The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-28 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, Moaz remarkable, perhaps, than the vigour with which their civil war was waged, and the simpli city with which peace resumed its reign, is the ra pid ease with which our cousins beyond the Atlantic have recovered from that extraordinary struggle, put away fighting from their thoughts, and cast their superabundant energies again upon the works and the sp orts of peace. Doubtless during the time of the Russian war Englishmen at home found leisure for national sports ; the race meetings and regattas went on as usual, though many well-known faces were missed at Epsom and at Doncaster, at Cowes and at ilytle. Some of our yachtsmen, it is remem bered, made themselves and their vessels useful in carrying stores and comforts to their friends in camp ; and as to racing, vas there not a " Balto a " clava Spring life:ting lt is interesting those who desire that Englishmen in the Old World and the New should understand each other and be friends, to note the likeness of the two great families. The Anglo-American is but an Englishman "writ large," with features a little hardened and sharpened by a keener climate and a mor e eager life, with the old s p irit of daring and adventure, stininlated by bounding hope and per petual promise, by an illimitable expansion of political liberty, and by the perfect sense of social equality. The American Englishman has the tastes, the amusements, and the habits of the Briton born. Identity of blood, language, and literature accounts of course for much intel lectual and moral sympathy. But the taste for sports and exercises in which skill, endurance, and resource are needed, and which minister in some sort to the national greatness, is one of the chief characteristics which both the sections of the race have in common. An Englishman returning home from some far country might address his native laud in the language of the Athenian poet, as a land illustrious for its horses, its ships, and its colonists. We are not quite sure that the transplanted Englishman of America could properly speak of his country as illustrious for horses, except for fast trotters, but it can scarcely be doubted that within a few years there will be an American Derby, compared with which Epsom or Doncaster will be as the Thames to the Mississippi. Nor could he celebrate 11;s country as illustrious for its colonists, since it is itself one vast colony, but he might assuredly, like his kinsmen in the old world, speak or sing of his country as illustrious for ships, and famous at sea. We have seen how from a small but ser viceable peace establishment of a few wooden cruisers the present American navy of the largest ironclad frigates, armed with the heaviest guns, of sea-going turret ships, of monitors, of rains, of gunboats, has grown up, and how month by mouth a coastline of more than three thousand miles became all but impermeable to the swiftest and boldest blockade runners. Even while Ameri can cargoes were compelled to seek safety wider a foreign flag, whole fleets of common merchant steamers were transfermed into men-of-war, and American yachts were doing signal service to their country. The New York Yacht Club did itself high honour in those trying times, and showed that its vessels were not playthings, nor its crews mer e watermen. This noble national sport of yachting belongs of equal right to England and America ; in other countries it is an exotic ; among Englishmen on either shore of the ocean it is of native growth. The honour of its origin belongs to England, and the gallant combatants for the Atlantic prize have hand somely acknowledged the classic sacredness of the waters of the Solent by making their rendezvous off the Royal Yacht Squadron House at Cowes. It was at Cowes that yachting, as a sport, began, and the " Royal Yacht Club " was the first society of gentlemen to whom the privileges of a pleasure navy were accorded by the Admiralty, in consideration, no doubt, of the obvious advantage to the State of encouraging the construction by private owners of the finest models of naval architecture, and the employment of the smartest seamen. The Royal Yacht Squadron, and its excellent clmpeers, the Royal Victoria, and many other clubs round our coasts, now employ annu ally several thousands of seamen, many of whom belong to the I:aN al Reserve, and annually turn out from the builders' yards some of the finest specimens of cnnstruction afloat, famous for all the qualities of erasers. Surely no national sport can be more worthy of encouragement and admiration than this ; none can be healthier or manlier in itself, none more serviceable to the State, none EVEMG, DECEMBER 26, 1866. tbs. the countenance of blandly possess is only given him on Mes won AO be should skiedy end sank seacuist himself. Forces are going to waste in Crete is ; insurretiClM rife in Thessaly ; Montenegro and Servia bid him iigen defiance. A position more hopeless is hardly to be con ceived. If an open collision takes place, England, the Times trusts, would be —whatever other powers might do —the last to join in the melee. Faithful to our convictions that the fall of Turkey is certain, and that it is equally inadvisable to hasten or to retard it, we should, for our own part, be most willing to let events take their ow n course; and, although we have as yet no great fait either in Greeks or in Romans, or in any other the of races once subject to the Porte, we could wish nothing better than that they alone should win what the Porte must lose, and that they should so grow in strength, in wisdom, and in union, as to be able to hold their own against all comers. so free from the parasitical vices by setae other sports are unfortunately debased. het we. are reminded, and we trust the gentlemen of our yacht clubs will be reminded, by this brilliant exploit pf the three American yachts, that English yachting has not done all, or nearly all, that was expected of it for the encouragement of the best class of seamen, and the construction of the best models, for yachts may be considered as models of swift and handy craft. In these important re spects our friends at New York have surpassed us altogether. They build finer vessels, and make a manlier use of them. Nor is it a sufficient excu t) say that our ya chtsmen are wont to make flo at tat ing houses of their yachts, and to take r wives and families on board. Probably this is neither more nor less the habit of yachts men at Cowes than at New York. Indeed, most of our yacht-ovrners, we