The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

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Iv abates somewhat from the optimism which we are all apt to indulge that an able-bodied man, capable of earning his bread, should have died from acute starvation in the heart of London, and at the very height of the charitable season. The fort night which extends from just before Christmas to the Epiphany is a time when we read of benevo lence, hospitality, and compassion in every news paper, and when none of us should feel comfort able in withdrawing to the pleasures of home and family without having taken some thought of our unfortunate fellow-creatures who are less favoured than we are in their worldly lot. It was precisely at such a time that James BROOKS fell down in Fenchurelestreet and died, as Dr. THOMAS Moorte Caosev, who saw him in his last moments, assures us, from syncope—a failure of the action of the heart consequent upon want of food. BhooKS was a man of 45i years of age. What little we know of his history and circumstances is chiefly derived from the testimony of JOHN STANDING, a fellow sufferer. These two persons came on the scene on Wednesday, JAIL ::atd, the day of the great snow fall, which litany of us will long remember. On the morning of that day STANDING had walked up through the storm of wind and snow from Croydon —a stage of his journey from Brighton to London in search of work—and met the deceased man, at that time a stranger to him, in Fenchurch-street. Fellowship in distress soon made them friends. Hewes told Sraroneu that he was a Devonshire man, and had no lodgings in London, whither he bad come in quest of employment, hoping to ob tain it at the Underground Railway. This was at two in the afternoon, at which time BROOKS bad had nothing to eat that day. The two went to the relieving-office in Fenchurch-street, and each got a piece of bread about the size of a penny roll. Beotets had been so long in the cold that he could hardly hold the bread in his hand. Be began, however, to eat it, but had not gone more than a dozen yards when he leaned against a street post and could go nu further. All his powers failed him, the heart beat slow, the lungs did their work laboriously, and did it badly. The man com plained of a pain in his chest ; he made an effort, however, to walk on, but at the corner of Leaden hall-street he reeled, and was only prevented front falling by a gentleman, who, passing by at the time, took him by the arm. The compassion of the bystanders was excited, and a surgeon and the police were sent for. The poor man was carried to Dr. CROSBY'S surgery, and restoratives were applied, but too late. He was just able to say, in answer to a question, that he had no home, and then died. Dr. Ceosar told the jury that Hawes, when he saw him, " was suffering from " faintness and cold. He was as cold as ice. He " died front want of food and the very low tem " perature then prevailing. If he had been given " a basin of hot soup he would have Leen alive " now, in witness's opinion. He was cold and " frozen. There was nu other cause for death " but acute starvation. He only wanted warm "nourishment. Witness's impression was that " he would have rallied if ho had had a warm " meal." A case of starvation so decided as this is seldom so well established by evidence in any civilized country, and we may reasonably hope that in England such cases are rare. It may waist us to imagine what privations this man must have suffered if we remember that the daily allowance to the British soldier, fixed irrespective d the special demands of a severe climate, is a pound of bread and three-quarters of a pound of meat daily, besides other provisions, which he is left to procure for himself. In the United States Army the allowance is a pound and a quarter of beef, a pound and three ounces of bread, besides an ounce and a quarter of sugar, and two-thirds of an ounce of coffee. BROOKS, however, had had nothing to eat all that Wednes day. Moreover, the maintenance of the bodily heat against extreme cold calls for an increase in the products, and therefore in the rate of the bo dily combustion. It is the lowness of the tempe rature in which he lives that makes the Esquimaux a consumer of fourteen pounds of raw meat daily. The body loses heat from its surface both by radia tion and by what is called convection, or the im pinging of the aerifonn particles upon it with more or leas velocity. Concurrently with this process a loss of heat takes place front the lungs, which have to warm the respired air, and which also give out heat in the watery vapour exhaled. Having to fight external nature with resources cut of, it is no wonder that BROOKS succumbed. There can be no doubt that at the time he pre sented himself in Northumberland-alley he was a litter subject for the hospital than for the relief bench. His system was reduced to the lowest THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1867. state of animation, sod i" .iirgeon had seen him in that condition, instead of giving him a lump of dry bread, he would have taken care to order him some bland nutriment, warni and easy of digestion, until his vital powers had been sufficiently re stored to enable him to derive support from solid food. We c; t very severely blame the offi cials at the relieving•house for not perceiving the critical state in which lisooas came before them. The poor man himself does not seem to have been aware of his danger, great as was his extremity ; but there seems no reason why a piece of dry bread should be the invariable form of parochial relief. A basin of soup might form the alternative, at all events in cold weather. The cost would be trifling, and nature would teach those who needed the soup to ask fur it in preference to bread. If such a chance had been open to this poor man, he would probably have been alive now. After this experience we may hope, and indeed expect, that warm nourialiment will he given to the distressed, at any rate during the prevalence of excessive cold. In the meantime, this terrible case may remind us how real are the sufferings of the poor, and how far they may be from mitigation, even in the midst of our groat charitable organizations, and notwithstanding the undoubted desire of the public to do all that humanity dictates for their relief. