The Express. — London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

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CL pot it , 72.1 „ ... 11- I =lloll,,lail MI TIM. spina laitimi • OVUM FoeMarosl t ADY OF LYON& Mow Cloolok, Poe reidlW= " o rrlf w ill " " Rwr " N. —Cammoi Whoa& aIOa WATNII AT LONDON DIIEDON. e. w. -11.. r. 4,1 1 1m%w 41 IL loaseme—alleaym $l6 la. SA. LONDON. SITIINDAT, N 012111.111 E. Bann Items of the last news firma India tats*, we think, hare probeed more sad than anything that eat be mid at hems la bdimileg ear officers' wives to roetheithr their parpoes of gob, oat with their lethends. 1t seder a reified sedan of its being einem sad bqgip for families to keep together, my blew deelbed fer India is thinking of taking est bin daughtsec the reanenetrance of all men of saes meet be addremed to kite ; for the &tighten are at kb disposal: but, in the case of wires the appeal may be to themselves, as it is to be 'apposed that they are one with their husband. in counsel about the lead ing sets of their lives. Incredible so it may appear to many people, we are still hearing of newly mar ried officers who are making arrangements for their brides going out with them, If they can only succeed in obtaining an appointaaset to service I. India; and almost everybody cos tell of a wedding bee toned that the young people may be reedy Sr a sudden call. The hastening the widen le wells in as far as it giros the husband who gess sad the wife who stays the best possible suppled elder a very trying duty, in their rights to Ma ether bat farther than this their duty to their esighbeers, as well as to each other. forbids them to go. It seam as if there could not be two spinier slime this after the recent scanty tidings front Laeknow; snd yet we hare some fears that macros who have stood est spinet amnion sense before will persist still, in the face of as piteous a story as the history of warfare has to show. Bat foe the women and children (foe the wounded abaoe could so doubt have been mania* Hams wea's force would have returned to Cawnpore much stronger than it came ; whereas sow it is con siderably and moat fearfully weakened by the ne cessity of leaving an oddities' to the Lacknow gar rison. No one will dream of blaming anybody on the spot for this state of things ; and the name gene rous spirit whisk seem to have animated all our soldiery, from 011:11.01 and H.statocx to the humblest privates, mutually helpful, mad envious only of danger, is in the hearts of the garrison who stay and the lit. force who has gene oat to lest their way through a trim Valley of Death, Every man of them, we are confident, has cheer fully devoted himself to do the beet possibb ter the mamas and children who have thus blau,'', bat miserably divided' force only too mall at but. Ent it S a trial and risk which ought arm* larboolobl again. Whether all will end well, cer labeller mamba have to mourn a fatal Woe for either diviaion of the force, we have had a warning; and no party tow cased mast be allowed to alight it. It 'honk' sot be at the option of individuals what they shall do is this matter. Private soldiers are not allowed to take their wins with them; and officer' mast be mode to understand that the public service lo ping the same mcrifice from them. They may be thankful enough, before all is done, that such a condition he, been imposed. If their wives remain at the Presidencies, they might as well be safe at home; for the service in the provinces is likely to be long, arduous, and engrossing, and to station women anywhere up the country while it is overrun with bands of marauders, brimming with vindictiveness, would be to invite perils which our soldiers should not be permitted to undergo sa a non sequence of the 'elfishness of individuals. For a long time to come It will be a sin and shame to any English woman to he found in India, unless for some better reason than any we have heard yet; and if there is anyone at this motorist feasting her ima,sina bon with dreams of the honours of martyrdom, she had better take care to avoid being thought an egoist instead of a heroine. if this is thought too strong treatment of an amiable mistake, just let the state of things at Lireknow on the 22nd of September be con sidered. For four weary months the little children had been shot up—for the most part or entirely below ground, for safety front flying balls. leased of the morning and evening drives, and the getting eat to play on the greasy banks of the Gonna, or noting under the shade of the mango groves to admire the vast city, with its glittering cupolas and spires rising from masses of foliage, the poor young creatures hashers' imprisoned day and night, in the hottest season, where they have had nothing that they wanted except their anxious mothers. No quiet, no sufficient air, light, apace, or appropriate food—what a charge most the et& dres have been to their makers. Par the am than was animal food ; and we hoar of rum, up nearly to the time of their reknit ; and there wee plenty of rice, but no milk for the children. The Ineessent firing is enough in itself to wear oat the nerve sad brain of women snd children ; and from the hubbub there was no retreat, any more than from the crowding, and the presence of the rick, and the frequent disposal of the dead. A day of such a life is a misfortune of no small magnitude; but here there were four months of it, unrelieved, we mast remember, by the arrival of any news whatever for many weeks of the time. The most sanguine and the strongest must slant have last hope at times. Hemmed in by mutiny, with their devilish enemy before their eyes, and raining