The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-04 00:00:00

ONE of the institutions of London is EVANS' Support and a charming MCSICAL ENTERTALNYEST EVERY ZoKNING. After the theatres and Melba's Concerts ho mire to sup than BROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDESN'S Darr. T extra 'moat by the pate other kinds are sometimes off ot BLOWN and,POLSON'S. ' "John DAIOA" Is signed by the makers on - - each puha,. the elpreoo. TO OORSBOIPONDKNTS. Avertiwasente intirideTl for " The Express," Lesdcas Evening =must be at the Ofßoe, 10, Bouverie-street, by Two on the day of publication. DRURY LAN R. THIS arninro, mACBETK. Messrs. B. SaMvan, Swinbonrne, ?dead, E. Phelps, Henri Drayton, dc.: Mesdames Amy Sedg- WiCk, Bauer, beam, dc.—And THE COMEDY OF EILROBB. The *others Webb. PRINCESIN & Timl LIMO, THE TRIPLh ALLIANCIL—After which THE HUGHILNOT CAPTAIN. llama Ninths .ud G. 110; Wow Name, Aussie, Thomson, and Mi. tiVass.—And QUIET LODGINGS. HAYMAN/IT. Tie 'Mark 17MCLZRaLIL Winn. Chlppesdale, Howe, ex. ; Mesdames atippardals, Wright. ie. —USID UP. Mr. C. 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Without these records, which seem to many persons the most trivial and value less.portion of the newspaper, we should form a very inadequate idea of the number and variety of ways in which a profit is to be made by cultivating the vanity, idle curiosity, and credulous weakness of mankind. A case which came before the ma gistrates at Guildhall on Tuesday last reveals the operation of a system by which a tax is impu dently laid upon trade for the benefit of a private speculator. Mr. JAMES TORRINGTON SPENCER LIDSTONE was brought before Alderman STONE and Alderman COTTON, charged with mali cioualy publishing a defamatory libel concerning Masers. B. W. WINFIELD and Co., of Birm;ngham. The case arose out of a previous libel, for which the defendant had apologised. But when Messrs. WINFIELD sent his apology to the newspapers, the defendant repudiated the same, and in a letter to the Times declared that it was a forgery. Mr. LIDSTONE, it appears, is the author of the " Londoniad," a periodical composed in rhyme, and described by its author as " the continuation " of a University great prize poem on the Arts ; " giving a full description of the principal esta " blishmenta in the capital of England, and form " ing altogether episodes in a grand national " poem on the Arts." The volumes are stated on the title-page to be produced under the aus pices of the QUEEN, the Emperor NAPOLEON, and other eminent personages, and the verses of which they are made up set forth the merits of those tradesmen and manufacturers who encourage the success of what the author styles his " tablature " of benevolence and public spirit, befriending " equally trade, gallantry, criticism, and politics." Mr. LIDSTONE is not only the author of the " Londoniad ;" he canvasses for it, and publishes it ; and it happens that while some traders are highly praised in his stanzas, others are held up to scorn and loathing. When he has reason to be satisfied with a house of business, he is visited by the Muse, and the resulting " episode " is some thing like this poem addressed to a soap manufac turer : Here midst irradiate balls, with —'a patent soap, And crystal colonnades the Muse her solar dome shall owe, For goodness of quality through a hundred nations known, Languages of a legion race sing to renown. I took some of his Shaving Cream once to Sir John Col- borne, Who thanked me, and ordered more from Ring-street, in Holborn. I consigned some to th' nephews of England's much-loved primate, They analyzed and found it fit for any climate. Or this, dedicated to a leather merchant : My fairy bark, with sails of light, o'er a sea of sunbeams glides, With morocco laden, roans, and enamelled hides ; As a deity of the floods, halcyon-like she floats, With enamelled seals, Spanish horse-hides, chamois, seals, and enamelled goats ; Above heroes of war a place the Muse assigned hers, Hail French enamelled calf, and hail too striped seal binders. But Mr. LIDSTONE is not always complimentary. When he has not reason to think well of a trader, there is danger that he may figure in this style : Avenging Pallas shakes her Gorgon shield Full in thy face, thou chest, thou perjurer, Field ; or be shown up in lines like these, which are superscribed with the name of a well-known gentleman : One who, like you, would take advantage of Time or place to annoy a gentleman, Like you, must be a coward and a knave. It seems inconceivable that rubbish such as the eulogistic verses given above should be thought worth a farthing, but if there are traders who like to pay for it, no one else has a right to complain. Wilful and malicious defamation stands on a dif ferent footing. Not only the persons injured, but the whole public, have an interest in discouraging slander. Mr. LIDSTONE'S interviews with Messrs. WINFIELD seem to have been of an unsatisfactory kind, for he published in his " Londoniad " a num ber of disparaging statements of a most damaging character, which we need not repeat, since he has himself described their character in an apology which he has signed, and which is now being pub lished under the order of the magistrates, to the fol lowing effect :—"As the author of a book entitled " the Londoniad,' containing a statement in " reference to your firm which has no foundation " in fact, and is libellous in its character, I unhesi " tatingly acknowledge the injustice I have done " you by its insertion, and tender you my most " sincere apology." It was the letter of which this sentence formed a part that Messrs. WINFIELD published in the Times, whereupon Mr. Lrnwrows wrote to the Editor of that journal, denouncing it as a forgery. But before the magistrates on Tuesday he acknowledged it, consented to its republication, and entered into recognizancee not to repeat the offence. Looking at what is due to the public, we cannot help expressing an opinion that this was not a desirable termination of the case. Messrs. WINFIELD disclaimed, as was proper, all vindictive feeling in the