The Express. — London, England, 1866-07-30 00:00:00

JOHN BPAGDIN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTO RY, N. lIINEINITA-8111.1MT, COVIIII7-0/10112f. _TORN DROGDPII I 8 at GOLD 04.1313. • 2.• 1 • / BROGVEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. . 41 j9_1 JOHN BIiOGDEN'S GOLD ALBERT CHAINS. JOHN BROGDZN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. BENSON, J. W., by SPECIAL APPOINT MENT to MILL Ui. Primo of WAIL& BENSON, J. W., PE E MEDAL, LONDON, BENSON, J. W., PRIZE MEDAL, DUBLIN. Ors It LLERY for BRIDAL PRE- BENSON'S GOLD JEWELLERY for XOURN INO. BENSON'S DIAMOND JEWELLERY. BENSON, OLD BOND-STREET, and WEST BOLTILNEOZOVZ. BENSON'S STEAM FACTORY, Ludgate-hill. TIIRTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. clear TWA. and Invalid TURTLI SOUPS always seedy. ST. Maws -BALL, siommarisir, mamma. W DONALD, Preddididc gilt erpretio. wvertbersonis InlZdad tor " - III; l -- tin" Lanka Ivombir mTager od be at the Mos, 10, vorloolrost, by Two ddod on do cbky of publkoilon. lAYMAIKIL Taus Enn•nW TEI BALANCE 0100X101T. Mr. Howe and Miss Ada Osswedish.—THE POOL GENTLEMAN. Mr . Compton Mrs. Cldppeadalm—BOl AND COI. Mr. Backstone mad Mr. Compton.—And THREE WILMS ATTER MABILLAGL PETNCINIf& TICS EVENING, TEI lIIIGUINOT CAPTAIN. Merry wining. sad G. Homy • Yam NeGoon, Augusta Mama, and am Gar ling—And QUIET LODGING& BRITANNLIL TNte 2•1111110, THE JOLLY DOOB OF LONDON; OR, TWO ROADS OF LIFL—MIor 14416 Loaner, Her Barman , C. Brown. and Mader R Sendorn—Asd THE DUSTMAN'S TREASURE ; OR, WZOG AND TEI HOFIMUL HIGH WATIR AT LONDON MUM TIM DAT —Maining. Ma. 40m Afternoon, 3h. MM. TO-110A1M1P—Memilag. 41t. 17m Afternoon, Mi. Mm. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY SO. IT must be acknowledged that we have borne with much sobriety the temptation to be jubilant over that great triumph of human skill and enterprise, the successful laying of the Atlantic cable. It is not unlikely that as a physical marvel this wonderful instrument will gain upon our imagination as we have daily oppor tunities of reflecting on the benefits it procures; but we are not in a situation to be affected on the moral side of our nature, as we should have been a few years ago, by the opening of instantaneous communication between the New and Old Worlds. We have been taught by sad experience to form a juster estimate of the limits within which civiliza tion is to be advanced by material agencies than we once held, and it was scarcely necessary for a weekly contemporary to warn the daily journals on Saturday that perhaps after all the millennium had not come. We no longer hail in our Inter national Exhibitions tho certain pledges of per petual peace. Since the first Atlantic cable was laid a terrible civil war has shown that the nearest social ties, and the most weighty interests, and the closest habits of intercourse, may fail to con stitute this security. The good news from New foundland finds us wondering more and more at the effects upon the happiness of mankind which seem likely to follow the work of the needle-gun. In this mood we are more likely to undervalue than overrate the worth of the Atlantic cable as an international bond of peace. For, after all, it is true that everything which brings commu nities into nearer connexion with each other, and establishes a communion of benefits between them, does work for peace. We may go further, and affirm that, whatever makes men know one another better has the same tendency. This world is not so constituted that increasing knowledge involves increasing repulsion. There are eternal relations established between light and love which, incessantly disturbed and interrupted, are for ever seeking renewal. In this faith let us go on multiplying French treaties, cheapening ocean postage, and laying new submarine cables, assured that in so doing wo are not only promoting the interchange of commodities, but really and • truly binding man to man. The Atlantic cable is a sign and a monument as well as an organ of the civilization of our age. We see in it gathered up and completed the results of the wonderful group of mechanico-chemical sci ences, combined with a triumphant feat of en gineering. The most penetrating and sagacious minds of this and the two last generations have toiled patiently in order that we might be able to I I triumph over space, and speak, as friends with I friends, to brethren in another hemisphere. Con- I , fident that in the ordination of Providence no knowledge is really worthless, no honest search for it vain, OERSTED has experimented, and Ammo generalised, and FARADAY disoo vered in the region of electrical and mag netic inquiry, freely giving up the fruits of their labours to be adapted by other skilful men to the wants and uses of mankind. They could not foresee, and they did not ask to be able to foresee, the infinite applications which might be made of the truths they found out, when, operating upon the facts which had accumu lated in the course of experience, they ascer tained the relations which bound them together, and when, declaring the laws of those relations, they organised knowledge and raised it into science. It is well at such a moment as this we should not forget what the disinterested man of science, work ing alone and accepting truth as his greatest re ward, is constantly doing for society. But there are others whose claims to admiration are nearer and more obvious. When Curwins discovered the properties of the Leyden jar, and the electric shock which it produced was an object of curi osity and terror—Muscamrsaoss declaring that he would not take a second one for the kingdom of France—Bozs magnanimously wished that he might " die by such a shock, and have the cir " cumstances of the experiment recorded in the " Memoirs of the Academy." Professor Baca- MAN, without having made any formal vow, was killed in the course of an electrical expe riment. Sacrifice and risk have not in this instance taken that appalling form. It is the estate rather than the body that