The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-28 00:00:00

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AT LONDON-WM& TO DAY - 7- - 1047a1i7. ii. 2ii.::::.ifiTirn;c;43. Ik. 4. 11)0416)&84W —. Yundag. 2k. an......Alkinkses, 2 Mk& LONDON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 28. THE Report of the Official Inquiry conoernh the loss of the London steamship adds little or nothing to what was previously known of that calamity from the vague and desultory statement& of the survivors. The public have waited for this Report with more than ordinary anxiety, in the hope of discovering • plain and trustworthy ver sion of a story overdone with conjectures and contradictions, if not of obtaining some authoritative suggestions towards preventing similar disasters in future. Without casting any blame on the acuteness and discretion of the magistrate and the nautical assessors, we must confess the result of this protracted inquiry leaves the case as nearly as possible where it was before the Court commenced its sittings. The document which is published this morning is a tolerably succinct account of all the facts which were already known from the surviving passengers, and of certain opinions which were advanced in the course of the inquiry by profes sional witnesses and experts. The tonnage, measurements, steam power of the unfortunate ship, the names of her owners, the quantity and stowage of her cargo, were all furnished to the Court, and are stated in the Report. A full and detailed account of her passage from Gravesend to Plymouth, and from Plymouth to the place where she went down, is given also, and out of the man of desultory and often irrele vant talk which occupied so many days in hearing, the magistratelhee very properly consigned two thirds to thelwaate-paper basket, and of the remaining third which is produced, much might have been omitted without missing a single fact or suggestion of importance. One object of such official Inves tigations, as explained by the Assessors, that of judging the conduct of officers in charge, was in this sad instance removed beyond the ken of any court by the death of Captain MARTIN and his chief officer at their posts of duty. It is con soling to believe that the ship was not lost through negligence, incapacity, or imprudence. Captain ?demur h ad earned by long and faithful service the confidence of his employers and of pas sengers, and the only question that could well have arisen as to his personal qualifications was of the application of his long experience in command of sailing ships to the management of steam ships. The Report says nothing of the conduct of the crew, and we may, therefore, trust that it was as good all that of the officers and pawn gem. It would have been more satisfactory, how ever, if some unpleasant rumours on this point had been set at rest. It is only too easy to imagine that crews which are shipped at the last moment, as the ship is hailing out of dock, and are made up almost anyhow, may contain more than a safe proportion of trash. On the other hand, it may be supposed that Captain MARTIN had plenty of time to get his crew into working order, and to know what they were made of, when he sailed from Plymouth. According to the Report, the London left Ply mouth with a rising weather-glass, and the Govern ment Emigration officer at that port certifies that the weather was very favourable for her depar ture, and that neither with regard to the stowage of coals on deck, nor the alleged deep•loading of the ship, was there anything to interfere with the navigation of the ship or the comfort of the pas sengers. We cannot quite escape a doubt whether "the practice usual in merchant ships" with re gard to stowage and loading is not as loose and as questionable as it is with regard to going to sea with royal masts on end and topgallant yards across, which the Emigration officer notices and condemns, but appears unable to alter. There is, we fear, no denying that laxity amounting almost to recklessness is the rule rather than the exception of the merchant service, and detracts very seriously from its character and efficiency. Owners are content if their ships make quick par sages and bring large cargoes, and since the tradi tional feeling of the merchant service is as much opposed as possible to the restraints and regulations of a man-Of-war, and recklessness is an inherent national quality of all English sailors in the rough, some objectionable practices are obstinately che rished. In the case of the London, it seems pro bable enough that all the tophamper which it was even more dangerous to send down in a gale than to leave aloft to be carried away, was not the least among the incidental causes of her loss, and that the tardy attempts to secure them on deck may have only served to increase the risk of injury to the ship. The evidence of the offi cial surveyors and other experts examined by the Court of Inquiry as to the construction and fittings of the London was, on the whole, decidedly in favour of her perfect seaworthiness. It was urged that the proportion of her length to bar breadth was not greater than that of other ocean steamers, and of the most successful and poweiful transport. in her MAJESTY'S service. Nevertheless, Ku THE EXPRESS, VEDIESDAX in spite of this unanimous utiafaction of inspectors we fancy the public would have been MAIM bill fled if the inspectors had been lees. Indeed, Mr. Wfilioa, a retired shipbuilder of Liverpool, ex pressed not only the well-considered opinion of his own long experience, but the instinctive com mon-sense of the public, when he stated very forcibly his objection to "the class of ship to " which the London belonged "—a class familiarly designated by the best seamen as " coffins." The Court of Inquiry observes with satisfaction that the London was never put before the wind till the forenoon of the day when she went down, and re cords this fact in answer to certain " severe re " Elections which have been made upon the sup " Posed imprudent act of the Muter." We know not to what severe reflections the Court alludes, but we utterly fail to understand the