The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5; 1866. JOHN BROOD/Mt EXCELLKNTIC BIJOU- There are no baths, and, the granite we saw being Tian oolnuarrig MODILKB BPECIALIX Ise rAsszQua for regular inmates only, but one kind of labour— J. & having been honoured with a linVelses Medal at the Perla Edwina' Exhibition, accompanied by the above nattering tar. that of oakum picking—is enforced 011 casuals. When the tramp wards in the stone yard are full, remain -11'1)1'1400Ln CHAI NS and ::te i n t Ze i taott Pub w ilc eli of i rrwELlt tim Y ° ! et made on the prengaes.—JOHN BIOGDEN, Goldsmith. Nana- ing applicants, instead of being sent to a certitied tactort, No. 16, Henriettaatreet, Covent-prden. W.C. Ilea- bashed A.D. 1796. Assays made or Chains and Jes=or to l o d g i ng - h ouse, are draughted off to the workhouse, each. N.B . This establishment ill clewed ate in the sad cm Saturdays at 1 eelock. i and admitted into the body of the house. LONDON must have s SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM torGentlemen.—Renember, we wan for you at "Mtn" after the Coveut-prieu ranteatims. tud the Theatre& Zftt erpreoo. liknlA?.lA= . Tun Inivaio, BROTH= BAIL Mows. Sothern, Buck onaso, and Compton ; Miami Nally Moore. Snowdon, tic.— OIPRIUS IN TEM HAYKARHIT. Yeens. Farrlm & D. Flans,; Mom Imlay, Howard 4 Wright —FISH OUT OF WATIR. PRINCEOES. TEM STEMMA QUIET LODOINO9.—Attar which IT IS MEV= TOO LATE TO MEND. Maws. Virgo& G. MatrtUs, Z. Mead, D. Murray, b. Wham, P. Villkas..T. G. Shure, 6. Mur ray, sad R. Wilma ; Mos L. Moors sod K. Roderm LYCZUM. TEM Ewa, THE 111 - 11 - SiitioUS STRANGER. Mr. H. Wlddlcomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mown Naohtor. Jordan, Vezin. Emery, Widdleonab, fritspataidt, Enna des Taman. Elsworthy, Levan% C. LAWN. BRITANNIA. Tarr IM MO, OLD DinMil:oiledKos AND SIR REGENT CLICUB.—IL and Madame etertaembach.---Johruzy Day, the Champion Welker.—Several ilanivors of the Crew of the Loudon, with Ling. the Coxswain, will appear.-01mar.—BILTER COLD. HIGHWAT= AT LONDOLIIR.TDOL This last fact alone is in direct opposition to the advice of the Poor-law Board, which is strongly against the regular inmates of the workhouses being exposed to the risk of contagion inseparable from close and indiscriminate contact with casuals. In short, although the Whitechapel guardians have not openly violated decency by making their casual paupers sleep naked, they have, by delay and neglect, by defective accommodation and ineffective supervision, so run counter to the spirit of the Houseleas Poor Act, that no one can be surprised that the certificate granted temporarily has been withdrawn. As the coat of relieving casual paupers will thus fall upon the ratepayers until a better system is inaugurated, would not the represen tatives of the parish do wisely to hasten the com pletion of their new casual wards, and to fulfil their promise of two years ago ? THE last two mails have brought intelligence of irregular movements on the part of persons at pre sent or formerly in the United States army, who have crossed the Rio Grande, and committed acts of hostility on the Mexican territory. As the United States government has frequently de clared its neutrality between the Mexican republic and the French and other invaders, and as it evidently attaches importance to the main tenance of that policy, it will be interesting to ob serve the manner in which these acts of its citizens are regarded at Washington. We believe there can be no doubt that they will be visited with its severe displeasure. The person who figures in the recent accounts as General Crawford was formerly in the United States army, though not with the rank he now assumes; his career, however, was not of a character to give him claims upon the consideration of the government of the Union, and the same may be said of some of his companions. Crawford now calls himself a Mexican general. It appears, more over, that a number, variously stated at from 150 to 500, of the troops at present in the service of the United States crossed the Rio Grande and occupied Bagdad. It is all but incredible that such a thing should be possible in a regular army. General Sheridan denies all knowledge of the affair, but it is evident his government must hold him respon sible for it. Peremptory orders have been sent to him from Washington requiring him to enforce the laws against Crawford and to keep his own men better in hand. The New York Times has these pertinent remarks, which may be taken to repre sent the mind of the American government : As for the appeals in favour of filibustering on • large stale—such filibustering we suppose as " Crawford and his men " have now inaugurated upon the Rio Grande on a s mall seals—their wickedness cannot be too strongly characterised. To attempt thug to thwart the pacific policy of the government—to attempt thus to defeat the means adopted by the government to secure ► just solution of the Mexican question —to attempt thus to contravene the national will, ant to drag the nation into a great war that may otherwise never be found necessary, is most unfit work for those who have stood by the govern ment in its d►ys of trial, and who have been ready to offer up their all for the maintenance of constitutional antho t:ty. We have been damaged and imperilled in times past by the spirit of filibustering. It had its full share in pro ducing the condition of things which resulted in our late great civil war. It is far less dangerous to foreign nations or to our neighbours than it is to ourselves, to oar internal security and peace. Instead of being stimulated, it should be frowned upon and repressed ; for if it spin kindle the flames of war, their consuming rage may end the existence of the Union. TI DLY7=lfoi - aing, 63 63m. T 94101116011—• Morals& 6h. 69m. ..Attoraooa. 6417 a. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (Tais DAY.) OPENING OF P. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. A DOUBLE NUMBER OF TIM "EXPRESS" Will be published TO-MORROW, on the occasion of the delivery of the Royal Speech at the opening of the Two Houses of Parliament. Advertisements intended for insertion in this number of tke " Express" must be et the office by 12 o'clock at noon, lame day. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5. Tns Whitechapel casual wards are some distance from the workhouse, and not to be found easily without a guide. Two doors from the Pavilion Theatre, and at a point where the bustling, flaring Whitechapel highway is at its noisiest and busiest, a dark and narrow passage leads into a dirty, unlit open court. At the broad end of this, and beyond .series of carts and stage waggons, which are either bid up in ordinary or resting for the night, is the entrance to the large atone yard belonging to the workhouse. Its heavy knocker is fastened dos d, but admission is easily gained by applicant. who kick or hammer with a stone against the door. A muddy, desolate little waste has to be traversed before it can be reached, and the explorer who visits these casual wards will do well to remember the character of the locality, and to wait in the main street until the friendly pilotage of a policeman can be secured. The gleaming bull's-eye of a mem ber of the force was the only relief to the intense darkness, as we picked our way thither half an hour before midnight on Sa turday, and the approach looked as unsavoury, un tempting, and even hazardous as the most adven turous could wish. After some ineffectual fumbling at the nailed down knocker, a few kicks at the wicket brought out an old pauper, and the door was promptly opened. There was neither parleying nor scrutiny until we reached a sort of exaggerated rabbit-hutch within the stone yard, and were brought face to face with another old pauper seated in it. Before and around us huge masses of granite, more or less macada mized, could be seen through the darkness, and at the end of the large open space another light showed WI the sheds in which the casuals sleep. Every thing seemed in exactly the same condition as at our last visit more than twelve months ago. One of the aged pauper janitors we saw then had been superannuated, or perhaps gone to his long home, and another reigned in his stead, but in the bright bead-like eye and shrewd smile of the old man in the hut, we readily recognised the worthy, whose indignant comments upon the bad characters and riff-raff claiming shelter made such a profound im pression upon us before. The superintendent had just returned for the night, sixteen male casuals bad been admitted, and were now in the sheds, and after a slight delay the former came forward and showed us round the labour yard and sleeping places. The best has been made of bad materials, but the general results are most unsatisfactory. We were distinctly told the year before last that the casual accommodation provided was of a temporary character, and would be superseded as soon as the guardians had secured new wards elsewhere. We heard exactly the same story on Saturday. The sixteen sleepers were locked up in one shed, which did not appear to be waterproof ; and out of this a door opened into a miserable little cupboard, in which more barrack-beds (empty) were ranged side by side. Bedding, rugs, floors, and walls were com mendably clean ; and a gas lamp was burning brightly over the doorway on our arrival, and is, we are told, kept alight all night. But either through the thickness of the mattresses, or the low ness of the wooden divisions between bed and bed, the separation of the sleepers is not as complete as might be wished, and the radical lack of efficient supervision is very marked. On Saturday every body was sound asleep, and the place quiet as an empty church ; but we have reason to know that the tramps selecting these wards are frequently among the most riotous and unruly of their class, and with the superintendent in bed and out of speaking distance, and the two old men at the other end of the yard, it is not difficult to guess what the night license of the locked-up sleeping shed must sometimes be. Again, the ordinary superintendent of labour for the workhouse has bad the task of looking after casuals added to his other functions, so that the concessions and altera tions hitherto made by the Whitechapel guardians have been both meagre and unsatisfactory. Even the Spartan fare agreed upon the other day by the disorderly conclave at St. Martin's Hall is denied the houselees wanderers who have shelter given them ; and while other metropolitan boards grant bread and hot gruel or sometimes cocoa, the White chapel authorities confine their hospitality to bread and water. It is true that " not yet, but we're going to," is given in reply to any question ►bout gruel ; but when the obstructive procrastination which has signalised the substitution of efficient for temporary wards is remembered, this is rather an aggravation than an excuse. The sheds used for sleeping places are half wood, half brick, have neither fire places nor proper windows, and were we believe only certified on a distinct pledge being given that no time should be lost in fitting up better ones. THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE SURREY LIBERAL& The sense of onetraint which it perceives to have weighed on all the speakers at the Guildford dinner, save Mr. Locke King ; their reticence ; their passive attitude, and harmless discourse, are attributed by the Times to the fact that the probable good to be effected by an org►nic change is far less manifest than in the contest of the last generation ; while the possible dangers are now, as ever, indefinite. The conviction that a class ought to have the franchise, or is " mocrlly entitled to come within the pale of the constitution," especially after it has so often been promised rimlssion, is not in its nature so cogent as the feeling that it is suffering • practical grievance by exclusion, or the persurrdon that, if admitted, is would find an accumteation of abuses to clear away. The reason why the liberal members for Surrey are quietly awaiting the result of Lord Russell's deliberations, end not actively urging him forward, is that a molerate weigure, involc'ng no sweeping transfer of powers, would be s►tisfactory to their conititnents ss well se to themselves. It may seem a paradox to some, but the Times ventures to submit that if a Reform Bill is to be int:raked at all, • moderate Reform Bill dealiog with proved abuses could hardly be ,introduced under more favourable conditions. An exceptionally Interesting character is given to the Guildford meeting, the Daily News remark., by the nom , platoons of the victery it celebrate; the return of nine liberals out of the eleven apportioned to the county and boroughs, and by the fact that the guests represent very fair'y the several schools and sharing of opinion in the petty. Litera4, old and