The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-31 00:00:00

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Tim Spanish Government, which resents criti cism with so much asperity, even to the extent of visiting the mildest and best entitled of critics with imprisonment and exile, nevertheless feels that there are still defects in the State—weak points needing to be forth :LA, and gaps requiring to be filled up. The deficiency which it has justannounced is, however, one which only itself was likely to discover. What Spain wants more th.m anything else—so it is authorititively declared—is more soldiers. Looking at the history of the country for the last ten or twenty years, we should have been led to the opposite conclusion, and been disposed to think that Spain had not too few soldiers, but too many. The army has not once been required in that period to defend the independence the country, but has in two ways proved a source of extreme inconvenience and danger. It has been a hot-bed of intrigues, the series of usurpations following one another in rapid interminable succession. It has made Govermnents, and then dogged them with menaces, and kept them in continual danger. Spanish revolutions have been thu work of plot ting generals, encouraged to compass the over throw of the Government of the day by observing that it rarely had a higher origin than a barrack conspiracy. Owing to the character thus im pressed on the public affairs of Spain, the develop ment of a sound political life in the civil population has been rendered impossible. Public opinion has been powerless, and at length the army has been made the support of a selfish and degraded despotism, before which every statesman of mark has been reduced to insignificance, while the creatures of the Court riot in the unrestrained exercise of arbitrary power. Abroad, Spain has fared no better. The vain pursuit of military glory has loaded the sub levt with taxes, destroyed the financial credit of State, aid! towerei l i its political considandon in the eyes of the world. A delusive success in Morocco seemed to presage a series of victorious and profitable adventures in other parts of the world, and the expeditions to Mexico, Cochin China, and Sun Domingo were resolved on. Not one of these has turned out well. They were undertaken, in opposition to the spirit and feeling of the age, by political soldiers, who only wanted to use the army in order to secure their position at Conn, without regard to the public interesta ; but the burden of their consequences has to be borne by the country. The proposal to increase the army has no ground in the present or anticipated situation of Spain. No country in Europe is better gua ranteed by its political and geographical position against attack. No Power would be so foolish as to assail the independence of Spain, or attempt its dismemberment. The only reason which it is thought worth while to give for the measure is, that Prussia and France are increasing their arma ments. " Spain (it is said) can neither separate " herself front the preventive movement, nor " abandon to chance the maintenance of her " policy, by which alone she can advance " legitimate interests." This is a fair specimen of the miserable and fraudulent jargon to which despotic Governments are accustomed to resort when the taxpayer is to be plundered. If the intolerable burden of excessive and ill-adjusted taxation which now presses on the people of Spain were lightened and better distributed, if industry were encouraged by liberty, and public spirit nourished under free institutions, there is nu enterprise that could be commended to Spanish patriotism which the country would not be in a position to undertake with the best pros pects of success. The sufficiency of a national army is not to be estimated by crude arithmetical comparisons, but to be ascertained by direct re ference to the duties which it is called to perform. The annual subtraction of 43,000 young men from industry in a country which already suffers from the diversion of so many of its suns from productive occupation, will still further prejudice the material prosperity of Spain without offering any kind of compensation in return. This, how ever, is a consideration which is not likely to give either the Queen of Seam or Marshal NARVAEZ a moment's uneasiness. The manner of introducing this change is as noteworthy as the measure itself. It is effected by a royal decree limed on a ministerial report. This is the approved way of effecting radical con versions in Spain just now, and of course the oftener it is resorted to the greater is the horror which the court entertains for "revolution." Every constitutional power is now in abeyance in Spain. Even that is too favourable an account to give of the present state of things. No one can be sure that the suspended constitution will ever be re newed ; the probabilities are all the other way. The Government assumes to itself a inure than legislative—a constituent—power, and the very bases of the national institutions are as liable to subversion as particular and subordinate laws. We are told that the Government will subse quently render an account of its conduct to the Cortex ; but it has too plainly shown its determi- L.o.' n not to have its powers limited by a really national rtpruseatation to permit the world to be- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1867. lievu that if it sholld ever again summon a Cortes, such a body will re,issemble under conditions which will leave it more than an echo of the declared will of the QI'LEN. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) -.PEE(III.. The Tim, sees in the speeches of Mr. Milner Gibson and Lord Ambefley, and it. the letter of Mr. Villiers, further illustrations of the reticence which poli. tieal personages like to observe on the evo of the session. They have but little to say, and don't wish to say it. Their great nnsiety is to keep themselves perfectly clear for any cmrse that may be found be.