The Express. — London, England, 1856-11-26 00:00:00

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Of the points which are still in controversy we porpceely say nothing, as the farther progress of the inquiry may probably give a fresh complexion to many circusstacees which now appear sufficiently _ _ extraordinary. Bet take the owe on the ail minium contained in the affidavits of Sir FREDERIC Mumma, end how very remarkable • Mate of relations between counsel and client does it disclose. The story is not a long one. Mrs. SwTtenN, under her father-ice-law's will, was the devisee of estates worth 65,0004 Captain SWINPIN, the heir-at-law, contested the will, on the pound of the testator's not being of sufficient capacity to make it. Tissue west down to Stafford for trial, Sir Fan, DIRIC Tamomt being specially retained as the lead ing counsel for Mrs. Swrerem, and Sir ALEXANDRA COCKBURN, then AttoruerGleaenl and now Chief Justice, acting in a like capacity for the heirmt law. The investigation threatimed to be long and complicated. One whole day had been consumed without getting through the evidence for the plaintiff —on the morning of the second day, the samosas of public curiosity was disappointed by one of those occurrences not uncommon nowadays in our courts of law. The counsel for the plaintiff and for the &ludas t laid their heads together, and after an edifying Susuat of whispering across the table, with several hints at resuming the contest, and en extreme dis play of punctilious regard for the interests of their respective clients, it was announced to " my Lord" sad the public that the peat SWYNCEN case had bees amicably settled. The terms of the arrange meant wore, that Mrs. Sw Tana, in return for giving up the estates, we. to receive an sanctity of I,OOOL a year for her life, while a sem of some 1,2504 was to be paid down for the costs of the cause. The whole matter had jut bees concluded when Mrs. Swears:it drove up to the Caveat Heinen. Her disgust was extreme. She &awed (whisk appears to have been strictly true) that she never authorised such a compromise. or Weal say ocespromies at all, and protested that she would suer be bound by it. This was not a mere ebuilltice of momentary temper. She kept resolutely to her ground, sad refused altogether to quit pommies of the estates, or to give up one lota of the devised pro- perty. The heir-it-law was advised to apply to the Court for an Imperative order —or, as it is called in legal language, a writ of attachment, commanding the resolute lady to carry out the arrangement agreed upon between Sir FREDERIC TREMORS and Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN, under penalty of commit moat to prison for contempt of Curt. Oa Monday lost, through Mr. lIIXXIDX, her counsel, Mrs. SWEEPS:I showed MSS against this rule being made absolute. The affidavits principally relied on were those of herself, her attorney, and Sir HENRY Dun- AMR. We do not, foe the reason already intimated, propose to go minutely into the smateste of these affidavits. In ma., points of detail they may be materially modified by the statements cm the other side. The substance of them is, that 'fur the first day's trial Mrs, SWYNYEN was ennimoned with Sir H. DI: RRANT to Sir F. Tursi can's rooms, that Sir FREDERIC intimated the case was going spinet her and advised a ermpromiro, that nothing definitive was agreed upon, Mr*. Swreux positively declaring for th e w ill, the whole will, and nothing but the will. The next morning she despatched a telegraphic message to Sir FARMS RIC at Stafford in these words, "The offer is refused." This message Sir FREDERIC received before going into court. Mr. Starener, the attorney, deposes that he, foible part, entirely declined assenting to any terms of compromise, and threw the whole responsibility of doing so on the leading enamel. The affidavit of Sir Fazineic Taxman, as far as we can gather its content. from the leave of our we. port, don not materially contradict any oldie above statements. Sir FEZDRILIC, after relating the interview on the tVOCillg of the first day'. trial, states that the parties left him " on the anderstaadieg that they would twinkler the matter, bet he supposed that counsel would be at liberty to negotiate for an arrangement." He admits Use receipt of the telegraphic menage the next morning, to the effect that " the offer was re fused," but declare. that, in hi. opinion, that massage " did not meet the question, as no offer had been made "—that nevertheless he woe under the' impression, ea were all his legal Mends, that the cue must go on, until he saw the attorney just WWI going into court, who told him that circumstances had oases to his knowledge which made it addition- I ally desirable that the case should be arranged. This, Sir Puna= says, decided him, and he immediately went into court, and without any further instruo does from his client effected a compromise on the terms already specified. Now really, even upon Sir FILEDERICI own statement of the case, his proceedings disclose a view of the relations between attorney and client which appears to the last degree extraordinary. Here fa property at stake worth 65,0004 The client— obstinately, if you will—persists in refusing all offers of accommodation, and positively conveys such refusal in the most formal and explicit tense. Not withstanding this, her counsel accepts an offee in her absence, which directly she hears of she repudiate., and on which she has uniformly refused to act. And it is upon the basis of this agree ment, which she not only never authorised bat positively prohibited, that the Court is to be asked to enforce an order the effect of which will be her commitment to prison for an indefinite time, on no other ground than that she refuses to be bound by an act which she has throughout disavowed. If this be, indeed, the true legal meaning of the nla tion between client and counsel, it is certainly as well that the public should be authoritatively in formed of it. But we cannot believe that anything so repugnant to common muse can ever be recognised as a binding rule of