The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-15 00:00:00

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Forrester, Omits., Maclean, and Merton Misses S. Stuart, Nay Moore, ic.—And AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE. . 11 T.WL Tim llama. REvEttikrilearra. Emery, Parsons, Rob son, and Swanborougb ; Mesdames Ada Swanboromdt and John 4031e.—Attar which KENILWORTM.—And THE LIITLE SAVAGE BRITANNIA. Trig Iristrito, MY POLL - Aii; YY PARTNER JOE.—The Brother Hanlon: Mr. C. Woodman: Mr. J. Plimpton : Little Levine; Jessie Nina; the Champion Skaters.—And JACK 0' LANTERN. Mr. Reynolds and Min S. Miles. NIGH WATKI AT LONDON BRIDGE TEI DAY —llansing. 2h. ba......_Atternoon, ?h. !Zm. 11:011011110W—Iloralesg. EX 435......A.D0n500a, 21s. 57sa. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. Tea Festival of Sr. NAPOLEON is annually ushered in by a variety of the most peaceful rumours and assurances. However violent may have been the disturbance of the atmosphere throughout July, about a week before the Fifteenth of August there is a great calm, and " the Bourse is very " firm." Once or twice, it is true, within the last fifteen years this annual tranquillity has been rather dearly purchased by a previous war ; at other times the sedative powers of the Moniteur have been employed with more than usual per sistency and effect. But it must be confessed that the middle of August is a period of the year of all others most favourable to the hopes of peace. It is harvest time ; it is holiday time. Monarchs and ministers alike are severally occupied in doing nothing—to the great advantage of their fellow-creatures. For one blessed month they are released, by the injunc tions of their doctors, from the labour of devising diplomatic difficulties and inventing causes of war. Away in the fashionable solitudes of Swiss valleys, or amidst the busy idleness of German baths, they are permitted for a little while to unburden their minds from cares of State, and to improve their morning and their evening hours in the study of the via inviieatrix seater,,, or in cultivating the simplest pleasures and pastimes. This year is, happily, no exception to the general rule in these respects. This last burst of tropical sunshine has melted away all the irritating and restless fears of a fortnight ago. That untoward incident of the instructions which the Secretary of the French Embassy at Berlin ought not to have read to the Under-Secretary of the Prussian Foreign-office has been solved by smiling mutual explanations. General DUMONT, having delivered his " allocution " to the French' . Legion at Rome, and received his disavowal in Paris, has come home and had an audience of the EMPEROR. M. NIGRA, who went to Venice to let the storm " blow over," returns, it is under stood, to Paris ; and Signor RATTAZZI is ap peased by the departure of Baran MALARET on leave of absence, and the probability of his not returning to Florence as the representative of the Empire. The North Schleswig question is abandoned to the tender mercies of Count Bra maacx, while a band of French sympathizing tourists are receiving the hospitality and the homage of patriotic Danes at Copenhagen. It is even hinted—by way, perhaps, of contributing to thelull that prevails—that the EmperorAmmaeoza has recommended King WILLIAM to take a gene rous view of the claims of the Danish population of North Schleswig, and to conform at his own good time and convenience to the stipulations of the Treaty of Prague. While the Roman Junta, into which the two National Committees are absorbed, hiui apparently taken counsel of the heat, or of the cholera, or of that better part of valour which is one of the charac teristics of the native Romans in the nineteenth century, to bide their time and wait for a more propitious opportunity of deliverance ; while the Garibaldian leaders have fallen back from the frontiers, and an Italian squadron of frigates are guarding the Papal coast, the Prussian press has ceased to declaim against the domineering preten sions of France, and the semi-official journals of the Second Empire—not excepting even that new journal which was " authorised" to appear for the express purpose of stirring up a warlike senti ment against Prussia and rekindling the hostilities of 1815—have laid aside the trumpets and begun to intone hymns to human brotherhood on pas toral pipes. All this is very satisfactory while it lasts, and will be welcomed with grmitude by that consider able portion of the public in all civilised countries who are thrown into a rage of panic or a trance of rapturous repose by a paragraph in the Himiteer, or a sonorous platitude from Imperial lips on the fertile topic of the progress of the species. Our only desire at this holiday season is to furnish whatever aliment we can find to the moat comfortable auguries. Yet—shall we confess it I—it is not without a degree of hesitation that we venture to indicate certain rea sons, rather of a practical than a sentimental order for the faith we profess in the continuance of peace for some months to come. There has been much talk of late about the armaments of the French Government ; of such evident preparations for a prolonged contest as the purchase of large quantities of foreign cattle, of forage, provisions, and stores, and the strain of job and task work in the arsenals ; not to speak of the projected reorgani zation of the army,which is to double the effective force, and much more than double the reserve, and, in abort, to put every adult Frenchman under arms. These disagreeable signs and symptoms of a state, if not of actual war, at least of a peace so heavily armed, so onerous and vexatious to citizens and taxpayers, would have justified alarm, even had they not been denied by the Moniteur and its semi-official satellites. But they have been repeatedly denied, and these repeated denials have served to stimulate the vague alarm, the sense of insecurity, the uneasiness and uncertainty which paralyse industry and commerce, and lock up in the Bank cellars thirty-six millions sterling of unemployed capital. It occurs to us that we may be able to do more than the Moniteur has done to make peace seem probable for the