The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-11 00:00:00

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TOMOMON—Maraing. b 4 53m Atterfooo, Wa. 1410. --- LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. MORE than a week has gone by since the Poor. law metropolitan inspector concluded his inquiry into the alleged irregularities at the Clerkenwell casual wards, and his verdict is not yet before the public. Whatever may be the proportions of praise, blame, or suggestion ho may award, it is of some importance that his decision should be prompt. The case was a remarkably simple one ; and the public have a right to know whether the central authority approves the conduct of the Clerkenwell officials, or whether it holds them blameworthy to the extent of reprove] or dismissal. One of the most unfortunate inferences to be drawn from this and similar inquiries is the virtual impunity with which the Houseless Poor Act appears to be still defied. So far as the Poor-law Board, or its officials are concerned, it would seem that men and women might have been refused nightly, may be refused nightly now, at Clerkenwell, or elsewhere, without interference or check. The system, as usual, breaks down at the precise point at which it should be made rigid ; and a surly porter or a harsh superin tendent has power to defeat the well-considered and humane provisions of the law. But for the amateur efforts of a stray passer-by, and his having formallyreported the matter to the Poor-law Board, the latter body would have, and could have no knowledge through its officers of a condition of things which it exists mainly to prevent. The police, whose duty it has become to periodically inspect the metropolitan casual wards at night, have only power to report upon their condition, and how far their observation extends may be estimated from this fact : Upon the alleged refusals to admit ob taining publicity, and a public cry for an official inquiry having been raised, another Poor-law in spector discovered that the arrangements of the casual wards were very defective in one particular, and at once gave instructions that this should be remedied. These instructions were reported to the Clerkenwell board by their own officer, and a discussion took place as to whether that body would listen to or receive the suggestion. " Nut treating us with proper re spect to tell the man in charge of the wards that there was something wrong ; let the Poor-law Board write to us if they want anything doing," was the spirit in which the inspector's instructions were received by one section of the guardians. Finally, it was decided to refer the matter to the local casual ward's committee, and perhaps by the time the mild weather has set in, we shall learn that the habit of making paupers eat their supper in an open yard has been discontinued at Clerkenwell. This was the discipline the Poor-law inspector dis covered and took exception to, after an inquiry had been called for from outside. The police inspection is clearly one which does not touch on the discip line of the casual wards, and is only a partial pro tection to the paupers ; and when in such nights as we have had lately casuals are allowed to eat their bread and gruel in a warm room in one pariah and are sent to sup in a bitterly cold yard in another, it is not difficult to foresee which will be chosen, and how by judicious harshness the num ber of applicants may be reduced. But, as if further proof were wanting of lack of efficient con trol over the management of casual wards, we find Mr. Inspector Potter, of the (I division, giving in evidence that frequent complaints reach the police respecting the Clerkenwell wards, and that on a recent night he had to send two constables to secure a pauper's admission. This comes, be it remembered, from one of the very body to whom the task of inspection is entrusted, and forms a significant comment upon the system. We see but one way of dealing with the difficul ties constantly arising through laxity or disability on the one side, and obstructive indifference on the other. Increased publicity must be given to the returns relating to the houseless poor, and the official protests against ill-doing must be made more vigorous. Public opinion will always aid Whitehall in bringing the recalcitrant to justice. We believe returns are made every week to the Poor-law Board, giving the numbers relieved at each casual ward in the metropolis. It would be useful if these were tabulated and published week by week, and the parishes thus taught to check each other. As an example of the usefulness of THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1867. this we may remind our readers that some twelve months ago we called attention to the fact that St. Olave's, Southwark, while nominally con forming to the law, had its casual beds empty night after night, while its near neighbour Ber mondsey was crammed to overflowing. Refusals to admit were peremptorily denied, and permis ' sion to look over the St. °lave's casual wards refused, as at Clerkenwell now. Yet after we had publicly compared the statistics for a few weeks, and patiently asking the reason of the extraordinary discrepancy between the num bers relieved at the two workhouses ; the numbers at St. Olave's mysteriously increased tenfold, and a fair average between it and Bermondsey was at tained. It has since been tacitly admitted that the numbers had been kept down by almost uniformly refusing admission. The law was enforced in this case purely by independent inquirers, as although the returns had been made week by week to the Poor-law Board, the master's report "no refusals" had been accepted as fact. It is possible that the statistics of Clerkenwell may not be below those of its neighbours, but it would be infinitely more satisfactory if we could have some approach to certainty on the point. In one of the temperate but inconclusive letters addressed by a Clerkenwell guardian to a contemporary, it was stated in proof of the extra humanity of this notorious board that it did not send casuals to a police-station for a ticket of admission, as is done by other parishes. But this argument has a double edge, for it proves the officers of the ward to have unlimited discretion as to who is, and who is not in urgent necessity ; and neither the choice of instruments, nor the previous