The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-17 00:00:00

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Mr. BM more and MIN C. Saunders.—And FLYING SCUD. Mews. Neellle, Belmore, Blake, Yollalre, Be. ; Madames F. 1u C. Saunders. plait* Fool& Fiddle, Lennox, Bakunood, to. isixrAreiLL Teal Immo. WHAT IS IT i—Mr. "Hauling Mai" Bryan: Mita H. Garatoue : Paul Dean Matter Gana Perko—TOE OLD CHERRY TELL Mra. Lane.—Concluithig with MARY LIVINGSTON& NIGH WATER AT LONDON INLDON TIM Dee —Morning. Ih. 47m Afternoon. Oh. Eten. TO4LOSZOlf—lfornlng, 1011. Om Afternoon, 10h. Atm. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, THE two cases of conviction of workmen under the Masters and Servants Act which came before the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday bear witness to difficulties in the administration of that statute which it is to be feared would not be removed by the adoption of the changes recom mended by the Select Committee over which Lord ELCBO lately presided. WOOD and BARROW were two workmen in the employ of Mr. BowsoN, a master builder of Stockport. They were also respectively President and Secretary of the United Order of Bricklayers in the same town. In October all Mr. Bowsow's men stopped work shortly after BARROW had been seen speaking to two of their number. Mr. Bowsow asking the reason of the sudden suspension of labour, Minnow told him that he could not but be aware that it was because he had too many apprentices, he having four at the time. Mr. Bowsow subse quently wrote to BARROW asking specifically why the men had been taken away, and adding—" I Tire New York journals were discussing at the " should like you to let me know what you require beginning of the present month a scheme for the I "me to do." In reply to this application a reso- settlement of the Mexican question whic h the y lution of a meeting of the United Bricklayers was attribute to the Government at Washington. Ac forwarded to Mr. BowsoN in BARROW'S hand- cording to these authorities, an agreement has been writing, to the effect that "No society bricklayer established between the United States, France, " will work for Mr. BowsoN until he parts with and the Mexican Republic, in which each is to " some of his apprentices. He will be allowed find its advantage. France, in withdrawing her " two apprentices, and when his oldest apprentice troops, is to get a kind of guarantee from " arrives at the last year of his servitude ho will the United States for the payment by the "be allowed a third ; until then there will be no Government of Jusnez of the claims on account " society bricklayers to work for him ; and, fur- of which she originally invaded Mexico. The " ther, there will be so much expenses to pay as United States undertakes to lend its aid in estab " well before any society bricklayer will work for hailing a stable Republican Government in that " Mr. BowsoN." A subsequent correspondence country, obtaining in return the cession of the took place between the parties as to a sum peninsula of Lower California and a great part of 18t.—the expenses referred to in the fore- of the States of Chihuahua and Sonora. Finally, going note—which the society claimed, as J u AREZ accepts the arrangement, undertakes to cede we can only suppose, to reimburse them the provinces, and pay the legitimate debts of the for the aid they had given to the workmen during Republic. Such is the plan which is thought prac the suspension of labour. The master builders of ticable at Washington. It is admittedly conjec- Stockport, learning what was going on, held a tural in some of its details, and we suspect is' meeting, and ag,ieed that they would discharge all as a whole rather an object than a result of their men, unless Mr. BOWSON'S men resumed policy, or at most represents a general under work, and this resolution they communicated to standing rather than an elaborate scheme. The the workmen. We assume as probable, although character of the arrangement, however, so well bar the report does not state the fact, that the master monisea with the interests and dispositions of the builders had evidence that the men generally were several governments said to have become parties making themselves parties to the proceedings of to it, that it is not surprising that it should have the society against Mr. Bowsow, and so felt jus- been generally accepted in the United States tified in including the whole body in measures of as a probable representation of the facts. JUAREZ retaliation. would doubtless think himself fortunate in getting If the matter had ended here the public would well secured in the possession of twenty States have heard of it, if at all, only as one of those re- of the Republic on condition of ceding the re grettable local wars between capital and industry maining three ; while the Emperor of the FRENCH, of which we have had so many of late years. having for the gravest reasons resolved under any Unfortunately, however, Mr.Bowsow was advised circumstances to withdraw his forces from Mexico, to take WOOD and BARROW before the magistrates must be well disposed towards a scheme which under the Masters and Servants Act, in the terms would enable him to declare to France that he had of which they were convicted " for that attained the original object of his expedition. " they did by using certain threats force That something has taken place between the "or endeavour to force their employer Governments of France and the United States to "to limit the number of his apprentices," enable the latter to give a more direct and open and were sentenced to a month's imprisonment support to JUAREZ than it has hitherto done, or with hard labour. Against this