The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-08 00:00:00

r LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the present year the National Lifeboat I iirtitution has eciatributed to the llRVilift of lei lives from various shipwrecks sad %, vessels from destruction. The I ortitution air. expended ati•tde Ii the mine period on itr Lifelamt ablirhiticiitx, In addition to granting .t•Lor.l for awards The eonimittee of the Institution earnestly appeal to the r 1. 11 ,10• for :Aratalaihe to enable them to inert the continue.' heavy demands on their 103 Lifeboat Katablidiments. Contributims mil be thatikhally received by the London and country bankers, and by the secretary, kiehant Lewis, KN., at the Institution, li. John-street, Adelplii. London. PLANTS and NU —Mr. STEVENS' SALES of DI . TCII BULK , . Fruit Trees Roan. awl hardy Anal.* will take place every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY, and tre nuetqty on Monday. at the Auction.names ns king Area ~ Coveut-garden, Londuu.—Catalogues on atn,lieaties. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, (Managing Director, Mr. P. 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Lane—Awl WILD CHARLIE. HIGH WATER AT LONDON FRIDGE. Tow DAT —Sl4na6ti, 110. 13 m......Alternonn, lilt. 41w. To - WOUWW—Hongolt. Ob. 0n..--Allorßoon, tilt. tim. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. Is the Workhouse Infirmary Association de funct, or only dormant ? If the latter, we should be glad to knew how much stimulus is needed to restore its suspended animation. Sufferings, oversight, neglect, and mismanagement are proved to be as rife as when this Association started into life and obtained subscriptions from the public in order to tight the battle of the sick poor. What is there in the nature of the revelation• now , 1 before us to make them less heartrending than those to which the Association owed its origin t The epileptic wretch who was choked in a cess pool a few months since stands out with GI/380N and DALY as a representative case of criminal neglect ; and the details of Farnham Workhouse, which are taken quietly as proved, show horrors as revolting as any quoted at the famous meeting at Willis's Rooms. What then is the Workhouse In firmary Association about 1 We hear of proposals to revive it, but the truth is no revival should be necessary, and the self-complacency with which its members congratulated each other upon the passing of Mr. HARDY'• Metropolitan Poor Bill and have folded their collective hand ever since, forms almost as bitter • satire upon amateur philanthropy as the discoveries made in our workhouses do upon parochial guardians and official safeguards. The fact of a government measure being full of promise should not have satisfied men resolute upon relieving us of a grave national stigma ; and to throw down arms and cheerily vaunt a victory directly an outpost is secured, is not the way in which great battles have been won. It is due to the public, that the gentlemen forming the Association should take action now ; if not afford an explanation of the strange supineness which has made an appeal of this kind necessnij. When peers and prelates, philanthropists and statesmen unite tcgether and publicly pledge themselves to compass a par ticular end, it is unseemly that they should merely march up the hill and down again. We shall of course be told that when the Metro politan Poor Bill became law the Association had fulfilled its purpose, and that however strongly present discoveries may call for its interference, at the time of its last meeting, many months ago, all seemed bright and fair, and congratulations to the prime movers, and gratitude to the Poor-law Board were only right and proper. The answer to this is to be found in the serious allegations math) against the working of Mr. HARDY'S Bill by men who are warmly and independently interested in our metropolitan poor ; and in the different read ings taken of its requirements by thorn whole function is to expound it. The Association would have done well to watch performance as well as applaud promise ; and it is difficult to be lieve but that if the warm-hearted interest and concer trated energy which marked its early pro ceedings had been continued, sufficient anomalies and hardships would have been brought to light and proved to justify more public meetings and further deputations to Whitehall. For, having once constituted itself and been re cognised as the embodiment of public opinion upon Poor-law reform, the silence of the Associa tion is more than a passive wrong upon the pauper. It implies approval rather than quiescence. " Surely," men say, "it is all put right now. " There mere a great many abuses of course, " until those benevolent noblemen and gentlemen " started upon their crusade ; but if they who " have made the subject their study, and who " have given time, labour, and means to it, are " satisfied, there cannot be any very serious " abuses left." This is the perfectly reasonable view taken of the matter by those who are anxious that paupers should be properly treated, and who believe that men of leisure and influence having devoted themselves to the Task and pro claimed their success, the end is secured. THE Manchester trials for murder have come suddenly to an end. On Wednesday the second batch of prisoners, nix in number, were acquitted, and yesterday the ArroasEv-OzwattaL withdrew the charge against the remaining prisoners, and returned to town. Al there is no reason to regard this break down of the trials an a frustration of justice—for the cause of the prosecution did not fail upon any technical point, but for want of evidence of guilt --there in nothing in it to cause regret Four of the priwmers were discharged yesterday. The others remain in custody to be tried, not for felony, for the ATTOKNICY4IttNIMA L has ahandoned that charge also, but for misdemeanour and rioting. THE It appears that the jury on Wednesday did not believe that the prisoners were present at the murder, and yesterday the prosecuting counsel gave as his reason for withdrawing from the charge against the other prisoners that the ATI`ORNEY GENERAL, did