The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-17 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the past year the National Lifeboat Institntion, by its life boat and other means, contributed to the saving of TOT persons trom different wrecks on our coasts. The institution also ex pended F 01,374 in the same period on its lifeboat establishments. In addition to granting £3,950 fir rewards for sartug life and exercising the lifeboats. The colossuses et the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for AS3I.STANCE, to enable them to meet the continued Leavy demands on the Institution's 1:4 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London an.' Country Bankers : sad by the demetary, Richard Lewis, Psi., at the In stitution, 14, Johitntreet, Adolph', Lsodon. JOHN RHOGDEN. i n ANIMAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, IL, ii, RENll.lll7l4lllUirr. OEIVIIIT-GLILMIN. JOHN 1111,0GDINS GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDRIPS GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDIN'a G OLD ALB.MaT CHAINS. JOHN BROGDENI GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. MESSRS. WATHRRSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewellers. EATS Ready for Inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Designs, suitable for WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS. 12. Pall-mail Bask S.W. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Gentlemen. —Remember, we wait for you at "EVANS," attar the Corentitanien Pantomime. end the Theatrea eke .rin*,oo. _ILLYMAICULT.. Tats Ihrmann, BROTHER SAM. Mesars. Sothern, Bock done, and Compton: Misses Nelly Moore, Snowdon, dc ORPHEUS IN THE HAY MAB.KIT. Messrs Yemen & D. Fisher ; Misses Keeley, Howard ,t Wright.—MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. PERiCESTS. THH Immo, QtrlNTlo66ll4o9.—After which IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO KIND. Deem Vhiing. G. Melville, T. Mad, D. Dump, b. Callum, F. Villiers, J. O. Shore, G. Mur ray, and E. Ciaihneri: Manes L. Moon and K. Rodgers. LIMZUM. TIM ErtairO, THE ILLUSTRIOUS snuoroza. Mr. H. Widdicomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mecum Pechter. lord in, Vain. Emery, Widdicomb, Fitzpatrick, Evans; Mesdames Taman, %Acworth), Lavaca, C. Locieroq. aßrrarrmi: THIS MINIM, OLD DAtifilitaiiCizes AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS; OR, THE RACE FOR THZ GOLDEN APPLES.— M. and Mdme. Stertzenbsch.--Slemor Bevank—Olmar.-Bhower of Golden Bain.—And JESSIE, Tali MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tin DAT Month& 2b. Afternoon, 2h. •"_es. To-BORROW -• Morning, 36. la.....ADernooo, 3n. win. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17. Arm a sitting of nine days, during which the leading counsel on both sides prayed for a respite to recruit their exhausted strength, the tedious and loathsome case of HILL v. Finney has been brought to a close. If the only question determined at the trial had been the character of Captain Hitt or the conduct of his wife, there would be no need to say anything on the subject. But the cue involved other and more important questions. The action was brought by Captain HILL against his attorney, Mr. FINNEY, on the ground of negligence, and the extent of an attorney's liability was therefore directly involved. Besides which, the conduct of the jury has been so extraordinary, that they can scarcely be surprised if they are stigmatised as wanting in principle or in common sense. More than five years ago Mrs. HILL had brought I • suit for judicial separation from her husband, Captain HILL, on the ground of cruelty. To this the Captain replied that his wife had been guilty of adultery. In this state of matters Captain HILL, instead of attempting to defend himself, consented to a decree of separation, which he hoped might not necessitate the production of any evidence. In this the Captain was mistaken. The evidence was required by the Judge of the Divorce Court ; and so scandalous did it turn out to be, that Captain HILL, when he returned to India, found himself disgraced in the eyes of the world, and even threatened with the loss of hie commission. Such being the concl:tion of things, Captain HILL determined, if possible, to re-establish his character. The manner in which he proposed to do so was to bring an action against Mr. FINNEY, the attorney who had acted for him in the suit before Sir C answ ELL CRESSWEV " Who," said the Capta;i, "is responsible for " the disasters which have befallen me f It "is you, Mr. FINNEY. And how ? You told "me that if I would consent to the de cree for a judicial separation from my " wife no evidence would be taken, and that " a decree might be obtained without, at " all events, eliciting any facts which could " affect my character as an officer and a gentle " man. Acting upon this idea! did give my con " sent, and then went abroad. But I " find that yeti were mistaken. Evidence was " called for and was produced, and that at a time " when I was absent, and could not produce evi " dente to contradict it. The result was that that " evidence went unchallenged, and that my chi " rector is well nigh ruined." To all this Mr. FINNEY replied : " In the first place, I never gave " you the advice alleged. I never told you that " the audge would not call for any evidence. " But, in the second place, I told you that if " evidence were produced by your wife in support " of her petition, it was impossible for you to get " into the witness-box and deny that evidence, " and I added that, if you insisted upon doing so, " I should withdraw altogether from the cue. I " could be no piny to your committing perjury." Such were the questions which were debated be fore the Loin CHIEF JUSTIcE and a special jury during nine days. It would serve no useful pur pose to attempt to weigh the conflicting state ments on either side, and to attempt to determine whether the Captain or his wife has been guilty of perjury, or has committed the various crimes which each laid to the charge of the other. Bat it was admitted by both sides that, so far as Mr. FINNEY was concerned, he acted in the most per fect good faith, and that if he made a mistake in law, it was with the desire of doing the beat for his client. But, as the CHIEF JUSTICE said, good intentions cannot discharge an attorney from liability, and therefore it was necessary for the jury to determine whether Cap taM HILL had a good defence to his wife's peti tion, and whether he lost the benefit of that de fence by the bad advice of Mr. FINNEY. There seems to have been no doubt in the mind of the Judge how the verdict ought to go, and there was probably no doubt in the minds of those who heard the case. At first the jury declared that Captain HILL could not have proved the charge of adultery against his wife, and that Mr. FINNEY did not give such advice as that alleged by Captain H Lt. Whether the advice was good or bad, it seems clear that Mr. FINNEY could not be responsible. If Cap tain HILL's character was ruined in consequence of the evidence produced before Sir CRE.ssWELL CRESS WELL, it