The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-10 00:00:00

THE ORATORY OF THE RECESS. The Daily Ncua sees in the speeches delivered I by the members who are hurrying to confer with their constituents before the parliamentary recess comes to an end, fresh evidence that amongst the members of the opposition the concessions of the tory chieftains to demo , crazy have awakened neither respect nor gr►titude. Sir William Hutt shows his indignation at the assertions of the conservatives that household suffrage has long been their cherished idea, and that the resistance of liberal members has been the chief hindrance to its enactment. Lord Milton, with his ingenuous youth, says the conserva tives and Adellamites have lowered his judgment of human nature. If it had not been for violence and riot, we should, he thinks, have had no Reform Bill. With regard to the topics of the future—the language used on the edu cation controverty by Mr. Cowen. at Newcastle ; by Mr. Ilibbert and Mr. Platt, at Oldham ; by Mr. T. B. Potter, at Rochdale, and by other radical members who sit below the gangway and behind Mr. Bright, show that the " ad vanced" party is rather disposed on this question to follow the rapid march of Mr. W. E. Forster and Mr. Bruise, than to lag behind with the " slow and conservative" member foe Birmingham. Mr. ,Leland, one of the most intelligent and conch utious of English county members, urges that the farmer must have security for his capital, and advo- cates the extension over the country of the custom of tenant-right which has the force of law in Lincolnshire. He also urges the necessity of loosenisg the restrictions which in the shape of settlements, trust', life tenancies. ke., shackle free dealing with land. Mr. Fawcett may be congratulated on a valuable ally and a sober and well informed adviser on this subject. prudence with enterpriee, the latter benefited in the long run. Nothing is more destructive to fair and honest speculation than the recklessness of THE 11.19111 ELM.) QUESTION. Insisting that the more giro Bright's had scheme is bankrupt firms who contrive to got credit and use examined the more chimerical its character appears, the it to carry on operations which they know full well Tiara points out that the fact that it is to be permissive can only result in lose. Sooner or later the end , destroys the use of Interference as a means to obtain must come ; but in the meanwhile the careful I certain desired ends. Where • landlord is willing to sell, merchant finds that, f rom dishonest unscrupulous- i and • tenant is enterprising and provident, no intervention neiz, he is undersold in half the markets of the ,of the legislature is wanted ; bet euppoaing the state, in world. A panic, therefore, has been always held the imaginary ease, has stepped in, and the tenant is to have the beneficial though indirect effect of l punctuality and m or id fll othlioeor tillkin kindred expiration of is hastening the inevitable crash, and thus of getting ; 7.7 i term allowed him for paying the ) purchase summarily rid of a comstautly-recurring evil inion,;. What follows. The miserable record with English commerce. I which every Irishman is familiar of a nominal landowner in one sense the storm of 1866 has cleared the mortgaged up to the chin. lie has nothing, yet he lives atmosphere, since it removed • number of insol- ias Pal'enang all things. Sub-interests are created with imaginative magnificence, and the dying mortgagor gives vent companies, of which the longer continu a n c e would have caused a proportionately greater loss. I property his widow an annuity and hie daughters dowries out of a pro But as yet we have no immediate and palpable which is strictly valueless. It would be ble for any machinery devised by parliament sign of the good effects of the clearance, although to watch the husbandry of the tenant-owner, and there can be no doubt of the ultimate benefit. the necessity of compounding the claim of the We are certainly in a worse position than we were Treasury might not uncommonly be enforced by the cost a year ago. Leaving out the question of the elusive argument that the land itself bad become dote- Abyminian war and Fenian troubles, the wont Aerated to half its former value. Eviction would he out feature to be noted is the discredit that h as f a ll en : of the q uestion. Whether any legislation be necessary upon the railway interest, causing snore than or not depends upon facts which me not before us, or , in as far as the Tinits know, in the possession of anyone ;and one instance the practical insolvency of some of the proper conclusion now is that it is essential, before the larger companies. It is no light matter for a government or parliament debate the question further, parent, guardian, or trustee to face the new year that the facts of the relations between the several classes when deprived of his income for an indefinite of Irish landlords and Irish tenants should be ascertained period. It is plausible enough t o say that, "7 i_ a slarching local inquiry. whatever inconvenience ho may feel, the nation in general has not been the loser, since the money I The re , LAUNC ragoh es n OPtTwlllt HERC hen the H ULES. uoi. tooted that has been extravagantlys pent till remains in remains out from her dock this afternoon there little doubt that the kingdom. Unproductive expenditure, how- the strongest and most formidable vessel in the world hoists ever, on • railway, whether in ordinary stock, ; the standard of England. The Hercules is, in effect, a preference shares, or debentures, is actually as , floating castle. Her walls are about as thick as the walla great a waste of labour, time, and material as if of the keeps which the Normans built of stone and mortar. the whole money had been cat into the sea. What Freee five feet below the water-level te nine feat shove it, concerns us moat, however, is that the purchasing' she ca tiers, : i t a t e 'es h. nie l e . l as neh oi plates t fo of th iro oo n . ; ob a o bo ve v th e this, for sight s h u t power of the nation at large is diminished. &mi.! inches ; and p lates th war t- s hip bulkheads ire inches. MOOS is crack, which means that earnings are fall- I Behind the unparalleled suit of mail is • teak padding, a ing off ; property hitherto considered worth 1001. foot in thickness, which ruts on a a skin" of iron one inch or 1201. has fallen to 451. or 601., and, whatever and • half thick, strengthened with iron frames, latticed may be said to the contrary, • prudent man is I with the ribs of the ship. In mar of the ribs ocean a sure to measure his fortune by the price that it t ri p le layer of teak twenty-eight Inches through, and then bears in the market—that is, the value set upon 6 . 