The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 8. every now and then have to be taken from the safe to have payment of Is. or Is. Gd. marked upon them. It renews the memory of a loss which would willingly be forgotten. For this reason it is generally considered de sirable to avoid all interference in legal proceedings as far as practicable. There are two sides, how ever, to this question. If it is thought expedient to wind up an estate without reference to the law courts--and that is the view nine times out of ten—private inspectors alone are required. I'ractically the management rests with the ac countuits and solicitors, and, as a rule, this ar rangement has been found to work well, although, as we have observed, the creditors but seldom re ceive anything like the dividend shown in the first statement of affairs. In flagrant cases, where insolvent estates are taken into court, the court officials should alone be empowered to deal with them. First of all they are re sponsible to the judge as well as to the cre ditors, and are bound to disclose the whole facts of the case without reserve. These would often be slurred over even if it should not happen that the creditors' assignee had been appointed by in trigue or favour. Secondly, an official assignee would have time to look into a case. He would act much as the QUEEN'S Proctor does in doubt ful Divorce suits. It is a great gain to shut out collusion and fraud, and these offences have never been more practised and less punished than in the Bankruptcy Court. Finally, wo would urge that Bankruptcy cases should, when necessary, be brought within the criminal code. A little has been done in this direction, but unhappily a very little. A dishonest trader may rob his creditors to almost any amount, but as long as he abstains from false pretences, and in particular keeps his books in perfect order, he escapes with a few months' or a year's suspension of his certi ficate, with protection. His punishment is abut , lutely nothing at all. It is a crying evil in our law that a half-starved pickpocket stealing a watch is sentenced to six months' hard labour, while the eminent tradesman who gets into debt for 20,000/. without the hope of payment is at most condemned to wait for six months before being legally released front the whole of his liabilities. IT seems a strange contradiction that precisely in practical matters the moat practical nation in the world chiefly fails. Englishmen pride them selves upon their commercial aptitude, knowledge of business, and so forth. The mercantile classes especially are fond of drawing comparisons be tween the smooth working of their own offices and the lumbering routine of Government dCpart ments. Even to this day it is remembered with regret that the offer of a private person to victual our army in the Crimean war by contract instead of through a public commissariat was rejected. At that time, however, the reputation of our public officials had sunk to its lowest ebb. Everything with them seemed to go wrong. The obvious remedy appeared to be to supplement their erroneous action by the commercial system, which was assumed to be working well. It was universally said that if men of business had had a greater share in the management of the country's affairs, most, if not all, of the scandals in the Crimean war would have been avoided. Pritad Jane this seemed • good argument. But let us see how far commer cial legislation has been well conducted. Taking one of the first points, the antagonism of opinion upon the Currency question is so great that it appears almost hopeless to expect that a settlement will be arrived at. The very seine persons who in times of difficulty urge the abro gation of the existing system, change their views the moment that the danger has passed. Again, the inconveniences of the Patent Law have for years been felt, but no one is found competent to devise a corrective. The last crying evil, that of Railway legislation, is likewise beyond the power of either House of Parliament to deal with. Remedy after remedy has been proposed, to be only in turn rejected. Lastly, the Bankruptcy Law has turned up again, and another attempt is made in the present session to settle a measure of consi derable if not paramount value to the trading com munity. A new bill has peened the most impor tant stages in the House of Commons, and it may be hoped will go up to the Lords forthwith. Looking at the provisions of this last Act, it may be hoped that it is an improvement upon its predecessors. By some strange perversity all our recent laws on this point, while getting rid of established abuses, have contrived to import or create others of their own. An outside observer would be astonished at this fact, considering that among the members of the House of Commons, merchants, bankers, manufacturers, and lawyers form an exceedingly large body of men who must from their position have a perfect knowledge of the subject either in actual experience or from professional practice. It is almost impossible to suggest a question which would be more within the scope of our Parliament. In addition, also, to the peculiar qualifications of the House of Commons to legislate on Bankruptcy, there are in the Lords many practised judges who would readily discover defects of detail, or ought to do so, and to effect improvements. Notwith standing all these advantages our Bankruptcy Law is eminently unsatisfactory. Perhaps this arises from au excess of knowledge. Where many per sons are competent to form an opinion, and opinions constantly differ, the result may be hire nor to that which is seen where comparatively few have to decide. Compromises are sure to be effected, which as often as not exclude the good and retain the bad. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) In caste; of mercantile failure the great point to be considered is the interest of the creditors, and as a consequence the best plan for getting the highest dividend out of the estate. Next, it is very well understood that directly an insolvent firm is placed in the Bankruptcy Court the chances are that with law costs and other expenses the creditors will get only Ss. in the pound, where they might otherwis•. have received 10s. Again, there is the almost iaerminable delay. Nothing is more dis tasteful to a merchant than to have a bad or doubtful debt kept on his books. To use the ordinary term, he likes to " make his loss," and have done with it. Hence in ninety-nine cues out of a hundred he is only too ready to accept a compn 111 l im..—a!though inadequate—if the pay ment is .peedy and secured. A certain Sa. down is better than a problematical 10a. in future in stalments with interest. This feeling is so general that at meetings of creditors an accountant will show aasets nearly equal to the amount of the debts, subject to realization (and in all these cases the lowest possible value is said to be placed upon them), but somehow, possibly from previous experience, the immediate payment of a con sidentl.ly smaller sum is usually preferred.' Bometistie. , , it is true, but very rarely, the value of an insolvent estate comes up to the estimate. The great object, as a rule, is to' get quit of the whole affair. It is very disagree able to hold a parcel of dishonoured bills, which THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1867. incumbent on the government to rescind the decision at which the commissioners arrived out of semplaisanr.e to their colleague ; if not, the ',abbe will ask speedily whether its own interest, on a truly momentous question, is to be sacrificed to the morbid sensibility of John Arthur Roe buck. Is it possible, asks the Star, that the chief actor in this ridiculous affair was once a politician of high promise, of intellect, and of manliness! Apparently, then, there is a sort of self-conceit as fatal to manly character and mind ea the dry-rot to the substance it assails. If the commission ers mean to act on this precedent, there can be no delegate of the working men present at all ; for surely Mr. Roebuck must know very well what intelligent working men as a rule think of his recent political performances. It is asking too much of the artisan bodies to expect them to have any confidence whatever in the proceedings of a com mission the majority of whom have allowed so one•sided, unfair, and unmanly a proceeding. Eta Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, JULY G. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold and Prince,' Beatrice, drove in the grounds yuderday after noon. The Queen of Prussia went to London yesterday. Her Majesty drove from Paddington in a carriage and four to Chiswick, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, and visited the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland. Her Majesty afterwards honoured Lady Holland with a visit at Holland-house, and from thence drove through Hyde-park to Paddington, and returned to Windsor Castle shortly after S o'clock. Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, went to London yes terday afternoon, and visited the Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house. Her royal highness returned to Windsor Castle in the evening. The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, went out in the grounds this morning. Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by Baroness Schenck and Captain Von Wtaterweller, arrived at the Castle this afternoon from Marlborough-house. The Dean of Windsor had the honour of dining with the Queen sad the royal family yesterday. The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley have arrived at the Castle. lady Frances BaiHie has also arrived. JULY 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. The Queen of Prussia went to London yesterday. Her Majestyhonoured Miss Nightingale with a visit, and also honoured Baron Marochetti with a visit to his studio. From thence her Majesty drove to the Prussian embassy, and afterwards visited the Princess of \Vales ►t Marl borough-6 MU!, and then returned to Windsor Castle. The Queen, the Queen of Prussia, Prince and Princess Louis of Hew, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended divine service in the private chapel this morning. The Very Rev. the Dean of Canterbury preached the sermon. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Helps arrived at the Castle yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Dean of West minster and Lady Augusta Stanley, and Lady Frances Sallie, had the honour of dining with the Queen and the r,yal family. Sir James Clark has left the Castle. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Louis of Hesse, rode out on S.iturday morning, attended by Colonel Kingscote. The Prince and Princem of Wales drove out in the afternoon. The Prince of Wales, with Captain Ellis in waiting, attended divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The communion service was read by the Rev. the Sub- Dean and the Rev. Thomas Helmore. Anthem, " Oh where shall wisdom be found," Boyce. Sung by Masters Carmichael and Wood, Messrs. It. Barnby, Cummings, and Whitehouse. Mr. Goss presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. the Sub• Dean from Ist St. Peter, ch. 1, v. 8. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the of residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmes bury, the Right Hon. (I. Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, LordNaas, and the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat on Saturday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu. The Duke of Leineter, the Earl of Wilton, Lord Wrottesley, the Right Hon. Sir Oeorge Clerk, Mr. Broad. wood, Mr. T. T. Bernard, and Mr. Kellow J. Pye, had an Interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Down. ing•street, on Saturday. A deputation, oonsisting of Mr. John Vance, the Right Hon. Colonel Fitssteven French, M.P., Colonel Knox, M.P., Colonel Sir James M. Strong, )LP., Mr. E. C. O'Neill, M.P., Mr. F.. Wingfield Verner, M.P., Mr. D. C. Brady, and Mr. R. A. Plunkett, had an interview with Mr. Hunt, at the Treasury, Whitehall, on Saturday, on behalf of the Newry Navigation Company. Despatches were received on S►turday, at the Colonial office, from the Governors of Malta and Heligoland. De spatches were sent to the Governors of the North Ameri elan Provinces, Bermuda, and Britiah Honduru. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES.-(THIS DAY.) Thin morning her Majesty the Queen, with Princess Louis of Home, attended by Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Hardinge, and the lady in wait ing, left Windsor M 20 minutes past 11, and proceeded via Slough Junction, West Drayton, and Southall, to Paddington, which was reached at 12 o'clock, and then drove to Marlborough House. The Viceroy of Egypt will dine with the Queen at the Castle, and sleep there to-night. The dinner which is to be given by the members of the United Service Club to the Viceroy of Egypt will take place on Friday next. In 1862 the mem bers of this club were honoured by the presence of the late viceroy at a banquet. According to present arrangements (says the Court Journal) the Queen and the royal family will leave the Castle for Osborne on Saturday, the 13th inst. THE PRINCESS OF WALEs.—The Princess of Wales drove in the Park on Saturday, and her re-appear. &nee in public was received with marked gratification. The Princess does not, it is said, bear the signs of illness which might have been expected from her long confine ment within doors. The Queen of Prussia will take her departure from Wind■or Cantle to-morrow, on her return to the Con tinent. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon entertained at dinner, at their residence in Grosvenor-street, on Satur day evening, the Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady Margaret Scott, the Marquis of Abercorn and Lady Georgians Hamilton, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Morley, the Countess of New burgh. Viscount St. Aleph, Sir Henry Storks, lady Mary Stanhope, Hon. Auberon Herbert, &c. The countess had a numerously attended reception later in the evening. The Right Hon. Chichester Forteecue and Frances Countess Waldegrave have received at Strawberry Hall since Saturday last his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Adams, H. Van do Weyer, the Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Georgians Russell, Vis ount and Via countess Amberley, Lord Stratlmairn, Lady Churchill, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone and the Misses Gladstone (2), the Right lion. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., the Right Hon. George J. °when, M.P., and Mrs. Goseben, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reeve, Mr. and Mrs. Bingham Mildmay, M. and Madame Laugel, Mr. William Harcourt, Mr. Fleming, and Mr. Charles Harcourt. r TH?: MALINBCRT POACHING CAME. No one who looks at the matter without preju dice can deny, in the opinion of the Timm., that a zealous game preserver before whom an alleged poacher is brought up is placed in an anomalous position, and that he is under great temptation to confound proof with suspicion. Mr. Hardy's line of defence in the Salisbury case was sin gularly defective in his statement that on summary hear. jugs before justices of the peace no depositions are taken, but only "mere note, of evidence." No evidence that cannot be written down in precise terms ought to subject a man to the risk of three months' imprisonment, and all evidence that is so written down ought to be carefully verified and preserved. If it be true, as Mr. Henley states, that " what the clerk really writes is unknown either to the magistrates or to the witnesses," and that " not one magistrate in fifty reads what the clerk writes," the Tiara can only say that it is a very loose and irregular mode of conducting judicial business. How are the wit news to be confuted, as they often may be, out of their own mouths, upon an appeal to quarter sessions, if there be no trustworthy record of the story they told before the magistrates ? The Daily Nears remarks th►t Mr. P. T►ylor could not have committed a greater offence to the quarter sessions spirit of the House of Commons than to call in question the course of rural justice as meted out by game preserving magistratesto persons charged with poaching. Although Mr. Disrael tells us that we ought to recognise in the county members the representatives of the agricultural and not merely the landed interest, and although he always in cludes the labourers in the bulls of the county representa tion, yet whenever these untenable convictions are brought under the notice of parliament it ia by a member for a borough. No voice is raised for the agricultural labourer, save by the representatives of towns. The new qualifica tion will in future bring county representatives into con tact with a new class of voters, and we may hope that as a consequence they may enlarge their sympathies and take a broader view of their duties. NCOTCN AND IRISH PREIS. Dealing with the wrongs of the Irish and Scotch peers, the Tines declares th►t the latter have a reel and intelli gible grievance. Tory politics predominate in the electing body, and therefore no liberal Scotch peer can hope to find his way into the House of Lords. He is absolutely for bidden to sit in the House of Commons, and therefore pre sents the singular anomaly of an English subject precluded by positive law from any participation in public life, except on condition of adherence to a particular set of political opinions. The ease is all the harder because the holders of titles subject to this unjust exclusion bear some of the noblest