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Oa LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. Ix the present condition and mood of Ireland and its people, all facts relating to Irish industry are so important and interesting, that it no wonder that any notice of its domestic service draws out a response from many quarters. The " Irish woman" who opened the subject in the Times, can hardly be surprised that some of her readers dissent from her views, and yet more from her practice, when she speaks of the hopelessness of making good servants out of her countrywomen by the ordinary methods, and calls on Government to train them, or when she quits the country, and for her part gives the matter up. In almost any other case the public and the newspapers would leave housewives of any rank to suit their own convenience as to how they manage their domestic concerns, and where they would live so as to make themselves most comfortable ; but in the case of Ireland every branch of industry is so illustrative of every other, and of the social condition of the country, that the state of domestic service is as worthy of notice as that of small farming, or flax growing, or manufactures, or the increase or de crease of the shopkeoping, out of which a middle class should bo constantly growing. There is no' occasion to criticise the housewives who offer their testimony. We arc concerned only with the facts they produce ; for a right understanding of the facts will infallibly teach individuals their own interest and their own duty, while no remarks from strangers on their choice of a mode of life are likely to have any practical effect on their domestic con- The first thing that strikes an observer is the narrowness of view and the shallowness of judg ment which pronounce on the unfitness of any nation of women for women's work, from the expe rience of a few households in a particular neigh bourhood, in the present day, or year, or genera tion. If the phenomenon is real—which is the' first question—it is so remarkable that its causes must have been of long standing, and must extend over a wide range. The " Irishwoman" herself gives up the reality of the phenomenon as a case of natural incapacity when she tells us how women of the Celtic race on the Continent make excellent servants ; but we have more direct evidence than that in our• experience of Irish servants in England, and our observation of them in Canada and the United States. Across the Atlantic, if we find a household blessed with " a perfect treasure "—a friendly old nurse, or housemaid, or cook, who keeps everything clean, and straight, and comfort,- able ; or a butler who keeps the key of the cellar, and has had charge of the plate for twenty years ; or a coaclunan whose horses are the family pride, while the c.irn and hay bills are always moderate, those servants are pretty sure to be Irish. Nothing can be more startling to guests than the aspect of such households, if those guests have happened to visit from house to house in Ireland. To understand it, it is neces sary to go back some way—a generation at least. Thirty years ago, we will say, if English guests stayed in an Irish country house, the first hint they received on going to their rooms was by being requested to keep their drawers locked, for which purpose the key was put into their hands. The first spectacle in the morning was the lady of the house bringing the loaf and the butter to the breakfast table, and cutting off the due number of slices of bread to be toasted, and giving out the allowance of butter for the kitchen. From house to house the servants were insulted in this way before the eyes of English strangers ; and then fol lowed the complaint of the worthlessness of native servants, and the difficulty of getting any. If these same servants went to America, and found them selves trusted with the house stores, and the economy of the cellar and stable, the difference in their repute and quality is easily accounted for. We are told that the case is far otherwise in Ireland now ; and we hope indeed it is. The emigration has wrought in that direction, as well as in so many others, for the advantage of the labour which re mains. But it should be remembered that the daughters of mothers who were treated in that way are not likely to go to service if they can get their bread in any other way. Tradition has a vivid as well as a long life among the Irish, and neither priest nor peasant is likely to let this class of stories die. Out of Ireland, again, there is nowhere the fear of the priest and the confessional that there still is at home. The key of the drawers was meant as a safeguard not only against theft but spying. If there was anything odd in the temper or behaviour of any domestic in a Protestant family, the priest was supposed to be at the bottom of it. On con fession days it was common to see traces of anti pathy in the manners of master or mistress towards the servant ; and there was something new to English visitors in the care about being overheard, or the suspension of all talk OW coeinmeetal politics when the footman or waitiermaid animsd the room. In the Colonies et the United fltetea nobody dreams of such anxieties. Thereat,' he a smile at the alliance between the pries, entk-his charge, or at the inconveniences belonging to fasts and feasts, but there is no restraint on either side. These things quite account for the high quality of Irish servants away from home, and for the pre ference of Irish girlhood for cabin life, with its freedom and its pigging ways, to domestic service on such terms as tradition tells them of. There is nothing more striking in humble life in Ireland than the industry of the women when they can earn solid cash by work at home, or in the mill, or warehouse. The first step out of the dirt and discomfort of gross field labour was taken when handiwork for sale was introduced into the cabin. The cabin grew tidier, and the women and girls cleaner and more self-respecting. One of the worst effects of the famine in the west of Ireland was the stoppage of the domestic manufactures on which the people largely depended. We know something of the lace-making in the south-west ; and when we remember that the girls in the cabins were earning above 80,0001. per week from the Glasgow merchants by sewing