The Express. — London, England, 1858-12-22 00:00:00

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Notwithstand ing the strenuous exertions made by the defence to establish this plea, we must confer that we are sur prised at the result. So far as we can discover, there le nothing in the evidence to justify such a verdict. The testimony of his friends and relatives proved that Ant INSOX was weak and passionate, but nothing more. Now we need scarcely say that the maxim, sea furor brerio est, though allowable enough u a poetical description of passion, cannot for a moment be accepted as • principle of criminal jurisprudence. Violent anger, no doubt, often leads to acts as reckless and terrible as thus of actual madness ; but there is en essential distinction between them which ought to be steadily kept in view, and guarded with jealous care. The passionate man is responsible, while the madman is not. On this distinction the whole of oar Criminal Law rests, sad any attempt to confuse it is fraught with the gravest evils. If passion is to be an excuse for crime, the greatest criminals will go unpunished. Half the crimes, and amongst them many of the worst, that are committed spring from the unchecked working of passion in its fiercer and more vindic tive forms of lost, jealousy, and revenge. In such eases, so extreme of anger, even though it Tisch the Juror beetle pitch, can be pleaded as a justification. To identify passion with madness, and make the very atrocity of the crime that springs from it the proof of both, is in fact to obliterate all moral distinctions, and destroy the administration of justice. On this principle the Flaunt criminals are nicesearily the least culpable. In his summing ap Baron WATSON moat righteously protested against this doctrine, which had been propounded by ono of the medical witnesses dazing the trial. According to this witness none but a madman could have com mitted the crime, =order being in itself a proof of mental alienates. Such a doctrine directly =cos rages the worst excesses of passion, by implicitly asserting that the greater the crises the more 'erten' the iNESSIPSO, of its perpetrator. We should scarcely hare thseight it worth while to refer to this extrava gant pignut at all, mach less tormally to protest against it, if the trial had not furn'ahed something like a practical illustration of the dangerous precept. The mere fast of the murder was certainly the strangest prestafferded in support of the plea that the man wits sannittesi it was iambs. What are the fasts of the ease as brought out at the trial? JANIS ATKINSON, the murderer, wee the boa et a flax spinner at Harley. Aa a boy he was mailer mite and headstrong, and, not being toad of his book, made bat little progress at schooL He could read and write decently, however, and bad advanced is arithmetic as far se Proportion. Os leaving school he had sufficient intelligence to be employed is his father's mill both as a workmaa and overseer. As " mechanical overlooker," it wee his business to look after the machinery, aad see that everything wee right. He mingled with companions of his own age and station on good terms, except that they sometimes laughed at him for his vanity or ill-nature. So far were those who knew him beet from hawing the least suspicion of his sanity that his father had made him one of the executors of his will. For the last four or five years he had " courted," or " kept company with," MART JANI Saba, the daughter of a firmer in the neigh bourhood, and during the last year or two was net only an accepted but a too favoured lover. Form= weeks before the murder a coolness had existed be tween them, produced, as the girl affirmed, by the opposition of her mother to the match ; but m Arkinsost himself asserted and believed, by the per sense of a rival in the geld, who had been preferred to himself. This, on his own showing, se well se by the testimony of other witnesses, produced a feeling of jealousy, which, on the failure of his attempts to regain his mistress, r►pidly grew into an over mastering pension. He was not accustomed to have his will opposed, his family having from the first foolishly given way to his bursts of passion at home. The continued opposition on the part of the girl made him desperate, and he formed his resolve, na tural enough under the circumstances to a man of his temper, that if he could not have her no one else should—that if she still refused to marry him ho would murder her. Oa that Sunday evening in Angnst when they took their last walk together, he told her of has re solves in a clear but determined manner as the shadow, deepened in the quiet lane where the dreadful murder was committed. It is absurd to say, then' fore, that he had no motive for the crime, and did not know what he was doing in perpetrating it. He had I not only an intelligible, bat a most powerful motive,' one that has been fruitful in the production of similar crimes. lie knew very well what be did, and why he dud it. Dose his conduct after the murder betray any trace of ihaanity, any *widow* that he was ignorant of what be had done ? None that we son discover. He wandered about the fields conscience stricken, a prey to genuine le mons , of which his thoughts of gape to tell his parents, and his wish to raters to the fatal spot end look oa his murdered mistrals again, are the touching but suffi cient proofs. No mere imbecile or neiaiman walla have cherished such thoughts or Itsms remembered' and related them so diaductly &Renter& When the first wild exam of reams had pawm he took the ordinary precautions for ooncealment which the suggested, such as hiding the knife, and wanking elf the marks of blood ; but the feeling of remorse coming back with tenfold power some hours afterwards, destroyed all desire for concealment, and at dawn he rushed into his heather's bedroom, exclaiming, " I have murdered Nmy sweetheart Loan, have mercy upon me." How