The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-08 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICE& —During the storms of a me nd pest year the National Lifeboat Institution, by Re life oats other means, contributed to the saving of 707 persona from different wrecks on our comb'. The institution also ex pended 321,374 in the same period on Its lifeboat establishments, in addition to exercising the li grantingfe bosia £4,950 for rewards for saving life and The committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued hoary demands on the Institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contyibutione_ore received by the London an i Country Bankers and EFWee Secretary, lithard Lewis, Eat, as the In stitution, 14, John-airs* Adolph', London. TORN BROODENT EXCELLENTE BIJOU *, TRUE COURANTE MODELES SPECL&UX isa YABRIQUE. J. 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A Court of Inquiry, assembled at the instance of the Board of Trade, delivered its decision on Satur day last, on the collision between the Dover mail packet Samphire and the American barque Fanny Buck. This court, consisting of the Mayor of Dover and a brother magistrate and two nautical assessors, was engaged for eleven mortal drys in receiving and recording a heap of incoherent, con tradictory, and irresponsible statement, from ever so many interested, aggrieved, alarmed, and gar rulous witnesses, with whom it would be mere wade of time and space on our part to occupy the attention of our readers. Out of this idle gossip of people who were all anxious to appear wonderfully courageous and self-possessed after the event, two or three facts are abundantly clear ; and we need not wait for the official re port of the Board of Trade to bring them to the test of common sense. It is evident that, with a few exceptions, the passengers behaved as badly as possible ; and the crew of the steamer, also with exceptions, behaved even worse than the majority of the passengers. It would be absurd, perhaps, to look among the ship's company of a Dover and Calais mailbost for the virtues of British seamen, and still more absurd to seek for examples of heroism and self-devotion among a motleycrowd of tourists and bagmen crossing the Channel in a tidal steamer as they might cross London in an omnibus or a Hansom cab. It was an ignoble scene of selfish terror on the part of passengers and crew alike, and it can hardly be supposed that if all who tried to save themselves had perished England or any other country would have felt the loss. As to the steamer, her captain seems to have behaved singularly well after the mischief was done, but nothing is more positive, amidst the bard assertions (it was not swearing) on both sides, than the total want of preparation in the vessel for any sea risk, the reckless cowardice and bewildered incompetence of the long-shore lubbers who composed her crew. The judgment, or whatever it may be called, of 'the Court of Inquiry leaves us nothing to alter or retract in the opinion we Yentured to express at first on the causes of the collision between the Samphire and the Fanny Buck. According to the recollections of the two or three passengers who were not quite imbecile with alarm, it would appear that the night of the collision was not, as was pretended, hazy, but simply very dark. At any rate, the Dover lights were visible enough twenty minutes after the Samphire had left the Admiralty pier. The captain of the steamer gave his usual orders for a good look oat fore and aft, and stationed himself on the bridge with his night-glass in his hands. The barque Fanny Buck was not, it seems, running down Channel, but on a wind, by which we suppose is meant, not close hauled, but a point or so free. On the faith of this evidence, then, we have only to insist still more decidedly on the conclusion which we did not hesitate to express on the first inquiry into the circumstances of the collision. Of course the barque was in the wrong if she was not showing her regulation lights, or her lights were not properly trimmed. American ves sels have a reputation for neglect of these precautions. But, as we said before we now say again, without compromise or abatement : whether the barque Fanny Buck's lights were or were not properly trimmed, or whether she showed lights at all or not, the whole blame of the col lision rests with the steamer. Without fear of contradiction—we don't say from any seaman, but from any man of common sense—we affirm that a steamer is bound, under all possible circumstances or conditions of wind, weather, tide, or course, to make way for a sailing vessel. To speak as landsmen, we may ask whether a Pickford's van in a narrow street is expected to get out of the way of • Hansom or the Hansom out of the way of the van ? The veriest cockney can answer such a question. We don't care how much or how little the barque was in the wrong ; no sailor a trifle worthier of the name than the vagabonds who jumped into the boats of the Samphire and made off before the women could be got on deck would pretend that a vessel under canvas only s expected to change her course to get out of the way of a steamer. The truth is these passenger boats across the Straits have little or nothing seamanlike about them, as this accident has shown. They are driven at a great speed in almost all weathers and at all hours of day or night, as express trains are driven, by men who never allow themselves to imagine that the road is not clear, and whose business it is to do a certain distance in a certain time. The system answers well enough nine times out of ten, but on the tenth day or night comes a smash, which inquiry shows to have been equally preventible and inevitable. A pointaman was sleepy, a goods train was too slow in shunting, a signal was not seen or net attended to. Lord ALFRED Pscrr, who has a right to be heard on the subject of collisions, having had a yacht sunk under him in the Straitaof Dover, I puts the common sense of the matter in a very few words. A steamer rushing on a dark night lacross a narrow channel crowded with ships or boats I at the rate of twelve knots an hour endangers all she meets and all she carries. It results from this Board of Trade inquiry that two hours and five minutes is the time allowed by the Post-office for the outgoing mails, from the arrival of the train at the Admiralty Pier to placing the gang-board on shore at Calais. Whenever a train is run under the contract time a premium is given to the Company ; whenever it is exceeded, a fine is ex acted. No allowance is made for dark or foggy nights. It is on these terms that the public who go down to the pier in trains are " forwarded " across the Channel, and if the service were less expeditious, or there were a premium on caution instead of on speed, the same public, who make the passage ninety-nine times out of every hundred in safety, would be as reedy to denounce the Company and the captain of the steamer for missing the train at Calais as they are when a collision happens to denounce anybody or any thing but themselves and their own ignorant recklessness and impatience. