The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

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Wa and IL Wlddioomb: Mesdames Mephoss, Remade, C. 911 He. —And MARY TUILY/AR; 0.1/, THE WICIOUB WILLIN. Was Josephs. BITTAIHRA. Tins EraancO, THR XING'S DICATH-TRAP. Mears. Rey nold; Sell, to.; MIL S. Loa—Mr. R. Fraser; Mr. Mark Floyd . Mr. awl Mra. Lassen and Mr. J. 111111coot—eA PTA Di G MAW. Meese Howe, Charlton, Meadamca Courtetwy, Booth, d.c. RION WATh& AT LONDON BRAWN. INN DAt —Yarning. 6h. 54s— —Afternoon, 7h. ANC To - Yokaow—Norning. 70. fais__..Attanaixo, sh. !4a. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4. LORD STANLEY has laid before Parliament a despatch to Mr. FORD, at Washington, of data so recent as the 16th ult., which shows clearly the state of the question pending between this country and the United States with regard to the Alabama claims. The difficulty raised so gratuitously by Mr. SEWARD on Lord STANLEY'S accession to office still obstructs a settlement. Mr. Sewanu had so framed his acceptance of Lord Swaszv's offer to refer the American claims to arbitration as to con vey the impression that it is the desire of the United States Government that any tribunal to be agreed upon in dealing with the Alabama claims may enter into the question whether the act of policy of her BlaJzsrv'sGovernment in recognising the Confederate States as a belligerent Power was or was not suitable to the circumstances of the time when the recognition was made. Lord STANLEY says distinctly that the QUEEN'S Govern ment cannot consent to a reference of this ques tion. In any reference of the Alabama claims to an arbitration, it must be assumed that an actual state of war existed between the Govern ment of the United States and the Confederate State' ; that point being conceded, it would be for the arbiter to determine whether there had been any such failure on the part of the British Government in its duties as a neutral as could be deemed to involve a moral responsibility on the part of the British Government to make good losses of Ameri can citizens caused by the Alabama and other vessels of the same class. This is the purport of Lord STANLEY'. despatch. The public, we believe, is by this time heartily weary of a discussion which seems interminable, and we are not going to multiply words upon it. There is one thing, however, most necessary to be remembered : Mr. SEWARD is undoubtedly the most aggravating of correspondents, but he may have for his suc cessor some one who will write less and behave worse. A great transfer of political power in the United States is foreshadowed by the late elec tions, and it is all in favour of the Democratic party—the old and bitter enemy of England, the party, moreover, to which the American Irish belong, and to which they are indispensable. If it should come into office while those claims were unsettled, and while Fenianism was rife, the conse quences might be such as the friends of peace and civilization on both sides of the Atlantic would deplore. IT is announced that Lord DERBY has prevailed upon the Bishop of New ZEALAND to become Bishop of Lichfield. If we are to accept the statements lately made by those of our con temporaries who make ecclesiastical subjects a spoScialitic the duty of the PRZYIER in providing successor to the lamented Dr. LONSDALR has been embarrassed with peculiar difficulties. If their reports are true--and, of course, we are unable to vouch for their correctness--Lord Drausy found himself anticipated in the selection of a new bishop, and encountered wishes and expecta tions which he was not at liberty to disregard and was unable to gratify. In this manner is explained the unusual delay in making the appointment, as well as the refusal of the vacant mitre by divines whose objections to the Episcopal office are un derstood to be not absolute and irrevocable, but who naturally object to be placed in a posi tion which for them would have been invidious. If difficulties of this kind have existed, they could be overcome in no better way than by resort ing to eminent merit, for before the suggestion of Bishop SELWYN'S name all mere personal predi lections must disappear. The appointment will take New Zealand by surprise. Bishop SELWYN left his diocese only a few months ago to attend the Pan-Anglican Synod, to the meeting of which he attached much importance. Probably nothing else would have brought him to England, and his presence here during the vacancy of the See of Lichfield undoubtedly determined his appoint. ment, for it is hardly conceivable that we should send to the Antipodes for a Bishop, even if he were known to be another AUGUSTINE. No one who has any knowledge of Bishop Smarm's career in New Zealand during an episcopate of a quarter of a century can doubt that it has cost him much to resolve on relinquishing the important work in which he has acquired so much distino tion ; and we may be quite sure that he has only done so in the conviction that an opportunity of greater usefulness is afforded to him in England. The Pan-Anglican idea gains by this appointment. Bishop SeLivvrt, Metropolitan of • free and un endowed Church, without a constitutional position in the State, " only a Colonial," becomes an English Bishop by mere translation. This fact will assist the apprehensions of some worthy Churchmen who were lately somewhat startled to hear of Bishops who had no palaces, titles, or seats in Parliament, sitting to deliberate at Lambeth on an equality with spiritual peers. It might no THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER doubt tend to unsettle the Church both at home and in the colonies if it were understood that the colonial episcopate was one of the avenues to high ecclesiastical office at home. But the cir cumstances of this nomination are peculiar, and it will probably be long before we see another English Bishop taken from the Colonial'. The Mocimento says The ministerial journals continue to speak 'of an insur rection on the rith of December, the day on which pule meet is to meet. These are unworthy uian,uvree of Signor Gemitsrio. The country has its eyes on parliament but it has no intention of intimidating it. The Na:ionc says that Garih ldi on his arrival at Caprera cordially thanked the captain of the Esploratore and more than once affectionately em braced Lieut.