The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-29 00:00:00

~~ i I 1 ' 0, , i i ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.' The iNirIJALL MEETING was held ou FRI:DAY, the ththinst. CHARM TURNIat, laq., M.P., in the Chair. The following is an epitome of the Report: " FIRE BRANCH. "The progress of the Com pa ny, as respects the amount of Immi nent effected, has been satistory, the returns of duty published by parliament. on thermotion of the chairmen of this Oompiay, by far the largest measure of increase which the Com pattj 4&I experienced. The total not amount of Fire premium for the year, Atte! deducting geartateth, t0.E114,751 13a. " LIFE BRANCH. "Turning now to the Life Branch, it remainsto be reported that the progress has been marked by unehecked success. This will be made clear by one or two Atatiatical " Taking the four preriona iittingnennial period.i, it to found that the tint, from 184$ to 1813 inclusive, commenced with a sum assured or— year 1645 of RAW.. and emizd the period with a total min assuml of L 274796 The Second, 1850-54 Do. 1850 .. 95,650.. do. do. 7.13,103 The Third, 1866-00 Do. 1866 .. 203,311.. do. do. 1,az,c73 The Fourth, 1460-di Do. 18e) .. 449.242 . dn.' do. 3,439,215 And now the first year of the fifth like period, viz., 1865, the Company has granted assurances for .....56.063, nearly twice the amount at the commencement of the l:•4t quinquennial period. " It therefore, the result of the total five years, ending in the year 1809, were to have a corresponding increase with the pre vious periods of five years each, the am,nnt of business that would he effected in the quinquennial perhd now running would be more than has ever been on record In any insurance establish ment In this country. "The Directors have likewise to report that the We hinds I have Increased by the sum of 4:103,146, the accumulated funds of this department now amounting to 5;740,45e. As an addition of at least £lOO,OOO per annum to these accumulations during the next ten years may now be fairly anticipated, It is within rea sonable expectation that during this period the We funds will approach nearly to 82,000,000 sterling. " The Directors propose to the Proprietors that a dividend he declared of 3a. per share, and a bonus of 4s. per share, together 71. per share, free of income-tax. " It is a matter of satisfaction to state that after withdrawing the amount of this dividend and (sons from the profit and loss account, a credit balance will still remain to that account of no leas than £02,070 9s. in addition to the reserve fund, which, by the augmentation of the year, now reaches the sum of £110,913 b. 10d." This report was unanimously adopted. PERCY M. DOVE. 51anager and A JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary ine=n. TORN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy UP weight, at realisable value, and the worlananship at obobssale manufacturers' prices. The gold in the chains gua ranteed, and repurchased at the prier charged. " Here's the note, How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, The Oneness of the geld, and charge for ion." Su AK faih ESPHLRE. llannfactury, 10, Henrietta-larva, r , ,v^nt.rardcu, London 1 BENSON'S WATCHES. IA and 00, Ludgate-h111: £5, Uld Bond-street. B ROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'A DIET. To obtain extra profit b 7 the sale other kinds r. sometimes offered instead of BROWN and PoLSON'S. "John Brown, "John Poison," is Ague,' b) the makers on each packet. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL, NOW OPEN for the SEASON. every ii:.4ht at eight. Wednesdays and Saturdays, three and eight. Hall newly and beautifully decorated; company greatly increased: new mem bers, twenty performers of known excellency said ability, in cluding all the original members; everything new for the new season. Fauteuils, ss. ; stalls, 3s. area, 2x.: gallery, is Tickets at Austin's office, Piccadilly.- Messrs. Moore, Crocker, and Ritter, proprietors.—Manager, r. Frederic Burgess. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High Holborn. —Thla very elegant and spacious establishment having been entirely redecorated, k.N EVERY EVENING. The grand band, conducted by Mr. W. M. Packs, will perform nightly a choice selection of operatic and dance =wale. Open at half pad 8 ; Moms at 18. Admission, Is. ROY AL PRINCESS'S T H EAT RE.—Sole Lessee and }tanager, Mr. VININiI.—LASIT TEN NIGHTS of the present I'vrformancew—THlS EVENING, and during the week, a Ounedy in Three Acts, by John Oxeuford, Esq., en titled THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Characters by Mr. Vining, Mr. J. G. Shore, Miss !Catherine Rodgers, Miss Neilson, and Mrs. Buckingham White. To he followed by, at 9 o'clock, IRE HU GUENOT CA HfAIN, by Watts Phillip., Esq. Principal cbarac terc—Mrs. stirdng, Miss Neilson. !tills Augusta Thompson, Mr. George Hullo, and Mr. J. G. Snore. lirsnd Ballet of Bohe mians, In which Messieurs Flageolet, ('lodoche, CotOte, and Normande will appear. New neeuery by Mr. F. Lloyds. zite ervrtoo. TO CORRE4PON DENTS. Advertisements Intended for "Thu I-tpress," London Evening Paper, noi+t be at the Office, 10, houverie.strect, by Two o'clock on the day of publication. DRURY LANE Tints EVENING, FAUST. Mr. Phelps. Nreisrs. F.. Phelps, W. Harrison. Vandeuhuff, and .1. Johnstnne Mrs. Herman Veen and \llea Poole.—And TIIE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Brotheis Webb. PRINCIMS'S. TWPJ El'iNiso, THE TRIPLE AIIIANCE —After which THE HUGUENii i CAPTAIN. HOW'S. J. G. shore et G. Honey; Misses Mason, Au r ;usts Thomson, and Hrs. HAYMARKET. THIS EVtINHOI, THE ON ERLANU BOITTE. Measrs. C. Ma thews. iinc:,..tone, Chippendale, ttc Nlesdames C. Mathews, Chippend:,l., Wright, &c. —A Ballet Uir.•rtiaaement. the Ritiati E CRITIC—And MY HUSBAND'S CHIOS f. LICKUM. 4rwo, RallTl - 8 AND CESAR. MiS9 Itenrade.—And T 111: LONE; ,TRIKIe.. Moors. D. Indicleault, Eu,err, tt iddicoinh, Cowper. A : Mrs. D. Iniucicault —Concluding with TWEEDLE TON'zi TM I COAT. Mr. 11. Widiliconib. —Commence at 7. ATRANII. Tlll4 • IRO, WAITING FOR TIIR I - NDERGROUND —IN THE W It , o'.•I IRIA.—IIERFRFfhI'III"T!.: OR, A GOOD CAST FOR A E.—And BOOTS AT lIE SWAN. ROLBORN : ...... VG; Evi stxo, at 7, LARKIN's WYE LETTERA Mr. Bel more and 'Um C. Saunders.—And FLYING st'FIL Memare Neville. 11. islore, Blake, Voltaire, &e. Mesdames F. Josephs, C. Sander. Beside Foote, Vitiate, LAIIIIOI. Raytuond, &c. BRIT VSNIA. Tlll. F. , I IMO, TIIE OLD till:Rill" TREE. Mrs. Lane.—Miss R. Mogi,: Master George Per:, Mr N.ogden, " Kind old Daddy ;''r al Deulln.