The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-20 00:00:00

i PARIS EXHIBMON FIRST-CLASS SILVIIR MEDAL, 1867. JOHN BROODEN. nRIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, V 16, IiILVILISITA-STIZET, COVF.ST-43,11RDEN, JOHN BROODEN'S 18-carat GOLD MAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD ALBERT CHAINS JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. gite •xireoo. RATH/REIT. ?/IS EvENnio. THE BROKEN-HEARTED ctrs.—A WIPE WELL WON. limos. Bother% BuCkatone, Howe, Kendal , winch A N Roge UT Bina TER PER,VE Weatherehy , RßlON 01/ THE BRIGrtsoAND ete.: and Übe Roben . After norms. THI Erisnui, THE COLLEEN SAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bandeault —Atter which TEI STRUTS OF LONDON. Mr. Vining, Messrs. Mum?. Shore, Neville. Forrester, Mellon, Re. ; Misses Xlsworthy, Z. Barnett. Rachel Bawer, and airs. Addle. WEILAND. Inul Entwine. OLD SALT. Mr. Emery and Miss Nelly Moore. —A tter which THE CALIPH OR BA DAD Messrs. Thorne and James : Mesdames Ada Bwanborough, o Harland, Holt, tc.—And OVA 11011681103. HOLBORN. Tell ETV.HNO, THE FLYING SCUD. Menem Atkins, Price, Ganlen, Arthur, Westland, and Wilmott ; Madman' Henrade, ...Modell. Lennox, and haundera—ronelude with VALE.NTINE AND ORSON. 11411 e. Montero, Little Rowell*, 6e. MRITANKIA. Ttn EVENDIe, DON QUIXOTE OR, SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIVE TERI2A. Hrs. lane, &Slime* Edwin & Booth: Pan tomimist, ?Amara Deane, Louts. Newham, and Vietneeill Halle. C. Stephan and Slim Row Nathan.—And WHO DID IT I HIGH WATICR AT LONDON BRIMS. DH —4 1 01 1,11 41. 106 Min..— —Afternoon, Ilb. TIM fe4loi2olT—Yorubig. Ob. Ow..—.. Afternoon, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 20. Deluxe the past week most of the leading joint stock banks of London have held their meetings, laid their affairs before the public, and shown, as far as they are concerned, how commerce has fared in the past six months. The result is not encou raging, but at least has the merit of being truth ful. Statistics, or rather superficial interprets times of them, are very fallacious. For ex ample, the Board of Trade returns may show that if our foreign exports are not quite so large as a year ago, at all events they indicate no very material falling off. The common infer ence is, therefore, that trade cannot possibly be suffering to any considerable degree. In this respect it is almost invariably forgotten that the manifest effects of a crisis, prolonged monetary pressure, and other similar calamities, are always prospective, and not immediate. The merchant or manufacturer is bound to fulfil his engage ments, and executes the orders which he has received months previously without con sidering whether the times have since become good or bad. Hence the real consequences of a finan cial collapse are, in one sense, slow to show them selves. Immediately after the great failures in the spring of 1866 our foreign trade seemed to be unusually prosperous. It was a subject of com mon remark that, notwithstanding the long main tenance of 10 per cent., our exports rather increased than diminished. The public income kept up surprisingly, and all congratulated them selves that the storm had passed by without general harm. The past year has proved fatal to this hopeful expectation. A revenue that, from being progressive, has become stationary, is not a favourable symptom. There is general distress among the working population. Capitalists are unable to employ their funds with advantage, since when the rate of dis count is at little more than 14 per cent. it usually betokens less an abundance of money than an unwillingness either to borrow or to lend. It is not easy to get at the truth in these matters. City magnates are naturally reticert upon their own affairs, and it is only incidentally that wo can obtain any positive information. The proceedings of the London joint-stock banks are thus especially of importance. These great commercial establishments publish not merely a remniii of their affairs each half-year, but publish it sufficiently early to be of value. Figures six monthsorayear old are virtually useless. No man of business cares to dip into the statistical reports —elaborate and complete as they may be— which are periodically issued by the Government. It is no assistance to the practical trader to know in 1868 the precise amount of yards of cotton manufactured, or of tons of iron exported in 1866. What is required is not merely good, but immediate information. Much more is therefore learnt front the reports of the joint-stock banks ' —imperfect in a general sense as they must neces sarily be—than from more ambitious documents. An experienced merchant can hardly fail to draw from the comparatively few figures presented cer tain deductions which may materially influence his course of business. In the first place the joint-stock banks show a much less favourable result than twelve months ago. The latter half of 1867 has been worse than the corresponding period of 1860, notwithstanding —or perhaps in consequence of—the crisis in the latter year. With one exception the dividends show a falling off. The rates for the subjoined six banks are as follows : 1866. 1867. Per cent. Per ceu.. per annum. per annum. 16 16 20 15 124 4 Nil. 8 London and Westminster Union London Joint Stock City MMUSOS Imperial This, however, is not all. The balances of un divided profit were much larger from 1866 than they are now from 1867. The deficiency is con siderable, as will be seen by the annexed totals : B.U.AJC CABILIZD TONWAIID. 1866. 1867. £4.1,049 99,4:56 •48,0:55 . 11,190 -t .. 3,077 9,7001 .. 