The Express. — London, England, 1857-04-24 00:00:00

THE OA TL Y NEWS: LONDON MORNING /6 Immo= r i .4.4 tr""TralsitV =um ad r allismi beer la Me mum awl who .4 Us gemell arm—ls 1b 5...... :z=41: 11 =tatjr. == wal magamblm—eis wpm b sr . rays is mums AMR IMPARTIAL As pe Is Ms hams me b abbllml MS IN tTiS6rS RETORT. It a IrrA Ig moo au~sataor Mrsli =WIZ m4l Ma.=Tre ". sWm orel pa ills a 2.6 A= •S tas •• ammll Ile 1010Mmi at M b. IA g r it • regr i pdt. Ike 16.. : xprm= :eV mom et bow Awls me: w applp It SII iil. VW AmilM. le samba. bp PemAllis Wig. e3* ex/Preoo* ieeertlemeeft les7Zer Irree i;• — e - re Seevese payer, meet be as %be 05.% lay boeverimereet, by Tee *Voce ea tbe day et pebbeetker Trio Vivre A LIVE el TRIAL. Ilene. lrorni••• Creorrs. /r s. 'flaw% hew teAenso4 Clork tab. 111 •lioor —^T•LANT• . or, _The Tiari Gibbs AWN. 141•11.411 Iver •r•ad LIVID it IL FIT' ISHILLISCO&—Ommei at T. FAINCRAFF. Tin Inamm, A GANZ OF 11011Ffk—AAA KING lICBAID TM IT.CONP. Yr. sad Alm C Ins.—Doe on el Md. MIA SUMMIT. Tin 14mnso. ILORErfer: .1.. the Ma& Drree. Mr. (Mond& 111D41. Mr. Wientemb; Min P.. —lad ?HI DONN Sl - MIL 111 MOYE6T. W. Bosom Mir JIM& —Ammo= m isMpool O. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan 1.).•-likwitnig. Afiaraum. lb. 0114 tweasow-Moralag, Ili. Ws. —.-. AMMON% lb- Oa. LONDOY, FRIDAY. APRI4 24. TO OUR A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be published TO-MORROW as anal, and daring the Parliamentary ream. Tile topic of Parliamentary Reform continues to be discussed with increasing eagerness. Hitherto its discussion has been marked by a cautious avoidance of details, on which the opinions of Reformers are seriously at variance. That this self control should continue to be exercised when men have talked themselves into a state of excitement can scarcely be expected. In the progress of the new Reform movement we must prepare ourselves to witness those clashiugs and collisions of opinion among those who have the same object in view which appear to be inseparable from all popular agitations. Nor is this perhaps to be regretted. Frank and unreserved discussion contributes power fully to elicit truth. The wranglings out of doors will serve as an index to Reformers in Parliament of the nature and extent of that Reform for which public opinion is ripe. The various programmes hitherto produced em brace the customary range of topics. We hear of the necessity of extending the franchise, of re adjusting the electoral districts, of shortening the duration of parliaments, and so forth. The discre pancy of the different proposals, as we have already intimated, is less than might have been expected. Bat the article upon which there is the greatest • agreement of opinion appears to be the Vote by Ballot. The great recommendation of the Ballot is that votes given in secret are more likely to be sincere than those given in public. When a workman votes under the eye of his employer, • shopkeeper in the outskirts of a manufacturing town under the eyes of his customers, a tenant without a lease, or with a lease about to expire, under the eye of his landlord, a debtor under the eye of his creditor, a young aspirant under the eye of his patron, one and all are apt to be biassed by a desire to pleas® men from whom they have much to hope or fear. But when a man give, his vote with none but GOD and his own conscience for witnesses, he is relieved from the pressure of the,. distracting influences. His vote may not after all be given with intelligence or hum the most elevated mo fives. He may be an ignorant man; he may be a prejudiced man ; he may be a vindictive man. Still the aggregate votes of a community, when given in secret, will be a faithful expression of the aggregate feelings and opinions of that community, which they are little likely to be if given under the observation of those whom individual voters fear or wish to please. And hence it comes that secret voting, far more than any other mode, is calculated to estab lish and maintain the desiderated harmony between those who legislate and those for whom they legislate. A shallower set of fallacies than those on which the opponents of Vote by Ballot delight to en large it would be diffleult to find. For example, we hear much sentimental wailing about the encouragement it will give to in sincerity by enabling men to vote in a different way from what they have promised. But when men vote thus it will be because they have been com pelled to promise to vote against their convictions or inclinations. Now, we are no admirers of insin cerity, but still less are we admirers of oppression. There are promises which it is a greater crime to keep than to break. Without seeking to palliate the weakness of the man who yields to intimidation, we fearlessly assert that the man who intimidates ix the more culpable of the two; and the man who promises to vote against his convictions, ender in timidation, is a fool (or worse) if he keeps his pro mise when the pressure of intimidation is removed. Again, we are told that the electors hold the franchise as a trust to be exercised for the benefit of all, and that therefore all are entitled to know how they vote. There is a mast extraordinary confusion of ideas involved in this fallacy. In the first place, it is uttered by the men who tell us that a numerous section of the community ought to be denied the franchise because they are unable to exercise it with discretion. And in the next breath they tell us that these men who are incompetent to vote are com petent to prescribe how electors ought to give their votes. If it would be dangerous to give votes to the non-electors, it must be equally, or more dangerous to authorise them to control the votes of the elector,. Besides, how are they to control the votes of the electors? You can only ascertain their opinion ea to how the electors ought to vote by collecting their votes on the point. This would be ridiculous, but the only alternative is something worse. Except in a very few cases, the only way in which the nov elettes, can control the electors in their exercise of the franchise is by having recourse to violence. This doctrine, that the elective franchise is a mere trust. to be exercised under the surveillance and control of the non-electors, is simply an exhortation to such disgraceful acts as were perpetrated at Kiddermin ster. We seed toot expatiate hither ea the