The Express. — London, England, 1863-06-03 00:00:00

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Legarod, I. Tory, and Elmrorthy. BRITANNIA._ Tm EEO, THE WIDOW AND ORTHANIL—NATTH, HOPE, AND CHARITY, with Professor Popper • • adaptation o f Yr. Maas SPECTRAL ILLUSION.—And THE ILLLADETTA. NION WA AT LONDON 11111DOL Sl3O DAT -41ae1Ing. Th. au......Aherstaa. Toatoatow..Nanales. SA. 24m.. -Anaemia. 32, Om LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3. To all political intents and purposes Paris is France in this present year 1863, as in 1848, 1830, 1815, 1793, at any time and at all times, especially in all great crises of the national history since HENRY IV. thought it " well worth a mass." And Paris has just pronounced, as " loudly "as M. Ds PERSIONY demanded, for law and liberty against arbitrary power and administrative mea sures of public safety. Such is the interpreta tion, we beg M. Di PZRZIGNY to believe, which Englishmen, whatever their taste or distate for the institutions of the Second Empire, cannot fail to put upon the signal choice of the entire list of candidates of the Independent Opposition by the electors of the capital, and of all but one by a clear and ab solute majority. The Mir/terra of the Irramoa knows England too well to imagine that on this side of the Channel the meaning of this majority in the Department of the Seine can be mistaken, or that any dynastic preferences can command our sympathies for this or that representative of the " old parties " which he exalts into importance by his fears, and almost honours with his hate. There are certainly not a dozen men of note in this country who would even sentimentally or theo retically prefer a BOURBON of either branch as the ruler of the French people to a BONAPARTN. We have a lively recollection that the Legitimate Monarchy has never forgiven us for its restora tion, and our " cordial understanding " with the dynasty of July was as bitter as young Princes who found enmity to England popular could make it. It is easier to be on good terms with a natural enemy who desires to become your friend than with a natural friend who would fain become your enemy ; and there was something that captivated the kindly instincts of Englishmen in the thought of having the Nephew of NA POLEON for a near ally. And, if we make allowance for certain necessities of his position, we shall do the merest justice to the heir of that great name in admitting that he has in word and act, on many private and public occasions, shown himself so full of generous regard for the land of his exile that even English Liberals have been tempted to whisper—" Perhaps we " could better apace a better man." With this preface we shall discuss the French Elections, with or without M. DE PrasioNv's good leave, as a question of principles not of persons, of systems of government not of rulers, of the welfare of France and therefore of the peace of Europe ; persuadeit, as we are, that the two great Western Powers and peoples, fore most in civilization and friendly rivals in all the arta of peace, must ever have a deep and insepar able interest in one another's moral and material PreaPeritY• Never was • pit of humiliation more carefully and elaborately dug than that in the midst of which M. DE Pensioer has fallen from ex cess of zeal. Had he but adhered to the Cir cular addressed to the Prefects on his assumption of office,when he invited the statesmen of the "old "parties,"who had hitherto stood aloof from motives of self-respect, to come forward again to serve the State, he would not now be compelled to accept the triumphant election of M. TRIERS for the Second Arrondissement as • conspicuous defeat to the Government which denounced such & man as a sus pected and dangerous enemy. M. Tutees has rallied to the Empire, the world would then have said; he will be the leader of His MAJESTY'S Opposi tion, and help to preserve the Government from sinking under its own weight, or rushing blindly over the precipice of irresponsible power. Instead of this M. 14: PERSU.NY has spent three weeks in employing all sorts of subaltern agents THE EXPRESS, and parasites to rake up the garbage of forgotten calumnies and insults against the " national hide " rian," who, though he brought back the bones of NAPOLEON to France, wrote a prose epic on the First Empire, and made democratic Imperialism a fashion, has lived long enough to prefer liberty to glory. M. us PERNIGNY'S recent Circulars have betrayed an uneasy conscience. What could be more injudicious than the attempt to disprove the figures of the Budget, and to persuade the electors that the Empire was cheaper than the Constitutional Monarchy I A Budget of eighty millions sterling and a doubled national debt are facts no rhetoric can explain away. The Empire may have done great things at home and abroad ; waged incessant wars, annexed provinces, occupied foreign countries and cities, conquered remote de pendencies, demolished and rebuilt cities, con verted Paris into a magnificent caravanserai of all 1 nations, *a glaring whited sepulchre of free dom ; but all this has not been done for the modest sum which enabled poor Loris PHILIPPE to live respectably and keep the peace, and made his people sick of doing well, and eager to change for the worse. M. DE PRELIMS Y insists on gratitude for the "great things" which the Second Empire has accomplished by those financial means which the Opposition candidates call in question. He does not understand, as more dispassionate observers do, that it is a ques tion of value received. The Parisian electors may be proud of new pilau's and barracks, of interminable facades, of public gardens and lakes, and all the beneficent devices of modern, as of ancient, Ciesarism ; but they are apt to weary of these things, while rates and taxes, and house rent are rising like a flood, and