The Express. — London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

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MA LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 18. Tat Company now in course of formation for erecting Improved Dwellings for the Industrial Classes starts under favourable circumstances, and if well managed, has every prospect of being suc cessful, both as a commercial and philanthropic speculation. It enjoys the great advantage of commencing operations with all the knowledge derived from several previous efforts in the same direction, and will be able, at least, to avoid the more serious mistakes into which the earlier associst , ons Sell. The guidance to be derived from previous ex perinieuts is fortunately, however, not simply nega tive. In addition to the valuable lessons of what to avoid, taught by the partial failure of the two Metropolitan Associations for Ins _ proving the Dwellings of the Working Clasen, there are the useful practical hints of what to follow afforded by Alderman Ws-rzacow's more recent and far more successful experiment in the same direction. Indeed, the new Company, . a our readers are probably aware, is mainly due to Alderman WATIRLOW'S spirited exertions. Being convinced that healthy and comfortable dwellings for the working classes might be made to pay, he determined to make the experiment in a crowded part of Finsbury, and the result of bis effort has done much to. remove the objections previously felt by capitalists to the investment of money in such undertakings. It is true there has scarcely yet been time to verify the favourable estimates of " Langbourn Buildings" given by Alderman WATERLOW at the opening meeting, but the facts relating to the total cost of the block, the proposed scale of rental, and the comparatively high rate of interest on the original outlay thus accruing, so impressed the City merchants who were present that they determined to organize some plan for repeating the experiment on a larger scale, and thus of extending the benefits of the movement. After one or two private conferences this resolution was carried into effect at the meeting of merchanti and banken held at the Mansion Pouse under the presidency of Lord STANLEY. At this meeting it was decided that an Association or Com pany should be formed, on the basis of limited liability, with a capital of 25,000/. or 50,0001., for the purpose of Erecting Improved Dwellings for the Industrial Classes. A working committee was formed, and the greater part of the capital required subscribed on the spot. The discussion which led to this result was, as might be expected from the composition of the meeting, of a thoroughly practical and business-like character. Lord STANLEY, at the outset, hit the nail on the bead in saying broadly that the fint. condition of success in efforts of this kind was that they should be not only self-supporting bat remunerative. The field of operations is so krge that it would be quite impossible, even were it desirable, for the work to be done on any other terms than tho-e of an adequate return for the capital employed. It is not simply in one district or parish of Lon don that improved dwellings are absolutely required for the artisan classes. Excepting per haps in the newest parts of the Western suburbs, the existing tenements of the labouring classes are either falling into decay, or being cleared to make way for improvements—railways, hotel; new streets, or new buildings of some kind or other. It is, however, most important, and in the East ern districts of the Metropolis almost essen tial, that a considerable proportion of these people should live near their work, in the neigh bourhood of the factories, yards, warehouses, and workshops in which they are employed. The inroads of improvement on the existing dwell ings of this claw, as more than one speaker urged at the meeting, force those who are thus , obliged to live near their work " to herd together "in places which are perfectly diagraoeful." Im proved dwellings are thus fast becoming a first necessity over a very wide and scattered area, and especially in the Eastern districts of the me tropolis. To meet this necessity a large outlay of capital on the part of associations or private indi viduals is absolutely indispensable ; but it would be irrational to expect this outlay to be made un less there is a fair prospect of an adequate return. On this point Alderman Wan/mow insists quit e as strongly as Lord STANLEY, and he is of course entitled to speak with authority, having boldly made an expensive experiment, which appears likely to be in this essential point a success. There is, indeed, no reaiem why the employment of capital in this useful enterprise should not be remunerative, if proper care is taken to proned on the right plan. Economy must of course be a first consideration in the erection of suit buildings. Next to a proper regard in the arrekements for the health, comfort, and convenience of the future inmates, the comparative cheapness of the mate rials to be employed must be carefully considered. Alderman WATIRLOW'S experiment shows how much may be done in this direction. The intro duction of a single new material—a kind of artificial stone, formed of clinkers, coke, and Portland cement—effected a saving of about twenty-five per cent. in the total cost of " Lang " bourn Buildings." This new material, from the experiments already made, seems likely to prove as strong, durable, and generally useful as the stone which it supplants; and there is a large additional saving of labour in the fact that it may be cast in moulds in the exact forms required for the different purposes of the building. In this way, by a due regard to economy as well as con venience in the general plan, and in the selection of materials, these most salutary experiments, on which the future health and welfare of the work ing classes so largely depend, may, it is be lieved, be made commercially successful. For the same rent that he now pays, if not indeed for less, for it is very high, the artisan and his family will have a home greatly superior in every respect to that which he now