was ro fault of Mr. FINNEY. He had never told the Captain that if he consented to the decree. of separation no evidence against his cha racter would be produced, but as the negligence im puted was the giving of this opinion, and asking Cap tain HELL to act upon it, it seems impossible to deny that Mr. FINNEY was entitled to a verdict. Not so thought the jury. They seem to have thought that the character of Captain HELL was of more value than justice to a respectable atter nay. They could not understand that the simple issue before them was whether the attorey had been guilty of the negligence alleged, aad that they bad nothing to do with Captain Hua'a pro spects, or providing him with "a new start in life." In vain the CHIEF Juwrics solemnly adjured them to adhere to the verdict which, after several hours' consideration, "they had deliberately " adopted and deliberately returned." After a very few minutes' delay the very same men who had just returned a verdict for the defendant re turned the verdict for the plaintiff. One moment they found that Mr. FINNEY had not given negli gent advice ; another moment they found that Mr. FINNEY had given negligent advice. And as if to crown their inconsistency, they gave Captain a farthing damages. They said, We wish to give you a new start in life, and therefore we reckon the loss which your character has sustained at the sum of one farthing.' It will be curious to ascer tain how the War-office and the Captain's brother officers regard the moral vindication of a man whose character and proper place in society are assessed at a farthing. If this trial had taken place in Ireland the proverbial explanation would have been at hand; but as the scene was at Guildhall it is more probable that after a nine days' sitting, and with the prospect of being shut up for the night, the majority of sensible jury men permitted themselves to be overruled by an obstinate minority. The days of the Stoics are past, and if judges and suitors desire reasonable verdicts they must adopt the Scotch system, and allow the majority on a jury to dictate the verdict. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) alma resist Prussia, Lad the aid gi Francs on width she UPI 110 rely, would wet her mita more than the dl egrace mina may attach to another sale ef liberated brothel; The Targraidi pictures the Prussian King as sot* in the hands of Bismarck, whose contempt for the ruler of the ' Prussian people, it thinks, ie greater, probably, then that of anybody out of Prussia. The speech on Monday is a careful and prolonged insult to the deputies who maintain the myth that Prussia is a constitutional kingdom. Still, a trivial incident may upset a large design ; the tactics of the Prime Minister at this moment are too bold fur any one to pull the strings but himself ; and not only is Bis marck not immortal, but Austria in her tern is coquetting cleverly with France and Frankfort, and throwing for a splendid stake at Pesth. : t i"Z WEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. Count do Becdelievre, having offered his services in the Papal army, received the subjoined from the Pontifical Minister of Arnie : Rome, Jan. 4. Monsieur le Comte,—The Holy Father, to whom I pre sented your offer of service has received it with great favour. His Holiness has charged me to let yen know how sensible he is of the devotedness of which the step you have taken is a certain proof. Unfortunately the actual state of the Paps , army does not allow of any augmentation in the number of its officers, as no new regiment is to be formed, and as the old ones are sufficiently provided—l may even say over charged—with officers reedy for service, and only waiting for the moment to resume their duty. There is, however, a very useful way of serving this cause which you have already personally and so nobly defended. We have need of finding in France devoted men ready to place them selves at the mortice of the Holy Father. Yon, sir, more than any other, are in a position to send us sure and tried men capable of hemming good moldiest. Repeating the expression of my thanks, I am, Sce., Kamm The Italian journals recently announced that the religious corporations of Italy had applied to the Emperor Napoleon soliciting his intervention in their favour with the government of Florence. • The Unita Gait°nut publishes a reply from the Chevalier Nigra, Minister of Italy in Paris, sent to the Prioress of an Italian convent, and thus worded : I have the honour to inform you that the Secretary of the Emperor of the French has just returned me the peti- tion which you have addressed to his sovereign. The said official desires me to note particularly that the Empero r Napoleon cannot sande to your request in a question which the government of our own august sovereign is alone com petent to settle. (1111:1113e8 TZLZGRA.IOI.) THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. MADRID, Jui. 16, Official intelligence announces that the insurgents under Prim forced the Guadiana, near Villanueva Serena, yesterday evening at six o'clock, and arrived at ( Villanueva at seven o'clock. They left that place at eight o'clock, marching hastily towards the Portuguese frontier. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY ETENIXG, JANUARY 17, 1866. MURDER IN PADDINGTON. LNQUEST.-(THIS DAY.) This morning Dr. Lankeater, and a local jury, resented an investigation of the circumstances attending the death of Grans Ringwood, who was stabbed in the neck with a knife, while drinking at • beerhouse, by hex husband, George Ringwood, on the night of Tues day, the 9th instant. The inquest was held at the Hall Arms, Old Ohureh-street, Paddingtini geeen, and the accused, • respectable looking man, wearing moustache, was present during the inquiry, having been brought from the House of Detention, under the authority of au order from the Home Secretary. Mr. Wilding, soli citor, attended on his behalf, and at his request the evi deuce taken at the previous sitting giving an account of the scene at the beershop was read. The deceased and amused had been drinking at the Greyhound in Green-street, Pad diogton, and quarrelled over the accused talking of his work of • sub-contractor. In his exasperation Ringwood stabbed his wife with a table knife, and she died almost immediately afterwards. Anne Jima, the landlady of the beer•house, was re called and cross-examines!. She repeated that up to the occurrence the deceased and &Caused were on good term', joining in • song together, and it wan her opinion that until the blow was struck the sactwed could hare hal no idea of injuring his wife. Taking up the knife was an instantaneous act, done on the spur of the moment. Louis bilarckt, a lodger in the beer-honse, confirmed the landlady that the deceased bad been very much given to Brick, while the accused wee a sober industrious man. He also witnessed the quarrel, and saw the deceased throw a shwa bottle at her husband before the latter gave the fatal stab. She applied vile epithets to tie accused, and he was dreadfully exasperated when he took up the knife in the heat of his