The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-15 00:00:00

IFEBOAT SERVICES. —During the storms i .114 ot the present year the National Lifeboat bathetic') has contributed to the laving of 1.027 Ilya from various shipwrecks ono id vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended trfeaSS In the same period on its lifeboat Fatabliairnents. in addition to gt,444 for rewards. The Committee et ths Institution appeal to tits public for asststance to enable them to meet the continual heavy demands on their 186 Lifeboat Establisbments. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers. end by the Sorr!tfdy, 'MIK Bat. at the Institution, la Johnetreet, Aiwa; London. PARIS EXHIBITIC JOHN BROG: ON FIRST-CLASS SW IDEN'S VALUAT SKR MEDAL, 1867. fION of GOLD. 21 carats ins, Is 18serats..13 3 Se 9 Wats .. Al 11 10 worth ..34 4 111 17 carats.. 3 0 8 carats .. 831 per ounce. 16 carat.. 216 n 7 carats .. 4 0 23 carats.. 41 5 Ucayali— 2LS 1 6 meta .. 1 21 22 carats (Deitch 14 carats.. 2961 6 carats .. 17 8 standartl) 317 101 13 ousts.. 26 0 4 carats 14 2 21 carat.. 314 4 12 carats.. 2284 8 carats .. 10 71 20 carat II 10 91 11 carat.. 118 11 2 carats .. 7lr t 9 =rata.. 37 3 10 carats.. 116 1 carat .. 3 6 Manufactory, 16, Heurtettsatryst, Covent-garden, Loudon, C. REAKFAST.-EPPB'S COCOA ght evortoo. TO COLIESOYON DINTS. Averllneseede Weeded for " The Irese." Loa= Voll o ll sat b• at the Mee, 10, Bmvert•4Bl.oo, by Two rE en tio day of - HATMANSEL TIIIS ERRING, FAMILY JAILS.—A WIFE WELL WON. Masan. Sothern. littekstowe, Howe, Kendal, tones, Braid, Wes. thersby, tre. ; and Mho Itobertaon.—Atter which AN LITTER FERA ERSION OF THE BRlOAND.—Commenee at 7. PRINCESS'S. TRH MIRING, nu: COLLEEN; HAWN. Mr. and lira Dion Boacicautt.—After which THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mr. Ming, Mews. Murray, nhoro, Neville. Forrester, Mellon, Re. ; Misses &worthy, K Barlett. Rachel Sanger, and Mrs. Addle. the I.D. Evtnnro, OLD SALT. Mr. Emery and Miss Belly Moore. r—After which THE CALIPH OF BAODAD. Messrs. Thorne and James ; Mesdames Ada Awanborough, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, rte.—And Otilt D rtIESIILS. HOLBORN. EVRIfiNG, VTR FLYING itCVD. Mews. Atkins, Price, Ganlen, Arthur, We Gaud, and Wilinott Mesdames lienrade, 00°441, Lennox, awl Saunders—ennelatie with VALENTINZ AND ORSON. Sidlie. Hunter°. LitUe Rowella,dx. BRITANNIA. TUI ETTarra, DON QUIXOTE OR, RANCHO PANZA AND HIS DT. TERLZA. Mrs. Lane, &Mimes Edwin& Booth tomirnists Messrs. Deane, Loais, Newham, and Vlctorelll ; Mdlla C. Stephan and Miss Rose Nathan.—And WHO DID IT? HIGH WATER AT WNDUN BRIDGI. TES DAY —WoruhoL slt 54m—.Afternona. Ch. 17e. ChlioßiOw—Mornlng, Ott. 418t......A1tern00n, Hu 15ot. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15. IT becomes daily more and more apparent that, unless some effectual attempt be speedily made for the purpose of placing the present work of relief in East London on a sounder and more satisfactory footing, the state of affairs among the employed will soon afford a bitter exemplification of the manner in which the benevolent assistance of the public can be rendered a curse instead of a blessing. The numerous painful accounts which have re cently been given respecting the magnitude of the distress, and the deplorable condition to which large numbers of the unemployed have become re duced, have at last fairly awakened the practical sympathy of the public, and a very considerable amount of money is daily being received by the leading relief organizations, the East London Mis sion and Relief Committee obtaining by far the largest share. Yet the actual pressure of the distress appears to keep peas with the increasing liberality of the public. The greater the exertions to relieve the prevailing destitution the more for midable, the more appalling become its proportions. Nor is this to be wondered at, considering the numerous inducements held out to the unemployed workman to become a recipient of charity. There are at the present moment in the East of London some eighty or ninety different relief and benevo lent associations and committees, some of a per manent, others of a temporary nature. Many of these are held at public-houses, and are seldom heard of beyond the imnexliate locality in which they aro established. Then there aro numerous clergymen and dissenting ministers who habitually receive subscriptions and donations fret dirtribution amongst the poor in their respective neighbour hoods—a system especially popular with ministers who seek to till the various places of worship over which they preside with attendants, no matter whether they are bribed or persuaded to be present. All these things tend to perpe tuate and increase the evil of pauperism. The great bulk of the assistance afforded through these channels is given away without exacting anything in return from the recipients, too many of whom thus become imbued with a love of idleness, ending in that well-known habitual disinclLiatior, t o seek fug re* which; imam Each a strong characteristic of the regular pauper. As might be expected, this special description of demoralization is proving extremely contagious. In one of the East-end parishes, where relief is being indiscriminately doled out by those who have become the almoners of the public, the influx of poverty-stricken population, tempted by the bait thus of fered, has been so large, that the owners of house property in the neighbourhood have latterly increased their rents very conider ably—a circumstance which affords a significant commentary on the present system of relief. In fact, the greater portion of East London is rapidly becoming completely pauperised. All feeling of self-respect, energy, and love of self-reliance are being thoroughly rooted out from among large por tions of the artisan population, and we are rapidly approaching a state of affairs assimilating to that existing before the dissolution of the monasteries, when the monks, taking upon themselves the relief of the poor, found themselves surrounded by ever increasing ignorant, superstitious, and pauperised multitudes. In Hackney, one of the wealthiest