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

Ce C - 61Z 44 ; * • z a' 010 . • • ; .r ;(..6 33 ‘ rt , s 4J— I rt li i - • LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11. 1867. o. 6,6;. LISTAMIIID. ld. [TWOPENCE MESSRS. MON EY W [GRAM and SONS' (of BLwkwaldvaid, Lo.don` LINE of STEAM and PACKET BO IPS to AUSTRALIA tor M I.:LBW:ENE Port Phillip Direct, t o tease the Docks •in W EON FARA the teth Nurember calling at Plymouth.. the splendid clipper ship MUFFOLK, 1.000 tons, W. it. NI Eilla MA N. commando.: lying in the East India Decks. tier acsamniwalatlons for all cram ei passengers are simmered, and elle carry n azparienced For teetiset or pardre apply to ALLPORT and MOIL AN, with Maas. MONEY W It:RAM and SONS, 7, Inadanhall-aknat. OVERLAND ROUTE. - COMMUNICATION by STEAM to INDIA, AUSTRALIA. to via EGYPT from Southampton and Mars e illes.—The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL ST EA NINAV It AT lON OOM PANT BOOK PASSEN GERS and receive two and Parcels for Gibraltar, Malta, Eiry - pt, Aden, Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, the Straits, China, and Japan (Yokohama , by their steamers leaving Southampton on the 4th and ddth of every month; for Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt. Aden, and Bombay, by those of the 12th and 17th of each month for King George's sound, tlelbinrue, and Sydney, by the steamer leaving Southampton on the '_nth of every month. The steamers leave Manellles on th. sth , tfth, 20th, and ^sBth of the month. For further particulars apply at the Company's Mem, Leadenhallutreet, Loudon, ; of Orlental-place, South ampton. TN MAN LINE.— Th e LIVERPOOL, NEW A. TOM and PIULADELPHIA STEAM-SHIP COMPANY Weed despatching their full powered Clydirbullt Iron screw alesiosEtto, carrying the United States Mail, calling at Queens. town, Ireland, on the following day, to take oa based sad dispatches and lib liberty to call at an intanne=ifigl CITY fir W Wednesday, Nor. 11 CITY Ur I . IIIIN. Wednesday, Nor. 20 CITY or B.NIUN. B.iturday, November n. ETNA, We Me,,,10y, November 27. Ann every ednaiday and naturdoy. Cabin passage by the insil atomism soiling every Weduaaday, 15. 17, and 21 guineas, w o rding t.• the ac 4inniodatiou. Forward Includes full supply of cooked provisions. Passengers Canada and the Unite,' "links booked through on very saran ftiriza terms.—Vor further particulars apply to WILLIAM '4, 22, Water-sti eet, Liverpool; and to r.LVt.I and MACEY, Si, King William-street. Loudon. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, !Managing Dirvetnr, Mr. K Strange .I Three Ballets, 200 Delivers, en Instrume•ntalists, Singers, Acrobats, Mimics; Pie ter... 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Sold by all medicine vendors at in. led. and 9d. per boa or obtained through any chemist Reath' 12th of December, THE EXTRA CHRISTSIAB DUMBER OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND, NO THOROUGHFARE, NT CHARLIS DICKENS w an a d WILKIC COLLINS. At the meeting of the Liverpool town council on Saturday, a vote of condolence was passed to the widow of the lsts Mr. Edward James, Q.C., judge of the Liverpool Court of Passage. - - Earl Nelson has consented to preside over a meeting of high churchmen, clergy, and laity, which is to be held in London on the 19th inst., for the purpose of oonsidering a memorial which it is proposed to present to the Royal Commissioners on ritualism. THE INsTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.—The meetings of this society are to be resumed to-morrow evening at the house in Great George-street, when the subject for discussion is the " Removal of Organic and Inorganic Substances in Water." The question was intro duced, at the close of last session, by Mr. Edward Byrne, M. Inst. C.E., in a paper detailing the results of some carefully.cooducted laboratory experiments. EXETER-HALL.—The National Choral Society will commence the eighth season on Wednesday, the 27th, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin, with a perform ance of " Elijah "—bend and chorus 700. Mr. Sentley engaged for the concert, as also for the three succeeding ooncerta—Mendslasohn's " Walpurgis Night" the first time in Etats-ball), Dec. 11 ; " Messiah," Christmas eve ; " Creation," New Year's-day. CRYSTAL PALACE. —The gathering and bangnetof the London and Westminster Constitutional Association take place this day. The banquet, at which it is expected some of her Majesty's ministers will be present, will be held in the large conceit hall at four o'clock. Covers will be laid for nearly two thousand guests. Darr PRoVINtIAL 31ATORIC—Birmingham, Mr. Thomas Avery; Cambridge, Mr. Alderman Elliott Smith (I..); Leeds, Mr. A. Fairbeirn; Liverpool, Mr. Edward Whit ley (C.) ; rber (L.) Norwirh,Nottingham, Mr. Jelin Be ; Oxford, Mr. Alde rman C art (L. ; Ports mouth, Mr. R. K Davies; Rochester, Mr. Vinvent Hills ; sad Southampti n, Mr. J. R. Stebbiog. BELLRINGING AND THUNDERSTORMS.—The bell ringing as the companion of the thunderstorm is a per manent institution here (the Tyrol). I could not make out whether it was suppose( to have a physical influene• on the electricity or to have a propitistmy effect in a religious sense calculated to exempt the district from a calamity. Opposite toJembach, on a spur of the mountain rising tight over the river Inn, there is a sort of hermitage or chapel. It is the duty of a recluse who has charge of it to be on the look-out for thunderstorms, and begin the hell ringing ; sad he is well posted for the accomplishment of his duty. A. solemn, strange duty it must be to act as sentinel against the approach of such a foe. I happened once to vileness the ceremonial of ringing out the thunder in a very pic turesque shape. I was coining out of the great behind the Martinsivand. The first thing that drew atten tion was a rushing mighty wind, which caught up the marble powder lying on the hillside, and drifted it about like a dry sandy mist. Then came se sudden a lull, and the church hell of Zirl right under my feet began " tolling slow with sullen roar." The chime was taken up by the dozen or so other churches in the valley, mellowed in the distance until it " passed in music out of sight." Mean time the setting sun illuminated a great storm-cloud, making it a flame-coloured red that spread over half the horizon, as if the world were on fire. Over this parsed every now and then a tongue or sheet of white lightning. The whole affair was so far off that of the thunder only a slight muttering was heard.