The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-22 00:00:00

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TRN Evruso, THE PKIYCCfa OV THE PEARL ISLAND: OR, TIIE THERE KINGDOMS or PEARL, GOLD, AND %Irs lAne asi.l Mks Jacobs.—FirsArate raustonalgolsla —And THE SKELETON CREW. MOH WATER AT LONDON DEMO& gIDAY —Morning, Mi. Inns Afternoon, Mt 420. itgOlg—Morning, M. 3nr Afternoon, O. 24m. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22. Arran a panic has come, and,like a touchstone, has discriminated the commercial gold from the alloy and from tho sham metal, it may seem some thing superfluous to point out any individual instances of folly or fraud. Everybody confesses them now, the Courts of Chancery are filled with winding-up cases that display their effects in every variety of phase, and happy are they who can moralise without the sting of personal regrets. Nevertheless, at the risk of seeming to lock the door after the steed is stolen, we must take leave to call our readers' attention to one particular un dertaking, of which our columns yesterday furnished us with very accurate and authentic information. This establishment was designated the Penin sular, West Indian, and Southern Bank (Limited). We have not its prospectus before us, and we therefore can neither say what was its intended capital nor what its special sphere of operations. But we learn from the report of the official liqui dator that at any rate 13,680 shares were taken up by 100 different persons, and this represents the sufficient, though unhappily only nominal, capital of nearly a million and a half. As the total liabilities of the bank are only 102,4101., of which the liqui dator expectsthat not more tient 80,0001. will even tually come against it, this amount of capital might seem to cover the debts by a very ample margin, even without taking into account any of the nominal " securities " which were held, but which, consisting of acceptances of the Northern Bank of Buenos Ayres, and of debentures of the European Central, and Carmarthen and Cardigan Railways, are at present inconvertible. But when, under authority of the Court, a call was made on the contributories, the true character of the copartnery became at once apparent. Of the 13,680 shares, the holders of 12,888, 58 in number, suddenly disappeared. As the official liquidator explained, they were either living out of the country or were unable to pay anything. The holders of 147 shares had appealed against being put on the list of contributories, the holders of 24 had actually been struck off, the holders of 52 had offered a compromise, the holders of 60 had paid something on account, the holders of 15 had become bankrupt. Of the whole body of shareholders, only 17, owning altogether 267 shares, had paid the call, while two more, pos sessed of 31 shares, had with an honest if rash confidence paid up in full in advance. The nett result was that the call of 101. per share had pro duced a total amount of 2,9931., from which had to be deducted some 4001. of legal expense., And the interest of the proprietors in the progress of the liquidation was not inaptly indicated by the fact that at the general meeting held to receive the report only two shareholders were present, both of whom, the official liquidator took occasion to remark, were defaulters. It is not easy to conceive commercial dishonesty and general blindness mounting to a greater height than this brief statement discloses. Happily the transactions were so limited, and the break up of the concern so speedy, that no very wide injury will be the result. A few firms may be shaken, a few families reduced to starvation, and that is all. The worst:of it is that it is the well-meaning sim pletons who will be ruined, while the knavish ma jority, being either incapable of ruin or beyond the reach of English law, may escape without harm. To those of the latter class it were needless to say a word. Their position is fixed when it becomes apparent that they took shares either knowing they could not pay them, or intending to evade paying them. Such as these will be found to the end of the world, and no crisis will ever purge the air from such birds of prey. But surely the honest simple tons who are not yet fleeced will some time take a lesson from the simpletons who are. Here is a concern in which doubtless the most high sounding promises were made, and in which names of high presumed respectability might be found. When the unwary have been netted, they find that the decoy ducks were stuffed with straw, or had taken the precaution to fly away before the cords were drawn. It is the story which has been repeated over and over again with only the slight variations of time, and place, and actors. But when will it begin to be recognised that what has been may be When will the poor creatures who lust after the chance of a 20 per cent. dividend reflect that, after all, they know nothing of the quality of the bait that is thrown down, nor of the intentions of the re spectable persons who call on them to come and feed 1 If only this amount of reflection could be obtained it would save half the speculation that precedes and excites • crisis. If applicants for shares would only put to themselves the ques tions—' Do I know anything of this trade in which 1 am going to invest ? Shall I have any opportunity of seeing where the money goes that I pay in ? Have I any personal knowledge of the character of the men I am going to trust"—the answers could not but suggest a prudence which would be safety. It is evident that in the present case [the answer to any such inquiry must have been—' I know it is a bank with a flourishing prospectus, but I know nothing of banking. I shall have no super intendence of the accounts, and I do not know personally the directors or managers.' And surely no one who had thus answered his own