The Express. — London, England, 1863-02-13 00:00:00

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We cannot but suppose that both the Coroner and these gentlemen must be very young men—unaware of what everybody knew thirty years ago about the operation of Foundling Hospitals, or they would no more have proposed to check child-murder by such means than to extinguish licentiousness. The fact of the enormous increase of vice, and of child-murder, wherever Foundling Hospitals have been esta blished, has been hitherto supposed, too easily we now perceive, to be universally understood. We must hope that the citizens who live within this Coroner's district are too well aware of the fact to be induced to countenance his scheme ; but the mere mention of such a project, and its meeting with I any countenance at all, are a call upon us to warn the parties and the public against as grave and unpardonable a mistake as ignorant benevolence and thoughtless sentiment could commit. The constancy of the results from all insti tutions of the class is remarkable. In the earliest cases, when one or two heathen polities endea voured to check the mortality caused by the ex posure of infants by providing a refuge where children were reared, to become slaves of the State, the exposures increased, as might have been expected. In the early days of conventual celibacy, when babes were found in holes and corners, and were seen floating down the riven, they were numerous in proportion to the efforts made to provide for the exposed infanta. The Popes felt and thought exactly as our Coroner of East London feels and thi.nks ; and to save the mothers' feelings and the infants' lives, the Holy Fathers devised the plan of the turning-box in the hospital wall, by which the babes might be re ceived without the bringers being seen. The con sequent increase of illegitimacy threatened the dissolution of society, as it would with us now, if we were to follow the same course. Sr. VIRCINT DI PAUL was shocked at the number of children deserted in the streets of Paris ; and he applied himself to the reformation and extension of Foundling Hospitals. The result was that whereas the number of illegitimate births in France, when such estimates were set about, was one•tb;rteenth where no such refuges existed, it had risen to above one-third in Paris within the range of the Asylum for Foundlings. The same experience has been universal up to this day. After every allowance made for the tricks of well to-do citizens and members of the aristocracy who may have inconvenient children to dispose of, and of guardians of the poor, who may be tempted to get rid of some of the burdens of their datrict, and of married poor people under a yet stronger temptation, there is evidence of a rapid and con stant increase of seduction, tending to a complete disappearance of female virtue, wherever these in stitutions arias to relieve the unchaste from the burdensome consequences of their aio. Here are some of the facts. Within five-sad•forty years the foundlings in Paris have trebled in number, under the encou ragement of the Hospital approm iatcd to them. That Hospital received five thousand new-born babes a year in 1847. Have our readers ever been within its walls I Have they seen the arrangements—the best practicable under suc'i pressure of numbers 1 If they have, they will scarcely be surprised to hear that two-thirds of the infants die during the first year. Yet the increase of numbers goes on ; and we now hear of the intention of the EMPEVIII to found another such asylum ! If she cannot learn from prior ex periments, let us hope that our East London Coro ner may. It appears that of illegitimate children in Paris, 58 per cent. are abandoned by their mothers, within the range of the Hospital. As for Vienna, the story of the provision made for the encouragement of profligacy is too gross for production here. The well-known coarse descrip tion that JOSEPH 11. gave of the capital of his dominions may serve for whet it has been ever since, according to tin statistics of its Foundling and Lying-in Hospitals. The Foundling Hospital of St. Petersburg contained in 1790 300 children. The number increased, of course, and, fortunately, we know what the increase was. Within the first forty years it had grown from 300 to 3,000 per annum ; and in seven years more to 7,000. More and more dormitories, school-rooms, and chapels have been added to the original provision ; and still the number of helpless pensioners augments ; and, though they are sent out to nurse after air weeks, the asylum is always crowded. There /113 700 wet nurses in the establishment ; yet one foarth of the infants die within those six weeks. Of those sent out to nurse, more than half die THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBItUARY 1883. before they come back to school at sit years old. Thus, at six years old, leas than a third of the children remain alive. But it may be imagined by patriotic citizens that the course of affairs would be different in England. Here the parents would not sin so flagrantly, nor the children die off so fearfully. Well, then, let us look at the operation of our own Foundling Hos pital The institution was opened with ten inmates in 1740. The infants must be under two months old ; and no questions were to be asked of those who brought them. It is no wonder that by 1756, a Parliamentary grant of 10,000/. was wanted, and that provincial branches were called for. In the year when the plan of hanging a basket outside, for the unwatched deposit of in fanta, was adopted, the number increased in seven months from 117 to 1,783. The next year the number was 3,727, and in that and the two next years the receptions at the gate and by the basket amounted to nearly 15,000. Of that crowd of infants—of those very 15,000—how many lied to be apprenticed? Only 4,400 ! Let our East London Coroner and his audience thick the matter over egain before they setup such a cure for child murder as this. Of every eight infer ts sent up from the country to this institution, seven died. All this was very startling ; and so was the fact