The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-28 00:00:00

BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. Elte ervreoo. TO COILUBTONDZNTS. ldoiorlinnwels Wended toe The amiss... London livening most no at the Mos, 10. itouvolio-atreek bj Two 1 :1Me on Ws day et pnbileolion. Tong Emma, TILE BKOK6N-aIIARTED CLUB —A WIFE WELL WON. awn. Bothern, Buckstoue, Hoye, Kendal, =, Braid. Weathonlig, &a. ; and Mho Itobertenn.—After AN LIMA PLIA-VERSION OF THY BILIGAND. PRINCES'S Tins Emma, THE OULLEIVI HAWN. Mr. sad MIL Dion Banclcsalt—After which THE BISECTS 01 LONDON. Vista& Seem. Murray, Shore, Neville. Forrester, meuoa, Ac. Wens Elsworthy, IL Berserk Isobel Seam sad JUL Addle. erRAND. TIM itTintatl, OLD BALT. Mr. Emety and Wee Netly Moore. .after which THE CAJAPH OF BA AD. Mews. Thorne andiron'; Mesdames Ada SwanborouglL Johnstone, Harland, Holt, ttc.—And COAL AND COKE. HOLBORN. Tuls Entsmo, THE FLYING dug? D. Hamra Atkins, }Tice. Garen, Arthur, Westland, and Wilmott Mesdames Henrade stombill, and Banndere.--Cutildade with VALINTIMI AND ORSON. Ydie. Montero, Little Rowell; i.e. BILTAI THIN Eenarea, DON QUIXOTWIE LL. OR, SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERIZA. Mrs. Lana, &Mimes Edwhi et Booth: Pale tanslntlite Mews. Deena, Lana Newham, and Victerelll . HMIs. C. Stephan and KW Noes Nathan.—And WHO DID IT MOH WATIN AT LONDON BILIDON. TIM DIA —Morning, Oh. 10m..._ _Afternoon, 4h. 31m. to-Monsow—Morning. itt. glini— —.Afternoon, sh. 2.g. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. THE Report of the Brighton Board is of a I very critical character. The new Directors address I the shareholders in the tone of a surgeon who is proceeding to a capital operation. There is the disease, its fatal character designated by unmis takeable symptoms : is the patient prepared to submit to the painful method which alone can save him, or must he be left to thoee who will smooth for him the path to certain death ? The , ordinary Brighton shareholders, accustomed to Six per Cent. Dividends, are now told that the operations of another half-year have yielded nothing for them, nor even enough to pay dividend on all the Preference Stocks. The 8,000,000/. added to capital during the last ten years has made the difference between success and failure. True that, bad as things are, they might yet be made pleasant ; the late Directors knew how to do it. They had only to take a " broad, genial, practical" view of the relations of revenue and capital, and the charges to which both are liable, so as to let capi tal help revenue a little here and there, and the thing was done. But the present Directors took office on known principles, and upon them theytake their stand ; they declare that the undertaking must live as it best can upon its annual revenue, and that " they can be no parties to any attempt to " relieve revenue by making undue charges to " capital." More than that, they have to state that the condition of the line when they took office now proves to have been worse than they then supposed, or than the share holders have been informed. Will the pro prietors support directors who proclaim thus freely the must unpleasant truths ? If they are tired of investigations which spare nobody, and shrink I , from radical reforms, they will soon have an opportunity of showing their disposition. The I Ward very properly make the endorsement of their policy a question of confidence. It will be the easiest thing in the world to get back the old directors and their policy—but not the Six per Cent. Dividends, we fear. During the last six months the total estimated liabilities have been reduced from 2,323,17 V. to 804,3201. Half a million of this latter sum is admittedly duo in respect of works and land, and a quarter of a million consists of disputed liabilities in connexion with the Surrey and Sussex and Chichester and Alidhurst Railways. The directors refuse to disburse any more of the company's capital in subscriptions to these lines, and aro endeavouring to make good in the Court of Chancery the title of tho company to receive back the sums which the former directors paid ; but they state that their object in these proceedings is to bring on a compromise, which, however, their opponents must propose. They have expended '200,0001. on capital account during the half-year upon new lines in progress or in winding up the accounts of lines recently opened, but they have done so with a view to closing that account. Tho gross revenue of the half-year shows an increase of 5:1,8961. over that of the corresponding half of 1866. The gross revenue of 1867 amounted to 1,21i2,00/., as compared with 1,189,944/. in 1866. So far all is satisfactory ; but when we proceed to the conversion of gross revenue into net, we conic upon a rate of working expenditure of which the proprietors, kept quiet with divi dends paid out of capital, have until lately been permitted to know nothing. The report of Messrs. Pares, HOLYLAND, and WATERHOVrit, dated last June, showed that, on the face of the published accounts, an expenditure of 120,3791., which ought to have been charged to revenue, had been carried to capital, and that the due assign ment of that sum would have raised the working expenses to 68 per cent. of the gross receipts. But further investigations show that that estimate was below the mark ; for, notwithstanding the wondrous outlay of capital of late years, many works of first necessity have been postponed or neglected. At the present time engines, carriages, and other rolling stock, to the value of several hundreds of thousands of pounds, are standing exposed to the weather for want of shed-room, and some of the stations are tumbling to pieces. The Directors declare their belief that "if all proper expendi " ture had been incurred and charged to revenue, " the real rate at which the Brighton line has " been worked for some time past has not been " below 75 per cent., and that during a great " portion of the tune, while dividends of 6 per " cent. were being declared on the ordinary " stock, the company was not really earning enough "to pay its preference interest." It is by per formances of the kind now unmasked that the rreatest joint-stock interest of the country is being ruined in public esteem. Such dis closures may well excite the indignation of the shareholders. The Directors are doing all they can to reduce workng expenses, but they observe that the reform of a system which has fallen into such a state of complete confusion, with arrears and deficien cies continually coming to light, must be a work of time. Working expenses in reality form the key of the position of the ordinary shareholders of thi s com pany. When it is no longer possible to eke out net revenue receipts from capital for dividend purposes, everything will turn on those expenses. The Directors accordingly devote much apace