•st. On one pout the 7' can go o•iite with Mr. Gibson, viz., when he say. that 11 the rea in!. alleged for the postponement of reform arc :n t: ath the be-t r...sons fur its immediate settlehiont. The supposed fonc.oftlis now wanting representation can, not reasom.bly he desired to wait till our difficulties and .ern are have been disposed of by the old parliament. If they have a right to o•ore place and might in the legisla. ture. the right is as good for one set of measures, or one branch of legislefon, as another. Least of all can the e....ting house el.dm to he allowed to do all that it has left -I.lone. :Lod mend all that it has done ill. The principal tion to Lord Anderly's speech, which was a very pretty one, nevertheles4, is- -that it 14 by Lori Amberley. Why should his lordship cont:ne his suggestions to the house of which he has seen so little, And in which, in the course of natm - e, he can only he a bird of passage'.' Anyhow, the House of Commons, as it exists, is as good as the Lords ; and if the one is to he reformed—off the fact of the creation if necessary—what e:.emption or br ace cam be clalel for the other; The 1.11 diFputes Lord A.uherley'm nrgnmeht that open air reform demonstrations are unavoidable. The platform ..m1 the press, oar contomporary considers, are amply suf. relent. Assinnibg it to be a grievance, as Lord Aniberley calls it. that the wothing ton should he excluded from the aniline, it follows that one working man has as good a right to the franchise as another, so that by a strictly seluence. the fears Lord Anderley will hnd himself committed to manhood or universal suffrage. In the opinion of the 11, rah!, anybody can see from Mr. Gibson's speech that, although a reformer, he is not dis posed to make a clean sweep of the old ibstitutions of his country, and substitute for them the ,rganisat:on of French and German socialists; but for all that he is working for and with the party that promises to make a paradise of earth by acts of parlhuneut. Mr. Gibson, says the Star, raised his voice manfully fur " household suffrage." Henceforth there must be no further attempts at conciliation. They would not only fail to be appreciated, but would inevitably result in dis aster. What has now to be thought of is not what will p:ea.se Lord Derby or his astute lieutenant, but what will reasonably satisfy the just demands of the nation. It is pretty evident that if the ministers bring in a reform bill, they will, as the conservative member told Mr. tdbson, create for themselves a new tave of Adullam as a refuge for their less pliant followers ; and it is equally certain that they could bring in no bill which would satisfy the country without at once utterly sacrificing both their party and their principles. Mist Court. OSBORNE, JAR. 30. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, walked and drove yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Waterpark ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princesy Louise and Princess Deatrice. The other members of the royal family went out also. Dr. Robertson arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Cermarthen, drove to Kew yesterday, and visited the Duchess of Cambridge. The Queen will hold a Council at Osborne on Saturday next at one o'clocic Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-of cc fro:, the Cov,rnors of Hoeg Kong, Ceylon, Labuan, end Malta. BANQUET TO LORD MONCX AT PORTSMOUTH. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNEbDAY A complimentary banquet was given here this evening to the Governor-General of Canada by Mr. Ema nuel, the mayor. His lordship formerly represented the borough in conjunction with Sir F. Baring, and on his arrival yesterday with Lady Monck the bells rung him a hearty welcome. The banquet, which was of extreme elegance, was given at the King's Rooms, Southsea, and the company numbered about 100. Amongst them were— The Mayor and Mayoress, Viscount and Viscountess Monck. Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, G.C.8., Colonel Fame, M.P., the Hon. Thomas Ryan, Mr. Bonham. Carter, M.P., the Hon. Mr. 3Pllougall, Sir John Simeon, M.l'., Mr. Simmonds, M.P., the Hon. Mr. M'lmitald, the Mayor and Mayoress of Southampton, tLe Ulm of Winchester, Admiral Sir George Mundy, C. 8., Captaid Glyn, A,D,C., the Hon. Mr. Cartier, Colonel Mould, Colonel .Tervoise, the Hwu, Mr. Howland, Admiral Wellesley, Mr. W. If. Stone, M.P., Lord Eury, Captain I lerbert, Captain Robinson, Captain Molesworth, Captain Burgoyne, 8.N., &c. Lord MoNcx, in returning thanks for his health, dwelt upon his old connexion with the borough, and referred to the history of the last ten years. With regard to the cold. nice, he said he could remember when it was proposed to allow the colonies to manage themselves. On two occa sions he had been compelled to throw himself on the loyalty of the Canadians ; and the whole colony would have been expended in defence of British territory— though the quarrel was not theirs—if it had been required. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Mar thioness of Carmarthen, drove to Kew yesterday, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. His Royal Highness the Prince do Joinville has taken the late Dowager Duchess of Northumberland's reel deuce at Twickenham for the remaining term of years, and is daily expected to return from the Cmitinent. The Duke of Rutland is expected to arrive in town on Monday next from Belvoir I 'male, in order to dine with the Earl of Derby find the supporters of the govern ment, in Downing-street. _ _ The Marchioness of Salisbury and family leave Hatfield Houk, Herts, in a few days for town for the season. The noble marquis will be among the guests of Lord Derby on the 4th Feb. The Earl and Countess Granville have arrived in town from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Manchester at Kimbolton Castle, Hunts. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have ar rived in town from The Grove, near Watford, Herts. DEATH OF THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWN,—We are informed by telegraph of the death of the Earl of Cam penlown, who expired yesterday at Weston, in Warwick shire, where his father-in-law has resided for a few months. The deceased earl, when Lord Duncan, was member for Bath from ISt' to and led an agitation which resulted in the repeal of the window tax. His death was preceded by an illness of some duration. Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., arrived at his residence at Blackheath Park on Tuesday last, and left for Scotland yesterday, to deliver his inaugural address as rector of the University of St. Andrew's. The members for Oldham addressed a meeting in the Town-hall, Oldham, last night. On the subject of reform, Mr. Hibbert said the bill of last session might not rise again, but a better one would. Mr. Platt also spoke in favour of reform, but referred to the fact that the miners of Scotland had elected Lord Elcho to sot for them, to show that the working classes were not alto gether blameless in the matter. A vote of confidence was unanimously wood by the meeting. The Archbishop of York writes to the Tim's on behalf of the Caniliote refugees, whom he describes as in danger of perishing from starvation if funds for their sus tenance are not forthcoming. It is estimated that 14,0001. would be sufficient to maintain them until they should find new homes and employment. Of this sum one-half has already been contributed by the British public and the Greek community living in Britain, and was it too much to hope that the rest might flow in ? " This," ■gys the Archbishop, "is no question of politics. While the men are fighting and perishing for a political con viction, we may join, whatever be our opinions, in pity ing the