The Express. — London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

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Tee special meeting of the Common Council, which has been summoned for to-day, for the pur pose taking the initiatory steps towards the settlement of "the Holborn-valley question," will have before it at least one complete design, well calculated to effect the object sought, and to over come the physical and commercial difficulties which stand in the way. In our recent article on the sub ject we examined a plan which bad been proposed by Mr. Marrable, architect to the Board of Works, at the desire of that body ; and while acknowledging its general beauty and usefulness, we ventured to point out one defect which it shared with all the other designs which had been submitted, either to the Metropolitan Board or theoorporation. That de fect was that the elevation of only one-half of Holborn main street was provided for, and that besides the unsightliness of such an arrangement, the further mischief would be incurred of virtually ruining the other half of the street for all commercial puaposes. We are happy now in being able to state that since then Mr. Marrable has prepared an amended design, according to which the main street will be raised to the necessary elevation across its entire breadth, so that both sides of the street will share equally in the benefits of the contemplated improvement. Mr. Marrable now proposes a per fect street, raised upon arches, in the same way as a railway viaduct, 1,200 feet in length, and having a uniform breadth of 70 feet from house to house. The elevation will commence at Hatton-garden, and terminate on the City side, close to St. Sepul chre's church, and nearly opposite to Seacoal-lane. The breadth may at first sight appear insufficient, and it certainly will be ten feet less than that of Regent-street ; bat there is an objection in streets where the traffic of foot passengers is great to too wide crossings, and allowing for fifteen feet on each side for the flagways, the'actual apace here allotted will allow of the free transit of two double rows of vehicles. Mr. Marrable proposes to make the roadway a dead level between the points indicated, and to purchase and take down the houses on both sides of the way. His present plan does not include any architectual designs for the houses, and we think the omission a judicious one. We have already Moorgate and King William-streets built uniformly after the design of Sir R. Smirke, and the result is, it must be confessed, a great monotony of appearance. On the other band, the buildings in Cannon-street have been left, under certain re strictions, to the fancy of the leaseholders, and the result has been the erection of one of the finest and most picturesque streets in London. In Holborn, should Mr. Marrable's plan be adopted, the cleared ground will be let out on building leases, and, with certain restrictions as to the class and height of houses, the buildings will be left entirely to the interests of the tenants, and the rapidly improving architectural taste of the age. The most perfect specimen in existence of the effect of a uniformity of design in street architecture is to be found in the recent Paris improvements, and it is impossible to deny that, with all the magni ficence, the eye soon wearies in gazing at the long unbroken white lines of the Rue Rivoli and the other recently-erected streets. The new Holborn street will be paved with solid cubes of granite, and the arches underneath, which will be floored with concrete and made perfectly water-tight, will be allotted to the houses at the sides, as stores and oellerage. The only crossway of any importance which will have tobe provided for will be the egress from Shoe-lane into Holborn, and this will be effected by an ascending gradient of 1 in 23. Fol lowing the plan pursued in the construction of the London, Chatham and Dover and Charing-cross Railway viaducts, the arches upon which the Holborn viaduct is to be raised will have a passage or "sub way " along the centre, thus affording access at all times to the sewers and gas and waterpipes without the disagreeable operation to which London citizens have so often to submit, of tending up the pavement and bringing the traffic to a dead lock for an indefinite period. The " dip "of the valley ' at the junction of Farringdon and Victoria streets will be spanned by a single arch, and in this way a wide, perfect, and level street will be made to extend from Hatton-garden to St. Sepulchre's, and all the dangers and inconvenience/1 of the present mode of transit will be completely obviated. As • supplement to his main design, and in order to give a second channel for the enormous traffic which is unceasingly going on between eastern and western London, Mr. Marrable has sketched out a new street NO feet in length, commencing at the site of the new dead meat market, and effecting a clear passage through to Hatton-garden, besides making an independent communication between Victoria-street and the east of London. To obviate the inconveniences of the descent of Victoria-street into Holborn Valley, it is proposed to construct a double roadway in the former, with an ascending gradient of 1 in 42 on one side, and a descending one of the same figures on the other, to be divided by a stone screen, the monotony of which will be relieved by architectural decorations. We feel some difficulty in making this portion of the design clear by a written description, but it will be some thing on the principle of a winding staircase, and, whether approved of or not, will not materially affect the main object of raising and levelling Hol born Valley. The interruption of the traffic in such a street as Holborn must, of course, be a serious consideration, but Mr. Marrable provides against it by taking a hint from Mr. Page in the construction of Westminster bridge. He proposes to pull down only one side of the street in the first instance, and to build his TII! EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, viaduct only half the brealth el the street, llsvint the other half open for 