The Express. — London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

NIMINI•m THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1863. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—The Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Inatitatiotes M Welled establishments. Thew the past 18 months nearly SOO shipwrecked sailors have been saved by the AmletVs life boats. Coutribuilons err received by all the Loudon and coun try bankers: and by the secretary , EICHAED LEWIS. at the Itutitution, 14 John-street, N PIZE OVI W ZEAL AN 1). NCE of ',roman) fIOiILESIMEE WAN, a 340,000. The BANK of NEW ZEALAND, BanketA to the Genera Government of New Zealand and to the Provincial Government of Auckland, GIVE NOTICE that hey are authorised to HELL hy PUBLIC ElLiDeat the FOCHT IhsTAI.IIENT of £lOO,OOO of the 11.iLF-111LLION LOAN, issued under the authority of the Auckland Lou Act of 1883. LTo yi,,heigurei. with Coupons attached,Care lien." :•• -tams of 3:10o. 8.230, daoo, and £l.OOO. bearing interest at the rate of • per rent per annum, COCOraeschng on Ist April, 1883, to 1 nriciined h, 33 years by a sinking twill ofax2 per cent. on the sum borrowed. Tue principal is made payable &Ville :option of the buyer, either at the °Mee of the Bank of New Zealand, London• or at tha . odlce of the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland. The interest half-yearly at the Bank of New Zealand, London. Tender. will be received until 1 o'clock on, Thursday, Ist tk•whr, 184, specifyirg the total amount of Debentures re quired, and the premium per cent, which will be divan for the sum, to be Wintered to the Directors of the irtok of New Zealand, with the words "Tender for the Auckland Provincial Govcrunient lean" r ritten on the outside. A deposit of d 5 per cent. 012 the amount of each ten er must be previously paid to the Bank of London, Threadueedlestroet, and receipt for same enclosed in letter of application. Tenders will be opened in the preemies of all persons inte rested at 1 o'clock en Thursday, lit October, 1803, at the Bank of New Zealand. The highest kidders shall be deemed the pur ch.dieril, provided the prices are not lower than the minimum placed in • waled paper on the table before the tenders are opeued. Where tender, are murk upon the same terms, • pro rata distribution on such tender. wilt be made. The Debentures coutracted for will be delivered at the Bank of London, Threadneedle-street, on Friday. 23rd October, be tween the hours of eleven and two o'clock, upon payment of the balance due thereon, Arvs:ortiel4oVinee la about 17,000,0008er%. European territory, 1,8711,46e1 acme. Native territory 15,111,1543 send It is the object of the Provincial Government of Auckland to obtain funds to purchase from the natives the waste lauds of tho above 15,121,617 acres, and to plant upon them a European populatian; and it is calculated that the revenue accruing Dom each ...real of populatioo would of itself he sufircient to liquidate rite lorn now sought to be negotiated Ins:ribution of Load Redemption; of Provincial Debentures due May Id. P.vor Public But dings 11=4Tattoo autl Purchme of Land i - 0",666 wo,ooo £315,000 To be advanced by sway of loans to road boards and sautucipahties for the execution of public a orks.... i5:..000 L.?00.C?0 The principal and Interest of this loan are charged and nada payable oat of all revenues of the said prompts , . In lain the revenue of the province of Auckland eras 5.45,601 in 1031 it attioillited to ae; 2. no Meer atheist 'sauna here been compact. but the revenue has materially lacreased since that date. . Fortes of tender may be had at the office of the bank, together with copies of Luau Act, F.mpoweing Act, and Letter of Vontir mstrou by the general government ; also Sketch of the present position of the Province of Auckland, statiatfcany and flaimelay compiled by the U_ pasty Waste Lauds Commissioner. F. La RB WORTH V. Slaunglng Director. sank of New Zzahind, fat, tad Broad•street, Sept. 21. 1823. JC. and J. FIELD, original manufacturers . England', of PAB.A PINE CANDLES, to whom the prize medal (INN) Ms been awarded, and their candles adopted by Mr Malatya Ooveriment for use at the 'military stations abroa d. These amine can be obtained a all chambers and pot,mn In She United Lingdem. Price is. Bd. per pound also YWI a cella Waled United Service amp Tablets, at and M. each. lb. public are eautio.mul to see that kleld's label le cm the =at boxes. WM wale only, eat to ampertstnan.—tfmat Lambeth, Loudon. IL EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES. 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IT may be hoped that the subject of Infanticide in England will not be absent from the list of topics for discussion at the approaching Meet ing on Social Science. Since the last meeting there have been proposals and movements in the direction of a new experiment of the old in stitution of Foundling Hospitals, as a preventive of child-murder ; and, though there will probably not be any person in the assemblage at Edinburgh who needs to be instructed in the oonstant and neces sary operation of those establishments, it may not be a waists of time to bring up the evidence once again, hr the sake of the kind-hearted but inex perienced persons at a distance who are anxious to be doing something to reduce the amount of in fanticide. Many who understand the fatal operation of Foundling Hospitals are still disposed to believe that there must be something to be done. If the separation of the infanta from their mothers, under the Foundling scheme, kills half, or two-thirds, or nine-tenths of them, might not the children and the mothers be taken care of together, nulled and com forted till the temptation to the unmarried mother to destroy her infant may be supposed to be past Such • proposal has actually been made, and there are persona ready at this moment to support such a scheme ; and while there is such blindness to inevitable consequences among us as is thus shown, and so monstrous a miscalculation of the proportion of the means to the desired end, it may be no undue condescension in the Social Sautes Congress to treat of the facts of the practice of infanticide among ay without that total neglect of its causes which so regularly distinguishes tbs dis cussion of plans of charitable relief for the evil. The view which has to be dealt with is this— Child-murder, always shockingly common, is be lieved to be on the increase. Those who propose to stop it by means of charitable asylums under stand by