matter ; but we venture to think that the public interest required that an offence so rank and wilful should have been visited with exemplary punishment. We do not, however, blame the magistrates. The original offence—the publication in the " Londo " niad "—bad been condoned and *Med ; and all they could have done was te. commit - the de fendant for trial on the second libel, biting forgery to Messrs. Wurriimo—a course which it is evident wee not desired by those gen tleman. We trust that their leniency was not due to any notion that by sparing the de fendant they were respecting the freedom of the press, which can have nothing in common with the principles on which the " Londoniad " is con ducted. We do not expect to hear more of that publication ; but there will be always persons who, without any recognizable public duty to perform, are ready to prey upon the susceptibilities of the weak, and the natural dislike of all men to be held up to ridicule and be defamed in print. For the sake of society, no mercy should be shown to such pests whenever they expose themselves to the penalties of the law. TORYISM has gained a triumph, a victory after its own heart, and cannot suppress its exultation. The discoaragements of the party have been multi plied of late, but the sky has brightened, and they are permitted to rejoice over a crowning mercy. They have won a seat at Brecon, Mr. Howem. Gvrrx having been returned by a majority of 26 votes. The Hcra/d tries to preserve a calm demeanour ; it foresaw the result a week ago, and told the Liberals that their efforts would be thrown away : the Conservative feeling was so strong in the borough that nothing would hold it. And so it has happened ; that terrible Radical, Lord ALFRED I CHURCHILL, has suffered a "severe defeat," and the constituency have elected a gentleman who willprove a staunch supporter of Lord DERBY. UH101;11- nately we cannot dispute our contemporary's facts. It is as he says, and the result will make a differ ence of two when the divisions on Reform take place in the next Parliament. Inthe House of Com mons one vote is as good as another ; to a " whip " it makes no difference whether it is that of the re presentative of a great constituency or the nominee of a landholder sitting for some pocket borough. As a matter of curiosity, however, we may show, for the enlightenment of people who have no votes, what Mr. Howsra, GWYN represents in the House Commons. We find, then, that if all the persons entitled to vote at Brecon had been unanimously of opinion that Mr. GWYN was the most fitting person to represent them he would have had just 281 supporters. As it was, 102 being of a different opinion, voted for Lord ALFRED CHURCHILL, and Mr. HOWELL GWYN received just 128 votes. That is the figure which represents the value of his return as an ex pression of public opinion ; that is the foun dation of the Tory triumph. If a member were assigned to every 281 borough electors throughout the kingdom, we should have Aylesbury returulng 4, Bradford 18, and Birmingham 53 members. rat, speculation apart, we must admit that this Brecon election is a great Tory victory. Lord DERBY can hardly do less than acknowledge the obligation by greatly enlarging the constituency. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS AND THE AMERICAN PROPOSAL OT ARBITRATION. With some confidence, encouraged by his late speech at Liverpool, the Times ins:tee Lord Stanley's attention, as well as that of the public, to the question of the Alabama claims. It is vain to indulge the belief that our supposed infractions of neutrality have been con doned ; the American people still cherish a sense of injury, which, with the exigencies of party war fare, may at any moment imperil the diplomatic entente connate. No one attempts to malntain that either our own or the American Foreign Enlist merit Act is in all respects satisfactory, and the Times ventures to submit that it would be at once the most rilgnified and politic course to reconsider dispassion ately the questions arising out of the case of the Con federate cruisers, and it sees no insuperable obstacle to a solution which has something in common with Mr. Adams' proposal, and something with that of Lord Russell. Let a joint commission be appointed, not to adjudicate upon the claims preferred against Great Britain by American ship owners, or to review the transactions connected with the equipment of the Alabama and her consorts, but to delibe rate on the rights and duties of neutrals in time of war as hitherto determined by international law or usage, and to devise, if possible, a set of rules which all maritime nations should be invited to adopt, and to carry out by legislative measures. A commission of this kind should not be exclusively composed of British and American sub jects, but should include eminent continental jurists, and should be invested with the amplest possible liberty of recommendation. If upon a perusal of their report her Majesty's government shall be of opinion that, under the circumstances, some reparation is due, either in international law or international equity, to the United States in respect of the ravages of the Alabama, it will not be too late to make it, and no false pride should prevent our doing so with a good grace. That Lord Russell was w ..ong in his exposition of the law has yet to be shown ; but on the other hand, as everyone knows, the Alabama would never have got to sea but for the most inopportune illness of the Queen's Advocate, and this consideration, though it may clear the government from the charge of neglect, does in some devisee affect the moral aspect of the case. The loss sustained by American commerce in consequence may be dam num tine injurid, and therefore no ground of a legal action ; and yet it may be a wise act of courtesy to waive the benefit of this plea. The Star marks the absence from Lord Derby's letter to the chairman of the Liverpool banquet of all words of hearty greeting to the United States. It is one of the penalties we must pay for allowing to a tory premier even • short lease of power, to find