The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

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W Two sa on Ohs day of pablinetion. HAYMAIMIT Till rnorrso. A P.OIIA:IFfIC ATELCIIKSICI. Items. W. lama and Compton ; Kim Ada Camsdida.—Bitormut SAM. Mons. Sahara and Unonstone ; tddis Holly Soma —IIOPIIIIINI IN TUX HAY luaKsr.—And A UM IN TES DARK. PRINCEBIIII. Tan Qom LODGIZIO3.—After which IT IS !WM TOO LATh TO MIND. Moors. TWA& G. Mahal, I. Mod, D. Murray, b. Whams, Y. VlDlara..7. O. or; G. Mar. MT. and R. Caikairk Mbass 1.. Moon sot K. lodgers. Tiro Emirs°, THE 1111:1 7 36.101:18 STIANGEL Yr. if. Widdicomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVIENSWOOD. Mawr Fichter, Jordon, Voila, Emory, WM.loomb, Fitzpatrick, Egos; Madams Taman, Kisworihy, Loewy C. Littoral. BiaraslßA. Tura Immo, THZ CASUAL WARD.—Mys. Howard —Mr. John Kim Cannaln of the Londos—Johnny Dep. the Champion Welker. —The Grand PANTOMIMIC. Mn. S. Lan e, M. and Madame Sterteenhech.—And Olmar, King of Gymnasts. 8109_WAT113 AT LOWDOL!IRIDGI. MB O. RM. TO-MOSIOW Morning. lb. 22ni.—..1ttern000. lb. Mins. LONDON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. Ir is satisfactory to find that Earl Russmes speech in reply to Lord LIFFORD contained not one word that can be understood to imply sympathy with a proposal so reactionary and Irrational as the establishment of another State Church in Ire land. The endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy of that country has at all times found VA advocates a.nong a class of short-sighted politicians, who for apparent present convenience are ready to adopt measures which would create difficulties tenfold greater than those which they might remove. The Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, being Ir;rh men, share, no doubt, the national feelings of their countrymen. Their influence over their flocks for good depends on their doing so, and any transaction which made them appear to be taking money to become of the English interest would ruin them in the estimation of their people. But if they are Irish, and are often found asserting their country's claims, they are not disloyal ; by interest and religion they are bound to the cause of law and order, and have every reason to support a Government which secures their Church in a posi tion of liberty such as it enjoys in only one other Catholic country of Europe. Bat there is a vast difference between protecting a Church in its religious freedom and forming an alliance with it. BURKE admired the in dependence of the Irish clergy, and Parr pro- posed to buy them over ; but neither Brim nor PITT had any conception of the retonsions or power which the Roman Catholic Church has put forward in these days, and which have troubled every government in Europe that has entangled itself in engagements with it. They did not live in a day of " encyclicals ;" the Popes they knew were easy-going old gentlemen, veshing for nothing but a quiet life. Even Catholic govern 'nen% find the Rrs...test difficulty In estiafp I iog his demands of the Court of Rome, sod Prussia has reason to know bow bard it is to reconcile the claims of an infallible and Divine power with the rights of the State, which is only human. And what kind of relations could subsist between the English Government and the Roman Church in Ireland Is the Roman Church in that country to be endowed and still left free, while the English Church remains tied and bound? It is idle, if not insincere, to bring this question forward as if it could be treated as one merely for the endowment of a national clergy. The Irish priests are as clay in the bands of the potter; they are the devoted servants of a foreign Church, to which they acknowledge, and always will acknowledge, a paramount allegiance, and it is with that great Church, and not with a number of humble Irish priests, that the reckoning will have to be whenever the Irish Catholic clergy are endowed. No government in its I LTOZIIII., I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I - THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY TY, 1866. senses gives money without retaining a right over its disposal ; but the exercise of such a right in the present osse would bring our Government into collision with a Power which in such a contest would be sure to win. We must forget all the teachings ,of history, and cut ourselves loose from the progress of modern civilization before we can listen to such a proposal as that of Lord Lunrozo. Berl Ginty hoe given notice that on the 9th of March he will move that the Lords go into com mittee of the whole Hones to consider the state of Ireland, and propose resolutions recommending a definite course of policy. We earnestly trust that the Noble Lord's wisdom and success may prove equal to his laudable courage. Ir is to be hoped that there is no mistake in the telegraphic annonnoement that the Armstrong guns which we lost at Dewangiri have been restored to our officers by the Bhootan chiefs. We see no reason for supposing that there is : the intelligence purports to come from Sir JOHN Lay/Runes ; it ought to be true, and it probably is true ; only we have bad so many disappointments, the fruit of false hopes, aims this Bhootan war began, and such notable proofs of the fallibility of the Eastern tele graph to transmit a message entire, that the habit of distrust will assert itself in the presence of the strongest evidence. Looking now, however, to the explicit language of the Govxerroz-Grartam. of India, we feel at liberty to congratulate the country for the first time on the real ending of the Bhootan war. The circumstances under which these guns fell into the hands of the Bhootanese, a year ago, made too strong an impression on the public mind to have been already forgotten. After a force had been sent into their country to avenge the insults offered to our envoy, Mr. Farm, and to obtain the satis faction which he had failed to exact, and when the fortress of Dhalmioote had been taken and Dewangiri occupied, our soldiers encountered in the climate a worse than human enemy, against which the Government had failed to arm them. At the beginning of January we held a line of posts in Bhootan extending to a length of 190 miles. The nominal Government of that country was talking of peace, and no reinforce ments were forwarded to our little army. Suddenly the most powerful chief in the