The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

I • • 01111 CONTEMPO] REAKF AST.-E PPS'S COCOA. Ehe erpreoo. TO CoRItISPONDZNT S. irtitsitesto Wended ter " The ir is soree." Leeks krT o o mat be es the (Ate, vetioatmet, tiw = ea the day of Palgicadoe- 11AYKABANT. TM. MAIM, FAMILY JARB.—A wrn WELL WON. Mama *wham Backstop., Bows, Kendal, Bogen, Braid. Wes thers!,‘ , &e. awl Mau, Hobertano.—Altar which AN UTTER atoloN OF THE BRlGAND.—Commence at 7. rzwczaink Tnis Emmto, THE COLLEEN DAWN. Mr. and lira Dion Doncicault —After which THE EMMET'S OF LODON. Mr. Vining, Mears. Murray, Shore, Neville. Forrester, Mellon, dm Mimes Elaworthy, E. Daznett. Rachel Sanger, and iira. Addle. STRAND. THIS EVIWINO, OLD SALT. Mr. Emery and Miss Belly Moore. -.After which THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. Messrs. Thorne and James ; Mesdames Ada Swanboroagb, Johnstone, Harland, Molt, de.—And OUR D4MESIICH. HOLBORN. Tan LilionNa, THE nYwo Seri). Met Atkins, Pries, Garden, Arthur, Westland, and Wilmott ; Mesdames Henrsd_,e Lennox, end Saundern—Coneinde with VALENTIIIi A :. u UILSON. li•Ille. Montero, Little Bowel* ie. BRITANNIA TH79 Ersareo, DON QI:LCOTE ; OR, SANCHO PANZA AND lIIS It" WE TERF2A. Ma, Edwin ooth tomimids Messrs. Deane, Lo u Lan is, New ham, and Vietor &B eUI ; NMI*. C. Stephan and Ml Ross Nathan.—And WHO DID ITT NIGH WATER AT LONDON DIM& Tani DAtt —Mandan, 6b. 51n---Afterenta, 6b. 2Ont. To-llonamf—Morning, nt. Un--Afternoon, 6b. 170. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14. EVERY winter the dry and rocky bed of human misery in this rich man's country becomes a tor rent and almost an inundation of distress. In stantly and invariably Society sets itself to work in an irregular and bewildered fashion to arrest by dykes and drains this devastating deluge of un known and unnumbered fellow-creatures who have drifted from penury to starvation. Our English public prides itself on its philanthropy and rejoices in the subscription lists spread before its eyes every morning like an oblation. Hundreds of thousands of pounds are distributed by cheques, to the great relief and satisfaction of the charitable donors, to all sorts of committees and lista of secretaries and collectors. Nothing was ever com parable to the organization and abundance of British charity. But where does all the money go to ? Still the cry of want rises up, and the torrent overflows, and men, and women, and children starve, and are forgotten ; and still the cheques are poured in. Then comes the everlasting confession of incompetence to deal with such an unexampled amount of suffering. Every year the amount of suffering is "unexampled." Is there no possibility in this classic land of men of business, of colossal industry and enterprise, of obscure but enormous opulence, of arriving at some tolerably direct and effective system of charitable assistance and relief ? There is no other country in the world that has a poor-law which makes starvation impossible, and under which starvation is an every-day occurrence. There is no other country in the world that professes, as England does, to find bread for every man who is willing to work, yet leaves hundreds of men and women willing to work to perish for want of cloth ing and a loaf. There is no other country in the world that has so many millionaires—good men, for the most part, and church or chapel goers. And among them all there has been one PEABODY ; and he is not an Englishbut an American philanthropist. Yet no one can doubt of the desire of our well regulated Society to remove from its doors this her-1 rible scandal of perishing pauperism. Can the law do nothing ? Are the poor-rates powerless or in sufficient ? lu one great parish of the metropolis the ratepayers have been invited to pay a quarter in advance in order to meet the demands of the season. The press teens day after day with letters of appeal and suggestion, betraying the best intentions and the most helpless misconcep tion of the exigencies which call them forth.' What then ! There are two reflections so simple and so obvious as to pass the understanding of the English public. A uniform poor-rate for the whole of London has often, it is true, been proposed in and out of Parliament, and will certainly be proposed again without reference to the temporary pressure of distress. But the middle-class Parliament of 1832, which has been extolled by its own members for its tender- 1 nese towards the poor and suffering classes, has'' always consistently refused to accept a measure which would make the wealthy parish of St. George's, Hanover-square, subscribe without vulgar ostentation and without barren self-com placency its fair and proper quota towards the relief of the misery and starvation of Bethnal green. It is so much more agreeable to the wealthy and easy-going ratepayers of the rich parishes to subscribe their names in the public newspapers to this and that committee of relief when the season of festivity and starvation a mss round. Let it be understood, then, that we must wait for the Reformed Parliament to make the richest community in the world save its poor from starvation, without a flourish of charit able trumpets. \That, then, is to be done in the meantime to prevent at least all these thousands of pounds au noisily and so unsystematically sub scribed from running to waste through the fingers of committees? Common sense supplies a simple solution of the problem. The various societies now appealing to the public for funds should unite their efforts. It is an intolerable evil that so much of the money so lavishly and so heedlessly con tributed should be wasted in expenses of collec tion and distribution, and that what is derisively called the organization of voluntary public charity should mean too often its exhaus tion and (lispersiun in driblets from one class of impostors to another, whilst even the streets are waiting to be swept. There are in every parish, unconnected with the Poor-law administration, the elements of a local charitable commission, unpaid and spontaneous, lay and clerical, who would be the natural and the legal dispensers of public charity, such as the magis trates, the clergy, the ministers of various deno minations, the principal residents and ratepayers. Let a local committee of such persons be formed in each parish under the general committee ; let the public subscriptions be paid directly into their hands, and it is impossible to doubt that an immense waste of charitable efforts will be pre vented, and perhaps the plague of pauperism be stayed. In default of one uniform rate for all London, there is, we believe, no