The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-16 00:00:00

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Wl.t devoi): Mesdames Stephens, lleurade, Jenny Willnaore, and C. baunders.—To conclude ',kb A.S.S. Mr. J. W. Ray. BRITANNIA. Evesivs, BREAK RI "T NUT BEND. M. S. Lane American Alinatrels : Japanese Tommy: and Jtu p -Orator Wem and Mim E. Wen, Nigger Delititatura Wita TIIk BLUtiAR'S PETITION. HIGH MATTA AT LOSDOS DRIDGIT. TWO DAT —Womble, .th. 31m.... —Afternoon, Th. 50m. Tirllonow—Mornthog. 210 m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16. Tim English people have very few of those spectacular amusements which are provided freely in some continental States. They have their thanks less to the action of the Govern ment than to their own energy, but not their sir tenses. Nevertheless, the law considerately pro vides them, at irregular periods, with spectacles which may comliare in the wide-spread interest they excite, and in their humanizing effect with the wild beast c ,, rnbata, and the gladiatorial fights of the Roman amphitheatre. Our public execu tions are our games, and the convict sentenced to strangulation in the streets is as strictly con demned ad Itulltni as the Roman malefactor. If he be not butchered to make an English holiday, an English holiday is made of his butchery. Thousands of eager eyes are strained towards him as he makes his last appearance on any human stage. Connoisseurs in the morbid pathology of the human mind watch look and gesture with a sensitive appreciation of shades of feeling which is almost artistic ; and the habitues of the gallows foot interchange or store up critical comparisons on the actor before them, and previous performers in the drama on which Mr. CALCRAFT drops the curtain. If the recreations of our very lowest classes partake, as they notoriously do, of a savage character—if, as the French sarcasm has it, the English invitation to amusement is, generally, in substance if not in words, " Let us go out and " kill something ;" if to see animals worry and destroy each other is a specially British pastime, perhaps the fact is not wholly unrelated to those brutal and brutalizing punishments of which public strangulation is a surviving relic. Cock-lighting, bull-baiting, badger-drawing, rat hunting, and similar amusements are now, in great part, under legal ban. Their patrons and prac titioners are obliged to seek the shade. Like the early Christians, they meet, when they venture to draw together, with closed doors, and under the terror of the law. Even artistes of the eminence of Mr. James MACE are unable, as our police re port of to-day shows, to exercise their peaceful and orderly calling, or to pursue their preliminary studies, with that security of person and quietness of mind without which perfection is unattainable. In all these prohibitions the law has acted on the fact that displays of physical violence and tor ture are debasing to those who witness them ; and that to relish them is the sign of a mind naturally vile or degraded by vicious practice. In maintaining the custom of public executions, it violates its own rule in its most critical and crucial application. Yesterday was a great day for the patrons of the gallows and the amateurs of death in London. Mr. Causarr, like some versatile actors, had two engagements, following close upon each other, in different parts of the town. Re was at Newgate at eight o'clock and in Horsemonger lane at ten. The English murderer Wiootss and the French murderer BORDIER were despatched with short interval between. The superior attrac tion of the entertainment in the Borough appears to have drawn away the populace from the spec tacle provided for them in the City. English audiences have generally a preference for foreign over native talent ; and they seem to carry the habit into their appreciation of murderers. The sentimental and egotistic French criminal, with his crude philosophy of fatalism and unbelief, and his perverted rather than blunted natural feeling, appears to have piqued the curiosity of a Lon don crowd more strongly than the common place brutality of the burly English ruffian. The courtesies of the situation were observed on both sides. The murderer, like an actor playing a con spicuous part, bowed, from the top of the scaf fold, twice to the crowd, " and a good many of " the people assembled cheered and clapped their " hands." The exhibition was thoroughly thea trical and thoroughly French. It is satisfactory to learn that the unhappy man appears before his death to have been brought by the situation itself, or by the ministrations of those who at tended on him, to a sounder state of moral and religious feeling than that in which he had lived. But who can hope that the awakening of this better mind was helped by the parade and noto riety of a public death The flattered vanity of " drawing " a larger crowd than was ever assem bled on a similar occasion too probably for the moment absorbed any more healthy feeling. A very different and even more repulsive scene LL THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1867. was enacted at the Old Bailey. A physical struggle, the fictitious representation of which the fre quenters of the lowest theatre would not tolerate on the stage, thrust the doomed man out of this world. Screaming out protestations of his inno cence with his last breath, fighting with the warders, and clinging with his tied hands to the rope, the Limehouse murderer was at the last simply the English animal at bay. The spectators, at first paralysed by the scene, soon took their side, and amid groans and hisses from some, and cries of " Shame "—" Innocent "—" Murdered," from others, the drop fell. Can any reasoning being believe that either of these scenes, or any scene like them, is fraught with good to bystanders and eye-witnesses ? A vicious theatrical emotion in the one case, and the tumult of excited animal sympathy in the other, are the feelings which such displays most naturally rouse. The spectacles which are in tended to vindicate the law are an outrage upon decency and morals. The justice and expediency of capital punishment rest upon grounds of their own. We are not now discussing them. The propriety of public executions is a question quite distinct. They are doomed so soon as reason, observation, and natural feeling gain their slow victory over prejudice and habit. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Federal Council then adopted the budget as voted by the parliament, the Postage Bill, and the bill proposing a loan of 10,000,000 for the Federal marine and the coast defences. A communication from the president of the par liament, and a bill relating to the rate of interest on monies lent were referred to a committee, together with a proposal of Count Bismarck re specting a reform in the mortgage laws. Herr Dellbruck proposed that the Federal pre sident should be authorised to conclude a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation with the republic of Liberia. BADEN. CARLSRUHE, Orr. 15. At the sitting of the Baden Chambers yesterday, Baron von Freydorf, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, replied to a question respecting Prinoe Hohenlohe's statement in the Bavarian Diet. His excellency said that the negotiations fo r union with the North German Confederation had only reached the preliminary stage. The Grand Duke of Baden had not hitherto expressed himself as to his relation with Austria. Prince Hohenlohe's views as to more intimate union with the North were based upon an interpretation of the Treaty of Prague, contrary to that of Baden. The govern ment believed that the time was approaching when the Southern States might join the new Germany in process of creation with equal rights. It would endeavour to place the country in a position to demand national union, and would be glad if it could be effected in concert with the adjacent States. The government would be quite willing to agree with the other Southern States upon all pre paratory steps. LAW INTELLIGENCE. • (TEM DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) nr itE HOCHES.—APPLICATION To axuovc PROcEEDINGS. This was an application of a somewhat novel character. The bankrupt, James Hughes. plumber, of Lbinfairfechan, near Bangor, in Wales, mad e h imse lf bankrupt in February last, in the Bangor county court, where the proceedings have since been carried on. When his schedule came to be tiled it was discovered that his debts were considerably over 300/., being in fact 8871. Mr. Mums, on behalf of three creditors, now applied for an order, under the 88th section, for the teenier of the proceedings from Bangor county court to the Liverpool district court. principally on the ground that the debts were over 300!. Mr. Lawrence opposed the application. All the credi tors resided near Bangor ; the bankrupt ' s property was situate there. The case had been proceeding nine months, and no benefit would be obtained by now removing it. Mr. Munns called attention to the words in the section': " With or without reference to the district in which the bankrupt has resided or carried on business." His Honour said it was a matter for the discretion of the county court judge, and application might be made to him to dismiss the petition on the ground of the debts being above 3001. Mr. Munna was understood to say that this had been dote. His Honour doubted whether he had power under the 88th section to transfer a petition from a county court to a district court. Power was expressly given to transfer from a district to a county court, or from one district court to another ; but the section was silent as to transferring from a county court to a district court. But, assuming that he had jurisdiction, he was of opinion that the application came too late. The petition was in February last ; the proceedings had since gone on in the county court; on the face of the proceedings it was peculiarly a case to be worked in the neighbourhood ; all the creditors resided there, and the bankrupt's mortgaged property was situate there. The application must therefore be dismissed. IN RE Dmitri PAPPA. The bankrupt was recently the manager of the Oriental Commercial Bank (Limited), Threadneedle-street, one of the numerous financial concerns now in course of liquida tion. This was the sitting for examination and discharge. The accounts disclose some very heavy liabilities chiefly arising from the bankrupt's connexion with j o i n t s t oc k companies. He owes to unsecured creditors, 13,7a3/. ; to creditors holding security, 7,326/. ; 174,499/. ; total, 195,579/. ; property given up, 1,1031. ; good debtors, 1,0221. • property held by creditors as secu rity, 176,130/. This fast item represents shares in various companies, the following being the principal :—Financial Corporation (Limited), 50,7601. ; the Lisbon Oil Mills, Company, 9,1701. ; Oriental Commercial Bank (Limited), 94,408/. ; and the Tyre Iron Company, 8,025/. In these case, the shares in each company appeared to have been deposited with the respective companies. Mr. Bagley, for the assignees, said that the case was one requiring considerable investigation, the liabilities being upwards 'of 190,0001., and the assets very small indeed. The bankrupt had left the Oriental Bank in May, 1866, when it suspended, and he had then entered into most extensive speculations. He had re turned the shares held by the various companies at their full value, though several of the companies were in course of liquidation. This statement was wholly falla cious. Though the bankrupt professed to have given up property of 1,1004, the assignee had received nothing. He described himself as in receipt of a salary from the Eastern Commercial Company, not more than sufficient foible main tenance; but he had omitted to state the amount. He bad anticipated the requirements of the assignees