The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

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Widdicomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Masers. Richter, Jordan. Veto. Emery, Widdloomb, FitapalMak Evade; Mesdames Terasa,Elsworthy, laved; C. Lode:mi. BRITANNIA. Tam ETraING. OLD DADDitokai.EGS AND SIR =GENT CIRCU:s : OR, TIM GOLDEN APPLES. —IL and Madame Stertzouhach.—Signor BevanL—Olmar.-Bhower of Golden Rain. —Johnny Day.—And JZSIME, THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGH WATTS. AT LONDON-BM:Mi. D DAY llorang, eh. 23m..... Afternoon, On. 4tm„ to-noasow Mantis& 7h. 13m.....A1t0rn00n, Tn. am. LONDON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 23. AT Romford, on Friday last, a certain Rosaar Wruisms was charged before the magistrates with criminally assaulting a girl of seventeen years of age in a railway carriage. The offence was proved, and the prisoner was sentenced to the moderate fine of 201. In neither the crime nor the nature of the penalty is there, unfortunately, any peen-' Eerily. We have of late become familiar with narra tives of such outrages in such places, and we are also quite accustomed to find the indulgence of brutality , appraised at • pecuniary rate, instead of bein g punished in the person of the offender. To have stolen a pocket-handkerchief is, according to some of our administrators of justice, an offence more serious than to attempt to rob a woman of all that makes life dear. But the singularity in the case to which we would invite attention lay in the manner in which the attempt warn discovered and defeated. The girl had been I impertinently acooeted by the man on the platform I of the station. She repulsed him, and got into a I second-class carriage, next the engine, by herself, ' but the man followed, and the train started. The' proceedings had, however, been observed by the driver of the engine, and be, expecting what might happen, dared, at the risk of instant death, to clamber along the buffers of the engine, holding by the lamp irons of the carriage, till he could see into the carriage where the two were alone. He l saw tho girl weeping, the man kissing her. Scared • by the apparition, the man desisted, and the driver returned to his poet. A second and third time, however, he thought it right to see that no harm should happen to the defenceless girl, and he re peated his perilous transit. On the last occasion he was in time, but no more than in time, to save • her from the worst outrage. He did save her, and when the train stopped the man was given into custody—to pay ultimately 201. for his miscalcula tion of being unseen and alone with his victim. We observe that the magistrates greatly ap plauded the engine-driver's gallant conduct in risking his life for so good a deed. And we think the whole public will agree with them, even though it is true that it was not his own life only that he risked, but that of all the passengers in the' train of which ho was the conductor. But railway directors have known for many a year past that they peril men's liven and women's honour every hour during which they compel a journey to be per formed in carriages in which a passenger of either sex may be left alone with the greatest villain, and with no hope of human rescue. They know that thus murders have been done and rapes com mitted. They know, too, that even where violence has not been used by criminals, madmen have been allowed to terrify their fellow-passengers into almost insanity, and that designing and abandoned women have been enabled to blast the character of honourable men. Yet with all this happening under their control we see no means devised for preventing it. It would be wrong to say that they all agree that no means can be used to obviate such dangers in their carriages. Some of them have actually fitted up a glass case, within which, if a stunned and bleeding passenger, or a solitary woman in a ruffian's grip, will have the goodness to reach and break it, will be found a very ingenious mechanical arrangement for letting the guard know that something peculiar is occurring, and suggesting to his judgment the propriety of stopping the train. And only a few days ago we were informed of a meeting of railway directors to see another ingenious arrangement, consisting of a tube running from end to end of the train, in which a strong current of air is to be created by a steam blast, so as to suck along and ultimately eject in the guard's face a ball, which the pas senger in agony is to insert in the mouth of the tube in the carriage, taking care to select from the assortment of balls of different colours provided for the purpose one of which the tint is emblematic of the cue, whether it be murder, rape, robbery, or arson. We are told that this experiment was eminently successful, and that the directors, admiring it much, saw only one disadvantage in the scheme. Tbey thought that if a guard was informed by the expectoration of a specially coloured ball that some deed of violence was being perpetrated in the train, he might at tempt to move along the footboard to the aid of the sufferer ; and they remarked that the number of deaths from guards moving along the footboard is very considerable on the Continent. We are perfectly ready to agree with them in both their statements, but we cannot admit that such facto absolve them from their responsibility. It is their business to provide means by which the guards can safely psis from end to end of the train. Such means are notoriously in daily use in America, where the trains are all of one class, and in Swit zerland, where they comprise different clamea, as with us. When railway directors tell us that by bad systems lives are sacrificed, they tell us what is unfortunately a house hold truth. But when they wish us to infer that by no conceivable system lives can be made secure iirLad&,.• THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1866. while the proper service of the train is attended to, and proper superintendence exercised over those who are for the moment cut off from all the safe guards of civilized life, they say what is contra dicted by our reason and by our experience. It is daily becoming more clear that what is wanted is not mechanical devices for giving notice to stop the trains—a remedy at once precarious and perilous—but a system which shall give to evil doers the dread, to well-doers the comfort, of knowing that they may at any moment be brought under the eye of an officer. We want our rail ' ways to be like our streets, secure ; because, though there may be no policeman in sight, it is a hundred to one that there . is a policeman round the next corner, whose regular beat includes the spot on which we stand, and whose arrival may be at any moment. We repeat that such arrangements for the regular and safe passing of the guard through out the train, for his attendance whenever called for, and for his occasional appearance even when not expected, have been made and can be made, with no other difficulty than a moderate outlay in altering our carriages. And till they are made— as the public, which has created railways by the grant of exceptional privileges, is moat justly entitled to require—we must hold the directors of our lines morally responsible for every act of vio lenoe or horror perpetrated in the carriages over which they alone have control, in so far at leant as any such act might have been obviated or forbidden had the means been provided by which defence or succour might have reached the victim. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) alienated one who seems to have been among his oldest Meade, and was undoubtedly his benefactor. He has areleseeesded in dragging down load Brougham, nor has Lord Brougham's Persons/ eonemsemee been auffloient to save Mr. Edmunds. The latter has only made it clear both to the public and to his old friend that he is not a desirable confidant or guest. The final report of the two commimioners exhibits him in a not len unfavourable light• It is wonderful that with such a chief, who neglected his duties to a degree that is almost incredible, the Patept•offioe got on at all The Times loots to the ensuing session for a complete discussion of everything relating to patents, and then the present report with its recommendations will no doubt receive due attention. The Post thoroughly agrees with the commissional' that the Patent•ofce fees were not intended to be raised prima rily in the general interest of public revenue, but to carry out the patent organisation to its highest degree of effi ciency. The Post also, after noticing the looseness of admi nistration under Mr. Edmunds, endorses the other recom mendations of the commissioners, such as the appointment of an efficient chief officer, the enlargement of the library, and the placing of the library and museum under one roof. The Telegraph enlarges upon the expedient now officially recommended of a preliminary examination into the merits of inventors' claims, though it is puzzled by the expression that the chief clerk is to advise the law officer whether the invention is one " for which • patent ought to be granted." It it be his duty merely to inquire whether each new applicant is as he represents himself, "a true and first inventor," the task in the ma jority of oases would not be difficult ; but of course it is assumed that even then there would be some mode of appeal from his decisions. The Telegraph adds, that to have any referenoe to the law officers of the crown at all is an absurdity, simply kept up that those gentlemen may retain their fees. The present proposal is, not to impose upon them additional duties, but to constitute a new officer who shall be to these legal lions • kind of jackal, providing them with prey. We fall to recognise the equity of the arr►ngement. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittiap in Banoo.—(Bdoe; the Lord Chid Judi" wed Justion Biackbtuz, Mellor. and Lash.) WINSOH V. TEI QIIZEZ. The arguments in this etas took place today. It will be recollected that the convict Charlotte Whoa was tried and convicted of murder at the lad summer wises of the county of Devon, holden at Exeter. lost term • writ of error wee lodged against the conviction on the greeted that she had been already tried and the jury wrongly discharged from giving a verdict. Winsor with • young woman, were put epee their trial in Ma rch last, for the revolting murder of Harris's infant child at Torquay. The *lel commenced on Friday, the 17th of March, and was continued by adjournment till the Saturday, when the 'amnia/pup was concluded and the jury retired to con sider their verdict about 7 o'clock in the iv= About 12 o'clock they were called into and informed Mr. Baron Channell, who tried the case, that they bad not agreed to their verdict, and were not likely to do so • whereupon the learned baron mid that es that wee the la st day of the commission and the following day was Sunday he should discharge them, and they were ward ingly discharged. At the trial there was no statement of any illness or faintness among the jury, or any actual impossibility of their continuing their de liberations, and it did not now appear that there was. The jury were, however, discharged, and the prisoners were remanded into custody until the last summer assizes, when they were again arraigned, but before Mr. Justice Keating. The counsel for the prosecution called Harris as • witness, and on her statement of the manner in which the child was put to death Wilmot was convicted and left for execution. The learned counsel for the convict urged at the time of the second trial that it had been begun at the previous assizes, but that it had been unlawfully interrupted by the discharge of the jury, and had been unlawfully pull off or adjourned. The learned judge, however, overruled the objections and continued the trial, the verdict, and judgment, saying that the question must be raised by writ of error. And in deference to some doubt entertained the Attorney•Generel granted his fiat for • writ of error, and accordingly a writ of error bad been lodged in this court, in order that the objection might be argued. The record of the proceedings on both trials sets forth the particulars ea briefly narrated above. Error wee consequently argued, raising 24 different points for the consideration and decision of the court. 1. That she bad not been tried and convicted • to law. 2. That the jury on the first trial were without agreeing to • verdict, 3. That they wore discharged without the consent or motion of the convict or the prosecution. 4. That there was no Hiner on the part of any of the jury rendering it necessary to discharge them. 6. That . the jurors were not, or either of them, incapacitated from giving • verdict on the evidence. 6. That there was no sufficient cause shown why the learned judge took upon himself to discharge the jury. 7. That when he found the jury could not agree, the learned judge ought to have directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. 8. That the jury having been so discharged, Winger ought to have been discharged and not again put in peril of the same murder. 