The Express. — London, England, 1864-05-05 00:00:00

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Care and Scott.—And a grand BHAKSPIRIAN TABLYAVL HIGH RAI= AT WIDOW =DIM Tier DAY Ito . lb. ft..— AfltsmAre. lb. 34m go-Nomow Moods& lb. 581 t .4111srases. lb. lam. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 5. E Conference has met once more, and still the preliminary question as to the cessation of hostilities remains unsettled. After a second dis cussion it may be said, indeed, to have hardly ad vanced a single step towards a practical solution. Nor isthe reason far to seek. The arrogance and exorbitant claims of the German Powers seem only to increase by delay, and during the interval that has elapsed since the loot assembling of the Conference they appear to have purposely enlarged their demands so as to render acquiescence impos sible. At the first sitting of the Conference, when the conditions of a suspension of hostaities were discussed, the difficulty raised by the German plenipotentiaries related to the maintenance of the blockade. This proposal, originally made, we believe, by the Danish plenipotentiaries, was favourably received by the representatives of the neutral Powers on the ground of its obvious fairness and equity. If during the cessation of hostilities the German Powers were virtually allowed to retain the enormous advantages they had gained by land, the Dane. were on every prin ciple of justice entitled to retain also the com paratively slender advantages they had gained at sea. Had the German Powers possessed the smallest particle of magnanimity or even of modera tion, they would undoubtedly have recognised this, and an armistice might have been concluded with out delay. Instead of this, however, on the re assembling of the Conference the representatives of the German Powers were not satisfied with demanding the irr-nediate suspension of the blockade, which, though an extreme and one-aided claim, might perhaps have been conceded for the sake of peace ; but they now openly urge fresh ex action; previously foreshadowed in the semi-official journals of Vienna and Berlin, so exorbitant and unjust, that it is little better than a mockery to propose them at all in a Conference of mediating Powers avowedly assembled for the pur pose of protecting the vital interests of the Danish inonarahy. These fresh demands sufficiently ill.m trate the attitude which the German Powers, un der the guidance and inspiration of M. DE BISMARCK, have resolved to assume in the Conference, and are obviously determined, if possible, to maintain. They openly treat the Danes as a conquered nation, destitute alike of any powerful friends to support them, or of any further means of self defence, and who must, therefore, unconditionally accept any terms the conquerors may choose to dictate—must consent not only to be ravaged and despoiled at the invaders' pleasure, but to meet cheerfully any exactions they may choose to im pose. That such • position should have been assumed, and such pretensions virtually urged be fore the representatives of four neutral Powers who are pledged to the treaty of London, who have condemned the aggression of the German Powers as a flagrant violation of international right, and who have undertaken to preserve the Danish monarchy from violent dismemberment, is a keener practical satire on the wisdom and use fulness of the Conference than anything its bit terest opponents would have ventured to imagine even in their most speculative mood. The prac tical results of such proposals may be easily antici pated. Of course it was impossible to arrive at any agreement on the extravagant terms pro posed by the German plenipotentiaries, and the question as to the conditions of a suspension of hostilities is, therefore, again referred to the belli gerent Governments, the sitting of the Conference being meanwhile adjourned nominally until Mon day next. Whether it will really meet again on that day is extremely doubtful, the Powers that have hitherto paralysed its action having a shame less fertility of resource in devising fresh expe dients for delay, no matter how frivolous or insig nificant they may be. And when it does meet again, supposing any scheme of compromise should have been devised during the interval, it may be feared that the German Powers will be prepared with fresh demands, amply sufficient to prolong and perpetuate the dead lock which now exists. In view of these facts and probabilities it be comes • very serious public duty to ask again whether any good end is likely to be attained by protracting the sittings of the Conference under such conditions. Unless the neutral Powers have agreed, or can agree, on some line of action, some scheme of equitable compromise which they are resolved to enforce, it is obviously worse than useless to prolong a hollow form of mediation which, frdtn being a mere delusion, must rapidly become a pernicious snare. M. DC %ma•ce is the ruling spirit of the German councils, and he evidently not only knows what he wants, but is de termined to have it in spite of the mediating Powers, and even in mockery of their efforts, unless they effectually combine to resist his policy. There seems to be little prospect of this, and it is assuredly neither for the honour nor the interests of England to remain in a Conference merely to share M. DE BISMARCK'S crimes by assisting in the for mal registration of his decrees. It must be remem bered that the British Government is responsible for the assembling of the Congress, and will be bound by its acts. If, after all, it should merely endorse .the wanton aggression which enlightened and impartial opinion has everywhere denounced, we should not only he covered with merited dis honour, but become direct accomplices in the greatest international crime attempted since the partition of Poland. A rouce case heard at Bow-street on Tuesday brings out the singular fact that hue coin has a strong tendency to the altar. The other day a clergyman tendered at a house near Charing-cross, in payment for some refreshment, a half-crown, which was perceived to be spurious, and was thereupon given into the custody of the police. When he was brought up at the police-court the incumbent of the church of which he was musts attended, and offered an explanation which was accepted as astiafac tory by the law advisers of the Mint, and which led the sitting magistrate