The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00

LTEBOAT SERVICES.—Arring the STORMS -N-Ji of the past twenty menthe the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTIVITION, by Ka Lifeboats and other mama, contrlbuted to the SAVING of 1,450 PERSONS from di ff erent WREMS on our OGASTS. The Institution also impended 43,420 in the same period on *Lifeboat Estabildireent% in addWo nto tli ff 1,361 as REWARD& The Gomm/des of the IntffitUilEr neatly APPEAL to the Public for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the sonlintled heavy dawn& In the Institatton's lit lifeboat Stations. Contributions 1110 received by the Landon end 00‘0 1 1 3 7 Rankers; and by the Seczetary, RICHARD LEWIS, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adolph!, London. BENSON'S WATCHES, ins•deo, Lodirsto-h01; 05, Old Bond-street. JOHN BROG s carats ens. Is worth —IA 4 111 par OUICIL !S carats.. 4 1 12 carats (lhitlsh standard)! 17 101 IS carats.. S 14 4 91 carats.. alO 01 caryttB.. 8 7 8 iiiiiVia , ;ri, IE, Hi lON of GOLD. 9 gnats .. 11 11 10 8 carats .. 1 8 22 7 carata .. 1 4 9 6 carats .. 1 1 1 5 ants.. 017 8 4 carats .. 014 2 3 carats .. 010 7, 2 swats .. 8 7 1 1 carat .. 0 3 6 rden, 145181c62, W.C. &looks, like that just opened, of 500 each. We ought to have, at least, this number; for, let it be remembered hat if we had them all to-morrow, our public provision for education would still be inferior to that which exists in many a German town, so insignificant that its name may never have reached our ears. In other German countries than Prussia, towns of eight and tenthousand inhabi tantshave their realschulen, gymnasia, and polytech nic schools, where the best education in the world can be obtained at a nominal price. There is no reason why this country should remain behind in the race of life ; and in these days that nation is I left behind which allows itself to be excelled by its neighbours in all that belongs to the equipment lof the mind. Our flatterers will tell us that we shall win in future, as we have hitherto won, by rude energy and untutored mother-wit, but that is more than they are able to guarantee. Whenever we oome to attach its true importance to education, we 'shall begin to regard it as nothing less than a public interest. Supposing that we had resolved to educate the remaining 4,500 children whom we have assumed to be ready to enter schools like this one in Bath-street, no one, we imagine, would like to see a nine-fold power of speech;naking,l advertising, and canvassing applied for that pur pose to public liberality. If this new school should fulfil the expectation of its founders, it will not be too much to ask that its success shall be held to justify the entertainment of the whole question of middlo.class education in London as a matter proper to be dealt with by our public bodies as one of common interest. Education is a universal want : wherever there is a family the school and the schoolmaster are in demand. And there is nothing which so readilyadapts itself as education to the requirements of the community. This new school has been established, as has been said, with primary reference to the wants of clerks and warehousemen ; but we are safe in predicting that if a census of the pupils should be taken this time next year it will be found that among them are many sons of professional men—of the ill-paid curate, the struggling general practitioner, and the solicitor in small practice—and with these a selection of the sons of the more prudent and self-respecting of our working men. Open a good school in any neighbourhood, and there is no fear that in these days capa city and character will be baffled at the entrance by doss distinctions. The means and appliances of education surely cannot be re garded as a less legitimate object of public con cern than the lighting of our streets or the drain ing of ourhouses, and their existence should not be left to chance. The observation made by the LORD Mavoa on Monday was perfectly just. It is indeed " pitiful to reflect upon the educational " destitution which exists in this country, even "in these enlightened times." Every reflecting person knows that this is true, and most of us know the reason why. It is not altogether be cause we have undervalued the worth of education : but we have allowed ourselves to be frightened by difficulties in a great degree factitious, and which, when they are real, are always exane . rated. The religious difficulty, as it is called, has been overcome in the City of London School ; it has been overcome in this new school ; and there is abundant evidence to convince us that it will form no effectual obstacle wherever the work of education is taken in hand simply in the interest of parents and children, whose claims in such a matter ought to be paramount. mays, "mere than a Week ago, the futility of the aorta being made by the KIN-styled ' independent liberals,' to stern the eonserestive feeling of tite borough, and the shits to which they were reduced in canvassing for the whienominee. In Mr. Rowel Gwyn the constituency of Brecon have elected a gentleman who has every pcedble claim to be their choice, and Lord Derby has gained a staunch and influential supporter." The niegroph remarks that at the present juncture, when every vote is important to the liberal party in view of a reform bill, a loss at Breton is in one sense as appro. ciable as a loss in a borough of twenty times its size. In no other respect has the result any significance. Where the constituency is small, and considerably under tho in fluence of neighbouring landowners, the liberals are almost invariably placed at a disadvantage. Reformers must re gret the fact for many reasons ; but they may rejoice over it for others. Every such election as that of Brecon strengthens the claim for a wide extension of the franchise and a redistribution of seats. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE CABLE BANQM. The Star thinks it absurd that while so many important districts of the country are only imperfectly represented, and while the vast majority of the English people are not allowed to enjoy the franchise at all, a few landlord•ridden or bribery-tainted voters in an obscure Welsh town should be permitted to monopolise a mat in parliament. Observing that the speeches at the Liverpool banquet were creditably free from the exaggerated rhetoric which the subject see= almost invariably to provoke, and that the good sense of Lord Stanley and Sir Stafford Northoote spared their hearers any repetition of Mr. Lowe's foolish eulogium upon civil engineering as the perfection of reason, the Daily News proceeds to say that though the Atlantic telegraph is perhaps the greatest physical enterprise ever attempted or accomplished, and though the moral qualities displayed in bringing it about are not less admirable than the intellectual energies, wecaunot have the confidence which the American consul expressed, that ocean telegraphy ia destined to banish war from the earth. The European telegraphic system is tolerably complete, and yet the nations whom it unites are not beating their swords into ploughshares, but converting their rifles into breechloaders. At the same time it would be erroneous to divest it of all moral effect. It may be made, like the printing press, a powerful agent of civilisa tion. In the hands of reckless politicians or reckless specu lators the opportunities which the Atlantic telegraph offers may be fraught with mischief, and it is quite clear that Lord Stanley is sensible of the responsibility for its wise employment which attaches to those who are called on to use it. He is one of the very few members of his own party, and of the present government, who is able to speak of the North American Republic in friendly language, without stultifying himself and insulting it. He is better entitled to do so than some who pass for members of the liberal party. If "on the union of the two nations more than on any other earthly thing the futare of civilisation depends," what is to be said of those members of the pre sent government who for four years spared no pains to render that union permanently impossible ? In pronoun. cing that " whoever wilfully or ignorantly estranges " the two nations " from one another is doing on the whole the very worst act a human being could commit," Lord Stan ley simply describes and passes judgment on the conduct of men who sit side by aide with him on the Treasury Bench and in the Cabinet. In the opinion of the Times, there are few who in talking of this marvellous enterprise will fail to make the mike_ tion that the people whose genius, enterprise, and perse_ Terence have achieved such a work are able not only to hold their own, but to assert their due influence whenever the occasion shall demand. Never were honours better deserved than those bestowed on the gentlemen who have borne the chief parts in this undertaking. There is no reason to suppose that this kind of enterprise is likely to stop, for we are already promised another line direct to New York, to be constructed with all speed, and the whole continent of Europe will soon bo joined to the whole western hemisphere. In the old world there is no reason that cables should not be laid down to India, and messages sent by lines which shall keep clear of Turkish territory and controL The material obstacles to a prolon- gation of the line to Australia and New Zealand by way of Singapore are but trifling, and the extension to China is still moro simple. Then will come the improvement of the means of travelling. When a message can be rent in an hour, while he who sends it cannot follow in less than a month or two months, people will be discontented even with steamboats and locomotives as they exist at present. The Times concludes with expressing its full concurrence with Lord Stanley's remarks concerning the special good that would come by lessening both the desire on the two continents to make acrimonious criticisms, and the ten dency to be irritated by them. The Post thinks it is to be expected that the instant knowledge of the phases through which public opinion in Europe woes, will not be without beneficial influence upon a people which, with great self-confidence, has hitherto been debarred from the advantage of immediate independent criticism. On the other hand, every incident of public interest in America is of value to us, as showing the working of opinions and institutions which, after all, are but exaggerated forms of our own. The Herald (which a few days ago declared the whole American nation to be corrupt to the core and a re-pro duction of the world before the flood) fully reciprocates Lord Stanley's counseL Let us not be too sensitive to criticism ourselves, nor too prone to censure whet we deem American peculiarities. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1866. ZWCH JOURNALISM. ANOTHER DVIL. It will be seen by our Parisletter that another duel has bean fought by Paris journalists. H. Barney, who has been wounded, is one of the corps of the Opinion Nationale. His account of the previous affair published in his journal had been generally spoken of as being very sensible and in good taste. He did not object to fight but would bidet that h• had not insulted M. Poser& On the ground the principals had already taken off coat and vest, when the second renewed the discumioa es to whether M. Pessard was to tight as M. reward or as M. Emile de Girardin, the editor, whom M. Survey had slightly touched up with his pen. Whilst this dispute was going on IC Barney suggested to IL Peasant that, as it was cold, pendent( We they should resume their coats ; and the two men, who were standing in front of each other with drawn swords, began to have a friendly chat, which proved that there was nothing between them that required blood-letting. They paid each other compliments, and, as Y. Survey says, he does not believe that M. res sard desired to kill, nor did be desire to slay M. Peusard , and if it were merely an affair of a scratch what on earth would that prove I It. Duvernois, however, onsof the writers of the Libert4, and who was M. Pessard's second, seems to have determined that blood should be spilt, and, as our correspondent shows, has forced M. Barney to meet him. The mains which he used will probably be found in the following article from hie pan :—" It is now clearly established that Mesas. Sonny and 00. will not fight ; if they insult you they refuse to give you satisfaction,, and either they go to the police office with cheek still smarting or pocket the ' lie' given to them. Before this attitude we feel ourselves disarmed— disarmed by laughter ; therefore, no matter what imperti nence they may indulge in, for the future we shall take good care not to demand reparation. For their benefit we inaugurate a new society, 'Le Monde Drolatique.' If M. Barcey had had the smallest notion of what is right he would not have insulted the whole staff of the Libert4 