destruction epos thou without pause, and resew eerie only by fifth. bow many au hour of despair mast have been 'Bratty or dared in those crowded chambers! Of the ahem tire from rescue we seed not rusk. They mu t have known more or lea what to expect if relief were delayed too hog. The last great ausalt of their enemy might be Tie:* tratieproblE them. We must hope it tile, sqs when our heroes took upi, arms, and threw them= the *1 Igc ht among the besiegers, they that th 7 'enemy had good reason for pressing them so hard. If so, they would be on the watch, with eyes and ears quickened in proportion to their hope. We may soon know who first heard the royal salute Bred by their rescuers—whether it was mama one looking eat from the defences, or any of the crowd in the subter ranean chambers, sensible of the vibration of the ground. We may soon know how that night was passed, whether anyone slept, whether some did not sleep better than for many weeks before. And what a lookmut the next day, from the break of dawn till the shadows shortened, and then lengthened again, and the late sunshine slanted upon the domes of the city, and in among the surrounding trees. We are told that the reseuMg force appeared suddenly—from the opposite side apparently to that on which most eyes were flied. We. it the glitter of their bayonets which disclosed their approach, or their cheers, or their band? What an opening of the gates to these friends ! What a wistful looking into one another's faces, to see what had been undergone, iind to learn who was dead and who remained! What rest did Hecti.oce's force take! We know how they would be made much of by their hosts. Could anybody sleep that night either, with such news to give and take ? Next day, there was heavy work, storming the enemy's entrenchments, and cleating • space for mending and renewing the de fences, and collecting supplies of food ; for already the pliant OIITIA/1 and Havetcora must have Awe aware that they must give up the beet bat of their enterprise for the payment, tea sot hop* to rearms the British from Leek now. One secoant says there was a great dinner at the Residency, to celebrate the relieL If so it mast have been one of the moat extraordinary banquets on record. It is too like the toilette in Thermopylto the three hundred combing their kirks for death. Such • eeellict of thoeghM and emotions needed the preceding discipline. NEILL gone, and a gallant band of brothers with hint! So many de►ths at hand ! So many wounds within the walls! So many widows and orphans at the based, or unable to sit there! Such news from Delhi to be told and from every station in India to be asked for! Such a point of Natty reaehed, thanks to the guests then present ; and such a deep obscure of peril to be faced on the return ' Such a banquet as that—half-festal, half-funereal, is a conception new to the imagination, end to the last degree af lheting and stiarieg to the heart and soul. We "maid fain stop there ; but there is a sequel which it is for our officers and their families to take to heart. Instead of all starting together, as soon as the rescuing force had rested, there was a part• lag, the grief of which we are all feeling too deeply to be able to talk of. The women end children at the Residency of Lucknow are shut up &gala, and the weary straggle is renewed. instead of liberty and triumph being enjoyed. It would be veil if this were all t but what we the chances of the reduced force already lost from sight ea its return to Cawnpore 2 If it be lost, it will be on account of the helpless burden thrown on its hands at Lucknow. If the issue should be the best possible under the circumstances, the risk there, sad oar suspense here, ought to drive out of every woman'. head the insane and culpable notion of going out to India while there is &single mutineer at large. We are glad to see that the English people are showing themselves alive to the indignity which is so tamely submitted to by the English Government. The working men of Newcastle meet on Monday sent, under the presidency of the Mayor, in order to rotas' against the scandalous and insolent illegality with which their townsman, Mr. Warr, and his com rade, are still detained without trial in the prisons of Salerno. It is really impossible to exaggerate the miserable mismanagement, and the Mill more. miserable want of spirit, which have characterised all the proceedings of the English Government in this wretched affair. Our Naples correspondent informed our seeden yesterday of the precise state in which the matter now stands. Lord CLARENDON, it seems, lest off a telegraphic despatch to the Britidi Acting Vice-Consul, directing that be should demand an immediate interview with these imprisoned British subjects. The demand was made, and refused. The must of the English Government to the Neapoli tea Government, that it should be allowed, through its representative, to have seem to these two Reg lethmen, was peremptorily and eonthmelionely re jected, and—the Cabirat of Great Britain Las tamely submitted to the ieealt. There they are, at this mo ment, these two sires Zama*, fat by the heels in the abominable prison-house of this despicable and detested Bocanme—there to wait, it may be months, or it may be years, before they are even brought to trial at all. The Commissioner of the Court, our correspondent tells us, is now engaged in drawing up the report, " on which it depends whether the trial " will ever take place," or whether these victims of FZILDINAND the PALO! may sot languish out in the vilest durance the residue of their miserable lives. The health of one of the men is already impaired: his mind is seriosaly shaken. Once. and once only,a written communication has been permitted to pass between then and the great country which extends over the meanest of hat sub jects the nits of a morn than Roman protection. An English engineer sought out the British Consul and obtained from him a promise that he would, if possible, procure for him an interview with his imprisoned comrades ; the representative of Hog. lisp power and Roman citizenship vainly humbled himself in supplicating from ths PrOCUTSter. General of the tyrant this extraordinary favour, The only relaxation he could procure was that a brief written communication might _be mad* and responded to. It wu brief enough. "Do you want anything ? " was asked " Yes, " send as money." Tea piastres wee* sent in, and an acknowledgment of it came back. That all the intercourse that Warr snd his fellow sufferer have been allowed to have with their country. A silence as of the grave has closed over them again, and the chivalrous Government of this proud and great nation takes no more heed of the doom that nay be impending over them than of the fool scorn that has been heaped upon itself. It is stated by our Maple. Correspondent, on the information of eleven of the crew of the Cagliari, that these men were absolutely and entirely limo cant of any complicity in the attempt of the MTG. lutioniate. When the insurgents seized the vessel in which Wart and his comrade had engaged themselves as engineers, "they stood over them," we are told, " with loaded pistols, and threatened to blow out their brains if the machinery got oat "of order." If this be so (and all the probabi lities of the came are in favour of its truth), it would obviously be as reasonable to draw up articles of charge against the steam-engine by which the Cagliari was propelled on her way as against these me. who reluctantly worked it. They were victim. of compulsion, not criminals by choice; and yet these men with the connivance of the British Govern- THE EXPRESS, SATUE DAY *, ntlet.. pars tangnialled tr file siowass withontl VW ruder the let t and kilt of that crowaya gaoler, who itntill permitted, by*e longsuffering: of hie pp* and the eximinal toleration nfi Europe, to arro ' gds to himself the right of franipling on the one and insulting the other. It is for the English people to determine how long this shall last. We pay maw few millions a-year for the maintenance of those magnificent armaments, which assert for England the empire of the seas. Is it too much to ask of our rulers, that one of these floating castles should be detached for a moment from its pleasure cruise in the Eastern waters to fire a single gun within sound of the palace of BOMBA ? We want no more. That rotten throne is founded on a base of stubble. A single blow struck in earnest would prove its downfal. A blow, indeed, is not wanted I a menace would suffice. The same demonstration that asserted the majesty of England and the rights of British subjects, would free Europe from her foulest opprobrium, and Italy from her meanest oppressor. !CDs Court. WINDSOR, rIIIDAY. The Rigid Hos. Sir George Contewoll Lewis arrived mends afternoon on a ♦int, end b►d the honour of dieing w>t► kV Majesty. TS Ors end Prisos Consort, accompanied by the Prin . - cue Mord end Prise Frederick Willlam of Prussia. paid a visit to Clessent to-day, attended by the Duels ',Athol; Mejor-Osnral Beckley, end Captain the Us. D. de Bs, A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the oMeial residence of the First Lord of the Tres eary in Downing street. The ministers present were--Vireo rat Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Marrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. H. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Dyke of Argyll, and the Right Hoe. 111. T. Baines. Despatches were sent from the Cotonial•olllce yesierdsy to the Governors of the North American PTOViSC44 Tea Vtcroau Cao*a.—Her Majesty has graci ously signified her filtration to perionally distribute the docarstice at the Viramis Cross mantra ea races (What often and °filen' to whore IV °tar wu granted on the 2Sth of floptember and on Wedhesday last. The ceremonial will take place to-Oey at Wilda, Castle, in the presence of ell the weathers d the mat (wady mad the troop. in garrison et Windsor. U Royal High/taw the Duke of Camloldr, Lord Pesswers, and s dletingalabed circle, will also be yrwent to viruses the owe- His Excellency Count Chreptowitch is cipeetod to leer. the residence of the Russian Legation in a tow days toe St. Peterelne.g. The Earl of Leetsdale, wko has been detained in town some weeks by indirpooitton, to now mock better, red able to tote owt-dwer minion TM Earl of Aides liss joined the Countess and Lay X.. Fonder id tie Quairis Hole', Upper Nanrood. _ _ ilia Counter (Dowager) Boniera hu left town tor Ras" Is 1116 Ike awl Camelia &wawa who have whoa like" Me wee to Gresoe. Lord and Lady Broagharn have arrived in town Cron Mereahaa HaU. The mak sad loused lord has Si.,. hi Own kr Ids idols at Camas. Ihr ladyship rarahria 1.1 tows. Lady blurt de Rothesay haa left tools to visit the dud= Omar") of Hardwick., at Tittanhanger, ligarts, wbers the Coontome (Dowrzet) of Cali doh le oleo -I. Laid Huntiogfield has left the St. George's Hotel IN Hovestnewu Hal, Pktfrolk. Lord and Lady 'ford have Left the St. George's Soul for Brisiktos. The Count Reverdau has arrived at the Brunswick Estal. St. Jams's. Ths Viscount and Viscountess Villa ails hays MR the sans ostablisinissut for Nab. On the 11th of September kat Mrs. Brooke gave birth to a eca Y Saravak, h Bormo. Viaooonteas Ebrisgtort gave birth to a eon