The Express. — London, England, 1862-07-26 00:00:00

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Peres Nene and Senor Maness.—And FAMILY JAR& PITNCWL TEE Emus, THEEvank—EING REEKY THE EIGHTH. Macon. Marla Kean, Jordan, RAW'. Raymond, J. P. Cathcart. Imre% Garden, sad Meadows : Yea Marta Lean end Mama Chapman.—And THRICE MARRIED. ST,IMMB. TIM EYEING, UNDKICkiii I.OBI.—YRIENDS OR FM Mama Vidal, Dewar. and F. Matthews ; Mrs. F. Miathwws. Mimes Harbert sad Lien Turner.—And PRINCE AMABEL. BRITANNIA. HIGH WATER AT LONDOS BRIDCII TEM DAYLl(Ornl4.lll4liii..7:.Alliino - O r ia7 2h. Sm. To-Rozoow—Morobro. Afternoon. 21r. 4001. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 26. WHY is an English oourt of justice a terror no leas to them that do well than to the evil-doer ? Why does every sensitive man and every modest woman instinctively shrink from entering the wit ness-box, with almost as much horror as if it were the dock t Surely it ought not so to be. It is a high privilege to be able by honest testimony to aid in maintaining a rightful cause, and English men are not so given to mendacity that they have usually reason to fear the bringing on themselves the penalties of perjury. But the explanation of this strange anomaly is not far to seek, for it is known to every one of our readers. It lies simply in the licence accorded by law and custom to Counsels' tongues. The law allows the test of cross-examination to elicit the whole truth, and custom permits its perversion into an instrument of torture to belie the truth. Nbt o indeed, that all barristers intentionally thus offend. There are among them hundreds of up right and honourable men, with whom, save in so far as they themselves are misled, a witness is sure to meet with fair play and respect. But, unhap pily, there are also in the profession, and generally rising, for obvious reasons, to the highest position in it, many men who have neither honour nor con science, and whose sole object is to win their cause, at whatever cost to justice and humanity. Such as these may happen Lobe retained in any case, and they are probably most frequently retained where the right is clearly on the other side, and when their instructions can only be an amplifica tion of that famous brief which bore, " We have "no case, but abuse the opposite party." These instructions at least they faithfully fulfil. Covert insinuation and open charge of the foulest con duct and motives are the weapons with which they habitually fight. Nor can the Judge always interpose for the protection of the victims. The law cannot discriminate beforehand betwixt an honest and a prevaricating witness, and therefore it must allow, and the Judge who administers it must allow, certain questions to be put to every witness at the discretion of the ex amining Counsel. Thus the most horrible accusations are made, and wounds are inflicted, which will cease to rankle only with life itself. And the knowledge that such may be, and daily is, the treatment to which witnesses are exposed, is the plain and sufficient reason why everyone is averse to place himself, or to allow those dear to him to be placed, in such a situation. In a less flagrant degree, for the sufferers are not then lifted up in sight of the multitude to have the finger of scorn pointed at them, but still to a grievous and shameful extent, the latitude of ac cusation frequently taken by Counsel in their speeches, operates to deter the injured from seek ing a remedy, or to influence the innocent to sub mit in silence to an unjust exaction. What can be done to remedy a state of things so discreditable? No help, as we have already said, can be sought in strict rules of law for what is necessarily committed to the discretion of the barrister. But if the Judge cannot prevent at the moment the most flagrant abuse of that discretion, he has it at least in his power, by sharp and stern reprimand, to lessen the frequency of its recur rence. No barrister, however eminent, likes to incur the displeasure of the Judge before whom he pleads, nor will attorneys continue to instruct counsel to act in a manner which they know will prejudice the court against them. And therefore we observe with pleasure a recent instance in which the eminent Judge who presides over the Divorce Court administered a significant rebuke to the line of defence which had been adopted. The facts of the case were clear and undisputed. A physician, himself married, availed himself of his professional position to seduce the affections of the wife of the Curate of the parish, and coolly informed the Vicar of the fact, and of his intention to elope with her, and, after obtain ing a double divorce, to marry her. In spite of the Vicar's astounded remonstranoes he carried out his plan, all but the divorce from his own wife, which under the circumstances he of course will not get. The injured husband, however, brought a suit for divorce from his wife, and claimed, as the law permits him to do damages, from the seducer. This course the seducer's Conn eel thought fit to stigmatise as one he ought to blush to adopt, and he insinuated that his client was as much the seduced as the seducer. Sir C. All honour to the Judge who could dare thus boldly to enforce the claims of common justice against legal sophistry, and to demand even for a guilty woman that her character should net be further degraded for the sake of diminishing legal damages. But much as the power of the Judges in such matters is, we may fairly ask whether it is all that can properly be brought to bear upon offenders in such a sense. Ought there not in a profession such as the Bar to be a public opinion which should work in the same direction and with even greater