The Express. — London, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

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Weiss, Matter, H. Corr', and W. Harrison Wanes L Prue and A. Hiles.— And BKAUTY AND THY MAST. Concluding with the Transformation scene.--Commence at 7. RAYMARIRr. FM EVENING. OCR AItERICAIt C01760f. Nam Bothers and Bucketone : rs. R InimRABSELAS OF ABYSSINLL Mr. M Wm L. Compton sad Wm Konkiy.—And MUMS MFR. WRIT& Mr. Compton and MlMlllortionr. PHINCHINIS. Tau Emilie, TEN WINNING KIM Mewl. H. Manton, Veal% and Cathcart. Win Amy &Minion and Mrs. H. Wanim —And HIQUNT WITH TEI Ton or, Harlequin and Mo th er fililpton. Mows. Milano, Power, and Raiford. Min Colflason. • LYCIUM. Tine EVI3TING, ♦ SUDDEN ATTACK. Mesas. Widdieentb, Garden, and Shore ; Mies Mem& and Mn. Lee. And TH E DUKE'S mono. Messrs. Pie Mgr, O. Wain rugham, •na Raymond ; Muss C. lading. IL Tam end . BRITANNIA. Tins Seism the Pantomime, AVOW HASSAN. Mrs. Lee ; Madam Krum Louis, Newham, sad Xtille.Btephtn : Tan Sams and his two Mules.—THE CIICLIT 01 GOLD. KW Sophie Mlles.—And MARY RDMONSTORM—Oommence at hall-pot I HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TR DAT Month& It Ilm.....Aftenkoma. lb. 37m. TOMosaoM—Mmaing. Mi. tm.....Altoromm. IL 230. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17. LORD Nourairev, Minister of Foreign Affairs in pas-fiber, is announced to open his annual cam paign this evening. Few people, we daresay, give the noble Lord credit for the labour of love he un dergoes, and the heaps of correspondence he noires as the representative in the English Parliament of four vacant Italian thrones, of the clerical party in France, and of the Court of Rome. The name of our venerable enthusiast turned up a little unex pectedly the other day in a report of the Neapoli tan police. On the person of the Princess Rue- BIMINI, who was arrested on the Roman frontier as the bearer of despatches to the Bourbon Committee at Naples, was found a letter, in which the name of Lord NORMANDY figured in company with TRINTANY and other marauding champions of the legitimate cause. It was intimated in that letter theta relation of Lord NORM-LIMY was coining to Naples. How could so innocent a bit of news be considered of sufficient importance to be smuggled across the frontier on the person of • Roman Princess ? Is Lord NORMANBY% name become a passport to the respect of the Neapolitan brigands I Is it an authority among the conspirators at Rome who furnish cbuidestine arms and orders to the sub jects of Fusarrns 11. i Is this the noble Lord's pecu liar qualification to speak on the affairs of Rome and Italy—his special claim to the respectful attentionof the House of Lords I Not that Lord NORMANDY'S sources of inspiration are confined to Rome and Naples. Some years ago he served with sprightly grace as her bfarxerv's Minister at the Grand Ducal Court of Tuscany. There can be no doubt that be is well aware of the sentiments of the Tuscans upon the loss of their court ; aware how bitterly they feel their bereavement, and how seriously their well-being is affected by this reduction of their capital to the rank of • provincial city. We can fancy the noble Lord's core spondents at Florence (their names and faces are familiar to every reader of the Lanvpione) assuring him that all looks darker and gloomier than ever ; that the Florentines see with dismay their capital deserted, their streets empty, their fins palace untenanted, their shops in idle ness, their trade paralysed ; barkruptcy gene ral, taxation tripled, and a sense of insecurity pervading all minds. Such, we know, is the burden of the song of some old women of bosh sexes, who feebly pine for the old state of things, and impotently cabal against the new. Lord' NORMANRY, let us acknowledge, has one rare merit which in these days is worthy of all respect. He is the disinterested advocate of a fallen cause. But his letter-writers cannot be expected to pardon a great country for desiring a nobler destiny than that of a group of petty States, preserved for the recreation of diplomatic idlers and tourists, and secluded from a national existence. Against their harmless libels and lamentations let us set off the letter from Florence, which appeared in our columns yesterday. That account of the present condition of Florence was, we make bold to affirm, founded on indisputable facts, and gathered from unimpeachable sources. It was the letter of a gentleman whose opportunities of ascertaining the truth below the surface as well as the realities upon the surface command our perfect confidence. The writer's long and large experience of Italian We, his calm clear judgment, and his discerning sympathy, make him an unan swerable witness. And we challenge any one of Lord Nozwev's informants to disprove his statistics. To deny is the only resource left to those who are unable to refute. A nw more actiona like that of Collingusood T. Berkeley and Others, ending in a similar verdict, will help to put an end to a nuisance which has long been protested against, but which there is reason to believe is at this moment more rank than ever. Why should a man say he is a Director of a Joint- Stock Company, or knowingly permit others to say it of him, when he is not t A Director is, by the nature of his aloe, one who knows the or ganization and resources of a Company, and guides its operations to their avowed end. Why should anyone say, by taking the name of a director, that he is a person who does all this, when the fact is that he knows nothing of the composition, capabilities, and obligations of the association recommended to the public by his name? We know what is the vulgar an swer generally given to this question. Busy, common place people, who in the hurry of active life some times forget the respect due to birth and station, find in the guinea paid for attendance at the board the reason of this false aesumption t and do not scruple to designate even the son of a lord or a lord himself who thus sells his time and presence a guinea pig. This explanation, however, fails to account for the conduct of those nominal direeton who never attend the meetings of the board. The British Columbia Overland Transit Com pany (Limited) announced itself in April last, just as the glowing descriptions of the Special Corre- lift.. ~~ 'pendent of a contemporary had awakened in hun dreds of British youth an