new, advanced end moderate, met at Guildford as allies to celebrate their own and each other's victor( over the common enemy. The example of un'on which they have afforded only fore shadows, we hop•, the cordial co- aperation of the several sec'ions of the party, to one co other of which all of them belong. Mr. Lrya•d, who is • very good sample of libe ralism in office, and who has had opportunities of becoming aoquaioted with the &sweeter and views of Lord Russell which not many ether men have possessed, was able to echo, and by echoing to confirm, the trust in the principles and intentions of the Prime Minister which the country entertains. No one would a:knowledge more heartily that a liberal government holds office to give effect to liberal principles or would be less likely to in troduce • measure whisk in affecting to do some• thing shall in reality achieve nothing. Al no one supposes that the government proposition will go beyond a ed, rental qualification in boroughs, which would not add more than 220,000 voters to the existing constituencies, Mr. Buxton's alarm ma to the submergence of the upper and middle by the lower classes is irrelevant, and, we fear, may be mischievous. Opposition to a moderate reform bill, or the fa'nt support which invites opposition to it, is the surest way of preparing for an extreme The Post sees in the gathering a demonstration, and nothing more. It demonstrates that fanners will be well content with insipid speeches after an insipid dinner, that the exports and imports of the country have increased, that Surrey returns nine liberal members, and that none of those nine are agreed as to wh►t is desirable in the way of re form, but that, in &general way, they have sufficient confi dence in the administration they are "pledged to support" to vote for whatever it proposes. Though the Herald thinks some of the liberal repro acalstivat of Surrey are able men, yet a gathering of avenge democrats of Manchester or of Bir mingham would hardly, it says, have produosd a larger flow of vapid declamation than the meeting at Guildford. The only speech deserving causiderstkin is Mr. Buxton's, and as that boa. gestleman must be aware, there is not oat of the articles—exceptiog one relative to telt' at the universities—which he gives is oonstitntiog his liberal creed which • 000servative would not fully and tenably wept. It is the conservatives who desire to see all shams, not mere numbers, fairly represeated ; end it is coaasnatien especi►lly who have taken the material well-being of the poor usdsr their care. Every financial measure of which Mr. Gladstone ►as really bona the author—orrery remission or Masers et taxa. tile except those whisk the ociaiervatives forced upon him —the redaction of the duties on wine and cigars, the altera tion of tin spirit duty, the abolition of the paper daty— have bean for the advantage of the rich at the expense of the poor. In so far as Mr. Buxton's profession of faith truly expresses his political opinions, be is not a liberal, but • eonservative ; he thinks with Lord Derby, Mr. Disraeli, or Lord Cranborne, and not with Lord Russell, Mr. Glad stone, and Mr. Bright; and the time is at hand when be most either abandon his principles or vote against his party. THZ 3ITOLLIBIII 127 TIM OHUROH OP NAGLkND. The Time regards the "rubrical entice," about which a tempest is raging in the church, as constituting one of those follies which are best left to run their course and die a natural death. It will he very much surprised if the present clerical fever, like those on the Coleus° controversy, and the Court of Final Appeal, which have preceded it, does not soon pass away; and if ritualism, however it may survive in isolated cases, does not sink into that iesignifiCSDlNl from which, if it had been judiciously treated, it need never have emerged. Under the most favourable circumstances, can any reasonable person conceive of a royal commis sion or an act of parliament laying down in precise terms the exact cut of the dresses a clergyman may wear, what colours may be worn and wises, what amount and sort of gesticulation is to be permitted, and with what degree of distinctness the service is to be read! No act of parliament could be sufficiently exact to serve the purpose. We should soon have cases arising which would remtod us of the Lord Chamberlains's failure to restrain the perform ances at the Alhambra. The present performers would soon get up a new dance, which would be as near as possible to the unauthorised representation, and we should be in • worms difficulty than before. It would be at once impossible and undesirable to adopt any measures on the subject. When men bays to apteal in support of their practices to a doubtful interpretation of a most obscure sod difficult Rubric they are self-condemned; their proondings, dies owned and protested ag►inst by the true leaders of the High Church party, are also totally averse from the genius of the people. Approving strongly of the Archbishop of Canterbu. j's reply to the deputation from the English Church Union, the Port considers it certain that no paths =Mali legislstson on the subject w: 1 1 now be at tempted. Steps, however, will be taken by the Primate to clear up the law, and then it will be seen what the bishops c n or cannot do in the matter. The Post hopes an exporition of the kw of the ease will have the effect of putting these amateur constructicos into their proper place, and giving the church some better guide to the performance of her services thel the ritual party have been able to provide. THE Jenn-STOCK BANKS. Remarking that the great 811301113 which has of late years attended the full development of the joint-stock system, has in no case been more conspicuous than in that of the joint-stock banks which are gradually absorbing the entire banking business of the country—the Daily News proceeds to give from the accounts of these establishments some, figures, which, so far as they are complete, show the amount of existing liabilities. It appears that last year the chief joint-stook banks in London—ten in number—held about I 80,000,0001. of the public money, being fully four and a quarter millions less than at the close of 1864. This result, however, may be accounted for by the increased value of money. Against this I liability they have in cash and ►vailable securities (government and other stocks which can be readily realised) a total of 17,8 0 7,6431., or more than 22 per cent. 