The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the past year the National Lifeboat Institution, by ite boat and other means, contributed to the saving of 707 from different wrecks on our coasts. The institution &VT pended 021,374 in the same period on its lifeboat establishments, In addition to granting £4,050 for rewards for saving life and exercising the lifeboat& The committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 163 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London and Country Bankers : and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Seq., at Use In stitution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. JOHN BROGDEN'S EXCELLENTE BIJOU TERIE COURANT'S MODELES SPF.CLLUX Ise FABRIQUE. J. B. having been honoured with a lint-clan Medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition, accompanied by the above flattering tea. Mmonial, respectfully invites the public to an inspection of his GOLD CTTiS and extensive assortment of JEWELRY, all made on premities.—JOHN BROODEN , Goldsmith. Mann. factor'', o. If. Ilemiettsestreet, Covent-gardeu. W.C. Esta blished A.D. Meti. Assays made of Chains and Jewelry for ls. each. N.B. Thin establishment Is closed at 6in the evening, and es Saturdays at 1 o'clock. MESSRS. WATHERSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewellers, Rare Ready for Inspection a Greet Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Designs, suitable for WEDDING PRESENTS and IiKW-YELIVS GUTS. 12. Pail-mall East. S.W. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC noon for Gentlemen. —Remember, we Mat for you at *IMMO," after the Covent-garden Pantomime, mid the Thestrea. t fte eramexig. TO 00811XSPONDENTS. Adverttemente intended tor Tbe Koreas" London Evening , must be at the Odic., 10, Bouveriewireet. by Two P S Y la =k on the day of 'publication. HAYMARKZI. Tins Evainto, BROTHER SAM. Messrs. Sothern, Buck- Woe, and Compton; Mimes Nelly Moore. Snowdon, the.— ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMAB.KET. Mews Farren dc D. Fisher ; Misses Keeley, Howard A Wright.—MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. MECUMS. THIS &WINO, QUIET LODIIINO9.—AIter which IT IS DEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. Miura Vining, G. Melville, T. Mead, D. Murray, b. Calhaam, F. Villiers. J. G. Shore, G. Mur ray, and E. Carlimat : Misses L. Moore and IL. Dodgers. LYCZUM, THIS ETEiII(G, THE IITIFTIOIIIS STRANGER. Mr. 11. Widiiicomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Slaws. locator. Jordtn, Vetln. Emery, Widdicomb„ Fitzpatrick, Evan, Mesdames Taman, Msworthy, Lamm; C. Leclerc% BETTANWIA. THIS EVENING. OLD DADDIiT•DRZITEOS AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS : OR, THE GOLDEN APPLES. —IL end Madame Stortzenbach.—Signor HovanL—Olniar.—Shower of Golden Rain. —Johnny Day.—And JESSIE. THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDOL TEM DAT Maiming, 612. 38mi.....Aftegsace. sb. Wm. To-*0330N --- Nona*" Ni. Ma.— „Altarsook Ws. 4UL LONDON, MONDAY. JANUARY 22. THE Metropolitan Police are to be henceforth jointly responsible with the parochial guardians fur the proper housing of the London casual poor. It is thus that the clause in the Houseless Poor Act authorising the Poor-law Board to " cause " the wards and other places of reception pro " vided according to the said Act to be inspected " not less than once in every four months," is henceforth to be applied, and the in spection of workhouse casual wards will for the future rest with Sir RICHARD MAYNE. We have no doubt as to the beneficial effect of this alteration, or that the horribly revolting scenes recently described as occurring at Lambeth will be impossible for the future. For we may be sure that tho " not less than once in four months" will be liberally interpreted by the autho rities at Scotland-yard, and that the work houses will be visited with tolerable frequency by the police. Knowing this, the guardians will appoint night warders, and order and decency will be secured. The condition of common lodging-houses, before and after they were put under police control, has been quoted in illustration of the advantages the public may expect to accrue from this change ; and it would be difficult to advance a more forcible argument in its favour. What common lodging-houses were when unlicensed and uncontrolled may be estimated by the re velations we have recently had made to ue from the uncertified shed ; what they are now would astonish such readers as associate squalor, overcrowding, or discomfort with the rieeling accommodation provided for threepence or four pence a night. There are in London many huge establishments where for this sum the right of aitting in a well-lighted, well warmed coffee-room, the use of a private locker for spare clothes or va luables, facilities for cooking food and washing linen, and the use of marble-topped lavatories, with an unlimited supply of water, towels, plates, and knives, are added to the beds for which the few pence are pa;d. The latter are clean and well appointed, and are ranged in chambers, each of which has a license ticket in its centre, like that given to passenger vessels by the Board of Trade, showing how many it is entitled to hold. These are not charitable institutions. The comforts and luxuries described spring from free trade and com petition, just as the cleanliness and order are due to frequent supervision and effectual control. By making overcrowding and inadequate accommoda tion illegal, we have so far raised the class fre quenting common lodging-houses as to make it ne cessary for the proprietors of these establishmenta to appeal to a sense of order and decency, in stead of, as was notoriously the case few years ago, pandering to the lowest instincts of their customers. The vicious tramps and vaga bonds of the casual ward are doubtless amenable to the influences which have proved successful with the vicious tramps and vagabonds of the lodging-house ; and by forcing parish guardians to keep the workhouse sleeping places up to the police standard of decency we take an important step towards improving the unhappy wretches whom, despite their revolting speech and conduct, it would be unwise and inhuman to brand as irreclaimable. But this is only a portion of the alterations pro posed by the Poor-law Board. So far the Act entitles the central authority to decide upon s given course, and to apprise the guardians of its adoption. It is thought, however, that the police should be appointed to act as assistant relieving officers throughout the metropolitan district, and the guardians are " recommended " to avail them selves of their services. This suggestion