The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-28 00:00:00

j . THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1868. HENRY BRETT and Co.'s "0. D. V."' PURL BRANDY, len per Gaon, recommended by the Emhart prolmetto. In acme for the menlry MA, .toctedve of railway caniage.—lfolbcen-bara, sada). Isamd-orseg. adopted by the Upper House, that psi very LORD CHANCELLOR was compelled t 4 retire office in consequence of events in which eldest son, and the heir of his title, played a some what conspicuous part. But for some years neithir the law lord in whose person the principle of lift peerages was rejected nor the law-lord who illus trated the merits of the hereditary principle has done much to assist the legal business of the House of Lords. Lord WRNSLlTDALE'eadvasoedisge laid him amide; i Lord WESTBURY has not ounditoonvenient . to attend ; Lord Bsorransi has at last succumbed to years ; Lords Casawassa, Cum./wow). bosoms are allt restaa—ce • VRAIID.—CAUTION.Order BRYANT and NAY'S PATENT BA/ATY lIIATCHIB, trade mart an Art, and 11+,14 un haring them, as laskalkos ire acenatunos offered that do osn afford rioncrios >IDM 71111. T RELOAR'S COCOA NUT FIBRE MATTING, WARRANT= UNBLIACRID. fat of Prior boo by post. Warehouse. C. LG DOA HILL 'Me OVlArt%%* 've. hey ottE lood reappointment. However, the Herald is able, on the best authority, to say that the terms of Mr. Diaraeles letter were courteous and even Battering ; stating, in effect, "that although Mr. Disraeli could not, from various circumstances, offer the noble lord the position he held in the late administration, yet that it would afford him the greatest pleasured the noble lord would point out any other mode in which he might murk her Majesty to aiffnify her appreciation of his wishe d services. Mr. Disraeli will, it is thought, remain at Osborne until after the council, which will be held by the Queen to-morrow afternoon. Mr. Hunt's successor at the Treasury is under stood to be Mr. Sclater-Booth. ADVKIITISEMNNTS mug be forwarded to Messrs. J. M. JOHN• SON and Sons, 3. Cuttestreet, Holborn, aid 56 . Hatton. garden, the specially appointed Agents. span of human life. l , Younger was therefore indispensable, and Lord Cilium will perhaps be of more service to the oountry in his judicial than even in his political character in the house in which he will now ait regularly. Happily, in his cane, that illustrious assembly gains not merely ability in every department, but the credit which in an hereditary body is not unimportant-- that contributed by a blameless private life. HAYMARKET. Tins Branum, THE BROKEN-HEART= CLUE—DAVID OAEHICK. Mssurs. Sahara, Buckstons, Rogers, AG ; and M 1 M Y n.—BO AIM COX. Mr. Backstops and Mr. Compton. —And AMILY JAW& Mr. Compton. rantomirs. Tins minima, ARRAN NA POOllB. Mr. and Mrs. D. How eicault, Mr. Vining, Wawa Dominick Murray. Neville. & Shen ; Wm Barnett & sirs. idea—Attar which Tag OCTOROON. Mr. and Mr. naacicantt. Mr. J. 8. Clarke, Mr. Vining. £ MM. Slams. STRAND. THIS EVYNINO, OLD SALT. Rears. Emery, Belford, & JIBING : MU Nally Moore.—PARIS; ON, MN LEM PRIES& Yeas. James, Thorne, Robson, and Fenton ; Readapts Swanhorough, Berland, Johnstone, tlolt, &c.—Arvi COAL AND COKE. Tar juste milieu is the desire of every philosopher. " Give me neither poverty nor riches," said a sacred writer. The golden mean has been sung by poets of every race, and human safety and happiness placed by universal con sent in the middle way. In this spirit the Times applies itself to the case of Mr. EYRE and the Jamaica outrages. The time has probably come, it says, " when men of a judicial " temper may arrive at some agreement on the " facts of the Jamaica outbreak and the judgment " which should be pronounced on those concerned " in it." And this agreement it proceeds to de scribe. The Jamaica Legislature, without intending to do injustice, " sanctioned' taxes/ exceedingly " unjust in their application." Mr. GORDON cer tainly never provoked or sanctioned the outrages perpetrated by the insurgents, but he cannot be acquitted of all share in them, because he had on many occasions excited the people " by a " description of the wrongs they had snf " fered "—those very wrongs just referred to —which were so " exceedingly unjust." To take Mr. GORDON from Kingston to a district where martial law had been proclaimed " was an act absolutely " without legal excuse." The balance thus bending from aide to side at length is fixed, and the final conclusion given. The death of Mr. GORDON was not " justifiable homicide," but "excusable " homicide." Mr. EYRE partook of the contagion of local terrors and of the vehemence of local feel ing, but he had no personal animosity against Mr. Goanow and none against the coloured population of Jamaica. Everybody was right to a certain extent, and everybody to the same degree was wrong. This mode of disposing of national scandals is sufficient for the careless, and restores to those who are gently agitated the peace they desire above all things beside ; but upon others who look a little deeper and who see the issues involved, it has a contrary effect. Without figuring to themselves the results which such a dogma applied to political speakers as that " every HOLBORN. Tiffs Emmixo, THE FLYING SCUD. Wawa. And's'', Prim Garden, Arthur, Westland, and Wilrnott ; Mesdames lionrade, Goodall, Lennox, and Saundem — Cnnelude w it h VALENTINE ORSON. Mdlle. Montero, Little Howelik&e. BRITANNIA. Tufa EIVITNO, ALL BU r ONE. Mews. Reynnlda and Crawford Mesdames Graham, and Coveney.—DON QUIXOTE. Lane : l'Antondogata Nem& Deane, Louis, Newham, and We Namur Eandli . Wile. e Stephan and Nllas Rom Nathan. DION WATIR AT LONDON BRIDOK THIS DAT —Wanda& 4b. 66a...