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TIN talcania, Ile RA and fah Ace.% of IErIIIiLy.O.—SCENL I I IN THE CI au Hares Woad. dui lilnestriam.- 110111NamN URI ,40E. —And TRH INU UV 11.Ik. Ilta & Lam awl J.as Lest..—Cora-wee at Well WATTS AT WSW, !AWOL DAT-114ANANg. 01 Aftersoom. TAANINANI—.)AureAss, Attersoon, It SM. LONDON, ED.V ESDA FEB. 26. Ter English Bar is in the theory as well as the practice of the Constitution the most important profession in the State. Its head is in station the next to Royalty, and in many important functions acts as the vicegerent of the Sovereign. From its ranks, more than from any other source, the here ditary Peer:l.4e is recruited. That high-born Chamber, which never opens its doors to the learned in science, or—bating one illustrious ex ception—the renowned in literature—which ac knowledges the chiefest dignitaries of the Church but as the holders of life offices—which recognises even the profession of Arms only on the rare occa sions of some great victory, receives on an average once in five years a regular accession of new blood in the form of an ennobled barrister. In the House of Commons the profession is represented with no less distinct predominancy. Two seats in the Government belong to it of right, and as in dependent members, the leader of nearly every circuit, and half a dozen Chancery lawyers, find constituencies ready to confer on them the coveted privileges of Parliament. The credit and good name of a body so eminent are therefore, in some degree, a matter of national concern ; at the same time that, from its influence over the most im portant interests of private life, its code of morality is a question by which every individual is more or less affected. It is not, therefore, surprising that the scandals among its members which have lately come to light have created a more lively sensation than would be aroused by corresponding delinquencies elsewhere. Three members of the profession have been brought under the censure of its governing authorities. Of these, two have been disbarred, and have submitted to the sentence ; the third has been reprimanded, and has loudly appealed from the verdict to the tribunal of public opinion. It is not our purpose to anticipate the result of that appeal in which the facts are as yet so imper fectly disclosed. But the circumstance that it has been made at all invites, meanwhile, our attention to the regulations under which it haa become possible, if not necessary. There is a presumption in favour of every sentence, if it has been pronounced by a competent and impartial tribunal. But the presumption is reversed if the judicial function has been exercised so as to be open to suspicion of ignorance, care lessness, or unfairness. And such a presumption arises in the present case, not so much from its individual circtunstanc3s, as to which the public is still in the dirk, as from the very constitution of the ruling body by which the decision has been pronounced. This bodyconsista, in each of the Inns of Court, of those who are styled " Benchers" of the but. These Beechen are charged with the whole government 04 the profession. It is by them that meu are called to the Bar, by them that the continue funds of the Bar are administered, by them that a barrister may be expelled. But those who are invested with this supremo authority are in no degree re presentatives of the profession at large. They are, in the strictest manner, self-elected. This groat profession is still governed after the fashion of a close corporation before the days of municipal reform. Nut one of its members, be his position, his character, his intelligence what it may, has a voice in its councils unless the Bench of his Inn have admitted him to a seat among them selves. Fur this honour the qualifications are not necessarily those we have mentioned. It is the almost unvarying custom that a barrister when promoted to the rank of QUEEN'II Counsel is elected to the Bench of his Inn, and that no one else is elected. Such promotion is in the sole gift of the Lard Chancellor, and though some times granted on the request of those who have no business at all, it is most commonly conferred upon those whose success has been such as to justify their renouncing " junior" and restricting them selves to " senior" practice. Here, then, are the two virtual qualifications—the caprice of the Chancellor and the favour of attornies—for holding the place of ruler over the Bar of England, and of arbiter of its moralities. Far be it from us to suggest that any other than model members ever attain to either of these high distinctions. Rut we would venture to put it seriously to the profession whether it is altogether • satisfactory or creditable state of things that it should be subjected without appeal to such a form of government ! Is mere vanity, or mere success, no matter how attained, the best possible assurance of fitness to regulate the affairs and guard the reputation of a body so im portant and walking in such slippery paths? Are such tho tests by which in other matters we should be content to select the men to whom we would submit the control of our property and the power to guide us in honour or to overwhelm us with dis grace ? Are these sufficient qualifications fur the sole and irresponsible regulation of the profes sional education, of the code of decorum, of the inner morality, on which the status and estimation of the whole body so intimately depend? If we turn front these general considerations to the immediate occurrences which have drawn public regard to the question, we shall see how much they involve the same inquiries. The conduct of a body which is subject to none of the wholesome sense of responsibility which at taches to the representative or judicial character, is very naturally found to be marked by objection able features. Carrying on its discussions in secrecy, promulgating its decisions without its THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1882. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. ----- ADDRESS OF THE NEW ARCHBISHOP. The following is the text of the address pro nounoed by the Archbishop of Warsaw on the day of the purification of the cathedral : Glory to God in the highest ; peace and good-will amongst men. But does that peace mist amongst us Assuredly not, for we have been deprived of the March. Prayer is the essence of our life ; it is the melee of our happiness ; for it is the ,teas et securing to us divine grace in our wants, temporal awl eternal. The highest prayer—the prayer of prayers— Malta in these words :—" Our Father, who art in heaven : Hallowed be Thy name! Thy will be dose." 1 approach the mad delicate and difficult question of which I have to treat. If some one forbad you to pray to God, and to lay before Him the wants of your heart, if any authority whatsoever prohibited your pray ing, I should say to yon, "Do not obey that authority," for before this duty towards God disappears all duty to wards men. If anyone forbad you to pray for your com ity, for that land which we all love, if any authority whatsoever forbad you to pray for the happiness and welfare of our country, again I should say to you, "Do not listen to such authority, for that would be wrong." In truth, if we were ever to cease to pray for our country, I should pray God that be would remove me from this Lend, and that the Polish women might be stricken with barren. ness. But no one can prevent us from praying for our country. A question has, however, now arisen with regard to oar tain songs and hymns which the church has not authorised, and which I require you to no longer sing. To give up 011f tain hymns is not to give up prayer. We can and we ought all to present to Oa our dearest wants. I am happy to open to-day the churches in which we can again meet to pray ; but I conjure, I entreat you, for the good of the country, to cease for a time from singing the prohibited hymns. Those hymns were good, for they ex pressed to the authorities what were our wishes ; but aow the authorities know our desires and what we demand. Thus I come and desire you to share in a blessed hope. The Sovereign wishes to satiety the wants of our country. I have conversed with the Sovereign at length, and he has told me that he wishes to deprive ns neither of our nation ality nor of our religion ; that he will fulfil his promisee and give us all that we want ; but he makes it a condition that the country shall be tranquil, and the prohibited hymns no longer be sung. Therefore, my brethren, I conjure and implore you, in the name of God, of peace, sod of the coon. try, cease for a certain time from singing thous hymns. Perhaps I shall be told that previous promises made by the Sovereign have not been kept. To this I reply I have the promise of the Sovereign that they will be kept now. Let us adapt outside's to the situation, and not draw upon ourselves the reproach of having prevented the accomplishment of those promises which most bring about the prosperity of our country, and the safety of so many of our unhappy brethren. Confess it, these hymns, have they not =lied you too far? Have they not brought misfortune upon many of you? To continue them now would be an sot of insurrection. I implore you, then—l entreat you—for the welfare of the country, to discontinue the use of these hymns. Imitate in this your Saviour, who died on the cross for justice, and who was obedient unto death to the tem poral authority. Jesus Christ recommended obedience to ►uthority when he mid " All authority comes from God." Deserve well of God, and He will bleu us. For remember th►t God holds all in His hada, that evil is always punished upon the earth. God ever humiliates the guilty, and even here they do sot 'nape His just wrath. Let it not be us who deserve the name of 6ulty. I pray you and supplicate you, in the name of God, in the man of the country's welfare, to discontinue the singing and the manifestations. Believe that I desire nothing but the good of our country. Have confidence in me, end let him who so has confidence kneel and receive my benediction. Letters from the Polish frontiers of tho 24th state that by au order dated that day, emanating from the Lieutenant-General of Poland, it is an nounced that there are to be no more inquiries or arrests for offences committed before the proclama tion of the state of siege. The same letters say that the new archbishop meets with general sympathy ; " the churches are much frequented by all classes of society." A letter from Cracow says :—" The Rabbi Meiaal was sent on the 13th of this month into Prussia, and is at this moment in the town of Katowitz. The Polish nobility are sending to him deputations to express their sympathy with the Polish patriots. As be has been deprived of all his means, it is sought to assist him by selling his photographic portrait. Upwards of 20,000 .have already been sold." (=ma's szczawts.) ITALY. TURIN, Fre. 25, EVLWINCI. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor Boggio put a question to the ministry concerning the Provvedimento committees. lie wished to know whether the government intends to accept the assistance of these oommiftees, and, if not, why it does not adopt measures against them. Baron Ricasoli, in his reply, said :—" The con stitution secures the right of meeting. The govern ment ought to maintain strict legality, and having investigated the object of these committees, has found it to contain no danger to the country. The government will take care that the laws shall not be infringed.' After an animated discussion the chamber, taking note of the declaration of the minister, passed to the order of the day. BERNE, FEB. 25._ M. Pradier, a native of Switzerland, formerly Neapolitan Vice-Consul at Rio de Janeiro, who has refused to deliver up to the Italian government the archive's deposited with him, maintains, iu reply to the demand of the Federal Council, that he has surrendered the documents in question to the Spanish government. THE PRIVATEER SUMTER. MADRID, /Pm M. The captain of the Sumter has been arrested at Tangiers at the instance of the American Consul ►t Gibraltar, and of the commander of the Tuscarora, who went for that purpose to Tangiers. A letter from Psu says :—" A few days ago the Afonitertr annouoced the removal of Y. Pron from the de partment of the Buae►Pyreofea, and his appointment u Prefect to the more important one of the Manche. X. I'roa has been nearly five years Prefect of the Basses-Pyrnaies, of which the chief town it Pau. During that tame Y. Prou has given the greatest satisfaction to the British and Americas residents and visitors in that town. To mark their seams of his merits the British and American residents hevo just held a meeting, under the presidency of Mr. Taylor, the English vios-oonsul, to agree upon an address to M. Pros on his departure from among them. Lords Fortescus, Morley, and %Blase, the Hon. Colonel Spencer, Mr. Corbally, ILP., Mr. Edwards, M.P., Sir Duncan M'Gregor, Rear-Admiral