parishes in all East London, there are about 15,000 houses on the rate-books, exclusive of the com pounds, some 4,000 in number, which latter are inhabited chiefly by the poor. In the same parish there are upwards of 7,000 paupers in the work house, stone-yard, in receipt of out-door relief, &c., so that every two householders in Hackney have between them to support one pauper. Each week the burden becomes heavier and heavier, the weekly expenditure increasing in due propor tion ; yet there is nothing substantial to show in return for all the enormous trouble and expense to which the ratepayers are being put, save here and there, it may be, some hundred tons of broken granite. It is to be feared that the recent circular, embodying the excellent sugges tions offered by Mr. Corbett, issued by the Poor law Board to the various East-end parishes, will receive but little attention generally from the guardians, who are becoming extremely jealous of the repeated interference of the Whitehall authori ties. Still, something must be done. During the past few days hundreds of East-end streets, particu larly in the Isle of Dogs, have been—with the excep tion of those in Bethnal-green—literally impassable, in consequence of their muddy condition ; yet, with all the many hundreds of able-bodied men con stantly lounging about, no attempt whatever has been made to remedy this inconvenience, save by means of the orthodox scavenger. This is a serious state of things, to say the least. There can be no possible doubt that from the want of a proper cen tral organization, with systematically arranged district committees, a large proportion of the money so promptly and so unreservedly furnished by the public is being much of the remainder buted in a manner which petuato instead of diminishing the amount tress. A few more practical schemes like that of increasing the size of the bathing lake in Victoria park are sadly required. There is a lso, notwith standing all that has been done of late years, plenty of room for further sanitary improvements in East London. The drainage of the Hackney marshes would afford work for thousands, and nitimstely recoup, with good interest, all ex ' ',eases. But there is no one to take up these matters. There has been some talk respecting the probability of the Poplar shipyards resuming work before long, but the wish appears to be father to the thought, for at present there cer tainly exists very little probability of the ship building trade speedily regaining anything like its olden prosperity. The introduction of the co operative principle among the shipwrights and ironworkers has been suggested, but its adop tion requires both time, money, and tact, to say nothing of a large amount of expe rience in organization and administrative ability. Of course, under efficient leaders a scheme for building ships by means of 00-opera tion might, and we think would, prove a success, but as yet the leaders have not been found. The artisans, fortunately too, have sufficient good sense to perceive that there exists a wide difference be tween the management of a co-operative store and the establishment of a great concern, necessitating the employment of a large number of hands, asps clay in a trade where the union rules are ex tremely strict, and during a time when business is unusually bad. In Bethnal-green the Employment and Relief Association is doing good work, afford ing an example which might be profitably studied by the other East-end relief associations. It is based on the principles asserted by the Daily News some three years since, to the effect that employ ment should always be found, where practicable, for the poor, rather than that they should become recipients of charity pure et simple. Mere charity, unless wisely bestowed, has an inevitable tendency to pauperise the receiver, and it is to guard as much as possible against this danger that the Bethnal-green Association, of which the Rev. Sep timus Hansard must be considered the presiding spirit, has been formed. Already, as before hinted, the streets of Bethnal-green, notoriously amongst the most dirty in all London, have begun to assume a clean and tidy aspect, eminently sug gestive of what might be effected in other parts of the metropolis, but the funds of the association, despite of Miss Burdett Coutts's discriminating ge nerosity, are far too limited to admit of the street sweeping experiment being tried to the fullest. The stone-breaking portion of the scheme has also proved successful, although at first the men, not understanding the real position of the association, refused to work for less than half-a-crown per day. They are paid 2d. for each hour that they are at work, and an additional sum of 4d. if four bushels, and of 6d. if six bushels of stone have been broken by them during the day. The hours of work are from eight to four. The rate of pay may seem low, but it is the highest which the association can afford, and there are hundreds of men who would rather have a shilling earned in this manner than receive it as an actof charity. The men employed in wheeling and shovelling are paid 3d. per hour. To some this kind of work may seem degrading, but the real artisan considers it far less so than the practice of continually receiving sums of money for which he returns nut the shadow of an equivalent. Some of the mon procure their dinners at the cook ing depot recently opened in a portion of the new market buildings erecting by Miss Burdett Coutts. Here the culinary arrangements are among the most extensive ; clean, and perfect in London, making one regret that the depot is a temporary, not a permanent affair. Perhaps its success may induce Miss Coutts to arrange for its being permanently retained, especially when it is considered how useful it must prove to the pourer classes frequenting the market when opened. The prices of provisions at the depot are extremely low, only allowing a slight margin for profit, end have already attr.ltted a large number of customers. Amongst those in the aiuing-room at the time of our visit were two lads, who each had a basin of hot soup before him. Asking one why he came to the