The Express. — London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

ALFRED WEBB MILES, Everybody knows Mr. MILES, REMOVED from Sondenreet, to 73. BROOK STREET, Hanover sonar* In 1040. The lna TROUSERS ;arlinested Ly Wei; In MI the New Patterns tor Winter, •• better GEN than ever." sTIOCIAL NOTICE TO TLEMEN. A. W. MILES begs most respectfully to announce that his stock in the various departments of his establishment is sow replete for Over-coats, Vestolgs, Bedford Cords, and scarlet waterproof cloth for hunting. Tpheiec es iws 3 -d7cd Black end Bin. Fror oa kCt POs. A choice of SO of Indestructible waded West of England s. Cloths. &;TABLISIIED MAL Only addreas. Cht ennefiL TO COR.ZIIIPO2.-DILYTS. /Idvertatewoots Intended for •• tondos ivashai mu‘t be .1 the oil" 10, ftegitiMifilet, by Two ci,locc on tb• day of pablaseles. COVZN74IILDEN. Tan Emma, THU DHABI FLOWER. Mews. W. H. Weiss. it. Corri, A. Cook. and W. Harrison Mama Louisa and Susan Prue. Conductor, Yr. A. Mellon. —(knumence at IIAYMAI!ICRT, Ten !MOM GlTRlllitiitar:eoGL AS A CUCUMBER. —Mr. Clauisa Mathews Mks P. MLitt% aid Um S. fits GULDEN YLKSCS Mr. and !Om Charles Mathewa.—Ald MY HUSBANDS GHOST. Mr. Clark. LYCEUM. To-atoasoW Evist.lo, IJlibil - 1.48T. Mr. Wlddlcookb and NM C. Lecieren—BaLlno24lo. a Lora Story. Mum Feebter, Brougham, Emery, Charles, and Jordan ; MUMS Tarry.Lareane, and lkworthy, and 3tra Lee. BRITANNIA. Talk EVERMO. THE DAYS OF XV. Ws. S. Los. —THE GREAT OHM EFFECT. lltoars. Reynolds and Cooke : 11,11ns. Cranford sad Yaroold. —Singing by ' , am Collins, Mr. Ran dall, and Mane. litroa.—And THE HUN of. it OF THE HOUSE. NIGH WATU AT LONDON DAMON TED DAT —Manta& Na ....Afteranos. 4h. Ilia To440•10112104AOS. 4L .Allmam 46 44,a. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30. Wr have recently given a detailed amount of the labours of the " Working Men's Club and In. " stitute Union" in London and its neighbourhood, and those who read the series of papers which have appeared in our columns on this interesting subject will probably be at once surprised at the extent of the movement, and impressed with its thoroughly practical and useful character. Working Men's Clubs of the type proposed by the Union are now established in every part of the me tropolis, and some of the moat flourish ing are in what have hitherto been justly accounted the most miserable, destitute, and vicious districts. In Duck-lane, for example, where the admission fee is only a halfpenny a week, the Club already numbers nearly 500 members, and is in admirable working order. This remark able success of the recently-formed Union in a do pes ;,ment of social reform where so many prc vions attempts have failed, is, however, due to very intelligible causes, and may be easily ex plained. The Union is redly the first elbow's: ever made to meet working men on their own level, to asee-fain their actual wants and wishes, and put them in the way o' meeting them in a sensible, simple, and economical way. The Clubs or Institutes established on the plan suggested by the Union are intended to combine the main attractions of the public-house, the bowling-alley, and discussion forum, with most of the special advantages the old mechanics' institutes were esta blished to secure. When his day's labour is over the working man naturally wishes for a little rest, ' enjoyment, and social recreation. Hitherto the public-house has been practically the only &CCM aible place where he could obtain them at a small outlay. But wherever a Working Men's Club is establ;shed they are at once secured under far more favourable circumstances than at any public house. If he wants a quiet pipe and a friendly chat with his fellow-workmen, there is the smoking-room of the Club; if he prefesi a game, there are chess, draughts, bagatelle, and solitaire at hand ; or if he likes outdoor amusement better, there are in the summer months such games as football, quoits, and the like, and at all seasons the skittle-alley. If he wishes to see the news, there is the reading room ; or if, being of a more reflective turn, he inclines to study some branch of science or litera ture, them are the library and the evening classes connected with the Institute. And at all times refreshments of good quality are t> be had on the Club premises at the lowest price. In these Clubs a working man may thus command for a peony a week ample and varied means of social intercourse and amusement, of healthful recreation and mental improvement. There is another incidental advan tage connected with these institutions, the value of which cannot well be over-rated. The majority of them are managed, in whole or in part, by the working men themselves, and this managing their own affairs for the general good is a very useful training in business habits as well as in organized ac tion for a common end. These Clubs are in this way schools, not only of sobriety and thrift, of frank intercourse and mutual courtesy, but of the higher elements of manly character included under self reliance, self-government, and self-respect. In a word, they meet and satisfy the primary wants of the industrial classes in a way which directly tends to raise their individual character and improve their social position. It is gratifying to find that a movement in all respects so useful and so full of promise is spread ing rapidly in the provinces as well as in London. The " Club and Institute Union," so far from con fining its operations to the metropolis, has, during the past year, been in active correspondence with the leaden and representatives of the working dames in most of the large towns in the Midland and Northern Counties, as well as with several in the South and West. In towns where clubs of some sort already existed they have been remodelled by the help of the Union on the broader, more com plete and satisfactory basis it lays down ; and in others where none previously existed they have been formed under the guidance and with the assistance of the Central Association. The concluding paper on " Working Men's Clubs," which appeared in our columns yesterday, specified seven or eight of these, some of which—such as the one at Leeds—number upwards of two thou sand members. During the last month, moreover, important public meetings in aid of the movement have been held in North Shields, Newcastle, Bradford, and other large towns in the North. Them meetings were attended by Mr. H. Sour, the able and zealous Secretary of the Union, for the double purpose of giving some account of the Clubs formed in other parts of the kingdom, and offering suggestions for the improvement and extension of the local Institute. At New castle, Sir WILLIAM Alarms° attended to ex press his