on Thursday, at Cards-MU, South Molten. Th• Right nom. B. Disraeli and Mn. Disraeli hairs ha Torquay fur Hearld-boars, on a visa to too Mar quis sad lisrehharas of Salisbury. Mr. Albert Smith re-operin the Egyptian Thll Maiday with an illustnited Arent of Vonivkm We (Prese)teastthat the report of the resignation et Sir Archdale Wilson, on account of Metre, may prove to be ernesons. Thr intelligence bas arse been received by the government, bat to only to be found In a bu rled post e:OS to the War of tae Bombay correspondent of the Tows. Now, we love macs to believe that the rot keer received fromLedy Wilson, dated Maroons, four days from Delhi, elates that she beaus that ber husband is in excellent health. Is hot, one of bee fries& writes her word from the map that " the general appears to thrive on In work." It is nada retool that the laying of the proposed settnearfna cable of the Mediterranean Extension Company . . . between Malta &ad Corfu, diotanoe of &bold 300 miles, world b. comroroood to-day. _ _ We (Leader) learn that Earl Grey is preparing foss the prep a work connected with the progress of parlia ments/I reform. Comb* from the son of the Lord Grey of 1852, It is sufficient to announce the authorship. The book Till be issued shortly, end .111 of coarse orromand attention. It Is rumoured (says the lifited Serriee Gaulle), that the Welted sinker, Authorities contemplate altering the larded system of 'Mihail *decadent for candidoes for commissisen The then letely bid doe. and inbreeded to camas bee open** an the Int of Jemmy Twat, .111 lot bs persevered id, es the degree of scholastic attainment ex ported of eamildelse for provisional commterlona appears to ham thenned them end to have prevented many from enter feg %dr ammo Sart The propene's made by private contract for the padres at the great salacity of the lota of the Thomned esteem la Clan and Cork ate Reheated to the Commis. than ea llitaday wed accepted. The total aratutt reellord by the We method 131.4001. Chief Judos Blackten De as a parelsthr to the exalt of 15,0001. The retaining por tico et the property sill he sold publicly in the warm of the csessieg mouth. Time assuing week will be a bumper for coursing tea. Darlice (840 p) i■ fined for Monday; Burton-on- Trent ma Deure Part for Toemlay , Coquettish (0) sad Think Orr Twiny and Wedninday ; Hardie? fur Wednes day; Arttromon Pt. Inger and West Word (Cumberland) Iter Thursday ; Patahall Park (0) for Thursday cod Friday ; Braley Clab, fur Thintalay, Friday, end Saturday; Auto* far Friday and Saturday; end Marbary (Babop) for Saturday. The mieetiogs of Scientific Societies during the erelog nook win b. is faTinva :—Afooday.—Boyal Afl - downy of Arts, 8 p.m.—(Riabard Partridge, Bon., en Paint hig.)—Sonth Kensington Mamas, 8 p.m.—(R. Ramon, Req., RA., au the Gift of the Sheepshanks Oaliery, in aid al inning a Collection of British Aft.)-oeogropblcol, p.ra.—(l. Progress of the British Ninth American Ea *Aug Espeditlest nada. F.R.O 8. 2. Be _ Parts ices the Expeditimt to E. Africa, wider Captain@ R. Banos, and J. H. Speke, F.R.G.S.) Totesday.—R. S. Menton. 2 p.m.— (Professor Cluhlmme an Shaluipeare's Cpeeeeelaw.)—Cisil Engineers, S Molesworth on the Cosvereion of Woad by Methireery.) Didemday.— Society of Arts, ft p.m.—(Dr. Feriae Warne cm the Food Gains of India.)—British Artatrologkel, Si p.m.—(Kr. err Coming en °old Torque sad other Kahle Remains recently !sand is Enteked. Mr. Plemelt: on s Remarkable Cheats de Ter.) norm:lat.—Royal Soctiety.—(Mr. Kirk - man ea Ur Partitions of the r Pyramid. Mr. Joule oa the layensimi of Wood by Hoot. Dr. Respell on the Optical Chandra of the Cincbcas Alkaloids, and of the Sulphates et the lodo-oompoands.) A letter from Poet- -Prince, In Haiti, of the 26th db., states that 400 Furl aaticnutts, motives of Ahem. who arrived mos weeks Whew at Bt. Domingo, WIN aole be goes* from Wow lad yellow Yes; It woo eves maid ad My of late had Mel. The Prowl/let of 04. De mises bad it Y Mid, owl theta to llataano, whoa they wadi be obis le Male hed. r ENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1857. IN'I'EL 1411•‘ THE CHINA Millar COT SVDICAILTNI ♦MD BATUMI Mon ova owx 00111311? MALTA, 7* LT. A despatch from Alexandria, dated the 16th bet., reports the arrival at Suez, on the 12th, of, the Horns. Her dates are—Shanghai, 27th Sept.; Hong Kong, 6th Oct. ; Singapore, 13th ; Penang, 13th; Gale, 23rd; Aden, 4th Nov. CHINA. No change in political affairs. Lord Elgin ar rived at Hong Kong in the Ava. There ia a de crease of 2,000,000 lbs. in the total export et tau from China. Silk is lower; settlement small. In opium there has been a great rise. Malwa has reached 740 tat* mad Patna, 870. EXCUANOES.—Hong Kong, Ss. ; Shanghat, 6s. 9d. A typhoon took place on the let of October, which proved very disastrous to the shipping at Macao. At Gallo the troop-ships Australian and United Kingdom had arrived. Missing mails ex Emen have not yet method Baez. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAIL& Off I/J[OMM TILSOLLPIL) MON OMR 01111 001/11111POWDINT4 SOUTHAMPTON, SATOZDAT. The Indus has arrived with the heavy portion of the India and China mails. Her dates are : Alexandria, Nov. 7; Malta, Nov.ll ; and Gibraltar, Nov. 16. She has brought home about 100 pas sengers. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of about 16,0001. sterling. Lieutenant Johnson, of the Bengal Native In fantry, died on board from injuries received in a fall down the lower saloon stairs. Her Majesty's ship Tartarus wu at Alexandria; the Royal Albert, Hibernia, Conqueror, Centurion, Princess Royal, Vulture, Wanderer, Vigilant, Boxer, and Harpy, were it Malta ; the Coquette was at Candice, and the Curlew was at Gibraltar. A Russian frigate and • brig of war were at Alex andria. There are many fugitives from India on board the Indus ; some who have lost their relatives, others all their property. . , One of the ladies on board escaped from near C,awnpore. Troops are departing up the country from Cal cutta at the rate of about 100 a day; but the diffi culty of getting provisions and means of transit for the passage of the troops is enormous. General Havelock is jammed in by Man Singh, who turned traitor to the English. Nana Sahib is said to be wounded near Luck now. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor OVA OWN PARIS, FRIDAY Immo. The following eemi.oEoial note in the Petrie may be considered as eetablishing,sbeyood all doubt, that the coming short session of the Corps Legislatif will be tonal merely, and that the intention of taking the opportunity to abolish the usury laws, if it were ever entertained, has bent abandoned: The Isgisletive eseeket which will astamerme ea Nov. Itt, having no other ablest then the ranked's' of powers, will not be opened by the Emperor. The deputies will meet under the preeldescy of Coast de Moray, will form their bureaus, and then proceed at once to scrutinies the elections. It is probable that the Emperor will open the legislative session In person on Jan. 16. &nerd journals summons that a Mll for the modification of the um/ law of 1107 will be submitted to the Legislative Body this yew. We believe this to be a mistake. This important measure, which the Council of State is now considering, will not be brought for ward tin War. There has been a good deal of fluctuation at the Rouse. The Reute opened well at 67fr. 100., and that prior was kept up during great part of the day, but war not ultimately suataMed. The last quotation was 661 e. 960., being a fall of 10e. For cash there was a fall of 25c., the last price being 66fr. 80c. Mobilise fell 6fr. 330. The railways lost all that they gained yesterday. They left off, without exception, lower. The long list of failures from London was the most depressing event of the day. The Atoniteur announces that a recent resolution of the Bank of France, which will afford a much needed relief to the commercial inhabitants of the suburbs of Paris, is to be brought into operation on Dec. 1. Hitherto, the Bank, acting upon an old rule, made when tho banlieue or suburb was much leas important than it is now, refused to discount any bill payable outside the walls of Paris. The conse quence was that the immense commercial population residing in the circle between the walls and the for tifications were deprived of the benefits of bank ac commodation, and it is a positive fact that many traders in these localities were put to the inconve nience of sending excellent bills for discount to the branch banks at Orleans, Rosen, &c., on account of the stringency of the rule. The distinction between intramural and extramural Paris is now abolished ' by the Bank. I hear from Aden that the sepoys sent to the gar rison there are suspected of attempting to stir up the natives to rise against the English, and that it has been found necessary to confine them to barracks. Private letters from Constantinople confirming the fact stated by telegraph that great agitation prevails in the Principalities, say that Reschid Pasha ham sett no less than twelve battalions of Turkish troops to Silistria. PIEDMONT. TURIN, Nov. 19. The final result of the second elections is known to-day. The Ministry adds 43 votes to its majority. The opposition has only obtained 13. A private letter from Delhi, dated Sept 27, says —" For a description of the riches of Delhi my pea ta it adeqsate. Cashman shawl% inlaid with gold, bodies assersd with gold hen skirts of drama, watches, bare of geld, Woof salt and down, inch as no noblemen. house in England could prodoce—vou would see Sikhs carrying out of Delhi the het day ea if they were almost nothing. A shawl which in England would fetch 1001. they weft idling for four mole, aadyon may depend our feDowe were not behind the. . . . It fa supposed the Attlee will go to England with upwards of 1,0001. each, though General Wilma Me issued an ardor that the prima shell be all put togethar sad divided. Yost of our saga are worth upwards 100 rams." Taa Porch BIIIISCRITTION TO TUE INDIA REMY Faro.—We an authorised to announce that the Kett Roc, Dr. Cd.. bee nosiwid 1,000 haws from his Ileiteess the Page, red 000 friar the Csrdisal Prefect of Ptopagunda. to be sppbed to the relief of the sulkers to India from the &pop Aroma. EXPLOSION AT MAYENCE. The powder magazine of the Federal fortress of Mayenoe, op the Rhine, blew up at 3 o'clock on the afternoon eirthe 18th instant. The magazine was situate near the °author Gate. The number of persons killed and wounded is very considerable, but no official list has yet been published. Three churches have been seriously damaged. The shock was felt at Wiesbaden, at the other side of the Rhine. A supplement to the Mayence Gazette says: "The °author powder magazine has just exploded with a terrible detonation. The upper part of the town, the Koestrich, and the Gang:rain are in rains. The church of St. Stephen has been destroyed. This terrible disaster has mused the death of many per sons, and deprived numerous families of home and shelter. The whole town is in a state of consterna tion." " Travellers," says theCo/ogna Gazette, "who have just arrived from the scene of the catastrophe state that the magazine ordained 75,000 kilogrammes of gunpowder. Not only have the windows in every part of the town been broken, but even in the surrounding villages.. Enormous blocks of stone horn the ramparts have been carried to an incredible distance. It is dangerous to walk in the streets on account of falling houses. The explosion wee distinctly heard at Bingen." The Indlpendartee Beg, has the following: " A terrible explosion has just taken place at Mayence. The damage is estimated at more than a million of florins. According to credible informa tion, two Austrian and nine Prussian soldiers and 14 civilians were killed; 74 Prussian and 94 Aus trian soldiers and 300 civilians more or lees dan gerously wounded." LAW INTELLIGENCL THIS DAY. EQUITY COURT. THE GREAT NORTHERN PRREERRNGE BEARS- HOLDERS.