depot, he replied that he had heard of it, addingthat he could here get a better basin of soup for three-halfpence than at the shops for twopence, to which the second added, "and we ain't no fools neither." Hero is the whole philosophy of the matter. Unless we wish to behold the East London poor become completely dependent on the chance charity of their wealthier brethren, to become mere beggars, some effort must be made to prevent the further spread of in discriminate charity. The funds now pouring into East London are, as before stated, amply sufficient, with the assistance afforded by the parochial authorities, to afford a fair amount of relief to every destitute person in East London, but, owing to the want of organisation, not only are large numbers of the deserving poor mulcted of their share of the help intended for them, but " equally large numbers of undeserving indi viduals are making a good time of it, receiving not merely twice, but even thrice and more times over, the amount of relief to which they lay claim. l , Never was cadgerdom in better luck than at present. The condition of the poor in East Lon- 1 1 don is as bad as it can possibly be. We have starvation, misery, and despair in their most hideous colours, defying the pen of the practised " sensationalists" to reproduce even in their goes monest and least appalling form ; and with this we have also the knowledge—the more disheart ening because it is not new to us—that nothing but defective organisation, private interests, and petty jealousies stand between these myriads of poor suffering creatures and their rescue from the gloomy abyss into which they have become plunged. For once London has reason to feel envious of Lance , shire. tons We (Post) understand that the illness from 1 which Count von der Galt', the representative bf Prussia at Paris, has been suffering is cancer in the tongue-4 malady which proved fatal to the father of his excellency. A court-martial was held yesterday on board the Mersey et Cork, on Captain Morrell sad Lieutenant Browne, of the Research, for running the vessel on Daunt's Rock. Evidence was given showing that the steamer struck not the rook, but the wreck of the City of New York, which was not officially noticed en the chart. The defence was that the Ressereh, having secret redoes to watch certain suspicions vessels, was pursuing the Amer.- can barque Alaska, and seeing her so near the land, and apprehending a lending, bore down upon her, and bad to i approach the rook nearer than it otherwise would. The , court did not consider the charge ot negieen proved, and' acquitted the offloers. It will doubtless be a long time before Paris has suck an influx of English visitors as were here last year. As many as 462,708 *mays were made between England and Fringe during 1887 ; 902,183 by Oslais ; 152,931 by Boulogne; 88,294 by Dieppe; sad 19,300 by Havre; whereas the number that crossed between England and Belgium, by way of Odra, did net *send 19,707. MA EDUCATION The Daily News counsels the government to watch with oars the proceedings of the oesiaseesse is the gabled el eimeatise whisk Mdey assembies in Manthester. The eanditiona of the problem have bees oossiderably I altered dem ao away oonspionma mientades bare I miraewledged that their principies are no longer cable, and it is of the eansisi importune that some agnisment on the subject should be arrived at. The quire ' ion se to the nature of the raw power by which the compulsory clauses of the proposed bill are to be called into mercies, is me whisk will to the wisdom and the ingenuity of these who are to gulls the deliberations, bat the machinery may be eddy left to sari practical paeans as Mr. Bruce end Mr. Forster. The Daily lbws pomp& to state the pounds upon which the majo rity of those who are practically acquainted with edam , Men often*, the system of school fees, and indicates its own egreement with the objections which are brought The grainitsne education. The Telegraph contends that the bads of any rational plan must be toed rating plus state grants. The whole question is eminently practical„ and the 'Gantry expects much from the gentlemen who are to take part in the con forams. THE DISTRESS IS THE EAST ZED. The Times describes the difficulties which beset the treatment of the distress in the east end of London. While on the one hand there is no doubt as to the extent and intensity of the distress, we find on the other • oon fused and demotalising condition of thinp arising from the fact that the population have come to think there is no end to the charity at their disposal. In point of fact the rate-payers and guardians as well as the paupers have received the charity of the public', and at the pre ttent moment the action of the poor-law is rednoed to the lowed possible point—en unknown number of charitable agencies, some Ave committees, besides clergymen and benevolent gentlemen, distributing money as they think fit. In Lancashire, where the distress was greater, the guardians in the first place were called on to distri bute a plater amount of relief per head than is now raised in the Poplar Union. In the next place, the public benevolence was intrusted to one influential committee ; and this committee dis tributed re li ef in strict harmony with the poor autho rities. Now, could not some gentleman who was familiar with the system pursued in Lanoashire lend his help to organise • similar system in the east of London It so happens that Kr. Corbett, one of the inquisitors for the London district, was brought here only last year from Lan cashire, and his experience ought to be of the utmost value for the purpose now suggested. First of all, therefore, let the guardians be required to do their duty. This is, in a peculiar degree, the Oise of the Poor Law Board. Lord Devon, it seems, is pursuing a policy of judi cious inactivity at Nice ; but, in his absence, the Times trusts the other members of the board will be alive to the urgency of the occasion. If the guardians made this effort, it might possibly be thought proper to assist them by a rate in aid. The other point lies entirely with the public. Let one trustworthy