'traffic ad isirrion, and using the time in negotiating the Archese of the Property on the undisturbed side. It is not ex pected that there will be much difficulty or delay in carrying out this portion of the business, as the occupants of the houses required are nearly all , temente of the City of London, and as the corpora tion is an indulgent landlord, and as any terms of compensation will include a remission of all past liabilities, there will most probably be every dispo sition on the part of the tenants to come to terms. Whenever an exorbitant demand is made, the claim will be submitted to arbitration or a jury, and in this way justice will be done to both aides. Such are the main features of Mr. Marrable's amended plan, which will have the advantage over its predecessor of spanning the entire street, and will include a second channel of communication as between eastern and western London. There is, however, also • prospective advantage depending on its adoption, which is of too great importance to be lost sight of, namely, that by leaving Farringdon street intact at its present dead level, it will afford the best facilities for completely carrying out the grand desideratum of a central terminus for all the railways running into London. With a view to a future of this kind, the Fleet Prison has already been purchased by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company for the purposes of a hotel, a fact at which every one will, we are sure, rejoice, as ensuring the early removal of one of the greatest nuisances in east central London. It only remains now for us to say a few words as to the time the exe cution of Mr. Marrable's design, should it be adopted by the City Improvements Committee, will require, and the money it will cost. It is expected that all the viaduct works will be completed within three years from the commencement, and a clear, un broken level main roadway established from east to west. The completion of the houses on each side will be another matter, and will be one with which pie architect will have nothing to do, as it must depend upon the rapidity with which the ground rents are disposed of, and the operations of private building contractors. The estimate of expenditure is as follows :—Purchase of property and compen sation for good-will to tenants, 553,6701 ; cost of works, 31,3451. ; total cost, 585,0151. Returns : Sale of ground-rents, 288,1481.; net cost, 298,8671., or, in round numbers, somewhere about 300,0001. sterling. LAT 3T IiNTILLIGERCE. ' SOUTHERN 6071(FIDENCE. The following is from thl kichniu,ki EiwittipT of Oct. 18 : Save on our own terms we gm accept no peace what. ever, and most fight till doomsday rather than yield an iota of them, and our terms are : _ . Recognition by the enemy of the independence of the Confederate States. Withdrawal of the Yankee force from every foot of Con federate ground, including Kentucky and Missouri. Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from Maryland until that state shall decide, by &free vote, whether mho shall remain in the old Union or ask admission into the Confederacy. Consent., OD the part of the Federal government, to give up to the Confederacy its proportion of the navy, as it stood at the time of seoesaion, or to pay for the same. . - •Yielding up of all pretemions on the part of the Federal government to that portion of the old territories which lies west of the Confederate States. An equitable settlement, on the basis of our absolute indepeodenee, and equal rights of all accounts of the public debt and public lands, and the advantages accruing from foreign treaties. These provisions, we apprehend, comprise that minimum of what we mud require before we lay down our arms—that is to lay, the North must yield all—we nothing ; and as they have waged a wicked and causeless war upon us, they ought in strict justice to be required, according to usage In such mesa, to reimburse to us the whole of our expenses and losses in the course of that war. As surely as we completely ruin their armies, so surely will we make them pay our war debt, though we wring it out of their hearts. And they know it well ; therefore they cannot make peace except through their utter inability to strike another blow. The stake they have to forfeit if they lose tke game is as vital u ours. So Is the stake to be woe. It is no lees than the entire possession of our whole country, with us in it, and all we own, to have and to hold to them and their heirs for ever. Once more we say it is all or nothing. The Confederacy or the Yankee nation—one or the other must go down, forfeit its national existence, and lie at the feet of its mortal enemy. Idesde's army and Rosecrans's are scattered. Lincoln can get no more armies. The draft turns out manifestly fruit less. Both the German and the Irish element are for pesos. The Yankees have to bear the bract of the war themselves ; but in the meantime their inevitable bankruptcy is ad vancing like an armed man. " Hungry ruin has them in the wind," and it cannot be long before the cabinet of Washington will have to consider seriously terms of pesos, under auspices end circumstances very different from the present. For the present let the war roll and thunder on, and God defend the right. N. 1 I 11. W. N. Z. IQ. 1. I. R. .—.. Neb. 30.431 2 N.A. 24 b ...... 