Rich, Mr. Musgrave Clay, United States vice-consul, and many others, were present. The address was unanimously voted, and signed by 114 heads of families, and others, English and American." The production of oil from the springs in Canada and the United States continues on a scale far greater than the means of transport. "At present," says the Timm, " the refining trade as regards this product seems in a state of only partial organisation, and the difficulties and cat of conveyance delay its development. Every fresh account, however,seems to indicate that the supply is virtually able, and that the result will he the growth of a new lami nas, which, for rapidity and extent, will be much as has rarely bees paralleled in the history of commercial changes. Hitherto the arrivals in Europe have not been large ; but • used his just discharged 5,000 barrels in the Victoria Dock, and several additional cargoes are daily a:petted, both here end et LiverpooL" reasons, it naturally finds them charged with un fairness, and discovers that it has no character of its own in virtue of which it my claim a favourable consideration of its acts. We may grant that Mr. EDWIN JAMEA was very properly expelled the profession, but we must allow in charity that his admission to the Bar of New York was a very natural sequence of an undivulged accusation followed by a secret inquiry. Mr. MOW anymore may or may not be immaculate, but be has in the meantime put his judges far more in the wrong when ho has shown that they pronounced sentence on facts which the majority of them had not been present to hear proved or disproved. Mr. CLAYDUN 9 B real offence we may never know, but in the meantime it is publicly declared that he has been disbarred for the offence of accepting clients without the intervention of an attorney, a proceed ing which Lord Baiwunsx once announced his intention of adopting, and which Lord CAMPBELL has ruled to be not against propriety, however un sanctioned by custom. No circumstances could more clearly illustrate the danger to the Bar and the public, of committing its government to ill selected and irresponsible hands. None could, in their several ways, show more clearly how neces sary it is for the Bar, if it would vindicate its position in public respect and maintain its private liberties, to secure the right of choosing for its guardians and guides those in whom it places de served confidence, irrespective of the question whether they can tickle the ears of juries or find the weak points in the Lord Chancellor's affections. COUNTS OUT. - PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. The following forty-three members composed the minority who voted last night for Mr. Sentinck's motion directed spinet the practice of counting out during the delivery of a speech : Messrs. H. E Adair, E. BA T. Barnes, H. F. Berkeley, Sir B. W. Bridges, Lord B. Cecil, Messrs. W. Con, it. Didglisb, C. De Cane, M. Z. G. Duff, W. Ewsrt s W. IL Fcavter, H. W. Freeland, Got. French, Nears. O. D. Grit 6th, G. Hadfield, J. P. Hennowy, J. T. Hopwood, W. W. F. Hume, G.W. Hunt, N. Kendall, P. J. L. King,W. H. G. Lusgton,W. S. Lindsay, E. MecEvoy, A. Mills, W. J. Hoopoe, Lord B. Mantaga, Mr. C. N. Newdepte, the O'Conor Doo, Mayor W. Parker, Messrs. D. Pugh, It. T. Rowley, G. Sclater•Booth, Augustus Smith, J. Somas, M. Stanilaod, Sir H. Stacey, Col. W. H. Sykes, Lord E. Thynne, Ad. mind Walcott, Mamoru. S. H. Walpole and .1. Wnite. TelleAl—Maors. G. W. P. Biotin& and Knightley. Mr. Diane% Lord Stanley, Mr. Spooner, and a few other conservatives, voted spinet the motion. gbe Court. OSBORNE, FIB. 25. The Queen, with Princeie Helena, attended by Viseouater Jocelyn and Major General Seymour, drove out yesterday afternoon. A deparation of the Lightermen, Barge, and Smack °wean' Protection Society had an interview with the Bight New Moms, Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the offioe el the Board of Trade, on the subject of the ameudmeat of the Ifeestattle Shipping Act and Compulsory Pilotagas. A depalettes from the Ccurt of Aldermen of the City of London respecting the Quoen's,Bench Rad Whiteman street Prices, bad as taterview with the Hight Hon. Sir George Grey, yeeterday, at the Homo-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Lord Kiev:lowa gave judgment on an appeal from New South Wales, "Log v. Purves and others," reversing the &civics el the court below. Despatches were received yeaterday et the Colonial-office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Island. Despatcben were soot to the Lord High Commissioner of _ _ the lonian Is buds. His ROYAL Huaixisits Pluses ALFRED.—A tele gram was received from Queenstown yesterday afternoon, which announces the safe arrival of her Majesty'. ship St. George, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton, from Bermuda, having on board his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. The Prince was quite well, and it was expected that he would disembark and proceed, by way of Kingstown and Holyhead, to join her Majesty and royal family at Osborne. A correspondent, writing from Venice on the 20th, lays :—" The day after the arrival of the Priwe of Wales, H.M.S. Oebosae came soil anchored nearly opposite the imperial palace, in front of the Pim:ells. After visiting the Empress, his ioyal highness inspected the ducal palace, sad others of the many splendid monuments of this Tote• resting city ; the weather, however, being far from propi tious. On the follow:eg day the Prince honoured the Coesul.Cenerid, Mr. Perry. by taking lunch at his house. mid, after having visited many interesting objects, churches, monuments, dic., returned to the O•boe De, on board of which he continued to reside during Ins stay. The Consul- General and Captain Charmer, R.N., had the honour of dining with his royal highness on board that vessel. This morning early the Prince left Venice in excellent health, ea beard the Osborne, for Pols. His royal highness and an the gentlemen of his suite is:premed themselves highly gratified with their visit." Their Royal Hightiewien the Duke and Priucera Mary ci Cambridge paid • t:sit yesterday morning to her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, who ia staying at the Belgian Minister's, Biros Vac de Weyer, New Lodge, near Windsor. Alter loathing with the Primer Alice, the Duke sad the Princess Mar y returned to Wiadscr, and pro ceeded to tow• by the Great Western Railway. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Westbury enter tained a select circle at dinner last evening at their red. dance io Belgrave•rluare. The Earl and Countess Stanhope will come to tows to-day from visiting the Earl and Countess of Caron wow at Highcicre House, Somersetshire. Viscount and Vieouuutese Castlemons have re turned to town from MaathamCourt, Woething. Lord aad Lady Harry Vane arrived in town a few days slam from their seat in Sulam far the sesame. Lady Jane Lovett was safely delivered of daughter oil Mooday, it her residence la The Speaker will give his third full-dress dinner party this evening at Westminster Palace. A select committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the nature of the arraugementa fur protecting life and property in the metropolis from fire, met yesterday for the first time, Mr. Thompson Mulkey in the chair. The only witness examined yesterday was Sir Richard Mayne, the Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, who detailed the nature of the provisions made for the prevention and I'3[6lloloU of fires in the district within Lie juriadictioo. Mr. &later-Booth, on Friday, will ask the Vice- President of the Council whether the introduction of the new principle of individual examination will necessitate any increase in the number or salaries of the present staff of school inspectors. _ _ Already the passions of the populace are vio lently- excited in Longford. There was a meeting in the Roman catholic chapel at Longford on Sooday, at which aerated priests were present. Resolutions were adopted pledging those present to support Major O'Reilly. A oor respondent in the Dublin Daily Norm states that in the evening a mob assembled, sod broke the windows of a gen- Urinates house in which Colonel White was stopping. They also smashed the windows of some other person' sup posed to be friendly to his cause. There is a large force of constabulary in the tows, and reinforcements are ordered in from the adjoining counties. The Rev. Peter Daly has fared at Rome as was predicted. The bishop ha. been iulormed by the authori ties there that it rests with him to restore Father Dilly or not. Is the meantime the rev. gentleman is on his way Lorne. If be is to be reinstated in his office as parish priest. he must bow his neck to episcopal authority mid eschew secular affanz. If he chooses to remain coats mations, he has ample means to enable him to hre in Mir pewkoce and affineoce. Mr. Lowe's speech on the Revised Code of the Committee of Couoeil on Education has been publiated as a pamphlet by Mews. Ridgway. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom otre on PARIS, TUESDAY Swann. I have just seen a report, down to a very late hour, of the proceedings in the Senate this after noon, from which it appears that Prince Napoleon defended himself against a charge insinuated against him by the Marquis de Boissy, that he is a pretender to the throne, and seeks to subvert his cousin. The Marquis de Boissy even compla;ned, on the motion to confirm the minutes of yester day's bitting, that this charge did not sufficiently appear in the Moniteur's report. The Monitaw makes him say, "The Senate might have thought that the standard of the younger branch was being unfurled in the face of that of the elder branch." Whereas, what he (the Marquis de Boissy) really did say was, that the Senate "has just seen the standard of the younger branch unfurled," &c. He desired distinctly to repudiate the dubitative form of speech imputed to him, and to assume to day the responsibility of that positive assertion for which he expected to have the credit at a future period. Prince Napoleon, who came into the house to day after the above emphatic explanation, and did not seem to have been aware of it, asked leave to speak on a personal matter, and, after reading the passage above referred to from the Moniteur, spoke as follows : I was not in the house when the above phrase was pro nouncrd, and I only knew of it from the Moniker. I an swer only out of respect for the Senate, which heard the words, and for the country, which will read them. Last year, when similar insinuations were made, I replied as became me. And now, since the opportunity is forced upon me, I repeat, before the Senate and before the country, that my sole desire is always to defend, in my place here, and in the face of the country, the constitutional and liberal empire. My cousin says, somewhere in his works, " that the government of Napoleon was better able than any other to support liberty, for this single reason, that liberty would have strengthened his throne, whereas it overturns those thrones which do not rest upon solid bases." Need I add that this liberty should always be posetised in the order of hereditary succession established by our constitu tions. (" Very good," " very good.") That others should forget this does not surprise me. I, for my part, who remembered it when Louis Napoleon was a pri weer or au exile, will remember it all the more now that my duty binds me to the Emperor and to his eon, and that this duty is in entire harmony with an affection and devo tedness of old date which will never alter. (Loud appro. bstion.) As to insinuations of this kind against me, lam resolved henceforth to reply to them only by contempt. It is itnportaut to correct a statement the summary of Prince Napoleon's speech, given by the Times, that he was "called to order." According to the practice of French assemblies a call to order is considered • severe reprimand, almost implying disgrace, and is only inflicted 4 n extreme cases. You will see by the Afoniteur's report that several senators exclaimed while the Prince was speaking " A l'ordre, l'ordre," meaning to ask the President to call him to order, but it is quite certain that M. ' Troplong did not do so. The Marquis de Larochejaquelia • .ites to the Opinion Nationale denying in a general way some anti-monarchical expressions alleged to have been used by him in 1848, when he was a candidate for the Constituent Assembly. The Opinion replies that the documents which it reproduced were copied from the journals of the time, and if it finds, upon inquiti, that any contemporaneous contradictions of M. de Larochejaquelin exist, it will be happy to publish them. It is rumoured that the serious conflict between the Emperor and the Corps Legislatif on the subject of Count Pahkao's dotation is likely to end iu a compromise, the house voting h;m a life pension to the amount asked, fio,oo3fr., and the government consenting not to have it made hereditary. At a school in