other cure than this for the Pharisaical indifference in almsgiving which is almost as contemptible as the pauperism it professes to assuage is lamentable and dis graceful to a City gorged with luxury, stupefied with comfort, and mad with misery. An advertisement from Manchester which has lately appeared in the daily papers owns to indicate great difficulty on the part of the opeculatiee sellers of railway stocks in that city in fulfilling their bargains. It is addressed " to the holders of Laneasbiire and Yorkshire, Midland, and Metropolitan Railway shares," and offers for the loan of these stocks loe. to 20e. a share per fortoiglit. " Re-transfers and all charges cleared if allowed to remain for three accounts, and ugh value lodged and maintained." It is added that " other stocks are also wanted." (THIS DAY.) ME. RIGBY RADON AND Yea " rms." Mr. Rigby Wason yesterday obtained a role nisi fora new trial on his action spinet the Times, upon the broad guerilla whether it is good law that a fair and faithful report of parliamentary debates is a privileged p u blication. The law upon this subject has nesse been expressly laid down and with the knowledge that public opinion has fully sanctioned the verdict of the jury on the merits of the ease, the Times says it owes Mr. Wason no grudge for making it the corpus rili of an interesting legal experiment. In default of a comprehensive libel act, Each an experiment must inevitably have been tried sooner or later. The bill of last 0105611, which has spin been introduced by its authors, and now stands for a second reading in the House of Commons, purports to abolish the alleged lia bility for the future. The only serious objection made to it was that it would leave individuals defenceless against calumny in parliament. To this it ought surely to be a sufficient reply that each house can regulate the license elf speech allowed to its members. Before strangers woes admitted to debates, there was something plausible fa the notion that what passed within the four walls al the house was confidensid. It has now *awed to have say meaning, and it would be far wiser to stop divagates at its mourn than to punish the innocent reporter ci THE WOEKSHOPS REGULATION ACT. By the seta passed last session, the Daily News states, the principle of compulsory attendance at a school of chil dren employed in workshops is enforced by a fine on both parent and employer, but no power is given either parent or employer to require the admission of a child into any school. Yet it is quite legitimate to demand that any thing which the law requires to be done it shall provide belittle* for doing. It will probably be found scarcely possible to enforce this provision in the fullest manner until en extended scheme of government education is in nation. At present it seems to be doubtful whether retail shops, offices, or warehouses, in which no handi craft is exercised, can be included in the terms of the act. All doubt on these subjects ought, how ever, to be set at rest. The Daily sews believes that at the present moment very little is being done in the practical application of the act. In this City some large Brms are simply taking no notice of it, while others are applying it in accordance with their own interpretation of its meaning. But this has not arisen from ►ny disposition to obstruct its operation ; it has simply arisen from the difficulty of understanding an act which is loosely drawn and carelessly worded. Either the government or the local authorities should have issued a summary of It. pro visions which might have been hung up, as the summaries of the provisions of the Factory Acts are, in all places affected by it. As matters stand there is every disposi tion to obey the law, but great want of knowledge as to its provisions. It is apparently the duty of the local authorities to enforce it, and it should therefore be their duty to spread the needful knowledge respecting it. But local authorities need, in such a matter, to be moved from the centre, that uniformity and promptitude may be given to their action. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. Discussing the coming Reform Bill for Scotland, the Mae says Mr. Disraeli, in order to save the rotten borough', proposes to make the increase of Scotch representatives by adding to the number of the members of the house. Mr. Gladstone contends that the addition should be obtained by adjusting the represent►tion of England to her pop's lation and teration, and thus reducing the number of members who sit for pleats having no numerical importance. There can be no doubt which of these alternatives every liberal is bound to support. Mr. Gladstone is prepared to do full justice to Scotland by doing justice at the same time to some of those nests of corruption where the tory strength lies, and reducing them to their true political position of importance. Mr. Dir raeli intends only to do partial justice to Scotland, be- i muse be will not touch, if he can possibly avoid it, those peddling a illages which return the squire's nominee at the squire's order. The Times, Post, Telegraph, and Standard, contain arti cles upon the subject of the Duke of Edinburgh's reception at Melbourne. The Tdeftrupli complains that while it is thought expedient to send the Duke of Edinburgh to the Antipodes, in order to confirm the eentimenta of affection entertained by a loyal and contented population towards our empire, no member of our reigning dynasty appears willing to crow St. George's Channel. The Post asks if no one will give us a pleasant dining house for London. There hardly exists, it says, a single reputable establishment throughout London to which a man would like to take his wife or daughter to dins, and where he could feel reason►bly assured of getting as good and comfortable a dinner as be might obtain at a hundred different pl►ces in Paris or Vienna. There is an sir of darkness and squalor among our ordinary eating-houses which is extremely repulsive. The Daily Ners trusts that ill-timed scruples w:II not deter the loyal Irish of London from signing the ►nti- Fenian address to her Majesty which has been prepared by Mr. Digby Seymour. It iv not for good citizens to stand upon their dignity when by any act of theirs they can do aught to abate a serious calamity. They owe something also to their countrymen whom, in the absence of a disavowal satisfactory to the public mind, a capri cious suspicion may deprive of employment. All parties, save the party of conspiracy and rebellion, may sign it without reserve—unionist and repealer, protestant and catholic, ultramontane and liberal, the