committee be established, and then let the public contributions be, as far as possible, intrusted solely to them. lISCILLANY.OI.7B TOPICS. The Star and the Herald speak of Garibaldi's last letter, in which he employs Moms language In reference to Roman catholicism, as one which must astonish and annoy his admirers. Almost any other reputation, they think, would have been destroyed by mush compositions. The Daily News advises the conclusion of a treaty by which the subjects of all countries should be allowed, on becoming naturalised citizens of another state in time of pesos, to renounce citizenship in the land of their birth. They would then, on rev:siting it, be free from its civil obligations ; though, on the other band, they would be liable to the civil disabilities of foreigners. But if when within its borders they committed a breach of its laws, they would be liable to trial by the ordinary municipal law in the same way as if they were still subjects of the state. Whatever privileges the municipal laws might accord to all foreigners would be theirs. As far as the Times can judge, a deliverance of the cap tives in Abyssinia must be looked for, not from Theodore himself, but from his enemies. Should he be totally de tested, or should he fall a victim to a conspiracy among his own troops, whom he is said to have so mercilessly slaughtered at various times, it may be that the prison doors will be opened, and that a long campaign may be yet averted. But on this we have no right to build oar hopes. Every sentiment of prudence counsels as rapid an advance as possible. When the captives are released, our only business will be to leave the country, and to allow its barbarous chieftains to return to their old ways of 'moray and civil war. Defending the prosecution of the Irishman, the Times observes that it would be quite possible to write an iro nical article ostensibly in support of the government, and without • single libellous sentence , yet pregnant with malignant suggestions of disloyalty and rebellion. It is equally possible to write articles in themselves innocent, \ but acquiring • guilty significance from column after column 41 peoond-band sedition. The legality of this in sidious praellee ts DOW to be tested. If the conductors of the Irishman think Wiper to disavow through their counsel all disloyal intentions, they may yet do something to re lieve themselves from the suspicions of which they com plain, and will at least deserve forbearanoe at the bands L of the government, whatever may be the feelings of their subscribers. If they objoct to do so , sympathy would be ) wasted upon them. irfte (curt. OSBORNE, JAR. 14. The Queen, and Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Duchess of Ito:burghs, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, attended by the Duchess of Rosburghe. Ptinceu Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice also went out. Prince Arthur and Prince Christian, attended by Major- General Seymour end Major Elphinstone, went out shoot ing on Monday at Swinley. Major Gore had the honour of joining the party. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Falkland Wends. Yesterday evening their Royal Higluteeses the Prince and Princess Christian and suite arrived at the Severnake Station of the Berke and Hants Railway by ordinary train, and drove to Tottenham-hoses, the noble Best of the Marquis of Allesburr, where it is stated their royal highness will remain on a visit for a few days. Prince Christian will enjoy some shooting in &Tanaka Forest, which is very extensive ' • and the members of the Craven Hunt entertain the hope that the Trims will honour them with hie presence in the field before he takes hie departure from &remake. Prince Arthur and Prince Christian, attended by Major-General Seymour and Major Elphinstone, went out shooting on Monday at rivalry. Major Gore had the honour of joining the party. The Duke of Cambridge has left town on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherbuid at Trentham, Staffordshire. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough come to town early in the ensuing month, from Blenheim. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have been entertaining a mint party at Severna.) Nee* for eluding Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Maria Mershirr nem of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Lady , Herbert of las sad Hen. Mary and Maude Harbert, Lard Brawn Bruer, Lord and Lady Charles Bruce, Colonel the Hem Henry sad Mrs. Byng, Mr. Arthur Wellesley, Kr. \James B. Brudenell Brno*, km The Countess of Malmesbury intends to stay at Pea till after Peseta. Her ladyship Is in good heath ; slam ha Mittel Meese the greatest one is taken to pro mot a fresh Week. Raton Triqueti has just completed the first po *net the swim et inlaid aearble tables= fee the deem =Lithe interior walk of the Albert Manorial Chapel at Own* sad they bass Una tweeted is the plasm agape& Sea within ties chapel ender the tiara's paw aatii augusittaa, sad Nil is aaailaar savor a gram a dial ellaquara fast ulna the aartaaa of lika mania the laws pestle with their ornamental borders being each shoe* 11 diet t lashes is length sad 9 fad 8 Wass Wu • A - remarks asfollows, on the contributions of the mem bers of the House of Hohenzollern towards the alle viation of the distrait in Prussia : Wldlei prints persons have ecustibutsl In a ptinody way, laving subscribed their 1,000 dollars, the princes have sabredied like—l mine be eseassel—for I have no word to expose the comparison. Prince Albert of Prussia has salissrilwdi 23 thalers, Prince Charles of Prderia 25, Prince William of llseklsabore, 25 ; the Primers Akan &rine of Prussia, 17 ; the Queen Dowager, 200, and the Lag, up to the present--nothing. The same letter mentions that an exchange of correspondence has recently taken place between an association of pious feudeliati in Pomerania and Count Bismarck. Some time ago a photo graph was exhibited in parts of Prussia in which the count-minister appears by the side of Mdlle. Lucca. This was one source of scandal. An other was that Count Bismarck did not practice