child-murder one particular branch of it, the murder of infants immediately or very soon after birth by the hands of the unmarried mother, overwhelmed with shame and poverty. Seducers, their victims, and society are the parties concerned, in the view of these benevolent projectors. What has to be pointed out to them and proved to their satisfaction is, that the child-murder which they are contemplating ie but a small portion of the whole ; that even that portion arises from causes much less simple than they suppose ; and that every attempt yet made to check the evil by chari table intervention has manifestly and prodigiously aggravated the mischief. When all this is proved, as it may easily be, it will not follow that we are to sit down in despair under the horrible curse ; but it will from that moment become • sin to try to deal with the difficulty in such a way as cer tainly to aggravate it. Foundling Hospitals always and everywhere exhibit such a mortality among infants that they have been justly called institutions for legalised infanticide. But this is the lightest part of the mischief. They act as a direct premium on desertion of infants ; and for every child that dies in the Hospital there are said to be twenty outside of it. The spread of profligacy within the range of influence of this charity ren ders this supposition probable. The seducer finds his scruples relieved ; his victim is eased of her fears for the fate of her offspring; and the charge of all the profligacy of a parish, a town, or •connty is thrown on the Hospital authorities, who cannot deal with a hundredth part of it. However many infants they admit, there is an ever-growing multi tude thronging to them, for whom they can do nothing ; and, though three in four of the little ones admitted die off presently, the rush to fill their places becomes more and more desperate. Of the rejected a larger number is murdered than ever was murdered before the institution existed. Such is the process in the case of the particular clasa—the seduced. But it was not this effect only which caused the closing of our Foundling Hospitals, and those of other Protestant countries where charity is regarded as an affair of the judgment and the conscience. Everywhere the effect on the married poor has been disastrous. Everywhere a large proportion of the foundlings has consisted of the children of idle and selfish married parents. The home-life of the cottage has been found to be poisoned by the very atmosphere of a Foundling Hospital. The worst sort of parents get relieved of their infanta in this way, or are under new and strong temptation to get rid of them otherwise ; and the better sort are irritated when they see the off spring of guilt and shame set forward in life to more advantage than their own respectable fami lies. When it is found how everything is going to ruin within the range of these pernicious chari tic; the patrons atop—generally quite suddenly —in their panic at what they have done. They turn their institution to some better purpose—as we did in Ireland when we converted all the Foundling Hospitals into the Union Houses °stab filled to meet the famine. Then follows the surge of /the profligate element so cagily generated, and so difficult to put down. There is an outcry that encouragement to btu tardy had been afforded, only to be withdrawn in bad faith to the poor innocents now doubly de serted. After having gone through the complete experiment in a former social period, having wit nessed the corruption and death, and felt the bitterness of the error and the remorse, our country wql surely not enter on the same experi ment again under any modification of form. The modification now proposed is extending the charity to the mothers. The victims of seduction are to be received into • hospital, to be nursed through their confinement, and are to be dis missed free from the burden of their infanta ! Such is actually the proposal which English gentlemen and ladies are not ashamed to produce in the face of the honest poor, struggling to rear their young children in honour and independence ! More than that, these patrons of sin and sinners declare that the paltry half-crown • week receivable by the mothers by law is too little to keep up their spirits and courage, and divert them from murdering their infants ; and they propose that " the miser " able 2s. Gd. per week shall be exchanged for " substantial and continual support." There is no need to spend words in exposing such madness as this. We need only remind our readers that under the old Poor-law the allowance of Is. W. per week for illegitimate children was found to raise that particular profligacy to the footing of a professional resource ; and women, instead of killing off their infants because they had so little as half-a-crown, added to the number till the respective eighteen-ponces reached • certain amount of income. This was one of the crying disgraces which led to the reform of the law. Those who dream of dealing with such a practice as infanticide by any one device or appliance are unfit to meddle with it at aIL Anything short of the right method must be exceedingly mischievous. Let the projectors look beyond the line within which they indulge their sympathies. Let them look at the child-murder which has arisen out of burial clubs, to appal society throughout the country. Let them look at the poisonings of whole families in their infancy by the mothers who sent them all—whether one or two, or eight or ten—to the grave, because "they would be better off with " the LORD." Let them learn from those who beat can tell whether the new-born infants of certain classes of poor married parents have any ordinary chance of life. Let them try to gain some notion of the extent and the various aspects of this kind of murder before they dare to propose to patronise one class of sinners, and render the sin a source of prosperity. " For the purpose of preventing infanticide." Such is the account given of the aim of the new Society just advertised. " The National " Society," it calla itself ; but we trust such a monument of folly will never be recognised as in any sense " National." As the Medical Times' , observes, the first good to be hoped from the Society is the enlightenment of its supporters, who have everything to learn which it is most neces sary they should know. Child-murder can be prevented only by dealing with the deep-seated causes which render the child unwelcome to those to whom it should be most dear and precious. Not only the profligacy but