The Express. — London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

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A•lamt AND ANDROMEDA. r Matthews and that Herbert —An.l TIIE 11 .ARDINO NCHOOL Mist lb:omM Ni.. Italafixth. wd %Ira V. Mattlaaww—C.Jattnentx at 7i. 14111TAlett la. TIP Promo, TUC ANVILS AOCI OP MAN.—The Fifth Act .♦ Itoll LAP AND Jt WET.—Aad TUC KIM; or Mk ...CAM. A. Lum.MWeera &A*. two Newham, theamntrelie 11.1 De. C. liewleaa Nra. t.tattionL—Commence et el. SIN WATS, AT WNW, 111410 GR. raimmiltr—WorntsA. ft.— Alioneaso, sh. Th. —Kongo& AL Aamboaa, btA. Wa LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19. Tee Bill fur Legalizing Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister stands again for its annual discussion in the Notices of the House of Com mons. Thu year, however, it presents itself under somewhat novel circumstances. The organized opposition which, under the title of the Marriage Law Defence Association, distributed tracts to the Members of the House, and concocted petitions from rustic parishes, has died of desperation. Its petitions bad fallen sway, but its fundshad still more rapidly /vanished ; and with a view to avoid the inquiries of the Bankrupt Court, it has performed an act of " Happy Despatch" upon itself. We shall, therefore, this year approach the discussion of the measure free from the fictitious sentimenta lity with which the defuuct Association wrought so hard to envelope it. The " wives and mothers of England," who here been so often invoked as the leading authority upon • question which by no possibility could ever affect them, well this year be less prominent fea tures in the debates, and the rural clodhoppers who were eager to adorn "the parson's paper " with their marks, attesting their deep conviction that delicacy and sensibility forbad the legalisation of the unions in question, will amount this year to even • less notable total lu other respects also the Bill comes forward now under more favoura ble, because less delusive, auspices. There was long • persistent belief that those marriages, which the common sense of the country can never be taught to regard as really unscriptural or immoral, however they may be opposed to mere muni cipal law, might be validly contracted if celebrated iii • country in which they are legal. With this idea hundreds of persons have resorted to Denmark and other countries for tbo solemnization of nuptials which there were unobjectionable, and which they believed would therefore be recognised without inquiry by the Lew of this realm. That hope has now been swept away by solemn decision of our Courts, which have declared that in such a matter uu English subjects can evade the reach of English laws. But it may perhaps prove, and it will at least not be the first time in which it has happened, that such authoritative declaration of the law is the iietuediate precursor to its reform. While there was a safet)-valve, the machinery worked with tolerable smoothness ; but now that it has been screwed down, the chances of the whole apparatus tieing blown to atoms are considerably increased. It will, indeed, be a matter for just congratula tion to Parliament and the country if the present session shall see the final disappearance from our statute-book of a legislation which in its whole course has been marked by circumstances of dis grace. The prohibition first made its appearance in the Act by which Hrsav VIII. set *aide his marriage with KATBARINI of A RKAUON, on account of the late but unbearable injury to his conscience arising from the circumstance of her pre-contract to his deceased brother. The scrupulous monarcl, desirous to preserve his subjects from the snares which hail caused himself so much suffering, not merely obtained a declaration that his own mar riage should be, " by the authority of this present " Parliament, definitively, clearly, and shim " lately declared, deemed, and adjudged to "be against the laws of ALMIGHTY 130 D;" but by an equally clear authority be declared marriage with a deceased wife's sister " to be plainly prohibited and detested by the " law of Con," and, as such, incapable of being made good by dispensations of human authority, as had Vier...tame been the practice. But the statute of Hi XXV, though thus emphatically laying down the Divine will, was intinpreted by the civil courts as not fining within their jurisdiction, and they accordingly continued to recognise the va lidity of the prohibited marriages, unless in the lifetime of the parties they had been declared void by a formal sentence of an Ecclesiastical Court. So stood the rule till, in 1834, it was desired to place beyond the risk of even such a possible chal lenge the marriage within the prohibited degrees of a nobleman of high rank. The purpose could not be plainly avowed, and therefore the expedi , •nt was fallen upon of pacing an Act which should de clare such marriages fur the future absolutely void, while a proviso followed declaring the, all that ha. I been already contracted should he, not merely exempt from the near peevision, but indisputably valid. Such is, in brief, the hit.- tory of the law, and ratifies, if viewed as applying merely to a civil regulation, it redouuds to the credit of the Legidattire, it at least bears conclu sive proof that the Legislature has never sincerely accounted that i was dealing with higher princi ples. That which tinder the Papal jurisdiction, as it is in Catholic countries to this day, was consi dered a legitimate subject fur human dispensation ; that which for three centuries after Parliament had, at the bidding of Ilesav VIII., declared to be plainly prohibited and detested of Coo, was left to be accounted valid or not, according as any one had interest to object to it ; that which, under the existing statute, while positively forbid den for the future, is as positively declared unex ceptionable for the past, cannot now be pretended to be prohibited because of opposition to the un changeable ordinances of Heaven. No higher ground can be taken in this view than that of mere expediency, sedan expediency which has resorted to hypocrisy and blasphemy fur its support, conies before us with small claim to respect, however ancient the odwr of sanctity which it breathes. Dienineing, then, as