satisfaction of the nautical assessors at the ship not having been put before the wind—that is, eased away under fore and aft canvas only—until long after it had been found that she could not lay to with her long lean bow plunging into the sea like an axe, and until she had become unmanageable by dint of steaming head to wind, and knocking herself to pieces with her own spars. In the opinion of the Court, the im mediate cause of her loss was "the sea getting into " the engine-room and extinguishing the fires ; " which is a little too like saying that the immediate cause of a man's death was because he could not breathe. But they do not venture upon any positive conclusions ea to whether the action of the sea car ried away the skylight over the engine hatchway, or whether the skylight was properly secured. It does not appear in evidence that the fastenings of I the skylight were not properly secured, while it is distinctly stated that the hatchway was perfectly battened down. It is difficult, as the Court suggests, to imagine how such an enormous body of water—five feet depth in the engine-room —could have been shipped through the hatchway within three minutes. But we may hope that the fact of the flooding of the engine-room through the hatchway having undoubtedly been one of the im mediate causes of the disaster, will be sufficient to draw the closer attention of builders and of in spectors to this vital part of a steamship. Altogether, this Report cannot, we think, be considered a production of much value ; but it is only just to remember that the absence of the lamented commander and the principal officers of the London left the Court entirely in the dark on several of the most important points of inves tigation. the ascii important before them. In the espinioil of the LATEST _ rano the problem as to whom*, fends fit imetrepolitan . Improvements are to be found will never be solvedsntil the whole metropolis has an administrative unity underred THE EASTERN QUESTION. upon it after the fashion of Paris. If we ones obtain The Vienna journals of the 24th contain 00Tree• a good general government for London ender s re - pondenoe from Zara, in Dalmatia, which states 'penale head, it will be possible to lay out • regular plan that several Serbs and Roumain em issaries in •dis of me t r opolitan improvements, instead of the petty street- I guise are exciting the people of Bos nia and Herne making to which we have beau accustomed. All, then . that the goverment would have to do would be to al l private saterprim to Its aid. goyim% through the agency of the Greek clergy, to rise against the Turks. The Turkish garrisons of The Post says the only uniformity of action the London Banjuluka, Mostar, and Trebigne have been parishes have ever shown has been in the consistent rejec. strengthened in consequence by the addition of tion of all reform either in street mending, cleansing, wooe d b a ttalions. or privil " age natructi° ol disregarding n'ftlt" the mai n tn an ve c. nie o n f ce, th li r ati= d , or safety of that long-suffering body—the British public. The Jounced des Debate says that a telegram from Brody, dated the 25th, announces that the greatest this George Grey evidently wishes to threw upon Mr. activity exists amongst the Russian corps of obeer- Ayeton's proposed committee the labour and odium of nation on the banks of the Prath. The troops are preparing • bill to deal with the subject, but it is hardly fair upon the metropolis to defer its emancipation for such ready to march, and General Kotzebue, t he com mander-in-chief, is every moment expected from • reason when there is no longer any dispute as to the Odessa. This news is confirmed by the latest facts; and although the circumstances hardly seem to demand the appointment of • minister for L011(1011 as journals from Vienna , which contain reports from required by Lord Robert Montagu, the public has a right Bessarabia of the hostile attitude of the Russian to ask that something shall be done to emancipate the troops along the Pruth. Officers of the staff are metropolis from the embrace of the old men the sea engaged in ascertaining the points at which the who have so long ridden upon he neck. river can be passed with most facility, and pontoons Though the Telegraph does not regret that Nerthumber- have been prepared for this purpose. No order, land House is to be spared, it regards the wild rush of tories th e o th er e i g ht t o d e f en d it, as a m elancholy proof that however, has been given to advance. "It is not the sympathies of the party are more readily excited on neoseeary," adds the Debats, "to point out the behalf of • duke than on behalf of 100,000 workmen. Mr. importance of this news, which, however, we Beresford Hope in particular sounded • sort of publish with all reservation." srolueological clarion, and summoned his fades to the battle. " Northumberland Houle must be struck out of the bill at once, peremptorily, and for ever, or a little more would be heard of It!' No wonder that at this dim, mysterious threat— made still more impressive, perchance, by angular got tiodetions—no wonder that the boldest iceman quailed. Whether • Mr. Beresford Hope meant civil war—in which case the pupils of St. Augustine's College, Can terbury, might be expected to march upon the House of Common and meault the metropolitan police—or whether he only meant en article in a weekly periodical, the Tele graph cannot preenme to determine. The Star thinks that even if the blood of the proud Percy§ flowed in the veins of the present Duke of Northumberland, "whose family name is Smithson," he would have no reason to be dissatisfied with the deference shown to him by the Metropolitan Board of Works. The appalling threat of Mr. Hope in particular excites the amusement of the Star, which, without offering any opinion upon the merits of the scheme involving the destruction of the building, entirely objects to the principle which consents to abandon it, not because it is defective or unneceessry, bat because it inconveniences or vexes some noble personage. TELLIGENCE. (mTura's Tumum:s4 AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. (Via