by filing • cash account, but it was very imperfect. It would have to be amended, and the bankrupt would also have to ren der an aocount of his share transactions from the time of the suspension of the bank with which he had been con nected. Mr. Reed, for the bankrupt, entered into a lengthened detail of the bankrupt's connexion with the Oriental Com mercial Bank, and claimed for him the credit of having originated it, and being a man of high standing in the financial world. Since the suspension differences bad arisen between Mr. Cooper, the official liquidator, and the bankrupt ; Chancery proceedings had been instituted, and the opposition was now transferred to this court. His Honour asked how the bankrupt arrived at the values which he put upon the securities—for instance the shares in the Financial Corporation (Limited), which was winding up, were returned as of the value of 54',,400/., being li,ooo/. more than the cost of the shares. Mr. Reed said he presumed that the values put down represented the amounts that had been paid. His Honour said it was perfectly absurd to return those amounts as the present value of the shares. This must be corrected ; the cash accounts must be amended, and addi tional accounts furnished. The case was then adjourned. THE STORY OF BALZBURG. The Tiws prints to-day a letter from a cor respondent at Berlin professing to give a correct narrative of the transactions surrounding the femme, Salzburg inter view. The gist of this is that the Emperor Napoleon journeyed to that city with no settled plan, but with suf ficient reason for the visit in the death of the unfortu nate Maximilian. Baron Benet had definite intentions, hoping to win the Emperor to the flan of placing Austria at the bead of a South German league, but all along his route the Emperor was shunned by the South-German princes, and by no means cheered by their people. Opposi tion to Prussia bred no partisanship to France. Nay, sheer horror of France begot sympathy with Prussia. At Stutt gardt and Augsburg, at Vienna itself, Von Beast and Na poleon found themselves in a minority of two. They looked at each other with blank faces, and the scheme of an alli ance was dropped before it could be formally articulated. Notwithstanding this, European credulity was deliberately tampered with by Baron Beust, with possibly the conni vance of the Emperor, for more than a week, and the alarm was only allayed by the Emperor's own speeches and by his minister's notes. After S.dzburg be gave up all hopve of alliances and fell back on his own forces. The Daitv Ilrsra attributes to Baron Beust the ambition of surpassing Count Bismarck and the Prussian monarchy in parliamentary government and in constitutional liber ties, but in the feudal and clerical parties he has all around him implacable adversaries. Alone, the feudal party might be powerless except for momentary obstruction, but combined with the clerical party it is strong in posi. tion and in the numbers subject to its influence. THE HIGH PRICE OF FOOD. Wheat, it appears, i■ at this moment half as dear again as it was last year, and almost twice as dear ss it was in 1864. Nor have we found, observes tie Toms, the ex pected compensation in a fall of me►t. A hard race is going on between demand and supply, and the general rise which we witness is probably due to the fact that good and wholesome living is now within the reach and enters into the expectations of classes who had no such opportunities thirty years ago. A prospect is or en to us in the abund ance of sheep in Australia, for it is surely not unreasonable to expect that the science of our chymists and the inge nuity of our merchants may before long supply British markets with Australian mutton in a wholesome and eatable form. A fat sheep in Australia is worth only Lir., and the colony could export them by the million. Pend ing this consummation let there be on the part of each purchaser a careful prevention of waste ; an eye to the bread basket may save many a loaf. The Tiler/mph, writing on the same subject, warns home growers of the danger of holding back their stock until there is a deluge of foreign corn. If they do this they will have to sell in a declining market, and their selling will precipitate the fall. We should then behold the old familiar series of fluctuations—first deficiencies, followed by speculative excitement, artificial scarcity, a sudden appearance of plenty, a rapid collapse in prices, and the usual tale of few winners and many losers. If, on the other band, our farmers take advantage of the present favourable opportunity, and meet the demand, they will make sure of a handsome immediate return, and run no risk from an adverse reaction. Whatever our own de ficiency may be it is certain to be made good at an early date from foreign countries. )CS TOPICS. The shocking scene on the scaffold yesterday is referred to by several of our contemporaries. The asseveration of innocence on the part of Wiggins maintained to the last will fail, in the opinion of the Herald, to convince anyone who has read and considered the evidence given at the trial. The Trlrgroph Woltz, on the contrary, that no one will say the evidence was conclusive. One jury bad declined to charge him with murder, and the other debated very long and decided with difficulty. A profound disquietude about the right and the advantage of official homicide pervades the community, and a sight like that which yesterday made Newgate hideous, quicken/ the mind with horror, with compassion, and most terrible of all, with the whisper of human fallibility. The Post hopes the precedent set in the can of the in tended prize-fight yesterday will be followed on future similar occasions. Prize-fighting is as vile and odious as any of the brutal pastimes of the middle ages which we plume ourselves so often and so greatly upon having aban doned at the call of decency and humanity. But if it wer e the noblest and most elevating