interro gatories could afterwards be guilty of the incre dible folly of subjecting himself to the liability to pay hundreds of pounds on such a misty hope of possibly receiving a good dividend on his tens. We need not explain that these remarks have no application to cases of investment in which any one of these questions can be answered in the affirmative. Knowledge of a trade, capacity to investigate its operations, or personal confi dence in its managers, are, any of them, reason able grounds for the entrusting of money to their control in pursuance of a given speculation. It is where all these elements of security are absent that we must marvel at the stupidity which still ventures to lay down its money on the green table. For it is gambling, and with the chances terribly against the public, that such speculations really mean. The poor clergyman, the widow lady, the retired officer, who, in utter ignorance of the business they adventure on, apply for shares on the faith of a glittering prospectus, are all gamblers just as much as if they stood round the tables and backed the cards over the croupier's shoulders at Homburg or Baden. They are staking their money on a chance in the hope that the cards will give them a prize. The comparison will shock them, and we can only hope it will. If they can only institute so much self-examination as to see that they are gamblers at heart, they will recoil in time. All the mischief is done because, gazing at the dazzle of the gold, they cease to think. If they could be made to think candidly for but a moment, they would be saved. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EvENING, JANUARY 22, 1867. may much sense. As the changes show themselves, they are a step forward ; and we never yet heed that one step of progress renders further advance less IBtely than before. 1081) DERBY'S GOVEHNN MT AXD REFORM. Numerous indications, which taken together are of some forge, make it probable, the Deily News says, ' the present government will deal with the reform ques tion on Lord Melbourne's celebrated principle of leaving it alone. If they could assume that the forbearance would be mutual, and that the reform question would, in its turn, leave them in peace, this course would be a very satisfactory escape, so far as their personal convenience is concerned, out of the difficulties in which they have in volved themselves and the country. But the most san guine conservative can naively hope that the problem will be solved by declining to attempt its solution. Mr. Disraeli told his constituents that the conservatives were, above all others, competent to reform the representation, and during the recess the conservatives of every degree of authority have been pathetic in their exhortations to give a calm and impartial consideration to any measure the government might bring forward. They came into office, indeed, under the implied promise to introduce a measure which would satisfy the country, and on the plea of deprecated agitation. If the house desires reform, a ministry which shirks the question cannot retain its ' confidence ; and as Mr. Disraeli would still be in opposition if he bad last session avowed the course which it seems probable he will adopt in office, it is scarcely too much to say that he and his colleagues have obtained patronage and place by factious intrigues and false pretences. If in such circumstances he can carry on the administration what further proof can be needed that large changes are necessary to make the House of Commons truly representative of the nation The Daily News proceeds to point out the unfitness of the government to deal with certain other controverted questions in which the country is interested, and observes that Lord Derby has acted in the sense of his remark on taking office—that his party could not be expected to practice for ever an unrewarded loyalty—for in six months be has distributed more patronage than Lord Palmerston exercised in six years. The improved demeanour of the late opposition, more over, may perhaps show that the disciplinary end which Lord Stanley put forward as an apology for the change of government, has been answered during the past six months. If so, the principal raison &titre of the tory administration, as stated by its titular chief and its most influential member, will have ceased, and there will be no need for exacting the services which Lord Derby renders with so many expressions of patriotic self-sacrifice and personal annoyance. The Times regards the republication of Mr. Disraeli's speeches on parliamentary reform as another proof of his gallantry, but, after all, if he has failed once in attempt. ing to solve the problem, who has not failed oftener and more ingloriously ? and in his speeches on the whole he contrasts not unfavourably with rival reformers. Be traying none of the intellectual sterility or timidity which renders Earl Russell indisposed to adopt new franchise qualifications, Mr. Disraeli must have the merit of having again and again asserted the truth that any reform which will not take note of the difference between the civilisa tion of the nineteenth and of the seventeenth centuries, or which disdains to consider the undesigned uses served by the anomalies of our constitution, must be a delusion. THE FRENCH REFORMS. The nature of the new changes in the institutions of France leads the Times to regret that the finality of the measures is announced in such positive term'. In the opinion of our contemporary the privilege of interpellation, which by a tedious and circumlocutory process is con ceded, is not an equivalent for the privilege of speaking on the address which is taken away. The power of moving amendments on the address under the former state of things was sure to be given once every session, whereas it needs but the refusal of the committee to deprive a mem