The Express. — London, England, 1866-06-29 00:00:00

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La : )footer ne E. BETTY HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT —Morning, TO-MORROW —Morning. lb. Rs m Afternoon, d 40na. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 29. Tun public, when they read the report of the I proceedings in the House of Commons last even ing, will, if we mistake not, be disposed to regret that any formal necessity should exist for calling the House together until, at least, a new Ministry are installed in office. A Ministerial interregnum is no doubt an awkward interruption of public busi ness, and a dissolution would have been a trouble some and expensive affair, particularly to those public-spirited gentlemen who ..uy their way into " society" through their constituents. But would not a Ministerial interregnum a month long, or even a dissolution, be more tolerable to the country at large than such an exhibition as that of the member for Nottingham rising in we know not what character or capacity to disport himself in club gossip said fashionable table talk on the state of public affairs at home and abroadt Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE is, we suppose, as good a specimen as we could select for an inquiring foreigner of what passes for wit and inde pendence within the House of Commons. The quality of wit that sets a law court in a roar is proverbial, but the House of Commons surpasses any law court in the kingdom in its capacity for enjoying the rreariest jocularity. To be sure there is something funny in the serious moments of an actor of low comedy, and when the nondescript representative of a nondescript consti tuency asks in solemn tones what is to become of Europe and the world while the House (of which he is a shining light) is adjourned, the comic effect is such as a BUCKSTONE or an AREAL might despair of producing. The worst of it is that Mr. OSBORNE'S successes as a parliamentary humourist remind one terribly of those tap-room oracles whose brilliant sallies are by the divination of true genius so wonderfully sketched in " Felix Holt." All the difference is in the background, and the accessories of the scene, in the medium through which the speaker addresses his audience, and in the character of that audience ; but the quality of the speaking, the tone, the temper, the taste, occa sionally even the grammar of it, are singularly like the oratory of a provincial " public," and there is bounce enough for the most enlightened parochial legislator to admire and envy. What a pity it should be wasted on so large a stage l Mr. OSBORNE cannot for the life of him see why the late Government should have given up office for a Reform Bill, for a defeat on a point of me re detail, and at the hands of a majority composed it seems of " good Reformers "—as good, that is, as the member for Nottingham. As an " independent " member, Mr. Ossoas was quite prepared to give a vote of con fidence in Lord Rrasett and Mr. GLAD- wrons ; but now that the great Liberal party is left in the lurch by Mr. GrAnerorrs declining to take his policy from such "good Reformers" as the Adulliunites, Mr. Ossoa...vs is equally pre pared to give his vote of confidence in Lord DIRBY and Son ; and while he feels the griev ance of going over to the other side of the I House, he is most anxious that the new Govern ment should have a fair trial and a fair hearing. Such is Mr. Braxsr. OSBORNE'S exhortation to the House ; and, more merciful than Dr. Joarcsox when a frivolous woman paid a compliment to some thing he had written, the House listened to the ex hortation as if it had nothing better to do in this sultry weather. We know not which Government is most deserving of commiseration—a Govern ment whose abdication Mr. Ossoarri regrets, or a Government to which he offers his support ; but probably the " great Liberal party," of which he talks so glibly and so graciously, will manage to exist whether he accompanies it in exile to the Opposition benches, or stays behind, as, we trust, the forty-four " good reformers and attached " friend's" will do. We should not have taken the trouble to notice this random chatter, but that it gives us an opportunity, once for all, of noticing one of those trivial commonplaces of current social talk on the political crisis which Mr. Chums; with his usual simplicity, repeated last evening, as if he were saying something quite original. He described the accession of a Tory government THE T of to power as a signal act of self-denial aplaiirt Lord DEBBY and his followers, anclv "" id for them a fair trial, on the ground thaelkWiblieril were being thrust upon them. Ye tirghi*ll of to be grateful to Lord DEBBY, We Ci:Mt,ll,* ste ping in to save the country from the famished rage of some of his younger followers, who in despair of becoming useful to the country were raiddrik 'themselves more and more mischievous land violent. But to talk of honours being thrust upon the leaders of the party because they left to forty-four Liberal seceders the honour of playing into , their hands, is too good a joke even for Mr. BERNAL Oszoarm, whose extensive learning should have made him acquainted with the legal maxim Is fait cui prodest. The Adullamitee may have picked the chestnuts from the fire, but theirs are not the claws that will divide the spoils. Of course in speaking of material profit, we are not speaking of the noble chief of the new Govern- I went, who every one knows is sacrificing his ease and his health to the wants of the placemen of his party. On the other hand, the country is not particularly eager to thrust power upon statesmen who are likely to be laid up half the year, not withstanding their zeal for the public good. There is such a thing as self-denial on the part of a na tion es well as of a Minister who forgets his in firmities for the sake of his friends. Let us hear I no more of the