esti- Ballot fallacies: they are all of about equal value, that is, they an all alike hollow and worthier. THE interminable cue of ATChdeIHOU DENBO"( bas reached another, though not yet a final, stage. Sir JOHN DOD4ON bas• decided in favour of the Arch deacou upon a preliminary objection, which, how . THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1857. ever, if upheld by the Privy Comic% effectually puts a stop to the whole furthereoutte of the proceedings. Extremes meet. The adieu tAeolopiewei has not generally hem viewdata Ow mildest of all forms of hatred, sad yet, in this instance, it has so far re sembled " true love," that its course from beginning to cod of this DENISON business has " never vet run smooth." do devious, indeed, and singular has been the somewhat crab-like progress of this cele brated suit, that we may be forgiven for reminding our reedere of some of the principal stages in its oaresr. The Archdeacon was charged under the statute of the 13th Elizabeth, entitled, "An Act for the Mi nisters of the Church to be of sound Religion," with having preached three sermons, on the respective dates of the ith of August, 1833; of the 6th of No vember in the same year, and the 14th of May, 1834. This last sermon, however, may be excluded from consideration, no sufficient proof having been adduced before the Court at Bath, to prove its publication within the diocese of Wells. The substantive charge, then, resolves itself into this, that on the ith of August and the 6th of November, 1853, the Arch deacon, in the diocese of Wells, preached two ser mons, the doctrine of which was unsound within the meaning of the 13th of Elizabeth. The dates that follow arc of some importance with a view to understanding the judgment of Sir JOHN DODSON. On the 31st of October, 1854, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, on the complaint of Mr. DITCHER, issued a commission of inquiry under the provisions of the Church Discipline Aet (3 and 4 Vim's.. 86). The Commissioners reported that there was a priseJ feel. ease. The Bishop of BATH and WILLS was thereupon requested to take proceed ings. He declined, The Archbishop was then premed to constitute a Court under the 11th sec. of the Church Discipline Act, which provided that he should do so in case of the Bishop's refusal. The Archbishop refused to comply with this request. Application was then made to the Court of Queen's Bench to compel the Archbishop to proceed; after elaborate arguments, and considerable delay, a per-1 emptory order was issued to the Archbishop to hold the Court, which accordingly met at Bath on the 22nd of last July. Before that Court Archdeacon Dexistix, on the ground to be presently disclosed, protested that the suit had been commenced too late. The protest was overruled, and the cause proceeded. We need not follow it through its stages. It will be suffi cient to remind our readers that, on the 21st of October last, sentence of depriva tion was pronounced upon the Archdeacon. Against this sentence the Archdeacon appealed to Sir JOIN DODoON. That learned Judge, consider ing that a court in which the Archbishop presided, was the Archbishop's Court, decided that he, who sits in the ArchesSourt merely as the Archbishop's delegate, could not entertain au appeal against the judgment of what was in his opinion a superior tribunal. On this ground he accordingly dismissed the appeal. Rowans was then had to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Conrail. They held that Sir lons DODMON was wrong in declining to entertain the appeal, on the ground that the Archbishop, when sitting at Bath, under the I Ith section of the Church Discipline Act, was acting merely as and fur the Bishop of BATH and WELLS, and vies to be regarded, therefore, pro Ink rice, as a Bishop, and not an Archbishop, so that the appeal from hi. sentence to the Judge of the Court of Arches was, in fact, an appeal from an inferior to a superior tribunal. In consequence of this judgment the appeal was remitted to Sir Jons Dousos. The first point taken on behalf of the Archdeecan was the protest previously urged before, and overruled by, the Archbishop, viz., that the proceedings had been commenced too late. The principal ground on which this objection wu founded was the 20th FCC lion of the Church Discipline Act, which provides, "That every snit or proceeding against any clerk in holy orders for any offence against the laws ecclesiastical shall be commenced seitAus tree years of the commission of the ()fence in respect of which the suit or proceeding shall be instituted, and not afterwards." It is only necessary to recall three sets of dates, in order to see the exact limits of the question thus presented for Sir J. DODSON'S decision. The obnoxious ,ermons were preached on the ith of August and the 6th of November, 1553. The latter may be taken as the date " of the COW mission of the offence." The only other point to rualve was what, according to the true construc tion of the Act, was the " commencement of the pro ceedings?" Was it the issuing of the commiftion to inquire, on the 31st of October, 1n,54 (in which case the protest manifestly failed), or the senior of the requisition to appear at Bath, in June, 1856 (in which case the protest must manifestly be held valid)' Sir JOHN Douse e, after an elaborate review of the different sections of the Church Discipline Act, de cided that the latter must be considered cis the true date of the " commencement of the proceedings." His ground was shortly this : the preliminary inquiry of the Commissioner was simply for the purpose of ascertaining whether proceedings should be insti tuted—the proceedings themselves only commenced when the first formal step was taken for actually bringing the Archdeacon for trial before the Archbishop. With reference to the topic that a great hardship would be inflicted on Mr. Inreurn if he were to fail merely because the proper steps had not been taken by the Archbishop, Sir Joan Donsox observed with considerable force, that " that was no reason why the Archdeacon should be punished contrary to the tenor of the Act, which expressly provided that the proceedings should bo commenced within two I years of the offence." It is not for us to venture an opinion .on the soundness or unsoundness of the construction thus pat on the Church Discipline Act. Of course the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will