ber of the substituted power of interpellation altogether. Of much greater importance is the provision which declares that the existence of no journal can be cut short except by the sentence of a court of law. Possibly these oon cesaions may be as much as it is prudent to make in the present state of French political opinion. We are not each doctrinaires as to suppose that what suits us is neces sarily the best for our neighbour'. We have, besides, reason to put some confidence in the ability and discretion which have so long characterised the internal government of the empire ; but we meet end as we began, by express ing our belief that this is not " the crowning of the edifice," and that France deserves, and will oue day re ceive, a far larger measure of liberty than that very mo derate portion which she is told is all she is to enjoy either at present or for the future. The Post regard. the step now taken as one which must inevitably lead to direct ministerial responsibility to the Chambers, although the Emperor is careful not to admit it. A proof of this tendency is the immediate resignation of the whole ministry in consequence of the Emperor's adoption of the views of their opponents, the tiers para. And it is difficult to suppose that a Minister of Foreign Affairs, or of Finance, or of any other department, can go down to the Chamber to defend his policy, and, in the event of a successful parliamentary attack upon it, not be at once dismissed by the Emperor. As to the press, it is better that it should be subject to the control of the law as interpreted by judges, as the day which should see it amenable only to a jury would witness the commence ment of the sapping of the empire. The Telegraph continues to write in defence of imperial institutions and imperial policy, and is gratified to think that the new reforms are not designed to introduce any change into the general system on which the rule of Napo leon 111. has been established with the consent of his countrymen. If constitutional reform, says the Star, were never toko any farther in France, these reforms would hardly be worth asking for. But it is not in the power even of Em perors to decree " finality," anal the Star does not believe the Emperor Napoleon meant his words to be regarded in THE. CONSCIENCE CLAUSE. The Deals Heirs criticises a letter of Mr. Hubbard. M.P., presenting various objections to the conscience clause, the policy to be adopted respecting which causing, it is said, some embarrassment to Lord Derby. Writing as a member of parliament, and discussing the duty of the state, Mr. Hubbard deliberately proposes that the state shall leave a minority unprovided for in its scheme of education. " They may remain uneducated," he says, " but they will so remain by their own act ; they decline to avail themselves of the school which is open to them if they accept its rules, and they bear the penalty of their prejudice or their conscientiousness, whichever the motive of their objection may be called. They remain untaught ; yet they are no worse off, if the majority obtain a grant and built a school, than if there be no school built." This practical result will probably decide the question for most mind.. The legislation which takes are of the majority—generally capable of taking care of itself—and leaves the minority out of its calculation, is not that of nation, but that of a party. The Deily News asks Mr. Hubbard's fellow conservatives whether in any of the speeches of those who are endeavouring to Americanise our glorious constitution and deliver us over to the licence of an unbridled democracy, they ever saw the divine right of the majority asserted with more relentless rigour and to a more pernicious conclusion than in this letter of the honourable member for Buckingham rite erfurt. OSBORNE, Jam 21. The Queen drove out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise. Princess Beatrice drove also. Prince Arthur and Prince Christian walked in the grounds. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, left to-day for London. The Prince of Leiningen left also. A deputation from the borough of Sheffield, consisting of Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, M.P., Mr. George Hadfield, M.P., the Mayor (Mr. John Webster), Mr. Alderman Thomas Jessop, J.P., Mr. J. Eustace Grubbe, Mr. R. J. Gainaford, and the Town Clerk, had an interview with the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole at the Home-office yeeterday on the subject of Sheffield being made an assize town. The Bishop of London has had the honour of receiving a donation of 25/. from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and also a donation of 23/. from her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, in aid of the funds of the Metropolitan Visiting and Relief Association, of which his lordship is president. A Florence letter of the 16th says :—" The Duke and Duchess of Argyll left for the north a few days ago, and Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Cardwell, with their families, followed them yesterday. On Monday evening a number of Italian deputies gave a farewell dinner to those two gentlemen. About 40 were present, including Signor Mari, president of the chamber, and two ex-premiers, Rataxxi and Minghetti. The others were chiefly Neapolitan deputies, who hold in grateful remembrance Mr. Gladstone's former exertions in behalf of their suffering countrymen. The dinner had no public or political character. Mr. Gladstone replied to a complimentary toast in Italian so pure as to astonish those of his hearers not already aware of his per fect mastery of that language. He expects to be in Paris on the 2 2 nd inst., and in England before the end of the month." The next examination for direct commissions will begin on Wednesday, the Ist of May, at Chelsea Hospital. The Herald understands