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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14. ON the 2nd November Lord WESTBURY, on behalf of the Judicial Committee of the Privy _ _ _ Council, gave a judgment in the appeal of the owners of the ship Ricardo Schmidt to that high tribunal, a case which so aptly illustrates some of the dangers incidental to our system for the re pression of the African slave trade as to require greater prominence than it has yet received. The Ricardo Schmidt is an Italian vessel of 600 registered tons, capable of carrying a cargo of 900 tons, belonging to a merchant at Genoa, whoso character and position are avouched by his being there Consul-General of Prussia. This vessel had been engaged in the China trade, but in 1864 it was despatched on a commercial voyage to the West Con.st of Africa, having on board an out- ward cargo of assorted goods, to be bartered in the usual way for palm oil, ikc. To receive the anticipated quantity of oil she was furnished with 299 empty casks, the legitimacy of which was duly certified before leaving Genoa by its Chamber of Commerce, with the knowledge of its Customs, BURY'S summary of the facts, sit catisideous. Au" of power and of law, if it *ere sot, indakEdt there is reason to believey utiald3r vessel, he pointed out, was of the dais " commonly engaged in the slave trade ;" it had honourably passed the scrutiny of the Customs ; it had evidence on board of the lawfulness of its trading ; " the ownership of the ship and the " letters produced could have left in no reason " able man's mind any doubt of the ship being " originally vested, employed, and used in the " ordinary purposes of commerce ;" the second deck with which she was furnished was necessary not only to her safety, but to her cargo, and there fore, as Lord Wzsrstrav said, a confirmation of the lawfulness of her trading ; the cookery utensils were shown to be " less than the ordinary cooking " comforts and exigencies of the captain and crew " would require ;" the master had himself drawn the attention of the English authorities before clear ing from Genoa to the fact that part of her lading consisted of empty casks, and the surplus casks were being sold, and a large lawful cargo bought, at the very moment when the vessel was seized. " Now," said Lord WESTBURY, after recapitulating in his own terse and irresistible manner the facts of the case—" now, we would ask how is it possible for " any merchant ship to visit the coast of Africa, " and a British haibour on the coast of Africa, " for the purpose of legitimate commerce, re " quiring certain things, if under circumstances " such as exist here she is liable to be treated "as having a felonious intent merely upon " the ground of her having articles on board which " are actually required for the avowed purposes of " commerce in which she professes to be intend " ing to engage, and in which it is proved from " her actual cargo that she had for sonic time " previously been actually engaged?" The vessel was a large, well-found ship, of great value, and having on board, even when seized, a rich cargo. Had the attempt at its confiscation been successful, it would have been sold to the pecuniary benefit of the captor, who, if evidence be worth anything, had by his own statement nothing to lobe by his proceedings. It is only through the owner having had the courage and spirit to prosecute an expensive and tedious appeal that he has any likelihood of being reim bursed for the damage and disgrace ho has suffered. We say likelihood, for it is not always that in similar cases the English Foreign-office has acted on the recommendation of the Judicial Committee to make pecuniary restitution for in juries thus done. To this hour, we believe, in spite of a like recommendation of the Judicial Committee, not the detention but the actual con demnation and sale for the benefit of the illegal capture of the British ship Newport is un atoned for. How far this cruising system has ever effectually promoted the repression of the African Slave Trade is a moot question. But if even it has done all its advocates insist, it is clear that it has been accompanied by temptations to do wrong which have not on all occasions been resisted ; and on proof so flagrant as this case affords, ample reparation ought to be given, and stringent orders issued to prevent a recurrence of such an outrage as that perpetrated on the Ricardo Schmidt. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE JAMAICA ATROCITIES. The ignoring of the bill of indictment preferred against Ramsay, the man most deeply implicated in the charge of wanton cruelty, affords grave testimony, remarks the Daily News, to the state of party feeling still existing in Jamaica. Tho judge's charge contained a summary of the evidence respecting the murder by Ramsay of the negro named Marshall, whom he first flogged for the offence of being found without a pass, and then hung because in the agony of pain he ground his teeth, and Mr. Justice Ker proceeded to show that martial law sanctioned only what is necessary to the putting down of actual resistance, and in no degree cruelty and unscrupulous contempt for human life ; and he added that the tale told by the wit nesses was such as it was a positive obligation to investi gate. The instant refusal of the grand jury to look into the case at all, confirms to the uttermost the harshest words that have ever been written respecting the syste matic denial of justice in Jamaica, whenever the question was between blacks and whites, and the decision lay