without having received any provocation • he give have chosen proper seconds, and have ne hem full powers. However, we must not give M. Suety an importance which he has not ; but take him for what he is—an instrument of the editor of the Opinion, M. Clue roult. The Liberti and the Opinion are the two democratic journals whose antagonism is the most clearly defined. At home the Opinion represents the St. Simonian doctrines of equality in servitude, and abroad it advocates war at any price ; and these same gentlemen, who are incapable to resent an insult that they have drawn upon themselves, attempt every day to embroil the different nations of Europe. They are never at a loss for pretexts to send others into danger, and to keep under shelter them selves. For a long time past their hybrid policy, which is neither fish nor flesh, which is neither courageous nor pacific, which is neither governmental nor oppositioniat, has been marked in hot iron with these words, ' Tainted democracy.' We have taunted IL Gueroult with this on every possible cession, and it is not surprising that he should wish to Iseult the Liberii, nor is it astonishing that this prudent pontiff of the St. Simonian Church should charge one of his vicars with the task of adminis- tering to his rancour. These Jesuits of democracy do not like to do their own business ; and we desire to let Fere Gueroult know that his manccuvres have not duped tut." We see, by a paragraph in the Temps, that the wound of M. Sarcey is not of a dangerous character. The health of Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte has lately caused some uneasiness to his friends. Having been suffering from carbuncle he was operated on at Aix les-Rains, but without effect. On his return to Auteuil Dr. Nekton again performed an operation, and hopes are now entertained that the prince will soon be convalescent. Several of the French journals state that the Marquis de Boissy has left memoirs of his time. The Pays, which in its character of a govern ment paper cherishes • particular aversion for Garibaldi, has excited the amusement of its contemporaries by the following extraordinary paragraph :—" Garibaldi is at Palermo. He arrived there escorted by 10,000 redshirts. The Neapolitans wanted to draw his carriage, and the coachmen had to repulse them with their whips. He pre ferred to drive in a cab, in company with a baker." " Palermo " might be • misprint for Florence, but neither place is inhabited by the Neapolitans, and the redshirts have been multiplied by at least ten. The baker is the well-known Dolfi ; the blows of the whip are as apocryphal as the geographical confusion existing in the mind of the Pays is evident. The late Marquis do Turgot, Minister of France in Switzerland, bad attained his 70th year. He was one of the Royal Light Horse in 1815 who formed the small escort that accompanied Louis XVIII. to Ghent. In 1832 he was made a Peer of France; in 1852 a senator ; and in 1853 Ambassador to the Court of Spain. After a difference in 1854 with the Minister of the United States, M. Soule, a duel was fought between them with pistols, the marquis receiving a wound in the knee. Since 1861 deceased had acted as representative of France at Berne. The most indulgent of the Paris critics are linable to defend the new piece at the Porte St. Martin, The Parisians is London, and the most indignant denounce it in terms that will ha rdly bear translation. The piece, announced as original, turned out to be a mere refacci vivito of an old piece called A Week in London, first played 17 years ago, and since performed at more than ono theatre. It comprised some beautiful scenery and some pretty ballets, but the Paris press cries shame upon the coarseness and indecency of its dialogue. M. Louis Ulbach writes in the Temps :—"A few days ago surprise was expressed at a semi-official journal's demand that the theatres should be regulated by the police, and that the French stage should thus be assimilated to certain tole rated establishments. Nothing,however, is more natural ; and, since this avowal escapes writers who cannot be accused of opposition, we are forced to acknowledge that in the eyes even of the authorities the theatre has become an unhealthy place, of which respectable people will end by getting tired. When one thinks that every one of the gaudriolor (coarse jests) of which the piece is full has passed under the eyes of the censor, and that there is, therefore, a sort of privilege or license granted to these obscenities, one remains confounded at the evil that may be done by regulations in matters of ideas, and one asks himself whether liberty would allow the perpetration of so many outrages upon good taste and decency." According to the present regulations in force respecting the importation of foreign beasts from the Con. tinent into Southampton, horned cattle brought to that port can be trans-shipped there and conveyed to Ports mouth or the Isle of Wight. _ _ - The Ceylon papers state that almost as soon as the Atlantic cable was laid a captain of a ship who arrived at Point de Galle telegraphed to his owners at New York. He telegraphed to the agents in London, and they tele graphed to America, bat the answer was sent direct from New York to Galle. The distance which the telegram and the reply travelled was 20,000 miles, and the cost was 60/. Music HALL PROVIDENT SICK FUND.—The ad journed meeting of the ladies and gentlemen connected with the metropolitan music halls was held yesterday at Westoo's Music Hall, Ilolborn,in furtherance of the above object. There was a very large attendance, comprising most of the leading professionals. Mr. Holland occupied the chair. The chairman said they were all agreed that the profession required a sick fund, and the question they had to consider was whether they should join the existing Dramatic and Musical Sick Fund, or establish an inde pendent fund. Tho question was now open to discussion. Messrs. West, Allen, P. Corri, Bishop, Morris, Leggett, and others said the general feeling in the profession was in favour of an independent sick fund. There were 46 licensed music halls in London, and therefore the profession was quite strong enough to form and maintain a Rick fund of its own. Mr. G. W. Anson, the secretary of the Dra matic and Musical Sick Fund, explained its constitution. There were already 1:35 members of the music hall profes sion enrolled amongst its members, and it had a fund of 1,6007. The committee would be very glad to assist