4,028 - •••• 2,757 4,224 ... Efif,64s 89,711 60,926 19,878 10,670 London and Woottninstor Union London Joint Stook City Alliance Imperial Looking at the net profits alone, the diminution is equally remarkable. We have excluded any account of the City Bank in 1866, owing to their exceptional losses in that year, and of the Alliance in 1867, for a similar reason. The figures stand as follows : NET PIIt,FITS IN THE SIX MONTHS ENDING DECI 18Ne.. London and Westmituder E 212,812 Union London Joint Stuck City ..... Alliance. Imperial 23,699 21,665 • Placed to special reserve to meet " accounts not yet closed^ 40,0031., and remainder to guarantee fund. t Balance to make up dividend (4,3981.) withdrawn from guarantee fund. Reserved to meet unexpected losses of nearly similar amount at LirerpooL It may be observed that the dend is in some respects due ' capital. Where, b been created, the only almost invariably ordinary Setting aside this point, it is, nevertheless, satis factory to find that the banks are increasing their capital—not too soon, considering the immense sums of money entrusted to them by the public. Subjoined are the present amounts of capital and reserve funds contrasted with the previous year : CAPITAL. 1866. 1867. London and Westminster £1,000,000 £1. 498 , 720 Union London Joint Meek City 989,723 Insperial £5,837,385 Total £3,218,665 GUAILLNTLE OR RESZEVE FUNDS. 1866. 1867. London and Westminster £480,000 Union London Joint Stock 324,791 City Alliance Imperial It might have been supposed that the low rate ' of money would rather have increased than di minished the deposits with the banks. If people can get but little interest for their money else where, it seems natural that they should leave it in safety with their bankers until a more profitable opportunity should occur. It is to be feared, how ever, that deposits have been decreased from the necessity too many families have felt of trenching upon their capital. It is satisfactory to find that the distinction between ordinary liabilities and ac- ceptances 113 now generally recognined, the only ex ception being the London Joint Stock, but as the required information was given at the meeting, the omission in the report was of no consequence : 1866. 1867. London and Westminster— D e posits £22,672,558 £12,010,571 Acceptances 19,267,4 0 Deposits ...12,071,097 t Acceptances 5,298,743 Deposits 9 ' 193 ' 332 Londondoint Stock „. 15,306,Z37 Acceptances 2,784,000 3,9 4 30,622 { Deposits • . 2,229,791 Acceptances 1,418,387 Alliance — Deposits Acceptances Imperial Totals. and Lesdantia, Mx whisk ancient - posts lavished their best powers, were less tragic, than the real sufferings of Maximilian and Charlotte. It was pride that slew him, thinks the Post, and a not unworthy pride. The sense of duty to his Mexican companions in arms was one motive for his remaining to shield them and play the game through ; an invincible belief in himself, fortified by an irresistible desire to seize on the hitherto denied chinos of that free unfettered action of which he had dreamed in Europe, was another. So he fell. It is sufficient to say that the Mexican Republicans acquiesced in his sentence of death from policy and es a warning to princes, without attributing to them a malignant thirst for vengeance. The Time oaks what protection has done for the la bouring classes of the United States. The very men who have advocated high duties and prohibitory tariffs now lament the unexampled blight of American trade. That congress is half•repentant is shown by the new* that the cotton tax has been repealed and the Anti-Contraction Bill wood. Protection in the United States must die, and the beginning of its dissolution appears to have arrived already. the Court. OSBORNE, .T.ut. 18. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon, and her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, attended by the Durham of Roxburgbe. JAS. 19. The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein, attended by Lady Susan Melville sad Mr. G. D. Engleheart, arrived at Osborne yesterday tram Savernake Forest. Her Majesty the Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Primus Beatrice, and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein, attended Divine service this morning at Osborne. The Rev. R. Duckworth officiated. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in at tendance. The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of the Queen yesterday. - - Despatches were reeeived on Saturday et the Colonial. office from the Governors of the Australian colonies, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar. Despatches were omit to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, lAbuan, the Straits Settlements, the Australian colonies, the North American provinces, Ber muda, and the Bahamas. letter, dated from the camp at Zoula, on the 3rd inst. This correspondent 'hopes that before the close of the year the prisoners will be released, but he says that England must be prepared to provide more than the two millions sterling modestly re _ _ ...... _ quested by Mr. Disraeli. The budget of 1869 must exhibit an expenditure of at least six times that The arrival of Sir R. Napier, the commander in -chief, had redoubled the ezertiona of all depart menta in facilitating the advance of the different brigades. He was expected to at once establish hie he;dquarters at Senafd, and then to direct prepara tions for the advance of his force to Ategerat, and perhaps beyond that place, in the direction of Antalo. General Merewether and party, who had made a tour of the country 37 miles beyond SenaftS, give a satisfactory report. The cor respondent does not expect Magdala to be wrested from the hands of its barbarous lord until the English forces either take it themselves, or, by showing to all Abyssinia that they can and will do so, induce other chiefs to form a very strong coalition and do it for them. There seems no reason, thus far at least, to anticipate anything but most cordial assistance and co-operation from the natives of the country, after they are once per suaded of the honesty of the professions that have been made to them. The