his religious duties in public as he ought. On both these points a friendly remonstrance was sent to him. The Count took the letter in good part, and a portion of his reply is published : " Yon recollect," he says, " the treat? of Gastein. I was there. The negotiations were protracted, time hang heavily on my bands ; and one morning I took a walk. I met La Leoca, whom I had known &heady. I asked her to give a convert , to make time peso and to kill ennui. ' she said, ' but on one condition.' ' What is I asked, That you will allow yourself to be photo graphed with me.' I owned, and hence the carte which yea allude to. I hardly think it worth while to throw 'seem at me for this." "Ah ! if you know what nights I spent on my knees imploring God to inspire me with noble ideas for my coun try ; how these sleepless nights exhausted my strength. Ali! if you knew that my doctor forbade me to go to church on account of my weakness, you surely would not have reproached me as you have. It is difficult, believe me, to redid the powerful sentiment which attracts you to the temple and to have to say to one's-self I will remain at home.'" (uurra's TILZG FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 15. The Cowstitutiotww/ of this morning announces the death of hi Louis Boniface, secretary to that journal, who expired yesterday afternoon. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JAN. 15. Tho Presse of to-day states that at a council of the ministers held yesterday, under the presidency of the Emperor, the budget of the empire was settled. The amount required for the expenses of the ordinary war budget will be 80,000,000 florins, and for the extraordinary war budget 31 millions. The DeWitt asserts that the mission of Haider Effendi is connected with the conclusion of a new Turkish Loan in London. NA. .:8 4ti • .v , ' • ' I THE.ai~i~~r►. eteelit.44lo ea • teriy ;age • 7 11 2 • . IGENCE. tr ' ii Ad* cannot fail to per- ' '" D -*** -43 rt e - MINCES AND PRUSSIAN MI:NEMER. • a the amount of clia- au maul" common - . , A letter from Dryden in the AWN,' Netioeia/ RUSSIA. ST. PISTERSBITRO. J. 14, EvElmo. The semi-official Marine Gazette of to-day asserts that both England and France are actively carrying on military preparations in the Mediterranean. The marriage of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg with the Princess of Lenchtenberg will take place on the 24th of February. PORTUGAL. LISBON, JAN. 14, EVENTIIO. It is stated that the Cortes will soon be dissolved, and that tho ministry will then carry out great and radical measures of economy in the civil and mill- Lary service. The ministry is said not to possess a sufficient majority in the present Cortes. (N.B. The above message as published this morning was erroneously dated from Madrid.) TUIMEY. CONSTANTTNOPLE, JAL 11. It is stated that tho ministerial criaia which existed last week is now over. Aali Pacha and Fuad Pacha were to have gone out of the cabinet, and Riamil Pacha and Mustapha Fazyl to have re placed them. The Grand Vizier is likely to remain in Crete some time longer. The public begin to see with a certain appre hension the hostile policy of Russia toward/ Turkey. AMERICA. (sr arrarte rin-scasPri.) NEW YORK, JAx.l4 EVERVG. The Inman steamer City of Baltimore arrived out to-day. Closing prices.—Gold, 1411. Sterling exchange on London, 100 g. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1001 ; ditto, 1885, 108/ ; 10-40 Bonds, 1021; luinois,ll3s} • Erie, 75/. Cotton : Middling Up land, 17. Petroleum : Standard white, 25/. Flour : Extra State, 10.50. Corn : Old mixed, 1.40. WASHINGTON, JAN. 14, Erato°. In consequence of the resolution of the Senate General Grant has vacated the War-office, and Mr. Stanton has resumed possession. Prince Humbert, the Duchess of Genoa, and her son, Prince Thomas, have arrived at Florence. The marriage of the Grand Duke of Tuscany with Princess Alias of Parma was celebrated on Saturday in the chapel of Frohadorf. The ceremony was performed by the Apostolic Nuncio at the Court of Vienna. The Duchess of Berry was unable to be present from indispo titian. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and bridegroom met off for Salzburg, where they are to reside* At a hunting party which, a few days ago, took place at Barley, and which Count Bismarck made his ap pearance, the Federal Chancellor ldlled 156 hares with bie own hand. His shot was unusually °Mein, and hia begets hit the flying game. though he had but seldom taus Was for aiming, at a &Manes of 120 panes. A letter from Brussels says:—" London is likely AID receive ere long the visit of the trims Bonheur—l believe brothers to the celebrated Rem Bonheur—who have been entertaining the public hero with some wonderful performances to demonstrate the magnetic power. They ore twin-brother*, ono being the operator, the other the medium. Leaving any scientific analysis entirely out of erseraien, it cannot be dented that their performances are N<> 1y interesting, mere particularly the one is which the censor, standing among the audience, has a salmi of mom eelehrstod penes whispered into his es:, upon which Yr elesping medium on the platform jumps up from the stair in which he has been doling, stalks up to • large Week board facing the public, upon which be draws with leMedible rapidity the exact likeness of the person whose meare has bow whispered to his brother at some madder. Oho dlslsass, end wire does not move." The New Torii. Times of the 4th says :—" The legislature of oar own State, as well as that of Massachn omfe, will be greatly excited in a short time with liquor bglilation—that is, legislation for regulating the liquor InYs The democratic asosndanoy in the assembly sanders it certain that the excise law will be recoiled or greatly alters& by that brooch, sad the political ewe. Swim of the Senate gives runes to believe that it on be get to epee to some important neodideation in the law. The leer that the reopeetable people of New Tort have sheet the natter is that the artrose staiegessy of the pent pew will new be Mowed by a Laity to the regale. Yeas Thos win brim the intolerabl► wells of other 411 