to observe in discharging him that he left the court without a stain on his character. According to this witness, the Rev. I E. DAVIDSON, the half-crown in defendant's pos. session had formed part of the money collected on the previous Sunday at the Offertory, " and he " grieved to say that the practice of contributing " spurious coins on these occasions was so " common that he had been obliged fre " quen•ly to allude to the subject from his " pulpit." The rev. gentleman added, that on inquiry of the wardens of other parishes he found that they had been repeatedly imposed on in the same manner, and that the practice, un happily, was only too general. This evidence opens a curious side of human character to view. We sometime' feel astonished at church as we hear in the Epistle of the gross offences against which the Apostles thought it necessary to warn their Christian brethren. The next generation would per haps experience a similar feeling on reading a sermon of the period A.D. 1864 against the sin of ANANIAS and SAPPHILL. Why should people give bad money at all at the Offertory, and how is it that the spurious coin is of the larger denomina tional Is it done in ignorance f This must be ad witted as at least possible ; at all events, the con tributors are entitled to the presumption that the coins that could deceive a curate, though not the practised eye of a London waiter, might have seemed good to them. The clergyman, however, took a less favourable view of the matter from the pulpit when, as the report says, he frequently complained to the congregation on the subject. Has the practice grown up merely as affording to thoughtless persons an easy way of getting rid of an accidental and unpleasant encumbrance, or is it ex pedient for amplifying a " respectable appearance"? It may have occurred to some utilitarian worshipper that the purpose of "setting a good example," that end of so many of our religions observances, may be served just as well by a bad half-crown as by a good one. We are sorry to learn, on the authoritj of the churchwardens, that the practice of giving bad money at the Offertory is only too general. But while it only affects the half-crowns there is hope. The worst consequences may be apprehended when our widows begin to give pewter mitea. THE CONFERINCL—The representatives accre dited by the European powers to the London Conference met yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing street, at one o'clock, and sat till half-past two. All the members of the Conference were present. t• Iv a • - • I :00 1 ! • 4' I • ••••••• et: Ott court. OSBORNE, Mar 4. The Queen and Princess Louise walked and dro►e out yesterday. Her Majesty hold a couocil to-day, which was attended by Earl Glanville, the Dakii:of Somerset, and Sir Charles Wood. Mr. Helps was clerk of the council. Earl Grenville bad an audience lot the Queen, and re makes& at Oaken& The Doke of Somerset bad an audience of the Queen. The Elise" of Wales rode on horseback yesterday, at tended be Major Tesedals. The Prisons of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Hon. Mn. W. Grey. Their royal highnesses led a dinner party in the evening. The company oonsisted of the Durham d'Aumale, Comte de Yarn, and Comte d'Eu, the] Price Lowenstein. Wertheim, the Duke sad Duchess of Wailington, the Bel gian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Spanish Mwister and Madame Cornyn, the Earl and COIMUINS of Clarendon, the Earl and Countess Rummell, Earl of St. Ger mans, Earl Cowley, Vinountem Palmerton, the Dean ci Westmioster and Lady Augusta Stanley, Wile de Ma. champ, in attendance on the Nether d'Aumale, the Hoe. Mn.s William Grey, Lieutenant-General Badly% and Major Teadals. Earl Granville (Lewd President of the Comma), the Dr lte of Somerset, _ and Sir Cherie' Wood left town by special train from the WI of the South *es - tore Railway shortly altar 10 o'clock yesterday marling to ►ttend the Queen's Council at Osborne. Lord F. C►sa dish and Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council, prooseded by the same train. The peerage between Gosport and Osborn* was modem bo►ed her Majesty's ship Sprightly, Master Commanding G. Allen. After the Council the Duke of Somerset and Sir Charles Wood returned to London. The Hoe. lady Wood wee promoted st the &swift room on Townley lest by Lady Stanley of Aldsrley indeed of Lady Mabee Adeline, who wee prevented from attend peg by indiepositicm. RETURN OE HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR. —Her Majesty and the junior members of the royal family are exported to leave Osborne ow Mouday next, and return to Window Castle, when they will remain but a few days. About to-morrow (Friday) week the court remove to Balmoral, where, it is uoderstood, her Majesty will pees the summer mouths. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has graciously consented to open the Pete and Beater which will be held (by periniesioe) is the Royal Horticultural Gordens, in aid of the building fund of the Female School of Art, Queen-square, on Thursday, the 23rd of June next. On Sunday the King of Prussia conferred the Order of the Black Eagle on his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re ceived at dinner last evening at Gloucester House, the Duke of Marlborough, the Doke et Somerset, the Marquis ollHunthsy, the Earl Grosvenor, Viscount Evendsy, Visoxust Lissome, Viscount Torrington, Lord Foley, Lord Clarence Paget, the Right Hon. Sir Chutes Wood, M.P., the Right Hoe. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P., Sir Jaime Yorke Scarlet!, Sir Cherie Yorke, &c. The Earl and Countess De Grey entertained at dinner last evening, at their maiden°, in Carlton-gardens, his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Burman Brunnow, the Doke and Duchess of Argyll, Maria Mar chimes. of Ailesbm►, the Marchioness of Gianni:Auxle. the Marquis of Harlington, M.P., Captain Vyner„ Mn. SL John Milamay sad Mies Mildmay, Mr. Hayward, Ac. The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait entertained at diaper last evening, at Loodon House, St. James's. square, the Archbishop of Armagh sal Mn. Bamford, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Gloucester and Mrs. Ellicott, Lord and Lady Wensleydale, Lady Sitwell sad Miss Sitwell, the Deaa of St. Paul's and Mrs. Mikaan. the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Mr. J. aed the Hon. Mn. Talbot, Mr. and Mrs. William Forster, Mrs. Pitman, Mr. Frederick Calvert, Mr. Marshall, &c. After dinner Mrs. Tait bad a ncoptioe. Viscount Palmerston, who Las been suffering Gem an attack of gout far some days post, is sow Luck beitsr. Baron von Benet, the Envoy of the Germanic Confederatioe, left tows early yesterday, in order to pay a visit to bar Majesty at Osborne. Prince Lowenstein (wbo is in London on behalf of the Duke of Attgastenburg) return to Kiel immediately. The Lord Archbishop of York will preach next Saaday incasing at Como Chapel, Mayfair. We are informed (says 77e Ow') that a marriage is arranged between the Hon. Ellen Stuart, second daughter of Lord and Lady Slangy», and Sir David Baird. Ws are ale able to announce a einsflar event between Lady Coo. stenos Murray, second sister of the Earl of Dunmore. and Lord Elphinstone ; also between Lady Constant's Villiers, eldest daughter at the Earl of Clarendon, and the Hon. Frederick Stanley, second son of the Earl of Derby. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. A GERMAN VIEW OF THE CONFERENCE. According to the National Gazette of Berlin the London Confteenee would fall into the strangest error if it imagined that it had anything else to do than to present propositions tending to the re establishment of peace, and would commit an in credible abuse of power if it were to seek to erect itself into a tribunal to judge the belligerent powers, and prescribe to them their movements. Prussia, it says, seeks to obtain the oonsent of the powers who signed the London protocol to the arrangements destined to terminate the dil pute with Denmark ; but it did not send its pleni potentiaries to London to receive a peace already made. " Peace," saj s the Berlin journal, with a singular forgetfulness of historical facts, "is always concluded by those who made the war." He who wishes to decide (it continues) a contest between combatants must himself have arms in his hands. If it were sought to take from Prussia the "well wonfrnite of all its sacrifices," and to constrain it by force, Prussia would receive that as an unheard-of insult, and the position of the Duchies would be come much more difficult. The 11 ortliern German Gazette says : The treaties of 1861.2 have been insufficient to protect German nationality in Slaswig and Holstein, and it is not Germany but Denmark which has broken those treaties. The question has, then, again become se open one, as it was before the protocol of London. Bat the fault then committed by diplomacy consisted princi pally in what the Conference of London decided sovereignly respecting the lot of the Duchies, with out bearing the wishes of the country, without consulting them in their stipulations, although the right of these wishes famed, or ought at lust to have formed, the fundamental idea of those treaties. Shall we now fell spin into the same error I' We do not believe it. On the contrary, we are coons:need that in the Conference Prussia will energetically raise her voice for this r:ght of the Duchies, and that if there is to he a positive basis for the negotiations, devoid of basis hitherto, it can neither be sought nor found except in the wishes of the country. CONDUCT OF TILE PRUSSIANS IN JUTLAND. The following appears iu the France :—" On the 27th ult., 8,000 Prussians entered Viborg. Accounts from Horsens state that the troops which have arrived there are quite young soldiers, well dressed and newly come from Silesia, but their arrogance and effrontery know no bounds. They enter the shops in parties of ten or a dozen, and lay hold of anything that strikes their fancy without thinking of paying. Sometimes they even add raillery to their pillage, telling the poor shop keepers 'that the King of Denmark will pay for what is taken.' if by chance they find a door shut against them, they break it open, and is some houses they have even assaulted the inhabitants, when the latter have not immediately given them what they oak for." HUNGARY AND ITALY. A letter from Venice says :—" Enlistments have recently taken place in Lombardy, but for whom or for what purpose, no one could tell. The solution of the enigma is now furnished by a pro clamation signed by Kossuth, and addressed to the soldiers of the Hungarian nation. Several thousand copies of that document have been distri buted at Verona and elsewhere. The ex-Dictator of Hungary, supposing the proclamation to be really from him, declaresthat hail engaged in preparing the army of invasion which is to undertake the deli verance of Hungary, and he calls on the Magyars of the imperial army to desert the Austrian ranks and to cross the Mincio, and serve the cause of the independence of their country in battalions which are being organised there. An extraordinary degree of agitation has for some time past prevailed among the Venetian populations. The reception given to Garibaldi in England has revived the hopes of the patriots. A coup de maim on the part of the general is expected, and the relations between the Venetian committee and those of Turin and London have redouble•] activity." THE WAR 1N NEW ZEALAND. MORE FIGHTING. WAR-OFFICE, MAT 5. The following telegram, addressed to the e Secre tary of State for War, was received early this morn ing from her Majesty's consul at Alexandria : "The following despatch has this day been re ceived from Lieut.-General Cameron, dated Head quarters, Teawamutu, Feb. 25. : "'A force, under command of Lieutenant- General Cameron, made a flank march on the night of the 20th February, by which the whole of the native strongholds, constructed with immense labour to oppose his advance, were successfully turned ; they were immediately evacuated by the natives, who fell back on a strong position in front of Rangiawahia, their principal source of supply. " ' On the 22nd, General Cameron attacked this position, which was most gallantly assaulted and carried by the 50th Regiment We are now in possession of the rich country between the Waipa and Waikato rivers as far as Rangiawabia, from which the natives have retired. There were three officers severely wounded, viz., Lieut.-Col. Nixon, Colonial Defence Force ; Lient. Pagan, 65th Regi ment ; and Ensign Doveton, 50th Regiment ; and 4 men killed and 24 wounded.' " (acorn's TZLIGLUIS.) DEFEAT OF THE MAORIES. (By Telegraph from sass.) MELBOURST., Mace 24. • According to thelateat advioes from New Zealand, Piko Piko and Paterangi have been abandoned by the natives. General Cameron attacked their redoubts on the 22nd February. The Maories fled, with the loss of 50 killed and wounded. 