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) --*-- TH2 NILITARY RIVOLT IN SPA M. Suspending for a few days an opinion as to the real significance of the military revolt reported from Spain, the Tunes observes that agitations throughout the Penin sula. for • generation past have taken the form of military insurrection. For the tart six months Spain, which we had been led to believe was advancing in power and resources, has been in such a state that it oompele us to believe a political revolution or almost anything possible. The country has been a prey to suspicion, disaffection, and fear, and this without any visible cause which had not been equally patent for the last ten year; for it is not to be supposed that the government is obnoxious to the people on the ground of the arbitrary character of its recent foreign policy, The revolt, at all events, is deeply to be deplored. Many things could be discussed in Spain which demanded reform, but none which, after so much patient endurance, need have provoked revolution. Small civil wars, barrack tree. sone, and military executions are things fitter for Maximo than for Spain. There was a time when such scenes were familiar enough, but those days must not be recalled if Spain is to improve or preserve her present position among European states. The Herald has been looking for a revolution in Spain for some months, the O'Donnell regime of sham liberalism having disgusted the people, but confesses entire ignorance of the particular object of the movement which has taken place. All we know, or, more correctly, all we are told about it, is that it was organised by the Progreesistas, that the insurgent troops shouted " Viva &porter° " and "Viva Prins," and that Prim himself is at the head. This latter part of the story is likely enough to be true. Prim is • man who, with qualities which endear him to the soldiery and which make him an ex cellent representative of Spanish character in its more romantic and brilliant aspect, is filled with an immense idea of his own merits, and angry at the sub ordinate part in which he considers himself placed. But what his object, beyond the overthrow of his enemies and the acquisition of the chief power for himself, may be, we do not pretend to know. It is, however, extremely im probable that the movement, if he is its author, is directed against the throne. Its programme is more likely to be the liberation of the Queen from what may be called her present thraldom. The Telegraph remarks that few things are more strik. lag than the mantinem of eminent civilians or of general actors in the political emtutes of this agitated land. When the " cataclysm" arrives the man in whose name the inevi. table pronundantiento is issued, is always found to be • soldier. The bustling, angry crowds of the great city show when the time for doughty deeds is come, a supineneu and an indifference which to an English. man are amazing. They bear to the revolutionary actors no larger a proportion than Falstaff's bread bore to his sack. In the " Progrendsta" party of Spain, all hope of complete rehabilitation for that rich and favoured country seems to the Telegraph virtually to reside. The policy of the Progreasistas has long been that of inac tivity, and, at the recent election; they abstained, for the most part, from the polls. It would seem they think the hour for shaking off inactivity has arrived. We shall await with impatience the announcement how far, and with what cod in view, Espartero has taken part in the new movement. It may be but the shifting of a ministry, but on the other hand it may inaugurate the advent of great organic changed. Spain's one great want being • sovereign, the Star does not see how an insurrection under General Prim could supply that deficiency. Any movement of the kind, therefore, could have even for Spain itself little more than a personal importance. Materially and morally Spain is in most ways looking up. She wants more than anything else just now to be able to lift her rulers to her own leveL A military riaiog which gave Queen Isabella cue daring soldier for chief counsellor thaiead of another, could hardly accomplish much to satisfy the healthy aspirations of the Spanish people. In the opinion of the Advertiser, the exertions of all sound democrats in Spain ought to be directed towards setting aside the effete dynastic rule and bringing about the triumph of popular sovereignty. A national assembly convoked on such a basis might then occupy itself with all those political and social problems which in Spain, as in many other continental countries that are convulsed by frequent sudden changes, await their solution. THE ExPirw, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1866. THE JAMAICA COMMISSION. The Tines pumpkins that some et its contemporaries have not followed its example in withdrawing the subject of the events in Jamaica as much as possible from discussion until the commission has returned its report ; and describes Mr. Bright's description of the proceedings of the govern ment in the matter es altogether incorrect. As to the re moval and execution of Mr. Gordon, upon which the hon. gentleman spoke so positively, the technical leg►lity of this and other acts has been questioned ; but what lawyer would volunteer a dogmatic opinion on the subject? With regard to Gordon's widow, the Jamaica committee are, of course, at liberty to give her what advice they please ; but the Times would seriously advise them to refrain from any such theatrical proceedings as Mr. Bright indi cates. The compassion which may be felt for this lady will be by no means increased by her lending herself to such questionable means of influeooing public opinion. The more temperate of Mr. Eyre's opponents should induce their friends, if possible, to show some regard for fairness and decency in this matter. There are many who have been shocked by the killing of so many names, and by the levity with which one or two excited officers described the work, but who are yet not prepared to sacrifice the Jamaica autho- rities to men whose partisan spirit appears in every word they utter. The Daily Trews