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Won= Omega' to Corn wall. Boutli=anumel and Omello. BOath.Soatettitralt of Data to Llaeobnitlro sad II EMPRESS FROM • PARIS. • THE EMPEROR'S PESCH : (FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDINT.i: PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. In commenting upon the Emperor's speech I . must follow the public, which reads first the last part—that relating to Poland, and takes scant notice of the other paragraphs. The first obser vation that occurs to me is that the speech, how ever widely interpretations of it may differ, is less pale and more important and suggestive than it was generally expected to be. At all events the anticipations of the Pays, two days ago, that the contents of the speech were so clearly indicated by the known conduct of the Emperor hitherto that everybody could guess at them, are signally contra dicted. Whatever else may be doubtful, it is clear that the Emperor breaks fresh ground. Nobody just now was thinking of a congress, and a congress is the one great solution which he proposes—a congress not for the exclusive benefit of Poland (which in truth seems to occupy only a small place in his council), but a congress to remodel Europe and to settle once for all the burning but most ambiguous question of " nationalities" ! This omi nous word cannot fail to awaken in all the chan ceries the recollection of certain mysterious new maps of Europe which have been from time to time published in Paris without any avowed or apparent motive. To guard myself against the supposition of having misquoted, I cite textually the paragraph which gives rise to the above observation :—" Let us no longer attach a factitious importance to the subversive spirit of extreme pastiest by opposing on narrow grounds the legitimate aspirations of peoples." This sentence, unless I am much mistaken, will be found a hard nut to crack. It smells strong of revo lutionary Napoleonism. The "factitious subver sive spirit" clearly means that liberty which the Napoleon dynasty cannot endure, and the "aspi rations of peoples" (or " nationalities") can scarcely refer to anything but "war for an idea." How ever this may be, the one important phrase in the speech which shows it to be the point de dipart of a new phase of policy—and is a fresh instance of the love of Napoleon lIL for those surprises and sudden divergencies which the Pays so carefully, but so unfortunately, said the other day were in no way to be apprehended—is that in the last six lines, which tells the Chambers that they " now know the language which he proposes to use to Europe." The language which he "proposes" to hold—some• thing therefore new, not contained in any existing despatchee, and therefore not within the purview of the Pays, when it thought the imperial speech so legible by anticipation that "he who ran might read." What the semi-official journals have been lately saying is that the imperial speech would throw the blame of inaction on England and Austria, take credit to France for higher and more chivalrous feelings, and conclude, nevertheless, that nothing was to be done. The speech is far from bearing out these prophecies. It must be admitted that it says not a word disobliging to Austria or England as to their past conduct ; although there are passages which seem to me to bear the construction that one or both of those powers may not be so docile as they are admonished to be for the future. At present the diplomatic check is admitted to touch equally England, Austria, and France. No dis tinction is drawn as to their remonstrances with Russia, and it is lamented, indistinctly, that Russia saw in all of them an attempt at " intimi dation." The speech will probably have the effect, which I think is intended, of exciting the Poles to con tinue their desperate struggle throughout the winter and to sacrifice many more lives in the hope of European interference. And yet there is very little in it to satisfy the Polish National Government. No stress is laid upon the daily atrocities of Mouravieff, which are the staple of public indignation against Russia. Excesses on "both sides," the lamentable results of civil war, are con demned and lamented with strict impartiality. Moreover, great tenderness is used in speaking of Russia, and a special compliment is paid to her for having been prompt to recognise the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France. Although Russia is not in terms congratulated for having "trodden under foot at Warsaw" the treaties of 1815, the gist of the speech is that her example is to be foi -1 lowed, and that the great thing to be done is to tread the treaties under foot everywhere else. Here we come to a very ominous issue with England. The Emperor declares that "the treaties of 1815 have ceased to exist." He well knows that this is not the meaning of Lord Russell's speech at Blairgowrie, for he only said that Russia had, by her breach of contract as regards Poland, forfeited her right to the benefit of them. Still, it suits the Emperor's design to proclaim the broad proposition roundly, and he knows that this proposition will be repeated in France singly and alone, although he in the next sentence contradicts himself by saying, with more regard for truth, that " the force of things has either overthrown, or tends to overthrow, those treaties almost everywhere." That is a very different pro position from the treaties having " ceased to ex ist." It will, however, probably be thought an immense fact that the French Emperor, in • speech from the throne, declares these treaties non-ex istent, and convokes • European congress to register what he says There is something sin gularly insolent in the terms iu which this congress is spoken of. Any power which does not at once agree to it is stigmatised as cherishing "secret schemes" which dread the "light of day." And yet this congress now assumed to be so much a matter of course that it is criminal to dissent from it is nothing more than an old red herring drag proposed by Russia last spring and then re jected with contumely. Russia, while repudiating the pretensions of the Western Powers to inter fere in her internal affairs, i.e., her oppression of Poland, expressed herself willing to join in a con ference to reconsider the treaties of 1815 generally, and not in regard to Poland in particular. That proposal made ironically and with a certainty that it would not be entertained is the very one now taken up seriously in the Emperor Napoleon's speech, and solemnly, not to say menacingly, recommended for adoption. When I say "seriously." I speak of the form of the language used and the nature of the document in which that language finds a place. But I do not for a moment think it serious in this sense—that the proposal is made bona Me, or even with the slightest expectation that it will be ac cepted. On the contrary, the Emperor must know that there are no elements for such