The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-23 00:00:00

25 OLD BOND-STREET (late Oall and 9 Mut Bank).—J. W. BENSON, Watch and Clock Maker to &Rif. the Prince of Wales, having reconstructed the above magniflmmt of vitee an inapeolfos of ARTISTIC WORKS, consisting of CL In OCKS and BRONZES Ewa Ilhe ateliers of Italy. Franck and England. Watches of every conefrncttok Diamond and Pine Gold Jewellery, Silver and GOLD CHAINS.—JOHN BROGDEN to call the sttention of She pabile to the FORM ol 'e lr VOICE which he delivers with Gold Guard Mahn purchased at hie manulactory : 1. d. do work:1=8111p of patters chats. 34 thaws loug To (18) carat gold, weighing oe. 04. pa, et AS 3a. tijd per mope, 3i3n. petal Tong Vpon tide system, the QUALITY, WEIGHT, and VALUE ot kite gold Are actually defined. end gainnteed to the parch:um : John Bowden looidne tor a Mr raingueranon es the workmanship only, which is charged sororNeg to the latrleary or simplicity of the psalm —JOHN BRORDIN. Oeidanith..—Naaniaotory, 10. Nenrieltrakent. Ooventiarden, louden, Istablielsed 1.9.1798. N.B. Tbla establish:sine le goad at II he tin evening and on ilatardnys at I o'clock. ONDON must have a 6DTPER and MUSIC JAI ROOM forGratientra.—lemember. vs wait tor yea at " - VAIIft," attar the caraat-garaaa Pantomime, sad the Theatre& the evortoo. Adeleleeseente td:atio7fo . 7 7r tendon beetled paw. must be it the Moe, 10, neenettrelreee, Two il&dt ea Ike day d pebbreekes. ILILTVAHEIT Tnl ETITHEd, A RONANTIC ATTACHMENT. Messrs. W. Marne and Compton Ms Ada Cavendish-161/0 MAE BAY. Mews. Moab= and Backman,: Mlas Nay Maore.— . )arlLEllS IN THE HAYMAEKIT.—And A KISS IR THE DARK. PRINCIBIT Tnm warm*, QUIZ? LODOINOB. B. —Ather which IT 18 PEP= TOO LOTS TO WIRD. Nam nob G. MGM; T. lin; D. Murray, fra. Calhang 7. Vann; 1. G. Show; G. Mar. tray, and B. Ca than ; Mons L. Moon and E. Godwin LYDIIIIIL TIII9 itusoa,, THE ILLIISTRIOII4 ATRANGZII. Mr. N. Wriddloomb.—THE MART= OF KAVIENSWOOD. Meet*. Pechter. Jordxn,Wlddleonab, fttspatrick Zvi= Madames Taman, Eliwortbi,laveng C. Latium. BRITANNIA. Taw ammo, BITTER COLD; OR, THE HOLLY BOUGH. .Mrs. Howard Pall.—Mr. Eby and other, survivors from the wreck of the Loudon.--Johony Day. —The °read P h Mrs. B. Luse. M. sad Madams dtartsenbseh.—And °hair. 11:1011 WATS& AT LONDON-111MM Sau DLT Momlag, TX 47a.... Aftemoon. soatomow Mends& Its. ..Altersooik. 90. 4014. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23. Succa Parliament has held the power of the purse it has responded in no niggard or ungracious spirit to such Royal messages as those which were considered in committee last evening. There have been times, no doubt, in English history, since the groat and final contest for constitutional supremacy, when the fidelity of the House of . , 0/1110116 has, from untoward circumstances, seemed to lack the fervour of a sentiment ; bat even thenit has not failed in duty. Time was when England was leas rich and less free of hand and heart than now, and it is not so very long since the question of a provision for a Royal Prince was rigorously debated on both sides of the House, and an amendment in the sense of a reduction moved in committee and approved out of doors. Nearly thirty years of a calm and fortunate reign have revived the sentiment of loyalty, and changed a distant and dutiful regard into the tenderness and trustfulnews of an intimate affection. We are living in days when Sovereign and people are aa the head of a loving household and the family around the table. A Parliament in our time, we believe, counts it among the happiest of its privileges and prero gatives to be called upon to bear witness in some substantial manner to its perfect and inn- parable communion with the comfort and dignity of the Royal house. With a delicacy and discretion to which the leader of the Opposition did justice In handsome term; the CELANCILLLOB. of the Ex- CHEQUER, in prop3sing the resolutions last evening, reminded the House how, by the Civil List Act, thel,Quzes at her accession surrendered her life interest in the Crown estates, in consider►tion of a sufficient provision being made by Parliament for the maintenance of the Royal household and establishment. He explained how this provision did not and could not extend to the settlements of the children on marriage and coming of age. Touching for a moment with grace and feeling upon the happy promise of the Royal children, and more particu larly upon the early sorrows through which the filial devotion of the Princess HELENA had shone like a light upon the great darkness of her mother's heart, he struck a truly English chord when, in respect to the provision for Prince ALIRED, be dwelt upon " the strength of domestic affection and " the sense of domestic duty " which bare endeared the name of her MAJESTY not to her own people only, but to the whole English-speaking race throughout the world, in whose common language there is no sweeter word then home. At no time, however, could even a less loyal or less liberal House of Commons have demurred to the resolutions pro posed by Mr. GLaneroxx. Taking the pre cedent of the marriage of Princess ALICE, a dowry of 30,0001., and an annuity for life of 6,0001. is asked for the Princess HELENA on her marriage with Prince CHRISTIAN of SCHLEBWIG-HOLSTEIN. For Prince ALFRED an annuity of 15,0001. is proposed to commence from the date of his coming of age. There is, however, as Mr. Giansrinkre observed, this difference in the two grants, that while the settlement on a Princess at her marriage is considered final, the provision for I a Prince on his coming of ago is limited by con tingencies which may hereafter occur, such as, in the Ca6o of Prince ALFRED, his accession to the Principality of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. It is proposed that the annuity shall be settled on the PRINCE in such way as her MAJESTY may think proper, any future contingency which should arise to affect the conditions of the settlement being reserved for the discretion of Parlia ment at the time being. Mr. BOUVERIR and Sir GEORGE BOWYER object to this arrangement, that it leaves a delicate ques tion to the future consideration of the House of Commons, and they would rather that the pre sent Howie should take upon itself at once the " invidious and ungracious task " of providing for the censor or the continuance of the annuity to the PRINCE. in anticipation of contingencies which cannot at present be defined. We cannot profess to feel the force of these scrupulous apprehensions, or to appreciate the peculiar invidiousness or ungraciousness of dealing with contingencies when they occur instead of in advance. Why should it be more unpleasant to the Royal Family to have the question of the maser of the Perigee's annuity considered by Par liament at some future date than it need be now ? Why should the duty of Parliament to decide upon the question of wiser or continuance of