9 is a similar objection, and the remaining errors, though varied in form, are the earns in substance, except that the evidence of the approver was illegal. The court was densely crowded, mostly by barristers. The convict, who was present, was brought up in custody from Margate, where she has been confined since last term. Her general appearance had much improved since then. She was accommodated with • seat on the floor of the court near the witness box. and Mr. Hannan appeared for the crown ; Mr. Follcard and Mr. Coiling appeared for the convict. . . w ilZiolkard having read the record and referred to the errors assigned, said he proposed to deal first with the first ten errors, as they had reference to the discharge of the jury, and then taking the others in the order of postpone. ment of the trial, the convict having being in peril, &a. It was impossible to disguise the fact that this case bad summed a wide notoriety, and had been the subject of great discussion throughout the country ; but he was happy to say he had to plead before a tribunal that would discharge its duty without prejudice, and decide only upon the facts and the law that will be urged in this case. As to the un happy woman, though all the world frowned upon her, and his was the only voice that would be raised in dier behalf this side of the grave, however feeble his efforts might be, and however unpopular the cause, no earthly consideration would induce him to shrink from his duty. The question he bad to argue was one of vital importance, for it involved the question whether trial by jury was to continue to be the great safeguard of our liberties. The learned counsel was about to refer to the earliest information we have of trial by jury and true it down to the present time. but The Lord Chief Justice said that was unnecessary, and it would be much better for the learned counsel to come at once to the point of importance in the case. Mr. Folkard said he would do so. He said that in the Third Institute, pogo 110, it woo Lid down that on any person being indicted of treason, felony or larceny, and pleading not guilty, and the jury sworn they could not be discharged without agreeing to a verdict. He also quoted the First Institute, 227 B, second Hates, pleas of the Crown. 294 ; Hawkins, pleas of the Crown, 619 ; Blackstone, page 360 ; second Hales, page 313 ; Beeves' History, second vol. ; Viper's Abridgment Trial, X H e 21 vol., p. 337, and in the latter "sworn was meant to refer to the finishing of the evidence and the summing up of the learned judge. Mr. Justice Blackburn said it was more favourable to the prisoner. The prisoner was given in charge by the Clerk of Anise. It wee of no matter whether the judge had spoken or not. Mr. Folkard said in the case of the " King v. Legenhant, Ist Ventries. 97," it we. stated that if a jury did not agree they were to be carried in carte after the judge, so that they might give their verdict out of the county, which he (the learned counsel) contended showed that a jury could not be discharged in a criminal caw. The Lord Cgs( Justice said a time must come when the jury must be discharged if they do not agree to a verdict. What was to be done with them when the whole business of the circuit had been disposed of ? Mr. Folkard said certainly there must come a time when they must be discharged if they did not agree to a verdict, a but although that might be done it did not follow that prisoner could be tried again. Mr. Justice Blackburn said there was no case on record in this country where a jury had been carted, but there was one in Ireland, according to the " Year Book," and Lord Lyndhurst explained it by saying it was to be done in the hopes of the jury agreeing to a verdict at the last moment. There was no case where it had been actually done, so far as be knew. -- hii. folkaidsaid he was not aware of any cams on record, except the one in Ireland, which had occurred within modern times, relating to the discharge of a jnry. The Lord Chief Justice asked if there was any authority for a verdict being given beyond the confines of the county sad beyond the learned judge's jurisdiction. He knew of no such we. I. Justice Blackburn said, if be remembered aright, the jury were to be carried to the confines of the county, where the sheriff having no further power over them some horse play took place, and they were shot into a ditch. Mr. Folkard slid—No. It was that they might be taken into another county, where the verdict might be taken. The Lord Chief Justice said he could not reconcile it with principle that a verdict given out of the jurisdiction was • valid verdict. Mr. Folkard 'said that Haim said it was so. Mr. Justice Mellor said he quoted the doctrine from Hales. The Lord Chief Justice said a judge adjourning a cue and coming back into the court to take the verdict would be unintelligible. AU the writers quoted referred to the case in the " Year Book" as their authority. Oo looking into the case of the " King v. Legeobam.' in the first modern reports, where the cue VISA given in detail, the words quoted by the learned counsel had nothing whatever to do with the question of discharging the jury. Mr. Folkard was then about to refer to the power of the judge in fining a jury it they refused to give a verdict, &c., when The Lord Chief Justice said that was not the question. What they were called upon to decide was, whether a judge bad the power to dismiss a jury, and if so whether it was properly done in this case. if • judge were to take a jury round with him, then came another question, were they to be " kept without meat and drink r Mr. Folkard said be thought they must be fed. The Lord Chief Justice said there were authorities that they were not to fed, and that was • cogent reason for believing that it was idle talk about carrying them from county to county. Mr. Folkard then quoted Bacon's Abridgment, Chitty's Criminal Law, 6th Term Report., he. The Lord Chief Justice said that on looking at the en tries in the book of anise there was an entry of the verdict having been taken out where the trial took place, but in St. Clement's Church, which was not in the district, and the learned judge then said, " We should take the jury w ith us till they did agree, and so ought the justices of mein" There was • second entry, where eleven jurymen were one way and one the other. On being asked if he agreed with his brother juryman, he said he had not, and would sooner die in p rison than do so. Thereupon he was committed to prison, and the verdict of the 11 was taken. The verdict was set aside, and the prisoner was discharged. At