pursuit in the universe, so long as it is illegal, so long will it be a disgrace to the country that it should be permitted, if not winked at, by the police. The Star suggests that many a man whose cowardice presents a remarkable contrast to Mr. Mace's daring has been less fortunate than he in obtaining relief In mo. mente of exigency. Mr. Mace's demeanour when at rested appears to have been all that it should have been. The Star is not ill satisfied that the failure of the men to meet will contribute even more than the magistrate's sensible decision to disgust the public with the prize ring, and to save incorrigible gulls—though that matters little—from future payments for the felicity of early information when fights are not coming off, and of snugly se Lting themselves with their clothes torn to ribbons by the roughs in untimely railway trains destined nowhither. The Standard is well pleased with the result of the Bradford election. There is nothing in Mr. Miall's public career that can recommend him to the suffisges of any constituency which is not entirely swayed by the most narrow-minded radicalism. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDItIoN.—The Euphrates and two other steamers—the Coromandel and the Scinde —having on board the exploring party, under the com mand of Colonel Blerewether, left Bombay on the 13th of September last. The Euphrates and Coromandel reached Aden on the evening of the 26th, after a bad passage, the latter vessel having lost ten mules out of 149 on board. The Scinde, having the tent equipage on board, had to put back to Bombay through stress of weather. The expedition consists of 100 rank and file 21st Bombay Native Infantry, and 40 troopers 3rd Bombay Cavalry, and the undermentioned officers :—Lieutenant-Colonel Mere wether, commanding ; Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkins, chief engineer ; Lieutenant-Colonel Phstyre, quartermaster-gene ral ; Major Bigree and Lieutenant Pottinger, quarter. master-general's department ; Captain Goodfellow, field engineer ; Lieutenant Jopp, assistant field engineer; Major Blignion, Lieutenant Hemmel, and Lieutenant Mortimer, commiesariat department ; and Dr. Martyn and Dr. Lams. define, medical officers. The party were expecting to leave Aden on the 29th for Maspowah. The principal objects are :-1. To find a suitable harbour and shore for debarks, tion, and location of some 200 steamers and transports. 2. To find a good route and post inland on the high land some 60 miles from the shore. It is probable that the landing-place will be fixed in Annesley Bay, which is some distance south of Massowan. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE INSURRECTION IN THE PAPAL STATES. The correspondent of the Debots says it is fully expected in Florence that an insurrection will take place in Rome in a few days. The moderates are call ing on the government to enter the Papal states, in order to prevent the revolutionary party from establishing themselves in Rome. And this the Debats' correspondent believes will be the denouement of the drama. The Roman Journal says that in the affair of Subiaco, on the 11th, the Garibaldians were attacked with great ardour by the Pontifical troops, to the cry of " Viva Pio Nino, Papa of M." Fifteen Garibal dians were made prisoners, several were wounded, and three left on the ground. Amongst the last was Emilia Bressio, of Milan, who was captain of the band. The Liberth mentions a report that the English government had been infoi med by the French cabinet that whatever might be the result of the struggle in the Roman States, France would not send a French force there. But, in the same column, it says that a squadron is ready to start from the Hyeres Islands, and that several vessels for the transport of troops are being gut ready in Toulon. The Sikle cannot believe that the French govern ment will exhibit "such political aberration" as to send a new expeditionary force to Rome. The lade'pewianee says that the intervention of Mazzini and the well known fact that, since the arrest of Garibaldi, the Roman movement has as sumed less of a monarchical character than any of those which have preceded it, have more than ever increased the uneaainess of the Italian and French governments. It is believed in Florence that the Italian troops will have to enter the papal territory, if not with the consent, without the opposition of France ; or, if needs be, in spite of her opposition. The Pays, Etewlard, and Patric say that the temporal power of the Pope must be upheld, whilst the clerical journals affirm that the Papal troops would make short work with the Garibaldians were it not that they have the secret support of the Italian and French governments. M. Dupanloup, in a postscript to his letter to M. Rattazzi, says : "There is but one thing to be done. M. Rattazzi must be made aware that he can enter Rome only by marching over our bodies, or else we are dis graced." The Havas Company gives an analysis of a despatch which, it says, has been sent by the Papal government to the English Cabinet. The Court of Rome complains, according to this alleged docu ment, of the support given to the Italian revo lutionists by England, which supplies them with arms and money. This, it says, is a flagrant violation of neutrality—a violation which the Holy See had the less right to expect, inasmuch as Fenianiam, which has been a source of so much em barrassment to the English government, received no countenance from Rome. Tho English govei n ment could as easily have prevented assistance being given to the Italian revolutionists as the government of the United States prevented the invasion of Canada by the Fenian. The same agency has a despatch in which it says that Garibaldi is to be brought off from Caprera in a small boat on the night of the 18th to one of the vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Company which is to be ready to take him on board. The Florence