wives and widows and helpless babes, hurried off to another land, huddled by tem and twelves into small rooms or stables, almost naked, without fire by day or light by night, with no other food than a morsel of bread, and this likely to cease." A meeting was held at the Mansion-house, Dub lin, yesterday, in favour of railway reform, and resolutions adopted approving of the purchase of Irish railways by the government. A correspondent "at Shanghai notices how the history of India is slowly and gradually being reproduced in China :—" An Englishman h.ui charge of an arsenal at Nankin, and other Englishmen are teaching the viceroy's troops the rudiments of drill. An Englishman commands a small disciplined corps at Ning-po, and now Frenchmen are about to establish an arsenal and gunboats at Foochow, under the auspices of a coalition prompted by jealousy of the power of IA-hung-chang and Tsen-kwo-fan. Officers of the same two nations disciplined the troops and officered the guns of rival satraps in India. Is the result to be the same r On Sunday Princess Mathildo gave a concert, at which all the ministers, Marshal I 'Anrobert, the Belgian, Prussian, and Russian ministers, and Mesdames de Bud berg and de Begens were present, as well as a number of literary and musical stars, such as Thcophile Gautier, Pas deloup, Carvelho, Schroeder, Izo. The two latter artistes sang the duo in the No::c di Ftgaro. The new violinist, Wilhelm,, accompanied by the well-known organist M. Saint-Saene, exeentoil tile adagio of Beethoven's sonata and the m Matt of Bach. The Pope has written an autograph letter to the King of Prussia requesting big good offices in behalf of the Roman catholic priests and bishops living under Russian rule. The Russian government has just authorised the establishment of a society for the spread of the " orthodox" religion among heathens, Muuulmana, and Buddhists in their territory. The operations of the society will be directed in the first instance to the conversion of the pagan tribes in the Altai and Trans-Raikal country, and the counteracting of Musrulman and Buddhist propaganda in those parte. The Caucasus, being assigned to the labours of a special society of the kind, is excluded from the sphere of the present one. A Vienna correspondent, writing of the masque rades at Vienna, observes that "the infinite variety of costumes afforded by the olla podrida of races united under the Austrian crown, render them wonderfully picturesque. There is a daub of the Oriental about all the eastern pro vinces which gives richness and colour to the crowd ; the old Polish and Hungarian national dresses are gorgeous and tasteful, and the toilette of • Servian belle, or of a woman belonging to the Saxon colonies of Transylvania, is a marvel of gaudiness and oddity. In short a Vienna masked ball is better worth seeing than any other, save Gue in St. Petersburg."_ _ _ " It is not the Princess de Leuchtenberg," says the Spet, " but the daughter of the Grand Duke Con- stantine. that King George of Greece is going to marry." The death is snnounded from Chalons-sur-Skaiine of Colonel Andre Marechal, probably the oldest military officer in Europe. He was born in 1764, entered the army as a volunteer in 176:, served through all the revolutionary wars and those of Napoleon, and was made a colonel in 1812. He had received six wounds. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. THE ATLANTIC YACHT RACE. PARIS, JAN. 31: Yesterday the Emperor gave an audience to Mr. Bennett, the owner of the American yacht Henrietta. The Regatta Society of La Rochelle have pre sented a gold medal to Mr. Bennett, in commemo ration of the ocean yacht race in which the Henrietta was victorious. OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA- LIAN MALTA, J.N. 30. The Pera, fr nn S.mthampton on the 20th inst., arrived to-day at 3 a.m., and left at 11 a.m. for Alexandria. The Syria, from Marseilles January 28, arrived at 8 p.m. to-day, and will leave at 2 a.m. to morrow for Alexandria. (REUTER . S EXPRESS.) ITALY, ROME, AND AUSTRIA. PARIS, J. 30, Evcrrvc. The Moniker (/,‘ Soir publishes the subjoined remarks upon the mission of Signor Tonello co uto Papal Court, and the treaty of commerce and navigation reported to be negotiating between Italy and Austria : The success of signor Tonello's mission is producing a favourable impression in Italy ; a proof of the progress pacificatory ideas have made throughout the peninsula. The concessions of the Court of Florence with regard to the exequatur and the oath of the bishops have caused the principal difficulties to disappear, and nothing remains to be settled save a few secondary details. It is expected that at the next consistory the Holy Father will be in a position to designate the prelates placed at the head of the vacant dioceses. Honoured by the Pope with a friendly reception, King Victor k:mnumuers envoy has equally had only to congratulate himself upon his rela tions with Cardinal Antonelli. The religious difficulties being solved, it would be de sirable that in the domain of economic and material inte rests, for instance, in custom house, passport, and practical business questions—the Pontificial government should lend itself to combinations of a nature to facilitate the relations of its subjects with Italy. Intelligence has been received that it has just consented that travellers passing through the Pontifical State to visit the north or south of the peninsula shall no longer be obliged, unless making a stay at Rome, to furnish themselves with a passport bearing the rim of the Spanish legation, which is charged with the consular interests of the Holy Sec in the Italian kingdom. The relations between Italy and Austria continue to be satisfactory. No subject of rivalry any longer divides the two countries, and they are preparing the elements of a nego ciation, which will no doubt be opened shortly for the signature of a treaty of commerce and navigation destined to turn to the profit of material interests the friendly dispositions already shown by the diplomacy of the two powers. - - - - EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNEBI. EMIMG. I am told, I hope, and I confidently believe, that the Monittur will shortly publish a manifesto re storing the original letter of the Emperor to M. Rouher to its pristine importance. I think I have before said that many more ministers must go to the wall. The time of their fall is at hand unless I am greatly mistaken. There is a rumour that M. de Chasaeloup Laubat, the ex-Minister of Marine, intends to re sign his seat in the Senate and stand as an opposition candidate for the Corps Legislatif on the tint vacancy. It is not so much vexation at being dismissed which prompts this step, as the re vocation of an appointment which ho had given to a faithful Leporello, who had been in his service long before his marriage with his charming countess. A capital mut is attributed to the most eminent of the dismissed ministers when told that the de cree of January 19 was put forth sa lc eentroanc meld (de redifice), he said—La C'ouronne med. A rumour reached my ears yesterday, without making much impression upon them, that the Em peror, although feeling the necessity of talki ng about the reorganisation of the army to mitigate the vexation of France at the aggrandisement of Prussia, does not mean war either next year or later. 