The Express. — London, England, 1862-11-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1862. FUN THIS WEEK, One Penny, Ituzaelra Last. Right Hon. K. Homan. Abnanaek and Diary. Prize Konya Comic ELIC)C101V011ia. Soup for the Throng, de., de. Sow ready, handsomely bound In Magenta cloth, gilt, price aa. ad.: paid M. each Vol., THE MOT and 820 D HAIXTTARLY VOLUMES oIIUN, with mammon, taunting, by talented Artists. Also pow manly, YON ALYANACY, with 24 Comic Cuts. One Penny. Moe, 110, fleet-street HARMONIUMS. —NEW MODEL. CRAMS, SLAM aa4 WOOD, 2t4. Edlest•WwwL gUe erprtoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. lvlvertlsements intended for The Dutra*** Lowden i wins Paper, must be at the olSce, 10, Bouveriostreek by Two o clock on the day of puWic•u"• COMIT GARDEN. TRN Evrtrxo, LOVE'S 'MUMPS. Ann Lonlmo ryoo sal Madame Laura Banter : Messrs. G. Perron. W. U. Wetio, M. Core, Apaley Cook, and W. llanison.--Cooducior. Mr. A. Melloa—Commence at & Tin smash MT AS A PO:Tr. 11r. Compton. - OCR AIIBLICAN OLWISIN. 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Let us come to facts, say the men who delight to call themselves practical ; let us have no evasions, or explanations, or interpretations—the figures are there ; let them tell their tale, and we will abide by it. But those who are beat acquainted with statistics know best what may be made of them—how they are now the sharp sword of fact with which logic cuts a fallacy in twain, and now the cloud of ink in which the discomfited propounder of fallacies hopes to swim unharmed away. So, as in this matter of Lancashire rates, it is the easiest thing in the world to make the appeal to figures in such a , way that, while it seems absolutely simple and decisive to the unthinking reader, it is quite impossible to answer it. We may indeed say, as Mr. FARNALL shows in his report of Monday last, that the township of Ashton is spending on its poor at the rate of lls. 9d. in the pound ; that within a few days Oldham will have laid rates to the amount of Si. since last March ; that Stock port has already collected, as far as collection is still possible, 7s. 6d. on the rateable property of the town. These are facts, but not the facts that are wanted. They are powerful evidence, but not evidence on the right side. The exigencies of the case demand that the average rates of Lancashire should be compared with the average rates of Wessex, wherever that may be. So we are asked what the average rates of Lancashire have been at various periods within the last 17 years. The first element of deceptiveness in this state ment is the use of the word average. For it in sinuates into the argument the assumption that Wessex and Lancashire are each of them so far homogeneous wholes, that the average of rates throughout the district may be taken as a fair re presentation of the amount expended in the maintenance of the poor in any particular part of it. This may be the case in a county, or group of counties, which is mainly agricultural, where the conditions of labouring life vary but little even from village to market town ; where no great city interposes a disturbing influence ; where no pre vailing manufacture raises a section of the popu lation above, or depresses it below the level of the farm labourer. It is possible enough that any parish in Wiltshire, or Dorsetehire, or Somersetsh ire may—within limits —be taken as a fair sample of all the rest, and that to strike an average would be unjust to no one of the three counties, or to any special district of them. But this is certainly not the case with Lancashire. It is the third largest county in Eng land, and, with the exception of Yorkshire, is by far the most various of any in character and in dustry. Rash theorists talk of it as of a clayey level, covered with a perpetual canopy of smoke rising from innumerable cotton-mills and coal-pits ; and when they speak of Lancashire they really mean the manufacturing districts only. They forget that it includes the greatest seaport of England ; that by far the largest part of its acreage is in profitable agricultural occupation ; that it stretches northwards beyond the pastures of the Fylde and the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay, to the Fells of Furness and the banks of Windermere itself. The same is snore emphatically true of Cheshire— a county which, with the exception of a strip of land at its north-eastern extremity, is wholly agri cultural. And to ask for the average rates of Lancashire, is simply to ask, that against the high amounts paid in the manufacturing towns should be set the lower rates paid in a thousand agricul tural parishes, which have directly shared in the prosperity of the towns, but which cannot yet be compelled to contribute to the mitigation of their distress. The average rates of Lancashire, and the rates paid in those parishes of Lancashire which are now suffering from the cotton famine, are, as the most careless observer must admit, two quite different things. And not the former, but the latter only, can be useful for the purposes of true statistical inquiry. Still, it may well he urged, that land, which benefited by the prosperity of manufactures, ought to participate in the burdens thrown upon the county by their compulsory intermission. What but this is the practical object of the Rate-in-Aid Act? Rates must be a ss e ssed and laid accord. , ing to law ; they have in them nothing of the nature of a free gift : and without some legal pro viaion such as has been made in this case,noparish even in Wessex, could make a voluntary offering to the necessities of another. A contribution to a 'Mid Committee is at present all that a Lance ahire landowner can do in aid of the common misfortune of the county ; even if he would he cannot pay rates until his over seers choose to lay