passion. It appeared to the witness that the act of taking up the knife and giving the blow was done in self-defence. Inspector Steer, of the X division ' deposed that he was called into the beerhouse after the deceased was stabbed. The accused said he had inflicted the injury in a moment of passion, and begged him for God's sake to go for a doctor. lie appeared to be greatly distressed at what had occurred, and witness seeing at a glance the real state of the case hurried off for a doctor. At a previous hour the same evening be had seen both the man and the woman. The man was quite sober and appeared greatly elated, as he understood, on account of • favourable contract which he had obtained, but the woman was very much the worse for drink. He had known the accused for some time as a steady, sober, and industrious man. Tao medical gentlemen who, in conjunction, had made • post mortom examination of the deceased, described the nature of the wound in the neck, which, in their opinion, wee of such a nature as to account for immediate death. The liver of the deceased was, however, in an unhealthy state, and presented all the appearances which usually accompany that organ in a person who is addicted to habits of intemperance. Mr. Wilding, the legal adviser of the accused, said he did not think it his duty to produce any evidence at this stage, bat he should like to offer some testimony as to the general character of the deceased and her drunken habits. George PouWon. 28, New Chureh-street, plumber, spoke to the character of the accused an being always good. Several other witnesses were examined and gave similar evidence, especially as to the sober habits of the accused, and his kindness to his wife and family. Impactor Steers, X division, said that the deceased bad been charged four times with drunkenneu, and asaaulta ow two occasions, her husband bailing her out. The Coroner summed up, and the jury remarked that the accused had acted under great provocation. The jury, after ten minutes deliberation, returned a ver dict of " Manslaughter " against the accused, stating their opinion that the blow was struck in a moment of passion, and ender great provocation. SHOCAINO ACCIDENT. TWO MEN KILLED. Yesterday an inquest was held at Brad way, Derby shire, on the bodies of two men, named William Wakefield Kettle, tunnel miser, aged 25, sod Samuel Jones, journey man bricklayer, aged 42, who died on Sunday last, from injuries received on the previous day. The de c eased men were employed sinking a shaft for the tunnel which is to be on the Chesterfield and Sheffield Railway, now in course of construction. On Saturday they were at work bricking the abaft at • depth of 100; feet from the surface, when, without any warning, a pick fell down the shaft, and struck both the deceased men on the head with such vio lence that blood and brains mingled were bespattered around. The jury closely inquired into the cause of the neglect by which the pick fell ddwn the shaft, but could not elicit any information beyond the suggest:on that Kettle had left it in the way of the " lorry," which is used at the top of the pit to wheel bricks, &c., to the shaft. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." On the same day another inquest was held at l' ye Bridge, near Chesterfield, on view of the body of a Idid6ed Rail way guard named William Dolmas, aged 24, who was killed under shocking circumstances. The deceased was engaged shunting a luggage train at the Ridding* siding., and attempted to jump on to a truck whilst the train was in motion. He fell between the buffers, with his neck across the line and his body in the sisloot, and before he could recover himself the whole train passed over him, severing his bead from his body. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. The Bishop of Oxford, writing to the Rural Dean of Caddeadon, says :—" 1 am decidedly opposed to any attempt at legislation concerning the ritual of the church of England. Any such legislation must, I conceive, fix a new and definite limit to matter left at present much at large. lam not prepared to limit on say side our present liberty ; nothing short of greet, immediate, and wide-spread evil would, in my judgment, justify any such attempt. But, while 1 my this, I rejoice to think that no complaints have reached me of startling changes in our ordinary rituals from any part of our own diocese. I entirely disap prove such changes being introduced when their introduc tion shocks the feelings of the lay members of our church. I reet my advice purposely on the ground of charitable consideration for others." Osnonitr, JAN. 12.—This day had audience of her Majesty, the Count de Lannoy, on • special mission from the King of the Belgians, to deliver letters from his Sovereign. announcing the death of the late King, and his own accession ; and Monsieur Van de Weyer, to deliver his new credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary from the Kling of the Belgians ; to which audiences they were respectively introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affair..—Grw.dh. THE PRINCE OF WALLS'. BIRTHDAY IN SOUTH ArSTRALIA.—The birthday of his Royal Highness the Ps:ace of Wales, England's future King, is a favourite one in South Australia, It comes at • pleasant season of the year, just as the spring is melting into summer. The weather, as a rule, is not too hot for enjoyment ; the flowers have not all passed aw►y. The country, though beginning to look rather brow, and burnt up, still retains some refreshing green spots, fall of beauty. The Priories birthday this year has been no exception to these of former yearn. The weather was everything that could be desired, except that it was rather too hot. Some pleasure -seekers spent the day in boating and fishing, some in wandering by the sea-shore, breathing the invigorating breezes, small as they were, which swept across the ocean. Our German fellow-colonists, as usual, threw their whole souls into their lite, which went off most successfully. Alto gather, we believe, the day was thoroughly enjoyed, aotwithetanding the beat, which was felt about noon and in the early part of the afternoon. Indeed it would be streoge if in a land like this, where the climate is so fine, sad the scenery all around so beautiful, the people could not manage to make • holiday. Let them have • little money in their perkets and a considerable amount of cheer. fulness in their hearts, and a fine day overhead, and they will manage to get a large amount of enjoyment out of it. Strangers often remark, during their first year's residence in the colony, that we have an unusual number of holidays compared with the mother country. We do not know that this ought tobe matter of complaint. When they do work the people Isere work hard, sod the climate, it is admitted, is somewhat exhausting. An occasional holiday, therefore, while it makes nobody the poorer, comes in very oppor tunely and acceptably. There are not many "dull boys" amongst us, and one reason for this may be the fact that we play as well as work. Happily, the amusement, and enjoyments of Thursday passed away without any acci dents. The Pleasure-waken, we hope, were both "me ►nd wise." We believe, from all we heard, that with perhaps • few exceptions John Barleycorn was kept in his proper place, which is not always easy to do on holiday occ-uions. Happily, holidays, like other things, corns to an end, and this morning we return to the active duties of life, none the worse for having for • few hours thrown care ■nd business to the winds.