The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

ip BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. R, —CrainAAMBRA PALACE. .I.lu Three Benda d Concert Promenade. Eight o'clock. One Shilling. Cite erpregio. TG CORIPX9rINDINTR. ldrortironants intended for Tin Taprna." Loniou graft nun be at no Oen, 10, loilvirkrinveit, try Two on W 4ar of publication. HAYMARIKT. Tate EVEII2IO. THE ilairlN-HEARTED C1,178.—A WIFE WELL WON. Nam. doalions. Backstone, Howe, Kendal. Rogers, Braid. Weathenby, to ; aod hdlr Rabertoon.—After which AN UrTE.B. PEE-Y=BlON OY TILE BILIOAND. PRINCESES TED Emu No, THE OCTOROON. Mr. and MN. Dion Dan& dolt, Mr .1. S. Clarke, Mr. Vining, & Miss simmv—After wkleh ARRAN NA POGUE. Mr. and Mrs. D. &maw,* Mr. Vining, Mew% Murray, NevWe, et Afore: MIN Barnett and Ilre. Addle. Thu EVIIIITNO. OLD SALT. Mr. awry and Hlm Nally Moms. —After which THZ CALIPH OP BAODAD. Mews. Morse and James ; Mesdames Ada fnusborough, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, de—And COAL AND COKE. BRITANNIA. TW wren's. UPSIDE DOWN.—DON QUIXOTE. Mrs. 8. Lane, St Mimes Edwin and Booth : Pantondmists Messrs. Deane, Louis, Newham, and Tletorelll ; Willis C Stardom and Visa Rose Nathan.—To conclude with THE PRAIRIE FLOWER. HIGH HAT= AT LONDON . BRIDOL DAt —Morning, 4h. ram.. —.Afternoon, 4h. 2.5 a. fo-Ilor.tow—Mornlag, 4h. 47m— _ „Altarnoon, Sn. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11. THE capture of Captain MACKAY is an event of some importance. The Government is laying its hand one by one upon the presumed instigators and leaders of Fanianism. It is patiently tracking them out and running them down. It has tho chief of them now in hold. Unless the strong circumstances of suspicion which have led to the arrest and committal of the prisoners in England and Ireland be rebutted or involved in reasonable doubt on trial, the hope maybe entertained that the worst is over, and that Mr. Secretary HARDY will soon be able to lay aside the involuntary character of Chief Commissioner of Police, and reassume his proper functions of Secretary of State for Home Affairs. Nevertheless, it will he well not to be toe sanguine. The lower political as well as the lower animal organisations have a strange vita lity. There are reptiles whose heads may be cut off, and whose bodies will develop new heads ; which may be divided into fragments, and each fragment will grow into a complete animal. The Fenian Circles are the reptiles of the political world. When the chief of a great cause falls, the calamity may be irreparable. What Italy has lost in CAVOUR, what America has lost in A BRAHAM LINCOLN, no one can tell. But the qualities need- fel to make a Fenian leader are as common as the spirit of criminal violence and reckless adventure. In every haunt of desperate men, in the dens of our great cities, and by the river side of all great ports, there are HIM in scores who have every quality for Fenian command. The Government will do well not to remit its vigilance ; nor to fancy that the conspiracy is slain when its heads for the time being are arrested. This miserable and degrading conflict between the power of England and a handful of Irish and Irish-American adventurers re- semblcs nothing so much as the contest of some majestic animal with a swarm of poisonous in serts which bu :z and sting. We may hope that it is drawing to an end. But over-confidence would invite a renewal of the danger. If the person arrested in Cork as Captain 111Ao l ry price to be the man ho is taken for, and if thu acts of which he is accused or suspected be brought home to I —points which it is fair formally to reserve—his capture is the most im portant that has recently been made. Thu man appears to be the type of the Fenian leader. Mr. MILL and Mr. ltfarritrw Aitxot.o have expressed in terms nearly identical their opinion that the , qualities of the Celtic and of the Saxon races are especially fitted to correct and supplement each other, and to form a moral compound more valuable than either of its sepa rate ingredients. It may be so with respect to their better elements. In the Irish-American, as Fe nianism shows him to us, we have unfortunately an amalgam of the worst qualities of the two races. The lawlessness of the filibuster and the lawlessness of the secret-society man are united in his person. The character formed in the conflict with wild beasts and Red Indians and with the outlaws from civilization in the Far West of America, amid the anti-social violence of the lately Slave States, in Nicaragua raids, and in the bush thwacking of the late civil war, blends with the character formed in Ribbon and Whiteboy lodges, and by agrarian outrages. The adventurous and daring ruffianism o.f a new civilisation meets the crafty and conspiring criminality which is engen dered out of the vices of an old society. The result is Fenianism, as it exhibits itself in the persons of its military leaders. It is deplorable, but it is, we fear, true that in the character of Captain .MACKAY, as it was de scribed by our Cork Correspondent yesterday, and as it is exhibited in the exploits attributed to him, there are elements likely to fascinate the lower and more excitable Of the Irish population. Bold ness and secrecy, the skill which can for many months out-wit and baffle, and the audacity which can brave and defy, an übiquitous and over power, are likely to be appreciated by them above their value. The sort of sympathy with which clioolboys who have got hold of " Jack Sheppard" or " Paul Clifford" read of the daring adventures of Lord Lerrox's or Mr. ArNsworeries interesting burglars and highwaymen, is likely to be roused among the poorer Irish by a career such as Captain MacKaY's. To penetrate into the very strongholds of the law, to defy detect' in the very face of day and under the eyes of the Isdice , to devise ingenious strata gems, to accomplish bold strokes, and to effect hair-breadth escapes, are achievements likely to impress the imagination of a wonder-loving people. The fact that Captain MACKAY, having once been allowed to draw his head out of the lion's jaws, should have deliberately placed it there again, and that a second escape should be followed by a second return to the post of danger—will be looked upon by them rather as proofs of a noble and self-sacrificing courage, than as signs of a reckless foolhardi ness. The boldness and success of the attempt on the Martello Tower at Foaty, and