The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-05 00:00:00

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It would have been unreasonable to expect any great novelty in the speeches thus delivered. The sub stance of all that could be said by Lord STANLEY, Sir JOHN PAILINOTON, and Mr. Leman (the new Lord Advocate) had long since been anticipated, nor did the manner of @eying it rise much above or sink much below the level of the occasion and the reputation of the speakers. Of the three addressee Lord Sits LET% an might have been expected, is the highest in tone end the widest in range ; clear and forcible, well conceived and well expressed. Sir 10821 PARIMITOri is candid and sensible; Mr. Ixous smart but unsatisfactory. The topics, of coarse, ars the same in all—the Wittersiu Despatch, the Con. 'piracy Sill, and the Pteech Alliance; Legislation for India ; and Reform in Parliament The lime itadiseted by Lord DEIST on Monday lest was of wane followed out without much deriatioo. Lord STANLEY, indeed, went so tar beyond the parental progrunme se strongly to advocate religious neutrality in dealing with India, and to declare that our great dependency would be best governed with se little intelligence as possible from home. He also intimated that the new Govern ment would not pewees any Conspiracy Bill until they had ascertained, from the results of pending proceedings, that the existing law was intraffitioat. Oa this point &riots PrinnerroN, though hempole has decidedly as t. the intentions of the Dwy Cabinet, adopted the sues tone, declaring that "it " would be time enough to determine whether lees " lotion was wanted," after the actual state of the law had been authoritatively settled by the solemn decision of the highest tribunals in the country. It is needless to say that in the line thus taken we en tirely concur. It is the only obvious and rational coon. There is a doubt in the highest quarters as to the actual state of the law. It is doubtful, in the first place, whetter aliens and natural-bon subjects are, or we sot, equally liable under the Statute Low, to the penalties imposed on those who are " aceeinariee before the fact" to a murder committed abroad ; it is doubtful, in the second place, how far, at Common Low, either aliens or natives are liable to any punishment what ever for conspiracy to commit murder abroad; it is doubtful, in the third place, whether, if they be so liable, the punishment that can be legally awarded is or is not adequate to the offence. It is not our in tention to represent, what is assuredly not the moss, that all these doubts are of equally difficult solution : it is sufficient, that as long u they remain doubts— until by solemn judicial decision they have been converted into certainties--no man can mums authoritatively to declare what the state of the law really is, nor, consequently, to pronounce whether it does or does not call for amendment- It is im portant, moreover, to remark that a delay in legislating, until the defect to be legislated for is clearly pointed out, cannot possibly, under existing circumstances, be reasonably objected to by the French Government. The speediest legislation could not possibly alter the legal position of a single alien in this country who has already been or may here after be charged with complicity in the atrocious attempt of the Rae Lepelletier. Even the Legisla ture of our great Ally has not yet gone the length of sanctioning an sr post facto law. If a Conspiracy Bill were to become law to-morrow, BERNARD and his accomplices in this country (if such there be) must be tried by the law that existed when the crime of the 14th of January was perpetrated, not by any law subsequently enacted. Thera is, therefore, no plea for haste ; there is every reason for delay. The new Administration will be supported by the country in firmly adhering to the determination not to legislate on this vexed =ties., if they legislate at all. till the precise limits of the existing law, and the real extent of the present mesa, of punishment, are made known, by an authority at which none can cavil, and which none can question. With regard to legislation for India, the recently re-elected Ministers had obviously no alternative. Lord I/East's programme in this respect had been too explicit, and the new Administration, like the former, is pledged to revolutionise the government of an empire, of which it has not yet com pleted the re-conquest, or effected the settle ment. None of the reasons adduced for this step by Sir JOHN PAIIINGTON and Lord STANLEY add one iota to the cogency of those argn ments, of which we have repeatedly shown the that no case what legislation; but if legislating, there is - understood to be ELLENBOIOUGH respectable and less joint result of the Ulm of PA LH nrrom, into the limbo of -- - _ . - . •• _ ; • AP-4-- ( F 2 fru DAILY NEW : LONDON MORNING . phresis is to be ga w.h=i.1:7 4 ....1....... menterY style orrerms. illustriola butt la arra rd 'Jr et NI our ar4-1• dr Iffiaim el In la mar, rd r the wird swarlls rd ossarro weruf,afgas hi s guard aga ..stirs ft do at, ratio& aid saisstan aellin-die pm le r• ..m.t oftwox I, awe up „ Luna AND maim elocution of In As subahr 0•07 TM ta m ig. . ...b....... ...4. characteristic, I**l**.T rna om LA al L UM MOM regard to thi: -Num.. ALL orrioismi ADvissma milll. vulgarly call: tar= i ssman ne .t .. ame =zie s, h a ", already , re erg tareasass. '''''' Isztras sii pans* r 4 eider to abr. Dow meat thi To M e rin: of sr 41 ArrIIII rOw Illerr : 411 A 4 lama s o • lek Is la Mir Or re It lag il==t. g Promote thUJ ...... sege wale mar id 1.11 Pr 1 1 44441.. Mr IA promote th e m M lir 14040•4 4 . 18, . • - •-- - ........ ...7 aaa•cr repcsmily SZIORII Me fallacy. We are as clear ea ever that no cue what- ever is made out for immediate legislation; bat if Parliament has determined upon legislating, there is at leant a chasms, that the Bill now understood to be engaging the attention of Lord ELtesnottorou may be a somewhat more respectable and less dangerous measure than that joint result of the imbecility of SMITH ILACIthiC rashness of PA LIE nwrom, which boo now finally pared into the limbo of legislative abortions. 