force f It is surely not pap- Bible that such practices should not be reprobated by opinion, if only it could find utterance. Nor is it easy to believe that the really honourable members of the profession would not eagerly welcome any means by which so foul a blot could be wiped from their common name. We invite them earnestly to the conside ration of this question. Recent circumstances have brought the government of the Bar under review, and perhaps may pave the way to its reform. But a reform, to be effectual, should be a thorough purging of the evil elements which now degrade a noble calling. The Bar of England ought to stand in popular estimation not as venal hirelings, but as upright champions. Its members ought to come between the contending passions of disputants, and seeing where they are in error or under prejudice, refuse to lend themselves to heighten the one or to make triumphant the other. Such is the lofty view of their true functions which many in the profession now take, and which they illustrate by example. What is wanted is the means of making their principles known, and of securing their observance on the part of the less scrupulous. When the means of so doing are found and adopted, the Bar will stand in popular esteem and in solid position where it has never stood yet, for it will cease to bear the opprobrium of retarding justice, of screening the guilty at any cost to the innocent, and of struggling for a victory at any cost of truth. int €oun. BALMOIL4I,, JuLT 24. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princesses Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, and the Princes Arthur and Leopold, and attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, Sir Charles Wood, General the Hon. C. Grey, Lord Charles Fitzßoy, Captain Grey, Major Elphinstono, and Dr. Januar, arrived at Balmoral yesterday afternoon at a quarter before 4 o'clock from Windsor Castle, having tra velled by railway from Windsor to Aboyne, where carriage* were in readiness to convey her Majesty and suite to Balmoral. The Prince of Wales visited Mr. Bedford'. photographic collection during his visit to London on Tuesday last. Mr. G. Harrigan, F.8.C.5., and Sir Philip H. Clarke, Bart, had an interview yesterday with the Duke of New castle at the Colonial-olden The Prince Cowart Memorial Committee had a meeting yesterday at the New Palace of Westminster. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince of Saxony and Prince George of Saxony have returned to Finance's Hotel. The Marquis of Hastings has arrived at Long's Hotel. The Earl of Bective, M.P., has left Grafton. street, for the Lodge, Virginia. The Countess Cowper has left town for Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, where her ladyship intends to receive • suceession of visitors. Mr. and Lady Mary Craven will give a grand entertainment this evening to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits, at their residence in Arlington-street. . _ . Mr. and Lady Edith Abney Hastings and Lady Constance Hastings have left Orcevenor-guars for Welles ley Hall, Leicestershire. . . . . . A marriage was solemnised on Tuesday, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, between Mr. Richard Ark wright and Lady Mary Byes, second daughter of the Earl of Strafford. Mr. Bright, M.P., is at present staying at Thiamin, on the river Spey, near Grantown, the shooting lodge of Mr. Ban, M.P. The hon. gentleman is not in good health. Lord Brougham (says the Kendal Mercury), who came down to. Brougham Hall about a fortnight ago, is, we are happy to learn, in the enjoyment of his wonted degree of health. Taking his lordship's age into account, his activity in surprising. The City Press gays :—" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor left town foe the Continent on Monday last, where he is expected to remain for several weeks, for the pupae of recruiting hia health, after the fatigue conse quent upon the official duties of the second year of his mayoralty." His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh and suite have (says the Edinburgh Courant) arrived at Loch Kranard Lodge, on the Grandtully hills, near Aberfeld3, for the seams. The Count of Montalembert (says the Edinburgh Courant of yesterday) is expected to arrive in Edinburgh to-night. The count, we believe, is visiting Moira's, lona, and other monuments of the ecclesiastical history of Scot. land, for the benefit of his great work on Monachism in the West. The remains of the late Archbishop of Armagh will be conveyed from Woburn Abbey to the palate, on Monday. The body will be drawn in a hearse from Woburn to the Ulster Railway station, Belfast, and so far the fune ral will be public. Thence it will be conveyed, by special train, to the palsoe, and lie in state in the grand hall until Wednesday, the 30th iesk, when it will be removed for interment in the crypt of Armagh CathedraL The pro cession will leave the palace at 12 o'clock noon, end will include representatives of the first families in the kingdom. Mr. Murray's list for the next season includes "The Life and Letters of the late Lieut.