The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-15 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the pad year the National lifeboat Institution, by its life boat and other means, contributed to the saving of 707 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The institution also ex pended £21,374 In the same period on its lifeboat establishments. In addition to granting £4,950 for rewards for saving life and exercising the lifeboats. The committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London and Country Bankers . and by the Secretary, Ittchard Lewis, Seq., at the In stitution, 14, Joixnetreet, Adelphi, London. JOHN BROGDEN. ORIGIN AL GOLD GRAIN MANUFACTORY, le, IiIIIMILTUAITMET. 00VINT4EULDEN. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS. . JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GL ARD CHAINS. JOHN BROOMS'S 0 OLD ALBERT CHAINS. JOHNEBOGDEII'SGOLDBROOCHCHAINS. MESSRS WATHERSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewellers, lime Ready for Inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Deafens, suitable for 1% ERRING PRESENTS and NEW-YRLIVS GIYI3. IL Pall-mall lad, S.W. TURTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. Clear, Thick and Invalid Turps Soups always rosdy at ST. JAMES'S-HALL. Regret-street, Plccadllly. W. DONALD, proprietor. LONDON must have s SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM tor Gentlemen. —Remember, we wait for you at "RVANS," after the Covent-garden Pantomime, yid the Theatres. Zhe OVPreoo* Ldvallemasate tateaded for Tbe laprees " London Imlay =, sue be at the Odin, Boavetterdrosi, by Two It ea ihe day of yoblbatioa. THIS IVINING, BROTHiIt SA filMasses. Bothern. Back -IVPII and Compton; Woes Nally Moore. Snowdon, ttc.— OEUS IN THE HAYMARKET. Mama Farrea dr D. fisher ; Minas Keeley. Howard & Wright.—MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. PRINCIBVS. THIS imam. gum LODGINGS.—After which IT. I$ lIRVILIS TOO LAM T 9 MiND. Mews Vining, G. MeleMe, T. Mead, D. Murray, D . Caihaem, F. Villiers..7. G. Shore, G. Mur eay, and R. CathnirS ; Misses L. Moore and K. Rodgers. - LYCKI7II. TRW Ermrsa, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. ➢lr. H. Wtddlcomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Medlin. Fechtm, Jordan. Wain, Emery, Widdioomb, litiparMS, Emu ; Memtamm Tema, Elurorthy, Linton, C. Lmlong. BIUTANTIIA. THIS Emma, OLD DADDY LONGLEGS AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS; OR, THE RACK FOR THE GOLDEN APPLILS.— IL and Ildme. Siert senbach.--Signoe Beranl-01raar.—Shower of Golden Raln.—And JEASIZ, THZ MORMON'S DAUOHTIR. HIGH WATIR AT LONDON-GRIGG& Tfla DAY Moraine, O. 157m.....Ait0rn000, lb. las. To.noiaom-• Month's, lb. *2m.-•-nitornoos. lb. ink LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 15. FROM the Board of Trade Returns for the eleven months from January to November, 1865, the in ference has been drawn, first, that our exports of goods to the United States hde of late been preci pitate and excessive; secondly, that they are not paid for ; and, thirdly (for what reason it is impossible to discover), that the credit thus given is afforded in the majority of cases to unsound firms, certain to fail on the first appearance of difficulty, with an estate of next to nothing in the pound. To state a doubt of any one of these assumptions is to expose yourself to a charge of making a " raving denirt." Still it may be permitted to look into the facts. The Board of Trade returns show that in the first ten months of the past year on: total exports to the United States were 14,844,7041.. against 15,403,017/. in 1864. Thus far there appears no cause for apprehension. The exact figures for November and December have yet to be published, but on a rough calculation it may be assumed that the shipments in those months somewhat exceeded five millions—five times as much as in 1864—leaving a total to be paid for of some twenty millions. The bile in crease in the closing period of the year is chiefly remarkable. It arises from exceptional causes, and, as often happen., the balance is redressed in an equally exceptional manner. The question whether the United States can afford to pay for an import of twenty milliors is easily disposed of. In the first place, the pro ducts of a nation so industrious and wealthy are far more than sufficient to meet this comparatively moderate demand. It is true that recent events have temporarily disturbed the normal pros perity of the country and disorganized commerce. In old times, before the war, the chief article we re ceived was cotton. Since 1860 this item hss been comparatively absent from our trade returns, as the first result of the Southern secession was of course the almost entire cessation of the cotton export. Some small quantities were brought by the blockade runners, but they bore no material proportion to the supplies upon which we formerly depended. The re-establishment of peace found the Southern States with a tolerably large amount of cotton on hand, which has since been eagerly bought up, chiefly on foreign account. Accord ing to a correspondent in the very paper that first tried to create alarm in the trade with America, it appears that in the South " vigorous efforts are " being made in many sections to re-establish " trade." " The steamship commerce between "New Orleans and Liverpool is already large, and "is constantly increasing. Eleven steamers, of " 2,000 tons burden each, are now engaged in it, " and they are loaded down with cotton on every " outward voyage. There are at least 35 vestals " loading with cotton at New Orleans and Mobile " for shipment abroad, and every bale at Charleston " has been taken up on foreign account, though "no vessels offer to carry it. The stock of cotton " now in hand at all the Southern porta is eati " mated at 300,000 bales." The writer quotes plain facts already well understood here. Not withstanding the destruction inseparable from the effects of the war, and the diminished growth of the staple, there was every reason to believe that a large supply of the raw material still remained available, the only difference of opinion being in the estimate of the precise amount. With that point, however, we have little to do. As regards ourselves one fact is certain, that our import. during the last year, and especially in December, have been on a scale of magnitude far beyond what is generally supposed. It is difficult to ascertain the precise value of the quantities re ceived in 1865, since it depends not only on the proportions of the various qualities, but also on the price actually current. The most ex perienced cotton brokers at Liverpool, however, set down the total at 