11 1!I The week point of these addresses is of mune the question of Parliamentary Reform--or, as one of the speakers prefers to phrase it, " A coos id tratiou of • the laws regulating the representation of the l 'people with a view to as cer t a i n i ng whether they " cannot be improved so as to effect the great ends " they were intended to serve." If this happy peei. 4.... THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1858. takes as a apesimen of the Parlia - -- of the rsovr LOA% ADvoosvi t illustrious historian of stadern Europe must be his guard against a formit y r seropetitop. elocution of INGLIS will ri •In its most r characteristic, the competitive Sr i►raso x MIA regard to this " consideration of the laws,' &e., vulgarly called Reform in Parliament, we have already expressed ear views, sad need not now repeat them. The line to be taken by the Liberal party seems clear; let us do everything to promote the just claims of the people, nothing to promote the mere purposes of faction. What wit mast is thoroughly to purge the anomalies of the Papresentative System, seriously to peer forward the claims of the unrepresented. Would Lord Pop kowros this suasion have gone further towards satisfying those claims than Lord Draw will next smaion ? or, rather, for that is the real question, is the probable difference between the two so great as to induce the thorough-going Liberals, on the or sand of this postponement, to promote the views IardPALWIRSTIM by an embittered opposition to do Government that has just displaced him? As le the pleas for delay urged by Sir IOII3IPAKINGTOM, they of course are absurd enough. All public men dm this country capable of combining together to Arm a Ministry ought by this time of day to have bun able to make ap their minds in some degree on the question of Parliamentary Reform. To talk of this question as coming upon statesmen by surprise, st its not being "humanly possible" to frame some adequate plan on the subject without a year's further delay, verges on the ludicrous. If ridicule were the object, there is abundant material for it here ; has the question is, what is to be done ? Our answer again would be : All that the assertion et principle renders necessary—nothing beyond it. Lot us be at oar posts eager to seize every opening bp which the interests of the people can be really promoted, but do not let as be entangled in mere ho ttest fights, which may discredit the party but can Arm advance the cause. EXHIBMON or 1861.—We are informed that a special meeting of the Conseil of the Society of Arts has been summoned for the final consideration of the important question, whether the Society shall at onoe announce its resolution to direct and superintend an Exhibition of 1861, or any other year ; and that the definition of the exact character which such Exhibi tion should bear will also be matter of discussion at the assting. INDIA. a: Wo hgfe been higand y a., PegastioTh and Orients/tPosapany irith derntre. oeived .OWm fronildarseilna A ling (Friday) rn ing : " The steam-ship Elaine, with in; Bombay arrived at Marseilles at 11 p.m. yesterday. " The mails left for London at midnight." INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. ARRIVAL OF OFFICERS FROM LUCHNOW. (wr zuscraic Tzupozara.) (nom ova oww ooliallrOWDINT) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The Pera ham arrived with the heavy portion of the East India and China mail., 940 packages of specie, value unknown, 1,600 bales of silk, &c. Her data are :—Alexandria, Feb. 20; Malta, 23 ; and Gibraltar, 27. She spoke the Britannia, Sultan, Colombo, and Indus. No Lucknow refugee ladies by this arrival, but the following officers :—Lieuts. Charlton, Harmer, and Clery, of the 32nd Regiment, who were in Laoknow during the whole of the siege—the two former severely wounded. Within • fortnight of the commencement of the siege, out of twenty-three officer of the 32nd Regiment twelve were killed, one died of cholera, seven wounded, and two severely ill ; only one having escaped untouched. Lieut. ' Knight, whilst emulating in taking two guns, wu surrounded by rebels, his whole party was cat to pieces, he himself escaping with many wounds. Captain Cornwall wu severely wounded. He com manded a party of the 93rd Highlanders, who occupied the barracks at Lucknow, and captured several guns. Captain Willis and Ensign Travers both fought at Cawn pore, and were severely wounded. Captain Anderson, commissioner at Lucknow when the out break took place, defended a fortification with a mall body of troops for some time till 'mistime arrived. He lost his wife and child from want of the necessaries of life. Captain Saunders, who commanded the outlying picket which defended General Windham's camp on the night of November 28. His brother, Lieut. Saunders, was crucified by order of Nena Sahib. said the other, day, we are apt to confound " near thing. 