occupies. And as soon as the fact becomes gene rally known by the multiplication of successful experiments, the work will no doubt be taken up by individual capitalists, as well as by new associations, and continued on a scale to some ex tent proportionate to the largeness of the need. It is none the less true, however, that those who engage in it, and especially those who do so at the present moment, are acting a thoroughly public spirited and philanthropic part. The new associa tion acts as a pioneer, and will prepare the way for the more extensive employment of capital in this necessary work. Mr. Moscair stated this to be one of the main objects in view—the strongest inducement with himself, and no doubt with others also, to move actively in the matter. The buildings to be erected by the new Company are designed for the accommodation , of families rather than of single men, and the clam to be provided for is sufficiently incl:cated in the proposed rental of five shillings a week. This is the rate now paid by the middle class of artisans who do not realise the high wages of skilled workmen, but are still somewhat above the range of common labourers. If the new experi ment is, however, to be really successful on a large scale, adequate provision must ultimately be made for this latter clans, whose need is perhaps more urgent than that of any other, but who have unfortunately been almost wholly over looked in the Improved Dwellings hitherto erected. THE , EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1863. LATEST INVILLIGICNCL POLARD. The Morning Post says that the notes of the three powers which have been despatched to St. Petersburg are nearly identical in terms. The only marked difference is that Austria does not suggest, iu the form employed by the others, a suspension of arms. Weilave already published the proposals which are now tendered. "In the event," says the Post, " of the rejection of our proposals, it cannot be said that we are yet prepared to take up arms ; but it is only fair to warn the Russian government that it is not the actual volition or direct intention of powers that brings ►bout war, but the overwhelm ing current of the course of events ; and we would urge the ministers of the Autocrat to endeavour to turn the stream while there is yet time and oppor tunity." (mum's msowia.) THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, Joys 18. . Czachowski was beaten on the 11th inst. ' at Ratije, but his force was not dispersed as asserted in the Russian bulletins. . . The events at Bobrza have likewise been entirely misrepresented in the Russian accounts• ebt Coun. WINDSOR CASTLE, .7ma 17. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, ' walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, went to Dover in the afternoon to meet her Majesty the Queen of Prussia. Lord Methuen and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. D. de Roe have also left the Castle for Dover to attend the Queen of Prussia to Windsor. The C.autesa of Deeart has succeeded the ltarchiooees of Ely as Lady ia Waiting. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council mat yester day. An appeal from Victoria, "Booth v. A. Beckett," part beard, was resumed. The lords present were Lo td Kiogiodown and the Lords Justice. Knight Bruce and Turner. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and the officers of the Royal Artillery give a grand banquet on Wednesday next at the idesaroom. Woolwich, to a dis tinguished party. Several of her Majesty's Ministers are invited to the banquet. • Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party List evening, at St. James's Palace. There were pressed their Royal Highness the Duke and Dunham d'Aumale, his Excellency the Austrian Ambul ation and the Countess d'Apponyi, his Excellency the Rumba Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Count Pahlen, Viscount and Vis countesses/03mile, Viscount Smiley, Dowager Lady Truro, Mr. H. Greville, Dr. Quin, Colonel Puree and the lady and Gentlemen in Waiting on the Duke and Duchene d'Aumale. The Duchess of Cambridge received a select circle after dinner. The marriage of the Hon. Georgians Susan Copley, youngest daughter of Lord Lyndhunt. and Mr. Damns, ILP., is to be solemnised on Thursday next. A marriage is arranged and will shortly take place between the Lord Elward-George nimbus-Howard, M. P., Deputy Earl Marshal, and Miss Wheel - redo de Lisle, third daughter of Mr. Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, of Garendoo Park sad Grace Dim Manor. We are sorry to hear that Admiral the Hon. Sir George Elliot., K .C. 8.. is in ■ very precarious state of health, which occasious much anxiety to the members of his family. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland left Dublin on Monday, attended by Mr. Hatchell, his private secretary, Dr. Hatchell. physician to the household, and Mr. Ark ',right, aide-de camp in waiting, on a visit to Lord George Hill, at Ballyvar House, near 140181t00, county of Donegal, He intends to visit the western coast of that county, and especially Gweedore, where Lord George has so swam fully reclaimed both the sterile land and the semi-barbarous inhabitants. On Tuesday (says the Edinburgh Courant) their Royal Highnesses the Due sod Duchene de Chartres visited the beautiful grounds of Ddkeith Paws, Baffin Chapel, and Craigmillar Castle. Their royal hien:mew were ex pected to leave the Douglas Hotel yesterday, en route for Crieff, on s tour through the highland* of Perthshire. The Public Orator was assailed in the Oxford Theatre yesterday with a running fire of personalities, and there was a ceaseless accompaniment of shouts and groans to his sonorous Latin periods. The Chancellor was appealed to not to permit " the man in the rostrum to make hoes at his," and to punish him for his had grammar and false quantities. Now and again, when the orator made himself heard for a few words, there were patrocusiog (Tice of " That's good—for you," or "What a idly old lunatic !" in the drawling Dundreary style ; and oars when the orator paused in disgust, some one called out, " He's going to pint--give him a alma of water!" which