in their Report to the conaideration of this question, and show what they have done towards its solution ; but they admit that "it is " useless to disguise from the shareholders " that the rate of expenses on a line like the " Brighton is necessarily high." The reason they give is the proportion which the length of the branch and cross lines bears to that of the main line; the lowness of maximum fares, and the special of Bobleawipl character of a large portion of t, unusual accommodation requied. order to be able to reduce ture that the Directors seek au - - . working interests of the Brighton ing companies ; and of the prospects of the line ' under those conditions they venture to indulge " a very sanguine hope that not only will the " Preference dividend be secured, but that "an honest dividend may, before long, "be earned on the ordinary stock." Even this modest hope, which the Directors consider sanguine, is qualified by the remark that " the " problem of working with a closed capital " account is one that remains to be solved." Further on, however, as are glad to observe, they take heart, and declare that with traffic increasing and expenses diminishing, there is " every reason " to hope" that the Company will be able to pay all its preference charges, and that when the work ing agreement with the Southern and Chat ham Companies is in operation, " not only " will this be the case, but the ordi " nary stock will be placed in a position in " which it will reap the benefits of all further de " velopment of traffic in a dividend which, " although small at first, will be constantly pro " greasing." It must be remembered that the Brighton line must be worked for 55 per cent. to pay its preference charges ; and that the average working rate of the railways of the United King dom is 50 per cent. The Brighton Directors are well aware that their statements must be most unpalatable to share holders who have been carefully misinformed as to their real position ; but they are not respon sible for the evils under which the company is suffering, although it falls to them to apply the sharp remedy. The stern facts of the case are that during the last ten years 8,000,0001. of fresh capital have been added to the original capital of 8,000,0001. without producing a single sixpence of net revenue, and that working ex penses have been increased until a gross income of 1,200,0001. yielded no more net return than was formerly afforded by only 750,000/. Her Majesty the Queen will hold a Council at Osborne on Thursday next, the 30111 inst. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial ogles from the Governors of the Strata Settlements, the West lad= Islands, Bermuda, New Zeeland, Malta, and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the Governors et Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, lAbumi, the Australian colonies, the Straits Settlements, the Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. The eon of a farmer named Howard, living at Benny Bridge, who by the loss of one of his legs has been Incapacitated from following his ordinary pursuits, recently sent to the Princess of Wales " • true lovers' knot," which be had carved out of wood with his own knife, and which he offered to her royal highness as • mark of re spectful attachment. Howard has just received the following unexpected acknowledgment, dated from Sand ringham Palace !—" Bir,—l have received the commands of the Princess of Wales to thank you for your kind atten tion, and to say that she has pleasure in returning the offering which you have sent her, and that she regrets the circumstance under which your ingenious work was executed. Her royal highness has further directed me to enclose a cheque for ten guineas, as • little pecuniary acknowledgment, to which she hopes there will be no objection. I am, sir, your obedient servant, HERBERT FISHCIL—Mr. Howell Howard." We (Iferald)are happy to state that the improve ment in Lord Derby's health continues, and that there is every expectation that the noble Premier will take his seat amongst the peers on the opening of parliament. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland ar rived at Northumberland House yesterday from Albury Park, Surrey. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings re turned to Donnington Park on Friday from their visit to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol's party at Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds, where they have been entertaining a imooesaion of visitors, separated about the middle of last week. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury's party at Savernak• Forest, last week, included Maria Marchioneu of Ailesbury, the Earl and Connteu of Dun. more, Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt, Viscount and Viscountess Somerton, Viscount Canterbury, Lord and Lady Charles Bruce, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Colonel Hon. H. and Mrs. Byng, Colonel Maude, &c. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Ladies Ashley are shortly expected to arrive in town from Nice. - - . to inspoot . body Gazette of Vienna publishes the following protocol drawn up on the occasion : The undersigned, haviag bee& celled on to examine the body of the late Emperor of 3dsidoo, met in the refectory of the Capucin Convent, and afterwards proceeded to the vault wherein repose the members of the Imperial family. The (wenn, in grenadine wood, brought from Mexico by Vice-Admiral Tsgethog, and deposited en Saturday. January 11, 1868, after the funeral ceremonies on that day, was opened and found to contain a corpse embalmed and still well preserved, which the undersigned unani mously recognised as that of the Emperor above-named. The identity of the body having been thus saoertainsd, the coffin was re-cloud. The Grand Master of the Court then delivered up the key of it to the Secretary, in order that it might be deposited in the Crown Treesun. Whereupon the present protocol was drawn up. (Here follow the signatures.) The New Free Press gives the subjoined descrip tion of the dead body : The face haa become exceedingly dark, and the forepart of the heed is deprived of hair. At the temples, where the balls struck, some mall piece; of velvet were seen ; the beard is well preserved. The dress is composed of a close fitting black jacket trimmed with velvet, and dark grey trousers. The hands are covered with blast gloves and the feet encased in patent leather shoes. (warint's maaivars.) THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. (sr MALTA AND ALEXANDRIA TELEGRAPH.) ALIIXANDRIA. JAN. 27. Intelligence has been received from the captives to the 16th December, at which period they were in good health. Menelek has retired without attacking Magdala. The troops at Senaf*S are in excellent health. The mortality among the mules continues. i~ B ' : • ,aatislity ta Othello, which English Mare .oblige 4 . 