with the whites—confirms that which the commissioners de clared, and which the new governor, Sir Peter r:rant, has reiterated at the first meeting of the new Legislative Council, that the laws passed for the protection of whites and blacks alike were rendered inoperative whenever their application was invoked by the negro. And it is now clear th.t such a state of things is inveterate, and defies remedy. Happily it is not easy for us in this country to conceive the existence of class fury to such an extent, but when such things happen in an English colony, the graver is the duty which is cast upon us at home, and since Jamaica planters refuse to put the instruments on trial, it is imperative, for the vindication of national justice, that the hand which directed them should be arraigned. Mr. Justice Ker's admirable exposition of the limits and con ditions of martial law has been deliberately disavowed by Jamaica magistrates, planters, and overseers. It is thus made necessary for the guidance of all our authorities, not less than for the assertion of the principles of our consti tution, for our credit among nations, and even for our possible security at home, that an English court and an English jury shall by the solemn arraignment of Mr. Eyre declare whether we live under the law laid down by the Jamaica judge, or under that which is to be gathered ss plainly from the conduct of the Jamaica grand jury. THE RECRUITING COMMISst,.N. The Post contains an abstract of the report of the com mission appointed to inquire into the system of recruiting for the army. The report recommends, it appears, that a distinct recruiting staff, to be entrusted to an inspector general and district officers, with a sufficient number of non-commissioned officers and pensioners, should be estab lished under the immediate orders of the Commander-in- Chief ; that men should be enlisted for the service gene rally, instead of, as at present, for p irticular regiments ; that the rewards to enlisters should be increaeed from to 20s. for each recruit approved for a regiment, anti to 25a for each recruit enlisted and passed for general service ; and finally, suggests that the naval systsm of training boys specially for the service from an early age might be adopted. with advantage for the army. Other recommendations of the commissioners relate to the supply of forage caps and fatigue jackets without charge, and the increase of the scale of good conduct pay. With regard to limited enlistment they propose that the prin ciple should be now still further extended, and that the periods of service should be altered to twelve years for the first and nine years for the second period for all branches of the service, thus making an aggregate service of twenty-one years before the soldier would become entitled to his pension. They recommend, besides, that those soldiers who re-engage at the end of the first period should receive 2d. a day of additional or long-service pay, and that an additional bounty should be offered to men under orders for foreign service to in duce them to extend their engagement to the full period during which their regiment is expected to remain abroad. The report dismisses the subject of the formation of a reserve force as being a " very large" question, more fit for the consideration of cabinets than commissions; but it affords occasion for a few remarks as to the wisdom of being prepared for anything. The suggestions they have made would, the commissioners freely admit, involve ad ditional expense to the country. and by the vial; of the English Vice-Consul and the Consul-General of France. After the arrival of the ship on the coast it turned out that a full cargo of palm oil was not likely to be obtained, and the captain of the Ricardo Schmidt was di rected to put into Sierra Leone, to till up with ground nuts, which its owner had concluded ar rangements with Mr. MUDGE, a principal mer chant there, to supply. She arrived at Sierra Leone on the 26th of July, 1864, having on board 14,000 gallons of palm oil and 140 empty casks. A. portion of these casks, being no longer wanted for the purpose of the voyage, were being sold, and had been sent on shore for the purpose ' of sale. On arrival at Sierra Leone the ship's papers were sent to the Custom-house, the captain paid for the ground nuts to be shipped, and in a day or two the ship would have left for Genoa. On examination by the proper Customs officers no ground of suspicion of irregularity, still less criminality, was found by those functionaries, and it was after their examination and under their permit that 45 empty casks were lauded. While loading, the QUEEN'S ship America, Lieute- ' nant Dusxor commanding, came into Sierra Leone, boarded the Ricardo Schmidt, and seized her as equipped for the slave trade. In vain the captain appealed to his papers, to the certificate of the lawfulness of the casks, the character of his voyage along the coast, the result of the previous examination of his vessel, to the object of his visit to Sierra Leone, to the assurances of Mr. RIDDLE, to his log, to the correspondence of his owner, and to every fact of the cave. Lieut. DUNLOP persisted in his seizure. The ship was brought for condemnation before the Vice-Admiralty for being fitted out, equipped for, and engaged in the slave trade in a British harbour, contrary to the provisions of the sth Geoner. IV., cap. 113. It seems—according to Lord WESTBURY, at least--to be doubtful whether a foreign ship comes within the purview of that statute at all, but that point not being raised, the case was, fortunately for the honour of her owner and captain, decided on its merits. The Vice- Admiralty Court, without hesitation, released the Ricardo Schmidt, but refused to give damages and costs against the captor, on the ground that there was probable cause of seizure. Against that part of the judgment which refused damages and costs an appeal was carried to the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council, and before it the officers of the Crown supported the defence. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, through Lord WESTBURY, at once held that "there was nothing that justified the seizure," and recommended her MAJESTY to reverse so much of the sentence as held that the seizure was justified by the circumstances, and to declare that " the " vessel ought to have been restored, with " damages and costs." Lord WESTBURY added . the opinion of the tribunal, "that national " honour required that the damages and costs in " this case should be given to the owner of the " ship." The seizure was, it is clear from Lord Wan- NORTH SCHL/t3RIG. It would be cruelty, observes the Tim's, to grudge the King of Denmark the meagre consolation of hope which the treaty of Prague—engaging Prussia to restore the Danish :district of Korth Schleswig to Denmark in the event of the majority of the inhabitants declaring in favour of such • re-annexation—may afford. But neverthe. less, it is phis that the smoonsaisnable delay of Prods In the &Mel to the poplar suffrage of the North-Seltke wives ravage on her pert a settled intention to evade the spirit, it nee the letteeof the treaty, and to postpone the plebiscite till she has laid her plans to secure the vote in her favour. The Times, therefore, can not share Sing Christian's sanguine expectations arising either from his sense of Prussian honour or from his confidence in the benevolent attitude of friendly powers. Feeling no inclination to change its dews on the main work of Bismarck, the Times still regards it as cruel that the German nation should show such unanimity only when its vanity can be gratified at the expense of an in offensive neighbour. In the spoliation of the Dane Germany has only one mind and one heart, and this in exorable hardness and bitterness against the weak augurs ill for the future career of a nation which is even now rising to unbounded and irresponsible power. The Post takes a different view, and assumes that the Sing of Denmark may congratulate his parliament on the prospect of seeing a portion of his former kingdom re stored, and, what is of no less importance, a line of fron tier established which, from its narrowness between the Baltic and German Ocean, can be put in a defensive state with less expense and greater security than the existing frontier. )VS TOPICS. The Times objects to the scheme of the Keble Memorial College at Oxford, the sum promised for which, however large, falls very far short of the fund required to build end endow a real college on the scale proposed. The special object is to provide for students destined for holy orders ; but in the opinion of our contemporary an expan sion of the existing college system would supply the wants of the church and the nation much more satisfactorily. Why should not Oxford unction the system which has been found to work so well at Cambridge, which dispenses with the condition of collegelreaidence ? The out-college student might be allowed the option of taking his meals in college or keep. ing house for himself, and it will depend on his own tastes and disposition whether he mixes little or much in college society. Where he happens to be poor, he may well be admitted to lectures gratuitously, nor can we imagine any more legitimate application of surplus funds than in defraying the tuition fees of deserving young men whose parents can ill spare them. Acknowledging that the proposal which has been made to enlist Sikhs in our service for employment, not only in Europe but in England itself, is a project which appeals to the imagination and half captivates the judgment, the Deihl News mentions reasons against it which it considers of a much more conclusive kind. In an hour of dire neces sity we might bring Sikhs from India ; but short of that, it is better that they should be left where they are. The Star finds it difficult to reconcile the language of Lord John Manners in which he lavished praise upon working men at the Industrial Exhibition with his political course. It rather likes a man to be one thing or the other. At all events, a public man would do well to remember that it is more of an offence than a compliment to flatter in words those whom he has disparaged and vilipentled by his acts " Pray consider, madame," said Dr. Johnson to an effusive feminine admirer, " what the value of your praise is be fore you bestow it on me." We are sorry that Lord John Manners did not, before he set about eulogising the working men in November, reflect a little upon the probable value such eulogy would derive from the nature of his speeches and his votes during the reform debates of last Jane. Vie Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 13. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Princess Louise. Her Majesty, with the Prince and Princess Christian, walked and drove this morning in the Home-park. The Duke of Edinburgh went to London to-day, attended by Lieutenant Haig. The Countess of Calodon has succeeded Viscountess Jocelyn as lady in waiting to her Majesty. 