is unable to accept that view of the obligations of the public which would oblige it to cut itself off from an intelligent consideration of a series of transactions which have compromised the character of our country before the world, because the subject has been referred to a royal commission, No evidence more authentic can be brought to light than the despatches of Governor Eyre, and the letters of Colonel Hobbs, Captain Ford, Lieutenant Adcock, and Brigadier Nelson. A thousand tongues In Jamaica have now been loosed, and are we to forego the advantages of discussion when the facts promise to be more abundant than ever, especially when we find men like Captain Pim, the antbropologista, the Earl of Wilton, and officials like the magistrates at Huddersfield, declare so justification of I General Eyre is required, and Mr. Cardwell can state that no one disputes the credit deserved by the authorities for the great promptitude and skill by which comparative safety wee speedily restored ? If this be true, what higher prase was to be given to the authorities ! Why has a royal commission bees sent to inquire into their condact, sad why has not the governor received the distinction of K.C.8., which until a month ago he confidently expected! Evidently, perhaps from a love of moderation betraying us into feebleness, we have not made ourselves under stood, and dissuasion, therefore, instead of being abandoned, ought to be renewed with greater distinctness and energy of expreasioo. The final decision, however, must be rendered in another sphere—the courts of criminal law, when satin faction will be demanded by British subjects for the lives of husbands, sous, wives, and daughters slaughtered la add blood end without lawfuVriel. It la this consideration which, more than any other. ID calculated I. lastrain the anorbitance and solemnise the tone of public discussion. TRADE AND FINANCE. The Deity Pena thinks there is no strong probability that the fresh rise in the rate of dismount will prove effectual is preventing a steady drain upon the resources of the Bank. As Ins; as trade continues upon its present extensive goals, the demand for discount must be proportionately heavy. To meet the demand for our manufac tured goods which has arisen in America since the restoration of peace, we have had to make large purchases In India of cotton, the remittances involv ing a drain of bullion from the Bank. When we receive payment from the United States the money previously employed will be replaced. In the meantime this monetary deliciessey disorganises the whole cowrie of commerce. The late action of the Bank, it is clear, bas been exclusively directed against the present expansion of our foreign trade, and not against unproductive extraneous investments like foreign loans. The stringency arises less, in short, from the real absence of capital than from the operation of an obsolete law. The discount brokers have plenty of means on hand, but prefer to keep them idle for the prospective chance of 9or 10 per cent. The present semi•crisis arises from causes waily preventible, and in the general interest not to be endured mach longer. THZ IHNICITHT. The Port speculates upon Mr. Gladstone's probable mune. It notices the arguments of many conservatives that no one is more determined to preserve the institutions of the country, and it asserts sails own opinion that though he is to be the mouthpiece of the whir, there is not one grain of pure whiggery in his intellectual organism. He has come to the turning point of his political career. He may reanotiably expect to take an active part in the control of public affairs for many years to come. There is a future before him such as it has been given to few statesmen to look forward to. If Mr. Gladstone has that confidence in his own powers which some people suppose he is exube rantly endowed with, the entanglements and embarrass ments of the moment may eventually answer his purpose. But it remains to be seen if he can call upon himself in an emergency as his parliamentary rival did. The Herald and Standard both express surprise at the rumour of Mr. Stansfeld's return to office. According to the Herald, Lord Russell must have known that the ap pointment of Mr. Stansfeld could not fail to be regarded in France as a purposed and ',Anton insult, and if he makes the appointment, he will make it with the intention of irri tating the French government and avenging some of the rebuffs which it has given him. The Herald would like to know if the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster is left vacant for Mr. John Bright, or for the Secretary of State who is to be sacrificed to him. Let us see the genius which has been lying so long hidden. At present the administration is the weakest that ever met a parliament. The Telegraph, contending against tory arguments in op position to a reform bill, maintains that under a more popu lar form of government, the inffaeoce of great statesmen and thinkers would act more intensely in the lower strata of society. Even at present the Chancellor of the Riche quer his no move cordial supporters than those who as yet can aid him only with their sympathy. When they as bring to him their votes too, that tribute they will also pay, Their preference for real statesmanship will be even stronger when they come into their political inheritance, than it has been while they were proving their title to the prize. /ALSCELL.LNIOUS TOPICS. The Tunes mentions some rumours that the King of Prussia is beginning to draw back from Count Bismarck's manoeuvres for obtaining possession of 6leswig•Holstein, Threatened by Russia, undermined and counteracted by Austria, invited by France to a bargain which he cannot refuse without failure in his favourite plans, nor accept without the certainty of setting a precedent of evil augury and the probability of being grossly overreached, hated by the Prussian Assembly, deserted by the King in the very crisis ,ef his enterprise, acd distrusted by the heir apparent to the Crown, who regards him as a real danger to the dynasty, the successful Count Bismarck, amid such a host of enemies, with no re►l support except the Junket party and their reactionary organ in the press, is scarcely so enviable a person as he is supposed to be. The difficulty which has arisen respecting the preserva tion of the Bunhill-fields Burial-ground is described in de tail by the Times, which enumerates some of the leading nonconformists whose ashes give the place a peculiar sanctity. However the dispute may be decided, therefore, we may rest siesured, the Times says, that Baskin-fields will be treated with as much respect as if it had been legally consecrated ; and everyone will rejoice that there is no danger of a contrary result. There are always ample reasons on sanitary grounds for preserving these open burial-pliers from interference ; but in a spot appropriated to the use of so celebrated a body of men any desecration would be more then usually unpardonable. England owes to the great Nonconformists a debt only less than that which she owes to her churchmen ; and the Ecclesiastical Commission should be the last body, and we believe they would be the last, to offer any disrespect to such splendid and venerable memories. tnt Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 6. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Fr:oee Leopilf, anl attinded by Lady Ohttre'aill. The Duke of Nemours arrived, and dined with her Majesty end the rayal famry. The Duke left Osborne this morning. _ _ JAN. 7. Prince and Printers Hermann of Ile&aloha arrived at Osborne yesterday on a 'ilk t, ber Maj.ety, and were met at Trinity pier, Eist Cowes, by Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elpb inston•. Princess Louite, attended by Lady Conchal, role cn horseback. Prince Arthur also rode. The Prince and Printer of Hohenlohe dined with her Majesty and the royal family in the evening. A deputation of Venezuelan bondholders, consisting of Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr, George H. White, Mr. L Gentenberg, Mr. F. Campion, Mr. Albert Levy, Mr. T. Key, Mr. E. Moretti', and Mr. H. Schirges, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, at the Foreign.office, on Saturday. Despatches wore sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the governors of the North Americas provinces. THE PRINCE AND PRINCIES OF WALES.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince's of Wales will leave Sandringham today on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Leicester at Ho&ham. Their royal highness.. will remain at Holkhsna for about four days. The visit is of • privet* ohanbeter. The Prince and Princess will travel to HoLkhani from Heecham by the West Norfolk Junction Railway ; this line is not yet opened for general traffic, but it has been arranged that the royal maple shall peas over it nevertheless. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re• turned to town on Saturday from Grimston•park, where his lordship had been the guest of Lord and Lady Londe.- borough. It is understood that the accouchement of her Serene Highness the Princess Leiniogen may shortly be expected, and that the event will probably take place at Windsor Ceatle. The Earl de Grey and Ripon arrived io Carlton gardens on Saturday from Noeten-park, Lincolnshire. The Duke of Argyll is expected to arrive in town to-day from Limitary Castle, his seat in Argyllshire. The Countess Cowper, who has been seriously ill, is, according to the latest report from Penshanger, now out of danger. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness Breanow entertained the Danish Minister and Baroness Bulow, the Marquis d'Ateglio, Baron and Baroness Biome, Count Bloudoff, Prince Gortschakoff, Prince Ourouseou. Baron Fredericka[, 8.c., at diaper on Saturday last at the Burden Embassy. His excellency and Baroness Bruanow will have a dinner and evening party at Cheatham Howie on Saturday next, being the New Year's Day accord. lag to the Greek calendar. The Earl and Countess of Leicester`s party about to assemble at HoAbair) Hall to meet his Royal Highness the Prime of Wales will aoosist of the Dake and Dunham of Roxburgh°, the Marquis of Bo wmout, the Earl and Cousteau Spatter, the Earl of Damara, Viscauat and Vlioattatear Poems:our*, Sir Edward and Lady Harrison. Hon. Edward sad Mrs. Coke, Mr. Tredoroft, Hon. W. Coke, &o. Viscountess Palmerston and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cowper arrived at Broadlands, Huts, on tits 4th WNW. ' LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (ixona's amass.) THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. PROCLAMATION OF MARTIAL LAW IN MADRID. MADRID, JAIL 4. The following royal order has been promulgated : TO THE CAPTAIN GENERAL OF NEW OAHTILLL For some time past her Majesty's government has been aware that a conspiracy was being carried on with the object of disturbing publicltranquillity in the hope of shaking the fidelity of the army. The government will, neverthe less, act as if the country were in a tranquil condition, confining itself strictly to legality, and confiding in the good sense of the Spanish people, who comprehend how much peace is neoessary to protect their interests both at home and abroad. But the Wen mid Clalatiara regiments having revolted in the garrison of Aranjum, and having abandoned their offioera, the moment has arrived to adopt the extraordinary mamma authorised by law in order to prevent the enemies of public order, encouraged by these events, from attempt ing to take advantage of them to bring about greater and more serious disturbances. Acting upon these considerations, the council of ministers considers that it would be expedient for your excellency, using your privilege, to declare a state of incise in the city of Madrid, and its district. This measure will tranquillise honourable men, it will then be more easy to prevent the realisation of any revolutionary projects whatever, to render the effusion of blood lees great, and finally avert the STUB ordinarily consequent upon the employment of force. The government is resolved to use force whenever it shall be necessary for the maintenance of respect for the laws. It hopes that your excellency having at your disposal these extraordinary ►nd legal means will act with all desirable energy, and will not hesitate to take all the measures that you may deem expedient to restrain the enemies of the constitution of the state. I communicate the above for your excellency's informa tion, requesting you to place yourself in communication with the civil authorities of the provinces of this district, to whom the necessary orders gwill be forwarded by the Ministry of the Interior. God preser►e your excellency many years. Madrid, Jan. 3, 1866. O'Dolmr. In Congress, on the 3rd inst., Senor Yamada Henera, Minister of the Interior, in reply to a question from Senor Cidraque, gave the following account of the event& that had taken place, and of the measures adopted by the government : The cavalry regiment& which were at Aranjuex and Ocana have risen, abandoning their colonels and onions, under the orders only of a commandant and another officer. They took their way towards point& in the vicinity, and by the latest accounts