The Express. — London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

pews POST CLASS and LONDON PRIZE )(KOALA. WATHMSTON and BROODIN, GOLDSMITHS and JEWELLKJI3. liaanbctory,l6. lienrsettsAireat, Covent-golden. NM , LAMM N.B.This establishment is cloned at dln the evening, and co listordays at 1 o'clock. SPECIAL NOTICL—TO °INTERMIX, MIL MILES (Alfred Webb Miles), 3, Brook trret L , aanoverwiaare, is prepared to subm 7 it for pubUc approval all A NEW TROUSERS PATTERNS for spring and mummer wear, which sill be found to greater variety and better than ever. the continual remark of gentle men to their friends Is, Why pay more than lea for your summer trousers KVEKI BODY KNOWS Yr. MILES removed from Bond street in MEASRS. MEC and BAZIN have au SALE the la-ge , t iariety in the kintritum of TRAVELLING and Dlittl , , , lNG ittitta for faith* and Oontlemen.-112, Regent street, and 4, LeadeuhalLetret L Loudon. OPERA, FIELD, and RIFLE GLASSES. I 1; RETT! and 7.AAI BRA'S DUtJBLI ACHROMATIC /JULYS, powesaing peat power, complete In ease, Yls. and Pent on IN otipt of po.l.offtco order. —l, Hatton-warn 64, 12 4 -, Restutsfroet . and Crystal Palace. S)d..l"". erpretsll. TO 001111.ESPONDENTS. ildverthemeatt Intended for 'the Etyma" London Evening Pawr, mast be at the Oleo, 10, Boom...street, by Two diaock on the day of oublioatloo. UAV ARKET. THIS Emineo, BOMI;OWING A FITSBAND.—FINESSE. Messrs. A. Wigan, Howe, Burkatune, Gordon. and Farrell ; A. Wigan, Mrs. Wilkins, Nliss L Angel, 111111 Miss Y. Wright.— SCCISSIONE AT HOME„—And MY HUSBANIYS OIiOST. - LYCEI - 11. Tars ErEllira, A SUDDEN ATTACK. Kamm Short sad Wfddloomb Mimi Mande sod 31ra. Les.—And HIE MOM MOTTO. Beam. F,chter, Shore. Brougham, sad B.aymoud lliarea C. Lidera% IL Tent, an d Elaworthy. BRITANNIA. Twl Immo, IHE WIDOW AND ORTHANS.—FAITII, HOPE, AND CHARITY, with Professor Popper adaptation ot Mr. Dirtlitra oPECTItAL ILLITSION.—And AURORA WYD, HIGH WATTA AT LOAM! BILIDGI. TKO DAT —Vortilmi. 7b 301......A1ber0005. Bh. OIL To4rBaow—ldoestem. S. Abs.....Atlereara. 90. 7s. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 26. quired. Feeling the responsibility which will lie • upon them, Government has accordingly taken power to supplant colonels and majors by men better fitted for their duties. But the admission thus wrung from them only raises two questions more. The first is, why, if it is contemplated that there may be majors and colonels too ignorant to be permitted to lead their men in time of war, these same officers should be permitted to hold their places in time of peace 4 The second is, whether none are ignorant but mounted officers ; or whether a blunder by • captain, or even a subaltern, may not be as fatal to the nation as if made by a major ? We commend thee° two inquiries to the consideration of the War Office and of the Volun teer body. The whole evil arises simply from the preponderance of influence, of titles, and wealth over energy and capacity. It is to save the feel ings of noble commanding officers that the in spectors forbear to put them to a really searching proof of their knowledge, and of necessity, there fore, must avoid inquiring into the competency of their subalterns. Government, as we have seen, knows the facts well enough to shrink from the responsibility of leaving such men in command should the force be called out for actual service ; but it shrinks equally from the course of requir ing them now to qualify or to resign. This state of things will continue so long as the country and She Volunteers themselves do not think fit to re monstrate. But it is so utterly rotten, so weak while yet so hurtful, that it could not survive an hoar, save through the ignorance of the public, and the growing indifference and listlessness which it has itself engendered among the Vo lunteers. The best result of the Commission will be the issue of this Bill, which contains so em phatic a declaration of the knowledge and confes sion of the powerlessness of the War Office. Ebt Coun. WE are not sorry to observe that a committee has been formed (sitting at the Whittington Club) for the purpose of watching over the general interests of the Volunteer body, as affected by the Government Bill now in Parliament. It is unfortunate that an institution so eminently national, the strength of which is above all in its rank and file, which numbers in that grade so many of social standing equal or superior to that of their commanders, should hitherto have been represented almost exclusively by persons holding commissions. The Volunteer Commission included no privates; of some thirty or forty witnesses whom it examined only two were privates ; and, as a correspondent at the time informed the public, it refused to hear the statements which privates offered to lay before it. It is true that the best possible feeling and fellowship exists as a rule between officers and men. But the rule is at least subject to exceptions ; and when we find, as in some instances, that officers exclude privates from the social recreations which take place in the name of the corps, it is impossible to deny that the officers may fail in faithfully reflect ing the wisbee and spirit of those with whom they decline to associate. Even, indeed, in eases which are len exceptional it must be admitted that the ranks cannot depend on being fairly represented by those who are above them. If a grievance exists, if there is any real or fancied cause of complaint against an officer, he either does not hear of it at all—in which alternative be is most excusable in failing to represent it—or if he hears of it he either retires from the service, or resentfully defies it. What possibility is there in any of these cases that he will, while holding a commission, beable to do justice to the real sentiments of his men Therefore it is not wonderful that a commission BALMORAL, MAY 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helens, and attended by Lady A. Bruce, went out (hiving this morning. Princes Louise went out siding. Prince Arthur arrived at the Castle, attended by Major Elphinstooe. Dr. M'Leod arrived at the Castle. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale, visited the International Dog Show at the Agricultural-hall, Islington, yesterday morning. The Duke de Chartres paid a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Marlborough House. The Prince of Wales, attended by his Equerry in Wait ing, rode on horseback. The Princess of Wales, attended by her Lady in Waiting, took a drive in an open carriage. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Duchess of Inverness in the evening, at her residence in Kensington Palace. Their royal highnesses were attended by the Coun tess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale. A meetiag of the Council of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was held yesterday at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall. Buelriosibam-gate, St. James's-park. There a ere present Sir William Dunbar, Keeper of the Privy Seal ; Colonel the Hoc. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, Receiver-General; Lieutenant-General Knollys, Comp troller of the Household of his Royal Highness, and Iced Portman. Mr. Bateman, the Secretary, attended. Despatches ware received yesterday at the Colonial-oglos from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, and from the Lord High Cceimekoner of the /011ilii Islands. The Archbiehop of Canterbury and the Misses Langley have left town for Addington Park, Croydon, for the Whitsuntide rases. The Earl of Dudley gave hie first ball for the season hat night at Dudley House, Park-lane. A numerous party wee present. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough come to town to-morrow from Blenheim Palms, near Woodstock ' The parties for which invitations were imusd were put off, owing to several of the junior member' of the family being attacked by scarlatina. Having quite recovered, the duke and dauber are now enabled to receive company. We un derstand that the Marquis of Blandford is about to enter one of the memento of the household cavalry. thus unfairly composed and thus imperfectly in formed should have been unable to discover that there was any ground for dissatisfaction with present arrangements, and should have deemed that a guinea a head and • relief from half the required number of compulsory drills was all that was wanted to inspire universal contentment, and to sevive languishing patriotism. And so it happens that when the groundwork for these con cessions has to be laid by • bill in Parliament, Government adopts the opportunity afforded by "consolidation" to introduce provisions of which the least that can be said of them is that they are just half • century out of date and fitness. The clause to which the Whittington Club Committee direct, special attention falls unques tionably under this category. It is taken almost verbatim from the Act of 1804. It provides that when any corps is not called out for actual service it shall be in the power of the commanding officer to expel any member for disobedience, or for any other sufficient cause, the existence and suffi ciency of such cause having to be judged of by such commanding, officer alone. No appeal was, or is, given against the exercise of this arbitrary authority, save a somewhat remote and inaccessible one to the Sovereign in person. We shall certainly not undertake to say what may have been requisite for the maintenance of disci pline in 1804. Summary dismissal may possibly have been • proper penalty spinet a mutinous private in those days of Hellfire Clubs and of machine-breaking mobs. It is perfectly possible that at a time when blasphemy was held the necessary appendage of valour, and habitual drunkenness the sole test of manhood, the swift and sharp punishment of expulsion on the spot may have been needed to enable a commanding officer to maintain any semblance of decency when be marched his corps to Pinchley. But what does Government mean by re-enacting such an obsolete insult in the year 1863 1 Does it profess that an uncontrolled power of inflicting punishment and disgrace such as no colonel of regular troops is entrusted with, is indispensable to maintain discipline among Volunteers 1 The answer will, of course, be an utter disclaimer of any such idea. We shall be told that the provision was copied from the old statute by error, and that it will be modified so as to make the decision of a Court of Inquiry necessary before any sentence is enforced. The model rules issued by the War Office itself in 1859 made provision, indeed, for such • check upon the tyranny vested by the statute in the commanding officer. But the fact that the clause of the old statute had nevertheless crept into the new one shows either the great influence still exer cised by Colonels of Volunteers in the War Office, and the small knowledge in that department of the feelings and habits of the men, or else, what is less audible, that Lord ea GRIT and Colonel 1,111 cue° had not read the Bill which now imams from their hands. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department, has issued invitations for a state dinner at the Clarendon Hotel, in honour of her Ma jesty's birthday, on Saturday, June 6. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies; has issued Invitations; for a state dinner, in honour of her Majesty's birthday, oo Saturday, 6th June, at the Clarendon Hotel. _ _ The Earl Russell, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has issued cards for a full dream banquet on Saturday, the 6th proximo, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, to the whole of the foreign ambassadors and minis ters, together with the noblemen and gentlemen who have ' filled diplomatic appointments abroad at present in town. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Admiralty, will give a full drew dinner on the 6th of the ensuing month to a numerous and distinguished party be• longing to his department of the state, in honour of the Queen's birthday. _ The Earl do Grey, as Secretary of State for War, will entertain a numerous circle of military officers and others connected with his particular department of the state, on Saturday, the 6th of next month, in celebration of the Quest's birthday. _ Prince Alexander Dolgorouki and Count George de St. Frio:et have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Paris. The widow of the Right Hon. George Bankes, late Judge Advocate-General, is shout to marry Mr. Buller, brother of Lord Chariton, aad late 11.1'. for Devonshire. The 29th Middlesex Rifles had a field day yes istday at Camden Park, Chiselburst, when it will be recol lected Lord Ranelagh three years ago set the feshion of trying the mettle of our volunteers. Although the 29th wee not joined., as was expected, by other London corps, nevertheless the field day wee a decided sumer. A vo/un ter geld day on a small scale was also held yesterday' afternoon at the Balham end of Streathani-eommon. For scene reason or other, however, only the corps immediately commanded by Lord Truro were present, conniating of 100 of the Middlesex Volunteer Artillery, five companies of the 4th Middlesex Rides, end 25 of the lit Middlesex Light Harm Volunteers. THE PRINCE of WALES AND THE CITY.