the annuity be more invidious or ungracious on the arrival of certain contingencies than it need be now, when it is impossible, as Mr. GLADSTONE says, to define absolutely all the contingencies on which such a moor ought to take place, if it take place al all Surely it is more in accordance with parliamentary usages and with the dignity of the Royal Family, and, if we may be pardoned the expression, more businesslike, to provide for the present, and to re serve the future for the future discretion of Par liament. Id&i i ' OUR CONTEKPORAILLIIS. (THII3 DAY.) TM SUPPLY VOTES LAW BIGHT. The Times remarks that Lord Palmerston, upon wheels memory the greatest honour which the nation can pay to a 'Ojos* was yesterday conferred, realised in his lifetime the full satisfaction of a noble ambition, which in the political life of an age and country like our own is rarely anyone's lot. If, too, he enjoyed contemporary applause in a higher degree than any who had gone before him, he was still more conspicuously happy in the circumstances and " opportuneness of his death." Chatham was no longer the Great Commoner when he sunk in the attempt to de nounce, concession to America; Pitt died under a dismal seam of the ruin impending over his oiuntry ; Peroeval wee struck down by the band of an amain ; Peel was oat off prematurely by occident when he had still before him • great and useful political career ; Lord Palmerston alone lived to play out with triumphant success that part which from his Gellert youth he had destined for himself, and the dignity of which he had described with so much elo quence in the greatest of his speeches• The most durable features of his policy, and the finer qualities of his charac ter, the Times proceeds to remark, were treated with much considering the enormous dietanoe from which she II operating. ties extreme *Mitt to which the commanders will be put for supplies, and the impostibity of striking any decisive blow—to my nothing of the probability that the other states of South America may join, while the ominous Sion of the great American Union looms be hind, Spain has against her the whole force of things. Un fortunately, too, while the prospect is so much worse for her, amps has become far mote difficult, and Spain stands committed to a contest as hopeless as that in San Domingo, without the same means of escaping from it. At San Domingo she had nothing to do but to renal her troops and be praised for her priniesoe ; she left no claim unsatisfied and no enemy triumphant. On the present occasion she must either pet up with the rejection of her demands and I the abatement of her pretensions, or she moat be prepared to prolong indefinitely a war which it would ruin her to support. M 8 TOPICX. felicity by Mr. Gladstone. The response last evening to the proposals for the pro- vision for the Prince and Princess of the royal family, was a matter of worse, the Daily News observes. as the necessary consectisnoe of the political system established in these islands, but it wee also—fram the C01:1240111M11511 that the example of the court has fostered the sanctity of domestic ties—a matter of sentiment. The position which Lord Palmerston occupied in the eyes of the world deserved the memorial which was agreed to, and, with the exception of • false note struck by Mr. Disraeli, every thing said of the late premier was in harmony with the requirements of the subject and the occasion. He served the country for sixty years, and was entitled to its grati tude and respect ; and his unfailing good-humour earned its liking, but so much of his influent* as depended upon temperament and manner, though intelliiiilde to his con temporaries, cannot be expected to survive in history. Future gensestions will estimate him by what he did and essentially was, rather than by the lighter graces which set off his more solid merits or redeemed any de fects; which can be imputed to him. Mr. Dia- raeli, while intending to compliment the departed stated man, did him some injustice in attributing to him, u the animating impales of his career, a pauionate love of fame. Dlr. Disraeli, possibly in this, reads a part of his own cha racter into that of the late minister. A statesman who was content with comparative obscurity until he bad reached a period of life at which ordinary ambition fails, can scarcely have been mastered by that "last infirmity of noble minds.* To Lord Palmeraton the influence and reputation of England, as he conceived them, were proba bly paramount over any careful regard for his own ; and his relish for affairs was a keener delight than the antici pation of men's favourable judgments. Of course, he was not indifferent to fame ; but it was not the first thing in hie desires. _ _ Repeating a remark that Fenianism is by no means con fined to the lowest clamor, the Post adds that in sending over regiments in which the Irish element is absent, the authorities have shown a wise discretion in leaving no room for insidious appeals to local feeling and family tie., and in sparing the Irish regiments the alternative of choosing between the call of duty and the claims of blood. The serious part of the matter is that this wide-spread disaffection in the absence of any real grievance, seems to indicate a feeling seated too deeply to be reached by any remedies whatever. Against mere unmeaning hatred there is no argument to be used, and the hatred of England appears to be founded on some radical antipathy not to be overcome by any ordinary meant. The Herald amuses the government of want of pluck and firmness in not insisting on receiving from the Ameri can government the same measure of justice which it has accorded to Spain in punishing the official agents of Chili. We might almost as well be at open war with the United Shake as remain as we are, subject to the hostile incursions of their subjects and exposed to the imminent danger of a civil war of their instigation, which would prove far more disastrous, and far more costly too, than any foreign one we could be engaged in. There can be but little doubt that Fcnianism might quickly be reduced to harmless proportions, if Mr. Johnson and his cabinet, seeing the peril of further [emotion, would cut off the supply by means of which propagandists are enabled to make their way into Ireland to seduce our 'olden from their allegiance and spread disaffection amongst the people. The Telegraph reviews at considerable length the expen diture to be provided for under the coven awes of the civil marries estimates, and says that the returns, of which we gave some account in yesterday's Express, contain • hundred subjects which should have the early, careful, and zealous consideration of members of parliament. Discussing the causes of the failure of English opera in its latest phase, the Tekgraph concludes that that opera is not strong enough to stand alone, and that eftsr the splendour and pomp of grand opera, as