not think the evidence of his wit nesses such as he ought to rely on. The course taken was thus the only one proper under the cir cumstances. The remaining proceedings thus lose all their importance for any but those imme diately concerned. OUR CONTEMPORARI It.S. (THIS DAY.) THE ROMAN QUESTION. Reviewing the great events in Italy, the Timm , assumes them to prove the backwardness of the Italian people to work out their own salvation. Their only chance now of obtaining the consent of France to ► permanent settlement of the Roman question is through Victor Emmanuel ; and if the French troops withdraw to Civita Vecchia, which public opinion throughout Europe demands, there will be no obstacle to friendly negotiation. The last few weeks have rendered an early solution of the Roman question almost essential to the peace of Europe, and the Times thinks once more that in such a question the great catholic powers ought to have a voice. It is not difficult to foresee what must be the ultimate fate of the Pope's temporal power. The vested rights of P.us IX. may be respected, but, unless we strangely misread the signs of our times, no future successor of St. Peter sk:' , ever wield an ear thly sceptre. Though the Emperor's intervention has triumphed over every obstacle, and no power in Italy can withstand his will, yet the most devoted of his courtiers, the Dili , y News says, has not the courage to tell him he is the stronger for it in France or in Europe. The French ultramontanes for whose sake be has broken the slight remaining bonds which connected bin, with liberal France despise him for the work, and are not going to accept any half service. The Pope is likely to be confirmed by what has occurred in his belief in the sir tue of unyielding obstinacy ; and even if France, which has broken the September convention, could aak the Italian government to renew it, that government could not com ply. The Italians have just seen their countiimen slaughtered within sight of Rome by foreign troops, and in support of the temporal power, and their government may not on peril of its existence enter into ►r.angcments with France for the perpetuation of the pretended tight under which such things can be done. It is of the utmost importance just now that the Italians should sot with patience and temper, and, above all, remain united. Let Italy be only true to herself, and she need renounce none of her hopes. To-day she suffers a foreign inter vention. To-morrow great powers may be asking for her help. Her opportunity is sure to come if she will only wait for it. In that day it will be of immense advantage to her not to be trammelled with gratuitously assumed engagements. The Pont thinks it might be possible to establish the papal sovereignty on the left bank of the Tiber, with indisputable security and a suitable maintenance. RI'INIA AND GREECE. The Herald does not attach much importance to Russia's protest on behalf of the Cretans, snd represents that power, together with France, as retiring with dignity from the field. England and Austria proclaim by their silence and abstinence that they have considered it impolitic and impertinent to intervene openly in the domestic affairs of an independent state. There is not, perhaps, after all, any great difference of opinion among these Christian powers. The Star assumes that the declaration already issued will be followed up by other and more precise demands. The Turkish government will probably be " recommendrd" or " invited" to yield up Crete, and allow her to be annexed to the Greece whose sovereign is now allied, by more bonds than one, to the reigning house of Russia. And then begins, like the breaking of the ice on the Neva, the grand delxide of the Turkish Empire. Turkey hu had her day— and made base and cruel use of it. Humanity, freedom, civilisation will alike have reason to rejoice whenever the hour of her fall is sounded. NISCILLANCOUS TOPICS. The Times thinks nothing could be more to the purpose than Lord Derby's reply to the memorial of " The Imperial Grand Council of the Loyal Orange Order," praying for a repeal of the Party Processions Act. If the Irish Roman catholic' continue these barbarous processions, why Can not the protestant' of Ireland look on such orgies pre cisely as they would on • war-dance performed by half. naked 'swages, tattoed and decorated with the scalps and teeth of their vanquished foes! Why can't they feel a certain satisfaction in beholding people whom they believe to be utterly in the wrong condemn themselves by excesses of this outrageous and ridiculous character? Will they really pretend to say that Popery has acquired a single convert by this grotesque mode of conversion? The tribute lately paid in Paris to the memory of Daniel Manin leads the Daily Neers to review the relations of France to Rome since the republic of 1848. The arrests at the cemetery show how the consequence of an expedition against the liberty of the Romans has its rebound and counterpart in Paris. A Frenchman in the year 1867 may be arrested without warrant, kept in prison without trial, and, after • long solitary detention, discharged without remedy or redress, except such as he may hope to obtain by permission of the Council of State to prosecute. Per sonal liberty under the Second Empire is where it was in England on the eve of the great rebellion. The labours of the special commission at Manchester are treated of by several of our contemporaries. The Post thinks it not improbable that a commutation of the capital sentence will take place in the case of Maguire. With regard to the rest it would be prem►ture to anticipate the course which will be taken by the government, but the public may rest assured that if the authorities can see a way of tem pering justice with mercy they will do so. With every allowance to the confusion and excitement incident to the outrage, the Telegraph thinks it clear that some of the witnesses have spoken positively and recklessly where they ought to have used the language of doubt and caution. The second verdict will be gladly accepted by the public ; since it proves that the Manchester jurymen are not biassed by indiscriminate