The Express. — London, England, 1864-01-13 00:00:00

THE JO. and J. FIELD, original manufeetarers i who, after being pronounced sane by the judge and I a I e I=ZAISAIT s fill a rDLSß. to wbonamrjoiso the jury who tried him, has been released from the Ira Wiwi Glovmsnt far ow oaths salahory Salim dna ' pe nalty of his crime by the interference of persons These candles tan be obtained of an chandler. dad In las United Einem. Price la ad. per posed ; atm a eds. unautnorised by the Home Minister, and possibly imlei n e 5 1 r a iu ... 8. "2: ° , 5 1g , 0 7".""-- ..4-61 and eadL ism is ea ".. against the opinion of the Lunacy Commissioners. shuts. L .. 4.t b z ia. nay, ma tat sspartmilst.— Owed : It is not surprising, therefore, that the public bedlt. Madan. 8. ', mind should be vehemently excited, and that the ALFRED WI B B MILES, s ' working classes should seem to disoern a painful Everybody knows Mr. XILES, * difference between the treatment of " poor REMOVED from Boods.reet, to 713. 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Brougham, Emery, Charles, and Jordan ; Mss Terry, limanue, and 10sworthy, and Kn. Lam It is now alleged that Sir Gunton GRZY has no option in this matter, that he was bound to obey the two certificates which were forwarded to him, and that he only acted " in accordance with " the construction which has been uniformly " placed on the first section of the Act before men " tinned by ordering TOWNLEY to be removed to " Bethlehem HospitaL" This is no doubt true. But as Sir Gnomes GREY admits, the capital sen tence was only respited, it was not commuted. TOWNLEY is still liable to be executed, and the only question is whether, under the Act of Parlia ment, Sir Grows Gary is still bound to obey the certificate in question. It seems to be admitted that the persons who signed this certificate were so deeply committed to the opinion that TOWNLEY was insane, that they were utterly unfit to dis charge the duties which they took upon themselves. But even this point is compa ratively immaterial. And it has been remarked more than once that the Act of Parliament never contemplated the possibility of any two justices and any two physicians or surgeons being allowed to interfere with the course of law. And a care ful perusal of the first section seems to lead to the same conclusion, for it distinctly provides that " every person removed under the Act shall " remain in confinement in the asylum until "it shall be duly certified to the Secretary of " State by two physicians or surgeons that such "person has become of sound mind ; " whereupon the Secretary°, State is authorized to have such person removed back from the asylum to the prison where he shall have been taken. It is clear, therefore, that in this case the Home SZCRE TARY has the remedy in his own bands. He acknowledges that the sentence pronounced upon Town.zy has not been commuted. If Sir Gronoz GREY is satisfied that TOWNLEY is really insane, it would be neither just nor legal to re move him back to prison ; but if be is satisfied by the opinion of two physicians selected by him self that TOWNLIY is really sane, and that he has been withdrawn from prison by a ruse of his attorney, or by the improper interference of those who signed the certificates of the 27th and the 29,h of December, he must either set upon the certificate of these two physicians and remove the criminal back to prison, or he must endure that storm Of public indignation which is the just reward of weakness ‘nd inconsistency. TIDE instil°. the Re; la;;;thne HICKORY. HICKORY, DOCK. Wm S. Lane and II est-rate Pentontholsta.—The Marvels °thee. - TER GREAT GHOST tether and Benno& ..The Paley foantaln...And THE GORILLA. HUNT. 111011, WAX= AT LONDON ItAIDIFIL. T DAT Marelog, th. l'oatoiaow Wads& Lb .. bL 57a. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13. Ir any one, without previous knowledge of the events of the last few weeks, had suddenly de scended yesterday morning amongst the crowd which stood watching &turn WRIGHT ascend the scaffold, he would have found it difficult to believe that the man about to die was not a political martyr, but a murderer found guilty on his own confession. Instead of the ordinary scene of street windows let at enormous prices and brimfull of excited eyes, he would have seen the blinds drawn down as at the funeral of some Field-Marshal, and the sesta erected for curious spectators untenanted. Instead of cries of execration over the murderer, be would have found the people—ruffianly as they were for the most part--sullenly silent or giving vent to their feelings by exulting cries of " Bravo, WRIGHT " COD bless " you, my lad," and by clapping of hands ; whilst WRIGHT himself, like some favourite actor or popular statesman on the hustings, was bowing his acknowledgments, at the very moment when the ghastly white cap was being drawn over his face, and even until the drop fell and stopped his ill-timed politeness. Meantime there wee the surging mob hooting and yelling. Some prayed, some cried " Shame," " Judicial murder," "No " more hanging," " Where's TOWNLEY ?" As the body fell, it is said that one strong man fainted, and the prostrate figure was carried over the heads of the people ; whilst a placard borne amidst the crowd disclosed these words:—" A solemn protest " against the execution of WHIGHT.