sentence the could have done, consistently with its former workmen appealed ; and the Court of Queen's professions, no one who has watched the recent Bench had no sooner possessed itself of the facts course of events can doubt. In its correspondence • than it unanimously quashed the conviction. There with France the Government of the Union has could be uo doubt that the local magistrates had repeatedly declared its strict neutrality in Mexico, made a grown if not a culpable mistake. There but in General SHERIDAN'S letter to General was not the slightest evidence of a threat in the SEDOWICK the abandonment of this policy is whole case, fur the men's action prior to the openly proclaimed, and the duty of giving a hearty communication made to Mr. BOWSON began and support to JUAREZ against the " Imperial buc ended with themselves, and that communication " cancers," as well as against ORTROA and SANTA was made to Mr. BowsoN at his own request. I ANNA, is asserted. Any arrangement which pro- Lord Chief Justice COCKBURN and his colleagues I mixes to give Mexico a government capable of invited the counsel for the master to point out I protecting life and property must be considered a any evidence of a threat, but he was unable to do benefit to that country. The French, in advancing so. As Sir ALEXANDER Cocxerraw said in his upon the city of Mexico four years ago, announced judgment : "There was no threat. The first •as their aim the overthrow of President JUAREZ ; "step taken by the men was taken entirely among in so doing they deprived Mexico of the best " themselves, and the next was taken in cone- chance of obtaining a strong government which it " quence of and in answer to a communication by had enjoyed for many years. It was "the master himself, and a demand on his part from the first impossible that they could " for explanation." He was careful to add, give Mexico a government ; they only gave and it will be well for workmen to remember, it one faction the more. The millions they have that "If there had been anything to show that it spent in Mexico are irrecoverably lost. JUAREZ " was intended really to convey a threat under re-appears as the only practicable ruler of Mexico, !;; • g 1 1. ' l l t' THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1866. " the guise of the communication a raeolutialt " it would have been otherwise, sad iba men " could not escape from the consequences of a " threat merely because it was so disguised." All the Judges were of the same opinion. The appeal of " O'lLtax and another v. Caaoos " presented the same general features, and the conviction in that case was likewise quashed. The judgment of the Court has decided nothing directly as to the legality of the combination into which Mr. Bowsores men entered, as set forth in their resolution, but only determines the specific question raised wider the Masters and Servants Act. The tendency of the incidental observations which fell from the Court in the course of the judg ment, and also during the argument,was, however, entirely in favour of recognizing the liberty of the men to agree together to decline working for a par ticular master except on certain terms. The LORD larzr Amyx% acknowledged the principle of com bination when he said :—" Inasmuch as the men, " who have not the advantages of wealth, can often " only protect their interest by means of aasocia " Lion and 00-operation, we ought not to strain " the law against those who have only their " labour and their mutual co-operation to depend " upon." The masters are not to be severely blamed because they did not judge the liberty of the men with the same indifference as the LORD CRIMP JIISTICS, but it is strange that they could for one moment have supposed it to be consonant with law or common sense that they were to be at liberty to combine to refuse to give work, and that the men for combining to refuse work were to be sent to prison. That the masters did really and truly think that such was the law is shown by the fact that they communicated their resolution to the men. But far more extraordinary is the conduct of the magistrates. Their position bound them to be impartial. If it bad been proposed to send two masters to gaol for combining to deprive workmen of employment, they would have seen at once the monstrous injustice and absurdity of the suggestion. Their conduct only shows how diffi cult it is for those who are raised by circumstances above the necessity of labouring for wages to per ceive that the equality of the parties is of the very essence of the system of free labour. The law is partly responsible for this confusion of thought. This same Masters and Servants Act, by making breaches of contract a criminal offence on the pert of the workman and not on the part of the master, tempts the magistrate to regard the parties as standing on a different footing before the law. It may be hoped that the judgment of the Queen's Bench, and the observations with which it was accompanied, will do something to check the pro pensity to rush to a criminal court, and invoke its power, too often betrayed when disputes arise be tween masters and workmen. The relations of the two parties are relations of contract, and to the terms of the engagement each should be held, but beyond that legislation can do little good and much harm. Nothing could be more disastrous to the interests of society than that the law should come to be regarded as a weapon placed at the ser vice of one clams against another. Of the particu lar dispute out of which this appeal arose, the Judges had, of course, nothing to say. The masters were equally entitled to close their shops, and the men to take up their tools and depart ; it was only