country, Towoso Parn.ow, knowing that 03 only pesos likely to be signed would be made at his expense, having collected four thousand men—just five.and-twenty times as many as we had been led to believe he could dis pose of—suddenly and simultaneously attacked our poets. The attacks were repulsed, but in each case the enemy was enabled to take up • strong position overlooking ours. The principal post was that of Dewangiri, held by Colonel CAMPBELL, of the 43rd Native Infantry, with 400 newly raised men and 100 cavalry. The force was weakened by malaria fever, officer after officer having been stricken down. On the 30th of January, Towaso PxmLow :attacked Dewangiri with 5,000 men, and was at first beaten off,. He, however, erected stockades close to our position, and our troops—who, it is to be remembered, were Sepoys--refused to advance. By the 6th of February there was no water, and Colonel CAKPBYLL held a urine of war, at which it was unanimously resolved to abandon the post. This was done at night ; the force was misled by the guides ; the Sepoys abandoned the guns and the wounded, and the affair ended in a disgraceful flight. Subsequent operations, lulu- ding the recapture of Dewangiri by General Tomes, and the state of our military affairs per mitted us to resume ncotiations for peace. A Treaty was finally signed last November, the surrender of the guns was one of its stipulations. Many persons thought that their restoration should have been made a condition prior to any negotiation, and all held that the war must be re sumed at any cost if the guns were not sent tack. At that time their restoration seemed far from pro bable, the Torras° PZELOW who held the ions having throughout the war and negotiations taken a true of his own, and being, moreover, the most powerful of the chief.. By what means he has been brought to reason we are not informed, nor does it much concern us to inquire. We have got out of a war in which we could reap neither profit nor renown, and it may be hoped that our next dispute with a native State may be settled with out resorting to methods which place our holorr in the power of a handful of savages. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THD3 DAY.) barest will aot astrthetsaily deal with, and this au only be relieved by a past diminution of the total expend!. tare Cl the governmeat, tbzugh the adoption Cl a sounder feisty, ooloalal, and demastie. The Pod Wake the sketch which it says Mr. White drew of the Begliah people groaning under a lo►d of tan. Lion which they feel is intolerable, and ready to disarm the country to cheapen tea and beer, has an exceedingly apocryphal appearance. The colouring is laid on too thiok, and the rhetorical ogreish fails to wooed the &bassos of a truthful appreciation of the national spirit. The &or will not conceal tie regret that Kr. Gladstone did not avail himself of the opportunity to avow an earnest adhesion, not merely to those general principles of fruga lity which are acknowledged on all sides, but to a broad polity of retrenchment. It was vary gratifying to hear from the opposition so generous a testimony as that borne by Sir Stafford Nertheote to the necessity of °cashiering in these questions how terribly taxes may press upon the poor which are hardly felt by the rich. It did equal honour to the bon. baronet as a politician and as a man, and it was characterised by an obvious sicoerity and feeling which sontrasted very pleasantly with the " prosperity talk' which fell so glibly from the lips of Mr. Laing. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ,LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUKEN'S BKNOIL After Term Nisi Prins Sittings at GniMan.—Totem the Lord Chief Justice and Special Juries. 1111,1101 . 9. THE AOOIDZITAL MUTH nrIMILLIKII 0011 PANT. This wee an action upon • policy of intonate in the Accidental Death Insurance Company. The defendants bad paid M. into court, and pleaded that the plaintiff was sot whelly disabled from attending to his besieges, and that consequently he could not recover. Mr. H. James and Mr. Telford Baiter were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Coleridge, Q. 0., Mr. Jos. Brown, Q. 0., and Mr. Charles Hassell were counsel for the defendants. The plaintiff is • publican, sad was formerly connected with °remorse, sad at the time of the accident complained of he bad a place of business in Holborn, and was also proprietor of the Hotel and Carders at North Woolwich. Thu plaintiff effected a policy of Inswranoe in the defend sat's company, and by it they covenantal to pay the um of 1,0001. in ease of she death ci the person assured, and 61. per week was to be paid if the scoured was totally disabled from attending to bedews. and • sum of 30s. per week in case of partial disablement. In May, 1884, the plaintiff wee going along Holborn in a Hansom ash, when he wee struck by the heroes in an omnibus cosnisg.in the opposite direction, breaking several of his ribs. He wan tikes to his house ie Holborn, where he was confined for • week, and after that be wait to Woolwich for change of air, bet he wee unable to attend to his boguss. Mr. Coleridge widths cue was more one for his lordship than for the jury. He believed they were agreed epos most of the facto, and the question to be determined wee the wording of the policy with regard to the " whole " or " partial " disablement of the assured. A person wishing to resolve compensation for partial disablement was in quired to pay an extra premium of 2s. per cent. The plain tiff did not pay that per outage. The Lord Chief Justice said the language of the polity with record to partial disability appeared pretty clear. Mr. Coleridge said the sum of 41. premium for 1,0001. In ease of death was • very null premium, and the company was obliged to prot ectoary itself in eases of compensation only. This was not an o death poli. The Lord Chief rdi cy Justice said the question was whether the plaintiff had been wholly or partially disabled. If only then it sou to be contended that it was sot within tthhe Mr. oo eridge.