the subsequent mur der is directly and invariably increased by the use of the means once more brought forward to " pre ' " vent" it There can be no sudden prevention of a crime which proceeds from a bad social habit of mind, or from an outraged human instinct, or from the combination of sentiment and interest which is so common in the osse—so subtle, so intricate, so entirely beyond the reachof superficial charity. When a generation comes forward in life which is really an educated generation, trained to honour and to industry, as well as to intellec tual exercises and arts ; when the advancing pros perity of our country shall have reached that de gree which will enable its youth to marry in good time ; and when the fearful and obstructive tradi tions of a dreary period of hardship, depression, celi bacy, and license shall have lost their force, the crime of child-murder will be reduced to its lowest point In the interval there is much to be done, though no one panacea for this fearful social ma• lady. We can all help to drive it out by pro moting in any way the health of the community. The Social Science authorities may guide us well in the work ; and if they see any promise of good by the oas of any special dealing with this crime, t►ey will call upon ns to listen to their views, and will find willing hearers. EAST SITEIZT RZONTZATION.—TAStartiIIy Mr B. A. Greenwood, the revision barrister. bald a court at the Lambeth Vestry-hall, Kensington-grown, to revise the lists of voters fee the parishes of Lambeth, Clapham, Street. ham, Tube-hill, Norwood. Ito. Mr. Oltribl appeared is support of the liberal isterest, Kr. E. IT. Sealy in behalf of conservative claimants. There were a large number of new claims allowed, and a very considerable somber of Totem were struck off the lists is oonaequence, in meat iosteoces, of death or removal from the district. The result of the day's hop, accordion to the lib em l arontiot. wow so follows: r e bZ i oaw claims allowed, 145; conservative, 41 ; liberal voters struck off the minister, 43; comervative, 59 neutral, 51. Taz lINTOD RINSDON RAILWAY OPTICZIUtAWS SiZTANTS' actimori.— Yesterday th e half-yearly meat. beg was held at the Loado e .b r id ge Noses Hotel ; Mr. W. Dyne in the chair. About 300 members were precast. A long report was reed, stating that the anticipations of some which had beim cheri.bed by the committee had bees more that. realised. They asked, however, fee still more arelotis, energetic, and prompt assietanos and their report was adopted unanimously. It was re solved that a hamar 'amid be held next year, for the hermit of the Association. Rome elteratims were made in the roles, sod the motion onocluded with a vote of thinks to the chairman, nominate**, sad secretary. SW Court. BALMORAL, la% 27. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Prin cess Louis of Hare and Princess Beatrice, drarre to Alt na Oultbsack yesterday. Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, at tended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Milne. Bauer, ascended Lochnagar. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her Majesty and the royal family at Balmoral. This morning Divine service was performed by the Bev. Dr. Caird, one of her Majesty's chaplain., who is staying at Balmoral. The Queen and royal family were present, at tended by the household. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis of Heels, and Rinser Helena, also attended the parish church at Crathie. Despatches were received yesterday at the Coloaial•otfice from the Governors of the West India Islands, Vancouver's Island, and British Columbia. MR. HUBBARD, H.P AND SIR H. VISRNEY, M.P., OH POLAND. At an aviculturist dinner at Buckingham yester day, Kr. HUBBARD, LP., took oocasioa to congratulate all preset* cm the recent declaration of oar Foreign Secrebuy Juno ambiguous language that this country need be under no apprehension of being ergo* in war on account of any Polish question which could arise. (Hear, hear.) He would venture to my that there ought never to hare been any cause for such an apprehension. Non.interventica was the true policy of this country —non.intervention in every case in which the direct interest or honour of England did not call upon us to go to war. (Hear, bear.) But he must confers that the course not only of the debates in pasha. MODS, but every official communication made from time to time by our government to the court of Russia was of loch • complexion as to give rise to serious apprehen sions. And he would state this as a matter which came within his own personal knowledge that while the tenor of these communications was raising apprehension here they had raised in Runde expectations so poeitive of • coming war that the Rummies government made immense efforts to strengthen not only Its army but its navy, and the fortifications by which the approach to its capital had been hitherto defended. He regretted thee, circumstances, because they would act meet injuriously upon this country, because the alarm which existed in Russia did a great injury to our trade. He therefore woody congratulated the country that these alarms had ceased. Bat ceased with what prospect s, to the future? Poland was still in • state of insurrection, and there were not wanting calls in our lend as well as in Poland for intetlerenoe oa the part of our govern. meat. He thought it important that that ques tion should be considered in a truthful and dispassionate spirit ; and he would say this, that peg Injustice had been done to Russia by the way in which the question had been debated, both in the House of Commons and in every public maltase which had been lied in the country. It had been represented that in this matter Russia wee the great aggressor, and that her character was marked not only by breach of faith, but by great inhumanity ; and we had pre. seeded to her, in combination with two other ;great powers, a scheme of adjustment. What was that scheme? The very first proposition that was presented to the absolute ruler of 70,C30,030 or 80,000,C;:3 of men was a propasiticin for en entire ~cation of beetAliales. Between whom? The Emperor of Russia, to whom the request was ad. dressrd, was perfectly competent to act on the suggestion. Bat who were the parties on the other Bias by whose 'occurrence alone that sugges tion could be realised? Where was the representative of the Polish government! The Polish government was repre sented by au ides—its only sign of power was the dagger, and its moans of action ware assa