The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-13 00:00:00

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BOLBOIII4. Tm Emma, MY TURN NEXT. Mr. Remote; MI Foote and Lennox.—And FLYING SCUD. Meows. Neville, Rel ators, Blake. Voltaire. dm. ; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. bounders, BeM. .1 Foote, Mdse., Louse; Raymond, de. BRITANNIA. TBia Errucle, TILE CORSICAN BROTHERS.—After which the 4 Dimming of the PANTOMIME', ending with the Grand Trans formation scene. Mr*. Lane & Min Jacobs.—To conclude with ROSE ROY . OR, THE BATTLE CRY. HIGH WATZILAT LONDON BRIDGE. —Me DAT —Morning, 6 4481..—.. oon, Talloahow—Morning, 7h. 4018...... Afternoon, Bh. 15s. LONDON, IVED.VESDAY, MARCH 13. THE usefulness of Mr. HARDY'S instalment of Poor-law reform will henceforth depend upon the vigour and spirit with which its provisions are carried out. The House of Commons has given emphatic support to the principle embodied in the new bill, and the public has now a right to hold the Poor-law Board responsible for the pro per treatment of at least a portion of the metro politan sick poor. The parliamentary conversa tions upon this measure have been sufficiently desultory ; some honourable members having made proper administration of our poor laws a plea fur advocating the claims of pharmaceutical chemists and the interests of medical men, while others have, as one speaker sarcastically put it, " objected to men being qualified," and dwelt ecstatically upon the advantages of guardian management, and the danger of interfering with a system fraught with so many blessings to the country. But, underlying these puerilities has been manifest a tacit thankfulness to Mr. HARDY for a measure which touches on most of the abuses complained of, which promises much, and which is sufficiently elastic to entitle its author to assure opposing boards that he has neither the intention nor the wish to interfere with such of them as do their spiriting well. Mr. HARDY tells us, how ever, that the extremely moderate guarantee afforded by a limited number of unpaid nominees of the Poor-law Board sitting with the different sets of guardians will not come into operation where ex of guardian, are plentiful ; and that as the clause is purely permissive there is little fear of the power of appointment being widely exercised. In other words, the constitution of some metropolitan boards will remain unal tered ; and it will rest with the officials at White hall to determine which parishes and unions these shall be. Those who have seen reason to be dissatisfied with the inconclusiveness of the pro posed nominee system are not likely to have their doubts allayed by the discovery that it is to be partial in its operation, particularly as experience proves that ex officio guardians are no safeguard against abuse. Some of the most revolting disclosures made respecting workhouse cruelties and mismanagement related to Paddington, where we find from thirty to forty officio guardians—or nearly double the number of elected ones—on the board. It was at Paddington, too, that lady visitors were peremp torily excluded from the workhouse, as a punish ment for giving evidence at the official inquiry ; and, if report speak truly, the Poor-law Board has even now under consideration particulars of flagrant parochial mismanagement, carried on under another metropolitan board, at which seve ral members have the right to sit. If, therefore, nominees are not appointed to such places as these, a grave responsibility will rest with the Poor-law Board. The fruitful cause of existing evils has been the prevalence of permissive instead of compulsory clauses in poor law enactments ; and when we find the one prevision relied on for improving the constitution of local boards possesses this grave defect, it is hut natural to be apprehensive as to the result. There are many reasons for fearing that a hybrid board of nominated and elected guardians will constitute no security against mismanagement ; but when the suspicion of invidious selection is added to its other possi bilities of evil, it is difficult indeed to believe that this portion of Mr. HARDY'S measure will work well. In spite, however, of its drawbacks, it is certain that the Bill and the discussions it has pro voked will effect considerable improvements in poor-law discipline ; and the few gentlemen who went into the lobby the other evening to record their protest against what the rest of the House thought a judicious extension of central au thority, maidens' good service by showing how completely public opinion in that regard has been nimlitied within the last few years. The unanimous wish now is that parochial cruelty and mismanagement may be abolished, that our paupers may be treated witlia proper regard to their legal rights, and that neither in the workhouse nor the parish hoard-room is ignorance or jobbery to run riot. Mr. HARDY considers that his measure secures these ends, besides relieving the poorer parishes of as much of their heavy burdens as is fair. Time only can show how far the first as sumption is correct ; but if any gross failure in parochial administration be brought to light in r lvolikst THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVE, G,' MARCH 13, .g 167. future, he must expect present legislation to be severely criticised. The House of Commons, se well as the general public, wish the question of metropolitan Poor-law refs inn definitely settled upon a humane and equitable teals, and are willing to make concessions they would have refused indig nantly a few years ago. The ease with which Mr. HARos's measure has passed its various stages, and the favourable comments it has evoked, suf ficiently prove this ; and we can but hope it may work as satisfactorily as its author would have us expect. We cannot forget, however, that a large proportion of the inmates 14 our metropolitan workhouses will be exposed to the same risks as now ; that the constitution and management of these institutions are not materially altered ; that guardians may still keep down the rates at the ex pense of the poor; and thatthe theoretical "orders" of the Poor-law Board may be ignored as now. We believe that in the present state 44 public feeling Mr. HARDY might have obtained parlia mentary sanction to a far more comprehensive measure than he has introduced ; but we are thankful to him for acknowledging the true prin ciples upon which reform in our poor laws should be based, and for admitting the grave and pressing necessity for change. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) thi egurt. 4 .1 : WINDSOR CANTLE, 141/4pR 14 The Queen and Princess Louise drove out yester day afternoon. Her Majesty walked and drove this morning, accom panied by Princess Christian. Prince Leopold went out walking, attended by Mr. Kahl. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, went to London this afternoon, and visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlhorough-bouse. Her lllajesty afterwards returned to Windior Castle. The Duchese of Roxborghe, Major-Genera Hon. A. N. Hood, and Colonel Hon. A. Hanlinge were in attendance. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, rode out on horseback yesterday. Mr. Henry Barraud had the honour of submitting yes terday at Marlborough-house his engraving of " Rotten row" to the Prince of Wales.. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Ituckingham, Sir John Pakington, Sir Stafford Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. L. Com , the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy. A deputation from the Liverpool Steamship Ownerr Association, introduced by Mr. Graves, M.P., and con sisting of Mr. W. H. Wilson (vice-chairman), Mr. J. J. Bibby, Mr. W. Inman, Mr. F. it. Leyland, Mr. Robert Allan, Mr. T. Orford, Mr. W. Cunard, Mr. J. Bacon, Mr• J. C. Burns (representing himself and Messrs. Wiser), and Mr. A. I'. Squarey (secretary), bad an interview with the Duke of Richmond at the Office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, in reference to the affairs of the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board. HEALTH OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES. (THIS DAY.) At 1 o'clock to-day there was no material im provement in the condition of the Princess of Wales, the reply to visitors at Mu !borough House being that the health of her royal highness was about the same as yes terday. It will be seen from the Court Circular that her Majesty the Queen arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle, and paid a visit to.her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, attended by Lady Caroline Cud and Baron de Lube, arrived at St. James's Palace on Monday from the Continent. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Lady Moles worth at dinner last evening. The company invited to meet his royal highness included the French Ambassador, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Earl of Dudley, the Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl and Countess of Dartrey, Lady Susan Vane Tempest, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., the Hon. Frederick and Lady Adel►ide Cadogan, the Hon. Charles Carrington, Lord William Hay, M.P., the Lord Chief Justice of Eng. land, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, and Colonel Tyrwhitt, in waiting on his royal highness. Last night the Countess Percy had an assembly at Northumberland House. It is some years since the ducal residence was thrown open for a reception. Not withstanding the inclemency of the weather a large num ber of visitors responded to the countess's invitations. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. 'T . ' --•- TiEE EASTERN, QUESTION-ITALIAN PREPARATIONS. The Italian government has had three vessels of war for some time in the Candian waters. The Italia now announces that this number of vessels is to be considerably augmented, and adds, " Italy is preparing for the grave events which may take place in the spring, and which everybody antici pates." " The Italian fleet," writes the Florence cores pondent of the Dibots, " collected at Cagliari under the orders of Admiral Ribotti, will leave for the Levant in a few days. Between this and the month of April events are expected to take place in the East, and Italy appears destined to play • considerable part in them—a part of conciliation rather than of war—a part which it is difficult to define, but which it is easy to foresee." (uures's Tztrozzays.) THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. PARIS, MARCH 13. The Munitevr of this morning says :—" The Prince imperial has been indisposed for a few days past, on account of a contusion of the knee. He is now, however, considerably better, and it is ex pected that he will be able to resume his usual exercise very shortly." The Senate has adopted the modification of Art. 26 of the constitution. ITALY. FLORENCE, MARCH 13. Prince Carignan has arrived here. The King and Queen of Portugal are expected in Italy next month. They will stop at Paris on their way in order to visit the Exhibition. The Italia states that there is nothing to justify the report of a projected marriage between Prin cess Margharita of Savoy and the Hospodar of Roumania. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA, Mssen U. The Delta left at 9 p.m. yesterday, and the Ceylon leaves at 2 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 13th, and the latter at Southampton on the 20th inst. SUEZ, MARCH 12. The Malta, from Bombay March 1, arrived at 3 p.m. to-day. _ OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, React( 9. The Nyanza, from Southampton 4th inet., ar_ rived to-day at 9 a.m. and left at 2 p.m. for Alexandria. Experienced two days bad weather. THE BOMBAY HEAVY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, MAics 13. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Pera has arrived here with 52 passengers, 1,6101. in specie, and a general cargo. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA. The royal mail steam-ship China, from Halifax and Boston, arrived at Queenstown at 9.20 a.m. to-day (Wednesday), with 115 passengers ands,ooo dole. in specie. After landing all the mails and ten passengers she proceeded immediately fo r Liverpool. All well. She experienced very severe easterly gales throughout the passage. NEW YORK, FEB. SS, Bynum. The tariff bill is regarded as virtually defeated fur the present session, in consequence of the re fusal of the House of Representatives to concur in the Senate amendments and refer the bill to a con ference committee. The House of Representatives have reconsidered and finally rejected the amendment to the Revenue Bill abolishing the tax on cotton. Governor Brownlow has issued a proclamation, announcing his determination to call out the militia to protect the Union men in Tennessee. NEW YORK, FEB. EVENING. The Senate has passed the bill authorising the issue of 100,000,000 dollars three per cent. loan certificates for the redemption of compound interest notes. The House of Representatives has passed the amendment to the Army Bill, ordering the dis bandment of the sou them militia. The Army Appropriation Bill, as passed, prohibits the Presi dent from removing General Grant or assigning him to do duty elsewhere than in Washington without the approval of the Senate, and require s all the President's military orders to be issued through a general of the army. It is stated that General Grant favours the bill for military government of the south. MEXICO. NEW YORK, FEB. 25. Advises received here from Mexico state that a severe battle took place at San Luis Potosi, on the 4th inst., in which republicans were utterly routed losing all their artillery. &oohed() shot 190 foreign imperialist prisoners, and ordered all foreign volunteers captured from Miramon to be shot for their depredations at Zacatecas. A force of 800 imperialists, on their way to reinforce the capital, were entirely routed and 500 captured. It was stated that the whole of the French have would have left Vera Cruz by the middle of March. NEW YORK, Faa. 28. _ _ _ Advices from Zacatecas to the 2nd inst. received via New Orleans announce that the republicans have captured the towns of Tehuantepec, Coluna, and Guanajata. OM TILIKIRAPIL) NEW YORK, MARcn 12. The Republicans have carried the elections in New Hampshire, Mr. Harriman having been elected governor, and three republican candidates having been returned to Congress in that State. A letter from Pesth, of the sth says :—" Yester day evening I attended the meeting of the peers assem bled to consider the Indemnity Bill, which, par parte Ouse, they confirmed by a unanimous vote on the motion of Baron Vaij. The vote was given standing, and fol. lowed by three Elena.' The coup deg offered by the house was very striking. All the magnates (peers) were attired in the national costume, each uoble wearing a curved schnetar ; whilst the bishops ap• peered in full canonicals, those of the Roman church on the right of the house, and those of the Greek faith on the left. The Greek papas are wonderfully picturesque, with their flowing beards and gorgeous vestments. The apart. meat in which the magnates hold their councils is very large and lofty, the roof ornamented with oriental patterns in fresco, and supported upon enormous marble columns, of great value. The House of Peers does not assemble in the same building as the Commons, but uses the principal ball of the Pesth Museum ; whilst the deputies meet in the Land-Haus. Both legislative bodies will shortly be united in a magnificent palace, which will be erected in the large square now occupied by the German Theatre." The first concert at the Tuileries is to take place on Monday neat, the artiste of the Opera Cotuique being the singers called on to appear before the court. I . VEROI',StTVOPERA QP " DON CARLOS." The long llpected opera of .Desk Carlos, n five aorta. which was prodneed on- teky night in Paris in the premise of the Empercaltd press and a full house, is spoke/kW as a work of great merit. Its nix en acne is said to have been magnificent. The ballet de in mac is a marvellous work of art—the decorative splendour of the third act being on a level with the grandest operatic spectacle ever witnessed. Those who are acquainted with the Don Carl.: of Schiller, or the Philip 11. of Alfieri, will have a general idea of the plot. The leading scenes of Schiller have been preserved. The scene in the first act between Pose and Don Carlos ; the garden scene in Aranjuez, in which Don Carlos reveals his fatal secret to the Queen ; the mono logue of Philip, and the scene between him and the Grand Inquisitor—are all retained, and some of them rendered almost literally from the text of Schiller. "There are in the new opera," says the Libert4 " beauties of a superior order. The finale of the third act is • splendid inspiration, immeasurably superior to anything that Verdi has hitherto composed. No Italian artist represented in his operas the social political, and religious aspect of his country so well at Verdi. The internal agony of the mother country, her re strained anger, her upheavings, her hopes suddenly raised and violently crushed, her despair, her aspirations, And her constancy were all pourtrayed by him in his former works. The new opera no longer bears the traces of a state of things that has passed away. The patriot can now rejoice at the work that has been accomplished, and must look in another direction. The citizen must disappear and give place to the man. Don Carlos is the transition point from the one to the other idea. At the same time we find in Dow Carlos the characteristic merits and defects of its author—force, energy, the love of the sombre, the violent, and the disorderly. The maestro still indulges in his excessive fondness for loud tones—the big drums the cymbals, and cornets-a-pistons. There is one passage where this produces • wretched effect. It is after the pathetic scene in which Pose dies. Two cornets-a-pistons begin a duo at this point, which produces a grotesque effect. There are other blemishes of • like kind. Moreover, he exaggerate.. as is usual with him, the vocal