conduct of the Clerkenwell guardians, has been such as to inspire confidence in the liberality or humanity of the instructions given, or the rules laid down. The case upon which the action of the Poor law Board is now looked for, has been too recently before our readers to need recapitulation. It is well, however, to remind the authorities that the country expects something more than vague ex pressions of confidence in good intentions, and that it is their bounden duty to acquit or condemn Clerkenwell of the charge of violating the law. If the inspector, who on these occasions has to com bine the functions of judge and jury, declares that no improper refusals to admit have taken place, the guardians will stand absolved. If, how ever, the charge is said to be proved, the loss must fall upon the ratepayers, as repayment for casual ex pears would in such a case be clearly illegal. The issue is a narrow one, and it is of paramount im portance that it should not be shirked. We haie heard of inquiries and reports which, after being carefully elaborated, were never allowed to go be yond the archives of the Poor-law Board and the local board-room. There must be full publicity in the case before us, for all interested in the proper working of the Houseless Poor Act regard it as a representative one, and other metropolitan guar dians are asking whether they are to regard Clerkenwell as an example for imitation, or a warn ing to avoid the dwarf and England the giant of the fable, and no victory whatever will compensate for the actual injuries that the weaker may have to pay for it. These are con- Adoration' that would hardly have been applicable in the good old days of imperial unity and colonial dependence. Rut they are everything now. It is now for the colonies themselves to answer the questions their forefathers might have fairly put as to the designs of the mother country. Responsibility goes with power, and the colo nits, being now powerful, are also responsible. What will ' they do? There *we trust, no immediate necessity for a definite answer, but the time may come, and it is far nearer than it has been. The question raised by Mr. Torten' and his friends as to the dwellings of the poor, is simply. as the Doily News puts it, whether the charge upon the rates shall be incurred in preventing the creation of paupers and criminals, or in supporting them when made. The evil of overcrowding, though it begins only with individuals, though it affects in its direct work ing only a section of a class, ultimately reaches the entire community. No one proposes to exact from the tenants of the new houses less than their full value. Their occu pants will be able to pay such rent as will return a fair 'nterest on the capital advanced. lint it does not follow from this, as seems to be supposed, that the whole thing may be safely left to private enterprise. The action of the government is required because, in spite of the pecu niary success of some model lodging•houaes, private enter prise is not forthcoming. In this case, as in others, the initiative of the state may be necessary to bring individual or associated capitalists into the field. The plain and palpable facts of the case condemn, in the opinion of the Times, the present want of municipal effi ciency and unity in London. They prove a want of one ness, cf central heat and vital force, in this enormous mass, which for statistical purposes, and now for drainage, has been tardily and reluctantly treated as one. The Metropolitan Board is successful as far as it goes, but necessarily, so far as concerns the quarters least able to help themselves, its success has been underground. The Metropolitan Municipal Association is for advancing on this foundation, and dividing the metropolis into ten boroughs, to be affiliated in due time to one central muni cipality. The Times urges the association to confine itself to collecting and exhibiting the materials in favour of some change. It has only to invite aid, and It will find recruits and information from every part of the metropolis. Vitt Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 10. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Miss McGregor, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole ; and her Majesty drove this morning with Princess Christian. Princess Louise and Prince Christian rode out this morning. Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia walked in the grounds. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote arrived at Os borne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Wal pole Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon, Gene ral Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council sat yesterday, at Whitehall, on sanitary matters and quarantine. The lords present were the Lord President, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. The Solicitor-General was present at the com mittee. Mr. Harrison attended. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho- nourable Privy Council as; yesterday, at Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The Lords present ware the Lord President, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Wal pole, the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Wil liams ►ttended the committee. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, Malta, and Gibraltar. The Duke of Argyll and Messrs. Gladstone and Cardwell have arrived in Florence on their way north wards from Rome. Mr. Gladstone is to be at Paris, on his way home, on the 23rd inst. The right honourable gentleman has recently had an interview with Baron Mauch. The Hon. Frederick Noel Somerville, second .on of the late Lord Somerville, and heir presumptive to the title, died suddenly on Tuesday night at the family seat of Aston Somerville, Gloucestershire. He was 27 years of age, and was a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, with which he served in Canada. Lord Cowley and his family will, it is expected, remain in England the greater part of the season, so there may be no festivities in the Faubourg St. Honor 6 this winter. There are to be four " universal balls," as they are called, at the Tuileries this winter, which are expected to be more crowded than ever on account of the number of strangers now in Paris. The Americans alone number some hundred,. After the month of February