him on critical occasions failing to represent the national feelings. During the war, not a day passed that the foulest libels were not spoken and printed of the American people, at a time when they were exhibiting the most wonderful devotion to the most sacred cause. And when Mr. John Laird uttered from the tory benches the pious wish that he might be the builder of a dozen Alabama', the tories ex pressed their detestation of the principles of freedom, and their desire that slavery might be triumphant, by the same ringing cheers with which they greeted Mr. Lowe's libel on the marmot his fellow-citizens. These manifestations of hostility were not unresented in America. The treatment they then experienced still rankles in the minds of the freemen of the North, and no greater aer% ice can be ren dered by any statesman to the cause of humanity than the modifying or removing of that feeling. LORD STARLET. The Daily News attributes the constrained tone of the earlier portion of Lord Stanley's speech to the feet that he was labouring to reconcile his audience to what he sus pected is an unacceptable ministerial change. It is not the healthy rivalry and competition occasioned by the condi tional of parliamentary government which are com plained of, but the fact that this rivalry is confined within narrower limits than might be, and that official experience is restricted too much to particular coteries. So long as power is divided between two aristocratic parties a sort of political see-saw by which a bad government is often kept in order to prevent a worse from inc. ceeding it,—must go on. Will Lord Stanley support a reform by which the varied life and intelligence of the nation will be more completely represented, and the re serve force of statesmen and the diffusion of official experience be increased? His lordship's remark that even the strongest of our statesmen are better for the compara tive rest which the opposition benches afford, suggests the reflection that Lord Derby and his colleagues have little to complain of on this head. A few months of office in the course of as many years—generally during the rues!, for she parliamentary session does not agree with them, cannot surety be very fatiguing. If Lord Stanley means :hat the end and justification of Lord Derby's government is to give Mr. Gladstone time to test and recruit himself, 'RESS, THURSDAY EVMVG; OCTOBER 4, we cannot complain of se 'nodes* en estimate of its functions and reknit d'itre. His lordship's remarks are ream a weak etarliestion of a new govenmiett, bet he is essentially a neutral politician, lacks strength of convic tion, and is ill fitted to acquire ascendancy or direct the minds of man in critical times. lJnluippily he has lately shown that freedom from party passion is compatible with capacity for party intrigue. But it would be harsh to dwell on a single lapse from political virtue ; and it is un questionable that whether in office or in opposition, Lord Stanley's general fairness of mind, his cool judgment, his restraining caution, his capacity of mastering and co-ordi nating details, and of understanding social, as distin guished from political, phenomena, will continue to do the state services which few are capable of rendering it. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. " THE PALERMO INSURRECTION. The report of General Cordons on the events in Sicily is supplemented by three other reports which appear in the Official Gazette of Italy. One is that of the major-general commanding the National Guard of Palermo, the second is that of Lieutenant-General Angiolette, commandant of the 10th military division ; and the third is from the colonel-commandant of the 12th Legion of Royal Carabineers. The first of these documents attri butes the rising to the effect produced by the law on the suppression of religions corporations, a law which had exasperated the reactionary and clerical party. These three reports do not differ in their details from that of General Cordona, and agree in pointing out the part taken in the late events by the monastic corporations, the establishments of which served as a centre of action and head guar /ere to the insurgents. GERMANY. While the bitterness and the indignation which the King of Hanover feels is sally understood, the Times thinks that no regard for the interests of a dynasty or the merits of individual princes should make us forget the inesti mable benefits which are:likely to accrue to Europe from the movement of which the Hanoverian annexation is one of the find phases. As politicians we have only to ask whether the result of the struggle will be beneficial to the people whose lot it has altered and to ourselves, and to this there can be only one answer returned. King George's protest therefore will be disregarded by all impartial men who will look upon what has been done as irreversible, and this, although the Hanoverians themselves may show for some time a chivalrous attachment to the" ancient dynasty. Is is to be hoped that the Prussian wart will know how to attract to itself, by a conciliatory policy, the affections which, for the present, have followed King George into exile. It may be that the rule of Berlin will never be willingly accepted by all classes in the minor states until the Prussian King shall have followed the example of Victor Emmanuel, and merged his hereditary title into one derived from the whole country. Those who would object to be annexed by a King of Prussia might not be unwilling to bear allegiance to an Emperor of Germany. The supremacy which exists in fact might well be asserted by him who wields it, and rat' fied by a German parliament. According to the Telegruph whoever has seen a respect able old gentleman trying to pick up his bat in a crowd— jostled, hustled, dishevelled, incensed, and utterly in de spair—has seen such a spectacle as the unlucky monarch now presents to his faithful Hanoverian and to Europe. He decides to do what that elderly sufferer would—he goes hoses and " writes to the papers." The Tines notices in the course of an article upon the causes of the Austrian