The Express. — London, England, 1864-11-25 00:00:00

IVICGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S One Guinea and 4.1 Two Gaines MILD SLAMS sad TILLSOOPIB sas war naiad as sartvallsd foe pow's. sad Withsaw. Ila sad 41s. to —l. Hataniardsa, 10. : Oaraldli, LC.; in, e ir og " te lliMt W.: 1K llsotalrest ; sad DwYstsd Taw. WINTER OVERCOATS.—Gentlemen are in vited to Inspect the NEM GOODS at HAMILTON end Immo" Teflon and Overcoat-matron STRAND (opposite B. MILES'S (the ORIGINATOR'S) 43J._ 7_ rjsk gm h i 10s. TBOUSEII3 an maybe had al -......4tYRUNT: - KANOVER4SQVAEX whim "000 tition is fairly distanced by Maw" Wl= 111.1.101r - MPA&LIBHILD 1341. JOHN BROODER. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, se, 111141111TrA4TIEET. COVENT-GAZDIN. JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD CHAIM JOHN BROGDENS GOLD GUARD 01RAINS. JOHN BROODKNII G OLD ALBIBT CHAINS. JOHN BROGDENI GOLDBROOCH MUM. REMEMBER! we wait Supper foe you after the Coyest Garden Opera. at /WS . Pall mt. Cite ersreox. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advertisements Intended for The Express" London Evening Paper, tuk.t ire at the thillos, jY , Bouverleatreet. by Tye o'clo:k ou the day of publication. HAYMARKET. Tuts Krntrco. THE SUN AND THE WIND.—THE STRANGER. Messrs Howe, Farren, Chippend.ls, Compton. and Boners . Mesdames Ilestalos and Keeley.—ON THE ELY. Mr. Buckstoue.—And OCR MAZY ANNE. Mr. Clark. I . IIINCHBB4. Tyyta ETENTRO. BORN TO 000 D LUCK. Mr. D. Mum. And THE STREETS OP LONDON. Mesas. Vining. J. W. Ray, D. Mbar. D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. Yorrester, and H. Mellon ; Mrs H. Marston. Mom Barnett and (Wynne.. • LYCEUM. rpris Emma, Nritszy — cliieirwitzp.—And THE KING'S Eirri7JZFLY. Mein. Yachter, Ryder, Widdloomb, Charles, Mclntyre, Raymond. Clifford, Contra; Mums C. Iddarcq, Y. Remade, E, Lorena, and R. 'ATOM/. intrwrinA. TIM! MEM, UPSIDE DOWN. - Sinidralt PT Mr. Albert Steele and Halle DontL —Men Howard Paola Impersonation of Mr. Sinn Leers* as Fra Di►rolo.' —And THE DYING CHILD. Mrs. S. lann—Commence at RION WATER AT LONDON-BR/DOZ. Ten DAY 11.sulng,111. ltm....AJternoos, 11h. 40s. 20-hozhol► Morning, oh. Out....Aftarnooh, Oh. Goi. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25. IT is not surprising that a large portion of Mr. COBDEN'S speech at Rochdale should be • celebra tion of the victory he won on the field of Foreign Policy in the last Session of Parliament. There are Liberals who demand what they style a ge nerous, spirited, sympathetic foreign policy—who extol the moral influence of this country, and speak of the louse of Commons as the Areopagus of the world. There are other Liberals who hold that this country should enter into no official dis cussion and no public engagement on affairs which do not directly concern herself ; that the Govern ment should reserve its power and influence for British purposes, and not pronounce an opinion unless it is resolved to support it by action. If we are going to remain in our present mood, and take non-intervention for our rule, then, as Mr. COBDEN has pointed out, there are certain practical consequences which concern the public as much as they do the Government. Every year we require more strictly of our rulers that they shall faithfully reflect the opinion and the character of the nation ; and if the Government is to modify its policy, the public must change its action and language accordingly. We all remember the popular agitation on behalf of Poland last year, and bow it ended. The Go vernment was forced by public opinion to diplo matic action against Russia. It is probable that not one person in three of those who attended the meetings on behalf of the Poles would have con sented to go to war with Russia on their account. It is certain that the country at large would have peremptorily arrested the execution of any plan for that object. Seeing, then, that public demon strations of that kind have no practical aim—that they mislead the objects of our sympathy— that they strengthen the hands of the oppressors, and betray our Government into • position in which its acts cannot correspond with its words, does it not follow that to be consistent and rational we must, without dissem bling our honest opinions, cultivate a reticence in harmony with the course we mean to follow as • nation ? Such is Mr. COBDEN'S argument, and no doubt it is logically sound. But we must not ask for or expect that which is impossible to human nature. A free people will discuss the great events of the time. It may do so in a liberal spirit so as to bring out the political instruction they contain, or it may survey the affairs of mankind through the medium of narrow prejudices, and so make discussion only another form of ministering to na tional egotism. We have no hesitation in cha racterising a considerable portion of the pre tended discussion of foreign occurrences as • rank outgrowth of Pharimism, which, far from enlightening the public, is calcu lated to confirm the most patent faults of the national character. It would seem better to try and reform our present practice than to lay • futile interdict on what we have been in the habit of regarding as a sign of our liberty. The great practical security which the country has against being plunged needlessly into war was shown last session. At the same time credit is due to those of our public men who strive to make our foreign policy consis tent by placing it on • basis of intelligible principles. It is easy to raise a prejudice against those who counsel the public to consider the place of England in the world, and measure the nation's responsibilities by its means, before joining in de monstrations which either mean war or are worse than meaningless. This is what we saw at the beginning of the year. When Parliament met last February contempt was poured on all whose pro fessions did not come up to the standard of • "spirited" foreign policy which should make Eng land. • redresser of the wrongs of Europe. But when the time came to test these professions it was found necessary to take into the account • class that had been overlooked, and give weight to the interests of those millions of our own country men who would have been plunged into the deepest distress by the outbreak of war. That lemon will not soon be lost. Tat reduction which took place yesterday in the minimum rate of discount of the Bank of England and of the Bank of France, had been fully anticipated for days past. The extraordinary margin of li per cent. hitherto existing between the Bank of Eng land minimum and the rate of discount in Lom bard-street could not be long maintained, and the figures in last night's Bank return, given elsewhere, show that the Bank had really no choice but to take the present step. Since the 10th instant, when the rate was lowered from 9 to 8 per cent., the coin and bullion have increased from 13,847,2701. to 14,131,0544—a gain of 4843,8241.; and the reserve TEE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1864: (notes and coin) has increased from VINS',I7S/. to 9,216,2391.