irrepressible desire to develop the resources and share in the rising greatness of that magnificent possession. The Company promised to save the enterprising emi grant the delays and vexations of the long sea Chi c and to take him by way of Quebec and Chicago to St. Paul's, Minnesota, from which point he was to be conveyed in covered carriages, drawn by four horses, through a country rich in all the freshness of nature, pastures sufficient for any number of cattle, rivers quite full of flab, and buffaloes and game in abundance. The plaintiff in the action under notice, attracted by this ad vertisement, repaired to the offices of the Company, paid 421. for his passage, embarked with a number of like-minded travellers at Glasgow, and was actually carried safe and sound as far as St Paul's. Here however the money and credit of the Company failed. The party being thus unable to proceed bad plenty of time for consideration on its hands, and after due deliberation the plaintiff was deputed to return to England and see what could be done. Arriving in London he found that the name of the Company had disappeared from the premises be hadknown as its office, and all that remained was a notice that letters concerning its business might be left with the laundress. A communication was opened with the Directors, when it appeared that they repudiated the authority of the manager and promoter of the Company, who was no other than the well-known " Colonel" Simon. Hence the ac tion tried on Saturday, in which the plaintiff com plained that the defendants, the Hon. FRANCIS HISBY FITZHARDINGE BERKILIT, M.P., with his fellow-directors, named Firmest, STARKLY, JAMB, LODKR, and NIOOLLB, had induced him by false re presentations to pay 421. for a passage to British Columbia, and also that they had not fel. filled their contract to carry him to that place. The defence on the part of Mr. BRUMLEY was that he never was a member of any Company, although some persons chose to publish his name and transact 'maims' in it without his authority. In the progress of the trial the impu tation of fraud was dropped, and the case went to the jury on the question whether the defendants were bound by the acts of the Manager and Secre tary of the Company. It appeared from the evidence of the secretary that the Company had never been registered, no deed bad ever been pre pared ; there bad been no allotment of shares, no I meeng of directors. In fact, there was no Com pany. There was an office, where &mon was supreme, and where Mr. Ibursys, whom he had employed, had the title of secretary, and re ceived between 1,4001. and 1,5001. from per sons intending to emigrate. There was also a prospectus containing the names of the defendants as directors, and there were daily advertisements in the Times in which those names appeared. But although thane advertisements were seen by those who looked for them, by the hundreds who scan the paper every morning to find an opening in life, they were lost in the crowd of announcements for a general reader like Mr. Mumma; who declares believer saw them. All through April and May these advertisements appeared, yet Mr. BERLE- LEY, who was so much interested in them, never encountered them, never knew that money was being taken in his name upon a promise of carrying people acmes the Rocky Mountains, until he was told that notice had been given of a question to be asked about it in the House of Commons. Mr. BIZICILIY, speaking of the state of his information in May, said, " I " had heard nothing of the Company in the " meantime, and I thought it was in abeyance. " I had not heard of their having offices. I did " not consider myself a director. I had never " during this time seen my name in the Times, or "in print at aIL I see the Times daily, and read " the political part and the money article, and " sometimes the ordinary intelligence, but never " the advertisements ; indeed, my servants never " bring me the supplement rinks I ask for it. I " took no part in the discussion in the Howe, in " feel I regarded the formation of the Company as " a remote contingency. I had never heard that " Colonel Sj.smu was receiving money and trans " acting buslness." Is, then, Mr. BIRLICIAY to be considered, with the plaintiff, one of till victims of " Colonel" &won, and to be pitied accordingly f We wish we could think so. But we must take the facts as we find them. There was one of the defendant-, Mr. Irwin, who succeeded in establishing in court that his name had been usurped by SLziou ; but Mr. BERKILIT could not satisfy the jury that he was in the same case. Mr. RIINHEN, the secretary of the " Coin. " pany, " tells us that in the spring he waited on Mr. BERICILLEY, and showed him a prospcevas of the Company having the honourable member's _ _ name in it, and that on the first day of Ap►l be received a letter from him, in which he said : " On "the distinct understanding that I am indemnified " and quiaified, I have no objection to belong to " the British Columbia Overland Transit Banking " Corporation (Limited)." As explained by Mr. BILM12; this meant that the honourable gentle man wee to have a certain number of shares witb- out payment and the director's guinea, and the Company was to have the benefit of his menial standing. As it happened, SLEIGH got the best of it, for he used Mr. Bxaxicmc's name to draw 1,500/. to his counter, whereas the hon. gentle man appears not to have got any advantage whatever in return. Still we cannot say that the large claw of persons of whom the plain tiff in this action was the representative have not good ground for serious complaint age 4 nst the hon. member. He told the jury on Saturday that when everybody else's suspicion bad been excited, and hundreds of people had been swindled, be made inquiries which led him to infer that the affair was "a monstrous fraud upon the public," and therefore he withdrew. But he should have made these inquiries before he gave his name to Mr. HINSEN. SLEIGH very likely exceeded the warrant which Mr. BZWELZY bad given him to make use of his name, but there is no reason to suppose he would have dared to advertise him as a director of the Company with out the consent given in the letter of April 1. Lord Chief Justice Ewa directed the jury that "it was not neaessery, in " order to make the defendants liable to the plain " tiff, that they should actually have given &litho " rity, if they