the Em press will resume her usual limited balls and receptions. - The now Japanese Embassy now in Paris is com posed of 19 persons, of whom two are ambatsadors, ten secretaries or interpreters, and seven domestics. The first ambassador is named Ko-Ide, the second Tsi-Kawa. They are expected to remain a week in Paris ; afterwards they will travel rid Berlin to St. Petersburg, and thence to America. According to the Temps, two permanent em bassies will be established at Perim and London ; the first will be occupied by Asa-no, and the second by Go-Hera. Japanese schools are also to be established in France and England. A letter from Count de Montalembert in the Monde gives but faint hopes of that eminent writer's restoration to health :—" After eight months' treatment the doctors abandon me to nature, without giving me any definite hope as to the term of my illness. However, they say I shall be cared sooner or later, and that I shall be better in the spring, without promising me a complete recovery by that time." Rapid progress is being made in the Paris Exhi bition buildieg with the Russian Court, which covers 1000 metres. There is to be a great display of agricultural he plements ; a model Russian peasant's cottage (iebaA), put together without nail or screw ; a great stable, containing 24 Russian horses of every description ; a Tartar tent complete ; and a post indicating the number of rents from St. Petersburg to the Champ de Mars. The Ottoman Ambassador Ruetem Bey, who, albeit unmarried, is probably the best-lodged foreign minister in Florence, a few nights ago threw open his spacious and sumptuous apartments to a few hundred of the elite of the native and foreign society in Florence. The dresses and diamonds were brilliant and, although it is said there are to be a groat many peat balls in Florence this winter and spring, it will be difficult for any of them to be more completely successful than the first has been. It is said gambling and card playing at the clubs are very much on the increase in Perim. Certain ladies are reported to be again " receiving" after dinner, when large .tns of money are lost and consequently won. An anec dote is in circulation about a certain sporting countess who cut off her "beaux cheveux blonds" after an unfortunate night or two, proceeded to Room, and vowed to the Pope in penitence that she would never touch a card again. Alas ! for woman's frailty, she is often seen at the green tables still ! A German statistical return states that the country of Europr in which the grc►test number of mar riages takes place is Saxony, where the average is 1 yearly to every 117 inhabitants. The proportion in Spain is lin 126. In France the rate is lin 127. Miss Rye states that she has no more vacancies for families in her next ship for Victoria, and that single women applying will not sail before the end of February or beginning of March. John King, the steersman of the boat which left the ill-f►ted London, and to whose skill the safety of the few who escaped death was mainly due, has arrived in Melbourne. and nightly visited by large numbers of persons. By the ship Lightning, which sailed for London a few days prior to the departure of our ad% ices, the greater portion of the products of the colony and specimens of Australian industries for the French exhibition have been forwarded to Paris. The season continued to be extremely favourable, and a very large harvest was expected. The clip of wool had been heavy, and fat cattle and sheep were abundant. No part of the colony had been unvisited by frequent and abundant rains in good season. By the ship Essex, from London and Plymouth, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gavan Duffy had returned to the colony, and Mr. Duffy waa to deliver a lec ture on " The experiences of an Australian in Europe." A portion of the 2nd battalion of the 14th Regi ment of Foot arrived in Melbourne per ship Monarch, from Auckland, N.Z., early in the month. Robert Burke, the New South Wales bushranger who ventured into Victoria, was actually in Mel bourne, and was at last taken by Mr. W. F. Hurst, the son of a sheep and cattle farmer at Diamond Creek, Melbourne, had been tried for the murder of that gentleman—whom he shot in the struggle— found guilty, and sentenced to death. The Jre", gives the following from the gold fields : There has been nothing startling in the news from the gold-fields during the past month. A nugget weighing 60doz. was found in the Lady Don claim, at Ballarat. The miners are well employed in the principal auriferous districts, and the average yields have generally been maintained, notwithstanding that the attractions of the Intercolonial Exhibition have in some in stances led to • cessation of work. A new rush of considerable proportions has set in to the Cambrian Lead, near Landsborough. Two nuggets, the one weighing fourteen ounces and the other nine ounces, have been un earthed in this locality. Another new reef has been opened on the Yow Yow, Caledonian Diggings. Several claims have been taken up both east and west of the pros pecting claim. The proprietors have christened the new find the Fallen-tree Reef, from the of the reef being first discovered under the roots of a tree lately uprooted by the wind. Some very rich specimens have already been obtained, and sanguine hopes as to its ulti mate value are entertained. OUR OONI'EMPORARD23. (THIS DAY.) THB CONVICTION Ol rill MANAGICR OT THE JOINT-STOCK DISCOUNT COMPANY. The conviction of James Freeling Wilkinson, says the Herald, followed by his sentence of five years' penal servitude, marks a new era in the history of limited liability. Subsequent inquiries in this particular case completely confirmed the heavy charge. made last year against the management ; but Mr. Wilkinson has not been convicted for recklessly wasting the resources of the company, but for fraudulently applying • portion of its funds to his own benefit. When pressed in August by his stockbrokers he paid them fora bulling operation on his own account by one of the company's cheques, signed by himself and one of the three.. tors, entering the amount as loans to the firm for which they paid no interest and gave no security. The next month 4,0001. of the sum wiui got rid of by writing against it the word " repaid," and by transferring the debit from the stockbrokers' account to