150 laid down their anus. THE WAR IN JUTLAND. COPENHAGEN, MAT 4, 10.30 A.II. pagbladet of to-day says :—" The enemy is placing Frederica in a state of defence, and the town is being strongly garrisoned. The enemy occupies %al(' and Abeltoft." SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 4, Esmcma. The government has received information of fresh victories of the Spanish troops in Saint Domingo. The Epoca says :—" The government has no wish to put down political banquets, bat it will energetically suppress all excesses contrary to the laws." ARRIVAL OF THE DUNCAN DUNBAR FROM SYDNEY. PLYMOUTH, Tammany, 11 A.m. The Duncan Dunbar, Captain Swanson, 80 days from Sydney. his just passed op Channel outside this port. This ship has made the futest pussy of the season. She left Sydney se the 14th February, and was off the Limed the 4th instant--80 dap. THE FENIANS IN A MZRICA. —The Fenian brother hood hare opened a fine new hall at Bodo*. —New York ► rl4l \ r 1' ti'VENINCI-1 . MAY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PION OCR OWN • PARIS. WZDNIISDAY Evarnra. The Figaro Programme says : The directors of the Merest intakes of Paris have re ceived • circular from Marshal VaiDant, minister of the Emperor's household in which they are celled on to adopt the nacemary messaree, in order that the evening edition of the Montteur may beamforth be sold inside the house. Some of the papers object that this order involves a breach of contract with the editors of the Entr'acte and the Patric. The Patric states that it is prepared to maintain its rights against "arbi trary measures which tend to confiscate property and tear up contracts." K de la Gueronniere's journal, La France, very solemnly pronounces against the Moniker das Soir, which, it says, constitutes an illegal privilege. The competition, it says, will be chiefly felt by the semi-official journals, of which number the France professes not to be, but it thinks the chambers cannot possibly pass over the flagrant contempt of the principle of "equality of taxation " which is at the bottom of the attempt to undersell papers that are forced to pay the stamp duty. The France seems to have grounds to-night for confirming a consequence which it stood alone in deducing from the creation of the evening official organ. It announces, without reserve or qualifies. tion, that the "direction of the press is about to be suppressed," and that Count Treilhard, the present director, will be called to "other func tions." It adds that the government has no longer any occasion to " direct " the press, since it is doing its best to " destroy " it by the competition recently organised . The body of Meyerbeer will be removed on Friday from his house, No. 2, Rue Montagne, to the Northern Railway station, whence it will be sent by special train to Berlin for interment. A committee has been formed to do honour to the remains of the illustrious composer at the moment of their being taken from Paris, and the Moniteur du Soir nye that several speeches are expected to be pronounced at the railway station. The com mittee consists of MM. Camille Doucet, de Saint- Georges, Baron Taylor, Emile Perren, Auber, Georges Kastner, Ed. Monnais, Fiorentino, Jules Beer, the nephew of the deceased, and Louis Brandus. The will is not to be opened till the body arrives at Berlin, and the rumours about its contents and the directions concerning his works are therefore premature. Count de Pereiguy is going to St. Etienne to im bibs incense from the burgesses who are going to erect a triumphal arch in his honour, and it is said he means to improve the occasion by delivering himself of a political speech. The Bourae,affected by the difficult operations in connexion with the settlement, and by misgivings about the Conference, was heavy during the greater part of the day, but became better towards the close. Bente left off without change ; Mobilier fell Ur. 75c. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) x . a ..... ::i THIMIDAT, MAT TA 111 A.M. I-. A - -d7tesan. B. T.T. lam so! 10:6 01 Isa:a7 a6~ ; 0:;i mi.*. W.N.W. Orontes&4l4 1 24.79 601 W. Veleotta 79.86 50 N.W W. Cape Cleat 29.88 66 W. g=w9 29.7856 W. 1 29.90 61 8.8. Z. H.B 6454 64, RA W. Pembroke 29.01 SS, W.B. W. hemace 19.98114; W.S.W. BIM . 40.00 57 W. I:Ottani 25.92 eri w.n. W. Rochefort 90.04 66, W. Wmontd 29.0566 W.S.W. emeeeth 5.9654' W. Poriantonab 25.95 51. ILL feedoe 29.96048 8. Dover 90.01049' 8.1. anseeth Seerbeevegh 29.91 MI 8. ttekside '29.9161 8. W. TRIDAY. ITROBASUL SATURDAY. B. W. SO W. W. and beck, On NOSTRIL S.W. SO R.E. fresh to mode-ato to strong. COAST& stroug. some rain. with soma Ma. As above. WINTIOIN. W. to EL, *row, rata in places. 5..8.W. to W.N.W., 60111102,1 W.N.W. to 8.8. W., fresh, with rain En moderate to strong, plata n. with some rani. 8, to W., moderate to LISITLE. As nest above. . esb, some rate. NortharnmScotiand. Werdernmlreland, Wales, and ad. latencies. Boothernwasplish Channel and Blow By. looters lisatword England sad North Bp. On the second list of subscribers to the Gari baldi Food are Lord PaNeuters, 1001., Lady Painber e t ea , 201., Earl Dalhousie, HE., the Dowager Duchess of Suther land, 501., Sir W. Page Wood, 25f., Mr. C. Button, M.P., XI., Alderman Salomon, M.P., 211., ha Lord Palmerston has consented to become the president of the South of England Literary and Philosophical Society, which has been established in connexion with the Hartley Institute at Southampton. This society has been formed by the most eminent literal', eremite, and pro fessional gentlemen in Southampton and its neighbourhood. The Southampton corporation munimenta, consisting of charters, maps, seals, ha, hive now bean removed to the Hartley Institute. The oldest charter is one pasted by King John in 1190. It is about the size of the palm of the hand, and beautifully written. It is singular that the older a Southampton charter is the better is the handwriting. One of the muniments is a very ancient map of the town. A Latin crone is marked at the top of Posted Tree Lane on this map, which is the spot where it is supposed Lords Cambridge and Scrope and Sir Therms Grey were beheaded for treenail by Hoary V. It is in contemplation to have a magnificent organ in the ball of the institute, to assist in interpreting the rend music by the great masters. Aytoun, on Friday, wnl ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether it is the intention of the gorernment to ask the sanction of parliament, daring the present 111111011, for a guarantee of interest on a stun of money required to complete the railway from Halifax to Quebec ; and, it not, whether the intention of doing me is finally abandoned: and, whether any oorreepondanos has taken yl b , ' rem the Colonia'-office and the authorities le Canada and British Columbia on the subject of the pro. posed telegraphic communication between Canada and the subsequent to that which was produced last year; and, if so, whether he has any objection to lay copies of such correspondenoe upon the table. REPRESENTATION OF POOLI.