we place in peril, and it is well known that considerable fortunes have been ventured in this undertaking. It is very easy for bystanders to say that in such en enter prise it would be criminal to yield to discourage ment ; but it must be remembered that at tempts to lay a working Atlantic cable, reckoning from the first endeavours to form a company, have extended over twelve years, and have been at tended with losses and disappointments that might ---- • dishearten the most reaolullVo I FIILD, who first took' ho -itlhe en%Ws s. as a practical work, and who has stood firmly by it to the present moment, must be assigned the first place, where so many are meritorious. When Mr. Puma first undertook to organise a com pany of capitalists, he did so as one who was prepared to go into the project with the for tune which he had acquired among his neigh bours as a merchant. His example, his un bounded faith, and his nnceaaing devotion and energy, which led him to cross the Atlantic thirty-two times on the affairs of this tele graphite line, would have deserved to be held in admiration, even if they had not been rewarded with success. He was the soul of the enterprise, even at times when some doubted whether its life had not departed. If there is any one well en titled to share the credit with him it is Mr. GLAss, of the Telegraph Construction Company, who joined the enterprise at a later stage, and who has directed the arrangements under which this new line has been laid down. Mr. GLoss's organising capacity, decision, and promptitude emi nently fitted him for such a work, gave unity to the plans, and inspired all concerned in executing them with the confidence that conduces so much to success. The names of others, worthy to be asso ciated with these, will have to be mentioned when the time conies for making up the roll of honour. The lustre of the enterprise is sufficient to reach all who were connected with it, and we trust it may be increased by the continuance of the cable as a line linking two great communities together in bonds of friendship. THE directors of the Bank of England appear still a prey to the timidity which has so long afflicted them. At the same tins* the managers of the Bank of France have no such misgivings, and have reduced their rate of discount to 3t per cent., while our Bank still enforces 10. The financial posi tion of the two countries, as it now stands, pre sents a greater anomaly than has ever been expe rienced. A difference of two per cent. between the respective rates of discount was at one time considered extreme, yet for two months past it has been as much as six, and this week is 6i. It is not impossible, viewing the large accumulation of bullion in Paris, that a further reduCtion may take place there to three per cent., while the utmost that seems to be expected from our own bank is a cautious and hesitating decline from 10 per cent. to nine. Outside the Bank parlour there are not two opinions as to the consequences of the fatal timidity that has characterised the policy of the directors during and after the crisis. The most singular point appears to be that they are unable to perceive the futility of the precautionary mea sures they maintain. It will only be necessary to cite the effect of 10 per cent. on the bullion move ment at the Bank of England, compared with four per cent. in Paris. On the 9th May and 26th July of the present year the amounts held by the two banks were as follows : HANK OP !NOLAND. 9th May 2tith July Increase .. 9th Msy 26th July BASIC or lIIIUJICIL Z 13,156,140 13,716,829 2560,689 X 0,800,000 27,580,000 Increase 26,780,000 These figures are too conclusive to require much comment. Ten per cent. has added to the Bank I of England stock little more than half a million, f• while four per cent. has brought to the Bank of France over six millions and three quarters. We I commend this facttothedefenders of the proposition that " money finds its level like water." It is to be hoped that the present Government will not attempt to refuse that inquiry into the causes of the late crisis and the whole working of our monetary system which is now so urgently demanded. The question may in the usual parlia mentary form be put off, but it must be enter tained sooner or later. In the meantime a con tinuance of the present pressure will only entail so much additional loss as may cause the greater difficulty in the settlement of a matter essential to the progress of our commerce. It is difficult to understand from what quarter opposition can fairly come. The late Government constructively con demned the Act of 1844 by the issue of their letter on the 11th May ; the present Ministry have virtually approved the policy of their predecessors. It is most advisable that the inquiry should take place, and at once, since in the interests of trade further suspense will become intolerable. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TEN REFORM MEETINGS TO-NIGHT. Before the meeting at the Agricultural Hall as sembles tonight, the Times begs the leases to oonsider what they are prepared to denounce. What complaint can they have on the subject of reform? It occupied the session to the exclusion of almost every other topic, and the nature of the opposition was such as to excite hope for the future rather than dissatisfaction, and as to the parks question, putting it at the lowest and leaving out of the question the legal view of the case, about which no lawyer whose name hes been mentioned feels any hesitation, there can be no doubt that the vast majority would keep the parks for the simple purposes of amusement and recreation. To say that there was any wantonness or cruelty on the part of the police is simply incredible, or surely the mob would not have allowed the rails to lie where they fell. Let the Council be just to others as they would have others just to them, and not dishonour their cause by accusations which are senseless if made in good faith, and disgraceful if merely adopted to serve a purpose. The Post wonders why Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone are not advertised to be present to-night, and contends that they are in a certain sense compromised by the re- Oconee they have observed. The Post hopes to lease before the seed= is concluded that the seals of the Home °Sloe have been confided to other hands than those of Mr. Walpole. He is no doubt a most amiable man, a person who could jog along under the easiest circumstances with • sort of gentlemanlike credit ; but the events of the past week have proved that he is totally unable to faro a diffi culty or to represent authority with even a pretence of firm ness. The Pod seems to think that the " roughs " are going to the park again, and mentions it as another grievance against Mr. Walpole, that though the military may be called out the mob knows that they are not to fire. As matters are now proceeding, the lowest classes are learn ing to put an undue estimate on their strength, and if they are not at once undeoeived they will have to be taught a painful lesson. The Herold also deems it important that Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone should at once give their opinion on the subject of the late tumultuous and unlawful demon etrotions. Why have they not spoken out ? Why have they left it to be thought that Lord Granville, Sir George Grey, and Mr. Cowper were speaking only for themselves and not for their party? Why do they stand thus separate and =lent ? Is it that the too powerful influence of one imperious demagogue controls them ? Is it that they are gagged from Birmingham? The Tdegraph says that the existing administration is already the most unpopular government that has existed since Castkreagh`s—detested by the east-end of London, laughed at by the westsnd, and only saved from prompt dismissal by the accident of the holidays. TiII MIXISTICL Adverting to the danger of future complications the Time observes that the poor of Nikoleburg, like that of 111111P•gm z. EmgEs i : MONDAY • El T -- the tba Vaa: Zuriohillrould, this - utmost, in duff erit.. The graakt i ts n rmat wstill referral to a national ant, and this might break through the cobwebs of t Nikolaburg peace as easily as flavour, Garibaldi, and Cialdini managed to break through the barrier that the conqueror of Solferino trusted he had for ever seised against the aspirations of Italian unity. The old evils of Germany, the rivalry be tween Austria and Prussia, and the vain efforts of the minor states to establish a balance between them, the struggle between two or three Germanies, will be repro dared, only with this difference--that the vastly increased strength of the north will make it more than a match for its southern opponents, and will drive them into the arms of that foreign power which has profited by German divi aims ever sines the time of the Thirty Years' War. As to Italy, the late successes in the Tyrol and Venetia have had a soothing effect on men's minds, andwill, it is to be hoped, induce the Italians to acquiesee in a pacific solution of the struggle which leaves them in possession of all they could ever have aspired to as the prize of the most complete and signal victory. The Dail y Nees remarks that the thoroughness which cha racterises all Count Bismarck's policy is en assurance that he does not believe it will be necessary to revert to the sword to accomplish his purpose in South Germany after the pre. Pent war. The aim of the Prussian Government is first to consolidate Northern and Middle Germany, trusting to time to favour the formation of advantageous relations with the States of the South. The Star thinks the Hungarians will not be more in clined now than before to look with favour upon the Haps burg dynasty. The Emperor will find that the difficult questions connected with the varied aistionalities of his dominions will become more pressing, both on aooount of his own disgrace and the consolidation in Europe of a great empire upon the basis of nationality. THt NANAOKBEST Of THB DOCKYARDS. The Time describes Mr. Seely's statements relative to the expenditure of the management of the dockyards as intelligible to every understanding, and aipable of proof in the open markets of the world. That the facts should be as he states involves either wilful official blindness or a system of accounts intended to mystify and confound. An inquiry brings out the fact that the system of amounts differs at all the yards ; that the rating of the work done and the mode of charging it are different. But in no yard is it possible to say whether the work charged to a boat, or toe vessel of any aim, was positively spent upon it, and was not charged to it in an illusory manner for the squaring of amounts and to cheat inspection. Portsmouth is the • very pandemonium of prodigairty. The Lords of the Admiralty positively do not know bow to expend the public money fast enough there. Repairs are the grand resource, and few of the taxpaying public know how care fully it is cherished, and bow thoroughly it is utilised. Our ground of comfort under these untoward ammo stances is that the House of Commons will have to do the work of revision. The Deity News details Mr. Seely's inveatigations and s tatements sad the Admiralty's replies thereto & until the time when the latter finding the proceedings were getting too hot for them, and that enormous extravagance was being brought to light, summarily put an end to the inves tigation by removing the books, and by refining to allow the investigation to proceed further. They did not bargain for, nor expect, doubtless, such a thorough, sigid, and searching investigation as appears to have been made. Doubtless they thought that when they said that accounts could not be obtained, their word would be taken, and that there the matter would end. The injustice to Mr. Seely is most glaring, and if the house permit one of its members to be thus uncourteously treated, it will permit an insult to itself. Cite Court. OSBORNE, JOLT 2S. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Prisons Louise, and again this morning with her Royal Highness. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out also. JULY 29. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Princess Louise in a carriage and four, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley. Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge was in attendance upon horseback. The Princess of Wales and Princess of Leiningen dined with her Majesty in the evening. Divine service was performed this morning at Osborne, before the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice. The Dean of Westminster officiated. A Cabinet Council was hold on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Peking ton, Sir S. Northoote, Lord J. Manners, the Right Hon. Gsthorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. Mr. Richard Howarth had an interview with the Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade, at the office of the Board of Trade, on Saturday, and ruhmittod his model for signalling and forming a personal communica tion between passengers, guards, and. all parts of a rail way train. A deputation from Windsor, consisting of the Mayor, Mr. Roger Eykyn, M.P., Mr. Charles Edwards, M.P., Mr. Henry Darvell (Town Clerk), Mr. George, Mr. Holdin, Mr Cooper, Mr. Cleave, Mr. Goddard, Mr. Phillips, and Mr: Willman, had an interview on Saturday with Lord John Manners, at the office of her Majesty's Works, &c., White hall-place. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governer, of the North American Colonies. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Canada and the I Bahamas. CaBINET COI7NCIL.—(TNIB Dsv.)—A Cabinet Council was held this day at 11 o'clock at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury. The Council was numerously attended. The Cabinet only sat for half an hour. Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar left town on Friday for Moloombe House, neer Goodwood, where they will receive a soled party during the race week at Goodwood. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers have left their residence in Grosvenor. crescent, for. The Grove, near Watford, Herta, for the moon. The Earl Cadogan was honoured by the presence of the Duke of Cambridge at dinner, en Saturday, at his residence, Chelsea House, Cadossa-plsoe. There were present to meet his royal highness—the Turkish Ambas sador, Baron de Bande, the Earl of Derby, the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Stanley, the Earl of iftlmesbury, the Earl of Bradford, Viscount Ceenborne, the Right Hon. General Peel, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, the Right Hon. Henry T. L. Corry, the Right Hon. General Cecil W. Forester, Sir Hugh Cairns (the Attorney-General), Colonel the Hon. P. Wellington Talbot, Hon. George W. Barring ton, Mr. J. Lumley, and the Equerry-in-Waiting on the Duke of Cambridge. On Saturday the marriage of the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, second son of the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., and Miss Sybella Charlotte, second daughter of Sir Walter Rookcliff and Lady Mary Farquhar, was solemnised at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. The exhibition of the Royal Academy is closed. The annual owtrersurecnie of the members and their friends takes place on Wednesday evening. Mr. Charles Brown (Artemus Ward) will com mence his lectures in the autumn. Mr. Narras.—We have much pleasure in announcing that Mr. Napier has declined to accept the office of Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland, and for reasons which do him the highest honour. If we are rightly in formed, a letter from Mr. Napier will be read in the House of Commons this evening, in which, while expressing his own opinion and that of many friends that his infirmity is not such as to disable him from the discharge of duties which consist almost exclusively in the examination of written documents, he declares that he is unwilling his appointment should afford the slightest ground for a sus picion that justice will not be adequately administered, and accordingly declines the high office which Lord Derby has offered for his acceptance. Baron Fitzgerald will pro- bably be the new Lord Justice of Appeal —Times. I. N 4, JULY SO,; rr INTELLIGI k THE STATE OF SIEGE IN VIENNAP P The Municipal Council of Vienna, in an /Aldred' recently presented to the Emperor Francis Joseph, said : The municipality feels itself justified in hoping that the Emperor, reigning the principles which be has of tea declared to be the ideas that guided his government, will call to life a vigorous and truly liberal policy with the co- operation of advisers who see in the representation of the people the firmest support of the throne and the empire. To this the Emperor replied that the time was badly chosen for presenting &admit* of that kind. The Municipal Council, it is said, will resign in a body. Under the title of " A New Derail of Austria,'' the Liberth has a violent attack on the cabinet of Vienna for decreeing in Southern Austria the state of siege even in a iritigated sense : Governments by right divine (the writer observes) are everywhere shire. The same bandage covers their eyes ; everywhere there is the same defiance of the people, everywhere the same want of saderdanding of liberty and of its strength. The cabinet of Vienna, beaten on ten fields of battle, within an inch of being loot, might perhaps have attempted anew the chance of combat in trusting to the Hungarians, and giving satisfaction to the wishes of that population. It has more feared free insti tutions than the needle-gun, and it has in consequence been obliged to conclude with gratitude sa armistice which renders all Austrian patriots indipient. The laws guaranteeing personal liberty and domestic freedom are suspended in Lower Austria. It is thus that the Emperor thanks the inhabitants for their patriotism and devoted. ness ; it is thus that he recognises the immense sacrifices made by the popedation, without