The Express. — London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

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Iltaroorio. Oh. Oza. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19. THE diplomatic dispute between Denmark and I Germany appears to have entered upon a crisis which can only issue in war. For a fortnight after the advance of the Federal troops into Holstein we heard of little but the scandalous use which was being made of their presence to proclaim the Pretender as Sovereign of that Duchy. More re cently, the incidents of the quarrel between the minor States that command a majority in the Frankfort Diet, and Austria and Prussia, which claim to bind and loose in Germany, have filled the foreground of the scene. Now, however, a for ward movement is to be made. The two Powers conceive themselves to be under the necessity of demonstrating their political ascendency in the direction of the foreign affairs of Germany at the cost of Denmark. For this purpose they have taken the decisive step of presenting an Ultimatum to the Danish Government, by their Ministers at Copenhagen. The joint de mand of the two Powers was delivered on Satur day, and was most peremptory in tone. The KING was required to retract the Constitution granted last November, and restore as a temporary measure the state of things existing just before its promulgation, and to do this within a fortnight's time. Failing to obtain compliance with this demand, the Austrian and Prussian Ministers were to leave Denmark. The requirement of the German Powers is one which, however preferred, any Danish Government would fiud.it most difficult to concede. But the two Courts have chosen to advance it in a form which renders compliance simply impossible. The November Constitution was devised by the ablest statesmen in Denmark under the late King, and has the hearty support of the Parliament and the nation. It must be obvious that King CHRISTIAN, newly come to the throne, can be in no position to undo by a stroke of the pen a work which is dear to the people of all ranks and degrees as the bul wark of their independence. If we could believe that either at Vienna or Berlin the demand was made with a desire that it should be complied with, and not rather as a mere means of transi tion to a new position,we should be driven to form a very poor opinion of the estimation in which the duties of constitutional sovereigns are held in that country. The Austrian and Prussian message is either a summons to King CHRISTIAN to attempt a coup WHO, or it is nothing. According to the latestnews, however,we are likely to receive reports of revolutionary violence from Berlin sooner than from Copenhagen. It being certain that the demands of Austria and Prussia will not be complied with at Copen hagen, those Powers will have to resolve upon the means of giving effect to their policy. It has hitherto been assumed without question that they will act in the spirit of the resolution which was recently submitted to the Diet at Frankfort in their name, and rejected by the minor States—that they will occupy Sleswig. And this will probably be their course. The smaller German Powers which wish to procure the recognition of Prince FREDERICK of Augustenburg as Duke of Sleswig- Holstein before going any further may bluster, but their opposition will cease to appear serious when the Austrian and Prussian troops are in motion. And it is better for Denmark also to have to do with the great than with the small Powers of Germany. The ministers of the former are accustomed to deal with great interests, and know something of the spirit in which interna tional affairs should be conducted. It is difficult, for instance, to imagine a minister of Austria or Prussia writing despatches such aa those which the Saxon Premier has just addressed to Mr. MCRRAY, and which are more in the style of an Honorary Literary Secretary of the National Shakespeare Committee than of • statesman. The Powers which may be disposed to exert themselves to pre serve peace will find it easier to come to an under. *tending n ith Powers of the first rank than w;th a number of petty principa lities. As matters stand, however, the situation is full of danger. Austria and Prussia have placed themselves in a position from of feeling in Germany, :h, apparently, leaves ind enforce their harsh )rdingly we hear this and Vienna of great destined to march Danes most and leswig. It has been have been supposed which, in the present state of they cannot retire; and whicl them no course but to try an and unjust demands. Accort morning both from Berlin an movements of troops ci to the Eider. Bit the will resist an invasion of Sl< assumed by some who might - _ THE WREN, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY /9, 064. to have the means of informing themselves cor rectly, that the Danes will peaceably evacuate the Duoby of Sleswig as they did that of Holsteir. But the cases are dissimilar. Over Holstein the Germanic Diet has certain rights, and the friends of Denmark recommended her not to oppose the entrance of the troops which were professedly sent for the purpose of Federal execution. But over Sleswig the Germanic Diet has no Federal autho rity ; that Duchy forms no part of Germany; and the manner in which the possession of Holstein has been abused in the interests of a Pretender makes it the duty of the King of Dasiesas to stand firm for the defence of the na tional sovereignty. Nothing is more certain than that the Danes will fight to the lest to defend the soil of Sleswig. Thus, according to all appearance, we are now about to become specta tors of a war in which overweening ambition and patriotism will contend to the utmost. It is of course just possible that the German Powers may dis play • prudence for which they hitherto have not obtained due credit. Neither can have any real interest in provoking a war which can hardly fail to become European. But judging by the facts as they are reported it is difficult to see how peace can be preserved. And when once • political war begins in Western Europe it is impossible to pre scribe limits to it, or to foretell what States will be able to stand aloof from it. be Court. 