prejudice, or blinded by • passionate desire for vengeance. Equally satisfactory will be the discharge of several prisoners and the with drawal of the indictments for murder against the rest. Maguire's conviction the Telegraph now thinks to be erroneous. The Star insists that the doubts which vitiate the evi dence for the prosecution to such an extent that in the ease of all the latter prisoners no felony charge ain be urged against them, should weigh ►lso in the instance of those first tried, with the exception of Allen. It would be a cruel want of logic to hang one set of won on evidence which was barely thought sufficient to support a charge of riot against another set of men. The Earl of Carnarvon presided last night at the annual meeting of the Leeds Church Institn,e, and in his address reviewed the present position of the church of England, commenting upon the dangers both from within and without which beset it, and advocating a policy of moderation both to those within and to those without her communion. Mr. Thompson, M.P., was also present. Unfortunately, however, the bon. gentleman had only spoken a few minutes whenhe was compelled to leave the ball on account of indisposition. The Town Council of Sunderland has, by a majo rity of 27 against 25, refuse.' to pay the cost of the revol yen and ammunition recently sent down by tbe government upon certain representations from the mayor, for the use of the local police force. Among those who spoke against payment was Mr. Candlish, M.P.—an alderman of the borough—who affirmed thet there was not a trace of Fenian ism in the town. He denounced the arming of the police as an unconstitutional proceeding, and declared that " he felt towarla the scheme such an intensity of abborrenoe that be could hardly give expression to his sentiments on the subject." It is understood that Mr. Brett, M.P., will sue succeed the late Mr. James aa Attorney-General for the County Palatine o' Lancaater. Mr. Acheson lienderson has been appointed to the crows preeeentorehip for Antrim, vacant by the death of Mr.Sbegee. The Railway Commissioners were on Wednesday cmocared is the inopeetion of the Wicklow line in the neighbourhood of Shanganagh. EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 7. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Wales, drove out this morning. Princess Louise went out walking, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. The Prince of Wales and Prince Christian, attended by Major-General F. H. Seymour and Major Grey, went out shooting this morning. Lord Begot and Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey had the hocour of accompanying their royal highnesses. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Hentiette dined with the Queen yesterday. Sir Stafford Northcote, Secretary of State for India, arrived at the Castle this afternoon. Judge ManockjeeCursetjee, of Bombay, also arrived, and was presented to her Majesty by Sir Stafford Northcote on his departure for India. The Marchioness of Ely and Lord Begot were in attendance. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Susan Melville and Lieutenant-Colonel George Gordon, drove to Hampton Wick to-day, and were present at the marriage of Miss Emily Maude (daughter of Colonel Maude, C. 8.) and Mr. Baird. Their royal highnesses afterwards honoured Colonel and Mrs. Maude with their company at the wedding breakfast. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marl borough, the Earl of Malniesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Norilicote, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and the Earl of Mayo. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. A. G. Robinson, M. Von Thal, jun., A. Alexander, and Giblett, had an interview with the Lord President and the Vice-President of the Council, at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, upon the enbje, t of the importation of foreign cattle. A deputation, consisting of the Rev. James Cohen, M.A., rector of Whitechapel ; Rev. Thomas Soon, MA., chap lain of London Hospital ; Mr. Godfrey Harris, Mr. James Blackburn, Mr. Henry Lashbrook, and Mr. George Stout, had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, as the Home-office, yesterday. A deputation of merchants, bankers, and others resident or being interested in the colony of Natal, introduced by Mr. Gilpin, M.P., and consisting of Mr. George Mechem', Mr. Richard Harrison, Mr. Septimus Maitland, Mr. A. Mowbray, M.D., Mr. Philip Blyth, Mr. George Ledgett, and Mr. F. S. Angier, had an interview with the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, et the Colonial-office, on Wed nesday. Deputations from the guardians of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, consisting of Colonel Hogg,ILP., Dr. Brewer (vice-chairman), and Mr. Chappell (clerk); and from the guardians of the Hackney Union, consisting of Mr. W. Turner (chairman), Mr. W. Norris, Mr. T. N. Kebbell, and Mr. Stanton, had an interview with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board. yesterday. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Coloniaboffice to the Governor of the Mauritius and to the Governor. General of Canada. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the con. etitution of the courts of law and equity held their first meeting at 6, A.delphi.terrace, on the 6th inst. Present— Lord Cairns (chairman), Sir William Erie, Vice• Chan• cellor Wood, Sir James Wilde, Mr. Baron Bramwell, Mr. Justice Smith, Sir }Wendell Palmer, M.P., Mr. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. G. W. Hunt, M.P., Mr. Qusin, Q.C., Mr. Rothery, Mr. Hollows, Mr. W. G. Bataan, and Mr. Brad shaw, the secretory. A deputation from the vestry of St. Msrylebone, con sisting of Mr. Carr, Mr. Tyler, Mr. T►vener, and Mr. Field, accompanied by Mr. W. E. Greenwell, vestry clerk, and Mr. T. G. Browning, surveyor, bad an inter view with Lord John Manners, M.P., at her Majesty's Office of Works, &c., yesterday, upon the subject of the improvements in Oxford-street by the Marble-arch. THE PRINCESS or WALES.