The Express. — London, England, 1867-02-08 00:00:00

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(lark. cte. : Mn. Chiprovlale, Misses 11111, Wright. -1.0111) DUN DREA MA.KKI ED AND DONE FIJI:. )Ir. :4.l.lirrii.—And JENNY LIND AT LA 4t. Mhos Burke. PIIINCISSM Ton DELICATE GROUND. Mears. Vining and J. G. shore; Mita Katherine Roditera.—And sIIADOW TREE RII 07. New.. Vhdur. Shore. Veneer. ►. Mien, Yorrester. Mutton, and Cathcart; Ilt se, Montagu, Edmonds, and Itudgera LI MUM. TAW EVWXOIO, T:rE TWO Widdloomk—And ROUGE Er Nol/t 31,oara. Yachter. Emery, Cowper. Moreland, Yitapatrlck. II Iton, !tern°lds, Lomas, Andrew's, Price, the.. Mrs. L. Murray, and Moses ilinkrade, Gnittan, and C. Lenloyal. STRAND. T/IN ►rviiYO,\ElG HISITCRS —Attar which will be produced a 1:110141 Burlesque, GUY VAWILE3.—en4 A SUIT UY TWEED'S. HOLBORN. TIII9 Evaore°, MY TERN NEXT. Mr. Behnore: Misses Toots and Lemons.—And YINING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Bel- Lore, Blake, Vollaire, du. ; Mesdames Y. Josephs, C. dasustlem, Emig Foote. ilddes, Lennox, Raymond, do. BRITANNIA. TR!" Formren, TIM PRINCEsS OF TILE PEARL ISLAND ; OR, THY. THREE KINGDOMS 01 , PEARL, GOLD, AND ILVEIL %In 1,411 r a”.l Mk" .laeohn—First-rate Pantomimist'. —Awl THE WIDoWs FIRESIDE. niGh WATISIL AT LONDON MUDGE THIS DAr:iterht;ti,4ll.lint.,.::Aft:rsoi•o, 4b. 10-11ohoow—Slorulug, ♦b. Sem Afternoon, A. 14m. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8. THE organization and working of Trades Unions is to bo inquired into by a Royal Commission. This announcement in the Qt-t:►a's Speech has been received with very opposite feelings : by some it is resented as a concession to the open enemies of the working classes, a move to destroy Trades Unions ; by others it is welcomed as if about to give some satisfaction to the injured capitalist, by restricting the rights of combination. We dare say both parties will find themselves mistaken in the end, but in the meantime it is unfor;mnate for the Government that opinions substantially in agreement and equally unfavourable to its impar tiality should be professed by those who approach the subject front opposite points of view. When Mr. WALPOLE lately informed a deputation of Trades Unionists that they would soon have an opportunity of assuring themselves that the Government was not indifferent to their interests, he undoubtedly believed that the inquiry to be conducted by the Royal Commission was a pro ceeding of which they would have no reason to complain ; and he may prove to be right. It should be remembered that the Sheffield Trades Unionists applied a few months ago for an official inquiry into circumstances alleged against them in consequence of an outrage offered to a non unionist. The act of the Government is preju diced by its origin : it proceeds from a body of public men who have felt themselves compelled steadily to oppose the political claims of the class that maintain trades unions, and who have suc ceeded from time to time in defeating those claims by means which have not always commended themselves to public opinion as fair and straight forward. The two first speeches made this ses sion in support of the Government in the Mouse of Lords were marred by im putations against the working classes which not even the noble ignorance of the speakers can excuse. The personal composition of the Royal Commission is, however, more important than its origin, as an element of its probable uti lity. The working classes ought not to wish, much less to ask, that it should be constituted in their favour. The subject is one of national im portance, and the institution of the inquiry is a tribute to the power which the artisans of the country now exercise over its interests. What the Trades Unionists have a right to expect in the selection of the members of the Commission is a strict impartiality. This is not an inquiry about the rate of wages, or the prosperity of this or that trade, but an investigation which, if pushed home, must lead down to the roots of some of the most serious social questions of our time. It will be better not to I touch the question at all than appoint as Commissioners a set of nobodies, capped by some eminent calumniator of the working classes' on one aide, and the popular member for Lam beth, as a makeweight, on the other. Tho constitutional defect of such an inquiry is, that while it relates to the conduct of one class of society it will be conducted by another. A con ference was held the other day, to ascertain why working men did not go to places of worship in larger numbers, and, that being the object, it was made a conference of working men. But it would have been very foolish to summon the same men if the question had been why the fashionable classes at the West-end make so little of their re ligious opportunities. Something like this, how ever, will take place when a number of persons of the propertied classes are set to inquire into and report upon Trades Unions. Mr. WALPOLE would be astonished if a deputation were to wait upon him and ask him to promise the appointment of a Royal Commission, to be composed exclusively of artisans, to inquire into the manner in which capital is employed by its owners in this country. Yet there would be no more impropriety in the one case than in the other. At such a proposal a shock would run through our middle classes, not because it is in itself unreasonable, but because, middle-class opinion has not been able to free itself from the feelings inherited from a past state of society, nor entered intelligently into all that is involved in the acceptance of the system of free labour. It understands the legitimacy of power acquired by adding pound to pound day after (lay for many years, but not the equal legitimacy of the power of living pro ducers to fix in concert the terms on which they will co-operate with capital. This is a misfor tune for the country, but especially for the middle classes, who, unable to understand that what is going on is in its essential features a natural social development, terrify themselves with imaginary dangers, cling to delusions as if THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1867. they were precious possessions, and so are diverted from the work of adapting themselves to circumstances which they are powerless to destroy. It is this timid spirit which exacta of some public instructors the daily repetition of exploded I abie hoods, and made the LORD MAYOR the other day, when the shipwrights were before him, do battlefor a misrepresentation, of which ho was the victim, as if be were defending the Mansion-house plate from robbers. An inquiry into the working of Trades Unions, if only conducted with moderate honesty, must do good, and ought to be met by the working classes in a frank and courageous spirit. At the worst it can do no great harm, can only add one more slander to the many which they have sur vived. The broad right of association and combina tion is