'with gra* things," and it would be to give a very false idea of what is now going ea in Prima* it I Nliore to *present this partienb* instance as anything extraordinary. It is don Wees one of. hundreds. *nests are going on all over the **try. Prison accommodation must be getting very make. The Prinoe Mirza of Chide ;as buried today in Pen La Chaise, by the side nf .hitunothen wham he followed to the grave as chief mourner only six' weeks ago. The ceremonies were of the same nature as those observed at the late Queen's funeral, and the number of followers was nearly as great. The young prince, his nephew, the presumptive heir to the crown of Onde, who has come over from London for the purpose of conducting the funeral, followed the coffin on foot when it left the Hotel Laffitte. Among the personages who received let ten of invitation to attend, were Ferukh-Khan, Madame St. Arnaud (widow of the marshal), Count Murat, Hake Albert de Luynes, the Attachh of the Ottoman Embassy, and General d'Orgoni. M. Louis Estaucelin, a member of the Legislative Assembly of 1849, who was well known by the cognomen of le jetnee Betaucelin, is just dead. The Bourse has experienced a favourable reaction. The Rents rose 26c. for cash, and 200. for amount, closing at 69fr. 230. and 69fr. 45c. Mobilier rose 6fr. The railways were firmer than they have been for some time, and closed with a rise of from 2fr. 60e. to 6fr. There was no very great amount of business done, but the better feeling was decided. The London mails are again overdue, the Chan nel ia dreadfully rough, and we hear that a great deal of snow has fallen in England. Here the we►- ther is bitterly cold, and the clouds look threatening, but no snow has yet fallen. PARIS, WIRD/1180AT ILTZNINO. The Bourse was favourably affected by Lord Derby's speech, which was considered to augur a continuance of friendly relations between England and France ; but although a little more business was done than yesterday, the number of transactions is still extremely limited. The Rents for account, after rising to 69.30 fell to 69, and recovered to 69.26, closing with a rise of 16c. For cash there was a fall of 60., the last price being 69. Mobilier rose Of. Railways were a trifle better, but by no means recovered from the heavy fall of yesterday. An Englishman was arrested two or three days since in the Champs Epees while talking polities rather loudly with a friend. His brother went to complain at the British Embassy, where he was told, doubtless very properly, that the Ambassador could not interfere; that Englishmen in Paris were as much subject to the laws of Francs as Frenchmen were, and that if his brother was in prison charged with a political offence he must wait patiently to see what might be the result of the trial. No mails from London have arrived to-day. A telegram from Calais states that the harbour is blocked tip with sand, and that the packet could not get in. ITALY. PIEDMONT. The majority of the bureaux of the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies have terminated the examina tion of the bill on conspiracies against foreign sovereigns. Nearly all the bureaux, while admit ting the necessity and the principle of the measure, propose to introduce amendments which will seriously modify it. It appears that the announce ment of M. Brofferio having been chosen reporter is premature. _ The Carrion Mercantile of Genoa announces that several political refugees have been ordered away from La Spezia. THE ENGLISH ENGINEERS IMPRISONE IN NAPLES. (710 X 0011 OWN NAPLES Fes. 27. The newspapers will have already informed you of an application made by the brother of Watt to Lord Clarendon for assistance to visit Naples. The request, as you know, was readily granted by his lordship, and on Tuesday last he arrived here. Watt was much agitated at seeing him, and clings to the hops of returning with him to England, a termina tion of the affair which is possible, though far from probable. I was anxious to ascertain what the im pression of his brother was, and therefore closely questioned him. "He is much changed, sir; he is no longer the same man," was the reply. "He is confused and muddled, and when alone he becomes very low. He is always thinking of his imprison ment and trial, and wondering when it will be over and how it will end. This is the only subject which occupies his mind. He talks about it to him self and sighs deeply, and when with me inter rupts conversation continually with some observe- tin about the trial. At night he has no rest, rising and dressing several times before the morning, and pacing up and down the room by the hour, so that the people below have no repose. Bat his eyes, sir —I think more of his eyes than of anything else ; there is a wild expression about them which frightens me; and he is always rubbing his hands, as if in a state of great nervous agitation. I wanted to have written home to my friends, but I am un willing to distress them. At all events you will say everything for me, and they will see the newspapers ; and I wish to acknowledge the great kindness and attention which I have received both from Captain Hawood and Mr. Barber, who lave done everything they could for me." During the same morning the medical men met together to decide on the report that should be given in to the Grand Criminal Court of Salerno regarding the health of Watt. There were present at the meeting the procurator-general, a judge, the chan cellor, two Italian medical men, and Mr. Roskilly. As you will remember, the medical men had been charged to examine Watt and decide whether his aberration of intellect was feigned or real, and whether he was in a fit state to be brought into court. After visiting him daily for nine days they reported that in their opinion it would b e b o th injurious and dangerous to sae any fora, to compel his attendance in court. The procurator general desired to have a detailed report of the investigations day by day, co as to furnish the court with some element, for discuseioa, and it wu deeded that such a report should be presented on the following morning (that is, to-day). It is pro bable that I may not have time to hear it before post, and if I had it is very doubtful whether it would interest you much. I must beg you to be con tented, therefore, with the following anticipation of such report Watt has been continually interrogated as to the reasons of his refusal to come into court, to which hie invariable answer is, " I bare nothing to do with the criminal court—l will not come down." " Why did you refuse to leave the prison when Mr. Barber went down for you? " He answers, "Oh, it was too late at night to leave the prison." They my to him, " No, you forget ; it was in the morning, before midday." He answers, " Well, I don't know." Some person offered him a cup of coffee, which he refused to drink unless a friend would first taste it. On