of the plunder of Mr. ALLPORT'S shop in Cork ; the audacity of the assault on the Lallyknockarie Barracks, and of the projected attack on the Ilacroon Castle ; the skill which Mac Kay displayed in concealment and disguise, the circumstances attending his seizure and the violence of his resistance, furnish inci dents which an imaginative and excitable people can easily convert into a romance. The blend ing of dare-devilry and a kind of humour in some of MACK &Y 3 exploits, set off by a spurious patriotism, will appeal strongly to Irish sympathies. The demeanour of the crowd at the time of his arrest showed that it did so. Nothing can tend so much to break the charm which at tracts excitable and foolish people to a character and career of this kind as that which has taken TEE /IXPRESS, place. To have evaded and defied the British Government so long was bfacirasie alibi title to admiration. His capture ' we may hope, will brisk his prestige, and with it that at Footiodtou If it deters imitators, and weakens the popular favour which has hitherto provided them with shelter and concealment, both the Irish people, and the English Government, and the misguided Fenian themselves may rejoice in it. DISTRESIN P 1 • • 1 It is significant that prevails in portions __ which fought against each other at Sadowa. The Prussian administration, which was able to feed between two and three hundred thousand fighting men far away from their own territory, has, ac cording to the following report of Dr. Max Kirsch, which appears in the People's Garette of Berlin, been unable or incompetent to save the families of these soldiers from perishing by starvation. The organisation of taking away life would seem to be' more efficient than the organisation of saving it. Dr. Max Kirsch terminates his report as follows : I am no friend to the present government, but I should have joyfully paid it my tribute of praise and admiration if it had found • remedy for the unspeakable misery of this population. But that has not been done. The province which has abandoned to the state its own glorious name, which saved Prussia, at a cost of unprecedented wares, from foreign domination, has been consigned, in its dis tress, to the bounty of private charity, just like a common beggar. The men who shed their blood at Trau teneau and Sadowa, the widows who gave their last sons for their King and country, have either died of hanger or , been obliged to beg their flour by spoonfuls from door to door. Had not the German people, iucluding the van-, quisbed and despoiled of 1866, intervened with • grand self-devotedness for their brethren in the far East, hunger and sickness would have reaped a terrible harvest. The distress of Eastern Prussia is more than a calamity ; it is a grave and solemn accusation against the system which rules our State and the %Resent administration in par ticular. The future will pronounce judgment in the matter. The Austrian Poles seem to be no better off than the East Prussiana, and the Vienna government as incapable as that of Berlin. The Gaeta Narociorea of Lemburg gives the fol lowing melancholy picture of distress in Galicia : The immense quantity of snow which fell two months back, and which does not seem likely to melt for some time to come, has aggravated the misery of the people in the rend districts, already suffering from a series of bed crops, and this year rendered completely ,destitute by inundations such as bad not been seen for a long time. A swarm of squalid pale-faced men dicants have again appeared, as was seen in 1846 and 18.15, when in the district of Juelski one-fifth of the population died from hunger. Private aid is being solicited and dis tributed, but that mode of relief is of little avail, as the great landowners were the first to suffer, and many are now on the brink of ruin. There is, besbles, no hope of any present relief, as there are still two months of winter before us. --•--- Russia, who is said to be prompting the Greeks, Servians, and Bulgarians, against the Turks, does not appear to be much better off than her neighbours. The St. Petersburg Exchan9e Gazette says : In Viborg, Finland, misery is every day extending, whole families are coming from the north of Finland to ask for employment, and there is no employment for them. Typhus hu become epidemic in Relsingfors, and there are several cases of dropsy—produced, no doubt, by the indigestible food which people are obliged to can as a sub stitute for bread. The Goias says : In Rinsaw, at some distance from Moscow, the peasantry are selling their horses for little or nothing, because they have no food for them—the stores being empty and pro visions at a fabulous price. " In the district of Ephremow." says the Mus covite, " the peasants are buying large quantities of a plant called arrochi, to mix with their flour, so great is the distress in this usually fertile district." SERVIA. The Servian journal Zustawa says: Mithad Naha, Governor of Bulgaria, has just received hem the insurgents of that province a letter bidding him welcome and notifying in due form a declaration of war and the speedy opening of hostilities. During the last fortnight the male inhabitants of the villages at the foot of the Balkan had been leaving their homes to swell the rebel bands in the mountains. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF ANTWERP. QUEENSTOWN, Fan. 10. The Inman steamer City of Antwerp, from New York, arrived here at midnight, with 9 passengers, but no specie. She landed the mails and pas sengers, and proceeded for Liverpool immediately. All well. NEW YOEIC, Fes 1. The House of Representatives has pawed a reso lution instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the truth of a report that a judge of the Supreme Court had, in private conversation, denounced the Reconstruction Act as unconstitu tional, and declared that the Supreme Court would so decide. The committee is instructed to report whether the offence demands impeachment. The committee upon the freedmen's affairs have reported a bill to continue the Freedmen's Bureau until July, 1869. A resolution of the Ohio Legislature, rescinding the constitutional amendment which had been ratified by the previous Legislature, has been referred to the Judiciary Committee for decision as to its legality. A motion has been made before the Supreme Court by the military authorities for the dismissal of the McArdle Test Case, on grounds of want of jurisdiction. Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, has notified the military acting-governor and treasurer that he has filed a bill in the Supreme Court to inhibit them from using the State funds. The Georgia Convention has passed a resolution asking congress to vote a loan to the destitute planters in the South of thirty million dollars on mortgage bonds. At a democratic man meeting that took place at New York on Thursday evening, resolutions were adopted denouncing the course of congress as re volutionary and partisan, and endorsing the acts of President Johnson. The prominent speakers were in favour of Mr. Johnson as a candidate for the presidency. Mr. Thornton, the new British minister, arrived at Washington on Thursday, and would be pre sented to the President on Tuesday. The New York Herald publishes intelligence from Canada, stating that a strong movement had been inaugurated in Nova Scotia for the repeal of the Confederation Act. The Emperor Napoleon has sent Queen Augusta! of Prosaic a pair of Sevres vases, for which her Majesty had expressed great admiration at tie Exhibition. M. Benedetti, the French Ambassador to Berlin, gave a mavddeent hill last week, at which the King sad Queen were present. On entering the bell-room his ex eelleasy presented the Queen with an immense bouquet of Parma violets, sent from Punta to her from the Empress Eugenie. -- The Inralide Rama states that in the town of Doubrawa, government of Minsk, 2,000 Boman cabala, with their earn, named Lake, have beagle eonverted to the areetausnan Tellies. In the town of Jaslew, same district, the former catholic church bobcat to be wawa* biassed sad converted to the purposes of the Greek rile. The committee of the First Swedish Chamber has just dvoide i, by el At votes to seven, In favour of the abolition of capitol punishment. That Taoistic. was adopted contrary to the opinion of the Minister GI Justits, Buis de Ow, wito Is opposed 19 Any awe. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) LORD DERBT AND THE PRE3IIERSHIP. In the face of a future, always onerous, and this year full of dangerous symptoms, the Fames is unwillingly reminded that the First Lord of the Treasury lies ill, and that he has been unable to preside over the cabinet councils which precede the opening of parliament. His lordship's extreme unwillingness to resume the burden of office was put on record by himself, and only his sheer re solution enabled him last year to imfEciently overcome his physical suffering to accomplish the task he had set him ' self to do. Such a state of things places impedimenta in the way of vigorous legislation, and no generous nation can desire to overtax its statesmen. In 1566 Lord Darby expressed his willingness to give way if any combination could be formed under other leadership, and the question arises now whether this could not be done, Much has happened in the interv►l. The weight of rival preten sions has been determined. The relative value of party ser►ices has been ascertained. Qualities of leadership and statesmanship have been discovered. Some differences of sentiment and opinion have doubtless widened and proved themselves irreconcilable ; but others have been found to be nominal rather than real, and are seen to present no obstacle to co-operation. It may be believed that time, which brings all things to light, has made combinations possible which were once thought incapable of realisation. If this be true, and if it be conceded that reasons, personal and national, recommend the relief that the leader of the government declares would be grateful to him, it may be asked whether it is not wiser that a re construction, already foreseen as soon inevitable, should be perfected before the actual labour of parliament begins, rather than be left to be devised in the mid-stream of the session. THE TURITICATION OF TRADE. The Dairy Weir: supporta Mr. Goschen in represaing the cry for legislative enactment to prevent the recent discredit upon trade being repeated, and argues that it is impossible that law can do more in this matter than afford the materials by which the public can protect or direct itself. Government can neither compel honesty on the one side nor attention on the other ; but it can fairly enough prescribe publicity, and secure that the fullest informa tion shall be afforded to all the parties who are concerned in having it. When this is given, it is for the parties to act upon it according to their own discretion. In the matter of bankruptcy we must hit upon some plan by which as much as possible may be got out of the debtor. When he has a fixed inferno in the nature of a salary this may be easily arranged by requiring him to devote a cer tain percentage to the behoof of his creditors ; but the difficulty is in the cases where he has nothing but the pro fits which be may make out of his exertions, if he chooses to exert himself. On this bead Mr. Goschen gave no clear indication of his opinion, beyond the suggestion that a percentage should be paid which should be applied to the payment of old debts. But who is to fix it ? Not the Legislature certainly, for no fixed rule can apply to all cases. Either, then, the court or the creditors, or both. But the difficulty in the way of either acting except with consent of the bankrupt himself will be very great. Mr. Goschen's suggestion that no person who fails to pay his debts in full should be allowed to fill any public office, to sit on a bench of justice, or to act as a director of a com pany is worth considering. Certainly a stigma so marked might do mach in testoting a healthier tone of public feeling. The Pod differs somewhat from Mr. Goschen with re gard to the bankruptcy law. The quarrel of our contem porary with the law is, that under its administration both debtor and creditor find themselves ultimately in the position of the two improvident crows who west to the monkey with their bit of cheese. The property is absorbed, sad nobody that ought to be the better gets anything out of it capable of estimation. By private arrangement, to which Mr. Goschen entertains such strong objection, the creditors of Spooner and Attwootl's bank got, if we remember rightly, 14s. in the pound, and it was estimated by them who understood the question that if they had taken the estate into bankruptcy they would not have got more than half-a-crown. MR. CLADSTOXI AM) THE TRIM CHURCH. The Standard can believe a great deal of