admiration of the general scheme of the Union, his desire for its extended success, and his willingness to assist its action in his own locality. At the Bradford meeting, perhaps the most crowded and important of the series, Mr. Postern presided, and in his opening address threw out a suggestion which is certainly worthy of consi deration, and will probably hereafter be extensively adopted. In attempting to give the members of the local Institute an idea of what a London Club, such es he himself belonged to, was like, Mr. Fosurrsa said, " they managed by paying " entrance fees and half-yearly subscriptions to " obtain a good building, in which they had a " comfortable reading-room, library, and rooms " for social intercourse, together with what be , " would call a co-operative lade! ; the advantage ' " the members of the Club gained by co-operating ; " together being to secure all these conveniences at " • much lower rata than they possibly could do " by themselves." Mr. Fosses& went on to suggest that there was no reason why working men should not enjoy the same privileges as others, taking the difference of their requirements into consideration. He specially recommended the establishment, in connexion with these local Clubs, of a kind of co operative hotel. " They seemed to have no idea " yet of establishing an hotel in connexion w;th " the Working Men's Institute, but he thought it " might be managed in this way. They might " establish in Bradford a concern like those " which were being started in many other " places—a public kitchen for the work " ing classes. Such an establishment might " play into the hands of a club like theirs. Their " large room might be a kitchen during the day, " and a reading-room at nig:it." Mr. Soul sup ported this suggestion, stating that while effective provision for social intercourse, recreation, smok ing, and refreshment was essential to every institution of the kind, he saw no reason why the " dining-room " should not be included as a regu lar feature of the scheme. The Bradford Club conta;ns upwards of • thousand members, who r'l belong to the working classes, and is managed by a committee of its own members. The same is true of the clubs and instittGions established in other large towns, such as Bolton, Preston, Birkenhead, and Manchester. Nothing, indeed, shows more clearly the lom of the plan adopted by the Union than the fact of its having so completely reached in its local action the class for whose benefit it was formed. During the last year, which was also the first you of its establishment, the Union has been instrumental in establishing no less than thirty-two of these most useful institutions, and we gather from the Secretary's re port that the only check on its still wider useful ness arises from the comparative narrowness of the means at its disposal. We cannot help believing that the existence of such an obstacle only requires to be known to be promptly removed. Few asso ciations are doing a greater amount of real good in a, quiet, unobtrusive way, and few, therefore, have a stronger claim to public support. The principle of the Un'on, it is true, is that the local institntioss should be made self-supporting ; and this is gradually being realised in practice. But there is a considerable outlay connected with the starting of these iostitutions, and one great ob j ect of the Un'on is to meet this at the outset, not only by its advice and guidance, but by direct contributions in money and material, such as gram of books, apparatus, diagrams, and the like. To do t'tid, however, it requires funds, and we feel cer - Ulu that it will not be allowed to appeal for help in vain. THE FXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1863. Affairs has in consequence requested the prefecta of the Seioe, Gironde, and 13eMeaferieure to adopt such massive. us will enable the lisitir agents to accomplish the duty en treated t I them. Cbt Court. WLNDMOR CASTLE, Ocr. 29. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds thin morning. The Princess Helena, attended by Lady Caroline BA:- Anton and Colonel F. Seymour, C. 8., went to London, and returned in the afternoon. The Counties of Caledon has succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting. The Hon. Horatia Stopford ►nd the Hon. Harriet Phipps are the Maids of Honour. Lord Rivers I. the Lord in Waiting, and Woad P. !Sey mour, C.D., the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Prises Arthur, attended by Major Elphinatone, arrived in Sown yesterday morning from Greenwich, sad visited the Prince and Princess Louis et Reese, at Buckingham Palma. Prince Arthur returned be Greenwich in the after noon. A deputation from the pariah of All Saints, Poplar, °en listing of Mr. F. Allen and Mr. Tntonark (overseen), Mr. W. G. Conley (eke* to the trustees), Mr. Oolenrin end Mr. 8. IL Ellison, and Mr. John Allen, and attended by Mr. 0. 8. Butler, M.P., had an iaterview yesterday with the Right Hoe. C. P. Villiers, at the office of the Poor law Bond, Whitehall. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office, from the Govermem of the West India Islands, Bermuda British Columbia, and Malta. Despatches were sent to the; Governor of Canada, and to the Lord High COMD2 I / 6 11i0 WIZ of the lonian Wanda. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Here and suit* bosomed the Adelgolti Theatre last evening with their presser* to witness Miss BeMame. per formance of Leah. The Hortimdtoral Society's Arden at South Kensington was yesterday honoured by a private visit from their royal higher -Nees. The Duchess of Hamilton has taken a residence at Brigham for a short terra The Earl and Countess of Lincoln are passing the owns M Brighton. Buchanan CasUe, the seat of the Duke and DOAN= of tiLsotroso, coo the banks of Loch Lomood, has beau the setae of brilliant festiritka diniog the post fort night. is addition to the guests enjoying this hospitality of the dakii and duchess, the elite of the neighbourhood have, cok more than ooe caossics, bean bidden to Mars the enjoy moot of priest* dramatic entertainmeuts, 'apposed by amateurs. The coming of age of the Hon. C. J. Lyttelton, the eldest son of Lord Lytieltos, is being oelebrebed at Higley with considerable spirit and good feeling by all shame there. Amongst the guests at Hegley.hall is the Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exc.So. quer. who wee present at a dinner given to the cottager. as Wednesday, and was one of the speakers. Nice is expected to be full this winter. Many apartments are already engaged. The Grand Dacha's Olga has arrived there for the winter. The Queen of Prussia is at Coblents. The expected d. but of the Countess