represented at Covent-garden and Her Majesty's Theatre, no thing of a tamer character has a chance of success. If anything else were needed to explain the failure, we might find sufficient cause in the preposterous size of the theatre selected, and in the peculiar character of the management. A smaller theatre would have offered a fey batter prospect of pecuniary success, and to entrust English opera to the tender mercies of a company, " is to finally destroy any lingering chance of prosperity. The Star contends that it would be very unfortunate if either of the schemes for the reconstitution of the Queen's University, which have been announced by the organs of the Irish catholic party as having been agreed upon by government, were adopted. It is clearly a question for the cognisance of parliament, and the Star trusts the govern meet will gracefully concede to parliament the right of inquiry and daisies. The Herald thinks the grant to the royal princesses of an income which is exceeded by that of so many daughters of the nobility and heiresses of merchants, would hardly seem excessi►e as a public acknowledgment of the fact of their marriage, but it happens that this provision, made from time to time for members of the royal family when entering upon life, is obligatory. On consideration of her Majesty relinquishing her life interest in the large yearly revenues of the crown lands, parliament undertook the proper maintenance of the sovereign and her family. The dotation allowed to Prince Albert, the income voted to the Prime of Wales, and to the Princess Royal and the Princess Alio., on their marriages, were so many necessary steps in the fulfilment of this contrect—ao many instalments towards the discharge of a debt of honour. With regard to the other subject before tho house, the Herald does not find a word in Mr. Gladstone's eloquent speech upon the Palmerston monument which could chal lenge an objection on the some of party feeling. Mr. Bright was the only one of the party leaders who showed his dis respect for the memory of the dead whom all else combined to honour, and this he did by " ostentatiously staying away." The Post says that the civil list, which at present amounts to 470,0001., bean a much smaller proportion to the total annual expenditure than the civil list of any other country in the world. In the reign of George IL the civil list amounted to 800,0001.; and in the last year of the reign of George 111. it exceeded 1,000,0001. Immediately after her present Majesty's accession it was fixed at 385,0001., but, owing to subsequent modifications necessitated by her Majesty's marriage with the late Prince Consort, it was increased to its present amount. Mr. Gladstone's panegyric upon Lord Palmerston has never, the Post thinks, for exhaustive eloquence, been surpassed in parliament. What the English House of Commons did for Chatham! end Pitt and Primeval it may well do for a minister who was more popular than any of the three, and whose fame will be still more long-lived. It is to be hoped that there will be no such delay in the erection of the monument as there has been in the case of the late Duke of Wellington. The Advertiser sees nothing extravagant in either of the sums voted ; and what is necessary to uphold the dignity of the royal family even the poorest of her Majesty's sub jects will cheerfully give. Mr. Gladstone spoke of the estimable qualities of Lord Palmerston with a feeling and eloquence and gracefulness which the whole civilised world will admire. The Telegraph agrees with Mr. Gladstone that the sums asked for Princess Helena and Prince Alfred were moderate from the royal point of view, and from the parliamentary one liberal. Referring to the vote for the monument the same paper says there are points of contrast between the character of the departed statesman and of his panegyrist which make it honourable to the survivor that he gauged so well the worth of Lis chief. Bat ho was right in saying that the final verdict must be left to history ; and it was the sense of this which justly kept the periods of Mr. Gladstone so measured. As for Mr. Disraeli, bad be been sincere be would probably have confessed that with Lord Palmerston his party had lost their chief hope of arresting progress--• sufficient cause, whether right or not, to set the tears of twigs flowing. Never being sincere except by acci dent, or when deeply irritated, Mr. Disraeli only pro lammed a fennel but brief and appropriate threnody. The Star takes it that the nation is quite unanimous about the necessity of making decent provision for the daughters of the Queen, and what was proposed last night was judicious in itself and gracefully accorded. With re gard to Lord Palmerston, he was beyond ell doubt among Prime Ministers conspirator'', powerful, and popular, and it is only fitting that his statue should find its niche in the Abbey which encloses the tombs of so many of his prede cessors. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1866. THE ARMY ESTIMATES. This morning the estimates of army services, &c., from April 1, 1866, to March 31, 1867, were issued. The total army estimates for the ensuing year, effective and non-effective services, amount to 14,005,0001., which is a net decrease as com pared with last year of 253,4471. In the effective services there is a decrease of 119,8561. for clothing establishments, services, and supplies for the regular forces ; of 72,1671. for general staff and regimental pay, dic. ; of 71,0001. on commissariat establishment ; and of 57,0001. on the items of war like stores. On the other side, the vote for the dis embodied militia is increased by 56,200/. ; and the sum for works and buildings at home and abroad by 30,8001. The total force, the coat of which Is to be de frayed from the army funds during the ensuing year, numbers, all ranks, 138,117, which is 4,360 lees than in 1865-6. This force is composed as follows :—Regiments, 128,212 ; depots in the United Kingdom of regiments in India, 8,983 ; general staff, 93 ; establishments, 548 ; educational estab lishments, 281. Of the total, 7,150 are officers ; 13,454 non-commissioned officers, and 117,513 rank and file. A statement printed separately explains the differences between the amounts and the numbers as compared with last year. 4,533 men are with drawn by the reduction of 41 infantry battalions for home service, by two companies, less one battalion returning from India without relief. The Military Train is reduced by 21 men on withdrawal from New Zealand and Japan. An increase of 200 is cre dited to the Store Staff Corps, which is now being raised for the purpose of discharging the various subordinate duties of the store department, the numbers of clerks and labourers of the depart ment being correspondingly reduced. The Army Hospital Corps is increased by 20, and the instruc tors in fencing and musketry by 18. The amount included in the army estimates