The Express. — London, England, 1863-01-21 00:00:00

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Vining, Brougham, and Raymond; Mimes C. Laelsreq, L. Tiny, and Ilaworthy. I . 3ILITANFLL_ True ETHMNO, th e Pantoialrtc7o,AßON HAMAN. lira. Low Yeses,Mos. Louth. Newham, end WM>. Celeste Stephan : Tom S.N. sod biz two performing Moles.—And SOY[ BELIE TEAT HANG. COMOIODCO at bad-pest HIGH WATIER . AT_WIDOW BUM& Tim DAT Montag. Sh. AD. Da. lo4eoasow—AlarnlAg. SA. 411a.....MPAwasss. 41. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21. "Ir might seem," writes Mr. KI/1411JAL, " that he who had first sworn to maintain the Frenck Republic, and had afterwards destroyed "it by stealth in the night-time, would not be : 4 ' much trusted again by his fellow-creatures." Such sit least, according to this eloquent historian of the Invasion of the Crimea, was the impression of honest men in France nine years ago. But—to quote the Mane fearless and sincere writer—" State policy is " a shameless leveller—is a leveller of even that " difficult steep which seems to divide the man of " high honour from those of mean repute." Nine years have passed away, and the Man whom honest men in France supposed that free England would never trust, sits secure above a prostrate world of willing dopes. His banner—the banner of knightly honour—hangs high among the chivalry of England in St. George's ChapeL And now, nine years after, the grace and glory of his " achievements " have sunk so deep into the hearts of all save a few men of obstinate crotchets, miscalled "principles," that when this Man ships off by stealth in the night-time five hundred miserable kidnapped Africans, to serve as scavengers or gravediggers to his army in Mexico, a leading English journal regrets that the EMPLROR'S Government "should ever have " sanctioned such a piece of tyranny." True, the regret comes from a congenial admirer who "would " fain see the old sources of mistrust buried for " ever." Plain-speaking men who are not yet per suaded that • free people is best governed by men without " principles " (as though principles were a badge of servitude !) are neither so readily trustful, nor so easily surprised, nor so conveniently short of memory. They have not yet buried their mistrust of the man who " stabbed France through in her " sleep ;" they are not surprised at his treating five hundred African negroes as he treated five-and twenty thousand Frenchmen whose only crime was " principle ;" they have not yet forgotten a slave brig escorted out of the Tagus under the protecting guns of French ships of war ; or the transaction of a Marseilles dealer on the African coast, denominated in the language of the ENPILIIOII, " free emigration"of negroes, kidnapped, =unclad, and huddled on board vessels which the flag of France was permitted to screen from search. This "free emigration," as the EMPIEROIL lately remarked to the Chamber, not without • shade of bitter ness, was abandoned for very shame ; but, like other nefarious schemes—from the plot against the freedom of France to the plot against the in dependence of Italy—it was abandoned, it should seem, in one place only to break out in another. M. Reims no longer exports free emigrants from the Coast of Africa to the West Indies. No ; but the KID =OE contracts with the Government of Egypt for the supply of negroes from the interior, and sweeps them on board a transport in the night time, even as the representatives of the French people were swept off to prison in the gray light of a memorable December morning. If, as • leading contemporary preaches, it be true that the man who leads • free people should have no "fixed weaknesses," called "principles," perhaps it is equally true that a man who leads an enslaved people must have " fixed weaknesses" of his own sort. It is impomible, without gross in justice, to deny to the Second Empire " fixed " weaknesses" of character, not to say fixed prin ciples of conduct. Instances abound. There is the weakness of kidnapping white as well as black men in the night-time ; the weakness of carrying on the slave trade under one name or another ; the weakness of stimulating at every cost the French appetite for " glory " ; the weakness of sending poor needy accomplices to purge their re putations and fill their pockets in foreign wars ; the weakness of treating France as • conquered country, and any othercountry too weak to resist her civilizing and spoliating legions, like France-Certainly the Second Empire is ruled by men of " princi " plea ;" and seldom have these principles been more clearly defined than in the Euranoa's letter, dated July 3rd, 1862, to his Commander-in-Chief in Mexico. General FORE; to whom this letter was ad dressed, is, in the sense of the Second Empire, by no means an unprincipled commander. After serving with distinction against therrench National Assembly and the unarmed citizens of Paris, he may find in Mexican treasures, if not in Mexican battle-fields, an opportunity of eclipsing his Crimean fame. He is a man after his master's own heart, and will know how to deal in the spirit of his master's in structions with a wealthy country and a weak people. For there is a " principle " in these things, and the " fixed weaknesses " of the present • l►ter rise to the aur principle of the French ex undergone some variations reason to doubt that in 10a it remains in ruler of France sooner or 1 face of events. The principl pedition to Mexico has undo : of form, bat there is no rea the mind of the EXPER( THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 186 g. substance what it was when A usourn and Mritamosr were privately received at the Tuileries. So long as the naval and mili tary commanders and the plenipotentiaries of the Three Powers were acting together osten sibly for a oommou. object, it was nothing more than the redress of wrongs and losses sus ' tamed by subjects of France, Spain, and England. But here Imperial principles stepped in. The wrongs and losses of French subjects were insig nificant compared with those of Spanish residents and British merchants. But aM. JEERER, a natu ralized French subject, had lent a sum of money to the Mexican Government—to the Government which J rears displaced—and had accepted bonds, to something like six times the amount, which had attracted the attention of certain exalted spe culators in Paris. So that the wrongs of French subjects had suddenly and enormously outgrown