—Alid E 1) RD THE /SLACK PRINCE. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGF. Tim DA•: —lfonitnif, sh. 2.1111 Afternoon. :.h. Ann. To-Mo):):.•w—>foruing, Lh. 2:2n , tfteruuork 60. bLm. LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29. IIi:To Y never exactly repeats itself, and financial , :tstory is no exception to the rule. In all speciilrtive manias and in all crises there are certain points of resemblance, but as equally marked differences. People are now wonder ing how it is that the same change does not tale place in the stock markets that was observed nine years ago. They think that since securities have been unduly depreciated during a panic, the panic once over, prices ought to rise to their feraier level. L has been so before, and, therefore, experience urges that it should recur again. ', he reason for the disappointment of these exi octations simply lies in the fact that the crisis of 1866 originated from events entirely un like th.•s. producing the great convulsions of 1847 and 185'7. Nineteen years ago the country had just passed through a speculative mania, fol lowed by a breakdown almost equalling in magnitude that which succeeded the South Sea bubble. Still, as the money wasted was spent at home, and comparatively little went ab'oad, we might have escaped a crisis but for the potato rot and failure of the harvest. The nseietary pressure, however, caused by the export .1 gold to pay for corn was sufficient to bring down a number of bad houses, together with a few good ones. It is, nevertheless, remarkable that the failures were mainly confined to firms in the East radian trade, together with a sprinkling of corn factors and the like. In 1857 the crisis was purely commercial, and the natural result of unsound trading. For years a number of firms had been carrying on a losing business, and ship ping goods at a loss, simply for the means of pro curing discount, and thus of avoiding the inevit able consequence of a dead stop. No one seems to have suspected what was going on, and thus month after month we were congratulated upon our increasing trade, instead of receiving the proper warnings. We may observe, by the way, the singular contrast, as regards the esti mate formed of passing events, between this period and that of the reopening of our com merce with America. In the one case no warning was given when it was really wanted, and in the second a warning was given which has proved totally un necessary. The summer of 1857, however, was characterised by large shipments of silver to India; LATEST INTELLIGENCE. OUR CONTEMPOI (THIS. DAT.) secondly, the outbreak of the Sepoy mutiny ; and thirdly, a severe commercial crisis lb New York. The occurrence of the latter event rippers to have produced the chief distrust. To the great con sternation of the mercantile community, the diffi culties of the times proved the rottenness of a greeklerfief our trade ; a panic ensued, houses suspended by scores, and the abrogation of the Bank Charter Act alone saved the country from commercial rain. Now in both these cases we have good grounds for accounting for the undue depression in secu rities and their subsequent recovery. In 1847 the middle classes, who constitute the great ma jority of investors, had embarked all, and more than all, their superfluous means in railway un dertakings, good, bad, or indifferent, mid there fore when the crisis came, and merchants were compelled to offer their securities for sale, for a time there were no buyers. By degrees this righted itself. Savings began again to accumulate, and the public, especially the small public, were ready to purchase any good investments offered at low prices. The European convulsions of 1848 strengthened this movement, first by discouraging the employment of money abroad, and secondly by causing large amounts of capital to be remitted from the Continent to England fur safety. In 1857 the cane was somewhat different. Merchants were, it is true, again compelled to sell their securities, and the public were this time not unable, but hesitating to buy. Everybody was waiting to purchase at the lowest price. The tide soon turned. When the reaction took place and the quotations began to improve, it was im mediately proved that there was no want of money nor any disinclination to invest it on favour able terms. The severity of the crisis once got over, people commenced to buy and sell as freely as before. The year 1866 affords a marked contrast to the experience of both nine and nineteen years ago. The late panic has not arisen from distrust in indivi duals, but distrust in companies. Banks, railways, discount or financial institutions, all have met with more or less discredit. As regards mercan tile failures, the number, notwithstanding the un precedented maintenance of the Bank rate at 10 per cent. for over three months, has been below the average even in prosperous years. We have passed through the singular contradiction of a com mercial crisis, in which hardly a commercial house has stopped payment. The contrast is most strik ing, if we look back to 1847 and 1857, when day after day, for weeks together, the newspapers chronicled the stoppage of three or more additional houses. The panic has this time been shifted from individual to corporate credit. In the height of the crisis people would neither lead nor buy. Now they are inclined to lend, but generally refuse to buy. Securities, which but a short time ago were eagerly sought, are now shunned as completely as the shares of Overend, Gurney, and Co. Money becomes every day more and more a drug in the discount market; yet but little of it finds its way to the Stock Exchange, except for temporary em ployment in short loans at nominal rates. It is impossible not to concede that this feeling is natural. The commencement of the year was heralded by the sudden collapse of a joint stock discount company, the shares of which at one period commanded a high premium, and was itself based upon a private business purchased at a heavy sum. The fall was caused by such reckless mismanagement that it is hard to find anywhere a parallel. Next came general distrust and pressure, the stoppage of Overend, Gurney, and Co., reputed the first monetary house in the king dom, the trusted holder of bankers' balances, and a business front which generations of partners had retired with ample fortunes. A financial institu tion follows, then a joint stock bank. One great railway company has already shaken the confi dence of the public in these undertakings by con fessing to an over