it can be truthfully asserted, in the face of each evidence, that he was ignorant of the crime he had committed, we really cannot conceive. His after conduct bears as trace of confusion or igno rance. Having given op all thought of concealment, he tells the Alen what he had done, and that only he did it ; takes him to the spot where he had hid the knife, and clearly recalls everything connected with the terrible event. His statement, indeed, so far from containing any 'vides.s of an imbecile or wander ing ; sad, was not only remarkably clear, consecutive and minute, bur, so for as it weld be tented, perfectly accurate. It contained sufficient proof of average intelligence, and showed that AM NEION was clearly conscious of the nature of his crime both before and after its 001311:11111i00. The evidence of sanity, which all the facts connected with the murder thus tend to establish, was farther confirmed by the medical officer of York Gaol, who had visited him in his professional capacity during the period of his imprisonment. Mr. ANDELsom says that in his opinion " the pri " soon is sane, and answered the questions put to " him like a sane man of his class of life." Now, in reply to this, what is offered on the other side in support of the plea of insanity ? The evi dence of ATKINSON'S relatives to show that insanity is in the family, and the testimony of four medical men professionally engaged to prove that the pri soner was imbecile. The first, is the Judge stated, proves nothing directly to the point, but can only be accepted in support of other evidence. The only other evidence is that of the physicians pro fessionally engaged, which is fairly open to some suspicion. They had no opportunity of fairly testing the prisoner's general ability, as they had not seen 1 him before his imprisonment. It wee evidently the prisoner's interest to strengthen, es far as he possibly could, the plea which was to be set twin his defence- In. his interview with the medical witnesses much of his stupidity au probably amused. This WM _ . evident from the fact that Dr. Foams Wittai.ow was aatooielicd at the lettere written by hid is pri: sou, and predated in the court. "They exhibited " more power of mind than he should have supposed "the prisoner posseesed ;" and Dr. WINSLOW sug gests that he might have been misted in their com position. It should be remembered, however, that his confession vras hie own act, perfectly sponta. neous, and we, too, in which he could derive no assistance from others. And it certainly shows • ' power of mind, a faculty of contiouous thought, quits egad to the composition of an ordinary letter. The only impartial medical witnesses examined— the family doctor and gaol surgeon—agree in stating that they have &hooted no evidence of insanity in the prisoner. The former, while stating that he was passionate, frivolous, and vain, emphatically asserts that "he never knew him insane." The latter, as , we have seen, is equally decided on this point. go far as medical testimony is concerned, therefore, the fair conclusion would appear to be that the evi dence of the two gentlemen who had the best oppor tunities of knowing the prisoner's actual state, must outweigh that given by the four others specially em ployed to support a predetermined conclusion; and the medical evidence is the only direct evidence showing unsoundness of mind. All the ordinary tests of sanity apply to the act. The prisoner had a powerful motive to the murder, and displayed a clear consciousness of the nature of his crime both before and after he committed it. Under these cir- montane,' ere owlet but feel that the acquittal of JANIA Amitsou on the ground of insanity con stitutes an nnfortnnate and dangerous precedent. YESTERDAY the Cana DE MORTALLY/MET ap peared in the Court of Correctional Appeals to reclaim against the manna of the petty Police Court by which he was condemned on the 24th of Novem ber. He was thee, it will be remembered, found guilty of three misdemeanors—vis., of exciting to hatred and contempt of the Government, of an attack upon the principles of anivertal suffrage end the rights which the EMPEROR held of the State, aad fluidly, of violating the respect due to the laws sad the 'accedes.' of the rights sanctioned by them, for which offences he was sentenced to sir months' imprisonment and a tine of 3,000 francs. The result of the appeal has justified the opinion which some of the greatest Lawyers in France gave to the illustrious appellant, and shows that the judg ment of the lower Court, and the pardon by which, with such indecent haste, it was sealed, could not be maintained. The Judges of the Court of Cann tional Appeal have decided that the attack on the principle of universal suffrage and on the rights which the EMPEROR holds under the oonstitution, which the inferior court discovered in M. DE MORTALLY BERT'S writings, was not really there. Up holding, however, the original judgment on the two remaining counts of the indictment, they reduce the personal penalty from six months' to three months' imprisonment, and maintain the fine at the sum tint fixed. The constitution of the French Courts of Law is too well understood in England to make this result a mat ter of surprise, aid when M. DE MONTALEMBIERT— sensed of failing in the respect due to the kw—chose to appeal to the kw, revolutionary as was its origin, and servile as was its administration, rather than I've the Tic= of oaprios, he must have been aware of the risk he Mourred. Nevertheless, he would have failed in his duty to himself and to his amatry, width needs examples of self-Omega ika, if he had been deterred from standing lamb , upon such law as remains to France by these ap proaches which it was easy to foresee the ignoble would be ready to heap on him. M. us biONE ALEIFEERT appealed against a pardon which would rivet, not remove, his conviction, and he did so because he know he was innocent. He went to the Superior Court to seek—not u his adversaries and renegade supporters say, the petty martyrdom of a prison--but that liberty which the " pardon^ aimed at him would have destroyed even more than the judgment of U. Bursaum. Let those who will, say that corporeal freedom is well pm'- chased at the price of hoooar and imam ; for our parts we should have regarded it as among the - France his hitherto encountered, mark had a man of M. DI ended a contest nobly begun by a tacit compromise with beeeneso—a pretest u favour et liberty by complioity with the essuties of freedom. PHAILMACZIITICAL SOCTIFIT ON GREAT BRITAIN.