were to be found at Arganda. The government is not aware of the intentions and object of the insurgents', it knows only that they have disobeyed the laws of mili tary discipline, have abandoned their officers, and have revolted against the constitution of the State It has consequently become its duty to pursue and to chastise them, and it has determined to fulfil that duty. I cannot at present communicate to the Congress all the measures taken by the government, but I may give it the assurance that we are convinoed these arrangement& will be completely effective ; that we confide in the fidelity of the garrison of Madrid, and of the troops at Aloe's. In a word, the Queen's government has faith in the fidelity of the balk of the army, and consequently reckons upon having at command the means of making all return to their duty. The government has been aware for some time past that a conspiracy against public order was going on, and that persons holding a certain rank in the army desired to corrupt it, and to seduce the officers to be un faithful to their duty. But the government had thought hitherto that such events as have occurred at Aranjuss and Ocana might be avoided by simply executing the laws that have ruled the State in periods of tranquillity, and without doing anything else but adopting measures of good govern ment and good military discipline. Seeing, however, that this will not suffice, it will not halt mid-way, and without exceeding the limit. of the law, will apply them with the utmost vigour, should circumstances require. ;The first measure adopted has been to declare Madrid and the whole district of its captain general, not only in an exceptional state, but also in a state of siege. As the faithful executors of the laws applicable to these cases, we shall act with decision and energy against the rebels. The Queen's government repeats, through me, that it has perfect confidence in the fidelity of the army, a nd that it will use the powers given it by the laws for the prompt and severe repression of the military revolt which has broken out at Araojuez and °cans. Senor RIVER° CIDR&QUZ thanked the minister for his ex planation, and considered it a subject of congratulation that the Queen's government was in a position to protect all the great interests of the country. The MINISTER of the larrxmon said—l beg Congress to accelerate its definitive constitution u much as Fusible. It may be, indeed, that the government may, under pre sent circumstances, have need of its great authority in order to act with that moral force the vote of Congress would impart for the re-establishment of public order. The house then unanimously adopted the proposal of the President that there should be an evening sitting at 9 o'clock. Senor flutumoie—The Minister of the Interior bas just informed us that Madrid was in a state of siege. Now whenever this has happened, the legislature being open, the state of siege has never extended to these precincts. I beg the Minister of the Interior to be good enough to afford some explanation on this head in order that we may know whether or not there is complete liberty of debate. The Mumma of the Irrrutron—The honourable mem ber asks if Congreee will enjoy all liberty of debate. Ab, Senor Figuerola, Senor Figuerola! Congress would not be free in its deliberations before the factious men who are opposing the institutions of the State. But it cannot fail to be so within and without before the faithful army which has so often shed its blood in defence of these institutions. The government wishes that we should have full liberty for our and your sake, gentlemen, and forithat of all honourable men in the country. It is for this reason that the government has proclaimed the state of siege. So long as we occupy these benches, Senor Figuerola, fear nothing fear rather, everything, should unhappily those far- tionists triumph, who aim at liberty through crime, and expect to find it amid the orgies of disorder and anarchy. There is nothing to fear for liberty so long as there is a government resolved to respect the laws and mum them to be respected. And is it Senor Figuerola who can have forgotten that during the seven years of the civil war Madrid was in a state of siege, and that, under protection of that state of siege, those memorable 'debates took place in which the liberals inaugurated our glory and th►t led to those great reforms which are the honour and pride of the present generation? Whet then happened will now again happen. I add, in order to still further tran quillise Senor Figuerola, that the state of siege could never affect the high powers of the state. Congrembeiog a high power of the state, it is clear that the government which desires to confine itself to law will not submit legislative acts to a state of siege. That is understood. The latest despatch received from General Za vale is dated the 3rd inst., from Ventarro del Puente de Ladrillo, and is as follows : TO THE MARSHAL lIINIRTIR OP WAR. Excellent Sir,—At the moment in which I write, 7 o'clock in the evening, the colonel of the Bailee regiment, accompanied by three commandants of that corps, three captains, four adjutants, and nine subaltern officers have just presented themselves before me. The colonel, with his orderly officers, the officers above men times', the colonel of the Calstrava Rusears, his lieutenant. colonel, three commandants, and the greater part of the offices, of the latter corps, went in pursuit of the insurgents of the Bailee regiment, imme. diately often the revolt. This took place at half.pait 11 this morning. At 10 o'clock a detachment of the corps entrusted with the military chest rejoined the Colonel of the Bailee Regiment, The Wien insurgents are proceeding towards Villarejo, where, it is said, they expect to tled General Prim. Nothing Is known of the Oalatrava insurgents, but it is supposed that they are also marching upon Villarejo. I have halted to give your excellency this information. I centione to pursue the rebels, in the hope of coming up with them to-morrow. It in generally reported that the new King and Queer' of Belgium intend to relide during a great port of the summer at the Chateau of Tervueren—a beautlf al linage about three miles from Brussels. The Chateau of Later will not, however, be wholly abaadonwL CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) •...