—Bfackrood's Marrnme for Itovember. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE ( lIIIJITIeII TELIGRAXS.) THE CONFERENCE ON THE ROMAN QUESTION. PARIS, Nov. 9, L 56 P.N. _ - _ It is stated that the invitations to a conference upon the Roman question were issued on Thursday last. PARIS, Nov. 10, EVtItING. The Patric of this evening, in an article by M. Dreollo on the proposed conference, says :—" As yet no official step has been taken by France for the immediate convocation of $ European confer ence. When the dispositions of the other powers are ascertained, the French government will be enabled to give expression to its own views through the medium of a diplomatic document. We dare not affirm at present that the idea of a conference will be realised." The article concludes as follows :—" We think that as soon as Europe will consent to take in hand the interests represented at Rome and at Flo rence, she will endeavour to find not an accidental solution responding to the passing views of the moment, but a complete and final solution of a nature to close an era of agitation and of disorder, of anxiety for peace on the Continent, and of dis quietude to society in general." THE CHANNEL FLEET. LISBON, Nov. 10. _ _ _ The British fleet has returned from its cruise. The Royal Oak and the Prince Consort have gone to Gibraltar. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 10. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the MeHones left Zarskoe Selo yesterday. The Crown Prince of Denmark returns to St. Petersburg, where he will remain a few days. The Empress of Russia is expected to arrive hero on Wednesday. MALTA. VALETTA, Nov. 9. The transport Crocodile, from Alexandria, ar rived here on the 7th, to repair a slight disarrange ment to ber machinery. She leaves to-day for Portsmouth with the 2nd Rifle Brigade, the 7th Dragoons, and other troops, in all 1,194 indi viduals. Lord Clarence Paget arrived in the Caledonia yesterday from Syracuse. The Tyranea left yester day for Crete. The telegraphic communication to Alexandria is interrupted. The Hawk leaves to repair the cable. AMERICA. (Per the Persia.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 30, MORNING. The President has appointed November 28th as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. Clarksville, Bagdad, Brownsville, and other towns of Texas have nearly been destroyed by the recent storm. Many lives have been lost, and in Matamoros 1,500 houses have been blown down. Advice' from Vera Cruz state that the creden tials of Admiral Tegetholl had arrived. Intelligence from Hayti to the 9th inst. says that a general revolution wes imminent, and that the government was without funds. RECEPTION OF LORD LYONS BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. The Muniteur of yesterday contains en account of the reception on Saturday last by the Emperor Napoleon of Lord Lyons as English Ambassador at the court of the Tuileries. Lord Lyons made the following speech : The Queen, my august sovereign, in conferring upon me the distinguished honour of representing her at your Imperial Majesty's court, has specially charged me to express anew the sentiments of esteem and affection towards the person of your Imperial Majesty by which she is animated. The Queen has at the same time commanded me to recall to your Majesty the desire she experiences to lee both the glory of your reign awl the proeperity of the French na tion perpetuated. The cordial relations which have existed for so many years between the governments of Frame and Great Britain have powerfully contributed to the welfare of the two countries, and to the happiness, I ven ture to say, of the whole world. The orders of the Queen instruct me, above all things, to spare nothing in order to maintain and consolidate those relations. In placing in the hands of your Imperial Majesty the letters which ac credit me at your court as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, I earnestly beg your indul gence in favour of the efforts which I shall not coupe to make in order to merit your approbation. The Emperor replied as follows :—" I am touched by the sentiments you express to me in the name of the Queen of England. I know all their value, and on my side I respond by a sincere attachment to her person and her family. From the com mencement of my reign one of my constant ob jects has been to maintain with Great Britain the friendly relations which have already borne so much fruit. I doubt not that you will exert yourself to maintain relations so useful to the progress of civi lisation and the peace of the world. The remem bnuice of your father and your personal qualities ensure you the most sympathetic welcome among ism " THE FRENCH TROOPS AT THE BATTLE OF bIENTANA. The Diritto publishes the following statement : Reports just received from the brave men wbo defended the village of Montana to the last, and from the prisoners handed over to the Italian government, prove that the rein forcements of fresh troops which reached the field of battle at about half past two, and which from the great similarity of their uniforms