w. We here tint members at ti' legidenno will seedy On pollee Maras and the reuses tonnes below Iford* to awls, the law. llowelitneebb the liquor men have the ascendancy in troth Wombs§ et the heislanare, sad prohibition has pang away." ../MIS I / 1 10 _PARI 01343/M -POIDZIM 168. B*W. W.B.W. : I ... o t b 1 , VI : oh, PARIS, TIIIEDAT EVININC. If the Army Bill passes to-day, which is pro 'bible, there will be a sitting to-morrow to hear laterpellations on the exciting cemetery question, and.then the Corps Legialatif will take a short holiday. The bill on the press may, it is hoped, come on for discussion -before the end of the month. A new liberal paper, with the old title of the Globe, has appeared this evening. The redaction is very strong, comprising several well-known names combined with an infusion of young blood. Per- ' mission to be sold in the public streets, which had 'I been obtained, has been withdrawn at the last moment. It is really wonderful that the paper, of whose opposition proclivities there could have been no doubt from the first, was allowed to appear at all. The sale of the Nein Jaune in the streets has just been prohibited. Several deputies mean to make an effort to call the attention of the Chamber to the arbitrary pro-' hibition of one peculiar mode of circulation to the prejudice of any journal which may displease the government. Such a jurisdiction cannot be justi fied on any theory. There are harsh laws enough to keep the opposition in check, and it is arguable that these are necessary for the protection of the' imperial government. But that the government should be enabled to say at pleasure to a particular paper, " I cannot specify any particular offence that you commit, but I don't like you, and there fore readers shall only be able to buy you in a shop i and not in the stalls where other journals are sold" is a monstrous proposition impossible to be jus tified. The operation performed by Dr. Nekton on Count de Goltz, the Prussian ambassador, was a very serious one. It is not, as might have been surmised, true that Count de Goltz went to Berlin to fetch a Prussian doctor to consult with Dr. Nekton. Dr. Kolb, the resident physician to the Prussian embassy, was Dr. Nelaton's only coad jutor. The following two bulletins have been published: I His Excellency Count de Dolts, having been able to take chloroform, did not seer during the operation, which was completely successful. His excellency has enjoyed some sleep since. His general state is very satisfactory. Ilatkrow. January 11. Dx. Kota. His excellsney's state continues to be satisfactory. NELATON. January 12 sad 13. Da. Kota. The count was under the knife for the long period of ten minutes. He is a strong man, and three people were required to hold him. The Emperor sends every day to inquire after him, and the King and Queen of Prussia and M. de Bis marck make frequent inquiries by telegraph. He takes broth and tea, and is said to be in a fair way for rapid recovery. The rumour of his recall, given by yesterday's Figaro and other journals, is very positively contradicted. A frightful accident happened at Mantes during the frost last week. A countryman made a bet that he would cross the frozen Seine there driving a cartload of hay. Twenty-eight people followed I the cart to see the result of the wager. In the middle of the river the ice broke and the whole party fell into the water ; nine only were rescued. The bodies of the others have since been found. Among the victims was the Mayor of Porcheville, a M. Canal. The child of misfortune born in the Melun prison a few days ago, of the mur deress Frigard, died on Jan. 12 in the hospital of that town. Marshal Niel has constitute d a military mission to follow the British army in Abyssinia. The Bourse was heavy. A coming loan is more talked of than ever. Assuming it to be true that *the government by borrowing from the Bank of Prance can postpone an appeal to public credit for some time, such a measure would be considered as proving the inevitable necessity of a loan. The Rente fell sc. for cash and 12ic. for account, closing at 68fr. 85c. and 68fr. 75c. Italian, which was affected by rumours of a tax upon the dividends, which many would regard aa confiscation, fell 30c., closing at 42fr. 25c. ; Credit Fonder fell 2fr. 50c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte, sc. Mobilier was without WILLIS= REPORT.-(THIS DAY.: WITIMAILY. JANI:WIT 16. $ AIL B. \T. I W. Muni 10 02r 4401 WS W Aberdeen .4141241141 8.W.W.8. W. With . ... :20.1104,42 ardressen.. 29.41 r W. Greencastle. 19.45 r 41 vetoed & ...19.81 W.N.W. Cape ClearS4744 4e, W. tochiesPi..•7o.7444:', W. Ltesepool 20. I W.d.W. Holyhead 20.8.04', W.S.W. Nemo* %WOO W. Brest 70.12,80 W.N.W. Sh 00Oss.50: & : W. Roolistorl•. 90.261 , W. Plyuloath 119.93r47. W.N.W. Werzeoalb 19.42e471 W. forlaiseall 22.9301 W. London W.S.W. Ternioalli Steal W. 6. W. ikarbereesilll 44 W. Helder MHOS: W. Bruessls 1 1 87 &W, Paris HUH 48 &W. Strasbourg-I 46 1 S.& Woes . . 60.42 411 &W. Hiart's.Oon. 20.71 f 111 N. 12 1. &w. w. 5.7. B.W. Baromther °enacted tad reduced to U deg. at tea level The letter. r (Mpg), it thnlod), ,a ( deadr), Indicate &recites of motionof themarthrwilhin male boars. Thermometer exposed In thada Extreme fares, with Redirection during lain 24 hours. 7.-calsa. Weather: 10.-blas skg ; e.- clouds (detached)ereast 1.- fns: b.--ball: 1-itithiribtil ; =•-raisty (hag) ; 0.-ov (dell); c-re. 1a; s-wow : t. -thander. istßaln fall, mow or lila matMdl, during laid 24 boars. Bea durbance. 112.11 KR. B arom etrical pregame has Incr Aß eased nearly half an Inch In the wed of Ireland since Mat evening the Ave et has I been ray . The minimum preemies are isoothed. the i readied st N beim ykinch lower then at itoebefori.. Tem- ! peraturo has dl thatmen la the north aad west, whilst I on the west coast of Yrame the weather is wsrmor . ' A gale from the west and south-west blew last evening no the western Coasts, In the English and Irish Channels, and at Leith. 