion that the same flaw reappears in different fortns ineach., Mr. McCulloch, it must be said to his credit, has consist- ently endeavored to remove this cause of error. He has been, through causes to a great extent beyond his own control, unsuccessful; but whoever may be the Secretary of the Treasury under General Grant will be bound to follow him in making this last tact to which we have adverted one of the irst to which he must give mus attention. Mr. John Stuart Mill and Women’s Snffrage. The following coresponé-ace between thé National Society for Women’s Suffrage and John Stuart Miil has been published in the London papers of the 23d wit:— EDINDURG BRANCH OF THR) Nations Sociwry ron WoMEN's RUFFRAGE,- NEWwINGT@én House, Dec. 1, 1868. ") DEAR S12—On behalf of the above soclety, I write to an that we feel, both individually and as « committee, indebted to’ you for what you have done for um and for eur ease that we onuid not Bear of the seault of the West minster election without ings of deepest regret, an: we trust you will not deem it intrusive if we venture to ex- press the disappointment we felt at an event which came Upon as a creat biow, when we were trusting to your influence {n this new Parliament to advance the question of women's sutfrage. ‘Our feelings of pain and regret were not, however, con- fined to considerations connected with our ows. cause. | € regretted stil more that constituency could have rejected one of such bigh powers of thought aad great at. tainments. We fear, because of your feariess protent nation, as evinced by the great moral courage yuu dlapla; glong with Mr, P. Antari tn tbe proeen tion of Govern jyre—an act for which an enlighten ty nay regard you even more highly than for your cmiSent invsllectual’ ear wine ‘We feel that, whether in or out of Parliament, your talents will be actively and consctentiousiy employed in the promo- it it your daty to help on or section of men cam hinder, by any one act of theirs, the advance of truth and ng in this belief and hoping you will kindly accept ‘oexproseton of our grativude and sympathy, | am, ‘uurs eineerely, oy ‘PRISCILLA MoLAREN, President. AVIONON, Deo, 12, 1868, Daan MADAM—Few things conld be more gratifying to me than the letter with whfeb I have been honored by you and nek You to accept und to convey to the eat acknowiedgunenta, tI | with the House of Com- tof my having had the honor of being the first to make the claim of women to th co ® Parhamentary nestion is the most gratifying, as I believe it to have been most important public service (oat circumstances mace it in my power to render. This is Low a thing accom and the cause basa sudicient number of supporters amor the best men in the House of Commons to carry on as mu of the contert as ean be conducted there, Tt remaihe for the intelligent women of the country to give their moral support to the men who are engaged in urging thelr claims, and to ‘open the manda of the is inteiligent to the fact dat poiitveal freedot Is the only effectual reweiy for the eyils which most women are conscious that w Whatever power I mas have to promote this cause outside the House of Com- injustice to a race too long down-trodden by almost nw enor mous { shail not fall to exert to the Cy «Salah my feelings and appro- the ee eae oe Your expressions of gy with bation of my conduct on ties are peculiarly grateful to me; for it has been cial sorrow that [ bave ree moved at the recital of sopposed would at le foperous indignation pecullarly among women w! duty to use their intelligence on matters of politics that the severest condemnation of Mr. 9 jostruments ¢ #udject 01 had the warmth of heart which all women ought to feelings would have been revolted at the int should have been found, for if such women va thelr Mcted, an! they would have considered the reasonings by which these were attem beyund their provinces. “ vas" aforded to As It Ia, the conduct of ao ie ‘one more evidence that the renunciation of maseuiine intelli- (fee eves no security for womanly Kindness, Iafiam, very sincerely yours, Mra. MoLsnen, Newington House, Ediaburg. “The Lost Ship Starry Banner” (* On the 20th nit. a telegraphic despatch from Lon- don and@inced the oss of the emigrant ship Starry Banner, but subsequently reported that the informa tion furnished might possibiy be a canard from the fact that nothing could be iearned as to whether there was such a ship or not. Other circumstances also went to prove that the news received here and publisihed was incorrect. The following is taken from the London Shipping Gozeite of the 26th of December, and may help to explain the origin of the startling announcement:— Livenroot, Dec. 25, 1868, ‘The Mary Mark, Milligan, hence "% hy which gay ime Queenstown with pumps choked inst., about five feet water in her ndld, and a coke survey since held, the c» is presumed to