allowed Colonel SLIIOII and Mr. " Hess= to bold them out as Directors, and to " transact business under those circumstances." This which is declared, on the highest authority, to be the law, is also the dictate of oommon sense. Were it otherwise, confusion, fraud, and ruin would soon have all to themselves the field now 60 usefully occupied by joint-stock enterprise. The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict against all the de fondants, exoept Mr. Flours, and damages to the amount of 1601. We may reasonably hope that, as one result of this trial, people with names useful to promoters will, in future, qualify them selves by actual knowledge, and seek to secure the indemnification of the confiding public as wall se al themselves, before they consent to be held out to the world as directors of public companies. be Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Fn. 16. The Queen, accompanied by the Prinoess Louis of Hesse, drove out in a carriage and four this morning, at tended by Lord Alfred Paget. A deputation from the Southwark Royal Reception Om conaiating of the High Bailiff of Southwark, Rev. Hugh Allen, D.D., Dr. Challios, M.D., Dr. Evan B. Jones, Mr. John Vickers, Captain Dresser Rogers, Mr. Eli Richards, Mr. E. Collision, and Mr. James Robertson, had an inter. view yesterday with the Right Honourable Sir Charge Grey, at the Home-o Mos. The Bishop of Tumuli had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday. Sir Gawp Clerk also had an in. terview with his grace at the Colonialnface. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chahmen of the Customs, and Mr. Stephenson, Chairman of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. An appeal from Barbados, "Daniel v. Trotman," part heard, was concluded. Judgment was reserved. The lords present were Lord Kingdom and the Lord Justices Knight Bruce and Turner. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wanda. Despatches were mat to the Lord High Commis. loner of the lonian Islands, and to the Governors of British Columbia, Bermuda, and the West India Islands. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1863. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S MARRIAGE. Tan VOLUNTEERS ON THE 7TH 07 MARca.— The volunteers generally having expressed a desire to be permitted to aneemble under arms daring the progress of her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark through London on the 7th of March, we are authorised to state that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accede to their wish, and to direct that the corm authorised to be present on the occasion shall be drawn up in Hyde Park, with the exception of the corps belonging to the city of London, which will be placed at such points within the precincts of the City. the Court of Lieutenancy may, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, direct. Applica tions from corps desirous of ►ttending must be transmitk I in the usual manner for the sanctioa of the Secretary of State, and delivered at the War-office on or before the 2nd proximo, after which d►te no further appl;cations eill be reeeivect —Lient-Colonel Scott, of the 3rd Battalion Kent Rifle Volunteers, whose bead-quarters are at Maidstone. has received a telegraphic =asp from Vi.osurt Sydney (Lord Lieutenant of Kent), in reply to a request that the battalion might be allowed to be present as a guard of honour at the landing of the Princess Alexandra, on the 7th of March, at Gravesend. His lordship states that there can be no objection to the attendance of the battalion on the occasion. What had induced big lordship to change his mind, since he refused a similes offer on the Fart of the]. Kent Battalion, does not appear. , .. The lion. Society of the Middle Temple, of which hie royal highness the Prince of Wales is a muter of the Bench, intend to celebrate the marriage of WI royal highness on Tuesday, the 10th day of March, 1863, by giving a grand dinner to the members of the Inn in their sapient hall. The special committee of the Liverpool Town Council, appointed to ensile the details for the local cele bration of the marriage of the Prime of Wales, have agreed to grant 5004 for displays of fireworks, 1,0001. for enter tainments to the children of the charity schools, and 5001. for the illumination of Eit. George's Hall. The la lies of Liverpool are preparing an address and bridal souvenir for presentation to the Princess Alexandra. The recommenda tions of the special committee will come before the town council on Wednesday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is confined to Gloooester House by on Wade of gout. The Marquis of Abercorn arrived at Chesterfield Howe yesterday evening from visiting the Marquis and Marehioosse of Ailiebirry at Tottenham Park. Viscount Hamilton comes to town to-day._ __ _ The Earl and Countess Russell entel',ained at dinner last evening, at their residence In Cheshamplace, his Excellency the Austrian Amberador and the Counts Apposyi ani the Countess Panmgartes, the Marqr's and Marchioness of Bath, the Earl and Coaatece de Grey, Vis count and Viscountess Enfield, Lad Frederick Cavendish, Hon. John Stanley, Mr. Thornton, &c. A medallion memorial of the late Prince Consort by Maroehetti will shortly be erected in St. Thomas's Um* at Newport, in the Isle of Wight. Mr. B. Cochrane has postponed his speech upon ow relations with Greece, from Friday next to Friday the 27th. On going into committee of supply on Friday, Lear will call the attention of the house to the great number of railway schemed affecting the metropolis (op. wards of thirty) introduced in the present session, and to ask the president of the Board of Trade what protection is citadel to the public interest in this matter by the depart meat over whisk he presidcs • and aka move for copies of any reports made to the Met ropolitan Baird of Works by their engineer or other officers, upon the railway and other private bills affecting the metropolis, introduced during the present session. Mr. Scholefield will move in committee of the whole hones on Thursday, that the Chairman be directed to move the house that leave be given to bring in a bill to amend the law relating to partnenhipe. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean have just terminated an engagement in Edinburgh, and opened Lot night in the Prince's Theatre, Glasgow. The Peabody trustees have purchased from the mown a piece of land in Commercial-street, Spitalfielda, and are properly to seed dwellings for the poor thereon. The architect is Mr. Derbyshire. The trustees are in negotia tion for other properties in verb= parte of London, which will be applied to a similar purpose. The Peninsular and Oriental Company are build ing seven new steamers, some of them of large sine. Two of them are expected be series at Southampton next mouth. A private letter from Point de Galle states the steam-packet Malta, with the China mail on board, went ashore at flingapere. Fortunately it was fine weather, and the divan who ermined her bottom reported that no damage wee done. Captain Farquhar and the officers of the Colombo, which mu; wracked of Minicoy, have arrived in England. The Duke and Duchess of Modena have arrived at veake. The marriage of Prince William of Baden with the PAWNS Maria Miudzoilionoons of Lonektoaberg was eeleheated at the 11th hot. at the Wioter Palms is St. Petersburg. The Italian journals publish the following letter addressed by the Empress of the French to Chevalier Nips, Italian Ambassador to the court of France Tel. larks, February 9. Sir,—l accept with pleraire the marble poop which you have delivered to me in the same of the ladies of Milan. I prim it es the teethamay of the sentiments with which they are animated, and a eguigin . branoe of a common glory. The thought they have bad of offering it to me affects me deeply, and the talent of the artist whose remarkable work realises their intention so well, gives it additional value. I request you, sir, to ex. press my sincere thanks to those ladies, and accept my kindest wishes.—Ecomm" The fancy-dress ball given on Saturday night by the Minister of State and the 001U1k01111 Wahnrska, in their splendid apartments at the Louvre, was of extraordinary megnificence. The want, according to the mode of the present year, wore a Venetian mantle, whilst the countess was in a most ingssions costume representing th e y e . of the Fine Arts. Their majesties honoured the fits with their presence. but remained generally masked. Among the persons whine dresses were most remarked were Mme. Korlimhaff as fidaininb6 ; the Mantra de Persigny as Firs ; the Primness' Troubstakoi sad Dolgorosiki. ss Fos niss.tellen; Mille. Valentino Hausman, as a Clipey ; Oonstant Bay, as Esther; the Viscountess do Brimont was • Forest, her dress bearing birds, butterflies, lizards, and even squirrels. M. Meyer represented a looking.glass ;Y. Hsntorff, a Finlander; M. Lotroth, a Devil; nand the Marquis de (kin: an Imp in crimson. A;:mording to the National Zeilung, the passport marshes is again is fall fore* at the Prussia& frontier, at Aix-la-Chapelle. and &tamed& (Dutch frontier). Notwithstanding the number of new bonus bailt is Paris, knitter& sue still raising their ran* whisk vary from 2,500 fr. (10014 for the half of a fourth Isar. divided into two sets of rooms, to B,ooofr. (m.) for the drat door. LATN3T INTELLIGENCE. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. The Danis and Siede of to-day, mentioning the fact that 30,000 Russians have just crossed into Poland through the Prussian territory, and that those who have been put to flight by the insur gents have been re-armed by the Prussian authori ties and sent back, call upon England and France to interpose. The liberal journals of Prussia protest against the conduct of their government in this matter. "The Prussian Chamber," says the Cologne aurae, "will not give a crown for this object, and we need not say what are the sentiments of the country. Theoonntrydemands that a mod rigorous neutrality be observed towards Poland, and that it be remem bered that a constitution has no other object than to prevent a people from being governed contrary to its own wilL " Austria continues to preserve an impassive and almost indifferent attitude. The cabinet of Vienna are resolved, it is said, to adhere only to the con ventions already in existence. The Austrian jour nals declare that Prussia has flagrantly violated the laws of neutrality. The Poles hope much, it is stated in letters from Warsaw, from a revolution in Russia. A letter from Heidelberg (Grand Duchy of Bavaria), in the Swabian Mercury, states that the greater part of the Polish students at the university of that town have disappeared since the late events. The same has taken place at the university of Berlin. WILNA, Pia 16. A state of siege has been proclaimed by the Rus sian government in all the towns and districts of the governments of Wilna and Grodno, where it has not hitherto existed. Tranquillity prevails in the district of Kiew. THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, Jaw. 15. (Per French steamer Beam) Exchange, 675. 6d. ; ounces, 406} ; wet salted ox hides, 411 ; dry American, 35 to 313 ; wool, former prices maintained ; tallow, 16 ; lumber, 40 to 41; flour nominal ; refined sugar, 183 ; imports dull, with heavy arrivals. &W. e.W. W. &W. &L &&W. &S. W. &W. ILL B.L. NAL B.K LLB.. N. Z. IL S. IL SSW. W.B.W. S.S.W. W.N.W. EMANCIPATION IN CUBA. We find in the New Orleans De !Man announcement which will be read with rarefaction by all who feelan interest in the extinction of African slavery on the American conti nent. The Delta says, upon the authority of a letter which it publishes, that a large number of the planters and pro prietors of Cuba waited upon General Serrano just previous to his retiring from the head of affairs, and solicited him to lay before the Queen some suggestions emanating from them looking to a project for the gradual eman cipation of the slaves in Cuba. This the late captain-general refused to do, not because he was opposed to the morgue, but for the simple reason that it is contrary to the custom In that ancient mons-chy for subjects to petition or lay their grievances or opinions on matters of state policy before the monarch. All act, done ars, by a fiction of Spanish law, supposed to be favours spontaneously granted by the crown to the subject. The views of the petitioners, however, are laid before the Spanish government indirectly, and it is hoped they may be acted upon by the Cortea. The letter in the Delta, dated Havana, January 7, relates : " In regard to the representation of a number of plmtera arid proprietors of slaves in this Wand, I have ascertained that no such representation was made to the [government