Bodies Poiot.) The Royal Mail Company's steamship City of Washington, from New York on the 17th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 6.30 a.m. to-day with the mails, 123 passengers, 130,080 dole. in specie, and 3,1421. sterling. She landed the mails and 17 passengers and proceeded for Liverpool at 6.45 a.m. NEW YORK, FEL 17, Moans°. - - . The reconstruction committee have decided to report in favour of the admission of Tennessee, on the ground that having applied for admission into the Union, and her constitution being repub lican, she shall be admitted on the same terms and for the same reason as territories are. _ _ The Tennessee delegation, however, ask admis sion to Congress, and deny that the state waa ever out of the Union, or that Congress can legislate for Tennessee as for a territory. Mr. Banoroft's remarks upon foreign governments in his oration upon the late Mr. Lincoln's birth day have caused much indignation among the diplomatic corps. The Austrian minister has protested officially to Mr. Seward against Mr. Bancroft's statement that the Emperor Maximilian was an Austrian ad venturer. Mr. Seward ref used to accept the protest on the ground that Austria had declared she would remain foreign to all Mexican matters. This theory the Austrian minister refused to accept since it con- founded the person of a member of the Austrian imperial family with his political position, and his ezoelleney persisted in protesting against the im propriety of Mr. Bancroft's remarks. Sir Frederick Bruce refused an invitation to a dinner at which Mr. Bancroft was to be present. The Spanish frigates Carmen and Isabel Catolioa have arrived at New York, and will be thoroughly overhauled before their departure. _ The City of London and the Bremen have arrived out. EMIL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Fm 17, Moalma. Money easy. Gold, 137} ; exchange on London, 148 i. Stocks firm and active. New York Centrals, 901; Illinois, 1141; Erie, 81; 5-20 Bonds, 1031. Cotton steady. Middling Upland, 45. Flour de clining. Wheat limited demand. Corn active. Provisions steady. Coffee held firmly. Sugar buoyant. Molasses limited demand. Petroleum inactive ; crude, 30 ; refined, 48. NEW ORLEANS, Yen. 16. Cotton dull, 45. Stook, 190,000 bales. MOBILE, F 143. 16. Cotton quiet, 43. Week's sales, 19,000 bales. Receipts, 10,000 bales. Exports, 12,000 bales. Stock, 70,000. MEXICO. Advioes from Vera ems to the let inst. an nounce that considerable military activity pre vailed at that port. Troops were leaving for the interior and the frontier, and ammunition continued to arrive from France. The republicans recently oaptured an imperial train near Tampico, valued at 650,000 dollars. New Orleans despatches state that the republi cans had been defeated and routed near Tampico, with the loss of 850 men. General Medese and all the officers of his staff were killed. IMPORTANT DECLARATION OF THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNOR OF HOLSTEIN. KIEL, rim 28. General Gablenz, the Austrian commander in Holstein, has addressed an order to the provincial government of that Duchy sanctioning the extraor dinary convocation of the committee on the budget. General Gsblenz in this document alludes as fol lowa to the recognition of the constitution of 1854 : —"I do not hesitate to express myself in favour of the constitution of 1854, as the proper basis for the future political organisation of Holstein, and I re cognise in their full extent the obligations thereby imposed upon the government of the Emperor of Austria." POLAND. WARSAW, Fn. 28, An Imperial Ukase has been issued permitting Jews who have received a diploma at a Russian or Polish university to enter the public service in Poland with the enjoyment of the rights and pri vileges connected with the office of public func tionaries. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DA Y. ) A MINISTERIAL CRISIS. ALLEGED RESIGNATION OF EARL RUSSELL. The Times this morning alone of the daily journals gives as • rumour, which it considers sufficiently subdanreed to justify various comments of • general kind, that Earl Rear& has begged permission of her Majesty to resign once more the office of First Minister of the Crowe, and has recommended the Queen to send for the Dako of Somerset. The proper sequel to the resignation of a minister is to summon the leader of the opposition ; but Earl Russell's administra tion, if Alms fallen, has not succumbed as the ooneequence of a transfer of confidence to its opponents ; and it is under stood that many of those who were regarded es the leaders of the conservative party in the House of Lords—Lord Derby particular—areis strongly disinclined to encounter sgain the arduous task of lighting against a majority in the Commons. The Duke of Somerset possesses ma•y qualities fitting him for the highest office, but is little known in the House of Commons, end absolutely unknown in the country ; and thee other members of the cabinet who were content to serve under Lord Zdatention or Earl Rana might be dis inclined to accept their proposed succorer. If this objection Is not overruled, there are two other courses possible —the formation of a coalition cabinet sad of a conservative mirdetry. The find would be a doubtful expedient, but it must be acknowledged that under certain defined condi_ Eons ►ha conservative party by returning to office might for a time render useful envies to the nation. The Tier even thinks that a satisfactory measure of reform might be introduced by them, and colander it certain that the question of church-rates might be settled jar as the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill was passed when they were in office before with • minority in the Commons. Another advantage which would arras from a tory inter regnum would be the relegation to obscurity of men who have coins to the fore by mere seniority and the coarse of protnatioo, who Inspire no confidence, and have neither knowledge nor genius to justify their position, aadwho may be described by • metaphor from the naval service " yellow admirals." The Wreaent administration has from