the problem of existence, for those who are obliged to spend their lives in the midst of all these Imperial won ders at which strangers from East and West stand agape, becomes more difficult day by day. It may easily be supposed that many a Parisian house holder finds small compensation for his private and prosaic troubles in the protection of the POPE or the siege of Puebla, or the treaty with Cochin China, or the civil list of a million sterling. Nothing is more remarkable in the addresses of the independent candidates than the iteration of the good old watchwords which liberals in these islands have too soon unlearned—peace, retrenchment, reform. Eleven years' despotic rule have not been all a loss to France, if they have purged French liberalism of that windy jargon which would consign an English politician to • madhouse. If M. DE PEBSIONY chooses to dis cover anything hostile to the EMPEROR in the ad dress of candidates who demand less taxation and more liberty, fewer expeditions and more rights, so much the worse for the EMPEROR. For as cer tain as that nations survive dynasties is it that France will not submit for ever to pant for freedom and to be told that to eat and drink and be merry is the sole end and aim of human govern ment and society, and of a nation's life. Men like Jones &mow and EUGENE Pew.rrari will, if we mistake not, tell the Talking Ministers, in accents that will be heard by Europe, that moral and intel lectual stagnation is death to a people, and that justice and morality are vital interests. Ebe Couti. BALMORAL, MAT 31. The Queen and the royal family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service in the castle this morning. The service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Gelid. Prime's Helena and Prince Alfred attended Divine ser vice in the parish church of Crathie. The Prince and Priers of Wales, accompanied by the Prince Leiningen and attended by the Countess de Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, left Marlborough-house at 25 minutes peat eleven o'clock yesterday morning for the private station at Vauxhall, and travelled by the London and South Western Railway to Ascot. Their royal high nesses afterward. proceeded to Progmore. A deputation ersteiating of Mr. Gilmour, Mr. Id`Rwan, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Knight, had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey yesterday at the Hootirodloe. TU. deputation was introduced by Mews. Buchanan and Dalgliah. TEE QUERN'S RETURN FROM SCOTLAND. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince Alfred sad the younger members of the royal f►mily, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court, will leave Balmoral en route for the south on Friday next, at half-pest 1 o'clock. Mr. Cewkwell, general manager of the London and North- Western Railway, leaves London this evening in charge of the royal train, which will be made up precisely as it was for the journey to Scotland. Her Majesty will leave the Aboyne station of the Deeside Railway at half-put 2 o'clock, and arrive at Aberdeen, a distance of 33 miles, at half-put 3. From Aberdeen the Scottish North-Eastern Railway will be traversed to Perth, • distance of 90 miles, with only one intermediate stoppage to take water at the Bridge of Dun. Her Majesty will dine at the Perth station hotel, and, leaving that city at 7 o'clock, will travel over the Scottish Central Rail way to Greenhill, ► distance of 46 miles. Proem Greenhill, where the engine will taks water, the royal party will pro ceed over the Caledonian Railway to the border city of Carlisle, • distance of 106 miles, stopping only once to take water, at Summer station. At Carlisle, where the train is timed to arrive at half-past 11 o'clock, the Queen will par take of refreshments, proceeding thence, after 10 minutes delay, over the London and North Western Railway, by Kendal, Preston, and Whitmore, at each of which stations the engine will take water, to the Bashbary Junction of the Great Western Railway, which will be reached at 5 o'clock 02 Saturday morning. From Blubbery the train will run over the Great Western Railway, via Leamington sad Oxford, to Windsor, where her Majesty will arrive at • quarter to 9 o'clock. Yr. Cawkwell will have charge of the royal train from Aboyne to Windsor, and the journey throughout will be made with the utmost privacy. The Prince of Wal e s has signified his intention to receive the address of the convocation of the nrelstes and clergy of the province of Canterbury, at hlarlbormigh House, on Tuesday next, at half-pest 2 o'clock. The bishops will assemble at Queen Asses Bounty Board-room, and the prolocutor and clergy at the Jerusalem Chamber, at a quarter before 2 o'clock. The Earl of Derby has left town on a visit to the Earl and Ooentes• of Chesterfield, at Sunning Hill, foe the Ascot race meefireg. Mr. Bailie Cochrane will move on Friday that, for the sake of obtaining greater unity of design in our public buildings, and with a view to the efficiency and mooomy of the public service, it is desirable a permanent commissioner of public works sod buildings, or other of& am, should be appointed to the present Board of Works. • -- Mr. Ayrton, on Tuesday, will move for a select committee to "inquire into the treatment of the fellowship soden by the Corporation of London." DINNER TO LORD ELCRO, M. P.