The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-19 00:00:00

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Sim LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19. THE question respecting the title of the Be/graek Magazine, which was decided the other day by the LORDS JUSTICES, involves consequences which seem to demand correction by the Legisla ture. In that case Messrs. HOOO had registered the title in 1863, but for three years had never published any magazine bearing it. In June, 1866, Mr. MAXWELL, in ignorance of this remote registration, advertised very widely, and at great expense, a magazine to be published by him under that name. Messrs. HOOO were aware of this, but gase Mr. MAXWELL no notice of their prior right to the designation. But in September last year they published the first number of their own magazine, and Mr. Maxwatt's followed in a couple of months. Each party then filed a bill to restrain the other from continuing the use of the disputed title. Messrs. }loco relied on their registration and first publication ; Mr. Max- WELL on his first and extensive advertising. The Vice-Chancellor, however, followed by the Court of Appeal, dismissed both applications. The Judges ruled that Mesars.Hooo had no right, through registration alone, and that their right only commenced when the first number was pub lished. But though it was then made complete, they refused to give them the equitable remedy of injunction, because of their bad faith in allowing Mr. MAXWELL to proceed so far without notice of their earlier claim. Aa to Mr. MAXWELL, the Court laid down the doctrine that no amount of advertising could by itself give any right in the title of the book advertised. It is plain that these rules open a door to a good deal of ingenious overreaching. Since there is no way, either by registration or advertising, of securing an exclusive right before publication or sale to the name of a book, maga zine, newspaper, or anything else, it will be impossible to advertise a name with out risk that some speculator may seize upon it, and by prior publication secure its advantages for himself. In the case where the work is by a well-known author, for whom the public care more than for any taking title he may give to his books, the injury may perhaps not bo very serious. But in the case of a less famous, or of an anony mous, author, the theft of the title of the subject may be theft of a valuable property. It may have attracted the attention and engaged the interest of the public, and this result may have been attained at the cost of many hundreds, per haps thousands, of pounds. Here, the fraudulent publisher stepping in with • work hurriedly got up to secure priority of issue, may succeed in snatching a sale to which he is in no way entitled, and to that extent robbing the author of the work which had really attracted the public interest. And sometimes, perhaps, the mere threat of such procedure may be made use of as a means of extorting money. On the other band, to allow a man by mere ad vertising to establish a property in a name, would obviously, as the Loans dryness urged, be a rule incapable of being worked. What could be called advertising ? Certainly it would not do to let one obscure notice, nor two, nor three, suffice to esta blish a title. It must be such extensive ad vertising as could be reasonably held to inform the public. But what court or what jury could pretend to draw the line t It is plain, then, that we must still resort to registration in • public office as the sole means of certifying that a right has been secured. But, again, it would be as evidently unreasonable to allow a man to lock up a useful or expressive title for an indefinite time, without making bonk fide use of it himself. If that were permitted, we should have all con ceivable designations of books, magazines, and reviews at once registered, in order that the publisher of every new work might find himself linable to proceed till he had paid black mail to the fictitious owner of the name. A limit must be fixed upon—two months, three months, or six months—during which registration should be effective, and that time elapsed, it should be no longer the basis of any exclusive property. No doubt the attempt might even then be made THJ EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1867. to keep it up by re-registration, and this could net be met either by forbidding a esoond registration —for that would in the case of every title once registered throw us back into our present state— nor by forbidding a second registration by the same peen, for that could easily be evaded by sebstituting a different name. The only remedy seems to he the imposing a reasonable fee on each registration. This would confine the practice to works of value sufficient to bear the added expense ; and as wo are chiefly concerned with works on which at present a large amount is spent for the purpose of making them known to the public, the additional burden requisite to se- I cure them from having their name appropriated by some one else would not be severely felt. Works of too trifling a character to be worth the expense of registering would not stand in much danger of having their names pirated. It may, perhaps, appear to some that all this outlay on preliminary advertising is foolish in itself, and deserves no encouragement from the law. But to this the simple answer is that it pays. It is incurred by very good men of business, who are not likely to throw money away in a mere freak, and there can therefore be no doubt that it is of service. But if of service, it is to the public that it is so, since it is by the increased number of pur chasers it attracts that it is remunerative. And if the public finds the information conveyed in ad vertisements useful, it has an interest in the in formation not being made deceptive by any trickery which the law can be invoked to prevent. It is in their interest, then, quite as much as that of the publishers or authors, that we com mend the subject to the attention of the Legisla ture. We have already in fact established the principle and provided the machinery ; all that remains to do is to define the principle a little more clearly, and adjust the machinery so as to make it work without inconvenience. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Times attributes much of the distress at the ' East-end:to ;the action of the trades' unions, which only just now have prevented a large number of shipwrights frees taking wages that would be sufficient in the agricul tural districts to maintain three labourers with average families. As success is absolutely necessary to them, they should take this opportunity for establishing the sort of universal labour unity which is amongst their schemes. These steamers, which they will not assist to build on the terms offered, will be built in another country, and, of course, at a lower rate of wages. Let them stretch a long arm, and try to stop the execution of a contract which is so much employment and wages taken ►way from themselves. Mr. Bromley, M.P., we may state, says very distinctly that the present sufferers from the distress in East London are not the skilled workmen and the members of trades' unions, but the labourers—the hardworking hewers of wood and drawers of water of the district—who are de pendent in a great degree on the employment of the skilled workmen, who have no connexion whatever with trades' unions and their concomitant strikes, who represent the effect only and not the cause of the great calamity. In other articles, the Times deals with Mr. Bright's offences, brought to mind by a republication of his speeches; and with the case of Overeat!, Gurney, and Co. the new firm being declared to have started exactly as though they had advanced 2,000,000 i. to the Gurney family on the mortgage of their estates. Archbishop Manning writes to the Star to deny in em phatic terms that he is connected either directly or in directly with the Westminster Gazette, or that he has ever written a line in it or has even read the article on tolera tion which has been attributed to bins. The Star is bound to say nevertheless that it has received distinct assurances that doctrines like those of the W‘stmiaster Gazette have been preached by Dr. Manning. The Daily News observes that the attention which has been given to Dr. Manning's late remarks is due to the contrast which men perceive between them and the au thoritative language of the church of Rome. Of the latter. to show bow inconsistent it is with the fair and liberal words of the English divine, the Daily News gives a few illustrations selected from an encyclical letter of the Pope dated in 1864, and from papal allocutions pronounced in 1852 and 1855. In one of these in particular we find the Pope speaking of Spain, and the shortcomings of its go vernment ; oonoerning which he said, " You know that in the year 1851 we concluded a convention with our dear daughter in Jesus Christ, the Queen of Spain, and that among its various provisions which affected the catholic religion we especially stipulated that this holy religion s'aould continue to be the only religion of the Spanish na. tion, to the exclusion of all other worship, and that in all school', whether public or private, the instruction eh -mid be entirely conformed to catholic doctrine." Such are the Pope's vim of Writes", freedom, equality, and moderation, as distinct from Dr. Manning's. In the alio cation of September, 1852, and in another of December, 1856, the Pope stigmatised as scandalous the practice of Roman catholic governments—in these cases the govern ' mente of New Granada and of Mexico—in giving strangers liberty to celebrate public worship according to the forms of their own religion. In another article the Daily News protests against that subtlest fora of selfishness which calms its nerves and preserves its appetite by giving without stint to shocking cases, while it shrinks from the severer and the nobler duty of seeking out the distress in person, and succouring it on tho spot, regularly, sys tematically, thoughtfully, devotedly, according to some Bred purpose and plan. In a country which we are con stantly being told is unique, men and women starve daily, and our organisation of parochial relief is such that the richest parishes are the least assessed. The Herald and Standard attack Mr. Goldwyn Smith in terms usually reserved for Mr. Bright, the former con cluding with an advice to the learned professor to look to Mr. Lowe, that most fearless champion of political inde pendence, as the legitimate representative of Pym. traditional inaneeta rather then of hustings vows, and of personal rather than political want of syspetby. Sir Robert Peel bod a great deal al the same kind at thing to contend against. As opposition chief it took him long to win the confidence of the old county members ; and be never succeeded in winning, perhaps it may be said that he never took the trouble to win, the affection of the younger and more intellectual men of his party. He would stare at them in the lobby as he passed them by without recognition, and would fling overboard in debate all they had said with supercilious airs of superiority. Still, somehow or other, he contrived to keep the lead ; and though the question of his deposi tion was openly mooted by a dissatisfied minority, and the interrogatory publicly put, " Who shall lead us—Peel or Stanley!" no actual schism took place; and in due time the conservative opposition, led by what Charles Buller once called " that solemn swell," arrived ►t power. The contingencies that befall the tones in opposition have seldom failed to mark the lot of their rivals. The Saturday Review describes the primary object of the new German parliament as that of typifying the national feeling. Thus, though it will not serve the purposes that a parliament is generally intended to serve, it may be of considerable use. In other articles the same journal discusses America from its usual point of view, contending that the advocates of European democracy are unable at present to point to the success of American institutions. Monster meetings the Saturday Review does not now think to be unconstitutional, but the limits will be passed when the doors of the House of Commons are approached. Lord Macaulay's letter on the chartists' petition, Mr. Bright's speeches, and Lord Redesdale on insolvent railways, are topics also treated of in to-day's number of the Saturday Review. Efts esurt. OSBORNE, JAN. 18. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Water. park ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morn ing, accompanied by Miss M'Gregor. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Osborne yesterday, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke. The Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur skated in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise was attended by the Hon. Emily Cath cart. Prince and Princess Christian, Prince Leopold. Prince's Beatrix, and Prince Henry of Prussia went out walking. Mr. Mitchell has had the honour of submitting to the Queen some printed copies in colours of Mr. BlacLeay's drawings of Highl►nders of Scotland. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, and the Right Honourable Sir Stafford Northoote. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. A deputation from the Committee of the Royal Humane Society, consisting of Mr. T. E. Baker, treasurer, Mr. Henry Pownall, Mr. J. A. Hallett, Mr. John Barrow, Mr. J. M. Case, Mr. F. Gray, Mr. Edwin Bedford, the Rev. E. Nepean (Canon of Westminster), Mr. Thos. Page, C.E., Mr. L►mbton Young (secretary), the Rev. Frank Hudson, and Mr. Donald Nicoll, had an interview with the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, at the Home-office, yesterday. A deputation consisting of Mr. Scott (traffic manager of the London and South-Western Railway) and Mr. Hedger (harbour master to the Southampton Dock Company) had an interview with the Lord President of the Council and the Right Hon. H. Cony, at the Privy Councll-offioe, Whitehall, yesterday, on the subject of licensing the port of Southampton for the admission of foreign animals under quarantine regulations. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Bowring (chairman of Liverpool He►lth Committee), Mr. J. Yates (member of Liverpool Town Council), and Dr. Trench (medical officer of health for the borough of Liverpool), had an interview with the Lord President of the Council and the Right Hon. H. Cony, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday on the subject of the trade in cattle, as con ducted at the market of Stanley, near Liverpool. Sir John Thwaites had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord John Manners in Downing street, on Wednesday. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of Malta. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and household will return to Marlborough House on the 2nd or 4th of the ensuing month for the season. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Chartres have returned to their residence at Ham, Surrey, after a lengthened absence, for the remainder of the winter. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle are enter taining, at Clumber Park, Notts, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Hastings, Viscount Andover, Viscount Can terbury, Lord Conrtenay, Lord Albert Clinton, Major Stackpole, Lady Rossmore, Colonel Napier Sturt, and Miss Heneage. The Earl of Ellenborough is expected to arrive in town by the 4th proximo from his seat in Gloucester shire. The address in answer to the Queen's speech in the House of Commons will be moved by the Hon. Thomas De Grey, member for West Norfolk ; and seconded by Mr. Graves, member for Liverpool. The new Bishop of Calcutta was for some time vicar of Lambourn, and is ►t present vicar of Great Marlow. He was of Exeter College, Oxford, and took • second class in 1837. Mr. Milman is a nephew of the dean of St. Paul's, and is a man of moderate theological opinions. He was an intimate friend of the late Bishop Cotton. Convocation will amenable for despatch of bulki ness on Tuesday, February 12, at 11 o'clock. Captain Huish, well-known in the railway world from his long °omission with the London and North-West ern Railway Company, died yesterday. Captain Habib was deputy-chairman of the Electric and International Telegraph Company. On Thursday evening an address on national education was delivered in the Lecture Hall, at Lewes, by Professor Fawcett, M.P., in connexion with the Lewes Liberal Registration Society. Mr. Burwood Godlee, occupied the chair, and there were present the Right Hon. H. Brand, M.P., Lord Pelham, M.P., &c. Mr. Halle intends to give Jephtha at his next week's concert in Manchester ; the principal parts to be sang by Mr. Sims Reeves and Miss Edmonds. The Orchestra assures us that Signor Verdi's Don Carlos is to be en early novelty at the Royal Italian Opera this year. We ( A nny and Nary Gazette) understand that, pending the considerations of the recommendations of Lord Stratheairn's commission on army organisation, all appointments to the civil branches of the army have been suspended, and th►t candidates for service in the Commissariat from the line have been informed their ap- plications must stand over for the present. We read in the Spectator :—" The law officers of the crown have, we believe, replied, as we expected, to the ease submitted to them by the council of University Col lege, London, that the council were legally obliged to summon a special court of proprietors, in conformity with the requisition, and that any resolution passed at such meeting would be legally binding. What, therefore, the council really did, was to steal a march on the governing body by declining to bear what advice they had to offer till the council had taken it out of their own power to follow that advice, and this though the advice, once heard, would have constituted a legal obligation. At the approach ing meeting of proprietors, the council will find it hard indeed to give any intelligible defence of sharp practice such as this." On Thursday the Emperor and Empress again visited the frozen waters of the Skating Club in the Bois de Boulogne. There were unmistakable signs of a thaw in the large lakes, but the ice was here sufßciently sound to bear. The Emperor and Empress arrived about 3 o'clock at the chalet of the club, where the artificial water forms a circle with an island in the centre. Her Majesty, dressed in a black silk robe, looped up in festoons, and black bat and veil, was attended on the ice by two gentle men whilst skating gracefully round the frozen circle. There were not more than • couple of hundred persons present, and some half-dozen sledges. - M. Victor Cousin has left his library, valued at 8,000 f., to the Sorbonne. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ' (IUTITZECA TKLEGILANB.) THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. ATHENS, JAN. 14. Intelligence received here from Candice announces that Mustapha Pacha was preparing to attack Sphakia on the aide of Askyfos, and from the sea. The Cretan General Assembly had forwarded an address to the powers requesting them to send an agent to the island in order to judge of its unhappy condition and to protect the inhabitants who desired annexation to Greece. ATHENS. JAJ. 18. Advice* reoeived here from Candi*, through Greek sources, state that the insurgents had been victo rious in an engagement with 5,000 Turks nearll era chum. They had also prevented the disembarkation of Turkish troops at Sphakia and Selinon. The same advice* confirm the report that a Turkish frigate had opened fire upon some Cretan families, who were waiting to be taken off the island by a foreign vessel. MISS GLYN'S READINGS. Last night Miss Glyn commenced, at the St. James's-hall, • second aeries of ber highly encom ia readings from Shakespeare. The play selected was Othello. As en indication of the interest felt in her inter pretation it may be mentioned that although the reading commenced punctually at eight and did not terminate until eleven, a full hour later than is customary with en tertainments of this description, the audience intoned with absorbed attention until the final lines of the final act were reached. Miss Glyn must indeed be congratu lated upon having accomplished a most trying task, taxing mental and physical powers to the utmost, with marked success. She seems to gather strength as she proceeds, to be animated more and more by her subject as she develops it, and to accumulate energy in the very prop& by which it is expended. Certainly anything more powerful than her rendering of the bedchamber scene between Othello and Deademona, in the fifth act, it would be difficult to conceive, and the entire audience showed their appreciation of it by breathless silence and fixed looks, which had a significance far deeper than the loudest applause. Miss Glyn's portrait of Othello is one in which the loving, trusting nature of the Moor is brought out with great distinctness. She may be said to have pitched the key-note of his character in the Senate scene. There was nothing of declamation, or of effort, in her delivery of the famous " apology." She conveyed the idea of • man who is so assured of his innocence, who it so incapable of prac tising " arts inhibited and out of warrant," and so confident that his actions will bear every scrutiny, that he feels no mistrust and no ap prehension : his cause will speak for itself. This view of the character was again exhibited at a later period of the play. After Othello has been agonised by the suspicions which biro his aroused in the wonderful scene of the third act, he is still quick to believe in Desdemona's innocesoa At the mere sight of her, indeed, the current of his emotion. is completely changed as he says— Look where she comes. If she he false, 0 then Heaven mocks Itself! Ell not believe It. In the next scene, too, where he aak■ for the handker chief, he clings tenaciously to the last tothe hope that Des demons may be able to produce it ; and when he exclaims, ISt lost ?le t gone t Speak. let out of the way ? it is as though he were suggesting explanations rather than asking questions. These and other readings of well-known lines show the spirit in which Mils Glyn carries out her task. In her rendering of Imo, the cold, hard, sceptical nature of the plotting villain was finely in dicated, the soliloquies being given with admirable effect. The difference, too, in his bearing according to the object he has in view and the person whom he wishes to influence —a difference which is not always kept in view on the stage—was well and clearly indicated. For her spirited rendering of one scene in the play—that in which Csasio's drunkenness is represented—Miss Glyn deserves special praise for delicacy. The delineation of intoxication by a woman can never be rendered very amusing. There is something in it which jars painfully against the feelings, and shocks the sense. Miss Glyn vividly suggests Gsasio's drunkenness without exhibiting it. It is the merit of Miss Glyn that she so completely identifies herself with the character she is assuming that we lose sight of her own individuality when we are listening to the maudling excla mations of Cando, just as much as we do when we are listening to the passionate outbursts of Othello, the wily suggestions of Ingo, or the silly complaints of Itoderigo. In Desdemona and Emilia Miss Glyn displayed, it need scarcely be said, all her dramatic power. Miss Glyn's next reading will be on Friday next, Hamlet being the play to be given. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC IDEA OF TOLERATION. The new Roman catholic journal, the West minster Oszette, is its number of to-day, has the following noteworthy remarks upon a subject which Archbishop Manning's speech at Birmingham has brought for the time into prominence. It says "In countries unfortu nately now no longer exclusively Christian, religious or rather irreligious liberty must run riot, since it would be manifestly unwise or inexpedient to punish religious error, or unjust as affecting such as are wholly ignorant that they are guilty of heresy. But fortunately in Rome a state exists where the civil law subset-yea, as we urged last week it ought to do, the pur poses of the Divine Will, and where, in cease quenoe, the liberty to offend God and to vandalise Chris. tians by introducing false worship is accorded to none. A Scotch presbyterian clergyman, however, is not of our opinion, and feels exceedingly vexed in spirit that he is not allowed to used in a Chriatain state and proclaim from the centre of Christendom itself, in the teeth of divine and human law, the abominable error that mac has a right to teach false doctrine sod to practice what false worships be chooses. But since Pius IX. won't tolerate in favour of a score or so of Scotch presbyterians a breach of divine and human laws, the