13,000,000/. ; nor can this be considered an exaggerated estimate. In Decem ber alone the arrival took place of nearly 100,000 bales, worth about four millions sterling. The next most important article we receive from the United States is corn. Compared with last year there is a considerable deficiency, but the total value of the whole cannot fall far short of 200,0001. The receipt of specie has been upwards of 4,000,000/. in the eleven months ending in November, without counting the sums brought in Deoember. Again, there are several miscellaneous items, such eel tobacco, petroleum, turpentine, etc., which should 4 EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, THE also be brought into account. According to the above estimates it may be reasonably inferroxl that we are only creditors on the year for, at the most, two millions, which by no means expresses any inor dinate rush into speculative over-trading. The fact is evident that the revival of confidence, conse quent on the close of the war, the opening of the Southern ports, sni the small stocks of our goods 'in the United States, has on the one band caused a large export of our manufactured goods, and on the other, through the liberation of the cotton in the South, has increased our shipments of raw materials from thence. Hence, instead of having any cause of distrust, we should congratulate our selves upon possessing an exceptionally large trade on both aides of the Atlantic, equally profitable to the one country and the other. The alarmists, who affect to believe that the expansion of our American trade must lead to difficulty, forget that in the present altered state of affairs there is a corresponding change in the movement of capital between the two nations. At the outbreak of the war large sums were remitted, both from North and South, for secure investment in English securities. One capitalist alone is known to have bought a million of Con sols. There appears good reason to believe that now peace has been restored these sums are being withdrawn, and that the present depreciation in the funds is perhaps in some degree attributable to the consequent realisations. Americans are too shrewd not to see that in retranaferring their capi tal to their own country they may do it with ad-. vantage by sending goods certain to meet with ready sale. So far, therefore, from our exports being made on credit, they are, in fact, purchased with ready money, which has been left comparatively idle here during the last four years. Again, it should be remembered that for many years before the attempted secession, large amounts of British capital were being continuously invested in American railway and other securities. While the war lasted, of course this movement entirely ceased ; but on the re-establishment of peace it began again. In the summer of laat year one company alone raised between two and three millions from the British public to carry out a profitable extension. American government stocks have also been largely bought, the often-predicted financial collapse being apparently as far off as ever. If, therefore, our export trade had not increased in the ratio it has done, we might probably have seen a drain of gold to the United States—a contingency which thoughtful observers have by no means overlooked, little as it would have been expected by the general public. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DA Y. ) eta pow satisfy anyone in the matter of Werra. ♦ feeble policy assuredly would ileum no told °amides, and would maks army new ems. It is not spinet any Wan swore in particular that the strongest opposition will be keened which the government is likely to encounter. It is against reform of any kind or degree. Her Majesty drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, secoompanied by Princess Louise and Princees Beafrice. In she evening M. Van de Weyer and Count de lAnnoy had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal family. N. Van de Weyer, Count de Lannoy, Connt Cornet, and Count Ferdinand de Lannoy, returned to London this afternoon. JAN. 14. Her Majesty drove out yesterday afternoon with Princess I.ooille. Prhreese Leiningen, and Prinos and Princess Hermann of Hobralohe, visited her Majesty yesterday and stayed to luncheon. The Queen, Primes' Halms, Prinoess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, attended Divine service at Whippingham Church taday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent ware—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial dace, from the governors of New Zealand, South Australis, Tasmania, the North American Provinces, Psentuda, Ceylon, and Malta. Despatches were also sent to the governors of Canada and the Bahaism% THE PRINCE AND mere toss or WAisr.—Their Royal Highaesses the Prince and Prisms of Wales termi nated their visit to the Earl and Collates.' of Leicester at Holkham, Norfolk, on Saturday, returning with their elk* to Sandringham House, by the West Norfolk Junction Rail way, from the Burnham station. Although the weather has been extremely cold and inclement, the visit of the Prince and Princess to Holkham has doubtless been rendered very agreeable by the hospitable warmth of their reception. The West Norfolk Junction line, which has considerably facili tated the movements of the royal pair, is at present in a very incomplete state, and general traffic is not expected to ' be commenced on it until March, when it will be carried to I Welle-next-the-Sea, a point still nearer Holkham than Burnham. The stay of the Prince and Princess at San dringham is drawing to a close, and a visit which they bad propose . ' to make to Lord and Lady Walsioghein at Merton Hall, Norfolk, will not now be paid, the time which would otherwise have been devoted to it having been absorbed in the retirement imposed on the royal pair for a fortnight by the death of his Majesty the Slog of the Belgians. The marriage of Prince Christian and her Royal Memos the Primus Helena will, it is said, probably take place early in July. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will leave town to-day or to-morrow on a Vtit to General Hall for a few days. His Excellency the Minister for the Netherlands, since hie sari& in town from Holland, has been suffering from indisposition. The Itirrquis of Lora will leave Argyll Lodge, Campden-bill, on the 17th last., on a tour in Amerlo‘ The Earl and Countess of Stradbroke have arrived in town from limb= Hall, Suffolk, for a few days. The Earl and Countess of Cawdor will arrive :R town in a few days from their mat, Steekpole Court, Pem brokeshire. Lord and Lady Chelmsford have strived at their residence in Eaton•square from visiting Sir Jobn and Lady Neold at Grittleton, near Cbippenham, Wilts. Lady Mary Craven will leave Queen's-gate terms to-day to joist the company assembled at Coome Abbey, Coventry. Lord and Lady Proby have arrived at their resi dence in Eaton•phce, from Elton Hall, Onndls. The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood has quite recovered from his late accident Sn the hunting field, and purposes re turning to Loudon by the 17th instant, in order to meet his colleague in their cabinet deliberations. The Solicitor-General and Lady Collier received at dinner oo Saturday evening, at their residence in Eaton place, the American Minister and Mn. Adams, the Lord Chancellor and Le iy Creamer:l, Le ly Henrietta Allen and Miss Allen, Lady Tierney, Sir David Dundee, Mr. West, Mr. and Mn. Weldon, Mr. Hayward, &c. Her ladyship has loaned cards for theatrical parties to-morrow and on Thursday next, at her new residence in Eaton-place. _ . CABINET Conicett..—On Saturday summonses were issued for a cabinet council tomorrow, at 2 o'clock, at the Earl Russell's official residence in Downing-street. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMEET.—ME. Gladstone, as leader of the House of Commons, has issued his circular to the members who sit on the ministerial side of the house : —" Carlton-house-terram, Jan. 11, 1866.-84,-1 take the liberty of informing you that the Ist of February has been fixed for the meeting of parliament. On that day the House of Commons will proceed to the choice of a Speaker, and the address in answer to the speech from the throne will be moved on the 6th. I hope it may be consistent with your convenience to attend on those days.-1 have the honor • to be, your obedient 'errant. Esq." "W. E. GLADSTONE. THE Rue:KAN EMBASSY. Hie Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow on Satur day, being the New Year's.day according to the Greek calendar, gave a most splendid entertaioment at Chesbam house. His Royal Highneas the Doke of Cambridge arrived at 8 o'clock, immediately after which dinner was announced. In addition to his royal highness, the Aus tria(' Ambassador, the Prussian Ambassador, and the Countess Berastorff and the Countess Theresa Bei nstorff, the French Ambassador, the Spanish Miodster and the Mar chionessH do Mo li ne, the anoverian Chargé d'Affaires and Baroness de Biome, the Prince and Princess Dimitri Solti koff, the Marchioness of Ely and Lady Mation Loftus, Lord Augustus Lofton, Sir Roderick Murchison, Count Andrew Bernstorff, Colonel Clifton, the Equerry•in-Waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of Cart e, Prince Congas.. koff, Prince Ouroussoff, M. Sabouroff, and Baron Freed.. ricks; members of the Embaasy,were present. The band of the Coldstream Guards, under the direction of Mr. A. F. Godfrey, performed a varied selection of music doting dinner. In the °senior Baroness Brunnow received • numerous and brilliant company, includ , ng the whole of the corps diplomatique. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Hon. Henry Edwards has been appointed an AttacU at the Foreign office. Mr. Randal Callender, her Majesty's Consul at the E..rdanelles, bu been appointed Consul at Manilla ; the consulship at the Dardanelles will not be filled op. The Queen has appointed Mr. Henry Ernest Bolwer to be Receiver-General for the Island of Trinidad. Mr. Cridland, Acting Consul at Mohile, has been appointed Consul to that port. Mr. William Downes Griffith, of the Chancery Bar, has been appointed Attorney-General at the Cape, in the room of Mr. Porter, who Las resigned, after many years' servios. Mr. Farquhar, Second Secretary of Legation at Athens, has been appointed Second Secretary of Letitia) at Pekin. INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION.— We understand that it la inisnded to hold in London, towards the end of May in the present year, an Interna tional Horticultural Exhibition and Botanical Congress, and that an executive committee has for some time past been engaged in making the necessary arrangements. The show is to be under the patronage of her Majesty the Queen and the Prince of Wales, and already the list of supporters is sufficiently extensive to give promise of success. The means by which the scheme is to be carried out consists of voluntary subscriptions carrying certain privileges, but although a good share of support has been promised, the committee will need a considerable addition to the present subscription list to enable the scheme to be carried out in a manner worthy the position of England among the nations of Europe. representatives of which will be invited to take part in the prootiediega, in the same manner es at the exhibition held from time to time on the Guthman; and which have suggested the present movement. Her Majesty's government have given permission for the exhibition to take place on the site of the Exhibition of 1862, when a space of three sera; will be covered in and laid oat as en ornamental garden for the purpose ; sad uriatienteolo have been made with the Royal Horticultural "Society securing free scone to their garden to the visitors to the show. The prize list extends to about 2,5001. for plants, flowers, fruits, &c., and thelSociety of Arts add 50& for certain spe cified implements. We are informed that the Congrees will be presided over by M. de Caudate, a botanist of world wide reputation, who is expected to deliver as inaugural address. Similar meetings are promised for 1867 in Paris, and for 1868 in FM. Petersburg. Those which immediately suggested the London meetioz were held at Beads in 1864, and at Amsterdam in 1866. GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY. —Mr. R. Young, M.P., bas o ff ered himself ma a candidate fors seat at the board of this company. Mr. H. Love, chairman from 1857 to 1862, who recently announced hie intestine to retire from the board, has also expressed his readiness to env* again if re-elected. THE LATE SNOWSTORM AND THE LONDON STRUTS. In London a fall of snow inflicts upon us, remarks the Times, the combined miseries of every form of disagreeable weather, aggravated by the wilful indolence and stupidity of those who might mitigate it. Like the old Britons between the barbarians and the sea, we were last week pushed from the pavement to the streets and from the streets to the pavement, and found no rest, nor locomo tion, nor comfort anywhere. It is idle to say that these evils might not have been avoided. Such weather as that which prevailed last weak throws thousands of people out of work who would bo but too thankful fora job in the streets. If the casual poor are •to do task work, why should they not on such an occasion be employed to clear the roads The problem is of the simplest nature, and