that of • Mr. Kiernan, who is said to have been " of very great service to the company," the value of his help being indicated by the fact that he owes the company 180,000 f., and is not now to be found. The rest of the sum remained standing in the books until the time of the stoppage, but when claimed from the stock brokers by the official liquidator, ►ll liability in respect of it was promptly repudiated. Further inquiry proved that the firm were perfectly right, and thence arose the prosecution. The conviction of Wilkinson will teach the lesson that the obligations which bind the employes of private firms, and whose applicability to the lower grades of company officials has never been disputed, are not altogether to be ignored by managers, secretaries, directors, and chairmen. There appeared, indeed, some danger lest we should drift into a bold and brazen recognition of mercantile immorality as a system, wh it was practised on a grand scale and for a sufficiently gigantic prize. For the present, at least, this illusion is dispelled. To the many who have parti cipated in the wholesale plundering and shameful spoliation which has been but too rife since the abuse of limited liability became general, the result of yesterday's trial will come aa an unwelcome reminder of the risks they run. If public justice is to be *stir led and outraged men tatile morality vindleated, there are many in whom Mr. Wilkinson's fate ought to awaken the liveliest apprehensions. The Telegraph observes that no attempt was made to show that the purchase of the shares was carried out in bebop( of the company or were ever treated as the pro- perty of the company. Indeed, the utter badness of the case was such that even the genius of Mr. Coleridge could make nothing of it. In passing sentence yesterday Mr. Baron Pigott said, in • very meaning way, that he took the amount named in the present charge to be the full amount of the misappropri►tion ; although the sudden increase of Klemso's debit in one month from 30,0001. to above 100,0001., advanced without security of any kind, bore a very questionable aspect. No doubt it did ; but the case, the Telegraph fears, was only one of several. POLITICAL TOPICS. Great as is the position which Mr. Lowe by his speech of last year has made for himself, it does not, the Daily News remarks, quite satisfy him ; and an irrepressible dis content breaks out on all occasions, though what he wants is not very clear. He now professes to be surprised that his speech has been interpreted as an indictment against the working classes---surprised at its distinguishing feature —surprised at that which brought down the cheer@ of the torice. He now condescends to cut up his great speech into scrape, and argue that inasmuch as the objectionable meaning is not in this sentence, nor the next, nor in the one following, and these make up the whole paragraph complained of, therefore it is not there at all. Mr. Lowe 's argument in the speech is direct, compact, and, above all, intelligible. " We know," he says, " those who are out by our experience of those who are in. They must be kept out because they have the same qualities." It is truly amazing, not to use a stronger word, that Mr. Lowe, having employed this argument in the House of Commons, should now stoop to pretend that he was speaking only of the constituencies. The Times classes Mr. Lowe's accusations with the idle and unmeaning railing in which foolish people indulge, and doubtless those who are now unrepresented will in time acquire, with other accom plishments, the parliamentary and non-natural use of lan guage. Until then, everyone who deliberately seta himself to slander them must expect to be understood to mean what he says. Discussing the speeches at the Canada Club, the Times points out the growth of colonial power until the practical independence of the Canada, has become est►- blished and inviolable. It then shows the onerous conditions to us under which the imperial connexion is maintained. In any possible oonllict with their neighbour they will be LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE EASTERN QUESTION-RI7SSIAN PROPOSITIONS. We find the following in the A rot ie Notimod of to-day : The cabinet of St. Petersburg has addressed • circular note to the government on the Eastern question, which contains the following propositions:—The independence of Montenegro and the Bauman Provinces—the inde pendence of Egypt—the annexation of Thessaly and Epirus to Greece—the separation of the Isles from Turkey and their annexation to Greece or independent existence—Bosnia and Herzegovina to be erected into a kingdom under an Austrian Archduke—the independence of Servia--Bulgari► to be recognised as an independent Principality under a Russian Prince, and lastly, the European possessions of Turkey to be limited to Roumelia and Albania—total remodelling. France to reply in a few days. The Liberte has the following : It would be vain to deny what is being plotted in secret —the division of the Ottoman Empire between Russia and England—both of them the cordial allies of Prussia, their not disinterested instrument. England is to have Egypt; Prussia the whole of Germany ; Russia to have Turkey, from which, however, would be cut out a kingdom of Greece of a suitable size for King George, the brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the English throne, and brother in-law also to the presumptive heir to the throne of Muscovy, and therefore the bond of union between Russia and England. Turkey, who begins to suspect the fate that awaits her, is making her arrangements. Rut where is the money to pay the fresh troops she is going to arm ? This state of things explains the haughty attitude of Italy towards Turkey. Italy Is playing her card. SPAIN. The state of things in Spain remains without change. Arrests continue to be made, and per sons who fear arrest are flying the country. The ex-deputy Alvareda, who was last year the Spanish minister in Holland, has been exiled to Teruel. On the 3rd of January an aide-de-camp of the captain-general came to tho house of Senor Francos, a retired colonel and deputy, to arrest him. Madam Francos said that her husband had gone out. " Very well," said the officer, " I shall remain till he returns," and he remained in the house for twenty-two hours. In the evening of the following day Madame