The Express. — London, England, 1866-04-20 00:00:00

rrIIRTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. Clear Thick, and Invalid TURTLE SOUPS silvan fir• ST. JAILEB'B-ILaLL, REGENT4STREET, PICCADILLY. WY. DONALD, Proprietor. 910 WEST-END DINERS.—The WELLING -E- TON, itt. James's-street, Piccadilly. Saloon Dining-room on the first Boor. The mthemiption rooms are now open. Terms, twelve months, 41 Ils. 6d. ; six mouths, 4115. 49Ply to D. Cameron, 41), M. Jambes-street LONDON mutt have a SUPPER and MUSIC PAWL for Oentlemea—ltemember, we wait for you at " AMAMI'," atier the Coyest Gorden Opera sad the Theatres. Eke erpretSgi. TO 001.11.ESPONDENTIL dvertiatenenta Mended for "The itxprese," louden Evening must be at the Mice, 10, bouverteatreet, by Two papery on the day of publication. HAYMARKIrr. Tins sviirrso, A ROMANTICiirTACITKIDTT. Mews. =so:lW. Tamen ; Miss Adseavendish.—THlC 'PAYOUTS TUNE. Seem Backstone,Chlppengials, sod Sofia= Mrs. Chippendele, tte.—And A DAUGHTUC TO MARRY. PRINCERES TEN Everne. A OHUBT IN dial OF HIMSELF.—After which THE STREETS OF LONDON. Hesse► Vlnlm, T. Mead, D. Messy, Bless, sad Fillies ; Mrs H. Huston, and Mem L Bowe add L Bodges LYCEITY TEM ETEMPO, SIMPSON AND CO. —And THE MASTER 07 RAVENSWOOD. Messrs, Yachter, G. Jordan, Veda, Emery, Wkidloomb, Fitzpatrick, ; Madame Taman, Elzworthy, Lynn, and C. Lecierect. RitITANNIA. Ten WINING, THE DASJETC6iti OF THE BLACK MOUN TAIN/. Mies Clara St Care, Mrs. & Lane.—Master L Madera —The lehasse Family.—And THE SCOTTISH CHUM Mr. James AMIWOOIL HIGH-WATER AT LONDON-BRUM& Tan DAY —Morning, sh. 3001 Afternoon. Mt. 5601. To-MoitsoM—Morning. eb. 20m Afternoon, Mx 48in. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20. TEE Guardians of St. Pancras have received a letter from one of their ratepayers which, if they have the common feelings of men, will bring blushes to their cheeks. The writer is a lady whose public benefactiona,wide as the empire, have exceeded the scale even of that noble gift of which we have all been talking of late, and which has been acknowledged by the QUIZN as more than princely. Miss BunnErr Courrs has been pain fully affected, as every newspaper reader has been, by the recent disclosures respecting the manage ment of the poor of St. Pancras, and she has undertaken to speak, not only on her own account, but also on behalf of that large class of ratepayers whose hard-earned money is taken by the Guardians, and not strictly applied to the benefit of the paupers for whom it is contributed, while the character of the parochial management is such as to surround with new horrors the thought of their last days being spent in dependence on public relief. Miss Courrs points out that the endeavour to keep down the assessments at a cruel sacrifice of the necessities, sometimes of the lives, of the paupers, is a kind of economy which proves in the end most expensive ; for, "putting aside all con " siderations of Christian duty and kindly feeling, " a sick pauper is a costly burden on the rates, " and a more liberal workhouse management would " prevent the crowding of infirmary wards, while " a wise administration of out-door relief would " save many poor persons in temporary need from " sinking to confirmed and burdensome pauperism." General considerations, however, are easily evaded by those to whom they are inconvenient, and Miss Courre, therefore, bases her remonstrance chiefly on the mismanagement of the sick wards of the parish workhouse. The recent inquest on the child prematurely laid out for dead proved conclu sively that the officers paid to look after the work house are too few for its 2,000 inmates, and proved further that they were not fitted for the duties for which they were paid. Miss Courrs writes : As a ratepayer. I feel the position in which I em placed very keenly. The law compels me to pay a rate for the benefit of the poor, but in its administration the law not merely fails to secure the object of the rate, but exposes the recipient of parochial relief, according to the evidence before the coroner, to being "laid out" before death, whenever the nurses, matron, or Lady superintendent, or whatever the designation of the responsible persons may be, may choose to think the victim of their neglect cannot " last long," or ie " nearly gone." Against such a system of administration, which actually exposes paupers to the danger of being buried alive, I must enter my protest. It may be said, however, that this was altoge ther an exceptional case, and that accidents cannot be absolutely prevented even in the beat regulated establishments. TE we admit this,we must add, that in such establishments they will be deplored, and means will be taken effectually to guard against them in future. But what happened in St. Pan cras when the poor child's fate, which ought to have excited sorrow and sympathy, became known 1 Miss Corns observes that the conduct of the officials under those circumstances seems chiefly to have , been marked by " all absence of any sense what " ever that the occurrence was one at all calcu- " lated to shock the commonly decent and hu " mane. Such a hideous instance of callousness " makes those shudder who feel they are forced by " law to pay a rate which places the sick in similar " hands." This is true, but it is not the worst of the case. Miss Courrs, in writing to the Guardians, forbore to dwell upon their own conduct, but those who write for the public need not practise the same reserve. The sympathy expressed for the poor child, far from arousing them to a sense of their duties, kindled their resentment, as they showed by excluding from the house the Scripture Reader who discovered the condition of the poor child and became the means of making it known. The public men who have ventured to express the general opinion as to the management of the work house have been treated as if they had been guilty of impertinence. Instead of those indications of regret and intentions to do better in time to come, for which Miss Courrs tells us she looked, the Guardians have given themselves up to demon strations of an impenitence which we trust is not true. The sermon that does not melt hardens; and the St. Pancras Guardians, like some hearers of old listening to the preacher, have been " cut to the " heart," and " have gnashed upon him with their " teeth." It sometimes happens, however, that the most abandoned characters, who will accept no remonstrance from a man, will listen with shame and respect to the voice of woman. Let us hope that it will be so in the present case. The public have, indeed, read in the newspapers a com position, purporting to be the reply of the St. Pancras Guardians to Miss Cocrrs' letter, but we prefer to wait for further evidence before believing in its genuineness. And besides, it is not letters which the public want to see, but some solid rea son to hope that the relief of the poor of that important parish is likely to be administered in future with a firm hand, upon the principles of humanity and enlightened economy. ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE LAWS OF MAle SLAGS. —The commissioners met at 32, Abingdon street, on the 14th and 18th instant. Present—Right Hon. the Lord Chelmsford, Right Hon. the Lord NW, Right Hon. the Lord Lyveden, the Right Hon. William Morrell, M.P., the Right Hon. Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, the Attorney-General, Sir Hugh M. Cairns, Q.C.. M.P., the Solicitor-General for Scotland, Mr. Travers Twiss, Q.C., D.C.L. Mr. Alexander Murray Dunlop, M.P., and Mr. John Fraser Macqueen, Q.C., Secretary. The catholic bishop, Dr. Moriarty, and the Right Hon. J. Napier, gave evidence. 'I 4 I ill .. : ' . I ~. , 'i i , • i li - 1 TAB EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVEiIIiNG, APRIL 20, 1866: OUR CONTEMPORARIES. cram DAY.) TM =roan DIMATIL The Times continues to see in the speeches of the opponents of the government lull a marked superiority in spirit, energy, and ability to those of its supporters. The course of the discussion yesterday was faithful to the law observed on former nights. Mr. Graham's speech can scarcely be considered equal to his lint effort ; Sir W. Hutt had to defend his consistency before a beg- gaily array of empty benches ; Mr. Hughes did much more harm to his friends than did even Mr. Layard, and as to Mr. M. Gibson, what conclusion is to be drawn from the fact that, like the cabinet ministers who have preceded him, he has eschewed the task of even noticing the argu ments in Lord Stanley's speech? Lord Moho, on the other hand, spoke with judgment and felicity ; and Mr. Doulton developed an ability hitherto unsuspected, and gave the Tines reason to rejoice over his conversion to sounder views than those which he must have held when he voted for Mr. Baines's bill. In this article the Times, having demand Mr. Hughes's speech as indicating that the lowering of the suffrage would precipitate us into socialism, repudiates any wish to make capital out of this unguarded statement, and expresses its disbelief that a Ti. qualification in boroughs would so choose the nature of parliament as to lead to the adoption of all or any of the heresies he described. In another article, however, the Times, after narrating a ease in which a trade union—that of the brick-makers—Ss aLleged to have condemned an invention, and proscribed the company which was to bring it out, prooeeds to argue that, though these formidable combinations have not been as yet directed to political objects, no one can venture to assert that this will not take place when their leaders think it worth while to bring them into practice. The Daily New says that the house did not come to the debate last night with that freshness which might have been expected from its two days' release from a wearying, if exciting, dieenssion, and that until the stirring party speech of Mr. M. Gibson the debate flagged. Seriously reprehending the violations, not only of good taste and good breeding, but of the confidence of social intercourse of which Lord Elcho was guilty, the Daily New proeeeds to remark that if he be correct in his statement that a large cumber of liberal members speak against the bill in private conversation, the fact affords the , best justification that can be given of the conduct of the government. Mere traders in liberal principles ought not to be suffered to carry on their disreputable traffic. They cannot be allowed to make profit oat of the name, and to turn their backs an the thing. The merit of the course taken by the government is this, that it compels professing liberals either to act up to their professions or discard them. The " screw," as it is called, will be opera tive only on men who can be dealt with in no other way. The natural candour of Lord Echo is too great for the equivocal part which he has been solicited to play, and so we find him while professing at one moment to be in some manse or other a reformer, in the next contending that Lord Palmerston's leadership was judicious because it deprived reform of its last chance. The real question between the two parties, the govern ment on the one side and the conservative party sad their new allies on the other, is whether the borough franchise shall be reduced. The pre text of Lord Stanley that the redistribution of seats should accompany or precis& • measure of enfranchise ment was refuted by Mr. Mill, and the President of the Board of Trade last night added an exposure of a different kind. Lord Derby and his cabinet proposed, and the entire tory party supported, in 1859 a bill which (lid sub stantially that which they now affect to blame the govern ment for doing. They fixed first the qualification for boroughs and counties, and left to a following session the determination, after inquiry by commissioners, of the boundaries and the area of the constituencies. The sepa ration by the present government of what they themselves aspirated is denounced as a fatal error. Thus the " note' , of faction is clearly impressed upon Lord Grosvenor's amendment, and the stigma brands the great majority of its supporters on both sides of the house. The Part says that when Lord Derby proposed that • commission should be appointed to report upon the best mode of mottling boundaries, he and the House of Com mons were ignorant of what that report might ultimately be. But if Lord Derby had the report in his possession, and had a bill actually drawn up in conformity with its recommendations, it would have been difficult to devise an excuse for his conduct had he refused to communicate them to the House of Commons at the name time that he *eked it to assent to a measure for the extension of the franchise. The Part also observes that if rumours are to be relied on, the debate will not be closed until the middle of next week. It still trusts that by adopting Lord Grosvenor's amendment the house will vindicate its independenc-. In the view of the Herald the protraction of the debate is unfavourable to the government, which suffers a loss of strength every day. The advantage of the opposition in the argument has been overwhelming, and last night there was even greater inequality between the contending parties than on previous evenings. Lord Echo is specially praised by the Herald for his manly con duct and conscientious purpose, and Mr. Doulton re ceives high credit for being well enough acquainted with the real temper and practical disposition of the working class to wish to know how much power is to be given them, and how far