defeat, en amusing statement by the Nose Deutsche Zeitung, to the effect that the Prussian army owed its knowledge of the Austrian positions to communications made to it by the Timer, and which that journal had received from its correspondent in the Austrian camp. Scarcely expecting that its readers will look for any vindication from so wild an accusation, our contemporary proceeds to add that it is never easy under the best circumstances to satisfy a beaten party as to the real cause of its defeat. The prostration of Austria in the field was due rat►er to weak Italy than to strong Prussia, for by a strange infatuation by far the best German troops were sent to the defence of that Quadrilateral which could so easily defend itself, while the mere rabble of Croats and Slave nians went to swell the ranks under Benedelt. The very troops that were on the firsts line at Roniggrats were Italians, mainly, it would seem, Venetians, and when the decisive moment came, the Italian regiments, as we learn by a Spanish officer who has published a narrative of his observations, passed over for the most part to the enemy, and threw down their arms to the cry of " Viva Garibaldi!" Well may the writer add that " this cause, hitherto little known, had a best influence on the result of the battle." The consternation thrown upon the waver ing Austrian line by the defection of a considerable force at the critical moment may be too readily imagined ; and there is little doubt that those Venetian deserters achieved more at that moment towards the deliverance of their country than the soldiers and sailors of Victor Emmanuel can be said to have done either at Castors* or at Ursa. M. Lueiw►vna.—lt is * understood that the Foreign-office have received the petition presented by M. Lamirande to our Ambassador at Paris, and Lord Stanley has promised that the case shall have his immediate and best attention. Lord Carnarvon has also declared himself fully alive to the importance of the case, and is taking the neces sary measures for instituting a strict inquiry into the conduct of those who have so grossly outraged British law. int Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 2. Prince and Princess Christian drove in the afternoon yesterday. The Earl of Derby left Balmoral. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Mow Kong, and Labuan. We learn by telegraph that the Queen has agreed to preside at the inauguration of the Aberdeen Gravitation Waterworks on the 16th inst. The proceedings are to take place at Caunton, on the River Dee, where the supply is taken off, 30 milesbelow Balmoral. _ _ _ The Marquis and Marchioness Townahend ar rived at their residence in Dover-street, on Tuesday, from New Mar Lodge, N. 8., where they have been staying with the Earl and Countess of Fife. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare and family leave Kilkee Castle in a few days for Carlton House, Maynooth, the seat of the Duke of Leinster, with whom the noble marquis and marchioness intend to spend the winter. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and Ladies ritzwilliam have arrived at Wentworth House, Yorkshire, from Coollatin, the family seat in Ireland. . _ The Earl and Countess Grey and the Countess rosiest, Mr. and Mrs. Marlay, &c., are amongst the visitors at Buxton. The Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper arrived in Dublin on Monday from visiting Vis count Palmerston's estates in the county Sligo, and are daily expected to join the family circle staying with Vis countess Palmerston at Brockett Hall, Herts. The Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P., arrived in his yacht at Cowes, on Tuesday afternoon, from a cruise to Bordeaux and Gibraltar. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIPS.—A marriage is about to take place between Miss Gibson, daughter of the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, and the Hon. and Rev. Reginald Windsor West. DLA., rector of Wythyam, Sussex, a son of the Earl of Delawme. The marriage of Captain Hayter, M.P., eon of Sir William G. Hayter, and Miss Hope, daughter of the late Mr. Adrian Hope, and niece of Mr. Alexander Beres ford-Hope, M.P., is fixed to take place on the 29th tart. In Ireland Mr. Justice Hayes has resigned. Mr. George, M.P., is to be the new judge. The Attorney- General is to be Master of the Rolls. Mr. Morris is to become Attorney-GeneraL Either Mr. Miller, M.P., or Mr. Chatterton, Q.C., is to be Solicitor-General in the room of Mr. Morris. There will consequently be new elections for Dublin University, Wexford County, Galway, and, perhaps, Armagh. _ _ _ Mr. Hubbard, has prepared a draft of a church rate bill, suggested for the consideration of the York congress. He dates that the object aimed at has been to release dissenters in the simplest and moat acceptable manner from liability to church rates if they object to pay them ; but at the same time to main tain the legal status of church-rates and to amendZimr operation as regards district churches. REPRESENTATION OF BRISTOL. —There is not a word of truth in the statement, published by a tory con temporary at Bristol, that one of the seats in that consti tuency was about to become vacant by the resignation of Sir Morton Peto. THE ALBERT STATUE ft LI VERPOOL. —lt was decided yesterday that the statue shall be inaugurated as soon ma powible. • Her Majesty has approved of the follow ing inscription :—" Albert, Prince Consort, born 1819, died 1861. This statue of a wise and good Prince was erected by the corporation of Li 1, Oct., 1866." TitsM. BISHOP DURRAAL — Th e Bishop of Dur ham has begun his visitation this week. His charge seems mainly intended to show that be has not changed his opinions since, three years ago, he condemned the periodi cal press as sceptical and anti-Christian. HOLLAND. A grave conflict has arisen between the executive power and the Chamber of Deputies in Holland, the chamber having emphatically pronounced against the appointmen t of M. Myer as Governor- General of the Netherland possessions in India. The ministry and the chiefs of the conservative party have prevailed upon the King to dissolve the assembly. It is even said that despairing of ob taining from the electors a conservative majority, they advise the King to adopt some un constitutional measures which would be equivalent to a coup d'etat. The elections take place on the 30th, and no doubt seems to be entertained as to the success of the liberal candidates. (1111317.1111 TZLIALUOI.) AUSTRIA AND ITALY. VIENNA, Ocr. 4. The treaty of peace between Austria and Italy was signed here yesterday. FRANCE. PARIS, Oct. 4. By order of the Emperor Generals Vaubert de Geniis and Jav6 have proceeded, one to the Loire and the other to the Allier, to examine the scene of the devastation caused by the recent inundations. They are also empowered to distribute aid amongst the most necessitous. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Ocr. 4. The li:ng has nominated the Lord Mayor of London a Commander of the Order of Leopold as a mark of his satisfaction at the reoeption afforded to him by the Corporation. SPAIN. MADRID, Ocr. 3, EVENING. The Governor of Madrid has hurtled a circular, in which he announces that tranquillity has been established, and praises the zeal of the authorities. The Pemsamiento of to-day says that measures will shortly be promulgated consolidating public order and regulating the freedom of the press with out preventing legitimate manifestations of public opinion. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WIDNLSDAY EVI.NTNO. The following are some diplomatic changes under- I stood to have been made by the Marquis de Mous tier on his taking possession of the portfolio of foreign affairs :—The Marquis de Banneville, now " director of political affairs " in the Foreign-office, will go to Rome to relieve M. de Sartiges, who is appointed to replace M. Benedetti as ambassador at Berlin. M. Benedetti, now in Paris, will certainly take the Marquis de Moustier's vacant place at Constantinople. Baron de Malaret, now at Flo rence, is designated as the successor of the late Marquis Turgot at Berne. The new Italian " am bassador " is, I believe, not yet named. The first instance of the enforcement of the new law of June, 27, 1866, for the punishment of crimes and misdemeanours committed by Frenchmen in foreign countries, and which, being regarded as a political snare, was hotly opposed by a large mi nority of the Corps Legialatif, has occurred before a court-martial at Lille, and under circumstances not likely to provoke remonstrance. Three men of bad character in the 6th regiment of the line, quartered at Lille, crossed the Belgian frontier, went to a tavern, got drunk, refused to pay the reckoning, broke windows, and went a long way towards breaking heads. On the complaint of the Belgian gendarmerie they were placed under arrest at Lille. The court-martial has sentenced two of them to a year's imprisonment, and the third, whose offence was complicated by the additional charge of striking a French corporal after his arrest—a crime for which he might have been shot—is condemned to hard labour for ten years. There is much in the evening papers about the late journalists' duel and a great deal more than would be interesting to English readers. These fighting gentlemen presume too much upon the long vacation when they suppose the slightest details of their very ridiculous quarrels worthy of publication. lam happy, however, to mention that M. Sarcey is not likely to loae his eye. A medical certificate states that M. Clement Duvernois' sword penetrated exactly a centimetre and a half (something like half an inch) between " the orbit and the ocular globe without touching the latter." M. Sarcey has taken a carriage siting to-day. _ _ M.Arnould, one of M. Sarcey's seconds in the abortive duel with M. Pessard, has sent a challenge to M. Clement Duvernois, which he, albeit a fighting man par excellence, refuses for a great many extremely complicated reasons, the most im portant of which are that the earns Belli alleged against him would involve the necessity of his fighting every one of the writers in the Opinion Nationale until somebody killed him. The Bourse continues to decline slowly. Rents fell 10c. for cash and i c. for account, closing at 69fr. 15c. and 69fr. 20c. Italian fell 65c., Mobilier 11fr. 20c., and Credit Fonder 2fr. 50c. In Hanover the change of rulers is becoming everywhere manifest. The arms of the Guelphs and all the insignia of the dynasty, those even which were placed over the royal box in the theatre, have been removed. The Prussian flag has eveifwbere replaced Hanoverian colours, —the latter even floating over the palace lately occupied by the Queen. _ _ . According to the Cologne Gazette the Prussian military employee who have not found occupation in the civil functions which they filled before the war, wiD receive half-pay for three months. .... . . Tiere are now growing nearly one million cinchona trees mil the Neilgherry hills in India, some of which have reached the height of seventeen feet. It was but • very few years wince the first cinchona trees were transplanted from Peru to India. Thom trees produce the famous Jesuits or Peruvian bark, front which the medicinal specific for the cure of fever is derived. ' . The Bombay papers state that a telegram reached Kurraohee, in the Indira Ocean, from America in one day sixteen hours, and this telegram was six days in nothing Bombay from Kurrachee. 1866. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OP A SEA CAPTAINS WIPE. An inquiry was held by Mr. Win. J. Payne, the &Linty coroner, last evening, at the Committee-rooms, Yountatheourt, Minories. respecting the death of Mrs. Anne Elliot, a Scotch lady, aged 31 years, who was alleged ito have committed suicide n conaequence of being charged with extravagance by her husband. Captain John Elliott, commander of the Rifle, a Chinese trader, said that the deceased was his wife. About a week ago she left her home in Scotland to meet triton', who had returned from an 18 months' voyage abroad, and she and her three children took lodgings at No. 2, Circus, Mina rim. When witness met her she complained of being rIL On Saturday last witness reproved her for being so extrava gant while he was at sea. Witness said to her, What have you done with the money I left at home ?" She remained silent, andburst out crying. She said that she had put some of the money in a Scotch bank, and then she said that she had put none of it in. Witness was about to return to Scotland, and she knew that he would find out all about the money, and that fact preyed upon her mind. She said to witness afterwards, "You will find out all bye and bye." On Monday afternoon witnem returned home and found her dying from the effects of poison. Mary Keefe, servant at the deceased's lodgings, said that on Monday last the deceased complained of toothache and asked her to purchase one shilling's worth of gin and six pennyworth of laudaum. The chemist would not sell six-pennyworth, and witness only got three-pennywor th , and the gin. Shortly aftervrasda she was found lying in sensible on the bed in her room. Dr. W. R. Cook, Tower-hill, mid that be was called in to see the decease d on Monday. Her face was pale and livid, and she was suffering from the effects of poisoning by laudanum. She bad taken three drachms. Witness dad not think that the chemist ought to have • Ten so much a three-pennyworth to the servant. The deossssd expired at 3 o'clock. Mr. H. Madsen, chemist in the Minories, said that he refused to give the servant six-pennyworth, and that he would not have given her the three-pennyworth only that he knew that her master kept a large lodging-house, and he thought it was required in case cholera broke out. Dr. Cook said that the demand had mixed the laudanum with the gin and that rendered the poison more powerful. Witness did not think that she had become insensible for an hour after she had taken the poison. Mrs. Eleanor Irwin said that the deceased had told her that she was nearly distracted with the toothache. She said that the pains were going to her head. She showed witness a 25 guinea shawl that her husband had brought her from abroad. —..... The Coroner having summed up, the July returned a I'verdiet that That the deceased destroyed her own life whilst in a state of temporary Insanity, and their opinion wee that she had committed suicide in consequence of the rebuke she had received from her husband, and that she was afraid of the conse quences of her acts when he returned to Sootland and found no money in the bank." EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR. A REMARKABLE COOK. At the Aehford petty eesicons on Tuesday (before Mr. W. P. Burro) the following Peculiar teas wee heard : . . Sarah Herring, 23, cook, in the service of Mr. Clark Hills, Singleton, Great Chart, was charged with stealing six forks, the propel.) , of her master. It appeared that on the previous Thursday evening, about half-past eight o'clock, the prisoner came to the parlour door, where the family were sitting, and said the housemaid heard some one walking upstairs. A search was made, and smithy articles of female wearing apparel were found done up, and dropped in different rooms, as if by some one who had made a hasty flight from the house. In one of the bundles was rolled up six silver forks. A search was made over all the premises, but no one was found. The next night, about 9 o'clock, the housemaid came running to the parlour, saying that Sarah (the prisoner) was screaming in the - garden. A general rush was made there, and the prisoner was found sitting against the wall of the house outside, bleed ing from several cute on the back of one of her hands. She complained of being in great pain, and a doctor was sent for from Ashford. She said that a short man, dressed in dark clothing, with a loam cloak, • belt round his waist with two pistols stuck in it, a "Muller" hat, and a veil over his face, had caught hold of her, and declared "he would murder her for last night's work," and said, further, that if it had not been for her the house would not have been as it was then. She said that the man attempted to drag her along, and she clung with one hand to a poet, and that he was going to cut her throat with • knife, but that she put her other hand round it, and that was how the cute were caused. A policeman had been stationed on the premises from the preceding night, and this official engrained to Mr. Hills that • stronger force should be sent for from Ashford, and a messenger was sent 'there accordingly. About forty men were also hired in Great Chart to assist in searching the shrubberies and premises, and a minute search was ales made of every room in the home, but the terrible burglar could not be found. The search was continued in the grounds all night, although the rain was pouring in torrents, and the whole place was kept until the next day in a state of turmoil and excitement. Meanwhile, Mr. Sheppard, surgeon, had arrived, and he expressed very strong disbelief of the girl's stori, and on visiting the house again the next day for the purpose of minutely examining her band, he was quite convinced that the wounds hail been inflicted by some small sharp instru ment. He told the prisoner he knew she bad had some thing to do with the matter, that he was Pertain her story was false, and that she had better tell the truth, as she would be certainly found out. After • great deal of per suasion, the prisoner admitted that the whole affair had been got up for a "spree" by herself and the housemaid, and that the wounds on her bends were in flicted with Mr. Hill's razor, which the housemaid procured from his bedroom for the purpose. The prisoner made a long defence, in which she detailed the proceedings of herself and the housemaid in a very humorous manner, and asserted that the housemaid was quite as bad as she was. The latter, however, it appears, was only 16 years old, while the prisoner was 23. Mr. Burrs committed the prisoner for a month, for mis behaviour in service, dismissing the charge of stealing the forks.