1 see it, however, stated into-day's papers that the Chassepot rifles are not to be made so fast as was at first said ; they will be manufac tured leisurely in the government arsenals, andtpri- 1 vate orders are suspended. A most important reform—in a French point of view—is announced in this evening's France. The tribune, the dreaded tribune, the tribune which after the coup &Etat was denounced by writers of the Cassagnac school as utterly incompatible with order and imperial institutions, is to be re-esta blished. What is the tribune ? Simply a pulpit at the top of some stairs in the arena of the chamber which every member mounted when his turn came to make a speech in order that he might be the better heard. Two main objections were made by the Napoleonists of 1851 to the tribune. First, that it gave undue importance to a speaker ; and secondly, that many friends of government who were no orators would not have the nerve to mount the tribune to make a set speech. However, we are told now that this morning workmen have been erecting a tribune in its old place under the PreaL dent's seat. This is a more significant change than you can readily understand in England. The very nam e of " tribune " was tabooed, and now the Emperor mos tambour ui tromprtte revives the old iiarlia mentary accessory. This fact is in my mind a strong confirmation of the statement that the Marquis de Lavalette and his brother reaction ists are going to be made scapegoats. The ac comm ()dation for the public hitherto so restricted in the Corps Legislatif is to be augmented by a second gallery. The Moiiiteur puts an extinguisher upon all the reiterated rumours that M. Ponsard's Galileo was interdicted. As I told you long ago, the Emperor personally has overruled the censorship. Whether Rome likes it or not, the first French Theatre, the Theatre Francais, will produce a play, the interest of which will turn upon the persecution of Galileo by the Pope of his day for having maintained that our earth revolved round the sun. The connection between this theatrical question and the great Roman question, of which Italy awaits the solu tion, is obvious. M. Cousin, who died rich, has left an annuity of 6,000 fr. to Madame Louise Colet, a good round stun in ready money to her daughter, and the re version for her life of an annuity of 10,000 fr. be queathed to the testator's intimate friend, M. Bar thelemy St. Hilaire. The rise at yesterday's Bourse was not main tained. Rente fell 20c. for cash and 12ic. for ac count, closing at 69fr. uc. in each case. Mobilier fell lfr. 25c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte, 2fr. 50e. ; and Italian, 12ic. Credit Fonder rose 12fr. 50c. The Italia of Naples states that the small-pox is raging in that city. LARD DCFFF.RIN's LETTERs oN IRELAND. Gathering facts as he proceeds, and facts which are not always in harmony with hie own theories, Lord Dufferin, the Daily Ni Ira remarks, is involving hhuself in nume rous contradictions. He now repudiates the imputation that he does not regard emigration per se as a great cala mity, and sets forward as expressing his own opinions just those statements which it has been necessary to advance in correction of his assertions. His lordship professes to find a parallel in the exodus from Ireland and Germany, which he can only do by citing a strangely exceptional year in the Latter country ; and his assumption that the parallel; show that the Irish exodus is a part of a healthy movement common to Europe appears singularly gratuitous when it is known that the German states from which the emigration was largest, are, or were notoriously the worst governed, and that the emigration front them was mainly due to political maladministra tion. His former communication was naturally supposed to mean that emigration would continue to be a blessing till the :0)0,000 persons in excess of the number required for cultivating the soil of Ireland are cleared away ; but he is now indignant at this interpreta tion, and intimates his opinion that the English system of large fame is ihaPPlioable to Ireland. What, then, was the pertinence of the appeal to the English system as a standard from which to measure the excess of Irish agricultural labour? That the cure for the evils of Ireland does not lie in emigration alone, although emigration is an indisputable benefit to those who arc fortunate enough to get away, is shown by the very slight and doubtful improvement which it has produced in the condition of those who remain. The extravagance of his lordship's exaggeration as to the rise of wages in the south has been shown by various correspondents. Were the obstacles now existing to the free tran,fer of land removed, a class of yeomen or of peasant proprietors would gradually grow up such as exist in Nionnr and Luxemburg, men owning and cultivating farms averaging not less than forty acres in extent. The present system secures Lord Dufferin, as a seller, against competition; ►nd it gives him the advantage of unbounded competition among the buyers, but if he enjoys exceptional privileges he insist compound for them by exceptional concessions. Hitherto Lord Dufferin does not appear to have opened his eyes to this plain truth ; but his natural fairness of mind must, in spite of class prepossessions and vested in terests, sooner or later reveal it to him. THE LICEN , ING STETESI. The TidifB has read over and over the report of the pro ceedings of the licensing conference in the hope of disco vering something to give them value, but, with the excep tion of the words of one or two speakers, finds nothing to rest upon. Drunkenness is certainly the occasion of the gmater part of our crime, but that it is increasing among us the Ti 11461 does not believe, and the conference failed to show that the licensing system tends to increase it. The objection of our contemporary to the present system, and to those plans which found most favour with the conference, is that they are based on the supposition that the number of public.houses required in any neighbourhood is to be determined by authority and not by the tentative processes of ordinary trade. Men must be educated through ' their responsibilities, not by relieving them of evai temptation ; and as long as we have freedom of will we must incur the risk of failure. For the purpose of drunkenness one public-house in &street is as good as the nine which Archbishop Manning passes