--MT. Waring, suntrap contractor, has announced himself as a candidate is the liberal interest for the representation of Poole, in Dorset, at the next metal election. . _ firaius ur Holt.—On Monday the whole of the bricklayers connected with the society at Hull struck for an .4. 00 of 6d. pot day. During last week afresh', were seat to the various builders demanding an advance, sod also threatening that theme's would oat work staler the deemed was seceded to. In one or two instances the 'Ammo was paid. r Several hundreds of Is icklayere are now " out* wages were 4e. 6d. per day. The bricklayers' labourers, who had 185. per week, have also struck for 215., and they, where work in pre/slag, have got the schemes de. weeded. The building trade in Hull is very brisk at the present time, several public buildings sad a large number of drat-dais houses and manufactories being is courts of erection. The bricklayers are to Mein 12s. par week from the club during the time they are on strike. On Saturday the labourers in the employ of Messrs. O. and W. Earle, hue shipbuilders, also struck for an *Anna of 6d. per day. Tux Pastor's STRUM •-•-• The long-standing strike of the pitmen at Seghill Colliery, in the county of Northumberlarid, has best settled upon terms which are likely to be satisfactory to the ewes, of the colliery and the mos. The sew arreageseent Is the redaction of • halfpenny per too in heigbta of 2 feet 11 imam, 2 feet 10 inches, 2 het 9 inches, and 2 fees 8 inches, the workiege under the last-lamed height being subject to the tamer prier, while the inteetion to reduce the pillar workeiary has bees entirely abandoned. EARLY Pcrraroza —Twenty bushels of new po- tatoes have bees taken up at Peasant', and forwarded to the London markets, when they have realised 2s. per lb. The potato crop generally in the wed of Cornwall is for and looking very healthy. . i >' 5, =144 DaDON CITY !MISSION.-(THIS DAY.) This morning the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the above society was held in Exeter Hall ; Joe. Beaux En.. is the chair. general receipts for the year 1863-4 were stated in the report to be 42,4761. 4a. 5d., and for the Disabled Hinsionarles Fund, 3701. 12.. 109. There are in all MO milionaries in 000nesion with the society. sad the follow- Ines of thiii!trosir and fin results during the year —Hours spent in domiciliary visitatinii, 514,107 • visits 1.9.19,765. of which 261,167 were to the sick 'and dying; Scriptures distributed, 6,575 ; religions tenets distributed, 3,119,7121. • hooks lent. 16,180 ; indooranteing. and Etible-clease's held, 45,436 ,• average attendance at ditto, 33 ma attendance at di 1,532,272 ; ont-door esevioss held, 4,093 ; average at ditto, 95 ; glom at tendant* at ditto, 389,658; readings of Scripture in visitation, 597,420 ; communicants, 1.364 ; beck aliases restored to church communics, 258 ; families induoed to cosmoses family prayer, 839 ; drunkards re chdmid, 1,182 ; unmarried couples induced to , ; fallen female admitted to asylums, restated to their or otherwise resound, 448 ; shops closed on the Lord's-day, 165 ; children sent to schools, 8,809 ; adults visited, who died, 6,989 ; of whom, T idi e d by the missionary only, 2,285 ; the proportion visited by the missionary only, 1 in 3. THE INTERNA7ION4L DOO SHOW. Yesterday the entries for the ensuing Inter national Dog Show, eppointed to commence at the Agricul tural Hall, Islington, on the 27th inst., were nearly com pleted, the number on this occasion being limited to under one thoneend, and Saturday next being the last day on which they will be received, the time having been extended to admit of the why of • number of important and novel specimens of the canine species. Foxhounds, barriers, beagles, bloodhounds, deerhounds, and greyhounds have been entered by noblemen and gentlemen possessing some of the finest and moat noted kennels in the kingdom, sod ansonpi theme dune, as well as those of pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniel', clambers, kn., the competition in sporting circles is expected to be a very severe one. The entries =de also exhibit a goodly assemblage of foreign mantiffs, English mastiffs, sheep dogs, Mount St. Bernard., Newfonodlands, bull dogs, boll terriers, Dalmatians, ter riers of various descriptions, pugs, Prinuraidane, Japanese nod Chinese, Italian greyhound. , King aberiesaud Blenheim paniels, Maltese, Scotch, and Skye terriers, and toy dogs of all kinds. The prizes, which exceed 1,0001., to be taken either in caah or plate, vary from 304 down to 21. in the respective dame, and vast improvements are being effected for the aooommodation of the public and comfort of the animals over those of last year, the specious yard s llasent to the ball haring been gravelled sad rolled for the exercise of the latter. The Pr inc e of Wales will again be an exhibitor of harriers from his Sandringham pack, and it is expected that his royal highness, if not the Princess, will visit the show. The first sod great Metropolitan Horse Show, tor which • large number of the nobility sad members of the sporting world have already made entries, is appointed to take place on the Ist July. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER Yesterday (Wednesday) a horrible attempt at murder and suicide was perpetrated iu the vinage of Hatch Beauchamp, situate about six mile' from Taunton, in this county. In a cottage resided a man named John Allen, with his wife, both being between 40 and 50 years of age, and having brought up a family of children i Allen was a labourer, working for farmers ici that neighbourhood. Toe Chard and Taunton Railway is in coarse of coo. Antrim at Hatch Beauchamp, and this necessitates the ameroblinat hat place of a number of navvies, some of whom in Allen's house. Allen became jealous of the men, t whether there was cause for it has not been amertained. Yesterday morning Allen got up be. tween 5 and 6 o'clock, to go to his work as usual, previous to which he had accused his wife ci being unfaithful to him which she strenuously desist!. He returned at 9 o'clock, and on gang indoors, be met his wife, and asked her to kiss him. She told him that she would as sort as she had put some sticks an the tire. As eh* was going for the sticks he asked her again to kiss him, and she made some evasive answer. (A little grand child, 10 years of age, was present throughout the dreadful tragedy.) He that put his um mood her neck, as if be was about to kir her, forned her head backwards against a water-butt, drew a razor from his pocket, and inflicted a Jarful gash across her threat, severing the windpipe, but not the jugular vein. Immediately afterwards he indicted • wound upon hie own throat, ea the right aide, and fell to the ground. The little girl screamed, and a policemaa, who happened to be near, was at ones opal the spot. He despatched a messenger for • air. goon, who sorrily arrived, and seeing that the man wee not in a dangerous condition, Earned his attention to the woman, who repot be expected to survive. The mats was subsequently conveyed to the Taunt= and 80121111111 i Res pite!, and on hie way thither in a cart he frequently at tempted to tear open the wound in her throat, but was prevented by the policeman. Mr. Gibson, the boor sur geon, mewed up the wound, but a policeman was obliged to watch him, to prevent his again inflicting mischief en himself ; and his conduct became so viola:it, that it was found necessary to strap him to his bed. Mr. Giiieoe asked him the reason for committing the fearful crime, when be replied that his wife was always about with the navvies, sod onicthat be had caught her with oat that morning.—BrA Chrle. FATAL AOCIDENT THROUGH DRINIL—.OII Thurs day morning last, a rumour rapidly spread around th is dis trict that a cold-blooded murder had been committed late the night previously in the Henetridge Ash Inn. On inquiry, however, it appeared that a number of labourers were drinking together at the tap-room of the inn, and that one, a man named George Chant, had with him an old gun, whose lock was tied up with " taker; the hwmmer being minus the am. ; that having a little drop of liquor he knocked the gun about in a fool-hardy way until it fell from his hand and discharged itself through a settle, on the other side of which a young labourer, who went by the same of Efebditch, but whoa real name was Parsecs, wu in the act of rising. The charge entered between the shoulder blade and passed upwards, through the kegs into the oeck, carrying shot, and pieces of bora rad plugs of wadding end clothing through the lungs and up the carotid utery, the 'meatier' of which, it need hardly be said, proved fatal. The poor fellow had just strength and mire enough to my out, "Pm shot," ad then fell state dead on the fluor. Chant looked at his victim, and, without saying a word, left the house. Nest morning be wu passing by the inn again, when police-constable Francis told him to come in and apprehended him on a charge of murder. Ho was at man taken to Whicantoo, where later in the day he was brought before J. itailward, Esq., and remanded to await the inquest. At the inquest the coroner, in summing up, said, there had been no malice proved, but according to the evideooe there had been gran negligence, and there Gould be no doubt if he had let the gun fall carelessly when in a elate of liquor, he wu guilty of manslaughter. The jury ultimately returned a verdict of Manslaughter. The cornea agreed to take two sureties in 100/. each for Chaste appearance, but u these were not forthcoming be was taken away handcuffed to gaol. The deceased, fortunately, was an Quarried man. Chant has a lot of little children, and his wile reedy to be moaned with another. The jury humanely called in the distressed mother of the deemed, and gave her their fees. —Sher/or ra Journal. EvErr. —A coroner's inquest was held at Drygill, near Pateley.bridge, in the West Riding of York- shire, on Monday last, on the bodies of two young boys, on. aged sight and the other four years, the eons of James Howes, who was employed at the works of the Craven Moor Mining Compsey, near Drygill. The two davassed children bad lost their lives ca the preceding Friday anemias by the explosion of &quantity of gunpowder. It appeared that oa that day (Friday) a sorrier from 0 re to Paisley. bridge, named Gill, took 16 quarter- of powder, each recleaning 2511)., and placed them near the powder-house Weenie; to the cianyisay ; and that the two children, who a short tame before had been seen playing with some Inciter matches about a quarter of a mile from the powder-bones, had goes near the barrels of powder, sad by some amens mused their explosion. The coasequeme was that they were both ktlled their bodies being hurled to a oemiderable Menem. and the powder-house was destroyed, and considerable damage was done to other property. In addition to the powder which exploded octal* two barrels out of four ex ploded inside the powder-house. It appeared that some of the barrels were far from being tight, and that it wee probable some grains of powder had fallm from them upon the ground- The carrier was reprimanded by both the coroner and the jury for haring left the powder barrels where he did without informing the company's A verdict to the following effect wee returned, "Accidental Death, but whether it bad occurred through the children using loafer matches, or by their haring 'track fire with their clogs while play ing near the powder...house there is no evidence to show." -- 15zsisrc-riois OF HiNour9's Otters it Mat. Bit/AST, WZDNICSDAT.—Tbee morning, shortly sitar 9 o'dosk, this gos circus, the largest and most tasteful ewer tweeted is Belfast, was completely destroyed by Sr.. The autos was nearly finished. and wan advertised to be apes as Saturday next, The buildieg was not oat of the con tracton' beads at the time of the Sre, One horse was burned to death, sad another is missing. A considssable quantity of valuable drew= wets also ',tuned. The Sr. le believed to bare been canoed by an escape of gm, awe being e i zir is patting up the gas pipes.