them. All this is so obvious that we should be almost ashamed to draw our readers' attention to it, were it not that statements and arguments which take no account of these simple facts seem to lay a firm grasp on the credulity of the public. Let us call to mind the provisions of the Rate-in-Aid Act, and mark by how many precautions the burden is kept from agricultural shoulders, and how long a period must elapse before the whole county is rated to the relief of the county's misfortune. When the amount expended in any township on the actual relief of the poor exceeds 9d. in the pound in the last three months preceding, or is after • greater rate than 3s. in the pound for the year, the township in which this is the casemay transfer P the excess to the common fund el the Union. The sum thus spread over the townships composing the Union may, if the guardians so please, be borrowed, with permisakin of the Poor-Law Board ; or when the amount expended exceeds Is. 3d. quarterly, or os. yearly, on the net rate able value of the Union, they may apply to the same Board to issue an order, apportioning the excess over those unions of the county that are in a less unenviable position. For a time the squires of Cheshire, the great lords of South Lancashire, the owners of Windermere villas, are safe enough. The distressed towns must first come upon the half-manufacturing, half-agricultural townships which gird them round, and are united with them in Poor-Law Administration. Only when these have been raised to 15s. in the pound can any appeal be made to the agricultural parishes, which cover far more than half of Lancashire and Cheshire. We do not complain of the law, except that in our opinion it does not provide for distri buting the burden widely enough or soon enough. But it is somewhat hard that the character of the county should be impeached because the great landowners do not pay rates, which the law does not yet permit to be laid upon them, or that those who are heavily taxed to support the starving poor about their own doors, should be twitted with the light rates of a county which sustains a more changeful industry, and is the seat of more various interests, than any other district in the world of similar extent. Cbe Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 26. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alexan dre, Princess Louis of Hasse, and attended by the Hon• Mrs. Bruce, walked and drove this morning. Prince Christian (of Denmark) arrived at the Castle yes. terday, attended by General d'asholm. The Duke of 'Nemours, Primes@ Marguerite, the Count d'Eu, and the Duke of Aleneon, visited her Majesty. Madame d'Ozholm, the Danish Minister, and Earl Rus sell, also arrived at the Castle. The Danish Minister and Earl Rtliffell left to-day. The Queen proceeded yesterday morning to the Flemish Farm, for the purpose of planting an oak in memorial of the Prince Consort, to be called " The Prince Consort's Oak." Her Majesty was accompanied by the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse. Princess Alexandra, Princess Louise, end Prince Leopold, and Count Gleichen ; and ass attended by the Countess of Caledoa, Baroness von Bchenk, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe (Equerries in Waiting), Lieutenant-Generulthe Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell. Major-General Seymour and Major• General the Hon. A. N. Hood were in attendance on the ground, as were also Mr. Menzies, deputy surveyor; Mr. Cole, the head park. keeper ; and ethers employed in Windsor Park and the Royal Household. The site wu selected in consequence of its having been that upon which the Prince Consort left off shooting upon his last visit to the park. The Hon. Messieurs Sicotte, Howland, Howe, and Tilly had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester day, and heard a petition for a prolongation of Burn's patent for improved cotton gin. Lord Chelmsford, on the part of their lordships, stated that no sufficient case for the extension of the patent had been shown. A petition for a prolongation of Haswell's patent for electric telegraphs was heard. Lord Chelmsford, on the part of their lord- ships, refused the extension. The Lords present were Lord Chelmsford, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, and Sir J. Coleridge. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Malta, the Manritits, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Liman, the Australian colonies, and Gibraltar. Calms= Corxcik—Summonses have been issued for s Cabinet Council on Turnday nut, the 2nd Fox.. at the First Lord of the Tremor y's official residence in Downing- street. Taeir Excellencies the Count and Countess de Torre Diaz and fernily have left London for Madrid for the winter. The Count and Countess de Flahault will return to Albert-gate House to-day from visiting the Countess Cowper, at Wrest Park, Hods. His Ems*Honey and family will leave Albert-gate early nest week for Coventry Howie, ' the family mansion, in Piccadilly. The Marquis of Waterford left Charles-street, St. James's, yesterday morning, for Onersghmore, his oast , . in the county Waterford. Viscount and Viscountess Campden are expected io town to-day from Carat:deo House, Gloncesterabire, on their way to the Continent. Viscount Powerscourt arrived in town on Tues day evening from Scotland. His lordship sm leave in a few days for his seat, Poweneourt, Ireland. Lord and Lady Proby have left toad on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Cork at Manton House, Fronts. Lord and Lady Forester were to arrive yesterday at Diatom Lodge, Leicestershire, from Wiley Park, Shrop shire, with the intention of residing there till the close of TaiT the bunt;og sawn. Lord and Lady Westmoreland have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris, from England. L