The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA) PUBLIC WAN, issued under the authority of the Public Loan Act, Dab Victoria, No. 287, assented to Irth October, 1665, to be effected by the issue of Debentures to the amount of L. 850,000, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, In amounts of £lOO, L5OO, and41,6004101h, secured upon the amsolididad revenue of the moony efy)eforia, and redeemable on the Id January, 1130 L The billed by the di emaciated Australian hanks. Nz t 6t this country of the government of Victoria for the eilise above Lows, HEM: Y OM NOTICE, that PUB IC TENDERS will be received for the entire meant tt of 6050,000, at the London and Westminster Bank, at two rfeic precisely, on the AFTS:R NOON of MONDAY, the sth November next, up to which thee sealed tenders will be received there from all parties who may forward the same, addressed. to the chair man of the committee, and endorsed "Tendon to the Victoria Loan,' or attecd in person therewith. In case A equality of Tenders beyond the amount to be issued, they will be subject to a pro-rata diminution. A deposit of Ave per cent. cm the amount of each Mader must be previously paid to the London and Westminster Beuk. The tenders will then be opened in the presence of all so attending, and read publicly, and the purchasers forthwith declared to be those who have offered the highest price not under the minimum preciously fixed, and which shall be contained In a sealed paper placed on the table before the tenders are opened. Tenders by the some parsons at redoes prices mast be a...de out and delivered separately, and parties must be careful not to enclose the deposit in the sealed tender. Tenders at a price including fractions of a shilling other than sixpence will not be accepted The Debentures so contracted for will carry interest from the Ist July last, and will be delivered to the subscribers at the London and Westminster Bank on the 30th November next upon payment of the !silence due thereon. Principal and luterest payable in London, at the Lembo and Westmlneter Bank, and at the London Joint Stock Bank. Interest payable on the Ist January and Ist July in each year, by coupons. The Ad further provides that the Loan shell be applied as follows: For the completion of the State railways £e50,030 Towards the works of defence, necessary for the protection of the colony against invasion lOO,OOO Towards the construction of works for 'applying water to various districts in Victoria, 'for mining, agricadtural, and pastoral purposes 500,000 tAt5O ADO The revenues of Victoria exceed three millions per annum, and have always been sufficient tor the expenditure, which in cludes annually a loge provision for public works calculated to develop the great natural resources of the colony The Itailwasa, for the completion of which £250,000 are re quired, are air producing per cent. on the cost of their construction, after paying all the working expenses, which in clude tall provielon for maintaining the permanent way and rolling stock in the highest state of efficiency. It is oonfidently expected that In three yews the railways will return. over and above working expenses, the whole amount of the Interest of 6 per cent. paid for the money borrowed for their cockatoo:Wm The sum of £630,000 has been from time to time expended from the ordinary resources of the colony in the creation and maintenanes of works of defence. It has been determined by the Legislature that the very large amount of property at stake requires that the harbour defences of Melholinie shall be com pleted, and "100,000 are required towards that object. The climate and soil of Victoria are fit for t h e prodectiou of all that can be profitably grown in Southern harem but a re gular supply of water is essential for the development alike of the agrkvitural, mining, and pastoral resource' of the country, and for this £600,000 are required. The City of Melbourne and Its suburbs are supplied with water from a reservoir constructed for the purpose e. and al though the work was undertaken at a time when labour ww dearest, it returns eight per cent. on the original outlay. For the Bank of New South Wales -D. Larnach, Chair man of Committee. For the Bank of Australards—D. Q. Henriques. For the Union Bank of Australia—H. W. D. Saunders. For the bank of Victoria—H. L Taylor. For the London Chartered Bank of Australia—C. O. Ber net!. For the Colonial Bank of Anstralasla--James A. Douglas. London, 26th October, 1806. N. B. YOrMS of Tender may be obtained on application at the London and Westatiuster Bank, and at the °ace of Mtwara Mullen', Marshall, and Daniell, 3, Lombard-street. GOLD CHAINS.-JOHN BROODEN to call the attention of the public to the FORM o l fi l ? VOICE which he deliver with Gold Chains purchased at his mantdactory: t a. d. To workmanship of wove pattern chain. 54 inches long $ 15 0 To (18, carat gold, welOing 2 or. 8 dwt. —pa., at 13 3s. bed. per ounce, Mint price Total 1.9 t 6 Upon this system, the QUALITY, WEIOIIT, and VALUE of the gold are actually defined, and guaranteed to the purcksear: John Brogden looking for a fair remuneration on Na workman ship only, which is charged aLcor,ling to, the intricacy or simpli city of the pattern.—Manufactory, Ilentietta-street, Covent. garden, London. (FLUE MEDAL AWARDED.) _ ALLEN'S PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TRAVELLING BAGS, with square openings. LADIES' WAS.DitOilli TRUNKS, DRESSING BAGS, with silver fittings. DLIPATCH BOXE4, WRITING and DRESSING CASES, and 1500 other articles for home or continental travelling. Illustrated catalogues post free. Also Allen's Barrack Furniture Catalogue of Portable Bed steads. Drawers, Remy Chairs, Washhandatands, Canteens, dc., post free. J. W. ALLEN, Manufacturer and Patentee, 37, West Strand, London, W.C. pIVIES'S BEST REFINED COLZA OIL, ea ad. per genus' ; French oil, O. lid,: palace parafila candles, Is. Gd. per lb.: spenu, Is. td. and Is. ed. ; botanic wax, is.: composite, 101., hat ; best, 11.1.; best dips, ; moulds, 80.; yellow soap, , 414., Na, WA 48s. per 1111 b. ; mottled, 48a forcash, at U. P. DAVIES and SON'S, Uri, tit. litarthis-lane, W.C. B ROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To obtain extra profit by the sale other klads are sometimes offered budead of BROWN and POLSON'B. "John Brown," "John Poison," Is signed by the makers on each packet. THE`r-1 supplied by borrowing from bankeratancl 'ahem But how could this have retail:tea =blown I The Committe supply the answer. " The system " which the accountants trace in the company's " books is not merely one of general deception of duirehOlders and misrepresentation of the " company's affairs : it is not merely deliberate • falsification of the accounts from year to year, "soas