that her Majesty's go vernment have protested against the decision arrived at in the cane of the Tornado, on account of the irregularity and informality of the proceedings in the Spanish Prize Court. "There can be no doubt that the evidence against the Tornado is calculated to arouse the gravest suspicions as to her ultimate destination; and it is unfortunately only too clear that if the ship be legally condemned as • Chilian ship of war, her crew may be regarded and treated as prisoners of war. Altogether the case is one of eon *Womble complication ; bnt there is no reason to appre hend that the Spanish authorities will not eventually do justice in the matter." Negotiations have been for some time pending between the directors of the Great Eastern Railway Com pany and Mr. Samuel Laing, M.P., with a view to induce that gentleman to join the board. It is understood (says the City article of the Time) that these negotiations have resulted in Mr. Laing's consent to his name being pro. posed to the meeting on the 12th of February, and that he will be prepared to take the control of the financial affair s of the company, and of any important negotiations with other companies, upon the stipulation that his attention is to be principally confined to those departments, and that he is not to be expected to take charge of the details of working and traffic arrangements, which, from the great decrease of expenditure effected during the past half-year, cannot, he considers, be in better hands than those of the present management. Among the skaters on the reserved lake in the Bois de Boulogne on Sunday, about twenty ladies were re. marked, the Princess de Metternich being of the number. The Princes Achille and Lucien Murat, the Marquis de Caux, Prince J. Troubeekoi, the Marquis de Saint-Mars, Baron dePourtales, and M. des Varmint)* were also present. On the previous day the Prince Imperial arrived at about 2 o'clock, and was shortly afterwards followed by the Empress, and at about 3by the Emperor. Hie Majesty remained on the ice until half-past 4, the public keeping at a respectful distance. The Ernp.rets, on having her skates adjusted, glided off, accompanied by M. and Mdlle. Hanseler. The festivities of the carnival have commenced at Vienna, and promise to be on a grander scale than ever before. No fewer than 149 masked balls alone are an• nounced ; they will be held in such enormous assembly rooms at Elchwender's Colosseum, the theatre on the Wien, the Diana, Sofien, and Gartenbausaal, Dreher's Bierhalle, lee., some of which have two and three ball rooms, and, to judge from those which have already taken place, they will all be crowded. MR. DIRRAELI, M.P., AND 818 PARTY. —The moat virulent enemy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer has never ventured to accuse him of want of courage. Whether it has been his fate to reconstruct a broken party, to lead • hopeless minority to a hostile division, to with stand almost single-handed the onslaught of the most distinguished debaters of the House of Com mons, to cover • retreat when it was no longer possible not to confess a failure, he has always shown a spirit—we may almost say an audacity—equal to the occasion. Ho is never so great as when there is no more to be hoped for. His finesse, his arts, his tricks of management then disappear. His real self is manifested. He takes the whole world into his confi dence. Conscious of impending defeat, he resolves to meet it so as to rise superior to disaster. The intellectual vigour which the House of Commons so highly prizes, and which exercises a certain fascination over even such • man as Mr. Bright, is revealed without disguise. He is no longer deferential to the amiable weaknesses of col leagues—he does not care to conceal his contempt of commonplace. For a brief season his native fire blazes out, until, the occasion past, it is once more carefully huddled up to warm into life obsolete prejudices and a defunct party .—Fuse,. _,. THE WHIPPER-IN" OF THE LIBERAL PARTY.— A paragraph has been going the round of the press to the effect that the Right Hon. Henry Brand, M.P. for Lewes, has " respited his intention of resigning his post as whipper-in to the liberal party." We speak upon very substantial authority wh.' we state that the real fact of the case is that Mr. Brand has, with the courtesy and consideration so essentially a part of his nature, consented to retain the post he has so long occu pied until the formal appointment of a successor— an event which may probably soon take place. The duties of the office Mr. Brand has discharged so ably and satisfactorily must necessarily be carried on more or less under " high pressure," and demand an amount of mental and physical exertion which ne man can long undergo with impunity. It is owing to this fact alone that Mr. Brand has sought to retire from his post. No doubt it is extremely important to the liberals in the House of Commons to enjoy the great advantage of Mr. Brand's tact and practised experience hi the coming ses sion, and the right bon. member has shown his loyalty to his party by consenting to retain, his pest until the ap pointment of his successor can be satisfactorily arranged. and the efficient discharge of its onerous and difficult duties be fully provided for. —Sussex Adeerfiser. PATENT OFFICE MCREUNI, SOUTH KENSINGTON.— Number of visitors for the week ending Jan. 19, 1,213 ; total number since the opening of the Museum free daily (12th May, 1858), 1,108,424. LATEST INTELLIGENEC. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JAN. 22. Yesterday a conference took place in this city between the plenipotentiaries of the governments, members of the North Gennim Confederation. Their assent is said to be assured to the whole Prussian scheme of a Federal Constitution. HUNGARY. PEBTH. JAN. 22. The Governor of Transylvania has addreesed remonstrances to the Austrian government against the imperial patent upon the organisation of the army. The Deak party deny that an understanding exists between Herr Pulazky and the German political leaders in Vienna. It is believed that an Hungarian ministry will be appointed. DENMARK. COPHNHAGEN, JAy. 21. In to-day's sitting of the Volksthing the govern ment were asked when the cabinet proposed to communicate to the house a report on the foreign policy hitherto followed by Denmark, and also upon the diplomatic negotiations conducted with foreign Powers. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAILS. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 22. The Union Company's steamer Celt, with the above mails, arrived here this morning. Her dates are—Cape of Good Hope, 19th December; St. Helena, 27th ; and Ascension, 31st. She brings 52 passengers, among whom are Colonel Fellows of the Cape staff, and Colonel Dunne of the 99th Regiment. The mails have been landed and forwarded, and the Celt has proceeded for South ampton. The Cape parliament continued in session, and it was not known when the prorogation would take place. A great deal of time had been consumed in the discussion of the proposals of the select committee of the House of Assembly on the contemplated retrenchments in the expenditure. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN. (Vlll Queenstown.) NEW YORK, JAN. 9, Mosonso. The Hon. Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, has offered a resolution in the House of Representatives to impeach President Johnson under charges of gross abuse of his veto, appointing, and pardoning powers, of corrupt disposition of public property, and of interfering with the elections. The resolution authorised the judiciary committee to investigate the conduct of the President and report what grounds existed for his impeachment. The house adopted the resolution by 107 to 38 votes. The President vetoed the District of Columbia Imperial Suffrage Bill, which both houses subse quently passed over the veto. It is reported that Mr. Thaddeus Stevens is pre paring a bill declaring martial law throughout the South. The Canadian authorities have refused the de mand of Mr. Seward for papers relative to the Fenian trials. A Fenian meeting was held in New York on Monday last, when resolutions were passed de claring Stephens a humbug, and electing General Gleeson in his place. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JAN. 9, MORNING. Advice* received here from Mexico state that Juarez left Chihuahua on December 10 for Durango to establish his capital. It is reported that Mejia has been defeated near San Luis Potosi. Several prominent republican generals have adhered to the cause of Ortega, who has issued a proclamation reciting his claim to the presidency. The merchants of Monterey are reported fa vourable to Maximilian. The American steamers Continental and Panama have been seized on the Pacific coast by the Republican General Corona, because the owners held a grant under Maximilian. The Republicans had occupied Mazatlan, and had perpetrated great barbarities. The report of the execution of Escobetlo has been denied. ARRIVAL OF THE ALLEMANNIA. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 22. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Allemania arrived here this morning. (Via Southampton.) NEW YORK, JAN. 5, Moitinxo. The Senate has repealed the section of the Con_ fiscation Act giving the President a discretionary power to proclaim a general amnesty. Resolutions have been introduced in the House of Representatives reducing the powers of the Supreme Court, and also proposing the division of Texas into four territories. The Ohio Legislature has ratified the Constitu tional Amendment. Mr. Ashley has announced that he will present a bill for the impeachment of the President. A test case is about to be submitted to the Su preme Court requiring a decision as to whether or not Alabama is a state. The steamer Don has sailed on a secret expedi tion. She is reported to have gone to convey 15,000,0U0 dole. to St. Thomas for the purchase of that island from Denmark. The mission of Minister Campbell has been abandoned for the present. It is announced at Montreal that the British government has commuted the sentence of death passed upon the Fenian' in Canada to twenty years' imprisonment. The steamer Fashion has been burned on the Mississippi river. 300 lives were lost, mostly freedmen. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JAN. 5. Advices from Mexico istate that the Emperor Maximilian had issued a decree dividing the Im perial army into three corps under Miramon, Mejia, and Marquez, and providing for the transportation homeward of the Austrian and Belgian troops. The Emperor Maximilian, in a recent address, expresses regret at the attitude of the United States towards Mexico. General Castelneau was seriously ill with fever. Republican accounts state that Juarez had forces within eight miles of Mexico city. The imperial accounts are only desultory. Guerilla warfare was being waged by the Repub licans. Ortega was strongly supported in Northern hteidoo. (BY ATLANTIC Tzumunt.) NEW YORK, JAN. 21, EvaNirrra. Gold, 137. Sterling exchange on London, 1021; 5-20 United States Bonds, 108 ; Illinois, 116 ; Erie, 65. Cotton—Middling upland, 341,. The Inman steamship City of New York arrived out to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nos °us ows cosusrosossr.) PARIS. MONDAY Evisnro.. A most important amendment—not indeed in principle, but so far as regards immediate practice —to the doubtful reforms announced in the Emperor'sletter,appears in this morning'sMoniteur. Everybody said yesterday that the leading motive for the rippreasion of the address was to prevent a debate on foreign affairs at the beginning of the session. We may be very sure that