oad a Lady Anne*ley and the Dowager Lady Armesley bare left the sense hotel for Nice. The foundation stone of the Victoria and Albert Museum at Bombay wee to be formally laid on the 19th inst., by his Excellency Sir Bartle Frere, K.C.B. The building, which bee been some time in progress, promisee to be one of the finest structures in Bombay. lady From would at the same time declare the new gardens ot the AgriM or ti em isural Society of Western Lelia, which sur round the Museum, to be open to the public. The government of India has issued an order authorising the local governments to grant pensions to fami lies of government servants killed in the execution of their duty. One Syud Ahmed, a learned Mussulman of Glia zeepore, announces that he has written, on the principles of the Mohammedan faith, a commentary entitled "The Mohammedan Commentary of the Holy Bible," and has begun to publish the work at his own press. As it is 'rely large it is to be supplied periodically to " ardent purchasers" at l'.*; pages for one rupee. The work consists at present of English and Oordoo in parallel columns. The Kotree correspondent of the Friend of indite I gives an account of two clouds of locusts overshadowing the station. They appeared at first to be thick dust storm', but on their nearer approach were discovered to be dense masses of locusts flying towards the sea, about eight miles in length, preceded by flocks of kites briefly feasting upon them. They left anything but a pleasant odour in the air, and were in each case followed by dust storms which ren dered the rest of the day very sultry. During the flight and the storm the thermometer roe from 84 to iki degrees, and within half an hour returned to 88. A letter from Berlin states that while Mdlle. Trebelli was, on Sunday last, singing at a concert given at the Victoria Theatre. for the benefit of an actress who had lately lost all she possessed by a fire, the theatre in which the eoooert was being given caught fire. The large calo- rifiZve baring been overheated, one of the pipes became red-hot, and, communicating to a wooden partition, set it on fire. The flames were, however, extinguished before any great mischief was done, and the performance was cautioned- The Dards publishes the first of a series of letters by M. Michel Chevalier on the international Exhi- bition of London. General Spiro Millo, ex-Greek Minister of War, has left Paris for Mnuich to join King Otbo. WHITWORTH GUIOI.—It is understood that the result of the repeat trial of the Whitworth gun at Shoe barrens is that the Duke of Somerset has directed the gun to be further examined and reported upon by a co.nmittee specially appointed for that subject. The gun which will be tried is, we hear, one that is now nearly completed at Mr. Whitworth's factory, and constructed with the homo geneous iron, upon which alone Mr. Whitworth relies for producing a strong gun, in preference to the welded coil plan said at Woolwich and Elzwlok. IRBT nenuzumum Mansvirmanaluo APthICAr• . • NEW YORK, Nov. 14, Emma. (Par Bohemian.) The unfavourable rumours which were current at the departure of the Arabia have not been confirmed. . _ . Large numbers of persons have gone to Trenton to pay their respects to General M'Clellan. At a serenade given in his honour he made a speech, in which he said that whilst the army was fighting the citizens should see that the war was prosecuted for the preservation of the union, the constitution, and the nationality and rights of the citizens. Two of General M'Clellan's staff officers have been arrested and sent to Washington. The charges against them are unknown. The advance of General Burnside's army has oc cupied Fayetteaville, four miles from Rappahan nock Station. General Stonewall Jackson is repotted to be moving along the turnpike-road towards Cumber land, Maryland. The Confederates, under Generals Floyd and Bragg, are concentrating at Gordonsville. A large Confederate force is still reported to be at Murfreesboro, near Nashville. The reports of iron-clad vessels being built in England for the Confederates have aroused appre hensions for the safety of New York Harbour. Measures are being taken for its security. The steamer which recently entered Charleston is reported not to have been iron plated, but shots tired from a Federal cruiser did not hit her. It is again reported from Washington that the French minister Las demanded redress for General Butler's treatment of Frenchmen at New Orleans. Spain has also made demands against the Federal government. It is supposed that the demands in both cases will be complied with. It is announced from South America that General Mosquera has captured Antioquia, and gained other successes. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 14, EvruNo. Money easier. Gold, S 2 premium. Exchange, Bankers' Bills, 146 i. Stocks improving ; New York Central, 1021 ; Illinois, 76 ; Erie, 611. Cot ton very firm ; middling upland, 641. Breadstuffs heavy. Provisions quiet. Coffee advancing. Sugar very firm. Molasses steady. have conveyed to the latter an erroneous im pression of our force and intentions, for the Taepinge began to move about the country more freely, and burn down the hamlets as usual, plundering and murdering on all sides. They came to the town of Taze-hee, but were completely re pulsed by the shells from the Confucius and the Hardy, and by Ward's Legion. On this occasion the Taepingz left 700 killed on the field and all their flags. Ward was viewing the fugitives through his glass when a bullet struck him in the stomach ; he was brought down in the Hardy, and died the following day in Dr. Parkes's Hospital. He retained his senses to the last, and made his will, leaving Sir James Hope and the Hon. Mr. Burlingame as his executors. - • From the Yang-tare, the only news we notice is contained