The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-24 00:00:00

BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. Eke erprefo. TO ODDIDSPONDLNTIL Maelimiest' Intended for "!4a isproes," London Evening =ismast be at the Oda. te, Bonvene.street, by Two we the day of pabillosiks. HAYMARKIT. Tens KVS.II3O, THE BROKKN-RWILTKD CLUB.—A WIFE WELL WON. Weieri. Badyna, &lagoon, Howe, Kendal, Boger., B ra id. Weatberaby, t o.: and M[ w Rohertaem.—Aftor winch AN CTIKB. Plia-VIBBION Of TEE BRIGAND. muicators nos Evrwriso, TEM OOLLENW 80, lir. and tart. Dlou Bouciceult.— Alter which THE II MEETS OF LOcDON. Vining, Messrs Murray. Shore, Neville. Forrester, Mellon, Ac. Mind flaworthy, E. Bansett. Lobel Sanger, and nrs. Addle. grown). TIM Byname, OLD BALT. Mt. Meet? and Klee ?telly Moore. —Alter which TITS CALIPH Or BAGDAD. Mews. Thorne end James; Meedanne Ada Bwanbaroasb, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, dc.—And OUR D4mancs. HOLBORN. rens lemma. Tll rum; RCUD. Heim Atkins, Pries, Owl.. Aram. Westland, and Wilinott Mesdames Hawed., tioodall, Leundx, and haanderd—Conclude with VALENTINR AND ORSON. 11,111 e. Rooter% Little Rowel* ad. lIETTANIFLL Taos Emma, DON QUIXOTE ; OR, RANCID) PANZA AND HIS WIFE TEREZA. Ilia Lane, &NW, Edwin& Room: Pan to:Millets Meath Doane, Lab, Newham, and Victorettl Mdlle. C. Stephan and Wm Base Nathan.—And WllO DID IT t NIGH NAT= AT LONDON DROWN% TO DAy —Morning. th. 112.—..Aftersoos. 2h. 20a. TO-KohiON—Mcgolog, 2h. 37m— ..Attenwon, 2h. :Am LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24. Tut: abolition of the local act under which the parish of Clerkenwell has been so long mis governed, places the election of the guardians in the hands of the ratepayers, and an animated contest is now in progress for the first time. A parochial association has been formed, the avowed object of which is to exclude the class which has hitherto made Clerkenwell a byeword, and to secure that the guardian-board shall represent something else besides the ignorance, prejudice, and cruelty of the parish. Hitherto the Clerkenwell guar dians have been selected by the vestry from among their own number, and a guardian once appointed held office for life. The result has been an inde pendence which was both shameful and disastrous. The more rational members were swamped by their brawling colleagues. Readers of this journal will remember the obstinate perversity with which the Houseless Poor Act was opposed them ; the foul and wretched cellars and lofts in which casuals were tortured for presuming to ask for shelter, and the insolent indifference by which remon strance and reproof were met. Public opinion, Parliament, and the Poor-law Board, to say nothing of common humanity, were on one side, and the irremovable guardians on the other, and improvement was declared impossible. Week after week these guardians met to ridicule those advo cating the claims of the poor, to defy the powers of the Poor-law Board, and not unfrequently to belabour their critics and each other with foul phrases and hard words. It is not too much to say that to Clerkenwell belongs the equi vocal honour of having had the worst-condi tioned board of guardians in the metropolis. Bermondsey has been known to gravely miscon duct itself and to repent. The Strand Union has an unenviable notoriety wherever parochial mis management is named ; Shoreditch has driven its wandering pauper lunatics into the streets ; Poplar has refused to comply with humane and sensible suggestions ; and other London parishes have defended their right of wrong-doing in our courts of law. But for downright persistence in evil, for coarse speech and cruel policy, for callousness to reproach and shameless rejoicing in ill repute, the vestry-elected board at Clerkenwell has sur passed them all. Not long ago two members of this vestry concluded a discussion on parochial matters by a hand-to-hand tight in the vestry-hall, in which blood was drawn ; and for orators to s i;::natize each other in the "vigorous Saxon" familiar i 1 the London rough, is at ClerkenweU a common incident of debate. These truths being thoroughly known, as well as some other and even more awkward facts bearing upon the granting of parish contracts and the bestowal of parish offices, it is now asked whether it is absolutelynecessary that the guardians about to be elected should be chosen exclusively from the old materials. The board is to be greatly reduced, and will henceforth consist of eighteen members, or about a fourth its previous number, and the aim of the local association is to introduce new blood which shall work harmoniously with the more rational and respectable members of the old board, whose re-election is to be also promoted, as well as with the Government nominees when appointed. As a matter of course many of the persons losing office are anxious, in proportion to their unfitness, to regain it, and an eager canvass is being carried on, in which the paid officers of the parish do not hesitate to take part in favour of their relatives and friends. The advocates for reform in the parochial representation maintain that the wealth and respectability of Clerkenwell have been seriously underrated, and point to the handsome squares and streets of the parish, all filled with substantial householders, as furnishing the class to whom the administration of the rates might be reasonably entrusted, and who should be called upon to take part in local affairs. There can be no question but that the put management of Clerkenwell has been a disgrace to England and a blot upon the New Poor-law, which it will take years of careful working to efface ; and it is encouraging to find its inhabi tants even partially roused to the fact. The re sult of the election will not be without its signifi cance for our parochial system generally, as by it wo shall see how far the ratepayers have been affected by the misconduct of the men supposed to represent them, and how deeply their feelings have been touched by the proved sufferings of the poor ; for it is noteworthy that the new party not merely rest their claims upon their superior zeal for " the well-being of the poorer classes," but allege " narrow-minded selfishness " and " a " want of legislative capacity " against the old guardians in proof of their unfitness. Any change from the old Clerkenwell board must, one would think. be a benefit to the parish ; but