Tory Ministry coming into power against their will, because they are afraid to show their flag, or have not the hardihood to confess their principles, and therefore put t he corps ef Liberal deserters in their front. Tas Government Committee upon Theatrical Licenses and Regulations finished their labours yesterday by agreeing to a Report which ought to please all but the most devoted protectionists. After hearing a vast amount of evidence, which was meant to prove that any attempt to weaken the foundations of the present theatrical monopoly must necessarily lead to a degradation of dramatic art, they wisely concluded that the wishes of the public were entitled to some little consideration, and hesitated to affirm that thirty millions of people ought to go without the right to be amused in any way they chose to select, in order to in crease the exceptional profits of a few theatrical landlords. The report which the Committee have agreed upon, not without much discussion and many divisions, is an emphatic recommendation to parliament to remove all existing restrictions on the performance of the drama. Even without legis lation this report will encourage, and to a certain extent legalise, all those evasions of the law by which the public, in their entertainments, are so largely benefited. It will recommend that no man who is anxious to present the drama to his patrons —an entertainment which, even in its lowest forms, has some intellectuality in its composition—shall be debarred from so doing, and yet have full liberty to supply more degrading forms of amusement. The Lord Chamberlain stated, in his evidence before the committee, that he felt quite able, with an increased staff, to deal with all theatres, institutions, concert-halls, and music-halls. The report will recommend that he should still hold his authority as licenser of theatres and stage plays, but that any proprietor of a fit and proper building should have a right to demand a dramatic license. In case of dis putes on this point, the report will recommend an appeal being granted to the Home Secretary. The illegality of morning concerts will be removed, and theatres will be placed on the same footing as music-halls for wine and spirit licenses—that is, they will both have to apply to the licensing ma gistrates for their public-house privileges. The publication of the report will check all those pro secutions of music-hall and concert-hall proprietors for the illegal performance of " stage-plays" which have insulted the public for several years, and will probably remove many scruples of the Lord Chamberlain as to his distribution of dramatic licenses. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE CHANGE OF MINitTERM. The Times proceeds to trace the progress of the radical element in the government of the country for the last 11 years, from the first administration of Lord Pal merston, during which it was kept down, through its rise to something like equality in the earlier period of Lord Pabnerston's second government, and its repression by a sort of understanding between whip and tones during his later years, unto its indisputable predominance on the accession of Lord Russell to power. From the latter date, according to the Tiers, the whips have occupied a compa ratively subordinate position. But as a condition of suc cess was an absolute submission of the whole liberal party, the experiment has failed, and we are now asking ourselves whether we are to be gores ned, RI heretofore, by some kind of coalition between whip and radicals, or is the whig party to be split in two, one part o f it being lost in the radicals and the other namely distinguished from the conservatives? In the opinion of the Times it is not unnatural that a certain portion of the liberals should be disposed to unite themselves to political opponents. The only condition which must be required of them is that the change must proceed from conscientious convictions alone, and not be cause of the attractions and emoluments of office. In another article the Times argues, apropos of the discussion in the House of Commons last night, that all parties are profoundly dirsatisted at the circumstance of the change of government now in progress, and it concurs with Mr. °shot ne in throwing the blame on the ministry. The Daily News observes that what we are now witness ing is no mere party movement, but an attempt to coca. bine the two sections of the hereditary aristocracy of Eng land against the common enemy. the British people. This is a manlier coarse than to be undoing reform administra tions by tricky resolutions moral by thei^ sons, or the votes of their " kept members " in the people's house. The chivalrous abandonment of party exclusiveness is really a compliment to the progress of the age, for it shows that the intelligence and energy of the people have become so formidable Cud notidn7 but a union and concentration of the whole landed aristocracy can defeat the claims it makes to a fuller share in the management of its own affairs. The liberal party is to be congratulated on the fact that they are now likely to be rid of the pre sence in their camp of men whose hearts and on critics' occasions whose swords were with the enemy. The Post thinks the delay which Lord Derby finds necessary is a tolerable proof this the difficulties in his way are greater than had been expected, and that there was no cut and dry mi'siati; ready, as some Pappcx.ol. The Herald is so anxious that a coalition should be made that it pleads for dropping the word "liberal" out of the political dictionary, and for distinguishing between the new ministry and the opposition by the titles of con servatives and radicals or constitutionalists and democrats. Half the popularity enjoyed by the one party, and the distrust felt towards the other In " liberal" communities, has arisen from a delusive nomenclature ; and with its disappearance the real conservatism of England