wholly untenable in the face of the facts, the allegation that Parliament has ever been moved by the theological argument, we find little left us save to inquire what possible reason there can be for maintaining a ban which touches but a small fraction of the community, and works only injustice and wrong in the cases in which it has operation at all. We cannot allow the opinion of • limited number of persons on the disputed interpretation of a passage in Scripture to be set up as the rule for those who put an en tirely opposite meaning on the text. As little can we admit that the nice ideas of some individuals as to what are the relations consistent with purity in the domestic circle should be made • binding authority upon those who do not find its preservation to demand any artificial restraints. We cannot accept it as a general fact that impure imaginations must disturb the peace of families whenever two relatives who are not forbidden to marry find themselves beneath the same roof. We cannot hold the bare possibility of inconveniences arising from marriages in certain cases sufficient warrant for the "forbidding to marry." If any of these suggestions were well founded we should find ourselves in mere consis tency compelled to carry out the principle by making it illegal for a man to marry his cousin, his domestic servant, or his children's governess. If men were really inch strangely constituted scomidrels that nothing but a legal impediment to matrimony could enable • woman to preserve her virtue or her character while living in the house of married couples or of widowers, we should be bound to throw the mantle of 'protection, whatever its worth, around many who are in equal danger with the sisters of their wives. Equally idle is the assertion that if the marriages in question were permitted there must cease in the wife's lifetime to be any familiarity of affection between her husband and her sister. Does any husband now find himself obliged to draw a distinction between his conduct to his aunt or his niece, whom he may not marry, and his cousin, whom lie may marry, in the sug gestion of his wife's death 1 If there be such an one, we can only my of him as of Meletrfrrin, that " he is a good man, and knows what indecency "is !" Truly these nice people with nasty ideas paint us pretty pictures of English households. Against all such prudery of pruriency we put our trust in the plain good sense, the honest con jugal love, and the chivalrous reverence of woman, which form the happy basis of our English cha racter, and the assured guarantee of our English homes. Those whose reason leads them to in terpret Scripture as forbidding the marriages under consideration, will need no human law to restrain them, and will certainly not be led by the absence of human law into the commission of what in any case they regard as incest. Those whose reason teaches them that Scripture permitted such marriages to the Jews, after the first wife's death, and neither expressly perruitsnor prohibits them to Christian% ought not to have their consciences tried by the interposed stumbling•blocks of human ordinance. Both views of the question may in certain cases have their concomitant inconve niences, but these form no foundation for legislat ing on a matter in which the conscience of each is the only proper guide. Against such legislation the natural instinct of the public is in perpetual re volt. It refuses to place the marriage of a man with his wife's sister in the category in which would stand his marriage with his own lister. It receives as blameless those foreigners who have entered into such alliances where sanctioned by their own , municipal laws. It recognised, till the express counter declaration of the judges was issued, the valiiEty of such marriages of its own citizens if contracted beyond the presumed reach of our local regulations. Within our very statute-book it is accustomed to see the distinction drawn. It ac counts the wife's sister to be of no kin to the husband in the succession to property or in the gradation of legacy duties. Common sense will not much longer endure that an ecclesiastical fiction of gross conception and foul history, con temptuously disregarded in every other relation of life, shall continue to rear its repulsive visage in prohibition of the most sacred of human ties, and of the performance in many cases of the most sacred offices of posthumous affection. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENIN(;. FEBRUARY 19, 1862. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. The Epoca of Madrid says :—" We do not pre tend to know the real motive which induced France to increase her troops in Mexico, but we can affirm that France and England will uct object to Spain's having in Mexico three times the number of troops of the other tw3 allied powers, on account of the great number of soldiers she has in the West Indies who are habituated to the climate." be Court. OSBORNE. Fra. 18. Her Majesty drove out thin morning in au open carriage, accompanied by Princess Alice. Ilap.r.licoeral Seymour attended en hoteebeek. The Demi of Windsor AtliVett at Osborne yesterday, and remains on a visit. Prince Alfred is expected to return to England next mouth, which is the earliest time possible, in consequence of the nuavoidalde delay which occurred in the transmission of the letters sent out announcing the melancholy intelli gence of the terrible bereavement which had fallen on him and the rest of the Royal Family, and recalling Prince Alfred to England. The St. George, I. which the Prince is serving, had left the West Indies for Mexico two days before the letters arrived at the former station. A deputation consistiog of Lord Mostyo, Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P. for Flintabire ; Sir John }isomer, Bark, M.P. fur the Flintshire Boroughs ; Richard Muspmtt, Esq., Mayor of Flint ; and Mr. Enka Eytoe, Town Clerk of that borough, had an interview with the Right Hoe. Sir George Grey, ut the Home-oltio-, yesterday, ou the subject of the Yliutahire County I '..urts. Her Majesty's t.immissioners for the loternational Ex hibition of 1562., held a meeting at their offices in the Strand, yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester day. An appeal from New South Waled, "Lang v. Purvis and °there," part heard, wee resumed. The lords prompt were Lord Kinpdowo, the Master of the Rolls, and Sir John Coleridge. Deeps:chi" were received yesterday at the Colonial of from the Coverers% of the Australian Colonies, Hong Kong, Ceylon, lAliaan, Malta, aodGilindiar. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Ishindu. The Vienna papers mention a handsome donation made by the Prises of Wales for the benufit of the suf ferers by the trisiedatbms and unusually severe weather, which latter haspastly aggravated the misery of thousauds of poor hawk= witches, driven by the waters from their homes with 11110 lON of everything they possessed. The Marquis of Bat!' has taken the Earl of Wezwick's residemes, is Stable.yard, St. James'., for the memo. Thu Countess Apponyi has issue,' cards fur a disbar party thiaevanabas at eh&151,41 House. The Earl and Cuuutema Splicer have beeu enter taiaier at Althorp duzisi the past week the Earl and Coun tess of Euston, Viscount Bury, Lord and Lady Charles Brace, LAdy Augusta Seymour, Lord and Lady Suffield., Lady Sarah Slower, Lord Lytteltoo and the Hun Mir Lytteltoo, Major Reilly, C. 8,, Lord awl Lady Wharlielitle have arrived at their reed..oe. to Curaoo•etreet from Wortley Hall, Yorkshire, for the season. Lord Henry •nd Lndy Ulrica Thynue have left tows for Worthies, Sussex. Lady Fredericlt Bentinck has arrived at her resi donee in Charles-street, Berkeleyequare. Th.+ Hon. George Barrington arrived in town ysetenlay from Beckett House, Berks. The Dublin Ereniv Pord st4tea " that arrange ments hare bees completed for the purchase of thirty acres of lead, part of the Blessiogtoo estate, adjacent to this city,,, the north side, and is • beautiful rad healthy locality, for the erection iA the catholic usiveresty. It be rain • opharlii sal sunamoshous siree•ers.* MOROCCO. " According to the terms of the treaty of peace signed between Spain and the Emperor of Morocco," says the Momaeher, " the latter engaged to give up to the Spaniards a certain portion of territory round the fortress of Melilla. A report is now current that the Guelayas, the possessors of that land, absolutely refuse to comply with the Emperor's orders. As, up to the present time, the represen tations of the government envoys have been dis regarded, the Emperor, it is believed, is about to have recourse to force to oblige the Guelayas to consent to the execution of the treaty. Already the son of Si-Abd-el-Djebbar, cousin of Mouley- Abd-es-Selam, chief of the order of the Mouley Taieb, has arrived at Oudjda. He is the bearer of letters from the Emperor, addressed to the different tribes dependent on the Oudjda, ordering them to hold themselves at the disposal of Mouley-el- Abbas. The Guelayas, on their side, have appealed to their allies of the Rif, and prepare for resist ance." SA-XE IVEIKAR. The Chamber of Deputies of Weimar, in its sitting of the 15th, unanimously voted an address demanding the creation of a central power, and of a parliament for the Germanic Confederation. The Minister of State delivered a long speech on the national policy of the government, which was fully is accordance with the terms of the address. HESSE-CASSEL "It is not yet known," says a Berlin letter, "if the Pruasian government will follow the counsels of the Chambers, and intervene directly in the affairs of the Electorate of Hesse. What is now passing in that country is really deplorable. It may be remembered that the Hessian Chamber was dissolved at the very moment in which it was form ing its bureau—thus separating without having voted the budget. The inhabitants have thought themselves authorised to refuse paying the text* since they had not been voted by the representatives of the country. It was attempted to distrain and sell the furniture of the refractory citizens, but no purchasers presented themselves. Then the Elector, in his exasperation, ordered that their houses should be entered by force, and the drawers broken open to seize the money which might be in them. The locksmiths of Hanau,auut monad for this strange employment, refused to undertake it, and a detachment of pioneers was then brought from Cassel, who commenced the operation. Such are the facts which have caused so profound a sensation in Germany." (alum's num JAPAN. (sr rzuatArm FROM Li CANTON, JAx. 15. According to the latest advioes Japan is quiet. Prince Muto was reported to be dead. His eon was making efforts to apprehend the aseassins who attacked the British legation. CHINA. ST. PETERSBURG, Fn. 19. The Journal de.St. Peterskeurg of to-day publishes news from Pekin, according to which the insur rection in Shangtoog and in the central provinces in making progress. The insurgents have informed the English consul at Hangehow that they intend to attack that city, and afterwards also Shanghai. They have promised to behave with moderation, but in case of resistance have threatened the total destruction of both cities. SUICIDE OF A ROYAL COMMIWONER IN HUNGARY. A letter from Poath, iu the Nord of to-day, says :—" The sudden death of two royal commissioner,, Messrs. Salkovsky and Petrak, has made a great sensation here. The following are the circumstances under which Y. Balkovsky committed suicide. The government sought in vain • functionary whom it could make chief of the comitat of Routh. Who could have the hardihood to m ei& over this comitat as a simple governmental agent and to take the place which was once occupied by the unhappy and chivalrous Count LadisLius Teleki, and by a Majlath, the jet/ex curio, that honoured and upright magistrate? It was in the son of the gaol governor of this same comitat that the government at length found the functionary so much sought after. But scarcely bad he been nomivateil when the royal commissioner found himself abandoned by hie friends, isolated, and shunned by his acquaintances, in spite of the official honours obtained from the government. " Beset with gloomy thoughts be wrote letters upon letters to the Chancellor, with the view of being released from the office of royal commissioner. He had no longer confidence to present himself in public. He excused himself in his letters, sad enough to break one's heart, by declar ing that be had not expired to the honours, that he had only