ssination . (Oh, oh.) RussialuiTlbeen blamed for taking rigorous meunns, but i. would be remembered that the first outbreak was the midnight senuniaation of Russian troops quartered in • Polish province. He admitted that in one instance Runde had made • vest mistake. Russia had ordered a partial ooneas:ption. But that mistake was mode at the suggestion of a Pole who had been chosen by the government of. Russia became be was supposed to know the intimate of his country. However that question might end, he taJotel that nothing would move our government from the course of son-intervention which they had now so distinctly adopted. (Hear, bear.) Russia was supposed to be animated by nothing but a thirst of conquest. Now only the other day 120 had read an account of the issuing of • ukase sanctioning the formation of a company to carry a railway from Moscow to the Black Sea at Sawstopol. That naval arming was to be converted into a harbour for oem merce, into • pledge of pacific policy. Sir H. Varner could not help ex pressing his dissent from the opinions which had bees advanced by his hon. colleague en the subject of Poland. (Beer, hear.) He did not wish the country to •in war. At the same time he would rather havebeard that our Foreign Secretary had used Isa ias's of constraint against Ramis than to have averted that 01211,111 'many danger of our country being involved in war. (Hear.) His conviction with regard to Poland and Ramie wee this. Those who went toßnuria were kindly deceived. (Laughter.) The Russians were so talented and agreeable that he was not astonished that any one who visitor them should believe Russia to be in the right and Poland in the wrong. In his opinion them was no country is the world that had been so dreadfully tyraonised over as Poland bad been by Russia. (Hear, hear.) And we ought not to permit such a state of things to go on without protest. It vas oar duty to take every step in our power in favour of Poland. (Hear, hear.) Poland was given to Rama by treaty to which we ware parties, and we were bound to see that treaty executed. (Hear, hest.) Polish institutions were promised to the Poles, but they never bad been given, and the Polish insurrection Lad taken place merely on the legal, proper , and due determination and exist tion of • country to obtain for itself those privileges without which • country was not worth living in. The state of Poland governed by Russe was a standing menace to Europe, and peace could not be insured in Europe so long as Poland wet tyrannised over by Ramis. (Cheers.) D. W. Netru . Aber4eW . ss s L Ol. Leith Wel is 4 W.LW. UMW te.ttt itt 3 ILW. 16.8744 t LW. 31.63 Dr 1 Gahm." Velentla Queenstown Uverpoet 110.811 LL Relybee4 8/711152 I B.IIL Pembroke 118.811 fe 1 SAIL Peavasee . 1 It. Bratmet 54 1 ILL Vorient V. 0430 X. Rochefort...JO.% s 5 I LL Plyouoith 6 1 4.11. Weymouth llea, s LL Portemosth 81 Loudon 14.94 41 1 E. Dover 'l9.as &LW. Yarmouth .....!5).05 49 1 lift:W: 11:11; 1 ;17.7e7:::'31ii . TIIVUDAT. %OA Sri mon. B.lv. to ES. K. and Norrli-lie/f. &W. to N. W., fresh to again to W., mode- 'treas. amtally. rate to dram. S.& to W., frank to Warr Courts. Illa W. to Njr.w. , strong. equally, to strong to fresh, some lu places. rain. E&K to &W., mode- BOOTH COMM. B.toW. and N.W., fresh rate to strong. to strong, equally, some rata. .S. X to W.B.W. and to Z. to R. sod to S.M. Sonli•Zur. 8.1 moderate to (re& i:NTW... — tO.;;l:sraTte . strong. North-last.Ctithness to Noel*lk. West= Metegal to Cas well. Sooth=ellatitiel ma By Oink. Itootla-Evote.Stralt of Dover to Norfolk. The death of Senor Cairo Asensio, an eloquent member of the Spanish Cortes, and director of the liberal journal the /feria, is reworded. Thepopnlatlon of Madrid, without distinction of clue or opinion, attended his funeral is great numbers. The Spanish papers also reeled the death of the Duke of Ilijar, a grandee of the AM clam. The deceased duke belonged to a family which posimesee the curious privilege of receiving every year the clothes worn by the King. and Queer of Sonia cm the day of the Epi phany. The muses= in which the " old elo " ere pined is ea object of much cariosity to visitors to Madrid. Hories are cheaper in ths south of Eugland than they have bon kaowa for • post Dumber of yarn. THE EXTRAORDINARY MA I L.BAO ROBBERY BY4 L~iDY. Yesterday (Tuebday), at the Hull Police-court, before the stipendiary magistrate, Mrs. Maria Cooke, the lady who is charged with being concerosal in the robbery of the South Cave mail bag, and • letter containing cheque to the amount of 7001., was again brought up. Mr. F. F. Ayre appeared for the prosecution, aid Mr. F. Semmes forlh . i . i_p2soner. The following evidence was called : rea=Mackintosh, • morchaat's clerk. stated that h e red being in Whitsfriargate, Hull, on Friday morning last, about • quarter peat ten o'clock. The prisoner came up and spoke to him, • Are you in • harry!' H e replied, " No. She said, • Will you get • cheque cashed for me!" He said, " I don't suppose they will pay me." She said, " Yes, they wilL" He said, " 1 shall have tosign my name." She said, " Oh, no, you won't," While she was speaking she produced an envelope with a cheque in it, out of a bag, and gave it to witness. He said he would take it, and ho asked her where the bank was. She said, "The Yorkshire Banking Company, corner of Parliaineetetreet." Witness went to the beak with the cheque, which was in the envelope. It was for 28/., and down by Thomas Jackson, of North Shields, upon the Natiooal Provincial Bank of England at Shields. He presented the cheque to the bank clerk, who refused M cash it. He then left the bank, and went back to the prisoner, sod told her that they would Oct cash the cheque, and be handed both the envelope and cheque back to her. He thee left, and imam diately afterwards pointed her out to two hank clerks who had followed him. One of these clerks went up to her mud asked her if she had just sent • cheque to the bank. She replied in the affirmative. He asked to see the cheque, when she handed him what appeared to be the same envelope and cheque. He asked her to stop back to the bank, and she went, witnes accompanying them. In the bank they coked her where she had got the cheque from, and she said a gentleman had given it to her in a railway carriage, as she was coming from Howls, the uight before, by the last train, and in • second-class carriage. She was asked if there were many people in the carriage, and she replica that it was full, and that the gentleman, who was sitting opposite to