were mistaken by General Garibaldi him self for battalions of the Antibes Legion, were instead regiments of the Imperial French army. Now, as at half past two Montana had been retaken, oil the positions re gained, and the enemy had fallen back along the whole line, it follows that the Pontifical army would inevitably have been beaten had the French army not come up to its aasistance with the Chaaaepot rifles. The volunteers will be able to say to their eternal honour that they burnt the tint Italian cartridge against such an enemy. NICOLA FABRIZI, ALBERTO MARIO, MLNOTTI GARl &min, Gu•ssrrs Miesour, Greasers Gugazon GIULIO AILLVOLL Mr. Spurgeon, who is now once more sufficiently well to preach, has put forth a manif e st o i n hi s m aga zine called " The Sword and Trowel," is which ha say. :—" I have spent two months in illlealth, and much of the time in severe pain, but, by the good hand of God upon me, I am now much better, and hope to resume my home work very speedily. I have resolved, f or t we l ve mon th s a t l eas t, to refute almost all work away from home, and I now earnestly beg friends not to distress me with importunate requests to preach here, there, and everywhere. For years I have preached from eight to ten times a week, besides issuing the weekly sermon, editing the magazine, over seeing the church, superintending the college, directing the orphanage, founding new churches, attending com mittees, and a thousand other things ; but many signs in dicate that there must be • pause. lam not less willing, but I am far less able than I was, to serve the church by preaching." GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN -ROAD, N. Number of patients for the week ending Nov. 9, 1,051, a which 312 were new EWE. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE BATTLE OF MENTANA. (PROW OUR OWN CORRIRTONDLNT.) PARIS, SUNDAE EVENING.. The short report in the MONitettf of General de Failly to the Minister of War of the battle <f Mentana, fought on the 3rd, is given as a tele graphic despatch, and dated Rome, Nov. 9. The dates of private letters received from Rome this day are Nov. 6, and the public has no explanation of the two astonishing facts that the Minister of War should not yet have received any written de spatch from General de Failly, and that his tele gram of the important event of the 3rd should be dated the 9th. Some petty reticence and trickery on the part of the government there evidently is, but the why and the wherefore is not yet apparent. The cynical expression of General del Failly that " the Chaasepot rifle did wonders," ex cites great disgust. It results from his report that all the talk of the French speedily leaving Rome is nonsense. The presence of the French army was, he says, " urgent" to " save" Rome. That is at once an admission that the Pope, now again a client of Napoleon 111., is unable to stand alone, and a claim to remain in Rome for an indefinite time. General de Failly proudly undertakes to guarantee not Rome merely, but the " Pontifical States," against the insurgent bands ; to do this ho of course assumes that he must remain where he is. The use of the words " insurgent" and " insurrection" in this despatch is remarkable. Hitherto the French theory was that the movement against the tem poral power was the work exclusively of "foreign bandits and rapscallions." it must now be made a note of that the French general boasts of having crushed the head of an " insurrection." So far from there being any sign of the French occupation ceasing it is extending. The Mouiteur mentions that a French detachment has entered Viterbo amidst the " frantic applause " of the populations. These are some of the very populations who a few days before had voted annexation to Italy by an almost unanimous plebiscite. So much for the value of popular enthusiasm under the shadow of dictating bayonets ! General de Failly 's report is inferentially more complimentary to Garibaldi's volunteers than any that has yet appeared. It is not true that, though attacked by overwhelming forces they were " utterly routed." At Mentana they kept the " allies"—so General de Failly delights to call the Pope's heterogeneous legions and the French troops—at bay till nightfall. When the attack was renewed the next morning a small force left in that place capitulated and obtained honourable conditions. When the "allies " went into Monte Rotendo they found that Garibaldi had retreated with the bulk of his forces in perfect order, and had taken effectual precautions against pursuit. The Paris public read with pleasure on the walls to-day the placard of M. Haussmann, announcing that the bakers' bank," established in 1863, will now be called upon to advance money enough to bakers to keep the maximum price of the four pound loaf of the best bread at lfr. It halt lately been Hr. 2c., and was likely to go higher. THE HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES. Our Southampton correspondent, writing last night, says : It is now certain that the Rhone was preparing to start for England. There were probably 300 persons and pro ' perky worth half a million sterling on board. In twelve days she would have been in England. Had it not been for the yellow fever she would have been lying in St. Thomas' harbour ; and although she might hove been driven ashore there by the hurricane, there would have been very little loss of life. Great complaint is made of the unhealthiness of St. Thomas, and it is no doubt an exceptionally bad plain ; but an coal depots in hot coun tries are unhealthy. The coal depots of the Peninsular and Oriental Company in the east are so. In the West Indies yellow fever prevails at the depots, and in the East Indies slow fever. The decomposition of the coal pollutes the atmosphere. The Royal Mail Company have loot nearly 20 