muslin after the famine, we may understand that it was not alto gether idleness, or love of dirt, that kept them out of domestic service. The number thus employed was little under half a million. Again, we must remember the curious fact that after the impoverish ment of the country by the famine and fever, the maintenance of the population devolved upon the wo men and children, to an extent unknown elsewhere and in other times. The cheapest labour could get employment ; and thus, the women and children were hired for all sorts of work, and the men kept the house, boiled the meal, and nursed the babies. There was another consequence of the visitation which shows that there is no natural disqualifi cation for the domestic arts in the Irish consti tution. The workhouses were, and we hope still are, very unlike those of England, and the pau perism of that time involved no disgrace. In such of the workhouses as were in fact schools, the girls showed themselves as apt in learning and practising household duties as their relations in America. Many thousands of orphan girls have issued from that training cleanly in person and habits, neat handed in household work, and fit for the service of mistresses who will take the trouble to teach and train them in the special business of their service. This is no argument in favour of such Govern• ment manufacture of domestic servants as the " Irishwoman " recommends. We believe that our correspondent " Philocelt" is right in suppos ing that such a movement would empty the girls' schools at once, their success being mainly due to the strong love and ambition of learning which distinguishes the poorest of the Irish, and liable therefore to be forfeited at once by any change which should point in the direction of the conve nience of the higher classes. Another correspon dent of the Times, " An Irish D. L.," will carry the general judgment with him in proposing that the housewives themselves shall undertake the special training. The schools secure cleanliness of person, orderly and obedient habits, a cultivated intelligence, and the arts of the needle. This much is for the good of the scholar. Once go beyond this, and consult the good of the gentry, and the spirit of suspicion will be aroused, and the ground gained will be lost. We are not bound to take charge, more or less, of the employers' convenience in the case ; but if we are to say what we think, it is this : Either the Irish girls can or cannot be made good servants of. Aa they are so everywhere out of Ireland, the presumption is that there must be a way to suc cess if it is patiently and kindly sought for. If not, the Irish who will not work in that line have no right to complain that others will ; and Irish ladies who desire to live at home must obtain English or Scotch servants. If they prefer leaving home and country to the trouble of training Irish, or the expense of hiring English servants, their love of home and country cannot be so strong as to entitle them to speak for anybody but themselves. We suspect that in America they would be found, withina year from their arrival, among the hotel population, who make a sacrifice of home altoge ther on account of " the everlasting difficulty about servants." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) dissentient voice in fewer of the bill; and he believed hires, that every One* member would be satins he se: roams with the ebbed of his coustitnents in giving a oordlet *Port to the bill of the government. Yr. Wlliren was also it speaker eppreseing the hope that the Scotch bllallitdd fellow inseradiately ae the passing of the present bill for England, and that the question would be dealt with this session. THR IRISH CHURCH. Quoting some of Sir J. °rare statistics, which show that within the last two centuries the proportion of protestanta to catholics in Ireland has diminished from more than • third to less than • tenth, and that even in Ulster, which was entirely colonised by English and Scotch settlers, the Roman catholics constitute more than half the population, the Times observes that these and other statements in his speech are conclusive as to the injustice of the existing system ; but it is only clumsy statesman ship to see, as he appeared to do, no other remedy but simple abolition. Contending that the grievance con data, not in the fact of protestant endowments, but in the absence of any corresponding endowment of Roman catholicism, the Times proceeds to urge that the ascen dancy of the establishment which constitutes the grievance will be destroyed if we consent to endow the anta gonistic religion with similar advantages. The hard ship does not consist in the bare fact that 10 per cent. of the Irish people enjoy 700,0001. a year, but that the remainder of the population enjoy nothing. The most obvious remedy is to supply the deficiency. If this ques tion is ever to be settled at all, it must be by the intro duction of some decided and comprehensive men. sure under the guidance of a strong and united government, and the Times does not doubt the diffi culties of the subject might be overcome. The Daily New thinks the attitude adopted by the go vernment yesterday evening is not one which can be con templated with sympathy or with approval. There is something infinitely more discouraging in the denial of claims admittod to be just than in even the most irrational controversy so to their justioe. However, her Majesty's minis ters wish to do right, and are only waiting for power and opportunity to do it. At present they appear to favour the attainment of religious equality in Ireland rather by uni versal endowment than by impartial clisendos ment. The idea is probably a trendtion•l one. To carry it out would be to court difficulties, and even to rush upon impossibili ties. The Roman catholic clergy wisely and firmly refuse State support ; and while it is declined by them it cannot be permanently held by others. The Herald gives the reason why the catholics increase in Ireland. It is because, while catholic Celts have married almost before they were out of their childhood, and have multiplied with • rapidity which, out stripping the growth of capital and overburdening the laud, brought misery and fanine upon them, the English and Scotch protntants have been thrifty and careful, have forborne