—a gain of 1,309,0641. Tjje lap occa sion on which the Bank moved fronigl4 Ter cent. 1 was on the 26th of May last, *Jest the . eoin its* bullion were 13,713,9431., or 417,1111. less than. now, and the reserve was 7,947,1381., or 1,269,1011. less than now. On the 16th of June, when the coin and bullion were 14,304,2051., or only 173,1111. more than now, and the reserve 8,826,356/., or 389,8841. leas than now, the rate was fixed 1 per cent. below its present reduced point—viz., at 6 per cent The present position of affair' a suggests, therefore, several satisfactory considerations, for, in the int.- rest of trade, which has so long suffered from the exorbitant rates charged for accommodation, it is surely encouraging to know that the Bank's re. sources are now at a level which even the present strict administrators of that establishment have at so recent &period regarded as compatible with a lower rate of discount than that fixed yesterday. That money will remain at the present rednoed level for some time to come seems to be indicated by the fact that the two great Banks of Western Europe are moving simultaneously in one direction, and that our charge is still 1 per cent. above that of the French Bank. Nevertheless, it is important to bear in mind a number of considerations which render it probable that the directors of the Bank of England will resist any fur ther downward movement, and that the rates in the general market are not likely to fall ma terially below 7 per cent. just at present. Atten tion has been directed in our columns for some days past 'to the ,steady revival in the demand for gold for exportation. The gold carried to the Bank of England on Wednesday and yesterday represents transactions of a somewhat exceptional character, there being at this moment a demand for abroad for any supplies that may come in from America or else where. At the same time sovereigns are being with drawn from the Bank for Egypt,Tand it is believed that these remittances will go on to a moderate ex tent, the balance being thrown in favour of that country, both tby theisalej of her cotton and by the negotiation of the recent loan. Directly'the cotton market has found itself relieved from finan cial apprehensions it has shown renewed animation, and simultaneously with the recovery in cotton the inquiry for silver for exportation to India is re- 1 'riving. Commitments have likewise been entered into in respect of the Moldavian Loan for 900,0001., which is on the point of being introduced, and of l the loan of 2,000,0001. which the Ottoman Sociitff Gindrale has undertaken to make to the Turkish government in anticipation] of certain revenues of the empire. The position of the !Spanish Treasury, borrowing as it is, almost from week to week, in the markets of Madrid or Paris, also contributes in some small degree to derange the usual course of finance, and the bankers]` of jt Italyjdand France have latterly experienced some additional demands in connexion with the efforts which are being made by the various municipalities of Italy to make anti cipatory payments on account of the land tax into the Italian Exchequer. Several foreign loans, long delayed by the state of our money market, are likely to be introduced here shortly, and the anticipation of them can hardly fail to exercise an influence upon our rates of discount, and upon the policy of the now highly conservative direction of the Bank of England. Perhaps, therefore, it will be the most prudent course for our merchants and traders to re gard the step taken yesterday by the Bank as likely , to mark a period of !pause in the money market _ _ • . Lagan INT.ELLIUENOS. •• • (/110771E'S TZLEGIUXL) SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 24. It is estimated that about one-eighth of the registered electors have recorded their votes. The Epoea of to-day says that Chili having de clared coal to be contraband of war, Spain 'ought not regard her u a neutral power. ARRIVAL OF THZ MASSILLA. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 25. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Manilla., with the heavy portion of the Bom bay mails, arrived off the Needles at 8.20 a.m. to-day. WREOKOF A STEAMER AND A SCHOONER. UPWARDS OF THIRTY LIVES LOST. (3T nun= Am tarnuTtuu Trimurti:4 TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMURLAND, FIIDAT Moutro, u °Tux& -- • - The Aberdeen passenger steamer Stanley, and a schooner, name unknown, were wrecked off Tynemosilibl3attery Point last night. All the crew of the schooner were lost, and 20 to 30 lives perished from the steamer, 33 perms being eased by the rocket apparatus. The only boat that could get alongside was the Tynemouth lifeboat of the National Institution, end in doing so she broke all her oars, was stove in on her broadside, and lost two of her gallant crew, named Grant end Robson. WEATHER REPORT. .-(THIS DAY.) FIUDAY, NOrIMIBER 16, 8 A.M. 8 4 .1 T. W. Halm 29.01 39, W. abeedrem 42, 8. Leith [29.11 42 8.8. i Ardromea 29.0 e 43 W.B. W. Gmeacretle i 29.0725 &W. Galway 39.0340 S.B.W. Valeotla 29.1848 &W. Cape Clam 1 10.2041 W. t o l l a :leas 41 Lex Holyheed 29.11 IS 8. Pembroke— 29.37 42 &W. Peasaare 20.4737 W.N.W. Brost 11953 37 N. L'Orleat 29.45 37 N. Rochefort 29.45 29 &IL Plymouth 29.47 35 Y. Weymouth 29.46 34 W.N.W. Portsmouth 29.44 35 N.W. London 29.43 32 W.S. W. Imver 29.4527 N.W. Yarmouth 59 41 57 W.S.W. Scarborough 29.28 41 8.111. %kids 2934 42 W.S.W. Heligoland 49.41 48 W &W. B.L tO 4 N.N.L • 2. 