more or less di by water in from above, There were picked up, on the 224 about 100 miles south of My two lifeboats, bowsprit, and a figurehead bearing the name “starry Mueorge. Browne, second. leitenane ‘oF siaemshty “ 0 a Starry banner,” painted on one of tem. Ocean Postage. {From the London Times, Dec, 23.) Mr. Hadfield, M.P., and Mr. Baziey, itp. havo initiated the tollowimg memorial to the American Minister, Who has gracefully received it and cheer- fully expressed his willinguess to promote cheap ocean postage between the United Btates and the United Kingdom:— . Bin—Being aware of the signal benefite which have been derived in the U ‘od in Great Britain and Ireland these countries, we Je consideration of ecorue by We ea ory of wey Whe advautages whieh in If there had been time to apply to every member of the House of Commons iiere 1s the surdnigest rea for belie that not a single son would have FRANCE. ¥ The Paris Press en the Coming French Elec- dons. The Paris Eiendard, of the 224 December, gene- rally looked on as obtaining information from the Ministry of the Interor, publishes the following note:— The geet elections for the legislative body will be In May next—that is to say, wi'hin five months. A8 by the terms of the law a period of half a year is allowed to the executive power t Mill up vacant seats, the question may be asked whether there 1s- any necessity, or even any advantage in proceeding at the present moment to parual elections, and in convoking three or four colleges to choose Deputies, Whose junctions would last just three months. We should not be astonished to learn that the govern- ment, exercising its constitutional rigut, one abstain from convoking the constituencies of the Boucnes du Ruoae, Aube, Aveyron and Somme until the perce of the general elections, which will be W.thin Jess than six months trom the date at which the successiou of MM, Berryer, Auguste Ouevalier, Rambourg and Gressier was opened, On this the Siecle makes the following comment:— he night of government in this circumstance is doubitui, as it iay constitationaily go to the extreme limit of six months before filing ‘up Vacant seats, Bu’ tn this circumstance strict right has not merely to be considered; the question Ol propriety has aiso to be taken futo consideration. We ask every impar- tial person whetuer four cireumsriptions can, with Justice, be deprived of tneir elec oral rishts during an entire session? ~Wouid not such an act bea vivia- tion of the spirit of our institutions? If the session were commeuced, and if the discussion on the bud- get and other Important measures which are to be sdbuitted to the legislative *Lody was commenced, ‘we couid understand that the replacing of deputies deceased or who had resigned migut be adjourned, but when nothing prevents their successors from be- ing elected in time to rake part in the labors o1 the session, We ask, can their seat be with decency leit vacant? We can only see one possib.e explanation for this resolution of the government, which is, that ‘ibiears a series of deieats, Such a result would be for the opposition tne successtul prelude to the great electorial contest of next year. SPAIN. Montpensier’s Manifesto, The English journals contain the Jollowing under date of December 24, from Madrid:— The journais publish @ manifesto from the Duke of Montpensier, dated Lisbon, the 19.h inst. The Duke explains the purpose of his recent journey to Spain, whicn he justifies on the plea that he was ‘anxious as a citizen to exercise his right to offer, as in duty por services to his country as a soldier in order to ald in its defence against an outbreak which he believed had been instituted by the reac- uonary party. He simply intended to serve,a3s a combatant, and gave no preliminary oficial notice of hig step, as it was his intention to turow off his incognito as soon as he shonid have reached the scene of contest. Upon his arrival at Cordova he discovered that the true aim of the insurrection was not of a character, and he returned to Portugal, The letter declares un- true certain gccusations wiich beea Tai him, and proceeds to reca'l the fact that he wished to have taken in the war against Morocco, a8 could be proveti from oill- cial documents. | Furiher, that he and his consort, tue Infante, had unceasingly endeavored to induce she Nate (Geen Pamela ans ake: ane im, Aas, follow @ liberal policy, efforts which unfortu- jad. been unavailing. He respects the principle of universal as the source of the legitimate ciaim of a nation to share the political administration of a free country. The Duke says that, notwithstanding the fact that he’ himself is a devoted Catholic, he wishes that every one in Spain sould worship God accoruing to the promptings of his conscience, with as much liberty as Is enjoyed by Spanish residents in London, Edinburg, or Geneva. ‘The