her, threw it across to her. She had net seen him before. The lady was then tiken into custody by a detective who was pessent in the bank at the time. William Boyes,of B eve rley, haulms' clerk in the Yorkshire Banking Company, at Hull, said he remembered Friday lest, the 25th inst., wheel the last witness brought a cheque to the bank to he cashed, but it was not cashed, and it was returned to Mackintosh, and the latter left the bank, fol. lowed by witness and another bank clerk. The poisoner was pointed out to them as the penon who had sent the cheque to the Mak. Witness asked her if she hat sent a boy to the Yorkshire Banking Company with a cheers on the National Provincial Banking Company. She astd yes, one of Hr. Popplewell's (the person to whom the cheque was payable). Witness mkt I her to show him the cheque. She then produced an envelops en which was • cheque oe the York City and County Book at Goole. Witness told her that this was not the cheque he wanted, and he asked her if she had another. She then produced another envelope with the cheque on the National Provincial Bank. Witness told her there was some =Wake about the cheque she had pre , mated to the bank, and would she return Maw? She said she hoped that there was nothing wrong about it, but she would go. When iu the bank, the manager asked her the I questions deposed to by the last witn ess . She said when in the train the gentleman said to her •• There, young woman, there's some cheques for you ; get some money for them if you like." She was asked if she had not given something ' for the cheques. She said no. She was asked what was his appearance. She said be was tall, but she would not know him again. She was then given tato custody. Elizabeth Jane Taylor, wife of Mr. Taylor, of Spring- arch, Spring.street, was next examined. She knew the prisoner, and she came from Perriby station with her on Thursday . evening, in the Let train. They rode in a third class carnage, and wither sat opposite prisoner. There were eight women (including the prisooer) sod two rasa in the compartment. During the journey she never saw anfthieg given to the prisoner, and if there had been she most have seen it. Witness west to the gaol on Saturday last, and identified the prisoner from amongst several other Mary Eleanor Ward mid she knew the prisoner. She was with bee between three mid four o'clock ou Thursday after. noon last, and went with her to the Hull Railway Station. Site said she was gaiety to Heathe and intended to walk back at night Winless advised her to return by the last Maim, and the. left her. John Wilson, of South Cave, sleek in the breech bank of the Yorkshire Banking Company at that place, was next celled. Oa Thursday last he made up a letter coetainim seven cheques, addressed is the Yorkshire Banking Com pany at Beverley. The two cheques found upon the pri mmer when t►ken into custody were two of the cheques he placed in the letter. The letter was sealed and posted between a quarter and ball-past five o'clock- He knew the prisouer, having seen her et South Cave. Henry Michael Daly. U, Seville-street, Hall, said he wee clerk I. the General Post•offce, London, sad acting post , master of Hull. (Witness was here shown the envelope in which the cheques were placed before being posted at Smith Cave) This envelope. be said, was again ported in Hall on Friday morning, between 9.15 and !0.15. There was a South Cave postmark on it for the 24th led. It did not beer the Brough postmark, which it ought to have dome is its tomtit from Cave to Beverley. [This' evidence was to show that the letter °Detaining the seven cheques was stolen at South Cave and re-posted at Hull, for Beverley, minus the two cheques found in possession of the prisoner.] The 'videos* of bow the robbery was effected, and the receipt of the five cheques at the Beverley Yorkshire Bank ing Company, was postponed until next Monday. Bail was applied for, but refused, the magistrates remark. ing that there was ton much mystery about the case. An attempt to cultivate cotton has been made in the Jardin des Plantes at Clermont. in the deportment of the Pay de Dome, and has been attended with success. Several feet of ground were sown with cotton seed brought from America. The cotton plant has blossomed, and should the weather prove One in autumn the director of the garden expects to gather a plentiful crop. . _ Amongst the sights of Paris there is now open at the great Exhibitioo building is the Champs Elysium an exposition of schools of design as connected with hones deco rations, furniture, and, in fact, the useful arts. The galle ries are hung with drawings contributed by the Paris and prosiucial schools of design, whilst the ground door of the building is filled with shops, where the tradesmen of Paris show their goods and take orders. A neat of greenfinches, dodged and ready to fly, hes just been found in a barley rick at Gusbery, in Dor setehire. finch a circumstance, so late in the season, is soy remarkable. It is estimated that the crop of wheat this year is equal to the crop of 1861 sad that of 1962 added together. Cover or CHANCERT.—The Accountant-Gene ral's °Moe will be open no Thunder, the 15th ; Friday, the 16th ; and Saturday. the 17th October, for the delivery out of any regular interest draughts which have become payable is respect of the October divideada, sad of say other minim interest draughts which shall have become payable during the closing of the office. WIITTICHATEL CHURCH YOUN4 MEN'. AMBOcIA TION.-00 Nostlay evening last the first of • guise of lec tures In conrectios with this osiociatino was delivered Ware • somewhat numerous endience, at the Large School Room, Saint Maryetreet. Wisiteehapehrred. by the Rev. James Cobs., M.A. ; the subject was " A month in Egypt." sad the lecturer—who gave • very intereeting acroliat of his recent travels in that part of the world—described many el the customs of the inhabitants. A rots of thanks wr given to the lecturer. The next will be by the Roy. Dr. Cumming, on "The Bible and Modem Srieece." WHAT IR TO BE DONE WITH THE GREAT SHIP?-- A meeting of the shareholders in this thitrict of the Great Ship Company was bald yesterday, at the Clarsoes Hotel, Mancheeter,for the purpose of discussing the oreeent position and future prospects of the Great Shi:, Mr. Edeltoo took the chair. Mr. Blair said there was to hes general meeting of the shareholders in London. ou Friday, and the directors' report, which be held in his ham!, would only mach the majority of the shareholders no Sunder last. On reading the report he thought it of so serious a nature an to invite a few shareholders together in his office to dis cuss it, and from them emanated the advertimment calling that meeting. The report elated, first of all, that the directors wanted a sum of 301.11/. ; and that rum was merely • rough reckoning, or rue.