—Yes. The defendant bad paid the plain tiff six weeks' compensation the time that he was wholly disabled from Weediest to his business. After that it was only • partial disability, the plaintiff being able to attend to certain matters. The question was as he had already stated—the meaning of the words in the policy. The Lord Chief Justine said there could be so doubt that if • man was obliged to be in bed it was a total disablement; but that if a man's doctor allowed him to work for an hour or two • day it wee • partial disablement only. Mr. Henry Jams. said his contention was that the plaintiff was totally disabled for eight weeks from attend fog to the whole of his businsse ; merely giving certain directions in a man's room did not alter the cue. The Lord Chief J ustioe said It would be better to hear the facts of the cue. Mr. Bishop was then called—He deposed that he was confined to his bed for six days at Holborn. At Woolwich he was confined to the her parlour for three weeks, acid be wee only able to sit about and see what was going on end answer questions. He was unable to take any active part in the business. From attending to badness too soon he had a relapse, and he kept hie bed for three weeks. The Lord Chief Justice said that is whet be should have expected from a man going out six days attar he had broken his ribs. Plaintiff further said that he was still very unwell and was not able to attend to his business as formerly. The Lord Chief Justice said the question of total or jurtial disablement was one of fact and degree for the ry. He thought it was essentially • question of theirs and not of law. He would so direct the jury and give the defendant leave to move the court gun the °oestrus tion of the policy, or it mold be turned into • special cue. The question was of the three weeks the plaintiff was con fined to his bar-parlour, in which he had said that he was wholly disabled from attending to business. Mr. Coleridge said the company was very desirous ci having a legal construction put upon the policy. If the plaintiff had paid the extra premium he would ham been entitled to compensation whilst partially disabled. The defendants had paid six weeks at 61. a week for the total disablement. Eventually, the jury returned a verdict for the defendaato on the ground that there was not a total disablement for more than six weeks and that the sum paid into court was sufficient. TEN NATIONAL ZIPENDITOIN. The Times regards last night's debate on the national expenditure, which came to nothing, a. a singular commentary on our familiar boast of the practical quality of our pectin a Ow proceeding.. Mr. White was justified is pointing out the ineonsisteacies between Mr. Gladstone'. private uttenseoes sad official action, but it still remains to be seen how far the Chancellor of the Exchequer's canornie seal may carry him. We are all more or less convinced that there is some truth in the statement of ease l of Mr. White's resolutions that we spend too much ; but Mr. Ling conclusively disproved the statement in the other, that the means of oar expenditure is drawn unjustly from the different classes of the state. The prime, necessities of the workman can row be satisfied without their price Wag enhanced by the intervention of the tax-gatherer, and his labour is unfettered by any legislative restrictioes. I I The fact is undeniable that ;f we analyse the pro portion of the income of the workman and the milliinaire which is absorbed by taxation, we shall find very little diffeseaos between them. Though the Times does not expect say practical benefit from the discussion of last night, it does not condemn the practire of levelling • broad resolution at such an abuse as extravagant expenditure. We can call to mind an °cession when a general resolution was followed by a considerable reduction ; and although it would be dangerous to abate our vigilance in watching separate votes, experience shows that it is only by general resolutions that large mule can be obtained. The Dwily News remarks that theigh Mr. White excited an interesting die:tussles, he did not maned in inducing Mr. Gladstone to break through the reticence which he has exhibited in such a remarkable manner sines the opening of parliament. Mr. White's cue was weakened by the omission of qualifying seasideretlons—forgetting in his comparison of the average annual expenditure of the five years 1642-46, with the avenge =anal expenditure of I 1657-61, to exeunt for the f t that the expenses of col lection were included in the latter sum, and were omitted from the former ; and omitting the feet that the larger menus to which he referred, is derived from a diminished Unties. This disregard of plain eossidetations led him away, moreover, from the one which it is really Important to Improve upon the House of Commons, viz., the evil which springs from a too great facility in raising an enormous revenue. The danger which may arise from taxation not weighing hardly upon the I people may be almost as great as the inoonvemieno. of • / mere mews upon them, in tempting to • lavish expendi li tare for unnecessary, illegitimate, or, it may be, pernicious purposes. The only certain way of permanently avoiding the peril thus indicated is the formation by statesmen, and ' the adoption by the people at- keg of a definite view of the moors of government, both in its internal and external relations, sad by the restriction of Its action to clearly recognised objects. Questinn of revenue are ulti. manly questions of policy. At present if the computations of Mr. White sad Kr. It'Laren en even ap proximately somata it cannot be denied that than is a relatively severer pressure of tersest' en the lowest dam, which the most equitable attempts to redistriban the THE COUNT DS FLANDRES AND ME ROUMAIN CROWN. The deasir National, after stating that the Count de Flandres is not likely to accept the offer of the crown of Roumania, says :—" The count is known to desire, above all things, an independent existence. The possessor of a considerable fortune, baying inherited a fourth of the large disposable property of his father, he has announced his inten tion of living en grand seigneur as a patron of arts, and, it is said, of leading a single life. Being afflicted with deafness he could not eaaily discharge the duties of a prince regnant. He was about to set out on an artistic tour to Italy, in company with the distinguished Belgian painter, K Portaels ; bat has put off the journey for some days, and was to be seen on Sunday mixing with the promenaders of the boulevard. It is stated that, though he intends to refuse the crown, he will remain in Brussels out of courtesy to the deputation which the Roumain parliament announced they would send." It will be