correspondent of the Anna+. National mentions a report that he had already escaped. EXCITEMENT IN AUSTRIA. Recent news states that serious troubles are apprehended in Vienna if the Emperor Francis Joseph refuses his assent to a modification of the concordat. Popular demonstrations have taken place in front of the hotel of Cardinal Rauscher. Police agents have entered all the large workshops in the city and cautioned the masters not to allow public meetings of the workmen to take place on their premises. The municipality of Vienna has demanded of the Emperor the re-establishment of the National Guard, which shall maintain order in the city in the place of the army. To add to these complications the lower chamber of the Reichsrath has resolved not to vote the bill embodying the financial arrangement with Hungary in the absence of a modification of the concordat. Herein lie s the chief difficultywith which his Apostolic Majesty has to contend. (131UTIIIt'S TILEG ILA LS.) THE RISING IN THE PAPAL STATES. FLORENCE, Oa.. 16. The entire Italian press is unanimous in calling for the occupation of the Papal territory. The Opinkrne again urges the government to take measures to prevent any intervention. The provincial journals concur in censuring the language of the French journals La France and La Patric. Tho Persererauza insists upon the immediate occupation of the Pontifical States by the Italian troops, declaring that every delay is dangerous to the monarchy and to the institutions of the country. Advice from Rome announce that the insur gent bands are considerably increasing in number, especially south of the capital. Yesterday several unimportant encounters took place near Correse and Torre Alfina. It was expected Viterbo would be to-morrow declared in a state of siege in conse quence of the attitude of the population. . . The Riforma states that to-day an extraordinary consistory is to be held at Rome, and that the Pope has convoked the cardinals to deliberate upon present events. PARIS, Ocr. 16. The Moniteur of this morning, referring to the insurrectionary movement in the Papal States says :—" Authentic and concurrent intelligence from Rome and Florence enables us to give the most circumstantial account of the affair of the 13th October, which is the last encounter that has taken place for some days. Ninety Papal soldiers I with rash impulse charged a body of 300 Garibal dians, cut their way through them and occupied Monte Libretti. The invaders, however, having received considerable reinforcements from the neighbouring frontier, probably badly guarded resumed the offensive to the n um b er of 800., Before so superior a force the Pontifical detach ment effected a retreat in good order. During the whole day they had 10 wounded, whom they were able to remove, together with 15 Gari baldian prisoners. The losses of the enemy appear to have been considerable, and it was affirmed at Florence that Menotti Garibaldi was seriously wounded. What is certain, however, is that the invaders found it prudent to evacuate anew Monte Libretti and even Folvaterra, and the Romans have retaken possession of both those localities." NORTH GERMANY. BERLIN, Oct. IG. In the Federal Council yesterday, Count Bis marck announced that the treaty of commerce and navigation with Italy had been signed at Florence. FRANCE. PARIS, Ocr. 16. The imperial family have arrived at St. Cloud. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. ANTWERP, Ocr. le, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales have arrived here. Her royal highness immediately went on board the royal yacht Osborne. The Prince proceeded to Brussels. MALTA. VALETTA, (cr. 14. Cholera is gradually decreasing here. From the sth until to-day there have been 67 attacks and 46 deaths, making a total since the outbreak of 330 attacks and 149 deaths. Among the military since the 10th inst. there have been 4 attacks and 3 deaths. The steam transport Bolivar, for Alexandria, passedhere on the 14th, without communicating. The telegraphic communication between Sicily and Tunis has been interrupted since the 28th ultimo. Cyphers and secret letters are prohibited in telegrams to and from Italy. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, Ocr. 15. The Candia, from Calcutta on Sept. 23, anchored here at noon to-day. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Ocr. 16. The National Steamship Company's steamship Denmark, from New York, arrived here at 9 a.m• to-day. She landed passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool. All well. (ATLANTIC TILZGRAM.) COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. lb, 8 P.Y. Closing prices :—Gold, 1431 ; Sterling Exchange on London, 109/ ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 112 ; Illinois, 123 ; Erie, 73i. Cotton, middling up land, 19k. PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 15. Standard white petroleum, 35. the Court. BALMORAL, Oct 14. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Loniae, and Prinoe Leopold, attended Divine service in the parish church at Crathie yesterday. The Marchioness of Ely and Colonel Ponsonby were in attendance. The Rev. Dr. Watson, of Dundee, officiated. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, 'Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu. His Excellency the Brazilian Minister had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office yesterday. THE STATUE OF THE PRINCE CONSORT AT BAL MORAL.—ABERDEEN, TUESDAY EVENTNG.--The colossal statue of the Prince Consort by Theed was uncovered at Balmoral to-day. The Queen and other members of the royal family were present. All passed plea. santly, although there was heavy rain. A military guard was present, and an inspector and fourteen men of the Lon don police were in the loc./ity, it is believed to guard against the risk of Fenian sumoyiuice. THE COURT AT BALMORIL.