daily in a walk of 200 yards near Buckingham Palace, and if its bar got overcrowded there is nothing to prevent an enlargement of its boundaries. Free trade and • strict police such is the true policy of licensing. Twelve years ago a select committee of the House of Commons recom mended that licenses should be issued by the magistrate■ to all persons of good character applying for them, and that public-house inspectors should be appointed for the purpose of maintaining order in the houses thus freely opened ; and it is strange to think how little has been done to carry out the recommendation in thirteen years,— that museums and similar places of rational amusement should be open after 2 on Sundays, as rival attractions to the public-house on the workman's day of rest. The Meruld seta little store by tho conference, the only practical suggestion with which it is inclined to concur being that in large towns the lioensing should be in the hands of magistrates appointed and paid by the crown, who would be presumably free from the influences which are supposed to bear upon those who now have the con trol of the liquor traffic and the fortunes of the traders in their hands. While rejecting the kind of legislation after which the conference seemed to hanker, and looking to moral educa tion as the source from which improvement must come, the Telegraph, nevertheless, accepts the conclusion that there should be a revised licensing power all over the country, and, deferring the consideration of the kind of officer or officials who could best exercise that power, would have very careful ►nd stringent provisions indeed to protect the people. The character of the publican should be rigidly called in question, and the conduct of his house more sharply watched than it is now ; the pay ment for licenses might perhaps be increased, and the adulteration of liquor more severely punished ; while care should be taken that the licensing body is really impar tial. and that it does xothing to manufacture a demand for drink. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Molina) bAILING e. HAREM—JUDGMENT. The plaintiffs in this case were the well known firm of Baring Brothers, of London, and they filed their bill against the Marine Insurance Company and the repre sentatives of George Wright and Company, of Liverpool, to establish a lien upon a certain vessel mated the Edward Cardwell, of 1,250 tons. In the early part of 1864 Peter Mitchell, a shipbuilder, of Miramichi, New Brunswick, applied to the plaintiffs through his agents, George Wright and Company, for an advance of 5,0001. upon the security of certain ships and deals about to be con signed by Mr. Mitchell to his agents for sale, the applica tion being in the following terms :—'• Herein we enclose a letter from the Hon. Peter Mitchell, Miramichi, request ing you to open a credit to the extent of 11,0001. in our favour, to be drawn upon in bills at four months from time to time as we may require them. We promise and under take to place you in funds to restore such bills at their maturity, and of the proceeds of Isles of ships and deals coming to us from the said gentleman." A memorandum of the ships in course of construction by Peter Mitchell Was produced, and the plaintiffs agreed to make the ad vance, and Wright and Co. drew in July four bills at four months date, two for Ltilitif., and two for I,OOW. each, which the plaintiffs accepted, and the bills were nego tiated. In October, I:464,Wright and Company stopped pay ment. Before the Acceptances arrived at maturity, namely in August, IM4. George Wright and Company obtained from the Marine Insurance Company an advance of 5,000/. for three •montha upon the Edward Cardwell, and executed a bill of sale in their favour. In October, Its.i4, the plainti ff s having discovered the mortgage tiled this bill and obtained an injunction to restrain the t i-Ifeadanto from dealing with the ship, contending that the po w.? siven to Wright and Company to sell gave no authority to MOrir•gle- Itn4 Ass the truaferee's name being in blank, the gill of sale v 7.1.: c ol d ; The cane was fully argued in December last, 'LE. Bailey, and Mr. Cotton appearing for the plaintiffs; Mr. well, for Wright and Co.: and Mr. Glasse and Mr. Drum, for the Marine Insurance Company. The Vice-Chancellor now gave judgment. He was of opinion that the memorandum produced to Messrs. Raring was merely introduced to show that Mr. Peter Mitchell was about to consign property sufficient to meet the bills at maturity and did not and was not intended to constitute a lien upon any property whatever. Messrs. Baring Bro thers hail good ground to complain of the concealment of the fact that at the very time that these transactions I t oo k place Peter Mitchell was' indebted to Wright and Co. more then 40,000/., for no doubt had th'.t been disclosed they would not have given their acceptances. Still all ' the correspondence showed was that out of the property to be consigned to Wright and Co., Messrs. Baring were to receive theamount of their bills, and the plaintiffs had failed to :establish their right to any lien or charge upon the shirrs. The bill therefore must be dismissed, with ousts as against the Marine Insurance Company, and without costs as against the other defendants. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banco.—(Before Justices Mellor, Shee, and Lush.) rxr RTE •TARTI N.-GAME INFORMATION. . . Mr. Dugdale applied for a rule for r mandamus to three justices of Warwickshire to receive the information of James Brown against Joseph Thorpe for trespassing in the day time on Mr. Startin's Lind in search of game. Brown, the informer, is a police-constable, and the justices refused to take his information, on the ground that the magistrates of the county had come to the resolution that the infor mation in game cases of police constables should not be received. The learned counsel wished to have the rale made absolute in the tint instance. . . Mr. Justice Mellor said the court could not do that. The learned counsel might take a rule nisi. Mr. Dugdale said he was afraid that would be of little use. He would, however, take the rule returnable at chambers. Rule granted accoriliney. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) ANsI.ELL V. ANSI/LI.L. Dr. Smith and Mr. Willis for the petitioner ; Dr. Spinks, Q.