1 W.S.W. 8.8. w. 1 ILL W. W.B.W. N.N.W. N.W. W.W. w. W. w. W.N.W. W.N.W. W. W. 1 W.B.W. 8.8. L I &Z. 2. & oat OM O." - &MI 0./17, 0.1111, snows* SATIIRDAY. a NOILIZMN S.W. to N.W. and comm. N.W. to N.N. and buck, N.E., strong, 'quay, strong to moderate, some snow or rain. unsettled. &W.to N. and back, WISTININ. &W. to N.W., fresh, strong, squally, rain equally,r•ln in places at times. N. to W. and S.W., 11017YaktUr, W.S. W. to N.N.L and fresh to strong, no. back, strong to ma settled. dente. W.S. W. to N.N.E. and Larynx As nett above. back, fresh to strong, squally. Nortbernw-Sootland. WI Wadi, red ad laramies Sontbarn=logliah Channel and na y of Blaray. futons windward Zogland and North Sea The construction of the new Opera House at Paris is continued with great activity. The buildings at the back, intended fee the director and his subordi- Wes, are raised as high as the roof. The stage is visible, and the portion of the house reserved far the public is raised as high as the first tier of boxes. Workmen are 'singed at present in fixing the columns, each of a single stone, which are to dement* the grand forma. Them columns are formed of stone of Ravieres, which may be polished like marble. The entire of the ground floor, the entrance, the lobby, and the side galleries are distinguish able. The staircase for subscribers is reached through the refreshment-room. The entrance to the refreshment-room forms • rotunda, which communicates likewise by • triple gallery, with • circular saloon like that at the Thatre Francais, but much larger, and lighted by 12 windows. The trilling of the saloon is of iron, solidly fixed in stone, and above the first tier of boxes may be seen the hollow tabu by which the house is to be bested and ventilated. The lobby round the pit is to be 18ft. wide, so that there will be no difficulty in entering or quitting it. The election of members of the councils and oonsistories of the protestant churches throughout France is to take place in all the parishes in the course of January next. To constitute an elector the person offering himself must, first, be 30 years of age. 2. He must h►ve resided in the pariah for two years, or for three if not born in the pariah. 3. He must prove his admission into the church by • certificate of his first communion, or by • declaration of communion signed by • prelate. 4. He most prove by a simple declaration that he participates in the exercises and obligations of his church. 5. If married, that he received the protestant nuptial benediction. A parochial register for electors is open from the lit of January 1* the 31st of December to serve for the following year. One of the leaders of the democratic party at New York, the chief wire-puller indeed of the Chicago platform, and a banker to boot, who is repotted to be worth ten millions of dollars, went early on the Bth to the polling. place of his district to east his balloting papers into one of the glees globes which en used as ballot-boxes. No swan did the democratic millionaire approach the volleg-table than he was asked by the republican agent if he had any wager, depending on the leans of the election. It was notorious that this gentleman had bets to the extent of many thousands of dollen on the return of Gemini leaellan. An evasive answer was out of the ques tion. Everybody knew about the heavy "book" he had made up; in fact, some of his bets bad been publicly offered for acceptance in the newspapers. He was com pelled, in Yankee parlance, to " own up," the which he did with a very bad grace, and with an expression of coun tenance indicative of a strong desire to strangle the repub lion agent. There was no help for it, however. By the law of the land an elector who has any bet or wager laid on the chances of an election ia disqualified, under beery penalties, from voting ; the millionaire voter was conse quently obliged to retire from the poll, and ()moral M'Clel- Len's majority in New York was dinsiaished by one vote. A Paris letter in the Salo{ Public states that an incident similar to the notorious CeJsado-Garcia affair ha. just occurred in the French capital. In the present case also a game at baccarat was interrupted by the discovery of I cheating on an immense scale. A large sum of money was recovered, and a prosecution for swindling, in which the the bearer of a name, hitherto how:treble, will be involved, is likely to take place. The Prance mentions the following fact se a proof of the evil consequreces of smoking for boys : A pupil in one of the colleges, only twelve years of age, was some time since seized with epileptic fits, which I became worse and wane is spite of all the remedies employed. At last it wee discovered that the lad had been, for two years get, secretly indulging in the weed. Effectual means were adopted to prevent his obtaining tobacco, and he soon recovered." The hicalide Busse says :—" Colonel Stremon choir, of the Guard, wu meetly condemned to 12 years' laud labour in the minas and the lees of his decorations and titles of nobility for having mortally wounded Major filo. kaicheff in a duel. Major the Baron Wolff and Lieutenant Spetehinski, who served as moods, were also condemned to 10 years' hard labour in the mines. The Emperor has now nominated the sentence of the colonel to military degrade. tion, bat he will be inoorporated in the army as a private soldier. Baron Wolff and Lieutenant Spetchieski will be , imprisoned in a fortress." In spite of the threatening state of the weather cm Sunday last, M. E. Godard made his sloth ascent this season from the Pr 4 E6lam is his fire-balloon, the Aisle. He was moompaaied is the oar by MM. Gabriel Y ou, Lies:, . . _ iset-Corvilsin, Mahone, and Dardo. The bellow° M first ascended slowly, but its upward movement soon after wards increased, sad it attaised an altitude of upwarls of POO metres. As the daylight was rapidly departing, M. Godard, fearing that the descent might be difficult, soon made his preparations for that operation. During that time the balloon had fallen, and wu going on before the wind at a very trifling elevation from the ground. All obstacles ware, however, cleared, the balloon was safely brought to • standstill, and the oacupsnta of the oar landed us the plain of Gennevillien, highly delighted with their aerial journey. . - RILFORMS AT ROM C. —M. Anatole de la Forge 1 rya, in yesterday's Si2cle, that without pretending to be as accurately informed en the France newspaper, ha believes he is Pestilkd in susonociog that an important reform is *beet to be panted by the Roman government. "As soon as the mks proprie is published," he says, "lent yeses green peas, French beam. and cauliflowers will eater the Eternal City free of duty." 