be again resorted to, and, without affecting to be SOLONS, we may venture to remind the Archdeacon that me no man should be pronounced happy till after his death, so no litigant, especially in ecclesiastical suits, can safely be declared successful until he has paned the ordeal of the ultimate Court of Appeal. This, however, we may at all events observe, that if it should turn out that the further prosecution of this untoward litigation has been arrested by the reluctance of the Archbishop of CANTERItRY to proceed with it till absolutely compelled to do so by the mandate of the law, the result will not be one of the least of the benefits which the Church of England has derived from the balanced judgment and Christian wisdom of this exemplary and tempe rate prelate. It would have been better never to have commenced these proceedings; it will be some thing gained if the peace of the Church is not mon gravely disquieted by their further prosecution. Signor Bazzini, the violinist, is about to visit London fo► the esesen, with several new rompontionr, which we are hammed he has played with roach success at Vernon Milan, and Trnste, dating his progress through ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the meet * on Mends! next, the 27th instant, papers will be reed on China and the Chinese, by Sr John Davis, Bart., K.C.11 , end on the Completko of the North Anstrel/an Expedition, by Mr. A. C. Ontgeri, ominender. ADDRESS To LORD JOHN RUSSELL. The town council of South Molton, Devon, having teen informed that Lord John liossell wee sojourning with Earl Forteseue, at Castle Hill, determined to present en address to him, and, on Monday lst, the Mayor, OCCOUl paled by the town clerk and a majority of the enernbrrs of the council, waited on his lordship, and presented en address. In this dot unreal the town council impress their high respect for his lordship's public virtues as a statesman, und their gratitude for the benefits he has sought to confer upon tho people of this country by his constant and energetic !damn iu the reuse of national education. Lord John Russell returned the following reply "Mr. Mayor and Gontleineu,--1 feel deeply the honour you have done me by the expression of your confidence and regard in terms which, although inarb too flattering, are a valuable proof of your friendly sentiments and political sympathy. "I will any no more regarding loyal!' personally, I prefer to take this occasion to look luck with satisfaction and gra titude to what is past, and to look forward with hope hi what is to come. For the last thirty years, laginuing in 1828, wo hare broil making greet clump+. in our laws, altering the basis of our parliatuentery taproom:o3,lot, admitting million+ of our fellow-subjeas to the Lenctits of religious equality, enlarging our commercial liberties, extending the privileges of personal fieedoth to tutu of every rev* and every colon:, in whatever diner they could be rest hed by the knelt. ent sceptre et the British monarchy. " While we base been achieving these tasks conservative predictions of the most gloomy ruituro have assailed us In our onward path—the fall of tho crown and the }louse of Lords—the destruction of the established church—hopeless mashy iu tho West Indies—the entire ruin of the agrietd tuft of the United Kingdom. Such hove been 11 few of tbe ominous cries which hove stunned tho ear. of the BMA people while ongsg.tul in their difficult and toiluoine much. "But, gentlemen, the result has shown that the bonds of affection between the inhabitants of the different parts of the United Kingdom have bun strengthened, loyalty to the &Tone has become a warmer and more constant game, in ternal pests has boon preserved sod secured, agrimdture has improved, conuaerce and manufacture. have prodigiously inereascd, and the prophets of evil themselves can only wonder at the material prosperity of our country and the confirmed stability of our institutions. `• Moy hot hope, then, gentlimen, that by following the saute policy, by uniting progress with order and im provement with wisdom, we logy attain still further and greater benefits:. The opinion of the good, says Milton, ie knowledge in the making. Ily relegating the opinion of the good and the enlightened the House of Cominemi re cently elected may find imam to promote education, to extend political franehiees, to enlarge the boundsrim of religious freedom by removing some remaining disabilities, and to twinge the people of some of their vexatious burdens. " I shall have every reason to be gratefel and contented if I am permitted by toy votes in Parliament to contribute to ouch happy results. "Castle Hill, Apni 20." We ( Glasgow Daily Mail) understand that the &Aden', on the Queen's speech, at the opening of pa, 'lament, will be moved by Mr. Buller, member for North Devon, and seconded by Mr. Walter Buchanan, of Glasgow. The booms are expected to assemble on the 7th of May. A correspondent of the Manchester G dardia states that Lord Barry Vane all muse Mr. Evelyn Den loon into the chair, and that the motion will probably be seconded by Mr. Thornely, M.P. We ( HSkiAire Iradepentlent) have just been in formed that there in no truth in the statement that Mr. F. Peel seal be brought forward for Caine. Sir W. F. Williams Sao intention of severing his connexion with the borough. P Nir.:Fergus,:M.P., was entertained at dinner on Tuesday in the Music hull, Dunfermline, by his supporters in the Western District of Eft:shim. Lord Melgund, M.l'., occupied the chair. Among the gentlemen who have intimated their intention of being prevent at the fortheimaing dinner at Paisley to Mr. Ilaatie, M.P., are Sir It. M. Shaw Stewart, Bart., M.l'. for Itentrewaltire, Mr. Walter Ihrbasen, M.P. for the ri , y of Olargow, and Mr. Adaio Black, M.P. for Edinburgh. A tet:festiral will take place in the Athen.cum Room, Royal Hotel, Derby, on the evening. of Monday next, to celebrate the recent return to parliament of Mr. Evelio, Mr. Colville, Mr. Bass, and Mr. Beebe. On Tuesday last Mr. W. M. James, Q.C., was role:tail:A by a number of his friend, at Derby, who dis approve of the derision of the rabitrator (Mr. W. Diggs), which led to Mr. latase's retirement in favour of Mr. Beale. An eddies., eigned by newly WO electors, was presented to him. Augusta. Smith, Esq., one of the new M.P.'e for Truro, Lord of the Srilty las., has been weloonted, on hilt return to the Wanda, by a grand demonstration, an address, and a apiewhd banquet. Mr. H. Davey, the new M.P. for West Cornwall, who has taken the place ',bleb wan for so .may years hon ourably tilled by Sir Charles Lemon, was entertained at a public dinner, at Itcdrutb, on Tuesday. We (Deroxport Journal) understand that James White, Esq., M.P., will visit Plymouth et the close of thin reek and that he will lecture on "China and the Chinese," at the Machinist' Inititution, on Tuesday evening neat. Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., writes in favour of establishing a simple uniform fur masters of the mercantile marine. He thinks such a course would be very acceptable to the service, and would ho one mesas of promoting the authority of captains, which is very neceasary. Sir 'Montague Cholmtley, M.P., met a number of hie trim& .t Gainsberough last Tuesday, and returned thanks to his constattenry for his recant election. We (Eastern Counties Herald) hear that the haute of Mr. Dtgby Seymour, one of the defeated candi dates at the Lite election, are making a subscription, fat the purpose of presenting that gentleman with s testimonial in the shape of the receipts of his election expenses. STRANGE RE , ULT OF AN ELECTION.—Captain Oordce, the deflated tory candidate et the late election for Berwick, who is a perfect stranger to the place, has just offered to erect a Dew church without the wills of the town at ht. sole ezposel—Newoutls Chrontr4. THE LATE MR. A. A. Fences.—lt is our painful duty to record in our obituary the name of Mr. Alexander A. Fraser, late of this city, and for live years editor of the ?Vermeer Journal. Mr. Fraser left England in July last, to undertake the editorship and management of • daily loam am pape r, the Jladras Spectator, and fell • victim to cos of those sudden attacks of diseme peculiar to the Baden climate. Ilia death will be deeply deplored by •ll who bad the pte•aure of his acquaintance. Worcester Jetsreel. THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIEN.—YaItertisy being St. George's-day the annivereary meeting o f th e S oc i ety o f Antiquaries wee held at Somerset Howie. The chair woe taken at three o'clock by the Earl Stanhope, president, who commenced by reading his address to the meeting. No allu sion whatever was made to the existing state of the society, either in regard to its financial or literary peospetity. We are given, however, to understand that since the alteration made some three years ago by the society in the admiariene and amused payments, by which the latter were reduced from taw guineas to two, there has ensued a failing off in the annul income of the society, which, during the pssit .. has samowaled to a deficiency of nearly MO!. in it. w ex This is a result which threatens to the future this ancient corporation moat dissatrotui conaequences, foe which those alone who initiated the change are responsible. THE INCUMBENCY QF ST. MARY's, CHELTENHAM. —TheeisitnihaviChrimideof Wednesday se We are at length enabled to slab that Os above feet y, which hes been vacant for such a IsNolk of time, ie about to be ftbd up, the trustees raw egimer all Wee aaeyamd surmounted the whisk And In liefr sty. The district &anise see is herr isibmgrepseb= fee. are to go lo St. Mee, We re that =additional OM of rh. pa arra his bra tad to the future Intranet by the kr bee, Awl C fi Ze lair has been card to dm Si,. T. 0. ars* Berm et Mils& Neer ; het alreht the offer set be suespera g tho we. reglemem, than will sow be as 111Ierty wassassr le the Very Rev. Its. CleanTM weary, than. bes t will be Hill up within a my big prod." INISODOCTION OF GILIITLIMO..— The War it Scotism& Angling Club mem thee sip pet a bey mar of raring Yes the Clyde at Aldruillem Mltiesesh smog se ars hese her awe tram time to thee, or is • herhy emulihr, are Ise reel amble Wir &eiZ se yews& refs& shesersi. To rardy rup the iabothellos et hie Am sad par foil a Mahe r% the War d hear Aug Cab hewer asely aerated 29,000 see, height fete Zeeland, in • pro p* arbucted Wipe d at Ableres. Tim OR me ma, aim hum anzu, peer the requisite at te alky.-41pw us her to ght Court. The Dnehma of Kent, the Dachas of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meekkmbargh Sire Sta, and the Brinier Mary of Cambridge, visited her *warty yesterday at Buckingham Niece. • . . . . The Prince rode on horseback with the Priam of Wales, Attended by Captain Da Plat. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alien laid a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester on Wednesday. The Princess Royal also visited the Duchess of Kent. The Hon. Lary Herr and the Hon. Mary Bulbul have enamelled the Hon. Beatrice Byng and the Hon. Emily Cath cart as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen. The Duchess of Ohmmeter passed a quieter nighton Wed nesday, but remained yesterday in much the same state as daring the het few days. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Priam, Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Heck lanburgh Strelitz, visited her Royal Highness. Inquiries on the put of her Majesty the Quern, and other members of the soy.' family, were mado at Gloucester Home after the state of the royal &wheat. The Dab of Cambridge visited tho Dachas of Hatt yes terday at Claresce House, St. James's. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residency of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were— Vicceount Palmerston, the Lord C ha ncellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary La bouchere, Lord Panmure, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. A deputation from the General Association fur the Aus tralian Colonies had an interview with Mr. Secretary La- Donators yesterday at the Colonial•otDce, to present • memorial requesting him to bring a hill into parliament, giving the Australian colonies powers to form a federal ;wally, The deputation compiled—Messrs. W. C. Went worth (late member of council for the city of Sydney, cladr man of the aaaociation), Jamas A. Youl (honorary secretary), Sir Win. M'Arthur, Dr. Dobie, R.N., and Messrs. G. F. Leslie (late member of council for New South Wales), Win. Nicholson (late Al. L. C. for Victoria), John Dunn (late Al. L. C. for Tasmania), Edwd. Stephens and A. L. Elder (late AL L Co, for South Australia), H. G. Ashurst, Robert Brooks, D. Benjamin, 