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 hlalmesbury, 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 deputation from the Aborigines Protection Society bad an interview, yesterday, with the Earl of Carnarvon, at the Colonial-office. The deputation, which was intro duced by Mr. W. T. M'Cullagh Torten, M.l'., vice-presi dent of the society, consisted of Mr. James Heywood, F.R.S., the Rev. Eugene Casella, secretary of the French Protestant Missionary Society, the Rev. MonaieurMsrzials, of the French l'rotestant Church, St. Martin's-le-Grand, Mr. A. K. Jobisher, M.A., formerly of the Red River Settlement, Rev. James Davis, secretary of the Evangelical j Alliance, Mr.l Merringtou, of the Cape Colony, Mr. John Wayfield, Mr. Richard Smith (Lincoln's-inn), Mr. G. L. Neighbour, Mr. F. W. Chesson, Mr. L. A. Chamerovzow, and Mr. R. L. Ford. _ _ ...... The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes. terday. The lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Wanda. lATEST INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY. The assembly of German patriots held at SU.- gard on the 12th passed resolutions in favour of the formation of a confederation of the South, united by the closest military and political ties, to save the nucleus of liberty ; and of the esta blishment of a resident committee at Heidelberg, • under the presidency of M. Welker. The assembly also pronounced in favour of compulsory military service for every man, and of the shortest possible , duration. - • • A committee of liberals, founded at Elberfeld, has issued a proclamation to all persons of the libe ral and national parties in North Germany recom mending them to unite for the purpose of securing a true and real representation of the people in the approaching parliament of the North. The Austrian German students have published a manifesto, in which they set forth their ideas of the present state of things. The war, they say, has put an end to an impossible state of things, and it ought to be regarded as the first step of the final unity of the nation. This unity has always [ been the great aim of the corporations of students throughout all Germany ; and a step lin this direction cannot be considered by I them as an event which should separate those who have always endeavoured by their combined efforts to attain their end as long as it remains only a question of provisional arrangement—the hege mony of one of the states of Germany. But we are likewise convinced that, if what has been done appears sufficient for the present, the day must come when the eight millions of Austrian-Ger- I mans will knock at your doors. The late visit of the Emperor of Austria to Bohemia does not seem to have had much effect in calming the desires of the people, who demand as strongly as ever the recognition of their historical rights—a new electoral law which should raise the Sclave element from its present degrading infe riority ; the introduction of the national language into the public schools ; tho placing of education under the control of the Diet, and freedom for the development of the national trade and commerce, which are now fettered by unjust restrictions. MORE SHOOTINGS IN SPAIN. Tho reign of terror continues in Spain, says the Sicle. Some agitation having taken place amongst the prisoners transported to Palma, in Majorca, two were shot in the ditches of the forti fications, and the captain-general of the Balearic Isles directed the following proclamation to be read to the soldiers : The authors of the rebellion which took place yesterday have expiated their crimes by the exemplary punishment of which you were witnesses. The execution of the law ban been inexorable, but just. From the first moment of outbreak you showed yourselves loyal and zealous in the discharge of your duties. Your captain-general has per. formed his, as I am sure he will always do. ROME. The Paesc says that immediately on the French troops leaving Civita Vecchia the people of Rome and of the Roman territory will proceed to a ple biscite and declare their desire for annexation to the kingdom of Italy under the rule of Victor Em manuel. During the fetes at Venice, and especially in the Fenicc Theatre, the cry of " Viva it Re in Campidoglio" ("Long live the King in the capitol") was distinctly heard. (REETER . S TELEGRAMS.) RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 13, EVENING. The English residents in this city have presented the Prince of Wales with an address, numerously signed, expressive of their devotion to her Majesty Queen Victoria and their attachment to England. The address states that the marriage of the Czarcwitch with a Danish princess , establishes a tie between England and Russia which encourages the best hopes for the future relations between both powers. FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 14. Admirals Rigault and Charner have been nomi nated members of the commission upon the re organisation of the army, which will include in its investigations the system of recruiting for the navy. ITALY. FLORENCE, Nov. 14. The King will set out to-day on a visiting tour in the Venetian provinces. It is stated that the parliament will assemble after the 11th December. The ltia:.ione of to-day announces that an official - - ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES AT from the Ministry of Finance at Rome has gone to WlNl) , ..rt.