—Men and " women of London, abstain from witnessing this " sad spectacle of injust:•!e. Let CALcsirr " and Co. do their work this time with DODO but " the eye of Heaven to look upon the crime. Let " all window shutters be shut, and window blinds " be down for an hour on Tuesday morning in " Southwark. Englishmen, shall Wesoar be " hung I If so, there is our late fur the rich and " another fur the poor." It was indeed a strange spectacle ,the cul minating point of several days' excitement. The working classes of London warmly espoused Witionr's cause. On Monday no fewer than four public meetings were held on the subject, and de putation after deputation conjured Sir Gisonoe GREY to stay the law, whilst it is said that strenuous efforts were used to induce her MaJearr, and even the Prince of Warms, to interfere on Waronis behalf. These efforts were unavailing, and it is only just to admit that if they had prevailed capital punishment was practically abolished. If the man who cuts the throat of his mistress in cold blood and in his sober senses, and who himself confesses his guilt, is not worthy of death, every criminal who has died upon the scaffold has been judicially murdered. Nor let it be supposed that the working men of Southwark or the constituents of Mr. DortroN deny this conclusion. As a body they have expressed no opinion upon capital punishment, but they insist, and most justly in sist, that the law shall be impartially adminis tered, or, if necessary, so altered as to render this possible. They know that about the same time when SAMUEL WRIGHT, a poor workman, cut the throat of his paramour, Grozor Views TOWNLEY, a young gentleman of good connexions and of superior education, deliberately cut the threat of an innocent young lady, simply and solely from jealousy and revenge. They know that in the caws of SAMUEL WRIGHT all the efforts made to save his life have proved abortive, whilst in the case of TOWNLEY, by the ingenuity of his solicitor and the unprecedented interference of magistrates and medical men, means have been discovered of withdrawing this convicted criminal from the hands of the executioner. It may be per fectly true, as Sir Grown GREY declares, that in transferring Townixv to a lunatic asylum he had no option, and that what he did he did in obedience to an imperative Act of P►rliament. This may be a sufficient justi fication for Sir GEORGE GREY as the administrator of the law, but it is no justification of the law itself. The working men of Southwark probably feel that after the verdict of the jury was deli vered in WRIGHT'S case his fate was pistLically sealed ; whereas after the verdict of the jury was delivered in TOWNLEY'S case, it was set asHe and overridden by the certificate of four men who should never have been allowed to interfere in the matter. Sir Groans GREY, indeed, refers to the case, in 1862, of a man named Ctssx— a poor man, without frieuls—who was convicted of wilful murder and sentenced to death, but was afterwards transferred toa lunatic asylum. It appears, however,tbat the certificate of insanity in CLARK'S case was not, as in TOWNLEY'S ease, signed by four magistrates and medical men who had appointed themselves to conduct the inquiry, but that the inquiry into the pri soner's state of mind was directed by the HOME SECRETARY, and the certificate was signed by persons selected by that responsible Minister. It follows, therefore, that Groans Vicroa TOWNLEY is the first condemned criminal CO Coun. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jas. 12. The Queen and Princess Helena drove out this mania( and west to Froncoore. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived Vote Greenwich park, and returned in the afternoon. Th. bulletin displayed yesterday at Marlborough•houss was u follows : - • nommout. JAN. 12, IQ3O a.m. The P613011= at Wake has pawed mother good eight, sad la progressing es favourably es poribie. The West Prince continuos quits well. (Steed) Array' FARR; M.D. L H. Samna, M.D. The Winkle, et Marlborough-home ere ecoothuted. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign•ottice, Whitehall-gardens. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Karl Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right How. C. P. Villiers. The Right Hoe. Frauds Ale:seder, Earl of Kintore, %Weeded, yesterday at the Comma Chamber, Whitehall, and in the prassoos of Earl Graaville (Lord President) and the Duke of Somerset, members of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Oristocd, took the prescribed oath as Lieutenant and Medi of the County of Aberdeen, in the room of the late Marquis of fluidly. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from the Lord Ingle Comarimioner of the lonise Islands. THE ACCOECHEMENT OF THE PRINCEES OF WALIS. —Her Royal Rightism the Princess of Wales has paned another favourable night, and the public will, no doubt, be pleased to hear that the Princess and her infant son are programing favor-ably. We (Times) learn ou the bent authority that the infant prima though only a 'even. months child, in in excellent health. For the informs. tioa of the sutler partial of our readers, who are curious in these magma it is stated that the exact weight of the infant prime after his birth was 91b. Her Majesty again visited the Primes* and her infant son at Fri:groom yesterday afternoon, and stayed till • late hour, after which her Majesty returned to the Cutle. The congretelatory vote to Frogman House were mo tioned yesterday, though the calls were not quite so numerous as on Monday, beteg maimed principely to pervious resident in the immediate neighbourhood. As our readers are probably aware, the late interesting event woe expected to have Ink= plus in Merit, at Marlborough Houma, where every preparatios had been made for the ad vent of "the little aksogar," and no prosisioo had been made for the sodden ameselos to the Prime's family at Fromm". Flannel and • few other tbiage absolutely nose. may were, however, hastily procured et Windsor, sad os Sunday the whole of the articles at Marlborough BOUM were received at Frogneore. Prepuntiou are being made at the Castle for the return of her Majesty to Osborne this day. Should nothing tuiforemen happen, the Queen will leave the Windsor leonine, of the Great Western Railway at ball-put 1 o'clock is a special train, to which the state ealocu belonging to the South-Weetere Railway will be attached. Her Majesty, with the Princesses Baleen and Beatrice, displays the warmest interest in the welfare of her infant grandson. Tar Qvnzw AND SHE I:4mm IN LONDON.