the condi tion of parochial politics and the charges which have been openly made against the authorities of corruption, jobbery, suppression of votes, chica nery, and fraud, suggest some curious reflections concerning those to whom local self-government has entrusted the bitter fortunes of the poor. THREZ winters ago the state of our streets, ren dered almost impassable by the number of beggars who occupied the footways and beset the passers by with their importunities, called loudly for reform. Newspapers exposed and Parliament discussed the evil ; and when, in deference to the general complaint, some new arrangements hail been made in this and that parish, we were assured that the evil had been effectually remedied, that street beggars had been deprived of their last excuse, and that they might in future be left to be dealt with by the law. For a time there was some im provement, and it was possible for the busy to pass on without obstruction, and the unprotected fear. But the last few weeks 'Save revival of the evil to an extant which past experience. The first impulse passenger—haply a householder who an unusually heavy rate—on being assailed, as soon as he has got fairly on his way, is to ask what the police are about, and why they do not repress at least the more flagrant forms of mendicancy. But a little consideration, quickened by the memory of what he has read at breakfast time in the morning papers, satisfies him that more than a question of police efficiency or street reform meets us here. What its nature is may be learned from the report of the inquest on the young man, MICHAEL Lyows, which we pub lished on Wednesday. Limes had been committed to Holloway Prison for twenty-one days for beg ging, an offence which in the City is treated with great rigour. He arrived there on Saturday, and on Sunday be died, before he had performed even one of the one-and-twenty days' hard labour to which be had been sentenced. Mr. WIATHER asAD, the Governor of the prison, described the condition in which the man came under his care. Re was " very low, emaciated, fairly exhausted " from want." The Governor asked him how he had come into that state. He answered that he was out of work ; he had slept at the unions from night to night, caught cold, and then got so poor that he went about starving—a description of death with which the metropolitan public is rapidly becoming familiar. A question was raised at the inquest whether the poor man received proper medical attention ; and it may be taken as established that the prison surgeon, who did not see him until Sunday morning, and then thought LYONS was " able to undergo his sentence " of 21 days of hard labour," did not perceive the urgency of his case. On Sunday evening the surgeon saw him again and ordered him into the hospital : but by that time he was struck with apoplexy, once popularly supposed to be the retribution of luxury and excess, but now better understood to be a frequent consequence of debility. That LYONS did not get thespecial atten tion he so urgently required, surprises us less when we learn from the Governor of the prison that out of the 51 prisoners who were received last week into the prison, having been committed for begging, " 30 were in the same state, some of " them women, worn out by starvation." This death marks the break down of the simply repressive method of dealing with street-begging. It is not a thing to be got rid of by a more pro cess of " putting down." We may punish mendicancy when we have taken away its justification, but we cannot make a crime of destitution. It makes little difference whether an alderman sends a starving man to a workhouse or a prison ; humanity demands that in either place he shall be carefully tended, nourished, restored, and the only effect of pretending to visit starvation with penalties will be to turn our gaols into hospitals. It is easy to see what will be some of the consequences of these dis closures. Private, casual charity will be now dis pensed with lees discrimination, and be more shamefully abused than ever. It cannot be helped. We ought to be able to go about our business with the conviction that means of relief, duly guarded against imposition, exist for every destitute person, and that therefore a street beggar must be an impostor whom we may safely repel. But we are not permitted to embrace this satisfactory belief ; the wretch whose half told story we impatiently cut short may be within a few hour' of death from want, perhaps before the week is out we may be reading the sad story of his end in the newspapers. Hu man nature will not accept this responsibility ; men's lives are not to be sacrificed to maxims that would be true under conditions that are not realised. This death of LYONS will be a godsend to the professional beggars. The public will now give away money with both bands, and for one truly necessitous man who is saved a score of vagabonds will thrive. And so it will be until our system of relief is established upon a different footing; until we organize our public benevolence, and place it under the direction of that knowledge and judgment which individuals cannot be expected to exercise or -mesa. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) ward to demand teaching shall be furnished to all elassea. The Vela, with few reservations, is disposed to agree with the hon. gentleman's reasoning—not that it would abolish altogether the studies that bays hitherto obtained, but that it would have more practical instruction in them. No one who know, how Latin Has been taught in our schools on fail to be aware of the waste of time and labour which is ceased by an antiquated method. Well may Mr. Lowe pronounce against the system which places abstract grammar before the practical knowledge of the vocabulary, thus inverting the natural process by which every child acquires its native tongue, and by which men in some countries speak with ease five or six languages. The moet valuable part of his speech is that in which he demands that the study of English and of the physical sciences shall be DO longer neglected. It certainly seems strange that a nation whose literature is so transcendently rich and varied, and whose laoguage bids fair to be the domi nant speech of the world a century hence, should throw aside its chief and most classical authors in the work of education. The lose of some of the best words