—Sout4 Australian Register, Nov. 27, 1865. DEATH OF DR. DAUGLISH.—We regret to an. seance the death, on Sunday last, at Great Malvern, of Dr. Dsuglish, whose name is identified with the manufacture of aerated bread. Dr. Daugliati bad for some years been in failing health, and his death is understood to have been accelerated by the labour of perfecting his most meat in•.. provements. SENDING THREATENING LETTERS. SOIDe time since the Rev. James Edgar was inducted as the minister of Dunbog, in Fifeehire, by the General Assembly, in opposition to some loc.l popular feeling on the question, Soon attar commencing his ministrations he received several scurrilous andlprotane anoeymoos letters, filled with threats. A farmer, named John Ballingall, at the same time received several similarl► threateniag communiesiioas. Considerable excitement was created by the offence, and a farmer named John Bell was arrested and charged with the crime. He called as • witness for some point of his define, a girl named Elizabeth Edmiston. who to the surprise of everyone in court suddenly confessed that she bad written the letters in question. Bell was "equated, and the rah deponent subsequently arrested on the charge. On Monday eke was brought before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, and was sentonoed to five yearn' penal servitude. I TEE REFORM DEPUTIOnON TO EARL RUSSELL. Tile A due tiser thinks the hearts of members on both sides of the hones will leap with joy to hear from Earl Russell's own lips that, is the event of his reform bill being rejected by the house, the ministry will resign, instead of dissolving parliament. A more powerful motive to mem bers to reject the ministerial measure of reform could not be imagined. No dissolution if the bill be rejected ; a certain dissolution, required by constitutional considerations, if the measure be carried. With such alternatives before the house it will indeed be passing strange if the measure be not thrown out. The Telegraph discards as babble the recent talk about a 201. franchise for counties and an 8/. franchise for boroughs. Even with a 61. for boroughs we should miss one element in a genuine extension ; for we know not where the artisan is to end • 61. bons, in the metropolis, nor how the working class of London is to be .effeutaally reached without some qualification of the simpler suffrage, that would admit lodgers or paat•holders of a tenement. The ideal Reform Bill, however, would be that which all Liberals should unite to pass, after full end frank discussion. Some approach to this we may hope to obtain from the debates in parliament ; but nothing would so surely defeat the purposes which re formers have in view es a dogged insistence upon minor points. Meanwhile it is well to have from the lips of the Liberal leader the deci s ive and final proclamation that the government will introduce a Reform Bill, and stand or fall by the result. The Star has heard that the argumentative ability, the eloquence, and at the same time the mederation of the working men who waited yesterday upon Earl Itnasell were such as might have dune credit to any body of practised and edacatel debaters, and amply deserved the compliment which was paid by the noble lord. Apart altogether from considerations of immediate political interest, the Star cannot help regardieg such an event as one full of the hap piest augury for the future of this country. It seems to the Star quite certain that if the government only intro , duces a bill which really merits popular support—though it may be but an instalment of political rights—its triumpheut mamas CU be easy. JAMAICA SUILIECTS. Sharply and clearly defining the limits within which the suspension of law is permissible, and coming with autho rity open to no cavil, the legal Opinion, observes the Daily !Vial, procured by the Jamaica Committee, brings a sense of relief to those who have watched the dreary details from the colony with sickening heart. It will be for Governor Eyre to prove, after this definition of martial law, that real necessity compelled the transport of Gordon to a proclaimed district, and th►t the investigation of three subalterns was the nearest approach to the administration of justice that was then available. The broad principles laid down suffice to show that the rules of law emphatically forbid a criminal to be transferred to the locality in which his alleged offence was committed, if there is no legal court which can try him, but only a state of anarchy in which no judicial proceedings can be had. Pointing out in what way it deals with the question,—how far local legislation may have inter fered with the fundamental doctrines of English constitu tional law,—the Daily Next observes that this luminous opinion will satisfy the public that the reign of arbitrary will in any part of the possessions of England can endure only while actual rebellion or war continues; that our courts have power and precedent to enable them to repress with firm hand whosoever would extend the violence of a state of wit beyond the limits of most absolute necessity, and to decree such punishment as shall stand for a new warning of the inviolable sanctity of orr common rights of freedom. The Post finds it impossible to affirm from the detached fragments of Mr. Cardwell's despatch to Governor Eyre, whether the zeal of the colonial authorities did or did not secure the approbation of the home government, but the , fact that the despatch was not given to the Jamaica Legit. lature in its entirety would seem to raise a presumption that such was not the case. As to the statement of the governor that the home authorities would not hesitate to remodel the existing constitution, it would be interesting to inquire at what time and under what circumstances this intimation was given. If Mr. Eyre received these confiden tial instructions several months ago, it would tend to show that the Colonial-office has for some time past been made aware of the precarious tenure on which the white population have held their lives and property in Jamaica ; or, on the other hand, if the wishes of the home government were only expressed on the receipt of intelligence of the late disturbances, one is driven to the conclusion that a panic must ►ave taken place in the Colonial-office simul taneously with that which is supposed to have seized upon the colonists. THE PRIISSIA'N CHAMBERS. The procedure of the King of Prussia io settling for him self the number of soldiers to be maintained is, observes the Daily News, very unconstitutional ; but for the sake of an aggressive foreign policy the nation is ready to make large sacrifices of freedom. On the