for military purposes in the colonies is altogether 3,004,7141. Canada takes 608,0881. ; Malta, 327,2201. ; Cape of Good Hope, 267,8701. ; Gibraltar, 278,6741. ; Nova Scotia, 193,3121. ; New Zealand, 177,055/. ; Windward and Lee ward Islands, 127,225/., kai. The probable amount to be repaid by the several colonies as colonial contributions in aid of militaryexpeuditure is estimated at 227,7001., of which sum Ceylon is set down for 100,000/. ; Mauritius, 45,0001. ; New Zealand, 33,000/. ; and Australia, 20,0001. Sir Brook Bridges will move in the House of Commons, on Tuesday—" That an humble addrees be pre. muted to her Naiad', conveying to her Majesty the earnest desire of a large ',scrim of her subjects that a Lord'aday be specially set apse , for prayer and humiliation, on account of the national calinn'ty caused by the cattle plague." The following appears on the parliamentary votes to-day, as forming part of yesterday's prozeedings in the Bonne of Commons i i " Elective Franchise Bill—' to extend the elective franchise for cities and boroughs in England sad Wales'—presented, aid real the find time ; to be mad • second time on Wednesday, the 21st of March, and to be printed." On the second reading of Fellows of Colleges De claration Bill, Mr. Walpole will move that it be read a sscood time epos this day six months : . . Mr. Darby Griffith has remodelled bin question relative to members' seats. It now runs :—" Mr. Darby Griffith—To ask the First Comminsioaerof Works, whether, considering the various shades of political opinion now ex isting and likely to prevail still more in future in the House of Commons, it might not be desirable to arrange the seats of the house in such manner as should enable members to locate themselves in more astensihle accordance then at present with the particuLar cleats of political opinions to which they might personally incline." A Dublin telegram announces the death of Mr. John Carden, of Derain*, in Tipperary, the hero of the femme Irish abduotion ease. * THE REv. Silt JOHN PLOZ WOOD.—This gentle man died on Wednesday, after a brief illness, at Balboa, Essex, the seat of his son-in-law, Sir Thomas Leonard. The eldest of three distinguished brothers, the other two bible the Vine-Wanoellor Sir William Page Wood, and the late Mr. Western Wood, be was the son of Sir Matthew Wood, well known in the city of London as having been its Lord Mayor twice, and its repreeentative in nine s•ooessive par liaments. Air John Wood was born in 1796, studied at Ambridge, entered into holy orders, and was vicar of Crewing, in Essex, as well as renter of St. Peter's, Coro hill, Highly cultivated, of • noble presence, of warm heart, of great social faculty, and of unaffected piety, he was one of the best specimens of a type of clergymen who were never •ery common and are now fat d;sippearing— those who combine in ►heir purity the diameter of a pried , with that of the fine old Regal& country gentleman-- Times. TIM CLOSEI6 OD TED PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. By the above step, the Tima consider the contest be- tween the King and the legislature to have ended for at any rate some months to come. Constitutional principles will, no doubt, ultimately gain the active support of the people, but for the present we can hardly expect that the demonstrations of hostility to the government will go beyond an occasional speech or pamphlet. The country appears to be really dominated by Count Mamma, who exercises that influence even over his opponents which the thorough determination and earnestness of the man of action generally possess over less energetic natures. The royal authority also has more power over tho minds and even the affection of the tease of the people than English men are generally disposed to believe. In the belief that the court has the national welfare at heart, and that Bismarck himself is striving to aggrandise the monarchy, the Prussians will submit to much domestic tyransy. Tho Timm fully expects that Prussia alone will soon occupy the Duchies, Austria receiving compensation for evacuating its portion of the territory. When this has bean effected, the definite incorporation of the Duchies with the Premien monarchy cannot be far off. The Daily News taunts the Prussians with the noble disdain for constitutional forms which their Prime Mi nister exhibits. It is very generous in this great statesman to abstain from a vulgar coup cretat. and to let the deputise go like whipped boys, and not at the point of the bayonet. The Prussian people, we have no reason to doubt, will pay taxes cheer fully, and be consoled with the reflection that the influent* of their eonetry sod the fame of their glorious monarchy never stood so high as now, with a corporal's guard at the ' door of the parliament, and a provost-marshal for Prime Minister. THI ALLIANCI OP CHILI AND PERU. Though the combined forces of the two republics of Chili and Peru would be almost helpless ia line of battle against the Spanish fleet, the Tima is of opinion that LATEST INTELLIGENCE. fumes azzawas.) TRANCE. PARIS. Pm. 23. The Prince Imperial has been appointed hono rary President of the Committee of the Inter national Exhibition to be held in Paris in 1867. The functions of president will be discharged by the Minister of State. _ . The Moniteur of this morning says :—" Intelli gence bee been received here from Syria which holds out hopes of the complete cessation of the disturbances raised by Joseph Sarawm." SPAIN. MADRID, Fa. 22, Emilia. It is semi-officially stated that Marshall O'Don nell will not offer any opposition to a reduction in estimates of war and of marine, provided the general position of affairs in the ensuing year ap pear to justify that course. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Y. 231 Yesterday the French ambassador bad a public audience of the King, and presented to his Majesty the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, for the Crown Prince of Denmark, together with an auto graph letter of the Emperor Napoleon. His Majesty expressed his warmest thanks for this mark of friendship• the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Fn. 22. The Queen, accompanied by Prinoesa Helena, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Earl &well had an audience of the Qum. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. Prince Alfred is to be advanced to the rank of full captain in the royal navy. Being at present a lien. tenant, his royal highness has thus passed over one inter. mediate step, that of oommander. Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cam bridge, attended by Colonel Home Purees, arrived at Calais yesterday from Strelitz, where the princess has been on a protracted visit to their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke sad Grand Duchess of MeokleaburrStralitz. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough intend to leave town early in the ensuing week for the seaside. The countess has quits recovered from her confinement. The Earl of Goeford has just sailed from Liver. pool to join the Earl of Aberdeen on a hnetins exotirei ia Canada. The Countess Cowper entertained the following company M dinner lut evening at her residence in St. Jemee's-aquare :—The Countess do Grey, Lord and Lady Dofferin, Lord Eliot, Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., Count Paden, Hoc. Evelyn Ashley, Hon. E. Luellen, Mr. Came- ron, Mr. Scott, &o. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brnnnow received at dinner last evening his Ex cellency the Italian Minister, his Pao.llenoy the Saxon Minister, and several members of the embassy. The marriage of the Marquis of Queensberry and Mbs Sybil Montgomery is Axed to take place on Monday next at St. George's, Hanover•square. The funeral of Viaoount Clifden is to take place on Monday or Tuesday next, and, in compliance with his desire, expressed long before his details, his remains am to be deposited beside those of his father and mother, in the family vault on the ancestral estate in Northamptonshire. The mortal remains of the late Hon. John. C. Dallas', M.P., were brought from Nice yesterday, and were taken to the Earl of Zetland'a house in Arlington- street, preparatory to beiog conveyed to Musks, York shire, to-dsy. The funeral is to take pima to-morrow. DEATH OF THE EARL OP DONOIJOHMORE.—The Earl of Donoughmore died yesterday, after a protracted illness. He was bora in April, 1823, and married, 7th April, 1847, to the Hoe. Margaret, eldest daughter and co heir of Mr. Walter Steele. He is tooeoded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, John Luke George, Viscount Bair- dale, born 1848. The Association for the Trial of Preventive and Curative Treatment of the Cattle Plague by the Homeo pathic Method state in a report, dated Wednesday last, that the general result of their experiments is the conviction that, while very much may be done by isolation to prevent the spread :of the disease, and considerable success has at toaded the practice of remedial treatment when assisted by careful nursing and proper diet, yet the degree of constant watchfulness needed for the due administration of homeeo pathic remedies is so great that much =COM by this system in so new and formidable a disease can hardly be expected from any others than skilful veterinary practitioners or per. sons conversant with the system and method of practice. The result of experience shows, however, that the disease is to a certain extent amenable to treatment. The legislature having now ordered the slaughter of infected and suspected animals, the efforts of the association must necesesaily be suspended until the results are seen. The action of Mr. Joseph Fishbourne, carrier, of Bachelor's-walk, Dublin, against the Earl of Lucian, for libellous and defamatory language, was concluded on Wed nesday, in the Court of Exchequer, when • verdict was found for the defendant, on the ground that the statements were privileged. At the same time, by direction of the Lord Chief Baron, the damages were assessed at 5001. for the plaintiff, should the court above allow the objections of the plaintiff's counsel to the plea of privilege. Rome is to be traversed by a regular system of omnibuses, which from the beginning of March are to ply from 9 a.m. nail sunset between the three principal piazsaa of the city—those of the Popolo, Venezia, and the Vatican. A letter from Rome says :—" Father Ignatius is among our visitors ; he is accompanied by another Benedic tine brother, and, in his mixed garb of three different orders, being neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, awakens the 'miles rather than sympathy of the truo believers. He is generally accompanied by his brother' and by a student of the English College, • quondam friend. Oa Monday last he requested, and I believe had, an audience of the Pope. He has visited the Benedictine Monastery, near the Porta of lit. Paolo, but makes no impression here, con ciliates so regard. We are of the same family,' he said to a prelate of my acquaintance ; 'lf we are of the same mother, we are,' wee the reply, ' otherwise, not.' Father Ignatius is oo his road to the Holy Land." " A telegram from Rome," says the France, " announces that the Princess do Lion, now in Italy, daughter of the Marquis de Rainey, senator, is in a very alarming state of health. In consequence, the soirees and dinners for which the Marquis and Marquise de Boise, had issued invitations have been countermanded." An Athens letter says that a new island began to rise above the level of tae sea in the Bay of Thera (San torin) on the 4th bid, and in five days it attained the height of from 130 ft. to 150 ft., with a length of upwards of 350 ft. and a breadth of 100 ft. It continues to increase, and consists of • rusty black metallic lava, very heavy, and resembling halt smelted scoria which has boiled up from a furnace. It contains many small whitish semi transparent particles disseminated through the mass like quartz or felspar. It has been visited by Dr. Delrigalla, a man of science and an able observer, who will record ac curately all the phenomena of the present eruption as it proceeds. On the 16th the remains of what was twenty days ago the " robtueo Infante' Don Francisco de Asia Leopoldo, were conveyed with great military pomp end courtly pegesatry, to their resting-plies at the Escurial at Madrid. The little body was laid in the Pisdridero— literally, the Rotting-house,—a separate vault, where all the junior members of the royal family lie pile-Wk, while the Patten de los Reyes, or main sepulchre, which wen first opened for the body of Philip IL, is reserved for Hey and " such queens as were the mother of kings." The sorrow of the royal parents for the early dead is described in the papers ea truly intense ; that of the King Consort especially as poignant. Foreign recruits continue to arrive at Rome, and the first awkward squads may be seen piag through their daily drill on the Pima dl Ban Giovanni veteran. TEE FZNIAN CONSPIRACY. A CONSTABLE SHOT. ARRESTS OF SOLDIERS. A telegram from Limerick states that as a man named Geary, cousin to Head Centre Geary, of Cork, who camped to America, and for whose capture a reward of 3001. was offered, was eland* in the street yesterday, a head oceirtable addreesing him said, " You are my prisoner." Geary replied. "If I ams take that.' and shot him twice with a revolver in the shoulder and body. Geary escaped. The oonatable is not expected to live. A soldier of the 3rd Buffs, quartered at Limerick, bar been lodged in gaol, charged with Feniiusisin. Saunders's News Letter annouseee that three of the principals coneeraed in the murderous onslaught on the mnstabulary nt Oels, it Tipperary, have been arrested. Among them le the soldier who, it is alleged, was drilling Fenian' in Ryan's