of the old English vocabulary, and the substitution of mean and trivial expressions, is greatly to be attributed to this neg lect. Equally wonderful is it that a country which most hold its own by practical science, or see itself surpassed by those who have larger and more fertile territories, should allow tens of thousands of youths to be sent yearly into active life without the faintest idea how a steam engine is constructed, or how a telegraphic message is sent along the wire. Whatever exception might have been taken to Mr. Lowe's former denunciation of classical learning, there can be none, the Star thinks, to his execration of it as the plague-spot on the instruction which is now supplied to the middle-class. Whatever doubts may have arisen se to the expediency of that wide cultivation of physical and experimental science in the universities which he had pre viously urged, there cannot be much question that the sciences of observation and experiment, apart from their merely technical value, supply the most efficient means by which the man who desires to succeed in practical life can , discipline his powers. Mr. Lowe's suggestions on this , head are well worth consideration, and it is to be hoped that the opportunity for their receiving a practical effect • may soon arise. Eke Court. OSBORNE, JAW. 23. The Queen drove out yesterday- afternoon, at tended by the Duchess of Roxburghe ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Christian. Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein also walked out. Prince Arthur and Prince Christian, attended by Sir John Cowell and Lieutenant Picard, went out shooting. The Prince of Leiningen arrived at Osborne yesterday. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa and to the Governor. General of Canada. The Duke and Duchess do Chartres have been staying during the week on s visit to the Earl and Countess Spencer at Althorp Hall, Northamptonshire. Among the company assembled to meet them are the Earl of Shrews bury and Ladies Adelaide and Gertrude Talbot, the Earl Browolow, the Earl of Clanwillisun, the Earl and Countess Granville, Lady Sarah Spencer, Lady Margaret Charter* Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Liddell, Mr. Calcraft, &a. The gen t times' during the week have had the opportunity of _ _ . hunting with the Pytchley hounds. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have left Donnington Park on • visit to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. The Earl of Derby is detained at Knowsley by a severe attack of gout, and is not likely to be well enough to arrive in London fora few weeks. - _ Viscountess (Mary) Combermere entertained at dinner, at her residence in Belgrsve-square, yesterday evening, his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and Countess Bernstorff, Baroness Brunnow, the Duchess of Cleveland, General Lord William Paulet, Lord Colchester, Lord and Lady de Blequire, Lady Molesworth, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Cony, General Sir Henry Storks, Mr. Hepworth Dixon, &c. Later in the evening her ladyship received a small party. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer arrived at l'ortemouth Dockyard at 5 p.m. yester day from London, and embarking in the paddle-yacht Black Eagle, Staff Captain Whither, proceeded to Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. The Marquis of Westminster has resigned the office of Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire. An influential meeting of the friends of the York Diocesan Church Building and Endowment Aid Society was held at York yesterday, under the presidency of Earl Fitswilliam, there being also present the Arch. . . bishop, Earl Zetland, Viscount Halifax, Lord Wenlock, Lord Wharncliffe, and others. The archbishop ventured to express the hope that if, for another ten years, they were able to continue the grants in the same proportion they would, by increasing all endowments below 1001., wipe away that which at one time was • disgrace to the church and to the landed interest of the country. Reim lotions were rand commending the society to the enlarged support of churchmen, and requesting the archbishop to issue a pastoral recommending parochial collections in its behalf. Before the meeting separated sums amounting to between 6,0001. and 7,0001. were promised. We ( Tunes) understand thatSirßoundell Palmer has given an opinion that the consecration of • new bishop for Natal, as proposed for Saturday next, cannot be held in England without a violation of the law. Various places have been suggested in England as the scene of the event, but it is now, perhaps, more likely that another attempt may be made to secure a church in Scotland. The Emperor and Empress walked some time on Tuesday in the Champs Elysees. Her Majesty wore • dress and paletot of grey cashmere, trimmed with sable. Prince Humbert of Savoy and the Duke and Duchess of Aosta have passed a week in Florence, showing themselves a good deal in public, in the royal carriages, on the promenade of the Camino and elsewhere, and finding everywhere a cordial reception. The duchess is fair in complexion—a white skin, little colour, light brown hair, of middle height, and • graceful figure. Mdlle. Patti has recovered from her indisposition, and made her re-appearance on Monday, for the bandit of the Italian Charitable Fnnd at Paris. The Theatre RIM Italians was densely crowded, and as each ticketcosts2ofr., the charily had a very good night. Paris is well supplied with game at this season. Most of the Imam, ducks, hares, and rabbits, come from the vast preserves of the Grand Duchy of Baden and War timbers—Heilbronn, in Wurtemborg, and Strasbourg being the chief sons whence the supply is despatched for the French capital Thence also come most of the pheasants and partridges. The grouse in the Paris markets come from Husain. and England. Woodcocks are rare in France, but abound in Conic., Sardinia, and, shove all, on the south coast of Italy, where they are captured in nets for French consumption. Smaller game come from the Lego Maggiore and Garda. The larks in poulterers' shops, in rows on alight wooden spikes, also come from the south and from the departments of Lot, Lot et Garonne, and the Loiret. Water fowl, such sa wild geese, ducks, quail, ko., an sent from Holland in immense numbers. Eroo CoLizos—The following are the arrange 1411enis. this Prot e Le ro nl K s l4. l l . • C aptain of tsti.emionppoi,fi.tnte W. School!: Tritton ; Captain of th e Boats, T. M'Clintock-Banbury • Captain of the Eleven, C. J. Thornton ; Keepers of the . Fives' Wall, C. T. Thornton and C. J. °Hawse ; Keepers of the Racket Courts, W. F. Tritton and C. . 