property and capital are to be placed at the mercy of class legislation and class taxation at the hands of those who have none. As to Mr. Gibson, Mr. Hardy had little trouble in demolishing in a few sentences his con fused and halting arguments. Even should Lord Gros venor's amendment be rejected, which it is difficult now to believe possible, this bill is too much damaged to pass ; its authors too deeply disgraced long to remain in power. The Telegraph says that Lord Echo, who has a glib tongue, abundant assurance, and unfailing vanity, has done reform great service by giving us fresh knowledge re garding that squad of " liberals " which he represents, and the real meaning of the amendment by which they seek to make their peace with the tones. We shall now, at all events, be rid for good of liberal conservatives, who can henceforward only be described as tones. He "is not against reform." But what is his argument ? It is that this parliament is not pledged to reform—that Lord Palmerston never mentioned the word in his election address, and that 165 " liberals " returned in Sep tember gave no promise at all upon the subject. If such a plea be not like creeping under another stone out of the way of the daylight, what is it Lauding Mr. Gibson's incisive and animated eloquence, the Star says, nevertheless, that one sentence of hie speech indicated a greater degree of confidence than it is disposed to admit in the reforming sincerity of the House of Com mons. It was that in which the President of the Board of Trade declared himself willing to leave the house at full liberty to deal with the reduction of the franchise as it pleases when once it has arrived at the principle that a re duction is to take place. On this point there ought to be no doubt. Anything short of this 71. fran chise ought to be considered by the government, as it would be by the people, no settlement at all. Lord Elcho's speech was mere flippancy, the natural result of an intrusion into the high places of politics of a pre judiced and light-minded trifler. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Graham stoutly supported the bill—the one by sharp in vective, the other by a generous exposition of the wants of the working classes. Mr. Doulton, who appears to have gained in smartness what he has lost in political character, made a speech that would have well befitted the merest vituperator of the opposition. Mr. Gathorne Hardy con cluded the debate in a speech characterised by more than his usual dulness and dryness. • few weeb mince, Ws cannot see how Prude will be able to avoid compliance. The Daffy - Noce regards the disclosure a the fact Jest the Prussian people are net all, nor nearly all, intoxicated with the ambition and ylinated by the peed imputed to them by their King and his minister, and by the outside world generally, as the most important sign of the time in Germany. If any oonsiderabbi proportion of the Prussians themselves are opposed to the Bismarck policy, the chances of peace cannot but be improved incalculably. A way is opened at last to the mind and the senses of the King. Everything, in short, may now depend on the stir and echo of this hopeful patriotism spreading through the King's dominions. During the days when Austria was threatening the existence of Sardinia as a Constitutional State, Count Cavour once said to a friend who inquired how affairs were going on, "We live, and every day increases our chance of life." A somewhat similar remark, the Tde grapd thinks, might be applied to the present relations between North and South Germany ; peace is still pre served, and every day of peace increases the chance that a conflict will be avoided. Nevertheless, the only hope of the permanent continuance of peace is the possibility that before matters come to the last extremity one of the two great powers will modify its resolution ; but so far the Tedegropt cannot safely assert that such is likely to be the case. The final decision of the Prussian government will de pend mainly on the attitudeassumedby Franc e andßussia. The Emperor Napoleon has not yet taken any decisive step in favour of Austria, but on the other hand he has certainly given no overt encouragement to Prussia. The policy of Russia is more doubtful. If it is true that the northern potentate is anxious to interfere once more in the affairs of European Turkey, no conjuncture more likely to encourage Prussia in pushing Austria to the utmost could be imagined. the Court. OSBORNE, APRIL 19. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena and Prince Leopold, and Prince Christian of Schles wig Holstein, drove out yesterday morning, attended by Major-General the Hon. A. Hood ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Helena and Princess Louise. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein rode in the afternoon, attended by Colonel Du Plat. The Marquis of Hartington arrived at Osborne yester day, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. A deputation from the pariah of St. James's, West minster, consisting of Mr. Weymouth, Mr. Compton, Mr. Duff, and Mr. Webber (vestrymen) ; Dr. Edwin Lanka. ter (medical officer of health) ; and Mr. Buzzard (vestry clerk), transacted business with the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, at the Privy Council, Whitehall, yesterday. A deputation from the Tower Hamlets, consisting of Mr. A. Solomon., Mr. W. Wigginton, and Mr. J. R. Whitehead, had an interview with Lord Dufferin, at the War-office on Wednesday lut, upon the subject of the , formation of volunteer corps. The deputation was intro duced by Mr. Ayrton, M.P. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius,Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lebuan, the Australian Colonies, New Zea land, and Canada. The Salters' Company have resolved to present the freedom of the guild to his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who has consented to accept it. The document will be presented in a box of the value of 100 guineas. City Press. Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits, and the Heredi tary Prince Adolphus, are expected to arrive from Ger many on a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge in the course of the ensuing mouth. The Earl and Countess of Westmorland have taken 32, South-street, Grosvenor-square, for the season. The Earl of Zetland arrived yesterday, st his residence in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, from Asko Hall, I Yorkshire. _ _ Mrs. Gladstone will have an assembly at the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer's family re sidenoe, Carlton-house-terrace, on the 2nd proximo. The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has instituted the Rev. Charles Henry Wilson, M.A., to the rectory of Coberley, in the county of Gloucester, vacant by the death of the Rev. William Hicks. Patron—John Henry Elwes, Esq., of Coleeborne. His lordship has also licensed the Rev. William Barker to the perpetual curacy of Holy Trinity in the Forest of Dean, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Henry George Nicholls, on the presentation of her Majesty the Queen. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The Tsmoot to-day remarks that in the last reply of Herr von Bismarck to Austria, no allusion whatever is made to the report of the Prussian and Italian alliance, to which direct reference was made in an Austrian despatch. The Temps is inclined to consider this silence on the part of Prussia as rather confirmatory of the alleged alliance. It must be admitted in any case that it would afford considerable satisfaction to Austria if Herr von Bismarck thought proper to deny the report, and his not doing so is rather sig nificant. The Dagbladet says that the government have received information which makes it necessary for them to abandon the passive attitude which they have hitherto observed, and may oblige them to take significant measures. The aim of the government is to observe neutrality, but the development of the situation may render such a policy impossible. By skilfully taking advan tage of circumstances Denmark may have a chance of getting back at least a part of what she lost. THE PRESERVATION OF COMMONS. The weekly meeting of the committee of the Commons Preservation Society was held yesterday after noon at the society's offices, 29, Parliament-street — present : Mr. John Stuart Mill, M.P. ; Professor Fawcett, M.P. ; Mr. Locke, M.P. ; Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M.P. ; Sir Fowell Buxton, M.P. ; Mr. Toynbee, F.R.S. ; Colonel Alcock, Mr. Leslie Stephen:Mr. Alderman Begley, Mr. J. C. Parkinson ; Mr. P. H. Law rence, and Mr. Arthur Lankester, secretary. The provi sions of the Hon. Wm. Cowper's Commons Bill were care fully discussed, and the threatened opposition of the Me tropolitan Board of Works unanimously deplored. The committee pledged itself to do its utmost in support of Mr. Cowper's measure on its second reading next Wednes day ; and earnestly hoped that all interested in the pre servation of commons would be made to understand the really mischievous character of the objections raised. The proposals to reject the bill on the ground of its not being sufficiently comprehensive, and to substitute for it a sweeping enactment for the buying up of all common-rights and vesting them in the crown, ere considered especially dangerous, as tending to render claims exorbitant, and to footer an extravagant and need less expenditure of public money. The aims of the Com mons Preservation Society are limited to maintaining in their natural wildness all open spaces within 15 miles of London ; to preventing encroachments on the one hand and abuses on the other ; to aiding the residents near to aid themselves; and to provide all necessary funds by means of a local rate, which shall be administered by local authority. The committee are advised by some of the highest legal authorities that Mr. Cowper's bill will, if it become law, enable them to secure these objects, and they earnestly deprecate an opposition which, while it is pro. feasedly prompted by a wish to make commons inalien able, really plays into the hands of those bent on their de ed adtion. Mr. Peek, of Wimbledon, has liberally offered 2251. for prizes for the best essays on the preservation of commons. Two of these are to be treated from an historical and legal point of view, and two from a moral and sanitary one. After warmly accepting Mr. Peek's offer, the committee broke up. HANDEL FESTIVAL. —The only meeting this season of the 1600 members of the festival choir takes place at Exeter-hall this evening. The first part consists of • selection from Handers Jephtha, the second comprises the choruses of Handers Ads and Galatea. . . . We believe we are correct in stating that the talented Professor Of Greek in this University (Mr.Jowett) will shortly publish a new and complete edition of Plato. The work will, we understand, be divided into three pats, of which the first will contain fragments of Greek philosophers up to the time of Plato ; the second Plato's Republic in the Greek, with copious notes ; while the last part will be a translation of the whole of Plato's writings, with suitable essays by some of Professor Jowett's friends. —Oxford Undergraduates' Journal. THE LIBERATION SOCIETY AT CANBRIDOE. —The meeting, for which the mayor refused the use of the Town hall, took place in Downing Independent Chapel, on Wed nesday night, and was attended by a numerous and in , finential audience. Mr. W. H. Johnson, M.A., the first nonconformist who took a degree after the passing of the Cambridge University Reform Act, presided on the oc casion, and the Rev. J. H. Hinton, ILA., Mr. J. Carvell Williams, of London, and the Rev. J. G. Rogers, 8.A., of Clapham, attended as a deputation from the committee of the liberation !Society, and delivered addresses on the prinaples of voluntaryism, on the present condition of the establishment, and on the parliamentary measures by which it is sought to secure perfect religious equality. The abolition of sectarian tests at the universities was strongly insisted upon by some of the speakers, among whom were Mr. Neville Goodman, of Bt. Peter's Coll ; the Rev. Mr. Bennett, of Foulmire ; and Mr. W. Johnson. The speeches were characterised by great earnestness and hope fulness. CRYSTAL PALACIL ONZ SHILLING DAY. THIHIADAY, Amu 19.—Admissions on payment, 1,807 ditto by season tickets, 1,435 ; total visitors, 3,242. PATCRDAY. S.W. to N.W., strong to fresh, unsettled. PKOBABLZ 011 NoitTHILMI SCSDAT. COASTS. Variable. to S.M.E. and W.M.W., moderate to strong. S.W. to N.W. and WIMEM. S.W. W N.W., mode back, moderate to rate to fresh. strong, some showers. Variable, strong to tiornims. moderate, sonic showers. As next above. Westerly, moderate to fresh. EASTERS. S.W. to N W., mode. rate to fresh. Northern—Scotland. Western—lreland, Wales, and adJa• ceneies. Southern—English Channel and Bay of Biscay. Eastern—Eastward England and North Bea. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON lll.