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SIMI DATLliceniii.sl;:G::::ififfenoce:s l t. 25m. Taitossow—Marign& ft. 400a.....A1waixe. ei. taw LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12. THE Police reports of yesterday contain no lees than four cases of daring personal violence, accom panied with robbery, or attempts at robbery, in which about a dozen ruffians appear to have been concerned. Unfortunately only five of these savage footpads are in custody, the rest being still at large, and free to follow their profession in their chosen walks. It is not very comfort. able to reflect that one of these walks is a crowded thoroughfare in the heart of the metropolis. The case tried at Bow Street—that, too ; in which the hired ((mg r • - seems to have been engaged—was for a brutal as- sault and robbery committed in Holborn on Sun day night. This brings the guerilla bands of garotters far too near the open and central parts of the town that still have a reputation for compa rative safety, to be at all pleasant. These well trained and thoroughly organized foes of society have hitherto for the most part confined their operations to the suburbs, or the less frequented streets in the busier quarters of the town. We used to hear of them chiefly in such comparatively remote districts as Kentish Town, - Notting-hill, \Valworth, and Kennington. But now, emboldened by a career of successful crime, they are advancing their line of operations, and attempting to invade the most open, central, and best protected • thoroughfares. A few days ago a gentleman was knocked down and robbed in Bloomsbury-street early in the evening within sight and hearing of the passers-by. Such audacity of crime was startling enough, and likely, as the sitting magi strate said, " to throw much doubt on the secu- ..!! ;14 of L na d on Streaa even at en early hour in " the evening." But it is even more alarming to find that Holborn is no longer safe from the attacks of these reckless and determined scoundrels. Tie circumstances attending the assault in this great thoroughfare on Sunday evening tend, more over, rather to increase than diminish the alarm it naturally excites. It was actually committed within fifteen yards of a policeman, but so sudden and determined was the assault that the assail ants had seized their victim by the throat, thrust him violently against the shutters of a shop, thrown him on the ground, and robbed him before the officer reached them. A gang of seven or eight ruffians were engaged in the attack, but they all escaped except one known amongst his companions by the ominous nickname of Ihmty— a name no doubt well earned by many a previous act of daring and successful violence. He appears to have been tho ringleader of the gang, and the officer was evidently bent on securing him. The account of the capture and of the behaviour of the prisoner when caught is cha racteristic :—" One of them saw me approaching " and cried out Lammas,' a slang word for "'run.' They scattered and ran off. I pursued " the prisoner, as I had kept my eye on him from " the first. I passed some of the others in order "to pursue him. After a while he dropped into " a walk. Some of the others called out to him, "'Look out, Boney.' But by that time I was " close to him, and I caught hold of him. He " said, It was not me. Why don't you take " some of the others t' I said, Never mind. " You can talk to the gentleman.' The prisoner " said, I know there have been a good many " garotte robberies about, and now you have got " hold of me I suppose I must suffer for it.' " This last remark of the prisoner's is instructive, as showing that the ruffian class keep a sharp eye on the movements of public opinion, and are fully alive to the salutary influence it exerts on the authorities. The prisoner BONZE justly calcu lates that as crimes of violence increase, the penalties against them will be enforced with greater rigour. It is satisfactory, therefore, to find Mr. CORRIE confirming this expecta tion from the bench, and we hope his sea sonable words of warning will be widely circulated amongst those to whom they are addressed : " I wish it to be well known (he says) that most " effectual steps are being taken, if not in all THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1862. " cases to prevent these offences, to apprehend • " those who commit them. It should also be I " known that the offenders are liable to penal ser " vitude for life. It is true that transportation " has been discontinued, but it exists under another " name. Government has power to transport con " victa under sentence of penal servitude." Such authoritative warnings are useful as far as they go, and will no doubt do good. The an nouncetnent that heavy legal penalties are at tached to this class of crimes, and that the vigi lance of the authorities is aroused to secure and bring to justice those who commit them, is pecu liarly welcome at the present moment. But this is by no means enough to reassure the public mind, or to provide effectually for the security of life and property. The heavy penalties affixed to these crimes mnat not only be threatened, but in flicted, and if possible some means should be devised for acting at once and directly on the class mainly concerned in their commission. The prevalent conviction and belief is that these daring burglaries and desperate assaults, in a word, the violent crimes thathave increased so much of late, are to a large extent perpetrated by ticket-of-leave men. In several recent convictions this is proved to have been the case, the culprits being old offenders liberated on leave long before their legal term of imprisonment had expired. But bow far the wholesale charges brought against this class are true it is at present