—Yesterday afternoon her Royal Highness the Paris to treat upon the question of the pontifical Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Princes Albert debt. Victor and George, and attended by Lieutenant-General Knolls', the master of the Prince's household, and suite, 1 HUNGARY. left Sandringham Hall, Norfolk, for Windsor Castle, in PESTH, Nov. 14. order to visit her Majesty and the other members of the . A deputation from the town of Szeged has pre royal family. Apartments have been prepared for the use sented a testimonial to M. Deak. T'ie latter, in of the Princess in King Edward M.'s tower. TiiE PRINCESS OF WALES AND THE BLIND. • thanking the deputation, said : "The position of Hungary is very critical. The work of the institution at 500, New Oxford-street, for ' teaching blind women and girls to use the sewing machine, Hitherto I have laboured without result, but I having been brought under the notice of the Princess of have not yet given up all hope." Wales, her royal highness has been graciously pleased to The royal rescript which will be communicated forward to the secretary a life subscription of 20 guineas, to the Hungarian Diet is said to be of a conciliatory with special permission for designating the society " The character, although it demands that matters rela- Alexamirs Institute for Blind Females, Patroness her Princess of W I " The institution tive to the army, the public debt, and indirect tax- Royal Highness t he will be removed to more convenient premises in New ation shall be considered as common affairs. Oxford.street, at Christmas. His Excellency Count Apponyi is expected to I THE LATE HUNGARIAN LEGION. leave the Austrian Embassy about the 20th inst. for : BERLIN, Nov. 14. Vienna, en e'ngi for about two months. I The Spenersche Zeituwj of to-day says :—"We In consequence of a consultation which has been learn through thoroughly reliable advices from Pesth held, the Bishop of London yesterday left London for the that former members of General Klapka's Hun- West Cliff, Brighton, the air of the south coast being garian Legion have been arrested near Kiems and thought likely to contribute to the restoration of his health. Although, as stated, his lordship's health has brought before a court-martial." mueh improved since his return from the north, it is still thought necessary that he should have a considerable , period of rest. _ I ! ARRIVAL OF THE ALLEMANIA. Mr. George Shaw Lefevro, 51. P. for Reading, is ' The Hamburg and American Company's steam at present on a tour in America. Mr. John Walter, of New York the 3d • t Bearwood, Wokingham, late M.P. for Berkshire, who has ship Allemania, fromon r ins ~ for some weeks past been on a tour through the United arrived off Cowes this morning (Nov. 14) with 109 States of America and Canada, accompanied by his eldest P and Hamburg ; P assengers for this port, Havre, son, will sail for England about the middle of December. 128,872 dole. for England, 60,500 dols. for France, At the Court at Windsor, the 10th day of No- and 2,360 dols. for Hamburg, and 1,000 tons of vember, present, the Qneen's most excellent Majesty in cargo ' council. This day the Right Hon. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, the for Hamburg. Right Hon. Sir Hugh MacCalmont Cairns, the Right , On the sth inst. she spoke tho steamer Borussia Hon. Sir Richard Turin Kindersley, and the Right Hon. Major-Gene: al Sir Henry Knight Storss, G.C.8., were awl a French steamer, suppnaPd to be the Ville de by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's m ost Paris ;on the 6th she passed a British ship honourable Privy Council, and took their places at the showing 2nd pendant, 3,908. board accordingly.—Ga:ette. I (Vitt Southampton.) THE PARIS ExinnrrioN.—A meeting of the corn- ' mittee appointed for the proper representation of British I NEW YORK, Nov. 3, MORICIWG. art from the earliest periods up to 1800, at the forthcoming Governor Swann has removed the Baltimore Paris exhibition, was held in the Sheepshanks Gallery o the South Kensington Museum, on Tuesday, the 13th police commissioners. He states in his deci November, at 3 o'clock p.m. There were present :—The sion that if the soldiers should be induced by par- Earl Cedogan in the chair, the Lord Delaniere, the tizanship to commit acts of violence they must take MacLeod of MacLeod, Sir Thomas Phillips, the very Rev. Dr. Rock, the Master of the Ironmongers' Company, the the consequences. Fresh commissioners have Master of the Merchant Taylors' Com_pan y , Mr. Alexander been appointed and a new po li ce force organised. Barker. Mr. A. W. Franks. Mr. R. dgrave, R.A., Mr. I Henry Vaughan, and Mr. Thomas Whitehead. Mr. Cole, The old police commissioners intend to resist the C.R., secretary of her Majesty's commissioners. attended ; demands of the new commissioners for the station and also the following secretaries of the committee :—The Rev, James Beck, M.A., Mr. C. C. Black, ILA., sad ° ' h uses Considerable ill feeling prevails among Mr. George Wallis. the citizens of opposing politics. Several personal encounters have occurred• General Grant /Asked Baltimore on Thursday, here an additional force of regular troops had been sent. The Governor of Georgia in his message to the legislature opposed the constitutional amendment. The Boston Republicans have nominated two negroes as candidates for the legislature. The Herald says that President Johnson, in his message to Congress, will f avo ur pesos at home and abroad, and the same paper also says that the President has approved General Sheridan's late order regarding Mexico. The Connecticut democracy have urged the government to demand the release of the Fenian in Canada. The Fenian trials have been further postponed until to-day. Advices received here from Mazatlan, October 23, state that the liberals had captured and shot twenty imperialists, including two generals. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 14. The North German Lloyd's steamer Heimann, from New York, passed the Needles at U. 46 a.m. to -day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ram ow) ow' coamponaarr.) PARIS. TVZ3DAY EVZIMIG: ---- - The Emperor, Empress, and the Prince Imperial left St. Cloud for Compiegne at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The court will stay at Compiegne about a month. There will be four series of in vitations. The great feature of the " hunting season" this year will be the " reorganisation of the army," the military commission charged to report on the subject holding frequent meetings under the presidency of the Emperor. An article of a provincial journal, the France Centrale, cited by the Libert4, speglring of the " reorganisation of the army" as the great subject of the day which more than any other excites " passionate " discussion, says : Great as was the sensation occasioned by the sudden en actment of free trade, it was nothing to that now felt. Everybody had not a weaving machine, a manufactory, or a business ; but everybody has a son, a brother, and a family liable to be saddled with the heaviest of all taxes — the conscription. _ . A piece of news not altogether new, which can hardly be regarded as anything but a canard, was seriously talked of at the Bourse to-day. It was asserted that the Corps Legislatif will be convoked for a short session on Dec. 2 (an ominous date), and that the business submitted to the Chamber will be the voting of a loan and the reorganisation of the army according to the project, out of Ow many submitted to his choice, which the Emperor may decide upon at Compiegne. The deposed Elector of Hesse is expected in Paris to-morrow. His wife, the Princess do Hainault, with several of her twelve children, has been at the Grand Hotel since Sunday evening. Yesterday she breakfasted with her children in thf public room at Vefour's, in the Palais Royal. Some great ladies, who, as ladies love to do, made light of vulgar laws, were severely treated thi other day by a police-court in Belgium. Th. Marquise de Molina and the Duchess del Pilar Osorio de Los Rios of Madrid were sentenced bi the Correctional Tribunal of Namur to fines of 30fr, each, and the confiscation of their guns for sporting without a license. Among those who visit the Royal Botanic Gar. dens during the winter are students, male and female. artists, sculptors, and designers and others, in addition ' the regular botanical students attending the lectures under the care of Dr. Lankester and Professor Bentle: The artists last year embraced 8 ladies and 10 gentleinef and the medical students 169, making a total of 187. few days ago several students from the School of Desigi were engaged in making studies in drawing of trees an flowers. One was patiently copying all the minute fibres and tracery of the leaves, and acquiring the peculiar touch necessary for faithfully representing the leaf of the oak, ash, elm, or other common English tree ; another, more advanced in the art, was taking the general aspect of the whole tree, and as the trees in the garden are not mutilated by cattle, or dis torted by growing too close together as in forests, their general form is more natural than those found in planta tions. Other students from schools of design were copy- ing wreaths of climbing plants or leaves of tropical plants, with leaves of bold outline, to bo grouped into patterns for " Manchester goods," lace, carpets, paper-hangings, &c., the plants in these gardens having furnished many examples for new patterns in these fabrics. The short time movement is on the increase in Inneashire. Yesterday the spinners and manufacturers of the Rawtenstail district, who employ 300,000 spindles and 6,000 looms, decided to commence working only four days a week ; and on the previous day the manufacturers at Darwen came to a similar resolution. THE MARRIAGE OF THB CE.YAREWITCH.—Sud denIy the hum is hushed. A master of ceremonies, &doe in hand, has entered to announce the approach of the marriage procession. While the same message is being given to the town by the guns outside the equerries and Jouriers fa roar enter the chapel. The master of ceremonies, the chamberlains, and the various eharebt of the court follow in due succession. And now the Em peror and Empress come in sight, preceded by Count nifluvaleff, the Grand Marechal. His Majesty is in the uniform of a general, and lead. his royal spouse to the Metropolite, standing in the centre of the church to re ceive them. As the aged dignitary slowly and gently waves hie cross to and fro the Emperor stoops to kiss the sign of salvation, and to cross himself on forehead and chest with holy water. The Empress repeats the sacred rite, and places herself beside her august husband. The Crown Prince Cesarewitch is the next to enter, to kiss, bow, and cross himself, in accordance with the devout forms of the church. After him walks in Princess Dagmar, or, as she has been latterly called, the Orthodox Grand Duchess Maria Feodorowna of All the Itussias. She walks in beauty. The Metropolite, who looks as though he had stepped out of the frame of some ancient picture of the church, inclines himself to the blooming girl as she conforms to the re quirements of the national creed. Her imperial highness steps back to the three principal members of her family, who have already entered the sacred edifice. The four stand together, and the eyes of all present centre upon them. In them is compassed the present