The Express. — London, England, 1863-07-10 00:00:00

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Feeliter, Shore, Jordan, Bracewell, and Maywood ; Minas C. Leclerc% K. Terry, and gisnorthy. BRITANNIA. THIS EtnalPE, SHE wtsarNo GLEN, introducing THE -GREAT °HORT lIFFICT, Frogmen Pepper s a/notation of Mr. Birches Spectral Ilinion.—The Brothers Coons& and Maim Plemplon sad Woodman —And PAYED WITH GOLD. iIOH WATKR AT LONDON MUDGE. TIM DAT Mordam 9 . Allacamm. Colt 49m. To4lo93olFllondam lvD. 21m. . .Allaramak KM. ave. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 10. Te stick at no inconsistency and to evade every argument, to make assertion stand for reasoning, and, when authority is lacking, to put words into a dead man's mouth and then quote them as the dead man's utterance, are the new arts of states manship by which majorities in the House of Commons are made safe. Why not Y Men are differently constituted, and to be all things to all men, if by any means he may gain some, is an apostolic example. So Lord Pauses/no; for for the moment that he himself is but an amateur strategist, wins Tory cheers by rating Mr. COBDEN for presuming to act as an amateur general and to criticise the Government plans of national defence. Charged with raising bugbears of invasion, as the cuttle-fish raises an inky cloud, the Pamumi retorts that the Duke of WELLINGTON called invasion possible, omitting only to remember that we had then neither Volunteers nor Militia, neither railways nor screw men-of-war. So when the question is as to forts designed to protect our arsenals from the English side, the Noble Lord finds it convenient to retort that at the time of the Tahiti dispute our fleet was inferior to that of the French. And so, when denounced as intro ducing the new principle that on English soil the defenders of England now need fortifications, be hind which to shelter, the head of the Government replies, that to refuse the fortifications would be a libel upon our Volunteers. Such is a specimen of the flimsy mis-statement which draws down the cheers of the House overnight and reads so pitifully next morning. An invasion, we are told, is to be provided against. We cannot now depend on our fleet, steam has "bridged the Channel," there are special appliances to make a landing expeditious, and we have no troops sufficient to prevent its being effected. Such is the case presented in favour of fortifications on the land side of our ports and arsenals, to which the question debated last night was restricted. But if all these general propositions are to be taken for true, and seven millions to be voted in that faith, is it too much to ask for a little more definite opinion as to the number of the army which could be thrown upon our shores, the time, and the place at which they may reasonably be expected ! It happens, how ever, that these are questions on which no two of our panicmongers can be found to agree. NAPOLLON dared not venture with less than 150,000 men, and certainly he was a good judge of the strength needful to give the attempt a chance. Lord Paransuroit says sometimes 50,000 or 60,000 ; and at other times talks loosely of " a twenty thousand here and a twenty thousand " there." The Dnke of Wsunvorort, in his famous letter, suggested 40,000; General &raw KENNEDY, whose pamphlet contributed to the die cwision which resulted in the appointment of the Defence Commission, says there cannot be less than 100,000 ; the Defence Commissioner frankly decline to specify any number, large or small. The place is equally indefinite. NAPOLEON and the Duke of WiLuirGrox agreed, indeed, on Kent or Sussex, but Lord PALMERSTON says Porta mouth, Plymouth, or Pembroke ; and General SHAW KENNEDY insists that Torbay is the sole practicable point. Then as to time ; shall it be in peace or war ? The idea of Lord Faunas:row, till lately, was that it was going to be in peace ; his 50,000 men were to appear suddenly as so many excursionists, and to be landed before we knew their character ; but now he ex pressly abandons this notion, admitting that while we are at peace our Consuls would send us notice of the preparations made in the several French ports for the transport of DO considerable a body of tourista. How are we to deal with facts so self-contradictory I Suppose we take the wildest estimate of all. Let us imagine that in the midst of peace 50,000 French soldiers are secretly embarked, secretly cram the Channel, secretly disembark on our shore. What . _ have we to meet them 1 Why, according to offi cial returns, we have at this moment 80,000 regulars in these islands. Besides these, there are 50,000 volunteers, with arms in their hands, ready to march, and pronounced fit to take their place In a line of battle. Besides these there are 95,000 militia who were under their annual train ing within the last two months. And we have con verging railways, which can conoentrate these at the rate of 10,000 men an hour all through the day and night on any spot where the excursionists may appear. How many of the 50,000 would survive the march of 20 miles, which after they have landed at the nearest practicable point to Portsmouth is needed to bring them within range of the forts on Portadown Hill f How many even would form on the beach, when within an hour by rail of the spot we have in instant readiness this 707 day I',ooo men at Aldershott, 5,000 in rez; r i amouth i t a 4. 3,000 at Shorncliffe, and the garrisons of London, Windsor, and other towns, pouring down hour by boor to their support If such is the force we have to meet the utterly THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1863. frbt COUII. OSBORNE, Jars 9. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Prin. was Leiningen, drove out yesterday. Lord A. Paget attended on horseback. The Duke of Somerset arrived from Landon and bad an audience of her Majesty. Mime Van de Weyer baa arrived at Osborne. The Duke and Duchess de Chartrs paid ► visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales, yesterday, at Marlborough house. The Prince and Princess of Wales left town yesterday for Frogmore. Their royal highnesses, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Lieutenant-General Knoll's, and Captain Grey, left Marlborough-house at ten minutes past six o'clock last evening for the Paddington terminus, and travelled by the Great Western Railway to Windsor. Despatches were sent from the Colonial. oflice yesterday to the Governor of Canada and to the Lord Itigh Commis goner of the lonian Wands. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, honoured the Earl end Countess of Bective with his company at dinner last evenieg, at their residence in Grafton-street.' The following were invited to meet his royal highness : The Duke of Newcastle, the Duke and Duchess of Mont rose and Lady Violet Graham, the Earl and Countess of Cork, Colonel the Hon. Strange Jocelyn and Mrs. Jocelyn, Colonel the Hon. F. S. Calthorpe, Mr. Grant, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, and the Misses Montgomery. After the ban quet the oonntess gave a concert, to which a select circle were invited. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and a numerous circle have been invited to partake of the hos pitalities at Goodwood during the race week. Sir Roderick and Lady Murchison received his Exoellency the Ambassador of France and a select circle, at a dinner last evening, at their residence in 13elgrava square. His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer and family have left Grosvenor-square for New Lodge, Windsor Forest. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester enter tained at dinner last evening their Serene Highemses the Prince and Princes' Edward of Saxe Weimar, Maria Mar chioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of Wilton, the Countess Cowley, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Sefton, Lady Cecilia des Vreux, Dr. Quin, /cc. . . The Earl and Countess of Yarborough enter tained A dinner last evening, at their residence in Arlington street, the Earl and Counter of Zetlaad, Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre, Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Lady Howard, Mr. and Lady Sophia Macaamare, Lady Emily Haze, Colonel and Lady Emily Kingseote, Colonel Farqua barman of Invercauld, Colonel Sturt, Colonel the Hon. Ed ward Curzon and Mn. C 02700, &c. A marriage is arranged to take place between Major the Hon. Augustus toxin, V.C., brother of the Earl of Lichfield, and Miss Claughton. daughter of the Rev. I'. L and the Hon. Mrs. Claughton, sod niece of the Earl of Dud ley. Major Anson was wounded before Delhi in 1857, and resolved the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery at Lucknow. MUSIC. unexpected 50,000 the very moment of their arrival, we need not concern ourselves with ima gining the fate of the odd 20,000 with which Lord PALMEBSTON'S fresh imagination bestrews our coasts. Nor need we go at all into the question of the 150,000 which admittedly can only come after long preparation in time of declared war. When war breaks out we shall cer tainly have spirit enough to raise our army, our militia, and our volunteers to any strength requisite to meet our foe on a fair field. But it is well that we should also recollect, what was touched on by one or two of the speakers, that it is physically and morally impossible that for many years to come there should be any in vasion dreamt of by any foreign Power. Wooden ships, whether men-of-war, transports, or rafts, are under modern gunnery become utterly out of the question as a means of carrying an army across an enemy's seas. They are now but floating slaughter houses—slaughterhouses which burst into flames even as the first death-shriek rises within them, and sink below the waves while the flames are still quivering on high. is it conceivable that any foreign Power will send even 20,000, far less 100,000 of its troops, on an expedition in which it needs not a hostile fleet, but merely a chance encounter with an iron-cased frigate or gunboat, or, escaping that, the appearance of a field-piece within range of the anchorage, to send every soul to the bottom t Since the days of Sinope, and the proof of the effect of horizontal shell firing which it yielded, there has been an end of expeditions by sea, until after, as in the case of the Black Sea, it has been swept of every enemy's cruiser, or, as in the Mediterranean, it merely offers secure transport to the harbours of a friendly Power. So, till our neighbours have built themselves iron-clads enough to embark the expedition, of whatever strength it may be, an event which can scarcely come to pus without our knowing it, we sleep in security. But such practical considerations are below the attention of the Government or of the House of Commons. Heedless of the warnings of its wisest counsellors it persists year after year in voting the millions which avowedly are given only because a favourite actor asks the slight gift of indulgence to his little whim from a pleased and amused audience. So it spends the sunshine of its brief day. Happily for the country, that day will have closed ere the full peril of its recklessness will need to be seriously met. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JuLy 9. FORTIFICATIONS (PROVISION FOR EXPENSES) BILL Order for second reading read. Motion made, and question proposed, " That the bill be now read a wooed time." Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word "That" to the sod of the question, in order to add the words "no further expenditure should be incurred for the present upon that part of the project for foetifiestions which is based oe the aimunption that an enemy might land in force and attempt to besiege Portsmouth end Plymouth, except on such works as are inn very advanced state of progress" (Sir Frederic Smith) ; instead thereof. question put, ' That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." The house divided :—Ayes, 132; noes, 61. ATM _ _ ... Adam, W. P. Gavin, Major P B l lll . C. *swell. J. Gibson, T. M. Paget, Lord A. Balllle, H. J. Glyn. U. 0. Paget, Lord C. Baring, Mr N. T. Cowbell, O. J. Palmerston. Vioct. Baring, T. G. Graham, Lord W. Park-r, Major Bathurst, A. A. Greenwood, J. Patten, CoL Beals, 8. Gray, Capt. Peel, Mir R. Beaumont, W. B. Grey, Sir 0. Peel, F. Beaumont, S. A. Gurney, .1. H. Price R. 0. Beecrolt, G. S. lianbluy, R. Pritchard, J. Benthack, G. W. Hardesigh, J. A. Posh, D. Berkeley, Col. klartington, Marq.of Puller, C. W. Black, A. Hassan!. IL 'WPM S. J. Bonham. Carter, J. Headiam, T. E. Howley. S. T. Bouverle, E. P. Henley, J. W. Hamel], Y. W. Staunton, T. W. Henley, Lord Salt, Thomas Bridges, Slr B. W. Herbert, H. 4. Sabo/Meld, W. Briscoe, J. I. Heaketh, Sir T. G. Selwyn. C. J. Bohm, IL A. Hodgson, X. Boinerville,Slr W.M. Buller, J. W. holland, P. Spooner, R. Bury. Vhict. Horgan, T. B. Starpoole, W. Batt, I. Flothan, Lord Staiideld, J. CaLrd, J. Howes, X Steel, J . Calms, Sir H. MC. Humbersten,P. S. Fite, W. Cardwell, X Hutt, W. Tollemache, P. J. Carnegie. C. Ingham, B. Toilemache, J. Cartwright, Col. Jervis, Capt. Turner, C. Churchill, Lord A. Jervolos, Sir 1. C. Vane, Lord H. ' Clay, J. Jolliffe, Sir W. 11V Verney, Sir H. Cobbold, J. C. Xlummote, Col. Villiers, C. P. Colthurst, Sir G. Knatchbull-Mugs. Walcott, Admiral Crawford, B. I.V. len, E. Walpole, S. H. Davie, Sir H. IL Ward, A. H. Walter. J. Denman, G. Leader, N. P. Watkins, Col. Duff, H. E. Leighton, Sir B. Watlington, J. W. Duke, Sir J. Locke, J. Western, 8. Dundas, Sir D. Low, 8, P. White, L Du Pre, C. G. 'Fall. 0. Wickham, H. W. Egerton W. Malmo, B. Wood, Sir C. Enda, J. Massey. W. N. Woodd, B. T. Press, Sir D. L. Matheson, A. Wyvill, IL Farquhar, Elr H. Morrison, WA Ifergumon. Sir J. Newdegate, C. N. TELMA. Fortescue. C. 8. O'Brien, Sir P. Brand. H. B. Gl , Visa. O'Hagan, T. Dunbar. Mr W. Gard, S. Padmore, B. NOES. Angentein, W. Ewing, H. IL Monts, D. Actell, J. H. Ferrouy, Lord North, F. Ayrtoti, A. B. Forster, W. B. Onslow, G. Aytouu. IL 8. Ooidamid, Sir I. H. Osborne, R. B. Baines, E. Greco*, J. Peacocke, 0. IL Barnes, T. Hadfield, G. Pete, St: S. IL Bosley, T. Hennessy, J. P. Pillibigtos, J. Besinlah, P. B. Heygate, W. U. Potter, E. Berkeley, C. P. 1104.101111011, G. Seely, 0. Blackburn, P. Hubbard, J. 0. Smith. J. R. Blake, J. Laird, J. Sullivan, IL =7, Sir G. layman, W. Sykes, W. H. B. Leathain, E. A. Taylor. P. A. Beaton. C. lee, W. Vresthead, J. P. Cobbett, J. H. Lennox, Lord G. G. White, J. Cobden, B. Lindsay. W. S. Williams, W. Colebrook', WT.& Lougileid, H. Wyld, J. Cos, W. Lagoa, P. Macaulay, X. TaLtuus. ' Duleisib E. Maguire, J. F. Smith. Sir P. Dhryn, 1.. L. MUM. J. R. Dickson, Col. Doniton, P. Mitchell, T. A THE ArOMENTATION OF BENEFICES BILL.—The following an the twenty-nine members who voted last eight against the woad reading of this bill:—Mess. W. P. Adam, A. 8. Arlon, E. Baines, A. Black, R. P. Bouveris, J. Gird, Sir H. J. Cholmeley, Mears. R. Cobden, W. Con, R. Dalglish, L. L Dillwyn, Sir C. Douglas, Messrs. F. Doniton, H. F. Duff, H. E. C. Ewing, Lord Fermoy, Messrs. J. Gasesig, G. Hadfield, W. a Lindsay, J. Locke, J. R. Mills, R. Padmore, Sir 8. H. Peto, Mr. J. Pilkiugton, Sir J. V. Shelley, Messrs. M. T. Smith, P. A. Taylor, J. White, and W. Williams. Tellers, Mr. Barnes and Lord Henley. In committee on the Fortifications (Provision for Espsnass) Bill, Sir Morton Foto will propose to leers out from schedule the following Acing :—Spithead—Hone Saud Fort, 25,0001. ; No Man's Load, 25,0001. ; Sturbridge, 25,0001. On Monday Mr. Richard Long will ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the government has received any information of the reconstruction by Russia of the bat teries at Bomanmod ; and whether they have forwarded any remonstrance to the Russian government on the subject. If there be truth (nays the Monsimg Post) in • rumour very generally circulated among mem bers of the House of Commons, the next act of the Roebuck and Lindsay farm will be one which will entitle this comic performance to the title of " Low Life Up Stain." There are manifestly persons who were never made for imperial C0116 , 1011C131, and Mr. Lindsay is about to prove that he is one of them. He is about, it is confidently said, to favour the Roue of Com mons with • detailed account of his several inter views w►th the " great ruler of the French." This account be is to read from • note-book, in which he jotted down the substance of each conversation when be returned from the imperial closet; and, to cap the climax of absurdity, he purposes, as he gravely assures his friends, to place the identical note-book in the hands of the Speaker, that the right boo. gentleman may be satisfied by ocular inspection that it is not a fabricated document, but the genuine and contemponumons raced of Mr. lAndsay's conversations with his imperial friend. Lutanaze ELBCTION. The Belfast Northern Whip of yesterday uys :—" We have reason to believe that the petittoo splint the return of Mr. Verner, already perfected and forwarded, will be lodged either to-day or to-morrow. We understand that Mr. Verner and his agents are charged with bnbery, treating, and undue in. Micros, both at the bet ehmtion and the previous one." GREECE. JuLy 10. The following telegram from the President of the Government of Greece, X Ruffo, has been received at the office of the London Philhellenic Committee "ATHENS, _JuL79, 11.40 A.m. " Order is completely re-eatablished ; the Bank is entirely saved. The garrison has been sent into the departments." (arum's Tuzawis.) THE " CONSTITUTIONNEL" ON THE POLISH QUESTION. PARIS, JULY 10. The Consfitutionnei of to-day publishes an article, signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, regretting the vio lence of the last article of the Patric on the Polish question, because violence can only compromise the great interests which are defended by the three powers. " Who," says M. Limayrac, "could