of her catholic Majesty, because it was opposed by General Serrano, the late Captain-General of Cuba. " It is true, a committee from the planters and proprie tors presented themselves to Serrano, and made a manifes tation to the effect that, in consequence of occurrences in the neighbouring republic of the United States, a sudden change in the institution of slavery would take place in this island, resulting from suggestions on the part of England and France, and from which the government of her catho lic Majesty could not exempt it ; and, therefore, they thought it proper to make a manifestation to the govern. moot, and bring the queetion before her Majesty by means of a representation, in order that her government might adopt some anticipatory measures of salvation, and issue a decree of emancipation, which, while it would silence the demands of England, would protect or wire slave property in this island for the longest time poesible. "Serrano opposed the representation to her Majesty's government; but reports from individuals have gone prL vately to Madrid, and it k believed that we shall soon have some disposition made of the question on the plan proposed, emanating directly from the government of her Majesty. It is said that the Bret step will be to give free. doer to the source of slavery, by declaring the mothers or females free—(in Spanish, (Mr fibre d rientre—literally giving freedom to the womb)—freeing the mother but ex chitlins the father. Following this, greater changes will probably be made, having in view a heavier pressure for the extinction of the institution." WEATHER REPORT.-CTHI3 DAY.) TUMIDLY. /IMBRIUM 17. • AJL WWWWDAY. THURSDAY. LW. to N. and E., Eno- RODYLAND. Varying with places, Berate to light. Eno. moderate to light, tine. Varying with plaore, IRWAND. Similar. moderate to light, hoe. Varying. light, tine. W.CHIIIIAL. N. N. W. to E.N.Z., mo- N.W.Famicit. N. N.W. to E.N.E. and donde, tine. to &Z., light, One. N. tor- mid S.&, mode- S.W.lmairiv. N.N.I. NE.S.K end rate to tght, ghe. to to 8.8. W., moderate fresh. As next shove. &IL tRoLAND. As neat above. Varying, offabore, light, L 04at. Varying off shore, light Ana. beeolo6, Sac The Meteorological Journal of Vienna states that since 1775 there have been only two winters, 1796 and 1834, wilder than the presoak The temperature in that city it this year 4 deg. above the winter average, but In 17913 it was 5'3 deg., and in 1834 413 deg. " PFAVIZSION" or ANOTHER WILDERVOILLII. —A letter from Landon, in the Pali' Moult says :—'• I have the happiases to announce to you the 000 ~MO to the true faith of the eldest son of the celebrated Wilber force, whose celestite' effort+ in the English Parliament led to the emancipation of the Degrees i• the British colonies. This is the third of hie sons who has been thee rewarded for the father's humane efforts. One of them, who had been an archdeacon in the Auglican church, died five years since at Rome, while studying theology pre paratory to taking holy orders. Another, who has a numerous family, gave up • rich benefice in the English church to embrace the catholic faith, and is new somPsister and PrillaiPel editor of the Weekly Regieter, a c a tholic joarnaL His eldest son is already in holy orders. Of the four ones of the emancipator of the negroes only one wall adheres to heresy, Dr. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, ha., who is accused of Puseyisai." The palace of the Bishop a Lincoln, situated at Biseholme, about three miles from Lincoln, took lire on Sunday morning, and considerable damage was dam before the Ire was extioguished. Halm 3 ..61i: Aberdeen Leith .38'41 Ardeassan Portend, Galway 30.40,441 Vaientla 30.2448 Queenstown. 90.64 48 Holyhead 30.48 46 Liverpool Pembroke Jamey Brad L'Orient 84 Rochefort Plymouth 80.6140 Weymouth 30.6842 Portemouth 30.6189 Yew. !90.6614 London - 03 Hi Yarmouth 180.6637 Coarboroash 1 0 . 63 Shields - le Heligoland-10M 38 Copenhagen . Helder — Bayonne._ ,- ILabon r- THE REPASSEITIATION OP DEVIZES. DEVIZES, MONDAY Neon. Ai is late hour this evening an aggregate public meeting of the electors of this borough took place at the Assembly Booms, to consider and determine whether Mr. bread Abrahams or Mr. J. W. Probyn should retire to avoid endangering the liberal interests by a division in the ranks. Yr. N. B. R&NDLI presided over a crowded meeting, which at one time assumed an uproarious chareoler. Mr. ABRAHAMS was the first called upon to address the meeting. As • resource to mare the liberal cease, he (Kr. Abrahams) proposed to all • meeting of the whole of the electors, to decide the question by means of she ballot as to which should retire from the contest. Mr. Probyn refused, until, at the eleventh hour, he agreed to submit to the tart conditionally that only the skidoo be convoked who were known to be libend. Notwithstanding the questionable circumstances under which those terms had been proposed, he (Mr. Abra hams) yet would accept the terms rather than be • party to damage the liberal cause. He then enunciated at great length his home and foreign policy, which may be described es Palmerstonian, and sat down amidst much applause. Mr. PROBTN, in rising to address the meeting, was greeted with much uproar from the body of the hall, by a motion of these in attendance. Order having been restored, Mr. Probyn stated that he came down to Devises with his ad dram in hie pocket as early as 2.30 on the Monday after noon, and the address, after having been submitted to his friends in Devises, was published on the following morning. He knew nothing of Mr. Abrahams until ha saw his oddment in the Loudon papers on the Monday morning. In the evening of that day he saw Mr. Abrahams, and felt that something ought to be done for the sake of the cause. (Hew, hear.) It was he (Mr. Probyn) who suggested that the question should be decided by the ballot, and Mr. Abrahams refused, on the ground that he was first in the field. Mr. Probyn then produced letters that had passed between them to prove that sub sequently Mr. Abrahams proposed, and be accepted, a means of deciding the matter. The question was then raised whether it should be decided by all the electors or only the electors of the liberal party, which was still at thine. The CHAIRMAN hors asked Mr. Abrahams if he was willing to have the question settled by the electors present. Mr. ABRAHAMS replied that he