The Express. — London, England, 1857-11-24 00:00:00

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It ohi 0. lin Plumitibm —TARE OA 0 0 , -00:1060.A—Aad Till MN OOTTAVIL—Ommisse Y 7. ria .. PM &aim • CMS OW 00319011XC1.-••••• Tall =l nst. iss. 0. P.. Gr= whoa,. ":12.-.••wrik."LaKaNty w ra:Flia MON WATER AT LONDON UNDO& Tinsas. 1► ie. twasarni—l§agska lb. Us. Alan*" N. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21. Toll' remarkable year I likely to end in taxing oar courage and our patriotism more and more. Such remarkable years, when one calamity has succeeded another, month after month, are painful or satis factory to look back upon, according to the temper in which they are sustained. There is no doubt whatever about the noble emotions with which the next generation will revert to the year of the great Indian Mutiny, when everybody was brave and dutiful, and the heroism mani fested on the scene of suffering was responded to by the high tone of sympathy and devotedness at home. It ought to be the same in regard to the newer =Wordier', by which • multitude of the working class are rendered dependent for sub sidence, probably for the whole winter, on their neighbours or society at large. We have not lost the impreadon, after an interval of fifteen years, of the virtues manifested in the period of distress ending in 1842, when the heroic patience of the operatives of the kingdom, and the munificent liberality of the manufacturers, convinced everybody that great progress had really been made in the enlightenment of the working else*, and in the establishment of a right understanding between them and their employers. If a few such events as the l'reston strike have since somewhat shaken the general contidence in regard to the progress made, we trust that the conduct of all parties under the difficulties of the coming winter will renew the hest satisfactions of fifteen years ago, at mach less cost of suffering all round. We have already expressed our conviction of the vast good that may be done, in an exceptional period of distress like the present, by liberal private assist ance, judiciously rendered to the most prudent order of sufferers, preserving their self-respect, and obviating predate upon the Rates. Those who bare savings may be helped to eke them out by aid which is not charity ; and again, when the savings are ex hausted, the necessary aid may be afforded at much less expense than is commonly supposed, if food end warmth only are wanted. Where shelter, bedding, and clothing are all respectable, the mere food (which includes warmth to a great extent) can be provided at small cost. In 1842, there were employers in Lancashire who, when really unable to run their mills any longer at a lees, had private consultations with their beet men, and found that by very small advances for the family food, stores and hundreds of families could be, and were, kept off the Rates, and preserved from letting their furniture and clothes go for • mere trifle. At the present time, we understand, some of the Lancashire manufacturers are supplying a certain amount of food to the men who were lately relying on them for employment throughout the winter. The incident is hopeful in two ways—as indicating an expectation that work will be resumed ere long, and as exhibiting a right understanding between the two parties. It should be borne in mind, in connexion with the subject of private aid given to the best order of sufferers, that the employers in the manu facturing districts are among the chief loners from the existing financial pressure. Their markets are closed for the time; their stock is depreciated in value; they have to pay high for monetary accom modation ; and they have been, ss a class, losers by the failures abroad and at home. If the labouring classes are the chief sufferers, their employer; come next ; and such aid as will save a pressure on the workhouaes ought to come mainly from those who differ least. Country gentlemen, fundholders, and annuitants of all sorts—the classes least affected by commercial reverses—arc those who should charge themselves with the sort of assistance we are point ing out. When times become sufficiently bad, good people find that the more they give, the more they can give, and like to give. When their methods of spending and saving arc fairly broken in upon, they are themselves surprised to discover how easy it is to suspend their investments for a year, and give op some indulgence, so as to carry a few neighbours through the season of stress. Now is the time for such to act ; and they will do it liberally if they will but regard their outlay as their share of the financial sacrifices of 1837. As for the unthrifty and destitute among the wovkpeople, they must be fed, of course ; bat more general and lees delicate methods must be seed with them; and the consideration must be simply how to give the greatest amount of wholesome food and ether nereesaries to the greatest number, outside the workhouse. In 1842, and at times of popular hunger since, it was proved that the cheapest diet, of a nutritious and palatable quality, which can be sup plied to large numbers, is a certain mixture of rice or Indian meal, with condiment,. Individuals have supplied that food, a plentiful meal, hot and well-rel i shed, to some hundreds daily, at the cost of one penny a he,cl (the materials and fuel, without the cook's salary, the labour being the servants' share of the charity). This is a hint which hundreds of kindhearted middle-class people may avail them selves of. Anybody who desires to learn can die. cover from prison reports and officials, from Surre's books, ani from all who were concerned in feeding the operatives in 1842 and the Irish in 1847 and 1848, what kinds of food are the best for their money, and bow they may be cooked with the greatest relish for the cost. Now is the time, too, fur putting into action the schemes we hear of in many directions fur training girls to cookery in the kitchens of cheap ordinaries, to be opened for the con reoience of workmen and trorkwassen whose THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER . .24. 