when a foreign element was introduced, and an illegitimate use was made of magisterial powers, that the intervention of the Court of Queen's Bench became necessary. There is no need for the public to take aides in these squab bite. Their existence can only be regarded with regret. Agreements which tend to hinder the utility of capital aid labour may be justifiable and necessary, but it is not in their nature to excite sympathy whatever their origin. The best we can hope is that the habit of combination once acquired may lead to its employment for more fruitful purposes than those of antagonism. Asso ciation, it has been proved, can be turned to better account than that of strikes and lock-outs. and the Emparp? Nsroxsos has felled in the retied enforprite . of Ws reign. All the inischiel that has been done comes of attributing an inordi nate efficacy to the initiative of individual' giving themselves out for " men of Providence," " sa " viours " and " regenerators " of society, and the like. All the recovery that can be hoped for must be effected, as is now acknowledged, by returning to the old system of observing nature and following her indications. With a native Government sup ported by a powerful neighbour, and relieved from the preposterous load of debt which the Emperor MAiumiwew had contracted in its name, Mexico will have a better prospect of order and prosperity than she has had for many years. thinking that we knowihe worst, and by keeping in,mind that, if we use aitaelted, we have a total regular tome e very man of whla would be wanted in Ireland aline and that England itself seems to rel y , so far as the regular army goes, on getting, if possible, a thousand or two more aged and respectable pensioners. Perhaps this may be all that sun be done ; but if it is all that government dare propose, and that parliament would sanction, we must con fess that we are at an incalculable distance from the Prus sian system, and that if France approaches it with diffi culty, and Austria can only pretend to approach it, we are below even the pretence of getting in any way near it. The Saturday Review argues that the Jamaica Com. mittee, in prosecuting Mr. Eyre, will be maintaining great constitutional principle, enforcing lessons of a most salutary kind, and doing much to guide and enlighten public opinion, but whether it is advisable to prosecute Mr. Eyre, even to attain all these benefits, th is a question which it damn to decide. Perhaps e sca partiality which has led a Jamaica grand jury to ignore the bill of indictment against Ramsay may be allowed some weight in determining those who are thinking of the prosecution to go on with it. On the other hand, if the prosecutors cannot prove their ease, they will do a great amount of harm. The impression will be spread that, al though the boasted law of England is said to give redress for every wrong, this is practically untrue, and that a colonial governor will have the best of it even if he is prosecuted. The verdict of the jury is not the point of primary importance, the essential thing is that a strong c ase against Mr. Eyre should be proved. To get this proof will be very difficult, and the prosecutors will also have to beware of the numerous technical pitfalls into which they may fall. They may be baffled at the outset by some tiny legal difficulty-some Jamaica statute, or some point of colonial law. They ought to guard most carefully against this, for at present the balance of public feeling is against the prosecution ; and if the prosecution fails easily and ignominiously, the notion that colonial governors may do very much as they like, if they are good fellows, will gain ground. Oahe Spectator believes it is generally known that Pro. lessor de Morgan, one of the greatest living mathemati cians, and certainly far the ablest living thinker and teacher on the logic of mathematics, has resigned his chair in the University College, London, in consequence of the recent decision arrived at by the council of that body to reject Professor Martincen's candidature for the chair of Intellectual Philosophy and Logic on the ground of his denominational reputation. Professor de Morgan, if the Spectator is rightly informed, shares the disgust which almost all the oldest and best supporters of the college feel, and declines to serve longer an institution which has lost its raison d'Otre. If he goes, it will be a serious blow to the college,_-indeed, the Faculty of Arts will lose its only celebrated, and very deservedly celebrated, teacher. I Our contemporary understands, however, that an effort is likely to be made at a special court of proprietors to bring to their serum the majority of the council. In the opinion of the Spectator men are driven out of the army, and kept out by the life which soldiers lead while in the ranks. If the royal commissioners could have suggested a mode whereby the private soldier, even the worst, should be considered and treated as a moral human being, able to render intelligent obedience and capable of improvement, and if, besides, they had insisted that there should be a road by which ability could climb from the bottom to the top, they would have done more to insure a good supply of soldiers than all the material inducements; they can offer. Depend upon it, " a pound of meat, including the bone," and twopence extra per day after 12 years' service, and a shilling a day after 21 years' service, will not attract men as even the present allow. anoes would, were they gilded with honour. Eht evart. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 16. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon, and her Majesty, with Princess Beatrice, went out in the grounds this morning. The Princess of Wales and Princess Christian went out driving. Princess Louise rode in the Home park. The Hon. Lady Bidtlulph had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday. Mr. G. D. Engleheart has arrived at the Castle. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon , General Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho- nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on matters relating to quarantine. The Lords present were the Lord President, Lord Stanley, and Sir S. Northcote. Mr. Frederick Goulburn (vice-chairman of the Board of Customs), Dr. Wiblin (medical superintendent of quaran tine at Southampton), Mr. Helps, and Mr. Harrison at tended the committee. A Committee of the Lords of the Council at yesterday at Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord President and Sir S. Northeote. Mr. Harrison attended the committee. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. The Lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir R. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the governors of the West India Islands, British Hon duras, British Columbia, and Vancouver's On the 10th the Emperor of Russia, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of Prussia, wet t in the evening to the French theatre, where Sardou's play of Nos Bona Y illageois was brought out for the first time ; the part of Pauline being played by Mdlle. Stella Colas, who is a great favourite at St. Petersburg. On Sunday morning his royal highness attended service at the English chapel. The building was absolutely crammed with English residents, who had come to get a view of the Prince. The sermon was preached by the chaplain, Mr. Thompson, whose name will be well known to the parishioners of St. Mary's, Bryanston-square. The Earl and Countess of Derby received Viscount and Viscountess Cranborne, Lord and Lady Chelmsford, Lord Stanley, M.P., Lord H. G. Lennox, M.P., and a select circle at dinner last evening, at their residence in St. James's-square. The marriage of the Master of Lovat, eldest son of Lord Lovat, to Alice Mary, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Weld-Blundell, of Ince Blundell, Lancashire, took place on Wednesday. The ceremony was solemnised according to the rites of the Roman catholic church in a small chapel attached to Ince Blundell. A report recently circulated that Mr. Samuel Gurney intends to retire from the representation of Penryn and Falmouth next spring is entirely unfounded. Mr. Gurney has no such intention. The young men who took part in the demon stration against the Archbishop of Dublin last Sunday have already felt the weight of ecclesiastical displeasure. Many of them were members of the Young Men's Chris tian Association attached to St. Mark's, and at the usual weekly meeting of that body on Thursday night, • letter was read from the parochial clergymen, the Rev. Mr. N'Neill, patron, and the Rev. Mr. Fuller, withdrawing their patronage from the society. After the meeting had terminated the assembly resolved itself into • meeting of the parishioners. It was then resolved—" That we regret the retirement of the clergy of the parish from the direc tion of our association ; but that, rather than sacrifice an adherence to Scriptural protestentism, and be drawn into the vortex of tractarianiern, we consent to the dissolution of the association ; and that vre regard the coercion thus practised towards us as unworthy the source from which it emanated, and an attempt to deprive us of our right of free thought Rod free action." A Paris letter in the Indeptiviance Beige says " Prince Napoleon accompanied the Emperor toCompiegne. arriving shero one day before Use other guests. Veryclese relations exist at present between the different members of the imperial family, and the incidents of the speech at Aiaocio are Si completely forgotten that the Prince-Im perial will, it is said, stand godfather to the baby with which the Princess Clothilde is expected to be confined in a few days." -------_ LATEST INTELLIGENCE,. , . SPAIN. Things have come to such a state in Spain, sabe ys the Arenir National, that a Boccaccio would required to describe them properly. Narvaez, the saviour of family, of religion, and property was ne arly upset a few days ago f or having refute a political poet of some impo r t a nce to a certain Menses, who is a favourite of the King, of Father Claret, awl Sister Patrocinio, and therefore of the Camarillo Narvaez, whose susceptibility is not of the most acute nature, resisted, and declared that the thing was wholly impossible. The Cama rillo feeling no doubt that its time was not y e t come for seizing power, compromised the matter, and Menses will have to content himself with the title of duke and the order of some order of chivalry. MEXICO. The following is the despatch given by the New York papers relative to the Emperor Maximilian's departure from Mexico : Wuhingtan, Nov. 5. Minister Romero to-day received the following letter by way of New Orleans, dated Vera Cruz, Oct. 26, 1866. Maximilian left the City of Mexico on the 23rd inst., resigning verbally in favour of General Besaine. General B au b l e endeavoured to persuade him to delay his departure until General Castelnau's arrival two days later ; but he declined , and escorted by 800 Austrians, proceeded to Orizaba by cross roads, to avoid meeting with General Cutelnan. He reached Orizaba yesterday, and is expected here to-morrow. The captain of the Austrian frigate Daduota states that as soon as Maximilian arrives he will at once leave for Europe. It is said that Maximil ian will publish to-day a manifesto at Orizaba. General Castelnau reached the city of Mexico soon after