-Gee. Sir W. Na pier," edited by H. A. Bruce, Eel., M.P.; "History of the Invasion of the Crimea," by A. W. Kinglake, M.P.; " Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island," by Com mander It. C. Mayne, R.N.; "On the Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man," by Sir Charles Lyell ; "Five Months on the yang-Tame River," by Capt. T. W. Blakis toe, R.A., and Alfred SMUG "Autobiographical Me moirs of General Sir Robert Wilson," by the Rev. Herbert Randolph, M.A. ; "The Ruined Cities of North Africa,' by N. Davis, M.D., F.R.G.S. ; "Recollections of Tartar Steppes sod of their Inhabitants," by Mrs. Atkinson; " Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds," by the late C. R. Leslie, R.A., edited by Tom Taylor ; " Wild Wales ; ife People, Language, and Scenery," by George Borrow ; and the often-announced " Works of Alexander Popo," by the Rev. Whitwell Elwin. Some doubts are entertained of the truth of the Southern report of the capture of Baton Rouge. The citizens of Memphis have been ordered to take the oath of allegiance or to leave the city within five days. The Confederate Governor Moore, of Louisiana, has issued a violent and determined proclamation forbidding all intercourse of the inhabitants with New Orleans for any purpose, and declaring that the faith of the people in final success is nowaysahaken. The Confederate General Van Dorn has issued a proclamation declaring his intention to protect the banks along the river Mississippi to the last ex tremity. The Federal General Pope has issued a stirring address to the army in Virginia declaring his inten tion to lead them speedily against the enemy. President Lincoln has transmitted a bill to Con gress compensating any State abolishing slavery. The Senate has passed a bill admitting Western Virginia as a State, with a clause providing for gradual emancipation. It is reported that, to facilitate enlistment, volunteers will be received for one year's service. An additional tax of one cent per pound has been imposed on sugar. A lady in New Orleans, named Phillips, has been sent to Ship Inland, for laughing derisively upon her balcony during the passing of the funeral of a Federal officer. The British ganboata Landrall and Rinaldo are at New Orleans. The Congress has postponed adjournment for one day. President Lincoln is expected to send a message to Congress, referring to the Confiscation Bill. It is reported he will either veto the bill, or return it with suggestions of modifications. The majority of the members for the Border States repudiate President Lincoln's emancipation scheme entirely, but the minority favour the plan. Their reply to the President will shortly be published. A mass meeting was held in Union-square yester day. The meeting was not so numerously attended as that in April last year. Resolutions were passed favouring persistent efforts to crush the rebellion, and declaring emphatically that foreign armed intervention would be resisted with all the strength of the country. The majority of speakers favoured the employ ment of negroes in the war. The Senate has passed the Militia Bill with an amendment limiting the emancipation to the slaves of the rebels. The Confederate guerillas are becoming very active in the Border States, destroying property and burning the bridges. They had captured two small towns in Missouri. The Persia has arrived out. INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JULY 15, EVICNING. Money easy. Gold 17 premium. Silver 11 pre mium. The scarcity of coin causes great distress among the population, and no remedy is as yet pro • posed. Exchange, 128/. Stocks heavy. New York Central, 893. Illinois, 563. Erie, 33/. Cotton buoyant. Middling Upland, 44c. Flour improving, and sc. higher. Wheat and corn ad vancing, and 11c. dearer. Provisions good inquiry. Sugar, coffee, and molasses, market very firm. QITEENSTOWN, JOLT 25. The Royal Mail steamer Scotia arrived here at 2.20 p.m. She brings 249 passengers and 752,216 dollars in specie. She landed 84 sacks of mails, 36 passengers, and proceeded at 3 p.m. All well. SOUTHAMPTON, JOLT 26. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Teuton* Captain Taube, from New York on the 12th inst., has arcived off Cowes. She brings 141 passengers for Hamburg, Havre, and this port ; also 260,650 dolls. for England, 134,607 dols for France, and 8,700 dole. for Hamburg. Her news has been anticipated. The Empress Eugenie went to Paria from St. Cloud on Thursday to visit the Primer Clothilde. Her Majesty remained for ►n hour with the Princess, who is going on most satisfactorily. The French Minister of War has just decided that soldiers may be placed, as in preceding years, at the dis posal of fanners, at the request of the latter, to assist in getting in the harvest. Farmers in the neighbourhood of Paris have already applied and obtained troops, who will board and lodge with them until the completion of the harvest work. The Atlantic and Great Western Railway Com pany have =named that their line will be completed to the great oil wells at Titusville during August next. . M. Roger, the well-known tenor singer, who has been selling • part of his property at Villismenr- Manic, for building purposes, has inserted (it is said) • clause in the contract, to the and that the streets, avenues, boulevards, to be formed shall bear the names of crusts, as Roger, Meyerbeer, Auber, do., or of operas, as La Reim de Chore, Domino Noir, Sinitic, tee. Lieutenant-General Sir William Codrington, K.C.8., the Governor of Gibraltar, has arrived in Fagland on leave of absence. The ships composing the Channel fleet, under the command of Rear-Admiral Robert Smart, K.H., were yesterday at anchor at Kiel, where lettere for the present will rem& them. The Maz►cax Qunsrforr.—Last night's Gazette eontaine an official notification of the blockade of the port of MazatLin, on the Watt Coast of Mexico, on the 28th of May last, by the frigate Mayonnaise, belonging to the naval forces of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French. IFUNDAT. S.W. to N. and K., fresh SCOTLAND. to light, generally fine. Easterly to S.W., mode- IRI LAND. S. to N.W., moderate to rate, some showers. fresh. As neat above. W. CaNTRAL. Al sert above. N.& toll.E.and ton. W., S.W.ANGLAND. 