to show to the shareholders and divide " among them a revenue which was not in exist " ence, and was known not to have been earned ; " but it was, as shown in the report appended " hereto, a careful and most ingenious fabrication " of imaginary accounts, begun and carried on " from time to time, for the purpose of supporting " the falsified half-yearly statements of revenue, " and the general misrepresentat ion of affairs." This is a frightful charge to make. It is, we be lieve, admitted that the Chairman of the railway, Mr. RICHARD HODGSON, of Carham-hall, was fully cognizant of the accounts ; but the other Directors, one and all, declare that they had no knowledge of what was taking place in the accountant's office. They " never imagined that " any officer of the company bad made entries in " the books calculated to give an untrue statement " of the company's affairs ;" " the revenue being "in an apparently prosperous condition," the attention of the directors was never drawn to the general accounts, which they believed to be per fectly safe in the hands of the Manager and Ac countant, especially when certified to be correct by the auditors appointed by the shareholders. The directors state that on the sth of September last Mr. HODGSON admitted to them that the true state of the company's affairs had been concealed from his co-directors and shareholders. It was, of course, Important to ascertain as nearly as possible who had participated in these misrepresentations. We find that the general manager, Mr. Roweornam, informed the Committee that "he was cognisant of the irregu " larities in the accounts, and that dividends were " declared and paid which had not been earned." He denied, however, that he had ordered or in structed the operations by which the balance-sheets were made to show results unwarranted by the position of the company—the instructions given on that subject emanated directly from the Chair man to the Accountant. The Accountant deposes that not only were the mis-statements of the half yearly accounts made by direction of the Chair man to him, but that " these were made delibe " rately and advisedly, generally upon a preli " minary draft prepared by the accountant -show " ing the true state of affairs, which, after being " inspected by the Chairman, was altered by the " Accountant into such a form as to carry out the " wishes of the Chairman, and show the desired " dividend." That this is not too strong a state-. meat will appear by the report, which is published in some of the morning papers. The Accountant is asked— Did you each half-year submit a similar statement to Mr. Rowbotham, to the chairman, or to the directors ?—I had no access to the directors at all. I usually went to Mr. Rowbotham, and he got Mr. Hodgson to fix a time to come in and see what was to be done, and the ways and means were adopted to pay a certain dividend. In fact, good account keeping has been sacrificed to the payment of dividends. You have stated that from your examination of the revenue accounts of January, 1865, you found that the revenue we. some 36,000 L deficient to pay your preference dividends'—Yes. Did you report that to Mr. Hodgson, or Mr. Rowbotham, or any of the directors'—Yes, I took it to Mr. Hodgson when he was in Mr. Rowbotham's office. I mentioned it also to Mr. Rowbotham. Before the January accounts were published!—Yes, I required instructions what to do. What were the instructions you got'—lt was arranged what I should do. The dividend must be timid under any circumstances. Were these the words used ?—I would not like to bind myself to the words. Mr. Hodgson and Mr. Rowbotham and I were present ; and I will not be sure whether Mr. Hodgson gave me instructions that day or a day or two afterwards, but I was told to bring out a dividend of 21 per cent. that half-year. Can you not give ns a little more specifically what actually took place, the explanation you made, and the statements that Mr. Hodgson made—No. He was a long time mute, and so war Mr. Rowbotham. I remained there in the hopes of getting some instructions, but I don't think I got any instructions that day. Were the instructions given you by Mr. Hodgson, specially that you must bring out the accounts so as to pay a dividend of 2f per cent.' —Certainly. How did you do that' By making these cross-entries' • The same witness said that he had been in structed by Mr. HODGSON twice a year to prepare the accounts so as to bring out the dividend wanted. On being asked whether the cross-entries suggested by Mr. HonasoN, and which he was afterwards instructed to make periodically, were not designed "to confuse the " auditors and prevent them from following the " sums so easily," the Accountant replied, " Well, " there is a good deal in that. I dare say that was "an important element in the matter. You see, " I was working for the directors, and they " were supposed to be working for the share " holders." The remark of Mr. HODGSON upon all this is that "it is not correct to say that " the accounts have been falsified, inasmuch as the " books show the purport of every entry." The Committee of Investigation, with the Chairman's explanation before them, express the opinion that it will be impossible to allow him to retain any official position in the company ; and in that view the shareholders and the public will doubtless agree with them. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING Wxxx.—Monday—Roval Institution, at 2, gene ral monthly meeting; Entomoiotdcal, at 7 ; Architects, at 8. Tuesday—Ethnologictl, a 8, " Skull of a Pata gonian," Professor Huxley ; Cultivated fruits and ethno logy," Mr. Crawford. Wednesday—Literature, at 4i, meeting of council ; Geological, at 8. Thursday—Chemi cal, at 8, " Speoifio gravities of heterogeneous liquids," Dr. Sprengel ; Gradual verdation of organic bodies," Messrs. Chapman and Thorp; Mathematical, at 8, annual general meeting. Saturday—Horticultural, at 3, annual meeting and lecture ; Botanic, at 31.-Athrwrwm. THE" FORTNIGHTLY Hgstaw."—The Fortnightly just published contains the following announcement: — In compliance with wishes repeatedly expressed, the proprietors of the Fortnightly Review have resolved to sus pend for the present the publication on the 15th of each month. That on the Ist of each month will continue as heretofore." By the way, the Fortnightly, as we may still call it, says in its " Public Affairs " article of the present number, " Mr. Cobden used to say that he never could understand how people could get through a page of such useless and unintelligible books as Plato or Thucydides." Who was it to whom Mr. Cobden "used to say" this? When did he ever say anything of the sort ?—Star. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF HANOVER.