-Colonel Camozzi, who returned to Leghorn in the Esploratore. The following address to Signora Cairoli is being signed in the office of the Diritio: . - - Surnora,—The entire nation, for which you have suf• feted with no much heroism, sharesyour grief,and mothers, who alone can understand your feelings, contemplate you, like a Roman matron, great and firm in the midst of the terrible trials which the woes of Italy have accumu lated in your generous breast. We all shed tears for your noble sacrifices. We honour in you many Italian matrons who, with broken hearts and in view of the new holocaust offered up for the country, do not perhaps hope to see the result of their patriotic sacrifices- In your lofty forehead and in your calm countenance we read the history of Italy's woes. Read, signora, in our tears not the consolation which souls like yours always find in themselves, but the united determination to complete the redemption of our common country—a consolation worthy of you. OUR CONI'EMPORABIZEL (THIS DAY.) THZ LONDON CALMIL'i. Admitting that the cabmen are somewhat hardly need, and that generally speaking they are an obliging and intelligent body of men, the Times nevertheless thinks they have challenged the public on a point upon which the public are clearly in the right. The opposition to the lamps if raised at all should have been urged when the Traffic Act was before a select committee last session. If the strike continues, able-bodied men who are out of work at the east end should be engaged to attend the railway stations as porters. The cabmen are mistaken if they think they can force the public into submission. Meanwhile the Tibies would gladly see the ta' on the cabs reduced, and if this request be urged in a reasonable manner it will receive due attention. The Peat tells the men that they gave way to an exhi bition of temper quite uncalled for when they agreed at Exeter-hall last night to continue the evening strike till the first week is January. It would have been far better to await the result of to-day's deputation. To the Telegraph the issue between the cabmen and the public appears to be eminently susceptible of fair com promise. Were the prices of street locomotion regulated, like those of any other article of consumption, by the public demand, a strike of cabmen would be as anomalous as a strike of greengrocers or haberdashers. If the law did not step in to make the passenger pay more or the cabman take lees than he thought it worth his while to do, there would be an end of all possibility of dispute between the public and the hackney coach proprietors as a body. This is what we must come to in the end. Let the cabmen be assured that their grievances will be submitted to inquiry, and that, meanwhile, the lamp regulation will be allowed to remain a dead letter, and they will be only too willing to resume the work on which depend alike our own comfort and their livelihood. The Standard hopes that the generous interruption of Lord Elcho will prevent any further clashing between the cab interest and the authorities. The government have given the beat assurance of their ayir.pathy with the humblest of the working chimes, by the readiness with which they delivered the unfortunate coatermonger from his dilemma. It is not likely that the Ministry and Lord Derby will be less favourable to the cab interest. TIM FENIAN DEMONSTRA77ONS. Remarking that the emblems prohibited by the Party Pro cessions Act were probably considered those which would excite animosity in the district fix which they were exhibited, the Daily News hesitates to acquiesce in the charge of partial and unjust administration of the law which the Orange journals have unceasingly thrown out against liberal administrations in Ireland, and which it is the tendency of Lord Dufferin's remarks to sanction. It is unfortun►te that any remark of Lord Dufferin's should have challenged ♦ disclaimer on the part of Earl Derby against straining the law and attempting to bring within its limits offences which do not fairly come within its scope. If Allen and his associates were political offenders the funeral procession at Cork was no doubt a political demonstration. But the political character of their crime is denied, and on good grounds. We have no sympathy with the ebullitions of feeling which their fate has provoked ; but something must be allowed to human nature. No one in his senses imputes vindictive political feeling to the government. If the event should prove that they have erred, the error was unavoidable ; and it will need to be noted not for the purpose of blaming the past, but for the sake of guidance in the future. In the meantime nothing can be more foolish than to under rate the importance of such indications of Irish feeling as are presented at Cork and elsewhere. The deep-seated delusions which have actuated the gatherings may have been perversely absurd, but a strong feeling does not cease to be dangerous because it is unreasonable. Sentiment must be counteracted by sentiment ; and if we cannot get access to the heart of the people through the understand ing, some other path to it must be devised. From the suppression of the lawful expression of mistaken feeling nothing is to be hoped. The Times considers it a proper question whether we do not abuse our own strength iu suffering such language as that of several Irish journals of