letter concludes with the assurance that the writer is not influenced by ambition—that in fact he covets nothing save evan more to belong to Spain—the new Spain of berty. THE SHPPENSBUIG (PA) MURDER, Interview With the Murderer—A Letter from Him. ‘The Shippensburg (Pa.) Valley Sentinel of the 7th instant contains the following account of a conver- sation the reporter of that paper had with Adam ‘Titus, the murderer of Henry Stamm, and a letter, which he has written since his arrest:— After the excited crowd had scattered, and all was quiet, we entered the cell and had a conversation with the prisoner. He was handcuffed and chained to the floor by means of a three foot chain, connect- ing with the foot hobbies used on such occa-" sions. We informed him of our business, and re- juested him to make only such statements as he fait free to have publisied to the world in advance of his trial. He said it was foily to deny the crime, and that he knew his fearful position and the terrible deed ne had committed; that the name of the murdered man was Henry Stamm; that he had come from Carlisle on Monday and that he killed him at two or three o'clock on Wednesday; that he struck him first with the axe on the side of the head or forehead; that the man fell at his fect aud that ne then cut him with the bit of the axe; that he returned to the woods about nine o’clock on Friday morning and buried the body; that he wept while he did bo, and even got down and Kissed the corpse before cov- ering it with earth. He further stated that Stamm was sober, and that tie (litus) had taken six — of ale and one giass of wine before he left own on the day of the murder; that Stamm had al- ways his best friend and that a conversation or Stamm to him concerning his marriage relation had excited a quarrel between them and that Stamm had first struck at him with @ club. Lie also siated that he had got no money irom the dead man, but he had borrowed fifteen doilars from him on Tuesday; that Stamm was from Germany and only six montis in America; that both he and Stamm were Catho- lcs and had been taiking on their way to the woods about visitiig the Catholic church ia Chambersburg; that ne one of the Pry family were guilty of any part of the crime, and that he hud beem careful to ag Sng in the dark about the murder—that be had a asked by hia wite of Stafam’s whereabouts and of what made him so muddy and his eyes so red. He toid her he had fallen and that Stamm liad gone away. He further stated he was from Hamburg, Germany, and had been six years in America; that he was now twenty- five Years of age, and that bota his parents are alive; that he wants no news of his sad end to reach them, and that, above all, he wants to have his wife cleared from auy part or portion of his crime; that she always gavo him advice he shoula have followed, This is all we noted down of his confession, and We pablish it with his consent, Titus is by no means a& roagh appearing man; he is agreeable in conver- sation seems to fully realize the demands of justice. Le is about five feet and five mches high and weighs, as ke states, 165 pounds. ie has a small, round face, fair complexion, light hair, a small goatee and light gray eyes. LETTER FROM THR PRISONTR, ‘The following letter from the prisoner to a gentie- man inthis place has been handed to us. It is at Carlule jail, January 3, 1800:— Dean sre—t oat myself to the task of writing you a fow Noes. Iam very much troubled and grievously tormented to the bottom of my beart, for the crf ime L have committed fs « fearfully great one, I Jod in am very much afraid that the great And good God is angry with me and never witl forgive me wis greatsin. Ioan tind no reat by day or might, for my ead irlend Is ever before may, apes) with the blood’ gushing frou the wo cout in his ly. Ob, T feel; T fear my life will be too short to to ay great offen who tus all with eh ope is left mo--His mise to ide Hin on the “yoy and to whom He said, “This day thou shalt be But the holy Scriptures remind me ‘God. was with Cain when he slew his brotuer “Where Is thy brother, that his blood Jo on hight? never can deny tony ve Mtted, although T might ve Almighty God, for did. “No sooner had I than I beard the votce of what bast thow glone and toile me even £ i ea E 3 & u i ef Eg rE = 5 tl i i ____ ADAM TiTvs. 