—We learn from Hanover that her Majesty Queen Victoria has placed St. James's Palace at the disposal of her relative, Sing aeon° of Hanover. According to the last accounts the rng had resolved to accept the offer for himself and daughter, the Princess Friederiaa. The Queen Marie, how ever, who throughout recent events has shown such magna nimity, has resolved to remain in Hanover with her second daughter.—Post. THE TcrrNEB ELECTION CommisaioN.—The com missioners sat for the last time yesterday. As a munici pal election had taken place the day before some questions were asked as to whether bribery had been resorted to. One witness replied that the conservatives had bribed, and that prices ranged as high as 31. per vote. Another witness said that, so far as he knew, the conservatives had sot bribed at all, but that the libenla had done so to • considerable extent. Before adjourning to chambers at the Temple, the chief oonernimioner thanked the corpora tion for the facilities afforded during the protracted in quiry. The commissioners have met on thirty-nine dif ferent days. ghe xpresSO• TO CORRYAToNDENTS. Advertisements Intended for The Express," London ening Zlr, must be at the °Mee, 10, bonverie-stzeet, b 7 Two k on the day of publacatlon. DRURY LANE. Tins Evaisnso, FAUST. Mr. Phelps, Messrs. E. Phelps, W. Harrison, U. Vandenhott, and J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Herman Vein and Wm Toole.—And TUE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Breakers Webb. PRINCIS4BII. Tan Emma, THE THIPI.Is ALLIANCH—After which TIIE gtrour-voT CAPTAIN. Messrs. J. G. t+hore &0. liouey ; Mijies Nelson, Anse ::: Thz.uuron, and mrs. stir** HAY ARK RT. Tits rvrxmo, A Ballet Divertissement. The Iflsses Healey.— A DANGEROVs FRIEND. Messrs. C. Mathews, Howe. Kendal, ; Mesdames; C. Mathews, Chippendale, Are. BAUSHAW, AND BRA USHAW.—And SHOCKING RVKNTS. LI CRUM. This Evuna, BRUTUS AND CESAR. Miss Renrside.—And THE LONG STRIKE. Messrs, D Boueirault, Emery, Widdleinnb, Cowper, de. ; Mrs. D. IhweicatilL--concliKling with TWREDLE. TON'S TAIL COAT. Mr. H. Widilicmub.—Commence at 7. STRAND. MEI IMMO, WAITING FOR THE UNDERGROUND.—IN THE WRONG BOX.—DSR FRILISCHUTZ ; OR, A GOOD CAST FOR A PIECE.—And BOO'S AT TILE SWAN. HOLBORN. THIS EvENING, at 7, LARKIN'S LOVE LETTERS. Mr. Bel mote and 111, , s C. Saunders—And FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Delmore, Blake, Voltaire, de. ; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. Saunders, Bessie Foote. !Utica, Lennox, Raymond. te. BRITANNIA. Tin ZeSarnia, THE OLD CHERRY TREE. Mrs. Lase.—llesin. Ogden and Deulin ; Master George Perks ; Miss E. Mowbray.— ()LIDO FAWKES —And Grand Display of Fireworks. MOB WATER AT LONDON BRIDOL TRIO DAT —Morning, llh. 17m Aftarnoon. lib. Oka. TO-YOLLOW—lforhing, Oh. Om Afternoon. en. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3. THE Report of the Committee of Invest _ appointed at the September meeting of the North British Railway makes some exceedingly painful disclosures as to the means by which the share holders have been led to acquiesce in a sys tem of administration and policy that has proved disastrous to all concerned in their undertaking. To call things by their right names, these means consisted of a deliberate falsification of the ac counts. The Committee, of which Mr. Jxxxs WHITE, of Overtotm, is the chairman, obtained the assistance of professional . accountants, and examined the officers of the Company. The Committee find an enormous accumulation of liabilities of the existence of which no one seems to have had any suspicion. The result is that, whereas dividends have been paid year after year, and the shareholders had every reason to believe that all was going well, it is now discovered that the present and post poned liabilities of the Company amount to 1,875,6251., to meet which there are only the un exercised borrowing powers of the Company -95,5501.—and the power to issue preference stock and share capital. Thus, unless something can be done immediately, a fine property must be sacrifioed. Inquiring bow all this embarrassment has oome about, we find that expenditure has not been honestly compared with income, and as a natural consequence has been lavish and unrestrained. In the seven last half-yearly reports 304,1361. have been charged to capital and suspense accounts which ought to have been charged to revenue, and the amounts thus kept out of revenue expenditure —more than 86,0001. per annum—have been paid sway in dividends not earned, the deficiency being ~~ . y. I ! it id& Sr r rcOUR (THIS MY.) The extraordinary revelations in connexion with the North British Railway Company are commented upon by most of our contemporaries th i s morning. We tell the dory elsewhere. It is a case, the Times remark., not of trading without capital, nor of simple extraysgacce, but of mismanagement combined with false accounts and manufactured dividends. The amounts which the North British has divided were, according to the committee's report, but counterfeits of profit, instead of real surplus of receipts over outgoings. The shareholders, under the misguidance of their director., have been pocketing profits when there were no profits to pocket, and allowing ex penses to remain unpaid and liabilities to accumulate until they owe about a couple of millions, and have not the wherewithal to pay. The committee describe the method of " cooking" practised by the exe cutive as something quite unique in its perfection. The only consolation the committee can find is that nothing has occurred to effect the intrinsic or prospective value of the property. The share capital has not been ruinously increased, nor have loans been illegally contracted. The characteristic as well as the moral of the story is to be found in that uncertainty and mystification of returns which has been the destruction of railway property in the market. Nobody likes to buy when he cannot tell whet he is buying, but a new era in these affairs, observes tie Times, seems to be opening at last. These catastrophes bring out the truth, and in the truth of accounts, however black they may be, lies the secret of improvement and prosperity for railway shareholders. The Tdegrapli says • good deal about Mr. Hodgson, who is charged by the committee with the responsibility, and who the Telegraph says appears to have aped the railway sooountant as • mere tool. Whatever this genliensit's defence may be, two things are abundantly evident. Some check on the fierce competition of rival lines is required in the public interest ; and a searching andit by official ex aminers, independent of the smiles ce frowns of any direc tors, is an urgent necessity. It is remarked by the Star that the condition of the company seems to have been first brought to light by the exertions of the