1 " 4 " d " ale composed of iron plate thre°4l"rfiri inch, • upported by iron frames seven inches it by others,. He regulates his expenditure d e -- " as Altogether there is of wood newt four feet and accordingly. This, nevertheless, is a favourable •of "t r . , a , a foot all but three-quarter: of as isoh. example, for too many families are cut She will cam only eight Pas in the Geste , ' box battery, off from receiving any income at all, la•ton 'sawn. Oro** • alma of 600 1 made weight Finally, that indisputable sign—the decline and Km-1 sad 4 45_,1641,_ 16 _ __ br0w.:4114 will be ce mounted as in the Excise--shows that the labouring classes to tha fan sad a ft wi th in d the 'arn lha The have lost the exceptional preepertty which they veassi win la " a b°ll sod dirk chaser of l2 Wka ee tae main deck, protested by armearylabse, sad es the mime enjoyed two years ago. We have, at least, one d es k dm G o o dua ; ewe ewes*. the forward sad two LIFEBOAT SERVICEB.—Derin6 the storms of the put ycer the N idiom' lifeboat Institution son &Muted to the saving of 1,002 lives from vartom shipwrecks gna;iti vessels from deetrection. The institution also expended 4631.5 a.. In um same period oo its tifeouat Eigablishruenta. to addition to granting &Merl n wen' 4. The Committee of the institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued Mary demands ou their lee Lifeboat Estublielumesees Contributions will be thanktuny received by the London and egantay &mime, sad by the sc rentry. lUchard Lewis, Esq., at the Inatitat/ou, 14, Johnutreet, Iphi, London. REAKFAST.-EPPEPS COCOA. PARIS VAIIIBITIUS rucsrt MEDAL, 1 4 67. TOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy fur weight, at realisable value, mai the workmanship at wholesale nutnufacturers' prima. The s,vid in the cholas gear rasteod, and repurehaaed at the ere's arged. H the note. How much your chain weir,!, s to the utmost carat, The fineness of the gold, and Lharge for fashion; SHAZISPNLRIL Manufactory, la, Henrietta-street. Porentegarden, London. Zhe erameoo. TO CORRY, ro NPENTS. Mandiminente Intended for •• The P:tpreet," London Itvenfog =lAmost be at the Oface. Botiverie-atrwit, by Two OW She day of publication. 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THE inquiry challenged by Mr. DoruroN,M.P., and which has recently been conducted by a Com mittee of the Metropolitan Board of Works, has resulted as we anticipated in universal dissatisfac tion. The Committee have reported a mass of evidence, taken, as they submit, " under diffi " cult cimumstances," during which, in the words of one of their number, they heard things "entirely sensational ;' hut they express no opinion upon it. A shorthand writer attended their sittings, and all the statements made by voluntary witnesses, without the verification of an oath, they have put in just as he took them down. By a resolution of the Board this evidence has been entered upon its minutes, but its publi cation is a measure from which that pru dent body shrinks. At the meeting of the Board on Friday a long discussion took place, which grew confused and ended without :v -ault. A resolution declaring that the statements made in the Court of Bankruptcy by Mr. FURNESS, the contractor, to the prejudice of Mr. Dot - T.- 2os had been proved, and an amendment to the contrary effect obtained an eyial number of votes, after which a 1111Inber of divisions took place, and 110 positive conclusion was arrived at. It would have made no difference had it been other wise. What the public want is not the opinion of the Board in a matter which so nearly concerns its own reputation, but the evidence which inigla enable it to form an independent judgment. Mr. Dov vrosi claims that the explana tions given by Mr. Fui:Nr-ss exonerate him entirely, and he pmt,ats against the action of the Bard ; hot until rho facts are clearly placed before the public in au authentic form it will be' impossible to come to any conclusion ou that sub ject. Fur the sake of the ratepayers of the metropolis, the matter must not be permitted to rest here. TUE lint six woeks of tho now year have paned, and they have been accompanied by few of the hopes of a revival of c..meterce which character- ise - 11 the commencement of 1867. At that time it WWI generally stims.od that, according to a well-used metaphor, the storm of Is64i had clearefl the air, and, by sweeping away the un-, sound companies which had brought so much loss and discredit on the mercantile community, legitimate business would be at once the gainer. There was much to fa vwxwr this view - . It had above all the warrant ,if experience. Mercan tile crises have, unhappily, not been infrequent in England ; but while pressing sharply and heavily for the time on those traders who united consolation, that it will surely return before long. The question is merely one of time and endur ance. There is little favourable to be mid of the pro spects of commerce abroad. Even as our own crisis of 1866 has been slowly dragging on for nearly two years, so the difficulties of the Credit Mobilier in France are likely to last for even a more lengthened period. Again, the harvest is admitted to be bad, in well-informed quarters, worse than the worst accounta hitherto pub lished. In Algeria there is acknowledged to be absolute