position of the Prussian government in the Elbe Duchies Count Bismarck and his muter speak out with intelligible frankness. Various princes have claimed the privilege of rating the poor Sleseig-Holsteiners, and many pretensions are still in debate ; bat the Kiog of Prussia takes the matter oat of the hands of the jurists, and holding one of the Duchies with an army, will insist that his claim shall be admitted. It seems that nothing is wanting to the success of his policy—but appearances are sometimes deceitful. The strength of the position taken up by the Prussian government is thought by the Post to consist in the fact that the policy of a territorial aggnandiaement present" something that is really tangible, and that the Prussians are content to bear with domestic wrongs provided the government will minister to the passion for acquisition. They are playing a dangerous game in purposing to enter upon the full enjoyment of parliamentary government after they have compassed land and sea to enlarge their borders. Other powers may stop them ; and given that Prussia is permitted to satisfy her ambition, it is doubtful whether the enlarged state would be a constitutional one. The Hensld expects that the chamber will be got rid of ea soon as some passiooate debate or strong resolution offers a pretext. The house will be asked for form's sake to rote the requisite sums, but be given distinctly to under. stand that the government does not care whether they vote or refuse them. To the great bulk of the nation the acquisition of Sles wig and Holstein is an object much dearer than the displacement of Count von Ktemuck,'and on this head the King speaks quite to the satis faction of his covetous subjects, effectually dispelling the last hopes that may huger in the heart of the Augustexburg pretender. Austria is not in a position to THE PRICE OF MEAT. The Timer comments on the remarkable fact shown by the return from the Metropolitan Cattle Market yesterday, that the plague which is paralysing the whole agricultural int.' rest has no effect upon the supply of meat, and that though the foreign importations are considerably less than last year, the supply of home-bred cattle has innreued, and this though the cattle plague is now destroying every week double the number of animals requ'red for the consumption of London. Yet our butchers' bills are increasing, even while the wholesale price of prime beef is de cidedly lower than it was in 1865 and 1864, and mut ton is about the same price. What excuse can be offered by the retail butchers but that the prices were raised in a panic, and the butchers are not disposed to lower them. It will be difficult to acquit them of deliberate impo sition if they continue the present charges. Clearly, we may console ourselves, in any alterations it may be desirable to make in the course of trade in meat, they have no claim upon our consideration. It is to be hoped the government will at last pluck up courage enough to compel cattle to be slaughtered on the farms where they were reared or at the porta where they are landed. There is no reason why a resolution, recommended by every consideration, should be delayed out of regard to a particular trade. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. The Timer condemns the French intervention in Mexico as altogether • mistake, and as • trouble which must harass the Emperor Napoleon's reflective hours. At home and abroad people are constantly dinning it into his ears. The American government pursue him with remonstrances, and it is well undentood that Id. Fould and the economic section of the imperial cabinet are as per severing as the liberals in their hostility to the *steep:is', while the very ultramontanes have with drawn their countenance from the Mexican empire. For the mistake he has made there is nothing whatever to compensate him. Were he to withdraw his support, it is meet probable that the Emperor Maximilian would soon return to Europe. and the Emperor Napoleon would have to acknowledge that • scheme upon which he had lavished thousands of French lives and millions of French money had ignominiously failed, and that the French arms h►d been compelled to recoil from before a contemptible enemy. It is a painful dilemma. Entertaining much doubt es to the regularity of Captain Wake's proceedings which led to the loss of the Bulldog, the Timu nevertheless considers his fault, if it be one, is so entirely on the right aide, that few of his countrymen oil join in the "severe reprimand" which the court fast tial has felt it its duty to administer. The courage which he showed in encountering, with • sloop of six guns, so many ships and batteries, of which the collective force must have greatly overmatched his own armament, and the humanity which led him to save the crew of the Voldrogue in his own boats when he WAI himself in • position of the utmost difficulty, are worthy of the best days of our navy. He erred, indeed, as a diplomatist, but he more than repaired his error in his proper capacity of a naval officer. The Daily News thinks that in some respects the Fenian conspiracy offers fewer ground, of apprehension for Ireland than the orange organisation. The latter is of hom e growth ; it has its room deep in the soil. The former le an exotic ; it is the result of the most gigantic effort made by the leaders of the viler portion of the democratic party in the United States to inflame and trade in the Irish hatred of England. Fenianiam is, in its main opting, essentially an agrarian movement. So far as it is not a mere trading speculation on the part of the men who conduct it, it is an organisation on a large scale, and for all Ireland, of those outrages against which, as the deeds of individuals, the Preservation of Peace Act was designed. There is some appropriateness, therefore, in the employ• ment of the measure for its repression. But the motives appealed to prove what are the desires felt ; and even from Fenianiam a• argument may be constructed in favour of the revision, in the interest alike of owner and occupier, of the land system of Ireland. The Daily News maintsios that Sir Charles Darling is blamed by some writers here for not doing that which the mother country itself would certainly not have attempted. Is it oontended that any English government would be prepa•ed to impose the will of the Upper House of Victoria upon the colonists against the pro. tests of the Assembly ° If Sir Charles Darling had dismissed his mioisters, as his critics here tell him he should have done, while they had a large majority in the Assembly, be would have done his utmost to commit the crown on the side of the council and against the coun try. The result would have been either that he would have been recalled and his policy disavowed, or we should have adopted his measures only to have found out after a short time that ws had not the power to sustain him. Sir Charles Darling has well understood the public opinion of England. The Post attaches importunes to the reverses which the Spanish arms are reputed to have sustained in Chilian waters. It takes a long time to send out reicforesment•, and distance and clrenmstouseas rodeo. Spain to something ' like an equality with her enemy. Moreover, nothing cam ' mends real practical sympathy so much as "nooses, and some of the South American and even North American states may soon begin to sympathise with Chili in a very practical way indeed. sbe court. OSBORNE. JAN. 16. Her Majesty drove ont yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, aocompanied by Princess Helens, Princess Leiningen, and Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe. Lord Alfred Paget attended on horseback. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. His Excellency the Belgian Minister, accompanied by the Count de Lannoy, had an interview with Earl Russell, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street, yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•oflice from the Governors of Newfoundland and Heligoland Despatch.' were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, and Vancouver's Island. The marriage of the Princess Helena will, we understand, take place on the 9th of June, according to present arrangements. The bridesmaids will be two daughters of dukes, namely, Lady Caroline Cordon Len nox (daughter of the Duke of Richmond) and Lady Mar garet Scott (daughter of the Duke of Racetench) ; two daughters of marquises—Lady Alberta Hamilton (daughter of the Marquis of Abercore) and Lady Laura Phipps (daughter of the Marquis of Normanby) ; two daughters of earls—Lady Muriel Campbell (daughter of the Earl of Cawdor) and Lady Fanny Fitz willbim (daughter of Earl Fitzwilliam) ; two sisters of earls—Lady Alexandrine Mur ray (sister of the Earl of Dunmore) and Lady Ernestine Edgecumbe (dater of the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe). The Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home Piumee, arrived at Sandringham House yesterday afternoon. on a visit to her Royal Higlinem the Princess of Wales. The Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday evening •n • visit to General Hall at Weston Colville, near Newmarket, where his royal highness will meet the Prime of Wales and a select party for shooting. His Serene Higlinees Prince Christian of Slew wig-Holstein, attended by Caant Raatzan, arrived in England yesterday, on a visit to her Maj sty at Osborne, where it is expected the PtiON will remain chute( the pre sent month. ITALY. NAPLES, Jmr. IG. The Municipal Council has sanctioned the Gabriolle contract fur the building of additional streets round Naples. THE MAURITIUS AND REUNION MAILS. MARSEILLES, JAN. 16. The Messageries Impdriales steamer Peluse arrived here this afternoon with the above mails. THE BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, Dac. 23. (Per the Estramadure, vii Liabon.) Exchange on London, 23i to 24. Coffee good, first, 6.900 to 7.100. Shipment& since the departure of the last steamer, 42,400 bags, including 22,000 for the Channel and North of Europe. Stock, 130,000 bags. Freight, 375. 6d. GALLANT SERVICES. Almost every account which reaches us from the coast of the frightful storms and wrecks of the last few days, has also the narrative of some acts of heroism on the part of the crew of the lifeboats, of coast guardsmen or of other seafaring volunteers. We have already printed many of these details. Off Lowestoft on Saturday morning, an Austrian brig drove on to the east end of the Holm Sends, the moat exposed part of the shoal, where she lay exposed to the violence of a very severe gale from the south and west, ►nd the fury of a fearfully heavy sea. The Lowestoft lifeboat m►de an attempt to get to her, and saw 12 men clinging to the ship, but were oompelled to return to the harbour. She put out again with the assistance of the Lowestoft tug the Rainbow, and found only the bare stern of a vessel out of the breakers on which the crew were clinging. In the face of the greatest danger the lifeboat made for the wreck, only just in time to save thous who were mercifully washed in the direction of the boat. A wave swept every man from his grasp, and eight out of twelve men alone were rescued. The lifeboat then bra►ely fought her way out of the surf and ap proached the Rainbow to be taken in tow, the news being shouted of seven being saved. The crew mustered twelve, including the pilot, who was hauled into the boat in an insensible condition, and died before they reached the bar bour. The remaining four men were seen to go down. On land, the poor men were at once taken to the Sailors'Home, where they received attention. At Kiogsgate, neer Margate, after an ineffeatu al attempt afew eveniopago of the Lifeboat to get to the Onward, which had been cast ashore, the coastguard galley, manned by the coastguard and some of the lifeboat crew, put out and suc ceeded, after being once beaten back, in reaching the schooner, and sav:ng her captain and crew of four men. At 10 o'clock the same night the schooner Harriet was driven oa to the rocks at Walpole Point, near Kinpgate station, and the coastguard galley was again launched, John Lynch, chief boatman, with a pert of the lifeboat's crew, volan tearing to make the attempt to reach the ship, which they happily succeeded in doing, after one abortive effort, and brought off the captain and crew of three men. The coastguard, with the assistance of some of the M►rg►te boatmen, have since succeeded in saving the entire cargoes of both vessels, and bringing the schooners themselves into Margate harbour. Earl Russell has arranged to leave Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, to-monowr, accompanied by the countess and family, for the family reirideace in Chatham. place, for the mason. _ _ _ The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was present on Monday evening at the annual distribution of prizes to the successful students of the Dublin Industrial Museum at the examinations for the year 18(.5. Sir Robert Base having delivered an interesting lecture upon the various products produced by the distillation of coal, distributed the prices. He stated that the Museum of Irish Industry had not only maintained its position sa a place of education during she past year, but that there was a greater number of students, and also a more active competition. His Excel• lency delivered a brief speech, in the course of which he intimated that arrangements were in progress for placing the institution on a still firmer, more satisfactory, and wider buis. On the sth all Rome crowded to bear the "Stabat Mater Speciosa," the Christmas hymo of Jacopo di Tadi, which the research of Frederic 07.411101 brought to light among the MSS. of the Bibliotheque de Paris, and which the Abbe Liszt has just set to music. It was performed by a magnificent choir, and done ample justice to, bat was considered rather heavy and monotonous. We regret to learn that at Rome, on the 9th inst., the eminent eculptor, Mr. John Gibson, was struck with paralysis of the right side. On being taken to his house be had two other attacks. For some time his health bad been (ailing, and in the beginning of the summer he Lad several fainting fits. In July end