— Mums of assilielles alio dr am* issoirriga (Doe. 211 as elioniolo:—Naltool Mitchell Chow, W ; Joia Clark. Goosuroo; JAW Wein. GnOltin, London; Earls Pali% arilliinj ri/e. amide William, WdshisoL THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EUt (Scutt. Wll4lllllOB, Dec. 11. T 1 theeen welled in the Beene Peak this The Priaos of Wales nib out en leneabech, attended by llajordidedsey. • . The Dachas el Kent visited bar lbjealy at the Castle. The Prime Cowart and the Prince of Wake left Windsor, M twenty toinztee pet el: o'clock Ws attentoon, for London, end howeaxed with their eficapany the play performed at the Weaves*" lieheeL L seteadeace ewe Cakesel the lion. R. Bruce, Captain du Plat, Major Lindsey, tad the Rev. C. F. Turn. A deputation ot gentlemen connected with, and interested In, Western Australis, consisting of Captain Mangles, M.P.. Admiral Btr Janina Stirling, Mr. L. Romani, Mr. J. IL M..ssr, Mr. H. Manning, and Mr. W. Foliate, had an in terview with Sir B. Myer Lytton yesterday, at the Colonial dim Mr. John Stanley, Deputy Chifemme of the Anglo-Merl- Company, truneacted Mean's' at the Foreign.ofilor yeeteeday, on the (object of Mexican 'Seim. The Chancellor of the Erchequor sad Mrs. Diemen re tuned to town from • /nit to the Karl and Counter of Derby, at Knoweleg-hall, and yesterday morning left Oros. Tenor-pea for Torquay. The Right Hon. J. W. Henley returned to London y es tads, from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield are at present on a Visit to the Margot, and Yankton's= of Abair-mit at Barts'a Ooort, County Tyros& The Earl and Countess of Craven have returned to Ashdown Park Ikea a tour of Amite. The noble earl and counter are entertabing a select circle of Mende. The Counter Dowager r Spencer arrived in town a fey days AOC" from Worthing. Her ladyship but takes • house in Eaton-place lot • term of yams. The Earl and Counter of Cawdor are entertaining • seism ads at their seat to Wales. The Earl and Countess of Spenoer are still on the Conthaast, sad an not upload to return to town aunt laxly It March. The Earl and Countess of Norbury have arrived it Claridge's Hotel fres Vales*, sear Edenbridge, Kent. Lord and Lady Forester have Left town, on a visit to Visoount and Viscountess Palmerston, at Broad lands. Lord and Lady Elcho will return to town to-day, front a bur on the Continent. Sir William Somerville is staying on a visit to the Bert and Countess Fortesone, et Castle-kill, Devon, Sir William will shortly have for Ireland. The marriage was celebrated a few days ago at the parish church Stoke Demerit, Devon, of the second son of the late Major-General Sir Hoary Havelook, K.C.8., of Lacknow, Lierateuent in the 6.11 Bombay N.I , to the sewed daughter of the late William Croak, Esq., Com mander R.N. The Earl of Dartmouth has accepted the office of President of the Wolverhampton Working Men'e College, inecanling Lord Wratemley, who las Just retired. "Daring the past week," says the Bury Post, "Bonham Hall, the elapse seat of Philip Bennet, Esq., ow of the members fee the Western Mein= of the county, has been the eons of entestairitents on ea extensive a scale that they may well be soneldered es a revival of that old Boglieh hospitality of which we read so mach, but, onfortnuately, see so little. The event which called foeth theme rejoicings was the com , ng of egg' of Captain Bennet's only son and sole heir to the family estates, Lieutenant Philip Bennet, of the Boyd Horse Guards." A private subscription ball took place in the Royal Pavilion. Brighten, so Monday evening, and the Brighton Gua►dian anemb that nothing move *Minot at rho kind hes bus seen to fiat building since George IV, was king. The company pleat numbered 413, composed of the nobility and ' gentry of the neighbourhood, naval and military °Mem, tn. Dewing tins award to the banquetting-room, the south drawing -Nom being devoted to cards, and the 'goon wan ad spit kr imagses. Oar jilted young countryman, Mr. John Francis Berne* (better llama, perhaps, es Mester John Barnett), whom oar tundra readers will resollece m Imam often die tinguiehei ►imedt by Me dee perfeemancie of the Cow cartes of Beethoven. Newt. sag Mesdalmoba, it the New Philharmonic Comosita is at present panaling his wider inns, stadia, at Leipelg, when Me abilities appear to be highly appreciated. Among other anmereas %Manor of the bonoutsbie amide with which he hes hien there favoured we may menace that a few days slam he received an invitation to play at s goad concert, give& la commemoration of the Mats birthday, on which °combs his axecatica of one of Beet oven's Barites was such ea to elicit the hearty 'Manse of all proem; and the earnest cosgrataleticas of the pre lims's. rirAzi27 AMONGST THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. Yesterday evening a meeting of the members of the Statistical Society we. held in their roma In St. Jamne square, Col. STILEI In the chair. The following fellows were elected —Mr. Edward Baines, of Leeds, Mr. Spacer Hama* Mr. H. B. Hyde, Mr. Fusses Jourdan, Mr. Wm. and, though last not Wet, Mir Pierson Hlghtlegste. Mr. Fox read a micros and interesting paper on the vital skathitica at the Society of Friends, In which wee sheen the relative Bamberg of the members of the eociety, malt end female, at different periods, principally