the end it stated, " the justices of nine ought to have taken the jury round with them in • cart." It was an obetur dictum, sad from this loose dicta the proposition had found its way into the text books, and so had been handed down, but then was no decision on the point, which was contrary to the fundamental principle that the jurisdiction of the judge was limited to his commisaion. The court did not know under what commission these USW/ were held. The Court of Queen's Bench was ambulatory in those days. The learned judge be bad quoted, said " We should have taken the jury with us," which was very different from saying ' they should be taken from town to town. Hr. Felkarti rid it shisweltia7av;r7iict might be taken lbeyoad the jurisdiction. Mr. Juatioe Blackburn thought not. That question was not raised in this ore. No one had said that the judge ought to hare taken the jury with him. Mr. Folkard then quoted from 7th Howard's rata trow trials, p. 79. the cane of " Whitbread end Fenwiok" for el in 1669. The Lord Chief Justice—Them Gould be no doubt that THE BPELOH Of THE =MOH NAPOLEON. The moat important sentence in the Emperor's speech, the Times considers to be those which deal with the position of affairs in Mexico. The Emperor puts the beet side uppermost, and some of his remarks must not be too closely scanned, yet they are characterised by a spirit of genuine friendship for the American Union—a spirit which is shown as much by the reticence as by the words that are uttered. The solution of the difficulty must now oome from the United States. The offer to which the French government may be considered committed, is that the French troops shall be withdrawn upon an assurance being given that the American government will not impede the consolidation of the new empire, and this is a settlement compatible with the dignity of both nations. The people of Mexico are as much entitled to fix the form of government under which they will consent to live as the people of France and the United States, and the only way of asoertainieg their wishes is to let them determine their own wishes free from foreign influences. It is verybrobablel that upon the withdrawal of the French forces the Mexican empire would almost instep. taneously collapse, but the possibility of such a catastrophe °ugh** be an additional (inducement to the American government to accept the} suggestions of the French Em peror. 8, The Daily News has never felt more acutely the want of • glossary of the official language of imperialism as dis tinguished ;from lithe language of ordinary Frenchmen, than in perusing the ample and sonorous phrasee which fall once • year upon the ears of the French legislature. Wanting this, our simple duty and desire must be to put the best eonstruction we can upon the words of a sovereign who refers to us in such cordial terms. Emphatically counselling our susceptible friends beyond the Alps to respect their own independence sufficiently to 'Wein ' from stretching or compressing the sense of words which have no power to bind or to loose them, the Daily News advises the Americans to acoept also the Emperor's own a cco unt u o n f t th of e tha origin and approaching ter. Mexican expedition, without, so 'to 'peak, looking into the imperial mouth ; forgetting that the republic was asked to join him in destroying the Mahan republio—at • time when it was fighting for its own existence ; forgetting also • certain latter to Marshal Forey defining the remoter objeetalot the expedition ; the confidential interviews with an enterprising secessionist, and the repeated proposals to England for the recognition of the Ilsonthern confederacy. As to home affairs, thezEmperor will not hear of English institu tions being imported into France, which must devote itself chiefly to improving its material condition. It is by the "gradual amelioration of public manners," which a ll the world knows is a remarkable aspect of the second empire, that the only durable changes are effected, and in his peroration the Emperor points to • coming generation of well-educated, hardworking, moral, and pious French men, who will have learnt to be the firm supports of a society which guarantees their welfare and dignity. So much for the next generation born and bred under the empire. For the present the Emperor °occludes with the "Rankest" of all his declarations—in favour of the exist. own of a Supreme Being. The Post accounts for the comparati►e placidity with which the speech wan awaited, to the fact that people have come to believe in the sincerity of the Emperor's desire for peso., and to the knowledge of the French nation that hie policy is altogether amenable to the force of public opinion. As to the paragraphs about Mexico, some persons may be inclined to regard the hopes which the Emperor entertains of the likability of the new empire as rather sanguine, bat if he makes them a justification for withdrawing from further intervention in Mexico the French nation will have no reason to be dissatisfied. What ever comment' adversaries may be inclined to make on the failure of a portion of the foreign policy of the Emperor, his domestic policy has been unassailable. There are in France those who are opposed to the imperial rule, but even they cannot deny to it the merit of unexampled success. The Herald points to the paragraphs about Mexico as conclusively establishing its own repeated statement, that the Emperor has no intention of immediately withdrawing his troops, but that they are to stay in Mexico a considerable time, not retiring until the Emperor Maximilian has com pletely established his authority, and the United States have given satisfactory guarantees that they will not attack him. The Emperor of the French knows very well that all Mr. Seward'. protests an! remonstrance. were so much " bun combe." The enemies of the imperial system in France will be equally disappointed, adds the Herald, by the other portions of the @petrel. The ddrertiter thinks the imperial speech, taken as a whole, betrays a mind irritated with ithe present position of matters, and ill at ease with regard to the future. As neither the "edifice" nor his own heed has yet been 'crowned," we look on both incidents as equally impro- bable at any future time. With us the contents of a royal speech may be almost detailed beforehand, but no one, the Telegraph remarks, can tell what the Emperor Napoleon may say, and his speeches therefore have an interest not commanded by the utterances of Sovereigns more trammelled by tradition or prescription. The new speech is eminently pacific. Per