Batthyani, of the well-known licuigaran family, whose beauty end West bare been for some time the therm of conversation in Park, took place • few days ago at the nears de la Tour d'Auvergoe. She selected itarine's tragedy of PAerfre far her first appearance, and maimed the principal cilisracter. The estate= seeks in • theatrical career • compensation far the ler a a splendid fortune. This arennistsase aleasted norm of the most distiogoished of the fashionable world. A loss has been sustained in the aristocratic world at Paris by the death of the Marquis Brigades Sara He was for many yean the resident ambassador from the court of Sardinia to that of the Tuileries. Hie receptions sad entertainmeuts were of the most splendid character, and his unbounded hospitality gave him a high position is the best Gimlet is Paris. His palace at Genoa, nom the site which bears the same of he family, is well knows to visitors. His daughter, Madame la Duchene de (hillier% has loeg been recognised as on. of the distinguished leaders of French society, sod as, in consequence of the loci she has sustained, her *aloft will be domed, one of the houses most remarkable for the brilliancy of its receptions will this winter be lost to cosmopolitan society. A letter from Rome says :—" The Pope is con tinuing his sasual custom, in 0001110011 with his liege nib ** of remisrias the mouth of October • *seam of fes tivity. So ins sad Thursdays are the days selected by the Pontiff sad his people for these merry-makings; his Massa begisslag the day with visiting public works In promo. seaveats r religions establishments, and dining st t p.m. la the geod old fashion, with the members of his court sad • few privileged guests, at the Qairtnal Palace, at the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul's, or SOP other ea selected to vary the monotony of his usual military repeat at the Vatican. The Homes. are equally jolly In *dr ewe way, eallyiag eat with their owls co sets, two or three hoar. before daybreak, to shoot or catch larks in the Oestrogen ; winding up the operations of the vintage with 1111411111006 macaroui parties Is their respective vise. yards; sr reeling down by the rail to Cavite Vecchia, to stare at the sea, and eat dearer and staler fish thaa what is to be bad every morning io Horne." Mr. Femind, one of the parliamentary repreaen tatives of Devonport, addressed some two thousand of the inhabitants of that town on Wednesday night, and was elethesieetioally received. THE PITMEN'S SERIN, IN !HR NORTH. WHOLESALE EVICTIONS. A correspondent of the Newcastle Chronicle, writing from Willingts on Wednesday, furnishes the de tails of some extraordinary proceedings in that neighbour hood. He says—" Affair have reached aaz isis, and in this district the work of eviction has commenced. General ex pectation had fixed Brandon Colliery as the place where the wholesale ejection of the mines from their homes would be find attempted, as this was the place where the agitation sprung into existence. On Tuesday evening. however, an application was made by Mr. Thompson, the cashier of the colliery, to Mr. Love to allow the men to remain a day longer in their homes, and this request being granted, the people at Brandon remained through this day undisturbed. Sunnybrow, a small pit village situated on an eminence about half a mile from Willington, was selected for the opening attack, and at half-past seven o'clock this morning the inhabitants saw by a number of police constables that offensive operations were to be directed spinet them, and that they must prepare to leave their horns. Notions bad been given to between thirty and fort) house ' holders to leave on the 28th, others with two days' grog I are allowed to remain until the 30th. The question as to who and what class of men would undertake the work of 1 removing the furniture from the houses was one that wen not easy of settlement. The cinder-burners employed by Mr. Love, at Brandon, had been requested to undertake the job, and had unanimously refused. The occupiers had agreed to offer no opposition, but to leave quietly, and some had even eel the house into the disorder inseparable from a ' flitting,' in order to be ready for the remover of the goods when he should come. Yet no one seemed to like to undertake the actual work of taking away the furniture of the miners. At Sunnybrow, however, the work was begun, and at nine o'clock the colliery c arts, sixteen policemen, and a gang of twenty-four men—gathered, it Is said, from the common lodging-houses and from the highways and byways of the county, commenced their tank. Two young men. repre senting, we presume, the owners of the colliery, acted as officials, and entering each house where notices had been sem 1, asked the miner whether or not he was willing to resume work on the conditions offered by the owners. In all instances a negative answer was returned. The pay due to the man was then handed over to him ; but in two instances the money was refused, sod was left by the payers lying oo the tables. One man was entitled to If. for three days' work, and refued to accept it when offered to him. Posseorion was then taken of the house by the police, and the gang began to hand out the fur oiture into the carts. The work was conducted care fully enough, and the first few hods were conveyed to houses is Willingtoo or neighbouring villages, where the owners of the furniture had obtained room for it. This act of grace did not continue long in operation. Soon the conveyance of goods to plats where the owners wished was discontinued, and all the furniture was takes away into • field at • short distance from the village, and there uo carted and laid on the ground. It might be imagined that the scenes presented on families being forcibly ejected from their homes would be peculiarly painful to witness. And so they were. But it would be a mistake to conclude that weeping*, and wailing., sod tear ful farewells were the prevailing appearances. On the contrary, the mem while feeling no doubt deeply the circumstances in which they were placed, were too much occupied by the business of watching their goods carefully packed to give way to any expres sion of feeling; while amongst the crowd about them some attempts at jokes served, if not to cheer, at least to divert the attention of the ejected ones from their actual homeless condition. The women affected the general tone of the moment, but amongst them might be ob served that tremulousness which showed how truly they radioed the worst sewn; of this ruthless invasion of women's especial province —the domestic hearth. Those in other houses, whose turns or turns-out were yet to come, seemed to feel more acutely for their