accepted them io the belief that he would be enabled to render himself useful to his country. In another letter he announced to the Chancellor that he could no longer bear the oppro. bium attached to his functions, and tlmt he bad revolved to put an end to his life of sufferings ; he implored him, there. fore, speedily to appoiut his successor. lu a third letter he mid *at he would already have committed suicide if the snivel of his wife and the sight of his childreu had uot re strained his hand. lie wished to die an honest man, and while living to see himself relieved from all responsibility and all suspicion, but he much feared, he said, that if his successor did not arrive immediately, he (the writer) should not have streugth to wait. And, in truth, he did not gait; • pistol shot terminated his sufferings. In his last letter he prayed everyone to have pity on his wife a•d children ; as for himself, he hoped that God, in his Divine goodness, would pardon his fault. The concourse at his funeral was innnense. This sad expia tion has recouciled all hearts, no longer to the living, lint to his memory. His letters are the judgraeut of a dying man, and their publication fixes on his colleagues the stigiva of the mine opprobrium to which H. Salkovsky suc cumbed." It is Bahl that the Princesseampello, • member of the Bonaparte family, was entering the theatre at Rome the other day, with her beether•iu law, the Prince Musignano, when a bouquet which she Uhl in her hand was snatched from her by a shirr°, under the pretext that the dowers formed a tricolour. Prince Campoßo was highly indignant at this insult to his wife, and upon the instructions of M. Thouvenel, the 8E111.Q1114 de L ivalette has, it is said, asked the Roman government for explanations. A Florence letter of the 13th says :—" We have a large influx of English now en route from Rome to par liament. I maw one 'milord° ' yesterday, who travels with Ave English servants. John and Thomas, in powder, were reading (laligrugni; while the courier, in broken language, was retailing Italian politica to the ' gentleman in black' who assists the other gentleman (his master) to dream." The publication of the confidential letters of Count Cavour, addressed to M. Itsitazzi, has produced • sensation in Italy. The Countess Alfieri, niece of the count, and who was honoured with the particular affection of that statesman, has protested, in • letter addressed to the Rirista Cmdemporanta, against those disclosures, which are " evidently made leas with the view of rendering homage to the memory of the deceased minister, than of serving the balaresta at a party." EXPRESS FROM PARLi. (non ous ows 001/111PONDIMIT.) PARIS, TUUDAY Emma. The conversion manoeuvre has met with a serious cheek at the Bourse to-day. The " mysterious buyer,"whose duty it is to support the market with borrowed millions, did not appear to be at his post, and the public was rushing to selL There are people who think that the fall is a ruse de guerre, which, in the highly complicated and artificial state of the market, brought about by the vast fictitious transactions of the government, may afford an opening for playing out the reserved funds with advantage. But this may be a very dangerous game to play. According to the most sanguine calculations, not more than half the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. is yet converted ; and it is well known that a large portion of this stock consists of that which was bought up for the pur pose from the holders, who sold out because they did not like the measure. The panic of to-day will certainly frighten a great many waverera, and is likely to outweigh the too plausible arguments and calculations which the government publishes morning and evening in its metropolitan organs, and forces the provincial papers to repeat by the authority of the prefects. A very bad impression i bas been produced by the publication of a " con ' fidential " letter from a public prosecutor in the departments, threatening notaries who may advise their clients to sell Four-and-a-Half per Cents. with pains and penalties. The exceeding anxiety betrayed by M. de Per signy's circular and other government mea sures, taken in conjunction with the light thrown on the subject by speeches in the Corps Legislatif, and the serious fall of to-day, will in all likelihood render the remaining holders of Four and-a-Half per Cents. extremely unwilling to fork out the soulte required to exchange their securities against Three per Cents. The threat to pay them off at par is, in the present condition of the French treasury, a brubum fairies, and it is next to certain that the Three per Cents. will go down as soon as the artificial prop which keeps them up at extra ordinary sacrifices shall be withdrawn. Mean while, scandal says that some parties who shall be nameless have made enormous fortunes out of these most nefarious riggings of the money market. To-day the Rente fell 55c for cash, and 60e. for account, closing very heavily, at 70fr. 30c. and 70fr. 40c. The Four-and-a-Half per Ceuta. fell 60c., closing at 100 fr. 50e. There has been some serious misunderstanding to-day about the New Tbree-and-a-Half per Cent. stock. Yes terday the minister ordered it to be negotiated with the six months' dividend which would have been due on the Four-and-a-Half per Cents, on March 22. To-day that decision has been revoked, in consequence of complaints from the brokers that it gave rise to confusion. The holder of the Old Four-and-a-Half per Ceuta is to receive the coming dividend, and not the party who may purchase from him the equivalent amount of New Threes. In consequence of this decision, the New Threes (which fell 40c.) are quoted at only 69fr. 40c. against 70fr. 40c., which, as above stated, is the last price of the Old Rente. Mobilier fell °fr. 25c. ; the Italian Loan, 45e. ; and most of the railways about Mr. Northern (the only line in which there was auy improvement) rose lfr. 25c. I Bend as a real curiosity the diametrically oppo aite opinions of two equally "independent and devoted" Parisian journals, published simulta neously of and concerning the last proclamation of the occult committee which from time to time launches manifestos at Rome. Tim Pays, Journal de rEsaptre, says : The National