8.5. W. to W, S.W. mo llght to moderate, dente to fresh. some rain, geurrally floe. As seat above. Variable, light to mo derate, flue. MONDAY'. B.lf. to S.W. and W. light to fresh. 8. K. 1881. Alb. As nett ►bore. I. Coast 81allar to above. The Ordnance Committee yesterday concluded its sittings for this seasiou, but as its labours are incomplete, permission will be asked for its re-amembling on the meet ing of parliament next spring. We (Army and Nary Gazette) believe, after mature consideration, the Lords of the Admiralty hare decided upon adhering to the plans originally agreed upon for the construction of the armour-plated iron ships Agin court, Minotaur, and Northumberland, and that they are to be cased with 'dates 5i inches thick, on a teak backing of 9 inches. The Board of Admiralty will proceed to Chatham on Thursday, and Sheerness on Friday next. Their lord ships will probably visit Portsmouth the following Monday. The United Semite Gazette states that Commander Brown, C. 8., the registrar-general of seamen, ►fter an arduous service of thirty years, has retired with a pension of 4504 a year. Madlle. Patti is to sing at the Italian Opera at Paris from November till February. THE NIGHT POACHING PISTINTION BILL. The following IN a oopy of the bill, as amended in committee, entitled an Act for the PrOVlmtion of Night Poaching: " Where= night poaching, and murderous smaulta mixing therefrom, have lately increased, and it is expedient that the laws now in force should be amended, for the better detection and prevention of such climes : Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the ad vice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : "1. The word ' game' in this act shall for all the pur poses of this act be deemed to include any one or more bares, pheasants, partridges, eggs of pheasants and par tridges, woodcocks, snipes, rabbits, grouse, black or moor gams, and eggs of grouse, black or moor game ; and the words ' justice' and justices' in this act shall, unless other wise provided for, mean respectively a justice and justices at the pee= respectively of or for the empty, riding. division, liberty, city, borough, or place in which any game, gun, part of gun, net, snare, or engine after men tioned shall be found ; and words in this act importing the singular number only shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number only shall include the singular number, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction. "2. It shall be lawful for any constable or peace officer in any county, borough, or place in Great Britain and Ireland, in any highway, street, or public place, to search any per son whom he may have good cause to suspect of coming from any land where he shall have been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game, and having in his possession any pine unlawfully obtained, or of having in his possession any gun, part of gun, or nets or engines used for the killing or taking game, and also to stop, starch, and detain any cart or other conveyance in or upon which there shall be good cause to suspect that any such game, or any such article or thing, is being carried by any such person, and should there be found any game, or any such article or thing as aforesaid, upon such person, cart, or other convey ance, to seize and detain such game, article, or thing ; and such constable or peace officer shall in such case apply to some justice of the peace for a summons, citing such person to appear before two justices of the peace acting for the county or borough within which the seizure has been made; and if such person shall have obtained such game by un lawfully going on any land in search or pursuit of game, or shell have used any such article or thing as aforesaid for unlawfully killing or taking game, or shall have been accessory thereto, such person shall, on being convicted thereof, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding 51., and shall forfeit such game, gang, parte of pm, nets, and en gines, and the justices shall direct the same to be sold, and the proceeds of such sale, with the amount of the penalty, to be paid to the treasurer of the county or borough where the conviction takes place ; and no person who, by direction of a justice in writing, shall sell any game so seized, shall be liable to any penalty for such sale. " 3. Any penalty under this act shall be recovered and enforced in England in the same manner as pen►lties under the Act 1 and 2 William IV., chap. 32, and in Scotland under the Act 2 and 3 William IV., chap. 68, and in Ire land ander the Petty Sessions, Ireland, Act, 1851. "4. That the powers and providing of the act of the 11th and 12th years of Victoria, chapter 43, shall extend and apply to this act, and to all proceedings, matters, and things to be taken, had, and done, and to all persons to be proceeded against or taking proceedings under this act. "5. That no conviction or order made ander this act, or adjudication made on appeal therefrom, shall be queahed for want of form, or be removed by certiorari or otherwise into any of her Majesty's superio;ooorte of record ; mud no warrant of commitment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid con viction to sustain the same. " 6. That any person who shall think himself aggrieved by any such summary conviction may appeal to the next court of general or quarter sessions which shall be holden not less than twelve days after the day of such conviction for the county, riding, division, or borough wherein the cause of complaint shall have arisen, provided that such person shall give to the complainant a notice in writing of such appeal, and of the canoe and matter thereof, within three days after such conviction, and seven