during the present eents.7. The moiety has existed for upward. o f 200 y ews , bat it one dtu.ar the lest forty brim rapidly decreasing, the pererrese of which decrease end nine of it, causes were MOW oat and explained by Mr. Fox. The total number of Qinitere Is the United Kingdom. male and female, in 1840, W.. 19,700, of whom about 3,000 were In Ireland, and a very small propornm is Scotland. In 1847 the numbers hat smal l to 18,000, the principal decrease being mew the keels members. The andety mustered tiLeat strength In King Charles's reign, daring which there were 2,820 marriages In a year, whilst from UM MS the matrieges amounted easnelly to only 628 Dories' the prefabs 10 nen the yearly average bed been 669. Up Is die year 1230 many person had asiociated themselves with the Sedaty of Triads and were reckoned members of the body who were not WWI, Quakers, but la that year membership wee man clearly dittoed, and that occasioned a great umbel diminution of the society. though the attend ance at their pines of worship wee not &craws& After that We a mere eloise attention was paid to the condition of admission, and te the continuance of membership, and tbe sereelone owlet to merrytog nut it the melety mode one principal muse of the dwindling away of the body. The bl melee wi ngie table, Armin tbe mutual number of d ths of sad females proportioned to the births ia 100 e a, In eaccemelve periods of tin nese lads from 1800, spike cos elaelnly to the diadinisidsg Innatere it the body wrunna OF DZATES TO 10.11TZTIII. 1800-9 .. Males 89 .. libeeeles 110 1810-19.. Ditto 94 ~ Dub 116 1310-29 .. Ditto 104 .. Sin 126 1830-37 .. Din? 106 Dine _ 130 From tiss It siion; dtaiiiser;;i4 . ll M Lot period 136 deal ha of =hoe and females to miry lel Meths. Tee Li birttus marriare la the mom porkah of 117 nT ere theme* oho • dhalmitlen of *ma HP pie mat. Is 440, the wimp Map Ina nilla Ilmmil* the mat, Ira thos onmal 'VOA& Ths momolon of the mho, hos nary gin Mat 111 Kr•Stlr tININ Oat dhullo, in lhaAnewillia. 1337 of 181 pr amt. of maim to 1,1 of 11Minitn. These amendons me Me poludpol mum of Me dominos the oodoly, and poodnoo I brim Ifielleitisreees of females moan P 1•0118 fr WOW laa JlM'arz , Po , pulation. Neteifitaidease deamee elf the body the a Mort. venge lade Ms time et go eembere of the ounommlly, sad it spoors that. le OM pound rolua l t i naha looser Dyad tint So ran Ma atm nbilintod by M. Fox to oho lrainbir of the MMus, bat it wee arta ewe allured iitol It moy w slMinlod to the more ftuhr bat e d the limb imanbee• ale $501.17 " ealliald of* ef the maio itopinemaa. Teer.otatisi of II As prond popMa at Ivo ha, maim 60 2 yen; hunk% gr; J i m MI years, 4111 oaf : whilst s the Society el Primes the e of Hie at do rem of ' Miele, maks, 83 8 ; If I ; sad at 10 yen of age 41 mad 41. The to be drawn hugs Mr. Totes paper theruhre me OM the Seedily of PAW. le lbet deenneen by oacumhil md b 7 Meths ; that dr osseadasa of oohs onmull am of and that the dodo of Oho Does • Dyes* . ratof the forme mum assaMmir bow Ipo= holia ls in the molety than of imam Ind that Oa tato mid as ratio of the fitoanAty art lam than la the smtmal population. short amnion took plops it the tosoludon of the rzlis shice lb. Mr. Saps, Mr. Peer, and irks le* put The hake oboyMcormfri= la Wreak* Maibled Idarmation albubil b Oa MA _oink lady the Swift of Fdieds wauwee.us wonlinol h tordeuld armrondaf M tha mum mei so dim MK and Mr. Ton Mated that k hod be. art, fif fhb moo of diuduldion median& them weat mpinalma of 01111. MO ism, be say ass Qlllllll, 611 USW Kiil4 Ths oljosmod m lbs link of Jimmy. rG, D: ' ' Till WIZTMINSTSB PLAY. The third repreeeotation of the Phorsnio took plass loot might In the presence of a very warneress oompmty. On this ocension the play was honoured by a slit from his Heys] Memos **Prince Consort and the Pries of Wiles. Autumn the other visitors were Lord Jobs Rowell, M. Mourns, Viscount Barrington, Lard Courtin:ay, Visceina Somerton, Dann Yuman, the Dean of Westminster, Ilb., Mowbray, M.P., the Provost of Bton, Sir D. Dundee, Vim- Chieroallor Wood, Baron Channel, Sir H. Holland, Mr. Q.C., Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell, Professor &awn, the Rev. Cenci= Jennings, Cordon, end Repton, do. The play wee admirably sold throughout. The value of experience wee shown in the firmer hold of the characters, sad the keener appreciation of the comic, urn for which Terence has been so celebrated, which were manifested by thisstadenta on this oornsiun. The Prince Consort—Delphic in hand—paid the greatest attention to the progress of the plot, and enjoyed, apparently with great met, the tiding points of the piece. THE RAW ADELPHI THEATRE. In a very few evenings the Adelphi Theatre, an entirely new building on the old familiar site, will be opened to the public. The re-beildieg of tiny of our popular theatres, WIMP en telecasting epoch of oar metropolitan world, lesemses additionally interesting in the present inseams, as the alterations which have been made in the Adelphi have trandormed the most comfortless, tatallielS, and lactonvenisat theatre in London into one of the most shalembly arranged and one of the prettiest. The old edifice has during the ter few years been several times threatened with destruction, and doubtless would have bees rebuilt long ago bet that the difficulties of extending a building in our crowded oily, where there is a vested interest in every cable foot of sir and ray of daylight, were found to be bee greet to be lightly encountered. The manner in which these difeculdes have been evaded or met in the ardrellt• tics of the new building certainly says much fler fertility and ingenuity of Mr. Wyatt, the white* A larger house wee Imperatively demanded, yet se eltention could be made In the position of three at the daakieg walls without trespassing upon inillessis it would not 100 adviaable to disturb ; 'WON the whole extension of the building