a congress in Europe, and that even if there were, the last way to bring them into harmonious action would be to makes theatrical appeal to principles of universal philanthropy in a speech from the throne by way of a salve for a diplomatic defeat. If what the Emperor now says "in the name of France" is to be taken as an index to future action, I must say it looks very like the prologue to • general war. But there is one consolatory consideration, which, •no doubt, 1863. prevented the fall at the Bourse from being greater than it was--4. e., that the imperial speech is made to soothe and mislead French vanity, and n 4 at all to threaten foreign powers. It has been very generally felt that the Emperor was in a position of more than ordinary difficulty when he eat down to compose his speech on this occasion. His cherished reputation for infallibility, and the unfortunately emphatic promises of M. Billanit that the imperial intervention on behalf of Poland should be more efficacious than that of Louis Philippe, made it impossible for him to make the frank confession which an English statesman can make, though painful, that he had ten dered advice which had been rejected. There fore the hopeful people at the Bourse say that his bark is worse than his bite. He has, with considerable ability and ingenuity, tided over the great difficulty of the moment. He has made a speech which does upon the face of it represent that Finis Polonioe is not yet. He does hold out a prospect that something is to be done— and even so great a something that poor Poland is altogether merged in the great scheme of which she is the occasion. He has achieved the object which, according to M. d'Aroonit, was so dear to the ad venturers in Nadar's balloon : " Paris will not laugh at him." But then the optimists say The whole thing will blow over, and, the immediate purposes of the speech being served, it will soon appear that the congress is a joke. At any rate, nobody seriously believes in a congress. What may, perhaps, be thought more serious is the prospect of an alliance with Russia against the rest of Europe. As I read the speech there is nothing in it inconsistent with that supposition. Tenderness for Russia is indeed one of the leading features in the composition. Timely help for Poland there is no chance of. There is but a short paragraph about Mexico calling for unbounded confidence in ultramarine wars, virtuously professing that the Emperor never originally contemplated the benefits which France will eventually reap from the expedition, and expressing confidence in the destinies of the country under Archduke Maximilian. An expression relating to Cochin China bears the impression that France expects from her con quests in that quarter to derive all the advan tages which England enjoys from her Indian empire, without being at the charge of governing the country. " Glory at both ends of the world, from Pekin and Mexico," makes an appeal to the weakest point of Frenchmen. The opposition deputies, said rather con temptuously to be the offspring of some " local dissidence," are twice reminded of their oath, and with .this admonition and reserve the Emperor expresses himself "contented with the elections." Some administrative reforms of a laudable character are set forth. The great drawback to the ' affairs of the interior is that financial affairs have not "quite realised our hopes," and that M. Fould's report is postponed for the poor reason that parliament meets earlier than usual, whereas last year, and the year before, his report was pre• rented at about this time of the year. THE ALLEGED ROBBERY AND MURDER IN THE OLD-STRZET.ROAD. INQURSIT.—(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, resumed, at the Princess Royal Tavern, Paul. street, Shoreditch, the adjourned inquest on the body of Edward Nial, aged 39 years, who was alleged to have last his life from brutal violence. The circumstances of the nee have been already fully published. The dexemed, who was a pork butcher, was alleged to have been felled to the ground at the corner of Pump.row, Old-street-road, about six weeks ago, at mid night, and while senseless was robbed of about 9e. in silver. He died of his injuries a few days afterwards. Upon the lad meeting of the court the proceedings were adjourned until this morning, at the request of the police, who stated that they believed they had obtained a clue to the elucidation of the mystery as to who the perpetrators of the outrage were. When the inquiry was resumed to-day, Inspector Breckoffil said, io answer to the Coroner, that the polio. had made several efforts to ascertain how the de ceased had come by his death. He (the inspector) was afraid that there was not the slighted use in adjourning the in quest again, se, from what had come to his knowledge, there was but little chance that the police would be able to produce further evidence. The Coroner then summed up, and said that since the open ing of the inquest he (the Coroner) had been informed by Dr. Callee that it was his opinion that the blow inflicted on the temple of the deceased had not been caused by a hard substance • if a hard substance, such as a life preserver, had been used the skin would bare been lacerated, which was not the case in the present instance. He was of opinion that no advantage to the public good could arise by adjourn ing the inquiry. With regard to the circumstances of the deceased's death, it might be said that the sum of nine shillings, which it was stated that the deceased had been robbed of, was a very small one indeed to commit a brutal murder for, but then the jury must consider that the ruffians who wen gene ally engaged in these dreadful outrages were no strangers to violence. The place in which the murder was alleged to have been committed was a very dark, secluded spot, and it was just the locality where one would expect such a crime to be perpetrated. The manner in which the deceased was stated to have acted on his return home tended to show that he was labouring under the effects of extreme fright consequent upon a brutal attack. It was a dreadful fact to contemplate that a man could