at once elicited • unanimous shout, "Oh dear, he never drieks it!" It was impossible to resift a feeling of compassion for • pave and reversed seignior thus set up in a pulpit to be bated by the Audents, for it it much the same every year ; but then one mast remember that he is more than a match for the young men at any other time. Hie Hoyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge write. to correct an error in a report of his speech on the case of Sergeant-Major Lindy. He was made to say. "the rusk of that imprisoement win pot known to me whoa my memorandum was written ;" wherein he "intended to con vey to the house that the fact. connected wild that impri. sonment were not known to me when my mammoth= was written." On the 2Gth Mr. Collier will ask the Attorney- General whether it ie the intention of the government to introduce, in the present session, a bill relating to a change in the thecae. Mr. Collins intends to-morrow to ask the Attor ney-General if his attention has been directed to the report of, and the evidence taken before, the Lisburn Election Committee ; sod if so, whether in hie opinion inch evi dence is sufficient to support a prosecution for bribery against John Doherty Barbour, Fog., or Robert Barbour, The Sea Queen, which was the subject of parlia mentary diamunioe about two mouths back on account of the course pursued by the government with regard to the gum tiou of her carrying a mail, bee arrived safely at the Mexi can pert of M■tamorsa. Messrs. Bennett and Wake, the brokers to the ship. have a telegram that she reached her datiaatioa on the 19th of May, after a panne of 99; days THE SPANISH ELECTIONS. MADRID, Jars 17. It is asserted that the Marquis glraflores is about to forward to the different prefects circulara relative to the ooming elections, recommending as candidates the partisans of a liberal-conservative policy. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ACTION BY A LADY AGAINST THE DUKE wrr.) OF BRUNSWICK. with the legal argument list the French law gave them so claim upon him. As a enbeidiary point, he contended that 1 the Duke of Bromwich, though now deposed, was not liable ' in a French court for acts done at a time when he was a reigning prince. The further hearing stands adjourned till to morrow, when M. Marie will address the court for Madame de Civry. I believe that, contrary to what has been stated, the three notes to Russia have not been sent off yet. The cruel executions of Poles by the Rus sians are making a great impression on the public mind here, and the feeling seems to be growing that war is probable. The Bourse, which yesterday experienced a fall in the Rente of 15c., has been under the influence of a sort of panic to-day, and though there was a rather better feeling at the close, Rente left off with a further fall of 40c. for cash and 26c. for account, elating (ex div.) at 68fr. 35c. and 68fr. 50c. Mobi lier fell 17fr. 50c. Railways, as for a long time past. continue almost stationary. There has been a good deal of speculation as to the reason why Count de Goltr, the Prussian ambassador, should be suddenly taken so ill as to require to take the waters at Carlsbad for a month. The bidhperidance Beige says that his malady was caused by the Emperor sending for the Prince de Reuss, first secretary of legation at Paris (who was on leave of absence at a remote part of Prussia), and receiving him at Fontainebleau, while the head of the mission was quite ignorant of the invitation. ' This breach of etiquette is, perhaps, connected with the announcement in the Pariser Zeitung that the Prince de Reuss is about to be promoted to the poet of Prussian Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid. It is the Correctional Tribunal of Mort, and not that of Grenoble (as stated by mistake in my letter of Sunday last) which is entitled to the credit of having acquitted the Memorial du Danz &ores. There is another electoral case pending before the tribunal of Grenoble, in which the Imepa►tial Dauphinois and M. Casimir Porter are defendants. tram 003 omit PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evunto. POLAND. The legal journals contain a report of the first day's hearing of a curious case at which Madame de Civey, the daughter of an English lady, is plaintiff, and the Duke of Brunswick defendant. The action is brought to recover from the Duke of Brunswick, of whom the plaintiff claims to be a natural child, an alimentary annuity of 35,000 fr. M. Allot', counsel for the Duke of Brunswick, appeared in support of a demurrer to the action, and made the following statement : The plaintiff can scarcely entertain any serious expects. time of success in this action. Madame de Civey alleges herself to be the daughter of the Duke of Brunswick ; she mays she is in distress and has a numerous family, and under Articles 205 and 207 of the Code Napoleon she asks for an alimentary pension of 35,0001 r. Madame de Civey does not aspire to the honours of legitimacy, and is contented to call herself a natural child. She might just as well have aimed higher, for there being no recognition of her in the register of her birth, or in any subsequent legal declaration of the duke, she has no better shadow of pretence, accord ing to the French law, for claiming the rights of a natural child than those of • legitimate one. If, however. she relies upon the law of Brunswick the priuciplee are different, but the results in this case the same. For the law of Brunswick only authorises • naturallichild to obtain main tenance from the putative father up to the age of 14, after which it must shift for itself. This action la but the realisation of threats of very old standing. The story presented by the other side is this :—ln 1825, Charles 11., then the reigning Duke of Brunswick. being in London, ran away with a young lady of high posi tion in society, named Lady Colville, and seduced her under promise of marriage. They bring forward as a witness • person who filled the position of humble companion, and who swears that she would not have done so had she not believed that the parties were married. The young person came to France with the duke, and lived some mouths with , him in Paris. The duke then took her with him to the Duchy of Brunswick, and installed her in • chiteau in the neighbourhood of the court. There, on July 5, 1826, she , was oonfined of • daughter, who is the plaintiff in this action. The christening was solemnised with much pomp and ceremony. The following is ■ copy of the register of birth : _ (11011 ♦ 001 WARSAW, Jun 9. " In the year 1826, on July 5, at 10 in the morning, Charlotte Colville, lady, aged 19 years, was delivered of • daughter, who was b.ptiscd on the 17th by the name of Elizabeth Wilhelmina. Sponse-1. Charles reigning Duke of Brunswick and Lonebourg ; 2. His Highness William Prince of Brunswick, Duke of Ale and Bomstadt, their said highnesses being represented by Major de Gresenwald, orderly officer of the reigning duke, and the Vice-Ecuyer de Aynhansen. "Observation.