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) PEII , ' , N.II.ITW4 IN OONT;ttoV::11,1Y. (ARTI!, M.P.. AND MR. Stßlo.tr", While the political chiefs either side have had the discretion, observes the TIM,S, to keep clear of the commotion of the time, more than one of the weaker par tisans seems to hs v, lost his head entirely. Mr. Denby Seymour is deceived by an obvious misprint into charging Mr. Bright with the promulgation of a doctrine too absurd and monstrous to be uttered by any but a French nom muni►t ; and. without even the excuse of a misprint, he turns " half - into "all," and makes the subject of his criticism talk simple nonsense. But it has been reserved fur Mr. Garth to ~bow how unruly a member the tongue may become when the excitement of a local election is a '.led to the excitement of a national agitation. This gentleman, though an experienced lawyer, has been hurried into waking a number of assertions most deroga tory to Mr. Bright, and into an attack on private charac ter entirely unau;.portcsl by proof. In the correspond ence Mr. Bright has plainly the better of his oppo nent. The incident should be a lesson to speakers in the position of Mr. Garth. lie doubtless never reflected on the importance, we might almost say the enormity, of the offences he imputed, nor remembered that the reporters were there to give his charges a circulation far beyond the limits of hi' borough. The consequence is a humiliation at the beginning of his political career which should make him a wiser and more cautious man. The moral we may draw from this incident is a very old one, but one which requires to be now and then brought to the minds of all those engage.' in political discussion. It is, " avoid personalities." When a nun engages in public life his public conduct is all that him opponents have a right to criticise. It is by refuting the statements, and reasoning against the conclusions, of the radical party that the conservativea, who are for the most part the repre sentatives of classes which have had the advantage of education and refinement, may expect to carry with them a part of the British public. The Standard says that if Mr. Bright was not hooted by his firm it is clear that the omission was owing either to accident. or to that personal prudence of which he has given such remarkable evidence in his relations with the recent reform riots. As to advancing loans, the very slightest reflection would suffice to show that the accept ance of a loan to be repaid out of wages would have effected for years to conic the virtual enslavement of the operatives. He subscribed indeed to the relief fund 50f. ! Mr. Garth was somewhat imprudent in accepting, on the authority of general rumour, facts affecting the per. sonal character of a political opponent ; though they were facts of that kind which are freely used, on no better authority, in election contests. But this is the whole extent of Mr. Garth's offending. Mr. Bright, rays the Telearaph, himself has mid hard things and indefensible things ; but, however serious may be him trespasses in that respect, he has certainly never placed himself in such a position that anybody could write to him as be has written to Mr. Garth :—" With whatever respect is due to you." Such are the words with which he justly concludes the correspondence ; and such—unless we err—will be the funeral epitaph of the political career of Mr. Richard Garth, M.P. for Guildford. A POLITICAL DUEL.-PROFEISOR BLACILIZ AND NIL ZENEMT JO2lKm. The Times describes Professor Blackie's enterprise as in the style of the true knight errant. Nothing could be more chivalric, medieval, dramatic+. It must be acknow- ledged too that the combatants were not ill-suited to one another, each of them possessing imagination, knowledge, and temper. But impartial byestanders must confess that the attack and defence were alike superficial and unsatis factory. The Dail) News notes with pleasure the attention with which the radical city listened to the assailant on reform, and draws the inference that it is not the opinions of Mr. Lowe, but his manner of advocating them, which excites the popular indignation. Professor Blackie's address was indeed as uncompromising as the most ardent tory or the most renegade whig could desire. It is curious to note the conceit with which these advocates of intellectual aristocracy proclaim that they and such as they are the fit rulers of the tuition, but vehemently deprecate our taking the opinion of any but themselves and their friends on that question. They confess, indeed—it is the very source of their alarmed outcry—that if the whole public were to be polled, they would not be selected as rulers. But this, they answer, is a proof that the whole public is incompetent to decide. The result of a more perfect representation would be that in details and adjustments certain classes would obtain a hearing who are now condemned to silence, and, having obtained this privilege of speech, an inevitable dictate of human nature would lead them to seek for the men of highest rank, the most intelligent, the most respected, that they caa find to be their leaders. irhe Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 7. The Queen walked in the grounds this morning accompanied by Princess Louise. Princess Beatrice went out also. Mr. Arthur Helps and Miss Helps left Osborne to-day. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Bahamas. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Dismvli an iced in town yL,.O rday from Hughenden Manor. RBITRATION PROPOSED TO THE UNITED STATES. We ( rsu,) have authority to state that, in reply to a communic.ition received from the government of the United States, her Majesty's minister at Washington has been instructed to ascertain whether that government is prepared to accept the principle of arbitration upon the pending differences arising out the late civil war, pro vided an agreement can be come to as to the points to which such arbitration should apply. ' out resources, and did not knew where to sleep. A considerable purse was subscribed for their imme diate wants by the reporters and others in court. The rest were found guilty (of what precise offence I cannot collect), and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, varying from three to ten years. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the Correctional Tri bunal of Paris delivered judgment in the case of the alleged secret society known as the affair of the Cafd de la Renaissance. All the accused — those who appeared as well as those who made default (22 in all)—were found guilty, and sen tenced to terms of imprisonment varying from three to fifteen months. In addition one of them was fined 500 fr., and most of the others 100 fr. The upward movement at the Bourse, accelerated by systematic purchases in the Rents, announced for some time to come on the part of public establish ments, makes decided progress. Reute rose to-day 20c., closing at 70fr. 20c., both for cash and ac count. Mobilier rose 3fr. 73c. ; Credit Foncier, 2fr. 50c. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte, sfr. Italian was without change. Although there are so many versions of Victor Emmanuel's New Year's speech that we do not know here exactly what he said, it seems, I think, pretty clearly established by explanations that he merely expressed (perhaps in ill-chosen terms) his wish as a soldier that the cadres of his army should not be weakened, but had not in view any ex pected contingency of a war. THE CONVICTS UNDER SENTENCE OP DEATH AT MAIDSTONE. Although some ef f orts have been made to pro cure a commutation of the capital sentence passed upon the woman Anne Lawrence, who was convicted at the recent grand gaol delivery for the county of Kent, before Baron Channell, of the murder of her child, a boy four years of age, by cutting his throat, it appears that they have been unsuccessful. A communication was received yesterday by Mr. F. Scudamore the acting undersheriff for the county of Kent. from Mr. Walpole, the Home Secre tary, to the effect that the government had carefully coo sidered all the circumstances connected with the crime of which the prisoner was convicted, and they are unable to discover anything that would justify the execu tive in recommending her to the clemency of the crown. It has been already stated that, although the wretched woman persisted, even after sentence of death had been passed upon her, in declaring that she was innocent, and asserted that the murder was committed by her paramour, which was the defence set up for her at the trial, almost immediately afterwards she confessed her guilt, and made a detailed statement of the circumstances under which the murder was committed. According to this statement, it appears that the p risoner represented that she was so maddened by the infidelity of the man with whom she was cohabiting, that she was almost beside herself, and the thought suddenly struck her that she would murder him and the child, and that when she went downstairs in the morning to get breakfast, leaving her companion in bed asleep, she saw the razor, and resolved at once to carry out her deadly intention. She first destroyed the cum by cutting his throat, and it appears from her statement that he died without a struggle. She then attacked the man with the billhook, but he awoke at the first blow and seized her, and she was thus prevented from carrying out her inten tion to destroy his life. There seems to be very little doubt that if she had succeeded in killing the man Walter Frighten she would have destroyed her own life, and that it was only when she found that she was unable to carry out this intention that she resolved to endeavour to fix the crime upon her paramour, and during the many months that she had been in custody, she persisted in the meet extraordinary man• ner in asserting that this was really the case. The earnest manner in which she asserted her innocence to Mr. Hughes, the professional gentleman who conducted her defence, produced a strong belief in his mind that she was speaking the truth, and it has since transpired that the learned judge who tried her, Baron Channell, was to some extent impressed with the opinion that there really was some doubt in the case, and the life of the prisoner might pro bably have been spared, if she had not made the eon fesnon of her guilt. The case then, of course, assumed a very different aspect, the crime of the prisoner being very much aggravated by the persistent attempt she had made to fix it upon an innocent person ; ~and the Home Secretary did not feel himself justified in in terfering with the course of the law. Since her conviction the wretched woman appears to have conducted herself very well, and she seems to be sincerely penitent, and to be prepared to undergo the penalty of the law. She is only twenty-eight years old, and is what may be considered a tall good-looking woman, evidently possessed of very great determination and courage. With regard to the other culprit, James Fletcher, who was convicted of the delibe rate murder of one of the warders of the Chatham Convict Prison, where the prisoner was confined under a sen. team of seven years' penal servitude for a robbery accompanied by violence, it was felt from the first that the case was of such a description as to preclude all chance of the government interfering, and the culprit, who is a remarkably fine young man only 20 years of age, appears from the very moment of his apprehension to have been prepared for what be considered the inevitable result of his act. The execution of a woman at Maidstone ap pears to be almost unprecedented, no record of a similar occurrence having taken place, at all events within a very long period, being in existence. This execution will take place on Thursday morning at 12 o'clock. THE pßoroszn 116111 ,, N9TRATION AT WEATIMISTKR. The Dual/ we deprecates the resolution of the council of the nefurui League to bring about a demonstration at Westminster, and says such advice would lead those who might follow it into a position in which their best friends would find it impossible to stand by them. Not only would the people be unconsciously playing into the hands of their enemies, but the proposal is in itself repugnant to morality and common sense, and is a descent to chicanery and charlatanism. The working classes of this country have a great and just cause ; they have no thing either to affirm or to ask which may not be pro claimed on the housetops. Why, then, are they naked to stoop to a trick, anti present themselves at the House of Commons under false pretences! The House of Com mons should be treated, not according to the merits of its members who conic anal go, but according to its institu tional rank and value. There should then be no un seemly thronging about its gates, nothing which the enemies of the people can interpret as an attempt to over bear its deliberations. MR. GARTH, M.P., AND MR. BRIUHT, The following letter from Mr. Garth, M.P., closes the correspondence:—" Temple. Jan. s.