those of British and Spanish merchants, and here was one of the " principles" of the Second Empire in action. It was declared by the terms of the Convention that the Three Powers would abstain from any interference in the government of Mexico, aud to this declaration the Spanish General and the British Commodore strictly ad hered. A LMONTE, who had been expelled by the Mexican Government as the traitor, was carried back by a French ship-of-war, and landed with the French troops, as an agent for establishing a Monarchy by the grace of the French EMPEROR and the will of the Mexican people. Only a year ago, M. BILLAULT, in reply to ques tions in the Chamber, reverted to the assurance that the sole object of the expedition was to vindi cate the honour and redress the wrongs of France. And with this assurance the Legislative Body went their way at the close of the session, while the EMPEROR was drawing up a fresh sheet of confi dential instructions for General FOREY. This General's predecessor had found it impossible to contend at once against the climate, the geogra phical difficulties of the country, the "attitude" of the Mexicana, and against his own colourable and provisional instructions. Nor was the successor of General Dr Loarirczz permitted to lay his cards on the table all at once. The " principles " of the French Farraaox were to be faithfully ob served. The expeditionary force of five thousand men was to grow to an army of five-and-twenty thousand, half-a-dozen transports were to grow into a vast blockading squadron, legions of French soldiers were to rot like sheep without marching a league or striking a blow, before the real original purposes of the Emperor of the FRENCH were to be made known to the assenting and admiring public of the Two Worlds. The EMPEROR'S letter to General FORZY is ' dated from Fontainebleau, July 3, 1862, and it is published tirbi et orbi in January, 1863. Servile gapers at the freaks of absolute power, who have mistaken their vocation on this side of the Channel, instantly begin to celebrate the bold ness, the startling frankness, the extraordinary purpose of this most important manifesto. No doubt the publication of a letter six months after date is very frank and very bold, but the impor tance of the extraordinary purpose thus revealed is somewhat diminished by the notorious fact that its premature discovery broke up the Convention of the Three Powers, was exposed months since in the despatches of General Pais and Sir C. Wrica, drew grave and warning remonstrances from the Cabinet of Washington, and was laughed to acorn by the Americas press. Neither the Old World nor the New is quite so easily duped as some easy-going journalists on whoa faculty of astonish ment the Emperor of the Fuses too much relies, would have the English public be lieve. As to the letter itself, the " fixed " weaknesses " of the writer come out in every line. It reads like the pale copy of the First NaroLsoir's instructions to the Viceroy of ITALY. General Foam' is to begin by issuing a proclamation to the Mexicans. This document, which our readers have already perused, promises the Mexican people civilization, liberty, order, public credit, roach!, and glory—and all this without any trouble of their own. The General is to receive with open arms all Mexicans who are ready to tarn traitors to their country; not to espouse any (but the French) party, and to proclaim chaos until the Mexican people, under protection of French bayonets, shall have expressed their wishes as freely as any liberal French constituency at a general election. The soldiers of the Poi% are to respect the Church, and the soldiers of the Revolution are to "trap " quillize " the holders of national property—by sharing it with them. Mexican soldiers will be encouraged to fight in the front of the combats against their fellow-countrymen. Thereupon the Mexican patriots who have flocked to the French standards are to concert with Gene ral Forel , the appointment of a Provi sional Government, and this Government is to be assisted in financial details by agents despatched from Paris, so as to bestow upon Mexico that financial " regularity " which, as M. FOULD'S reports inform us, France enjoys under its pre sent ruler. Under these conditions a native repre sentation is to be formed, out of which the future government of the country—a monarchy, if the Mexican people prefer it—is to flow . Meanwhile, French agents will look after the finances, and French soldiers will enliven the street'. But—and here it is that the Letter broadens into • Manifesto—people will ask (and have for the last twelvemonth been asking) what interest can France have in expending men and money in founding a regular government in Mexico 1 Well, the interest of France is to " restore to the Latin race on the other side of " the Atlantic the strength and prestige " which departed from Spain when she lost her South American colonies ; to throw open to the Latin race a vast field for that colonizing energy which has turned Algeria into a French camp ; to prevent the recurrence of a cotton famine—by keeping the only cotton growers in the world out of Mexico, or by furnishing the " free emigration" of negroes from Egypt— the Letter does not say, but at any rate to make cotton grow where it has never grown before, by arresting the flood of Anglo-Saxon enterprise in the Gulf ; to establish the friendly influence of France in Central America by arming all the emancipated colonies in Spain in • defensive league against French aggression, and to create immense markets for French commerce by the fertilizing action of the bayonets of Zouaves. Such is the latest Manifesto before which the Old World and the New are invited to bow down in silent homage and wonder. We are inclined to believe that they will do nothing of the sort. But if France is not prepared to waste all her strength and prestige in propagating Napoleonic ideas beyond the Atlantic, we would respectfully urge the independent Opposition of Five to draw up • postscript, in the form of an amendment, to this Letter of the Emma to General Foany. BOROUGH or MA LTLIDONR. --A meeting of the 01.01021 of Marylebooe will be hold at the Literary laefita doe. Edwards-street, Portmaosquye, thin evading. at 7 o'cleelt. p.m.. elm Lord Fermoy rid Mr. Hervey Levin will address their marihuana. salt Call. ...,0.- OffBOBSE, JAI. 90. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Lonia of Hare, drove out yesterday afternoon. Prinoe Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain von Wester weller, left Buckingham Palace yesterday morning, on • visit to the Prime of Wales, at Sandringham-hall, Norfolk. Marl Grsaville, Lard Pesendint, will give a dinner on Friday, the 30th inst., at his residence in Bruton-street, t o the Ministers and Officers of State, to settle the roll of sheriffs for the present year. Despatches were received at the Calnaial-office yesterday from the Governor of Heligoisnd. Despatches were rent to the Lard High Coramissiome of the lonian Islands. THE MEETING OP PARLIAMENT. The following letter has been sent round to the ocemervative members of the Home of Cimino= : " have the honour to inform you that parliament will meet cm the sth of February, and to express my hope that you may find it oonvenient to be in your plaoe on that day, u business of importance will probably be brought forward.—l remain, sir, your faithful servant, " B. DISRAELI. " Hughenden Manor, Jan. 15." CABINET COCNCIL.--SUIOMOBBOB wore issued yes terday, by direction of the Premier, for a Cabinet Council on Tuesday next at his lordship's official residence, in Downing•street. _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and • select circle went out shooting in Richmond-park yes terday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary have returned to Cambridge Cottage, Kew, from a week's visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton. The Earl of Radnor is receiving a family circle at his seat in Berkshire. Viscount Folkestone has arrived on a visit to his noble father from Longford Castle, near Salsbury. Viscount and Viscountess Walden arrived in town on Saturday from visiting Mr. sod Lady Charlotte &art at Critchill Hone% Dorset. Viscountess Dungarvan has returned to Ches ham•stnd from a tour of rialto in Ireland. Lord William Powlett has returned to town from visiting the Duke of Cleveland at Baby Castle, Durban. Lord West has returned to Buckhurst Park from Brighton. _ _ Mr. Grove, the young medical student who so opportunely assisted her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, when she was thrown from her carriage in the Isle of Wight a few weeks since, has been presented with • valuable gold pin sad • set of shirt studs. In London the rainfall in 1862 was about 27 inches, being five inches greater than in 1861, and the same amount (five inches) lees than in 1860. It has been about three inches greater than the average of the last 50 ►ean, but it cannot be called ► wet year, though the large amount which fell by day, as distinguished from that by night, and the continued drizzle in the summer months have led some so to consider it. In England the fall has been about three inches greater than in 1861, but five or six inches less than in 1860. A duel took place the other day in Turin between the ex•Oaptaie Olivisri and Lieutenant Lamberta, both of the Engineers. The misunderstanding arose upon the Garibaldian question, sod the OMr terminated fatally for Y. Lemberti, who received a sabre wound from the effects of which he died. The anniversary of the birth of Molibre is held as a theatrical fete at the two cleric theatres of Paris, Francais and the OdCon, and on Thursday it was cele brated at both these houses by the performanoe of two of his most established plays. The Thintre Francais gave the Missisifirope and the Malade laaainaire; the Od6on, L'Eeole da Marie and the Malade Imaginaire. An co mae' nal set in verse, entitled La Pille de Maiere, was performed for the first time at the letter theatre. A letter from Frejus gives a melancholy account of the state of the department of the Var in oonsequence of the long-continued rain. It appears from this comumni• elation that Frejus presents the appearance of a promontory in the midst of the waters with which it is surrounded, and of one of the largest porta in the world enclosed in the im mense spasm which separates the Lions from Cape Caesura. In looking from the heights in the town, the railway pre sents the appearanoe of a dark line. The waters cover it, and endeavour to lind a pump to the sea by openings left at intervals for that purpose ; but the heavy waves oppose their exit, and, on the contrary, mix with the fresh water and form one vast lake, which the eye may follow over an extent of three miles. MARRIAGE OF THE COUNTESS WALDEGILAVIL The maniere of France. Countess Waldegrave, daughter of the late Mr. Braham, the eminent vocalist, with Mr. Chichester S. Pertssope, ILP., Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, took place yesterday at Trinity Church, Beomptoo, in the presence of a numerous assemblage of friends. The wedding party met at the church shortly be fore twelve o'clock, the counter leaning on the arm of Colonel Harcourt, M.P., being first to proceed to the com munion table, Weeded by Miss Money, the Mires Neville, daughters of the Viscount and Viscountess Neville, and Miss Constance Braham. The religious rite was performed by the Rev. Lever* Harcourt, Chancellor of York, tbe countess being given away by Colonel Harcourt, M.P. There were present on the orrice the Farl of Abingdon aad Lady Elisabeth Herr, Lord and lady Norreys. Viscount and Viscounts,. Neville and Mires Neville, Sir Warwick and Lady Moosehead, Sir Erskine and Lady Perry and Mires Perry, Sir James V. B. and Lady Johnetooe, Mir Johnstone, Mr. and Lady Berra sod Misses Berth. lady Ida Watrater i l f .c r.Vardlaw and lady Horatio Wardlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Hervey, he. After the solemnity the wedding circle re. =to the residence of lady Horatio Wardlaw, at s-gate, where en elegant derther was furnished for sixty ppeereseoonnaL At an early hour in the afternoon the Oro ter WaWagrave and Mr. Foresees left town for Grove Park, pear Retford, Notts, the seat of Mr. Granville Har court Vernon. The Countess Waldegrave has been mar ried four times—first to the Hoc. John James Waldegrave, of Navestock, Prat ; secondly , George Edward, seventh Earl Waldenses ; thirdly. Mr. Geo. Granville Harcourt, Y.P., second sou of Dr. Harcourt, Archbishop o f Y or k ; and fourthly, yesterday, the hon. member for the county Loath. The counter is just turned her 42nd year. Taw BALLOT Socirm—The weekly meeting of the committee was held on Tuesday last, Mr. Sydenham Nadas is the chair. The following subscriptions were re ported :—Jeans Campbell, 10/. ; Handel Closshrim, SI. Sa ; Duns, 11. Is. ; E. Alexander, 11. • H. Kara, 11. ; J. C. eV/Liners, 11. la. ,• Meson. Rylancis in g4 T. Thomason, IL E. Is. ; Potter, M. P., 31. Is. ;J. ;J. Side bottom, 11, sad several smaller sums. A letter was read from a oorrespoodent in Fast Kent avntipg ere& in stances of coercion at the recent election. The following are some of them :—H. P., a freeholder, who was objected to by the tories at the last registration, and who wished to vote or Sir E. Daring, but decided to remain neutral because his employer was &supporter of Sir Norris Knatchtrull, was told by his master the day before the election that he must vote for Knatchbull, sad he voted accordingly. W. F., a freeholder, a baili ff to a farmer, was told by his master he might vote for whom be pleased, and therefore pledged himself to Sir E. Deriag. The day before the election his masters son told biro he most vote as they did, for Knatch bull, and he was obliged to do so. D. D., • freeholder and platelayer on the South Eastern Railway, a Wesleyan, had promised his vote for Sir E. Daring, and was sent by train with a free ticket to vote. He was by some mysterious wears takes from the train, and made to gin his vote the other way. THE NEW HIGHWAT Acr.—A rpecial session of the magistrates of Kent was held at the Court-bouse, Maid ethos& yesterday, to consider the question of dividing the county into highway district., under the act of List session. There wee a very fall attendance of the fustier ; the Earl of Romer presiding. The court, at a previous snake, had decided epee; adopting the act, and appoioted a committee to report upon the best mode of forming the districts. Mr. Gathente Hardy, M.P., as the cbainnata of the **maitre. sow stated the result of their investigatior, to the effect that it would not be desirable to make the districts co extensive with the several unions, but with the petty see roue' division. Mr. Hardy addressed the court at some length in support of this recommendation, expressing his de cided opinion that under the new act the roads would not only be maintained in a much better condition but also at much lees coat than hitherto, the ratepayers at the same time having a room efficient check over the expeoditure. Msatoriels were received from several of the parishes in op position to the propose!, on the ground that the roads were ahead/ well attended to, and that the new act would greatly increase the espouse ; but the court unanimously resolved upon adopting the committee's recommendation. Led sanctioning a provisional ord e r ; it bei ng f ur th er resolved that a court should be held on the 3rd March, for the making of a final order. THE SERVICIS AT WRITEINECTER A BELT.—in con sequence of the thorough cleaning which the various portions of this ancient edifice are at present undergoing, the week day ramie., will, to the sod of the present month, be held ' in Henry the Seventh's Chapel, and oo Sunday next, the 2Sth inst., the service will be entirely suspended. Lath. ?til , ;ii Nabis :::1 Fciir - - - IT.:::1 valenila oeostovni. Liverpool ... Pembroke ... Penzance :401 .!e° B l :., LI : i 9.761461 ~29.91147 Jersey Brett '29.111 48 30.03.41$ Lonent 29.9648 Rochefort 45 Plymouth 1111.84 Weymouth Portemoutlt is.7l 41 Lew. 19.d3 40 London 49.61 Yarmouth RO.4 I scarbcrough 10. I Shields r . I ■ Heligoland He et Rayoune I Lisboa — BIIPPLENSI Nairn lam Aberdeen 1t8.461 Leith Ardroesea 2 I WM. 3 I W.N.R. W.S.W. W.N.W. W.N.W. W.N.W. W. W. W. W. W. W.N.W. W. W.B. W. W. W.N.W. W.N.W. N. W. tY REPOI & w vi. W.N.W. N. W. IRT. 1I t: UN 1 8:0 1 0, 0 LM. .1$ .14 F 0764 TRIMIDAT. FRIDAY. N.N.W. to W.8.W., 80011.411 D. S.W. to N.W. and to strong. with snow. N.E., strong to fresh. N. to W. and 8.W., MusD. to N.N.W. strung, rain or snov.r: and It.N.Z., fresh, with snow. As next shows. THE REMOVAL OP IT. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. Yesterday al tarnoon a meeting of the governors of St. Thomas's Hospital was held at the London-bridge ' Terminus Hotel, for the purpose of receiving a report from the grand committee relative to the removal of the hos pital, a subject which has during the last few months engaged much public attention. Alderman Sir Joan MIAGHOVII, Bart, presided; sod there were also present Mr. W. Tito, M.P., Alderman and Sheriff James Lawrence, Alderman William Lowman, Mr. Bagallay (the treasurer), Alderman Hale, Alderman and Colonel Wilson, Alderman Phillips, Alderman Finnis, Alderman Hompbery, Alderman Copeland, M.P., Alder man Atkin, Alderman Allen, Alderman Gibbons, Alder man Gabriel, Alderman Bailey, Alderman Challh, Alder man Abbiss, Alderman Carter, the Rev. Charles M.A. (rector of Bath), the Rev. Newman Hall, LLB. (of Surrey Chapel), and upwards of 100 other governors. The report submitted stated at some length the nature of the various site, which had been approved of by the grand ocinnuttee—namely, Bethlem Hospital ; the Fishmongers land, Walworth ; Surrey Gardens ; land at the back of Newington Church ; Myatt's strawberry ground, Camber well New-road ; and the Lambeth Thames Embankment, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Mr. Tire, M.P., rose to move that the report be received, and that the several sites be referred back to the grand I committee for further consideration, and with a view to moire additional information. Mr. Baomt.ar (the treasurer of the hospital) seconded the motion for the reception of the report. Alderman CHALLIII would suggest to the governors that in these transactions time was of great import mos, as the metropolitan hospitals were overwhelmed with patients became St. Thomas's could not take them in. He thought it would be well to request the grand committee to recommend two or three sites at a future meeting, so that the governors could arrive at a speedy de cision by selecting one of them. Alderman LAWRINCE thought the present was the proper time for the governors to offer their opinions on the various sites, with any suggestions that might occur to them. He thought it would have been well if the committee had made some arrangement by which the governors should have had an opportunity of going round to inspect the various sites. 