Wednesday last he went to dine with his brother, but after having taken a little soup he rose from the table and went into a room by himself, refusing to take anything more. In short, there is a manifest suspicion of everything and ever person, which shows clearly that Henry Watt is labouring under aberration of intellect brought on by • long, painful, and most unjust imprisonment. Let has countrymen mark that well, and ask, not whether greater exertions would have been made in his behalf had he been the Hem Mr. Anybody, but why are not the same exer tions made in his behalf that were made for Miss Cunningham in Florence ? A strong religious party took up the latter case, and brought the pressure of public opinion to bear upon the government. Is civil liberty less dear to the people of England? It werdeoided by the meeting of yesterday that the case should be presented for discussion to the Orand Criminal Court of Salerno on Monday morn ing next, March 1. Some conclusion will then be come to us to what is to be done with Watt, and it ' will be announced when the trial will be resumed. As usual, you shall receive correct and early reports. The great subject of public interest this week has been the defeat of Lord Palmerston on the Alien ' fact which the Official Journal, with digiotui"and - unusual "celerity, published - in the form of a telegraphic despatch on the seventh day after it took place. All parties here were full of rejoicings at the event, though from widely different motives. The liberals thought it a point, and a great point, gained for liberty, that France should have received so great a check to her im prudent, and unjustifiable, and unmannerly de mands, at the same time however maintaining that habitual respect for the name of Palmerston which many think that of late he has done so much to weaken by his feeble and inconsistent foreign policy. The royalists, too, have been in ecstasies from a blind hatred for the man whose name on the Continent has long been the watchword of the liberals ; and I have heard of one society in which the persons present, being liberals, touched the ground reverently, and kissed their hands, a Neapolitan mode of gratitude. As for his M a jesty, I beliere ex Cl in a n 4 event which would lead to the retirement of Lord Pahnerston into private life would be regarded by him as a special act of grace from the Madonna Immacolata, deserving of a new crown, or at least of a new dress. It is with eager haste that on last evening a telegraphic despatch was published, to the event that a tory administration had been formed under the auspices of Lord Derby. The fact is, that • government which, lilce that of Naples. waits upon Providence, and instead of acting on any sound settled principles, takes advantage of circumstances, and so struggles along, Is agitated more than you can well imagine hy any foreign incident, such as the defeat of a British minister. (k court. OSBOB2IE, WA.141111 4. Prises Alfred visited her Majesty yesterday, aad retaraed to Ahorbeel to the Whew= Hie Royal Highness Prase Alfmd frequently side, the aselqrsed gips at Peressesalh, armed by ids Sr,uto Lhaterat Cewi, LZ., sot Commarier Sla ked, of the Weary, sal Awe subs arteey leveed' the ssaior altars of the port, whom be hes areorlalasil at him resiiesse et Aiseeteek. Rho b them is parealeg his sidles, se ese blamed, will the view el prier the Royal Navel College et the agerembleg qammrly examlaatios, sea mtrztag the service es • asset toast. The Bombes, SI, Capt. Tadao", C. 8., viii labs him toe his fret voyap. His Royal Highness the Duke of Oambridge had • Nisei party at &Baer last malls& at his royal highness's sporrtmate la fit. hassa's Palma His Excellency the Count Clareptowitch leaves Omlem Howe to-day, to lota the waster at Park. . - Ms Marchioness of Salisbury has issued cards for sumstaisa as Thursday ant, sad ea the 18th and 26th lan, at the Lord President of the Comaoire manna in Az. Vinton-street. The Earl and Countess Chanellle entertained • whet circle M dinner thee mein, at their manic• be The Earl of Westmoreland has arrived in town tea Aptharpe Ha, Northamptcmanu for a few days. Viscount and Viscountess Liamore leave town to day for Pella. lord Ashburton arrived at Bath Honey a few gays since trots visiting tie Marquis of Bch, it Lear kata, Wilts. Lord and Lady Ernest Brace come to town to wasnew from Brighton. Lard and Lady Hunting&ld and the Hon. Mims Yarn* bare arrived at the St. George's Hotel, from Havelegion Rail, Selo& Lord Broughton has arrived in town from hi 2 mat, Bartok* Park, Wiliahlrc The Hon. Oilhert Hes:Loot., M.P., leaves town to-day to jots the family circle at Normantan Park, Rat laadahlre. Sir George and Lady Grey will leave town on Monday for Florence. The Right Hon. Sir George C. and Lady Theresa Lewis salastahted a select droll at dinner en Wednesday e►ening as Hest Howse, Katgbtabridge. Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont arrived at their mansion on the Terrace, Piccadilly, a few days since, from the Continent. The Countess of Jersey had a mall and early re ception lest eight at the family mansion in Berkeley-goon. Their Royal Highnawee the Duchess of Cambridge end the Princess Mary, attended by Major Home Pareadaosowed her ladyship with their company. Lady lefoleeworth entertained at dinner on Wed nesday his Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernatortr, Maria Marchloner of Aileabtery, the Margate of Lansdowne, the Earl and Connie, of Clarendoe, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Counter of Cork, the Earl Granville, the Marquis of Donegal, the Est! St. Germans, the Right Hen. Vernon sad Mn. Smith, and Mr. T. Baring, M.P. Her ladyship bad an assembly in the evening, whke wee very tally attended. His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle will hold an wadreas reception fur ladies and gentlemen, at the Dublin Case* on Tuesday, 9th March, at three (idea pa. The Lid of Zealous has intimated to lila Excellency the Earl 