—The freedom of the city of London is to be presented to the Priem of Wake is a gold casket of great value. It is 74 inches long, 6 inches wide, nod 8; inches high, end richly decorated with enamel and cioque-ceuto ornaments. The frost is compowd al a ground of blue Gemmel, in the metre of which are raised shields surrounded by in eternal of the proper colours the arms of England Denmark. These are supported on one side by the arms of the Lily, and on the other by those of the Lord Mayor, chased in pure gold. Above these is a model of the Princes crown of state. The reverse side is occupied by the Initials of the Prime and Princess in floe gold, on a pound of blue enamel, and a plate bsering the following fiat :—" Rome, mayor. Presented by the Corporation of London, with the freedom of the OW, to his Ifighnew the Prince of Wales, on Monday, Bth Jose, 1863." THE WANDERING Dintersam—On Thursday swasissa at the concert to be gives at HROOTIIMIQUITI Rooms, for the benefit of the Animistic* in Aid of theDed end Dumb, their Royal Highnesses the Prism and Primrose el Wiles, the Dashers of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary bare graclooal y expressed their intention to be priori. The W Minstrels forma complete orchestra of makers. The society le composed of 40 noblemen end gentlemen, _who meet regularly f o r practioe at the residence of Lord Gerald Fitgaald, so well known in the nimieel world. The Hon. Seymour Fpotoe, wbo conducts, is muter of alined every instrument in the orchestra, and has writhes several very secctiya posse. Among the members me the Viscount Grey de NViltors, the Hoe. Howl Coke, Sir Archibald Mao. devoid, the Hm. Edward r, the Hon. Fredmielt Stanley, Colonel Hugh Baßank , u de Bath e. Pegs, he. ; the beaawar, meakbies am the Duke of Umber, the But of Wilke, Lea r z oa Cetheeise Oaks, Lily Alko Ziff" , tee, the B AY . Si r F A. G. (Marley, and Ca p le ts Fidler, who oceuirmelly take pert In the performanees. Os els occasion the programme will include a chaise sdartke of filmiest orchestral music, a solo on the pienotoete by Ludy Catherine Coke, a solo ea the violin, a solo on the ' omit, and a eleg by Neel' lase. he. In another point, however, we are glad to find that they have introduced a material improvement upon the old model. In 1804 power waa reserved to Government only to appoint general officers to volunteers in the event of their being called out. By the present Bill the power is extended to apply to field officers. This is an acknowledgment on the part of the authorities of the fact which we have often forced on their attention, that they dare not rely on the efficiency of the Volunteer officers in the event of the services of the force being re- THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1863, LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sitting; in Benoo.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn sod Justices Wightrusti sod Blickburo.) row= V. FORST= AND BEBEIDGZ.. This was a very important question relative to the jurisdiction of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Court, and lathe first application of the kind that has been brought before the Queen 'a Bench. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., said he' applied on behalf of Mr. Berridge for a rule to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue to the judge of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes to prohibit him from proceeding further in this case. It was an ordinary petitioa, filed by the husband against his wife and her paramour for adultery, in which Mrs. Forster and Mr. Berridge appeared abr. lately to the petition. It was afterwards discovered that Mr. and Mrs. Forster were born in India, bad lived in India, and had married there. They were both the children of Indian parents, and had never come to this country till about 1854, when Mr. Forster returned to India, leaving Mrs. Forster to watch over the education of the children. 1841 Mr. Forster again visited this country, but only for the purpose of instituting these proceedings when he returned to India, where he now was. Those facts were discovered after the respon dent and co-respondent had appeared absolute to the petition, whereupon pro cee dings were taken for the withdrawal of that appearance, and an appearance to be entered under protest in order to raise the jurisdiction. The summons was heard and the application was withdrawn. Other proceedings were taken but without effect, and the petition came on for hearing in the ordinary form before a jury, and rie the fact of the adultery was not seriously contested by Mr. Berridge the jury found a verdict for the petitioner, with 5,0001. damages. Mr. Justice Wightman—Wan the adultery committed in England ? Mr. Coleridge—Yes. The decree nisi was now pending, and Mr. Graham, a friend of Mr. Berridge, had intervened under the act of the 23rd and 24th Victoria, which gives any person an opportunity of showing cause, within the specified time, why a rule nisi should not be made abso lute. The learned judge thought the true con struction of the act was that the question of jurisdic tion was not to be raised by the Intervenor, but that he was to be confined to bringing matters before the court, such as collusion between the parties, material facts that hail been kept back, or facts that had not come to the knowledge of the court from inadvertence to show that the decree ought not to be made absolute, and refused to en tertain the application. He therefore now applied to the court on behalf of Mr. Berridge for a writ of prohibition ; and the question was, whether it would lie. He contended there was no jurisdiction on the part of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Court in England to entertain a suit of this kind. lie found in a decision of the full court in the case of "Radcliff v. Andorra," pre sided over by the late herd Campbell, assisted by Mr. Baron Martin and the Judge Ordinary, Lord Campbell laid down that the jurisdiction of the court must depend on the 20 and 21 Vie., chap. 83, and if it was not given by that act it could not be extended by the common law. It was a eta tillable jurisdiction. By the 2nd section of the act, the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in matrimonial causes was abolished, and by the 6th section it was traeaferred to the new court. That act did not enlarge the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court except so far as to grant divorces • vinculo, and there was nothing in the act which altered the jurisdiction over persons from that which would have been exercised by the ecclesiastical courts of England. The court was established for England only, Ireland and Scotland for, the purposes of the act being treated as foreign countries. The Lord Chief Justice —Your proposition