the lint exhibited a spirit of vacillation and uncertainty, but no one of the important questions before them:entry can be settled without a united cabinet possessing • definite policy, and following the inspirations of a single leader. If these things cannot be accomplished at once, the Times is content to wait for • season that they may be accomplished at last more effectually. The Owl today has a statement that Earl Russell, " especially in the event of his carrying the Reform Bill with which bis name will be for &second time historically identified, intends before long to retire from office; and that a change in the Cabinet will shortly be caused by the retirement of Sir George Grey from the Home-office. BIEIOrB DISPI:1711 BITWIMIN AUSTRIA aim PROSIILL The Daily News observes that the foresight of Europe will probably ensure the Bonmaine against a one-sided in terrentioo, and so against war, but that the prospect is very different in the north of Europe, where a quarrel between two great powers is maturing, which, if left to its natural development, is likely to breed a war that roust draw every Continental este within the circle of Be influence. The Prussian government is resolved to incor porate both Schleswig and Holstein with Its own territory : bat the Austrian government objects to any inch appro- priation, and still more to the manner in which Prussia attempts to bring it about. It has declared its opinion that the Doke of Aaguatenburg ha. a better title than any other claimant, and degree that the final disposal of the Duchies shall be referred to the Germanic Diet. Prussia will take no step to place the decision of the ques tion in impartial hands; her government is resolved on settling it alone, and settling it soon, if neomeary, by tho sword. That of Austria, if more pacific, is not lam resolute. As M. de Bismarck's character forbids us to expert that he will retrace his steps, the only way in which it seems pas sible that a conflict can be averted Is by the friendly action of the great neutral Powers, and they have often intervened on less urgent omaniona. The Star also has reason to know that the relations be tween Austria and Prussia are is a critical coedition, Aus tria sternly rejecting all compromise which would deprive the Duchies of their independence, and, believing herself secure of the good feeling of Hungary and the approval of the Emperor of the French. being ready if necessary to thaw the sword in the quarrel. The information ed the Owl from Berlin represents the situation as most omiaous, offering the drew contrast of • Sovereign absurdly exhilarated at the annihilation of the constitution, and of • patriotic party gloomy but determined. Count Bismarck matinees in the highest favour with the King, sad there seems • certainty that, within a few week. Austria will either be at war with Prussia or have aban doned to her ail rights and powers over the conquered Duchies. The Owl anticipates the latter course, as, without Frame, sad with her eastern frontiers menaced by disturbemose, Austria will not dam to move. ?HI 111173TICIP AL OP LONDON. The 2'ion congratulates the public upon the attention which the kcal interests a the metropolis have excite , ' in parliament, and of the wish which is clonally displayed to reform the present intolerable abuses. The superiority of Paris is as great is mature of utility as in the bmnties of anancemeet, and while the present ausreby arising from oonflislisc indedieliona remains, we mod ecntiaise to leek for badly pared streets, high rates, and ill eared-for poor. The select committee obtained last night by 'tr. Aptou will find the question of local taxation one of AUSTRIA. VIENNA, P. 28. It is officially announced that the International Exhibition at Vienna will take place in 1870. Intelligence received here from Constantinople states that the diplomatic representatives of the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris have com municated to their respective governments the wish of the Sublime Porte that a commissioner should be sent to Bucharest on behalf of each of the above powers, in order to inquire into the recent events in Roumania. Tax Jsrawaes—All the essentials of the Jape. use Ishonses's life were and ere away attained. The earth yielded to him bountifully of her increase; the ins. teriel for his garments grew by his door and was spun and wove by his 011,11hooash@d, the trees furnished him both fuel end light, and in all hie hamlets the pauper and t was not, except pauper and beggar by profusion srot by necessity. Yet with all the plainness and simptiaity of !is rustic life, is not our depaneee t • bit of • Sybarite in his way ? His daily ap to is satiated with such food as might belong to the dwellers in the new Utopia. He sate remoneleeslr the tender bulbs d the golden lay which spreads its sumptuous blames our his fields ; he dines daintily on the lotus root ; he bibs his kettle with the wood of the camellia, whirls we coax with leo much tender care to bloom under our northern skim.— New York Triblike. TREATMENT OF FINLANII DI THE AMT. When it is remembered from whet class the regiments in Ireland are continually recruited, the Times seee nothing to wonder at in the fact that a good many youths have been taking the Fenian oath and the Queen's shilling at the same item. If we pity the heedful actually caught, our pity is still more die to the loyal soldier who, besides the enemy he meets face to farm hes one at his elbow and an other at hie back. It is evident th►t if Fenianism is not "stamped out,' u they say of another plague, it will unread, for cit is • question, not of reason, but of parity. Which way, then, does the argument of humanity point? We assume that oar people have faith in their own cause, and enter the question before us without say secret misgiving. We have no such misgiving ourselves. The universal spread of this conspir►cy and its evidently foreign origin prove that it has nothing to do with national wrongs and national sufferings. It has no justification, and there is nothing to remove it out of the category of treason and rebellion. How is it to be stopped? Will