—DeMa Iforaisp THE OORRISII MACKEREL FIESHEST.—Liat week's catch of mackerel compared very favoinsbly, both in rasped to quaatity and quality, with that of any week visas the econmenoscosat of the seism On Friday eight th• Newly• heats fell Is with • shoal of remarkably tins kik end took from 700 to 5,000 per boat, which sold at from 25e. to 30a. pee six snore. Some boats bad from 2,000 t o 3,000 of " °wordily" Bah, which were were small, and sold at from 14e. to 15s. per six soon. The St. leas boats west out oe Thonday, the lowest catch being about IC3,eadthe highest upwards of 3,500-14 s. to 30s. On Friday the hauls were from 5,010 downwards, price 144. to les. On Saterday, from LOCO downwards, 15s. to 17s. per six soma The quantity of fish seat off to the Leedom and other markets during the past few days has bees eery large. The retail priest at the Cornish markets is from 2d. to 2ed. per ash, or six or sight for • skill*. THE TENATZEZIT OP TB E POOR IN BETHNAL. CAW. OFFICIAL POOR-LAW INQUIRY.—(TH!S DAY.) This morning, at 10 o'clock, Mr. Farnell, Inspec tor a the Poor-law Board, opsesd an official investigation into Asa th Anfielde circumstances oosnoctal with the death of Mary . The deccouti, it will be recollected, wu the wife of a quill winder, and oo an inquiet recently bald upon her body by the amour for the county of Midd.Wes, it was deposed that when oho was brought to the workhouse for admiesiou to the infirmary oo the 29th of April she was refused, and wee kept outside the gates in the min until she become so violently ill that she exclaimed she should die in the street if she was not taken back. 00 • subsequent day she was admitted, and while in the work- house the complained of the food she got, and mid it was unfit to eat. Mr. Qsrdwell was the fleet witases called. He deposed that be was gate porter of the Bethnal-gees Workhouse. He had the regulations of the Poor-law Board to guide biro. His wife wee also • paid servant, and resided with him. Sometimes poisons came to the gate stating that they ware destitute, and required admimion to the workhouse. Witness would refer such people to the relieving officers, who had as offios in the workhouse, bat if the relieving officers were absent be would refer to the master. If the muter were absent he would not appeal to the mutton, but would admit the awe himself. The Commissioner said that as he went through the evidence to-day he wished to pat out any point in which the officials did not exactly fulfil the rules of the Poor-law. The rules and regulations were established for many years. but be sometimes found that officials ventured to act in a manner which they conceived to be an improveme ves •ad nt on the reg :L aad He wield y la t t O a kno th w Vera the regulations di poor di the porter to send destitute cases to the relieving officers instead of admitting them. Mr. Cardwell said that be was directed by the regulations to apply to the master or the matron. In their absence he went to the relieving officers. The Commissioner maid that there began the alteration in the rules. He was distinctly told that the master sod not the relieving officers bad to do with such cases. The Commissioner deo maid that it was productive of mischief for the board of guardians to make by-laws of their own for the purpose of supplementing or making clearer the rests. tioos of the Poor-law Board. Mr. Cardwell said that he believed that the muter had directed him to seed urgent cases to the relieving officers. The Commissioner said that he wished witness to dim. Hardy understand that he was never to do so again. Mr. Cardwell then said that he remembered that on Wed. sudsy, the 2nd of March, Mary Ann Anfield came in • cab to the workhouse gate at about 5 o'clock. Her husband was with her, and be gave witness a paper, saying, " I have an admission for my wife to the workhouse." Witmer read the paper, and told him that ft was a certificate from Dr. Moors, and wee a recommendation to the relieving officers for her admission. Witness recommended him to leave his wife in the cab until he could see the relieving officer, and told him to apply at the proper door. Witness did not re. collect whether they did so. Witness did not report to she master, as he bad not time. . . . . . The 'Commissioner instructed the witness in future never to take it on himself to give any advice or directions, but to report instantly to the meter. The withass said that about 30 minutes after the arrival of Mrs. Antield he admitted her on the order of Mr. Christy, relieving oftloer, and he put her into the receiving ward, into which she waited. Witness had not heard that she applied on a pprior day. He had not seen her. Au inmate of the workhoasehadattended in his place. Witham had been directed by the relieving officers not to admit one person upon an order for the adminion of the whole family. The Commissioner said that that was in direct contradis. tioa to the regulations and the law. By Art. 88 of the rules and regulations, a person was admissible to the workhouse by an eider of the guardians signed by theclerk, by an order of the relieving aim, or of the overseer, or by direction of the master or of the matron. A letter of the Poor-law Board espiedy stated that it sometimes occurred that an individthl applied to be admitted with an order for the admiasion of the whole family, and such an individual should be admitted. He wee not bound to being his family with him—they might net be destitute, or they might be with framed'. roitardian inquired whether that letter referred to only the heed of a family, or ton wife or child. The Gounnissioner mid that it referred to any individual. Such wss the law owe the subject. The porter would find his labours much simplified if he would take nothing but his strict duties upon hiniseU. The relieving officers had no power to give him inetructioria The witome raid that whet Mary Ann Anfield was taken to the receiving ward his wife saw to her, and the doctor saw her the raw night and again at Bin the morning. She was removed tato the hose/sat 9 o'clock the next morning. Witness all that time did not report to the master, but took it upon himself to mod for the medical officer. The Commissioner said that witaest bad no such power. The muter wet the proper nano* to send for the doctor. and he was respousible. The doctor was not bound