The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

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TES Emma, TILE TirpaZ.VA-Nell—Attir which THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Mews. Vining and G. Honey; !dimes Nelleon, Anode' Thomson , and Hrs. —A M QUIET LODGING& HAVIIABLET. Tim 'Hymns°, THE HUB AT LAW. Mama. Bneketone, Chlppendala, Compton, Farren, Madams Chippendale Mode, and 11l —Ballet Divertissement. Mimes Christine and Agnes Healy.—Hll FIRST CHAMPAGNE Mr. Compton. IfrRAND. TEM irrel.ll, MARRII6BACKELOB.—Attic wtdel WAITING YOB TEE lINDERGHoUNG.—The West &Won el IICZYILWORTH.—And JACK'S DELIGHT. • BRITANNIA. THIS VERN°, THE STRANGER. Mrs. E. YarnokL—The Wondrous Brothers Victoreill on the Treble Trapeze ; The Chest I=l:ro . ze : The Delavanti H Werdhai ; The Louisville THE FALSE hitiTUBR. HIGH WATER AT LONDON RUM. TRW DAY —Writing. 7h. itOm.. Afternoon, CI. ism. To-Nottnow—Horning, 96. nit Afternoon, 9b. Um. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2. Tug Canadians are expecting, as their news papers are informing us, a repetition of the Fe nian raids from the United States. The American correspondents of the Toronto and Montreal jour- nals transmit plans of campaign, very elaborate and very Irish, designating the Fenian lines of march, with the posts to be occupied, and dis tinguishing with admirable precision the real points of attack from those against which only hints are to be made. The colonists, according to the plan, are to be alarmed along the whole line, whereupon their troops are in every ease to rush to the wrong place, and while they are moon ing about in bewilderment the enemy is to seize the chief cities, public arms, public stores, and shipping, hoist the Fenian flag, and severely re spect private property. The Canadians ought to know by this time the quality of their foe, and what attention is due to stories of this kind. They have had to do with the Fenian organization in the United States when it was comparatively powerful, when, disposing of ample fulit, it was able to tolled large bodies of men, and when its enter prises had not been made ridiculous by failure. The last Fenian expedition to Canada was the irruption of a horde without discipline and without artillery, and carrying its whole commissariat. in whisky flasks. At the present time the Fenian leaders publicly deplore their want of money and the extreme difficulty of collecting it, while the best New York journals declare that nothing is known by the Government of the United States of the hostile preparations which have so strongly im pressed the Canadian mind. It is for the colonists to judge for themselves of the probability of attack, and to make the necessary preparations to resist it. This, however, is what we cannot find that they are doing. Their panic-stricken journals abound in the language of invective against the Government of the United States, while they cry lustily for troops from England. Tho Montreal Herald, one of the most sensible and best conducted newspapers in Canada, goes so far as to declare that Lord Alasett ought to send an ultimatum to Washing ton, and in the event of its rejection declare war. " We ought, then, to deal with the Government "of the United States in accordance with the " practices of diplomacy among civilized nations, " to ask for an explanation of the arming which is " going on within their jurisdiction, and should it " not be discontinued, we ought not to await the " time deemed most favourable for our injury, " but at once declare war." This is the language of independent public spirit, and we read it with a glow of pride : evi dently, we say, these are true children of the old country : this is the spirit which becomes the " new nation" of British North America, which Lord 31 oxeit announced to the world. When' one of our colonies feels strong enough to declare war in its own name against a pow erful neighbour, every one of us feels an inch taller. But an awakening follows this pleasant dream, and our joy is dashed as, reading on, we discover that while Canada is to declare the war, England is to do the fighting. We are told that if the British Government has not comprehended the nature of the emer gency, it is for our (the Canadian) Government " to enlighten it, and to enforce upon it the " adoption of the steps which are required to " secure for this part of her MAJESTY'S dominions " the benefits of the general tranquillity of the " Empire. The very same steps which would be " incumbent upon the British Government, if " armies were being prepared in Normandy for an " attack upon Sussex, are incumbent upon it now " that armies are being prepared in the United " States for an attack on Canada. Otherwise we " participate only in the dangers which arise out " of our connexion with a State which has ene " mies, and enjoy none of the security which " belongs to the subjects of a powerful Govern " went." This is the language of dependence—not modest and self-knowing, but presuming, encroaching de pendence,—the language of those who feel that th€ y need not allow themselves to be restrained by any scruples, since there are reasons why their most extravagant demands must be conceded. And, as was to be foreseen, this policy of colonial extor tion succeeds. Already, before these sentences were written, the Imperial Government was send ing out large reinforcements of troops to Canada, not because there was reason to apprehend a war with the United States, but because the public feeling of the Canadians is so utterly de bauched by our habit of doing everything for them that they will not so much as defend them selves against an Irish rabble. This is not at all a question of colonial "loyalty" or of maintaining the "British connexion.'' The Canadians are not re: quired to do anything for as. The work to be done is their own work, that of defending their hen roosts and pantries ; and rather than do it they talk nrymiloquertly and invoke the pro tection of th 3 army of the British Empire. This THE EXPRESS, TuESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1866. is just what all our wile men have foretold. Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. Lows, Mr. GODLEY, Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH, and others have warned us that if we went on garrisoning our colonies we should demoralise their inhabitants, and render them help less and paralytic. Four years ago Mr. ADDERLEY, in his masterly letter to Mr. Disx&exi, recom mended the withdrawal of our troops from British America, on the ground that the presenoeof English soldiers there furnishes the colonists with an excuse for not organising an efficient local force. Since then the Duke of NEwcairrxr and Mr. CARDWELL have insisted on the duty of the colonists to provide for their own defence. In return they draw out a scheme of military organization on paper, accuse us of parsimony, and declare that we cannot exist without them. Their militia is not ready, and their volunteers cut such a figure when lam. they were wanted that we cannot wonder if Lord Moses does not feel safe under their protection. And let it be noticed by our legislators rnd politicians that it is these same Canadians, who talk of our being bound to defend them as we should an English county, who are now asking to be entrusted with the government of all British America, wanting to be among the other provinces what Prussia is in Germany. A State which, like Prussia, can knock down and trample upon its most powerful neighbours, has at least one qualification for leadership : there may be danger that it will oppress the weak, bat at any rate it can protect them. But the people of a province which cannot defend itself against marauding bands are not in a position to claim authority and power over their fellow-subjects. Chins& nobly because of her connexion with England, and we have no alternative but to enema* the gamy with the whole power of the empire. atiscxusiticove TOPICS. In narrating the chief details of the lamentable ems of medical mischance, which is given in another column, the Times urges that every bottle or other receptacle ought 1 to be labelled with the popular English name as well as the professional name, and with • brief statement of the , poisonous qualities of the content.. If the bottle con taining strychnia bad been labelled with the warning that half a grain of it was certain death to the strongest man, and if the shop-lad had been able to read, and had been possessed of se much sense as an ordinary ploughboy, we do not see how he could possibly have read the label and immediately sent • lady enough to kill sixteen men with directions to take it in half-a-dozen instalments. The great danger is the class to whom the mixing and manipu lation of our drugs is confided. How many mistakes are made and never discovered. How many are made th►t may ruin the health, or 'cave life-long traces, without ab solutely killing ! How often, for example, has • patient gone on for months, and eves years, taking twice or thrice more than was intended of some very potent drug through the bad writing of the physician or the false reading of a chymist ! Thousands of blunders never have been, and never will be, detected. India costing the British people nothing in money, the British public spends upon it a corresponding small amount in thought, but whenthe death rate of the troops has been brought home in the shape of an inoressed rate of pay to the whole British army, the Daily News thinks the atten tion of the average Englishman will be roused. The 'avenue which could readily bear the cost of • cheap native army is less able to sustain the incubus of a numerous and expensive European force. The Daily New proceeds to contend that the outcry regarding the danger of native troops is scarcely just. Two native armies out of the three in India remained faithful; and amongst far-seeing men the condition of the third army, which eventually went wrong, was long a source of great anxiety. Sir Charles Napier almost predicted the event which actually occurred. Nevertheless, the European army in India should not be reduced until confidence is restored, and in the meantime the efficiency of the native troops should be placed beyond a doubt. Noting the commencement of the hospital winter session, the Post remarks that the large majority of English stu dents find an opportunity of visiting, if only for a few months, some one or other of the continental schools, whilst the medical ren:ews and the text-books which are printed abroad are directly or indirectly brought under the constant notice of English practitioners and students. The result is that the medical profession has become more liberal in the true acceptation of that term, its members have become not only more accomplished gentlemen, but more efficient practitioners, and the lives of the pub"c have been enti isted to safer keeping. With multi such as these the country has good reason to be satisfied. the Court. BALMORAL, Szpi 29. The Queen went out in the morning with Prin cess Louise, and drove in the afternoon with Princeu Chris. tian to Alt•na-Guithasach. . Princess Louise rode in the afternoon, attended by the Hon. Miss Cathcait. ' Prince Christian and Pr' - tce Arthur went out deer. stalk'n. Despatches werepeceived yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, and, the Austre"sn colonies. ^ T The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote left t3wn rater. day for Liverpool. LATEST INTELLIGEti (mural's Txuaami.) RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Oar• 2. The Spenersehe Zeitung of to-day says :—" We learn upon most trustworthy authority that the relations between Russia and Prussia are very cordial. " Of this Prussia has received from the Czar and the Imperial Cabinet unmistakable proofs. " The old Russian party alone evinces distrust at the aggrandisement of Prussia on account of the Russian Baltic provinces." THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE COLORADO. (M ZLZOTXIC TBLEMLAPIL) SOUTHAMPTON, TUMDAY. The United States frigate Colorado left here this morning for Cherbourg. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE TEMPORAL POW= While prepared to find the prospect of the fall of the temporal power regarded with horror by a large portion of the Roman catholic communion, the 4twra was not prepared for the unqualified language in which Arobbishop Manning proclaims it as the very article of • rising or a falling church. The numerous clams with deep sympathies in the same direction as Dr. Manning, and who were wearied, as he was by the perpetual fret of secular questions in the English church, must now see that the Roman church is fully as much disturbed by temporal things, Dr. Manning even proclaiming that the eternal I scheme for the salvation of man will be totally wrecked if the Bishop of ROMP should ever cease to administer the criminal law of the Papal States, levy their taxes, and command their army, navy, and police. In the same pastoral the archbishop denounces the principle of nation. ality as the mother of all the mischief of these times, mint events in Italian and German history explaining why it should bear such an aspect in his mind. But how about that Irish nationality which has been so continually employed by the Roman church against the church and institutions of this country ? How about the Belgian na tionality, which led this dance of death near a whole generation ago ? How about the Polish nationality, which the Pope is always applying to the weaker aide of his great Eastern antagonist ? If Rome finds the principle in convenient just now, she may bethink herself that she has never scrupled to employ it whenever it answered her pur pose. The Poet observes of Dr. Grant's argument that if the Sivereign Ponth: thu Lb people are animated by the feel ings which those who know them best declare they enter tain towards each other, the Roman catholic church should rejoice that, after years of dependence, the papacy is about to stand once more upon its own strength. The Pope is not oppressed, unless it be by the weight of his own in capacity to meet the requirements of civilisation. It is a remarkable if not an ominous fact that in the present conjuncture the Pope has not convened • Pontifical Synod in which the iasue might be debated exhaustively and, so far, authoritatively determined. The church of Rome is not ruled by the dogmas of its Popes, but by the decrees of its councils, and why it has not been consulted as is canonically provided remains to be explained. The Star would welcome any enlightened Roman ca tholic prelate's or statesman's exposition of the prospects of the present situation, and of what, as a practical and experienced observer, he really this •vill come of it. But mere professions of Roman catholic faith do not much en lighten the protestant world. FOREIGN AFF.UItS. Treating of the rumours which have disquieted of late the continental mind attributing annexation schemes in the direction of Belgium and Switzerland to the French in conspiracy with the Prussian government, the Times adverts to the fact that if the Emperor really harboured snob intentions it would be worse than idle on his part to let out his mind on the subject either by open avowal or by covert inuendo. The last seven years have brought about portentous changes ; still it may be questioned whether that public opinion which, after all, is the true law of nations, has lost much of its ancient force. A truly independent state, springing from legitimate sources, and grounded on real popular suffrage like Switzerland and Belgium, ought to die some what harder than Hanover, Hesse, or Saxony, or any other of the petty communities that have lately been swept from the face of the earth. Independently of the difficulties of the achievement there are crimes that appal the perpe trator in the very conception, and the Times feels tempted to guarantee the safety of Belgium and Switzerland on the same principles which secure the inviolability of the two mountain republics of San Marino and An , brre. It is not the cause of nationality that gives rice to the mcst violent annexations. In the old times the people were usually sacrificed ; nowadays the turn comes sometimes for princes. Most of these princes, too, have, after all, only their deserts. That Homburg and Wiesbaden, and their croupiers, should have been put down, can give but little concern to honest men ; nor would it be a grmt calamity if Monaco and his roulette table were soon to follow. But states like Belgium and Switzerland surely deserve • better fate. They would not fall without a struggle, nor, whatever may have been the case with poor Denmark, would they he "left to struggle alone." The Daily News attributes the insurrectionary move ment in Sicily to the popularity of the monasteries there, which constitute • formidable power in the state, and to the old Sicilian separatism, which temporarily unites the most discordant elements—brigandage, republicanism, and monachism, in opposition to the government. Lookingat the vast changes effected of late years, the dissatisfaction which prevails is no subject of surprise. The Italian government will doubtless see the wisdom of so proceeding with its reforms as to mitigate the inconvenience inseparable from their introduction, and especially reduce its expenditure. so as to mitigate the burden of taxation which now presses upon the kingdom with crushing severity. When a peccant part of the body has to be excised, it is the more neces sary to build up the general constitutional health. The most superficial reflection, the Post says, suggest s the thought that the relations between the Italian and Papal governments are not likely to be improved by the Sicilian outbreak, and the counsel given by Gari baldi the other day to the Italian women never again to enter& ismfessional, only reflects the popular tendency to pass from mere political to searching religious reform. " I believe," exclaimed Thiers, on the eve of the revolution of 1848, " that in Rome the prince will save the priest." " No," replied Guizot, " just the reverse ; it is the priest who will save the prince." Eighteen years have elapsed since those memorable words were spoken, and not a day of those 18 years but has brought with it the experience that whilst the priest has more and more destroyed the efficiency of the prince, the prince will end by overthrow ing the most ancient and hallowed traditions of the priest. The Herald considers the predominance of the republi can party in the United States to be a direct menace so Canada, and that it is now impossible to shut our eyes to the reality of the Canadian peril. That in r. time of pro found peace, with no cause of quarrel between the two countries, with no possible pretext on the aide of one to interfere in the domestic concerns of the other, England should still have to apprehend this peril from the United States, is only one of the penalities of her proximity to • model republic. It is the price she has to pay for the blessing of manhood suffrage in America. It is asqektm fair and very absurd to threw the burden of self-defence entirely upon the colonists. The danger has come to ... _ The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer is entertaining a select circle of friends at Hugheudrn Manor. Admiral Low has been elected Mayor of Yar