impossible to say. How many of these crimes are actually committed by these men we cannot tell. Yet, singularly enough, this is a point on which the public and the Government might easily obtain the fullest and most accurate information. The very clan to which these violent crimes are traced is precisely the one that is still within the reach and under the control of the authorities. The officers of justice could easily ascertain the actual truth about these men, by reducing to practice the theory of oversight and control on which their licenses are granted. This is in effect the plan which Mr. D. W. HARVEY proposes. From his high official position and ex perience Mr. HARVEY is pre-eminently entitled to speak with authority on this subject, and the plan he suggests appears to ns not only simple and rational, but one likely to prove really effectual and successfuL He allows that many of the out rages recently perpetrated are justly attributable to convicts on tickets of leave, and thinks, there fore, that immediate attention should be given to this great and growing evil. " In aid of this object (he says) I venture to sug gest that all persons to whom tickets of leave " have been granted and are still in force should "be ordered forthwith, by competent authority, " to report themselves at a given quarter, with " their names and residences, and, if need be, to " present themselves ; and that those persons who " do not comply with such order within seven days " should lose the privilege of the tickets, to be " dealt with for disobedience ; and, further, that " those who comply with this order, and give " satisfactory accounts of themselves, should be " placed in communication with the head of police " in the district in which they reside, who should " receive instructions to afford them the " countenance which their conduct may deserve." Such a plan, if adopted, must inevitably act as a direct and powerful check on the evil-disposed amongst this class, and rapidly diminish the crimes traceable to this source. On the other hand, it would, as Mr. HARVEY points out, be a welcome and salutary protection, not only to the public, but to the well-disposed amongst the ticket-of-leave men who are really seeking to gain an honest livelihood. We can only express our hope that 1 suggestion so wise and seasonable will be promptly acted on. • Is v u TATTUIN.. THE INTERNA.Twg.s.L. . The sound of the hammer was as prevalent in all corners of the Exhibition yesterday as it had been during the firat month, when only ticket-holders and persons who could afford fire shillings each were admitted. Packing-vises were to be seen everywhere, and trucks rattled through the nave, which, nevertheless, was well filled with loungers, who listened to Mr. Godfrey's excellent music, and eager purchasers of the various articles exhibited. Trade was, in fact, very brisk everywhere, and would no doubt have been much more so had it not been for the exorbitant prices demanded by the foreign exhibitors for articles the value of which is always easily ascertainable in Burlington or the Lowther Arcades. The French court received yesterday a beautiful addition to its varied contents, iu the shape of an enamelled table of great beauty, and which had been intended to be one of the earliest otnaments of the Exhibition. Having, however, cracked in the fire, the work hail all to be done over again, and it is now only able to nye its distance by making its appearance in the empleuemtal week, It it offered for 8001., and is considered (by the 6E bibitor) to be a great bargain. Mr. Bensm's ease looked rather empty, and many visitors were annoyed at missing from it the collection of antique watches. These had been lent for the soiree of the Cambrian Society, held in honour of the Prince of Wales's birthday, but will to-day be restored to their old positions. The visitors during the remaining few days would take it as a very great favour of the external police, if the latter would do something to prevent the "Arabs" from seizing on every cab that draws up in front of the building. At present they levy toll on every person who wants a cab, and besides have a fight amongst themselves every quarter of an hour touching the appropriation of the victim and the distribution of the booty. The number of visitors yesterday was about 17)000- (FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.) WHITEHALL, Nov. 11.—The Queen has been pleased to grant the office of her Majesty's Solicitor-General for Scotland to George Young. Esq., Advocate, in the room of Edward Francis Maitland, Esq., appointed one of the Lords of Session to Scotland.—Garettn WHITEHALL, Nov. 10.—The Queen has been pleased to grant the place of one of the Lords of Session in Scotland, to Edward Francis Maitland, Esq., her Ma jesty's Solicitor-General for Scotland, in the room of James Ivory, Esq., resigtied.—Gazetts. FOREIGN-0E71(T., Nov. 10.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Georges Livia as Consul at Dublin, and of M. Amaod Honore Leoglet as Consul at Liverpool, for his Majesty the Emperor of the French. CAVTAT EMPTOR. —The Tribunal of Correctional Police, the day before yesterday. tried two brother' named Balme for several acts of swindling, which cocsieted in sel ling worthless plants at high prices. under the pretence that they were ram exotics. It appeared from the evidence that the two accused. who are florists residing at Venom. near Grenoble, last winter opened a shop on the Boulevard dee Caprioles., for the sale of exotic 'brae and plants, which they warranted to produce beautiful flowers, highly finished drawings of which were shown to intending purchaser.. To these pre , tended rarities they gave the moat high -reading names, as Pelpedinm elepbantissimum, Paconia variegate