-.. The January Milian, of this court were opened Wore the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman Phillip!), the Common Serpent, Mr. Alderman 3. C. Lawmen, Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Gibbons, Mr. Sheriff Figgie', the Under... Sheriffs, and the usual civic authorities. The calendar °cuisine the names of 50 prisoners, of whom 43 are males and 7 females. Of three prisoner, 13 were committed by the magistrates of the City of London, 18 from Middlesex, 1 from Fawn, 6 from Kent, and 12 from Surrey. The various offences with which the prisooers stand charged may thus be summarised :—Barglary, 5 ; uttering counterfeit coin, 11; emberelement, 1 ; forgery, 3 ; shopbreaking and larceny, 4 ; lemony as a earvent, 5 ; larceny from the person, 2 ; manslaughter, 2 ; minders's, nour, 3 ; feloniously receiving stolen goods, 1 ; robbery, 2 feloniously shooting at with intent to murder, 1; and feloniously wounding, 3. The grand jury (of whom George Lewis, Esq., was chosen foreman), having been sworn, The Common Swim* as Deputy-Recorder (eating in the absence of Russell Gurney, Esq., the Recorder being shame on a special mission to Jamaica), proceeded to charge them. The learned Common Salami congratulated the gentlemen he addressed on the comparative lightness of the oileeder. Only three weeks bad elapsed since the last sessions of the court, but still the number of cams to be disposed of was comparatively Ins than at the corresponding amnion of the past year, and these included several which had been re. mended from the lest sitting of the court. He was happy to state that there were only two cases involving the lose of human life, but these did not present any feature of malice prpmes, or in other words to amount to the crime of wilful murder. but to the lease: crime of manslaughter. The first of thee* was the case of a parson of the name of Moss, which unhappily appeared to have originated in a yobbo-house row, in which the prisoner sod the deceased were both the worse for liquor. A fall ensued, and the cause of death was attibuted to extrwvasation of blood on the brain, caused by the violence used towards the deceased by the prisoner. If the grand jury were of opinion that in the absence of any justification there was a prima facie case for further investigation they would return a true bill. The next Me was that of a son charged with the manslaughter of his father, and this arose also from the indulgence in drink. Both father and eon cense home the worse for liquor, a quarrel mined, in which the father struck the son several times, and at last the accused struck the deceased, who fall with his side against a table, and died from the injuries he thus sustained, It would be for the grand jury to say whether the provoostion the II& cased had received formed a legal justification for his acting in his self-defence. The next case to which he (the Common fierjeent) thought it necessary to advert was that of a foreigner named Elie Feriae, charged with feloniously wounding a foreign gentleman of the name of Dornbusch, with intent to murder him. It would appear that the Crter had been wlaid by the prisoner , while the was progressing along a dark passage to his office* in Gresham House, City, when the prisoners, who had several spears secured round his body, inflicted on the pro- secutor no less than twelve fearful stabs in different parts of the body, the point being turned by a diary and some papers which the prosecutor was carrying in the breast pocket of his overeat. When apprehended on the charge the prisoner declared that his intent was to murder the prosecutor. Under these circumstances the grand jury would be of opinion that this ease should undergo further investigation. There was no other use to which he thought it n to advert, and therefore he dismissed the grand jury to the discharge of their duties. The grand jury then withdrew. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Tills DAY.) The January quarter sessions of the pesos for the county of Middlesex commenced this morning at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell.green, before Mr. Bodkin, resistant judge ; Mr. J. Payne, deputyessistantrjudge ; a ndi a bench of magistrates. The calendar contain. the names of 105 prisoners corn. mitred for trial, all of whom, with seven exceptions, are indicted for felony. The state of education of the prisoners was reported to be as follows :—Can neither read nor write, 33 ; can read only, 4 ; read and write imperfectly, 60 ; read and write well, 1 ; and superior education, 2. The offences consist of embezzlement, felonies, ho use. breaking, maliciously wounding, indecent assault., assaults on the police, and a number of other very serious offences. THE ATTIMPT TO 81T PULE TO A HOU!. John Inter who wee O,Tovioted I;;taeseion of attempting to set fire to the dwelling-hoses of Jame. Woodward, he being therein at the time, was brought up fer judgment. At the last sessions it was proved that the prosecutor is scn•in-law to the prisoner, and in consequence of the abandoned and drunken habits of the prisoner he was refused admission to the prosecutor's premises. A fire escape conductor observed bin during the latter part of the months of October, on several occa sion*, at a late hour at night, loitering about the prose cutor's premises, and on one of them he put a quantity of lighted paper into the letter-box attached to the street. door, and had not a timely discovery been made, there was every probability that the booms would have been burned, and lose of life might have ensued. At the trial the prisoner made snob a rambling defence th►t some of the magistrates who were en the bench at the time entertained some doubt as to his sanity, and the Assistant-Judge deferred passing judgment for the purpose of allowing Dr. Smilea, the surgeon of the prison, to see him and report upon his state of mind. This day a certificate was received from Dr. Smiles, stating that the prisoner was of perfectly sound mind. The Assistant-Judge sentenced the prisoner to be impri. caned and kept to bud labour for 12 mouths, THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. SINGULLE CliAloll OP BROOM ni ♦ CRITECH. William Potts, a boy 16 years old, was charged with beg ging in Bishepsgate Church on the previous evening. The Rev. Mr. Roger., the rector of Bishougate parish, stated that on Sunday evening at the clue of the ser vice, and just as the clergyman was about to leave the pulpit, the prisoner went up to him and pre. rented • letter to him. He was asked to go into the vestry, and upon the letter being read it appeared to represent that the prisoner had obtained • berth in a vessel to take him to Newcastle, and that he wanted • little assistance to support him until the vessel sailed. Some ques tions were put to hica,the answers to which were not at all ea tisfactory, and something was said about