August he went to Switzerland with his friend Penult Williams, lingering • short time at Leghorn, and he appeared to have derived benefit from the change ; but the promise of restoration to health was delusive. Though he retained the full use of his senses he was not expected to live many days. He is in his 76th year. "On the 6th inst ," writes the Madrid corre spondent of the Times, "I met is the Calle del Arsenal ft grand state carriage draws by six hones highly ca• arisoned, and ♦ocompanied by a number of ruining footmen in gor geous livery, preceded and followed by a glittering escort. That coach conveyed to the most excellent Dawager Duchess de Hijar, Mistress of the Robes of the Most Holy Virgin of Atoolis, the dress which, accord's' to custom, her Majesty sends as a present to the said Most Holy Vir. gla on the °e motion of her entrance into the ninth mooth of her pregnancy. It was a magoiaceot gown of moire antique, row-coloured, trimmed with magnificent blonds, and tufts of green feathers and marabouts. Likewise a green court mantle of sea•green moire antique, also trimmed with blonde and tufts of green and rose feathers and man. head. While she is so liberal to the miraculous image, the Queen herself humbly and devoutly puts on Bee Pears dale's sast•off chemises." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) _ o ___ COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCP,, (Before the Judge Ordinery,) COOKE V. COME. Mr. Staveley Hill iippeareci titioner a tri. e k s sought the restitutiou of her conjugal rights. The raspoudent, a tradesman. at Gateshead, had mi l her in 1839, and the cohabitation had larded till seven children having been born in the interval. 21 1 . 4 was then a separation on account, as was alleg e d, d a . respondent's cruelty ; and he agreed to all ow the mill; 175 f. a year. After becoming bankrupt he discontented*, payment of this sum ; but it was stated that thoegk circumstances bed improved he had refused to cunt** &DT thing to his wife's support. The court made as order as prayed. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION -HOUSE. CMABOZ OF =arm VW, Thomas Edwin CrONJ, aged 18, was this morning h ie * before the Lord Mayor, on remand, charged with e s h i , ruing various sums of money amounting in the aggr eg u it nearly 2001., belonging to his employers, Messrs. Bal i * and Co., wholesale groom Monument-yard. The prisoner was styli shly dressed, and it was ei e w that although he was s• young be had entered pretty fo r into the fashionable follies of the day, and was v ery far he. "slow" in his habit.. He had formed NI acquaithax with a young woman whom he was keeping in the nei g i,. bourhood of the Tottenham-court-road, and the e a ft who apprehended him, stated that be had recently chased for her more than 100 f. worth of jewellery, ge ti s had expended 701. upon himself is one sum fora gold natlt and chain, and a locket, which contained the liken uesi o himself and his Inamorata. The prisoner bad boss e► minded, in order that the case might be completed avid him. _ Mr. Ingle, a solicitor, who wan instructed to me m * now,however,stated to the Lord Mayor that the prosemp ag% taking into consideration that the prisoner had been this years in their service, and that he had er a . dueled himself well down to the period whet * I offence wee &mewled, and that they believed k s had given way to some sudden temptation, w in desirous not to proceed with the prosecution. The pri m was very respectably connected, and had been well b ra t up, and with the bops that what bad now taken ph. would be a warning to him for the rest of his life, W i l l i on remount of his parents, the prosecutors were anxious, give the prisoner another chance. The Lord Mayor said that the evidence sided r I • prisoner was almost complete, and he coat! DOW¢ observing that when such • proceeding as the prelude. proposed to be taken, it placed the magistrate is a se, difficult position. It was almost like asking than is 4 parties to compounding • felony. Mr. Ingle assured the Lord Mayor that the Tomei were actuated by no other feeling than a desire set h destroy the prospects in life of the prisoner, who go very young sod might retrieve his position. The Lord Mayor said he should take time for collides Cori and be remanded the prisoner for another week. BOW STREET. • sTLNGE STORY. Marlin Brown, alias BranAack, who described herd as an engineer, and who has been for the last three wells foreman at as extensive iswisg machine [notary, vu bre* up in custody of Taylor, owe of the warrant officered fin court, os • charge of *Malaita • quantity of gee Itlina to the value of 201., from Mr. Hulett, of 55, Holbses. It appeared that the prisoner and another penes Nth custody were joint tenants of cottage at Dorking, matideg only two small rooms, and had also chambers in Sonthwaks street, London-bridge, where they carry on what they " Malaise" wider the style or firm of the " Anglo-Ms Machinery Company." While the prisoner wee in his legitimate business (which it is in discharged with efficiency and skill), the diamins were left in charge of a clerk. During his leisure ham the prisoner combined healthy exercise with commercial seta prise by driving about town in a well-appoisted "Me and attended by a groom, giving extensive orders for gcoi to be forwarded in some cases to the offices of the " ear pony," and in others to him "country-house" at Dort*, The gas fitting in question were ordered fa the fitting up of the "country house, " ud were forwarded thither. It had since been disornal that the prisoner's fellow tenant there had sent the goods back to the " company's" offices where the prises.r re ceived them, and sold them. The expensive furniture of the offices bad been obtained from a neighbouring MA* man who, of course, had not been paid. Numerous et tempts—sometimes s uccessful, sometimes defeated—hod been made to plunder other tradespeople, amongst other Mr. Dean, the well-known ironmonger, had been (mond with an 'order for 3001. worth of goods and the prisms obtained one claiscuttle which was sent as a sample. But Mr. Dean did not chows to mind the bulk withal inquiry, and the result of that inquiry induced the Wee time that one coalscuttle was quite enough to lose, It seems that the house at Dorking serves another purge besides that of • residence, as when references were is. quired, the prisoner gave the name and address of the joist occupant, who on Min written to invariably replied by the highest commendation of Mr. Brown and the " Anglo-Baltic Machinery Company." In short, the prisoner, while bold* • respectable satiation, was at the same time carrying Oslo extensive system of swindling. He was remanded. MARYLEBONE. CAUTION TO HOTEL KEErF:RS. The following letter was handed to the reporter be Mansfield : IlOirir•tt's Hotel, Manchester-street, Manehesievelom Jan. 16. 1866.