ships, worth 2,000,0001. sterling, daring the 22 years they have carried on the mail service. The service was originally a more extensive one than it is at present, for there was a branch line of steamers from the West Indies to New York and Savannah. It is fortunate that no mail was due, at the time of the hurricane, from Mexico and New Zealand, or the loss of life and property would have been much greater. No fears aro entertained at present that the Royal Mail Company's ships which have been stranded will not be got off. It has been said that we have no proof yet that the Douro had arrived out at St. Thomas. She was due there just after the time at which the hurricane happened; say on the 31st ult. Now it is hardly probable that any ship left St. Thomas for Havana with the news of the disaster before the 2nd inst., because we did not get the news in England before the 7th inst., and the company's superintendent at St. Thomas, who no doubt wrote the telegram that has been received by Atlantic cable, would hardly have said in that message so positively that the Douro would leave St. Thomas for England with the mails on the 4th if she had not been there ready to start on that day. To-morrow, if all had been well, the Rhone would have arrived here. By the loss of life on board that ship and the Wye, probably 300 women and children in this town, who have been maintained in comfort, are left destitute. The Hampshire Advertiser of Saturday suggests that the mayor should call a public meeting at once, and organise plans for the relief of the families of the sailors of the Rhone and Wye. Winter is approaching, and the means of support of scores of per sons will soon be exhausted. Sometimes when the Royal Mail steamers stop at Peter Island coal hulks are sent there, and the interoolonlal steamers go also and tranship their passengers, male, and cargo. It is because it is not known whether this was the ease with the Rhone that there is some difficulty in understanding what passengers were on board. A hurri cane appears to have passed over the Bay of Bengal within forty-eight hours after the one at St. Thomas, 10,000 miles distant. THIS ItEPRIMISNTATION OF STRoVD. —Mr. Hem men has issued an address to the electors of Stroud in which he alludes to certain "secret negotiations" which he says have been carried on in the borough with the view of substituting a candidate in his place at the next general election, and deprecates any attempt to " antici pate and usurp the nomination of a candidate "at the present time. When the dissolution of the present par liament draws near and the constituency then registered has all the materials for a sound judgment before it, it will be his duty to address them on the then condition of affairs, and appealing to their well-considered judgment upon them, he thall, he says, cheerfully abide the result. We regret to learn (nays the John Bull) that the Rev. W. J. Butler has been advised by the episcopal referees, to whom he left the decision, to decline the Bishopric of Natal, and that he has finally determined to act upon their advice. Much as we regretted the prospect of losing the valuable nerviest. of Mr. Butler from his im portant work in England, we have felt that no one could have been chosen who by his ability, wisdom, and experi ence would afford is more hopeful promise of reconciling the discordant elements and restoring peace and unity to that unhappy diocese. It is, however, fully intended to send out a bishop, but it has been thought that a lees marked churchman would under all the circumstances be preferable, especially after Professor Beurtleys letter objecting , to Mr. Butler's having signed the declaration as to the holy communion. FRIGHTFUL OOLLIERY EXPLOSION IN SOUTH WALES. LOSS OF ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY LIVES. The most frightful calamity that ever betel South Wales in the shape of colliery explosions happened on Friday afternoon, at Ferndale Col liery, situated at the top of the Rhonddavach valley, a small dingle branching out of the Rhonddavalloy, at Porth, on the Taff Vale Railway, and extending for about five miles by railway, but more than that by the highway. It is a large colliery, belonging to Messrs. Davis and Son, the great coal owners, of Aberdare, and gives employment to three hundred hands, men and boys. The pit was sunk about eight years ago to the four feet seam, which is the famous Merthyr steam coal, at 300 yards from the surface, and the output is very considerable. It has communication with Cardiff by the Taff Vale Bailway ; but being at the top of the valley, and alone, with the population entirely dependent upon it, there is no passenger train service, and consequently it is difficult of access, the road or rather route from Aberdare being simply a beaten path over a steep and rugged mountain. The nearest railway station is five miles ea. The village is of mushroom growth, having grown with the colliery. There are now about 250 houses, including a considerable number of wooden shanties of the American type, but be tterconstructed, and far more comfortable. Every house is inhabited, and most householders have lodgers, the gross population of the village being about 800. The village isnamed after the colliery, Ferndale, though it is better known in the locality as Blaenllechan. As far as communication is concerned it would appear that although there is a means of getting the coal away, the inhabitants are shut out fro n the world between two ranges of mountains. The little village has been plunged into mourning by one of the 'Saddest events that ever betel the district. On Friday morning, and for several mornings previously, there was a dense fog, so dense in fact that nothing could be seen a few yards off, and this heavy condition of the atmosphere had its