law. The Courts, no doubt, have of late assumed a strange, and as we must think an unjustifiable, latitude in forcing references upon reluctant suitors, but we will not anti cipate that they are prepared to enforce so monstrous a doctrine as that a counsel, without the authority and spinet the will of a client, may consent to an arrangement which that client may be punished with imprisonment for not carrying out. gte Court. WINDSOR, Nov. 26. Tho Qum sad Prioos, with the Priam§ Royal sad Prime Frederick William of Preis* drove oat yester day eftersocs is as opts acreage, attended by the Dubose at Athol], the Hos. Blesser Mosley, and the How Louisa Gerdes. The parries Is mettles was oho is madams. Prince Albert, serespealed by Prince Frederick Wilkes of Pomo* weal oat heatisy this toresoos. Mr. Botherom M.P., Ss Alexander Spearman, aad Mr. Tidd Pratt, bad a interview with the Cbsamiler of the Exchequer yesterday, at his °Reid 111114115119 ha Dowsing street, on the subject of sothsp banks. Lisatenaat-Coleasl T. J. DevereG, 67th Regiment, bad as interview with Yr. fieoratary Labeseitere yesterday at the Colonial Ace. DelPeiChill wm mind at tho Colonial•efda yesterday from the Governer of Natal. His Highnee Mehemet ♦u Puha, socompaaisd by a auserou suite, has lilt Claridge% Hotel for Plait. . . The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort have arrived at Claridp's Hotel from the Coatfaeat. . _ Lord and Lady Biros have loft Baton-plea for their Nee resideaes is Wordskin. Hi/ lordship bee searly 1100.1111141 hen the NWT* *larks lis received.. the masks of the nosed eallieles 8447 the Kies'. Lustily statics of the Lodes sad North.Westera Railway. The C.antas of Westmoreland sod Lady Rees Flute have a salts of rams at the Boddard Hotel, Brigham. Lard aad Lady Owersteas sad the Bea. Kim Loyd sad Mies Lams are also stayiag at the Bedford Hotel. Latd and LadyCoieheetae and the Hon. R. Abbott have left the Royal Albion Rotel. Brighton, for 34, Berke lay-Kamm London. Gen. Mr Frederick Truck sad Sir George and Lady Bonham are prolonging their stay at the Royal Albles Rote. The Marquis of Slandford. Earl of fifilagliese, sad Lord Reward have left. Amos i the recant arrivals awl departures at the Alas Hotel, Bdiabargh, an :—The Michela of Mastro'', tho Lady Agnes Graham sad Lod Hassid Grabs., the Earl and Coasts*, of Perth sad busily, Lord William Kennedy, Lord John Hay, Lord Loughborough, Captain tea Hon. P. ?kart**, Lady Owens Balfour, Lady Ass Melville, Jobs Balfour, Bag., of Balbirale, Hos. Jolta Rollo, Major•Gaseral Nullities, Major Sharp Hondas, Major Thomas, Pah Dragoon Guards; !Nor Westhead, 34th Reginssat; Maio? C. Routes ; Major Scott of Gala; Captain Campbell; Liauteuent Bost, fad Highlanders; John Ross, BK., Bombay; John B. Cantalgie, Srq ; Jolla Desglas, Esq., to to. Th. Earl and Counting of Caithness have visited Glasgow during the past weak. Tbs noble sail las bean suddenly moaned to his datiss as Lord-ice-Waiting at Wish. for, by the Mama of Lard Byron, emtsegamet alma the M imi's he received is Sao mast railway snidest. Ties Cowmen of Caithness basjethiad her father's family circle at Weston House, Warwickshire. The christening of the infant eon of Mr. Patel, M.P., and Lady Charlotte Portal, was eslebrated at Lam mas Hesse, ea Meaday, with greet festivity. ♦ Onset wee gluts to above 300 of the Smuts and Isbann, la a large teat meted en the laws. la the evening three merman Isselres were lighted ea the high gonad la tle path opposite the home, previous to which than was a dis play of Irmarrits„ wbM► lasted as ►oar, and welinsited qualities of boar were distributed to all maces. The baptism Seek place en fluidity, in the parish elmrels, la the preens* et a large family drib. The euesmay was per by the Bar. G. K. Portal ; sad the spasms present wen Mime Portal, sad Major Portal, 4th Light D►ageoas— Vieeoaet Melgand acting ea prosy for Lord lobs Reasell, who M la Italy. The Dais of Athall contradicts the report that the Dashes. W ocalsessed to the Rooms Catholic church. It it eadetiteed that the imitate of the late R. N. Shame. Reg , at Kentaro, has bora purchuod by Ore. Tombs*, ]Seq., far 36,0001. Mr. Horne., this eon of this iota distinguished staimman, t whose labours the onstry 1. Indebted for sass of the most modal and haportast realms which hays boos anted in the siministratia• of pstg. affairs, I made Depsty-Ctairmas of tho Bard of hind Banans, sad Mr. ®posses Posisaby, who amompaand Lord Olareadas I. the coaposity of prints seaway to the Coolants. of Paris, is appointed to the massy orsand at the Board by tM premotios of Kr. Benito. Mr. grosser Passosby was previously prints secretary to Lord Palmoratou dariag the Um that ho held ths seals olds, Forelmolgro. The aew Bishop of Leedom will preach s swum ea behalf et the Royal (Wisps Ea Hospital, at St. Game's, Bleersobary maw% ea Illuaday, the 11th January. 20,000 stippled pear have already esperieseed the beardits of the festitstioa—aboat 1,100 patinas being admitted messily ; bat asforteastely then aro at the punt =meat 300 west of the Nit $4114110 daseriptioa which town possibly he received lee vast of feeds. We usdeestawd that Mr. Thomas Chatsboro, M.P. for aerated, sad a amber of the Home Circuit of some *iota* years• studio& lea candidate far tb Mks of Com mon fferjesat, should a vammely is that Mike he meted, so is an probability it will, by the premotlea of Mr. Reseell Gamey to the Raturdereldp. Tbe meteors wbo played for the Patriotic sod Crimea feeds last testae, sad there who performed a um* ease berme km bigamy, arc * gives dramsde per form**, en Friday, Dee. 6, t►e premeds is be de voted to the mile( of dastitatlos Is the motrepogie duffel the mister seam. The ben Sea will be kept at Mr. !!nut's repel library, St. Jemureetreet _ .. __ -- -- Houreorrice. Noy, 22. Th e warvia a bi re Rifermatety lattutfou, at Weitee-eader-Weatherlay. ma , Laestaktee. fa the sown, of Warwick, ate bees . r tivi iis z the tkeretary of State se It to be • Retersa ore wader th• potelsics• et the wants 17 sad 18 Victor* dap. 8 6 Geafig• WatrizaLL. Nov. 24. The Qum has bees rr i te " be i."4" .ll co esd s = t erm rt . if0 r . " 14.9 ! " .. by aid the preemies et Dr. Arehitteld Catopboll %oft. tato Dees tboroot, to the Bialtoptio of L adoo.