that within fifteen years Parliament had voted considerably more than half-s million of money in maintaining the baseborn of society—in other words, as a premium on profligacy. The country took warning. Society was pledged to the support of the actual inmates till they were ap prenticed, hut the branch establishments we-e sold off, strict rules were framed and enforced, end the Hospital was henceforth to depend on its own resources. The institution was made as little mischievous as possible ; and this is the best that can be said for any sort of asylum for foundlings. It really seems incredible that, nearly a century after such a discovery and reform as we have de scribed, a proposal alma arise from any quarter to retrogress to the point from which our grand fathers advanced, full of shame and sorrow for the mischief they had done. There is no mystery about the natural operation of Foundling Hoe paid'. The commonest good sense can ma beforehand that they must work in one of two ways. First, either they must take charge of all the illegitimate children that can be offered, or they will have held out a delusive promise to the parents. And rext, not only is this a shocking encouragement to illicit passion, but it is murderous in its effect. It seems abundantly strange to propose to save infant life by a policy which long ago got the name of " Herodian," and which increases infant mortality ten-fold ; but it is a yet graver consider ation that child-murder prevails to an unparalle'ed extent within the range of Foundling Hospitals. However many babes are received, there are more who must be left out : and the number of thr who are murdered far exceeds that of the mur dered infants of a society where the safeguards of female honour, and the sacredness of the insti tution of the Family are not relaxed, and in fact dissolved by this most pernicious clams of charities. If our East London Coroner and hisneighbourshave a conscientious desire to reduce infanticide to the lowest average, they will study the operst'on of Foundling Hospitals ; and then we shall bear no more from them of a scheme which would carry us back into the grossness of manners and the foulest crimes of a former age. No such enter prise can be supposed possible now ; but, at a time when the question is how best to check the practice of child-murder, there is mischief in the mere proposal of a project which would increase the crime, and the corruption of morals from which it arises. DIVONPORT Esecnoir.—The conservative mem ber has been returned for Devonport, and the go vernment may be said to have been defeated in its own dockyard. This is s surprising innovation. Constituencies like Devonport, where the govern ment is a great employer of labourers having votes, have hitherto been considered almost , as nomination boroughs. Mr. Ferrand contested Devonport at the last general election, and twice subsequently, when Sir Erskine Perry and Mr. Wilson successively vacated their sesta. 'He polled yesterday 120 more vMes than on either of those occasions, and Sir Frederick Grey, his opponent, also polled more than were required to defeat Mr. Ferrand in any of his previous contests. This may explain to a certain extent the victory, but further explanations will doubtless be offered. The numbers at the close of the poll yesterday, as received by telegraph, were Ferrand, 1,234 ; Grey, 1,204 ; majoi :Ay for Fe..- rand, 30. Great excitement prevailed at the con clusion of the voting, and Mr. Ferrand addressed the electors. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. We are authorised to state that onthe arrival of her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark in London on the 7th March the route of the royal procession from the Bricklayers' Arms station to Paddington will be as follows :—Brick layers' Arms, Old Kent-road, Borough, London bridge, King William-street, Mansion-house, Cheapside, St. Paula Churchyard, Temple-bar, Strand, Trafalgar-square, by the Nitional Gallery, Pall-mall, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, Hyde park-corner, through the park to the Marble Arch, Edgware-road, Grand Junction-road, past the Great Western Hotel, to the Paddington Station. At a public meeting of the inhabitanta of the borough of Southwark, bold yesterday aftemoos, at the Brdge-house Hotel, Londonhridge, it wu resolved that an address be mounted to bis Royal Highness on the occa sion of his pawing through the borough on his way to Windsor with hi bothrothed bride, offering to him the hearty oonuatolationa and good wishes of the inhabitants on , he approaching marriage, and a committee was ap pointed to make the mossaary arrangement.. trbt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Fn. 12. The Queen, accompanied by the P6llOOllB Louis of Reese, drove in the Home Park this morning. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lientenant.Genentl Hardly* and Major Teesdale, went to London, and returned in the afternoon. A deputation, introduced by Lord Alfred Churchill, M.P., and consisting of Major Sanford, Colonel Phillips, Colonel Graham, Mr. Charles Wittinoom, Mr. William Fel gate, Mr. R. H. Habgood, Mr. H. Gullet, Mr. W. F. Moore, Mr. Frederick Mangles, Mr. Henry Manning, sod Mr. T. N. Yule, bad an interview yesterday with the Duke of Newcutle at the Colonial-office, and presented a memorial, numerously signed, by old settlers and others, in favour of the continuance of transportation to Western Australia. A deputation from the Thames Embankment Committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the First Commis sioner of her Majesty's Works, on the subject of the proposed southern embankment, consisting of Mr. John Thwsites (chairman of the board), Mr. Doulton, M.P., Mr. le Breton, Mr. Derma, Mr. M'Donnell, Mr. Newton, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Moreland, Mr. Pew, Mr. Har ris, Mr. Hall, Mr. Phillips, Mr, Savage, Mr. Deputy Har rison, Mr. Freeman, Mr. John Pollard (clerk of the board), and Mr. George Viilliamy, architect of the board, had an interview with the Right Hon. William Cowper, M.P., yesterday, at the office of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings in Whitehall-place. Mr. M. B. Sampson, Consul• General of the Argentine Republic, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign office. Mr. Croebie Ward, of New Zealand, bad an interview yesterday with the Duke of Newcastle ; Colonel Hill also had an interview with his grace at the Coloniaboffice. The Judith] Committee of the Privy Council oat yester day. An appeal from the Cape of Good Hope, "The Rev.lW. Long v. the; Bishop of Cape Town " (part heard), was resumed. The lords present were Lord Kingsdown, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Coleridge, and Sir E. Ryan. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the governors of the Settlements on the West Cwt of Africa, New Zealand, Quads, and Malta. We are authorised to state that two Drawing rooms and two Levers will be held on the put of the Queen at St. James's Palace after Easter. Presentations may take place under the usual regu lations at all these courts, and wilt be considered as having been made to her Majesty. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex pected to arrive at the &remake station, by special train , about 3 or 4 o'clock this afternoon, and will then proceed to Tottenham Hones, on • visit to the Marquis of Ailesbury, and enjoy • day's shootieg on the estate, and on Monday, the Tedworth hounds are to meet at Lye-hill, after which it is expected that his royal highness will return to town. — Stanford Mercury. _ . . The Marchioness of Salisbury has issued cards for assemblies on Thursday, the 19th instant, and on Wed nudity, the 25th instant, at the family mansion in Arling ton-street. Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for assem blies on Saturday next and cm Saturday, the Slat instant, M Cambridge House. Viscount and Viscountess Enfield have arrived at their residence in Charles•street, Illerkelepequare, from a tour of visits. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley entertained at dinner on Wednesday evening, at their residence in Dover-street, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Count of Airlie, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Yr. Oliphant, &c. _ . Lord and lady Ebury are expected in town early next week from Moor Park, Herta. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., has issued cards for parliamentary dinners on Saturday next and Wednesday, the 18th inst., at his residence, Orastenot• The arrival of the flotilla conveying the Princess Alexandra and mite at the Nore is to be made the occasion of a grand n ,val display, orders having been received at Chatham for the Formidable, 84, Capt. Luard, flagship of the Vice-Admiral of the Red, Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief ; the Cumberland, 70, Capt. Thompson, guardship of the steam reserve in the Medway ; and the Leander, 51, 500 horse-power, attached to the first division of the steam reserve, to proceed oat to the Nom on Thursday, the Bth of March, to salute the steam vessel containing the illustrious princess on her snivel from the Continent. At present only the above ships have been de tailed for this service, but it ia expected that some others may elm be selected from the steam reserve, in order to make the display as imposing as possible. The Formidable and the Cumberland are both at present only jury rigged, but they will be at once taken in hand in ender to be ready for the occasion. The mameuvring of two sailing line-of-battle ships ander canvas at the Non will be a novelty in these days of steam. The deanery of Stamford, lately held by the VannesUs H. IL Bonney, D.D., Archdeacon of Lincoln, dammed, has (says the Stamford Mercury) been conferred by the Bishop of Lincoln upon the Rev. E. R. Manta% M.A., rector of Oretford. The office is a vary ancient and was formerly a peculiar one, and although now only honorary, and without ordinary jurisdiction, ita duties are important, as the dein is joint governor, with the vicar of All Saints and the Mayor of Stamford, of Brown's Hospital; and in conjunction with the vicar of All Saints, has the appointment of the warden, confrater, and almapeople of the said hospital. The Dublin Evening Mail states that, in reply to a deputetion, Mr. Benjamin Lee Guinness has consented to stand for the representation of Dublin in the room of Sir Edward Grogan. Mr. Cochrane, on Friday next, will call the atten tion of the House of Commons to our relations with Greece. Mr. Hennessy will move an Address to the Crown on the subject of Poland, on Friday week. On Tuesday evening hat, Daniel W. Harvey, Req., read the tragedy of " Oato " to a very numerous sad respectable audience in the hall of the Witham Literary Institute. The Rev. Sir John Page Wood, Bart., presided on the occasion. A oorreapondent at Melbourne describing the pommel:gess on board • vessel just starting for New Zealand, rye :—" What curious odds and ends of humanity. What a congress of nationalities—Europeans, Mongolians, Afri ma, Americans, sharp-freed Yankees, Irish labourers, sal low, bet ounicalar Cornish miners, serious-looking me chanics, seedy-looking gentlemen, auction-room haunt ing Jews, dissipated shopmen and clerks, all huddled to gether. Pressing their way towards the steamer are poor, anxious-looking mothers with infanta in arms, and almost infanta dragging at the gown, while shrill-voiced, red headed Highlanders manoeuvre leashes of perverse shep herds' dogs towards the gangway, and human patience and ingenuity are exhausted in persuading hones in the same direction. On a truck commanding a view of the deck strode a sheriff's olScer, thinking of nothing but executing his ca. ea. On another truck is one of the owners of tke Aiding', • mole Soot, unmistakeably doing (aa his pros tiled eye glances over the ship) a mental balance sheet be tween the expenses and the freight. In a few hours all them: various wanderers will be knocking about in Bess's Striate. What a life for women and children." The Prince Imperial was allowed to witnenn till midnight all the extraordinary doings that took place on the 10th is the state and