'downs* Mosoow were GAIL—We read in the Hague Dagblati N. D. Goldwitid, of this tows, has acquired a cameessies for lightic; Moeoow with pa. It is granted for 30 years, and gins him an exclusive privilege I of laying perigee and other fittings in the sheik of Moecow for that UMW no towbar of public polenspe is to be 10,000, and private bnifchop will require 150.000 lights. Moteew has more than 400 hotels end 3,000 oefferrheuess, beti and gioshope ; these are ogee all sight, as the inhabitants seldom go to bed before 2 or 3 in the merging. and during the winter scarcely ever remain in the Meg* The somber of shims and murasines is four times greater than in Bt. Petersburg. Amorilleg to the kerns of the sleekest, the pa will man kw alio Privet* Witte( 5 roubles, or Mr. 500. per 1,000 gable feat (Eaglisk measure). The clogesselos will require colored wkim but these MAI be 10 doubt it premier la point of view pal ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES. (THIS DAY.) This day the annual meeting of the friends and suppestan of this institsifon was held at the London Tavern, the Loan M aTIO in the chair, for the pur pose of electing 8 inmates sad 12 pensioner, out of a list of 188 applicants, and for other busiama. The LORD MATO. said that be had great Wearers in pre siding at the simnel mis tin g of the charity, which was se cond to none in the city of London, and the object of which mast recommend itself to every human heart. (Hear, hear. All they could do was to walk in the steps of its t founder, the late Dr. Reid. (Hear, hear.) The institution had met with peat moms. but still it was lamentable to think that out of 158 applioadte for relief only 20 could obtain it. The state of the funds was better than it was last year, but still they wanted more money, and it was their duty to aid in the good work that was done. At present there were 179 relieved, but whoa the new building at Melrose-hall was completed, 200 persons could be provided for. (Hear.) The report stated that the ordinary tads of the charity were 2,0001. in exams of last year, and several donations had bees received. The inmates last year amounted to 161; 30 persons were elected sad 8 were admitted on payment ; SI died and cue was disqualified by marriage. At present there were 179 on the foods, 87 inmates, and 92 pensioners. The female inmates had been removed in the summer from Putney to Melrose-hall, and the males would be removed when their side of the building was completed. It appeared from the accounts that 17,M.V. 11s. 2d. bad been received during the year, and that there remained a balsa** in hand of 2,6451.135. Ild.,which included 2,0001. lent by Mr. Huth, the traaeurar. Mr. FRVIIIIIILD moved and Mr. WOOLLILY seconded the adoption of the report Mr. BANIING asked what was the state of the Challenge fund. Mr. ARDRZW, the secretary, said that, betide the trea surer, there was one other subscriber of 1001. Mr. Bsirriec said that he had two other enbscribers of 1001. each. (Cheers.) Mr. WARD suggested that the amount of 121. 12s. wee too small for the sod moved that it should be in creased to 211., and that a separate fund should be created far this purpose. The LORD MATOR thought that notice should be given of the amendment. Mr. WARD said he should do so. RiiiTobjectedlo the arleoi the estate of Coulsdon, which had been purchased for the purpose of budding an hospital upon it. He considered that the estate was in alienable, and that it might involve them in legal difficulties if they disposed of it. He moved that the board be asked to prepare a report co this subject. Mr. RARTRIDOI seconded the amendment. Mr: Barmy° and others opposed the a m endment, which was put and lost, only the mover and seconder voting for it. The report was then adopted, and several amendments of the rules were adopted. On the motion of Mr. DOBINSON, seconded by the Rev. Mr. WOODHOUSE, a motion in favour of the sale of the estate of Con Won with the assent of the trosteesAnd the application of the purchase money to such purpose as the board might deem advisable, should be agreed to ; Mr. Reed holding up his hand spinet it. Votes of thanks to Mr. Ruth, the treasurer, to the medi al ofilows, and to the board of management. were adopted. The retiring members of the board were re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor closed the proceedings. The ballot was then proceeded with. METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS. (THIS DAY.) The ordinary weekly meeting of the member; of the Metropolitan Beard of Works wee held to-day at their OffiOn. Spring-gardens, Mr. Joan Tawarrze, the chairman, presiding. TTICLNCIAL 81rA1IMCIT. The cash stateMe;tehowisith7atie balances in the heads of the tramway we►e--On current seem:tuts. 122,1271. 13s. 10d. ; on deposit swoon* 384,8001. ; and en government securities, 97,4061. Om. Bd. - Tes ROCK WAN AJD Ooviarso OTh EMU. Mr. Dolton brought up the report of the Yuman Com mittee, which stated that they had applied to various in. 'arenas companies to know if they were prepared to lend the board two rums of 135,0001. and 100,0001., respectively—the former to pay off the Rock loan and to be repaid in ton years, and the letter for covering over the open sewers and to be repaid in the eosins of thirty years. The insurance aloes replied that they were not in • position at present to advance the money. The board then applied to the Bank of England, and got a reply back that the governors were prepared to advance the first loan in January next, and the sexed in the March following, to be repaid ea above stated, at the rate of 41 per cont. interest. (Bear, hear.) In snoring the adoption of that report, Mr. Dalton su mmed his opinion that the terms offered by the Bank al England were extremely moderate, an opiciou in which all present concurred. This portion of the report woe unanimously adopted. EGYPTIAN TRADING COMPANY (LIMITED). (THIS DAY.) A special meeting of the shareholders was held at 1 o'clock, at the London Tavern, Mr. J. W. Laguna in the chair, to confirm the resolutions pined at a manilas held on the 30th of October, for the purchase of the Doziness of the firm of Briggs and Co., of Alexandria. sad other purpooes connected therewith. A motion of emarmatiora was proposed from the chair. and adopted unanimously. A resolution was subsequently passed, requiring that 21 days' notice of general meetings shall be given instead of a month's notice. This resolution will have to be coofirmed at a meeting to be held on the 24th of December. In answer to a question, Th• CHAIRMAN stated that it was not probable that any surplus shares would be available for Mote to the share holders. He added that Mr. Garland, the aceountant, was at Alexandria proceeding with the verification of Maim. Briggs's hooka, and had found them very satidactory. The meeting thee separated. DRATH or Ma. R. Sro°sin, M.P.