The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-15 00:00:00

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West, Nigger Delinentora—Wlin LION LIMB, KING OF 1118 SOUTU SEA InLANLM. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEM DAT —Worming, Dx. M. 11... ‘ O4IOIIO W- 1101 nbir. 3b. 31a_ O. 60m. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15. THE inquiry which Dr. LAN/LESTER is conduct ing into the circumstances of the Bloomsbury murder is not in the stage in which public com ment upon the evidence is either fair or becoming. What is advanced is entirely cx parte. The ver dict of the Coroner's Jury, and even the finding of a true bill by the Grand Jury, should the matter reach them, will still leave the legal pre sumption of innocence with tho prisoner. He will simply be sent for trial before men bound to know nothing of what has gone before, and to give their decision upon the case only as it is sub mitted to them within the walls of the court in which they may be assembled. Public opinion, however, and its hasty conclusions from one-sided or entirely unsifted evidence form the moral and social atmosphere which the men who are to be jurors breathe; and they can scarcely avoid being affected by it. It is the duty of those who talk and think about crimes waiting judicial determination, and about the probable guilt or innocence of prisoners uncon victed, to keep their minds as clear as may be of a tendency to a precipitate conclusion. They may otherwise help to form a diffused and pene trating opinion which, unconsciously swaying the minds of men to a foregone conclu sion, dooms the accused even before they are arraigned. At present there is a general prone ness, which can be too easily accounted for, to see in every Fenian a potential murderer, an assassin waiting only his opportunity and his victim ; and a disposition to consider the secret of every mysterious crime solved if suspicion can be brought at all near to a real or pre sumed Fenian. This temper of mind militates to some degree against the probability of an equitable administration of justice in the case of men deemed capable of revery evil, and there fore of the particular crime laid to their charge. It establishes in the minds of that part of the public whence the arbiters of their fate will be drawn, a false moral presumption, which, without their knowledge, colours, it may be, and distorts the evidence, and inclines them to give greater weight to the interpretation of the facts which assumes the guilt of the accused than to that which accords with the hypothesis of their innocence. It is an unfortunate but a necessary incident of our system of criminal procedure that its preli minary investigations bring before the public mind, chiefly if not exclusively, the facts, and the mode of grouping them, which tell against the prisoner; that they thus obtain a long start of the counter-theory and the counter-evidence, and that the latter are almost unavoidably addressed to understandings which have already taken a side and formed a conclusion. The legal presumption of an unconvicted prisoner's innocence may some times contend ineffectually against the moral per suasion or suspicion of his guilt which, under the influence of the evidence taken at an inquest, and the talk of society, a juror carries with him into the box. A clear statement of facts is sometimes the most effectual mode of obviating premature infe rences, either for oragainst the accused. If it be ever necessary, it is especially when the natural horror of all men at a great crime is intensified, ou the one part, by the social antipathy felt towards a mis chievous faction with which the suspected offender is presumed to be associated ; or is diminished, on the other, by a sympathy with the "cause" which palliates the presumed crime. McDoNNEL, the victim of the Bloomsbury out rage, was a bandsman in the 2nd Life Guards. The prisoner, Jour; Gitoves, is, or was, a sergeant in the London Irish Volunteers. His arrest, curiously enough, was not brought about by any suspicion of his complicity in the crime now imputed to him, but took place on a charge of assault preferred against him by a man called BUZZER, and com mitted on the day of the murder, but subse quently to it. The prisoner in asking to be bailed named two persons suspected by the police of being engaged in the Fenian conspiracy. This led to his chambers being searched, and there was discovered a pistol, which, however, did not cor respond with the bullet which dropped from the body of McDoNsett, and could not, according to the testimony of a gunsmith and by the admission of the prosecution, have been loaded with it. The murdered man, after fulfilling a musical engage ment at the Holborn Amphitheatre, had visited the Bull and Anchor in Holborn, where he met two of his fellow-bandsmen, who afterwards accompa nied him to the Turk's Head in Southampton row. This was a little after midnight on Satur day morning ; and they were refused drink there, because of the lateness of the hour. They thereupon left the house, and turned round Vernon-place. One of them, named PURSER, was rudely shoved aside by a man behind him, and his hat knocked off into the road. As he stooped to pick it up, he heard the discharge of a pistol ; and McDoN NFLL crying " I am shot," ran across towards Bloomsbury square, and there fell. The land lady of the