effects, he cannot makr!tliem speak simply ;he i , be forces as ii Le were afraid he word.: . . : p un derstood. At times, as in the finale I ret, b• c ompletely succeeds. Here he moves all the fibres of the heart, and opens all the gates of the soul. He is great, passionate, sublime, and measured. The citizens of Bra bant have come to Philip to represent their grievances. Carlos introduces them. On the one aide are a group of men poorly clad in black ; they chant a manly but plain tive phrase. On the other side the scene is full of sun light ; military music is soaring aloft, and around the king, whose dominions extend over half the world, are assembled the princes, the grandees, and notabilities of the land. At a given moment the elements are in presence. A terrible storm breaks forth. While the Brabantines continue their austere choral, the choir, terrified by Philip, who forces Don Caries to resign his sword, begins a chant of terror and of mourning. The vocal and orchestral masses of sound rise, moss, and rectos' ; the military music joins in, and an overwhelm ing effect is produced, which recalls, without a shadow of imitation, the immortal page in the first act of L'Afriectine• Then the tumult subsides, the light is put out, and we hear the lugubrious voices of those whom the auto-dale is sacrificing to the greater glory of Philip, of the Grand In quisitor, and the Faith." A FRENCH VIEW OF FENIANISM. We extract the following from an article in the Journal des Dotials of to-day from the pen of John Le• moinne : " The English ministers declare in the Chambers every day that the Irish insurrection is extin guished, and that the troops which the government have at their disposal are more than sufficient to suppress any serious movement, and yet the revolt is not put down, and will not be put down for • long time to come. It is always ready to recommence. No doubt the regular troops who garrison Ireland will win the day, as in all conquered countries, when the enemy presents himself, but be will not present himself. The tactics of the insurgents are quite clear, and they have long since indicated them ; to avoid any general action in which they would be infallibly crushed, but to weary the troops out by • mountainousand partisan warfare, dispereinginone piece only to reappear in another, awl keeping the authorities in a state of constant watcbfulnessand panic. The English government is much more embarrassed than it chooses to acknowledge by this impalpable and inapprehensible move ment. It has all the strength necessary to put down disorder, but not elionii to re-establish order. Do what it will, say what it will, order does not reign in that eternal Warsaw of Ireland. The Fenian re. volt is not an agitation for reform, which may be satisfied by a reform bill ; nor • working man's strike, which may b e ended by a compromise or by weariness. It is not • political movement which may be terminated by the admission of • new class to the privi leges of old classes. It is an undisguised revolutionary and social movement which has for its principle • change in the form of government, and for its object the transmission of property. It is as hostile to the c atholic church as to the English government. It is an agrarian revolution in the full meaning of the term. The Fenian/ are not an offspring without parents• They cannot be called prokm sine main +whim. Their ancestors are United Irishmen, Whiteboys, Heart. of Oak, kc. Their mother is Misery, with her cortegr of famine, fever, and pestilence, and • still more prolific mother which is History." According to a New• York telegram, dated yes terday, the Mexican Consul at San Francisco reports that the liberals hold the city of Mexico. The Bishop of Down has published a pamphlet on Irish Church Reform, in which he has shown that in five out of our twelve episcopal dioceses the church popu lation is only 2 per cent. of the population. These dioceses are—Cashel, Team, Meath, Limerick, and Kil. laloe. In Cashel the Bishop of Down shows 25 benefices, with an aggregate income of 4,2181., and only 803 pro testis's, or an average of 12 a piece. In Team the Bishop of Down shows that the protestant' are now only 2 per cent., and actually 30 per cent. less than they were in 18:14. The bishop is anxious to redistribute our church funds and employ them for the church'a good, The Earl Fitzwilliarn, says the Dublin Express, has shown an excellent example in going down to his seat, Coniston, near Shillelagh, with his family. It is understood to be his express intention to arm some hun dred of hie tenantry, and to embody them in defence of law and order. Throughout the county of Wicklow the utmost quiet continues, the neighbourhood of Enniskeny, where the first prominent Fenian raid took place, being as peaceful as any other portion. The Bishop of London has invited three Irish bishops to preach in the metropolis on Sunday next, being St. Patrick's-day. The Archbishop of Armagh will preach at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall ; the Bishop of Meath at the Chapel Royal, St. James's ; and the Bishop of Lime rick at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Tablet, in mentioning that the Earl of Gains borough has been appointed Lonl-Lieutenant of Rutland, remarks upon the tact as another proof that under the present government the principle of catholic exclusion of which so much has been said is not in foroe. V ter° Cot - Si LIBICAR.V.