—This is the birth day of the Emperor of the French, his Majesty having been born at the Tuileries on the 20th of April, 1808, and hiving now, therefore, completed his 58th year. . . The Emperor Napoleon, accompanied by the Marquis de la Valette, Minister of the Interior, drove out in his phaeton the day before yesterday after the review, passing by the Quays to the Quartier Latin, the Boulevard Sebastopol, the Cite, the Rue Saint-Antoine, the Rue Saint-Martin, the Boulevard Magenta, the Rue Lafayette, the Boulevards, and the Champs-Elysees. His Majesty, who drove himself, and was entirely without escort, re ceived an exceedingly warm reception throughout his drive. The Emperor of the French is reported to have replied to M. Guizot, when the latter asked him to ratify the dismissal of M. Martin-Paschoud, " M. Guizot, I must consult my ministers of state and of public worship. lam a more constitutional sovereign than you think." Prince Adalbert of Prussia is still in Italy, where he has visited the arsenals. He was two days since in Spezia, and it is probable that he will visit Florence before quitting Italy. The Berlin journals announce that King William has refused to receive the address of the Prussian traders declaring war to be injurious to the interests of the country. " Some of the journals," says the France, " an nounced that M. Mires will shortly take • prominent position in Paris journalism. He is said to have pur chased the greater part of the shares in the Prase, the direction of which will, according to report, be confided to bhn. The Prate will thenceforth be devoted to the defence of the government policy, under the chief editor ship of M. Cucheval-Clarigny, one of the editors of the Pairie. Owing to those changes, M. 011isier is to retire from his present post in connexion with the Prase, and has already applied to the Minister of the Interior for authorisation to found a new journal, to be entitled Le Peupk, the political programme of which will be a frank adhesion to the dynasty with an extension of liberty." THS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN PRUSSIA.— The Prussian Moniker states that the King lately received the oath of fidelity from the two new Archbishops of Posen and Cologne. To some remarks of the latter his Majesty replied as follows :—" I have been happy, vener able gentlemen, to receive you personally before your entry upon your episcopal functions, and to accept the solemn promise which you have jut corrobo rated by oath as a pledge of your sentiments towards me and my house. The catholic church throughout my dominions is, by virtue of the historical development of the law and of the constitution, in a well regulated situation. Under the aegis of just and benevo lent laws it can exercise freely and without obstacle its functions in my dominions. I feel great satisfaction that this fact, which has been many times justly appreciated by the visible head of your church, should also be recognised with gratitude by my faithful subjects. The catholic church in my states may be assured of the continuation of my paten's' protection." PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. The chances of present peace and of an equitable settlement of the Duchies appear to the Times to have been greatly advanced within the last few days. The general impression seems to be that the power of Count Bismarck has been sensibly weakened. There are even those who believe that his official reign is near its end. The adhesion of Bavaria and the chief minor states to Austria has convinced Count Bismarck that his govern ment stands alone in Germany, a position difficult enough if he were supported by the admiration and enthusiasm of his own people, but dangerous indeed when Prussia is at least divided. We may now expect, if not an abandonment of plans, certainly a change of tactics. It may even suit the Emperor Napoleon to emerge from his rather pretentious neutrality, and to add his voice to those which have condemned the Prussian policy. Should it be proposed to submit the settlement of the Duchies to a European congress, ►nd should Austria and Germany consent, a thing not so improbable as it would have been LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) ROUSE OF LORDS. APPEALS. GALLOWAY V. MI MAYOR Or LONDON. -TIM LORD MAYOR OR LONDON Y. GALLOWAY. These were two appals from the Court of Chancery. The first was an appeal by Mr. Galloway from the Lords Justices affirming a decree of the Master of the Rolls, dis missing the appellant's bill ; and the second was an appeal by the mayor and corporation of Lon don from an order of the Lords Justices, by which they granted an injunction to restrain the capon- Bon from taking certain land of Mr. Galloway which had been refused, by Vicsi-Chancellor Wood. The question involved in both appeal. was whether the mayor and corporation of London were entitled under the compulsory powers to purchase, which by the Holborn Valley 1m pronammt Act, 1864 (27th and 28th of Victoria, cap. 61), were vested in them for the purposes of certain public improvements mentioned in that act, to take the whole of certain valuable freehold and leaaebold property of the appellant situated in the city of London, pursuant to their notice to take the same. T he appellant contended that the Corporation had impropey included in that notice • large part of his property which they did not require for the purposes of the said act, with the intention f handing it over to the Metropolitan Railway Company, in pursuance of an agreement entendintobetween the Cor poration and the railway company. He therefore contended that the Corporation should be restrained from taking more land under their notice than they actually required for the purposes of the Holborn Valley Improvement Act. The appellant's property included in the notice °unaided of two blocks of land and buildings. One of those blocks, which alone was in dispute, was partly freehold and partly leasehold , and was situated on the north side of Wort-etteet, running out of Farringdon-road in an easterly direction towards the new meat market authorised by parliament to be constructed on the site of Smithfield-market. The appellant did not object in the suit to the second block, nor the one seventh of the first block being taken by the Corporation towards the formation of a new street, which they were authorised by their act to construct. For this purpose only a triangular slip of the appellant's land would be required, and he was anxious to retain the remainder. The formation of this new street was authorised by Parlia ment, by the " Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market (Western Approach) Act, 1862," and the Corporation were by that act intrusted by Parliament with compulsory powers for that purpose, extending over certain lands, including those of the appellant. Some time before the passing of that act the corporation, who, under parliamentary autho rity, held shares to a very large amount in the Metropolitan Railway Company, had entered into an agreement with that company to the effect that the corporation should take under the act the whole, or a large portion, of the lands over which it gave them