—T0 the sitting Magistrate of Malkin. Police-court. "Sir,—About three weak, ago • person calling himself Signor ' Donato' drove up to my hotel. Until Friday it be occupied one of my beat apartments, feasted es dI daintiest viands, drank my rarest wines, and smoke:lig choicest cigars, but on that eventful day (Friday he departed, big and baggage, without giving,. notice or leaving • single shilling. Al I Wins him to be an old practitioner, I think it would bs s public service if you would kindly band this to de reporters of the pre., whom I have no doubt will pabbi it for the benefit of my numerous fellow-tradesmen.—Yee respectfully, CHARLES HOWLETT." The description given of "Signor "is : height, 5 fist inches ; fair complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, and sod/ whiskers, with • alight moustache. Had on • Mack. and won a gold watch and chain. He won a ring es big little finger of the right hand. WANDSWORTH. A CONVICT'S CONFESSION.—EXTRAORDINARY CdiL Edward Morrie, a painter, was re...trammed is 11 . charge of bong concerned with John Skew, who wr sentenced to seven years' penal servitude in the Dasodat sessions of the Central Criminal Court, with commits( a burglary at Tudor Lodge, Wimbledon-Gomm" It residence of Mr. Francis Martin, on the night of the 9th d October last, and stealing therefrom plate of the vas of 601. The ease excited considerable interest on accost 0 1 it being known that the convict would be brought hest Newgate prison and examined ea a witness. The wit was also invested with peculiar interest on most of Shaw's evidence during his examination before it magistrate, where he cross.examined the several wits... with considerable ingenuity to show his inoocence, he persisted in until after he was convicted, and thee confessed to having concealed a portion of the plate intlt' Martin's shrubbery. It will be recollected that MO ooustable King proved seeing Shaw on the morning 01 Wi t burglary proceeding towards London carrying two beadiest ooe under each arm, and then he ‘.-as followed by Mori. who also carried a bundle. The convict was now brought into the court in the priel dress, and his legs sod arms securely chained. He glad that he was induced to join in the burglary by the prison( on amount of his threats. He met him by appoiettnen outside the Putney railway station, and be had a black b 4 l containing a jemmy, knife, file, and a piece of cord. TW went into Mr. Martin's summer-house, where this remained until 12 o'clock. Witness then insole a observation of Cho promisee, and sew that all tke family had gone to bed. The prisoner cut It pantry window with a glazier's diamond, and loosened It iron bars with a piece of rope and a stick. The Ono, went inside, where he remained for a couple of hours , ol° witness kept watch outside. The prisoner gave him Vie bag without the "tools," and witness put some artaclasi plate in it. The remainder of the plate the prisoner wisigel up in a white cloth, and left the premises first. Witte however, concealed the bag of plate io the shrubbery. the hope that it would be found by Mr. Martin's served& The witness further said that the prisoner took early workmen's train, at the Clapham station. WI Ludgace.hill ; that he promised to meet him, but did le keep his appointment. Mr. Dayman—Did you meet anyone while going to Clapham station. Witness—We did per the constable King. I said re_ morning to him, as I thought that was the best thing to o° to take off suspicion. The wiener was thee cross-examined by Mr. Briar" who defended, and he stated that be had every ream to W offended with the prisoner. If he had acted as • mu W him this would not have occurred. He had been pelbg tic addresses to Mr. Martin's housekeeper. He had been allow the premises. He knew that the plate was PO i i t,..a tbi pantry because Morris (the prisoner) had _,, him to look out for it. Wanton had taken wine in "" pantry and in the drawing room too. Witness had 10S viously been in prison far eighteen months for taking 0 ,,,r n watch and chain that did not belong to him. were met by the co stable wittiest* was carrying two bear: containing his own great coat in a cloth, and another Ow wrapped nix A wooed ease was gone into of shoaling jeweils/ 1 1 1 other articles from the house of Mr. C. Hammertly, of w' Lowodes-square on the 28th of September last. Itappeared that the two men were working on the _P. mice, at the time. sad according es the convict's Ow . anent the prisioseroommitted.las robbery, while he new" He also said that the prisoner gave him a dumb LONDO The half-y kaki at half•; lALO'IONS, M. The followin "The direct rig.= for all Ix, setting ape Ind preaeatiog tie establia Elmo' arno 22.6051. 9. in half ut of this am e rate of 5 p dded to such he directors i It the rate c of further d of 14 per o iro hese pay men !Is 44. which 0,000/. towarc ifilclioge of th i fit and la ten who 1 Joseph Ella giblsfor re•ele "latioe-se for Paid•up cal on deposits, cis demand (this I ld.) 19,2 938,219,4 ; to Joe*, 1865, half-year. 182, (jr. : By mover bonds, 2,489,41 Somers, and °CI k haod, 1,677, " Profit and eight establisi tionery, Aux, of the eatable/I towards thet added to res at five per ascot of the 111 x Per met. paid•up capita ftarteat per sat apart a et the buildio led lose a we Cr.: By Wane 9s. 11 paying the inn, Sod doubtful 16s : lid. R.e;t or $ 1 6,706/. Sc— ant!, 1865, 4:3• Er annum, 8 , . d bonus (.1, the beak) The CHAIRII bed accounts, the book had Who deposits o led nineteen which had ja el the last ye Pear, n ame l y After some Praasedings to Yesterday ie 'Pedal c angsteen, Sin either At the at :eformatory, s st, sines throne:vas be doing won,. ii . E nd : priso a rwy o ulesi _ ouri l an u t pa t :as l in, rt od : ad o t iligi l h f u:ig e r th 3 i tt o ivilli f or e senethae s. ta m kaws t h i tri lh ni=o l i m b t e lii i i . • district, an ex t./ l aded still wear . ion water Gme mired a a ndA Staines iu 5 .1 hedges ia khtb Ba il h nc r e u i 1 .t wae found it is at the p Vellingkon's fu water round . extended to 1 .n being Pot . . BANK t he half-year . at noon, at'tl chair. he report and The directors , . statement I 'bow, 1865, eb 498 f. 45. 4d. log full provt . wing for rebel there remain e directors i 1 , per coat. I share, am ' . um, free of in led to reserve 11d. The din .lotions to be i • oral meetings, r this (trainer, 1 ' act a division ` , shares of 201 °assent oft i 1 share capital 1 , us will be paj "Liabilities al , . .ital paid up 2s. ; to amour . , amounts km account I I go customers ; 411,4981. 4s. Or.: By Jumbo ' . Beads, to., 227, / '. Threadneedle-stn ' ' 00001. •by free' bank, 35,0001.• , , bons, Ise., 3,9 8 1 ' ! all, 820,4961. 18 " Profit and 1 D o c, 30. 1865. i l et bead office an, $ ▪ debts, directors' Debate of inform „ I he profit and low ' der the half•y4 ; annum, 20,0001 ger annum, or '. i serried to reser ' fie. 4d. Cr.: B; l• •,4J$l. 4s. 41. ; " Reserve Fu °' Is. lld. Cr. E ' h. 21.; by addit 3 Ir. lid." ' The CasrwmL accounts, auur ed satiate, I s d ' tio u n c ones bt uo a 1 • cabled to mai a mit of the 1 bich was s 6 er that c a •vidend was at any proprietc .t mind &moan ' e directors, I s vantsgeous, 1 tiring the last a rd, and they c the meeting, 1 A PROPRI rn I 0871. to the early large et After some d n, the repor the usual ms , An extraord, elution puss dorsi t low