water difficulty at the coast is now in every great measure overcome, owing to the number of steamers condensing in the bay. A pipe will be laid between the Koomayloo and Zonis, a distance of seventeen miles, for the convey ance of a more abundant and less expensive supply. The climate of the plain has not hitherto proved in the slightest degree unhealthy to the men ; in fact, with the exception of a few hours in the morning and early part of the day, which are very oppressive, the weather is all that could be de sired. The correspondent of the Times had heard such gloomy accounts of the state of affairs at Armesley Bay that he had returned there from Senate, but only to find there was no foundation for the reports. This correspondent also reminds us that a large army advancing through such a country as Abys sinia can be fed only at an outlay of labour and time, every hour of which is costing the nation thousands: I don't envy the feelings of your correspondent the " British Taxpayer," and those whom he represents, when the miscellaneous items of expenditure for the Abyssinian force come to be added up. The water alone costes° much that the proposal which was so laughed at to supply the force with tin ordain ire might almost have proved an eco nomical one, and would certainly hare saved • good many lives among the mules, if these sagacious animals could only have been induced to take kindly to it. It would be very difficult to convey to one who has never been in the East an accurate idea of the appearance presented by the camp at Zoula with all its belongings. On the one side (says the Daily Newt correspondent) is the bay, where ride at anchor such a fleet of magnificent vessels—men-of-war, transports, and merchantmen—as is seen but in the largest harbours of Europe or Asia ; on the other aide, and apparently at no great distance, rise chain upon chain of the Abyssinian mountains. increasing in height an far as the eye can reach, until their summits are lost in the clouds. Stretching into the bay is a tolerably commodious stone pier, along which a line of railway has been laid, and along which are constantly pasting and reputing waggons loaded with all sorts of warlike and commissariat stores, while by its sides puff and scream mull steamers towing along heavy barges with their freight of men, mules, camels, or ele phants. Stretching hitherward from the base of the mountains is • sandy plain, whence the dust is constantly whirling and eddying across the camp. At one time sounds of music and cheering fall upon the ear, proclaim ing that another regiment has been landed, and is mewl ing up to its place in camp, while the sailors cheer them as only British sailors can ; at another time a Babel of voices—Arable, Mahrathi, Egyptian, Syriac, Greek, and goodness knows how many dialects and languages besides—with a rush of animals, tells that some vessel has just discharged her cargo of mules, with muleteers more wild and intractable than the animals they have in charge. Here is • line of telegraph, speaking only of civilisation and the humani►ing influences of mimic. ; there is • bazaar, where civilisation is at such • low ebb as to render the office of provost-marshal anything but a sine cure ; and all around are the white tents, where are en camped several regiments of her Majesty 'm British and Indian forces. Many, if not most of these features of camp life will disappear as the troops are moved up the hills, and few will regret to exchange for a time the din, dust, and confusion of Zoula for the bills beyond SenaN. Hendricks Governor. The West Virginia Democratic Convention has adopted resolutions in favour of Mr. Pendleton for the presidency, and of the adoption of his plan for the redemption of the national debt. The Georgia Conservative Convention has issued an address protesting against the reconstructfen policy of congress, and urging the people to unite in opposing negro suffrage. Continued negro outrages are reported from South Carolina. The New York papers publish intelligence from San Domingo stating that the revolt in Hayti con tinues. General Salnave, with a large Hayden force, had gone towards the frontier of San Do mingo. (n ATLANTIC TZISORAPIL) NEW YORK, JAN. 19. , The receipts of cotton during the past week at the United States ports amount to 80,000 bides, being a decrease of 4,000 bales, as compared with the previous week. The exports during the same period were—to Great Britain, 49,000 bales ; to Havre, 9,000 bales ; and to other continental ports, 18,000 bales. Stock of cotton at all American ports, 3W,000 bales. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) .sto o •• r THE 4XPIIESS MONDAY E JANU Y 4 14 r 4. ed that th e d emi se o f aark in. Daily News flirt profound so Is - tho grid foll NTFILIG foie, the paresst of th e rebel debt, and the con- ed due to Ewe b ooms/ sot for Maxissiliss, the mouroa ever bio Imo not far Ids trOlatiou of polies., lisdaring the concurrence of aka', but far kis aonoo bi lt, whose proud spirit brake THE latiiiilNlAN EXPEDITI,IiIit ddlaocracy in the abolition of slavery, and thank- however,. as)w shams lova i msitkos mighwing whirl it dlodolued to bed ily recur* paid has as yet hue The u• " death of Toasts is more lard* gun wren she This morning our contemporaries publish letters the Ernioateldises for suppressing the rebel- ordinary interest at 5 per cent. catastrophe of Queretaro. The fancied wets ef Protwilaos from their special correspondents with the Abyts. --sisal con sat ilk - a dar is. whieh and modern poets have sinian expedition. The Doti) , News has a valuable The Indians Convention Las nominated Senator . . - c_s Hendricks Governor. CONTINENTAL POLITICS. The Arcuir National lute the following : For some days past the Austrian and Prussian journals have been on the most endearing and affectionate terms. One would suppose it wu the day after the friendly convention