Lille, which is under the influ ence of the priests who connived at the abduction of the Jewess Sophia Bluth, M. Segur d'Agues seau's speech on behalf of the temporal power has been read to the children as a class exercise. What would the Monde and the Gazette de France say if Prince Napoleon's and M. Pietri's speeches were to be served up in government schools by way of retaliation ? The Bourse to-day has been quite brilliant. The confederated bankers must be making a serried charge. The Rents rose 45c., both for cash and account, closing at 70fr. 50c. and 70fr. 00c. ; Mobilier rose 7fr. 500., and the Italian Loan, 35c. The Northern, Orleans, Lyons, and Southern rail ways were from 2fr. 50c. toosfr. higher ; Eastern and Western without change. THE PARIS °mamas AND THE EXHIBITION OP 1882 The members of the French Committee of Operatives for the Universal Exhibition of London have published the following address to the operatives of Paris : "The Universal Exhibition of London will open on the let of May, 1882. For the third time within 10 years we are about to take part in this competition, to which nations bring the wonders of their industry, and which must at the same time excite the emulation and the genius of producers and increase the reciprocal esteem and friendship of peoples. Convinced of the immense advantages which would result from it for the entire country if the operatives could take part in that grand industrial festival, we have, in the name of many of our comrades, submitted to the appro bation of Prince Napoleon, President of the Imperial French Commission, a plan to facilitate the journey to London to operatives who would make • selection among them in each industry exhibiting. This plan has been adopted. The labouring classes will thus have a deliberative voice in the economical inquisition of 1862. The utility of operative dele gations at a moment when industry cusnot collect too much informatinu in order to realise the ameliorations imposed by the new treaties of oommeree is inoontestible. All professions will certainly hold it u • point of honour to be represented at the Universal Exhibition—some in order to rise from their state of depression or inferiority, others to maintain their pre-eminence, and to sustain the industrial and artistic reputation of the French name. In a short time • man who does not raiser • solid professional knowledge will be a mere human mechanism added to the machine. We must therefore conquer th►t special instruction which extends aptitudes and stimulates inventive genius. Man must more and more develops his intellect in order to be master of the tool, and not its slave. The committee of opera tives is charged bv the imperial coromicsion to proceed to the choice of delegates, to proclaim the elect, to urge subscriptions, to organise the departures, and to receive the reports which shall be transmitted to it by the imperial commission. In order to attain the marked object of our efforts the devotion of the volunteers cannot be too great. Let all those who comprehend the importance and the utility of such • work come,tben, to aid us with their know ledge and their requirements. It behoves the dignity of the workmen to participate in the expense entailed by the journey of their delegates, and it would be well to do so in such a manner as to increase the number in order that the various industries may be the more largely represented. Let all those whom distress has not too severely premed make a subscription from workshop to workshop, to be added to the 40,000 fr. already placed at the disposal of the committee of operatives by the Imperial Commission of the city of Paris. Let us proceed to the professiond elec. titers in that good order which will be a proof of the pro p... already accomplished among the operative classes. You will direct your choice to the most efficient and most esteemed men among you, and particularly to highly skilled artisans, who may do honour to your industry. It is thus that the operatives shall prove that they are worthy of liberty." Monday being the anniversary of the French revolution of 18411, some groups were formed between two and four o'clock at the entrance of the Faubourg St. An toine, and round the column of July. A few policemen earne up and ordered them to disperse, which they did im mediately. A German journal rehtes the following anec dote, on the authority of a traveller recently returned from Africa:—" A wealthy Arab, residing near the fron tiers of Morocco, lately paid his first visit to Algiers, and wan prevent at a ball. On his return home he said to his wives, ' What strap creatures Muse French women are! Would you believe it?—they absolutely carry an opeu um brella under their petticoats !' Such wee the idea formed of crinoline by this son of Mahomet." THE OVERLAND MAIL By the Overland Mail we have advice, from Calcutta to the 22nd January, from Madras to the 27th, and from Hong Kong to the 15th. The fol lowing is from the Friend of India : The new constitution given to India by the Indian Conn• cda Act of last session Is fairly launched. On Friday night, the 17th January, the Calcutta Ga:rtte Extraardenary sealed into existence the "Council of the Ooveynor-Genera! for the purpose of making laws and regulations," and appointed its first meeting for the subsequent day. At 11 o'clock, accordingly, on Saturday, there assembled in the Council-chamber of Government-house the following mem bers, who, with the exception of the commander-in-chief, now on his tour of inspection in the Punjaub, constitute the imperial legislature of India :—His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India. Additional mem bers of the Council: His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and his Highness the Maharajah of Puttiala, K.S.I. Members of the Supreme Council: The Hon. Sir H. B. E. Frere, K.C.8., the Hon. Cecil Bsadou, Major- General the Hon. Sir R. Napier, K.C.8., the Hon. S. Laing, the Hon. W. Ritchie. Additional members of the Cowell : The Hon. H. B. Harington, the Hon. H. Forbes, the Hoe. 0. J. Erskine, the Hon. W. S. Fitswilliam, the Hon. 1). Cowie, the lion. Raja Dec Narain Singh Bahaduor, the Hon. Raja Dinkur Rao Rugonauth Bahadoor. According to the act the members summoned for purely legislative duties must not exceed twelve in number nor be lesethan six, and of these the half must be non-officials. The whole number of legislative members is eight, of whom five are non-officials, but of these five three are natives. Sir R. Montgomery