sending for the police ; the moment the primmer heard this he attempted to make a bolt, but was stopped, and taken Into custody, and he then admitted that the statements contained in the letter were all false, and that he had no ship to go to. The prisoner, in answer to questions that were put to him, said that he was • native of Newcastle, and that he walked up to London in search of employment. It ap peared that the police knew nothing at all about him. Alderman Flows directed that the prisoner should be Wien to the union, with a view to his being sent home to Newcastle. ________ _ CLERICENWELL COMMITTAL OF TILL 11MALS BIIIIBLAIL Elizaleth But, egad 28, • showily-attired female, who described herself as a dressmaker, was again charged with entering the back parlour of the house, 4, Wilstead-irtreet, Somers-town, and steeling therein a timepiece and other articles, of the value of 44, the property of Mr. Melville Sheriff, tobacconist. The 'facts of this cue have already been reported. It will be remembered that the prisoner lodged in the same house as the prosecutor, occupying furnished lodgings of him. Oa entering his heck parlour he minded his time piece and other articles, and OR trolling in Polies-sergeant killath, 36 Y, the prisoner told him that she had stolen the missing articles. and he afterwards found the time-piece concealed in the Chimney. The primmer said she was guilty, and sated that she might be leaieotly dealt with as it was her first offence. The magistrate said the cam had been folly proved, and sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to bard labour in the noose of Correction for four calendar mouths. DISGRACZPVL ASSAULT ON ♦ SHOPLUZIR. describedCatheiine7DOiTin„;l;;T herself u a married woman, was charged with committing a violent aassult on Mrs. Hannah Mason, tobewooniat, of Leather.lana. The complainant 'was in her — sitop, se7;ing • customer, when the prisoner and another woman entered, the worse for liquor, and demanded to have some tobscoo and some snuff given to them. This was refused and they were asked to leave the shop, but instead of doing so they made a great disturbanee, spat in the complainant's face, struck her in the mouth, and otherwise assaulted her. A police•conetable corning up the prisoner was taken lute custody, but she was so violent that it was with great difficulty that she could be got to the polies station. The prisoner said that she was not aware that she had committed herself ; but if she had, she was very sorry for what she had done. Mr. Mansfield, who est for Mr. Barker, fined the prisoner 10s., sod in default of payment ordered her to be impri soned for isereo days. The prisoner was locked up in default. ILARYLEBONE: ♦ VIOLSNT PAOfItIL A tall, powerfaCloZag - I;i:ialaa, named William Thompson, wee charged with the following outman, conduct at the llaryleleoce Workhouse. Mr. Douglas, the master of the workhouse, appeared to prosecute oo behalf of the board of guardians. Walter Badger, 192 D, said—About 1 o'olock on Sunday monsiog he was in liorthunaherlaadedreet, sad heard a loud bang at the workhouse sate, which tarsal oat to have hew • stone thrown. Be was near the spot when he saw the gate opened by Bohemia, the isteridsot t at whom tie primmer threw a stone, = missed htm. Prisoner threw himself *post R°44l sad be (witness) west to tutees* Isim.:l he (prisoner) kicked and struck his wad times. He struggled most violently, sad farther sesistenee had to obtained k. to get him to the station-house. R e no le drun to, Primmer—l did not throw • stone at the po t * I_, at the window. , ad! Mr. Yardley—What for Privates—To get • niAt's lodging. Hr. Yardley—lf you had broken • window ye ti have got two months' lodging, and that with haat W I : too. William Roberta, ruperinteadent of the ms la g stated—Between 12 and 1 en 9tuidsy morni ng ti oo l, goner pa. three or four knocks at the gate la a r j: asked what he wanted. He mid a eight's was told to get sober fink and the door was shalt hi, said he would pull the bolos down, and break di windows. Some little time after wittier loam o th ump a t the pte„ sad on opening it • stone penal ) 11 "Z head. Prisoner than seized bim and violently m o m and it took a deal of trouble to get him to the it* , hotter. Idr. Yardley senteeoed him to 14 days' hard Moir. Prisoner mid he would " fourteen days" Roberts eh lo k came out. orviirrITZIPPITO ROHM! OF XL GARRARD, JIWILLZIL Joint Kirby, a brothel keeper, in ittemfordetessta t , bath, was placed at the bar, charged with by* er a ".., i n a robbery at the hum of Mr. Garrard. iswellsg3 Ourgerinad, Fireßoo. It was 'Wed that on Friday, Bth of Deeflirs private house of Mr. Garrard, as above diunbol ou entered. aid a quantity of jewellery and other onid, carried off. A man gamed Swyer was co Q. wei , found in possession of a coat stolen from Hr. flonerrA was committed for trial a few days ago. Win. Holding, an inspector of the B Divisioe, co w 16 , on Saturday last he went to the shop of Mr. tr. wiz pawnbroker. Blachf damned, and there feud lk stolen brooches pledged in the name of Joh' Pas s Upper Stamfard-strest. He went there and apps the prisoner. who acknowledged pawning the brooch, Prisoner—l did pawn it. I was employed by Bryn, Nash to do so. He told me that he was a dealer is n o sort of things, and wee shed of money. I am a re m suctable man. I can give references of the groan, %ratability. Mr. Belle—Oh, yes ; but sometimes a little od beat ;it is not the fi rst time I have seen,you hen Primmer (who was deaf se a poet) I am employs; t raining money for panne who want it. 1 Mr. Selfe—So we undeestand. Prisoner-1 pay very heavy rent and taxes, sod of u m can't be answerable for persona who came to my b ony Swear was in the habit of within one of my lodgers. Prisoner was remanded. SOUTHWARK. HIGHWAY ROBBZRY. Nary Ann Sullivan, a well-known thief, was his* before Mr. Woolrych, charged with stealing a gold ont, from the person of William Brooks, near the UN * bridge railway termini. The prossontor, who wee attired in clerical oceturse, rag he lived at Chichester. On Thursday night last Is la standing near the railway station, when • female oral him. He walked a little way with her, and at her sada Lion took her into • public-house, when they had rani% to drink. While there the prisoner and two other hub entered, and held some conversation with the tomb eb was with him. Hs left thst house with the latter, sae% passing down Dalordrest • female whom be behind iris the prisoner matched his watch, and took it from the Ma and ran away. Witness pursued her and after a muss. she was stopped by a constable, and when at the neo house she denied the robbery, but eventually the was found on hm. Mr. Woolrych asked him if he was sober? He replied that he was. In answer to his worship Ate at fint declined to say what profession he van bell afterward' said he wee an artist. Mrs. Sarah Ann Foram, the female searcher sties Stone's-end police-elation. said that at first tin nisi could not be found on her, but from what she OW 6 took the prisoner out of the cell and more = searched her when the watch was found about her poses. 