issue of debentures, a second caps it by becoming bankrupt, since of their debentures falling due they can pay neither interest nor principal. The upshot revolves itself into special meetings of shareholders, committees of investi gation, reports, allegations, counter allegations, disclosures, avowals, and so forth, which reveal a continued system of sharp practice, in the midst of which all the guarantees in which the investor trusts break down. It is no wonder that the public became disgusted. As one example succeeded another they lost confidence in' everything. They found that high names, commercial and social standing, wealth, and a world-wide reputation for enterprise, are insuffi cient to keep a great undertaking untainted from dishonesty. The obvious conclusion was deduced that where trust has been so abused, the best thing is to have nothing to do with any one of them. Of course this sort of feeling may cagily be carried too far. All railways have not been ma naged in the style of the London, Chatham, and Dover, or even in that of the Great Eastern. Neither are joint-stock banks likely to prove a bad investment simply because one of their num ber was obliged to succumb at a period when financial credit was at an end. It is, however, of little use to point out the unreasonableness of the indiscriminate judgments which the public are so apt to pronounce. The evil will work itself out in time. There are, in fact, already signs that a healthy reaction is beginning to take place. While all other investments are comparatively neg lected, a growing demand has been experienced for Indian railway stocks, and especially the debentures. These last securities being issued under the authority and guarantee of the Swag- TARY for INDIA cannot be multiplied beyond the legal limit without the direct collusion of a Go vernment Department. The public may have, and rightly, little admiration for the ability of public offices, but at any rate they feel safe as to their integrity. By degrees the public will also begin to understand that honesty is not con fined to the Government alone; but this conviction will want time to fructify. Tllt MUNICIPAL ILLSCTIONIL The municipal elections, which begin . every year on the lit day of November, are not always, the Dolly News observes, creditable to our institutions ; and we, mar expect that the enemies of Reform, who are diligently Fla siarch of every possible weapon against it, will find some such weapons in the incidents of the approaching contests. The area of the operation of our municipal institutions is circumscribed, and their value is often not appreciated — an injurious social fashion causing a large part of the more cultivated persons in every municipality to withdraw their influence from local affairs. Yet if such persona will not take their proper lead, they cannot complain if men with more public spirit, or if sometimes even men with a smaller ambition, supersede them in municipal offices and then oust them from the lead of public opinion and action in imperial politics. Public life must degenerate when the best men shrink from contact with the people ; but the degeneracy begins with those who will not serve the public because some sacrifice of ease or complacency is involved in the service. For it must be remembered that our muni cipal institutions lie at the foundation of public life in this country. An unhealthy condition of municipal life must inevitably tell on political life generally. The unsatisfac tory character of muchof our municipal government cannot be urged as an argument against the exteusion of the suffrage, for it possesses all the circumstances favour able to electoral corruption, such as small consti tuencies, the absence of great subjects, and the reduction of the choice of candidates to the level of a merely personal preference. These circumstances, which produce corrup tion in parliamentary as well as in municipal constituen cies, would be removed in the case of parliamentary elec tions by any acceptable reform bill. The municipal fran chise, moreover, may be quoted in illustration of the work• ing of a lowered qualification—the household democracy always exhibiting great readiness to accept the leadership of the most cultivated classes when they will only come forward. With all their democracy our municipalities are essentially middle class ; and the Daily News commends to the consideration of that great class whether their muni cipal experience does not convincingly prove that a large infusion of the working class element into mu parliamen tary constituencies would result in a great atmugthening of the middle class element in parliament itself. VENETJA. THE IRONWORKERS OP THE NORTH. It appears that at a meeting cf ironworkers, held last Saturday at Wednesbury, it was unanimously agreed to unite the trades unions of the northern and midland dia. trice, and convene a national assembly of delegates for the purpose of establishing a grand central directory. Barge subsidies have already been remitted from Staffordshire to the Northern Unions, and it is hoped that when the two " executives" shall have been combiner: the funds in hand will allow of 10s. a week being paid to each ironworker on strike for some weeks to come. Contributions have also been sent to their assistance from an independent association at West Bromwich,andthis,too,is tobe invited to join the new confederacy. It is but one step f urther, exclaims the Timed, to extend the same principle to other brunches of industry, so as to counteract the economical law whereby skill, as well as capital, seeks the most remunerative investments• Why should we not have a General Trade Executive regu. lating the whole industrial machinery of the country, pre scribing a maximum number of workpeople and a minimum of wages for each department of manufactures, if not for each operation of agriculture, and thus finally crushing the hydra-headed tyranny of capital? The simplest of the manifold answers to the question is, that capital is more easily transferable from one country to another than labour. At this moment orders are being executed for English firms at Belgium and Prussia, and the inevitable result of these repeated strikes will be to drive more and more of English capital abroad. Here is a consideration which seems to have been almost overlooked by the leaders of trades' unions, but which deserves their most careful attention. Free trade, which has done so much for the workman, has done something for the capitalist, and so many investments have been opened out in our colonies