advocate of reforms and the advocate of abuses, the champion of reli gious aseendrincy and the champion of religious equality. But those have the strongest interest in signing it who desire to see Ireland governed by just and wise laws rather than by military force and the suspension of law. The Standard enters into an elaborate defence of the prosecution which the government has undertaken of the Irish man newspaper ; and it says that the same course most he extended to other journalists of the same chaos should they continue an inflammatory style of writing. liftt Court. OSBORNE, .TAw. 13. The Queen walked in the grounds this morning, attended by the Duchess of Roxburgh° ; and Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice went out. Hu Excellency If. and Blulame Can de Weyer and the Misses can de Weyer left Osborne to-day. nine* ma Princess Christhin, with princess Henrietta I of Schleswig-Holstein. and Prince Arthur, returned to Frogmore on Saturday, from visiting Lord and Lady Derby at Knowsley. Despatches were received yesterd►y at the Colonial- Ace from the Governon of Bt. Helena, the North Ame rican Provinces, Narmada, New Zealand, Beath Australia, _ Tasmania, Queensland, Viosor'ss, the Straits Settle"—' ma il,. and flake. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian, Prinoe Arthur, and suites, honoured the perform ance at Covent•gardea Theatre with their presence last evening._ _ - • . . . . The Duke of Rutland h entertaining a select company at Belvoix Castle. The *obis) duke's bonds met at the castle yesterday, and, owing to the break ttp of the frost. there was a Lo ge muster. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury's I parties at Hatfield House, Herta, have been very small and seleotowine to the indispoeitioa of the Countess Delayers., the mandsionees's mother, who, however, Is now much better. _ A marriage has been arranged between the Earl Beauchamp and Lady Mary Stanhope, daughter of the Earl and Countess Stanhope. The Earl Fortescue is about to contract a mar riage with lady Drummond, relict of Sir James Williams Drummond, Bart. The Earl of Clarendon bad a long audience of the Pope as. New Year's day, and left, with all his fatally, on the following day for Naples. His lordship mw seve ral of the eardisals befogs his departure. Lard Bloomfield, British imbemsdor at Vienna, has left Austria foe Italy. The object of hie lordahipi iourneY, according*, the Pool, ti "to inquire into the 1 political °soaks et the winter." TZE o R A it'lll-11-'-C the monarchy. In the richest regions. lons towns, there are murmurs yid& have not been heard for a long time. The communes are struggling against defielencies which are crushing them. The stringent mane employed to get in the taxes, which it was ISM to use formerly, are now of frequent I occurrence. The consumption of articles of necessity has diminished, although the population has Increased; and as well-to-do-people do not °entreat their expenditure the entire herdsw of the diminution must fall on the neceesitous elms. Business is at a Ard still. Employers dismiss their workmen or reduce their wages. Families are driven to inferior lodgings. Tim number of servants is diminishing. Privation, misery, see words which are heard everywhere. If the distress has sat even reached the intensity which it has in Rant Prude, it threatens all parts of the State, and in the course of some mouths may lead to the mime sad results. The failure of the crops is the direct cause of the severity of the distress in East Prussia. But the source of the general distress lice deeper. It is to be traced to the augmentation of the military burdens. For long yearn past Prussia ham had to endure military burdens beyond the resources of the country. Her armies were more numerous than those of countries having a population three or four times greater. The young flatten was ambitious, end being desirous of augmenting its power, it made extraordinary efforts. But such efforts are only possible and fruitful for brief intervals ; when prolonged they are ruinous. A man may raise with diffi culty a heavy weight, but it would kill him if he had to sustain it for twenty-four hours. The old military organi widen coonomiesd our forces in order to have them fresh when the strain of war awns, which was rare enough. But under the new army organisation the strain has been con stant, and the existing distress is but the result of this excessive tension. Sadowa, it is said, has proved who was right in the military conflict. But there is another view of the question, and it may be contemplated in the condi tion of the 23 districts of East Prussia. Phan de is Loire, says . For erre& dip pest Grow& of titres or four hundred persons have assembled in front of the Hotel de Vile, mending relief or work. In consequenos of the persistence of these menial:bons the mayor yesterday celled • meet ing of the six commissaries of the central relief commi e' den, who resolved at ease to give tickets for bleed at a I reduced price to every family out of work. This mossers appears to we inseicient, and we think an extraordinary meeting of the Municipal Council, to vote funds for the distreend, imperstrely sailed for under the circus dances. The Await National says: Most distressing news reaches us from the north, cents% and south of France, The general uneasiness produced by political uncertainty, and increased by other ceases, bee paralysed trade and industry. It is no longer Epos, Nantes, Rouen, and Roubaix alone that are besieged by misery. The Gironde tells as that at Bordeaux the num. ben of the poor who publicly clamour for bread or week have sanuned mart unexpected proportions ; it hen been thought necessary to double the sentries at the Betel dm Ville, end to place • strong body of police at the main entrance, which is constantly encumbered by • famished crowd. At Mlle, Auxerre, Limoges, and many other places, the bureaux de bits/about have been driven be resort to exceptional Melliarel. In Paris the nenspes of " public relief " have received • subsidy of nearly 400,000 tr. from the Minister of the Interior, sad they are at their wit's end to make it go far enough. M. Emile de Girardin, in the Libert4, comments upon the above harrowing news : Is not this hunger which clematis so loud in all direc tion • warning to Europe that she has more useful and more urgent things to do than to augment her cadres and her armies ? If it is not to make war, why do we augment our army I And if it is te make war, whet are we waiting for! Between amputation before or after gangrene, no one who is not either a fool or • coward can