—It has been already stated that M. Cousin bequeathed to the Sorbonne his magnificent library, composed of 14,000 volumes, many of them rare editious and of great value. But it is not generally known that the deceased in his will entered into very minute details on the subject. He requires that the library shall be left just as it is, in the very mama place, so that readers may be received in the apartment which he inhabited fur more than 30 years, but now to be trans formed into one of the library rooms of the Sorbonne. He also leaves to that building all the furniture and engravings that adorned his room. He formally for bids any of his books being lent out of the premises. He endows the Sorbonne with an annual income of 10,000 fr., viz., 4,000 fr. for the librarian, 2,000 fr. for the sub librarian, I,ooofr. for the trading-room clerk, and 3,0001 r. for keeping the books in repair. Lastly, he designates M. R.irthelemy St. Hilaire as chief librarian, and leaves him all his papers, charging him expressly to write his (the testator's) biography. The posts of chief and sub-librarian are hereafter to be reserved for agree& of the university. Having made all these dispositions, M. Cousin appoints as universal legatees MM. Mignet, Barthelemy St. Hilaire, and Fremyn, who will have at least 400,000 fr. to share amongst them, after all deductions, and independent of capital representing an annual income of b,ooofr, be queathed specially to M. Itiguet. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ort'leery.) WIGHT C. WIGHT AND FIELD. Dr. Spinke, Q.C., and Mr. Searle for the petitioner ; Sir R. P. Collier, Q.C., and Dr. Tri,trini for the respon dent Serjeant Tindal Atkinson, for the corespondent. This case, like the last (" Wood v. Wood and Stang e r"), was a suit brought by a husband fur a di„ ore ; on the ground of adultery alleged to have been committed with a medical man ; and like that use it was a second trial. On the former occasion the co respondent's nephew was also made • co-respondent. but the jury acquitted him of the change. As regarded the averments against Dr. Field himself, however, they were unable to agree, and they were discharged without return ing a verdict. The petitioner, General Arthur Cleghorn Wight, had been in theservice of the East India Company from 1t0; to leol. His marriage wail at Madras in 1837, and he lived happily with the respondent till 1844, when they cane to Europe on a three years' furlough. In consequence, however, of disturbances in India he was recalled in Dt46, but in 1N47 he returned to England, where he hail left his wife during his absence. In 1848 he was again summoned back to the East, and owing to the delicate state of his wife's health he left her in England. She joined them in December, Her stay, however, was not long, for she returned to this country in June, 1852. Some slight relationship exist e d between Mrs. \right and Dr. Field, and she went on a visit to him. In 1853 she went to reside at Charles. street, Cleveland-gardens, and afterwards she went to Rifle-terrace, Bayswater, the ocerespondent having • fair practice in that district. During this time General Wight, who continued out in India, allowed his wife a competent allowance. in lied, how. ever, she demanded that it should be increased by lOW. a year. Her husband's means not allowing him to accede to this request, a coolness arose between them ; in fact, negotiations were opened for • separation, though they came to nothing. In 1862 the petitioner retired from the army on a pension of 3651. • year, and returned to Eng land. Through the intervention of friends • reconcilia tion was effected between him and his wife, and he went to reside with her in Bayswater. Here they lived together from 1862 to the early part of 1863. Dating that time it was alleged that he treated his wife with every kindness, and endeavoured to make her happy in every way. For some reason, how. ever, she was very discontented, and in January, 1863. without any notice to her husband, she disappeared altogether from his house. The next day lie re. ceival a letter from Mrs. Wight's solicitors, proposing • separation. This took him by surprise, but having no alternative, he agreed to allow his wife 200 f. a year, and Dr. Field was made trustee under the deed of separation. After this, General Wight visited the Sandwich Islands, Scotland, and va ions other places. In May, 1865, cir. cumstancee came to his knowledge respecting the conduct of his wife which aroused his suspicions. Further inquiry amongst servants who had lived with Dr. Field and Mrs. Wight brought to light • variety of matters on which the petitioner relied in support of his petition. The plea of both respondents was a simple traverse. A great number of witnesses (meet of whom were called at the Lot trial) were examined. They consisted princi. pally of servants and other persons employed about Dr. Field's house ; and they deposed to various acts of fami liarity—some of them of an indecent character—which they alleged that they had witnessed between the respond ents. They were of course severely cross-examined on behalf of both respondents. [The case was likely to last for some time.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN ILE CHALLIMGEIt. The bankrupt With a pianoforte dealer, of Charrington. street. Euston-toad. This was a sitting for examination and discharge. The debts were 7.1241., and the assets were unusually large, being upwards of 4,0001., consisting principally of pianos. Mr. Reed said that the amounts had only been recently filed, and the assignees required time to look into them. Adjourned accordingly. IN 111 TRIDINNICK. _ _ _ The bankrupt was described as a stock and share dealer, of Cornhill. This was the sitting for examination and discharge, but the accounts bad not been filed. The bilities are sail to be about 20,000/. Mr. Heise appeared for the assignees. An adjournment sine die was ordered, with protection for a month. THE POLITICAL SITE AVON. The Timis pronounces this morning on behalf of the system of cumulative voting, without pledging itself to the opinion that it is practicable to carry it through parliament. If this is not adopted the result will be a parliament dominated over by one class of represen tatives and the other classes retiring, as they have retired elsewhere, from political life. The proposed system, how ever, is attacked by Mr. Dudley Baxter in • letter which our contemporary publishes to-day. He urges that it is impossible to parcel out England in three-membered constituencies ; and to apply the system to all constituencies, whether returning one, two, or three members, would produce some startling