8 DISASTRE IN ROcHPSTER,—The this melancholy case have returned Dor and his wife atharine he Law: Popp, corner Grape lg tee ak 7 of the front partof ene iding or schoolhouse of the St. Peter's and St. Paul's church, sivuated on Kast Maple sireet tn His city, and that gaid accident occurred by tho givin; way of @ brick pier sustaNXing the tron cotamus y floors above; and that said pier was well built and would have been safe if it had been provided with &@ proper stone cap, The testimony taken also shows culpabie neglect on ‘t of partios having charge Of the basement. We also find that the sone viovk on top of the broken pier Was deleckye, and onahy Dut w have ben used, WasuINGTON, Jan. 10, ‘The following letter has been written by Thomas Ewing, formerly Secretary of the Treasury, to: the | the Agar Committee on Finance of the United States Senate:— G Understan that you have the consideration in your honorable the liberty of presenting y: they by ost in some shoul acts subversive the public wel- have to an Gof party strife, there is danger that in the vicissitude of sxenpe Injustice may be to the e class, day, people—the taxpayers—w! nd a8 a consequent reaction, at some future ‘haps not far distant, to the cred'tor, If the creditor be adjudged now more than he is equitably and fairly entitied to, that very fact ts likely to pro- duce a change of popular feeling, and with it of poll- tieal power, whica will give him jess. My hope and desire are that all open questions now ripe for settie= ment may be settled fatriy and justiy, by the present Con even as tiey would be settled in a court of equity between man and man, with this saving only: whateyer- is distinctly written down in the bond of the United Siates is a contract which must be. strictly comptied with, alihouzh ag between individuals 16 might be considered a3 tainted with exorbitant usury, for it is not meet that a sovereign should set up that defence to mitigate the hardship of tus owa contracts, In the case of our five-twenty bonds of 1802, which are now paya- ble—and this is the proper time to consider tuese and aajust them—we contractedto pay, and have thos fur paid, six dollarsa year in goid on a sum which, wleu loaned to us, Was equivalent in valu® to jeas than eighty dollars in gold; that is to say, we have for seven years paul on the five-twenties of 1862 and are stilt paying seven and a half per cent interest on the gold actually luvested by the cred- iior, aud actually received by the United States, ‘this loau, now payable, amounts in the aggregate to the suin of 500,000,000. If we offer now to pay the creditor interest at the rate of six per centon these bonds up to the first day of May, 1569, and to then ay him in the funds which we received of hin, undertook to pay him, or in some other security which he will prefer, we do him ample jus- tice; but if we give him an advantage beyond this, weare generous to him, but unjust to the peole who are the debtor, We are not bound in faith or morals to make the fund which we pay to the creditor for his principal— be it what it may, gold or legal tender notes—worth more at the tine of ment than it was worta when it was borrowed. — This appears to me stricily just—the view which a righteous arbitrator or judge would take of the subject if submitted to him for de- cision; and it were better for the creditor than an exuberant erosity which would promise him more than is entitled to, when the debtor is but just able to comply with his actual contract, fairly interpreted. Looked at in this point of view names are nothing. If you borrow a of coin called a dollar, having in it 100 cents’ worth of pure metal, and by virtue of your sovereign power so devase your coin that the dollar contains but seventy-tive cents’ worth, it is repudiation or its equivalent act of injus- tice. If you, in behalf of the nation, borrow coin having in 1t but seventy-five cents’ worth of pure metai and call ita dollar, and’ afterwards improve your coin and put in it one hundred cents’ worth of pure metal to make the and — im- proved doilar to discharge the loan of ttie r coin, ibis rosity to the lender and injustice to the na- tion—it is taking fro: the taxpayer without reason and giving tothe capitalist without consideratien, ‘The same is the case whether the fund loaned and borrowed be adulterated coin or depreciated cur- rency, Having found the true measure of justice you may safely do it without fear of being chargeable wita un- due partiality to the paying over the receiving class. 'rhey are all alike your constituents. You are the resentatives and may safely make rselves ‘te partial representatives of all. A inction may be suggested ns to the foreign creditor, but f you do justice to the domestic you do justice aiso to tne foreign creditor, and, personally, your two bodies have much imore than your due pro- portion of creditors, as compared with the outside amiasses of the community, who are producers and taxpayers, so that your members, a8 @ body, are personally interested on the side of the bondhuiders rather than the taxpayers, and when It comes to the question of the sudden or hasty resumption of specie payment you may meet it with a conclasive, an overwhelming argument, i proof of your disinter- estedness. You have not only a larger proportion of creditors than debtors in your two bodtes, but your salaries will be wo each worth $1,700 a year iuore in gold than it is now worth, whue paid in legal tender currency. tis clear that as individuais and as a party you are safe m doing simple justice. ‘The question, tien, atonce arises what can you do, and what ought you to do at once to lighten the enormous burdens resting on the productive indusiry—the labor—of the country? g We are paying now an excessive interest—such as no nation worthy of credit ever yet paid for a long pertod of time—such as no nation can long continue to pay, and enjoy credit at home or abroad; and we must continue to pay it unt our bonds be paid or funded on reasonable terms. There is some tuik of ing to pay our debt! We cannot borrow with this enormous load of annual interest upon us, except on terms of like extravagance. We may, perhaps, buy our six per cent five-twenties with ds at a fraction less interest, having a longer term to ran, and with principal and interest express- jy payabie in gold, but this would not much relieve our burdens or at all remove the doubt waich hangs over our ability, and which depresses our securities in foreign markets. It is thought by many advisable to hasten by legislative action the resumption of specie pay: ments—that is to eay, the restoration of specie cur- rency, and making goid and silver the only legal tender in payment of debts, Those who propose this have not, it seems to me, well cons dered it. A general provision of the kind would be productive of much hardship and mjustice to the debtor cla-s of our community—the class made up of our active young business mea, merchants, manufacturers, shippers, in short, the producing class—those who corabine their own personal energies with borrowed capital, and thus build up gradually an indepen- dence for themselves while they give prosperity to the cotfniry. Now, 1 we resume specie paymen:s at once, aud make gold and silver the oaiy legal tender, we rum this whole class of business men at once and drive them to bank Tuptey. If their debts now amount to $6,000,000,000, repeal the legal tender act or otherwise force an im- mediate resumption CL currency, you add by a stroke of the pen $2,000,000,000 to their debts; and the mischief does not end here—you disturo the business relations of the country, Close manuiacio- ries, deprive jaborers of employment for a time, until the business of the country can shift hands and be readjusted and rearranged. If you pass an act postponing resumption for two years and tien making It absolute, you produce thé same result in a very silghtly mitigated degree, Make the green- backs payable tu gold in two years and they wil ve at once bought up and hoaraed by capitailsis, To all who understand their value they would be worth at once a4 much as gold, less two years’ discount upon them—not quite twelve per cent. The debtor Cass then tnstantly suffer a losa of about twenty-two per cent on $6,000,000,000 of indebimeat— @ loss of §$1,420,000,000 taken from the debtor and given to the creditor class, for which it wili be dim- cuit to find a reason other than the true kingly sic volo, The same act, when it should produce iia fil fase tease make _ aa ae od a ha ot ha ent 1,550,000,000, in a! once in value to '52.500.000,000; eneking ‘an increased gold indebv- ment of $650,000,000; and it would atonce involve yee payment of gra on a of on debt neari, ual our present green! cur. rency, aditing nearly $18,000,000 to our annual in- terest. This looks like sinking the ship, and lam afraid of it, Itis certainly better to let the law of trede regulate the currency than to hasten measures fraught with such consequences, and yet for a time bear the ills we have Fisn'yo ounce ‘The evil must be very that will justify so harsh aremedy, It would oneiave most severely on men be- ow mi the relics of our hard fought battics, ‘he energy of our people would ia time rise above it, but it would, as its first effect, Lring ruin into many humble but industrioas and happy faintiics, Business would to revive when the broken and rae re yourfegisiation, bould ve replaced by sure wo La not business men, and not till the: ost dangerous, meas clate.! currency. ‘The end is good, but not ‘rorti the suer tice it muse 3. non- one Who has inherited or acquired b, his thrift and wealth already cid ated to his hand; wortny and imerito- rions class of citizens, bat not ® class which should be singled out ell other classes and made the objects of especial favor. The burden of the wae which almost crushed has n borne a on them, sa bean Me a States a very ‘amoun' A 1 of ‘widen ranged in value @ littio less : rE risk fran artoriena e's where bored om wee By (for the interest may be at once ro. invest and made to produce interest), doubles every #ixyears. aus tho purchaser of our iive-twen- ties who | pm ng when currency was worth fity cents on the doliar, will, When they becoine due, at