the °Norris tionsfreely made outsidethe Tuileries were reported within, and the Emperor wisely answers them by proclaiming that he desires to have the opinion of the representatives of the people on his foreign policy at the earliest possible moment ; and that the government will at once accept a debate upon any " interpellations" that may be made in reference to it. In other words the government feels it necessary to permit at the opening of this session a discussion which will be tantamount to the very address which it sup presses. The speeches, therefore, which M. Thiers and others have carefully composed, and which yesterday they thought waste paper, will yet serve their turn. I hear that the telegrams from the prefects as to the impression made in the departments by the telegraphed summary of yesterday's Monde/Jr are highly discouraging. They almost all say that the suppression of the address is lamented, and there is little confidence in the proposed equivalent. The two soldiers of the Imperial Guard, Choi and Agostini, were shot this morning at Vincennes, , pursuant to the sentence of a court-martiai,for the murder in the wine shop at Champerret. The execution was a grand and terrible military spec tacle. A company from every regiment of the army of Paris attended. The 2nd and 3rd regi ments of Voltigeurs of the Guard, to which the unfortunate prisoners belonged, were on the ground in full force. General Soumain com manded the parade. The firing party consisted of fo-ir sergeants, four corporals, and four privates, commanded by two adjutants. The men to whom the sad task was assigned were feelingly told by their officers, while loading their &sleeks in their respective barracks that they had not only a mili tary duty to perform, but one of humanity, which required them to take good aim. The prisoners were warned at 4 in the morning that their request for the Emperor's pardon had been rejected, and that they must prepare to die. One of them, Ciosi, received the fatal news with a coolness and courage which he maintained to the last ; but Agostini's nerve failed him. The two priests in attendance effected a reconciliation between the two men. Agostini had spoken very bitterly of his comrade ; and when at last he stretched out his hand to him, he said, "You know well enough that you alone are guilty." Before mounting the cellular carriage in waiting to conduct them to the place of execution they were offered wine, brandy, and bread ; Agostini took some refreshment, but Ciosi asked only for cigars, which he continued to smoke to the end. The morning was terribly cold. At half-past 8 the condemned men stepped out of the carriage to the spot where they were to be shot to death. They were warmly clad in full uniform, with military cloaks around them, and Ciosi had carefully put on white gloves. General Soumain exercised the prerogative which the military code gave him of excusing the men from military degra dation, and they were shot in their uniforms. When a French soldier is shot he is permitted, if he pleases, to refuse to have his eyes bandaged. ' Choi at first refused ; afterwards, at the ' suggestion of his confessor, oonsented ; but ultimately tore off the bandage, knelt down, and looked steadily in the face of his old comrades who were to fire at ten paces. Looking at Agos tini, who, though with eyes bound, was not able to keep upon his knees, but fell down, he said, in a tone of pity and contempt, " Poor Agostini !" Immediately before the order to tire was given, Ciosi, in a firm voice, addressing the firing party, said— Dear comrade,-1 am guilty of the crime ; but, upon my conscience, I did not intend to rob. I beg pardon of God and of you. Adieu! Agostini, completely broken down by fear, was obliged to be tied to a post before he could be shot at. The criminals were fired at separately. One of them, the reports differ as to which, did not ap pear to be quite dead after the volley ; and one of the soldiers coming near him blew out his brains, which scattered about in a manner shocking to behold. According to military regulations, all the troops present filed past before the dead bodies, drums beating and colours flying. One of the evening papers remarks that these unfortunate men were victims of the system, much complained of, which allows men when off duty to go about with their arms. To call them " victims "is a strong way of putting the case ; but I believe, as I said when 1 reported their trial, that they never premeditated murder when they en tered the publichouse at Champerret, but committed the crime when half drunk and in a sort of " chance medley." Their fate stands out in strong contrast to the extenuating circumstances granted to the fiendish villains of the Levant Island Penitentiary. Nevertheless it may be well said that the example of their execution is a wholesome one, as showing soldiers whose trade it is to face death that they incur it as a penalty and not as a glory if they cannot control their passions and con sider at all moments the responsibility of being entrusted with arms, and if they murder ously use against peaceful citizens the arms which the country confides to them. There was a great crowd of Parisians on the vast plain of Vincennes, attracted by news of the execution. Night cabmen who had seen the movement of troops and ascertained the cause can vassed many with success. But all the would-be sightseers were disappointed, and had a cold ride for nothing. The military kept all civilians out side their lines, and the spectacle of the death of OM two Corsican soldiers was witnessed exclusively by the soldiers for whose example it was intended. The imperial reforms produced no marked effect at the Bourse. Rents, after some inconsiderable fluctuations, closed, with a fall of 20c. for cash, and 15c. for account, at 69fr. 15c. and 69fr. 20c. The fall is not much ; but people are somewhat sur prised that the influence used to produce a rise on such an occasion was not successful. Mobilier rose 11fr. 25c. in consequence of an impression that various schemes of that company to which M. Fould was opposed will be feasible with M. Rouher. THE SPECIAL SERVICES AT BT. PACti X.