suppose any faltering possible in such a question under Napo leon 111., who first understood that the interests of Europe and humanity demanded an efficacious solution 1 How is it possible sot to see in the abandonment of Poland the two most formidable dangers to the future of Europe—the triumph of the revolution or the triumph of Pan slavism i The present pacific action has no other object than to avert this peril, but, we repeat, it is by firmness alone that such an en terprise can be made to succeed ; by violence and menaces it will only be compromised." THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BERLIN, JULY 9. Letters from St. Petersburg state that the fol lowing official announcement has been published in the Inoalide Busse :—" The body of insurgents under the command of Wyaocki and Nasycki, after having been thrown back into Galicia after the affair at Radziwilow, obtained reinforcements on the Austrian territory from the detachment of Sapieha, and re-entered Poland on the 4th of July. Insurgent bands have been dispersed by Russian troops at Gagri and Rajdano." The Bishop of Wilna, Monsignor Krazinski, having published a pastoral expressing sympathy with the insurrection, has been transported to Nijni-Novgorod, whence he will be sent to Wiatka. THE INSURRECTION IN GEORGIA. ST. PET2RSBITBG, JULY 10. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day publishes official intelligence from the Caucasus, stating that the insurrection in Georgia had already been sup pressed, and that it had never assumed any serious proportions. The death of Prince Cholukoff is confirmed. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS. JULY 10. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the June return : DECREASE. Cash in hand . 481 millions. Treasury balance Advances .. 38 ), 4 3-5 „ An important action is about to be tried at Guild. hall with respect to a claim for 10,0001., seder a policy of insurance effected with the Commercial Union Company upon the vessel Indian Empire, burnt while lying in the river Thames. the vessel at the time of the fire being sup posed to be without the limits of locality literally defined by the policy. A considerable point of interest is involved an to the practice of the insurance offices, and the desirable ness of effecting policies for large amounts in one office, a heavy portion of such policies being, in many instances, re-insured by other companies. Blondin has landed at Southampton this week from the Peninsula. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. — The *none election of officers of this institution took place yesterday, on which occasion Mr. Frederick Carpenter Skey, F.R.S., surgeon to Bt. Bartholomew's Hospital, was elected president, and Hewn. Joseph Hodgson, F. R.S., and Thomas Worroald, also one of the surgeons to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, were elected vice-presidents of the college for the ensuing year. At this meeting of the council Messrs. S. A. lane, of St. Mary's Hospital, George Busk, of the Seaman's Hospital, and Henry Ha ncock, of the Cbaring-cross Hospital, the recently elected councillors, were sworn in and took the chairs lately occupied by Messrs. C. H. Hawkins, serjeant-surgeon to the Queen, Thomas Tatum, and William Coulson. THE TRIAL OF &taw FIRE-ENGINEB.—The com mittee appointed to decide on the merit, of the various steam fireengines which competed last week in the grounds of the Crystal Palace have made their award of prizes. To the patent steam fireangine by Messrs. Merryweather and Bone, Long-acre (large size), was awarded the first prize of 210!. A prize of 1001. was awarded to Messrs. Shand, Mason, and Co., of Blackfrtarebridge, for the next beat large engine. Both these engines are .specially adapted for large towns and cities, but the small ones are what the committee of the Fire Brigade think will beet suit the greater number of London fires. Among the small land @tearoom the first prize of 2501. was awarded to Megan. Shand, Mason, and Co. The second 100 1 . prize wai awarded to Lee's small engine. The other competitors, having failed in the performance of their engines, re ceived no prizes. TEE LATE SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY TRAIN AT Nawaits.—Last week a paragraph appeared giving an sc. The next financial advieea from America will count of the suicide of a French nobleman at Heim*. For some days the body was not identified, but on Saturday hat probably report the decision of the Court of Appeal' of the the widow of the deceased (a French lady), accompanied by State of New York on the important question as to the another lady, arrived at Newark from Loudon. The de- Federal notes, known as " greenbacks." being a legal ten- ceased in early life served in the army in Africa with orufli der by the banks in that State, the hearing having been cient distinction to have earned the decoration of the Legion fixed to commence on the 26th of June. of Honour, but having left the army on a change of dynasty taking place in France, his life has since been very Accounts from Zante and Cephalonia state that chequered and unfortunate. He had been absent from his the prospects of the currant mope are most promising, wife about two mouths in search of employment. and after Last year those two islands exported more than 50,000 many fruitless endeavours had at length gone to Edinburgh to endeavour to obtain a situation there as assistant to a toes, and this year the export will be at least 30 per cent. French wine merchant ; and his wife was in greet suspe nse, greater. More than half of this fruit is sent to England. as he had written to inform her of their pending destitution, Prices have already begun to decline. stating that he bad bees uneneoeseful, sod had been corn. The French steam navigation company who con_ palled to sell hie watch. At the time of the suicide his wife vet the mails in the India and China seas will have a fleet was staying in London with a lady , whose brother s a w the account of it in the ppm. When she arrived at Newark of nearly GO steamers next year, and will then be the largest she fully identified the body as being that of her husband. mail stem packet company in the world. The deceased was about 47 years of age. INCREASE. Bills discounted, not yet due 94 i „ Bankß notes SO „ Current accounts WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY, JIM 10, 8 LX. B. sl B.W. W. B.W. &N.