it ever be stepped if we shrink from recognising its true character as • treasonable and wicked rebellion ? We do not envy those with whom rests the responsibility of these painful questions ; but should they think it necessary to be *evert, we trust they will be supported by all the loyalty and common sense of the nation. The Tinto says the entire question of turret-ships Is now opened, and the Admiralty will be called upon to show not only that it is necessary to build ships of 5,000 tons, bat also, probably, on Sir Marto. Peto's interrogation, that it is wise to build them at all in national establish ments, indeed of contracting for the work in private yards. The Daily New cells upon the liberal members to be present at this morning's sitting to support the Qualifica tion for Offices Bill, observing that the "declaration which it is proposed by this bill to abolish is a relic of an order of legislation which is contrary to the whole °mule of modern ideas coneersing political society, and is justly offensive to large elegem of the most loyal subjects of this realm. Only by means of lammed emphasis being given to the parliamentary expression of public opinion can the unreasoning obstinacy of the House of Lords be overcome. Discussing the fall of Prime Goma the Daily News re make that it is not merely in the question of sovereignty, or in its relations to the Porte and to the Great Powers, that the new government of the Principalities will Sod serious Make. How will it deal with the constitution itself ? Oars it recall universal suffrage ? Dant it restore the Boyer& to influence by re-establishing the constitution which the Great Powers approved ? Will it dispute Prince Conies settlement of the Laud Question, or his line of policy with regard to the secularisation of the Greek con vents? The new government, however able, will have questions before it calculated to try its utmost capacity. The Post urges those who would effect real economy to devote themselves to the consideration of the several items of the national expenditure, and, wherever they detect waste, expose the errors of the government and demand the support of the house. It is by this means, and not by abstract resolutions, which pledge no one to anything end do not diminish the expenditure bye single farthing, that they Imo alone hope to effect real retrenchment. The Herald finds it impossible, at a respectable distance, not to admire the pertinacity with which Mr. Chisholm Anstey keeps himself before the public. It seems that the attorneys of the presidency of Bombay, on his return to the ranks of the bar, have entered into a written combina tion not to give him any briefs ; but Mr. Aostsy, on appeal, has obtained leave to plead in a ease which has been brought to him by • client, under direct instruc tions, and it may be supposed that • similar privilege will not be denied him for future business. But in any case the combination will entail upon him considerable injury, even if it leave his position worth keeping ; and the penalty mud be considered severe upon • men whose wont faults may be summed up in the fact that he is, as far as his moral nature is concerned, a bad tempered Doe Quixote. Oa other hand, the attorneys may suffer by their movement ; for if the natives find that their intervention can be dispensed with, they are just the people to decide upon paying only one lawyer instead of two for the future. A writer in the Advertiser says that though the At. torney-General informed the House of Commons that Ame rica declined an arrangement by which the laws of neu trality could be mutually altered, he did not give the rea son assigned by Mr. Adams. The American ambassador, in answer to Earl Russell's proposal to alter the neutrality laws of both countries, writes:—" So long ■s the heavy list of depredations upon American commerce, con sequent upon the issue of hostile cruisers built, fitted out, manned. and navigated from British porta with perfect impunity, continues to weigh upon the minds of the Ame. Titan people, it would be the height of presumption In me to hold out any encouragement to the acceptance of pro- postai the practical effect of which might be to place Great Britain in precisely the same degree of security in dangerous emergencies which she herselforhen applied to, deliberately refused to accord to as." The Bishop of Norwich has placed his episcopal palace at the disposal of the committee for conducting the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, with a view to the becoming reception of the Peace and Prisms of Wake, who will honour the festival with their presence. The festival is likely to be postponed far a month, as the Prism and Fria °ass will travel from Boatload in order to attend it. The Owi believes that Lord Clarence Paget, who will worse the command of the Mediterranean fleet aa coos as the navy 'adman% are pawed, will be anomeded at the Adtarslty by the Hoe. T. G. Barb& sow Under- Semetary of State for the Home Departmeat ; that Lord John Hay will mewed Admiral Drummond at the Admiralty, sad Urntecant-O.seral the Han. C. Grey will sensed Sir Charles Phipps as Keeper of the Privy Pone. Colonel Ponaonby, at present extra equerry, will be ap pointed equerry. IVegING, FEBRUiRY:, 1866. the Court. ,~ WINDSOR MEM]; Fa. 27. The Queen walked and drove this morning, ameampanied by Prisms Helena. Vimeant Torrington and the Hon. Mortimer &Arnie West have succeeded the Berl el Caßheas and Major. General F. &mow, 0.13., as Lord and Groom in Wailing. The Prince of Wales went to tie House of Lords miss , day afternoon. The Prisms of Wake took a carriage driie. The Hon. Ma. F. Stoner bag rucceeded tie Connime of Macclesfield es Lady in Waiting to the Frigates of Wale,. The Lord Provost of Glasgow and Mr. Turner, Town Clerk, traseseted business with Mr. Waddington at the Home-antes yesterday. I The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat miss. day. Prevent—The Lords Justices Knight Braes and Turner, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Oolvile, and Ste Lawrence Peel. Despatches wars !seafood yesterday at the Coloofa frau the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, sod labia& Loan CHAMBER/AI:14 OFFICE., FIB. 21.