—The death of Mr. Richard Spooner, M.P. for North Warwickshire, took plaos yesterday morning at Henwood Lodge, Leaning ton, where he has recently been residing. Mr. Spooner errs born as Birches Greco in 1783, and wads dusted at Rugby. In 1830 he was elected member for Boroughbridge, but was unmated oo petition. Be repewatd Birmingham in the coasereatin interest from 1844 until the general election in 1857, when he unenecoesfully contested the borough with the late Mr. Runts sad Mr. Selsoldeld, one of the present members. He was, however, immediately returned for North Warwickshire, which divines of the county he bee continued to represent asinterroptedly to the present them He war for many years one of the ressomised leaders of the protestant muss in the Home of Commons, sad was the able and indefatigable, but anucesedul, opponent of the grant to the College of Mammoth. Mr. Benner km long been in • precarious slate of health, and has virtually assent for the past year to take say part in political affairs, end had announced his intention of retiring into private life at the next general elastics. Hrm.LowaY WORKING MEN'S CLUB •ND INSITITITIL —Last evening a very lend aad entereaining looters wee delivered to • crowded reeetieg of the ber g s of this club, by J. W. Zsmhis, Beq., en the application of glass to the construction of chemical and philosophical instrument. Mr. &zebra's observations were characterised by mock clever ness and • tunas to the occasion and the plus. He very kindly added to the value of the lecture by venue manipulations, °menacing in the presence of the sodium, out of the rough glass, and by menus of a small blow-pips, a spirit level, • syphon, a thermometer, a barometer. and a hydrometer. The singular expertness which was dis played by Mr. Zunbra in these delicate movement aroused the admiration and 'ethane= of the audiences, large num. berg of whom are engaged in the working of monk, kc., and at the clue a very hearty vote of thanks wee passed by them to the lecturer for the important inforrnatioa he had se pleasantly conveyed to them. The Holloway Club is one of the roost prosperous is London, and is doing a greet deal of good to the neighbourhood. FOOTBALL—WESTMINSTER V. CHANTY:MMUS& Oa Wednesday, the 23rd iost., this match was played on ' the Westminster ground, Vincent-square. and roadbed is favour of the latter, who someeded in °Malaise two mime to their opponents' one. SCIENTIFIC BALLOON ASCENTS. —Mr. 00111/111, accompanied by Mr. Ginner, yesterday attended at Wool wich Arsenal for the purples of making strummer& for I scientific meet in his military halloos Mare. The nod, un fortunately, was blowing in • southuonb-wederly dinettes during the morning, and bad the explorers attempted the anoint the direction of their course wend have been towards the ma. The ascent wads consequeetly deferred to a more favourable opportunity. The object of the ascent is to obtain • series of winter observations to compere I with those made in the spring, summer, and autumn. The experiment now about to be commenced at Woolwich will bo asemiatily limited for the present to the lower atmo sphere, by reason of the destruction of the new balloon is tended to be sled on the occasion, bet which will be shortly replaced by a balloon of extraordinary capacity. adapted for meteorologicel purposes. The government, it is stood, have under proffered their aid by granting the an of the Royal kneed, as well as sonlyin a quantity of very light esn at aimed& gravity of -M% exprenny for the purpose. PRRIBBID WITH COLO.—Yesterday morning, at 8 e'en*, a woman, paring a dung-heap in the stone-yard near the recently-ereand alreabusse in /Indwell Gap, a-stout, alledweil, salted the attention of • Thames scseoccestalbis to a eau in a attics position on the dung p, and said she was afraid bo wee deed. Rey fears proved to be teas The wretched orators appeared to have been dad several boors. He bad perished at odd and wok and the rain had been beating does en kiss all sight, The deceased was • bone-picker. He was in the lowest nose of =Ly, poorly clad, and Ulf starved. The maim bad tle driven him away from the Oise yard between sunset and 'uprise. sad tol d him to go home- Re minded • meet desolate spot for his wretched death. A penny and DON home were food in his peeking. The doomed wee ketoses 80 and 80 mare d age. Inspener Roberta, of the H division, bas gives directions fee Insides le be mode et k. the lodine-house respecting the deem* sad IDOEStiI la ideality if ree A GENTLEMAN POUND DECAPITATED OX THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.) --...-. This (Friday) morning, shortly before 8 o'clock, much excitement was crested in the neighbourhood of Tottenham Lea-bridge in consequence of the coney of the remains of a gentlemanly-attired to:J. pence on the Great Eastern Railway. It &Now, that the discovery was made by some of the tr.', employed on the line at that part of the Cambridge li t ,. „, the Great Eastern system where it crosses the river Les. neer Tottenham. The headless body was found !slug r. the six foot way, and the bead, which had been evil•nt!.' cut off by the wheel or wheels of a passing train, was found lying very much mutilated a few ysrds off. I here wet., several severe injuries to the body, which vat attired in clothes evidently showing the unfortuw e deceased to have moved in • respectable class of ~„ . Aseisiance was at coos procured, and the mangled were placed in a shell and removed to the police-stnt. Tottenham, when they lie under charge of the pull identificatiou, and awaiting the coroner's inquiry, .. must be held. At present the shocking affair is surro.r, i with mystery, and the police ate actively engaged in LA.. tigeting the case. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN THE ST. KAT la. RINE DOCKB.