daresay, leave their wives and families ashore, and this perhaps explains die imperfect sympathy with which too many wives are apt to regard yachting, and the difficulty which many a fond husband feels in keeping a yacht and a wife at once. Until the last few years—we believe it is the Ryde Club that set the example--an "Ocean match," as a match to Cherbourg or Plymouth from the Wight, or from the Thames to Harwich, is oddly called, was scarcely known. The famous match round the Eddystone and back between the Talisman and the Corsair, some twenty years since, was an almost unique event of the kind. The Royal Victorians have given a new impulse to the sport by these " ocean matches," and especially by insisting on every match being sailed in sea going trim, and not as formerly in racing trim r , which meant vessels built for racing only, and fo racing round the Isle of Wight, and stripped of everything below deck but the ballast, and utterly out of sea-going condition. Evidently, yachts built for such sport as that were fit for no other purpose, and useless as sea-going vessels, and their crews for the most part mere fancy seamen. This is not the first time our Yankee friends have come overto teach us how to build and how to sail a yacht. The America--a very inferior craft to the schooners which have just crossed the Atlantic through December gales in little more than 13 days—not only beat every yacht in English waters, but actually taught our English yachts men how to set their fore and aft sails flat, and to hold a good wind close hauled. To the credit of our yachtsmen they were not ashamed to learn ; and a decided improve ment in the build and rigging and sailing of our yachts was perceptible two years after the match of the America. Let us hope that this memorable match of the Henrietta, the Vesta, and the Fleetwing will exc ite the English gentlemen who live at home at ease on board their yachts, to e nterprises of equal pith and moment. There is in the boldness of this venture, in the largeness of the stakes, in the vigour and success of the affair, something that appeals irresistibly to the admira tion of all men of English blood, and we rejoice that the Lords of the Admiralty should have so gracefully anticipated the desire of their country men to do honour to these gallant visitors, and to make them feel, as they ought to feel, at home in dish waters. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. To the Irish claim to legal na tionalit y , adopted by con tinental critics who ask why that is a crime in an Irishman which we are prepared to eulogise in Greeks, Italians, or Germans, the Timis would simply reply that there is no such thing as Irish nationality—that the fusion of races is so general that an attempt to make the native Irish the govern ing class of the island cou ld onl y be compared to a attempt to reverse our own Norman Conquest, after eight to cen t u ries, by a general rising of all who might choose call themselves Britons, Saxons, or Danes. Treating of the civil administration of public charity, the Daily Noes states that the local committee formed hat Bet h na l- gr een for the succour of cholera patientsas humanely determined to continue its functions those of their number who make it their duty to visit the dwellings and listen to the wants of the very poor tell terrible stories of the increased an .increasing distress. f The police box is an immeasurably uperior channel or charity to the local advertiser ; and the benevolent public are beginning to comprehend that their duty to the dis- tressed does not end with putting a five-pound note in an envelope and addressing it to the most practised begging. letter writer they know by name. The Bethnal-green committee, who seem to be solving the difficulties in a prac tical way, are all of them gentlemen who have ocal know ledge and experience, and may be commended l to donors as a valuable experiment no less than a sound piece of administrative skilL The Post, noticing the Russo-American Land Telegraph project, says that, acco rdin g to the predictions of the engineers employed, the year 1868 is not to go by without giving Europe the option of telegraphic communication with America along the bed of the Atlantic, or across Northern Europe and Asia, as the balance of ecenomy shall determine. Diverging from the main line in Northern Asia, branch lines will take their course southward, until Hindostan is involved in the telegraphic net—next the islands of the Indian Archipelago—and thence, further on, lines will pass to Australia and New Zealand. The Star speaks very highly of an article by Lord Hobart, in the January number of Macmiltoo's Maga:ine, on the mission of Richard Cobden, describing it as the mos t high-toned and large-minded political essay that has a ppeared for a long tim e past. Lord Hobart's argument is thus:—Mr. Cobden was not a mere apostle of free trade, with a strong and rather dan gerous tendency to democracy and cheap government, and a disposition to peace at any price in consideration of the cos tliness of war. He was rat her what foreigners under stood him to be—an international man—the absolutely first teacher of the principles of virtuous in contradis tinction to vicious patriotism. This it was that made him so hated by " Philistines and Rule Britannia politicians." And this it was that gave bins his most distinctive place amongst the political instructors and pioneers of mankind. Will any rev, gentleman, says the Trlryrajih, in priest's orders, with a fair degree and a taste for hot weather, oblige Lord Cranhorne by becoming Bishop of Calcutta? That is really a sincere and genuine advertisement. We are informed that the tory Secretary for India is in the deepest embarrassment upon the subject of the vacancy caused by the lamented death of Dr. Cotton. The metro politan see in British India is literally going a begging, and the report is that the sacred office has been offered in vain to something like twenty clerical eligibles. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) WAGES IN TIIE IRON TRADE. Mr. George Troup, writing to the Ma , : on behalf of the iron workers of the north, represents that their wages were re duced b y 10 per cent. last year, and that when they declined to accept a similar reduction last June the works were closed by the masters, who re jected the offer of arbitration, though the men offered to go on at the reduction until the questions that might be submitted to arbitration were settled. Some of the companies in the course of time got free from the roasters' union, and offered special terms to their former hands, but very large firms still continue out. Like their fellow workmen in Scotland arid Staffordshire, he says, the pud diets of the north of England and all other classes in the iron trade were willing to work two-thirds, half, or even third time, rather than Muse any inconvenience during the financial crisis, or subsequently. 