'This amount is amply sufficient to meet all available demands, without counting 1 1 upon the realisation of other ordinary banking securities. From a comparison of the figures it appears that the pro portion of cash and available securities to the total actual liability held by each bank varies considerably. The London and County Bank appears in the strongest position, the reserve of money sod government stock being equal t 32 per cent. of the outstanding engsgementa. In the others the proportion ranges from 28 per cent. downwards, the lowest being the London Joint Stock, which shows little more than 10 per cent. As regards actual cash io hand, the London and County again seems the most secure, the total held by this bank being higher than any of the other large establishments, although the liabilities average about a third less. It is to be regretted, however, that in this as in other mass a larger portion of the total is repre sented by money on leposit and at call, a system which ap pears to be entirely contrary to sound banking principles. The total of the paid-up capital of the ten banks is 7,301,9101., and of the reserve fund, 1,875,1881., just 25 per cent. upon the capital. By far the largest proportion is shown in the case of the Bank of London, the next in order being the City Bank and the London end County. In some oases, however, the accumulated reserve has been applied to the increase of the capital. With regard to the profits distributed, in only two oases—the London Joint- Stock and the Imperial—has there been a falling off in the rates paid for the half-year ending Dec. 31, 1865, as com pared with the corresponding half-year in 1864. In four others an increase has taken place. DOUBT DBMS AND COURT annsmoym The Post joins Mr. Bright in his attack ise our modern court drew. In this age of beards and moustaches, the dress of Charles Surface bosom*, quikabsurd, for a shaven facelis with it a sine qua non of decency and bienseance. The beg for the wig behind the coat is another anomaly in times of close crops and of Lair•brushing by machinery. If we are doomed to choose • fancy dress, certainly that now arbitrarily fixed upon is the least suitable to the tone and manners of the day. Full dress should and ought to signify simply the best dress of the period at which we live. At the present time, if • man is asked to dine with the Queen, he wears the usual white neckcloth, evening dress coat, and shorts and silks or tights. That is the fullest dress of the fashion of the day, and that ought also, unless a better dress can be devised, to be a suitable costume in which to appear at court or at a Speaker's levee. Indeed, as far as the court is concerned, we need a revision of the whole system. Instead of the indecent crush and rash to a necessary ceremony, we should look for proper receptions in fitting palaces where space and sociability may add interest to the dignity of the function. If court ceremonies, already the merest forms, are not to sink to something in which inherent absurdity will invite neglect, we must look to see the aristocracyef England invited to a palace worthy of the name, with room to move in and apses to approach the royal person ; gentlemen presenting themselves, as do the ladies, in the dress of the time ; and opportunity gi►en for the interchange of those social amenities without which • crowd at • royal residence exhibits, like other crowds, its worst characteristics, and becomes but • pushing rude mob, not the more respectable from being attired in comically inappropriate clothing. A Cabinet Council is appointed to be held to-day (Monday) in Downing-street, at 2 o'clock. " Although " writes the " Flaneur " of the Star, "it is as yet very early in the season, the committee. of the various literary and artistic charities are settling upon the presidents for their respective asuriversary dinners . Mr. Cherie, Dickens takes the &sir on Ash Wednesday, the 14th inst., at the dinner of the Dramatic and Eques trian Sick Fund, and the occasion being Valentine's Day, Mr. Dialreas will have a special opportunity for the display of his never-failing w t and fancy. Mr. M'Cullagh Tomos, long connected with jou-nations, fitly presides over the ditner of the Nesrisvendore Benevolent In stitution on the 20th March next. The Lord Mayor, whose dramatic proclivities are well known, will be the president at the dinner of the General Theatrical Fuld on the Monday in Passion Week, and either the Duke d'Aumele or Mr. Anthony Trollop* will take the chair at the festival of the Artiste' Benevolent Fond. The chair at the dinner of the Royal Medical College will be worthily filled by Sir William Ferguson." The meeting of the Scientific Association held lest Tuesday at the Palace of the Observatory, Paris, was attesded by a large number of ladies as well OA by the itehatitio celebrities of that learned body. The Asso ciation now consists of 5,266 members. flasks to their liberal subscriptions the Association has been enabled to establish observatories in remote parts of Frans*, and to supply these establishments with expensive instruments as well as to open lecture-rooms at various seaports where gratuitous lectures are delivered on meteorology and other saientifie topics tending to the eislighteument of seamen of all classes. The association has only been two years in existence. Scientific gangrenes are to be held this year at Meta, Bordeaux. and Marseilles. The death of Prince Odo, like that of D'Azeglio, was taken as as occasion for demonstr►tions in Venetia. The promenades were deserted and (missal services were reform& The police bantered whoa all was ever. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE SITEZ CANAL AND THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. In the course of an article on the Suez Canal the Journal des Debuts of to-day remarks :—" With Lord Palmerston disappeared the last representa tive of the old passions which saw in France the natural enemy of England, and in the enterprise of M. Lesseps • conspiracy against English interests in the east. It is well to recall that the two principal members of the present cabinet, Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone, as the period when they sat in the ranks of the opposition energetically opposed the policy of Lord Palmerston in the affairs of the canal. We dare not say that these two statesmen, and espe cially one of them, after they became the colleagues of Lord Palmerston in the cabinet, over which he presided, may not have allowed themselves to be influenced by the First Minister, but now that they have recovered their full liberty of action, there is reason to hope that Lord Russell and Mr. Glad stone will not place themselves in open contradic tion to the attitude they assumed and the speeches they made in parliament at another epoch." (ftsurza's 111LiGILL101. THE SPANISH CONGRESS. MADRID, FAL 4, EVENING. . _ _ Senor Mayan° has moved in the Chamber of Deputies an amendment to the address replying to the speech from the throne. This amendment is as follows :—" Our financial difficulties increasing from day to day will cause the ruin of agriculture and manufactures. It is necessary to balance ex penditure with revenue, but as it is impossible to raise the taxes, already too heavy, we must make reductions to the amount of 300 million reals. It is only by this means that we shall re-establish our credit and avert the dangers which threaten us." THE OUTWARD CANADIAN MAILS. QUEENSTOWN, Fr& 5. The Royal Mail steamship Europa arrived here at 4.30 a.m. to-day, embarked the mails, passengers, and latest telegrams, and proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 4.35 a.m., all well. She experienced very severe weatherly gales down the Channel. lir he Court. OSBORNE, Mt. 3. Her Majesty drove out yesterday morning and afternoon. Yr. Engleheart arrived at Osborne on Thursday, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family yesterday. The Queen held a council to-day, which was attended by Earl Russell, Earl de Grey and Ripon, mad Mr. Ooschen. Mr. Helps was clerk of the council. Earl Cowley, Viscount Sydney, and Sir Charles Young, Garter, arrived from London this morning. Lord Cowley was introduced by Lord Sydney, Lord Chamberlain (Sir Charles Youog attending with the In signia of the Order of the Garter), and her Majesty invested Lord Cowley with the riband and badge of the Girt X. Earl Russell and Earl de Grey bad audiences of her Majesty. _ FEB. 4. Her Majesty drove out yesterday, areompanied by Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, and attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald. Divine service was performed this morning at Osborne, by the Rev. G. Prothero, before her Majesty, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Hohenlohe and Prince Christian. Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey and Colonel the Hoe. D. de Roe have succeeded Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge as equerries in waiting. At the °mind' held on Saturday by the Queen, st Osboue, a proclamation was ordered to be issued, giving currency in the United Kingdom to the gold coin of the Sydney mint. A proclamation was also ordered to be issued, declaring the Queen's neutrality in the war between Spain and Chili. At the same council the sheriffs for the English sod Welsh counties (with the exception of Cornwall and Lan cashire) were pricked for the year 1866. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. Present, Lord Chelmsford, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir James °oink, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colo nial-offioe from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lohman, Malta, Gibraltar, Vancouver's Island, and British Columbia. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, and the North American Provinces. HER Ma-mum—The Queen, attended by the royal suite, will leave Osborne this afternoon, and cros s over to the Clarence Victualling-yard at Gosport, where her Majesty will be received by the admiral of the port, the general commanding the south-western district, sod other officials. The royal train will leave Gosport about &quarter to 4 o'clock, and is expected to arrive at Windsor about 6 o'clock. Aoeording to the present arrangement§ her Ma jesty will remain at Windsor Castle to-night, and proceed by special train to lowa to-morrow morning in order to open parliament. After the state ceremonial her Msjeaty, it is understood, will return to Windsor Castle, and remain at the palace till Wednesday, and then proceed back to Osborne by the usual railway route. _ _ His Excellency the French ambassador enter tained at dinner on Saturday evening at the embsesy, Hyde Park-gate, his Excellency the Austrian ambasstdoe, hi■ Excellency the Saxon Minister, Earl Granville, Lord Fre deric Patriot, Mr. Hayward, the Marquis d'Andigni, ha His Excellency the Danish Minister, General de Bulow, has removed from Cadogan-place to No. 50, Wilton crescent. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town on Saturday from Clamber. The duellers gave birth to a sou at an early hoer on Saturday morning. Her grace and infant are progressing favourably. Lady Moleeworth entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, the Duke of Wellington, Lady Susan Vane Tempest, the Earl sod Countess de Grey, the Earl and Countess of Cork. Lord and Lady Dufferin, Lord Stan ley, M.P., the Hoe. F. Cadogan, the Hoe. George Bowing ton, the Hoe. F. L. Gower, M. P., Lady Dorothy NeviP, Mr. Henry Greville, and Dr. Quin. An " K P." writes to a oontemporsry to say that be (replied as follows to the usual invitation from the Speaker sent on his first entering parliament :—" To Mr- Speaker's Secretary.—Sir,—May I request that you will have the goodness to inform Mr. Speaker, with my respectful com pliments, that it is with very great regret I feel under the necessity of denying myself the honour of waiting upon him on Wodoesday, the 18th lust. It is an honour and pleasure of which I feel oonepelled to deprive myself while etiquette prescribes that on such occasioos members most present themselves in other dress than that usually worn by English gentlemen of the present day.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, —." It is stated that Mr. Abercromby permitted his guests to ►ppear in ordinary evening costume. The members of the new University Club, who have for some time been serking for temporary quarters during the building of their club-house on the site of Howohio's Hotel, hey*, it is said, found aoeommodation at a house at the earner of Seville-row. Mr. Holman Hunt, it is said, contemplates a journey to Jerusalem and s lengthened stay in the Holy City, with a view to the prosecution of his art. On the 19111 ult. General Clay, the American Minister in Russia, while travelling in the interior, was entertained by the Corporation of Merchants at Moscow. Oa alighting at the Mercantile Academy, where the dinner took plans, Oatmeal Clay and Mr. Curtin, hie Secretary of Legation, were received by the directors of the Academy cad some members of the committee of reception. Having been andunted to the banqueting ball, the smote were again formally received by the committee, and the more eminent among the company presented to them. The latter consisted of 127 Rumbles, among whom some of the great dignitaries of the city are mentioned es having been present, LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF ADMIRALTY. (Before the Right Hon. Dr. Ltuhingtoo.) TIM BANDA SID raawiz BOOTY.