—Goootte. CRUTAL PALM. —02411 SXILLING TOISDAT, Nov. Ile.—Admissions so pavotoot, 863 ; Altio lry mess di" 214. Total TWIN% 1,186. ITALY. THE TWO BICILIEB. (MON OUR OWN CONIIIIPONDI NAPLES, Nov. 20. The leading article. of the Giornale Jells Due Skihe have recently been interesting. One last week recorded the baptism of a convert to the Roman Catholic church. When we bad got over this excitement, we were favoured with a report of the festivities in some place in Sicily on the 16th of last month on °amnion of the ifte of her Majesty ; and now we are positively in fits at the following leader, published on the evening of the lith. I translate and send it without a comment : " Happiness and rejoicing wherever sojourns our adored Monarch with We august Consort and royal children ! Every act of theirs, every footstep, is an example of edifying piety, of provident lo ye for the good of all, of charity, of munificence * without limits and without a parallel. The best of kings, the beet father of a people infinitely devoted and grateful to him, unweariedly consecrate. entire days to the cares of state, deigning to give his benign attention to whatever issubmated to his exalted and wise judgment t and even in his evening drives on the road between Gaeta and Castellon!, he Soca not find any better pleasure than that of assisting and re lieving. Nor does he return to his palace until after visiting the house of God, being acoompanied by her Majesty the Queen end by the royal princes, as wall in the temple* as at the altars ; so he did on the lith of this month, in the first hour of night re /dying the benediction in the church of St. Judas Todliook which, through his piety' was recently WA to so many other monuments of his incom parable :eel for divine worehip. And this is the which, always burning in his naturally magna nimous heart, impels the sacred hand which rules our destinies to scatter without repose on all our neonsi , ties in vest sums the balsam of munificence. Amongst the most recent examples of his sovereign generosity we would cite the many thousand ducats there pre sented by his beneficent Maj esty for the relief of the indigent. if such en undeniable truth had any need of proofs." I cannot translate another word. But mark the thanes which the court now requires, and which its hirelings are prepared to offer. The Giornale of the 18th records that a steamer is to ply twice a month between Palermo and Syracuse, touching at Messina lead Catania, whilst another steamer is once a month to go to (jugend, touching at Trapani. The Giornale continues " How great a benefit is this which the clemency of the august Monarch , has assured to Sicily and the neighbouring islands, l it would be idle to show, since by reason of the increased means of communication, the activity of internal traffic increases, and the Prospering condi tion of commune and agriculture." On the evening of the 19th, the Giorsala pub lishes at fell length the commercial treaty ratified and exchanged between this country and the United States. As I have already pointed out the peculiar features of this treaty, I shall not now enlarge upon them. His Majesty was expected here on Tuesday, and will be so until he comes. It has been remarked as a curious fact, that since the Ministers of the Allied Powers left, not a single State despatch has been received, whereas, up to the date of that event, the mmarrenee of theM hid been most frequent. The Malacca steamer will, I believe, remain here till further orders, a decision which has given great satisfaction to the British residents. The chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Barnes, died on board this week, after a few days' illness ' and was buried on Tuesday, the captain and all the officers being in attendance. in order to be in a position to grant such a request. The Five per Cents. stead at 1061 I the exchange on London at 634. THE ROMAN STATES. BRIGAND CONFLICTS. (nox OUR owl( COMMIPONDI little en to behold the diligence between those towns fo llowed ril post by an open yen, closely packed with a detachment of Papal infantry, fearfully ex posed, it would seem, to the enemy's fire, should the brigands ever thick of preparing an ambuscade. Notwithstanding all these impediments Rome is filling most rapidly, and by the way of Civita Vecchia especially arrivals are extremely numerous. The circumstance of political events rendering a visit to Naples imprudent, at inlet for families, is favourable to the hotel keepers and tradesmen, not to mention the lovers of gaiety in Rome. Exchange on London, 4711. Roman Console, 89!. I LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The Moniker of yesterday contains the following snatuniostioa frets Brussels, dated Banday last : "The event of yesterday's sitting in the Chamber of Representatives was a speech in which M. De decker, Minister of the Interior, repaid to the charge of inconsistency brought against him in previous sittings. He justified his policy in the matter of superior instruction. M. Dedecker, whose high cha racter merits the esteem even of his adversaries, had a delicate task to perform ; he acquitted himself of it with remarkable talent, and his 'nooses was complete. He proved to demonstration that superior instruction is possible, with the liberty of the professor restrained within the limits of propriety, good sense, and the public conscience; he combatted with ad vantage the arguments of the opposition, who con tend that tke functionary charged to instruct the young in the practices and duties of the social life ought to enjoy in so delicate a duty as irresponsibility which belongs to no other functionary in the state. He was applauded when he said that to communicate superior instruction it is not sufficient to be a satrant ; it is also requisite that the professor unite tact and prudence to science—qualities equally indispensable for the instruction of the young. "In concluding, M. Dsdecker