to marry until they saw reasonable prospects of maintaining a family, and have in- creased in wealth and comfort faster than in numbers. Dose this fact constitute any claim to favour on behalf of the church of the reckless and thriftless majority ? Does it diminish the right of the church of the careful and in dustrious minority to the property and privileges which she has enjoyed for 300 years? So far from being a proof that she has used them ill, this comparative inferiority of numbers bears evidence in her favour. The tergiversation of the present government indicates • disposition on the part of liberal statesmen to sacrifice the Irish establishment to the necessities which oblige them to contract an alliance with the Roman catholic clergy and their nominees in parliament; but they would hurt her leas than themselves. The disendowment of the church and not merely the discstablishment is what is wanted, but three centuries of enjoyment are a title which it would be as dangerous as it would be criminal to set aside. The Tekgraph inclines to retain state endowments in Ireland, but to admit Roman catholic and presbyterians to a participation in the revenues now appropriated by protestants—revenues which, according to Lord Dufferin, amount to 480,0001. per annum. The Star says that if Mr. Chichester Fortescue is at all jealous of l's reputation for consistency and logic he will do well in future to follow the advice given to a new judge, who was recommended to give no reason for hi s decisions. It may be very prudent for the government to decline to interfere with the li:sh church, but it is a curious and somewhat scar dalous circumstance for the Chief Secretary for Ireland to urge in support of that determination argument which irresistibly prove that the Irish church is an inde fensible, oppressive, and ;rritating public eviL Had the government frankly supported Sir John Gray's motion they would have done much towards the formation of that public conviction which will one day effectually settle this question. LIW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Hoboyd.) IN HE WEINHARDT. —APPLICATION FOR BiticiM. The bankrupt in this case was formerly a banker at Berlin, and had recently resided at Camden-road-villa'. He had been snorted under • judge's order, ea • Galilee to hold to bail, affidavit being made that there was reason to believe that he was about to quit the country. There upon the bankrupt had filed his petition, alleging that his failure was attributable to losses in business am a banker. Mr. Reed, in support of the application, said the bank rupt denied that he had any intention of leaving the coun try, and was prepared to give substantial bail for his at tendance at the meetings under the benkruptcy. Having regard to a recent decision of Mr. Judie. Willis, it was contended that this was all that could reasonably be re quired. Mr. Bagley oppooed the application, and urged that the Court should not interfere at so early a 'stage of the pro ceedings, the choice of assignees not having taken place. The question of bail would be more properly entertained after the creditors had met and chosen an assignee. His Honour said that where • bankrupt had been I arrested under a judge's order to bold to bail, the Court ought to exercise Re discretionary power to release with great caution. He was quite ready to act upon the opinion which had been expressed by Mr. Justice Willer, where it was shown that the creditors would be benefited by the bankrupt's release. In the present case, however, he saw no reason for inter fering with the common law rights of creditors. The liabilities were large (about 15,00014, and as the choice of assignees had not taken place, the application must stand over till after that sitting. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulbum) IN HE COBHAM.—PETITION DISHIRSKEt. The bankrupt, George Frederick Cobham, • builder, of I Northumberland-street, Strand, and of Gravesend, ob tained adjudication against himself, in January last, filing it the time the usual three days' statement of his debts and liabilities. Application was subsequently made that the petition should - be dismissed on the ground that several debts were omitted from the three days statement. The case was argued on a former day by Mr. Reed, Mr. Steele, and Mr. C. R. Lewis. His Honour now gave judgment. After referring to the 93rd section of the act, and to the rules and orders founded thereon, also to the case of Tyrie, recently decided by Mr. Commissioner Holroyd, his Honour came to the con clusion that where the omissions from the three days' statement were trivial, of small amount and such as might be the result of mistake or oversight, the court had power to give leave to amend. Here, how ever, the omissions, four in number, were serious, and of large amount, several hundreds of pounds, and such that no one could suppose them to have escaped the bankrupt's memory. The Court must, therefore, hold that the state ment was not full, true, and accurate, but was wilfully and intentionally inaccurate and false . 'Under these circum stances the petition must be dismissed, with costs against the bankrupt. Mr. Reed asked the Court to suspend its order a few days, to give opportunity for lodging an appeal ; but his Honour declined to accede to the application. IN RE S. WILHILM& The bankrupt was described as a merchant tailor ; late of the Poultry. This was the sitting for examination and I discharge, but no accounts had beau filed. Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, asked for an adjourn ment. The bankrupt, in the course of last autumn, had sold his business to • company for 50,0001. He had previously called his creditors together, and had paid them lOs. in the pound, and expected to pay the remainder out of the purchase-money of his business. Disputes had arisen as to the terms of purchase and suite in equity had been commenced, but there were hopes of an amicable arrangement. The company having retained possession of the books, the bankrupt had not been able to prepare his accounts. He suggested that there should be an adjournment sine die, without any imputation on the bank-upt. Adjourned accordingly, with protection for two months. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice Lush.) THE ALLEGED MURDER AT MENSAL-GUST. Daniel Ft, more, 35, dairyman, was placed at the bar, charged upon an indictment and also by the coroner's in quisition with the manslaughter of his wife, Mary Elmore. The prisoner, it wall be remembered, was originally charged with the more serious offence of wilful murder, but the grand jury threw out the bill, and found one for manslaughter only. The prisoner pleaded guilty to that charge. Mr. Sleigh, who appeared for the pziFi ect ne r . urged in his behalf that he was a hard-working le man, who had done all in his power to keep hiefamily respectably, but his wife, unhappily, was constantly drunk, and caused him a great deal of unhappiness. Upon the occasion in question the prisoner found his unhappy wife drunk and endeavouring to stand upon her head outside a publichouse, surrounded by • crowd, and in • moment of sudden irritation he knocked her down, and , kicked her while she was on the ground. T he injuries ' she so received were undoubtedly the cause of death, but the prisoner threw himself upon the mercy of the court, and he on his behalf asked for • lenient sentence on ac count of the circumstances under which the act was com mitted. Several respectable witnesses were examined who gave the prisoner an excellent character as a hard workin3, well-conducted man, who had dune all in his power to break the unhappy deceased of her drunken and depraved habits. The learned judge said he would consider what sentence should be pronounced upon the prisoner. ,9 11 il i t , 2 THE EXPRESS , JOHN BROGDEN. or the suspension of all talk "Wart cohiinehlal diaseptient voice ink politics when the footman or waiting-maid anima inigl , th" " 41 Y ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, the room. In the Colonies or the United Stntes 16, HENRIETTA-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. oordialsepport to that maws with the iglgi nobody dreams of such anxieties. Thereat,' he it y es spea k er , so JOHN BROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. smile at the alliance between the pries, eink-his w bi l ;ifoinn fellow hems charge, or at the inconveniences belonging to fasts bill for England, and JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. and feasts, but there is no restraint on either side. with this session. These things quite account for the high quality of TIC !I JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD ALBERT CHAINS. Irish servants away from home, and for the p re- Quoting some of tai ference of Irish girlhood for cabin life , with its that wi ' the lea - -- ------- ,, a- , a , a clean nnfiocH CHAIN& freedom and its pigging ways, to domestic service of toms to oath AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The Times points out the singular fact that in the late communications exchanged between Austria and Prussia absolute silence is preserved as to Schleswig and Hol stein, but this is really at the bottom of all their re crimination. Count von Bismarck's design was to ply Austria by a variety of measures at once. But his threats were carried too far, and Austria when menaced with war suddenly accepted the issue. She could not attempt to save her small army of occupation in ,:stein, but she could threaten Silesia. So she ssancentrated her troops on the Prussian frontier, and then, when Prussia responded by similar concentra tions, demanded to know the intentions of her antagonist. The Cabinet of Berlin replies as we now see, sad the two governments vie with each other in disclaiming any inten tion of aggression. Sooner or later the question must he asked and answered, what Pruevia intends to do with Schleswig and Holstein. At pretent Austria thinks that Prussia means to seize the Ducl-'es by force, and she pre parts force in return. I'. assia for the present hesitates ; but if Austria persist, the Court of Berlin must neces sirily sacrifice either its ambitions projects or its hopes of peace. The Post thinks we may assume that the substantial tenor of the note now addressed to the Prussian govern ment is, that in the event of the latter not taking steps to satisfy Austria that she is not the object of attack, the Diet will be callad upon to interpose its authority and call on the several states of the confederation to provide an army for the preservation of the peace. It is a proposition of this kind which, co far as we can judge, Prussia is now desirous of forestalling by summoning a special parliament representing all Germany, and armed with powers to declare the confederation of 1815 dissolved. Count Bismarck's appeal to universal suffrage does not seem to the Herald to be made with any definite intention other than that of defeating the plans of Austria. In demanding the discontinuance of the Prussian armaments . Austria has gone too far to recede. Either Prussia must yield, or there must be war—at least, it seems difficult to find any escape from the alternative. As the obvious policy of Berlin was to gain time, the present state of affairs being almost u disastrous to Austria as open warfare, the Austrian statesmen, the Telegraph thinks, showed ability in nuking a move which should compel their antagonist either to declare war or to abandon his pretensions ; but Count Bismarck, by his bold project of a universal suffrage parliament, has again se cured time and avoided the necessity of giving a positive reply. the €unrt. WINDSOR CASTLE, Aran. 10. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and Princess Leiningen, drove in thegronnds this morning. Her Majesty, with Princess Helena, Prince.. Louise Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Princess Lei., ningen, left Windsor Castle to-day at three o'clock for Osborne. The suite consisted of the Countess of Caledon, Lady Augusta Stanley, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Lieute nant-General Hon. C. Grey, Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood (equerry in waiting), Lieutenant Stirling, Mr. Bahl, and the Master of the Household. The Countess of Caledon has succeeded Lady Waterpark as lady in waiting, and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish suc ceeds as maid of honour. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong tong, Labnan, and Malta. WINDSOR Cssrus.