40 pronounce in • manner t front the vernacular, not to shock the public ear too much, is ejaculated over and again without any disguise. The end of the is that the good grey-headed old sculptor, a type of the heavy stage father, persuades his son to return to his virtuous wife, and the erring and impetuous adulteress marries the villain for no other purpose than that of confirming her real lover in his virtuous but vacillating resolution. Such is a faithful, and scarcely incomplete, sketch of a play which it is the fashion of the hour to hold up as the tee }Alta ultra of French dramatic genius. The principal parts were reasonably well played by the old hands, Got, Delaunay, Coquelin, Mdlle. Favart, and Madame Victoria Lafontaine. MR. COLE'RIDGE, M.P., ON THE PERMISSIVE' AND SUNDAY CLOSING BILLS. Last evening Mr. Coleridge, M.P. presided at the anneal meeting of the Exeter Liosnied Victuallers' Association. With regard to the measure which had been loosely and vaguely called the Permissive Bill, it must be rembersd by its promoters, said the hoe. gentleman, that although it might be suitable for the south of England it might not be so for the north, and vice rend. Every mime ' able modern, and candid man, mustreeollect in dealing with an a ct of parliament, that the habits and manners of the people were different in different parts of the country. With regard to Sunday lemSlation, no man would ever induee him to lend himself to anything which bad the semblance of class legislation. One class should not legislate for another class, in ignorance of the feelings of that class, and without regard to their prepossessions sad prejudices. When it was said that the man who wanted a glass of beer on the Sunday in • public-house was not to hare it, he (Mr. Cole ridge) asked himself the question, "How can I go to my club and take • glair of sherry, and at the same time consistently in ere with what, for aught I can tell, may be a most reasonable, proper, and excellent relextion for the working man?" (Cheers.) It was • relaxation upon that one day and that day only, the man having pre viously had • hard week's work. Every Englishman must desire the innocent, healthy, and religious employment of Sunday for all classes of the community, but if taking a glass of sherry after dinner and then going • walk te the country did not interfere with the proper observance of the day, which God had oonmerated to himself, pray why should not the working man be allowed to have a walk in the country also and take his glass of beer at some public - house ! (Cheers.) This was the spirit with which he desired to approach this question, but he would not pledge himself as to what course he should take in parliament. Let the publicans who wanted to close the public-houses on Sunday, in order that they might have more recreation, petition parliament accordingly, but for himself he was not prepared to support any bills limiting further the present limitation—the closing of public-houses on Sundays. Adverting again to the Permis sive Bill it could not be said that the present system of licensing was at all satisfactory. He bad practised as a barrister at quarter sessions, and with all respect for con stituted authority he could conceive that the licensing sys tem could be better conducted than by the magis trates of quarter sessions. The drunkenness of this country was most discreditable to it. Free trade with respect to the granting of the licenses had been adopted in one part of the country ; but be did not think that com plete free trade would answer. The magistrates of Liver pool, declining their jurisdiction, had given licenses to all comers. and the results had been most disastrous. The principle of the Permissive Bill was well and reasonable enough in theory, but in his opinion it would work ex tremely ill. (Cheers.) WWATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TCESDAI..IA:4CART Si, 8 A.M. l igar I 1$4;4 1 1 !..111111 V I R E-3 s 114_ .1\ A 1 I Ci b . JANUARY 71. th oimp ; sad ' t LA TINTELLIGENCIL • , very ni 0.1 * wo.i. g;pendb. • top. ygr THIt 1001 BROR MAXIttIRW. '• • morning, In order legally to prove the death of the late 04 pub Emperor Maximilian, a commission two clays back over ag Wann anialwithgamaneiati:u li„ or e f. att gl deedQui ld eell-the rileeso walkputhauled Chr i:l telbe ß°thezburg7Cdee4ollfroietio repaired to the imperial vault, and there proceeded reified+ of the of Schleswig-Holstein, and Prins* Arthur also went out. to impost the body of the deceased. ►rh° Official type o f whole b PORTUGAL LISBON, JAN. 27. The King to-day distributed the prizes to the pupils of the Polytechnic School. The country continues tranquil. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. trim OUR ows coaausroenaer.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The loan now announced by M. Magne is of no significance whatever either as regards peace or war. Far from being, as was at one time antici pated, an appeal to credit for great reproductive public works, it is a cheeseparing measure, asking timidly and parsimoniously for only the least possible amount of money (large as that amount is) reluctantly confessed to be necessary to tide over existing difficulties. For this poor purpose M. Magne is fain to admit that " great patriotic sacrifices are necessary from the country." M. Magne may have the satisfaction of urging that his financial report produced no fall at the Bourse. No doubt the usual efforts were made to support the market for this day, and there are many vati cinations that to-day's quotations will not hold till the end of the week. However this may be the closing prices of the Rente, after very slight oscil lation, were 68fr. 25c. for cash, and 08fr. 32ic. for account, being a fall in the first case but of 10c., and in the second a rise of tic. Italian rose 17ic. Credit Fonder, Mobilier, and Comptoir d'Esompte closed at about Saturday's quotations. There was a fall in Mexican Bonds of 10fr., the general interpretation of the report, so far as they are concerned, being that the holders will get less than was lately expected. The Petrie, one of the papers originally included in the prosecution for illegal " reports" of the de bates, but ultimately discharged with a none pro sequi, says very honestly this evening that after read ing the judgments against 10 of its contemporaries (some of whom, by the way, were convicted against the opinion of the public prosecutor) it is totally at a loss to understand why it was not just as guilty as the others. In the present state of the law, it will abstain fromany notice whatever of the debates. But it will treat, as it has an undoubted right to do, of the questions discussed day by day in the chambers, and give independent " parallel" opinions upon them. The imprudence of the