any doubt, the must Austrian of the empire of Austria! The battle of Wows was only a misfortune. Putting the already wounded country in irons. is an irreparable fault. It is a new battle of Wows delivered and lost in the interior. The following is the text of the proclamation of martial law in the archduchy of Austria : In order to take the necessary precautions for the safety of the army and the maintenanc e of tranquillity and order in the present state of military affairs, by reason of which the radius of the operations of the imperial army has been extended to the archduchy of Lower Austria, the Commandant-General of the territory of Upper and Lower Austria, Salzburg, and Styria, fol lowing the imperial decree of July 10, 1866, which authorises him to adopt in cam of necessity the measures foreseen in the imperial ordinance of May 30, 1866, ordains as follows for the whole extent of the arch duchy of Lower Austria. 1. The two laws of October 27, 1862, relative to personal liberty and the protection of the domicile are suspended for the present. 2. From the dated the present notice the jurisdiction of the Councils of Wes will apply to civilians un der the terms of the regulations of the military penal code of January 15, 1855, and &wording to the prooedure established for the military for the following crimes and offences : 1. High treason. Offences against the members of the Imperial family, and disturbance of public order. (Art. 50.66 of the Penal Code.) 2. Insurrection and rebellion. (Art. 68-75 of the Penal Code.) 3. Public violemes in the cafes pro vided for by Art. 76-99 of the Penal Code. 4. Burning. 5. Favoring one of the following crimes : Provocation to desertion, emeutes, participations in secret or prohibited societies ; exciting to contempt of the regulations of the authorities; exciting to contempt of the public and com munal authorities ; exciting to hostilities against nation alities, religions communities, km ; exciting to contempt against the institutions of marriage, family, and property ; propagation of predictions, and of false and alarming reports ; Mkt combinations ; offences against the servants of the State, and unlawful possession or fabrication of presses or printing-machines. If a civilian, committing one of the above-mentioned offences, has at the same time been guilty of other crimes, or ordinary offences, the competency of councils of war would extend to them crimes and offences also, but the latter will be dealt with in t his ,case according to the civil penal laws. Councils of war cannot condemn civilians to corporal punishment, excepting where those punishments are allowed by the civil penal laws. The Commander-in-General of the Country, ANTOINE Di RIALBSDHL, Field-Marshal Lieutenant Imperial. Vienna, July 26. (RIVTEII'S namosars.) THE PRUSSIANS AND BAVARIANS. HOF, JULY 29. The headquarters of the second reserve corps, ' under the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, arrived at Bayreuth this morning. The Grand Duke has taken possession of the district of Upper Franconia in the name of the King of Prussia. This morning the Prussian vanguard dispersed a battalion of Bavarian Life Guards. The Prussians took 4 officers and 205 men prisouers. Several Bavarians were killed. THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. ALTONA, doer 30. The governor of Schleswig-Holstein has received orders from the Prussian government to make the necessary preparations for the election in these duchies of members to the German parliament. It is asserted that these elections will take place very shortly. Military committees have been appointed for the levy of young men fit for military service. The conscription is to be completed at latest by the Ist October next. LAW INTELLIGENCE. - (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before the Master of the Bolls.) TROOP e. RICARDO. This owe was argued on Saturday. His lordship upon taking his seat this morning held a bundle of papers, which be said had just been went to hiss by Mr. Tme& Hie lordship proceeded Mall of this If lds.Moup sends me another paper of any MA or I will no* look into his case at all. I will simply the bill'Vrith costs, and he can appeal. Mr. Troup evidently is ignorant of the meaning of fudges, and, if he thinks that by experts rellectioes on three opposed to him, and by an utter dis regard of all the forms of Minos he min skews his in terlude, he must be taught that he is mistaken.' Ms Lordship wished a shorthand writer's note to be taken of those observations, end directed the costs thereof to be the costs in the cense. ---- mew e. canutarair.. In July, 1865, the estate of the testator in this suit wee ordered to be distributedaniong the parties entitled thereto. Subsequently, however, claims were made blrnch auditors against the testator's exactor when he happe ned to be in Faris. These claims have been prosecu by means of two actions in the French Courts ; and this peti tion, which prayed that the distribution of the estate under the above-mentioned order of July might be post poned until the determination of the actions, after si4l.