& W.S.W. -I; - I i - I -L -II -Ii - i :4 -Ii - 1 I -11 I SATCRDAT. ....,- ITINDOT. K. to 8. and W., Toe- NORTS-Ekilf. 8,8. to W., moderate, able, fine. fine. E. S.& to W., Malt to Warr. S.B.W. to W.N.W., mo fresh, floe. dente. E.N.E. to 8.8. E. and WWI& K.S.K. to S.S.W., mo dB. W., moderate, derate, flee. tine: r.E. to S.F. and 8., BorTH.F.Airr. t. to 8., moderate, fine. - - fresh to Bight. tine. North.Eaat.‘loray Firth to Norfolk. West= Donegal to Corn• wall. mouth=Channa and French Coasts. nouth-liaat - Stralt of Dover to Norfolk. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Sittings at Ntsi Prius at ouildh►ll.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and ► Special Jury.) KW D. THE LONDON AND PROVINCIAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. In this case the defendanta consented to a verdict for the plaintiff for 100/. damages, at the same time publicly apolo gising, and withdrawing all imputations and charges against the plaintiff. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nisi Prins in London. —(Belore Lord Chief Justice Erie and a Special Jury.) COGGON o. 1515 MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. MICROI.6OIII t7.aimiLrATAL iceLunn. These actions were founded opal an accident which occurred Nome time ago at the railway station in Maiden-lane, King's-crow Mr. Conon, who was in the service of Mesas. Nicholson, the distillers, was loading some goods, when • train came along and killed him, and also seriously damaged the waggon and one of the hones. Goggon's widow now sued, on behalf of herself and three children ; and Meows. Nicholson also claimed the loss which they had sustained. Mr. Serjeant Shoe and Mr. Lash, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., for the - clefendants. After some discussion it was arranged that there should be a verdict for the plaintiff in the flint action for 500/., and in the other for 881. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi ?fills at Guildhall.—(Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a Common Jury.) TUCK v. THE MARQUIS OF BRISTOL. This was an action brought to recover damages for in jury done to a cab. The defendant paid 201. into court. which he said was sufficient to cover the loss sustained by the plaintiff. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Henry James were counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Kuala., Q.C., and an other learned gentleman for the defendant. The plaintiff was a cab proprietor, whom cab was run into by the carriage of the Marquis of Bristol on the sth of August, but year, end so injured that it had to be carried home in pieces. The cab was repaired at an expense of 111., and the plaintiff used that he was not able to get it back again for 6or 7 weeks. In con sequence of the demand for cabs during the Exhibition mouths he was unable to get smother vehicle for the horse, which he kept idle in the stable at the cost of a pines a week, and ultimately sold at a repository at a loss of about 81., the animal having, it was alleged, from the fright occasiosed by the accident, become vicious and unmanageable in a cab. The plaintiff claimed besides these items I/. 17s. 6d. for lass of duty, 108. the re sidue of the driver's wages for the week, 6e. for the men who brought the cab home, sod 321. 10s. for lois of profit until be was able to use the cab spin ; in all a sum amounting to more than 701. There was no evidence called for the defence, but Mr. Kerslake, in his address to the jury, contended that the 201. paid into court was amply sufficient to cover the loss which the plaintiff had sustained. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 251. in addition to the 3:11. paid into court—total damage., 45/. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. Wont the Judge Ordinary.) BRINNIR e. BEIDINEA MID ARM. This morning Mr. Harrison summed up the case for the defence; and Dr. Spinks replied for the petitioner. Sir C. Cresswell then addressed the jury at considerable length ; and after a short consultation they found that all the parties bad been guilty of adultery ; but they acquitted the husband of the &ergs of cruelty. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Comminioner Pane.) IN RS V. O. JACKSON. The bankrupt was described as a shipowner, of St. Peter's alley, Cornhill, and an ironfounder, of DOUgiAll is the Isle of Man. The liabilities are considerable, much more so than in the ordioary we of cane in this court. The bank. rupt owes to creditors secured and unsecured, 17,5141., of which security is held by creditors for 7,0771. The assets are returned at about 4,3001. Au adjournment until October was ordered. IN RI W. IVESTOARTIL —JUDGMENT. The bankrupt, a merchant, of Threadneedle-street. and partner in a house at Melbourne, applied for his order of id scharge some months ago. He was opposed by the assignees and creditors, chiefly on the ground that he had gone on trading after he must have known himself to be insolvent, and had of course contracted debts without probable means of payment. His liabilities at the time of the bankruptcy eighteen months ago were about 45,0001., on which there have been dividends of 7s. 6d. in the pound. The bearing was protracted through some half dozen milting., and at the close the oommiasioner re served his judgment. His Honour now said—l have read over the prodigious mass of papers in this case more than once with great anxiety, and the more so because, although no doubt the bankrupt Westgarth bee not acted as he ought to have