-TWO MEN KILLED. INQUEf3T-(THIS DAY). This forenoon an inquiry was held at the!. ! Hospital by Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, adent at the St. Katherine Docks, by which tea, named respectively James Sherman and Thomas .1‘...,a Toomey, lost their lives. It appeared from the evidence that, on the 24th the deceased men were engaged on the hydraulic lift is the St. Katherine's Docks, when the chain of the lift br they were pitched headlong to the ground, a dinauc.. feet. They fell with the lift, and the broken chain them. Sherman died from his injuries almost irnmeda,:ti,. Toomey lingered until Tuesday but. Mr. Robert Carr, 16, Georgisatreel, Tower•Lill, to the St. Katherine Docks Company, mid that the e'. question was tested sod it stood a strain of 7 ton, It was taken off the machine and examined agoo on the lit of June lent, and it then appeared to be 'nand, It had been in work 14 months altogether, 'lto chains were always taken off once a twelvemonth, and put through the fire, end then tested link by link, link which broke had only been welded on the outs:le; it was hollow inside, and it was not possible to detect suih defect where the test strain was withstood. The ci..ain broke in the present ewe at that spot. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death," Meanwhile they may certainly find tsatisfaction in the reflection that, though the reduction of 2 (per cent. made this month in the Bank of England rate willtendsensibly torelieve_trade, the ralueof money is still too high to afford any stimulus to unsound speculation. !Mt Court. WDiDBOB CASTLE, N0v.24. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise. attended by Wile. Nocella, and Prisoe Leopold, attended by Kr. Buff, west oat driving. Prisons Helena rode is the riding school. The Prince sad Prisms. of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor, left Marlborough-house yesterday all noon for Saadriugharr. • Their Royal Highnesses were attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, Major Tesedele,lME. Holzman, and — Z. Fisher. A Cabinet Council we'd !held av M the official residence of the First of the Treasury, in Downing•street. The ministers present were— Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Right Hoo. Edward Cardwell, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were seat yesterday from the OolooMl-ollice to the Governor defsed& VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE METROPOLIS. (THIS DAY.) This morning her Away the Queen, accompa nied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, left Windsor Castl s shortly after balf•put 10 o'clock, for town. The morning, though cold, was bright sad annoy. On the platform at Paddington Mr. F. Saunders, the secretary, Messrs. Tyrrell, Kathy,e and Mr. A. Higgins, the station master, had stationed themselves to receive the royal party, who immediately left the train, entered their carriages, and drove from the station amid the salutations of the numerous spectators. Her Majesty will return by special train to Windsor in the course of the afternoon. His Excellency the Prussian ambassador and the Countess Bernetorff left taint yesterday for Windsor Castla ass visit to her Majesty. The Duke and Duchess of Manebeeter will leave their town residence to a few days for Kisaboltoa Cagle. Haste. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Caven dish are entertaining visitors at Chatsworth. His Excellency M. de Bille, the respected repreeen- Wive of Denmark at the Court of St. Jaime's, was married yesterday to Louisa Elisabeth, daughter of the late Sr Campton Dorarile, Bart., end half-sister of the preesat bead of the family. The ceremony took place at St. Mary's Church, Bryaosk.e.eguare. The poet of Controller of the Stationery Office , vacated by the death of Mr. John Ramsay M'Calloch, ha; bees conferred, it is said, on Mr. Thomas Hughes, anther of "Tom Brown's School Days." The Indipendance Beige announces that Lord Grey, "Primo Minister to the Queen of England," had ar rived in Brownie, where he had two audienoes with King Leopold, and them left for Germany. _ _ Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P. for Bradford, will ad dress his coastituents is St. Norge's Rail, in th►t tors, as the second Tuesday in Jaaaary. Mr. Spurgeon is to preach ►t Edinburgh on Ban dar next, and while the tickets of admiwieu were being distributed au Wednesday at the Mello Hell the staircases and pussies were crammed with applicants. Somehow or other then was a deficiency of tickets, sad the appli cants, getting enraged, broke open doom, wad made • for cible entrance isto the large hall, where they shouted, yelled. knocked down seats, and es* or two of the more darinz jumped on the platform, and attempted a solo ma the organ. The polies cum* at last clewed the bell of the rioters. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom °us owl! oosusponsionr.) PARIS. TIR/18DAT EVZIMIO. The Appel des Treke came on for bearing to-day before the Court of Correctional Appeals. It will be remembered that on the 6th of August last MM. Gamier Pages and Carnot (deputies for Paris) MM. Drdo, Floquet, Harold, Clamergan, Ferry, Baylor, Corbon, Jozon, Hirisson, Melshenn, and Bory, all the thirteen being members of the elec toral committees formed on the occasion of the elections for the Corps Legislatif, were convicted by the Sixth Chamber of Correctional Police of having constituted au illegal association, and were fined 500 fr. each. On that occasion the counsel for the defence expressed astonishment that many of themselves had not been included in the indictment, since MM. Berryer, Arago, Marie, and Fevre all admitted having done the very same sort of acts as were imputed to the traverses. The great feature of to-day's proceedings, as will pre sently be seen, was that—not, indeed, the four advocates above named—but several personages of note made a formal application to be put upon their trial together with the thirteen accused. It cannot be said at present that the appeal excites any great interest in the public mind. The suffi cient reason for the apathy is that the first sentence was little more than nominal, and that in political cases there is very little chance of • decision being reversed. The court, admission to which could only be ob tained by tickets, was of course as full as it could conveniently be, the numerous friends of the tra versers and of the eminent counsel engaged being naturally anxious to obtain places. The public minister's chair was occupied by Procurear-General Mamas, who comes fresh from a visit to Compiegne, and may fairly be supposed