11 they had done so he was sure the number would have bean very speedily reduced. With regard to Myatt's ground, which was mid to be at Camberwell, but which was rosily at North Brixton—it was neither London nor the country—and he thought it ought at once to be put out of consideration. With regard to the slip of ground mar the river opposite the Houses of Parliament, be could not conceive for a moment how it could be carried into operation. Betblem had been described as a good position, having good open roads around it. No doubt that was the moon why the site was selected for • lunatic asylum, and if Bethlem sits were vacant, no doubt it would be an excellent place for St. Thomas's Hospital. But he could rot suppose that the governors of St. Thomas's were prepared to build their hospital there, and to build Bethlem elsewhere. Then with regard to Surrey-gardens, it was admitted that the pl ans was surrounded by bad buildings, and the Fishmongers ' land was equally bad in that respect. It had not been mentioned that the railway ran very close to that lead, and that the noise of the trains would be heard by every inmate of the hospital every quarter of an hour during the day. He considered that the site behind Newiogtonchurch, which was not far from Bethlem, had advantages over every other that had bees proposed. They might haves fine frontage, and roads could be madeseeessible around it. It was only ten minutes' walk from Lambeth, Westminster, and Waterloo bridges, and not more than a quarter of an hour's walk from Southwark-bridge. It was certainly further from London-bridge, but near London bridge was Guy's Hospital. He therefore recommended the plot of ground at the back of Newington-church, but at the same time he hoped that the matter would not be burned to • hasty conclusion. Alderman DAMN considered that the recommendation of Bethlem Hospital came with very great force upon the court. If they took it an asylum could be provided for the lunatics where they could have the benefit of fresh air, and St. Thomas's would find a site on one of the best spots near London. He wee sure they need have no niggardly dashes with the govern3re of that hospital. He did not think that the site springing from the embankment of the Thames would be lightly thrown aside. Alderman HUSPEUtIiT said that Bethlem Hospital could not be removed for leas than 150,110c0., and be thought it would be suicidal policy to attempt it. They would have to sell the materials for a mere song, as they had sold the materials of St. Thomas's. He considered that the site at the back of Newington-church would prosiest all the ad vantages that could be required. Alderman PHILLIPS hoped the governors would insist upon the hospital being near, and the idea of taking it away from London was now got rid of entirely. He had in- spected the various sites, but was not prepared to give au opinion because he thought it was highly desirable that the committee should have itime for further consideration be fore the governors bound themselves by any resolution. Dr. Leritox said he still held the unpopular opinion that the hospital should be placed a little way out of town, so that the patients might be removed from that noxious air which so frequently retarded their recovery. He thought the day would come when the governors would regret not Myles adopted that course. With reference to the sites proposed, he thought that that of Westminster-bridge or Bethlem would be far superior to those of Myatt's , :or the Walworth-road. With respect to the -gardens, his worst fear, had been realised. Nocase of burns had been admitted that had not proved fatal. He hoped the committee would not be precluded from consider ing_other sites. Mr. STUART, common councilman, recommeo at the back of Newington-church. After some further discussion, Mr. ELLIOTT withdrew his amendment, and Mr. Tire's motion was unanimously the site adopted. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to Sir Jobs If navvy* for presiding, no day being fixed for the next mettles of the governors. TOTNES ILECTION. Seymour (Liberal) 165 Deal (Conservative) 157 Majority for Seymour TOTNLS ELECTION.—Mr. F. H. Berkeley, M.P., writes to a contemporary :—" Some time since I called your attention to an address of Mr. Dent to the elector. of Totoes ' in which he complained bitterly of the forces arrayed against him under the bangers of intimidation, and stated roundly that going to the poll in the teeth of undue luau once so strongly presenting itself was out of the question; consequently, he withdrew. Mr. Dent now reappears se • candidate spinet Mr. Seymour, and states at the hustinp that he is satisfied with the coestitutioe, and would not land it over to be pulled about by irreverent hands. Vary good, Mr. Dent. Is intimidation and converting our electore into voting machines part of that constitution! Mr. Sey mour opposes Mr. Dent, and he tells the electors that he has found 'everywhere in the borough prods that the electors were coerced and intimidated by the other side. He saw in the crowd persons who were liberals, but were unable to vote with their party because of the infiaence brought to bear upon them. The electors were kept io folds, like sheep, ready to be brought to the poll ; and every night men were carried out of the borough, that the conservatives might keep them in their power until 1 the day of election.' Bravo, Mr. Seymour. Verily, Messrs. Dent and Seymour unite in descnbing the pleasures and advaatages of she electoral portion of the British eoustitu tion ; and between political Montague. and Capablts the borough of Totnes is a striking illustration of the happy family. Now, as the complete remedy for intimidation allowed to be in the power of giving • secret vote, which of the two candidates is prepared to , protect the franchise by according to the elector the ballot . REPH.FSENTATION OF LIFIBURN.—The Belfast Noes f Tatter of Monday publishes an address from Mr. Thomas Babson, announcing his withdrawal from the contest. The same paper says—" Mr. Barbour will not be left in undis puted possession of the field. We have every confidence that • gentleman of conservative principles will come forward." A MYST 68101:714 DISAPPEARANCE OF A MILITIA Onus:B.