seen from our Paris correspondence that his royal highness has arrived in that city, and there received the deputation. CHINA AND JAPAN. The China Mail (Hong Kong) of Jan. 15 con tains various details of the depredations of the rebels, who are described as murdering everybody and destroying everything they meet with in the neighbourhood of Newchwang. Japan advice, contain an account of a disturbanoe ' between the English and French tars, ending in the imprisonment of a few of the ringleaders. Sir Harry and Lady Parkes and family had arrived at Yokohama. Though many still doubt the ratifica tion of the treaties by the Mikado, there appears to be only one opinion as to the opening of Osaka, and of the greatlbenefit that will be derived from a free intercourse with all the classes of Japan. There seem to be still many complaints of the minor princes against the Japan government, on account of their exclusion from the trade with foreigners. (istrria's THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES :- VIENNA, P. 2T. It is asserted that France, Austria, and Russia have agreed upon the expediency of assembling a conference as proposed by the Porte for the settle ment of the question of the Principalities. This conference would be composed of delegates from the powers who signed the treaty of Paris and would sit at Constantinople. It is also stated that France and Austria concur in their views upon the affairs of the Lebanon and the Eastern question generally. THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1867. PAWS, Frs. 2T. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial received on Sunday the Commissioners of the Paris Exhibition. The Emperor, in announcing the appointment of the Prince Imperial as honorary president of, the commission, said :—" My eon is at present too young to take an active part in your deliberations, but he will at least have an opportunity of learning in good time to honour labours which secure the prosperity and splendour of the state." SPAIN AND ROME. MADRID, Fzis. 26. The &poets of this evening announces that the Minister for Foreign Affairs has made final decla rations on behalf •f the temporal power of the Holy See. The Minister of Marine is seriously ill. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, F. 26. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, drove in the grounds this mornieg. The Priem of Wales went to the Hoses of Lords yester day afternoon. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Maoolosfield, took a carriage dries. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Cloonan ist yester day. The Lords present were : The Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, hi: E. V. Williams. Sir J. °cavil*, and Sir Laurence PreL Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the North American Provinces. Despatchee were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malts, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Koeg, Lobos°, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Australian Colonies, sad New Zealand. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Alfred, visited the St. James's Theatre het evening. The Eul and Countess of Yarborough left tea .1 yesterday for Menage. Lord and Lady Colchester entertained the fol lowing company at dinner last evening at their residence in Rerkeley-square :—The Marchioness of Ely and L.dy Marion Loftus, the Earl sad Countess of Arran and Lady Caroline Gore. Visevuot Braberni, Lord George Quin, 8 r Ralph and Lady Howard, Mr. and Lady Elisabeth Ruesell, Camel North, M.P., Colonel Taylor, M.P., and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. A. Herbert, &c. - His Excellency the Spanish Minister and the Marchioness de Moline entertained the following company at dinner on Sunday evening at the Spanish Legation in Portman-square Excellency the Russian Ambas sador and Barmier Minnow, his Exoglency the Austrian Ambsssador, his Excellency the Hanseatic Minister, the Duchess of Botomayor, the Marchioness of Ely, Prince Gortchakoff, the Marquis de COWL Irujo, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Jerninghans, &c. After dinner his Excellency the Spanish Minister and the Muchioness de Moline received a small and select party. Last evening Sir Moees Montefiore, accompanied by Dr. Hodgkin, left Load= for Palestine on another mis sion of philanthropy to his brethren io the East. Madame Naniier-Didi4e, Tamberlik, sad Gra ziani have arrived in Paris from St. Petersburg. Graziani wto appear Let night, and will probably also take part with Frasehini and Madame Groni in the revival of /1 Giuramente. Mr. Baxter intends, in oommittee of supply on the army estimates, to move a reduction of the Fortifica tion votes, and the reduction of vote 14 by 100,000 L, befog the sum required for the defecates of Quebec. Mr. Hibbert's bill, to permit capital punish ment' to be carried out, nate certain regulations, within the interior of privies, has been deferred till Tuesday next. On an early day Mr. Morris proposes to call the attention of the bones to the state of the " Law of Re moval " from Great Britain to Ireland of persons receiving relief, and to the injustice of maietsiog a system which is applicable to favour of Great Britain only. Mr. William Ewart, on Friday, will move, that on Tuesdays (especially as being days on whit& government business is sot generally brought forwsrd) the house do meet at 12 o'clock, and rise at, or before, 6 °Weak, es ea Wednesday,. ---, - Mr. Baxter intends to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, oa Friday, if nay repreeelta. Com have been madeto the government of Portugal retard• fog the connivance of Portuguese offline% on the East Oorat of Africa, with the slave trade, and likewise regarding the claim of Portugal to many hundred miles of that coast, where that power has so settbomeet or military form. The members of the General Committee of Elec tions will be sworn at the tatde this day, at 4 o'clock. At Northampton the wholesale prices of MOM are for the whole arum (without the offal), sad ef the beet quality :—Shorthorn beef, 4a. 4d. per 81b. ; Waster mat too, se. per fa. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Eiddnp st NW Prior io fie . dr. 7 (pdore . Lord Chia Justice Erie sod a Speelil Jury.). BAT MI V. THu CONTRACT CORPORATION (LDITTRo). This ease occupied iLe attention of the court for nearly five d iys. Is was en adios ova a bill of exchange for 3,00 e/. dated the 4th Auguat, 1865, drawn by John Weems and Go., accepted by the defendants and endorsed to the plaintiff. The question in the cause was whether the bill had been indorsed to tt., plaintiff the purpose of his getting it discounted for the benefit of the defends/3M, or whether there was so ciesdition of that kind so that he coold apply it to his own purposes. Mr. Kerslake. Q. 0.. Mr. Field, Q C.. Sir George Bony. man, and Mr. AL Williams. appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Mr. Mellish, Q. 0., Mr. FL Jamie, and Mr. Lanyon for the defendants. Toe philutiff was an tron merchant in foulness in Grace. church-strait, and he was also agent for the Aberdare Iron Company. He had bad a great many large transeetioos with Mews. John Watson and Co., who were contractors for making railways and other public works. He had sold them iron, lent them money, been surety for the perform. sore of their contracts, end be bad been in Meer ways connected with them. At the commememeot of 1865 it was arranged that a portion of Messrs. Watson's cootraote should be heeded over to the defendants, and a partner in Messrs. Wetsoa's house and the de/indents became directees of the company. The transactions between the wan won of a complicated kind, sad amounted altogether to many hundreds of thousands of pounds, and out of the affairs several actions had arisen, of which the present one was first tried. It was sated that is the next case the defen dants claimed from the plaintiff no less a sum than C )i, A great deal of evidence wee given on each stile in referenda to the transactions between the parties, and more especially as to the terms &upon which the bill bad bees endorsed. The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, said that the turning point of the case wee contained in the evidence of Mr. Hickson, a solicitor, who was one of the directors of the company, nominated by Messrs. Watson under their arrangement with the company ; and in the evidence of the plaintiff. The defence was that the plaintiff bad had entrusted to him to get discounted abontso,oool. worth of bills, of whichthe3,oool. bill win part, and that instead of applying the proceeds to this purpose he used the money for paying debts due to him from Messrs. Watson. Mr. Ricreou's evidence was that the company were going to arrange with Gurney's for discounts, and be in common with one or more directors asked the plaintiff to use his influnno to raise money for them, and he agreed to dose. Hesaid he should haven° diffi culty in getting them " • lit ye" for 30.0001. ce 40.0004 upon bills drawn by Messrs. Watson and Co. He said that al though the discount would be is the mime of Watson and Co., the proceeds would be for t. 6 company. Bills were banded to the plaintiff for 12,0006, for 3,0001., end lee 32.0001. under the arrangement that they would be dis counted for the benefit of the company. Witting asked the plaintiff soon afterwards whether he bad done the bills, and when they would have the money. He Bead that it would be uniedvieable to draw the money out immediately ; it would be better to leave it fors me time. Mr. Bateman, on the other hated, swore positively that there was no such agreement made. He said that be bad a balance due to him from Watson end 00., of 31,0001., and be sopliad to Mr. ()emend, who was a pertuer is the firm of Wstaon and 00., end also a director of the company to reduce the balance. Mr. ()versed brought him 32,000/. of bulb, and said, "It you get them discounted with Omani, Gurney, and Co. it may go in reduction of your Wanes." The bills were discounted. Mr. °mend drew oat 2,0001. of the proceeds, and authorised the plaintiff to withdraw the remaitaLr, and be did so. As to the 3,0001. bill Mr. Ovarend brought it, end said— " Please put this to my ore lit," and as to the 12,0001. acceptation they were bawled over as "moveable h(113116. ties." In conclusion his lordship said that the whole of the dispute was ceenqueot upon the faders of Meseta Wa'son. and it would be for the jury to sty whether the bills had been heeded to the plaintiff in payment of his debt ' due from Near . Watsoe , or upon an speemeet that be should hand the proceeds of the bills to the defendsrets. The jury retried to consider the matter, and after an absence of 10 minutes found a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount of the bill and interest, 3,0201. lib, COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Baton Mr. Commissioser Holzoyda IX BB JAX 11331!1.11:0 MILL_ The bankrupt was •;atoekbroker of the Stook Exchange and of Norwood. At the last sitting. • resolution was passed for rcuspeadiog the prooriedinp and taking the mei out of court oo payment of a composition of ss. fa the potted ; sad an sdjourament for two months was ordered. Mr. F. T. Dabois, on brhslf of the maiguess, now asked fora further adjourome•t of two months, which was orJered. The liabilities are stated at 17,8531. 111 Pi WILLIAM WIT 1111111111 T. This was anapPlioatioe for releasTfrousanstedy. 71s baskrupt, who had • keg skin of addresses, t eirwibed himself as a stockbroker's clerk, fonterly of Trisity -street, Paraaridge, slime of the Albion Hotel, &labials, and else where, fineffiy prisoner for debt in the custody of the ShOria of Ilidalasex at Bream's-biaildinp, Ohanosrpleee. The debts owned 1,7001., the dolma Wes shied! for articles of luxury and extravgance. Mr. Lawranoe supported, and, is the &bosses of opposi tion on the part of lfr. Sykes for the official wipes, His Honour granted the application for Hume. STILATIOIIT-ON-AVON RAILWAY. The directors have detieasieed en deelarise a dividend foe the pot ba you et the one of 6 per Ma. per seem. THZ NAYS ZEITDI&TES. The Daily News applies to the Secretary of the Ad miralty who moved the consideration of the navy estimates last night, the phrase by which Sydney Smith once de scribed a social favourite, " the cool of the evening," and certainly his lordship never bad a smoother or simpler story to tell. Reviewing the statements in the debate, the Daily News thinks the navy and the nation will concur with Sir John Pakington in his judgment on the strange economy of building an experimental seagoing turret ship of five or six thousand toss, when a ship of eleven hundred tons woeld have tasted the principle quite as well, and when it was notorious that