present, if we take leave to draw notice to the simple fact that a month ago THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1867. some thirty-two thousand Chassepot rifles had been supplied to the French army ; and that the con verted arm which is being pressed forward is not yet delivered to the troops. Against this state of preparation we have to set the million breechloaders of the Prussian army, and every Prussian soldier experienced in the use of that arm. Of course it is only too easy to calculate the period at which the whole French army will be in the quality of their weapons a perfect match for its German rival ; but we cannot believe that the Government of either of those great and noble countries will be less reluctant then than now to bring two such enormous destructive forces into collision to satisfy a cruel whim of vanity, or a morbid lust of " glory," or a false point of honour. Never could a more heinous and horrible crimp against hu manity darken history than that which should bring France and Germany into conflict. Let us believe that such a crime is impossible in this age of the world. Impossible it certainly will be when France has recovered the possession of her own destinies, and the guardianship of her own honour; when the Government of France has formally re nounced what M. Emits DE GIRARDIN so well de nounces as " the policy of intermeddling" in the affairs of other nations, and what M. St-m.71.m DEUTSCH, one of the moat respected members of the Liberal party in the Prussian Parliament, de precates as the aggressive spirit of " French " Ciesarism." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) riff Court. OSBORN*. ACCOST 14. The Queen and Princess Louise drove out yes terday afternoon, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, accompanied by her royal highness. Prince Leopold also walked out, attended by the Rev. R. Duckworth. Princess Beatrice, attended by Lady Caroline Barring. ton and Colonel the Hon. Charles Lindsay, visited the Prince and Princess of Leiningen this morning, on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Lady Waterpark has succeeded the Dowager Countess of Gainsborough as Lady in Waiting, and Colonel the Hon. Charles Lindsay has succeeded the Hon. Mortimer Sack ville West as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday forenoon at a meeting of the Governors of the Wellington College, at the New Palace, Westminster. The Princess of Wales drove out in the afternoce, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole. A meeting of the Governors of Wellington College was held yesterday in the Fine Arts Commission-room, at the Palace of Westminster. Present—the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Derby, K.G., Vis count Eversley, Lord Retie&lale, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, M.P., Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., John Walter, Esq., and Henry R. Con, Esq. Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot (honorary secretary), the Rev. Dr. Benson, and Mr. Chance (the secretary) attended the meeting. The Gover nors met at hall-past 11 o'clock, and sat until 2 o'clock. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Settlements on the West Coast of Africa. VISIT OF THE ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA TO WlND SOR—Yesterday morning the Archduke Francis Charles of Austria and attendants arrived at Windsor by or dinary train, and were conducted over the private and state apartments of the Castle, and St. George's Chapel. The Archduke then went to Mr. Johnson's, White Hart Hotel, where he had breakfast, and was afterwards driven in one of her Majesty's open pony carriages and four greys, with outrider, to the Prince Consort's Model Farm at Fregmore, the royal gardens in the Home-park, and over several private drives in the Great-park. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein are expected to arrive at Dover to-day from the Continent. The Prince and Princess will come to London in the evening, and will then proceed to Windsor. Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide and his Serene Highness the Prince of Tack left Kensington Palace yesterday for Althorp Hall, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Spencer. The Duke of Northumberland is extremely un well at Alnwick Castle, and in consequence of his great age his illness occasions much anxiety to the members of his family. The Earl and Countess Percy and Lady Louisa Percy and other members of the family are staying with the venerable duke at Alnwick Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness Cholmondeley have left town for Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess Vane are entertaining a distinguished party at Wynyard Park, near Stoekton-on- Tees. The Earl of Haddington has left Farrance's Hotel for Tyninghaane, near Preatonkilic, N.B. The Earl of Clonmell has left town for Wies baden. The Countess (Dowager) of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux and Lord and Lady Charles Bruce ar rived at Althorp Hall yesterday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Spencer, The marriage of the Hon. Mr. Littleton, eldest son of Lord and Lady Hatherton, with Miss Hominy, is postponed in consequence of the illness of the Duke of Northumberland. The marriage was appointed to take place to-day. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P., and lady Pakington will leave town on Tuesday next for West wood Park, Worcestershire. Colonel and Mn. Cockburn have left the Alex andra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner. Colonel Macadam and Mrs. Macadam have arrived at the queen's Hotel, Upper !"n!.rwood. Captain and Mm. Armstrong have arrived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner. Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard have left Farrance's Hotel for Folkestone. It is stated that the Under-Secretaryship at the Horne-office, which was vacant by the resignation of the Right Hon. Horatio Waddington, has been conferred on the Hon. Adolphus Liddell. THE MINISTERIAL WHITEBAIT DIN/MR.