deleterious effect upon the ventilation of the mine. About 170 men and boys went down to work on that morning, but it does not appear that any misgivings were entertained as to the safety of the pit, and things went on as usual until shortly after one o'clock, when a frightful explosion of firedamp took place, and in an instant the whole pit was in a blaze. The blast swept along the main drift, and extended into all the workings. The men at the bottom of the shaft—those em ployed to hitch the trams on the cage—were blown away, two of them being killed, and the third escaping in the most extraordinary manner without much injury. The blast then ascended the shaft with a tremendous roar, and drove the men at the top from their posts. It was at once evident that there bad been a great explosion, and messengers were sent off for the proprietors, and to neighbouring pita for assistance. The report spread like wild fire, and it was not long before the pit's mouth was besieged by an anxious and excited crowd of people who had dear friends in the mine. It was impos sible to go down immediately after the explosion, but as soon as the air had cleared an exploring party went down, and returned with the intelli gence that the workings had been terribly damaged and the ventilation interrupted. Measures were then taken for carrying the air forward, and after a painful delay several ies were found, including that of Mr. Williams, the manager of the pit, who was amongst the killed. It was found that enormoas falls had been effected by the explosion, and often the communication was entirely cut off by rubbish, which had to be removed before the bodies could be et at. The clearance of these falls oecasioned a vast amount of delay and a corresponding amount of distressing suspense to the friends of the hapless workmen at the bank. At five o'clock on Friday only 20 bodies had been recovered, and although working parties were incessantly engaged in exploring the workings, up to five o'clock on Saturday morning only 53 had been got out. Of those four or five were alive, but three in such an awful condition that it is feared their sufferings will soon be too much for their endurance. There then remained 120 in the workings behind the falls, but unhapily the falls were so great and the air so foul that they are being cleared with the greatest possible difficulty and danger. The airways are absolutely blocked up, so that no hopes are enter tained theta single individual of the 120 in the pit will be brought out alive. The air at the face of the rubbish is so bad that for hours together the workmen are obliged to grope in the dark, it being impossible to carry a light through so much car buretted hydrogen as exists. A Brattice was erected, and oven with this it was impossible to obtain a clear current to the front. The men, therefore, guided by Mr. Curnew, of the Plymouth Collieries, Merthyr, and formerly head viewer of Ferndale Colliery, continued up to 6 p.m. on Satur day to work in the dark. They were then on the Duffryn side of the pit, where about 25 of the 120 men are entombed. About 20 yards of rubbish had then to be cleared before they could be taken out, but so slowly was the work being carried on that Mr. Curnew did not think that under the most favourable circumstances would the bodies be reached before Sunday morning. It was not intended to attempt the clearance of the great fall in the main drift until the Duffryn side had been cleared, the chance of rescuing the men alive being hopeless, as the airways are all blown down and choked up with tons upon tons of debris. It is somewhat remarkable that between two of these fearful falls a couple of horses were found alive, and a hole having been made large enough to pass food and water into them it is ex pected that they will be recovered. No such air communication as that has been discovered in the debris which shuts off the poor fellows in the main workings from the world out side. Some of the mining surveyors who have gone down the pit say that it will take at least a week to get out all the bodies. Mr. Davis, the proprietor, was down nearly all day on Saturday, and in the afternoon Mr. Wales, the inspector for South Wales, arrived and went down. Of the whole number that were in the workings when the disaster happened--170—only two have escaped with little injury. Four or five were brought up alive, but with these two exceptions they were so dreadfully injured, that it will be strange if they survive. Up to 5 a.m. on Saturday, 53 had been brought to bank, of whom 49 were dead, some of them so horribly burnt as to have had all traces of humanity obliterated. The blow has fallen with dreadful effects upon some families. In one house a father and four sons lay stretched out, and in another, of six that went to work in the morning only one returned alive, and he was badly hurt. In half the houses which were visited by the coroner and jury on Saturday the victims lay in pairs, and in other houses the women were waiting with woe-begone countenances the arrival of the co rps es of their beloved ones from the fatal pit. Hardly one house out of three will escape this awful visitation, and as the workpeople there have gathered from the Merthyr and Aber dare districts chiefly, the excitement in those two towns is immense. At most of the homes of the deceased there was much poverty and physical suffering apparent ; in some cases the bodies lay on the floor, covered with sacks, just as they came from the pit. As to the cause of the accident, it would be hazardous (says our correspondent) to give an opinion, it being utterly impossible, at this moment, to say where the gas fired. The death is announced in the Dublin papers of Mr. Richard O'Gorman, " a venerable patriot and distin guished Insban," at the patriarchal age of 89 