should be delighted to do so. (Prolonged cheering and uproar.) Mr. Proloyn's agent then attempted to address the meet ing, and a great tumult ensued, in the midst of which the Chairman suddenly dissolved the meeting. Mr. Abrahams and his friends, having quelled the tumult, took the sense of the meeting, end a forest of hands was held up in favour of Abrahams. The minting then termi- nated amidst uproarious cheering. Mr. Abrahams and his friends afterwards addressed a great concourse of people from a window of the Bear Hotel till peat midnight. LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at noon, at the London Tavern ; Mr. J. N. DANIELL in the chair. rePort, which was published in the Express of yes terday, having been taken as read, The 011•111tAll moved it. adoption. He mid on looking at the result. of the last helf•year he could not help exprees ing his satisfaction at the increased receipt.. That increase bad taken place chiefly in the passenger traffic, while pert of it wee the result of the recent expenditure. There had not been that increase in the goods traffic which was expected to affect the company mart favourably. They bad, therefore, that benefit stall to look forward to ; for it was not to be supposed that great railway companies had incurred such • great expense in coastr acting warehouses and goods sidings without almst a certainty of bringing to the line at an early period traffic which would prove remunerative. That company bad gone to • large expense in order to arrive at the present result, and the board expected a considerable increase in the goods traffic. Their terminal accommodation was exceedingly suitable for each traffic. Moreover, they had not been idle during the past year, for they had carried 23.,000 tons of goods. They were beginning to derive great advantage from the conveyance of coals, end this advantage must be increased when the communication with the London Dock was completed. He believed that, taking their present position as a basis of calculation, they need have no fear of a retrograde motion, but, on the con trary, had every canes to expect an advance. He trusted that the days of smell dividends were as regarded that company at an end. (Cheers.) A Paorurros thought the increase of passenger traffic was due in some degree to the Paha:Stipa. They had a very different sort of population to deal with from that which lay on the London and South Western line, and they must adapt themselves to it. After some discusaion the report was adopted, and a divi dend at the rate of 4 per cent per annum was declared. APPREHENSION OP THE SUPPOSED CROYDON MURDERER AT HULL. It will be in the recollection of our readers that a barbarous murder was committed in the house of the Rev. Mr. Taylor, incumbent of Kingswood, Surrey, on the 10th of dune, 186 L It appears that Yr. Taylor and his family were on a visit at Chertsey, and left Mn.s Holiday, the wife of the parish clerk, to look sites the house. One morning the unfortunate woman was found lying in her nightdo ss murdered, at the foot of the bed. A German, named Frantz, was seen in the neighbourhood, in company with another German, the day previous to the murder, and he was apprehended on suspicion. In cones. amen" however, of some deficiency in the evidence, Frantz, who was tried at theCroydon easiest, was acquitted. One of the articles brought forward as evidence in the trial was • pocket book which was found in the bedchamber where the murder was oommittad, containing the names of several German sailors. This book was mentioned in the newspapers, and was read of by a German lodging-bouse keeper, named Pfeffer, residing in Idyntoustreet, Hall. As soon as he read the description of the book, be remembered id having ig seen it in the paressinon of a German, named Edward Schmidt, who lodged, along with Fruits, at his house in May, 1861, being about • mouth prior to the committal of the murder. The identity of the book was more firmly established in consequenoe of some memoranda which he abstracted from it and copied on • pion of papti, and through the book having been stolen from Frantz by Schmidt. When lodging at Pfei ff er's house in May, 186'4 Schmidt left his lodgings without paying any money, and left a coat as security for the payment. He was not again seen or heard of until Saturday last, when Pfeiffer met him in High-street, but he did not on that occasion speak to him. He met him again near the Monument bridge, when the recollection of the circumstance and the remembrance of the Croydon murder at ono) struck his mind, and be Mopped him. He asked him why he stole Frantz's pocket book. Schmidt said in reply, "I am the man who com mitted the murder, bat you cannot prove it." Pfeiffer thee seized hold of him and gays him into custody of Sergeant Grace, and was brought before hie worship the mayor (W. H. /foss, Esq.) and Alderman Gresham, presiding magis titan' at the Hull Police-court. yesterday, when, after the examination of Pfeiffer, the prisoner Schmidt was remanded for a week. THE VOLIINTEZP.B.—KING'S COLLISOR A special general meeting of the students of all depart smuts of the college will be held on Thursday eveni in the great hall of the ; the Rev. the Princi pal, boo. chaplain of the King's College company in the c hair, to take into consideration the effect of the Volunteer Commis sion of 1862 upon the movement generally, and to adopt measures for increasing the strength and efficiency of the King's College Division of the Queen's Westminster Rifle Volunteers." ACCIDENT AT THE CREWE STATION. —The pas sengers by the I ri sh "limited " mail train on the Loudon and North Western Railway had a very narrow escape yes terday morning. The train, which is due at Crewe about 2.30 a.m., but doss not stop there, dashed through the sta. si og at its usual speed, and had not proceeded very far be yond the bridge that crosses the line, when, from some cause, several ci the earrisges ran off the line and were much broken, and the passengers much shaken, but, fortunately, cane were seriously injured. It would be advisable to moderate the speed of these trains when passing through • station containing so many "points." The train proceeded on its journey at battiest 6. Aaaocrra.