sons who believed that the Mexican difficulty would lead to • war between France and America will Sad little con firmation of their hopes or fears, and as to the government of France itself, it is impossible to dispute the justice of the Emperor's boast with. regard to the practical benefits of imperialism. Looking at the results it has produced, he may not unnaturally boll that the system which has produced them cannot be ill-adapted to the wants and exigencies of the country. The Sear can hardly bring itself to believe that the Em peror Napoleon is really ss confident in the future of his Austrian protege across the Atlantic as his words and tone would represent. In vulgar parlance, the Emperor ap. pears determined to make the best of a bad business, and the world has good reason to applaud the determina tion. On the whole the Emperor's speech, however open here and there to criticism, is a gratifying manifestation it promises peace, and there is every reason to believe in the full sincerity of its promise. MB. =MINDS AND THI PATIN! 01101C1. The Times comments upon the curio= coincidence that Mr. Edmunds, who called down more indignation and wu the cause of a graver public scandal than anybody we can remember of late years, and who had been almost forgotten by the world, should appear again both in the law report and in a parliamentary paper, the final report of Marra. Greenwood and Hindi:numb. In the farmer case the action shows how completely Mr. Edmunds has ICS TOPICS. The Times begs leave to doubt whether parliareentsry reform can be brought out in "numbers," as announced by Mr. Bright. It is not an affair of slow earth-working at all. The reform bill will hare to embrace the whole of the reform intended, and must have its schedules as before. Being a matter of adjustment, equivalent, and compromise, it is a work which ought to be done at once and completely, without leaving an ugly sequel behind. Disfranchisement, of course, is not a very gracious proceeding, but it is neces sary to every notion of reform. The proposed employment of policeronstables as assistant officers in the administration of relief to the honed.= poor is fully approved of by the Times, which believes that the system will simply limit the relief to the destitute, the intervention of the police excluding only pickpockets and profligate ruffians. By the houselees poor, as properly defined, a policeman is looked upon se more of a friend than the relieving officer on the parochial staff. The police will simply distinguish between misfortune and crime; and the knowledge that they will do so will keep crime at a dia. Janos, and insure misfortune more considerate treatment than it now receives. The Daily News mentions a number of reasons why the appearance of the Fenian movement in Ulster, where the two chief sections of the population are living in a state of suppressed enmity, is fraught with more cause of alarm than its existence in much greater strength in the southern and western provinces of Ireland. The principal evil cornea from the antagonistic element of Orangeism, which is roused into action, and this double peril is unfortunately aggravated by the fact that in Ulster there is social and moral division from the kighest rank to the lowest. The government lacks in the northern counties the moral force which else where supports its action, and the passion of fanatic zeal is but an ill substitute. If, however, the fast is steadily kept in view by the government that it has double duty to perform, to suppress Fenianism and to prevent the Orange lodges from attempting to suppress is, there need be no alarm. The Herald makes sport of the painful experience through which the Edinburgh Review has to m►ke its way before it arrives at the conclusion to support the govern• moist In its Reform Bill. It also dwells upon the divisions in the radical camp and prophecies that if the conservative party be staunch and strenuous the government scheme will be Lord Russell's worst failure. The Daily News publishes a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Dean of Natal. His grace says that the dean cannot accept Dr. Colenso without identifying him self with the doctor's errors—a view which the Daily Nev-s does not remember to have been hitherto propounded for the guidance of priests in England. The Archbishop, con. tinning to abet the resistance of the clergy of Natal, fur ther says that after the decision of the Judicial Committee, the church in South Africa is competent to elect its own bishops, as the Scotch Episcopal church does, without reference to the authorities in England—a stronger position than the Bishop of Cape town has over advanced in the name of the local church, The publication of this letter is regarded by the Daily News se a very important event. It approaches nearer than anything we have hitherto seen to a declaration that the affairs of a church ought to be regulated by its own members—the " faithful men " of the Nineteenth Article— and not by a miscellaneous multitude of all opinions, and no opinions, to whom the political institutions of the country may have given power. It is not unlikely that the Coleus, controversy, which has been said to have begun in • dispute about eighty and odd pigeons, will come to turn upon this great ecclesiastical question. Ebc 12ourt. 0580R24.7. JAN. 22. Her Majesty, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, and Princess Hohenlobe and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, attended divine service at Osborne yesterday morning. The Bev. C. Protbero officiated. Princess Beatrice attended the service at Whippingbam Church. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, arrived at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, last evening, from Sandringham. The Duke of Hamilton, who has been on a visit to his mother at Baden-Baden, is expected to arrive in Paris to-morrow, where his grace purposes to stay some weeks. The duchess (nec Princess Marie) and Lady Mary Hamilton are expected to leave the duchess's chateau, Stephanie, for Paris about the second week in the ensuing month. Hie Excellency the Saxon Minister has returned bo town from Germany to resume his diplomatic duties. The Earl and Countess of Esaex have been enter taining a select party during the past week, at Camiobury Park, his lordship's seat near Watford. The marriage of Lady Victoria Campbell, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countese of Cawdor, with Lieut.