1857. employments lie at a distance from home. Ameri can workmen, while complaining of the general coat of living in comparison with the European modes, admit the convenience of their own ►oarding-houses; and if immigrants object to them, it is on the awful of bad cookery. It is perpetually talked about id London and our chief provincial towns, the benefit that a cheap table at hand would be to industrial people ; and of late it has been proposed to use such an opportunity foe instructing poor girls in the cookery of their class, as it ought to be. Let any who are planning such a thing set about it at once. It is, in great pert, ladies' work : let it be their contribution to the alleviation of the time. The Irish in America arc beginning at once with a fierce demand that the State Governments under which they are living shall institute public works as grand as the Emperor of the FRENCH has been prose eating at Paris—the workmen being paid at the American rate. The demand purports to be that of the working clam in particular towns and States ; but the ignorance of republican powers, resources, and modes, shown on the very face of it, arms to confirm the assertion that the immigrants are the real petitioners. There is some fear that large numbers of them will be compelled to return to Europe by such means as the Know-Nothing party has at command ; but it seems likely, on the other hand, that public works will be set on foot—not in rivalry with any despotic Sovereign, but simply by way of anticipation of improvement, sure to be made sooner or later. Something of the kind is already begun, we perceive, in our own manu facturing districts ; and we shall be glad to hear of more. This is too long a chapter to enter upon now ; but we may urge our municipal authori ties and the citizens generally to consider how much better it is that the thousands of able-bodied men who must live, one way or another, should earn their living by improving their neighbourhoods than by consuming the hates on workhouse terms. There is probably no neighbourhood where some improvements might not be mask, csithout at all in terfering with the local labour market ; and whether such works pay or not, in tee form of replacing the capital invested in them, they cannot but be a great gain if they absorb the labour adrift in the region. keep respectable families out of the workhouse, and preserve Society from bread riots, or a hopelessness which is worse even than such folly. As there is no evidence of any surplus of labour in the country, in a general way, we are not prepared with any large scheme of emigration, to be carried out for imme diate relief. In a few months there will be need of every " worky " we have who ia worthy of his order. The thing to be done is to get them through the winter with tho least pressure upon their minds, and the resources of the country. Let every one do what he can ; and there may yet be more pleasure than pain in looking back on the last anxious weeks of this remarkable year. Tne unanimous judgment delivered by the Loan CHANCILLOR and the Loft lei JUSTICYJ in the highest Equity Court of the realm in favour of the claims of the Great Northern Preference Shareholders, rests on principles so plain and irrefragable that the only matter of utouishment is, how a ems so dear could ever have been so obstinately contested. Nothing but the magnitude of the sum at stake, and the fact that one of the litigants was • wealthy Company, ready to give cane blanche to its Directors for any extent of law coats, can explain such a result. The proceedings were of course ex ceedingly voluminous, but the real question in dispute was very short, and anything but ab struse. We need hardly remind our readers that the whole litigation arose out of Leorotii REDPATAr. frauds. The Directors alleged, as the fact pro bably was, that it had become impossible to dietin guish the valid stock from the spurious. They, therefore, proposed, and the Company agreed, that application should be made to Parliament for per mission give validity to the spurious stock, to de clare dividends on it, ■nd to purchase an equal amount of stock with fresh capital. A Bill to this effect was accordingly submitted to Lord Reims- MLE, who derisively rejected the proposal for raising fresh capital, and insisted that the lomshould be paid out of revenue within a limited time. The revenue available for dividend for the half-year ending 31st December, 1856, was upwards of 243,0001. ; and a Bill was prepared, and ultimately carried through Parliament, the first section of which made the fraudulent stock valid ; the second authorised the Directors to apply the 213,0001. dividend of December, 1856, to the purchase and cancelling of that stock ; and the third provided that if any balance of the said dividend remained after such purchase, it should be applied, se far as it would extend, to paying the different classes of Pre ference Shareholders the dividends to which they would have been entitled had no loss ooriwred. Such was in substance the form of the Act as ultimately passed through Parliament. An attempt had been made, and successfully made, in the House of Lords, to add to the third section a proviso, to the effect that such appropriation of the 243,0001. as was directed in that section should be considered equivalent to a due division of it among all classes of shareholders. This amendment, how_ ever, was rejected by the Commons, on