private apartments of the Tuile ries. His tutors, who are very numerous, attended him. Both they sad their youthful charge were dressed alike, with the exception of the mantle and stockings of the latter, u his imperial highness wore a black velvet vat and oniti nuations. He looked hke a very tiny page, and his crimson stockings and Venetian mantle gave him an odd, old-fa shinned air that greatly &mama the spectators, who, for the most part, being in the habit of seeing the Emperor and Empress, dad not treat them u though they were what the Preach call "un spectacle gratuit." The Duke of Coburg was greeted as he entered his box at the theatre of Goths on the evening of the Bth with thundering applause by the public, who rose to their feet and kept up a fire of "Heckle" for several minutes. The sue of ibis display of enthusiasm was the announce• . . . meet that the duke had determined not to acee --- ptti;e Greek crown. The Gazette des Tribunaux announces that the Late ems el chanties at cards, which occurred a taw days slaw is a prints hose° at Pans, is now undergoing investi gation by the judicial authorities. LATEST INTELLIGENCE THE POLISH INSURRECTION. From letters published by the German jour nals it appears that the Polish movement, though stopped at some points, has at others assumed very serious proportions. The tactics of thePolee are to avoid serious engagements with the Russian troops, and to allow them to exhaust themselves in difficult operations, and then unexpectedly to strike a blow. The National Committee at Warsaw has ap pointed a president, to whom exclusive autho rity is given. This president has issued a procla mation to the inhabitants of Warsaw, in which the insurrection is spoken of as general—as a contest for life or death—a war which shall " overturn the giant despot who threatens European civilisation and the liberty of peoples." The Czar, the well-known Cracow journal, which circulates widely throughout Poland, was seized on the 7th by the Austrian authorities for publish ing a proclamation to the people of Cracow, signed by one of the chiefs of the insurrection, Marian Langiewicz, who states that he has been appointed to the military command of the palatinate of Cra cow. In this document he says : Considering that the palatinate of Cracow poetesses great facility for procuring arms ; that the insurrection has burst out in all the Polish provinces despoiled by Russia ; that volunteers flock there ; that we are witnesses of the fright of Russia at this slot d'ordre, " Vivo Poland, death to the Russian oppressors !"—I believe it is my duty and my right to summon our Crseovian brothers to rise. Sons of valiant fathers, you will preserve unsullied the glory which was ac quired by them. Rise in little bands ; distribute yourselves over the palatinate ; harass the Russian garrisons ; or. genies yourselves in insurrectional detachments, so as afterwards to form • regular army ; arm your. selves with faith, hope, and courage, and the least pro- bable results will become possible. Imitate the inhabitants of the palatinate of Sandomir, who are the terror of the Russians. Follow as, but promptly, for time is precious. On the occasion of the shooting of some' insur gents, the committee of insurrection in Plock have informed the Grand Duke that they will resort to reprisals, and shoot all Russian superior officers who fall into their hands. Almost the whole of the railway between War saw and Cracow is in the hands of the insur gents. The Russian and Prussian governments show great irritation against the Austrian press, which mani fests remarkable sympathies with the Polish cause. The Siècle of to-day publishes an address from the workmen of Warsaw to the workmen of France, accompanying a BUM 'of money for the distressed operatives. In it they say : Two yeses ago we swore that punishment should come on the Muscovites if the Czar did not keep his word. We have already lost much time in attempting to gain peaceably some reforms. All of our nation now feel that the pro mises of the Russian government are lies. Thus, then, cry ing to God for veogsaace, we go, young and old, to a despe rate combat. We are leaving our workshops and fields to march with our brothers to death. The Russians are mad dened against us. They are armed ; they ►re receiving re inforcements. Yon know that we shall have to loge much blood, for we have neither soldiers nor arms ; but we shall willingly fight and die, for to live In this horrible servitude is impossible. Our cause is good and just, and God will aid as if no human power comes to our assistance. You see, French brothers, what is passing amongst us, and we pray you to be ever our friends. (azorsa's rstscatme.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fan. 13. The Journal de Rt. Petersbonrg of to-day pub lishes news from Slew of yesterday's date. A band of 2,000 insurgents occupied Dibienka upon the frontier of the government of Lublin, be tween the districts of Rubeszow and Wladimir Wolhinsky. The Delta, with the heavy portion of the mail, railed at sunset on the 10th inst. She may be expected at Southampton on the 23rd. The Jeddo brought the mail to Suez, arriving there on the 9th. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (11118 DAY.) EQUITY COURTS. (Before the Muter of the Rolls.) WIESITZR O. STOTON. The plaintiff is the owner in fee and occupier of No. 84, Losedowne.place, and the defendant, a lady, is the owner of No. 82, in the same place. The supply of water to both the houses is derived from a large eider°, which is situated as to one half on the plaintiff's and the other half on the defendant's bad, but the service pipe of the cistern is fixed on the defendant's land. The plaintiff had the right of being oupplied with water through the said service pipe, andhad, the - bill stated, till recentlyenjoyed such right. The bill alleged an intended alteration by the defendant in the sire of the cistern and a diversion of the water sap. plied by the service pipe to another cistern, which she was to erect on her own land . The plainti ff had objected to say alteration without his