in the following paragraph from the North-China Herald : The difficulties attendant on the navigation of the Yang tam have been painfully exemplified during the past fort night, in the first Instance by the total loss of the new steamship Kate, Messrs. Harkort and Co. It is reported that, whilst steaming up to Hankow, she took the ground near Plover Point ; when backing off • strong tide took the vessel on her broadside, she [ell over, filled with water, ' and went down. Five Chinamen (paassagers) are miming, but the captain and crew were picked up and brought to Shanghai by the Shantung. And in the second, by the strand ing of the American steamship Hu-Qaang, on her second trip up the rivor, abeut2smilesfrom Hankow, on her upward voy ago. Several attempts have been made by steamers on the river to haul her off, but, as yet, without success. The J. T. Wright arrived with the above information, but she br;ngs nothing new in the state of trade at Hankow. At Canton, three officers and 42 men of her Ma jesty's 99th and Royal Artillery are at present quar tered at the heights ; their business in Canton is to drill Chinese troops for the protection of the city against the Taepings, who were lately found to have conspirators at work to produce disaffection and internal disorder in Canton, and so, probably, prepare it for easier capture. The Chinese troops are said to take kindly to their drill. It was mentioned some time ago that intelligence bad been received of the murder by the governor of the province of Kwei-chow (in the south-west of the empire) of two Roman catholic missionaries and some of their "converts ;" and we now learn that the Pekin Gazette contains an imperial edict, re moving the governor, Tien-Ring-shoo, from his post. General arbitrariness of conduct is alleged, in this manifesto, against the official in question, in addition to his persecution of the Christians, as a reason for removing him, and directing tho supe rior boards to decide upon an appropriate punish ment JAPAN. ASSASSINATION OF AN ENGLISHMAN. Hong-Kong journals of October 15 report a Barl ow incident at Yokohama, where one of our coun trymen has been murdered in oold blood and two others wounded while riding along the high road from Yedo to Miako. The chief facts of the case are these. A party of three gentlemen and one lady rode out from Yokohama on the afternoon of the 14th September. They had proceeded seven miles, when they were met by a large party of Prince Satsuma's retainers. Some of the latter made signals for the Europeans to turn back ; they halted and stood aside, part of the procession in the meantime passing them ; fresh signals were made for the small party to turn back, and they were in the act of obeying when a murderous assault was made upon them by the Japanese. The lady escaped by a miracle, her little hat being cut by a sword-stroke ; she rode to Yokohama, a distance of seven miles, and gave the alarm. A party was at once formed to move to the scene of the disaster. Captain Howard Vyse, her Majesty's consul at Yokohama, went promptly to the assistance of the sufferers, accompanied by Lieutenant Applin and part of the Legation Guard. It was found that one of the gentlemen, Mr. Richardson, of Shanghai, was dead, and that the other two were badly wounded, although strong hopes are entertained of their recovery. The Japan Erpress says : This unprovoked attack must be atoned for. The blood of foreigners cannot be shed with impunity. It is folly to talk of moderation. The entire community is up in arms, ready to assist the authorities in avenging this diabolical deed. Mrs. Borradaile was struck at with a sabre, which took with it the front of her hat and • portion of the hair from the front of her head. She fortunately received no serious injury. Mr. Marshall told Mrs. Borradaile to save herself by riding off at the greatest speed, which she did, not knowing for • long time after that the entire party was not killed. She rode for the American consulate, but when she reached the entrance her horse shied sod no towards Yokohama at his utmost speed. Mn. Borradaile reached the residence of Mr. S. J. Gower, exhausted, having ridden seven miles without anything on her head. This was indeed a trying ordeal for the lady, whose pre sence of mind and courage probably saved her life. A Japanese boy, who says that he witnessed the whole affair, saw Richardson sitting on the around and begging for a drink of water. At this moment a norinnui stopped, and the occupant asked " what was the difficulty." He was answered " Only a foreigner," R'yo-zin bakers. This man got out of the noriman and inflict.l several wounds. It is possible that he received the fatal wounds at the time. At four p.m. (Sept. 15), the remains of Mr. Richardson were taken to the grave, followed by a large cortive, led by the band of the Le Mouge ; then followed a number of armed soldiers ; the episcopal minister, the Rev. Mr. Buck worth Bailey, then the corpse borne on • litter with four pall-bearers—Captain F. Howard Vyse, Mr. S. J. Gower, and Messrs. &spinal' and J. H. Bell. Instead of the pall. bearers, as • guard of honour to the corpse were film of French and English soldiers under arms. Then followed the French minister, the English charge d'affaires, he Count D'Hanourt, English admiral, Commodore Buys t , of the Vice-Admiral Koopman, and other officers, consul', kc., then the residents of all nationalities ; the rear was brought up by the English guard, the whole forming an imposing and solemn procession. At the grave the burial service of the English church was impressively read by the Rev. Mr. Buckworth Bailey. A St. Petersburg letter of the 20th in the Nord says :—" The winter has at length regularly set in. The rivers and the canals are covered with ice, but no snow has yet fallen, or, at least, not