years. The Freeman's' Journal says:—" In all the episodes of the stirring times, when an oppressed people were being taught their strength he was always prominent." INCREASING DISTRESS AT THE EAST IND. The scenes of privation and distress so frequent last winter in the eastern portions of the metro polis, especially in the neighbourhood of Millwall and Poplar, are, it is seriously apprehended, likely to be repeated on a considerably extended scale during the next few months. In these districts, as in others where the population is chiefly of the poorer class, the recurrence of the winter season is invariably attended with a largely increased amount of pauperism, a single day's frost being sufficient to throw hundreds of labourers out of employment ; but it is seldom that the various parochial authorities find themselves called upon to cope with such an appalling mass of want and destitution as that which, during the earlier months of the present year, taxed their energies and resources to the uttermost. The dulness of the ship-building trade, and various other causes, had, it will be remembered, assisted in depriving many i hundreds of skilled artisans of their customary means of employment, and compelling a large pro portion of the same to make application for pauper relief. It was hoped that during the spring and summer months work would have been found for the unemployed, thus preparing them in some measure against the return of a similar period of distress. Unfortunately, these anticipations have only been partially realised, hundreds of skilled workmen having found themselves unable to do more than procure a precarious livelihood during the past few months. The scanty resources which enabled many of them to avoid the humiliation o; applying for parish relief are rapidly be coming exhausted, the books of the small shell keepers are fi lled with records of unpaid debts, and the pawnbrokers' shelves crowded with articles which those who pledged them have not the means of redeeming. When the distress was at its highest last winter, some of the trades' unions and other working-class organisations iodated liberally in the relief of their destitute fellow-workers who were aided also by the various relief committees formed in different parts of the distressed districts, but the relief thus afforded was totally inadequate to the requirements of those receiving it, while, at the same time, the insufficiency of funds precluded help being given in a multitude of deserving cases. No comprehensive system of relief-orgam zation appears to have been yet devised in face of the impending distress, of the probable severity of which we have certain unmistakeable indications. Everything appears to be left to isolated individual efforts or the parochial authorities. The latter, to do them justice, seem to be fully aware of the responsibilities they are incurring, and sincerely desirous that their duties should be efficiently dis charged. In Bethnal-green, Hackney, and other parishes additional relieving officers have bug appointed, and various other precautions taken. The parish of Hackney is one of the wealthiest in East London, one in which the pressure of pau perism is last felt ; yet, at a recent meeting of the' board of guardians, it was stated that, although the winter season had but just commenced, the increase of pauperism in the parish had become extremely serious. Compared even with the exceptional num bers of last year, there was the significant in usage of 1,000 in the number of those receiving out-door LAW, while the number of vagrants had increased in a proportion of three to one—the number now being 7,10 against 91 only in the cor responding week of last year. Last year the number of men in the stone-yard was 15, this year it is 36. From this the ominous state of affairs in the poorer parishes may be but too readily sur mised. Apprehens'ons are entertained that if the provisions of the New Street Act relating to street hawkers are stringently carried out, yet larger accessions will be made to the disheartening amount of pauperism with which East London is daily threatened. The various parochial boards unanimouslj concur in expressing their hope that the police authorities will interpret as leniently as possible the various clauses of the act. The street dealing class labour under the impression that it the intention of SirßichardMayne to take advantage' of the act for the purpose of suppressing all street dealing. Several meetings have already been held on the subject, one of which was presided over by tFe Rector of Whitechapel, and at these it was pretty plainly intimated that the street dealers would make a common resistance, should the police attempt to interfere with their callings. In fact, the street traders are becoming desperate, for if they are not to be allowed, under any pretence whatever, to vend articles in the streets, they have before them no alternative save the poor-house or the prison. No wonder, with such a state of affairs confronting them, the East-end poor-law guardians are becoming disquieted in mind, and are speaking uneasily of the future. Nor is the list of impending dangers yet at an end. A very large proportion of the unemployed belong to the lower classes of Irish, and among these Fenian doctrines are known to be extremely prevalent. No secret is made of the sympathies entertained by these people for the cause of Kelly and Deasy, and there are substantial grounds for fearing that, under the combined pressure of want, privation, and political excitement, many of these men may be tempted by designing persons into the perpetration of mischievous and alarming excesses. All this is very serious, and demands instant atten tion, both on the part of the public and the govern ment. The principal force of the distress will be felt, so