and abroad as to raise very considerably the normal rate of interest. Even if the existing proprie tors of ironworks could be coerced into giving higher wages than they can afford in the present state of the market, others will avoid the iron trade and carry their money else where. ICS TOPICS. The Times, after paying a tribute to the character and abilities of the late Attorney-General, proceeds to remark that the able lawyer who succeeds him has neither sat so long in the house nor succeeded in making for himself any considerable parliamentary reputation ; and occasions will speedily present themselves when the clear good sense and the ready debating power and the pointed argument of Sir H. Cairns will be looked for in vain. The fact that such a man has left the government does not tend to strengthen confidence in their durability, and they can ill afford a loss which a stronger administration might well contemplate with dismay. The progress of Roman catholicism intheUnited States suggests to the Daily News some speculations as to the in fluence which this fact may exercise on the f uture tortures of the Roman catholic church. The possession of four out of thirty-one millions shows that the foreign element in the States must have stuck pretty generally to its old faith. When the time comes to which the American observer looks forward when the population of the United States will exceed 100,000,000, including more Roman eatholics than any other single country, the change can hardly fail to modify in many ways the action of the church. The un popularity of the Roman church throughout most coun tries of Europe at this moment is rather due to the political associations with which she has chosen to surround her self, than to any dislike to her doctrines or practices. From all this in the United States she is free, and the theological character which is formed in the democrati c atmosphere of America must be sufficiently distinct to gradually leaven the church in which it grows up. All the accessories with which the body of Roman doctrine is sur rounded will necessarily feel the influence of this change. The Telegraph says that the issues between the very high church party and their opponents all relate to the sacramental system—to the question whether the ordained priest has a power which is nearly the same as that involved in the doctrine of transubstantiation. Manifestly the sole method of terminating the controversy is by reference to a court of justice. The pending quarrel between Ritualism and Protestantism is clearly one of those numerous crises in which peace is to be obtained only by a decisive battle. lEht wart. BALDIORAL, Om 2G. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Louise, drove to the Donside by Tarland, Molly Musk, and Castle Forbes, returning by Kildrummy Castle and Ballater. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice drove in the afternoon. ocr. 27. The Queen went out, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe. Prince Leopold drove to Gairnshiel. MR.% LINCOLN IN SCOTLAND.—AIong with other distinguished visitors at present residing at the Clyde Hotel, Bothwell, are the widow and daughter of the late Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America.—Scotinan. ST. ALBAN'S, FIOLBORN.—YestA)Tday morning, as might have been expected from the discussion on ritualism which has taken place during the past week, there was an immense congregation at St. Alban's, Holborn. Every corner of the Church was filled, many of the persons present being, of course, attracted simply by curiosity. As it was the Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude, the officiating clergy wore red stoles. In a surplice and red stole the sermon was preached by the Rev. Henry Aston Walker, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, who selected for his text the words from the Epistle of the day—" I will, therefore, put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having owed the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them that believed not." He spoke of the duty of contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints, inasmuch as it was faithfai that Laved men, standing the perfection and principle of o This was th point of the Christian religion, and should be the rule of life of all Christian men. Three priests then proceeded with the Communion office. The celebrant was the Rev. Arthur Henry Stanton, M.A., of Trinity College, Oxford, who had changed his surplice for rich red vestments, embroidered with gold, a large cross =woven into the hack. The other priests wore vestments without the cross. Nearly the whole of the congregation remained during the celebration, but com paratively few went up to the altar. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar. Des patches were sent to the Governors of the North American Provinces and Bermuda. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in town yesterday meming from Scotland. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home Purees, left Cambridge Cottage, Kew, on Saturday, for Sandringham, on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. The duchess will stay at Sandringham for some days. Lord and Lady Houghton have returned to London from the Continent. _ . ----- Lord Ashburton is still very unwell. It is ex pected that his lordship will be removed to-day to the suburbs near Hampstead, in order to have change of air and retirement. Dr. Russell arrived in town on Saturday night from Vienna, after a lengthened absence. Count Bismarck, who is doing very well, has left Carleburg for Putbna, on the Isle of Rugen. Eighty thousand square metres of glass are want ing for the Universal Exhibition buildings, sufficient to cover a sree of eight hectares—equal to 19i English acres. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1866. POLAND. IMPORTANT PROPOSALS OF RIIIIEJA. The Posen Journizl of the 26th publishes in large type a piece of news which, if found to be correct, may lead to most serious consequences. It appears from information which the Posen Jour nal has received from Vienna, and which it says is entitled to all confidence, that the cabinet of St. Petersburg, feeling uneasy at the recent attitude of Austria in Galicia, has within the last few days proposed to the government of Berlin to give up to Prussia the left bank of the Vistula, pro vided Prussia consented to the annexation of Eastern Galicia by Russia, and allowed the cabinet of St. Petersburg freedom of action in the East. The Posen Journal calls on the lnralide Bum' and the North German Gazette to deny the news, of which it itself asserts the perfect correct ness. THE CLERGY AND THE PLEBISCITUM IN The Nazionc of Oct. 26 contains the following remarks on the conduct of the Venetian clergy in connexion with the recent vote : One of the most remarkable circumstances connected with the plebiscituru in Venetia has been the ardour with which the clergy have participated in this final act of the popular widl. They came in crowds to vote " yes" them- selves, and by their example and influence they stimulated the patriotism of others. In some instances they headed their flocks like good pastors, and led them to the voting urn. The bishops exhorted by pastoral letters their diocesans to vote, and the patriarch of Venice, in the enthusiasm of these memorable days, demanded oblivion for the past, pardon for his many and grave mistakes, and declared he wished to be in future a good Italian and a faithful subject. Monsignor Zinelli, of Treviso, a prelate famous for his reactionary fanaticism, andfor the wantonness of his attacks, who emulated the most violent champions of ultramontanism in France, not being able on account of illness to go personally to vote, deputed, by special license, another to perform this duty for him, and wrote to the mayor a letter full of patriotic sentiments. Finally the monks, over whom the sword of Damocles is suspended in the measure for the abolition of religious corporations, wore on their breasts tricolor ribbons, and placed their " yes" in the urns. These facts are worthy of serious at tention. We do not believe that we are maliciously dis posed because we hesitate to trust in the sincerity and cor diality o' certain singularly strange conversions. Without wishing to search with inquisitorial indiscretion into the inward thoughts of the Venetian Monsignori, we may be allowed, however, to suppose that a reason, which is not yet known, but of the existence of which we cannot doubt from the effects produced, has guided their conduct and led them unanimously into the new path. B. I T. W. DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF div OFFICER. INQI7EBT.—(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. John Humphreys, the Mid- Le — ses coroner, hel4 an Inquiry at the London Hospital , peeog the deadrceNijor Thomas Clark, aged 43 yaws. rilirr. John Clark, 3, Dunstan-court,Mnoing-lane, breaer of the deceased, said that he was a ship broker. The deceased was a major in the 24th Regiment of Foot. He had been 22 years in tropical climates. Last June 12 months he returned to this country. About three weeks ago he bc...ame depressed. He then heard of the sudden death of a major in his own regiment, and that a captain had returned to hill country in a state of insanity. He then b e came apprehen sive that he should die if he returned to India. He told witness that he was not responsible for his acts. No pecuniary or family matters were preying upon his mind. On the 13th instant witness took him to Dr. Allingham's, at Finsbury-square. Witness afterwards saw him in the LondemHospitaL The deceased had onlyheard of the sudden death of the major and of the insanity of the captain about three weeks RI". i tress had heard that those circumstances bad h...t gre..t effect upon his mind, and witness believed that he was of unsound mind at the time he was at Dr. Allingham's. Coroner—Was he under the impression that his mind would break down if he returned to India ? Witness—Yes. Mr. Wm. Allingham, a medical gentleman, in practice at No. 36, Finsbury-square, said that on Saturday, 13th inst., the dethsaad, with his brother, called at his residence to consult hint. Witness at once perceived that the deceased was not in a et state to be left alone, and he requested the brother to take the major up into the draw ing-room, while he sent for a man to stop with him. Shortly afterwards Mr. Clark came to witness and said, "My brother is very anxious that I should go and stop his relatives who are coming up by the train." Witness then said that he would remain in the room with the deceased while he went to the railway-station. Witne. t hes sat in the room and he tried to get the major into eon. ersation, but while the deceased was talking to witness he a °aid not sit down. While he was walking up and down the room he suddenly rushed to the window and leaped ote . . Witness ran and caught hold of his legs and held them, and he would have been able to retain his hold of them only that the deceased kept kicking. Witness then thought that if the deceased fell into the street while he was holding his legs he would fall upon his head. He, therefore, let go his hold of the de ceased's legs and caught hold of the tail of his coat as he considered that the deceased if he then fell would fall upon his feet. While witness was holding the deceaaed up by the coat it " pealed" off his back, and he fell to the pavement. lint that he struggled witness would have been able to hold him up. A tropical climate is likely to affect the mind of any man of a ner vous temperament. Mr. K. Llewellyn, house surgeon, said that when the deceased was brought to the hospital he was insensible. His arm was fractured. He went on well at first. Upon the slightest thing being said to him he used to become most excited. He used to say, " I wish I was dead." He expired on the 26th instant. A post-mortem examination proved that be had got over the shock to the system which he had received. The cause of death was severe bronchitis accelerated by the fall. The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict " That the deceased expired from the mortal effects of bronchitis, accelerated by a fall which he received by throwing himself out of a window while in a state of unsound mind." WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) MONDAY, OCTODIR M, 8 LW. NMrn 1 /.8 0 47 W.N.W. Aberdeen 29.84 44 S.S.W. Leith 30.00 49 W. Ardroman 30.05 49 W. Oreeneastle 30.12 40 W.S.W. Yalentra 30.35 63 W. Cape Clear Liverpool 30.35 49 W.S.W. Holyhead 30.30 50 W.S.W. 1 . 8117.1111C0 30.49 49 N.W. Brest 30.51 45 N.H. Lorient 30.43 41 N. Rochefort 30.43 46 N.H. Plymouth Weymouth Portamout.h 30.44 42 N.N.W. London Yarmouth 30.37 40 F.W. Scarborough 30.24 43 B.S.W. Shields. 10.17 48 N. W. Helder — Extreme. w 'Hi, „.............- I 12 P. D. N.W. W.N.W. N.W. W. RIGMARK A strong northwesterly current of wind prevailed yesterday over the whole of the British Inks. This morning moderated. some snow has fallen in the north of Scotland, hut the northern and western temperatures continue rather high. A sudden in crease of barometric pressure has occurred In the south, but barometers on the coast of Norway have fallen, and pressure is extremely unsteady on our northern coasts. A continuance of settled weather is improbable. THE ROYAL VISIT TO NoRWICH.