enough to allow of our wretched droskies being replaced by sledges. The winter season will be short this year, for Lent commences on the '2ged of February. The first muted tell takes place to-day at the Assembly of the Nobility, and great activity prevails at all the theatres. La Fore del Destino of Verdi has been already performed five times in ten days, and attracts crowded bonzes. Two nights ago their Majesties went and united their applause to that of the public. At the close of the performance Verdi wag ca lled to the imperial box , and comp li mented by the Emperor awl Empress." A slight shock of an earthquake was experienced • few days since at Nice, which lured several seconds. The oscillations came from the north, and were directed towards the south. The sky at the Lu retif the shock was cloudy, the sir calm, and the temperavery cold. The weather has been lately wet and cold in the south of France. Tor rents of cold rain fell at Marseilles on Saturday, and the peerless of flocks of wild doc ks and geese from the north to the south appears to announce an early and • severe winter. The president of the Uited States Sanitary Coramission reported that on tir e 28th October last there were 120,000 Federal soldiers sick and wounded in hospitals and coeval's:eat carepa. The following is the proportion of naval war guns for every 1,000 tons of mercantile shipping amongst the mar iti m e powers, viz. ;—Portugal bee 3.17 gam ; Denmark, 2.70; Holland, 2.15 ; Austria, 2.10; France, 2 ; England, 1.40; Spain, 1.29 ; Prussia, 0.99; Greece, 0.58. FROM PARIS. (now oux owx PARIS, WEDNI6DAT Emma. I was struck yesterday by a certain subdued tone c in the semi-official journals on the subject of Greece which seemed to me evidence that the govern ment had thought it prudent to "cave in." The fullest confirmation of this view is afforded to-day. The Conditutionstei, which, only two days ago, was inspired to say, with suppressed indignation, that there could be no truth in the story of Prince Alfred being likely to be elected King of Greece, because be was absolutely ineligible by treaty, is now (wonderful is the mutability of sublunary things !) instructed to announce that France will not oppose his election. The Pays, following on the same side, is still more explicit. "France," it says, "will never oppose the free manifestation of universal suffrage. She cannot envy England the embarrassment, complications, and dangers of all aorta which the success of Prince Alfred's candidature would give rise to. Still less would she see in this success a cause for any change in the friendly relations which exist between France and England." All this is really quite delightful. But the France, which represents not the diplomatic necessities of the French government but the real feelings of Compiigne, continues to grumble, though not so loudly as it did a few days ago. It hears from St. Petersburg that the Russian government now seems disposed (only "seems," observe) not to countenance, either directly or indirectly, the candidature of the Duke de Leuchtenberg, and adds that in order to be quite out of the way, and not to be accused of exercising any influence what ever upon Greece, the Princess Marie de Leuchten berg and her son will go to Warsaw, and remain there till January, when the elections will be over. The France coolly observes that " this attitude will deprive the partisans of Prince Alfred's candida ture of every pretext." I really don't think so. The " attitude " is only assumed because it has been demonstrated that the Duke de Leuchtenberg has not the least chance. He makes a virtue of That really honest journal the Opinion Nationale, which has been warmly opposed to Prince Alfred's candidature, now throws up the game on the ground that the French and Russian governments have by their conduct estopped themselves from ob jecting. It admits on the strength of • body of converging evidence that France and Russia, mean ing to support the Duke de Leuchtenberg, stand committed to the opinion that the exclusion pro nounced by the treaty of 1831 applied only to the then situation, and not to subsequent eventualities. Prince Alfred, if he should become King of Greece, will have merely got over the treaty diffi culty by means of a breach made by France and Russia for their own views. That is M. Gue ronit's candid and creditable admission. The Temps says : The language of the Colutitutionred seems to us most sensible She will not be an obstacle to the expression of the national desires of the Greeks, even although they should lead to the triumph of English influence ; and, on the other hand, she cannot abdicate her position in the Mediterranean. What should she do? She should secure the sympathy of the Italians as decisively ss England would secure the sympathy of the Greeks by the cession of the lonian Islands. She should allow Italy to constitute herself a nation's fully as it is now admitted the Greeks have • sight to do. In this point of view the election M Prince Mired would be • new argument fur the evacuation of Rome. Baron Gros will probably not take possession of the London embassy before the end of next month. The Marquis de Cadore, his first secretary, has gone to London, and will act as charg6 d'Affaires in the ambassador's absence. The second edition of M. Michelet's "Sorciere" (the first edition was exhausted in a few days) will not be published in France, owing to an intimation that it would be prosecuted. The public will be a gainer by this transplantation, as M. Michelet will now restore a great many suppressed passages which M. Dentu'a caution, sharpened by much bitter experience, was afraid of. The Bourse has been firmer, the article of the Constiturioanel having removed all apprehension of any immediate disturbance of the peace of Europe arising out of the affairs