Mr. Gladstone, but it would be surprised to find him moving a resolution upon the Irish church which could entail the defeat of the ministry. Such a course would be distinctly factions, and contrary to the rules alike of parliamentary etiquette and political morality. Parliament le morally bound to wait for the report of the royal commission, and the idea that any bill affecting the rights of the Irish church could be carried during the present erasion is simply shawl'. Such a resolution would alienate from Mr. Gladstone all those constitutional liberals who respect political pledgee solemnly given, and rights of property protected by long prescription and parliamentary guarantees. All the libe ral members—and they are many—who ►re interested in Irish landed property, are directly menaced by an attack on the property of the church ; all who have any landed interest whatever are indirectly menaced. THE REESE MTSTERT. The Star observes that the Hey. Henry White seems a very martyr to mysterious messages ; and there are plenty of other stories in the papers which have even less to do with the Speke mystery than his. If a tithe of them be true, it ix plain that London is in a far worse condition than any part of Alaatia or the Mint was in their worst days; and the disappearance of Mr. Space, or of fifty other men equally respectable, is no more to be won dered at than the capture of a traveller by the bri gaod■ of the Abruzzi or Thessaly. The Star must confess that it is rather sseptical about this state of things, and still thinks Mr. Speke's disappearance a strange and startling mystery. It is characteristic of the manner in which public and even official attention is occupied in such cues by irrelevant matter, that while we were being treated to stories of what might, could, or would have happened to various persons at divers times and in all parts of London, the fact that there is a house in Queen's-square to which the missing gentleman might naturally have been Igoing, and not far from where hi. bat was found, only transpired two or three days ago, and had not before been heard of by the police. A contemporary h►s given circulation to the ingenious surmise that Mr. Speke has been carried off by the Fenian., in mistake for Mr. Gotham* Hardy, to whom the miming gentleman is said to bear a striking resem blance. Unfortunately, remarks the Tel the Home Secretary was born in 1814, and is therefore 54 years of age, whereas Mr. Spoke was only about 33. Now, even assuming that Mr. Spoke and Mr. Manly were originally I as like in form and feature as the Siamese twins, twenty years must make sufficient difference between them to render it impossible that even the most foolish of Fenian. could carry off the one for the other. The Celtic con spirators may be affected with judicial blindness, but there is no reason to suppose they have not the use of their eyes. CABllfri COCNCIL.—A cabinet council is ap pointed to be held this afternoon at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing street. We are authorised to state that her Majesty's stay at Osborne being unavoidably prolonged, in consequence of the late illness of his Royal High ness Prince Leopold, the Court which was an nounced for Tuesday, March 3, is postponed till Friday, March 6. Among the numerous tributes paid to the genius and labours of Sir Charles Wheatstone. the Italian Scien tific Association of the Forty lately forwarded to him, through the British Legation in Florence, its annual gold medal for the greatest discoverice in physical science, a medal founded by its president, Professor Matto:loci, end I which the society naaniroonsly •Ijudged to Sir Charles In acknowledgment of his oontrilmtioos to the *dem of , electricity. RU Y 11 POIDENT.) • . 3 MONDAT 1b1.10,, leenir National, sur- undergo at Sainte- Pelagic the month's imprisonment to which he was lately sentenced by M. Delesvaux, the Presi dent of the Correctional Chamber. _ _ ,~. # :, M. Cretzulesco, the diplomatic agent of the Roumanian government in Paris, had a long inter view with the Marquis de Moustier this morning at the Foreign-office. The object of the confe ' rence was to offer explanations on the part of Prince Charles on the subject of the bands which are preparing an insurrection in Bulgaria." If, as some of the latest telegrams affirm, these bands are a nonentity, • long interview could scarcely have been necessary. The Austrian and English ambassadors have had several interviews with the Marquis de Moustier lately, to talk over the threatening aspect of the "Eastern question." It is stated that after his marriage Prince Hum bert will reside at Naples. Is this a confirmation of the views that he was to be made a sort of Lord Lieutenant of Southern Italy ? It is rumoured that the Pope hesitates to grant the dispensation necessary, according to the rules , of the catholic church, to enable Prince Humbert to marry his cousin. En voila du noisteau. At Caen, on Feb. 27; at Alenoon, on March 18 ; and again at Caen, March 26, there will take place under the patronage of General Fleury and the Prefect of the Department, extremely interesting competitions for equine prizes, which are neither races, trotting matches, steeplechases, nor horse shows. A sum of 34,000 fr. is to be distributed, not to the fastest galloppers, the fastest trotters, the best leapers, or the best looking horses, but to' the bast " broken " horses—the horses which, whether in double or single harness, or the saddle, do their work in the manner moat creditable to their trainers. A variety of qualities most desir able in the family horse, which never could be tested by ordinary racing, will thus be encouraged good stepping, a good mouth, a right carriage of the head and tail, and what Mr. Turveydrop would have called in general "deportment,' are the things which will be looked to by the judges. The French term for this novel hippie sport is Prix de dressage. The Minister at War is said to be hard at work upon a " vast project " of colonisation in Algeria, due to the " initiative " of the Emperor. The purchaser of the Bteuf -Gras of this year is not the butcher Flechelle of the Rue Gaillon, who has had them very many times in succession, but M. Duval, of the Rue Tronchet, the successful founder of the numerous cheap soup houses in various quarters of Paris. There has been a further rise at the Bourse. The money article of the Pala says :—" Poople arc buying with a view to the loan ; all kinds of securi ties rise—even those whose position offers no pre text for higher quotations." It is said on all hands that groups of small capitalists have clubbed to gether and formed what are called " syndicates" to keep up prices to an unnatural height until the loan comes out, when they hope to be able to turn round and sell at the expense of the ignorant public. The fall of in Consols produced no effect whatever. Rent. rose 15c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 69fr. and 68fr. 85c. Italian rose 20c. ; Credit Foncier, 3fr. 76c. ; and blobi lier, Ifr. 25c. Comptoir d'Escompte fell 2fr. 50c. 1. MUS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. inp at Nisi Prius in IfidcUwx.