Maximilian left, and took poesendon of the palace, and assumed the " reins" of government. The French soldiers who had entered under Maximilian's oolours will be returned to France under General Cast/l uau's influence. General Porfirio Dias has captured the city of Oaxaca, taking all the artillery, ammunition, men, and supplies. (asurim's rsulazaus.) rrALy. FLORENCE, Nov. 16, Evisiso. Baron Ricasoli has issued a circular to the Italian prefects, directing them to authorise all bishops who are still absent from their dioceses to return to their sees whether residing at present at Rome or elsewhere. PADUA, Nov. 16, Nviornm. The King arrived here this evening and met with an enthusiastic reception. SUPPRESSION OF THE CANDIAN ISURRECTION. MALTA, Nov. 16. Her Majesty's ironclad Resistance, arrived here to-day from Canes, having left that place on Tuesday last. The Resistance reports that no fighting had taken place within 40 miles of Canes during the past fortnight. The insurrection was considered entirely sup pressed, notwithstanding all rumours to the con trary. The Malta and Alexandria cable has broken near Ras-el-Tien. The Hawk leaves Malta to-morrow to make the necessary repairs. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (MB DAY.) The Times is enabled to state that her Majesty's government have no present intention of referring the Ala bama claims to a royal commission ; what they really con template is to impower such a commission to inquire gene rally into the operation of our own neutrality laws, and to re port upon the possibility of amending them, so as to bring them into more complete conformity with our interna tional obligations. This decision will be shortly carried into effect, Lord Cranworth being probably the chairman. The inquiry thus limited will in no degree, however, preclude or prejudice any future step that may be taken for the adjustment of the Alabama claims, which are still under the consideration of the govern ment, and must be entertained upon their own merits. The Times proceeds to express its doubts whether Lord Russell's assumption that our international liability and duty are measured by the municipal law of this country was not a false one, and thinks it a misfortune that Sir lL$ Palmer should have so early committed his great authority to.this view. The Attorney-General's speech the other day is described by the Times is faulty in judgment and taste. The present government are entitled to the candid consideration of the country, but assuredly not on the grounds taken up for them by the Attorney-General; not on the ground, for instance, that they did not oppose the ministerial reform bill, for everybody knows they employed all the artillery of parliamentary warfare to defeat it. Such an overstrained claim to fairness can have no other effect than to remind us of the trensao tions of 1858, when Lord Derby gained office by opposing the second reading of a bill for the first reading of which he had spoken and his party had voted. Credit is taken for Lord Derby that he assisted to carry the Reform Bill of 1832, and that he established the system of mixed education in Ireland, the fact being wholly suppressed that his lordship lass entirely changed the opinions under which he advocated these sad so many other liberal measures. If such topics are recalled to mind, Lord Derby has to thank his own Attorney-General tor it. The conservative party needed not to be reminded of the great loss they have sustained in the elevation of Sir H. Cairns. Had they forgotten it, their memory on the subject would have been refreshed by the political Mgt of his succorer. The Daily News remarks that the investigations of the Jamaica Commission were not mere matters of curiosity, but the:needful preliminary to future action, and the efforts of the Jamaica Committee to procure a declaration of the law applicable to the case of Mr. Eyre are made im perative by the issues at stake. To assert that Mr. Eyre did only what was needful under the emergency is not to attack the Jamaica Committee, but the royal commission on whose report the former are acting. Mr. Disraeli has declared the assumption of the illegality of Mr. Eyre's proceedings to be matter of controversy, and Mr. Adderley echoed the statement—erecting questionable acts into pernicious doctrines, which those who love law and free dom have no alternative but to combat. Both the words and the acts of Mr. Eyre's committee are ill-bred and un becoming. Patting aside their attempt to enlist the vo lunteer and militia organisation on their side, they now argue that the Attorney-General's decision against the retainer offered by the solicitors of the Jamaica Com mittee to Mr. ,Coleridge establishes the principle that associations cannot prosecute. Were this so, impunity would be insured to great political offenders, and a prin ciple dan g erous to public liberty would be introduced. The expenses incurred by the prosecutors in the case of the Bishop of Salisbury against Dr. Rowland Williams, and of the Bishop of Cape Town against the Bishop of Natal, were paid by a set of men who united to defray them. Was this illegal? If, in political cases, in which bias is most natural, the government and the House of Commons fail to do their duty, voluntary associations could not set the law in motion, one main security of the liberty of the subject would be withdrawn. Probably the decision of the Attorney. General rests on the technical ground that a retainer should be given in the name not of an association, but of s nne selected member of it. But there is nothing to pre vcnt others from aiding him. If the conjectural reasons given for Sir John Rolt's opinion be correct, the retainers of Mr. Edward