will, for the first time, find free scope. Construct the cabinet as Lord Derby may, the Telegraph says, it must still prove the most unpopular ministry since 1832-a government of patokwork and compromise—a go vernment that cannot live a month except by the rueful forbearance of the House of Commons. The fair play which the new government must expect is open and honest but unsparing opposition• That government must be regarded, while it exists, as a disaster and a danger ; and not until it falls, as it will fall, before the extraordi nary popular animosity that heralds its entry upon office, will any liberal, high or low, known or unknown, cease from strenuous efforts to achieve its overthrow, EXPRESS, FRIDAY EEV io auktr;e2rene last u oidd intetint trePf7-111ri surf slilltler the • D ob u ri o n at i r the • y com mies now n • lamed iiave „4. • used to iiiiVesrt of .."fq %Ileacked ••"" meni k opposed a p 'pie of their bill, moved , lous' factious amendment, or led a desertion fro • .8 liberal cause, but he professed to do so In the interest of reform. The impatience which would rather pass any sort of sham me asure now than cross over to opposition for a few weeks or months, may seem to Mr. Osborne a noble zeal to carry reform, but will appear to the country much more like a secret desire to get rid of it. POPULAR DRIIONSTRATIONS. The Times now appears impressed with the seriousness of the demonstrations which have taken place in the neigh bourhood of the Houses of Parliament and at the West-end of the town, and calls for the police to put a stop to them. The leaden of the mob are evidently endeavouring to deter members from eating as they think fit by making it appear that they are the objects of public indignation. There can be no doubt that these meetings, too, are organised w ith the intention of influencing parliament. The Time thinks it scandalous that the police should have allowed mem bers of parliament to be hooted when the persons who hooted might easily be distinguished. The Daily Hoes ridicules the awkward predicament of those who but the other day were taunting reformers with the silence and indifference of the people, and are now so frightened at popular expressions of opinion that they are actually asking for the protection of the polka against a cheer. Really these natural enemies of reform are difficult to please. When the people are quiet because they have confidence in the government, you complain that there is no agitation ; when the people move to pro test because they see their friends in power il;splaced, you call a harmless public meeting " mob law," and demand that it be pntdown. However, there is a fitneuin this appeal to the Home Secretary, which will not, we trust, escape attention. A tory government would be ti ce to all its tra ditions in ordering the police to put down a public meeting. The Herald Is indignant with the police for not bringing to the police courtsthe persons who hoot at the members of the conservative party ; but it is gratified that at the lain moment they have obeyed the orders given them to keep ' Palace-yard clear. The people who have taken part in these demonstrations are described by the Herald as Mr. Glad stone's lambs-4s the vagrants and pickpockets of London. The Telegraph would give a word of serious warning to the tories. If their aim is to suppress these assemblies, with the new power which the people have acquired, they axe entering on a desperate path. They will fail more fatally and swiftly than even liberals wish, if they go back to the madness as well as to the political ignorance of Peterloo. Not in Trafalgar-square alone but in every quarter of the metropolis, and in every large town and populous district of the kingdom let the artisans who cannot be heard in parliament hold orderly and rational assemblies, to sup port sensible and practical resolutions. Let nothing tempt them to forfeit by a single act or word the dignity of the proceedings which so far have fortified their cause and justified their friends. Thus exercised, their strength is at once legitimate and irresistible, and the party who has falsified their Queen's promise, and plotted the momentary fall of their ti.re friends, cannot long exist in face of such significant but quiet condemnations. The Star denounces the exclusion of the public from Palace-yard as un-English and unprecedented, and thinks it particularly ungracious of Sir G. Grey to underrate the importance of the meeting in Trafalgar.square. THE W.%P Though unable to bring the Austrian and Prussian bulletins to agree as to the final results of the affair of Skalicz, the Times think there is no doubt the Austrians had the best of the encounter, though the advantage they had obtained may have been by no means decisive. The onward march of Prussian invasion has probably been checked for the present, anda furtheradvanceintoßohemis will be found impracticable. The Times adds a tribute to both Austrian and Prussian armies for the gentle and humane feelin7s which they exhibit towards the defence less populations among whom they are quartered. Waiting for more detailed accounts of the action in the neighbourhood of Josephstadt before forming any de cided judgment, the Daily News proceeds to describe the events in Bohemia, expressing the opinion that on the road between Nachod and Josephstadt the Prussians have met with a decided repulse. It is important, how ever, to beware of exaggerating the effect of this meeting. The tactics of Marshal nenetlek in Bohemia are, after all, strictly defensive, and will not enable the Austrian general to recover any of the ground that has been lost. To the bystander, it seems a strange infatuation on the part of Prussia to attempt any great aggressive movement. It is obvious that the Prussian army is already in n " litary pos session of the whole of Northern Getinany, and appa rently the ti le policy for Prussia ought to be to keep and consolidate