Turk's Head deposed that GROVii was in the habit of frequenting her house ; that he was there on the night of the murder, but left it four or five hours before it took place. He was there again four or five hours subsequently to it. MCDONNEL himself, on being confronted with GROVES, declared that, though like, he was smaller than the person who fired the shot ; and the same testimony was given by his fellow bandsmen. Grieves, according to their recol lection, is neither so tall nor so stout as the murderer. So far as these witnesses are con cerned, the evidence as regards personal identity is, to say the least, very inconclusive ; nor is the pri soner's possession of any weapon capable of being used for the purpose of the crime established. But yesterday, on the adjourned inquest, a witness was brought forward whose testimony is most remarkable. It comes before the public in an extraordinary and somewhat tortuous way. A week ago this woman, ANNA MARIA JARNAN, the wife of a butcher living near Grosvenor-square, wrote to FCRBER, under the false name of HARRIET NM- Liens, declaring that "She was the young woman " that could swear to the man that committed the " murder," and appointing a day to see him and tell him all about it. Her silence and secrecy she explains by the statement that her husband had forbidden her to disclose what she knew. Accord ing to her account she was near the Bull and Anchor a little after midnight on Fr 4 day, the 27th of September, when two young men came out of it. Her attention was attracted to them by seeing one of them put on a false beard and moustache. She heard the words " Come on, " GROVES ; it's time we were gone." She fol lowed them, and overheard one of them saying, " He would shoot the b--- before he got home " that night." They proceeded to Southampton row, and went into the Turk's Head. Three young men followed them, who, however, did not stay in the house. They were followed out of it by the two who had first entered. About two minutes afterwards the witness was alarmed by the report of fire-arms, and ran up New Oxford street. There she sew the two young men whom she had first encountered at the Bull and Anchor running away. The one with the beard said that he had shot one b—, and was sorry he had not fired the second time in order to shoot the right one. She deposes to having met in the street on Tuesday last the murderer's comrade, and to have heard him say to a companion tha:. no one could swear to " poor JAI_ s " but him self, as he was with him on the night of the mur der, and that he would shoot any one who entered the witness box against him. On being taken to the prison the woman pointed out Geoves, distin guishing him from others who were shown to her as the man who fired the shot. His admitted resemblance to the murderer might account for her success in doing this. The curious maneer in which her story comes to light, the addi tions made to it on cross-examination of the wit ness, and its implied inconsistency with the evi dence of the landlady and the barmaid of the Turk's Head, who did nut see the murderer and his comrade in the house, which this new witness declares them to have entered immediately before the bandsmen, if they do not negative be lief, yet invite suspicious scrutiny. Her evi derce is direct, and direct evidence is more easily concocted than circumstantial. At present it is unconfirmed. One thing is clear : the woman's statements are either a tissue of apparently mo tiveless lies or inexplicable delusions, or they are conclusive and damnatory. The cane is shut re in these alternatives ; and to determine between them is the chief business of future inquiry. A tale so strange, and so strangely told, needs corro borative testimony. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1867. the Romans shall call upon us, or France attempt to interfere, our troops must enter the Papal States. We urge the ministry to follow this policy. To recede from it would be abdies- Con, it would be the abandonment of Rome to a single party, and would create inextricable difficulty both in the present and the future. We must march resolutely forward, despite every menace of intervention. A govern ment that separates itself from the national will condemns itself to impotency, but the government that does so inconsequence of the threats of foreign powers, even be they friends and allies, would never again be able to raise its head before the country." PARIS, Ocr. 15. The Monitenr of to-day says :—" On the 13th inst. the Pontifical troops attacked with the bayo net and defeated 300 Garibaldians, who barred their road to Monte Librate. The invaders were forced to evacuate that locality, after some losses both in killed and wounded." PRUSSIA. BERLIN. Ocr. 15. It is stated that the government will demand from the Prussian Diet a bill of indemnity for the budget of 1868. The real budget only will be sub mitted to the Diet. It is understood that the issue of a new electoral law will be proposed. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Ocr. 14, EVINING. To-day tho Emperor was waited upon by a de putation from the Common Council of Vienna, who presented his Majesty with an address, intended as a counter appeal to the recent address of the Austrian prelate on the subject of education and the concordat. (The text of both these addresses has already been published.) The Emperor re ceived the deputation most graciously, and declared that he would refer their address to the cabinet. He also said :—" I must express my conviction that the Municipal Council, whose active endeavours for the amelioration and perfection of the system of education for the people I fully re cognise, is far from being desirous to lessen in any way the influence exercised by religion over the public schools, the characters of the teachers, or the nature of the instruction, for this deputation will, I am sure, share with me the persuasion that religion must ever form the most essential basis of all true and moral popular education. VIENNA, OCT. 15. The Emperor's departure for Paris is fixed for the 21st inst. His Majesty will dine at Salzburg and pass the night at Nancy, arriving at Paris in the afternoon of the 22nd. The statement that Baron Beust is about to go to London is unfounded. The idea was mooted that the Emperor might possibly avail himself of being at Paris to pay a flying visit to Queen Vic toria. Should, however, the Emperor revert to this intention, Baron Beust will accompany his Majesty. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) CNIVERSITY BOAT RACES. Noting the absence of any statistical inquiry amongst medical men which would show whether uni versity boat matches do or do not tend to shorten life and weaken the constitution, the Times proceeds to observe that Mr. Skey is right when be points out the differen ue between muscular and constitutional vigour. The pale student, who, perhaps, takes less exercise than would be good for him, but was born of long-lived parents, and has become acclimatised to his work, is frequently a stronger man, for all vital purposes, than a sportsman who looks the very picture of health, and who, as a vegetable pro. duct, would be immeasurably his superior. The neglect of this distinction frequently misleads not only young men, but their parents and friends. The conclusion the Times would draw upon the practical issue raised by Mr. Skey is, that a prudent man would do well to consult a doctor about the state of his lungs and heart before entering upon severe trials of streEgth like rowing matches. Rowing as a pastime has probably benefited far more people than it has injured ; and even of boatracing, if it were impossible to minimise the evil and retain the benefit, which it clearly is not, it might still be worth while to keep up contests which en courage a recreation so healthful, both physically and morally, If we could elimin►te the adventurous element from hunting, and confine the pursuit of it to open downs or turnpike roads, it would assuredly diminish accidents, but It would destroy the excitement of the chase, and with it the chief motive for an amusement whereby the phy sician loses more than the surgeon gains. It is not by so niggardly an economy of nerves that noble races acquire or preserve their vigour. FOREIGN A/TAIRA. The Daily New points out that — the local elections which are taking place in the United States, though turn ing upon party politic', are much influenced by the exist ence of local questions, and that a near study of them de stroys their value as proofs of reaction against the repub lican party. Questions like those of the liquor traffic and free trade which may divide the party locally, and will probably break it up in the long run, do not affect the strong fidelity of the American people to the reconstruc tion measures of congress. From the first the strife has gone on with varying fortunes in individual conflicts, but with unvarying eventual "access to the cause which con grafi represent". The evil results which may probably ensue from these local successes of the party which patronises the President are the possible revival in him, and in the Southern secessionists, of their often disap pointed hopes of reaction in the North. The Times discusses the question of a successor to Mr. Johnson in the presidency, General Grant seeming to our contemporary to combine the necessary advantages and qualifications in his own person more completely than any candidate who has yet been named. He has rendered services to the Northern cause which can never be for gotten, ►nd he has not committed himself to a single act which shows him to be unworthy of the fullest confidence. His advice would probably be followed when the advice of no one else would be even listened to. In continental affairs the Post has trust in the intentions of Napoleon and in the peaceable opinions of the mass of thinking people in France. North Germany has enough to do to consolidate her existence without thinking of war except for defence. Italy will, as she has already done, slip into her success, almost in spite of herself, and we may do much to encourage this gradual pacification by following the practice we have lately adopted—setting an example of noninterference with others, but of great in vestigation of our own failings. Though we are all aware that war in the present state of Europe is nnnemnazry, the Telegraph fears that due weight is not given to that fact. Russia covets the broad lands of the Turk ; Italy is eager to be at Roma ; Germany yearns for unity, and is ready to spurn foreign interference ; Austria looks towards the Adriatic ; Belgium and Switzerland tremble for their neutrality ; Holland feels that her independence Is not secure. Against covetmurnew and pride, fear and patriotism, the welfare of men is often of too little avail. The Star says Signor Rattazsi is now somewhat in the the position of air Edward Oodrington before Nevarino, with a formal despatch enjoining prudence and caution, and a plicate and powerful hint to "Go it, Ned." The voice of the Italian people, expressed not in state circulars, bids Rattazzi to "Go it." He bad better, like Codrington, accomplish the " untoward event," and finish the business at any risk. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE INSURRECTION IN THE PAPAL STATES. THE STATE or ROME. Rome may be said to be completely surrounded, and very shortly the Papal troops will be restricted to the defence of the city. Letters from Rome printed in the Continental journals describe it as having all the appearance of a city about to sus tain a siege. It is patrolled in every part ; all the posts are reinforced, and the troops bivouack at night upon the hills. Arrests continue unceasingly. A letter in the Data.; of to-day says that as many as 1,200 people have been arrested ; the prisons are crowded, and the authorities are at their wit's end to know where to put the people they seize. The young men of the city, never theless, contrive to escape and join the insurgents. "It is impossible," says the correspondent, " that such a state of things can last long. The greater part of the Roman youth is in exile or in prison ; business is at stand-still, provisions are dear, the misery is extreme, and if the agita tion in Italy continues Rome is threatened to be deprived in the winter of the benefit it derives from the presence of foreigners. The Pope seems very calm. On Monday he walked through the Corso on foot. If this was done to test pubi;c opinion the Holy Father must have been little satisfied. Not only was there no sympathetic cry or manifestation whatsoever, but the people hid I themselves in passages and shops in order not to be obliged to salute him. It was a very sad spectacle, and I was a witness of it." The resumption of authority by the National Roman Committee has been already referred to in a telegram. We have to-day a copy of the proclama tion which it has issued at Rome. In it the com mittee says it accepts the responsibility which has fallen upon it without hesitation. It has now been proved to the world that theocratic power is incom patible with civilisation. The Romans must associate themselves with the insurrection which has com menced, and the victory in the provinces will faci litate the victory at Rome. " Romans," says the proclamation, " the hour is about to strike ; in the name of the country close your ranks and let every one obey only the orders which come from the centre ! Remember that unity and discipline make strength. Any partial, hasty, inopportune move ment may be fatal. Have faith, Roman', in the committee which has already given proofs of its strength, prudence, and decision. When the mo ment for strong resolutions comes this committee will not fail in its duty. Unite with ardour, act with discipline, and the cause of civilisation will triumph." The proclamation is dated the Bth inst. According to the .21/oeimento of Genoa the mili tary at Rome intend to make use of certain newly invented shells, which are thrown by the hand. Five hundred of them have been made at the mili tary arsenal upon a model furnished by General Kanzler. The weight of each of these shells is three kilogrammes. Thus (says the journal) the bom bardment of Rome will perhaps be the last act of the papacy. It is remarked as a singular fact that none of the ambassadors of the foreign Powers are at present in Rome. THE INSURGENTS. According to the Italia of Naples, Menotti Garibaldi was received at Vicovaro on the 7th with great enthusiasm. The insurgents were regaled in the public square and an auto da fe was made of the papal arms. Upon none of ' the mountains between Tivoli, Monte-Rotondo, and Palombars, are there now any military or civil authorities. The country is in full insurrection. The Pungolo of Florence says that the column commanded by Menotti Garibaldi consists of 1,900 resolute young men who were in the campaigns of 1859 and 1866. This column has not yet measured its strength with the enemy. Garibaldi has sent from Caprera the following short address :—" Caprera, Oct. 7. To the Italians. Fighting has begun on the Roman ter ritory ; there are men there for whom I would give a thousand lives. Listen to no cowardly words, but march! To-morrow Italy will receive congratu lations from the entire world, which will have witnessed your heroism. G. GARIBALDI." There is a report at Florence that Garibaldi has left his island upon an American vessel, but there seems to be no authority for the rumour. The Turin Gazette of the 13th says that the in surgent forces are now completing their plan of of general attack in agreement with the molement which is to take place in Rome. THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT. The Florence correspondence of to-day's Debats says that the beginning of an insurrection in Rome will be the signal for the intervention of the Italian army. The division which is to occupy the Eternal City is already fixed upon, and is ready to move. Once at Rome, the Italian government will consult with the Pope, to whom it is ready to make all the concessions in its power. The writer says the general sentiment of