—The Queen attended Divine service in the church of Crathie, on Sunday. Her Majesty was accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court. The Rev. Dr. Watson, of Dundee, preached from 2nd Cor. ail. 9, the middle clause of the verse—" My grace is sufficient for thee ; my strength is made perfect in weakness." There were few strangers present. Her Majesty will leave Balmoral either on the Ist or 4th proximo for Windsor Castle. The precise day is not yet fixed. According to the latest information the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to return to this country to-morrow. Their royal highnesses, attended by their suite, will embark on board the Osborne, paddle-wheel yacht, Commander J. D'Arcy, and, after leaving Dordt, steam scrota for the mouth of the Thames. Their royal highnesses, it is expected, will arrive off Woolwich to-morrow, should the weather prove suitable. The Prince and Princess will disembark at the T pier of the Arsenal, when the royal carriages will be in readiness, and in these their royal highnesses will post by road to Marlborough-house. Lord Lyons is staying on a visit to the Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel Castle. His lordship is daily ex pected to leave for Paris to enter upon his diplomatic duties. Colonel the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot are staying at the Earl of Derby's residence in St. James's square, and are expected to leave at the end of the week for Cannes, for the winter. Her Royal Highness the Duchess do Chartres WY safely delivered of a prince at half-put 5 o'clock yes terday morning, at Morgan House, Ham. The various members of the Orleans family assembled to congratulate the duke and duchess. The physicians present were Dr. Oueneau de Mussy, the physician in ordinary, and Dr. Priestley, the physician acconcheur. The principal, the Rev. Frederick Denison Maurice, M.A., Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Uni versity of Cambridge, will deliver the inaugural address to the students of the Working Men's College to-morrow evening. ST. JAMEB'I4 PALACE, OCT. 11.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Wdliam Fergusson, Bart., to be one of her Majesty's serjearit-surgeons in ordinary, in the room of Sir William Levrenoe. deceased. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint James Paget, Bsq., to be lierjsant-surgeon extraordinary to her Ma jeety.—Gautte. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. ENRRATETEL ROBBERY BT • SERVANT. Catherine Barrett, living at No. 1 , Sun-court, Golden lane, was played at the bar before Alderman !Seeley, charged with stealing a gold watch and chain, a pair of gold earrings, four gold rings, a gold locket, a go ld p enc il case, a gold brooch, a silver waist buckle, a carbuncle, and about Gt. in money, the property of her muter. Albert Chambers said he was a clothier's Resistant, and lived at Newgate-street. Hie wife being near her confinement he wanted a girl to be with her in case of her being suddenly taken iIL The prisoner applied for the situation but was refused on the ground that she was older than was required, but she pleaded so hard that she had nowhere to go that Mrs. Chambers took compassion on her and engaged bar. On Monday morning he noticed the padlock of a box was disarranged, and on looking into it he missed a cashbox containing the articles above enunie. rated. He went to the police station and gave information of the robbery, and when he came hack he found the cash box under the sofa. He went again to the station-house, and the result was that the prisoner was apprehended that morning. Gide;n Slater, 327, said he apprehended the prisoner in Keate-street, Whitechapel, and told her that be should take her into custody for stealing the articles mentioned. She waa wearing the four rings on her fingers, and on the way to the station-house she gave them to witness, to gether with the silver buckle, gold locket, and carbuncle stone, and 31. 189. t4d. in money. At the station she was searched, and on her was found a gold pencil case and a sovereign, also a pair of earrings, a brooch, a hair net, and some ribbon which she had bought that morning. The prosecutor identified all the property produced as his, with the exception of the last named articles, which the prisoner had purchased. The watch and chain had not yet been found. The prisoner was remanded. HERIOGB CHARGE. William Ranks, a shoemaker, residing at I'l, Waverly street, Bethnal-green, was charged before Mr. Barker, on remand, with cutting and wounding Sarah Mills, of 12, Francis-street, City-road, a prostitute, with a knife, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm, at Old-street, St. Luke's Dlr. H. Allen, prosecuting officer of the Associate In stitute for Improving and Enforcing the Laws fur the Pro tection of Womer., watched the case. Although the assault complained of was committed more than a fortnight since the complainant was still very pale and unwell from the loss of blood. It appeared that she had cohabited with the prisoner and a day or so before this affair they had separated by mutual consent. About 1 o'clock in the morning, he was proceeding along Old-street, when he saw the complainant along with a young fellow, a friend of both parties. He asked her to go home with him, but she refused, on which he said that if she did not go home with him she should not go home with anyone else. He followed them for some dis tance, when fimling that she did not intend to go home with him he took out his pocket knife and stabbed her twice in the back. He was proceeding to further acts of violence when the m►n who was with the complainant (J. Cousins, of 2, Half-Moon-place, Bethnal green-road) interfered, and the prisoner was given into the custody of Police-constable Morgan, 127 G. When he told him that he was charged with cutting and wounding Sarah Mills he said, " I did it." The constable then asked him for the knife, and the prisoner pro ducing one said, " I did it with this." The pri soner also said that the man that was with the com plainant had done all he could to make him give up the complainant, and as soon as he had done so he had taken to her himself. Since the first examination the complainant hag refused to attend to prosecute, and • summons had to be issued to compel her attendance and to give evidence. _ The prisoner wad that as it was determined to send him for trial he should reserve his defence. Mr. Barker committed the prisoner to the Central Criminal Court for trial on a charge of feloniously cutting and wounding with intent to do grecioua bodily harm. MARLBOROI7OIIBTR EFT. ROBSZET.