that which she has already war. How desperate is the case of the Hanoverian army may be seta, the Daily News says, from the direction it took after the battle with the Prussian force. It went north ward, where it must inevitably capitulate or be destroyed, because to go southward to join its friends was simply im possible. The Herald expresses its satisfaction at the successes of the Austrian arms, and is even san‘aine enough to believe that the King of Hanover and his army will be able to make good the's- passage through the hest. of northern Germany to the ftiends who are waiting for them in the south. The Pest sympathises :th the unfortunate King of Hanover, but points out that in his kingdom constitutional government in no sense of the words has existed. The Sovereign, by the aid of ministers, who are perfectly 'Tensible, II `ells not only the executive bat the legislative power. Parliament, ' u the English acceptation of the term, there is none. The Star describes Benedek as in the position of a man in the centre of a big house, who requires to guard both the front-door and the back. If the Crown Prince br-ets in by the back-door, and Benedek rushee to eject him, the other combatant dashes in by the front, and both fall upon the common foe. The strategy of divided forces is, however, a dangerous one, as the Italians have already learned to their cost. An agile and deter mined leader would find means first to leap upon the one and then the other. The great Napoleon would have defeated both Prussian armies before this by rapid con. centration and relentless crushing of one before the other could assist. The fierce game has only begun ; the engage ment of the 27th is but a preliminary passage of arms ; and other battles will doubtless take place surpassing in destruction even the sange , naty sti aggles of the American COLONEL BIDDCLPH AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.- The recent vote of Colonel M. Biddulph, one of the two members for the county of Denbigh, against the 7/. rental franchise, has caused general dissatisfaction among the liberals of the conn.y, and initiatory steps have been taken to obtain a worthier representative at the next eneral election. A meeting of prominent and influential liberals was held in Wrexham, on Wednesday, to devise means for giving expression to the popular feeling. The hoes. member's conduct, in persistently voting against the Reform Bill while professing liberal views end representing the county solely on the strength of liberal promises and pledges, was condemned in unmeasured terms and the feeling of the meeting was unanimous in favour of looking out for a thorough-going liberal to oppose him the next election. MEETING AT litsovra-squana Rooms.—The Rev. F. W. H. Layton, DA., of St. Peter's College. Cam bridge, delivered an address yesterday afternoon to a full and fashionable assembly on " The instant coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and the only preparation by which the church can be enabled to meet Him," at Hanover-square Rooms. The Rev. H. J. Owen, formerly minister of Park Chapel, took the chair. The lecturer alluded to a recent article in the Times on the European crisis, which was near at hand, and considered it very portentous of coming events. Some thirty years ago few perrons believed in the crisis he had mentioned, nor in the restoration of the Jews, nor in the coming of the Lord, but now those events were being commented upon by the newspaper*. He proceeded to show from the Scriptures that the fourfold ministry re vealed by the Word of Cod, and now brought out ass fact, was n misery to prepare the church for the great event he was expecting, and it behoved every Christian to consider the matter. UNIVERSITY of Drattie.—We are requested to state that, in the event of a vacancy, by the retirement of either of the present members for the university, Sir Edward Grogan, Bart., will offer himself to the consti tuency for election to the vacant seat.—Dublin Express. CHOLERA IN CHESHIRE.—The Northicieit Guar elian reports several fatal eases of Asiatic cholera at Winsford. The disease is supposed to have been intro duced from Liverpool. The number of attacks in increas ing, and it is necessary that more energetic steps should be taken is the present emergency than the local authorities are likely to take. ... JUNE 29, 1861 11.1 E 11 11 . 4. f . About tw e e of thatrincipal r suppor ames's teW erby areml#edist his in St. -square Ay. Lad Derby th em at some len a nd announoed the suggestion of her ;end i n c ompliance with his o wn view of the necessi of his position, he proposed to of offer high office to several mem rs the whig arty, and even to certain mam- be bas of Lord pßussell's gove rnment. He shou ld, therefore, have to ask frinn his own supporters a sacri fice of their just pretensions. In some oases it might be necessary that they should altogether resign their slam's to office ; in others they would have to 'accept offices of lower rank than th ose to which they might reasonably have aspired. The Times is informed that the members present cheerfully assented the terms thus proposed, sad declared their willing to make any sacrifices ne cessary for the formation of strong administration. Lord Derby then proceeded to wait upon the tineen at Windsor. No appointments have yet been made, nor is it expected that any will be made so long as there is any prospect of the accessions from the whig party which Lord Derby in tended to seek. The Times believes that hitherto Lord Derby's overtures have cot been favourably reeponded to. It is no secret, according to the Telegraph, that wishes were entertained for Mr. Disraeli's translation to some poet not in the House of Commons ; bat the right honour able gentleman, it is said, positively declined to swept a rage and a consequent retire ment to the House of peerage and a consequelit r etirement to the Rouse •f Lord,. A yet