neighbours than the neighbours felt for themselves, but throughout the whole day, as cart-load after cart-load of furniture was taken away, the greatest quietus' and forbearance prevailed. As the sight advanced, the carte of friendly people in Wil listen appeared on the field of desolation, and in them the bedding and more valuable articles of furniture were con veyed away to safe places in the village. The women and their husbands also left the field, and there is no doubt that all would find hospitable welcome and shelter for the night under friendly roofs. How the tees may be when more families are evicted, as it is said there will be to-day at Oakseshaw, it in impossible to determine. The work of clearing the houses at Sunnybrow is intended to resumed on Friday ; it is said that Brandon will be sacked to-day. It is worthy of special remark that while a great force of policemen watched the removal at the (waiters from the houses, not one remained to watch the property of the hostiles miners left in the open field." NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, THURSDAY Num% The siofel mess of yesterday at Sannybrow were repeated to-dsy, but were from the attendant eimum stenos., flinch more distressing than those previously wit nessed. At Sunoybrow the evictions yesterday left 189 men, women, and ebildren without a home. Some few of the number, indeed, found shelter with friends and uoder can vas tents, but the majority were left to pass the wet and inclement night as best they could. The pelting showers saturated their bedding, and drenched themeelves. Not withstanding their miserable plight, they bore it with a surprising amount of quiet determination. This morning the work of eviction was resumed, but in • different village to that of the preceding day. Oakenshaw was the scene of the 'liniments to-day. The rain fell fast, and a strong cold wind was blowing at the time, but the removal of the furniture and household goods of the evicted pitmen went forward without interruption, so far as the elements were oincereed. Such of the men as bad no place to go to bad their furniture set down in a field near. The men who stood looking on in large numbers as the work of removal was carried forward, did not offer the slightest opposition while their humble homes were being broken up. As If to anticipate soy attempts at riot or disturbance on the part of the large body of miners on strike, the large body of police already on the spot has bees considerably increased to-day, and all the available accommodation at the village ions and et other places has been engaged by them. A great many families were turned out at Oakeeshaw in the sours of to- day. and the work of eviction was proceeding when Ws despatch was sent off. A letter in the Frankfort Journa: says that the Queen of England has promised to maids again next year at Ooburg. Her Majesty hopes to be present at the mango. ration of the statue of Prinoe Albert on the 26th of Auatist, 1864. A letter from Teheran reports the arrival there of the staff of English officers and sappers who are to con struct the ladle° telegraph line through Beloochistaa. We read in the Levant Herald of the 21st "Mr. Oppenbeim is said to meditate proceedings against the treasury for its alleged breach of engagement in not tie. gotiatmg the last loan through his hones, as be contends it was bound to do by the terms of his lately-settled aziziot contract. With the view to ' try conclusiooa' oa the point, be bail brought out M. Cremieux, the eminent Parisian bar rister, though of what use this celebrated criminal advocate can bi before the Tidiaret—before which the action must be brought, and where the gentlemen of the asp and gown are not beard—it is d'lllcult to noderetand.• It appears that the long projected plan of making NA, a ...port by cutting a ship canal to Dieppe has not been abandooeL The definitive plan has been deposited with the Minister of Public Works. The line to be followed is Dearly the rune u that laid down in a plan prepared is the year 1823, with this difference in the execution, that the canal is to be sullicieatly deep and wide to permit the largest ships to °owe up to Paris. The Viceroy of Egypt ix importing steam ploughs on ea large a wale u to tax the manufacturing capacity of England. He will soon have a capital of nearly 200,000 i. in steam ploughs on his own estates alone, and is about to form a model farm on a large scale under the direction of an Eoglisli agriculturist, where the work will be carried on with the most recent improvements used In England. His object is toesooerage the fellahs to use machines ina.ced of animal labour ; and if the present experimeet succeeds it will be followed by ether modal farms in difiereat parts of the country. Till STRAY RAMS IN VTR Meows.—The gunboat Hems, which arrived on Wedoeedar, romminsd rap to last ereniog clot. to the entrance to the Great Float, with her fire■ banked, sad a " slip" cable on. Both ram are mow nyder a guard of marines, mad se the Goshawk is moored is the Float, it is impossible for either of the rams to escape without obsermtios. " SOCIETY " AT RICHKONO.—The preparations which are oommary for a trip to Central Afrka are butrosly more elaborate than those which premeds such an excursion so lam about to undertake to East Teenage's. It woo my belief yesterday that, after much labour, they were happily concluded, and that I should be enabled so dirt this morn ing ; but yesterday evening my heves, left stead* for a moment is the street, wee stolen, sad my departure is dr loped until fresh arrangements can be aside. The incident is only worthy of mention as isdioatiag the seams and difficulties through which the Confederate steam are agon ise as they slowly win their way to indepeadsece. Horse thieves, burglars, and occasionally garotters. swarm in the streets of Richmond. The very atmosphere is corrupted by the presence of the hosts of mosey-grabhing Hebrews and blockade runners, who reck nothing of Federal or Cur federate rights, and are the great &bosses of Confederate current) and the elevators of gold. It requires the boon of a natio, and its leaders to be eminently boned to with stead the pernicious influence of sects a buster and thirst atter money as at prevent pervades, not only Yankeedom, but also so large a portion of this community.—Speceil Co?. respondent of ths " Times " at RicArnond. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Melon Mr. Commissioner Goulburo.) IN RI CHARLES BILI/CONI. The bankrupt, described as "late of the New-inn, Sea ford, Sussex," is the sou of the oelebreted Mr. Named German by birth), who has boor been settled in Ireland, and by amassed a considerable fortune there by the establish' ment of jaunting cars, known as " Bianconi's care." This was the sitting for examination and discharge. The statement of account shows debts of 9,133/. ; no assets, beyond 70C1. worth of property stated to be held as security. The creditors are mostly resident in Ireland and in Fiance, and consist chiefly of jewellers, and money-lenders. Out of &I creditors 47 reside in Ireland, 30 in France, and 4 in England ; and of the debts of 9,1331., 5931. only is due to English creditors. Mr. E. Reed said he appeared for six creditors whose debts were above 3,C331. The official assignee reported that the assets had realised about 130/. Ooodda► appeared for the official wiper, (no trade assignee bad been appointed), and Mr. Sargood for the bankrupt. After the examination of the bankrupt bad been pursued for some time, Mr. 117 ed mid he was prepared to prove a representation to Mr. Johnson, by the bankrupt, that he had 2,0C3/. spear settled on hiT.. .. . . . , . . . His Hamm. said that might be the subject of inquiry at a private sitting. It was quite clear this was a cue that ought not to be left without an assignee. A large amount of debt had been incurred • th ere was property to be inquired after ; and he should suggest that soother sitting be held for choice of assignees, notice being previously given in the French and Irish papers. The opposing creditors would then have the opportunity of appointing an assignee; for it was a case which ought not to proceed further without one. Mr. Sergood said the former sitting for choice had been advertised in Ireland, and there had been a meet ing of creditors to decide what should be done as to the choice. The subject of another meeting was one of great difficulty in point of law. Mr. Commissimser Fees bad held that be had no jurisdiction to appoint a second sitting for choice of assignees. His Honour entirely dissented from that view. Mr. Fans might have good resume for his opinion ; but he (the commissioner) thought cbffereetly. This was a case quit, out of the ordinary course. Here was • man owing large amounts in France and in Ireland, and no one taking charge of the proceedings. Mr. Reed said that some of the Irish creditors laving dentally baud of the bankruptcy, pat an r ivertisement in the paper, and called the creditors together. His Honour did not think that material. _ . . Mr. Reed submitted that there hat been no sufficient residence with it, the jurisdiction of the court. The Commissioner—That may be so ; be may be merely& bird of plumage, but that must be the subject of a special ap plication to the court. I shall adjourn this sitting, stating that very grave questions arose, making it expedient that • trade assignee should be appointed—that a sitting should be held for that purpose, after being advertised io the French and Irish papers. If the view of Mr. Fans were oorrect, that the court not direct a second sitting for choice, the matter ought to be brought before the Lord Chancellor ; fot the sooner the bankrupt law to amended the better. If any application should be made to dismiss the petition, it should be done on as early day, and before the pelt sitting is held. The examination slitting was then adjourned till the 7th of January. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Bofors Baron Martin.) John Dario Bryan, Henry Sherwood. William Day, and WilUnvisited, who surrendered to take their trial, were indicted, the two first with forging and uttering an order for the delivery of 30 barrels of flour, and the two latter with feloniously reaming the flour knowing it to have been stolen. _ _ _ Mr. Lilley and Mr. Thomson prosecuted, and Mr. W. Cooper appeared for Bryan ; Mr. Collins, for Reed ; Mr. Sleigh end Mr. Bosh Cooper, for Day ; and Mr. Mootagna Williams defended Sherwood. The prosecutors of this indictment were Messrs. %yell and Co., corn merchant. and granary keepers, Shad Thames, and it appeared that on the 27th of March • forged order was brought to their wharf for the delivery of thirty barrels of flour. It was alleged on the part of the prosecution that this forged order was presented by the prisoners Bryan and Sherwood ; and accord log to the evidence of • carman named Woods 15 of the ber.rola of flour were taken to the premiere of the prisoner Reed, who is a baker in Bermondsey.square, and the remainder to those of Day, who is a corn-dealer in Holiest:l.l4mM ; and the evidence against the two last mentiooed pevoners cousisici of proof that they had given contradictory statement. with regard to the manner in which they bourne possessed of the dour, and also that they represented that it was damaged flour. At the close of the case for the prosecution the learned judge expressed his opinion that there we. no case what- ever against Reed or Day, and that there was nothing whatever to show any guilty knowledge on their part in connexion with the transaction. The defence that sou set up for the prisoners Bryan and Sherwood was that they were merely innocent dupes in the transaction, end that they only went to fetch the flour under the direction of the reel criminal. Both priecmers received a very excellent character. The jury convicted alai; and acquitted the other three prisoners. The prisoner Bt 110 sou sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, there being a second ind.ctment against him. (Befogs the Common Serjeaet.) George Baskeroille, 29, who pleaded guilty as the that day of the session to a charge of forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 2681. 13c, was brought up far judgment. He was sentenced to firs years' purl servitude. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERIC EN WELL. 811/1008 CHAELOZ OF BTAIIIITNO. Robert Salomon. aged 13, • oosterrnoeger, eru charged with feloniously stabbing and woonding John Kennedy, in the Metropolitan Cattle•market, Islington. The following medical certificate was handed io 5, Lowther-cottages. Holloway, Oct. 30, 1883. —This is to certify that I was called, on Monday last, to attend John Kenaady, suffering from • punctured wound of the left side. I do not think it • dangerous one.