—Sir, —ln acknow ledging your letter of the 4th inst., I only think it neces nary to observe that the conclusion at which you say you have arrived, and which you are pleased to express in such elegant phrase, is to me a matter of the most perfect indifference. Whether your opinion of me is correct or not I shall leave to those who know me better to deter mine. lam quite aware that I am not your match in the use of disc nirteous and insulting language, and therefore, instead of concluding my letter in the agreeable form which you have thought proper to adopt, I beg to sub scribe myself, with conventional courtesy, your obedient servant, RICHARD GARTH.—John Bright, Esq., M.P." The Tefrgrapit Bays :—" It is stated that Sir Morton Peto is about to retire from the representation of Bristol ; the candidate fu: the vacant seat is expected to be Sir Hairy Hosre." THE LATE GALES.-FATAL SHIPWRECK. LIZARD, CORNWALL, J.uc. 7. I have to report (Bays the Rev. P. Vyvyan Robinson), that as I was leaving the house for church yesterday morning shortly before 11 o'clock, a fanner arrived from Mullion village and informed me that a schooner was at anchor near that place in very great jeopardy. Immediately the lifeboat of the National Life boat Institution on this station was got out and quickly drawn on her transporting carnage by ten horses to that locality, but sad to say we found we were too late, as the vessel had gone ashore shortly before our arrival and all hands had unhappily been drowned. The greatest seal was shown by the lifeboat crew and helpers in getting the bunt to Mullion Cove, and we were only forty minutes in getting there from the lifeboat-house. The Portlileven lifeboat, which likewise belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, haul also been taken towards the scene of the wreck, but she could not be got there in time. BL.-IKF.NEY, NORFOLK, Jas. 7. The sloop Emma, of Portsmouth, was seen during very ' bail weather with a signal of distress flying. The Bright well lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was launched as soon as possible in a very heavy sea, and on reaching the vessel, found she was riding close to the broken water about a mile to the west of the harbour in great danger. The lifeboat anchored to windward, and dropis.l down to the sloop, the crew of which were pre g leave her, and in the state of the sea this would paring to leave her, and in the state of the sea this would have been attended with very great danger, and their boat would nearedy have had a chance of living. The lifeboat then put some men on board the sloop, and hauled her off by the lifeboat's anchor, her own cable being jammed be tween the int and the windlass. A steam tug was then signalled for, and the vessel was safely towed into har bour. The lifeboat had to be dragged some distance over the sands to enable her to be launched. CARDIGAN, MoNi AT. The Manchester lifeboat, the John Stuart, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was this morning hap pily the means of rescuing in a heavy gale of wind the crew of three men of the sloop Clever Lloyd, of Cardigan, and three men belonging to the smack Turtle Dove, of Ab erystwitb. which had dragged their anchors and drifted out into Cardigan Bay. The services of the lifeboat were most gallantly performed. Owing to the violence of the gale the lifeboat had great di ffi culty in finding a safe place for launching. LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEA,JAN. 7. During very rough weather a schooner was observed in a perilous poeitiun, and the Manchester lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, the John Gray Bell, was at once taken along shore on her transporting car riage to a spot opposite the vessel, and then launched through the surf. She was then taken to windward of the schooner and anchored, and on veering alongside they found the crew were desirous to leave their vessel, although the master refused. The wind shifting a little to the northward the lifeboat then slipped the cable of the vessel and brought her into Llanildwyn Roads, the vessel being leaky and the crew thoroughly worn out. The schooner was the Zillah, bound from the River Plate to Liverpool, with a cargo of prepared manure. The master states that the coxswain and crew of the lifeboat behaved very well. TRAMORE (IRELAND), MONDAY. The Cambridge University Boat Club lifeboat, the Tom Egan, rendered yesterday (reports Mr. James lludd) some valuable service to a shipwrecked crew. The French schooner Ainmenion, of Nantes, MN observed un manageable in the bay with loss of rudder and rigging , . The lifeboat of the i National Life boat Institution immediately put off to the help of the shipwrecked crew, and ultimately succeeded in bringing the whole of them, five in number, safely ashore. One of them had one of his knees put out of joint, while getting into the lifeboat ; but Dr. Kennedy immediately attended to his came and the man is now doing well. It should be mentioned that the Hon. D. Fortesoue generously took the shipwrecked crew to his house and provided for their wants. THE PRINCE OF WALK.; AND THE POLES.—We have much pleasure in recording an act redounding to the honour of the Prince of Wales's private character. While in St. Petersburg, during his last visit, he solicited of the Emperor of Russia, as a personal favour, the liberation of Count Staub'las Zamoyaki (son of Count Andrew Zamoy. ski), confined in Siberia, which request was readily and gracefully acceded to. The count has since returned to Warsaw, to the great joy of his family, who, no lees than the whole Polhill nation, feel most grateful to his royal highness for his noble conduct.—!Sorer. SCOTCH PRESBYTERIANS IN Romit.—The dangers which are supposed to surround the temporal power of the Holy See have not rendered it more tolerant than hereto fore in spiritual matters, judging from the question now pending between the Governor of Rome and the clergy men and congregation of the Beach Presbyterian Church, whose prayer meetings in this city have been tolerated, if not authorised, for the last three years, but are now de nounced by Monsignors Randi as contrary to the principles and practice of the Roman government. The Rev. Messrs. Williamson and Lewis have been in the habit, during the above-mentioned period, of officiating at their own residences to members of the Scotch Kirk residing in or visiting Rome, without any molestation from Monidgnore Matteuan, so long as that prelate was Governor of Rome and Minister of Police; but it seems that Monsignore Randi, his sucomor, is less liberal, for be lately forwarded a communicati on to Mr. Severn, the British Consul, purporting that the Roman government could no longer tolerate such heretical prayer meetings as those held by the two Scotch clergymen, and inviting the I consul to intimate to them that unless they desisted front