more momentous question was raised by the nearest friends of Lord Derby himself, who deprecated his undertaking the hem and trying duties of the Pre miership, and hence a reNival of the idea that the noble earl should lend the weight of his experience to the ca. binet by accepting se at there without any specific office, leaving the lead of the go vernment to Lord Stanley. A special hope has existed of securing at least the accession of Lord Clarendon. That hope has probably derived some force from two considerations—fist, the belief that even patriotic feelings might induce the noble lord to remain in the department; and, secondly, the connection between the families of Lord Clarendon and Lord Derby. Eta Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jcxs 26• The Queen, with Princess Helena, drove in the Home Park yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, a ccompanied by Prinoees H e lena and Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds this mor nin g . Princess Louise and Prince Leopold also went out driving. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, the Count of Randers, attended by Col. Burnell , and the Prince of Tack, visited the Queen this morning , and remained to luncheon. The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen in the afternoon. The Prince of Wales, attended by Viscount Mandl- i ton, Lieutenant-General Knollys and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, went to Erith yesterday and inspected Cot mer chant officers' training ship Worcester, and distributed prizes to the gentlemen cadets. From Erith his royal hig hness proceeded to Snaresbrook and laid the foundation stone of the new dining-ball ot the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum. At Snarsabrook the Prince was joined by the Princess of Wales, who drove from Mailborough-house, a tt e nded by the Countess of Macclesfield and Lord Harris. Previous to the ceremony of laying the foundation scone their Royal Highnesses were entertained at lunch eon at the asylum. In the afternoon the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the King and Queen of the Belgians at Claridge's Hotel. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards took leave of Princess Mary and Prince Teck at St. James's Palace i previous to their departure for the continent. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Sutherland, and Lord A. Paget, paid a visit to the Worcester school ship at Elith, where the annual prizes gained by the young cadets were handed by the Prince to the succe ss f u l competitors. The lustiness being ended the royal party creased the Thames to the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum at Snareabrook, to lay the foundation stone of a new dining-hall for that charity. Here his royal highness was joined by the Princess of Wales and suite, who travelled by the turnpike road, the Archbishop of Armagh, Lords Hauls and Hamilton, and others. The proceedings were of an interesting character. The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar honoured Lord and Lady Alfred Paget with their company at dinner last night. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess of Lie towel, and Lord and Lady Rendlesham were also of the Party- His Highness Prince Christian of Au2;ustenburg is expected to sieve in London from the Cont;lent to- mot row. The Princess Mary Adelaide and the Prince de Teck left the Duchess of Cambridge's residence at St. James's Palace yesterday evening for Paris, on their way to Vienna. His Excellency the Rusaian Ambassador and Baroness Brunnow entertained his Excellency the UM ed States Minister and Mrs. and Miss Adams, Commander A. Murray, U.S.N., Captain Bythesea, R.N., Mr. Fox, Mr. H. Adams, Mr. Sohleiden, Prince Galitzin, Count N. Pahlen, Prince Michael Gortchacow, Prince Alexander Ourrossow, Baron Fr;e,lericksz, M. Sabouroff, and M. B. Kokhanowsky, at dinner, last evening, at Chesham Hours. CONVOCATION OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTER. BURY.-( THIS DAY.) - Both Houses of Convocation re-assembled this morning, at Westminster, for the despatch of business. THE UPPER HOUSE. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided, and there were pre.ent the Bishops of London St. David's Oxford, coln, Ely, Salisbury, Gloucester '. and Bi idol, Bangor, and Lichfield. PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF A SUCCESSOR TO BISHOP COLENISO. - . The Bishop of OXFORD said he had a question to propose I from the Bishop of Cape Town in addition to that which their lordships discussed on the previous day relative to a proposed successor to Dr. Colenso in the diocese of Natal. Dr. Colenso having been deposed and excommunicated by the metropolitan and the other South African bishops in synod, the question was---" Whether the acceptance of a new bishop on our part whilst Dr. Colenso still retains the letters patent of the crown will in any way separate us from the mother church." The answer which he (the Bishop of Oxford) prop osed that their lordships should return was as follows : That as it has been de cided on appeal to the highest judicial court in this king dom, on the one hand, that the church in the province of Natal, in communion a ith the united church of England and Ireland, is in the eye of the law a mere voluntary asso ciation ; and on the other hand, as the letters patent do not profess to convey spiritual power, and have been declared by the court to convey no episcopal jurisdiction, it is the judgment of this house that the acceptance of a new bishop does not impair the con nexion or alter the relations existing between the members of the church in the province of Natal and the church of England, provided-1. That the bishop be canonically con secrated according to the use tithe church of England ; 2. That there be no invasion of the title of the Bishop of Natal conveyed by her Majesty's letters patent." Tke