--Atternoon, sb. 13m. To-Noalow —Monk& 66 31.0 sk. liO until 12 rTICIS of BIRTHS, MARZIA4I.4, End DEATHS, ere received o'clock for insertion woe evening. Price, li. ad. - - - LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 28. THE LAW CHANGES. An announcement will probably be made to-night in the House of Commons that the Cabinet has been ' constituted, but it is understood that a further adjournment until Thursday next is more than pro bable. The new Premier will then indicate the policy of his government. I A meeting of the party will be held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury on Thursday. The successor to the vice-chancellorship will be either Mr. E. K. Karelake, Q.C., member for Colchester, Mr. J. Wickens, or Mr. R. P. Amphlett, Q.C. Mr. Spencer Perceval, who was principal secre tary to Lord Chelmaford, has been appointed prin cipal secretary to the new Lord Chancellor, and the Hon. Frederick Theaiger retains his office of gentleman of the chamber. It appeared that as Mr. Hunt was returned to parliament before the acceptance by him of any office named in the schedule in the act of last session, he must be re-elected for North North amptonshire in case of his appointment as Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Tut secrets of the Cabinet have been so far revealed that we know already that Lord CHELMS FORD has not retired voluntarily, but has been dismissed. The step is an ungracious one, what ever its motive. No man ever served his party better, more faithfully, or with less reward than Sir FREDERICK MESMER. He law all the prizes of his profession pass to others, and often to younger men, sometimes to men who had turned their coats iu order to win the robes. When late in life his party at last came into power he naturally became Lord Crum:main, but it was a brief dignity, for which be sacrificed all hope of more substantial and permanent reward. And now he is turned out by Mr. Dia- ILAELI, according to the statement of his friends, without even being allowed the opportunity of ten dering a resignation. So hard a measure dealt by his own party to one who has deserved so well of them, and who has always stood so high in public esteem, betokens either extreme exigency fn the situation, or the interposition of somewhat of per sonal feeling. Both reasons are already assigned. Mr. Mansard's apologists allege that it was im perative to obtain the support of Lord CAIRNS in the Cabinet. Lord CHELMSFORD'S supporters tell us that the now head of the Government resented the choice made by Lord CH ELNINFORD a few days ago of Mr. Hamm( to fill the vacant judgeship. If this be the cane the last severity of punishment has speedily followed the commission of the first act of virtue. Lordelismseroaii. previous appointments had been strictly and discreditably of • party cha meter. It is but a few weeks since that the ele ration of Sir C. J. Smwrri over the heads of far bettor men to the highest rank on the Chancery Bench was a scandal everywhere talked of and nowhere defended. Still later a batch of barristers wore promoted to the rank of Queen's Counsel, among whom were some names that astonished the profession. All the previous vacancies, and they were many, occurring during the late Chancellor ship had been made the occasion of Tory appoint ments. At last, having exhausted all the decent ability of his own side, Lord CHELMSFORD reverted to the example that long ago was honourably set by his early chief, Sir ROBERT PEEL, and promoted a Liberal barrister of eminent capacity and judicial qualification. Does Mr. DISRAELI'S enduring hos tility to the memory of the great Conservative Premier extend so far as to lead him to cashier whatever officer of the Crown dares to follow an example which he had set it is not necessarily a refutation of such a theory that the advance of Lord CAIRNS has been made the occasion of bringing Sir W. P•tie WooD to sit beside Mr. SaLwvie, who but the other day was pleading before the courts. A repetition of the scandal was simply impossible. No English Govern ment could have so far defied opinion as to fill the Court of Appeal from the best of our Chancery judges with men who had been nothing more than third rate barristers. There was but the choice of select ing ono of the two Conservative Vice-Chancellors, Sir J. STUART and Sir It. MALINa, or one of the two Whig Chancery judges, Lord RomizLy or Sir W. P. WooD. It would, however, have been too strong to have converted into an appeal judge any of the men whose judgments have hitherto, with a curious uniformity, been subjected to re versal on appeal. So that practically there was no alternative but to select Sir W. P WOOD. We must all rejoice that the exhaustive process has resulted in giving us a Lord Justice who will carry with him the beat wishes of the profession and the fullest confidence to the public. A career of solid success at the bar, of honest liberality as a politician, of distinguished fairness and learning on the bench, added to • character which, by its simplicity and goodness, has won universal esteem and regard, is fitly crowned by advancement to the highest post, save one, which the administration of equity has to offer. Indeed, we ought not in this special depart ment to subordinate the importance of the Lords Justices' Court even to that of the Lord Chancellor, for while their jurisdiction is co-equal, the wider avocations of the Cabinet Minister and the Chairman of the House of Lords every year more and more withdraw the latter functionary from his connexion with the Court of Chancery, and FOOTBALL.