—Yester day her Majesty's ministe's celebrated the approaching close of the session by the customary dinner at Mr. Qoartermeine's, the Ship, Greenwich, under the presidency of the Attorney-General. Covers were laid for 10. The party embarked from the houses of parliament on board one of the Citizen steamboats, arriving at Greenwich Pier about 7 o'clock. The Earl of Derby was unable to be present on the occasion, not having recovered from his recent severe attack of gout. There were present "—The Lord Chancellor, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Sir John ?Airington, the Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Montrose, the Duke of Richmond, the Right Hon. Sir Stafibrd Northoote, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Cony, the Right Hon. the Lord Advocate, Lord Begot, I Lord Colville, Lord Crofton, Viscount FLawsrden, the Earl of Longford, Lord Raglan, Lord Clinton, the Right Hon, C. B. Adderley, the Right Hon. J. Wilson Patten, the Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray, the Right Hon. Colonel Percy Herbert, the Right Hon. Gotham' Hardy, Lord Robert Montagu, Sir Graham Montgomery, the Right Hon. the Attorney-General for Ireland, the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, the Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton, Sir James Ferguson, Viseount Royston, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, the Hon. Gerard Noel, Colonel Taylor, Admiral Seymour, Mr. G. Selater-Booth, Mr. G. Ward Hunt, Mr. C. Du Cane, Mr. E. C. Egerton, Mr. H. Whit- more, Re. Mr. Disraeli, on arriving at the Ship, was warmly received by the strangers who bad collected. THE QUEEN'S .TOURNEY TO SCOTLAND.—Der Majesty and the royal family will, according to existing arrangementa leave Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening, en route for Balmoral. The royal special train will be provided by the London and North-Western Railway Company, and will be composed of several saloon and first. class carriagee, the whole being fitted with the usual com munication. Her Majesty will leave the Windsor station of the Great Western Railway at 10 o'clock it. the even ing, and will reach Kelao next morning, and will remain there two days, visiting the Duke and Duchene of Rox burghe at Floon Castle, after which the Queen will re sume the journey north Ward leaving the Kelso station at 10.30 p.m. on Friday, the Tard inst. The royal train will reach Balloter at 6.45 a.m. on Saturday morning. The re mainder of her Majesty's journey to Balmoral will be ac complished by road. None of the public will, under any circumstances, be admitted to the stations between Lea mington and Kelso inclusive, in order that her Majesty may not be disturbed during the sight journey. PROJECTED VETERINARY COLLEGE FOR DUBLIN. —A project for the establishment of a veterinary college in this city, which was unsuccessfully brought forward about two years ago, is now revived with, it is supposed, some better chance of being carried out. A preliminary meet- ing, at which the Hon. George Handcock took the chair, lbw' been held and a committee appointed to confer with th m e ap ß p or Dublin Society. government The scheme at at fi ri r . s t S e t r lud t zl , purpose of the proposed college a sum of 1 r 5 0 ,g001. which it was thought remained in band out of the fundcollected f ri or n. Lhe inspection is of pro catttlieonduwe:nnVhliortntlin co ess ntinuance o a f th il e sl to the populari re tj i ci n f t the project, as it suggested an easy method of • • it ; but, on consideration, it was thought more ad • le to omit it, at least in the first in stance.—Thaw. Nsw BOARD OE TILDE ACT.—Yesterday an act of parliament was i te ss r utllroviding that on the next vacancy the office of vim- • ant is to ►e abolished, and • secretary to be appoin with 1,5004 a•year, and capable of holding • seat in parliament. LATEST IN TELLIGENOZ (nuna's nudism.) FRANCE. PARIS, AUGUST 15. The Mositelir of this morning announces several appointments to the Legion of Honour, but con tains nothing in reference to the reforms which some French journals had declared would be pro mulgated to-day. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, ADOUBT 15. The Austrian members of the Austro-Hungarian Conference for the settlement of common affairs propose that Austria should contribute 66 2-3rd per cent. and Hungary 33 1-3rd per cent. to the public expenditure. The Hungarian members propose that the share of Hungary should be only 25 per cent. It is asserted that an interview between the Em peror of Austria and the King of Prussia is con templated. This interview is to take place at Carls bad on the return of the Emperor of Austria from Paris. HUNGARY. PESTH, Aram' 15. General Klapka arrived here yesterday. He avoided the ovations which had been prepared for him. The proportion of the public expenditure to be covered by Hungary will, it is believed, amount to 25 per cent. of the total present expenditure of the empire. THE DANETBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, AUCL In 14. In consequence of the withdrawal of M. Bratiano all the other ministers have tendered their reiligna tions, which have been accepted by Prince Charles. FRANKFORT. FRANKFORT, Aram 15. An extensive fire broke out at 2 o'clock this morning, in the cathedral in this town, by which the entire sacristy and some adjacent buildings have been burnt to the ground. Three lives were lost. ITALY. FLORENCE, Acorsdr 14, Evrnso. Signor Rattazzi leaves this evening for Valdieri to obtain the royal signature to the Church Property Bill. AMERICA. FALMOUTH. AVGVST 15. The New York and Havre Company's steamship Arago, Captain Gadsden, from New York, arrived here at 10 a.m. to day. She landed Captain Edington and the crew of the ship Czar, of Greenock, 34 sacks of mails, and four passengers, and proceeded with 74 passengers, 11 sacks of mails, and 398,900 dole. in specie and 48,000 fr. for France. be levelled and broken up, and the old sandy plain is to be restored to the Minister of War for purposes of chill. I sin one of those who think this decision a pity. Purchasers of shrubs in the horticultural garden are informed that they must fetch away their purchases on November 1. At the Bourse the Rente closed without change. Italian rose 15c. There was scarcely any