needs but the most ordinary energy for its solution. The duty, not merely of clearing the streets, but of cleansing the footways, has been imposed upon the vestries by express enactment, and they are further authorised to appoint crossing sweepers and to pay them. It is the vestries who are responsible; if they cannot discharge even the duties of a crossing sweeper it is time they were abolished. In theory of law the householders on each side of the street are, the Post observes, supposed to clear the snow from the pavement in front of their doors and windows, and the scavenger is supposed to cart away the accumulations of mud and other matter which form on the carriage way ; but this pleasant fiction is contradicted by the logic of facts, and one is reminded of the rale by the breach of it. As for the se :verger he takes special care on these occasions never to do his duty to the public at all. There ought to be an adequate law, which, by a sufficiently persuasive system of penalties, would induce him to do his duty. There is no place, the Post adds, into which the snow can be cleared from the foot pavement, except the carriage-way ; aid therefore the cleaner the pavement was swept the deeper would be the accumulations in the road. This coneideration appears to furnish the only plaunble excuse to the inhabitants for not clearing their own frontage. The removal of the snow from the roofs, another source of danger to the passengers, is a question of police, who ought to see that it is done with peeper precautions ; sad who ought also to prevent the snowball nuisance. Clauses providing for these things will, it is to be hoped, not be forgotten in the next measure before parliament on the management and police of the streets. COLONIAL AFFAIRS. The Times BON in the measures of the government of Victoria violations of law and right so gross and palpable that it is impossible to affect to misunderstand them. There is generally much to be said on both sides of • quarrel, bat the present age seems to go all one way. We need not trouble ourselves about the merits of these met sum. Let public opinion in Victoria settle that as it would settle it in England. Where one Chamber repre sents !rumbas, and another property, nothing I. more likely I than that they should come into collision. The remedy for that is a reform of the constitution, and, on • case being made out, parliament would, we doubt not, be ready h apply it. Meanwhile the conduct of Sir Charles Darling supplies as gross a case of public delinquency as has for many years come under observation. Before the termination of the New Zealand war, it is, is the opinion of the Times, desirable that the lessons of our experience in these islands should be thoroughly impressed upon the public. That the imperial army was fully able to bring the war to a suoixedul ter mination was shown by the intelligence just re ceive ; but this weir prevented by the impediments of authority, and the colonists could net finish It in theirown way. Nfeeling of self-reliance ha. since been intro duced, and has been attended with marked success. If the savages gave any further trouble they would be shortly and sharply dealt with. The troops and volunteers could give a very good account of them when allowed to fight 111 they pleased. The Maories, who are a mere handful of savages, have now been disabused of the idea that New Zeeland is theirs, and, though they cannot reverse a na tural law, there is not the slightest reason why they should not peaceably fulfil whatever destiny may be in store for them. 78 TOPICS. The Post ogre's with its contemporaries that the p,rtion of Mr. Nebo ly'e munificent gift already expended has bees laid out with judgment and discretion, and sympathies. with the complaint of the trustee. of being assessed on their property for the tonal taxes, including poor rates eud income tax. The /h. - raid puts entire credence in the reports in one or two of the American papers of the dangers of a negro insurrection, from which the Southern States have just escaped, and enlarges upon the affrays reported at WV mington and one or two other districts. Its inference in that the Degrees are discontented, and that the North has greater difficulty in dealing with them than the South had under slavery. Not all the cant of black philanthropy can prove the ability of white men and black men to live and consort together on equal terms. Out of his own sphere, and beyond the ranks of his coloured brethren no one cares for the negro, who thus lies beyond the pile of white social civilisation, a poor discontented creature, Lying by brute force to accomplish a moral impossibility. The document, purporting to be a proclamation of General Prim, leaves us in doubt, the Telcyraph observes, as to whether the proposed revolution is to be political or dynastic. In either event, whether it is a war upon the crown, or merely a play for the premiership, it is not easy for Englishmen to sympathise heartily with the insurgent awe. The Tekyrapit ridicules the committee of the Stock Exchange for discovering at the eleventh hour that the "house " in (lapel-court has been made a rendezvous for gamblers. If the rules, it says, now to be enforced against bubble speculations bad been promulgated only a yen ago, what a world of mischief might have been prevented ! In that period, hundreds and thousands of persons of limited income have been ruined by practices which were at least within the cognisance of the Stook Exchange, and which that body has not, until within the last few days, won fit to denounce. Parting the new rules for regulating trasiroctions in the shares companies savour too much of the policy of abutting the stable door after the steed has been stolen ; for the edict published on Saturday has not, and cannot have, a retro spective operation. Yet it is satisfactory to lama that • check is at length to be put upon malpractice; which have beggared many a decent household ia the United Kingdom. Our milk and meat supplies having hitherto been insufficient for our needs, the Daily News thinks that suggestions tending to meet the want ace worth consideration at this time, and particularly mentions • project of importing preserved cow's milk from countries where kin, of our own familiar sort abound. It has been proved possible to preserve all the essential parts of milk by evaporating the water, and bottling the white powder which remains. The essential part. of gallons of milk are this stored away in a single bottle ; and the aliment has been found, when watered into milk'again, sweet and as nutrition—as good in every way--at the end of • year or more, and after having sailed round the world, ea when taken from the cow. LORD ROMILLY.