delivered a perora tion which was extremely happy, and elicited univer sal applause. Alter refuting the assertions of his adversaries, he turned towards the intolerant mem bers of his own party, and exclaimed—' To see the tendencies of the Catholic press of Flanders, one would be justified in saying that a blast of intoler ance has plead over Belgium ; but intolerance in Belgium—whether it calls itself the Inquisition, philosophy, or protestantism—has always excited the country to revolt, and has been the signal of the three revolutions which are written in our history. In that fact is a lesson which I today recommend from the height of the National Tribune to the intolerant fraction of the party to which I have the honour to belong.' " AND PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 24. Mootugs from Berne, received this day, state that the Federal Council unanimously refuses to oomply with the demand of Prussia to set at liberty the Nenfclitel prisoners. The Council declares, moreover, that it is ready to negotiate, and that it is willing to re-open the rela tions of friendship and good neighbourhood with Prussia. FRANCE. MOM 01111 OWN 00/ItIISPONDIXT.) PARIS, SIONDAT The As (or Ali) Pache question is now considered to be cleared op by the Constantinople despatch in the Alfoositsar of the recent date of November 22, which &noontime that Atli Pasha. who had accepted the Ministry of Fonign Affairs, has resigned. The Pays, wise after the event, remarks that the resigna tion was inevitable, for Moos Aali hobs had re signed the premiership on a point of foreign policy, to snake him Minister of Foreign Affairs under Reichid was to create an anomalous and impcmible situation. The Petrie says that, without knowing the reasons that have led to the pitate resignation of Aali Pscha , it may be con jectured that they are of • grave character. The acceptance of office Atli Paeha under Resehid was an event from which a compromise was to be inferred between conflicting political influences. The reason for his sudden re tirement after • long and painful negotiation to form the ministry is at printout a mystery, but the Paris fears that it is one involving some new intrigue. At all events, it says, the resignation of Aali Paoha, so far from being • solution of a difficulty, can only be a source of further embarrassment to the Porte. The great delay which took place in the formation of the cabinet we. attributed to the diffi culty of finding a successor to Fuad Peas. The successor is now again to seek, and so long as a post of such extreme importance under present circum stances as that of Minister of Foreign Affairs remains vacant, it cannot be said that there is a cabinet at Constantinople. Such • state of things, the Petrie says, speaking as you will of mares understand under the full conviction that all mishaps in Constantinople are owing to that redoubtable ogre Lord Stratford de Redeliffe, "cannot long be protracted ; the dignity of the Porte and the consideration due to it in the eyes of Europe suffer from these hesitating'. It is for the interest of the Potts to come out from this uncertain attitude, and to establish at length in the plenitude of its liberty a strong and firm sheathe." At the Boers, today there were considerable flue teatime, resulting in a fall. At the opening, the Route was rather weak. in consequence of sales to realise profits. The Beate, which (foe account) closed on Saturday at 68.8, fell to 67.85. It, how ever, recovered, and, after a severs straggle at the point of 88, rose to 68.16. It was announced that the Bank of Frankfort bad lowered its discount to 6 per emit.. and • rumour prevailed that the bullion in the Bank of France, which had at first declined since the last returns, was now augmented to the extent of six millimuk Notwithstanding this [avow able news, aided by two successive despatches announcing a rise in Consols, the market depressed towards the close of business, and the Rents closed at 67.90 for cash. and 87.90 for account, with a fall of 300. and 150. Mobilise fell 20f. The rail , ways, which were not at any time so buoyant as the Rents, left off with a fall. Mediterranean fell 20f.; Lyons, 10f.; Northern, 131.; Western, 22.60; and ' other lines hem 2.60 to 6f. BOYS, Nov. 20. For want of warfare on a larger scale to talk about, since the allied powers seem to limit their operations in Italy to telescopic observations of King Somba's attitude, we continue in this part cf the peninsula to take interest in the movements of the beads of out laws that infest the patrimony of St. Peter and the southern provinces of the ecclesiastical dominions. Signor Arnoga, so lately • prisoner in the hands of one of these marauding detachments, has just returned from Velletri with the satisfactory intelligence that two of his aggressors on that memorable occasion were slain in an engagement with his Holiness's gendarmes in the hesitating of last week, in the neighbouring province of Frosione. A lauded proprietor of Allard, whilst returning from his country residence on the evening of the 11th, sou oaptured by five brigands, who were apparently fully aware of the fact that their victim was a man of substance, for they detained him in durum vile, with the usual pleasing 'atom paniment of impending death in case of non-payment of the ransom demanded by them, which, in the present legman, was limited to • thousand wadi (2101.). Having recovered his liberty at this modest price, the unload proprietor roused the authorities to Wive exertions, and the few gendarmes stationed around being united into a flying column, and reinforced by a small number of gardes-rhomperes, the whole party set out in pursuit of the brigands, whom they succeeded, after a laborious hued march, in tracking to a walled cabin. Under cover of this impromptu redoubt the bandits accepted battle, and a lively fusillade was carried on until, two of their number having bitten the dust, the remain ing three fled, and left the allied gendarmes and guardiani masters of the field and fortress, although not in a condition to pursue the flying enemy, one of whom is suppoeed to have been badly wounded, as he mysteriously disappeared during the headlong retreat, whilst the remaining two were obseued to scale a distant and (to gendarmes) inaccessible mai nenos. This important fait Amines took plum between Aesgoi and (heroine. The casualties amongst the detective forces were limited to two men wounded, the gelidness. Rinaldo Raimondi and Vincenzo Calvalenesi, to whom, as well u to the rest of the party, sod their commander, vice-brigadier Angelo Marchtafans, the government has ordered doe rewards to be allotted. Oa examination of the brigands' corpses they were judged to be inhabitants of the kingdom of Naples, and to have owned the frontier into the Papal Sates probably from Canal ; and on subsequent public exhibition of the bodies, they were recognised u having taken part in similar enormities both in the province of Freeinone and that t ot Velletri. 