('., and Mr. Indenvick for the respondent. The petitioner was the wife of Mr. Ansdell, of Bloom fields, near Keymer, Sussex, a gentleman of property, and she sought • judicial separation on the ground of cruelty. He had engaged her to teach his daughter music, the petitioner - having previously been a widow, engaged in tuition at Brighton. He married her in Feb ruary, 186-1, at which time he was 70 years of age, and she about 30 years his junior. They had both been pre viously married and had had children. The marriage soon turned out to be a very unpleasant one. A mouth after the wedding Dr. Ithuidell, the petitioner's father-in-law, paid her a visit. He was 80 years of age ; and he kissed her ; whereupon the respondent, as was alleged, flew into a violent paeuon, and threatened to shoot the venerable doctor. It appeared also that the respondent found his two step-eons excessively disagreeable to him. At first he agreed to send the elder to school, but he afterwards retracted his consent, and, as his wife phrased it, made the boy " a servant's cad. " He made him do all kinds of menial tasks and take his meals in the kitchen. Once be beat him severely for neglecting to feed his dogs ; and his language gene rally was abusive and blaepkeniotui. Almost immediately after the wedding the respondent announced that he in tended to manage his house himself. Ho accordingly locked up the food, and doled it out in the most penurious manner. He only allowed his step-sons meat once a day, and then ho grumbled at the bread bill, though it was not more then a penny per head per diem. His conduct to the petitioner bad materially injured her health, and she doubted if she should ever be well again. Once he had given his step-son permission to sit up till 9 ; and afterwards seeing him be got ins passion and gave the petitioner • push, which nearly sent her across the room. On another occasion be attempted to throw her down stairs. Once he sent her backwards over a garden seat by a blow upon her breast. He was usually violent between the hours of 8 arid 10 in the evening, after which he would generally recover himself a little, or sometimes he would take a cheroot and that would alsomake him milder. The fact was his daughter had married against hie wishes, and be per petually accused petitioner of turning his own child out in order to make room for hers, and be said that having lost his own blood he could not take the blood of another to his heart. Told him that she did not wish him to regard her children as sons, but only to treat them hos pitably and as a friend. The accusation was unjust ; for petitioner had married solely for affection, and for that love of a home which was natural to every woman. He (respondent) had given an harmonium to the church, and two ladies of the archdeacon's family came to thank him for the present. They left the arch deacon's card, and the night following he went and beat James (the petitioner's son) for letting in two relations of his mother to rob him. He also told him that he had no business to admit the archdeacon. Hearing the noise she ran into the room, and reproached him with striking her son when he was in Lis first sleep. He then turned on her, gave her two blows, knocked her head against the wall, and squeezed her so that her eyes became blood-shot. The last Sunday she stayed with him, namely, the 13th of May last, he flew into a great rage booms° she bad taken her son to church. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE C. M. E. MARSHAL. This was a sitting for last examination and discharge. The bankrupt was a shipbroker of 155, Fenchurch-street, formerly trading in partnership with Mr. W. G. Gibson, and since on his separate account. He ascribes his failure to the sudden depreciation in the price of grain and coals, of which commodities be was responsible for three cargoes also to his has Mg been hol , rol.rrly induced to part with three bills of exchange, amounting to 750/. , upon the consideration that a vessel chartered for the homeward voyage was on C=to Alexandria, whereas, in fact, she had not left 1 ; and to having been suede's the bills of exchange. The accounts show dcbta and liabilities, 1,544/.; no assets ; property held as security, l'2l/., being an I 0 U for 211. and a homeward charterer's order for 1007. upon the ship New Brunswick, deposited with Mr. W. H. Marshal, of The Grove, Hammersmith, a creditor. Mr. Bagley appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Sykes for the official assignee. Upon examination the bankrupt said that his partner ship with Gibson oomnieneed in March, 1865, but it was dissolved after a brief existence. Gibson did not introduce any capital, as arranged, nor had he any connexion. The speculations in which they were engaged had resulted in a loss. On shipments of oats from Archangel. a loss of 700/. had accrued. He hail also lost 3001. on the freight of coals. The liabilities appearing on the accounts had been incurred by him through the misrepresentation of a person named Morrison. Mr. Sykes said that notice bad been given to all the creditors. . . . ........—. There was no opposition, and an immediate order of discharge was granted. REDrCTION OF WAGES AT THE MONMOUTHSHIRE TRONWOKS.—A month's notice has been posted up at the principal ironworks of Monmouthshire, and the same will terminate at the end of February. In other iron pro ducing districts of South Wales a reduction of 10 per cent. lean already been carried out without opposition, but as the Monmouthshire ironmasters did not give notice at the same time, the bands were beginning to hope that such an improvement would be experienced in the demand for iron as the new year advanced as to render a reduction unnecowary. This exp ec tation, however, has not been realised, dulness prevails in every branch of the trade, and it iswith difficulty sufficient orders are secured to keep the works partly employed. Under these circumstances the employers considered they had no alternative but to give notice of a drop of 10 per cent., and the reduced scale will come into effect at the end of February. From what can be gathered of the feeling of the men on the matter, it is not expected that they will offer any resistance to the pre. posed reduction., CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice Blackbtun ) THE CHARGE OF setrmarro THE SEVF:IO;. The trial of the prisoners Welk, holdna.rth, he, ` rd ßen,: e,,, for feloniously destroying the ship Severs rammed this morning st 10 o'elo,4i The case for the prosecution was proceeded with. Henry Kelly, examined by Mr. F. H. Lewis- 1 seaman on board the Severn, and I was in the raki, 4 the prisoner Webb. I remember new sails being n „,d, for the boats. They were commenced directly a t ki t Newport, and new masts and spars were made far u m boats, and they were ready for sea. It was not tot a l to begin such work immediately after from port. I also saw the prisoner W t l42; t i t!" . ting strips to the water kegs. The boats all got ready on the same day the ship sprung the 14th of June. I remember the orders being given ts pump the ship about a quarter-past 2 o'clock in the Ido l . noon, Webb ought to have been in the watch with Ina from 12 till 4 o'clock, but I did not see him at Al that time. It was very fine weather, and I coul.l see any reason for the ship springing the leak. I a „ . ...„ 1 in pumping, but the water gained on the pumps, an d 6 o'clock in the evening I think there sou about too If t t ten inches of water in the bold. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the prisoner Webb came forward to the von, p and appeared rather excited, and when be was told ,G state of the ship be replied, " Never mind if 1 go w h I have got plenty of friendsthere." I wisengaged it. pwaptai nearly 41 night, but the water continued gaining a ci t h, pump., and at it o'clock on the morning of the t;th tla three boats were got over the aide. The weather wa, moderate all this time, but the water continued to gala the pumps. At 11 o'clock on the 15th I was at the htla, and about this time the men refused to pump any l o np r. The longboat was lowered about 1 o'clock, and I gut into stout 1 o'clock, when she was at the stern of the ship, a yi while in this position I noticed two holes in the stern, chi c i had evidently been made from the inside, as the outsid, s a splintered. The bore of the hole was from an inch aci „ hlOf to two inches, and about a foot ors foot and a half ar m , ie c ,,viper, These holes could only be seen when the .t s p made a heavy ktad. At this time the soner WA'S was on s board the St!2erint"D'E..!; placing of the provisions in the boats, and I at. tention to the boles. The judge—What did you say! Witness—What I actually said was "There are tw o big holes in the stern," and Webb replied, "oh, Its nothing, the London carpenters must have left two of the trenails out." After this the longboat went assay farm the ship and cruised about, and at 7 o'clock I left the boat awl got into the gig in which the captain was. lost sight of Webb for about a quarter of an hour after I had told him about the holes, and he then came on board the longboat and took the command and crui.....1 shoat ti.e head of the vessel, but we never went near the stern of the vessel. When the three boats left the vessel she was very deep in the water. I was taken to Pernambuco in the Arequipa, and during the voyage I had several enlivenn• tions with the prisoner Webb. On one oce.oiou I told hint that a man had seen two holes in the ',tern, and he told me not to believe it, and threatened that he w or ld have the man punished in some way for saying so. I then told him that I had seen the holes myself. and he la id if he was me be would not ea so, for if I did he would hi oucute me when I arrived in England if it cost him a undred pounds. He then asked me who had broken i:to the spirit room, and I told him I did not know, but as .11 command had been given up in the ship he must not be surprised at what the men did. He then inquired if I had taken any spirits, and I said that I had t.,k, n a bottl e of rum, and he replied that be did not blame me, as he should have done the same thing himself, and be added that it was the boatswain be wanted to get hold of. At another time, while we were at Pernambuco, the prisoner told me that if he was me lie would apologim to the captain, as he had told ban What I had said, and the consul had given him a knee to the magistrates in England to prosecute um. The crew could get whatever they liked to eat, and the men in the forecastle lived better than many captains did on board other ships. The witness then stated that the log-bob produced was nothing like the genuine log-book of the Severn. Cross-examined—l believe that four or five of Cie teal who were in the longboat are to be examined as witnesses in this trial. All the men who were in the longboat could have seen the holes if they happened to be looking at the moment that the ship pitched. The trenails 210 mole of oak, and they are used on all parts of a chip to hold the outer and inner planks of the vessel together. If I said that there was • perfect calm at the time we took to the boats it would not be much of an exaggerations! consider the weather had been remarkably tine during tie whole period of our voyage from England. I consider tint all the wind we had was nothing more than a'• putt; I some saw orange boxes floating by the ship, and ! ' I Webb that I also saw a seaman's chest, but this was Guy to create a little bit of a " sensation," and thnt the !note might get a boat out. My statement was fictitious. er. if you like, it was a lie. (Laughter.) I like to treat, ,hu of sensation sometimes. I cannot tell whether the ev..l I am now giving is likely to create a sensation, but I do stank that you are creating 'sensation. (Renewed laughter.) It I shipped on hoer.) the Severn I wanted tebe rated an an :.o.e seaman but the captain said I was too young. I had bee. previously rated as an able seaman on board an Awericia resod called the Constitution. I went on board the Soren after I had been in the longboat, but 1 slid not remain on board more than three or four minutes. I CATI Dot 0, whether the captain and the crew of the Arequipa were Englishmen, host they spoke the English ',menage I slid not sign any protest at Pernambuco, and I 11,1 not know anything about a protest until nee I arrived in England. The prisoner Webb diot;el me with stealing some clothes belonging to one el the seamen, bat it was not true. Since I have bean :,.fit ness in this case I have been paid ISt.. a week far ply board and If. a week wage. from Lloyd's. My sas a seaman are M. 15s. per month. Re-examined—W he n I was on board ship ration- and lodgings of course were provided for me, but win n lota shore I have to find them myself. I had not been in ' te longboat more than five minutes when I observed :Le holes in the stern of the vessel. We slid not leave li: ship for good until two or three hours afterthis, and log the whole of this time Webb was in her and we CI tw.,:tl about, hut never went near the stern. Henry limy, another seaman on board the Severn...se posed that the weather, with the exception of one bre, e, was very fine down to the 15th of June. The vette! test sprung a leak about a fortnight after they left Engle!, and from that time the pumps were worked ever) two hours. On the 14th June witness was at the wheel betwe 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. and at this time tn. re was nothing the matter with the ship, but woe de: 4 she sprang • leak, and the water kept gaiking in the pumps. About 9 o'clock the prisoner 11,kih cans to the forecastle and said it was a very bad job tbst the e , should spring such a leak, as she was running away fee: the land, and he advised. the crew to go to the captained ask him what he intended to do with the s'aip. Toe .1 three minutes after this witness and some of the 1, ,, a went to the captain's door, mid he came out and as:el what they wanted. Webb was present. They asked its captain what he meant to do with the ship, and br said he knew what to do with the ship. and he lit want them to tell him what to do. and he added that La was running for the nearest laud. They inquired whereto: was, and be said about a thousand wiles off. They tnquinJ whether there was no land