nova superb., Andromeda variegate, he Attracted by these fine names and the beautiful drawings of the flowers, the gar dener of the Printer Mathilde made purchases to the amount of 800 fr. ; M. Molinet, • gentleman residing at Ponteinebleau, for 2,400 fr. ; and many other persons for smaller sums, but all were bitterly disappointed, for the plant,' proved to be utterly worthless. Complaints were accordingly made to the police. and an Investigation was instituted, which resulted in the discovery that the two accused bad practised the same fraud two years before as , Cadiz, and that their campaign in Paris last winter resulted in profits amounting to above 20,000 fr. The offences having been fully proved by sevend witnesses, the tribunal de clared the accused guar. and sentenced each of them to • year's imprisonment and 50fr. floe. be Court. OSBORNE. Nov. 11, The Queen walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Countess of Elgin arrived at Osborne yesterday. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town on Monday night from his seat, Fallodon, Northumberland. Despatches were remised yesterday at the Colonial Offioe from the Governors of the North American provinces, the Mauritius, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 11. The King has had a fall from his horse, and dislocated his arm. His Majesty is proceeding favourably. The American Minister at Madrid bas been instructed by his government to state that the conduct of the captain of the Montgomery was unpardonable; to offer to punish him ; and to give satisfaction to the Spanish government. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA. The King has just give!: the following reply to an address presented to hint by a deputation from Letzlingen I am happy to see around me men of all ranks who par ticipate in my views. We live in difficult times. People will not place confidence in my words ; they seek to cause my intentions to be suspected among the populations of the town and country ; they forget nothing in order thus to mislead public opinion. I shall be faithful to my word, I shall maintain the constitution, but not in the sense that those wish to give it, who attack the throne and the crown, seeking to weaken the royal power which I hold from God. Last year I took the crown from the altar. I received it from God with humility—l wish to wear it with humility, but I am not willing that the royal power should suffer from the attacks of its adver saries. I believed the oreanisation of the army to be necessary in order to render less heavy the charges of the country in critical moments, and, further, to equalise the obligation of military service in time of peace. It is desired to reduce the army, but the country has need of it against external enemies, and against others from whatever quarter they may come. BELCIIIIM. Correspondence from Brussels gives an account of an interview at Laeken between the King of the Belgians and the municipal council of Antwerp, who had come as a deputation to express the views of the inhabitants on the subject of the fortifications. In his reply the King traced the origin of the question, the necessity imposed on Belgium of securing its better defence, and the care which had been taken to render the military services as little burden some as possible. He did not omit the argument by which military expenses are everywhere justified and especially in England. "The grand object of ' national policy," said his Majesty, "ought to be to maintain the neutrality of the country ; but this policy will only obtain the confidence of all our neighbours, when it shall give them the conviction that the country is really strong and in a position to fulfil the obligations which are imposed on it by its political existence." After this speech the King withdrew without making any further remark. The remarks and the manner of the King have produced some emotion in Belgium. The municipal council of Antwerp assembled, and after a very stormy sitting, twenty one of the thirty members of which the council is composed gave in their resignation. The bur gomaster and aldermen continue at their post, but their conduct has not satisfied everybody. At the moment when the burgomaster left the Hotel de Ville, he was received with noisy manifestations. The commission of the military services has an nounced, byplacards, the earlyholding of a meeting, without mentioning the day. The Indipenciance Beige informs us that the ex-councillors protested against the violence of which the burgomaster has been the object. ROME. The brigand Tristany, according to a Turin letter of Nov. 7 in the Patric, has arrived in Rome ; and so far from hiding himself there, he has been openly received by Cardinal Antonelli as a " Lieutenant- General in the armies of his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies," which qualification he claims to hold by virtue of a commission from Francis 11. (azuna's ruzairms.) AMERICA. (Per Kangaroo.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 31, Evansa. The Confederates aro still in force in the imme diate front of the army of the Potomac. General Burnside has moved down along the eastern base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and formed a junc tion with General BigeL It is reported at General M'Clellan's head-quar ters that Gam* DM is QU his way to Pill General Lee in Virginia. President Lincoln has released the citizens of Baltimore who were arrested by General Wool, and has assured the loyal people of Maryland that the affair will be adjusted to their satisfaction. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. Great activity is observable on the part of the Confederates, who are in strong force between Win chester and the Potomac. Large bodies of Confederates are moving without baggage along the Front Royal Road, and others towards Shannonvale Springs and Castleman Ferry. Federal General Stoneman has occupied Leesburg without opposition. The Federals have occupied Charleston, in Western Virginia, and Grand Junction, Missis sippi. The Confederates are in force nine mike from Grand Junction. _ _ _ General Curtis reports that the Confederates have been routed near Fayetteville, Arkansas. Deserters from Richmond report that the steamer Merrimac No, 2 is a complete success. The Southern journals state that Federal General Butler has landed at Pensacola with 7,000 men. It was expected he would advance to the junction of the Mobile, Montgomery, and Pensacola Railroad. The Commercial Advertiser asserts that Nashville is surrounded, and that the inhabitants are nearly starving. The Federal governor of North Carolina has proposed to hold a conference with the Confederate governor of the state to discuss the position of public affairs and the aspect of the war. The further objects of the proposition are not stated. Washington despatches assert that many of the Southern slaveholders are running their slaves through the blockade and selling them in Cuba. The New York municipality has resolved to issue 3,000,000 dollars, paper currency, in amounts under one dollar. Numerous strikes have occurred in different branches of trade, but employers have consented to pay the wages demanded. It has bees found impracticable to serve the writ of habeas corpus at Fort Warren. A large republican meeting has been held in New York. The speakers declared the determination of the republican party to subjugate the South, and endorsed Mr. Lincoln's proclamation. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 31, Emma. Money easy. Gold 291 per cent. premium. Exchange, bankers' bills, 143. Stocks advancing. Now York Centrals, 106 a ; Illinois, 81i ; Erie, 641. Cotton very firm ; middling upland, 61c. to 6l c. Breadstuffs heavy ; flour, lbc., and wheat 2c. lower. Corn, provisions, and molasses steady. Coffee and very firm. sugar MEXICO. NEW YORE, Nov. 1. Advice' received here from Vera Cruz state that the French have strongly fortified all the approaches to Orizabs, and rendered its safe base of opera_ tions. They are also reported to have erected a battery of rifled cannon on the heights leading to El Ingenio, and to have rendered other strong positions impregnable. PORTUGAL LISBON, Nov. IL The Duke de Saldanha has set out for Rome. The government has obtained a great majority in the elections. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE AND RONK (non on ova cosnawnrozwr.) PARIS, TUESDAY Entarow. _ The France, complaining that a false account of M. Dronyn de Lhuys' despatch to Turin has been given by the Italian journal Armenia (which, by the way, is a clerical organ), professes to have received from a correspondent at Turin, " whose position has enabled him to see the document," the following correct analysis of it : M. Drouyn de Lbuys states in his despatch that the French cabinet refrains from all discussion of General Durando's circular because that document, being in opposi tion to the invariable traditions of French policy in Italy, could not possibly servo as the basis of any negotiation. A rapid coup d'reil of the events of 1848 would suffice to show, in strong relief, the incompatibility of General Dunusdo's circular with the policy of France for when the pontifical government was overthrown by an anarchical movement in 1848, France interfered with the object of restoring and sustaining that government, foe redone of a paramount and universal nature. Circum stances required the maintenance of a corps d'arniec in Rome, to insure the safety and independence of the sove reign pontiff. The Sardinian government, then under If. Giobertes ministry, showed itself favourable to that policy, and assented to it. Since that time France has rendered signal services to Piedmont in particular, and to Italy in general, sa the souvenir and benefits of the campaign of 1859 loudly proclaim. But after the conclusion of peace, and when, at Zurich, it became necessary to organise a new state of things, L the Emperor, while giving the most manifest proofs of his sympathy for Italy, never ceased to impress upon the cabinet of Turin that he did not mean to withdraw his protection from the pontifical states, and that he would keep his army at Rome. Shortly afterwards, Italy lost an exalted states man of rare mind and character. France, feeling the mag nitude of this loss for a young nation, which required the guidance of his firm and able hand in the difficult work of organisation, wished to come to its aid, and Italy was officially recognised. But this recognition was accompanied by the formal declaration that nothing was changed in so far as concerned the occupation of Rome. When, by a violent invasion, the Holy See wan deprived of some of its provinces, the French cabinet did not hesitate to blame the act severely, and it broke off diplomatic relations with the cabinet of Turin. The imperial government has, there fore, constantly expressed its firm resolve to preserve Rome from all aggression, and to protect the independence and , sovereignty of the Pope in that capital. Very recently a rash enterprise appeared to threaten the states of the Holy See. Franoswouldnot haveallowed a rebel to violate the pontifical territory ; she would have extended her protecting hand to avert the danger. The Italian government was prudent enough to stay the revolutionary movement of its own ac cord. France applauded this act of vigour. Bat it would be a mistake to supped that by way of rewarding the mo deration and energy of the cabinet of Turin the French government will deviate from its policy sad