the end of twenty years, have received something more than four times the amount of his original in- vestinent in interest twice iia amount in principal—six times the amountof his investment im twenty years. Thus long, | understand, it ia proposed in your COMMITEE WY 10% be preseus Vouds cum questions of ational Tien gadape pao Of done by one pai no are. the debtor sllow 700 ean ie : : i EEESEERS & the Invested end , ited and pe. people in Kurope, This, of course, was pn tobe avoided, age; Dak the exe - is protected in his De, lation rest is comparatively slow, families and imei pursne it sagaciously ani persistently generation or two become autocrats; de- cide questious of Lee and war, and in rule the world. Here, he rapid accumulat of in- terest —espectally if the specte proposition prevail— it will take hut a few brief years to make the money power supreme and place our free republic under ‘he control of a moneyed aristecracy—-Presidents and Senates will be in thelr hands but as toys, ‘The debtor class—those who create the. capital which must pay the debts. public and private—are, as i have aiready said, the laboring men, and the farmers and manufacturers their immediate employ- ers, Many of those are the soldiers who fought our batttes, who have returned to their homes broken in health, broken in fortune, rich ouly in inilitary glory, and who wili not be willing to have imposed on them a heavy additional burdeneof taxation by way of a gratuitous compliment to the wealthy bondholder whe wala at home and lent money at an enormous interest. It is proposed to encounter all these evils—peing bankruptcy and ruin on a large and meritorious class of our citizens, whooccupy the post of danger like a fortorn hope in battle, In order to escape from the present evil of a depreciated currency. I have already expressed the opiniva that the object to be gained—though a worthy odject—is not worth the sacrifice, Let us look at it more closely and test its vaine more accurately, A depreciated currency—one below the standard of the civilized world—is an evil, but by,no means So great as has been assumed without proof—loosely thought and as loosely represeuted. A careful analy- sis wil show that the most of its alleged mischiefs carry with thein their own compensatory remedies. Without discussing tne question fully a few of these I Will consider:— ‘ First, a8 between the United States and fo! na- tions. The lower standard of our currency. 1 think, no positive effect, As to our exports, a pound of cotton or @ bushel of wheat brings just as much coin or goods in England as it would bring if gold were our home currency, and such foreign goods, when imported, at once assume the value in currency due to the article exported and exci with the addition of freight, commissions uty, also chan{ from gold to currency, and though ‘our wealthy men who travel m Europe must large exchange for gold, yet if they are rs and exchange our five-twenties for coin they get at pre- sent rates of ocenepe. about seventy-ilve on the dollar—just what our currency 1s worth at ie in gold, with a small excess for accruing interest, being considerably more tuan they iu goid when they purchased, So tnat in our le and inter- course with nations nobody suffers greatly by the nt condition of our currency. Aad how is it at home 1 the’ordinary transactions between man and'man? I can hardly think of any branch of business or any occupation which hasnot prety. well adjusted itseif to the ex! standard. (he import merchant selis er; the retail merchant and the manufacturer and the farmer all sell higher, and the laborer receives hi be Aap all in fair proportion to the ci vi of the currency. An lumediate resumption of ere payment would unsettle the present the Ss eect es getty ist aais e sagacious or @ mi advan! over the oviinary, industrious million. At would not embarrass the creditor—the capitalist— he kuows how to adapt his business to every re- vuision, monetary or He never makea @ mistake, but if you make one, he well knows how / to turn it promptly to his advantage. Immediate re- TAGE Wot Sovran seagate e del 6 ut $2 and add that much effective capital iS the ‘oreditor class, provided the debiors remain able to bay. It wouid also, if our solvency under such inconsiderate legislation be relied on, make our debt at on about 000,000 larger than it now 1s. 1,600,000,000 bushels of wheat will no the debt, resume sj ayment at inake gold the only leza! tender, mast the trotting @ vives in value, and 2,200,000,000 bushe!s to pay it, making @ sacrifice of 6u0,00,0U0 busheis of our great staple at once, and, as far as I can perceive, to no ib would not improve o who owes a8 much a3 his Mablut resources, w! have better credit if he caicu ate closely and cavil for a single hair than by heaping OF Oasa on Pelion 18 unbounded liberailty. Suyluck, higgard had