is that persons married out of Englaod cannot be dissolved by this court? Mr. Coleridge—Yes. If not English subjects. Mr. Justice Blackburn—Do you make it depend on the domicile at the time of the marriage, at the time of the adultery, or the locality where the marriage takes place! Mr. Coleridge—That where there was no English domicile and no English marriage there was no jurisdiction. If two foreigners enter into marriage in England the court would have jurisdiction, but where neither person was personally within the jurisdiction, and entered into a contract out of the jurisdiction. thelpmper place for the parties to go to was the courts of the country where they were domiciled, and where the marriage took place. Mr. Justice Wightman asked if the parties in this case were British subjects at the time of the marriage. Mr. Coleridge maid—Yes ; the Queen's subjects in India. The parents had also a domicile, and the' proper place for the petitioner to apply to was the Ecclesiaaticsl Court at Calcutta, under the old form of procedure. This act was specifically confined to Eugland. That point was decided in the case of " Yelverton v. Yelverton." In the case of two French persons coming over here and marrying, and then going back again, be should have said the court had no jurisdiction but for the decision of the court to the contrary, and in that case by the French courts the woman was held to be • femme sole ' • yet in England she was held by the Divorce Court to be a married woman. It was • startling decision ' but as it had not been appealed spinet it must be taken to be the law. Mr. Justice Wightman said the question was, could two British subjects in India married there. and the wife com mitting adultery in England, apply for redress to the Eng lish Divorce Court! Mr. Coleridge said the court was established by statute, and was expressly confined to England. He hed to show the court that it was apoint well worthy of the consideration of the court. The Lord Chief Justice said he could not help thinking that it was the intention of the legislature to transfer all the rights British subjects, whether residing in or out of England, had under the old law. If that had been in existence the husband would have had a right to go before parliament and ask for • dissolution of his marriage. Mr. Coleridge then quoted a number of cress which he said bore upon the point, but he had no direct case in point to lay before their lordships. The Lord Chief Justine said he thought the learned counsel must have a rule. Rule granted accordingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittior in Banoo.—(Elefore Lord Chief Justice File and Justices Williams, Willos, and Bytes.) aszuntialm v. TM GREAT WISTIaIf RAILWAY COMPAIIT.— THE CARRIAGE OFPARCEUL This was an action by Messrs. Pickford and Cc. to recover muney said to be overcharged to them by the Great Western Railway Company, and the ease having been argued many months ago, has since stood over for judgment. The Lord Chief Justice now said that the plaintiff con tended that the defendants erected from him more than they took from other persons in respect of the carriage of parcels. The facts were that the defendants charged the same price for parcels if they simply carried them along their Tine, or if in addition they collected and delivered the parcels within • certain area at either end of the jour ney ; and these 'offices they offered to all persona 'like. The plaintiff of course employed his own horses and car riages to collect and deliver the parcels he sent for his cus tomers ; and he complained that the company doing this service nominally for nothing placed him at a disadvantage ; and he contended that • portion of the charge by ' the company must be allotted to compensate them for the trouble of collecting and delivering the parcels; and that as he himself collected and delivered, yet was still charged as much as if the company had done the additional work, he had been overcharged. His lordship, after going at great length through a number of decisions, came so the coedit ✓iol:, that the company were justified in adopting the scale of charge which they had framed, and that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Myles, and Mr. Justice Beating, however, were of a contrary opinion, and the de cision of the majority of the court, therefore, was in favour of the plaintiff. Judgment for the plaintiff. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Bitting, in Banco in Term. —Motors -. Lord Chief Baron Pollock end !krone Bramwell, Channel], and Wilde.) ALLEN r. gnamsksr.—ElllllVlCZ OP A WRIT ON • LUNATIC. Mr. Gray moved en the pert of the plaintiff, for per- mission to proceed in this nation notwithstanding the writ had not been served on the defendant. It appeared that the defendant had been taken to • private lunatic asylum at Chiswick and the plaintiff applied to the keeper, Dr. Tuke, to allow the lunatic to oe weaselly served with promos, or to deliver to him a copy of the writ, but he declined to do so. A copy of the writ was them left at the asylum, and according to the affidavits Dr. Tube bad received the document, and had mentioned the fact of its service to the lunatic, bet did not give it to him. Under these circumstances, the question was whether the court would allow the plaintiff to enter an ap pearance and proceed with the action, and the learned counsel submitted that he ought to be permitted to pro ceed, because the writ had oome to the knowledge of the alleged lunatic. Mr. Baron Wilde said the cue of " Holmes v. Service," decided by the Common Pleas, stood is the way of the ap plication. In that case, Chief Justice Jervis said there was no provision in the Common Lew Procedure Act for the service of a writ on a lunatic, while it abolished the writ of distringsa, by which formerly proceedings could be taken against a lunatic ; and he added that the absence of each a provision was probably unintentional. M 7. Gray said that in the case mentioned there was no proof that the writ mine to the knowledge of the lunatic. The Chief Baron—lf the court did not allow the plaintiff to proceed in a case like this, a man by voluntarily goMg into a lunatic asylum, would shut himself out from legal communication with the whole world. Mr. Baron Wilda did not think that the Common Law Procedure Act in abolishing the old process by &skin s. intended to render lunatics less liable to the service of write than they were before. Mr. Gray—lf an alleged lunette must be personally nerved, he would, by shutting himself up in an asylum, be able to give preference to say of his creditors he chose to select. The Chief Baron—l think ere must give permission to the tiaintiff to go oe. Mr. Baron Bramwell did net think the decision of the Commies Pleas was well founded, as the case of a Mastic Iwas not omitted from the act, bat left to be treated In therm. way as anybody else. It was only aeoseemy to peeve that the writ had come to his knowledge. Mr. Baron Wilde said the decision in tLe Common Hem proceeded on the principle that no communication was roads to the lunatic, but in this came the writ came clearly to the knowledge of the defendant. Application granted. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Comminsiooer ifolroyd.) IN El STUDS-SINGULAR CABE. The bankrupt, who had been co-respondent in • divorce cue, applied for his releue from muitocly. The circum • stands of the case were peculiar. The verdict in the Divorce Court had been for the co-respondent, and the petitioner. Miller, was mulcted in the costa. Soon after Miller went to Jersey, and an attachment was issued against him for disobedience to the order of the Judge Ordinary. Proceedings in bankruptcy were taken against him at the instance of Hicks, but those pro ceedings failed, and the coati, 251., tell upon Hicks. On his return to this country Miller was arrested at the suit of Hicks for the amount of costa in the Divorce Court, 103/., without any allowance or set-off being made for the 2:./. of bankruptcy coats incurred by Hicks against Miller in this court. . . . . . .... Hr. E. Reed supported the application foe release, which was opposed by lir. Gaut. Hicks was sworn, and deposed that be bad personally been no party to the erred of Miller, and never knew of his arrest or discharge from custody until it was all over, it having been done by the attorney without his knowledge. His Honour held that the toots io bankruptcy ought to have bees set off against the costa in the Divorce to which Hicks would have been otherwise entitled, refused the release. _ . . . (Before Mr. Registrar Roche.) IN RE SIR CHARLES SULLIVAN. This was the fintTiating under the bankruptcy of Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., described es formerly of Ember court, Kingston-on-Thames; then flag lieutenant to the admiral of her Majesty's dockyard, Plymouth ; then of Maddox-street ; then of St. John's-wood ; then of Gloncesterplace, Dorset-square ; then of Porcbester place, Oxfordequare ; thee living under the name of Charles Sibley at Sidasouth ; then of Ballycotton near Cloyne ; then of Rock-lodge, Fermoy Castle ; then of Hon fieur, in France ; since of the Colonnade Hotel, Haymarket; and now a prisoner for debt in Whitacre's-street Prism). The bankrupt has filed a statement of accounts showing debts, secured and unsecured, of upwards of 30,000 , .. 01 which 10,000!. is due to one creditor and 7,030!. to another. He recently made application for his release from custody, when he was opposed on behalf of Mr. Florence, one of his largest creditors, and Mr. Commissioner C,oulburn directed that he should only be released on entering into his own recognisance. for 5001., and finding two sureties in MO/. each. He has since remained in custody. Only two debts were proved, for small amounts, and no assignee wa chosen. Further proceedings were adjourned until the next sitting. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupt, who is still in custody. U ARNIE RUSSELL. This was another Ant sitting in rather a remarkable case. The bankrupt was the plaintiff in the celebrated action of " Russell v. Adams." She is described as of 24, Cottage grove, Peckham; previously of Southampton-street, Cam berwell ; previously of Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-park ; and previously of Andover-road, professor of music, 'Mester. Shen in custody at the suit of Mr. Adams, the defendant in the breach of promise case and on her applying for her release a few days ago Mr. Commimioner Fine refused to gent it until she had been four months in custody at Mr. Adams's snit. Her only creditors are Mr. Adams, for 315(., and Mr. Pike, her own solicitor, the amount of whose debt is not stated. No debts were proved, and of course no assignee wee chosen. The proceedings will therefore be conducted by ' Mr. Aldridge in future. LATEST INTELLIGENOL THE POLISH INSURRECTION. Accounts from Warsaw state that the Secret National Committee has politely declined an offer from Garibaldi to aid in fighting for Polish inde pendence. The reason given for this decision is that "the committee so highly appreciated the neutral and humane attitude of a neighbouring power (Austria), that they do not wish to show the least hostile intention towards it, such as might ho implied by their gaining over to the Polish cause men whose names are connected with certain recent European events." The revolutionary government of Poland has issued a decree requesting all the insurgent chiefs to organise a general levy in their respective dis tricts in order to extend the insurrection, which already has from 180,000 to 200,000 combatants resolved to conquer or die. A Warsaw letter has the following : The insurrection continues se formidable aa ever. If some detachments have been compelled to disperse in pre sence of the overwhelming force of the enemy, • great many others have been formed. Among these, one under Drewnowski, in the vicinity of Rama, is especially worthy of notice. It consists of 800 men, well armed and drilled, quite ready to take the field. Dobrowoiski's detachment, in the arrondissement of Jostyn, having been reinforced by 120 horsemen commanded by Lip•iski, commenced opera time, and encountered the Muscovites on the lath near Oombin. The Russian authorities at Warsaw have just published • decree, transferring to military officers the administrative authorities hitherto exercised by the civil power. The prefects sad their subordinates will, therefore, be chosen from the army in future. A rural police is also to be organised, consisting exclusively of paean* who will be invested with the right of searching houses and arrest ing suspected persona. These pesaanta are to be paid for their services. The Official Journal of Warsaw announces that Sigismund Padlewski, who was taken prisoner in one of the recent engagements, has been condemned to death and shot at Plock. M. Padlewski was one of the ablest and most energetic leaders of the insurrection. He was educated at the St. Peters burg School of Artillery, and afterwards became instructing officer in the Polhill School at Coni, which was suppressed last year by the Italian go vernment. From Coni, K Padlewski came to Paris, where he devoted his leisure to military studies, until he returned to Poland in December last. The C:as of Cracow states that the first number of the semi-official journal of the