41 Carlisle his intention of miming la Dublin in time to allow of W presiding at the annual ball of St. Patrick. Mr . . Wolff; who is appointed Private Secretary to dr Bari at Malumwbury, is the son of the Rev. Joseph and Lady Georsi.ina Wulff. The reverend gentleman, it wi ll be recollected, le the traveller who undertook a journey to Bukhara is search of Colonel Comelly souse years since. The Rev. IL F. Vigers, A.M., haa been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the rectory of Moron, in the county of Gloucester, and diocese of Oloseenter and Bristol, vacant by the death of the Rev. Roth.,d Wetherell: patron, the Lord Chancellor. M. Adolphe Odter,son of the banker, and brother hi-law of the late detieral Cavaiguao Is about to marry budge Roessel, a wealthy heiress. Mr. Lyons, her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Fl vane, residing at Rome, is to proceed to Naples to watch the tris/e and to support the interests of the two eaginsere, our diplomatic relations bring ins• roiled. Lord Stratford de Reich& will go to Constant'- s** to lake leave of the Settee.— Trouts. The following circular was sent round to the needon /the diplomatic ourps by the agent of the King of Oade preview to the Amend yesterday Hle Rustle:icy Moulds Mohamed Itusesh Oeddess Khan Bahadow, accre dited agent of his Majesty the King of dude, has the boom to invite you to be MINIM to the or.* at the funeral of his Royal Higher Iledaloor, who ha. jest died the falser of W pee& PO) Oros the anguish of a Irani heart. Him lamt prayer me to repose he aver in this noble land of From whose poome and easponinsom amine have shows so much empathy to his family, awl land marks of pious respect to the mains of the Qom-Mellor. Wherefore, his Royal Riches. Priam Mina, the heir pro empties to the crown of Oak r will be very gratetal to you If you consent to homer with your promos the obsequies of hie earls." CarrTAL Paucs.—Ows Sammie DAT. . Tatraso4r, WAR= 4. Athioloss al paymit, 4110; Eby by area WO% NA ; 1•141, 743. UNITED STATES. (IT DAMAN AND MIN NAWINTIO (►aom ova owx LIVIMPOOL, Faumr. The City of Baltimore has arrived. The news is unimportant In the United States Senate, General Henston's Mexico and Central America Protector robot-edam was taken up, and the Army Bill discussed, without final result. Hanes of air@ still occupied the House of Representatives. The New York money market on the 7th was buoyant, and sterling exchange steady at nominal prises. Stock market closed slightly lower; closing pries—York Central Sevens, 99i to 1001; ditto, Sixes, 881; Illinois Central Bonds, 95 ; ditto, share's, 961; Erie, 28j; York Central Shares, 951; Michi gan Central, 71 ; Panama, 103. Breadstuff@ firm, with good demand. Wheat un changed. Corn active and easier. Coffee improved. Cotton, under Niagara's advice', declined closing quiet at 11 ie. to 12c. for middling. Provisions generally firmer. Lard less buoyant. Rice quiet. Sugars active, price nominal. Tea inactive. Tobacco dulL Freights nominal. Naval stores firm. Ashes steady. A Washington telegraph says that the majority of the Senate Committee on Territories are said to have completed an elaborate report and a bill admitting Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Con stitatios. An official statement shows that the effective force of the navy embraces sixty-two vessels of all kinds. A house in New York, occupied by Windle and Co., and other important Arms, were destroyed by fire. Lase, 200,000 dollars. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (room ova owx PARIS, TRIOUDAT EVEIIKII. The appeal of Orsini, Pieri, and de Radio is fixed to come on before the Court of Caseation on Tues day next. It is said that there are really serious points to be argued. If it should turn out that then were any fatal irregularities in the conduct of the trial, the only consequence would be that the pri soners would have to be tried over again. Stich a result is, however, most improbable. Still more so, I should think, is it that there can be any truth in reports repeatedly circulated in foreign papers that the Emperor intends to pardon Orsini. If he, the principal conspirator, were to be saved, of course the others could not be executed. Some say that the Empress has pleaded earnestly for a commuta tion of punishment, and that it will be granted in the case of de Radio. I know nothing, one way or the other, touching the grounds for these reports, but judging merely from the circumstances, I can feel no doubt whatever that the law will take its course as to all the three as sassins now under sentence of death. The advocates who defended the prisoners in the Assize Court cannot follow the case to the Court of Caseation, where there is a special bar. MM. Bret and Fournier are said to have been nominated offi cially, together with the battonnier of the advocates of the Court of Cessation, to support the appeal, the prisoners not having chosen any counsel. It appears that M. Mathieu, who defended de Radio, has sub mitted a memoir to the Emperor, praying that his client may not be condemned to heavier punishment.] than Gomez, and has asked for an audience. An Italian professor, well known to many Eng lish families here, disappeared shortly after January 14, and his pupils had no tidings of him till two or three days ago. It now appears that he was arrested merely because he was an Italian. He was kept in prison live weeks, and there he wu offered the alternative of a dark dun geon (eaehot), or as a privilege, a miserable mom in which there was a little light, for the rent of which, together with a slight improvement upon the ordinary prison fare, he wu to pay efe. a day. For tunately for himself, he was able to purchase the relative comforts accorded for that rum, although he had no idea that he was likely to be detained foe so long a period. At the end of Ave weeks he was re leased, with an assurance that there was nothing whatever against him, and a civil expression of regret that he had been pat to inconvenience. He is fortunate to have escaped with only the indignity and suffering of imprisonment, end the considerable loss to a poor man of five weeks' forced neglect of his profession, and a tax of Ur. per day. If I mention this ease in detail, it is because it bone which I happen to know. Bet, as Lord Brougham GENERAL CHANGARNIER. The Independence Beige contains the following Wow: llAacm 1, 1868. "To the Editor.