at Gastein, which was so soon followed by the throat-cutting at &down. In the contemplation of future events each power seeks to put itself right before public opinion so as to be able to say :—I adored peace, but have been famed into war. Moreover Austria desire. to be reconciled with Germany, because • part, and the most intelligent part of her population is German. As to Prussia, she sees the day approaching when the Grand Duchy of Baden will ask to enter into the Confederation of the Nortb. We must not, therefore, regard as serious all that has been said and done diplomatically since January 1, 18418. It is 'Limply a bit of strategy intended to mask the real movements and the " imminent solu tions " fear which each is preparing. The Vienna press, and especially the conserva tive journals, continue their attacks on Russia. For example, the Debatte thus replies to the Go : The statements of the Gatos are as scandalous and as false as those of the Russian government when the latter refers to the Ronan question, and puts itself forward as the defender of the Christians in Turkey. The Gioia con tain the same falsehoods as the official sots of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. A telegram from Vienna denies the statement that Russia was arming in the following terms : The report which has often appeared lately in the Vienna and other journals that Russia was arming on the Pruth is entirely without foundation. Russia was never less in a position to go to war than at the present moment. She has neither men, hones, breeehloaders, nor money. (=OTIS'S TILIGILUIS.) AMERICA. The North German Lloyd's steamer D has arrived at Southampton with 84 pamengers for that port, Havre, and Bremen ; 40 sacks of mails for London, and 428,640 dole. in specie for Eng land and France. (Per Deutschland, vii Southareptoe.) OUTWARD BOMBAY M•11.--GIB5,ALTAM, SATyR NEW YORK, JAM. 9, NOON* DAY Evzsrrso.—Tbe Delta, from Soathempton en the 12th The Senate Bill, exempting the cotton crop of January, n just owning into port. 1868 from taxation, has been referred by the House When Lord Clarendon was at Florence he had, o f Representatives to the committee of wa y s and se log ostordlY =Mond, as maul*. of **King. and means. doling his prance through Bowe another of the Pope. The Ohio and Indiana Democratic State Canvey-leaving O a the eviel Pale" at irkeenee' ea ebe interview bad been a key one, sad it had grows dark. his Majesty too have pained resolutions in favour of the nomi- dm* • amihoa d, light*, • waitau em u. , imompon i ed notion of Mr. Pendleton for the Prolldonoli MN aultemidor to Ur* door, saybig as he did so, " Vs. a the taxation of government bonds , and of currency emission da reeconnia."—C` Yaks • lawn la see payment of the 5-20's ; also resolutions endorsing away from me.") the reconstruction policy of President Johnson, ADMIZALIT, 1112 . r i. 18.—Arrournams. -B te PlodllingDom meno7 to suPPorthims str°°ll l Yd° - Industry, vies Yeas% whew period li a:weenies Whas oexes nolmdng thecourseof congress; opposing Elegy suf- Oral ; and Taps me, to the . 'Union 1;279,491 ... 1,37.2,218 295,108 ... 98,541 1,247,684 { D. P" ita • I ' l 7,966 Acceptances 134,726 064,899,697 1:58,642,072 We conclude our notice with a comparison of immediately realisable assets with liabilities to customers. Some wide discrepancies occur, especially in the cash. As the latter item, however, includes money at call (or, strictly speaking, on loan), the difference is more apparent than real. The Union, for instance, have consi derably more than half of what they reckon to be equivalent to cash in hand lent out in this way. PROPORTION or CASH, GOVERNMENT AND GI:AMSTER STOCKS TO LIABILITIZS. Per Gent. London and Wertminstar 0,565,402 ... Union 7,356,037 ... 2,4.'14,878 ... London Joint Stook. City Alliance 796,437 402,891 Imperial 379,760 PROPORTION OF CASH ALONZ. London and Wertminater £2,473,681 .. 321 Union London Joint Stock City Alliance Imperial 4,252,327 1,3:4,878 469,390 402,891 327,285 Per oast. ... 111 ... 35i .. 271 • Deposits and &swiftness not separately specified last year. According to the present arrangement the Queen and the Royal Family will (says the Court Journal) return to Windsor Castle from Osborne on the 17th of February. Tan PRINCI AND PRINCESS or WALES.—Their Royal Highnewes the Prince and Princess of Wales have passed the last few days in comparative quiet at Sandring ham House. The Prince has attended meets of the West Norfolk Hunt, one of which took place at Sandringham, when the assembled field was hospitably entertained by his royal highness. It is stated that her Majesty will visit the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham during the Easter holidays. The Princess Mari and his Serene Highness the Prince of Teck have been staying during the peat week with the Earl and Countess Vane, at Wynward Park. Amongst the guests invited to meet the distinguished visitors were the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Cornelia and Lord Randolph Churchill, Viscount and Viscountess Poweracourt, Viscountess Boyne, Vis count Lasoelles, Viscount Cole, Viscount Newport, Vis count Petersham, Lord and Lady Wenlock and Hon. Miss Lawley, Lord Dalmeny, the Bishop of Durham end Hon. Mrs. Baring, Sir George and Lady Julia Wombwell and Lady Caroline Villiers, Mr. F. Vyner, &c. The company were to separate on Saturday. Tho Duke and Duchess do Chartres aro expected to-morrow at Althorp Park, on • visit to the Earl and Countess Spencer. His Excellency Muaurus Pacha, accompanied by his family, will return to the Turkish Embassy in Bryan sten-square on Thursday next from Roehampton, where his excellency and family have been resident since the death of the much lamented tembassadress. The Duke of Leinster has arrived in town from visiting Mr. Repton, M.P., and Lady Jane Renton, at their seat in Bedfordshire. The Earl of Malmesbury