Bishop of GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL seconded the motion. The Bishop of St. DAVID'S, before giving his assent to the motion, would like to know who had the power of creating the new bishop, and what would be his mission. The Bishop of Lonmis presumed that he would claim to hold jurisdiction over the clergy of the present diocese of Natal. The Bishop of OxFonD—Not the di4 province of Natal. [Left sitting.] rer the civil GALLANT CONDucr. — At 3 p.m. on Saturday last, as Captain Barnard, R.N., of Her Majesty's Emigration. office, had just completed the usual inspection of passengers on board the Melbourne passenger ship Mediator, in the Shadwell Basin of the London Doc ks, he obse rved the s hipkeeper, a very old man, accidentally fall over the quarter-rail of the ship into the dock a distance to the water's edge of 1 5 feet, when , although suffering severely at the time from an injured hip, he immediately seized a line and lowered himself into the water to the rescue, and after being thoroughly immersed succeeded, with con . siderable difficulty, owing to the narrow space between the ship and the quay and the suddenness of the accident, in recovering the man, who was then insensible, from a considerable depth under water. This is the second time that Captain Barnard has saved a fellow-creature from drowning, and it would be very gratifying to find finch noble conduct had met with a mutable recognition by the presentation of the new Albert medal. 1 4 4TE'StitirrELLIG ENCE. . e„..____..— .4 THE wAit IN BOHEMIA. ltxuld appromfrotinigteegram o l f a war i v i r k hich h ha e have t e battlo: 2 4 the 27th in the neigh hood of Nachod, Skalicz, and Jaromierz was renewed yesterday (the 28th). In the encounter of the 27th, both the Prussians and the Austrians claimed the advantage. The truth, probably, is that early in the day the Prussians, advancing in force from the north and east, compelled the Austrians to retire south, and telegraphed the succesa they had achieved. At Skaliea, a small town on the road between Jaromierz and Nachod, they were met by the Austrians, who claim to have taken 18 guns and several prisoners, and to have refused an armistice to the Prussians. On thenight of the 27th the victory, then, wo uld seem to have inclined tothe Aust r ians. According to the telegram which we publish to-day, and which is dated from Reinerz, a town in Prussian Silesia, between Nachod and Matz, the battle was renewed yester day, with advantage to the Prussians, who appear to have taken ten guns from the Austrians. It will be well to wait, however, for the close of the day and the Austrian account before coming to any con clusion as to the final result. • The Times, in its second edition, publishes the following telegram lifunchensratz, June 28, 10 p.m. Prince Frederick Mirles has to.day driven back the Austrians from Podol to beyond Munchengratz, with great loss, and has made come 1,000 prisoners. The Prussian loss war inconsiderable. The Times adds : We have received the above telegram, addressed to this office, but as the source whence it proceeds is not clearly indicated, we publish it with due reserve. Should this news be confirmed, it is evident that a second battle was bein g foug ® simul taneously with that at Nacho d, by the army of Prince Frederick Charles. Mtinchengritz is situated several miles to the west of Nachod, and is on the direct road from Richenberg to Prague. It appears that the Prussians penetrated into Bohemia by all the roa ds leading into that kingdom from Silesia, between Gorlitz and Ratibor —a very extensive line of opera tions, for we find them at Turnau, Trau teriau, Nachod, Troppau, and even as far east as Oswiecim in Galicia. That there is danger of having such a line of operations cut in two must be evident from the nature of their posi tion. The Austrian government, however, are taking precautionary measures for the defence of Vienna itself. No lees than 18,000 workmen are employed in raising fortifications for the defence of the city. There are eight bridges to be thrown across the Danube, and 21 forts are in course of GERMANY. The Bavarian army have began to move. Their advanced poets are now at Planen, which was lately occupied by Prussians. They are said to have been received with enthusiasm by the inhabitams. They are thus opposite to the right wing of the Prussian army of the Elbe, whose base of operations is at Erfurt. There ap pears to have been a regular demonstration in Hanover when the rep ort of the escape of the Hanoverian army by Meiningen was an nounced. The Queen and her two daughters, who have worn mourning since the departure of the King, put on rose-coloured dresses when they heard the news, and rode through the principal streets of Hanover in an open &eche. (REOTETt'S TELEGRAMS.) THE WAR IN GEILMANY. PARIS, Ju r 23.. SCRRENDER OF THE HANOVERIAN ARMY. THE MOVEMENTS IN BOHEMIA. REINEBZ, JU 28. The Moniteur of this morning publishes intelli gence from Berlin, dated yesterday, announcing that in a fresh engagement between the Prussians and the Austrians, near Trautenau, the former captured ten guns and took many prisoners. The Austrians were compelled to fall back. The Mvniteur also publishes an account of the engagement between the lianoverianis and Prus sians near Langensalza, which it rtates to have been without result. The Prussians lost two guns. The .Monatcur adds :—" The Hanoverian, how ever, withdrew in a northerly direction. They asked for a fresh armistice, which was refused by the Prussians, who are awaiting reinforcementa." THE HANOVERIAN ARMY. (OFFICIAL DIBFATCH.) !BERLIN, Jule (Emma). The Hanoverian are being surrounded by Prussian corps. Fresh negotiations are in progeess for a capitulation. BERLIN, Irra 29, Nom The Hanoverian army surrendered at discretion to-day. The Prussians have advanced to-day in the direction of Jaromierz and have taken 10 guns from the Austrians. Among the prisoners is Colonel Count Wimpfen, commander of the Austrian regiment " Crown Prince of Prussia." BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAIDS. ALEXANDRIA, duns 28. The Masailia and Avoca left here at 4.30 p.m. tc day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 4th, and the latter at Southampton about the 11th prox. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, ina 28. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Tigre, with the India and China mails, arrived here yesterday at 10 p.m. Pin-ta-Chun, the Chinese Envoy-Extraordinary, arrived at Antwerp from London the morning before List, and, accompanied by his son and suite, left for the Hague, en route for St. Petersburg. A communication from Chamounix informs us that Mr. Eugene Terry, of New York, and M. Ernest Watelet, of Paris, have just made the ascent of Mont Blanc with perfect success, being the first feat of the kind this season, and unusually early in the year. They were under the instructions of Edouard Cupelin, the well.known guide. The domain of Wangern, which the Duke of Sue-Meiningen possesses in Silesi►, in the circle of Bmlan, has been placed under sequestration by the Prussian government The revenue of this estate is stated to amount to about 60,000 fr. annually. A letter from Prague of the 23rd, in the Patrie, s ap :—" This morning I, in common with all those now staying at the hotel of the Golden Angel, was awoke by an unusu►l bustle and movement. It proceeded frost an immense crowd, who, collected round a lady and gentle man, were shouting joyfully. They soon disappeared ander the gateway of the hotel, and I found from the moving el furniture in the room above me that I was going to have them for neighbours. I enquired who they were, and was informed they were the King and Queen of Saxony. Such is the torture of war, which gives me • king as neighbour. His countenance is pensive, and was, it appeared to me, paler than when I saw bin two ran ago at Dresden." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCE After Term Nisi Prins Sittings at 'Westminster-04, e the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) THE QUE/31 V. WILLSIL.--THR LILDS BANKRUPTCY SCANDAL, The Solicitor-General said the trial of this indich nu was postponed last term on the application of Mr. Cat n. ridge for the defendant on the ground that Lord m eet. : bury, who was a material witness, •was iibreate a * felt on that °cession that he could not resist that aigi cation, and be had now to make a similar applicaliza ne - behalf of the crown, viz.: the absence of the most n'tniag witness for the prosecution, the Rev. Mr. Herding, e nes.l of St. Ann's Hill, Wandsworth. The affidavits of k r. . Greenwood, solicitor to the Treasury, and ot h er, stud that every possible endeavour had been made to "op en My. Harding, but without the 'light e n vs. ability of success for the present. Th e y ails stated that it would be unsafe to proceed to trial is m a. Harding's abeenoe. Mr. Pollard, a clerk in the Mee c i the solicitor to the Treasury, stated that be bad and OTtly endeavour during the part week to find Mr. Harding. Th e e gentleman had left the vicarage and taken n ew his family, furniture, and servants, bet ne to knew where he had gone. The beadle, the pew the police, and the tradespeople had been appheirl . they were unable to save any information IN to Meeha n about ,. Letters by post brought to the Vicanp lad b an forwarded to Mr. Harding's son, 6, New-sqoare, Waw a . inn-fields, and Mr. Greenwood wrote to that math.* enclosing a subpcena for his father, but it was returned hp him, stating that he was unable to comply with A s request. The Lord Chief Justin—ls there any prospect e l b , 16 . him ? ----9 1 1 - ' None during the pang iii., tinge. .. The Lord Chief Justice—But what is the ono o f pm. potting the trial if there are no means of ever pil es % whites" ? The Solicitor-Cleneral—Mr. Harding is manifestly k a p, . ing out of the way. If the case was adac o o o m it v . hoped Mr. Harding would be found some time or cek, He felt it would be a failure of justice to go to trial mg, out Mr. Harding. Mr. Coleridge said it was true the case was poet fool d„ net on the application at the defendant, in oonsequemee L or d w oo ebury's absence, but because the cue stood is low in the list that the probability was g would not be reached, and that Murder* y was not worth while to hurry Lord Wesiluy home from Florence. In fact, the ease WY me reached and it had to be made a remand. lie weld* deny that Mr. Harding was a most material wines, l ad therefore he ought not to oppose the application. The Lord Chief Justice—How lately has he diampsued Mr. Coleridge said he seemed to lave gone any is.. posely to avoid giving evidence on the trial. The Lord Chief Justice said the absence amoral sat sufficiently long for him to conclude that it vas kopek. to And Mr. Harding, and that in oorcemiesse tic iadist • meat ought not to be kept hanging over the ddeulsat. The trial he thought ought to be postponed eatil the mat sittings. Mr. Coleridge said, to be candid, he should be wry te: go to trial without Mr. Harding. The trial was accordingly postponed. . 'AUSTIN V. NALL. This cue was recanted this morning, when Mr. Mint, an expert, was called to speak to the Minden* pt. CYO. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nisi Prins in London.