—(Betor• Lord Chief Justice Bovill sad a Special Jury.) ITELLICIENCB. HOGG T. ?HI ST. GILES'S 1110 - AID OP WOW The plaintiff in this case was a licensed victualler and kept the Red Lion, in Southampton-row, Bloomsbury ; and he claimed damages for injuries to his property suffered during the construction by the defendant of a sewer along Southampton-row. Mr. Field, Q.C., and Mr. Philbrick appeared for the plaintiff ; and M.. D. Keane, Q.C. ; and Mr. Pearce for the defendant. It appeared that the houses in Southampton-row had fellers which extended under the footpath, and also under a portion of the roadway. The cutting for the sewer was shout 18 feet dsep,and the soil was sand and gravel. Along the course of the cultinEse a water main, and this was I supported at intervals chains which passed under the main sad over of timber, which rested len the roadway and craned the cutting. On the Bth of May the sewer had been built op posi te to the plaintiff's hones, and the outing wee about being filled in when the able gave way, the mein sunk and burst, and the water rushed into the cutting. Over the crown of the plaintiff's cellar there was loose earth to the depth of three or four feet, and the top of the cellar fell in, and the bottles and barrel' there were crushed. The plabitiff's case was that the cause of the accident was that the workmen were carelemin knocking away the timbers which supported the aides of the cutting. Mr. Geo. Shirley, a near neighbour of the plaintiff, said that the accident happened about 11 o'clock in the morn ing. He wen at the time asking Mr. Hatter, the foreman, when the loose earth would be removed from in front of his house. He saw workmen move cross pieces of timber, and the used for siding fell. He saw a crack come in the opposite the Red Lion gateway, and called the attention of the fireman to it. The foreman exclaimed, " Good God, it is all going in !" and called upon the men to get out of the cutting very quickly after the water-pips broke, and the water rushed out. Directly after the I earth, all along the side of the cutting, fell in, and next I he saw the gravel that was on the top of the plaintiff's cellar rolling down, and the people call d out Hog g's cellar is all going in !" and in another minute it went in. The crack in the earth was not a foot from the balk that gave way, and so let the water-main sink. Evidence was given that the proper course would have been to leave in all the timbers except those which belonged to the upper " form," and that in more than one instance men were seen to knock away the timbers in the lower forms. On the other side it was stated that no such timber hail been removed, and that nothing that took place in the cut ting caused the accident. That a private pipe draiu was being carried from the houses to the public sewer, at the expense of and by men employed by the parties interested. That this pipe drain was carried through an old cesspool, and so close under one of the walls of the plaintiffs cellar as to lead to the accident. The true cause of the accident was shown by the way in which the cellar wall had sunk, and also by these circum stances. In addition to the water pipe suspended in the cutting there was another water pipe with earth nearer the plaintiff's house, and it was this pipe that first burst, for the teen in the cutting found water coming from the side of the trench before the suspended pipe had broken. Both pipes were broken in almost the same line of fracture. The case occupied the whole of Saturday and Monday, and in the course of yesterday his lordship suggested that it was very desirable that the whole matter as to how the accident was caused should be referred to an engineer who could have the ground opened at various points and see whether any timber had been improperly removed though at the point immediately in question it was ad mitted that the timber had all been washed away. The same suggestion was repeated this morning and after some waiting to hear bow a committee of the Board of Works would determine, it was arranged that a verdict should be taken for the plaintiff, subject to a reference to Mr. Grey"— regory. COURT OF EXCHEQUER EXTRAORDIVART SCENE. The inadequacy of the courts at Westminster for the business they have to transact was forcibly exhibited this morning by a cireumetance which is probably unpre cedented. In the Exchequer there were sittings in banco and two separate courts for the trial of cues at nisi prius. All the common law and equity courts Is well as the Admiralty Court being in use, Barone Bramwell and Chatinell, who had to sit in banco, could find no place for that purpose except the Queen's ltemetubrancer's room, a very small chamber with only one window, in which the learned judges, the masters, counsel, solicitors, and others were huddled together in unseemly confusion. Ilut that was not the worst of the matter, because, there being no ventilation, the door had to be kept open ; and as it led to a public passage filled with people moving to and fro, the noise was ao great that the learned barons end the counsel addressing them could scarcely hear each other speak. _ COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN CC HALLETT AND OHNIANEY. This was an application on behalf of Mr. Bonn, a mer chant, who claimed to be a creditor in this matter for the payment of dividends to the amount of 904 under a deed of inspectorship executed by the debtors, who were the well known bankers and navy agents, in Great George street, Westminster. The application was resisted upon the ground that the inspectors had a claim against Mr. Boors in respect of a debt incurred by his son, and for which they contended he was responsible. An action had been brought which Mr. Lours was defending, and it was arranged that the application should stand over until after the trial of the action. Mr. Bagley and Mr. R. Griffiths appeared. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) E AII 4 V TUESDAY EV . FEBRUAN mintriAcii .. EXPRESS FROM PARK' . —.----4.--_ PRIAM, AUBTBL4, /Il ,. tssonlfrown cosaurounkirr.) We". ~,, . . —if ' • 4. . - PARIS, MONDAY llh hat distress of the inmest kind M. Peyrat, the editor of the Aeenir Natior , of the two greet monarchies 1 rer.dered himself today to undergo at . . .. . r. . the Court. USBORNE, Frs. 10. The Queen went out, accompanied by Princess ' Christian and Princess Beatrice. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Right Hon. Gathonie Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Peking ton, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole. MANSION-HOUSE. EXTENSIVE Festive ON CITY MERCHANTS. Alexander Hannah, V, and William Path run 34, were placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Lusk, on the charge of fraudulently obtaining goods to a large amount within three months of their bankruptcy. The prisoners had carried on a very extraordinary system of fraud. It appeared that in the year Whi, they opened a grocer's shop in New North-road, Isling ton, and exchauged names, Patterson, who took the prin cipal part in the liminess, taking the name of Hannah, ___ _. and Hannah adopting that of Patterson. For some time The Earl and Countess Russell and family leave their transactions with the wholesale merchants in the Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, on Thursday, for their City, from whom they 01 . ined their goody, were con ducted with great regularity, the payments being in cash. town residence in Chesham•plaee. Viscount and Viscotus- Latterly, however, they obtained large quantities of teas taw Amberley come to town the same day. on credit, and it was shown that the teas were imme- We have to record the death of Frances Harriet, diately transmitted to Glasgow,. where they were sold by a firm of auctioneers. In this mann ,200/. worth Dowager Viscountess Torrington , widow of George, sixth of g oods were dive . ' of within a p e r 0d of three Viscount Torrington. Her ladyship, who was the second months, by which the prisoners netted between 7001. and daughter of the late Admiral Sir Robert Barlow, G.C.8., AWL, and at the close of the year the shop in she New was the second wife of the late viscount, whom she mar- North-road was shut up, and the prisoners disappeared. vied in October, 1811, and by his lordship, who died in On the petition of one of their creditors they were then declared bankrupt., and shortly afterwards they were ap- June, 1831, she bad issue six children. Two eons—viz., prehe ded at a village in the west of Scotland, and brought the present viscount and the Hon. James Byng , and ato Lo ndon by Detective Bull. daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Hall, are still living. Some additional evidence was now adduced on the part The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait arrived of the prosecution, and the prisoners were again remanded. yesterday at London House, St. James's-square, for the CLERKENWELL. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIPE. season. Sasak Britten, aged 51, was brought before lir. Cooke The Duchess of Morny's marriage with the Duke charged with cutting her husband's throat with intent to of Sesta is to be solemnised this week. The late duke's murder him. four little children will be transferred to the guardian- Police-Sergeant Camino, 3G, said the husband was lying in a very dangerous state in the Royal Free Hospital. ship of a member of the Keith de Flahault family, as by Polimmostable John Back. PliT, said—About a quarter their father's will the duchess, in consequence of her past 4 yesterday afternoon, I was passing along Farriug mond marriage, loses all rights over them. don-road, when my attention was called to Oldham. had m an his throat d cu t his out, t roa an t a It is rumoured in Dublin that Viscount Ger- Prdi there sag I ;r e ae S to rit l te d n th , w at ho s maneton is to be raised to the British peerage. he sou holding an old aprm up to stanch the bleeding. I The Duke and Duchess de Chartres visited the procured assistance and took hun to I,oldhato-gardeos,and Dore Gallery yesterday at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, then fetched Dr. Brown, after which I took him to the The Committee of Council on Education have bcapitaL Dr. Brown asked her in my presence bow it was done, and she said, " He threstened to out my throat, and just revised the grants to school. of art and the teaching he cut his own." She was then asked what be cut his in night dams, with the view of ameliorating the con- throat with, and she said, " I don't know ; whatever it is, ditions which were established after the publication of the Imy husband has got it about him." I then went to the last report of the House of Common. in 1861. 1 injured man, and searched his pockets, but found nothing, so came back again and searched the THE " GLASGOW FREE PEERS" DENOUNCED BY . room, and found the knife which I produce stuck THE Hoer Sen.—Yesterday, in all the Roman catholic , into the wall behind the door, and under it was a quantity churches throughout Sooliand, the Gisspon Free Press, a of blood. I asked. "Did he do it with this ?" and she re- Roman catholic organ, which has lately been devoting its plied that she did not know, if he had not got . it with columns to the propagation of pro-Fenian sentiments, was him. I said. " Yoor apron is all over blood, gave it to publicly denounced from the altar, in accordance with in- i me," and she did so. I then took her into custody. After stractions received from Cardinal Bernal)°, Prefect of Pro- I some little time I, in company with Sergeant Cousins monde. The cardinal , is his letter, which is dated Rome,took her to the hospital, where she was confronted with Isis. 16, says that it has bean reported to the Sacred GOD. her husband. Mr. Jaareooll, the house surgeon, asked emotion "that the journal entitled the GlatonerPreePress him who did it, and the husband said, "It is she—ask her aces not desist from diseeminating writings which cause if she did not do it." She said, " I did not ; you know groat scandal to the catholic. of Scotland.