arrived at his residence in Stratford-place, on Saturday, from Heron Court, neer Christchurch, Hants. Sir John Pakington (Secretary of State for War) and Lady Palington entertained at dinner, at their residence in Grosvenor-place, on Saturday, Field-Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelms ford, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli, the Right Hon. Gatherne Hardy, fif.P., and Mrs. Hardy, Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Ac. The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., will pay a visit to Liverpool during the present week, being the guest of Mr. P. H. Itatlibone. On Wednesday evening Mr. Lowe will be present at the annual dinner of the Liverpool Philornathic Society, which will take place in the large room of the Law Association in Cook-street. On Thurs day be will meet a number of gentlemen interested in the question of education. Mu. Pairizzi.—This gentleman, who has been in • precarious state from suppressed gout, hes since Thursday last been gradually improving, and hopes are now entertained of his restoration to health. The Prince Napoleon and Princess Clothilde dined on Thursday en petite (mite (only six persons being present) with IL Nigra, the Italian Minister. The Prince and Princess are at the Palals Royal, but it is probable that M. Nigra will, before long, quit Paris for a short tour. Five thousand persons were invited by the Prefect and Madame Hanssmann to the Hotel daVille ball on Thursday. Fortunately for the dancers 2,000 invites had severe colds, and so only 3,000 were present at the I brilliant scene. The inventive genius of the Yankee nation seems to be inexhaustible. At the Patent-office in Washington, during one week last month, 315 patents for entirely new inventions were issued. The total number of patents that have been anted since the establishment of this bureau in 72,151. A model of each invention is deposited la the rooms of the office, which are always open to the public, and • visit to them is one of the Monet interest. Mr. Young, the commander of the boat expedi tion sent oat to ascertain simply whether, as the Johanne men reported, Dr. Livingstone had been killed neer the head of the Lake Nimes, or had gone on into the interior, telegraphs from Plymouth—" I have returned from Lake Nylons. Dr. Livingstone had gone on in vasty. The Johanna men deserted him. I will be up the Seat train." Tax ABYSsINIAN CAPTIVES.—An extract from a fitter from the Rev. H. A. Stern, one of the Abyssinian captives, and addressed to the Rev. W. W. Andrew, of Hethersen, Norfolk, appeared in some of the papers on Saturday. The date was, however, wrongly bulkaa " Deo. 3," it sh ould 7 have beam "Magda's, Nov. 9." It may be added that Mr. Stern complains of "galling fetters which emboli his !bake," and of "a daily wasting of his strength." else of "mental anxiety and dreadful monotony." Mr. Stern cantina's:" I contemplate, however, my Saviour and Kis seaweed my trials pale before His yarrow and agonies. Thank God, there is • home where the exile will meet with • blamed reception. I feel persuaded that the events in which I and my fellow captives are involved did not sass: without • gracious design. Abyssinia wants the I papal, and frees my sinttaintanes with the country and people, I bellows it is prepared te receive it ; but it needed a iserthie roosiadro to abet the &sow, sad it is "Moot s akomooloro oloaso b ksosadiso over the hand. If the iamb of linked saloads to the church of Abyss's:de vie boa a reconciliation, sad takes her affectionately to bar ,arose and oompsegenate heart, the pure and saw- Oka troth the gospel planted to then alldas lksigkts may sadly extend a benign and saving influence arse the valleys and mountains now plunged in deeming suresti - tics sad pus idolatry." 701 ZION AFFAIRS. PALACEL. HALE-A-CROWN DAL — The arrival of the body of Meximillan tl Vienna L S A MDAT. JAS. 18.—Aasetaskiee ors payment, as commented upon by several of oar oontemyomuiet. It is the i ditto by Nam= tickets, 1,919 ; 5.1.1 'dittos, 2.747. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TER YENTAS ARRESTS. If the charges against the man Lennon are capable of proof, the Fenian movement, the Daily News observes, has not yet produced a more dangerous man, and his apprehension is matter for sincere congratulation. The arrest of the mountebank George Francis Train, who arrived from America by the Queenstown steamer on Fri day, has been made, we presume, by way of precaution. The man, whether on this or that aide of the Atlantic, is • charlatan, a mere talking " Manhattan." To be arrested by the British government as a person too dangerous to be allowed to land, will probably serve his purpose with the ignorant Irish who fitly compose his audience when at home. Having noticed the arrest of Barrett, the Daily News proceeds to remark that the exceptional impunity which the authors of Fenian outrages have hitherto en joyed has been a minor cause of crime, and the police could render no service so useful as that of breaking down this confidence of the Fenian' in their comparative safety. The T, legraph says if Dr. Waters is indeed the editor of the Irish nto it, be should have been arrested many weeks ago ; he has had much longer rope given him than Lord Clarendon gave to Mr. John Mitchel. What is to be done with Mr. Train the Telegraph confesses itself unable to see. The man is a grotesque, a droll, • Speech:percher, • zany, with a spice of humour, and a larger spice of mis chief ; but we cannot admit him as a conspirator. If the Lord Lieutenant possess the power, the beat thing he can do is to send George Francis back to hie friends at home, before the man gets himself or any of his Irish American friends into further mischief. The view of the Standard is that the arrest of Mr. Train is only a measure of common prudence. Vain, impudent, crack-brine I zany as the