James and Mr. Fitzjames Stephen are as in valid asthma of ftfrlC'oleridge. But argument is superfirn s where the facts will soon be apparent. If the Jamaica Association cannot prosecute, it will not prosecute ; and Mr. Eyre's friends need not be alarmed. We shall see next term. The Post applauds the speech of the Attorney-General, and the Telegraph ridicules it. The Herald thinks the suhjects of the speech were dealt with in a most masterly manner, and remembers nothing more happy than some of its allusions. His position is, indeed, an enviable one. To have risen from the humblest to the higher sphere by dint of patient genius and honest industry is a thing only possible to very few men indeed. The Star dwells on the importance of the great reform _ _ . . . banquet which is to be held at Manchester, invitations to which have been accepted by some 40 members of puha, mint. In another article it describes Mr. Stephens as the coolest and most candid of invaders of whom it has ever heard or read. His project, so absurdly proclaimed, is either an elaborate swindle or a freak of insanity. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The bills of indictment against Ramsay and others, charged with murder, have been thrown out remarks the Examiner, by a Jamaica grand jury: not sithstanding the judge)! most distinct and emphatic instruction that there were grounds for trial. Ramsay bad hung a man sentenced to be flogged, and inflicted the capital after the other punishment. There could be no doubt about the crime, but the sufferer was a negro, and the grand jury were whites, and such whites as the un happy state of society in Jamaica produces. The denial of justice does not in the least surprise us. When it was announced that the principal culprits charged with murder or cruelties were to be prosecuted in the colony, we ex pressed our conviction that the spirit of partisanship would render any proceedings • mere mockery of justioe. The worse tho case the greater the favour it would find. The antipathies riot in Jamaica. It was the systematic denial of justice that led to the murderous outbreak at Morant Bay, and if it were wished to make another Hayti of the island, to make the black population despair of redress for wrongs would be the surest mode of bringing about the horrible object. How justice is to be had in Jamaica we cannot pretend to say, but certainly it is not to be had by trial by jury with an Eyre in every juryman. The Examiner says that the fate of the Fenian' under sentence of death in Canada should be decided without any regard for the construction that may be put on an act of grace. Let the criminals suffer suitable punishment for their unprovoked outrage, but not the penalty re served exclusively for murder. If they had done on our own shores what they had done on the Canadian frontier they would h►ve been shot and bayoneted on the field, but when captured they would not have been hung by process of law. A long term of penal servitude would satisfy justice and keep her on good terms with hu manity. The Saturday Retina, discussing the armies of Europe, thinks the report of our own recruiting commissioners one of the most extraordinary of the military reports which the present crisis has called forth. Our military system is so bad, it is ea hampered by its relations to the roya family, so paralysed by divided authority, and possesses so few attractions for deserving men, either u officers or private soldiers, that probably no change will take place in it until change bee been forced on us by a great dis aster. But, at any rate, let us comfort ourselves by THE BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, Nov. 16. The Tanjore leaves at 4 p.m. for Marseilles, where she may be expected on the 19th inst. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Masailia, from Southampton 4th instant, arrived at 7 p.m. on the 13th, and left at 2 a.m. on the 14th, for Alexandria. The Syria, from Marseilles 12th inst., arrived at 7 p.m. on the 14th, and left at noon on the 15th or Alexandria. ARRIVAL OF THE PERUVIAN. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 17. The Peruvian, from Quebec, via Ardrossan, has arrived here, with 100,000 dollars in specie. A meeting is to be held at the Mansion-hone, Dublin, on Monday, to open a subscription for tbs sufferers from the Quebec fire. THE FENIAN CLEHOYMAN.—Rev. Dr. Lumaden, an episcopalian clergyman, who was 'bested with the Fenian' near Fort Erie, was tried at Toronto on the 2nd, and acquitted. It was proven in evidence that he had intervened for the protection of the inhabitants, in one instance having demanded pay for his ser vices from a Canadian farmer, and an attempt was made to prove that be had been ordered away from camp by General O'Neil as a Britisn spy. Testimony went to show that be was addicted to liquor, and had been requested to resign his position as a minister by the Bishop of New York on that account. Among those present as witnesses for the defence were Bishop Core, Dr. Trowbridge, Rev. Mr. Hills, Colonel Thomas, United States army, and Mr. Hodge, of Buffalo ; Rev. Mr. Greenhorn and Dr. Kemp son, of Fort Erie ; Hon. J. H. Cameron, R. A. Harrison, J. M'Nab. The wife of the prisoner, • young woman of ladylike demeanour, occupied • seat next to her husband's counsel, and seemed to feel the unfortunate position her husband was placed in. When the jury brought in verdict of " Not guilty," the prisoner was visibly affected and burst into tears. The judge addressing him said:—David F. Lumsden, the jury have taken a merciful view of your case and acquitted you. You must feel painfully the disgraoeful position in which you have been phased, and, but that the jury