—(Before Led Odd Justice Erie and a Special Jury.) SHAW V. TIM LONDON AND or. KATILUIDEI DOM COY PAN Y. The plaintiff in this case, a gun maker, living in Grove-street, Commercial-road, sued to recover Osamu for the death of his son , a young man about 20 y d age, who was killed whilst working as a labourer stile Docks. Mr. Warton appeared for the plaintiff, and Ur Xi; lake, Q.C., and Mr. Murphy for the defendants. The accident happened on the Bth of Februszy,loo, The plaintiffs came was that at this date the two do*, companies had recently amalgamated, and the (*.sequel* WAS that wool was sent to the place where the demi* was employed. He had before been employed in hoist* tea ; and had no experience as to doing similar work Ail wool. On the day in question, be and another , man were employed in sending up wool from a lower le an upper floor of a warehouse connected with the Black. ' vt 11 line, and three bales were sent up at once. One of these " sets" struck the flap and tilted, and the malt wis .hat the top bale first came out from the slings and* 1 , others followed. The first bale fell upon the dross*: struck him on the head, broke both his jaws, rind others* hurt him so seriously that he died in a few days. Upon the question of negligence it was said that its slings were too short to allow them to be "reeved," tkd is, to have the loop at one end passel through the lop* the other. It was also said that the men should Ws been supplied with a " beater " to beat down the di* after they had been reeved. It was also said that tis s lings had never been used for hoisting wool before, that after the accident new slings and also beaten ism furnished to the men. The plaintiff's counsel twits said that the traverses on which the men stood wee constructed that in the event of their seeing" down they could not get out of t he way. T UN lrglig WAS another instance of negligence ; hut on his expressing an opinion against receiving such evid i tti was not tendered. The plaintiff founded his right to sue upon this, *alb had a money interest in the life of the decease!, Mows the deceased used to give him a portion of his earn** a labourer, and as working overtime at the gun hnsa Mr. Kerslake submitted that there wee no r afted" the jury • that the accident arose from one of the Mks if the employment for which the masters of the decemei were not responsible. His lordship said that he should reserve this pods for the full court. Evidence was then given for the defendants that* slings were l o ng enough, and that the men' incladmgiii. deceased, had been cautioned not to send up bales " reeving" the slings. As to the " beater," it was me er that the men could have easily have procurd sack strument as that if they had thought tit. The jury, after hearing the summin,g up, at once fool' verdict for the defendants. ----- COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prins at Guildhall.—(Before DU. Bea Bramwell and a Special Jury.) BARNARD r. LONDON GEfLKAL oltNIBI•4 carat. This was an action by a cab driver to recover mopes tion in damages for bodily injuries sustained by h through the alleged negligence of the defendants' sernsP. Mr. E. James, Q.C., and Mr. Straight were for *A i r tiff • Mr. Gi ff ard, Q.C., and Mr. Thesiger for * Pendants. On last Boxing night the plaintiff was driving for wheel cab in Chapel -street, blarylubone-road, when o f the defendants' omnibuses, which run between Una* bridge and the Royal Oak, Paddington , c au g ht the ed wheel, and turned it over on its side. The plaintiff'' " , thrown o ff with great violence , and sustained a frail,' two ribs and other injuries. The case for the was that the cab was on its right side, and that &I dent arose entirely from the negligent driving e omnibus driver. v en to show th at For the defence, evidence wa s g i lb cab ran into the omnibus, which, at the time of ths • currence, hail only just stopped to take in a pamentii t The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff —damagernio." - _ COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Delon: the Judge Ordinary and a Special JIM.) JAMES T. WATSON. ft This probate case, already men tioned, was reamed day, and evidence for the defendant arm given as toete state of the testatrix's (Mrs. Naylor's) mind. and the upon it of the groat quant ity of wine and brandy ete l she was in the habit of consuming. Dr. Burrouee , nine a ttended her, said that on the Bth of April, lir after the will was executed. be found her quits fused and incoherent, and with c lose of memory. e y witness thought it scarcely possible that any habitually drank so much could keep his or her ler quite clear—they might not be intoxicated in the ea" nary sense but they would be muddled and Mrs. Lane, the servant of the testatrix, said 't1;11--it Naylor was incoherent, wandering, and violist as le morning after the will was executer!, that she was ing before the will was made, and continucd Wet " lens until her death. [The case was prooseding w hen our report leftl COURT OF BANKR UPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissio ner Coulhurni IN RE O'ROI - RRE, OTHERWISE FALCON'S. ..A.k The bankrupt in this case is the well known dreein and lessee (in partnership with Mr. Chatty teri) lane Theatre, rending at Aoscia-road. St. J°bl _..:a it He ascribes his bankruptcy to lowed ent,),.„iiie the management of Drury-lane Theatre, senn,.t,iog with Mr. Chatterton, his late partner. The te'" sr4 ; several months in custody at the suit of one or diton, but at length obtained his release on entering iti. TlZZ " Z i.alwes e sittingandfortineaxaming tiillguonretialles:l 69411116 The accounts, which bad only just been e i l edr nide the following items :—To crt'dit oll up b7l4 l 2,447 1 . • ditto holding security, 6001.) in full , 281. The meets, including gw" Soubtful deb hol d "a z selignm a sai i; r — i wed at 4,91 theatrical pre formanoe of locS " *nee to the 1 Z io the data iefdreet boo Theatre fL w e s t to the deposit Paid the theatre oovenaats of Vatter the iii — T - uturrut voL ; 7 mur mevoL Fr COW," IA Cleatedies tato Love We V' Let two 141 or, !Ave ei a bove Art, --Dranlits— throe sobs ; of performs Nest Mr " Nest of I Parsee.— !tortes" " oaavanieno the Papers. Extrema! 4. trOnti • Hot Un rtb the bankr performam Zigiumes," Hop o' Heart's in D O W , 6 partneri& those righ faction of Sir. G. had only a n sajoan BI 'cry Pee amounts The be seesse to in time in hie partners Mr. L the ben] quire& i Ultim August, LI