Francos came to the officer and said, " I think it will be useless for you to remain here any longer, as I have received a telegram from Bayonne stating that her husband arrived there quite well. He was gone two hours and a half before you came yesterday." Senor Ramon Goicoerrotea, formerly Director-General of Tele graphs, presented himself to the captain-general, stating that he had put his signature to the ad dress to the Queen. " Very good," said the captain-general, " you shall be sent now to the military prison of San Francisco, but to-morrow you shall be transferred to the civil prison of Sala dem, for I have a file of papers which shows a con siderable deficit in the receipts of the telegraph department at the time when you were at the head of it." There are a vast number of clandestine publi cations about, addressed by the "Revolutionary Junta of Madrid" to the people, the army, and clergy. One of these is directed against the Queen especially, and it concludes with these words " Abajo los Borbones ! Viva la Soberania nacional !" (Down with the Bourbons ! Long live the sovereignty of the people.) THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received advices in anticipation of the Overland Mail, dated Madras, Dec. 14 ; Hong Kong, Dec. 1 ; Melbourne, Nov. 28. The Madras Atheiwum of the 14th ult., says that Sir John Lawrence took one atep while absent from his capital, which has secured for him the un qualified approval of the Indian public. Sir Cecil Beadon lately appointed a special commissioner to the famine-stricken provinces of Bengal, for the pur pose of instituting an inquiry into the causes and consequences of the dreadful calamity and thereon founding the report which was demanded by Lord Cranborno, for submission to Parliament early next year. The Governor-General has superseded this by nominating an inde_ pendent commission, of which it is said that Mr. Campbell, a Judge of the High Court, and Colonel Morton, of the Engineers, are to be members, aaso ciated with Mr. Dampier, the Lieutenant-Gover nor's sole nominee. " From that body, of course, a full and impartial statement of facts may be con fidently anticipated, and unless Sir Cecil Beadon has been most grievously belied, it is likely to re present his conduct in a very bad light." The Athenteum adds : How far the Viceroy may find himself entangled in the same net, remains to be seen. His prompt and resolute action on finding that the Secretary of State was deter mined to have the tragical business probed to the bottom, certainly looks like unconsciousness of being implicated in any fault, but then appearances are against him too, and especially the feet of his never having thought requisite the strict inquiry now about to take place until Lord Cranborne called for it. The commierion will h►ve a very invidious as well as most painful duty to perform, since the conduct of such high functionaries as the Viceroy and Lieutenant. G overnor must par under review, in the course of their in vestigation of the famine. CHINA AND JAPAN. Hong Kong advices narrate some painful facts in connection with the coolie trade. The Avon, from Macao to Havana, with over 500 coolies on board, came into Hong Kong waters and was seized by the naval authorities, on the ground of having no papers on board. On investigation at Macao it was found that there were many children on board who had been kidnapped. The case has created much excitement. Some kid nappers engaged in collecting coolies under the authorisation of an agent to a company have just been sentenced to twelve months' im prisonment. It is reported that the French have been beaten off at Kanghoa, in the Corea, with a loss of forty-five men. One gunboat got ashore in the river, owing to the tremendous fall of the tide, which is stated at about 42 feet ; she was for some time left 30 feet out of water on a fiat rock. Fortunately she was eventually got off. The French admiral, in the Laplace, and the re mainder of the squadron, consisting of the Oiler riere, Kinshan, and others, had gone to Yokohama. The news from Japan is not very important. The new Tycoon, who is favourably disposed towards foreigners, is energetically going into public business, and preparing for a meeting of Daimios having territorial rights. Hostilities are still suspended, and permanent peace is probable. The Japanese Ambassador to Russia with his suite pass through Hong Kong by this mail. VICTORIA. On the 28th of November, the date to which our Melbourne advices extend, the Victoria par liament was still in recess ; and it was understood that the two houses would not meet for the de spatch of business before January or February. The Exhibition at Melbourne continued to attract numerous strangers to the capital, and was daily SOUTH AUSTRALIA. From South Australia we learn that his Excel lency Sir Dominic Daly has addressed circular letters to the governments of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia, submitting for their several considerations "whether it would not be desirable now to adopt a uniform tariff, at all events for the Riverine and coasting trades, as the tariffs of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia are already in many respects so similar the one to the other." The revenue for the past quarter shows a decrease, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, of 2,000/. ; and the expenditure an increase of 123,0001. The hay harvest was nearly over in South Australia. The wheat crops looked magnificent. The Register has collected opinions from all parts of the colony as to the state of the crops, from which it seems practically certain that there will be from 110,000 to 120,000 tons of breadstuffs for export. The question of shipping wheat to England wa s being seriously discussed, and if the English market should keep up would be tried. One firm had re ceived 20,0001. from England for the purchase of wheat. The House of Assembly at Adelaide has passed a resolution to add 1,000/. to the Governor's salary. A motion has been discussed in the Assembly for stopping immigration during the next six months on account of there being some amount of surplus labour in the colony. It was, however, withdrawn on the government stating that no ship was at pre sent ordered except the one about to arrive, and that they intended to push on public works before fresh