—Lord Echo was entertained last evening at • regimental dinner, as suming some of the proportaons of a banquet, by the mem bers of the Leedom Scottish Volunteer Corp, in honour of the successful remelts growing oat of the investigation undertakes by the Volunteer Service Commiasion appointed at the instants of the noble lord. The company eat down to dinner in the large hell of the FreemssoneTavern. which, when filled from end to end with uniforms and Highlsod costumes, presented a gay and aoiroated appearance ; over head were suspended banners of the different clans repre sented in the oars. The Marquis of Aberoorn, K. 0., one of the captains of the London Scottish, occupied the chair, Lord Eicher, as tits guest of the evening, sitting at hi MO! hand ; sad there were likewise prese n t th e E ar l o f Asslie, the Rut of Fife, Lord Colville, the Lord Advocate, Hon. A. Kionainl, M.P., Mr. Stirling, M.P., Mr. Malcolm, M.P., Colonel M'Murdo, Sir Roderic Murchison, Hem. F. Byes, Captain Sir M. M'Gregor, R.N., &c, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1863. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORIULSPONDINT.) PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. There are at least ten opposition deputies elected , in the provinces to be added to the nine in Paris. MM. Marie and Berryer (a tremendous result this, added to the election of Thiers in Paris) are re turned for Marseilles ; M. }linel (one of the " five") resumes his seat for Lyons ; M. Lanjuinais, a liberal of great talent, influence, and eloquenoe, has been returned for Nantes. The other opposi tion members whose election is beyond ques tion are Plichon (Lille), Lambrecht (for a ' northern district), Dorian (St. Etienne), Glas Bizoin (Cotes du Nord), Pieron (Pas de Calais), and Gamier (Hautes Alpes). These ' have all obtained absolute majorities, and their number comes singularly near the twenty which I prophecied as the outside of almost a wild hope a month ago. But there are at least five cases of ballotage, or second elections, in which the decisive result a fortnight hence will probably be in favour of the opposition candidates. We may therefore expect a compact opposition of 25 men ; and these will be reinforced by defections from government candidates on particular questions. The prospect transcends all reasonable anticipation. The French papers are too much occupied with the task of collating the latest electoral telegrams and adding up the figures, to make any profound or extended remarks upon the political bearing of the elections. The Constitutionnel—whose eloquence on behalf of the government candidates, signed Paulin Limayrac, has been distributed gratuitously for the last week so extensively as seriously to in convenience the other journals, which could not get stamps fast enough for their daily use—ingeniously endeavours to put a good face upon its defeat. At tributing the Paris elections partly to the very shocking "coalition" of old parties, and partly to the division of the Emperor's friends caused by the journal La France, it calmly observes that there were about thirty opposition members in the cham ber just dissolved, and that there will not be so many in the new one. That is too impudently false a view of the important crisis now going on to be worthy of serious refutation. The opposition in the late chamber, properly so called, consisted of the " five" only ; and the Constitationne/ has con• tinually taunted them with their small number and their isolation. The other members were originally government nominees, never joined any systematic opposition, and only ran rusty upon the religious question—and now and thou on some financial projects. There is of course no security that some of the men whom the government now thinks its obedient bumble servants may not turn against it just as those of 1837 did. The score of men who will sit on the opposition benches in the new house are as radically opposed to the system of govern ment officially adored by the Constitution/ad as were the "five," and contain among them some of the greatest parliamentary orators of this or any other country. The difference is enormous and speaks for itself. The Pays expresses itself " surprised and af flicted" at the elections for Paris, but is neither "troubled nor uneasy." Like the Constitutionnel, it falls back for consolation on the provinces, and runs a muck at La France. The Opinion Nationale says : The result of the election is far less brilliant in the depart ments than in Paris. It is, however, already evident that the opposition will consist of from fifteen to twenty mem bers. That number is little for a vote, but large for a de bate, as the example of the "five" within the last six years sufficiently proves. We most not exaggerate the value of our conquests, but neither must we be very much dissatis fied with them. We are persuaded that the vote of June 1 will not be barren of results in the future. In the Presse, M. Emile de Girardin says : These elections do not mean the overthrow of the edifice to restore that which was destroyed on Feb. 24, 1848. They mean the " crowning of the edifice"--that, and nothing more. The Nation is very angry with the Parisians for their " ingratitude" to the Emperor's paternal government, and a writer bearing the funny name of Ulysses Pic goes all the way back to Tacitus for argnmente to show that they are a froward race, who ruunt ad seroitutem. The France regards the elections for Paris as " symptoms of public opinion, which challenge the most serious attention of the throne—nothing more, nothing less." As to the way in which the elections have been "worked" by M. de Persigny's agents in the pro vinces the Union says : The known incidents of the electoral campaign show that the system of official candidature; has been worked this year with a zeal which leaves 1837 in the shade. The action of the administration, so powerful everywhere, so preponderant in almost all cases, has redoubled its activity, and surpassed the bounds of the wildcat imagination. The sudden revival of public opinion produced an impression which seems to have taken the agents of authority by sur prise ; and they have met it by acts which have astonished people who have long ceased to be astonished at anything. The Sitkie of yesterday, speaking before the result of