man is, he fairly re presents all the danger which is in Feni•oism. One thing is certain, according to the Star, if any man living would love to make • "question" and a "complication," and an international difficulty and general nuisance out of a policeman's mistake, Mr. Train is that individuaL He must be quite delighted, positively cock urboop over his arrest Somebody has made a fool of him self in this business. Perhaps it may prove to be Mr. Train; but that certainly is not the present impression of the Star. LAST-ENT DIsTRERS. The Times praises the use which the Poor-law Board has just made of an important provision of Mr. Hardy'a act of last session. By that act the board are empowered to nominate a certain number of guardians in addition to those who are elected by the ratepayers. Accordingly the board has just nominated as guardians of the Poplar union five of the moat influential gentlemen in the district. One of them is Mr. Green, the well-known shipbuilder, who, if we mistake not, is also chairman of the East-End Central Relief Committee. Now, if these gentlemen would at the same time accept the responsi bility of the relief funds, they might furnish the means of complete union between the two bodies to which they would then belong. Each body might, at least, have • complete knowledge of what is done by the other. By this step the Poor-law Board have afforded the greatest and most timely assistance towards sock • system as we are recommending. The circular breed by the board the other day was equally well conceived ; and, except In ex erting their authority to require • due discharge of their duty from the guardians, we scarcely see what more they can do. It remains that the responsible inhabitants or BIM 31. .1P67. ratepayers of these districts should combine to support tie board and the guardians, and to take the administration of relief into their own hands Against the premed CO.. fusion of jadiecliarisate charity, our oostompeoury settee a decided protest. 'City BUM ARREST OF GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, PARIS, SCNDAT EVEMNG. The Empress has returned from her sympa thetic visit to the Princess Baciocchi. On her return from the model farm, where the Emperor's cousin rears prize cattle with great success, the Mayor and municipal council of Rennes waylaid her at the railway station, and presented an address. They said that on her Majesty's arrival in Brittany they had not presumed to interfere with her desire to travel incognito, but that they could not allow her to go away without presenting their humble respects. The Empress graciously answered that she had not forgotten the re ception she met with at Rennes when she was last there, and she left with the Mayor 1,000 francs for the poor. The accident to Princess Baciocchi happened at the door of her own house as she was stepping into her carriage ; the horses suddenly moved on, and she slipped down and broke her thigh. Dr. Ndlaton was sent for from Paris, and the Journal d'llle-et-Vilaine states that he arrived with all speed by a special train, reduced the fracture under favourable con ditions, and that the princess is going on as well as possible. It does not seem to me credible that in the large city of Rennes no surgeon could have been found capable of setting a broken limb, or that any amount of metropolitan skill could have compensated for the de lay while Dr. N3laton was coming from Paris. There must be some mistake in the narrative. Dr. Hasten in all probability arrived only in time to approve of what had been already done. The suffering lady could not have been allowed to remain without surgical assistance for several hours. There is a new and most unexpected chapter in the Schumseker romance. The venerable Marquis de Maubreuil d'Orvault, tired of his rich wife, who it was supposed by an evil-speaking world he had married only for her money, has instituted a suit against her for nullity of marriage. The case is set down for argument and will bo heard very soon. The grounds on which he relies, and which 1 think it extremely likely will turn out valid in law, are that the marriage was celebrated in Luxembourg without the observance of those formalities which the French code requires. Very many marriages have been set aside on a similar plea, as English young ladies, who have been married in London churches to " distinguished foreigners" know to their grievous cost. A case very analogous to the present one occurred some years ago :—M. Peacatore, a French subject domiciled in France, resolved, shortly before his death, to marry his housekeeper. He was residing at the time on an estate in the Pyrenees, and as ho did not want his relations to know of the step he was taking he went across the frontier and got himself married by a Spanish priest. After his death the next of kin disputed the right of the widow to his property, on the ground that the marriage was a "clandestine' one, and that the only reason for solemnising it abroad was a desire to defraud the French law, and avoid the whole some publicity which it requires in such matters. After much litigation the next of kin consented to a compromise, and the lady still lives at her late husband's splendid chateau at Celle St. Cloud, near Paris. It is more likely than not that a French court will hold the Marquis d'Orvault's marriage not to have been a geed one. The important Sainte-Barbe School, containing 250 scholars, has been broken up in consequence of a generous protest by the students against the' expulsion of their schoolfellow, the adopted son of the Marquis and Marquise de Mautreuil d'Orvault (aged 10 years). The following is a copy of the protest which the leading boys sent to the news- Mora Preparatory School of Sainte-Barbe, Jan. 15. The deplorable measure taken by the administration of this school against an unfortunate child, whos. only fault is his birth, calls for a public and unanimous protest from the pupils of this establishment. We beg you, Mr. Editor, to publish this, in order that it may be severally known that we, the students, preserve intact the liberal traditions of the Sainte-Bache school, which the autho rities have unfortunately forgotten.