a seagoing turret ship of eleven hundred tons, built by Ream Laird, at Bin- behead, bad already justified, by her behaviour at sea in bad weather, the confidence of her builders. Sir J. Pakington also glanced at Mr. Reed's lighter elms of steamers, " built for speed only," of which the fiat that had been launched was found to attain 12 knots an hour. These criticisms were palpable bits, and the Secretary. who, rumour whispers, has chosen for a Ifecifterrainan fiaphip not one of Mr. Reed's building, but one of Hamm Laird's, might perhaps have felt them more acutely a year or two ego. Having alluded to Lord C. Paget's anticipation of a time when savings' banks may be known amongst seamen, the Daily NM expresses a hope that a few years hence there will be seamen's barracks at all the naval ports for the re ception of paid-off men. These barracks will preserve the men from the gross mischief that awaits them the moment they step ashore. . . - • The Herald is quite willing to admit that we ought even in time of peace to keep up a larger naval forte than that of any other naval Power; but it proteste against the pro- mises of the government of a saving when such a necessity is acted upon. It is to be regretted that so small an ad vance has been made in the construction of iron-clad ships, the only vessels on which we are now able to rely in time of war ; and of ee-going turret-ships, of which the Ame.- cans have built a whole fleet, we have positively not one- Mr. &muds tells ns, for our consolation, that we have only ten ships fit for the first line of battle among ocr armour-clads. If any war should come upon us inoppor tunely, and our fleet be overpowered or sent to the bottom by an enemy well prepared with turret ships, the govern meet that has taken ten milliors a year out of our pockets for the DIIIIMIIIIIIDOO of the navy, and expended it so un wisely as to leave us practically defenceless, w" 1 seem de serving of something worse than mere verbal reproof. MB. BANCROFT'S ADDRISS. The Times Hods is Mr. Bancroft's oration a proof of the wisdom of the Cambridge senate in declining to sanction Weaned to their undergraduates by a member of a New England University. Mr. Bascroft was some years since minister to England, he is advanced in years, has written history, end obtained a respectable literary reputation ; but his production wee worthy of Elijah Pogram. The taste which could invite an English minister and his strff in order to inflict upon them a coarse invective needs no remark, end the Times can well understand that there were many among the Americans themselves who were shocked at the indecency. Such an harangue/ ran have little result on this side of the ocean. but the effect in America is of importance. Can this mischievous old men believe that any purpose can be served by slandering two such countries as England and France in the presence of their represeu.itives? The Americans know their own rights, and are sufficiently watchful in maintaining them ; they do not require to be continually hounded on against us, nor will it tend to the enlightened conduct of public affairs if they are made to be• Bove that England i■ a country where the mass of the people is powerless and oppressed. It is to such declama tions as these that ws owe the arrival of a few score Fenian adventurers in Ireland. Stich misrepresentations might be properly left to a lower class of politicians ; they do not deserve to be countenanced by one who claims the high titles of historian and diplomatist. )08 TOPICS. The wisp in the supply services will figure only, says the Times, as petty cosh in the gte t t 1 sec' sheet of the cation. Indeed the demand is so ambiguously presented that it is doubtful whether we ere to lose or gain. True, the civil service estimates proposed do show a decrease, but wh►t if a supplement should ag►in be found neces sary? The argument of Earl Russell yesterday that the Irish Roman catholic clergy desire no aid from the state appears to the Post, at brat sight, a curious one, for if it is sound we must infer that the maintenance of • system which leaves them dependent on the voluntary contributions of their co-religionists, constitutes no grievance. Earl Grey has given notice that he will, in the oourse of next week, formally submit certain resolutions o• the state of Ireland, and on that minim the Irish ques tion will be fully canvassed in all its beariogr. The rospensioa of coastitutioaal government in Ireland is admitted by Earl Grey to furnish such conclusive proof of something radically wrong in the government of th►t country es imperatively to demand the intervention of parliament, with the view of discovering and correctiog the cause of mischief. The Herald would be glad if it terold feel at all sure that the demands of the discontented part of Ireland will mess wish sny more thoughtful consideratien than a few civil words, end pr-rhaps tie tossing of the Irish church as a sop to Cerbern•. With some of them, sr with the proposal of Lord Liford for the endowment of the priests, it has no sympathy at all, they are simply impoesibilities. With others it is very possible to deal satisfactorily, if the at• tempt is honestly made. It is true that we have to add to Irieh grievances a few which he present spokesmen either do not see or do not appreciate. Bat of ail these in their timer, The Telegraph inclines to the belief that the Roumanian insurrection is attributable rather to the vicious incapacity of Lout► than to the intrigues of Austria or the enorosch mints of Russia. In the telegram which ban already reached our government from Prince Gortcbakoff, eaves. sive of his desire to proceed in this matter paripasru with Groat Britain, we have a promising assurance of Russ'as good faith. It may be too early to lay this flattering unction to our soul, nor is it possible to doubt that the internal °sedition of Turkey, berimpecuniosity, her declining credit, her ill-judging prodigality, afford materials for very serious apprehension and anxiety. The Eastern question is far from having been settled ; but the Telegraph is incased to distrust its resurrection in connexion with what may be nothing but the deposition of a corrupt, viciors, and worth less Prince. The &ar has some belief in the national almost* of lkumatila, and regards the recent revolution as the first clear proof of energy, decision, and united purpose. There is the