bad to be made by estrebog the wall an the right as far se 801 l lon iser& To accord with the some twenty or thirty feet of Width thus p'ord, the structr-e would naturally require, lideticeal loftiness, but it was found impossible to raise the ref without incurring numerous notions ftom the inhabitant. liptennding, for obstruction of light and air. Mr. Wyatt, thew Om as he could not make the roof higher, resolved to &Sala hil died by making the door lower. This was fortunately malle eaximpliebed, for the floor of the old betiding, it wee he yr membered, stood some ten fast above the level of the Sneed. Though these sr the sely 11X61111110116 It was found possible to make on the ground plea of the old edifice, the whale structure has been rebuilt from the foundation upwards, sod the interior so transformed and altered as to assume • per fectly different aspect. The stage le spacious, indeed nearly double it. former area, and the proecenium of course both lofty and wide in proportion. The depth of the audience portion of the hour, from the front of the boxes to the proscenium, Is precisely the same rln the old building; but the segment of the circle described by the front of the boxes is so mach widened, that from almost every part of the house a can** view of the whole stage can be obtained. But one of the principal and important alterations which have been made in the plan of the old building is • greatly increased height between the tiers of boxes, by which that sense of suffocation and oppression, eto commonly felt in theatres, will be in a great measure obviated both by the ap parent freedom and actual ventilation which the increased apace will give. There will be at least 11 last clear between the pit and the dress circle, and an equal height between the two tiers above the dram circle, and between the gallery and the reel. This great loftiness, combined with the broadness and width of the boxes, give, an erre of freedom and ele gactos to the whole interior, far surpassing any existing theatre in London. The pit, which of rums is enlarged in proportion to the rest of the house, is portioned into three divisions. The first comprises the orchestra stalls; the second the pit stalls, and the third the ordinary pit rah The orchestra 'rile, of which there are four rows plead 8 fest apart, will accommodate 74 persona, bat valid hold • greet many more were not each seat coa sters:led like • spacious arm-attar, 2 feet wide, and one foot four inches deep. The remainder of the pit rows are placed two feet one inch apart, and the individual rate en one foot eight tinelies wide, the accommodation being coasiderably greater than that of any other theatre in Lon don. The whole area, inolusive of the stalls, will accommo date 640 peaces. The dress circle in construction differs very much from, bat at the lame time la a great improve ment upon, what we ere seemstosed to me in English theatres. What is usually the dress circle is occupied by eseni-prieste boxes, to bold four, while in front of them, at • slightly lower level, extending over the pit, isa wide cps bskony, fitted up la every reaper like the orchestra rails. It is frosted with an open-work balustrade, width, together with the lightness of the other dames none, prevents it from in any way appearing to somber the body of the home. This el seem will be the reel dress dram, far the °repents can ill 1.11111111.• interrupted view of every pert of the house, as wen as CM stage, and oonsequently are equally well situated hi befog obeyed. The idea is evidently entirely takes 64. re Opera Consiglio, Ia Park. The upper deco of bear Is ar ray* Both after the style of the erne below, there being Chess rows of seats—sad room for 136 prose. The Palm partition between the old boxes, which wise s., dated la nothing bat midair up epees end elesseelles ra n view, are on this tier entirely dose away with. In the heat oaths gallery tier, immediassfy over the upper boxes, hie' are two rows of stalls. The whole hors, with private boxes, will mat about 1,600 persons ; though, on what la called • crowded night, at least 2,000 person* could obtain • fair view of the performances. One of the great advantages of having a gallery of such shallow depth' ie that It allows of • nearly flat roof. The ceiling Is oar• posed of • very shallow dome, though the Italian style of its areamentatics makes it look in reality deep ; it le dereated by four allegorical figures of the masons, sad the portraits ef easily all the Webersd dramatic authors who have written for the Adelphi. The remainder of the decoration of the theatre will be entirely of white mad gold, arranged in what la called the Froth Benaireass style, which wall aconite with the general lightens id the ierseture. There is one emetrivance which is borrowed from the French theatres which, though apparently trifling, Is not without its importance, giving a protection to those la the pit and stalls front the risk to which, in all Bog. Ilah theatres, they are exposed from tenderly handled opera glasses. The whole of the audience portion of the streams will be Manifested, Ilk* many of the principal club-mar, by a mialight, manufactured by Spode. This, placed in the . - central opeelag of the cellig, abets • briniest dee modified eat hissed over the hose by Akin through a series of eat-ghee prismatic teethes. White ere We by ill imaged faeocee of Weglass drupe sad eisegles, raft globe tt the appeaser ef • eheaddier. Maws. J. DOW wed floe an the waatertavers. TM epees . . - - • 6111 passion at each side of the homes, for fourteen feet, aiessimplsnwhe pirate boxes, sheaf whisk Is provided with • Nadi aaboassia. Her Majesty's Lot han the level of the trend tin GB the Istt bend side el ths forato, mad is ea-Way Wye mil ass tassandly daserated the. those amend hr her WM 111 say other thsedre Is Loudon. It has 14 het seines fritatarr, and la 11 test high. The balus trade Is tread is entirely of sal gloor—a mond sad taeleal Mad of deamatica. The Qmeme*s box is of ammo reached by spriest* ammo, .ad shisaass dielimilmsea the rest of the balidimi. All ths props ad ashes, as Is all theatres ratattly samdmistal, ass be pool, sad this ars sem* Imillim of epos prelbi he he aril • mos Is c of thy milks mow emegebt. by additional Nom opmdar salaraia siddiamigkra 41 Oa side al the boom. Ow UMoilo • poiliffoolf amasnaoad to be reopen algid. mesh yst hooka to be dame to actor, bat the nodal with which tbe diessatioa pro grass, isms very lash dealt the Mr. Webseer's marago mad midi Wm paths will be performed. nit HAVELOCK MEMORIAL FOR TRA7ALGAZ2 scivAas.