secretary, Mr. Walker, who, after in vain applying to Mr. Hodgson to alter his policy, dis closed the state of affairs to two of the directors, • step which ultimately led to the appointment of the committee. The extraordinary state of facts is exposed that none of the directors, with the exception of the chairman, knew anything about the real state of the line ; that the Finance Committee knew nothing of the finances; and that the auditors knew nothing of the amounts. The chairman, the manager, and the accountant seemed to have arranged the accounts, the latter hiding obligingly made them whatever his superiors wanted them to be. The Daily News, besides the article on the North British Railway, which we give in another column, replies to an Oxford correspondent who had presented the argu ment in favour of the government scheme of Irish univer sity education. It can see no force in the reasoning that because we are cautiously liberalising education in Eng land by conscience clauses and the abolition of university and college tests, we are cautiously to de-liberalise it in Ireland. The mixed system, to which we are slowly tend ing here, was fully established and working well there. It enjoyed the confidence of the people, and if the Irish go vernment had only let it alone, and had not fallen into the trap set for them by the ultramontane hierarchy, the catholic laity would have been well disposed and perfectly able to maintain it. Other articles in the Daily News deal with the melancholy condition of Spain, and the last quarterly report of the Registrar-General. The Times also discusses the health of the country apropos of the last-named document, and discovers in the current numbers of the Edinburgh Review and of the North American Review further subjects for comment. The first relates to the military growth of Prussia, and the second narrates the extraordinary history of the New York corporation. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Of Englishmen now living no one, the Examiner says, is perhaps so popular as Mr. Bright, and the natural consequence is that no Englishman is so heartily detested by the Orange garrison, and by all who on this side of the Channel rely upon them for the retention of that country in subjection. The planter interest is in Ireland un changed in spirit and in purpose, end it is the system of insolent and soreid tyranny with which it is identified that the advanced liberal party in Ireland invite men of kindred spirit amongst us to help them to destroy. Mr. Bright is naturally sought as their champion, and a more ardent or abler one they cannot final. Giving full credit to the hon. member for the temper and forbearance he displayed, the Examiner cannot help thinking that he was too guarded and vague in stating his remee'es. Thus, on the church question, he would have advanced more effectually the cause if he had proclaimed more clearly the inevitable truth that the church property , n Ireland when taken from the grasp of the spoiler cannot be used in the endowment of Roman catholicism. On the land question, if the proposed measure of direct government intei:erence stab the absentee ownership should be compulsory, we may readily imagine the opposi tion it will encounter ; and were even this overcome, the Examiner is at a loss to imag . ne by what means, short of the creation of crown tenancies in perpetuity, the estates thus purchased could be prevented from passing again into the hands of an absentee proprietor. Then there is the difficulty which stares one in the face in every county of Ireland that the worst managed estates are those of resident landlords, and that some of the beat belong to absentees. No doubt all these difficulties have been well considered by Mr. Bright, and when his plan is produced we shall be better able to judge of the 'Lauber in which he seeks to deal with them. Till then the Examiner cannot see how good shall come of his suggestions. The Duke of Somerset's examination before the Totnes Commission cone simply to this, mays the Spectator, that the duke was pretty well aware of the sort of intimida tion, the sort of influence exerted over his tenants and wielded by his agent at Totnes, but has taken care not to inquire too closely about it and to ignore it as much us possible. In other words, the Duke of Somerset, and other aristocratic leaders of opinion, do not really wish to put an end to intimidation, which is worse than bribery, at all. They claim to lead us politically, and are below us, or amongst the most selfish of us, morally. The Duke of Somerset cares more to wield ille gitimate political power through his land, than to im prove the political morality of England. And, of course, all landowners, great and small, follow in his track. If the leaders cam nothing for the ends for which the Houses of Parliament profess to legislate, how is it possible even that any legislation shall be effectual? An aristocracy that wishes to lead, and has not the virtue to take the lead in political morality, is not worth much to the nation. Is it not a clear farce for governments to introduce measures against corruption, when their principal members admit that they prefer to ignore is when they could extirpate it —on their own property The Spectator thinks it an omen of good for Ireland to find Mr. Bright taking for a moment the place which was once filled by Mr. O'Connell. The contrast between the two orators is not greater than the contrast between their political treatment of Ireland. Mr. Bright makes no attempt to adapt himself to the Irish, and carefully with holds even a shadow of encouragement to the separationist feeling ; but he holds out a few practical measures, the carrying of which would go far, he thinks, to assuage the evils and discontent from which Ireland suffers, if she would only accept them. With what he said of the pro- testant establishment the Spectator entirely concurs, and also with his proposal to secure a compensation for farmers' improvements, but though this would he still Insufficient, the Spectator does not see how the proposi tion of a mission to buy up the great landed estates would identify the people with the soiL To make such purchase compulsory would only be justifiable in the last resort. Then it is to be feared that to buy, the people must mortgage, and an begin their experiment loaded with debt—a very disastrous condition for success. A far more radical measure would be to apply the Cornwallis settle ment—whisik is such a magnificent moans is Bengal under difficulties of a very similar nature—to Ireland, with compensation to the landlords for the loss in the value of their property—that is, to secure his property for ever to every tenant in Ireland at its present rent so long as he continues to pay that