evacuate Rome. General Duraodo'e circular was evidently the offspring of that mistake. The French cabinet cannot admit that cir cular as a starting point for negotiation. At no period has the French government ever given either Piedmont or Italy any reason to hope that it would sacrifice Rome and the papacy to them. That policy has always been guided by • spirit of conciliation which does not separate the interests of Italy from the rights of the papacy. That conciliatory policy is what France has ever pursued, and to which the minister now makes a fresh appeal. Here the analysis of the correspondent of the France, " who has seen the despatch," most unfor tunately breaks off, and leaves the world absolutely in the dark as to what new bases of negotiation, if any ; M. Drouyu de Llitty: may have proposed to Turin. Low, however, as stands the credit for accuracy and scrupulousness of the journal which lately drew down upon itself a crushing denial from AL Nigro of a no less positive and still more im portant statement than the present one, it is diffi cult to conceive that the France would expose itself to the facile contradiction of a falsified written document ; and I presume, therefore, that the above analysis must be taken to be correct as far as it goes. The tone is painfully patronising and dictatorial to Italy. Asa sample of the value of the private despatches of tho France, it is worth noting that last night it promulgated the exclusive intelligence that General Grivas' proclamation referring to a rising at Vo nitza had been disavowed on Nov. 6 by the provi sional government of Athens. Now it happens that the date of that proclamation was Oct. 17, and the Greek revolution did not occur till the 23rd. The proclamation, therefore, is totally inapplicable to present circumstances. The journals friendly to the Confederate states have singularly little to say to-day about their project of mediation. Two or three words of Lord Pal merston pronounced at the Mansion-house seem to have put au extinguisher on the hopes they enter tained from this day's Cabinet Council. The Bourse has again been extremely heavy. The Rente sustained the further fall of 40c. for cash, and 35c. for account, closing at 70fr. 40c. and 70fr. 55c. Mobilier fell 47fr. 50c., and the Italian Loan Gk. There are rumours of several commercial failures in Italy. The Southern Rail way fell 15fr., Lyons and Orleans 7fr. 50c., and the other lines about 2lr. 50c. The Viceroy of Egypt, when he was in Paris, expressed a desire to have a French theatre in Cairo. The Petrie asserts that the company destined to realise his wish has already left Feria, but I think this news must be premature. Tho journal adds that an Egyptian vessel of war will be sent to Marseilles to convey a bevy of literary men and jounialists, who are invited to be present at the opening night. Among the attractive entertain ments to be given to the gues ts a crocodile hunt is talked of. • Christopoulo, Spiro Milo, Colocotroni, and Potilis, members of the last, or last but one of King Otho's ministries, have arrived at Marseilles as ref ugeea. Tan ALABAMA AOAIN.—The ship Granite State, which arrived at Liverpool from New York yesterday, re ports that about the 33rd ult., in lat. 40.30, long. 56, she saw the Confederate steamer Alabama lying to, hull down to the westward. The Alabama bore down upon her, when the Granite State, which was under single reefs, shook them out and hoisted maintopgaßant. The weather was very squally from N.W. Towards dark the Alabama took in her topsails and lay to under fore and aft sails. During the chase she faired rapidly on the Granite State. A RAILWAY TRAM ON nan.—As. the Midland train due at Kinjes-croes at 3.40 p.m. yesterday emerged , from the tunnel near the arrival platform the luggage on the roof of a central first-class carriage was observed to be in flames. The ex-mayor of Rochdale, his wife. and two children were in the carriage beneath the burning mass, the whole of the luggage on the roof belonging to them ; but, as the train come out of the tunnel at very slow speed sod stopped short of the platform, the party were rescued with out personal injury, though a large amount of valuable property was destroyed. The carriage next to the one on fire narrowly escaped. The fire was quickly extinguished, and Mr. Mills, the Midland wet at King's-wow, imme diately began an investigation of the extent of the lova. The tr velliefs party were en route for Brighton. Mr. Needham, the Midland seperinteodent, was in the train, near the burning carriage, which it is supposed took fin in the tam* I alter leaving the Holloway elation. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT NAPLES. A letter from Naples of the 6th says :—" I have to announce the arrival of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, together with the Prince and Princess of Prussia. Their royal highnesses bad been expected on Monday, but as it blew ► hurricane they did not leave Sicily until the evening, when the weather mimed • little, though the waves still ran high, and white squalls at intervals swept across the sea. The Osborne, which WI accompanied by the Doris, stopped or entering the Bay at the Island of Capri, and the royal party entered the Blue Grotto ; the weather was, however, so unpropitious that many who made the effort were compelled to return. The Prince of Wales did not accept the proffered hospitality of the go. cerement, but remains on board the Osborne. The royal carriages were,' however, in waiting, and the Palace of Capodimonte had been prepared for the reception of the royal party. His royal highness preserves the strictest incognito, and amens himself like a private gentleman, omitting no opportunity, as was the cue during his residence in Rome, of