the express ground that the addition of the proviso " would de " ride a question of law in dispute between the Or dinary and Preference shareholders of the Great Northern Railway Company which ought to be " left to the decision of a Court of law." The Act accordingly was passed without the additional clause, and it was left to the Courts to decide what, under the circumstances, were the rights of the Pre ference shareholders as against the Ordinary share holders of the Company. Irrespective of the Act of 1857, the nature of their rights seemed hardly to admit of dispute. The various closers of preference shares in the Oreat Northern Company were created under several Acts of Parliament, which with slight modifications in detail, all agreed in this essential point, that they declared the holders of such shares entitled to the payment of dividends " in preference to the psyment of dividends on the ordinary shares " of tho Company." An attempt was indeed made to distinguish " Preference shareholders" from " Guaranteed shareholders" in respect to their priority of right over ordinary shareholders. This attempt wholly failed, and the two classes of " Preference" and " Guaranteed" shareholders were taken as standing, in this respect, on pre eisely the same footing. The real question was as to the operation of the third clause of the Act of 1837—the clause providing that if soy mirplas remained out of the dividend of 31st, December, 1866, after making good the limes arising out of Retie vrn's frauds, it shined be ap plied in paying dividends to the Preference Share holders as far as it would go. On be half of the Ordinary Shareholders, it was contended that such payment was a parlia mentary satisfaction of the dividend, as far as the Preference Shareholders were concerned ; in other words, they contended that the third section, ' without the words added in the Lords' amendment, should have the same construction as though those words had been inserted, and this although the House of Commons had refused to insert them, on the express ground that they did not wish to decide ane way or other the, question of legal or equitable sight. On the other hand, it was argued that the Act clearly contemplated no interference with the rights of the Preference Share holders beyond the mere postponement of their diridesda: those shareholders, it was urged, had an abeolate right to be paid dividends, after cer tain specified rates, out of the profits of the Com pany whenever they arose, in preference to the payment of any dividend to the ordinary share holders; and that the re was no limitation to their right to receive the full smonnt of dividend when ever there were assets applicable to that payment. To the clear and indeed irresistible arguments by which those latter views were enforced Vice- Chancellor PAGE WOOD yielded the full assent of his powerful judgment: he declared that the third section of the Act of 1857, so far from being in substitution of the preference dividends, afforded cumulatively an additional security for them; and decreed that the holders of preference stock were entitled to be paid dividends ont of the profits realised by the Company from the 30th of June, 1836, downwards, before any pay ment of dividends to the original shareholders. In this judgment the Loan CHANCELLOR and the LORDS JUSTIMS have unanimously concurred, and the result is that the Preference Shareholders will be entitled to receive ont of the 200,0001. profits declared on the 30th June last all the arrears of dividend now due to therm the arrears, thaw, for the half-year ending 31st December, 1836, and for the half-year ending 30th June, 1857 ; and these arrears must be paid them before a farthing can be appropriated to the ordinary shareholders. In the perfect equity of this judgment all those who, free from partisan bias, have followed even this brief statement of its leading points, must cordially con cur. The difficulty, indeed, is to see how the oppo site view could be gravely maintained with any well-grounded expectation of success. It is to be hoped that this unanimous decision will make a final end of this discreditable litigation. Nothing can be gained by carrying the case into the House of Lords,exccpt a further suspension of dividends, a fresh display of litigiousness, and an enormous aggravation of costs. THE POST-OFFICE AND THE AUSTRALIAN MAIU3. We learn that a new system of " working of the mails is about to be commenced by the Post.office authorities. A staff of officials will leave Southamp ton by the Australian packet for Alexandria, to open the mails and divide the letters in their transit to this country. For this purpose the officiabi will have a separate cabin to themselves, and will take the entire charge of the mails, instead of the Admi ralty agents. This mode of preparing the mails, which has been carried on for some time by the French Government in their Mediterranean poetsl steamers, will greatly expedite the delivery of the correspondence contained in the Australian mails. If the plan succeeds, we earnestly recommend that some similar arrangement should be adopted with the other packet mails, especially those from India, which contain such important correspondence. Additional expenditure should nut be an obstacle. We frequently have to wait from two to three hours after the arrival of these mails at the Post-office, before we receive our letters and newspapers, and any saving of time would be hailed with great satis faction by ourselves and the public. EXPRESS k' KUM rAlf.lb. DT lIIIMARINII AND semen TILIGIAT/L (raOM °on onn COIMIBTONDIIIT.) PARIS, TUMID tr. M. Dupin, wn., formerly President of the National Assembly, has been appointed I'rocureur Imperial in the Court of Caseation. (nom ouz oa•I cnuaurommrr.