house. He is a priv►te of the lit battalion IGth Regiment, named James Dillon, and was on furlough in Cashel. The regimental number on the uniform of the soldier correspond' with the num ber of a military forage cap found in the home. At a ocurt-martial held at Cork yesterday evidence was ,iven that Sergeant Derrah, of the 2nd Regiment, wee a sworn Fenian, and that he was told by the Head Centre that all commanders in garrison were to be destroyed when the rising took place, and that all soldiers not joining in the rising were to be destroyed. The trial was again adjourned. It is reported from Cashel that four men, armed, entered the house of a farmer, John Ryan, who is also poor-rate collector, while he and his family were absent. They pre sented a pistol at the servant, broke open boxes, and de parted with all the money (121.) and some arms. Seven men ware taken in Skibbereen yesterday for dig log on last Sunday night. Eight persona, including some respectable shopkeeper', were arrested in Carrick-on-Sosir on Tuesday. A number of officers of the American war frigate Conan deigns, now in Cork Harbour, paraded the streets on Thurs day, and were every where,followad by an immense crowd. The Coldstream Guards and the 86th arrived yesterday morning. Late last night the police arrested in a public-house at Dublin eighteen persons, including twelve soldiers belonging to the 60th Rides, 61st Regiment, and the sth Dragoons. Four of the civilians were armed with revolvers, and two are "Centres." A detachment of the Bth Regiment assisted in the arrest. Great excitement prevails. The Evening /revises says the capture of Stephens is now spoken of, as if some clue had been received and the rewards offered were doing their work. Four Irishmen, from England, discharged yesterday at Dublin for want of evidence, were immediately re-arrested and sent to prison sods the saspeasion of the Habeas Corpus Act. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAX-DETENTION OF THE MAIM A rumour wan current this morning of a serious accident having occurred on the above line near Preston. Wo have since endeavoured to ascertain particulars, but the information on the subject is vague. It seems that the train leaving Easton-square at 5 p.m. yesterday proceeded to Rugby in safety, where it arrived at the time Lied, and where passengers booked for the Trent Valley changed into the local train. The portion of the train destined for Preston then left, and when it bed travelled to within a short distanos of that station it ran into an engine attached to a goods train. Two or three cases of personal injury are reported. The only intimation of the aocideat received at the Boston terminus up to 12 o'clo2k to-day is the fol lowing telegram from the divisional traffic superinten dent, whose offices are at Liverpool :—" North portion of the 5 down yesterday came into collision near Riuton, with a disabled engine. Two passengers slightly injured." The mails from Scotland and the north were much delayed, owing to the accident—the train conveying them arriving in London nearly three hours behind time. SHOCKING DEATHS BY FIBO7 TWO CHILDEER S. INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.). This morning Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the London Hospital touching the death, from fire, of an infant named John Page. Mary Ann Page, wife of a porter living at 3, Princes square, St. Gooree's.io-the-East, said that ou Tuesday sussing, at 9 o'clock, she undrimeed the deceased and her other child, five years of age, to put them to bed ; but instead of doing so, she placed them on the floor before the fire, and sat down and fell asleep. She was awoke an hour after by loud knocking at the door, and found the &mewed on fire. John Page said that he returned from his work at 10 o'clock and knocked for a long time without obtaining ad mittance. Ha could hear the child screaming inside. At length his wife opened the door with the child in flames in her arms. He snatched it from her and raa to a surgeon. The burns were so severe that death resulted oext day. His wife was he said " sober enough," but she slept rather heavily. The Coroner having summed up, The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased child was burnt to death accidentally, but that there was great cegli gence on the part of the mother. Mr. Payne, coroner, held an inquiry at Guy's Hospital, relative to the death by fire of Adelaide Lydia Askie, aged six years. The deceased was the daughter of Mr. John Agit), an engineer, residing at No. 4, Wellington-street, Slaekfnan road. Last Sunday, while she was in a room with her little brother, a boy aged 3 years, the latter lighted a piece of paper at the fire, sod dropped it on her frock. Her clothes blazed up at once, and before her 'creams brought her mother to her assistance she had received extensive and fatal injuries. She died on Tuesday in Guy's HospitaL The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death by fire.* LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at noon at Easton Station; Mr. PJCIILIID Moon in the chair. The Steam= (Mr. Stephen Reay) baring rind the minutes of the last meeting, which were coofirmed, and the report, which was published some time ago, bating been taken as rend, The CHAIMILN moved the adoption of the report and account/. He said the only useatisfactory feature of the accounts was the hicreme in the charges for goods and for compensation. As regarded the former, the company had been put by the government to great additional expense foe the cattle traffic. Generally speaking, the accounts were satisfactory, and be hoped the dividend was also satisfac tory. Personally he and his colleagues thought it would have been better to divide only 7 per cent., but they deferred to the °pluton of many large proprietor , . The rise in the dividend during the last font yeses was larger than anyone could have expected ; there was no other great company whose dividend had increased so much during that period. They bad, however, come almost to the limit of economy in working ; the rates were going down ; and the public was continually demanding improved accom modation. To this must be added the advanced cat of wages and the enhanced price of money. Under all the circumstances he repeated that it might have been well to adhere to 7 'per cent. In the past half-year noel and iron had risen in value, and he saw no reason to hope fora reduction in those articles. He hoped that whilst they might continue to look forward hopefully the proprietors would not suppose that 7 per cent. meant 10 per cent., or 10 per cent 15. Efforts were being made to keep down the capital account, which had unavoilably increased by 3,500,0001- in the last four year' ; but the board could not promise that no addition would be necessary to work the inc easing traffic. It was the fashion to say that the capital account must be stopped ; but though that doctrine was right when dividends were falling, it did not apply to the ease of rising dividends. Doting the last half year. he might add, 52 miles of steel rails had been laid down, sad of these 32 miles were charged to capital amount and 20 terminus. A Elnammointa wished to know what was the effect of the agreement between the companies whose lines eon verged at Carlisle. The Coalinga mid the agreement was before the courts, and therefore he could express no opinion. The board were anxious that the question should be settled. After some discussion, the report was adopted, and a di vidend at the rate of 7* per ant. per annum declared. CALIFOINU RAISINS.