famine. A misfortune of this sort— however serious it may be—certainly entails upon a rich country like France a heavy temporary pressure, but no permanent drain upon her prac tically inexhaustible resources. The most im portant point to be considered is the effect of the future military system. Looking at the question simply in a commercial point of view, there seems a certainty that the producing power of France will be diminished, and with it necessarily the ex change of commodities abroad. Already the French Protectionists are agitating in favour of a repeal of the Commercial Treaty, and they will hardly fail to make full use of an argument drawn from the statistics of declining trade, however perverted it may be. The bad harvest also affords them in directly a further lever to enforce commercial re trogression. As regards Germany, we need hardly look for any material change. Although in some parts the harvest has been deficient, our imports of corn in 1867 up to the latest returns have been consider ably in excess of 1866. We may certainly anti cipate doing a good steady trade with North Germany, but not more. The new Confederacy is going through a period of transition which is nearly surmounted, but as long as it lasts mercan tile men habitually exercise caution. Where, however, we may look for increased trade is in the extremes of the East and the West. The United States, for example, supplied us in the eleven months ending in November with a much larger quantity of wheat in 1867 than in 1866. The same with Turkey and the Danubian Princi palities, Egypt, and Southern Russia. Upwards of two years ago we were threatened with a commercial crisis on account of the increased business done by this country with the United States. The convulsion never happened, not withstanding the most solemn warnings against it. Perhaps the American press may, in their turn, warn their own countrymen now against increased exports to England, but this is hardly likely, since they are apt to learn by experience. With re ference to the imports from Turkey, it is satisfac tory to note that after two years of bad harvests the farmers in the Principalities have in 1867 secured a more than abundant crop, and their profits, especially in sending corn to France, have enabled them to invest to no small extent in the Danubian Loans negotiated in London and Paris. The inference is obvious, that the native popula tion have themselves no fear of the future of Moldo-Wallachia. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVE: .itch is thickly plated with is a Basil in herself. • r the after division of Ohl deck, iron to mkt veil:if:6l6re. She lIIIICTLUNIO9II 102101. The Star, contending that Sir Chase Selwyn is al qualified for the post to which he has tint been appointed, says lewd Derby's proper warm was to promote one of the Vice-Chancellors to Sir John Rolt's plass. Mr. Brett, who has been appointed Sc char-General, is less known and less oared for than even Sir Charles. His appointment, MANIC is hardly to be explained, except on the hypothesis that some private influences worked in his favour. Explaining that the liberalism which was once supposed to distinguish the University of Cambridge wee merely 'Hanoverian toryism, as distinct from the Jacobite toryism of Oxford, the Tines shows that since Lord Palmerston's ejection no liberal candidate has had a chance of success there. Lord Stanley might easily outgrow his present fitness for the place, as it is the common expectation that his lordship may become gradually liberalised by ex perience and foresight. But even at Cambridge con servatism is beginning to have its shades, and these are to be seen in the pending contest. Mr. ashy comes forward with the certificate of political orthodoxy ; Mr. Bereaford Hope's chancre will depend upon the mag nitude of the fragment which in the shape of his party may be detached from the conservative mass, and on the extent to which the liberals, either out of respect for his personal qualities or with the less amiable motive of fomenting any division in the enemy's camp, may come forward to support him. The Daily News supplements its notice of the principal London Joint-stock Banks by an analysis of the opera tions at the Consolidated and London and County. These institutions, in common with all other banks, were neces sarily affected by the low rate of interest in 1847, as compared with the previous year, but the results of the business done, as shown in the net profits, ought to satisfy the shareholders. Our contemporary also considers it satisfactory to note that the public is now furnished with far more complete details than was the custom three or four years or even twelve months ago. rite Cuurt. OSBOILNE, Frn. 8. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Christian, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Henriette of Schleswig-Holstein. Colonel Maude was in attendance on horseback. The Queen went out thin morning, accompanied by Princess Christian. The Queen drove out accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. H. Ponsonby. Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein, attended by Lady Susan Melville, Colonel Ponsonby, and Colonel Maude, paid a visit to her Majesty's ship Warrior, Captain Boyce, in Cowes•roads. Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Lady Georgians Grey, ►nd Sir John Simeon, Bart., M.P., had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal FEB. 9. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein attended Divine service in the parish church, Whipping ham. The Duchess of Athole, Lady Susan Mclville, and Lord Alfred Paget were in attendance. The service vu performed by the Rev. Thomas Prothcro, one of her Majesty's chaplains. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Sierra Leone, Lagos, the Falk- Lind Islands, end to the Governor-General of Canada. CABINET COI:INCR.—On Saturday aummnuaea were issued fur a Cabinet Council thiaafternoon at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-street. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESII OF WALEB.—The visit of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the Duke and Ducheu of Manchester at Kimbolton Castle was brought to • close on Saturday, the festivities having been throughout of a very brilliant and successful charac ter. The present stay of the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham House ia expected to close this week, their Royal Highnesses returning to town for the season, although they will probably pass • few days in Norfolk during the Easter recess. The investiture of the Marquis of Drogheda as a Knight of the Illustrious Order of St. Patrick took place on Friday, at Dublin Castle. The chapter consisted of the grand master, his ExoeUeney the Marquis of Abereorn, K.G. ; the Earl of Howth, the Marquis of Headfort, the Earl of Darircy, the Marquis of Downshire, Lord Dufferin end Clandeboye, Lord Lurgan, the Earl of Charleinont, the Earls of Dunraven and Mountearl, ►nd the following officers of the order :—The chancellor, his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin; tho registrar, the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's ; the secretary, Mr. Lowry Vesey Townley Bal four ; and Lister King of Arms, Sir Bernard Barks. There war a large attendance of the nobility and gentry present at the ceremonial. The Princess Mary and his Serene Highness the Prince of Teck leave Kensington Palace to-morrow for Badminton, to pay a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. The Duke of Cambridge entertained a large party of military offioors at dinner on Friday, as Gloucester House, Park.lane. His Excellency the Marqu is d'Azegl io relinquishes hie appointment as Italian Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James next month. The Earl of Derby, who is recovering from his attack of gout, is still so weak that he will be unable to come to town for the meeting of parliament. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will enter tain a distinguished party at Badminton House, during the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin cess of Tack. The festivities will continue for upwards of a fortnight. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort, Lord and Lady Londesboroush, tic., have already arrived. Viscount Hamilton has recovered from his in disposition, and has gone to Dublin, to join his Excel lency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the klarchio new of Abercorn. Viscount and Viscountess Milton have arrived at their residence in Curzon-street, from Wentworth Bowe, Yorkshire. A marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Lady Mary Stephenson and Mr. S. Whitbread. We (Poet) understand that a marriage is arranged and will shortly take place between the Hon. Charles Hanbury-Tracy, M.P., and Min Ada Tollemache, daughter of Hon. Frederick J. Tollemache, late M.P. for Grantham. A marriage will shortly take place between Mr. John Leill Franklin, of Gonalston, Nottinghamshire. and Great !Orford, Bedfordshire, and the Hon. Alice Maude Jerrie, eldest daughter of the Viscount and Vis countess St. Vincent, of Golmeraham Park, Kent. The examination of candidates for commissions in the medical department of the army will commence at Chelsea Hospital this morning, under the superintendence of Major-General W. C. E. Napier, vice-president, and the members of the Council of Military Education. The ex-Bing of Naples is so elated with the prospects of the reactionary party in Italy that he has re-appointed his entire cabinet, dismissed, it will be re membered, on the cession of Venice to Victor EmmanueL Though the King ever since evacuating Naples has resided at Rome, the Pope, true to his legitimist doctrine, never recalled his nuncio from the "Court of the Two Ricans." The Countess de Montebello will replace the Duchess de Beinano, deceased, as Lady of Honour to the Empress Eugene. It is announced that Djemil Pacha will shortly leave Paris for Constantinople. He is said to have signed several contracts with members of the French University, whereby they are engaged as director and profanes at the Oblessaa Imperial Lyceum of Gelata-Sergi ' • and this este. hilimeat for public instruction, to which children of all ,dl ens persumloas will be admitted, is expected to be spend is SOCIAL 8c rzwcz Assocrisnow. —Sir Erskine Perry 11111 asks the chair at a meeting of this amniotic@ this when the report of the oommittes to whom was ratened the memorial lately presented to the council ea the laws matins to the property and ambetemasse of mar dad women will be dimness& Oa Wednesday emeeleg wit, Mr. Charles Bust's. M.P., in the Asir, • poor by Kr. .7. H. Mallard will be reed sal mi = ea the necessity for a tell tawdry into the et the goer law, and He effects as the ph r4ail sad mend meads. el the peer, sad ea the bastes& et sew laser erases el rateperme. FEBRUARY 10, 1868. LATEST INTELLIGENCtE. EMMERT THe _ QUESTION. " In spite," says the Debate, " of the prof's/A-I hone of the Russian journals, it is very diffin not to attribute, at least in • great degree, the agitation which exists in some of the provinces of European-Turkey, and which seenfa likely to end soon in an uprising, to prompting' from St. Petersburg. We know that the Western Powers have addressed remonstrances to Belgrade on the subject of the Bervian armaments. The very im probable report that theßtusian government joined in this remonstrance is denied by the St. Petersburg Journal ; and on the same authority it is stated that Prussia also abstained from taking part in this proceeding. The Western Powers, moreover, recommended Prince Charles of Roumania to stop the formation of Bulgarianbands of insurgents in his territory. According to the St. Petersburg Journal these bands are the pure creation of the imagina tion ; but for ourselves we think that this organ pays too high a tribute to the imagination of the Western Powers who certainly are in a position to be quite as well informed as the