all the members of the profession ; and if the only objection was that the musio halls were not sufficiently represented on the committee, they would appoint an additional mem ber. If, however, they decided on having a 'vends fund, it should have his individual support. (Hear.) Mr. Villiers then moved " That this meeting recommends the members of the music hall profession to join the Dramatic l and Musical Sick Fund." Mr. Charles B lom = seconded I the resolution, which was supported by Mr. W. Eburne, I Mr. Mills, and others. Mr. Morrie moved, as an amend omit, "That an independent sick fund be established for the members of the music hall profession." Mr. Bishop seconded the amendment. Oaths resolution and amend ment Wag put from the chair the amendment was carried by a majority of 60. The meeting was then adjourned for I the purpose of appointing a committee, consisting of one member from each muse hall, to draw up the rules tee. and the proceedings of a protracted meeting concluded with votes of thanks to the chairman and to Mr. Anson. THE POLICE SOUETEI. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. 11:12'1•011DIXABY CHUM OP 10131MINZIP. Josiah Richmond Anderson, 20, and Maerirc Home Goodwin, 19, two genteel-looking youths. th e i.‘a of whom had been admitted to bail, and meree l ai l in discharge of his recogniaanees, brOgild 11, this 'morning for further examinatke—Andeeee. upon the charge of having felonioasly embezzl e d 204.-- tb —*, monies of his employers , Messrs. Mendicant and O N wholesale grocers, Cannon-street , and Goodwin with ie. oohing 801., a portion of the money, well mowing is l e have been so =berated and stolen. It will be remembered that Anderson was in the nevi na of the prosecutors es clerk and collector, and that as t y Bth of September he received a very large sum al nosey from different customers, and then absconded, n o t writing a letter to his employers in which he date* that he bad gone to Paris, and promised to rim th e money he had stolen "as soon as it vise is ldn power to do so." He was traced to Birmin g h am _ by Webb, the detective officer, whotook hi m into ama,- and found a considerable sum of money upon lins, and then stated that he bad given 80/. to the other prersent o take care of for him. Webb, upon this, went to Goody* who is a very respectable young man, and who is ia ths service of a mercantile firm in the Oity, and t o m him what Anderson had stated, and he adeatieg that he bad MOO him 801. in Biimuou, bank notes, but he said that when he hied elm had happened, he was frightened, and burned them, bet first took the numbers and dates, and he ailed thst le had done what be did for the purpose of saving sid e , sou, with whom he was on very friendly ten on The last mentioned prisoner did not seem t o have obtained any advantage by the trammed * and there seemed to be no doubt that he had been swel l actuated by a desire to get his friend Anderson out of fie scrape in which he had involved himself hr his ilishicen conduct, and on this ground he had been adinitta told, and both prisoners were now brought up to undergo final examination upon the charge above-mentioned. Webb, the officer, now stated that he had no additing evidence to offer, and the depositions of the varies. vb. wee!s were read over. _ _ _ An application was made for the discharge of Q. NOWT Goodwin, on the ground that he had only actoj' ai „ prudently and not feloniously. Alderman n, Lusk, the presi TListrate, Imiem,l6l that he did not feel justified in this !mune sag both prisoners were committed for trial, bail being id Welt taken for Goodwin. BOW-STREET. HOLBORN BY NIGHT. Abraham Stadelesia appeared in discharge of his tare, nisances on the charge of assaulting Po ' Scary, 104 F. It will be remembered that the ease arose from the*. sonar's interference when the constable was in the set rd dispersing a group of prostitutes in Holborn. 'lto ems had been adjourned for inquiry into the truth of a Mb. meat made by the prisoner that the policeman had stuck a woman on the month and had made her lip bleed. The prisoner now celled two witnesses—a Ruth* and a young man employed at a . piparnaker's in Hoke% who swore that they saw the policeman Imlte a woma with his fist, and declared that the prisoner wu net at all excited. The prisoner said that since the first scamiaatist hi had made every endeavour to find the woman 140 ins struck by the policeman. He had been in Holborn el after night looking for her and making inquiries abut her from the other women, but the police threw every obstacle in his way, ordering all the women away rheum he was seen approaching. He denied having threshold the policeman with " three inches of steel," as stated ea the previous day ; and said he should have contradictirlit at the time, but did not understand it until it was WRY quently repeated and explained to him by his wife. Policeman Marlow, F 116, said he had lately be* * duty in Holborn expressly to prevent prostitute, bum annoying gentlemen. He knew the prisoner as whit is called a " Ponce," that is a man who accompali women of this class, assists them in decoying men, lad "protects" them in any difficulty. In this way he attended upon his wife. The latter was one of the prostitutes who gave witness much trouble. He frequently had to caution her for annoying gentlemen by soliciting tlUm for the pm , poses of prostitution. When she got a gentleman top away with her the prisoner would call a cab, is. them ins it, and tell the cabman where to drive—following a ... another cab at his leisure. He did this with other par A titutes besides his wife, and witness had frequently NS them give him money. The prisoner said if the magistrate chose to believe*, policeman it was useless for him to contradict. He coda show, however, that he lived in a respectable house sai bore a good ch aracter. Mr. Flowers said the prisoner had had a week to bring forward evidence as to character. However, be might still do so in ease of further inquiry. He (Mr. Finis) should, however, dispose of this cue at once. He bbeeb eevvsedd the witnesses were speaking the truth, at least to this extent, that they thought they saw the constable strike the woman. In the confusion of such a suns tbsp might be mistaken, and he could not help feeling that lite the publicity given to this case in the papers, the wows would have come forward if she had really been assultel as alleged. If there had been anything like a continua* assault it might have justified