-VIOLENT ASSAULT ON THE POLICE AND ATTEMPTED RESCUE. . . . Roherl Anderson, described as painter, but who re fused his address, wu charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing from the till of Mr. Bonmarin Lemiere, egg merchant, of No. 2, Tower-street, St. Martin's-lone, • bowl containing • q uantity of copper money and also with u saulting police-constables Winter, 142 A reserve, and Win ger, P 7 F,and John Anderson, a tin-plate worker and brother of the first-named prisoner, was charged with attempting to trees him from the custody of the police. Mr. Lemiere, who gave his evidence through Mr. Albert, the interpreter, said—Yesterday afternoon I was in a public-house having a glass of beer, my eye being on my shop opposite, when I saw the prisoner Robert enter my shop. I crossed over, and just as I entered my shop, the prisoner, who was coming out, met me having in his hand a bowl containing a quantity of small money, which be had taken from the drawer under the counter. I seized him, and he resisted a good deal, but I gave him into custody. Patrick Winter, 142 A—l was pile. yesterday after noon to the prosecutor's shop, and the prisoner Robert given into my custody for stealing a bowl containing some money. Another constable, 97 F, came up, en d directly we got into the shop the prisoner said, "Y oe w in either have to carry me or take me in a cab." He threw 97 F, and afterwards kicked him several times saying, " You ---, I will do for you," and b ecame e ,;, violent that it took four constables to take him to the sta tion, and I was kicked several times. The other prisoner John, then came up, and said " This is my brother," and caught hold of Robert and refused to release his hold of him, and some other constables coming up he was alio taken into custody. About a month ago the prisoner Robert was stopped by a trunk-maker, whom he attempted to rob of a portmanteau, but be was not prosecuted. Joseph Wineor, 97 F, aft er corroborating Winter, said The prisoner Robert kicked me several times, saying h e would " ruin and do for me." Barns, the gaoler, said that Robert had been, he be. lieved, previously convicted. Robert—l admit it-21 days. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner John N. 61., and re manded Robert for further inquiries. SHOCKING DEATH OF A WOMAN IN BETHNAL GREEN. SPECIAL VERDICT. Hr. Humphreys, the coroner, held an inquest last evening, at the Queen's Head Tavern, Carnbndp-road. Bethrud-green, touching the death of Elizabeth Barnes, aged 38 years. The deceased was the wife of a labourer !Mug at the Queen's-road, Bethnal-green. The house was in a wretched condition, and the smell arising from want of proper sani tary arrangements was very great. The back yard was fo ur feet long by fi ve broad. The windows of the deceased's room were nailed up, and the rain came in through the roof while the woman lay on a sick bed. On Thursday the deceased died. A month ago she had given birth to a child. The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from inflammation of the womb, accelerated by the oath. tary condition of the premises" They requested the coroner to write to the parish authorities and to the committee of the London Hospital, asking them why some cough mixture ordered on Sunday was not given before Friday. They wished to add that the deceased's death had been accelerated by want of proper medical attendance, but the coroner said that the last addendum was not borne out by the evidence. SERIOUS FIRES. BARRING, IN - Ens-Emmy. During the last 12 hours lire has been raging in Roden Lodge, Barking, the property of G. Brady, Esq. The fire commenced about midnight, and in a corn. partitively brief space of time dames shot forth from nearly 50 windows illuminating the country for miles dis. tent. The local engines were soon on the spot, but they were of little use in extinguishing such a vast body of flame. In formation was therefore sent to London for additional aid, which was despatched with all possible expedition. All hands at once went to work, but the dames continued their ravages, and were not entirely extinguished at noon to-day. The loss of property must be enormous, for the drawing and retiring rooms were fitted up in a most elaborate manner. Fortunately the jewels, plate, and valuable documents were saved, but all that now remains of the residence itself are the blackened and still smoking walls. The origin of the misfortune is unknown. The loss will fall upon the Sun and Provincial fire offices. A terrific explosion which it is feared will terminate fatally, took place in the Three Mills Distillery, be. longing to Messrs. Mexicali and Co., Bromley-mom, near Bow. It appears that as a man, named Daniel Stewart, was attending to the spirit safe, the vapour from some spirits of wine bream • ignited, a,d extending to other vessels filled with *Arita, a terrible explosion ensued, which blew the windows out and fired the compartment. The flames completely encircled the un fortunate man, Stewart, who, when extricated, was found to be no seriously injured that he was taken to the London Hospital, where he remains in a very precarious state. Fortunately, the fire was prevented from reaching the other portions of the distillery. Mr. Hodgkinson, M.P., for Newark, attended a reform soiree in that town on