does, and has continued the straggle against adverse circumstances longer than was jus tifiable, stall there are many favourable features in the case, not the least of which is that the estate pays a divi• dend of 7e. lid. in the pound. Then I cannot but feel that, if there bad been wrong in the case, Mr. Westgarth's partners, Mr. Rom and Mr. Spowen, are involved in the wroog, yet the burden seems to fall on Mr. W estgarth alone. The history of Westgarth's career is shortly this. He went to Australia when he was young, and failed in business. He paid a small dividend, and got his discharge. He then re sumed business, succeeded, and paid his previous liabilities in full. In 1858 a firm was formed of Weatgarth, Ross, and Spowers. The firm carried on business in London as Westgarth and Co., and in Melbourne as West- earth, lion, and Spowers, each firm of course assisting the other. The firm at one time made an income of 20,000/. a year, and bad a large capital. Westgarth became a member of the Australian Legislature, and was made president of the Cham ber of Commerce. Between 1854 and 1858 the value of the property possessed by the firm became greatly deer*. elated. Mr. Weetgarth states the depreciation as from 50 to 80 per cent., a depreciation which was general in the colony. The firm had a large warehouse in Market street, Melbourne, which had coat them about 2000/. Its value fell to 11,3001. in 1859 ; afterwards to 7,500/. ; and in 1861 to 4,2001. They had a sheep-walk. valued at one time at 22,0001. The value fell to 12,000/. only. These losses seem to have been pure misfortunes, the result of a change of circumstances in the colony, against which scarcely any prudence could have guarded. It seems to me that up to this period no serious charge of misconduct ' could have been made against Westgarth or his cartoon. The only_ _serious charge of misconduct which presents itself against Westgarth is this, that he permitted himself to be drawn into a series of transactions which were undoubtedly se . rious breaches o: mercantile propriety. The substance of those , transactions was that in order to obtain money to carry on ' the straggle, and so gain time for a change to take place ' in the value of property in the colony (and it must i be remembered that in distant colonies changes . of value in property frequently , du take place , he bought 1 property in England to be paid for after the pee of some . period (three or four month., perhaps, or even more), raised ` ready money by pledging the property so bought, and eo • endeavoured to carry on the struggle against adverse circum- I deuces in the hope that, as the value of property in the colony had at one time been prodigiously depreciated, so on the other Land a favourable change might take place, and the value of the property in the colony might rise as much as it had fallen. After carefully wondering all the circumstances I have determined to give Westgarth his discharge. Mr. itogley, on behalf of the bankrupt, asked that the expensea of has application might be allowed oat of the estate. tifr. Liukiater asked for the allowance of the expenses of the opposing creditors, Mr. Alderman Hale and Mr. Christie. Mr. Sargood, for the assignees, opposed both applications. Hu Honour dtcided to allow the costs of all parties. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) TOE RIOTS AT entwine. The proceedings in this case were resumed this morning, and the respective defendants, Herbert. Birkett, Seville, Shatermes, M'Donelt, and Mutt, surrendered at 10 o'clock. and answered to their names as they were called. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C.. rose and addressed the jury in an impressive speech on behalf of his client, Mr. R. Saville. He said that Mr. Saville was an ensign in the 34th Regiment of Foot, now stationed at Colchester, which was at present under orders to go to India. His client was a young gen. Menne of unblemished honour, and was the son of e gentle. man whom he had known for many years pereoually, en Essex magistrate. His client obtained leave to to Roe= to see the Derby and Oaks; and Oter o had been to the Oaks he went to Creinorne-gardem, t unfortunate night. While he was in Loudon he in, , t • friend named Whittler, who was, he (the learned counsel) believed, a lieutenant ; he also met • gentleman named ith gersld, and they all went to Cremorne, and had some bitter ale at the circular bar. The crowd the.. rushed towards the circular bar, and his client aid what everyone else would do, he tried to extricate himself is the best way he could ; and while he was so doing he wee mixed by the police-constable Rowe and another constable, and dragged through the prdens to the policeetation, while his friends, Lieutenant Whittler and Fitzgerald, followed behind, and they would prove that they LAW Saville dragged away us he had stated. The defendants, he regretted to say. Ware not allowed to speak upon their oath or honour, else they would give • very different complexion to the case to that by the witnesses of the prosecution. He complained of Mr. Smith being called as a witness after all the witnesses on the first day had been ordered out of court, and he had been in court all the time. He raid the law is this case had been strained by the course which had been pursued ?y the prosecution is including all the defendants in one in dictment, as in such a ease any one who was charged was prevented from being put upon his oath, and giving his own ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Mdlle. Adeline Patti appeared last night,for the first time this season, in the character of Nods, in Don Pasquale. Her very delightful performance of this put last sawn is still freshly remembered, and the announce ment ,of her re-appearance in it drew a very full Doane. She now m►kes it more charming than ever; richer in comic humour, end more brilliant and beautiful is vocal execution. Her acting and singing, from the first scene to the lut, were