- CoL Lembton is fixed to take plat* to-morrow. On the 18th instant their Royal Highnesses the Duo and Duchess d'Aumale arrived at Thomastown Castle, Cashel, on a visit to the Comte and Comtere de Jerre. In the course of the evening their royal highnesses assisted at two dramatic performances, attributed to the fertile pen of "Sir Charles Itockiogham." The plays were followed by a &roe, in which the royal visitors joined with no leas spirit than the leading members of the dramatic corps and of their families present on the occasion. On Friday their royal highnesses returned to Dublin, accompanied by their noble hosts, on a visit to the Chief Secretary and the Counter Waldegrave, at whose state ball they were pre. sent.—Cloninel Chronicle. Mr. F. Percy, a witness in the case of a Mormon marriage, which came before the Divorce Court on &tut , day, writes to a contemporary :—" What I did Ay was that 'I ones saw a man and his four wives living in one small room containing three or four beds, separated by curtains only.' I may add that this was a moat heart rending ease. Three of the women were sisters, sweetly pretty, accomplished English girls, whom I had known here. They were all married on the same day to their Mormon elder—elder in a double sense—end, what is la harmony with the discord, a butcher by trade. The heavy expression of gravity and care on the old first wife's face I shall never forget, and tears come to my eyes now as I remember the hopelessness of tone with which one of the young oaes said, in answer to a question of mine, Ah, we don't ring now.' In England they used to sing like a choir of angels." LATEST INTELLIGENCE (11ZOTIVEI TILZCIRLIIII.) FRANCE. REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE EMPIRE. PARIS, TUMIDLY. The usual official report on the state of the em pire, which has been communicated to the mem bers of the Corps Legislatif, alludes as follows to Italy :—" The execution of the September Con vention is running its regular course. The Pope displays & disposition to profit by the guarantees offered, ana the removal of the seat of government to Florence has been effected. Public opinion in Italy is favourable to the convention, and the sense of loyalty and honour of Italian statesmen is a pledge for its fulfilment. The French troops at Rome are gradually being withdrawn. We have offered the Pope our assistance to facilitate the recruitment and organisation of his military forces. As regards the Pontifical debt, we hope soon to arrive 4 an understanding with the Italian cabinet which the Holy See may accept without sacrificing its dignity." As regards the disagreements between Prince Couza and Turkey, the report states that France advises the Danubian Principalities to respect European treaties, which are based upon mutual rights, and are a guarantee of friendly relations between the different European powers. The report recalls the importance France attaches to maintaining the autonomy of the regency of Tunis. The French cabinet trusts that the consi derations stated in the despatches of last year will have been understood by the Bey and by Turkey, and that no attempt will be made to destroy the statu quo. On the subject of Mexico the report says : " The French government, on undertaking the expedition to Mexico, placed before it an aim to which it has rendered subordinate its conduct, and on which its decisions are still depending. We went to Mexico to obtain redress, not to proselytise for the cause of monarchy. Our soldiers are not in Mexico with the object of intervention. The imperial government has constantly repelled that doctrine as contrary to the fundamental principles of our rights. Mexico is at present ruled by a regular government. Anxious to fulfil the engage ments it has made in respect both to the persons and properties of foreigners, when the necessary arrangements are concluded with the Emperor Maximilian, we shall be so far from repudiating the results of our principles as regards interven tion that we shall, on the contrary, accept them as the guiding rule for all powers, and it will then be easy to foretell the time when we shall be able to effect the return of the expeditionary army." Documents relating to these affairs will shortly be laid before the Chamber. THE ITALIAN BUDGET. FLORENCE, JAN. 22. In to-day's Bitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Scialoja made his financial statement, which confirmed the condition of the public trea sury as stated by his predecessor, Signor Sella. After the payment of the half-yearly interest on the public debt on the Ist inst., the balance in the treasury was seventy millions. By means of the treasury bills in circulation the balance of the loan of 425 millions of lire and the proceeds of the sale of the state railway, the public expenses are pro vided for for the ensuing year, including the pay ment of the half-yearly interest on the public debt falling due on the Ist of January, 1867. The minister spoke against loans and other extraordi nary expedients, saying that the revenue and ex penditure must be balanced by taxes and reduc tions. The ordinary expenditure for 1866 was 928 million lire. M. Scialoja denied all rumours of an intended reduction of the interest on the public debt. The minister Sella had announced reduc tions to the amount of 30 millions, but Signor Scialoja said he would extend them to 65 millions, 30 millions of which would be effected in the war and navy departments. He announced the sup pression of the office of sub-prefects and other reforms. The deficit, amounting to 211 millions, will be covered partly by increasing the existing taxes and partly by creating new ones. He pro dposed a new classification of the direct taxes, and also that octrois should be applied to flour and He would also maintain the reforms relative to the registration stamp as proposed by Signor Sella. The deficit would thus be reduced to 80 mil lions. He limits the faculty of the com munes for imposing additional centimes on the tax on landed property, and proposes that they should have the faculty to increase some other taxes, amongst which are those on doors and windows. The minister also spoke of intended reforms in the system of public accounts, and ulti mately demanded that the chamber should prolong the provisional budget for two more months. DEATH OF A SON OF THE KING OF ITALY. .... GENOA, JAN. 22, Em, - nrc. Prince Otto, third son of the King of Italy, died here to-day. SPAIN. MADRID, Jos. 22. It is officially announced that the insurgents had no engagement with the Royal troops before en tering Portugal. It is asserted that the state of siege will be raised in Madrid to-morrow. The Times correspondent at Florence writing