immigrants were sent for. NEW SOUTH WALES. A government telegram from the Gold Commis sioner at Weddin Diggins, New South Wales, states that they will give employment to a large number of men for three or four years. The sink ing is about GO feet, and about 150 holes are already bottomed. The average yield is about five grs. per dish. NEW ZEALAND. Intelligence had been received at Melbourne of more than one engagement between the volunteer forces and the native rebels. The first encounter was between a small party of volunteers, under Major Fraser, and about an equal number of the enemy. The Hau Haus fought with courage, but twelve of their number having been killed in less than five minutes, the rest fled, leaving the field in possession of their antagonists. The chief Te Hangihiroa was amongst the killed, and five natives were taken prisoners. Of the volunteers only one man was wounded. A few days later a severe engagement took place at Ketemarai, near Wanganui, between the rebels and the colonial force under Major M'Donnell. The majors troops were at first repulsed, but being reinforced the next day, they attacked and ccrried the rebel pa, killing seven natives and taking twenty-five prisoners. On the following night a second expedition started to make another attack. One body of men was led by Captain M'Donnell, who, when advancing, came suddenly upon two sentries, who discharged their pieces, and the contents of one of them entered Captain M'Donnell's groin, shattering the thigh bone. On the fall of their leader the men retreated, car rying him off with them, and the object for which the expedition started was abandoned. Cap_ fain M'Donnell, though thought to be mortally wounded, has recovered. News from Fiji, so Auckland, reports that the natives who were under missionary influence had risen en masse against the other natives, and a war was going on. AMERICA. (ST ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, JAN. 10, EVENING. Gold 133 i. Sterling exchange on London, 1091; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1064 ; Illinois, 118 ; Erie, 63. Cotton, midland upland, 34i. From New South Wales we learn there has been • " scene" in the Legislative Assembly of so violent a character that the reporters' galleries were eleared,so that there might be no record of the language. It seems that a Mr. Allan M'Pherson called another member, Mr. Robert Buchanan, a " hog." This was objected to, and after a long debate, during which the offender refused to withdraw his bad language, the Speaker's warrant for his arrest was made out. Mr. M'Pherson then retracted the expression. The aplomb() Obserrer of the 15th ult. say, : " The annual or hi-annual migration of butterflies has commenced within the last few days, and all along Col- petty anti Galle Face during the forenoon a continuous stream of the bright yellow gossamers pursue their rapid and unwearied eight always in the teeth of the wind, which they seem to delight in combatting. Nothing turns them from their course, the wails and building of the Fort are climbed over and they still sweep onwards—the questions are, whither and wherefore ?" IN. P. W. 11E0 1 Elli •-•—• 1 1 - 1 -1 .-.. %,. , 1k IW. i L I tTs i 1 I ~ -..----.. —,— -. Niin '29.32 Si N.N.W. 11 I 6 I E.N.I. 4310 LOA S Aberdeen •211.73 27 N.N.W. 2 4 N.N.W. se 0.13 3 Leith 29 60 311 N.W. — 1 A.:muss— :mos as, Si. s, s N.N.I. bI 3 Valois-- 111.69 37; 14.14.1. 1' 3 N.L b, 2 Cups assr 1— -. , :I —_ - Psossne• BaYtw" 121 211 28 . 1 .6 73 4 7111: N N . . N N N I . : 1 6 6 1 ! I 1 :7 N.N.M. N 14 ..N W .E.. „c m ° ' 0 07. 06 16 4 3 4 Bred, 1.. meld 29.53 39 14. ;3 . 4 W. N.W. to 4 Rochefort 29.49 66 N.B. I 4 ' 4 N.M. r 0.20 2 Plymouth 20.7236 Z. 0 3 N.W. eb 0.11 2 Werbooth Portsmouth 29.6.3 34 NIL 111 4 N. N.W. ioe. -. 2 Louden - Y_ mrsiesitli. . D. 55 37 N.N.E. 6 II N.Y. E. cc 0.42 5 Sairbeiroutb 2965 26 N. II II 14. N C. be 0.64 5 Raider Shields THE SEARCH OP PASSENGERS' LUGGAGE. The following memorial, signed by a large number of members of both bounce of parliament, bee been presented to the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, 111. P., Chancellor of the Exchequer: "Sor t —We beg to urge upon your consideration the desirability of substituting Custom-house through detective or other officers for the practice of individual and personal search of baggage at the ports and in Loudon, in the case of travellers by railway bets London and Paris for the seven mouths of the Gre e t International Exhibition of 1867. "The concession suggested involves the comfort and convenience of several hundred thousands of her Majesty's subjects and of Americans and other travellers from abroad passing through England on the interesting occa sion offered by the Emperor for the assembly of people of all nations at Paris. It cannot materially affect the re venue or prejudice the future practice of the Custom. house, as the concession is to meet an exceptional case, in which the duty of oo.opersting to make the Exhibition in every sense a success must be admitted by her Majility's government. " It is understood that the government of the Emperor, placed under far greater difficulty than our own from the fact of their much larger number and heavier scale of cue toms' duties, will materially modify their system of wank during the Exhibition, and are also ready to discuss the whole question with you on the principle of recipremi action ; and we cannot doubt that you, on equally e n . lightened views, will sympathise with our object, and be led to deal with , any technical or departmental difficulties which may present themselves." • WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY, JADOART 11, •LL REMAILFB. In the &Uhl tales barometer have risen about half as bek since yesterday morning, and temperatures hate declined. The winds on our coasts this morning are chiefly northerly, light es moderate, but en the east coast of Fingland they are stream and there Is still much see there. Some =OW has fallen 1 u the oath of Scotland and at Shields. In 1865 there were sent to Western Australia 556 convicts, and the total number received up to the end of the year wee 8,716, of whom 2,931 were still convicts, The ticket-of-leave holders in the colony were estimated at 1,500. We read in the Lahore Chronicle :—" The Begum of Bhopal's appearance at the illumination of the Taj at Agra created immense interest. She was dressed some. what plainly, but with taste, her head being adorned with nought hut a Scotch wonted cap ; she entered the garden leaning on the arm of Captain Willoughby-Osborne, the political agent at Bhopal. The Chiefs of R►jpootana ars averse to appearing in durber with a woman, especially se many of them are inferior to her in rank, for she gets the fourth place of honour, and is entitled to a salute of 19 guns. To conciliate the chief who sat immediately below the Begnui, it was arranged that the Foreign Secretary should sit between them." An English clown, one of the brothers Cottrely, has been killed at Verona from • fall received during the performance of • perilous feat called the leap of Niagara. EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.