government campaign may be judged of when its own best supporters are driven to such devices. A new play by M. Emile Augier is always an event. He is generally held to be the first of living French dramatists, and if greatness consists in setting forth a modern, hackneyed, and &bore all an indelicate story, through the antiquated medium of marvellously harmonious verse, few will contest his right to the palm he enjoys. The Francais, on Saturday, played for the first time his now drama, Paul Forestier. The censure prohibited the representation at first, and if the veto had been maintained few authoritative acts of inter ference with the freedom of the stage would have been more justifiable. His hero, Paul Forestier, is a painter, the son of a sculptor. The young artist has a mistress, who is a married woman but separated from her husband. The father, a widower, who for love of his son shrank from a second marriage, adopted the daughter of the HOMO that he would have liked to be married to. This daughter he destines to be the wife of hie son. He makes the proposal to him at a moment when the latter happens to have had a quarrel with his mistress, and the young man accepts the wife provided for him by his father. Before the celebration of the marriage the mistress, having re solved to make an amende honorable, comes to pay a visit to the son, and getting into the wrong studio —(both father and son are artists)—she makes Fo restier, sen., acquainted with her position. He reads her such • sermon about the honour of his family that she consents to get out of the way for six months, and to withdraw her pretensions if at the end of that period Forester, jun., forgets her. The mistress being thus happily got rid of the mar riage takes place between the artist's son and the virtuous young lady found out for him by paternal solicitude. Five months of turtle dove bliss are supposed to follow. At the end of that time the mistress, her divorced husband Thum or Da. JOHN DAVY, M.D., F.R.S.—We g a have to record the death of Dr. Davy, the brother and in the meantime dead, returns to Paris from biographer of Sir Humphrey Davy, and eminent as • tour in Italy- The villain of the piece, a friend of chemist, geologist, and nhyeiologist, which took pleas on all parties, has had an intrigue with her at Venice the 24th inst., at his residence, Lesketb•how, near Amble- —not that she liked him, but that she wi shed to side. The deceased gentleman was born at Penzance, is Cornwall, in 1790. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, be revenged on her real lover, of whose wedding sad took his M.D . ared t, degree in that university in 1814. she h a d h ear d, y he ts i d and in at the . and whose wedding-day she chose tHe ime of his decease deliberately for the single favour which she granted general of army hospitals. The deceased has been to a being equally detested by both. The villain, a most copious writer having written several volumes on imaging general 'abject., heckles • large number of inners who it is part of the "cunning" of th e dramatist over the whole field of natural soignee. His physiological to represent as unaware that ha is hated and not repearebes have been principally pub fished in the " Phhlo eophiced Transactions; the " Tranaartions " of the Reyal Swishy of Ediabergh and the Royal Medico- loved, tells young Paul Forestier of all that has cal happened at Venice, and begs him to go to see the Sealetr- Davy displayed la intimate "Paint' lady and mike an offer of marriage to her on his ease with, arid has sue written largely on, the soleness of • of series "lectures on Olt4o day. The weak-minded Paul goes to see his old rzsatenss, =and chemistry. One of his most behalf. Prism redit Venus is then the order of the mistrv," in which this sciences is regarded lend ts relations to the eteeeerhae, the earth . the et . , the as a m istress, not to fulfil his mission, but to over apteeltere. The deceased was a fellow of the R ai l whales her with - rep roaches for her infidelity to Sosiggies of Leedom end Edinburgh, anther of "hi ze , A sce ne follows which can scarcely be de af Oh Hamphrey Davy," sad eater of his solleshid . scribed but by the French word " imposeible." works, 9 'rola, he. A The Earl of Devon and Lady Agnes Courtenay purpose to return from the Continent on the meeting of parliament. Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse and family have arrived in Belgrave•square from their seat, Killarney, Ireland. THE FENIANS AT BOW-STREET. (THIS DAY.) The demeanour of the people assembled in Bow street and its approaches this morning was in the highest degree suggestive. A stranger standing at the corner of Wel lington-street and the Strand at a few minutes before 9 would have been struck with the amused expression of the men and women clustered at the doors of shops, on the steps of newspaper offices, and at odd places in the street. There was something irresistibly attractive abroad, for foot passengers and omnibus riders, cabmen, and crossing-sweepers, were all on the broad grin. Follow ing their glances you saw • couple of unusually stalwart policemen patrolling the pavement quietly and peacefully, but each with • cutlass suspended from the leather girdle encircling the substantial waist of that ugly black serge dressing-gown—the police uniform-coat. That was all. Two or three couples of of large and stolid policemen were dotted about the Strand, end the fact of their wearing swords was positively construed into a comic incident. Presently there was • clatter of horse's-feet, and a harsh rumble of wheels, and a score or so of mounted constables followed by a police van turned the corner of Wellington-street, at shriek trot, and drawing up in line across the road at Bow-street, kept • clear space in front of the police-office. From the Strand to Bow-street everybody had been abnor mally alive. The coatermongers with barrows just filled from Covent-garden ; the potato merchants reckoning up their morning's gains, and regarding the real business of the day as over; the threatrical hair-dresser in night shirt and slippers evidently just roused by the noise from bed ; the sodden-faced people out of the gin-shops neer ; the printer's men and clerks at the various journalistic offices ; the official messengers proceeding to early duty at Somer set-house ; the roughs and blackguards assembled for their regular morning's gossip over the goal-delivery—a guard of dishonour to the state coach ; the wine merchants' men stocking their carte with bulky hampers at the corner ; the poor wretches clustered round the closed doors of the Albion, in ltusaell-street,to beg for broken victuals ; the boot-cleaners under the Lyceum portico, and the carvers at the ham and beef shop, were all laughing. Fenianisin might have been • playful jest, • mere pantomimic demon stration, like a buttered