one which may be forborne but cannot be forfeited. That Trades Unions are the best form in which that right can be exercised is not the opi nion of the firmest and wisest friends of the work ing man. Still, as long as our artisans believe their trade societies to be useful, it is not in the power, and we have no reason to suppose that it is in the desire, of our governing classes to depriA c them of the right to combine. No candid person, we imagine, will maintain that the right has not often been exercised most injudiciously, sometimes must disastrously. It is in the nature of young power, undisciplined by experience, to be heady, rash, and inclined to assert itself for its own sake. Let light, then, be thrown on the subject by every means, and from whatever quarter. Further knowledge may prevent mistakes and loss, and if here and there, under favour of obscurity, tyranny and oppression have been exercised, let the fact be exposed to the healthy opinion of the country. The legitimate power of the working classes has nothing to fear from such inquiries. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE JAMAICA PIUMECUTIONS. Commenting upon the importance of the ap proaching trial, the Trues, in passing, states that nothing worthy of death was produced against Mr. Gordon, and that the only excuse—though this can never justify it --for what was done during that unhappy time was that it was done under the influence of panic. But the peculiar circumstances of Gordon's case may be almost put aside when we come to consider what the prosecutors desire to establish. This, according to the Times, is that such trials as were held at Morant Bay after the actual quelling of the dispute were invalid, that the sentences were illegal, and that, in fact, every officer, soldier, or seaman, militiaman, or volunteer, who inflicted any punishment after outrage haul actually ceased on the port of the Degrees, was guilty of a breach of the law, and is criminally and civilly answerable for his offence. The singularly complimentary manner in which Mr. Stephen spoke of Mr. Eyre leads the Times to remark that one would think it an amicable suit, and it suggests that there is something radically false in the position of those who would prosecute the late governor and the men who acted under him for the highest crime known to the law. Can it be supposed that the best way of solving such abstruse questions as the prosecutors raise is by placing a colonel and a naval lieutenant in the dock at the Old Bailey? The forbearance shown by the prosecutors as represented by their counsel discloses, the Daily News says, the purely public ',emcee which animates then—that of vindicating the supremacy of the laws against the arbitrary violence of military tribunals. In such a course as this they ought to have the support of all true conservatives, if one of the elements of conservatism is reverence for the constitution and aversion from anarchical violence. The interests at stake are co-extensive with the British empire, and Mr. J. S. Mill and Mr. P. A. Taylor, in coming forward on public grounds as the prosecutor,' of men whom the go vernment protects, whom parliament declines to censure, and whom society favours, deserve honour and gratitude. Mr. lyre and his coadjutors are not called to account for acts of violence committed in the suppression of rebellion, but for continuing to use, after the restoration of tran quillity, weapons which can be properly employed only sgainst tumult. That the proclamation of martial law was allowed by an act of the Jamaica legislature is beside the purpose, for the right to proclaim martial law cannot give the right to go beyond the limits within which re course to it is valid. Nor does it seem more reasonable to plead a local Bill of Indemnity, since indemnity is rea -1 tive to necessary, and not to gratuitous, violations of the law, which, it is yet contended, has not been violated. Those who do not foresee danger to liberty in the arbitrary and anreproved substitution of military tribunals for civil courts themselves afford in their very unconscious. nem an additional proof of that danger, and it is fortu nate that there are men who do perceive what others are blind to. The public is not to infer, the Herald says, from the issue of the warrants that there is even the phantom of a case for judicial investigation. The general mind of the community will be relieved whenever this abominable burlwatne of criminal litigation comes to an end, and this it will speedily do, the Herald oontenda, amidst contempt and disgust. Tho idegraph is now inclined to be"eve that the right thing to do would be to subscribe to both committees. The whole case is so disputable and so pave, that a tho rough sifting of it on English ground is neces-ary for the ascertainment of the truth and for the declaration of the law. The justice of the case would beat be met if the government were to defray the entire cost of either the prosecution or the defence, according SI the Attorney- General for the time considered that the strength of the prim! Jock case lay either against or for the accused ; with the further proviso that on conviction or acquittal the crown should pay the expenses of the opposing party if that party should be successful. In the course of its remarks the Tdoroph says it believes it is no great secret that, quite independent of the insurrection and of his political career, the late George William Gordon was what many of us would calla " bad fellow." introduces a dangerous innovation. What is %anted is, not the provision of machinery for winding up and selling insolvent railways, but measures to facilitate that common understanding between a railway company and Al grades of its creditors which will put the management and pro grams of the line into harmony with the interests of the public. rite dcrurt. OSBORNE, Fut. 7. The Queen, and Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, awl Prince's; Beatrice, arrived at Osborne yesterday, at 2 o'clock, from Windsor Castle, having travelled in a special train on the Great Western and South Western Railways, and crossed over from Gosport in the no al yacht Alberta, Captain the Prince of Leiningen. Her Majesty drove out this warning accompanied by Princess Christian. The other member,' of the royal family went out also. The Duke of Marlborough (Lord Steward), and Viscount Royston (Comptroller of the Household) arrived from London to-day, and had audiences of the Queen, to present the addresses to her Majesty from both Houses of Parlh• ment, in answer to the Speech from the throne. The l'rincess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, took a carriage drive yestenlay. Lund Rodney and the Mayor of Maidstone lied au inter view with the Lord President of the Council at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, on the subject of cattle markets. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. The Lords present were the Archbishop of York, Lord Justice Cairns, Sir W. Erie, Sir E. V. Wit Wino, Sir H. Kindendey, and Sir J. Colvile. Her Royal Highness tho Duchess of Cambridge entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at her residence at St. James. Palace. The Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey have arrived at their residence in Etton•sauare, from a tour in Italy. OUEEA'S SPEECHES ON REFORM. Some interest is attached to the tens in which the Queen has, on so many occasions, been made to refer to reform. In 142 we find the following paragraph pro. dutad under the auspices of Lord Russell : " It appears to me that this is a fitting time for calmly considering whether it may not be advisable to make such amendments in the act of the late reign, relating to the representation of the Commons in parliament, as may be deemed calculated to carry into more complete effect the principles upon which that law is founded. I have the fullest confidence that in any such consideration you will firmly adhere to the acknowledged principles of the con stitution by which the prerogative of the crown, the authority of both houses of parliament, and the rights and liberties of the people are equally secured." In Itifft, under Lord Aberdeen we have the following: "Recent experience has shown that it is necessary to take more effectual precautions against the evils of bribery and corrupt practices at electi o ns. It will also be your duty to consider whether more com plete effect may not be given to the prici ples of the act of the Litt reign, whereby reforms were made in the representation of the people in walk. merit. In recommending this subject to your considera tion, my desire is to remove every cause of just complaint, to increase general confidence in the legislature, and to give additional stability to the settled institutions of the state." In April , 18-17, Lord Palmerston disposes of the matter more summarily, thus: " Your attention will be called to the laws which regu late the representation of the people in parliament, with a view to consider what amendments may be safely and be neficially made thereon." In 1839 we find Earl Derby approaching the subject in these words : " Your attention will be called to the state of the laws which regulate the representation of the people in parlia ment, and I cannot but think that you will give to this great subject a degree of calm and impartial consideration proportionate to the magnitude of the interests involved in the result of your discussion." In IMO, undo; Lord Palmerston : " Measiires will be laid before you for amending the laws which regulate the representation of the people in parlia ment, and for placing that representation upon a broader and firmer basis." The paragraph devoted to the subject in last year's Queen's speech was, however, perhaps, the moat straight. forward and manly of the lot. It ran t h us: . . . . "I have directed that information should be procured in reference to the rights of voting in the election of members to serve in parliament for counties, cities and boroughs. When that information is complete, the attention of parlia ment will be called to the result thus obtained, with a view to such improvements in the laws which regulate the rights of voting in the election of members of the House of Commons u may tend to strengthen our free institu tions, and conduce to the public welfare." The catalogue is completed by the paragraph front the speech of Tuesday : . . . . . Your attention will again be called to the state of the representation of the people in rrliament, and I trust that your deliberations, conducted in a spirit of modera tion and mutual forbearance, may lead to the adotion of measures which, without unduly disturbing the balance of political power, shall freely extend the electoral fnui chne." Tae ADIILLANITEN.—At Earl Grosvenor's second dinner party to his parliamentary friends, given on Wed. nesday evening, the following noblemen and gentlemen were present :—The Earl of Lichfield, Lord Elcho, Lord John Browne, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Right Hon. B. Lowe, Mr. Laing, Colonel Packe, Colonel Crossland, Mr. H. Tracy, Mr. IL W. Duff, Mr. Pim, Mr. Finley, and Major Anson. In the House of Lords to-night the Earl Dudley will " inquire into the intentions of the govern ment with regard to the proposed trade processions through the streets on Monday nest." On the 28th ; Major Anson will move for a select committee to inquire into the duties performed by the British army in India and the colonies ; and also to inquire how far it ought be desirable to employ certain portions of her Majesty's native Indian army in our colonial and military dependencies. Mr. Denman intends, in committee of the whole house, to move, that the chairman be directed to move the house that leave be given to bring in a bill to reduce the annual duty upon the certificates of attorneys and solicitors and others. Mr. Crawford, on Monday, will ask the Secretary of State for the Dome Department whether the govern. meat are aware that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have received from the corporation of the City of London au offer "to undertake the charge of the Bunhill-Relds burial-ground as trustees for the public, defraying the coat of watching, maintaining, and keeping it in a proper con dition, planting trees and shrubs, keeping up the gravel walks and preserving the tombs, so that it may form, within proper hours, and under proper reguhitions, a decent and ornamental open space of the metropolia, co venanting that, in the event of failure in these respects, it should revert to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners," sad that such offer has been declined by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Mr. Nicol intends to ask the First Commissioner of Works on Monday when the present barricade around Hyde Park is likely to be removed ; and what description of fence is to be erected in place of it. Mr. W. H. Newell, has been appointed to the office of joint secretary to the National Board of Education, in the room of Mr. hirreedy, deceased. There are two secretaries, a protestant and a Roman catholic. The last protestant secretary was a presbyterian. Dr. Newell, his successor, in a member of the established church. He wan one of the two chiefs of inspection. Mr. Wereedy, who had been originally a tutor, and rose through all the gradations of the scholastic hierarchy, succeeded Mr. Maurice Crass, who had occupied a similar position in Belfast, and was appointed when the board was established. The British Medical Journal understands that a supplementary charter for the University of London has been drafted, with a view to carry out a proposition which has already been approved and shaped in convocation and senate, for enabling women to receive certificates of pro. &dewy from that university. It is not proposed to admit them to ordinary degrees, but to bold