—The number of emigrants which have arrived at this port during the yet; will closely approach, if it does not exceed, two hundred and thirty thousand ; probably • quarter of that number has arrived at other ports in the same time; so that the year's emigration may be roughly computed at about three hundred thousand. The increase over last year is very coneidereble ; and yet, looking to the causes tending thereto, it is not marvellously The producing power of the country is largely increased% emigration, and the tax-bearing strength of the people considerably advanced. It is estimated that every instal. grant—num, woman, and child—is good for an import of specie to the amount of at least 60 dole. Many, it Is true, bring very little or nothing, except their readiness and capacity for labour ; but others have their hundreds and even thousands, and thus make up the average. Taking this average as correct, the immigration of this year has added to our supply of hard money the handsome sum of about 18,000,000 dollars. There should be some more effi cient provisions than are now existing to transfer thiagreat flood of people at once to the interior from the seaport cities. In the central, western, north-western, and south-western states, their means and labour can be em ployed to more use and profit to themselves and the country at large than in the great cities on the Atlantic or on the Gulf. The labour market in this city is already overstocked, while the farming districts of the West and the rising country towns of the interior afford opportunities unparalleled anywhere for everyone net only to gain a living, but soon to rise to comparative inde pendence. Even for professional men, such as physicians, civil engineers, he., the advice is best. " Tarry sot ame mend longer than absolutely necessary in the city whets you landed—bend your steps at once to the West."—NeW York Timm, Dec. 29. GOLD AND METALLIC ORES IN AVERICA.—The Cei°umetals are deposited in three broad belts, stretch •crosse the United States, one known as the " Appa lachian Gold Field," traversing the older states of the Union in • line parallel with the Atlantic coast, and cep peering in Virginia and North Carolina; the other as the " Rocky Mountain Gold Field," traversing all the more recently organised territories of the United States ; and the third as the "Sierra Nevada Gold Field," ex tending, through the country bordering on the Ps. cific. Iron is at the same time the most gene- rally distributed through the public land states, and it has been estimated that there is iron ore enough is Missouri alone to supply • million tons per annum of manufactured iron for the next 200 years ; while lead, tin, and sine are found in several of the states and territories. Copper in immense quantities is found in the vicinity of the lakes east of the Mississippi, existing likewise in greater or lesser degree in the region extending from the Miens. sippi Velley to the Pacific. The precious metals exist chiefly in California, in Nevada, in North-Eastern sad South-Western Oregon, in Waahington territory, in Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Southern Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, scattered over an estimated area of • mars square miles, and now yielding an annual product in gold and silver, according to the best attainable estimates, of over 100,000,000 dollars. Org!siso OF THE NEW RAILWAY BETWEEN Botr LOGNE AND CALAIS.—An event of some interest to Boa logne and Calais has occurred this week in the opening of the new railway between those towns. The new line is as extension of the Chemin deter du Nord from Boulogne to Calais. At present, and until about the middle of March next, the new railway will be used only for the local or slow trains. After the date mentioned it will be used or part of the maid line, and consequently as • portion of the mail route between London and Paris. The mails will then (as now) leave the Calais station on the arrival of the steamer ; but instead of pegging throueh St. Omer, take the course of the new line, stop at Boulogne, Angela, and ertil, and arrive in Paris in about half-an-hourleastime. There are four stations on the new line—viz., St. Pierre, Callers, Marquise, and Wimille. The present service con sists of three trains each way daily ; they stop at all Ms tions and occupy one hour and 20 minutes on the journey. The line has been very substantially constructed ; it leaves the well-known station of the Chemin defer du Nord on the Capocure aide of Boulogne, and by a sharp curve crosses the river Liane, tunnels the town on the western side of the Haute Ville, cremes the Tiutelleries district by a hand.onle viaduct, and thus reaches the open country. After the first station from Boulogne (Wimille) no part of the new line is near to the coast. Th ecommenoemeat of the through traffic in March will be followed by several improvements in the service between London and Paris, including the ,d -dition of a new first, second, and third class train at reduced fares during the Paris Exhibition. MR. JOHN BRIGHT ON THE FILENcH LANGUAGE. —Dr. F.merton, the President of the English Interns. tional College, delivered • lecture in the Lyceum, Rochdale, on Tuesday evening, on the French language. The mayor occupied the chair. Mr. Bright, eh° was unexpectedly present, in moving a vote of thanks to the lecturer, said he did not wish to detract from the credit due to the doctor, but he thought he war over sanguine, as many present could remember the &Meet. ties of learning French at school. The mayor