alteration in other leading securities. At a meeting of subscribers to the Tunis Loan, held yesterday, M. Erlanger, the contractor, declared that he had not yet paid over a sou to the Bey of Tunis ; that he hoped to annul the treaty ; and that he was quite ready, whenever ordered by the judgment of a French court, to return the subscriptions. This announcement was very enthusiastically received. SPAIN. The Eeclesinstical Bulletin of Santiago, in Spain, publishes the following letter from Marshal Narraez to the Cardinal Archbishop of that diocese and the other prelaSQ of the country : " Madrid, 25th July. " I have read with inexpressible joy the letter addressed to me by your graces on board the steamer St. Quentin, the 16th inst., in the port of Barcelona, on your return from the capital of the catholic world. I have communi cated that document to the Queen, and her heart felt a great joy at learning that the successor of St. Peter does not allow • day to pass without praying for catholic Spain. I consider as a signal favour to have contributed to fulfil the orders which the Queen gave me in the sphere of my attributions, and I have been greatly pleased to learn that the Sovereign Pontiff, when his heart is filled with bitterness., should have felt some consolation at the sight of our episcopacy at Rome, under the protection of the Queen, with the entire sup port of her government and the assent of all Spaniards. If this proof of adhesion to the catholic principles which Spain has thus given exercises a salutary influence and produces imitators among other nations, Spain will have rendered a signal service to the holy religion of Jesus Christ and will have given a proof of respect to the authority of the Pope, who is the visible chief of the church and its centre of unity.—Acoept, Re., " DCKE nz VkLENTId." CIVIL ACTION AGAINST A BIRMINGHAM MEMBER OF THE "LONG FILM." In the Shrewsbury County Court, on Tuesday, Messrs. Phillips, the well-known tailors and waterproof cloak manufacturers, of Hish-street, Shrewsbury, sued Thompson Wainwright, residing at 25, Spring-street, Edgbaston, Birmingham, for 8/. 16s. Gd., value of goods supplied. In opening the case, the plaintiffs' solicitor stated that the action was brought, not with any hope of re covering the money sued for, but upon public grounds, partly with a view to obtaining that publicity through the medium of the press which was the be safeguard against the James of persons like the defendant, and partly to try for the first time whether these professional swin dlers, who skilfully evaded the penalties of the criminal law, could not in any way be =de to su ff er by the action of the civil law. From the evidence adduced it appeared that on the 23rd April the plaintiffs received a note, of which the following is a copy :—" Mrs. Wainwright's com pliments to the Messrs. Phillips, of Shrewsbury, and will thank them to oblige by enclosing immediately here a select assortment of patterns of the waterproof cloths for cloaks, jackets, Sc.—ho. 25, Spring-street, Edgbaaton , Birming ham, 2nd of April, 1867." The plaintiffs sent the patterns as requested and by return of post they received the following :—" Mrs. Wain wright's compliments to the Mews. Phillips, of Shrewsbury, and is obliged to them for their attention, and requests they will be good enough to forward, as soon as they pm sibly can, two ladies' circular cloaks, with medium long sleeves and small collars, two children's cloaks, and 4. yards of cloth, unmade." The letter proceeded to give the particulars of the measurement required, and con cluded by saying, "An order for payment shall be sent to Messrs. Phillips through the National Provincial Bank, or otherwise, as may be desired." The cloaks and the cloth were sent, as requested, and appear to have given great satisfaction, for on the 7th of May the plaintiffs received an order for " another cloak of the mixed gray tweed," accompanied by a request that "the Messrs. Phillips would enclose one account, including all." The non-remittance of the order upon the National Pro vincial Bank had, however, aroused the suspicion of the plaintiffs, and they communicated the circumstances of their transaction with Mrs. Wainwright to the secretary of the London Association for Protection of Trades. In reply they received a letter, stating that Wainwright was known to the society, and urging upon the plaintiffs the desirability of trying the experiment of bringing • case against him. It was in accordance with that suggestion that they now appeared in court, at considerable expense and trouble to themselves. The defendant did not ap pear, and his Honour gave • verdict for the plaintiffs for the full amount claimed. Judgment issued accordingly,— Birsiinyhast Post. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) THURSDAY, 'AUOVSY 15. 8 A.IL F. littemo. boo, Ili H, W. .-- 0 .--...1 W.l 71. I I to is P a , a --- — --- -- Nast n 121).74 65 1 W. 1 11 , MX Ibl I 1 abet dean .. 1 —' - . LAM 129.75 64 W. 1 1 W. 1 b • Anlrumau Zi 80 611 W. 1 1 S. hm I— I Greencastle .9.79 02 8.8.1. 1 1! &W. 1 eI Valenti& . 6061 61 W.A.W. 1 1 ! &I.W. het , —' Ruches Point 2V.11 61 8.8.11. 1 4 1 &S.& !ells 1 Liverpuoi 29.74 65 W. 1 1 j W. •ho Holyhead ....21.7.1 62 W.N.W. 1 I , &S.W. ez POtaillooo to. 70 03 N. 3 4 9. W. e 6.00 Bret 29.70(4 &r; 2 3 58.5 0i Lorient 29.8, 06 R. 3 3 : WS. W. !mu g oc her o d zoo 63 LW. 1 4 ' 21. W. I to 0.32 Plymouth 19.74 43 B.S 1 2 6. Ibe Weymouth Portsmouth 29.7764 &&W. ! 