the Paris elections was known, spoke in precisely the same sense, and affirmed that the un scrupulous pressure of the administration in the provinces beat all precedent. The excitement consequent upon the elections prevented the Parisians from taking much notice of the total eclipse of the moon last night, which, however, occurred under circumstances peculiarly favourable for observation. The moon was at the full—its disc began to be obscured at about half past 8, when the sun was well down ; the total eclipse occurred shortly after 11, that is, before most people had gone to bed, and the sky was clear all the time. A whimsical coincidence has, however, been remarked, which, I think worth recording. M. Haussmann,the Prefect of the Seine, who has expended so much eloquence and so much ' public money in the unsuccessful attempt to get the government candidate* returned, has a fine, jolly, round face, not unlike the full moon. A peripatetic philosopher, on the banks of the Seine, oh served that at about a quarter past 8, when I the moon loomed high and proud above the Hotel de Ville, a little bit of its surface was rubbed out, as if by a piece of indiarubber, just at the very mo ment when the newsboys began to cry the second editions of the evening papers with the earliest' results of the poll. The moon continued to look blacker and blacker; and shortly after 11, when all Paris was shouting with delight at the undoubted news that the opposition candidates, without ex ception, were at the head of the poll, the moon was altogether out of countenance; the eclipse was total. It is conjectured that M. Haussmann, who was probably putting on his nightcap at that mo ment, must have felt very uncomfortable. There has been no such panic as M. Hausmann predicted at the Bourse ; on the contrary, the Route rose 30c. for account, and 10c. for cash. The Daily News is seized. M. de Persigoy yet reigns in the home department, but his time will not be long. The Emperor of Austria ie to accompany the Empress to Kissingen, where her Majesty is going to take the waters. The Emperor will return to Vienna for the epode( of the maim of the Reieharath. NkST INTELLIGENOR. PRUSSIA. Complete ignorance still prevails at Berlin as to the intentions of the ministry. The feudal partY advises the government to issue decrees filling up the void left by the premature closing of the legis lative session. For that purpose it cites an article of the constitution which authorises the govern ment, solely in cases in which—the chambers not being assembled—the maintenance of public safety, or the necessity of remedying an extraordinary calamity shall urgently call for it, to issue decrees having the force of law, which are not contrary to ' the constitution, and which must be submitted to the chambers for approval. It is under She pretext afforded by this article of the oonstitution, which was only intended to apply to a state of war, that the ministers have just made the attack on the press described elsewhere in one of Mr. Reuter's telegrams. ITALY. There have just been communicated to the Italian Chamber of Deputies 31 diplomatic documents, consisting of notes, circulars, reports, &c. Although many of these documents have much interest and importance, they are not of a nature sensibly to modify the political position of Italy in relation to the different cabinets of Europe. Several of them show that the relations of Italy with the Holy See are more critical than ever. A note of M. Visconti Vanasta, after enumerating the vexations of various i kinds to which Italian travellers and vessels are subject while in the ports of the Roman states, where they are compelled to lower the Italian flag on their entry, threatens recourse to reprisals to be directed against the vessels hoisting the pontifical flag. Another docu ment demands the extension and confirmation of the military convention of the 11th of Decem ber, 1861, concluded with France for the suppres sion of brigandage, and insists on the necessity of the removal of the ex• King Francis 11. from Rome. These complaints and demands were transmitted to the French government, through the medium of M. Nigra, Minister of Italy. It is to be regretted that the replies of the cabinet of the Tuileries are not published in this collection. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Perth. Bohemian.) NEW YORK, Mee 23, EVIELNG. Official reporta received in Washington from General Grant's army, up to the 20th inst., say : " General Grant has captured Haines' Bluff and the entire works of Vicksburg. Also a large num ber of prisoners and 57 guns. The battle was still raging, with the prospect of capturing the entire Confederate force in Vicksburg. "General Grant holds Jackson, the Black River Bridge, and Haines' Bluff." The news is generally considered highly favour able to the Federals. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAT 23. EVE:NINO. Money easy. Gold 49 per cent. prem. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 165. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 124 ; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 99g. The Bohemian takes out 27,000 dole. in specie. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's screw steamer City of New York, Captain Kennedy, which sailed from New York on the 23rd ult., arrived in the Mersey shcrtly after midnight, bringing 158,500 dole. in specie. A full telegraphic summary of the advices by this arrival appeared in the Express of yesterday. THE FEDERALS AT THE CAPITAL OF MISSISSIPPI. (From the Richmond Whig, May IR.) Affairs have become very critical in the south west. Grant's army has taken possession of the capital of Missiuippi, the city of Jackson. This, besides being of itself a painful and dis astrous event, places the enemy in the rear of Vicksburg, and cute off supplies from that place. A battle, or an evacuation and retreat, must immediately ensue. Grant, by coming so far inland, loses all support from the navy, and exposes his communication to interception. The move is a bold one, and must be made to cost him dearly, or it will cost us dearly. Affairs look ugly for the present ; but luckily for the country a general in whom all have confidence (Joe Johnston) has reached the theatre of interest, and if the force which he can bring into action is what we have been led to sup pose, it will be equally aingular and deplorable if a few days, perhaps hours, do not give an entirely different aspect to affairs. We await intelligence with anxiety, relieved by strong hope. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. PARIS, JuNt 3. . _ . The following official announcement has been made to-day :—" The results now received of the elections throughout the country are almost definitive. The scrutiny has shown that in all districts the voting was carried out. Order and quiet have been nowhere disturbed, and the increase of voters upon the present occasion has been largo. The returns from 268 districts already bent in show that in 252 cases the govern ment candidates have been returned." A Naples correspondent, writing on the 26th, mays :—" I am happy to report that the deserters from the army who joined Garibaldi at Aspromonte, and were con- demned for life to Niaita, left Naples last week for Genoa, their puniahmeet having been commuted, and I again dis tinctly state that they wore no chains when I saw them in the month of March." A pamphlet, by M. Emile Girardin, entitled " The Pacification of Poland." ban just appeared. It is rather voltunieous, being divided into ten chapters. The sisters Mdlles. Marchisio are at present at Naples, where the papers are load in praise of their execu tion of the duo in Sintiramide. Mr. Revile, the owner of The Ranger, who car ried off the Grand Prize at the races on Sunday, has given 10,000 fr. for the benefit of the poor of Paris. Advicee from Geneva state that great prepara tions are being made at Oltanx.de-Foods for the great federal shooting match which is to take place there at the beginning of July. Thin national festival will be celebrated with great brilliancy. The value of the prizes already ex ceeds 120,000 fr. A great number of foreign marksmen from all nations are expected, and the Neufcbttel population ere preparing for them a cordial reception. The first Italian national shooting match will take place a few days before the federal meeting. . . A newspaper in the English language is now published in Rio de Janeiro. lee title is the Rio Mail. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILFL —SOUTHAMP TON, JOSE 3. —The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Ceylon, Capfuls Evans, with the heavy Calcutta and Chins mails, has arrived. She brings 115 passengers, 5 oPriTof specie, 1 package of jeweller :. lfachag e . irables, and 1,046 packages or 8 iscluding 676 bales o il raw silk. value 60,000/. sterling. Her Majesty's ship Procris was at Gibraltar; the Meaner., Icons. Trafalgar, Ravens. and Magioienne, at Malta; an d at Alexandria, the Perdrix, Sardinian frigate Victor Em manuel, and French frigate Jerome Napoleon. The Spanish steam transport Sao Quinten, with 707 oftiosrs and men, arrived at Cadiz hem Ceuta on the 22nd. THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. INQUEST UPON THE ENGINE DRIVER. (THIS DAY.) This day, at noon, Mr. William Carter, the coroner for the eastern division of the county of Surrey, opened an ioquiry in the theatre of St. Thomas's Hospital relative to the circumstances attending the death of John Salmon, aged 38 years, the engioedriver of the train which ran off the line near the Streatham station of the London and Brighton R►ilway, on the afternoon of Friday last, and by which several other persons were killed, and a large number wounded. Mr. Sugar, from the office of Marra Faithfull, attended to watch the car on behalf of the Loudon and Brighton Company. and Mr. C a rpenter, the superintendent of the company, was also present. The cue created great excitement, and there were a large number of people present. The Coroner, in opening the case, said that they would no doubkremember that a train went off the line at Streatham on Friday, by which several people were killed and wounded. There was an inquiry pending at Streatham into the deaths of three persons, and it was adjourned in the hope that the jury would have the benefit of the evidence of the driver and fireman. The driver had died, but the fireman was programing favourably, and it was proposed to take the evidence of identification, and how deceased met with his injuries, and then adjourn until after the completion of the Streatham inquiry. Mr. Morton, the surgeon, said that the fireman, Edward Tribe, was not able to be examined at present, but was pro gressing favourably. _ _ _ John Walker was then called. He said—l am a guard in the service of the London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway. I live at Pavilion-terrace, Battersea-fields. I knew the deceased, whose name was John Salmon, and his age was 38. He was in the same service as engine-driver. On last Friday I was acting as guard to the train which left Brighton at 5 o'clock. We left East Croydon at eight =nuke past 6. The train oonsisted of 16 carriages. There were three breaks, and the remainder were first, second, and third class carriages. The engine of that train was numbered 131, and the deeessed was the driver of it. I did not speak to the deceased after we left Feet Croydon. When near Streatham the boiler exploded and the engine turned over. I saw the deceased lying on the bank. His face was covered with mud and blood and he was quite insensible. He could not speak to me. He was brought to the hospital. The Coroner said be