re. sults. The boroughs and county divisions returning two members each would, as a rule, send a member for each side, and the course of legislation would be directed by • few three-membered counties and the small boroughs re turning single representatives. At the same time, the relative power of &ottani would be enormously in creased, because Scotland possesses a multitude of con stituencies having but one member each. This objection the Times would meet by limiting the proposal to consti. tuencies returning three members, and utilising the in. evitable redistribution of seats by increasing the number of such constituencies, either by adding a member to the larger ones now returning two or by grouping together neighbouring boroughs represented or unrepresented. The Dail!! News remarks that the harmless though dog matic sect pretending to the title of the " thoughtful liberals," who, after Mr. Glmlstone's resignation, to which they had contributed their little worst, became suddenly shy of the appellations they had appropriated, are reap pearing with the old designation, and in the name of "thinking" liberalism are protesting that the weight of num bers must not be felt in the elections, but that there must be systems of checks and connter-checks and counterpoises and subsidiary aids to property to afford some sort of guarantee against the degradation of • national suffrage nto an instrument of national servitude. They have no eyes to see the 80 or 00 pocket boroughs and nomination counties in which the whole constituency is absorbed by a single proprietor or divided between two proprietors. These " thinking liberals" assume that in a free com munity, and in constituencies where the majority will owe their enfranchisement, when they get it, to their acknowledged independence and intelligence, • candidate of high character and intellectual qualifications will not exercise that practical and legitimate influence over the votes of numbers which is less legitimately exercised already by the proprietors of the pocket boroughs and no mination counties. The Poet thinks it is not without reason that the liberals have of late manifested a preference for Mr. Gladstone's leadership over that of any other chieftain of the party, The temper and moderation he has shown have been throughout in pleasing contrast with the humour and petulance displayed by Lord Russell, and if anything were wanting to decide the pm ty in their choice of a leader it would have been supplied by his lordship's latest mani festo in the House of Lords. The Telegraph ay. that the liberals must, like the tones, change their kings. It is impelled by his lordship's speech of Monday night to return him, with the sincerest good wishes, the very advice he once most infelicitously gave to the liberal party ; be should " rest sad be thankful." He may do a great service by his countenance and counsel, but with anew man new life and new energy will come in. When the liberal party return to power, it must not be to find that the first Cabinet Council is a re-assembling of old whip, with the oldest whig of all still sitting at their head. CLZIICAL VERTNENTS AND THE ZTATE. Lord Shaftesbury's new bill is described by the Times as equivalent to a parliamentary edict regulating thedreu of the ministering clergy, but our contemporary cannot imagine the legislature of this great empire prescribing by special enactment the vestments to be worn by the offi ciating ministers, and those the ministers of only one out of the many religious communions in this country. The matter is one, not for direct legislation, but for ordinance and regulation—that is for orders and bylaws ; and if par liament is to do anything at all in the matter, it can only be by the appointment of a body—say a portion of the bench itself—which, subject to the approval of govern ment and of parliament, might from time to time make orders in this matter, with means of summary enforce ment. The Standard looks for an active campaign against the ritualists both in parliament and in the law courts, and regrets that this mode of settling the dispute is resorted to. It asks why those who disapprove of florid services and gorgeous vestments and lights do not confine them- selves to the ugly churches and the frigid services. There is room for both, and it seems rather too hard that all the engines of repression should be put in force against those who sin in the way of an almost Chinese exactness in regard to the rubric. As to Lord Shaftesbury's bill, it is not an appeal to the law, but a proposal to alter it. The Bishop of London's contention is, that the incumbent of St. Alban's, Holborn, has violated the law in wearing the vestments; but here we have Lord Shaftesbury assuming that the law sanc tions them, because he is obliged to ask parliament to alter the law in order to make them illegal. The bishop appeals to the law as against vestments ; Lord Shaftesbury wants to alter it as being in their f►vour. Both c►nnot be right. Porsricar. Marruras.—Yesterday Colonel 'Tay lor, M.P., addressed the following circular to the sup porters of the government :—" I am requested by Lord Derby to ask the favour of your meeting him at 10, Down ing -street, on Friday, the 15th instant, at two o'clock." • The aid says that Mr. Pownall, the chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, is to receive the honour of knighthood from her Majesty. MR. CLAY ON HOUSEHOLD Sr FFRAGE.