1 Amongst other individuals able to throw same light I upon their identity was Signor Arrioges coachman, , who was sent for from Veltetri to inspect the defunct . marauders, one of whom he instantly recognised 1111 having played the part of the sham fever patient who attracted Arringa's attention by trembling and , shaking, as if in an ague fit, on the road side, just o before the remainder of the band sprung out and stopped the carriage. I We had rather an aodacioue feat performed by a • gang of city robbers two nights ago upon the revered 1 person of the Padre Procurator. of the Barnabite i monks of San Carlo in Catinari. This venerable p superior had just received about four thousand midi, • more or lees, for accounts vary u usual, and the I robbers, determined to gain the prhw ed _width they had obtained Mu Idgence, secreted Ewa hp the church adjoining the convent at tbensaal hour kw The Bank of nook set b ow reduced their nu of closing. Towards midnight they penetrated into the dieessat from •ft fur amt. convent by the sacristy, marched up to the Padre's n o u ni sa f w, e i t s /tunic, Turin room, and made him give up the money, threaten!! C uzsips wind sideman the 19th. mode a most prosperous him with instant death if he criedhe out . voyage s. Vonementh is daft and 20 boom—Coe. tying him down to his bed for peak/ t Millwity b t i tlmir Awe MeremeNts. then returned to the church, howti t te snap% but • ittution Slait2.—The Garrier of Lyons has the doors being locked, sad net ed, as they ex- Oa tefiewilin :—" Ae menial yea" of CMIMM patted, they resolved to wait for the usual time a l VW MS city, sitar fir same Wig, tell ens day lad opening, so as to rush or slink out as opportunity week late • ••••$ 1 • 1 0 le insensibility, sad was sap resod to be detd. 4. se.histsiga gee wis paw i s m y. a offered. The worthy Padre, however, obtained some estaaaare of use Ms* sad the yeeelestwee was ma our, mesas of oommuniestion with his venerable brethren, and la dee time Inland up la a N. i ttl ar ssegitt. sees and intelligence being forwarded to the brigala, day ' vb. ing. Az... k. irzt deellese.ijieere,,_ light found the robbers still prolonging their notion satadnedimpant and fa th• w . e ." renial visit to the church with gendarmes guarding may, oaf Pe neighbans es nark" their meson of th e - ' • ute ter pepsin re have as cede bet the babes.pe rmiss i on could be obtained from the entrances until of the lamb would sot boar of a *Jac se It would the Cardinal Vicar to effect the malefactors' arrest Mhe odd, a yrediaatien of the deed. The nether of the within the consecrated precincts. =.selles. helmet. lea* OPta lb• • fin with • In the northern germinate the safety of Duellers 11•611811 "41 . bsi 4 bal ille. ..ll l.Bd a ns es i s t a t t ut a l "..4.l...." l a . m. ' by the public oonnyences is now provided for by WO was neserad Ike Ow. sod ins men a m a le ~,0 0„ ,,,d Duthie escorts, and English visitors to the Eternal mint ensdammes, Eh. h new gang ea well." City, by the way of Bologna and Ancona, are not a The iibileriss it is perfect readiness to receive their Majesties when they come to Paris for the sea son, and it is expected that they will leave Bt. Oland to take up there residence there on the 28th or 29th. Mehemet Ali, the brother of the Viceroy of Egypt, arrived in Paris yesterday. The Cbestilutionsel of yesterday devotee its simile leadiog article to a bitter wows of the language which it confusedly attribatee to " the English press." According to it, this bongs is offensive, and " little short of insolent," to France. The Cow: atittitiosowl declares its inability to understand how the newspapers of a friendly nation can so fail in common propriety towards an ally . whose braver), fidelity, and magnanimous co-operation they have so often lauded. The English newspapers have syste matically outraged France. Such emduct, it should be well understood, le doing much to awaken un pleasant sentiments in the country assailed. The journals of the departments prove it every day as they arrive. The Cleutiestiotessl is happy is the reflection that the dispositions of the two govern ments are not to be interred from the clamour raised below them. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 22. The Gazette contradicts the statement of the lade pendanee Belga, that Lord Howden had asked the government for explanations' to the political course it intended to pursue. The Madrid journals of the 20th state that at the reception held by the Queen, on the occasion of her fete, O'Donnell and his colleagues in his cabinet— M. Rios Rosati, M. Coiled°, M. Pastor Dias, and M. Salaverria—were present, as were also all the nota bilities of the moderado party. At Malaga the garri son had been reinforced by 000 men. On their arrival the military commander passed them in review, and in a speech praised the garrison for its conduct in the re cent insurrection, and exhorted them to imitate it, if necessary. He added that he was determined to maintain order at every coat, and that before the throne should be placed in danger the insurgents would have to pass over his corpse. He then cried "Long live the Queen l" and the cry, according to the Gazette, was