late to pass unchecked, but the conduct of the processioniate of Cork must be con sidered in itself, and the demonstration does not appear to have been an infringement of the Party Processions Act. Had the law officers come to a different conclusion, our contemporary cannot doubt that the government would have applied to the south of Ireland the same meaaure of justice it has meted out in the north, and would have prosecuted infractions of the statute wherever they had been perpetrated. The Herald counsels the suppression of such journals as the Nation and Irishman, which exist only for the pur pose of advocating a cause absolutely destructive of all liberty. It is but a foolish sort of confidence which affects to despise these papers and to undervalue the amount of mischief which they do. Vitt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Die. 3. The Queen accompanied by Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove to New Lodge yesterday afternoon, to visit and take leave of the Count and Countess of Flanders, previous to their departure for the Continent. Her Majesty wu received by his Excellency Mons. and Diadems Van de Weyer, with whom their royal high nesses were on a visit. Lord Charles Fitzroy, the Equerry;,in Waiting, was in attendance upon horseback. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, went to London this morning, and paid a visit of condolence to Viscountess Jocelyn, on the sad occasion of the death of her eldest daughter ; and also to Viscountess Palmerston, at her residence in Park lane. Her Majesty travelled by a special train on the Great Western Railway, and returned to Windsor Castle before luncheon. In attendance were lady Churchill, Lord Charles Fitz roy, and Colonel Du Flat. Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein diced with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday. Mr. Lawrence Peel, and Lieutenant-Colonel G. and Mrs. Gordon had the honour of being invited. A meeting of the Judicature Commission was held yesterday. Present—Lord Cairns , Sir William Brie, Sir James P. Wilde, Sir W. P. Wood, Mr. Boren Bramwell, Mr. Justin Blackburn, Mr. Justice Smith, the Attorney. General, Mr. W. M. James, Q.C., Mr. Quain, Q.C, Mr. Rothery, Mr. Apton, M.P., Mr. Chidden, M.P., Mr. F. D. Lowndes, Mr. Hallam, Mr. W. G. Bakson, and Mr. Bradshaw, the Secretary. A meeting of the Governors of Wellington College was held yesterday in the Palace of Westminster. Present— The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Stanhope, Sir J. W. Hogg, Bart., Mr. J. Walter, and Mr. H. R. Cox. Mr. Chance (Secretary) attended. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Churchill, was graciously pleased to pay a visit of condolence to Visoonntess Jocelyn yester day at Lady Palmenton's residence in Park•lane. Her Majesty also saw Lady Palmerston. ...„ . - The Duke and ' Duchess d'Aumale have left the Clarendon Rotel on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have left Stafford House, St. James's for Trentham, Staffordshire. The Marquis of Hartington has left town for Chatsworth. The Earl and Countess of Airlie have left town for their seat in Scotland. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has left town far Hawerden Cantle, Flintshba The brother of the Tycoon of Japan, accompanied by his suite, comjrising seven or eight persons, paid a visit to the House of Commons yesisrday evening, and were shown to the place tangoed to ambassadors and distin guished foreigners behind the clock. They remained but • few minutes, and during that time Lord Stanley joined them, and sat conversing with that. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. (ET ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, DEC. 3. The following is a summary of President Jolui son's message to Congress : The expectation of an easy restoration of the Union has been disappointed by congressional legis lation. No Union exists as our fathers understood it ; but he still hopes that all will finally concur in a settlement consistent with the country's interest and the constitution. Mr. Johnson urges Congress to repeal the act placing the south under military rule—a rule which if continued, will increase taxation, and may finally produce national bankruptcy. A standing army and an expenditure of over two hundred million dollars per annum would probably be re quired to maintain the supremacy of negro govern ment. Referring to the extent of the executive duty to oppose unconstitutional legislation, Mr. Johnson says that if Congress should pass an act, even through all the forms of law, to abolish a co-ordi nate department of the government of the country, the President must take the high responsibility of his office to save the life of the nation at all hazard. With regard to the currency question, Mr John son says that a return to specie payments is the obvious duty of the government at the earliest moment consistent with sound principles of political economy. A reduction of the cur rency need not necessarily follow. A sound currency should be restored, and the public faith regarding the debt should be sacredly observed. A return to specie payments would remove the prejudice which may arise against paying the earnings of the masses and the bond holders in a currency not uniform. Treating of the finances of the country, the message states that last year the receipts were 490 million dollars, and the expenses 346 millions. According to the estimates, next year's receipts will be 417 millions, and the expenses 393 millions. The War Department estimate is 77 millions. Alluding to foreign affairs, Mr. Johnson states that no question has seriously disturbed the country's foreign relations. The Alabama claim is still unsettled, and Mr. Johnson says he felt it his duty to decline arbitration in the matter, because, as hitherto proposed, it would be accom panied by reservations incompatible with the rights and interests of the country. Mr. Johnson adds : —" No apprehension need be felt that Great Britain will persist in refusing to satisfy these just and reasonable claims, involving, as they do, the principle of non-intervention, which henceforth is not more important to America than to other nations." The message further announces that a treaty has been concluded with Denmark for the cession to the United States of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John. Mr. Johnson also urges Congress to declare that the naturalization of a foreigner as a citizen of the United States absolves the recipient from allegiance to the Sovereign of his native country. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury sent to Congress estimates the receipts for the three quarters ending in June next, at 296,000,000 dots., and the expenses at 295,000,000 dots. The receipts for the year ending in June, 1869, are estimated at 381,000,000 dole., and the expenses at 372,000,000 dots. The public debt has been reduced by over 69,000,000 dots, since November last. The Secretary of the Treasury strongly advocates a contraction of the currency, the payment of the principal of the bonds in gold, and the continuance of the national banks. He also recommends the conversion of the whole of the national debt into six per cent. bonds, redeemable in twenty years ; the government to retain one-sixth of the interest, with the view of distributing it proportionately among the different states, instead of allowing the states to tax the bonds. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Die. 3, 6 rm. Closing Friona :—Gold, 137. Sterling exchange on London, 109 i. 5-20 United States Bonds, 108 ; Illinois, 134 ; Erie, 711. Cotten : Middling Upland, 16. _ . _ . . PHILADELPHIA, Dsc. 3. Petroleum : Standard white, 23. THE STATE OF ITALY. The Roman correspondent of La Liberte writes : The state of public feeling in the late kingdom of the Two Skilies is occupying the attention of the papal court, and the friends of Francis 11., General Ulla& and some others, are endeavouring to obtain a promise of the neutra lity of France in the event of insurrection breaking out in Naples, and proving favourable to the restoration of the ez-King of Naples. Ido not share in the illusions of the Bourbon party, but from information derived from a good source I do not think things can go on much longer as they have done. In Naples and Sicily the government of Victor Emmanuel has but few partisans. The town population is in favour of • republic ; the peo ple of the country, the clergy, and the nobility, are in favour of Francis 11. The Italian government hope to be able to put down the population of the large towns by the troops, which are at this moment being mobilised, but it will be difficult to suppress a rising in the distant pro vinces in the mountains of Calabria, where a jaquerie is said to be imminent. It is said that Mazzinian enrol ments which are going on in the provinces of Ricti and Orvieto are connected with the /aquatic in question. The authority and prestige of the monarchy have fallen so low that any event may be expected in Italy. The Florence correspondent of the same paper writes : Domiciliary visits and arrests, and nothing else, are talked about here. The Minister of the Interior arrests at the Wile time Capaelnea and Mazzinianc The ministerial journals report that the visit to the Chartreuse of Flo rence lasted for 36 hours. Several Carthusian were ar rested. Amongst the popery found was an investment of 6,0001. in the Italia funds. The Naples correspondent of the D e b a t s wr it es : The Bourbonians have distributed • proclamation amongst the national guards calling on them to pat an end to Italian unity. In the hoe of These menifestations it is not to be wondered at that the ministry are engaged in re organising the army which hes been weakened very much of late. Brigandage has re-appeared. There are at this moment four band' in the Terra de Levan, near the Boman frontier. The Italia of December 1, says : Important arrests were effected to-night. Amongst the arrested are several members of • Marrhtian committee In Florenoe. A seism* of arms ie also add to have been made. PRUSSIA AND HESSE-DARMSTADT. The Cologne Gazette publishes the despatch which Herr von Beust addressed on the 25th November to the representative of Prussia in Darmstadt, on learning that the Grand Ducal government had ac cepted the invitation of France to the conference on the Roman question. The Prussian minister after twitting the Grand Ducal government for its haste in accepting the invitation with out reserve, proceeds to ask whether it thinks such a proceeding exempt from the danger of being led into courses which might separate its policy from that of its German Confederates 1 "We cannot but think," Count Bismarck proceeds to say, " that if the Grand Ducal govern ment assumes position in regard to diffi cult European questions which, even quite recently were on tho point of grave com plications, without having first sought to come to an understanding with its German Confederates and the Confederation of the North, to which his royal highness has acceded, he will not find him self in accord with the spirit of the federal pact. We do not enter upon the question whether this proceeding and its consequences can be made to harmonize with the text of tho federal con stitution." (RECITE'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. NUMEROUS ARRESTS. FLORENCE, Die. 4. A number of important arrests have recently been made in various towns of Italy on political grounds. ROME AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, DEC. 4. It is stated that the Imperial Cabinet has noti fied at Rome that the course of legislation will be pursued without regard to the obligations of the Conoordat, if the Pope declines to release the Emperor, as a constitutional sovereign, from the treaty into which he entered while ruling as an absolute monarch. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, DEC. 3. In committee of the Upper House of the Reich.- rath yesterday, the debate came on upon the amendment& to the constitution laid before the house. Baron Beust made a long statement respecting the attitude observed by the government towards the Upper House, and dwelt upon the necessity of its advances being met in a corresponding spirit. The amendments relating to medical legislation, right of domicile, and education, were rejected; the arrangements respecting registers of landed pro perty were referred to the Diet ; and the clause regarding the power of decision by the Emperor in doubtful cases of competence between the Reichs rath and the Diet was not carried. The other amendments were not passed. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Disc. 3, EWiING. At the sitting of the Upper House of the Bava rian Diet to-day, the committee brought in a re port recommending the adoption of the bill regu lating the exercise of the different trades mainly in the form in which it had been sent up by the Lower House. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. ST. PETERSBURG • Dicc 3, Evzsura. The semi-official Journal de Si. Peterabourg per ceives with regret that the documents published by the French government in the Yellow-book present Eastern affairs in an improbable aspect, and very imperfectly explain the negotiations that have taken place as to the question of Crete. They not only represent the form in which the collec tive declaration of the Powers was Issued, in a modified shape, but they even weaken the extent of its application. The Jounial adduces in prtoof of the correctness of its views the unalterable refusal of the Cabinet of Vienna, in its note of the sth, to join in the collective declaration. Had that declaration possessed the sense and bearing the documents published in the Yellow-book would lead public opinion to believe, Baron Benet would have signed it without hesitation. THE BRAZIL MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Die. 4. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Shannon, from the Brazils, has arrived here, where her mails will be landed, and she will proceed to Southampton about noon. Among her passengers are Mr. Edward Thornton, her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Rio, and family ; Lord Dundonald, the Hon. Captain Cochranco, and the Hon. P. Le Poer Trench. During her homeward voyage to Lisbon the Shannon experienced fine weather, but from there she encountered heavy westerly gales. She spoke the Royal Mail steamer Atrato, all well. Another revolution had broken out in the River Plate. A Colonel Paparicio raised the standard of revolt on the 23rd October, near the city of Parpandu. It was rumoured that large numbers of the disaffected were joining Aparicio, and that the affair was likely to be serious. The Brazilian Minister of Marine had established a fortnightly service between Paraguay and Rio to alternate with the mails brought by the English and French River Plate packets. Reinforcements continue to be forwarded by the Brazilian government to its army at Paraguay. The third of the small ironclad' intended for river servioe was launched at the end of October, and would in a few days follow the other two, who were making their way to the seat of war. __ _ No official or circumstantial report had yet come to hand of either the alleged victories obtained over the Paraguayan cavalry, in one case by the Brazilian cavalry, and in the other by the Argen tines. 4, 1867. Two expeditions were announced to have set out, one to occupy and fortify Tayi, on the Paraguay, a little below and nearly opposite the mouth of the Vermejo, the object being to cut off the sup plies by the river ; the other was to proceed north ward in the direction of Asuncion, to destroy the Paraguayan deposits along the road and river. Each expedition comprised about 8,000 men. Cholera was disappearing in the allied camps. Small-pox had entirely ceased. The fleet remained in its former position. A railway was about to be laid down in the Chaco to connect the ironclada above'Curupaity with the depots below, so a% to enable those vessels to re ceive the supplies required for continuous and rapid cannonading on the Paraguayan works and camps. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM ova ORII CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY Byname. The first day's " interpellaiions" in the Corps Legialatif on the tough Roman question was en tirely occupied by M. Jules Fevre, who, however, did not speak at extreme length. The French deputies always take their work easy. Business begins considerably after the time fixed, and the occasions are rare indeed when that " tocsin of the soul, the dinner bell" fails to be responded to im mediately, no matter how great the eloquence or how important the discussion that it may cut short. The "representatives of the people" have drawn their large salaries from Nov. 18 to Dec. 2 without doing anything in public beyond a little talk last week on the high prices of provisions, and the con sequent suspension of certain duties on grain. They postponed for a fortnight all discussion on the urgent question of Rome, the special legisla tive measures which were the occasion of the extraordinary session in " November" being altogether thrown over in the meantime ; and when at last they came to the scratch, their patience only extended to hear a single speaker, who began at 3 in the afternoon and sat down at half-past 5. At that hour the house broke up. It was not quite dinner time, but the chances were that the next speaker would hold out beyond it, and therefore the