—The state apartments of Windsor Castle will be open to the public on and attar Thursday next. under the usual regulations. THE MEETING OP LIBERAL HERBER-9 OF PARLIAMENT. . No v newspaper reporter having been present yes terday at the meeting at Earl Russell's official residence, the reports of the proceedings given by our contemporaries vary somewhat in character as well as in extent. The ac count which we give elsewhere is from the Daily News. It is there stated that the numbers present were 263 ; the Post gives them at 286 ; the Star at 230 ; and the Telegraph st more than 250. According to the Herold the numbers were only 176. The risers sees in Lord Russell's remarks • proof that its own criticisms on the condition of the government have not failed of their effect. His statement that the govern ment bind themselves to stand by their bill for redistribu tion, and that the same parliament which passes the fran chise bill should pass the other also, is a change in the counsels of the ministers produced by the remon strances of the liberal party, and of the chief organs of the independent party in the press. In fact we have now a very different ministerial programme. Having conceded so much, the government might well go a little further. They might lay their bill for redistribution before the house at once, and not call upon their supporters to take a leap in the dark by voting for • measure the prin ciple of which can only be judged by something which is still withheld. For the rest, the Times says that at yesterday's meeting almost complete unanimity prevailed. Those members who have made up their minds to vote for Lord Grosvenor's amendment would, of course, for the most part stay away, or listen in silence to the statements of the Premier. ------. According to the account in the ddrertiser, the argu ments of Mr. James called forth sounds which were not over complimentary, and had the Speaker been present there possibly would have been loud cries of " Order." Mr. James, somewhat irritated at his reception, charac terised the interference with freedom of speech at minis terial assemblages in severe and outspoken language. If men of independence were to be treated in an indecorous manner, such meetings ought not to be invited ; but if the practice were persisted in. he for one should not accept Prime Ministers' im:tations to crisis conferences. _ . • The Tdegraph account states that the Premier on enter ing the room, was accompanied by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Goechen, and Mr. Milner Gibson. It appears from the report of the proceedings in the Star, that Sir Henry Hoare asked whether government would accept amending clauses if they were proposed by members of the house. Earl Russell said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad the conduct of the bill in the House of Commons, and he would decide upon the coarse which would be taken there with regard to any amendments. Mr. Baxter (Montrose) said he had only that morning re. turned from Scotland, and he might say—and he supposed all members would agree with him—that the Scotch elec tors were not venal, and were not usually supposed to be very impulsive. But on this question there was a very strong and a very unanimous feeling throughout all parts of Scotland in favour of this measure, and he believed that the town councils of burghs generally had voted without a THE EARL Or SHAFTESBURY AND HIS STEWARD. Mr. Cole made an application to postpone the trial of Mr. Robert `short Waters, the late steward to the Earl of Sli tftesbury, who stood charged upon several indictments with embezzling large awns of money which he had re ceived on account of his lordship, to the November ses sions. The case had been originally fined to come on at the present session, but in consequence of c:rcumatances that had taken place since the adjournment, and the fact proceedings were still pending in the Court of Chan cery between the noble earl and the defendant, it was considered desirable that the trial should be further post poned. Mr. F. H. Lewis, who appeared for the defendant, said he had no oppo-ition to offer to the application for a postponement, but he submitted that, under the circum stances, the amount of the recognisances into which the defendant had entered, ought to be reduced. He was at present under a personal recognisance of 4.0001. with two sureties in 2,000/. each, and he submitted that it would he sufficient if the defendant entered into his own recog nisance in 4.0'301. to appear at the November session with out nny sureties. The learned coun..el handed an affidavit to the court in support of. his application for the reduction of the bail. Mr. Justice Lush, having read the affidavit, said he did not see that any facts were mentioned in it that would justify him in reducing the amount of the bail. The trial was then formally postponed to the November session. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER BT A BOATMAN. W - • • - Joseph are, 28, described as a boatman, was charged with feloniously shooting at Thomas Lefley with intent to murder him. He was also charged with with intending to do the prosecutor grievous bodily harm. Mr. Macrae Moir prosecuted ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Lawrence. The circumstances of this case will be fresh in the recol lection of the public, and it was one of a most distressing character. On the night of the 19th of March, about 11 o'clock, the prisoner was passing with his boat under the lock bridge in the Harrow-road, and he was some what the worse for liquor and quarrelling with his wife in the boat. The persons on the bridge seemed to have jeered him and have taken the woman's part and he rushed down into the cabin and procured a gun which he discharged towards the bridge, and the un fortunate prosecutor received nearly the whole of the charge in his face, and the consequence was that the sight of both his eyes was entirely destroyed. The defence that was set up for the prisoner was that he was drunk and excited, and that it was very possible he only intended to frighten the persons who had been an noying him, and that at all events he ought not to be con victed of the serious crime of intending to murder: The jury found the prisoner GlAity of wounding the prosecutor and causing him grievous bodily harm, and The learned Judge, after observing upon the very se rious character