has arrived from the Punjaub with the object, among others, of deciding with Lord Canning ae to an official to represent that province. Mr. Harington site for the North-Western Provinces until the Governor-Ge neral exercises the power given him by the act of creating councils both for the North. West and the Punjaub. The Calcutta merchants are not altogether satisfied with Mr. Fitzwilliam as their representative, but they themselves Oanted him chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. He is the manager of the local branch of the Chartered Mercantile Bank, and is said to he wanting in indepen dence and purely mercantile experience. Mr. D. Cowie is highly respected as a member of the well-known firm of Messrs. Colvin, Cowie, and Co. At the first meeting on Saturday the five English legislative members took the oath of allegiance and the oath that they would faithfully fulfil the duties of their office. The native members made a solemn declaration to the same effect. The Maharajah of Pattie* from his poetical and services, and Dinkur Rao, from his ability and experience as formerly guide of Sindies councils and durbar, would do honour to any Asiatic legis lature. At the first meeting the rake were laid on the table, which are to form the "standing orders." They will probably be approved of by the new council at its meeting 10-day. It will be seen from the rules that the moat e laborate provisions are made to pre vent the very possibility of formal debate, of an opposi tion exiling, of, in fact, an Indian parliament such as Lord Dalhousie 's legislative council threatened to be come. The one advantage of the council is that it will be more or less amenable to p ublic c criticism. After no little didiscussion in the Executive C.. cil. it has been decided to admit "strangers," including of course reporters; but at any time the house may be cleared. It remains to be seen if this letting in of the wedge will, in the course of time, tend to give to the imperial lnislature that position in public interest, estimation, and utility which its predecessor was fast attaining. The session of the new council will coutious only so long as the despatch of business may require, and its ordinary day of meeting will be on Wednesday. On Satur day the local legislature of Bengal will sit. The Gazette has called it also into existence, but the nominations of members are left to the Lientenant-Governor, subject to the Governor- General's approval. The appointaientiao far se yet known ars unexceptionable. The native are Rajah P. C. Singh, Mon'. vie Abdool Lutes', Beboo Presnano Coomar Tagore, and ano ther. The Bisbee is a distinguished lawyer and landholder, and assistant clerk to the former legislature. The Moulvie is • deputy magistrate. The English members are Mr. Bulls; late chairman of the Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. Peterson, a barrister of the Supreme Court ; Mr. Moran, head of a firm of indigo broken ; and Mr. Maitland, a merchant and president of the landholders' Association. All these are gen tlemen who will better snit the freer air of a local legislature where formal debates will be held than the quiet placidity of an imperial council, where members are not allowed to rise from their chair when they speak. An interesting ceremony took place in Oodsypore lately, on the occasion of the installation of the young Prince as Been of bleywar. He is the grand nephew of the late Ma hatma Surnop Singh, and is the first instance in which the adoption policy inaugurated by Lord Canning has been ex emplified. The installation was held in the conrt-yard of tbe palace. General St. P. Lawrence, Governer-General's agent for the Rajspootana States, was present, sad delivered a congratulatory address in the vernacular. Costly presents from the Governor-Geneenl were given to the young Prince, and the ceremony was rendered more braposiag by salutes from English artillery, and the preremee of a large body of English troops. CHINA AND_ JAPAN. The followiliiifrOm tfuiOrer/aTid China Mail of the 15th January : The principal news during the put fortnight hu refer ence to the loss of Ningpo by the imperial party and Be capture by the rebels. Nearly the whole of the city popu lation fled on the advanee of the Taiping's, but unfortu nately some poor women, mostly old, were left behird, with a certain proportion of younger ones; these latter have been subjected to every sort of indignity, some being ultimately left to die in the streets. The streets them selves are literally strewn with dead bodies, all form of burial being quite disregarded. Towards foreigners alone has moderation been practised, and that is solely attribu table to the dread they entertain of us. No general mu nem took place, as there were few people left to kill ; no houses were burnt, in compliance with a promise given to our consul at Ningpo, before the city wee taker. The trade and prospects of the place are, however, hopelessly ruined. The following authentic heads of news from that port have beep received by us, and will doubtless prove interest ing to the English public. The dates brought down from Ningpo are to the 3rd instant:-1. The British consul, Mr. Fred. Harvey, his called upon the English missionaries to leave the city of Ningpo; ft being no longer a fit residenoe for Christian minimums. All the British missionaries have abandoned the city. 2. The rebel soldiers who insulted some of these missionaries have been summarily beheaded. Seven beads came otf. 3. Dreadful outrages committed by the rebel soldiers on a few Chinese women found concealed in the city. Seven or seventeen the number, rebels are not par ticular. 4. Mr. Consul Harvey has received a written apology from the rebel generalsin•chief for not returning his call. (The rascals are afraid of coming out of the city forts.) 5. The Taipiogs continue to respect the foreign location site at Nino°, in accordance with promise and ar rangement made with Mr. Comitil Harvey. 6. Departure of rebel troops for Simon•hing. Disbanding of those troop outside Ntugpo—the recruit* running away, and lea v rag the old rebels to return to Ningpo. 7. Consul Harvey has been informed by the rebels that they propose establishing a native Cuetorn.house. 8. Admiral Chin is reported to be arming at Chilean for an attack on Ningpo. 