was first made in 1863 ; it has been carried out at Poplar and elsewhere, and, from one point of view, with astonishing success. We learn from the published return that the police began to act as relieving officers at the Union just named on the Ist of December, 1865, and that the^e has been a de crease of 68 per cent. between the number of vagrants relieved in that month and in the pre ceding one. It is unnecessary to add that the official communication made by the Poplar autho rities to the Poor-law Board is enthusiastically in favour of the change. A short time ago the guardians of a suburban parish outside the metro- politan district, who have also entrusted the duty of succouring vagrants to the police, finding the numbers sheltered to have decreased one half, promptly voted ten pounds of the pariah money sa a gratuity to officers who had done their work so well. Of course, if reducing parochial expendi ture be the primary object of legislation, the satis faction of Poplar and the liberality of the other parish are well timed. To some minds a ten pound note is well invested if it stimulates zealous policemen into still further reducing the numbers relieved; and by awarding bonuses on a judiciously graduated scale, it may be that "no vagrants il i THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1866. "sheltered here daring the put month" may be soon put forth as the climax of efficiency. We doubt, however, whether this is the precise result desired by the public, and it would be much more satisfactory if the projected scheme of universal "police assistance" included some saving clause, by means of which relief to the destitute would be secured. The statistics quoted prove too much, and the ominous liberality which has virtually put a premium upon refusals to shelter gives us a significant insight into parochial motives. We are far from saying that the police will, if ap pointed, act with intentional harshness or cruelty, but their daily avocations, and their familiarity with imposture and crime, while eminently fitting them for dealing with the worst class of tramps, make it at least doubtful whether the poor victims of mis fortune will meet with full justice and considera tion at their hands. The Honseless Poor Act was passed to keep our streets and doorsteps free from the helpless wretches who formerly congre• gated there throughout the night, rather than to decrease the numbers sheltered in casual-wards; and by placing a police office between destitution and relief, it is far from certain that we shall not frustrate the good effected by the watchfulness and labour of the last few years. The inspection of workhouse tramp wards, the examination of beds and linen, the prevention of irregularities, and the suppression of the shameless orgies we have all shuddered to hear of, are matters which may be left with undoubted ad vantage to the metropolitan force. This is now done, and the public may rest satisfied that a repetition of the infamous shed scenes will be impossible. Bat the duty of adjudicating upon the claims of urgent necessity is a more delicate • one, and until the nature and limits of the police " assistance " to be rendered are more fully known, we shall be disposed to watch with considerable caution a scheme which seems to have the dimi nution of relief rather than the decrease of desti tution to recommend it. with them. Them is to proof or presumption or shadow of either against the survivors. If we pity the Gruel fate of the deed, let us at least forbear to make unfounded imps• tations upon the living. TOPICS. The worst that has been stated about the Great Pastern Railway affairs, says the Tines, haa been substantiated by inquiry. This great railway, with its 22,000,0001. of capital and its 700 miles of line, will just pay its own expenses. Of fair commercial profit there will not for some time be any vestige whatever. The traffic would have repaid mart bountifully any fair outlay on the original eo•strnctioo ; but the capital account has been so reek. lowly expanded, and the preferential charges are so heavy, that all profit is interoepted from the representatives of the fist adventure. However, the Times trusts that better things may be in store for this unlucky company when the committee of investigation, who have obtained • thorough knowledge of its affairs, and who will be under no necessity nor even temptation of making things any pleasanter than they are, step into the places of the eon damned directors and take upon themselves the duty of attending to the company's finances. The Timee notices the ‘ariona arguments pro end eon. respecting an ocean penny postage. At present sufficient letters are not carried by the mail packets to defray the ex pense incurred. By merchants the present charge is quite inappreciable, and so far there is more reason for enhancing the rate than lowering it, but there is another kind of cor respondence which is at present restricted by the expense. The Times suggests that the present rate might be retained for letters posted within a certain time of the actual de spatch of the mails, while letters posted earlier might be paned with • penny stamp. Such en experiment would be so far safe that the money cheerfully paid for special privileges would probably almost maintain the receipts of the Post-office at their present amount, while the duties accruing from ordinary letters would be so much more income. The Daily News remarks that if every populous town would do as Manchester has done ; establish a Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society for its own district, and carry out the scheme with as much ability and zeal as we have seen displayed in Ireland, we should soon experience such a re. ductiou of the criminal claws as would mark an epoch in our social history. In Ireland, under Sir W. Crofton 's method of dealing with criminals, the discharged prisoner who wishes to do well can do well, and 80 per cent. are actually known to be doing well. The Manchester people are wise in refusing to wait till a general system is pro- vided, and in propane to retrieve as many of their own convicts as they possibly can. The scheme, however, will not be complete till it comprehends discharged prisoners of both sexes. ' While these women are uncared for, we shall never succeed as we might with the men, and never effect any adequate rescue of the children. The Post is anxious it should be understood that all and every communication, confidential or otherwise, which has been sent to Governor Eyre, was previously submitted to the cabinet, and read, probably revised, and certainly ap proved, by the Premier. Mr. Cardwell is in nowise indivi dually