—A very painful venation base beencreated in Sun &Hood and its neighbourhood by the mysterious disap of Captain W. M. Gales, of the South Durham rl i riZ e who is supposed to have met with foul play while on his was borne from a hunting party, eo far hack as the 15th of November last. On the morning of that day Cap tain Gales left home at Hylton Cottage, Deer Sunderland, accompanied by another gentleman, in order to be present, by invitation of Mr. Hawks, at a hunt with a peak of beagles belonging to the officers of the 41st Regiment. The place of meeting was the village of Washington, three miles from Captain Galee's reeidsnes. He and his friend arrived at their destination about half-past 10 o'clock, when the hounds were cast off, and after running foe some time they returned to the village about 3 in the afternoon. The whole party then preemeded so Mr. Ilawks's residence, where they partook of refreshments. Many of them took their leave a little before 9 o'clock. Captain Gales left aloe., with the avowed remotion of proceeding to the Coegreen station of the North-Eastern Railway, on tie opposite bank of the river Wear, distant about two miles from Mr. Hawks's house. From the time he left Washington, Captain Gales has Less neither WOO nor heard of. It was first feared that be might have fallen into the river at the Cower ferry ; but inquiries made of the keeper of the ferry showed that he had made his ap presses there. The river has been dragged from day to day, and all the deep boles in the country side have been examined, but no trios of Captain Gales has been dis covered. The horrible suspicion has at length arisen that he was robbed and murdered, lied his body afterwards thrown into one of the furnaces with which the district abounds. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK. (THIS DAY.) The annual general meeting of the proprietors was held at 1 o'clock, at the Bank, Lothbury ; Alderman SALOMON% ILP.. in the chair. The fincasrsar (Mr. Frairland) read the report and balance sheet. The report is as follow. : " The directors have to report that—after making pro. vision for all bad and doubtful debts—paying the income tax—setting apart 2,0001. towards the buildings of the teak —and presenting a gratuity of 10 per rat. on their malaria to all the officers of the establishment—the net pear of the bank for the last half-year amount to 110,8881. 6s. 3d, This sum, added to 19,9211. 13.. ld., the unappro priated balance of re preceding half-year will amount to 130,8091 . 19s. 4d. Out of this amountinterest on the rest or surplus fund at the rate of five per cent per annum (6,4061. 5a.) has been added to such fund, which now amounts to 262,6564 re. The directors now declare a diri• dead to the shareholders at the rate of six per cent. per annum, sod by way of farther dividend out of the profit., bonus of nine per cent. on the paid-up capital. After then payments are made there will remain a balance of 4,40:11. 14s. 44. to be carried to profit and Ices account for the current year. The VIICADCIOI in the direct tion occasioned by the deaths of Joshua Walker, Eel., and John Lewis Ricardo, Esq., M.P., have been filled up by th e nomination of John Peter Garrott, Req., F.R.8., and Augustus William Oradea:lea, Esq., subject to the confirms. Lion of the present meeting. The director who retire by rotation are--William Tite, Esq., ILP., F.R.S., Augustus . William Garden Eisci (in the evert of his nomination being confirmed), and William Wallace, Faq., all of whom, being eligible for re-election, offer themselves accordingly. The following is the balanoesheet " Dr.: To proprietors for paid-tm capital, 1,000,0004 ; to amount due by the beak oe deposits, circular notes, ha, 118 6 :1 , 7361. 6s. lad. ; to rest or surplus food, 2562501. ; t o of profit and lose account, 30th June, 1862, 20,921!. 134. ld. ; lees donation in aid of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cheshire distress, as sanctioned by the proprietors.l,ooo4- 19,9211. 13s. ld. : to DOA PAW of the past year, 110,8881. 6s. 3d. ; total, 15,265,7964 Is. sd. Cr.: By government stock, Exchequer bills, and India beads, 2,492,412/. 9a. ; by other securities, including bills discounted, loans to customers, &a, 11,609,1574 3s. 11d. ; by cash in hand, 1,184.744 12e. 6.1. • total, 15,285,7964 ss. sd. „ Profit and Lose . —Dr, : To total expenditure of the seven establishmenta, including rent, taxes, salaries, sr. tionary, l c,with &gratuity of teo per cent on their malarial to the officers of the esaiblishment, 43,5341. 14.. 11d. ; to amount set apart towards the buildings of the bank, 2,0001.; to amount added to rest or surplus fend by interact thereon at 5 per cent. per annum, 6,406/. ss. ; to payment of the dividend now declared, at the rate of six per art per annum for the last half-year on the paid-up capital of 1,000,0001., 30,0001. ; to bonus of nine per met on the capital, 90,0004 ; to balance of profit and keg ac. count, 4.403/. 14s. 4d. ' • total, 176,344/. 14.. 3d. Cr.: By balance of profit an d toes account 30th June, 1862, 20,9214 13s. Id. • lees donation in aid a lancerire, York shire, and Cheshire darer, as sanctioned by the people ter 1,0001. ' • together, 19,9214 13., Id. ; by gran profits of the last half-year, after paying the income tax, sad making provision for all bad and doubtful debte, 156,4234 Is 2d. —total, 176,3441. 14s. 3d. "Rest or surplus fund.—Dr.: Present amount, 2f;2,6364 Or.: Amount on the let July, 1862, 256,2504 ; by interest oa ditto, at 5 per cent. per annum, 6,406/. ss. • total, 192,6564 se. The di • and bonus (without d eduction at imams tax which is paid by the beak) wi ll be payable co Monday, the 26th inst. The CHAIRMAN moved the *dories of the report and acr counts. He said the bank prorated keel( to the pro. prietors in as vigorous a condition as ever. Their deports now amounted to nearly 14.000,0004 The poke of the last half-year amounted to 110,8001., and those of the year to 230,8001. The dividend for the first half of the was tea per cent., that now declared, 12 per cent, a dividend of 22 per cent for the year—s rather handsome return, be thought, for their espitaL (Chem.) Besides this the reserve food had been increased by 12,6464, making the total now 262,6461. ; and they also canted for. ward 4,0004 to the profit sad loss account of the carnet half-year. During the par year they had had tb• fortune to lose Mr. J, Lewis Ricardo, sad the board recommended the confirmation of the elder. tion of Mr. Gadesden to supply the vacancy. Ma Gadesden was a gentleman of great experience, and belonged to an eminent firm of sugar refiners. Mr. Gera, a wine merchant of eminence, had also been added to the board during the year. He must now say a few words with raped to the large number of new banks which had been established' The directors bad nothing to say in disparagement of those banks. They began with a rmall bank themselves and gradually