—KentisA Obserrer. The banquet to Sir Hugh Cairns, at Belfast, will take place during the present month. Mr. Goschen, M.P., writes to a contemporary : " I sin decidedly in favour of teaching Latin and Greek in all cases where sufficient time can be given for boys to learn them properly, and I dissent entirely from the view that the time spent on classical training is thrown away because the knowledge gained cannot be turned to immediate practical account in after life. But the educational advan tages of the study of the dead languages as mental training seem to me to belong entirely to the later years spent at achooL They do not come into play till the wind of the boy is thoroughly awake ; and thus I hold that, where the boy mast be removed from school at 15, the time previously spent in the first rudiments of Latin and Greek is likely to have been wasted to a very considerable degree, while the chances of anything else having been thoroughly learnt will have been proportionately diminished." _ _ _ . . Mr. Doulton, M.P., writes to the Telegraph:— " Sir,—Permit me to assure your somewhat impatient cor respondent that, being quite prepared to defend my vote on the reform question, I shall not shrink from meeting my constituents when, in accordance with my custom, the time arrives for me to do so ; and, moreover, that it is my full intention to present myself again for election as a libe ral member for Lambeth.—Respeetfolly yours, Faso. Doouroir. Brighton, Oct. 3." _ _ _ It has been decided (says the Eastern Counties Herald) that the Hull Reform demonstration shall take place on Monday, the 29th inst. ; and in addition to the two borough members several other eminent reformers see ex pected to be present on the occasion. We (Bath Chronicle) are informed that the Rev. W. T. E. Bennett, the sicar of Frame, has commenced the nee of incense at the Eucharistic services in his church. _ _ _ ----- Economy is the order of the day on the South Western Railway. The staff is to be reduced, and if this does not effect an important saving of expenditure, th e salaries of all the officials will be lowered. The number of trains on the various lines of the company have been reduced. - ------- The Southampton Dock Company are enclosing their extensive premises by a high brick wall. Hitherto they have only been enclosed by wooden palings. The potato disease in Hampshire is chiefly con fined to the largest sized potatoes, and experienced potato growers state that the natural sized potato is rarely affected with disease. It is amongst crops where the size is unnaturally increased by excess of inantu:ng that the disease makes most havoc. It is a carious fast that birds are fonder of diseased potatoes than they are of sound ones. At the Dungannon petty sessions, on Tuesday, six F ete/tants and nine Roman catholic* way brought before the magistrates, charged with having riotously assembled at Donoughmore. On the 17th tilt. the Orangemen of the town were returning from one of their " demonstrations," when the Boman inhabitants rang the chapel bell, sad turned out to give them a warm reception. Through the energy of the police, however, the two factions were kept asunder, and a discharge or two of stones was all that took plasm in the shape of a combat. Ten of the accused—all Roman catholics, with one exception—were sent for trial to the assizes, and the remaining five were discharged. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) MUSIC AND DANCING LlClNetil. The court sat to-day at the Sessions-hom e , eh green, for the purpose of renewing an d ' vin rril licenses fur mune and dancing, under the act oflb: Ceo. IL, cap. 36. Mr. Remy Porten, cn e i ncu court, presided, and there was a large attendance • testes on the bench. There were 351 appl e:4 6 mi ZI2OI renewal of old licenses, and about 60 new appiiiZ o 4 The licenses were renewed to, a mee hall, Woodin's Polygraphic-liana s ke;.;?,47 1 % Alhambra, the Queen' Concert Queens Conce the Royal Gallery of Illustration, the Ste Royal Polytechnic, the Prince of Wales, c e i e d e ,,_ coe d ; the Egyptaaa-hall, St. Jame's-hall, Ar c a 174 whienf ug e o n Club, the Ilighbury Ban k T acm, Cricket Ground (St. John's Wood Tavern), If ft i,y Store-street ; Jack Straw's Castle, the Princes's O le - : Rooms, Oxford-street, hc. The license of se e Regent, New-court, Goewell-street, was refused, "--• THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STAR . CPRIOUS CAABGII or EMBEZZLIKI37. R o b er t Callaghan, a tailor, in the employ of M r . y na , rico Robilio, tailor, of No. 6, ..fennyn-street, wu ehi 41 before Mr. Knox with embezzling thefts of 161,13 1 . ahead by him for and on account of hie mut er . ' Mr. Samuel Roberts, foreman to Mr. bailie, Jemnyn.street, said that on Monday morning sent the prisoner to Hammersmith to receive the kid 154. 15s. from a customer named Leaver. Th e 1 6, received the money but never returned, sad leA 4 7 r ; more of him till that morning, when he wee tail ad that he bad lost the money from his pocket log from Hammersmith. He took the 'm eow % I= street, and there changed him with embeuhag th e eis ; The whioner said he loft the money as he bed end Mr. Knox asked him if that was the came why he m id go back to Mr. Robilio at once and make his rod er i es known. The prisoner said he tried to do so, but his halt ha d him. In answer to Mr. Knox, the prosecutor end vhf known the prisoner for seven years, and he had eitc es id him to get money for him before, and lie had btu** safely to him. Mr. Knox said he would remand the primer le gh s the police an opportunity of making inquiries hee matter, and under the mrciunstances he weld tike id for him. WORSHIP-STREET. A TOY AT EIGHT SF.ARN OF AGE Jesse Scott, a fair faced, innocent-looking Mae hi* not nine years of ne, and dressed in a ray mann manner as the and of poor persons, was nn,wi l ity attempting felony. James Acre a butcher, in High-street, l!Wes, Last night there was a disturbance outaide my Map. I went to the door, and almost immediately often* ten what a neighbour told me, I ran behind the meter, lei found this little fellow on his hands and knew, sin spa half way out, but I don't think that he stole saythisg, hR said that he came to look after a farthing. Mr. anything