repeated with enthusiasm by the troops. Great precautions had been taken in the town for the preservation of order, and all the popu lation had bees disarmed. Numerous arrests had been and were being effected. The court-martial had condemned nine insurgents to death, and it was believed that the mime fate awaited others. None of the soldiers and insurgents wounded in the fight had died, but the wounds of one soldier and of several of the insurgents were serious. The Epoea says that when the news of the rising at Malaga reached Granada there were indications that a revolt was imminent; but the authorities by their energy pre vented an outbreak, and they afterwards sent word to the government that they would answer for the maintenance of order. TABLE TALK IN ST. PETERSBURG. A letter from St. Petersburg of Nor. 15, published by the Haves Correspondence, whist' never wittingly siz eableness, news ditagreesble to the Fsench government, N) e: " Ina report addressed to the military chummy by Primes Bariatsinski, thacommande vin-chief of the provinces of the Caucasus, most favourable accounts sre given of the fortified towel Ood e the west of the Cu. plan See. Inseam quantities of military stores of all kinds have been, daring the last few months, sent from As trakan to Derbend by the Volga, and this immense materiel may be tuned to account, when t;me shall serve, by the carp* d'arusie, which, as it is thought, is destined to suc cour the Shah of Penis, our ally, in the probable cue of hie territory being invaded by an English expedition ary nay. Eania, whatever may happen, will not be taken by surprise in those distant conetriss. It is known that l 3 1 Charley,* oats of the moat intrepid defenders of Sebastopol, has been appointed by the Emperor com mander of the carps d'arente echeloned between Saks sad Ennui, is the immediate neighbourhood of the Persian frontier. Many people at St. Petersburg think that this Sery general, with all his forces, may very likely get to Herat be fore the Eighth, who ere expected to disembark at Bashir, shall be in line of battle. The opinion gains ground in tailitasy circles that if the English government should really carry its plan into execution, events will compel as to inter fere with all the power which, thanks to the activity of our g la, we can dispose of in Asia. However, it will be scarcely possible for us to p the English from effecting a leading upon the two principal islands of the Persian Gulf, son from instilling themselves in the town of Bashir. They will annex them to their pea melons in India, in the came manner end under the same pretexts as they did in the case of Aden, in the Red Sea." • Mb wane is otberwise written Ihrouleff. THE WE4THER.-(THIS DAT) The weather in the metropolis has, daring the last I twenty-four hours, undergone eztracrdinary changes. YiWterday morning the air wee comparatively mild, bet became by the evening piereiogly cold, the wind being due north. During the night there was a be .p fall cf snow, ocoompeatied with frost, and at daybreak the streets and housetops, for the Best time this season, showed a white coating. Very early in the morning, however, thaw set in, rein fell, and the temperature rose. But before awe a thick yellow fog settled down upon the City, sad this combination of disagreeable, rendered out. , door locomotion eztramely inconvenient and unp'euant. Streets sad pavements wan sloppy, tad vanities and poder trials/ baspattand with mad.. From the non-arrival of the Continental mails, we eon clad, that a 'sow storm, has also been experienced in the Channel. There is at Milan a gigantic statue in stone, called sew &padre (men of 'tone), which fulfils the same office there is Pesqulno at Rome. The other night a piece of ►read, with a piece of paper attached to it, wee found stuck in the mouth of the " man of atone," end on t►e paper was written, is Wieser* dialect, a couplet ezpressiog the fo:- lowisg mailman :—" The man of stole will eat this breed when the Emperor of Atari& shall reign over the hearts of the Lombards." The simple suspicion of howler( been the author of this pasquinade wee sufficient to came an un fortunate was to be thrown into geoL THE RED SEA.—" The navigation of the Red Sea is not so difficult u has isra repreeented," says the Morti mer do Is Flotte. Oa its toasts are two lines cf reef, wbieh leave between them and the land a wane deep eutough for vessels of small Wastage; and this passage, being oat of the reach of high waves, is preferred by small vessels, though the latter ars wider the necessity of costing seethe every evening es is rivers. It is also suitable for mall steamers. The lithe steamers take the great channel in the middle of the sea, 60 miles wide 750 tong, and which is nuked by reeks throughout its length, bet the position of the t. correctly laid down in charts. Is the Red Sea are member of ports, island., and anchoring plans, in .1 whit* vessels can obtain shelter. The winds which gene rally prevail from the Isthau of Sues to about 200 miles within Babel-Mandel are those of the north-west; bat west winds prevail from June to Atigast." THE LATE JOHN ARTHUR HERBERT.—English art baa recently sustained a severe loss in the death of Mr. John Arthur Herbert, sue of the Royal Academician, which took place at Mouriat, is Prance, and was occasioned by on attack of typhus fever. He was the author of " Phillip IV. of Spain Knighting Velesques," one of the most admired pictures in the exhioition at the Notional Gallery this year, and ens which, by its genuine feeling and bistorie truth, attracted the special commendation of her Majesty and Priam Albert, who highly complimented Mr. Herbert on his seit's suones sad promise of future distinction The painting Itself, we believe, was purchased by the es-Lord Mayer, being selected for his lordship by an academician whom he bad comatissiosted to porches. the best cabinet p'e'en in the exhibition. Mr. Herbert, at the time of his death, was only in his 22nd year. He had bean agitated at °aeon College, under Dr. Wisessa. and after leaving wheel had studied painting under hie father, with whom be bad spent two years and a bellies France. The body hu been brought In Ragland, and buried at St. Johr's wend. TOTING/UAL TO ANDREW ARCEDECINE, ESQ.