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Emperor, on his return to the capital, has loot no time before proceeding to buiieets. He presided at a council of ministers held at the Tuileries at eleven this morning. The liberal church party was thrown into a state of consternation a little while ago by the news that Cardinal Morlot, the Archbishop of Paris, and also the Grand Almoner of thu Crown, had ap pointed to the influential post of Grand Vicar of the Almonry a rank Jesuit and Ultramontanist—the Abbi Hiron. It appears that Cardinal Morlot, although passing fur a Gallium himself, has a nerv ous apprehension of being thought to f►vour any particular party in the church, and, in his desire to use his patronage with impartiality, is but too likely to play into the hands of the Jesuits. It is now stated, however, that M. Houland has made such a strong representation to his Eminence about the pe culiar significance of the appointment of the Abbfi Wren that thecardinalhss agreed to rescind it. Ij this be so, the Minister of Public Instructimi will have done the state good service, and the reasons which induced tho Emperor to keep him in his present office, instead of transferring him to the ministry of justice will command genial assent. The Archbishop, in pur suance probably of his see-saw system, has inde finitely poatpooed an annual fete of the schools of St. Genevieve, which was founded by his immediate predecessor (M. Sibour) for the express purpose of cultivating an alliance between reason and faith. It is not thought that thisfrte will be revived at all, and the reason given is that M. Morlot is advised that it is of too rationalistic a character. It is announced that a Pope's bull, authorising modifications in the Liturgy, has just been received in Paris, and will be promulgated immediately. I presume that this bull relates to a subject about which, strange to say, there has been much difficulty and long negotiation, namely, the simple substitution of the word " Emperor" for the word " King" in the French prayer books. M. Jules Goudoo, a well known writer, who some time since left the Unipers on the occasion of a grand split among the conductors of that journal, is about to start a now religious newspaper, to be called the Uri trei•sel. The Bourse was dull; quotations were steady at the opening, but afterwards receded on the arrival of English Consols, with a fall of 4, to 89 1 . The account from the Bank of Franco is favourable ; its bullion stood this morning at 1924 million., beingan increase of 3 millions since Fciday last. Two important failures at Hamburg were spoken of. The Rente closed at 66fr. 75c. for cash, and 136 fr. 85c. for account, with a fall of 15fr. and 10e. Mobilier fell Mr. Railways were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. lower. It is reported that the Bank has this day made the advance agreed upon of fifty millions to the rail ways. _ . _ In the Paris corn market, during the past week, the advance which had set in after the publication of the decrees removing the prohibition to export corn has not continued. The general want of money has produced its natural effect on the holders of flour, and offers have been frequent. The four marks were nominally at 62fr. 60c. the sack, but it was impossible to business at that price. Wheat was offered just as much as floor, the best quality bring ing from 29fr. to 30fr. the hectolitre and a half, and ordinary qualdies from 271 r. to 29fr. The depart mental markets came with a rise at the beginning of the week, but lower prices were quoted on Satur day. At Marseilles prices are firm, with a consi derable business doing. THE MONETARY CRISIS AT HAMBURG. (ST DLOCTLIC LTD INTZINATIONAL IIU.11ORAP11.) (ruin ova owls co/uncommon.) HAMBURG, TCUDAT. A new institution, intended to relieve commercial distress, was announced here to-day, called the Dis count Guarantee Society, with ten million marks bunco capital. The whole amount was subscribed in tour hours. (TROM OUR OWN CORRTffiTONDINT.) HAMBURG. Nov. 21 Considerable alarm, almost approaching to a panic, was produced yesterday on Change by the report of a highly respectable Swedish house being in difficulties and unable to meet their engagements. The report proved unfortunately but too well founded, the amount of their acceptances being variously stated at six and ten millions of marks bane*, a large portion of which have been dis counted by, and are in the hands of our two new banks—the North German Bank and the Vereins- Bank. A notice signed by these two establishments was posted in the Exchange-rooms to the effect that ' they had mutually agreed not to take extreme measures during this unparalleled financial crisis, but rather to &said commercial houses in temporary difficulties, which announcement had a very favour able effect, and tended to allay the prevailing excitement. In thu meantime the telegraph was not idle, and at • meeting held iu the afternoon it was announced that pecuniary assistance to a large amount had been afforded to the house in question— amongst others by the house of Solomon Heine to the amount of a million marks bane°, the Bank of Sweden for a similar sum, and another of equal amount by the agent of and for account of the Crown Prince Regent of Sweden. In conee quemoe of this timely assistance, the creditors agreed not to press their claims, and a satisfactory arrange ment was concluded late last night. The business carried:on by the firm in question with the North of Europe is of such immense magnitude, that it is stated on good authority that had they been obliged to suspend payment at lead one-half of the mercan tile houses in Sweden must have been swept into the vortex, which would have proved a national cala mity, and produced a reaction involving thousands and thousands