interference to protect Sher woman. But as, even according to defendant's witness* there was only one blow, it would have been quite se& dent to take the con stable'si number, and lodge a complaint again* him. He (Mr. Flowers) did not mean to assume that there bad been a blow, but if the witnesses thought they saw a blow, the prisoner may have thought so too. Still, though lutooald not say the prisoner was justified, yet be should not in. pose any penalty. The prisoner repeatedly interrupted the teamed magi, trate, speaking in a vehement and passionate manes Mr. blowers could hardly credit the statement of the 1 witnesses that the prisoner was not excited. He certainly i seemed a very excitable man. In conclusion Lis view* the case was much altered by the evidence of Marlow. Defendant's statement had at first impressed him very much, but he then supposed the prisoner to be a table man. If Harlow's evidence were correct, inste*d interfering to defend innocence, he interfered for a woman of the rtes.+ with which he was infamously connected. The prisoner said it was not true. . Mr. Flowers raid if not the matter ought t o be invents gated before the Commissioners of Police. The prisoner said he would complain to them. Mr. Flowers, in the meanwhile, though lie discharpd the prisoner, declared that he could see no ground for so raring the police. CLERS.MCWILL. CAPTURK OP PICKPOCKETS AT THE ACIIIICCLITRAL HILL Henry Smith, aged 16, a hawker, of 57, olil Nicholas street, Shoreditch ; Mules Robinr)n, aged lip. • cores monger, who said he had no home ; James .S'. k's, aged 17, a tailor, of 10, Dorset-street, Spitalfields ; and Willies Smith, aged 16, a matchmaker, of 14, Georyeitreet, Vie toria-park, were charged with attempting to pick pockets at the Agricultural Hall, and in Upper-street, 'sling , * 1 Police-constable Dudley, 47 N, said that last Mein is was on duty with another o ffi cer at the Agriculteral Hill , when he saw the four prisoners in company, and from then suspicious movementshe was induced to watch them. fle saw them attempt to pick the pockets of several per and they each seemed to take it in turn, and when cen was attempting to pick a pocket the others would "cord' him to prevent him from being seen. The Magistrate—Do you mean to say that they od took turn and turnabout? Witness—Yes. The Magistrate—On all occasions' be fist as'itsoo'itnnesans one — es. esha.dThateteirmplaptncaefaopeporcaktier thescern 0,11::: ithrd . follow in rotation. He also said that having widow them for some time his attention was called away for a few seconds, and he lost sight of them. At a litt le bef ore .er 1 g lie saw them all come out. and, in ootopany with / Ob constable Newbold he again watched the m. He aor this pop in and out of the crowds that were coming from aoft* hall, and he saw Sykes and Small try the p ockets gentlemen. Each of the prisoners took a turn, but he did not see that they got anything. Mr. Alexander (clerk)—What did you sea the Pi Boners do ? +ha cal Witness—l saw them put their hands into J pockets of gentlemen and also into the side pockets it ladies. He watched the prisoner, a tholes , of yen!!! ' yards along the Upper-street, and saw them " trY T i f pockets of at least 140 or 60 gentlemen and ladies, but sr did not see that they had succeeded in taking After watching the prisoners for about three -quotes et an hour he, with the assistance . of two oth-reeestaMmi. took them into custody. The prisoner Sykes was Tr violent, and all the 'prisoners resisted being taken to tai police-station Magistrate inquired if anything was Ill*" of seer prisoners. The °unstable replied that he had seen them in coming . ' at the hall on previous occasions, but lie had not Ws" seen them attempting to pick pockets. Police-constable Newbold, 151 N, said he was in comeel with the previous witneo, and watched the primmer% Tir prisoners regularly took turn and tern at- et at att or_ . ing the pockets of almost every person that they ealm near. that it was sdaii 'll a r lsint n u kr hin Sy ( k ei r n. e le edi t u a u pi gh y h. o lte u rAn aril ). ylthinguy n w r•st t d ha o Lim bs Witness—Yon took your turns so regularlY, almost like machinery. (A laugh.) The prisoners Henry Smith and Robertso n said Illi they were quite sure that they did not attempt to pockets, and Sykes and William Smith said that they not the pleasure of being acquainted with the other =. 111: soners, and as for having been in the Hall, that wa s take, for when they left home they only had t . between them, and that ram was only the price of erica for one. If the constables had seen them attc o 2: ‘ to pick so many pockets, ea they said, why wall ii„._.w_" . they did not apprehend them when they first saw , '.., and not wait for over two hours, and then lock thenl M It was the first time they had been in custody , aDd •"'T • ought to be discharged. THE BRLCON ELYCTIOg. The success of the conservative candidate at Brecon had been predicted by the Herald. "We pointed out," it EDEN'S VALUX. 18carata—li3 8 89 17 carats.. S 0 15 carats.. 2 16 79 lbesrabs.. 213 1 14 carats.. 2 9 64 IScarate.. 2 0 0 lt carats.. 2 2 5} 11 carats.. 1 18 11 lOcarata.. 116 44 B ROWN and POLSON'B CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To obtain ext►a groat by the sale other kinds are 110111eihnel offered Instead of BROWN and FOLSOM'S. John Brown," " John Yoboo," is signed by the makers on each packet. SALES of PLANTS and BULBS, EVERY WEDNESDAY sad SATURDAY. STEVENS'S AUCTION ROOMS, N. Ling-street, Covent-wain. PULL PARTICULARS In the CATALOGUES. ONE of the institutions of London is EVANS'S. - Sappers and a charming MUSICAL ENTEITAINMICYT EVERY ZYZNING. After the theatres and Mellon's Conoerta be sure to sup there. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High Holborn. —This very eftalit and speciosa establishment hailing been enUrely redecorata, OPEN EVERY EVENING. The grad band, conducted b Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform nigbt/y a choi n ce selection of ope y retta and dawn music. Open et ha rass • : close at 12. Admission, ls. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. --Sole Lesaas and Manager, Mr. VI:NMI—WM= SEASON. — Revival of THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.—N.B. Doors open at !mit red 6 ; performanoes to commence at 7 o'clock precisely.