— Oa Tuesday last the committee appointed to carry oat the wish,' of the subscribers met at the White Hart Ice, Wick. ban Market, whence they proceeded to Gieverieg Hell. Hero the Rev. 0. T. T , the chairman, in a short but appropriate speech, had the b of handing to the High- Sheriff a pair of massive miter claret jag., besting the Ed lowing Inscription Presented to Andrew Armdetkoe, Req.. High Sheriff of Suffolk, as a token of the high esteem la which he is held by his friends and neighbours!' It is worthy of mention that avery subscription was entirely uneolietted.—Burx Herald. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WESTERN VALLEYS RAILWAY —Nawroay, Nov. 24.—Today the ioquast on the body of John Richards, Eremite, in the employ of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, who was killed oa the 19th inst. on the Western Valleys branch Hee, was Iwoaght to • tertoiaati.a, the jury having sat at AberbuCto hear the evidence. The question arose whether the points were detective, or whether broken springs had 'eased the engine to jump off the lime, as was the cue on the Newport sad Hereford line. William Thompson, rail inspector, said the points were all right about an hour before the accident, and the road was is a good 'audition. Mr. Leybesree Meted that Col. Tolland. one of the govern ment Impactors ' bad musined the See, and stated the @Wee did not leave the rails from its faulty eonst•uetioo, uor the breaking of its springs. Some other witneseet havieg been examined, the jury returned a verdict of A,4liztal death." LAW INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. ETTIIIOII AT MUMMA AT ITITTNINITZA.-BIPORZ LOAD CANTALLL AMP ♦ IPACIAt JIAT. CVLVIRWILL O. .-♦CTIOY UPON ♦ PYQ, MISSOZY ISEITIA-EXTRAOADINARY CASE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mr. Culver well, of North-street, Clapham, to recover 2,000/. upm a promimory note, drawn by a person named Atkins, and accepted by the defendant. The defence was that the bill was given for money lost is Mr. flerjunt Shut appeared for the plaintiff, and Mt. E. Jame. and Mr. Hawkins for t!e defendant. In consequence of the nature of the defence, Mr. E. James opened the use for the plaintiff first . It appeared from his statement that Atkin' was the tee •per of a gambling-house in Albemarle-street, and that the defendant, a young man, and the son of a wealthy anion manufacturer (cow deceased) near Manchester, lost ' altogether at this house between 25,000/ and 28,0001. The game played was hazard, and the present bill was one of a series of securities which he hal given to the keeper of the bank for money borrowed. The facts are detailed in the evidence given below. John Sidebottoin, the defendant, sustained by Mr. Over end—l am partner in the firm of Sidebottom and Co., cotton manufacturers at Manchester. I live at Herawood Lodge, in Cheshire. In 1846 or 1847 I came up to London. I was not then in the partnenhip, but lived with my father, and had an allowsince from him. In 1447 I was 27 or 28 years of age. My father's place of business is at Mottram, near /decanter. I assisted him in his businen at that time, Ho allowed me 3001. • year. I came up to London in 1816 or 1847 one visit. At that time I had never Was been in any gsming.house. When in London I made the acqu aint- mice of James Atkins. I went to an hotel. I was le Lon don a few weeks, and lived at an hotel I believe I was taken by a person now dead to a house in Albemarle-street. It went lay the name of the Berkeley Gambling house. I went in the evening. The game of hazard was going on. It is played with dice, When I have been there I have always seen Atkins. Ifs eat at the table, and mooted to be the money lender. There were two bankers. They were called croupiers. Atkins was one of them. He sit ate small table at one side of the room. He seemed to mike the general management of the plate. The persons almost always play with counters. They are given oat by the croupiers Money is paid for them. When the parties have no money the croupiers ask Mr. Atkins whether they shall give them counters. When be gives his consent the croupiers hand the counters to the parties, who give bills, and sometimes do cot. I have often obtained money in Chet way. I gave I 0 U's end cheques for them. Having obtained the counters, I went beak to the table, and played at the game. Ou the fleet night I played 1 think I lost 8,0001. I think it was the first night I ever played at hazerd. 1 think it wee in 1847. 1 made visits to London the following years, and each time 1 went to the Barkley. I mat Mr. Atkins almost on every mutton. I custinued to go there until 1852 or 1853. Daring that time, from 1847 to IM2, er 1853, 1 went about twelve Simms. I cannot pay positively what I lust altogether, but I think it was between 2.5,0001. l end 26.0001. 1 think I paid of that sum about 15,0001. or 16,0001. The cheques and bills produced are for gaming aaaaa actions—for money lost at play. The I 0 U, dated 9th June, 1847, was given to Atkins at the gaming table for counters. He holds other securities beyond that for which he is now suing. A bond for 4,0001., a warrant of attorney far 3,3000!. and some bills or other securities. There were sometimes other parties in the room when I played and sometimes not. After I ceased playing Atkins came down to Manchester to ask me for the payment of the money I had lot. The warrant of attorney was given in May tb,e year. Before gate it I had been premed fur the payment of two bills. and the bond was given in azelmage fur them. When 1 lost my largest sums 1 was playing spinet the bank alone. I played sill night and until the next morning. There were refreshments in the house, champagne and other things. They were supplied by the'ptople r of the house. The welter went round and asked who wanted ref reehments. No other consideration IMO received for the btlls except the counters for gambling. The cheque produced bean my