—Yesterday after noon her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, ac companied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, drove through Windsor and Eton in an open pony-phaeton drawn by a beautiful pair of iron greys, much to the grati fication of the inhabitants. Her Royal Highness, although looking delicate, appeared in excellent spirits. The Prin. ceases remained out an hour. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Prince Christian drove to the preserves in Windsor Great Park, and had some capit►l sport amongst the pheasants and other game in the neighbourhood of Virginia Water, and returned to Windsor at 2 o'clock to luncheon. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by Major• General Seymour and Major Grey. . _ Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Susan Melville and 'Lieutenant-Colonel George Gordon, drove to Hampton Wick on Wednesday, and were present ►t the marriage of Miss Emily Maude (daughter of Colonel Mande, C. 8.) and Mr. Baird. Their royal highnesses afterwards honoured Colonel and Mrs. Maude with their oompany at the wedding breakfast. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re turned to town yesterday from visiting General Hall at his seat near Newmarket, where there has been a battne of two days. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutanant will be en tertained at a public banquet by the dtizens of Limerick on Wednesday, the 18th of December, to commemorate the opening of a new graving dock. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and Countess Bernstorlf and family return to the Prussian Embassy on Monday next from Mecklenburg. The Earl and Countess Spencer left town yester day for Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of Devon shire. The Earl of Derby will give an official dinner on Monday, the 18th inst., at his official residence in Down ing-street. Lord Russell has issued cards for a p..rliainentary dinner, at which his principal supporters in the Upper House are expected to be present. There have been festivities at Harewood this week in celebration of the coming of age of Viscount Nacelles, eldest son of the Hari of Harewood. On Wed nesday 800 of his lordship's tenantry from PonUfract, blorthallaton, km, were entertained at Harewood House, at a grand ball and supper, and the rejoicings were con tinued yesterday, when about 500 of the cottager, and labourers upon the earl's extensive estates were enter tained. Viscount Lascelles was introduced, and cordially welcomed by the tenantry and others who assembled on the interesting occasion. Her Majesty's screw troopship Urgent, Captain S. H. Henderson, will sail from Portsmouth, on Tuesday next, unless the disastrous effects produced by the hurri cane at St. Thomas should cause her earlier departure for the West Indies, with naval officers, seamen, and marines to join her Majesty's ships on the North American and West Indian and the Pacific stations. The Urgent will call in at Plymouth Sound on her w►y down Channel. The officers and men for her Majesty's ships on the North American and West Indian station she will disembark at Bermuda, and those for her Majesty's ships in the Pacific at Colon, for Panama, by way of the Isthmus Railway. In consequence of several cases having recently occurred of engineer students, apprentices in her blijegty's service, who have been educated at the School of Naval Architecture, Kensington, having immediately on the completion of their period of study entered the service of private firms, an Admiralty order has been received at Chatham directing a new clause to be inserted in the in dentures of all apprentices, who will in future be re quired to enter into a bond, in the snm of 501., to re main in her Majesty's service for five years after the completion of their term of apprenticeship and atholutic course. Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of her Majesty's navy, was a passenger by the up-train from Cabin for Paris, which met with the serious collision on the 27th oh., but two days elapsed after the accident before he felt any serious effects from it beyond a severe shaking. He has since been lying for some days at Corbeil, in France, suffering from a concussion of the brain, but is now considerably better, and is expected to be sufficiently convalescent very shortly to return to England and resume his duties at the Admiralty. Perfect repose and quiet are still imposed. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THZ HURRICANE AT ST. THOMAS. The following additional telegram was received at Lloyd's this morning :—" Tornado at St. Thomas, Oct. 29.—Steamer Rhone and crew lost at Peters Island ; Wye and part of crew lost at Buck Island ; Conway, ashore at Tortola ; Derwent, at St. Thomas ; Solent and Tyne, dismasted ; only 12 passengers by steamer for Southampton saved. Fifty vessels reported ashore." (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, Nov. 8. Telegram; received by the Liverpool under writers confirming the news of the disaster at St. Thomas, state that the crew of the Rhone were lost and part of the crew of the Wye, and only 12 pas sengers by the steamer for Southampton were saved. ITALIAN WAR PREPARATIONS. A Florence letter, dated Nov. 4, in the Debats, says: There is no fear as to the maintenance of peace unless France should have made up its mind to provoke Italy to the utmost, which of mime is not to be supposed. Nevertheless it is stated, and the fact appears to be certain, that the Italian government proposes to call out all the troops yet remaining en eunge. Now, inasmuch as the financial situation is not such as to permit the luxury of any superfluous armaments, and General Mena bees and his colleagues are men of common sense, the inference from these military precautions is that there must be political complications unknown to the public. The first claw of men on leave has already joined its re spective regiments ; the other will be under arms in three or four days, and then the effective force of the Italian army will be upwards of 200,000 men. The Corriere Italian of Florence says that very shortly 60,000 breech-loading muskets will be issued to the Italian army. The Platea of Milan publishes the following : We are in a position to announce that the Ministry of War has given orders to arm the Quadrilateral and store it with provisions. Instructions have been given at Pia cenza and Bologna to prepare to send forty-pounder guns, supplies, and ammunition. THE ROMAN QUESTION .