1. °Mower; Old Choices in the Eight. T. K. IFOlintock-Btinbury, W C. Calvert, J. B. Mass ; OM Choioes in the Eleven, C. T. Thornton, H. IL. Walter, W. O. Higgins, C. J. (Amway, W. F. Tritton, W. Hay, M. Homer. P. Co and the G. Harris. 011 last day of the half al mm the AM tint won @poisoned to the Upper Sobsol, when an addrams was pr swtd to the late Head Masts, the Bev. Dr. B. lelsbm, after his farewell speech, by the captain of the =bad amid loud sad prolsopod I Kowtow Scweoi,.—At iht lir e l a of July next I lbw TR be an shwas to taws or four shams scholar ships Of Mt • year each, stable during saddens at the morel. All boys ender 1.3 es the 17th of J .aaary 1868. are ebribis. Farther iniorautioa will be ferniehd Ly thi Head Ilaitor. INTERS. AND se sounded with emphasis in the official region' of France bat not too highly for the object which is to insure the MOWN of the four hundred mil lion loan. Aocording to the most accredited reports in Praia, the advocates at this ken have carried their point against the distinguished supporters of its postponement. M. agile has demonstrated the necessity of immediate re sources, and now that all opposition is abandoned the chief oonoern of the government is to obviate the alarm which may be created by a loan following in such close succession the law on military organisation. It is much to be feared that the efforts made to revive a feeling of tranquillity will prove abortive as long es public opinion is kept distracted by the divisions which exist amongst the governments of Continental Europe, between these governments and the people, and the continual military preparations which coincide with this deplorable state of things. The old one adage, si ris paces pave bellun, is used up ; it is base coin, which no longer circulates. That pacific sasorances should have any value at present, they must be accompanied with at least partial disarmament. Even the undoubted improvement in the relations of France and Prussia has not had the effect of restoring security in the existing state of things, and it is interpreted as • danger to the liberty and destiny of Italy. This is no doubt an exaggerated view, but it has • basis of truth, aad the intrigues which it supposes indicate the perils to which the peace of Europe and the development of its liberty are exposed. VIW"' PRSs7....;..krig4Wir t .:. * _ , JANT. - „ wed wit hpg ietherrative leaders met to earl th e , war UAW Ole NTELLII re vrituessid a rang'' teeete7. .e ...—._.--_ v..— •. ~ TH2 PLIA;I2 OF EUROPE.— ch exceeds al b. LOWE ON unieux-cciiss sotisetes. - UNCERTAINTH se of the foot The Tuna places Mr. Lowe at the heed it the school of ) has just paid diatinguithed classical scholars who are now ooming for- _ . The Indipendattee Beige says called. as soon ward to demand that a more material and utilitarian To2 , lPosino .kis7wwfw, # 5.... is irdedi nn! Wi TIIE CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION. The nars represents the censer% ativea as leaving the positions and passes behind which they have been so long ensconced, and coming into the open field on which the whigs have hitherto operated. Lord Stanley's lan guage on the subject of education and the Irish church is very different from that which 35 years ago, and still more recently, expressed the common creed of statesmen, di• vines, philosophers, sages, madmen, and impostors, landed by stress of polities on the conservative shore. After fighting a lasing battle for many years by • series of obstructive antagonisms. the conservatives are at length better advised. Lord Stanley, and, in his own way, the Home Secretary, will be understood as declaring that their view of conservatism is progressive, not obstructive ; and that they feel they can trust the nation at large, the newly created constituency, and the parliament it is likely to return. TheDerlp News says her Majesty's ministers will be known in history as the convivial administration. Go vernment by banquets is a part of the new conservative theory, but nevertheleu a duller piece of festivity than the Bristol dinner cannot be imagined. Possibly Lord Stanley was weighed down by his companion Secretaries State. Programme there is none—Sir J. Pakington and Mr. Hardy saying nothing by • natural gift, and Lord Stanley by an acquired art. One thing, however, must be said of his lordship—that he does not pretend to con sistency. All that he ventures to assert for himself and his colleagues is that they " did not lightly abandon the cause which they undertook to defend." Mr. Disraeli's aseertion that the government favoured household suffrage ever since 1859 is • statement which no one is surprised at in Mr. Dinmeli, but neither Lord Derby nor Lord Stanley has ever condescended to it. In his language on Ireland Lord Stanley asserts in the most mischievous way the irresponsibility of the government to the governed, and his taunts and imputations are as inflammatory as any thing the Irishman could publish. Though it may be inferred that he i in favour of a liberal scheme of popular instruction, his language is hesitating, and that of the Home Secretary does not accord with it. The Herald and the Standard regard the banquet as a display of party strength and ministerial ability. The liberals pretend to trust the people, but Lord Stanley and his colleagues, observes the latter, have trotted them. Lord Stanley has given concise and vigorous expression to the national sentiment. The country feels that its honour and interests are mete in the hands of Earl Derby and his congeries, and it will not tolerate the attempt of a faction to drive them from office by making party questions of greet social reforms, which require for their success that they should be considered without party bias, and for the preparation of which no men are better qualified than the present ministers of the crown. The Tdegropl describes Lord Stanley as skating over the thin ice of Irish questions with the wariness of an experienced practitioner he cuts no figures, aims at no graces ; be glides quietly sad quickly over a surface marked " dangerous." , The Star records with satisfaction its belief that the capacity of the ministry for evil is greatly lessened by every such illustratioa as Lord Stanley bee now gives of the fitfulness and falseness of the libendiern which toeyhon finds itself compelled hypocritically to prams. I The Pod regards the banquet se an indication that the (azuna's =Jeanne.) THE EGYPTIAN TROOPS IN ABYSSINIA. On NALTA AND ALEXANDRIA TZLEGEAPR.) __ ALEX , ►NDRIA, JAN. 22. It is asserted on reliable authority that the Vice roy intends to withdraw the greater part of the Egyptian troops from Abysainia, leaving only a few at Maasowah. AMERICA. (NT ATLANTIC TELNONAPIL) _ NEW YORK, Jet. 23. J'ho National steamer France andiii - e . Hamburg and American Company's steamer Germania have ived out. Closing prices.