—NORWICH, SATURDAY EVENING.—Today a detachment of the Ist Dragoon Guards, which will act as an escort in connection with the visit of the Prince and l'rincess of Wales to Norwich, reached that city. The following distinguished rade has been invited by Lord and Lady Staffori to meet the Prince and Princess at Costessey :—The Earl and Countess of Leicester and Lady Anne Coke, Lord and lady Sondes and the Hon. Misses Milies, Lord and Lady Suffield, the Earl of Goldoni, Viscount Duncan, the Master of Lovat, Lord and Lady Lovat and the Hon. Charlotte Fraser, the Hon. William and Mrs. Stafford Jerningham, Mr. Fitzherbcrt Sta ff ord Jerningham , Mr. and Mrs. Basil Fitzberbert, Sir Robert Gerard, Major and Mrs. Gerard, the Hon. Francis Stonor, Lieut.-General Knollys, Major Grey, and the lion. Mrs. Stonor, will be in attend. ance on the Prince and Princess, and the Countess Reventlow and Captain Cruschenschiold will be in attend ance on her Majesty the Queen of Denmark. The Prince and Princess will take their departure from Costeasey on Thursday,in consequence of the Prince having toleeve Eng. land on the following day or on Friday for the purpose of attending the mamage of the Princess Dagmar and the Czarewitch. The drill abed for tho Norwich Volunteers, which the Prince of Wales will inaugurate, is fast approach ing completion. At the end of the hall or shed there will be a dais and canopy of scarlet cloth surmounted by the royal arms and suitably ornamented. On the north aide of St. Andrew's-hall a suite of rooms has been fitted up in a very tasteful manner for the royal visitors, and in front of the orchestra a handsome dais has been erected. On Saturday the erection of triumphal arches, illumination fittings, Sc., was actively proceeded with in various parts of Norwich, which has certainly spared no pains to display its respect for England's future sovereign. THE DUKE or EDINBURGH AT FLOORS CASTLE. —His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, amain ' ponied by the Duke of Roxburghe Marquis of Bowmont, and the Hon Harry Grey, left Floor s on Thursday morn ing for Roxburghe Moor to enjoy another day's shooting. The party was even more successful than on the former occasion, killing in the course of the day 84 hares and 157 rabbits, which, with the other sorts of game shot, made the large total of 267 head. The Prince on his way to the shooting ground passed through Kelso , and being niaed frequently saluted by a number of the inhabi tants. Yesterday his royal highness, along with the Duke ' of Roxburghe and the Marquis of Bowmont,f fished on the upper " caste" of the Floors water, but, like many other anglers on that day, he obtained little sport, the water being too heavy and of a bad colour. On the and S i r the Prince's equerry, Lieutenant Haig, R.E. and Sir Grant Sattie, shot 33 brace of partridges and several hares and pheasants. His royal highness, we understand, will leave Floors this afternoon, and will proceed mouth by the Waverley route, on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham Castle.—scotanen. Hose THE Bunn GUARDS TREAT A ROYAL COMMISSION.—In the House of Commons, during the Jamaica discussions, parliament was informed that the report of the royal commission bad been laid before the ar department, and that the cases indicated by Mr. Mill would be solemnly investigated. A few days ago, how ever, the Gazette announced that Lieutenant Herbert Adcock, of the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Foot, had been promoted, without purchase, to a captaincy. Lieutenant Adcock was accused4of having put several persons to death in cold blood without trial, and in especial of having thus caused to be put to death Charles Mitchell in his own door way, and of burning his house, turning the widow and chil dren into the woods. In place of investigating the ease we find that the War-office has promoted the officer.—Star. Da. MARY WALBER.—This lady, who haa re cently passed so successful an examination, visited Middle sex Hospital on Saturday, and was conducted through the establishment in male attire. The students were some what surprised at her appearance. She wore a low-crowned plain felt hat, a dark plush coat, not quite reaching to the knees, and black cloth trousers. — Post. ILLEGAL REMOVAL OP IRISH CATTLE.-011 Satur day last several farmers resident in the neighbourhood of Hatfield, near Doncaster, attended the West Riding Magistrates' Court at Dondater, and directed attention to a singular infringement of the Cattle Plague orders of the Privy Council. It appears that some cattle dealers are in the habit of bringing a truck load of Irish cattle by rail way to Doncaster, and thence drive them to a place tailed Bearawood-green, an unpopulated part of Yorkshire, where is but one house, and there they sell them, and each cattle are spread over that part of Yorkshire and into the adjacent county of Lincolnshire. It was proposed that there should be a sale on Monday next, and as the cattle plague might again thereby be introduced into the district, the persons who attended, and who stated that they themselves had suffered very severely from the plague, thought that the police should interfere. It was shown to the bench (of which Mr. William Aldam, one of the chairmen of West Riding Sessions, was chairmanl, that the driving of cattle from the railway station to Hatfield was an infringe ment of the regulations of the West Riding as well as the borough of Doncaster, and instructions were consequently given to Mr. Superintendent Astwood, of the county con stabulary, to take care that the dangerous practice should not be repeated. N.W. N. N':. N.N.W. NW. tS4.. N.N.W. B. W. THE JESUITS IN AUSTRIA. The independance says : The feeling of opposition to the establishment of the Jesuits is extending iu Austria. The municipality of Salzburg, fearing that the disciples of Loyola, after being rejected by the municipal council of Vienna, would turn their eyes towards Salzburg, Lave resolved to refuse them an establishment in their city. The A un:bury anette: has a letter from Prague which states that the demon strations against the Jesuits are extending in Prague and other parts of Bohemia. It is probable that the govern ' ment will be obliged to come to some desision on the matter. (REvan's TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, OCT. 