of the offence, and the distressing conse quences that had resulted from his rash oonduct,sentenced the prisoner to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. (Before Mr. Justice Smith.) THE ALLEGED FORGERY ON THE HUMAN GOVERNNENT. Vasoent Jankowski, 38, a Polish Jew, was charged with feloniously having in his possession a quantity of pieces of paper upon which was engraved certain portions of a twenty-five rouble note of the Russian empire, without the authority of that State. Serjeant Ballantine, Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Sleigh appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Dr. Kenealy and Mr. Daly. The nature of the charges against the prisoner will be fully understood from the indictment, and this case rested principally upon the evidence of a Polish Jew named Phineas Koche. His statement was to the effect that the prisoner had offered him a number of twenty-five rouble Dotal, which were nominally worth about 3/., for Bs. each, and that he admitted at the time that he was perfectly well aware that they were not genuine instruments. At the close of the case for the prosecution, Dr. Kenealy submitted that the witness Koche really stood in the position of an accomplice,and that there was no substantial corroboration whatever of the testimony he had given. The learned judge upon this objection, which he mid appeared to him to be well founded, directed an acquittal, and ties prisoner wee ordered to be discharged. IT INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The Wandirer of Vienna concludes an ail& on the atlas* of Herr Von Biamarok to the Atottrian note, as follows : When the German conflict shall have been bdd hen .be- fore the only competent tribunal (the Diet), w Austria shall have resumed a policy which will no longer make her isolated in the eyes of foreigners ; then only, when the last decisive word is spoken, will it be seen whether these nuisances of the Marches—we can scarcely refrain from using a less parliamentary word—these ad venturers who have been raised to power by their adora tion of divine right and their sovereign contempt of the people, and who now guide the destinies of Prussia, will further dare to treat Austria as a fallen power and heap upon us insult after insult. As things now are no question of compromise with that cabinet can arise, no attempt at mediation on the part of foreign powers. Where Austria's honour is at stake, the sword is the only possible mediator. But if war should break out, the responsibility of it must fall on him who has provoked it, and not on that power which, against her will, haste forced into it, morally and materially, in spite of he A correspondent writing from Copenhagen on the 6th says : The Prussian Colonel Mitten has arrived in Sonderburg, for the purpose of inspecting the ground for the new fortifications. In addition to the soldiers, 2,000 workmen have been employed, in order to complete the works. The Prusabum are also engaged night and day on the works around KieL We hear from Fionie and from Jutland that considerable purchases of cavalry and artil lery horses have been made for the Prussian government, and that they are sent at once to their destination. (azoraa's TILLEGILUGS.) VIENNA, Aram 11. The Presse of to-day publishes a telegram, stating that the Prussian reply to the last Austrian note gives a decisive refusal to the Austrian demand that Prussia should withdraw the order for the mobi lisation of her troops, this order having been issued only as a defensive measure. The Prussian note further declares that, warned by the fact that the Austrian government denied having made warlike preparations, the Prus sian cabinet is bound to consider these prepara tions as destined for aggression against Prussia. THE FRENCH SENATE. PARIS, APRIL 11 , The Senate has adopted the previous question upon the petition for a modification of the Consti tution relative to the right of petition. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 10, Emma. The treaty of peace and amity concluded between Spain and China has been laid before the Congress. It is stated that General Leraundi has been nominated Captain-General of Cuba, replacing General Duke, who has resigned that post. ROME. ROME, APRIL 10, EvrsiNG. The official Giornale di Roma, of to-day, energe tically protests against some assertions contained in a letter from Rome to the French jour nal, Le Motirk. It declares the critical re marks made in that letter against the fide lity of the functionaries employed by the Roman government to be entirely unfounded, and stigmatizes as calumny and slander the statements in the same letter referring to the Roman nobility, " who," says the official journal, " are, with very few exceptions, faithful to the temporal power of the Pope, and will bequeath noble ex amples of devotion to their descendants." THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE PRUSSIAN PRO. POSAL TO THE DIET. - The Temps says :—" The news that Prussia had propoz.ed to the Diet the convocation of an assembly directly elected by universal suffrage from the entire of Germany, although there was a foreshadowing of it in the famous Prussian circular of the 24th March, burst upon us like a bomb. It excited for the moment onr financial world, who did not know whether it was a 'Lep towards war or peace. The intelligence from Germany to-day in forms us that the Diet, on the motion of itz President, resolved that the proposition should be at once communi cated to the respective federal governments, and that, in conformity with usage, it should be discussed in a week's time. Herr von Bismarck cannot delude himself as to the reception which his daring motion will get from the official organ of the old Germanic body. The replies of the second ary States are known beforehand, the governments to be consult:d will not commit suicide. Herr von Bismarck knows this as well as any one, but yet such is his confidence in himself that he perhaps imagines the German people will, in the presence of the brilliant vision of national unity, forget the examples of his internal policy, his attacks on the liberal party in Prussia, his attempts upon the constitution and liberties of that country; and that he will produce in Germany a public opinion so general and so powerful that it will carry