—Tat WANDERERS V. WESTMINSTER,' COBS, FRIDAT MORNINO. leave the Lords Justices' Court to be practically the acm°l3l^—nis intestine match was played reittatiaLin 1 The house of the Rev. Leslie Wilmount was supreme tribunal of Lincoln's- inn. the j e trt ; slaare th tams . et-gr i o n u d at i Westminster. tos wit ° y frem attacked l ast night by an armed party of twenty-five It is a curious coincidence that at the moment the Ledge Goal. Spirit e d teas endeavours wan made by men. Mr. Leslie refused them admittance, raw when the Peers are thus obtaining the accession of th e Wesub. powerful del oppo ' b u t t nt t he y ho w :r oviTi4a ee 2 ge b y to thfr, the alarm bell, and fired on the assailants, who awn political and judicial strength which Lord CAIRNS'S The first was got by Marton, the the second by krcerner, and m fired in return. The police hearing the alarm came liberation from other duties is intended to afford the third by Biker. The following were theryen out, and the remit= decamped. them, there is announced the death of one Tw ial , l y d . are "'. Dixon. A. Ba C liir l , L ; r . e w 6t er eaP N' .7;1 Aieesk 7. _ who was intended to be the means of in- Martin . . 0. Kennedy, J. M. Yates , sad Quinlan Hon ; Another outrage, believed to be Itsaisa, samead augurating a system under which they might have Nrain. , Curt. t c ic i a i glinl ik. Z. Giles, 0. Lee, T. WOO: in Dublin. A number of young sea were 1110161 i ArdenC. obtained a more permanent support. Lord W. U. Lsfroy, R. Vidal, and C. N Blr iehrls'oo. W ' in•Plbli°4l " B° ' No. Chigg" " A "Pinal and cee et the party shot • resa named M ic hael Wass* WENSLEYDALE, a moderately able and very con- I Ureirroesit Seemaaseres.—Easrae,lB6B.—An %h. hewer pm t h e Adam, The ass who g e ed" soientious judge, will bo best remembered as examinatios will be held for in i t . sf i l o ccl-room at Ustag. abet brammaisay fed , sad armed la the mu , a having been the body over which was fought the aim ham : seek , seneb Buster athe K ama f or eve sch value o larships, Plr err. a e robes revolver, wide woe fees& by • asa prima 01111 question of life peerages. The Conservative party &deists A.& who shall have reached the ase bawd was discharged • the Mims IF4S, 64mas was rabiwied lam —ALßM evesing ppl , Clll co r taninis ttO theLotgion k now l e d ge et the party who EMI MIL no trooll", triumphed, and the consequence is that we can isr 1 "" b • . _ MOMMdecT lima wee semo;red to the laspalal, ead now have no eminent lawyer sitting in the House Orgy of of Lords except at the price of having that eminent As baalsrs' returns made to the Inland Remo exPleasib°l"ve abash The Pililishav " lndsaggil l who la lb. pubMinvis a.tip Yam " " man must be held liable for the consequences " naturally following from his own acts" might be held to justify in irresponsible hands—men troubled with convictions and clear intelligence shrink from this delusive optimism however smiling the face it wears. A RECENT squabble between the proprietors of two musical magazines suggests some curious re flections as to the soothing properties of music. Are savage breasts softened by sweet sounds ; does ORPHEUS still charm the beasts ; or is it the fact that where the profession is harmony, the daily practice is as often marred by discord as in more prosaic walks of life ? Tho cynical aver that the serpents of jealousy and irritability occasionally enter even upon that Eden, the musical world, and that its temptations to taste the apple of discord are not invariably withstood. Colour is given to this startling theory when our law re porta tell us, as they did the other day, of an eminent tenor saying of an equally eminent orga nist, " He plays like a beast," and of these two eminent persons belabouring osch other's bodies in the presence of a lady who is herself a distin guished professor of the gentle art. So, in a case reported in yesterday's Express, when we find the proprietors of the publication called The Or chestra, after reviewing the musical monthly Bond' Street, at issue with the neighbours owning its rival, Hallow Square and the LORD CHIEF JOUTICE, • learned serjeant, and a Queen's counsel engaged in settling the form of apology to be given and accepted, we are driven to ask, " Where are the ameliorating effects of music "here r The plaintiffs were accused by the defendants of keeping a musical pie-shop, unpleasant allusions being atthe same time made which were explained • few days afterwards as conceived "in the most " friendly spirit," and further pooh-poohed as " dubious or inadvertent phrases." The court ruled this apology to be more complete than was asked for, and a farthing damages without cods and • good deal of amusement were the practical results of the action. If the musical magazines continue to in crease—and Exeter Ball, dedicated exclusively to sacred airs, and replete with " Sunday Evenings "at the Harmonium," " Rest for the Weary," and similar compositions, has already made its ap pearance—it is urgently to be hoped they will con trive to live on melodiously. Whatever strains are given to the world of music-buyers, let the discords of trade be kept out of our courts of law. Ir must be very satisfactory to the French jour nalists who are still at large, to find that the prison of Sainte-Pelagie has at this moment no LOOM for them. M. MARTIN GILBERT, who pre sented himself on Wednesday last for the purpose of spending a little time in that peculiar retreat, was refused admission. The cella, he was told, were already full. lawyer's son to succeed him in the place. It was a practical commentary on the wisdom of the coma AY.) 1 , JAMAICA COME conclusions at likich ads of a jadiaial tamper may nelk mitre Nib** cd the Jamaica outbreak, the Times * it oannot be maintained that Mr. Gordon ad ar nunotiomsd the outrages .em the ineargrasts ; but he had on many extdied them by a daseription of their every man mod be held liable ter the ) TH:I the conaequenoes naturally following hie own eels he cannot be acquitted of all share in the osireve committed. The transfer of Mr. Gordon by Mr. Eyre from Lepton to the district where martial law had bees proclaimed was, how ever, an act absolutely without legal mouser ; but it has been decided that there wee no prime facie age apart General Nelsen and Lieut. Brand, who were opelly rr sponsible for Mr. Gordon's