03BORNE, JAN. 16. Her Majesty, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold attended Divine 'en ioe yesterday alter noon at Whipptegham Church. The Hon. and Very Rtr. the Dean of Windsor preached the sermon. A deputation from the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, consisting of Mr. Thomas Webber, Mr. William Phelps, Mr. James Batley, Mr. Miles Doughty, and Mr. Georp Hill, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hoo. C. P. Villiers, at the office of the Poor-law Board, White hall. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•o8o from the Governors of the Australian Colonies, Hoeg Kong Ceylon, Latvian, Cara Her, and the Falklaod Lamle. Des patches were sent to the Governor of Malts. The following bulletin of the health of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales is the last of the present series that will be nand :—" Implore, Jan. ld.— The convalescence of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales continues to make steady progress. The infant Prince is quite well. Her Royal Highness's recovery is so far advanced that it is considered unnecessary to issue any more bulletias.—(Bigaed) Aamuu Falai; M.D., WILLIAM JWYTE, ILD., E. H. SIEVILLIIG, M.D." Lord Broughton has quite recovered from his recent severe illness. His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Siugh has left Claridge's Hotel for Bombay. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury have arrived in town from their scat, Het® Court, Hank. LATEST INTELLIGINCK (astrna's mamma.) REJECTION OF THE ULTIMA:FUN. COPENHAGEN, J. 19. It is believed that the government returned a refusal yesterday to the ultimatum presented by the Austrian and Prussian ambassadors. The Berlingske Tidende announces that the state manta of foreign papers respecting negotiations with Germany rest upon a dubious foundation. It mentions especially the assertion of the Frankfort Europe, that the government was inclined to ne gotiate upon various points of the constitution, and declares it to be entirely false. THE DANISH RIGSDAG. COPENHAGEN. JAN. 19. The draft of the address was read yesterday in the Rigadag (the special assembly for the king dom). It says :—"The house has seen with sincere satisfaction the determination on the part of the King to maintain the liberty and independence of Denmark in face of the demands of foreign powers for the withdrawal of the November constitution. The task your Majesty has inherited from your predecessor—viz., to securefor the Danish kingdom an independent position in the whole monarchy— will be fraught with difficulties, and may cost bloody sacrifices. But they will be willingly borne by the people to preserve the inseparable union between Sleewig and the kingdom. We desire that the German and Danish speaking portions of the population of Sleswig may enjoy the liberty which we possess. That liberty and the good understanding between the men elected by the people form the strongest link be tween Sleewig and the kingdom and between the country and the King." In replying to an address presented to him by a deputation from the town of Ralater, his Majesty said :—" In the event of a war for the protection of the independence of Denmark, if all forsake me, I hope for the support of the Danish people." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY Ova OWN PARIS, MOSDAN The Frace, confirming the news that the Arch duke Maximilian is coming to Paris in February, ' says that he will be received is Emperor of Mexico and with all the honours due to that rank. If that I be so, I can only say that it will be in contradic ton to the Emperor's letter to General Forey, dated Fontainebleau, July 3, 1862, which said that "the provisional government would submit to the Mexican people the question of the political regime to be definitively established;" in contradiction to Drouyn de Lhuys' despatch to General Bazaine, dated August li, 1863, in which he said that the French government only considered the vote of the assembly of the notables as " a symptom of favourable augury, a a first indication of the disposition of the country," and that the provisional government had the fur ther task of collecting the suffrages of their fellow citizens at large, so that " no doubt should bang over the will of the country;' and in contradiction to the Archduke Maximilian's speech to the Mexi can deputation on October 3, 1863, wherein he said that, however flattering the offer of the throne was to him, his acceptance must depend upon the " result of the vote of the whole country." It would now appear, however, that the clerical party, whose tool the French Emperor has made himself in the Mexican intervention, are in a hurry, and despite of all the above smooth and distinct promises, think it more convenient to instal their Emperor first, and trust to the success of the French arms to get him voted for afterwards. If the Archduke conies here next month with the title of Emperor of Mexico, every gamin of Paris will laugh at him. Yon know that the address was drawn up by the Duke de Moray, and that to his Russian lean ings the following paragraph, which has raised serious objections, is to be attributed, " We should regret to see our relations with that power become cooler." In order to take the wind out of the sails of an amendment which might stand a chance of being carried, the committee on the address has been de sired to re-word the passage in this way : We trust that the spirit of eoeclliation which mistake the two Sovereigns may messed in removing all obstacles to good relations between the two powers. It is stated that the governments of France and England have agreed to establish a common system of night signals at sea. Captain Richild Crivel, commissioned by the Minister of Marine, has gone to London to arrange the details of the mea , sure with the Lords of the Admiralty. M. Ronher, in the course of his violent and irrelevant attack upon the republicans of 1848, taunting M. Glais Bizoiu and his friends with having made promises which they could not per form, has provoked the resuscitation of an old , speech of his own. A newspaper of 1848, called the Journal d'lssoire, giving an account of a meet- , ing of a republican club, contains the following : Theeitisen Rouher mounted the tribune, and said that although be was only a republican freshly converted (what was then called of the (endemain), be was convinced that ' the new ideas alone were capable of conferring happiness upon his country, and therefore he supported them heart and goal. He was for the fullest and most unoonditioaal liberty of public meeting ; he considered the clubs as the organs of the