and future of this immense empire. The Czar, tall, majestic, with the habit of command and the disposition to kindness clearly legible on his manly features, is not only the first. but also the finest man in the room. His Queen, whom sickness has not robbed of the feminine grace which clothed her younger years, is readily recognisable from the well-known ' portraits representing the beautiful Mary of Hesse. In a white dress, with a train of gold stuff, trimmed with ermine, and a sparkling diadem on her head, her Majesty looks worthy to be a Queen. The Grand Duke, successor . to the throne, is rather stout for his age, with a good share of will and resolution stamped upon his • youthful face. Like a rose growing in the shadow of an oak, Princess Dagniar stood beside him. Her lovely fea tures were animated by excitement, and in her eye shone confident the hope of future happiness. On her dark locks rested a crown of priceless diamonds, graceful and light as a wreath or a chaplet of flowers. A superb brooch, if a ' jewel covering nearly the whole upper part of the bodice can be called so, glistened on her breast. Her robe was • of white moire-antique, and her train, carried by . four chamberlains, of crimson velvet, trimmed with ermine. At a certain part of the service the Cezarewitch and his bride stepped forward from the circle of the imperial family, and having I been conducted by the Emperor to a raised 1 dais, joined in the prayers of the Metropolite. Later, two younger princes of the blood, one of whom I recognised as Prince Alexis, approached and held above the heads of the bridal pair the nuirrime crowns peculiar to the ortho dox ritual. They resemble in shape and size the episcopal tiaras. and seem to be of silver wire, or tame such ins- ' terial, interwoven with silk. This singular ceremony continued for about twenty minutes, the officiating princes being repeatedly obliged to change their bands from weariness. Suddenly the music beam* softer, quicker, and more melodious. Its eloquent notes predicted the speedy consummation of the hallowed act. To this tune bride and bridegroom were led thrive round the altar by the Metropolite. Then they were pronounced to be man and wife.—Times correspondent. AMERICA. eminence tion with the inquiry into Mrs. Carpenter, 1001. a yt of her husband, the late Mi prints and drawings in the ! merit as a portrait painter Mrs. Sykes, 757. a yr-tr, on account of the sertioadtet . , pate husband, the late r. Godfrey tothrialsre arts of the country, a nd to the mu S s y e kes, um at Sodas' sington. Mrs. Coulton, 7rd. a year, on account of the BO merit of her husband, the late Mr. David Coats. Dr. Patrick White, 75/. a year, in considering' d services as an author, public lecturer, and ilhurritede minstrelsy and banlic literature and music al um I. modern Ireland. jMr. Henry John Doogood, 40/. a year, for sect • engaged in literary pursuits, and in connection est public press as a parliamentary reporter, and non gol and paralysed. George Thomason, Esq., 401. a year, on accost A & services in connection with the periodical literati I day , being now afflicted with blindness. dr Robert Young, Esq., 40/. a year, in reeelftt". services as an historical and agricultural poet is Min. I Miss Mary Craik and Miss Georgians Craik. 30 t each, in consideration of the services of theirtatbad• late Dr. Craik, as professor of history and Wil l° I ture in the Queen's College, Belfast. Cali Tyrwb quantl Johi his fa found two tb In a that h the de desc ) 22, • eons Nino T. tridg that A RAILWAY STATIO.V DESTROYED BY t 1 „ din the mo EDINBURGH, Tresnsr EMI* h About half-past 8 o'clock t o-ni g ht a COO u* - seen out in the stationmuter's house at the Banitilasi°l Terminus of the North British Railway in Fifeigit in whole building was soon in Names, at dthen ...i t/ 0 they steamer crossed the Frith of Forth troll BOO"' them Granton no part of the station was expected to he r The fire was seen from Granton and Edisbolth f or t station is an extensive one, and t he lots to the he h will amount to several thousand po unds. 4. the i m ti did had A son Df into not you We read in the Cundwriiiiid Paopfri:l; Right Hon. Edward Hors ma n, 31. P., and ar 11 ' 11 ',....d bilt. the guests of F. L. B. Dykes, Eel.. m Coc., the past week, during which the q uondam mesbe • borough paid repeated visits to hi s old friends 409: Esq., M.P., Dement Bank ; Mrs. Robert Be#4 Helen's ; Mews. Burnett, 3 lit che ll , H e many others. The hon. member met s everal ef 1 . 0 election committee at the Apple Tree Inn. member 'casting his bread on the waters,' in fi l "" finding it again at tbo next election 7" Captain Gibson, of the United Stat. o° o Tahoma, has reported to the Navy Department. ington that he was caught in the hurricane "to much damage to Nassau, in the I sland of New Ir "-i lie says that be experienced the storm on the 30 0 l of October, when on a line between the Hern•-",), Hatteras. From calculations that he :iftersoo---"41:0 considered that it was a revolving cyclone, t he of which was 260 miles, and that it moved in 6 6.- E.N.E., at the rate of 13 miles an hour. A ccor di n g to the census of IMO 31 the POI of the United States and territories Ira cording to a census taken of seven states in 1 "`" - T*l o lotion had increased 131 per cent.. and at thilf population at the present time is 35.500,0 00 % o f/ According to the census of New Ze del year 1865 the population of Auckland was 49,0 6 ; s o, terbury, 48,618; of Otago, 46,5`89; of Wellinfri a ol of Nelson, 13,920 ; of Southland, 7,046; of ° P.