examinations, and to give certificates which will enable ladies who propose to engage in tuition, and others, to assume a definite posi tion, and to afford accepted guarantees of their proficiency. Joseph Karam, who quitted Beyrouth on Jan. 22, on board the Promithee, for Algeria, was to have proceeded to Oran ; but Marshal de MacMahon, consulted by telegraph, has proposed Constantine, which place the fugitive is not to leave without permission from the French authorities. A Japanese embassy has arrived at St. Peters burg, and been received by the Emperor. LATEST LNTELLIGENUL THE STBIBE IN BELGIUM. The Belgian journals continue to give reports of the workmen's strikes in the distrist roun4, Charleroi. From them we extract the following : Contrary to expectation the initiate is not yet over. Suppressed at Roux, it recommenced yesterday at pit No. 7 of the Mannbourg coal mine, situated at Lodelinsart, OD the high road to Jumet. About half-past 11, 00 workmen, coining from Gohysart, proceeded to this pit, and told M. Fontaine, the manager, that he must call out the men, threatening if be did not do so to out the ropes. M. Fontaine pretented to comply with their wishes, and in the mean time sent a despatch to Mairuhourg, where there were 250 soldiers of the 9th Regiment. On their arrival the mutt beers dispersed, but not till five of them had been arrested. At 12 o'clock some 40 young workmen presented themselves at the pit of Moulin de la Reunion, at Gilly, and required to have the men withdrawn from the pit. This was being done, when a hody of troops, sent from Charleroi, restored order. One of the ringleaders, who threatened 'to strike the oommis.sary of police, was arrested, as were other rioter.. A piequet of 25 horsemen and some gendarmes remained near the pit's mouth to prevent further interference with the men at work. All is quiet at Datupreniy, but the men are on strike and have joined with the workmen of Jumet and Rout, where working is likewise suspended. On the morning of the sth the men of St. Charles, at Montiny-sur-Sambre, struck work and proceeded to the pit at St. Andre, in order to wge the men there to cease workint. The Ebule &lye mys it is to he feared that the strike will continue for some time. It does not believe in any general conspiracy amongst the limn, but it finds that each time the isatede is suppressed in one locality it reappears iu another. (RELYZIeS TELEGR.t3(S.) FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 8. An imperial decree has been issued to-day, determining the relations of the Senate and Corps Legislatif towards the Emperor and the Council of State, and establishing the organic conditions under which their labours will be conducted. This decree, which is a modification of the decree of the 19th January, contains no important regulation not already know a. / II W. I Nairn .....128.77 34 W. 1I 1 W. Aberdeen —129.77 35 &W. 1I 6 W.N.W. Leith 28.9641' W.9.W. 2 3 W.N.W. Ardreeten 1 28.90 44 W.N.W. 3 71 8. Greenoialle N.% 44 W. ,6 , 6 13. W. 1 29 44 Videntla 2931 ' N.W. .6 . 8 B.W. ol Ureerp .15 49 W.N.W. '2 ; 4 W. Rolyhead 6913 48 W.S.W. 6, 8 W.N.W. TourAnce 19.60 52 W.S.W 8 9 B.W. Rend 29.84 52 . W.&W. 6 6 N. N. Loeieut I - 1 - Rochefort 30.12 52 W. 5 ' 4 W. Plymouth /9.66 61 &W. 8 7 N.W. Weymouth 29.12 61 W.B.W. 9 10 W. Portsmouth 29.6060 W.9.W. 10 8 N.W. London 29.38 52 W.S.W. ti , 9 W. Yarmouth 29.1930 W. 10 4 N.W. Sauhoroegh 29.02 47 W. 4' 6 N.W. Shields 11•144 r F. laratis ada. W. 11. tO U D. , II _ REMARKS : .6;7 - ;Ora I rm 10.30 re '0.03 ro 1 0.31, 0.61 ro 0.301 co O.IS cr 0.47, r 0.79 ro —I o 0.0 r OM 'no 0.33 ro 0.27, Iwo 0.25, ro 0.24! be 0.291 ro 0.371 On owr southern coasts last night it again blew eery heavily, and the wind. ern nearly as strong there thls morning ; on our other coasts the winds are chiefly westerly, light to moderate. Barometere have fallen considerably, and are very low over the greater portion of the British isles. Temperatures hate risen. Hain has been very general on all our waste. A few weeks ago 10,000 Austrian uniforms, part of the spoils taken at the battle of Koniggvatz, were dis posed of by the War-office at Berlin. The enterprising individuals who bought them were buoyed up with the idea that the Austrian government would be but too happy to repurchase at any price these unpleasant me mentoes of defeat. But what was their dismay on finding time Vienna authorities of a different opinion ! Their offer was flatly declined, it being, as it seems, a point of etiquette in the Austrian service to use no piece of mili. tary equipment which has poised through the enemy's hands. Precedent makes us inclined to think that the dis carded coats will eventually find their way across the ocean, to reappear on the backs of the South American soldiery. The sudden death of M. Salomon Munk, of the Academy of Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, aged GO, is an nounced. He was born at Breslau of a Jewish family, and devoted himself from his earliest youth to the study of the Semitic languages, which he thoroughly mastered. When he was admitted to the Academy he was totally blind, from excessive study, but still by an extraordinary exercise of memory and intelligence prepared several valuable works on the subjects of his favourite study. In the Greek monastery at Moscow a funeral service has been celebrated by the Greek and Russian priests in honour of the Abbot Gavril and his monks, who perished in the late terrible catastrophe at Crete. A letter from Rome of the Ist says :—" Dinner parties and small dances are going on vehemently in Eng lish society, diplomatist banquets and Roman receptions c ontinue as usual, but nothing on a grandiose scale has yet taken place in the gay world, or is even announced, except a state ball to be given by the French Ambas sador, and another by the Marshal Duke of Saldanha.. The Count de Sartiges' opening ball was a very limited one, for which it was not even deemed necessary to open the grand saloon. Mrs. Cholmondeley gave a charming con cert last Friday, and tea-fights are innumerable. We have four members of parliament in Rome still, although the ministerial and opposition summonses have already called them home to their duty, like the warning born of Ernani. They are Messrs. Marshall, Alfred Seymour, Paget. and Grant-Duff ; the three latter are hurrying off in obedience to the invitation of their leaders. Mr. Arthur Russell, left some time ago, intending to stay in Paris, but must be back in London by this time." TUN GoVERNMENT BILL UPON INMOLVENT RAILWAIN. The Deily NMI describes the bill which Sir S. North cote introduced last night as a bungle. What is provided is mere►y • new machinery for constructing bills, and every case is to be dealt with by parlia ment in the way of special legislation. Any such plan must fail to satisfy the public, even if the facilities proposed to be given for assailing the credit of railway lines do not shake public confidence in the