—A few days ago, while Lieutenant colonel Hunter, of Aucbterarder, was out taking • walk over his estate, he saw an aerolite descend upon the farm of Driuutersal, occupied by Mrs. M'Ewan. The sun had just gone down, and the sky was clear at the time, which allowed him full opportunity of observation. He describes its appearance as strikingly beautiful, exhibiting a most brilliant light, non unlike • red hot 24.ponnd ball. It fell slowly to the ground, and at the same time a larger body passed over to the north east, in the direction of Trinity Gask. The oolonel, who was within • few hundred yards of the one which fell, marked the plea) of its densest, and it was got two days thereafter by his gamekeeper. At the place when it was toned the grass was burned up for a few inches round. It is now at Auehterarder House. It weighs upwards of ten own's*, and appears to have been detached from • larger mass. Another erudite is said to have fallen near Stirling on the same eveming.—Edisbordi Courses. THE Comer MILNa.—A memorial has been sent to the Home Secretary on behalf of Alexander Milne, con victed of murder of Edinburgh on Wednesday, signed by cowed for the deist:me, praying for reprieve oi senteoce, on the ground of the prisoner's insanity. The verdict of the jury India, Milne guilty was passed by nine to air, the minority being of opinion that the primer was insane; and the convict was reoommended to mosey on amount of the divided state of the jory. The charge of the presiding judge was, on the whole, favourable to the plea put in fur the prisoner. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) GIPPS V. 1111710.--SICTIVIC/L This remarkable suit, which was argued a short time ago, came on for judgment to-day. The material fads, as they appeared in the trig, may be thus summarked. The petition was one filed by Mr. Augus tus Pemberton Gipps, secretary to she Patent Department of the South Kensington Museum. He became acquainted with Miss Helen Etough Ornikshank, the daughter of a captain in the Indian service, now demised, and he married her on the 15th of October, 1851. The marriage was de scribed as having at first appeared to be one of affection, and one in every respect likely to tarn out happily. The young couple went to live with the bride's mother (then Mrs. 'hymen), in eadogen-place, Chelsea; and they afterwards resided in Hereford-square. A child was born in the month of July, 1852, and a temporary separation took place, but the parties soon came together again. In February, 1554, the respondent, finding herself a second time pregnant, wrote to her husband begging him seriously to consider the propriety of an amicable permanent separation. She said, "There is neither love nor respect between us. I feel that my having no affection for you may be • great cause of our present misery ; for I know that you had affection for me, and no doubt it would have continued if I had returned it." Mr. Gipps went to America, and on his return in 1855 he found that another child had been born to him. The co habitation we, resumed, and while the parties were living together the respondent made the acquaintance of Mr. Wil liam Wentworth Fitzwilliam Hume, of No. 20, earn:m enet, Mayfair, the member for Wicklow. The circum stance did not for some time excite any euspicion in the husband's mind ; but one day the respondent asked him to give a letter for her to her mother. This letter be found to contain the following enclosure to the co-respondent "My own dearest,-1 only write you a few lines in an swer to your lettere received yeeteeday, the one written for Mr. N— the other for Mr . F—. Do not worry about me. I shall soon be all right, and lam much better. I cannot help being trige at not seeing you, bat when I ma I shall soon be myself main. Do think and arrange with mamma about getting me away from here. P. G. the pe titioner] says I shall not go. Of coarse I know if choose to go I can, but then it would make him my enemy—et least I appose it would. If the doctor or anyone would only say I ought 1 The doctor attending me says I ought not to move out for a month, and then go to a very cold bracing air. Loooek told me Nice would suit me admirably, but you see the man who is attending us now is P. o.'s doe. tor, and of coarse be would say what he was told. How I wish we were all off out of the way ! He is so happy and delighted at seeing me so powerless that no one would feel inclined to pity him. I will write again to-day, after receiv ing the letter which yen have written throuet i orma.. God bless you, dearest I—Your poor little pet, 14 Mr. Gipps immediately instituted inquiries, which ' satle. fisd him that there had been a guilty intrigue between the respondents, and he then instituted • suit for a divorce. In his petition he did •not claim damages, but • sum of 31. was placed by Mr. Hume into the hands of Mr. Halliwell, • mutual acquaintance of the parties, nominally to await the result of the trial, but, in point of fact, it ap =d that Mr. Gipps drew 6001. of the money in two or sums, and eventually the balance was paid over to him before the ease came on for trial. At the last moment i • smotiatiou was entered into, which resulted in Mr. Gipps' vim with Mr. Halliwell, to his (petitioner's) solicitor, Mr. - Evens, and authorising him to consent, with the ex 'option of one clause, to terms of compromise, a copy of which they brought with them. Mr. Evans immediately waited on Mr. Abe, the mreepondent's solicitor, who struck eat the words objected to, and requested that the record might be withdrawn. Mr. Evans said that that might be inspeactimble, but premised that if it could not be done no evidence should be offered in support of the petition. The contained a stipulation that the co-respondent old give a bond to pay to the petitioner a further sum of 4,0001. on the deeth of hiS (Mr. Home's) mother, from whom he had considerable expectatious, and in the mean time to pay the interest on the 4,0001. at the rate of 5 per cent. A negotiation was commenced with Mesas. White, Broughton, and White, Mn. Oipps's solicitors, but they would not consent to the withdrawal of the record, except on the following terms—via., an allowance of 2601. a year, mimes to the children or the custody of one of them, and the mitender of the respondent's lettere. Mr. Evens declined to accede to these terms, but offered to accept "reasonable" one. Nothing, however, came of the die einsion ; the respondent's counsel objected in open court to the withdrawal of the record—the judge sustained their objection—end, in