accompanied by a chorus of plaudita, which scarcely intermitted for a moment. Mario was !announced as Ernesto, but he wen disabled from singing by indisposi tion, and the part was performed by Naudin with perfect success. The favourite romance, "Com' a gentil," was vehemently applauded and encored. Ciampi, es formerly, was the Don Pasquale, a part in which he is always very happy. Romani was the Doctor Malatesta, and acted the part with his original and peculiar vein of humour. THE WANDERING MINSTRELS AND THE HOME FOR INCURABLES. The Home for Incurables has been called into Winn* for the benefit of a clam of persons who cannot obtain 11161t•ZIC• in our general hanitale. The rule which haeishes from the hospital or infirmary these for whose male dies miens has no remedy, seems a hard one, but it is ne oessary in order tint the proper business of those eatab lishments, the cure of dines*, should go on. The situation of the disband incurables is a sad one, the more sad that they are thus banished from public notice. Without hope —often without the power of performing the most ordinary offices for themselves—amidst days of wretchedness, and nights of agonizing pejo, thee guffaws are in truth a burden to their friends, who, frequently, are as brainier." and poor as themselves. Of three only out of the many terms of incurable disease, 80,000 persons die annually in England. If to these be added the victims of other forma of irremediable malady, the number becomes truly appalling. It is to meet Cana of this description, and especially the meat of those who, formerly in prosperity, are now re duced, by sickness and reverses, to a state of helplessness and destitution, that the British Home for Incurables has been founded, under the patronage of the Prince of Wales. The board of management have bought the very eligible promisee long known as the British Orphan Aaylnm, Clap ham-rise, which hes the advantage of being near the best medical assistance and easily accessible to the friends of patients and to subscribers. The new " Home " is capable of containing about 120 petiolate. It will require a sum of 4,0001. to pay fur the lease and various expenses attendant on furnishing, repairing, and making the necemary alter ations, and it is for these excellent eject* that an effort is now being made, and in aid of which the " Wandering Minstrels" gave their services last night. "The Wandering Minstrels" are a society of amateun of both sexes, belonging to the most fashionable clams of society, who, having cultivated music as an elegant accom plishment, turn their knowledge and skill as artists to the account of charity and benevolence. They haveformed a well organised instrumental orchestra, complete in all its parts, and containing many members who emulate professional per formers in steadiness sad execution, and play the best orchestral compositions with spirit and effect. As on previous occasions, they readily came forward to serve the excellent institution we have described, and they have served it very effectually ; for the Henoverequare concert-room was crowded to the doors by one of the most elegant audiences ever assembled within its walls ; and, from the high price of admission, them= realir.ed must have been very considerable. An entertainment of this kind is not • subject of criticism : but it is due to the " Wandering Minstrels" to say that their concert was arranged with taste and judgment, and that an excellent selection of music was executed in a very agreeable manner. The programme included the overtures to Le Cheval de Bronze, Figaro, and Buy Blau; a election from Guillaume Tell. with solos (nicely played) for the flute and cornet; the an dante of Mozart's pianoforte sonata is B flat, very grace fully executed by Lady Katharine Coke, and well accompa nied on the violin by the Hon. Seymour Egerton ; and solos of Chopin and Stephen Heller, played by the same lady, who, with a professional education, would have been a first rate pianist. Miss 31 endes sang airs from the Puritani and Biyoletto, with a beautiful voice and perfect purity of style ; and Mr. A.D. Coleridge was very successful in the " Cujus einem" from Rossini's " Stele Mater." The performances, taken altogether, well deserved the applause bestowed upon them. COXWZLL'S BALLOON. —The ascent from the Cqstal Palace mounds on Wednesday at 3.30 wee a remark ably ene one. It wan made with the "Everdsg Max," the ems balloon with which Mr. Colwell motoded no the 3rd inst. before the Prince of Wales. The greatest altitude attained on Wednesday was one mile sod a quarter. Capt. Woodgate and Lieut. Grenville accompanied the aeronaut. sod a steady dement was made in Chevering-park, Deer Severmaks, at 4.30. Messrs. Glaisher and Cozwell medi tate a scientific high ascent from the Crystal Palace au Sa turday or Moods Too Nsw ZMAI.AND Cilium—The New Zealand chief taloa who are at presto' on a visit to this country visited the House of Lords last night at its sitting, and were accommodated with seats below the bar. There were eight males and three females of the Forty. Lord Brougham and several other peers were introduced to them, aad con versed with them through their interpreter. They re mained fur an boar, and watched the proceedings with much apparent intertet. LATEST 14TELLIOENCh. POLAND. The French and continental press is now occupying itself exclusively with the Polish question. The language of the Austrian jour nals is significant. With the Wonderer, war is only a question of time, any arrange ment appearing impossible. The Prose of Vienna, prejudging the answer of the cabinet of St. Petersburg, says that the Czar will neither reject nor accept the propositions of the powers, and that if Austria assents to diplomatic delays, Russia will gain time, crush the insurrection, and at a con venient moment throw the responsibility upon Vienna. The Prase urges Austria to declare the reply of Russia unsatisfactory—the only means, according to the Viennese journal, of arriving at the framing of an ultimatum and at a decisive measure A Frankfort journal, the Europe, believes that the draft of the reply prepared by Prinoe Gortcha koff, and submitted to the Emperor Alexander on the 4th July, was discussed in a council of minis ters last Tuesday. An important section of the council, it says, declared itself strongly in favour of conoessions and against war. The Minister of the Interior, M. Waloniew, sup ported this view by referring to the internal con dition of the empire. MM. de Golovine and de Reutern, Ministers of Instruction and Finances, spoke in the same sense. On the other hand, the generals who are members of the council expressed themselves very energetically in favour of an armed resistance. Nalrn 130 621 aberdean . • 3030..25 27 Leith '.30 67 Weld' ....