death ; therefore, this, wee no prime facie 011111 against Mr. Eyre. Without averring that the death of Mr. Gordon was in all respects within the definition of justifiable homicide, it cannot in the *mica of the Times be denied that it wee exonsable homicide. Those who would make Mr. gyre a murderer provoke those who would make him • hero, and both claims must be condemned by Englishmen who ma in him may a man who swerved from the ideal height of eidmpaesioned serenity under circumstances of great I difileulty. . Sir Thomas Henry left the prosecutors yesterday free to prefer a now bill against lfr. Eyre before another grand jury ; but the Daily News hardly thinks it likely that the Jamaica Committee will take this coon, U for no other reason because by so doing they would delay the civil proceedings which are being taken mann Mr. Eyre by private individuals whom his sets have brought to ruin. The Jamaica Committee may reasonably consider that they have done their duty to society. The services they have rendered have been many and great. They evoked • sound public) opinion, and organised itsexpreesion at • time when we were threatened with the return and prevalent* of maxima and practices of government such as our fathers bad successfully striven to throw off. The opportunity for • complete vindica tion of the honour of England was lost through the weakness of the late government, but the condemnation of Governor Eyre is as full ass patient inquiry can make it. The Daily News hopes to have no more to say of Mr. Eyre, but it must be on condition that no attempt is made to place him again in a position where the life or liberty of a single British subject, not even a Boojernan or a con vict of Western Australia, shall be at his mercy. The Morning Herald does not suppose the prosecutors were serious in making their demand. The object of this persecution is the moral and worldly ruin of a gallant English gentleman, who did his duty to the utmost in a trying and dangerous time. YR Waist NEWS. ends SAY.) issoiss% litaauma.) FUNCE. : t ;f PARIS, Fla. 28. An imperial decree in to-day's Moniteur an nounces the abrogation of the 18th article of the commercial treaty between France and Mecklenburg. The conannions accorded by the &therein to France 111'41 a reduction to 20fr. of the duty on the 100 kilogrammes of wine in casks and bottles, and to 20 per cent. on cotton tissues, light transparent, white, or pre pared ; and Bfr. 750. on various other articles. Another decree approves the declaration signed on the 21st February, 1868, between Vrance and Italy, concerning the privileges granted to French subjects in Italy and to Italian subjects in France. The subjects of either country shall be respeCtivelY exempt from all service in the army, navy, national guard, or militia, from all judicial or municipal functions, forced loans, and military requiaitioile, &c. A ministerial ordinance signed by Marshal Niel, dated 18th February, 1868, fixes the price of ex emption from military service for 1869 at 2,600 fr. SPAIN. The Times remarks upon the inconvenience to ens tomer, attending the method of doing business at the co-operative stores. It is undoubtedly a pin to get an article for one shilling for which you have hitherto paid three, but presently purchasers will begin to understand , at what 004 these two shillings are saved. It is certainly I possible that the instinct of rebellion against ex tortion may induce a man to incur any amount of trouble for a time rather than submit, but if the profits of the retail trader represent only a reasonable con sideration for the pains and thought eoonomised by his intervention, it may be taken as certain that there will always be customers enough to find shopkeepers with a living. MADRID, FEB. 27, EVIMING. In to-day's sitting of the Senate the report of the authorities at Granada respecting the disturb ances which had recently occurred in that city in consequence of the high price of bread, was laid before the house. The report states that order had been re-established, one person having been killed and several wounded. The Telegraph Wrist/ that Mr. Disraeli, on entering office, must plainly state the policy and intentions of the administration on the subject of Ireland. The rival views of total disendownent and extension of endow- menu will be advocated with earnestness ; and we shall probably see the home divide itself into two camps. As a party the liberal rank and file in the Lower Howie will be In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the Minister of the Interior explained the causes which had led to the retirement of Senor Barzanallana from the Ministry of Finance. attracted to the cause of disendowment. Mr. Disraeli also may be prepared for deserters—men of the Newdegate school are not likely to sit still and hoar any suggestion for the endowment, however it may be managed, of the church of Rome. The other great Irish question, the fund, is shadowed by mist; bat the Telegraph would act bo surprised if onset. manta were brought forward to secure legal reoognition of the tenant's right in the improvements which he has made. A sew royal commission, with assistant oommiasioners, to visit Ireland and take evidence in every county, would bring us back a mass of most necessary and useful facts. There is nothing in the situation to preclude Mr. Disraeli from stating the Irish policy of the cabinet in its leading principles and in its general scope. The house and the country look for much a manifesto ; and for the Prime Minister to refuse it may prove to be " more than his place is worth." The Star reminds its readers that Lord Cairns laid it down last year as his solemn legal opinion that to deprive the Irish church of any part of its property would be con trary to law—would be, in fact, mere confiscation. No f undo mental change has taken place in the English laws relating to