'Mr. Troup 040 con tends that as the reduction sought in wages could not have exceeded :ts, rel. or 4s. per ton on plates it is falla cious to say that the iron shipbuilders of the Thames are idle because the ironworkers of the north will not accept the wages offered to them, nor can the reduction give French built engines the preference here, for it would not suffice to pay the engine's freight across the Channel. Ile Nether says that the Belgian or French peddlers cannot work English iron, and that our exports of wrought iron at sli;htly increased prices have increased by 1211,000 tons over the corresponding ten mouths of last year. To these arguments the Times replies that it is not any particular strike which has caused the evil ; that Mr. Troup forgets the proverb about the last straw, and that :is. or Is. a ton may be quite sufficient to determine the choice of the customer or investor between two evenly-balanced alter natives. Belgian ironntasters it is clear owe their increasing prosperity to the low scale o f wa g es they pay, and to the fact that hitherto they have ese.,,pell the mischievous operation of strikes. As to the increase of our exports it would be strange, indeed, if the British iron trade were actu ally to decline ; it is lord enough that it should fail to keep pace with the increased demand, and should not expand in an equal degree with that of a less favoured country. The Tine: , further suspects that Mr. Troup, and those whom he represents, entertain a fatal confidence in the intrinsic superiority of the British workman. It is absurd to doubt that men can be found and trained, in Belgium to do the work of English peddlers, and to doubt that such men will be found and trained if it becomes the in terest of Belgian employers to do so. To calm and diainterested judgments the Daily News thinks that the rapid increase of production in Belgium by no means presupposes that production in England is falling off. In fact, (luring the last fifteen years, when we are told strikes and high wages were ruining the trade, it has been doing more business by half than it (lid. When this is our acknowledged position, why are we to grudge the foreigners who in the same time have doubled their production? With regard to wages, to come to a just conclusion we must learn not only the day's pay, but the quantity and the quality of the day's work. Is not the higher rate iu England balanced either by the more work done, or the more valuable form in which it is done ? Tire les on we should learn is that we should cease to com pete in the cheaper departments of production and employ Vie English craftsman chiefly in work that will allow his supremacy in strength and skill to be exhibited. Let us study to augment strength with every mechanical improve ment, and to develop and refine skill by education. The competition we arc undergoing will wholesomely stir us up to further exertion in both respects. When it is urged that the blind folly of the demands of the men is destroy ing both the masters' trade and their own, we must ask the masters to show us the example of reasonableness on their own part, to exhibit to the public not only the workman's wages, but the employer's profits, in order that the public, which is appealed to as arbiter, rosy have the facts on both sides equally under its eye. Cite Court. OSBORNE, Dec. tr. Tho Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and her Majesty went out this morning, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Atli°lc. I Princes. Christian drove out this morning with Lady Caroline Ilarrington. Prince Christian went out shooting to-day in Parkhurst Forest, attended by Major.lieneral F. ll.Keymonr. Colonel Jeffreys, Cif., nod Captain Von Schroetter, had the honour of accompanying his royal highness. A committee of the L ords of her Majesty's Most i Honourable Privy Counc il sat y esterday at Whitehall on \ the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were tho Lord President and the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bart. Mr. Ilariison and Dr. Ahxam. der Williams attended the committee. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli arrived in town yesterday from liughenden Manor. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll are expected to arrive in town iu the second week in January from a tour TI;RKEY AND GREECE. Influenced by the rule which has obtained of late years, that the party which, no matter under what provemstion, first ventures on an appeal to arms, so puts himself in the wrong, Turkey and Greece, observes the Times, restrain their eagerness to come to bktws. But, judged by the common canons of international law, the whole odium o! the aggression must be thrown upon the King of the I I G eeks and his government. The question is, however, whether the Greek government can really prevent assist- I ante from being conveyed to the insurgents ; and in any 1 case war in the open field is no part of Greek policy. The Turk, no doubt, would break through the cobwebs of treacherous diplomacy ; but be is borne down by tLe consciousness of impending doom, and knows .. 1 .....-.-----w-----.---- • LATEST INTELLIGENCE. .. • THE FOLKS 001JRTS, (THIB DST.) SPAIN. A correspondent of the Temps, writing from Madrid on December 23, says : layette have not ceased for two months, and, at the mo ment I am writing, they are taking place with such zeal as to the cicada and cur i a , especially in C atalonia. Their p disgustrotests, respectfully worded, have b rou g ht upon th e ir authors the censure of the captain-genersl, who in the official bu ll e ti n of the province says "it is expressly forbidden to curia and alcada to give certificates of moral conduct to anyone who is ar rested unless the said certificate has been asked for by the military authorities." To understand the cruelty of this proceeding, it must be borne in mind that the arrests are made in the name of outraged mom, of disturbance of public order, and that all the unfortunate personson of who h a ve been put in prison or deported are, in the opini the ministerial organs, either vagabonds, or gamblers, of revo l u ti o nists, or knaves , or pickpockets. Since I las wrote, I have been through the east and south