—Gold, 140,1. Sterling exchange on London, 1098. 5.20 United States Bondr, 1882, 111 ; ditto, 1885, 1091 ; 10-40 Bombs, 104; Illinois, 132 ; Erie, 74. Cotton : Middling Up land, 171. Petroleum : Standard white, 24i. Flour : Extra State, 10.60. Corn : Old mixed. 1.39. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova OWN OOREESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The ball at the Tuileries last night was better attended than the last. About 3,000 people were present. The military element greatly predomi nated. The Emperor, in uniform, carried in his hand the little grey cap intended to be worn by the Mobile National Guard, whose equipments are being manufactured with extraordinary rapidity. The Emperor was accompanied to Compiegne thin morning by Prince MettA3rnich, Marshal Niel, General Fleury, Prince de la Moskowa, Count Aguado, Count de Villara, and Count do l'Aigle, and about a dozen of his suite. The Petrie is authorised to admit, in the follow. ing paragraph, what was only hitherto suspected that the Emperor has again come out as a pamphleteer : The new Army Bill is the theme of an able commentary from the august author of the project which formed the basis of the preliminary study of the government. This work, remarkable for its precision, has only, as yet, been made known by a very few copies. In the case of Parent s. Andre, a secret police agent—an action for assault and false imprison ment—the Appeal Court has not adopted the opinion of the advocate-general, who thought not only that Andre was wrong, about which there is no question, but that he ought to be punished. Tho court, with many refined reasons only to be understood by a lawyer who has the French code at his fingers' ends, conies to the conclusion that a part of the wrongs inflicted by Andre upon the plaintiff were covered by the fact that a member of the secret police is a " government agent," and as such caunot be prosecuted without the leave of the Council of State. Other acts proved against Andre were, the court admits, not so covered ; but as it could not divide them the action was dismissed with costs. M. Parent has appealed to the Court of , Cessation. The Bourse was very seriously affected by rumours of the loan, which, in spite of the attempt of the ansstittdiminel the other day to pooh-pooh it, is considered more imminent than over. More over, it was said that, instead of being for 400 millions only, it will be for 750. According to the news of the day, the Army Dotation Fund, which was relied upon to postpone a loan, will be kept as a reserve on the pretext that the purposes for which it was created are not yet at an end. The rise of k in Consols telegraphed at 12 o'clock had no effect upon this market. Sales predominated from the commencement, and Route closed at the lowest prices of the day, 68fr. 40c. for cash, and 68fr. 32ic. for account, with a fall of 200. and 27ic. Italian fell 32gc,, closing at 42fr. 600. Mobilier fell 6fr. 25c. ; Credit Foncier, sfr. ; and Comptoir d'Eacompte, 10fr. The bank returns show that the famous milliard of idle money which was momentarily reduced a little by the payments wanted for the new year, is again surpassed. The official return of bullion in the cellars is 1,027,110,387 fr. OVERLAND MAILS. CALCUTTA AYR CHTNA (HEAVY) MAILS.—MALTA, JAN. 23.—The Bangalore leaves at 5 a.m. to-day. She may be expected at Southampton alaont the Ist of February. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. — MALTA, JAN. 23.—The Delta, from Southampton on the 12th inst., arrived at 8 p.m. yesterday, and left at 2 a.m. to-day for Alexandria. The Ripen, from Marseilles 20th init., arrived to-day at 5 a.m., and leaves at 11 a.m. for Alexandria. There is an immense amount of betting in the Paris clubs as to whether Mollie. Patti will marry the Mar quis de Cant. The story goes that he proposed for her in the following terms :—" Mademoiselle, you are a queen ; will you be only a marchioness ?" Mae. Patti answered " Yea" The Figaro says " No." WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION or LIVE Brock . On the occasion of two butchers being summoned yes terday to the Woolwich police-court for having in fringed the cattle regulations, it transpired that a whole sale slaughter of calves is going on in the Metropolis which cannot fail to have a most injurious effect on the live stock of the country. It was stated that no calves under a certain and weight are allowed to be sold in the Metro politan cattle meat markets, and that no calves what ever are allowed to be removed beyond the boundary of the juriedietionolthe Metropolitan Board of Works. Thedalry men and farmers within these limit* having as a general rule, no room or facilities for rearing the calves, and sot being allowed b e sides e them to more commodious farms in the muntrp,Audios it more profitable to sell their milk than to feed tbeir calves with it, are killing sad burying them se soon as born , whilst the Metropolitan butchers have to go to Reading, Raeford, Dartfocd for their supply of veal, the present cattle regulations snowing calves to be brought into the metropolis, bat not to bs takes oat. Mr. Parsons named one dairy farmer =fag 150 cows, th us destroys and buries tea calves , being at the rate of upwards fill I 5OO a u. • and ani4hor who denims ea many as 14 wieldy. be g above 700 a year. The sitting magistrate, Mr. Mande, said that sea a alichmeelle destination of oaten restated the exis team of a meet deplorable state of thinal, sad hs hoped the attention s 1 the Privy Omuta wield be dims to the inothw. 1868': FIVARSIT: ITSLLIGENCII.-( THIS DAY. ) - - • CAMBRIDGE, JAL 24. 