Committee of Rome publishes in the Nazione a proclamation which is not wanting either in dignity or grandeur. It is ao energetic appeal to the moderation and prudence of the Roman people, who are exhorted never to forget their double character of Italians and catholics, and to hold in equal respect the sceptre of Bing Victor Em manuel and the tiara of Pius IX. M. de la Guerronniere's journal, the Petrie, speaks of this same document in the following terms : We have received the proclamation of the National Committee of Rome, which, as everybody knows, is ouly a petty branch of that of Turin. We not do such lucubrations tho honour of criticising them. They contain nothing but emphatic commonplace, and covert hatred disguised under a varnish of hypocrisy. The great joke is that both the above paragraphs emanate from the Tuileries, but come down different back stairs. An insideous clause, of a highly blameworthy nature, has been introduced into a bill for the modification of certain articles of the penal code. Hitherto publication has been considered the essence of a hbeL But it is now proposed to enact that any libellous writing or "drawing" relating to any magistrate, whether judicial or administrative, although not made public, shall subject the author to fifteen days' imprisonment. Bo that anybody who may make a caricature of M. Troplong, on a slate in his own bedroom, may be brought to trial for the offence. The Droit very manfully protests against this inquisitorial innovation upon all known prin. ciplot of French law, and says it is worse than anything ever done in the worst of times. MR. DIOBY SEYMOUR, M.P., AND TILE DENCHERS. —ln a speech to his constituents at Southampton, Mr. Digby Seymour tells the world that certain charges have been brought against him Were the bankers of his inn. He complains that these originated with a few indi viduals of his own circuit, and that during the investi gation which ensued lie was upon fifteen differeut occasions before the masters of the bench. He com plains also, awl, as we think, most reasonably, that this iovo..tigation " was conducted by men sitting down after dinner, varying iu their numbers and atteud nee, awl sometimes postponing the inquiry upon the moat trivial ground a" Speaking indignantly of these char,;ea, he says, " I would to tied that they had been conducted iu the broad light of day, and before the face of my ouistiments and the country." Of course, we am bound not to know what the charges were sod what the eviden.• adduced nut So far as the public is con cerned, they rest still upon mere rumour. So also does the result. Mr. Dighy Seymour says he was houuurably acquitted th e handlers say nothing at all, so that Mr. Dig iy Seymour's is the ouly testimony before us. All we can gather from this public speech is that a private inquiry has beau held upon charges which impugned Mr. Dtgby `Seymour's private honour, and that the secret committee which have sat upon him refuse to make public either the evidence or the judgment. Every Englishman will feel at once that if this be true the conduct of the bendiers is atrocious. " I hopo the public," says Mr. Rigby Seymour, "will declare, sooner or later, that a man holding my rank should not be tried in the dark, by a tribunal constituted like that before which I have appeared, upon any charges affecting his pro (erminel conduct or his private character." It seems to es that the benches* of the Middle Temple have been placed in a position from which there is no escape except by acce ding to Mr. Seymour's demand for full publicity. When Mr. Seymour says, " I have no objection on earth, if it pleases these who were my judges, to the pub lication to the world of everything which took place before them," they cannot an honourable men refuse to give Mr. Seymour this publication. These secret in. quiriea are things always abhorrent to every generous mind, oppressive to individuals, and obstructive to public justice. If these beechen are the guardians of the onour of a profession In which the nation has an interest, it is clear that their proceedings and their judgments ought, in cases such as this, to be open to the world ; and we should be al lowed to know whet, in their opinion, a barrister may do, and yet be a gentleman and an advocate fit to be trusted by clients and judges. If they are the guardians of the honour of individual members of their profession, the right to give the man whose honour they me said to vouch for the full benefit of their public epproviL At present the public does sot know how far they are protected against the possibility of improper persons being paned upon them under the gown of barristers and Queen's counsel, and, am the other hand, Mr. Rigby Seymour has not the benefit of his honourable acquittaL • . MUSIC. BT. JAMES'S HALL. A concert was given last evening for the benefit of the widows and orphans left destitute through the late appalling calamity at the Hartley colliery. We are not Informed with whom it originated, but it was got up under highly aristocratic patronage; the arrange:smite were ably managed by Mr. Maplmon ; with the generosity which on such occasions, distinguishes the musical profusion, a number of its most emit:mot members proffered their gra tuitous @anima ; there was a large sad fashionable au dience ; and the prices of admissioa being high, we have no doubt that this concert will produce a substantial addition to the fund now raising for the above benevolent purpose. A performance of this kind is not a subject for criticism ; but the efforts of those who oontributed their assistance to it deserve the most honourable mention. The singers were Mademoiselle Titian', Signor Giuglini, Madame Ruder'. dorif, Madame Lemaire, Madame itaiuton-Dolby, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Signor Bordini, Mr. Thomas, end Mr Weiss. The instrumental performers were M. 88113tOn and Miss Arabella Goddard; and Messrs. Howard Glover, Randeager, Wilhelm Ganz, and Benedict officiated as con. doctors, and acompanied thermal pieces. With such a com bination, the entertainment could not fail to be admirable. ROYAL GALLERY OP ILLUSTRATION. After a very long andauccessful career, "Our Card Basket" and "The Two Rival Composers" are about to be, if not entirely withdrawn, at