of Spain, and I have found the same system throughout. The for. tresses of Alicante,Mahon, andCarthagens are full oh aspects who are put on board the vessels Si soon as they arrive. Quite recently 57 sergeants, bound hand and foot, were placed on board a naval vessel, but I must add, that as soon as they were on board they were allowed the use of their limbs, for as a young naval officer said to me, " It may be our tur n to-morrow." The paper s describe the meetings of kings and queens, balls, f e stivals, and r eviews, but not a word is said of all the Lifer ings which exist here nevertheless. The mountains which extend from Cape Gata to Grenada are full of fugitives who have escaped from the clutches of the police. The most minute and searching ques tions are put to all foreigners, and it is very difficult to get along. France, as the author of the Satanicsen re loti o n, wa s never more a bh orr ed than she is at pret by catholic party in Spain. The helots has the following observationslamation : Marshal Narvaez issued some time back a proc to the army with the object of convincing the soldiers of the truth that discipline forbade soldiers to have and above all to express any opinion on political affairs. That com munication was so well received that the Ma id Gaatte dr for several days p ast has not ceased to publish addresses from different regiments expressing their adhesion to the principles laid down by Marshal Narvaez. That minister is no doubt highly pleased with the responses, as be grants to them an official publicity. The regiments which sign them are, however, acting in contradiction to the principles laid down in the proclamation, as they take the liberty of having an opinion and of expressing it openly. The views are indeed favourable to the government, but they might be the contrary. The authors of the addresses think and reason, and this is just what they are forbidden to do they thus commen :britdisobeying orders to dhow how re *dyed they are to to them. ... . MANSION-lIOU SE. CHARGE OF rwarcrawisT. ..1 . arta Garrett Yates, a gentlemanly -looking man, was brouctstrisefore Alderinan for re-examination on the of embweling _a we e sum of money, the pro perty of • em loyers, Messrs. Keen and Co., wholesale mustard man , Garlickhill. The prisoner had been in the service of the prosecutors for several years as country traveller, and it VOA his duty to transmit the amounts weehived from the customers two or three times a end at the end of each month to make out a regular balance-sheet, and band over the amount that remained in his possession. In November last the prisoner met with an accident, and while he was confined to his bed, he sent for one of the prosecutor's firm, and after tome conversation he said that he had a great weight on his mind, and when he was asked what it was that affected him ha said that be had embezzled money to the amount of between 600 i. and 700/. The prosecutor then tent a clerk to the prisoner, and to him he gave a detailed statement of the amount he had so e mbezzled, and exprzased his sorrow for whet he had done. The prisoner, who edmitted his guilt, was committed for trial. It was stated that the prisoner was paid a salary of 200/. a year, and 20s. a day for expenses. CLERKENW ELL. ROBBERY OF OVER 500/. WORTH OF GOLD AHD NI LVER WIRIL William Reynolds, a clerk, was charged, on remand, with stealing within the past nine months, between 500/. and GOO/. worth of gold and silver wire, the property of his em ployers, Messrs. Johnson and Son. The facts of this case have been reported, and it will be remem bered that the pri soner had been in t an it of the prosecutors for about nine months, and had effected the robberies by altering the figures in the books. The prisoner said he was guilty, and asked the magis trate to decide the case. Mr. Cooke said be could not decide the case, and com mitted the prisoner to the Middlesex Sessions for trial ROBBERY OF A BAR OF COLO. Ac aro Bishop, aged 21, a stoker, and flotry Bishnp, aged 48, a dressing - case maker, (father and son), were charged, the former with ste alin g and the latter with receiving a bar of gold of the value of 45f., the property of Mr. John Dyer, gold and silver flatter, of No. 21, Meredith-street, Clei kenwell. The facts of this case have been reported, and it will be remembered that the younger prisoner bad been in the em ploy of the prosecutor, and when he left the gold was missed. When the younger prisoner was apprehended by Inspector Bryant, G division, and Police-constable Ranger, 198 G, he said he had taken the bar of go h ld to spite his master for discharging him. lie also said tat his father had the gold. When the father was spoken to about the matter he said, " I have had it, but they have got to find it." The gold has not been recovered. The prisoners reserved their defence. Mr. Cooke committed them both to the Middlesex Ses sions for trial. seniors ACCIDENT ON THE METROPOLITAN EXTENSION RAILWAY THROUGH PRI NKENNI.B I4 . One of the manWrs for Mr. Kelk, the contractor for r. the Metro po litan Extension Rail wa y , applied to M Cooke for a summons against one of the men engaged on the engines for lifting the earth out of the tunnel in the Fairingdoa-road for being drunk and incapable of using the imtchinety properly, and thereby causing injury to two of the workmen. The applicant stated that the duty of the man against whom he applied as to regulate one of the engines that lift workmen and the earth out of the tunnel. Yesterday he was drunk, and as some men were being lowered in a skip into the tunnel he allowed it to go down as fr.st as it could, and the consequence was that two men were thrown out, and were very seriously injured. One of the injured men was so bad that this morning he could not move in bed, and from what he had heard he understood his bladder bad been injured. Mr. Cooke asked if t he place where the man w as drunk was private propei ty. The applicant said it was, and was enclosed. Mr. Cooke said he could not grant the application. The remedy against the man would be by civil action. The applicant said that he understoc that and whcauseden a w orkman in charge cf machinery got drunk danger to individuals, the magistrate could punish the offender. Mr. Cooke said ho had never before had an application of this sort. He could not punish the man for being drunk on private property. The applicant said it would be of no use brin g ing an action against a workman, who had got nothing. Some time since, when one of the workmen got drunk and injured the machinet y, he applied at this court for a summons, and Mr. I"...yncourt said that had there been injuries to the person he would have granted the summons. Mr. Cooke—Did he 2-,cant the summons The applicant plied in the negative ; but said that re Mr. d'Eyncourt was very clear in saying that be would have granted the summons had any person been injured. Mr. Cooke s aid it was not a matter in which he cou'd interfere, and the applicant, having thanked his wtrshi p , retired. (mum% vriscasirs.) THE FRENCH EXPEDITION IN THE CORA. PARIS, DEC. 28. An official despatch has been received from Adrriral Roze, dated Oct. 22, announcing the cap ture of Kanghoa, an important town in the Corea, by the French forces, on the 16th October. On the 19th of the same month the admiral received h a letter from the King of Corea, in reply to whic he stated the satisfaction demanded by the French, government. The admiral was still at Kanghoa on the 22nd October, awaiting the arrival of interpreters from I Shanghae. -_ ITALY AND THE PORTE. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 2S. The Italian government claims an indemnity of 52,000 francs for the damage done to the Italian steamer 11 Principe Tomasso,which was tired upon in Candian waters by a Turkish man-of-war. It also demands the dismissal of the captain of the Turkish vessel and a salute to the Italian colours from the Ottoman fleet. The official journals deny the rumour of a Greek invasion of Thessaly, and state that some bands of brigands only have appeared in that province. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, DEC. 2S. The directors of the Credit-Austalt have an nounced an interim dividend of 7 florins per share for 180 payable on and rater the 2nd January We (Law Times) learn with regret that the Inns of Court volunteer corps—the " Devil's Own" is declicing MARLBOROIJOH - STREE T. both in strength and efficiency. At the time of Colonel EXTRAORDINARY CASEO C A MA KILLED 'THROUGH • Brewster's death the corps was perhaps the most DRUNKEN CABMAN. John Barnard, a cab-driver, badge 11,2°3, was charged ad mirably drilled and organised corps in the metros before Mx. Knox with being drunk and incapable of polis, and this was owing in no small degree to the driving a. horse end cab in leccadilly, and he was further colonel's obstinacy in adhering to the method of dilli charged with carelessly driving the said horse and cab, which he deemed the best calculated to promote -' and causing the ileitis of a horse value 101., the property of John (;eor„,e, cab prole ietor. Police-constable D.:, id Brown, 167 C, said that about 1 degree opposed to the views of the War-oflice. A i efficiency of a volunteer corps, although that metimilwas; o'clock that morning while in Piccadilly he heard a crash, system has been introduced since Colonel Brewster' and on going up he found that the prisoner, who was death, and we are informed that nine officers and a • drunk, had driven the shaft into another cab horse, and portionate number of privates have resigned. damaged the cab it was attached to. He took the prisoner „‘ c A rep ort 1 c • to the station. ICEPORT mei lieellosi. on epro.) Joseph Trulove, badge 13,167, the driver of a Hansom the Royal College of l'hysicians has been prepared for cab, said that about 1 o'clock that moniing he was going Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies. It is a a westward, along Piccadilly. nearly opposite St. James's bulky, very elaborate, and very valuable contribution Hall, when be saw the prisoner coming in an opposite our knowledge of this intricate indeed. The college 1 direction on his wrong side. He called out ' to the prisoner, performed this great labour at the request a the gm and before he could get out of the prisoners way lie came went. The suggestion arose out ci, a letter on to him and drove the shaft of his four-wheel cab into the Governor of Barbarities to the Duke of his (witness's) horse. The prisoner fell off his cab. He castle, stating that this fearful maLedy is (witness) led his horse to the opposite able, it being the increase in that colony, and suseesting te severely injured, anti afterwards went to fetch a man to hopeless as the case of the unlell'll lever may bt, kill it, and when he got back he found that it was dead, collection of reports from all the colonies on the c _ In answer to Mr. Knox the witness said the prisoner and progress of. the disease, the treatment and dietary e'' was drunk and not going at fast rate. served, and the general regulation of leper-bouses, r Mr. George, of 10, Huntley-street, Brunswick-square, be attended with some possible :eh antagee, end tee . the owner of the have which was killed, said its value was ameliorate the condition of these unhappy snide:ere. 1,0 101. His cab was also damaged, but he did not care about college assured the Duke of Newcastle of their illinga . that. to co-operate in this humane work ; on the uomination or The prisoner's employer said he bad been obliged to the president, Dr. Budd, senior censor, Dr. ()wen Rees, have his horse killed in consequence of the injuries it re- Dr. A. Farce , Dr. Gull, Dr. Mile y, and Dr. Greenhow, ceived. The entrails of Mr. George's horse fell on the were oppointed a committee to frame iuterrogstor ground. and report on the disease. These were despatete Mr. Knox committed the prisoner, who had no answer all the colonies, and a considerable mesas of el to the charge, for two months, with hard labour, giving has thus been obtained, and is here eLeborat the owners of the horses time to arrange as to the com. gestell and collated. One most important cum:tete pensation to be 'said. 