the Italians is that the moment is come to settle the Roman question, and that to go back now would be fatal. The moderate party, which was at first against the movement, has now rallied to it, only it is impatient to see the regular army enter on the scene. It fears that if the party of action takes Rome by itself, success will give it too much influence over the Italian people, " over whom the word Rome has a magical power." (Rzurze's TEL KG RAMS.) FIGHTING IN THE PAPAL STATES. FLORENCE, Ocr. 14, Evirmito. . . Advice, received here from the Roman frontier announce that the Papal Zouaves had attacked with cavalry and artillery the town of !North, where the insurgents were concentrated, under the orders of Menotti Garibaldi, but after a fierce encounter the Papal troops were beaten and pursued as far as Monte Maggiore, whither they retreated in great disorder with heavy loss. The !oases of the insur gents were 5 killed and 15 wounded. The intelligence from Rome announces that on the night of the 12th inst. many arrests were made. Several of the Florence journals contain articles in refutation of those recently published by the France and Patric The Opinions defends the attitude of the Italian cabinet, and says :—" The vigilance of the government cannot be augmented, it having adopted every possible measure to fulfil its duty towards France." The same paper defends the attitude of the Roman people, and says :—" The day that the interests of the country and the monarchy of order and of liberty shall require it, or when EGYPT. CAIRO. OCT. 14. Yesterday the Viceroy reviewed the Egyptian troops who have just returned from Candia. Mr. Pope Hennessy, the new Governor of Labium, was present at the review in the presence of the Viceroy. THE BOMBAY MAIL. ALEXANDRIA, Ocr. 14. The Ripon left at 8 a.m., and the Manilla at 11 a.m. , yesterday. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 19th, and the latter at Southampton about the 26th inst.. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. MALTA, Ocr. 15. The Tanjore, from Southampton 4th inst., arrived on tho 12th, at 11 a.m., and left on the 13th, at 8 a.m., for Alexandria. The Nyanza, from Marseilles on the 12th inst., arrived yesterday, at 6 p.m., and left at midnight for Alexandria. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF A/iTAVERP. The Inman steamer City of Antwerp, from New York on the sth inst., arrived at Queenstown at 6.40 a.m. to-day (Oct. 14). She brings 21 pas sengers and 1,5001. in specie. She landed mails and proceeded for Liverpool at 7 a.m. (Via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 5. General Canby has ordered the military of North Carolina not to oppose the civil processes of the Federal courts. The election in Alabama has resulted in favour of the Reconstruction Convention. The whites took little interest in the election proceedings. During the election in Louisiana the white citi zens attacked the negro voters at the polls in Jefferson city. Several negroes were wounded, and the leader of the rioters was killed. The military quelled the disturbance. The registry board of Louisiana has been dis charged. Rumours of cabinet changes are revived. It is reported that Mr. M'Culloch will soon retire and that Mr. Thomas Ewing will succeed him. The New York State Democratic Convention was assembled yesterday. It nominated Mr. Thomas Nelson Secretary of the State and the other can didates for the approaching election. Resolutions were adopted pledging the party to redeem the state from corruption and misrule and denouncing the attempt of congress to enforce negro supre macy in the south by military rule. The New York Tribune says General Butler has announced that he will introduce in next congress a bill for the payment of the national debt in currency. Seventy-five deaths from yellow fever took place at New Orleans yesterday. • Advice' from Mexico to the 10th ult, state that Admiral Tegethoff was still negotiating to obtain the body of the late Emperor Maximilian. Santa Ana remained a prisoner at Vera Craz. ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 15. _ _ The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen, from New York, arrived here to-day with 65 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 40 sacks of mails, 111,813 dots. in bar silver, 19,992 dots. in gold for England ; 35,188 dole. in bar silver, and 11,252 dole. in gold for France. During the passage she spoke the Bremen barque Columbian, the British barque Eolus, and the Prussian ship Armenia. NEW YORK, Ocr. 3, Mottwrwo. General Canby has issued orders limiting the powers of the Provost Court in the second military district. It is expected he will modify General Sickles's order for the inclosing of bar-rooms. The elections for Alabama were concluded yes terday. The voting was light. A company of Governor Brownlow's militia took forcible possession of the mayor's office and the municipal records at Nashville, and installed the newly-elected radical officials, the old officials yielding under protest. - General Grant has immiell an order permitting all officers absent trona timi Filth District to remain absent for the present oa account of the prevalence of yellow fever. General Sheridan yesterday visited the Patter son Races at New Jersey. He was enthusiasti cally received. General Butler has published another letter in favour of the 5-20 United States Bonds in cur rency. The New York Herald strongly endorses General Butler's views. Senor Romero has been entertained at a public banquet by the citizens of New York. Letters were read from Mr. Seward, General Grant, and Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, to Senor Romero, expres sive of their sympathy with the Mexican republic. The reciprocity treaty with the United States has been ratified by the Hawaian government. ARRIVAL OF THE HAMMONIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 15. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Hammonia, from New York, has arrived here with 139 passengers for this port, Hamburg, and Havre ; 36 sacks of mails, 2,000 dole. for London, and 1,000 dole. for Hamburg. On the sth inst. she spoke the steamer Erin ; 6th, the French steamer Pereire ; 9th, an 'man steamer ; 10th, a paddle steamer, schooner rigged—all bound west. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 14, 6 P.Y. The steamers City of Baltimore, New York, and Moravian arrived out on Sunday, and the Man hattan to-day. Closing Prices :—Gold, 1441. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 112 ; Illinois, 1221; Erie, 74i. Cotton—Middling Up land, 18i. PHILADELPHIA, Orr. 14. Petroleum, standard white, 35k. the Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 12. The Queen drove to Loch Mulch, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian and Prince Leopold. Princess Louise drove out, attended by Lady Bidduiph and Miss Phipps. Mr. Theodore Martin has arrived at the Castle, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Queen honoured Mr. William Brodie, F.S.A., with • sitting for his bust of her Majesty. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Mort Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on matters relating to quaran tine. The Lord' present were Lord Stanley, Lord Robin t Montagu, and the Right Ron. Gathorne Hardy. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to arrive at Antwerp to-day from Wiesbaden. The Prince is expected to go on to Brussels by himself and to dine with the Belgian royal family. To-morrow their royal highnesses embark at Antwerp for England on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester are ex pected to arrive in town in a few days from Pails. The Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Agatha Russell ham arrived at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, from Carlisle. The Hon. Frederick Stanley, M.P., and Lady Constance Stanley have arrived at The Grove, near Wat ford, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon. The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., is expected to return from the Continent this week. Mr. Gladstone is at present on a visit at Cool lattin Park, county Carlow. Preparations are being made at the British Embassy, Faubourg St. Honore, for the reception of his Excellency Lord Lyons. The inauguration of a colossal copy in bronze of Theed's statue of the late Prince Consort has been fixed to take place within a short distance of Balmoral Castle about the middle of this week. The Queen of the Belgians visits the Princess Charlotte almost every day at the Chateau of Luken. The King of Naples is actively employed in re movieg all his poneniona to the fortress of Chita Vecchia. King Louis I. of Bavaria intends to leave Munich towards the end of the month for Paris, and thence go to Nice, where his Majesty intends passing the winter. The Dublin Free nu - to publiahea the official copy of the resolutions arrived at by the Roman catholic bishops at their late meeting. They entirely object to a state en- dowment of Catholic clergy, highly disapprove of the united system of national education, and express a hope that the Catholic University will be supported, and con elude by censuring secret societies. The King of Prussia, the King of Greece, and the Prince of Wales were all at Wiesbaden the other day. The King of Prussia was to go on to Paden. His Imperial Highness the Duke of Leuchten berg and suite have arrived at the Hotel de los Principe', Madrid, from a tour in Portugal. His impezial highness will leave on Friday for Paris. The Count Walewski and the Countess Walewsks have left their estate at Saint-Germain-en-Lays, to pass the winter in Paris. " M. Rouher, Minister of State and of Finance, has," says the Paine, " been detained at his residence of Cereay, near Emmy, by a rather serious illness, which, however, no longer causes any anxiety." " The strong N.N.W. gale," says the Journal de Rouen," had the effect of bringing into the port of Havre two days back a great number of English fishing-boats. The roadstead was literally covered with them, and had much the same gay and animated appearance as during the regattas. There could not be fewer than 150." A German correspondent writes :—" It is signi ficant that the Harlem, who, a dozen years ago, were sabamed to speak or write in Russian, have now become so outrageously national that they employ their unknown tongue even in diplomatic documents—in which there would really be some excuse for replacing it by French. The Emperor Alexander's ratification be in Russian, but as it might just as well be in Chinese, a fly-leaf giving a French translation has been tacked on to it. The King of Italy employs the national language, and the Emperor of Austria, in his ratification, still preserves the