with it the recalcitrant govern ments, or if not, that he will be able to pursue his designs without them. If he is not already deceived in his hopes, he soon will be. We learn, indeed, from Frankfort already that his motion has been unfavourably re ceived, and that no one is taken by the snare which he has set. The committee of Thirty-Six, even before the proposition was laid before the Diet, 'anticipating the move, agreed to a declaration on the 7th of April, in which they protest strongly against the danger of a civil war, which would bring the foreigner into Germany, and ruin upon public liberty and prosperity. It denounces the manner in which the two great German powers treat the Elbe Duchies, dealing with them as if they were a booty and a subject for forcible annexation. It points out the weakness of the Confederate states, and demands an entire revision of the federal constitution, but at the same time energetically rzjects the initiative of Prussia. Any government,' it says, which, disregarding the rights of its own people, should present projects of federal reform with the inten tion probably of obtaining allies in a civil war would not possess, owing to the want of confidence of the German people, the guarantees requisite for ensuring the success of the great work of national unity.' " The Debate remarking on the promptitude exhibited in taking the Prussian proposition into consideration. says : " In this energetic style of treating questions we can no longer discover the proverbial slowness of Germany. With regard to the proposition itself, it appears, from the declaration of the Committee of Thirty-six, that the pro iects of Herr von Bismarck will meet with strong opposi tion from the Liberal party, who, while anxious to see the unity of Germany, will not give their support to the absolutist policy of Prussia." The Arenir National regards the proposition of Prussia as a proceeding to which Herr von Bismarck was driven in onler to get out of the fix into which he was forced by the diplomacy of Austria, who probably intimated in her last note that she would submit, in virtue of Article 11 of the Federal pact, the difference between the two powers to the arbitration of the Diet. The Independance Beige asks :—" What will be the result of Herr von Bismarck's appeal to the aspirations of the German nations for a revision of the organisation of I the Federation ? Will this appeal procure him that popu lar support which his policy has hitherto failed to obtain Can he who is so unparliamentary at Berlin become parliamentary at Frankfort! Will the populations follow him against their governments, and if they do will he be able to maintain in their face the rule which he has carried out in Prussia r The Nord regards the Prussian proposition as a coup de theatre, which Herr Von Bismarck has been holding in reserve for the last month, and that it is of the same cha racter as the proposal of a European congress made by the Emperor of the French, when France, Naglsotand Austria were driven into an impasse in consequence of their inter vention on the Polish question. Sir Jervoise Clarke Jervoise will ask the Vice- President of the Committee of Council on Education to morrow when the third report of the Cattle Plague Com minion will be published• THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CASUALS DESTROYING THEIR CU THEE. Two stout-built fellows, who gave the names of Gees Brown, aged 38, and Edward ChiZa, aged 27, who said t„ had no homes or occupation, were charged with , a • th e i r c l o thing in the casual wards at Wo ouce. The prisoners bat night were admitted to the caved ward, and were supplied with a bed and some food. The morning, when the porter went to let them °Mktg° a breakfast, he found that Brown had destroyed the wlic4 of his clothing and Gibbs hie coat and waistcoat,. made the usual excuse that their clothes were di r ty sa The l that they could not get work with clothes in such a The prisoners had before been admitted to wards but this was the first time they had 0- clothing. The prisoners said they had no defence to maks sad not care what became of them. Mr. Barker said the prisoners were idle i fellows and sentenced each of them to be hope kept to hard labour in the Howse of Comedic* for , calendar month. The prisoners said they did not care for that littis bit • DRUNKEN CASUAL Richard Wood n r e i. labourer, was charged with d run k an d di m , under the following cirmunstaa Police-constable hilpot, 122 Y, said that last night prisoner went to the Somers-town police-station, fad mended an order of admission to the amid wards( Pancras workhouse. As he was drunk he was refu told to go away, but that he would not do. El put out of the police-station and again told to but instead of doing so be made use of most M k ErgkZ and to prevent a disturbance in the sheet u. Mr. Ba p rker asked how it was that the prisoner the police-station for an order of admiesion to tie Polioe-sergeant George Parry, 14 Y, seid that had, for some time past, been appointed, under& less Poor Act, ameirtant relieving overseers cl the St. Pancras. The prisoner denied that he wu drunk. Mr. Barker ordered the prisoner to pay a fine d the prisoner, who said he had no money, was 1r" default. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SYSTEMATIC SHOPLIFTING BY A MOTH= AEG IN Nary licking and Moryry eking, mother sad were charged before Mr. Ty wbitt with the Jr' in t belies, there being little doubt that the elder getwar been bringing up her clairhter as a regular gingham Mary Ann Buck, assistant to Mrs. Clisziotis Wr kins, of 47, Wardouretreet, shoemaker_ sal p r immer came into the shop and looked M boots. The boota did not suit, and the prisons, leaving, when she saw the younger prisoner take a m boots and put them under her arm. The elder paw seeing that her daughter had been noticed, took la ho l from her, and give her a slap. Witness then sat arms stable, and give the prisoners into custody. William Pawson, 121 C, said that Vibe he SS the prisoners into curtcriy, the elder prisoner bade bit and in it were a pair of new boots, five yards d sea, pair of drawers, and • night dress. He went is t address the prisoners gave, and there found thirteen boa kerchiefs (elk and cotton) some of them in a Om a brush, a pair of Mays, a quantity of fund