to I attend on. witnees's order, and if the person died,who was to be respoosible ! Neither muter nor doctor. Witness said that the guardians had not given him these directions. After the woman entered the house, Idiot= heard nothing of her until she died on the 27th March. Aaron Ao6eld said to the witness—l brought the de ceased to the workhouse gate on the Monday before the Wednesday, the 2nd of March, and you spoke too.. Witmer—l distinctly swear that I never saw yon—at all events, to my knowledge. I was all day at the gate on the Moodav alluded to. My wife was there also ; that was the 29th Feb. I forget who the inmate wu that as sisted me at the gate on that day. Mr. F. Gent, F.R.C.8., surgeon end pathological sea. torrid to the Royal Free Hospital, said that, by the dine fiat of the waste, be made a post mortem examisation of the deesesed woman. Witmer said that she die I from eon. gee ion of the lunge, and, hearing the evidence as to the history el the case before the coroner, be said, taking in cosmaxions with the post mortem examination the circum stances antecedent to her death, that the death had resulted from coesestios of the longs and from expoeure and waat of nourishing food and stimulant'. if he had not heard the evidence referred to there was still entatieet atteuuatios to show that in the atogace of chronic disease abe had beta subjected to privations. He had not made any inquiries se to bow long she had been is the workhouse before death. The Commiesioner—Soppose you knew that for fear weeks before death she had bees in the wxrkhones and had been thoroughly well supplied with stimulants, Arc., what then would you say was the canes of death Witness—lfl was wide (which I am not, for I am ig norant of the fact) that she had been well fed and takes are of is the house for four weeks before drily I would not vesture to state that the congestion of the lungs was caused by privation. Ido not know the medical caw of this workhouse, nor did I let him know about the post-mortem examination. I believe I wrote to Dr. Moore saying that I would be at Asfield's house at • =War hoar. I knew that she bad been in the work bag not of her death there, and I do not recollect that I heard that at the Inquest. The privation to whisk I have alluded must have been daring her residence In the workhouse chiefly, but • portion of It might have been as• dared before. The Commissioner.—lf we are in a limitless to prove that she waa thoroughly well taken care of for four weeks before her death in the workhouse von would not say the conga. tion win caused by privation; Whose, said he would not. By the Commissiosier—The appetite often fails in such eases towuda the end. Stimulant, should then be given without exactly coesultieg the patient. The 000gestion probably arose a week before death. Convulsions a few holm beam death would increase the appearance of oen• gertioe. [The inquiry was proceeding when our report left.] SMOCKING DEATH IN HYDE-PARK. An inquiry was held by Mr. St. Clair Bedford, corooer for Westminster, lut night, respectieg the death of Richard Power, aged 35 years. who 1.11 dead in the arms of his intimated. The deceased had been a moldier, and wee recently die charged from the army ou account of disease of the heort. He was engaged to be married to a yews woman named Maria Kelley, and as Thursday mooing last he went out to walk with her hi Hyde-park. While they were conversing, be exclaimed soddenly. •• I am very ill," end be caught hold of a tree. He then fell back dead into the arras of the young worms. Matilda Cocaine, a boat binder, said that the was passing through the park wham she sew the deceased on the ground. =supported by a tree, and the roue' woman Maria leaning over him and cryiag, " Olt ! dear what is the matter!" and kissing him. Witness rid, "He is ill he is dead." The young women, who was in great grief. mid "Oh, don't my so, he is not deed." Witness can for the parkaiesstable, who had deemed curried to the lodge. where life wads found to be quite extinct. Mr. Jones, surgeon, said that doomed died from disease of the heart. The excitement mused by his intended tom rime and rapid walking no doubt accelerated Lie death. The Mane for the martisse of the demoted had been pub lished on the Sunda previous to his death. The jury ra verdict, "That deceased fell dead in Hyde-NA from themes of the heart." ALmmuiro Fmna.—(Tins Der).—Two alarming Brea bimpened this sieridag--ese ese the mousse of Mr. R. Thorne. • baker. aurybu on badness at Portland direst, Walworth-oommoo. The discovery wu made by the eervert maid, who was is the hoses by her self. the family not havlag returned from the theatre. The building was pertly destroyed. and • oodles of the roof burnt off. The origin of the fire is auk Down. loured is the General Fire Offlee.—ltte other fire happened as the maimed Yr. Foster, puffins, of BlogfieM4street, Buns bury, and was not extinguished until the bar was partly beret oak ISLE or WIGHT Brtameas.—The steamers have eornmemed running four Uwe daily between Lywhigtoa sod Yarmouth, la the Isle of Wight. This, ft is @speeded. will be a favourite route for tourist. pausing to sod from the island, as it leads from Alum By to Freshwater, where the poet laureate has fixed his reodenoe, and to Brook. where Garibaldi resided. Steamers are about to ma between Lymingtou and other parts of the lsle of Wight. UPS sAill Sittings I In this was whel by two j was box worth MI tepee of 1 in order pound of Mr. TA davits ire which le cctlieth) Mr. Oi ihedc; the prison of the Ha COll Mr. Mt Mr. Field This ws Hewitt, shire. PI mentors tiff, who , the usuali He also al brother. En. MI pram] HILL AND _. satideohm wardens, a totionely II His lads! lucid Mall property a OCAUt &ad that one pi the validity twenty-fivt J actin's+ the church dal lands. This inn BE .01;01( described a furnishers. The scoot unsecured,to be D , 14s. a bad. 244 4531, ; di t deficiency, : 1,6624. 14e. bas an aim Loath); as sea coal earl of iIiStIMOI tfiffenteed _ Ne. Se rge the j ois t "Wessel w etanioatios regard to Cle the *at OA wanted as Mr. Bee s argued that thous &din The bank, and he adult Be had doe naked Mr. F nolo to en I titers i s Pert) he had ..ttehted b ~aaß the p ftve . t‘ " the BA Lu eos'e pn Mr. Ba groc ettght sot to that After tbo on hes bummed Wu the baakrup The Como and allow bL &LA as &M. W.W.W. w.&w. &W. W. &&W. W.N.W. NW. Pa. &L 5.8.1. b rm re