- THE BATTLE OF MONTANA. The Parisian journals persist in asking the Moni tear to speak out, and to tell the world whether any of the French troops took part in the battle of Montana. The officious Pays and the Etendard persist in affirming that they did ; but the official Moniteur is obstinately silent. The Florence cor respondent of the Arenir National thus speaks of the battle : rAt Montana the struggle was most terrible, and lasted five hours. The carnage was horrible. The ground was strewn with dead bodies, and the number of the wounded was considerable. General Garibaldi and his son Menotti fought side by side, and both would have inev:tably perished in the horrible melee if Colonel Missori, inspired by noble ardour, had not advanced • ith 300 volunteers, who were resolved to save the life of the general or perish in the attempt. Protected by this unhoped-for succour, Gari baldi was able to fall back on Paso-Came, where he was surrounded by 200 beraaglisri, who accompanied him to Florence, where he arrived at 8 o'clock on Monday night. After • delay of only half ►n hour he was conveyed to Pisa, where he slept during the night, It will be seen by the following extracts from the French Roman catholic organs that the party they represent, and in whose interest the expedition was undertaken, think that nothing has been done by the victory of Montana unless the unity of Italy is broken up. The Union says : There is only one course to be adopted—to break up Italian unity, which is a pelt for Italy, a menace for France, a permanent peril for Europe, and an insult to civilisation. The Monde, another catholic organ, also thinks that nothing has been gained if things are allowed to remain as they a'e : The French government (it says) believes in the possi bility of producing concord between the Italian revolution and the church. It made wreck on this Utopia. It has been struggling for the last 20 years for this object, and yet things remain LB they were in 1848. The Uni ners, which professes to represent par excellence the cause of religion, charity, and catho licity, thus speaks of the defeat of Garibaldi : Behold Garibaldi, in company with Messieurs his sons, well licked ! When death appeared, the hero bethought himself that the famous Spadofte a due' ganae—the long two-legged sword—made part of his ►rmament. He turned tail and ran for safety. We always believed that God would not allow Garibaldi to die on the field of battle. He II M die in the midst of potions and plasters, muttering imbecile boasts and dictating idiotic impieties. Let Italy pick him up and wrap him in flannel to absorb the sweat of his defeat. The Avenir National replies to all this by ob serving : We have said before, and we repeat it, the Roman question is not one that can be untied ; it must be cut. In the actual state of Europe the Revolution alone can cut it, and in spite of all the Pope's soldiers, in spite of the victozy of Tivoli, it will cut it. (RZUTER'S TELEGRAM 4.) ITALY. PARIS. Not•. 8, 4.48 A.m. The Muni/cur announces that the news from Italy is satisfactory. Tranquillity continued to prevail at Florence and most of the cities. At Milan and Pavia, where manifestations, or ganised by the Mazzinians, rendered the inter ference of the armed force necessary, the popula tion have not responded to the appeals of the agitators, who chiefly obey the orders given by the secret societies. Some arrests have taken place, and order has been re-established at the two cities. FLORENCE, Nov. 8. The Italian parliament will be convoked before the end of November—probably on the 26th. Duke d'Aosta has been charged by the King to proceed to Venice to compliment their Hellenic Majesties. The Danish Minister, M. Brahe, has arrived a t Florence. MALTA. VALETTA, Nov. R. The Japanese Prince and his suite arrived yes terday from Leghorn by her Majesty's frigate Endymion. He intends returning to Marseilles. Two slight shocks of an earthquake were felt at 4.30 a.m. to-day. Lord Clarence Paget has been at Syracuse since the 2nd inst. in the Caledonia. The cholera has entirely disappeared, and arri vals from Malta now receive free pratique at ports in Italy, Sicily, and Turkey. The Thomas Snowden, the Bretagne, from Ali cante, and No. 14 transport, employed in the Abys sinian expedition, have passed Malta for Alexan dria. The Bretagne repaired • broken rudder. She lost 151 mules in a gale of wind. The transport Bolivar has also passed, returning from Alexandria. Intelligence from Egypt announces that a tele graph station is being organised at Jubal, in the Red Sea. ARRIVAL OF THE BANGALORE. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 8. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Bangalore, with the Bombay mail, hu arrived here with 25 passengers, 6,7411. in specie, and a general cargo, including raw silk value 80,0001. On the 3rd inst. she passed the brig Commerce. 8, 1867. GIBRALTAR, Nov. 4. Exchange on London, 90 days, 501 ; on Paris, 5.28 ; Madrid, eight days, discount ; Cadiz, I } discount. oRzAr EASTEILV RAILWAY.