historic names in the Peerage. Irish peers are not permitted to court the favour of Irish constituencies, hut seats in England and Scotland are open to them. The tendency of all such honours as hereditary titles of mere personal distinction, entirely dissevered from any political duty, to depreciation, as society advances, is certain and inevitable, and it is diffi cult to see what good purpose is answered by the creation of new Irish peers. In the meantime it may deserve con sideration whether it may not be expedient to take the constituents instead of the representatives, and, in con sideration of the unwillingness of many of the peers of the United Kingdom to take part in the duties annexed to the titles they bear, to tall those who are virtually pre sent by their representatives to an actual share in the deliberations of the House of Lords. MR. RORBUOR AND NM CONSTIMENTII. The Daily New finds the reason unaccountable which led the Trades Unions' Commission to exclude Mr. Connolly from their meetings for having traced • resemblance be tween the violence and irregularity of Mr. Roebuck's speech an I the moral disorder of some of his best known constituents. There is no man in the House of Commons who assumes a larger license of speech than Mr. Roebuck, and the Daily News believes there is no other member who would think it necessary for the defence of his honour and dignity to take notice of an unfavourable opinion expressed of him by a stonemason. The honourable member, how ever, is the best judge of what his reputation requires. The course taken by the Commission stands in need of further explanation. If any disrespect bad been shown to their body, or to any of its members acting a■ such, what they have don* would have appeared perfectly natural, but the Daily News does not understand that this is pre tended. It is not stated that the Trades' Conference propose to tender another representative ; if they do, they will doubtless take care to select one who thinks highly, not only of Mr. Roebuck, but of every other commissioner, in all his relation, and capacities. The Telegraph al:garret that the condition of s jester's popularity is th►t he should be able to take an well as to give ; and when Mr. Roebuck calls for protection the in stant a Connolly calla him hard names, it can have neither the respect that is due to courage nor the pity that is granted to weakness. What Mr. Connolly said was not more foolish or unscrupulous than a hundred statements which are made constantly in parliament and in the press. When Mr. Roebuck himself declared, on a public occasion, that the Queen of England was dishonoured by having shaken hands with the Emperor of the French he made a wicked and foolish remark. But nobody ever proposed that be should be excluded from the area of parlia ment. However, it is one thing vulgarly to insult a monarch, it is another to sin against the sacred Roebuck. The Te/egraph is not surprised a , . the dictatorial imperti nence which demanded the exclusion of Connolly, but is astonished that the commissioners should have committed the gross and monstrous injustice of submitting to it. Connolly is the chairman of the Trade.' Conference Com mittee, and a man of considerable eminence in his own trade, and the commonest prudence dictated his being treated by the commission with ordinary fairness. It Is LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (111UTEle5 T&LIOR•Y9.) FRANCE. PARIS, Jun 8. Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, wan received yesterday by their Majesties at the Tuileries. The Prince Imperial arrived at Bagiires at 5 p.m. yesterday evening. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS. IA $. The Brussels papers of to-day state that the Queen of Prussia will leave Windsor Castle on the 9th inst. for Paris, and will alight at the hotel of the Prussian Embassy. The Multiteur Beige of to day says that the intended festivities of the court have been abandoned, and the visits which their Majesties had promised to several towns in Bel gium have been adjourned. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, JCLY 7. The Nile is rising, and there is every prospect of abundant crops. ARRIVAL OF THE WESER. SOUTHAMPTON, Jun 8. The North German Lloyd's steamer Weser, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived here to-day with 136 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 27 sacks of mails, 117,934 dole. in specie for England, and 1,500 dole. for Bremen. On the 28th she spoke the English ship Wisconsin, bound west, and on the 7th inst., off Scilly, passed the English vessel Uruguay steering up channel. NEW YORK, Jura 27. The presidential party arrived at Hartford yester day, and were cordially received by the governor and the Connecticut Legislature. Mr. Johnson in a brief speech expressed his gratification at the kind reception he had received in New England, and declared that if his political judgment erred it was an error of the head, not of the heart. All his efforts had been honestly directed to the public good. The Pennsylvanian Republican cons ention has passed a resolution strongly condemning the policy of President Johnson. Suratt's counsel are attempting to prove an alibi for the prisoner on the night of the assaasination. WEST INDIA MAIL. ST. NAZAINS, JOLT 8. The steamer France has arrived here with 208 passengers, and 500 tons of merchandise. Her dates are St. Thomas, 23, Havannah, 17, and Vera Cruz, June 13. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE CZAR. (110 X OUR OWN 0011RINPONDINT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVILNINO. _ The judgment of the Court of Mises en Accusa tion, committing Berezowaki for trial, is dated July 4. The prisoner is described as Antoine Berezowski, born at Kolrziski (Volhynia), in Russia, on May 9, 1837, an a justeur mecanicien, residing at No. 210, Rue Marcadet, Paris ; height, 171 centi imetzes ; hair and eyebrows chesnut, high forehead, brown eyes, middle-sized nose, large mouth, round chin, full face, and rather dark complexion. The document narrates the circumstances of the crime, including the bursting of the pistol and the achievement of M. Rainibaux, the equerry, without any material or interesting variation from the accounts published in the newspapers a month ago. The following extract contains all the particulars discovered during the long secret " instruction " whether from Berezowski's own answers to inter rogatories, or the minute researches of the police : The accused at once accepted the responsibility of the attempt, of which he admitted himself to be the author. Ho declared that he bad resolved to kill the Emperor Alexander, and that it was with that object exclusively that he fired upon the imperial Gamine. He said that he had confided his project to no one, and that he stood " alone with his country," which he desired to avenge by killing the Czar. In the course of all his examinations he constantly affirmed that he never meant to hurt the Emperor Napoleon, and was perfectly certain that the bullets would not touch his Majesty. Berezowski fought in the ranks of the Polish insurrection in 1863. After having waited in vain for • long time in Galicia for an order to resume the campaign, he sought refuge first in Germany and afterwards in Bel gium. He came to Paris in the beginning of November, 1866. He obtained employment in MM. Gouin's factory as an ajusteur meconicien, with wages of 30 centimes the hour. He received from the Prefecture of Police a subsidy of 35 franca per month. In order to improve his French he went for ten months to the Institution Jauffret. Since the 30th of April last Berezowaki was out of employment until May 27, when be went to ?dotty in the department of the Oise to work for a few days, telling his eomeierge that he should be back on June 1. On that day, which was the day of the arrival of the Emperor Alexander, he waited two hours outside the Northern Railway station to see him pus. On Tuesday, June 4, he again went to see him as he was leaving the Opera. When the accused bad thus ascertained that it was not difficult to get near the Czar, he made up hie mind to take his life, and fixed June 6 for the execution of his design. On the sth he bought a double-barrelled pistol, caps, and bullets, at an armourer's On the Boulevard de Sebastopol. He chose the pistol from several which he was told had been tried. He still wanted powder, and as his money was all gone he pawned a paletot to buy some. On the morning of the 6th he loaded the pistol, and finding his bullets too small for the barrels, he made with some le►d two lingots of cylindrical form, 19 millemetres long, and weighing 16 grammes, which he rammed into the barrels with a piece of iron. Thus armed, he left his lodgings at 9 in the morning, and was never seen there again. He breakfasted at • wine shop in the Rue Mar cadet, from whence he proceeded to the railway station at Bazignolles. Near this he went into another wine shop and took a glass of Versvnah, and he left behind him a p►letot, in the pocket of which was found a book, entitled "A Study of Poland," by Casimir Wolowski. Page 80 of this book is turned down, and the following passage is marked Klenaki's oath—l swear to prepare all pos sible means to ensure the success of the insurrection." The accused could not get near the sovereigns during the review. He took up a position at first on the reeks of the Cascades, by which he supposed the Czar would pass. When the filing past of the army was over, he watched the movements of the im perial co►tege with an attentive eye. When he saw that the carriage in which the sovereigns were had changed its direction and taken the Chemin de la Vierge, he ran across the Chemin de la Grande Cascade, and passed on under the trees and brushwood to the cress roads, which he reached just as the cortege was coming up. He fired somewh►t obliquely, being on the left of the carriage, and a little behind it. If he is to be believed, he aimed at the Emperor Alexander's bead when he fired. The court finds that there are sufficient charges esta blished against Berezowski to commit him for trial for having, "on June 6, 1867, in the Bois de Boulogne, wil fully and with premeditation committed an attempt at homicide upon the person of his Majesty the Emperor Alexander, the which attempt, manifested bye commence ment of execution, failed of its effect solely from circum stances independent of the will of the author." The report that the Russian government were negotiating the sale of the Moscow and fit. Petersburg Railway seems to have been well founded, and the prioe of 12,000,00(11., payable in instalments spread over three years, is stated to be the amount agreed upon. The oom• pletion of the contract will doubtless depend, however, on the ability of the purchasers to form a company capable of reiring tkii mould in the Western markets. F.P.ENCH DUSZLISTST. 31. DE SAINTE-BEUVE'S REPLY TO A CHALLENGE It app thai M. de Sainte-Beuve rived a nt challenge to fight from M. Lease, for some expressions which he used in the speech delivered by him in the French Senate on the '2.'ith of June last, although to those who read the debate it must have been evident that what ever insult there was was offered by M. Lacaze, and not by M. de Sainte-Benve. To Baron de Heeckeren, who brought the challenge on the part of M. Lame, M. de Sainte-Beuve replied: " I am not disposed to accept, in such a matter-of course way as you seam to suppose, this summary juris prudence which consists in choking a question and killing • man in 4$ hours. I will even frankly confess that. amongst the many friends on whose friendship I count, there are not two, not even one, who is an adept in this method of arms. In general my friends are men of thought, men of the pen, sad of