29. The King has sent a reply to the address for warded, to him by the clergy of Mantua. His Majesty, in expressing his thanks, says that abne gation towards the country with the object of render ing it strong and united has always inspired his policy, and he sees with pleasure that these aspira tions find great support from the Lombardo-Vene tian clergy. FRANCE. PARIS. OCT. 29. The Libert ,l has received a first warning from the Minister of the Interior on account of an article signed by M. Duvernois, published on the 27th inst. The article in question is declared to have disparaged the policy of the government, and vio lentl attacked the constitutional institutions of the country, thus inciting disobedience to the laws. The article in the Libcrts to which the above telegram refers is headed " Where is the enemy 1" and the reply which it gives is that the enemy of France is not in Austria or Russia, or Prussia, or England, or in America, but in Paris. and that its name is " absence of system." " Suppose," it says, "that Russia, Prussia, England, and Austria, victorious over France, held this language :—` You must repress liberty at home, and you must have no alliances abroad. Each year you must devote the largest portion of your budget to unproductive expenses, and under the constraint of laws which we shall dic tate to you, the increase of your population will slacken whilst your expenses shall always be on the increase. Such is our will.' Suppose that the coalition held this language—where is tho Frenchman who would not seize his gun and face the enemy 7 Well, what a victorious coalition ' would not do, or rather would not dare to do, France herself—France in posses sion of her destinies by means of universal suffrage—has inflicted on herself." The article then proceeds to show that the policy of France has been guided by no principle, and it ends by re peating that " the bitterest enemy of France is France herself." (sauna's amass.) PROCLAMATION OF THE KING SAXONY. DRESDEN, Ocr. 27. The following proclamation of King John to the Saxon people, issued at Teplitz yesterday, has just been published here : To my Saxons,—l return to-d►y among you after long and painful separation, after a period filled with important events. I know what you have suffered and borne, and have felt with you to the very bottom of my heart ; but I know also with what firm fidelity you have adhered to your legitimate sovereign amidst all your trials. This consciousness, next to trust in God, formed my greatest comfort in the hours of tribu lation the inscrutable councils of Providence have sent both to me and to you. It gives me fresh courage to re commence my heavy labours. I shall dedicate the days God still gives me, with the old affection—grown still warmer, if possible, by the many proofs of attach ment I have received— to healing the wounds of the country, to advancing its prosperity, to exercising right and justice, and to the prudent development of our political institutions. I count herein upon the sup port of the representatives of the country, whom I shall meet with my accustomed frankness and ancient confidence. I shall adhere to the new alliance into which I have now entered with the s►me fidelity I displayed to the old Confederation, and shall do everything in my power to render that alliance as advantageous as possible to our own immediate country as well as the general Fatherland. Kay the Almighty bless our common endea• yours, and may Saxony remain, as hitherto, a land of peace, order, industrious labour, education, morality, and fear of God. JOHN. METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPIT.LL, DEVO,IBIITRZ- Kgrelti, CITY.—The aggregate number of patients relieved during the week ending Oct. 27 waa—Medical, 755 ; sur gical, 603 ; total, 1,358 ; of which 618 wan new cameo. 4 6 5 4 6 8 3 5 4 4 LAW COURT (Before Mr. TN BE PALIILL- The bankrupt, B. 0. • insurance and custom-home agent, hall street, in partnership with J. Gladeas4; are onlyy about 200(. The detaining creditors Wet th e mdeatal Death Insuranes Company, on whom liskit a . bankrupt had received premiums and had n o t p a saa• over. The company did not oppose his applioatio a law from custody. His Honour, in ordering the release, mid that if th us had been any opposition he should not hays (Tw iM i g application. IA BE 0. PIACI DANIKLUS. The bankrupt was described as a commercial g Norwood, formerly a hop merchant of Wolverb sa p ia. Debts 9051. Mr. Chidley supported. Mrs. Clough, • end* iir 30/., opposed in person. An adjournment was orders( k r additional accounts. IN RE WALTER BROWN. The bankrupt was a commission agent, of %e a. street. Debts, 1,6481., against which the bankrupt fit a kd that he had a claim of 5,0001. in connexion with du fa t* tion of the Melinea and Ternuze Railway, for okt s i s i g • concession from the Belgian government. Thi s au t h sitting for examination and discharge. Mr. g ee d, so licitor, who appeared for credi d i m that there was a probability of something being rni t s . he estate, from the claim of ,000/., which the h o b... made in respect of negotiating the railway egr ae W, They did not object to the bankrupt passing and hartssii order of discharge. His Honour granted the order. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before the Recorder.) THE CHANGE AGAINST THE POLICL The court was specially convened this ma ' Nu i 11 1 o'clock, for the purpose of hearing the renewed of Mr. Sleigh in reference to the case of the ' stable Matthew Hayes, who stood charged with ono g hi comrades, William Barry, with having conspired to s i k, a false charge against two young men, named Fora sae Dye, of having attempted to commit a burglary i s g, 63, Gloucester-crescent, Regent's-park. Mr. Sleigh, Mr. M. Williams, Mr. Stirling g m ji, Warner Sleigh, again appeared for the prosoutees ; no Mr. Cooper, Mr. G. S. Griffiths, and Mr. F. Timor fogy defence. Mr. Cooper first addressed the court, and said that hi learned friend had undertaken to g,ve him nodes, I m y fresh evidence was to be adduced, of the ware ef Oa evidence, and he now understood that finch widows was intended to be adduced upon the fresh trial, and a ta part of the defendant he complained that he had sat i t ceived any such notice, and had not been even =demo . of the names of the witnesses who were to be called Mr. Sleigh said it was true that there was adatiied evidence to be adduced for the prosecution, and be iiii. mated that it was hie intention to proceed with the Ea indictment. The Recorder expressed