debate was adjourned nem. eon. To-day the debate was resumed by M. Cheane long, an ultramontanist, whose sole point of agreement with M. Jules Fevre is that the government ought to make some " unequivocal " declaration of its policy to remove the present uncertainty. At the Bourse the winding-up of the late settle ment continued without any marked change in tho character of the market. Rente rose Tic. for cash and fell 74c. for account, closing at 69fr. 374 c., and 69fr. 174 c. THE HEAVY GALE. WINTRRTON, NORFOLK, TURBDAY. At daylight this morning (reports the Rev. Wm. Green) a schooner, afterwards ascertained to be the Sophia, of Colchester, laden with cement, bound for Tynemonth, was observed stranded about a mile north of Winterton. The Anna Mari► lifeboat, stationed at this place, belong ing to the National Lifebo►t Institution, was immediately launched and succeeded in landing the two remaining hands on board who were clinging to the rigging. The septain's wife and a boy were lost some time before the lifeboat was alongside the vessel. The wind has been blowing here very heavily for the last forty-eight hours from N. and N.N.E. We are much distressed at not being able to render any assistance to a difunasted schooner about two miles off. We can plainly distinguish half•s dozen men standing by the windlass as she rides most heavily, nothing but a steam tug from Yarmouth can save her. SKEGNESS, LINCOL.NSHIEE, TUZSDAT Ninny. Intelligence was received here yesterday (reports Wm. Everington, Esq.) that the services of the Herbert Ingram lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution were needed at Ingoldsmell. On arriving there we found that the Sutton lifeboat had followed the vessel there and rendered the required assistance. The Skegness boat wits about to return to her station when another vessel was observed to be stranded. She was the Aunt, of Easton, with grain for Goole, and she has become • total wreck. The lifeboat took two men off the wreck, one of whom is so exhausted that be is incapable of leaving here. The lifeboat went again off to-day in • terrific sea, in ac cordance with signals, but she was of no avail this time. SIITTORO, LINCOLNSHIRE, Tunnel' Mawr. The Birmingham No. 1 lifeboat on this station has again performed • very arduous bat successful service (says R. Brooke, Esq.). Yesterday the lifeboat's:crew were fortunately assembled ; the gale, which had been blowing with great violence, was then at its height. About noon a large brig was nen drifting along the coast to the northward in • very distressed condition, her mainmast gone, the whole of the remaining sails blown to atoms and fhttiering in the wind, signals of distress flying in the rigging. The lifeboat was launched in the most tremendous sea that I have ever seen off the comet. It was • long and arduous task to pull through the surf but it brought out the good qualitie s o f both men and bolt in a most admirable manner. So huge were the billows that the boat was often completely lost to sight. At last sail was got on the boat, and she started gallantly in pursuit of the distressed brig. It was a most interesting and anxious sight to see the chase—a race truly of life and death. The ship at last struck on a jutting point of land off Ingold Mills, about ten miles distant from Sutton, just as the b oa t overtook her. A communication was then effected between the ship and the lifeboat, ani the crew of seven men were rescued, and brought safely ashore in an exhausted state, and were very thankful for the help of the lifeboat. The ship proved to be the Clarinda, of Sun derland, and was bound to that port from Ostend in bal last, and she had been overtaken by the gale on Sunday when off Hartlepool She was thorougly disabled, and has since broken away and driven completely oat of sight. PORTRUSH, IRELAND, Simmer. In the terrific gale commencing yesterday (and still raging) the brigantine Vitrurius, of Liverpool, from Derry to If aryport, in ballast, came to anchor in the Elkerriee Roads, off Portrush (reports the Rev. J. Simpson) in • dangerous position. The coxswain was called out of church, who at once mustered the crew, and with the as sistance of the coastguard launched the lifeboat Zelinda, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution. They had, however, not proceeded far when it was thought that the shipwrecked crew had left their vessel, and they were accordingly signalled to return to the shore, which they did. The boat was launched a second time, but was driven back by the fury of the gale. Again, a third time she was launched, and happily succeeded in rescuing the crew of six men, bringing them safely ashore amid great rejoicing. We have not had such • gale for year*, and God help our poor fellows at sea. Four of the men rescued were married. RAMSGATE, Turst)sr ir na HT. Once more the lifeboat Bradford and steam tug Aid have been instrumental in rendering good service to a dis tressed versel and her crew (states Captain Shaw). In • fresh gale and and heavy swell, falls of snow and sleet—a brig was observed apparently near the Goodwin Sands wi'h • signal of distress in the main rigging, and soon afterwards she was seen to cut away both masts. The tug and life boats immediately proceeded off to the vessel and on arriv ing there very heavy confused seas were breaking all round her, and she was only riding by a single anchor, the other having previously parted. The lifeboat was slipped from the tug and made fast to the vessel, but broke adrift in consequence of the violence of the wind and sea, and it was only after great difEculty that the lifeboat crew were enabled to put their tow line on board the brig. It was then made fast, the vessel's ancho r was alippQ, and she was towed safely into Ramsgate harbour. She was the brig Cruiser, of Hartlepool, having • crew of six men, and was bound to