people's will and its best instructors ; they were indispensable institutions of the country. His motto was, " Everything for the people and by the people?' It is to be observed that if Citizen Rather, in 1848, did not call for the liberty of the press, which now, as Minister of State, in 1863, he thinks "essentially a bad thing," it was only because it existed to the fullest extent and nobody dreamt of challenging it. The Bourse has been heavy, in consequence of a fall of }in Console. Bente fell sc. for cash and 10c. for account, and Mobilier sfr. • The crowd of subscribers to the loan is, I be lieve, in spite of the crowing of the government journals, not quite so great as it was in 1860. But of course as there is an advantage to be gained, it will be covered many times over. That result, which the flatterers of the empire will use in sup port of their dangerous argument that the resources of France are "inexhaustible," will always follow so long as people do not apprehend an immediate national bankruptcy. Although it is understood that M. Fould's object in reducing the minimum subscription from 10fr. of Route to 6fr., was to prevent capitalists from dabbling in the small gain to be got through the medium of men ' of straw, he has not now put it low enough. It is clear, from the aspect of the unwashed men and women now besieging the Treasury, that most of them are hirelings, and not bond fide subscribers. The door assigned to subscribers above 6fr., and therefore liable to reduction, is quite deserted. Barou James Rothschild met with an accident yesterday in leaviug a dinner party at M. Vuitry's, the Governor of the Bank. He slipped down and sprained his knee. ML DARZarRA lf.P., OR 00270 W OUL7 URI IN THR WAIST IRMO. In his address to his consti.nents at Bolton, last Thursday, Mr. Barnes, who had been speaking of the pro spect& of a supply of cotton, avid -" I havebeen making so experiment myself in this natter. I have been trying what can be done, and I am now • grower of cotton in the West 'tidies I do not wish to data= you too long, but if it would be at all interesting to this audience, sod to you, Mr, 1111211 be glad to tall you • little of what I have done. (Loud cheers.) There anode or two points connected with is which I am sure will be very intertwine, to the audience. I entered upon this speculation, if 1 may so term it, in the first instance, from the impression on my own mind that cotton UM are not doing their duty. They have not done their duty, because they have not endeavoured to obtain option as the production of free labour, in opposition to slave labour. I know of no person ever having made the attempt ; and in conversing with others upon iS r yound ni the universal objection wee, it would not pay. said 'lf you go into it, you will lose your money,' that i seemed to be the great obstacle in the way of obtaining fres labour cotton. What this country wants is cotton as the result of free labour. Ido not want to see • return to slave labour. (Prolonged cheers.) It is true our supply from Egypt is little better than slave-grown, and the large increase from Peru is also gained by slave labour; but I want to see • good supply of cotton coMaig from a great number of places, and all these to be places where free labour is used. Then I shall feel satisfied that our supply of cotton testa upon • sound and solid basis. (Cheers.) Feeling thus, and seeing that nothing was being date by anybody. I felt anxious to keep my own conscience clear, sod to do something to improve this condition of things, by making en effort for the employment of free labour in the production of cotton. I have done it. 1 bought pro perty in Jamaica, and employed a person who had been a • ot there for twenty years as my agent to work out the scheme for me, and I am glad to say he fully enters into my views end feelings on this subject of slave labour. He is most anxious to raise free labour in opposition to slave labour, and Be believes, sal do, that free labour is really cheaper than slave labour. (Hear, hear.) I believe we can have better workmen under a system of free than of slave labour, and we shall prove this. I bought the property and commenced to work upon it, and the first thing we had to do was to fence the land round, to clear away the brushwood, to cut down the trees, and burn or destroy them. The land was so thickly wooded that this wee • work of great labour, and its preparation for the need was necessarily epode work. When I understood the great amount of Moue involved in commencing L cos hed it somewhat startled me, especially after hearing so much of the unwillingness of the negroes to work. Now we have been told again and again that the black nevem in the West lodise won't work ; that they are such an idle set they absolutely won't work ; that they will do nothing but liebasking in the sun all day over, with their black faces tamed towards the sun like lizards—(laughter)—that they won't do anything, not even work for money. Now this was a most serious objection, and we had to test its troth. We bad to fence 240 scree of land ; and let aayb The walk over 200 scree of Lied, and see how much it ia. e land bad also to be cleared of trees and rubbish, so as to receive plants eight feet apart. What an im mense amount of labour ! We ozennonoed in December, 1862, and as soon as the people were told what we were going to do, 32 men offered themselves the first week, during the neat fortnight 50 more came, and so the number in creased until at one time, including men, women, and chil dren, we had Z3O persons employed, of those who were said to be oil y fit to eat and sleep. (Laughter.) There is • great deal said about work in the West lodise, and of the black man's character, which is not deserved. They are a maligned, a slandered, and a misrepresented class of people. (Loud cheers.) They are always willing to work for those who will pay them. (Hear, jiver.) The truth is they hare some of the cotntuen sense which prevails among working men here ; for when • man works for another and he won't pay, then the man won't work again. My agent started on the system of paying once a week on one given day, and he always (mid in money. Now, that is not the general rule. The general rule is to pay when you can, and some cannot pay very often, and thee sometimes they will miffs ' meal or malt,' as we say, and not in money. But this is not conveoient for the worker. Their they sometimes delay