1 Winds have now moderated, but at Valentla a strung wearer wind taatlll Month,. Rain las fallen over our islands Mender end lightning are reported fross stations in rfi s o llY rth and ova There la a high ma at Valencia Warnings repeated yeaterd•Y• At the re-union of the Williams College Aseociation at Boston, on the evening of New-years Day, the following letter was read from the veteran post, W. C. Bryant:—"New York, Friday, Dec- 27, 1867. Dear Bir,—You ask me for • few linos of wires to be read at your annual festival of the alumni of Williams 04 legs. ma ever ill lit occasional verses. Such as it is my vein la not of that sort. I find it difilcult to satisfy myself. Besides, it is the Member of life with ino.l I try to keep • few lowers in pots—men nwassa-1 branome of • mom genial season, which is now with the things of the pad. If I can haws • carnation' or two foe Christmas I think myself fortunate. You ' wr iter tf I had nothing to do in fulfilling your »quoit bet to go ant and gather, under the hedges and by the' tooth; • bouquet of dowses that spring simultaneously, sad throw them epos your tolls. If I wars to try, what would yes my if it proved to be waly • little bundle of dead daft sad wham& lams, whisk my dim sight had adialiskir for fresh rasa spews sad barons I So I mast seems myself as *dß as I ma, sad content layoff with wishing • wag fit attain to the foster &infirm of std William who mom sa New Yamooky, and all manner d raga* and beam . to the emalloat iastitatioa is able they wore wartand.—l ass, sir, way Indy yaws, W. 0. Dawn. Boa. Noma Washburn." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIB DAY.) EQUITY 001JRTS. (Before Vieraisiondier Biz W. Page Wood.) MDWR EIMI M. MARQUIS or cuotstosno.Er. The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment in this case, which was erased as the 17th and 18th of last December. The Hamar said that the bill had been filed by Mr. Edwards against the Marquis of Cholmondeley u landlord of property at Frodshaisi ,and histenant to restrain the defen dants from allowing to remain on their land a certain wall whereby certain windows of Esiwards's house were blocked up. The grounds on which relief had been prayed were twofold ; first, a right to the light by prescription ; and secondly. • right under the statute. Taking the first Found, it appeared that in 1784 the marquis's predecessors in title made a lease of the property on which the defen dants were building. It further appeared that such leave was granted on the surrender of a prior lease dated in 1769. Nobody affected to give any account of the origin of the honee, but it undoubtedly existed in 1789 ; and hishonour must hold that the window for which a preacriptive right was claimed was coeval with the buildiug. That would be sufficient of Heed to establish the plaintiff's right ; but it was said that, from 1818 to 1846, a Mr. Lingley. the freeholder of the dominant tenement, was the leaseholder of the servient. That fact, however, did not merge or destroy the right, inasmuch as the intere4 in one property was freehold, and in the other leasehold. - It must, therefore, be held that in 1818 a prescriptive right was acquired, and had not since been bait. Then as to the right set up under the statute, which applied to the amount of the light claimed for another part of the building. In this pert of the house the windows had undoubtedly been altered in 1e46, by having been framed and glazed according to the modern style, and it was necessary for Mr. Edwards to prove that these alterations were a simple substitution for what was enjoyed before, and that no enlargement had been made. On this point his Honour reviewed the evidence at length, and came to the conclusion that the plaintiff had succeeded in showing that prior to 1846 there had been no alteration within living memory and that during the alterations in that year the plaintiff bad not in creased the amount of light. There was a third portion of the house, as to which the evidence as the date of construction was imperfect and conflicting the pro babilities and the weight of testimony, so far as it went, were in favour of the plaintiff ; and the result must be a decree to restrain the defendants from prrmit tin! any wall or other erection to remain so to interfere or obstruct the access of light and air to the i plaintiff's windows as they bad been previously enjoyed, with an inquiry as to damages, the defendants to pay what if any should be found to have been committed ; the defendants to pay the costa of the suit too, sod including tbequ hearing ; with liberty to apply in as to the wets of the iry. fiCr. G. M. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Leonard Field appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. W. M. James. Q.C., Mr. H. F. Bristow., and Mr. Fellows for the defendants. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Justice lioviU, and Justices Willis, Keating, and Smith.) ECLLIVAN r. THE NORTH WESTERIt RAILWAY entirxNr. The plaintiff in this case was a journeyman tailor ; ho had for some time suffered from consumption, he spat , blood, and at length be was o bli g ed to go, to Irelan be d for the benefit of his health. On boa r eturn tourney was in the train, when what was known Si the Warrington asiest happened. It was said that the consequence of the accident was that the progress of the plaintiff> , diseam was accelerated, and at the trial before the Lord Chief Justice the jury awarded the plaintiff 7:o1. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., now moved for a rule foe s new trial I upon the groitod that the damages were excessive, and stated that the amount might as well have been 7,111 W. as ' 7001. as far as any relation it bore to the injury suffernl. 'What seemed to have infl uen ced the jury a good deal Ices that the plaintiffs counsel impressed upon them tint its negligence was very gross, and that the plaintiff hod since the accident lost a child. (A laugh.) The Lord Chief Justice—The origin of the lung disease bad no connection with the accident. At chamber- be stayed execution upo n the terms that 3001., apart of tho damages, should be paid at once to the plaintiff. He thought that the amount of the damages bad been influ have had thA enced by circumstances which ought not to t effect. 