• mg over on several occasions, now cane on for hearing. It appeared that one of the French actions bad been en amosesful and that the parties thereto were willing to undertake not to appeal upon payment of their coats. The other action was stlll in After some discuasio i rt .l. lordship ordered the surer of 5,00 W. to be retained in court with a view to meet the possible result of the pending French action, and directed the distribution of the residue of the fund in court. The executors of the testator are to apply to them in the event of any circumstances Griming out of the French claims rendering the interposition of the court necessary for their protection and guidance. Mr. Selwyn, Q.C. ; Mr. Beggalley, Q.O. ; Mr. Kay, Mr. Win. Pearson, Mr. Hemming, and Mr . Daly appeared for the several parties. DOUBT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Bofors Mr. domrassiotior Hoboyd.) ni as wAazierr (or Tits rum or but CHAS. rims Aro co). Mr. Lawrence -appliedseethe-aourt to confirm a deed of arrangement which had been entered into, on the 26th of June last, by Sir Chas. Price and Mr. Joseph Marryatt, late bankers, of Sing William-street, with their creditors. Mr. Linklater, who had filed a petition of bankruptcy against Mr. Maiyatt, opposed the application, and asked that adjudication of ban kru ptcy shonM be made, notwith standing the deed, which was executed by both the part ners. The creditors for whom he appaired questioned the validity of the deed, and wished for an opportunity to test it: Mr. Lawrence read an affidavit of his partner, Mr. Mews, verifying the fact of the deed having been duly exec Joseph Merritt, and by the trustees, on the 26th of June last ; also, that the deed had been asiented to by 320 creditors oat of 426, whose debts amounted to 240,54 N. out of an to indebtedness of 281,521/. The deed, so executed , M eg bee a en duly registered on the 19th of July. His Honour did not think that sufficient had been done to support the deed; and if the parties disputing it wished for tune to test its validity, they were entitled to it. After a conversation it was arranged that the matter should stand over until Friday. THE BRAZIL MAIL LISBON. JULY 29. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Oneida, from Brazil, arrived here to-day and was to leave at 8 p.m. for Southampton. She brings 220 passengers, 29,722/. specie, 320 bags of coffee, 14 barrels of tapioca, 20 rolls of tobacco, and 224 packages of sundries. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) BUENOS AYRES, Joss 27. Exchange on London, 4911 to 50. Dollars, 25.90. There is a general stagnation of business in con , sequence of the news from Europe. _ RIO DE JANEIRO, Jccr 9. Exchange on Paris, 408 to 412. Exchange on Hamburg, 780. Coffee, good first, 6.400 to 6.600 rein. AUSTRALIA. (By Overland Telegraph from Gallo.) MELBOURNE, Jcsa The Legislative Council has passed the Appro priation Bill. Parliament has been prorogued. Advice from New Zealand state that the country luiet. waa cil The Queen Dowager of Saxony has issued orders to her household, in pursuance of which considerable re ductions will be made in her Majesty's table expenses, which economies are to be devoted to the sick and wounded, besides the large sums already sent by the Queen to the International Society of Aid. The lady abbess of a convent at Acquaviva, where a body of Garibaldians was lately quartered, has addressed a letter to Colonel Niooters, thanking him and the men under his orders for their exemplary conduct daring their stay in the convent. " The nuns," she adds, " were all greatly edified at their conduct ; the night passed in the greatest quiet, and not a sound wee to be heard. It looked not like a soldiers' quarter, but like the lodgings of men who sleep in the peace of the Lord." Mr. Arthur Sketchley intend/ taking " Mrs. Brown " to Americo. Mr. Hepworth Dixon sailed on Saturday from I Liverpool, on board the Java, bound for New York, ea CRYSTAL PALACR. SHELLING DAY. 1 route for Utah and the Salt Lake. Queen Emma , of the SATURDAY, JOLT 28.—Adminions on payment, 2,328; Sandwich Islands, was also among the Java's passengers. ditto by season ticket+, 6,273; total 'baton, 6,601. THE POLICE COUBTS• (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. OFFICI ROBBIE& Henry Hopkins, John Swayne, and Mary Ann While were charged before Mr. Aldermarinnis, the two males with being in the house, No. 30, Lime-etreet, with intent to commit felony, and the female with aiding and assisting in the commission of an attempted folony. The prisoners were watched by Police-constable Obee, an active and intelligent officer of the City force, and the men were followed to several offices in the City, while the female kept watch outside. After visiting several offices in Feochurch-street, Philpot-lane, and James-street, Obee traced them to 30, Lime-street, and on the second floor found Hopkins and Swayne attempting to force the door of the offices of a ship-broker. The female prisoner was waiting outside with a small black bag, and she also was taken into custody. The male prisoners, when called upon, said that they were going about to different of fi ces to obtain employment, but several previous convictions were proved against them by Chief Warder Agar from the City Prison, Holloway, and in these eases the conviction was for stealing coats and other articles from City offices. The female prisoner was not known to the police. Mr. Alderman Finnic convicted the male prisoners as rogues and vagabonds, and sentenced them to three months' imprisonment with hard labour in the House of Correction. The female prisoner was discharged. BOW-STREET. SINGULAR LON'S RIP IfISCHINF. Alfred Hamlet, who said he was a plumber, residing at 172 Angel-court, Strand, was charged before Mr. Flowers with being drunk and wilfully damaging hackney carriages Nos. 609 and 157 at Tottenham-court-road. George Bous, cab driver, deposed that at half-past 8 on Saturday evening my attention was called to the prisoner, who was standing over the forewheel of my cab (609). On his leaving, I discovered seven or eight scratches on the panels. I did not see him actually scratch it, but I think he did it with his hand. I saw a constable, and gave him into custody. William Byford, cab driver of the second cab, said that he was on his rank when another driver pointed the prisoner out to him. He went down and saw twelve large scratches all along the panels of his cab. A constable came up, and first witness gave the prisoner into custody. Prisoner—lt must have been done in the Hyde-park riot. Another driver said that about half-past 8 on Saturday he saw the prisoner come out of a public house and go up to the cabs and begin scratching, but he could not see what it was done with. Prisoner went away, witness saw the scratches, and then followed the prisoner and brought him back. He said he did not do It, Police-constable 33 E said that he took the prisoner into custody, and that he denied all knowledge of the charge. William Wyatt, proprietor of cab 809, said that the damage done was over 10s., although he would be willing to take that sum. Prisoner had told him previoualy he would pay 10s. if he had it. Henry Garman, proprietor of cab 157, said that the scratch was very deep, and he might be able to varnish it ' over, but the damage would be U. It looked as if it had been done with a penknife or a pieoe of taboos.