answerable for the administrative conduct which was sanctioned, if not directed, by Lord Russell, and it is needless to add that a vote of censure passed upon the Colonial Secretary would affect the whole cabinet. The government must stand or fall upon its Jamaica policy, and to suspect Mr. Cardwell is to distrust Lord Russell. The Herald thinks that Earl Russell is likely in a politi cal sense to realise in the matter of reform the fable of Acteon devoured by his own dogs. The very rank and file of liberalism are in open mutiny, and by publio meetings, letters, and officious deputations of "working men," are threatening the government, and trying to dictate terms. This is significant of the fate that may possibly overtake the government. The Daily Telegraph treats of the diplomatic relations between Rome and Russia, assuming that when Rome has to reckon on Italy alone she will not care for the patronage of Russia, and will no longer tacitly acquiesce in the Polish policy of the Cur. The Telegraph also writes upon the death of Lord Edward St. Maur, and the reported death of the sculptor Gibson. The Star looks for some serious debates in the coming session upon the Irish national schools and the education in the Queen's Colleges, It is confident that the liberal party would never consent to the grant of public money to be spent in the propagation of any particular creed. Religious observane,es and theological teaching should be made optional merely, and not compulsory as at present. Under these conditions the liberal party might probably counte nance the granting of a charter to the Catholic University, should such be the wish of Ireland, though at the same time believing it to be a retrogressive step, and one by no means really calculated to serve any section of the Irish. On Wednesday, Feb. i, the benchers of the Inner Temple will meet in their parliament chamber to elect the new reader. The appointment is worth 300/. a year. The practical suggestion made by Sir F. Crossley, Bart., M.P., a few days ago, for the relief of the sufferers by the cattle plague, has been adopted at Halifax. At a meeting of the subscribers to the Lancashire Distress Fund in that borough, it was resolved that the surplus, amount ing to 2,0001., should be appropriated to assist the small farmers and others who are una'ole otherwise to meet the loses by the disease. The cattle plague is rapidly extending in Cheshire, in the neighbourhood of Birkenhead. One farmer in that locality, who has lost the whole of his stock by the plague, has become insane. The district inspector assured the Birkenhead magistrates, on Saturday, of the singular fact that none of the cattle imported from Ireland had died from the malady. A meeting of magistrates will be held in Cheater on Wednesday, at which a resolution will be submitted asking the government to appoint • " day of public fasting. humiliation, and prayer," in view of the present ale's. There has just been prepared for the signature of the President of the United States a patent for 45,000 acres, selected under the acts of Congress of 1862 and 1864, along the line of the first section of the Central Pacific Railroad, being that part which has been finished, duly equipped, and put in complete running order. The patent or grant is elegantly embellished with the coat of arms of the United States, surrounded by the symbols of agricul ture and commerce, and is accompanied by a map of the Union exhibiting every State and Territory, and the line of route for the Central and Union Pacific, as well as the proposed line of route for the Northern Pacific. There are three newspapers in circulation in Natal, the Witness, the Times, and the Mercury. A writer in the last complains that 11l of them "have `more or less evinced a bias on the side of Coleeso." Upon the excitement caused by the bishop's arrival, the proprietors of the Mercury published a supplement devoted exclusively to the controversy between the two parties in the church, which may be called a fourth newspaper. It bears the name of the Church Chronicle, and is to be published weekly, or as often as matter arises. Its leaning is towards Bishop Coleneo ; and the churchwarden of the cathedral, writing in it, complains that there is "no newspaper in the colony edited by a devoted churchman, or our cause would be differently represented." Major-General M. P. Lowry, who commanded a division of Confeder►tes at the battle of Nashville and elsewhere, and who surrendered to Sherman in North Carolina, has taken to preaching. He has two Baptist churches in Tipesh county, Mississippi. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Euxine, which left Southampton on the 6th for Marseilles, to re lieve one of the company's steamers as that station, having therefore no mails or passengers, met with terrific weather, when probably not very far distant from the unfortunate London. The precaution which was adopted by the captain of "easing the engines to quite slow," and "heaving to with head to west," is one (writes the secretary) which the commandoes of the company's largest and most powerful steamers have been compelled to resort to very frequently during the last two months. The vessels have been put about to avoid the danger of a high following sea, and the steam power has been need for hours simply for the purpose of keeping the ship moving gently in a direction opposite to her destination. At a meeting held oc Saturday by several in fluential gentlemen at the George Hotel, Aldermanbury, in oompany with some of the survivors of the unfortunate steamship London,—viz, Mewl. Munro, Wain, and Wilson, passengers, Edward Gardiner, steward, and several of the crew—it was unanimously resolved that a committee be formed to meet et the same place this after noon in order to ascertain what steps may be deemed neon eery to raise subscriptiou towards auiatiog the present necessities of the survivors, and also to make some compli ment to the captain of the Italian barque who so bravely rescued them. A deputation will also be firmed to wait upon the Lord Mayor for the Name purpose. !be court. OSBORNE, JAR. SI Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helene and Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe, drove out yesterday afternoon. Prince Christian rode on horseback, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. Prince Leiningen arrived from London, and dined with the Queen andlltoyal Family. Princess Hermann of Hoheolohe joined her Majesty's dinner party. Lord Augustus Loftus arrived from London, and also bad the honour of dining with her Majesty. JAN. 21. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helens and Prince Christian of Sleswig.tiolstein, drove out yesterday in a carriage and four. The Dowager Duchess of Athole and Colonel the Hon. A. Harding. attended. Lord Augustus Loftus had an audience of her Majesty yesterday, and kissed hands on being appointed her Majesty's Ambassador to the King of Prussia. The Earl of Beesboroagh and the Earl of Cork also had audiences. Lord Beesborough having resigned the office of Master of the Buckhonnda, kissed bands on receiving from her Majesty the woad of Lord Steward of the Household, in place of the Earl of St. Germane, resigned. Lord Cork kissed hands on being appointed Master of the Buckhounds. The Lord Chancellor arrived from London, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. A committee of the Lords of the Privy Council sat on Saturday at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, to consider certain matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords present were The Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, Earl Russell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, and the Right Hon. G. J. Goachen. The committee was attended by the Attorney and the Solicitor General, Mr. Baring, Mr. Waddington. Mr. Arthur Helps, and Mr. E. S. Harrison. A deputation from the Foreign Cattle Association, con sisting of Mr. Charles Hicks, Mr. John Houck, Mr. G. C. Graves, Mr. Van Thal, jun., Mr. E. Price, Mr. W. G. Guerrier, Mr. Jas. Brewster, and Mr. B. B. Baker, bad an interview on Saturday with the following Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, at the Privy Couacil•office, Whitehall, viz., the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, and the Right Hon. G. J. Goechen. _ Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the North American Provinces and Bermuda VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON.—We understand (says the Sunday Gaaqic) that, within the last few days, Lord Russell, on behalf of the Queen, has offered to Viscountess Palmerston a peerage in her own right, with remainder to her son, the Right lion. William Cowper. It has, however, been declined with many grateful expressions of the sense entertained by Lady Palmerston of the kind intentions of her Majesty, and of the honour intended thereby to be paid to the memory of the late premier. Lady Palmerston desires no change in her position, and is content with the distinction of being Lord Palmerston's widow. THE ADDRESS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—The Obscrre r states that the Marquis of Normanby is likely to move the address in the Lords is reply to the Queen's speech, which will be seconded by Lord Morley. POLITICAL BANQU ET% —Earl Russell gives a grand full draw parliamentary banquet on Monday, the sth proximo, at his official residence in Downiog-street The Eal of Derby will have a parliamentary dinner on the same day. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone (Chancellor of the Exchequer) received Sir Alexander Coctburn (the Lord Chief Justice), Sir Francis H. Doyle, Sir F. Rogers, the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Edward Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Childers, M.P., Mr. Tits, Mr. Molvill, Mr. Airy, Mr. Repington,lMLlErskine May, &c., at dinner on Saturday evenicg, at his residence on Carlton House-terrace. the. Gladstone and family arrived in town ou Saturday from Hawarden Castle, Flintshire. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli has issued cards for a parlia mentary dinner on the sth of February, at his residence in Upper Groavenorstreet. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle have been entertaining during the past week, at Clumber Park, Worksop, the Earl and Coantess of Westmorland, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Courtenay, Lady Rossmore, Hon. Robert Temple, Lord Arthur Clinton, Captain Synge, dx. The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland is much better, although unable to leave her chamber. The Earl and Countess of Cawdor have a...ived in town from the family seat in Weles, preparatory to the wedding of Lady Victoria Campbell, their eldest daughter, with Lieutenant-Colonel Lambton. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have arrived at Groavenor-gate for the season. . The Bishop of London leaves town this day, and will be absent until the opening of parliament. On Tues days, the 23rd and 30th inst., the weekly levees will be con tinned at London House, St. James's-square, u usual, when the bishop's chaplains (who are in daily communication with his lordship) will be in attendance. The next examination for direct commissions will begin on Monday, the 9th of April. _ The Irish Time. has been requested by Mr. Gregory, M.P., to state that the announcement that he had been offered and had declined a lordship of the Admiralty Mr. Benjamin, ex-secretary of the Confederate States, is studying English law, in the chambers of Mr. C. E. Pollock, in the Temple, with the view to being called to the English bar. In a letter to a commercial firm t'ue Chancellor of the Exchequer states that it is the intention of the govern ment to submit to parliament the assimilation of the duty on bottled wines to the duty on wines in wood- there being One uniform rate of duty of ls. per gallon upon all wises. The Dover Chronicle says that the directors of the London and Chatham Railway Company have evinced their appreciation of the service of Captain Hoed, of the Belgian Royal Mail Steampacket Belgique, in the assistance that gallant officer gave to the llamphire by presenting him with a service of plate of the value of 150 guineas. Appropriate and substantial acknowledgments have also been paid to the officers of the Belgique. The judges in Ireland have resolved to proceed with the Fenian trials till the assizes, about the 17th of IFebruary, if necessary. There are 27 cases still to be dia. posed of, but the number may be increased indefinitely by fresh arrests. We (Northern Whig) believe we are right in stating that one, at least, if not more, of the Dublin detec tives has arrived in town in pursuit of Stephens, the "Head Centre," who, it is supposed, is in the neighbourhood of I Belfast. It has even been rumoured that he has been traced by the detectives as far north as Newry. An estate and insurance agent, named Jobn Crawahaw, who resides at Horsfortb, was committed for trial on Saturday by the Leeds magistrates on the charge of obtaining goods from the railway companies in the town by false pretences. He had for some time practised, without discovery, an ingenious system of fraud. Having by some means ascertained the names of persons to whom goods were consigned, be sent some one whom