Russian journal with regard to what is taking place in the Prin cipalities." The Nord, on the other hand, wishes to know what can be the meaning of the French press in at tributing, so unceasingly, these underhand ma nceuvres to Russia. " The government of St. Petersburg," it says, " has but a single aim—the preservation of peace in Europe. It pursues that aim in the East as well as in the West. It has given such striking proofs of this on several occasions, that it is not necessary to insist upon it. Is it the unflinchingly pacific attitude of Russia that stirs up the French press against her ? Is it to the French press that the article of the Journal of St. Petersburg refers when it says the cordial understanding of two great nations like Russia and Prussia is one of the best securities for the maintenance of the peace of Europe?' Perhaps it is thiscircumatance that de feats the calculations of certain organs of the foreign press.' By these sytematie attacks upon Russia and these groundless accusations against her the offi cious journals of Paris expose themselves and the government of which they are supposed to be the organs to grave suspicions—suspicions which may have no foundation, but which these same organs are doing their utmost to make plausible." (armies TvionAms.) ACCOUCHEMENT _OF TEE PRINCESS ROYAL OF PRUSSIA. BERLIN, FEB. 10. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia gave birth to a Prince at 3 o'clock this morning. GREECE. ATHENS, Fes. 9. A royal decree has been issued dissolving the Greek Chambers. The elections are fixed for the 3rd March. The new chambers are to meet on the 3rd May. THE LATE ARRESTS IN CORK. (OROS OUR OWN CORRISTONDINIT.) CORK, SATURDAY Thom The four prisoners captured in Market-street last night, with three others arrested subsequently by a police patrol, were brought up for examination before the magistrates at the police-office this morn ing. Public interest, of course, centred in W. Mackay, the alleged leader of the party, who was the first put forward, and against whom a charge of high treason had been entered. His appear ance greatly disappointed the legitimate expec tations of a public anxious for sensational incidents. It was with much surprise the public saw a alight and delicate-looking strip ling, wearing a languid and half-contemptuous ex pression in his countenance, put forward and charged as the redoubtable Fenian leader. Mackay has little in his aspect to denote the astonishing energy and daring with which he is credited. His lithe figure suggests the idea of suppleness rather than strength or endurance. His com plexion is pallid and unhealthy, and the air of languor which seems habitual with him, ap pears to correspond with physical weakness. The attitude he assumed in the dock and his general manner were slightly theatrical, and he was evi dently desirous of acting the part of the political prisoner with becoming contemptuousness for the law, and indifference to its dangers. But for the rapid, piercing glances of his eyes, Mackay would not strike the observer as a person of acute intel ligence ; but they reveal some of the energy and vigour veiled under the Nose, indifferent air which he assumes. His face and dress bore some traces of the struggle of the previous evening. The prisoners put forward with Mackay were, with, two exceptions, of the labouring class, and were middle-aged men whose mature and muscular figures contrasted strangely with the slight boyish form of their leader ; while their coarse determined features offered a not less striking opposition to his pale and refined countenance. When his name was called Mackay did not answer, as if he did not re cognise it as his, and when asked to state what his name was if it were not Mackay, he at first declined to give any information on the subject, but afterwards said that he had given the name Patrick Marply the previous evening, and that if the prosecution were not satisfied with that, it was their business to show who he was. Head-constable Geale was then examined, and stated that the prisoner was the William Mackay who had previously been in cus tody in this country under a warrant from tho Lord Lieutenant. Gesle then detailed the circumstances I attending the prisoner's capture, stating that there were at the time a large number of persons in the house who tried to rescue the prisoner from his custody. Upon Geale's evidence Mackay was remanded for eight days. Subsequently he was identified as the leader in the raid on the Martell° tower, in the robbery at Allport's, and as the person who was in command of the insurgents at Mlykmickane in last March. (DT TELEGRAPH.) CORK, SUNDAY NIGHT. Detective Courtney was fired at on the South Mall at 11 o'clock to-night by two men. Courtney was missed, and the men escaped. ME REV. B. SPREE. It appears that the police were first apprised of the fact of the Rev. B. Speke 's having relatives in Queen's -square by a letter which appeared in the Times on Friday last. Mr. Spoke's hat was discovered opposite to the steps locally known as " the Cockpit Steps," Birdcage walk, and within a stone's throw of the Birdcage-walk entrance to the house No. 11, Queen-square, the town residence of the missing gentleman's married sister. Queen ' square, on • winter's evening, is • very retired spot. The house was at the time under the guardianship of only one woman servant. It is a large, old-fashioned mansion. Letters appear in our contemporaries, almost daily, referring to missing relatives or circumstimen re called to the writers' minds by the case of Mr. Speke. The Rev. H. \nit., of Savoy Chapel, describes another puzzling incident in his own experience, which happened to him two years ago. It relates to some woman who asked him one evening to go to her home and baptise her sister's dying child, and his search for the place, which was recognised by the police to be an sbode of thieves. No child was ill, and the people in the house knew nothing of the woman. " Until now," says Mr. White, " I have