° pipe. The prisoner had nothing to say, and Mr. Flowers fined ' him Is. in each case , and the damages, in all 325., or 14 days' imprisonment. WORSHIP-STREET. ♦ RAILWAY "LADY TH117." A young womanffully dressed in new black silk, fashion. able bonnet, and thick fall or veil, was charged under the name of Mrs. Esther Puddieotabe, residing at 2, Phoinix street, Crown-stmt, Soho, with being trammed in at tempting to steal from the pocket of Mrs. Priscilla Reeve, while on the premises of the Great Eastern Railway. Prosecutrix stated that she had a short time previously left her home in Clarendon-street, Clarendon-square, Somers-town, for the purpose of proceeding, per train, to Norfolk, that she bad scarcely entered the railway ter minus in Shoreditch before she was suddenly and violently pushed into a corner, that on contriving to extricate her self from that position she felt a band in the pocket of her dress and at the same instant actually saw that it was the prisoner's, who appeared to be bustling past her in the company of another lady. She (Mrs. Reeve) could not make any mistake as to the fact, despite the prisoner's appearance, and challenged her with the attempt to pick her pocket—an indignant denial was given, and then the second lady interfered, tried to get between them, at the same time remarking, " It's all nonsense ; you might as well say my hand was there." Prisoner during this got a few steps away. She (Mrs. Reeve) endeavoured to follow, but the " second lady" seised her shawl, and evidently sought to detain her in talk until, fi nding it useless, she mysteriously disappeared, add had not been seen since. Prisoner was afterwards taken into custody. The pocket in which she had placed her hand then contained only a few halfpence. The purse was in an under dress. Not anything was stolen. Mr. Henry Kent, superintendent of police on the line of railway mentioned, deposed to having met the prisoner leaving the station in such haste as to instantly induce suspicion of her purpose there. He consequently stopped her, upon which she said, "Let me go, I'll make it all right." The prcreentrix and others then came up and stated what bad occurred. Mr. Abbott contended that it was reasonable to pregame that the prisoner's hand might accidentally have slipped into the pocket while she was paring. The pocket was almost in front of the dress. Mr. Ellison intimated his intention to send the prisoner for triaL Mr. Kent and Benda, the gaoler, said a conviction could be proved against her. Mrs. Reeve expressed her inability to attend and prose cute , whereupon Mr. Abbot observed that the prisoner would, if the charge was dealt with by the magistrate, plead guilty. This was done and a sentence of six months' hard labour was the result. [After Mrs. Reeve left the court a man who had been present up to the moment prisoner was ordered for trial and who than retired, accosted her and need threats of intended violence if she dared to offer further evidence. Mr. Kent apprised the magistrate of this, and directions were given to bring the fe llo w back, but he was not to be found.] CREDIT FONCIER AND HOUMA (THIS DAY.) A epeeist meeting of shareholden, htri its object the reconstruction of the , u • Ina newt (dueler of the bused, was "=, V. shareholders tarp room at Rueter-hall. About a fl Men were present. The Hon. J. S. Wolin.= said that • his having been in the country for the in mouths, and being therefore oompmefiem, with what had ociourred, be would peeper ti s k should be taken by the deputy governor, y r . Uric& Mr. Linen having taken the chair en sss ohearelig that It having been reported on a fns don that neeriy a theneendpinsens went sway im were unable to obtain andesion, it was th ou able to hold this meeting in Exeter-hall gel oeeded to remark that, after the hurricane 41 three mouths, it was gratifying to he able is the *mime, was in a sound, solvent, and, s s the meeting would agree with him before the p terminated, satidectory volition. (Cheers.) had, . indeed, been very disastrous ; hanks l meresal beams of the peened eminence sad standing had mocumbed; and yet, after an exists and a half years, it would be found company had got through with a sacrifice of I its reserve, being only It per cent. of its alma The meeting was clued to assent to, or diem plan for reconstructing the company. With I balance-sheet had been prepared reveilles , which, in justice to the company's clients, th,s justified in publishing. Regretting, as be did, g of 76,0001., he must say that on the 11th of 1 it might have been difficult to suppose that it small. Thebalante-eheetinelndedadepreciatica in the securities ; but this was a depreciation s from the present state of the money market, and became easier the securities would rise in valea would add, that 278,000/. was the whole amour shareholders meld under any circumstances maid upon to pay. AA regarded the Taxman eompany, he observed that dissent on the pm the shareholders would imperil the manes. of I and that in the event of its failure the 'harsh" stall be liable for 12/. per share, while if it out the liability would be reduced to 21. for the reconstruction of the company pared under the advice of the Aden the Solicitor-General, and other eminent canna companies were waiting for the result of the imitate he example which he hoped would M occasion. The board had in their hands 2,1 ndng 130,000 shares, in favour of the M el lowed that it bad the approval of a re portion of the shareholders ' • and he would passing that on the last call 161,596/. had (Cheers.) The board bed resolved that , piny were reconstructed in the manna they would not propose to divide 20 per cent. until Ithe reserve amounted to the capital. He thought it would have been if they had not divided more than 15 re hitherto. If the proposed arrangement shoe out the directors generally would have to stake, and the deputy-governor be obliged t times and the governor five times their press In conclusion he deprecated any disciuden tend to depreciate the value of the shares, filing the proprietors. (Cheers.) He a moving a resolution approving of the pro directors. The following balance-sheet was circulated but not read: 'Balance sheet, from let April, 1866, to Ye Dr.: To capital, 8/. per share on 200,000 share viz. :-capital paid np, 1,200,030/. ; reserve 1 balance sheet, 650,0001.; amount brought fors profit and los seeunt, 86,6061. 