clear days at the least before such sessions, and shall, within three days, enter into a recognisance, or bond of caution in Scotland, with a sufficient surety, before • justice of the peace, con ditioned personally to appear at the said sessions, and to try such appeal, and to abide the judgment of the court thereupon, and to pay such costs as shall be awarded by the court ; and the court at such sessions shall hear and deter mine the matter of appeal, sod shall make such order therein, with or without costa, to either party, as to the court shall seem fit, and shall, if necessary, issue process for enforcing such judgment." The following notice* have been given of amendments; on consideration of the above bill Mr. William Forster—" That the bill be recommitted, in order to restore the restriction to night of the fresh powers given to the police, which waa expunged in committee under a misapprehension." Sir Joseph Parton—To move the following clause : "That every policeman employed in carrying out the pur poses of this act shall keeps register of the orders given to him, and of the time he was employed on each occasion and that the person by or for whom be wee employed shall be charged for the time occupied and services rendered." Sir Baldwin Leighton—Alter title of bill to " A Bill inti tuled at Act for the Prevention of Poaching." Preamble, lice 1, leave dtit " night." Clones 1, line 10, leave out "between." Clause 1, after "shall have been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game," insert "or any preen acting in concert with such person." Clause 1, after "citing such person to appear before two justices of the peace," in sert "assembled in petty sessions, as provided in the 18th and 19th Victoria, chapter 126, section 9, as far as regards England sod Ireland, and before a sheriff or any two justices of the peace in Scotland." At end of claure insert "and, if no conviction takes place, the game, or any such article or thing as aforesaid, or the value thereof, shall be restored to the person from whom it had been seized." Clause 3, at end add, when not otherwise directed in this act." On Friday next Mr. Strafford is to dispose by auction of the large herd of pedigree shorthorns which bare for many years been bred by Mr. J. Banks Stanhope, ILE, at Revesby Abbey, near Boston, Lincolnshire. _ . . About 50 heed are deecet;ded from first-class stock, pur chased at the celebrated Hendon and Fairsley sales, and also from fdr. Bolden, of Lancaster. The Royal Commission to inquire into the pre sent position of the Royal Academy will be nominated by Mr. Oowper shortly after parliament rises. A memorial window in commemoration of Vin cent Novello is about to be placed in the north transept at Westminster Abbey. The works for the restoration of Ripon Cathe dral are to be carried out under the direction of Mr. G. G. Scott, at a cost of 30,0001. Blondin'a performance on the high rope over the fountains at the Crystal Palace yesterday was attended by ' upwards of 17,000 perilous. He repeated his feats of walk ing backwards and forwards with his eyes bandaged and body enveloped in a sack, lying down, standing on his head, and turning somersaults, and concluded with • aeries of daring gymnastic exercises. The cricket fixtures for next week are—on Mon. day, Surrey v. Nottinghamshire (return) at Nottingham ; on Thursday, South Wales v. House of CO[lllllooll at Lord's ; All England v. Eighteen Free Foresters, at Leamington ; Gentlemen of Surrey Club and two players v. County of Essex, at Chelmsford; United Eleven v. Eighteen, with four professionals, at Wolverhampton ; and Kent v. Sussex (return), at Tunbridge Wells. EIEPLOYNENT OF NEOBOHE IN THE A NKR ICAN WAR. —General Butler, who is ready enough to sumo responsi bility in other atters, declined to assume it in this, and wrote an official letter to the President, asking him eate n-47Ln%, leadat his was p.. to ti n with e th e runaway slaves that that they could not be seat back to their owners, as the law of last July forbade it ; that they could n ot be al lowed to suffer for want of food, for humanity forbade it ; and that, therefore, the only worse was to employ them at fair and reasonable wages, at inch work as circumstances I rendered most advisable. General Lewis Wallace, of Indiana, after • serenade recently given to him at Waahington, spoke out more clearly, and asked, "If • Federal general found the negro before him as he advanced, planted there by some accident—placed, as it were, in his path by Providence for • special purpose—and refused •to make the services of the negro available, whether such • general would not be asay I" " If," be added, " I can make my soldiers oomfortable by the services of a negro ; if, by the services of a band of negroes I can relieve them of onerous duties and hard work, shall I not do it Yes' and I will do it." The audience i cheered the sentiment, though some one called out " Put no • arms in their hands." And this interruption explains the real state of the question. The objection to employing the I negroes is disappearing ; that against arming them remains i n full force, except amen the small class of ultra abolitiociste and the strong-minded women of New England. —New York correspondent of the Times. Pop. rt 70 Chorley Leeds July 25. Fazontrei PIJEDI Total ... tso . r. Statistical Depazimest, r-law Board. A t a recent meeting of the Manchester Board a Guardians, the chairman (Mr. Richards) reminded the clerk to the board that there wee a resolution of one of the committees which had not yet been confirmed. Mr. Harr+ the clerk,—No, sir, I do not yet see my way to the att.dc ment of the object. The chairman Nin explanatiai to the based The workhouse apparatus for cooking is much out of order, aud the committee pared a resolution onto isi it to be repaired. For a day or two, however, whilst being repaired, a change of the dietary is oeccesarY, awl ' of dietary moat first have the approval of the Poor. law Board to London. (A laugh.) Mr. Rarrop—ne mittes suggested that the inmates might have bad bread ssi cheese and ale for dinner, but that would be coetrarY law, which would not allow it even to the guars lisns thew *elves,. The meaning of all this is briefly that the pedalo have not power to repair a chimney flue without applic!tio: to the government. A letter from the Poor-law Board 01 ' also mad, Stating that they saw no objection to the apple' meet of Julia Maclure as washerwoman. ILLILWAYS Alto PUBLIC COMPANIC4 me POLO t: 1111NT.