--Tlli 71116TIIiTH_DA.Y. This case was resumed at the sitting of the court. It was the thirteenth day of hearing. Mr. Mellish, Q. 0., coucladed his address on the part of General Carib'', and his column. 2dr111;144:740n followed on the same side, and denied the fighting qualities of Gee. Sir Geo. Whitlock, and said he had been fitted by one of the Rajahs when he ought to to bare been fighting. It was the other forces, and not the fighting reptitAtion of General Whitlock, that had lad to the surrender of the booty. His lordship will sit several days this week to hear the arguments on the part of the defendants, and on the nest sitting the Attorney-General will open the case on the part of General Sir Geo. Whitlock. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Wore M. Coinzoiniaose Oenlburo.) II RN KAMA& The bankrupt was alinendruper , of Knightsbridge, sines an assistant, reskliag near Victoria-park. Debts Mi. The cue has bees before the court limos July, 1864. Mr. It. Griffiths opposed, for a creditor who bad for merly been in the bankrupt's employ. The bankrupt had disposed of his business at Knightsbridge to his father-in law, Mr. Hanley, whom he had been directed to produce for examittatioe, but this had not been done. His Honour said he should not pass the bankrupt until his father-in-law was produced. Mr. Griffiths asked that very limited protection should he given. the Honour—l don't see the advantage of locking him np. If you send a man to prison a debtor, he probably oomes one • thief. Mr. Griffiths —There is • chaplain in every gaol, and that ought not to be the case. (A laugh.) Ultimately the case was adjourned sine die, with protec tion fora month. IX It C. WUBS. The bankrupt was described as a merchant of Spital6elds, formerly of Lendenhall-street. The liabilities are 10,6631. including 3,6181. in respect of accommodation bill& The assets and property held u security are returned at 5,2001. This was the sitting for examination and discharge. Mr. M. Abrahams stated tbat the bankrupt had not answered the requisitions of the assignees, and ea adjourn ment for that purpose was now asked. Mr. 8. Griffiths appeared for creditors. An adjoarninent was ordered. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The February general sessions of the peace for the °panty of Middlesex commeeced this morning at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, before Mr. Bodkin, &metal:it-Judge ; Mr. Payne, Deputy Assistantdadge; and the following magistrates H. H. Harwood, Mr. Charles White, Mr. Henry White, Mr. Perbury, Dr. Jar vis, Mr. Stutdeld, Sir George Hodgkinson, Mr. Loveland, Mr. Tweotyman, Mr. Hankins, Colonel &riven, Lord Distant) Owl, Mr. C. B. Johnson, Mr. Loogden, Mr. Giles Filcher, and Mr. B. Sharp. nu cAmmaa. The calendar is again very heavy, them being 118 pri soners committed for trial, 107 being indicted for felony and 11 for misdemeanour. The offenoes with which they stand charged ere stealing from the person, lead stealing, malicious damage, breaking and entering dwelling•houaes, ►ttempting to steal, indecent assaults, assaults on the police, cutting and wounding, embezzlement, and other minor offences. The state of education of the prisoner' was reported as follows :—Can neither read nor write, 51 ; can read, 14 ; read and write well, 2 ; and read and write imperfectly, 51. SURREY SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The February sessions for the county of Surrey com menced this morning at the Sessions-hoase, Newington. cause way, before Mr. Tilson, deputy-chairman, Lieut.-00h si'Doneld, Mr. A. Boyson, Mr. B. Baegalay. min., Mr. Starry, Mr. Collambell, and a full beech of magistrates. The calendar contained the names of 71 prisoners foe trial 56 for felony and 15 for misdemeanour. The degrees of edaoation were as follows:-15 were entirely devoid of education. 9 could only read, 45 maid read and write im perfectly, and only 2 could read and write well. CAUTION TO GRAND JORTIOOT. The following gentlemen were dned fit. for being absent : Messrs- Samuel Joyce, Joseph Ricketts, R. Chair), and George Pearce Pocock, all from the pariah of OamberwelL CHARGE TO THE GIUND JOST. - 121011148/ 01 CAMS LI TIM COUNTY. The deputy-chairman, in hiss charge to the grand jury, deplored the heaviness of the calendar, which far exceeded the list of prisoners tried at former sessions at this time of year. There were 71 prisoners on the calendar, consistin g of 56 cases for trial, and probably before they were released from their duty there would be ten more with those out on bail. Among the prisoners were 26 for simple larceny, four for stealing from their masters, two for embezzlement, two for stealing in the dwelling-house, air for street robberies, one for assault and robbery, one for rater log counterfeit coin, two for cutting and wounding, and four for assaults of various kinds. As he was not •ware that he should have ti address them until a few hours ago, he had not time to look over the depositions, but he did not think there was any rase showing much difficulty. However, if anything should occur of that kind he should recommend them to send into court for the original depositions taken before the committing magis trates. He teed hardly tell them that the claim at the police-courts were barristers of loog standing, and the magistrates in the country were gentlemen well known for their legal ability ; therefore it was not likely they would seed cries for trial unless there were good grounds.. Some of the prisoners, they would perceive, were committed for minor offences, and the grand jury might think they could have been dealt with elsewhere. He, however, was sorry to say that the majority were old offenders, having been several times previously convicted ; therefore the magis trates were bound to send them for triaL With some fur iher remarks he dismissed them to their room. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. PALTRY LAIIIOIIIIT. Three respectably-attired womo who gave the names of Jane Smith, an ironer, Margaret Stedman, laundress, and Sarah Grover, laundress, wire charged before Mr. Alder man Lusk, M.P., with stealiog a piece of lead pipe of the valueot 10s., the property of William Joao, from the back part of the house No. 18, Liverpool-street. The evidence disclosed that the three prisonm laird in the house in question. end from time to time the lead pipiog connected with the cisterns and the copper in the wash.hoose was messed, and the aid of Detective Hardee, 699. City p olice, attached to the Bishopegate station, was called in, sad the result of his iequiries led to the appro. heesion of the three prisoners, who were found to have sold portions of the lead at the shop of • marine store dealer named Hiuds, for petty sums varmg from Ls. to ls. 6d. at each dealing. The prisoners were described by the officers as being of respectable character, sod they expressed deep contrition for what they hs 1 dose. Mr. Alderman Lusk convicted them of the illegal pos. session, and sentenced each to pay a fine of 10a., or seven days' imprisonment. CLERIC EN WELL. ATITYPTID SIIICIDK IN A POLICE CELL Ellen Sullivan, of 14, Hat and Mitre-court, St. John. street, was charged wish being drunk, and assaulting Mr. o*orge Winfield, of 148, St. John-street, Clerirenwell. She was farther charged with attempting to commit suicide at the King's-moss-road polies-station. On Saturday night the prisoner went to the prosecutor's house, and wanted to go into the 000 cert-room. He refused to allow her, and got her oat of the house. In about five minutes she returned, made use of foul language, and because she was not allowed to force her way up the stale she assaulted the landlord and scratched his face. She was tbeo gives iota custody, and she became so violent that it was found necessary to obtain the assistance, of three constables to get her to the police-station. After she had bean placed in the cells the was visited by police-con stable Charles, ZM O, who found that 'hiked attempted golf destruction by tying round her neck a nocket-handker. chief. She wee black in the face, and had it not bass foe the promptness of the constable she would have lost her life. -- The prasoaer said that she wow In the family way by Übe complainant, asd she struck him became he said he would kick her and kill his child. The complainant said there was no truth in these stab meets. if r:Barker asked the prisoner if she had anything to say in answer to the charge of attempting to commit suicide. The prisoner mid she did it bemuse she wan in liquor. Mr. Barker remanded the prisoner to the House of Doted tion fora week. The prisoner —Then you will sot we me again, for I will kill myself before that. MARLBOROUGHSTELERT. SCAIDALOOB CHAECIL Betty Gould, W;lTdieseecifem.le, wail charged before Mr. Trwhili with stealissi a beach of Bowers a the value of 2<1., the property of Win. &moon", carpenter, who pee hie address Lupus-street, Pfeifle°. On the messed boi s. phseed at the bar. Dieicias, 306 A, said the pima who had charged her was cot is at•eedsnee. Mr. Edward Leiria, al Gnat Yarlbaroashwtrtwa, who appeared for the accused, said the proud tailors Awed the very limited power given to 1,,„ accused on Saturday night, because advances of a man, wu give. i. stealing a bunch of flowers of t to the station, and kept there till Re (Mr. Lewis) thought the lee, diuretioomy power in the hands (eke or reject such a charge as the Mr. Tyrwhitt said that had the all sorts of things might have been Mr. Lewis said he did not complais only considered that they ought to b to them. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that as there prosecute, the accused would of conies more infamous charge and one of a or bad never heard. It showed what class of persons were to be found. Mr. Lewis said the man had gives The accused was then discharged. SOUTH WARS. ninon mums or sy John Datraon, a journeyman abc before Mr. Woolrych charged with , with • shoemaker's knife m • serious morning, the 14th tilt. It appeared from the evidence of prisoner lodged in the same home w Waterloo-road, and on the morning gave him in costa, for steeling was in bed, and he was taken Tower-street. The inspector, after declined to entertain the charge, a' police-station. The prisoner Win in a violent manner, and so soon .... Webber-row the prisoner railed sharp-pointed shoemaker's knife, b—, I'll have my revenge, , time making a thrust at his neck, thel his coat, waistcoat, and shirt, slight Witness got away from him, mid as he wee ate e t .. mother thrust at him with a knife a m an t r i p* sad the knife was taken from him. Wittier hew knowledge of the prisoner's money, and he did* i l k, be had any at the time. ' William Hockler said he lived in Weblieremokb, Sander morning, the 14th ultimo, about 10 o'risek, h i ; the prosecutor running down tine street mod prisoner, who had a shoemaker's knife in his boa a made several throats with it at the former, M k I Q tripped him up, and took the knife from him Police-constable 151 L said he took the custody, and received the knife produced from hetak; The prosecutor told him he bad been stabled, s k i t easurining his clothes he found them cut throsglinsh toed the shoulder. Segment Lawscio, the acting inspector, laid be sa lt deg at the Tower-strest polies station ea Wank, sweetion, when the prosecutor was brou g ht i s &ya m by Ow prisoner with robbing him of 4!. Aim bo ot both sides, he was satiailed that there was ound', implicate the prosecutor, consequently he &Wa a l t iat the charge and they all left together. He bey ibia Boner threaten the other as they were going ma The prisoner did not deny stating that the pou t had robbed him of all his hard-saroed mow, i sh never intended to injure him. Mr. Woolrych committed him for trial. THAMES. 