8. Besijamin, J. Gilchrist, G. R. Griffiths, Dr. Leermouth, D. Lernach, F. A. Du Crow, R. Dry (late speaker of council, Tasmania), and A. R. Cruik shank (member of House of Assembly, Victoria). The Marquis et Lansdowne left town yesterday for his scat, Bogrowd„ Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governors of the west emit of Africa. The following bulletin was issued this morning : "Gloucester Bowe, April 24, 18.57. . . . "Her Royal Highneen the Duane of Gloucester has passed a quiet night, and ha not been ao much oppremed in her breathing. (Mired) "FRANCIS 11AwKm, M.D. "Rosurr Fait.ousox, M.D. LAUNCH dr PORTSMOUTH TO-MORROW. The Royal Sovereign screw three-decker, 131 guns, an improved Deke of Wellington, will be launched from Portsmouth Dockyard about half-peat 11 o'clock to morrow forenoon. Admiral Superintendent Martin has made such arrangement as he deems most conducive to safety and the satidaction of the curiosity of the public. Thee" will be accommodation in stalls and galleries provided foe about 10,000 persons, and, nth the exception of the plat ' form or christening stage at the stem of the ship, there will be no preference of places by tickets to particular booths or places. The three-deckers Prince of Wales end Vic toria, building on adjoining slips on either aide of the Itoyal Sovereign, have galleries affixed to them on the side next the launch, and well overlooking the Alp, on which the meta and all have bean erected, with the bout attention to under the directions of the clerk et the works in the dockyard, Mr. Wood. The ligare-bed is an exceedingly clever likeness of the Queen, a nobly proportioned boat, executed by Mr. Halm, the carver of such matters for the Admiralty. The ship is emmidered a handsomer bull than the Duke of Wellington, having a finer entrance and other Improvements. Engines of 800 nominal horse-power as being manufactured for the Royal Somnign by Maudalay and Co., and will be fitted immediately, sad one of the Lords of the Admiralty will be maw and some distinguished visitors. The vessel will be named, in the absence of royalty, by one of the daughters of the Commander-in- Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.B. Every precaution has been taken to prevent her hanging upon the ways, which so signally marred the effect of the launch oldie Marlborough. The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood leave town today on a visit to Rear-Admiral Sir Auguatna Clifford and Lady Elisabeth Clifford, at their villa, at Hyde, Isle of Wight, sad rill stay till after the launch, to morrow, at Portsmouth. 'Airs. W. E. Gladstone has issued cards for a rouse on Wednesday nest, the 29th inst., and on Saturday, the tad proximo. The latter to meet the members of dm Royal Academy of Arts. The Earl of Derby, after attending the recent race meeting at Newmarket, rejoined the Countess and family at Knowsley, Lumeshire. The noblo Earl and Countess, and Lady Emma Stanley, come to town for the season about the 10th of next month. The Duchess (I )owager) of Hamilton has left Port manaquare, for Euston Hall, Suffolk, to pass three weeks or a month. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland intend to leave Sion House, lelewortb, on the 4th proximo, for Northumberland Rowe. The Duke and Duchess of Grafton are expected in town tarty neat week, from Wakefield Lodge, Northampton ehire, for the season. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for his seat, Bowood, Wilts. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers dose their visit to Lord and Lady William Powlett, at Bath, to-day, and go into Devonshire to pay several visits. The Earl and Countess Craven are staying at Arhdown Park, Berke, and will return to town the latter end of next week. The Countess (Dowager) of Glasgow and Miss Catherine Sinclair hare arrived at 18, Chesham-place, for the 16111011. The Earl and Countess of Zetland arrived at their residence in Arlington-street, Lut evening, from Asks Hall, Yorkshire. The Earl de Grey has arrived in town from Dover. Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner have arrived in town for the season. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough are expected in town in a few day. from Parts. Viscountess Palmerston will leave in a few days for St. Leonard's•on-Sea. Lord Broughton arrived in Berkeley-square yes terday from Erlestoke Park, Willa Col. the Han. Strange and the Hon. Mrs. Joseelyn are still on the Continent, and are not expected to return before the and of the ensuing mouth. Lady Da ROll returned to town a few days since from Waiting Sir John and Lady Walsh at %read Park, Berks. His lordship will return to town to-morrow from Portsmouth. Lord and Lady Walsingliam will arrive in town to-morrow from Merton Hall, Norfolk, for the season. A dispatch from Dublin states that in the Mount garret pimp case, the judges have decided by a majority of err only against the application for the new trial, thus einalrming the verdict given at the aesizes in favour of Lord Momntrieriett. J. B. Stanhope, Esq., M.P., has forwardtd 101, to the Franklin Testimonial Fund; and the following names hare been added to the committee, viz., J. B. Stanhope, Esq., the Right Hon. C. N. Hamilton, Viscount Goderich, the Rey. H. Brackenbary, Sir John Trollop', Bart., and W. H. Adam, Esq., M.P. The amount subscribed up to the pre seat time i• 'boot 770/. On Wednesday night G. Crawahay, Fin., Mayor of Gateshead, danced an interesting lecture on Kelly's Panama Canal Project,•' in the Mechanics' Inatiftte, New castle, to a large and respectable audience. The first edition of Mrs. Gaskell's Li!; , of Char lotte Bronte wpm exhausted in a few days, and a eseand. le now ready. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. ILIECTIIIC TZLIORAPIL) (yawl ova ow" coßaurowourr.) SOUTHAMPTON,FiIIMer. The Alhambra has arrived with the Peninsular Mails, she left Lisbon on the 19th inst., amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 1,7961. sterling. At Gibraltar the wind has shifted, and enabled 100 windbound ships to pass through the Straits to the westward. Oporto bar is now clear of the wreck of the Bac chante. About ninety vessels are at anchor there, waiting to go in. A report on the railway question has been presented to the Portuguese Cortes, and a project of law is to ratify it. Sir Morton Veto has engaged to embody a company for the formation of the railway in accordance with the commercial code of Portugal, within six months. The former contractors of the Central Peninsular Railway have forwarded the accounts of their unsettled claims against the Portuguese govern ment, through the Foreign-office. Sir Morton l'eto first asked the Portuguese government to guarantee a minimum interest of 7 per cent. on the capital employed on the railways, but he was afterwards induced to accept of a subvention of so much per kilometre. When the Eastern railway is finished, an annual charge of SOO contos of reis will devolve upon the state, but the amount will aug ment gradually from a low figure as the different parts are completed, so as to enable the Treasury to meet the demand. In the railway report presented to the Cortes, the government is authorised to rescind the contract made with the Central Peninsu lar Railway Company, by indemnifying the share holders. The new railway company is to be exempt from taxation for twenty years, and to have the right of working all mines near each side of the railway. The payment to the company under the subvention is to be made every three months. The government cedes to the company all the state lands through which the railway passes. Sir Morton Veto is to make a deposit of 20,0001. sterling within one month after the commencement of the works, as a material guarantee. The letter of our Paris correspondent, dated yesterday evening, had not come to hand when we went to press. A REVENUE CUTTER RUN DOWN IV THE THAMES-LOSS OF SEVEN LIVES. About three o'clock yesterday morning a shocking catastrophe occurred at the mouth of the river Thames, between the Mouse and Nore Lights. Her Majesty's revenue cutter Curlew was run down by the Antwerpen Steam Navigation Company's steamer Baron Osy, Captain Peirce, from Antwerp, with the lees of ell her hands except one. The Curlew was a fine smart cutter, of Jul tons, and was stationed cm the Sheerness district. She wee in charge of Mr. William Shepherd, an experienced officer in the service, and in the coarse of Wednesday had been out cruising. late in the evening of that day she brought up in company with the Fly, another cutter, near the Mouse Light, and rather out of the coarse of vessels paling through the feirway of the Channel. The usual watch wee left on deck, and the cutter lay at her anchor in apparent safety until between two and three o'clock, when, according to the statement of the only survivor of her crew, a man named Hawkins, without the least warming the steamer bore down en the Curlew and shuck her with considerable force on the quarter. The cutter was thrown on her beam ends, and the steamer paned right over bar, and she went down in several fathoms. Hawkins was saved by clinging to the mast head. He was taken of by a boat from the Fly cutter, end it was than ascertained that with the exception of himself all on board the Curlew, Including Mr. Shepherd, the master in charge, seven in number, had gone down n ith the unfortunate vessel and had perished. In the course of the morning the Fly proceeded to Sheerness, landed Hoskin', and reported the lamentable occurrence to the Admiralty authorities. The steamer turned vat tote the Baron Oey, • powerful iron-built ship. from Antwerp. She arrived at the St. Katherine's Steam Wharf yesterday forenoee. For ICON reason, those in charge ci the veseel, as also bee broker end agent, studiously avoided giving any ham:nation respecting the collision. From another source we learn that the Baron Osy was in charge of Mr. Farmer, a Trinity-hones pilot. It was stated that he was on one peddle-box and Captain Peirce, the meter, on the other, the chief nine and some men being forward on the bow on the look out. The minting, though dark, was fine and clear, and the steamer, on passing rho Girdler, is alleged to have reduced her rate to half axed, eight miles an hour. Nothing was observed until she was close upon the cutter, the mast. of the cutter just coming te view above the bows of the Baron Osy before she struck. The order was given to stop the engines, and put the helm hard aport, but the words could scarcely be uttered before the Baron Osy struck the Curlew on the quarter. The latter instantly swung round, went under the paddlewheel, and sunk. It in averred on the part of thestesmor that the cutter showed no light, and that I there was no one on deck at the time of the collision, the only person who was seen after the occurrence being a man who had apperently just turned out of his berth clinging to the masthead. A boat with the chief mate and three men pat off to the aid date man, but a boat from the Fly had previously taken him off. The Baron thry, with the exception of a little paint rubbed off her stern, has not sustained any &image. The admiral in command at Sheerness has despatched a steam tender to the sunken wreck in order to ascertain, if possible, her exact state, and whether it would be practicable to raise her. None of the bodies have been recovered. Notice of the loss bee been sent to the Board of Trade. Our Sheerness correspondent, dating yesterday, writes "The Smut, coast-guard cutter, arrived at Sheeniest at 10 a.m., having on board Michael Hawkins, ordinary mariner, being the only surrivOr of the crew of the Curlew, coast-guard cutter. It appears that the Curlew and Scout anchored on the previous night on the Sat of the Mouse Bead; the Home Light vessel distant from the Curlew about half a mile, the light vessel bearing meth-west. The &out was at anchor about • quarter of a mile from the Curlew. Michael Hawkins relieved the look out man on deck of the Curlew at twelve o'clock. At about one o'clock a.m. Hawkins perceived at a sheet distance.