—The third of the special services at St. Paul's was held in the large open space under the dome on Sunday evening. Prayers were intoned by the Rev. J. H. Coward, M.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge, rector of St. Benet's, Paul's-wharf, and the lessons read by the Rev. Canon B.D. The sermon war preached by the Rev. W. Bell Mackenzie, M.A., of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, incum bent of St. James's Church, Holloway, who selected for his text the 19th chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, verses 41 and 42. He dwelt upon the evils of scepticism and ritual lam, and made some touching allusions to the sad accident in the Regent's-park. The sermon next Sunday evening will be preached by the Rev. Dr. J. C. Miller, vicar of Greenwich. THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS. Exearas.) RIO DE JANEIRO, D. 2.; . _ . . The National Exhibition was dosed on the 16th inst. ; the objects destined for the Paris Exposition being selected, and will again be exhibited before 14 went. The very heavy rains which have lately fallen lie" caused several landslips on the Don Pedro 11. Railimy. The traffic has been interrupted for several days, and, the bad weather Mill continues, will probably MAUI is for eight or ten days more. Intelligence has been received from the seat of cast the Bth instant. Nothing of important* had taken plu s in the way of active operations, and as the wet senor Lad also set in there, and the army was awaiting rvin'orce. manta, which are continually being sent south, time it no probability of the allies attacking before the and et January. News has been received of a mutiny among the Pare. guayan troops. Captain Dolores Paiva, at the hefil et 300 men, marched against the stronghold of Cerre Leo , and was cordially received by the garrison, where they found a quantity of arms and ammunition. A fore, of 600 men sent by Lopez to attack the rebels were beaten, and the numbers of the mutineer, , n 4 still further increased by many of those sea: against them. A second column of sou p m with two field pieces was not more successful than the first, the artillery being captured by the rebels, who wen strongly fortified at Tebiquari-Quazfi, where their number, ere daily increasing. They already exceed GOO men, well armed and provided with ammunition, and are in pp, session of 2,000 head of cattle and 500 horses. Captain Dolores Pairs will march towards Cawhltria to meet the Brazilian force, which is to advance from Rio Grande under Brigadier General Portinho. Rear• Admiral Joaquim Jose Ignacio bad left Motto Video for Buenos Ayres on the 14th on his way to the fiset. General Porto Alegre had arrived at Rio Grande, sal General Argon° had assumed the command of the :hid corps of the Brazilian army. General Metre's health lhad improved so much that is the present be had given up his intended voyage to Bunts The greatest cordiality now exists between the command. ers•in•chief of the allied armies and navy. FORE-STREET WAREHOUSE COMPAXT (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of proprietors was held this afternoon at the London Tavern, Mr. W. Same a the chair. . . . The following report and balance-sheet were presented: " The directors beg to submit the accounts for the half. year ending 31st December, 1866. The net profits of the business during that period, after payment of interen, income tax, and every other expense, and making allownce for bad and doubtful debts, amounted to 24,169/. 17s. 7d. ' • which, with the balance brought mist July, 4,6681. 18s. 9c1., make a total of 28,8381. It s. 4d., which it is recommended shall be appropriated as undo: —To the payment of a dividend (free of income tax) it 10 per cent. per annum on the entire capital of the con pony, less interest at 5 per omit. on the portion uncalled, say at the rate of 15e. lid. per share, '2(,:301.; interest on sums paid in anticipation of calls, IV. 9s. ad.—together. 23,2651. 9s. 3.1. ; and to carry forward to next amount, 5,573/. 7s. Id. It is scarcely necessary to remind the shareholders of the effect, produced on all climes of the community by the monetary collapse of 1866, resulting in diminished demand for every article not only of luxury but of ordinary use and consumption. The directors therefore feel that under the circumstances they have cause for congratulation in the fact of their being able to maintain the usual increase in the half-yearly dividend, and to make some addition to the balance previously brought forward. It will be in the recollection of the shareholders that the purchase of the business from Mr. Morrison was band upon a previous average annual profit (including interest on °vital and rent) of 71,0001. The directors have the satisfaction of stating that during the three years of the company's operations the net profits, as shown by the accounts, and the interest paid during that peeled to Mr. Morrison have amounted in the aggregate to 2"5,1431., being an annual average result of 75,0471. The divided warrants will be issued on the Lt proximo. " Balance-sheet, Dec. 31, 1866.—Dr.: To balance doe to Mr. Morrison for transfer of property and business, 293,0771. Bs. 4.1.; to capital paid up, 12/. per share or 30000 shares, 36 0 0001.; to capital paid in anticipation of calls, 150/.; to trade liabilities—on bills payable. 69,136/.:ls; on open account, 140,963/.55. 