slide or • potted baby, to see the uniform air of puzzled amusement with which the armed policemen were viewed. When the van reached Bow street another little cluster of constables, also enthused, with Mr. Superintendent Durkin, looking wonderfully smart and urbane, at their head, received it, while the men on horseback drew in two lines across the street, so as to keep a clear space in front of the police-court. A struggle to peep between the horses ; a vein endeavour to peer through the steam rising in thick clouds from their smoking hides ; • general mounting on cabbage-carte, cab. wheels, and on each other's ahoulders; &glimpse of something alive, but wholly unrecognisable for policemen, now in abet, now in • cap, being handed in regular order between a row of felt helmets, and past Mr. Durkin, into an unpretending looking private house, satisfied the crowd. There was no further attempt to see which of the bats or caps covered the alleged authors of the Clerkenwell outrage, nor half so much interest taken in the prisoners is their guard. There was neither sympathy, nor hissing, nor cheering ; and even the usual semi-famticres remark. in which • London mob delights were absent. "Do yer twig their blamed toastin' forks? Oh, my ! ain't you fine, William!" from n coarse Amazon, who was bending under the weight of a hugs basket filled with oranges on her head, was almost the only attempt at chaff we heard. It was all over in two or three minutes, and the prevailing expression of the crowd was one of suppressed amusement. All remem haulm of the murderous slaughter of Sergeant Brett ; the Vireo deaths on the Manchester scaffold ; the tourers of helpless women and children at Clerkenwell ; the dire threats, and wild alarms of Fenlanism seemed to be obliterated by the mere eight of policemen wearing cut lasses and mounted upon horseback. Any student of the times wishing to test the popular feeling concerning die afflicted attempts would have read an interesting lemon in the humorous incredulity, the sturdy disbelief in trcason, with which the conjunction of civil officer, and military arms were received this morning. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE HEW TRENCH LnAN. The Times observes that M. Maple's report will probably tend rather to dispel than to create apprehension in France, although we see in it a startling addition to national liabilities. As under the system of the present empire there will always be "exceptional circumstances," the expenditure of 1867, which exceeded the very liberal estimate by the sum of 7,500,0001., cannot be said to have . been in any way anomalous. Besides this there are various augmentations of expense which will be felt by the years 1808 and 1869, and will re quire supplementary resources to the amount of 82 mil lions to be shared between them. Stung by the successes of Prnasia, the French people seem to demand new arma ments, and the reorganisation of the army requires money as wall as men. 7,480,000/. is wanted at once for the re form of the war material and the fleet, and Frenchmen are informed that even this will not be sufficient. After this let us bear with our minor miseries. However, the imperial government will have no difficulty in obtaining any sum it desires, so thigh stands the national credit. In this case the instalments of the loan are to be by 20 monthly payments, an arrangement which not only makes matters easier for investors, but encourages the country to hope that peace will be preserved. Such is the condition of things in Europe to-day that, in the midst of profound quiet and without a definite MUSS of quarrel anywhere, men hail with positive relief every sign that war la not about to break on them. The Pnst doubts that this budget can be successfully assailed, for the items of expenditure are all of them necessary. It may be unfortunate that at such a time au' the present France should feel herself compelled to increase her expenditure far beyond the bounds of her income, but there is perhaps a better excuse now for apparent impro videnco than at any other time since the foundation of the second empire. . . Though the new loan is wanted to defray the cost of im proved and augmented armaments, the Standard does not think it can be called a war loan in the sense that it is con tracted with a view to war. In spreading the reorganisation of the army over two years, the Emperor gives a guarantee to Europe that he undertakes that reorganisation, not with a view to a campaign against Prussia or Italy, to re store French predominance in Europe, but only with the purpose of assuring France that military strength which her position and her traditions may be supposed to render necessary. _ _ . . • • It is the remark of the Telegraph that while no mention is made of the Mexican bondholders who have besieged the Ministry of Finance with claims for partial comper.sa sation, nor of the demand for public works to relieve the glut of unemployed labour, much stress is laid on the na tional armaments as the great want of the hour. It fears that, when M. lqagne warns the public against illusory ex. pectations of a relief from the growing war expenditure, he is anticipating no early cessation of that vast outlay which most European States are now incurring, and under which they stagger onwards in the race to ruin. THE UNEMPLOYED SHIPWRIGHTR. Should the shipwrights at Limehouse persist in their re fusel to accept the rate of wages now paid in Scotland and the North of England, the consequence will, the Daily Nara says, be very serious. The charity of London is not inexhaustible. There are many claimants upon It. While there is every disposition to help those who will help themselves, or who cannot do so, there is ►n equally strong aversion to help those who might help themselves and who will not. In tho present state of the market it is impos sible that the shipbuilders of Lyndon should compete with those of Glasgow and Sunderland if theyhave to pay higher wages in addition to a higher price for materials. The East of London shipwrights do not seem to consider that the offer which is now made to them is intended to meet a special emergency ; and that the alternative is •Is. 6d. in wages or Is. 6d. or ls. in charity. They also fail to observe that, with the advantages in regard to the price of labour and of materials which the northern porta possess, the tendency of the trade must be to migrate thither from London. It will require the greatest caution and management to keep it on the Thames. A time may come, perhaps, when the market value of shipping will so far rise to its old level as to make the additional cost of labour a less appreciable element in the pries of vessels than it now is ; and when owners will be disposed to pay more for better workmanship. But this time must be waited for. The present situation mustbe humoured. If