•.-30.37 86 3earborongb 13 11 . 116 65 GreeDCSlale 30.35 6t, Galway 30. 40 Vstentle 6l Queenatown ,30.07 62 Liverpool 3O 38 83 Holyhead 3 0 .36 9! Pembroke 30.39 63 POBIADOII 50 . 37 67' Brest L'Orlent 30.20 681 Rochefort ,30 . 2u 66; Plymouth 1 3 0 . 33 Weymouth Portsmouth London ()over 30.30 67. Yarmouth Helder Heligoland 30.32 61 3 N.W. N.E. N.E. N.S. N.E. W.N.W. Z. N E. N.N.K _ B.N.E. PIODABLI. . ' EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (not ova owl mwr.) PARIS. THERMO/a EMCEEING. Nothing can be more certain than that the Em peror did sometime since purpose to pass a grand naval review at Cherbourg this summer. The aews was given over and over again in all the organs usually employed to forestall official intelligence, and was allowed to pass uncontradicted. The date of the excursion has been from time to time changed, but until within the last three or four days nobody doubted that it would take place. On Monday last I mentioned, as one of several symp toms which struck me as pacific, a report that it IMO doubtful whether the Emperor would go to Cherbourg at all. The tardy contradiction of the rumoured review in the Monsteur of this morning must be regarded as a confirmation of the opinion that all thoughts of war on behalf of Poland are abandoned. I have no doubt that this was the determination come to at the council held at Fon tainebleau just before the Emperor's departure for Vichy. IL Gu4roult, who has been one of the most sanguine partisans of war, admits with lamentation, in the Opinion Nationale, this evening, that the game is up. He heads his article " tine belle psrtie manqude," and taunts France with allowing it to be said that she " wished" to help the Poles, but " could not." The semi-official journals seem to have orders to speak in the most moderate and unaggressive tone about Madagascar. The papers which speak of the old pretensions of France to the sovereignty of the island and propose an immediate military occupation are rebuked by the Pays and Constitu tionnel, and reminded that speculative expeditions to distant countries are quite uncongenial to the policy of the imperial government. This evening the Pays says that even if the state of affairs in Mada gascar should assume a gravity which, judging from the reports of M. Laborde, the French consul, there is no resew to expect, there would be no oc casion to send out any regiments, since the marine force of the naval station already in the neighbour hood would be able to make a sufficient demon stration. In its "Latest news," however, it says that although Queen Rabodo has informed the French and English consuls that they have no occasion to take any steps in favour of their countrymen, because the new government intends to provide for their safety, Mr. Pakenbam and M. Laborde had thought it expedient to send to the governors of Mauritius and Reunion for some more ships. M. Fould is at Vichy, and will pass ten days with the Emperor. " A fatal accident," says the Moniteur, " oc curred the day before yesterday on the heights above St. Cloud. A carriage, in which were Mdlle. Augustine Brohan, of the Thiatre Francais, and two gentlemen, was returning from Montre tout, when, in descending a steep incline which forms also a curve, the horse took fright, ran away, and upset the carriage. One of the persons who were travelling with Mdlle. Brohan was killed on the spot ; the other had his shoulder put out, and the coachman received some injuries on the head. Mdlle. Brohan jumped out of the car riage and escaped unhurt. The horse broke away, leaped the parapet which borders the road, and broke its back." _ _ From further particulars, published by the evening papers, it appears that Mdlle. Brohan herself was not altogether uninjured. She jumped out of the carriage just as the horse was going over the parapet and was severely bruised. Her less fortunate companions fell with the horse and carriage into the gardens, which lie far below the road. The owner of the carriage, M. de Romeuf, a young gentleman of 28, had his skull split open, and died instantaneously. The name of his companion, whose shoulder was put out, is M. de Colt 4. The coachman is in a desperate state. _ _ . It is announced that the Bishop of Nimes is about to publish a refutation of M. Renim's Life of Jesus. The Bourse is dull, with scarcely any change in quotations. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JULY 9. MIDDLE-CLASS EXAMINATION. ...1111 cOnvocation holden this day at 2 o'clock, a decree was proposed and unanimously accepted by the house authorising the dale ptes, under the statute "De examination* candidatorum qui non sun'. de corpore universitatis," to grant certificates, for the present year only, to candidates who may not have fully complied with that part of the statute which relates to the examination in the rudiments of faith and religion. This decree was requisite in consequence of the Weems of the tune at which the notice was issued, requiring all can , didates to show some knowledge in the liturgical portion of the examination before they could obtain certificates, unless their parents should have declined on their behalf en ex emanation in such portion.