doubtiess vetter credit on. the itialto than Bas- sanio, with all his chivalrous generosity. The principal vbjection wo a nati paper curreacy ja ita tendency to fluctuation; but tais is mach less than is geueraliy ee The British consols, which are the national currency in nearly aii large transactions, fluctuate but Iittle. Our ten-forties, which in some degree assume their place here, are very stable in value, as also are our backs, Whea undisturved by Treasury opcra- id. Still all fluctuate in value, and 0, in- deed, does gold, compared with everything which supplies the wants of civilized wan. fam nov sure that @ paper currency, resting on a solvent * nation's faith, will Muctuate more or be more sensi- tive to commercial vicissitudes tuan gold. improvi- dent legislation would doubviless make it 60, as it is much more fully in the power and under tue control of government. tis not the deprectated currency but the heavy annual interest un the debt taat preses with such enormous weigat on the productive industry of the country. We, the people, waat to reduce this bur- den of mi and briag it Within @ mavageabie compass. ‘Tnis can be done only by funding that ortion of the debt which is payable, and as it shall Become payabie ava reasouabie rate of interest, and it 1s now in your power to take an fmportant and decisive step in that direction. Tiere 18 $00,000,000 of the five twenties of isé2 now payabic, at the pleasufe of the government, in legai vender cur- rency, or whatever else the creditor and gie govern- meut may, by mutual agreement, prefer to legal tenders—say bonds redeemable in forty years, bear- ing an interest of four per cent—perlaps three and @ half were beter. . But here we are met with what may be called the previous question, ‘Te currengy is depreciated, let us some; make that equivalent to gold, and then, his disturuing element being removed, pro- ceed to fund. ‘This, I take it, is the bondholaer's. proposition, for it wouid place the nation im lis powerand enable him to dictate terms, in behalf of the peopie, aud in furtherance of justice, I subuit thai the funding Of the deot and tue reduction of Jnverest waich is most immediately pressing, should be first disposed O.—removed out Oo. tue Way as “a disturving element,” aud afterwards that the re- suuption of specie paymen's ve considered, or that tuat question be left where it belongs, to be settied by the law of trade. Wheuever our curreney under the operation of that law becomes cquivaient to goid ihe question 14 sectied. " ‘The act of February 29, 1362, which provides for the issue of the $500,00u,000 of five-twenties, pro- vides expressly that Ireasury notes, Which it also authorizos, “shall be receivable In payment of ail taxes, Mternal duties, excises, devts and demands of every kind due to the United Siates except duties. on imports, and of ail claims avd demands of every kind whatsoever against tue Uaited States except for = ec : A g E interest upon bonds and notes, Which shall be pata in coin; shail aise be lawiul money and a legal “vender in ment of all debts, public and private, ‘within the United states exgept duties on umports and interest as afores id.” ‘This law is the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow she mouey, Having deiined his powers in tats, it gives him instructions as to the management of tue nances; but these instructions have nothing to do with the loan of the contract with the creditor, no more the economical resolution of tue ordinary debior has to do with hia. contract with his creuitor, ‘he creditor in cither case Has much inverest in the general good financial management of is debtor, but a ire by the: debtor froin his expressed Bnei in is no breach of the contract umless it be i euly inserted and ex- pressed as @ ja this case te Untied Btates borrows its own legal tender notes, and stipulates that the interest on the bonds wich it exchanges for thei shall be paid in gold; but the creditor is at the sawe time t and it 8 made part Mn the principal becones or Funds of w Sd nd there lay or in the ovntract, oy pion. tion, th in due ‘tme, io the it, legal ten- der notes to make the pay “ of thet reasary a Miss rhs von would Fone ncenme eee W; cou Justice, ag Sey hy waa the Seo- Fetary’s power of the the Whole read! of the italint and his cout to know that the Secretary had no power to pledge the government by parole, or in any manuer not written down in the law. He doubtiess entertained and expressed @ strong opinion Wiat specie payments would be ro- ' Suined before the bonds became payabie, but the na- tion is certainly under no obligation now to bank rupt ttself, and add ite whoie wealth for ages to the already Chormous provta of the capitaiists, in order 0 take ,ood the predeiion, _This settles the question a4 to the right of the United staves to pay tuese bouds in jegal wonder