1 =SIM t The prisoner, in the most impudent =DWI, rid is picked up the watch. Mr. Woolrych committed her for trial. THAMES. TEI CHILD WITHOUT A PARISH. Mr. William Rolston, one of the relieving offices d parish of St. George-in-the-East, applied is Mr. Papillon warrant to apprehend Mary Crather, for deserting be female child, which she left in the Tower, on Than* Wit with a feeding-bottle alongside of it. The child, whine five months old, was taken to the Whitechapel Unionism and refused admission there. It was then conveyed bls City of London Union and refused admission them lb police of that division engaged • young wows d respectability to take charge of the child, and is lb dilemma Mr. Dandy, inspector of the H divisiosoppid to the magistrate, who recommended that the yam woman who had the care of the infant, and who lima is as pariah of St. George-in-the-East, should apply to the m tiering officer of that parish. The board of guardian( St. George•io-the•East were sitting in full conches wlas the application was made to their officer, and stone sand to adopt the child. Mr. Rolston said he had obtained a clue to the babes of the unnatural mother who deserted her child, led odk• for a warrant to apprehend her. Mr. Piet said he could not interfere in ths was until the child became chargeable to some parish or win It was not in Whitechapel or the City of London who* inspector made an application to him. The child bid 'my properly adopted by St. George's-in-the-Earns the* where the young woman engaged to nurse it wee living, xi he had no hesitation in granting a warrant. The warrant was at once made out by Mr. 11 • 1 0 14 the chief officer of the court, and intrusted to lisp* Deady to minute. WANDSWORTH. THE CHARMS AGAINST AN lIIERBALIST. I"C' Samuel Elijah Hardinoe, of lf, Dorset-mesonk 14 road, Horton, herbalist, dentist, corn•cutter, tx., seta dared to his bail to further answer the charge of sr* the death of Harriet White by feloniously perforate( • operation upon her with the view of procuring sherbet Mr. Haynes again appeared for the defendant. Mr. Taylor (the clerk) —Anything further Mr. Butt, the superintendent of the V division, oar* laid—ln this cam I mineable to offer any further ergs* Mr. Daytnaa—Very well. He is discharged then. The prisoner was immediately liberated from the ad and left the court with his friends. THE DEPLORABLE DEATH FROM STABVI7 IOI IN BETHNAL-GREEN. INQUEST (THIS DAY.) This forenoon Mr. Richards, deputy coronetk r Ewe Middletex, resumed, at the Rose Tavern. Wee - OW Bethualgruse, the investigation relative to the death, ho starvation, of Julia Susannah Bellinger, aged 49 para. The Co roner, summing up, said that the mother of IY deceased could not be held bound to support her dandle or provide her with medical advice. eel:swelly is ill lifetime of bee husband. With respect to the lele he denied that he wu aware of his wife's ewildie The deceased could have compelled him to support hell could bays gone into the workhouse. Such betas those of the facts, no one could be held ctitninally respuenlise her death, but there could be but one opinion as to el utterly disgraceful and heartless conduct of the pas implicated. The jury returned verdict, " That deceased died 6/ the mortal effects of exhaustion from want of talkie food and the common necessaries and atteotions of bill and the jurors further say they consider Mrs. CasePlill, the mother, and George Bellinger. the husband, 010111 grave censure for their heartless and cruel sew towards the deceased." The hustaad and mother of the deceased inn Oa reprimanded and admonished by the learned corseesud the proceedings terminated. A MAN DROWNED NEAR THE CITY OA WORSE.-(THIS DAY.) Shortly after six o'clock this morning apparently about 40 years of age and at present easel entered the yard belonging to the City Gas MAI! made his way to the factory. He there app roschsi see" the stokers, named Baker, and inquired of him the me the docks to get to the berm. Baker replied, " 31 . 4 "_.... ahead, mate, " in which direction the stranger """ Shortly after this Lane, another stoker employed le I/ works, heard a loud splashing in the water, end ing thither be saw the unfortunate man stre. ra i nt if.. Lane immediately returned to the facterl Min a "backing rake " with which to endeavour to Iry eat* the poor fellow, but was too late. The dregs 11/ . then procured, and after searching for about threerq s of an hour the lifeless body was brought to the radio& " that the deceased had to make his way d ove appears get on to the bargee, and io his descent be W I either have slipped or have beep blown (the wild 10 1 very high at the time) into the water. The body 1e?,,. / i„ moved to the Grapes Tavern, and from thence to St. lt __ dsadhouse. On being searched there were three kalilliw• and some bread and butter, wrapped in paper, foods/II him. He was dressed in a flannel jacket, corduroy tre l . ll ). white shirt, whits stockings, and black necktie. l e IF '. mussed that the deceased was in search of elople: which would account for his desire to reach WI where he thought of ming the foreman. ANOTIIIL Vioiarrr GALL —A violent stoat it rain and wind broke over the metropolis sod for y distant last night (Sunday). and has hated with 0w.% intermission up to the hour of our going to PM' 7 Alfred-square, Walworth-road, a considerable the roof of some of the newly oocu ' 1 ~...„‘ re sort. 41 IreA displaced, kitting the rain fall throng is At about 12 o'clock the roof of the house of 111 jeweller, 198, Fleetetreet, was blown o ff into the a fearful crash. it was a slanting root towards tislorl There were hundreds of vehicles in the n04 126 ° 17 ' the moment, and hundreds of persons constantly PI bat happily not the slightest aoident coeurrid..4 Theories is cue of the old boast-s on the northers it.' , Fl•eisteest, a few yards from Temple Bar. The roil ed woe soot ohm& raIOUR This mon p g! the end rsre go D ec :re ea aids Won Pfau offsbal 6 a Ise clamed ro amnia i 05 -Ne 6 _ ll _° " - MVOs feoded. It aniliag It bliveied T bY he cc, He tai eibiT aeons Opitea by O. 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