—Countess Elia Wiul Colmar la the family name of the child." In 1827, the year after her oonfioement, Lady Colville returned to England with bee daughter. The duke took upon himself the are of her education, first in England, and afterwards in Paris. She had the best professors that could be found. I rather think it is alleged in some of the affidavits that she had the honour of being taught dancing bt Queen Victoria's master. The child grew up under the duke's assiduous protection. One of his chamberlains, Baron d'Andlau, was specially commissioned to attend to her. The revolution of 1830, which deprived the duke of the sovereignty of his states and drove him into exile, did not interrupt his parental are of Eliza beth Colville. At the age of seventeen she was placed in • school at Nancy. There she lent an ear to ► Dominion monk, and abjured the protestant religion in which she had been brought up. In consequence of this act the duke abandoned her. She wag received by the honour able family of De Cluny, and in 1847 she married the Count de Civry in London, and the marriage was announced by the fashionable journals with • certain ;clot. At this point (said M. Allen) the narrative of the other side becomes very confused. They would make it out that the duke consented to the marriage, and they allude to • certain letter mid to have been written by the duke to her, which letter in • fiction ; and all this while they say also I have nothing consoling to tell yon. In a secret council held at the Castle, under the presidency of the Grand Duke Constantine, it has been decided that the country must be terrorised as much as possible. After all, do the Russians know any system but one of indescribable severity at home and of shameless falsehood abroad I The latter may succeed sometimes ; but here their furious madness fails in its aim ' • they terrorise to such a degree that we have learnt to fear nothing and brave everything. Arrests and domiciliary visits are matters of every-day occurrence • no one is safe for a single day ; and if people awake in the same place where they have gone to sleep they feel agreeably surprised. They take whoever they find in their way, often the quietest and most inoffensive persons. It would almost seem that the peace and security of the townspeople have become the stakes of a desperate game. You lose or you win by chance, as in a lottery ; and the ter rible numbers are the citadel, deportation to Siberia, or the rank of soldier in the Russian army. There are so many varieties of tortures in this hell upon earth ! that the duke never consented to receive either Madame de Clary or her husband, and that he would do nothing for them. Reverses of fortune having visited the Civry family, Mdme. de Cirri now finds herself oom palled to remind &When of the dirties of which he is oblivious. but which he at one time recognised, and the register of birth of Madame de Oivry being mute as to the name of her father, it is Mai. nuated that there must have been a deed of recognition among the private archives of the duke which were burnt by the people in 1830. Snob (said M. Alton) is the ro• mane which will be recounted in btilhsst colours be my eloquent adversary. But here are the facts much more prosaic and simple. It was, indeed, in the year 1825, and in London, but not in good society, that Duke Charles first saw the pretended Lady Colville. He met her in the sa loons of a theatre, where Englishwomen of a certain clam were at that time in the habit of making a display of their beauty. She used the name of Lady Colville as a nom de guerre for a whole season. Her real name was Miss Muodeo. There had never been any notioo of a marriage between her and the duke, and she very freely and deliberately became his mistress and went abroad with him. Afterwards Mims Almaden returned to Bastard, married a person of the name of Shaw, and went out to Californi►. The duke had libe rally paid the expenses of Mies Colville's education from feelings towards her mother, which would be easily under stood ; but he bad never once seen her since her infancy. He denied that he had quarrelled with her on account of her change of religion. The rupture was occasioned by other reasons, and among them her extraordinary conduct in Paris, where she culled upon his agent dressed up in men's clothes. Her marriage with Y. de Civry was a speculation on the duke's wealth, bat it had the effect of increasing hie displesaure with the young lady. A pompous announcement of the marriage had appeared in the English journals in these terms :—" Count de Civry to Elizabeth Wilhelmine d'Esite Countess of Colmm, daughter of his Royal Highness Prince Charles Ferdinand William Augustus d'Fate Duke of Brunswick and of Lady Colville," This impudent misrepresentation was sanctioned by the presence at the marriage of Baron d'Andlau, the dake's former chamberlain, but with whom he had then quarrelled. The pretended Count de Civry was no count at all, but a very humble persoo, of Nancy, named Collin. He (K. Alton) did not wish to eater into long reasons why the duke declined to give any money to these persons, lie contented himself Goreka was taken last week. He was going to leave, perhaps that was the reason. In general both those who arrive, and those who