—Yertorday • committee of the Lords, couWON' the Marquis of Baliaba_ry (chairman), Earl St. Gerrost.•• Viscount Melville, and Lord, Denman and Chordal, V", into consideration the case of the Morel Wrexham 1 Connell' Quay Railway, Lord Moetri being the • 6e witnees examined in its favour by Mr. Walesbr. The ,-. of the opposition to the Great Western, Ellesmere ei.3 Oswestry line was continued on the Duke of Buceleil's committee, which stands adjourned to ibis day , ic that the inquiry ma be concluded. The besting Mersey, Irwell, sad Weaver Navigation also s teads journed to this day for the lame purpose in the Cogsmo' TILE EXPR E SS, SATURDAY EVENING JULY CRIS/WILL, after commsutit c: the audacitp of . the crime, thus disposed cif pleas : • The claim for damsels natter the preasst UT was a very different thing from the $1 action for Grim. la the latter case the many awarded by the jury went directly into the husband's pocket, whereas now, when there were children, it was competent far the judge to have it secured for their maintenance and benefit. There certainly could be no reason why a clergyman in a humble station in the Church, who had been left to bring up &family without the assistance of his wife, should blush to ask damages of the adulterer who had deprived him of her society. They might rather ask whether the adulterer ought not to blush, when for the mho of saving his money he instructed his counsel to vilify the woman he had debauched? The co-respondent was not present, but he (Sir C. Creesvrell) could not help looking to see whether the learned doctor who represented him did not blush when he put forward such an argument. (A laugh.) The learned doctor bad resorted to the common, low, vulgar, and miserable cry that it was the woman who habeas the seducer. But really the co-respondent—who was a medical man of mature years, with a wife and family of his own, and who had necessarily enjoyed the peti tioner's fullest confidence—was not the person to talk about being seduced, especially when he had committed the offence in spite of the meet earnest remonstrances of the clergyman of the parish. LATEST I N TELLIGENOL 611121411% Okailinglo SERVIA AND MONTNNEGRO. PARIS, JULY 2& The Paris papers of to-day publish the following telegrams " Belgrade, July 26. "The convention concluded betwecTnVefik iffendi and M. Garaschunin stipulated that the Turkish army should remove to a distance of three hours' journey from the frontiers of Beryls. " Notwithstanding this convention, however, Omer Pacha has just ordered the whole Turkish army to approach the Servian frontier." " Cettigns, July 24. " The Turks have fallen back from Bajaratz to Spuz, after having been beaten with great lees by Mirko on Saturday last." AMERICA. (Per Boob•, rid Roches Point.) NEW YORK, JOLT 16. The Confederates have disappeared from General M'Clellan's front. General Jackson is reported to be moving in the direction of Fredericksburg. Fort Darling has been strengthened with iron-clad batteries. The Confederates are everywhere making preparations for a prolonged struggle. The Confederates are within li miles of Nash ville. An attack is hourly expected, and active preparations are making for resistance. Lexington, in Kentucky, has been placed under martial law. The Confederates, under General Morgan, are reported to be advancing upon the town. The Confederates are Mated to be making mys terious movements in the neighbourhood of Corinth. The bombardment of Vicksburg continued with out result. EXPRESS FROM PARIS (foil ova ova ooaamposolia) 1 , PARIS, FRIDAY RVIIIING. - - --- There is a remarkable want of confirmation of the Patrie's extraordinary story of Garibaldi's con templated attack upon Rome, either with "six thousand," or any other number of volunteers. I can assure you that the Italian government knows nothing of any such project. Letters from Italy do indeed speak of much agitation among what is called the party of action both in Rome and else where. A proclamation was issued some little time ago by a secret committee in Rome, recommending a rising against the Pope's troops, and, at the same time, that if the French interfered the "patriot forces" should invariably decline any collision with them. But this manifesto was anterior to the new attitude attributed—and I am still more sure than I was yesterday, falsely attributed—to Gari baldi. If the latest rumours about his contemplated movements are to be believed, it is rather to Athens than to Rome that he is likely to direct his steps. BuUier'a Correspondence says quite seriously that there is a scheme on foot for making Victor Emmanuel's son Amadeus King of Greece, and that France and Russia would not oppose the arrangement. It seems that when young Amadeus was at Palermo the other day with Garibaldi, the Greek emigrants there hailed him as King of Greece. There is little doubt that Garibaldi, with only 1,000 men, if let alone, could