compulsory powers, includ ing the appellant's land, on the north side of West-street, and should retain so much as they required for the actual site of the new street, and hand over the whole residue to the railway company for the sum of 70,0001. This agreement was executed between the corporation and the railway company in June, 1862, rather more than a month before the pissing of the Act of 1862, the examine of the powers of which it professed to anticipate. The act having passed, the corporation served • notice upon the appellant in April, 1863, of their intention to take his pro perty under the powers and for the purposes of the act of 1862. The appellant thereupon filed his bill against the corporation to restrain them from taking more of his land than they required for the purposes of the act, and particu larly to prevent their taking it for the purposes of handing it over to the railway company. The injunction was re fused by Vice-Chancellor Wood, but was granted on by the Lords Justices, who were of opinion that the - potation, having previously to the passing of the act of 1862 and before their notice to the ap p lent of April, 1863, entered into an agreement with the railway com pany, such notice was not given in due exercise of the powers vested in them by that act. This decree now re mains in force, and formed the subject of the second appeal. On the 30th of July, 1864, two days after the decree, the corporation served the appellant with a second notice of their intention to take the whole of his property under the powers of the Holborn Valley Improvement Act,which had just been passed ; but the appellant believing that it was the intention of the corporation to hand over the property to the railway company, filed another bill to restrain the corporation from taking his land. The Master of the Rolls dismissed the bill,and hisdecizionvras affirmed upon appeal by the Lords Justices. This was the judgment sought to be reversed by the first appeal. The appellant alleged that he should be plead in a much worse position by having his lands taken under the Holborn Valley Improvement Act, than if they were taken by the railway company un der the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 418.45), as under that act he had the option of going to arbitration, which he had not under the former. The case was argued in March last by Mr. Rolt, Mr. Sel wyn and Mr. Bagshowe, who appeared for Mr. Galloway; 04 ; and the Attorney General, Sir H. Cairns, Mr. Jarrell, Mr. Swanton and Mr. Bristow., for the Corporation and the Metropolitan Company. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelmsford, sad Lord Kings down, before whom the case was argued, now delivered judgment, and directed that the appeal of Mr. Galloway should be dismissed ; deciding against him in the case in which he had succeeded below, and affirmed the decree which had been adverse to him, the effect being that the Corporation will be entitled to take his land under the powers of their act, and the injunction to restrain them from doing so was refused. He was also ordered to pay all the costs below, and of the appeal. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Baneo.—(Before Justices Blackburn, Shea, and Lush.) The Lord Chief Justice vas unavoidably absent from in disposition. SHAW P. THE LANCASHIRZ AND TOMMIE" RAILWAY COMPANY._ Mr. Edward James, Q.C., said this was the case known in Liverpool as " The cowbeel and trotter case." It was an action to recover compensation for personal injuries, tried before Mr. Justice Lush, at Liverpool, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 1,000/. He moved for a rule to set aside the verdict, and for a new trial, on the ground that the damages were excessive. The case was merely the assessment of damages for the loss sustained from the plaintiff's inability to attend his business, as well as for the personal suffering. The plaintiff's wife kept a stall in Liverpool market, and sold tripe, cow heels, and sheep's trotters, by which she said she made 1001. per annum, but that as her husband during his illness was unable to collect and purchase sheep's trotters, cow heels, and dress tripe, she had none of those articles to sell, and the plaintiff was deprived of the profit she used to make upon their sale. Mr. Justice Lush—As the husband could not buy hides ' and skins she could not get the trotters. Mr. James said there was another branch of the busi ness for making of neat's foot oiL What the defendants complained of was that the charrs were excessive for a man in the plaintiff's station of hfe. The plaintiff kept no books, and he was unable to produce any documents upon which the jury could form any opinion as to his real income. Rule granted tvreAuse v. FLU . ..CIR.—LIBEL. - -• Dr. Keneal;;;;;I this was an action for libel against the A thenmum, tried at the last Surrey Assizes before Lord Chief Justice Erle, when the pl aintiff in was non-suited. He now moved for a rule nisi • upon the defendant to show cause why the nonsuit shout not be set aside and a new trial had. Mr. Justice Lush—l think I had better not take part in this case. Dr. Reneely—There cannot be the least possible objec tion to your lordship remaining. Mr. Justice Blackburn—ls it not better, for the obvious reason why Mr. Justice Lush wishes not to take part in this case, to postpone the motion until the court is more fully constituted ? Dr. Keneuly said he would be guided entirely by their lordships' suggestions. He felt certain there was not a member of the bar who would have the slightest objec tion to Mr. Justice Lush taking part in such a case. Mr. Justice Blackburn said they repeatedly commented on the impropriety in inferior jurisdictions of a father sitting as a justice in his son's use, and be did not think a superior court should do so. It was for the learned counsel to say whether he would go on with two judges or wait until the court was more fully constituted. Dr. Kenealy said that as the case raised a very im portant question he would rather wait. The motion was accordingly postponed. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Baneo.—(Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, and Barons Martin, Bramwell, and Pigott.) HOCEREHALL T. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANT. This was an action for the non-delivery of certain sheep within a reasonable time, and was tried before Mr. Baron Bramwell at Chester, when a verdict was taken by OCMIRRE for the plaintiff, with damages agreed upon, leave being given to the defendants to move to enter a verdict for them on the third plea, if the court thought it was an answer to the action. Mr. Bowen in now moving accordingly said that the plea in question raised the point whether a proclamation Issued by the mayor of Wrexham, under the orders in council, prohibiting the bringing of cattle and sheep within the borough in consequence of the cattle plague was a good defence to the action. The sheep were sent by the London and North Western Railway from Manchester to Chester, to be forwarded on from there to Wrexham by thedefendante' line. At Chester the trucks containing them were hooked on in the ordinary course to a train belonging to the defendants, which went to Wrexham, but when they arrived there they found they could not deliver them to theplainti ff owing toths mayor's proclamation. Mr. Baron Martin did not think that the proclamation prevented the company giving up the sheepto the plainti ff . Mr. Baron Bnimwell said the defendants were in this thlemina,that ff they had brought the sheep within the limits of the borough, they had already infringed the order in council, and might as well have delivered them up, and if ITALIAN FINANCE. At the sitting of the Italian Chamber of De puties, on Wednesday last, Signor Scialoja, the Minister of Finance, in reply to a question by Signor Torrigiani respecting the fall in the Italian funds, said that the reports circulated with regard to the public credit of Italy were the work either of foreigners who were enemies of Italy, or of Italian speculators who were unworthy of their nation. The minister positively denied that there was any intention on the part of the govern ment to give forced currency to bank-notes ; and added that steps would be taken, in conformity with the dispositions of the penal code, to prosecute the authors of these malicious reports. (astrna's TILZOWOS.) SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 20. The Epoca of to-day says the draught of a bill for the formation of a Spanish Credit Foncier baa been submitted to the nuniatry. ROME. ROME, APRIL 19. The Pope visited the Queen of Saxony to-day. PORTUGAL. LISBON, APRIL 20. Count de Torres Novas, the Minister of War, is dead. The Chamber of Deputies has approved the con tract for constructing a telegraph to America. The Municipal Chamber of Beraca has been burnt down. THE OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 20. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamer Poonah, which sails to-day, takes 2,4901. for Madras, 15,2311. for China, 4001. for Yokohama, and 2001. for Sydney. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, APRIL 20. The Ripon arrived here at 6 a.m. to-day. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 8 AAR IF. I Extreme. Seu, B. T.l W. I W. R. Ito 12 F. D. 9. Nairn Aberdeen 29.49.44 W.S.W. S 8 N.S.E. re 0.41 S Leith Ardroraan Greencastle 29.6045 W.S.W. 3 8 8.8. W. re 0.11 2 1 - - 'rape Clear 49.72'4 31 S.W. 6 6 W.S.W. m 4 Liverpool 29.7750 W.S.W. 3 5 S.W. cb 2 Holyhead Penzance 29.94151: W. 6 6 B.W. re 3 Brest Lorient 29.96 1 54 W. 2 4 W. c 2 RocheforL 30.03 551 N.E. 2 2 S.W. co 2 Plymouth Weymouth 29.911611 W. 431 E.& E. cb Portsmouth 29.90 50, W.S.W. 3 4 W.S.W. c 3 London - Yarmouth 21.01 40. W.N. W. 6 8 ' b.E. eb 1 Scarborough. *4).71 48 W. j 2 S &E. oc 0.04 3 Shields 2).70 48. S.W. 15 8 S.E. ob —l2 Helder — • - - - they had not been within thaw limits the order had i l k been infringed. Mr. Bowen said that if the company bone Ede I* * 4 that it we. intended to contravene the terms of the a c ik s by taking the sheep within the borough, they w en j ust . lied in not delivering them. Ultimately the court said they would postponevantina or refusing a rule until a demurrer to the plea which stool on the paper for argument had been disposed ef, COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE, (Before the Judge Ordinary.) LANGSTON IA MOORS AND orank l a. "- Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Spinke for the • . N. Chambers, Q.C., Dr. Tristram, and Dr. j or 4 defendants. The deceased, Susan Parker Gates, was the wife of spa tleman at Northampton, bat some years ego xis eloped from him, and there we. reason to thi s k that she had since cohabited with more than one Mae In 1864 she was residing at Rochester, where , attention being attracted by something she had lout e a dissenting cel, she led • penitent and respects% life. Attacked in the December of that year y a violent illness, she sent for Mr. Liftm an , surgeon, who gave her case his unreal tion. Her state at length became so that he thought it right to communicate her danger her, and recommended her to arrange her again. said that she had not a friend in the world, and that some return for his kindness to her, she wished to less him all that she had. He, therefore by her request, ay after some hesitation, drew up a short will himself sole executor and universal legatee. This iP te l l executed, and it had since been asoertained that the ceased had an interest in a sum of 3,0001. after the death e her husband, whose age was 45. Probate was opposed the next of kin, and also by a person named Barnes,* was no relative, but in whose favour she had made in 1861. (The case was proceeding when our report left) THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL A &Krems SHARTEJI IN TROUBLE. William Hook, • respectable looking man, who demi" himself as • commission agent, residing at 35, Karam, street, Ifildmay- park , was brought up in Cali!, kr d Sergeant Montague and charged before Alderman Sift. with assaulting Mr. Gooderham, the landlord of the lasi Tavern, in Upper Thames-street, and breaking Os a a • value of nearly 101. in his house in the month of Jonah* When the prisoner was searched there were founds' NR Is. 7d. in mosey, 10 flash notes, and 30 Hanoverian*" (made to imitate sovereigns), • valuable gold wata chain, and some other articles. Mr. J. T. Gooderbam said he kept the Atom Team 234, Upper Thames-street. On the 14th of Jun last ga prisoner drove up to his house in • cab with two or thaw others, and they all had some bread and cheese, and m thing to drink. When he was going to pay for it las dem a cheque out of his pocket with the counterfoil dada to it, for 1931., and wanted change, which wanes refuel to cash. He then took out another with the calash:eh it, for 150/., and witness refused to have anything te geed it. He then took out a bundle of them for various sarsela and said, " Well, if this is too large for your paha, is • smaller one, and I have • great many smaller as here. I have won them all at the races." Wham yea not take any of them,. and the prisoner said he lads other money to pay for what they had had to eat el drink. He called in a policeman, but the officer ethed to interfere unless he gave them into custody. prisoner then took a quart pot up and said, "ye —, you will give a man in charge, will al!' and struck him on the arm, whereupon was immediately knocked him down. He thee