—We have been shown., says the Sonora (Oaliforois) Herold, some California cured raisins tram the vieeyard of Mr. A. Wilde., of Shaw's Flat, Kano varieties of which are superior to any impo raisins that we have over seen in the state. We were particularly pleased with those made from the White Muscat of Alexandria. They look and taste like the very best specimens of Malaga grown There was also a specimen of raisins made from the large pink Rhine grapes that grow in snob enormous cinders in oar vineyards ; not so good, perhaps. as the whit* Minos* but • very superior article nevertheless—much better, in fad, than a large proportion of foreign raisins. LAw INTELLIGENCX (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vbe-Chanesilor Sir it. T. Kbak a a t lICILGIT/T SILICA OOMPANY.--OMPAndi aer • The company wee registered in 1864, b e t t am of the mosey market the Prom °ter. had % • tab place the shame. Fire out o f the sem pol io , Wood the articles of amonatios now podia:nod e ls for • winding-up order, and of the two Wins a ks Z , bankrupt and the other dead. The . only roma his iwia.7 to the court we r that one of the petitioners had .„4,17.5 self responsible for a lease of the Kilgetty jna e , rty, ai r was oonsidsred that he should hold it for by ewa kyle Kr. Kerslake rep:minted the petitioner% His Honour thought It • pity that this. mathsa a " ." sot mettle their differenose without the mpeise of la a T a l' ca ti on t o the court, but as they Gould mot epos b is make the cedar as preyed. az Loarma inecurr cosecs% Mr. W. Pearson supported a petition to matins vel a an order of the court the winning -up which Ind been resolved on by the oosupeay midis th s — Z The cenipany was established to the yaw 16 an d the capital was fixed at Mau, very small portion of that amount was taken ago, 161 6 1 resolution in December, 1865, the sauc ers OM sedussgili wound up. Two gentlemen who were app o i s t o dy a _ had been carrying on the voluntary wincing up. h i - 7T of the creditors were suing the campauy in ark s 10= 1 an undue preference for thew clad It was ) prayed the windiug-up might go on und ue the intos z t th M ci of the court. The order was granted. at LOIDON DMA /ICBM COVZT. In this case also the court was petitioned, mid** o d of 1862, for a winding-up order. The emens e y iith. tared is 1860, sutler the . act of 1856, an d maid Wine sinew for six years, but it we. unsumeedul, lad ma m as were passed unanimously by the shareholders is fil ms • the voluntary winding lip. The object of thole* * to which the li9uidators consente d, was to enema di voluntary wisidueg up, under the supcnicos of the opt Kr. w„tiaks supported the prayer, ad the wiz II granted. VUTNOI /1•92008 mean. A gelading.up order was alio panted in the mid oompany, with a reference to chambers for Magella n . of the official liquidator. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, After Term NW Prins flititinp at Gaililiall.— Lord Chief Juntas and Special June.) ) m'cAthox e. BQTOa. This was an notice for libel against the Sportuteg eft The defendant pleaded not guilty sad a justification " Mr. D. Seymour, Q.C., and soother were congeal fies. plaintiff ; Mr. Temple, Q.C., and Mr. Mand an for the defendant. wet lan d The plaintiff is the printer and proprietor of a • publicatioa known as Tattersall's Tina; and am connected with Mr. Shipley, when he was th e p ep : the Sporting Ga..vda The plaintiff also comes satin ea a commission agent in connexion with spots* under the name of James Hopkins, and the consease s under which this anion was brought arose itheinth betting transactions conducted by the plaintiff belt g Thompson, of Sunderland, commencing in Nay, /IX, plaintiff had asked for an apology bat the Wahl* dined. The libel appeared in the Sporttat Lifi 1865. Under the head of notice to orreosedeati * peered the following, Victor.—Yon have cernaljne the worst of it in your dealings with James Hoping Tattersalrs Tissue. If you couctry people will sedum to such rank what ate you expect in drop your money f If you would wily Nei pa coin to the old and proved comminks ism you would never have to make such canna you do. We candidly tell you we do not believe UM WM James Hopkins has the remotest intention of minim your winnings." That was folmeel up by a Issinth same paper, to which the plaintiff was othinly Inn and called a rotten unprincipled scoganni, that the plaintiff, who was coansend win a obscure journal, had sucoesded in d i ng apb man of Newcastle (meaning , it was and, Mr. Thceepeßt Sunderland) out of 1001. in hard "cub, but that math nal prosecution was intended in that quartet," mask, the delinquent to enjoy the pleanue of coatemplatimith meantime the piece performed at the Princess's make himself familiar with the prison Booboo in / Th rirg Too Late to Mend. (Laughter.) Thompson, is milli subsequent letters, in alias non to his berg eafortna charged the plaintiff with having raised him The plaintiff was called—l am the proptista If Ilea salts Tissue and I execute oomtaissiom is ths in of James Hopkins. I bad adopted that mina months before I commenced the cocatabsim gem% ► cause I wished to keep Tatter 4111 . 8 Tissue &inset thee other business. In May, 1865, I monved a letter frank Thompson, of Sunderland. On the Aaron Is calved a le tter from Mr. Thompson to put al 100/ OBS &steer if he was sure to ran for the En Liar. Is osived that sum from Mr. Thompson, awl It in We aladlatenr. I gent him • voucher to it I ahem* went to Sunderland and paid Ir. Thumps' I visit. It was on the 15th of Auglatyr. Thome asked me to make two beta—one for 501. ea Rap* n one for 501. on Ely, provided I could get Ito 1 tad ti the horses were sure to start. I sou to make the bake the post at Stockton Races. I told him Regalia Wens ran, sad that if Ely did run certainly 2 to 1 could sit got. He spoke of Excelsior, stable complain is BMA and that if they did ;et run Regoli be that they thought Excelsior could win. 1 Thompson withal me to advance the man I Regalia and Ely. I told him certainly not I *mid him that as the Gladiateur bet was not likely lo owed for some time, if he were very anxious to Minn I Stockton, I would cancel the Gladiatear bet, sad that relieve the money. He assented to it, sad moan seed the voucher on to Stockton or Loam, snail fulfilled. I was to back Excelsior. if he on, iota* if as n ß•gdim ex d 2 t :be e ; 6 4 0 " g d r i O da rm ih ile wt rag i be n Regalia essi tre tot ras a ", was not likal) M telegraphed the fact to Yr. Thompson mg * 1 bed backed Excelsior. Regalia did not ra. did, but lost ; coming in third. l tried mpi an on Ely ; but, instead of being 2 to 1 nen* * were stolo on him. I took 500 to 50 oa Bander& Mr. Thompson, and L telegraphed it to him. hafts best of my judgment from what I heard am ths ilanderilla was placed. (A long coolgegnamo place between the plaintiff and Mr. Thompson mg* . and also between their solicitors, relative to that belt') In croes-examination by Mr. Temple, ploithlf first took an intermit in February, 1865. Ims printer of the Sporting Oazdte. Mr. Elliott, W l,O A i r' Tattersall's Tissue parted with it to me w & bolt . fire mouths after. I did not ask Wlll lOl l 4 "" u !,...., terseat's Tissue. 