sanction, and in reply was assured on the part of the defendant that the alterations contemplated were nectesary, but that a separate cistern should be provided on the plaintiff's premises, and the service pipe altered accordingly. The alterations by the defendant appeared to have stopped the supply of water to the cistern on the plaintiffs property, and hence this suit was instituted, preying a declaration that the plaintiff was entitled to the use and enjoyment of the usual supply of water, praying also that he might be quieted in the possession the An injunction was also asked. The defendant's answer stated that she had'offered even to lay on the water to the plaintiff's hem's, with a separate service pipe, passing entirely through the plaintiff's land, and to separate the cistern effectually to the plaietiff's satis faction, at her own expellee, but that the plaintiff had de clined such offers. . Mr. S i jilzn and Mr. Bathen were for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Ba y and Mr. Davey. for the defendants. His onour said if the defendant would undertake in the terms of the above offer or make provision to supply water to the plaintiff's half of the cistern, all proceedings must be stayed, and the plaintiff must pay the costa up to the hearing. Liberty to apply. - (Before Floe-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.) This was • suit instituted by the plaintiff, as mortagee of the ship Warbler, against thedefendanta Fogo, who pur chased the vessel in Louisiana, Macdonald, the muter of the vessel, and Campbell the consignee—to have it declared that the mortgagee was entitled both to the ship and height, subject only to such proper disbursements, if any, as the court should allow. The case was this :—Menre. Klingender Brothers being the sole registered owners of The Warbler, which was • British vessel, by en indenture, dated the 25th September, 1864, and duly registered at Liverpool on the 2nd October following, mortgaged the ship to the plaintiff, as trustee for the Bank of Liverpool, for the purpose of securing • sum of money then due to the bank upon an overdrawn account, and also sk • continual and running security to the bank for all monies which then were or thereafter might become due from the firm of Klingender Brothers to the bank, with interest. On the 4th of December, 1857, the mortgagors stopped payment. The ship was then on • voyage to New Orleans, and arrived there about the end of that month. She was shortly after attached by certain creditors of the mortgagors under proceedings taken in the mauls of Louisiana by the attaching creditors for the pnr pose of making the ship available for their demands. The Bank of Liverpool, before hearing of these proceedings, sent out instructions to their agent, Mr. William Mum of New Orlesns (the proceedings being in the district court of Louisiana). to claim the ship under the bill of sale ; and such agent with that view intervened in the proceedints, and used his utmo-t endeavours to protect the Batik of Liver pool as mortgagees of the ship by from time to time assert ing and insisting on the title of the bank as mortgagee* under the said bill of sale Such proceedings, however, resu , ted after several hearings in the title of the bank being wholly disregarded, the law of Louisiana not allowing of mortgages of chattels ; and under the order of the court there the ship was sold to the defendant Fogs, • British subject then and still residing in Louisiana he buying with full knowledge of the bill of sale executed in favour of the bank, and of the bank asserting and insisting on their title as mortgagees, and denying as they in fact did that such defendant could acquire cry good or sufficient title to the ship as against the bank. The ship arrived on the 22nd of gareb, 1860, at Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton. This am / was then instituted by the plaintiff as public officer of the bank. Since the suit, the ship bad been sold by arrangement, and the money retained by the defendant Campbell to sumer the purposes of the suit. The Vice-Chancellor, when the ease was heard, reserved his judgment, which he now proceeded to deliver. After a lengthy examination of authorities and a condemnation of the law of the Lousiata, which was unique in refusing to recognise the law of other countries, a condemnation which their own jurists did not hesitate to express, his honour came to the conclusion that in justice to British citizens that law could not be upheld here ; none quently the title of the defendants derived under that judgment was null and void, and the plainti ff must be declared entitled to the value of the vessel. THE ZINODOM OF GREECE. The following letter from Earl Russell to -the Greek chore d'afFaires bring the question relating to the affairs of Greece down to the latest date. With some verbal alteratioos, it is said to be substantially correct : ' Foreign Office, Feb. 10, 1883. _ . _ "The nodersigned, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has had the honour to receive the communication of the charge d'affaires of Greece, bearing date the 6th instant, enclosing a decree of the Second Na t West Assembly of the Greeks at Athens, and he has re °aired the order" of her Majesty on this subject. "Hr Majesty cannot be more flattered than by the cos- Mance and the friendship manifested with regard to bee Majesty, her family, sad the British nation, by the election of her son Prince Alfred to the crown of Greece. Her Majesty mess in this act a testimouy of the coolldenos placed by Greece is the regalia of the education given to Prises Alfred by his illustrious and regretted father, the Prins Goesert ; but her Majesty is compelled by the diplo matic engagements of the crown, and by other powerful considerations, to decline the signal honour on the part and in the name of her son. Her Majesty sad the royal family will not be the leas happy and peened starer to bear in mind the spontaneous rote of t►e Greek peoply at ones so honourable for those who Wend the wows. and so fetter-' lug for the Qom sad fee Prince Alfred, to whom the offer was