—Efo tic° is hereby given, that the Queen will bold courts at Buckingham Palm* on the following days :—Theunday, March 15 ; Friday, March 23 ; Thursday, April 12 ; Monday, May 14th at 3 o'clock ; and Tuesday, June 19, at 4 o'clock.—Gazette. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Alfred, and a numerous snits viaited Astley's Theatre last evening, to witness the pantomime. Excellency the Marquis d'Aseglio, the Duke of Si. Albans, the Earl of Mouat-Edgcumbe, he., also had vale boxes. The Countess of Clarendon will have an assembly this evening at her residence in Geoevaior-corsoent. Last night Lady °remoras had an evening party at her residence in Ourzonetreet, Mayfair. Pre viously to the assembly Lord and Lady Orerooroe received at dinner his Excellency the Saxon Minister, the Max. airiness of Ely and Lady Marion Loftus, the Archbishop of Armagh and Mrs. Beredord, the Earl and Countess of Beseborough, the Earl of Lauderdale and Lady Mary Mait land, Viscount and Viscountem Holmesdale, Lord Beesley, Lord and Lady Skelmeredale, Lady Egerton of Tette% Ad miral the Hoe. Sir Frederick Grey, Admiral Eden, and Mr. Edward Stanley. The Prince and Princess of Hohenzollern have arrived at Geneva, and taken op their mildews at the chateau of Bean-Singe, oo the lake. King Victor Emmanuel, conformably with the last wishes of his eon, Prince Oddone, has given orders that the municipality of Genoa shill be put in possession of the rich objects of art which adorned the private pllery of the prince. The Prince Royal of Denmark, whose approach fog departure from Copenhagen for a journey on the Oenti went has been announced, is expected in Paris in the mum d a few days. It is mad that the prince intends to reside fa France about a month. Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill has been elected president of the Freedmen's Aid Society, and hes accepted the office. Major Loraine White her been appointed a Mili tary Knight of Windsor, vice Major D. J. idesqneen, &H., deceased. The revolution in the Principalities is the subject of a question to be put by Mr. Darby Griffith. who es Friday will ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer wheals the Danubian provinces of Roumania will be allowed to arrange their own institutions without interference from the protecting powers or the Porte. And whether the government of Servile has lately applied to the Pores for the withdrawal of Turkish troop from the fortresses in Berrie, and with what probable result. Mr. Cony will move to-morrow for a oopy of the report of the Admiralty committee on tunetehips. Mr. Harvey Lewis will ask the First Commis dosser of Works to-morrow whether his attention has been called by the medical officer of health for the parish of St. Maryleboce, to the dangerously filthy condition of the ornamental water in the Regent's-park ; and whether ' proposes to take any steps to cause the same to be clawed, and whether he has any objection to lay upon the table the house the report sod aualYalaof the same, forwarded him by the medical officer. On going into committee of supply to-morrow, Sir John Pairington will esll the attention of the govern ment to certain statements as to the manner in which dock yard workmen who are voters for the borough of Devon. port have bees examined in the dockyard with reference f their intended evidence before the election oommittee that borough, end to ask for explanation. On Monday, Sir Andrew Agnew will ask. Vice-President Of the Committee of Privy Council ors X& cation, whether the Royal Commierioners oe Edneation Bootland may soon be expected to report ; and, if . whether her Majesty's government proposes to introduoe a bill this session founded upon the recommendations their report. Mr. Cowper proposed to nominate the Selo* Committee on Public) Moss (Site) Bill as follows:—Mr. Cowper, Lord John MINIOSTII, Mr. Beane Cochrane, Cap. tats Grosvenor. end three members to be nominated by 1 1 the Committee of Selection :—Power to send for person', imper., and records ; three to be the quorum. On Tuesday next Sir Matthew White Ridley will ask the President of the Board of Trade whether there be asy intention on the part of her Majesty's governmeet to extend the system of inspeatioe and survey now applied to emigrant end passenger ships to vessels employed in the cattle-carrying trade, with a view to securing the health, safety, and comfort of animals brought into this country, either for the purpose of being slaughtered for food or for dairy and breeding purposes. Lord W. Hay has given notice that on Friday he will ask the Ceder... Secretary of State for India whether it is the intention of her Ma j esty 's government to propose to the house the measures to be taken is consequence of the report of the reeond commission on the grievanose of Indian officers before Issuing instructions on the subject to the government of India ; and if so when they will be sub raitted to the hones. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WiDgMEUT, linatrAZY 1111, II I.IL a su.sv, m. men ~r.a r ite " 11s ig 10.111 iY 29.21411 , 10.2331 N.& N.W. N.E. N.N.I. N.A. la F.F.I. F.E. ii :E. H.S. N.N.E. NA N. N.N.E. INA Z.N.M.. 'arm N.N.Z. ILL N.Z. N.N.I. Astra Leith Airdrome oars Clear— Liverpool.. Brest Zedistort Pe;iolotth . Pietemouth Loeb . lrerersath Scarborough. Shields Helder I :isAil KN.& .N.I. F.l. NI. Forruni 71IDAY. N.Y.. to N. W., bosh to Oossro. N.W . to ?t,and back, steam squally. Snub ts i & gate, some snow. - - WASTEPAL N.N.W. to W.S.W., 4 above. straw to a gale, sane Elhonor to above. soow or rola BOUSKIMIL NOrtbOTIT to wale). strong, squally, un settled. Lurrmur. Nostasea.Sootisad. Wows=lssisad, Woks, sad ad* .sacks. Botithern=Zeash Camel sad By at May. Issawa.llastward Inlaid sad North Sas. ROBBIaT OF A. Mal. B•G. —Lee Mann, a labourer, employed at tie Oruro Railway Statics, was brought before ' the Healey megietratas on Meadty, as a charge of stealing a nail beg from a mail train all Crewe. Oa the 21st Met, the bleb mail bag from Stoke-on-Trent was 'placed in the trail which MAW • portion of the morn* mails fres Crewe to Stoke, bat ea its arrival at the latter place this big was miming. Later in the day it was fated is as empty track, shoat foar aides from Oniwe, with a large bole eat in it, all the letters debuted, sad only some newspapers left Oa Satarday the prbeser attempted te arab a pose-odic* cedes sent from Dahlia, sad being wrested, two sheques of 561. 