would not take any more evidence of this witness at present, but would examine the surgeon. Mr. John Morton said—l am the house surgeon at this hospital. The deceased was brought in shortly before eight o'clock on Friday evening. He was suffering from the shock from numerous injuries. Thom injuries were welds and contusions on the legs, thighs, and body. There was a large wound on the buttock of the left leg. His face was very much scalded, and he was bleeding from several wounds on the face. They were lacerations as from dirt and cinders. There were some tinders sticking in. He was sensible ' but was suffering from the shock to the system through the scalds, and probably some internal injury. They all contributed to the shock. He was seen by the surgeon, Mr. Simon. He remained in the same state from the shock until he died on the following day at three o'clock in the afternoon. I have no doubt that he died from the injuries he bad received. I was not present when he died, but a few minutes before. John Walker, the guard, was recalled, and in answer to the coroner, said that the train was the portion of a train from Eastbourne, and was to proceed to Victoria Station. The Coroner and jury then proceeded to view the body of the unfortunate man, which was lying in the dead-house. It presented a shocking appearance, the face being literally covered with barns, scalds, and contusions. On their re turn into court, The Coroner inquired of the solicitor of the company whether it was proposed to take much evident* at the in quiry at Streatham. Mr. Sugar raid the number of witnesses would not be great, but their evidence would be long and important, and the cross-examinations would occupy some time. He did Dot think that the inquiry would be concluded in lees that. several days, and there would also be the government in spectoTher. Coroner—Has the government inspector been down to the scene of the aceideot yet Mr. Sugar.—Yes, sir, Colonel Tolland is inspecting the line. The Coroner said there had been an impression that the engine which met with the accident bad brought the train right through. Mr. Superioteodent Carpenter said that that was quite erroneous. There were three distinct engines to that train. Georgina Pope was Oleo called, and said she attended the deceased when he was brought in. He was severely injured on the face, legs, and other parte of the body. She at tended him dutiort the night and again the following morn ing. Deceased did not in any way refer to what had occurred. The inquiry was then adjourned for three weeks. PAINFUL SUICIDE OF A SHIPS CAPTAIN IN THE REGENT'S CANAL. (INQUEST.-THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. a Reifies Walthew, deputy coroner, held an inquiry at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Victoria Park, respecting the death of Captain George William Harper, aged 44 years, who committed suicide under very melancholy eironnistatues. J. Russell, enginedriver, said that last Friday morning he was walking along the banks of the Regent'. Canal, when he noticed the deceased tkiatiog on the surface. The body was got out. When searched the portrait of a young lady wu found in his pocket. It was a photograph. There wee also the following letter, the edges of which were burnt " London " Martha—Through what I have beau aconaralOirl;ve been driven to commit the dreadful at. May God have merc► on my soul, and conduct you in the piths of virtue. " Adieu from me in this world. My body will be found near North Woolwich. " G. H." Witness said that there were also some receipts for money received found in deceased's lockets, but only 13d. in money. Mr. J. J. Brown, 32, Willow-walk, East Bermoadsey, contractor, said that deceased had been the captain of • ship trading from London to China. Two or three years ago he gut a sunstroke in Hoag Bong, which affected his sight. He came to witness when he returned, and told him that he had • few hundred pounds and that be would invest it in a shop. He took • pawnbroker's shop in Grundy-etnet, Poplar, but it failed. He called on witness a few days ago, and he said that he was ruined. His loss of sight and his failure caused hint to lose his mind. Hassid he would drown himself. He had a wife and three children, but they left him four months ago, and went to Passage, in Ireland. Since then he was accused of forming an improper intimacy with the young lady whose portrait was found on him. Witness did not know who that lady waa. The quarrel with his wife did not arise out of that affair. Deceased had been the captain of some of the finest ships of the port of London. Witness did not know, of his own knowledge, the details of the affair with the young l►dy ; but deceased was said to have caused her to become enciente. Mr. E. fdyhill Davey, R.C.S., said that he was sent for on last Friday morning, nod found the deceased dead on the bank. He had been in the water apparently about two hours. The Coroner then summed up and remarked upon the deplorable circumstances of the case. The Jury returned a verdict of " S Acids while of unsound mind." DESPATCH OF THS WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAIL&—The Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Captain Weller, sailed from Southampton yesterday at 2 p.m., with the mails for the British and foreign West ladies, Mexico, the Pacific, California, Central America, &c., together with 81 permeate. The La Plata took out on freight French specie, 18,162/. ; jewellery, value 13,984/. ; English gold coin, 29,720/. ; jewellery, value 2,842/. copper cols, 321. ; 150 bottles quicksilver, value 1,050/. ; and a full cargo of French and English merchandise. Tait BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. —The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Ceylon, Cap- Mill EMI', with the heavy portion of the above mail, arrived at Southampton last night. She brings 145 pa mangers and 1,046 packages of mercbandiae, including raw silk, to the value of 60,0001. sterling. The Ceylon left Gibraltar upon the 28th ult., and experienoed bead winds and thick weather on her passage. In the Straights of Gibraltar she spoke the British barque Pearl. The Spanish papers have published a royal decree aped by the Queeo, declaring Omar, Meld's, and the Chafarioe Islands free porta, and authorising the government to adopt the neces sary measures for putting the decree in force. At Gibraltar exchange oa London, 90 days, 501 to 50j ; Paris, U. 30o.; Madrid, 8 days, Ito premium. Tna Law or COPYRIOHT.