—W• an &dr to aomoato that the woad arc lie ;rliiisk ve don is do nowt compalitkot at Ufa Saga-farad °amy l bar bird throw for aratuthas b 7 the committer. The roulparr fo Mr. Behan. 8017TH KENSINGTON Mtddidr.—Duriag the walk = Tio n site Dolt 190 Agra bow boa r teller :—Oa ll owl t do Mr; r), ,721 ; is oodor art =ro . ta t du dor roadrof dips to Ye pleb 66.). 416; sir or dere worm oirol*, 48. Tolal, 6,829. Prom dr ' craft of de otrorr, M,476. CATITAL PALALSONE SHILLING DAY.-TUES DAY Dec. 21.-416misisee am prompt, 367 ; ditto b isamOB Yoked, 313; Md. 619. ME. tIZIGHT, M.P., AT GLASGOW. (IT ILICITLIO AJID GLASGOW, TOINIDAT EVENING. A public meet Mu held this evening at the City Hall, to boo in address from Mr. Bright, M.P., on the subject of parliamentary reform. The ha/1 was completely Mid, there being about 2,700 persons preemie The chair was liken by Mr. WALTER BUCE•NAE, M.P., and among those on the platform were Mr. Dalglish, M.P., Mr. H. Crain Ewing, M.P., Professor Nichol, &a. After • few introductory remarks from the Chatham, Mr. BRIONT rose amidst loud cheers. He said ha was there le onesider, along with the citizens of Gleam:ow, • peat Tro ika et canstitutional reform. The illustrious founder of Peaneylesela had given his definitiou of a free country; that le a country where the laws rule, and where the people have a share In the making of the laws. They were then In a dif ferent position on that question to what they were when he (Mr. Bright) was in Glaegow before. No one now rises to op pose parliamentary reform. Bat he (Mr. Bright) was soothed of repeating again and again the same facts and the same figures In illustretion of his views on the subject of perils =eatery reform. But how could it be otherwise P We have at least six millions of grown merlin this kingdom, and not more than one million have votes. Them fasts he was bound M repeat and reiterate until he had romped public opinion and and wrought • change. (Hear.) Aa a machine for carrying on theligislation of the country, it would, perhaps, be impcesible to ornstruct a more clumsy one than the British parliament. Mr. Bright then proceeded to describe at great length the numerical disproportion which &ate in the representation and oonattnencles of England. The House of Commons, he said, I. a convenient club, a kind of lounge ; it does sot respond with any heartiness or willingness to the espirations of the people for better government. The two delft of Edinburgh and Ols-gow have • tozable property, taking schedules A and B, to the amount of 7,1100,0001., and there are 101 boroughs in England and Ireland, with a taxable property of 7,434,0001. ; but the two Scotch cities only return her members, whilst the 101 boroaghe return 128 members. Now this would show whether property was properly remounted. He was accused of al ways dwelling upon mere ntimbersand 'piec ing property. Whether we take numbers or wealth the peat populations were most inadequately represented. He bed been told that the sentiments which be had expelled at Birmingham, and which caused such a howl from the press, both tory and liberal. had been much moderated at Man chester and almost abandoned at Edinburgh. Now, he de nied altogether that he had abandoned one single °pinks which he had Bret promulgated at Birmingham. What was the change which he proposed f Simply this, that the franchise should be lowered from what it is sow, and the* votes should be given to all who are rated to the poor. He had been told that he had misunderstood the franchise as It exists in the perishes and municipalities of England. He was told that votes were given in our pariah unions in pro portion to the property held by the electors. Some electors had one vote, and some as many ea six. He, however, should not continue such • law, but proposed to give one vote only to each moon registered as ea elector. In Scotland, he bad learned that lodgers in certain large *kite, who paid annually • mint of IW. or more, could obtain • vote for members of parliament. This was an steeliest provision, and he saw no reason why It should not be extended to England. As regards the county representation he thought the forty shilling franchise ought to be granted to Scotland. After referring at great length to the neceseity of securing the ballot, Mr. Bright said the most difficult question in the forthcoming reform bill would be the mode of allotting the n•preaentadves to constituencies. He was not prepared to say what limit be should be disposed to recommend, but be hoped large cities, like Glasgow, would not be satiaded with the padre white they held at present. Twenty-seven years ago, before the pastries of the reform sot, we were told that such a measure would be dangerous, sad that if ft became low the king's government timid webs cooled on. The same kind of essertion was being used sew. It was what Jeremy Bentham had termed the hobgoblin stgn• meat." He would appeal to the great middle-ekes of this country not to be led away by such essertioes, but to sot magnanimously to t►eir fellow-countrymen, who were not yet pose/wed of political rights. By giving the working men votes their seltreepect would be immensely therm* and the morel and educational multi would be incalculable. Mr. Bright described the operation of