such practices in future they would be speedily sent out of Rome. Mr. Severn accordingly in formed the rev. gentlemen that they had fallen under the ben of the Inquisition, and advised them to endeavour, in a personal interview with the governor, to soften the rigour of his sen tence. Mr. Le wis; went with the consul's secretary, Mr. Fran, to Monsignors Randi for that purpose, but failed in obtaining the authorisation which he requested, to continue his ministrations. He has not yet desisted, however, relying on his undisturbed precedent of three years. r. Odo Russell having been consulted by the consul, is exerting his influence with Cardinal Antonelli to prevent the prohibition of meetings of so purely private • character, and so entirely free from proselytism among the Romans themselves. It seems ridiculous to allow a church of England service outside of the Port del Popolo, and yet to forbid a Presbyterian one within. Meanwhile the servioes are continuing on their usual limited scale. The congregation last Sunday consisted of 31 persons, among whom were the Duke of Argyll and his family.— Correspondent of the Pere at Rome. THE EARTHQUAKE IN ALOIRIUI.—The following is from a _private letter :—" Campagne du —, Alger, Jan. 3.—My dear --,—l think it will interest you to hear about our earthquake. Yesterday morning, at n. 30, I was awakened by a strange noise, and started op crying, What is the matter and said, ' Don't be frightened, it's only an earthquake !' The room shook and rocked, and we dressed as fast as we could, to go downstain to be ready to run out. In about ten minutes we had another slight shock. We went downstairs to have tea, and at 8.30 we had three shocks coming rather quickly one after the other, one so strong that it made the Arab lamp in the drawing-room rattle again. The first and worst shake lasted 28 seconds, the others not so long. At 9 o'clock, we drove down to town, stopping on the way at Mr. C— 'a house to see how they all were. The wall of the house was split in two places. although it is a strong old Moorish house. The first shock at our house cracked the plaster in Mrs. B—'s room all across the ceiling and down the wall. She was very much frightened, and thought the house would come down. When we got into the town we found all the streets full of people, whole families waiting in the Place du Theitre to be taken into the country, and as it was raining the poor things looted very draggled. The Jews are the most timid, and were all out of their houses; those who had no country place to go to sitting in groups in the place, huddled together. Such a strange sight altogether. We are very anxious to know how it boa been in the interior, as we don't know exactly where B— and M— might be, and the lice of quake seems to be from the in tenon It has been • curious and interesting experience, and I hope may stop there. If only the French would take warning, and cease to build houses of six stories high ! But people never heed the kindly warnings nature gives, and so one day thousands of people may be de stroyed. There are reports of very bad things from the neighbourhood of Blidah, but we trust it is all false. The damage done here is certainly small—houses cracked, and perhaps one or two old ones have fallen. The Virgin and all her surroundings fell off the altar in the cathedral, they say (but I don't believe Certainly, the pots and pans in Mrs. C—'s house did, however. Our house has not suffered much, only plaster cracked." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE PONTIFICAL. DEBT. " Count Sartigea," says the Journal du Havre, " in leaving for Rome took with him from Paris two millions of francs for the Vatican, and within the last few days four millions additional have been added. When the pontifical debt was being arranged for, the cabinet of Florence declared that it could not constitutionally execute the pecuniary part of the convention until after the latter should have been laid before the cham bers and received their sanction. The French government took notice of this promise of Italy to pay, subsequently to the vote in March next, the sums falling due at that period, and at once offered spontaneously to the Pope six millions in hard cash, which the Italian government could not possibly pay op in December. Pius IX. gratefully accepted. The French government will reimburse itself out of the sums which Italy has to pay to the Holy See in March ; these payments, according to the convention, having to be made through France, since the angry relations between the cabinet of Florence and the Vatican do not permit ' them to hold any communication on subjects of a political kind." ITALY AND ROME. The Liberti publishes the following letter, dated Fl"rence, January 4 : Professor Dominique Berti, Minister of Public Instruc tion, left this place yesterday evening for Rome, under the pretence of a journey to Naples, to which place he will indeed go in a few days. The object of M. Bern is this : He is commissioned to offer an Italian garrison to the Pope as the only certain means of preventing • revolution in Rome. The moderating influence of the Roman Committee, which sits here, is every day becoming less powerful, and the only mode of supporting the Pope is evidently that which M. Berti proposes. Moreover, the King is resolved to finish with the Roman question. On New Year's-day, after his address to the deputation of the Chambers, he spoke to Visconti Venosta, the Minister of Fo reign Affairs. He insisted on the necessity of maintaining the army, and added that he was weary of the tergiversa tion and slowness of the court of Rome ; that if some result was not come to soon, he would mount his horse and go to Rome, if Rome would not come to Italy. Although these words have not been reported they are nevertheless the subject of conversation, and have produced a profound impression, the more so, as it is known that Victor Emmanuel, though he is sometimes indiscreet, does not speak at random, and that his language has always been justified by events. THE UNITED STATES. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS AGAINST PRESIDENT JOHNSON. The Tinws has received the following telegram (by the Atlantic cable) from its correspondent at Washington. " The House has passed a resolution directing a committee to inquire into offences (committed by) the President by a hundred and eight Ayes to thirty-eight Noes. This is the first step to an impeachment. The Radicals are determined to press it. The President has vetoed the Negro Suffrage Bill." _r_ (RITTZIOI TELEORAMS.) THE FRENCH IN COCHIN CHINA. PARIS, lAN. 8. Official despatches have been received from Admiral Roze, to the 17th of November. After several exploring expeditions, in which the French were always successful, the admiral seeing that the King of Corea took no further steps in the nego tiations already opened, and fearing that winter might interrupt navigation in the river, decided upon leaving Kanghea, after destroying all the government establishments and the royal 'palace. " The destruction of the Kanghoa," continues the despatch, " will have proved to the Corean govern ment that the murder of the French missionaries was not to remain unpunished." General Montebell o has been nominated a senator. The subscription to the loan recently contracted by the Spanish government with French bankers will be open from the 12th to the 14th inst. ANOTHER SHOCK OF EARTHQUAKE IN ALGERIA. MARSEILLES, J•x. 8. Intelligence received here from Algeria an nounces that another shock of earthquake was felt there on the morning of the 4th inst. during the prevalence of a very heavy rain. No mishaps had occurred. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM Ova OWN COIRIGIVIDWIT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The verdict and sentences in the terrible affair of the Levant Island mutiny were pronounced at Draguignan yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. There are discrepancies in the telegrams which make it impossible to understand the precise nature of the verdict. According to the Muniteur du Svir the jury found that there was no " premeditation " in the burning to death of the 13 lads in the buttery. But inasmuch as without premeditation there can be no murder, and the indictment alleged no case of murder except the burning of the 13, one cannot understand how it can be that four of the prisoners deemed the most guilty were, although they obtained extenuating circumstances, sentenced to a punishment only one degree below death, namely, perpetual imprisonment with hard labour. I think it will turn out that the Muniteur is mistaken in reporting that the jury eliminated premeditation. M. Lecoudray, the lighthouse keeper, the only man in the colony who showed courage, distinctly deposed that he, while going with a wet blanket around him to try to rescue at least some of the burning children, was prevented, pelted, beaten, and thrown into a ditch, where his leg was broken. This M. Le coudray was highly complimented by the presiding judge and the Procureur-Imperial. He was brought from Toulon to Draguignan by a special order of the court in a railway bed-carriage, at tended by four hospital dressers, and was brought into court to give his evidence in a litter. Ho was an old sailor, and was vehemently ap plauded when he said he never remembered shed ding tears in his life till he saw those poor children burning to death at the windows, and was able to do nothing to save them. He declared he did not at the titre feel the pain of his broken thigh, so deep was his emotion at the horrors he witnessed. In the course of the trial the presiding judge and the Procureur-Imperial repeatedly made sarcastic remarks upon the governor of the colony, M. Fauveau, and most of the officers under him, and very clearly reiterated their opinion that the mutiny might have been crushed in the beginning, but for culpable weakness on the part of the authorities. Several of the young villains are found to have acted " without discernment," and will conse quently be kept in a house of correction till the age of 21. Two, named Lecoy and Gueneau, were acquitted. They, with remarkable presence of mind, at once told the judge that they were with- COMPULSORY EDUCATION. At the Salford Epiphany Sessions, which com menced yesterday, the Chairman (Mr. A. Milne), in charging the grand jury, said the state of education dis closed in the calendar was very lamentable and deplorable. Of 69 prisoners, four were well educated, 14 could read but could not write, 29 could read and write imperfectly, and 22 could neither read nor write at AIL Judges from time immemorial up to the present time—and the remark ap plied more strongly to quarter sessions and the superior courts—had been crying out and begging the country to take into consideration the state of the education of the people. It was really shocking to see so much ignorance as must be rife amongst the lowest class of the community, as evidenced by the state of these calendars. They were told to train up a child in the way it should go, and when it was old it would not depart from it; aid they might depend upon it the converse of that was also true—that if they did not train a child at all, but let him run about the streets when he ought to be at school, that child, unless he was very fortu..ate indeed, would come to grief and destruction. They would always have calendars full so long as they allowed such a state of things to continue. He was glad to say that the country seemed at last to be awakening 4 . to the neoessi of giving these children some education. They werebeginn ing to fi nd now that taking the very lowest view o it, it was cheaper and certainly better to prevent children committing crime than to punish them by sending them to gaol after they had committed it. Some of the grand jury were probably aware that several efforts had been made in this city for the purpose of edu cating the lowest class of the community. A society had been formed, and had now been in operation for two or three years, and was doing its best to remedy the evil. Their object was to give assistance to poor parents to send their children to echooL That society had done a great deal of good, and they had now come forward and stated at a public meeting in Manchester that it WY their unani mous and deliberate opinion, formed after considerable study of the subject, that nothing would be of any avail with the lower classes of the community but compulsory education. When they considered of what that society was composed—that it was not composed of one particular sect, but that its members were composed of all shades of politics, and of a great variety of religious opinions—and when these gentlemen thus came forward, after giving the subject a great .leal of their consideration, and stated that it was their deliberate opinion that nothing would avail but compulsory education, their opinion was entitled to vm e great weight. He was happy to say they had cnged public opinion in the town, and that by • very large majority they bad carried their resolutions. They carried the approval