sta• bility of • class of property in which ISA bulk of the savings of the economical classes of the country have been invested for the last thirty years. As to the debenture creditors of railway lines, they seem to have been forgotten altogether in the preparation of this bill, although the protection of their interests is that object which is at the present time most urgently demanded by justice and sound policy. Everyone in the debate, according to the Hrrald, except Sir S. Northeute, overlooked the rights of the public. The bill no doubt will be severely handled. Nevertheless the Herald believes a sense of the necessisy of doing some thing, and that promptly, to correct intolerable abuses will dispose the house to regard favourably a measure which at all events promises to amend the worst evils of the present state of the law, and if it be not theoretically the best mode in which the object might be attained, is to all appearance a practical and workable one. The condemnation pronounced on the scheme by Sir R. Palmer was so sweeping and severe that the Stu• will be surpriaed if the bill ever recovers from the effects of it- All that is proposed is that when a railway company is bankrupt, the Board of Trade should send three inspectors to examine its state and suggest a scheme for its renova tion and re-establishment. The only check upon the in spectors and the Board of Trade is a joint com mittee of lords and M.P.'s, who, on the repre sentations of the Board of Trade, are to pass a special bill in each special case to retrieve disasters which the greatest railway financiers in the country will probably have acknowledged to be irreparable. To the Star the measure appears falsely based, carelessly framed, ign o . tautly lacking in the prime essentials of legislation on such a subject, and altogether a sorry example of the vaunted administrative powers of Lord Derby's government. The Telepraph condemns the scheme with similar hearti ness. The bill is not only dilatory and uncertain, but SPAIN. MADRID, FEB. 7. The Government has raised the decree of exile lately issued against Marshal Serrano, and will grant a similar favour to other persons recently exiled, who shall solicit it. OVERLAND MAILS. MALTA, Fica. 6. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Pera leaves at 6 p.m., and the Syria at midnight. The former may be expected at Mar seilles on the 9th, and the latter at Southampton about the 15th inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Ceylon, from Southampton, January 27, arrirod to-day at noon, and leaves at midnight for Alexandria. The Euxine (extra steamer from Southampton) arrived yesterday at 8 a.m., and left at 4 p.m. for Alexandria. BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL LISBON, Fn. 7. The Nyanza passed the signal station at 9.15 a.m. to-day ; all well. She may be expected at Southampton on the 10th inst. (evening). AMERICA. (lIT an.wrne ULEGRAPIL) NEW YORK, Fee. 6, EvEnso. On the Lt of February the debt of the United States was 2,643,000,000 dollars. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 1371. Sterling exchange on London, 108}; 620 United States Bonds, 1061 ; Illinois, 114 i ; Erie, 60. NEW YORK, FEB. 7. The reconstruction committee has reported a bill for dividing the states which took part in the rebellion into five military districts, under military governments. NEW YORK, Fn. 7, EVENING. Gold, 1374. Sterling Exchange on London, 108 i; 5-20 United States Bonds, 104 ; Illinois, 115 ; Erie, 59i. Cotton—Middling Upland, 33c. - - - WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY. Fissuiar 8. 8 A.U. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) CHANCERY CHAMBERS. (Belem the Chief Clerk.) OVEREND, GURYEY, AND CoMPANY—APPLWATION TOR A CALL OF 300 i. AGAINST A LAITY. Mears. Maynard and Denton, on the part of the official liquidators, made an application to Mr. Buckley, the chief clerk attached to the court of \'ice•Chancellor under special circumstances, for a call of SOU(. against a lady in this matter, holding 10 shares, on which a call had been made. An affidavit was produced, and handed to the learned gentleman, who read the same. The Chief Clerk presumed there were special circum stances for the present application on a call of 5001. against a lady. It was stated that there were special circumstances. The Chief Clerk granted the application. THE BLAKELY ORDNANCE COMPANY. This matter 17ie1;efore Mr.Clinrch,tieeilt4 clerk at the Rolls Chambers. Mr. C. E. Lewis was for the liquidators, Mr. Hays for Captain Blakel and Mr . Francis fur the U United States government. The question was as to the production of documents by the liquidators on the applica- tion of the American government with regard to guns, Am, minufacturel for the Confederates. After a lengthened discussion the !natter was adjourned to Wednesday nest, to take the opinion of the Master of the Rolls on the point. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nid Prins in Middlesex.)—Before Lord Chief Justice flovill and a Special Jury. IUMP r. ROBINSON. The hearing of this ease was resumed this morning. The question in the muse was whether the infant plaintiff, Horatio Hamp t was the son of Mr. John Hamp, deceased, and Frances, his wife, and upon the answer to this ques tion depended the right to an estate of 3,0001. a year. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. H. James, appeared for the plaintiff •, Mr. E. James, q.c., Mr. Field, Q.C., Mr. Cleave, and Mr. Matthews, for the defendant; and Mr. Archi bald attended to watch the proceedings on behalf of the trustees of the testator's will. - Mr. William Turner, the brother-in-las of Mrs. Hanip, was cross-examined. He denied that there had been any improper intimacy between him and Mrs. Ramp, and he also denied that he had lived with her for several days at the Volunteers, at Chester Homo, in Birmingham, and at other places. He admitted that he bad been employed at a week to watch a Mrs. Holden, who was party to a suit in the Divorce Court, but he denied that part of his employment was to commit adultery with her if he could. He was to find out the woman, her habits, and whom she met, and it was • good berth too. Miss Elisabeth Turner said that in the spring of 11461 she frequently went with her aunt to meet her uncle, Mr. John Hamp, at Birmingham. Witness generally went to • friend's and left Mr. and Mrs. Hump together. Mr. Ramp also frequently visited his wife at Shirley in 1861 and 1862, the plaintiff being born in January, 1862. Cross-examined—She remembered seeing a woman named Williams beside the dead body of Mr. John Hump. Williams asked her if there was any child living, but witnem made no answer. She was • servant, and witness did not know why she should tell her. She also denied that she had told Miss Price, Miss Jones, and Mrs. Win ' spear, and others, that the boy Horatio was not the son of her aunt, Frances, but of another aunt, who had run away with an officer. Mr. John Harrison, a horse salevnum in Birmingham, negatived a suggestion that had been made—that the per son who had called upon Mrs. Ramp, at Shirley, and was said to be her husband, war in fact himself. Mr. W. li. Hawkins stated he had known Mr. John Hamp during almost the whole of his life. Mr. Hemp and his wife always lived on affectionate terms. In April, 1861, he met Mr. and M . Hemp together in Birmingham, and spoke to Mr. lamp. This was the last time he saw him. It was about five weeks after the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase was run, and it was the year that "Jealousy" won. (A racing record was put in which showed that the race was run on the 12th March, 1861.) The witnessadded that the plaintiff was so like Mr. John Hemp that no one could doubt that they were father and son. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] COURT OF EXCHEQUER Sittings in Baneo.—(Before Barons Martin, Bramwell, l'hannell, and Pigott.) RIMS r. TH6 LONDON AND NORTH-WE,TZRN RAILWAY COMPANY. The plaintiff had been a ;di - manufacturer at Manchester, and he brought this action fur bodily injuries sustained by an accident on the defendants' railway. At the trial evidence was given to show that he had previously been a healthy and active man, and bad taken great interest in scientific pursuits and innsie,but that since the accident his nervous Ky4tein had become so seriously affected that his memory was impaired, and he could not engage in business, and had no taste for any of the amuse ments in which he before indulged. It also ap peered that he had saved between 4,009/. and 5,000/., and was before the occurrence in treaty for a partnership, but had been obliged to relinquish the neg•o fiat:ions on the subject. He was a married man with three children, and had ooeuionally made money by speculating in shares since he retired front business. At the trial at Manchester, before Mr. Justice Smith and a special jury a verdict was found for the plaintiff. Damages 4,i1001. Mr. Temple, Q.C. (with whom wu Mr. Pop now showed cause against a rule which had been obtaine d for a new trial, on the ground that the damages were excessive. He said he bad affidavits to show that there was much less prospect now than at the time of the trial of the plaintiff ultimately recovering. He submitted that the diunages were not more than sufficient to compensate the plaintiff for the serious injuries he had sustained and his great sufferings. Mr. Ai mall , Q.C., with whom was Mr. Littler, having been heard on the other bide, The Court said they were of opinion that the damages were exctasive, and suggested that they should be reduced to 4 . ,000.1. . . . lir. Temple hoped their lonlship. would allow the plain tiff costs en between attorney and client ; the expenses of the action had been very heavy. Mr. Baron Martin --Certainly not. I will never advise anyone to agree to pay costs an between attorney and client as it is impossible to know what they are. The parties then agreed to the damages being reamed to 4,000 i., and ou that understanding the rule was dis charged. Mr. Baron Martin—The plaintiff might go huller and fare worse. Rule discharged. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner floulburn.) 1K RE J. C. HARRISON. The bankrupt, a grocer , of Derby-road, Croydon, applied for his order of discharge from debts of 1,014!., of which was in respect of accommodation bills. Mr. Hest, for the assignees, asked fur the usual cash, goods, and deficiency accounts. Mr. Lucas said he appeared for the trustees of Wilson's Charity, a very excellent charity in the City, the object of which was to advance deserving young men in business by making them loans on easy terms. Drum this charity the bankrupt had obtained 3001., in Ifisl3, for the repay ment of which he had to find four sureties ; and the trus tees of the charity wished to know something of those persons. The bankrupt examined, stated that of the four sureties which he gave for the loan from the charity one was bankrupt, one had executed a composition deed, one was inamadhouse—flaughter)—and the fourth WWI living some where in the neighbourhood of the Crystal Palace. He was willing to give all the assistance in his power in find ing those persons. Mr. Lucas concurred in the application of the assignees for additional accounts, and it was arranged that the joint requisitions should he made, tube approved by the official assignee. Au adjournment was then ordered. IN HE w. CoRNELL. The bankrupt was a provision merchant, of Warwick street, Phalle°, and of Edgware-rued. Unsecured debts, 2,3.14/. ; assets returned at 4nar. Hr. Lucas, for the assignees, did not ask for further ac counts, but called the attention of the court to the fact that within three months of the failure the bankrupt had contracted debts to the amount of 1,300/., which he could have Lad no probable means of discharging. The bankrupt said that the creditor had allowed him to have what goods he liked, and as he thought of disposing of one of his shops he expected to be able to pay out of the proceeds. His Honour suspended the order for three months,but gave protection. IN RE F. 1.. MIICELEIL The b.mkrupt was x draper, of Salisbury. Debts, 1,11,1. By consent of his counsel the order was suspended for sit months on the ground of contracting debt. without pro bable means of payment. IN RE CII.IIII.EM_HrTT. The bankrupt bad kept the New Steine Hotel, St. dames 's-street, Brighton. The debts are 2,3601. ; assets and property held as security, 1,300/. The order of dis charge was opposed on the ground that the bankrupt had contracted debts without probable means of payment ; hut the case was not gone into, it being admitted by his coun sel that there must be a suspension, and the order was suspended by consent for three months, protection being given. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN lie (IiPTAIM BAMFORD. This was the sitting for examination and dischai go in the matter of Henry Font Bamford, retired captain of the Bth Native Regiment in India. The debt■ are 260/. The bankrupt has a retiring pension of 1201. Mr. Aldridge asked that an order should be made on the bankrupt to set aside 201. a year under the 134th sec tion, and some creditors who were present supported the application. Mr. Pittman, for the bankrupt, urged that it was beyond his means. His Honour, however, made the order as asked. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. STOPPER AT THE PIM:inHOP. ?lowa Spowrr, assistant in the mantle .leparti,ent at the establishment of Mr. Leaf, warehouseman, Old-ch ange City, was charged with stealing a mantle, the property a his employer. . . . The pnwmer went to the shop of Mr. Attealmough, pawnbroker, :1•l, Adam-street, Strand. and uH ere. l the mantle in pledge giving the name John Fidler. The pawnbroker's assistant suspected him, and refier.i to ad. vance any money upon the mantle, but detained it. The prisoner insisting upon the property belonging to hi. , the assistant said Le bad better fetch a policema n . and if the latter advised him he would giv e i t • ur. Thu prhouer went out and returned with puheecooqable, F. 96, who on learning that the assistant soaps red it to be stolen of course declined to recommend its surrender to the prisoner. The assistant then handed the mantle to the policeman, and told him to exercise las svp discretion ill the disposal of it. The comt..ble then put some questions to the prisoner. ala s gave very unsatisfactory repliea, and ultimately the pairs. broker gave him in custody. An experienced o ffi c er , W s . dell, 173 F, was instructed to investigate the tasr, Esl traced the property to the owner. The prisouer, upo n being confronted with his master, made a eta. fusion, which, however, could not be mad evidence, as Mr. Leaf had recommended him to t e n the truth. observing that it would be better for him. lie. Leaf indeed exhibited some reluctance to press 11,e ray against the prisoner, and seemed rather relies e d otherwise ou finding that his cynic nce could tint be used against tie prisoner. Mr. Vaughan inquired if the mantle could he iderite. Mr. Leaf said most of his mantles were made by .a l a d y now in Paris, or under her direction. Probably thu sat had been made by her ; and, if so, she would no doubt i s able to identify it. She would be in town in a few dap. Mr. Vaughan observe! that though the confession c os y not be used against the prisoner, the case might be pens on independent evidence. He should remand the preci s , for theattendance of the maker. CLERICENWELL. CAPTURE OP A OANO OF PICK POCKETS AT nit AORIC LTC RAL 11 ALL. 47torve Smith, John Hester, and John Anstio, welt-dressed young fellows, were charged with attemptnz to pick pockets at the entrance to the Agriculturai.l4 Upper-street, Islington. }rom the evidence of Police-constables Newbold, 14 N, and Dudley, 47 N, it appeared that last night a. tla company were leaving the above hall they ma Hunter walking up and down the avenue and attempting to pick the pockets of several ladle., He then came out and spoke to the other prisoners amp a man not is custody, and Newbold asked one of the ladies whOM pocket had been attempted, if she had lost anything, And she said she had not. The officers then followed the prisoners and saw them attempt the pockets of some ladies at the corner of Berners-road, but failed to get any thing. The constables again followed the prisoners, and with assistance took them into custody, when they said they did not know each other, :aid had never spoken or been in company before. The prisoners denied the charge, and said that they were only at Islington for a walk. Mr. Barker asked if anything was known of the ante. cedents of the prisoners. The *mutable, stated that they followed Smith and Hunter on Monday night, and Dudley took Smith into ens. tody with his hand in a lady's pocket, but u the holy would not charge him he was allowed to go with a motion. Mr. Barker said it was plain what the priso . ' tiers were at the Agricultural Hall for, and sentenced each of them to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction. The prisoner were removed, laughing. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTER.V RAILWAY. Mr. Humphreys, the *Rutter, held an inquiry at the London Tavern, relative to the death of Henry Tomlin son, aged 29 years, an engine•driver employed on the Great Eastern Railway. It appeared that on the 9th January last, the deceased drove a down goods train from London to *ithani. The latter station was undergoing repair, and, for the prune. tiod 3f the workmen, the semaphore signal and the auxiliary signal, at 1,000 yard', up the line, were placed sr "stop ;" but deceased, from some unaccountable reason, took no notice of either, but went into the stout at full speed. A truck standing on the demi line was struck by the engine, overturned, and sung off the line ; the deceased was standing at the aide of lue engine, and as it went past the capsized truck he aim struck by part of the latter, and his legs were frightfully injured. He was sent up to London and placed iu the ho. pital, where he died on Monday last. Edward Brooks, a railway pan', said that he was on the engine with the deceased, at the time of the Evilest, and be saw the signals agaued the train and called ceased's attention to them. The auxiliary signal ea, ri4- hle three-quarters of a mile up the line. Tls dieciad was attending to the injectors at the side of the engine; when witness told hint about the signals he Mlle a nd turned off the steam, but dinxtly afterwanls he put it so again. Witness could not tell why he ilhl so ;he ea quite sober. They entered the station id the rate of For 20 miles an hour. When witness saw the Senile on the platform waving lamps to stop the train he himself tuned off the steam, reversed the engine, and applkil the breaks but it was then too late. The deceased was all the tune at the side of the engine. The engine was damaged, but it kept on the metals. Superintendent Kent said that the printed rules c!..ei r • ally directed engine -drivers to he on the footplate of their engines when entering or nearing stations. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict Accidental death." THE IRISH MEMBERS AND THE GovERNMENT.- -It is stated that tae Irish members of the liberal party held a meeting yesterday to confer upon the comae which they should take during the present circumstance*. The attendance was not large, but it was understood that many who had intended to take part in the proceedings had not arrived in town. Among those . resent were some gentlemen who held office under the Imo gov e rnment. After considering the intention of the govemineet II allow the Habeas Comm. Suepencion Act to expire. and the promise of a good land bill, the bish member , re solved, it is said, that they would nut determine also any course of action in the house until they should ii .1 , the whole ministerial programme respecting [rebind. With regard to future action. a committee of seven was autho rised to call assemblages of the Irish member+ fur the Coll xideration of all questions electing the political, social, er material interests of their country. The ceremony of launching the City of Dublin lifeboat took place on Wednesday. It was conveyed a public prodon from the Mansion-house to the Custom house Dock, where it wee launched. There were pretest his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, the Idemhioness of Abercorn, the Lord Mayor, and a large number of die titsguished persons. hiloCKlNti OccUItRENCE AT KiN.:s LYNN--An old lady named Ann Watts, within a few months of being eighty years of age, was killed on Wednesday redline it her own house, about a hundred yanle only from the polio , office atKing's Lynn. She was sitting in her own mote in Queen-street, at about seven o'clock, the only other present being her granddaughter, and a t shout the poison