-( THIS DAY.) This afternoon an extraordinary general meeting of proprietors was held at the London Tavern, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the present constitution of the board of directors and the propriety of altering the number of directors ; also to determine the order of rota tion in which such increased or reduced number shall go out of office, and what number shall be a quorum at the meetings of directors, also the propriety of appointing a committee to confer with the present directors on all or any of the foregoing subjects, and nominating, either directly or on the recommendation of any such committee, the persons to be the future directors of the company; also for the purpose of exercising all or any powers which the company can or may exercise upon the increase or reduction of the number of directors ; and, further, to authorise an application to parliament to confirm terms of arrangement with the Northernand Eastern Railway Com pany and the proprietors of East Anglian stock for the re pealing of their respective privileges of appointing direc tors of the Great Eastern Railway Company am represen tatives of and from those bodies. Mr. TURNER occupied the chair, and in opening the pro ceeding. mid it was very gratifying to find that so many proprietors were present to look after their own interests. During the two years that he had occupied the chair he bad received great kindness at the hands of the proprietors. He had no wish to retract anything that he had said on various occasions. Though by had been made a target to be fired at he was willing to accept that shooting if it were for the benefit of the company. (Cheers.) He was impressed with the absolute necessity of remodelling the board, and he hoped the meeting would not be led away from t ha t issue. The board themselves were alive to the fact that they could not go on, and if there were any course by which he could promote their interests he was willing to take it. What had occurred during the last few days must have shown that there were sectional differences. The chainnan of the Northern and Eastern Railway had stated that he would form no ob stacle. The Northern and Eastern portion of the board were ;Ring to suspend the functions of two of their directors, and the Esst Anglian to snependthoeeof one of their body. (Cheers.) But that would not settle the differences. The Great Eastern directors proper had internal differences, and he must ask the meeting to assist in settling the . . _ . - Mr. PARKES said he had before expressed the opinion that the reorganisation of the board ought to have been a condition precedent to the raising of money. Seeing that the company was drifting more and more towards bank uptcy, to September last be got up • requisition for a meeting of the proprietors in the hope of effectingacb They bad been getting worse and worse, and their c= was not as good now as it was in July last. They had 6,0000100/. of debentu.e debt and 1,000.0001. more payable to various parties. Added to these there were preference dividends and other charges pressing for payment ,• and altogether 3 they required „000/. to release them from their diffi culties. They were protected by parliament against judgment creditors up to September next, but it was not to be supposed that that protec tion would be extended. In order to surmount such difficulties they most haves board in whom all parties would have confidence—confidence as the result of acts. (Hear, hear.) The public would then be willing to take up debentures. Such an object could not be attained unless all the directors placed their seats at the disposal of the pro prietors. (Cheers.) In the appointment of directors and the regulation of the future there were involved a nixes of details that could not be discussed in a meeting like that. He would propose that the proposed committee should be small, so as to increase the sense of responsibility ; also that the directors should not be ap pointed for so long a period. (Hear, bear.) He would suggest the appointm e nt o f a commit tee, provided he had first an answer to the question , " aye " or " no, " did the directors intend to place their seats at the disp osal of the shareholder,. In reply to a question, Mr. PARKES stated that his question was limited to the directors who wiggled the circular. The CHAIRMAN said that provided everything was to be fully gone into he would resign his own seat. (Cheers.) Mr. PARKA then moved a resolution declaring that the meeting was convinced that a thorough and immediate reorganisation of the board was essential to the restoration of the property, thanking Mr. Turner (the chairman) and the other directors who had offered to place their seats at the disposal of the proprietors for the pur cdsoof such reorganisation and calling upon Mr. Goodson, Mr. Beavis ' Colonel Palmer, and the other remaining directors to follow their ex.imple. also nominating a committee to consider the question of re organisation, and report to a special meeting. The CHAIRMAK expressed has concurrence in this resolu tion. Mr. BARNES seconded the resolution. Mr. Bassin (director) objected that the result might be that the new directors would all be got rid of, while the old ones would remain. [The meeting was proceeding when oar report left.) The unusual sale of the October number of the Quarterly Reritro has been inch as to induce the publishers to reprint it. The remains of Mr. James will be interred at Highgate Cemetery, to-morrow, at ene o'clock. With reference to the fatal illness, we (.Ihroirlicster Guardian) now learn that it began with inflammation of the lungs. Mr. James was progressing favourably, so much so that Sir J. 01tiffs said he had " turned the corner," when he was seised with symptoms of typhoid fever. When his son-in-law, Dr. W. T. Riding, reached Paris on Saturday morning, he found that effusion on, and congestion of, the brain, accompanied by paralysis, had set in. Yesterday a fire, which threatened to be of a most disastrous character, occurred at a colliery at Hetton, near Houghton-le-Spring. There were 200 men in the pit at the time, but happily all of them made their escape, except one, named Hobert Thomson, who was suffocated. A man at Holmfirth has lost his life by indulging in the foolish amusement of catching copper coin in his mouth. Whilst so engaged a penny stuck in his throat, and, notwithstanding that medical aid was summoned, the coin could not be extracted. Eventually it was fomeddowo the man's throat, and caused his death. The city of Paris has presented the Empress Eugenie with a i"jue in remembrance of the banquet given to the sovereigns at the Hotel do Ville last July. The ornament is a reproduction of the city arms, azure being represented by • magnificent sapphire, on which are en crusted small firers-de-ha in gold ; gules is formed of an enormous ruby, whilst the symbolical vessel is executed in powder of diamonds. The whole is surrounded by a row of diamonds within one of large pearls. The wives of high