the laws of primogeniture and entail, and said he believed that • consequence of a reform bill such as he permosed would be that parliament would Sad • remedy for the many evils which arose from the monopoly in land. We should be able to apply to land the same principles of political eoenesay which we had already applied so succeedully to trade. Armin we should be able to control the national expendito•e, par ticularly that portion which arises out of our diplomacy, and our foreign policy. He bad ofteaccenpared in his own mind the people of Eagisad with the people of Egypt, and the monuments of Egypt with our Foreiga-officie. Webers, indeed, no etiolate or columns such as those ma the hatiksolthe Nile, but In the Foreign-offloe of linglr•rd would be found a mystery as great, • superstition es fearful, and a loathsome- ' use se horrible, as among the ancient tombs°, the Egyptians. The people know nothing of the foridis policy of thekr ram, and yet that policy had wrought innumerable wrings, and had caused guttering and edentates, the extent of which was only recorded on the tablet of the Eternal God, la ema ciation, be said he was not there to eat class against class. He implored the middle and working cheese to unite their powers on this question of representative reform. He had spent many years of his We in advocating freedom of trade, and he hoped yet to see the bounds of freedom toad* broader In ropey other directions. He loved hie country. He loved hls freedom, and it was because he believed that heed= would only be maintained by mesas of • fair wean of representation that he was there that night to address Jo' citizens of Glasgow and to oak their support. Mr. Bright sat down amidst load cheering, having spoken an hour and a half. Brief addressee were afterwards delivered by Messrs. Dolph/It, Bering, and Buchanan, who each promised to aid Mr. Bright in the House of Commas. On the motion of Professor NICHOL, II C0611:0101111 wag appointed to adopt measures to advisors the object of the meeting, and the proceedinp were brought to a does shortly before 10 o'clock. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. RESULT OF COUNT DE MONTALEMBERTS APPEAL. (By SIIIIYARINI TELEGRAPH.) ()woo ors owir col PARIS, TVEJIDAT, 8.30 r.m. M. de Montalembert is acquitted of the attack on universal suffrage, and of the attack on the rights a t the Emperor under the constitution. For the other delinquencies a reduced penalty d g three months' imprisonment has been adjudged. (PROM OVII OWN 0011ZSPONDINT.) PARIS, iIIINIDLY Evzinse. The legislative labours of the session (which Words, it is needless to observe, convey by no mesas the same idea as they would in England), will oeso mence on February 7. There will be held, it is said, a solemn sitting of the Legislative Body in the Salle des _Etats, a grand apartrneot in the new Louvre, set apt c specially for occasions of this sort Under the monarchy, the sovereign in opening the session was wont to go to the chambers, now the chambers will come to him. Apropos of the Legislative Body, the Paris correspondent of the /adiperezionce mays that its labours will be inaugurated by a somewhat piquant incident. Th e election of a certain deputy, who has be* returned since the last session, has been protested against upon the ground of his having appeal e d to the electors under a name to which he had no right. If opposition members were a less scarce article, this law might be a useful weapon in the bands of the government, as it is very doubtful whether fifty per cent. of the chamber would bear close genea logical scrutiny. Although it seems scarcely probeblethat the Emperor will shake his flat in the face of England by continuing the slave trade, reports are abroad from which it is to be inferred that some tempo rising on the subject is to be practised. It is said that in the event of the immigration of negroes not being abandoned, a superior functionary, with four inspectors, will be posted at the different slave market stations in Africa, in order to superintend the transactions in black flesh. Centralisation will thus be brought to bear here es elsewhere, and so the bargains, whether for money or time, will be made under orders direct from the politest and best humoured city in the world. The funds ere better to-day : a ries in the Three per Cents. of 10c., both for money and for the Lee count, brings them respectively to 73fr. 16c. and 73fr. 260. It is whispered that a eonsiderable amount of stock will be taken off the market at the next settling. Credit Mobilier rose 121 r. 60c. for cash and 16fr. 26e. for the account, leaving off at 980 fr. money, and 982 fr. 60c. account. (MOM LAST NIGHT'S OAZITTL) • Wkn-oencit, DEc. 20.—The Queen has been Rea -1 clonal, dead to give ardent for the appointment of Rear- A.dogrod Alexander Mint, me of her Majesty's Commie donor for executing the °aloe of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain sod Irolezad, to to en ordinary member of the civil Alvidon of the mooed clam, or knight* commanders of tba mom hommabia ai d s , o f the Bath; end of Richard Chariot MAT, Beq...tothotaloat- Osoorel of the War Deportment, to be an arlimory MM. bee of the civil diviaion of the AIM dam, or compthiens, of the mid room honourable order. _ - Csowx-orrice, DEC. 16.—Th• Queen has been =to appoint Biggs Andrews, Esq., one of her Ma cionawl Wormed in the law, 10 be owe of the Cost. uniasionere of the Oinart of Baninwpacw, to not in the eatiatry, in the room of Meenagne Baker Bent, EN., de emened. CROWN-OFFICE, Disc. 18.—The Queen has been plowed to warm George William &ads% Req., berrlstre et-law, re be one of the Coaudiehmere ef the Oeart of Bankruptcy. to la the onearry, to the roma of lideand Robert Daniell, E.g., demoted CROWN -OFFICE, DEC. 20.—Member returned to mine la the present mallemeat.—County of Her4ol.l.