'mil • Subsequently it was stated that the owners had fir- leprosy is contagious, or communicable by p _ ranged the matter between them. which they have arrived discredits entirely theme lief t contact with the dimmed. The evidence derived frem flee experience of the attendants in leper asylums is ' WORSHIP-STREET. Elizabeth Orrenaway, under 20 years of age, was charged ROBBERY BY A SERVANT GIRL conclusive on this point. Thus there is not. in this mass of reports from all parts of the world, which justifies measures for the compulsory seeseils t whole being the property of her master, Mr. James Hately, i n man y with stealing about 30/. in money, and various articles, the l epem e In India no such segregation is attempt!' a pickle merchant, in business at l'll, Chnrch-street• slightest ascertained taint of the malady carric Bethnal-green. countries, including some British colouto it a seclusion tantamount to banishment from is, Mr. Stevens Tripp appeared for the prosecution, and rest of the community, or even to perpetual deters is mentioned that act a previous examination one of the H a laniret. Enactments for the arrest and in the prisoner at the tsar, but it rested on her own aseertion division of police was stated to have been implicated with of lepers have been proposed or peened even within the and that not made before a magistrate. In justice to the villages of Syria lepers are required to go to Danmecusi tr constable this should be clearly understood,es also that not some other town where there may be a public asylum • last tew years in some of our Indian colonies. In e any chargewas now made against him. Certainly it and it they will not conform to this rule, " they are rob that at the time of the alleged robberies he was the against him was his possession of one article, which be- to live in a cave or hut outside the village, where the! re prisoner's accepted suitor, but all that could be *boast main in perpetual quarantine." All such eivactments re might have been entirely ignorant of hfa sweetheart's longed to a member of the pro-ecutor's family and he - T i . In sn guilt. It was under such circumstances that proceedings ' HE CAUSE or EgrimsioNs I N LAM' S.-- _. article on regtilations should be . abolished.— lir•iti,h Me,' ~.., ::rem..Bl. the subject in the l',,,tratarrodi a were not taken against him, and all sought for was a cou- for January, Dr. Attfield, Director of the Labors-tore Inspector Brood, H Division, said that the prisoner had of the Pharmaceutical Society, mat, a that nesrle el: elusion to the charge against the girl. the not mentioned the constable in connexion with the matter inflammable vapour at Sr) to thi degrees, mei that the American oil now burnt in paraffin lamps O e`• wit 1 she had named several other persons and been, to a certain extent, threatened by one and auother. The vapour forms with the air in the interior of fur; la:open e d e o pi n osive mixture, which may beeome tsimitite:,l, in A t young man's character in the force stood well, as also did . w the wick or . blowing dean V • •M le ..,, , 10 . 00 neglect only, and, as in this instance, an incessant desire o air to counteract external atniosp i ~ e • , aa a the girl's with a former niietrem, who blamed her for aperture provided in all lamps for the necrear) • i 1 ~. Pi piesaurc on lee Mr. James Hately, jun., now depo se d to having visited to be oat in the evening, for which she was discharged. vrkk, hems the touch-hole whence lire is coils es oe_ qe the constable's lodgings since the previous exareinatiomand it not that while a lamp is Miriam,..,x . m frout the tieme to the explosive needle within : and w`,.., ' • tier is always' stein to seeing a drift-board there, which belonged to himself current of air in the opposite direction, laneia \s tit if., and which he had not given to the prisoner • in reference would be the rule rather than the exeeptire:.l, % o to it the constable observed, " This is yours—she gave it to me." occur, but do not become public, beaause unatt le.l, ,f a l is ...... Prisoner—l did give into him. My mistress promised to fire or loss of life. It appears that the bulk •• I, en. ~ there is goal reason to believe that s:plosio. reaiu. ,ent,...11 forgive ma if I told all. reservoir of a lamp seldom becomes heated lee ell Witness here said that his mother had done so, but that his father positively refused, having been robbed tee- supplies the flame passes through the healed L ira at __, thee.. quently before. Prisoner had lived in their service about to give off inflammable vapour, but that every e p . . 1 1 :. eel that supports the wick, the t estes ay of which,. ~ , ,,,o, three months. of the brasswork facing the interior of the lane t i i . ' replied Guilty, but I was promised forgiveness and to Mr. Ellison having cautioned her and asked whether she would elect to plead guilty or go for trial, she faintly atosious at will with oils emitting intiaienr o l n , y r_ 7 „, at a temperature of from 100 to 110. Dr. Att e b h u , l o : ll ,:elt be kept in my situation. the vapour above t h at temperature is practically set , ,5 this is a first offence ; yon stand committed to prison for co Mr. Fllison—l shall deal with you rather on account of be lo w 100 degrees • and Basks that oil wide ; 1, e. r.'5 might be supplied by the refiner as easily 's h e . ii l iwa ` i i. your age, your former good character , and a belief that which cannot be ignited below 100 ileereee ; t. 1 , __ ili a, one month ; never again yield to temptation. I have the oil should give off no inflammable vapour. .. ~1 2. , ficient, 100 degrees should he the temperature below not made any remark on the conduct of the cons SOUTH EASTERN Ito' it A V ',IC. 11111 n. stable •he has not been charged, but it is im- pany is startint a local train run exclusivelY b!;r7C. posAible not to see that inquiry would prove his Cannon-street and Charing-cross etatione Riternatelsre 0 share in this matter to have been of very un- the up and down Greenwich train.. This wil l ,I t e o m satisfactory character. Atanyrate the remark hemadeabout trains between each terminus in the hour in au ...„.a s the drattboßrd clearly proved him aware of the article the other trains, sucluas those of the Mid Kent Oder's:: belonging to the prosecutor's family, and I shall consider Kent lines, which touch at Cannon-street. The . l l 7 ,',. on the propriety of making a note on the polioe•sheet to tam comes into operation on and after New l i el. "% a that effect. At the former hearing it was stated that tie girl said, as South-Eastern has now five throngh lines in . .._, nr " part of her confession—" The last money I took I put the high level, with platforms available for each II"' By remit improvement& at London -bridge wo tateou,„ _.- FRID-AY , ~~,~.~.. w~ between some bread and fowl and gave to the constable , but I don't know how much as I did not count it." This was not now alluded to. WANDSWORTH. A CABMAN'S TRAP. Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, a lady residing at No. 1, Ceyles. terrace, Ilatterses.flekle, appeared before Mr. Dayman, to anewer a summons at themetance of Edward Snow, cab. driver, for the non-paymof la., his fare. The complainant said, last night week he was et van:. hall-cross, when he was ordered to drive to the defendant's house. When be got there his cab was not required, andthe lady sent out 6d. for the faro. On account of Nine Zhu lane being under repair he bad to drive along the Wei g l e , worth-road and the new road, which made the distance IL mile and a half, and his fare was la. He, however, et. witted that if Nine Elms-lane had been open the distance would have been under a mile. The defendant told the magistrate that she always K ee to Vauxhall for a cob, and as she had never paid more than ed. when it was not required, she did not think the fare was more. She rid if the cabman had told her that the road was stopped up she would have given him the shilling• plainant said he told the servant th a t his f are The com was a shillusg, a s the distance was over a mile, and she went back to her mistress. Mr. Ds re said the cabman should have told the ser vant the reason of the fare being a shilling, as he was Det to take it Po granted that everyone knew the cause, The complainant was entitled to the shilling, but be could not allow him any costa. He then ordered the defendant to pay sixpence, and not costs, as the cabman ought to have mentioned the reason why the fare Val one sht My fare is a shilling. The cabman — Mr. Dayman—lt is a trap. Y ou should have told the lady why the fare was Is. The defendant explained that she had not paid anything as the cabman would not take the 6d. The order was then made for the payment of Is. only. The cabman took the money and left the court, evidently disappointed at not receiving his expenses. COM MERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS. (THIs DAY). The ordinary half-yearly meeting and elections of the above institution was held this day at the London Tavern ; Mr. GLORIA MOORE in the chair. Mr. LoNnoN, the secretary, read the report, by which ii appeared that the total income for the past year had bees 6,990/. 18s. W., an incraue of 53/. over that for 1865. 'he institution was steadily progressing, and considerable in. provement had lately taken place in the management. The educational depariment progresses in the most mei& f ac tory m anner ; the examiners having made a good re. port. Three boys sent to the Oxford Middle Clam Batumi. nation all passed creditably. The present number of chil dren in the schools is 183, viz., 109 boys and 14 Igirls, of whom 15 will leave in January, and 14 are to be admitted at the present election—viz., 10 boys and 4 girls. The board of msnagement acknowledge the receipt ofd onations of 100 guineas each from the firms of Dever and Co. and Boyd and Co. The report concluded by ex. pressing the satisfaction of the board at the healthy state of the children in the school The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report. Re complained of the bad attendance of members at the LW anniversary dinner, and announced that Mr. G. Goodie; M.P., had consented to preside at the next dinner. Mr. WCIOLTORTON seconded the motion, which Ina agreed to. The committee and officers for the ensuing year having Ix en elected a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, a nd the election of children was then proceeded with. GRAND TRUNK RLIVA Y COMPANY OP CAN ADA.AI--( THIS DAY.) A special meeting of the proprietors was held this afternoon at the London Tavern, the president, Mr. E. W ATKIN. M.P. in the chair, to appro v e or otherwise the act of the Canadian legislature for authorising a lease of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company to the Grand Trunk Rail wa y Company of Canada. The report relating to the subject, whichwas issued 1101114 time before, having been taken as read, The C HA IRMAN repeated the nature of the proposed arrangement,observing that the matter rested entirely with the proprietors. He said the first principle to be followed in any such arrangement was that there should be no pre-preference over any exisrtiag interests. That principle had, indeed, been was deviated from in a former case, but the cause of that in no other way could the system be completed. If the present arrangement involved a preferet.:e he would not ask them to confirm it, but of the the t objectwo was an equ al al division of the net pfits concerns of the relations of the two then gave a hist or y companies, and contended at some length that what was submitted for approval would work beneficially for the Grand Trunk Company. He concludril by moving a T , -60 lutioc of approval, which, after some discussion, was • • CIGARS • OFF ealaMity of . • to hays tust mica .• • staff of the we H og g liViunisst are untimely end. The Christman , festxvitia rigt s left by the Ne Meet, where they I sh a man-of-war ship, which w the shoes. The Mousse Holliday, Winans, and ge e, Earl, Finney, I • in the boat the son and two boatmen • , . nine people no ble information c found, keel ul ly adjacent . • e of the unfortunw be direction' of the 'day, who has attai ; D eer, was in posies •of money. The • e district is most i • FATAL ACC FOLF AD•JOIIIiNED is forenoon, / • er for the City of into the dreamt , ore, HenryC. Lo ' lives by the sock ••e Great Western •• Moorgate-street t . llerjeant Ballan; ~ es Ironworks Col , attended in the it ..pany ; Mr. Ben Lukey ; Mefferd. appeared for tl , pen, mires les FUJIMOTO ; a 'tors, were prof , iels, who was in, solicitor, appe, , • Tyler, on b I sent. i model showing .es of the wo; s .ited. • Mr. Carman, a ho • that he mss .• m et with tl . train left Alder which he sat Art • ve been given d a, ly broken, but stunned for en out of the m was extricated P r de which eceme The Coroner, in ted the (oral Sr. connected wi rie WA The witness, in the lain the maw the girders. A juryman as reed ions to get tb rith ,e engine and U to that Charles Itichat employed at ; He was ate that • over the lire the • girders, wl not (Vol • ••a part of tl He • brought ove two • girder wart W 3/ • e, was passe. • the . with a r.so- main girder was - some wog • duty it r . : ...epi.thay t w edp h pag e bil to s : e 000 b Inns i ' lining or. A red cloned • to beg:n s most The Coroner metro- , note the bal c the The witness f dr% tight, and to the ;rder a foot, i ants; ganger, wl w -•oved, shoe A sew signal tc ewster's •d. Dur la pro . • e accident, tight. Th foot would ..m.y by • • e then told I for ha : , y further,; is a very e it anoth ution to • its flag to ege have engine e govern. •• tight, ;er from 11 over. 7 of New. • .; . He h is ca but he ing that *taus, ad , be, the •• e you character Id corn , lietwrY lotying I e s, might , in time. tend to • Chanir rem. The t was bra willingness j - . anted in nitr a tion of ved it • wen Rees, • oved it wi G e genhow, The with !rroptories en had ne i‘atchett to • running a endows Charles I orate'', tli• t exam meiotic° st • •in the e e belief that reed pul r; o' rosimiry or clock. ea teem the In reply is esPeelti l i hed to t in this gait • elqPirl n reply esTe gatron • previo; .euirted , bet , the eng oulueles, the • me feet, carries • In replj t f rom lan :Ted we .