3 3 S. ler 002 Lomb.. 20.77 65 8.3. W. I 2 1 W. bto 0.15 Yarmouth 1 3.74 71 N.W. 12 2 &S.W. : bI Scarboroagh 29.74 66 N. , 1 1 8. Ito ton Wow. 283 63 W.S.W. I 2 2 &W. I ee I Heider — - - - - - THE PARKS REGULATION HILL. The infatuation of Mr. Hardy on the question of Hyde•park must in charity, the Daily Nrus thinks, be looked upon as a species of fatality, a weakness transmit ted by Mr. Walpole, or caught by him as an infection from sitting in that respectable statesman's administrative chair. Whatever complexion Mr. Hardy may put on his untimely and untoward " firmness" in this business, • " firmness" which !coke so much like obstinacy, and even violent obsti nacy, is but another, and not a better, sort of weakness. It is solely and simply because the government have committed a series of gross blunders, setting the example of ignorance of the law, of transgression of the law, of alternate defiance and abdication, that to vin dicate their own dignity, or rather to revenge their own stultification, they are actually making themselves • sorry spectacle to gods and men at the fag end of a weary and exhausting session, whipping up a jaded pack of languid and perspiring parliamentary functionaries to force this ugly Parks Regulation Bill through the " ghost of a house," to rob the Reform Bill of half its healing efficacy, and raise a popular sore, to rankle and fester under the skillet manipulation of agitators and demagogues during the recess. The principle upon which the Royal Parks Bill is founded—if principle it can be called—has shared, the Port says, the fate of many other principles which have had the misfortune to be taken up by the present govern ment as the basis of a measure, for it has been loot and cast out altogether, and not enough of it remains to leaven the measure which was in the first instance based upon it. In short the Parks Bill has been completely emasculated by the abandonment of its one important clause, and being henceforth powerless either for good or for evil, there is no more reason for, or objection to, pass ing it than there is for or against any other inconsequential step that the House of Commons may choose to take. The Herald can only express its deep regret that the government has made any change in the bill. The ques tion had become a conflict between mob will and authority, and men like Beales and Bradlaugh had already inflicted sufficient humiliation upon authority. However, the government ought to be the best judges of what is due to themselves and to the position they hold. If they are con tent, it is not for the Herald to cry out. But it must say, that, having divested the bill of all the pnrpoee forwhich it was brought in, they would have done better to drop it at once in its entirety. If we ere to surrender at discretion to Mr. Beales let the full extreme of the concession be known and appreciated, and do not let us add to the enactments of a session which has really achieved grand work a bill which can only be a provocation and a failure. The Standard also thinks it would have been more dig. nified on the part of the government to withdraw the bill altogether than to go on a .th it after the omission by Mr. Hardy of the only clause which made it valuable. Hardy's concession is doubtless well meant, and the relegrapA %Add gully saxpt it ; but compromises are seldom satisfactory, and the present offer seems limaliarly open to criticism. Mr. Hardy clearly sees that his origi nal position is untenable ; he sees alm that he will have to face • degree of opposition on which he did not count ; and hence he would have acted with much more dignity had he withdrawn the measure for the seuion. At first eight tho '• concess•on" of Mr. hardy may seem to be only a parliamentary method of throwing up the sponge and confeuing hMhelf beaten ; but the Star is compelled to regard it as a dexterous effort to delude par. liament with a view of getting substantially all that was desired while seeming to gi‘e way out of deference to public opinion. The practical effect of the amended bill will be to put it in the power of ber Majesty's ministers and the Duke of Cambridge, as Langer of the Park, to prohibit public meetings, and as the royal duke is Com mander-in-Chief of the Army, be can order out all the troops to support his regulations as Ranger. If the bill was bad, an•Engliab, intolerable before, it is a thousand times worse now. lUR TOPICII. The Times, after complaining of Mr. Alderman Law rence's attempt to defeat the bill for the regulation of the traffic of the metropolis by speaking against time for two hours in the House of Commons yesterday, expressesa hope that if not all at least a great portion of the measure will become law this session. That the traffic in general must be placed more under the control of the police, and the heavy traffic thrown into the earlier or later part of the day, is an established principle, and the Timm trusts it a:11 be put in force without further delay. Treating of the subject of ships and guns brought before the House of Commons on Tuesday by Major Anson, the Times says the question is not whether a new Woolwich gun at 7501. is • better bargain for the country than a Palliser gun at 2501. or even 5001., but whether the Pal liser gun would not be an enormous improvement in both our ships and forts upon the now useless 68-pounder. We have got these old guns actually in store by the thousand. At a moderate cost, and in • comparatively short time, we could render them almost, if not quite, as effective as the newest specimen of cannon. Yet this, it seems, our War Minister hesitates to do, partly because the saving, according to his reckoning, would be only 1401. • gun, and partly because a sun of five tons is a little "livelier" than • gun of six tons and a half. Tag REPRZSENTATION OP STROCD.—The appli cation for the Chiltern Hundreds by Mr. Poulett Scrope, on Monday, has taken all parties in Stroud by surprise, although it was known that the hon. gentleman oontem. plated retiring as soon as a Reform Bill had been finally carried. On Tuesday morning Mr. Scrope issued a fare well address. Immediately afterward an address to the electors was issued by Mr. Henry Self, PageWinterbotharn, a member of the Chancery bar, and of a local family, who has been before the constituency for the last six months, and whose candidature was accepted eta large meeting of the liberal party held in December last. In the afternoon of the same day the conservative party held a long private meeting at which it was resolved to s u pp or t Mr. John Edward'Dorington, jun., a resident magistrate. It was debated whether he should be brought forward as a con servative or as a neutral, and after anxious consideration the latter course was decided on. Yesterday morning a third candidate appeared in the person of Mr. Charles Holbrow Stanton, barrister-at•law on the Oxford Circuit, a gentleman also of local connexion, who announces him self as a liberal. Two other local names are mentioned as aspirants for the seat. The nomination is expected to take place as Tuesday or Wednesda7 next. The division of the liberal party, if persisted in, may render the issue doubtful. ------ CONEPOUNDINO FOR RATES. —The Liverpool Se lect Vestry, in view of the passing of the Reform Bill, have unanimously resolved to confirm the following reso lution of the Finance Committee :—" That it be recom mended to the general board to direct that efforts be made to collect from the occupiers the full rates due in respect of all property in the parish, and that notice be given that for the future part payments by owners will not be re ceived as a full iiseParge of the liability of the occupier." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom am OWN 0011ZEISPONDIXT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVICTING. The result of the trial for the Fontainebleau murder is not yet known, but in all probability the case will be concluded this evening. A report of M. Lachaud's speech for the defence is in the legal journals to-day. He is beyond dispute the first prisoner's oouneel in the world, and all that mortal man could do he did for his client. But I do not think his speech worth translating, because the stubborn facts with which he had to deal enabled him to raise no issue of interest. He began by making an appeal to the feelings of the jury on the ground of the exemplary cha racter of the prisoner's father, the Norman apothe cary. He attended the poor for nothing, and helped them with money when in need. After his death the grateful peasantry of his dis trict subscribed 1,400 fr. to put a monument over his grave, and on All Souls day crowds of people may be seen kneeling before that tomb as if it covered the remains of a saint. "God," he said " owed the prisoner's father a recompense for his virtues, and he had given it in not allowing him to live to see this trial." After this exordium, which, though touching, was irrelevant, M. Lachaud pleaded that as nobody saw the prisoner murder Madame Mertens the jury could not be certain that she did the deed. He did not venture to adopt any of the prisoner's theories. He did not insist upon the existence of a person named Williams, but said that admitting what the prisoner said about him to be untrue the falsehood did not prove the murder. He denied that there was any satisfactory proof either that the prisoner killed Madame Mertens, or even that she did not die a natural death. He also denied the forgeries, which, from certain observations he made while the evidence was being taken, I did not think he would do. He concluded by expressing an earnest hope that the jury, enlightened by Providence, would proclaim the innocence of his client. Prince Humbert arrived yesterday at the Cha lons camp, accompanied by Generals Cugia and De Sonnaz. The Prince intends to pay another visit to Paris, and will take leave of the Emperor when his Majesty sets out from the camp for Salzburg. The Prince Imperial will remain in the camp while the Emperor and Empress are at Salzburg. PrinceNspoleon, travelling incognito, appeared at Toulouse on Monday evening. The next day, ac companied by the prefect, he visited the museum and some of the churches of the city, and in th e evening he set out for Marseilles, on his way to his Prangins estate in Switzerland. Thus is explained the rather curious announcement a few days ago that Prince Napoleon was going to the Pyrenees, and thence " into the country." It was not in tended to infer that the Pyrenees are not rural the expression was an awkward one, meaning that the Prince was going to his country house. The Princess Clothilde, with her children, was left at Eau: Bonnes. Sho will shortly follow the Prince to Prangins. It is still hoped that the great international dinner to be given to the Emperor by the exhibi tors will take place. It was to have been on the 16th of August, but was put off on account of the the Emperor's going to Chalons and Strasbourg. It is given out that on his return to Paris his Majesty will receive the commissioners, and fix a day for the dinner. The audience, however, cannot be so early as the 20th, the day mentioned by the Patrie, as the Emperor will certainly not have re turned from Salzburg by that time. The action of Dautresme v. Carvalho is compro mised, M. Carvelho having undertaken to bring out the plaintiff's opera, Cordlike, at the Th66tre Lyrique within two months. The decree has gone forth, and is registered in the Moniteur to-day, that the Universal Exhibition is to be closed on October 31 with the same in flexible punctuality which marked its opening on the day so announced—April 1, and the dis tribution of prizes on July 1. The building is to be pulled down and the material sold. All the gardens and annexes in the Champ de Mars are to REM A RK S. Atmospherical pressure, which less than yesterday, Is de creasing generally this morning, chiefly on the southern coasts. Winds are light and variable. Thunder is reported from places In the south and tut THE WEATHER.—(THIS DAY.)—Taking MOUTH. Negretti and Zantbm's thermometer, as registered yes tm-Miy at 1 o'clock, the mercury bad fallen 47 degrees at the corresponding hour to-day. That a change was about to take place was apparent last evening ; but during the night the glass never indicated below 80, At about 2 o'clock this morning vivid flashes of lightning illuminated the metropolis and con tinued for some time ; and between 3 and 4 loud claps of thunder were heard, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain. Raving ceased for a time, the thunder returned be tween 7 and 8, and HUM that time rain has been almost incessant. __ Txa Nsw VACCINATION ACT. —Yesterday this important cot, which received tberoyal assent on Monday, WU printed. It makes oonsiderable alteration in the law, abolishing other statutes, and making vaccination com pulsory to a certain extent. The act will take effect on the Ist January. New vaccination districts are to be formed, and to be approved by the Poor-law Board. Beyond the fee of la. 6d. to 3s. (according to distance) to be paid by the guardians, the Lords of the Privy Council may order an additional