never again thought or spoken I of this accident. The dismal fate of Mr. Speke has revived my recollection of it, and only in deference to opinions more weighty than my own do I now offer it to your ser vice and discretion." Another correspondent, signing himself " W.," describes • mysterious incident which occurred to himself. In March, 1867, he left • City omnibus near the Elephant and Castle between 5 and 6 o'clock in the even ing, and rereemblrs nothing until nearly midnight, when he was awakened to consciousness, in what appeared to be • coffee-shop, by the words addressed to him by • man, who said, "We are going to close," and " You must go, sir." Shortly afterwards he found himself sitting in a cab, ten miles away from his home, which he did not reach until between 4 and sin the morning. He had lost his gold watch, and nearly eight pounds in gold and silver; but other property upon his person, including 40/. in notes, was perfectly safe. If. had not drunk anything to cause this mysterious stupor, nor had he apparently had anything given to him, such as beer or spirits, and he is utterly at • loss to account for this strange incident, although, upon his coat, which was otherwise unsoiled, there was the imprint of • woman's hair net. He sug gests that Mr. Speke's experience was of the same kind ; but with a fatal result. Lieutenant• Colonel H. C. Sandys, who is on the Bengal retired list, narrates the case of his nephew, Lieutenant Mecredy, of the Bombay army, who left his lodgings on the 4th February, 1864, with the avowed intention of pro ceeding to Dublin, and has not since been Meld of. Dr. W. B. Cheadle writes to the Times, com menting upon the extreme probability that there are at the present moment Englishmen held in captivity or slavery in the Somali country to the south of Abyssinia. Burnouts of the kind have been in circulation since 1859. Dr. Cheadle supposes that these unfortunate men are sur vivors from the wreak of the ship St. Abb's, which was east ashore rear Magdesbo, on the Somali coast, and that they may also include amongst their number the crews of two boats from H.M.S. Penguin, who were attacked by the Somalia, and for whose alle ged death eight men were beheaded by the Somali sultan. " That a small party," writes Dr. Cheadle, " may venture among the Somalia in safety the success of that in search of the Baron Vender decken is sufficient proof ; and, indeed, some years ago an I Englishman (Mr. Angelo) lived for years among these natives, and travelled through their country, I believe, entirely alone. Bat, in any case, with 10,000 troops in Abyssinia, • fleet of transports in Anemia Bay, and a squadron of men-of-waron the coast, there can be little difficulty in getting the truth out of the Somalia." Mr. Kitts, government mining surveyor to the , colony of Victoria, who is in England for a few weeks on leave of absence, says there are in the colony thirty-nine dividend•paying alluvial and sixty-five quartz mines, giving in the aggregate a profit of 1.289,9971. per annum, and that these do not constitute more than ore-half of the dividend mines in Victoria. " I know," he says, "no part of the world where • working man may do be tter- Miners' was range from V. to 21. 10s. per week. Such an income, where beef is 2d. per lb., and mutton 14d., and where • hanging( 5 to 80 ease of land rosy be obtained by selection Ware wormy, is more valuable than doable the amount in " Tii Taurus.—The water has bean improving ha mention this week. and some attempts have beta made by the anglers, bat without any pest seONOL The river Is sal high, ball be. 'sae down • geed don e A bs ' few bags hem ham by the bask smokes la the Clionjr. Side is no lest aosmikMilm ter Mow* now haw " team ses" trout. I r i my* tine, ►liememr, OS Mar mei to be malks - the Ise el Aprn et whin Sims is hoped the VW Whoa MR in IL la lie Wel widen tbe beak w r it le tha l's. = warild hem i % Ideas demo et tau in At Teddlagtoa no Seszta ar 7 bees tang neat tsar deem dime deny. Clomp at aidommot Me bout mommosseendaystang mega doers et yen deser-Wed norm Mom Sr. Gomm% °Rom, Worms Clogra.—rio Rev. Mr. Ming las begs iggps minor men et Manor la megniga to lbe Rev. L Man EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rsow oua ows cossesrosorwr.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Patel,: contains the following oracular reve lation about the forthcoming loan : . . Several journals announce in positive terms that the Loan Bill will be presented to the Corps Legislatif on Mon day. We believe we may affirm that the bill will neither be presented to-morrow nor the day after, and that the day when it will be presented is not yet fi xed. Professors of the art of reading between the lines say this means Wednesday—but they may be mistaken. - - - It was thought yesterday that the interview of M. Drouyn de Lhuys with the Emperor, which had been spoken of as threatening his appointment to the foreign affairs as a war minister. was explained away in a pacific sense by the consideration that his only object was to speak to the sovereign about a modifi cation of the treaty of fusion between the French Eastern and the Luxembourg rail way companies. But now it is stated that M. Drouyn de Lhuyes connection with the Eastern Railway has ceased for the last six years. The reason for his late audience of the Emperor is, therefore, as open a question as ever. A considerable number of Hanoverian soldiers who fled from Germany after the conquest of Hanover by Prussia took refuge at first in Hol land. The Dutch government being afraid of getting into hot water by keeping them, they went to Switzerland, where for the last year they lived quietly and almost unnoticed. Lately, however, unexplained "foreign influence" induced the Swiss government to give the " Hano verian legion " notice to quit, and they marched in a body into Strasbourg. The French government giving them ready hospitality has assigned them quarters. The officers have been sent to Bourges, and the rank and file to