-JUDOMENT. (Before the Lad Chancellor end the Lords Judas.) liiiKT V. TIIII GMAT NOWIIIIIIS NALLICIIT CONPAXT. This was as appeal from VkoChatiesikt Weed. The pLintiffs were the holders of redone amounts of the kw dee:rip/an of preferecoe Mock lamed by the Great Melbas Railway, and the defendants are the company, reporting generally the intsrests of the ordinary shareholders. The object of the snit was to obtain a declaration that the *Wide and the other preference shareholders see entitled to be pad full dividends from 30th June, 1836, before ray dividends shall be paid to the calinery shareholders; and to restrain the company by injunction from declaring or paying divi dends to the ordinary shareholders without roped to suck right of the plaintiffs and other holders of preference stock. The dispute has mien iv convoquence of the frauds of Leopold Redpath, who had imposed forged stock on the shareholders to an meant sorely equal to the net revenvo of the company for the half-year ending December 31, 1836, which wee earliest& to dividend, and which amounted to 243,923 L dit Id. On the discovery of the frauds, which rendered it trapciedble to distinguish valid from spurious stock, the company were advised that they could not legally pay any dividend, died they obtained an act of parliament which made the societal* steak valid, and . . required the drones as apply the ibove-mentioned lore of net revenue and any moneys to be received by the company from Redpath's estate la paying the expenses occasioned by his (mode, in parchuing from time to time stook to the amount of thatlorgod, sad forthwith cancelling the row, end as to any rurplus which might remain to 'poly the same ea far as it would extend in payments, la coder, to the different classes of the preference share holders for the divides,* to which they would have been entitled, if the said not terrine had bar apportioned r dividend. The queen= then arose as to whether the pre ference shareholders were not entitkl to be paid their dirt dead without reference to the Melt ousted by the frauds of itedpuh, which they cadendid wee only to be ooatidersd r an ordinary lose to the company, sad one which could not interfere with their tights to be paid eat of the revenue of the company which arose ont of profits. The Vie: .Chaa oollor decided in favour of the preference eltereholders, and the present appall was brought. The ors wee argue lat great length darhig Let week, end judgment wee postponed •atil this mousing, The Lord Chancellor after stating the facts and the statutes ender which the predirenos stork of the company ere con stituted sod ea the csintrucUon of which the question in volved turned, expressed his opinion that on the proper con struction it was intended by the legislature that the preference shareholders should be paid in full, if poesible, onell occasions el the declareike of dividends ; and if Ilse preemoneach of such OCCINitaN Mt not enticient to pay those preference share holders in fell, than that they were entitled to be paid their arrears of dividend on subsequent occasions by the die idea of prate baton coy payment to the ordinary shareholders. Lakes that conanntion were put upon the act of parliament the moult world be to glee the di rectors an interest in so dealing with their right to apportion the amount applicable to dividend out et ea to give an undue preponderance in favour of tie ' ordinary shareholders in contradistinction to the undoubted sights of the preference shareholders which were a first cheep on the profit.. He had, therefore, come to the con clusion that the decision of the "ice-Chancellor was cos rect, and that if on the declaration of soy dividend the prodta wens found imqifilcient to unduly the whole:of the claims of the pre [settee shareholders, they are entitled to be paid in full on ell subsequent deelsratioos of dividends ;before the ordinary shareholders receive anything. Even if that wee not so, the right of the preference shareholders to main their dividends from June to December, 1866, wee beyond doubt. The apple' would therefore be dismiend with costs. The Lords Justices concurred, end the appeal was dis missed with theta. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Mins in Basco, before Lord Cearepbell and loather Cole ridge ma Wighiesen.) THE QUEEN .. KENNEDY AND OTHERS. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. Bfr F. Theeiges said that In the COM of the Boys! British Dank, severe rake bad bets obtained on behal f of the defewients in which he had sow to show Cl6BO. Before he did so, however, be wished to explain the macs of the absence of the Solicitor-General, that it might not Do considered that ha was neglecting his public duties in not appealing M support of the prosecution. On the office of Solicitor-General becoming vacant, the Attorney- Gianni bad, on behalf of the Crown, applied to him (ffir F. Thesiger) to conduct the prosecution, to which he bad of course welded ; end when his learned friend had been appointed Solioitor-General, be had in the most hand- name ojeaner declined to interfere in the conduct of the eat Lord Campbell—That explanation most be quite satisfac tory to all quarters. Sir F. Tliesiger said that having stated so far, he would now proceed to slow cause against the rules, which were fifteen in number, bat which probably might be con solidated for the purposes of this argument, though in some of the cases they varied, and then It would be necessary to distinguish between them. Four rules had beta obtained on behalf of the defendenti Stapylton, Kennedy, Cameron, and MiLeol, which required the prosecution to show came why they should not furnish to the defendants particular and specific statements In writing of the offences charged under each count of the information, with a further description of the overt acts charged ; and further, why in the meantime alt proceedings should not be stayed. He thought there were about as army rules wby such specific informa tion should not be furnished on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 6th, 10th, end 11th count■ of the information, while one of the rules was confined to what were celled the even counts, only, the 2nd, 4th, 6th, tub, and 10th. Ile might at owe my that if the Attorney-Gemmel meld fora moment suppose that any difficulty or embarrassment could arise to the defendants, be would have granted them the fullest Infor mation, that justice might be dune; but be felt that the de fendants were sadly asking for that which they did not maim for the purposes of their defence, and therefore he could not concede the application. It was very difficult to define the extent of particulars to which defendants bad n right in asses of this description. It wee only very recently that particulars were granted in cuss al eatepireay at all. In the caw of The Kiog v. om, 2 Barnwell and etildence, it wss heldthatageneralcountformaspiracyttegood,foremagiracy win the gilt of the theca and it naturally followed that the defendant wee entitled to some description of the par. ticular species of conspiracy to defraud; so the court said that where the charge was of such a general nature, they would compel the prow:atm. to confine himself to particular,. In the present moo, the twelfth count was the general charge, and in that Mr. Janice Crompton had very properly or. dared particulars to be given. But then the question now erase on the other counts of the information, to what extent the defendants had a right to demand partied'', on an sp. palestina of this kind. He apprehended the test would In whether the information conveyed in the 'pride mann charging acts of conspiracy, the nature of each charge n distinctly, and pointed it out so clearly, that it would be io. possible for the prosecution to proceed on a differeet conspiracy. That was all that the defendants were in law and justice entitled to. They had no right to kw, what was te be the evidence to be relied on in support-of the charge, end it was that, it appeared to him, which the de. Indents were now seeking. We matter would depend on the view which the court took of the omen in the in. formation, for not one of the defendants had ventured to make an affidavit that he wee not aware of the charge which he was called upon to meet. Hie learned friable win remained the defendants relied on The King v. Hamilton 7 Carrington and Payne, the marginal note of which was that if the counts in an indictment for conspiracy be frame, in a general form the judge will order when. lora, but the judge will not compel the prosecution to state the specific acts of conspiracy on which the defendant le charged, nor the epecidc time and placate at which than iota are alleged to have been done. Mr. Justice Coleridge—Whet do you precisely mean by the phrase, if the defendants understand the general nature of the conspiracy ? Sir F. Theeiger said that the second count wenitf be the but answer to his lordship's question. That count charged the defendants with having, for the purpose of defrauding the ehareholders, conspired falsely and fraudulently to pub. Bah alai represent that the attire of the bank, - for the year ending December, VMS, were in a sound and prosperous condition, well knowing that the bank was than insolvent. Now, that gave the defendant. the fallen Information of the nature of the conspiracy. But the defoodenta said, "Give tie particulars of the acts." With great deference, there was no normally for giving then the particulars of the acts, for the acts were the proofs of the conspiracy—the acts were the means by which the con. 'piracy was carried out; and, therefore, he thought Mr. Justice Coleridge would understand a distinction between , charge of conspiracy so vague that any species of conspiracy might be pso.c4 under that charge—and a charge of con. spiracy so ►pecifc that the nature of the conspiracy could be folly ascertained. In The King v. lieurgton, all the counts were of the lame description as the second count, in the present information, which wee a general charge ef conepleney. Lord Campbell—The *wend count in this information b the IMMO as the first, omitting:the overt acts. You contend that the overt acts we the evidence? Sir F.Theslger—Yee ; the evert acts ere the evidence. It had bees mid by Mr. Justice Buller, en The King v. Eccles (Leech'. CroneCeses, p. 274), that nothesg need be stated shout the meene, for the means were the ON:dence to prove the: dirge. Therethre The King v. Hamilton, rated on by his horned Mends, did not reach thp point In quelks. He did not think he wed seg any. thing farther on that case, move to cite as