that port from London in ballast. The lifeboats of the Institution at Margate, Holy Island, and North Sunderland (Northumberland), Withernses (Yorkshire), Theddlethorps (Linoolushire), Blakeney, and Yarmouth (Norfolk), Lowestoft, and Repengland (Suffolk), Rye (Sussex), and Fiatguard (South Wiles) hays also been out with the view of rendering assistance to the crews of distressed vowels. It will be observed that the lifeboats of this great and national Institution have been incessantly ensard night and day dories the resent heavy gales, and they have resood nearly 900 persons from various shipwrecks. A Naples letter of the 28th ult. says :—" Vesu vius k attracting thousand. of strangers from all parts of Europe, who crowd the way up to the Hermitage. The be.. of the mountain at night is illuminated with a multi• trade of torch.. carried by explorers, and when viewed from Naples prude.. a endow effect, which is increased when the jet from the volcano launches forth dames mixed with stones. Long observation leads to tbo belief that this eruption will last about Qua* weeks." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prius.—(Before the Lord Chief Luon and • Special Jury.) HOWARD r. NORHADI. • The defendant pleaded that he did not make the ali a l4 pplrosibThlinisenristiff;Mrghan.anHaa:wMitinsonr. C. Chapman Chs;hdofltirwpare.rciniFri;nnciosfjuanl7" thfßo; the defendant. In the opening of counsel the plaintiff, Louisa Howard, was described as • young woman, about 18 pen of aa who had form er ly b een i n th e serv i ce of the lion. ma:: Chichester, but was now a dressmaker, and the 4 d . fendant as a gentleman, much older, who held th. porition of secretary to a French nobleman of the highest position residing in this country, s a d who boasted of having landed possession in Few" and an income of more than I,Ooof. a year. It era, said that in February, in the present year, the defend... accidentally met the plaintiff with her mother in Hyde. park, said she was a very nice girl, and he would like is see her again ; that she was surprised at his attentions, and returned an evasive answe r ; bat she ultinestely agreed to meet him the same evening at Hyde -park. corner, provided her mother accompanied her ; that the meeting took place as arranged, when the defendant stated who he was, and made an offer of ma r r i age t o th e d aughter, and that, being carried away by his brilliant represent& Lions, she listened t oo readily to his proposals. Subse quently the defendant sa id he did not wish his friends to know of the connection until be had left England, sad be requested the plaintiff to take apartments for him self sad her under the names of Monsieur and Madam e Orsini, and wear the we ddi ng r i ng, as if t h ey had been married. This was done, and the plaintiff took possesaion of the apartments, under the belief that she world, according to the promise of the defendant, be mended en a few days. Ultimately, as w as alleged, the defencLat seduced her, and on being taxed by the mother with his misconduct, he repeatedly warted that he would keep his promise. Some time afterwards the plaintiff had a mis carriage. It was further stated that the defendant made an appointment with the step-father for the purpose of entering into arrangements for the marriage, but he did not keep it, and went abroad. Mary Ann Vinnicombe was the first witness called. She deposed—l am the wife of Alfred Vinnicombe. The plaintiff is my illegitimate daughter. lam • dressmaker. I have been in service as r lady's maid. The last situ tion I have held was with the Hon. Mrs. Chichester. My daughter was :a Berrie* with me at the same place. On the '_' 3rd February last I met the defendant Captain Morhain. My daughter was with me . W e were uttiag on a seat a Hyrde-perk. I saw Captain Morhain pan by two or three times. Afterwards he came up to my side, near the Duke of Wellington's statue in Piccadilly. I tol him he must have mistaken the party. He said be had not, and that he wished to speak to the young lady with me. I said she was my daughter. He said he had fallen in lore with her at filed sight. He then asked if he might meek to her. We walked up and down several times. He asked me if I would allow him to pay his addresses to my daughter, and I replied I would c o n s id er a b ou t it. W e next saw lint the Name evening in St. James's-park. He showed me his watch with hie name on it. He said he was secretary to Count de Paris. He said he would make my daughter his wife in a short time—in • fee days. This was on the Saturday, and he waited to meet my daughter again on the Monday. He gave her three sovereigns to buy some clothes with, so that in the folios. ing week he might introduce her to his friends. On Ilea day I went down to Twickenham where he said he lived, and I found what he told me was perfectly °erred. Os Monday I saw him again at about 2 o'clock at Hyde-park. corner. My daughter was 17 last March. He wished bet to take apartments under the name of Madame Orsini, as he desired to be married very privately. He said they would be married on the &turd Tuesday my daughter went into apartments in to n Vans. hall-bridge-road. We then went to Sphere and Pond's and had dinner together. Afterwards my daughter went to the apartments, and he said he was going to Twickenham. On • subsequent day my daughter made • communicates to me, and I immediately asked him when he intended to marry her. He said he would first make himself comfortable and marry her in two or three days. My dant. ter went to live at other apartments in Vauxhall-bridge road. I and no husband went to live there. The defendant visited us at these second lodgings. He treated my daughter very kindly—very nice. He never called at night except once, and that I might say was in the after noon. He began to discontinue his visits about the beginning of March. I