^ In eanytag you done it yourself ;" and he said, " I wish I could say out the Jost:maims of his Eminence, the Vicars Apostolic' you had not done it." Mr. Jeafreson then interfered. have humid • pistonl . address, in which they forbid all , and mid he would not allow any further conversation to aselealastios under their jurisdiction from taking any share take place. in the publication of the paper in question, and require l'osrgeant John Wheelan, G 21, said late last night of them, under pals of empeadea, to abstain from writing, Mr. Jeaffreson came to the polimestation and stated teat or in say way weeer matethating to it—booliewni. las the Injured man was supposed to be much worse, and I LONDON THADESSIND AND ran GO-OPIDATITI he was ender the insprosoon that he was about to die, fixernat.—Tke Pole lateral* in the dissamisaan the co- it would be better to take any statement he might feel opeassive mina some to he on the liemene, sad the disposed to make ' • he secompenied him to the hospital, =sites hes already meeseed a Deaden el , mast taw. where the man made a statement which he (Sergeant "As Old ir....... Tweasmasa sr enilidomor Winston) had in his possession. of laser Tim" Mahe that him . hard urea the ea Pollawampsant Cousins, 3G, accompanied Sergeant operative system may answer for a time by the 611 .1 Whalen to the hospital. and was a witness to the state many small sad strugglinegrosere eadhaeadrepses, bat he moat Made by Britten. He further said that the prisoner doss not see Dew they sea sentiaaelmespgdy at apnelitef.s bad bees oat drinking with her husband and soma neigh s. 10 per mat.. whom awarding to their ewe lialemsaiiimk Wassail dm day, end whet they got home they cloaroliods their espeemes appear to ammo 111 er 17 per east. OA the malt was that the main's throat was cut. " A Reimmeshis Weimer' Grease . Nob as the gum 6 Kr. Cooke asked the prisoner if she had any questions list of some damad4wenty groans who sea wades to mil to ask Polleememeable Back. geode ea the HIM terms as the civil semi Primmer said—No, sir , I base not. What he maws I via., the paymmit of sash whoa thenedir gives, think was said to hi m,i and therefore I dm% wish to ask thepassllarrr to pep lie east a( delimey i imil ti reales sus him sap questions. his Min Weirs, with deplisede. The primmer was thea reminded fee a week. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Newfoundland, Prinoe Ed ward Island, Bermuda, and Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, Malta, Ceylon. Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, the Mauritius, and to the Governor-General of Canada. THE FENIAN PROSECUTIONS. BOW-STREST.-(THIS DAY.) William Desmond, Timothy Desmond, Nicholas English, James O'Neill, John O'Keefe, Jeremiah Allen, Michael Barrett, and Anne Justiee, who were understood to have been virtually committed last week on the chare of wilful murder of the persona killed by the Clerk( ov.(11 explosion, but were formally remanded for the completion of the reading of the depositions, were brought up for fur ther, and, as was supposed, final examination, before Sir Thomas Henry. This, however, was not carried out. Mr. °Ward, Q.C., and Mr. Poland again conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Harper defended the two Desmond' and English, and Mr. Lewis appeared for all the other prisoners except Allen, who was unrepresented. Upon the prisoners being placed at the bar, 111 r. Giffard, addressing Sir Thomas Henry, nil—sir, since the kat examination the Crown have received imp ar t" t information, which induces rce to ask you for a farber remand. I now propose, therefote, that Mr. Burnet, ( t h e chief clerk) should read over the rest of the evidence as against all the prisoners, and at the conclusion of the real. ing I shall mak you to remand them again. Sir Thomas Henry—Very welL Mr. Burnaby then proceeded to real over the title°. sitions. Upon the evidence of Worth (one of the warden of the House of Detention) being read over, Allen said—l should like to ask him one more question. Sir Thomas Henry—l think you had better defer it. Allen—l only wish to ask him if he persists in the answer be gave before. (To the witness)—Are you sum you never gave me the office to follow other people Witness—Never. To the best of my belief I never saw you before that day. Allen—Have I never been there to see prisoners ? Witness—Not to my recollection. Allen—l can bring undeniable proof that I have done ea on several occasions. I have been there with an inspee of police from Bayswater, and other officers. The whole of the evidence having been read over, Mr. Gitfard said—Sir, before the prisoners are remanded I understand that Mr. Lewis has an application to make. Mr. Lewis —I wish to say, sir, that it is my present in. tention, though I do not pledge myself to that coarse, te call several witnesses for the prisoner O'Neill. Lot as I understand that the further evidence a has come to the knowledge of the prosecutie:, and which prpbably will be gone into at the nest evaair.a. tine, is likely to occupy the whole of the day, it would he very inconvenient to bring here, on the mere chine, of the opportunity arising to all them, a nuna,r of witnesses, nearly all of whom will have to come from Scotland. I have, therefore, to apply, and I believe the request will meet the cam. tion of the learned counsel for the crown, that I 1-11,1 l not be called upon to go into the defence on Too,lay nest, but that when the case for the prosecution is co:: plead a day will be appointed on which I can call my witn, , ,s, and then I will take care to have them in attendance. Mr. Giffard—l think that is quite reasontble. Sir Thomas Henry—Very well. Let that be so. Allen—l wish to call my witnesses also. Sir Thomas Henry—You will have the opportunity. Allen—Some of them are in court now. Sir Thomas Henry—You will have the opportunity on a future occasion. _ _ _ The prisoners were then remanded to Tuesday nc•t. DESTRUCTION OP THE OXPoItD MUSIC HALL DY FIRE.—(THIS DAY.) The Oxford, ono of tho handsomest music halls in London, was this morning destroyed by fire. 4)nly akw hours previously the hall was crowded with persons, ,red at 12 o'clock the place was closed, the hotel in conne.ioa with the ball remaining open an hour later. The building was then apparently safe ; but at 15 minutes lust': Venus, the watchman, perceived a strong mull of burning, and then discovered smoke issuing from the balcony at the eastern extremity of the building. In an instant the building was in dames and the watch man immediately raised an alarm. Messengers were is. 