of smaller merchants and tradesmen in ruin. The banking-houses of Solomon Heine, of this city, and C. IL Donner, of Altera, who are creditors on the estate of Naylor, Vickers, and Co., of Sheffield, to the tune of 150,000 marks banes each, having ascertained that two of the partners held shares in the Smith ship Levanter, lately arrived at this port from South America, applied to the President of the Tribunal of Commerce for legal permission to lay embargo on the above-mentioned vessel, which was granted, and she is now secured by chain and pad lock for future adjudication. This is the first in stance of embargo being laid on a vessel in this port for a claim not immediately involving the ship itself. In spite of the serious financial crisis money can- not be said to be scarce here, and the rate of dibcouut, which last week had reached the maximum point of 10 par cent., has now receded to 9 per cent. A Naples letter, in the Ewer° of Turin, says ... " It is believed the trial of the prisoners of lispri will mot bake plsoe until January. The government wishes it to be conducted with the utmost solemnity. The police sey that one of the chief charges Against the two British engineers now in prison is their him iog been found in possession of a Letter from Min White." SW EDF,N. BERLIN, Nov. 23. Broaufout, Nov. 22.—The Bourse yesterday founded a new association, to be called the Society of Credit. The object of the society is to assist members by loans, and mutually to sustain public credit. The subscription amounts to four millions. A board of twelve directors has been elected, with very extensive powers. This board is composed of the most notable personages at the Bourse. Irbt Court. WINDSOR, MONDAY. The Queen rode in the Riding I louse this morning. The Prince Consort, with the Prince,• Royal end Prince Frederick William of Prossie, rode out on horesbeck. Princess Alice &leo rode in the Riding Renee. niece Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Cowell, R.E., left Windsor in the forenoon for Alverbank. The Duke of Cambridge took leave of her Majesty sad re turned to L.•ndon, attended by Colonel Tyrnbitt. _ _ The Prusetan Minister and Countess Bernatord also took their departure. Earl Spencer bad an audience of her Majesty, and resigned the otliee of Lord Stained. The Earl of St. Germane Enid hands, and received his wend of °Moo on being appointed Lord Steward of the Household. Rio loedship remains on a Tint. The Judge Advocate-General had an audience, and 6W6- seined the proosedlop of some oourta•martial. The Duchess of Kent, accompenied by the Prince nt Loningen, and attended by Imdy Augusta Bruce and Sir George Cooper, arrived at Clarence House, St. lames's, yes terday morning, from Frogroore. The Duchess of Kent TY turned to Snymore in the afternoon, sod the Priem. of Loudness left town for Portsmouth. INDIAN MITINT Rtury Ft:MD.—The following fa ea extract from a letter recently remised from the Trea surer of the Calcutta Relief Fund Oct. t, 1&57.-1 sin Bled to see the Relief Fund so heartily gone into at home, Our collet:tints% have amounted to 231,000 re., including, however, 60,000 from Madras and 20,000 from Ceylon. We have spent 75,000, and are going on at the rate of 10,000 per wok.•• His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Counter de Pereigny e•oote to town from St. Leonardo-m -esa to-day for the winter. The Marquis of Lanadovnie loft TAnadowne Howe yesterday for Brighton. We me glad to loath that the mar quis la much better in health than Its boa toga for some time past. The Marquis and Niarehioness of Alias have re turned to town for the, winter. The noble lord has taken • nrarion in Portame-squere. The Earl of Liatuwel is expected in town in a few days from Mellon blowbrey. The countess end family are pawing the moon at Conmunere. seer Mallow, Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Erroll have been enter taisias a chetiztguwhed party at 6laince Castle, Aberdeen shire. The Earl of Lincoln leaves town to-day for (lum ber Park, Nods. The Earl and Countess of Beverley have returned to town tram a tour of vititt. The Countess Condo. in and family have left the Bruasyrkk Hotel, for the Continent. Viscount and Vimunotess Emlyn have arrived at Goldin Oro,, the tangly neat In Wales, from Cawdor Cagle, Nansidre. Viaoount and Viscountess Campden have left Cla ridge's Hotel, for Campden line , Gloucestenbire. Lord and Lady Colchester are expected in town the latter end of the week, from Brighton. Col. the Hon. Arthur Egerton will leave Bridge water Howe, the latter rod of the week, for Rome. Sir Michael and Lady Bruce have arrived at Cla ridge. Hotel. The Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Weblone, who haire been staying soma weeks with Sir Sissees °inlets Bert., and a family circle, at ll►wanlen Castle, Pintail*, ere expected to ernes ►t their eminence on Carlton lionae-terrace, on Monday nest. The Grand Doehess Constantine of Russia is alertly expected sl fieniner, when she will stop for some time with the gems, her sister, and then proceed to Home, whanM physidaas have et:contemned her to per the winter, for the re.Mabliskoncnt of her been. A melancholy event occurred at Fontainebleaa on esturdsy ; the Marquis de Oise went to dine at the Constar de Ponginand'n and alter entering the drowiog•mone and exchanging a fele words with the lady, ho sank on the Sow. Oa being raised into a chair bo was found to be dead, having has attacked with apopleey. Aooordiug to the Emancipation of Brussels, Colonel Chinese, who had been expelled from Belgium by the preceding liberal miniAry, lately returned into the country with sows other French refugees, bat has been again mitred to quit the territory. TILE EXPLOSION AT MAYENCE. The following details are derived from the Cologne