his opinion that the could ler the defendant ought to have been informed of the Moe of the additional evidence that was to be aldaeak at that fresh facts ought not to be sprung upon the di* • dents when they had no opportunity to answer them It wan then suggested that there should be a shot I. jourument for the purpose of giving the iproaceinen a opportunity of furnishing the defendant. with the mm of the additional evidence that it was proposed is Igig forward, and the court adjourned for half an hoar. At the expiration of that period the learned molds both sides came into court, and Mr. Sleigh horded Yea learned judge a statement in writing of the badigllg facts he propose] to put in evidence ou behalf of the pe locution. He at the same time said that there we ell two additional witnesses that he proposed to mamas ea they were both called at the trial at the Middlesex mass The Recorder, after having read the statement Menai to, said it appe ared to him that upon the facts disiolit it the counsel for the defendants ought not to be see* to go on with the trial at the present session. Mr. Cooper maid that as this was the *ails of be lordship, be should ask that the case might be pineal to the next session. Mr. Sleigh said he bad no objection to this room iiiii taken. The Recorder then directed that the trial shoal:load postponed to the November session, with the midmost. mg that a copy of any additional evidence that es ie tended to be brought forward on behalf of the conosio should be supplied to the defendants. Mr. Sleigh asked that a similar order should be seal with regard to the defendants if they proposed to oho additional testimony. The Recorder said that this WWI never dose in tiene of a defendant. He should be glad when some alkalis was made in the law upon the subject, bat at proms defendant could not be called upon to do what ins reglad Mr. Sleih. , by The tria l of the other indictments wu then Welly postponed to the next session. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL • SAVAGE DOG AT LARGE. William Monro, 8, Halfmoon-passage,Aldersgs tselun was summoned before Alderman Copeland for any savage dog to be at large, unmozzled, on the 'tad of Oa inst: Jesse Hudson said ho lived at 5, Half-moon-gawp. mi about 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon a cog beloegiedlo* defendant bit his child. Before that time on Os an day the dog bad bitten two other children. He hd we the dog in the street since Monday. The child wal elb to the hospital. All the children in the naglawlew were very much frghtened at the dog, and nu las whenever they saw it. It was still allowed to masts the streets. The defendant said the dog was his son's and not la James Welsh said he was a garburner maker, oad la at No. 6, Half-moon-passage. In the early pad June the same dog bit his little boy, but not aoserelllo the complainant's child, and in consequence heti:awe to kill the brute. On the following Tuesday fendant came up to him while be was atad" door and said, ' What are you going to do to ay Witness replied, " Is that your dog'." and he said "TN: Witness said, " Then I will kill him the opportunity." The defendant thereupon snuck rye new, and the blow having been returned, h. ended as between them. Ho had seen the dog Zw i l ; , • since then but never had an opportunity The dog had flown at him several times bat had ow bitten him. He bad, however, bitten wand ll * ' neighbours since then. It was • mere WO*, the defendant saying the dog was not his ow. w,; his son had been summoned he would have aid was his father's. In reply to questions put by the defendant tbalioJ. said he never knew defendant until be came up oar" to him about the dog, and said it was his. SOP' previously be had heard the son say it wag Alderman Copeland adjourned the summon', it, rected that the eon should be summoned also. Be """ ordered that the parents of all the children who WOO bitten by the dog should likewise attend. .• CLERKENWELL. SERIOUS ACCIDENT THEOCGH THBOWI" Robert Phillips and Charles Militia. twoboys I e before Kr. Partridge with violently ' M b i,. r S e a d mes Gill,of 60, White Lion - stre et, Barisal . worker, and cutting his cheek. It appeared from the evidence of the (*Oslo. ° • last night he was passing along the street Intl' I. • when the defendants, with some other boys, vext • across the pavement. They were asked to move l e which they were saucy, and made use of bad • He then pushed the boys, on which the defendant s ir picked up a stone and threw it at the complsio° of his face, inflicting a wound fully thre e quarters in length. The other defendant then picked *PIT. of mud and threw it at him , covering his coot, Mel The defendant has before been in custody of throwing stones, and was generally s saucy 0 The defendants l id not deny the charge, but they were struck b the complainant. babel ° r. Partridge c u d that the defendants bid 0 a the matter with the complainant, and this hiA.,jB, done, and they having begged t he complainant's o be ysl the magistrate said that ho was u nwilling to that were at work to prison, but they had betW ful how they came here agaio for the future. Alfred Currant, aged lb, was charged with 7- fireworks in Thornhill-road, on Suoday night , w ' being made out, he was fined ls. • cm° Robert Hardwick was also charged with • like offence on Sunday night, and was also Ole"' a fine of Is. MA,SLBOROUGH - ST REET. THE BARRISTER AND THE POLICE; Williams Cando*, a labourer, was chair' Tyrwhitt with behaving in • disorderly wow', fug a crowd to assemble. g Alfrli Burrows, 100 C, said—About halflr,or night I was on duty in Park-lane, when I oW,er dant and others coming along. The defendant!, 'lBll oused • female of insulting them. I mtjj not seen anything of it, and the erifo, I ought to have seen It , and that I encouraged 71,0 0 and the defendant on another constable 0007.0 he would have our coats off our backs, °V 1 _.. 8 4 8 ,0 , about. I told him to go away an he wo.wioi o turbance, and as he refused to do w I ?row; custody. A gentleman sitting in court lee!:.;;Ve barrister), came up end said to the defendsON s olid you give the police a mutton Pie 02 1,reio your husband up, and I cannot twa' INTELLIGENCE, vil (THIS DAY.) —o eir C OF BANKRUPTCY. fen( fr. Commissioner Winslow.) The :8.-APPLICATION FOB MUM fell G. Palmer, was described u m-house scent, ktely trwring i n en nersbip with J. Glutusq, t e i ti ife rhc r,, bo o re bo ses, B 1 to 9. 0.15 '2 0.41 2 4 0.43, 6 10.151 3 I 3- 10.181 $ 0.21 1 4 0.12 0.10 4 0.08, 2 0.12 2 1 10.10 3 o.uti 2 e. 06 - 0.03 0. 11