—. The Ron. Montague William Graham, entsmonly og l e d Lord Willis. Grabens, la the room of Thom illiam Booker Blekemore, Eeq., imemed. • The Count de Chambord has left Frohedorff for Venice. a AAioants from Alexandria," says the Pays, N skis that Capt. Pollee, of the Cyclops, will be replaced ia la tempormy bastions of English oommiesionsr at Djedith • top Mr. !optimum Walne, the Bailin count at !lour. fit. Pollen lad been obarged by the Admiralty to ashes Itydroovegbisal survey of the Bed Bea, and he was eeppl lis that timmliss when the resosacra at Djeddah took pima - • Oboe that gods@ hi. surreys hare been auspended, sad his . REPRZSUITATION OF BRIOONSIIII.I2. -- BIUtCON 4 I•all• hilla * watt". them that he has lama ral""t" 1 TUMULT. —TIM High Sherd, lbr retelvel the writ for the it the muse of a private letter to a Mead ill el•cdou of a member for this meMy, la the sees of the lam Bat d, Frederick Dowilees, the well-known fugitive from Btr Joseph Bailey, and hes had We ist visit tor the else. k ai s l avery , ur it s s : —.. You have perhaps shoal don. The only candidata to the IA hM. Oahe, Charles „Ant t hat 1..31 oar election. thi s sutures, exact _,. ' Morgan, son of Mr. Charles Macaw , d lynd i pr. 3% swab.the mom= party(...i.aboutioniii)ha . imio opposition In threatontd. - 'NE BISHOP or Caesilli OM Xiiidl DZIKIIPLISMS *dioilmilloo• 1 19,19 400,16 .• bli" ^sly been hr * We . Wl' Tlll UNIVRILSITIM—Y11•111P11117 .InIV ad toestbere et Omegrems, bat they are enseedingly of Chaisra presided at the eletetbselea el MIS tail as indientarr the probable character d 11l I=lamination, livergoell. ank 69 the mil "' timbal Mein la IMO. Umbra some sudden sod milor liss said that tube ell lastitelisse, aid Ceealridge ae e might bare emus faults, sal ary 'w e 40 41 tb a h, b at fth seen revolution shall take place In the public, obi ad* ~.p., th....diik.. of both. gene um aimed le. *see M. pelt *Mom scathe. I think it morally err"' °id "„ W"lliti" geowid OS take a phonon te waft de, to "ball base a new national policy orearalpf sla ver y. '• , perk 014 / 7 °a this 'Nib Seg a =el l Will not be a fume and manly abolitios policy, **PAW ' een say awe tete hit dew se slavery ea a grist transuranion, and to be instantly yd wiseewe ams. Se al see Welt may purees ....._es le ntztm le Ihn ir ms• Pho llet dtliat hihre at la r bist iii. hi hat ii ihlL lPlugell imm er fbar wm at. of t d ir t t dowl' l;:mar bu sa i d it , this wal and w:F iwi n tie d . vo th sad ur thi to w a an heek th t i : danacd ayreed A goo l d ee d udes aw h e- - 1. b i os & ""''' lik• rleassa or the It Wed we : will have hum time whoa the elaveholdere shall have boa Pemir* that weeded pada* habit • chaff were . weird el m ism g. der . the age et the otalioate . wook bur I __lm 4 i elm c4ll* than their shmka am as t____Am.. gs4 . prime of the strain; bat If there wee iryilliag ' , mu P" 12 . 10 e• T he priest Mid several rn.•••• *Wei pia %aka would see tees urea It •10 ' vistwetless have beim metes* bind be mei • pseehialV ve• se "am • ..." at etrielPr mod hs y 011 MIIM They have blows so power to conciliate bat slavery. SW pester on WO* be takes that thous eat thee twee Wised km set ..1 7 ossei g i g m g that i g a cabcktsve have ism I: 1.1 air * l• mus ilielle k t o rkel i , tb r ialeg reg b a .4 . 1; ~— ; „,ra,,d = bat here saileereseed be eadeivele task yeah , ad at eolehre, sad resealed, IA the *se oi Mir Ifs., to their quiches time dltrialt7 end h.* of Pow**. I. this Ne f ali Innis without a stain or • blemish at tide the ester. lie proud edatlalehtdas has meepotteg all he rokeeeme THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The Alhambra arrived this morning at South ampton, with the Peninsular and But India mails. She left Gibraltar December 15; Cunt, 16, and Lisbon, 18. The East India mails she has brought were those taken from the Pen when she broke down at Gibraltar. The Alhambra baa also brought home the Pera's pas sengers, amongst whom are Colonel Apthorpe, who was at the defence of Lucknow ; Major Dickens, who fought for the relief of that residency; Captain Bayle, who served under Havelock; and Captain Piokney, who was at the siege and capture of Delhi, and who is so ill that he has been obliged to retire from the service. The Pera's mails were the first outward and inward mail which was conveyed all the way through Egypt by railway. The Suez canal is to be commenced next year. IThe Pen was disabled owing to the screw shaft betaking off close outside the stern-post, and the serew consequently fell to the bottom of the sea and was lost. The accident happened about half-way between Cabretta Point and Tariffs. The Pert sailed back to Gibraltar as soon as the accident happened, and it is expected she will wait them to be towed home. A similar accident happened to the Colombo a short time since. The Alhambra, on her outward voyage, took out the Count de Paris to Cadiz. From thence ho proceeded to Seville on a visit to his uncle, the Duke de Montpensier. The Para met the Enryaltia, with Prince Alfred on board, between Malta and Gibraltar: all well on board the Eury►lns. Colonel Shuttlewortn had relieved Major-General Willis in the command of the Royal Artillery at Gibraltar. The Spanish squadron had lett Algesiras. The Alhambra did not call at Oporto or Vigo. She experienced severe westerly gales on her homeward passage, and a heavy sea in the Bay of Biscay. Her Majesty's ship Vulture was at Gibraltar. _ Exchange at Gibraltar, 90 days' date, 501.16. Freights to London and outporta in the United Kingdom, 12 dollars per ton and 10 per oent. At Lisbon the stock market has been brisk, la transactions to a considerable amount have bass effected. Exchange on London, 30 day►' sigkts 631; 90 days' date, 53i. The Count do Paris landed at Lisbon and went to the Palace to see the King of PortagaL The servants of the palace were unwilling to admit him, but he pushed them aside, ss• tered the palace, and had an interview with • his Majesty, and then re-embarked for Cadiz.