June, 1861, the cause came on in due course for trial. No evidence was given on behalf of the husband, and the petition wee dismissed. Mr. Ade now refused, on behalf of the co-respondent, to give the bond, alleging only, accordfng to Mr. Evans's aocount, that the un dertaking to withdraw the record had not been fulfilled. Eventually, Mr. Ads offered to execute his bond, if Mr. Gipps would settle 2001. • year on the respondent till the 4,001. became payable, and then make over the money to her. This Mr. Gipps declined to do, indignantly refusing to admit the co-respondent to interfero between him and his wife. He then filed • bill in Chancery against Mr. Home for specifics performance • but the co-respondent de murred, alleging that the bond would be equivalent to damages in an action for orimind conversation, and that by the Divorce Act it rested solely with the Judge Ordinary to my bow such damages should be applied. The Vice-Chan. odlor, Sir W. Page Wood, held that the agreement soul a fraud upon this court, and allowed the demurrer. Some ism had alas been taken by Mr. Hume to recover beak the 3,C..31. from the petitiouer, but they had not been per bewared in ; and Mr. Gipps, disappointed in his attempt to enforce the agreement, now brought the present suit for • divorce on the ground of adultery committed subsequently to June, 1861. Ample evidence in support of the charge was given, and it was shown that on the 4th of May last Mrs. Gipps had been delivered of twins. The whole eon test at the bar had, therefore, amply been whether or sot the petitimerhad been guilty of such misconduct and con nivance as ought to dieentille him to the relief he prayed. On the one hand Dr. Stinks had argued that the arrange ment for the settlement of the first suit had not included any corrupt bargain to the e ff ect that the respondent* mightoontinnotheir adulterous connexion, but that the peti tioner had, on the contrary, insisted that the " reasonable terms" to which he had offered to agree, should contain • clause stipulating that the payment of any allowance to his wife should be only during her good behaviour. On the other hand, the Queen's Advocate argued that his client had never refused to give the bond for 4,0001., bat had only insisted on the petitioner's first settling 2001. &year on his wife—a condition for which he had • perfect right to stand out after the petitioner had agreed to accept 7,0001. from him as • solatium for his wounded honour. It had been proved in evidence that the only thing the petitioner did with regard to his wife, after signing the agreement, was to employ • detective in October, 1861. to fie d out where she lived ; and it was, therefore, abundantly clear that he did not concern himself at all, either about her or her conduct, so long as he felt he had • chance of filling his pocket with the price of her shame. Sir. C. Cromwell, after recapitulating the farts, and offer ins • few comments' upon them, mid the decree of the court was that the petition be dismiesed. coot]: v. COOlll (CLZRK).-BE-NTINCE. Sir C. Cromwell also gave judgment in this case, in which the wife of the Rev. J. Y. Cooke, rector of Bomar ' Nodolk. sued for a judicial 'operatic° on the ground of cruelty. The case has been very fully reported. The learned judge granted the separation as prayed. . COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Mon Mr. Omamissioner HoLoyd.) LI RE ELIZA MAMA DOYLEY—E-ITRAOEDIZERT CASL— ♦ MANS= WOMAN • B•NOLUIPT. The bankrupt was described aa Eliza Maria Butler, other wise known as Elsa Maria Ampliett. late • prisoner in Springfield Geed, Beam. The circumstances of the cam were • peculiar. The bankrupt when • single woman, had lived at Ely, in Cambridgeehire, and had contracted debts there and in London of about 1,480/. About a twelvemonth ago she married Mr. Butler, and they lived at Bamford until October last, when she was arrested at the suit of Meson. Jay, silk mercers, of Regent. street, on a judgment obt•imed against her previous to her marriage for a debt of 601., and committed to the debtors prison at Springfield. There she remained until the periodical visit of the registrar, who adjudi cated her bankrupt, though knowing th►t she was • married woman, a•d had not traded o• her own amount, but oddly enough refused to order her release. From her examination before the registrar, it appeared that she was entitled to the interest of 5,6001. in stocks, under her mother's will, but this passed from ber to the trustees in the event of bankruptcy. insolvency, or composition. Butler, the husband, had also been arrested for some of her debts, and is now passing through the court to rid himself of his own and her liabilitiaa This was the first sitting under the bankruptcy. Mr. fiargood, who appeared for Messrs. Jay. asked that the adjudication should be now annulled. As this was the day appointed for the first sitting before the registrar, and as there were numerous creditors in attendance, it had been thought convenient that the application should now be made to his Honour. Since the prisoner's com mitment, at the suit of Messrs. Jay, in October 11114 there had been four other detainers lodged evilest her. In her examination before the registrar she stated that she had never tesded ; that she had a fixed income, the in terest of 5,6001., under the mother's will. Being a married woman she had applied to the court above for her discharge, bet it had been refused. When the registrar visited the poi the detaining creditors appeared and urged that he could not make • married woman bankrupt, and that it was in her power at any time to relate) herself from custody. The registrar adjudicated her bankrupt, but refused to release her. She had not surrendered on the ground that she was unable to pay the fees of being brought up. The husbaod bad since been arrested, and had peti tioned for an adjudication egainst himself. The clear object of this proceeding wee to secure M. Butler's property to her own ass, by causing it to pass into the bands of the trustees, who were relatives. Mr. Denny and Mr. Macrae also opposed for detaining creditors, and urged that the bankrupt should not be allowed to evade the claims of her creditors to this way. His Hower observed that the proceeding was not at her own instance ; she had been adjudicated by the registrar. Mr. Sargood said the question for his honour to decide Ilia.