city functionaries wear a similar ornament as a badge on their left shoulder. The Empress wears it on the cor sage of her dress, attached to a bow of tricolour ribbon. _ _ _ The Moniteur announces that the _•odd medals for exhibitors will be re►dy for distribution between the 15th and 20th of November, the silver medals from the sth to the 31st of December, the bronze medals from the 15th of January to the 29th of February, la. M. The di plomas will be distributed with the medals, and the " mentions honorables" will be given from the let to the 31st of March, 1868. In awes 52, 70, 71, 74 to 82, 83 to 88, and 95, the list of awards will be at once printed pro. visionally for rectification, and reprinted finally, and the lists of awards in musical composition and pleasure boa's and yachts will also appear shortly. Each medal will be specially struck with the name of the donee, and, as about 16,000 will be needed, there has been some time, and will be more, needed to turn out such a large coinage. The Italie of Florence adduces as a prt)of of the MCC cis of the sales of ecclesiastical property, that 2G2 lots, recently offered by suction in 19 different provinces at the total upset price of 2,017,028 fr., produced 3,301,893 fr. The Berlin journals state that the King of Prnwia is to proceed shortly to Lutzlingen, where some grand shooting parties are organised for the Ilth and 12th. His Majesty will return to Berlin on the 13th. The Duke de Leuchtenberg has just passed through Berlin on his way to St. Petersburg. His impe rial highness dined at the palace. " A duel with pistols," says the Prase, " has just taken place at Maisons-Lsflitte between Mr. V—, an American gentleman, who lately obtained • signal mimeos at the Geneva Congress as • speaker, and Colonel G--, of Chili. The quarrel arose during ► political dis cussion clothe war between Spain and the republics of the Pacific, in which the colonel asserted that the President of La Plata had sold himself to Spain, and the other struck him in the face. After exchanging two shots at ten paces the colonel was struck by a ball in the left shoulder. The seconds were all Spanish Americans." Some twelve years ago a French priest, the Abby Michon, wrote a little pamphlet recommending, u the best means of promoting the unity of Italy, and of satisfying the wishes and requirement, of catholicity, the transfer of the Papacy from Rome to Jerusalem, the cradle of Chris tianity. The pamphlet attracted some attention at the time, but was soon afterwards forgotten. M. d'Eichthal has now addressed a letter to the Temps advocating Jeru salem as " the metropolis of the great Christian society." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DA r. ) EQUITY COURTS. (Before Vins-Chanciellor Sir R. Malin.) IN lit Tilt ROYAL RANK OF LIVERPouL. Mr. Osborne, who appeared for the petitioners 1, . voluntary win ding up of the lew( under the superrir • the court, asked that the petition might stand next Friday. Mr. Roxburgh, on behalf of creditors to the ainoL,.. e,osert. ' wished en order to b e ma d e at once, as witted that as no resolution of the company in far, . winding-up voluntarily had been parsed there was mp for the court to supervise, and the order must be'. ann_pulsory liquidation Mr. Osborne mentioned that his learned friend's bad themselves presented • petition for • compulaury • ing•up, which was returnable next Friday. Mr. Roxburgh explained that that petition had heti! rented only as a matter of precaution, and would be doped if an order was made now. Vice-Chancellor y. had decided that in cases of this kind when a petition. been presented every creditor had a right to apply to• court to make an order upon that petition. Mr. Swanton, for creditors whose claims amount°. 5,0001., and who had presented no petition, also obi to the postponement of the hearing. The petition presented for a purpose not within the statutable of the court, and its authors wanted it to stand over in order to create a jurisdiction which, as • company was not registered, did not at present The 199th section of the Companies Act provided no unregistered company should be wound up vol under the supervision of the court, and therefore court had power only to grant a compulsory order • dismiss the petition. No benefit could result from il. ing the order, and they knew what mischi e f arose •• these liquidation being kept in suspense. The % ice Chancellor said the case wee one of very importance, and great responsibilities were involved is. winding up. Only the day before the meeting of court, application was made to him to retire bills t amount of 11,000/. Mr. Swanton stated that the debts amounted to at 1,500,0001. Mr. Cotton, who, with Mr. Milliard and Mr. Robb:. represented the company, urged that the petition sh., stand over, the shareholder, haring, at a meeting held regi terday, resolved to take steps to h a v e th e com b stered. The Vice-Chancellor observed that an interim liqu' had been appointed, and he could not, therefore, see • mischief could result from the delay. Mr. Roxburgh said the creditors wanted their mot and the only way in which they could get it was by a wt. Mg-up order. There was no case in which a company ever been registered after the presentation of a petition wind up. The presentation of the petition was the ginning of the winding up, and therefore it was conic plated in this trees to register a defunct company. Mr. Swanton added that it was not concealed that object of asking that the petition might stand over was alter the status of the company, which was expressly f bidden by the 153rd section of the act. Mr. Muse mentioned that in the case of the Newest Bank registration took place after the stoppage, but Or was before the act of 18b2. Mr. Osborne believed that the Royal Bank of Liremot was registered at that moment. Mr. Milward had been to Liverpool several times shn u this unhappy business, and it was not at all clear that there need be a winding up of the bank. The large !A jority of the shareholders were of opinion that the was too good to be allowed to drop through, and that s the view entertained by all persons of influence in Leer pool. If the