2111 WRANGLERS. LIST OF HONOURB AT THE BACHELOR OF ARTS' COIIIIKNULMILWT, JANDART 25, 1868.—Moderaters ; Per sisal Frost, M.A., St. John's College ; Robert Baldwin Hayward, M.A., St. John's College. Examiners : Arthur Cockshott, M.A., Trinity College ; Anthony William Wilson Steel, M.A., Carrillo and Caine College. 1 In all came of equality the names are bracketed. - WRANGLERS. De MOULTON & John's 22 Hethering -2 Derwin SlMity ton Trrnity 3 Smith Sidney Sussex .23 Thornton Jesus 4 Christie Trinity 74 Henry tiun & Calm S Watimu Jaw 25 Holtiltch S. John's {GriMtli S. John's 111 Bourne S. John's Haynes Queen's i Airy Trinity Verdon S. John's 1 Duguid Trinity 9 Buckley Christ's 79 Yarrer Pembroke 10 Carpenter Trinity Hall 32 Patterson Christ's 11 James Hon. & Calm 4 Kaman Sidney Susses 12 Watson R. John's 1 Lewis Trinity 1$ Menden Emmanuel { Herbert S. Catharine's 14 Obberd & John's Jackson Jams Hopkinson Christ's Wright3l. E. Pembroke 1 Swetteuhain Trinity 76 Hagreeu Trinity 17 Day Emmanuel 37 Harvey S. Peter's 18 Kirkby (lon. 6: Caitts I Lester S. John's 19 Haskell Trinity 1 Marshall S. John's 20 Willients Trinity i Ebsworth Clare 21. Stevelly S. Peter's 42 1 W itW queen' s Trinity SENIOR, OPTIMES. De J Brook Smith 8. John's ( Browne Emmanuel ( Tomlinson Trinity • Jackson Trinity 45 Hughes Jesus (Nelson Corpus Christi 48 Wright, T.B. Pembroke 61 Dribble Trinity )Bayley Jesus Trinity Hall 1 Cheshire Trinity (Beal Trinity 8. Peter's J Knight Trinity 1 Rauyard Pembroke ( Windburns Corpus Christi l.Tuner Trinity Bovell 8. Mary Mag. 60 Morgan Sid. Sussex 4 Sutton Christ's 07 Collier Corpus Christi 53 Luck S. John's J limber Trinity I Ellis 8. John's (Collard 8. Joan's 1 Hogg Christ's 70 Braithwaite 8. John's l Bayles 8. Peter's 71 Lloyd 8. John's 1 Watts Trinity 72 Taylor Trinity JCNIOR OPTIMES. t Abbott Trinity Se Laidman B. John's 1 Spark's S. John's sle Bang Trinity 75 Elliot, lion. 03 Bhutan. Corpus Christi A. K. D. Trinity 01 Eaten Emmanuel 1 Green...n(3d 8. Catharine's to Whiteley S. John's ( Mason Corpus Christi i Thomas S. John's 78 Wood. Hoe_ i Wingate S. Peter's F. D. L Trinity 96 Taylor Queen's 79 Sams 8. Peter's 96 Bower S. John's 80 B&ly 8. Cathasine's 97 Harland Clare 81 Stubbs Sidney Sumer 94 Atkinson 8. John's I Gannon S. John's 99 Haekblock Trinity 1 Johnson R. Mary Hag. 100 Pinckney Trinity 84 liyett Trinity Hall 101 Eadalle S. Peter's 85 Norris Trinity 102 Nadia Pembroke Gon. & 1 rttldart S. John's Calla Mr. John Fletcher Moulton, of St. John's College, the senior wrangler, the third son of the late Rev. J. E. Moulton, Wesleyan minister, was born at Madeley, in Shropshire, in November, 1844, and is therefore just over II years of age. He was educated at New Kingwood School, Bath, under Mr. H. Jefferson, M.A., London, until the age of 16, when be presented himself at the Senior Oxford Middle-Clanas Examination, and was placed first in the general list. For the next three years he was engaged in tuition, during which time he matriculated at the London University, and carried off the Exhibition in mathematics, besides passing the Honor Examination in Classics and Chemistry. From this time he seems to have devoted his attention more particularly to mathematics, and his career bas been one of uninterrupted anemic In 1864 he obtained the first minor scholarship for mathematics at St. John's College, Ciunbridge, and in Juae gained the mathematical exhibition at the first ILA. examination at the London University. He subsequently graduated there, gaining the mathematical scholarship. In October of the same year he commenced residence at Cambridge, and during the whole of his university career be has been at the head of his college examinations. In June, 1866, he was elected a foundation scholar of St. John's. Mr. E. J. Routh, of Pcterhouae (senior wrangler in 1854) was Mr. Moulton's private tutor, thus adding another to the long succession of senior wranglers who have read under his care. The Rev. J. V. Durell vas Mr. Moulton's college tutor. Mr. George Howard Darwin, of Trinity College, the second wrangler, the second son of Mr. Charles Darwin, the well-known author of the " Origin of Species," is in his 23rd year, and is a native of Down, in Kent. He was educated at the Clapham Grammar School, under the Reverend Charles Pritchard, president of the Royal Astro mind Society, and Hulasan Lecturer in the University of Cambridge for 1867, the late heed muster, and the Rev. Alfred Wrigley, 111. A., F.R.A.S., the present head master. In the Easter term, 1866, he was elected a foundation scholar, and has been thrice prizeman of his college. Like the senior wrangler, Mr. Darwin's private tutor was Mr. Routh, his college tutor being the Rev. R. Burn. THE LATE GALE.-LIFEBOAT SERVICES. MOELFRE,ANGLESEY, JAN. 23. Intelligence was brought here yesterday evening (reports the Rev. William Williams) that four men were on the Pulse Rocks. It was blowing hard from the east, and there was a heavy sea on at the time. The London Sunday School and Charles Sears lifeboat of the I\a• tional Lifeboat Institution was promptly launched, and fortunately succeeded in rescuing the poor fellows, who were found to be the crew of the schooner Douglas Pen nant, of Carnarvou, which had been wrecked about 2 o'clock that morning. - I'ENZANCE, JAN. SI. Nichoba B. Downing, Esq., gives the details of the wreck referred to in his telegram of this morning. He states, that about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a messen ger from Mansion stated that allege vessel was off there in such a position that she must go ashore. The Richard Lewis lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institu tion, was thereupon promptly got out and taken on her transporting carriage to that place. On reaching the spot, it was found that the ship was a Prussian barque, the Die Bonne, and that she had gone ashore on the Pnize Sands, about three miles from Porch:wen. In about an hour after striking she went to pieces. Nine men of the crew are said to be drowned, and only two poor fellows are saved. The life boat unhappily was too late to be of any service, although no delay took place, everything possible having been done to get her quickly to the scene of the wreck. The rocket &Manaus was of no use, as the beach was very fiat. One of the coastguarilamen, it is said, behaved with great intrepidity in rescuing one man. WINTERTON, NORFOLK, .1411. 