* large steam Teasel coming right on for the Curlew. Ho immediately ran to the companion and celled out for all hands to coin. on deck as quick as possible, as there was • large steamer steering direct upon the Curlew. He then ran aft, stepped upon the taffrsil of the Curlew, and called out as laud as he could ; but in • few seconds the steam vessel Mine stem on to the Curlew, striking her taffrail right in midships, and breaking the main boom. Hawkina jumped up and caught hold of the hoists, of the steam vessel. He then heard some person on board the steam vessel say, " Why did you not show • light i" and the same person said immediately atop her. Hawkins beard no more; no found himself under water, and shortly after, on recovering himself, he found ho had hold of the rigging at the mast head atria Curlew. He was entangled in the standing and running rigging of the Curlew's topmast, the topmast being amid away. He then saw the steam vessel lower a boat. It was manned, but ha positively states that all the boat's crow lay on their ears after leaving the steam vessel, and that they drifted from him with the wind and tide, and never ones pulled towards him. In about half an hone afterwards he was taken off the rigging by the boat's crew of the Scout in a very exMturted state from having been under water some time and bruised by the steam vessel running over him. The crew of the Scout identified the means vessel as being the Baron Osy, of and from Antwerp, bound to Lon don. The ftemit's boat remained about the mast of the Curlew for some hours to recover the broken omen and rigging, also hoping that some of the bodies might tiro to the sterol. At the time the Curlew mis run down, it was rather dark, but not d dark. The list of persons drowned is Mr. William , seeend mate, ea command; Alexander T trinity, mariner; Henry White, gunner ; William Redding, mariner; Edward White, mariner; William Weeller, ordinary mariner; and Joseph Mathew., Ist clam boy. On information of the tad affair being carried to the yet authorities by the inspecting commander, William C. For syth, it N., immediate arrangements were made for the steam vessels Lizard, Lieutenant Thomas B. Christopher, and the African, Rhueben Harvey, to take en board an efliciemt num ber of riggers and others, with weighing gear, and proceed down to the Curlew. Both steam eyefuls left between 1 and 2 o'clock. Captain Forsyth also proceeded to the 'pot, to render such mairtance with his men as the nature of the case required. LAW INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banoo.—Befom Lord Campbell and .14 % Erie and Crompton.) THE CONVICT XANPELL r. TH F. QI LEX IN 'COOL On Wedneeday last the Court in tbis case granted sle w hums corpus directed to the Kenper of )4, 4 4,4 04 , to tiring up the body of Thomas Man n a, sentenes of death, for tho murder of lanes Burney, of the 49th regiment, in order that he 0 4 0 smelly aseign errors upon the judgment upon 'herb be V beta convicted. The prisoner, it will be reseeded, tried before Mr. Baron Bramwell, at Maidstone, 04. oember last, when certain objections& were nthel kn u counsel as to the manner in whirl some al the je e y been challenged on the part of the crown ; sad the Aue o General lasing, in virtue of the power vested is It** his fiat fora writ of error, the Home Secretor, Ind re m I the execution, that, to the 6 th of Feb ruary, eta Arnett% 6th of May, for the purpose of enabling the poims Weed in the case to be argued before this court. ". l'he prisoner was accordingly brought up thin to enn * ' the custody et one of the abatis connected with t ee 10 4 Maidstone, and placed in the lira row behind the bar, wan then nearly filled with harridan. He be matt oft* abort stature and thin frame, with a largo beard of tint kit, hair, and strongly marked features, yet mild imperi l to be shoot thirty yews of age. lie was 40 s argrit his own riv te clothes , and meowed to be kill health, and little dis co ncerted at the µmaim he 0 0 ,. 41 i 4 An the proceedings were of a wane. bat need ' we give them in the exact form in which they took 10 0 Mr. F. Russell, the counnel, who defended the primate his trial said—My Lords, the plaintiff in error, 'Tier Maxwell, prays oyer of the necked of the indictment, 04 % proceedings against him. Lord Camp be ll—Let it he reitd: it Ina agreed that the record should be taken Unlit Mr. Russell—He also prays leave to assign elvers Qs mooed. Lord Campbell—Let errors be assigned. The Croesiml instanter. Mr. linsoell—He also prays oyes of the record of Oleo quisition against him. Lord Campbell—Let it ho read. (This record eras also taken as read.) Mr. Russell—Ho prays lease to assign errors in theme! also. Lord Campbell—let it be eo. Mr. RusseU—lle also pro) a the court to amigo Dimmers, to argue the point of law in hie belmlf. Lord Campbell—Counavl will be Reigned to hint. Mr. Rumeil—The names of the tunnel the prisoner "Ma to have appear to that paper. (Handing a slip of Pitplt the court.) lam furthermatructed to move to hare Uni t e put down in the crown paper. Lord Campbell—Let it be put down in that paper. Mr. Russell—The prisoner wishea to have the cue gm on the 2nd of May. Lord C a mp bell—Let it be argued on the gad of M a y. Mr. R ll —Will the court mention any Mabel Lord Campbell—At the sitting of the court. Lei the* sorter in the meantime be committed to her Majesty, pd d N and brought up again when the organ :mini! ewgate, plane on hie writ of error. The prisoner was then removed in custody. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Prism in London.—Be(ore Kr. Jima Williams and a Common Jury.) COCIOHAW C. CRINKISHANK.-31K, GFOROZ CIVIIMUST AND A RUMPUS COMPANY. The plaintiff in this came is a matinee and nate t Horne-oboe-court, Ludgate-hill, and he brought the et h against Mr. Cruikshank, the artist, to recover the an I 6(11. 9s. 6d., the price of goode supplied to a Life and Fe Ineannce Company for the working cline& of which*. Croikslunk wee formerly a director. Mr. Digby Seymour appeared for the plaintiff, and Y. &siesta Shay and Mr. Ogle were for the def endant. Evidence was called for the plaintiff to prove that the poi had been supplied to the company upon the order of 11:. Howell, the secretary, end it wee also proved that Craikehank was one of the directors. Mr. Self-ant Shee then addreleed the jury for the &Ann sad submitted that the mere feet of Mr. Critikelan hang connoted to become a director would not make bin fii unless be gave authority to order the goods in question, they would tied, from Mr. Cruikshank's evidence, that had not given any authority at ell. Mr. George Crulkakank Wan then called—He said, I the defendant in this action, eel have been fur many pa endeavouring to improve the condition of the worth awes. Howell applud to me to beroeae a cotruatee ofsi compare y with Sir John Shelley, about June or J 1 lest. He told me that a number of benevolent gentiles were desirous of establishing a life insurance company 11,6 benefit of the working claws. I consented to bootee atom with Sir John Shelley. Howell told me afterwards the* John