rent regu larly, the slabs reimbursing the landlord, and charging the lutenist cm the capital sem so paid, as an addi tional rentseheage on the tenant's property—perhaps at a higher rats of interest than that paid by the state, so as t o produce a sinking fund. By this means all tenants would le mewed for ever, so long as they paid the ip mat, in NOVEMB: ? -. ‘• - lierenjoyeneat of titel4 in fact, ey wonid no la Nava on onditiossAlating the rent sharp while the lanateilehrtraid have no grievance, no tion to complain of. And as no purchase money would need to be paid by the tenant, only a slight addition to his rent, against the enormous advantage of absolute secu rity, there would be no hied at debt with which to burden the new experiment. The Saturday Ravin, on the other band, regards Mr. Bright as the O'Connell of England, on the vent-piece of proletarian discontent and more than its vent-piece—often its creator. In his denunciation of the protestant esta blishment he overlooks the difficult question as to what shall become of its revenues if it is abolished and the freedom of speech and thought which is probably due to the influence of protestantism. The abolition of the establishment might pacify Munster and Meath, but would drive Ulster to the borders of rebellion, sad flzity of tenure would introduce an amount of strife and discord which would only end in war. The grievances which the Irish nature most keenly feels are sentimental. It is our fate to be united with a people the majority of whom are wholly different in sentiment and sympathywith ourselves. If Mr. Bright, or anyone else, will soberly teach us low to govern the two portions of Ireland so that the northern protestant& shall not be angered nor the southern Homanists aggrieved, he will deserve to be remembered with a reve rential and enduring gratitude which mere oratory never yet earned, and which would be more valuable than any power, influence, or fame. But he and his may rest as mired that something quite different from statntable alte ration of land tenure and the abolition of a church is re quired to unite an imaginative, sensitive, and ardent na tion to a sober, practical, and calculating one. The Economist has at length come to see that some notice must be taken of the Alabama claims Is it not, it says, of the first moment to England that if she should be obliged to go to war in the future, she should not find • fresh depot for the enemy, a new point of naval depar ture in every neutral port where a ship of war could be built and fitted out, all over the globe ? What would be our safety if enterprising Binaries, at war with England, might get the Dutch to build them a gun boat in Java, and prey upon the English otinmeree, or France and Russia amid find effective allies in the neutral ports of China, whence to worry our Indian commerce, or is the Danish island of St. Thomas's as a point of depar ture for raids on the British West Indies ? If • ship of war can be ordered, built, equipped, manned, and com missioned in a neutral port, al was the Alabama, and the neutral nation be not responsible for its escape, all this might happen at any time to Great Britain, and we should have no reasonable ground of complaint. For effectual remedy only one coarse is open—that pro posed by the United State* to the Paris Congress and un fortunately rejected—the rule respecting private property at sea. If this great concession to the neutral Powers be made, we can well afford to pay with a good grace for de predations for which most probably we were not legally responsible, but which by the exercise of a little more care sad providence we could certainly have prevented. rite wart. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 2. The Queen, with the Prince and Princess Chris tian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, left Balmoral yesterday at five minutes before one o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle this morning at • quarter before nine. The suite consisted of the Duchess of Roxburghe, the lion. Emily Cathcart (who left her Majesty at Perth), the lion. Mrs. Ponsonby, Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Dr. Jenner, ,Mr. Bahl, and Mr. Legg. The Duke of Buckingham was also in attendance on her Majesty. The Hon. Lucy Kerr has succeeded the lion. Emily Cathcart as Maid of Honour. Viscount Strathallan and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell have arrived at the Castle, as Lord and Groom in Wait ing. Lord Alfred Paget has succeeded Colonel 11. Ponsonby as Equerry in Waiting. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council chamber, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lard President, the Right Hon. Spenser H. Walpole. the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote, Lord Naas, the Right Hon. H. Cony, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness attended the committee. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday. The lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir E• V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lawrence Peel. CABINKT COL:NUM.—At a late hour on Thursday right the Cabinet Council appointed for yesterday was countermanded, and it is now appointed for Tuesday after noon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasuii, in Downing-street, at half-past 3 o'clock. PLYMOUTH, NOV. 2.—Captain his Royal High ness the Duke of Edinburgh and suite arrived here this afternoon. The duke is staying at the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, where he is this evening receiving a select party at dinner. To-morrow his royal highness will inspect the Galatea, preparing here to be commissioned by him. Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, accom panied by the Princess of Wales and the Princess Thyra and Prince Waldemar, and attendants, will arrive at Marl borough House this afternoon from Sandringham. To morrow morning the Queen and young Prince and Princess leave for Dover on their return to Denmark, and it is expected that the Prinoess of Wales 11:11 accompany the Queen to Dover. On Monday the Princess wi" return to Sandringham, and there stay in comparative retirement till the return of the Prince of Wales from St. Petersburg. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Macdonald, arrived at Gloucester house last evening from visiting General Hall, at his shoot ing box at Newmarket. It is the intention of the Prince and Princess of Wales to honour Sir Edward Ket:ison, Bart., M.P., and Lady Caroline Kerrison with a :ait for a few days at Oakley Park early in the ensuing month. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe and the Hon. Misses Canning have arrived at their resi dence in Grosvenor-square from their country seat, and are about going on a tour of visits. Lord and Lady Colchester have arrived in town from Brighton. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., has joined Lady Emily Peel at their romantic villa, at Geneva. The Lord Warden and the Countess Granville (says the Dover Chronicle) are expected to leave Walmer Castle in the course of next week. The Herabl understands that the appointments of Judge Advocate of the Fleet and Counsel to the Ad miralty, wlich became vacant by the sudden death of Mr. Phinn, Q.C., have been conferred on Mr. J. W. Huddles ton, Q.C., and member for the city of Canterbury. Mr. Huddleston is a bencher of Gray's-inn, a member of the Council of Legal Education, and goes the Oxford Circuit, of which be is the leader. It is thought not improbable that Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley will resign his office before the end of the present term ; in that event be will be succeeded by Mr. Malin, Q.C., the late M.P. for Walling ford. The funeral of Mr. Jacob Snider, the inventor of the breech-loader, and who was an American, took place on Wednesday last, at the Rensal-green Cemetery. It was at one time intended to have it occur in accordance with American custom—with a procession on foot, walking from the house of the deceased to his grave. But, in consequence of the brevity of the notice, this was abandoned, and the usual English custom of • few mourning carriages was observed. A number of American friends attended at the cemetery, and others came with the funeral cortipe. The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Stewart, who was followed by the Rev. C. W. Denison. The latter said in the course of his address :—" Only a few hours before his death Mr. Snider informed • friend at his bedside that be bad a new secret with regard to • great principle of na tional defence, more important than any he had yet die. covered. ' I will tell you the secret to-morrow,' said he, ' when you all to see me.' That morrow came, and that friend came with it to that bedside again ; but the man who laid upon it was dead. His secret was dead with him and to-day we consign it, as we oomign him, to t►e dark ems and silence of the grave." Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, late M.P. for Hors ham, and Under-Secreinry for Foreign Affairs in the two previous conservative administrations, has accepted the governorship of Bombay. 1 •,11 ' #66.' TEST INTELLIGENCE. LAND QUICRAOR IN SOUTH ITALY. a„apondent of the Temps writes as follows from Florence T ra nquillity is not restored in Sicily. In a ddition to certain vague rumours which have arrived here, we read In the official Journal of Palermo " that alarming reports are circulating in the country, and that the authorities are endeavouring to find out the authors of these false but still dangerous rumours." Whether the authorities may succeed or not for the moment, the Sicilian question and the question of brigandage on the Neapolitan continent will remain for a long time very serious. The south of Italy—it must be spoken out—is afflicted with a social evil --agricultural pauperism. In the Abruzzi, in Apulia, and the Campagna, and in the larger part of Sicily lads of 20 cannot earn, do what they will, more than from seventeen to twenty sons. There is some exception to this statement where there are railway works going on. But public works, though even on a larger scale than are going on, would not solve the problem. The chief remedy lies in a transformation of the conditions of land tenure. An immense portion of the real property of the south is in a deplorable ' Some feudal lords, foe the most part of niggardly habits, possess entire ' tricts, and provided they get ►certain amount of rent they are satisfied. They must have so much, and it does not matter to them what the soil could produce in addition. They are, therefore, content to see the land, fertile land, devoted to pasturage, from which they derive very small profits. For this labourers are not necessary, the landlords are satisfied, and every thing is as it should be. Yes, but the lads of 20 having nothing to take guns andbeoome brigands. There are generalswho take and shoot them and there are liberal ionrnals in Italy and Paris which say that, "When the Bourbons are gone all will be right." No, the problem is too serious, for it is a social problem, a problem all the more serious for the " right of doing what one likes with one's own ;" the right of property, is in question. What is to be done in the face of three proprietors, who possess the whole valley of the Seas—the river of Spartacus—between Moll and Paestum, and who out of land that with good husbandry would yield 100, get but 10 from the simple pasture of cattle ? Here is a whole region given over to a lay mortmain—s mortmain more absurd than that of the clergy, for it is leas charitable, giving no church festivals and no soup to those whom it irritates and destroys. The same state of things exists in Apulia;onlyon ssoslefar more vast. The peasant lives like his hog. This is not my statement merely ; it is admitted by the brigandage commission, by X. hiassari, one of the most moderate publicists in Italy. The young men of 20 break out into brigandage from the misery which surrounds them. In their homesteads they have acquired the passions of beasts, and in the transports of hatred they sometimes become cannibals. I have seen them shot like dogs. I know them well, but you will never put them down till you go to the root of the evil. HANOVER. ---•- The North German Gazette contains the following : On but Sunday, when the clergyman of one of the c hurches here wee about to recite the prayer for the King (of Prussia) and the royal family, the greater portion of the cong regation, including almost all the females, rose and left the church, making as much noise as possible in doing so. (UMW§ TELZGRAIIB.) AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 3. The Austrian government is stated to have intimated to the cabinet of Berlin that the appoint ment of Baron Beust does not imply any hostile attitude on the part of Austria towards Prussia. VIENNA, Nov. 3. The semi-official Weiner Journal to-day treats of the appointment of Baron von Beust as Minister for Foreign Affairs. The ',Ater states that this nomination is not of a character to cause apprehen sions to any European power. Austria does not intend to pursue a policy of passion or of rancour, bat her future policy will be peace. She has no present desire of striving after a leading position in European affairs, and has too many reasons to c micentrate her attention upon the interests of the empire to interfere in any way with foreign in terests or attempt to make them her own. THE HUNGARIAN DIET. I'ESTII, Nov. 3. The Emperor is expected at Buda in the course of next month. THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 2. The Cretan insurgents taken prisoners and the wounded have arrived here. The Levant Herald expresses doubts whether the defeat of the in surgents is yet complete. The same paper asserts that the Turkish government intends to exclude Greek vessels from all Turkish ports. Several American men of war are expected in Turkish waters. The Sultan has sent an order to the Egyptian Prince Mustapha Fazyl to come to Con stantinople. The Portuguese minister has been recalled. The Hospodu of the Danubian Princi palities was decorated with the insigua of the Osmanie in brilliants before leaving Constanti nople. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 3. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 50 passengers, 8001. in specie, and a general cargo, including 231 pack ages of silk, value 200,0001. The Ceylon experi enced light winds and fine weather throughout the voyage. On the 27th ult. she spoke the steamer China ; on the 20th, the ship Kingston, off Malaga ; and on the 30th, oft Cape St. Vincent, the steamer Gibraltar and the barque Sea Swallow. GIBRALTAR, Ocr, 29._ Exchange on London, 90 days, 491 ; on Paris, sfr. 23c. ; Madrid, 2 dis. Freights unchanged. MARSEILLES, Nov. 2. The Messageries Impiriales steamer Peluse arrived here at 4 p.m. to-day, with the India, China, and Japan mails. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SUEZ, Nov. 2. The Simla, with the above mails, arrived at Suez at 4 p.m. this day (one day early). AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CEYLON. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 3. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam. ship Ceylon passed the Needles at 5 a.m. to-day. (sT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Nov. 1. A riot is imminent at Baltimore. NEW YORK, Ocr. 30, Evnruia. Gold, 146. Exchange on London, 160 i. 6-20 United States Bonds, 114. Illinois, 124 k. Erie, 84. Cotton, middling Upland, 39. The correspondent of the Post at Rome writes on the 26th alt.:—" The reports (anent of late respect. ing the proximate departure of the exiting of Naples 1 from Home have been again contradicted. Last week his Majesty paid s %:sit to his Holiness for the express rur. pose of annonneinf his final intention of abandoning the Italian peninsula ; but it is &farmed that he was Waged to postpone this resolution on account of the cordial recep- tion granted him by the Pope, who, taking the ex-sous• reign by the ear in a *tiler manner, reproved him for his pusillanimous design, arming him of the unchanging benevolence of the Pontiff, and the continued protest:ion ° of the Holy See." I I LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vlos-Chaisciellor tiir B. T. Kinderdsg) IN RE THE BRIGHTON CLUB AND mohroirr Horn COMPANT. - 7 This was a petition for the winding up of the comp e ;, 2 presented by • judgment creditor for. The p e t l i,i4 had issued * t amales, but the things which the ob l iff proceeded to take were ali found to be amend by a la, sale ' edit oonsoqueoce nothing was got under jedso m i: lfr. Lindley_ re presented the petitioner. The Vivo-Chancellor made the usual order. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. s a t i n , in Brow.--(Before the Lord Chid Jank e ghee, end Lush.) PAIR V. MILLI& Mr. Huddlesten, Q.C., said that he moved last te m h this cane on the part of the plaintiff for a rule for a lay trial, but which was refused by the court. The matte lag 1 since been before Mr. Justice Lush at chambers, and war necessary that he should again trouble the cow, w ija it. The action was for libel against the Dai/y Telegrepkis; plaintiff was the celebrated trainer, and the libel that the plaintiff had, through what was called ti Pills and Tulaconibe Cookery," prevented Lord Si. pis cent from landing some handsome stakes— as the plaintiff In his declaration alleged, aj aa a : a t f r audulently prevented the horse from wi n k., Tulsoombe was the name of his lordship's b l jair,, pound. At the trial the learned judge, Justice Lush, left it to the jury to say whey* not the inuendo was proved, and they negatived it. ifis lordship then asked them whether it meant habitude' a less and gross misconduct on the part of the plaintiff, rad they found that it did, and areered the damages a t* the learned judge giving the plaintiff leave to at a: enter the verdict for him for that amount, if the Brat should consider, under the circumstances, that ba entitled to it. Mr. Justice Mellor said the rule was plated aeg obstante veredicto. Mr. Huddleston said that was so. The court Weed ha rule absolutely on the leave reserved ; but pe a It to him to enter the judgment non obetaato dicta, if the plaintiff should be so advised, nsr plaintiff afterwards declined to take the Ws la that form. The rule therefore was in fact ref tore! ? aodys contended that under the circumstances the right of appeal to the Exchequer chamber on Crag reserved by the learned judge on the finding remained; the court having refused his rule, a war urged at chambers that it was granted by bia m r B 4 to take or not the rule non °lntents veredicto. The Lord Chief Justice said that no doubt the rah nes in substance refused and that the plaintiff remised ha right of appeal. It would only be right, mei e s peculiar circumstances of the case, that the ether ids should be heard at chambers. Mr. Huddleaton said notice should be given is the defendant, and Mr. Justice Lush said he would how the cane at the convenience of the parties. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Baneo.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Zde, Juatioes Wllles, Ryles, and Keating.) WITHERILL r. HOWELL. The plaintiff in this ease claimed to recover SK for damage to his vessel, the Pearl, caused by a sea about 5 tons weight breaking the hoisting cite whilst it was being removed from the ship by the i s , fecdant's agent at Rye. At the trial before g z . Justice Ryles, the jury found that it was the cues* the merchant, and not the shipowner, to unloag4 stones ; but they also found that the captain ea • to blame in interfering in reference to the n What wax said was, that he had stated the stone wegici oultyj tons, that he bad urged the unloading si of high water ; and that when a chain was them gigue of giving way, he urged the continuance *Mimi, Under these circumstatices, his lordship directed a veil for the defendant. Mr. D. Keene, Q.C., however, now moved for sniffs enter a verdict for the plaintiff, and submitted that captain had no right to interfere in unloading the i. and that having done so, his acts did not bind his ear, Rule granted. WOO= O. BROWN. The plaintiff in this cue bad fallen through a pima ; board the defendant's