fee, not exceeding ls. for each child. When a child is registered a certificate is to be given orient within seven days; that the child must be brought within three months to be vaccinated, and also for inspection, under a penalty of 20s. According to tha 31st section, a registrar or other person appointed may give notice to a justice that be has reason to believe that • child under 14 has not been successfully vaccinated, and that • notice to the parents has been disregarded, the justice may summon the parents, and vaccination can be directed under a penalty of 20a. Compensation can be made to any person improperly summoned under the provision. A person inoculating, or attempting to inocu -1 atee for the small pox, to be liable to imprisonment for one month. Tee TAILORS' STRUM—Last evening a well attended meeting of the London trades unions was brld in Cambridge-hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street, to con sider the coming trials at the Old Bailey, and to receive a report as to the position of the tailors' a ssociation. The chair was taken by Mr. George Potter, who stated that the tailors' strike had now been going on for 17 weeks, and that the responsibility lay with the masters. Notwith standing all tint bad been said against trades unions, the workmen would not give them up. They had not only improved the condition of the workmen, but of the marten also, as well as of labour through the country at large. He therefore thought that the tailors' association should be supported by every trades union in the kingdom. A resolution was passed pledging the meeting to give all the moral and pecuniary support in its power to the move ment, and to bring the subject before the trades unions. A resolution approving of the system of picketing, and declaring it to be no violation of the act of parliament, was unanimously adopted. Among the literary persona named in the official journal as having obtained the Cross of the Legion of Honour is Mr. Spier's, Professor of English at the Emile des Pants et Chemise's, and author of the English and French dictionary which beam his name. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. THE OVEREND AND GURNEY APPEALS. JIJDOMILNT. (Present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranwortli, s e a Lord Colousy.) cIAzZ3 r. TURQUAND AND ANOTREL—rric TRZ TOUNGEI v. TURQUAND AND ANOTHER. The facts in these appeals from two orders of Vice-Chas. caller Melina have recently appeared in our columns. Their lordships pee judgment to-day. These appeals were representative cases put forward to decide the question of liability on the part of certain**. tributories to the company of Overcool, Gurney, and (• (Limited). Both cases had been argued togeth er . Th u ; name of the appellant Oakes, was alleged to appear in the list of contributories for 25 shares, and that of the appellant, William Peek, for 2,000 shares, and by the orders in question the Vice-Chancellor refused the motion. to have the names removed from the register of the corn. puny, and directed the applicants to pay the casts of th e respondents, the liquidators. The appellants contended that they were induced by the statements in the prospects issued by the company to believe that the Minima of the old firm of Overend, Gurney, and Co. was a solvent and pm. fitable business • that it was, on the contrary, an insol vent one, and had for several years previously to the date of the prospectus been carried on at a large annual log; that statements in a prospectus, when they led to a es. tract by which a person became a shareholder in a company, were unfair and dishonest, if, by stating only a pars of the truth, and concealing the rest, they p re . duced a (au impression on the mind of the pe n , * to whom they were made. They alleged that the mi te ,000 f.) of the good will of the business was stat e d to be such as, in the opinion of the directors could opt fail to insure a highly remunerative return to the gharsibold ers , although the directm • knew that the business had di. vided no profits in the year 12(57 ; that nose had been earned since 1860, and that for the Wt lice years of its existence, it had suffered a large annual low, all which facts were °encoded from the shareholders. The Vice-Chancellor thought that in publishing the prospectus complained of, the directors had been guilty of fraud, that the prospectus was to be considered the prospectus of the company, and if the question had been merely between the company and the appellants, he should have had so bulletin in coming to the conclusion that the latter were entitled to the relief they sought ; but that whatever might be their rightssgainst the . company, the petitioners could have oc, right to have their names erased from the Bat of ambit*. tones until the whole of the debts of the company lure paid. The Lord Chancellor, in considering the case, said he should look at it throughout as if Oakes were the cely appellant, because if he failed, the other appellant, Pea the younger, could not possibly succeed. After goks minutely through the facts, his lordship was clearly opinion that the decision of the Vice-Chancellor ought to I be affirmed, and both appeals dismissed, with costs. Lord Crsnworth and Lord Colonsay concurred. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr.Coelmisaioner. Croulburn.) IN SE A. J. rioumgl D. The bankrupt was a wholesale jeweller, and Birmingham and Sheffield factor, carrying on business in Hounds,liteh. His accounts return debts to the amount of 3,XIM. of which 3,183/. are unsecured, against assets at 9814. Mr. Reed opposed for the assignees, and asked for fur. they accounts, also for additional pa rticulars relative to the bankrupt's pawning transactions. The bankrupt ap. peered to have commenced pledging jewellery in April last, and he had obtained advances at different times n,xe the deposit of goods of considerable value. Shortly before the adjudication the bankrupt went abroad, taking jewellery worth about 1,0001. • and, although he a ll eged that he had restored the property intact, the assignee. did not believe that statement. The bankrupt had ben examined, and he stated that a person named Joseph Myers, a chiropodist , living