—Tnoras H. Mtventu., &LOA" The injured youth appeared in • very sad state and was hardly able to stand. He stated that he felt great pain in the side and %soder his arm sad also felt pain in the thumb. It was stated that the surgeon had not seen the complainant since Monday, and that be now seemed worse then when he was first seen by the surgeon. It appeared from the evi. doses that the complainant was in the Cattle.market on Monday sad had some wads with the prisoner. Thu words went on to blows, and the prisoner lost his temper, and With, a knife from another boy. held it dagger fashion, sad rushed at the complaisant with it and stabbed him in the ribs below the heart. The prisoner, as soon as he sae that he had fetched blood, ran away and was not appreheaded till last night. The complainant, who was very poorly clad, and who was told by the aureola to keep himself quiet and wants, said in UMW, to Mr. D'Eyociourt. that he could not put on better and warmer clothes, as all he had was what be had on, and his fatber,'wleo was employed in • gas factory, is now out of work. The primmer mid that be should not have used the knife if the complainant had not pushed him. He was very sorry for what he had doss. Mr. D'Sysooort mid the compkinant had better be taken to the Royal Free Hospital, and have proper attendees*. It was quite oecessary that he should have a warm jacket, and he would order him to have one, and the exposes would ha defrayed out of the poor-pox. The complaisant appeared is • dangerous state, and he had better he ad. mated to the hospital. He should remand the prisoner for a week. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ELECTORAL INDEPENDENCE IN PRUSSIA. M. de Salderu, of Mesiersdort (Lus►ce), Lately published an electoral circular, com mencing as follows :—" His Majesty our very gracious King and master has ordered that the Prussian elections shall take place on the 20th, and has declared that the election will not be free unless it falls upon persons who will vote in the sense of his Majesty and his ministers. The deputies chosen from our district have voted against the will of his Majesty the King and his minister's ; their re-election will therefore be against the wish of his Majesty the K;ig and his ministers." M. de Saldern goes on to declare that he will dismiss all the workmen employed on his domains who vote against the King; that be will give notice to all the tenants who take the same course, and that he will have no further business relations with the trades men and artisans who vote for the opposition. In spite of these threats the result of the election was the nomination of 15 opposition electors out of 18 of the second degree. Amongst the three others I figured M. de Saldern, who elected himself, because he was the only primary voter of his class. THE FOREIGN OCCUPATION OF ROME. The Opinion Nationale, alluding to the rumour i put forth by the Nation of a possible evacuation 1 of Rome by the French troops, says :—" Every one knows with what joy we should see the French government withdraw its protaction from a regime which on every occasion signalises itself by hatred of all the principles of modern society, and by its hostility to all progress, not only political but economical and industrial. Only yesterday the court of Rome authorised Prince Torlonia to de molish a village on condition of paying 200,000 fr. to the St. Peter's pence fund. Thus while France dears forests and drains marshes, the caprice of a grand seigneur in the Roman states, aided by priestly cupidity, breaks up a population of thirty families. We should indeed be delighted to learn that such deeds could no longer be done under the protection of the French flag. But we do not see what benefit the Romans would derive from getting a Spanish garrison instead of • French one. On the contrary, we think they would be losers ; for we are free to admit that the French troops, and particularly their chief, General de Montebello, have behaved admirably." (azunra's nasoamen.) AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. VIENNA. Ocr 29. The Chancellor of Hungary has forwarded a letter to the Lower House of the Reichsratb, stating that he will be represented by an Antic Councillor in the Finance Committee during the debate upon the loan to palliate the distress exist ing in Hungary. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ocr. 30. The Minister of Finance contradicts the report that the dividends on the new Consolidis axe to be paid in London and Paris, and states that they will be punctually paid in Constantinople only by the Imperial Bank. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. LETTER FROM PRINCE NAPOLEON ON POLAND. (nom ouz owzr coazzarozzimr.) PARIS, THUBSDAT EVINTNO. Prince Napoleon bas written the following letter to M. Belmontet, in acknowledgment of a copy of versa in favour of the Polish cause, headed Dieu le sent ! Pte, Oct. 19, 1863. My dear M. Belmontet,— I have received your verses co Poland and have read them with deep emotion and greet interest. God grant that your voice may be beard and that France will not see that unfortunate country, which has always been so faithful to u, annihilated. I trust that your vote as a deputy will be very soon seen to be in axord with your generous idea as a poet. Receive, my dear Monsieur Belmoatet, the renewed easusaos of my distinguished sentiments. NAPOLZON (Jewel). The above letter shows, to • very recent date, that Prince Napoleon is still prepared to lead an opposition in the Senate. There is a vein of irony in his expression of • hope that M. Itelmontet's vote in the Corps Legislatif will correspond with his verses, for M. Belmontet, besides being poet laureate, is • government deputy. The Union says that the baptism of the Prince Napoleon's son is at this moment • great stumbling block to the church. The little prince was half baptised (oecloyg) immediately after his birth ; but it is almost without precedent that the full cere mony of baptism should be postponed longer than six months. The infant is now more than a year old, and the reason given for the extraordinary delay is that Prince Napoleon will have no other godfather for his son than the King of Italy, who is excommunicate. The Pope making a great point of bolding to the excommunication in this case, no bishop in France can be found to fly openly in the face of the church, and the Prince Napoleon, with equal firmness, declares that unless Victor Em manuel holds his infant over the font, he shall not be baptised at all. The only certain news of the ministerial council of yesterday, presided over by the Emperor, is that it sat from 2 to 6 o'clock. This unusually protracted deliberation will probably not be thought evidence of unanimity. The Prance thinks itself authorised to contradict the news of Marshal Niel being about to be sent on • special mission to Russia. According to a frequent habit when any false news is to be contra dicted, the Prance represents this as coming from English journals. The fact is that no English journal spoke of it until it was first circulated by Paris newspapers. The meudacious habits of the official journals when they speak of the health of any great per sonage are such that great anxiety is always felt