11r.Giffard said that he believed that if his lordship would state what ho thought should be tho amount of tho damages, both parties would agree to that sum. The Lord Chief Justice said that be had already named a sum at chambers, and he still adhered to his opinion thin expressed. Rule granted. PECLEH T. THE KOCTH WESTERN RAN.WAY COMPANY. Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., said that this also was an action to ree.over diuuagesfor injuries sustained in a railway accident, and before the Secondary the jury assessed e we damages at 1,000/. The plaintiff was a clerk to Messrs. Penn and Co., the engineers, and his salary was 2001. a year. He was away froui work o n was f an or three months, and the principal thing relied opinion expressed by a medical man that there was an in jury to the eye that might in future fee tiOlis ; but on the other band there was the beat possible idence that there was really no such injury. Under these circumstances the motion was for a rule for a new trial upon the ground that the damages were a:rewire. Rule granted. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. 1 (Before the Judge Ordinary.) HMITHSON Dr. Deane, Q.C., and D r. Swaboy for the plaint'ff ; Dr. Tristram for the defendant. This wale a suit relating to the will of the I:ev. John Miokie, a bene fi ced clergyman in North Notts, who cool- milled suicide in October, Pak but e. ideuce having Leon given of his capacity in the previous February, when the instrument was executed, The court decreed probate, but made no order as to costs , THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) Wks olr 0.4 . orb 0.10 ro 0.10 o 0.27 Ile 0.10 ; I 0.161 oe 1 0.14 oe 0.01 troll 0.10 rte 012 o 0.20 ro 0.00 rb 1 0.20 0019.00 i erb~l~ MANSION-HOUSR. THE RIGHTS or A LANDLnItn. — : se W ill iam Johnson appe ared to answer a summons ebarg- 1 i', : ', ing him with unlawfully removing his furniture to pre p, vent distraint. It appeared that the defendant occupied a house in s parish of St. Botolpb of the yearly rent of 21:4, plaid° B quarterly, and on the 31 st of December he removed the ;whole of his " goods end chattels," being then indebted - for rent in the sum of 13/. 8 Mr. Harris, solicitor, appeared in support of the sum. 4 mons, and stated that the proceedings were instituted parliament whereby the defendant hd 5 under an act se3 rendered himse lf liable to double the value of the goo ds ; removed. ilt _ J o hnson pleaded guy, and Mrs. Mason , a lodger in 4 the house was then called and proved the value of the fur -5 niture removed to be about id. 2 Mr. Oke (chief clerk) to the defendant —You have no II goods to distrain upon now ? ', Johnson—No ; [Wive bad to put them away for debt. The Lord Mayor inflicted • penslty of 12/., or iu default two months' imprisonment. The defendant was then looked up. GUILDHALL. ROBBERY BY A BHOP3IAZT. John Frost, a respectablmlooking young man, was placed at the bar before Si r Robert W. Carden c harged with , ro bbi n g his muter of half a crown, smirked money. Isaac Smith Manley said he was a tea dealer, oner ha carryind g o n business at 73, Little Bell -alley, and the prim been his shopman for upwards of two years. In conic quesce of his suspicions being aroused, he on Satur day last marked several half-crowns, florins, hillngs, 'and sixpences, and put them in the ti ll in tea afternoon. After leaving them there for shout am hour he went to the till and cleared it and found them the all safe. On Mond a y he p ut them back again, leaving puma, in the shop for one boar by himself, at was cus to tomsty, to attend t h e business. When nd he w asd as going away witness called him into th e parlour, a ashim to prodaces what money be bad. He took out of his pocket a ss. piece a marked half-crown, an d two penny pieces. lie aske d ' the prisoner how he became possessed of the marked half-crown, and he replied that washitness) had given it to him on Saturday That not true. He had paid the prisoner his wages on Saturday, but not out of money from the till. That money was all in an iroa 1 safe when he paid the Owner. He had been robbed to • very considerable extent. On Friday the prisoner took the whole hour's takings while be was saving, and Is. or 1 Ils. lonfri He felt be must make an example of the pri mialsr, ba t ha wished him to be dealt with as leniently as pub cos amount of his wife and child. Theldsonee was remanded. BOW-STREET. 18 HZ A FENIAN? James Livermore, a tall haggard -looking Irishm an, shabbily-dreamed, and apparently but ill-nourished , was brought before Mr. Vaughan, charged wi t. rind i drunk, and firing a pistol in Martlett's-court. Bow : street (opposite the polioe-oourt), to the danger of the hanliiintits. The case had created some s uperfluous ea t in the neighbourhood. owing to a rumour far as we know), that this was another, 1111.613xil as Assordlog rti to ve the enevklignanmeetrath pistol was fired at shoat 10 I r e el hest purses, 51 F. and Gough, PS A, dated that their ationtion was rolled to the p r isoner by a h person not now ponent and by one of the witnesses. Goug asked Toned Mail lissited a pistol I . He said he had not- They ape biatjoottover, s c rotal, two bottles, t u gs b? h eon p tl b n4 Ml=ikrawily discharX:and a po sad artlon bullet the cap still silineed te the nipple. On the way to the station he ra diant violently. I Tatgador Parker read a ssslomest made by the h recentdy plower at.. atadowbolooo, to th e effect that be ed 'Wm mellimi a t varior oy =of Wilma in Dublin, am Loogira, and in the p Mr. Taub' primm er -1 Mr . Vanes:, Mr. Vsug' rriaoper --1 Vangh. rr i, o ner Mr. Vaugh pner— gr. noel custohe • to f t j, , e , eont• • house in the Mr. Cony , is packer be et•tu 'demo " a be en e ie. I ked e9of ■ drunk. Mr. hie t k r ; with coked ikt ion for • ighbourb e n asked ite. He tween th Id they h a 'peel awards The presenc The 1 Ir. Lou :bolls al said the me out Ir. log itton . Witnese Itr. ing t not ko I se, t A was t got up MI pro ted io ■ bows , Ilr. Ing it =la "HE 1 This 1 an Atise t Iley. >n the fount In, II ued Wile li e d be traci r in Clued )le of Con ,tho prdei inw otnin emu rre