of Greece. Rente rose 15c. for cash and Sc. for account, closing at 70fr. 35c. and 70fr. 30c. Mobilier rose Bfe. 75c. The Italian Loan fell sc. The Southern Railway rose 7fr. 50c., and Lyons 3fr. 7 dc. The other lines were rather lower. The Daily News is seized. In yesterday's sitting of the Court of Assizes of the Seine-et-Oise, the president delivered the judg ment of the court in the case of Dillon v. Gramont-Caderousse. After alluding to the ac quittal of the defendant on the criminal charge, the judgment declares him still civilly responsible for the result of the duel as regards the injury dune to third parties. The judgment next asserts that duelling, even when conducted fairly, is contrary to religion, morality, and public order, and a vio lation of the grand principle, the basis of all civilised society, that no man has a right to take the law into his own hands in order to avenge himself. The original cause of the duel was the aggressive , letter published by the defendant, without the changes which he had at one time consented to make in it ; and he bad further aggravated his offence by forcing Dillon to fight with a weapon to which he (Dillon) was unaccustomed. On the ground, indeed, he generously waived his right to the most favourable position, but that act did not efface the previous wrong. The court, therefore, taking into consideration the circumstances of all the parties concerned, condemned the defendant to pay to the plaintiff the sum of 3,000 fr. for the expenses of the funeral, and an annuity of 3,600 fr. for life, two-thirds of which, in case of the plain tiff's decease, should be continued to her two sons in equal shares. The annuity to date from the 22nd October last, and the defendant to pay all costa of suit. The A Mowroourtin BALLOON.—The new Montgol tier balloon invented by M. Godard, the aeronaut, has • capacity of 4,3C0 metres. The car is provided with en ap pavans which enables the aeronaut to emend without either gas or ballast, and to descend or go higher up at pleasure. This apparatus consists of a kind of stove formed by three cylinders separated from each other by insulating sub stances, whereby all danger of fire is averted. The time is completely under the control of the aerial traveller, and is prevented from rising too high by • asp of wire pure. M. Godard asserts that he ran inflate his balloon to 30 minutes, and load it with from 600 to 900 kilo grammes over and above the weight of his person and his accessories ; and moreover that his balloon may be pierced with • bomb-shell without endangering the aeronaut, who can hinuelf rasa projectiles of any kind with impunity. Should this new invention succeed, the balloon may be at considerable service in time of war.—Galignasi. THE COAL THADIL--In consequence of the de tention of light collier vessels on their peerage down to the North from London, tonnage is extremely scarce in the Tyne and north-eastern rivers, and some of the pits have been working short time. On Newcastle quay on Monday and Tuesday igs. 6d. per ton was shoat the average freight offend for gas coals to deliver afloat. red in some instances on Monday Es. 9d. was offered for delivery at wharves. BM no doubt if • fleet of light ships were arriving there would be away oonsiderable fill is these high rates. From the let of January to the 28th of October there were exported from New York 8,791 barrels of pot and pout askew. 1 - ~i. HURRICANE AT MARSEILLES. MARSEMIX3, Nov. 27. A hurricane prevailed here last night which caused some damage to the docks during the low tide, but more serious mischief was caused in the roadstead, where several ships parted from their anchors and six of them were driven against the quay. Two of these ships, the Panchisa and the Escolastica, were Spanish vessels, laden with sugar from the Havana. The other vessels wrecked were a Marseilles merchantman, the Notre Dame de St. Garde, bound for Gibraltar ; two Italian vessels, the San Antonio Abbatti and the Giovanni, the former bound for Civita Vecchia and the latter for Barcelona ; and an Austrian vessel, the Anagram., bound for Trieste with a cargo of sugar. Seven houses were partly thrown down by the violence of the hurricane, and several persons killed. The mail steamers which ought to have left yes terday were unable, in consequence of the weather, to leave the port until this morning. INDIA. We have received papers from Bombay, dated November 1; Calcutta, October 22 ; and Madras, October 29. The government of India in a long despatch bas answered Sir Charles Wood's attack on the financial department of Mr. Laing's budget. Admitting some trifling errors, the policy of the budget is vigorously defended. The Bombay government has brought before the governMent of India the urgent necessity which exists for a branch line of electric telegraph, diverging from the main line near Dharwar and connecting it with the new port of Sedasewghur and other important trading towns in the district of North Caner& The local govern ment has represented the great desirableness of having this branch line completed and ready for use by the time when the cotton crop of the coming season would be ready for conveyance down the IGhats for shipment at Sedasewghur. The subscriptions from Bengal to the Cotton Districts Relief Fund now amount to 10,000/. —the sum of 1,0001. being transmitted by this maiL A public meeting was to be held in Calcutta on the 6th of this month, to appeal to public sympathy more strongly and to organise a wide scheme of sub scription, such as was so successfully adopted in the case of the famine in the North Western Provinces. A permanent committee will probably be nominated to stir up the native community, who have as yet done little or nothing, and to communicate with the Mofuasil stations and native courts. The Cakutta English