not walk through the streets of this densely populated city without being set upon by ruffians and robbed. The jury after a long deliberation returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or memos unknown. The Coroner mid that u end the circumstances the jury could return no other verdict. A splendid reception awaits the Bing of Italy at Naples. The largest Italian fleet ever got together in mo dern times is mnstesiog in the bay. ---- The Be:giait Mortiteur announces that the legis lative session will be opened an the 10th by the King in pence. The chronicler of the Paris Nation states that at one of the late races at Vincennes, a workman of the Faubourg St. Antoine, on seeing some ladies of the demi monde approaching in splendid equipages, exclaimed. " Make room there for the rag-gatherers of the future !" His words were caught up by the bystanders, who seemed to think 'them quite appropriate. The Weser Gazette, in relating the incidents attending the termination of the legislative session at Camel, states that, after the Elector's Message had been had, the president raw end said :—" Let us give one cheer foe what we have defended ever since we met—' God save our oouutry and the conatitutioa !' " and the cry was re pealed with enthusiasm by the assembly and the public. MAILS FOR THE lONIAN ISLANDS (VIA ITALY). Information has been received from the Italian Poet-o Mos of an alteration which has been made in thehour for despatch ' hag the Italian mail packets from Ancona for Corfu, in con . segues.e of an acceleration of the railway service between Turin and Ancona. The following will be the arrange , meets for despatching mails for the lonian Islands, via Ask ' cons, in future:—Letters. he., must be prated in or reach London not later than Saturday morning, in time for the day mail to France, to go by the packet leaving Ancona every Monday oight. Letters. he., must be posted is or reach London not later than the mornings of the 10th and 26th of each month, in time for the day mail to France, to go by the packets 'Gavin Ancona on the nights of the 12th and 28th of each month. When the 10th or 26th of the month fall on a Sunday, the mails for the lonian Weeds will be despatched from Lou. don on the previous evening.—Sy command of the Poet master-Generals ROWLAND HILL, Smetary. The following notice was issued from the General Poet-cake yesterday. vv.:—" Extra mails for Madeira and St. Thomas (West Indies) will be made up in London on the evening of the 9th last. for coaveyance by the Royal Mail Steanipsoket Company's dee: er Solent. Any letters intended to be forwarded by this opportunity must be ad dressed 'Per Solent, from Southampton.' They will be liable to the usual packet rate of postage." THE SOUTH WALES ISONWORKS.—Thin week ' there has been a general advanes in wages at the South ' Wales Ironworks to the balers, lied other skilled workmen. The rise at e majority of the works is 10 par cent. on the whole wale, while at some two or three of the works the advance has only been 5 and 71 per mut. The labourers and others employed at the works are Rho to re. mice a rise, but the exact amount has not yet been decided on by all the modes. LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S FRENCH. Sittings in Banco.-(Before Lord Chill Justice C0r.10 4 , t and Juntiom Wightnian, Blackburn, and 14110{.) . QUIN V. Mr. Justice Blackburn delivered jodgment in this a,, e. This wee an appeal from the derision of %elastic.* ti to the non-rating of Colson's School-house, ke., a t b ut ,' Their lordehipe quashed the order of surelons. MALI V. WILHELMIL This was en action for kooks supplied, tried befor e li t Baron Bramwell at Croydon, when the jury rer g ,* verdict for the plaintiff. The plaintiffs • reannfactu r r 4 Leeds, and Sc. defendant is a clothier, kr., ea rr y,: • • business in London, and be had been rued for good, „ I , plied to Ellis and Co. ou the presumption that be w an millin er. . M. Chambers. Q.C., moved for a role for • new qy on the pound that the verdict was against evidence, and surprise, and he reed affidavits to show that • +Sane w was called on the trial was a man unworthy of „ m u having been engaged in swindling tranaactions wah person who had been eon-rioted. Rule granted. PI:1W V. THE 01121 T tn9:l. - . ;;;;;a TT: callin g upon thea s h tiff to show cause why the judgment and execution it ch. arse boned by him should out be sat aside. The rue been referred to the court by Mr. Justice Bylet, woe whom the application was made in vacation. Ac tAit. waa brought by the plaintiff against the cothai for the recovery of the valne of certain ju i stores which he had supplied, upon which al urine moot wsa come to whereby the plaintiff consented to sti all further proceedings, and that he would sign no jtai m on a mortgage being given for 5,3501., on the woe term* . to interest, &c., as the debentures, within a week, th e me paid on titration, and so long r the amount above lee tinned was insured. The question turned upon the 144, words of the agreement. A policy was accordingly mere into on the 28th July, lon, which expired ot tb 23rd September, 1863, when the ship arrived at Livertoo. On the 29nd September, Mr. Yates, the secretary, td. graphed from Liverpool to the London brokers, to maw the plaintiff's interest, and on the some day the A m u wrote to the secretaryexpremang a hope that the next day post would bring him • policy on the Great Easier spirt fire whilst she was in harbour. The broke in London acoordingly insuredtbe vessel 3501. at Lloyds, 5,0001. at the Oriental ; the plaintiff was informed of th fact and also that a delay must take place before the Raba t could be delivered because they required conntersigna g t the secretary, and the brokers endorsed on or of the lette received by the plaintiff in the matter that they would ha & the policies over to no one else but himself, and they was accordingly delivered to the plaintiff on the 30th. Is to meantime the plaintiff seized the ship and put her up sole. Mr. Justice Blackburn said it probably wu dose by U plaintiff under the impreauon that if a fire bad taken in between the expiration