material for at least one new and independent state among the peoples who inhabit the regions between the Pruth and the Adriatic. They will never be Turkish, or Russian, or Austrian ; and the Sear does Dot believe they will ever be Greek. But into what form or forms they may crystallise hereafter it would be idle to attempt to conjecture. This Roumaia movement is a healthy symptom of activity and purpose. It ought to be fostered in that negative way which alone is worth anything in each cases —that which keeps off intervention and leaves the national of onies and instincts to mead themselves and find their own principle of cohesion. The telegram announcing the surrender of the Bhootan saes received at the Indio, oouseifolloe yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock, I. dated Oalentta, 5 o'clock, Sunday afternoon. Allowing for six hours' difference of longitude, the time thus taken La taimemiesion was only 21 horns. jio aOil - Tom Th e pelserst titak ilia gro.Nihon 3 n7 s aiikboar dam Who mgody wag Woo obbo prisoner al swam of whaS Yolime** taking ilb. P boroo OW foo s ea toe law NJ li Mr. Booker 1 A WATIBIUJI Thom .; ebb -11 , tie: aitindaaa mho p•v hard I& M define —.• jury tompors LONDON CENTRAL CRIMINAL COMM (THIS DAY.) 'sad' Imo Jetta Thom - vi st rAdalr oho him into the rl boa& Mr. Truntbl , men's Oompai ' eamisa4 bays the est of pari eviction. to_. . 80 1 for es, Perm The ample . • hadant. ha ml wag caaveye is Icing so h need is & II round and ash for two pins 1 another_ pima the Loie D had crossed th rowing and f p sat) by the ea sad [mitt tl hold of the iii Anderson had rowed the he sesaded the d theu secertain Brotherly Lot to the Thames sireelmsbmee, TAN anal tit na ß me and add ff, 19. T of th Mabee Name and ad know for. 1 maks any am Kr. Tram! redinary, cad Both the I aseativa, em r. i conMaiaa st w : remembered man. It wall boat, which , The Mem men in ardel the boat, der is attendant Mr. Trill hr. He she defendant. w 17e. mantel with hard la The defers removed in 8171011 This um kaki an Inuit street,. aged Boxi a -- WaNma /3 1 that deems 1 maker, cad t I was very pe her elder. 1 daughter I I was going dowsnairki room if it w I oak of deer i 'khaki of eat I let her oat i and shortly Be took het i Illbabeth i was invited oa the prey Witness des ceased got 1 Thursday al 1 all night. 1 her to go to r. I will polem w was in s de out. With , • refused to ✓ Whams ii who proven 4 to the win , I she was pr rosined in • witness sum 1 take a roan h She went oil cup f n)1 of I it. and up. ' She kasha that." Sh 10 minateel done it l" ''s have taken I C to settle MI k: walk emoted M' Mr. W. the decease =nand it a. quarters of It. wadies he t 11 She expre time her m • state of eon at mole day. is people. m Th. OM l i l , The jury is of wiame, The hi bad et 1 O.J. Mal' boa ,I The repo taken The CEA the pia femm ro e. m wl smallness I 'stop the Bible, sad company i The steps, them, het deed meat trader say - mean the The mix sleeted a d WM site . lb SWIM . . Mai verged . °Obeid .ts • Sib ' ••• seemata • • WIDI ' .E. tO N rate to et above. Ni.i to I aerate squatty. • a but ala /feettan • a The 2 terday te help hye USTI! NOMA; hY mama Gnaw — i w Wetilitte hisk ' (Bohm thsDspaty-Reardie.) our guitHeal? ty to ßaraos laa : indiatoseu mwd , Owotheas H : A w r: : ch ) i f st eille charpd AlLP .l ls asies ßichard i t a at BM A: tato • church at Peahen:, and stealing some be* other articles. Mere were three other indiotmeets of a simila r t h aw tar soled the primers. A polio* officer informed the court thati ruads h et tsit twice before convicted of filmy, and M e min e s nothing with him. He abused sad threstss e d hat father sad mother, and they found him nu The other boys were also had boys, and ahoy v 5 ,11 1 71411 14 leaving home, and their parests did not knee 'MM become of them. The learned judge said that it was a Tory * G m There was so doubt that the prisoners way e young sad Ka wee ll:U r f . elthough dli tt el i c raTonly pleaded guilt m y p the to one elm % f ob w a n vei7 li doubt upon the boos that ta le h tt committed all the other offenote of which &op ha apoileed. It was necessary that $ stop shobid their career. and he should sentence Nesp t o t is mooed and kept to hard labour for six m on th s, St be sent to • reformatory for three years ; and th daft to ore mostb's imprisonment and then to be seat b are forreatory_for fi ve rem Jots Moran, • reepeetable-lookiog man, eu rea h liti, take his trial for publishing a false asd def er conouning one Robert Williams. The Weeds:lt pleaded a justification, and that the d was published for the benefit of the public. wit=t Bellanttne was specially retained to pram* e defame. tigrish and Idr. Hes ; Wr. Yetealle appa re l te th This saw was cue of a peculiar character. The tor was • retired linendraper, and be b1ue5..7.1 homes in a street called Norton-street, e g o, was formerly very notorious on account of c a tet i e l th e peeeeas ream there. These parts had bees bad oat by the parish authorities, and the proe m * ad that his object wee to make the place respestak He admitted that he employed " &pin s , . nage the harms, but he said he gm time ea ,;: instruction only is admit respectable people la kW, The defendant and his wife were admitted se tomb al one of the houses, and the offence complained a t go a d ha had placed • board upon which the eerie I. hie Hasse" were written in large letters, outside his * I Q The prosecutor did not deny that diarepatehi e A rnim had got into the house, but he asserted that he suit them to be removed the moment he became area fact. The prosecutor, in croes-exini atiou. mid tire sacs " deputies" had represented herself to be a marrisisars. which turned oat to be false, and that c giant* w it made by the perish authorities of the conduet of a ewe wbo had the management of another of hie home, etc wag described se a meet abandoned 110616., h ip black dog. The prone:dor declared that be seser ins Vaned any of than proomdings, and that he wis lei de isms to make the bogie respectable. Yr. Metcalfe, at the clogs of the cage for the p. m ties, urged that the defendant bad 'Nibble! idg* and been supported by th e witnesses who bad b en d i * examined. There was no charge that Kr. William* an improper house, but merely that the home m e mi d an improper deecrtion, sad he argued that the abundantly prov ed. The Common &dont said