named a woman named Pleasance Ketteringh.in rushed into the house. and, apparently nuoldened by drink, poured a vale: of abuse on the deceased , and street her violently on the face with her This blow brought the poor old lady to the ground, le.r bead catehieg a ssist &cupboard door as she fell. She was picked up by her granddaughter, and knocked down again in the inset heartless manner by the woman. Her granddaughter went out and :damned the neighbours, mei prisoner decamped. On the arrival of the surgeon. Mr. Woodward. life was extinct, and a poet-mortreu examination showed death to have been caused by the blow or the fall. The pris o ner was apprehended on the charge of intesice thin before the discovery wed Ins !e that the Isau ld woman a-as dead. The prisoner was taken before the mayor, Mr. J. 0. Smetham, and Mr. W. Moyer, ami ties remanded. Ttle FATAL 110.Vr it'eltot:NT ~Pl' Noturitfl.l tr. —Yesterday Mr. E. Milder, the borough coroner, hel.l inquiry at the Town-ball, I 4-.. yrs. jut.. th-• vuvum stances attending the late boat scold. tit alt Noretttket• b Y, which the engineers of the cigar.ship others, in all nine, were drowned a ale 1. anion boat from the shore to their v. —el. Four "' those who perished have been I , ick , .1 . Mr. I 'hark - James Finney, aged ±f, engine. r ; Thomas Coleman, engineer, aged : m l-a"; fireman ; and Janie' Rutter, :cited 21. bargoirati. witnesses were examined, lint no 1..0v facts e,.t.r. sir t,wl, avid the coroner suggested that, in the .ny direct evidence as to the cause of tlo: accident. th vf should return an open verdict. The in .. "'' )* .''' huglY returned a verdict of "Found drowne.l.- lutitted. on the bodies of Bates and l'alematt live Iwon p -i " Greenhithe and Tilbury, and have kern adionna'i Mt7ttiteg IN INDIA.---The iniorta a singular ease of murder 1.11 tor,lllcdin •hoon• faalca.l some time ago. The ivirtivldv... of the o.to• uo ollow :—A man who loved a woman of i.-ry r..,sto Iroisolicil Iris rival in her affections. The si. tin. h.. , in;; come inat.d.ible by the effects of film rig .111.1 c 11,1 1 , 1 ,, ti'd murderer with the most inhuman Intritrito cut the into pieces, hoil cs l then, i;r esit:l.lll . pot. a 1 .4 tLen buried then, under the ground. The cloth, of th.• ceased were burnt to ashes, and not a 411 - ..,...f l'i"`" 1 5114 left on tke ground to show ti n t such an atrovi y heal c , rr taken place. The conic' of the dec.-.,,.1. lu.scier."; -1 ;;!. the notice of the murderer, Mid nqiin....l„ after wan."'" for some days in the jungle. to the house of hbunfortia nate master. This led to the discover' of the erntlr• search was made by the police in tire house of lb' and the remain' of the deceased Sere dug ground. Both the in,,,, 04.1 the woman were The Criminals have been committed to the s essions rt. IVEDITERR.IN COMP.! N Y The half-yearl; held this aftenice Cattsitotam. in the The following re have much pleaam several interruptio the net earnings of expired have been a' year. They thereft amount of dividend cent. respectively and that t he holanc revery. , fund. The until a further pe Italian government of the monies taco . three quarter. up 4 paper currency mit temporary deficien The director; Levi proceeding; they difference due, and place the company'. on a more satisfacti reserve fund as stat and the dividends a July last and in the The arrangements piny, referred to in out, in consequence the last moment wi rectors believe that be attained. An in Otranto line on the do not think it expo present inclement SI The CHAIXIIAN, it said he thought that dead of the last half He hoped that by la: they would be (ambit French government up to June, 1866, an be received in time within • month or Italy, financially an in looking forward t position with the had no doubt as to titled to. After • short disc the meeting terminal PURCHASE OF R Dorgan estimated th 22,000.000 f. sterho cent. railway stock, i interest upon it wool the Irish railways. a.l 1065 were 927,000 f. balance of 157,000 f. j the 64. Irish railways saving of working ex late on having 300,01 extension of the rail , lutes. —Northern W THE OUTBREAK eow.—The fresh on dairy farm, Islingk must be taken as seems to have been in the country, th may become active a this instance was bought by Mrs. Mkt November 15. They Jan. 22, when they On January 27 they were manifestly ill. signs of illness, we a matter of safety, hi doubt that this tiMM whether in the quays not yet been quite MI informed by Mr. Niel measures hail been is Chloride of lime w suggest that them be made of carbonic authority of the Fri% her customers no not likely to bring Bat they afford en of disinfection, able national expense, est great national import TEA CULTIVATD mating to the tea dist Several merchants Assam and Cachar which a committee w should be taken to sa and the government quire into the mortal the tea districts. H. Cockerel!, civil se Skinner and Co., and the commission will tality amongst the Cachar. Inquiry wil tality amongst the cc districts. In the con to them, the corm place themselves it holders' and Commix of coolies, and super may also invite an et interested in tea c quainied with the IF] districts. In order, deputy ommuissioner civil surgeon of the been directed to gath subject, and to plat* Mr. Morice, a coffe. India by the Ceylon ing on the introducti Mr. Morice has beet information in Calm Caohar and Assam. there, he proposes t Sangre., before retain the much disputed c a commercial profitin THE STUDY OF a vague idea, not of people fairly acquaint that this once &moue accounted among the whether for goal or e style of thought has r practice and literate take. One half the half is about. The manuals which teach those for whom they great mass of online protestant countries they .lo about the prodigies or works of (+elate so extensively i the great body of the klichelet, and the an circulation by tens of or " Epitome of Mon and his voluminous " multiplied far more nt of the two classes of h speaking the same Is laws. —Prom I'S MUtfra: Tow' Boys AN n re ave try a rtut ero but bringing fi,bnao andrt e u er e Y mtv o t tuy h uh. 3l u tet,b e pe a di are,orf,aril . :! lt2 p ririthw i r c N e no c o fa e opt i li b,p observe ri u l i pun. politic g meip o r t nh c at e itib able privilege after tie oot me ali on l e are cleverer than eau tion is less. They km pricy ; they know wet m this, as in a thousat out laughing in the fa her For the town her arc long as doctrines of not turned them from WPM'. lint I must I io a bog of discriti nobility of some town RE o lu ull orce ic diplomat, n'. he albot in a e ° I . e sir r di,hlYfe wouldtis n b 48 Merel t et t du s e i, Pl i t .e d ori e : o t hh. r yrim country( t eftt i . e hh y , : w r et h' eg es a l ic : nv i , fgt e : g tr f lee from all extern's o a for °tem or law of rig LTra exceptional ch mend. and for the taloa lend its freedom won by nisi • ""....nitt deVlStatioo redelivered to th Felled as fat as her 111.110... I I MN.