of the old policy and the aigowg the new ones, he could not legally hare enforced the mr. ranee. Mr. Lush said probably that was so. But the policies Li been effected, and when suede out covered the back time. Mr. Justice Blackburn said that respectable underwriter, having accepted the insurance would have paid it, alttov the policies were not signed, though not enforceable is las. Mr. Lush said that in all mementilei language and pm. tioe, the insurance was effected se soon as the "slips " se. obtained. The insurance had been bout Me effected situ the time, and it was monstrous to sell the ship for s,orxc. Rule granted. Cbt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 5. The Queen drove out this morning, attended by the Hon. Mn. Bram Colonel H. F. Poesonby attended her Majesty on ha:whack. The Duchess of Cambridge and Primes Mary visited her Majesty. Lord Brougham had the honour of an interview with her Malady. Viscount Palmerston arrived at the Deaths yesterday even ing and had an audience of the Queen, and returned to London this morning. Visoonnt Palmerston returned to town yesterday morning from Windsor Castle, and left in the afternoon for his seat, Broadleaf', Hants. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-dace to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, and Canada, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. THE BIRTHDAY OP THZ PRINCII OF WALES.— It is understood that the natal day (the 9th insk) of hi. Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will be kept this year at Sandringham, and not at Windsor se was first aanousced. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia were expected at Windsor last Tuesday, and preps ' rations were made at the Castle for their reception, the orders for which were at the last moment countermanded. Prince Frederick William of Prussia and the Princes. Royal ' will now, we believe, be present at Sandringham ow the Prince of Wales's birthday ; it is, however, not known whether her Majesty the Queen will go to Sandringham or not. The Crown Prince and Prince. of Prussia are ex pected to visit Windsor Castle on leaving Sandringham, which they will probably do within the next fortnight. It is not unlikely that her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, while at the Castle, may consent to lay the foundationnoel; of the new church which is now being erected on the Lemmata at Windsor, as her Majesty bas, we believe, received an ap plication on the subject from the local clergy. Their Royal Highneeses Princess Helena and Primes Louise, Lady C. Barrington, Miss Grey, Colonel Pousouby and suite, honoured the Adelphi naafis with their presence last evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will Muni to town to-morrow from visiting Cameral Hall at his seat is Cambridgeshire. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary visited her Ilajesty yesterday, at Windsor Cards. Alter a short okay their royal high asemsrelursed to Cambridge Cottage, Kew. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Chartres h►re returned to their residence at Ham, Surrey, after a lengthened tour. The Duke of Somerset will arrive at his official reside's» at the Admiralty to morrow, from Storer Park, sear Totems. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have issued invitations for an evening party, on a grand scale, at Blenheim Palace, on Wednesday, the 25th instant. The party will be in honour of Frederick Prince of Denmark, who is now at Oxford, and a general gathering of the no bility and gentry of the county and leading members of the university is expected. We have to record the demise of Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderley, who died on Monday last at an ad. yawed age. Several families of rank are Naomi in mourn ing by the melancholy event. Lady Elizabeth Adeane gave birth to a eon, on Nasky, rit bar nisidaoce is fioyasoar-pleas. Itayfair. Her ladyship sad infant are prong favourably. Lady Molesworth has arrived at her residence in Fatomplsor from s tour of visits. Tai Him= or nil DITLZ or Arzom—We (Edinburgh Courant) repot to state that the, health of the Duke of AWE is now so precarious that his 'Taos is daily losing sarsogila The Marquis of Tullitordine goes to Lou don, we understand, is a few days, with his bride, for the purpose el Join* his ragimeat. - THE OPENIN - G 0171111 FRENCH CHAMBERS. --A little before 1 o'clock yesterday cheery were heard outside the Louvre, the drums at the same time beating a salute, and &luau immediatel► after a roaster of the ceremonies, *drawing into the hall, annouseed "The Empress," cad at oleos the whole ueemblage rose. Her Majesty and the Prises Imperial the next moment appeared at the entrance sad proceeded up the hall, preceded and followed by the great officers and ladies of her household, Red, as they advanced, were greeted with load cries of " Vive rlmpentrios !" "Viva le Prince litiprial!" Her Majesty, who looked in blooming health after her late *reunion to Spain, took her se►t with the young, prince in a tribune on the right, close to the tetrads, having near her the Princess Clothilde, the Princess Xathilde, and the Princesses Lucien and Anna Murat. The prince was dressed in his uniform as a corporal of the Grenadiers of the Guard. Her Majesty had only just Ulm her seat whoa the cannot' of the Lydick* announced the arrival of the Emperor, and the next moment the imperial cortege entered the hall in the costrimary order. RIPOILTED DIATH or ME. PRITCHARD.