signature. It is made poyablo at a banker's. I had no account there. The budy if the bill is in the handwriting of Atkins. I wrote myself "payable at the London and Westminster Bank." I told Atkin' I did not like it made payable at my banki e!. Ido not know whether Atkins banks there. It was given either in ti thing' for ea I 0 U for misters, or for counters them trite'. It was given fur money lo,t at play at Barkley's. When I gave the acceptaste Atkins said it should never be negotiated, but nit it should be reamed It I could not meet it. _ _ _ Croat-examiaed by Mr. Berjeant Shee—Between 1847 and 1832 I was • constant frequenter at Barkley's, and never went to any other gambling•boute in London. I have been at a gambling house at Dot caster and Newmer • ket ; ones st • house of that description in Manchester, but never at • gambling-bouse in Liver' 001, Corster, Paris, nor any place abroad. My father died in 1849. In 1848 he gave op the business to me. It is still being carried on by me without any partner. I have not made over an sasignment of my property. I gsve a bill of sale on the mseninery, and a mortgage on my other property to my mother for 43,0001. When I made them over I had only two &those against me—this one and another upon • 20,0001. bill. Ido not recollect ever wicning 1001. at any one time at bawd. Ido not play roulette. I play whist and billiards, but no other games of Ounce. Between 1847 and 18.52 I did not live very extravagantly. Is Leicester shire I kept ten hunters; sometimes m.:re and sometimes km. Sometime+ I had ruin horses. I have lost some mom on the turf, but not much. Ido sot recollect even paying any money to Culverwell. I recollect there was • bill drawn upon me by Atkins in 1949 for 1,2001. In Fe bruary, 1831, I very likely gave another acceptance to him for 1,0001. It is very likely, also, that 1 paid • bill of the same 'mount in February, 1832, to Atkins. I know • per son of the name of Robert*. I did net play with him at billiards and divide the profits. borrowed any money from Atkias unconnected with gambling. Tee cheques primly,: were given to me by Atkins. They were not for money borrowed for my own use. unconneated with what I lost at the house in Albemarle. street. father was a man of very large for tune. lam his eldest con. I think Atkins was a pert pro pr.etor in the table both at Doccester and Newmarket. I heard of Calverwell's name until this action was brought against me. The letter produced, dated Doncas ter, June 9, 1156, is in the handiveiting of Atkins. Mr. &roast Shee objected to its being given In evidence. In reply to a question by rte jury, witness said he had had no transactions with Atkins beyond what be had stated, except last year be raked Lim to got him a loan in the Cl•y, in order to pay di the money be bad lost, as he did not wish his affairs exposed to the world. John Orty—l live on Bermondsey. I was formerly in the metropolitan police. lam superannuated, and receive a pension. I know the Barkley, in Albemarle-street. I have known it esversl years. 1 LIGOW Atkins. I have seen him go in and out on a great number of occasions, from ten at night until four in the morning. Being sergeant, I had to visit the men who was s.ationed there. I have gore into the house on two or three occasions for the puqoee oinking any one into custody whom we found in it. The charge would be for frequentiag a common gemioghouta. There were two doors of unusual strength; one wee in the passage and another at the foot of the stairr. I hive passed up stain. The outer door was always opened for the admission of the police when they knocked. There was a doorkeeper. The gelatinise shutters isrstsirs were generally closed. There was either a billiard table cr another large table covered with green bane. I have seen gentlemen in the room. By the time we pot up there was nothing doing. (Laughter) They were sorAing, talking, and sitting about. I know Codifies Pitcher. 1 havi seen him go in and out frequently between ten at night and four in the morn ing. I have seen him go in and:come out with Atkins, as well as Cone. Mr. James am a publican sit Stoke Newington. I 6w/slurried on business there about ten months. The drawer of the bill produced is in the handwriting of At kins. I have known him thirty years. I have been in partnership with him in keeping a gambling-house. I have left the business about sixteen year, tri en 1 first knew him he was doorkeeper, or rrter, at 160, riccodilly. which was a gambling-house. I took him in partnership at a gaming-house at the corner of Albemarle-street. It wee called the Stick Shop. (Laughter.) The person who kept it sold sticks and umbrellas. The next gaming house we kept was in St. Jsmei'astreet, over Dodd's, the tailor's. I know Calvet's/ell, the; plaintiff. When I first knew him, he was a tailor. He has retired from lindens, end yes in North-street. Clapham. I Dave seen hips en several occasions at then gosling-houses with Atkins. I bare beast! Atkins apply to him for money— ' that is whets his money came from. I have known lekine lend him mosey. Atkins would say to Culverwell, "The bank broke lest night, and we want some money." He has advanced money, end be Du asked me whether thought he would be safe in no doing. The first money was advanced for Albemarle-'treat—that is about twenty years ego. They have known each other f r that period, and, perhaps, longer. Cuirerwell has lent Atkins between 1001. and 2001. at a time. I was then in partnership with Atkins. We dissolved partsenhio in 1841. (Laughter.) The bond produced to the deed of dissolution. Cuiverwell used to be the "linnet" —that le • bye-word for a rerson who pretends to play when any stranger 0010:115 in. but always wire. (Lsnakier.) Saw him vet us " bonnet " at Altins's table and mine. Charles Pitcher was also a "bonnet." Atkins knew him well. We then were concerned together at 160, Piccadilly. Pitcher was the " bonnet" there. Supposing the boned sties ? Witnest—Well, he g Uy do. (Laughter.) I boo beard applications made to Calverwell to lend mooey upon bills. I koow what loaded dies are.l (Some dice were