a leather be; four bracelets, and other wide all new. The elder prisoner said tat +tte is band gave her the boots, but the husband, sho peered to be a very respectable man, denied all MeV" of them, and also of the uther things Emily Winter, assistant to Mr. William M_ _may el 15, Old Compton-street, trimming - dealer , idontobi do Mee: of mohair. She remembered the prisms slim to the shop to look at some shirts, and the meloir we taken from the back of the shop where the prisaes, W been. The prisoners, who reserved their admit won om witted for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. HOT BREAKFASTS ABOUREED. Eleven casuals, men and lads, were brought tetra lk Ellison, for refusing to work, they being Alea having capacity to labour. Dillon, an officer of Shorelitch Workhouse, sakt—Thn persons were admitted last night, and, after bang tit fasted this morning, refused to do any work is sta yard. Mr. Ellison—For what reason? Dillon—They said that they wanted the wad hot all and although I told them h o t breakfast. were global between the Ist of April and the let of Novesalta, appeared to disbelieve me, and expresed wish tole ti before a magistrate. Ad ams was the first who object/4i work without having something hot, and the rest folk" the example. Webb (another of the casuals)—Well, sir, we Ise seal we have done wrong, but the uigbt before I had to in St. Saviour's parish. There I had gruel for break* and thought it only right that I should get it at Shoo ditch. 1 was very cold and shivering, end *aught!. hot gruel would do me good. Mr. Ellison—Did they want gruel? Dillon—That or cocoa, sir. Webb—l have heard from Mr. Tamers earn mouthie we were entitled to hot gruel, and I have read the se However, if wrong, we are sorry for having Massa - • work. Mr. Ellison—The officer could not direct what jot is to have. You might believe he spoke truth. Adams, Moore, Prenderzast, Jame s, 'rums?, Clei Owen, Stnilford, and Clements each elpyered mond" and when Sullivan's turn came he replied-1 sq other gentlemen have said. Mr. Ellison remarked that he believed there bad boo misunderstanding on the part of the men, and broad their liberation at 5 o'clock. WANDSWORTH. tarruse OF A NuTORIOUS BGROLAL A young man named Wi l liam Wright was re-mm.l onPolihace a ce of committimy a daring burglar!. -rgconstable LonsriZe, of the W miaow between 2 and 3 o'clock on the morning d Salida. Ist instant, he was ou duty in the Wandsvartlarrif Clapham, when his attention was drawn to a aais No. 3, Union-terrace. He sa w that the front •,"' window was open. He looked in and sur t crouching behind the door in t he room. Witmer he brar the prisoner if he lived there. The prisoner 16 i to be asleep, and made no answer. NI R a ms got isle* "I room and Lifted him up. He said, " Whit mars &be' 4 5 Witness took him into the passage, and ca lled up di ow •""! pier of the house. On searching the parlour lease toad • t , on the floor a timepiece and a co at. On search* the stoner at the station a knife and some matches min upon him. The knife would go in between thevidadd 4 sashes so u to push back the catc h. Witness faudsiS wood splintered off the window sash near the ere*. r Charles Woodward said he was a letter earni S 0 , sad Is aided at No. 3, tinionterrace, Clapham. On 0 morning, the Ist inst., he was awoke by a noes lower part of his house. He rut o f um stairs sod tram the prisoner threatening the officer. Witded. r , • house safely closed on the night bellr• ; :1 the doors and windows were closed snd I • When he found the constable and thi fit! in the house he saw the window orm• that four plants which hal been left inside bol removed to the outside ; the coat had been left WA I on a hook, and the timepiece on the inantelehi P o li ce - s e r geant Gilby, 21 M. said he was primal° r Central Criminal Court in January, 1860, when tir o sonar was convicted of housebreaking, and sen f or sti,_ four year.' penal servitude in the nau of Mr. Ingham fully committed the priaoner Rithsil Vol. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT oy THE RIFIRIA INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. Richards, deputy-onroUttl. an inquiry at the Adam and Eve tavern, L o wer Howl touching the death of Henry Close, aged 18 rim fell out of an out ri gger while boat racing on the OS , " Alfred Board, 2, Austin-street, Hackneyroad. positor, said that deceased was a warehouseman, li rot lt 16, Merrion-street, Hackney-road. On Sunday last, at $ o clock, he and witness anal four otku 1 men proceeded to Day's boathouse, Les-bridg arr angements for a race b e tween the as"; and another amateur. They chose gigs l: 0 0 riggers for the race. Witness s teered the boat. The started front Horse-shoe -point to 01 Tottenham -lock. When they had got about lulf 4 • the other boat went ahead. Witness said tot " Have you any wind left'" and deceased air; " Yes." Witness told him to keep it, anti no t 1 himself, as there was a long way to get over still; _A that moment witness saw the foremost nos 7i • crab," or miss the water with ri t; his le r ,: 10 he said to deceased, " You arc gh l o si caught crab." Deceased, in his esjerw ., _,_,, c os round to look, and he too caught a crab. 'roe i'"!"11 missing the water with his oar was that he fell sec" 7, and rolled right into the water. Witness 60 , 0 , .7g he would get out again, for he had stated that .nc; swim, but ho sank, and his body was not rout quarters of an hour. He was then quite dusd• The Coroner having summed up, • oda al ° The jury returned a verdict of " Amid lot through falling out of a boat while racing Leii." w ..."---------"? -st AITEXPTED SUICIDE.— On Sunday last, o." / ,,, o'clock, Miss Henrietta V. Slater, an inmate of 6 . 00 , House at Hackney, in a fi t of tempora ry 11°111200 herself from the window of a third st ory. ki tr death was probably averted by her falling uPall_,_ s i a laurel Mr. Hall, surgeon, and Mr. Smith, on°,wlto ail man, who were sent for, found her thigh 14 '''.,.." - tuna, and a deep wound in the same pot ot te• mimed by the penetration of a broken part of the She was removed to an asylum Late in the evening. _ l i n The mails from Calcutta, China, and Ausw• - _,, Ma Marseilles, are expected to be distributed ia to — cm Thursday meming. 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