23. At daylight this morning, while the wind was blowing strong trout E.N.E., a foreign schooner, laden with coal, from Hartlepool, drove ashore about two miles and a half south of this place (says the Rev. William Green). The Ann Maria lifeboat, which belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, was launched, but before she reached the spot the shipwrecked crew had thrown a line sabers from the jib-boom and with the assistance of the men on the beach were safely hauled to the shore. FALMOUTH, JAIL 2.1. We had a terrific gale yesterday from the westward (says C. CUR, Esq.); during the height of the stone guns were fired sud signals of distress hoisted by her Majesty's ship Ganges, lying in Carrick Roads. The Gloucester lifeboat, of the National Institution, was quickly launched for the fine time on service, and nobly rowed round the end of the western breakwater by her crew. Sa was then made, and on reaching the rea was found that an Austrian barque had draggedher anchors, and was close to the rocky shore, but afloat. The lifeboat was made fast to the vessel, but her services were not ultimately needed, as two steam togs arrived and suc ceeded in getting her off into deep water, the wind by that time having oonsiderably moderated. WEXFORD, IRELAND, Jul. 22. At daylight this morning, in a gale and very heavy sea, a barque was observed riding at anchor in the south bay, with a signal of distress flying (reports Wm. Coghlsn, Esq.) 'The Civil Service lifeboat of the Lifeboat Society, at once went off to her in t ow of the steam-tug Ruby, mad with some difficulty got alongside and found that the crew were desirous of keeping the lifeboat there, as the ship was leaking very much, as she had struck on the Long Bank. The master, however, declined the services of the lifeboat, and she therefore returned to her station. The barque proved to be the Richmond, of Liverpool, bound thence to liadagsacer with a general cargo. POOLE, Dosser, JAN. 22. Information having been received this afternoon that the fishing lugger Louisa, of Southampton, was in distress off Bascombe (reports Mr. G. N. Penney), the Manley Wood lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, put off, but fortunately, the wind having shifted just before the arrival of the lifeboat, the vessel got away in safety without the boat's assistance. WILD C4.1"8 IN THE UNITED STATER.—Speaking of wild cats, the Hartford (Cs.) Tines remarks that these animals are more plentiful in Litchfield county than they were fifty years Ego, and adds:—" They are probably as bloodthirsty an animal, in proportion to their size, as the tiger. They will often kill sheep and other animals merely to seek tldr blood ; though they commonly devour most of the victim's flesh. Dogs are often charged with ra vages upon s heep that are really committed by wild eats. The wild eat, thwart emoznonle regarded as • first wean of the eararatia sat, is really • anise. weesies—as distinct es the panther. The largest one ever killed in Connecti cut was shot ten years ago is lest Lyme. It I 41lbs. These orietares are never inclined to show w 4 he tt a z man =lee weeded, or when premed by starvation. LAW INTILLLOKNUL (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vierateaceller Sir B. Melina) In RE THE LONDON AND WESTMINSTER CO-OPERATIVE NH.ht, The Vice-Chancellor, upon the application of Mr. Le.., • made a compulsory order for the winding up owe] hpany. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banco.—illefore Lord Chief Justice Em ill az! Justices Willes, Bytes, and Smith.) IN THE MATTER OF AN ATTORNEY. Mr. H. James moved fora rule calling upon an att, r ,„ ' who wee in practice in Wales, to show cause why I,e should not answer the matters stated in an affidavit, .0, the followicg circumstances. In May, lSea, the at.:orr woe instructed by a London firm of attorneys to writ upon a neighbour of his, and the letter said, " the defendant wish to settle, refer him to us." 1. 101:1!r, writ being served, the amount, 91. I:is.. was paid, aryl tE, attorney informed the London tirm of the fact, but in. 4 ,1 of banding over the money to them, be made excuses for not doing so. In July an order wax Mr. Justice Ryles that the attorney should pay the a.m., but still he did not do so, and when a lien facia issued against him it was found that he had no proper upon which a levy could be made. Rule granted. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) GVUMER r, Grrzian AND eitaweolin. Dr. Swabey for the petitioner, and Dr. Trintram reepondent. The petitioner, an engineer at Liverpool, married respondent, a widow, in IK'si, and cohabited with 1.. r : about ten years, during which time three children a born of the marriage. Having an engagement in the : vioe of the Peninsular and Oriental Company he rra Tinnily absent from England, and it would appear the respondent while thus left to herself had formed, improper intimacy with the co-respondent, and one when her husband had gone out of town, she took r. opportunity of selling his furniture and eloping. She • , subsequently found living with Crawford at liolton as u...s and wife. Decree nisi. MOSS r. 11014 , S ANDBUSHMAN. -•... Dr. Spinka, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey for the petition...T. gentleman living upon an allowance from his Path. e. married the respondent in August, Dail, and lived with her in London till October, lgfai. On the 1.4 h that month he had occasion to go to Manchester, and 1...1 wife accompanied him to Euston-square. in platform lie noticed Bushman apparently excliaop. ; glances of recognition with the respondent; he did not think much of the circumstance. Ott ti.e Is! Mrs. Moss went, as she stated, to visit her cousin at bury. On this occasion the petitioner took her to ti.; station, when he saw Bushman get into the lame CalTi with her. This excited his suspicion, and he got a .1- tective to help him to watch her. The result was that .T.. stead of going to Sudbury it wax found that she sr. with Bushman to the Red Lion Hotel, at I !. cheater. The same night the detective surpr, the guilty pair in bed. The co-respondent, on himself discovered, exclaimed. " Well, this is a pretty s —it's just like niy luck." (A laugh.) He aftene tr,ls he thought that the case would end in a divorce, sod tt..l it was a good thing the money was all on the lady's side. Mr. Searle, for the co-respondent, suggested tli.;t client was not aware of the respondent's being a tuan:t.l woman ; but The I 'ourt had no doubt upon the point, and grant. , l2 decree nisi with coats. WALLWORTH WAT.T.WORTH. Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Mr. A. Staveley for petitioner. The marriage was in INGt. the remondent brine a .h. r• seller at Turista'', Staffordshire, and there had be., children born, only one of whom, however, sun T.. petitioner charged him with various acts of cruelty. -.I also with having committed adultery with his serv.mt. [The case was proceeding when our report let. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. WILFtL DAMAGE AT Till LONDON CLERK"' ( I Angus 3forkenzir, described as a hawker, hying in Flom and Deamstreet. Spitalfielas. was charged before the L.:I Mayor with breaking four windows of the London Clriu Club, 132, Lesdenhall-street. George William Stuart, the secretary of the deb, k,.1 he gave the prisoner into custody on the :Jaye charge night, about 7 o'clock. At the station ho made some et cues for what he had done, saying that he was drunk, on. that he was coming into 130,0001.. and thnt the provrt] was his. There were four windows broken, two Is,: ones and two smaller ones, each consi.ting of a square of plate glass, and the damage done amounted t between 441 f. and .AN. Edward Ellison, an employe at the chub, said the pre soner at the time stated came to the bar, and asked something to drink, but was told he could nut be sere,) He then went out and smashed the windows. It was stated that the prisoner had been known to 111 police for the twit ten years, and he liml been frequ•lit: convicted at Worship-street and :it this court. Ile about the streets attacking women, ant frequently ac.• like a maniac. The Lord Mayor committed him for trial. ROW-STREET. A sIIAM DETECTIVE AT CIiARING-CROsA. Thmaal Ilrar u Pugh. • tall, elderly nein, dee c! dressed, and rather good looking, was charged with lei:. leg at the Charing-crew Terminus of the South Eve. , Railway for some supposed unlawful purpose, and fella,: to leave when ordered to do so. Sergeant Monckton, the detective officer on speLiAl at the etation, stated that about 90 minute" part if o'clock last evening he NM the prisoner on : front platform, facing the street. After waiter.; ~la. for a while he went to the inner platform, where he t. , tined to loiter about. Witness went up to him and a< hint what he was doing there ? He replied that he ieut tosee a cabman named Warren. Witnesesaid—'• You cum see him here, you must go Labia house or or stables, AS a fortnight ago I told you that if you came ben. sg.o! should take you into a .stody at a suspect, person. 1% you go away now, for I shall have to lock you Ho said, " No, I am a respectable person, and I .h u ll t o y, way Witness said, Then I will take yee in c od and pmt your respectability to the test," and rm. , him to the station-house. He was there searched, sio.l Lim were found two purses, one containing seven pit broker's duplicates, for articles pledged at vari..us ti , in different names, and with different addresses. Or them was for a set of false teeth, pledged 511. At the station - house h e said he It at an addreas near Montpelier-square. Wiu took a cab and weut up there to make in q uir and f o und that he had really lived there , but that lie left o year ago, and the landlady observed that was very glad to get rid of him. The witness then ceeeded to state his reasons for suspecting the prho About three months since be was at Cannon-street Sergeant Holmes, of the M division, the officer specs appointed at that station, end saw the prisoner lode about the platform opposite the first-class watt room. In omuniquence of information they hail ran they 'poke to him and asked him what be was there. He said he was • detective. They asked whether be belonged to the City or metropolitan e He made ne reply, but gave a knowing wink, and a them to go out with him. He pretended that he watching • *aril sharper, but the person be pointed one found to be nothing of the kind. Witness asked him knew Mr. Foulger, the inspector at the Row-lane eta He replied that be did, very intimately, and had 10 him for many years. They then told him to go out and they would follow him. He left the station, and into a public-honse. Witness went to Bow-lane, and fel Inspector Foulger, who, on seeing the man, said he a perfect stranger. Since that period the prisoner constantly been seen banging about the station it evening. He was usually joined at about 11 o'clock woman. They would flan go together to a public-h end after cautiously looking in to make sure of being they would enter the parlour and sit by the fire for time in close consultation. About a fortnight ago wi tweed him off the station, as already mentioned. Tom Toby the detective specially employ ed al hotel, stated , that in May last be won called to the form by the station - master, Mr. Richardson, who pi out the prisoner as • person who bad been repress* himself as a detective. The prisoner told witness tie was a detective in the City force, but when asked to warrant card, was unable to produce it. Witness t him off the station. The prisoner denied that he ever said he was Motive. fair Thomas Henry did not believe that an officer years in the service, and bearing a very high char would invent such a story. The prisoner was rem for inquiry. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. NOBIMINT AT COUNT STRZLECKI . P. Frederick Johpuicos, • rough-looking fellow, &seri • labourer, but refusing ble address, was charged Mr. Knox with stealing, at No. 23, Savile-row, Ba gsmo& gold chain and sails, • medal, and a quint other property batwing to Count Paul StrakckL Henry Stokes, valet to the Count Strzlecki, said. larday evening I drained the count for dinner mad be left I set everything right in the room. I wa and on my return, the servant, who had gone open light a fire in the MOM, found the prisoner at the dniwers, and is rionsequenos .f the alarm she rushed upstairs and saw the prisoner coining down I seised him sad sent the servant for • coo sad before his arrival the prisoner got Boyle.street, where I had a struggle with him. then got from my sirat.P. ND I W*B "Pea up. IPI soon as I scald and follovea him into 'ork.street,wl was overtaken, and taken back to Savile-row. I no than with • constable to see whether there was ■ f. e • 1 ; r