seeing all that is to be seen. On the afternoon of their arrival the Princes took • drive on the Strada Nuys, and the Princess of Prussia I sketched the Bay' from that enchanting spot. Yesterday they went to Sorrento by that beautiful road which, in point of the picturesque, may vie with any road in Europe. The plans which have been visited by the Prince are Palermo, Tunis, Malta, Syracuse, Catania, and Messina. During the early part of the excursion the weather was very beautiful, but towards the end of last week and the begin. ning of this it blew • gale. Now, again it has calmed down, and we have • ant as unruffled as • lake, and are enjoying • perfect summer. This morning the Princes and Princess and their suite are gone to Vesuvius. No day has been fixed for their departure, but the impression is that the Prince will have on Monday for Civita Vecchia and Rome, spending his birthday in Naples. The London, the Doris, and the Magicienne are in port. The Magicienne went out yesterday morning and returned in the evening, and entered the military port not far from the Osborne." CELEBRATION OF THE MAJORITY OF THE PRINCE OP WALES AT BIBMINGRAN.—At *Meeting last week con vened by the then mayor (Mr. Manton), it was suggested that the birthday of the Prince of Wales should be celebrated by a public dinner to some two or three thousand of the poorer inhabitants. The meeting, however. passed a moo ]ration in favour of deferring the demonstration till the ap- proaching marriage. A number of gentlemen, however, thought it desirable to carry out the original suggestion of the mayor, and subscribed the necessary funds for the pur pose, so that about two thousand poor persons were regaled with an excellent dinner of good old English fare—roast beef and plum pudding—in Bingley-hall yesterday ('rues day) afternoon. The braes band of the police force was in attendance, and among the gentlemen present were Mr. W. Scholefield, M.P., and Mr. Charles Stine the newly elected mayor, &c. _ . The members of the Liverpool Corporation have adopted a congratulatory and loyal address on the occasion of the Prince of Wales having attained his majority. The Lord Mayor of Dublin gave a grand enter tainment at the Mansion-house, in celebration of the majority of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on Xonday, Above cm Ix-mired pests were invite.) . 'ft : Oak-room was elegantly and appropriately laid out for the occasion. Amongst the distinguished guests were the Lord Lieutenant, and the Chief Secretary for Ireland. On Monday the ceremony of inaugurating the marble bust of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, executed by Mr. John Steen, took place in the Hall of the High School, Edinburgh, in presence of a large and dis tinguished assemblage. The bust has been presented to the High School by a number of her former alumni, who desire to commemorate the Prince of Wales' visit to Edinburgh in the summer of 1859, and especially the presentation by his Highness of the Carson medal to the succensfal competitor at the High School that year. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow are expected at Challis= House on Saturday next from Brighton, where his excellency and the baroness have been staying for some weeks past The Marquis and Marchionees of Salisbury are entertaining a select party at Hatfield House, Herts. The Earl and Countess of Fife are expected at their residenoe in Grosvenor•place at the latter end of the month, from Lines House, Moray. W The Earl of Shelburne arrived at Lansdowne House yesterday from Bowood. The Marquis of Laaadowoe and the Countess of Shellauno remain at Bowood. --- - The Earl inti Countess ig liaddiugton lave arrived at Wallace's Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Swit zerland. _ . The Earl and Countess of Euston have left Euston Hall for Wakefield Lodge, Stoney Stratford. Mrs. Lane Fox has arrived at Hatfield House, Harts, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchionesa of Salis bury, from Oakley Park, Bedfordshire. Mr. George Cavendish arrived in town a few days since from Paris, and has since left for Compton Place, Eastbourne, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire. Mr. Henry Buabby and Lady Frances North, youngest daughter of the late Earl of Guilford, were yes terday married at St. George's, Hanover-square. The ex-King Louis of Bavaria lately visited the ex-Queen of Naples on passing through Augsburg, when pro cording to Munich. On the front of the house in which Mme. Schneder-Devrient, the grad singer and actress, died at Coburg, there has just been placed a marble slab, on which is inscribed in gilt letters, " Here died Wilhebnine Schrieder-Dewrient on the 2tith Janu►ry, 1860." _ M. Mathieu (de la Drome) has addressed a letter to the Paris journals, in which, after attain to the means now acted on in England for prognosticating storms some hours, sad even a day beforehand, declares that he will, whenever it may be wished, furnish to Franco and to all the countries of Europe the means of foreseeing all atmo spheric phenomena not one day but half • century in ad vance • " • '' The following despatch has been published in the American papers Department of State, Washing too, Oct. 1862.—1 t having recently been discovered that the practice of sending private letters to this department for the purpose of being forwarded to the arc of ministers and consols of the United States abroad has been abused for disloyal purposes, notice is hereby given that no such letters will henceforward be transmitted. All letters to ministers and commis which may hereafter be sent hither to be forwarded must be left open for inspection by the departmeet.