national govern ment was published at Warsaw on the 20th inst., under the title of Dziennik Yaodowy (National Journal). It contains two leading articles, one of _ _ . . theta on the namiestnik (imperilNl lieutenants in _ . Poland), the other on the amnesty. These are fol lowed by news from the theatre of war and foreign intelligence. RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS. The cabinet of the Hague, which associated itself with the sentiments expressed in the French des patch on the subject of Poland, has received a letter from Prince Gortchakoff in which the Russian minister seems to express a doubt as to the practical utility of this step on the part of Holland, but declares that he will give the Dutch cabinet credit for good intentions. The cabinet of Copenhagen, after setting forth the dangers which general impli cations occasion to secondary states, expresses a desire that the Poles would lay down their arms. Prince Gortcbakoff thanks Denmark, and assures it that the perils it fears will not tome from the side of Russia. The reply which Russia has made to Portugal appears to be couched in colder terms than those which were need in addressing Holland and Denmark. It is to the effect that the Emperor has no need of advice or suggestions save those which arise in his own breast and from his own convictions of duty. The Nord says :—" It is not without significance that Portugal is the only power of the second rank which has modelled its despatch upon Earl Russell's ; all the others have taken the same ground as France." ITALY. On the occasion of the opening of the railway from Ancona to Pescara, the Bishop of Larino de livered an allocution which has produced much sensation throughout Italy. In addressing Prince Humbert., who presided, the bishop said : The desire of the King has been that the beautiful crea tions of science should be strengthened by the beneficent protection of religion, and we, its ministers, recognising the homage doe to the spirit of devotion which animates the glorious descendant of Amalie and Humbert, whose name and virtues you inherit, are happy to consecrate such a bril liant ceremony by the prayers of the church. Further on the venerable prelate was sensibly moved at the thought of Italian unity, and the souvenirs of the country. Thus doubtless (said be) we shell see accomplished the wish that this country, from the gig►ntic Alps to smoking and boiling Etna, may occupy a magnificent place in the midst of other states, may yet secure a splendid page in history, and may see in its bosom abundance and pros perity. 0 dew country! 0 clank land ! raise thy head with pride amid the nations Resume thy ancient majesty, a thousand times grander because the new state of things makes thee fruitful. (saurses namown.) FRA.NCE. _ PARIS, MAT 26. The Conaitutionne/ of to-day contains an article signed by its chief editor, IL Paulin Limayrac, upon the intrigues of men belonging to old parties. The writer says ;—" An end is about to be put to equivocation. Up to the present time these parties have undermined the power of the government by subterranean intrigues, penetrating the administration by its former relations with it and vitiating the principle of government. The tendency of popular government is vigorous, full of sap and energy, of love for the masses and sympathy for the popular classes, who, the first to bail it, were often perverted by men of a different spirit, who insinuated themselves into many positions under false pre tences of devotion, corrupting the best systems by introducing the poison of ancient influences. It was a source of surprise that a known enemy of the government should exercise so much influence on the administration. Thank God, that is about to cease. False friends, tales devotion, and false services will be unmasked and placed face to face with the declared enemies of the government. The part which the government has to fulfil will be freed from all the obstacles which have hitherto impeded its progress. The genius of the empire will be fortified by that which is lost by the spirit of iatrigue." SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 25. It is asserted that Senor Fecund() Goni will pro ceed to Mexico as Spanish plenipotentiary after the French troops shall have entered that city. Twenty-one prefects have been replaced. The rumours of a ministerial crisis are unfounded. Senor Enriquez has been appointed under secre tary to the ministry of marine. The Duke of Montpensier will shortly leave for London. ibEPRESS FROM PARIS. (111011 OUR owl PAB.IB, MONI)AY &MIMI. K Blanc, a journeyman printer, comes forward as a working men's candidate for the let circum scription of Paris, and has issued a remarkable address. His main battle-cry is the repeal of the penal laws against strikes, the injustice of which is really shocking. The proposition that sellers of labour have not as good a right as the buyers to affect the price of it by coalition is wholly irra tional. M. Blanc demands the creation of syndical chambers of working men, to be elected by uni versal suffrage, and argues that such an institution would be a complement of the courts of preid'hommes. Apart from these special points, K Blanc echoes the requisitions of the liberal candidates generally. He is for the repeal of the law of public safety, for free public and private meetings, for liberty of the press, " the sole means of enlightening and consulting the country ;" gratuitous and obligatory instruction, serious and efficacious control of the finances, and a diminution of taxation, which weighs heavily on the labouring classes. As to fo reign affairs, his opinion is as follows : I applauded the war for Italian independence, and deeply felt the deception of Villafranca. I blame the occupation of Rome, and deplore the war in Mexico, and other wars in distant °mu:Arica, wars in which we dissipate our mourns, and are prodigal of our blood, while a neighbouring people (our brethren) is struggling for independence and dying for liberty. _ _ This address shows that M. Blanc, although a "working man," is quite as familiar with the ques tions of the day as professional politicians, and that he can express his opinions in as good French as a university professor. M. Gueroult says, in the Opinion Nationale, that M. Blanc has long been employed in the printing. office of that journal. Although not opposed in principle to the candidature of working men, M. Gueroult blames M. Blanc for stsnding at the last moment, because his move is calculated to divide the liberal party. At the same time he bears public testimony that M. Blanc possesses his affection and esteem. There was a scheme afoot for producing a work ing