Monday night, when an address was presented to bins by 700 of his constituents, in acknowledgment of his services in the cause of reform. We have now the text of the resolutions adopted by the Roman catholic prelatis of Ireland at their recent meeting in Dublin. The bishops " distinctly de• dare that they will not accept endowment from the state out of the property and revenues now held by the pro tartant establishment, nor any state endowment whatever ;" and they affirm that "by appropriating the ecclesiastical property of Ireland for the benefit of the poor the Legislature would realise one at the purposes for which it was originally destined, and to which it was applied in catholic times." They re affirm the resolutions passed four years ago on the subject of national education, and, while they warn their people against secret societies and revolt, they declare their "profound conviction that peace and prosperity will never be permanently established in Ireland till the protestant church is totally disendowed, education in all its depart ments made free, and the fruits of their capital and labour secured to the agricultural classes." Cardinal Cullen has issued a pastoral, in which be deals with each of the sub jects which came before the conference, but he fails to make it quite clear how the bishops propose to apply the church property to the relief of the poor. New solutions of the great problem of a bridge between England and France are found and described nearly every day. The inventor of one, a 31. Iloulet, engi neer, is getting up a company for the purpose of making experiments on a large scale, and half the capital required has already been subscribed. The bridge is to be con structed in metal, and supported upon piles carried down to the bottom of the channel, the enormous weight to be alleviated by a series of gigantic buoys. The wish of the inventor is now to construct a large model across some river or other, all the proportions being carefully observed. The engagements in the freight market, stimu lated by the Abyssinian war and the great demand for grain, continue upon a large scale, alike for sailing vessels as well as steamers, at firm rates. THE Ft:NESthr. or M. Fori.o.—M. Baroche, who pronounced the funeral eulogium on M. Fould, concluded his address u follows:—" Within only a few years what cruel losses !—Billault, Morny. Thouvenel, great citizens, the memory of whom belongs to the gratitude of the country. To-day it is thy turn, 0 ' Fould, thine, our colleague, our excellent friend, to whom we now bid a last and painful fan-well !We will piously cherish thy memory, and we will not forget the example of force and courage which thou haat bequeathed to us. Good man, skilful politician, eminent minister, loving passionately France and the Emperor, repose in mace. Thy task has been accomplished, and thy name belongs henceforth to the history of the Second Empire !" DARINO OCTRAOE BY FRENCHMEN AT JERSEY. — A most daring robbery, accompanied with violence, was committed in the pariah of Trinity, in the island of Jersey, on Friday afternoon. Between 4 and 5 o'clock two Frenchmen entered the public-house known as the British Hotel, kept by Mrs. Hoolusol, and called for two cups of coffee. These they drank, and then called for scare brandy, which was supplied to them. and for which they tendered half a crown in payment. An Iklm.Hocquard, who was the only person on the premises, was taking the change out of her purse, one of the men s, i,ed her by the wrist, and held her while the other ran round the bar counter and threw her clothes over her head. at the same time showing her a knife and threatening to kill her if she made the least noise. After making fast her hands, they ' tied her securely to the banisters. This done, they went upstairs to Mrs. Hocquanth bedroom, took the mattress off the bed, and drew from it. place of concealment a bag containing 1,000 francs, all in 20-franc pieces. From the deliberate manner in which they went to work it is evi- dent they were well informed as to the hiding-place of their booty. They looked nowhere else and touched nothing else, but at once decamped, leaving their victim in her unpleasant position, in which she remained till re leased on the entrance of one of the imitates of the house. The thieves are supposed to have escaped from the island by means of a small boat stolen from one of the bays, and to have crossed over to France. The police have tele graphed along all the French coast for a look-out to be kept for the effected landing of the thieves. CHANCERY DlYlDENDS.—Yesterday was the first day of the new regulations for the payment of the Chan cery dividends at the office of the Am:content-General. The place was numerously attended. The cheques for the dividends were signed by the Aoteountant-General, and counter-signed by his clerks, instead of a registrar, by which means the payments were facilitated. IRISHMEN IN ENGLAND. —Some interesting statistic. just published show that the Irish element of the English population has increased morn rapidly than any other since IA4I. In that year Irish-horn denizens of England and Wales were 2/49,404 ; in 1801 this number had increased to 601,634—a proportional increase foot times as great as that of the whole population. The number of Irishmen in the following totem in 1161 was—in London, 40,742 ' • Liverpool. .:2.470 ; Man cheater, 111 ,007 ; Birmingham, 4.510: Leeds. r. 031 ; New castle-on-Tyne, 2,831 ; Sheffield, 2,783 ; Preston. 2 , 049 ) Merthyr Tydfil, 2.029: Bradford. 2,011 ; Sunderland, 1.929: Bolton, 1,910; Plymouth, 1,897: Stockport. 1.K 42 Bristol, 1,633 ; Wolverhampton, 1,58 i : Portsmouth. 1,322; Hull, 1 196; Gateshead, 1,054. The number o f Irish in our gaols is, unfortunately very lerge. While the rate per thousand of population in g tol ta only 0.1: of fi n lish -born, it was :1.0 of Irishmen. In other emtls, five Irishmen get into prison for one Englishman. I