—Sir,—l have just red In your second edition the following telegraphic despatch: The Mohiteur announce. that Generals C.haajpirstier and &dean are autho ried to return to Fracas.' " Amid the blessings of poses Frame, judy Fond of the glory of her incomparable army, width I have so many reasons to love, has no occasion for the services of one of her most devoted soldiers; she will therefore epprove of his waiting to enjoy the ineffable happiness of seeing he: again until she shall he in the possession of laws protecting the dignity and safety of her inhabitants. " I pray you to insert this letter in your next number, and to eacept with many thanks the assurance, A letter from Jerusalem, to the Preue d'Orient, roferriog to the atrocious outrage upon the !ashy of an ♦merican missionary at Jeffs, narrated in the Espress of Tuesday last, says .—" The Pasha has taken the strictest 111.1111011111 for arresting the murderers. An inhabitant, who four years ago had one of the suspected individuals in his service, is in custody. The American consul is very pressing in the mast ; it is said that he has written to the Pirrone, in order to mum the visit to Jana of an American frigate sow in the Greek waters." Dons, WWII 4. The Maharahj Dhuleep Singh and his suite left the Lord Warden Hotel this morning for Calale. The Habeas Ambeesadont, and a very numerous suite, arrived by special train at 12 o'de*, accompanied by Mr. Knight, of the !tooth-Eastern Itallerey, and were re ceived by 8. Smiles, Esq., and Mr. B. Way. Her Majesty's steamer Vivid, Captain Allen, took theft Brellencies to Cali& to-day, after partaking eta knew at the hotel. SHOOTING A SEDUCER.—It May be remembered that in Deeembie lest an acosmat wee given of • case having occurred M the depmimsat of the Moselle somewhat similar to the Jeninee milesA wealthy !row, named Pochon, of Habouville, of wldch . villige he is may, having leaned that Ms daughter Clementine, fifteen years of age, was in the habit of reoeiving a young farm labourer named Basset in her chamber at night, ordered his son Hubert, only eighteen years of age, to wait la the evening of the 21 s t Dec. in the chamber with a loaded gum, end to shoot Banat dead in the event of by preseatlng himeel4 Hubert with out a word Ilia to the on.. whit the gat, sad when, after waiting some lime, he OW Basset climb up to the window, ha cried out, " Whet are you doing there!" and, without wailing for an answer, bed at him; the charge en tered Basset's baize sad he fell dead. The tuber and me were three days ego brought to trial before the Court of Arises of the department on the chine of murder. The sea did not deny heels( bed the fatal shot, but declared that ha had no intention to tin ; the father did not deny having given his son the order to fire, bat maid that he was distracted at discovering his daughter's &honour, and at learning that it bad been the talk of the whole village for weeks before he knew of it, in consequence of Bawl having had the infamy to brag of his intimacy with the girl. The jury sequiued the prisoners.— Galignent NANA SAHIB'S TREASURES.—A young officer who assisted at the recovery of some of the Nana's treasure near Bithoor, writing to his father, under date the 30th of De cember, rye I wrote in the beginning of the month from Commute, and since then another engineer dicer and myself, with a few Sappers, have been fishing treasure out of one of Nana Ilahib's wells at his place at Bithoor, about ten miles from Cawnpore. The well contained about twenty tire feet of water, but by getting two hundred of the line to work half-a-dosen buckets we suommted in getting It down to three feet. Two or three Sappers then went down, and, after emptying the well of three feat of rubbish, which the fellows bad thrown in on the top, we ma naged to get out about 2,0001. worth of silver plate and about 8,006!. worth of geld vassals. Sane of the gold plate was reagnilieent. Two large pietas were two feet nine inches each in diameter sad of solid gold, and weighed together 701ba. The other gold articles consisted of chalice', cups, he , spade for throwing roes- water , massive spoons for dm Ganges water when worshippmg, tto. It was &Scull work, for we had no implements for working the well, and the water came in at the rate of sixty gallons a where. This mina is not quite worked out yet, and a few sappers we left at Bithoor to get at the rupees, which they say are still at the bottom. The Nana's palace is in complete mine, and burnt. everything belonging to him in the village we have " THE NEw PASSPORT REGULATIONS.—The new regulation for laming passports have been officially pub lished the Clerk of the Pesos for Middlesex, and a copy forwarded to every justice of the county, with a circular, ey Mr. A. 0. Maude, the deputy, stadng that he has been is. quested, in reference to the same sub' to to the Home-office, for communication • to her 's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the signature also an im pression of the seal of each acting Justice of the county. In order to °onset these signatures sad seal a, a book has bees prepared, and lies at the Sewsionir-house, sad the justices are requested to attend, between the boon of 10 and 6, to den the book and Impress their seals. This will be used sub sequently as a book of refers°s at the Foreign-ofSes when an application for a passport Is sent in recommended by a Middlesex x justice. THE APPROACHING DEPARTURE OF DR. LIVING aad Mrs. Liviagsloas arrived at Liverpool yesterday (Thursday), and moll their departure for Meta, which is expected to take place on Saturday, they will be the gusts of Mr. Crosaleid, of Liverpool, and of Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead. The beautiful new steam ship Pearl, in which Dr. Livinatone and party will sail for the Zambesi River, salved In the Mersey yesterday • from Wa rw. As she lay in the middle of the river, Pearl ex cised great interest, and her elegant appearance evoked universal admiration. She will take out the river launch built by Mr. Laird, and packed up in compartments, which can be rapidly and easily joined together. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—Ia the matter of the winding-up of the Royal British Bank, Mr. Harding, the official manager, attended yesterday, with his eolioltor, Mr. Burton, before the Vire-Chancellor at chambers, to ap ply for the sanction of his H onour t o a number of compro mises which the official manager end the amignees, after very careful Investigation, thought ft desirable for the inte rests of the creditors at large should be accepted. Mr. Field of the firm of Sharps, Field, and Jaekeys, rem seated the shareholders under class B. The sestrasta amount of the proposals op to the premed time sent is to the official manager by shareholders under ekes A and clam II (including Mr. /frocks - ell) is about 120,0001. The num ber of compromises which yesterday receieed the approval of his Honour the Vice-Chanoellor was 76, smounitog in the whole to 60,0001. Mr. Harding has under considera tion other pmpoos,le represent ng the sum of 30,0001., which will shortly also be submitted to his Honour. ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—A practice prevails in the rural districts of Devonshire of &Minim • mirk from cider dins, which rossables whiskey, and is said b la b ea axesilsot medicine fa cattle. It a also than by murs sad agricultural labourers in the shape of toddy or grog. This practise of distillation being contrary to law, the alma revenue officers at Raster have lately been ea the alert, sad SINVIStIi dills sad soma spirit have been sena. At the Cads of Barrasr, a lbw days ago, an sgrioaltural labourer named Durham was convicted of having • eel In his house, which he had used Y the isaufacturs of spirit from cider The horned as penalty of 1001., but mitigated it es lR A Ansa, la Cluistow, was similarly deed • shot peoaliorig. LAW INTELLIGENCE THIS DAY. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Beton Mr. Commisidoner Holroyd ) THI ROYAL Parnell BAIII.-PABSTNO THE LAST This was the adjourned examination meeting under this bankruptcy. The eve directors recently convicted at the Guildhall were brought 'bp in custodx Mr Wsipleron err aka in attendance . Cameron, a beta t CIA d • th e Parties directed to up prepare the balance-sheet this case, was not brought . Mr. Llnhlater appeared for the serigneee; Mr. Fathead ice Mr. Stapleton; Mr. Venning for Mr. M'Leod; 16, Moojen for Alderman Kennedy; and Mr. Mason for the three new directors, Mr. What, Mr. Butt, and Mr. Hunt. Mr. Linklater—'t is the day appointed by adjoin. mat for the paring iof the last examination of the directors, if your limo* shall think that the cease to adopt. On the load of the assignee, I can sa P y w C they do not consider that there is any necessity fora farther edjournment ; and they are Indeed only too glad to find that they have arrived at a etas, as they may teem it, in 11i9 affairs of the Royal British Bank, as the last examine. Lion of the directors will be the conclusion of the proceedings under the bankruptcy, with the exception of the dividend. In pawing the teat examination of the directo r , the =sigmas feel that they cannot pas by the balance. sheets as they stand, without some comment upon them and upon the trading of the Royal British Bank. This is a case in which the &reams do not ease up for any certificate ; therefore It would be incorrect on the part of the aasignesa to let these balance-sheets pan ie 'them Three b.Lnoe.shsete have been filed—one by Mews. Bedell% M'Leod, Kennedy, andiVellent, who were dime= for a very considerable period. Another was filed by Mem% Gillett, Butt, and Hunt, the three directors who came most recently into office; and a third balance-sleet was tiled by Mr. Stapleton. The balance-sheet filed by Messrs. Gillett, Butt, and Hurst, vez 7 neerly represents the true stain of slain, of the bank d the period over which that balance sheet extends • and though the belence.sheet of the other four dire ctor. represents a much more favourable state of things than the assignees believe to have been within their own knowledge at the time the bank stepped, and for some time previous y, xxet it does not seem to require more observation from the assignees than an expression of dales, on their part from the statements made by the directors, with reference to many of the debts which ars represented se doubtful, but which it would appear from the books of the bank,:weee known to be bad and desperate at that time. With reference to Mr. Stapleton's balanoseheet I wish to say as little as possible; but we find that he reps. seats the greater portion of the debts owing to the estate to have become doubtful or bad, since the fauna the bank ,• for that is the interpretation which the Lamp would bear. As we propose to pass the hat examination of Mr. Stapleton, it is unnecessary to do more than express the dissent of the assignees, from the statement which appears In his balance-sheet ; because we find that many of the debts which are stated now to have turned out doubtful and bad were really known by him to be so some time beibre the bank failed. With refers= to 6,0001. or 7,0001. of these debts, it is mani fest, from his owe =awaiting, in the past-dne bill-book, that those debts were known to be either bed or doubtful some menthe before Royal British Bak failed. 