property since June, 1867. Must we not, then, infer ' that Lord Cairns la as much opposed now, on constitu tional and legal grounds, to any interference with the pro party of the Irish church as he was last year? Must we not also infer that the minister who appoints him Lord Chancellor is resolved to resist any interference with them revenues—that Mr. Disraeli, in fact, enters office with a declaration of war on that ground, against the whole liberal party of these countries—mania the wholeitoman catholic population of Ireland? AMERICA. The royal mail steamship Java, from New York on the 19th, arrived at Queenatown at 4.30 a.m. to-clay with 28 cabin passengers and 902,400 dole. in specie. She landed 123 sacks of mails and 6 passengers, and proceeded immediately for Liver pool. All well. The Java made the passage in eight days nine hours. int THE MINISTRY. Orirraß -.. rola foal( It is stated that .en rueeday. oreatog Lard his Obehnsford•reseived a marannitillion Isom Kr. ma- Disraeli, which, referring to th cement then mode of Lord Derby's • ,mg o f the woonanal inn, life writer being entrusted with formation Attempting to gt of a new Administration, proceeded to may lb balm. mall •1 a Iles at with the view of strengthening the deterat °a t h . " . 4 .4 " 01 1 1°11 ! ting power of the Cabinet in the House id Lords, 1 ahlary" tha. It caaa"l aat which had been much impaired by the retirement lam Yarfahad ea a him of Lord Derby, he could not include Lord °helms- I Woad bY ad 'wan lent ford in the listabout tobe submitted to her Majesty 1 osaaloas evened Om ,h„a for reappointment to the office of Lord Chancellor. wznnia. and ma ree7 n (By the Cunard steamer Java.) NEW YORK, Firs, 19, Nom The Senate has passed a bill for effecting the gradual reduction of the army. The House of Representatives has voted an appropriation of 50,000 do's. for the relief of American citizens imprisoned in foreign countries and subsequently discharged. The house has passed a bill authorising the sur render of foreign convicts, who escape from justice and seek asylum in this country. The bill declaring Alabama restored to the union was referred by the house to the Reconstruction Committee. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate has re ported, declaring that a simple majority of votes shall decide all elections under the Reconstruction Act, also a bill declaring that the jurisdiction of the nation 4 civil courts does not extend to poli tical questions. Mr. Sumner has presented a memorial from the citizens of Boston to the Senate, praying the aboli tion of the presidency. Chief Justice Chase has delivered an opinion in the Supreme Court overruling a motion to dis miss the Mecardle test for want of jurisdiction. Mr. Seward has issued a circular advising all American citizens visiting Great Britain and Ire land during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus in Ireland to procure passports from the State Department. The official returns of the Alabama election have been withheld from publication by General Meade. The Florida Convention has been reorganised through the mediation of General Meade. General Online has ordered the Arkansas elec tion to commence on the 15th March and continue for five days. The South Carolina Convention has asked Con gress to vote the State a loan of 1,000,000 dollars in aid of the poor. A resolution to prohibit the marriage between blacks and whites has been defeated in the North Carolina Convention. The Tennessee Conservative Convention has adopted a resolution recommending the nomina tion of Mr. Johnson for the Presidency. The Ohio Senate, by astrict party vote, has passed a resolution in favour of the repeal of the recon struction laws. A democratic mass meeting, to endorse the policy of President Johnson, was held at New Orleans on Saturday. Democratic dubs are being organised in Georgia. The Kentucky Legislature have elected Mr. Thomas M'Creery, democrat, as the senator to succeed Mr. Guthrie, resigned. OUR PARIS LETTER. (nom ous owl coizzarowDza7.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. M. Greppo, ex-representative of the people, was brought to trial at Lille yesterday for the offence of having, while travelling from Brussels to Paris in the railway, introduced prohibited literature into France in his pockets. It appears that the statement that the only con traband print found upon him was a single copy of M. Maurice Joly's " Dialogue aux Eufers entre Machiavet et Montesquieu " is not strictly accurate. According to the indictment his offence was aggravated by the possession of a num ber of the Moils Beige, a journal prohibited in Prance and two copies of a pamphlet entitled, " Napoleon 111. and the Politics of the Second Empire." Judgment is postponed to next Wednes day. The Bourse has at length been affected, and that considerably, by the news, which, notwithstanding the rumbling of the Constitutionnel and Patric for several days past, has hitherto attracted little at tention, namely, that Prance takes umbrage at Russian intrigues which contemplate an invasion of Bulgaria from Servia and Roumania to be followed by a general rising in the Turkiah province. A telegram from St. Petersburg, of yes terday's data, gives an extract from the semi-official *nal al that city, which it is well known says nothing not approved of by the Czar's government. The Itaidue organ, after particularly denying re ibnistsd statements of the Patric, says : Thus Is s todesey h eietain Freaeh loornals to pro ...brew esibiaelee name, Resole. We an set et present ; l = w e my what may be the rake* eigaiacesee , bet the Wets= of it is undeniable. It was rimoured at the Bowie to-day that a ilartioWhed been sent from Franoe to Prussia. 'Mb Niue biome, the Patric being idleut, hes an littrinteisuld ocadradiction of this report, saying ;L o gy • • I I WI bwe mom to bansmilisilbaabis el es mama affeelsil iridEst irritc;. _ • • .044914.11 A ~ 1 v•. .2.l.ltUveisalee' the Cuurt. OSBORNE, Pen. 27. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, in a landau and four, attended by the Duchess of Athole and Miss Macgregor. The Hon. Colonel 1)e Roe rods as Equerry in Waiting. Princess Louise drove out, attended by Miss Stopford. Prince Leopold drove out, attended by Mr. Duckworth. Prineem Beatrios rode, attended by Miss Bauer. Sir William *Tanner, Bart., arrived, and had the honour of dining with the Qeeen. The Queen went out this morning, accompanied by Prisons Louise. Prisms Hestia walked out, attended by Miss Bauer. Prism Leopold walked and drove, attended by Mr. Dusk - worth. Sir William Jenner left for London. The Princes of Were drove out, attended by the Coun ter of Koran. . Yr. Goaity, on the part of the committee, presented to I the Prinoem; of Wales a Bible, from the teachers end scholars of a large ;number of Sunday schools of Great Britain and Ire/and. Prince Cl;ieliea, attended by Camel G. Genies, west to tie Wbgeor Steepieeheeee yesterday. The Prince of Wales is at present on a visit to the Duke of Beaufort st Beth:Antes. His royal hiphases , bes with him s palace of his own sporting "tad, sad ea two days he has followed the delese hounds, booby boa ed on sash mansion by brilliant Aside. The seeM Is lathy marked by pest festivities at Bedmintem-lwess, ahem $ hiskionable oompspay is mesmbled. The Pala vl3l return to Sandringham' to-day. lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last evening his Bacelleney the Pruden Ambassador sad the Canton Bernsterif, the Pod sad Boonton of Lizlia lia awl semi Damien al Eisibselioy, the (Deaner) "Vismeaklee Oseebeneare, Lard Snot, ILP., the Boa. WON" sad Nee Ashley, the Elm Ashley Ponscaby sad Nee. Me. resegaby, Sr. and Kra. Biaahoffiludm, Sal. Feed, NU. Mr. Bolin. ALP., sad Mr. sad Mark MOW. fallowing story is alma! is Pais :—The gainsays' nankeen of the Belem pm, d Oenstaatinegla flea thee to thee, bells d Pioropiemea pie' amen milis ego Iliad Praha bad a denotes party at his snap. ins= issidsmea At thole bills mu ova stipette artily adhered* with the sole meglisa that ' Takla lake remain is their sprain% where tin vistaed only by the fair sex. A young Was% wee PioNelas the peeept of lf &velem the Gres', . tespesible is this owlet,* pve his arm to the with hie thief sad led bar to Nee harem. Whoa he had the texeshohl he seemed to be ballad to spa it, Fund Pada% oho Ina estohlal ell th e = le r NO . _ _ the - , 011108 pursuance of add plasaf. The rioonk - or - 4 Win 1t Vie • o _ - - the s ' Porflooo smut, roiclosoo, and osoopation of gag* g e foooriolg el Or wine. Beloseols Moe .411.111114. to idio, _ _ the Today itiMoloOk WSW bid 10 aldose in purigster. - !I' TlaLle• •: Tow rinks oil Yin'_'Ml% tr- wf., E. s ..• . •. Jl6 A Janct. W• .1. a .11r ..t..eitt atm,. ~ a hst waft& THE LATE LORD WENSLEYDALE. The death of Lord Wensleydale, better known, perhaps, by the nonlegal community as Baron Parke, of the Court of Exchequer, occurred on Tuesday last, in the 86th year of his ardehip's age. He was born at Highfield, near Liverpool, in March, 1782, and was educated at the Macclesfield Grammar School, whence be proceeded to Cambridge and entered Trinity College as a pensioner in October, 1799. In the following year he was elected to a scholarship, and three years later he took his B.A. degree as fifth wrangler and senior chancellor's medallist. In 1804 he was sleeted to an open fellowship at Trinity, and about ten years later was called to the bar of the Inner Temple, where he soon dis tinguished himself by his ability and industry, and obtained a lucrative practice, particularly on the northern circuit. The noble lord did not obtain the honour of a call to the inner bar, nor did he ever attain the rank of attorney or solicitor general ; but he was raised to the judicial bench direct from the ranks of the junior counsel, in 1828, when he succeeded the late Sir George Holroyd as one of the puisne judges of the Court of King's Bench, and was trans ferred to the Exchequer Court six years later, on the death of Baron Taunton. After an experience of twenty years on the bench Lord Palmerston pro posed to confer on the learned judge the distinction of a life peerage ; but this proposition was rejected by parlia ment, a resolution being carried to the effect that a life peerage did not confer the dignity of a seat in the Upper House ; and, thereupon, Mr. Baron Parke was created a peer in accordance with the established custom. Ia 1817 Lord Werudeydale married Cecilia, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel F. Barlow, of Middlsthorpe, York shire ; but, as there is no surviving male issue, the title becomes extinct with the death of its first possessor. THE ABYSSINIAN CORRESPONDENCE. A voluminous Blue-book containing the corres pondence respecting Abyssinia was published this morn ing. The book occupies 740 pages of printed matter, and contain copies of no less than 843 dispatches and docu ments of various kinds. The correspondence relates to affairs of Abyssinia between the years 1846 and 1868. The last despatch of the aeries is one dated the 16th ult., written by Colonel Stanton to Lord Stanley, in reply to a despatch from the foreign minister, twinning him to make representations to the Viceroy of Eppt on the subject of the inconvenience and embarrassment which the presence of the Fannin fortes was likely to create for the expeditionary army. The Viceroy, it appears, promised to *end orders immediately to Masao. wah to withdraw one battalion from the garrison. Among the papers is the following despatch from Lord Stanley to King Theodore : " Foreign-office, Sept. 9, 1867.—T0 his Majesty Theo dore, King of Abrednia.