12s. 3d. ; *et 12s. 3d. Lees loos on realised securities, 74,95711 sent depreciationon unrealimedsecuritiee, 241 , bad debtsmaki, 16,739/. 19s. ,• income tax to 31st 3,903 L ; ng 336,6061. 12s. 3d. ; treader'. account, 400,0001. 736,6061. 12a. 3r1.-1,600,1 payable, 1250031: ; to debentures, 75,9101 52,212/. 13e. 3d. ; to amounts paid in Mrs 10,3971. 10s. 7d. ; to sundry crediton, to profit and loss, balance at credit of carried down, 5,5271. 17s. 7d. Centime, via : guarantee of City offices debenture. 300,000/. ; on government concessions, per eel 10s. 7d. • every other contingent Baba all radicle mils on any shares held I pany,.per 'contra, 278,869/. Total, 2,013,1721 By railway and other debentures, vie.-Oa takings, 384,640/. ; on British undertaking, getber 546,6401. ; by railway stocks, vu undertakinp, 191,2891. ; on British undertak ether 343,214/. ;by shares, viz.-on 1 • r i 73,4321. • on British undertek Is. , together 85,495/. Is. 3d. ; account of the company's interest is concessions, 244,2231. 16s. 7d. ; by loans of freehold properties, 301,069 1 . 18s. 5d debtors, 273,2711. 14s. 11d. ; by 1:41 51,7071. 7s. Id. ; cash at bankers, 128,5121 1 of call due, 39,0291. Contingent liahilitisavi of City offices debentures, per contra, 3ix vernment concessions, per contra, 252,5171. other contingent liability, including all ix any shares held by the company, per one total, 2,013,1721. 19s. sd. " Profit and Loss Account from Ist April July, 1866. -To office expenses, viz. :-B.ii tising, printing, law charges, rent, rates and he., 7,6 , 53/. Os. 6d. ; to salaries, 3,0961.1`21. 9 1 fees, ,426/. 10e. 3d. ;to income tax, 416/.13 net profit, 30,5271. 17s. 7d. ; total, 43,1201. terest paidtosbareholderstoJune 3o , lB66,l carried down, 5 5271. 17s. 7d.; total, 30, By interest to 26th July, 1866, 40,1491.1% mission, 2,505/. ss. • 8y transfer fees, 46 5 14s. sd. ; by bal ance brought down, 3 by balance brought forward, 5,5271. 17a 7/1 &mined the above accounts with the comp vouchers, and find the same to be corn opinion that it is a full and fair balance d full particulars and properly drawn up t and correct view of the company's affairs. that we have inspected each and every an found them in perfectorder ; and that tbe stated are the current prices of the FAZIA11101( KATNARD and W. B. Folio, don, July 27, 1866." rrt Thn. J. S. Worr in seconding t = e Ho lig . full concurrence in the wham Mr. Otivenswxm. saidhaving taken en a the board he felt bound to my a few word Mon. The board had promised to giee information at the office, and that prongs filled. Mr. Grant requested Mr. Main to let him see everything. He was alloy securities and he believed that the 'totem the balance-sheet was perfectly a =ehThe books were also throw] ; traced items from the each to the present time. In fact he ea to convince him that he was being deal honestly. He held upwards of 100 shm paid 51. premium, and up to this time he Being in arrear with his call before he Mon he had since paid, and be was pale his investment. (Cheers.) Mr. WAKIPTLLD also expressed his sati balance-sheet. His only doubt was whet nem would not be carried on with more shareholders,if they could have an asset notbe (LanOter.) There shouldu cient margin for d ep reciation. Be w there was am much ta len t on the board London, and be believed they might cern fitable business, and see their shares ru minm as those of the London and We Mr. Cava wished to know what mule the c and whether by holding o r they would hange, be likely to re l• • larger was set down in the bslance-sheet. Mr. WILSON believed that the c entering on a course which wu satisfactory. It would be a great who had bought shares for meat' to feel that they could hold on wi hear.) He was glad to find that the directors was proposed to be reduoed cent. ; but he ',add move as an amend mission should be on the profits saw the shareholders. A finasariouirri made some COMM amount received as remuneration by tl Mr. BIRMARD wished to know what tended to pursue with regard to deb departure, and would like to pool company had been reconstructed no without the sanction of the shareh o l meeting. What was the position of I it was now proposed to w i n d up • lost 76,0001. only, it had lost 336 the oumpany was wound up, i standing all the dividends whic oeived, be 30,0001. worse off tha beginning. (Hear, hear, and • voice, property.") He did not cars about was spearing of theirs. (Hear, heel Colonel MONEY deprecated criticis depreciate the value of the shares. Mr. Joiren thought it was • mat that the directors had consented to take 5 instead of 10 per oent. as agreed with • preceding speaker that to be on profits actually divided. He the dividend bad ever been too much Mr. Gaunt wished to know wheths vary part of the proposed revert - re the dissenting shareholders would be whether the solicitor of the companY Mr. CcoorunWeLL repeated his erp in the emunineas of the undertaking. Mr. KLIICI complained of want plan of the directors. He wished to mg shareholders would be liable for dation, and whether new shareholdi Fury would be liable for former call After some further dricuasoo, INNUNIO I '