—There has been some cavil, though slight, at the elevation of the Master of the Rolls to the peerage. What if the elevation had been not so much bemuse Sir John Romifly was Master of the Rolls, as becauseethe Master of the Rolls was Sir John Romilly The man who upon full knowledge was particularly recom mended by Mr. John Stuart Mill as a most'fit repreeenta tire for Westminster, and who was looked to by as exten sive body of the heeds and graduates of the Load= University as their repel:mutative, had the fra nc hi se been onferred upon them, is not likely to be, in impartial judgment, an inferior peer. Nog is the leading promoter of the Encumbered Estates Act, that act of which Sir Robert Peel emphatically said, it was so good a mama that he really wondered how it could have passed ; a me which alone, from its beneficent effects, would have earned a peerage for its foster father; likely, in impartial judgment, to be an inferior member of the House of Lads. A lawyer who decides more on legislative principle than legal precedent is likely to have his judgment reversed ocesedonally by judges of the latter sort. If Lord Romilly be snob a lawyer, so much the better foe him and for the public good. It is of such lawyers that, so far as the law providee them, the true statesmen come.— Examiner. Iftraopoursit Fans HoerrrAL, DEVONSHIRS. SQRAIII, Crrr.—The earmate number of paint. relieved during the week wading Jan. 13 was—Medical. 658;aargica/, 448: total. 1.106 ; of which 470 were new MSS. CRYSTAL PALAcz. HALF-A-CROWN DAY. 13.truanar, Jaw. M.—Admission, on payment, 485 ; ditto, by mason tickets, 1.113; total, 1,678. MB. CARDS/ILL AND THZ JAMAICA DISPATCHES. The Times, in an article on the postponement of the publication of important official despatches until they can be laid seriatim before parliament, says that although the general rule may be justified by good reasons, there ire certain canes of exception, end that the case of Jamaica is emphatically one of those exceptions. The extracts from the despatch of Mr. Cardwell to Governor Eyre which have been pub lished ought not to be treated as if they adequately repro seated the tease of the whole despatch. But once pub limbed they moot escape criticism, and if that ' criticism should be founded on false impression capable of being removed by a perusal of the full text, why should the fall text be withheld? juice.. 11 , re that of Jamaica, It is our honour and credit that are really at stake, and we have a right to know, with the least possible delay, what has been done and written by those who, repres3ntiog the Queen, represent also the nation. This claim was recognised by Earl Russell during the American war. It would be manifestly im proper, except in some instances, to publish a despatch, so that it would first reach its destination in its published form, but short of this unreserved publicity is a duty which the government owes equally to the people and to them. selves. There are occasions when discretion is the better part of valour, and this is onset them. Mr. Cardwell must now have received by the Tasmania the same news which reached Liverpool on Wednesday evening by the Hayti. There is, therefore, no longer any impediment of etiquette to the immediate publication of his own despatch in extent°, and he could not more effectually strengthen his own position than by taking the public thus far into his confidence. The Star draws attention to Governor Eyre's statement in the Jamaica Assembly that he had been confidentially informed that her Majesty's government was willing to abolish in effect the representative system and the old constitution of Jamaica. Some three weeks after making V.is announcement be finds himself superseded, and his r conduct the subject of fan inquiry. Surely some strange blundering must have been going on in the Colonial•offiee• Each new scrap of intelligence only deepens our confusion. Until the fall publication of Mr. Cardwell's recent de 'patches, the whole question must remain in perplexing and painful mystery. RITUALISM. The Daily News intimates that the Bishop of London is likely to introduoe a bill to remove all doubt u to the meaning of the rubrics, end make the duty of the clergy clipr and unmistakeable. It notices the innovations which havetbeeu introduced, but admits the difficulty of dealing with the question. It does not undertake to denounce or stigmatise the clergy who introduce those innovations, but it fixes attention on the power which indivi duals to whom no authority has been given possess, to effect by means of these innovations the most revolutionary changes in an institution which is the creature of the law. It is easy, it says, to see how a clergyman, by acting on the assumption that what is not prohibited is permitted, may overlay the service contemplatel by the Reformers with rites which completely change its character. What neither convocation, nor parliament, nor both to gether are reedy to do, is done most effectually by a single priest. Is order to meet the state of things thus created, the writer sake—Will you provide two, or perhaps three, kinds of religion—high ehureh, low church, and broad church—in the same pariah! Or, maintaining the parochial system, will you leave these who dislike the type of worship at the perish church to satisfy themselves elsewhere, with the Roman catholic. or the dissenters' There is only one other alternative. It is to set over against the new liberty claimed by the clergy, a concession of liberty to the laity who mut be free to establish congregations in which the services of the church may be =ducted in a form of which they an avail themselves. THE REPOILII QUESTION. The Port thick. that the conservative party w since the 'tension of the Pselites in a better condition, or in a more hopeful frame of mind than it now is. Dis cipline and unity reader the numerical disparity of the forces comparatively unimportant. Mr. Gladstone's primary difficulty appeals to be that he cannot come before the House standing on his 011Moondience, but has to relieve himself of the suspicion of having been acted upon by the wire-pulling of Mr. Bright. If the measure submitted admit, of each • construction as was put upon it at the late meeting of the so-called National Reform Leanne, that it was merely a means to the end those gentlemen were seeking to compass. nothing can be done. Bat there is no design to defeat the bill—simply an intention to examine and debate it in its details. The Telegraph quotes Mr. Lowe's arguments against rr form at considerable length for the purpose of showing their fallacy. If that hon. member soda majority of the Home of Commons refuse to establish harmony between an ad manias people and a stationary Legislature, they will gain but a abort and uneasy respite. In bringing forward a syllabus reform bill the government may fall. " The battle is lost," said Demi:at Marengo, " but then is time enough to win another." Let the government appeal from the Home of Commons to the people of England, and the answer will be the same as South Lancashire retuned when appealed to from the ingratitude of Oxford Halm. aity. The Star desires earnestly to impress upon the WWI. merit that nothing short of a really liberal and sincere policy + t 44 JANUARY 15, 1866. gilt Court. —o. OSBORNF, JA.v. 111. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (ammis's :sums SPAIN. PARIS, JAN. lb.. The Moniteue of this morning in its bulletin says :—"No further doubt& are entertained in Madrid that General Prim will be compelled either to surrender, or to enter Portugal within the next three days." SYRIA. PARIS. JAN. 15. Joseph Karam having failed in his attempt at revolt in the Lebanon has withdrawn into a con vent. His followers have solicited their pardon from Daond Peas. OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. QUEIII4I3TOWN, Jix. 14. The Royal Mail steamship Java arrived here at 1.30 p.m. to-day. She embarked the mails, pas sengers, and latest telegrams, and proceeded for New York at 5.15 p.m. All well. She was detained awaiting the mails. THE JESUITS. The Jesuits have published at Rome the sta tistics of the members of their onmpany. From them it appears that in the Comarca alone there are 475 Jonas, of whom 385 reside in Rome, and the remainder in the Col leges of Velistri, Frosinone, and Viterbo. There 173 Jesuits superintending the Roman College; 15 are engaged in directing the journal Civata Cattolita, 18 in the German College, 11 in the College del Nails, 13 in the South Ame rican College, 54 live in the House of Profession, 79 are assigned to the noviciate, and 28 remain in the House of Refuge. At the end of 1864 there were 7,728 members of the &waist order in the catholic world, being 129 more than in 1863. The order le divided into 21 provinces, of which four belong to France, five to Germany, Belgium, and Holland, two to Spain, five to Italy, one to Mexico, and the other four are distributed in England, Ireland, and the United States. In 1864 there were 1,532 Jesuits employed in foreign mimic's, being an increase of 242 over the year 1863. The European missions amounted to %; the Asiatic, to 296 ; the African, to 213 ; the North American, to 276 ; the South American, to 199 ; the Oceanian, to 55; and 15 were on passage. Tweaty.five years ago, namely in 1841, there were but 3,563 Jesuits, an that mince that period the number has been more than doubled. THE GALE. PETERHEAD, N. 8., JAN. 13. I have the pleasure (says William Boyd, Esq.) of reporting another snooteedul service of the "Dundee People's Journal," No. 1, lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Insti tution this morning. About a quarter past 7 o'clock, during the prevalence of a southerly pie, the schooner Black Agnes, of Shields, went ashore on the rocks near the mouth of the south harbour. Mr. Lspinotiere, the officcr in command of the coastguard, was speedily on the spot with his crew, and made several attempts to establish communication with the vessel by means of the rocket apparatus, but these failed from the force of the wind and the position in which the vessel was lying. The lifeboat was thereupon launched and proceeded to the vessel. On reach. lug the mouth of the harbour the wind was found increasing in violence, and the sea had boon to make a clean breach over the vemeL The coxswain had a line made fast to the South Pier head, with which he veered the boat alongside the wreck, and thus took the crew, oonsisting of three parsons, off in safety, and landed then in the harbour. The boat behaved admirably, and during the whole of the service she was exposed to very heavy sees, which well tried her capabilities and qualities. The eosstguard ultimately effected a commnsication with the vessel, notwithstanding her awkward position, by means of the mortar apparatus, but the crew preferred coming on shore in the lifeboat. No such weather has been experienced in the month and south-west of England, considering the damage it ham dose, and the extent of country that has been ravaged, since the year 1824. The telegraph wires have not experienced snob damage for 14 years. The snow, by moms means or other, stuck round the wires, until it became as thick as a man's arm. In the neighbourhood of Warminster, in Wilt shire, the wind and snow storm hot week did great damage. A large number of trees were blown down, among them was a very ancient yew tree in the churchyard. Several farmers lost a number of sheep in the snow. Railway communication between London and the Went of England has been much impeded by the pre- sent boisterous weather. The railways ere laid under water at several places. ARRIVAL OP TROOPS PROM NEW ZEALAND.—The hired sailing transport ship John Tempe/ley, Captain R. Little, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon, from Auckland, New Zealand, Oot. 26, nth the bead guar tars of the 65th regiment and some invalids on board from various regiments in the colony. She rounded Cape Horn November 18, and crowed the Equator, December 14. The troops consist of Colonel Wyatt (commanding), Major WGregor, Captains Blewitt and Warren, Lieutenants Peunefither, Chevalier, Toulmin, Ensigns Acbeeon and Box, Quartermaster Purcell, Assistant-Surgeon Neill, and about 150 non-commissioned offioers, rank and file, 65th regiment ; Lieutenant Warbur ton, Royal Engineers, sad Deputy Assistaut-Commieeary- General Clerk. There were also the following pas sengers :—Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Pardoe, Mss. Bennett, Mte Purcell and family, Mrs. Acheson and family, Mrs. Clerk and family. The invalids r-e about 15, and there are a large number of women and children belonging to the 65th Regiment on board. The troops will land at 9 a.m. on Monday, if the weather permits, and will be quartered in the Raglan Barracks, Devonport.