— THIS EVENING (Monday) and daring the week,a comedy In Three Ants, by John Oxenford, Esq., entitled HE TRIPLE .ALLIANCE. Character by Mr. Vining, Mr. J. G. Shore, Miss Katherine Rodgers, Miss Neilson, and Mrs . Buckingham White. To be followed by, at 9 o'clock, THE H VOITECOT CAPTAIN, by Watts Phillips, Nag. Pitucfpal characters :—Mrs. Mhs Neilson, Mlas Augusts Thompson, Mr. George Hone), sad Mr. Vining. Grand ballet of hohemians, in which Messieurs flageolet, Clodoehe, Camille, and Normande will appear. New &emery by Mr. F. Lloyds. tote erlortoo. TO 00BRESPONDENTS ditrorMaansontii Wended for "The /apnea" London Evening =mutt be at the Mice, 10. Bouveriewtreet, by Two on the day of publication. DRURY L%NR TIM EVT!V!G. ifieseis. Phelps, Sertnbcarne, 3lient,l I. Phelps, Howl Drayton, etc.: Mesdames Amy Bedg• wick, Bauer, Lance, etc.—And THIS 0031LADYA OF ERRORS. The Brothers Webb. PRINCTIMM TEI9 EVIINING, TIER TRIPLE ALLIANCE—AIter which TILE HUGVENOT CAPTAIN. Maws. Yining And O. Roney: Mines Neilson. Angusl► Thomson, and Mrs. Stiang.—And QUIET lODGINGS. HAYMAP.IET. Tots WINING, THE HEIR AT LAW. Mews. Bileitzlone, Chippendale, Compton, Fatten,, deo. Mesdames Chippendale, 311 , xue, and THU.—ballet Divertieeement. Misses Christine and Agnes Healy.--IIIS 111IST CHAILYAGNE. ILL Compton. EITRAND. TRES lITISniO, THE MARRIED BACHELOR.—After which WAITE% FOR THE UNDERGROUND.—The Latest Edition OI KENILWORTH.—And JACK'S DKIJUHT. BRITANNIA. TUB Eviarrao, THE OLD eifiitiiii IMRE OR, =BORMAN COUdINS.—The Wondrous Brothers Vietorelli un the Treble Tra peze ; The Great Vaulting Troupe : The Delaventi H. Wardini ; The Louisville Minstrels.—And BLACK EYED SUSAN. HIGH WATKIL AT LONDON pRIDGIL THIS DAY —Morning. Oh. Thi A/ternoon, 9it. tom. To-Yonnott—Morning, 10h. 27m Afternoon, 11b. rim LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3. Tam opening of the first of the Middle Class Schools, under the scheme proposed and ener getically prosecuted by the Rev. Wieerem ROGERS, is an event upon which he and the inhabitants of London may be warmly congratulated. The great Central School of the original design still remains tlaiDg to be hoped and worked for, but the promoters and managers have shown a buai nose-like capacity most necessary in undertakings of this kind by setting to work at once, availing themselves of the opportunities and materials at hand, while they prepare for the later full realisa tion of their more comprehensive plan. The school in Bath-street, City-road, has come into existence in full working order, and equal to the education of five hundred boys, in less than twelve months from the time when the scheme was for mally submitted to the public at the meeting held at the Mansion-house. Three hundred boys had been entered as pupils last Monday, and it is certain that before the week is out tho applications for admission will exceed the accommodation at pre sent provided. The premises and school machi nery—the educational plant, as Mr. Goseeme hap pily designated them—have been provided by the liberality of the banking and mercantile commu nity of London. As, therefore, no rent, or profit, or interest on capital such as the proprietor of a private school must necessarily provide for, is re quired in this case, the school fees payable by pa rents have been adjusted solely with a view to the supply of a revenue adequate to the annual working expenses. The Head Master, the Rev. W. Jowerr, undertakes that the Bath-street School shall be " a first-class school, second to none ; while Mr. GOSCHEN is confident that the pupils will re ceive "an education of which they will not be " ashamed in after life." And the charge for all this is 41. a year. We rejoice in the establishment of this school for the sake of the boys who will be educated there ; for the sake of the benefactors of the insti tution, who will have the pleasure of seeing a noble work year by year yielding a rich return of public benefit ; and, above all, for the sake of one of the most honourable and deserving classes of men to be found in this great city—the married clerks and warehousemen, who know the value of education, but in these times often find it very difficult to educate a family of boys at such schools as have hitherto been accessible to the children of parents of limited means and without social in fluence. But we should have much more reason to rejoice if we might take the opening of this school as an evidence that at length the minds of our middle-class countrymen are awakening to the value and importance of education, and becoming sergible of the immense deficiencies in this respect which ass people we have to make up ; if we could feel sure that its establishment was but the earnest of persevering efforts to be continued until advantages equal to those which it offers have been placed within reach of every family capable of aspiring to them. Look what benefits have been derived to this capital from the City of London School since its establishment thirty years ago. It has trained up thousands of boys, and sent them out thoroughly furnished for tue work of life, enriching society with members whose tastes and judgment, formed on right models, have made them the allies of whatever is good in the world. What reason is there why such schools should not be multiplied until the last candidate for admission has been taken in 4 It cannot be want of money in a wealthy city like this. The Bath-street School has been set going by means of subscriptions to the amount of a little more than 50,0001. At this rate half a million of money would give us Mr. ROGERS' great cen tral school of a thousand boys, and eight local TEN TRIAL OP CAPTAIN JEEVIB. The Times invites attention to the fact that Captain Jervis, being wholly acquitted of the charges of dis. honesty, and recommended to mercy on the oonnts on which he was convicted, namely, of intemperate behaviour under offensive imputations, and Sir William Mansfield refusing to adopt the recommendation, the accused P puniahed by the sole voice and authority of the man whose unintentional provocation drove him to the commission of the wrong; and the defence of Sir William's severity under the circumstances seems almost impossible. Being in this cue unhappily prosecutor as well as judge of appeal, it was especially incumbent upon him to dismiss from his thoughts all that might warp his mind from judicial impartiality, and it will certainly be the opioion of the public at home that whatever his own judgment as to the prisoner's substantial unfitness to continue in the ser. vioe of the Queen may have been, be should have sub mitted it to that of the court after its solemn