man's candidature in every one of the nine cir cumscriptions in Paris, but the idea was not sue ceasfuL It is now too late for any new candidates to come forward, the law requiring the oath to be registered a certain number of days before the elec tion. Several electoral meetings (" tolerated " by the government) were held yesterday. At a large meeting at Menilmontant, crowded by the working class, it was resolved that M. Blanc's candidature should not be supported, because it was produced too late ; that M. Havin did not poesess the confi dence of the meeting ; and that every effort should be made to return IL Ferdinand de Lasteyrie. Nothing was said one way or the other about M. Thies. It was universally admitted that MM. Jules Favre, 011ivier, and Picard ought to be returned. The majority were in favour of MM. Jules Simon and Eugene Pelletan ; but it was resolved to prefer M. Cantagrel to M. Darimon, and there was a great deal of opposition to M. Gneroult. M Darimon has, somewhat tardily, issued his address (profusion de foi) to the elestors of Paris. I extract from it the following passage : Large budgets are an unmistakeable eign of the axial and political decline of • nation. With • large debt, a large army, a large navy, a large police, and large mesoopo. lies, it is impossible that • people can be truly free. Liberty implies that with the development of institutions of credit there will be • progressive reduction in the rate of interest, and, as • consequence, a redaction of the public debt. It implies peace, and consequently the restitution to agriculture and manufactures of that brilliant youth, the spring flowers of the country which war pre maturely destroys. It implies the freedom of the seas, relieved from all thine barbarous impediments which necessitate the employment of force ; it implies that seas should but join the nations they divide. It implies that government should interfere as little as possible in the affairs of citizens ; that citizens should write, speak, and meet together, and elect their own magis trates, government having no other part to play than that of watching over the public safety. It implies, moreover, the destruction of those monstrous monopolies which deliver over to the state or to powerful financial companies whole branches of industry, and by crushing small manu facturers under their weight, revive in soother form that detested regime which it was the object of the revolution to destroy for ever. The Bourse is firm with a rise of 10c. in the Bente. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram hos been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Mk/ 26. The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived here at 8 a.m. this day. The mails will leave for London at 11 a.m. Is correspondent of the rologne Gazette writes : "You will certainly have been struck by the painstaking solicitude with which it has latterly 411111 and again been reported from Berlin that the Crown Prince bad been pre sent in this or that council of ministers; that his royal highness bad honoured the minister-president with a visit, and on forth. It is, however, well known in political circles here that the heir to the throne has at all times kept him self very much aloof from the present cabinet. The sys tematic sir of the above announcement has led to inquiries being made of persons closely connected with the ministry, and the result of those inquiries is the assurance—first, that since the beginning of this year, and even longer, the Crown Prince, who formerly never failed to attend the meetings of the council of ministers, has almost entirely ceased to do so ; and secondly, that M. von Bismark, since about February up to this day, has neither been honoured by a visit from bis royal highness, nor been admitted by him to a political conference.' M. Thies has, it is said, penned a reply to the bull of excommunication launched against him by H. Per /iglu. His first thought was to publish it in the news. papers, but he reflected that any newspaper which was daring enough to give it to the public would be exposed de fenceless to ministerial wrath. He prefers taking the re sponsibility upon himself, and the answer will be posted up in the form of a placard on the walls of Paris. The King of Wurtemberg, who is in the 82nd year of his age and the 47th of his reign, is seriously ill sad Dot expected to live. His son and suceessor, Prince Charles, whose wife IN the Grand Duchess Olga, sister of the present Czar, Is said to be very Russian in his sym pathies. One of the most successful undertakings in France is the Garden of Acclimatimation in the Bole de Bouloges. In two years it has had 532,052 visitors, and has trams at the gates 385,5241 r., besides which animals have been sold to the amouat of 111,856 fr. WRECK OF A SPANISH STRAYER.—LIVERPOOL, MOIIDAT.—A telegram received hen this morning from Wexford announces the loss of the screw steamer Vifredo, bound from Barcelona to this next, about three miles east of the Settees. The Vifredo sailed from the Hersey on the 18th of April for several porta in Spain, and left Barcelona on the return voyage on the sth instant. The telegram is brief, and dace not give any particulars of the lose, merely Mating that the vessel is • total wreck. The Vifredo was a Spanish steamer, of 504 tons burden, and a very Brie vessel Her agents here were Means. Chnpple, Dutton, and Co., and she was commanded by Captain And. Her wow numbered 31, but the telegram does not say whe ther soy lives were lost. EXPORT OP COAL FROM GREAT BRITAIN. ----The total exports of coal heal the northern ports during the past month were 401,829 tone ; Yorkshire ports. 26,727 ; Li ve rpool, 49.842 tons ; Severn ports, 202,826 tone ; sod S co tch ports . 