3e. 9d. and 121. lts. a the Northers Beak* Oompsay, Belfast, endowed 14/. 11. ce the Beak of Weed. were load ea him. Many other domino& of value are believed to have come into his poe ms/on. Hs was remanded for inquiries. Similar. sad then employed Mho; stockbrokin to 74i out mad thee obtain their confidence, mad be this mead to have endeavoured to obtain the transfer of sin stock belonging to • mem named Dimon. In bit sem tens debated and taken into custody and committed apes that charge, and from inquiries that were subsequent/7 min the other offences were discovered. la ords deceive more effectually the prosecutes GUM i:imszpearsd that the primer bed POW with types end a printing pries t and had by this mesas continued to execute a sort of imitatios usual orbited stock receipt, and be also issannittei tie amount of the dividends to him by mama of ?Medi orders, and thus no suspicion whatever was enternisity him that there had been any fraud' lest doing his otos& Nothing was known of the primmer, eon's lit he had previously kept a small tobaomnist's Moe, 1141 „... 1 was not suomedel, and he thee went to lodg e with O. • eon, but had no ostensible means of obtaining a lbshbeii Baron Bramwell told the prisoner that he/melte et a very serious ammo, sad had accomplished it "WI considerable ingenuity. He therefore felt it tie aor W sentence him to be kept in penal Beretta& for tes yetra 7113 ALLIGID mum= Or A POLICS•0011M113 tN DIVID LANZ. John Daly, 22, John Catill, 20, and Daniel antis, I described as labourers, were charged with the annslaldgi of William Fitzgerald. Mr. Poland and Mr. Begley prosecuted on behalf of lie Treasury. The prisoners were defended by Mr. Tafils and Mr. Sleigh. The facts of this case will be fresh in the remits:tin the public, The doomed wa s a policomesisiie of esl division, and he had eadeavored to take _O OOO into custody for being drunk and & SllB KW,. was remitter; to the polies station with his retwilli IW _. followed by the other prisoners. W ham th ey r" into a mint called Broad-court, near fasces% iht was heard to and upon another covetable scall.thw the spot he was found upon the ground, rid !, 111 that his arm was broken, and that Losg Bob( • , name by which the prisoner Daly is knows. " gas The unfortunate man turned out to hare bon drag , fully injured by kicks and violence, sad be died 11024 1„,.. afterwards. The prisoners got away at the tine. .. evbst = were taken le a few daysdone. . and Daly th Aceordisen Molawim " " gloried in what he hsd gto the idssn for the prosecution the prisoners Cahin and Cosine (lounged Daly to commit the violence. swill° , indicted hilliness upon the unfortunate deceased. The jolty found all the prisoners guilty of manslastilta r l Impostor Brennan informed the court that Ihly" 1 " . andeoestawsentoolurcofiatotheolmtoshistivdessa,peraandtehadcharectiobies eleh is a th t7 victed of assaults. He had also bean in custody f• hourbood of Drury-lane. The learned judge eenteomd Daly to ,iire ye servitude, and Use other two to be imprils aws sp' hard labour for twelve months. TIM ALLOW= TOROMIT Of TS II mown Of 11:1111G 4111.0 Mr. Jain Pernoteass, the surgeon, who is charl:2 l several indictansots with obtaining tarp nuns of owl meons of forging the transfer of certain shares is a . 1 mine called the Hallesbeegle mine. was this " met oe his trial before the Common Serjeent. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Duly prosecuted. Mr. 800 &Meath* and Mr. F. H. Lewis were counsel for the omen The pea° will remember the principal pans Of 4 " . —_ - _,•, 44 dazes asaissi the prisoner as he has only boa ref fa^ committed for tr was ss , 110 The ems opened at considerable w limped Damsel for the prosecution, and it was usw , sontiss• the whole of the day. ALLXGED This moi "mud a 1 tl 8*4: 66 7-roa woroam imam Elise, 5. A Weruer-p WWI her 111141 Let drivel begirkohrg of bum sedum married and coosequeuxem though she her only 1.5 i she was fret vould — t;i she was foe s _ Mr. B. I wq~Mid -QI body. The efteletsted Mrs. Ana her sister e Was a postn single men. there learnt swore, sad et the Gem &cowed me Minton to t her bat he ender the I altaation rs to *midrib sot go to se The Ooro It Is r g ir ! , 7th -- iferOr; " th 4 C rt maa lb. child. WO — O — Orc &ease of Us* jury ra: sedgcang Lb PATAZ We refp eireasestaac Charles No sitteadsd th It a — ppear - chambers bat - email Dee Aim, etata4 to hi Dr. Amid a at 10 o'eh that time. Loak foam Sig ht of by the do attention o aafortaaae seat for. so 24 r i nl y ata os what is etaimase, I _th treat b meatataate The &ea Yeekdif The sk the wo cab' le Apt 1: I ) - -...-..-. LAM INThrf.AlSigartiCE. ' ......-.............-.... (THIS DAY.) •Be ow e bed the be — is — end erestrar COURT OP QUEEN'S BINGE. After Term NW Prise Bitting. et Guildhall-chi- ' Tao= i I the Lord Chief Justice and Sparta ; "...sr Mr. Lartons " , I This wee the last day of the sitting; the 64 _ did eettrj9l". ' the day's list, "Rein v. Lone and eth oo r . II 'an sedan on • cirrus po t ty, t it „,, ,th: ... gr . were raagemeak a medial was taken for Ak a li• .1111d7.• th• for 2,9001., with leam to c om e t h e emit 1..... la thi the question whether the motets, by a UAW -"" ' 7;ooews. quired a 5.. stamp 'Weal of sed. stamp n th& l n i : ► ' "e„ t v oo he spoil The NOMA case " Judd Y. The Membe r *, — lli.s few dal r Itheolaskire Railway Company," which wr y ild 's e g e s ell, ' : - :V ee g to his en personal injury was made • reseanei and tie eiggil i .tr i k , g o llord, es k third cam wee withdrawn. The court Ae ro b es ems him - -.sr ~ t --i; i iteep „ v „ e 11o 'cloein having Par COURT OF PROBATE AND MORO/ . :' . P trim:d an t i i (Before the Jade* Ordinary.) 