about anybody whom they assert to be very well. It was stated a few days since that the Duke de Morny, being entirely recovered from the con sequences of a knock on the head from a horse, was coming to Paris from his country seat at Nades on a day mentioned, and would certainly preside at the opening of the new legislature. But the Nation now says that although the duke is cured, he "still requires great care," and that "it is possible he may not be able to take the chair during the first days of the session." The Sank of France, not having raised its dis count, the Bourse somewhat recovered to-day. Bente rose 100. for cash and 150. for account, closing at 67fr. and 67fr. sc. Mobilier rose 17fr. 50.. The Moniteur publishes the following note : The Mexican oonstda at Paris, Bordeaux, and Havre hav ing been obliged Mame the exercise of their functions, the mansgemeot of their respective poets Ina been temporarily coolkied to the weenie of Goatentala, who ere consequently charged with the protection of the persons and iotereas of Me:tom subjects at than plasm The Minister of Foreign WORSHI P-STREET. RORRHIG FORITIRRED LOPGINGB.—A HEARTLESS CASE. llosabeth Wells, Ada White, and Ellen IVelater, ell well dressed young women, White, the youngest, wearing a het. were charged before Mr. Leigh with the above-named offence. Mary Burger, as elderly widow, living at 44, St. Jobs's road, Holton, said, that about the middle of last mouth Wells segued two rooms there furnished, representing that she was married, and bee husband. • commercial traveller, came to Loggia, only ones a mouth. The other primmere visited her es her sisters, mid the root was regular!) paid up to the 17th inst., when not anything could be men of either prisoner, and on entering the apartments it won found theta large looking-glass, bedding, and a variety of articles had been removed. value in all about 1151. The robbery wes ogre of a very serious character to her as her entire livelihood depended upon letting lodgings. Gould, an fictive detective officer of the N diviaion, in , formed the court that White bud been previously is the service of • gentleman, in Dockland-street, New North road, and robbed Idle. She was for that offence seat to • reformatory for twelve romitha, being very much younger at the time; but the institution had sot worked the desired effect, for since then she had been getting a living is the streets as a bad character. Wens wee • married comas with one child, but • most worthiest creature. Her lansbandoi hard cockles man, mid he had vainly tried to rescue her. She would leave home repeatedly, commit herself in the same manner as that which now affected her, sod then return to him. Witness took her into custody is Atka buddies., Bartholomew-close, Alderegate-street. Webster sod White he apprehended while shopping in St. Paul's ishurehyard. The widow's property had beim pledged by these two, one of them repreeenting that her husband was • sailor whose ship then lay at Plymouth, titer a length. rued cruise, and that she was compelled to pawn the things to enable bar to join him. All the prisoners appeared to treat the whole matter as • good }eke. They were finally committed for trial at the Chi/theatrell Sessions. THE GAROTTING VEL OP A R COMMERCIAL TRA. INQUEBT.-(THIS DAY.) This afternoon, at half-raft 12 o'clock, Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for Middlesex, resumed an inquiry (after aa adjournment of two months), at the Sutton Arms tavern, Carthusian-street, Charterboumosquare, Goswell streetrcad, respecting the death of Mr. Richard Pearce, aged 40 years, who died from wetting on the morning of the 25th of February . last. The circumstances have already been detailed ia this journal under the head of Worship-irtreet Pelieo-court, where a female named Elizabeth Hartly appeared several times before the magistrate u being concerned in the violence inflicted upon the de:eased, who bud been drinking in the vicinity of the Hiagaland-rdad, Shoreditch, with several swellmobsmem, The Coroner, in summing up, said he could not call upon the jury to meet again. He therefore would direct their attention to the chief portion of the testimonv,which prwed that the deceased died from the violence inflicted on hie person, and it was manifest that the men who attacked the deceased were the companions or confederates of the female. Some one, therefore, was culpable in the matter. The female was at the present time in custody, and one of the men who was no doubt connected with the cue was also undergoing imprisonment. There was no doubt that the ends of justice bad been frustrated, as there had been no conviction or reward offered in ocionerioo with the cue. The jury returned a verdict " That Mr. Richard Pianos died from violence on the throat, indicted by some person or ppeerrssooose unknown, who were guilty of wilful murder for maliciously killing and slaying the said gentleman." A NIGHT OF FIRES IN LONDON. There were no fewer than ten outbreaks of fire in the course of last night and this morning in different districts in London, destroying a considerable amount of pro perty. The following is an extract of the return made to the insurance offices interested, by the officers of the fire brigade : . . . 3, Crown-court, Charterhonanumare, in the os cnpetioa of Mr. Mitchell—upper part of house damaged. At No. 28, Upper Charlton-street, Fitzroynquare, let oat in tenements ; landlord Mr. Yeo—house damaged- At No. 25A. Houndalitch, in the occupation of Mr. Harris, jeweller and cutler—shop burnt. At No. 32, Famound•road, Grove-mad, Victoria•park, house of six moms, occupied by Miss M. Lane, haberdasher —burned down. At No. 12, Bon-street, Bishopegate-street, an umbrella. makers, carried on by Mr. G. Moore—front-room, third. floor, burnt out and rest of house damaged. At No. 115, Centrallwtrest, fit. Luke's, occupied by Mr. Palmer, stationer and tobacconist—house damaged. At Queen's Head-yard, Borough, Br. Pitt, carrier--rieble, cart houses, 100 feet long by 15 tweed, with hay lofts above, destroyed, dwelling.hoose damaged. At No. 79, Golden-lane, St. Luke's, Mr. Snelgrovit, dealer in waresshop burnt. At No. 11, Branch-place, Horton. W. ' , eery —lower part of holes pertly destroyed. The other fire was at Bow comtnon. In most of the above eases the wide' were insured. WRECK OP A LARGE SHIP IN THE THAMES. Lent evening an alarming occurrence took place off Wapping, which might have involved a serious • loss of life. A Aim barque, called the Beslids, which has recently discharged a cargo from China in the St. Katherine Dock. was being towed down the river by the Monarch tug, from those docks, on her way to a wharf lower down the Pool, to talcs