% as to what wneld to wasted. The three months of Mar, JOOlll. and August, which ware as favourable as any in the year, yielded 37.00/. in voyages to America: and nevertheless the company sustained • loss of 10,C3)/. This was partly owing to the competition of that line. There was another matter which was rather .ingular, with re spect to the accident which occurred to the vessel on Montauk Point. There was an insurance on the vexiel at the time which had pet 5,8001.. and yet the directors had hems advised they could sot recover &avails' because thee bad a pilot out tionoi. In answer to a shareholder, Mr. Blair said there were 330.600 nrdiaary pound shareholders. and 700.000peetenameharebolirs. It was else stated that from 70,000!. to 80.000 L would be remind to staid' the ship to go on her next voyage. Wane gentleness expressed an opinion favonrable to searlin; the great ship on beg voyages—to India or Australia—but it was sated on the authority of the chairman of the commis, that 20,0001. would he required for coal alone for a voyage to Australis. Mr. Ono reseed "that it be a energestion from this meet ing that the leading shareholders form amongst themeless a new company for the purehaee of the ship, and all the existing shareholders who desire to join the new company be invited to do An ; that a deputation from thin meeting attend the general meeting in Loudon to advocate this policy." Mr. Mainland, of Stockport, who bell 4.000 ordi• nary shame, seemided the motine. which was agreed to unanimously. A committee wee then appointed as • &PIP titian, sad the meeting closed. On Monday the 100-pounder Armstrong gun on the Reek Perch battery. Bear Liverpool. was fired for the first time by the mise of the Coast Brigade, ander the coal. .eked at Lieut. Marshall. B.A. The rearm was :kW Pies Throughout tbes practice a strong wind was blowing. vl. F 49 T .4 m 94 J r a l n ima nary er t vt to mi. fle a. rtz . be i r rp.i.4 lo, th fr iLy N ear .. , Tork. of which 5,625,626 gallons were for the United Kingdom. Z Q. L 20 • 22 Ia 14 o 0.07 .2 II ra II I 1 14 • 11.12 I 28 0 1.12. I II r 0.166 1 , 1 r 12 I 18 e o — 16 0 4 24 o 1 10 0 0.1.4 IS n 0 -I THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF IVALES. On Tuesday last the Prince and Princess of Wales drove to the Des of Abergeldie, about half a mile from the castle, sad took luncheon io that quiet, romantic spot. Wednesday brought a regular downpour of rain, which lasted all day ; but, notwithstanding, the Prince of Wales, Prince Louis, and Priam Alfred were out shooting till near dark, and brought down several stags and some Made. His Excellency the Ambassador of France re tained to Albert-gate Homo yesterday, from NHL His Excellency Count Nesseirode bag returned to Manrity's Hotel, from a visit to the Marquis and Mar chioness of Bath, at Longlode, Wilts. General and Lady Alice Peel will shortly leave town on a Continental tour. The Marquis of Normanby bail arrived at 4G, Quoteslog•-torraoo, Kensington, from Nowa Scotia. Lady Ebury and Hon. Miss Groevener have arrived at Paris on a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowley. Earl Russell is expected to leave Meikleour House to-clay, for the south. To-morrow the noble lord leaves Edinburgh, for liassendean, on a visit to the Earl of Minks. —Edinburgh Courant. The marriage of Mr. Crawahay Bailey with the Countess Elisabeth Selina klekaa, only daughter of the Count and Countess Metaza, took place yesterday at St. Lake. Church, Chalonbarn, ia the pregame of a Girds of relatives sod [rinds. The majority of the Hon. Charles George Lyttelton, eldest son of Lord Lytlelion, will be celebrated on the 27th of next month at Hanley Park, Worcestershire. ALLEGED RESIGNATION OF THE ENGLISH AMON NET•GANTRAL.—Erpos what appear satishiolory, authority, we (Dublin Eve-wing Mail) arderstood that the Right Hon. Sir William Atherton, her Majesty's attorney-general for England, hes resigned his high Mire on the ground of ill. health. Sir Roundsll Pasant, of course, enemas to the vacsat attorney -generalship, and 11 , .. Collier, the member for Plymouth, wi", it is believed, be the new solicitor. general PRINCE NAPOLBOL —His royal higbarea will re nnin in England for about three days. He has already visited the Crystr! Palace and the South Kensiegtes Museum, and will probably visit other institutions sod or inarkabie phase is sad war the metropolis. Yesterday hie roval bighnesa, aocempaaiod by his suite, inspected the Hammam is Jamys-street, asd took a Torbish bath. THE SCIENTIFIC BALLOON ASCENT Ar WOLVERMANPTON.-PERILOUS DESCENT. The balloon remained all Monday night safely moored in the grounds attached to the Stafford-road weeks of the Wolverhamptou Gas Company. Yesterday messing broke without a Meese, and at fivecidoek operations were resumed preparatory to as ascent if possible at seven. To supply the deficiency occasioned by leakage during the night sad day about 12,000 more feet of gas were turned in ; and by seven o'clock LordWrottesley arrived on the ground from Wrottealey-hall. Mr. Glaither had passed the night at the residence of Mr. Proud, the mess: to the gas company, who lives on the spot ; and as soon as his lordship arrived the instruments were attached to the customary board and affixed to the car. In addition to the instruments which have been taken up at previous tweet.; Mr. Clasher had provided himself with a Herschel's aotanometer and a spectroscope. This last was the same Metrologist as was taken by Professor P. Smyth to tie Peak of Teneriffe. By • quarter to eighto'clock everything was reedy ; the calge was slipped, and under the guidance of Mt. Cozwell, the balloon nee steadily and freesia* from the ground. The adieu cheerfully waved and uttered from the car by Mr. Glaisher end his aeronaut were warmly respouded to by Lord Wrottealey and the few other spectators who had re-assem. bled at that early hoar. The rise at first was not rapid. The machine moved off in • north-easterly directioe, and after remaining in sight about half an hour was SOSO rising fast and moving in a somewhat southerly di rection. A great deal of ballast was Siren up, so that the halms might be kept for some time from rising too high, so that the cordage, which