01111:11-YARD CRAWL& Two may, earned Edward Holly and Jams Rix* were charged with being drank and incapable on Sahe l evening. The first, in the employ of Br. Rama* of Bell House Farm, Romford, lime; warn in clisp ii waggon and three hopes. The team was Ulm kb green-yard in Bow, and Mr. Rain, ekk deemed his horses and waggon yesterday at is k warn charged 245. by the keeper for taking sow ds animals end vehicle. He wall charged for fear fedi skg He did not believe his horses were fed at all while is p 1110111/011 of the gmen-yard keeper. Rippingales bane sde were in the care of the grees-yard keeper from 5 dd s to 12 on Saturday night, and he was charged to 141. I did not believe that his hone received any prover** ever. Mr. Hawes addressed the magic , rate at comihe lith on the imposition practised upon him. Ike fend for the boss. in the middle of the day yostalism he was oompelled to pay 24a. before his waggon WIN were restored to him. He wanted to know by sl authority the police removed horses, cattle, and villa the green.yard, where such cLarges were made. Mr. Paget had DO authority over the green-yard. I keeper was self constituted, aid beyond his slabs/fly. I Gould not take the bills from the green-yard. If Ir.lks thought the bill was eroessive he had better loth ni Richard Nevis, the chief commissioner of police, vbsysi pay every attention to the matter. He &wham' bp Dopers. The Caledonian Mercury states that Miss LA worth will give a reading in the Music Hall, PAiabs•As the evening of the 16th. "Mn. Yelverton, we isle • son to know," says our contemporary, " bee oft plated for a length of time this method dil mincing her pecuniary interests ; and we ere Mom to believe she will make an appearance in tar exit which will prove that she has not overrated bet poi I plisse. Having been deserted by her husband, ske w• like a proper spirited lady, to take care of herself ; sal doubt sot a generous public will give her every meat and assistance in her effort." Mr. Baker, the African explorer, has engage& deliver a lecture at the Hartley Institution, in Son Mr. Bouchesult's Arrah-na-Pogue is to be p clued at Paris adder the title, La Nous lrlandesises. An American correspondent of the Times lip that the leader of the war party in the Congrms is UM' arias Chandler, a senator from Michigan, "one ce lass tall, raw-boned, hard-festered specimens of umbeed is whom the Western States abound—a mm who is no later or speech-maker, but whose iron will and mad* energy and intense fanaticism have for years muted kis out as a high priest for every Americus cram* MM, whether it be a crusade against slavery, against Omal M'Clellan, against Jefferson Davis, or, as now, mai England or France. Chandler, during the fury of de ur, was the master-spirit of the famous ' Committee O fin Conduct of the War' that set up and pulled down gm* sod was the terror of every army officer from !(Mild Scott and General Grant down to the lowest cadet k it. service." It seems the divided episcopal church 40 United States is at length re-united. Bishop Rh*. d Georgia, has written a latter to the senior bishop of in Northern church, the Right Rev. John Henry Baptist d Vermont, stating that, in response to many fervsettigag from churchmen in all parts of the South, hs has U' drawn all his objections to a reunion of the chard, Wit about to inns a paatond announcing that Georgia lig g; I united with her Northern brethren. Bishop Wlla g Alabama, and the Bishop of Mississippi also cortliallT io the reunion, and diocesan councils have been wiled all three States to perfect it. These bishops ham ass take, the steps neoessary to dissolve the council d Independent Southern Church, and soon there AB I great protestant episcopal church extending all wit 18 United States. At a recent hattne in the North of Englana.4 6ll pheasants and 5,000 hens and rabbits were slaallit. It is estimated that the number killed were abate ) third the number reared, an that in the pressrvs gd must have been 14,000 pheasants sad 15,000 Mee rabbits. To grow grain for the support of the bird' Peg regain, the cultivation of 246 acres, and for the hens el rabbits 1,100 ecru. Four hares are supposed to mg g much u a sheep, and soiree rabbits eat and destroy u swit as four hares. It is estimated that about half the laid 4 pheasants consist, of vela and the other half of bunt oil and eon. CITY ARABS AT AN EXABINATION.-0 08 teething in London, and reeding in the Bible sbout"thli a= chaff," found that Dot one of her scholars It i l; ma a what &tea was; bet on asking them what" might be, there was an immediate holding up of bib in signal of compreheasion, and an unanimous rcpt[ "blunders, ma'am r The dreadful pusubment 11* "chaff" seemed to follow quite unwieldiest Aziatker lady (as we have told elsewhere) asked bus Ala L the course of a lecture on "Gratitude," whet Pio. In the course of the year they imnst thoroughly ma After a thoughtful pause, the last boy is the claw_ uP and said, with simple candour—"Crickiffn ma'am.' "Oh, no, 8.." said the lady, " ewe 1 0 cannot like that cruel sport!' " Yes I do siesn_ m though! there's a pit up by the Black ' Boy " it asythiog in B—." A similar story is to be hod as admirable little tract in the sense Odd: mor e em Pertitemtiaria, p. 30 :—" There was (at !b• . school) a hey who' iniariably interinpted ail heroes sad mists recorded Is Scripture by dispar4 o o . l parboils with Tom Sayers. Noses an d Joshes wss we well,' be would as;, but what was tag t0..,_, -161 liMe chap sotaudin' up as game as a bantam oock on." that treat thanderio' Yankee, sod a knockin' of him Ikr . like a aloe* ! Blew you , Noah and Abraham so d la that lot weren't fit to bold a Dandle to him. go • hero, he war.' A small boy to whom some one bad rirw' to teach the catechism, obst inately refused to b• A. 6 :1 anything but the articles of the Orriermas Feat , beteg asked for some further explanation, said , A P . "' p_lon, raft' wee the best on 'mu."' On another occerke Ike writer proposed to a chase of lads of about 16 the 11 11 Mae, " Mist was aoasedaseer Immense difficulty, bustin giving en answer, but eventually the f0110rm,„,..., bgeetous definition was supplied, " Cooscietice $ • which a gem'man ars% mot, who, when a boy fin liandkercher sod gives it bias back, doesn't gill thl sixpeses.'—Praiser's Magesiat for February. muse d m . into sed e g7thil the wee- a kill 111 12 eine* flabitnre ee&f It of patee744:l t i le present, a charge be e hi ee laid et the pg !. 'plain el th to hare mo n Wn: re Wu go ifte CO9llO be dant f nioe end t — ''et let • lee ea h e ed.MI a tar a m mo. STAMM shoemaker, Vas th stable s' h am rims manes, es % kr 4 the pressen" 6. with him ng in qua*, ia th e • g frost h eha to the .d e e tee hearing egig.! and they ea "al mod et as's, 4di 1 as they b lew abed at him ife, minim* 771 T ira. and at th the knife oat* ibi; 'lightly grazing te s e ,. as he WY Ara L. ""`