considered that at the time you were at Fort Erie you were not re sponsible for your actions in consequence of your inordi nate love of drink, you would most probably have for feited your life. To see a man of your ability brought down to your position by intemperance is very sorrowfuL I sincerely hope it may prove a lesson to you to be more careful for the future and avoid bad company. You are now discharged." After the prisoner left the dock he em braced his wife, and was completely overpowered by emotion. lie then drove oft to the American Hotel. " We learn with pleasure," says the Sielefe, " that, for the second time, a young lady has successfully passed her examination before the Faculty of Paris in the baccalauHat-es-scieltree. Mdlle. Marie Bassani answered very brilliantly, and was received with great respect and amidst public applause. Two years ago Millie. Emma Chanu passed with equal success the same examination. There are already a considerable number of bachelieres-is kttres, but as yet only two bachelii.res-es-acienees." The Spanish religious journals recommend the re-establishment of the inquisition in Spain, as the sole means of saving society ! According to the terms of the American Ocean Yacht Race that is coming off next month, the winner is to challenge all yacht owners in England to race for 100,000 dollars in gold. The U.S. war steamer Frolic has arrived in Southampton water, and will stay about a week for the purpose of obtaining some patent anchors. Vice-Admiral Goldsborough's U.S. squadron is at Lisbon. The Bulletin des Lois publishes an imperial de cree approving of the statutes of a limited liability com pany formed at Amiens for the erection of workmen's houses. The capital is divided into 300 shares of I,ooofr. each, and the Emperor's name is at the head of the list for ten shares. The French metrical system has been definitively adopted in Austria, with some few restrictions of but little importance. The Prase of Vienna states that the rats in the s ewers of that city have been so effectually disobeyed by means of green vitriol, or sulphate of iron, that Professor Hyrtle, requiring some of those animals for experiments, was scarcely able to obtain them at any price. LAW INTELLIGENCE: (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. Sir R. T. Laded,'A HZ ' BRIGHTON CLUB RED 1(0I1OL1 HOTEL COHNIZ An order for the winding up of this company by the court on the 3rd inst. Mr. Swam ton, on behalf of Mr. Reynolds, ► ma k .. the company, now app li ed es parte that the m u ta t not be discharged without notice to his diet Reynolds had been engaged to construct a masa ri hotel and claimed against the company 4,341& fn. sent application was: made upon the greani t 5 wee reason to apprehend some arTaoseneat bens asiN 7 with the other creditors for the • of the psi 7 Tht Vice-Chancellor said the court would ash such an order upon an ex parte applicatke, ra shown that immediate action was neansary is S i mischief. No ground had been shown for the ordinary course in the present, and = tei sk.„,... lllll must be given to the other parties before the coat 74 act in the matter. - HE HAYPEERLD BEZWIII EMMY!. Mr. Say, on the part of • creditor, asked form e h f or the compulsory winding-up of the commi t e o mpanT was formed is July 1165, with the A‘ ~' purcliseing the brewery and busenese of Mr. The purchase-money was to be 10,000 f., but ilz. could not get his money, at d, accordingly, he ma i ; the court. A cross claim was alleged sp u r 4. Hawkins, and time was allowed for • bill to ko grh establish it. The purchase had not been earegisim, i r! company bad gone completely to ruin, sal Imo g t a c i rcums t a nces the present petition by another a u k s; presented with the consent of all parties. Mr. F. W. Robinson, who represented theorem.," curred in the appliestion, and A compulsory order was made. RE LEEDS BANKING COMPANY EIPARTE ACME HOLM. This was an application to plaos the names of 11 1 , son and Mr. Holmes upon the list of contributaisiiia spect of 36 class B &arr. The defendants s l og executors of each of two different teetotal, sag i t " capacity they applied for and bad allotted to Me i shares in question. Mr. Belly, as this case was precisely similes agi earlier cases in which the decision of the court lef given against him, thought it unneamary topso i l* the argument. Th e Vice-Chancellor expressed himself vay mals. fled with the manner in which these Leeds Bask gai been got up and conducted. The solicitors allot ilia were entitled to the greatestcreditfor having teagkm a before the court in the clearest and cheapest say. Mr. Glare and Mr. Cotton appeared forth Mil liquidator. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCE. Sittings in Banc.—(Before the Lord Chief halm Justices Mellor, Shoe, and Lush). The Bight Hon. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Lord Chiefiesell‘ Court of Exchequer, took the oath and made tits nod declaration on his becoming Council a member of the Tag WARN V. TER TIIRARDRICI OR ST. BARTROPOIR mama. This came before the court on a special sme Ansi iv the consent of the partite after a trial at aid Ow* proceeding by way of writ of madame, to amen w om the right of appointing the president dM. lomew's Hospital was vested. The question r it was vested in the Lord Mayor and of the City, or in what was termed the governors, and it affected the whole of the City The corporation claim the riht of electing • "1 an alderman who bad passed the chair or ins , at the time. The Solicitor-General, Mr. T. Chambers, Q.C., Cum Serjeant, and Mr. Archbold were counsel for the tion ; Sir Roundell Palmer, Mr. Mellish, Q.C., Garth, Q.C., were counsel for the hospitaL The