—At a meeting of the South Myton Reform Association, held on Monday night,tbe secretary (Mr. Newton) read the follow ing letter from Mr. Clay, M.P. for Hull :—" March 8,1867. —My dear Mr. Newton,—Many months back I gave m opinion publicly in Hull that household su ff rage, whi c h I have consistently advocated for the last thirty years, would very probably be the proposal of the government. There is strong indication that I shall be right in my con jecture ; but whether we are to have the new franchise with or without counterpoises—as it is the fashion to call them—l have no means of knowing. General Peel very well summed up the value of these counterpoises when be said that, if good in themselves, they would stand ; if not, they are worthless, and would go any way. My opinion is that household suffrage is too good an offer to be refused, by whomsoever made. What could the liberal party offer better? The propped once made, the country would not take leas 11111 no one would offer more. We must also remember that the tory party, in opposition, are scarcely likely to concede as much to us as when in power. I must, however, having given you my present ideas, reserve to myself perfect freedom of action. You are ise not to hold your meeting until the government bill is public property. Strong resolutions in perfect ignorance of the intentions of ministers are mere time waited.—Yours very truly, Jima, CLAY." THE LATE DR. BRINTON. A brief but very interesting memoir of this emi nent physician, whose loss to the profession of medicine is so recent and so great, has been issued in pamphlet form from the office of the Lanett. Brinton's success was achieved at an unusually early age, for while we are told that in the year previous to his death there were probably not three physicians in London making a larger income, be was only in his forty-fourth year when he was cut off. This rapid advancement was entirely due to indomitable resolution and an industry which never relaxed, although it was rather concealed than obtruded upon notice. As a stn. dent he was remarkable for the precision and method of his work. At King's College, he tried for every distinction and was never beaten. The foundation of his great con sulting practice seems to have been laid in the reputation which he acquired with the general medical world by his clinical notes upon his cases at the Royal Free Hospital, of which he was physician from 1852 to 1860, rind which also led to his appointment at St. Thomas's, first as lecturer in forensic medicine, then as co-lecturer in physiology with Mr. Grainger, and finally, in 1860, as physician to the hospital and lecturer on physiology. Brinton was a great mountaineer, and fur several years it was hie custom, in the autumn holiday, to rush over to the Tyrol. Those who have seen him in his expeditions say that he never tired. Always • very bad sleeper, like many persons of his temperament, be seemed on these occasions to dispense with rest, and, after sleepless nights in comfortless mountain hostelries, he was always ready to spend the whole day in climbing. It is not unlikely that these expeditions, nominally in search of rest, but really involving enormous labour, bore their part in producing the disease from which he died. Brinton's great subject was that terrible disease, intestinal obstruction, to which his Croonian lectures were devoted. It was the last which occupied his attention, and he was engaged in passing a work upon it through the press when his untimely death occurred. By his request it will be edited by his friend, Dr. Buzzard, who hail lung assisted him in his practice. RaraancrrraTioN or BonoN.—Mr. Staniland having at last accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, the long pending election at Boston is about to take place. Up 1., Monday Mr. T. Parry, of Sleaford, was the only candidate. Mr. Parry in a liberal, and sat for the borough from July, 1855, until March, 1866, when he was unseated on peti tion by Mr. Staniland. On Monday • second liberal can didate appeared in the person of Captain German, who, in an address dated from the Reform Club, observes:— " On the great question of reform, which is so soon about to occupy the attention of parliament, I am in favour of a large, liberal, and substantial enfranchisement, and believe this object might well have been attained by the bill of the late government, if it had been treated by the conservative party in a fair and candid spirit. The weakness and incompetence hitherto shown by the present government on this question render it necessary that this measure should be finally settled in this session, in order that no future delay may take placcin the urgent legisla tion of the country. It appears to me, from the general expression of opinion throughout the country, that house hold suffrage for the boroughs must be the basis of the bill. This, with a lodger franchise, • liberal reduction of the qualification in counties, and an equitable redistribu tion of seats, would be the measure to which I should give my earnest support, subject to such modifications of detail as experience and discussion might point out." Captain German further states that he will support any well-considered measure for the prevention of bribery and corruption at elections. He is for a " graceful and timely abandonment of church rates,"although"• member of the established church by conviction and affection ;" and be declares in favour of a complete reform of the administration of the army and navy. Captain German arrived at Boston on Monday afternoon, and addressed without delay a meeting of the liberal electors, at which Mr. J. Oldrid presided. The chairman st a ted that he had also invited Colonel Luke White to come for ward, but that gentleman declined to do so, and said he was about to travel on the continent. Captain German stated, in reply to a question, that having recently tra velled in America, he was satisfied that the ballot would not produce the amount of good which its advocates expected. A resolution declaring that Captain German was • fit and proper person to represent the borough was carried unanimously. On Monday evening Captain German addressed a public meeting in the Corn Exchange. Mr. Parry proceeded with an active canvass on Monday. The nomination will probably take place on Friday. ILLNESS OF MR. PAUL FONKETT.