upset King Otho, who has no hold either on his army or his subjects ; but whether there is any likelihood of such an attempt I cannot say. At all events, it would be more feasible than an attack upon Rome, as long as the French flag is there. There appears to be still some doubt whether General Concha will accept the Paris embassy. At all events, the Queen of Spain has not yet signed the nomination ; and it is given out that the gene ral imposes the condition of a radial change of policy as regards France, the repudiation of Gene ral Prim, and a resumption of Spain's joint action with France in Mexico. M. Thouvenel is going to the German watering places on Monday, and during his abeenoe M. Ronher will bold the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. Some curious remembrances of a secret police agent named Canter were recently published by Hetzel, and met with great suocess—success en hanced by the analogy between many of the stories which they tell about agents provocateurs and modern practice as disclosed by the secret society trial just concluded. The government, anxious to vindicate the sacerdotal character of the spy, has somewhat tardily, and after the mischief—if mis chief there be—is done, seized the " Memoires de Canter," and the author and the publisher are to be prosecuted for " offending public morality and good manners by revealing secrets confided to persons who, from their profession, were bound to keep them sacred." If it were necessary to sustain this prosecution by a public trial and appeal to a jury, the speeches of counsel for the defence might be very damaging to the government. But the imperial constitution has wisely provided against such an evil. The trial will be secret—so far at least that no report of it can be published—and the correctional police, uutramelled by a jury, will be the judges. The Bourse was slightly affected this morning by the Italian rumours, but ultimately became firmer, and Route closed at yesterday's prices. Mobilier fell Hr. 25c., and the Italian Loan bc. The Orleans Railway rose 6fr. 25c., and Northern 2fr. 50c. ; there was scarcely any other change. The weather is now hot and very favourable for the harvest. It is announced that M. Thiers, having finished his "Consulate and Empire," has made • treaty with his publishers for a History of the Hestora• 1 Lion. A military murder, of an extraordinary charac ter, was lately committed by a sergeant of the Bth Infantry, in garrison at Metz. This non-com missioned officer was entrusted with the command of a detachment sent on duty to a rural fete at Longeville-les-Metz, where it remained all day. The service was not a hard one, and most of the men got more liquor on board than they could quite conveniently carry home. The sergeant, drunk not only with wine, but with his brief authority, took it into his head, at 11 o'clock at night, to give his little squadron a dose of drill on the road home. The corporal very sensibly remonstrated, saying that at that time of night, and after a long day's duty, the only reasonable thing was to march the men to barracks as quickly as possible. The sergeant, nettled at this resist ance to his capricious orders, loaded his carbine and shot the corporal dead. The Marquise de Champagne, to whom M. Louis Veuillot is to be married, possesses a chateau in Brittany, and has a fortune of 50,000 fr. a-year. WEATHER ESPORT.-.4TRDI DAY.) B•loaa►T, JULY N S A.M. L D. IL D. I. O. I. & 8. ---- NADA ... 29.96 68 63 &W. c 2 &MUMS 23.99 66 61 B.W. t 2 laws IssaWSX 2307 66 61 8.8.& b 1 Aarmoswi 2933 66 63 O.W. 0 I MOW= 29. 56 U W. e - GALWAY 331.11216 qou941120ws ROL miss Uvaatvot Pswelocs 30.12 OD 67 B.W. 0 1 rica.sini PLY3OOIII .30.12 Ol 68 11.8.7.. b 2 138910 3O. 13 SO 68 N.E. Weym eta 30.12 63 68 W. o $ POkililloUTil 0011118 Lupus 30.13 63 60 &W. YARNoUTII 606110600011 30.12 68 66 &W. c 1 MILOS HUblotriD *6, 2. THE EXTRAORDINARY MURDER AT CHATHAM. CHATHAM, FRIDAY. The police have succeeded in apprehending the supposed murderer of the lad Thews Frederick Hought on, whose body was discovered barbarously murdered on Chatham-lines, on the afternoon of Wednesday Last Th e supposed perpetrator of the crime surrendered himself to Police-constable Hibbert, 169, who was on duty in Si g h street, Chatham, between 11 and 12 o'clock last night, th e accused stating that he wished to give himself into custody for the murder of the boy on Chatham-lines. The constable asked if be was serious in what he had stated, when the pri. sonar said be had committed the murder, and wished to give himself up. The officer immediately took the man into custody, and conveyed him to the Aloe of super. intendant Braid, where he gave his name u Robert Alexander Burton, and his age 18 years. After the superintendent had cautioned the prisoner as to any co n . fission he might make, the prisoner said be had committed the murder in order that he might be hung, se he was tired of his life. He then voluntarily proceeded to say that ha went out on Wednesday afternoon with the intention of killing some person, and was not particular ea to who it WM. He happened to me the deceased in the town with his mother, and at once made up his mini that be would kill him. After following them for some distance the mother of the deceased went into her house in Alm•terrace, High. street, having previously given her son leave to go on the Lines to play. The prisoner continued to state that he then followed the poor child, and when near the mound of chalk where the body was covered he thought that would be a favourable spot for committing the deed. He accordingly seu,„; the deceased and threw him down, after which be cut his throat on the right Oda with a knits which he