attained so important position. They did not look upon these new rivals with envy—oo the contrary, they wished to see them prosper, convinced that they could only do so through • general increase in the trade of the country. (Hear At the same time the board felt that no good cou ld be done by any bank by mere of improper competition, or by giving credit to parties who ought not to enjoy it. They had themselves plenty of moor, and would be happy to lend it, provided they could do so with a certainty of getting it but. It the new establishments would tread in their footsteps they would probably be suocemful ; but IT, wide day were still in swaddling-elotbas, and before they had mdsrs gone booping-oongh and measles, and other infantile olden—(laughter))—they gave themselves the airs of may they would probably find themselves beradter the victims of undue cenhdance. He trusted therefore, that for their own sakes, and for the sake of the public, the DOW banks would conduct themselves so as to be au honour to the country. W (Mean.) Mr. lIKZ/Zli made some remarks against the continued additions to the reserve fund. . The CILLIRNAN defended the policy of these additions, contending that they conduced to the best intermta of the bank, which, holding such an immense amount of deposits, ought to act in such a manner as to maintain the confidence of the public generally. The report was adopted aed the dividend and bonus re. oommendod wend eclared._ TlT;;;;STDcieao;;esioi;e7d in the direction by deatb were filled up by the election of Mr. J. P. Cadet sod Mr. A. W. Gadsden. The directors retiring by rotation WC* nw elected. _ _ --; Thanks were then voted ~to the directors, to she general manager. Mr. W. Ewing% and the branch managers and other officers of tlis haat, and to the chairmen. NATIONAL Dzscortar COMPANY--(THIS DAY. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at Boon, at the London Tavern ; Mr. F. W. RceeCLL, M.P.. in the chair. . . . . . . . . . The report, which had been previously lamed and pub lished in the daprem, having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of it in the usual terms. He said six months ago a statement of ac counts was submitted which met with approba tion, and the present was equally favourable. The progress of the company was very satisfactom although there bad been no extraordinary results. As regarded lasses, they must not expect absolute immunity ; but he was happy to state that there was not a single account at prepaid with respect to which the board felt any apprehension. (Hear, hear.) In arriving at their pre sect position their course had not been smooth • but they had now surmounted all their diifficilties. (Cheers.) The connexion to which they now owed so much was formed slowly and the result was very Cying. 2,931 shares still remaining unallotted, the had determined to offer them to the public at • premium, and to add the profits, which would be over 10,0001., to the reserve fund. He believed that by steady adherence to the principles hitherto observed they would continue to prosper. (Hear, hear.) The motion having been seconded, Mr. BORRADMLL expressed satisfaction with the report. With respect to the unissued shares, bethought that having regard to the state of the market, it would be unwise to die pose of them at the present premium. He thought no portion of the shares should be offered under 4f. premium. The CHAIRMAN thought the matter should be left to the directors, who would do their hest for the interests of the company. (Hear.) The report was adopted, and • dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum was declared. A resolution wee afterwards passed for the registration of the company under the Companies Act of 11162. Mr. William Gore Langton has announce(' his intention to offer himself as a candidate for West Somerset. shire, in place of Mr. Moody, who retiree. Mr. Gore Langton was formerly conaerrative member for the western division, and it is on conservative principles that he now offers himself. In his new volumes of " Miscellanies," Earl Stanhope gives the following lines by Prince Chines Stuart (of the '43), taken from the Stuart papers at Wuideor : Hated by fools and fools to hate — Be this my motto and my fate. I bate all kings and the throoce they lit 00. From the King of France to the Caliph of Britain. To my poor country [Hy] testament will be — Do all what you can LATEST INTELLIGJ (norm's rizzoLims.) PRANCE. PARIS, JAL 21. The Mowiteut of this morning says in its bulletin :—" Independently of the subscriptions opened for the workmen of the Seine Infdrieure, the Emperor has sent to the prefects the sum of 100,000 francs, to be distributed among the different manufacturing towns." The Monitsur also says :—" The news that the French had entered Puebla does not bear a cha racter of incontestable authenticity, but as coming from a source little favourable to the French, it is scarcely probable that it should be unfounded." ITALY. TITRIN, JAI!. 18.• A semi-official statement in this morning's Turin papers says that the manifesto issued some days ago ostensibly by the revolutionary party of action at Rome, was not even known there, but had been invented by some Roman refugees. The statement declares that no new committee of action has been formed in Rome, the old committee being still in existence, composed of persons whose moderate principles are well known. • The transmission of the above telegram from Turin has occupied nearly three days. SPAIN. MADRID, JAx. 20, Emma. Admiral Buatillos baa commuted to accept th e Ministry of Marine, but will not yet enter upon his functMns, remaining on leave of absence ou ac count of ill-health. All the liberal members of the opposition, but only a section of the conservatives, have resolved to support the ministry. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY). WIDIMIDAY, iA31171 B. ILI IT M. S £.ll. N.W. to S.W., squally. W. CWIIIIAL. snow or rain. N.W.FL4ZCL e.W.MICILMID. As above. W. to N. and L. fresh, W.N.W. to N.N.K., Ls. swum). strong, some IDOW. fresh, snowy. N.N.W. to BN.E., H Onset. N. to N., fresh, some strong, snowy. snow. Drum and Cone all round on Monday. • At Uverpool 36 pounds on square foot; average hourly velocity for 2 hours, 60 ogles. PRO/CUING IN HAWAIAL—The Honolulu Com mercial Advertiser states that Bishop Staley has already preached in kla 'alai. Though the pronunciatiou was far from correct, the natives could understand most of the ear soot. The chapel was densely crowded, and hundreds sought in vain to get ie. FRONCH Coxvicrs.