of the meeting to a bill making education compulsory, and further providing for it by a small rate of 6.1. in the pound. The objections which had been made to that bill appeared to him to be extremely weak. The rate would certainly not fall heavily on any but the poorest classes, and if they got cheap education for their children they would in the long run be decidedly the gainers. Whatever might be the fate of that bill, it would, at all events, have the effect of calling the atten tion of parliament to the subject. He trusted that it would meet with a favourable reception, because he was quite sure the country had up to this time grossly neglected the education of what might be called the lowest claim of the community, and it was;,iniposaible to have anything but large calendars and a great amount of crime while children were allowed to learn everything that was bad by the neglect of their parents. Feeling very deeply on the subject, he hoped and trusted that something niight be done to remove • state of things in which we contrasted very unfavourably with many foreign countries. It appears that the Prussians are so unpopular at Frankfort, that when the burghers give a party they send out cards with "S. P." in the corner. This is meant for Sans Pry/since—no Prussians will be present. The " Cupidines Veneresque" of the cafés ehantants at Paris are in a state of collapse. Theresa is suffering from a temporary loss of her voice, and is compelled pro tem. to retire from the stage. Suzanne Lagies has been engaged as a substitute at 240/. per month. The "muse of the gutter," as M. Veuillot puts it, is not undervalued in France. SERIOUS GALE IN THE DIETROPOLIS. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AND LOSS OF LIFE. The gale of last night and this morning has occasioned, not only destruction of property, but we regret to add, loss of life. Between 5 and 6 o'clock this morning, the gale was at its height. The wind was chiefly from S.W. and S.S.W., but it frequently blew with sudden squall. from all points of the compass, and it was then that the most damage was done. So strong was the wind that on the Brighton and South Coast, the South Eastern, and the London, Chatham, and Dover railways, it was with difficulty the drivers of trains during the night could make bead against it, and they were necessarily late in reaching their various termini. The guards state that for at least 60 miles on the south coast the wind for three hours blew with the force of a hurricane, tearing up small trees by the roots, and in many places strewing the lines with broken branches, so that great caution was rendered necessary in running the trains. Indeed, their statements are fully borne out by the appearance of one or two of the parka. Below bridge, near Deptford, two men belonging to • yea eel from Goole were drowned by a boat, in which they had been ashore, being capsized by a sudden squall. Ons belonged to London, and the other to Goole. PUBLIC COMPANIES IN CHANCERY. (THIS DAY.) ThM morning at the chambers of the Master of the Rolls, Chancery-lane, • number of summonses in public companies were taken. The first was in the CONTRACT CORPORATION COMPANY. The question involved here was whether or not General Seeger, ore Mr. De Rosa, should stand liable on the list of contributories, in respect of an alleged transfer of shares in this now defunct concern. Kr. Linklater, jun., appeared for the official liquidator, and asked leave to examine and cross-examine the appli• cant and others concerned in the so-called transfer. It was, he alleged, a fiction from beginning to end. Mr. Hope, of Ely-place, for General Seeger, denied this last assertion. The Chief Clerk (Mr. E. E. Church) granted the order, the question of costs to be decided when the cause was disposed of. BIRIIINOHAW BANKDIG CO PANT. In the mat;;;;;ltbeiiir;;;ingban Bank, Mr. Dale (Dale and Stretton), for the official liquidators, applied for the sanction of the Court to a contract for the sale of some portion of the property of the bank. The Chief Clerk granted the required order. EARNED 'S BANNING COMPANY. In the matter of Harried's Banking Company, 'even summonses were in the paper, invoicing in all of them ap plications to vary the chief clerk's certificate, by striking names out of the list of contributories. . . Mr. Lording (Freshfield and Newman), appearing for the official liquidator, said that in the summonses taken out by Messrs. Linklater, on behalf Wells, Osborne, and Chappell, there were no affidavits, and they bad stood over since the 20th of June last for an affidavit. But if the chief clerk chose to make any order he would not oppose it. The Chief Clerk said that all the summonses would stand over generally until after the discussion on the 401. call which was to come before the Master of the Rolls on Saturday. But it would be on. derstood that if the leading case, which was selected, was decided in favour of the shareholders, many of then summonses would not be resided. Mr. Loriling said most certainly. The matter stood over accordingly. ENOLISH AND FOREIGN CREDIT COMPANY ( LIMITED).-( THIS DAY.) A special meeting of the shareholders was held at 1 o'clock ; Mr. GEORGE SHEWARD in the chair ; for the confirmation of the resolution passed on the 13th of De. cember, for the winding up of the old company volun. hazily, and the formation of a new company in its place. I The CHAIRMAN, in moving the confirmation of the resolution, observed that of course the old company would indemnify the new one; adding that the creditors of the concern were perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, and if necessary there would he a written declaration to that effect, and further that care would be taken to avoid the liability of 42/. per share. In reply to a question from Mr. Mowarr, The CHAIRMAN stated that the actual number of shares at present was 11,24(). Mr. Mowarr thought the directors could hardly desire to divide the remuneration of 3,000/. per annum, pro. vided for with such a small capital as 70,000/. or 80,000/. The CHAIRMAN, is reply, observed that he had staled at the previous meeting that the directors did not intend to take in the first year more than _,05N4. The resolution was adopted unanimously. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TVISDAT, JA7II -, ,ila 8, 8 L. W. 3. 7. - - - Nab ' 286731 9.K Abordass 2B 81 40 N. Leith 2B 61 48 N.H. Ardrosian 28.61 40 K Valentla. 28.78 48 N.W. 2261 49' &W. sew 29.13 52' &W. ;=.288852 W. s?. 51 W.S.W. London 28.71 5t W.B. W. Yarmouth— 21.77 49 &W. emarboraggh. 