—Wailaw B. SzwAan." WELLINGTON COLLEO&—The beautiful chapel de signed by Mr. Gilbert Scott, of which hie Royal Highness I the Prince Consort laid the first stone in July, 1861, is now nearly completed, and will be arced after Christmas. A new library, of spacious dimsnwons, has also been coin- I meeoed ; both them Matins's will be connected with the : collage by an elegant cloister and gateway, and the west wing of Si. south front will be thus completed. Six of the eight statues and above twenty of the busts in breeze 'beady executed have been placed in their niches. These memorials of the personal friends of the peat duke, and of the statesmen and principal officers with whom be sated, I are arranged upon a plan famed by the Priam Consort. ! Of this design the college now pommies a most interesting draught. which has just been presented to it by her Ma jesty. being the original sketch in his royal higknods o wn ndwriting, and with his latest eorrectioes. During the last week, at a confirmation held in the temporary chapel by the Bishop of Oxford, seventy of the boys were confirmed. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Bmwo ha Michaelmas Term.—(Before Lord Chi e f Baron Pollock and Barons Bramwell and Channell.) THE ATTORNET-GLNERAI. r. R1114GT021.-QUISTION UP Sir Y. Kelly said th;toa ---- 1;e1;ail of the crown he had to apply for the directioas of the court in this case, which involved the question whether the crown was entitled to probate duty on the whole vogue of the property at the Smoot the decease of the intestate, or when the letters Ofsitninitration were taken out. 7 ln consequence of II; lapse of time, about 40 years, there was • difference in tho shape of interest to the court of between 30A01. and 40,0001. Upon that, which was the chief point, the court gave a unanimous judgment in favour of the crown, but there was another point rather alluded to than argued upon which no judgment had been pronounced. It was started by Mr. Baron Martin, who had iu regard to it expressed so opinion unfavourable to the crown. The intestate died in 1819, and the person entitled to administration was a lady residing in America. She did not take out administration, being probably not cognisant of her rights, and died in 1825. Her husband, who succeeded to her rights, died in 1830. The claimant was the son of this marriage, who now by his attorney in this country. He made claim, appeased lapse of 40 years, to the property in the hands of the Crown, :thd iu order to substantiate that claim which was ulti. cutely adjudged in his favour by the Court of Chancery,itwas necessary he should take out letters of administration in the name of Elizabeth Cook, who, died in 1825, and also in that of Ellis Cook, the husband, who died„in 1830. By virtue of those two grants payment of the property was allowed, and made, and the crown reclaimed probate duty upon both grants, but the other side contended that it was only ap. plioable to one. The Chief Baron said his impression was that this poict was waived by the crown, and that the officers of the crown said they would be content with single duty. Sir F. Kelly said it was expressly stated at the end of the case that the crown would not concede this second point, and the court had not alluded to it in their judgment. It materially affected the revenue in • great variety of cases which had already arisen and might yet occur, and it was therefore the duty of the adders" of the crown to ask for the judgment of the court. If their lordships thought that the crown was not entitled to repeated duty the law officers were bound to appeal, bat thay considered it would be more respectful to them not to do without asking them whether that was their deliberate opinion. The learned counsel then submitted that the claimant reoeived the money by virtue of two adminia. teatime. Mr. Baron Breniwell—With greateubmission, I deny that is a legal possibility. Sir Kelly said this was not a cue of conflicting ad ministration, but of two suomesive grants of administration, without which the claimant could not have succeeded. It was • case of the rapid evolution of property, and on each evolution the crown was entitled to duty, even if ten hap pened in the year. The Chief Baron said a man was not bound to take his share of an intestate estate, and if he died without doing aoything—probably without knowing anything of his rights, it seemed very odd—not to use a stronger expression—that a claim should be made upon him in respect of that from which he had derived no benefit. The court took time to consider whether they would hoar the point further argued before they pronounced any opinion upon it. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Bofors the Judge Ordinary.) La V. LIE LSD DREW. Dr. Tristram appeared for the petitioner ; Mx. G. Brown for the co-respondent. The parties in this case were married no long ago as the year 1836. They lived together at Bristol for about eleven years, and during that time they had two children. In 1817 there was a quarrel, the particulars of which were not stated. A separation ensued by mutual consent, the fur niture and other effects of the parties being divided amongst them. The respondent went into service, but soon afterwards began to live with the re. respondent. James Drew, of 5, Milk-street, Bristol, pawnbroker, with whom she now cohabited and by whom she had bad an illegitimate family. The petitioner, after the separatioo, left the city and went to Liverpool and other places, where he obtained employment as a railway porter . He had latterly, however, returned to Bristol and had opened a shop as a retail grocer. Haying found that his wife was living in adultery with Drew, sod was keeping a spirit store with him, he had commenced the present suit. The evidence of the identity being defective, The court adjourned the farther bearing