payment until it becomes • question of how much is dna and then follows a dispute. They come before the magistrates, and their decisions are not always satisfactory to the workers, and the result of all this is that the worker, in selftbsteoce. won't work for those who will sot pay regularly and in money. We have observed the rule of paying once a ' week, we have paid in money, we have paid regularly, and we have always paid the sum stipulated ; and the result has been such that the agent has bad to reject as many as 100 offers of labourers in • week. Now I think that is a moat gratifying circumstance to state respective g these people. It for ever settles the question about the black people not being willing to work. (Cheers.) They are willing to work when paid, and when paid regularly there is no lack of labour nor of their willingness to work. They are quite as anxious to obtain the things we have as ourselves. The young women there are as fond of fine dresses as are the ladies here. I have heard • story of a lady who had mimed • female ser vant to work in the house, and she was astonimbed to find that the girl had brought half a dozen boxes with her. She inquired their pumas, and the young woman said, ' These are my dresaea,' and site took out dress after dress—a printed dross, • silk dress, a white dress, and other sorts more than I can mention. (Laughter.) She had • dif ferent draw for every day in the week. Fashion rules amongst the people there as wall as in Bohm), and the females are equally desirous of obtaining nice dresses, and are quite will to work to find the means for obtaining them. (Chime) The result of twelvemonths' labour has been that we have been enabled to inclose, cultivate, and plant 210 acres of cotton, and my agent has sent me some of that cotton, and when my remarks areooucleded you will have an opportunity of examining its quality, for I have brought some samples here. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) And now comes the question—will it pay ! Aye, there's the rub ; will it pay ! (Laughter.) Yon know it will not do to grow cotton upon benevolent priocipke ; it will not do to grow cotton on generosity principles. It must be grown upon commercial principles. Will it pay! Laugh ter.) Well, I cannot tell yet whether it will or not, bet I will toll you next year, if I live ; but as far as I can judge I believe I shall be perfectly satisfied about the pay. If what my agent tel me is true, it will pay. (Loud cheers.) From some faits that have been ram to me, I am astonished that the West India Islands have bees all these years growing sugar, when they bare land the best in the world for growing cotton; and vet they have never tried growing cotton since they gave it up before. For I must tell you that 40 years ago cotton was grown there, but the materna heavy protection duties, protecting the West India sugar, raised it above the market value, and to make sugar everybody plucked tip their cottou. Then tame Richard Cobden and John Bright, inoculating the country with their free trade principles; sugar came down to its level ; and then they found making sugar did not pay, and as a consequetice of that many estates have been given up altogether. These estates for ten or a dozen yearn back have been lying se wildernesses. This I have purchased is one of these ; it once grew sugar, but now grows cotton. I hope the result will to to show that even with cotton at the ordinary price it will pay better for growing cotton than it ever paid for growing sugar. (Hear, hear, and cheers). But whether it pays or oot, if it is only the means of leading other people to the West Indies to row cotton, and they find it pays, then I shall have succeeded. I hope these particulars will have been received in the mine spirit they hive been given ; and in ' giving them I hope I have cleared those poor blacks from the reproaches cast upon them, and shown that they are • maligned and misrepresented people, and not desert ing the glanders heaped upon them. (Load applause.) Speaking of cotton culture in the Southern States of Ame rica, Mr. Barnes said :—I regret that the South hes not e Richard Cobden among them to show that they are labour ing tinder a delusion respecting slave labour being essential to their existence. A greater mistake no men ever lived under. Slave labour is more expensive than free labour. I have it upon the testimony of one who lies been is the midst of slavery, sad has employed slaves, and he tells me they cannot get able-bodied slave labour at less than the oust of a guinea per week each, whereas I have able-bodied black mem working in Jamaica at is. 3d. per day—(cheers)—men who can work as hard as any slave, and perform it a deal more willingly. How in it possible that • man can fail in growing an article by free labour at one shilling and three pence per day against smother mau whose labou costs him • guinea per week. The South are under a dolomitic, and it would be far better for them, both morally and financially, better every way, to have abolished slave labour long ago, and bleed their slaves as labourers, and paid them as tree men are and ought to he paid. (Cheers). They have bare acting under this &loam, are sow fighting for it, and ere canted away with it. It is most pitiable to see this delu sion carry* them to Seatrabdea. sit UNTOSTIntATB HOSSAWD.—A barrister, cora mooting in the Times upon the defect. in the present law of divorce. gives the following case from the re0DT(111 of the court :—prom the widows given in a suit between Mr. and Mo. A. it appeared that Mr. A. had been frequently committiag adultery with their friend, Mrs. B. ; where upon Mrs. B. boldly anticipates her husband by forthwith presentimg a petition for a divorce, on the ground r f alleged ernelsy and adultery on his part. Mr. B. of course, pleads, denying the charges and alleging Mrs. B.'s adultery with Mr. A. He also presents a petition for a divorce. to which Mrs. B. pleads, denying the charge and reiterating the charges of enmity and adultery. The suite promed, sod are both set down for bowies—the husband's suit having obtained precedence in the list. Hereupon Mrs. B. obtains an order that Mr. B. obeli forthwith pay into the Registry the sum of 4001. ►o meet her expenses in the one suit, and 3001. to meet her expenses in the other, and that proceedings in Mr. A.'s suit be stayed until he has paid the money or found security for the pay. meet. M►. 