known of him! A Constable—Yes, for this is the fourth time Is bes been at this court for felony. Mr. Ellison—And only 8 years of age ! Prisoner—A boy sent me in and said that be meld* me a penny. Constable—The prisoner bad three days' implement on one of the three occasions. I think it wsa for cattisga pane of glass and stealing from a shop window. Mr. :.n—He must go to an industrial loboolater, Where is his mother? Constable—Outside, sir. • Mr. Ellison—Let her come in. The boy began to cry as the mother, a may duatisdo Mg woman, stepped into the witness-box. Mr. Ellison—What is the reason this child is ow 11. tinuall brought here! Mother—Well, sir, I can't help it. I do my but is we root him. I send him to school, but he won't slims he has plenty, and as good a father as ever MP, a Lid. working man. He learns no harm at home. Mr. Ellison—Have yon not power and authority long him from doing wrong' Mother—No, sir ; I really have not. Ido all I sea. Mr. Ellison—Then I must have it for you. I nand him immediately to Feltham for three ysare. Mother—lt menu very bard to have him ewe limn. Would you be so good as to let us have him and hs shad be sent 70 miles away, to his aunt's. Constable—The same promise was made, per mai* ' on a former =anion. Mr. Ellison—Where do you wish to send him? Mother—To Wellingborough, in Northamptm. Mr. Ellison—Now, attend. 11611 remand the child in week, and at the expiration of that time I shall expnlyse or his father here quite prepared to send him thee; g not. be assured he goes to Feltham for the term I Midis. Mother—He shall never trouble you any more, sir. The mother left and the child was locked in the cell. WESTMINSTER. A LANDLADY'S DIYFICI'LTY. A respectable-looking woman besought Mr. Armin advice under the following circumstances Applicant said that she was a housekeeper at Minh and notwithstanding all her care and cannot is de mending the 'feu . best reference with lodgers, sh recently discovered that she had got in her beau two loose woman. She gave them notice to and after a great deal of trouble got rid of theca es laps. but unfortunately found herself still hampered win than through their being encouraged to visit and creepy ths apartments of a male lodge'. They were in sad cattle house all night, and it was really quite abominable. Mr. Arnold—You bad better get rid of your mat 10atter. Applicant—l should I ;ke, but lam very mama; situated. It is my furniture in his moms, bat! dm't know whether I can take it out. Mr. Arnold—How is that? Applicant—Why, p i r ee li k. cant—Why, he has undertaken to pay per far it st Mr. Arnold—Then it is hie own. Applicant—But it in not to be removed till it H apid for, and he has only just began paying for it. • Mr. Arnold—Then you can't get rid of him yet. Applicant—No ; that's my difficulty. I don't out get rid of him, it is the women I want to get rid of. B quite shocking to have such things going on in cares Le he justified in having them there? Mr. Arnold—l don't know how you are to Fenn it The only mode is by getting rid of him. ist 1 Applicant—l am much obliged to your Imam, , cannot because of the furniture. Mr. Arnold—l cannot assist you. • WANDSWORTH. THE LATE CHARGE OP CRUELTY TO A LUNATIC TN AN ono. Edward Noma', 25, of No. R. Thornbilldvidefi l, Caledonian-road, Islington, an attendant on lunatics, ewe to the station this morning and delivered himself If . 16 answer the charge of unlawfully assaulting and ill4roo l l George Tite, a lunatic, at the Surrey County Asylum. Mr. A. Haynes ' who defended the other Weeded (Benton), appeared also for the prisoner. The evidence of the three painters was read Off. Kennedy said, in addition. that Morgan mu the/ who was down kneeling and striking the patient. Fraser said Morgan threw the patient down, knee on his bowels, and punched him about the nt Cann said he saw Morgan beating the patient And* in his room , before he was dressed. He also knocliel down, and rubbed his bead on the floor. Mr. Dayman inquired whether it was inteadel teld any further evidence against the prisoner. oonsttefintilwhiethPatthi pat i ent, n e t ; dei t e lentleman from the asylum mentioned WI Il i wu Mr. Dayman thought it would not be safe to rail his evidence. He then remanded him till Tow*, the other attendant would be brought up. Mr. Haynes said Burton was only formally no. ° for the depositions. Mr. Hayman said Morgan would be committed for with him. He then inquired whether there wee eel 1 1l evidence. Mr. statement h a ud ma i tea * Mr. Haynes said there was, and produced t he said there would not be any 'fear of his not WNW he had surrendered. . The prisoner was then liberated. The investigation of the accounts of U Ih d i the late borough treasurer of Salford, has beta elle ^ and 3,1991. proves to be the amount of his &MOO He is said to have sought refuge in France. A Waterford paper states that the cutter OM" of Swansea, put into Dunmore on Tuesday, weethed4ll4 and, when boarded by the coastguard , was found to boll 15 tons of gunpowder on hoard, and no satisfoetel PO, to account for it. The master could only giro the statement that he was bound for Cork ; did not W I id sent the gunpowder, or to whom it was ccono 6l ,' merely that he was to hoist a red flag at Cor k so' owner would then come on board. Captain Sherard Osborn, C. 8., late in email ( of the Royal Sovereign, has been appointed • 00441 the Ordnance Select Committee. A contemporary notes that a number of ose° . are reported from iron armour-plated ships • ($ 1 : nel experimental squadron. Within the lot few IY' tor Achilles, 26, Captain Edward W. Vansittart; upper masts ; the Lord Clyde, 2 4 , Capta in Salem' ';„, C. 13., her jibboom ; the Ocean, Et, her main masts, and croestreae ; and the Pallas , 6, corvette, :17.1 Matthew Connolly, bar jibboom and topmasts the first day's experiments the Research, 4; awl. Robert A. G. Scott, was disabled and left behind ; SL the lame day the Wyvern, 4, t urne t .ship, Burgoyne, V.C., parted company and returned. LA 5 • N. Ranee, treat, • BO • Morrie Raw. , here. 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