far as present appearances enable us to judge, in the neighbourhood of Millwall, Poplar, and other river-side places, where the number of well-to-do residents i s comparatively limited. White chapel, Bethnal-green, and St. George's-in-the-East will also feel most acutely the unprecedented strain on their resources. At the same time it should be mentioned that throughout Eaat London there exist a large number of small charities and relief funds, principally for the distribution of meat, bread, and coals. There can be no question that a very large proportion of the relief thus afforded is obtained by persons in anything but destitute circumstances, people who really have no need for the relief intended for their poorer neighbours. If these charities could, during the coming winter, be ut'liaed into a common fund, administered by a head committee and branch committees, as in Lan cashire during the time of the cotton famine, much real and efficient relief might be afforded to the really deserving, and the pressure on the poor-rates proportionately decreased. The indiscriminate methods of relief, so prevalent at the East-end in seasons of distress, is most mischievous. It tends to per petuate a spirit of pauperism, and is continually abused. In fact, thee wholesale systems of alms giving are, generally speaking, the most pernicious which can possibly be devised. In some cases they are rendered a means of livelihood for those who profess to administer them. Much of the assist ance sent from the west to the east never reaches the really poor. All this points to the imperative necessity, when the proper time arrives, for the formation of a central relief committee, consisting of able and experienced men, possessing the con fidence of the public, and whose exertions may be relied upon for carrying out an efficient, economical, and comprehensive sys tem of relief, in conjunction with, and secondary to, that adopted by the various parochial authorities. Several attempts have been made to lessen the number of the unemployed by providing funds for enabling a portion of them to emigrate to the colonies ; but the parochial funds are not sufficiently large to enable emigration to be prac tised on an extensive scale. The colonies, too, are averse to any sudden influx of mere labour, unless accompanied by a fair proportion of capital, ex perience having shown that unless the workman emigrant can obtain work speedily on his arrival, he is likely to settle down into an idle, loafing kind of life. Altogether the picture thus presented is a most uninviting one ; still it is better to know the wont, and be prepared for it, than to be taken unawares and find ourselves powerless to grapple with an evil which threatens to occupy no small share of public attention. THE FENIAN TRIALS AT MANCHESTER. MANCHMTER, R -An/MAI% The trial of the prisoners implicated in the recent outrage on Hrde•road was resumed at 9 o'clock, liefore Mr. Justice Blackburn. On the previous evening a jury had been empanelled to try a Irmo batch, consisting of Thomas Smiley, Michael Joseph Boylan, henry Wilson, Michael Kennedy, Michael Maguire, William Murphy, and Pat r i c k Kelly. These prisoners were again placed in the dock, and charged with assault and riot on the 18th September. Mr. Pickering drew the attention of the court to 24 and 2.3 Vic., cap. loth as there was one count in the indictment against the pawners found guilty yesterday, under that 'section, for assaulting the police, sad calming actual bodily harm. Mr. Justice Blackburn intimated that he should reserve sentence until they were all tried. Mr. Pickering said that out of seven prisonen in the dock there were three against whom be intended to offer no evidence, namely, Boylan, Micheal Maguire, and Patrick Kelly, and he should, therefore, proceed against Sadly, Wilson, Kennedy, and Murphy. Mr. Justice Blackburn -Thou you tender nano evidence, and enter a sulk pvusequi. Mr. Picketing said that was so. Mr. Justice Blackburn—Then you enter a ttolle proscqui against all. Mr. Pickering—Yes. Mr. Justice Blackburn—Then they must be discharged at once. Mr, cetithibiro said ha appeared for Boylan, and on his par{, u there was no evidence, he should prefer an acquittal. Mr. Justice Blackburn—The none prosequi permits him to be discharged altogether. Mr. Cottingham—But they might prefer an indictment against him again. Mr. Justice Blackburn said it would be perfectly legal, but there is no chance of it. They may be immediately discharged. Boylan—l think I ought to have been discharged long since. The three men were then discharged. Mr. Ernest Jones made an applaation that the costs of the witnesses for those prisoners who had been discharged should be allowed. Mr. Cottingham made a similar application. The learned judge said it would require some considera tion, but probably the most convenient time would be to consider at in chambers in London. The court then proceeded with the trial of the prisoners. Mr. Pickering, Q.C., Mr. howler, Q.C., and W. Higgin appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Ernest Jones, with Mr. Blair, appeared for Beall and Wilson. Mr. Cottingham defended Kennedy and Murphy. Mr. Pickering shortly opened the case for the prose. cution. He called a great many witnesses many of whom only detailed evidence which has b een Liven before at great length, in order to prove the general circumstances of the attack. The only witnesses who spoke to identity were the constable Yarwood, who spoke to seeing Willem standing near the aide arch as they were driving through. William Hughes, the young man who was at she photo grapher's, saw Wilson loitering about the Hyde-road Inn for about an hour. from half-past eleven ; he also saw fiealley running away at the finish on the footpath. He was with the men who came out of the van, a few yards behind them. lie went over the line.