use of the Latin, the traditional official language of the Holy Roman Empire." The government press of Rome has just pub lished the census of the population of the city for the year 1867. The city and suburbs are divided into 59 parishes, containing • population of 215,373 souls, being an increase since 1866 of 4,872. Of these 30 are cardinals, 35 bishops, 1,469 priests and ecclesiastics, and 828 semi narists. The occupants of religious houses are 5,047, 2,832 being monks and 2,215 nuns. These belong to 61 different congregations or orders. There are also 23 semi naries or colleges, among which are the French Seminary, tenanted by 88 pupils, that of South America by 60, that of North America by 33 ; the German Seminary has .it pupils, the English 21, the Pie Anglais 14, the Scotch 12, and the Irish 52. The elections for the Canadian parliament are said to be completed, excepting for two constituencies. and the mutts are a ministerial majority of Xi. The opposition are understood in .dl cases to be anti•eonfederationists. The high price of bread has brought down the price of meat in the south of England. Poor people have now to pay so much for bread that they are obliged to eat less meat, hence the reduction in the price of the latter. In Dorsetabire prime legs of mutton are selling at 1 , 10. per lb., and shoulders at 70. per lb. Farmers can only get 7d. per lb. for the carcase from the butchers. Pigs are unsale able on socount of the high price of barleymeal. It does not pay to fatten them. Good size pigs can be got for 7e. each. White wheat sold for 201. a load in Newport market in the Isle of Wight ten days ago, and the price has been going up sines. It was estimated in 18Gt that seven hundred mil lions of ()Mere were consumed annually in London, and considerably more than that number in the provinces. EXECUTION OF JOHN WIGGINS FOR THE LIBIEHOUSE lIURDER.-(THIS DAY.) FRIGHTFUL SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD. - —• The culprit, John Wiggins, aged 32, who was convicted at the last session of the Central Criminal Court for the murder of a young woman named Agnes Oates with whom he had cohabited, and who passed as his wife, wag executed this morning at 8 o'clock in front of the gaol of Newgate. The facts will be fresh in the recollection of the public. The deceased was found lying dead in her bedroom with her throat cut in a most fearful manner, and the prisoner was discovered in the street with his throat also cut. Re asserted that the deceased woman had first cut hi s throat and then destroyed her own life. He persisted in this story down to the last moments of his existence, but the evidence to show th►t the deceased could not hays inflicted the deadly injury upon herself was so strong, coupled with other facts, such as the position in which the body was found, the rigidity of the limbs, &c., as to leave no doubt in the minds of the jury of the prisoner's guilt. The jury, however, accompanied their verdict by a recom mendation to mercy on the ground that the act was not pre meditated. Ever since his conviction the culprit has continued to assert his innocence of the crime; and although the Ordinary of the prison, the Rev. Hr. Jones, has been unremitting in his endeavours to induce the culprit to consider his awful position and to make what atonement he could to society, he has all along declared in the moat earnest manner that he did not corn. mit the murder, and th►t he should die innocent. He at the same time admitted that be had been guilty of many sins, but was entirely innocent of the crime for which he was to suffer. He was visited several times by his father and mother, both of whom were very aged people, and he saw them for the last time on Saturday last. Upon this occasion the father exhorted the prisoner to die like a man and • Christian, and he kneeled down and uttered a short extem pore prayer in a most fervent manner. The cal. prit was evidently • most violent and determined man. Upon several occasions he would pace up and down his cell in the most excited manner, as though he could not contain himself, and the ordinary would take him at last by the arm, and walk with him, and endeavour to soothe him. He was continually declaring his innocence of the crime, and that he should die inno. cent, his expression invariably being, " She done it her. self ; I never laid • finger on her." The sheriffs, Alderman Stone and Mr. M'Arthur, accom. parried by their under-sheriffs, Messrs. Davidson and Roche, arrived at the prison shortly before 8 o'clock. They were received by Mr. Jonas, the governor, Mr. Humphrey., the principal warder, and some of the other officials. The culprit, it appeared, hail slept soundly, and he was engaged in prayer with the Ordinary, who at this, almost the last momeat, urged upon the wretched man the necessity of confessing his crime, but he again declared his entire innocence. He was then led by two turnkeys from his cell to the room where the ceremony of pinioning was to be performed, and where Caicraft and his assistants were already in attendance. The culprit walked along in the most cool and unconcerned manner. The Rev. Mr. Jones offered up a short prayer, and the culprit was then pinioned. When this had been done the prisoner said he should like to be allowed to say a few words to the people from the scaffold. Mr. Jonas told him that this could not be permitted, and