men says :—" We trust that whilst exercising to the utmost their own spirit of charity and urging the same duty upon their wealthy native neigh bours, the promoters of this organisation and the public at large, Indian and English, will not lose sight of the large reserve awaiting their legitimate demands foe its application, in the surplus of the Famine Relief Fund, which can in no other way be so well and usefully applied." Lord Elgin's health has not materially failed him. He will no doubt (says the Madras Athessansa) be greatly invigorated by the cold weather at Calcutta and his approaching summer stay on the Hima layas. • In its commercial summary tl , e Englishman says : Esports, if we may judge frees the last few days, would seem to be largely on the increase, and busy times are expected by business men. The reins are now de cidedly breaking off, and were any proof of this wanting it is afforded by the fact that within the last two days we have been in direct communication with Bombay by electric telegraph, the distance being, by the route followed—vis., from Calcutta to Agra and thenoe to Bombay, 1,1560 miles, no intermediate office receiving the message. There can be no further doubt, then, with maid to the out-tarn of the crops, which are stated to be very good from all quarters connected with our port. The enhanced value of money in Bombay has had the double effect of raising the rate of exchange and depressing the value of government secu rities here, of which latter a considerable ateouut is expec ted daily for diapceal in this market. Spite of the de pressing influences of the daily advancing price of money, the market for paper is wonderfully strong, and there are many purchasers who are waiting the opportunity to pur chase when the increased trade which invariably occurs at this season of the year shall have depressed the Wads to a lower point than at present exists. CHINA. From Ningpo we learn that General Ward has 1 been killed while operating against the Taepings in 1 the neighbourhood. In the last summary of news a lamentable cataatrophe, brought on by a French officer at Yu Yaou, a town up the river from Ningpn, was spoken of. The Cantonese who then deserted and went over to the rebels appear to CALCUTTA AND SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The fourth half-yearly general meeting of Oda company was held at noon. at the offices, Grsehamhowse, Mr. Joint BORRADAILE in the chair. The report, of which the following is an abstract, was read by , the SECRETARY. ' The directors informed the shareholders in their last report that they bad reason to believe that the line would be officially opened throughout by the sod of the monsoon. They regret to state that thus expectation has not hero rash ed On the 28th June last a portion of the scaffold ing and temporary brick pillars erected at the Fiance for placing the girders of the beidee gave way ; and though, of course, the future stability and security of the bridge itself will be in no way affected by this occurrence, it has ren dered necessary a renewal and strengthening of the pre psratory works, which has occasioned an unfortunate delay. This lamentable accident, occurring, as it did, at the com mencement of the rains, has seosesiirily impeded the pro pos of the work ; but it will not retard the opening of the line for a longer period than two months beyond the con. templated time ; thus substituting the Ist of January for the let of November. The board are happy to learn that arrangement. are in course of i being made to establish a communication with the Moth& in the leginoing of November, sufficiout to enable the pro- prietors of the town lots to commence operations at the new port immediately at the end of the rains. The directors are, moreover, happy to state that the screw pile jetty for the llutlah, which has received the sanction of government, will he shipped in the course of next mouth. Vessels will this be enabled to deliver their curies at once to the waggons of the rail for conveyance in two hours to Calcutta. The facilities thus afforded to shippers, oombined with the ellunomy of time and money en sured to them. will prove an additional attraction to the port, and at the same time form a new source of income to the rail. The government have secured a lsr,-,o plot of ground, adjoining the terminus at Calcutta. on which they are now engaged in erecting a market for the scum modation of the firewood, fieh, and vegetables to be con veyed along the line to the metropolis. The directors have raised, in shwas, the whole of the additional capital voted by the shareholders at the last meeting, and sanctioned by the Secretary of State for India in Council, making the total capital s raised, to shares and debentures, 400,0001 ." The CHAIRMAN said there was bat little of interest to communicate, nor would that little be very hopeful, were it not that the directors entertained undiminished confi dence in the eoundoese of the undertaking. They had hoped that by this time the line would have been opened, but the circumstances mentioned in the report had inter pceed to prevent it. Accounts just received from Calcutta stated,however, that arrangements had been made for a tem porary communication for passengers by trolly or waggons over the 12 miles from the end of the existing communication to the .Mutlah. A further expenditure would be required for erecting a jetty, which the govon. aunt had sanctioned. The total capital at present was 400,003 f., of which 310,0001. was in shams and 90,000/. in debentures. It was not mentiooed in the report thet fur ther capital would be ouded, but there was no doubt of the fact, and Sir 0. Wood had been informed of it, bat so applications would be made until they had complete esti. mates of the amount that would be needed. It would be