to have received the Emperor's personal instructions as to the line he is to take. Let no one, forgetting the great gulf between the English and French constitutions, be shocked at the idea of the personal interference of the sovereign in a state trial. Does not the Constitutionnel of this very day contain a paragraph which must necessarily have been authorised by the Emperor himself, stating that his Majesty is displeased with the Duke de Persiguy for having, without consulting him, expressed in a letter to IL de Girardin a desire to see an alteration in the laws which regulate the press The counsel for the defence are the same as in the court below, namely, MM. Berryer, Mario, Jules Fevre, Dufaure, Hilbert, Deamarest, B. Arago, Grimy, M Picard, H. Didier, and &nerd. The proceedings commenced, as the custom is in appeals, by the reading, by one of the judges, of an extremely long-winded report on the affair. It was 2 o'clock when this reading was concluded. M. Senard (the eminent advocate, who was at one time President of the Legislative Assembly) then made a motion on the part of himself and of MM. Cremieux, Entine Pelletan, Tenaille, Saligny, Deroisin, Lenoel, Conlon, Fumouns, Lionville, and Andrd Rousselle praying that they might be put upon their trial with the thirteen traverses. This curious application to be prosecuted was worded in the form of what—in the technical language of French procedure—are called " conclusions," the text of which were as follows : C considering that is principle no man can be affected by a declaration of eulpebthty, nor even b► an aectiation, with out baying been first heard, or at least summooed to be I heard, upon the feete imputed to him : That this fundamental rule of criminal law has bees don tinetly violated in regard to the requisitionists by the judg ment of the sixth chamber of the tribunal of the Seise, dated August 5, in which without their having been so much as interrogated, they are made to figure se principals or accomplices in the tniedenmanour of an illegal society imputed to thirteen persons against whom coodemnations have been pronounced : Considering that in the matter of an illegal society no condemnation ain take place without its being established with all legal formalities that certain persons described by name have usembled together to the number of upwards of twenty to form the society and perpetrate the minds-' 17001110111 : That it was in order to satisfy this legal condition that the tribunal added several names, among which are those of the requisitionists, to the names of the thirteen persons whose oondemnation was called for; but these names were added without any previma " instruction " and without any of the requisitionists being called upon to give their explanations : Considering that it is unimportant that the names of the requisitionists are mentioned in the grounds of the judg- ment : That when a collective misdemeanour oily consisting in the assembling together of a certain number of persons is in question, it is evident that nobody can be reckoned as forming part of this somber bat persons guilty of the mis demeanour on identical grounds : That although some only are visited with a realty, all those whose names are mentioned in the judgment are com prised in a common declaration of guilt : Considering that this declaration ought, so far is regards the requisitionists, to he quashed by the court, as basin been been made against law : Considering that it is doubtless open to the traverser@ to 'neat, in the interest of their defence, upon the illegality of a conerat, without which the misdemeanour imputed to them cannot exist, sad the quashing of which must ipso facto put an end to the prosecution against them : But that citizens whose names have been thus arbitrarily taken by the tribunal, in order to make up • au/Borer number to justify the prosecution, have also the inter testable right to present themselves before the sup — irior jurisdiction to protest formally against the qualificatios with which they are illegally branded by the court below of members of an illegal society, and to require that their names shall he struck out of • seaters bred ups an W- I struction to which they were so parties : Considering, so far as concerns M. Ear% that the nee of hie name is all the more strange that he was cited and • male pr•urqui entered es to him, and he was neither sum. mooed nor heard afterwards : On these panda, and on others to be hereafter allepd. May it plow the court, To receive MM. Bernard, lea, as alrenliAnta. And to decree that, they having 'either been cdted nor heard, the declaration of culpability pronounced wind them may be quashed, and their names struck out et the judgment. M. Senard wasspeaking in support of the above conclusions down to a late hour. The trial will not be over for was days. IMMENSE YIELD OF POTATOEIL—Our farmers are ge•tioi ISCeetOla ps.stoes We fell. &see see as the Mt, of h 01) per acre, sad se rotten as.. M all, and single potatoes smallpox lased weighing 2elbs. and Bach • crop has sot bees boons for thirty years The rift will not be over 13e. per bead. —Lebow* (N.H.) Prot Prue. SHOCKING DEATH PROM FIDE. INQUEBT.—(TIIIB DAY.) This afternoon an inquity was held before Mr. Richards, deputy-caws, at the London Hospital, torch. big the death by fire of George W. Sims., ;Fed 2 yens. rs H. Ellen &mu, 24, St. Mark.atreet, hitechapd, tad that she was the wife of a packing-cue maker. On /nes,. she had occasion to leave the room to fetch a pitcher of water, and she left the deceased playing with his tors on the hearthrug. He was within half a yard of the fire, hut she thought there wee no danger, as she eau only to be absent • minute. But deceased went to the grate and set hiself in a blaze. His shrieks brought witnese back to the room, and she found him dreadfully burnt over the face, etas, and limbs. He died on Wednesday in the London Hospital, The Coroner remarked upon the danger of leaving each young children near • limply* to which there war no guard. A great many live, were lost in that way. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death Ly fire." Tai LAW OF FINAL APPEAL IN CA , Es AFFE , TIN.; Docraisrs.