then went down to Te idea. ham erith my husband. I Galled at York-home, which belongs to the Count de Paris, and asked to see Captain Morhain. He sent me out to the gate • sove reign by a woman. I immediately returned it, and said I did not want his money, but wanted to see him. I them saw him. He said if I would go home quietly he would come up to London next day and arrange for the marriage in two or three days. He came up at 10 next morning. Ile said he was going abroad, but before he went be would make my daughter his wife and place her in sow house of business, where her mind would be occupied while he was away. I went to a &me maker's in Grosvenor-street, to see about her going there. On the 9th or 10th April I saw him again. His tone was still the same—that he would marry her in • few days. On the sth June my daughter had • miscarriage. t tie mately the defendant went abroad, and I have not sees him since. When I was in service I called my daughter sometimes my sister and sometimes my niece . I did not wish it to be known that I had any family. Cross-examined by Mr. Hawkins—l have three children, all of whom are illegitimate ; but they are none the Tone for that. My daughter Julia is not living with a fish monger in Marylebone-lane. She is his housekeeper. He is • married man. On my oath I don't know whether she lives with him as his mistress Her age is 16 years. I have asked the question whether she lives with him, end I am told there is nothing wrong. The third daughter lives with me. I live in Jainesotreet, Edgware-road. I occupy ens room. It is • ititchen—a cellar if you like. I pay ss. bd. a week for it. When my daughter first went to live with the fishmonger be was living at Knightsbridge. I cannot say whether there was • disturbance between lnim and hie wife 1 m ren y Pe cr' i th ng er t m w y o I was married to Mr. Vinnicombe four years sge. daughter.T daughters is he a f su ath pe er ri ii . th d e en p t lai d ati pam d sad Before then I had been in service twelve Team e The plaintiff lived with me five months while I 1 was with Mrs. Chichester. I left that lady because she was going abroad. We were sitting on a seat in Motto row when we first saw Captain Morhain. He did en appear to notice me nor my daughter. When he after wards spoke I told him what I was. I did not tell him my daughter had just come up from the country. I 1181 not say abc was my deter. He gave her half • sovereign • to buy some gloves. Did you tell him you were very hungry and ask him is r a Thoset i alncr; y w o e u re a w ak h me. i him s thi w n :to ni t s g; wi h m e t t h ii ? y — ou l l i r Le ae :iceete cl o a f ogease t . h ted e thi4 ,6, % 1 Leicester-square than I am. He said he would like is II take us somewhere to get a glass of wine, but that he a a hneotwknasovweryof well f r l;e 7n ex th cep en t . in ( Lei bui ceste ghter r-sq .) oredo.etHekosti! done. even my way to _ The witness was then joes:C.Linilied at some legit with the view of showing that she had left several lok instil she bad occupier' in debt, and that in some instance she had received notice to quit. One home, she averred. she quitted because it was not well conducted. lrbe , „ l took the apartments (she ooatinued) in Vsulhw Bridge-road I said they were for my daughter, who vas married to a Frenehman—that was accorlinz to Cart" Morhain's wishes. He gave me his word and honour that be would make her his wife. Captain Morhain slept there with my daughter. It is wrong to say I hired the room for the purpose. After the dinner at Spier+ and Pond's, be said he was going home, and bid me good ni ht. tu.:l9 went back to the child. I called next morning after as Frenchman had gone. I bad no ides ohs had happened until she told me, and is my sorrow. During the whole of the 6 21 I am speaking of my husband and myself were out d place, and we were living on the money we had saved. I never was complained of in any house about my septet' ability. In one house I lived at I complained to the landlady of tier allowing a girl to sleep with a Frenchman in the room next to where I and my daughter slept, sod she did not like what I said. I had no medic ,l , ittereleit for my daughter when she miscarried. I did not think one was required. How much money did yon get from the captain alto getter never had • shilling from him. H' provided my daughter with clothes. He told her to get dreams with low bodies against she came to his one country, where she would have to go to dinner parties. (laughter.) He said he would introduce her to his friend.. Re that time be had found out who and w hat von were! —And be found out I was • very respectable woos& (Laughter.) After be bad ruined my child be tried to get out of his promise the best way he could. I dos't know whether my daughter received as much moneys 2.4. from Certain Morhain. I never got any of his money. I had nay savings, and my husband had morel coming emu his friends an America. A fcw weeds sfe be received a remittance of 50 dollars. This seduction bas distressed you very much ?—Ted. Has it affected your health sod spirits ?—I can't say dud it has. Ten have ste letters of Captain Morhain !—No ; he log much tiro artful and crafty for that. A man of 10 krano bit hook tea well for • child of 10. The Lord Chief Baron—What do you say is the age d the defendant '--.lsetween 10 and 50. t'u re-examination the witness said she had brought :P all her daughters as servants. This was the stage at which the case had arrived wheel the court edjourned at a rather late hour last night. At the sitting of the court this morning. Mr. (lough said that haying seen certain lettere in the Mu of the ether side be had come to the conci cial hat be ought not to proceed further with the HOC red samordingly„ with the persuasion of the court, he woe withdraw a jam. Mr. Francis on behalf of the defendant said that if hie i W