observation of Mr. Justice lAttledals, " I Wilk the ordering of particulars In caw like this le benedcial, and particulan should give the same information as *special counta." Now, In the present information, the first count would have been good without the overt sets being stated, for as Mr. Justice Buller had said, the overt acts were the means to establish the crime. Lord Campbell—The count would have been clearly good without the overt acts being stated, but what we haw to determine Is, that, suppose the first count was the only count, without the overt acts being stated, alienist we °edit particulars to be a:ven. Sir F. Thesiger said it was necessery that • party should be prepared to defend himself, by I:sowing the ma dam nature and character of the conspiracy charged. He could notdo that if the count was framed as in The Quetta v. Mikr almost every description of conspiracy could Mesta' gives in evidence on a count of that kind ; therefore, it wee right that the defendants should be given, sot the particular acts, bat the particular nature of the charge to be proved, en the other counts the native end character of the conspiracy were distinctly described, though they might be proved by a variety of acts, and no define dente were not entitled to particulars of those sets which amounted to the means of carrying; out the conspiracy. The question for their lordships was, did they see in this case a charge of conspiracy of inch a limited,plain, and defined description, that the evidence for the prosecution must be confined to thole limits—to the particular nature of the charge that the defendants intended to deceive the shareholders by fate representations with respect to the fieuriabieg stele of the bankotherem it was insolvent? Could any one doubt that these parties well knew that that woo the only charge which it would be attempted to estabilab ? Would any one of them venture to declare cis his oath that, with the present informations before him, be was entbAreessed and uneaten as to the nature sad cha racter of the charge which be was called upon to meet? U they required more information then wee conveyed by the clouts. They 'eked not (or specific Information of the charge, but for specific information of the means to Wotan. lists that charge. Mr. Justice Coleridge—You are aware of the case of The King and Cnrwood ? Sir F.Theisiger replied it was an indictment for a nuisance, not of a permanent character but a nuisance in carrying on certain works in a particular manner, so • general !edict meat for a nuisance was not sufficient to prepare the parties for their defence. He otbmitted it was • different cue rem the preemie Mr. Justice Coleridge—The counts first and wend ate the some, with the exception of the overt sets not being dated fa the second. But you intend to prove them overt acts. Lord Campbell—lf persons commit overt acts they go on and complete the conspiracy. The offence is then Aggra vated, end repentance will not purge them. The overt acts show mire than that these was a conspiracy. Sir F. Thesiger—The doing of overt acts might altar the nature of the punishment, bat he submitted it would not alter the *store of the charge. Lord Campbell—l think Mr. James stated be world be seethed if the Attorney-General, or his representative, would prove under the specific counts that only which was c harged trader the general count. Sir F. Tbeeiger—l can enure my learned friends I hue not the .141 test notion what are the overt acts to be relied on, for we may have Important evidence up to the very del of trial. Mr. Justice Wightman—You may amend. Sir F. Thesiger —lt might be too late to amend. Mr. Julie* Coleridge—No doubt the defendants are in very different position going to trial on the general ounts than on the ' , wrist counts. If the special conta wee struck out would they not be in a worn position than if the general counts were struck out ? In all the counts bet the first certain means are stated, and the presumption is, that is what the prosecution means to prow. Sir F. Thesiger—What I contend, my lords, is, that cis the defendant. once know the precise nature of the charge they are called upon to meet, they are not entitled to haw more than that. Lord Campbell—These are overt acts under the conspirer?, but not to prove it. Sir F. Theater—But they do prove it. Lord Campbell—What the defendants have done I evi• dense of what they meant to do. Sir F. Threiger--Cemoert end combination cannot general be established except by overt acts ; so in this ems the conspiracy is the thing to be proved, and we can only do that by means of the overt acts. If they require proofs of the overt acts, de they not require eridence of the conspi racy t It must ultimately depend on the judgment of the court whether you see distinctly that the defendants have not such information as will prepare them to meet the =ergo. It would be very different if they stated on their oaths that they were not prepared to meet the charge. Mr. Justice Wightraan—tinder your first count you may give any act in evidence. Then what do you mean by you second count, which is the same without the overt arts P Mr. Justice Coleridge—it appears to me that the defer dints are in a worse position when there are special .4 general counts than if there were general counts, for they may say there may be something different in the sem& count which we do not know. Lord Campbell—ln point of law you gain no advantage by the second count, for there is no evidence which you ma adduce on that mutat which you might not adduce en the first. Sir F. Theeiger —Then the question is doss the oourt think that =certainty In produced. I