depart, are objects of suspicion, or in other words, criminals, and as euch, liable to be sent to the citadel. The Cieleckia were about to leave also ; Rembielinaki had just arrived. Since these gentlemen were put in prison the severity has redoubled, and the Grand Duke has declared that no one shall in future be authorised to see those who are shut up in the citadel. The prison cell has thus become a sort of oubliettes, where name, memory, and all connection with external life vanish. The Grand Duke shows a savage delight in the severe measures of which he is the inventor and originator. There is something of the inquisitor, too, as well as of the gaoler, in the blood of this son of Nicholas. At his Sunday soirees he does not scruple to talk ex clusively with those who are employed in the com missions of inquiry, and the reading of cross examination' is his favourite pastime. There is something very small and mean in the organiza tion of his mind ; I cannot help thinking how applicable to him would be the epithet of scribe d'art-major, given to Sir Hudson Lowe by the Emperor Napoleon. Latterly he has been amusing himself with a hat-hunt, or rather a hunt after people who do not take off their hats before him. Of course nobody does, or ever did, salute him. Hitherto lie has been pleased to take no notice and to pass like a tempest, surrounded by a thick cloud of Circassian • but now he leaves Ins carriage, walks along the L;zienki alley or the Botanical Garden, and orders his Cossacks and Circassian!' to seize all who have hats on their heads when he approaches. Yesterday evening my son, who was passing by in a carriage, saw three persons arrested in this way within a very short space of time. The other day, the Grand Duke, on hearing that one of the delinquents was an employd, ordered him to be dismissed, and the unfortunate man is now without bread. . . . . You perceive that the persecution is complete ; nothing is wanting, neither the crashing blow of the bludgeon, nor the sharp sting of the needle. Punch or the Charirari could alone, I think, restrain this policeman-like zeal with which the Grand Duke is animated. Nothing that belongs to the duties of the police is done without his orders. Thus the other day a domiciliary visit took place in the house of a physician. After searching every where, and finding nothing, they read all his papers and sealed up the door of his study, where he kept his notes and surgical instruments. A few days after he asked permission to enter his study, but was answered that it could not be given without a special order from the Grand Duke. Madame Goraka asked to be allowed to see her husband, who is shut up in the citadel, and got precisely the same reply. I do not know whether the same answer was given to M. Rembielinski, who after three days' constant asking, could not even get • little water to wash his bands with. Linen is only allowed to be sent to the prisoners once a week. It would appear that by reserving to himself the right of interfering in all the little details of the business of the prison, the Grand Duke wished to force the society of Warsaw to make his acquaintance, for it is difficult to explain this eccentric taste in any other way. Wives and mothers are expected, it seems, to present them selves before his highness with shirts, candles, and provisions under their arms (for nothing of this kind is allowed to pans in the citadel), and aft e r making a profound bow, they may perhaps be allowed to take these necessary supplies to their husbands and sons. I doubt whether, even at this price, they will pass through the castle in order to get to the citadel. In the prison of the Town-ball order reigns as in those of the citadel. One of our servants went there this morning under the protection' of the chambermaid of a high Russian functionary. She has returned in tears • she saw a poor lady from the country, who had been forgotten and left neglected there for months, without clothes, and having nothing on but • chemise falling about her in rags, and covered with vermin. Even the gaolers were touched, and begged a little linen and a dress for her. Another lady was there, shut up with an infant in arms, for the Russian law has much wider views regarding the emancipation of women than any theorist or novel writer. In Lithuania a law has just been proclaimed which renders them amenable to a court-martial ; they may be hung, shot, or condemned to the mines of Siberia, all because of their opinions or feelings. Every day numbers are deported or executed in , the citadel without an 3 one knowing of it. One of the Frankowskis has been sent to Siberia, and his parent. only knew it through the soldier who had accompanied the young man as far as Moscow. He is a humane man, and the poor old people blessed ; AWARDS OP THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIEI. him. This is one of those episodes which occur I TION OF 1862.--(THIS DAY.) only in our sad history. I do not give you any news of the insurrection in the provinces, or the battles which have taken place, for you will find them all in our papers published at Posen and Cracow. A numerous meeting of prize medallists was held at nose, at the rooms of the Society of Aria, Adelphi, Alderman OOPILLND, )LP., in the chair, to take into 00 411 i. aeration the fact that by a react decision in the Vice-Chia. cellar's Court there appears to be at present no legal power to restrain nanezhibitors or others who did not receive award s at the late Exhibition from making fraudulent use of the medals as trade marks and otherwise. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, observed that it had been found that a greet many persons who were not entitled to medals had nevertheless used them, and th e question was whether something should not be done to ex. pose and punish those who were guilty of what be termed a fraud. (Cheers.) A person who 'committed such an offence ought, in his opinion, to be punished in some wry or other, and it was for the meeting to determine what course should be pursued. After considerable discussion as to the precise form of words Jobe adopted the following resolution was, on Lhs motion of Mr. Way, adopted unanimously :—" That in the opinion of this meeting the use of the prize medals, and of the 'honourable mentions' of the Exhibition of 1 , 462, or previous Exhibitions, by any person or persons other than those to whom such medals have been awarded by her Majesty's commissioners, under the direr. lion of the jurors, is a direct fraud tending to deceive and mislead the public, to injure the ►uthorised medal holders, and to subvert the objects of the Exhibition." A resolution was then passed declaring that awards and "honourable mentions" having been given in consequence of the superior skill displayed, ought to be regarded as property of commercial value. A resolution baring been proposed to the effect that it was expedient that immediate measures be taken to protect the parties interested, a confident hope was expressed that the Lord Chancellor would lend hie aid in the providing a legislative remedy for the evil. A oommittee, consisting of prize medallists, jurors, and others interested in the matter, was then appointed, and the proceedings terminated. FITILACT 01 ♦ LIMA MON WILIA. The arrival of General Mouravieff in our town as military governor has been marked by the unlimited powers con ferred upon him, which, in order to stifle the insurrection, he is allowed to exercise without any ref arenas being made to the authorities at St. Petersburg. More than one thousand of the landed proprietors have been imprisoned in the case mate*, and preparations are being made for those arrested Grodno, for which puma, the sequestered convent' in Wane have been assigned. The general refuses to see anyone, and is so afraid of being poisoned that be has engaged a confidential cook, who sate his dinner with him. The priest hot has been shot in the market-place for having read from the pulpit the manifesto of the national government to his parishioners. Considering that at the time there were no more than fif teen persons in the church, this cruel sentence on an eccle siastic causes the greatest possible indignation. Another priest, of the name of Ztemecki, and a lauded proprietor, Laskiewis, suffered the same fate. General Mouravieff bas decided that, for the sake of ex ample, there should be three execution, weekly on the market days, and says that he has plenty of candidates- Those days are selected with a view to making a deep im• premien, on the country people. Two executioners have been sent from St. Petersburg, and the gallows are erected permanently. To the troops that have been despatched in search of the insurgents it is particularly enjoined that they should make no prisoners, but finish them either with bayonets or the butte of their muskets. Such unheard-of tyranny has even disgusted some of the Russians, and consequently General Adjutant Frotw, General of the Corps of Gendarmes, Hildebrand, and General Maninkin, have applied for a prolonged leave of absence, being all unwilling to serve under such a com mandant. General &Amami!, of the Guards, has gone to St. Petersburg, where he declared that be is prepared to fight, but neither he nor those under his command will act the part of executioners. Count Victor Starzynaki, at whose house the strictest search had been made and nothing found, has been lodged in the citadel of Wilma, and all WAN to him forbidden. A sort of peasants guard was attempted to be organised in the government of Groan° ; but in the parish of Roche pow 56 who had been inscribed joined the insurrection at Ina word, the terror now introduced by General Mourn- Mei is such as to produce despair in the heart of every one, and the wont is expected. The insurrectionary bands are being multiplied and vie. torions. The peasants are favourable to the movement, except partly in the government of Mobilew. They my in their blunt language that ma soon as the French make their appearance they will all aide with the insurgents, and not leave alive a single Muscovite in Poland. WEATHER RZPORT.-(THIS DAY.) tirnItSDAY, Joao 11 a Lx. la IiLIL.I W. lir.::. Q. 1. last _.-,_ I - --- Nairn 29.89 j 1767 — l - 1 4 c; 3 0.4 1 Aberdeen 99.4116 31 F. 8.1. 8 m 7 0.26; 3 Leith re. 1 1 ,0 671 L 14 0 4 0.11 1 Ard roman -1988 1 68 N. 20 b - - 1 Greencastle. 29.86. && 1 6c 2 0.08 1 Hallway 99.96 50 Z. , 24 c-- 11 Vuleutia 29.81 67 Z. , 60 o - -1 1 Queenstown 29.82 W W. 1 II e - -1 1 Shields 19.92 6.11 W.A. W. 1 12 f 1 0.10 2 Scarborough 49.80 66 N.N.& 24 flO 970! 1 Liverpool W.9O 50 I 8.0.& 26 c - -I 1 Holyhead -19.83 69 I S.S. W. 18 b - -; 2 Pembroke 29.89 67, &S.& 24 f 9 -. 1 Penzance 49.86 56 SAL 28 0. 8 0.15; 4 i Hama .. - 129.80 all &Z. 20 l 1,- 1 3 L'Orient 29.80 60' I 15 0 - 2 itachefort -.29.00 W & 24 b ' - 8 --.- - Plymouth 29.87 66 1 ESA. 2 24 0 ' - 1 Weymouth -29.89 671 2 8.1. 2 12 0 - 1 Portsmouth. 29.89 68 3 I &S.W. 2 24 e .- 2 Loodon 59.91 Gil 4 W. 1 26 IA , - - Dover 29.91 611 3 W. 22 c I - Yarmouth 29.8860' 2 N. 1 8 b ' - 1 Heligoland 29.866710 Z. 20 Z. r 6 0.27 ; 3 Lopenbagen Li 1 sbon PROII.III TRIDAT. ........___ SATURDAY. N.E. to N.W., mode- SCOTLAND. N.N.W. to W.S.W., rate, doe. moderate. W.0.W.t0 N.N.W., litattAtio N. to W., fresh. . . . moderate to fresh. As next above. W CMITRAL As next above. B.E. to B.W. and W., *.leaAttell. S.W. to N.W., fresh, moderate, showery. showery. As next above. S.W.EIIOI.AIM. As next above. E.B E. to 8.8. W., fresh, S.B. ENGLAND. B.E. to S.W., moderate showery. to fresh. B.N.E. to N.E.W., mo. E. COAST. N. to W., moderate, derate, fine. Doe. The first day's hunting at Fontainebleau went oft very successfully, in spite of the weather. The Emperor was out and got drenched to the skin, but many of his sub jects "refused," sad went home early. After a ran of two hours, the deer was taken is the water, and received the coup de mort from the (outwit-de-edam of Prince de la lacecowa, who was first up. At night the curie took plans in the court of the Prince Imperial. The commissioners of National Education in Ire , land have appointed Mr. William M'Cready one of the joint secretanee of the board, in the room of Mr. Maurice Cram, who fin retired from age ask infirmity, having filled the office almost sins the system was established. There are two secretariee—s, protestant and a Roman catholic. Mr. M'Cready is a presbyterian, and an objection was made to his appointment on that score by some of the episcopal members of the board. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The second show of this society took place yesterday at their gardens at South Kensington, and was most successful. The im mense collection of brilliant plants brought for competition was displayed in the Exhibition budding, and completely filled up both aides of the nave. The show of fruit and vegetables was also excellent, and some very fine peaches, nectarines, grapes, and strawberries, were displayed on • lung table in whet was once a diningealoon of the Exhibition. In this department were some well-grown specimens of fruits grown in pots, comprising apples, peen, cherries, omega, ; but the department of the show which ex cited most admiration was that in which were arranged an infinite variety of floral adornments for the dinner-table. For these special prizes bad been offered by Sir C. Went worth Dilke, • vine-president of the society. Amongst the novelties at the show were some specimens of the ceramic art exhibited by Messrs. Goode in South Audley-street, who are agents for fdinton's works. These specimens included some piecee of a new majolica, called celadon-majolica, the superiority of which over that hitherto made consists in the perfect meaner in which the celedon colour is made to harmonise with the colours of the flowers and plants with which it comes in contact. The idea of this new manufacture originated, we believe, with Mr. William Goode, • member of the firm to whose experience and inventive genius is due many of the novel ties in the ceramic art produced within the last few years. To this gentleman is also due the credit of introducing the " Minton 's white china," which has now attained such reputation. The first prize in this competition was awarded to Lady M. Rokeby, the second to Mrs. Rhea, and the third to Mrs. Fawcett, while another group sent by Mr. A. Salter was highly commended. A group by Viscountess Holmes dds, and one by Lady Gimbal Kerrison, were considered of equal merit, and the jurors placed the word " cora lmended" opposite to them. The gardens were crowded throughout the afternoon—the total number of visitors being about 7,000. Prince Leopold sad Prince Lucien Bonaparte were present during the early part of the afternoon ; and amongst the other distinguished visitors were Lady Gren. Mlle, Lord Egerton, Lord and Lady Gardiner, Lord Gordon, ! Lord H. Lennox, Lord Fitaltov, Lord Bingham, the Mar. ohioness of Ailesbury, Lady Overstoee, the Countess of • Hess ugh, the Marchioness of Waterford, Lord and Lady :Rokeby, Baron Brunnow, Lady Burgoyne, Lady ' bull, the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland, the Baroness de Rothschild, the Duke of Portland, the Duchess of Welber ton, the Duchess of Somerset, the Countess Spencer, Lord John Manners, the Caritas' of Chesterfield, the Marquis of Winchester, the Swedish Minister, &c. THE Now ZRALAND CHIEFS. —The New Zealand chiefs, secompanied by Mr. Jenkins, government inter preter yesterday visited the departments of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich by special order from the War De ' pat tment. What chiefly interested them appeared to be the royal gun factories, where, notwithstanding the mesa tion of gunmaking pending the parliamentary decision, ex tensive works are still carried on for the repair of guns, in use. The island chiefs were much interested in wit ! Deming the welding and preparing slabs of iron for the maeufacture of new trunnions, and the preparation end testing of tubes. DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN NOTTINGHAM. NOTTINGHAM, WIDNESDAY. This morning John Wheldon wan charged before the sitting magistrates, at the House of Correction, Not tingham. with shooting at his wife with a loaded pistol, with intent to murder. Esther Wheldon, wife of the prisoner, said that the pri soner had been married to her about five years. About the middle of April they quarrelled, an d ag reed to separate. Between four and fi ve o'clock on W ednesday afternoon, the 6th of May, witness was going down Narrow Marib alone, when she heard the prisoner say "Come here." She did not notice him, but went into a house occupied by a perr. son named MitchelL Her husband followed. Mr. Mitchell and two other men were present. Her husband aid to her, " God help you ; you look a poor creature." Wit nees answered. " Yee ; and you do not look much better —you are paying 12s, a week for your board now, sod when you was with me you was not contented." He said, " I don't feel contented." He then asked wit ness to kiss her child, and asked her to take it, but witness refused, saying she could not maintain it. He asked her to have one glair of ale with him, but witness said, "No, never while I live." After a few more words she heard the prisoner draw a trigger, and saw a pined in his band. Witness ran towards her husband, who held the pistol in her face and discharged it. Witueu fell on the floor and tried to speak, but could not. She was then conveyed to the infirmary. Stephen Calah said that while the wounded woman WA in his arms he saw the prisoner come out of the house, and after walking a few paces raise his right hand to his head, and discharge • pistol against his right ear. Prisoner fell immediately to the ground. Prisoner's wits said "The Lord forgive me for what I have done. Will you take care of my child !" Prisoner was then taken in • cab to the infirmary. When there, eight bullets, porder, and percussion caps were found in his pocket. The lives of both were at first despaired of, as the wounds were al so dangerous a character. The woman's appearance was appalling; her face bon evident marks of the injuries she had received. The prim ner appeared very feeble. and was committed for trial at the next Nottingham Anises. THE ROYAL VISIT TO HALITAX.