— Her Majesty having consideration for the distress which sight exist among the poor in London in oonsequence of the • late severe weather, has, with her Majesty's weal limey°. leers and forethought, forwarded a munificent donation of 1001. to the funds of the Association for the Relief of Destitution in the Metropolis, 4, St. lLartin'aplace, nefalgarequare, of which the Bishop of Landau is presi dent. ROYAL ENOLPIR OPERA, COYZNT•GARDRN. —Her Royal Highness the Duchies - of (bridge and her Royal Highness the Princess Nary honoured the performance of W. C. Levey's pordnr operetta, Panehette, with their pa tronage last evening. The royal Mahon remained for the pantomime. The Earl Granville, the Lord President of the Council ; the Linke of Somerset. the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., and the Red De Grey are among the members of the Cabinet who have already arrived in town far the meet* of parliament. _ . Viscount Palmerston is still suffering from gout in the left arm, and was, is emesequeace, absent from the Cabinet Comma yesterday. According to present amaze meats the noble premier sad Lady Palmerstoe are not ex pected to return to Cambridge House until the 20th Met. The Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone came to town yesterday, expressly to lathed the Cabinet Council, from Haman:lea Castle, Flintabire. In the ems* the right hoe. patters= left town on hi retara to 81r /Aleph= Olyaa's seat. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GERMAN POLICY IN THZ DUCHIES. "The two great German towers," says the Nord, " remain faithful, notwithstanding numer ous assertions to the contrary, to the attitude which they assumed at the commencement ou the Schleswig-Holstein question. Oa Monday, in an extraordinary sitting of the Diet, they renewed with energy their proposition to invite Denmark to withdraw the constitution of November under pain of seeing Schleswig immediately occu pied. In, the view of the Austrian and Prussian governments, this occupation would not imply the I forfeiture of the treaty of London ; on the contrary, it would serve to induce Denmark to respect the stipulations of the treaty. The vote upon the Austro-Prussian proposition will take place on Thursday (to-morrow). It is impossible I I to predict what will be its fate, and although it includes the recognition of the treaty of 1852, it would be adventurous to predict for it a defeat. The majority favourable to the pretensions of the I Duke of Augustenburg is not, whatever they may say, so compact in the Diet that it cannot be in fluenced by the representations which Austria and Prussia have already made to the states which com pose it." The German journals begin to speak of a secret negotiation between Austria and Prussia. Austria, the Rhenish Gazette says, offers to abandon the Duchies to the discretion of Prussia in exchange for the guarantee by Prussia of Venetia ! The North German Gazette, a semi-official journal, endeavours to prove that the Schleswig-Holstein I question is not based on a principle of nationality at all :—"No," it says, "it is not the sentiment of nationality, but national interest which is urging the German people to the North. If the present movement owed its origin to the idea of nationality, the German poople would for a long time past have turned their eyes towards the Rhine to recover the provinces there, which they were forced to cede to France, and would no doubt manifest that feeling towards her powerful neigh bour beyond the Rhine with as much energy as towards her weak adversary beyond the Ryder. But the people feel that their interests are not on the other side of the Rhine ; their instinct guides them to the north, and tends towards the sea : Thalatta ! Thalatta ! (the sea! the *ea.!) that in dispensable element of the life of civilised States, without which every nation, however vigorous it may be, must wither away and perish ! Such is the Schleswig-Holstein question for Germany." EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANTJAR T i 41:f.c1864. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ODOM 017 E SPNCIAL PARIS, TOINDLY EVIIIIIIIG: It will be long before the sensation caused by M. Thiers' magnificent speech will subside. In deed the pitiful, pettifogging restrictions upon the comments of the journals on the debates, to which the government clings with blind pertinacity, are likely to prolong the excitement. If the news papers could, u in England, freely analyse the speech, point the moral which it contains, repro duce conspicuously the most salient paragraphs, and make reflections upon them, they would do so simultaneously, and once for all ; and then it might well happen that, as new subjects are started in the course of the debate on the address, M. Thiers' speech might be in great measure forgotten. But, as things stand, the public throughout France will only gradually be made aware that a great light has been seen. The Paris papers, not daring to say all they think on the first day, will cogitate over the matter, return to it again and again, and exercise their ingenuity to awaken public attention by all sorts of circuity and inuendo to the fact that there exists in print a grand political manifesto which it behoves every citizen to read. In this way it will come to pass that every elector who can read will know that in the Moniteur of Jan. 12 there is a monumental speech by a great statesman which explains that the imperial constitution is not what it should be, and points out what improve ments are urgently called for. Those who have no other opportunity of seeing a paper will read the Moniteur posted on the walls of their commune ; and in this instance the length of the speech will deter few intelligent people from reading to the