mouth, in the Isle of Wight_ . . The annual meeting of the Union of Lancaahire and Cheshire Institutes was held in Manchester yesterday ; Mr. Baxley, M.P., the president of the Union, occupyiog the chair. The report read was on the whole a satisfactory record of progress. The Union now comprises 120 ineti. tutee, twelve of which have been admitted dining the past year. It appears that in thirty institutes female classes have been formed, and the council urge truly enough in their report that "it is of national moment that every effort should be made to develop and train the intellectual being of the women of England." The prizes awarded to the successful students of the institutes were distributed in the evening at the Free-trade Hall by Mr. Fawcett, the member for Et :ghton.. . . . The Reform banquet which is to take place in Manchester under the auspices of the National Reform Union, has been fixed for the 21st of November. Twenty members of parliament have announced their intention to be present. The Freeman's Jammed states that the Bright banquet; in Dublin has been fixed for the 30th inst., and that the numb' - of tic' ets already secured is so large that the committee are oblived to limit the issue. THE LONDON MEDICAL SCHOOLS.—Yesterday the s :nter session of the several medical schools in con nection with the metropolitan hopitals was commenced with an inaugural address by one of the professors in each, excepting at Guy's, where the president of the borpital, Sir Laurence Peel, was selected. This was the first occa sion on which a non-medical man had been called upon to discharge the honourable duty, and he was received with great applause by the students. At St. Bartholomew's. Mr. W. S. Savo.y delivered the opening lecture. Sir William Fergusson, Bart, F.R.S., gave the add-ess at King's College. On entering the theatre with the Rev. Dr. Jeff, (the principal), the Rev. Professor Plumtre, the Rev. Henry White (the censor), and other authorities of the college, Sir Wm. Fergusion was greeted with a tremendous burst of con7ratulatoiy acclamatiou. Dr. E. Head, of Harley-street, lectured at the London Hospital ; and Mr. Haynes Walton, surgeon, at St. Mary's Hospital, Pad dington. At Charing-cross Hospital Mr. Richard Harwell, F.R.C.S., addressed the students ; Dr. Fincham gave the inaugural lecture at Westminster Hospital, and Dr. J. W. Ogle that at the Medical School of St. George's. Boxivis.—Doctors lay great stress on the dis tincive features which mark the mental aberrations in disease, so that we find kleptomania or delirium tremens, mild and frantic madness, where the membranes of the brain are affected. Ido not presume to know what are the structures engaged in horitis, or by what organic changes it is caused. If in " the heart or in the head " I suspect it has a connexion with both ; but the character of the mental affection is chiefly what physicians call " wandering." Men affected with boritis cannot go straight to their object : they meander, and serpentine, and lose themselves. They read the Times, and retail it with a dishonest adulteration of their own dulness. They tell a story, and confuse the characters and omit the point. They dramatise the most vulgar incident of their stupid lives, and think they are lively when they throw their dreariness into dialogue. Now it is not necessary to tell the world that I am a very humble man, living a quiet, almost obscure life, satisfied to be ignored, and not complaining that I am unsought or unlooked after : but I do complain, and I have a right to complain, that men in the very height of this terrible disease, blue with boritis, will come in upon me, shake my hand, breathe upon me, sit down beside me, talk to me their interminable tiresomeness, and expose me in every way to the contagion of a malady I dread far more than ever I dreaded ague or typhus. Why, I ask, why am I to be made the victim of an affection for which my family have to fly me? Why am I to be tainted with a complaint which estranges me from the members of my own household, and leads them to innumerable devices to isolate me, even to the extent of inducing me to take a little broth in my own room, and not come down to dinner till I feel better? Feel better, indeed ! I shall never feel better. And yet there are obstinate people, people so incapable of the simplest process of induction, that will tell you it is not taking. Why, can't they perceive that, at the very moment of the assertion, they are in boritis, high boritis— boritis maligns'? All diseases have their ethnological cha racters ; and I am sorry and ashamed to own that the worst cases of boritis I have ever met were Irlsh. Boritis Hibernicalis is the most virulent form of the complaint ; the blunders are snore marked, the reiterations more copious, the meanderings more frequent, not to say that there is in the semi-lachrymose whine of the Irish patient a more certain incentive to self-murder than I have ever found even in Americans. In German villages there is a law which compels the people who have natural emallpox In their families to attach to the house-door a warning placard to announce it. Why will not a wise legislature eblige peoplp in boritis to carry a tabard with . the letter 11 upon it ? F•tseetil.le ir.dividtials like wi th wouhl be ' often apprised in time, and save themselves by a cab, or even by swimming.—Blackscood's .21logaMne for October. Nabs een I Let berd th srdrostan Greencastle.. Valentla : Cape Clear— Ilverpool Holyhead ... Peuzance... Brest 1 Lortent lloc•iefort Plymouth ... Weymouth Portamouth.. London .... Yarmouth ...' Scarborough. Shields Holder N.g - M. an or( IMO 0 bm E.WE. N.N.E. S. N.E. N.E. N.E. S. S.W. N.N.K. N. H. E.N.R. N.N.E. N.E. -Ii - - 1 so.oi 50, 30 02 55' ;30.02 eo' '30.11 14 :30,17 54 - 1 4 REMARKS. No Important change has occu Ted in the distribution of hero. metric pressure and temperature. The wands continue light and eblegy from the north east. The weather Is overcast, with fog or mist in many places. Miss Marsh states that among the labours of love undertaken where cholera has been most severe, per haps not the least, in point of self-sacrifice, have been those of a band of 213 poor women, under the guidance of the benevolent author of The Missing Link. Mothers of families, as many of them are, not one bas shrunk from nursing, gratuitously, the sufferers, by day and by night, and when two of those " Bible-women" were them ezlree seized with cholera, the mothers around