nearer, and he said tharee , nearer laud to westward, and he then onleed tle aft, and said that he knew what to do with els ship. After this they continued pumping until o'clock the next day. The witness then 11.4 he was one of the men who were in the longbeat, he also observed the two holes in the stein of the Byers, and he said he "sang out" to that effect, diel Wsle. who was standing on the poop at the time. mint hate heard him. He then gave a similar description o f tie holes to that given by the other witness, and ' ,levee! his opinion that they had been wade by au from the inside of the vessel. In croseexaminatiou this witness said that tie! encountered • strong breeze, about • fortnight after thq left England. Mapham, another seaman, gave ealence of similar chazacter to that deposed to by the pn s ed.ng ve . nesse,. He deposed that on the 14th of June tic weath er was perfectly calm, and there was nothing . ts, a xsenit the springing of the leak. orders were given to get the boat's reedy for see the moment they hit tine I s and the last sail fur the longboat was finished cloy ; 05 • before the leak was discovered, and all the bads se ready except having their sails bent. The men OM , at the pumps all night, and at $ o'clock on the fellowese morning, the 15th, the water still contineel them, and they went again to the captain ts. know wIlAt t . was going to do about the ship, and shortly ..fierwar r is prisoner Webb gave orders for the boats to be got •T' witness then stated that he was one of those ako trd the longboat, and he distinctly saw the two stern as the ship rose and fell with the wavee In cross-examination this witness states) th . f•.• t I came to London he met the prisoner W, hi, at tote Alhambra, and had some conversat io n with hint beat Severn business, and he hid previously la iit in ‘'` ' m . munication with Captain ISownward, 1) ". , He was paid It. a week for wages, and le, e for beers' by Captain I)owrsward, and Le' Pi , that, of course, if he was not paid. le e gone to sea to get his living. lie ta les W.eb that he had been to Captain Downward'e set 'e• he did not tell him that Captain Downward to say a good deal more than he could nay. 11, r a id Lin Downward where he could find Kelly. a nd formed Webb that he had done se. He deniel that tam Downward bad shown him the model of .. '• asked him where the holes were. Re-examined—At the time he saw Webb at Ow bra he was not aware that any charge was going it' I " . ferred against him. Reel' Davis,ordinary seaman on board the es , efIL 0 "; roborated the testimony o f the previous wititikss, s“ he also spoke to hearing sevens' of the men who wrm the longboat call out there were two holes in the aura o the vessel, and be also observed them, and he seta br thought at first that there was • plug in our of th e 60,0, but afterwards he discovered that it was only e itscc e ticking out fro], the hole. In cross-examination the vrituess said that there was .• bit of a wile 10 t hey were obliged we re kept reefed or ten days after U loo k. After the ry to boon!, En lov w e-to durini wetwo be gave teptain Downward several other sea donee was of • si prosecution is not to-morrow (Friday) THE JcA , 2 Mew*, a 1 cerued with two oti gentleman named .1 It appeared that coming out of a pu when the three e way to the Strai know. He was s men, Meagle put the others attemptii He resisted, and in cut his lip. Upon t Sullivan, F they took Meagle but the Serge:nil ickrill r hat for eighteen inw said was a moat dete He was remanded the two others. A7IIIORITIE9 A respectably attic arms, ►nd who 'Cell applied to the magi• the authorities of St mother's corpse. Tt and the authorities I her friends and hens body and attend tt ferment had taken she said that that co clay fixed by the auf ha.l been interred by t'.at she had not bee wanted to be latish, place. She could get ritics and therefore the court and ask for The magistrate sai true it was a strange hurtful to the feelim an officer to in.ike ie, Mr. Messer, one of attended. and said question had been i it was done accidents removed to the oei bodies to be interne their hurry had rer there was no inter unnecessarily to hurl The magistrate ret carelessnes ssomewh occur again. The applicant rem to see the body some burial, he was told t bottom one of a pile, the trouble to remov The magistrate su ter, and from what N the body had been wrong nay:. The applicant said burial, and remarked to the workhouse she for her to have gone about the matter, to no doubt she would 1 Mr. Messer asked i that. The applicant rep muter. The magistrate rev in the carrying out o the feelings of the re The applicant that kindness and attenti 141.A.R1 ASVAULTING 7 Mary Fox, an eldt Knox with refractor and also with asaaull I lack stated that o went into the infirm nurse. The nurse to fluenceof drink, to It The nurse eomplaine loner, and on his spe, abused him in strong to put her out of tl , abusing him, and on her she took off her I you," and then struc In answer to Mr. prisoner had been during that time hi offences being drunl away with her cloth The prisoner said shoulder hurt. Police•constable 31 the prisoner, who w way from tho dock 1 She made no comply .Mr. Knot committ ROBSERIFA OF I I:Mfr, a lima described as a barn kurcham for final e carpet hag containin from the first-chum w. terminus, London-hr Mr. W. Edwin clefs ItNla from t. 239 t hat on the c' prisoner carrying a lr and as soon as be saw a public-house close h the bar. Witness fel bag it was, when he who had asked him te to the station-house, to contain a suit of el maker's tools. n.• eventually it was dim from the first-clam station of the Bright( Mr. Frederick M.. Limn-grove, 1...1 tn> anived at the London Proceeding to F.ri,iht eluend with him, an room while lie went away more thi.n ts return be missed the tents as his property. toner to mercy. Inspector earpentm eoMpany's police, info viouFly a goutlernzin). ▪ st . .. I t ing roont. 1 tot coouect the prison Mr. Edwin, for the guilty to Ii- ..ling the worship that it was hi! Several tradmonen cellent character, ell be charged with Nu•sh Bnrchant, taki good character and sentenced him to ou4 s dia ter med b an d, stsinglenail ,:ht household. . u t ne pel little ,ra i ..r tybeauty ° 4n , ,:b 1. : nmu would 1 ofde .. ale I l am ( t w7 4l .e m o s t with ' mi be i iß cywo, ihwe o; t :: c mi l I : I. : A I :1 t itihci 6 , 1 ,i, hl : ve, ' , he.l I ,' aer ' r t ,r '' ,. 1 true and honourable a Mr. Paget-- You pa The queer, little u law an advertis.meni Place, and letters Tuts. Ali% Paget—Love le The applicant ughol th her • we d lit 1 :i m angle. Mr. p met __ A !rum , A PPlicat---She we tv erything Was ready clotth °pariah church, w , . 1 .1 puroased ; all rat moment she refw '"d•cl, in fact she di In e. Ind she has got n ;f tk__,lnan * Palliftwomm.or marry h ihic o h " - "ktorr crea ted terms. The , wOlll4 great mirth. -be husband of