made." PRUSSIA. During the recent discussion on the calling out of the Prussian reserves, ministers gave a very pa cific explanation as to the object in view. The facts, however, seem rather the other way. The captain of the Gth Regiment of Infantry has just addressed to the men of the reserve an allocution which concludes as follows : The reserves of the garrisoa have been called out, not because of the Poles, for we shall not have to take the sword oat of its sheath for them, but because of the internal situation of oar country. The deputies, those canaille, who receive three thaws a day to drink in the cabarets, are opposed to giving soldiers the pay which belongs to them. But we will put an end to all that, and it is for this that the King has called us together. A Berlin letter states that King William intends making a tour in the Prussian provinces during the coming spring. It is rumoured that the ministers hope by means of this excursion to stimulate the loyalty of the populations, preparatory to a dissolu tion of the chamber and a general election. (isorzz's mawsAma.) THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ALABAMA. SOUTHAMPTON, FEN. 13. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Atrato has arrived here with the above mails, 42 pa.sengers, 1,346,579 dole. in specie, and 2,940 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas on the 30th ult., and experienced a fine passage. The Confederate steamer Alabama was at Port Royal, having lauded 118 men and 17 officers of the war steamer Hatteras, which she engaged and sunk in thirteen minutes. Forty-three of the crew of the Hatteras were drowned. FRANCK. PARIS, FEL 13. The Moniker of this morning publishes news from Mexico to the 16th ult., stating that no mili tary events of any importance had occurred. The sanitary condition of the troops was good. The stock of provisions and the means of trans port were increasing. The confidence of the popu lation had augmented. The health of the crew of the frigate Normandie was satisfactory. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Fla. 13. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the January account: _ Imutzesz. Cash in hand 2l 3.5 DECREASE. Bank notes -5 „ Bills discounted, not yetdue 70 „ Advances 27 Treasury balanco 25 Current accounts 26k I, AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Fs. 13. The exportation and carriage of arms and parts of arms, scythes, ammunition, saltpetre, sulphur, and lead across the frontier to Russia has been pro hibited by the Austrian government. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company THE BOMBAY MAIL. ALEXANDRIA, Fn. 12. The Elaine, with the above mail, sailed for Marseilles at sunset yesterday. THI MARQUIS OF BOTH V. TH TAPP RAILWAY. His honour delivered judgment also in this °asa in which he came to the conclusion that the plaintiff failed to make out a coatract by the defendants, that they were exclu• nicely to use and convey to the plaintiff's dock at Cardiff. This being the vary gist of the bill the plaintire case failed, and his suit must be dismissed with costa. COURT OF COMMON PLEA& Sittings at Nisi Prins in Lodon.—(Bolors Lord ChielJustios Erie end a Specisl Jury.) 8013121688 or TB! COURT. nil WSJ the Ent day of the sitting in after term, and the list contains 110 entries, of which 46 are merited for trial by special juries. 27 of the Mies are remeinete. - LISWILLIN V. WINDILLIL -NIL WINDHAM AGAIN. This was an action to recover an amount due for rent, dis., and the defendant paid 254 into court, and in addition pleaded infanor. Mr. M. Chamber, and Mr. J. C. Mansell appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Kerslake end Mr. D. Keane for the de fendant. The eau was down for trial on a previous occasion, bat only eleven of the special jurors answered to their names, and as a tales we. not prayed, the trial went off for default of jurors. On the present occasion also eleven of the jurors answered, but at the request of the plaintiff'. counsel the cumber was completed by the addition of • common juror. Mr. Chambers, in opening the use, said that the plain tiff was in the occupation of a house in Duke-street, St. James's which he was in the habit of letting out in apartments. M. William Frederick Windham was 'gentle. man whose name was probably not unknown to the gentlemen of the jury, and he was now sued to recover 1091. 14s. Id., of which 1601. was for rent, 31. Os. for attendance, and a balance of Recount 61. Bs. 10. The de fendant had formerly lodged with • lady named Shentoo, in the vicinity of St. james's-square, and when he went to her again in 1861, she said that her apartment' were occupied,but she recommended him to the plaintiff. Mr. Windham went there, and from the 27th of May to the 24th of June be occupied apartments at the defendant's at two guineas a week. Mr. Lewellin had other apartments, which heist to gentlemen by the year; and as he did not wish tohave Mr. Windham as • weekly lodger, he spoke to him soon after the 24th June, saying that he could not let him continue as a weekly tenant, and that if he remained he must take his apartments by the year. It was therefore arranged that the apartments should be taken at 1001. a year, and 7s. a week for at teodance, when Mr. Windham should reside there. Mr. Windham occupied the apartments until 29th August, when he suddenly went away, saying he should be back again in half an hour, though he did not re turn, and, in fact, on that occasion got married. It was not necessary on the present occasion to introduce any of the annoying circumstances conoczted with that marriage, which has since become so notorious. Mr. Windham gain occupied his appartmenta, but he kept his streetcloor key, and there were some letters which showed that he retained legal possession of the apartments. On the 12th September Mr. Windham wrote "Dear Lewellin, please send the wine at once. Just drop a line, and I will send for it. Send to Victoria Station, Norwich. Please send all my things." In answer, Mr. 1 owellin wrote " Dear sir, agreeably with your req uest I forward the whole of your things by rail, and I hope that tney will all arrive safe. I also beg to inform you that on the 30th of this mouth (August) a quarter's rent is due for your apartments in my house. If you should wish and feel dis posed to give me permission to let your room I would do so, and on my getting • new tenant you could, if _you thought proper, let your tenancy finally expire." To that Mr. Windham sent no answer. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Comosiesioner Gottlbare.) IN RE CHARLIE% WILLIAMS. The bankrupt w“asa - lathe - rmerch - ii;i:of New Weston. dreet, Bermondsey. This WAS the adjourned sitting for discharge. The liabilities, as shown by the accounts of Mmes. Paul and Turner, are 8,2001. ; amt. about MO/. Mr. Linklater opposed for the soigne. ; Mr. Sargood so Crri d ncipal charge against the bankrupt woe that he had sold goods on commission for Malin. Barrrw and Son, of Bermondsey, Mr. Shepley, of Bristol, and other credi tors, and bad returned account sales at leas prices than he had obtained for the goods. This was srbstantially ad mitted by the bankrupt, and justified on the ground that he sold on a del eredere commission, and returned lower prices in cases where there was greater risk. He thought be had a right to do that provided be returned as high • price as the principals had put on the goods. He admitted that he was insolvent at the beginsing of 1861. It appeared that the bankrupt had bsea promoted, along with one of his clerks, for °ow inicy, sad both had beau acquitted. On sales of 4,1591., the account males showed • deficiency of 371. only. Kr. Linklater submitted that the case came within the 7th clause of the 221st sachem, which nude it • mod.. meanour for a bankrupt to keep false books or accourita,with • view to defraud his creditors. HO Honour &might that there might be a question as to the custom of the trade. Kr. Linklater said that no such element had been intro duced into the case; and it was &libel cm the whole of the in the City of London to say that it was the custom of the trade to return false accounts to thou principals. He contended that the bankrupt was wholly disentitled to his order of discharge, mid that the cue wu one in which the court ought to exercise its power of imprisonment. His Honour naked how much had been radioe d? . .. . _ Hr. Oralum , the official assign ee, said he had only got IN. Mr. Barrow, the trade assignee, had received about 20/. Hr. Kagood, while admitting the untruthfulness of the accounts, denied that the bankrupt had any intention of deceiving his principals, so loos as he returned the price at which they were willing to sell the goods. Without the sanction of this court the bankrupt bad boon charged before a magistrate, but he dismissed the charge. Not content with that, the assignee had preferred an isdietment, still without the authority of the court, and the result woe the acquittal of the bankrupt. For the last twelve months he had been suffe ring from that prosecution. The Commissioner —I always act on the maxim, " Nemo debet his vexari pro modem =noun." I shall not take the subject of the indictment into consideration at all. Mr. Sargood said that the sufferings which the bankrupt had endured in connexion with that prosecution ought to be taken into account. No acquittal, however honourable, could atone for the mental and physical suffering and dia. grace inseparable from having been placed among felons at the bar of the Old Bailey. His Honour reserved his judgment. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fans.) IY Iti 8i11ar24138 AND NICHOLL—DIVIDIERD. _ . _ This wee an old bankruptcy. The bankrapte were Feat India merchants, of Bt. Mary-axe. Their liabilities were nearly 40,04101. ; the meets are expected to yield a dividend of between 6d. and la. in the pound. 111 U ANIMUS HOWES. The bankrupt wee ZneeraUal of fileg Williamatrest. formerly in partnership with one Riche:dam. This was the sitting for examination and discharge. Liabilities, 4,9001 ; meets about 1,1001. There was no opposition. The bank. rapt passed, and obtained his order of discharge. (Before Yr. Hoiroyd.) The bankrupt, a publican, of applied for his order of die:harp. Debts, 6321. •no assets. Mr. Reed and Mr. Murrough oppc'esd for creditors. It appeared that the bankrupt had bow sppointed executor under the will of a Mrs. Stuart, a relative ; but it appearing that she was a married woman, he took out letters of administration, and had got possession of the LlZ:ty, part of which was the lease of the house in er-street. After instituting two mats in Chancery, and an action at law, the bankrupt had o ff ered to give up possession of the hou se on payment of 301. Hs kept posses rims, as executor of Mrs. Stuart, whose funeral expenses were not yet paid. His Honour passed the examination, sod adjourned the order of discharge until the questions pending under Mrs. Stuart's will were settled. . . In the course of the hearing a man who appeared to be strongly interested in the CYO on the side of the bankrupt. and who kept interrupting the proceedings was forcibly ex pe lied by order of the court. THE POLICE COLJRTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Charles Nutley, ;;;;;;talTly-drersedn;n, derwribed aa • traveller, wail charged before the Lord Mayor with em bezzling various stuns of mossy amounting in the aggro** to about 2001., the property of his employers, Marrs. Cron and Gordon, tea dealers, of 27 Rood-lane. Mr. Mullins appeared on behalf of the prosecutors; Mr. Lewis, of Fly-place, defended she prisooer. The prisoner was brought up and examined a few days ago, but the evidence being very inoomplete he was re. mauled. From the additional evidence brought forward to-day le appeared that the prisoner was in the employ of the prime• rotors as country traveller, at a edify of 35.., with 51. Ss. a week for travelling expenses, and it wee his duty to sell goods and to remit the money to Loudon to Messrs. Crow and Gordon. Last week the prisoner returned from the country, when he handed over all the money in hand, and which he alleged was all he had received. • but upon the books being made up, Mr. Oran suspected that all wee not right, and in consequence of that suspicion he wrote down to the country, when he ascertained that the prisoner bad received about 2001. from different parties, which sum he had not aceounto3 for to his employers. Witnesses were now called, and they proved havinr paid the prisoner various sum, amounting t0.. 