48,255 tons ; making a total for April al ?Arm tees, which. compared with the exports for the corresponding month of last year, slow an Increase la the .oath JIBS eadsdd 88,758 teas. THE POLICE COIJIITS. (I'lllB DAY.) CLERKENWELL. COMPLAINT AGAINST THE ISLINGTON DOG SHOW. A deputation of the tradesmen and inhabitants of the Liverpool-road and neighbourhood waited upon the magi strate in reference to the dog show which is now lasing place at the Agricultural-hall, Islington. One of the deputation then stated that the Dog Show was a great nuisance, and they could not sleep in consequence of the howling iod barking of the dogs. They had had no met since the dogs had been there, and as the show was to last the whole of the week they did not know what they should do. Their families were very much annoyed. The deputation did not think that the Agricultural Hall was a proper place to hold a dog show in. Mr. Barker. without going into the question as to whether the hall was a proper place or not for the show, said he was sorry that he could not help the applicants. kie had no doubt but that Mr. Sidney, the secretary, would do all he could to abate any nuininee that could be remedied. The deputation then thanked his worship and retired. SOUTHWARK. HORSIRT BY SERVANTS AT A TAVERN. Nathaniel Rowland, waiter, and Henry Sandy, potman at the York Hotel, Waterloo-read, were charged with steal tog ruin, the property of Mr. Thomas Potter, their tan- . _ l o Ter. P The prosecutor said that yesterday morning the potman wee engaged to carry spirits from the cellars to the store room upstairs, and, owing to some suspicious that Wide ex cited, the housekeeper went into the prisoners' bedroom below stain, and found a bottle of rum concealed there. He taxed the prisoners with the robbery, when the potman se, knowledged stealing it and banding it to the waiter, who concealed it in his bedroom. He gave them into custody, end the coostable found in the waiter's box an empty bottle which bad contained rum, Both planters pleaded guilty to the charge, and Mr. Combs sentenced each of than to three months' hard labour in Wandsworth House of Correction. HIGHGATE ILLZGIAL TILADING AT • PUBLIC•IIOCSE. Char/a Lethbridge, of the Bull public-house, North-hill, rate, was s ummoned before Mr. Bodkin and Mr. J. J. , for having his house unlawfully open for the sale of beer, fro., after 11 at night, on Sunday, the 17th inst. P o lios-constable 76 S, said on Sunday, the 17th inst., about twenty-bre minutes to twelve at night, he was on duty at North-hill, and heard • disturbance in front of the defendant's house. Upon going there he saw three persona enter the house, and hearing voices inside he went to the door, which was opened by a woman. Five persons were in front of the bar. One man was drinking from • pint pot. The defendant was pro mutt, and when asked if he knew the time, he made no reply, but commenced to clear the persons out. Witness saw nothing served. The man who was drinking resided in the common lodging-house nest door to the de fondant's house. The defendant said he bad *erred nothing after eleven o'clock. The persons moment were friends of his, whom he had asked to remain and speak with him. lie made an urgent appeal tothe bench, and headed in a letter, which he said was private, to the magistrates for their perusal. The bench considered the case proved, and Geed the de fendant in the mitigated penalty of 2s. and Bs. costs. Last week the defendant was summoned for having his house open for the sale of beer on Sunday during the prohi bited hours, when he was Good in the full penalty. The pear crop is far more promising than the apple crop in the south of England. A. flint instrument, with some fragments of Roman pottery and teeth and horns of animals, has been dug up from the gravelly site of an ancient ferry over the river Itches, near St. Denys' Priory, about two miles from Southampton. The flint is about 2 inches long, lj inches wide, and a of an inch thick. One of its faces has been hollowed out at one end and roughed at the other and it has a chipped edge and handle. The remains are in the possession of a gentleman named Skelton, the owlet of the ruins of St. Denys' Priory. Tea FOUNDLING HOSPITAL. —The annual re port in connexion with the management of this Minim tics, jest Mined, refers specially to the different condi tions under which its administration is conducted, ss compared with other metropolitan charities. At other institutions, the report says, the reception of children is determined finally by their mental or physical develop meets, but here they are received at so early en age. as to prevent the possibility of their state, in either mse, being ascertained ; consequently, the hospital is burdened with objects out of sight, which would, under other cir• cumstanors, become the fitting inmates of institutions appropriated to special cases ; thus, for imagism . Ora ars maintained out of the walls, twenty-four adults, ut eluding eight idiots, six deformed, sod one blind. Of this ohms of objects the secretary recollects fourteen nbn died at the average age of 70 years, so that each of them must have cost upward@ of 1,400/. The whole of these adults are, for the most part, incapable of labour, on ac count of their various infirmities, and are supported Mau average cost of about 24/. per head per annum. Dorteg the past year the msintensuos of 293 children, includim Micas for 32 resident officers and servants, cost per head 10!. 14a. Ild. The support of 142 children in the country for the year, including medical and other !superintendence. cost 131. 4a. ld. each. Dividing tha whole of the even. diture applicable to the support, k.c.. of the chiklree. bead has been 2 11 . 1 8 s. 9,349!. 6e. 3d., the average mat per Forty-eight infants were received into the hospital donne the year 1862, the average age of each being about three months. The necessity for ths interposition of each an irr stitution in saving Infant life is proved by the fact that one ball of them, whet admitted, were in a sickly, if not a diseased @tote. Of the good effected in the other most important object of the institution — viz. , the restoration to society and their friends of young person s of previous], good diameter —it is impossible to calculate. TEN CHAPIL ROYAL, ST. JANES'S. —The early service, Wort mod to be at Bin the morning, has for the list two Sundays bow altered to 10 o'clock, and consists 4 the morning prayer with chanting and a sermon, led a about an hour in bmertn. The 12 o clock service consists of the litany and communion barrios, and a sermon, and the evening prayers are read at half-past 5. Dr. Garden, the sub-dian, rascally preaches at the 10 o'clock service. BADCI RAD ,L.doatetrap, Black-e ord Hill, an, Colonel Cr, goo of Clol TWO-19 ( adios], a .1, Sir Ws, here. OR DOO ROAD.-, This moi cc Court, to Stones-ei pinit Mr. 1 ,fe, and att hill read ombe, and 4e son, erpi t om the ink peetor fart acing man • !bare had be r oly severe injured. i Tared by th any aeon The chief c Inspector! Southlru e body of : y of the Since the p prevent hi he principal e 10 a poi afortuaste riiiog, it eel mseeeeesful hail he had EXTRA() An nip; :ity coroner tinnye to tl ►ho lost her George Bii 4te resided iece wawa dinner, al is years, rent over tc long sitar{ rude, and ;16:t i I /ood whit . . ;;lii ;he tort I ied on Tht it,. beau e A verdict ILARMIZ Yesterd ally was itadditel &lutes pa. 3 1 1 one, .as mulch 'Hai • mixed" ei kad fonder ais except monthly at klvechurch onotinuons ails and dterwards no fairly rare in imi mnbankmet Were, SO ority. 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