Gazelle The number of hones which have been completely destroyed by this terrible disaster amounts, it is now ascertained, to 57 ; but there is nut a house in the town which has not, more or less buffered. Up to Friday last, there were 28 corpses found, 11 being those of Prussian soldiers. The number of Prussian soldiers wounded amounts to between MO &Ili 90, and for many of these there is no hope of recovery. The number of Austrian sol diers killed and wounded has not been ascertained. The wounded amongst the civil population amount to several hundreds. After eight home' labour, a woman who was seated on a chair beneath a heap of beams and rubbish, was rescued from a death that seemed inevitable. An inhabitant of Mayence, who had been at Darmstadt when the disaster took place, returned at once on hearing of the explosion, and found all his family dead on his arrival. A military banquet, which was to have taken place close to the powder magazine when the explosion occurred was fortu nately postponed in consequence of the state of the weather. Were it not for this two hun dred Austrian officers would, in all probability, have been sacrificed. The loss has been estimated at a million of florins, and it is said that the municipality will make an application to the Diet for an indemnity. Within fifty yards from the magazine was a sub terranean chamber containing GOO loaded Owns. The door of this chamber was burst by the explo sion, but happily the bombs did not ignite. Had they done so, the whole town would have been in flames. THE TWO BICILIES. (PROM OUR owl; mazzeroirsurr.) NAPLES, Nov. 17. The official journal furnishes us every now and then with details of the religions " dodges " in Naples. With all due reverence for religion I can Had no other term for the exhibitions which one witnesses at times in this country; and one of the most remarkable and most recent is that in which the holy thorn of the crown of our Saviour, pre served in Policutzo, was observed to incline to the left; and for greater consolation to display its blood red colour, and to be covered from the base to the summit with foaming blood. Unanimous, says the Archbishop, was the wonder. A sacred horror takes possession of some ; others fall astonished before the spectacle of this prodigy. The multitude attest the miracle ; but eight sworn witnesses have deeded to the imperishable truth of the fact. It hap pened under the following circumstances : " Heavy rains had fallen, threatening most injurious conse quences, and a second miracle follows the first. The whole population of Policastro demand that the relic should be carried through the city. The regular clergy, therefore, in a penitential dress, and the galantuomini with rope& round their necks and crowns of thorns on their heads, walk in procession to the sanctuary, about two miles distant, through a pouring rain. On arriving at the gate the rain ceases, the air becomes serene. . . I invited all to penitence (lashing with the rope), showing them the example. . . In token of grati tude a magnificent rnitensuristm is being made for the more decent repose of the relic. For this purpose I have sent to the capital a priest to watch over the completion of the work. Two silver lamps, also, at my xpense, are in the course of construction, to be placed before the ostensorium, with the Sardis signs spinst." Such is a portion only of the report of the uchbiahop of the diocese, as published in the official journal of the Two Sicilies ; and the object and the direct influence of that church to which the education of the public mind is com mitted is but too evident. A remarkable comment on this miracle and all the circumstances connected with it is a portion of a sermon preached last week in the church of Cesii Vecchio. A solemn mass had been performed to the Holy Spirit, and the rev. professor of dogmatic theology thus holds forth :—" True wisdom is the daughter of revelation, and the safest and most useful doctrines are these which are taught under the auspices of Catholicism, the limpid fountain of truth and of beneficence. The institutions which are protected incessantly by the wisdom and piety of our august monarch are always conducive to the increasing well being and glory of this most flourishin kingdom." So rev. professors preach, and ro the o ffi c ial Journal reports, but where shall we find in the intel ligence, the prosperity, or the happiness of this unfortunate country, the proofs of such wisdom or beneficence ? PORTUGAL. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT. The Tagus, Captain Christian, Admiralty agent Lieutenant Grerille, R.N., has arrived with the Peninsular mails. She left Lisbon on the 19th inst., and has brought nineteen passengers. Amongst her cargo are specie and bullion to the value of nearly 9,0001. sterling. Her Majesty's ship Curlew was at Gibraltar. The steamer Aurora was at Oporto. The Tagus spoke the steamer Volga on the 22nd. 