discussion. This does not mean that they are men less resolute, or men of less honour, but that they are not doctors of arms.' I should have to consult in any case those who defend the same ideas and the same cause that I defend, and these know the means and arms that are beat suited for this purpose. Moreover, this affair is as clear as daylight, and everybody knows all about it. It is of that kind which, in my opinion, should be treated only by discussion, by the conflict of free opinion and publicity. In this respect I have not the least fear for what I now write." In a second letter, addressed to M. Lacaze, M. de Sainte-Beuve writes :—" I recognise as the only compe tent judge—the public—the entire public—everybody— that somebody who has more intelligence than any indi. vidual and as much honour as any one—an honour which is not' the point of honour,' and which has common sense on its side." THE MEXICAN NOTE IN THE "MONITEUIt." The Libras says :—" We are reminded by the article in the Moniker of this morning that in 1821 the Emperor Iturbido and in 1829 the President Guerrearo ex perienced the same fate as Maximilian. ' Bat,' observes the Monist ur, whatever interest may attach to the memory of these two personages, nothing in their origin or existence can be compared to the illustrious victim whose mournful fate will be received by the whole world with horror. The deep emotion which the blood-stained fall of the Mexican empire has produced in Femme will be increased by the consi deration that the victim was a descendant of Charles V.' We have passed through too many revolutions to be able to retain any very clear idea of what the Monileur calls, ' high treason against monarchy.' It is enough to excite our indignation that on the death of this unfortunate prince there has been ' high treason against humanity.' The Liberti says :—" The note in the Meaitter respect big the execution of Maximilian has been attributed to an exalted personage. The note in question seem to indicate an eternal rupture between France and Mexico. But (adds the Liherte) political exigencies sometimes so com pletely modify the action of governments ! Time also makes as forget so many things !" NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION -( ram DAY.) This morning the National Rifle Association commenced its eighth annual campaign on Wimbledon common, and under auspices of the most encouraging description, for • very costly bill of fare has been provided, and there is no doubt those who desire to enjoy these good things will be more numerous than on any former occasion. There are 13 series of prizes of a very valuable descrip tion, exclusively confined to volunteers, these consisting of the first and second stages for her Majesty's Prize, and these stages alone furnish as many prizes as would together make a moderate fortune. The highest in point of value is that gained by the best competitor in the second stage who carries off the sum of 25W., the gold medal, and the gold badge of the association. For all comers there are no less than 67 prizes thrown open to competi• ion, in cluding those known by the names of the Albert, Alexandra, Windmill, Belgian, Challenge Cup, Associated and Wimbledon Cupa, Elcho Challenge Shield, Daily Tele graph, Public Schools, Spencer, Henry Peek, Oaks, All Comers, and Earwig prizes, so that there is ample field for any skilled marksman to receive a due reward for the labour he has bestowed in qualifying himself for the occasion. The camp is this year on a very extensive scale, and many improvements have been effected since last year, and not the least in importance is the doing away with a great source of annoyance in getting either to or from the camps. All the flys, cabs, and other vehicles are this year placed under the charge of two gentlemen, Mr. Clipson, of Putney, and Mr. Berryman, of Wimbledon, and there is a regular tariff of fares, so th►t every person requiring either will know exactly what he will have to pay. The regimental camps have this year been einsidembly increasod, and there will be a larger number of men under canvas this year than on any former occasion' There are the usual arrangements for the comfort of the visitors, and Mr. Jennison, the well-known catever, hu improved his saloons in many respects. The r►il way has again been laid down, and short trips may be made frequently on it from one side of the common to the other during the day. The business of the day commenced this morning at half-past 10 o'clock, and consisted of the following com petition : The Bronze Medal competition, between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Middlesex, and Tower Hamlets. The Bass Prize of 50f., given by M. T Baas, Esq., M.P., restricted to efficient volunteers who have never won a prize at Wimbledon, or at any County Ride Association meeting, before the Bth of July, 1867. The fourth series of extra prizes.—The Duke of Cambridge's Prize, in the first etageby military breech-loaders, for prize* amountin g in the aggregate to 1701. The Enfield Association Cup, value 501., to be competed for by life members and members of the National Associa tion who have paid their subscriptions for the current year. Besides the above there were commenced the pool targets, running prizes, running deer, he. At a quarter past 10 the whole of the men intending to take part in the different competitions assembled in front of the Council Tent, and, having been squadded, m►rched off to the respective firing points, but at the time our re port was despatched it was impossible to give any details of the shooting. Almost every few minutes there are fresh arrivals of volunteers from all parts of the country ; but as the Queen's Prize competition does not commence until Wed nesday, it is probable that it will be Tuesday night before the whole of them are assembled. GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse honoured