by an unaccommodating spirit the trade is allowed to go elsewhere, it may be impossible to bring it beck again. I The future of the shipbuilding trade of London not less • than the mitigation of the present distress is involved in the decision which the committee of workmen may arrive at. The Tones comments upon a report just issued of the committee on out-relief appointed by the Board of Guardians in Bethnal-green. The workhouse is crowded. and out-door relief is given both very insufficiently and very indiscriminately. The committee feel very much the vexatious and revolting character of the labour tests, such as breaking stones and oakum picking. Other employments, such as wood-cutting, interfere with the markets, and require also regular customers. The general confusion and want of rules pervading the whole system comes to a head in the management, and the com kmittee suggest arrangements with a view to make the workhouse quieter, and propose associating the manage ment of the outdoor poor with the dispensary. The eons- mittee ask for entire equalisation of rates in the metro- polio, on the ground that it is impossible to give sufficient relief without extorting front a large class of ratepayers more than they can afford to ;ay. Another of their sug gestions is that the Commissioner of Works should instruct the contractors under him to employ the able bodied poor of Bethnal-green at some improvements now 1 in progress at Victoria Park. PATENT-OFTICII MUSBUX, SOUTH KiNSINOTON.— Number of visitors far the week =dim Jan. 25, 2,011. Total Dumber Wow the opening of the Mamma free daily (12th May, 1658), 1,236.219. B IT. Mahn -.W.W.1 41 Aberdeen 44.711 40 144th 29.851 47 Antroetan 29.671 47 Greenmails W. 061 valued 30.1061 Cape Clear 80.211 60 Roche's Pt 30.08244 Limp* BO.Oll Il etybeed 30.001 47 £OlllO6OB 80.171 Latent. 30.24 150 W. Itoolestort So. 821 44 N.W. Plymouth 50.164 48 & Weymouth 80.13 W. rortanionth 30114 47 W.B.W. Loudon 8607140 &W. Yarmouth 80.01 45 31.8. W. learborough WWI 44 W. 81delus W. 871 60 N.W. Pans Strasbourg — h " ea7 a rt's Coe. —I- - W.S.W. W.S.W. B.W. 11. W. W.N.W. A.W. iI i 214 Barometer comxted and reduced to Id deg. at sea level. The letters r f (falling), ■ (steady indicate direction of motional thernereury within lest 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme force, with Kittle's:Sion during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather: b.—blue sky ; c. - clouds :detached) ; f.— fog h.—hall; L— light ; m.—misty (hasy) ; o—overcast (dull); r.—rain ; —UMW ; —thunder. Italn.fall, snow or ' ball melted), during lAA 24 hours. Bea disturbence. REM AUKS. Yesterday afternoon atmosphei Mal pressures were diminish ing in the east coast. This diminution has progressed generally, and this morning the readings at stations on the Channel coast are convlderably less than those of yesterday. In the north pressures are low ; there the readings are nearly half an inch helms those at places in the south of England The region of maximum pressure Is bathe west of France ; only two of our re. ports from the CouUnent have arrived. Weather is much warmer in the south of England and on the west coast of France In some places the Increase in teinperature bee been 12 degrees. Light westerly winds are now generally blowing over our islands. Kehl has fallen at almost all stations, while a preva lence of fog and mist is repotted front the south and west. We read in Gatignani :—" Lord Radstock will give Gospel addresses in the Congregational Chapel, El, Rue Itoyal-St.-Honore, at 2 p.m., in English, this day, 27th, to-morrow, 28th, Wednesday, ?nth, and Thursday, ;30th, and in the evenings of these days will deliver the the same translated into French, at 8 p.m., in the Wes leyan Chapel, 4, Rue Roquepine." A vivandibre, who accompanied the armies of the First Napoleon, has just died in the Asylum of La Sal petriere, at the age of 104. She went through the Rus sian campaign and was at Waterloo, and in the course of her long life traversed • thousand dangers. She retained her faculties to the last. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post gives some account of a ball which took place last week in the Salle Valentino, known as the " annual cook's ball," where it appears the aristocracy of the kitchen, and the more beautiful women of the hale, together with the , youthful knights of the casserole, mustered strongly. Some of the fishmarket ladies wore jewellery which must have cost some thousands of francs. At the commencement of the evening it appeared to the correspondent that a haughty reserve and proud etiquette prevailed throughout (Before ROBBERY the OF Recorde E. r.) the brilliant society ; " but as the evening advanced, PLAT and negus and punch were imbibed by dancers, • more familiar language and an easierattitude pos. d i tment which d charged him., the props rtean t s k eer tii iiol. , the vigorous Henry Stigma, ersmi, pleaded guilty to !u W' good seemed both ladies and gentlemen." As to the conversation, anothe r ,tlvraasirisnsn s h • tart. PM)" y he found it much like that of other classes , and that " all Mr. Cooper appeared for the prosecution. indulge in scandal, detraction, and abuse, when they are The prisoner was a finisher of plate, and had been for . natural." He dem not believe the kitchen of any other three yoga in i the em siness e p f loymen i t of t the t.prosecutorse who c . f o. country " could have contributed so wall•dromed, to well- tied 16, J on evi t. Oa th e January g Mr. Holland Ate educated, and so polite • society. It only wanted the ten d e d a a s d e at m a .. Da t ea h m an d stowse his own co d pur. presence of the Emperor and the Empress to make this chased 18 silver spoons which he found to bar the soiree as brilliant as any given at the C ourt of the marks, and which had passed through the hands of Tuileries." p r i son er. It was afterwards discovere d that the spoons had been pledged with • pawnbroker in Sloane -street our A letter from Constantinople states that the little sheet called the Mukkbir, the organ of young Tar- for sale. Duplicates for other property were also foiapl .it :if 7s. in June, 1866, and not being redeemed had beeusenc key, published in London, is read with avidit y by all the prisoner's house and identified as having belonged t? fashionable Stamboul, and t he booksellers are pestered day and night for it. Young Turke y is one long diatribe the thatprosecuors, from whose premises it had been rem°, ed virile was ut sen e ta k reil to nine months' hard labour. spinet those in power, who are denounced as so many THI LAMBETH MURDER. thieves and imbeciles. This one has robbed such and "'eh Oar readers will remember that at theme mad= of tits 1 whom heaaab funds ; another, who was a menial servant two years ago, Central Criminal Coed • man the as Clerk M! is now a Rothochild ; and in return for all this the present 1 chersod with the murder of the child of • woman wish men are not even capable of securing to Turkey the aim- a f ter -.ited c om mitting th e hieltannistawe es wa : • p led advanta g es of good government Everything is going r AT;Ip an A d O the po c ircerand g told the co ns table ac what be b ed to rain, political, administrative, financial; all reforms are done. The sheriffs very humanely instructed Mr. Sleigh slow ; and all this has been the work of the dozen or two to defend the prisoner, bat when he was placed at the bar of men who have been governing Turkey for the last 20 be persisted in pleading guilty, and although 34. J_ustil years. The Sultan himself, it appears, is a regular reader rn:lgt eaat le ar " t e t t j u it and hav e rat, strenuously us ~,,c . of this periodical. I fuTed to do so, and Ste, plea was v itcorier but Kr. Justice A lady in Prance, who frequently gives liberal Shea respited the sentence in order that inquiries wl sums in charity without revealing her name to the public, be made as to the state of his Wad. It 7=l w' Ms has just forwarded to 'the Director of the Administration d in g the ly in itiched, ti ltti t t : s o; trsleghtt e t inclination at of Public Ambiance 9,4004 r. for distribution among Poor in sanity b ee w b een discovered i n bi ro . H e e wes to per; pools to aid them in min their rent. featly understand what be has pleaded guilty W. 5... Several thousand Poles from Lithuania Vol- states that he committed the crime, sal is swam tha t ee Ti bye* and Podolia. who wort transported after ' the lasi life t e ill te e t e g m et t e e d 'b e Iflteorlyeteg crime, is rebellion, haw hese allowed to mem, if net to their aid daring the present esedew home, whisk is to be entirey ltateifisd, at Wet to the .............,•••.... ____------_ hisideet at raaad Proper. Ban * I . " ,_ with " 4 s ay Thamrsssir xis Sant Mew= 53 m , bushel Gager mewl of MiPPerk they we lodged in nom= to Pruner ltaiumaoues -maim, Itsossr.ersasr,Vi. —O itareatkei in the streets. Ths Poem Poles ere eollestlag and ninety-nine patients were relieved at this A ir charitable esstribatiess for their mifferiat 'dared. pessary dazing the week ending Jan. 25. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) h N.W. B.W. a E. W.N.W. '.w. X.M. W.N.W. TA &W INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) 84. I nit ro 8. In pcw. ru COURT OF EXCHEQUER , Sittings is Banoo.--(Before the Lord Chief Baron, and Baran Marft and Channell.) PLATT AND °THERA V. HIGGINS AND °THUM The court delivered judgment in this awe, which It u bean repeatedly before the public. It wee an action for the infringement of &patent for certain improreinentor r , the machinery used in carding wool, and at the trial before Mr. Baron Martin, in Middle's:, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs. Subsequently • rule was obtained for . new trial, and it was argued at considerable length oil both sides. Their lordships were of opinion that no good grounds had been shown for • new trial, and diseharg.,l the rule. Sittings at Nisi and Prium. Common r e sees ries.) Mr. Baron Bramwe:l J CHALLIM C. woornx. This was an action for slander. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. J. Brown, Q.C., and Mr. Phi'brick were counsel f, intiff ; Mr. the pla Pearce cowasel for the defendant. The plaintiff, Samuel Challis, entered the service of the defendant, who kept Woodin's Shades, Bishopsgate, with • salary, if he gave satisfaction, of 301. a year, with boa r ,' and lodging. After a few weeb the defendant ga, him notice to leave, and when be had get a railway p o rter called upon the defendant the plaintiff's character. On that occasion it defendant was said to have used language to effect, " I will not give him a character ; he is a -__ scamp, a vagabond, and villain, and the biggest thief that ever stood behind a bar." The defendant added acconlag to the testimony of the same witness that his barmaid 1,,.; seen him take some silver out of the till one morning. 1,. consequence of this slander the plaintiff said he had 6,1. prevented getting another situation. The defendant, on being called, swore positively that le made no such statements. He said that he became (It. satisfied with the plaintiff as he broke gleam and d, stroyed measures, and did not seem to have been used to his particular kind of business. They bad no quan.l either before or at the time of his leaving. What be said to the railway . porter was this, that he could not give plaintiff a cnaracter as he was so careless in his doing', and that his barmaid had said that on two occasions .i.e had missed money from behind the counter in the more. ) •ng. The railway porter observed, " Then I suppose yn • a4l him a thief , " and he replied that be could u . r. - ; say he was a careless fellow. Upon this evidence the jury found a verdict for clan defendant. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holipid.) IN RE RANEE'. HENRY 1101140 N. The bankrupt was a commission agent, of Cluirchmar. sage, Greshamstreet, and formerly a warehouseman,: Nottingham. The debts are ; property held 4 security. 500/. Mr. Aldridge stated that the whole of the debts, upwards of 10,000/., were due in connexion with other i people. His goods had been taken by his mother-in-law, under a bill of sale, which was enforced live days befor, the bankruptcy. She was returned as a creditor for :Uu. The bankrupt stated that his liabilities had been it cured on behalf of his father and brother. On his goio; into partnership with them the bank required him to ivit his name to certain ills, which represented the LAMM. of the fi rm. The bank knew his position. An adjournment was ordered for further accounts. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE LEW'S BALFOUR,JUN. The bankrupt, described as of Spring-grove, Ho \ ton, or,t of business, was formerly a member of the firm of 1;alfou and Co., of ltlission•row. Calcutta, inerchants ;ul.l agents—the other members of the firm being Loris ILiifo,,r, ten., and James Hamilton Robinson. lie came to the court on hie own petition on the 'Nth October. ascribing his failure to general depreciation in the value ui produoe, and to the failure of Small and Co., of Le of -b i(-s n. hall-street, who were the London correspondents e firm of Balfour and Co., in Calcutta. The bankrupt stat, that he came to this country owing to ill health, and win!. here the failure of Messrs. Small and Co. occurred, which led to the failure of his firm at Calcutta. This was the sitting for e xamination and discharge. Ti.. figures in the balance sheet are something enorm Ti, aggregate liabilities are stated at 392,631/., of which al.tr 180,000/. is due to the firm of Small and Co., the London agents of Balfour, and Co. The Chartered Sank of India, Australia, and China, are creditors for 20.u1.u1.; and the Agra and Muterman's Bank, for 12,1... 