9. The city kiss become au armed camp ; no trade or business within its walls. No residents of respectability, only rebels living in it. It must be admitted that Mr. Harvey, our consul at Niagpo, has shown a most becoming amount of firmness during the recent crisis ; and it is certainly to his cool and judicious management that we must attribute the respect in which the Taipu3gs hold us, notwithstanding their rude and lawless, excesses towards others. . From Japan, we learn that the new regulations have not been relished by the British community ; en order ema nating from the native authorities forbidding Japanese traders to take money from our merchants previous to fur idshing the goods for which that money forms payment, is, in effect, an infraction of article 14 of the treaty, which says that "foreigners may freely buy from Japaneae, and sell to them, any articles that eit her may have for sale (mu nitions of war excepted), without the intervention of any Japanese officers in such purchase or sale, or in making or receiving payment for the same." Flangchow is reported to have fallen at last. This has caused a little consternation amongst the native merchants at Sbangbae, who suppose that another stride will bring the rebels to their doors. The steamer Scotland was sold the other day for 87,000 taels—about 29,000 f.. Her pur chasers were Chinese ; and the fact shows the confidence they have in our trade and in the " Great River." Mr. Harry Psrkee goes to England by the present mail, after having dune more for England, in China, than any other living man. Re well deserves the brief interval of repose he now goes home to obtain. The authorities at Calcutta who had charge of the articles sent to the Exhibition of 1851 and the Paris Exposition of 1855 say the effect of these displays in im proving the articles sent this year is evident. The native cloths and dyes especially show a great advance. It is a curious fact that the introduction of photography has in duced the famous Delhi painters on ivory to use perspective and shading, which add immensely to the value of their landscapes. Several of the specimens sent are faithful copies of If. Bodes photographs. With these articles and the photographs now being made of the various tribes and castes of India, the English public ought to be able to form a vivid idea of the hitherto fabled East. - • •-- A daily contemporary having stated that the O'Donoittne, after Sir R. Peel's speech, restrained his wrath until the evening, when he openly expressed his intention of sending a challenge to his antegonist, the member for Tipperary writes :—" I pledge my word of honour that the above is wholly inaccurate. After Si, R. Peel's offensive observations on Friday, I did not say a word as to what I intended to do, nor did I enter into conversation upon any subject with anyone. At the conclusion of Sir R. Peel's speech several members got up with the intention of ►ddres ing the house. I then stood up and walked out, without speaking to anyone, sad did not again return to the house till Monday. I did not go to my club, but went home all soon as I could, and called upon Major Gavin early next morning." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) WHITE T. WHITE AND CATO (PART HEARD). Mr. fierjeant Flee, Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. TriAte..,.! appeared ter the plaintiff ; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Bwabey, and Mr. F. Barrow for the defendants. The suit was to determine the validity of a will, exeeue„l by Mr. White, late of Margate. propounded by his S and opposed by his daughters on the ground of and undue influence. The hearing of the Mlle had lasted three days ; and this morning Hire Creswell summed up at great length the evidence, the material portion of which has already been repor.el. The jury immediately found for the plaintiff. Fir C. Cresswell—l should have been very much sue. prised, gentlemen, if you had come to any other conclusion. Dr. Phillimore applied for costa. Mr. Macaulay hoped the court would be of opinion that the defendants had some ground for their opposition. Sir C. Croswell thought the case one in which th• ordinary rule must prevail. He would therefore decr., probate of the will, and condemn the defendants in the coats as prayed. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) ni RE JOHN HUNTILR.—CALL OP AN ATTOR.NET The bankrupt was described as a gentleman of terrace, Kentish•town, late • prisoner in the queen's an. son. He was formerly in practice as a solicitor in Lund.., but had latterly been much engaged in mining specul..tiou„ This was the sitting for examination and discrge. The bankrupt's statement of accounts shows unsecured debt■ cal 3,2691. ; secured ditto, 14.2021. The assets aro stated ot upwards of "OWL, but of this amount 14,8201. conakts of doubtful debts incurred many years ago, and property had as security 20,0001. Notwithstanding this large atu„unt of property on paper, the bankrupt had come before the court in forma panperis. Mr. C. E. Lewis opposed for the suigneei The accounts were most carelessly prepared. The bankrupt had tiht sworn that he owed to unsecured creditors 9201. ; now Is swore that it was upwards of 3,0001. He had omitted b, state that his property was mortgsged to Mr. Low, of Wimpole•etreet, and had felled to give sn account of his receipts from the Kinpwinford colliery, in which he had oar interest. There were proceedings in Chancery going on with reference to this property ; and in answering the requia. Cons of the assignees the bankrupt refused to be boast by his statements should they prejudice the suit in Chancery, After listening to a long statement from the bankrupt, his Honour directed an adjournment sine die, and recum• mended the bankrupt to make a clean breast of it. At pre. sent the accounts were quite unsatisfactory. SECONDARIES' COURT. (Before Mr. Potter and a Special Jury.) SHAW V. THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY conr.t.n. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—D I.MAGEs 7001. This was • writ of inquiry to assess the demeans, laid 1,0001., sustained in a railway accident, defendants hat* suffered judgment to go by default. Mr. Haddleston, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff, am Mr. Serjeaot Pi g gott, with Mr. Phipson, for the company. The plaintiff on the 21st of June last travelled by the defendant' line from Burton-on-Trent to Clifton. A col. union ensued, and the plaintiff was by it a great sufferer. He declared in the record that in addition to numerate bruises he had sustained a rupture of the liver, injury to the spine, and 0011CUSEI011 of the brain, and for these he now sought compensation at the hands of the defendants. Before the jury were sworn the legal gentlemen held conference, and Mr. Serjeaut Pigott said the use would be very short for the jur, who would be able to keep all thea appointments by 12 o'clock. Mr. Huddleeton—By a quarter-pest IL (Laughter.) We shall not trouble the jury much, as we have a The learned Secondary having directed t i L r einry to be sworn, Mr. Huddlmtori said—This is an action brought by e*.e plaintiff to recover damages for very serious injuries. The plaintiff was a passenger in defendants train on the 21st of June last, sod be was so severely injured that he has been ill ever since. 