—Many months have now elapsed since the Queen, my sovereign, on the 4th of October, 1866, and her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by command of her Majesty, on the 16th of April of this year, appealed to your Majesty in order to obtain the release from the captivity in which they have for a long period been most unjustifiably held, of officers sent to inyour court on public matters, and of other dividuals who have come under your control. But your Majesty has disregarded those meessedve appeals, has made light of the remonstrances and representations of the Queen, and has rejected the friendly overtures which have so repeatedly been made to you Queen any command. It is impossible for the any longer to endure such conduct on the part of your Majesty, and her Majesty has, therefore, given orders that 6=l%faros, under the command of Lientenn Robert Napier, K.C.8., should without nig ester your dominions, and obtain from you by fore, a sow cake which you have hitherto withheld from friendly =ntation. For the result of this maw% er may be the consequences of it to your throne and to your country, your Majesty can alone be held responsible throughout the civilised world ; and althou gh the Queen would fain hope that, even in this i last hour, your Majesty may be induced to listen to words of peace, and avert, by full and immediate c° the attacks which in a short space of ::: ris a be directed against you, I am commanded by the Queen to warn your Majesty that the course of action which I now make known to you is irrevocably de. tarmined on, and that the only means of grze=yezor e country from war, and your own power will be found in the delivery to the oesnmandsi d the British invading army of all the European prism= In your keeping ; and it is the earnest non of tie Quinn that this last opportunity which her Majesty offers to you may be taken advantage of by your Majesty, and that peace may be so misread between England and Abyssinia. Ha thus fulfilled the mar mend of the Queen my I bid your Majeity heartily farewell.—Your sincere d, (Signed) " STAMM" F'KNIAN OUTRAGB. (7101 001 ow Whatever may be the cause, there was a va ry serious fall in Bente, which closed yesterday B , t 69fr. 374 c., and dropped at one moment as low a s 68fr. rfic. It afterwards rallied, but left off with much heaviness, at 69fr. for cu l t, and 69fr. 21}c. for account, with a fall o f 50c. and 350. Italian fell 55c. ; Credit Fonder, 22fr. 50c. ; Mobilier, 10fr. ; and Comptoir d'E„. °envie, Mr. The money article of the says : The upward movement which has been g o i ng 04 since January was neither serious nor durabl e no the Bank of !kenos returns and the railway receipto surely indicate. The sources of savings are ciri o d Confidence is alike shaken in polities, ka nnee tr , d 7 and industry. The Bank returns are again worse. yh tre • further augmentation of eighteen millions in the bullion. and • falling off of nine millions in the discounta Thus figural, mays the Avner Nationaf, show conclusively the business is stagnant, and that an uneasy feeling previa,. PUBLIC MEETINGS.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOE JLI /L IN Y, _ _.__ oger. J:! : n enw oo ast n Ah th eeil e dot h ithi alf sithe -y s / v ilcytorißmeetinsT:e7hairinouf.., tuphiLukini.eonrtbu-ty accordance with the provisions of the Company's ~tr . Major H. Jilt SHARP. The report presented at the meeting of the shareholders y esterday having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re. po. rt, said that after the presentation of ouch a full kenunt it could not be necessary for him to make an y remarks. The debenture-holders were new • t o p e part of the company, and whatever beneht e l rt. `udders must benefit them. He then referred to the 'the ory • of the Arrangement Act, which he said with faults • nd deficiencies had been of great use, saving rho debentrt re holders from much loss and the shareholders f rom nth 1. He called upon all present to act in a c „ e . dijm oro , spirit, and to beware of any who would sow di . .. a ., t among them. That fine property was not to be frittered I , way to gratify the selfish ambition of indi. v id os j o , (Ll,•eers.) He then paid a tribute to the manager, Mr. Forbes. What that unfortunate line, he went on to say, wanted wee repose, and with all due respect for a l oome d body of whom he had a wholesome fear, he would observe that they must throw otf the lawy ers , (He ar, hear, and cheers.) When th e t ra ffi c we developed, through arrangements with other rum. ponies, they might arrive at the halcyon days of dirt. dead. He really believed that the company had now seen its worst. Although there was a great deal of mud, there was nevertheless beneath that • good foundation. (Cheers.) The mortgagees' directors ham): been accused of appointing themselves under the bill, he begged to say that he should resign his seat, leaving it to o th er . to re-appoint him if they pleased. Mr. Dixon would follow his example, and he hoped Mr. Hodgson would do the same. (Cheers.) Mr. J. H. POWELL, in seconding the motion, referred to the increase which had recently taken place in the traffic, remarking that that Mayas was by 110 means exceptional. A good deal of progress had h made in the sale of the surplus lands during the half-year, and the amount of money thus obLinol was very considerable. As to the question of pr. orities, which it was very desirable to have settled as early as possible, a petition raising all questions at wire was being prepared by counsel, and would shortly be pr e . seated to the Lords Justices. Alluding to the disputes with two financial companies, he contended that right was on the side of the debenture holders, who were misled by the statements put forward respecting the capital. He hoped the debenture holders would unanimously support the directors in the course which was being taken on that subject. (Cheers.) The policy of the board towards other companies had always been one of conciLiAkei. Within the last few