8., being a surgeon with a mode rato practice in a pi ovincial town, was unable either to pay the money or Sod the security. Mrs. B. applied for an attachment, which Sir Cromwell felt him self misspelled to grant, notwithstanding that Mr. B. made an affidavit oaten forth his circumstances, and showing his utter liability to comply with the order of the oonrt, and filed aMdavits of three other persons to the effect that, since the commencement of the suing, they had, from infor matics received, traced Mrs. B. to a house in Pimlico, and there found her in a bedroom with bar alleged paramour, Mr. A. Mr. B. was attached and mot to prison ; and the two suits h►ve been standing is Motu quo far the last two yeah. LAW INTELLIGENC& (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Basco.—(Before the Lad Chief Justice Cock burn, and Justices Crompton, Blackburn, awl Mellor.) THE NUM:CHET= ORA= JURY. Before the sitting of the court the ceremony adopted every term of calling and swearing is the Westminster grand jury (though happily in the present times scarcely ever celled on to act) took place before Mr. Justice Crompton, the senior plains judge of the court. His lordship, in charging them, adverted to the death of that eminent and excellent judge (Mr. Judie, Wightman) whose duty it bad been to charge them, observing that that duty now devolved upon him. They were called together in pursuance of a very ancient usage, and might have very substantial duties to perform. In former times, as they found from history when those sad and pauifnl state trial were so frequent, it devolved upon the grand jury of this court to assist on those occasions. That jury was the only one that could send ite presentment direct to the Court of Queen's Bench. His lordship stated that in consequence of the altered state of things, happily for the better, there was now no haziness before the grand jury ; but as it was an institution that might be again reported to, it was found necessary to call them together. The grand jury then withdrew. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) CHO99 v. CROSS. THOYAS INITHVINIIIO.—JUDGMEN'T. This was a probate cause which was heard last term, and in which one of the attesting witnesess swore that notwith standing the words of the attestation clause, the will was not only never executed by her sister, the testatrix, but that her ester was, in fact, dead st the time. Probate had been taken out in the Prerogative Court, and it bad been acted on for the last twenty years. One of the brother Cross, who had latterly returned borne from abroad, had assigned his interest under the will to Mr. Thomas, who was the party, therefore, that had set up the will. The jury found that the instrument was valid, not withstanding the disclaimer of the attesting witnesses. A new trial had therefore been moved. Sir J. Wilde baying gone at great length into the very extraordinary facts of the case. came to the conclusion that the jury might have had good reason for their verdict —at alevines he conk' not say that the verdict bad been against the evidence. The rule had also bees moved on affidavits. These stated in the first place that from entries in the diary of J. B. Cron, he could not possibly have been at Cheshunt during the pretended execution of the will as had been sworn by the attesting witness. It was also proposed to produce specimens of the teitatrix's handwriting. No reason bad been shown why this evidence might not have been produced at the trial ; and it was con trary to practice to allow the production of additional evi dence wader the circumstance' of this case. The rule for a new trial must, therefore, be refused ; Mr. Thomas to have his coats out of the estate ; and Mr. Alexander Cross, the defendant, to have his from the plaintiff, J. B. Cross. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERKEN WELL. A/1114MT IT ♦ CHURCH BEADLE. William Howell, of 8, Seymour-place. Upper Holloway. beadle of St. Jobs's Church, Holloway, was charged before lir. Barker with unlawfully assaulting and besting Mr. Frederick Wilford, a distiller's warehouseman, of 113,51. Jolts-street, Clerkenwell. Kr. Ricketts, of Frederick-street, Gray's Inn-road, at tended for the oomplainant ; and Mr. Thomas Wakeling, of Great Percy-street, Clerkenwell, for the defeeoe. The complainant dated that about 9 o'clock on the night of the 9th Met. he was in the Crown public-house, Upper Holloway. The defendant was also there, but he was in another compartment to which he was. The de fendant saw him and came round mid said " you axe the that sent that letter." He said he did, on which the de fendant said, "Yon knock your bead o ff for two pens." He ( complainant ) then went out into the street followed by the defendant, who again made use of brutal laaguage. and asked him if he wanted to fight. He was answered in the negative, on which the defendant made a strike at the complainant's face, but missed that and struck the complainant's hat with such force as to smash the crown. He had not given the defendant tue least proems- Moe. In answer to Mr. Wakeling, the complainant said he was Kober, and did not call the defendant name*. He did not flourish a stick and in doing so knock off his own bat. His hat was not toothed by the defendant by his holding up his hands to ward off a blow. Mr. Ricketts—Has the defendant offered yon compels illtiou if you would forgive these prooeedings Complainant—Yes, he said he would give me a 'sovereign and my costa. John Welford, • nephew, and Charlotte Warner, con firmed the evidence of the complainant, and in cross-ex amination said that it was the defendant and not the com plainant that made use of bad and disgusting language. Hr. Barker thought it would be better, as the parlise were relatives, that they should settle the matter amicably, rather than that he should be railed upon to give a deci sine. Mr. Ricketts; said that his client would not agree to aces terms. He had come here to have the cam decided, and decided it must be. Mr. Wakeling them addressed the magistrate on the part of the defendant ; and, after remarking that he considered the course suggested by the magistrate the proper cos, ridi culed the ides that the assaults were of a violent nature, and said it was doubtful whether one was committed at all. After the feeling that bad been imported into the case, be trusted that the magistrate would mark his sense of it by dismissing the ease. The