teal round to go into the bar parlour, when the mum flung the pot at a looking-glass w orth 81., and brain He also broke other glass amounting altogether tor' 101. He then got into the cab with his friends sad drove off. Witness left the officer in charge of the hones, whis he ran after the cab, but he could not overtake it. Hi had never seen the prisoner since until pada*, wash had information that he was in the Albion Tavern, Nee Bridge-street. The prisoner had promised to pay a damage since he had been in custody. Alderman Healey said he should remand the prisons Hook asked to be admitted to bail. Alderman Bale)) asked if anything was known of hi.. Sergeant Montague said he had given a correct adios John Pegg, police constable 346, said he knew the ye soner as a skittle sharper. The alderman under the circumstances remanded tie prisoner and he was removed to Newgate without bail. CLERKENWELL. A /SAD ACCIDENT. James Such, a chaser, of GO, Hatton-gardea, was cheign before Mr. D'Eyncourt with firing • pistol at Willie GNATS', and thereby causing his death. The evidence of Mr. John Henry Potter, a eon mercial traveller, said that yesterday therms returned from bu siness, in company with the head and the defendant, and it was proposei they should all go to the Crystal Palace. They me up-stairs to wash, he (witness) being first, and took his coat and commenced washing, and laid his reveilles the drawers. All at once he heard the report heal discharge of fire-arm', and turning round saw the piedl the defendant's hands. lie saw the deceased glai44 the chair and rushed and caught him as he was He saw blood flowing from the head of the deaseek_ above the ear. He laid him on the floor and calla II help. He sent the defendant for a doctor, and karma took the injured man to the Royal Free Homital. Inspector Ambrose Potter, G division, said that the fendant came to the police-station and gave himself a t H h e e f w o ae llo i wing e eem ce P :t e ifi y catc wi th his inn-road, April 19, 1866. — This ito ce rtif y that WM* f i n t ' o e y n .i ds Free . He li t oo hen taL handel Gra t Greaves expired at this hospital at 4.15 p.m.—J. D. Bait resident medical officer." From the inquiries that ( dece ased o was purely spectrPotter) the resulthadmelehebiofevaoetdthatent.the death d the The defendant, who appeared to feel his pagan vin acutely, said it was all the result of accident. dis i targ r. D ed 'HYn th e : friends. ft TUB CHARGE OT ASSAULT AG INV A POLICI-SEBOWIT urt def thi endan d it was aswhaossile the court un and s s i Va ii CONSTABLE. Police-sergeant farad Beard, 20 G, and polieessaahls William Taylor, 210 0, appeared in answer to their roe* v. nisances charged with having, on the 7th instant, an, fully assaulted and beaten Mr. Rocca Angelinetli, 41,14 ' ing glass manufacturer, of St. John-street-reed. Mr. Maynard, from the office of Mr. Bead, attended support the complaint, and Mr. Lewis defended. The complainant's statement, which was reepectable witnesses, was to the effect that he was Sal. um outside the Pewter Platter, when t he defeedal!ta Yid _ on his toes, hit him on the stomach, and threw km UM the road. He went to the police station, sad lds he was met by the police-sergeant, and again , Mr. Maynard said that since the last hewn; w cuter had been waited on by several respectable of Clerkenwell, to represent to him that the Models had been in the force for some years, and h ad Wn ti . sr before been complained of. The prosecutor a d dictive feeling in the matter, and on account r). wives and families, and the defendants making 4 ) , at!'t he would, with the magistrate's approval, withdraw u 4). the prosecution. wivesat IP OS lIWAS. sua lfr ea . t L ed ewis to hrl ad t o h l e ,ted magi . st o ra n te e w of oul th d e ta t :" fondants was now lying in a very Mr. D'Eynoourt said it was a cast e tt e aTmest go 4 ' 1 ' 114 1 and remanded the defendants on bail for the oasP of the depositions. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BOSPICIOUB coenwer. Morrie Brown, a German traveler glazier, rending,ll Spit&Melds., was charged before Mr. Knox with beitg_ in the house of the Dowager Lady Wenlock, 22. Bowr square, for the purpose of committing a felony. Lord Wenlook was in attendance. Elizabeth Amy, in the service of the Dowager Wenlock, said—About 2 o'clock yesterday aftereasqt prisoner rang the area bell ; I opened the gate sad him what he wanted, and he said he had come to row! window at the top of the house. I asked him who had slo him, and he said a woman, hut he had forgotten bwimfmali Charles Pullin, also in her ladyship's service, here forward and asked the prisoner if he had come , from Naylor's, that being the name of the person doin g l g t pairs, and he said " Yes." The prisoner was then to go u 10 Clueles Pullin—On asking the prisoner if he gams fl Mr. Naylor's, in James-street, Oxford -street, he " Yes." I then allowed the prisoner to be showsl stairs. In consequence of something that took Phs , asked the prisoner why he had stated tha t he mow five Mr. Naylor's, and be then said that be had not mai ia and he was then given into cto. Morris Griffiths, in the service of dy Lord Wenlock, NISH yesterday afternoon saw the prisoner on the bodingw the top of the house, and asked him his busine ss • fle that he wanted to Dee the lady who lived in the no ° where he had been mending the window. I then left St Prisoner in &ar of a carpenter who wa s at work while s made inquiries bow he got admitted. The previous : said the • was admitted because he mid came from 42isylor's, and on his asking the prisone r he had said so, he said he was a poor man, and that way heahie living was by going from house to hoe" In the whore I saw the prisoner, which wee sages 6" tones the room he ad been in, there were containing valuable property, a nd although the had been in the home - half-an-hour, be bad not dans 0 0 minutes' work. Evidence having been given, showing that the O a/ was not in Mr. Naylor's employ, Edward Sharoill, C, said—After talrintthe P rl s into custody I made inquiries, and fend tea living as a travelling glazier. He said • female him to come in and mend the windows. The prisoner said he got his living honestly by roenaj windows. He was not a thief. As soon as he fone im o a large place he was in he thought there wee OCCH) sad went to look for the person to get paid torsi:alit MI dam, wb t his so= saw to waw a w a" Wawa ta b so o 1 whit 7 0 honor I linvO2 tarp*prow awes IF IMMO& I banal" we wog efirki Plekk 13 &venial *Pi - 84, i7rowett 'I =dor• t ig!!114 lame Mr. takes • but till JAY Vi A. man rang 1 Mr. Mr. Mr. talked buy gloves by Ole Mr. note. Inc NOW The Mr. L Tex 23 Mr. knee, at the ereeth the Ih The bY 12 , read, , ~. dein Th the a If I get b 1 CAI