11: ilid a 2 e : th er himasoi4l:l°l66:lll...:atiawaerallw. h.. 3ll 6 l. : Wß.U.W°llll7 , l3Bll.l".lll:6 aileg h 12:61 s. iii.A; the t i:c ha latlalip t Fe")eklaigh4"l.'-- 'tils:411:":11118)3411;12:1;t7roen(186icamal:441:74:1:.66"."..".. j:..jellY4:s6Bl.::gemtigr4...:"etillar.:7°‘froff erMi°:::llimilli' The value of thlro:erty is about 26.0001. • . WS/ summo - Mr. Elawkies, 0., Dr. fiPiahos Lod lb. Beuel al . •o, to shot A appear f or K r . ; Kr. O'Malley, Q. 0., Igg, sat. doughterer of c , Mr. Buller for Min Bellew ; and Dr. Trisha hr rear of 102, 0 '', Heviland, • aims of the doomed, who also opia te t h, ' will. '. PRePooll, 00 A 1 . the Metropolti ). This morning additional evidence was given for ta te *, Mr. Layton, a tiff Four servants were called to prove the Mug, t rue . mended to euppc • on which the two sisters lived together. The trot g g ee Mr. Mayes sthit tree Ju t s Schmidt, who denied that she bed ewer mi st . o'clock In the II la the counter , es had been suggested. . ners from the eb e. Inspector Tanner mid that he WAS f oxpl oi d b yte .. et the dale A. OODAlii/l to invertipte this , but tbat as* . (. eseded In tracieg the greeter robbery wed to pert of the notesemur: was an hut in have been Melee, sad found that they hog be d i .. , , wastes. by the lady herself she' expressed her regret OM IQ ~ telling hi 3' charged, to him, Mira with eke theft. . of 'Airtime On moss-examioation be said that the ereinten mil . c overed. I ,„ have told him her whole history. She was s lady got et i l . 4esp, end hardly let another person say a word atom gam * h . • Cellar adl 1,- haltan- hour - (laughter) -end she struck him as very e i • - •• is tiler ad and soorntrin th the blood, z. Mrs. Payne, of Carithe-villas, Maids-vas, raid g o t i ih ',' .. he bad alloy of had known the countess for several yesre, end was el . • lac* la llama of that the signature to the will was hers. She predoeesa aghter-bonee. rd notes which she had revolved from be?. Dr. Ballard a it- Orass-examined-Oonld nuke as good an Whi m . ~. • see to this 1 T. that herself . (A. laugh.) - . e Magistrates g. Mr. Hawkins-Thou please to try. (Laughter.) ~ t•likenrea wit The Judge-Bat if she fails, will that be duo & • IdallBhiorie Lt. penance ? . . ,is badly P he re opiThiltrioes. Judge - her jud a ir s m t peo en "uld t pie rif he o " ftai rseif sa . y thi : they give a. " 4 4 2o llll i , : 5 1 m g gek rau e . Ba d ar e i f kl e .er n os.. cla o r z till this, tl7- (The ease was proceeding when our report irft) 3 be isi COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. miry Ann 1 he (Before Mr. Commissioner Kea.) Mr. trewhi 0.. ' he IN NI rams-MIDOIONI. of No. 4, GM This was an old ineolveacy man in which the peas deetroying e tio bad been raised whether two bills of oats of litho, Tho comphic 42- Walker and Twyford. solicitors to the provisicied Wan night she was iti. asseunting to 4971. and 581., had thee properly hi m / her return frt is k the isattoe of the estate. three other fen See females were h His Homer, after several protracted rou Mariam h la ids the eye. and or ease, sow pve ju d gmen t He went th . te SIM t i nge ou t, eo g 1 roue items in the two bills, sad iriM AM led 2701. He of reeved that the ow was me el e leer pieces. In answer to led table nature. looking at the amount of eu 1. fondant was sr curved sod that the elvent might have avoided NE given bar or th ~, of th is had he applied earlier for a re.vestisg ceder,leer A constable i iii- of bringing an aistion against the provisional Wpea to the spot, an en, (Before Mr. 00•1011 1 / 1 10IISA Goobers.) t by thi IN a 7. D. YIDDZS. L i tT,:stWy. The bankrupt was a coach painter, of Peckham ; /tidy her task cot 63U, with assets of doubtful value. This was tte MIR The oomph" let for examination and discharge, also for applicator le the did was to her release from custody. The defends t o Mr. A. D. Smith opposed ; Mr. Denny supported a m e coestab ~„, appeared that the bankrupt had been prenoady he feedent and hi ' ▪ . 7 rapt in 1862, and had not taken up his order d thaw, tir. Tytwhil Lu" the expense of which would be about 3/. . and three oo for Mr. Denny pressed for the bankrupt's ohms, uhe hi female. He 1 sin been abort three months in custody. ceder her tops His Hosour said that no notice of the applintise is another 14 day ~,. release bad been given to the detaining creditor ;he toe 4 wie not therefore eatertein it. The former order sot big taken up the ease could not proceed. It els eiestio LATEST a d e . portent that this rule should be observed, r helmet often neglected to take up their orders tell they were es min quind for a particular puree. The as mil be M hof foamed sine die. NO" the be CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. Queen of Ti Boa, itten s*, Vi a of (THIS DAY.) A M nne, Novice d to —..-- LiFt (Before Baron Bramwell.) Preblem, Se THE 101GZILY ON TIM DANE OF =GLUM. water, OMEN owe Robert Gibson, 30, • patisesanly.looking yew um linden's dam f Kra ` pleaded guilty to several Indictments bin re. 81 Cotillion ( Nunnery f (A Ole (401.). A ieri to .: i coa tip pa l oi er y th s Enea tol t r i Sull tur co : orati cie t d i s air e t res to nacoa dthsea t "rec r delg the the rom beeb a sor t l ei tis ti for The prisoner appeared to have carried ce a nut so HITE the tr"rdinarY peered, wee sy Vir st illiam a frau d. ss, !mood red IWO _ lam. ' 'na il. .IPI The O aths'. :1 gdo. meson named Robert Moon who had 3001. Ousel Mt Sr .r you • standiag in his name, and who WA/ • wry , , le ID . arm Having mentsined that Gibson bad aOM Hi ' ee. the prisoner forged a power of attorney to Miele he AR the hoe me • poseessioa of this stock, he had diegniud kilned! es wit it . of c poet like him, and obtained Rommel of the asp. t , ei t few. appear' then n-iovistlxt I .L. veri!„ °f , th t...."111 ' D e rby Rao THE POLICE COVETS. (TEU3 DAY.) 4212011027 WELL CLITLI ?LAMM —oornanos 701 imitate COIN yams • LIMO. Mr. Marry Liddiard, el No. 1, Hale•etrest. meted Wer e Mt. Berner , et the Widow* ed Mr. Mayes, sanitary iospeeter for Isliagroo, foe o .F. mime as ► Goyim* lx the keepiag et mu, sad be ab b L i t 1 i 7 : - - 2 - - I i -k o.sl a I— a 2 -If —ls HI aim Pot )y Rio I' f 1~ 1