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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 446, 14 January 1867, Page 2

It is expected that negotiations will commence in three months for the conclusion of a commercial treaty on a still more liberal basis than hitherto between Austria and England. The Eyre Defence and Aid Fund. —We understand that a subscription in connection with this fund has been started in Glasgow amongst some of our most eminent West India and other merchants, and that already a considerable amount has been subscribed. —Glasgow Herald. It is understood in courtly circles that Her Vtoyal Highness the Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (Princess Helena'' is in an interesting condition, calculated to increase her domestic happiness. Miss Spurgeon, the daughter of the popular preacher, accompanied Oaeen Emma to this country. Miss

Spurgeon is on her way to the Sandwich Islands, in the hope of being aide to instruct tbs natives in the doctrines of Christianity. She is twenty-fou? years of age. has a fine intellectual face.

worv tnonnera ««• aim • New York Home Journal.

Beform Demonstraton at Glasgow.—Tiie Home News, Oct. 26, says, —lbs greatest public demoiisirailou thus has occurred in Glasgow for a long series of years took place there on the scorning of the 16th October. During the Reform agitation of 1832 a large csssmbly of Reformers Eumherinp' about 70,000, met together on Glasgow Green; and on the above morning a slmiar masting, only one of twice the ~ tO 150.000 persons, assembled on the same spot, under the auspices of the Reform League,, to pass resolutions in favor of another Reform Bill. A large trades’ procession, containing accord* ing to the most accurate estimate, from 28.000 to 30,000 persons, was formed ou the Green at 11 o’clock, and ■marched with emblems of their respective crafts from thence through the principal streets of Glasgow and back again to the starting point, where from various platforms several meetings were held simultaneously, and resolutions in favor of Parliamentary Reform adopted. Some better idea of the size of the procession than can be obtained “by any vague estimate of the numbers it contained may be formed from the fact that, marching four abreast at a fair speed, it occupied two hours in passing any given spot; and although its ranks were kept pretty close together, it extended over a length of from four to five miles. While the main body of the procession was threading its way through the principal streets of the town, and before the tail-end bad left Glasgow-green, the bead of the line had actually completed its journey, and returned to its old place on the green. Resolutions of an earnest Reform character were proposed from various stands, and carried unanimously. Xu the evening there was a great indoor meeting at the City-hall, which Mr John Bright, M.P., addressed. In the course of his speech Mr Bright designated the present Parliament as “ putrid,” and asserted that any 658 men passing through Temple-bar would make a better Parliament than this one. After detailing the usual Reform arguments, the bon. member, who spoke for nearly an hour concluded as follows;—“X should like to ask if there are any ministers of religion j n this audience? (Several voices—‘Yes, yes.’) I have sometimes thought that I should like an audience of 4000 or 5000 of them to whom I could preach a political sermon, and to whom I could tell something which I fear their theological schools have failed to tAch them. An eminent man of your country, the late Dr. Chalmers, in speaking of the question of free trade and particularly of the struggle for the abolition of the corn laws, uttered these memorable words:—He said he thought there was nothing that would so tend to sweeten the breath of British society as the abolition of the corn laws. 1 believe now that there is nothing which would so tend to sweeten the breath of British society as the admission of a large and generous number of the working classes to citizenship and the exercise of the franchise. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) Now if my words should reach the ears and reach the heart of any man who is interested in the advance of religion in this country, I ask him to consider whether there are not great political obstacles the extension of civilization and morality and religion within the bounds of the United Kingdom. Webelieve these ministers you and I; we believe in his omnipotence; we believe and we humbly trust in his mercy; we know that the strongest argument which is used against that belief by those who reject it is an argument drawn from this misery and that helplessness, and if that darkness could not be touched or tra.sformed, I myself should be driven to admit the almost overwhelming force of that great argument, but I am convinced that just laws and enlightened administration of them would change the face of this country. (Loud cheers.) X believe that ignorance and suffering might be lessened to an incalculable extent, and that many an Eden, beautious in Sowers and profuse in fruit, might be raised up in the waste wilderness which .spreads before us. But no class can do that; the class which has MUierio ruled m this country has failed miserably. It revels in power and wealth, whilst at its foot, a terrible peril for its future, lies a multitude which it hag neglected, (Cheers.) If a class has failed, let us

try the nation—(loud cheers) —that is our faith, that is cur purpose, that is our cry. Let us try the nation. (Cheers.) This it is which has called together these countless numbers of the people to demand a change. And as