the German Hospital with a visit on Saturday last. Their royal highnesses went through all the ►ick wards, conversing very kindly with many of the patients, inspecting minutely the various arrangements of the charity, and declared themselves much pleased with the whole establishment and the condition in which they found it. THE REVIEW IN HYDE-PARC—We understand that the review which was to have been held in Hyde park on Friday last bee now been abandoned altogether. —Post. Among the influences to operate on the English funds, the fact, says the Tinges, that more than half a mil lion sterling will have to be invested within the next twelve weeks on account of the sinking fund is important. These purchases uaually commence about the middle of the quarter, and on the present occasion, if the harvest at the time should realise its existing promise, the effect of such en absorption of stock may be expected to be more than usually distinct. The operas announced for the current week M Covent Garden are Le Nout di Figaro (this evening), Tuesday La Favorite (with Signor Nrudin in place of Signor Mario, who is judiciously reserving himself for M. Gonnod's new opera, as Ferdinando), Don Carlos (Friday), and on the other nights Romeo e Oitdiette, which is posi tively to be produced on Thursday, with Signor Mario, as Romeo, and Mdlle. Adelina Patti, as Cliulietta. The operas for the present week at Her Ma jesty's Theatre are Martha (to-night), the Huguenots (Tuesday), and Don Giovanni (Thursday and Saturday). In Don Giovanni Mdlles. Nihon and Titiena will sing for the first time in the same opera, Mdlle. Nilsson having ac cepted the part of Donna Eh'ira. For this occasion Mr. Telbin has, we are informed, painted entirely new scenery. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY. ) HOUSE OF LORDS. APPEALS. (Proms:it—The Lord CtuuKollar, Lord Craaworth, sod Lord Coloamy.) LoNGWOHTH (OR TZLVERTON) V. TELVERTON. Mr. Anderson, Q.C., resumed his argument to-day on behalf of the respondent, and sited several authorities to show that the general case of re. ference to the oath of a party was where the party referring and the party referred to stood with op. posed ieterests in the matter referred, and where no other interest was involved. In this case there could be no qualified reference. No reference could be made without prejudice to the status and interests of the former Mrs. Forbes, aid her status and interests were inseparably united with the respondent's. Both must be bound or both free. A reference to oath in Scot. land always led to a flood of litigation, and if this reference were granted, the case, after being through several courts and occupying nine years, might in all pro. bability be litigated for another nine years before the per. secution of Major Yelverton terminated. The Attorney-General followed on the same aide, and also dwelt at considerable length upon the question whether the rights of third parties could by any possi bility be affected by an appeal to the conscience of another ply. [The argument was proceeding when our report left.] COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Nisi Prins 'Sittings at Guildhall.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) DAWSON r. THE LONDON AND aQUTH WEETEILY RAILWAY COMPA.NY._ This was an action for damages for the non-delivery of goods. The company admitted their liability, and had paid 401. into court as sufficient to meet the plaintiff's claim. Mr. Phi?brick and Mr. T. Atkinaon were amnia' for the plaintiff ; Mr. C. Pollock, Q.C.. and another learned gen tleman were counsel for the defendants. _ _ The plaintiff, who u a nurseryman at Camberwell, bad • contract in November, 1865, to plant about 1,591 shrubs, and trees of an ornamental character at Bickley. The trees were forwarded from Bunningdale to Bickley station by the defendants, but they were so long delayed in the transit that 810 died. The action was brought for the lose of the trees, loss of time in waiting for the arrival, and the subsequent clearing the ground and replanting after the trees had died. The plaintiff claimed 731. 2s. sd. over the sum paid into court. The pord Chief Justice observed that this ease was one merely of Ovum, and ought to have gone to the Hester. It was a lamentable waste of precious time calling twelve commercial men of the City of London to investigate such a case. _ . . The defendants, feeling they oonlel not resist the claim, nted to a verdict for the conse t claimed. COURT OP OOMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banoo.—(Before Lord Chief Justice BowM mad Justices Willes and Smith.) The court sat this morning for the purpose of delivering judgment in cases which had stood over for consideration. THE WHITSTABLE TREE 118HERIER V. MAIMS. The Lord Chief Justice said that the question in this case was whether the plaintiffs had a right to demand anchorage dues from all vessels casting anchor upon a cer tain place known as the anchorage ground, which was near Whitstable. In a former ease the same question was raised, and the plaintiffs based their case upon this, that they were owners of the soil of the anchorage ground. The House of Lords in that case held that the plaintiffs' right could not be supported upon the ground upon which it had been placed, and the special case upon which the court was now asked to give judgment stated that from time immemorial the lords of the manor had always claimed anchorage dues for vessels anchoring upon theground, and that there were buoys and beacons kept up for the protection of the vessels. The court was of opinion that the immemorial payment must be assumed to be founded upon a right to claim it, and therefore that the plaintiffs were entitled to judgment. Judgment for the plaintiffs. DAGO...LEY r. HAWLEY. This was an action to recover back the price of a boiler under these circumstances. The boiler had been sold under a