conclusion, for there is a point in every paragraph. Outside the narrowest official circles there is but one voice to land and magnify M. Thiers' speech. Even the Siicle and Opinion Nationale, which did what they could to prevent his name from being placed on the list of opposition candidates in M►y last, are unreserved in their praise. M. Emile de Girardin, while calling to mind that he Las been often bitterly opposed to M. Thiers in old parlia mentary times, says that he has read his speech not only with admiration, but with "emotion." He considers the speech as one not only of a great orator but of a great citizen, who, having no per sonal object to gain, and being far above the in trigues of ambition, tells the truth to bis country. " The tone of the speech," says the Preme, " from one end to the other is not that of opposition which seeks to overthrow but of con viction which seeks to found. May that convic tion spread to the higher regions where we should wish to see it dominant !" Referring to the con cluding word of M. Thiess' speech to which M. Rouher took exception in the commencement of his reply, the word exigent—meaning that if liberty were not now granted to the respectful requests of the advocates of the people it was to be feared that the time might come when they would "exact" it—M. de Girardin agrees with M. Jules Fevre that the Minister of State put a forced construction on the expression when be affected to treat it as an appeal to physical force ; the word eriger the editor of the Preset wittily says is a perfectly " constitutional verb." Among the many admirable things said by M. Thiers, I was greatly struck by the happy way in which he demolished the standing government argument that parliamentary government is only suited to the atmosphere of England, and will not do for the French character. He showed that ever sirce the time of Charlemagne the governments of England and France had been essentially the same, the military, the feuds!, and the parliamentary succeeding each other nearly contemporaneously in each country. To call parliamentary government Euglish was like saying the steam-engine was an English machine. Nothing could be more weak than M. Rouber's reply. It reads like the speech of the small pro vincial procureur which he took the opportunity of saying he was some years ago. As to the liberty of the press he contradicted himself flatly without seeming to be aware of it—in one sentence de nouncing liberty of the press as bad in itself, and a " monopolised means of aggression," and in the next saying that he was not opposed to it, but only wanted a counterpoise. His whole speech was merely a series of affirma tions that whatever was was right under the empire, and that whatever might be done by the Emperor hereafter would also be right. In the latter part, however, be admitted the possibility of the constitution being further improved, but said it could only be in the Emperor's own good time. M. Jules Fevre took care to nail the minister to the latter admission, and observed that between him and M. Thiers there was only a question of time as to the perfectibility of the constitution. The Daily Rocs is seized. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) IrarirllDAY, J.UrOAKT IS. .13.1 Nabs ..... 10111 Ltardasa • • MVO Leith. Aramaean_ SRI Orommostlo tlrY Gs'oray V,lsatla Caps Char 31.1406 .1 31 1 i Peottwoks 34.34 Brost WO 41 L'Orleat fa 43 Imohsfort .14 41 34137 Wspaoath 31.13'43 Portsmouth laadsa miszi Dover .3t 40 Tanasath— *37, icarborus SOMS4' (Wads 30.3436 liehaohad 13300. IL 44 L 1 14 b 4 le b 1 24 f 5 18 b 4 it • - It • LI • II • 12 f It b 111 24 f SO e r 14 • 24 b £ 1 li r 12 r Si 111 14 le f 21 b &w. &W. SAL SAS N.N.W. N.& LICE N. Z. JAPAN. The Moniteur de la Platte publishes very favour able news from its own correspondent in Japan, dated Yokohama, November 17. The letter states that on the preceding day the difficulty with Prince Satsuma was arranged. The prince is to pay the English representative the sum of 25,0001. de manded previous to the attack on Kagosima for the murder of Mr. Richardson. The government of Jeddo have, moreover, withdrawn the decree for the expulsion of foreigners from Japan, and have discontinued the building of forts round Yokohama, which remains in possession of the European forces. The Prince of Satsuma had become much less savage, and had announced his intention to send 30 young men of gool family to be educated in Eng land. Peace may consequently be considered as certain for the present, and commercial transac tions have resumed their activity. There were fourteen English ships of war in the port of Yokohama on the 17th of November, and in addi tion two corvettes at Nangasaki The English admiral is said to be expecting two more vessels from the Pacific. (REITTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE EXECUTION IN HOLSTEIN. RENDSBURG, JAL 12, E«-uto. The Federal Commisaioners arrived here to-day. They are believed to have come to treat upon the matter of the six villages on the no►th of the Eyder, claimed by Holstein, but not yet evacuated by the Danes. HAMBURG, Jas. 13. Advice' reoeived here from Copenhagen, of Monday, state that great hopes are entertained of the preservation of peace. STOCKHOLM, JAW. 12, Evrrecc. The Duke of Warmland is seriously ill. An extraordinary session of the Storthing of Norway has been convoked to discuss war armameuta. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 13. An imperial decree has been issued to-day declaring the construction of a railway from Orleans to the Bourbonnais line to be a work of public utility. THE SPANISH CONGRESS. MADRID, JAL 12. In to-day's sitting of the Congress, Senor Car rigniri brought forward a bill for the construction of &railway from Pampeluna to the French frontier. The congressional committees will report upon the bill. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, J. 13. At the election of deputies in the city of Bruges the candidates belonging to the clerical party were elected, thus still wore diminishing the liberal majority in the chamber. The Ministry will pro bably tender their resignation to-day. SANGUINARY BATTLE IN ECUADOR. SOUTHAMPTON, jam. 13. The La Plata brings news of a sanguinary battle fought in Ecuador between General Mosquera and General Flores, resulting in the defeat of the latter, who retreated to hem. Mosquera lost 500 in killed and wounded, and Flores 1,500 killed and wounded and 2,000 prisoners. The latest aocounta state that Mas q ues had crossed the Cbeta, and defected the Ecuadorian forces stationed there. People were flocking from Quito to Guayaquil for refuge. The governor of Guayaquil bas called to arms all men between 14 and GO years of affe. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 13. The Royal Mail steamer Ls Plata has arrived herewith the above mails, 25 passengers, 1,735,966 dollars in specie, and 1,516 packages of cargo. Lord Wodehoose, the Minister Extraordinary on • special minion to his M•jeaty the Eby of Danmark, is expected to Mani to Loudest to-day, accompanied by Mr. Currie, the Hoe. Hoary Wodeboimm sad Mr. Bandersom The Duke of Devonshire is entertaining a select party at Haan Hall, near Hilathorps, Laaahirs. The Marquis of Hartington has arrived at Demosbar* H 0101) from a tour of yids. The Counters of Elgin is expected to arrive in this away early in February from India. The Earl al Durham ham loft Borland to met his keddaip's sister as her way homewards._ Tim RIM= Music Her.—The latest novelty bete is the producebe d • " Paley Fetatsia," which hes • very brillis•t ••d remarkable effect. .i.w. WIOW/LO TWVISDLT. 011 KOWWIIa /Mir. S.W. to N.W. and N.E., COMM N.Z. to N.W. tad S.W.. freak One. moderato to et on. 5.8. W. to N.N.W., Woman. W. to N. and beak troth, rah, to treat to strong. W.N. W. to 8.8 0 1 . c :o k d MIDDLE. N.W. to N. If..and back again to T., mode rate to strong. W. to N. and E, mode- 11017!m 1. N.E to S.& and S.W., rate to fresh, gene- bark rally Ox. Ai next strove. to W:, Mth. lARTI3.II. Ai seat above. Iterthern=enotland. Western= Ireland. Ytddle=Wales, opposite and adjaceut. anntbern.Enidish Channel and Biscay bay. fasternmltaaLward inetand sad liellgoiand. Notwithstanding the rigour of the winter the works for the perforation of Monet Oa& tostaase regu larly. One mile and seven f odour of the tunnel are already completed, sod a distance of about nine feet is per daily. The Roman catholic Bishop of Galway, Dr. Evilly, addressing a coogrenatios cm the Feast of the Epiphany, mierred to the model school in that town as • standing danger to the faith. He mealuded • lung and vehement attack cm the schools by &Diaries that he de prived every resaftseer, of nimbler reds sr position to the diocese, of all jurisdiction to absolve either the parents of the children or the children thrimudves w►o resort to such enaldishimmts, or to say ether parties who actively co olants is the flautist' of sash prawn and prospective spiritual evils. VIIIO7IANK OP LONDOP.-(THIS DAY.) • The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held at soot, in theanak, Priaoseatreet; Mr. Peres Nona- Lisamorewrgag, in the chair. The following report and halanceftheet for the half year ending 31st December, 1863, were presented : " Me directors have the pleasure to report that the net preen for the six mouths ending the 31st December len, after payment of all charges (including the sum of 112,4871. la. 10d. for intereet paid and due to customers of their cur rest and deposit aeoPants), and making ample provision for all bad and doubtful debts, amount to 114,3231. 14e. Bd., which, with 6681. I•2s. &1., brought forward from 30th June last, make together 114,992/. 7s. 4d. The directors now declare a dividend of 18e. per share, clear of income tax, far the six months end * Dec. 31, amounting to 54,0001., sad leaving a balance of 60,9921. 7a 4d. This state et the accounts induces the directors to anticipate that which, ia the ordinary course, they would have postponed . until July next, in order that the proprietors may participate in the profits of the past six months at the earliest pro Ile period : they have, there fore, appropriated 60,0001. at the profits of the past half year to the reserved food ; and out of such reserved food, thus increased to 170,0001., they . have appropriated 60,00 W. in adding 11. per share to the p aid-up capital of the company, I which will th us be increased from 720,6001. to 780,00 After deducting the rums applied in earnest of the divi dend, and in addition to the renewed fund, amouptieg together to 114,0001., there will remain a balance of 9921. 7s. 44. for appropriation in July next. The dividend will be payable on and after Wednesday, the 29th inst. " Omaha:, Baraercz.-lAabilities. -Dr. : 101. per share paid up ca 80,000 shares, 600,0001. ; 2tt per share added out of reserved profite, 120,0001. •, togethor, 720,0001. Due by the bank on current amounts, deponi revives (including interest accrued), and other obligations, 16,472,2781. 13s. 7d. ; reserved f invested in Consols. as per metre, 110,000/. • rebate on bills not due, 27,1131. 4e. X; baker:e at credit of profit and 114.9921. 75. 44. ; total, 17,444,3841. ss. 14. : Anne draele in the bask, 741,6441. 86. Bd. ; cash in Beek of En ad, 779,6861. Us. 74. ; cash lent at call, =OM-together, 2,493.331/, 2s. 3d. ; investments in go yeoman neck, Exchequer Bilk, debentures, he., 921,200/. 4e. 2d. ; 118.4801. 19:a Bd. Consols (taken at 92j) reserved fund, 110,0001. ; bank premine-coesieting of free hold buildings in Priocee-etreet, Mandoc-bouseatreet. Argyll-place, sad Fleetatreee, sad lease aid fixtures at No. 4, Pall-mall Fiat, 108,7751. 4e. bd. ; loans, bills dis counted, &c., 13,811,0771. 14e. 3d.