Tenses takes up its cudgels in behalf of the Rev James Lewis. It is exceedingly wrath that the poor Romans, when sorely tempted, should not at least have a convenient opportunity at hand of committing the sin of heresy ; in somewhat the same fashion Facia, we suppose, could he have written a leader in the Times, would have given vent to his indignation that the jewellers at night put shutters on their windows and thus took away from such as were unwillingly honest a tempting opportunity of enriching their scanty store. This last act of the papal government brings out in bold relief the unworldliness of the papacy, and its steadfast adherence to the doctrine peculiar to Christianity, that public heresy is a moral offence to be punished by law. As long as the scandal of a false worship in a Christian country is not obtruded on public notice, it may haply escape the arm of the law ; but from the moment the practice of such a false worship adds, were it only through the indiscreet and offensive conduct of a single Scotch presbyterian of note, a public scandal to its moral guilt, then it is the bounden duty of a Christian state to put down inch an evil. But the suppression of the Scotch presbyteri►n worship in the city of Rome—like the successful protection afforded in the Mortara case (which should never be forgotten) to a Christian child, in spite of the entreaties, and threats, and violent abuse of anti-Christian governments and un believing politicians, is a singular testimony to the un worldly spirit of the Papacy. In the stress of a great calamity like the present, when his enemies are multiplied end his friends are few, Pope Pins IX. does not for an instant hesitate, on the dictates of conscience, to raise the noisy anger of Scotchinen and presbyterians all over the world, as in the Mortara case he defied the malice of Israel so potent in the financial and political world. These acts of the Pope, in luminous contrast to the spirit of the age, were not for any earthly object, but simply to rescue a baptised child from perdition, or to uphold a Christian principle of government. Such unworldliness is a strange ' and marvellous spectacle, which from its innate force alone foreshadows' victory." MR. ROZBUCICB ELogyziseit.—" At this present moment—l wish my poor countrymen knew it—going to the United States they fancy they are going to Paradise— they are going rather to the other place. (' Hear, hear,' and laughter.) But now that Canada has taken the line of free trade, the consequence will be—and you will see it immediately—that there will be so large& smuggling trade to Canada that I have no doubt Sheffield will benefit. (Laughter.) I hope this will be the result, and that in the fighta now going on on that continent we at least shall be gainers. I hope you will not fancy I have done any great thing in coming here. I came down in four hours from Loon ; I felt no difficulty in getting into the carriage— I came down, in fact, very much like a trunk—(langhter)— in a very comfortable way. If I can upon any occasion, by coming here, do any service to Sheffield I hope you will make no ' bones' (if I may use a vulgar phrase) in asking me to coins down, and I shall be most happy to wait upon you." (Applatias.)—Mr. Roebuck at the mating of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce last evening. RELIGIOUS INN/RUCTION IN TIDE HOLBORN UNION.—The guanlians of the Holborn Union having re ceived a complaint that Mr. Holmes, the master of the vagrant wards, had a disinclination to the religious ser vices conducted at the wards, and treated the inmates of the wards with harshness, the guardians, in a committee of the whole board, proceeded to inquire into the com plaint, and presented a report, in which they recommend, " That Mr. - Holmes be cautioned that it is the wish of the board that religious instruction should not be impeded, but, on the contrary, that the zealous services of the oils sionaries should receive every encouragement. 2. That he must be careful so that none of the vagrants be put to work unfit for them. 3. That he be instructed that the vagrants, especially women and children, must not be turned out in inclement weather merely because the usual hour of closing has arrived. 4. That he be informed that the board highly objects to the use of harsh language as both cruel and ineffectual in obtaining the obedience of the vagrants, and that the guardians expect him to be very particular in this respect for the future." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings M Niai Prins in Middlesex.—(Before Hr. &Wk. Byios and a Common Jury.) aerial V. MAKCALL. The plaintiff in this owe wee a greengrocer at Pimlico and on the 16th December, 1866, him servant was drive Mrs. Isaacs and her child in a van along Westbouree grove when the vehicle came into collision with another van belonging to the defendant. The plaintiff's van wag tippet, and its occupants thrown out. The actio n wi t brought to recover for the injuries to Mrs. hum and he child, as well as for the damage done to the van, but is the course of the case it turned out that there was no pe r . zonal hurt, and therefore the only claim was for bf. for xppaauu •i nrrgg the van. Proceedings were at first taken ie theCountyCoart, when the judge ordered the witnesses out of court. Some of the plaintiff's witnesses, however, did not leave the court, and it was said that for this di'. obedience to his order the judge nonsuited the plaintiff, On the present occasion evidence was given on both sides upon the question of negligence and upon the fair. sees of the charge for repair. Mr. Justice Byles said that he was sorry that the action bad been brought in this court, the proceedings of ',hid were very expensive, and he also regretted it because there was a vast arrear of causes here, and many of them were important cases which ought not to be delayed by trumpery case like this. But still the cause was of ie. portanae to the parties and the jury must give it the same attention as if it were an action for 10,000/. The jury found for the defendant. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Treating of the rumoured revolt against Mr. Gladstone, the Spectator, after stating the grievances, real or imaginary, proceeds:—ls it come to this, that the liberals are so full of petty egotisms, of personal suscepti bilities to be soothed, th►t they can make no sacrifice for the sake of a great man, and would even prefer a small man who should make all the sacrifices for the sake of them! Do they not know that the party has at present far more need of Mr. Gladstone than Mr. Gladstone has of the party! Would they have a trimmer who may repre sent the colourless average Philistinism of the liberals, rather than a statesman above the party, who may give it • little of his own nobility of purpose ? Would they have smother minister who would pLicidly moralise over the oddity of the Irish habit of conspiracy, and propose an infinite aeries of suspensions of the Habeas Corpus, r►ther than startle his party by laying the axe to the root of the tree! Do they want "a more common-place man, sir, who will not always be proposing something fresh to take ►way your breath, like • crusade against charitable trusts, or paying off the national debt?" If they do, no doubt they can easily get him. If this cabal bursts into open action the country, with whom Mr, Gladstone is more popular than any other man, will ascribe it, and not untruly, to the decomposing influence of mere personal 'selfishness and vanity, and would feel that the crime of abandoning him is due to the growing laxity of fibre in the liberal party of our unreformed parliament. And if these malcontents wish to apply such • stimulus to the reform movement as will at once overcome all op position and give • quasi -dictatorial power to Mr. Glad stone, they cannot do better than cabal against his leader- ship, and present to the nation the disgraceful spectacle of a conspiracy amongst the liberals to compass a chronic anarchy, by suppressing the one man of genius and hearty popular sympathies whom it contains. The Examiner also considers the subject of " the liberals and their leaders." To whatever extent there is a want of unity between the whigs and Mr. Clailgtone, it is in the opinion of the Ex snafu,- an affair perhaps of LETTER FROM GARIBALDI ON PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE CONGRESS. The Unhnt publishes the following letter from Garibaldi to an American citizen on the conflict between President Johnson and the United States' Congress : Caprera, January R. Monsienr,—l am happy to be able to satisfy your wish to know my opinion on the existing controversy between the Presidentof the United States and the majority of Con gram Certainly I shall give it with the consciousness of treating of a question which concerns not only America but humanity in general. Yes, for us, friends of the American Union, who one moment trembled for its in tegrity in the gigantic struggle so happily terminated, the importance of giving a vote to the coloured race is dwarfed in face of the danger of giv ing rise to new dissensions. Members of the human fraternity, we make no distinction of race. Thus we applauded the election by the generous population of Massachusetts of two coloured depu ties to the House of Representatives, aid we shall praise any of those demonstrations of a country where liberty and progress are not merely vague words. What we desire, however, above all is that the harmony, more or less perfect, which to-day prevails amongst the members of the American family should not be disturbed, and that at any price every specie of individual prejudice may be suppressed so as to main tain intact the integrity of the Great Republic, the most powerful palladium of liberty in the world. Let your president, therefore, come to an understanding with Congress. Let there be no more dissidence between the States which constitute your admirable political system. Those are the wishes formed by your sincere friends, amongst whom I am proud to count myself. Some of the French journals state that Queen Victoria will probably go to Germany in the spring, and also visit Paris for a few days to see the Exhibition. The Queen's journey will be quite of a private character, although she will be the guest of the Emperor and Empress. A Paris correspondent of a Belgian journal mentions that the Emperor fainted, the other day, on his return from a shooting excursion, but that he is sub ject to fainting fits after great exertion, and that his gene ral health is now very satisfactory. A meteor of extraordinary size was seen at Usage a few evenings back. The Mt:incur of Bordeaux states that at about 7 in the evening three persons on the road between Prechao and Villandraut perceived this enormous meteor passing over them, and were terrified at its fiery aspect. In its transit it dropped numerous sparks, traces of which were found in holes being burnt in the urn. brellu which those persons carried. The city of Moscow was lighted with gas for the first time on the 27th December. At 2 in the afternoon • large number of persons who had been invited were present at the consecration of the gas factory, when a Te Ileum was sung. The guests, after partaking of • break fast, proceeded to the Kremlin, where the lighting was to commence. The people bad gathered around • gas lamp opposite the Cathedral of St. Michael, near the Czar's bell. A platform covered with red cloth had been erected and was occupied by a military band. At half-past 4 the Mayor ascended the platform, took a taper in tended to light the lamp, whilst one of the other gentle men turned on the gas, the band playing the national hymn. The music had not ceased before the whole Kremlin was lighted, as well as 2,016 lamps in the streets of the city. The magnesium light has for some time been applied to photographing places where the light of day cannot penetrate, such as the interior of the Pyramids, &c. The director of the Polytechnic School of Lemberg has just taken by this means some very successful sketches of the ancient tombs in the crypt of the Dominican church in that city. QuzarisTowx, JAN. 18.—The Cunard extra steam ship Palmyra, from New York, arrived at 8.20 p.m. to-day, with 58 passengers and 71,000 dollars. She landed eleven passengers and proceeded for Liverpool at 8.30 p.m. All welL Her news has been anticipated. FALMOUTH, JAN. 18.