• •tt befog t P SPAIN. neat MADRID, Dec. 27. It is stated in well-informed political circles that the Queen has signed a decree dissolving the AMERICA. Corte/ (DT ATLANTIC TRW; RAVH.) NEW YORK, DEC. 24, EvEctsG. Cold, 1331. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. Illinois, 1l ; Erie, 671. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1061. Cotton : Middling Upland, 34. - - WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY. Fr.IDIT, DKCEMBEit VI, 8 A.Y. V. Yttromo. T. w. is B. B. .1 to 12 F. D. 9. W. 2 4 S.W. co 0 oft 1 W.N.W. 3 4 W.N.W. ru p. 17 2 W. 3 4 S.W. , 2 S.W. ,6 V \t. • r V. 3 01 Z. - - in Italy. The Earl Howe is still suffering from an attack , of gout, and, owing to its severity, doubts are entertained 1 - of his recovery. 1 The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon have been i remising a succession of visitors at Highclere Castle during ---- -s .... Aberdeen the last week. Adniiral Sir Alexander Milne had a dinner party , last evening at the Admiralty, Whitehall. , Greencastle.. --1 - 7 . Valentla 30 35 51 N. 3 5 N.W. Yesterday afternoon the usual course of Christ- ' cape a ••::: _ _ - _• _ - _ Leith ...... mria lectures at tho Royal Institution, professedly to a Ltverpool....' - -- 1 - -• - n - ~ -, - juvenile audience, was commend.. d. the lecturer this year . I , l ,: l3 ' esd ee. ::: I ° o l 3 l 1. 7 4 1 !,,..Z W. s., 7 '', .Z : , 1 ,. i'., : I!, c , I 0 7, 3 ' 7, being Professor Frankland, end the subject, "The Cheuds- Brest ...... 30 32 40 N.W. 6 4 I N.W. tse -•-• .li try of the Gases." The lecture theatre was completely Luri Boch e t t i .. : l'?- . 2 , 4 . 60 N.W.. ;, 1 , 3, W• .N W. ,co -; 3 30 4s II . - _ N.N% . . 0.04, 2 filled. Plymouth ... 3021 47 N.W. 7 7 N- . N.W. rob .- 1 4 Mr. Serjeant Burke has just been elected for Weymouth .t 31114 r st, vi N. N W W. 4 3 . 4 6 W1:4.1,44Ck. oc :: 'Z ' l .l Igeai-1407 " directeur," or chief honorary officer of the London .... 30.01 46, NNI I. 7. W. N.W. rbe 0.01. - well-known Society of Antiquaries of Normandy. This Yarmouthi,..;:is2. 4 4 ;1 ,i .‘Nyv.• 3. N.W. nil 0 - 07 ~ : is the first time the compliment has been paid to an shied Scarbo r ng z. ) " ; .5 47 : ,i . w. s., N.W. om - I 2 Englishman. i Holder ------- _—__— We (11.7 old) understand that the Rev. James REM ABBR. Fraser, prebendary of Salisbury, and the Rev T S Wood- I I,,er4STrlmnTiceliErnr-e'asreitit:';::tiii'ls„ll'thinwecrsetar.i n t'll'e l 14 4, i ' t t i 1 21! fora, examining chaplain of the Bishop of Oxford, have Isles . Temperatures generally have roes The wlinlA are chiefly declined to allow themselves to be nominated for the n ortWwesterly , strong on our western coasts, awl light to iiiode rate on our other coasts. Ei4lopric of Calcutta. . --.------- -!--.-''!. The Duchess de 'Slouchy, née Princess Anna ' Murat, was delivered of a son on the night of Christmas. ' A private in the 62nd Regiment, named John day. The Empress remained with her until the birth of Kelly, was yesterday placed under arrest at Queenstown the child, and ilia not return to the Tuileries until an ex_ for using seditious language, proclaiming himself a Fenian, tremely advanced hour. and declaring that, under Stephens, he would free Ireland. We read in a letter from Paris :—" Our Swedish Michael Brien was apprehended yesterday at Queenstown nightingale, Christina Nielsen, has, alas! decided on for singing seditious songs. taking final leave of the Theatre Lyrique next June. Her ' The electric subterranean battery which COM- Majesty's give , her WO/. per month, and is fully justified municates from the Bourse to the Grand Hotel, Paris, wu n doing so. Many good judges consider her performance first worked last Sunday at half-past 12. The messages sfar more artistic than that of her captivating rival, La transmitted by this new method were delivered instanta- Diva Patti, much of whose success is due to the witchery neously, and as distinctly as by the ordinary telegraph. of her charming manner, ana wbo Roesini persists in The Bishop of Verdun, who died on Tuesday, declaring does not know how to sing. Mdlie. Nielsen is was considered as the type of Twrniandir. So stout was u ndoubtedly a perfect mistress of her art, and trusts be (writes a Paris correspondent) that it was by means of nothing to the inspiration of the moment. A close friend- considerable manceuvring he ever accomplished entering a ship unites the fair and dark rivals, who may often be cab. The amount of food he consumed at his various meals seen enjoying, arm in arm, their morning walk at an early was something fabulous. Owing to the frequent illnesses hour in the Champs Elysees, escorted by La Diva's mar- brought on by his voracity, he was always attended by a ried sister, their attire remarkable only for its unassum- s ervant, whose sole business was forprevent health. Monse When- igneur ing simplicity. Diane. Nielsen is to have the principal f r om eating more than was good his rdle in M. de Jomiere's Sardanapale, which will appear ever this reverend bishopwas invited to dinner at &friend's on the playbill alternately with Der Freischinc." : house, the said domestic stationed himself behindhis chair, Cardinal d'Andrea has received notice that an ' investigated the amount of cutlets, pates, perdreanx truffes, accusation is being drawn up against hint in the congre. &c., eaten by his master ; and when be considered that be gation of bishops, upon which it is intended to found an had had as much as was good for his lordship, he made application to the Pope for his radiation from the list of a telegraphic sign to the mistress of the house, who, warned cardinals. It appears that various foreign prelates have beforehand, immediately cut off the supplies. encouraged the Pope to take this step. A French bishop About a dozen steamers arrived at Southampton is said to have written that "in his training college the last week from France laden chiefly with poultry and students were scandalised at the impunity." dairy proium. One of the steamers brought the enormous The new Egyptian "parliament," of which number of 26,000 geese for the London market. It was Ragheb Pacha has been named president, has met, but its estimated that this steamer landed enough geese to save " debates" have not yet been published. The public are the capital of the south of England from starvation for at to be admitted eventua ll y . least one day. "14.R1 43 “.31 42 IC•S 48 4V ml '0.04'. 111. -- - he busi !hick renry. lary p Cos 11113