argumenteorbich are based upon the cethammel usages of the corporation, were proceeding choleroid left. COITRT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Ski Justices Willem, Byles, and Keating.) The court sat this morning for the papal dim appeals from decisions of revising banisters. BARLOW (AII'ILLAYT) O. IMIFOILD (11112POnat This was an appeal from the revising benne:kb borough of Cambridge, and a considemble number/lie depended upon the decision. The facts were soy* The respondent sent in his claim to be upon tams, and deecribed his house as being in Dy-place, balms number, though the statute said that a animastiai sert in his claim " the number of the house, if say.' appellant objected to the respondent's nom tat upon the register because of the impedance claim by reason of the number being omitta, tisk being that all the houses in Ely-place was unit the claimant's house being 16. The animus Min barrister to amend the claim by inserting the he did so, holding that he had power to do 1 40th section of the Registration Act. The dna allowedi; but the question now mimed (erne whether the barrister had rpower to demand ike the way he had done. Mr. Day appeared; for the appellant, and Er. for the respondent. The Lord Chief Justice was of opinke thstin epondent having supplied evidence to the Minns the barrister that the number of the house vw barrister was clearly authorised by the 40th std i statute to make the amendment. Decision aimed. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Siftings in Itanoo.—(Before the Lord Chief Bus el Barons Martin, Channell, and Pigott.) ANDREWS V. TUNeT ALL. In this case a rule had been obtained on the 0 61 defendants, to vary an order made by Mr. Wilt" upon terms agreed to between the parties. Thei r brought against the Glamorganshire Banking essoslk refusing to honour a cheque. The plaintiff kept asses with the bank, and the real dispute sou whether' moneys had been paid to his deposit or &swill Oi l If paid to she deposit account, the latter was iris when the cheque was presented. Mr. Hance now showed cause against the rule. , Mr. Huddleston , Q.C., who appeared on the I Ad said the only object of the rule was to strike ant tion as to the payment of interest, which it wilt might prejudice the defendants when the macaw tried. The court made the role absolute on the psyssil coats of the application by the defendants. Rule absolute. WOOD It. PIiENTWICII. This was an action on a promissory note for the Salford Court of Record, and in which I entered. Mr. Holker now showed cause &pima a been obtained, to set aside the nonsuit, cult for the plaintiff. By the note in question, wick and Elizabeth Prestwick promised to lay' or to his order, 251., at W. per cent. Elizabeth Prestwick, who allowed indMm s , go by default, wee a member of lending club, which had not bee 0 s 111 and, therefore, stood in the position of partnership. The members paid certain wee butions, and the money received wee lent out to the highest bidders. Elizabeth was the for 251., and gene the promissory note, with f , one of whom was the other defendant. The found in a hoz on the death of the treasurer, sei la' treasurer sued upon it. At the trial ceeded on the ground that the treasurer, of the club, could not sue another member t monies. The Court. without calling upon Mr , 11 ° 4 ,, appeared to support the rule, held that the 'fo maintainable notwithstanding the objection or the partnership, and made the rule absolute. Rule absolute accordingly. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVOIa (Before the Judge Ordinsry.l manor V. MANCH AND rALumno. Mr. Mennen appeared on behalf of theyetitioeC, in the Foreign-office, who had procured a marriage on the ground of his w i ne fur Italian at Naples, where she had gone for the lig• • health, and where she had formed the illicit • The learned gentleman moved that an attacbcouo.,'„i agaminsr.ttsch:rrifeo,rfor:ftutisiengratiovgindvene utp(wthhooe:ll oifie:;el4 as ordered by the court. Palumbo) said that he was at present uninanoMA time were allowed the respondent, she would be_sr 10 facts before the court that would induct it to slo' any interference in the matt er. ven ttioll PheJudgeOnlinary granted the attar ,•-:, 1 •0 1 it to lie in the o ffi ce till Mond a y , in order to fili, dent an opportunity of obeying the order of il" . " - 114AWTORD M. nawroan. Dr. Spinks and Mr. Wills for the petitioner. . d. ip , She was the wife of a the at Godetriai Wisbech, to whom she was married in 10. n7;;•1. him with revolting cruelty, an d also with PrZeisii not low gross character. The respondent, whe person, denied these consider but Sir J. Wildeed that he had MO S: disgusting and unmanly conduct. There 03214 be a decree nisi with costs. PAIMONB V. ransom; agn rritia, IP Dr. Wambey and Mr. Reynolds for the petOried parties wore both employed at • fn ctAg let fl ham, and they were married six o se ven yett o f 0 respondent was a person of 111 In intemte ,01/ very soon formed an improper oonnecpera ion tv- 7 jg wor k m an named Perrin. She hid also he el ' general prostitution. Deem nisi. ~.t. . ) CHEZMENAN r. CRIVITYAIt 013,liri0 0' ' Dr. Wambey and Mr. Reynolds we __l l "1 - 4 og tioner. He was an engine drive, ~nn•- _ ,,_ „ wa di. respondent in 1855. The hiatus,' 01 "' (Before &similar ghettos ItaL a If 4 gssc Pat. The boa ' ma% h iptsin • sierra • sante • renew ra. X • t 80 01 ., m of h • . by Ig m, Rsadeed • hat I nine . that Pals eke moo • • O IY in 0 0 p% mina so thuds ' lir. R. at nap The ' ' . . de • ens e h we Hon. the de e *lad • • pctiy it ban • Pima k • u pu h . o r. f J. 8 e e fi°l o l, of We .• of t nint h Bom- an'," • . 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