cognisance had been invoked. The Herald takes the same view. However reprehen sible may have been Captain Jervis's breaches of discipline, it is impossible to forget that they were the rash acts of a man maddened by agonise of wrong—and of wrong inflicted by the prosecutor, who is also the judge in the case. Sit William Mansfield has given his enemies the opportunity of saying that the question has been decided upon a false issue—that the prisoner has been tried for one offence and dismissed the service for another. And not only this, which is a too common abuse of military jurisdiction, but •• ie lOW'," tan bee pnt on because the nommantierin chief wax the prosecutor, and upon one ground or another the prisoner must be made a victim. ms TOPICS. Commenting upon the opening of the middle-class school in Bath-street, the Times observes that the great problem which all such schemes have to solve is to supply exactly the sort of practical commercial instruction which is suited to the lower middle-class. English ought to form the staple, and if properly used our contemporary is confident that it may furnish the means of as sound au education as Latin and Greek. The other subjects of instruction offer less difficulty or less doubt. Arithmetic, bookkeeping, and other necessary instruments of commercial work will, of course, receive a due share of attention, end a study of French and, in' time, of Germans will) also form moat useful parte in the general scheme. If so moderate a sum as 1/. a quarter be found sufficient in London, no financial 1 difficulty need be experienced anywhere else, while the payment will be easily within the means of all but the really poor classes. The whole country is interested in the issue of this great enterprise, and its progress will be anxiously watched. The Daily News compares tho attempt to form a third Tarty in the United States with the experiment of an Adullamite section here. The American democrats have used the few republicans who have joined them just as the tory party here made use of Mr. Lowe and Lord Elcho. Mr. Johnson has now gone over to the democrats heart and soul, and feels at home in leading his old pro-slavery end pro-Southern friends, while the small section of the repub licans who have accompanied him halfway, who have cheered every step of his downward progress, and who have magnified his office and lauded his statesmanship till he believes himself a second Washington, are com pelled to confess themselves batlied,defeated, and betrayed, and to fall back again disheartened into the old ranks. Mr. Johnson may return to the feelings of his better days and sacrifice his pride. For two years and a half he is still President of the United States, and that is time enough to redeem the past, if not even to shed lustre on the future. The Herald says that as soon as the affair of Lamirande was brought under his notice the Colonial Secretary promptly applied to the Canadian Governor for official information. But, from the course events have taken, the affair has already passed out of the department of Earl Carnarvon into that of Lord Stanley. It is not by the Canadian Governor-General and Colonial Secretary, but by the Foreign Ministers of France and England that this dispute must be discussed and settled. Eulogising the character of Garibaldi in eloquent terms, the Timcs declares that however black the priests at Rome and their friends all over the world may paint Garibaldi, because he warns Italian wo.nen a7„ainst the snares of the confessional, it is quite certain that there is hardly such another Christian hero ae he is in the world ; none so chivalrous, none so fully entitled to the boast sans pcur et sa-c reproche. Garibaldi has gone back to Capron, possibly never again to leave his island retreat. The Italian cause may have no further occasion for his services ; the adventurous errand on which be was sent into the world may have been fulfilled, but the influence of his character will, it is hoped, long work for good among his countrymen; and the very fact that the moil of Italy can still give life to aura a man will be the moat convincing answer to those who may still feel inclined to entertain little hope of the mass of the Italian people. rite Court. BALMORAL, SEPT. 30. The Quecn went out yesterday morning, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, and rode up Glen Gelder in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Christian._ OCTOBER 1. The Queen, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur, with the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended divine ser vice in the parish church at Crathie, yesterday. The Rev. John 3l'Leod officiated. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, froAn the Governor of Canada. The Right Hon. Horatio Waddington left town, yester day, for Brighton. The Earl of Derby, who has been in attendance on her Majesty at Balmoral for the past ten days, left the Castle on Monday morning, arriving at Aberdeen at 3.40 p.m. In company with some ladies from the Castle, his lordship visited the Queen's statue, recently inaugurated by the Prince of Wales, and left ,for the south, cif Perth, by the 4.15 p.m. train. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote. M.P., the President of the Board of Trade, hae gone on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Enovreley-park, near Prescott, and will take his departure on Friday for Bal moral. Lord Stanley, 31. P., has arrived in town from Liverpool. . The Earl Cowper and Hon. Henry Cowper, M.P., left Wrest Part on Monday for Scotland. Next week King John will be restored to the bills at Drury-lane, and performed for five nights, after which it will be withdrawn to make room for the clAbat of Mr. Talbot, a provincial actor, on Saturday, the 13th. On the following Ssturday the production of G.ithe's Faust is expected. _ . At Sutton, in Dorsetshire, a few days since, some Rowan remain., consisting of urns and human skeletons, were dug up from only two feet beneath the surface in an apple orchard. The late rains in the south of England set in on the 23rd of August, and only wised on the 301 h of September. They therefore lasted with only short intervals of intermission for .18 days. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE LATE [ON AT PALERMO. General Cadorna has issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of the city and province of Pa lermo, in which he states that certain rigorous and exceptional measures are indispensable though they will only apply to men who are outside of all political parties, and who are the enemies of human society. "Itis in vain," he says, " that an attempt has been made to disguise this wicked ness under a political name ; it is in vain that they have given to it a flag which public opinion could not have recognised. The country sees only too clearly that no political party has the right to be respected ass party when the first acts of its existence take place in the midst of pillaging palaces, of starving, innocent people, and incendiarism and violence of every kind." He ends with saying that " You will show by your concurrence in the means employed by the govern ment that the efforts of the reactionists may suc ceed in effecting hateful alliances with brigandage, the Camorra, and all the other sects so degrading to human dignity, and which are the heritage of a secular despotism, but that they will only result in strengthening the faith of the people in our free institutions, and in rekindling in the public mind hatred and contempt for a system of immorality and perfidy already dragged down in the fall of a detested dynasty." The official Gazette of Florence publishes also the official report of General Cadorna upon the recent events. He states that the city was for several days in the hands of the insurgents, with the ex ception of some public establishments which a small body of troops had occupied. In all that relates to the causes of the disorder the general shows considerable reserve, not feeling himself called upon to pronounce an opinion upon facts which occurred before his arrival. He limits himself, after narrating the military steps taken under his direction, to pointing out the conduct of some functionaries who abandoned their post at the moment of danger with more prudence than fidelity and courage, and to the following paragraph as to the priests—" I ought not to be silent on the fact that the monks and religieuses have greatly contributed to excite these lamentable troubles. 'it =las from prosecutions already com menced that their money was the chief resource in the organisation and maintenance of the armed bands, furnishing them with weapons and ammu nition. Several monks took part in the fight in the midst of the insurgents, and others entrenched themselves in the convents ; that of the Stigmates made the most obstinate resistance. The reli gieuses assisted in the fight, and encouraged the rebels to fire upon the troops. Public opinion, in the presence of this conduct, calls more loudly than ever for the suppression of these citadels of reaction." A REIGN OF TERROR IN SPAIN. The official Gazette of Madrid publishes the sentence pronounced by the council of war on the 23rd ult., by which 33 persons are con demned to death. Cenerals and officers of all grades are ordered to be shot, but journalists and deputies are condemned simply to strangulation. Among them are M. Sagasta, proprietor and di rector of the journal tho Iberie, former deputy and engineering professor ; M. Rubio, editor-in-chief of the Picric ; M. Ortis Casado, manager of the same journal, and provincial de puty ; M. Montenar, proprietor and director of the journal the Novedaeles, and deputy ; M. Caslettar, proprietor and director of the Democratic, professor at the Central University ; M. Martos, author, and one of the most distinguished advocates in Spain ; and M. Bessera, professor of the exact sciences and journalist. These persons have for the most part fled, but unhappily 54 ' persons of all conditions have been arrested, whom it is intended to trans port to the Philippines or to Fernando Po. VENICE. The municipality of Venice has published the following proclamation : Citizens,—ln order not to tarnish the reputation an. quired by the wisdom and dignity displayed by you at other times, order and tranquillity must be still your motto. To maintain these the municipality rale+ upon the influence of honourable citizens who, impelled by patriotic sentiments, have spontaneously offered their counsel. Listen to this advice ; wait with calmness the events, the accomplishment of which is at band, and re member that the eyes of all Italy aro turned towards Venice, from which is erpected an attitude responding to ' the character of its wise, moderate, and patriotic popu lation.—From the Municipal Congregation. Venice, Sept. 22, 1866. (aErrEß's TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Oct 2. The prefect and the chief of police at Palermo have arrived here. Admiral Persano has published a pamphlet rela tive to the battle of Lissa. Tho Diritto states that the killed and wounded in the fighting at Palermo only amounted to 86. DELGIT33I. BRUSSELS, OCT. 3. The Belgian Monitcur announces that the na tional rifle meeting will be held from the 12th to the 21st October. The fetes in celebration of the anniversary of the National Independenee will be held on the 12th, 13th, and 14th October. MALTA. MALTA, Ocr. 1. A quarantine of 15 days has been imposed upon all arrivals from Dublin, and of 10 days upon those from Tunis. The Ottoman iron-clad frigate Sultan has arrived here from Greenock. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 3. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer China, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 10C) passengers, 290,0001. in specie, and a general cargo, including 1,044 bales of silk, value 95,0001. On the 27th ult. she epoke the steamer Delta and a Turkish iron-clad ram steering eastward ; on the 30th the steamer Ripon, off Cape Finisterre, for Alexandria, and the Danube off Vigo, for Liver pool. She experienced thick, foggy weather up Channel. The establishment of a Custom-house on the Moorish frontier, for the permission of a regular trade between Spain and Morocco, was under dis cussion by the Spanish and Mo.trish representa tives at Ceuta. The British gunboats Skylark and Redpole were at Gibraltar. _ _ Exchange on London at Gibraltar, 4311 to ;on Paris, 5.10 to 5.12 ; The Arenir Nations/ has received a telegram which states that the King of Prussia has tkreatened to arrest the King of Saxony if the latter Domes any nearer the Saxon frontier. Sin 1 T ig l: 011 bWr ii° reeti °ll The I Sara pas al John I i lleP. soros for tri+ to m, ON ON wri I" Ur. the be , mit he milted Jam • ie b r! remov toWc poiitf his pc blow, !limn made some or rot Pow — Mr moth guilt 3 of th blur, lam sent I Ed rniini Lad Lima i t = ince; red, In • .boa dud on b apop nWe Yaq. of , of I mom