bad with hint. The doomed, he stated, rtruggied very much ail seized hold of his (the origami's) hands, on which, he sa i d, he knelt on the body and premed his throat with both hul l until the blood Sowed from the nose and eyes of the de. ceased, and he was quite dead. In answer to a questa by Superintendent Everts& as to the cause of the bruises about the facie of the deceased, the prisoner maid he only struck him once, and inflicted but one cut with the knife. While he was engaged in struggling with the deceased, the prisoner said he sew two men in the employ of Mr. Gilbert close to the heap of chalk, but he believed they did not see him. After leaving the body—the prisoner went on to state —he met a gentleman coming towards him, and be then pushed his bands, which were covered with blood, into his pockets, to prevent his seeing them. He than proceeded to the military bathing-place, where he washed his hands and • also the blood off the knife, subsequently biding the latter in a water-closet at the back of the Dark Sun publichocue, High-street. He slept that night in a yard at Chatham, and after wandering about all the following day, gave him self np to the police. After the prisoner had made the above statement, Super intendent Everist examined his clothes, when he foaled con. siderable quantities of blood on the front of his trousers, and also on the sleeve. of his coat. There was also blood on both pocket., as if the pinata had hastily pushed his hands into them, as he stated. The prisoner having also informal the police that after the murder he had wiped his heeds on the front of the deceased's shirt, the latter was examined, when the marks of hood, corresponding with that itatemeak were discovered upon it. The place described by the pri. soner in which he had concealed the knife was likewise searched by the police, when the knife, a rather small sharp case-knife, was found at the spot indicated. This morning the prisoner was . plead before the Rev. J. Formby, Mr. J. Hams, and Mr. F. Faced, at the county magistrates' justice-room, Rochester, charged re his own confession with the wilful murder of Thome Frederick Houghton. The prisoner was not dressed is the same clothes that he had oa when apprehended. lie is of very mild expresaion of countenance, about 6 feet 6 inches in height, and apparently about 18 years of age. It was stated that he bad been convicted at the same colds few months since for appropriating some money which war given to him by his master to pay a bill. lie is by trade carpenter. '' ' . • After the charge bed been read over to the prisoner by Mr. Farrell, one of the clerks, Mr. Formby asked him It be had any reason to offer why he should not be remanded until Monday ? Prisoner—l'd rather be tried Wday, if I could. Mr. Formby—Then you are remanded till Monday next. On being removed from the court to the cells the prisoner was assailed by avolley of abuse from anumber of women and others, on which he coolly informed the police that he would not mind serving them the same as be had the boy, and that the " blokes" (meaning the magistrates) might have gone on with the examination at once, as the cue war clear enough. Al the anises for the county are now on, the prisoner will be brought up on Monday to be formally remanded until a future day. THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE. The London Committee of the Lancashire and Cheshire Operatives' Belief Fund met yeeteeday at the Mansion-house ; Mr. Cotten presided, aad Menem Lycett, Morley, Ddberoglue, Armitage, Barber, and Howes were likewise present. Mr. Gibbs, the secretary, reported the acknowledgment of the receipts of the grants made at the last meeting, end he likewise reported that be bad received the sum of I,oooi. from the Viceroy of Eoppt, in aid of the fund. A letter was reed emaneting from Mears. Colman ,Ttuquand, and Co.. the well-known aooonntanta,expreesing their linmas to reader their services gratuitously, for the purpose of auditing the account. of the fund from time to time. Several applica tions were read, and after due considerstiou the following manta were made :—To St. George's, 1501. ; All sods, 1001. ;St. Peter's, Oldham-road. lax ; Hyde, 2501. ; Duke:- field, 2501. ; Livesey, 1001. ; Wilton, 1001 ; Cherie], Pt; Brayton, 501. ; Miles Platting, 50/. ; Mattram, 50/ ; Mill brook, 501. ; BoUington, 50/. ; 10111. ; Stockport, 2501. ; Stalybridge, 2501. ; Ashton, 2501 ; Middleton, 106 , -; St. &rushee, 1004 ; Enfield, 1001. ; Si. Catherine Newton, 501 ; St. Philip's, 1001. ; Blockley, 501 ; St. Thomass, Bed Bill, 501. ; &tendon, 501. Mr. Gibbs reported this Minus. Aubset and Linton bad already collected upwar...d , f 30/. by means of their ppiippiinngg bu ll finch at the lnternationr l Exhibition, and the ooesmtttae requested him to than, those gentlemen for their ezertioes on behalf of the fund. THE COTTON PANINE. The following is the vai pauperism in the nudermentie of the third with the second! The total number of paupen i the section of unions marked (6), 25,042; and in the section (a). Eleven unions have me Paupers. Ashton-under•Lyne ... 3110 Birmingham ... ... 70 Burnley... ... ... 80 Chorlton . 160 in in the amount .oneci unions, one connamot I week of the present month. in tine second week of Juts (a) wee 67,095 ; in the secti on ra (r), 411,4z5 : Oldham ... Rochdale Salford ... Stockport Total Paop" ... , :: IA Hailing(len ... Itsuchester . . (b). Eight MUMS are, in respect of the amount of rev. periam, the some as in the previous week :—Bohoe. Coventry, Eccleasll Bierlow, Macclesfield, Sheffield, Ntc..e apoc-Trest, Warrington, sad Wigan. (c). Six unions have lees : Paapies. Blaokbarn ... bOl Nottingham Liverpool io 1 iii«c.3;