28.61 47 8.8.6. Welds 26.50 46 8.16. Etaidar V. R. Se& . R. 112 12 7. D. it 1, 1 ! 1 I N. ! kr 0.06 3 I rf 0 to 1 I 0 1 o 0.2.1 I 9 7 W. 5 5 5.8. W. n oe 0 r 0.51 6 - - - - 8 9 es. W. or 0.73 B 12 B.W. oc 037 7 10 10 &kW r 0.24 9 0 11 B.W. cur o.la - 9 10 S.S.W. no 0.33 6 2 8 S. ro 0.143 2 3 S.W. o 3 - - REMARKS. Lest night there was a very heavy southerly gale on one mink. em coasts; this niornhig the wind hav veered to the west+ iml and generally moderated. hut at Valentin. where it has Iwo.. N.W., it has again Increased in strewth. On our northern coots high easterly winds prevail. Millimeters In the British isle• sre everywhere below 2y Inches, but are rising in the west issl mouth. Rain has again fallen on all our coasts. The church of England clergymen of the parish of Manchester have resolved upon a protest against ex. trains ritualism. This resolution was made at a privue meeting in the mayor's parlour yesterday, at which it a said sixty gentlemen were present. The protest will take the form of a memorial to the bishop of the diocese. Henry Keep, who has just been elected presi dent of the New York Central Railroad, is, as his prede cessor was, a man raised by his own exertions from poverty to great wealth. When Mr. Keep was an apprentice DO master had occasion to "advertise " hits as a runaway. He preserves with great care an old newspaper containing the following notice : [Cut—Boy with bundle on his arm.]—" Run away from the subscriber, Henry Keep, an indentured apprentice. All persons are forbid truetin; him on my amount, as I shall pay no debts of his con tractiing.—J. Oiteireoens."—Mr. Keep is now the owner of property worth 2,000,000 dots. A Berlin letter says :—"The Berlin Opera ha been in some danger of losing its principal ornament. through the threatened resignation of Madame Lin, For some time past there has been an intrigue again her, and her enemies have given vent to their feelings loud Meats and other signs of disapprobation on 0..-1 instant of her appearance on the stage. On Thurs.l..! last, when she sang in the II tqmencte, the annoyance 5 4 so great that she has since intimated her intention throwing up her engagement. The intendantur of IL. royal theatres, however, has protested against thee cal' seemly demonstrations, and I believe she has consentol ro remain for the present. The reason alleged for hvr un• popularity among a certain set is the fact that she on. fined her invitations to a recent Deltic to the aristocrat!, and, with the single exception of Fraulin von Edelslerg. none of her fellow-artists were present." Nine first-class theatres have been burned in the United States within the past ten months. Pike's House, Cincinnati, March 22 ; New York Acad,..n.y .f Music, May 22; Metropolitan Theatre, St. Louis, May 31 ; Cincinnati Academy of Music, July 12 ; Lou's" Theatre, October 12 ; Varieties Theatre, Nieliville. N , vember 4 ; Phoenix Theatre, Petersburg, Virginia, No,, • • her 18 ; Orleans Theatre, New Orleans, December 7 : No' Bowery, December 18. Tux ABYSSINIAN PRISONER-S.—Further int,".i• genoe has, we learn, been received respecting the mission to Abyssinia. Private letters (von Magdala, th th of November, state that Mr. )taseam, Liwten Pri , and Dr. Blanc, though still in chains, woe that tuue in perfect health. His Savage Higlines- King seems to have been treating the captives pretty s. l Each had a room to himself, each was attended by I' s own servants, and all were provided with rations. NI did King Theodore's acts of politeness stop at those Is , vileges. He was constantly sending messages to asl, he the prisoners were, and how they were getting on. Wst great courtesy he told them to keep up their spirits. he was their friend. But he does not seem to have she* , any sign of willingness to set them free. A reply front him to Mr. Ftad's letter, however, was expected at 31a" sowa about the 211th of Deoamber.— Telegraph. The prisoner p John Sullivan, spid he was a lab was in the Si. Wbitechapel, a string. Mr. Payne—A Witness—lt is Mr. Payne—Ml 'Witness— Yes, The goat was ■ ction to his amt. When I did not seem to round and round • bleating noise, rapt the business amidst shouts of Evidence resu who were in the the goat from mi Vied to follow th tented. John Pales, 9'i the public-house Prosecutor then into custody. The jury Acepe4 LA CO (Be The bankrui reef, and of 'on and ditch Mr. Aldtidg. for the b It appeared aster, in I. since been Mr. Michael bankrupt I payment. His Honour ted the on This was an the assignees, which he had 1 Mr. Bagley posed it. It appeared Kenyon, the a of the b referred I your of the a 'Tod by Mr. I • counter I • the estate. After some d His Honour • a week, CENTS Janes Mira r and Post-oi • a letter 6(1 y's Postmaa, Mr. Metcalfe, •y Mr. Peacock • for the 1 Mr. Pater. This was the means of a t complaints 11 • h the prim r, with six, :Nth Dece tioner, living • a prisoner's • ones, to whom th the non-d, • letter in gut • • the prisons . • named May • .filderagate-st • e marked she 4 Mr. Pater sa • therefore defence. E erciful consid ed in the C, • all pension, • • • co his preset The jury retu The Recordet • conviction ••urt would not such cases. with hard taboo THE ACTIN Mr. Sleigh ms —that the recol manslaughter at Etited to the , erted at the fifteen wil attend before th out of that num Wee were in ati been very recd felt that under t able to prefer s but that the hes stand over to th The Recordez , < *bat the charge v dents for south, present one, and made with a vie, not be tried upo, MIDI fr' Mieharl Cowie, for stealing a g Sullivan. ABBArLTING A k A respectable.lc Nom charged witl sOunstable employ. It appeared th g'th ve up to the th to pay the far. box li tairs. 1 an.ling psyno the prisoner 'which he replied I With his list. 11. et the boxes, but 110 admit him, and plashed him out. Showered about a lag cane. A com ipelsouer was given ~0 This was corral er, and by the The prisoner a.i. aviug in the s ok. lie menti ould lose if he v The magistrate I the prisoner, w nrnent within willing to cause or be imprisut .The fine w., pai A ,T 1 r... Mr. • hIM. M 'take Newin t lg . on, rtitg menacing - lan k ; es, Albion-i Latin. The eomplainan his, and as he h Put a distraint .11 ditch, and as soot at hie 41 nor agitihe would rip that he would whil front half-peat i; t, tfaually sent for %and during th, faidant's violent c hfr. Barker said 'Washed of his debt w hitewashing a ni teas the defendant The defendant a Via afraid that th herrn. Harriet Palme r, 'e heard th e .h master, and that a Ilse. Cit the defendant .1 " 4 40a2Plaiaaat THE