days negotiations had been entered into with the Crystal Palace Railway Company which the directors hoped would conduce to the interests of the Le. don Chatham, and Dover Company, and he trusted that ere long the board would be able to effect arrangements with the Kent Coast and the &senorita Companies which would be equally beneficial. Mr. It. Honoaott (a mortgage director) complained of the *minion of one class of debenture-holders from the arrangements which had been made. He then ex• pressed his disapproval of the proceedings against the General Credit Company and the Imperial Mercan tile Company, contending that it would bars been much better to submit the matter to arbitra. tion. The surplus lands were the great bone of contention between the parties, and Lord Cairns had declared ttat those lands formed no part of the security of the de beanie-holders. The only persons directly concerned were the exkusion shareholders, and if they wished to carry on a suit let them do so at their own cost. 'fur complaining that certain creditors had been paid oat of tolls, thus obtaining a priority over the debenture holders, he suggested that the accounts should be referred back fa a fresh audit, denying that they had been audited except from the shareholders' point of view. Mr. Score, after saying that he thought the company had now fairly turned the corner, expressed a hope that Mr. Hodgson would follow the example of the chairman by resigning. Mr. HODGSON observed that that question could not be raised until that of the election of the directors was before the shareholders. A SHARXHOLDER having asked Mr. Hodpon to mutt whether or not he intended to resign, Mr. HODGSON declined to answer till the proper time. Mr. SCOTT went on to allude to differences between Mr. Hodgson and the other directors, and contended that it was not desirable that he should remain on tho board. Ic conclusion he intimated that he would move a resolution to that effect. Two or three shareholders objected that Mr. Scott n.s out of order, and, in deference to the evident feeling of the meeting, he set down. Mr. uaestaiNoros dissented from the opinion of the chairman that the debenture holders were co-partner. with the shareholders. The line ought to have been handed over to the debenture holders, as would have been the came under similar circumstances in America. (Cheers.) Mr. MACDONALD, who M Will announced, amid deririre laughter, was the general manager of the General Credit Company, but who stated that he was also a debenture holder, deprecated litigation on the part of the board. lie denied that any attempt had been made to settle the dim puts with the Gfteral Credit Company. The statement in the report that the company which he represented were sureties for Veto and Co., was not true—they were cre ditors. Mr. Hartaidge admitted that his company were swindled by the London, Chatham, and Dover Company. The money was obtained for the purposes of the corm pony, and therefore it was liable. (Cries of " Ob, The General Credit Company was swindled, and this corm poration (the London, Chatham, and Dover) was the re newer of stolen go o ds . (Loud expressions of dimmer.- ' bation.) The CHAIRMAN protested against the use of such lan guage and appealed to the meeting whether they would continue to listen. The meeting decided not to listen, but Mr. Macinis amidst great uproar, for some tune persisted in 'peat*. Mr. POWELL (director), said the Vios-Chancellor ind decided, in opposition to Mr. Macdonald's view, that the accounts as between Mears. Pito and Co. and the London, Chatham, and Dover Company did enter into the question of the General Credit Company's claim. (Hear, bear) Mr. BATEMAN advocated a settlement of disputes 131 athitrstion, instead of having recourse to Chanoer). Mr. Bunn also opposed persistence in law, retuaripug that four sets of lawyers had been employed in the variQW suite. After some further discussion the report was sdoptei, with two dissentients. Mr. MIAMI, the retiring mortgagee director, was re• sleeted. Mr. HODGSON declined to retire, end a resolution sag upon him to do so was negatived. The proceedings terminated in the usual manner. OALCUTTA AND SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY• An extraordinary general meeting of share holders was held this afternoon, at the offices, ho. 211, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, Mr. J. Book DAILS in the chair ; when a resolution senetioonkg transfer of the railway to the Secretary of State for lsda, wee submitted, and unanimously adopted. The Cismanan briefly congratulated the prof rietto anon the result of their negotiations with the government , after which the proceedings terminated, having only toted a few minutes. Mr. John Reid, who upon the establishment of eountry branches by the Bank of England in ver ea appointed the Manchester agent, has now retired after 40 years' service), and some friends, anzions to show their MUM, have presented him with a testimonial in Mow plate and 3,0001. in money. In connection with Br. Beid's retirement the remarkable circumstance is dated that during the 40 years of his management of the branch not a shilling has bees lost by bad debts. Sr. CoLemsrs.—A letter from Rome, in the Ames of Madrid, Mails that one of the cases el basilamiies at pressen mahmitted to the Sawed Cmino gneiss Y that of ahriebrephee eohunbas the disavow of Ameba. Thepreposalis mid tobe dee to aselinalDotmet, Arabian, el Bonham The Leona po bli s hesa long letter addressed by Ids miseries to the Prim on the subject It is to be that the devotees of the saint riot wit dam to lostween him and the Irish !unit 04Innhse keg ago reesbred Melees of oilcans' amommorma. ACTS&OILDWART FICi7NDITY.—LiIit week sow of fie 2 to W. J. Besa•l e gs o uzb a • am. INA tie ferr — iwpi_ae,e as • INer, 21 el "Wei woe bus safse.WlNrwil Okmaiek .a~ .~,,. / A 11. .e>,4).