on the 18th says :—" There was a rumour here three or four weeks ago of the death of the Countess of kfillefiori, better known as 'La Rosins,' and I perceive that it has lately assumed form and substance in a paragraph which, first printed in • Paris paper, has bad a very extensive circula- tion in the European press. The statement is a mere canard. The countess is very well, has not been ill, and is much amused at the premature fate to which she has been doomed by some credulous journalists. With respect to the morganatic marriage that has been alluded to on the occasion of the lady's supposed death, it remains shrouded in mystery and a matter of complete uncertainty. I have been told, by persons who might be supposed well informed, and who at any rate imagine themselves so, the exact day of the month and year on which the marriage took place, while other equally good authorities deny that it has ever been celebrated. Diplomat X informs you that on the Ist of July, 1863, somebody wore a wedding favour ; and ex•htlinister Y hints something obscure about a chaplain and a special license. Perhaps the matter is not very im portant, and at any rate we may be content to wait until time shall reveal the truth." The Trieste journal relate an incident, not with out interest, which has just occurred in the neighbour. ing small Austrian port of NU :—Three Italian ships of war, two frigates and • corvette, had put in there from stress of weather, and advanced up to the line of batteries without any hindranoe ou the part of the Austrian autho rities ; the nest day the Italian admiral sent word that be was willing to salute the Austrian flag if the compliment would be returned. The eommander at Pols immediately sent • telegraphic despatch to Vienna and received a reply ordering him to answer the salute. Consequently the Italian ships on leaving for Ancona fired 21 guns, to which one of the forts replied shot for shot. A pleasure excur sion from Venice to Milan has also been organised for the last few days of the carnival, by permission of the Venn- Can authorities. lai prim po:d ner. The prisoner, mind, mid b.' Sir R. Carden prisoner placed fact that - situation pnniahed tato oonsideral wand for Wm. Jones, s msdiralsiiii — mi — id St. 1110 0111.-- Eicetail, was summoned before Kr. Alderman 1 -it by Wm. Fennieg, City pollowssweant, for asmat i the execution of his duty on the 12tb of Janverf Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield. , Sergeant honing said— On the 12th tewm•o, halt-pset 2 I saw a number of persons oollscOL," - the gate of St. Bartholomew's HospitsL SetrotS, complained to me of being snowballed by tio„..."" — , sad I saw • great number of studeets public outride with snowballs. I went to tbo ";• the gateway to endeavour to stop it v .O 7 did I appear than I was snowballed more 010_110 people. I wee struck over twenty times. The daftS,l , • out singly in front of the others, and threw 6 m do me, which struck me on the fain. I then ran WO closure after him, dhe ran awa I and he then had • a s nowball in his y. right '" -- 'll - called out, " Now to the rescue !" I was a o f y pelted with ssowballe from all directions. Aom",,i man came to my assistance, and he also wig loom ti prim Abel lobt 1 mei le pr thou ..at 'clod prisoner —"qui sent • the scandalous abuses which occurred at that SI.- b.ha li t° F j o a u ir h e a d a e i ri:l nh err e e d P li d ite" burn to Loe ssid dDe thai la K a pe comesitari :l l lll 61 :g um ave:nw o t aing . whilh h ; sidered. It had no bearing on this MK - "I g reatest posalb 'e a raies MI, [The IMO was proeseding whoa our mak Le, Ja mes Y a ^WI g reat Cro w d COURT OF COMMON PlZia ' 1 g ifitta wh ing erect Sittings at Nisi Plus in Middlesex.-(Bef e k • . eras thrown..nt Bylas and • Common Jury,) -'" I wan say b y FINCH V. Arms. th e gates a This was an action upon • bill of am" pal UMW drawn by the defendant. , lie k e nowballe, and Mr. GAMta appeared for the plaintiff and k 44 the tem u nder for the defendant. -. ' name, an d we The plaintiff was a miller, in business in ta, The defend and the defendant was a lodgioghonee•hespe r l e • or bat I am unee ger. The plaintiff's case was that th e t e,e,.., a great flambe Mr. Conway, the acceptor, called upon hiro, — "R o . o ., piing the re , discounted the bill for them. -"" ne of it, and war The ciliation in the case was whether NI" Mr. Aldan honour had been given to the defendant Il k `. feedlot, and 1 and his eon gave evidence that a proper se *, " The money sent by pat , while the evidence for the d o e,j! leaving the ea that no such document bad been receiv e d:7f her of hie 00E stated that the defendant wee simply surety f or 0 1 ; 11, " The jury found for the plaintiff. ---- A dissipate COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Mary Anniel Sittings in Banoo.-(Betere the Lord Chief Bur t li grave, 147 1 and Heroes Martin, Channel, and Pi gok entra n ce of St PLATT V. BIOME% i with as ulti This was an action for the infringement 01 joie , elation-house improvements in the machinery used in The coastal and other fibrous substance,. It was tried ieree evening he in the sittings after last term and resulted in a e l k the prisoner t the plaintiff, and during 'the meant teem ife. "mud war d. James, Q. 0., moved for a new trig. drunk. At al cou T r h t e wt r e i n Chiel ot unen ßar iMnal in y n o o f w e gi pi v n i i n o g n judgm in Z i in r.P t:ineted tad 4.4 case, but having looked at the models, d roer *'' the porter, " specification, they.thought the point as to e sovelbo shoot invention was by no means so clear as Win', ob to tel and would therefore great a ride foe a new kik ra, t Rule nisi. macheel the i EMERY o. JENITT. akin • revel, This was an action for • libel published in the gold eargom an evening newspaper. The plaintiff, Re 1,,.„ she was stool oomedien, complained of certain words in a vieheTe struck her • journal upon the deg representation of a dam Nei nearly knock, Watch Cry, from the pen of Mr. havers Sin" in time to we Lyceum Th eatre , . on the 6th of November i l k 71 aiming et h term wag, •*The part of Mr. Emery was Ail* Inspector by the prompter.' The defendants pi i• d i d id was found 1 and that the words were true in subemetee mill wife of an At the trial, which took place a few days ago he m she had bees quer Chamber before Mr. Baron Bramwell, th i v , house a few • verdict for the plaintiff-damages, five gehans. property bel Mr. J. J. Powell, Q. 0., now applied for a nth hi awed were I trial, on the ground of misdirection by the lintel • Mr. Vane and that the verdict was against the evidence. with her in 1 The court did not think there bed been any ..