1 and my learned friend have, lam happy to say, agreed upon an amount, and it is for the jury to assets our agreement. The sum agreed was 7001., with which the plaintiff was satisfied. The court was much crowded, and great inters:et was ex.- pressed. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERICESWELL. 10/111ITI8 AT COPE= AND LODGLVG BOUTS. John T'r;nce, aged 17, a gasfitter. and Mary Doris, aged 21, a prostitute, were charged with stealing a large qusa tity of bedclothes from the Crown Coffee-house, 90, St John-street-road, the property of Mrs. Ann Aird. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoners at late hour of the night went to the above coffee-house (whit is managed by the complainant and her eon, a clerk), sad engaged • bed. When they went out of the house the next morning it was found that they had stripped the place. When they were brought back, on the woman were found two blankets, two sheets, two. pillows, and the piece of carpet off the Boor, and the man had the evader. pane under his oust They were then given into custody, when they said they were very sorry, and if the charge ass not pressed they would pay the complainant fur ha trouble. ' The constable who has charge of the case said that he I had roads inquiries, and he had three persons in court who had been robbed by the same prisoners, and he bad so doubt but that there were other cha rges against the prisoners. The prisoners pleaded guilty, and wished the magi** would settle the matter at once. Police-constable Short, 77 0, said the father of the male prisoner was a respectable man. The prisoner was a good workman, but had lately picked up with a number of low persons, and neglected has work. The female prisoner was • low character. . . . Mr. Barker, without inquiring into the other eases, we. teoeed the prisoners to two calendar mouths' hard labour in the House of Correction. SOUTHWARK. AZ1A14.1% James Berry, an old man, about 70 years of age, was charged with assaulting Sarah Berry, his wile ,• and hecar further charged with assaulting Police-coustable 181 M, in the execution of his duty. The wife, an elderly female, said that the prisoner got diva on the previous night, and when he came Lome he knocked her about and blackened her eyes. Her screams brought ► constable to her assistance, and he was secured. Witten did not want to hurt him. All she wanted was a separative. Magistrate—Why, how long have you been married? Witness—Only nine mouths, and be has beat mesa since and ill-need me constantly. Magistrate—Haveyou been married before? Witness—Yes, sir ; I was married to my first husband yea's, and he never even lifted his finger to me. Prisoner—Well, I don't know about that ; you told m when I first married you that I was the best of the two (Laughter.) Witness--I never said so, you brute. My first !mien! was an angel to me. (Renewed laughter.) The magistrate here asked the prisoner what he had to say for himself. He replied that what his wife had said was all false. She aggravated him, sod he was sure no mortal man could stoat her tongue. He, however, promised not to molest her again. Police-constable 181 M said he heard the screams in the house, and on proceeding there saw the prisoner strike the woman. He took him into custody and in doing so via assaulted by him. The magistrate fined him its. for the assault on the con• stable, and ordered him to find bail for his future good conduct. FATAL ENCOUNTER AT SHE NEW CATTLE-MARKET. —This morning, Mr. Inspector Judge, of the N divide°, received information of the death of John Gould, a farrier, residing at 59, Harrison-street, Gray's-inn-maul, at St. Bar tholomew's Hospital, who wee brutally assaulted on Friday last at the New Cattle-market by Thomas Elton, • labourer, of Charlton, io Kent, under the following melancholy circumstances —lt appeared from the state ments of Police-constable William Faint, 4:4 A, and other witnesses, given before the magistrate at the Clerken well police-court, on Saturday last, that both par ties were in the New Cattle-market on Inlay last, and had some conversation about a bone that Elton (now a prisoner) had purchased. Between four and five the prisoner, who had a thin ash stick in his hand, according to the evidence of one of the witnesses, deliberately and without provocation jobbed the stick into the oomplaitint's eye with such force that it brought the eye on the face, and the complainant was soon rewkred insensible. He was taken home, and it being fouud that he remained insensible, he was removed to SL Bartbolo mew's Hospital, where he was placed under the care 01 Dr. Stephenson. The unfortunate man remained insensible all the time he was in the hospital, sod expired last eight. When the man Elton was taken to the policeetatiou heat first denied the charge), but afterwards said be was ye/ sorry, but the man annoyed him, and he pushed him sail the stick to get him out of the way, having po intennon injure him. The unfortunate man has left a widow and family to deplore his untimely loss. RAILWAY AOCIDZET IN SCOTLAND.—YestenIAy (Tuesday) afternoon, during the brief stoppage made . 4 one of the Herrick and Kelso trains at Stow Shama in it' progress to Edinburgh, • passenger got out for the =of getting • drink of water, but before he return the train bad started. Making up W it before it had gone far, he endeavoured to g rsif the door-hanale el one of the carriage,, an effort in which he partially succeeded, but afterwards missed !is; footing, and fell behind the carriage, in the space °regrew, by the coupling gear. Here, as the unfortunate unw acrus one of the rails, the whoels of the succeeding e er lieges ran over his body, which was in consomence 121 . Z severed in two. At the time the train left the bal . ! not been identified. The deceased, judging from to er peuanoe, was of humble life.—Edishurgir Courant.