that, besides, if he attempted to address the crowd, he could not be heard, and if be wished to say anything he had better do it Om, as representatives of the press were present, and what he said would be made public. The culprit then, in a firm and collected manner and in a loud tone of voice, said, " I am entirely innocent of the crime I am to die for, and I suffer the law innocently. I can assure you on my dying oath that I never done it, and I shall die with a clear conscience. I go with a clear heart to my Maker. It was she who cut her own throat. lam innocent—by my dying words I am innocent." He was asked if be wished to say anything more, and he replied, " No, I have only to say that I am innocent." The usual mournful procession then took place to the scaffold, and as there appeared to be an impression pre vailing in the minds of the prison official/ that the culprit might attempt some act of violence on the drop, a number of warders were in attendance in cue their assistance should be required. It was well as it turned out that there precautions were taken. The prisoner would not place himself on the spot under the beam as he was requested by Caloraft, but retreated behind it, and while the executioner was in the act of adjusting the rope round his neck, contrived to seize a portion of it with both hands, notwithstanding that he was pinioned. He then began to shriek out with frantic energy, "I am innocent—by my dying oath I am innocent—l never did it—l am innocent, innocent, innocent." During this time a violent struggle was going on, as the warder. were obliged to use all their strength to release the rope from his grasp, and while this was going on the culprit screamed out " Don't hang me—don't hang me—chop my head off—chop my head off—l am innocent." At last the rope was forced out of the grasp of the wretched man, and the end of it was attached to the top beam, but the warders were compelled to hold the culprit upon the scaffold, while Calcraft went underneath to disengage the apparatus. This was done in a very short period, and when the drop fell the culprit was still screaming " I am Mao cent," and the drop fell, as the syllable " in " was passing from his lips. Hs appeared to be dead almost imme diately,st least not the slightest convulsive effort was appa rent. This may, probably, be accounted for by the state of exhaustion he was in, owing to his previous violent exer tions. The crowd seemed quite paralysed by the scene that was taking place upon the scaffold. When the culprit first made his appearance on the scaf fold, there was the general buzz and bum in the crowd usual upon such occasions ; but when the prisoner began to speak, there was a deathlike stillness. No notice appeared to be taken until the prisoner had repeatedly de dared that be was innocent, and then there was a slight attempt at groaning, with a few hisses, but this was very partial ; and when the drop fell, the crowd again relapsed into silence. The persona assembled—a much smaller number than usual—were remarkably orderly, and it was observed that there were vet 7 few women among them. The body, after banging an hour, was cut down, and will be buried this evening within the gaol. EXECUTION AT HORSEMONGER-LA/cE. (THIS DAY.) The Frenchman, Louis Bordier, aged 32, WM also executed this morning, the usual hour of 9 o'clock being changed to 10 on account of Ca craft, the execu tioner, being engaged at Newgate to perform his ead office upon the culprit John Wiggins, for the Limehouse murder. The prisoner Bordier, it will be recollected, was con• victed of the murder of • young woman named Mary Anne Snow, with whom he had cohabited for thirteen years, and by whom be had three children. He committed the act while his unhappy via• tim was in bed asleep, and although the defence of insa nity was set up for him at his trial, there appears to be too much ground for believing that the dreadful deed was dictated by jealousy, the deceased woman having expressed her intention to separate herself from the prisoner, and to be married to another man. The prisoner appeared to have repeatedly stated that he could not part from the deceased, and be, no doubt, resolved to kill her rather than that she should form a connexion with any other man. From other statements made by the prisoner, it seems also to be pretty clear that his original intention was to have not only killed the deceased, but also his three children. This dreadful deed was only prevented by the heart of the prisoner failing him after he had killed the unhappy woman. The culprit seems to have been perfectly resigned ever since he bas been in custody to the fate which he consi dered inevitable. He was visited last week by his chil dren, the youngest of whom is only nineteen months old. He exhibited great agony and distress of mind at the sight of hiafamily, and it was a considerable time before he regained his composure. He has also been visited by one of his fellow-workmen, named Pastel, to whom he seemed very much attached. The Rev. Mr. Faure, ■ Roman catholic 'priest, has administered religious consolation to the culprit since he has been wider sentence. The latter was rather a fine looking young man, nearly six feet high, and his conduct since he has been in custody is described by the officials of the prison as having been remarkably good. On several occasions he has expressed his deep regret ■