—Reuter's Express. A LEERED ROBBERY OF £B7B FROM • POST- Roma& —On Thursday no little excitement wee mined by the rapid spread of • rumour that the post runner be tween Tarland and Aboyne, in Aberdeenshire, had been set upon in the morning by several ruffians and robbed of the mailbag containing 9C3/. All kinds of stories as to the robbery were current in the early portion of the day. The postman was said to have sustained severe injuries, to have been stabbed in the helmet with a knife, and to be almost uneble to give any account of the circumstances beyond the mere fact of the theft. On inquiry, however, them accounts of the affair proved to be baselese, though the less of the money was ascertained beyond a doubt. Tarland is about seven miles from Aboyne, the road being of the most lonesome sad dreary character. The poet-runner, James M'Connach, leaves the former place every week-day morning at six o'clock, to catch the Mit train from Aboyne for Aberdeen. It appears that he loft on Thursday morning as anal, the mail-bag than intrusted to his care containing, brides the ordinary correspondence and newsmen, a packet of bank-notes to the amount of 8781. The packet, it is said, was addressed to one of the banks in Aberdeen ; and, as rumour has it, this method of transmitting such valuable parcels is of not un frequent occurrence in this and other similar country districte. Nothing bas transpired to show that the pint runner or any unofficial person knew of the preemies of the bank-notes in the nail-bag ; but it appears that, instead of getting safely to Aboyse with his charge, M'Connach returned to reeler:id post.office about 7 o'clock, and told the post-manse there (Mr. James Grant) that the bag bad been forcibly taken from him when he was a mile distant from the village. His story is said to have been that a strange man, of whom he gave but • very imperfect description, attacked him at the place mentioned ; that he was thr own dowel, the mail-beg forced out of has possession , and out open with • knife, and that the robber, after looking over its contents, had thrown it down on the road and run off. The beg, on being examined at Tarland, was found to want the packet containing the note.. M'Coonacb is in custody ; but it is stated that be had discharged the duties of post-rummer for the last 30 years, sad has always been considered a strictly honest and trustworthy person. It was announced on Friday that the district constable, named Milne, was taken into custody, but no trace of the notes bad been obtained.—Dundee Advertiser. RLDIRIIMIAN FLT.—A shoemaker named Henry Lilley, living in Jubbergate, York. some time since matched himself for 50/. with David Brown, horse dealer, to walk the distance from Yak to London sod beck (396 miles) in 12 consecutive days. This match commenced on the Tad. aster road on the Ist inst., and terminated in favour of Lilley on the evening of Thursday last. The number of miles walked inch day was as follows :—First day, 42 ; mooed and third, 38 each ; fourth and fifth, 36 melt sixth 34, seventh 30. eighth and Meth 34 ends ; tenth 30, and eleventh 26. The total number of miles walked was thus 378, or 20 miles less thus the distant)e stipulated, but as Lilley had daily, in accordance with a certain condition of the match, over-walked the above distances by at least a mile and a half, the hacker of time ordered the stakes to be headed over to Lilley, and the task to awns, it being his easivietioe that, whilst everything had been y meow plished thus far, Lilley could have performed his 12th day's teak with ease. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings at Nisi Prise et Chdldhell.—(Before the Lord `hid Justice sad • Special Jury.) HILL Ot The wu the Walk sad tit.iiii . day of the hazing g thi remarhah3e aua. . ... we Lordship, in summing up, said he cougrat u l e t e d the jury upon the f act that this, protracted case had at a reached its last stage, and one could not help regrettilgmt the time of twelve men of 'minus in the City of Lsed en should have been °stupid with such a cue which nu. doubtedly was far better adapted to the atmosphere of th e Divorce Court than the Court of Queen's Bench sitting a t Guildhall, in the City of Loudon ; but at the same time the ease being here it was impassible not to cement with what had been said by the learned counsel on both aides as to h e importanos to the parties concerned. It was impossible t o exaggerate that impatience. To the plaintiff it afforded the last and onl opportunity of el his character of the dark sta in which rest ed upon i egise t, sei of restoring him, morally, socially, and professionally, t o that position which he had so unhappily last. To the de. feudist the ease wee also of vast importance, because h was to his cost, and the expense of his professional repair, Moe. Besides the plaintiff, there were others who, though no t vir tu e t o this action, were, neverthelese, deeply sad vitally interested in the result of their conduct, and their characters were involved in the verdict which the jory would pronounce, for in woks to eitablish his own ease, the plaintiff charged them tone of them his wife) with as foul a conspiracy and with treachery as black and bass as evw formed the subject of • judicial investigation. lie ens sure he need not press on them the sacred and solemn duty they had to discharge, sad to ash them to give the ease (as he knew they would do) their very best and careful attention, a n d consider it in all its beatings cia/mly, dispusionately, and anxionaly,with • view to do justice between the parties who wen all so deeply and vitally interested in the result. Me would also do his best to waist them. The issues wag complicated, the fade were numerous, and the dance oonfliotleg, and he would give them his best aid to enable them to unravel the eatanglel skein which they bad to deal with. The fin* is. portent thing they had to look to was to see that they rightly understood aid appreciated the natant sad scope of the inquiry, and the plaintiff complained that whereas in • suit instituted by the wife for a judicisl separation he had • good defence to the charges which she preferred, he had lost the opportunity of maids' I that defence through the default of the defending who acted as his attorney in that snit, by reason of the bad and ignorant advice given to him, and that Brice so specifically complained of was this, a viz., that the defendant advised him that if he would give written consent for a judicial separation, the decree might be made by the learned Judge Ordinary upon what was called some of the minor charges in the wife's peg. Mon, without any evidence being gives while would affect his character as an oar iad a gentleman, and upon the faith of that mew mutation he alleged that he gave the consul and withdrew from the ease. The plaintiff said that the advice was given ignorantly and unprofeesionally, that it proved to be altogether vain sod delusive, for the learned Judge Ordinary refused to make • decree seethed evidence being gone into which in the result affeated hi character in a fearful degree—that he not being present and not having his witnesses there to rebut the charge, the verdict passed against him as though bis owe was entirely destitute of defence, and it went