'With reference to a lap proportion of others, which are stated in the 14=a-sheet to hays turned out bad since the bank failed, there are numerou entries showing that, to the extent of many thousands of pounds, they were known to be doubtful sad bad very long before the beak Mad. My only reason for making these remarks is to prevent creditors and others from hung misled by seeing certain debts entered in the balsas* sheet as doubtful which ought to be represented as deviate and bad and to prevent its being supposed that the assignees might have recovered larger sums than haw been realised. It is for the purpose of guarding against say 1111011 erroneous impressions that the assigner desire me to call your Honour's atten tion to these Lets. With reference to the :en ding itself , the official assignee hr , with very great diligence and ooneldenble labour, prepared a stews= showing the malt of the trading of the beak from the otan meacement to the end, from which /statement it would appear that at no period of the existence of the bank was thee a single shilling of profit made capable of division among the shareholders. Tenbertaina of the statement is as follows: ?Mit Low. Dividend. Bad dents. Taw ease cast ft • 0 Le. d. L e. t a d. °se-. Inc 4.14, ti UN 0 Lei I 11431 7•14,41 Jane, tea .... AU It • 1,260 0 0.441 11 0 Do 31“ .. 2,923 11 U 1,240 6,566 11 10 Do. ler, 1340. 0 250 4,331 111 Do. 314 Dee. IC 19 1. 8,104 11 4 1.500 0 UM 1 4 1X00414.115be.1443 531 13 4 1,640 0 non 14 U Do. Slot Dee.. 4,001 le 6 1,600 • 1,311 11 5 D0.3111./w.1414 De. 1144 Des... 232 15 t 1 1 , 66° 60 0 2°413.1r1 011 Do.nuthleee.ll46 1.343 14 3,000 0 SAM I Do 344 Dee, 7866 D _ Widnes, .11111 SAES 13 11 4,V4 13 4,451 ' 11 le KU Juee 414444144471 6.461 6 4 LOW 0 cm I ..atiani. 7...7 " I 010 0 0 Do Yee 0 8111161 IdeSeleno3l i 1• 13 0 F. 02 4 U I luta 4 f 24.8.80 16 8 7.3 524 17 M.C7I If welch Works 96:13 EMUS • at tot. =Mal ' The amount paid in dividends from 1860 down to 1866 was 23,6241., and all this upon the saanniption that., as amount of 22,3661.—which was placed to the debit of an so count called "the adjusting interest account "—was profit; whereas, in truth, it wee not profit, and which, therefore, in creased their losses from 20,0001. to something like 42,0001. Having regard to the circumstances of this teak roptcy, and the peculiarity of the can, the assignees have felt it their duty to eel! your honour's attention to them; because, although events have rather anticipated the natural course of things, still it will be the duty of the Court, ender the set of parliament, to transmit the preced ings under this bankruptcy to the board of trade, though the necessity of their being is transmitted, bee, by the moist proceeding", been rendered comparativel turnecessag t film the Act of Parliament has •to be comp lied with, aleo n: th e report which your Hawn hoe to make It will brow ps• terial that these facts should be shown. With that ',- planation the sadisms do not dente to prolong this can by resisting the pimen t o( the lest examination of the directors, nor do they desire, having regard to the present Fenvies el the other Informations not yet tried, to enforce any alumna, by Mr. Stapleton or the other directors of the balanneheele which they have thought fit to file. The balance-then will therefore be signed and paned in the ordinary mares; and upon those the directors will pass their last manna- Mr. Preahield said that It had been the desire of Wt. Stapleton to render the most perfect balance sheet which be could consistently with the posi tion he had held in this In fortunate bank. He (Mr. Freakfield) had not the Mum! of appearing before the Court when the balance sheet ti directed to be prepared, or he should have rankled that Mr. Stapleton , from the recent period at which be jcised the bank,' should not have been called on for sn wont. The order having been made, Mr. Coleman had bees in structed to prepare the belance sheet; and they now headier the first time that some items had crept into the list of debts which had been described as bad under Mr. Stapletoa's Maid writing some time before; any correction of that kind be would be glad to make. The directors then parsed their last examination. Mr. Linklater stated that at the dividend meeting on the 19th a dividend of 2e. in the pound would be deciantir making 10a.; and that a further dividend of Bs. was re ported to be paid from the funds received from shareholders. Mr. Junes Wyld, M. P., one of the earigneee, expend their thanks to the court and the professional gt minim 'moused, especially Mr. John Linklater, their t olidtor, for the able and satisfactory way in which this business had been brought to a conclusion. Mr. Linklater briefly acknowledged the compliment. The Commissioner expressed his attire concurrence in what had been said with reference to Mr. Unklater. THE POLICE COURTS. THIS PAY. ,Oi. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesgotf Bishop, a young woman, under 17 yews of sge, was charged with attempting to commit suicide under the following circumstances : Mr. T. Williams, a tailor, of 33, Tdropoorton-streed, said —About • quarter past eleven last night I was comic( over London-bridge when I saw the prisoner in a recce& Her manner excited my suspicion., and I watched her, and pry wetly abe made an attempt to get over the parapet. Al I approched her she slid upon the seat of the recess. I the gave her into custody. The Lord Mayor—Did you mesa to throw yonneU over? Prisoner—Yea, I did it because I was in want and my father turned an. oat of doors about 6 o'clock in the morning five months ago. I have been a servant, but 101 l my plate bemuse it was too hard for me. The Lord Mayor—What did your f a ther turn y o u out of doors fer y _ _ Prieoa don't ism I am mire. The Load e M be . i sdirected datitem , the minable, who lad the eau ha o l M eet. EMO& the priew father to &Mead to-sorrow. la meeathee As WO/ remanded. LAMBETH. 117101.1.1111 ON TIM LOOI•001% J.A. Dram Awe Owed; earl liwerd Mod, thaw eethe b zwea, we ll -haeina to the Totem of the dieh ict, rip as reesead sad placed et the her before L. 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