vied with each other in returning their fearless kindness. A joint-stock company has been formed in Ame rca with a large capital, to search for Captain Kidd's trea sures ! Kidd was a pirate of the lith century, who was s aid to have buried enormous amounts of plunder in ne glected places along the shores of New England. This en terprising company have already begun to link a well on the coast of Connecticut, and aro guided by the son of a man who when livingwas supposed to be in Captain Kidd's confidence. _ . ------- The whale oil business is looking up in the United States. During the war the stocks of whale oil and sperm became very low, and in spite of the rivalry of petroleum, their value became so high that a fresh impetus has been given to the business. At New Bedford and other whaling ports of the Eastern States every vessel that can be ob tained for the purpose is fitted out for a whaler, and twice as many seamen are offering for whaling voyages as are needed for the vessels fitted out. In consequence of this great revival in the business it is estimated that by the Ist of January next New England will have a larger whaling fleet afloat that at any previous period in her history. The rainfall in Hampshire last month was seven inches. . . A large iron screw steam collier was launched at Northam, in Hants, a day or two since. She is capable of carrying nearly 1,000 tons of coals. In 1840 the United States grew 377,531,875 bushels of corn. This year's yield is expected to be 1,039,000,000 bushels. . _ In 1865, 7,240,8701ba. of wool were received at San Francisco from California and Oregon. . Three hundred and four vessels, averaging 350 tons burthen, are now on whaling expeditions from various New England rts. Bustin% ( U.S.) paper. CORNISH PILCHARD FlSHERY.—Although the season has advanced so far without any success of moment to report, the hopes of the fishermen on the south coast of Cornwall have moat suddenly revived in the last few days, consequent on a moderation in the weather. On Thursday two seines at Coverack, and three seines at Porthalla shot, and on Friday no less than five seines belonging to St. Mawe's shot in the western bay of Falmouth. All these have enclosed fish, which are being tucked, and many thou sands of hogsheads are expected to be landed, especially as finer weather seeing to have set in. No news from the north coast up to Saturday evening. CLOSE OF THE RAILWAY EXCURSION SEASON. The Sunday and Monday excursions on the South Eastern, Landon, Chatham, and Dover, South Western, London and Brighton, and Great Eastern Railways, were brought to a close yesterday, being one month earlier than usual, owing to the unsettled state of the weather. From the elms cause the excursions have been leas remunerative this season than in any previous year for some time past. Fewer trains have been run, and even these as *rule have nltbeen at all crowded. The South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover trains to Margate and Ramsgate, and the London and Brighton, to the latter places. have more than any of the others been affected by the unfavourable weather, causing the " eight and night hours at the sea side for Is. and 3.. 6d." to loose rancho( its attractiveness with the holiday-making public, who Nave preferred the shorter excursions to Kew, Hampton-court, and other sub urban districts. The hotel and lodging-house keepers of the. shove plmsstave also "uttered equally with the nil ; way companies. They have experienced not only a short but a bad season. (Before Mr. Bodk;n, Assistant Judge.) A FATHER STABBING MTH SONS WITH A KNIFE. Thomas Johnson, 43, painter, was indicted for felonkrnsly cutting and wounding his son, Henry Johnson, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. He was also indicted for a common assault. Jane Johnson, wife of the prisoner, said she lived at No. 2, Boundary-street, Shoreditch, with her husband, who was a painter and glazier. On the 17th of September, between 9 and 10 o'clock at night, the p.:soner, who was not sober, while taking his supper began abusing her, and he took up a knife and threatened to stab her with it, and he had done so before. Her two sons got between them to protect her, and in doing so they were wounded with the knife. Henry Johnson, son of the prisoner, said he was achair maker, and lived at No. 21, Caroline-place. His father was at supper, and he began using very bad language to wards his mother, and he remonstrated with him against doing so. His father then got up with a knife in his hand, and cut him with it in several places. In his own defence be pushed his father dove a on to the bed and en deavoured to take the knife from him. He had rushed at his mother before with the kn'`e, and witness and his little brother got between them. His little brother was also cut about bin hand. The prisoner was quite drunk. Joseph Johnson, a little boy, nine years of age, said he lived at home with his father and mother, and while his father was at supper he used bad language, His brother Harty asked what he did that for, and he took up a knife and said, "I'll give you the coup de grace," and he got up with the knife and made for Harry. His father fell off a cane basket on which he was sitting, and then he got up and cut him and his brother. James Levett, 109 11, said he was on duty in Eicher,- road, Bethnal-green, at 10 o'clock, on the night of the IStih of September, and he was called to a house in Boundary street, and on going upstairs saw the prisoner, his wife, and his two sons. One of the sons said he wished to give his father in charge for stabbing him in the band, and he saw a very severe cut on the back of his band. The pri soner then said he wished to give his son into custody for coming into his house. Mr. George B. Phillme, surgeon, of Spital-square, de scribed the injuries the prosecutor had received, and a knife would produce such a wound. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had been to the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange for the purpose of selling propagating glasses for seeds and cuttings, and during the day he had more to drink than he ought. Re sat down to supper and his son knocked him off the basket and having the knife in his hand his scn was accidently cut on the hand by it. Had he been sober this thing would not have happened. He did not wish to let persons know where he was, or he could have brought dozens of persons from the City who would have given him a good character. He had been a married man for twenty years, had brought up a large family, and was not the man to commit an in jury upon his wife. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty of a common as sault. The Assistant-Judgessid it was a lamentable thing to see a father standing at the bar, charged with wounding his son with a knife. The wife said her husband was drunk every night, and on the night when he was taken by the policeman he told him not to give her any mon ey , although at the time the children were in want of bread. He sometimes got 30s. a week, but he never gave her above a shilling or two at a time, and she was obliged to rely for her support on the work of herself and children. (The poor woman's appearance bore strong testimony that she was badly fed and in want of the necessaries of life.) The Assistant-Judge said the poor woman has been very ill-used by the prisoner, and his conduct was a dis grace to the name of man, and had the court taken a severe view of his case be might have been sent to penal servitude. This appears (continued the Judge) to have been all caused by drink, but you will be sent to a place where you are compelled to keep sober. The sentence upon you is that you be sent to prison and there kept to hard labour for three months, and at the end of that time you find some persons to be surety in the sum of 10/. for your good behaviour for three months, and that you be detained for that time unless such surety be found. SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Payne..) A DARING BURGLAIL—CLIMBING OP THE FRONT OP A NOOSE. Georye Harding, 21, a painter, was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Frederick Jacob, and stealing therein a coat and other articles., his property. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Alfred Mures, a warehouseman, living at 6, Albion mad. Stoke Newington, said that about 9 o'clock on the evening of the 21st of Sept. he was coming out of his house, when he heard a noise as if something was falling from the portico of the next house (the prosecutor's). He looked and saw the prisoner dropping something down. He went and rang the bell, because he suspected all was not right. Mr. Frederick Jacob, the prosecutor, living at Rye Cottage, Albion-road, said he heard an alarm and a cry of " Thieves !" and ran out and found the prisoner concealed in the front area. The prisoner tried to escape, but wit ness shut the gate, and the prisoner, in trying to I get over the railing, was taken into custody. It I was then found that he had very cleverly clambered up the front of the house on to the portico and had opened a is indow, entered the room, and thrown • the things out of the window. The things consisted of wearing apparel, silks, dresses, and coats, valued at about ; Harriet Cure, prosecutor's servant, proved that the win dow was properly shut but not fastened. She found the property under the bushes. Edward Story, police-constable 133 N said he received the prisoner into custody. He said baking in answer to the charge. The jury found the prisoner Cttilly, Warder Herbert Reeves, of the House of Correction. Cold Bath-fields, said the prisoner was convicted on the ILERLBOROUGH-STREET. A IMILDZILOCti BCENS IN BT. Blum, Jews M'Corgity, a labourer, was charged eta — ~. assaulting Hannah Regan with a life presee c e e — '1 Th e complainant, whose head was haa t emi_ ..” lived at No. a, Church-lane, St. egg es ".'"'.,7 lll l tweet 9 and 10 last night she 'at 4 ..." in 4 Jamaica Stores public-house accenamsterl. II female friend. Directly afterwards - the - m a...! wife and mother came in and the fonnerme les t — r would fight she told the wife that she did pot fora fight their, sad the wife then struck her, sad fought and fell together. The prisoner tbse set . s ~. emus* her on the head with a life preserve asst a—a w senseless. She got up to make her way out, „4 . .....e to the door the prisoner's brother took the hh — , lllll b 1 fpbY ro l riamin in; ;; ; ; : ottenosuitst an tha r trw inri : Pris : hi (s o t all : 3 ::: la r i rtnaned ysa T f i . o e y : mad t rw hoen lest c r h: . w t, hki th h e : com onwi plake e tlithil:e4d : l l l : l l do h thh t ee he uved i l:! n t iß e if serlll , o : ;:t is ; :..,: r eom ' 46 nos bt' E rS p er o , h l ftet ai i elle aif w n ro r d a thas i g : : : : :uriftlar e tindat ill": l l: 2lll4ina."l : l : 4. !" Ty kWifir : Da i deabei ugivrifeur:Pvlinarthe li Th r . e r t e h t p l : Prim ::;:: : l . nd er e7 t i f e r: hdh. br°64r7llll.4l o: ll : l lll :* ll : ll; . in court to charge the brother with assaulting, and to h i . that she did, the brother was token tato sestettl charged, giving the name Edward M'Carme ''' fr The complement having repeated the ev:ohnes, House, 46 E, said that on goiug to the wet he the complainant covered with blood. He tote the plainant to the King's College Hospital, lea Js • MiCai :by was taken into custWy. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would remand the prises ( 1e i week to see whether the complainant died or set The complainant said her life was in dupe hum prisoners' friends. Mr. Tyrwhitt said if anyone molested her de come to the court for protection. WORSHIP-STREET. ZOBB/GRT AT ran GAZA? ZASTIAN ZAUMATTIMMX John Pouffes*, Henry Sangskr, and James I.h, about 20 years . of age, and described m Wean% charged with being concerned in robbery. On • Afore, in Fiese y x sigh , ma: waiting at j th a n s horlditeir ßutier ' a teaan kMl -I the Great Eastern Railway for the last Stein to hie lest when the three prisoners walked up to him, tad Beck w. inquired if he could acquaint him at AS au the train to Camb'idge started. Mr. Betle le pressed his entire ignorance on the point, same prisoner, replying " Thank yea," large Fermi containing wearing apparel that 4 lying on his left arm, the other being hartbeest A s . overcoat, and darted o ff with it, followed by deem, 4 He (Mr. Butler) pursued them, shouting by i .i but this availed not, all escaped, nor has say al Sip . l' pert,. been since heard of. The fanner, hammer ' an excellent description of the sooundrek, sad is, mained in town walking about wish one of the AIMS constables in quest of them. Chillingsworth, dlisg ‘. avision, was likewise on the same errand in . of Mr. Willett, a draper, in Moines at r having been mobbed and nearly tripped up in the • for the clear purpose of robbery on the very meek* also bad given an accurate description of them sel, it now appeared that this last mentioned matey , suddenly caught sight of Sangster in a pea- ' beer shop in Shoreditch, and the other two wstAlaglia • from wiMout. Chillingworth now gave the three haw. divided attention, and while so engaged meson& astonished at hearing a charge of robbery mein*. them by a gentleman he had never seen More, Mt eiel of course was Mr. Butler, accompanied by the e mewl man. The prisoners then, as now, denied all hosledgml the theft. , ai Mr. Ellison thought that there was insufficient nem to hold Poutledge, whom he therefore diechusemil remanded the others, Sangster remarking, 'l'm se* to tell a lie about having been convicted. I hue hd ' months. So you may as well settle it here." WANTED AN OWNER FOR A 101. NOTE Sarah Morris, a somewhat diminutive pi, bat MIK herself to be 18 years of age, was charged with conduct and having in her pais...anon a 101.