'lhe mail packet Alhambra was at Vigo. Yellow fever was still ravaging Lisbon; about 80 a day die of it. The Cardinal Patriarch has died of the fever ; he is at present buried in the fever cemetery, but he will be ultimately buried in the royal vaults. It is supposed that he will bo succeeded by the Bishop of Oporto. The opera and public amusements were suspended for three days on account of the death of the Cardinal Patriarch. One of the greatest capitalists of Lisbon, Senhor Igressa, is dead. The Lisbon Bank is about to raise the rate of dis count, which has hitherto been at five per cent. The Bank has acted most liberally to the commercial community, and has alleviated the monetary pressure. In foreign exchanges at Lisbon the transactions have been limited. Exchange on London 54, at 30 days ; and MI at 90 days date. The stock market continues stagnant. At Cadiz the inhabitants were in hourly expecta tion of news of the Queen of Spain's accouchement. At Gibraltar the exchange on London was 50l for 90 days. Letters from Constantinople of November 14 state that Omer Paehahad left the day before for Bagdad, of which place he is appointed governor. A German pamphlet published at Bremen, en titled "Scandium - 43i= tad the Schleswig-Holstein Quee ns.," has been seized by order of the Danish government. A subscription has been opened in Paris in favour of the sufferers by the dreadful fever which has boos for some time past desolating Lisbon. The Memorial of St. Etienne says that the ma anfoctuomi of !bat place have just completed the order given by the British governmentfor the manufacture of 20,000 gone end 20,000 bayonets. The guns, says the Memorial, are beautifully latched, and the total coat emounts to 49,0001. The value of the row material of thew ann. is not more than two-tenths of the whole cost, so 1,000,000 fr. (40,0001„) remains to the profit of our workmen end our city, LONDON, BIRMINOILAN, AND BUNN RAILWAY.— Two call* are proposed to be made in this cesm, under the winding up in Chancery, nee of Ili% on each of the ratiteibu toner for debts, and another of 1871. each for the discharge of other debts end costa. LAW INThLLiIikINOk. Tins DAY. COURT OF QUERN'S BMW (Sittings In Banco, before Lord Csinpb. , ll and Jaaticca Coy. ridge, Wightnien, and Erle.) TUE QUEEN C THE DIRECTORS OF THE POUR In - m PANCRAS. The Sullcitor-General moved for a role calling twi t t h e directors of the poor of St. lon ro. to show came why an s . i damns should nut issue commanding them, pursuant to . 4 order of the Pour-law Board, to appiint an auditor, a t . i . the 4th and sth Was. IV. cap. Ai, sec. 46. On the IHh of May, 1837, the Pore-law Board required lion t s appoint a person to audit the accounts of the pow.t. t they declined to do so on the ground that they had no Ne u to make such an appointment. The Court granted the rule. THE QUEEN v. HEIdr.—ALLEGED CHVELTT TO A Wirt In this case Mrs. Kemp had exhibited ertiles of tke pgp t against her huab.md, in ironmonger at Woodbridge, Sao& fur cruelty. Mr. Kemp was now brought up in cuso4p h Hursemungcr-lane Gaol, where he had been conlim.l y et his arrest. . — Mr. Power moved that the prieenor be required to 0, seenrity to keep the peens towards hie wite. Lord Campbell-11as he anything to say? Mr. Kemp—Yes, my lord. The defelidant - lheui red a written etetemeut, is eke, be said the charges made against him were tote'. untrue, except in setae miner particulars. Ile 04 committed any one of the alleged acts of violet% et ill-treated his unfoctunate wile in any way. lie stns had such a thought. lie could readily prose that he he borne the greatest indignity from her, patiently, and with" retaliatioa, well kuewing that at certain time. she e e not accountable fur her action. At her t ee earnest request, be had tines without mad e forgiien her for past conduct. The manse charge she bg made against him she bed often brought against uther ties without any foundation whatever. She had veered e e person of attempting to smother her, and said he had ten employed for the purpose. He had often solemnly rural with her and endeavoured to eradicate such absurd tat* and when he failed he tried to accomplish the arm object by jumlarity. He told her that if she did m give up the,ee foolish notions she would drive hire ema.y. said if the was not comfortable she could have another le, and abe acted on the suggestion, and for a considerable on she did nut sleep with hue. When she applied to the map trades he had nut exchangud one angry word with bet se had the slightest idea shot she was uncomfortable she went about her domestic dative cheerfully 1e stead of the dismiteal of the eve being tLe r act of Mr. Doughty, is she alleged, it wee tb joint act of several magistrate, samembled at quarter sem* who found that the charge of cruelty wss totally wide' foundation. The defendant then showed that he was me such good circumstances ?s his wife had led the court. to hove. to February last he was compelled to execute a Lod" . of assignment, and in consequence of certain creditors NI coming in under it was compelled to go through the me, and the means were now greatly reduced. The ramjet:tog well knowing his position, suggested that be should ollowli s wife 2a. tid. a week, and he agreed to do so, offering to re more when he got employment. He was to peoession dr medical certificate, elating that at tizues she wee sexeuntlitlo for hvr actions. Ho certainly did ti the manage ring from her linger, but without aq violence, telling her at the saute thee that di had so cliwgraced him that he mod& red the me riage tie dissolved, end that ho would break the rig to pieces He had, however, not done so, and otos ready, return it. The present rouse, ha arid, had tern Wove from a fear that an inquiry would be made into the atone hie wife's mind. He also Seedy believed that her solicitor wen) actuated by • personal vindiotivo feeling Imola him, and readily commenced thew proceedings, beans they knew her Lather could pay any coats. Several oils solicitors had been applied to hut would not undertake tit car. Within the Lon week he had obtained a temporary er gegen:wet in London, and on Friday list offeredto allow Stn Kemp 101. per annum, payable monthly, and to let her tar away every thhig from him residence bekrogiog to bre He had a teetizonaial signed by all the priecipi ink...besets of Woodbridge, not one of whom would halt attached his name to it, if he believed there wan ary truth it these charges. On these grounds he prayed their lordship to diernies him from cuotody. Lord Campbell—lf the learned connect wishes the law • be entorced, we have only one coined