—Mr. Paul Foe kett. well known as chairman of the Brighton Protestant Association and lecturer at the Biblical Lecture-room, Cavendish-street, is now lying seriously ill. His health has been failing for some time, and on Saturday se'nnight he went to Reigate, in the hope that his native air might have • beneficial effect. He, however, became much worse, and was so ill that it was deemed advisable that he should return to Brighton, which he did on Thursday last. lie is suffering from dropey of the lower limbs, thedisease having assumed a very serious form. Although in a critical condi tion, hopes are entertained that he may ultimately recover. —Bury end frorwich Pest. There are now eighteen newspapers published in Buenas Area IN RE TDV7ARDR. The bankrupt was a builder, of Holloway. The debts are 4,724!. This was the sitting for examination and dis charge. It was stated that the bankrupt had been nine months in prison. There was no opposition, and his honour granted an lin. mediate order. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIB DAY.) DARING ROBBERY OF FOUR BULLOCKS. Frees Tyler, aged 24, a slaughterman, of 7s, Georges. road, Holloway, and John Reid, of 2, Balmoral-grove, Caledonian-rd, a drover, badge 490, were charged before Mr. Cooke with stealing four bullocks, of the value of Gel., the property of Mr. Joseph Renew, of 8, Charles-street, Caledonian-road, a master drover. Mr. Ricketta, solicitor, of Frederick-street, Gray's-inn. road, defended Tyler. The prosecutor stated that he was a master drover, and knew both the prisoners. The four bullocks that were stolen were in Mr. Ilinlea lairs, Grove-road, York-road, and were taken from a drove of 88 others, all of which be saw safe on Sunday last. On Monday morning, about half-past 3, he wished thesis and gave information to the police. He afterwards found that the prisoner Tyler had his bullocks in his possession, and then he gave hint into custody for stealing the bullocks. In answer to Mr. Ricketts, the witness stated that he knew Tyler wait a alaughterman, and ni the employ of Mr. Keates, of Grafton-road Kentish Town. l'uliceepergeant Robek Gould, 35 Y, said—On Monday morning he went, along with Police-constable Norman, to Mr. Keates's slaughter-house, under the railway arches, Grafton-road, Kentish-town. He there saw one of the prosecutor's drovers and the prisoner Tyler. The drover pointed out four beasts in a pound in the slaughter-house, and mid they belonged to his ma-ter. He eeked Tyler bow they came there, and if he could account fur their pus seksion, and he said that a drover had brought them there between 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning. He asked hint if Le should know the drover again, and he said he should, but that he did not know his name, but the drover told him his name was Jackson, and that he would come about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and tell him where to send the bodies to. He (witness) left Norman there, and went to the market. About 2 o'clock he went again to the alatieltter-Louse, and about 4 o'clock Norman brought the prisoner Tyler to hint. He cautioned him that the questions he pet to line be ass nut bound to auswer , and that what he del ,y , he might use against him, and: re 1, then Tyler refs the statement Le had previously made. He took the prisoner into custody, and said he had not given 0 %A taactory account of the possession of the bullocks. At the police-station the prisoner again repeated the statement, and then he said, " If I sat going' to be betel up, Jack Reid ought to be locked up as well, for he knows more about it than what I do. I SAW Reid 3estenlay, ame l he asked rue whether I could do with sonic beasts, for he said he bad got some planted in Parson's yard, and that lie would tiring them over in the morning." Tyler afterwards stated that ho was not at the slaughter-house when the beast-, were taken there. Mr. Ricketts severely cross-examined this witness, and elicited front hint that Tyler said he eak innocent of the charge of stealing the bullocks. He was certain that Tyler said that he was asked whether he could do with mine beasts, and not whether he could du the beasts. Inspector Barber, I division, said he took the prisoner Reid into custody, and when he told Into the charge ha " All right, master, I will go with you." When at t h e station witness told him iu the presence of Tyler that Tyler Lad mid that he had stolen them and had taken them to Lim to have them dressed. The prisoner Reid then said to Tyler, "Do you mean to say you saw me bring them there," and " Tyler mid " No, I du not mean to say I saw you bring them there, but I know you arranged to bring thou there." He searched Reid, and found on Lim a key that would open the door of Tureen's James Keates, foreman to Mr. Hugh Keats, said be aka the beasts in question brought in by it darer, but he diil not know who the drover was, and in answer to Mr. Ricketts he said that Tyler was nut there when the bullocks came in nor was he there for seine hours after wards. Inspector Barber asked for a remand to enable him to appnhcml others that were implicated in this charge. Mr. Ricketts contended that no ca.e was mode out againat Tyler and asked for his intim...L.4e discharge. lie was only the seretint at the slaughter-house where the bullocks were found and was not a ware they hod bon stolen or he would not have Wally - thing to do with them. If We magistrate did not now dischai go him be hoped he would take bail. Mr. Cooke remanded the prisoners, but consented to to t,diu bail fur Tyler, two emetics iu loud the prisoner himself iu the sum of 12W. The prisoners were locked up iu default. WANDSWORTH. MARRYING A DEFENDANT. A young woman, smartly attired, entered the court, smiling, to inform Mr. Ingham of the happy termination of a cue in which she had been deeply interested. It will be recollected that a young man. named Archibald Moore, living in Hattersea, was committed fur the non payment of bastardy arrears, and as there were other war rant, against him taken out by the same complainant, there was no prospect of his early release. unless by payment, which he stated he was unable to meet unless he bad his liberty. He, however, expressed his willingmas to marry the young woman, and a suggestion was made by Mr. Hayman, who first beard the ease, that an application should be made to the governor of the wows-