Shelley was to have been the chairman. and its mended me to take the office of chairman, so I nein known. I said I would see Sir John Shelley, but be wilb was oat of town. After a great deal of solicitation I • muted to act provisionally. There was a list of dine with Sir J. Shelley's name attached to it. Most of this. were fictitious, or had been used without any sad.. whatever. The Dank of London was named as dell where the funds of the company were kept. I monad that neither Sir John Shelley nor the Bank of Lauda' authorieed their names to be need. The whole of the chess repudiated. There %were no directors in fact. The clay§ was a man who I afterwards found out wee a journeyes bricklayer. (A laugh.) Mr. Ogle—Oh, tier journeymen bricklayer consul t honour the company and to become a director (tenni Mr. Cruikshank—Yee. I discovered the fraud sal • posed it. I inquired of Mr. Howell how the expense ell company were to be provided fur, and he told me that It Nicholl, the solicitor, was to provide for all the expired the company. I had not known Howell previous to 1 making this application to me. He woo a pafeet nig to me. I attended two or three of the meenags. Abell last meeting in the early part of August I went to 13ead$ where I remained about three weeks. Before I lat k Scotland I might have seen a prospectus of the c but I never read it. (A propecous of the rompey here banded to the witness.) I ace Mr. Howell isle desaibed se the manager and as a director, but be wet* the secretary. On one occasion I went to the offices .19 company by the invitation of Howell, and I waited thro e hour for the directors, hut none came. I said, Tana no directors :" Nicholl said there were sufficient to MID board, but I said I would not be a party to such a bolt el corner meeting so that. Mr. Nicholl said that h well all afterwards be brought before the public, and I said die that was so I did not mind, as I was always for earyall being brought before the public. I never on any wan gave Mr. Howell authority to order any goods far the tas puny, nor did I know that any were ordered. lal at know that any ordc-re had been given on Rowan al es eye pany. On my return from Scotland, I said I Aniline, into the legality of the company. I found that term Its were illegal, and that the signature of Mr. Till Prat et paper which Mr. Howell sh o wed me wee a far then told Mr. Howell that I would have nothing mite o do with it, and I watched my opportunity and withdrew tirely from the company. Cress-examined—l cannot say that I saw the coffee machine supplied by the plaintiff at the office, ter the lel not. Ido not recollect seeing a date box there eider I cannot say whether there was one or was not. I truths only three or four times. I did not see any ledgers lytuf a the office counter nor any books at ell. I mean to ray de I saw no forms and policies in the office. There might in been some prottpectusee lying about the office. Mr. Seymour—ln this book, you nee, there is • ranee Lion of the minutes and all that. Witness—Oh, yes, there was all that humbug, of cal for a particular purpose. I did not order any prospectu 6o be sent to me to Scotland, but Mr. Howell said he e-all send me some down, though he never did. I told Had that I would use my influence in Glasgow, Mennen" 01 Edinburgh, if he sent me some down, and he promised I do so. Re-examined—There were mime other prospectors , . wi there are some in which my name is not mentioned at all Chairmen. Mr. Serjeant Sheo—l may state as a fact to your Ired 4 that in one of these prospectuses I find the name 011 1 / learned friend on the other ride, Mr. Rigby Sepsis (Laughter.) Mr. Seymour—l never knew anything at all about head just now, my lord. The sane woo part beard venterday, and hie lordship tie taking his scat upon the bench this morning, HiggeO d 'ff' some arrangement should i.e come to between the plea There was no doubt that the pinionff bed been a loser, in that Mr. Cruikehank had been made • dupe. Mr. Cruiknhank w ee willi ug t o a bid e by anythinfiffk a his lordship might suggest. The learned conned then withdrew from the mart ime the judge's private room, to endeavour to arrange the ma l l and upon their return into court, Mr. Seymour said his client had agreed to term Pt verdict would, therefore, be entered for the plaintiff, mead to terms agreed upon. Mr. Ogle concurred with that. Ilia lordship said be was very glad that the parfig,t i come to terms. Mr. Cr u ik s h an k h a d been • greet factor to the public and to th e wor king clown, end he W read with great pleasure many of hie works. The verthct was then entered for the plaintiff, eatO terms agreed upon between the inirtien, which our repot. was informed were that the plaintiff was to mince 2.??. The only two other omen in the list having boo Map!. of, the court rose at about a quarter to eleven o'clock. Matins in Banco.—Before Chief Justice Cockbusli Justices Creeswell, Crowder, and Willis) XING V. THE ACCVMFLATITII LIFE TITID AND tUU •1411:11.ANCE COMFANT.—TILANNIEREINO THE OF AN assuaastez COMPANT. Mr. Petersdorff moved for leave to enter a verdict' , the defendants, or a nonsuit pursuant to kave isstrve" W Mr. Justice Williams, before whom the cause was Win day or two ago. 'the plaintiff bad insured his Wk . ! lOW. in the defendants' Ob.*, and be was tops 6 o","'', premium for twenty years, or until his death if it OT sooner happen. One of the terms of the policy irt6 then plaintiff was to share in the profits. After the compinfr been in ezietenoe for some time. the directors anniefes it should be dissolved, and that their business transferred to the Anglo-Anstralian end Universal PI Life Aasurance Company. The plaintiff, bowel'', 00 111 _ Pan/ loss of IL being th+ end part amount tattered sad it lin disaolve that the After Ade p dined ti 111.4 . 0 r. _ Mr. h Mr. Ch aeon se 1 dusting g Mr. Wel pond of g dons for by her n request cerentonj brook-str vide the out of U which we conduct, The ju The ha: greet. I been thr between tl Mr. Re Lowrance flea ounce A guest George, proved ag of White His H< against tl Mr. W Hie i 1 said he - 13Jhu - i sheet pre , of annex the merit The te tors, of N Mien ma Joseph Mr, Alch robbed t who had housed a Police duty in I to him • the °Mc( had bent --- A form prisoner, the bent , ID Bono Eli:ab young w charged Zdgar, ticdee, of Shoo) . 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