1 think of it and of these gatherings, sublime in their vastness and their resolution, I think I discern as it Were, above the hill-tops of time, the glimmering of the dawn of a better and a nobler day for the country and for the people that I love so well, (Loud cheers.”) The Jamaica Question. —We find the following in the Montrose Standard, 12th October, under the heading of “ Our Metropolitan Kobo”; —“Ths Eyre controversy threatens to become exclusively literary. It is not often that literary men thrust themselves forward in propria persona to champion their cause, however, vigorously they may fight behingd the anonymous shield of journalism; but on the question, for some reason, there is a strong array on either side. For my own part I should be quite content to follow such leaders as Raskin, the two Kingsleys, and Carlyle ; and I rejoice to see how earnestly the Defence Committee are working to baffle the sectarian prejudices of a narrow-mind-ed clique, which should be ashamed of itself for so inveterately persecuting a man who believed he was doing his duty. I see, by-the-bye. that Mr Carlyle has been credited with coining the phrase * from the teeth outwards.* He is not the originator of it, though he might well be. You will find it in one of Hogg’s letters to Scott, in Lockhart’s Life ; and, if I remember rightly, he only uses itas a quotation. Rumor—the jade ! she is always saying some stupid thing—says Mr Eyre is writing a narrative of the Jamaica affair. I think it is a pity; for, however hard it may be to sit still under such a heap of calumny, every word he utters in defence will be snapped up and perverted by his enemies. There are plenty of people able and willing to defend him, and he should leave the task to them. An Illustrated Paradise Lost. —Admirers—and their name is legion —of the works of Gustave Dore will be glad to hear that another field has been found for his indefatikable pencil. He is to illustrate Paradise Lost; and those who have seen bis Don Quixote will agree that no fitter work could have been chosen for the exercise of the quaint, weird power he possesses. What scope there is for him 1 Pandemonium will be seen in quite a new light, and one can imagine how he will pile up the Satanic architecture., It is said the few specimens shown have caused an extraordinary demand for the work among the trade.

The Empress of Mexico. —From what we hear, (says the London correspondent of the Montrose Standard, writing under date 10th October,) the unfortunate Empress of Mexico has fallen a victim to the anxiety attendant on her husband’s precarious position, and .has become insane—for a time, at all events. It is a pitiful tale, I think, this of a lady, who is, if all is true, one of the most amiable Princesses in Europe, being sent half round the globe only to find, at the end of her journey, proposals rejected and herself denied —for so the story runs —admittance to the family circle at Vienna. “ Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” You’ll say that’s not original; but that doesn’t prevent it being true—and this is another proof of it. Sir Roderick Murchison and the Eyre Defence Fund. —At a meeting of the Eyre Defence Committee on Wednesday, the following letter was read;—“ Bagshot, October 2. Sir, — In apologising for not being able to attend the committee on the Eyre Fund to-morrow, I enclose a cheque for my subscription. I rejoice to find that we are going on so well, and I trust that the fund will be so increased that we may he able to hand over to my distinguished friend the Ex-Gover-nor a testimonial worthy of a man who saved a greal British Colony. —Your obedient servant, — Roderick Murchison.

The well-known General Eixio died iurin oil the tiu ijepicmilv*, ®ftsr a very short iHnoas,

Garibaldi will, in aii probability, visit England in November. General Chambers, it is said, is making preparations for his reception