2001 - _ . Mr. Lewis tried to make it out that the agreement en. tired into between the prisoner and Mr. Cross was more that of partners than between master and servant, and en deavoured to show that whatever breach of duty it was on the prisoner's part, it was clearly not an embezzlement. The Lord Mayor, however, thought different, and com mitted the prisoner for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. LOAD W. LINEOL AND THE PICKPOCKETS. Bdward Turner, who gave the address Old Pve•etreet, and said he wig a shoeblack, was charged before Mr. Knox with attempting to pick the pocket of Lord William Pitt Lennox, of 19, Upper Phillimore•gsrdena, Kensington. Lord William Lennox said that at 6 o'clock yesterday evening, he was passing along Old Bond-street, when three boys, the prisoner being one of them, followed him, and on turning down Bruton-steeet the prisoner seized his pocket. He turned round to take the prisoner, but he docked down and ran off, and, though sharply pursued by him, was not stopped till he got to Maddoz•atreeet, where a number of the prisoner's associates got round him (Lord W. Lennox) and said that it was a shame and that he ought to let the prisoner go. The prisoner took advantage of this and again docked and ran off, but being determined that be should not escape he pursued him, when the prisoner fell and pretended that he had been run over. Mr. Lock wood, auctioneer, of Queen's.terrace, Islingtos, then cams to his (Lord W. Lennni's) assistance and rendered him the greatest service, and having got a cab, they put the prisoner in and got is themselves to take the prisoner to the police station, not seeing a constable ►t the time. They went on amidst a shower of minas' t.l l they got to Verrey's door, when the cab stopped for some reason, and a man tried to get into the cab and bow:meted Mr. Lockwood. who at his (Lord W. Lennox'e) suggestion left the cab. He then took the prisoner to the station, and charged him. George Castle, 69 C, said he went to the address the pri soner gave, but he was not known there. He knew the prisoner as formerly sweeping a crossing, and on searching him at the station he found two duplicates relating to pocket-handkerchiefs. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months, with bard labour. WORSHIP-STREET. ♦ tBIV 111 ♦ CHUB U. A well.ckessed man, who Pee the Babe of Ra).ort Carirr, but refused hie address, was charged before Mi. Leigh with two separate robberies in a church. Mrs. Hannah Kirby, residing at De Beauvoir•terrace, Kinpland, said—A new church named St. Saviour, is Northportatreet, Holton, having yesterday been opened. I went there, and on leaving perceived the prisoner near me and a lady in the porch. Soddenly I heard the fall of money. The prisoner stooped and then ran off. I felt in my drew pocket and missed a puree, containing a quantity of silver, also several keys and memoranda. Prisoner—Did you see me put my hand io your pocket! Witnem—l did not, and your respectable appearance would not warrant suspicion. Prisoner—That's all right- you did not see me, you say. Mrs. Sophia Cook, Jenkins-cottage, Horton—l was at the church, and must have bees close by this lady at the time in question, for I heard money fall, but it was not hers, for when the prisoner picked it up I perceived in his hand several half-crowns and a florin. I bad had such coins in my dress pocket ; they were contained in a small bag purse, and I missed them before the prisoner ran away. They must have fallen out of the bog. . . Prisoner—Did you see me or feel me pick your pocket! Witness—Oertainly not' but being close to me on that; side, you must have does so. PrisoDer —There's no must in the case ; answer my yuee• Lion. Witness—l say that I did not. Prisoner—Of course not. That's all right ; you can stand down. _ _ Witness—But I told you that the money wu mine. Pi isoner.-You did not say a word. Not any one claimed it, Rod of course I kept it. ?dim Sarah Jane Hurst—l saw the prisoner drop some money out of %small bag which, after stooping, he ran off with, I suppose. Two men brought him lock. Prillolllll —Did you see me with either hand in anyone's pocket? Witmer—l could not see that. You were dose to several ladies now sod then. _ Prisoner—(cosfideotly) I've dose with you, that's all right. N 533—The pnsoser was gives into my custody but the mcsryoeprprty has sot bees recovered. Mr: Leiib.:ls the prisoner known Sergeant Cole, C division, who chanced to be in court upon other burin:Kea here observed —Oh yes, sir, I have known hint for years to be a thief. He has been convicted at tdarlborough.street Police court,and also at the mallow, if I am sot mistaken. Mr. Leigh—At any rate he has been committed. Cole—Oh, there's not a doubt about that, mr. Prisoner—Did you ever see me at the sessioes, Mr. Cole Cole—l believe that you had twelve months' sentence there for picking pockets. Prisoner—Will you swear that I was ever at the sessions! c o ls—No ; bat believe it is as 'nay. Prisoner—That is all right. Mr. Leigh—You will he remanded and then sent for ttiul• Remanded accordingly. GREAT The hall bold et 1 minus, the I XL STTVJ Mr. &leads — Onr - ii.. c V. ln e. bini r if ran The CHAI up to the tie not undertai In oonneyne bad been & E The .el w (The chair report wee tl. This sf ti the sbarehol Tavern, Bill The raper improvement gun to si goods and m past half-ya pression of of the arm by the Am increased ri net profit w 7,500 i. has t the oorrespo boa material 1860, the tol The receipt against 91 6 &C., traffic t period of thl past Mafia traffic on tt against 37,01 Tbsenpmdi 22,0001. T works are being coati dated. Aft are enable.. 3 i per ma account. T been expend together 5,4 ending thsl received on zf , for th e B 9 . con meal *moo psuditure of 36,1581., NOR,