various villages in Cham pagne. The France says the incident has provoked very unfounded malevolent reflections in certain organs of the foreign press. The resignation of General Bataille, lately com manding a division of the army of occupation of the Roman States, which was a mystery, is now ex plained. lam told that at an evening party given by a great Roman lady—the Princess Borghese, I rather think —General Bataille expressed the opinion that the temporal power was essentially dead, and that it was folly to attempt to prop it up with bayonets. When this indiscreet conversation reached the ears of the government, whose candi date in the Nord was elected the other day, as the Monde openly boasts, by priestly influence, General Bataille was informed that he could no longer hold his command. We learn by telegraph from Dublin that the schooner Jane, of Portrush, was wrecked on Saturday evening near the fikerries Islands, and that the captain and dune men were drowned. SOUTHAIPTON, FEB. 10.—The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plata Company's steamer Humboldt, Captain Perry, from the Brazils and River Piste, has arrived hare with 23,335/. In gold for London, and 7,700 packages of wool and hides for Antwerp. After coaling the Humboldt proceeds for Antwerp. TEE 80LiCITOR-GENZBAL AT HELTON. —Mr. William Baliol Brett, the new Solicitor-General, arrived at Helston on Friday, and commenced an active canines on Saturday. He was well received by his friends, but the liberals threaten a contest, and have Mimed placards calling upon the skate:on to wit►hold their promises of support. A Mr. John Lea, who dates from 30, Bloomfield-terrace, Westboureiviernee, London, has issued an address, on elestetl, V illoraerriodiotio. Wools& if c ebal tro WAN isoooromo et the osestr. He &aim 1 ° fedi " elap-kop asoropt ipasalkaa." Tus Er a s at Ika Ihrrrip Wriesis.—The Hebrew Nessetwer dotes liat ilmi oil, of Noy Tab avakka 70,000 lieselitaa, b sae Oaapaulakka ad*. am loont be not for from lOW Is lkoooliceo Joorloi Weld* okaoreod, Oa Siaikir =017& ' 1t= 4 . 7,271 . vireo slum oro sot linlood am sow kg wka immiasesik oorpooillos timir ollorto to obtain is Ow* Ai& wady law to Moog as IN ens i Now York. Take are 38,005 miles al nikaid acapkied la tie traiMil Mika, tie falmakaa and squirm. it odd& lioro oast 1,654,050,79 e &Um. THE CATASTROPHE AT BOW LURING THE STORM. THE ADJOURNED INQUEST.—(THLS DAY.) This morning Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, resumed et the Leedom Hospital, the inquiet on the body of Mrs. Eliza Thompson, one of three we ft , who were killed on the lit inst., by the faU of a rliamn ey shaft at a factory in Boer. The jury retailed II verdict, " That deceased was kilnl by the fall of a certain chimney shaft, and that the a „ . fall was accidentally caused by a storm ; but the 4,,, 7 would recommend that such shafts should be regul.o;,,. emitted, so that any deterioration in the quality of th, mortar might be discovered, and thereby loos L • avoided.' _ _ _ _ _ Farman said he would attend to the reeouncen.l.. tion of the jury. RIATHZIt REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MONDAY, Flail:UM 10. 8 A.M. 111. -" 1 " I L. T.l 89.02 r .50. 30.04r 1 471 so.lero: ID.STrI4B W. 30.:0r4tl W.S.W. so.wr,4e, W.M.W.eor ii .4ir'4t - W. W. 50.71r43 W.N.M. r39.75r a W. 50.71 s 34' 50.71r.34 1 E.N.J. .70r Sei 14. .130.er4•451 W. . JO.Wf SS W. 10.55 f 4.3 i W. ti:0 9 .82f147: W.N.W. 0.29rA8' N.W • . 413 i W. k3O 111. W. 0.61 /I.S.W. .30.71 :311 B.W. J2l/02 36 , N. 40.1 bl 721 9. W. 1:.69r 40 101).49!.o; !s W. 6 B.W. I7{ B.W. ' W.S W. 3 W.S.W. 3 &W. 1 4 W. 13 W. 6 : S.W. 3, W. 6 N.Y. ! N.Y.. ' 3 I RN.E. 3 I N. 1 N.W. W.S.W. • 6 4 3 31 SW. 2 2 I W. Y i 2: N. 1 I I. - - -- 4 4I B.W. W It It' 010 11..; Barometer corrected and red* letters r t (tailing). a motionot thamercuryaithtu lad In shade. Extreme force, witb I Z.—caba. Weather: b.—blue I tog: h.—hail: L—Ughtaing ; (duU); r.—rain: a.--snow: t.- ,melted:. ( during bud 24 bou Teed to as deg. at sta lei. I (steady), indicate dv dl4 hours. Thenninuet r Its direction during . sky ;c. clouds ,detach ; ni.—inisty :hazy; ; —thunder. Rain fall. 114.,1 urs. Sea disturb Luce. REMARKS. The atmospherical pressures over the south and agar ..r Islands 11.1N1 in (ranee .00 very high. and have ; yesterday morning, when a very rapid Incr. Ala fr,.m t.. *lay was .bus ti at :i stations. A ditto:intl.!. ha.. • occurred oil our north 01411 cossta Move bet e, • • difference of pressure between Sairn and P: wale •:, seven-tenths of an inch. Temperature has nearly all stations since yesterday. Weiterl., xi..• • force have been previa cut during the last il.• Saturday night it Idea strongly from the north on coast; also a gale from the uorth-taet as, o Cornelia on Saturday .01.1SIIIiitly. Winds icia .• the westward. Snow fell in Scotland both ye,teld , preceding day. Weather Is generally oven aa, Lime of mist in the south-west of our ialands -r..1:; CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. Fan. 9.—The rem, from Southampton on ;1, arrived to-day at 7 a.m., and left at 11 a.m. snarls. Experienced good weather. Professor Whitney mentions, in a peer word-making, that people in America pat on •• rubbers," because, when caoutchouc was nt le they could find no better use for it than tie :• out of pencil marks. But over:been et material are not universally called " I Philadelphia. with a reference to the 1.. t , the substance of which they are made, called " grime." A ll:Made:phis, gentleman and lot muting to spend the evening at a house where a very touch at home, he entered the parlour : • the question, "Why, where is Emily 'c" answe, • I • , Emily in outside cleaning her gums upon th.