'parched for the engines, and the land steamer, front Crown-street, Soho, was soon in attendance. followed by a number of others from the various establishearts. By this time the fire was burning furiously, spreading devastation all around. The private boxes at the back of the balcony, where the fire was first seen, and abutting the houses in Tottenhauecourt-road, were is a general blaze, and on the flames reaching the ceiling, whirl) was ornamentally perforated to allow the heated air to escape, no hope was entertained of saving any portion of the ball. Under the directions of Captain Sbaw tbo firemen worked in a praiseworthy manner ; but despite their exertions the fire soon reached the proscenium, destroyed the stage and mirror at the beck, and the roof fell in, so that the vast area beneath became a dense body of fire. ply half-past 6 the proms§ of the fire was arrested, but not before the entire hall was destroyed, the supper-room being partially burnt, and considerable damage done by breakage awl water in the refreshment rooms. We understand the building is au.ply insured in the North British Office, and the walls remain perfectly secure. The instruments belonging to the members of the orchestra are all eased ; and, with the exception of some valuable draw of Miss Russell and Miss Fitzhenry (principal vocalists), the company engaged h►ve sustained no particular loss. The ball wee first opened on the 26th of March, 180, with an inaugural concert—the building being erected on the site of the old Boar and Castle Hotel. How the fire originated is not known ; but it is conjectured that a por' tion a f a lighted cigar wsui thro en on one of the ruts in the balcony, which, being composed of dry material, soon became ignited. The private portion of the premiers is uninjured. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN. EXTRAORDINARY CASS. Great excitement has been caused at Bromley, Kent, in connection with the sudd en disappearance &boat a fortnight ago, of a single young woman n amed Jane Jackson, recently engaged as a domestio servant, and who would in the couree of • few week* have come into possession of 1,0001. left her by a relative. AU kinds of rumours were afloat at her sudden disappearance ; but the excitement increase' on her body being found in a draw well in the garden of Sand. field-cottage, Mason's-hill, Bromley, in the occu pation of William Sparkee. There is no doubt that the body of the young woman has been there from the time she was missed. The Sparkes family all the time were drinking the water until they detected something do- agreeable in the taste of it, and on throwing down* grappling book the body was drawn u p and was recog nised as that of the missing young woman. The well is •10 feet deep and has 10 feet of water in it. Juilidot from the sand in deceased's hair, and from the fact of its being impossible for the body to have turned round in the well, it was evident she went down head foremost. At an inquest held at the Compasses pnblio.houae, before C. J. C,arttar, Esq., coroner for West Kent, lad night, it appeared that a witness named Sarah Head , tiro saw the d ece ased about midnight iu company with men, named Partridge and Dedman, both of whom appeared the worse for drink. Deceased had lived at Partridge's house for the Last three months, and Dedman was a painter and special constable living in the neighbourhood. They appeared to have pushed her oat of Pa rt ri d g e ' s doe house about II o'clo ck at night, and to have h er about some tim e in • very cruel manner. The witness Head told them they bad so business to use the young woman in that way or treat her so harshly. About 1 o'clock mire of murder were beard by Mra. Cook, landladr of the Tiger" Head ; by Mary Hayes, a neighbour of P ar tridge'a : bl H enr y Bennett, • la bourer; and Charles Marshall, * labourer. The latter said he laid in bed and listened for some time to the cries of a woman and two or three other voices, and he heard cries of " Murder" repeatedly. The coroner expressed surprise that the witness did ed get up and go to see what was the matter. Mr. Cartier bad instructed Drs. Ilott and Bebee to tmik!t• post mortem examination for the purpose of ascertaud4 whether death had moulted before or after the deceased got into the well, and they reported that death bad beta caused by drowning. The jury returned an open verdict of "Found Drowned," and severely censured Partridge and Dedman for their inhuman conduit towards the ae• seam& - - ANOTHIR SHOCKING WORKHOUSE STORY.--)!Ii Inquest was OGHIGG at the Aston Union Workhouse. Su, mingham, on Saturday, on the bodies of Mary Pritchor , it aged 60 years, sad her daughter, Mary Ann Prchard aged ti years. The demised were inmates of the abaci workhouse, and last week the nurse, by mistake, MA from the dispeneary a bottle of carbolic acid, and appwrg it to the poor creatures as a remedy for the itch. Ow mother died in three hours and the daughter t he t ° having suffered dreadfully. Another women who was similarly Winded lite in a very dangerous state. lidscsoroLrrAN Pass HOSPITAL, DITONSIILIGP WAIL Orrr.—The aggregate number of patients relieved the week ending Feb. 9 was—Medical, 901 ; Or' =O5 ; total. 1,612 ; of which 757 were new seem IR I.'4lliVir This aft bo d e d by II 'Lardy. at tb -eadernao tb ' skid' hat be address ;tea eat Pa bl ' el " le l ay and g : oeni lly . tjou, Which Naglitea, be Lieutenan t "' W. Cairees, Mr. T. de ( oa . Carey' pr. Parke 1 J. y. Iti Jones Ws Nt• J•_ll' gr. D. roger Wiry wiiiiams. Mr. DIG] ~ Da the a :his repro polis and to it. The bid, be rer :he value o peril weii l o yalty lee But imm w a rm s plulera In an d be t should t rod estims of cone, their loya ,entleriqn ,:ALICeI CO • obs himself and el:ypareuel o ty ttle td r , to .uvernmei ; cul pta or (Loud the heads of :lithe Iri th.Lt he hz bishop Mi :-outhwar ,upl•at— prir<t- of Lad fully that the for Irelat very litt ..cd deno The su. }laving te the Irish Mr. Hi are .Wa to the that an: :muter excel I was Pet London declaring stance', 1 the °our ddress I mum ,na I I preen Pir !t .0 r I f con the pill von for t :his ado i.referVe R rind colibl ha which hi if I he,' by the b wonder arisen i lien, as %hould deep an 4 towiirds point t for job: by 024 thou that tua would k country true Of address The (1 " eau mettl e , fo, oa bee. I kee l . Las 1 .. to be,