lent much altered. No two pleas, however, embracing such a variety of character, ma be substituted, which will show off to greater advantage thevenatiletalent of Mr. and Mrs. Reed and Mr. John Parry. Both histrionically and musically the above performers were never in better "accord" with the public. The novel ties introduced into the original entertainment have enabled the lessee to cut out its weakest parts, and present a por traiture of life and manners equally good in every detail, and composed in the happiest vein of light raillery and humour. Each performer has • elterad debataille. We may instance Mrs. Reed's Dolly Chickbiddy, the young lady th►t mamma will not "bring out r Mr. Reed's genial hunting episode, so full of animal spirit and enjoyment ; and Mr. Parry's musical version of a Colleen Hawn, which he has greatly improved since the first night of its performance. We are sorry to lose an entertainment, even in • modified form, which has so greatly amused us, and only hope that its suc cessors will be equally good. An entirely new first part, we understand, will be presented to the public from the pen of one of our best dramatic authors. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) --0- WID24IODAT, lißll7/3Y 1% • L/L B. IL /Li D. W. C. L s & Kau ..... V.lB 41 SD & b Ham' ... 18.47 44 4$ &&W. 6 te 15 Hum 11.40 46 44 LW. 1 o Um= 24.61 46 44 &W. 4 • AaDiumaui 19.46 H 48 11 4 6r 0.18 20222054 1 SAS 41 •• SAW. 6 b GAMUT 21.12 46 45 KILL 4 b B®6.w. 2066 45 47 &LW. i e- 30•9999••••• 2968 46 44 8.8. W. 674 dr &V BILIOuLAJID 2910 88 Si ILIA 4 1 b lavissivuL 20.61 4$ 4? &L 1 8 1, 0.01 4003Ieruwe 19.26 MI 48 8.8.12 6 5 • Vaiwerru. lll2 ft 47 S. f Er I.ls Y6Rlioolll 19.78 61 44 8.8. W. 6 5 ><— 1.0260 w 2903 43 48 &ML 2 7 lr 0.01 - UOVICIL FOilliturta rearwm 2062 48 47 L 45 Tr 0.1014 1iT110072 UM 60.49 B.&W. 5 8 Sr 0.65, 6 W AT. N. Britain.- 21117 N.W. to N. and N.& to *nag, with C. N. F.. —.4 gale with rain or Nome mow or ruin Ireland.—W. to N. and N.Y., a strong gale, rainy. Central.—W. to N. and IL, gale, strong, then moderate. X Coast —As nest above. & F.nidand.—&&, R.W., and ti.W., gale, with rain. N. to E., strong, rainy. N. to E. and &N., fresh, sso .. _ . derate. Aa next abme. N.N.W. to N.& and B.E, strong to moderate. Warning Drum on Tuesday. EXPLANATION. COrrected sud reduced So U at swan !as level ; each l 0 feet, of vertleTkii4;4;,causingabZna ons.baodredth of an inch diminution; and each 10 deg., above as deg., casting nearly threehundredths increase. 9.—Zzposed thermometer In shade. 11.—tioistated bulb (for evaporation and dew point). D.—Directlon of wind (true—two point* left of wow noticp. F.—Vora) (1 to Ig—estimated). C.—Cloud (1 to 9). I. initials b, blue sty c. Mends (detached). I, tog : b, hail ;1. lightning; ra. misty (hazy); co, overcast (dull) : r, rain : canoe t., thunder. 8., rain -fall, or snow. or ball, since laat report, In inches and decimals. 8.-Beadiaterbassoe (1 to 9). Z.—Calm. ST. DAVID'S COLLROZ, LAXERTI3..—The Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams has formally intimated his in tention to resign his offices at Lampeter at Mid summer. The vice-principalship has the professor ship of Hebrew attached to it. The income is estimated at about MK. a year, with a house and garden. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL FITED.—The general committee of the above fund met yesterday at the Mansion House, and it was resolved that the sub•comrnittee should be empowered to communicate with her Majesty in order to ascertain her feelioss with regard to the memorial. It was repotted that the total amount subscribed was nearly 33,0001. The total number of petitions presented to the Howe of Commons this session spiest the Revised Code of Education is 249, the signatures beio; 11,176. A bill of 14 pages has just been printed, intro duced into the House of Commons by Mr. New3egate and Lord R. Montagu, intended to "establish a charge in lieu of church rates, for the commutation thereof, and to afford facilities; for the provision of other foods applicable to the purposes of church rates." The bill consists of 28 clauses, and may be cited as " The Church Charge Act, 1862." Ou the let of November last the number of effectives, including officers and staff, on the British estoblishmeot, was 148,680. On the Indian establishment, at the eame date, the number of effeetives was 70,836. A return of all stocks, loans, debts, and liabilities chargeable on the East Indian revenues, at home and abroad, up to the latest period of time to which such return can be made out, gives a total for England on the 31st of December but of 36,000,277/. ; for India on the 30th of April but, 81,238,521/. The foregoing is exclusive of the charge upon the revenues of India of the dividend at the rate of 10/. 10s. per cent. per annum on the sum of 6,000,000/., the capital stock of the Etat India Company, which is subject to redemption by parlia ment on payment to the company of 2001. sterling for 100/. stock. There are id so contingent liabilities in respect of inte rest guaranteed, Indian railway, and other ecmpaidea, and of repayments to them of capital expended; but no esti mate can be formed of these liabilities. 'Zito Navy Estimates will be moved in committee of supply on Monday next. . . . . Ou Friday, Mr. Reit will wik leave to introduce into the House of Commons a bill to regulate the pro cedars of the Court of Chancery. The case of the Rev. Mr. Wilson, ono of the authors of " Emays end Reviews," ramie on is the Arches Court on Saturday next. The continental paper; announce, as official news, that the King of Portugal is about to marry the young sister of the late Queen of Portugal. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 15.—Members returned to serve in the present parliament.—John Chapman, of Hill End, Mottram, in the county of Chester. Esq., for the borough of Great Grimsby, in the room of Charles Maude Wonky Anderson Pelham ; (commonly called Lord Won ley), now Earl of Yarborough, called to the Ronne of Peers. Feb. 18—Peter Alfred Taylor, of Aubrey-house, Notting hill, in the county of Middlesex, Eaq., for the borough o Leicester in the room of John Burgs, Esq., who has ac cepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme.—Garerie. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. n. —The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Wiry Council for Trade give notice that the Alimitevr of the lath instaut contains a French imperial decree, suthorisiog the opening of the port of Canon (Corsica) for the importation of sugar, salt pork, tiuues of flax and hemp, colonial com modities, and tobacco io leaf or manufactured. —Gazette. THE FIRE AND Lost OF LIFE IN GRAY'S-INN-ROAD. —Last evening, Mr. Brent, deputy-coroner for Middlesex, opened an inquiry at the Globe Tavern, Derby-street, Gray's inn-road, respecting the circumstances attending the deaths of Mrs. Alice Keer, aged V, and George Keer, her intuit son, aged 12 months, who lost their lives at a are which oc curred in the premises belongieg to Mr. A. Grundxberth, cornchandler sod seed,man, No. 17, Chichester-place, Gray's inn -road, the particulars of which appeared in this journal of Monday last. Before the court opened it was announced that the unfortunate husband and father, who it was feared would not have lived over Sunday night, had rallied a little. He, however, still remains in a dangerous state. The in quiry excited great, and at the seine time a painful amount of interest. Evidence of the identity of the bodies having been taken, the inquiry was adjourned. ATTEMPTED MURDER RYA DISAPPWSTED LOVER. At the Special Petty Sessions, held at Guildford yesterday morning, Alfred Edward Stevens, a young aged about eighteen, the 800 of a tradesman at Clroishiun, was charged with @hooting Eliza Dewberry, with intent to murder her. The circumstances of the case are of ..o treonlmary character, and great excitement prevails in the neighbourhood where the crime wan committed. The lowing is the substance of the evidence adduced yesterday, when Mr. Humphreys, jun., of Newgitte-street, rustrocted by the authorities at Scotland-yard, through the hotro. mentality of Sir Denis Le Merchant, Bart., whose niension is at Chobbam-place, °outlet:tat the prosecution. The ph goner was undefended. The girl, Eliza Dewberry, who is 22 years of age, was living last December in the servi , ,, of Mr. Lake, of Chobham, and the prisoner wished to keep company with her, but him overtures were rejected. Th u disappointment seems to have worked upon the young nun s mind so much that be is supposed to have made two at. tempts to take Elisa Dewberry's life. One evening, about a week before Christmas, when Mr. and Mn. Like wen; sitting in their drawing-room, the girl hail occasion to p ag , between the lamp and the window, and, almost immediately afterwards& gun was fired through the window, and a bullet, which passed within four inches of Mr. Lake's herd, broke the lamp and the looking-glass, and rebounded without in juring any one. The authorities at Scotland-yard were communicated with by Sir Denis Le Merchant, and De tective Whither went down to Chobluun to nuke inquiries, and had en interview with Stevens, wh o was suspected et that time, but nothing remitted from these prop-sidings, although a reenlist of 501- w,u offered by Mr. lake for the discovery of the offender. At the end of January Eliza Dewberry left her situation and went to reside with her parents at Sutton, near Guildford, where, on the 13th inst., the offence with which the pri. loner stands charged was committed. On the 9th of this month Stevens called at Dewberry's cottage and asked to see the girl, but the mother, knowing her daughter's wishes, said she was from home. About half.paat seven o'clock on Thursday night Mrs. Dewberry and her daughter were sitting in the kitchen, which faces the high rood, when they beard the report of fire-arms, and two pal. lets passed immediately over their beads and struck the opposite wall. The escape of both women is most remarkable, for they were sitting in a line, sod the daughter, who was between the candle and window, within five feet of the latter, was in the act of stooping the moment the gnu was fired. The shadow of the daughter would fall upon the blind, end the cottage is low built, so that a gun might easily be fired from the garden into the kitchen. Several persons saw the prisoner walking in the direction of Sutton, between six and reven on Thursday night, and returning towards Chobheni between eight and nine. Nearly all of them noticed that be carried something nuder hie coot, and one woman swore positively that be had a gun. A girl named Emma Fricker was walk ing past Dewberry's house at the hour in ques tion, and saw prisoner standing before it. When he noticed her he walked away, but before she had gone mazy ' yards she heard a gun fired, and, .turning round, saw some one running away in the aireawn . of Chobham. This witness saw no other person but the prisoner in the neighbourhood of Dewberry's cottage that evening. The young man was arrested, next morning, et his father's house, where the police found a gun which bore marks of ' having been recently discharged. The prisoner, who merely said he was innocent of the charge, was ournmittel to take his trial at the next Surrey Assizes. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BILSTON. At Billiton yesterday, a miner, named Thowa4 Allford, who is about 50 years of age, was committed for trial on • charge of attempted murder. The evidence showed that the prisoner, whom a widower, has been living since about Christmas with a widow who has bees twice mar. tied, and whose name now is Corfield. They live with two of the widow's sons, about half • mile out of Billiton. On Saturday evening they went into the town, and drank moderately at • public-house. Afterwards they went to the house of a friend, named Samuel Tooke, with whom they took supper. Whilst at Tonka ' s house Allford ailed him outside, and said that lie was too into. mate with the widow. Tooke denied that he was, and they left without • disturbance having taken place. Some days before Allford had expressed to Corfield his jealousy respecting Tonks ; but she assured him there was no ground for such • feeling. They got home about 1 o'clock on Sun. day morning, sod sat for some time before the fire in the kitchen, where were also the two sons, who are aged 17 and 15 respectively. The elder lay asleep. The conversation between Allford and Mrs. Corfield respecting Tooke was con. tinned, but