7d.; et.lier, 210,0991.8x.71; to balance brought forward from 30th June, 4,668/. Ma. 9d; Balance carried down being the net profit of the busbies for the half-year ending at plate after payment of intent (including 14,063/. Is. Ild. to Mr. Morrison), expenses d management, income tax, and all other expenses, sal allowances for bad and doubtful debt& 1 2 1 , 1 1 17s. 7d—total, 892,1651. 13e. 3d. To propcsed dividend for the half-year, being at the into of 10 per cent. per annum, free of income Mt on the entire capital of the company, 30.000 E Less interest at 5 per cent. per annum on portions ca. paid, viz. :-6 months on 240,11001.-6,0001. • 3 months a 60,01.101.-7501.-6,750/.-23,250/. ; to interes t at 5 per cent per annum on calls paid in advance, 151.95.3 d. ; to balance carried forward tenant 5000unt,5,573/.75. 1 d.--2Z,81t0.16a4d Cr.: Bytcost of premise*, 95,478/. 13s. 2d. • by considers. tion to Mr. Morrison for goodwill, 60,000/. • by cash in hand and at bankers, 12,4681. Ile. tat. ; by bins receivable in caw, 97,8911. ls. lid. ; by amount due by customers OM open account, 215,240/. Bs. Id.—together, 325,600/. Is.; by paid dock of goods as per valuation at date, 404,4411. 71. Id. ; by furniture and fixtures, 6,645/. ; total, 89,165/. 13s. 3d. By balancebrought from :flit June, 1866, 4,668/. 18s. ; by half-year's net profits brought down, 24,1691. 17s. 7d. ; together, 23,8381.165. 4d. (Yens.—The foregoing liabilities do not include the met of goods purchased for the spring trade, now in course of delivery and not included in the stock on 31st December) Total, 28,8384 ltia 4d." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, observed that they bad been enabled to maintain the dividend, though it would not have been s matter of surprise had the case been otherwise. It was satisfactory to observe that, notwithstanding the alternations of trade, the business continued to ' prosper ; and it was to be hoped that in the spring there would be a further improvement One-third of the shareholders were customers; A emploNEs of the concern also held ahares. sad, including the directors, the cnt plopCA, and Mr. Morrison, two-thirds of the shares, or 9 0 , 0141 out of 30,000, were held by persons who had direct connexion with the concern. Considering tl's state of the money market the board had appealed to Mr. Morrison whether, in order to avoid the mak* of calls, be would consent to poetpone receiving snl further payments until next year, and Mr. Morrison hd consented to do so. The remit of this would be that ne call would be required before the spring of 1404. (Chem) The motion havingbecn carried. soda dividend at then of 10 per cent. per swum, lees 5 per cent. 00 t 1 .4 amount uncalled, having been declared On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the following rook . tion was adopted —" The chairman having stated thz Mr. Morrison had consented,at the request of the director , to take payment of the instalments of 80, 114 A each due on the Ist April and Ist October respectively ie the debentures of the company falling due on the um dates in 1868, and bearing interest at 5 per cent. fe annum, it was resolved that this meeting sanctions tin arrangement and authorises the directors to take all nem sary steps for carrying the saint into effect." The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to 88 directors. CAPTURE of GREENHILL, THE ESCAPED Blvd.'''. —Many of our readers will remember the daring 0 , 4 4 from Springfield-gaol in May last, and subsequeat bt' glarious adventures and clever baffling of hit pursuer!, of a young man, 19 years of age, named Alfred Gee , ' hill, who had been committed for trial at the gumwtt assize on three charges of burglary in the neiglibouthool of Brentwood ; and probably some surprise will be ores. aioned by the announcement that after this considerable lapse of time, when his escape bad begun to le 104°1 upon as quite a thing of the past, which it was %veleta W trouble our heads any further about, he has at last bras " laid bold of " by the powers that be. and securely lodged in durance vile, especial care being taken thin time that be does not again absent himself without leave. ft a ppears that on Tuesday last a communication was received by Captain McGorrery, the governor of the HOC% tountYgo l, from the governor of Maidstone gaol, informing hint slut Greenhill was in safe custody at Maidstone. having beet apprehended on four charges of burglary in different putt of Kent. Several daring burgla'ies, it seems, had lately been committed in Kent, under very mysterious circa , ' stances, which for a long time haled the researches 0( the police, but at length a young men, who gave t he name of Thomas Smith, was apprehended at Chatha m • and no doubt was felt as to Ins being concenied in the robberies. At the time of Greenhill'a escape earlel McGorrery took the precaution to send a de,cr ption the runaway to most of the gaol* in the countlf• shrewdly conjecturing from Mr. Greenhill's antecedent' that he would probably sooner or later again 6 0 , 1 1 himself in the grasp of the atm.% ann of the law: sn the result has proved that his precaution was an cellent one, fur so accurate was the description give" the escaped prisoner that the governor of Maidstone gaol upon first seeing Smith "at once suspected t ela to be no other than the e " original " Greenhill, and dodr i him with the fact, which he at first stoutly denied. he' afterwards admitted that his name wee Greenhill. a n. I be was the man who broke out of Springfield gaol. tin day the prisoner was finally examined on four charge , " burglary, and committed for trial at theMaidstone moor assize • and should he then be acquitted he will at oat:. )4 brought back to Springfield, and will be tried at the hoe% *min, for the burglaries in this county, and also breaking out of gaol.— Baez Herald. diti a le Pg wh4 trot Nan the of has YT the thoi fern of t for' oarC Mr. .tax At busie appe bad 1 !kali cha r' Il e/ Was 22 P 4 i ik 84 vris that 1.4