—The position of convicts in France at present occupies the attention of the government. According to the last official accounts, there are 7,690 con vide under sentence to hard labour. Of three. 1.964 are sentenced to hard labour for life • 3,070 to from 5 to 10 years ; 2.359 to from 11 to 20 yea ; 282 to from 21 to 30 plan ; 41 to from 31 to 40 years ; and 9 to from 51 years sad upwards. 4,750 were convicted of robbery, 1,027 of murder, 452 of attacks on women, 233 of incendiarisan, 168 of assassination, 162 of cutting and maiming, 150 of forgery, 140 of coining. 24 of fraudulent bankruptcy, and 26 of parricide. The half of these convicts are formed of men from twenty to forty years of age. There are 124 young men of from sixteen to twenty years of age, and 270 old men above sixty. The agrimittual districts impply more than half of the °awaits. Ws find 4,595 horn in the country, 2,452 born in towns, and 645 foreigners. Of the convicts 3,992 can neither read nor write ; 91 alone have received superior primary instruction. Agricultural labourers and gardeners form about a sixth of the convicts. There are 1,078 navvies, 467 mums, 345 weavers, 245 do mestic servants, 175 tailors, end 184 blackmitlu sad lock smiths. ••••••zr• MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT THE RIVER ESL— Considerable sensation was excited in this town early yes terday morning by a rumour that E. A. Burrow, Faci., of Carleton Hall, had been found drowned on Sunday morn ing, in the river Fah. We regret to say that on inquiry we find that the rumour was only too well founded, Mr. %r -row having been drowned on Saturday evening whilst at tempting, as is supposed, to cross the river at the viaduct of the Whitebaven and Furness Railway, at Eekmeala station. It appears that deceased had been at Booth on Saturday, which place be left on his return home about 7 o'clock in the evening; he was driving in au Irish oar, and crossed the railway at Bootle station with the intention, no doubt, of taking the usual route from that point to Eakmeals station, where he would cross the Bak, and so proceed forward by the beach to Ravenglass, and thence to his residence at Carleton Hall. That was no doubt his intention, but it would appear that he had not reached the crossing of the Esk until near ten o'clock, at which hour his watch had stopped, and at that time there would be a very heavy flow of water as the tide would have quite recently ebbed. The deceased having been something like three hours in passing from Bootle to Eakmeals, a distance of only four miles, it is presumed that he must have missed his way in the dark and been confused and lost for a time on "The Meals." Ultimately, however, he bad evidently come to the crossing of the Esk, and bad driven into the water, of which there would, probably at 10 o'clock, ' be a depth of 15 feet, the ordinary current of which would be conside ra bly increased in force by the prevalence at the time of a strong breeze. Under these circumstances the horse would not proceed very far before the water would wash into and cover the oar, the cushions of the ear having been washed away, sad it is supposed that the unfortunate occupant was also at the same time washed off his seat into the stream and so drowned. It seems almost unaccountable, but such is nevertheless the fact, that the borne had succeeded in struggling out of the water at the same side at which he entered, and that he had, more over, found his way back with the car towards Bootle, as for as road end leading to Hyton, where he was found early on Sunday morning, at the house of Mr. Shaw. No thing was heard of Mr. Burrow until between 9 and 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, when his body was found in the River Esk by a shepherd named Birkby Wood. It was first observed floating in the river, and was ultimately oast up at Green Hill, on the Ravenglam side of the Esk. It was subsequently removed thence to the King's Arms Inn, R avatig iass, where an inquest will be held to-day by Mr. Bell, the coroner. Mr. Burrow, who was a magistrate of theooesty, was 52 years of age.— Comberfasid Parquet. &commit:l NEGROES AT Muiraszsßoßo'.—lt is stated that " all the bermes captured by the Confederates were immediately shot." We hope this is false, and we think it must be so. The slaves in the Federal lines are employed only as servants and team drivers, and even when it was proposed to arm and organise them as soldiers, the proclamation of the Southern President expressly exempted them from the penalty with which the white officers of such regiments were threatened. The black private soldier was to be considered an irresponsible agent. The officers were to be shot for enrolling and commanding him, but the worst the " contraband " had to expect was a re lapse into servitude—that is, a change of masters, with much the same work to do. For a still lower reason it is impro liable that Deco primmer, would be maaseared. They are worth too much in mere money to be so uselessly " ex pended." One of the African race is a far more valuable capture than an Irish or a German recruit. He brings, is bard cash, from 200/. to 230 f., and his market price, if nothing else, would be his protection against the cold atro city of being shot on the field. We trust the rumour will be officially contradicted.-- Toner. [You'll] be republicao ! THE BANK or ENGLAND Foit Hants.—The work of the police in this affair is by no means at an end. Their la bou r. were facilitated in the first instance by the disclaim's of the young inan Henry Brown and by the general treachery of the gang; but the clue which has yet to be followed up will be darker and more intricate. Nearly the whole of the paper intended to he used for notes of large amounts remain. uodiscovered, and him probably been meet abroad. This portion of the stolen material, it may be remembered, wee rid to have bees siseu by Brown to • tnymezions woman it, black, at the Waterloo station. It is believed that she was the agent of some persons on the °optima, by whom possibly an en• deavour will be made to use the genuine paper in the forgery of 500/. and 1,0001. notes, for which it is fitted. The de tectives have redoubled their exertions. and we believe that some further arrests will shortly be wade iu connection with the robbery at laventoke Mills. 71 ! 5