defendant was a poor man, and, although he was deputy beadle of St. John's Church, Hol loway, yet be had to work very hard, sad got his livelihood by laundry work. Hr. Barlow said then could be no doubt that an smelt bad been committed, and that the defendant's conduct bad been fir from proper. He considered the letter that bad been sent by the complainant to the defendant a very tem perate one, and there was nothing in it to roam the de fendant to sot in the foolish manner he had. He then ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 10s. and the mete, or default to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for seven days. The fine and oasts were immediately paid. MARLBOROUGH43THEET. ECRDEBOUS ATTACK 7711101101 JEALOUSY. _ _ Eliza Jones, a respectably dressed married woman, re. siding at No. 12, Ledbury-road, Notting-bill, was cha rged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with unlawfully sad maliciously wounding • female, named Charlotte Nicholas, in Denman street, Goblenequare. The injured woman was unable to attend. James Ignatius Muller, • young man, living at 5, queen's Head-court, Great Windmill-street, deposed that on the previous of ternoon, while standing in Great Windmill-street, he saw a number of person, collected at the corner of Den man-street, and • sort of skirmish going on. He went up to see the canoe. when he heard the prisoner say to • young woman, •• 'This is your game. It has been going on for four years and I have caught you at last." The prisoner then, having an open raw in her hand struck the young woman across the eyes with it, and afterwards on the right hand. The young woman, who bled profusely from her wounds, was then conveyed to the Charing-cross Hospital, and the prisoner taken tato custody. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the witness said he heard nothing more from either of the females than he had stated. and that they were both sober. He understood the young woman's name was Nicholas. Mickleborough, 307 A, said the prisoner made no reply to the charge. The pruner said she had found her husband with the young woman several times. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was sorry the prisoner had taken such a mode of settling the matter. He would remand her for • week. The husband of the prisoner asked whether the magistrate would accept bail for his wife. Mr. Tyrwhitt declined to do so. WANDSWORTH. RIOT IN CLAPHAM 071 BOXIMG-DAT. nearye Borkland, Marhael Cleary, Andrem Lysuit, John Condi - n, sod Ann Martin, who hare been remanded several times on charges for being concerned, with other men not in custody, in committing • serious and alarming riot in Park-road, Clapham. on the afternoon of Boring-day, io the ovine of which several persons were severely maltreated, were again planed at the bar. The prisoners set up a general denial to the various charges ; but Mr. logham fully oom mmitted the for trial at the next Surrey &deices% sad refused to swept bail. DISTEENsING DEATH OP A POLICE INSPFA:Ton AND His CHILD.—PCBLIC FUNERAL.—(THIS DAT.) —This IDOCR• leg the mortal remains of the bite Inspector Thomas Spitler, at the division, sad his child, were removed from hie residepoe, King'ecmarroad, &ad interred in Highgate Cemetery. The laurel cortege w ee followed by Superinten dent Gurnee *a horseback, 6 inspectors, 20 ser geants, and over 100 constables, accompanied hy the brass bead of the divisiee, under Mr. Lake. (late of the Royal Artillery). the bandmaster, the band playing the " Dead March" in Saul, and the " Sicilian Vesper Hymn." The circumstances attending the death of the deceased were very distressieg. In the early part at last weak he was taken ill, on Wednesday his cbild, aged tbiot hea rears. dint On Thursday the deceased expired et ty fever ; and co Friday Mrs. Spitler yea pox ic ed of • emote child. The dexased. who was 41 years of age, had been is the form 16 years, and had b eran inspector about seven years. A peat number of prpersons (allowed the proommioa to the grave. LONGEVITY.--On Monday last Sarah Lee was buried at Bentworth, aged 104 years. She died the previous Monday, at Alto, at her grandeon's in the market place. She bad been • very healthy woman, and was so is within a short time of I•er death. She has walked from Alton to Beatworth, which is four miles, since she was 103 years, sad has bees known to walk to Bestworth and back is cue day Mau she had attained the age of 100 years. — Hants Independent. AUSTRIA. ADDRESS OF THE EMPEROR TO THE TROOPS. VIENNA, JAL 11 The Emperor addressed the officers and men of the Execution troops, intended for Sleswig, at the review yesterday. His Majesty said :—" I have assembled you for a farewell greeting. Keep on good terms with your Prussian brethren in arms. I know that you will do your duty as if you were at home, and should it come to blows, will show your courage." The finance committee were engaged until a late hour last night in discussing the demand of the government for ten millions of florins to cover the expenses of the expedition to Sleswig. Count Rechberg and Herr von Schmerling were present. The proceedings show that, in con sequence of the extent of the present expedition, the demand for credit might be increased According to the statement of the ministers the government wished to prevent the European war apprehended to follow the adop tion of the Hessian motion, and to localise hostili ties. Herr von Schmerling defended the etepe taken by Count Reelberg, and said that he agreed with his policy. FRANCE. THE SUPPLEMENTARY ELECTIONS. PARIS, JAN. 19. The definitive issue of the supplementary election at Strasburg is— M. Haller Clarapede M. Bulach 14,580 „ At Nieuwe— M. Bravay M. Royer 4,811 „ M. Bran The result in both cues still requires verification. THE PAPAL STATES. ADDRESS OF CATHOLICS TO THE POPE. ROME, JAL 18, Evicrurc. The Pope has received a deputation of 300 catholic& from different countries presenting an address of fidelity and devotion to the Holy See, and protesting against usurpations and sacrileges. His Holiness replied that he desired to leave the patrimony of the church intact to his successors. He would consequently not enter into any ar- I rangement or treaty contrary to that end. He placed his confidence not in the strength of arms, but in a protecting Providence and justice. MEXICO. PARIS, JAN. 19. Official advicea received here from Vera Cruz announce that the French had