during the night had become saturated with moisture to the extort of perhaps 3 cwt might be dried in the sun before the machine attained as altitude at which, by freezing the limes and cordage, would become like so much rod-iron. The balloon fell at half-past ten about six mite from Sleatord, having previously reached a height of about three miles and a half. Ths descent was a very rough one; and the halloos was torn. H. Nedar's monster balloon has not yet " as pired the sky," bat is to do so. His design i■ to render aerial rope* sot way instructive, but pleasant ; so he hes omentructed mewling and billiard rooms, and a photographic studio is Nadinen to the usual living apartments 1 The oar which malaise them I two.atoried, the upper floor being • terrace, sarroneded by • etroog railing or yankloas. It is understood that the plans and reports sub mitted by Mr. &sem C.F.., Deputy Director of Works, to the Beard of Admiralty for the extension sad improventeat of Portsmouth Dockyard him been approved, sod that bill embodying the details of this scheme will be had before parli►meet early next swains. Of late Mr. Skinsfeld, Junior Lord of the Adrainhiy, has visited Portsmouth daily, and is addition to investigating the dockyard system of acconate has spent considerable time in aoqusintios himself with the requinitomits of the port. The Hecate, war steamer, carrying six guns, and rider the command of Ceptein Richards, which was lying in Poet Jackson at the last dates, wan about to leave for England via Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope. The Hecate has bees sagged cro a ecieutitc sad surveying voyage extendiug over seven years. She left Vaaeonver' e Island December 22, 1E42, sod baying touched at San Fran cisco, proceeded to Honolulu, where she arrived March 17. She left the Sandwich Islands April 21, and made Fanning. hlsod May S. She touched at Humphrey's sod Reardou'e 'Wanda, and also at several islands from which the natives bays boss meetly kideapped by slavers. Sunday Island bee bees stripped of its inhabitants, and the plantations and settlemsets in the other Weals in the vicinity have also bow completely destroyed. We (Manaester Examiner) understand that the Bow. Hoary Ward Beecher passed through this city yes terday on his way north, and daring his visit of a few loan inspected some of our principal warehouses. We understand that he has promised to attend a public meeting a$ the Prestrade Hall, on Friday, the9th of ( lctober,under the auspices of the Unioa and Emancipatioe Society. Mr. Charles Mathews maitioues to play with un abated *accede, sod there is likely to b e a series of hot DOM. One of the most popolar anthem at Paris is em ployed le writ's( a new vaudeville for the friar& of Mr. Mathews after Christmas. CoNsuLka APPOINTIIINTR.—Last night'r Gazette Mabee that the Querns has bees pleased to spore,. of p os Carlos Ortega Morejoe as Could at NerreAstle far her Majesty the Quo= of Farah ; sad of Mr. Edward Frederik D Messie mar r as Coosa Bahasa for his Majesty the Ca( of enk. Tug SIX OF GIBRALTAL—The GOLZeted of last I sight formally announces that her Majesty has been pleased to appoint to this ere the Right How. Walter Join Tremor, D.D., YN Liana of Easter, and formerly Bishop of Waage, and Oalloway. Tns Nsw Saszurirs' CIL&PLAINF.—Mr. Sheriff Nissen has appointed the Re.. Hoary Herbert Enos, formerly of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. perpetual curate of Leyloestona, Ems:, hie chaplain for the year of his abrlevalty ; and Hr. Mberiff are lure appointed the Her. Yeti: Palmer, ei Brassao.s Wiese, Osford, mum. at Loughran, Hass, to !tumid upon him in a similar °enmity. It is naderetood that the Lord Mayor elect will nominate es hie &apish) the Raw. Thomas Madge (Hallam') who was chaplain to him daring his aluicralty. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (1111171111 ell raraae.we.) THE UNION OF THE lONIAN ISLANDS WITH GREECE. PARIS, Sept. Advioes received from Corfu announce that the elections in the lonian Islands have terminated. The islands of Corfu and Puce have pronounced in favour of union with Greece. The result of the elections in the remaining islands is not yet known, but it is not doubted that it will bo favourable to the union. ILLNESS OF THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE. BRESLAU, San. 30. The Bralatter Zeilung &warts that the Grand Duke Constantine has fallen seriously ill, and that General Berg will be replaced. MOLDAVIA. JASSY, San. 30. The rumour of the attempt on the life of Prince Stourdha bae been denied. MEXICO. PARIS. Szrr. 30. Ad vices received from Mexico announce the in creasing dissolution of the Juarez party. There is a probability that San Luis Potosi will shortly pronounce in favour of the French inter vention. A rural guard has been organised which success fully resists the guerilla bands. THE BRAZILS MAIL. LISBON, &pr. 30. The Royal Mat Steam Packet Company's ship Parana, from the Brazils, has arrived here, and will leave at 11 o'clock to-day for Southampton, with 82 passengers, 22,0511. in specie, 200 rolls of tobacco, and 228 packages of sundries. RIO DE JANEIRO, Sr. 9. (By Tsisitsph frost Lisboa.) The elections are favourable for the government. Exchange on London, 27i. Coffee, 7,503 to 8,600 (1) mkt. Shipments since the departure of the last mail, 85,205 bags, including 32,378 for the Channel. Sales, 60,503 ; stock, 70,000 bags. Freight, 355. to 40a. BAHIA, Szrr. 13. Exchange on London, 26k, 27. Cotton, 19,000 rein ; no sales. Sugar, 2,200 to 2,400. PERNAMBUCO, filzry. 15. Exchange on London, 27f. Sugar, 3,500 to 3,800 reis ; brown, 1,700 to 2,100. Cotton, 20,000 to 22,500. The Menageries Imperiales steamer Onienne arrived at Pernambuco on the 12th instant, and sailed the same evening for Bahia. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Sm. 30. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Germania, from New York on the 19th inst., has arrived off Cowes. She brings 32 passengers for this port and 93 for Hamburg ; 132,314 dole. in specie for England, and 10,000 dole. for France. On the 24th she passed large icebergs, and on the 26th a large steamer, supposed to be the Glas gow, bound west. For the first six days she experienced rough weather and strong easterly winds. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY 001 OWN CORRINPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY EvrinNo. M. Emile de Girartlin's irrepreesible audacity has at length drawn down upon the Prase the warning which, as we were informed yesterday, had been kept for some days in pickle. The government fixes as a justification of the warning upon some passages in an article of his in the Pram of yesterday evening, which are, after all, infinitely less strong than the things which he wrote before, and which it was thought expedient to pass over. The crime as set forth in the warn ing is as follows : Cloesidaricg that theauthor of the article represents the rioaduct of foreign affairs as being unquisting for the roan. try and compromising for public credit ; and that he thus seriously distorts the policy of the government. The only passages in the incriminated article which can possibly be cited as bearing out the con demnation are the following : If the minions, had oondneted the negotiations with pro donor, would fiance be asking, as she now does every more• lag when she *aka np, whether she is to tix bayonets, men her Bootee, and howl her gold ? We uk of all those in Fr►oos whose interests are suffer ing from this insoluble question of Poland, sad of all those who have read M. Drouyn de Lhaye numerous despatches, whether he has acted is accordance with M. 13 , 11ault's speech of March 19, 1843. We sok whether the "execu tion "—to use the words of the Moniteur—has responded to the "direction!" We think that the means of execution of the govern- meat idea adopted by M. Dronyn de Lhuya were the wont possible, because (amoopt other reasoes), in ease of failure, which it is always prudent and necessary to provide for, there was no other promo:it than war,or at least a rupture with Russia, the only sincere sad useful ally of Frame, and, moreover, a eitnatioo for the emuitry relatively weaker than the admirable situation which France had attained at the coogreas of Paris. It is a truly miserable thing to think of that at a great European crisis like the present the French government should think to make a diversion by a warning to a newspaper. And such a warnin g tool What becomes of the admitted principle that the acts of ministers are open to discussion if it is not permissible to hazard the opinion that a particular line of conduct by a minister is calculated to alarm the country and compromise credit 1 According to the doctrine of the warning the minister whose conduct is criticised is entitled to say authorita tively that this criticism is a libel upon the govern ment—and there an end. M. de Girardiu to-night abstains from all cow meet upon the warning. but, with his usual acute ness, contrives to embody in a few words some con siderations which show the folly of the minister who plumes himself upon diplomatic success. Quot ing a few apt won lsfromLurd Russell's speecb,reite rating the determination of England not to go to war at the beck of France on behalf of the Poles, he defies the Constibstiorsttel, Pays, Prance, and Ml•amprial Diplontatigue to talk any more about the "European understanding and the accord between the three powers." The Pays, however, does this very evening per sist that the accord between the three powers has not been sterile, and it founds its observation upon the fact that Lord Russell declares that Russia, not having fulfilled the obligations of the treaties of 1815, has forfeited her title to Poland under them. Notwithstanding the pacific accompaniments of this declaration,the Pays holds it up as one of great importance. The Bourse has, within a very little, maintained the rise of yesterday, which is attributed not to any political news, but to a project of the purchase of the Bank of Savoy (which the Bank of France re- 1 fusee to adopt) by the Credit Mobilier. The fact ban been remarked by sportsmen in 7111011 thin mon that than is a gnat wart* of quails is every part et tkemmatry. ROUGH WEATHER IN THE NORTH SEA. LOSS OF A BRIG AND ALL BANDS. SHIELDS, TURRDAT. The vessels recently arrived in our port from the B,.ltic report that they have eocountered fmrfully ranch weather in the North Sea. Not only gales of wind, but storms of thunder and lightning ; and fears are enter* hied for the safety of laden collier vemels which were out in the storms. Som. pat ticulare have reached this pot t to-day of the total lose of the collier brig Captain Dock of North Shields, with all hands. This vessel left the Tyne in the early port of the month for Hamburg. and she has foundered in one of the gales off the comet of North Europe The body other muster. Mr. Fisher, sod the bodies of some of the crew have wished up on the Danish omit. The master had his eldest moo on board the vessel with him, and he is lost of course. His widow and another son are lying dangerously ill at home, and the widow is not ex pected to recover. While the weather has been so rough and stormy out at sea it has been tolerably tranquil upon our coast, Torrents of rain must have fallen in the west of Northumberland on Suodav, a. the Tyne is very much Bolded, and some damage bee been done by the river rising so rapidly, and by the strain ebb tides. SCARBOROUGH, TUESDAY. At an early bone yesterday morning, daring a heavy pl. Irons the S.S.W., the schooner Maria, of Yarmouth, was driven ashore oa the south point of Clougbtos Wyke, • few mike north of Scarborough. The vessel was bound from Newasatle to Cam. in France, with a cargo of cement end erebrick• and while working up the coast, almost against the vied, the master (Henry Sewell) unfortunately kept too near the lead. said the schooner, wields( stays, was driven upon the rocky beach. The master and crew, considering themselves in imminent danger, availed them selves of a lull, during which they gained the share is their small boat. They were speedily obliged to betake themselves for shelter to the cliff above them, against which the sea beats up at high water. Here they re mained from a little after midnight until about 8 o'clock in the moot deplorable condition. The situatias of the miner was even still worse. After reaching the cliff, he sodas. vowed to return to the vessel. His crew positively refused to accompaey him, and while proceeding alone in his foolish attempt, he was carried in his boat by the wind and surf to a reef of rocks, where he was obliged to remain for several hours, exposed to aU the severity of the /tam. Their positions were descried by a pining fishing 'Bieck s the crew of which, with much difficulty, rescued tee sof. fours, who were is • benumbed sad exhausted condition. The schooner has bees got off the rocks, but she is greatly in jived. WILTHIR REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) inziniair, Swings= 80, II J.&