at Nutting-hill, had pledged the goods on his behalf. His Honour intimated that the case seemed to be one for a prosecution. Mr. G. Lewis supported, and said he was sorry to heir the court prejudge the bankrupt, who had not yet been heard. The bankrupt was able to answer the charges made against him at the proper time, and with regard to the jewellery alleged to have been taken away and not ac• counted :or it had been actually sold and formed part of the estate. . _ _ . . . His Honour said that the opinion he expressed was founded upon the bankrupt's own evidence. Mr. Lewis said he must dissent from the conclusion at which his honour had arrived, and asked the court not to make the order with regard to the pledging transactions as the bankrupt had already given all the information is his power relative thereto. His Honour said that nothing could be more reasonable than the application which had been made, and the sc. counts asked for must be furnished. Adjourned accordingly. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. OBTATNING GOODA BY YALAK PRETENCE A well-dressed foreigner, named Ma", Skciai, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with obtaining goods by false pretences. The evidence left very little doubt that the prisoner lus been carrying on • system of fraud upon trulamen in the metropolis by ordering large quantities of goods, end paying for them with cheques epos different country bankers where there were no effects. la one case it appeared that he obtained PO. worth of sta tionery from Mr. Somers, a wholesale stationer, is Houndaditch, giving • cheque for 501. on the Decoy and Cornwell Bank at Tavistoek, where it turned out that be had no effects. In another case he obtained 154. of property from Messrs. Perry, steel pen manufactuer., in Cheapucle, for which lie paid with a cheque meg the Bank of Englund fur 151. He, of course, kept no .le• count with the Bank, and the whole proceeding sa evi dently a most impudent frond. Mr. W. A. Murray, a solicitor, who conducted the pro 'caution, said that on a future occasion he beiered he should be able to establish • erect molly other sunlit; cases against the prisoner, and he was remanded. BOW-STREET. THE CHARGE Or HTABAING AGAINST ,% Edward Itimdly, the pugilist, appeared to his bail Oa the charge of stabbing a oosternionger named Iteardos. . . Mr. Abrams defended. Mr. Trevor, the house surgeon at King's College Hoe pital, stated that he examined the wounds when mop plainant was brought to the station. They might lases been produced by blows from a blunt instrument, or bl striking against the kerb-stone, if the man had bes knocked down. One of them, however, might have bees produced by a sharp instrument. Complainant being recalled and further cross.eiamined by Mr. Abrams, said one of his brothers was w ith him it the time of the assault. That was not his brother Pat•ey. He bad eia brothers. Patsey Reardon, a wellknoen eoil• list, was not his brother, but " only a namesake." Deni having challenged Donelly to tight, or that his brother had struck Donelly. Swore positively that he mentioned to the policeman who came up at the time that Denally had stabbed him. Mr. Abrams pointed out the improbability of this state meat, as, of oourse, if any such charge had been made de constable would at once have taken the prisoner custody. The fact was, however, that nothat was said about stabbing until after the 0.4 plainant bad been to the hospital. It was afterthought. The charge was alt og eter trulora ° The two Iturdons had been following Donelly about! some time, annoying him and challenging him to te e Donelly bore it for a long time, but at last he was rook by their taunts to stand and fight. lie certainly "" k the complainant down ; and no doubt his heal was by the fall. Even after this complainant's brother Si not let him alone, so Donelly was obliged to tight him t and did unquestionably give him a sound thruliing. John Bunyan, a compositor, gave evidence in s upport this statement. Donelly was very unwilling to light• even when he did take off his coat he seemed not to en strike Reardon. At last he knocked him down. A ps: , man then came up and asked what was the matter. lie don said, " Nothing ; we have only been having s 601- After the constable was gone complainant's I'' wanted to fight Donelly, saying he " could ho dozen of him. Donelly said " I won't fight you have got a knife in your hand." Ultimately, laar a ring was formed to see fair play" and they Witness was pulsing by accident an d b a d never sees ewe of the parties before. He attended in consolneD cr having seen the report in the papers. Policeman Carr, E 64, confirmed the etatemeat Reardon said they bad only been having a tight. No'' was said about stabbing. The charge was dismissed. CLERKENWELL. RiBTENATIC ROBBERY BY Henry Clatioin, aged l 9 wee charged with ~te marked money from the till of his employer. Mr. VI. Jones, licensed victualler and proprietor of the T ,l ' tavern, Caledonian-road. • The prisoner has been in the employ of the prosecel‘ l „ . wine time, and has robbed him 011 a previous oec.sion on account of the respectability of bis relents, his f..T being a gamekeeper at Petworth. in Susses, he WI forgiven. The prosecutor suspecting for the past v* weeks that the prisoner was again robbing him. t. some money, and yesterday placed it in the till. 41 tion was kept on the prisoner, and be was seen to Nome money and put it in his pocket. He was thee C; , into the parlour and accused of the robbery. wh ic , stoutly denied, and on being asked said he Inc marked money in his Femmes:on. In turning "I t pockets a marked shilling and sixpence were found be was given into the custody of Sergeant If a bbenne the Y division. On the way to the police .tatioa the sonar said that ha had robbed his employer, that night. THE Fd Last held an i the fire i Town, b , her life. The in body of t The whol turn wei The fin Martha the &eta a n.ercha chant Bea got druol rule neve sober ben that day. o'clock in William day in cit and he bi lying on t water ant very done Kra W in the ,t it at but.' the decea adz weeks remoostra to the hou The Cor The jur hise.... 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