—A letter frau Papeiti, is the Merrier des Etats-Unit, announces the Snead fate of the ono* famous Mr. Pritchard. A Ireoceser while proceeding from one island to another, herb* at board the American consul at the Pejo. Islands, sad Xt. Pritchard, the English consul, and his fanny, eras loot, sad all on board perished. A Naples letter of the 31st ult. says :—" Mr. leyard lilt Naples last Sunday for Florence. Os the fal low* day Sir Mare Bawer arrived. Mr. Cowper, wed ded of the Board at Works, has been here this week. The next week will bring in shoals of diplomat i sts, diktats, and culinary visitors" SWEDEN AND DENMARK. A Copenhagen letter, in the Cologne Gazette, states that the treaty of alliance between Sweden and Denmark which has been so much spoken of was signed on the 30th October. In the political circles of the Danish capital it is thought that the military co-operation of Sweden will take plane from the moment of the entry of the federal troops into Holstein. The southern part of Schleswig would in that case be occupied by the Swedish troops in such a manner as to permit the Danish' army to concentrate all its efforts upon Rendsburg and the Me-de-pont of Friedrichstadt, which are the most important strategical points in Holstein. (nom's nizomts.) THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BRESLAU, Nov. 6. Advice. received here from Warsaw announce that the National Government has published a proclamation encouraging the Poles to persever ance, and confirming the order for ladies to discon tinue wearing mourning. A sanguinary engagement has taken place at Cachanow. The insurgents were commanded by Baron Pets. Night separated the combatants. MANIFESTO OF THE KING OF THE GREEKS. TRIESTE, Nov. 6. Advioes received here from Athens state that the King of the Greeks on his arriv►l there issued $ manifesto, of which the following is a summary : "I bring neither ability to govern nor practised intelligence, but sincere love for the people. I be lieve in the future identity of our destinies. I shall endeavour to love Greek customs, and shall respect your manners and language. I shall strictly observe the Constitution, and shall surround myself with the most experienced men of the country without remembering old political divi sions, and shall make Greece the model State of the Etat." FRANCK PARIS, Nov. 6. The bulletin of this morning's afonsteur pub lishes an account of the opening of the French Chambers, concluding as follows :—" The Em peror's speech was interrupted by the most vehe ment acclamations, and terminated amidst repeated shouts of • Viva PEmpereur !' The speech will not fail to re-echo loudly throughout France and the whole of Europe." The Senate and the Corps Legislatif will meet to-day, to receive a communication from the go vernment to the Corps Legialatif. ROME. ROME, Nov. R. The Prinoe Latour d'Auvergne presented his letters of recall to the Pope this morning, and will leave Rome on Saturday next. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 6. The 'Avant Hera/1 says :—" All the arrears of the army prior to March last have been settled by individual serghia, payable to the soldier at the expiration of hii term of service. Since March all have been paid in cash. " The new taxes are about to be applied to Constantinople, which city has hitherto been exempt." WEATHER REPORT.-(12113 DAY.) riniAT, NOvwn I. 8 AJIL COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Benno. —(Betors Lord Met Justice Erle Justioes WiLimn, Byla, and Keating.) The court this morning appointed Tneaday, the 17th, etd Satardep the 21st inst., for hearing appeals how &rime at revising barristers. 17.1.1411_10,11ARKM.7A DLLLIIIT reasosiLvr. _ . Mr. M. Chambers, Q. 0., said that this use was tried before Mr. Baron Bramwell, at Croydon, when the plaintiff was eon-suited ; and the present motion was for • new trial. The plaintiff, Mrs. Fells, was • billet dancer in what was called the " front rank, that was, she was Gee of those who were allowed to corns forward as Brunettes to the foot lights ; and not like others, confined to the rear-rain, and only permitted occasionally to show themselves. Mr. Justice Byles—She was like • " silk gown." anughtur.) Mr. Chambers—Yes, she was " within the bar." The first count was upon • special contract, sad it alleged that. on consideration that Mrs. Fella would give up a Farina engagement the defendant promised to procure her written engagement from Mr. Feebler, the leases of ch, Lyceum, and that she should be retained for three years, whilst in fact she was dismissed from the engagement which was obtained at • week's notice . This count, however, was not proved ; and the coin: really relied upon was for detaining from the plaintiff he written engagement. Mrs. Fells proved that she had bee: • dancer at the Italian Opera and other places, and Xi. Fechter being about to open the Lyceum, Mr. Barnett vs employed by him to tasks engagements. Mrs. Fells wee to Mr. Barnett, who said she should be en and subsequently said that he had he • written engagement for three years. She asked for the document, but he said that he mu about removing his race and could not lay his hand ape the paper. Boon afterwards the plaintiff was dismissed, consequence of • dispute about her having been placed in the rear rank ; and thereupon • formal demand was made fo: the written engagement; but Mr. Barnett ref ..iNed ii give it op because it was wanted for the purpose it bringing an action against Mr. Fechter. Upon Its facts Mr. Baron Bramwell held that an action detinne would not lie, but he did not state upon what ground he formed that opinion. It was DOW illbelittlal the his lordship was wrong in so holding. The Lord Chief Justice said he could not see clearly bee the property in the document became vested in the plaint:E. After some discussion the court intimated that they would 'peak to Mr. Baron Bramwell upon the matter. RICHARDSON V. =II AND ANOTHLR.—MORNAL VERDICT. The plaintiff is thin case having some lend to let near the International Exhibition cams into communication wdu Elgee, sec., • licensed victualler, and with that gentleioan's son. The plaintiff's cue was that in the course of the OOgo tiation the defendant became liable in • joint responsibility to him, and be sued to enforce it. The ciao was tried be fore Mr. Justine Keatiag in London. Mr. M. Chamber", Q.C., in moving for a new trial, now said that the jury first, said they found for the plaintiff, bat afterwards, at the solicitation of the defendant's counsel. they were induced to alter that finding. It was now sub mitted that plaintiff was entitled to retain the verdict first announced. Mr. Justice Heating said that what took place was this, the jury said " We find for the plaintiff, but we think that the elder defendant is not liable,' thereupon he explained that that was • verdict for the defendant, because the plaintiff was bound to prove a joint contract with both de. fetidante. They then found for the defendant. The Lord Chief Justice maid that the first answer was no verdict, but what the jury subsequently said was the red verdict. There would, however, be a rule for a new trial unless the plaintiff would consent to have a verdict 11,0111 1 t Mr. Elate, jun., only. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the J edge Ordinary.) BUSINESS OF THE COURT. The list of matrimonial causes set down for hearing Burin; the present term contains 109 cases. This is 5 lea thou the number oo the old paper ; but owing to the unfortuuate circumstance which led to the premature closing of the court before the long vocation, the diminution is probably apparent only. There are no fewer than 34 jury tows, to of which are special. Chore are four suits for restitution, three for declarations of nullity of marriage—including the petition of Lady Crampton, twelve for judicial separaton, and four for judicial separation or diaeolution. The rest are for complete divorce. There are still five probate causes which are to be tried by juries. TEATILLN V. TEATILAIL—NEW TRIAL. Mr. Yeatman (a barrister) moved in person for a see trial oo the ground that the verdict (which had been in favour of his wife on the IRMA/ of adultery and desertion) wee against evidence. The adultery was alleged to have been committed with a person styled the Prince of liohenloheat a place in the neighbourhood of Heidelberg. There was no evi dence to rebut the direct evidence of witeseme against whew credit nothing bed even been iosiousted. The learned pen. bionic also argued that the verdict as to the desertioo had been against evidence, and also that Sir Cresswell Creswell had misdirected the jury in leaving that question to them. Sir James Wilde said that the question was on the record. which proposed to be a statement of the points ra ised between the parties. Mr. Yeats:oath abandoning that point, contended that at all erects there was no evidence to prove the charge. if the evidence proved martini* at all, it proved n ote desertion bat wilful separation, provision being made for espoodent. Sir James Wilde—The note of Sir Cresswell is, that tb! petitioner" aepareted from his wife without proper excuse, Mr. Yeatman contended that the finding would Di dier- Pott.„tbe,Plea ; at all events , that there was no proof t o justuy the 6adiog. Sr J. Wilde granted a rule Mil on both points. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Oommissiouer Holroyd.) 1/1 ItZ RUST 111LDTTC11 .101121,1011. The bankrupt wee a wine and hop-merchant, of the Circular Vaults, fit. Pool's-churchyard, lied of Mark' lane. This wee the adjourned examination in ttiog. The aceounta embrace some very large items. The leak' rapt owes to unsecured creditor', 8,0851. ; to ereliton holding security, 11,2011.; liabilities on bills. 9.4111. : ditto on socommodatioa bills, 2,0701. ; creditors to be • aid in fall. 1624 The a ssets are returned at about LOOP/. ; prnp s held as security, 39981. The bankrupt's expenihture forth., two yearn preceding his bankruptcy bad bees 51 'Of. mid • Mr. Linklater appeared for the assignees, . Irvin; Inc creditors, and Mr. Lawrence for the bankrupt. The aim did not object to the bankrupt passing his %animation. Mr. Irving, oa behalf of creditors for upward- of littra l /.. asked for at adjournment. The accounts had taken lire months to Ale, sad they had only ten days to cr.:odor them M. On teed' netaused at 26. f 26,0004, of win accommodation Wild's claim a discounted bills loss the disomun After bearing ti s Honour December. DI 11l H. 111 The bankrupt been connected 580 i., of which d Oxfordwtreet . Mr. &mood a debts as due to I right ot the /as worth Be &L a farthial . (Lew& of 3501. ea thi netting he hr habit el nada' Turf Cireelar' bad received roe wittasow he admitted the r an — d — dia — chi;jed that he bad es wu interested. get_ rid of • sing had purchased The bankrup Land two year instalments of 12 weeks; it 11 have been par proper copyrig as subscriptions sum of 2N. we surety for Mr. 1 (also bankrupt) the railway mai paid about 2Ze Laud eras a pa projected it, an wards bankropl in the ?mind. laiblislung the i copyright of not then plead His Honour tection far a mg IN It t This cue me August last. Mr. Lioklate , the purpose a and creditors as made or the vol there was a pre latter. Order accord appeared in tic Anthony MI with letting a A witness of employed at 31 premien', Y 0 nmently been 1 fire. Lein Mig taw the prison Mr. Barker Ante imprison Where Were Thomas E false address, premises in th, committing Is Mr. Rialsb tended for thl From the e, is the mornin of the S divisi of the house the prisoner watched him, studio. As the constable the door, sad mutable tool doing there. what he wai had gone tk police station other articles. stable had fins door had bon on it which e the prisoner. The defence and had no fel Three wit., the prisoner a bad always to A police-col sonar in canto an unlawful F mouths' hsrd Toe our poee • to be ink • m of Correction was not satia thought prop Me prison • " Birrixa John Pitip before Mr. K for She purpc reant C saw the prim Sobo. in coo servitude—w stolen prope <misers), etas sergeant), a< and Weeks, I in taking the his head than reaisri to pick up one who go • thief but a SS a pereoa On searching note, some c tacks used sedate and o Primmer a ledge that races. Mr. Knox the Vagnwt THE FO have enrolls elation, and next meetin elation that oonaidered 1 Arrest ri THE Vex-t : Liverpool of of a mutiny Lawrence/, attempt on murder limp who bad got and arrest tl mutiny, and three officer hewn total when he we leaders he neck, near 1 that if the swim with 1 signals wen the shore, and branch reigned tent attempting him, and w until to-day DREAD .r i Myers, cora lan, death of of Joseph holes, of CI the decease Ave o'clock journey at shorten th father walk They had c ceased obse wards of 'X father were either of th time to att to the grow body was several plat severed.-3 death."