end the doctor had expressed an opinion that the learning of the French language by the people of England would tel ee promote peace between the two nations. He (Mr Bright) was of opinion that that would not follow as a matter of course. All the people iu America 'poke the same Ise gunge as that spoken in England, but that did not pre; vent during five years the serious war which hail raged there, and which had incurred great danger in this coun try. Something else was wanted besides a mere knowledge iof each other's language. We wanted fair dealing, and more generosity towards each other. Mr. David Lynch has been appointed one of the judges of the Landed Estates Court, Ireland, in the root" of the Right Hon. Judge Longtield, resigned. Judge Lynch was, on Tuesday, sworn in before the Lord Cban. calor. COURT OF PROBATE (efo th.li;u - ITi This morning B the re court rele g arn Christmas holidays. The new divorce ease for hearing before two in the last paper ; seven cases juries as against four ; 28 to be It as against ?2 ; and 84 to be tried 68. In all there are 133 cases, of separation, five for restituti on o f for deers% of nullity of marriage. number of cases is attributable to the probate business last term. It rather heavy. arn Dr. Spinkm Q.C., tr and ;fr y .. j ' a r i l l i Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Searle fo The testator, a retired eatiug-ho -street, Nottingham, died in M 'etl, but be bad adopted his lived with him u bis daughter s 'We girl. He bad property to the hich he bequeathed to her. Probs however, wa insisted by Wm. Pell, the grounds of undue execution, nn, capacity, and want of knowledge of paper. (The case wee proceeding wheal COURT OF BANKI (Before Kr. 00111tIll/SIOTICI IN RE ROSANNA 1;L147% . The bankrupt, described as a dress Grosvenor-square, awl King's-cross from the legal proceedings in which against the Earl of Zetland, in w lived its lady's maid to the countem failure to the ill success which bas eti Thedebtaare about 300/.;thecrerliton *afar law costs. Amongst them an born, I.Sf . ; _and the Earl o f &Man sitting an adjournment was ordered, of the bankrupt that something !nigh tlie prooeedings still p en di ng aga i nst Mr. Aldridge, for the official assign a nrceition. hadßagley, who appeared for the 1 he no desire to press his oppositio was that s h e wou l d let him alone. . she had not done. (Laughter.) lab , eul as a creditor for 11:11., but thef east , to the amount of 43/., taxed ought to be included. His Honour asked the bankrupt u ndertaking to discontinue all prom that she would be a wiser and Imprim „. I lisa Fray said she should certainli me. Begley aid that the bankrupt lag last Lord Zetland so long ago t kie„. iho late Berjeant Wilkins, "" Me. %ME appeared : t'eeept :Mt. as damages, which ..nehmen, she had quarrelled is; pules ; and in an affidavit nook b had a dmitted that that artancemen allbstanding this she whichp ;*,,inst Lord Zetland, were all of course entailed costs on 7 fter a kw( address from Miss f 4 ersd .. , the whole of the proceeding and bitterly inveighed again Zatlawd, who, she said, bad IJ 1 i LAW I (T : FAN I (Before Vic • RE OVERJEN Mr. Swanton asked t undsy neat, might he raey4:eneral not being t would perhaps be ailo Ve l lte r :Chancellor sa ggestcd, but in order t rat business fur Thumps heard. Mr. Swenston said it w . The motion was uxo COURT OF I. .ittinp in RADOM—I : • . • Justices Bleckb This was the first day hancellor only receives sabers of the bar at a ichaelmas and Easter to t 10 o'clock. NEW QE E Mr. Dowderirell and . 'thin the bar as Queen's TAYLOR i'. THE METRO 1 Mr. Crompton moved fo the Metropolitan e their warrant to . as compensation for - nover-square, which t der their act of 11414. lined to take the p . ether, under the 59th ..,, aim land was equivalen "'l e had been granted in desirable to have the point Rule granted. EX PARTS Mr. Watkins William ... two attorneys of . y they should not ens rtain affidarita Mr. : . clog considerable pr. . ing of age. He came o torneys continued to act f changed his solicitors. • e attorneys had received 1 as unable to get from th ent of 150/. or any state ntleman re ad a comispoi een the parties, in which ys had misapplied 9001., the transaction. Mr. Justice Blackburn tore of a criminal charge. 1 distinctly set forth bef . . .ruey to make answer, ... absolute in the fi rst, . . *clear prima facie case .. .be the case here. Had th account been adopted? Mr. Williams said he be reed taking this course. Rule refused. COURT OF CO ittings in Banoo. —( Before Justices Willem, X THE NEW At the sitting of the court AM sworn in Lord Chief J • ark administered the oath. BAGRELEY • This case arose out of the f mats of a Staffordshire • ..l.'s rates, and the ow .11er. The defendant baugh •I two afterwards sold it to . .filers. The boiler was p • . 1 not fixed there, but the d. are to be enlarged before it . e plaintiffs went for their •ed with legal proceedings •d therefore they abstained menced the present action not completing his agreement Mr. Justice Blackburn at Li the plaintiff, damages 40/. Mr. Holker now moved for a the defendant or for a new t boiler was liable to he seized fo plaintiff had a right to remo plaintiff had been threatened waved the boiler was nothing . there was a legal right to ren.ov Rule granted. COURT OF EX Sittings in Banco.—(Before t. Barons Martin, Chan This was the first day of Hi And Mr. Prideaux, who bad queen's counsel, were called customary formalities. WEAVER r. This was a " running down " . tion of some Importance. The injury done to a horse by t • cabman in the service of the was taken before • magistrate of the Hackney Carriage Act 38, committed him to prison, to pay lot. for damages done to )had been run into. It was alleg that the horse said to be inju in the plaintiff's cab at the tini . another, and the 10/. was award. carriage. At the trial of this before Mr. Baron Martin at the the jury found • verdict for the Mr. Pearce, in pursuance o learned I judge, moved to enter • was whether the plaintiff, having in question compensation for one Injured, could bring an action respect of the other part. The 1 that as the plaintiff had elected the peace, and had received tho 1 tin this alike. Mr. Baron Martin said his imp plaintiff had obtained redress un Act, he could not recover fur action, The Court granted • rule nisi.