ship, fiylph , and he sued foramen for his injuries. At the trial before Mr. Justice Brim , verdict was entered for him for 50/. ; but the pug motion was for a rule to enter a nonsuit. Mr. M. Williams, in moving, said that the Sylph wag ' the time of the accident in dock undergoing repeirod the plaintiff was employed as carpenter to do eons die work, and under these circumstances it was metal that the plaintiff mart take the risks of the employma ' and had no right of action against the defendant. Mr. Justice Bylea said that the plaintiff was sat ployed about the grating, but whilst going to Adair end of the vessel with his breakfast he passed decal% and felL Mr. Williams submitted that there was no bawl duty on the part of the defendant. The plaintiff mast I board the ship to repair it, and it was strange thst should now found a complaint upon the ground the it ship was out of repair. Rule granted. MUTH V. TFIZ GEINAT ZAKTERN RAILWAT comm. The plaintiff in this case claimed damages apse is ground that he had been bitten by a t"og at tit le bridge railway station. The trial took p'ace at Chi* ford, when the verdict was for the plaintiff for 50L Mr. Serjeaut Ballantine, in moving for a rule forage trial, because the verdict was a;ainst the midis:all that if the plaintiff succeeded in his action the emeggell would be that the liabilities of railway companies midis very considerably enlarged. The declaration alleged id the defendants so negligently kept their station thstsig got upon it and bit the plaintiff, and the facts egoist the plaintiff was at the station in the evening with "7 other people, and was there bitten. There was shone circumstance that a public path ran through this swig The Lord Chief Justice—And you say that the no wrong in a dog using a public path? Mr. Serjeant Ballantine—That was my view, but itt jury took a different one. Mr. Justice Byles—The company had, in fact, mama to keep the dog out. The Lord Chief Justice—l am not aware that saticif has power to destroy a dog upon a highway. Mr. Justice Willes—But there was evidence that get one had before been bitten. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine—There was some striae dence that two or three hours before a strange dig hat bitten at the petticoat of a lady whilst getting hit t train ; and, no doubt, according to her evi den ce , the wi had behaved with some rudeness , but h e did not brot hs. ,Laughter.) The Lord Chief Justice—You have said enough. Rule granted. SITTINGS IN ERROR. Lord Chief Justice Erie, with other judges, eat is Court of Exchequer this morning, and appointed the* lowing days for Sittings in Error in Exchequer Cksuakt For error from the Queen's Bench, Tuesday 27th aadVel nesday 213th November ; from the Common Mao, Thle day 20th and Friday 30th November ; Court of Ittribifil4 Saturday Lt and Monday 3rd December. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Banco in Michaelmas Term.--(Before the 10 1 Chief Baron and Barons Bramwell, Channel', and nor At the sitting of the court this morning, Sir Kelly took, in the presence of the other learned !ern the oath required to be taken by her Majesty's Por "" The oath, the form of which is prescri bed bY passed in 1858 (21 and 22 Vic., chap. 48) to suberrtal l .. oath for the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, sal: waa administered by Mr. Walton, the Q ueen's prancer. inalegt* tio M n re.: was Maniste33:l. l7 a ro;gh ijiTv.erdieiC t " This action was tried before Mr. Justice Mellor et lerk (aasionzE) r. ititown. when a verdict was returned for the plaintid-* under the act of Elisabeth, to recover certam which it was said the father had transferred to Ms rupt, one John BroinbywnPursuAntf.horeagaitLicehne:siftgnideaeetcelemrlaneee",o2. reserved ego de ist a view to defraud his Soule years published a history oY orkshire, and had indirtd±; to leave the army in order to Resist in preparts6,,no graving' for the work. It was now iubraitted money was handed over to the son in payment fa_.: services, and at a time when the father Ud sn creditors. The court granted a rule nisi. 'tall RUM Olr OLA/AGOW r. RODTLIFTE STCD COMPANT. This was an action for injury done to a horw_..ll./ Brother to Bird-on-the-Wing, b e longing to Lord et OM and st thel trial before Mr. Justice Mellor the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, dour' farthing. ta Mr. eant Mayes now moved , on the plaintiff, for a new trial, on the groun d that 0. were insufficient. The horse iu questio, the a racer in its time, was intrusted to then defendsalltili kept for breeding purposes, and on its held ; 11 7d to the Earl of Glasgow , it was found that "de become blind in one eye, an d reduced 1a,.4 by the sum of 1001. The case for the Ino it WAS that the inury was caus ed by the neoM og• I defendants' serv j ants . , and that if the plaintaff ter t a verdict the damages should have been for rul la& The court unanimously refused to grant • e Sek ei SUICIDE OP A RnumAN. —Yesterday .!, Hood (Nottingham) rifl eman co mmitted etiorirsl meeed's name was John Richardson, and be Ills as a collector by the Midland liAlway CortF•1; 0 41 1 day morning he had breakfast with his wife a' she noticed that he was unusually q uiet. !. pelfving finished breskfut, he went upstairs s.• with his rifle. .1 'tab; %1 Scal .. x . with — jasoidat ierifrist" s a boost see , we a w n' "t i : L m ower a"riaionllT SS . .56. KIM Sal c sie for deoent cre etitutes and I ' sergeant F to represented, i n tbs g r . ex . ha c harged before, gr c ry Ann George Haw bofe - g eSe, H tleman, and a by Ow arm, w meat this co custody. In gnawer to' b a g frequents.? at that court r Barre, the' " I Th e chi t i p : itr, Kool k e a s out . ol Kr. DOX O DA for twel w ith her rimed him Mm. only Wore insPeetor B MO was ye t h e prisoner's , gr. Knox s ees means OW, by eh two or three we ek, and the to be caught , dlr. Janes Alf Geards ! lrng kl it ru n w Arl ' h u sterPait vow= ru sad lett wit rg Week him. Maims and &AM Primmer r e l ikirn Iva Charles Y mul . _ t iam t e sbnigh whim the in rate attack • Prisoner .dial -- to 1 with i lrisoner, to ta ll. li Baszesat soom was horrid bold him witnesses. The w and knock dirt on her she slipped Thomas min WM. mouths sleztol Cherie* bas been Stepney charged The - ePre small &atm in the seri pin hel week, and his abae bad been Snowden, in the ni of his fa Bacon, his viai Charism Thu m his w mavens marketa monde, uP e 111 themin lowed by ea Ck t lie lathe ment who fo dOt of of lobs beau In Ashby, se lel th while he =saewee 1 P•flY• prisoner The shake Yr. 11 Run Enz.-1 th6judg uutuutot Tan the ilnr under hi in the panted aced on banaz • Boweof Coutrib ramie, E l i received neer Be We • Dower • h blip. P e ham ALA r Emu yi mornio the te e the atr the Thi ocuutex.