—Last night, a meeting of representatives from Sunday schools of all de nominations in the borough of Halifax was held at the Towii. hall, to consider the propriety of a Sunday school demount, tion on the occasion of the forthcoming royal visit. His Worship the Mayor presided. The number of rapreeent•- tires present was upwards of forty, representing about 13,000 teachers and scholars. It was first resolved that • demonstration should take place, and on the day of the open ing of the Towo-ball. It was further agreed that the gather. lug should take place in the Piece-hall, and that a committee, composed of two gentlemen from each school in the borough, should have the management of the demonstration. Au siecative committee was next appointed to take the preli minary steps. VISITS OP THE PRINCE AND PRINCLSR OF WALE , . —Savant palatial seats in the Midland Counties, including Belvoir, Newstead, Chatsworth, and Clumber, will in the coarse of the present season be honoured with the prance of the Prince and Princros. It is also probable that the royal pair may pay other visits, either on their way to Scotland or on their return ; and we believe that when the race for the great St. Leger is run at Doncaster, in September, the Prince will be the guest of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth House—Birmingham. Gazette. THE ST. GEORGE'S CHALLENGE VASE--An addi tional prize has been decided upon by Colonel Lindsay tole awarded to the winner of this prize io the contest at Wim bledon. A purse of five dragon sovereigns will therefore be found inside the ease upon presentation at the Crystal Palmas, in addition to the gold and enamelled jewel el St. George, &a. The entries for the selection of represeuto Wes from the various battalions in England, Scotland, sod Wales, are rapidly 'ng ; but as the list will close on the 26th of June, the adjutants and shooting committees of inch battalions have no time to loft, bearing in mind that there iv no limit to the number of entries of competitors for selection at 2a. each, provided they are in all respects quali fied according to the rules. A carte de visite photograph of the vase will be presented to every repremotative in the contest at Wimbledon, which, together with the debt• goishing badge, he will receive on application for his pus ticket. THE GALWAY CONTRA!-T.—We (Ditblill Ersiting Mail) have reason to believe that the contract with the ' government was duly signed yeeterday. A statement t 4 this offset was prematurely made by a morning contempo rary_some days ago. MR. BRIGHT, M.P., THE WORKING CLASSEI, AND BEFORE.—At • recent meeting of the Trades Unmet Committee, who got up the late eniancipation meeting at St. Janus's-hall, over which Mr. Bright presided, a v, , ic of thanks was proud to that gentleman for his conduct ou the cocuirm, accompanied by a resolution hoping that he would not relax in his efforts to obtain political rights for the working classes. Ths receipt of this vote and resolution his been acknowledged by Mr. Bright in the following terms :—" 4. Haooveratrest, London, June 16, 1463. — Dear Sir,-1 have to thank your committee for the kind expression of their feelings towards me conveyed in the copy of the resolution you have forwarded to me. I bop* the course we have taken together on the great American question has been of some use. With regard to the future, and to other questions, 1 look forward to the time when the 'dieing of the kingdom will make some powerful movement to obtain and secure political in if uenee. I believe it to be impossible in any country to raise the condition of the great body of the people whilst they are shut out from political power. Excluded from their just place in the nation, they can never have that self-respect and that hope of a better time, without which their progress upward is impossible. At this moment there is little political action in England, and all eyes and hearts are turned naturally to the scene of the American contest ; but a change will come, and it may come soon, and when it does come I hope you and your friends will be ready to make an effort for the extension of political rights to the people of the United Kingdom. For this great object my services will always be at your disposal. - I am, dm, JOHN BILK:MT.—To Mr. W. R. Cramer, seers tan, lic." DAMAGES; AGAINST RAILWAY FURNACE.!. —A CUB was tried in the Jury Court, Edinburgh. before Lord Barcaple, on Friday, Saturday, and Monday last, in which Mews. Cooper aod Wood, bottle manufacturers, Portobello, claimed I,ooof. damages against the North British Railway Company for injury sustained by the house and grounds of Baileyfield, Portobello (of which the pursuers are proprie tors), from smoke, dust, and gases discharged from the defenders' works for converting and hardening iron rails. A large Dumber of scientific witnesses, including chemists, medical practitioners, architects, and horticulturist., were examined on both sides. The evidence was to a great extent conflicting, but it seemed to be proved that the vegetation bad, since the erection of the furnaces, been con. aiderably injured, and that the comfort of the occupation had been interfered with. The jury were divided iu opinion, but by a majority of nine to three they found for the par. suers, with WV damages. I THE MURDER OP MR. JACILSON.—LIMERIca , WEDNISDAY.—T6O SOSthers Chronicle of this day cantatas the following :—" Mr. Jackson's murder is still shrouded in mystery, for so evidence has yet turned up to warrant the ' committal of any et the seven persons is prison under re mad. There are some links of circumstantial evidence, bat they are not orosetutive. It is not likely that the crown will be able to put any pawn on trial at the mixt awes. , The cook, where arrest we recently noted, has been sent to a place for safe keeping, where she cannot be either tam. , pared with or intimidated. The mother of the coachman Iwho was examined at the inquest was arrested last night. It is said that she was near the place where Mr. Jackpot was murdered, and that she saw two men running from the direction of the shrubbery. The authorities observe She greatest privacy in matters connected with their proceedings , I —so mach so that everything that can possibly be withheld from the public is studiously kept concealed.' 1