entered, and dis mantled the port of Champoton, on Campeachy Bay. They also sank the Mexican schooner Raf faele, which had disturbed the trade of the ports submitted to the French authority. A Paris correspondent writes :—" Would your readers like to know what is the thing to do if you go to the Grand Opera! Erma. c. Fret take year box three days beforehand ; then obtain two Nepoleons ; send ono of these to K. Alphonse Km:, pet and ganlener at Nice, the other to a confectioeer in Patio. Addresses may be had at the box-otlice, adding the number of your box. Before the overture you will rereive • bon.luet of spring sowers— the modest tblet, lilies mixed with roses ; in fact, minis copia usrium,' in a woodeo box ; and after the first ant, a tin csas fell of iced fruits. I can assure you nobody who is anybody—nobody of our world, you nuderstand—now goes without them ; and a truly fathionable audience has its bands and mouth full during the whole performanos. Flowers sagged to me the garden of Fiance. Some ca. ltimniator having said it was cold at Kies on the 2nd dean ery, the Baran de admit bas written to the Dago* cos- Indicting the foul slender, and giving a sort of 'gardener's chronicle' of the red, white, and yellow, and tea roses, the orange dowers. and azaleas, by which he lives there sur rounded." A Constantinople letter states that the following telegram has been received from Jerusalem by way of Bayonet:—" M. de Smiley, a French subject, has arrived at Jerusalem, and is exploring the graves of the holy pro phets. Among the number is the tomb of Saint Kolbe &bona, the sarcophagus of which he has taken, with the bones contained therein, and he declares that be will do the same to the ocher holy burial places. We are told that he holds a finnan for so doing from the Sublime Porte. We beg you to intervene with all your influence and iatert . nade with the Sultan. in order that a stop may be put to this desecration." The same letter 'eye that this news was transmitted by telegraph by Y. ethstieux, president of the Universal Jewish Alliance, and to MM. de Rothschild at London and Paris. The following day a representation was made to the Grand Vizir, Fwd Pasha, and he immediately dispatched a telegram to prohibit those acts oe the part of M. de Smiley. According to the last adricea from New York the report of the commission appointed by the miry depart ment, consisting of three chief engineers, who have made careful experiments for five months, showing the practi cability of using petroleum or hydro-carbon oils for the porpoise of generating steam, ham bean issued, and proves satisfactory. It is alleged that its lase win produce a great saving, not only for merchant steamer, but that a naval steamer can keep the set tinder steam three times as long with lees labour and greater economy as compared with an equal weight of cool. Citverm. PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY. MONDAY, JAy. 18.—Admissions on payment, 1,141 ; ditto by 6011601 tickets, bib; total, 1,721. SKATINO AT PARIS. The Paris correspondent of the Pod says : " Skating is becoming a eausily antmement beyond the icebound regions of the North. Whilst royal high:seem are skating in England. imperial higimemen are skating in Franoe. It will henceforward be nemesery that pawns from chamberlains down to powdered footmen should know bow to dance attendance not merely in withdrawing mid reception halls, hut on the slippery froze. doors of hikes and ponds. Yesterday (Sunday) a new set of courtiers and household servants surrounded their imperial Majesties. who again hoooured the smell lake of the Bois de Boulogne. The weather wee plesesatly Is addition to the usual perk company assembled os inch ocaisimis the waters were rurrotsded by a number of the fashionable world who evidently expected the imperial Tarty, the court circle arriving about 3 o'clock. Already the skaters had mustered pretty strongly. There were Ger man, English, Americas , and one or two Frau:Maim gliding about with men companions, and there were sledges driven swiftly onwards by cavaliers of the ice, cocteining those of the fair sex who were born in days when the ladies of France did nothing gymnastic but dance. How shall I deseribe the skating modes of Paris! Mod of the fair creatures WOW • pretty round hat, with a red or white wing, or feather,, and a veil which invites the curiosity of youthful imagination. Any gay.eolcured jacket, of any cut, deco rated with any description of tur, is allowed; and very pretty it is to observe the animated patches of red, violet. hlue, white, and black darting about amid the gloomy great coata and ugly hats and caps of the moo. But to continue my description of the ladies' costume. Now oomee the difficulty ; to describe the toilette, costume. dress. robe, moles—how ought it to be called!—of what comes below the jackets, esemnes, polo mime, paletots—bow ought such Odom also to be called! Well, that portion of female covering which begins after the wain, and in our day assumes awful pro pel tions before it bides the feet, is in the toe modes of Paris drawn up in festoons by amain mysterious mecha nical aid, leaving (and here again I feel a difficulty) very visible Dearly a whole pair of stockings, which may be red or black, or—if I dare use the word in such a place— " fancy." Then come the Polish boots, and then the silver skates. My limited descriptive powers are happily no longer required ;_ but if such enchanting Maeda, do not lead to holy matrimony, nieo's heartier, frozen as well as the waters of the Bois de Boulogne. Skating, it should be observed, , in the Parisian polite world is only beginning to he fuldos able. The Emperor, no doubt, learned to skate in Swit- I zerland and England ; but where did the Emprees learn to glide over the ice so gracefully ! Dressed in a pretty black costume, and appearing delighted with the sport, her Majesty !several umes, seconijuitned by two gentlemen not in waiting. but in going, skated amongst the moving multitude. whilst the little Imperial Plume rnd heir to the throoe was showing the crowd of spectators on shore that be had already become familiar with this slippery world and its accidents. There may be those who, Bunning on the shores of the Mediterranean, think with commiseration just now of us living in more northern climes ; but with such a scene as I have attempted to de• ecribe— We envy not the warmer clime that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies." When the Emperor and Empress avail themselves of the picturesque sledge, they are generally driven about by a famous German skater. To-day a sodden thaw tells us, it may be, our icy joys are over for this year." Resicx.irioN or Me. Junnce BALL.