1 thought it was a good ems to in the public that it vie a racing piper, gOd it wan Meson Tatters.ll'. pablimtion The ;Ir.. contains the latest racing intelligence. It is tot thig22 Tattersall's. The object in chiming nil lia* 'W . was because I did not wish to jumble op ml lousiness with it. It is natal with perms to gals, names to whom communications are to be sddnstl know plenty of commission agents who any og Pr_n under a feigned name. I cannot think of mt . ., believe it as a common prattles. Os I N .17 August Thompson gave me Mantle** 01 ,,T 1S on Giadiatear, and that he would have o. ineva.7. _ put on more. I den ' s think the how had ram 0 16 _1 public estimation by the 15th. I don't diet I gin meeting Mr. Thompson at Sunderland prvawt Stockton races. Mr. redder, who is coon is . A__*•___"7,. assumed the name of not Delo n Pr letters he urged that I was to let It be koo . 17 r derland that he wee engaged in betting cause it was generally considered a 'yet Iga and fraud. Mr. Thompson or Mr. Pedder fits* Exeelsior in the interview at Sunderland. TM riff"; arrived st by us was that Excelsior liksly.ttro; stable companion is generally a gaolho se, gal m time' arranged for him to win. h. ad ridlt The Lord ief with a that I told h Cr a N ht .a anim al 0 n j : t that t u : sc' a l t g h z en d e na ir r e l h generally ° a w d h orse is c'n Plaintiff— and relemed the money. I took his betted 200 to 100 against the horst I bad taken the bet for him, and . it was with some other person. 1 me, and I told him, and that was cancel the bet. I never received 7 Regalia and Ely with a porton' I seer bet a secret." On 31st jn/j Thompson's favoar,loo4 of it was I made a bet for him on Gauge with whom I made it. I h I simply make a memortindt the ticket I receive. I have a bool make for others, but I don't make when I want to recover money. 7 . _ by me for Mr. Thompson on R6046 1 ' 131 cover him. Mr. Temple—How were you hone won ? Plaintiff—Men in betting circles [The came was proceeding wt COURT OF COMM( filttinp at Nisi Prins in London.- Bylas sad a Common PULYAS O. wen. This was an action to recover &mare meat. Mr. Kelly smeared for thiplaistv for the defendant. The plaintiff bad been a solicitcr takes oat his esetlicate, and had He bad besa employed in ref/ debtsfer the defsmdant, and cue a 'Man payment of 51. This woo tbi hill principal, who, however, did stones ; and this forerffinbsees s difficulty. The plaintiff was in Moor-lane, police-steakm, where, of the defindsat, he was charged c be bromism pOO ; 10 P 3d 1 .3"°;„ , , conesilsa Gladist i s b e t ea Glaiint a lign se. The seuebereemd its witht ha " i r o r icl Bet at UAW' / 01 Pea the racoon all d Th erefoen' s kW ** ript, "Seen too I bad 16 0 1. , as kept far Oledieter: but 1 cool have no ninne r , l ri Aunt co the ee'j ook for sate* W h I, e entries of those e; The bets made et SF; odsrills were web to get the mese les re lea 110 010. , 1 when our Mad MON PLEA don.—(Before oMos Jury.) ww. lialldaumg.ito:aotedreetiff, boe:talidistolsfortsrecovern"Agittoresialser;EbelleiT,.bil. th e of th plaiesen" Pija claim !To o d not reeolieet , soncond to WI PP ; n Jannerw last ,2.141:b..4 ° cos' oa tiorionsetor , oo ) :4 abouOt that it p onied to Main 1: 8 isapriaoszoeu fa, sad wid j ow* oat awake ll s before ti TIN jury found too point of law was mil of aot lorda Ohl ltip re b7 am dal the oats. COURT OF alazzir v. The deleadaat'a a c owry a ocsaidarabl 00IIR1 Okras The bankrupt is Debts 1.5711. Mu His Honour nape aea the bas to th bills. had oontasotn meat. = MIDD] (Before B bisoaora RAI= James of for keeping dlsordi square, ta the parid Mr. Metcalfe (ins' the part of the ant/ igniter ; Mr. Slag The boom far situate in • court 1 siquare, and it is en brothels for nearly that i ey , had been v three Into the occupat'r they had been very there were freque unison° , so 000=0 Greatehapalnu time the " busbies" messed. When Obaped-street font had touters in to invite then, fondant. It wt' the defendant wr wise dosed, and end thus fir th 4 that the defend and had been in law for keeping a the• Fields. She.; daughter were trio to twelve and the After the ease 1 Mr. Sleigh guilty to the bad sold all I all bed been the parish e4ll they could have been effected. H prosecution, and I: The Assistant-J open the defends' UN sun, of 1001. t The required al fendaat was distal THE Henry Allen , with frequentin! pockets. Mr. Lewis Lew Sergeant Goad In Word-stmt. and knowing A watched them. and Earle thee I left hand ink lady and Idiom till they same ti went into an esti then walked up and took somethi Mg acme money. 11r. Lewis mid but on the part c ment,pf the otl before. Sergeant Coatl who would state spending their near Goldimlan, Souse, where a to mee WilHine Milli the hollt of tsiti thieves. Ha had sad law 53 ihisi Marls, engaged i bean summoned spoken el wore I Mr. Knox mai, him, as It wsa i thieves sad roll Savant Ca eonrt, sad Abe as hsviog been Lear her, sod The mother c doing snob thin Mr. Knox rei se s thief but I send Allen to i ship Cornwall, three years. Hannah Ow l dammed before her employer t, Tdze.Louisa 1 ton, said that time to time v. customers, and wee the person were the perso liar. Norton- Mrs. Turner I ?hoed the g with • respect' Polioe-oonsto prisoner he foe pledged in the found to be • The proper though they es pawning, they Mlle of " Br, The prisons another day. Inspector H mons against i la Council. I had incurred 1 five cows fi the bowsaw of Essex, ovi at fifty-five ro the present ro stoners of the In salver 1 The inspect sot of wham driving of ost drover bad vi, cattle *gee. The mk t, Order is Cow Darya of zoomed of b etioYed ago. CITY or Sheriffs of L. froth diction Gasohol havi WbeadY. the Guildhall proclaimed y Trost of the the va-eleetio LtiPttom tiabi Yorterclef wG Maze II W. Ooe The Winn on t danPatelt an int inquiry ti as the sand and that they her. Aft anarted than NW fifty i ad, just seo OTer and dim t, li CI I 6.