-total, 17,414,3841. ss. ld. " nom AND Loss ACOOODIN-Dr. • Atooolt of divi deed of 186. per share, 54,0001. ; appropriated to reserved food, 60,000/. ; balance, being undivided nag carried for ward to next half-year. 9921. 7s. 4d. ; total 114.9921. 76. 4d. Cr. : Profit unappropriated oo 30th Ju1i0.1863.6681. 126. Bd.; amount of net profit of the half year ending 31st December , 1863, after deducting all expensee, and interest paid and due (112,4871. la 10d.), allowed to customers on their correct and deposit accounts, 114,3231. 14a. Bd. ; total, 114,9921. 7a. 4d." The CHAIRMAN, Is moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said the report was a source of great satisfaction to the directors, especially that part of it which re !erred to the capitalisation of 11. per share of the preeta. The increase of capital would take 9,0001. additional for the dividend, but the profits of the hank no doubt justified the course adopted, (Hear, hear.) By widening the basis of their capital they were exhibiting forbearance and cautioe, which the public had a right to expect; while by selling the thirteenth portion of capital sow added they could realise 4/. for every rued. (Hear, hear.) On the capital as it now existed the dividend was 15 per cent. (Hear, bear.) As to the future, the directors had no greeter powers of fomenting than others, bat there was no came for apprehessioe or doubt. The biome:hes were all pregresing satisfactorily, sad at no period had the concern generally been is a better position. (Cheers.) A PIOPRIZTOR wished to know whether the officers had participated in the increased prosperity of the beak. The DIWINAN fully appreciated the motive of the speaker, but thought the matter was one which might safe) be left to the board. (Hear, bear.) Their scale al wee as high as that of any other bask, aid he be lieved their officers were perfectly satisfied with the maser in which they had been treated. The motion was then carried unanimousl , On the motion of Mr. HIPLOP, se by Mr. DONALD STZWART, thanks were voted to the directors. A Paoreirrfte said the bank being mixed up very mush with operations is Canada and the United States, be wished to laws whether in the inset of war between the United States and this country the beak would eunah, any serious The CIUDINAN replied that although there wee a great deal of profit derived by the tank from Amnia% the board took care that the bank had is all cams tangible securities to protect it agaiest loss. (Bear, hear.) On the mina of Mr. WAGNITAIT, seconded by Mr. Gaiusw, a vele of thanks was given to the general manager, Mr. Scrimp:our ; mho to the o th er and ry the secreta ; after which the meeting THE PRIOHTIFOL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH DOCKYARD. CORONER'S INQUEST.—erms DAY.) Mr. C. J. Carttsr, coroner for West Kent, can ed se *airy this looming at the Freemason's Tavern, North Keet.teerece. Woolwich, tato the eirantostances attending the deaths of William Joiners, Patrick Healey, aid Edward Adams, who were killed by a frightful acci dent which *control at Woolwich Dockyard, oe beard the paddlestemi vowel Spiteful oe Monday afternoon het. The jury Ent preceded to the dockyard to view the venal and the some of the acsidest, sad oa their retort the follow* 11 were examined : Dr. James Thomson said—l am a surgeon at the Royal Marine Hospital. On Monday afternoon the deceased Adams war brought to the hospital. where he died about ese hour sad • half after amides. He was from the GM imensible. and had three large wounds on his head from which the blood Bowed pieselv. He never rallied. The skull wee severely hectored on the forehead, sad nothing could have waved life. Stephen Head, of Spray's•buildings. Woolwich, deposed he was en beard the eteam-reesel Spiteful oo Monday alter s = last, and wee leading man in charge. The see were is the act of rah* a boiler out of the venal, cad when it we. raised to • Wight of 25 feet the 10th link of the thole gave way. Twenty-two sue were employed oa the work, and immediately the chola broke the shame ceded round sad the boiler, weighing 26 toes, fell on deck on to another bailer, carrying with it the heavy iron gear, which fell on the belle sad bodies of the injured and dimmed men. Healey was found deal under the boiler, and Johnson was lying at the further end of the boiler, elm dead. The chains were coseidertd antScient to lift 70 toes. George Parkinson said-1 am an assistant fitter employed at the factory department of the dockyard, ad oil the afternoon in question had charge of the sheen. The boiler was properly slung and plumbed, sad woe lifted up clear cot of the vessel without say Arabi. The thews had been used four years, which we consider a very abort time, sad they wise in good acidities. The sootiest wee vsy mato, the back gay giving way, and widen would blue expected St. Paul's to have fallen be ton, the guy would have broken. Hoary Webb, as risisteat titter, residing at St. Mary's. street, Woolwich, corroborated the state.meat of log John Devoyle, of Statioerreed, Woolwich, mid he was working Oa bud the meal, sad about 14 revolutions took plus before the chaos broke. The brakes link produced was entering on the barrel end wee jut bit* when he noticed the gay to break. Them is no sign of the least flaw is the broke, link, and although the whole strain was thrown over the other guy it did not break. There was so jerking, end everythieg appeared to be going as satisfestertly. William Lake, William Dada's. and Jobe Gaiter CORO. berated the Mehemet of the last deem& George L Keetieg, togiatter on bawd the Spiteful, said— A minute before the modest occurred we were speculating on what strain would be required to break the abeam levee, but so one anticipated an accident to occur. The sheets leg was broken io two. one part going overboard and the other across the paddle-box. The sheen had frequently lifted heavier weights. James T. Bannister, assistant-iogysietor at machinery at the factory department of the dockyard. was thee sworn. sad the euminatioe of this wham was prooeediag when our parcel was despatched. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley will remain at the dean's private midges% 6, Grosvenor-eyewink till the begianing ot Feb. nary. the Archbishop of Dublin and the Hoe. Mts. Tree& and the family still occupying the deanery and abo Arch !woo Bectinck's residentiary blase. The dela will sot " read himself in" till he has come into residence. The death of Dean Meyler makes • vacancy in the National Board of Education in Ireland. It appears that the Most Rev. Dr. Cullen did not wish to disturb him, on account of his venerable age ; but it is well understood that no sorlesisstic will be allowed to take hie plaoe. If the vacsacy be filled up the government will be obliged to sp. point a layman of the same commission. A pilot boat of the Messrs. Scott, of Quseas tows, brought a valuable prim into that harbour ea 61e day overdo' —the ship Sarah Maria, laden with ins his. Liverpool to a foreign port, which was towed drifting help 'only at sea with only use man sad a little boy In her—a ' mirage crew pat ea board by • vessel that fell in with her after her own crew had deserted her. EXTRAORDINARY BAITIIIL—A benne of an extra ordiruy chtsawAer has just taken place in the 'SWIM of Paris. Taking advantage of the Dort, which drives this particular pm. into covert, the *weer invited a Christmas party to partake is the sport of set killing. AU the great seven were driven is one dirsotioe till millioaa of rats— which fought anima themselves like tigers as they were basted elong—wsre collected I. • large drain by the bridge of Aisaiere• Party dogs were thee let down tato the sews's, and. after • fight which lasted 45 boors, and in whisk fear dogs were killed and some blinded, DO WO than 110,000 rots were despatched. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Rump. —(Betore the Lord Chid Justice bunt, and Justices Cramping, Blackburn, and Mellor.) PLANS O. SPLVIL. . . . _ Mr. D. D. Keane mid this irse; egtioa tied in Los s ) ° , before Mr. Justice Blackburu,whon the buy returned a se e . diet for the plaintiff. damages 701. He moved for • r e l. =upon the plidatd! to Dhow cause why the verrbi t nog be set aside. and • new trig' had on the gros s s that the verdict wan against evidence. The pl um e is a haberdasher, wry's' on business at ke, St. Edmunds, and the defendant is • farmer. reek* near Siowntsrket, about 13 miles distant, and the scoop was for mount* supplied to the defendant's wife, while::: his kno w ledge or consent,but as was alleged by the defewleg for the purpose of allowing the wife to raise sum of money Mad was substantially a loan of money to the wife) lay her melding them. Mr. Justice Blackburn said the evidence for the defence did not ease up exactly to that, but he thought it nude a good mem spinet the plaintiff. Mr. Keane said the evidence showed that the wife heed teen 'applied with goods by the tradesmen of Stowing:Mg, The wife was a stranger to the plaintiff. having been i ntro . duced to him by a Mrs. Dennis, and there was other mi. dance which showed that the plaintiff must have been aware that the wife bad not authority to pledge her hushund's credit. The Lord Chief Justice—Was the cue tried by a speci.l aeys mr. Keme—lJnfortunstely not. The Lord Chief Justice— Because I generally Sod that when • ease is tried • wooed time, and then by a sp e , 4 l jury. the result is reversed. Mr. Keene said be thought the jury decided the ca,e move with regard to their being tradesmen than as protecting the rights of husbands. Mr. Junkie Blackburn said that if he had tried the :et without • jury he should have found the other way. Bale nisi granted. wpm TS WO soli la+ PIN ale Aim a Pio pew kid gra Pasi elk ATM WON gee the Pg's 4 1111 • I Jai Tim He ha S £.IIL PATENT OF PRECEDENCE. Mr. Eferjewat Bassin" haviog bad conferred 00 bin a patent of procodeoce was eallad by the Lord Chief Justi Lt within the hat, and Loh his seat aocordiugly. LOW r. _ _ Mr. Pearce said this w en toterpleader Wine tried before Mr. Justice Blackburn, at Westminster. He moved, by leave of the learned judge, to enter the verdict for the plaktiff, on the ground that he was the bone fide owner of the goods. The plaintiff bad advanced • saw of money to a person named Todd, for which he took a bill of sale en the goods. The defendant was the execution creditor of a Mrs. Thornton, Todd's sister. They resided together, and she wee aware of the bill of sale to the plaintiff before she gave a bill of sale ne the same goods to the defendant for money advanced to him to her. The learned counsel contended that whatever interest she might have had in the furniture was a party to Todd's melon:mat, and that therefore she had no property hi them when she mooed them to the defendant. Reds granted. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.. Mims J.ord chief Itarou Pollock, tUct Bones idartio, Chinos and Pigott.) Mitt= it LONDON AND NORTH W1:111 . 211, RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an astiou for damages for bodily injuries mond to the plaintiff by r railway oxidant, in which the verdict was for the plaintiff—damages, 1,2001. Yesterday Mr. Edward James, Q.C., moved for • rule to reduce the da. mega& or for • new trial, sod the court reserved judgment ants/ they bad coosulted Mr. Juitece Williams, who tried the cane at Liverpool. Mr. Befell Martin now said he bad miss Mr. Justice Williams, who stated that be bad no doubt the damage+ gives by the jury were enhanced by maxi of the plainti:l having a fit—not an &Doomed, but a real one—during tte trial, sad that he would have been better satisfied if the homages had not been so large. Under these circumstaucti the wart would make the rule &Lactate for • new trial tulles the plaintiff aired to accept a verdict for 1,000/. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fano.) IN RC J. A. COMT. - The bankrupt wit;describeine -- aninnufactuting and cot. suiting sugioesr, of I'rovidenc►row, Finsbury. This VW the sitting for examination and discharge. The total babilities are 17.4i5/. ; warn about SCOI. The bankrupt states his expenditure at 3304 I. each of the two years per oohs( the bankruptcy. On the applacetton of Mr. 0. E. Lewis, for the enigma an adjournment was ordered for additional account.. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) AB.LBORIDIJOH -STREET. THE ►RACDCLSMT TRADEMAHILIS ACT. Mr. Bradlaugh, from the once of Mr. B. Lemma, St. Heisn'aplacs, City, applied to Mr. Tyrrwbitt for aum• ancsmet under the above act, just come into operatics, spinet two auctioneers, for exposing for mle pianoforte bearing names which bed boss forged, and for refusing to give information from whom they were obtained. For el. posing she pianos for sale the auctioneer was liable, wilder the 4th section, to ► Sue of 51., and if with a guilty know ledge (wider the 13th section), it was a misdenteanoar, and punishable by tine or imprisonment, and Use reining to give information respecting the article rendered the auc tioneer liable to a boo of 5/. (under the 6th section). Mr. Bradlaugh stated that one of tisa auctioneers told him tlut be ought to go against others as well as him, as there were plenty of others dole; the runs thing—namidy, selling pianofortes with forged makers' names upon them. Mr. Tyrwhitt granted the summonses. WORSHIP-STREET. lIIIINGOLAN CASS 01 I RimY AND ANSAULT... . . Tkonaal7;;l7, a;e4;etablelTuicizTi man,described is • Weber in the Cambridge.roed, Milemod, was charged before Mr. Leigh with an assault upon Mies Elizabeth Premier, sod also with stealing her muff. The peosountrit, who is a pretty-looking girl about 1 4 yens of age, stated that shermidcd with her parents in W. mottmtreet, Milemod, sad that she wes retuning hems company with • ferule faked the pee r ess night. Th 9 primear who had followed them until they termed the come et the Leedom Hospital, • somewhat retired part, end denl vet y a rell his arm round her waist and flung her to the at the same moment she observed her muff. .o which as &shot balmy she had both her hands. M Si pommies. When able to rise she followed him, but hi eips.M due he down, end • polioemosseable corning no et iM imeask she gave the primmer into custody, out =to , the muff had not bees seen by her since. lay nos a to be iatezieateL Either Dodd, the companion of presecntrix, complete!! corroborated this statement ; and the 000 stable in charge of the cam mentioned that prisoner, when given into ha custody, wished to prefer one against the young women foe annoying him. He had been drinking. but perfectly well knew what he bad been sayieg rad doing. Kim Proms, toe, said something about au indecent assault. ILr. Leigh remarked that it was elegalar the muff had or hems rowevered. There wee so charge of indecent auaut Miss Dodd believed that primmer threw away the pm party at a &stews. She °burred him in some stub act. Primmer broadly declared that gross perjury had beet sworn against him by the witness. He was set in bur nem himself, but could have *sty of work. Mr. Lideth said be believed that at least an wrath tan! base committed, and be should order for that offence tal. wheat el Sus. lee, sod 10a. mete, or in dofault, an inspriem most of 14 days. ■ Doemwei-eninsr, JAN. 12—The Queen has bre: =.lte appoint John Fester Gresham, Dirt.. to be e. 7netiree at the Island at Grenada ; and William Alt, ander Gawp Young, Esq., to he Colonial Siscraim7 for to Island of Veseonver. —Gazette. DEIRIURNMIRI MACHINERY AtvlDENT.—Yestr 7 day eviniesi Dr. Birt Davies. coroner at Birmingham. beta! an bqaby into tbe circus:etagere attending the death of , man named William L.*. 56 years of age, an ostler. 0 !: the afternoon of the 51', alt the deceased was with s Ta,: mewed Mathews is a stable engaged is chaff Gutting. Tb reeeltine was worked by owe horse power, the berm atom; in a circle. As the knives of the macbinea wasted Amore lag the bores woe stopped. sad without unhooking the taiga the demand barna sharpeeingtbe knives with a tile the ma Mathews beim engaged le filling the box of the metier Whilst the demand was engaged in sharpening the kiwi' a man named Robertson earns to the door of the *able, mad marking to the demand. mid, "The hors seems to go hotter to-day. ° He had hardly spoke the words whim the bone moved about one foot. The arm d the deceased was at the time between the knives, sod the victim of the haw brought one of the knives on ow e! hie arose, which it cat severely. He was reheard from the mashies avid talon to tbe General Hospital, when he . 0 toned to have sustained a weer, cut oo the arm. The wound was dressed, hot pyemia supervening, the drown gradually sank and died on Friday last. TM dersool bed boo often cautioned by his to not to sharpen t/' knives of the chaff-cutting mochias without unbool the horse. A verdict of " Accidental death" was recluses by the Farr. RZLICIL—Among the curiosities on exhibition at Use Sanitary Pair is Banco are numerous relies of Wirt =r.: sash, saddle, epaulettes, cane, with nod and letters; bronze jar from Shamble. l"' thoessaed years old ; sword of Miles Standish ; lock of . t . ltt pa whisk killed King Philip, of Mount Hope, is 16 ', and a wander' bowl taker, Sr.. Philip's wigwam; ; a bib printed in Viejo, In 14Th, before printing was ietrolarel into England, sad samisen maze and penis, saltine s sad lettere. There are also exhibited the shoes wort b! the royal family of England, and a pair of shoes parebt`di 0 • 01 4 t tv• a loan lay who arrived in Ilostos last Sat' day. sheds ere Name an Rey roma( lady would wear here. sad eve lased 44th white cord. Yet the *d forty dollen fee thew, and refused to sell thew fe , Atty.—Bestow (U.S.) paper.