probable. from 50.0001. to 60,0001. Mr. ILtaserman (deputy chairman) seconded the motion. In reply to Mr. HARTRIDOL, The CHAIRMAN added that the estimated cost of the line, including the further expenditure required, would be 15,5001. • mile. The entire length of the line was 2ai miles ; including the coat of the jetty, it would be about 16,000/. a mile. After a brief discussion the report was adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the business. MADRAS IRRIGATION DAY) AND CANAL COMPANY. (THIS The seventh ordinary general meeting of the shareholders was bald at 1 o'clock. at the London Tavern ; Mr. JAMS THOMPSON in the chair. The report, which had been previously published, wes taken as read. The CHAIRMA.N, in moving the adoption of the report, said the progress recently made, though it did not snake much show on wee satisfactory. The rains in the neighbourhood of Kureo paper, ol had been extraordin•rily heavy. la the course of a night the fall was as much as three or four inches. He regretted the repetition in the report of the old story of difficulties and delays arising from the course pursued by persons reenacted with the government. The government had sanctioned • water rate of four rupees per acre for • first crop, and two rupees per acre for a second one ; but the natives were not as eager for cultivation as they doubtless would be when they had learnt from the government what were to be their total liabilities. He then entered into a detailed menet of the various difficulties nod obstructions connected with the progress of the works, observing in the coarse of it that 104 mileh embracing upward. of 100,000 acre', were now in the hands of the conipsoy'a engineers. The Kaliput district, he remarked, presented the greatest engineering difficulties, but they would no doubt be surmounted. He was happy to say that the queetion of reservoirs was now in a satisfactory course of settlement. The f government had made over an excellent site for • reservoir in its territory, and they had now • fair field open to them in that respect. At the request of the Chairmen, the Stcnrrartv then read the correspondence between the board and Sir C. Wood, liming in a draft of agreement between the Indian government and the company, securing to the latter 5 per cent. on the exditure ef 1,000,000 f.. and other rights. After some discussion this report was adopted. ,-(THIS DAY.) TT, • A.X. L ir: s. L . r II a • b el r 6.n a a= a 0. b ok I, •31 1 0- ? MA 0.10 0.13 1 0.13 0.10 - 3 ---- WEATHER REPORT. THVASIDAT. NO, IJQH 27 la a nul " il Pot l m t pi": . ° : .uT 3 4 : " . 1 1 1 osu T 6. . 1 9 1 3 63r i l i: 1 . 441:2113 :1 2 . 111 Pil p6T JWR DOv LONDON 29.4340 1 1 YAltitotrre 211.65 ifi 1 AnitnougriTh. t 9.49 36: 1 . iiituooLAND w. IL 8.8.1. &W. S. a. it. S. w. w.s.w. w. ex. LLS w.t7r.w. W.N.W. W.I.W. "C.W. W.N.W. W. &S.W. IW. i 1 o 1 0 i gIIMAIMa. PIUDAT. SATEILDAY. LW. JO N. W. trash Ilkenin. N N.W. to W.g.W., to strong. snowy. strong to s gale. . 15 ' 8 " 1- t " W SAT, IMAM S.S.W. to W.N %.. Aron* to a gale. strong. utmettla As neat above, some W. MULL As ntxt above. rale. . Sit W. to W.N.W., E.W.ENGLAND. NW. AG D.W., dron. fresh to strong. rainy. As next above. B.E. ENGLAND. As above. W.S.W. to N.N.W., X. Main. N.N.W. to WAIT.. fresh to strong. strong, min). • Yesterday, Seabam Hoxbonr and Sunderland were visited by a party of distinguiebel gentlemen who are at present staying at Wynyard-hall. as the guests o f 114 Marchioness of Londonderry. The party comprised fad Vane. the eldest son of Prince Gorteledioff, the Remise Minister ; gentleman from the Russian Embassy, t helderle Cast of Paris, the Dee de Chartres , Lord Stanley of y, and Mr. Fountain, a Norfolk gentleman. A public 'fleeting was held at Sheffield yesterlay to originate a subscription for the relief of the distreood ootton manufacturing districts. The attendance Whaled the principal inhabitants of the town, the proceeding , te' suiting in a subscription list of 3,000/. The Mayor ea Lord Wharncliffe were amongst the speakers. " I was told yesterday, on good authority," writes a correspondent of the Times, "that Sir Mandl ArmitsA of Manchester, has fad and clothed the whole of his wort' people, some 1,200 in number, ever since the mills lave been closed, and intends to do so as long as the necessal may last. He has been beard to Ray, I will share my property with my distressed workpeople long as I laves shilling left; this is my special mission, and as 1 do not et the public to give one penny to any who Live been in ml employ, but take the whole burden on myself, AO it Wa t account for no large sum appearing against my tia:re is the subscription list.' " Tug READING GIRL" lii C ANCERY -- 03 Tueeday Sir Hugh Cairns obtained a d ecree in the atm el . the London Stereoscopic and Photo gra phic Compse! Ceileur, otherwise Count Albert Letdown', restrain the latter from copying the " Wading 6 " 1,' " Egeria," and various other works produced by the onto pßoy. This is Um first cue under the new act of Victoriei in which registered photographs haws bees protected fr om in order to Two BROTHERS DROWNED FROM TILE BREAEINi : OP ICI AT DUNFERMLINE. —Oa Tuesday foresoo. party of miters were amusiog themselves by a puie at . on the Town Loch, near the metre, the ice gave s w '' op* of the =so, earned Aodrew Adamson, fell ioto the wa ter and soak. His brother, Alexander Menem, folloYel sink him into the water , but in the same manner ; Ito' brother, named William, would have fo llowed. had be Dot been seized by others of the party who new that all efforts to sere the men were unavailing. Neither of the bodge bad been recovered up to 3 o'clock. Both men were air' ried sod had families —one of two amid the other of third children. The wea the i ves of ce at this spot is acre by a sprins supposed to exist under it. P ~~~_