-At a general meet ing of the Law Amendment Society, on Monday Let—Lord Brougham in the chair—a paper was read by Mr. Serjeant Burke on the present state ot the law of copyright in likera. tore and the fine arta, with a view to its amen meat. The learned madam{ criticised the present state of the law of copyright in the several departmeota of literature. music, the drama, lectures, painting, photography, and sculpturN and concluded with some observations on international copyright. A discussion followed, in which Mr. E. Field, Mr. flambe* Mr. O. Clark. Mr. Uradardown, Mr. Roberto. Blaine, sad Mr. T. Webster, took part. bourn Kawarprorox MoB2oll.—During the week ending May3o, the visitors have bees al follows :—Os Toto&y. sad Words, Ifrot days/, open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m, 12,68% On Wednesday, Thursday, sad Friday (studente days), open from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 2.715. Free all the week, being Whitsuntide. Total, 15,404. From the opening et IN Munum, 4,061,150. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) GLEN V. BUNDEIiti AND COVES. .• • This was a testamentary suit relating to the will of James Philp, late of Westminster, a retired surgical instrument maker. The plaintiff, the executor, propounded a copy of the document, and alleged that it had been destroyed by Mary Ann Philp, a daughter of the deceased, since his death. The defendants, wbo were the executors of Miss Philp, alleged that no such will had been made or duly_ executed. Mr. derjeant Parry, Dr. Swabey, and Mr. 1). T. Evans for the plaintiff ; Mr. Serjeant Shee, Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Wambey for the defendants. The use had not made much programa when we went to press. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner (ionlburn.) IN a: J. a. LAWS. —udeoirrAwr QUIJITION AB TO COSTS Oi PROSICUTIOIIB. His Honour said that in this case, in which a prosecution bad been directed, he found that the order con tained the words—" And I do further direct that the costa shall be paid out of the estate." He very much doubted whether he had the power of making such an order. The old act contained words to that effect, but they had been omitted, no doubt unintentionally, from the act of 1881. The question was whether the order could be made for payment of the code oat of the chief registrar's fund, of course deducting the county allowance. The Lord Chancellor had made an order that those orders for criminal prosecutions should not be made without drat consults; him. Mr. Sargood —That is not law, although ooroing from a Lord Chancellor. The act expremly provides that the order for prosecution shall come from this court ; and, to relieve the general fund, the court has power to order the costa to be paid out of the estate. Mr. Commissioner Hal royd boa made such an order. The Commissioner—Then! shall sanction the prosecution, ordering the mots to be paid out of the estate, of course de ducting the county allowance. The county is so grossly shabby in its allowances that perhaps if this order is put on the promedi L it will not allow the costs. Mr. Se goodlt cannot refuse to pay the ordinary coats of • prosecution. The fore ? ,r—Which court will the matter go be- Sargood—The Central Criminal Court. The Commissioner—That is the shabbiest of all. (Laugh ter.) lam told that the county of Surrey is more liberal. The order waa eventually made in the form in which it stood. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the Ariatant-Judge.) ROBBERIES AT BOO'S COLLIRIE SCHOOLS. James 01(tertian Tennant, described as a mineralogist, wax indicted for stealing a cloth coat, value 20.., the pro. Party of Alfred Herbert Squire. There were two other indictments for stealing coats, the property of Edward Herbert Fuller Jenoer and James Utten Todd. Alfred Herbert Squire said he resided with his parents at No. 1, York-gate, Regent's-park, and was a pupil at King's College School. About eight mooting ago he missed his overcoat, which be placed at the bottom of the stain when be went up to chapel. (In the 13th of May while paseng the shop of Mr. Sayer, No. 29, Brydges•treet, Covent garden, he saw the coat he had lost imposed for sale. John Bauer, of No. 138, Waterloo-road, modeller, said be purchased some pawn tickets relating to the pledging of a coat, with several others, of the prisoner's wife, the prisoner at the tame waiting outside. He paid him the money for them by instalments. These tickets he delivered over to the police-constable. Elizabeth Leahy said the prisoner was her sister's hus band. In November hat she saw the prisoner bring coats from King's College and club-rooms, both large and small ones, sod he also brought some on various days in Decem ber and January. He delivered these coats to his wife, and she heard him tell her to brush them, and then to pawn them. _ _ John Thompson, police-constable 52 F, said be received five pawnbroker's tickets from the witness Bauer on the morning of the 11th of May, and amongst them was one foe the pledging of a coat at Mr. Sayer's, in Bridges-street, for tis. William Remit, assistant to Mr. Richard Sayer, of No. 29, Brydgeestreet, Covent.garden, said the ticket now Nroduced was for a coat pledged at the shop on the 12th of ovember last for Ge. The coat was identified by the wit. nese Squire. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The case of Edward Herbert Fuller J saner sou then taken, and the prosecutor said that he was • pupil at King's College School, and left him coat in the usual place, in October last, when he went up to chapel, and on his re turn it had disappeared. A verdict of Guilty in this case sou returned. The third indictment was precisely of the same &scrip tMo, the prosecutor Todd being also • pupil in the same school, and in both instances the coats were found to have been pawned. It transpired in the court that the prisoner, in coojunc. tion with soother man, in custody, had committed a miss of robberies in various departments of King's College to a great extent. The Assistant Judge said this was a matter which must be fully inquired into, for it appeared robberies had been carried on to • very large extent, is conjunction with other persons. lie should, theisfore, defer passing sentence until the next session. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) WORSHIP STREET. DESTIOUTZ ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTABLE._ Javier CAteae, a thick-set labouring man, was charged before Mr. Cooke with violently aasaulting and wounding Thomas Gogerty, 179 G. Complainant, who bore marks of ill-mage on his head and face, and appeared to have suffered considerably, said—On the morning of the 26th of May last I was on duty in Worship-street, near this court, when the de fendant was quarrelling with • woman. The neighbour hood was disturbed, and I was compelled to Interfere. He, however, refused to go away, or desist, and on endeavour. ing to ta ke him into custody he struck rue • heavy blow with his fist on the cheat, and I fell, hurting my back severely against the lamp on my belt. He ran off, and I contrived to follow and caught him in Paul-street , where he again stru ck me, but it was on my head, causing me to reel against some shutters. He then entered a house. I followed him up some stairs ;on gaining the landing, I perceived that be had a large piece of iron in his hand. I tried to close with bin,, but he instantly struck me • terrible blow with the weapon, and I fell help less. I have since suffered greatly from the injuries to my head and back. _ _ _ Baker, 103 G—At the time in question I heard a riot, and followed my brother constable up the stairs of the home. I saw defendant strike him on the head with this piece of iron, and as be stood over the fallen man he swung it about, at the same time swearing to split open the skull of anyone who apprehended him. He afterwards retreated into a room, and locked the door. I forced it. lie made scut at me with the iron. I stepped back and then knocked him down with my staff, believing that if I did not he would kill me. Subsequently be was gut to the station-house, but not with out considerable difficulty. Hs waa the worse for liquor. Mr. James Bothers Mather, the divisional surgeon, said that the complainant was still under hie care, and had been off duty since the assault. He had a wound of a very dangerous character on the right cheek, one end of it being about a quarter of an inch from the eye ; the piece of iron produced would doubtless indict such injury, and the man had lost an immense quantity of blood, principally from the division of an artery. There were numerous severe bruised about hie head and back, sod he appeared to have been kicked about the legs, or probably trampled on while he lay senseless. The prisoner °untamed contrition for the injuries he had inflicted, and said it was all in coosequsnos of .the " Mr. Cooke observed that such ferocious assaults as had here been proved were totally beyond his power to deal adequately with, and he fully committed the fellow for trial. CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 2.—Member returned to serve M the present parliament.—George Joachim °oscine, Esq., citizen and spectacle-maker, for the City of London, in the room of Western Wood, Esq., deceased.—Oszette. PRECEDENCE OF EDINBCROIi AND DUBLIN. —We understand that the committee of the Royal Horticultural Society charged with the arraugements for the ceremonial of uncovering the memorial of the Exhibition of Ittll, on the 10th of June, have bad under their consideration the poeition to be occupied in the procession by the representa tives of the cities of Edinburgh and Dublin, and have de cided th►t the Scottish capital is entitled to precedence ever the Irish. THE DOINuS AT CLAYDON CNCRCH.—On Mon day evening a mock procession was held in the village by a number of Whitsuntide holiday maker, io Clay on and adjacent parishes. The diesses, banners, candles, censer, /sc., were made to imitate and at the same time to exaggerate those need en the prooessions at the church. To carry out the imitation more fully au ornamental beg was carried round to collect oblation; and a oonsiderable sum was said to be realised, which was spent in the subsequent iodulgencies of Whit-Monday night. It will be remembered that, in the report in our Wt publication, our corespondent suited that., after the morning service was concluded, Brother Ignatius told the few strangers who were lingering in the church that there would be public service there again en the evening at seven, and that when the church was cleared and the d oor Messed, the organ struck up and singing was cootisued for a long time, but soy who were present, besides the Benedictines, must have entered through the vestry. We now learn from soother correspondent that a mortice wee performed, by the monks and six choristers, from the Roman Benedict me Breviary, a copy of which, in Latin, lies publicly on the lectern, instead of the Bible. — Bury and Norwich Poet.