hesitate. There is no doubt about the thaw now, the snow has entirely disappeared, the thermometer is 6 degrees above Zero ; there is a soft south westerly breeze, and we have had a sunny day with a blue sky only chequered by light feathery clouds. The coldest day in France of this cold season is said to have been January 3. On that day, while the intensity of cold which sufficed to freeze the Seine in Paris was measured by little more than 11 degrees centigrade, there was regis tered 12 degrees at Lons-le-Saulnier, and in 1 various parts of the department of Jura, 16, 18,1 and 20 degrees, and at one place, the Jou: fort, 23 degrees. At Chalons a man crossed the Same with a barrel of wine on a wheelbarrow. It is affirmed that M. Magna told his friends at a dinner party yesterday that he would bring out his financial statement on Wednesday next, assuming that, as hoped, the army bill will be passed to-morrow. The Bourse opened with much firmness, and) Rents turned the point of 69fr., and was quoted 1 . at one moment 69fr. lc. There was afterwards al l considerable reaction, and the Glaring prices were I 68fr. 90c. for cash, and 68fr. 874 c. for account, with a fall of sc. and 10c. Italian fell 10c. ; Credit Fonder, 2fr. 50c. ; aad Mobilier, lfr. 25c. Comptoir d'Escompte rose 6fr. 50c. GARIBALDI ON THE STALY.TE OP PRANCE AND ITA " Caprers, Dec. 31, 1867. " My very dear M. de —, —Thanks for the works which oar mutual friend Psavialno has been good enough to transmit to me. I shall road them with great interest, like all which coma from you. ` Why attempt a solution by force which would have come of itself ?' you ask of me. 'Well, my worthy friend, lam of a contrary I opinion. To wait till the Papacy operates its own de struction Is to commit an error, and France pays to-day for the credulity of which she was guilty in 'B9. Murices and England plume themselves upon their religious liberties: the first did certainly escape national assassination at the hands of the Papist rioters of New York and other States : but the second has a gloomy task before it in clearing away the clouds of Femanisni. Shall we be simple enough to believe that the piens would put an end to themselves to oblige humanity Thistles and all harmful weeds propagate themselves with more fecundity and less trouble than any useful plants. I know you say, ' Liberty of worship, liberty oil conscience, liberty for all opinion,' and I repeat the my ; only it must he in the mouth of honest men. Does any body believe in liberty for vipers, for crocodiles, for thieves or ansaasins ? and what is the priest but the an mann of the freo soul—far more mischievous than the assassin of the body France, who for good and evil must influence so vastly the destiniee of the world—do you I think France was morally less advanced or more 73 years I back, when she proclaimed to humanity—divided by I the sacerdotal tricks—the sublime principle of fraternity, with Rational Religion end the One Supreme Being for its basis? France was then in the apogee of her in fiueaca ; but, thanks to the pestilential germ of priest craft w hich she spared, she stands now robbed of a cen twyli growth in the splendid career of progress and free dom to which her high destinies call her. Prieotcraft and Bonapartism, which openly now-a-days take hands to That each other up, give meas the enemy of France. I That is much as saying I am c an enemy to fruit because I hate slugs. Yes ! I avow Ido hate evil, hate vice, hate corruption, of which these pests are the emblem. But, France ! Alt, my thousand friends in France, they will not let me stoop so low as to justify myself against that calumny ! I will say something more. It would be vary wrong to think that the absence of French contributione to the Italian ante:tone was a proof of French No,my countrymen have too much intelligence not to distinguish' between the despot who insults us and the noble nation which he gags. Certainly, when the Italians reflect that the duties on your export goods pay the P op e's soldiers, I think they do well not to go much by " lists of contri betors." I accept your pleasant augury of seeing me I shortly in Frame. Truly, I should return with a filial love to y esm ancient land of exile, where I met a hospitality so cordial nd generous. But you must be well persuaded that this will only happen when you have turned those black points' white which now Warm your fair land. I grow old faster than my age, and I confess the condition of my country hastens life downwards. But I never de spair of her future, above all with friends as devoted and noble as you. I embrace you with all affection and am for life, yours devotedly, " G. Clandtauct." •t: "... , ; . The correspondent of the Pod at Rome, says : " The botch voinatess for the Highland company in the Papal Zany, Regiment having turned out to be chiefly Irish, and smacking of Fenlanism, have been dismissed by the Pope, and were sent away from Rome some days ago, to the number of nearly Mr. Their conduct in barracks was eztremely ineuberdinata. There are now 120 bialt and 20 English in the Zooms lieginsint." Sin WILLIAII HEW' BODKIN. —The Mayor, J. G. Churoltward, Esq., 11/15 received a letter from Lady Bodkin, in which illeT ill4Ql, says that the awident le Sir William Bodkin is vesy swims, biamode as two sr titres sibs are broken ; thi e s s i ii erer boviditt. been the pain with great equanimity, te a gselimme of se active a mind the I eisebsonsent le lin oldebor wad b. wiry idpoomp. Nor indyshlp obe mai M i lbols be pespb of Dover bs thsh bomb odd daddsmoo, which, shs abbe, iv seed sad appeesisked by both Sir WMiora sod bor. ▪ --ocsak Bader* ~ie. liana RAILWAY Itscsirrs. —The aggregate ;seas =via the di princiSrailway systems in Jr...', sid and new from be Ist of Jemmy es Os of Deessther hob doer bob- 1 Ave. esssmatedissii:KSlnsitit In f., sad fee the , sew period in OS SAS ia*sii:i., mowing, ea basepos et 1, , and ci The esW IS the bib sad ltsditariessri 7 asses • Wd ite .eat esit es ▪ ibiwki- Ilie EwM iliL etall Otiesas :leel fV lT 11116' "6- . 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Itli::ails u m the ore rinhad or less t r n egions the out° . in nathoproolnoesmcgt pope• Loire, saps an says tes : letter of Jan. 9, in the Phan di THE FAMINE IN ALGERIA. --- The Avenir National says it has received from a correspondent in Algeria most afflicting accounts of the progress of the famine in that country. The dead, it says, are so numerous, that they are thrown into trenches as on the day after a battle. tirUntell TfllOR. AUSTRIA. - VIENNA, JAN. 14. The Official Gazette of this morning announces that the Emperor has ordered that the persons ap pointed to the posts of Ministers shall be styled " Your Excellency" during the continuance of their official functions, and shall rank at court with actual Privy Councillors. The Reicharath will resume its sittings upon the 10th February. Deputy Mnhlfeld is dangerously ill. Rumours are current that Field-Marshal Lieute nant Baron von John is about to resign his post as Minister of War for the Empire, and will be suc ceeded by Field-Marshal Lieutenant von Kuhn. WEST INDIA MAIL. PLYMOUTH, iAlf. 14. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship 1 Atrato, from the West Indies, &c., arrived here at 3.15 a.m. this day (all well), and proceeded thence for Southampton at 4.30 a.m. She brings 21 adult passengers, specie 461,030 dots., and 2,215 packages of cargo ; also the captain and crew of the Corsica screw steamer, purchased by the company. The Atrato was detained outside the harbour, first waiting for the pilot, an d subsequently through losing the boatswain overboard, who fell from the jib-boom, when a boat was lowered and search made for him but ineffectually. Her dates are—Greytown, December 15 ; Demerara and Tobago, 23rd ; Trinidad, 24th ; Grenada and St. Vincent, 25th ; St. Lucia and Barbadoes, 26th ; Jamaica, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Dominique, I 27th ; Jacmel, Antigua, and St. Kitts, 28th ; and St. Thomas's, 31st. At St. Thomaa's commercial affairs were still in an unsettled state owing to the continuance of the earthquake. Severe shocks were felt on the 29th and following days up to the time of the Atrato leaving, keeping the inhabitants in a state of great anxiety. The island was then healthy but private advice. state that the water in the harbour was more putrid than ever through the number of sunken vowels, with provisions, &c., on board. The slightest movement among the shipping caused the exhalation to become in sufferable, and it was apprehended that before long some serious sickness would be the result. The second session of the new Jamaica legisla ture was opened on December 17. The Financial Secretary reported a deficit in the revenue of the past year of 56,000/., arising from the customs and rum duties. A bill had been introduced levying an additional 10 per cent. upon the amount of duties paid into the Customs on all imported articles from December 16. The Douro arrived out atSt. Thomas's, with mails of 17th ult., at daylight on the 31st; and the Mersey proceeded down the Islands, and the Douro to Jamaica, the same day. The Atrato's ship's papers are coming to London by special train from Plymouth at 5.15 a.m. this alio day. AMERICA. (IT ♦TLANTIC TZLIONAPIL) NEW YORK, Jas. 13, Eviamio. Closing Prices :--Gold, 140 i. Sterling exchange. on London, 109 g. 5-20 United States Bonds, ' 1882, 109 a ; ditto, 1885, 108}. 10-40 Bonds, 102 i ; Illinois, 135 ; Erie, 76. Cotton : Middling Up land, 17. Petroleum, standard white, 25i. Flour : extra State, 10.50. Corn : Old mixed, 1.41. A report is in circulation at Marseilles that M. Louis Blase will he put up at the next election. The question arises, would Louis Blase moan to take the oath of fidelity required from every candidate! It I. cre dibly stated that the democratic petty will present candi dates in the ten conatitueedes of the departments of the Bombes du Rhone, Iranians, and Gerd. A spectacle which draws a crowd daily to the Tuileries gsrdeas Is that of a lady who, in her daily walk, lattracts around her flights of the wild pigeons who lodge in the old tress, and scores of sparrows and other birds, who perch on her shoulder, and even have the audacity to pooh at her mouth. The lady is daily escorted to her hrens l by a perfect squadron el her feathered friends, who then return to their quarters. At Rome the opera is very ill attended, and the impresario being unable to pay his artistes on quarter day, threatened to shut the theatre mdse the municipality ad vanced him 20,000 lire. The subscriptions have been [ 25,000 lire lase than usual this year. Although the Maine Legislature contain a large repudiate weJority it b believed to he determined on the repealed the prohibitoy levier law, which has far sear year, been in foes be that State, and the substitutive for litel a ranee eil Bosom far ikon deans. The Ker. simeetes Legislator*, nosing at the same time, will do the lams deem In bath States this Widen= is brought ' about by the very decided cordial of the rend Mew* 1 ekeents sisdisa *salad the pooldbilory poi*. MARY OF CAM. !K TO STOCKTON. ey allele:en; gin inhabitants of the Ithrlvlngleseeigheillieekton received a passing e ras the Primates Merl of Cambridge sad the Prince aCt 41111.4111 k way to Wynyard Park, the seat of the Earl Vane. As the train enamel the statical the mayor sad eor position formed a body guard to the prince and princes. The prince alighted first. He was dressed in a blue frock coat, silk facings, and velvet collar, and dark trousers. Earl Vane than received the primer, who was attired in a black silk rep dress with orange trimmings, a brown sealskin paletot, and a small black bonnet. The earl baying introduced the prince and princess to the mayor (sr. R. Jackson), his worship said, " On behalf of myself and the corporation, I beg to offer to you our heartiest mogratulations on this your first visit to the county of Durham, and more especially to the ancient borough el Stookionen.Tess, and I beg to enure your royal bighamme of the staunch loyalty and attachment of the hthehibral• of Stockton to her Masty's throne and sea, as as well as to every member of d the royal family and beanah of the same. Although living at a distance re. mote from the sphere occupied by your royal highnesses, I may beg to be permitted t o say your amiable qualities sad Christian virtues have endeared you to every true and well-thinking Englishman, and our fervent prayer and hope is that you may be long spared in health and happi ness to enjoy those blessings which Divine Providence has so kindly provided for you." The shiner was followed by immerses awning ; after which a procession, headed by 1 1 the pollee, the town sergeant, the mayor and corpora tion, omen's& the royal couple to their carriage, awaiting them outside the station. Here they were met with great cheering by crowd assembled, which was continued for some distance on the road to Wynyard Part. It et THE EDUCATIOCONFECE Al TE To-morrow a conference assembles in the Town Hall, Manchester, with the object of discussing the prin ciples and provisions of the Education Bill introduced into the House of Commons last year by Mr. H. A. Bruce, Mr. W. E. Forster, and