without high weeds being resorted to. Corfield re. witted her denial that she was intimate with the object of her paramour's suspicion. Suddenly, she says, Allford took from around his waist a piece of cord that served him foribraoes. Through the loop at one end he passed the other end and passed the loop over her heed, drew it tight, and lifting her up passed the cord over a hook in the ceding, fastened it there, and left her suspeoded. Cot field struggled, but Allford pulled too tightly to make her struggles effective. The younger son then awoke his brother and accused Allford of having hung his mother. Allford with an oath told him to " hold his tongue or he would cut his throat," and was about to attack bun, when the elder brother interfered and at the same tiros br oke the cord by which has mother was suspended. The woman was insensible, and remained in that condition about f.lO minutes. The prisoner said that she wanted to hang herself, so he gave her the rope from his waist. A TERRIBLE STRUUGLE. The printer and publisher of the Fif eshire Jesruel, • conservative paper established at Cupar, was apprehended in London on Saturday last on • charge of forged. On Sunday night he was handed over to Mr. Bell, chief coo. stable of the county of Fife, who had coin up to town use escort. They took their departure for the north by the ex press leaving King's-cross at 9.15 that night. They rode first.clua. The compartment hail no other occupants, and care was taken to have both doors locked. The prisoner was further secured by handcuffs. On the journey he chatted familiarly with Mr. Bell, and when at York was provided with refreshment. Between York and Darlington by some means he contrived to free himself of the iron cuff, the remaining cuff being left on the wrist of the chief constable, and manifested a wildness of manner which some what alarmed his guardian. Without any further warn ing, he threw himself backwards out of the window, but was baulked in his attempt to commit suicide by his com panion, who had to stretch himself, to the imminent peril of his own life, a considerable way out of the window in order to get held of his collar, and so recover him. The maniac was desperate, and a fea rful struggle ensued, which lasted, Mr. Bell states, for • whole belt-hour. The would be suicide almost piteously begged Mr. Bell to let go his hold, and Mr. Bell, with • view rather to save him from inevitable death than to retain the custody of his ',Hefter, as desperately gripped him by the throat. Mr. Bell was unable to drag him in, owing to the position in which the wilful fellow hung out of the window, his legs from the knee Joint only being within the carriage. Mr. Bell was overcome at last by exhaustion, and the maniac made our more despe rate effort and broke away from hid captor.tunibling headlong by the side of the train. The engine whistle hod just then been sounded, before drawing up at Darlington, and in a few seconds more the train stopped at the station. The side of the carriage was besmeared with blood, indicative of the fearful nature of the struggle, and some of the passengers. most of whom at that hour of the night (the train is due at Darlington at 3.53) would be drowsy, thought they hail heard a strange noise. The express suffered • deten tion of half an hour or more while a pilot engine was despatched up the line in search, it was supposed, of the maws mangled remains, but in the thick darkness that prevailed no trace whatever could be found. On Monday afternoon, however, a farmer in attendance at the Haling tou market reported to the police that lie hail met on the mid between Appleton Wiske and &neaten, lead ing to the Cleveland moors, a man without • I hat, respectably dressed, and greatly disfigured with cuts and bruises about the face. It is supposed that his head had come in contact with the footboard of the carriage. Chief-constable Bell and Superiutendeot Robson, of the Darlington police, immediately set Mt in pursuit, and traced their game as far as Osmotherley, which is on the very edge of the moors. They wore only two hours behind him. He had slept an hour at a roadside cottage, and washed himself. The kind housewife lied likewise pro vided him with a covering for his heed. As he bee no money whatever upon him, it is thought he cannot long remain undiscovered. His forgery transactions were per petrated on one of the banking houses iu Omar, and are said to amount to between 3,00 W. to 4,0001. He ab scowled from Cupar in the latter part of January last, and when apprehended was hying in lodanms in the Brompton•rusid. THE ACCIDENT IN A LEAD MINE. From the time of the melancholy accident at the Bryn Owing lead mines, near Mold, by which sixteen men lost their lives, every exertion has been made to procure the bodice of the miners. The engine in use at the mine has been constantly at work getting the water out of it, and by Sunday the efforts had been so far successful as to warrant an endeavour to get at the bodies. The pit was surrounded by thousands of people throughout the day, and the greatest excitement prevailed . After considerable delay end diffi culty, one of the bodies van browlit to the pit mouth, and was identified as that of William Williams, one of the miners. Nu other bodies were recovered during the day, but the water is so far cleared out of the mine, that it is thought probable all the bodies will be brought up during the week. An inquest was opened on view of the body of Williams, on Monday, before Mr. Peter Parry, coroner. at the Royal Oak, near Boni Percy, and was adjourned to Tuesday next. Several ieflueutial gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood have been unremitting in their elides- Venn SO soothe and alleviate the sorrow awl grief of the distressed widows and orphans, who have been thus sud denly depth ed of their sole support. A public meeting will be held this day at Mold, for the purpose of organising a relief fund, and for setting on foot a subscription list for the relief of the suffering families. THE HARTLEY COLLIERY RELIEF FUND.-110 total amouot received in aid of the widows nod orphans by the late oolliery accident at Hartley, up to lest evening, was about 17,650/., of which 1471, was received doting Monday , and nearly 1801. yesterday.