forth to the world not only that he was guilty of the various acts alleged in his wife's petition but that by consenting to the decree he had acknowledged the justice of them, and hence had come upon him the mint vital consequences ; his character had been disgraced in the eyes of the world, his honour had been tarnished, and hi military career endangered ; his superior °Moen had treated him with indignity,his companionrinorms refused him thig society, and he was threatened with the loss of his commis. Mon, and that • career begun with distinction would be brought without a verdict in his favour to an abrupt and dishonourable termination, and his whole future life and ex* istence irretrievably destroyed. Now to that complainttbe defendant made two answers. In the first place, the de. fendant said he did not give the advice of which the plain. tiff complained, bat that the advice he gave him was, that whereas his position in respect of his defence in the judicial separation snit was one of extraordinary dith. catty and extreme danger, he advised him that it was possible to submit to a decree without evidence being gone into which would attack his character and be dents. tory to his Imam; but at the same time that he told the plaintiff that if the learned Judge Ordinary would not assent to that course the plaintiff mast either refrain from going bite the witness box, because the evidence he proposed to give was in his (the Niefendant'a) judgment false, and he would perjure himself, or he (the defendant) should entirely withdraw from the defence ; be should there. fore leave him free to act as he thought best, for he was not bound to go into court with a case which he believed was founded oa fraud, iniquity and falsehood, the plaintiff must find another attorney to conduct it. The defendant said that be gave the plaintiff his free option how to act, and that the advice he gave was honestly and conscientiously given, and that plaintiff misrepresented it when he put on the ground alleged in this action,—that he never gave such advice, and he was not responsible for it. In the second plus the defendant said Mat even if he had given it through his default the plait. tiff's defame was not carried through to its extreme termr aation, he had not lost anything by it, for having •bad de. fence the malt must have been the same. They would therefore see there were two minor breeches of inquiry, the first, whether the plaintiff had a good defence in the suit ; and, secondly, whether if he had that good defence, he had lost it through default of the defendant in gimes the advice of which the plaintiff complained. and he (the learned judge) was bound to tell them that the issue as to the plaintiff having had • good defence having been raised, It became the very essence of this inquiry, and they having now heard all the evidence that could have been adduced in support of lthe defame, arrived at the conclusion that it was not truthful and would avail nothing, and that the result must have been necessarily the same of whet had the plaintiff to complain? If his attorney bad stood between him and the guilt of perjury with its consequences here end hereafter of the result, what the attorney did was (defeat being certain and inevitable) to render that defeat less disastrous and leas ignominious, because through the wickedness of the conduct which was charged rest thi plaintiff was not added the turpitude, thel wick sad the disgrace of perjured evidence given on c ats ;so far from having aught to complain, every reasonable mu would feel that the plaintiff ought to be thankful that ha was spared the opportunity of giving testimony which must have been disbelieved by the jury, and adding that dia. graft to the others which attached to him. An observatios had been made by the learned consul for the plaintiff against the defendant raising this issue. Mr. Coleridge had said that the defendant might have defended the actin on the ground that he had not given the advice he wee charged with, or that it was not negligence on his cart, or. if such, that under the circumstances it was excusable, but not have railed the question of his client having a good &fen% in the separation suit. Before they allowed as observation of that kind to operate to the dein• dant's prejudice, they ought to look for a moment, in justice to him, to the circumstances in whiih he was placed. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] COURT OF ARCHES. (Before the Right Hon. Dr. Lashingtoo.) =wasps, VILLAIIN V. HATTON.—IMPORTAAT DICIfiIOSS OS CHUECH PATE.,. His judgment 1; Lord/hippy" case which raised an important question on Church rates, and started a novel proposition, that the defendant was underrated. Theme had been argued by the 9seen's Advocate sad Dr. Swabey OM the part of the plaint/ifs, the churchwardens A Matti& hall, Norfolk, and by Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Tristrainfor the defendant, one of the ratepayers. The question was as to 6a. Bd.„ being a rate of one penny in th s pound, and the allegation of the defendant was that his property was worth more than that to which it had been assessed. It was argued that be oould not be aggrieved from the fact that be was underrated, but it might be that other inhabitants were rated on a lower "sale to him, and therefore he might be aggrieved. His lordship went thror.gh the ce,e,and said he could not say that the rate was unequal and uojast, sad therefore the judgment would be for the plaintiffs, the ohurchwexdfina. All the proceedings were about "six &Map and eightpeece." Dr. Deane, Q.C., said it was the principle involved, nut the interest in the amount. (A laugh.) The games Advocate thought the interest was applt. rent; it was to get rid of church rates altogether. The court pronounced sentence in favour of the plaintiffs, and condemned the defendant in the onus of the Peco eadimp. BARNES V. GRANT. This was another ohnrch-rate case. Dr. Deane, Q C., sad Dr. Swabs y were for the plainti ff ; Dr. Tristram and Mr. E. C. Clarbon for the defendant. The court gave judgment, and recapitulated the principal facts, which have been before reported. The plaintiff, an churchwarden of Kettleburgh, Suffolk, claimed 1/. 13,. et the defendant, one el the ratepayers. There had been as examination of witnesses in the court, and the proceedings bad bees extended over a lengthened period. The con tention wee whether the asessament was correct or whether it should be net aside. _ . . _ 111;11Crdsiip1;eidti;at there was not sufficient evidence to show that the rate was unequal or unjust, and the Judd• meet would be in favour of the plaintiff is support of the rate. 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