Mr. Algernon Egerton. The list of names attached to the circular of invitation comprises the names of gentlemen representing all shades of political and religious opinion, and we learn from the MancAerfer Examiner of to.dsy that the conference promises to be • success in point of numbers. Invitations ha v e been largely accepted in all parts of the country, and, in all probability, 500 gen tlemen will be prevent. Mr. E. R. Le Mare is appointed president of the preliminary committee, while Mr. Bruce and Mr. Forster have undertaken to preside over the deli berations of the conference. Mr. Algernon Egerton, al one of the introducers of the bill of last session, would have taken a prominent part in the proceedings, but • pdor engagement will unfortunately prevent his being I present. We are assured, however, of his cordial adhesion to the principles of the conference, and of his intention to give his hearty support to Mr. Bruce's bill, unless the government should obviate its neon eity by introducing an equally comprehensive scheme of its own. Among the points to be discussed by the conference are the following: Shell the bill be per missive or compulsory! If compulsory, would it be desirable to snake it applicable at once to the whole country, or applicable only by order in council, on the report of school inspectors ? Are special provisions neon. eery to meet the condition of rural parishes ? To what extent is it desirable to modify the minutes of council so ea to include purely secular schools? These questions will occupy the first day's sitting. On the second day the conference will be invited to express an opinion upon the following subjects:—The operation of the Industrial Schools Act ; the extension of the Factory Act ; the &liableness of extending the principle of com -Ipnlaory school attendance beyond those measures, and, if desirable, the means by which such compulsory attendance should be enforced. Mr. Barley, while assenting the gener al principles of the bill, has put on paper a series of amendments which he intend s to propose. They relate chiefly to compulsory attendance at schools. Mr. H. A. BRUCE, M.P., was present last night at the distribution of prizes to the students connected with the Bury Atbensium, and delivered an address on the subject of education. Mr. Bruce entered fully into the whole question. illustrating his remarks by reference to the sys tems in operation in Prumie and the United States. lie advocatid the adoption of • national system of education in this country, and was in favour of making it com pulsoryabonld the people be in favour of compulsion. There never (he said) was an occasion when so much necessity for exertion existed. "We learn now to our grief and indignation—we learn from the reports of men who are interested by no means in misrepresenting facts to our disfavour—that the British artisan is inferior in many of the points in which we had hitherto considered him , superior to the continental one. Who are the people who, 'above all othen, are presaing upon us, and, in fact, in some respects, have got ahead of us in the race of industry? They are the very German people who for the last 200 years or very nearty so, have had a system of education which compelled the attendee*e of children at school from 5t0140r 15 years of age. (Hear.) Here, in this country, it is said that such an interference with the labour market would be the rain of the country ; but I ask you to con sider for a moment bow it isthat our most formidable com petitors in the labour market are j ust those people who withdraw their children front labour during the years which should be devoted to instruction. You may be sure that, however much we should for a while feel the absence of the children from our factories and works, yet, in having • more cultivated set of work men, and in having men with all their faculties bur nished up to the highest point, we should soon reap an ample reward. At any rate, there is the fact ; and it is A t one—one that we ought deeply to meditate, that be men we have most to fear are just the men who are not afraid to withdraw their children from employment and educate them to the utmost. (Hear, hear.) Those ire the Germans and the Swiss people. (Hear, hear.) I bare that faith in the energy of my countrymen, I have that faith in their love of truth, that I believe that when ce the truth is *nee told them , an d when the way is on shown them they will not be content with legging behind any nation in the world. (Cheers.) What we want are the means. You have the mea ns in Germany in a degree perfectly unparalleled and unknown in this country. Not only have you a system of elementary schools for the poorer classes infinitely superior on the whole to anything we have in this country, but you have a system of middle class schools conveying pupils on the most economical terms through every branch of knowledge, till at last the knowledge is completed at colleges, which are not limited, as here, to two or three of our towns, but which may be B o n in scattered over all towns of any conridemble popula -1 n Germany. How it it that towns far less important than Bury, for instance, in Germany, have universities 1 celebrated all over the world ? (Hear, hear.) Why shoul that be the case in Germany and not in England ? Why should we have two universities at Oxford and Cambridge worthy of the name, and those only ? Why should not we have twenty or thirty ? Why should not every great population bring home to its own people, upon the moat reasonable and economical terms, the mesas of obtaining the very highest education in all brushers of knowledgable ? (Hear, hear.) Let me •2152citi how is it possi we can compete with who bees these enormous advantages over us ? The time is pest when we believed that one Englishman could beat these Frenchmen on the field of battle. (Laughter.) The MOO We of belief has existed with respect to the UMW that see fought en the fields of um. I melee. It was asairlased that there was • nature' energy in the Englishman which enabled him to overcome every other adios be the world. But we are learning by bitter innee that seseethinli more ;e s required—that emiltentlea is required, sad also that the mum ihnt enitivetion lust be amply supplied if this me to held the foremost rank in the world. How is !