—Receive, tee. (signed). The five halls of candidates for the Polytechnic and Normal schools ; the hall of candidates for the Ecole Forestiere ; the hall of candidates for the central school ; the hall of candidates for the Basile de Saint Cyr ; the two halls of elementary mathematics , The council of the school held a meeting to con sider what steps should be taken to meet this re volt, and decided upon closing the school until the authors of the letter to t he papers sign a retrac tation. It will probably occur to most people that they would have shown a wiser discretion bad they winked at the Schumacker case. It is one thing to examine scrupulously the social conditions of • pupil before receiving him, but quite another to expel one once admitted for no fault of his own. (TROY 0011 OWII CORAISPONDINT.) CORK, SUNDAY 1 , , taw'. The well-known George Francis Train was sr. rested on Friday night on board the homeward bound Cunard steamer Scotia, off this harbour. Tho arrest was made at a late hour of the night by . . detectives, who went out to the Scotia in the Cunard's Company's tender, for the purpose of making the usual scrutiny of the passengers, and the first intimation of the event received in Cork was a telegram of Mr. Train himself to the editor of the Cork Examiner in the following terms :—" I sin under arrest for wonls spoken in America and on the high seas. This reminds me of free America and Fort Lafayette." Travelling with Mr. Train there were two gentle men, one of whom described himself as Mr. Durant, an American railway conductor—the other as 'Mr. Gee, an English commercial traveller. Both were taken into custody at the same time as Mr. Train, and brought on shore in the tender under a lar,e escort of police. The three prisoners were removed to the house of a local raagii trate Mr. John Newman Beamish and a second magistrate, Mr. Tasman, was sent to moist at the examination. Messrs. Durant and Gee explained satisfactorily the business which had brought them to Europe, and were immediately released. Mr. Train alleged that be had conic I a mission in connection with some railway specula ' turns, and made an energetic and characteristic protest against his arrest, which he denounced as a gross infraction of the rights of an Ameri:an citizen. lam informed that he threatened imme diately to lodge a complaint on the subject with th , i American minister, and said this was the only • thing necessary to precipitate war between England and the United States. " You have arrested George F. Train, sir," he said to Mr. Beamish, " and the cup is full." Mr. Train, however, was detained all night at the po lice: barracks. The police seized a large bundle of papers, containing, I understand, several hundred speeches made by Mr. Train in various parts of the l:nited States. In some of these speeehis he speaks in very strong language of tic British government, and offers warm sympathy and encouragement to the Fenian. Mr. Train had not the slightest idea of disavowing any of these statements. On the contrary, he seemed to cam- Bider them very creditable productions, and ask , .1 the detectives whether they would indulge hint with their attention while he read a few passages which had been greatly admired by his Trans:elm:ol friends. This offer was, however, declined by the officers. Other matters more compromising than these papers are said to have been found with Subsequently Mr. Train was removed to Cork is I charge of two policemen and lodged in the county I gaol. Ile promises that the British gevernmert will hear of him shortly. The Boston Pilot, which arrives to-day, brine s one of Train's last productions. It is a let t crwrittett in reply to the request of certain persons in Cam bridge that he would deliver an address on behalf of a benevolent institution in that town : MR. TRAM'S 112111•040 , 111. Dear John Conlan, Eeq., James Cot, Esq., and my numerous other Irish friends in Cambridge:—Yes : God bless you. The revolution Das commenced ; the :iron gun is tired ; England has sent the Irish troops to Al'),. sinia for fear of revolt ! Do you suppose England would spend fifty millions for two Eir;li , h . missionaries? Seventeen millions of Fenians .4 , Irish descent, in the world ; two hundred 'Hilliest c i f enTn% d Vi Fta.eanicane Fenian i n several lia; hu fo nZeil u ( i l l i t et s en o l t n l Xi bc m. 44 more of all nations, who do not love England with Christi. ,n fondness. America is gong up. England is pi:4 down. Buy Ireland for Alabama claims, or tiAt! George B. l'pton made the speech At Feneuil MAI 1' l', 4 , 11 WAIL Yes, I will speak at Cambridge for icy Iri.k friends. Tell Cox to take the chair. Regards to Forb,. Two live men ought to make a lire paper. Almost a quarter of &century since I graduated at Cambridge— furs a grocery store—since I was known to all the collec,s— getting in flour and potatoes at the back door ; , 4 , 111 4 C fastest horse of all the students—in Holmes' grocer's waggon. While the students were learning dead langusws I was learning living languages. Have met many a 'chola abroad with Hebrew, Latin, and Greek who had to use my Spanish, Italian, and French to get a beefsteak or keep out of the hands of the police.