liquidation proceeded the meet* would sufficient to pay all the creditors in full. The Vice-Chancellor directed the petition to stand met being satisfied that a week's delay could not be detrims, to the creditors, while the meeting of the company, at - was to be held in the meantime, might result in arm, menta which would be satisfactory to all parties. Mr. Roxburgh and Mr. Swanton applied for a lit creditors. The Vice-Chancellor did not think any good pang could be served by acceding to the application. He not intend to offer facilities for the formation of sno• y defence aosociation, or to allow needless litigation io way in this case. Next week a winding-up order of .m kind would be made, unless it was arranged at the LI ing to carry on the business, which be thought was u beyond hope. (Before Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.) r. MNITII. This case was concluded this morning. The plaits.' ' the celebrated patentee of improvements in the prom. grinding flour, whose ',stem is in use at the goveni mills, Deptford, and who has been encomia in ests'.l:' ing the validity of his patent against a oombinatic millets, known in the course of the immense litigatios • has taken place with regard to this patent as the cheater combination. The defendant in this was originally unconnected with any other plea or number of persons ; but it is understood , at be has since joined the London combination, waling his expenses are being defrayed by that body. Them plaint on the present occasion was that the defendant: a process which is substantially the same as that e plaintiff, though not so complete in its arrangements. not en successfully managed. Mr. Grove, Q.C.; Mr. Druce, Q.C.; Mr. Thee. Aston, and Mr. F. Harrison, aimearcd for the plait Mr. W. M. James, Q.C. ; Mr. N% ebeter, Q.C.: Mr. L Q.4'.; and Mr. Nos th. appeared for the defendant. The Vice•Ctiancellor, after reviewing the evident great length, came to the conclusion that the defe had wholly failed to establish any case of prior user. to infringement, the defendant was not entitled to uT• was not infringing, when the only difference betweet working and that of the plaintiff wee this—that he . ployed the plaintiff's prooeu not so efficiently thoroughly as it was used by the plainti ff himself'. 1 result was that the plaintiff must have a decree fir injunction, and an account, together with the costs of 3 suit. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banr. 7 i BeTore the Lord Chief Justice as: Justtoes Mellor and Lush.) In consequence of a private meeting of all the judre* the consideration of the point raised at the recent Fen: trial at Manchester the court did not sit before a guars to 12 o'clock. CAMPBELL r. HIS HIGHNESS NCSTAPHA VAZIL PACH Mr. Bianisty, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Murphy, r plied on behalf of his Highness Mustapha Fazil Paris a rule to set aside a writ of copies, under which hi+ hic ness was arrested, and all subsequent proceedings the and an undertaking to be given up to be cancelled u the ground of privilege—his highness being at the time his arrest, &c.. in this country one of the suite and in a tendance upon his Majesty the Sultan by his command, he also moved for the rule on the further ground of im proper concealment of the fact that was known to all thi parties, viz., that his highness was one of the Sultaii suite and in attendance upon his Majesty. It appeared that his highness, who is the brother of the Viceroy Egypt, was commanded by the Sultan to accompany big to England on his recent visit to her Majesty, and to be in attendance on him with certain other L° personages. On the kith July last a letter * received by his highness from Mr. Linklater. ' plaintiff's attorney, demanding pument of JS.' which he claimed as due to him for commission in ha , effected a loan or having made arrangements for a loss 500,0001. on mortgage on en estate in Egypt belong':, his highness, worth between two and three million . money. The debt was disputed, and Mr. Morris, al highness's attorney, called on Mr. Linklater, and infor- 4 him that the Pacha did not wish to avoide the tion of his liability, and warned Mr. Link..l against taking further proceedings, as his bigtov would insist upon his privilege, and asked him not to he the writ served upon his highness, but to spare him dos humility. Mr. Morris said he would accept servio summons then and there to enter au appearance, reel declaration, and proceed to trial at the then Surrey ass.* for there was no pretence whatever for the claim. 7a , was agreed to, and afterwards Mr. Linklater asked I security, and although Mr. Morris disputed his r.-1 to demand it. he consented to give it, j named a person of high standing, but it was declined. ' upon that Mr. Morris said he was instructed to Mies further security ; and there was an end of the mew I Without any intimation to the defendant, the plaiLef went tom learned judge at Chambers, and without cuts ,r.g into the matter, but simply elating that the pasha hsi come to England fora temporary purpose, and was ate:: to quit England, be obtained a writ on the "22nd, and is mediately the espies was issued the officer went v Claridge's Hotel, where the paths resided, and array I him in the room where he was with other members of tb Sultan's suite. His highness, who Was very folle , annoyed, put himself into communication with hs attorney, and an application was made to the Home office, and afterwards to Baron Brame ell. by the Su l t 4l as well as his highness, and he was immediately die charged. An undertaking was given to put in bail. in* Sultan was about to leave the following morning, and now it was to be contended by the plaintiff that in countless no application could be made to set the proceeds% aside, but the defendant'. adviser. contended it r did not at all affect that point. The & fed et! stated that if the learned baron had stated that if be !. d known the whole of the circumstances he never we- 4 have made the order. The learned counsel said be or ,4 " stood that when the learned Attorney-General return. ''!! town he would make a similar apple.ation on behol' the Sultan. Rule panted.