to pursue, but probe, bly ormearrangorient may be made between the hurtend and wife. Mr. rower said the gentlemen who instructed hire nova very respectable solicitors in Buti'alk, and he had no mice to suppuee there wart any truth in the allegations which Mr. Kemp made against them. Mr. Justine Erle—lt appears that Mrs. Kemp's chum were heard by magistrates at petty sessions, who are lamas with local knowledge. Mr. Justice Coleridge—And she 'represented to on 'hit the refusal of her applicatras was the single act of Doughty. Lnrt Campbell—There is a great air of sincerity and coo. liability about the defendant's statement. Mr. lower —I have n hitter in the defendant's own blue; writing, stating that he took sway his wife's wedding-ring. Mr. Justice Wight ISIIII-But he explains the circumstance under which he did so. . . . . rird6ampbell—NVe have no power to inquire into tY truth or faleehood of the articles. If they are sworn to le true, we must call upon the party to keep the man, to we can my what ike recogateances shall be. \%s CO say that he shall enter into hie own recognisances. Mr. Power—lf what he says is true he eon be in no my damnified by entering into them. Lovd Campbell—l think the better course will be to se him to enter into recognisance§ to keep the peso Milton mouritiee. The defendant then entered into his own recogni.ncee the sum of 1001. to keep the peace fir twelve months. Lord Campbell (damming the defendani)—You must ab stain from all violence of every sort towards your wife. If you do ao, no harm will arise to you. The defendant reiterated the statement that that charges made by his wife were untrue. Mr. 'Wilt(' Coleridge—We are pronouncing no opinion; we only caution you for the future. The defendant was than liberated from custody. THE tlutEs E. CAIIIMON.-It9TAL EUITIGH Idr. D . Seymour moved fora rule ri show mina why tie fri4 of this rain should not be postponed until the sign. after Hilary Term. He moved, on the sffidavit of 24. Cameron, setting out in full the 12115012 why it wee impar Bible for hint to prepare his defence in time for the Ow after the preeent term. Lord Campbell—Take a rule; rimer to be abowit es morrow, when the other rule obtaiaed by Sir F. Selb comes on. Tilt QUEEN V. VIE RET. MR. ti.ruar.—AIITICLEt Or PEACE ET A WIFE AGAINST HER lII:SPAN% Mr. Huddlestoue, who appeared for Me,. Cherry, said is hod communicated with Sir F. Thesiger. who Isar 'nonacid on behalf of the Rev. Mr. Cherry, anibe (Mr. ltuddkstoral no. not indisposed to Let the matter stand over moil nest term, provided Mr. Cherry entered ittu recognisences not • take away his wife by force. Lunt Campbell—We will INWOOD that arrangement. 11? Cherry will be required to give security—say, himself a 100 L sad two seeuntiss in SOL each. Judgment accordingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings in Inneu.—Before Chief Junkie Cockburn, sad Justices Williams, Crow der, end Wilk..) X:COX V. 11116/11ILL.—MOSICT AI.VANCED 10 .% mire. Tian was an action to recover a sum as money lent ad money paid foe the use of the defendant, and at the trill before Mr. J•elies Cresskill, a nonsuit hod been entered. Mr. Scrje•nt Shee now moved for a new Did, ors the ground of nandirection. The Clete were these defendant, at the time in question, was • ntereban at the Cepa of Good Hope. and had • partner in Linde• named Vinty. In Awn, 1855, the defendant pent hie vi and three children and • savant to England. Ho recent wife 2110!, and a credit on his partner for 501. a month; 51, when ahe arrived in London the Linea bad failod, and* never received more than 201. • month. In November ken mead • letter from her husband, desiring her to return Ooh Cape, and she th n eFurn applied to the plaintiff, her for money to y pey for her psecoms. Sbe in' 4 paid one half. • unite, she paid the other ball beton 1111 tinsel sailed, It would be forfeited. The plaintiff headed be a cheque for 591., end she paid 31/. of the amount for be palomino money, and with the Ten dircterged wino trait iiien'e billy. The question we,, whether the 591 eek be claimed ea necessaries supplied to the wle. It is *dunked that as • general run money could not te recovered se noir:manes, but it w.ee submitted that at ell events the 31/. could be so recovered so it had been advised to her for a specific portiere undertaken at the request of be husband, and had the effect of awing linen forfeiture 111. d the husband'. money which bad been already paid. The court wee of opinion that the money could not be iw covered as necessaries. Rule refused. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings in Basco.—Before the Lord Chief Beronead Baal Bramwell, Watson. and Cbannell.) JVDOXIIWTS.—IIILL V THE LuNDHA OAS LIGHT I omroi. The Chast Baron said that in this tam there war aabi' gaily in words used by Prole/sot Taylor in his evident, sad the court bad decided to make the rule sheolute for said trial—costs to abide the event. •13110 S C. ?PART. A rule nisi to enter the verdict for the defendant, o r toed aside the plaintiffs verdict and have a new Irlal, was ottani by Mr. &tray; Byles. The action wits tried before Lord Chief Baron, at one of the Fittings for MM rm. The parties live neer St. leen C shim. The real question Muni d upon whether. the circumstance of ',posture of the ddernal‘...... being clearly forged to the acceptance cw whirh Pot sued, by one Harredine, the Lord Chief Baron wee tight. askiug the jute whether Fairy told creditid Hatradinist eery by hie anksequent conduct, instead of nessedtieg p 4 for want of evidence. The Lord Chief Baron now said. that after !inept! ow torten argued the court thought them ought J0 .. 1 new trial, on the , grimed that emus of the vele tu ought to have beta were not specifically remand to the at. tendon of the jury. I,