—Sincerely. GE4 , . Fa.sas ts Tasty. Miss Anthony, a "strong-minded" American lady, who has lately paid a visit to Washington for the purpose of procuring subscribers for a new journal cal The Bern! haw', has detailed her adventures at a public meeting in New Jersey. "I had almost forgotten" sFe said, "my interview with the President. I waited two h°messursureinapitht.tooannet,:nr: m terri a ble on fi g lth th o e f the huge oute r chambers , where the smell of tobacco and whisky was pow °l e fb r;u nb l u. , be : l: d i. I could but mentally inquire if the ante-room of the Empress at the Tuileries in Paris, or (!treen Victoria — two women rulers—were as condescending guests as to put up placards at the entrance of Buckingham Palace and the Tuileries— . Gentle men, please use the spittoons.' Johnson stood at his desk. Said • No,' had a thousand such applications every day ; more papers than he could read. I toll bin he was mistaken ; that he never had such an a pplication is his life. ' You recognise,' I said, • Mr. John son,sn th Mrs. Stanton and myself, for two years, hy toil the republican party that they must give ballots to wouita as well as negroes, and by means of The Rerob , tion we are bound to drive the party to logical conclusions, or break it into a thousand pieces, as was the old whig party. Ind sr we get our rights.' That brought him to his p cketleat, aad he signed his name Andrew to Johnson, of t his wor_an th a t ell hand, as much as to say, anything get rid and break the radical party." The strike of colliers in the Ashton-under-LI, to district, consequent upon an attem p t on the part of the masters to reduce the wages of the men, has actually cos. silenced. About 2,000 men and boys are out. Some of the masters have not given the notice, so that the strike is by no means general in the district. BELGIAN AGSICULTCRAL EXHIBITION, 18118. --- Norma TO BRITISH AGRICULTURIsTS.—We have grad pleasure in inviting the atten tion of Bsitiah agriculturi.ts to the following notice which we have received fromillel gium :—" The Agricultural Society of Brabant (Belgian) will open at Brussels, under the auspices of the gores merit, on the 20th and 21st of June, 1888— l 2n at. A provincial competition of breeding stock. d. A national competition for cattle of the Durham breed. 3. A universal exposition of agricultural Mink ments. The exhibition of agricultural implements ani machines will be open to the competition of all the world. Premiums and prizes will be offered of sufficient mine and importance to compensate exhibitors for t he I a The Agricril• ce s the! have made in the i nterests of agricultur The tural Society undertakes to defray the cost of transp ort for the anlmab and the machines and implements on de Belgian l State railways and the other lines heloeging nd to Belgian tation. companies. Foreign agricultural implements More. a mac hines will be free of duties on re-expor over, it is proposed by the directors of the Exhibition to organise a grand lottery, the entire proceeds of which will be devoted to the purchase of such agricultural Mirk? manta and machines as may be selected from the epee mene exhibited." We trust that British cattle breede a rs mil i m pl e ment makers will be adequately represented t thil grea t exhibition, which we ha v e no doubt will be well worthy of the reputation and resources of the count*, which it will be held—s country particularly interesting to Englishmen, and particularly deserving of the sympathy of all peaceful and progressive nations. Ma. CHARLES KLAN.—AII our readers interested In dramatic matters will grieve to learn that Mr. Real illness, now in its more acute form, of many months' dery tion, has reached a 'tags at which no hope of recovery co be entertained. For some days Mr. Kean has been is s state of extreme prostration, from which there is motel/ any expectation of his being able to ralManchOr Examiner. ANOTHER COLLIERY E XPLOSION IN Sal l W A LES.—Another of these explosions, for which Sold Wales has of late obtained such notoriety, has wend at the Tylsoock Colliery, Rhondda Valley, which seven men were burnt, four of them se' riously. The cause of the explosion has not beet clearly ascertained, but it is rumoured that It was dotted by one of the doors being left open fe a r! time, and, ea the natural rerun of one of the men openati his lamp, en explosion followed. Althoug raedsad h the injuos by the unfortunate sufferers ere more or less of $ aldose character, it is gratifying to learn that no brff were searilked. About two years ago an n: at 10 4 pee st the same whoa Mr. Bedlingtos, ; maid eagiaser, and ass el the ' workmen, were killed while ens e an examirtatlea of certain workings. l b ' ir e la the erepeetrif Mr. Thomas Jones, Cardiff. Illinaroire - rum HcoriTAL, Divolturrso: segAza, Col.—Tbs aggregate number of patients ratio *Mai Om week ending fan. 18 was—Medical, 860 ; vin' 81.4, WS;totals 1,198 ; of which 740 were sew eases. „~ .-..--.--. LA %Obis in Th . Just COE Tilt cll In this awe be rewlwa fusedto artwinWa to es ,ed sbedre l, that tafstßlSl Herel stall. Mr. Colerid caus e against these gentiet, of the cbapte desire than t( stances, he al who really wi to do so, and t o do so. Mr. Pere to do so . Tdr. Dowd( and another 1 The Court Dr. Jobb to on the retun This was charge in th , a gentleman prisoner to liabilities stated to I a djourned ai last sitting acoounto, i ci requisitions In numbs are resident Mr. Sage The bankrm tions, and o The bank curtain prol opposing en the groPert: venuto Cell Roberts ani Mr. Barg( bad been cost him 1, ratty had accounts WI In a fort doubt that he could na -- Mr. Law peculiar on and hie deb for Allen's - In anawf that only ■ Mr. Caw was 12 yea that of Mr, debt?.' yes The Con, Lions all tb Mr. Law debts. Al when the the bankrt the part 01 most mine been bet or that the ti loan on tht and the fn outs. The The bee of Peuritli nest. He of sham Overend, debts ar value of aisting of the Chin Millwall and in vru first gab I ` ,I 0 MIN minary e having e change. ~__ Mr. NI Ur. Ore Tho cl ing on b that in the pro receive( pail it I Emilie the efte Crumb Fran oa sevc Mr. me street. • year, to be a sum moult Twa resin, ste*lit Pag hosier boner, a shir CAI; moat Age a with Gibbi Th whiff out the the tobi Joy ten *43 two