—The boy George Mulholland, spoke to Sully as being in the centre of the road at the back of the van. Ho fired at Police constable Trueman with a revolver. In cross-examination by Mr. Jones he said that that shot was the only one fired at that moment. He saw Trueman duck. A dozen shots were fired before the policemen got od.—The next witness was Charles Thomas, plumber, who saw &ally helping to throw atones to smash the van. He then sow Seidley run away across the brickeroft.—Josiah Munn, the 'bus driver, saw Murphy near the van with the men keeping the crowd back. The other men had revolvers, but Murphy had not one. Another witness, James Kennedy, who was in the Railway Inn for more than an hour, saw Murphy there. lie was reading a newspaper, and invited the witness to chink out of a quart. He did so.—Edwin Walton, a shopkeeeper, near Hyde-road, iden tified Murphy as being amongst those who threw stones to keep back the phew and those assisting them. In cress examination he admitted that be had identified Feather stone at the police-at.ition, and afterwards, when he was arraigned at the police-court, after looking them over, be said he was not there. Witness now admitted he was confused by being called upon a second time. Mr. Theodore Fennel Kirwin, house-surgeon at the in firmary, deposed to the injuries of Trueman. There was bruise and extrayssated blood. Inspector Garner was examined to prove the warrant against Kelly and Deasy. In answer to a question from the judge as to whether it was necessary to go into all the e%idence on this point again, Mr. Cottingbam said he should not require it, because anything these witnesses had said as to a warrant he did not consider would affect the legal question to be raised in London at all. I'olice•oonstable Dickens again proved seeing Kelly and Deasey go into the prisoner Wilson's house at 3 o'clock cm the morning of the llth September. Elizabeth Robinson spoke to seeing the prisoner Ken- nedy, as she was going towards the arch, fire a revolver during the affray on the 18th ult. Could hot say which way be pointed the revolver, but thought it was more towards Itelle Vue than Manchester. She was about a yard and a half from him when he fired. By Mr. Coifingham—lt was not the first shot she heard. Did not know what the tiring meant, but got through the arch as quick as possible afterwards. Police-constable Drysdale apprehended Murphy in Hardman-street, and found a number of newspapers in his bedroom. Tbis was on the 26th September. Mr. Cottinghain objected to the papere being put in, and the judge thought it was better not. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Ernest Jones objected that there was no evidence against Wilson. Hu Lordship Wail he would refer to his notes. There was evidence that be was near the arch before Li o'clock, and again before two. Mr. Pickering—Looking in the direction of the van. The Judge thought that would not be sufficient alone. Mr. Pickering said there was the fact of Kelly and Deasy coming out of his house. The Judge—That would be evidence to show that he was acquainted with Kelly and Deasy, but not evidence in this case. After some further observations his lordship stopped the ease against Wilson. Mr. Cottingham said the only evidence against Kennedy was that of the girl Robinson, and he thought his lordship would hardly let thu arse go to the jury against hint on that evidence uncorruboreted. . . . . . The Judge thought the cam must go to the jury for whet it was worth. . . . . Mr. Ernest Jones addressed the jury and called witnesses for an alibi. Ainsworth, trtilor, Itootle-strett, said Sadly was at work for him on the frith ult., ni d did not leave work from two till tenminutes tc eight o'clock at night. By Mr. Pickering—The woriZeras three pairs of trousers, two black doeskin and one tweed. Mary Ainsworth. wife of last witness, remembered work coming in ou the 17th aid employing Scully on the 15th ult. She went for him I bout nine o'clock on the 18th. By Mr. Pickering—The trousers were two pairs. She thought they were a dark stripe. The cloth was some. thing of doeskin. The work was sent in by • Mr. Doherty. During the last witness's rzaruination the judge ccm pleated of the frequent cougliin4, end requested persons who could not restrain it to leave the court, lle said it would be good for their health, sad was absolutely neces sary to the progress of business. Mary Jane Wilson arid she went to Ainsworth's on the 18th ult. at three o'clock, and saw Sally at work from that hour to five. By Mr. Pickering—Had reeeivNl a letter from her father that day, and went to Mr. Ainsworth's to tell him. Mr. Ainsworth is her uncle. John Seymour, a master tailor, in Longworth.street, said Sadly had worked for him two years. lie lent him to work for Mr. Ainsworth that day. Mr. Jones said this was the case for Scilly. The Judge, having learnt from the prosecution that they did not intend to proceed against Wilson on the indict ment for felony, said he thought it desirable the prisoner should not be detained over Sunday, and by direction of his lordship they acquitted him, and he was discharged. Mr. Cottinghain proceeded to a 'dress the jury, and to open his case for the other two prisoners, }immesh.' M ' YrPa. The court then adjourned till lilonday,at ten. AN IMPERIAL 31EMBER OF A JEWISH Brurro- LENT &cum. The Jewish benevolent fraternity of Gyongyos, Hungary, asked the Emperor and Empress of Austria whether it might be permitted to enter their DRUM in the list of members, sod thus become entitled after their death to the prayers and usual mortuary rites of the society. The Empress wrote • gracious letter in reply, and sent *donation of WO florins. Her name now figures among those of the members of this body...kith/4 Chronick.