4 . The ditto, re are returned at 1t1:,,7 :'17.; ful ditto, 6,61(J1.; bad, 4,:1211.; property xurren. dered, 59,324/4 and other property the value of which is uncertain —leaving a deficiency of 123,61?). of course those figures represent the liabilities and amt. of the firm ; in fact the bankrupt appears to have o sep.mite debts. Mr. Aldridge, who appeared for the official assignee (no trade assignee having been appointed), stated the circii, stances of the failure, and said he understood that the members of the firm in India had obtained their di. chges. He wished for time to com municate with In to ar ascertain what had been done. There was not dia a farthing of assets in this country. The bankrupt stated that be left India in December, 18116. Mr. Bruty, who appeared for him, stated that but far his being obliged to come to this country he would have obtained his order along with his other partners. His creditors were the creditors of the firs,, and the (state was being administered by tho provisional assignee of the Insolvent Court in Calcutta. The assets were very lame, but the precise amount was not kno w n. Problbly Mr. Aldridge in might obtain all the information be wanted fowl the court India without taking an adjournment of this case. The bankrupt, who has q uite a youthful appearance, said that he had been in the firm since May, Itou o back the state of his health he had been advised not to g to India. Mr. Witty, in answer to the court, said that the hank . rupt's balance- s heet was merely a copy of the schedule the firm in Calcutta. The bankrupt, further examined, said that his draw 14 nr.l from the firm had been about 1,20 Y. or 1,300/. in months. He was now living on his friends. He had is property of any kind, either actual or in expectation. His Honour said the best course would he to take a short adjournment in order that the creditors in India might be communicated with either by letter or advertise ment in the same way as if the insolvency h ad taken pl.,ce there, evidence of such notice to be given at the neat sitting here. Mr. Bruty remarked th at a great expense wou ld le incurred by those notices ; and His Honour ultimately said that be would tensile': whether they were necessary. An adjournment for three months was ordered. IN RE R. J. DOVER. The bankrupt was a builder end contractor, of l'prer N or wood. Debts, 3,2711. ; assets stated at u pwanis of 3,000/. Mr. Manna, for the assignees, stated that the above re. turn of assets was wholly falla cious ; it was not likely that more than 20W. or 300/. would ever be realised. Tile bankrupt's amounts uired ame pt had ndment. This had been pointed out ; but the neg lected to mak e the ame ndments. An adjournment sine die was asked. The bankrupt said there was a debt of 1,200/., which be knew to be good. Hi s Honour di eat sine die, w ith directed an adjourn limited protection. R. 10 Y. lo.o5; I 0.21; 3 0. 0.11 3 0.071 3 10.11 a 0.24 0.06 3 11. 0 04 : 1 2 O. $ 0.1 $ 0.11 O.V, 1 0.2 4 0.11 3 0.341 3 0.301 4 THE POT, (TR **tad O dw ' w ' ,t i -....0 Caledonian - too , . sto.--, t by Inspeca ou a wanan b assaulting i c h a rged wit h t er of th T a g n or . , anl 3 1 = l a st a p W pugilis ts and o d the Pugi--• stem end eeye a there in • o e°P i bar Pier, and Tem p e- u pon the ee enFels . ... r. wer d ag. net of Z era of ale TI °tiler warned the caPta and w ,T ees ou hoard and ftfr„ Illegal a %Aid uniform. A .. c o oe .. O f " Drown t• " fan - WWI SUITOIIII d Taylor . an an o was said made f, who ... •o • distance water, __...r • h t up ti er wee's., bht FRIES FIGHTERS AmFli:tohALTerc.-1 1° SRC' • r e g il captain part ially over for Was sWinier the steam , f or ced out of to h i, s In a n•wer out of I literally thrown -- hi m overboar d to throw getting' whenio paddles. h evidence was 9 Otitichard Maine t Sir he if ,ass ht fft i s c rac tions aut, the one and P r°•• e ! d o f the C di rd ar . s treet, where the' prisoner. Conan, . 3 f th Walter evidence of Inspector' ]Sensor said that Mr ' offic'r, and ders police a ti oone. Here „, an de . 1 e ti w ye as r ho should THE FEN IA 31ULLA BOW-STI In consequence at Clerkenwell, it ha dock together. On th bean made to obviate t between the attorney 'l n i e t rB was charged extrem wi e t l ll ] upon a lower level. Although very little by those who usually itself presented even than on former nccasic Pt se rh i s r :t aid bar in front of It bad been expecte charged with attempti Constable Charuhrrlai those charged with tl Some surprise was CTe takinghisseat. it was with the latter otte surprise was increas brought into court. two Desmond., Enali. the lower par, O'Neill Mr. Gifford, Q.C., the prosecution ; Mr. two Deanionds and E Parrett and r o'Neill, and Anne Justice. More surprise than in no one mum than called "Patrick Mu prisoner under the r Patrick Mullany, in the witnens box. 11 and appeared much a low a tone of voice al was found necessary aid 7.1 y name is Patrict examined as witness of the Fenian )troths bliah a republic in Ir Ireland. I held the Ltd March. at hare! in by James Kell us Colonel Kelly American officers introduced to Gen General Burke, nos land), Dr. Morrisor remember. I mw to him by English. talked about the ral 13th December I w; in about April, an do. Thu latter en, house, and it was t, in the bag, and caps. It was tel or a day or two in Holborn som Barrett was preset English was not. ' plosion. Talked P object in view. 01 matter how they others 18a., the money. Each tities—as much a meet at the Awe they had got eno getting on. They cc get them • house English. It woult the neighbourhood they got on all dal got 2:11b. of pm, another would not sort of quarrel. 1 the Tuesday or W and Barrett atten, there himself. I s in his coat, on the and shirt, I law BA sitting opposite, belonged to Englis the merits of it, al six more revolve loaded and given and another was the end of i the baud. I think it was one from Mei look after the tru it was " All righ kept. He had gc and back. They at Will. Desmo and could not o to the House of before. I did no I saw Jackson an that it bad fillet send it to li— the day of whiskers were him. I began t he told me that lit the fuse, and Bed if he kept tl tad he told me. cif, but that ma the fuse ; he 1 4 the public hut I would I 'gain, till he ws ?elate the exp Man came to th Brown, or Burk r evolvers with 1 he sal I to aho s°, they ooul not do it bare. that they remai the third day B in his oc andshir sitting belongs the mer six loaded sad an, the ei r• the b a think one fi r• look di it was le 1111 kept. or and ba at at Wi A and co to to the ed before. I saw .1 that it be *end it this d sh whieke to• him• he tot, ab lit the )st i tied it yd or and he ea bu ice the th Int I of again, rr 13 rdow ud man e his Brown resell rar arid 1 thew IN 1 se i not be that I tke tl I ,~