= England note of which she was unable to give lay Ma factory explanation. Nowlan, 73 N, said—Last night I found the Use" in the Cit y-roadt quarrelling, ming obeoene laagnegesdiii • toxicated. I desired her to p away, she refused astishill me, and a crowd gathering, I took her into custo d y ; 6' then pulled something from her pocket sad loaded I to another girl, who was about to run off ; Mass I rest her hand containing a purse with thee Bea to for 10/. in it, 41. in gold, Ge. in silver, a &plinth ul a tradesman's bill. She chinned all as her ssi , ls could not mention the number of the bank-aote. Vol pressed her on this point she said toot she mall bad to the magistrate. Prisoner now made a rambling statement of amongst Inelitell, 6, Hatfield-street, Finsbury, of her having an who subsequently presented her with a soverep sad C her having found in the room after be had loft thee* produced, which she at first believed to be hats& piece of paper. The gold, silver, and purse miresdl , her own. The constable requested a remand, is in all wade,' the purse and contents were the produce of a theft. Tact tain a clue to this and the rightful amain smoke* Lion of the note was requisite. . A remand was ordered, and the number is met made known—namely, 02,•e 1. bit certain nmen• back of the note, for obvious reasons, are withheld' , WANDSWORTH. THE CARE OF ALLF.GED CRUELTY TO A LUILTE. Thk against m o r n i Henri, n gthe Surrey County Lunatic Asylum , for bein g oomenier another keeper named Morgan in ill -nesting °NTT a lunatic, was resumed or Mr. Doman, at thsl.l.o.f investig' Burton, a one tion of with th th e .refttergiau ene oe 16 . 4 charge worth Police Court, Mr. Straight, instructed by l"'"' Smallpieoe, of Guildford, being present to emisee i t behalf of the Committee of Visi tors to the Asylum lk A. Haynes, of Wandsworth, again appeared to prisoner. patient medical ti n the og uffih lait t: e fzfamtroheminasat)selionvneniNDlirr. ratedGairavatharautmi.ok, e cers wi ell,e i l.; ~ chest sad hips, also an abrasion and a brim .! ' cheek. His own opinion was that the bruiss.lisd: recently done, and not on the preoedingnight,.W.ba!" stated that Tite had been quarrelling vils.,..ri; patient. He informed the megi , trsi o e t =as H flg e ht suo ing anwastaininintredhThe,caseanredoTeiretefworeo tohheimbsaividebnpunttothimretsaToin..m..! and reportextoPi7heedmedthiaciat l th o e f fi ce pro r. Per c° :7 im:77 Mr. Straight inquired whether biome nlia W.!e!,Le Dr. Gmvham said he had not, but he ITY I/ ... bourhood a short time ego. evidence. Dayman been assaulted. vs, pot •b° Mr. Dayman told him that he must pro , cod ,_OO, but when the assault was committed, that betye ht saithaenbase pkmedpolethwercatuhertehenspermullvote: dition to give evidence. He thought, however , ig better not to call him. There were three permr_ot been examined, and it would b e better to rell ." evidence. Fe e° No other witness being called, Mr. HO"' _...i. lli address the magistrate on behalf of . the deles pointed out certain discrepancies in th e •17 - 0 0 argued that kindness to lunatics was °wow,* could be reed, but there were notn __ita attendants were obliged to use forcew i per spinet force. He should be able to prove Mr, lo ge was attacked by the patient, who woe very, mern..lo only necessary force was used to roarein. hm *7,7;0 quiet. It was misconstrued by th witileer , _, e el I first cell• d t tt t 9 1 s ta a l i ti o ng f D ah r. ou o t ra w y ka ham t . they had seen, u n til Is ' OO. George Frederick Townsend was . 3 fence. He said he was in attendance in :1 0 -........ t it, 9 1 remembered the night of Wednesday, the 1...,..001 heard a fall, and on going to the spot he saw ? o e rising from the floor very much excited. Bail m t ;j es. patient, was about to kick him. Witness st d al Shortly afterwards they got fi ghting agate, _" separated. The other attendant endea eil7" ......, all to Tate, who was put b e d. Both the pauses v• -- • 0 4 violent. ttettU ee s ee i John Hunt said he was one of the s Dig j. No. 1. On the Thursday morning I ?! . , o l ; e t t a. 0 11611 gallery with a chair ra ised. He appea red to de a t afterwards he heard a whistle, and 'm e ~., te i . He saw Burton holding Tite round the Wr, ell roan CLM "saula l l . eithing to th lhe im ir fbue It all depended upon the violence of 1 1411 ,r," 2 0 — e; leg him. arlsat le let ot ly Phorea Sims said be was en ellwasgigiant wdthohrtat.hTiceete'WwasniwtnnedasiuTis7tidteddfiedidewunnd°i*lesier:dea:7l°° , for three years. He was ere ry beNce..ntundrherehispatcalTetfoGrootergeessayna!e,nenbduei i h e husoc, bi T: k e ere ogio ~ ton strike a"gaila the,,....irt. trept0r,...,......, The Earl of Derby was to have left Balmoral yesterday for the south, and is, it is said, to be relieved by the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote as minister in attendance on the Queen. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF B, (Before Mr. Comm Winslow.) IN ILN JANSII GOLDRICH. The bankrupt was en attorney, of Waterloo-road and the Strand, also having an office at Liverpool. He obtained adjudication against hirnself,describing his failure to pressure of creditors and want of capital to on busi ness. This was the sitting for examination adischarge, but the accounts had not been filed. The preliminary statement (which is not even oast up) shows debts of apparently about 1,0001. The amount is 3001., due to the trustees of the Harrington Building Society,. Liverpool, for which they hold some security. The creditors are upwards of eighty in number, and comprise several weekly newspapers, both in louden and Liverpool, where also the bankrupt had an Mee. The claims of those creditor, retying from 221. to 161., are in respect of advertisements inserted by the plaintiff in their respective papers. Mr. Denny, for the bankrupt, stated that them was • prospect of a ooinposition being offered to the creditors, and asked for an adjournment for threo months. Mr. Aldridge appeared for the official assignee. The bankrupt stated that he expected to receive some mosey from citrate, with which he proposed to make an offer to his creditors. He had had two banking accounts at the Union Bank of Liverpool, and at the City Bank. He had not given up the paas-books, but was ready to do so. Beyond those he had only kept a day-book and a letter-book. Had had in his possession some books be longing to a bankrupt named Coe, but they had been sent to the official &olives. He had discontinued his business at Liverpool, and had no clerk there or at any other place. He was indebted to about a dozen proprietors of news papers for advei tieing his business as • solicitor. Mr. Denny submitted that th's incrizy into the ordi nary debts of • professional man was irrelevant. The Commissioner—These do not appear to be ordinary debts at ail. Examination continued—Had • debt due to him from Miss Upsall. All the rest of his debts were bad. His business was a ready money business. His Honour said that the bank books must be given up. An adjournment for four months wee ordered. IN BE THE ENV. HENRY BOWLING NOBLE. The bankrupt was described as a clerk in holy orders, of Upton-road, St. John's-wood. He came before the court with debts of 2671. Cann of failure, being sued by creditors, and loss of pupils. Mr. Dubois supported. Mr. Aldridge appeared for the official assignee.' The bankrupt dated that he was in the receipt of 601. a year as a curate, and had five day pupils at 2 guineas a quarter. He hr d been insolvent 15 years ago, owing to bis having become security. Mr. Dubois stated that the bankrupt had made an offer of ss. in the pound to his creditors ; but execution beng taken out against him, he had been obliged to come here. In answer to the oourt,the bankrupt stated that he had sold his furniture to a friend for 201. just before coming to the court. He was then trying to arrange, and had no intention of becoming bankrupt. There was no under standing for the return of the furniture. His Honour granted the order. TN BS HATTWELL _ _ _ The bankrupt, a farmer, of Bletehinston, Oxfordshire, applied for his discharge from debts of 9781. He ascribed his failure to bad crops and loss of cattle and sheep. Mr. Aldridge appeared for the official assignee ; and Mr. Doria for the bankrupt. The bankrupt stated that be bad occupied a farm far 14 years as tenant to St. John's College, Oxford, at an annual rent of 1901., or ;As. an acre. In June last they diatrained and took•everything on the farm. He bad re ceived no account of the sale or the proceeds. His Honour said that an account must be rendered, and adjourned the case for that purpose. IN• RIC H&RRINGTON. The bankrupt was a dairyman, of Park-road, Notting bill. He now applied for and obtained his discharge from debts of 117/. The case is only noticeable from an ad mission on the part of the bankrupt that he had made a profit of Is. 9d. per barn gallon on his milk. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) EXPRESS FROM PARLS. (Taos oul ows coussarozrozwr.) PARIS, MONDAY Emma. The Pram asserts that France has put a tremen• dons pressure upon Baron Ricaaoli to force him to saddle Italy with four-fifths of the Pontifical debt. It says that the question of figures was settled long ago, but that Baron Ricasoli at the last moment raised two objections :-Ist, that the consent of the Italian parliament must be first obtained ; and 2nd, that the Pope should recognise the kingdom of Italy. France (the Freese says) could not assent to the first of these condi tions, and the Pope has constantly and absolutely repudiated the second. The only consequence of Baron Ricasoli's obstinacy would have been " the postponement of any solution and the inde finite prolongation of the French occupation of Rome." These are grave eventualities which few people will readily suppose were recently upon the cards. The Frame triumphantly says that Ricasoli has been " forced to yield." I dare say the case is susceptible of being stated in another way. The France echoes the assertion of the Petrie last night that General Dix has been appointed to supersede Mr. Bigelow in consequence of the necessity which President Johnson felt laid upon him to provide good place for political personages whose support may be valuable to him at the next election. This is quite a mistake. Mr. Bigelow tendered his resignation so long ago as July last, and has frequently pressed it since. The President never thought of dismissing him. He has long desired to go to America, from which he has been six years absent, on private affairs. He has done enough for his reputation and ambition in negotiating the treaty which pro vides for the speedy evacuation of Mexico by the French army, and, as the France admits, he leaves no difficult questions to his successor to settle. The Bourse was weak. Rents fell 10c. for cash and 7 c. for account, closing at 69fr. 40c. and , 69fr. biic. Italian fell 30c. ; Mobilier, 6fr.; and Cre& t Fonder, lfr. 60c. WEATHER REFORM -OMS DAY.) TCESDAT, OCTOBER 2, 8 LN. 11. ISea. I to E. Extrem*. W. ilt 12 1. S.W. 1 A S.E. 1 2 E. 1 1 E.N.E. 3 5 Z. 0 2 N. 1 1 N . E . 3 3 S.S.E. 1 E.E.E. 1 1 N.E. 12 1 N.E.14 6 NE. • 2 N.E. 1 2! 2 Z. 0 1 2 N.E. S 1 N.E. 2! S N. 2 ' Y.S.E. I 1 1 4 N.N.E. I 2 2 N.E. 2 2 0.04 i 0.00 2 Bth February, 1861, in the name of Edward~ unteriosd to twelve months' unwise, tri labour, at this court. He was um oe yd ship-street Police-court in the name of Ild eu ,7 wa and sentenced to _three months. His fries,him a handful of money not to say seyfiii B l / 2 a former oonwictions. Mr. Payne said it we. a very. Inslcarolfse s ", s h or e time ego the prisoner wood ' An such an offence. The sentence of the curl ap i e k 4 that he be kept in penal servitude for suu p m . 14 THE POLICE COURT& 7 (THIS DAY.) lima wood. Wm The Tb• i sti 3nee rs ne nt r theit: Mr. of alai Mond mead ail 4 ~: I~ 1i...... LAT] NON Vent' VasFl M and utd4 mob is not th DEA ran great ant st Th. Greer Dr. the He from from' the I reaPt who injtu nam Jit - d WIA 1 6th the MO .aid note]mu she rale take hos]