- 0 5,465 ; of Taranaki, 4,478; and o f Hawkes 1lo1;. There are now 20,000 natives in New 2. 0 0 r 15,000 in Auckland, 2,500 in Ilawke' s Bah 1054" naki, and 1,000 is Wellington. THE METEORIC SHOWIc...."'" • Those who, placing faith in altra lian d e time, samilloal last night's sleep to wit e u witok. 7l. were richly repaid, end are to-day the envy egti.,7 11 % somnolent Mends. To begin with, th e 4 deka yesterday afternoon was siag e hd r 46. 11 1 e SNOW " it wan the subject of universal mosrk is the sr of the evening that a more brilliant sigi t tl e g..... -7 was witnessed in November. The stars seem e d f ita ;;;` In this g ceptional luny and the sky a deeper bk,. 1 14, l a i n s serrations from various points will of le. °l itany • pouring into the pram. Oar own were mods ta - rL i s alicharg4 I gate. As seen here the e ff ect maybe deemed i k ." o " alums Shoe lly before 12 o'clock a general exeu set s ta ""lha the watchers was excited by the beeatital slasl tty llll . l ., edpaiast This tb or six shooting stars streaming across the went of M and, from that period until &hog 5 4 1 ,1 - ":7; the sum or than which we cannot speek--thi s loot ` blond ' named with bat few intervals e y fi r r a tr ° times eight er ten stars would be i on an d tom various directions, leaving long lines of ii 0,77 He was momen t s a single meteor would be diesos eet e colours varied. Many of the meteors &w an d % L a yellowish light, others a deep red, tleas tti gitthign • some of them appear, that their r sese li at ;" 4l rockets occurred to everyone, and a . seemed to listen for the ru sh' d m* 6 71 This During the transit of the =tun, th e 11" M was 7,„ . the other stars was scarcely to be I „,g o i k ilt : that effect produced during the siandisee ses the d. of meteors in the various parts of the 1 1 7 . Mr. was inexpressibly impressive. The nohd et verd ict see was no e gave a thrill that no artificial splendurs sag that the .. produce, The size of these shooting bedise e l se, 7. demos t some cases the purge wee brief and the hotb is : a had bit o th ers a larger portion of the sky was twined relf , luminousness both prolonged and w ow EN new of gliding motion, if such a term may be woe*, A o when . • striking characteristic. siessege Accounts received from other sources inhere sae o t o the wit Primrose-hill, on the bridges, on the Sumba, till • The the heights and open spaces generally ne e d j aht hi s s ea ,as well as in the streets, large numbers of pram t ow to 1,0131T0 the cold air, and witnessed with admired** wee h u g eli p the scene of which we have given but a hiat l eave which no description could adequately m ew wines to wife cam Buie THE LORD LIEUTENANT OP IMMO., IRISH POLICE CO A deputation from the Town Commie* g - Galway waited on the Lord Lieutenant yeeUrdeyee t who so ~ %Intrepid Lodge, for the purpose of present* h i mi . gu T e, e on ✓ forty with • congratulater7 address ce kn affameett m ails. a the viceroyalty. • but his - His Excellency returned the following reply ; he led " Mr. Chairman and Town Commissioners of Übe* of her m n of Galway, it is with feelings of the highest l ab * , Plymou that I receive the congratulations , on my scusiaii I r m i t a a office of Lord Lieutenant, which are contsieed hue • A eon , us dress, and I thank you most sincerely for the wide dent eV d pressions of regard towards myself with Airlin es , but he ), gratulationsere ac companied. From my intimate ars e destitufor her. it with Ireland, subjects of local no less thee cf *Ms end the n portance enlist my earnest sympathies. lea snide sponden if , great interest taken by the late Lord Fglintee kites out of blishment of en Atlantic packet station at °deem! s . )r believe that to mismanagement alone it wieldable which I deeply deplore. I fully recognise tin held in peaceful conduct that has always been dimisyelhe, to large seafaring population, and I feel the tress nue The of attracting to the public service the youth einem ILS place. ern coast. I believe that object could be beet per tly Mr. C adopting some such means as you suggest, sad I Ail large ' 143 steps to bring under the notice of the Sexennial Railwa 0, t y h o a u t r he olatery wili at e ion ve s t w h i e th au r h ef e a c r t d h t ia o t fa h v e o barra urah Llu tataimm , to dap form AThif tr r. h e My experience of landed property in Irehrd The hehall-c shown me that the thte, therefor, thatof l a ndlord itmay sa he l ksi ess i s: ar ticable to introduce some well-considered meseaten, tl;e_Lo au by • by definitively settling the queztion of the town* ere in fr. l imy tend to the permanent advantage of alerts h , comm ng aid in developing the natural resources of rnrflnd Mr. Ireland is to me a pleasing duty, and I ma map I. His Reed a that her Majesty's government ar e earnestly Wad assisting any well-matured plan by which that Wow or- be attained." The de, The deputation then withdrew. of Tun to • few res ey CIVIL LIST PENSIONS. . terfere en, course stated a i n g A d it recently granted r i f ian h il ur o ted wi Hamai ng by th c i e , iv Q l il ool uee . l n is a t t lear Pe : is o i n °lll secoot inve i ll : his M re r. l .res eminence as a scientific chemist, and his servicemen. • the A t liar tion with the inquiry into the adulteration of foot cation the Mrs. Carpenter, 100/. a year, on account of tle 0 ,18 His con of her husband, the late Mr. Carpenter, as keep dtk was prints and drawings in the British Museum* dime the merit as a portrait painter. why eo th fend* openil The Mr.l inv sine but Nog brim hat • tbei ?Ivo eirro I i ,~ I ; II i. I ~~~