—We have heard from reliable authority that Mr. Justice Ball has announced his intention of resigning his seat as one of the poises judges of the Court of Common Pleas. —Dub! in Evening Mad. Tne BISHOP or ELY'S WlLL—Those who bad OM* to pay the last tribute of respect to the venerable bishop were requested to return to the house and hear the will read ; sod the last act of his life is quite characteristic of this pious ate. After providing fur his servaata and leaving one or two legacies he has bequeathed the whole of his remaining property to public charities and societies. Amongst those enumerated are the ehristisa Knowledge Society, the Gospel Propagation Society, the National So ciety, the Curates' Aid Sxiety, and others of a like nature ; the Charing-cross Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds Infirmary, and the Bedford lafirmary.—Brd. ford T 11461. The Reverend Mr. Ingle, a leading Tractarian clergyman in Exeter, has withdrawn from the natundist's club in that city, because Mr. Peogelly, the Devooshire geologist, and one of the members of the club, bat ex pressed his belief in Lyslrs opinion u to the antiquity of man. The reverend geotleman has vindicated his conduct is the newspapers. DEATH or THE DCKE OF CLEVELAND.—The Duke of Cleveland died at Rabe Castle yesterday after noon between 3 and 4 o'clock. His grace was found dead in his chair. He had been seriously ill since Friday. The late duke was born in Loudon is 1788, and was married in 1809 to the daughter of the fourth Earl Pordett. She died is 1859. The duke succeeded to the title oat the death of his father io 1r42. As Earl of Darlington he sat for the county of Durham from 1812 to 1818. From 1818 to 1826 he was member for Tregony ; from 1836 to 18.10 he ut for Tatou. In 1830 be was elected for &Huh, and the same year changed to South Salop, which be repro. rented until he became Duke of Cleveland. His br Aber, Lord William John Frederick I'oulett, succeeds to the title. ISLE or WIGHT CLlMATE.—NotHithataDding the frost—the " nippioig frost"—which visited us last week, there is in the grounds of Dr. Lessee a tine &eines rose. tree. 40 fut b;gh sod 60 feet wide, one lout of bloom, many of the clusters in full Bower. There are also meat/ rare pleats, which have not only survive.! the frost but do not seem to have eutirred in the lout by it.-1; 'awe Tones, Jan. 16. AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION. A meeting of the General Committee of the Victoria (Australia) Emigrants' Militaries Society was held at their office, 275, Bocklersbury, en the 15th of Januaiy, H. C. E. Childers, Esq., M.P., in the chair, to receive a re port from the sub-committee on the subject of the future operations of the society. It appears that this society was formed in the month of March, 1863, to amid eligible labourers and operatives in emigrating to Victoria (Austra lia), and generally to stimulate emigration to that colony ; aid imperially, in the first instance, to supplement a meet of 5,000/. made by the Victoria goyerumeet to relieve the thee existing distress in the cotton districts of the United Kingdom by means of emigration to Melbourne. Daring the past nine months, subscriptions have been received amount ing to 10,02'./. :M. MI. (exclusive of the 5,0001, from the go vernment expended under the supervision of Mr. J. G. Knight, Hoe. Mecretary of the society), and 720 perinea have been assisted to emigrate front Lancashire, Scotland. and Ireland. By letters received from the hoe. secretary of the Melbourne Immigration Committee, it appears that "order the care of the department of the Trade and Customs, the 'great majority of the inimigranta have been advantageoiuily placed in employment." It is coefideatly believed that emigrante judiciously selected will always be able to ob. lain good situations and fair wages. The society has ex• method about 4,500/. in sending out the above emigrants, so that the treasurer has is hand at the present time a sum of money which will enable the committee to assist more than 800 persons to emigrate to Victoria. On the Ist of January a new code of rules and regulations for istrodueing emigrants into the colony came into opera tion, full particu la r of which can be obtained at the Emi gratioo-ollice in Bucklersbury. By these rules, single women between the ages of 18 and 35. qualified for domestic service, will Sc sent outat the rated 150 per month on pay meet of 11. per head, which is to defray the cost of " mesa I Meanie for the voyage. This class of emigrants are tabs mot out by her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners, 8, Park-street, Westminster. The Colonial government having thus provided for the =lustier' of single women, the COM. mitten of the Victoria Society have resolved on offering " assisted passages" to married couples and mink men, in the following manner : -For emipenta from Lancashire and I Cheshire. 140 families (with not move than two children each). The society would pay one-half of the money I (the cost of purge per adult being about 13! 14e. 14e. 6d.) 150 single men ; the society would pay 5/. per bead towards the pamage-mosey, leaving the animal to pay 8/. 14s. 6d.—For emigrants from other parts of the United Kingdom. Fifty families (with not more than two children each). The society would advance one-half the pessamemoom, the mime{ being required to pay the difference, which will be 6!. 17s. 3d. per bead per adult. In all came children under twelve will mile pay half fares. filatidactoey inane meets have been made for the reception of the families at Melboaren In submitting this plan to the pa m t m it committee earnestly hope that the venom relief m In Lancashire, and philanthropic and benevolent will aid them in carrying out this proposal. All applioatims for peasegas, information, or the imerignitara rules and 4elesa, should be masts is the font lamas* to F. J. &inland, Eng., hon. treasurer, 54, MoorptedreMbeild- Inge, E.C. ; J. G. Knight, Esq., hon. secretary ; or to Mr. R, R. Alexander, secretary, Victoria (Australia) Erni . grants' Assistance Society, 27a, Backlerabary, London, E.C. 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