of the case. WALLACE r. WALLACL—ANOTHER CLANDESTMNARRIAGL The Quesn'efAdvocate and Dr. Tristram ware for the path timer ; Mr. Serjesnt Ballantins and Mr. Day for the ent re he d petition was for a divorce, on the ground of adultery and cruelty ; but the latter charge had been abandoned. The respondent denied the adultery, and also pleaded con donation. Mrs. Coleman, the widow of a surgeon, said—l am the mother of the petitioner. In October, 1849, 1 was living with her at Romsey. On the 22nd of that mouth she eloped with the resoondeot. I saw her again the same evening. Her bustand brought her home again, but I refused to see him. A few days afterwards he came into my house, but I *refused to see him. On the 11th of the December following he took my daughter away. I maw him on that or the previous day. He took her to Win borne, and afterwards to Lyme Regis and Pisherton, near Salisbury. They separated in May, 1861. The letters produced are in his handwriting. [ln one of these be confessed that he had committed adultery at Wimborne and Lyme, and be offered, if he ware allowed reasonable access to his child, to offer no resistance to the suit. He added, "If you can't prove adultery, I will even tell you who can." Aato support ing his wife, he said that it could only have been spite that had iodated thyme. to ask it of him, as it was well known that he had nothing. He protested that he loved the petitioner as much ss ever mass loved woman, and said that she had kissed him when she left him ; but he insinuated that ha mind had been poisoned by her association with her fervent and other low people. He admitted that he had been to blame, and laid the fault to fast living and beer.] Mr. Wal lace was articled to a solicitor, but he has never followed his pr.:dogleg. His father made him an allowance of 1006 and 1 one of 401. a year. Harriet Hodder deposed to baying had au illicit intimacy with him. The witness said that last Thursday she saw him on the platform at Salisbury, and that he gave her some wine, and bagged her not to my anything against him. Mr. Edward Calvow, superintendent of the police at to lisbury, had known Mr. George Wallace, the respondent, for two years and a ball His habits were very loose. Ile was almost continually drink. Saw bim at Salisbury fig on the 2204 el Weber ? 1861. He was in compeer with a Mr. May and two prostitutes. When he caught sightof sigmas, he walked aw. Believed that he had men him in company with Ruth Worth on the 16th of November last Believed her to be a prostitute. Sergeant If 'Gough, of the Salisbury police, gave similar evidence. Mary Ayles, of Binoombe, Dorset, said that io Nov, 1861, she was servant at the Somerset Hotel, Weymouth. On the 9th of that mouth the respondent brought Ruth Worth to the house, and stayed there with her two nights. Mr. George Ford, landlord of the Somerset, corroborated the last 'Atoms. Mr. Serjeaot Ballantine said that as the charge of cmikl was withdrawn, he could not further contest the case There was therefore a decree of judicial separation, sad the court directed the child to remain in the custody of the petitioner till further orders. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.; Ef ix GODDAND.—JUDGMMiT. The bankrupt was • Custom-house agent, of V peer TI au( a- Amt., and recently applied for his order of discharge. His Honour now vivo judgment. He maid the banimipt had been in business for a considerable period—about lo yea:s— and bad carried it on with success, making about 600 i. year. He must have been in goad repute an • merchant , because the opposing creditor, Mr. Lloyd, said be ha a high opinion of him, and wished to enter US° partnership with him. The bankrupt, not want to let well alone, fell into the mistake of trying to increase his capital, with • view to butt more buskins He admitted to Mr. Lloyd that hs was not solvent, but he had understated the Unmet of he debts. Lloyd, who was agent to some marble mires* appeared to have sought the bankrupt oat sad formed partnership with him. He advanced first 1001. and after• wards urger sums ; and he sow estimated that be ha last 4001. or 5001.—the bankrupt, of course. stating that it was much less. Mr. Lloyd charged the bankrupt with contracting this debt without probable exprotobo of being able to pay it. The court did not think thug ear so. The bankrupt bad been in business 18 years. rside , g considerable iIICOOIe ; and such • man could not lin mid to have contracted debts without expectation of bete ; Able 1, pay them. l'hs assistance of Yr. Lloyd might well lod him to expect that bia profits would be sidarably increased, and that be should bare &bow dant mesas to repay Mr. Lloyd, who hoee d about the man, and bad the fullest 000fidi on II him. It would be straining the act too far to bold thst such • man had improperly cootnoted debts and it Wu gt be regretted that in coossquence of the Lord Chancellor.; decision in " Mew and Thorne." restricting the rov er the court to certain specified offences, there was a (outwit! at e " the P art d 'Wooing crediton to to tug owe within one or other of the defined offences. here there was no protean for saying that the bankrupt was or" t° any of those charges, end he would rece ive as immol ate order d discharge. re 11Z Warr AID 1.010. of This was the adjourned examination s itting in the ca"' Phillip Butler Watt and Oliver Long, of 'B r oken -wh tt Upper Thames-et:vet, shipping merc h a nts. Loon ho SOODad ; Watt has filed a balanosa beet, showing """acm— _7,s debts of 8,8771., with assets el about 2401. Further debt, of 7,0811. are socured _by property valued at 11,5 TY. Mr. Graham, the °Mad • repotted that the,,lebei Whom contracted in 1861 1862. The bautrupttl .r•••f,. weal expeaditere had begs 1801. a year for the hot N i;