he met in the street to the railway stations for the parcels, which appear some what carelessly to have been delivered up without question. So many parcels. however, failed to reach their destine. tion, that inquiries were set on foot, whioh led to the de tection and apprehension of the prisoner. Property worth 601., which bad thus been dishonestly obtained, was re covered by the police, but this, in all probability, represents very imperfectly the extent of the robberies he has com mitted. A correspondent of the Times writes :—" I live near the Smallpox Hospital at Highgate, and in going to town daily hardly a week passes but what I ale a smallpox patient going to the hospital in a public cab. Yesterday, for instance, in cab No. 3,900 I saw a patient wrapped up in blankets, with a face one mass of eruption, going to the hospital, the driver having bailed me to inquire the way. This cab would, in all probability, take a return fare to London ; perhaps, a lady with some children, and the re sult rosy be laughed. Ls there no law to prevent this?" DEATH or THE GlovEssos or Names.—Colonel Maclean, Liautasantatosarner of Natal, [ornately Liente. nant-Governor of British Kalfaaria, died on the 17th of November. Nairn Aberdeen Leith Ardrossan Greencastle Valenti* Cape Clear Liverpool Holyhead , Penzance Brest Rochefot . Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth London Yarmouth Scarborough.' Shields fielder.... 1 B. T. - - 19.361 SO 19.4340 29.66114 29.5446 9 9.62 41 N.69:44 49.74146 29.67;47 19.88 60 30.00 62 90.04 64 50.24146 29.86;61 29.8961 49.91'61 ,',51.86 62 .129.81161 29.09 45 12.05411 OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIB DA Y. ) THE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OP The intelligence brought by the Australasia dispels all doubt, the Times thinks, as to the intensity of the feeling in the United States with respect to the Mexican empire. The executive government are as earnest in their opposition as congress' could wish, not only refusing to recognise the Emperor Maximilian under any circum stances, but even declining to pledge itself to remain neutral between him and Juarez, supposing all foreign aid withdrawn. The Emperor of the French, it must be ad mitted, rode rough shod over the Monroel doctrine, stated in its most moderate form, when be first pushed on his Mexican expedition, and the resentment which he caused is increased by the fact that be did it when the Federal government was unable to take selective steps to prevent him. This it is which has driven the President and Mr. Seward to the adoption of the Monroe doctrine in its most extended interpretation, making them regard the republics of the New World as banded together in a raw Holy Alliance, a threatened extinction of one of them being a calamity which justifies the forcible interference of all the rest. The Times finds the best hopes of:the mainte nance of peace to be in the deep feelings of friendship and sympathy which American■ have towards the French people, and trusts that the American government will allow the embarrassing quotation to be solved in the way apparently proposed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys—viz., by pledging itself that, if the auxiliary corps is recalled to Europe, Melia) shall be left to settle its future destiny. The Post expects to find in the Emperor's speech to-day a promise, more or less distinct, of the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico, and is inclined to regard the correspondence between the French and American govern. menta as reassuring, and as showing a desire on both sides to affect an amicable adjustment. Notwithstanding the nature of the representations made by Mr. Seward, and his refusal to recognise the Me:iota empire, his despatches con vey to the Post the idea that the future acknowledgment of Maximilian it not impossible. The Star thinks there was never a better illustration of the proverb which says that one false step oostalmany more than the present position of the French government in re gard to Mexico. The situation is one in which statesman like forbearance is eminently politic. " The world comae to him who waits" is a favourite saying of the Emperor Napoleon himself. The American government may just now take it to heart. The fall of the Mexican Empire has only to be waited for. It must come if left to time. Amen.* has the game in her own bands if only she con tinues calm and wise enough not to attempt to win it all at once. TRADE AND FINANCE. The restrictive action of the Bank having failed for the present to bring back anything like the sums withdrawn at the commencement of the year, the directors have acted prudently, in the opinion of the Daily News, in maintain ing the rate of discount at its present amount. Although the present state of the money market appears to stop the flow of gold from England to the Continent, it at best came only • temporary postponement. There is good reason to believe that our engagements to purchase largely of raw materials, and especially of cotton, rendered necessary by the activity of our export trade, are still very considerable. English merchants have never carried on so lucrative a foreign trade as they do now, and as these con tracts must be settled, we may assume that if the high rates of discount have for the moment stopped the drain of gold from the Bank, the cessation is only due to the hope that a speedy reduction to 7 per cent. will render the trans action more profitable. If there appears no chance for the pre sent of a decline, the export of bullion will probably at once recommence. In any cue, it is a mere question of time. A preponderance of imports over exports was at one period looked upon with the greatest alarm, but we now see that if gold and silver can be profitably used abroad, there is no reason to dread their export. Oar imports at this moment far exceed the exports, and yet from the simple fact that, as creditor' of the greater part of the globe, we receive as it were, an enormous yearly tribute, the annual influx of specie is much larger than the amount we send out. It seems singular that a temporary drain of gold should inspire so much alarm, for it may be well worth our while just now to send oat bullion certain to return sooner or later with increase. Showing the entire failure of the old modes of calculation respecting the course of the money market, the Daily Nom coma to the conclusion that the science of finance cannot be exclusively governed by the laws hitherto so positively laid down ; and that in some at les•t, if not all, points our monetary legislation is entirely faulty. The approaching parliament will probably examine