bethought it wr agerfr for the jury whether what was done wee with ths igss, ledge of the prosecutor. Mr. Metcalfe then addressed the jary es bialf d defendant, and be contended that he wag k Galling attention to the character of the home, "ad is* marked that it was a very dsagerous Wed to %Id each a place as this as being respectable is the my is had been suggested by the proication. It Pao mil that reepcztable young women, servants oat of pink if other persona, might have taken lodgisp at ilms and the result would possibly bare besa that As, g is i have been redid. . - _ Several ;witiain;es were then examitied, who wsid, h the most oonolusire manner, that the house hewn* id been owed se a brothel for more than twin side good deal of laughter was created by owl at the stating that gentlemen in white kid O M in oonstantly is the habit of coin than, ea that sins times they were accompanied by lane dep. It su also proved that the women who Heed at the haws em every night to be seen in Regent-street, sad ether phe for the purpose of prostitution. flerjeant Ballantine then said that the proweake Wit his own wooed expressed • desire to withdraw hen 6 prossentioo, after the evidence that had been de desired at the same time to say that he a Midi ignorant of what had taken place. A verdict of Not Guilty was coestrinseily takes ips that want of the iedichneat which manly alleged Ai 6 Sonya wee • brothel THZ CUM OP MB. BOTHUX. Mr. Sleigh said that is the OM of Xr. Kok iks pi Wilber el Paternoster-row, who way charged Wilt porbliiirg • libel upon Mr. &Ahern, the actor, he was binned list it was not intended to prefer any bill assist Yes. Kept was a most raspecteble man, and he weelestrestsilg him to state that he had no knowledge whatever tine is publication ociniained the libel ootopLiird d, nd b. er pressed his regret at having publi:ind it. Serjessat Ballaotine, who was ienructsd to pew* said be aeospied the statement that hid been wade lyils learned triad, and he would consent to the reeepissem being enlarged to the next session, which wee the ea course, bat it would be undersood that so WI maid is preferred wined Hr. Kent. (Befora Yr. Commissioner Kerr.) • GANG OP IVROLVILLE Siam& --- - Ann Winter, 17, spiostm, Alfred Hall, lb. Asia% George Goldseuth, 24, upholaterar, George Liaiis, let Mamas, Henry Mills, 20, smith, WiCast He" 44 lay and Robert Cummings, 61, laboerer. were isdieted hr ear lawfully having in their potas.seiou • large = i t counterfeit oda, well kao wing the atme to he with into.' to utt,r the suns. Mr. Creufurd and Mr. Straight appeared far Ile muse tiou, which was Instituted by the bed sullied*, ~111. Ribton defended the prisoner Hall; and Me. F. H. IaMS appeared for the female prisoner, Ann Winter. The ease was pseoliar ia 1W details. It appostaitilli the night of the 22nd January last, Mr. lemuctot BMW and Sergeant Aekrill, of the F divisive, entered tlellligh Had, Lille White Lion.street, Sewn-dish, a IMO long notorious as the rendezvous of taievea aid Melillo, of counterfeit coin. The prisoner Hall was the ISasras the house, and wee servieg at the bar when the MIN snterei and passed through the bar into the tap-M=4 O W they found all the other prisoners sitting mud tholes is close conversatioo. On seeing them the tamale primaries/ a paper packet into the fire, but the picket em 5 i and found to contain five counterfeit was pieces. The odious then proceeded to soak ihe and concealed behind the support of one el 1M seats they discovered another packet Nell five crown Meese, 22 half-crowns, 91 fioeir, 181 shillings, all counterfeit. Aseisiseee was lest fir.= the prisoners were guard, sad Hall, the law:MA 111 celled into the taproom, where all the gm* feit coin was laid out on the table. Hill was sea" count for it and he replied that he soakl 1111 amount for what his customers brought to Ma bunt a he added, that if he were to Mese such amismel he might es well abut up his bowie at ova Me tiM stated that if he had known it woad luva tomato Mt pass he would have given information to the PIP' It was proved that the prisoner Goldsmith wee the wed =sonic, manufacturer of counterfeit coin is the el. polio. and had already undergone a term of moat servihfis. Hall had kept the public-honee for my etrhi "kilt b " the other winners were notorious smashers. the Mr inry , Contatlemi . awr one h r av il in err g Mr. Bibeta and Mr. F. H. Lewis adi , a el Me 111 behalf of their respective clients. the b aM. Peg g y yerdu t of Not Guilty en retarded the plenum Li"! and Goldsmith, end found all the other primness Ovary, rasumtiredm.atouPdetiec THE POL . CE COURTS (THIS DAY.! OLERKIDI WELL. CONCICALW ENT or El WIN. —A CABS L respeetablDbee.g p a wn woman , •hs lan the 1.1 of Mary den 'admit, end desexhal be self as •dams* rennet having no borne, was charred below Mr. Bois with milaeifelly di• posing of the dead body o f ben ism* bastard child on the 4th of February, at N.. 11, (,ten o r street, St. Lake's. The prisoner Iry so weak rod Ml WI she was allowed to be voted dining the examinatios. Mrs. Catherine Olsson said-1 am a widow. sad ward 11, Clareamvstreet, St. Luke's This yousg wools: prisoner at the bar) kept company with *7 1 " mad wait wars i• a short time to be married. Oa Saoday three between the hours of 4 sad 5, she came to my boas ts 1 •1 sou, sad was tibia very ill. My sae was wad* to take her out for a walk, but he hid ta u without her. She went 'instal times to Albaiklew aid f pre her some tea and sows brandy. tsa hist afterwards I had occatioa to go to the yard. sad l agtl evel child in the pia of the closet. I sin greit elated. When I suns to myself I said " All Mei yea mash ease down with me—you mart know soweela about this. I am sure you have hvi &child. lam amid* sad a grandmother, and yea oin't &wive me." See took MO awl* watt Woman to the closet, und lookieg duo "Lor, what a fanny thing." When wowing' iDta the ham &H OS mykaoss before low and said. "Is my ma he 6f t:o e tbaS u b t a mb lcer i l t r wi lu t a th le e s wise 'ld. ; itis " w ro l C i maa:tar e i n t Y ll o3 l ll , othe rnan o : 664 .24" deopronsly ill ia bed, and who I regret to 0 , last W•awsdsl. 1 went to my sett dear IMI lb sod I bald the light whilst the child wee got 11 P. iba was quite ilserl, We tam sent to the poliorstaSissi - .41 40011 ' "It prey . deo ...., to Poitcm A rail room and app kasha 'petal W.( , repo tar= mb ORA Prowl! —..of ~. r