=re be ass ? Much, no doubt, should be due by lath ! *bud awl Meal start, bat I am bound to say, although I I give an opinion eshselmatly. that it is in my opinion for the enurement ise tba essutry and for parliament to take the initiative." (Hear, beer.) It was stated in the Manchester Examiner of the 7th isd that on the arrival of Prince and Primers Chrislim, Prime Arthur. and Princess Henrietta of fieldsewirlitebiein at Halton station, yesterday weak, " several persons pressed made themselves preeminent by ,aiming the Priam." The Hon. F. Stanley writes: " Having had the honour of receiving their royal high ' seams on the cosuden alluded to. I am in a position to ° give this report the meet direct denial ; and to Mitres that, me far from any manifestation of ill.feeling having taken i s s es, eh* royal highnesess were, on the contrary, weimowed with aerdiality by all present." The Peso York ISibune has a despatch from Lseoursdnatioa of the hlaseen.whishstaes states that, awmi netwithetan oorrerpoodsoce dins the Weise Lard !Menlo sad Becestery Seward, information he. bees seesiesit *see that Mr. Theentea, the new siaineer. sees oat empowered with full authority to mops the question, and will present for the sea ' *Wades of the United States a new pies of adjadowat. LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY. Sir R. Pittutwoat, judge of the Admiralty Court, presided at • meeting of this society, held last evening in the Adelphi. Mr. JOHN WESTLAKE read • paper on " Naturalisation an d Expatriation, or a change of Nationality." After re ferring to Proddent Johnson's allusion tothe topic in his last message, and to its bearing upon the French Army Orsini- Delon Bill, he said it was admitted on all sides that the time had COMO when it was necessary to arrive at some clear and mutual understanding upon it. He then detailed those rights of protection and control which gave to nationality its importance, showing the difference between the laws and customs in various parts of the world as to the rights of foreigners, and pointing out that foreigners were generally held to be exempt from military service, but not from the paymentof war tee m These rights and duties were no doubt • burden which nations sub mitted to in order to facilitate intercourse between them. There was no reason to believe that the English par ment would hesitate to propose such alterations unught he necessary,buttheparticulearrangementtobe recommended must be a question for much discussion even after the principle of free expatriation had been admitted. There was much difficulty in the propose! to merge nationality in domicile. The following rules might be considered for a change of nationality :—First, • • simple form of natural isetion, to which any state might add any oondition it thought necessary ; secondly, a provision for securing that none but permanent residents were naturalised. making for that purpose a certain number of years' residence ne cessary, unless special reasons were assigned ; thirdly, the renouncing of all claim by the original government, over the person naturalised • and, fourthly some provision for the return of expatriat e d persons to their original countm, In the discussion which followed, Mr. MoZELY said the question could not be settled until an international code was agreed upon, but meanwhile some advance might be made. At present the British legislature seemed to go upon no intelligible principle whatever, except that of making es many _persons as possible British subjects. Mr. VERNON HARCOURT said that foreigners had no rights whatever except those which the country in which they were resident chose to give them • they went there of their own will, and must be subject to the laws made there. Any government might, in its discretion, subject to enlistment anyhody within its borders, these so sub jected, if they disliked the law, having she option of leaving the country. The doctrine of locality of crime, in the strictest sense of the word, had na place whatever in general or international law, and any country whatever had a per fect right to say it would try every man within its borders for any crime whatsoever, whether committed there or elsewhere. England and America were the only countries where this doctrine was not held. At present if an Ame rican plotted agalnstthis country, for instance, he wouldbe p un ishable for the o ff ence in his own country, but would be perfectly sale in this count r y a g ainst which he had been conspiring. If an Englishman murdered a foreigner abroad hemight be tried in England for doing so, but if • foreigi et murdered an Englishman abroad NA came to England hs could not be tried. Could anything be more absurd? If we acknowledged the continental doctrine upon this sub ject we should have • sounder basis to proceed upon than the American doctrine of citizenship. Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTET said our present law was fell of absurdity, and illustrated his position by narrating whit took place on the coast of China. Mr. Gervie, Mr. Merriman, Mr. F. Hill, and Dr. Wa I. dilove continued the discussion, which at length turn al upon the deerableness of adjourning the debate. Sir IL PHILLIMOHE said the subject was one of extreme importance at the present time, and would have to be prettied upon the attention of not only the English and American governments, but upon the consideration of all nations. The entire question would require deliber and ample discusaion, for it was to be viewed front a gr_at many position., and would require a great many lights to be thrown upon it before it was satisfactorily settled. The true interpretation of international law was, that when &foreigner entered the dominion of any state be was in all respects amenable to its law. The chief diffi culty arose from an inability to define when a man actu ally left his country. Of course, if an Englishman broke the municipal law of a foreign country, by that Law he must abide ; but the protection of his own government should be thrown over him so far that he should not be placed in • worse position than the citizens of the country in which he might happen to be. He (the chairman) should not like to countenance the doctrine that the moment a citizen left England, the state ceased to have any care over him, or he to have any claim upon the protection of the stat e. All lawyers knew the difficulty there was in settling when residence became domi cile, and that made him think domicile itself would not be a discreet or sufficient test of expatriation, although it might with advantage be used as an element in the matter. Any rule that was proposed must be one upon which there should be mutual agreement. He felt a difficulty in touching upon this question as electing mili tary service, because he was concerned in it during the Ame rican war. Very early the absolute necessity of agreeing to some clearly d e