in ballast; when on getting nearly abreast of the Wapping entrance of the London Dock. a sudden and heavy squall of wind from the southward and westward caught the ship, and being light, having not the least ballast us her, she took a list on the port aids and immediately went right over on her beam ends. As may be imagined the occurrence created some excitement in the Pool, sod boats immediateleput off to the aid of the crew, who were to be seen scrambling op the rigging. Fortunately her meats and yards, as they rimed upon the water, gave a buoyancy to the ship, and pre vented her at once sinking. Capt. Pain, the dockmaster of the London Ducks, had warps laid out to the vessel, with with a view of getting her out of the midstream and nearer in shore. After much exertion. the ship was got into the Middlesex shore, close in by Wapping Old Stairs, where she gradually filled with water. The barque now lies on her beam ends. necessarily much damaged. Attempts will be made this afternoon to float her, but it is considered very doubtful. Fortunately, however, she is oat of the fairway of the river. It is reported that one of the mew was much Injured by the anchor or chain in some way falling upon him when the ship went over. The cause of the vessel capsizing is attributed to her having no ballast, a practice of frequent occurrence in movie; ships from one dock to another. It is stated that the Beals& had recently changed hands and was bound to the North. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.-FALL OF 4 WINDMILL. Yesterday a heavy gale blew at Preston ; in the afternoon there was • complete hurricane. About 3 o'clock, when the storm was at the highest, • windmill in North road, belonging to Yr. Thomas Hayes, was blown down. The men belonging to the mill had josh furled the sails when the accident occurred. The roof and the mils of the mill were blown off with terrific force. One of the mile fell upon • house adjoining. It cut the roof in two, smaahed in all the floors, and completely filled the kitchen with dAris. There were several children in the house, but fortunately none were hart. Another large piece of the sad. fell upon the next house. It crushed in the front ceiling, displaced the brickwork, and hurled the coping stones into the street. The yards of several other houses were very much shaken. A third piece of wood from the roof of the mill was hurled a distance of 00 or 70 yards into Kirkhamatreet ; but this, fortunately, did not cause any damage. One of the mils, together with the driving wheel and its shalt, was thrown into the mill yard. It was about three tons weight, and, in its doormat smashed • wall. went through the roof of the office, and did very great damage. A large portion of the List sail which fell was carried about 100 yards. It struck one of the windows of the Romeo catholic school is St. Login,- square. The window, with its heavy stone mullions, was driven in and broken to atoms. lo the school, and immediately in front of the window which was broken in, there were 32 little boys sitting at the dealt. Several large pieces of atone 'truck the desks, but mom of the boys were hurt. One large piece of stone was driven right through the school. It pared amongst large num bers of girls, caught and smashed a desk, rod then buried itself iu the door. A little girl was struck on the head with • piece of atom. She was the only one injured. C,uosideiing the densely populated nature of the district is which the accident happened, it is marvellous that many lives were not lust. SESPICIOCS DEATH or A CHILD.—KINnABUIRY, NEAR EDGEWAIA, FRIDAY YOBSING. —This morning, Mr. James Bird, the coroner for the western division of Middle sex, resumed the inquiry into the death of Elizabeth Clarke, at the Red Lion lou, Hyde. The inquest iv is pruoesding when our report was Ilespatahed, but the inquiry will be again adjouroed. it being understood that the body will be exhumed, and also, iu all probability, the body of the first child that died. GALLANT REset:E.—" An Eye-witness" writes to the Times, from Portsmouth :—" This afternoon the maul calm of the dinner-boar on board her Majesty's ship Warrior was startled into nowonted activity by the cry of ' Man overboard.' which originated from a dockyard artificer having fallen overboard from a stage over the aide. An ordinary seaman, hearing the alarm. run down the side, and in his eagerness to save the fast-sinking loan, slipped over also, sod both were in imminent danger, as neither could swim, when Mr. J. R. E. Porker, midshipman. leaped gallantly from the gangway, a height of upwards of 20 feet, and socneeded, though nearly drowned himself by their frantic embraces, in supporting both men till succour arrived. Luckily there wan not a very strong tide, or we could hardly bare hoped for so happy an end to our gallant friends *mortices." • - • • A Vass - or THE NILE. —A correspondent of the Times. writing from Alexandria on the 20th, says :—" I have just returned from a trip on the Nile; it is a sight never to be forgotten. and which probably will not recur. For some distance thin side of the river, at Kafr Lee, the fields are Bonded, especially on the northern aide of the , railway, where the waters stretch in a wide sheet over both the western and eastern Woks. Large boats are to be seen ; transporting produce from village to village, steer ' iag their way atoms date palms sad sycamores, their keels glidiag over submerged cotton sod halloo coma The iron bridge looks like a low wall &ratio; on the surface of the water, with just apace beneath it for the stream to Neaps; beyond, on the other bank at Karr lava, the waters reach as far as the eye can see. Aaoroding the river by steamer, large trees are to be aeon stamling out of the water miles away from laud. sod the villages are dotted about like islaada. Boom are high enough to permit free cir culation. but others have only a few yards of dry ground, w h er e the people huddle together. On both aides of the Ni!e the dikes appear like black lines, sod, where not broken through, save to coated neighbouring villages together, but inquiet breaks occur. In many places encampments of villagers and Bedouin, are to be seen on narrow sandy shim or fragments of dykes, where they have sought refuge with their cattle, which browse on the scanty hard tufts of Kalish grau lu some places the mitten plants are not entirely covered ; bat their upper leaved are yellow soil sickly, the lower ones black and roues. If the water were to drain off quickly. some of these fields may recover ; but, ocaerearily, their yield will be small.' II would of doi 60,C01 they 1 taki,i them CAP hove Yarn Eel% S. W. N. g 8.8. V 8.8. N Not WAIL Dove