• lnspector and the damage. being under 201., refused to m Man who we. ere Mr. yang the fus e d. d. ch Rule arged wig deal with ti COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCI, a h ß i e lpriso imni (Fiefere the Judge Ordinary.) Mr. Vane IN THE GOODS el DAVID ALELANDIE Elm •` dealing with The deceased was a Sootchman, and oc the erg The prim his marriage he executed a settlement while b law of his country would have operated se i I mastery paper. Macy yew" afterwards he sac' 1 Emily Ei England, and acquired • domicile in this m an y , ' ' before Mr. . question therefore areal whether English law oket e d on Ann Hui prevail, and whether, therefore, the instrument lad e. bees revoked by the testator's marriage. Sir J. Wilde held, however, that wider the 3rd . . 7 *ton for Imi Lard Kinecadown's Aot the document mogul TIK tion of Woe his lordship added that if the change of &alai:lasted The Qoml place before the marriage, a question of nicety abb .. k t o , AD arisen. clip with ~ .i . wi th such f MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. caused her mother of (THIS DAY.) ~ 261 G, 1. prisoner tr --4. k , injured, as SFOOND COURT. e 1 Hrptuld, sto (Before Mr. Payne.) thigh. Tb A BOLD ROBBERY IN PICCADILLY. : wan for roe William Harvey, 18, baker, a rather in b ielligt i witting thl young man, was indicted for a very daring re had found ing and entering the shop of Joseph A saddle her out. box of cigars, value 21.105., his mope*. • , The prise The prisoner said, when milled upon by Mr. &debit t r iced the the Clerk of the Court, that he was not guilty. , The prisoner was in the hands of the judge, bleu • Mr. Bar fended by counseL . sentenced 1 Mr. Joseph Arbil maid that he lived at No.B, Ira' labour in ti Piccadilly, and kept a tobacconist'. shop. On the tee The prim about a quarter to 9 o'clock in the eyewink hew the mother prisoner break • pane of glees in his shop windowed she would elbow, put both hands inside the aperture he had lay hold of a box of cigars, end try to pall it ea: A CAD succeeded in moving the box, but did not get it thigh window. He ran out and seized hold of the prim Charles gave hint into custody. The box of ape 1 causing tl worth 21. 10e. • him down Frederick Poole, 300 A, amid the prisoner err eini 13enjami his custody by the prosecutor. He mid that hone morning I and had had nothing to eat all day, and he wee be owning do do it. - pavement Mr. Payne (to the prisoner)-Have you any Miami al ; coming do Prisoner-I have heretofore borne an excellent deem • The man I Constable-That is so, my lord. I have midges ', drunk and and up to the 30th December last he has borne semi two races character. He left a good . situation at Whingsge his head a brass-finisher, and the situation was kept opee fa kir 0 Halloo" yards tun v se e v ry erel hungry daya,:b an ut d he . whether t was on her some food was gives to n h a e him, ve n h r e r. w w l 7 oh as ta ed k ile 'en i to t• Re u thl ld p v . Ey polieeile ehd imc k' : was bleed the man i ko T ow he w p h rian to er- gO I . Wa x, L us o o, lord, tha my t le h r e d, oooji mil lot ea s . a for • better lad. e and he we The jury found the prisoner Guilty. 17nivenie Mr. Payne said that tome time ago the Rya head, but have been very severely punished for this Amu he and that . the first offence, and the sentence upoe bin waggle I:. imprisoned and kept to hard labour for nine mogn ?he prisoner, who seemed very much utonieg e: ne tem v:i . tan Coastal sentence, was then removed. .. the bed h - ' the dead Ty Mr. THE POLICE COURTS. 4 is (THIS DAY.) Co Mr asts —.... • the man MANSION HOUSE. have lost SINGULAR CHARGI or FELONY. have occi John Kendall, a respectable-looking man, El Yl . The pr age, who has been for 36 years in the swig oils and thou Hooper end &ellen, wise-merchants, of Coulee! but juste Cornhill, was brought before Sir R. Carden, 010 0 horse. stealing • pint and a half of sherry, the pail' The co his employers. P Mr. Ti resent. The ease was one of a rather peculiar Ma r!. character. It appeared that in coasequellos dean , . II Mere a missed from the cellars of the prosecutors k' I take one an coneid cem ersji e l r e e extent,ecnma concealed and Davis, r ot r r - to endeavour to detect the depredates. e 7 Elkn 6 o'clock yesterday morning the door of Ea l. young w was unlocked, and the prisoner was o ..,!! to work; stealthily, and he went up to two casks is wata. ', In the no were inserted, and drunk from both of then It Maria sonar then went to • third cask of sheen, ad a " the prim were the 1 o'clock place, w bott. full from had d f t ran goz i o t t , oon and in the t e as ppedb t o h t e t o lhe. lboa r t e to tisi...t. ll ~ room. ' dreadfully excited, and screamed lordly, 1 1 hour as claimed, • Oh, my God, however did I come to On' . abated was then was in a good p taken to the:iton police station, and tat that ion.and ° bit etteatice UM he ... They we account for doing such a thing. He was eare d they bee 61. 19s. were found upon him. 'daring 9i 6 The ro time wax Yr. Hooper one of the prosecutes , „..... Cordes, a rid that the prisoner had bees fore , 7, si Witne their service as housekeeper, and they placed T 2- '.,' a house, • confidence in him down to the period •""'and give oakum t The u edievervetory be e was iu made. wins e e eehadllar.notabtosiembol t i c , entire charge of the premises, and the keys , vi Witne were given to him to keep every night. H art' s an inolii charged from his situation, and having regard ',fl i p : a of their of his novice, and his previous respectability, I r.,.." 1 • the weir should consider this a sufficient punishment, m ' 14; Hie w the fi rm he should be perfectly satiated . c o l l o l I prisoner In answer to a question put by Bit R. . L. , e •'..) , Witte Hooper stated that latterly a good deal of willar b i. In the b missed from the cellar, and this led to the ea"' Willie concealed in the cellar. .; the prix The prisoner, who appeared to be in gristgrist lit. which o 's mind, said he h ad no answer to make to the chnle, .ee Re told Sir R. Carden said it was painful to see a 1 1 ; si r; Mary prisoner placed in such a degrading Pentirs• el • I the riot< fact that he would be severely punished by th e lea k i k . tip aDM situation and the loss of his character, he ,„„. 4 The p punished him much more severely, but taking e7 i . .they we tato consideration be should only order bin to" - . going to weedier fourteen days. 1 Master • a The GUILDHALL. a m • ; hearty.] =mar. STUDENTS attowasLuw t Duo Tug wo . Be sent a