—The London Ocean Steam ship Company's steamer Ajax arrived here to-day, from Shanghai on Oct. 22 ; Hong Kong on the 31st ; Singapore, Nov. 10 ; Penang on the 14th ; Mauritius on Dee. I ; and Algoa Bay on the 17th. She landed • mail from Algoa Bay, which was sorted at Falmouth and forwarded by to-night's train. She brings no news of importance. AN OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL FROM FALMOUTH. —The New York and Havre Steam Shipping Company's screw steamer Argo, from Havre on Wednesday ea mode for New York, touched at Falmouth on Thursday, and embarked six passengers and a mail consisting of 40 sacks, and proceeded on her voyage. She takes out also 189 passengers and a full cargo from Havre. Miss CARPENTER IN INDIA.—Miss Carpenter of Bristol, who arrived in Bombay on the 25th of September last, continues to prosecute her self-imposed and philan. thropio labours for ameliorating the condition of the women of India, with energy and apparently with a prospect of success. After malting • tour of Guzerat, and holding several meetings in Surat, Miss Carpenter proceeded to Madras, where she enlisted the warm sympathy and co-operation of Lord Napier, the governor of that presidency. From thence she went to alcutta, where she has daily been launching some new project of re formation, and where her independence and amiab il ity of character have created a decided impression in her favour. On the 17th December she convened an important and influential meeting in the cause of social serene, in the ball of the Royal Asiatic Society. The meeting was presided over by his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and there were present his Excellency the Viceroy, several members of the government, the Director of Public Instruction and others in the Educational Depart ment, many members of the Royal Asiatic Society, and a large number of native gentlemen, friends and supporters of reform. Miss Carpenter gave an interesting account of the origin, working, and progress of the Social Science As sociation of Great Britain, the Social Science Associations formed on the Continent and in America, and suggested well-considered plans for awakening greater interest in England as regards India and her needs. The trans mission to England of carefully composed papers on female education and education in all its the ex perience and opinions of those interested in racial reform bearings in India, particularly ladies, would, she said, be eagerly wel comed by all engaged in similar pursuits at home, and could not fail to establish a strong bond of union between the two countries. The reform of prison disci pline has of late yeses occupied much of the attention of the various governments in India and Miss Carpenter's remarks on this difficult and important social question were received with all the attention they deserved, coming from one who possessed such • fund of experience on the subject. The result of this meeting was the formation of a committee "to organise a branch society for the purpose of following out social science investigations, so far as they have any relation to the people and institutions of this country. Miss Carpenter has also held meetings at the Bethune Society. Kishnagur, and other places, for the establish. ment of ragged schools and schools for female education— one of which she supports entirely at her own expense. The greatest results may, we think, be expected to spring from this lady's visit to India and her exertions in its be half.—Bombay Pierre, Deo. 28. MR. WATKIN, M.P., AND THE STOCK EXCHANGE. —We understand that Mr. Wetkin, ALP., has taken the opinion of counsel upon the rights which he has at law against the originators of the libel which created so much consternation recently. We are also informed that there is some doubt in the minds of counsel whether there was a " publication;" and whether the telegram was not pri vileged. In any event, Mr. Watkin is understood to be determined to bring the matter before the courts.—Law Tim& COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Banco. —(Earfore the Lora' Chief Bares end Barons Bramwell and Pigott.) ILIUNDI.IIB V. MUM This was an action by the executor of a deceased ge e . tleman to recover WOG, and at the trial before Mr. Maros Bramwell a verdict passed in favour of the Riaintiff. Mr. Henry James now moved for a new trial under thi ne circumstances. The action was brought on a receipt sigma by the defendant for 600/. which was found among the testator's papers, the plaintiff inferring that the moneyhel been lent to the defendant. When the case came on the defendant was absent, and a verdict was entered for th e 6001. The defendant said hs had been misled by his clerk, and also by the case being printed in the list as Samders Mills, instead of " Miles." He further stated that he had a good defence to the action, and gave this explanation of his transaction with the testator. Hs purchased fog 1,7501. a business from the testator, which he said would return 5001. a year, but it actually only yielded 150/., a n d four years after the sale he complained to the ter tator, who happened to call at his shop, of the We representation, and he promised when he received some money owing to him, that he would return the de fendant 6001. Subsequently the testator gave him that sum, bat not as a loan, and he wrote the receipt in ques tion. It was proved at the trial that the business was worth the sum paid for it, and the defendant wished to give contradictory evidence on that point. The court granted a rule nisi. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) RYNDALE r. RTHDALE AND SMITH. Dr. Spinks for the petitioner, • journeyman grocer it Baton. He married the respondent in 18:14, but she after wards took to drink and began to neglect her home and child. Intimately she eloped with Smith, a labourer ia the neighbourhood, with whom she had since lived a miser able life. Decree nig. 8111TH V. BMITH AND GRIST. Dr. Spinka, for the petitioner, the purser of a ship. He married the respondent at Liverpool in 1862, and quitted her to go with his vessel in the following year, leaving her, however, with her father. He furnished her money for her hoard, and afterwards sent for her, but he received • letter from her father informing him that she had taken up with Grist, and was living with him. Decree nisi, with costs. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERI BY A CHILD. Palsy Smit- h, a little child only seven years old, living at No. 1, Back-court, Cloth-fair, was brought before tie R. W. Carden charged with having stolen a canvas tag containing 251. in gold and silver. The prosecutor said he did not want to proceed will the charge, but Sir K. Carden wished to hear the eaters of it. - . _ _ Charles Weight said he was assistant to a grocer, at 2.5. King•treet, Cloth•fair. That morning, about 20 minutes to 8 o'clock the child at the bar came into the shop for a halfpennyworth of sugar. At that time the bag containing the money was on the counter. Shortly after he had goas witness missed it. About 20 minutes afterwards Mrs. Smith brought it back, but there was 4e. abort. She afterwards brought 51. more, which she had found on the floor of her room, and she that requested him to go over with her and make a fur. ther search for the rest. They went in company of a policeman, and found sixpence more. Sir R. W. Carden said it appeared to him that Waight was the most to blame for placing a bag with that amount of money in on a counter within the reach of a child. • The prosecutor quite concurred in that observation. Mrs. Smith, a respectable-looking woman, whose care. worn face showed signs of illness and anxiety, was called forward to give some account of her child. She said the prisoner had turned seven years of age and was the eldest of four. They had always been sent to school until a dust time ago, when they were all laid up with the meisles, and since then she had been so bad off that she could not get them clothes fit to go in. Sir R. Carden asked if the child by her side was one of hers, and she said he was. He was four years old. The child was held up for the alderman to see, and it pre. treated a picture of cleanliness and neatness which elicited a murmur of approbation throughout the court, and the commendations Sir Robert bestowed on her for her e. rental care were received with satisfaction. Mrs. Smith continued her narrative. That morning she sent him for a quarter of a pound of sugar, and when he cams back he brought her only half that quantity, sad a halfjenny in change. She was at the time ill in bed. as she was subject to fine. She told him to go back and get what she bad told him. He said he had found a dirty bog in the street. She told him not to mind the bag, but to go and get the sugar. The other boar said there was money in it, for he heard it jingle. She stud, " Never wind the money, go back and change the sugar ;" but he said be did not like on account of the man in the shop. Then her suspicions were aroused, and ill as she was she got up, dressed herself, and took the boy and hag back to the shop. Her boy ran away when he saw the young man, but he was caught and brought back, and she took the money into the shop and gave it up. In reply to Sir Robert Carden, Mrs. Smith said her hos• band was a metal refiner, but, through the slackness of trade, he bad not had regular work for two years, but had been jobbing about at anything. They were consequently in great distress ; but she had always struggled to keep bet children and bring them up honaffly. Sir Robert W. Carden said her children showed that she did her duty to them, and her own conduct proved hoe strung her principles of honesty were under the temptations of poverty and illness. Of all the acts of honesty he era heard of that was one that deserved to be rewarded, and he hoped the prosecutor would give her a sovereign as I reward for her conduct. The prosecutor at first demurred, but Sir R. W. Carden said, " Well, if you will give her s sovereign I will give her another," upon which the ro secutor said, " I will give it, air," and a gentleman in eesl said, "And I will give her lie., for I think ahe desertet.t. The poor woman was very thankful for the kind fo'Sse which had been shown her, and, having thanked worthy alderman and the gentleman for their benevoletes, retired with her two boys, the charge not having bee proceeded with. BOW-STREET. AN Exerrrattn RIDE.—PAWNING camirs's RAlafs. Ellen Walsh, a prostitute, was charged with stealing* gold watch and chain, • silk umbrella, and a ',enema' taining tit. in gold, from Mr. Edward Jones, a gentlenua residing at Taunton, in Somersetshire, and 'itept. (WM. • cab-driver, was charged with being concerned with her in the robbery. Police-constable Evenden, 174 E, stated that on Friday night at half-past 9 o'clock, when on duty in pnt-atc clothes, he saw the prisoner Walsh with a gentleman (do prosecutor) in Southampton-row. Ahout half an bee later, he saw them in the prisoner's cab, in Great Russell. street. Suspecting the cabman and the woman, he fol lowed the cab. The prisoner drove about for vane time, in no settled direction, but turning sometimes one way and sometimes another—in fact 1.1 1 4, is familiarly termed " Going round the houses. P uttingp up at intervals at various taverna, white they hid something to dunk," the gentlemen always, au the female prisoner generally, remaining in the cab. while the driver fetched the liquor out from the public-house. This went on for sonic time, one d the excursions extending as far its Castle-streets Oxford-market, end the others fur shorter dh.tamvt, but all couceutring at the corner of Osfordetreet an d Tottenham-court-road. In the course of these pet:oldish - Roue witness fell in with • brother constable, E, also on duty in private clothes, to whom he now municated his suspicions, and said, " There will be a jot here, she means to rob him," and who joiDe 4 him in watching the cab. Presently, at tie corner of Museum-street, Owens pulled up i 2 front of a public-house. Walsh s h o ved the man out d the cab, and the cabman drove otf at a rapid rate. Nicholls stopped to pick up the gentleman, who was prostate oa the pavement; and witness; ran after the cab. 'na l ! overtook near Arthur-street. He fo u nd the prisoner Walsh in the cab with the watch and chain in sal band and • sovereign in the other. He took the anvervilla from her, but she threw the watch and chain into the O cot Mr take tete ette `the I tharg Mr Loul ter gust I L Mr. re° 1 A N Ro it tin tint, t th clti t lucid Oa a toe c Ey'