• • whereupon there was a momentary look ui and then a peal of laughter. SHOPKEEPERS VEREUS CO-OPERATIVE St • The writer (1 the City article in the I'tnur, after the features of the Clerks' Supply Association, 001., i our own City column,observes that this co-op , 1,• •• • meat is assuming proportions of extraordinary ne•i it• portanoe, and such as are likely in seine way to re. ' tionise all the existing relations of retail trade. The way for shopkeepers, he thinks, to meet th , i , system, will be by a resort on their own pin t t., non. The time appears to have arrived for the fa,. • • thesystem of setting up innumerable . " Economicus," a correepondent , of the the ltritiah shopkeeper to tight the co-operative at,' their own weapons, adds,'' I cannot deny that I du on o o '3 aeorrowful conviction that, while he has no choice bete this and speedy ruin, the ultim ate issue of the con will be woefully against him. A few here and there • can command or attract a very large be- • will make it answer. liminess upon a small scale ducted can never he remunerative. The transition • will see, as transition periods no often do, a •,.; rt at .1...• ' calamity, as the cost at which the community will p'-trio: incalculable advantage. I deplore this deeply, but 1, • • is no help for it ; and I wish as much as poesible to 1.. • ,• their fall to the destines' victims." The 1 , 31:11 . t .I•• pondent states that the Haymarket store is dui:.; .• nese exceeding war. per diem, and is increashie r..: DEATH OP bill. W. DAWKINS.—\\e• 11.`ie • record the death of Mr. William • Alresfoni Hall, near Colchester which tool p! Saturday, after a long illness, Colchester in. Mr. Hawkins was for many years an active the conservative side; sail took a leading 1, .rt it, • ' Mon matters both in the borough and in Nio: !..-• . In 18. - .0, when Lord John Manners wen sleeted '..r cheater, on the resignation of Sir 11. 11. Smyth.... • 'seat was occupied by Mr. Hardeutl e, the p r., ~• d member fur Bury St. Edmund's, who hail de.. 1 :1.. Saunderson in 1841, after representing the Ismer!. :e.' , IB32—the first election under the Reform hill. .1• • general election in 1852, with the &mid. of -.1 • ousting Mr. Hardeastle, and of rianistine Lord J."; Manners, whose alleged tractsrian proelt,ite , date had brought him into some r !a a portion of the conservative party, Mr. offered himself Se a candidate, and by his grit loed fluence carried the double election in a most t, manner, the numbers being, Hawkins . Ga, ; •• • 620 ; liardcastle, 472 • l'rinsep (the low chum I .!•1 , candidate), lkt. Mr. Hawkins retained his s.st. was.. ' standing repeated attacks of illness until the • in ISW, but did not again offer himself ; • "I I tisan tin . ued In scarcely w l a ess y world Mr. M a r s . H a :L c :lT:s r' " e 6:: known as a promoter of local lines. He was n .li, 0.1 , • • the Eastern 'Union • Cowpony, who undertook the • tion of the then Feasters Counties line from I Ipswich ; and subsequently of the Harwich t,r3wh .:n.! the Stour Valley line between Colcheeter and "1". More recently he became chairman of the Tendon: lea. d re d line from Colchester to Walton-on-the-NU". pieta= of which in the mums of lest year a., ; owing to his persevering enterprise. Mr. hail only reached his 52nd year, has left a widow, 1M family. TILE MURDER OF LORD WHARNCLIFFE., t yur . REUE L—Gregory, another of the men charged with ie murder of Thirkell, Lord Wharncliffe'e gamekeepr. `" himself up to the police at Sire - gree n, near 81 014 ' Saturday, and the same evening lie was remoseel to\ field. He is to be taken before the Barneley nikostrte to-day, but will probably be remanded until Frida). gory is the man that was knocked down by the d e r ,,, e: keeper, and was said to have been so touch injured after his escape it was rumoured that be had 1 the wounds received at the bands of Thirkeil. - L • Mercury. " ArcouS" AT THE HORSE BANQUET.—" the well-known sporting oorrespondent of the • an authority upon be g living animal, given a judgment of its qualities when dead and re 0:"' Upon the soups at the late dinner his favourable, and the te s ct was instantly, d",.-,, favourite. " A horse * O cutlet," be add', I thanksrecollection of Middle Park ria.! lour do e the same with kromeakys fa Gia,lirtf,"%,, there was no thing disagreeable in the tongue of house, which may be said to be more pleasant than tot many of the men whit live by him. After a short tall between the beats, the Baron of Horse came eh tar'', on the shoulders of four men, and preceded sat trumpeter, whose notes shook the room as curried round, and excited the company to an imireD7... pitch of enthusiasm and curi os ity. However, thee wer :stte , long destined to remain in ignorance of his m erits, t . cooks went at him vigorously, and he was woe ' pieces and put before us. But as a truthful chronicie ✓ r bo am bound to confess The Baron was not as eeed looked, and, from the difficulty I experienced le Ken; at through the slice on my plate, I was alert led t? "I'„„ , I was partaking, of a portion of Mr. Watt's Berm, 10 °; the Bt. Leger m 184.5, but on second thots! we, viewed of my error. Not that there was te say 'grumble iu the taste, which resembled a moos be hare and beef ; but there was a stringinew and toea°l,', about it that would have stuck in the throat of any 0 41 ,n, • Bouth-Esstern engine-driver,however, egr et quently assured liven eminent Q. C. that he got !ff io the underent which was first-rate eating ; but care to renew my experiments In this hes" A new station has just been opened 0 aw' wood, is miles from London, on the high reed b tea eLle,,". Rumford and Brentwood, to seconmoc;a" 7>rir wood OMAN which has been purchased and div ided association foe first-clam villa residences in she intsilF,4 vicinity. A buge number ei the Essex gentry sot% ite the Albion Tavern on Thursday to oelebrata the Gainevai. PaLaca.—The holiday sinus o 7 o o, baying been ne well attended during the part On' are to be eentinned five days We week r•- , Friday beiri tively the last day. Ml. c i 0 CI 1 7 1 1 Ibn . s . r , . . ,~.,, _ rat= . Abardaso . .. batik Ardreana.. Graeocaatle. Yang* Caps Clear Itpcha'a Pt 1.17:,171 POMO°, Lori eni Uthei llymo: ri th . • I Wermnutit..l Portlmont.b. Yarmouth_ Elea hf rboroaibl Selea Helder .... ifeweiCon. Parl3 L7oo. r -