fined rule as to the protection of BIWA subjects in America was forced uptick their attention. It was soon agreed that it could not be demanded as • matter of right by • British subject who had by his acts incor porated himself in America either by domicile, by the purchase of land, by the establishment of manufactories. or still more by the exercise of voting, that he should be regarded as otherwise than au American citizen. It was j ustly regarded that if a per son had settled in America at his own option and for his own convenience, he hail no right to claim the righu of British citizenship when his residence them became inconvenient, especially as the chances were thus he would return as soon as the cause of inconvenience was removed. A line was accordingly drawn, and it was agreed that the option should be given a wan of leaving tho country if he wished to avoid military service. With regard to the interesting question of the competency of a country to punish a crime committed in another country against itself, he was inclined to think that it was a mon strous thing that any technical rule of venue should pre. vent justice being done in this country on a criminal for an offence which was perpetrated here, but the execution of which was concocted in an other country. But he t wo not prepared to say that if a criminal, being a foreigner, was accused of • crime against a third state, the name rule should apply. He did not see why any crime committed against a British subject abroad should not be tried here, instead of action being limited to • crime against the state. It was stretching the law of hospitality too far to afford • foreigner a refuge in the country against hose wellies) he had been conspiring. The debate was adjourned. There are to be sixteen new cardinals in Mora, of whom the most distinguishe.l by name is Monsignors Lucien Enonaparte, grandson of the First Napoleon's milt uncrowned brother. THE MANSION-HOW COLLIERY E x WSW NE FeED.—Yesterday afternoon en adjourned meeting of the Colliery Explosions Fund Committee was held at the Man sion-house, under the presidency of Sir Thomas Gabriel, Mart. There were also present Mr. Bevan, Colonel Stuart Wortley, Mr. Gassiot, it Frederick Lyoett, Sir Sydney Waterlow, and Mr. F. Thompson. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read by Mr. Gibbs, and con firmed, a sum of 1,5001. wee voted in aid of the sufferer , by the Talks colliery explosion, and a sum of 11,697/. for the wagerers by the explosion at the Oaks colliery. In re ference to the latter sum, it may be mentioned that a deputation from the lo alC committee, headed by Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Milton, and other gentlemen, attended at a previous meehng, and explained that the total sum re tidied would be 41,0001. mkt They also stated that the, had received upwards of 29,0001., and the London com mittee now fulfilled their promise to provide the balance. The committee likewise voted 5,000 f. towards the explosion at Ferndale, near Aberdare, in Wales. After paying these sums there remained a balance in hand of about 700.1 f. the , which, in accordance with t he arrangement o n whi c h fund was originally raised, was ordered to be inverted with the view of meeting future contingencies of a similar am tura. The proceedings then terminated. DEATH OF Me. ALDERMAN WHETsioNE, Or LEicwint,—ltir. Alderman Whetstone, the oldest member of the I.dom• corporation, died on Sunday morning. Deemed was the lest of the members of the town council who was elected at the inauguration of municipal reform in this town, and who has continued in active service on that body up to the time of his death. Mr. Whetstone belonged to the whig section of the liberal party, but re had also the °adagios and esteem of the radicals. The union of the liberal party, by which the borough condi. tueominlained its position at the last general election, was y due to his ingueuce and oonmliatory conduct m chairman of the United Liberal ltegistrstion Associa tion. A quarter of a century ago Mr. Whetstone was asked to become a candidate for the representation of the borough, but his unostentatious course of life led him tea.- dine such en honour. Re wm , perhaps, the largest eur. player of labour in this neighbourhood, and was a gentle. man of great commercial experience. Mr. Whetstone may be said to have died in harness. lie addressed mee t ti ng* and canvassed at the late South Leicestershire elecon. end attended to corporation and to his own business up to Christmas. Hie death is felt as a loss to Leicester, and is mach regretted by vest numbers of workpeoPle and of political friends in the county. RETIREMENT OF MR. TRAILL, THU POLICE WAGISTRATE.—At the coacluaion of the business of the Greenwich polies-mart yesterday, Mr. Maude, the pro tlargistrate, w bo spoke with feelings of considerable oddments those present, said :—" I am WIT _to sty that this court will no longer have the benefit of M. Train's services. Ilia present state o f health Ma oda hint feel it right to retire, after 35 Years' beryl" " a believe he is about to send in hie resignation to the govern ment, if be has not already done so. The high respect felt kg him througbout the whole of this disarict so general, and Malmo so great, that I am , ure hi will be me a ly felt. A purer or batter magistrate there never was, *ad I an sure tin public never had a more oces• mistime and faithful servant." In a ddition to the midt tiferiens duties pletaluing to the office of magistrate in • mikepolitin polio' district, it will be r ecollected that Mr. Trull, ea the meant of the Merchant ShlpPiag Aot. la larad o rafilet vain, try the Board of . Trade % the in into the chosuarisoese ett u i n t " 41 1 sad his at go tbe not lease impart.... among whidi was the inquiry into the loss of the ill-fated Meaniship " The Loudon." 1 LAW IN (Ti COURT OF 1 1 111 trallt/Ce I salcKmAx r • This '''''°'°°rtlesilinDC6:r°threigedriltn'atEgastsceileP:d‘llll,ll3t:6".""inshsufgo"bElo:vmrbettmtbeultreshitraltdnceviwulifee.eahkotPutir:ihl::nmaereewdeciiiibc:l6l:olni.ptilin"O:udrornael:hedthemah,revls:iwds:.:::r::‘'' The defendant was ! i e rket. =4 .th! Pi images for inpiries el ladder, leading fi r u m ., At the trial be e verdict was for 04 Mr. H. Chamhere, 4 , 't or • Day trial, at e c ellar were neees• e plaintiff knew that of 11 lighted, na ble care no am b m itted that there p a rt of the defen aga'net the wide ale granted. a nd COU R' (Before the R FIR This was the first d kving been engaged ev. A. B. hi alkonoc i o ccupied with it mlesiastical suits. 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