—The provisional committee of the Asoriation for Amendment of the Law of Final Appeal in Cases affecting doctrine have agreed to promote petitioos bated upon the principle following :—That for the time to come no Archbishop or Bebop have any place in the Court of i Ina I Appeal, whether as member of the court or asses e ; but that, in cases affecting doctrine brought before the court, it is essential that the doctrine of the church be '• de clared iaterpreteed and showed" by reference to the spiritnalty.—Civil c ad State Berries.% Mrrsorouttit lyneovrytwria.—Within the List few days notices have beep given of intended applications to parliament in the ensuing ma* to introduce bills foe the improvement of the metropolis. The most importeat of the notices issued are those relating to the construction of new thoroughfaeee where they have long been wanted viz., Hamilton-place to Park-lane. from Piccadilly; Cado. gan.plane, Chelsea, to the South Kensington Museum ; and the opening to the public free all the bridges as which toll is now leviable—viz., Waterloo-bridge. Vauxhall-bridge, Chelsea Saspension.bridge, Battersea.bridge, Lambeth. bridge, and Deptford C os bridge. The power to purchase and throw open the bridges is to be vested in the Corporation of London, the Metispelits• Beard of Works, and the Com missimiere of Woods and Forest; and the bill, if granted, will amble and require the parishes adjoining the bridges to contribute towards the expense of such purchase, and for that purpose empower the levying of a rate. The Picea. dilly and Park-Lee New Road Bill is to empower the Metropolitan Beard of Works to form and open a sew public our*, iced owsimooriorr agar the north and of Hamilten.plam, and terminating in Park-lane, Dearly oppo. site Pitts Head-mews, about 130 yards south of Stanhope pie. The South Kensington New Road Bill will give power to the company intending to apply to parliament for it to males a street or rand commencing at Poet-street, in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, crossing Cadogaii-nlece and Sloane-street, and terminating in the Cromwell-reed or Brempteemenad, Old Bromptoo, near the east end of the Booth Kensington Museum. THE PAY OF —Last evening a very sissasremly attended martin of letter-oerrisra was bold at the school-room Aldermate-street, for the purpose of tale( late emaide4tion the beet means to be ad for obtaisiug an Warsaw of their pay. Mr. Graves, of ea North- Western 011ioe, took the their. It appeared from the various stalemate which were made that there are SO mss in the lest alma who commence at 26e. per week, and rise by lo snowily to 30s. per week; 962 men who cm reams at IL, and rim by U. to 2:ia. per week; acid 130 emplemetery wrier, who pt lees than '3.1• a week. The higher rate of wars, however, was one to which the epithets complained that it was almost impossible to rise wider the present regulations; and that in order to obtain it vacancies must our either through death or dimmed. It was considered that the carriers ought sot to have to depend upon such chances as these, but that the wages should be pad upon such a scale that the rasa would receive an increase indepeodatly of death or dismissal of ethers. Mr. Padfield moved the following resolution, which was mended by Mr. Burn, of the South-Western Office, supported by Mr. Ward. of the North-Eastern Office, and carried unanimously :—".After ultra years and a halfs experience of the working of the present soda of wages, which was issued in 1661, we find that it la Madequate to meet the humblest expenditem mosenary for ourselves sod families ; sod it is, therefore, resolved that a memorial be presented to Lord Stanley, the Postroseter-General, praying for a more liberal scale of otitis, according to length of service. and that the seals give an annual increase.. • vote of thanks to the chair man closed the psoceediar. SIR TAITON SYKES 8 STOCK SALE& —On Monday last Messrs. Bounce, of Mahon, completed the series of large steak sales for Sir Tahoe Sykes, at Sledmere-oethe- Wade, sear Mahon. At all the sales the attendance has been geed, mid the fat stock was eagerly bought, and al though the season has been so exceptional that stock Dot being ready for the butcher, being in good coedit inn, also sold well. Al the Hurt sale 12 fat heifers and 50 strong aeon mined a total of 9521. odd ; at the second sale 12 fiat heifers, 16 fresh 2.yrold and 3-yr-old steers, and 34 ordinary Erasing steers, mode 9921. od d; and at Moodoy's sole 10 fat polled Boots (►elfers). 63 2-gold and 3-mold steers and four other berth made 1,0701. odd ; making total of 3,015/. odd. It may be said that the rat stock en the average sold at something over Bs. per stoma estimate. sad the other short-homed beasts sold at prices mite( from 12 guineas to 171. per head. The scarcity of fat stock is scab that most of the fresh steers, after s month or sir weeks's** feeding, will be slaughtered. HniciDE OP COLONEL 'PENNANT.— CORMIER'S Isicteeer.—Mr. Davis, meaty wwoeer, held an aired yeseerday on the body of Calomel Tannaut , who committed suicide between 10 and 11 o'clock on Wedoesday morning, at his resideace, S. Raglan-mad, Dublio. A jury haring been sworn, Joke Harm, who was servant to the deceased. sod Dr. Hamilton, gave *videos, and the fiedier of the jury was " That the deceased committed suicide while labourhg nadir tampaeary inseeity," as was shown by the medical testimony. Loss or • SHIP x, THE ORAN:M.—Another heavy lass to the marine Waltman campsites is the City sod at Liverpool was manomesd yesterday. The lost ship Wafted to the same owners (Manors. Beasley and Co.. el Liverpool) as the ship Roble Hood, bound from Hong Kong for Leaden, which foundered last Tuesday morning in Thellgeoess Bay, after being in collision with a harp timber ship celled the Spirit of the Ocean, bound up (111800, oar the previos evening. This mooed loss is that of the Hneieoa, • Wl* 'hie 1.866 Moe burden, laden with a min able cargo from Calcutta, which port she left on the 15th d July last. She formerly Wafted to an American firm, but last year Ars t verse the property of British owner.. Her largo complied 2.916 bales a jute, 501 toes of rice, 610 cwt. of Weasels, 000 tons of Messed. 300 tons of repo and 116 toss of oil sends. The only information that hes hem received of her ices is costained In a telegram from Fel semely which dated that the Herima, Captain Brown, from Oslestga for Lcedoe, was almandoesd with 10 fed of water ba the held oe the 92nd w. ICO miles west of Scilly, and UM the NW bad been picked asp by a Dutch schemer. and the eaphda had hem landed at Pahneeth. 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