distress for poor rates to the defendant, and he afterwards sold it to the plaintiff at an increased price. The plaintiff found that he could not remove the boiler without pulling down a portion of a wall, and therefore be could not get possession of the article which he bad bought. The question now was whether the defendant had given a warranty that be had a right to sell ; and it was admitted that there was no express warranty, and that if there was ►ny it must be implied from the circumstances of the case. . . . The court held that both parties were acquainted with the circumstances, and therefore that no wartauty on the part of the defendant could be inferred. Judgment for the defendant. THE COUFI.ANB HTONE QUARRY COMPANY C. PARKER. This was an action to recover the amount of • circular note which bad been issued by the National Rank of London for payment in France, and which had been lost in transmission. The bank was willing to repay the money upon having an indemnity in a form pro pma by them ; but the parties differed about the terms of the indemnity ; and therefore the court was asked to decide whether the plaintiffs could of right claim back the mon The ey court now said that their judgment was for the de- fendant ; but the reasons on which it was founded would not be state.' until next term. Judgment for the defendant. The other cases which stood over for judgment were further postponed until next term. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) The July session of the Central Criminal Court Was opened this morning before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Salomon., Abbiss, and Begley, Mr. Sheriff Lyoett, the llnd-r-Sheritts, &c. The Ent edition of the calendar contains the names of 92 prisoner.. and 8 others are oat on bail. The commit manta are as folio :—From the city of London, 27 ; from Middlesex, 46 ; Essex, 5 ; rent, 14 ; and Surrey, 8. The offences are thus classified :—Feloniously wounding, 6 ; forgery, 7 assault with intent to rob, 1 ; burglary. 10 ; housebreaking, 4 ; robbery, 13; feloniously receiving stolen goods, 6 ; manslaughter, 1' • hoseestesliag, 1' • stealing post letters, 2 ; embezzlement, 6; larceny, 2'.1; and uttering counterfeit coin, 7. Most of the cases appear to be of the ordinary character, the principal charge of public interest being the one against the young man Alexander Frederick Watkins, for attempting to murder his sweetheart at Buckhurst•hill, which was post poned from the last session in consequence of the absence of the proeecutrix. It is announced that since the tram action took place the parties have been married, so that it is very doubtful, if this should be the fact, whether the prosecutrix will appear and give evidence in support of the charge. Several of the gentlemen who had been announced to serve on the grand jury were fined 10/. for non-attendance. The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, observed that he was happy to say that the cases which would be brought before thesis were not very numerous, and fur the most part were not of a serious description. There was only one case in the calendar in which human life bad been volved, and in this case it appeared that the accused and deceased haul quarrelled in a public house, the landlord of which caused them to leave • a fight ensued outside the house, in which the deoease:l was knocked down by the prisoner and was taken home insensible and died in a few days—the immediate cause of death being concussion of the brain. It would be for the grand jury to say whether that result had been caused by enact of the prirmier. There was a charge of rape against a surgeon-dentist named Free ' Man, in which it was alleged th e offence had been committed after the abstraction of some of the teeth of the prosecutrix, under the 'influence of chloroform, sad the charge mainly rested on the testimony of the prosecutrie. It would, therefore, he necessary that the grand jury should look to ascertain whether she received any confirmation by other witnesses, and that a prima facie case was male out that called for a full and further inquiry. Ile must mention that at these sessions there were four loinre climmes arising out of the unfortunate dispute existing between the master tailors and their men in the metropula. No doubt the grand jury were aware of the present st,te of the law on this subject, and that it was now lawful teethe masters to combine to agree as to the men they em ployed and the wages to be paid, and it was also lawful for the men to combine to agree as to the rate they required to be paid. In fact, both masters and Men were left freeto act for their respective interests. In the present cases it seemed that a system of moleetati in of masters has bees resorted to by watching their workshops, sad it would he for the jury to say whether this amounted to intimidation. The learned Recorder, after referring to the case of Edgeley, chugged with the frauds and forgeries on the late Leeds Banking Company, the facts of which base already been repeatedly detailed, remitted the grand jury to the commencement of their labours. SALISBURY CATE EDRAL.—The capstone of this cathedral spire, immediately under the vane, hiving been discoverer' to be in a very decayed state, workmen are now engaged in its repair. At so lofty an altitude, upwards of 4110 feet. a work of this sort is not an easy matter. Ind it has, ther-tore, become necessary, in order to enable them to do it effectually, to surround that part of the spire neer the weather door with a strong platform, from which a series of Ave others have been erected st certain distances above one another, the last being at the summit. The ascent from the weather door to the top is accom plished on the outside by means of shout 20 Iron handles firmly fixed in the spire. Surrounded by scaffolding ow the extreme top, the spire new presents a very curious apprentice.