into it, and with examination will come the cure. THE LOSS OF THE LONDON. The Times has received letters from a host of corre spondents suggesting every possible explanation of the above deplorable event. Putting aside most of these as beside the question, it approves of those which urge that passenger steamship's should be invariably constructed with a spar-deck, or at least that all openings communicating with the engine -room should be carried mach higher and far more efficiently guarded than is usually Use ease. It is in vain that we build invulnerable hulls if we leave unprotected openings on deck immediately above the vital parts of • steamer, which not only depends on her machinery for keeping out of the dreaded " trough of the sea," but should also be able to employ it for pumping. Still less excusable is the in• fatnation of shipbuilders in constructing the sterns of large vessels with lees regard to strength than the bows, and that of the officers of passenger ships in allowing the stare ports to be kept open or imperfectly closed during rough weather. In justice, moreover, to the truth, the Times cannot refrain from adverting to the apparent im prudence of Captain Martin in putting to sea at all—still snore with royal masts up—when the readings of the barometer at Plymouth were ominous of a owning huni eaae, and most navigators would have sent down even their topgallant mas`a. As to some unfavourable comments which have been made on the conduct of the sur vivors, the Tama thinks it would be preposterous to expect strong men to forego the means of saving their own lives becalms women or weaker men cannot be wild LATEST INTELLIGENCE MIME% TILINGBA3OI3 RETREAT OF PRIM TO PORTUGAL MADRID. JAN. 22. Official confirmation has been received of the in telligence that General Prim entered Portugal on Saturday last. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN LEGHORN AND CORSICA. LEGHORN, JAIL 22. A submarine telegraph cable was successfully laid yesterday between this port and the island of Corsica. THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OP VIEVIERS AND THE LATE MR. COBDEN. The Indirendance Beige of yesterday has the following :—" On Saturday nazt the bust of Richard Cob den will be presented to the Chamber of Cameros of Ver sions by the Political Economy Society of Belgium. The Chamber of Commerce has determined to give ‘'clat to the ceremony with the object of showing that the future belongs to freedom of commerce, which carried with it the fra ternity of peoples, the respect of nationalities, dis armament, and if not the diminution of taxes, their employment in works adoantageona to humanity.' Sash is the lutgaage which the Chamber of Commerce uses in the note of invitation which it has sent for the ceremony, and the banquet which is to succeed. The principal persons invited are the presidents of the Belgium Chambers of Commerce, of the Belgian Political Economy Society. of the International Society for the Abolition of Custom- Houses, of the Political Economical Society of,Franos ; Mr. Bright and other members of the Anti-Corn Law League ; the Chamber of Commerce in Holland, which represented that country at the Congress for the Abolition of Coatom- Homes, Mr. J. Prince Smith, member of the Prussian Chamber, and M. Gozenbacb, who at the last meeting of the Social Science Congress at Berne, presided over the sec tion of political economy." LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM.-(THIS DAY.) --•--- This forenoon the annual meeting of the sub scribers to this institution, established at Clapton in 1813, Wal held at the London Tavern, under the presidency of Mr. JAMES CAPEL, the treasurer. Mr. JAMES ROGERS, the secretary, read the report,which stated that in the early part of November, the institution was visited with a severe attack of typhoid fever, which in the opinion of the medical officers came wholly from without, and on the 16th of that month more than one hundred children were suffering from its effect, It did not spread after the 24th and Dr. homier, who was called in, having expressed his belief that, how ever much previous conditions and the state of the atmosphere had favoured the occurrence of the dis ease, some local cause must have determined the occurrence of this special attack, the managers had con sidered the advisability of removing the institution to a more salubrious district. After much consideration the board had resolved to purchase a site a short dis tance from town, easily accessible by rail, for the erection of a school for the girls, and on such a plan as would ultimately admit of the removal of the entire estab lishment to the same spot should circumstances necessitate the transfer of the boys from Clapton. A more detailed ac count of the plans however, will be hereafter submitted to the public. Daring the past year 77 orphans had left the asylum. Sixteen bad died, one in April of rheumatic fever sod 15 since November of enteric fever ; 80 had been ad mitted, viz., 10 by purchase and 70 by election, and with 3.5 now to be elected, there would at present be 468 orphans under the protection of the charity, making the total number benefitted since its formation, 3,064. The cost per head of the inmates had exceeded that of 1864 by 11. 14s. Bd., owing to the high price of provi sions and the recent sicknese, which had entailed an unusual outlay of 7501. The financial state of the charity was on the whole satisfactory, the receipts, including several munificent donations and legacies, one of the latter being 2,0001. from the late Mr. Richard Thornton, having realised 17,2711., while the expenditure bad absorbed the entire amount. leaving • balance due to the treasurer of 635/. The stock of all descriptions standing to the credit of the charity amounts to 43,4571. The managers conclude their report by stating that the educational condition of the schools was highly satisfactory, and that the children on leaving the asylum were continuing to command good situa tions in mercantile houses. The report was unanimously adopted, and the election of 35 children out of 165 candidates proceeded with. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) 3IOIDAY. JANUARY 8 8.1. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THD3 DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Viotratiooellor Stuart.) EDMUNDS V. LORD BROUGHAM. Mr. Mains, Q.C.. and Mr. J. N. Higgins appeared f or the plaintiff in this suit; and asked for an order to expunge from the answer of the defendant a certain passage, that they alleged was scandalous and rot pertinent to the /Male between the parties. The snit was instituted by the plaintiff, in whom the right to a sum of 5,0601., secured by a mortgage executed by Lord, Brougham io 1811, was now vested for a decree for fore. closure of the equity of redemption, or a sale of the mortgaged setae and payment of the principal and interest. The principal money had been paid into court, 'and the only question remaining to be settled in the suit was the amount of interest to be paid on the debt, Lord Brougham bad, in pursuance of an award of the Lod Chanoellor, offered to pay interest on the debt freak the 24th of. June, 1864 ; but the plaintiff claimed six years' arrears. The defendant had set op the statute of limitation to that claim ; enl bad by his answer stated among other things, to the effect that "He was ultimately compelled to turn the plaintiff out of his house in Grafton-street, under circumstanon which fully appeared in"—the House of Lords' as. port en the resignation by Mr. Edmunds of his offices of clerk of the patents, clerk to g lo commissioners of patents, and reading clerk and clerk of out-door committees in the House of Lords. He also made that blue-book a part of his answer in this suit. la consequence of that, it was insisted that as the reported contained much that was considered prejudicial.. as casting cruel imputation on the moral conduct of Mr. Edmunds—it amounted to scandalous statements in the defendant's answer ; and ought to be expunged therefrom. It was also urged that it would, if not struck out, throw upon the plaintiff the necessity of amending his bill in the suit, to meet a cue, wholly immaterial in the (podium between the parties. Mr. Bacon, Q.C., and Mr. E. K. Kerslake appeared for Lord Brougham; and Mr. Rewlinson for other parties. The Vioe-Chancellor, after hearing the plaintiff's cue at some length, directed the application to stand over till the first day of the sittings after this term. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice, sad Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush.) WILLIAMS V. LOVELL. Mr. Ruddleston QC., moved for a rule to set aside an order of Mr. Justi ce Blackburn, made in November last, staying the action in this suit. In 1860 the plaintiff erea the solicitor of a lady named Cass. The defendant is a bar. rider, and an arrangement was entered into between him and Mrs. Cass that she should pay him his fees and not the solicitor, and he was paid by her 501. on account of them. The plaintiff delivered the bride and some of the papen to the defendant. Mrs. Cass in the course of the suit changed her solicitor and she obtained an order from the Master of the Rolls requiring the plaintiff to deliver up the patient* her. The plaintiff then applied to the defendant for the briefs and papers he bad delivered to him but he declined to give them up, alleging that he had a lien on them foe fees, and that he should not deliver them up until thsy were paid. The Muter of the Rolls, the papers not having been given up by the plaintiff, made the'rule absolute for au attach. ment, and the plaintiff was accordingly taken into custody, 11e applied to the Master of the Rolls to rescind his order of attachment on the ground that he had no control one the papers but the Muter of the Rolls declined to disturb hi; order, and the plaintiff remained three re four months in custody. He again applied to the de. fondant for the papers, but the latter ref wed to give them up. In 1861 the plaintiff appealed to the lords justices, and they overruled the order and discharged him out of custody, leaving him, if he thought proper, to bring an action against the defendant for false imprisonment. The plaintiff had accordingly brought his action, the third count being for trover. An application wan made at Chambers in the nature of an interpleader, and then it woe that the order complained of was made. Mr. Justice Blackburn said the parties appeared before him in person, and it was such a complicated case he bad some difficulty at first in understanding it. The defendant seemed anxious to give up the papers to the proper person, and after well considenng the case ha thought ha made a just order, discharging the defendant and leaving the plaintiff and Mrs. Casa to fight about the papers. The Lord Chief Justice said that to say the least about it it was a very unprofessional arrangement come to between the defendant and Mrs. Cass ; the phiintiff had no right to demand the papers front the defendant. The briefs and papers were the client's property, and Pie attorney had no lien on them, as he bad not been the disburser of the money for the fees. Mr. Justice Ithickburn said the property in the papal was the matter of an interpleader. The false imprints. ment wan not the natural consequences of the defendant's act, but the mistake of the Muter of the Rolls. The Lord Chief Justice said the plaintiff had carrel from entering into an unprofessional arrangement. Rule refused. THE QOZEN P. ATLING. In this cue a rule Mai had been obtained calling epos Mr. Ayling, the Mayor of Weymouth, to show cause shy he exercised the office of alderman of that borough The defendant in November last was one of the Patine' alderman of the borough, and he was elected the =mud took the chair. The election of aldermen then took place, and the objection to Mr. Ayling was that there being a majority of votes in his favour be had, as returning officsr, returned himself, which was clearly illegal. a Mr. /danisty,Q.C., and Mr. Cbauuell supported the rule; Mr. Mellish, Q.C., and Mr, Cooper showed cause spinet the rule. Rule absolute. PARSONS AND ANOTHER r. MOFFATT. Mr. Mellish, Q.C., •pplied on behalf of the Earl of Derby, as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, to claim cognisance in this action, and to ask for a role call. tog on the plaintiffs to show cause why oognisance should sal be allowed. About year ago four similar rules were moved for and obtained, and on the hearing were made absolute, and notwithstanding that decision the same plaintiff', by the same attorney, had brought an action against the de. fondant, who was an undergraduate and resident of Christ Church, Oxford, for 21. 10.., for wise sold and de. livered in the aniversity. The proceedings is this cue differed in one respect only from the previous cases. In the former cues the writs were wised in term time, when the students were at Oxford. In this cue the writ had been issued out of term, and served on the defendant whilst he was spending his Christmas holidays with his mother. That could not make any differee because the defendant was a resident at the university, add the debt was contracted within the precincts of the university. Rule granted. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Hr. Commissioner Goulbuni.) IN HZ J. T. NORRIS. The bankrupt, a stationer, of Alderegate-etreet, and I paper maker, of Sutton Courtenay, Berke, was f0r11164 M.P. for Abingdon. At a former sitting debts of upwards of 30,0001. were proved, and assignees •ers chosen. The case now came before the court sn a petition by Henn. Smith, Payne, and Smith, bonne who are monlfagmes of the bankrupt's cetate at Sanas Coortenay, in respect of an advance of 14,0001. in rnbfga r h 1863. The petition prayed for a modification in a foram order, so as to include certain property not =brewed is the first order. After hearing Mr. Bagley, Mr. Freshfield. and lig' Bekewich, his Honour made the order as prayed. rtoeesv. OM NORTIMUI TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY. to..R7Cf.ikiid back, fresh to strong, squally, unsettled. As above. Marra. Chiefly southwesterly, fresh to strong, some rain. WESTERN. N. W. to NW., strong, • squally. showers. Southerly and westerly, eourazaw. As next above. strong, squally, un settled. As next above. UMW , . Similar to above. Northern=ScoUand. Western=lreland, Wales, and adja cencies. Southern=Engllsh Channel and Bay of Biscay. Itastern=Bastward England and North Sea. VIOLENT GALE.—(THIS DAY.)—A strong gsle from tho S.W. broke over the metropolis between midnight and 1 o'clock, increasing in violence during the morning, shifting at intervels between S.W. and W.N.W., with terrific gnats, and accompanied by a thick, drifting rain. Much damage was dupe at Kennington. FEVER NEAR RUSSELL -SQUARE.-012 Saturday afternoon Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middle sex, held an inquest at the Oporto Storey, Broad-street, St. Giles's, on the body of Ann Ready, an infant five months old. Mary Ready, mother of the deceased, said she lived at No. 12, Russell-place, Little Coram-street. She occupied a very small room there, for which she paid ls. 3d. a week. Her husband was • bricklayer's labourer, who when in work earned 18s. per week. They bad four other children. Ou Monday afternoon last she laid the baby down asleep, and after it had lain some time she went to look at it and found it dead. She did not know that the child was ill. Mr. Blake, the coroner's officer said the house in which deceased died was moat wretched ; the smell was enough to poison anyone. There were dust-holes in the yard, overrunning with refuse and decayed vegetable matter. There was no door to the closet, which had overflowed. The stairs were decaying, and most of the upright supporta to the baluster had fallen away, and every step was broken in. The mother of the deceased corroborated the above statement, and added that all the windows in her room were broken. She had got up seven or eight time, during the night to drive out the cats. She bad complained to her landlord, who told her if she didn't like it she had better go. Bat that was easier said than done, for wh he applied for • room she was refused on account of her children. Two jurors, who had similar. property, thought that no one should interfere, but admitted that the dust should be got rid of. After a abort consultation the fol. lowing verdict was returned:—" That the deceased died from the mortal effects of exhaustion, accelerated by the de fective sanitary arrangements in the house in which deceased lived." The jurors previously alluded to objected to the verdict, but there being twelve exclusive of them, the ver dict was accepted and recorded. The jury then appended the following resolution '• The jury impanoeled at the Oporto Stores on the 20th January, 1866, to inquire into the cause of death of Ann Ready, having returned a verdict that the said death was accelerated by the want of eanita arrangements in the hones in which the deceased died, would call the attention of the parish authorities to the filthy state of the said houses, in order that measures may be immediately taken to render them fit for human habitation." THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF ♦ YOUNG LADY.— The coroner's inquest upon the body of Min• Wood', aged 21, who was found dead in the canal at Droitwieh, on Friday last, took place at Worcester on Saturday. The evidence showed that the deceased had committed the act and that a love affair was the reams. Police-oonsteble Martin, of the Droitwich police, who found the body in the canal, deposed that on an old bill in the pocket of the deceased was written in pencil the follow ing Keep them, sad if you can speak to him again tell him his name was the lest word Limits need. Give this to Annie [her sister], at 27, Highstreet, Worcester." Mr. Woods, the deceased's father, deposed that he knew nothing at all of his daughter's having a male acquaintance. Hie daughter Annie was the only ere of the family who knew anything about it. Twelve year ago the deceased fractured her sknlL The jury found a verdict of " suicide while in an unsorvad state of mind." MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The Jasuary adjourned Quarter Sessions of the Peace far the county of Middlesex were commenced this mot-Dins st the Sessions.honse, Clerkenwell-green. before Wiliisa Henry Bodkin, Beg., Assistant Judge ; Joseph Payne, Eel 4 Deputy AssistantJudne ; Mr. Henry Powoall, Mr. Psre Mr. Charles White , Mr. Rankine, Mr. Woolsey, Dr. J sad other *Ws& SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Payne.) THE DEFECTIVE JURIES. Considerable difficulty has beim felt for several swims past . in making up the proper number of jurymen, and th is 'metope being very heavy a comment was made oe the sob Mr. Payne inquired of the clerk of the court (Mr. Bar kinsoa) bow many persons had been summoned. Mr. Hodgkinson said the sheriff's representative ems prompt. A gentleman from the sheriff's office said that 61 persons had been summoned. Mr. Payne thought that considering the large number rf prisoners for trial this semi= (108, besides bail cans) 61 were not enough, for out of that number 22 were ineotnpoteet set re, which reduced the number to 40 for both court The sheriff must summons mom, especially at this HMO la year, whoa ea many persons were unwell. ACCIDENT ON TRW WORCESTER AND WOLVES' HAMPTON BAILWAT.—A collision occurred at CU:6W early on Saturday morning. by a coal train ruardni bit! gook train at that station, sad seriously injuries two rd vol oonipany's somata, via, the driver and stoker : bog , I . them were coamed to the Oxford Infirmity. Os saki' inquiry yesterday stow o'clock, we learned that kith Ws going on as well as could be expected. C tam Erg Goa 1?a, A.W. W.S.W. W. A.S.W. W.S.W. W.N.W. &S.W. W.B.W. &W. W.B.W. B. S. R.S.W. W.B.W. &B.W. 8. W. W.B. W. W.S.W. W.N.W. B.& K. B.W. 0.101 0.3 t 0.19 0.07 0.7$ 0.20 o.oe 0.48 0.24 LSI